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every side is admitted to be disastrous; but, what
appears to me to be the duty of everyone, with real
knowledge of the facts is, first to make those facts
known, and above all to enter a protest against any
more sham remedies being foisted off upon the public.
Looking back over a period of some twenty-five
to thirty years it seems to-day that almost every evil
from which we are suffering has been and is being
aggravated by early neglect and encouraged to establish
itself, until it has become chronic by a series
of "remedies" that are not remedies at all and that
in so far as they have done anything have simply
changed the surface appearance of the social scab
without touching the wound underneath.
The people have had showered upon them Acts
of Parliament, Laws, Bye-Laws, Orders and Regulations
galore, and under each new sets of officials and
machinery have been set up. The people are inspected,
re-inspected, and inspected by half a dozen different
authorities often overlapping and all working from
different points of view.
The question now is how to make all these
inspections beneficial to the people themselves. We
must make the home the unit and from that point
endeavour to apply the various measures in order to
get results.
It seems regrettable that with so many agencies in
existence all intended for social improvement there
does not appear to be any desire for a cohesive united