Mr. Herbert Morrison, who seems to enjoy, or at all
events discuss with unction, his powers of binding and loosing, has to.
us that in certain eventualities he might relax the black-out regul- tions during the winter months ; in his own words (words sometim put into the mouth' of an even more august giver of commandments he may say, " let there be light." I do not myself see why thert should not be light here and now in railway carriages. You and I and those other millions of us now forming the misera pie comribuens, for whom all things are and will be " planned," cann or dare not touch the master-switches from which a train is lighte The lights are turned out on us when there is an alert. We do it mind sitting in darkness when there is need for it, but why, wh there is no need for darkness, should we twist and fidget hour aft hour in semi-night, watching the one man in the corner seat w can read? As things are, travelling on moonlit autumn and wint evenings would be less tiresome if there were no carriage lights a therefore no call to draw the blinds. England seen by moonli from a railway carriage window is pleasanter than the sight of one fellow passengers trying to go to sleep.
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