Sm,—On one point I should like to challenge Mr. F.
Barber, who says: "I think that increased leisure and educational opportunities for the workers will mean that we shall gain as much in this way as we shall lose " (i.e., in the way of cultural and voluntary activities). As regards cultural activities, surely recent years have shown that increased leisure and educational opportunities for the workers have been accompanied by a lowering of standards. Whether the cultural standards of the middle classes are improving or declining, the cultural gap between them and the working classes is widening, not narrowing. If Mr. Barber disagrees with this, let him consider the contents of the popular Press now and twenty- five years ago, to cite just one example.—Yours faithfully,
Court Lees Farm, Pean Hill, Whitstable, Kent. P. J. C. WESTALL.
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