11 JUNE 1910, Page 16

[To Tax EDITOR or TH1 " SPECTATOR. "] Srn,—We in York

sometimes wonder if the big cocoa works which fill the streets at closing-time with countless boys and girls, none of whom are learning a trade, or, judging from the streets again about 9 p.m., to stay at home, are helping the nation by bringing up useful men and women, or swelling the ranks of the unemployed and using cheap labour. Also some of us wonder why we have had free copies of the Star newspaper put under our front-doors. Whole districts of York have been so favoured lately.—I am, Sir, &a., A YORKIST.