6 SEPTEMBER 1924, Page 3

The Labour Government made its silliest decision when it gave

leave to the Society of Druids to bury the ashes of one of its members at Stonehenge. It seems probable that the ancient Druids had about as much to do with Stonehenge as had the ancient Assyrians. So the present Society, which does not, as yet, claim to have a continuous existence since what we might call " the woad period," appears to have no ease whatever. After all, Stonehenge is a national monument, not a sectional cemetery, and we certainly think Mr. Jowett, the First Commissioner of Works, would do well to reconsider his decision. * * * *