TO BROTHER SCOTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1921, Page 2

TO BROTHER SCOTS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—l see by’ an advertisement in tl:o local papers that a meeting is being called to consider the advisability of forming a Scottish Society here in New Plymouth. Without knowing the convenors and their minds on the subject, one is somewhat at a loss to ‘'ken” what the function of the society is likely to be—Whether a Burns Club, Caledonian Society, etc., but let me say this, that j whatever tl:e meeting decides to do, Scots j join up and pull together. Numerically we ! are strong enough, and our Inborn, love of country has surely been strengthened by our absence from Auld Reekie—“Breathes there a man with a soul so dead,” etc. Let me assure readers that the seeming apathy or the Scot is not for want of the above-men-tioned love of country, but. is due to his characteristic shyness and “let the-other fellow start it” business Well, tl - o other fellow has started it, evidently, and may he they see the endeavor is not in vain. Give them some practical support and sympathy. The meeting could not have been convened at a better time. The welcome music of the pipes last Saturday Is still waking memories within me as it must be in all other Scots.— I am, etc., SOUTAR JOHNNY. New Plymouth, July 20.