[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—No treatment of corrugated
iron can make it agreeable to the eye, though painting or tarring renders it less obtrusive, and should therefore be compulsory. Does it ever occur to those who create ugliness that they are the thieves of our scenery ? They injure the whole community. Should anyone have the right to destroy unnecessarily the pleasure the English people derive from their countryside ? It is undemocratic that the few, to save their pockets or from indifference, should be allowed to sin against the community.—I am, Sir, &c., Tal-y-boat, Dyffryn, North Wales. JamEs ParrEasoN. [We fear it will be a long time before every citizen possesses a civic conscience which would make any anti-social act im- possible to him. To erect ugly buildings is an anti-social act, and we can only hope that education will in the long run help the nation at large to realize the part each one of us has to play in safeguarding the countryside. Closely connected with this question is the problem of litter. Now that the summer holidays are upon us can nothing be done to ask motorists and others not to scatter paper, cigarette boxes, bottles, and tins in their wake ? The B.B.C. might help by giving some further talks on the litter problem.—En. Spectator.]
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