SECURITY AND DECADENCE
Sul,—In your last issue it was inferred on two occasions, once in a letter and once in an article, that there is something shameful and decadent in the common people's preoccupation with social security. As this opinion seems to be increasing, please permit me to point out that social security is nothing new ; a large section of the community have enjoyed it and fought vigorously to maintain it for themselves for generations. They have expected and secured an income which allowed them to live a handsome and delicate life, to give their children a first- class education, to provide for their own comfort and peace in old age, and to leave their dependants provided for when they died. I refer to the well-to-do and privileged classes.
Has this security undermined the character of this favoured class while the common people's moral excellence has been .increased by dangerous living? If this is the case, in justice to all we should arrange for the privileged classes and the common people to change places. By this arrangement the former would regain their morale and the latter would benefit the country, by their strength and nobility of character, gained during generations of toil, which provided only for the day and left nothing for the morrow but the workhouse.—Yours faithfully,
4o Wodeland Avenue, Guildford, Surrey. FREDERK:K WILLIS.
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