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WHICH IS YOUR CLASS?

By JOHN WARD

you think you aro

D'middle clas-or work-

ing class?

per-

That is the sort of sonal question the public opinion pollsters ask TOWN- days.

They no longer confine them- selves to who'll win the vice- tions? Au exumple of 1heir spread to new folds is the United Nations poll to discover "How Nations See Each Other," whose results were recently published by the University of Illinois Press.

The answers are Illuminating.

Take social eluss, Americans were asked if they considered themselves to be in the vipper,

middle or lower ClRa2. Nearly all replied: "mildele."

Vonven-

This confirmed the flonal view of Amerteins as Fell-respecting people with few snobs.

But when the questions were reframed-changing tower eluss to working class - the realis were different,

Now, balf The population termed Themselves worktop class instead of middle clu

So it reen, that Amer Jezos, though they do not Be to be considered na "lower" it any way, still like the prestige being workers.

Not Alone

fils

They are not alone view. The experiment, enthal out in many other countries, showed that nearly ali naljuts felt the same about chupa tinction.

However, there was some Interesting exceptions,

Britain, traditimally regardent As the land of snods, band of all countries the highest number of persons regnede themselves as working class. Only a thild of the population,

apparently,

think of themselves as middle- class.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1954.~~

"Come out the boy who was mucking about with hydrogen in science class this morning.”

'but sometimes

TWO MAGIC (but

London Express Service

rather murky) MILES

AND a royal pair of white gloves getting that London Look will mean

that at last SHE IS HOME

on

Take it from us! Anne Edwards

and DRUSILLA BEYFUS

go sailing up the river

to greet

IN THE DAYS when the Queen begins her return voyage, two co-operators forsake their more-usual theme of fashion and the sophisticated world to go exploring Thames- side... on the two miles of the river between Tower Bridge It's the prettiest le house And when the people line the and Westminster Pier . . . the miles along which the Queen you could find, with a cobbled windows round here

lane beside it, the only housu the Queen, what a symbol oll will sail in the royal barge (unless there is fog) for miles with a tree in its those hats will be of the men beside and women who work a gas lamp over garden, and May 15... the last two miles that will bring her HOME.

this stretch of the Thames- nurses white caps af SL Thomas's, homburgs at County AILING up the river from his chambers in the free," sald a woman who lives

a Sunday after Temple

"but they are Jolly

Hall, helmets at New Scotland 80-so. near by,

the Temple, 10XIT with clean celebrated men like Sian tight on the vermouth."

crican snap brims at white gloves on, we Green, the tugboat skip-

Savoy, bowler hata at Shell The next must self-satisfied Covered the last lap of the per, who handles his stout,

Mex, and the no-nonsense bata of women M.P's at the House. Austrations Queen's journey home along smutty tug Framfield like lanes for the

ASHORE again at Westmin ster Pier, where the buckets are newly painted scarlet-two 40 miles, seven bridges, and minutes after leaving Tower Bridge,

France had the largest centage of "upper class'

DLT-

SIX

percent. Norway

frael

the

mollest-one percent.

"the best country to live in"

the Americans came out on top with their

When It came to n chace of)

#n

nailons were and the British.

the Thames. And we report a toy. But one-fifth to a third of the that the Queen's white peoples of Italy. Germany.

Mexico gloves will get dirtier more Holland. Norway and

this two-mile with their quickly on native lands and chose America stretch than anywhere else as the land of opportunity. she has been.

Interesting but how accurate”

were dissatisfied

were

Since the prediction that Dewey would win against Truman

We can

and

not

There he 18,

snug on the bridge every day, with a screen between him and the wind and attle stove to keep him warm, with a cup of tea always ready below. "It's 50 strong," ho report too that said, "It will cure rheumatism, But the boys didn't like to

the 1918 Presidential election, the best view is still ahead bring you a cup because polls have lost prestige as for the woman who has haven't any saucers."

For example: take a box

truthful guider.

The basis of polling

is

the

seen half the world. For

theory of probability.

these two miles along her

of

marbles, some black, the rest

misty lenden river beat for interest all the other 50,000

bandfuls.

The theory

that Lile

white, and Бсоор up several golden miles of her trip.

says

we

Off we go

SAILING up the Thames on Two miles of muddy 4 Sunday afternoon, then tracks average ratio of black to white Thames that for a Londonering back along the banks, and in the samples will never vary means home. Two astonish- London we saw....

returning by night—this is the more than three percent the actual ralio In the box, ing miles where you can see.

sumples provided enough jaken.

A Difference

frum

US

are the whole sprawled crazy Plermaster Jones waved

mix-up that is London. off from the little Tower Pier Two miles between Tower where the brass lamps freshly Bridge and Westminster.

Scooping up samples is similar to the procedure of the pollsters who question groups of propie from various social and econo- amic levels.

Consequently,

they

argue,

All styles...

Sailors in jerseys, brokers in pin stripes, and their results should be accurate. Beefeaters in uniform.... But there in a difference be- Neon lights chandeliers, tween scooping up marbles and and gas

asking questions. The people

lamps....Streets

have to make up their minds in Billingsgate which

before answering.

are

finishing work at nine in

Sometimes this questioning the morning, and streets in

way they think particular issue.

affects the

#

ters an

on Whitehall which are begin-

For example, when the polls-

announce before an election

that one side or another has the

ning work then....

