ENCOURAGING MARRIAGES

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 134, 9 June 1933, Page 6

ENCOURAGING MARRIAGES

LOANS FOR FURNITURE.

(To the Editor.) The most interesting item cabled to New Zealand lately has been the news of the Hitler Government's scheme to promote marriages by lending money for the purchase of furniture. Obviously it is not |'the" remedy for unemployment, but in conjunction with other measures it should, be valuable, and it may prove applicable to this country. tts we believe, the basis of our community lif 6 is the family, then the conditions which hare developed in late years in this Dominion ire threatening our base. Of all the unemployed the least regarded is the single man, who is sent off to camp to work for 5/ a Wee ]j Wliat future can he have under such conditions ? And tho girl he might have married is probably working in a city office or factory (where, possibly, she is displacing a man) and lier future is little brighter than the young man's. This is not an attack upon women in industry, but a suggestion that some scheme such as that launched in Germany is certainly desirable on social and 'moral grounds, and probably essential if we are to get our men— our young men—back into industry. A condition in which many of our young men were condemned to work in the country at low wages, and young women in the towns, would certainly not promote that increase in community spending which we are told is necessary for our recovery. MARRIED.