14 APRIL 1923, Page 3

Among the " Letters to the Editor " this week

will be found an appeal signed by several very distinguished men- on behalf of the Central Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society. The committees of this Society have weekly to deal. with a large number of discharges, many of them of first offenders, men and women as well as young lads, who have hitherto been in good employment with un-. blemished characters. It is obviously of great import- ance to the nation that these people should be put once more in a position to support. themselves, and so be saved from destitution or a forced return to anti-social action. The Society does not ask for much, and we hope that a work of such great social and economic importance will receive the support it deserves.