The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-29
St. Andrews Day Will Be
 Celebrated the World Over

] 2 Wherever two or more of the sons and daughters of Scotia are within hafling distance of each. other there will be celebrations and felicitous greetings tonight and tomorrow, in recognitions of the festival of St. An drew, the patron saint of sSScotland. The. seventeenth of March means no more to the Irishman than the thir- tieth of November means to the Scot, and the shamrock which the Hiber- nian proudly displays in memory of the good St. Patrick finds it's coun- terpart in the heather worn in honor of St. Andrew Happy will be that Scotsman who can wear tomorrow a sprig O. heather from the purple, histy hills of the beloved homeland. Although the native sons of Scotland are less given to the use of hyphens than the men of several other coun- tries, and have proved to be readily assimilable when they ernigrate to foreign lands. no true Scotchman ever wavers in his allegiance to St. An drew and Bobby Burns. He may, and often does, abjure the political prin- cfples and even the relig zion of his na-' tive land, but he can never forget the patron saint nor the national bard of Scotia, and the sight of wee spring of heather is sufficient to set him. to quoting Burns to anybody who will listen.
 There is scarcely an important community in either the United States or Canada that does not boast a con siderable proportion of citizens who hank back to the land O cokesA Frae 1owlands and highlands they have come to the New World. and their virtues have helped to leaven the mass in the American melting pot'' and produce a higher grade of citizen ship.
 Every patriotic subject of King George will join in the glad greetings to Scotia's sons tomorrow, for in the present crisis in the empires history, the men of Scotland have not been shirkers. In the trenches of France and Belgium the wild sl<irl of the gabpipes has inspired the .kilted Tom mics to deeds of daring that have, the brave. The navy which has en- abled Great Britain to retain com .nnand of the seas is quite as much Scotch as English. In the merchant marine of Great Britain, it is safe to say that there is scare a ships crew af1oat that does not include it's con siderable complement of Scotchmen, and, in view of the hazards. they have faced. they are no less heroes than the men on battleships and in trenches.
 St. Andrew was adopted as the patron saint of Scotland in the fifth century. The son of Jonas, the Ga1ilee fisherman, is supposed to have suf- fered martyrdon in about ITO A. D. According to ancient legends, the body of the apostle was emba1med and honorably inferred by a Christian lady of rank, and in the early part of the fourth century the bones were re- moved by the Emperor Constantine to Byzantium, where they were de- posted in a church erected in honor of the 12 apostles. In 36S A. D., it is alleged, a pious Greek monk named Regulus conveyed the relics to Scot landy and there deposited them on the eastern coast of Fife, where he built a church, and where afterwards arose the grand cathedral of St. Andrews. While the removal of St. Andrews remains to Scotland is by many in- vestigators considered a mere legend, it is certain that since very early times the Scots have considered the apostle their patron saint, and have made his festival, the thirtieth of November, an occasion of celebrating and merry making, and of social reunions of Scotsrnen residing in foreign lands.