ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with two needs of a general character, the need for good use of growing leisure and the need for guidance in the complexities of modern life. For some wage-earners leisure has grown in another way also. Seventy years ago they walked to work; to-day there are many public vehicles and the ubiquitous bicycle. As against this gain, there has been loss through the unplanned growth of great cities; the distances to be travelled have increased in very many cases and, even where the time taken is less, the method of travel may make a greater strain on nervous energy. The Holidays with Pay Act is in force, but there is little sign up to the present of the demand for holidays which it has mobilized being adequately met. To-day the seventeen bureaux maintained in London by the Family Welfare Association are still dealing with some 8,500 a month.
