WORK ON THE LAND.
at THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—" Doles without work are wholly unremunerative to the community.' No truer words were written by the Spectator on September 17th. In relief £100,000,000 have been paid out by the Government, and, as Mr. Clynes says, " not a stick of any kind of value left as a result." Well-known men—Mr. Harold Beghie, Dean Inge, Mr. Maurice Hewlett—think we are on the verge of starvation, and Mr. Lovat Fraser writes: "The problem we may soon be unable to solve is that of food, food, food, and how to buy it from abroad." Surely it is time to give some of the unemployed the chance of working on the land and producing something, even potatoes. Where I was the other (lay out-of-work men were asking-to be provided with forks to turn over uncultivated land, and were refused. Scores of our ex-Service men, longing for an open-air life, ought to have the choice of any uncultivated land in any part of the country on which to produce food. They fought for this land on ls. 6d. a day, and in a sense it belongs to them.—I am, Sir,
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