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ATIL ONCCIONOH GHITUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1947.

The 'common man'

takes over

THE history of the world— or part of it could be written. in terms of the effect on a country when a new class comes into power, and its tastes, desires, hablis, character proceed to transform public opinion and mould national life.

We see this happening in the 19th century. The tide of the

.and where

do we.go

from here?

By Sir RICHARD LIVINGSTONE

Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University And President of Corpus Christi College

T

a tearlier or a bricklayer or a garage. hand or a cowman that he does not know his job, or a woman that her style in dress is second-rate; they will not be pleased.

Everyone, I repeat has a sense of quality, 'n desire for the first-rate; everyone has something of the craftsman about film. But crafts- manship, the first-rate, has a mean- ing in other felds than those that I have mentioned.

to

There is no human activity which It does not apply-Including human character, the conduct of the citizen, and, the government of the state, where it is often ignored. The most civilised people is one where the knowledge of the first-rate is applied to most activities and diftus- ed among the greatest number of people; where there la a general de- sire for it and sensitiveness to it in ull that men design and do.

spry

The "common mun" has in his and the making of the Britain of tomorrow, Will he have the neces- Will he have the

knowledge of the first-rate? craftsman's con- he science to make a good job of his

work?

Industrial Revolution brought any published 50 years ago, and the with it a new class, which the betting industry. The Economist has Reform Bill put into power, and estimated that the nation may its mark is clear on the age spending on betting more than one that followed. Its energy, en- of personal consumption, including tenth of its expenditure on all forms terprise and thrift created in- rent, clothes and food. dustry, opened markets and amassed' the. wealth which UNCERTAIN enabled us to fight two great THE omens for the future then are wars and which has been most THE uncertain. We may either mako

ly dissipated in thom.

Its strain of moral serious- ness is seen in many humani- tarian movements and in the integrity with which it adminis- tered a growing empire.

of

A NEW CLASS BUT it had defects as well as qualities. Some them are

pilloried in the con- temporary criticisms of Mat- thew Arnold; some meet us in every industrial town.

OMENS

one of the great advances of his-

tory or we may add another to its fallures. There are two alternatives before us. We may have an "upper closs" as before, but differently com posed, the product of our extended 'university and secondary education, creating a 'civilisation of its own which may be expected to reach a high level; and, below it, "the

masses," reasonably fed and housed

nud with their leisure thoughts cen-

1

EDITORS PRESS SERVICE, INC.

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"Of course, it works only when it rains, you understand."

Are the Peers planning

a constitutional coup?

By ERNEST THURTLE, M. P.

HIE Parliament Act, re- stricting the power of the House of Lords over legis.

tred on "the dogs," Hollywood filmsation passed by the Commons,

was enacted in 1911. and betting pools.

Interest in its provisions is That, whatever, we may call it quickening at Westminster just will not be reu demos aly.

A now. For what reason? true democratic civilisation is an or- Well, on the Government side chestra, in which there are the lead-there is suspicion,..not yet It is strange that a people ing performers, the conductor, the strong, that the Opposition may which had to its credit the soloists, the first violins, but in which be contemplating a peers' con- architecture of the Georgian everyone has a sense of the music

and makes some contribution, how Age, and which created the

ever small to the whole. Shall we most beautiful villages in the have a "civilisation" of this latter world, should have built Leeds type? and Manchester and Sheffield..

That, at least, is how I see it. Be it added that if the Lords were to Indulge in this sort of gum bler's throw, and lose, the conse- quences for their Chamber would

Inevitably be scrinus.

Tingine, therefore, that they will think hard before they risk iz grent constitutional upheaval,

Hara-kiri. after all, is a Japanese and not a British custom.

information about the material and mental conditions prevailing. In the Soviet Union,

Such information, from trained observers, is most welcome, for we suffer from a lack of it.

Three things uppears to stand out from the impressions of these British observers:

1.

The grim fact that the Rus sian people are suffering even mora than our own people from the material and economie consequences of the world war.

2. The Soviet economic system is not by any means equalitarian, there standards of living of individuals.

stitutional coup against the MR. ALEXANDER, Minister of being wide diferences between the Government, designed to force Defence, had a bad time de

General Election.

tending the change of the conscrip- tion period, from 18 to 12 months. 3. The State propagando machine, in the words of one observer, "flat- Governments, as individuals, are tens out all minorities and all truc entitled to change their minds, and criticism"; which is another way of a particular change of polley may be saying that no freedoni of thought Justifiable and wise.

If, for example, the Lords refused to pass

Government's one of the majör ”Meaṇures (on the ground At present the watchwords of that it had not been adequately dis- this Labour are equal opportunity and cussed, or some such reason)

con- give rise to a serious social justice; its mind is set on in-would

But a change which takes place ure still under the shadow of its proved conditions, social security and stitutional crisis, which might lead

to a General Election.

within a period of 48 hours, with all But an election would not be on the essential factors unattored, is Inevitable consequence, The final very vulnerable to criticism.

Here is the explanation. They are the creation of a new class. We

insensitiveness. A visit to. Oxford will show what injury has been done

the like.

After an age of unequal opportu

in the last 25 years to the beauty of one of the world's most beautiful is not surprising. Nor can anyone cities. For evil as well as for good quarrel with such ideals. the middle class stamped itself on the century which it made,

ment,

nity, slums and unemployment, this decision would rest with the Goyem-.

