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1956
A
cen-
TREMENDOUS re volution ham taken place in Britain
this during tury, a revolution ns signi- ficant for the individual, though vastly different in its impact, as the industrial revolution of the 19th century.
It is, in fact, the greatest bloodless social revolution in the world's history, its momentuin, slow at first, surging forward in the last decade to embrace us all in the well-nourished, strongly protective arms of Welfare State.
the
A good thing, of course, a fine thing, but a little too fast and
the fo all embracing?
Two great influences
BRITAIN'S
THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1956.~*
"O.K., in she goes
BLOODLESS REVOLUTION
AND
JOHN MARSHALL
ALL THAT
John Marshall introduces a new series to show Britons as they really are...a candid close-up of modern times
you
a good thing, unless become its slave. In educa- tion the changes have been great indeed, and will be greater still when we get around to chasing America and Russia in the matter of training in adequate num- bers technologists and tech- nicians for the Nuclear Age.
TALK with a few social tion It has beer, no
senge
of
There
WAR
the
I have been given hundreis of crumples of NEVET-THEver misery
wife who, when the showdown came, owed £215 121 hire-purchase
Item bolnut £18 10s, camera. Another wai found to have committed her-
band earned £7.
and something to put in the new (H.P.) cocktail cabinet. And the result is that an undue proportion of thu fabulous suma devoted to debts, welfare generally, and the
time of vanable
too Гаг many members of the huge, paid and unpaid
Army of social workers is being de- voted to dealing with the feckles, the reckless, and the couldn't care less.
The real picture
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key
to £0 a week. Her hus-
In terror
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A THIRD, in her terror. tried 14 carnit suleide in scullery full of anpatch for amenities, Including the stove which was to have been her
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THE RED DEAN: "GOOD SHOW”
From RUSSELL SPURR- --who tell of a strángo Mooting and an ́ ́éven stranger stage show in
URUMCHI, China →
COULDN'T resist say ing "Dr Hewlett John- son, I presume?” There was I. a travel stained journalist, a third of the way round a 12,000- mile tour of China,
pórtly pigtailed' giri in Ankle-length
velvet
ww aizived. She sang too. There was hesitant applause.
It WDS not until all pariricilim was expended, ind tribesmen in jackboots fact cloaks and women, in vividlic pajamas leaped on to the stage that the fun began
The drummern beat frontie rhythms with their diger-tipe, the flutics and files folaht anguished contests with twill- volcod singers.
is was barbarous and Exelt- ing: a mixkark of Scheherazade There was the 82-year- and The Third Man. old Red Dean with his wife a whirling dance that demith- Beautiful blue-robed girls did
than any teikt –
and two schoolgirl daugh strated better
of
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ters on the latest leisurely book tho strange cultural lap of hie
this melting-pot Communist mixtures province. holiday trip to One minuto they WETO
financed
Peking.
He looked
Chinese court dancero delicate- with head and the next, frenzied
surprised. y posturing Englishmen #FD a phono- descendanta of tiyo Mongol
menon in Urumchi, capital horsemen who rode roughshod of Sinklang province.
from China to Europe in zu "Good show,"
Golden Horde of Khan. dean.
suid the
He was not referring to
our meeting, but to the meeting placo, We were in
Genghis
The pioneers
tho florid new National Urumchi might be a town Theatre digesting a drum straight from the WIE WEST. beating, Adele-screeching legged
A saloon and a couple of bow- cowpunchers wotild
concert ΟΕ tribal folk complete the illusion. music,
The Archabbot
Ingland, there are carréen
pioneers pouring in from China by the truckload to throw up buildings and break the virgin soul.
china
The girls clicked chopsticks
"There is the Archabbot on
they of Canterbury," said my danced, the orchestra eng and Chinese guide, as Dr Hew- South American bind. Roberto shouted encouragement like any
lett Johnson walked in amid Ingles would be a smash hit loud applause.
here
ere provided he left his in- The audience stood up to struments out all night by the see the man they vaguely believed was hout of Church of England.
The Bird Dean vlapped bnek the Communist-style, Now
waived,
usblack, n
oftrical collar, and as emale
silver CRIEN swinging from a silver nockchain.
Ings. They found that the hus- the Health money, even with hurie Bad been corning £9 П National Assistance as well. werk and converting
the exi
Happily for the Snookes the four into Bery liquor.
