Letters to the Editor
'Ain Mere ,of the length Of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot-givespaeefor. long letters and thatehort ones are generally read with more attention. The length which we consider most suitable is about that of one of our paragraphs on " News of the Week.”—Ed. SPECTATOR.]
BAINMAWR
{To the Editor of the Seacraron.]
is heartening to see the Spectator's projected gift of 19,090 for self-help at Brynmawr brought so near to com- pletion.; and before the project quite passes into history, and becomes- one more in the long list of public experimental efforts which are the glory of this journal, I would like, if I might, to express what will possibly be found encouraging both by the donors themselves and by the little band of workers who have found their hands strengthened in this splendid and unexpected way.
In the long-drawn struggle with unemployment, an increas- ing number of agencies are now setting themselves to seek the same objective, namely, some real way of enabling the unem- ployed permanently to help themselves. And they arc seeking it along what is coming to be more and more confidently regarded as the one line of hope, the experimental route ; the route not of blind but of considered action ; action beginning with quiet preliminary survey of the ground, proceeding by way of hard realistic thinking, and ending in an agreed plan and a well-concerted attack. What I would suggest is that donors— among whom I particularly include those who have given all they can and have no more to give—should become more direct witnesses of some of these attacks.
Let them sometimes walk out along the battered front and talk to those they find there. It is just possible that they may come away from the experience—even from their interviews with those momentarily in difficulties or discouraged—feeling Strangely sure that the unemployment problem is not insoluble; that one or another of these attacks will break through to a solution. Some of us have arrived at this view already; but the night is just now so very dark that we hardly dare voice the solution wescem to sec coming. The right people would perhaps be easier to convince, if they had more contact. It is even possible they would need no convincing ; that they would University College, Cardiff.
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