"Gimme!"

NZ Truth, Issue 1043, 21 November 1925, Page 6

"Gimme!"

The right to go into the street and ask for charity is a right that should not be exercised at any old time for any old purpose. THOSE who make appeals m the streets may hot be the worthiest; or, if worthy, may yet be' inclined to speak too often, or to appeal out of their turn. '• / ' \ There should be authority to regulate ' street collections, and sales. In fact, if all forms of charitable appj-il were listed, and then sifted; and. if the worthy were placed on a rota, with a prescribed date for each and a prescribed mode of action; then a bewildered, public would at least- know where ■ it is. The present haphazard system offers more encouragement to self-assertion than to merit. Protection is needed, both- for „< he cause that lacks assistance and lor the citizen ,who finds' himself suddenly confronted with a cashbox without m the least knowing the lady's purpose or her: reliability.