A "YOUNG HEAD"

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 48, 25 August 1931, Page 13

A "YOUNG HEAD"

WALKING WITH YOUTH (From "The Post's" Representative.) VAUCOUVER, sth August. Miss WiiKiU'ied Kydd, Irish-Cana-dian, native of Montreal, who is yet in her twenties and was at school when the Armistice was signed, has been elected president of the National Council of Women in Canada, of 200,000 members. The selection is an acknowledgment of the tremendous influence wielded by youth in this gencratiou. Graduating at M' Gill in 1924, in economics and political science, Miss Kydd was awarded a fellowship in social science at Bryn Mawr, a leading American centre of learning. Hero she won a bursary in political science, and spent two years at the British Museum studying migration, achieving distinction with a thesis, "The History of Public Opinion on Emigration to Canada Since Confederation." Prior to her return she represented Canada at the annual meeting of the National Council of Women of Great Britain, and spent a month at the- Leagne of Nations attending the Permanent Committee on Immigration. She speaks five language?. "I was appalled by the number of women -who prefer to play bridge and Badminton to rendering some social service when then: is so much to be done," replied Miss Kydd to a qupstion as to why she took up public life so early. She has no politics. Women in Quebec do not vote. Her father, a successful Montreal business man, is her constant companion. "I have never heard him discuss politics," she says. "I regard the practice of well-to-do girls working for pin-money as a public scandal," she says. "It shocks me above all else because of the paucity of ideas behind such a move. Its root cause is a lack of upbringing. They should bo given some idea of service. Our leisure-class girls should be taught that it isn't cricket to work for pinmoney." Ou the question of married women working, it would, however, be unfair to deliver snap judgments, she added. Individual cases need to bo studied to get their proper perspective. To give time to her public duties, Miss Kydd, who lives alone with her father, has given up many of her clubs. But she has retained '"he Girl Guides, Junior League, Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire, Y.W.C.A., Canadian Club, Children's Library Committee, and Montreal Women's Debating Club, of which she is president. Strikingly handsome, with Titian hair and a figure kept fit by ski-ing, swimming anri tennis, Miss Kydd, in her new sphere, symbolises tho latest, slogan of America and Canada: "If you would get along in this generation, you must walk with youth.'