Readers' Views

White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 1, 1 February 1946, Page 5

Readers' Views

RETIRING AGE FOR PRESIDENTS

To the Editor, Dear Madam, I think some more Branches of the W.C.T.U. would have closed down but for the old ‘die-hards” during the war years. The r e are so many women’s organisatioi nowadays, in the C hurch and elsewhere. Capable women are doing special Church work, young women usually have young families and have no extra help. With all the various war efforts in addition to the already existing organisations, in smaller towns at any rate, there are not enough executive women to go round. Even some who have been members of the “Y”s find it impossible to undertake further duties. As Mrs. Mercer implies, there may be some women over fifty-five who hold on to the position for prestige or some other per-

sonal reason, hut there are many others who would gladly be relieved ol responsibility. Some have even re tired, and more than once, onrj to he tori i into harness to trj to r( ' build or just to keep going through difficult years, and help the geaeral »c I m;i\ add. ■ "We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it " Yours sincerely, -ONCE UNDER PIFTY-FIA I

hi support of her belief regarding the IgC at which women should retirt from presidential duties, Mrs M erect says:— "Consider the matter practical!) \ generation is accounted twenty-five years l',y the tune a woman is fifty, she should be read) to retire and IeUVC her daughters her own or 'daughters

oi affection 1 whom she has trained, to carry on as leaders To have her daughter sharing her interests, efficient in carrying on, is the best sue a mother can hope for "At titty, a physical point is reached I vttl for those with perfect health and splendid vigour, alter fifty comes the downward slope Things are not so to do, one gradually becomes more easil) tired More important still, where leadership is concerned OHC lupins to look backward instead of forward. Helieve me, when one begins 1.. realise a fund ot reminiscel and to dwell on the past instead of looking to the future, it is time to hand over the reins. Take, perhai tew years in dotnp it, but by fifty-rive it should he done." Yours, etc., K. MERCER.