Glasgow's Gift

A platoon of police. bravely withstood a brick-&-umbrella charge from rioters behind the British Museum last week.

In Manchester an angry mob, tired of hurling rocks, took a leaf from the Book of Gandhi. Having rioted for the better part of an hour they squatted in the road, blocked traffic. Unlike orthodox Hindu passive resisters they were not trained to withstand baton blows. After one police charge, Manchester's unemployed began to riot again.

Glasgow, which had a stomach full of rioting fortnight ago, was quiet last week. An emollient was provided by the late Sir Thomas Lipton. In the U. S. canny Sir Thomas always stressed his Irish parentage. In his will he remembered his Scotch birth. To hospitals, infirmaries, old men's and women's homes in Glasgow went the bulk of his estate, estimated at some $3.910.000. For the immediate relief of poor mothers and their children in Glasgow went an additional $312,000. Sir Thomas was buried in Glasgow last week, beside his parents in the cemetery known as the Southern Necropolis. Hundreds of humble citizens marched past his coffin and admired the floral offerings. The chancel of grimy St. George's Church was bright as a newly opened Greek restaurant with anchors, shamrocks, lifebuoys. Irish harps and a large model of S. S. Leviathan on which Sir Thomas had traveled so often, in roses, lilies and chrysanthemums. Chief mourners were Sir Thomas's two faithful Singhalese servants, whose names he always insisted were John and Shamrock.

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