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Show i or ip worn i Salt Lake, March 11. That the censnrship in England is being rigidly 8 I nil Hum " i , 1 . . mm i j.ji i 1 1 i !.. -i f maintained is indicated by the last letter received by Dr. Grace Stratton-Airey Stratton-Airey from her son, W. W. Stratton, a student at Oxford university. Speaking Speak-ing of the last Zeppelin raid on Lon- clou, in which more than a dozen persons per-sons were killed and much property do mage was done, Mr, Stratton said that "It seems they did not do any particular damage." Nevertheless he indicated that, stringent measures were being taken to protect England lrom the raids, as he said that a fine of 500 or a term of six months in jail was the penalty for allowing the faintest ray of light to gleam past a window curtain at night. Oxford, Mr. Stratton said, was almost al-most empty, owing to the fact that most English students had left during dur-ing the war. Against a normal of approximately ap-proximately 3100 students, he said there were now only about 500, including in-cluding women students. In his own college, he said, thero were only fourteen or fifteen students, eight of whom were Americans. Likes American Cooking. "Good old American eats" are praised by the Utah boy, who told of a week-end trip he made to the home of a Britisher, whoso wife was formerly a Texan. The American woman, he said, had a cook "trained to cook real American style!" "The eats were by far the best I have found since I left America," he wrote; "and we crammed up enough to last us the rest of this term. Our meals at the college" are exceedingly bad, so it was a relief to get a real turkey dinner, with real American mince pies, instead of the English imitation, which consists of a tart, two Inches in diameter, with four or five currants inside." Living in England is extremely high, the Oxford student wrote. "All commodities com-modities have gone up in price. Eggs :rc now about two shillings, which is an outrageous price for this country. We are particularly hard-hit at the college. Of course these' institutions are running at a big loss because of their depleted membership, so they have to make it up on the few of us who are left." That there is plenty of money among the laboring classes, but a great danger of serious depression after aft-er the var, is also indicated In the leitei. Speaking of this phase of the situation, Mr. Stratton said: "At the present time, however, these hardships are not being much felt by the laboring classes; there is plenty of work at high wages, making mak-ing munitions, and taking the places of those who have gone to the front. Then, too, there are so many relief funds so carelessly and tastefully administered that very many poor people are much better off than they ever were before the war. It looks as if the big pinch would come after the war, when three or four million men are turned loose out of the army, and employers will be expected to make room for them and take them on. Women Will Lose Jobs. "Then all these women who are now doing men's work will be thrown out of a job, and there will be a lot of dissatisfaction when tbey go back to their former occupations." oo |
