Last night T was. staying with friend who lives three malles from the station, some" distance " from London. He Kindly sent his car for mo, and T think the chauffeur wanted to yet home to his tea. covered the distance in about five minutes, although part of itis through a town and there are houses along both sides for most the way and there was no lack of other vehicles. This means average speed of about 15 yards a second. Well, the vast majority of the public are si rastomed to vehicles ti such speed and cannot calculate their own movements accordingly.
My friend's chauffeur by the way 'a very good driver and speed was not out of the normal.
lence of that is that those who! advocate reimposing a speed in towns suggest 30 miles an hour.
The Police College Lord Trenchard's schemes _for the reform of the Metropolitan police include the creation of a police col-Togo for officers, the whole project being based on the idea of two tinct, elasses—officers and. privates. The former are to be recruited from public and secondary schools and Universities—in fact the Labour: Party say, from 2 privileged class.
'Details are published to-day of the outfit with' which successful applicants for the Police College must be provided. It includes a Tiberal " supply of clothing " for! athletics, also a dinner jacket suit, four dress shirts and a pair of patent leather shoes. By the way the tie seems to have been over-Tooked but no doubt it must be black' gnd ready-made bows will be forbie-Entry to the college will be partly, by examination, partly by selection. The latter method may _actually prove the better, but of course it is} one most open to attack.
Lord. Trenchard is a bold man thus openly to assert, by his actions if not by his words, that Nature has created some to command, others to obey—a provision which however much evidence there may be in support of it, democracy disputes more
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