3 JUNE 1938, Page 38

Too Many Cars A plan like this, go-ahead as it

admittedly is, reduces the dwindling earth still further. There are far too many cars in it anyhow, whether you meet them in Surrey or Saigon, but there must still be a few places left where you are reminded of the days when they were few and far between. With luxury liners disgorging their thousands of cars and crews in all five continents there will soon be no corner left in which you can imagine yourself finding things out which are not commonplaces of the morning paper. When you see News of the Fiji Rally " and " Many Failures in the Himalaya Hill-climb," the greatest, wish in the world will lose its grip. The atlas will be put away in the attic with the pre-War croquet set and the bound volumes of the parish magazine. It will be out of date.