THE VOICE OF UNDER THIRTY
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is difficult to guess whether the young twenty-four- year-old director of a London business firm intends your readers to take him seriously, or no. For my own part I find it impossible to do so. He seems to sum up his whole position in the words : " I work hard, and when I return home I want to enjoy myself." I read parts of this young man's letter to some of my friends who are Norfolk agricultural labourers, and it might have done the writer good if he had heard the expressions of amused contempt ! How blind some young men of the so-called " educated classes " are. Consider the amazing ignorance and blindness to facts displayed by the words " if the Church does nothing, why should I ? And the Church does do nothing."
The truth is your young director of a London business firm is a self-confessed humbug. If, instead of talking so much about his services, his contacts, his friends who have houses in the country, he would go and offer these services to some slum parson engaged in unending labour (the Church Army, by the way, would test him in half an hour) he would find that the Church that " does nothing " is doing an amazing lot and he might even become in the course of time a young man worth asking to do a job for others, yvithout needing bullying
into doing it.—Yours, &c., BERTRAM MAYNARD. Bodham Rectory, Holt, Norfolk.
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