28 MARCH 1931, Page 12

* * * A. RETURN TO THE LAND.

One item that I have just seen in a new sort of employment list is both surprising and gratifying. One labour exchange, it seems, has begun to make yearly a rough census of the careers•of secondary as well as elementary schoolboys. Much the biggest figure in an Oxford list .comes under the head of "farming." When analysed it is seen that the young clerks, of several sorts, exceed the young farmers in number, but Air the rest the 'farmers are double of any .other profession. Is this the 'result of more mechanization on the farms and the demand for workers with a higher educational and technical equipment ? Dr. Addison and "Mr. Orsvin should

rejoice.

BEACH THOMAS.