YOUNG PRIME MINISTERS

Evening Star, Issue 19327, 13 August 1926, Page 1

YOUNG PRIME MINISTERS

"Pitt was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the age of 22. and at 23 was Prime Minister ol Britain. But this is a remarkable exception to the custom prevailing by which a _man seldom arrives at the proud position before tho age ol between 50 and 60. In Saskatchewan the call is for younger men,” says the ‘Canadian Gazette.’ “Since 1905, when Saskatchewan became a, province,, young men have invariably hee.n at the head ( of its government. The ‘ British Columbia Times’ recently pointed out that the province’s first premier was the Hon. Walter Scott, who was 38 years old when ho took office. “His successor, the Hon. William Martin, was 41 when he took over the Premiership, and the Hon. Charle;} Dunning, who recently resigned to bocome, a Minister in the Ottawa Government, was only 37 when he became Premier of Sa.skfteb<"van. A*’’ !inning’s successor, the Hon. J. G. Gardner. was 42 wheit he took office. It would seem as if the push and rapid progress of this young province demanded vonth at its head.

j “ The wider field of the dominion, and still more of the Imperial Government, may require men of experience that is only gained by ago, but with a young province, only about 21 years old, energy and the ability to look ahead count for more than experience.”-