PERSONAL SERVICE IN RELIEVING DISTRESS. [To THE EDITOR OP THE
" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I appeal through your columns for personal service in meeting an urgent need in these difficult days? Your readers are aware of the extension of relief measures by Boards of Guardians, Mayors' Funds, Unemployment Committees, and others to meet the distress now existing in various parts of London. The committees administering these funds are increasingly conscious of the necessity for mutual consultation in order to avoid the waste and confusion that must inevitably result without such consultation. The Mutual Registration of Assistance carried on by the Charity Organization Society provides the means for this co-operative action, and it is increasingly used by local agencies to that end. The work cannot be carried on without a large addition to the number of voluntary workers assisting our local registrars, and I venture to appeal very earnestly to those who have the will to help their fellow-citizens, and some degree of leisure, to come forward and help us. The work is chiefly clerical, and does not neces- sarily demand full time. If voluntary workers will com- municate with me I will gladly put them in touch with the local committees most urgently needing assistance.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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