The Axis has cost Signor Mussolini's countrymen fearful losses on the tourist trade, But many people again are turning to Italy's incomparable beauties. We can no more really dislike the Italians than they dislike us, and there are curious stories going round, which seem to have more than a little foundation, that there have been rows between the King of Italy (who shares his countrymen's dislike of the Germans) and the Duce, over the military pact with that country, A new phase of holiday-making (due to the holidays with pay for about 9,000,000 people who formerly did not have them) is the growth of summer camps. Every seaside place is making them, if it has not already got one, The camps are rather like innumerable bathing machines made of concrete by the mile. The indus sive charge ranges from £1 15s. to, £3 10s. a week, with much lower rates for children and besides board and lodging every kind of amusement ang recreation is provided. There are already over 80 of these camps in England and Wales, the largest of them holding as many as 2,000 people. So the townsman on holiday need no long fear the horrid isolation of the country or shore. He takes his town with him, "Square Deal" for Railway'
The railway companies have won about 90 per cent, of the claim for a "square deal" ' which they have been pressing so ardently and resourcefully, After four months of close inquiry the Transport Advisory Council have found largely in their favour, particularly as regards the absurd schedule of rates for merchandise under which for example the railways must charge one price for carrying a whiting and another for carrying a lobster. Who on earth drew up that schedule and why, The Transport Advisory Council dwell heavily on the need for "proper ce-ordination of all forms of transport" (in other words a square deal for roads as well as railways) continual consultations to avert inequalities, and a preliminary trial for the new system of five years. Exactly what it will be we shall not know till the Bill embodying the Council's recommendations is before Parliament, (Most people will not know then, for the whole subject bristles with' technicalities).
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