UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1928, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF.

Most of us '"in-a-job"* folk, I think, < . touched l>y a tinge of remorse on oeeafcra at our lack of practical sympathy for tltitf who, through 110 fault of their own, are *1$" out work. The writer and his wife w* enjoying one of their necessarily rare visit? to the theatre the other evening when twinge referred to above got him badly. Cob* to think of it. we are as bad as heathen spend money 011 pleasure when there ait » many of our very own folk barely aUe ® •secure the bare of life, and s®> ? considerable few in tL; verv citv, we are to& in a state of semi-starvation. A small kW' ledge of "crowd psychology" leads on# assume that picture and "theatre goer* at' whole would not systematically refrain fr® their pleasure <>n behalf of the unemplojd and even if they did this might inflict noi" l ' hardship on t lie proprietors of the vari®« houses, Could one, then, reasonably app® l to the managers of the several cinemas aw other places of ainu.-cnient to devote from W on through the winter one jjood nights tak®? per month toward- th; Mayor's fund for ?" woi k : Such ;; revenue would doili'" le>s help many over the stile, whilst parks and gardens might reflect this ad <» Christian gcnero>itv. In such a cause not like to hide, a- it were, behind a no® piume. lmt a horror of publicity urges & writer t<» respect fully request that tin® intere.-ted would l>e pood enough to app'j'' the office ot thi- paper for his identity. <; EX L i X KLY CONCERN"®