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The rag-and-bone
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millions a year
by BERNARD HARRIS
THE other day I was talking to my local rag-and-bone about 95-year-old George Plowman, who has died leaving £14,000 and some valu- able freehold property the fruits of pushing a rag-and- bone barrow round Windsor for 75 years.
.
"None of us will do as well as him," he said. "We're too much controlled by the Govern ment.
" get only about £1 a hundred- weight for mixed rags, which isn't much more than I got before the
war.
"Collecting
a hundredweight of
when people hang on to things so long Make do and mend doesn't de us any good."
rags inites a bit of doing these days
Valuable job
But though Britain's thousands of rag-and-bone men may not be mak- ing a fortune for themselves, they are doing a specially valuable job for the country just now. They are playing #
# part in checking the down- ward drift in our standard of living.
Precise
Ogures are lacking, but it is estimated that they are saving us £5,000,000 a year in imported raw materiais. They are also making a not-to-be-despised contribution our exports.
to
To End out just how important
out A nowspaperman sets to sample-the politics in Oxford and Cambridge.
IRMLY refusing a second sherry, the
young man with the cavalry moustache picked up his typewriter, and pn- nounced that he had work to do. It was the same typewriter on which, not long ago, he had banged out 30-pago Intelligence reports:
He is typical of the new generation of under- graduates who pace the cloisters of Oxford, who cycle down Cambridge's Petty Cury.
He is an ex-Commando and, if he has not al- rendy written a book About his experiences with the Chetniks in Yugoslavia, or his es- cape from the Japs in Burma, it is because he 18 too busy learning. Anglo-Saxon and help- ing his wife to bath the children at aight. For. the ex-Service under- graduate is getting on for 30, married, parent, and his prob lems are the problems of maturity.
The
The political talent spotters are watching the Universities
there they hope to find. bright young men of conviction to fight the coming elections. What are these potential M.P.s talking about. how far have they travelled since the Oxford Union's notorious 1933 resolution "We will not fight"...?
Universities
swing
Right
by GORDON SEWELL
"I am beside myself with admira- tion for this generation. As a result of their experience of life, the men
Listen to DR. C. 8. (“Berewtape, Letters") LEWIS, of Magdalen, on the same topics: "Politica? That is really a statistical question, but should say there is less Marxism about nowadays. Religion? I think there is a hardening of views in both camps-Christian and atheist. And among the religious, an em- phasis on doctrino rather than eno lion."
The war.
10 Cambridge.
NBERTRAND RUSSELL, walking
the
answor
NOW
slowly, very slowly, across quadrangle at Trinily, seemed ent A schoolboy when the Union
barrassed by my question: "Why was refusing to fight for King
has young Cambridge gone Tory?" of the University and country and welcoming the
el president Labour Club. back from the war have acquired a Red Flag, he came up to the
much more responsible outlook, Ho did not know the university in 1939. or 1940 to That naturally means they do not but maybe the war had something of talk before have the doctrinaire Leftist attitude are so much older," he said wearly. "You see, the man to do with it. Dewsbury, in Yorkshire, is the spend a term great centre for the manufacture of joining the Army. You would which was so characteristic of the "It is impossible to make compari-.
sons with the prewar students." cloth from regenerated wool, have found all the fashionable "thirties." covered from rags and tailors' clip-
Once a Leftist himself ("I remain FESSOR D. W. BROGAN in
"My guess is began PRO- 1s Pings, and mixed with virgin woul. Left authors on his bookshelves;
you would have met him at the a member of the Labour Party out
room at Peterhouse. But a Professor Socialist Club.
of sheer conservatism"), Mr Rowse of Political Science should not in-
Still, you believes that "the well-known names volve himself. of Bloomsbury," who dominated Interested, there is an article in sho the current Cambridge Journal from Dr undergraduate thought before
Brogan's pen, wonderlog whether
munopoly. "And about time, too." Thing, after all.
