An insane suggestion.

IN the course of a particularly venomous article on the subject of Sir Subramaniya Iyer's letter to President Wilson an Anglo-Indian journal suggests that Sir Subramaniya Iyer should be deprived of his K.C.I.E. The suggestion is absurd on the face of it, because, as the Hindu points out, the title was conferred on our distinguished countrymen not as a matter of official favour, but in recognition of the eminent services rendered by him. To give effect to it would be, as the same journal rightly observes, to show most decisively that "the higher a man goes up in the scale of the people's ____the lower he sinks in that of the bureaucracy." To Sir Subramaniya Iyer himself is would mean absolutely nothing, for his pace in the affections of the country-the only thing he values-would remain absolutely unshaken.