POINTS FROM LETTERS
GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA May I correct one point in my former article ? The amenities between the two races have undoubtedly improved in certain ways in the Civil Services, especially at the centre. There, things are not as bad as they were ten years ago. But in other directions the racial evil is still acute.—C. Arconaws.
THE HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB INSTITUTE.
We arc asked to give notice of an appeal—deserving if ever there was one—on behalf of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute. It is thanks to the untiring energy of Dante Henrietta Barnett that this Institute, which began twenty years ago with nine students, has now one thousand eight hundred fee-paying members as well as uncounted hundreds who attend its outside activities. The 'clue educational opportunities afforded by this Institute to people of all ages and class, on any subject, and its high ideals are such that we hope the appeal put forward for money to build an Art School and Hostels for the students will have a generous response. Her Majesty the Queen has graciously intimated to Dame Henrietta Barnett her hope to be able to open, on Saturday, July 10th, at 3.15, " The Crewe Hall," which is the third block of Sir Edwin Lutyens' beautiful building in the Central Square.
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND REUNION.
Not only has the Church of England never adopted the word " Protestant," but on the contrary in Convocation definitely refused to do so at the bidding of William III.— T. ARNOLD HYDE, Avonwick, S. Devon.
SAFETY FOR PEDESTRIANS.
If pedestrians still continue to be killed by thousands, and crippled by tens of thousands in Great Britain every year, it is because they do not realize how easy it would be for them to defend themselves and their children from further slaughter, mutilation and disablement, by the irresistible force of their combined votes. The pedestrians outnumber the owners of motor vehicles in Great Britain in the ratio of twenty to one ; and every adult pedestrian (male and female) has a vote. They are, therefore, in a position to claim from the British- Government, for their protection, a drastic limitation of speed, through the compulsory use of speed governors by all motor vehicles. As a proof that speed governors are practical, I must add that every motor vehicle used by every post office in the United States is equipped with a governor, limiting its speed, automatically, to a safe and reasonable figure, for its own safety, that of the mails, and of the public. The highest speed thus permitted by the United States Post Office, in country districts, is twenty miles an hour ; within city limits, from 12 to 14 miles an hour. There are more than 51,000 such post offices, serving an area of 8,567,563 square miles, much of it mountainoits.—BERTRAND SHADIVELL, Rome.
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