29 DECEMBER 1917, page 3

Lord Rbondda Has Authorized The Local Food Control...

devise and enforce schemes for controlling the distribution and consumption of any article of food. The Committees will be empowered to regulate the sale of tea, butter, bacon,......

Dr. Butler, In Conveying This Information, Adds That "in...

of recent events, emphasized by the widespread intrigues of the German Government to deceive and mislead the peace-loving people of the world," the Carnegie Endowment has......

Although Personally We Are So Much In Favour Of New

experiments in the arts that we dislike the very idea of crushing high-spirited developments even when they are crude, we recognize that such a sentiment as ours cannot be the......

We Must Congratulate The Government On Adopting This...

the fourth winter of the war, for we know by experience how hard it is to get obviously useful ideas translated into practice in this country. Nine months ago we ventured to......

Oxford And Cambridge May Well Be Jealous Of Edinburgh, Which

has long had her Lincoln statue. Lincoln educated himself, yet he had none of the faults of the self-educated man. His style was not only one of the best in English literature,......

We Have Received From The Carnegie Endowment For Inter-...

Peace a truly significant communication. We are informed that the Trustees of the Endowment, among whom are Mr. Elihu Root and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, passed the following......

We Observe In American Newspapers That The Controversy About

Mr. Barnard's statue of Lincoln continues. We wrote on the subject a few months ago, but return to it now for what seems to us a sufficient reason. Although the right of......

It May Very Well Be That, From This Point Of

view, the idealized St. Gaudens statue would be the best for London. But for out part we must confess that, from all we have heard of it, we have a hankering also after the......

The Engineering Employers' Federation And Certain Trade...

last week, agreed to a scheme for the recog- nition of "shop stewards," to be elected in a factory by the Trade Unionists employed there, and to be controlled by the Trade......

Our Readers Will Share Our Deep Regret At The News

that Lieutenant Joseph Lee, of the King's Royal Rifles, is reported missing. Mr. Lee was one of the many young soldiers who found, in the new and trying experiences of war, that......

We Are Glad To See That The Food Controller Has

arranged with the shipowners that every homeward-bound ship shall fill its spare store-rooms and um:recopied cabins with foodstuffs. It is pointed out that, though all liners......

Rank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 5.1 Per Cent.

April 5th.......