THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 155, 28 December 1935, Page 13

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

AN AUTHOR'S RESPECT

"People say that the House of ComImoris is this , that, and the other, partypolitician; spoon-fed, nose-led, stifled, stampeded, and all the rest of.it; but it lis as an assemblage of working knowledge that I regard it, and as- such it has my unqualified respect," writes Mr. A. S. M. Hutchinson, in. musing in his new book, "A Year That the Locust," on the youthfulness of the new M.Pfor his district. "Every profession and every trade is represented in the House by men who know their job from the bottom rung upwards. There is no question affecting individual lives 05 national life that cannot there be pronounced upon by expert opinion; and if a nation gets the deliberative assembly it deserves we in this country, have, in my opinion, deserved mighty well. And if, then, place is held in the Commons by every variety of working knowledge, place must also be held, it seems to follow, by .every variety of national thought. It certainly should be. And if there is one quality of thought everywhere pervasive toAay it is the thought, the thoughts, of youth. It youth, is not to be represented, by youth, in the ' House of Commons today thea there is not a measure will be debated, but will be as unrepresentative of the whole sentiment of the day as.would kneaded and baked dough be unlike a loaf of bread where the yeast is. omitted from the making." ' . .