AN APPEAL FOR HELP

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 81, 5 April 1930, Page 8

AN APPEAL FOR HELP

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Those of us who work amongst the poor know that there is at present a great deal of real distress as a result of unemployment. I am not concerned with the remedy for the situation. I am concerned with the practical difficulty of relieving the situation at the moment. Through the generosity of the public I always have funds at my disposal. The situation now is that I have none. Since Christmas the calls have been such that these funds are exhausted. I want more money. I want to be able to give an order for bed or food or train fare or to rescue clothes from the pawn shop. I make it a rule to give applicants an order and not money. I write to invite your readers whojiave a little to spare to send me what they can spare. I cannot bear to see a man and his wife, the man a returned soldier at that, put on the street for non-payment of rent and be forced to tell them I am myself on the rocks. I assure your readers that any money sent will be wisely expended. Thanking you in anticipation for inserting this letter and trusting it will meet with the usual ready response to my appeals.—l am, etc., T. FIELDEN TAYLOR, City Missionef.