The House of Commons

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 11, 14 January 1936, Page 10

The House of Commons

AN AUTHOR’S RESPECT.

■ 1 ‘People’ say that the House of Com inons is this, that, and the other, part)' politician, spoon-fed, nose-led, stilled, stampeded, and all the rest of it; hut it is 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.P. for 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 or national life that cannot there bo ‘pronounced upon by expert opinion;"and if a nation gets the do liberate assembly it deserves wc in this eounjffy -Stave, in my opinion, deserved mighty well. And if, then, placo i' held in the Commons by every variety of; working knowledge, place must, also bet,held,, it seems to follow, by every variety Of national thought. It certainly should be. And if there is one quality of thought everywhere perva-sive"''"to-day it is the thought,, the thoughts of youth. If youth is not to bo represented, by youth, in Ac House of Commons to-day then there is nof ! a measure will be debated, but w-ill be as -unrepresentative of the l

whole sentiment of the day as would kneaded and baked dough be unlike a loaf of broad where the yeast is omitted froiu the making.”