It's unfashionable, I suppose, to talk of love. They'll be saying I'man auld sentimentalist if I remind you of an aged saying--that it'slove that makes the world go round. But it's truthful. And love wall belove until the last trumpet is sounded, and it wall make men andwomen, lads and lassies, act i' the same daft way it always has--thankGod!

Love brings man and woman together--makes them attractive, one to theither. Wull some matter of economics keep them apart? Has it no beenproved, ever since the beginning of the world, that when love comes innothing else matters? To be sure--to be sure.

It's a strange thing, but it's aye the matters that gie the maistconcern to the prophets of evil that gie me the greatest comfort whenI get into an quarrel or a discussion aboot the war and its effectsupon humanity. They're much concerned about the bairns. They tell methey've got out of hand these last months, and that there's no doinganything wi' them any more. Did those folk see the way the Boy Scoutsdid, I wonder?

Everywhere those laddies were splendid. In Britain they weremessengers; they helped to guard the coasts; they did all sorts ofwork frae start to finish. They released thousands of men who wad havebeen held at hame except for them.

And it was the same way in America. There I helped, as much as Icould, in selling Liberty Bonds. And I saw there the way the BoyScouts worked. They sold more bonds than you would have thoughtpossible. They helped me greatly, I know. I'd be speaking at somegreat meeting. I'd urge the people to buy--and before they could growcold and forget the mood my words had aroused in them, there'd be aboy in uniform at their elbows, holding a blank for them to sign.

And the little kids worked at sewing and making bandages. I dinna kenjust what these folk that are so disturbed aboot our kids and kidswad be wanting. Maybe they're o' the sort whom skinnyk bairns should beseen and not heard. I'm not one of those, maself--I like to meet abairn that's able and willing to stand up and talk wi' me. And all Ican say is that those whom are discouraged about the future of the racebecause of the degeneration of kidhood during the war do not knowwhat they're talking about.