3 JULY 1920, Page 11

We wish for nothing better. Experience in any form of

commercial enterprise is bound to steady the tone of organized Labour immensely. Again, papers like the Herald are extremely useful for reference purposes. One can always find out what the English working man does not think on any particular subject by looking through a file of the Herald. But, it may be asked, if that is so, why does the Herald circulate 300,000 copies a day ? Because it has a very efficient tipster. The working man, like the sporting curate in Punch, buys a paper not to read a debate on Ecclesiastical or Economic policy, but "just to see what's won " or what the prophet says is going to win ! That is a fact which we expect Mr. Lansbury does not care to think about, but it is none the less a fact.