Mr. Here-Belisha's nightly "zone silence" within the five-mile radius} of Charing Cross has been such a success that he announces his intention of extending it to every town in Great Britain—every "built-up" area use the exact phrase, which seems to need some definition.
The Automobile Association and the Royal Automobile Club are not favourable. The former thinks that "wise propaganda," an appeal to the good sense of motorists would be better than more legislation; but we have had oceans of propaganda and appeals with no result. The R. A. C. fears that accidents will be Increased by "slowing down traffic and making it more dangerous to attempt to pass Jother traffic" which with all respect a great and useful institution, pure bosh.
Not until the silence zone had been in force for a week did editorial writers wake up to what had been obvious from the first, namely, that the Minister's object is far more safety than speed. Tt is discovered that wherever on the Continent motorits Jarg forbidden to blow horns, greater are in driving necessarily ensues and accidents decline. In Finland boma fare not allowed at any time and trate. accidents are "comparatively rare, To say that Finnish tref is nothing compared to British, is beside the point. 'The most dangerous parts of London are not where trame is dorisest but where it is thinnest, as in the long. residential streets' of Kensington and Bayswater. The con-anal defence "of course T blew simply puts a premium on reckless driving. The solution, as Mr. Here-Belisha has found, is to compel motorists to drive by eye and not by ear.
The Return of the Oyster Oysters are in agai, and with the promise of an exceptionally One crop <or should it be harvest? Actually they were on sale two or three days Yvefore the end of August, a. thing never remembered before." This is due to the exceptional warmth of the past two summers, as oysters [ike warm water and develop more plentifully and fatly in it Genuine natives, the unapproachable breed of the Eyefleet Creek, Brightlingsea, will still be scarce. Some years' ago the attempt was made to enrich these beds by laying down in them American oysters which unfortunately brought with them germ that they could resist but not the British oysters. Hence the in: creasing scarcity and dearness of Colchester oysters.
But belter days are coming. It found that oysters can filter out any bacteria i given pure water and allowed a ttle time. Under the directions of the Ministry of Agriculture, tanks have been constructed at Brightlingsea, in which the oysters are daily washed in pure warm water. The results are described as exceeding all expectation. Unfortunately takes an oyster five years 40 grow to eating maturity, so that we shall have fo wait' {ill 1956 or thereabouts, for tives" to become plentiful ande Still that Is something worth waiting for. T don't know what purpose the oyster serves in the scheme of things, except to provide a delicacy for others. But such a destiny, s0 perfectly fulfilled, ought to be enough for him, and five years must seem quite 'a long life when you lis perfectly still in the same place doing nothing.
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