• I am very glad to see Mr. Herbert Morrison's
appeal for volunteers to serve on Care Committees. These bodies, and the invaluable work they do, are less generally familiar than they should be, which means that the need is not appreciated and to a large extent not met. The Care Committees look after the school-child. There is, of course, a small army of officials—teachers, school doctors, school nurses and so forth—to look after him, but officials are intimidating, and official forms and letters are unintelligible to the unlettered. New con- ditions have arisen and new opportunities been created since the school-child's parents were school-children themselves. If the child is to make the best of himself physically and mentally while still at school, and get a fair chance in the adventure of launching on life when school ends, he needs someone with knowledge and sympathy and understanding to stand his friend—and persuade him and his parents that officialdom is in reality their friend too. By the nature of things not many men have time to serve on Care Committees or do the work which membership of one • entails, but 'the right kind - of woman is perhaps better for this particular kind of work in any case. Knowing something of what Care Committees are doing I hope Mr. Morrison's appeal will be immediately and amply successful.
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