Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-27
BLUEB[OODS RULE
AGAIN IN BRITAIN
Baldwin Cabinet Contains
II College Men of Names
Long Famous.
Correspondence of the Associated Press

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 2s.-Self- made
men have ceased TO have any say in
the British cabinet. The old order
has been brought back by Stanley
baldwin, the new premier, and
brought back strong. All but two OF
the ID men in his cabinet are college
pred, and these two attended public
schools. which are peculiarly private
institutions In thI. country, fire.
quented largely by tho sons Of people
or means or culture, or both. The
new Conservative cabinet Is rich in
names long associated with positions
of prominence in British life.
The tide Of opportunity for those
born in the lower classes to rise to
Political power and fame, that seemed
to run strong when, only 10 months
ago, Ramsay Macdonald as pre-.
inter surrounded himself with COL
leagues who were examiners. ex-en-
CINE drivers. ex-office boys and mill
workers and clerks, has dropped to
the ebb of the days OF old. No one In
Mr.. Ba1dwin's new cabinet ever pol
ished up the handle of the big front
door,
Ten Oxford Products.
Ten Of the 19 names Mr.. Baldwin
presented TO the King as his ministers
are Oxford products. Four can look
back to happy days IN the halls of
Cambridge. OF tho remaining five all
had the advantages of public school
training. Mr.. Churchill, upon leav-
ing the ancient hill where Harrow
turns out young gentlemen, betook
himself to Sandhurst, the West Point
Of England. Neville Chamberlain,
like his brother. Austen, went to
Rugby, but. unlike Austen, did not
60 on TO Cambridge. He finished I'D
at Mason College. Sir Douglas Hogg,
the attorney general, is an Elton prod
uct. and Sir w. Joynson- Hicks, home
secretary, was educated at the Mer-
chant Taylors School, of which Car.
lyle was distinguished son. Sir L.
neutrality-suspicious. war secretary,
attended Eastbourne College.
The Cambridge men In the cabinet
besides the premier. are Austen
Chamberlain, ". c. Bridgeman and
Sir John Gilmore. Five of the ten
Oxford men in the cabinet are noble
lords OF the realn-Curzon, Salisbury,
Cave, Birkenhead and Eustace Percy.
The others are Sir A Steel Maitland,
Edward Wood, Sir Philip Lloyd
Greane, Sir Samuel Hoare and L. s..
Amery.
Public Schools Play Part.
The public schools Of historic fame,
Elton, Harrow, Rugby, Merchant Tay-
Tors, Winchester, all played parts in
the education of the new Tory cabi-
net. Mr.. Baldwin and three Of his
cabinet colleagues prefaced their uni
versity days with a few years at
Harrow. Five other members of his
cabinet played as youths upon the
cricket fields of Eton. Rugby knew
three Of the new ministers in their
youth. And SO 1t goes
The examiners and ex-eagtne driy-
ers have gone back to their labors at
the head of trade unions and other
organizations outside of Whitehall.
II they sit In Parliament. they occupy
the opposition benches. The front
bench is filled again with the type of
men who for centuries have governed
Great Britain-nen whose birth the
gods smiled upon, whose climb in life
was made less arduous by the en-
rironment OF ease and wealth, pomp
and circumstance that England gives
In such generous portion to her priv.
ileged few.