“CITIZEN’S” REPLY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 257, 27 September 1933, Page 6

“CITIZEN’S” REPLY.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—My letter appearing in your issue of the 18th inst. was a general survey of the relief worker’s lot, written in defence of the principle of justifying one’s existence by active cooperation in the welfare of society and not idling through life at the expense of others. Your correspondents’ replies were disappointingly short of the average standard one would expect, substantially establishing the theory that unfortunately their mental training had been overlooked in the mad struggle for existence, otherwise they would have detected a faint warning against the danger of drifting towards a spoonfed age so _ demoralising to the rising generation. One may be forgiven for quoting the “cookie’s” case as an example. My analysis of the relief workers’ financial position had a general application and was based upon contact with personal reliefworker friends who are, evidently, fairly comfortably fixed, your correspondents to. the contrary notwithstanding. I am in perfect accord with the relief worker’s desire for healthy fun and amusement—up to a point of course. Too much play and little work makes Jack a dull boy, and that is why the 1931 Unemployment Act was revised to counteract any tendency to slackness or stagnation. It would be unfair to ask them to return to a sixday week following a lengthy holiday. 1 have to thank you, sir, for consideration of valuable space and patience for my casual observations, and in conclusion would ask my friends to keep my identity incognito. I have a horror of floral tributes, more especially those with bricks in them.—Yours, CITIZEN.