They could, for the time being, swallow the constitutional affront, and eventually, by following the Parliament Act procedure, get their rejected Bill in two years in spite of the opposition of the Lords.

But they are not enough, and taken by themselves might lead to civilisation described The 20th century has been bring the maimed

above. They need to be taken up ing a new class into power-labour, into, and enriched by, something democracy, "the common man" or greater the ideat of u civilisation

He

exists in Russia.

whatever name we care to give it. which in all feltts of line aims at the deed to bring about a General standpoint, the debate was damaging the gloomy White-paper, continuing

In the next 25 years we shall ser whint this class will make of Its cen- tury.

irst-rate.

This was the Minister's dilemmn. JARROW has pronounced its by

election verdict on the happen- was, under the embarrassing necessity of approving argumente he ing of recent months, and that ver- had rejected in the earlier debate, what surprising-to- the Labour dict is highly gratifying and some- Naturally, the Opposition enjoyed Government. themselves as they have not done for a long time. Mr Churchili, in par- It underlines' once again the re- ticular, embraced with hilarious zest markable delity of the electors to thla Opportunity for derision and the Government they alected nearly merriment at the Government's two years ago. JOWEVER, if the Lords were in- pense.

And this in spite of the fuel crisis, Undoubtedly, from a Parliamentary Election in this fashion they would,

shortages and the conscription fasue. In my judgment, have taken a most to the Government. THE FIRST-RATE

Yet, what is lost on the

Labour's majority at. Jarrow was swings hazardous step.

may be gained on the round down, it is true. But, broadly Many issues would, of course, be abouts, since. In the country the speaking, the result is, little. Inferior.. Some Indications are favourable; THIS is not as tormidable-a-de-introduced Into the election

T better housing and food,

fight shorter period is undoubtedly popu- to that of 1045, Improved

it sounds. The desire for but the dominant one would un- lar especially with those directly or mand as health services and education (the quality, for the first-rate, exists in doubtedly be the old question of the indirectly affected by, it latter mainly, so far, on conventional most human beings. It is only the Lords versus the people. and unimaginative Unes), the Ideal sense of craftsmanship under another Now in thess times, on such an of a decent life for all these have name. It gives us things as different issue, it seems to me a virtual cer- come, or at least have come more de- as an airplane, St. Paul's, the Queen tainty that the Lords would be cisively and rapidly, from the pres- Elizabeth, and Paradise Lost. A man routed.

PROBLEM country of these days is merit of the Government or lack of It must be either belief in the sure of "the common man."

may show it in the way he grows Dissatisfaction with the Govern-

Russia. flowers or vegetables, keepa bees,

on other grounds might prevall ment

Therefore an incidental benefit of as an alternative; or, Indeed, a com- belief in the merit of the Opposition runs a factory or an office, paints a at the time, and would have some the disappointing Moscow conference bination of these things. picture, writes a book or performs a influence on the voting, but the is that it has surgical

provided British operation. Few people surge against the Upper House Journalists of the highest repute with would confess to be without it. Tell would be decisive.

an opportunity of giving our people

But equally unmistakable. and much less desirable products of his arrival are the average film, popular newspapers on a lower level than

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

HAD been wondering when stand. My readers, if I may apply the scientists would spare that description to so odd a collec- a moment from their plans for ton of gadgels, may remember the flying faster than light to cor. fuss during the war when Sumatra sider the ordinary things of the was bombed, and a woman rushed along the street shouting: "They've ordinary man's life.

bombed Sinatra."

One of them hins done so, and, with that gift of his tribe for monu

Hail, smiling prawn!

Mias. Whybrow's hiter about

trousers and a red bowler." My grand father said he thought not

Yours faithfully,

ARTHUR BLOTTEAU. Poum-poum, poum-poum PROFESSIONAL trombone-play- Ing," says my paper, "appears to be one of the least overcrowded mental utterances, has announced

of the carcers

to women." open that in 70,000,000 years the world EAR Sir,

There follows a story of a-mother will be "a bali of ice suspended in

and daughter who both played the mid-air." With Eskimos (the sur- an albino prawn shot on the banks trombone, but Insisted on the father vival of the fittest) flying to and of the Poopoo by Mr Horace Tregia- carrying their instruments

from from the moon ng doubt,

el has only just been brought to concert to concert, What i

$14 theme notice. my

My grandfather, Gas- for a modern novel: Was it

worth Sinatra for President? ton Bletteau (Welsh, in spite of his ? Crawford asked himself. Was life new?), told me that while dredg nothing but trombone-carrying? Why (No, says Ohio's Lew H. Bolti). Ing in Ramsgate Harbour in the could not his tolfe and daughter play THE news that Mr Frank Sinatra eighties he found in one of the some small instrument, which they has been given a prize for the buckels an enormous green shrimp, could carry themselves? And as he "advancement of democracy" does Nobody else saw it, and when my mused; the voice of his daughter not surprise me in the least, He grandfather told our family doctor, broke in on lils thoughts; "Mother, may yet be the first Crooning Pre the istter said.. *1. suppose it was tell father not to drag the mouth- sident, if Senator Crosby refuses to bicycling round the bucket in tartan plece along the ground."!

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in

Whatever the truth, Jarrow must have made Mr Attlee smile.

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