'Even motorists who have ridiculed hhls beacons, chafed' under his admonitions and otherwise resented is discipline will be sporting enough to congratulate Mr. Leslie Here-Belisha on his elevation to Cabinet rank. It true that the promotion is governed by the need to. bring another Liberal into the Cabinet, owing to the death of Sir Godfrey Collins who has been succeeded by a Conservative, Mr, Walter Eliot. Neverthe. ess Mr. Belisha will be held to have won the distinction by merit fu devoting himself with special forcefulness to the problems of his department. He has not hesitated to use every means of publicity to make the public aware of the dangers of the road. He may have chastised the motorist with his scorpion ike tongue, but he has Kept an occasional rod in pickle for the careless pedestrian and feckless bicyclist. Moreover the stage owes him a great debt of gratitude. Without his beacons and other picturesque intrusions into the solemnity of the streets, the comedian would have been hard put tot for jesting material. Another, Interesting promotion Ig that of Mr. 'W. 8, Morrison to be Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in the place of Mr. Elliot. Mr, Morrison must not} be confused with Mr. H. S. Morrison, the Chairman of.the London County. Counelt and a shining ght of the: Labour Opposition. The new Min-Ister for Agriculture is a Conservative, a lawyer by profession who is] now a King's Counsel and in, the Great War won the Military Cross and the 1914 Star as an officer of the Gunners. As a demobilized Captain he graduated at Edinburgh University where he was President of the Union, He is looked upon as one of the most promising of the younger Conservatives and that after only even years in the House as Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury. A minor promotion is forthcoming in the appointment of Mr. Henry James; Serymgeour-Wedderburn to the vacancy at the Scottish OMice caused by Colonel D. J. Colville's well-deserved appointment to Mr. Morrison's former post at the Treasury. Mr. Wedderburn sits for Western Renfrew as a Conservative, He is Hereditary Royal Standard Bearer for Scotland and his name is famous {in Scottish annals. An Old Wykeham. Ist, he was President of the Oxford Union only twelve years ago and as fa young Balliol man on the right} jo of 35 he {s taking his first step political advancement with excellent credentials and in a congenial setting.
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