10 DECEMBER 1927, Page 3

required to do so, have as good reasons as anybody

else to be grateful for the Carlisle experiment as some- thing that can be pointed to as a proof and a test. For the purpose of comparison with private enterprise, however, the scheme would be much more valuable . if it worked under the financial conditions which are imposed upon the Trade. Carlisle is not merely not under the Licensing Justices ; it pays no taxes or rates, though it makes a voluntary grant in aid of the rates. It would be entirely wrong and foolish, in our vie*, to abolish the Carlisle experiment as such. We hope the Carlisle Unionist Associations will point out that thc experiment could be made even more instructive if it were conducted under the normal financial conditions of the Trade.