A Clean Countryside The Surrey Anti-Litter League may be congratulated
on the stern sense of duty which impelled it to prosecute some of its personal friends (if a League may be considered capable of such emotions as love and hate) for organizing a paper-chase on horseback and in the course of that diversion strewing some twenty miles of countryside with those scraps of paper which meant so little to Herr Bethmann-Hollweg, but so much to the Surrey Anti- Litter League. The League is quite right. Its efforts in the past have borne the desired fruit, and resorts like Newlands Corner and Leith Hill and Friday Street are now kept comparatively free of the litter that used to bear testimony to the inability of the tripper to rise to the level of his surroundings. As in the case of another and greater League, it is desirable to achieve results by persuasion where possible, but an occasional reminder that those who decline to observe the required standards can be penalized is no had thing. In this case the offen- ders were penalized to the extent of £1 apiece.
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