ENGLISH TOPICS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20492, 10 March 1932, Page 15

ENGLISH TOPICS.

•nIiWS OF REPRESENTATIVE ™ THINKERS. CHARACTER OF ROBERT BURNS. (UAH- OU» OWH CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON. February fft' A. J- Cronin (author of Kf'/Cistlc"), proposing ''The Imnioryj'yemorv of Bnrny' at the 173 rd aifWS*ry ot t' ,e birth of Scotland's -gjaotl bird, said: "Hums was never • trifter *tili life, never a dilettante, g, admitted his erratic path with a -uobiiate self-sincerity that should-it-the godly. He hated iascoined cant, spurned falseUggA and loathed tyranny. In . his Sh as i« his VOISC - lie m i s «d the lino tak the broad, the ironic with the jLrgut the sentimental avid the sub&L - 'There was a tragic sweep about ihtiifo of Burns which tlcuanded not rtLare, but compassion. In his stmJicitr his aspirations, yes. even in &f« follies, Robert Burns was KveryHis tifr. like his verse, was al«jvs in the major key. •lb* Burns Club exists ior the cnfVMirateo>«nt ot " Scottish literature, nuk? »«d art. the preservation of the wntcular langaug- ot Lowlanci Scotland. and the support oi Scottish and at her charities in London.' Judges' Salaries. latd Hailshim at tho dinner oi the ImOiUi® of Arbitrators, proposing the ■ uufcof the Institute, said:—, •'English justice is the in -no «bole world, and not the least of the luatrjbotions thi<= country has made t 0 lb* c»nse of civilisation was the couMntion of equal justice for all men and 35SS. I should like to say that •ur into" i» accepting office, in modern days at least, have almost always » ri v * a very great pecuniary sacn«M is the cause of public duty. Almost ur Judge on appointment is car nine: iMfc nauy times greater than his inAiritJ salary, and he finds himself, fiproffloted to the Judicial Bench, tfcaaks to the operation of income tax and (Overtax, with no salary at all far tin first year or two. I hopel am ggt transgressing the limits of Ministinat responsibility if I add that I it would be very false economy if n create too great a disparity betvrw the moluments of the Bench UU) the Bar; if tre make it impossible farow best advocates to become great jodges in the future as they had been aeeaatonad to do in the past. ujfmrevar excellent our system ?r lattice is, no one can contend that although something has ban to Jonrer its cost. I believe lb* tha Laid Chancellor contemplate? «tf»diWg kgtlation dur.ng the pre- . Mtfe ffffH to simplify the law of •ranice, * matter to which the nuti.ttrt* hu more than once called atten;wb."

•ii*" Aw'tywuv of sh °Ps - lady(Miss Lillah McCarthy, ■ formerly on» of the best-known aeliMMi), spewing at a New Year dinner or the Imperial Industries Club, ,' pictured aworla without war and with- -■ <nt shops'. Nov that women have been taught to think imperially, tbey hope 16 learn *' to shop'unperislly. Mean streets and' »hooi should be cleared away, and all our needs should be" Supplied by delivery at oar homes,- as are milk and bread, the potf",:«uf the morning newspaper. " A nincbrful organisation 01 <huJr ddirar would do all that was oKcmrr. T&nt that women's taste in <ims it to Staple, they need not shop L /or ejtffces.---At- last women could be fc (reed fan* -the tyranny of shops, the ■ waste cf: time of shop-gazing, and t, ttJer. That would give them time for I ufti] voxk and expansion of the mind. . ft* Peace of the World. Soeald Maclean (President of \Board of Education), in a peace be read in the schools: — t opportunities tor living joyous , useful lives in the future may defMMas the progress made by this DisWWftiMHit Conference and those that "mfiiriiaw it; and the same is true for people in other countries. This 9 wly'-tbe present moment is so imf* tsttaifcfor youth all over the world. 1 your studies must have tau'ght .. M tut neither knowledge, nor wis<nt h limited to any one country; Wi that people of many races help to Mtih.the zood things which we should I> enjoy. 00, that some of you have Is with boys and girls that you have learned to ind 1 understand them. 1 hi?, bscausa friendship beouth of different countries r' the 'task of those now still? however, much for you m the peace of the world / only on what is agreed tesmen now, but on what nd bow you behave in the rever young you are you taking an interest in the League of Nations, and now all you can about, it—i methods, and thp people older boys and girls, who soon to leave school ior ■ further study, I partieusolemnly urge on you two »t, that by the study, of il , problems and by the v.of right relations with M>urs abroad, yoti' should attitude of mind which will sinst the assaults of prc»cond, that by reflection lecds of the world yon rate a spirit, not only relist the onslaughts of panic lintment. but determined s all difficulties, to persist ski : peace which will be