The litter nuisance, on which Sir William Beveridge and others
have been writing to The Times, is a baffling business. How is the litter scandal to be stopped? How, for instance. are you to deal with people who throw paper and old tins into the Bishop of Bath and Wells' (or the Dean of Bath and Wells') moat? Penalise them by all means, where the necessary by-laws exist, but how often is there a constable to spot the offenders? The ordinary peaceable citizen ought, no doubt, to lay an information. But what can I, for example, do with people who leave a pile of litter-filth in the wood where I am walking, and who, when I ask them to give me their names, give me Billingsgate instead? Educa- tion, of course, ought to solve the problem, but there is no sign that education is making a ha'porth of difference. Special constables as anti-litter wardens might do :omething.
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