Less Litter The counties are growing beneficently active in regard
to litter. Somerset and Devon have erected in many parts of their adorable counties salient signs with the inscription, " No Litter—Penalty £5." The crispness of the style is admirable. In West Sussex sanitary committees have been organized to deal with litter and receptacles have been placed at convenient places on the shore where picnics are common. As Mr. Joad has emphasized in his recent book, A Charter for Ramblers (Hutchinson, 2s. 8d.), the worst threat is to the foreshore. In that admirable monthly, the Sussex County Magazine, published in Lewes, a very grim picture is painted of the refuse left by motorists, chiefly bottles and papers ; the Surrey, Hertfordshire and Buck- inghamshire commons are in as grievous a state. But things begin to improve. Local councils take a hand. Local dwellers become their own watchdogs and some sense of fitness begins to penetrate the conscience of the tripper in England, as long ago in Holland. Can any correspondent recall the neat lines affixed by the Dutch to their litter- baskets in Haarlem and thereabouts ?
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