The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-08
Observations
Little People
of Britain in
Saddle Now
BY HELEN EssARY

Many thousands OF words viii try
10 explain the spectacular defeat
OF Prime Minister Winston Chur-
chill.
should like TO add my tuppence
TO the International guessing on
the reasons for the victory OF La
Dor Leader Clement R. Attlee and
the violent revolt against the Con-
sentative regime In Britain. My
reason cannot be described as a
treatise. Nor a theory. Nor 4
conception OF governmental sue
cess or failure.
My explanation for the showing
out OF the old line is embodied in
one individual. An individual who
lived in squalor and worked in mis-
cry. Her name? She didn't have
a name. She wasn't important
enough for a name. So my Welsh
cook said.
Nellie called her "The Person.
And so did l. When first she
came to work for us in our London
flat / tried to talk to her. She
looked so pitiful. felt I'd like TO
try to encourage her. To make
her smile, perhaps.
Ny remarks went unanswered.
turned to the cook for some ex.
PLANTATION Of the silence. Don't
bother, madam" Nellie had been
watching M efforts to be pleasant.
Her kind never says much. There
isn't much. really. you can ex-
pect OF q char. They never have
no opportunities. the chars. No
ejjication. No decent clothes. That
they don't. Dispirited they are
most Of the time. And it's no won
der when you think OF the life
they lead"
what did you say her name is."
I asked Nellie.
"Oh, didn't trouble to ask"
answered Nellie. Besides | knew
she'd rather not tell me. You see
she and her kind have so much 20
be afraid OF. they don't like TO
give their names around freely"
What are they afraid of"
Mostly creditors. They owe so
many people. the poor creatures
do. They get paid SO little.
warned you, madam, you were CIV
ing her too much. l spoke OF 'er as
The Person to Mrs. Witheringham
from whom you rented this fiat.
Mrs. Witheringham never really
saw The Person. She was Just
somebody doing 'er work on all
tours. You never notice them peo-
pie much"
-The Person" came to US regular
ly for several months. Then she
failed to come. Oh, no. we couldn't
reach her to nnd out what had made
her stay away, Nellie said. 'Er
kind never had q phone. Chances
were she was sick. Likely with
lung trouble. The winters were
bad.
We did not see The Person"
again. Her going was as unex-
planned as her coming. Shes got
swallowed up, somehow, In the
sums" Nellie said. I'll nnd you
another one like her with no trou-
BILE at all There's plenty OF them
around"
There were, indeed. plenty like
her around. There were then and
later when the war began: hun
dreds of thousands OF anonymous
persons in England. Nowhere, ex-
cept in India and China was the
contrast so great between the rich
and the hopelessly poor.
The war gave the hopelessly poor
the courage to assert their rights.
II showed them that IL they were
valuable enough to defend their
country In times OF danger. their
country owed them a chance at a
decent life in times Of peace.
When finally they got their eyes
and ears open to the world In
which they had been afraid to
speak, they ganged up and
threw the old crowd out. Some
OF them may have thought
when they began really to see
the people at the top that
there never need have been q war.
II Is likely that TO the awakened
persons everyone connected with
the war was repugnant.
Whatever the persons thought or
felt. they said In the last English
election:
Now, WE are going to have
whack at running the show"
Undoubtedly the Wrong Side OF
the Tracks has moved over. The
pendulum has a way OF forever