17 JUNE 1943, page 13

Healthy Agriculture -

SIR,—What woukl you say of a motor-car so little efficient that it needed a donkey to supply just that bit of extra power necessary to make it move on level ground? That seems......

A Plea For Discrimination Snt„—may I Raise A Point Which

I fear may cause a stormy correspondence, arid yet it is one on which I feel it is not right to be silent? It is a common saying' that truth is the first casualty in war. Since......

Sir,—one Of The Reasons For The Decline In The Birth-rate

among the so- called "well-to-do" classes is psycholog;cal as well as physical. At present the well-to-do woman, though she may be freed from financial worries, lends the life......

French In English Schools

SIR,—The writer of the article entitled "What Education Is" in your issue of May 28th is much out of date in his remarks about the teaching of French today. In 5912 the Board of......

The Declining Population

Sta, — Will someone, through The Spectator, undertake to explain to mothers why an increase in the birth-rate is essential? Most of us either don't understand or else mistrust......