New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1928, Page 2

Buarns Club Observes Ahnivemry of Scotland’s IMlustrious Poet —Photo by Johnson & Peterson MRS. W. J. SIMPSON AND MR. SIMPSON Septuagenarians Who Were in Grand March of Burns Club and Who Later Enjoyed Old Fashioned Dances, An appeal to New Britain men | and women of Scottish ancestry and their friends to emulate the work of the poet Robert Burns in elevat- | ing and cleansing the language of | the day of any tendency it may| Bave to fall below the highest stan. | dards of purity, was made by Rev.| Warren 8. Archibald of the South Congregational church of Hartford | last night at the 20th annual ban- quet of the Burns club of New Brit- »in. The banquet was held at the Bur- | ritt hotel and was the largest gath- | ering the club has ever had. Nearly | 300, fully 25 per cent more than Rad been anticipated, attended. | The entire program, the atmos-| phere, the music, the menu, the ad: dress, everything possible was rem iniscent of Scotland. As the guests | entered the ball room they were ! greeted by the sound of the pipes’ and highland music floated from the | orchestra stand, where Pipe Major ‘William Miller, clad in picturesque kilts piped a welcome. On the tables ‘were found the short breads, scones ! and oat cakes for which the Scot. tish housewives are noted. Thes | were baked by the women of the JOHN SLOAN, JR. added to the menu. A group of young ed in white, with Scotch plaid running from waist to | M. J. Kenney, shoulder, and Dbits of who directed choir leader, confined its program to club and brought to the hotel to be | familiar songs of the heather and| | highlands. Bert F. Armstrong, song | ssies,”” dress- ' leader, selected none but Scotch mu- wide sashes of sic for the vocalists present, while the imported | dances afterwards, scorned the in- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1928 president of the John Beyle Co., and chairman of the mercantile bureau ot the Chamber of Commerce, was in keeping with the general atmos- phere, and in his own poetry of the Burns style, as follows: “From scenes lke these, Auld Scotia's grandeur springs™ ‘When'ere the twenty-fifth comes * roon, As it maun shairly dae sir, A wheen o Scots, an’ brither folks Maun celebrate the day sir: We gether roon the tables braw, A wondrous happy crood, air, Then “Archibald” says Grace for a’ O him, we're unco prood, sir, An’ noo the busy hub-bub starts, Freens meet an' spier o ilk, sir, The clattér o the tableware Proves a are Scottish buiit, sir. There's Soup an' meat, it's Roastit Lam’ “Au Gratin” tawtees tae, sir, At hame we caw'd them Irish Spuds, But here, all's educatin’, sir, There's ither things that's guid tae eat, Like Scones an' Faurls-o-Cake, sir, An' Shortbreed frae the Hills o Hame, Tae kittle ye're pa-late, sir, 8o Robin, we're a here the nicht, Tae celebrate, wae ye sir, We'el dae oor best, ye ken oor plicht, ‘Withoot—the barley bree, sir. The program was printed in the shape of a small booklet, carrying on its title page a picture of Robert | Burns, under the title “Scotland's Ain,” and was as follows: ; JIST FOR AULD LANG SYNE | Introducin® Pres. “Jeems" Pattison | wha wull introduce | Oor Toastmaister Jone Sloan, T. T. i Openin® Number Siame vvseens..“There Was a Lad” By the Quartette Contralto— a. “Flow Gently Sweet Afton"” b. “Oh for the Bloom of My Ain Native Heather" Bass— a. “Scots Wha Ha'e" b. “Gae Bring Tae Me A Pint o Wine" Burton Cornwall . “Robert Burns" . Warren §. Archibald Cong'l Kirk, Hartford, Conn. Toast .. | By the o the Sooth | Tenor— | a O a' the Airts the Win' Can Blaw b. The Star o Rabbie Burns Frederick W. Welch Soprano— a. “Somebody” b. “Cam’ Ye By Athol” Mabelle Ryder Stevens Quartette— a. “Oh Rowan Tree” b. Auld Lang Syne” Guests will form Friendships Chain 'round the room and sing the World’s Anthem Accompanist, Carl L. Bloom Dancing until 12 midnight Floor Director introduced to the guests by James Pattison, president. Mr, Sloan recall- ed the first banquet 20 years ago in Judd's hall and gave a brief resume of the growth of the club from that time. Ever since that night the club has had an annual Burns bangquet, although in 1918, he explained it was “Hooverized” when there was no speaker, no sugar and “snall eata” He traced the progreas of the club, interjecting here and there a few typical Scotch jokes, which seemed to take rather well. He told of the fact that the club, which meets once a month, has never had a small attendance. He concluded by expressing his pleasure at the fact that Mr. Robb was in the room, saying that five or six weeks ago, when the latter was critically ill in the New Britain General hospital, and for a while his life appeared to hang in the balance, that it was feared the 20th annual dinner and concert would be one of gloom in- stead of joy. His announcement that Mr. Robb was on the road to com- plete recovery and was present at the time was greeted with much ap- plause. Events in the early life of Robert Burns were cited