18 SEPTEMBER 1920, page 9

Finance—public And Private.

THE MENACE OF LABOUR. [To rue EDITOR OF TIM EPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Despite the threatening outlook at the moment of writing, and notwithstanding the defiant attitude of the miners,......

" Geordie Pitman."

A CCORDING to Mr. Smillie the pitman, miner or collier, as he is variously styled in the North and in the South, is a " wage-serf " and a down-trodden individual enchained by......

A Double Tongue. T Here Used To Be Long Ago In

mid-Victorian times a slight distrust among ordinary people of an Englishman who was bilingual. If he spoke French or German or Italian or Russian so as to be able to think in......