Lord Beaverbrook's appeal for waste paper has been well sup-
ported in the Press, and so it should be. To hand over old newspapers, unwanted books and the like to the paper-collect& (if there is one; that may be the chief obstacle) is simple enough, and the value of the waste to the munition-factories is great. The patriotic appeal, therefore, is compelling. But it is rein- forced by another appeal in which I am shamelessly self- interested. If waste paper is not forthcoming, paper—or pulp— will have to be imported for the munition-makers. If it is forthcoming, then the ships which would have brought pulp for that purpose may conceivably bring pulp for papers like The Spectator instead. Even if it doesn't work out that way the donor of waste paper will be once blessed. But it is better to be twice blessed, and I hope Lord Beaverbrook, in his benevolence, may fix it so. * • *
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