6 SEPTEMBER 1940, Page 14

THREEPENNY-BITS IN SCOTLAND

SIR,—I wonder if you would pass on that remark of Mr. Churchill's administered to a not very distinguished M.P. who was making a nuisance of himself with irrelevant and frivolous remarks during a serious debate, to your Mr. Janus in regard to his silly little remarks about the threepenny bits in Edinburgh, which city he has been visiting. Granted that this is the " silly season," and that writers to magazines at such a time fmd it difficult to make a living, at so much a line, were these four lines, even at a penny a line, worth inserting? It was not very clever, nor very profound, it was not very funny and probably was not true; it is on the other hand rather tiresome. I wonder when the ' average Englishman will learn to grow up?—