Arizona republican., 1918-10-21
SC0T PAPER PRINTS
 LETTER IF PRAISE
 FROM PHOENIX MAN

The scotsman of Edinburgh of September 14 prints a letter from Peter Chalmers of 930 East Taylor street, this city. chiefly with reference to the recollection by MT. Chalmers of James Gillespie's school. concerning which there had been some dispute among the men who attended that famous school half century ago. MT. Chal- mer'S also took occasion to make I comparison between American and Scotch soldiers, to the advantage of the latter, but that part of his com munication did not appear. The letter follows:
 Tn reference to J. T. Macs reply to my letter on James Gillespies school in the Club of 18th May last year, 1 will try to enlighen him on how the ground lay in 1871, when I lief 'Auld Reekie,' as last I saw it. On the north side was View forth. A loan went down to the rubber works past the boat house on the canal. There were sev- eral houses between that and Giles pies school, which was the last until you got to WatsonS hospital for old women, and nearly behind the school To the west there was a street from Morningside road, the road running up through the links, past the nunnery and out to the south side, if my recol- lection is right. On the south War render park was just beginning to be built. At the end of Warrender park was the Lovers Loan which went past the Trades Maidens' hospital and on to the south side. Across from the | entrance to Watson's hospital to the east were the Barclay Kirk and the entrance to Bruntsfield links and the mo q | hill, where I served my time with | George Bertram, engineers, just above | the distillery.
 Changes His Estimate. Tn my letter of May 26, 1917, I re- marked that 90 per cent of the Ameri- can people were behind President Will | son on the war. 1 will change that per centage now and make it 99. What few | Hun sympathisers we have here now are not worth noticing. In the south ern and western states the best policy | for them is to keep their mouths shut. l Uncle Same loves peace, but, gin you | rouse him he is not like the man from Missouri.
 T would call attention to one serious l drawback in Scotland In Scotland in my boyhood I was not allowed to carry | a gun, and if I got that permission I | had to have a license to use it. Now, m free America and Canada you have | to ask no ones permission to buy, carry or use a gun. All you have to do is to observe the game laws.
 Praises Craftsmanship.
 You will find boys and girls from s years up who will hit bullseye every shot. and have seen young men shoot 1 colnS away as fast as you could throw | them up. It makes a difference in the tlrlng line, and if you have not noticed It. just do so in the future. And SC l with the Australians and New Zea flanders.
 T don't cast any reflection on the brave lads from the old country. ] have four nephews in the fray. I only l mention the fact to show that it is a | handicap on the boys. The firm of Hohenzollern, Ludendorff & Co. will find that the 'sammies' will be able tc show them some Yankee tricks that they had not thought of before. We nave, according to our papers, 800, 00C men in France. and before January 1 1919, there will be at least a million and half. Hindenburg says the Americans are easy to whip. Talk k cheap. Yankee bullets, knives and six. shooters are mightier than idle talk as the Huns have to be shown. The reckoning will be something that vii appal the detested kulturists' and it i. coming soon, just as sure as the SUI Is in the heavens.
 It would do you good to see the en.
 thuslasm that is in America, standins
 behind our grand and determined pres
 ldent, who will stop at nothing nov
 but the complete defeat of our enemies
 who consider treaty only a scrap 0
 paper They will be shown it mean
 more than that"