GOVERNMENT BY CIRCULAR
Sta,—Janus tells us (1) that 2,909 Orders, all having the force of law, were issued last year, and (2) that a lady whose cows produced more milk than her family needed, who wanted to know what to do with the surplus, was told by a Ministry of Food official not to draw so much milk from the cow. I should very much like to know whether the official thought of this for himself, or whether he was carrying out one -of 2,909 Orders. It does seem to me a serious thing that even the most law-abiding person is beginning to feel that it is already impossible to obey more than a certain proportion of the law. One has to choose which rules to regard as' binding, because (even counting only the ones one knows) so many are just too idiotic to be possible as a serious duty. I have voted Labour for twenty- five years, but I think the main fault lies with the present Government, and they should do something serious about it. I am a J.P., and I find the feeling that I may have to adjudicate about an obviously stupid law very disturbing. This feeling, widely shared, is not healthy for the
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