THE PENSION-WORTHY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3783, 17 July 1936, Page 2

THE PENSION-WORTHY

BRITISH M.P.’S COMMENT. “Some of the most worthy citizens of the State,” said Mr MacLaren, M.P., in the British, House of Commons, “have not been great social successes, and, indeed, in a. life like ours, when men attempt to do something of a scholastic, or of a philosophic, or, indeed, of a scientific nature, wlhen they are scholars and keep aloof, because of the calling of their vocation, from the mere purpose of making money in this life, what do we find? They give out, their raw material passes. I can assure the Chanceller that I could give him the names and addresses of people who are -worse off than men on the dole. Here is the awful tragedy of it, that these people have to keep up outward appearances and 'to make things look biqight outside, but we know their inner lives and the suffering they undergo. If' we have regard for the intellectual accomplishments of those who have contributed so much to the State, they should not be allowed to pass the end of their days in. this way. It is not so muoh charity as the redemption of a" debt which intellectual people or intelligent people owe to these men and women.”