THE GOOD NEIGHBOUR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 17 June 1932, Page 8

THE GOOD NEIGHBOUR

MUTUAL HELPFULNESS In ;i speech at Newcastle the Prince of Wales referred t<> the .splendid response already made on Tyneside, to his recent Albert Hall appeal. “Thousands of people in every walk of life.” he said, “June found some task of social service to undertake and I know there are thousands of others who are only waiting' to see more clearly what they should do. To that <|iiestion there is no single answer, for each of us has individual inclination and individual powers; hut our help is needed in a variety of tasks, and in neighbourhoods where conditions differ greatly the point is not to wait to lie shown some ambitions enterprise, but to look around and see whether there .is not some simple task within our reach that we can undertake at once. We acknowledge with gratitude how much has been, and is being, done to better social conditions by the great public services, both State and municipal, but the kind of social service .1 am thinking of is something humbler and less ambitious, though it is no less farreaching. To put it simply, it con-' sists of mutual helpfulness and individuality. These .things are open to us all and there is no limit to what they can achieve." The 'Prince asked his hearers to refuse to be paralysed by the magnitude of the problems of unemployment, Tint to break those problems up into little pieces and tackle some piece, however small, themselves. He said he had been much imprssd by the Hurts mail in divers ways to find occupations lor the unemployed that would Keep them lit and make their unhired labour of service to others and (o themselves. Each community could contribute m that way something to the solution ot these problems in its own locality. In some cases more land could be found for allotments or playing fields, premises could be found for use as workshops. There was a call for technical advice and guidance, for the provision of materials and equipment. Many more groups of unemployed who were dead sick of idle days would thus liml means of useful service in which there "as a demand for their labour.