“STRATFORD EVENING POST” THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928. HOME RULE FOR SCOTLAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 69, 1 November 1928, Page 4

“STRATFORD EVENING POST” THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928. HOME RULE FOR SCOTLAND.

THE rectorial election for the Glasgow University (shows the progress nude by the promoters of the movement for Horne Ituio for Scotland. Mr Cunningham© Graham, the Scottish Nationalist, was only 60 votes behind Mr Baldwin. Of course, Mr Cunningham© Graham had other recommendations that would appeal to under gpidu at© s. Writer, traveller, an ( | scornful critic of civilisation, ho is one of the most picturesque per. •sonalities of the time. It was a journey of his that gave ris© to “Captain Brass bound’s Conversion.” Mr Shaw gives the following description of him: “The horse he bestrides and) dominutes fearlessly. H© handles the other lethal weapons «s familiarly as the pen. Medieval sword and modern Mauser are to him as umbrellas and kodaks are to me. He is, I understand, a Spanish Hidalgo. Hence the isnperbity of his portrait by Lavery. He is, I know, a, Scottish Laird. How he contrives to be authentically the two things at the same time is no mor© intelligible to me than the fact that everything that has ever happened to him seems to have happened in Baraquay or Texa s instead of in Spain or Scotland. He is, I regret to add, -an impenitent dandy. Such boots, such a hat, would have dazzled D’Orsay himself. Someone once told him of Tarudaut, a city in Morocco, in which no Christian had ever set foot. He took ship and; horse, changed his hat for a turban and made straight for tho sacred city.” One of his favourite sayings is that failure alone is interesting. He has failed to get th© rectorial chair, but in thi s instance it is the narrow margin, by which lie failed against the Prime Minister that is the interesting feature. The result should give great encouragement to those who believe that Scotland ishouldf have a Parliament of its owii. TTiis demand is mainly based on economic considerations. Of the total revenue contributed by Scotland, only about a-qHar-ter is applied to ScxHfish. national purposes, the balance going to Imperial expenditure. The Jamil question, especially the devotion of large tracts to sporting pni-poses, is a strong factor in the movement.