H P. people
were considerata: (as they often are--and let mo emphasise most firms are re putable) and held off till Dad Was beiter again.
Lake Butch uncles and aunts) they talked to him. Now Tiny Tim (the youngest) can яду
God bless us all" with a joy. Snookses are trying to entch up smiled benigdy, He ful heart, for thirsty Mr B. is a --and spending reformed character. giving the before.
to run
the
a
little woman £7 week with
11 which
home The welfare for all system found and turnished for them. proves a blessing in many
deserving case. But in others It puts a premlan on thrift.
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But let us return to the 11.P. problem for the family uncom- pleated by gross intemperance. Anch let va take The Snooks family as a typical example of so many in Never-never Land today.
Dad works in a factory earn- ing. with overtime, 19 а weck. His Bul, also a fac Lory worker, makes £15 ik week, daughter Doris (20) £9 as a shorthand-typist and Mum 24 for part-time work In
store.
U
They live in a sanall house on a prewar estate outside Lon- paying 22s 0d, a week
exit route, Happily she WUX
yet to leam the sombre frets don,
of domestic budgeting.
Hire-purchase mudelies looin
rent,
A tremendous revolu- | WILL try to show the workers and what will doubt about it-
picture as it appears to tremen- me the plcture of the you hear Again and again dous stride from the days people of these islands from
Well, let us see where the the same theme: "Oh, yes, of not so long ago, from ever more healthy infancy at or near the top in the list money
Dad:
diving everyone has more of every- dire
Mum £5 awock and of the poverty, the "dark to ever-lengthening old age. of all human troubles taken to
rest £4 goes thing except a
on H.P. for the salanie mills,” of
Disinflationary measures no- poor,
the Citizens' Advice Bureaux. car. 12 on running it £2 on responsibility."
nounced by the Government The silly maimed, doomed, children
pathelle story is no furniture, on the cocktail since my survey started may often the same.
cabinet (kept well stocked not initials working 16 hours a day in well alter that plcture as time
because any of then are tip- dominate the social picture the mines, of bestial cruelty on; but there has been no
friends). plers but to impress I starts with furniture, bed- ignorance, starvation material change yet.
£1 today: H.P. and TV. Millions and
va the pools, and the rest 1 can only report what has ding, it fridge Гот the new
on incidentals such as smokes been happening in the ini- home; then Dad, earing more (20 or so a day), beer (average
xtlate past, not what
than сучет
three to four pints), and a tow before, acquires a
bub-tach-way bets. motor-bike and sideçar or even a motor-car (also on H.P.), after Mum inds she musi
Two sola
#f
are living in Never-never and sweated labour.
almost
may
Land,
everything
I In the past few weeks being
for pnid
weekly,
or may not happen in the in- even the clothes some
have been trying to discover ponderable future. of
Millions
of families them are wearing, and of just what it means to us all,
Bill Days Mum £3 and the In Bry- how we are living in post- lain yes, I mean
1
the whole which course, the television set,
rest goes like this: £2 on the revolution Britain.
family are living
15s. on run Almost everything they possess cooker and the
on Lick, have a washing-machine and a motor-bike and is being paid for by the work.
Why shouldn't the people enjoy these things? They work for them; and many so recently fought for them! too.
Far too easy
HAVE travelled many miles, dauntlessly scaled
So
whole
family
ning it, 258. on a camera andi a gold wrist watch, 10% to the credit tailor, 125. pictures, 166. dancing (including treating the dri friend), 58. pools and the post on smokes (20-25 dally ni s. 8d. for 20), beer (generally half-a-dozen light ales, some- times more), canteen lunches, occasional visits to the "dogs," football, etc.
Cosmetics
So, with their several earnings demand TV (they are already fully committed before each one paying for a radiogram). pleks up his or her pay packet, of disaster. all are perpetually on the brink All of a sudden it dis
natrously out of hand with all Does it matter? It is a Wei- the essentials neglected: Tent, Yes, you will hear that a mountain of Blue Books, fare State, isn't it? If anything rated, food bills. They can't very reasonable argument White Papers, social sur- Hoes wrong they'll be provided give up their new luxuries, often enough. And it is per- veys.
