RIGHT OR WRONG ?

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 118, 20 May 1932, Page 6

RIGHT OR WRONG ?

(To the Edjjor.) '' ' ' Sir,—With a view to further ventilation of a troublesome subject/it would perhaps oe of general'interest to have'answers by some of the clergy to the following ques-

01) In view of ihe impossibility of an honest man being able to house, feed, and Clothe himself, his -wife and his child on 30s per week, is it right or -wrong that a decent citizen should >c unable to provide honestly .and sufficiently;for his dependants? ' .--. y;.- -.. \. '<£) Is it right or wrong that a helpless man should be. forced into the severe isolation of .camp life to work sis days a week for what otherimembera of the community get without privation by one or two days' work? - '■••.- ---; (3) Would^it not be more in harmony w£ th t". e BPirit of the teaehings: of Jesus Ghnst, if some of the clerical energy were utilised m administering a few strong purgatives of truth to the moral constitution of the general public, with a view to showing that wrong is.not right, even when decorated with the flimsy rags of economic and political expediency.—l. am, etc.1, ■ ' MOKALITY.. (To the Editor.) . ■ Sir,—Under the heading, "A Call, for Prayer, a letter appeared in your columns last Saturday. The writer of it is quite right when he stresses the need for us as a/ nation to humble ourselves and to seek Divine aid at the present time. History shows-that iircrises in the pasKdeliveranee has been withheld until a national day of prayer has been appointed. Some of us w™fw fi? Pi" S in authority * A s?? fit -call such a day throughout the Empire; but it is not yet. I should } « pi?a!.e' to lnform the' writer'of-the letter that a.meeting of.;the .sort suggestSt"ti£ YTIfT-¥ ii.'^ SMay.afteraoon .^wi^^m^tf^ aD -^ eat 0 .-' ■■•,>■•>:■"'■•■■■■' "'- -1 .*'?';. :'-i;-v i^STHi-