23 NOVEMBER 1929, Page 36

- - A New Competition WE recently asked a contributor to

write an article containing suggestions for a Better World, and-we- received the following refdy Short recipe would be :" Murder half the petrol pumps, three-quarters of the Sunday papers, and annihilate nine-tenths of the noise." The Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best recipe of this kind, legibly written on a 'postaatit::--- The -CtthiPetitioit-- wi3l =else'-1511----Deiiihilier '27th.