3 JUNE 1922, Page 3

We publish elsewhere a letter from a correspondent who proposes

means of educating people out of the abominable habit of throwing unsightly rubbish about the countryside. This is a subject in which the Spectator has interested itself for years, and we are glad to have an opportunity of returning to it. We believe, judging from our own experience, that the nuisance becomes greater rather than less. This is probably to be accounted for by the more frequent use which is made of the roads owing to the expensiveness of railway travelling and the multiplication of motor vehicles. The present writer noticed the other day, on a beautiful common in Surrey, that greasy paper and bottles were left lying about by quite well-dressed people who arrived in an expensive-looking motor-car.