[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your young director—Under Thirty
No. III—giving expression to his views on youth's present discontents, and incidentally revealing generous impulses which do his heart credit, lays himself open to certain obvious reproofs. I hope they will not be too roughly administered.
He takes a backward glance at the Agenda Club—hoping for a revival. He will find a more solid and practical working out of what went nearest to being helpful in that adventure in the National Council of Social Service (28 Bedford Square) ; and if he will write to Sir Wyndham Deedes for an interview he will hear something to his advantage. He will certainly find a large area of useful work mapped out, and he may be put in touch with the men and women who are actually doing _ that work.
Reading between the lines of his letter, I think he may be surprised to find that helping is not such a simple thing as he imagines ; and that the price of giving effective help is higher than he has calculated. But if his duties permit, and his resolution holds, and he is prepared, with a certain humility, to fit into some organised plan, he will find there is plenty of work to do.
• It is of course more than likely that his best opportunities will be found to be provided by the contacts already involved in the directorship which he holds—without going further
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