won't they? and analyses of for
say the which have already become feckless, the reckless, and the necessites, fectly true that vast num- trends of officials, social
so they switch on couldn'l-care-less. bera of people contrive to workers, schoolteachers, While
the tele and hope for the best, they ате in this keep up the payments and clergymen, doctors, nurses, welfare-hulled condition of semi- consciousness, along comes the
Before the Welfare army can not to run into any serious health visitors, N.S.P.C. tally-mah. "What? You haven't march to the relief of Futility is gives Mum £2, spends trouble. But there is a sub- inspectors, Citizens' Advice got a washing-machine? A lady they are evicted. Mum and the atantial und growing Bureau chiefs, W.V.S., and in your position! Only a
fow tids go "Into care," Dad, who minority who either cannot other volunteers, employers, bhat, and think of the drudgery officialdom is ineligible for this or will not attempt to cope and employees.
you'll save. intelligently with the new prosperity. Whatever their The story which has un- Income, it is wholly com- folded itself is in many mitted, so that if Dad is ill ways heartening and for only a few days disaster portending well for our overwhelms the family,
future: the story of a great der, in so many districts hoy I heard about the tally- awakening to suffering and man, laugh they don't always Most disturbing unnecessary misery, of enil bim' that. He was having it
ceaseless and
more unth Mr Macmillan's fast boa constrictor-like squeeze, anal
ever
100 bob a Wock. You won't miss for some reason best known to
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Having it easy
sanctuary, goes into digs.
The Welfare Inds and lasses sweep in trying to bring them all togellier again and teach
quite often succeed. them how to budget; and they
Basic facts
£2 on cosmetics, hair-do's, and nylons, £1 10s, for a wrist watch (diamante) and jewellery, pictures 159. (average) clothes, 188, cigarettes (ten a day) and sweets 47 danting (the evening the boy friend doesn't talka her) the rest on fares, meals, fripperies, etc.
So Mum has a total of £14, nut of which she pays the rent, buys the food". average' £2 medt, 23 169. groceries," £1 5s, dalty, £1 58, fritt and veg THE same is true of Mum, victorious battle against the shock of short-time in wo bric facts emerge overy-
189, heating, lighting, cooking come to that. There are discase
(more in cold says) 58. soaps, and degradation, Coventry. Now he has to be where many housewives en etc. 8,872,000 married women neglect of the very young more artful, more persuasivu, working today, 46 percent and the very old, the sick, with his dodgy little rodit joying the new prosperity are
Then, vin H.P. there vanishes A that?).
quite incapable of budgeting: and of all women in employment. the disabled, and the de-
(Hire-purchase? Cool the majority of wives do not £2 109. for carpets, curtains, And from the fact emerges prived, of awareness that But he is still luring the eating.
know what their husbands are blankets, washing-machine, and one of the most disturbing our sons and daughters foolish to the brink. One tally have a rough idea, but they do
Working wives must fridge, social problems of the day must be healthier and better man, in an industrial arm, not get it from the old man, What's left is spent on the
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the large numbers of educated not only for their boasted that he could get rid of babies, toddlers and school- own sakes but for the sulte
Hore la rather extremo children deprived of their of national survival.
example from my notebook. mothers' day-by-day care.
Now cetates are the tally. Why are 5. was found with Hence, say the pay But the very reforms man's happy hunting-round her five children in a filthily chiatrists, the "Teddy-boys, which have brought about my new bed, but basement room in
and
bit soured, are constal town regarded as pretty how. the girls who "go wrong, this happy state of affifră ca prey. In unhappy con high class who sold her husband was nice for them all to the misfits.
Maps, ato making things far:, too, furibe their main a popor, dia- gavá hức bnly £8 a week out of be dhia, to have everything.... And what a difference easy for the lazy and frres covering too late, that they are the 20 h dánfred, television has made in the ponsible The State will committed not to dolary a
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MONDAY:
TV the Great Dictator.
rain
We've
und SOL
to the the rhythms," Dr Hewlett Johnson told me between sets. "We've * week in Soviet Mostem republics near hem following our week in Moscow. Now we are going on to exe the recon- struction work in Chinn,”
The curtain went up again.
entire
and
wore
The performance began with chot
of men in sequinned pink and green, and men in dible-breasted red sudrs,
A coloist sang painfully und
from 7 at length
song book. Ty were acemedanied by 21 brazil drummer, flautet, one- string fiddler, and a man with minjature banjo. The songs were patriotle and dudl.
The
soft.
have
winter
company sang vorá sact rong that seemed to
the sound caught
sighing
wind disperts
of
across
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but to Applauses
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