[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTAT011:9
SIR,—After your reference to Mr. Willett's scheme for more daylight (Spectator, August 3rd), I have looked in your correspondence columns for objections that some of your readers might raise, but I can only assume that silence gives assent. It will be a great pity if this admirable suggestion is not carried further. Since it appeared I have discussed it with many people ; and although it frequently gives rise at the first moment to a smile, I have always found that when the smiler has thought it over, and got the grip of it, he realises what a valuable idea is before us, and soon becomes a supporter. It is not so much the rather natural dislike of being thought a crank as the failure to grasp the advantages of the scheme at first sight that keeps many people from accepting the proposal seriously. The advantage to all classes would be enormous, and I have as yet failed to learn the
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