POINTS FROM LETTERS
THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL SITE.
I want so much to thank you and Major Yeats-Brown for the delighful article in the 'Spectator on the Foundling site. I know from personal intercourse with the people of the neighbourhood what a vast joy it is to the children—and to the parents—and far more than a joy. I feel it is doing so much good to the children, both physically and morally. The article in the Spectator is a great encouragement to all of us who have worked for the scheme, and we are more than grateful for the appreciation. The first letter advocating the scheme was in the Spectator about three years ago, so we owe you a great debt of gratitude, which I do not know how to express adequately.—M. B.
LONDON HOUSING.
This month three events have occurred of special interest to all concerned with the building of tenements for the working classes in this country. Sir John Mann, who is a very regular supporter of the Spectator, read a paper to the British Asso- ciation advocating the provision of simpler houses and better management, preferably by women trained on the Octavia Hill system. Secondly, Mr. Ihlder, who is chairman of the Housing Committee of the Council of Social Agencies at Washington, U.S.A., has visited England as well as other European countries. He is a determined opponent of tene- ment houses and thinks that high flats, like those recently erected by the Westminster City Council, may handicap housing progress in the years to come. Thirdly, Street Scene, a play grimly depicting life in a New York tenement was pro- duced in a London theatre, and is convincing those who see it of the moral evils, and the menace to child life, inevitably involved in tenement houses.—B. S. TOWNROE, 53 Netherhall Gardens, N.W. 8.
THE BRITISH LEGION.
It has been stated in the Press that several of the chief officials of the British Legion have proceeded to the United States of America to attend meetings of the F.I.D.A.C. (Federation Interalliee des Anciens Combattants). This must entail very heavy expenses. Are these expenses to come out of the funds of the British Legion ? Subscriptions are given to this Legion and poppies are bought on the understanding that its funds are used to help those ex-Service men who are disabled, or are in poor circumstances. Surely those funds were not subscribed to provide officials with what is in effect a very expensive and interesting tour.—A. II. LANE (Lieut.- Colonel, R.P.), late Vice-President, Metropolitan Area, British Legion, Wilton Villa, Campden Hill, W. 8.
BIRTH CONTROL AND TREATMENT OF CHILDREN.
As a former worker for the N.S.P.C.C. I should like to express my hearty agreement with Mr. L. Chalenor. Human life is still cruelly cheap, and the anti-birth controllers shut their eyes to an immense mass of suffering—other people's
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