'AXED' Sin,—It would appear that your correspondent (as in the
case of a retired Group Captain who wrote an article in a well-known daily newspaper recently) has not heard of the 'Over Forty-Fives' Association, where a man of fifty is regarded as comparatively young, and provided he has reasonable qualifications and does not demand an excessively high salary we should be able to place him, since we are used to finding employment for men well over sixty, and sometimes older, provided, also, that he is prepared to live in or near London.
We have a Member of the Council (of which Mr. Montgomery Hyde, MP, is chairman) who is seventy- five. When he retired from the Army as a Colonel after the First World War he took a course in be 'k- keeping. Now he is doing a whole-time job as took-
keeper, though he is some twenty years older than your correspondent.
The remedy is for the individual to submit himself to commercial discipline: so that he has something worth while to offer in qualifications.—Yours faith- fully,
G. ST. JOHN, Secretary
The 'Over Forty-Fives' Association, 217a Kensington High Street, W8
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