18 OCTOBER 1930, Page 3

Mr. Morrison declared that the empty seat in a train

or omnibus had to be paid for by Capital either in the shape of bad services and bad vehicles or by the passengers in the shape of unnecessarily high fares. It may be true that the provision of empty seats is the

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economics of Bedlam," but the real reason why people rejoice at empty seats is not that they hate their own kind, but that in many trains when all the seats are full the discomfort is very great. If every seat had arms so that no person could trespass on the space of another the improvement would be great.

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