I like the idea, which emerged during last week's debate
in the House of Lords on National Parks, of a country code, aiming at encouraging decent conduct in the countryside as the Highway Code encourages—and I think successfully—decent conduct on the roads. Of course, the country code would not be for people who live in the country, but for people who live in towns and when they go to the country too often deface it. The B.B.C. appeals against leav- ing litter have probably had some effect, but a sensible and not too elaborate code of conduct, put to children in schools, would almost certainly have more. The Ministry of Education might well col- laborate with the Minister of Town and Country Planning in the preparation of such a code. Meanwhile I hear that the road safety campaign is likely to be intensified in the immediate future in what sounds like an entertaining as well as an effective form. •
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