SOCIAL BARRIERS
DISAPPEARING IN ENGLAND. PREJUDICE BREAKING DOWN. LONDON, Thursday. England's bonds of social caste are disappearing. Something like 70 per cent. of the applications for work made to the Cambridge University appointments committee by students completing their education "there this summer have stated that careers in commerce or iridustry are what they seek. Hotel management has become a college course. No longer are the sons of the manor house and the daughters of the reetory to be ostracized hy the'members of their- own class as in the -past, should they sell packets of sugar or spools of cotton behind the counter. With the son of a labourer as Prime Minister, an engine driver as Dominion Secretary of State,- and a Lancashire weaver as Chancellor of the Exchequer to look up to, they can f eel that the last reason for failing to follow the good example long set them by the United States has disappeared. They are able to breathe freely in recognition of the fact that one lcind of honest work is just as good as another. I Prejudice is breaking down on both sides. The university graduate is.no longer barred in the counting house, the manual worker finds it is pOssible for him to become a Minister of the Crown.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 47, 17 October 1931, Page 2
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