Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-16

Ipf IN: states,
,!dcrwansh!p in Bcdfcrdshirc and I,
Fellowship OF All Souls college.
IL is said that when MIR. Lloyd George
was LOOKING for a Minister OF ASricu!-
turc. someone suggested Rowland T..
rrothcTc. The Prime Minister'S eyes
lighted With memories OF an historic
Budget, controversy; An" he eN-
claimed. The man | called tho Duke
OF Bedford's butler. or nothing %
tina; sort The Very person | want
Ana thus one Of the ncrccst critics
Of Mr.. Lloyd George as Chancellor OF
as Prime Minister.
MIR. pro:hcro, needless 10 say. never
WAS anyhody's butler. Perhaps no man
IN the House of Commons looks less
IKE one. The son Of Il canon. he in
heriicd much OF the atmosphere OF
the Established Church. His thin,
finely ch!scled. clean shavcn face ana
white hair would go we'll with apron
and CATERS, bis style OF speaking some
what suggests the pulpit, and when he
approached his pcroration YOU are al
most surprised that he does not say.
Just one word before we part" HIS
book on The Psalm in Human Life
- perhaps the best on the subject in
ihe English language.
To call man with his record the
Duke Of Bedford's butler was 10 carry
the license of political satire 10 eN-
ccSsivc lengths. AS matter OF fact,
Mr.. rrothcrO's rea! position as agent
n-Chief TO the duke is one OF the most
important in the business world Of
Eng iaud. Forty thousand rich Eng
fish acres are equivalent TO many n
small principality and their aEent-in-
chief has more than the emclument and
part OF the dignity OF some prime MIN
listers
REPUBLIC MUCH POORER
The President OF the Swiss Republic
IS probably much poorer man ana
almost certainly much humber man.
nj. ia -
position. y British duke * general ~
the least important fact about the
dukcdom II is often forgotten that.
behind the individual sometimes very
human and very foolish, is something
very astutc and occasionally very in
human. whole hierarchy OF lawyers,
rent collectors and agents as cold as
civil servants and generally muc'l
lleener 1t is such hierarchy OF
which Mr.. Prothero is the head.
1t will, therefore be seen n, that At. IN IN
OF Agriculture, Lloyd George was tru"
to the general principle Of business
government :, Whedhsr. how ,Si c,i ihe
waited man has benefited him greatly
as a minister is open TO some doubt.
lie would probably have been much
more comfortable in mind had he been
wildly ignorant OF farming. For his
career thus far has mainly consisted
tual protests. Before the war the De
partment of Agriculture remained Srue
to it's origin. 1t was formed perhaps
mainly as post for yiscount Chaplin;
the famous Squire Of Blankncy.' and
was so constituted as to provide SUI,
iciency of amusement for that EenihI
sportsman and farmer, without giving
him opportunities of doing anything
very definite. either for good or i'll.
Mhsn real M9r 1e TO fhS Ms
far from adequate to Its performance.
and the prestige of the board. which
had long been the special province
nf
Mir. Prothcro has thus had consider
able trouble in asserting himself lie
Office to the controller OF petrol. and
from the food despot to the minor
products of the Ministry of Munitions.
Having duly made himself busy in one
direction. Mr.. Prothero finds that in
the interval some other giant Of con
trolling tand uncontrolled) energy has
deprived him of the means Of carrying
and the poorer class. of freehollcrs to
pillow up their grassland knowing. OF
course, that arabic land ahsorhs far
more labor than pasture, and then finds
that the National Service Minister has
run off with all the able bodied plow-
men. He advises everybody to go in
shipping controller will have nothing
to say to shipments of pig food He
promises Pro ls the farmer one thing. and
quite different.
All these matters. however, are
likely to he rcmedied before long. for
II Is known that the Prime Minister
ficient Board of Agriculture Is essen
tial TO the solving OF problems that
cultural administration has never re-
ccived it's place in the British system
Of government. though agriculture is
still Bri,ain's greatest industry The
time has now come. in the Prime Min
listers judgment, when I thorough re-
organization OF the Board OF Agri-
culture should he undertaken with
view to bringing II abreast OF the most
modern OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 1918.