1 JANUARY 1916, Page 21

[To THE EDITOR OF TER " SPECTSTOR."1 Snt,—I was talking

yesterday to a police constable, a native of my village, who is in the Force in one of our largest dockyard and military towns. His beat is just outside a slum which has been described as equal in depravity to any in London or New York. He tells me he has• not had a single case of drunkenness since the restriction order, and before that he was " real ashamed to take up so many women." He says : "They rolled up in their taxis next day and paid their fines, and then went on as bad as ever." Surely exceptional circumstances need exceptional legislation. But our leaders (save the mark !) have not suf- ficient imagination amongst them to see the meaning of plain