22 MAY 1947, Page 5

Nothing can be more laudable than that Members of Parliament

should do service wherever there is service to be done. One of them, I see, offers himself publicly thus: COMPANY DIRECTOR, M.P., seeks DIRECTOR- SHIP of established concern with scope for initiative.—Write Box X.1764, The Times, E.C.4.

The desire for scope for initiative outside Parliament, in view of the lack of any scope for it inside so far as the private member is con- cerned, is wholly intelligible. And an MP who is happy to be director of anything, no matter what, should be in great request ; the letters M.P. always look well at the head of a company report. More- over, it gives the House of Commons a good solid basis if membership of it has a cash value—quite apart from the annual salary.

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