SOCIAL WORKERS AND THE POOR.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18895, 10 January 1927, Page 11

SOCIAL WORKERS AND THE POOR.

TO 188 IDITOS O* TBI rsts3. Sir.—This is tlio first letter I have written tor publication in the daily papers during my IS years' residence m this City, and 1 trust i* will he the last of this order. 1 do not know v. ho wrote the leader in Friday morning's. Press purporting to answer Air Holland's letter on the question of the Family Allowance. I don't think 1 ■want to know one who so carelessly throws innuendoes alout. Whoever it is. they have pone juf. a little too .tar. I tan understand the social worker who. being perplexed with the problems that somo of his or. her applicants present, says in haste what ought not to be sai:l/ To sit coolly with a pen and say unkind things about workers who, prompted by the constraint of tln-ir religious convictions, do their best for those whom they regard as God's poor is, in mv judgment, unworthy of both writer and publisher. The words T take except ion to in Friday morning's leader are: "'To be treated as only social workers can treat people sometimes who arc unfortunate enouph to be poor, but proud." To the sentiments of this quotation 1 wish to enter my emphatic protest, and with Um other social workers of the City with whom T have consulted pray C.od forpivo the author, of this veiled in.sult.—Yours etc., FRANK HULK. • Liit. Bth, tD'27. !Wc arc grateful for the thoughtfulness to which Air Rule confesses at the end of his last/ sentence,— Ed., The Press.]