[To the Editor of THE SpEcrieros.] have read with interest
the letter on work centres and concur with your correspondent. Such schemes only touch the fringe, possibly tend to bring content instead of intensifying our efforts towards discovery of causes of our national cancer and remedial action. One phase of unemployment unreached by either statistics or by eloquence of- politicians is that of the professional classes or those with sorely depreciated incomes who suffer in silence. Their plight requires sympathetic handling, and the charitable organizations in existence, whose- record-for the poor may be admirable, are not best suited for the task. A new problem requires a different diagnosis as well as treatment. Our Labour Exchanges are not quite the method of approach for work for such a class. The unemployment scheme is not intended for them. Society looks upon members of their own kind as pariahs if bad times come.
If we are to fight unemployment, we should seek to find industry's responsibility, economic obligation, also national and international economic controls only vaguely understood. If Governments share in the common responsibility let there ' be better organization of measures of relief and for prevention of distress. Consultation of outside organizations—many over- lapping—could help in avoiding by careful planning for these cycles of depression. Certainly, in the national hour, when intellect, energy, integrity are assets, it is surely a waste to permit men of the educated and executive type to be de- moralized and neglected. I appeal for some approved organization to sponsor the cause of the intellectual classes. Rich this country is in material wealth but we lack to make the best of human material by turning lives of sadness into those of happiness.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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