SUNDAY CINEMAS [To the Editor of the Srgurreros.]
Six,— -1 would like to ask those of your readers who oppose the opening of cinemas on Sunday what they propose to do about the hospitals, which rely to a large extent upon the funds raised by Sunday charity. performances ? . .
.1 know it is ridiculous that our hospitals should depend
upon .promiscuous charity, including the pictures," to keep going their -great work amongst the poor, but until some better way is devised-- that is, until this -great service is organized and controlled by the State. and. becomes 11 State service—they are compelled to look to irrelevant sources for maintenance. At the, annual court of the East London Hospital for Children it was stated the other day by Mr. Alan G. Cave, the Vice-Chairman, that thanks to the employment of •• a highly skilled professional ' beggar ' " the deficit last year was £929 Ils., while the Christmas before the overdraft stood at 114,000.
My views on the Sunday opening of cinemas are well known and I need not re-state them here, but I would like those who do not share my views to say what alternative, other than the State provision of means, they have for the present methods adopted by our hospitals for raising the f Is necessary to carry on the great work they are doing amongst the poor of this country. '-I am, Sir,
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