In Ashford, Kent one day last week, sturdy British husbandmen stood glowering while an auctioneer put up nine cows for sale. For the cattle no one bid a farthing. Presently the farmers formed a procession, moved down a Kent road shouting, singing, bearing effigies of homely Queen Anne and handsome Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. In the procession donkeys bore such placards as: "Queen Anne's Dead!" "The Parsons' Feet Have Been Under Our Table Too Long," "The Tithe Is the Death Watch Beetle Of Agriculture," "Archbishop of Cant. Church on Sunday but...
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