Cabinet Ministers, at any rate, could distribute their patronage and
their presence with tact over the various areas involved.

MR. BALFOUR HEWS OFF AT
DURHAM

is another headline which seems to suggest itself, and I should
strongly urge the PRIME MINISTER, who has returned, I hear, with a St.
Bernard from the Alps, to lose no time in selecting a more appropriate
playmate.

PREMIER AT TONYPANDY.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE PATS PET
PIT-PONY

is the kind of thing I mean, and very hard also to say six times
quickly without making a mistake.

Obviously the result of all this would be that not only would the
miners be justified in asking for more money, but that the country
would be able to afford it; and similar competitive leagues, to
supersede trade unions, would soon be formed by other trades. One
seems to hear faintly the loud plaudits of the onlookers as two crack
teams of West-end road-menders step smartly into the arena....

EVOE.

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=Our Bolshevik Colonies.=