Muckraking at the dump
Sir. —I hope I am not quite: alone in being stirred to: something deeper than recal-j lection or amusement by yesterday’s article bv your “muckraking journalist.” If the donors of the unscratched gas stove and very good clothine found by vour correspondent had no further
■ use for these articles, was it t ’ too much trouble to phone s , one of the numerous agencies * '■ dedicated to helping those in ‘ 1 want? My first thought was ' that the discarders must ; themselves be in a very for- ‘ tunate position: my second ‘ was quite different, for it ap- - ; pears that they are blind to ' i the lessons of the age. A ’ : stable economy and happy ‘ i country are not achieved at ' ithe cost of rows of newly * i furnished kitchens, matched < ■on the one hand by mounting J . rubbish dumps, and on the < I other by queues of unemployed who would gratefully scavenge there. “I’m all right, Jack” is not only a sterile but also a short-sighted philosophy.—Yours, etc., HELEN TREW. e March 18, 1976. ' t
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34106, 19 March 1976, Page 12
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