MANNERS AND MAN

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1927, Page 13

MANNERS AND MAN

"A ease ■ recently reported in : the daily newspapers,.: in which a ■ Master of .Foxhounds,.Mr. ■' Arthur Jones, was fined lOs for riding his horse on the footpath, is of interest in view of the comment made by the chairman of the Bouch," comments "Tho Motor," London, editorially. ■<'It had been'■' stated that Mr. Jones called to-'.two ■'women who wore on the path to get out of tho way and, when they refused,' swore at them. His solicitor stated that Mr. Jones'was riding upon the path' because he was afraid that his horse would slip on the road, and the chairman of the Bench is. reported to have said, in imposing the fine; that 'he sympathised with tho defendant, but had to administer the law.'. .. . .'...'

'.'Would the, kindly chairman have been equally sympathetic had it been ■ft case of a motorist, driving with two whoels on.the path who had sworn at a. pedostrian for Tofusing to move? We think that, on the contrary, tho heaviest lino allowable would havo been imposod, accompanied by a ponderous diatribe concerning tho appalling lack of manners exhibited by the defendant in particular and by-motorists in gen■ergl. Oases such as tho one which wo have quoted, sorvo- to-emphasise the appalling bias too often evinced by Magistrates."' '.•'.- •. •: ■