"Spectator Competitions RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or

very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry and not on a separate sheet. When a word limit is set words must be counted and the number given. No entries can be returned. Prizes may be divided at the discretion of the judge, or withheld if no entry reaches the required standard. The judge reserves the right to print or quote from any entry. The judge's decision is final, and no correspondence can be entered into on the subject of the award. Entries must be addressed to :—The Editor, the Spectator, 99 Gower Street,

London, W.C. 1, and be marked on the envelope Competition No. (—).

. Competition No. 33 (SET CARD.") A PRIZE of £2 2s. is offered for the best entry of five suggestions which, if adopted, would contribute to the organization of a better world.

Entries must be received not later than Monday, November 30th, 1931. The result of this competition will appear in our issue of December 12th.

Competition No. 34 (Set by " DIJGLI.") A PRIZE of £2 2s. is offered for a list of the six living people you would most like to welcome at your Christmas dinner. The prize will be awarded as far as possible in accordance with the general vote of the competition.

Entries must be received not later than Monday, December 7th, 1931. The result of this competition will appear in our issue of December 19th.

The result of Competition No. 32 will appear in our next issue.

Limerick Competition No. 4

A PRIZE of £1 ls. is offered each week for a new and original English Limerick verse on some subject dealt with in the current number of the Spectator. The fourth of these competitions closes on Monday, December 7th. Entries should be marked on the envelope " Limerick No. 4."

The result of the second of these competitions will be announced in our next issue. [It is requested .that to facilitate the work of the judges, entries should, when possible, be submitted on postcards.] Report of Competition No. 31

(REPORT AND AWARD BY " CARD.")

A PRIZE of £2 2s. was offered for the best entry of two letters of 150 words each addressed (a) to the Prime Minister, and (b) to the Leader of the Opposition suggesting policies for them to follow from the beginning of the Parliamentary session.

The chief thing we have to record about this Competition is our personal admiration for the tact of competitors. To agree with the expressed opinion of a fellow creature is one thing, to reassert it as a tenet of individual conviction is quite another. And nobly and generously did our readers support the ideas we had suggested in the Editorials and Editorial footnotes of previous issues. Would that it were within our power to award them all prizes for their politeness.

The remaining clause in the announcement of the Com- petition, that political wisdom should be combined with originality, was responsible for some suggestions of policy of a kind which we have never advocated. The death penalty, to be paid in a Variety of ways ranging from the guillotine to the Serpentine, was demanded for several of our more prominent statesmen : the cinema was anathematized out of existence : dogs and cats were banished from the English home : and the Archbishop of Canterbury was proposed as the lawful guide to the destinies of the B.B.C. The entries of " Curriculum," " Vanitas " and " Teviot " are commended and the prize is awarded to The Rev. J. A. Bunch, Scrivelsby Rectory, Horneastle.

WINNING ENTRY. • To the Prime Minister. .

DEAR Sin,;---The first item in your Parliamentary policy should bo the maintenance of unity between the members of the Government, for " unity is strength." Under your doctor's mandate, you should insist that the health of the body depends on the health of each linib, both in national and international activities. _You should work for the formation of an International Bank with power to keep the world's gold in healthy circulation. You should strive

for the cancellation, or the acceptable readjustment, of all War. debts. you_ should encourage the League of Nations to maintain peace everywhere, to promote disarmament, and to stimulate universal friendliness and co-operation. In home affairs, you must not allow foreigners to " send coals to Newcastle." You must insist that trade_ expansion and the decrease of unemployment depend on the finding of new markets, and on adventurous sales- manship. Empire trade must be keenly promoted. You should

bless Indian aspirations.:—Yours truly, J. A. BUNCH. Scrivelsby Rectory, Horncastle.

To the Leader of the Opposition.

DEAR St ,—In your Parliamentary policy you should declare the failure of the capitalist system and demand more and more experi- ments in the national control of industry, beginning with railways and coal-mines. You should laugh at every indication of disunion between the members of the Government. You should insist that every increase in the price of necessities is due to the new system of Protection that was not frankly proclaimed at the last election: You should proclaim the failure of the present banking system, which operates only for private profit, and should therefore be abolished in favour of a national financial corporation. You should denounce the tyranny of the gold standard, and state_ that the wealth of a country consists in its land, factories, mines, railways, fisheries, &c., as well as in the skill of its workmen. Education, slum-clearance, work for the unemployed should be important items of your policy.—Yours truly, J. A. BUNCH. Scrivelsby Rectory, Horneastle.

Result of Limerick Competition No.

THE most popular subjects for comment this week were Miss Salaman's flight to the Cape, breakfast at Oslo, and the suggested reduction in the salaries of Bishops.

The prize of £1 Is. is awarded to Harry B. Hermon Hodge, Sarsdcn House, Bingham, Oxfordshire, for • " A NOTE ore CYPRUS " (Spectator, page 588). Till the earlier part of last week,

When the islanders started _to squeak, To quite erudite readers

Of newspaper leaders • ' The Cypriot question was—Greek.

The following are highly commended : POLITE GEOGRAPHY.

There is &Ma, Sofia, Sofia . . .

Shall we rhyme it with " We are " or " I are "

I spell it Sofija.

(To rhyme with Elijah, And not with his Chariot of Fire).

J. D. A. BARNICOT.

(Letter on the impurities of milk, suggesting that built,- should be used as food instead.) There's a-silk worm for every silk, There's a milk worm in every milk, But, wondrous to utter, The Soviet butter Is free from the germ and its ilk.

FINANCE.

I admire Arthur W. Kiddy (Though the figures he quotes make me giddy).

If it wasn't pure chance Made him take up Finance,

Why did he ? Why. did he 7 Why did he ?

JAMES T. Fox.