licensed victualler should be to provide wholesome food as well as
drink, not to act merely as manager of a licensed house for extending
the trade, and enhancing the profits of a brewery or distillery.

21. Simplify the Land Laws and make transfer easier and less costly.

22. Amend the law relating to marriage, and also on some points
affecting personal status and devolution of property on death.

23. Consolidate the Statute Law and amend and codify the Criminal Law.
Carry out the amendment of the Patent Law.

24. Aid the development of Education without destroying the liberty of
teacher or scholar or the variety of methods by too much control, rigid
system, or over-elaborate organisation.

25. Combat disease, encourage research in preventive medicine, and
extend the application of its results. In particular carry on the
campaign against infectious and contagious diseases, and especially
against venereal disease.

26. Make better provision for playing-fields and open spaces, preserve
places of historic interest and natural beauty, and make them accessible
for the enjoyment of those who really care for them.

27. Develop fisheries.

28. Undertake afforestation systematically.

29. Improve and cheapen internal transport, especially by reviving
waterways.

A fairly long programme, but it might be added to. Some of it is
essential, all of it useful; some of it wants carefully guarding; none
of it is beyond the sphere of practical politics. We cannot afford to
neglect any of the items. All the activities of the Government, of the
Legislature, and of private effort will be needed. It is worth notice
that there is not a single question in the whole list that need divide
Parliament or the country on party lines.

This list deals only with strictly home matters. Concurrently it will
be necessary to deal with international questions, such as the formation
of the League for securing peace, the constitution and regulation of
tribunals for settling disputes, the resuscitation of International Law
and reconsideration of its rules. An attempt should be made towards
assimilating, by arrangement, the laws of the mother country and the
colonies and also of different nations, affecting commerce, and also as
regards personal status--nationality, naturalisation, and the validity
of marriages.

The whole subject of co-operation between different parts of the Empire
in determining its policy and dealing with matters affecting