SIR ROBERT STOUT IN EDINBURGH.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 609, 11 September 1909, Page 13

SIR ROBERT STOUT IN EDINBURGH.

'"THE ONLY SAFETY OF IHE 1 t r DEMOCRACY" 1 • St-out,; tlic Chancellor .of the rii'-'jX'i.: proposing' the. ..toast'of. "The .Emversit-v'' at tho luncheon liftv.'; ofww i honorary, graduates: said it .was tho .- ■ ;:E r . e f i t:teachcrs wliO: inatlo ti!c universityj and ', 'y'-':"Sjf",? '^y : .S: wHat v jv; gal&xy of >ibey*;fiiicl - iri \ h'ef ; ;Professorial' ;. ;:Chaii3.; V In . New / Zealand /■ thoy' bad ."'more ' '■' ' .'Vfrdni Edinburgh than "from, any '• " •\jjv e , l \ u il '"9''sity in'the .world, •Ho did not f Wflf •;'} Scotland : ■.- ! . ■ - realised the 'iiilhienco the universities' of. the til:': ; -v : v ; seiidirig: - out n to*; iirhdt ■'$ iertu. the bajck: . .'jj;;v.i i;-'vWS®*??/' 'w Scotland :'.vlib did : ~. '-their work .in . the parish school,! "and • lie .1 ; A *;. ; J.'i&sS;, that uriacr.y.thc, ii ow I' system of .bduca- ! i.v-J n ..Scotlaild, tho same,ciass of; tc?ioli<sr„ . spntv t*o ; th6" parish school—teachers , pui;); ribey .thirty, Or. - ipffcy pwpils, had : hecn. trainedf. in a- itnjvv ab]o v tfive their. : boys r -:': auirtatheiTiatical assicaH education/-v If; f>> • :; Scottish :"wcro -to v m'aiiitain =, v tlio' ..;'r/ hQdj'attained'^thoy,\vbijdd~,lijiY6. •'leyel of the» amall couii•'AVv ,and of : thoir ; pritriary ; -;: - y : ' So v believed: tliat ? the v only .safety r■■■• ■•'•. i .Pf.i tflO - democracy lay-in <havmg'- university :vv^ y 7' ! :V:^ r ?!j l ®{!; inen in .v tbo: comiuuiiity. •; - "JVo' • lived atray■"■•'i-[ :/-• 'i iV;&Ed Lords" could stem "<OT. : : tho = ' l s' k : . ; vih 4 having the . highest educatoall. IfThat was the .only* thing ■'i V' r^^; Wo Hl4. - or 39f ; and progress:' com■.;L -Y^-P; Everything'..clso;y would •'^v-" ; be' merely , content with: -^ducatipny,;'or.1 even^-V'secondary ; the: ; democracy^would; fail. K ; The' &<s:■&; timefwouid .Come;'wh6n edu- .;; j :; r; cation • m .-the mniverSity; as 7 free rtiy in . the W- ; :and;-when"' ; they vvv'oiild ; V /Slit ,«t all; fdr such ?a purpoio.; It "should- be given and prowded for by tho Government •;••.;!• /> '- • ?•jv e "f aiming: at the '-£0 edtieatibnßysteni. free V:[ |' primary - school .right'up- to/, the J vi#- w v ?rsitv- of tho; future; , be; to bc ; tho real Instrument' - V : malseitho- dembcracy 'siiccessful.'' '• ; .;

i J , - New '. York t "hm no-' •'•«';'* : :W®W®4<M^..eston,-" tho.;. loiig-distince : ■'':-\'i> ■:> I * itl \ cr ' n '«° 13* now- seventy,years- old. Hu : 1 i-k- •■'■ < ,® al V' Fraiicisco' afterai' jourrtbV 'of , ®2 8j imilcj. n c left New York on Stnroli T cs 'vng*oniy. on Surul(iys,;ho covered' ?L 3 ? " !i,es , ddi! >v i ,tho-/whole' takmg IQo days. . The'greatest-distanco . -..•'. «P, V(,r ™ m .ono day waa 78 -miles. -In : • ...-Wyoming any .Utah ho -vcxpcrioftcwl : ertot ; V: 1 tiering .owing; to licit and lack at water; ' ■ 'Ifl.tlie naval'appointment*,: the' following promotion is tccordcd —Captain R Baoon, A,D.U, promoted to rrnk, of Hcar-Admiral, J W'th'seniority of J(,I, 12. Captain Reginald Hugh Spencer Bar on, C V.O . D.5.0., aide- : : ;i. : I :■■■ „ < K'?; i ?P 9'* Kfnsi ,was',l)orn : ori.September'' . . r -P tl «!?4« r ert Ilia . Majesty's ship : . ... . Bntdnnia_in 1877, He trw pronot«t:captoii] ; on Juno 80, 1900,; and on-''August,■■ 1007 was appdmttyl Director <jf Naval'Ordnafteo afld i .-1-orpetloes;' He rcceired. a silver medal ; from .v; I'the--.ltaliatj Governirieiit -for isavins lifo 'at' . tho wreck of tho Utopia in 1891. Ho started , tho .■ submarino boat sorvieo in tlio Royal KNivv, and was 'appointed Naval Assistant to . Sea. Lotd of -tho.;' Admiralty : in i 1000. Hc'waacaptiinof 'tho -Dreadnought . ;mirlng.,her firstcommiasioti; : During the : L , Benin-expedition of 1097 he waa Chief of v . tho. Intelligence .Department, and received tho D.S.O, medal and clasp, ' being mentioned rin dispatches. vHo afterwards nwoto •fßonin, tho City of Blood.". Captain Bacon y.fa 'the naviil officer whoie letters to Admiral : or the -Fleet Sir John Fisher, liavo recently . • attracted io much. attention in Parliament.