[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR, Mr. St. John Ervine's article in your last issue is welcome for its fair-mindedness. But wider issues than the War are raised for thinking folk.
In English public affairs the more thoughtful of our young men do not get a fair chance. The average age of the directors of business concerns is higher than it should be. Important directorates should have at least one young member. The same is true of our benches of magistrates. Why should one have to be fifty or sixty before he, or she, is thought of as a possible Justice of the Peace ? There are theological colleges where even senior students have no vote on important issues upon which they will be called to administer—possibly in a matter of months.
Representation according to numerical strength is not desirable. But the infinite number of daily decisions, which tell in general development, register in the main the dreams of the old, untouched by the visions of the young.—I am,
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