5 DECEMBER 1925, page 18

£100 Prize For An Essay - On Unemployment

AN American reader of the Spectator, Mr. Gabriel Wells, has generously . offered a prize of £100 for • an essay on "Unemployment : Its Cause and Remedy." The maximum length of......

Poetry

PRIMITIVE MAN (LUCRETIUS - V., 925-94k) THE men that lived unhouleil Iii'those far dayS Were hardier, as beseemed an earth-born race. Their bones were big and solid, and their......

State-aid For Voluntary Hospitals

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . . . Sur„—The stock argument used -by the-opponents of State- Aid is tilt of the danger of State-Control. ,Confusion is too often manifest as......

An Advertising Success

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, ----R will interest many of your readers to knOW that the £1,200 Gas Essay ',Competition, which was annonneed . is your advertisement;......

Walking. In Circles

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Some years ago a writer in the Nineteenth Century asserted that most people were left-legged. We arc right= handed, but we are......

The Poor Clergy

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—May I again venture to bring before the notice of your readers our annual Christmas appeal for help in our work of relieving the wants of......