The Anti-Charity Movement

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21236, 7 August 1934, Page 10

The Anti-Charity Movement

M<i.:i people will view v.-nil .sympathy and respect Hie relief workers' pel it ion, presented to tinMayor, Mr Sullivan, yesterday, uryin.rj the abolition ol relief mstilutions which supply pan sal relief tn the iinc-mplu.vril and their families. Any system of relief that i:. operating on ;m ameliorative r.'itlwr than a porm.nnenth curative basis must necessarily be unsatisfactory to tliu.-.c who support it, 'hose who administer it. and those who benefit by it. No man of thai independence of character and outlook which we like to believi mort r';-w Zealandcrs posse;;:; wishes to be: placed in (he dilemma of hacin;; to look tor support to the charity of his fellow citizens and m> citi/cii relishes a ; late of affairs, m U> - communily v;lii' , !i make: urn enaritv imces?;iry. Tlwn t-vy t,,. ~.,,!,- ~, liiimn to the pro.hI'-;!! 1 '-;!! vshmh ha., escaped the par', of tho>c mo.i allccted is a hop'Tnl auyury ilut the selieme susic.estcd by the MOD or so relief workers on the face oi it die , no' seem to be- particularly hopeful. It, presupposes a willingness on the part, of the unemployed to bear even fjreafer hardship., than they are at present, < ailed upon to bear. Most of tin.- men, it may be truthfully raid, would ;;!adly embrace opportunity to break the. monotony of enforced idleness, and if they were the nniy ones, lo be consider, d would willirpdy take the ri.--k of further saerilice. Unforlimah !y, however, the burden is pot their.; alone, and many will lirsi count the

possible (■<,.-;! {., w iv ;i]|d children it' the sclvme su.".c<■'■lul \v;;:. found

unworkable. The 7.": :■_■--. j i-".; proud e to inveslicaie llli; sclif •;, ■■■. ■ 1! ,„ n Ml; ;i,! y is as mesh ;i s he could safely and wiselv make.