MISSIONERS OF MERCY
(To the Editor.) Sir,^There is in our community a class of worker termed as a Salvation Army Officer. Upon completion of many years strenuous service in relieving mankind in. his distress, these Missioners of Mercy are placed on a pension and termed "retired." There are many people in this country who, like myself, will today admit that they have experienced a greater sense of social security in the alleviation of distress and the distribution of charity at the hands of the Salvation Army and its untiring workers than this Government can ever offer. Yet these folk who have given the best of their lives to this end, are called upon to commence sacrificing again through the taxation of their meagre pension. As these kind-hearted veterans are too loyal to their Biblical instructions to complain, I feel it my duty to make public my surprise at such unjust taxation of those who deserve all the comforts their pension will afford them. Surely the Government is not so short of funds as to have to resort to this practice?—l am, etc.,
NOT A SALVATIONIST.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 131, 6 June 1939, Page 8
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