22 NOVEMBER 1935, Page 6

A pleasant little incident is recorded by the Geneva correspondent

of the Daily Herald. The International Labour Office was last Saturday presented with a magnificent Persian carpet (we have not learned, to say Iranian in this connexion yet) woven by young employees of Iranian factories as a thank-offering for the efforts successfully exercised by the I.L.O. to secure the ameliora-. tion of the conditions under which children are employed in Iran. The story recalls another exhibition of children's gratitude. When Mr. Herbert Hoover, then European Relief Commissioner, .visited Belgium in 1919 with President Wilson he was visibly moved to find the roads lined by " Hoover's babies "—the babies who Would never have been alive at all but for the relief he organised