3 FEBRUARY 1939, Page 19

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, —A certain man went

down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment and wounded him and departed leaving him half dead.

And a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came upon him and looked upon him and said unto himself : " This is where I get into trouble with the All-Samaria Congress of Trade Unions, the Samaritan Medical Council, and every other pro- fasional and trade association. If I put this fellow on his feat he will start to reduce the scarcity of something, lower its price and so reinforce the processes of deflation which have brought so much misery to my unhappy country. According to our economists, who have never been wrong on the population problem . . . Aw! Gee up, Neddy! "-