THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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© Western Newspaper Union 



MOTOR DRIVERS OF THE BRITISH WOMEN'S EEGION 



The organization to which these war workers belong is similar to the American Women's 

 Motor Corps. They are attached to the Canadian Forestry Corps and are stationed at Wind- 

 sor Park. Their log huts have been built by the women foresters. 



are told, the country has produced food- 

 stuffs enough to feed it for 40 of the 52 

 weeks. Nothing like that has been done 

 for half a century. It is one of many 

 instances of accomplishing the impossi- 

 ble. Sacred parks and beloved areas of 

 grass lands have been sacrificed ; but the 

 food was produced, because there were 

 no ships in which to import it. 



Not again will Britain permit itself to 

 be dependent for its daily bread on the 

 uncertainties of importation. Agricul- 

 ture is become a chief object of national 

 solicitude, and will remain so. The 19 18 

 achievement would not have been so 

 striking in normal conditions as to labor, 

 animals, implements, fertilization, and the 

 like ; but in the circumstances of its 

 accomplishment it is one of the war's 

 wonders. 



Britain has learned anew what a great 

 agricultural industry means ; has learned 

 that the land is for use first, ornament 



afterward. Taxes on incomes, rates on 

 the broad acres of manorial estates, are 

 solving the land question. The great 

 holdings are being disintegrated at a rate 

 of which Americans have little concep- 

 tion. 



Single proprietors have sold at auction 

 hundreds of farms. In one case a noble- 

 man specified that tenants should have 

 preference, and practically all his hold- 

 ings went to them. Some of the lands 

 had been in his family 600 years, and 

 some of the farms had been held by the 

 same families of tenants for 300; but 

 never had there been, till this sale, the 

 thought of possible ownership. 



If this disintegration of land holdings 

 does not proceed fast enough to satisfy 

 the public desire, it will be accelerated by 

 application of further taxation measures 

 which the people have in mind. Mr. 

 Uoyd-George, apropos certain budgetary 

 reforms that when enacted, did not es- 



