14 MAY 1921, Page 3

Probably most of our readers have not had the opportunity

of appreciating as we do how exacting is the occupation of a journalist and how little time he either has the strength to give or can afford to give to causes outside his immediate work. Mr. Massingham has never spared himself. His freely-given labour has been heroic. What a lucky thing it is for this country that when a good cause wants a leader a leader is generally ready I And it is a commonplace of observation that he is nearly always one of the busiest of men. Granville Sharp stepped in to fight the law in the interests of slaves, and Mr. /Immingham steps in to fight a vested interest. The race of these men is never extinct.