The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-19

the masses, makes for ever more artificially and snobbery.
 3-Some dignifled way should be found so that the king might have the enlightening and broadening in- huence of friends and acquaintances drawn from many walks of life.
 Royalty's Training Is SnObbish
 All of the labor leaders realize that it is easier to suggest these things than to draw up 8 plan as to how it is to be done. The king may be advised by his cabinet min- isters, but very largely, if the at- tempt is seriously to be made, 1t will depend upon his own common sense, courtesy and tact.
 It is no easy thing. A king is in different position from pres ident of the United States. The president comes from the people and, when he leaves his high office, goes back to the people. With a future king or even royal prince in Britain, it is quite different. He is born to his rank. And, unless he abdicates like. the Duke of Windsor, he keeps it for life. From his ear- Hest childhood, his companions and acquaintances are hand-picked. They are young people from the wealthy titled or county families. They have the same studies. They play the same games. They fre- quent the same places.
 There was a time when George VI could follow some of his own inclinations. As Duke of York, he did not expect to be king. He inter- ested himself in industrial prob- lems and visited factories to see things for himself. He started and founded at his own expense boys camp where young men from the rich, social classes and young ner from the working classes lived to- gether for some weeks, getting tC know each other and forming, for time being, one big democratic fam lily with no class lines.
 Barred From Old Contacts
 These and many other similar activities, George VI has had to give up since he mounted the throne. The Duke of York could play about his boys camp in shorts take part in their games, eat the same food and sleep in a similar tent. As king he can't. "One doesn't .' He is rapidly learning the inhibi- tions and prohibitions that beset a monarch-even 8 constitutional one with little real power save as sym bol of empire, and top of the social tree.
 If history repeats itself, George VI may find some way of broad ening and deepening the relation between himself and all his sub- jects. His family has gone a long way in the past 100 years. His great mother, Queen Victoria, did not like it, but she was the first, moderr British sovereign who learned that she had to bow completely to the will of parliament. His grandfather King Edward VII, went step father and showed that he realized he wa! sovereign in an increasingly dem- ocratic age. He played the game with his prime ministers.
 George V Democratized Rank
 The father of the present king the late King George V, went ever further in the democratization o1 the throne and, incidentally, of the political life of the kingdom. He backed up Premier Asquith in smash ing the real power of the house of lords. And, as the first king ir British history to have labor ministry, he went out of his way to make things easy for his labor prime minister. He did more. He made of the members of his two labor cabinets personal friends, with many of whom he delighted to chat
 The present king has shown al- ready certain similar adabtability One of the features of the recent coronation festivities was a recep- tion given for him and the queen