5 OCTOBER 1945, page 13

Drink And The State

Sut,—I feel perturbed after reading the article " Drink and the State " in your issue of September 28th. The writer, a Licensing Justice, has fallen into the error that all......

Consumers' Committees Sir, May I Refer To The Interesting...

from Mr. W. E. Simnett to your issue dated September 21st? This Council, which represents some 70,000 independent shopkeepers and traders (that is, the smaller type of shop),......

Hospital Habits

Snt,—Some of us are very grateful to Mr. Robert Hyde for putting down on paper what we have long been thinking. I had a month in the Whitby Cottage Hospital three years ago and......

English • Cooking Sin,—mr. John Fuller Is, I Think,...

too optimistic. English cooking is, and I am afraid will remain, renowned for many years as the worst in the whble of Europe. What is wrong with our professionals and, above......

4, Master And Brother " Szn,—in His Kindly Notice, In

your issue of September 14th, of my book, "Master and Brother," Mr. Wilson Harris says that I make a " strange blunder " in asserting that it was Col. Seely (Lord Mottistone)......

Peace Through Fear . . . ?

sm,—It is perhaps dangerous for a newcomer to venture to enter a con- troversy which is already under way, but as a man in the street I should like to have the opportunity of......

Hill-farms And Machinery-pools Sta,—" Imagine A...

hill farm! " So writes Sir William Beach Thomas ; and on my Welsh hill farm I have just harvested three-quarters of my oats with a combine at nearly 1,300 feet. I got over a ton......