An Comunn Gàidhealach Publications > Gaidheal > Volume 35, October 1939--September 1940

AN GAIDHEAL.
An Lunasdal, 1940.
rioghaolid an crochadh cho mor ris na
dh’ fhasas as an talanih dhuinn fhein.
Buidheaohas d’ an Fhreasdal air son sin.
Tha sinn ag cur meal-an-naidheachd
air ar caraid an t-Urramach Timas Mac-
Calmain an Glaschu agus e air ur phosadh.
Buaidh is piseach air fhiin agus air a
mhnaoi iig.
Tha Maighstir Timas ’na bhall de dh’
Ard Chomhairle a’ Chomuinn agus chan
’eil fear eile ann as eudmhoire as leth maith
nan Gaidheal na e. Tha fhios aig moran
air an t-seasamh dhuineil a rinn e chum is
gum biodh cothrom ceart aig na Gaidheil
air am beishlaint a chosnadh air a’ Ghaidh-
ealtachd. Tha e cheart cho seasmhach as
leth ar cknain agus ar cleachdaidhean. Tha
agus cho eudmhor airson leas spioradail ar
daoine; gu dearbh is e sin as coireach gu
bheil e cho eudmhor airson na codach eile.
H-uile latha sona dhaibh, gun Ik idir dona
dhaibh.
Tha sinn ag cur meal-an-naidheachd cuid-
eachd air Domhnall MacThomais, A.M.,
agus e fhiin air hr phisadh. Is e fear a
“bhodaich Nis” a tha an Domhnall, agus
tha e nis o chionn naoi bliadhna ’na fhear-
teagasg Gaidhlig an Ard Sgoil an Obain far
a bheil an deagh-chliu air mar dhuine is
mar oid-ionnsachaidh. Tha e ’na Ghaidheal
dlleas' agus seasmhach, agus ’na fhlor thaic
do obair a’ Chomuinn Ghaidhealaich. Tha
e na bhall de dh’ Ard Chomhairle a’
Chomhuinn agus gli fheumail ann gu
h-kraidh anns na gnothaichean sin a
bhuineas do fhoghlum na Gaidhlige. Gach
soirbheachadh is beannachd air a’ chkraid
iig, agus gum b’e an la as fhekrr a chunnaic
iad Ik as miosa a chi iad.
Firinn air son a’ mhios so.
“Bithibh Ikidir, agus bitheadh deagh
mhisneach agaibh, na bitheadh eagal oirbh,
agus na gabhaibh geilt rompa: oir is e an
Tighearna do Dhia e fh^in a theid leat; cha
dlbir e thu, cha mhi a threigeas e thu.”
—Deut. xxxi. 6.
Am Fear-deasachaidh .
0
Deinaich, a Dh^, gum bi mi maiseach an
taobh a stigh dhiom (Socrates, 469-399 r. c.).
1 pray Thee, 0 God, that I may be beautiful
within.
HIGHLAND HOME INDUSTRIES,
LTD.
As many of our readers know, there has
been an intimate connectio.n all along
between An Comunn Gaidhealach and the
Highland Home Industries Association, as
An Comunn had a good share in financing
it in its early stages. Both are working with
mutual helpfulness for the benefit of the
Highlands and the Highland people.
Highland Home Industries, Ltd., is a
trading benevolent association working
solely for the benefit of the Highland
people. They find markets and sell hand¬
made tweeds and knitted goods made by
the crofters and cottars and others. As in
former years, the money paid last year to
the crofters is astonishing. The sum of
£3170 was paid in the Outer Hebrides alone
for yarn and knitted goods, besides what was
paid for tweeds, which is the main output.
We have pleasure in quoting the following
from their excellent annual report: —
“Contact was made with practically every
clachan in Harris, North Uist, and South
Uist with regard to sock knitting and hand¬
spinning of yarn for knitting. The women
were able to start knitting socks immedi¬
ately, as they had lots of odd bundles of yarn
left over from tweeds. The movement soon
gathered pace, and socks began to arrive in
such numbers that even our new storeroom
looked as if it would be quite inadequate.
The women were able to make the socks at
a very moderate price, and the company,
bearing in mind that the main object of this
drive was to help our workers, sold those
socks to regiments and work parties at
almost cost price—actually at Id per pair
over cost price. By keeping to this low
price, we were able to keep the women in
work the whole winter. Our gracious
patroness, H.M. the Queen, gave publicity
to our effort by purchasing the first 1,000
pairs. H.M. Queen Mary was also a large
purchaser, and several Highland Regiments
and Highland Societies followed suit. To
date, 16,800 pairs of socks have been
purchased, of which about 12,000 have been
sold, and for which the sum of £1,370 has
been paid to the workers. Yarns came in
more slowly, but to date approximately
3,700 lbs. of yam have been purchased, and
a sum of £800 paid to the workers. That
total of £2,170, in addition to the money
paid for the usual tweed, must have been
of great assistance to the Outer Islands.