by the Rev., Mr. Archibald. He commented upon the fact that it was just such a wild windy night as last night that the Scotch poet was born 169 years ago. He spoke of the poverty and early hardships in the Burns family, and recalled what he said was not gen- erally known that Robert Burns had actually started on his way to Amer- fca when the success of his first book of poems caused a change in his life plans. “Burns was & lyric poet, a man who fitted words to music and an- cient jmelodies,” he said. Heo said the melodies used in songs by Burns came down through the ages from centuries before the birth of the poet but that their words had degenerat- ed to the level of the low tavern and the brothel. “They had sunk to the level of the gutter, so that no decent and clean lips would re- peat them,” he said. It was these songs, thie minister declared, which Burns took, saving the catching melodies, and discard- ing the words for those of & higher standard. ““Auld Lang Syne” called “The World's Anthem” he sald was one, and “The Red, Red Rose” was another which Burns rewrote. The poet, according to Rev. Mr., Archi- bald, took the supreme emotions such as the love of man for man, the love of a man for a maiden or the love of a maiden for a man, and the {love of man for his country, and immortalized them in his songs. “All men praise Robert Burns be- cause most of all he took the songs of his country and lifted them and exalted them to lyric heights of the sublime and noble until he made the | words and melodies worthy of a great people. “I call upon you to emulate the example of Burns and help to cleanse the language of the sordid and the commonplace. You are not worthy of him if you do less than this.” In the grand march, which was led by Pipe Major Miller and M. J. Kenney, considerable attention was attracted to the presence of an ac- tive couple whose snow white hair indicated that they exceeded in years anyone in the room. W. J. Simp- son and Mrs. Simpson, hoth 75 years of age, and residents of Plainville, recalled later the dances of earlier days. Neither Mr. Simpson’ nor his wife showed any indication-of advancing age, except in their silvery hair. Both enjoyed the program as en- thusiastically and as actively as anyone in the room. “I love to dance the old dances,” explained Mrs. Simpson, who confessed a life- long love of the waltz. *I think they were much nicer than these dances they have today which they call jazz." Because of the fact that the young ‘woman selected to do e high- land fling was unable to be persemt, & Miss Grant from Hartford, a pro- fessional dancer, gave an exhibition of fancy dancing at the close of the program. e officers and committees in charge were as follows: President, James Pattison; vice- president, Henry E. C. Hill; secre- tary, John Pattison; treasurer, Ed- ward Ramage. Reception commit- tee, Mr, and Mrs. Fred Stingle, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Gibney, Mr .and Mrs. Alec Gordon Banquet comimttee, Henry E. C. Hill, chairman; Ed- ward Ramage, treasurer; John Pat- tison ,secretary. Table assistants, Miss Grace MacArthur, Miss Ruth Gibney, Miss Elizabeth Gibney, Miss Jeannie Pattison, Mies Virginia Gordon, Miss Dorothy Potts, Miss Eleanor Potts, Miss Jessie Galbraith, Miss Margaret Alexander, Miss Jessie Alexander. JURY COMMITTEE NAMED Mayor Weld has appointed Lewls W. Lawyer, A. M. Peterson and Michael T. Kerwin a jury committee for the city of New Britain. They will prepare a list of 180 citizens for jury service. WILLING 70 WAIT BUT DOESN'T LIKE TERMS Stamford Man Waats Five Days No- tice for Wedding to Apply Be- fore Divorce is Granted. Hartfords Jan. 36.—(M—The story of a man who was willing enough to wait the prescribed five days for his marriage license but couldn't quite see why he should have to wait to begin those five days until he re- ceived his final divorce decree— from a previous wife—came to light here today. He will have to wait. Recently Town Clerk George R. Close, of Stamford, wrote to Dr. Stanley H. Osborn, state health com- missioner, asking if a prospective bridegroom who expects to receive his final divorce decree can file his application for a marriage license so that he can be married on the very day he receives his final decree. Dr. Osborn referred the problem to At- torney General Benjamin W. Alling, whose opinion, given out today says in part: “The law of this state re- quires the applicants for marriage licenses to be single persons. As the applications under existing law is to be made at least five days before the granting of the license, it would seem to me that the parties must be single at the time when the appli- cation is made.” CRUISER SLIGHTLY DAMAGED Colon, C. Z, Jan, 26 (UP)— Slightly damaged below the water line in her collision yesterday with the Peruvian submarine R-1, the Peruvian cruiser Almirante Grau Wwag expected here late today to cn- ter drydock. The collision was at- tributed to a navigation crror. 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