The newspapers are taking cognizance of the fact that
the voting population of the elderly in California elections is
increasing by leaps and bounds. This means that their voices
will be heard in the legislature of the state and also in the halls of Congress. I believe there will be enacted a federal law
prohibiting employers from discrimination against men and
women because of age.
A man of 65 years may be younger mentally, physically,
and physiologically than many men at 30. It is stupid and
ridiculous to tell a man he cannot be hired because he is over
40. It is like saying to him that he is ready for the scrap heap
or the junk pile.
What is a man of 40 or over to do? Must he bury his talents
and hide his light under a bushel? Men, who are deprived and
prevented from working because of age, must be sustained by
government treasuries at county, state, and federal levels. The
many organizations who refuse to hire them and benefit from
their wisdom and experience will be taxed to support them.
This is a form of financial suicide.
Man is here to enjoy the fruit of his labor, and he is here to
be a producer and not a prisoner of society which compels him
to idleness. Man’s body slows down gradually as he advances
through the years, but his conscious mind can be made much
more active, alert, alive, and quickened by the inspiration from
his subconscious mind. His mind, in reality, never grows old.
Job said, Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God
preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and “when by his
light I walked through darkness; As I was in the days of my youth, when
the secret of God was upon my tabernacle. JOB 29:2-4.