HOPES FOR WILTSHIRE.
Almost a chorus of Ministers sent samples of their rural philosophy to the Council for the Preservation of Rural England when the Wiltshire branch was opened. The Minister of Agriculture said what was best, both for England and perhaps for the C.P.R.B. itself. lie wrote thus, in the course of a letter to the President, and one would have liked to see the passage published in daily papers :
" Rural England consists of people as well as land, and every one. I am sure, will agree that nothing in the preservation of rural England is more important than to ensure the employment under good economic conditions of a substantial population engaged its rural occupations . . . . The utilitarian and amenity aspects of life in rural England should not be regarded as conflicting. It is to that task that we are turning ourselves at the present time."
Utilitarian and amenity aspects " as a plume is an appalling conjunction of Latinity and bad grammar ; but the sense is admirable. The C.P.R.E. is neither negative nor suppressive. Its aim is to aid the growth of England ; and the more fully husbandry comes into its programme the better.
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