Improvement can be brought about by continual suggestion, by teaching
in the schools, by advertisement, by Press campaigns and by the formation of societies for spreading particular ideas. If it is to come quickly, however, it must be made easy. More receptacles for litter ought, for example, to be supplied. Why should they not be provided in the streets at places where omnibuses and trains generally stop ? Then, again, why should not the manufacturers of popular brands of cigarettes and chocolates insert in every package a request that the carton should not be thrown away in a public place ? The by-laws of the parks might be generally enforced. Prosecutions are a useful, if dis- agreeable, form of publicity. And if the by-laws were proved to be not enough, it would be plain that the time had come for an Act of Parliament to end a nuisance.
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