In a poultry case the opinion of the "lay mind" should have been conclusive, but the Bench decided otherwise.
"When is the State going to help mothers with large families? If the cost of living has increased 100 per cent., then for eight persons the increase is 800 per cent.
"How many mothers with eight in family have received an increase of 800 per cent. in their income since 1914?—W.W., London."—Daily Sketch.
"W.W., London," should not be allowed to squander his gifts on the daily Press. We want a statistician like this to tot up the German indemnity.
THE WATCH DOGS.
LXXX.
My Dear Charles,—You are a lawyer and you ought to know. Yet to myself, when I compare my profits with those of the Government in this deal, I seem a model of innocence.
Let me refresh your memory of the facts.