Runs in families
It is in that district that the art highest expression, for tending Arms of rag-sorting and grading finds its
In 1945 he voted Socialist. fist mony hundred grades.
Rag-sorting is a specialised bust-And in 1946, back at the univer- ness, which for the most part runssity, he was opposing Tory in families, with mothers passing on motions in the Union debates. their skill to their daughters.
Gro
war, have lost their Intellectual the French Revolution was a Gord
"There is nothing more slekening No rowdyism
LEAVIS. the university's
But, in London, the young girls are
Early this year he began to now showing a preference for radio
And the than the attitude of these writers," factories and other more colourful change his mind, occupations.
Tories, at both universities, declaimed Mr Rowse with Indigna- tion. "They have nothing positive "Apart from fineness and coarse-began to gather strength. To-
D to offer, and after all this country lending literary critle-with a ness, one of the most important
day they are in the majority has been through, after all it has queue of students, essay in hand, the innumerable grades of colour. At Oxford the undergraduates' done for the world, they still cannot waiting outside his room at Downing five minutes off to discuss By grading the rags into colours Conservative Association claims and it in their hearts to say a good ok before breaking them down into
points in rag-grading is to sort out
"Yet the
Union debates navo
shown a swing to the Right.
bre, the costly process of dyeing more than 1,500 members-an word for Britula or British Empire, politics with me. the finished cloth is avoided.
all-time record: At Cambridge They have constantly denigruled the Thus, German field-grey uniforms are being reduced to fibre and sub-the Tories recently polled GO nation and its institutions, and now
they are outdated, putmoded.' sequently transformed
the percent when the student news-, cheaper types of Bannel
paper, Varsity, asked: with a minimum of processing...
there was a General Election next week, which party would
Into
Earning dollars
trousers
"Better type
In the 18 months to June last the firm I visited alone earned us more you vote for?" than b million dollars (£250,000) by America. They selling rags and waste materials to are making sub- stantial exports to other hard cur-
countries. rency
"If
Revival-2
an
But
I am very critlent of debates. They ruin discussion. And am trying to substitute discussion for lecturca --which are absurd.
"A swing to the Right?" A Mar- Xist economist echoed my query, "Nonsense,
The university always But I must say was reactionary.
"There is no Socialist salvaticurisın 110W. But no Tory reaction wither. ND of the Fabian epoch, in fact? Tradition? Everything depends on END
No easy question for DEAN tradition-but remember, tradition COLLINS, of Oriel, to answer. You is a living thing," see, Mr Collins is enthusiastic And a fervent Christian. "It Is true," he admitted, the their trade is, I have been laving being prepared for shipment in-
One of their exports which I saw WHY this reversal of opinion Socialist.
at the universities? I have look round one of the London trigued
or just spent a week in Oxford Conservatives are winning at Ox factories of a company
ford." who have black-out curtains, which once ob- and Cambridge trying to find been in the wholesale rag, and textilescured-the-lights-of-Government out: First-I-asked-the-dons But Mr ̈Collins' Is' notˇworried," for waste business for more than 0 offices in Whitehall,
This is what historian A. he sees Christian inspiration in the
thinks about it:-
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Blitz hoses
The rest is made up of new rags, Silch as cuttings from the textile factories, and surplus Gov- ernment stores.
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by Beachcomber
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we
And the undergraduates? Certain ly they are a brilliant lot, these ex- no less brilliant And in Christian Action he in than the fabled bright young people welded together members of all of the last postwar period.
But
parties (except the tiny Communist very different. No rowdy rags, no. minority) and all Churches, ind- with sex.
heavy drinking, no fooling around Instead, a search for ing the Roman Catholics.
stability, re-discovery of the English tradition, a growing sym- pathy for religious values,
Christian Action stands for Chris
I talked to them in their clubs, in lanity in pubtle affairs, and last time it hekla rally 3,000 people, the Union, in their rooms, in Civic turned up. This looks like being Restaurants. They are, for the most the new Oxford Movement. (The part, men determined to get a good first one, John Henry „Newman's,
degree and make a career. (Business the or industry in preference to Civil Service. And there is a lot
were, in her own words: "Melaba- concerned about social justice. But
of
talk about emigrating to the
Perhaps they Bre aver-serious. But time is too short for frivolity.
