SPENDING FOR UNEMPLOYMENT [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
&a—Major Nathan, M.P., is right in suggesting in your columns that the wise move taken by British Building Societies in urging the house-owner, in the interests of employ- ment, to put in hand improvements and renovations, and in offering him facilities to enable him to do so, might well be followed by other bodies.
But example is better than precept, and if the Government itself were to give a lead by undertaking even a few of the tasks that are crying out to be done, and which, if done, would in many cases show a handsome return, industry, I believe, would very quickly follow suit. There are schemes and to spare all over the country, which would find employment for thousands, and at the same time pay for themselves in a very few years.
The Prince of Wales has suggested that we break up the problems of unemployment "into little pieces, and tackle some piece, however small." Building,. Societies have re- sponded. Will the Government follow their lead,?—I am,
Sir, &e., L. HILL, General Secretary, National Association of Local Government Officers. 24 Abingdon Street, Westminster, S. 1.
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