26 JANUARY 1974, page 5

Controlling Inflation

Sir: The incisive wit and perception of Your correspondent Anthony Gibbs of Peaslake has once more been displayed in his letter published in January 12 issue. May I, however,......

Controllmg Children

As a headmaster, I agree with Dr Rhodes Boyson ( January 12) that there is a problem of dealing effectiv lY with violent and refractory c hildren in schools. There are, h......

Quality Of Life

Sir: I see it says in the new Labour Party campaign document that Labour's intention is to "improve the environment in which our people live and work and spend their leisure."......

Country Life

Sir: Your columnist Peter Quince mentions muddy fields in his article of January 12. Whether it is a quirk of memory I know not, but I do not remember fields being as boggy as......

Cecil King's Nice Chaps

Sir: I feel I must challenge Mr Cecil King on at least one major point of his highly entertaining notes (January 12). Surely the example of Mr Macmillan's "night of the long......

Cecil King's Busmessmen

Sir: It's a sad thing to see Cecil King writing (and you printing) that fatuous old incantation that "men are in business for profit" (Notebook, January 12). It is hardly ever......

Cecil King's Birds

Sir: Bustards nesting at Hampton Court? Surely not. Mr King (January 19) must be haunted by the memory of his Daily Mirror colleagues. Charles Williams 10 Cottesmore Court,......

Wages Of Sin

Sir: I was most sorry to see that in your issue of January 12 under 'The Wages of Sin ' you had allowed to be printed that hoary old chestnut — "Five centuries later it cannot......

Antique Words

Sir: Inevitable misprints apart, exactitude is almost everything. Mr Benny Green in his review on January 5 of Professor Daiches's Robert Louis Stevenson and His World, refers......

Government And Miners

Sir: It does not need any reminding that this country is now caught up by a most serious confrontation between miners and government. The Government has decided to impose......