EMIGRATION
Sol,—Your comments on emigration are timely. Whilst we all are deeply indebted and grateful to Australia, Canada, New Zealand. South Africa, &c., for their really magnificent help in our present—and in our past—diffi- culties, we must not let ourselves be blinded to the serious position the present form of emigration is causing. We must never forget that we are an over-populated country with an increasing percentage of old people. We lost many of our young people in the late war, many more are daily emigrating and many thousands more wish to go as soon as transport is available. It is a tragic mistake to try to remove the bogies of over-population here and under-population in the Dominions by simply allowing the emigration of these many thousands of young people. The idea of middle-aged and aged people starting life anew in a strange land may seem far from attractive, but this is the only solution to our problem ; emigration of whole families (i.e., several generations) must take place and this be logically extended to the emigration of whole towns and villages.—Yours faithfully, NEIL M. JORDAN. 56 Chandos Avenue, Roundhay, Leeds 8.
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