BAD TIMES-OUR INDIVIDUAL PART.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 550, 3 July 1909, Page 3

BAD TIMES-OUR INDIVIDUAL PART.

.-Sir,— BVom, day. f»; day w« heir of bad timeslond^nnemployment,.and the one continnous note, seems-to,be that tlje State or the mumcroahtv, &ould\cope, witi the unemployment, whilst, the capitalists or the Goycnunentpor'.both-r-are blamed for «ie oxiatence -of tilings as they are; Docs it never stnke tie editonror your readers'that we, as individuals; although we might not be able to totally Rectify Things, might bb able to rehove too , situation to a certainly mrked extent. .We wiU say for arg3 ttat aioie are ten/thousand buildings . in tie city and suburbs, the majority are in wood. -A great: number of theae'are in a more or. less state of disrepair— wantujg a coat of paint, a few carpentering re-' pauva littlo plumbing, or the garden, would provide day's work -for, a workkes gardener.:. Many a.little job could be found whiok would -lighten the load of.a, few-.-of the sorely-pressed unemployed' if., ;we would ; do our individual part to stem..the tinwelcpmc tide of hard times, ■ Granted some of the property-ownere are "close hauled" tteio are' many who have regular incomes, to whom the.proeperity or adversity of local affaire.has no These could, if. they liked, put, to the wheel and keep things; ; going until-brighter times came along.:' ' -■.•".■-■ ••.■.■.-.'; -■.-■• ~,-V .■;.. v, .-. ■■, : . ,Jn ,a t ;there'w; ; always' • •that-.bit'.of excavating ••.to do,", 1 and' one thousand, and one other, little affaire .want attending .to. .Why not get some of them done:now,:inßtead;;of. waiting tilb-"brighfor" (and -, dearer , '). times along ?- See : how muoh more likb'a. home the■ cottage would look with co.i'f of pamt; arid see,the amount of work (and happiness) it would bring, to others in hoed of it' I sometimes i thinlcjisir, ii wo would do our individual, part,; and-do-it now, how much blessing we, might bring to ourselves and others; also. Some may contend,'that these httle_jobs would 'not help- things, much ;"i)or would they, of themselves, but seeing there are only a few, hundred unemployed among a Population .of''about , scveijty .thousand, works . like those in between the' regular and larger u'ndertaklngs,■_ would,..brgely.:rolievo.•" the etato/-of anxiety which, is-curer .present- with "bo niany nowadaye. •■:Could 'wo'not.apply the words '" As Sf .would/tiiat?otliers";would> do unto you-(if you;: were in .their circumstances) ' oven'so do'ye'uhto th'em'likewiee , ' s ?—l am ote., ■■ '■ ..-'■■,■■■■' ..■ '.'; : - ■''-. ■ '■■',- ■;•'■• '. .-'. : .; - willing, ■ 6ut- unemployed; - i Juno 30.. i ■ ..■;:■ -i P;- }>-'-.■■::■.:„:■..,];,.\. : ?■■■[