EMPLOYMENT BY DEGREES
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With swift and sure insight characteristic of him, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has asked that the problem of unemployment be broken up into " little pieces," and that each of us in our own neighbourhood should address ourselves to some fraction of the whole. The Councils of Social Service and the Rotary Clubs, to name but two of many organizations which are doing fine work, have responded to the Prince's wise appeal and the " Spend more " campaign is entirely to the good.
• I should like to give emphasis to the opportunities now provided by the Building Societies in membership with the National Association of Building Societies, of which I am privileged to be a Vice-President. These opportunities mean that house-owners may forthwith consider putting renovations and improvements in hand on terms doubly easy to themselves, building costs being low and the capital payment being advanced. It is not suggested that the scheme can solve unemployment, but it does what the Prince desires : it solves a little piece of the sorrowful whole,—I am, Sir, &c.,
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