10 APRIL 1926, Page 3

* * In another respect, unfortunately, the British public does

not improve. Here we speak not in a doubtful generalization, but on positive information. The litter left behind by the holiday makers was worse than ever. Photographs of Hampstead Heath and the neighbourhood of Ken Wood (where the King made his great appeal for public tidiness !) show an abomination of desolation— paper, bottles, tins and other hideous refuse. This must be the result of ignorance rather than of wickedness. The best way would be to teach in every Elementary School that it is an offence against beauty, against manners and (in the appropriate eases) against the law to create this nuisance.