THE END OF AN OLD JOKE

Evening Star, Issue 21820, 8 September 1934, Page 5

THE END OF AN OLD JOKE

Seldom have we heard of a man we admire more than Mr William Craig, who until his death last year worked as an upholsterer in Aberdeen. His wages can never have been more' than £3 a week, yet out of them he managed to save enough ■ to found a scholarship for poor boys and girls at Aberdeen University. He resolved to do this when quite a young man, and he stuck to his resolution all his life, putting aside a bit of the £3 each a week and any extra money that came to him until he had saved £6,600. He would have loved nothing better than to go to the university himself, but he was too poor; at the time. He thought of all the young people in the future who would have the same longing and the same inability to satisfy them, and he saw to it that they should not miss what_ he _ had missed. There is a scholarship waiting for them now. The people of Aberdeen should put up a statue to William Craig, the man who exploded once and for all the silly joke about Scottish stinginess.