The principal recommendations of the Commission follow the first part
of their terms of reference. How was the scheme to be made solvent and self-supporting ? The question what is to be done for the able-bodied unemployed, also referred to the Commission, is not fully dealt with yet. We presume that the full Report will deal with the hope that productive work may be found, by the Government or local authorities, where normal industry fails, to which the able-bodied may be put for their own moral and physical salvation and for the greater prosperity of their country. There will be general agreement with the recommendations for pre- venting abuses, such as the drawing of benefit by women who have no intention of earning money after marriage when their husbands could and would support them, or by the proverbial professional football player, drawing high pay one day in seven and unemployment benefit for other days.
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