Show now HOW MATCH FIGURES IN WAR scarcity of brimstone headed sticks results in special controller being named in england no commodity has had more adventures than the match the announcement of the appointment of a n special controller all to itself Is a 11 fitting climax to a checkered history says the manchester guardian in the memory of our grandparents the cumbrous ns us that sought to displace flint and steel were a high priced luxury impossible to the poor in the memory of our fathers henry G george eorge for one condemned the match as one of the articles that were too cheap ue ile had in mind of course the sweating and the poisoning of workers that for too long went to the making of cheap matches yet tile popular insistence on cheap matches turned out of office a british chancellor of the exchequer and coined an immortal epigram and the superiority of the matches that can normally be bought in this country over the flimsy lifeless expensive sorts sold across the channel under government control has given the free trader one of ills his most homely and incontestable arguments the british match must now suffer control such matches as there are will fairly apportioned at fixed prices we do not doubt that there will be enough to go round for faced with a famine in some districts and ith loose matches at 30 for a P penny enny in others people have already begun to make that economy in consumption which with no greater sacrifice than a little care might easily save a half of the matches burned |