READ that the Ontario in Egypt or some place." Federation of Women had much of this hot weather," said
They'd walk about naked." fire hoses, Teachers' Association, of which the other woman, "they'd go mad. Rome of which had done serview in was Chairman from 1934- Back to Naphokipon
There were vast piles of haver-1937, "has submitted to the
ferrets were tow ropes, canvas fire buckels, and which I was Treasurer from for Mme. sacks and webbing equipment, glider Department of Education," of FOUR HUNDRED
flown in sacks from Lausanne also started at Oriel.)
Zaphroma. She was worn-out Post Office mail bags. 1931-1933, "a plan for a com- sorting their entrails by starlight Here is Mr Collins's opluion of Empire).
pulsory course in glamour for seven hours later. Her conclusions the young Oxford Tory: "Not un- teacher candidates."
xlon has passed out of the sphere of for him the most important value Lukomopuli, hocne, hoene, and is freedom-and that's à Christion flaggs, glugga.
value, too. He considers the under- "When the one-legged wolf of dog to be the ordinary human per-. Mt. Sputtax! comes to Moglin Rock, son, of whatever class, if oppressed the old terebinth tree will split down the middle, and out will come the horse-Ash of Zul," Government astrologers at once started to de- code this message, which is thought to refer to the new passports for all householders who wish to go from one country to another. How absurd
to
1
the
home. For their fate is to be broken
Before being accepted as a qualia down into the type of fibre which alone can make satisfactory papered teacher, a woman will have to for cigarettes.
satisfy a panel of film actresses that Of the old linen and cotton rags she can break off-a lesson al which were being sorted by women given moment to sing in a low,
voice on upper floors, the best while sorts hoarse
a song about
slink und sway were being set aside for consignment misery of love:
paper mill in Hampshire. They about the schoolroom in a bathing will end up in your pocket book as slip: dance art's concrete planoforte Bank of England notes,
played by four Cubans during the Other grades of rag go into the history lesson. manufacture of blothing paper, blood | Epitaph Alters, ledger papers, and legal docu-Here lies the old club bore, menta
ints which must have the quality
Whose talk was altonys irrelevant. The ash-tray on which you stub out One day he fractured his fore
While trying to bite an elephant. cigarettes some of these old rags. For the in passing
by the Stale."
Church lead
T.
Hard road
OCIALLY, the Turles do not differ from the Socialists, Many have trodden the same hard road, from secondary, or grammar school, These outnumber the huntin' shootin' people by ten toone in the earnest study groups which the THE Master
of Camplon Half Conservative Associations at bein universities have started recently, (FATHER COBRISHLEY, Imitating Leftwing technique. to 8.J.) shares Dean Collins's optimism THE doctor was
attend the butter of an old castle, about the prospects of religion in ex-major told me in Oxford's Carl- "There's nothing wrong with you," the university, and points out that ton Club, "because we no longer faclusion of prepared textile wastes TWO women stood talking, close he said, after examining the man. earnest members of the Church of believe there are any ready-made is essential to give 'strength to many to me. A very small boy, aged. "I know," said the butler, "but they England are leading the Tory revi- solutions, because we realise that types of plastic moulded articles. about three, passed by, wearing owe me £14 for wages and I'm
But the rags do not necessarily nothing but an exiguous bathing staying here till I get it." Move val. "Oxford is more Christian than there is no alternative to individual effort and the empirical approach." ro-appear in a different product. dress. The first woman said: "Look over," said the doctor, "they owe at any time during the past 100
And that goes for the Cambridge Many of them become cloth again. at that, now. You'd think he was me £74 18s. Gd."
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