The

world's loveliest

-

greatest favour among the church-St Paul's half- people, the actual voting may blocked from sight by one be Influenced.

The side said to be winning of

world's ugliest tend to relax their efforts. buiklings Faraday Supporters may not bother to Buildings, the international

go to the polls, thinicing that

the decision in their favour is

votes,

the

So, in fact, polis run the some risk no counting chickens, and before they are hatched.

to

The house in which Christopher Wren is supposed

have Ilved .. from which he watched St. Paul's being bulit,

the

the front door,

"I know some people would not like to live here," said Mrs Clare Black, who rents a room. "Tree, we do have to slam the back windows of the Ught, because of the smells and the smoke. But we're all crazy about the view from the front windows.

house

"I think the fascination of it is that it's such a rare view of London. Look at St. Paul's now that it's dark." And there was a great, grey phantom rising out of black river,

JIMMY .CAGNEY - LAND, the narrow back streets of wharfand with

dark long Alm thugs to Leo down,

slippery steps to chase up, and desolate patches of under dark bridges-to beach get caught and shot on

about Nothing sinister numes though-Puddle Dock and Trig Lane, Garlick H and Rose Alley, Pudding Lane and Pickle Herring Stairs. And on Nearby is The George, an old the office door-plates the quaint pak-beamed pub, that ilves up London names that fascinated to what a pretty old pub by Dickens-Woodward Weaver, the river should be. It has a Porn and Dunwoody, Creggons, warm coal fire, a long, low Hopker.

room with polished tables and chairs, and hard-boiled eggs on the counter to be eaten with pork pic and bitter,

Then, suddenly, to remind you that the river is the road from everywhere: "Mirzoeff, Oriental Or notice Carpet Seller."

thousand offering a

trip " miles down the Amazon 9.s. Hilary or ss. Hildebrando

A

(round trip from Liverpool, 4.270, every sir weeks), recall- Ing what intrepid travellers re- tired British business folk can

be.

To everywhere....

A new look

SAILING up the river on

and the Sunday afternoon, once-white gloves dra grey.

WHARFLAND IS BEIKIND UB, and ahead are the big, ponderous business blocks, best seen faded out into the night. For this is the bit which is far prettier by night-the bit where the the big lights begin and there grey, sullen, day-time Thames puts on her black and diamonds.

*

SAILING up the river on

and Sunday afternoon,

of smute plenty

on the clean gloves TOLO....

are

BILLINGSGATE, where the pube and the barbers are open at seven in the morning, where once there were fishwives and swear words and buyers in top

hats.

The fish are still there all right-navy-blue lobsters niiva

At night buses fly across the sky, for the bridge has faded. Trains turn into long, twisting tho glowworms whizzing into blackness. Swans turn pinic in the pool of light from the alga advertising scarlet neon beer.

come,

on

Dr JL. Martin, the architect and clawing; mooked cod pack- who helped to create the build- ed in litio boxes, all wrapped ing which turns into an

box of up and looking like

acquarium of light-the Festival yellow crystallised frull; huge Hall-in я British as they tuba of cockles, winkles and con about his achievement. musscle; and gleaming aliver What does ho think of hle salmon, bigger than a fisier work, the newest building mon's flo would stretch,

the river? "Yes, it does look telephone exchange...... polished shine like gold. The

'But the Ashwives have gone rather lively by aight," he told Hilto assured. Consequently the other Friendly, dirty little cafes trucks and buses and coaches to tie parts, and the porters, us, mulling a cautious sido catches up and polls more in which egg and chips like toys. The Queen's swans language no lady should hear,

crossing Tower Bridge looked for from speaking. the sort of smille. are routine and cost 18. took flight, wheeling into the did not breathe a bad word. In

the grandiose, grey sky under grey Tower

fact they are on the radio now. their white impersonal Savoy where Bridge,

wings was interviewed by a young smudged

oll from Krey with egg and chips are

man last week," said one un- ships.

them suavely, "for a broadcast." SAILING up

and the river conventional and cost 88...

the once-tohita ploves aren't fit LONDON to be seen... JUST BEYOND BRIDGE," the unlikellest sight imaginable-an elegant Ittle PICTURE POSTCARD and "between THAMES. AN statuca house, squashed in wharves and warehouses and grand bridges and Embankment Gartens planted with yellow tulips. Hore, within. tow yards of each other you see the new- ost lampposts in London--and some of the oldest.

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Th enormous, official County Hall, where mittees make

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Giant names

SAILING up the Thames on the London; and small crowded Sunday afternoon and houses, where little people white gloves have collected a

jew smuts already, mu? have got on with the job on their own and filled their **** THE BIG MONEY STRETCH, window-boxes with flowers where giant names above the wharves reflect the wealth the river bring to London beer, furs, fish, paper, /eges, Celebrated men like Sir ruling,

votmouth. Tou can Hartley, Shawcross walking often get a packet -" of raisina

cranes.

of

1

Sharpest. bend

It is No. 49, Hanksida, whore Christopher Wren.... Is supposed to have lived when he was building St. Paul's because he

is work was getting on. Now the sharport bend in the river

The river sweeps round. "It's could see from the window-how- It belongs to the Ron of Axel they told us, Westminster Munthe, who wrote, ""The BforBridge is in a sírnight: Aloe of San Michele."*.

wigs at

the

The Queen's white gloves will by now be nearly black. It's a sign that any London recognises.

She's home.

woman

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