22 SEPTEMBER 1917, Page 3

We still hope that there may b3 some places of

honour found for industrial workers in the new Orders. We should like to see working nten and women given Orders as distinct from =dole. If popular opinion regards honours conferred by the King (as we am sure it does) as a due and fit reward of merit, then none of the grades of the new Orders is too high for, say, a munition worker who has sacrificed all personal interests to the war. We cherish a particular ambition to congratulate a Munitions Dame