Again, I have lying on my desk two publications concerned
with the film trade, To-day's Cinema and The Daily Film Renter (each now appearing only three times a week), one of which weighs approximately half a pound—more than four times as much as this week's issue of The Spectator—the other an ounce less. To turn to a different field, while the periodical Press of this country is singularly and satisfactorily clean, publications do exist which obviously depend primarily on sex-appeal. They, in this time of acute stringency, get their allowance of paper on the same basis as everyone else. I realise, of course, the serious difficulty of discrimination. But there are other ways of dealing with difficulties besides burking them. Periodicals could be divided into three or more classes, A, B, and C., &c., with highest priority for A. Or the petrol-system, of a basic and a supplementary allowance, could be adopted. Or still better methods might be devised.
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