A “POOR WHITE”
Sir, —“P.J.A.,” in ‘The Press” of Friday, has gone off the handle with a complaint about the hard times. Had he lived when I was a boy he would have known what hard times were. Wages were 6s or 7s a day; there was no family allowance and up to 12 children in a family. People then made the best of their opportunities-, and most of my comrades of youth are still alive, and are in good positions in spite of no secondary education. Had they sat in their gardens, because they could not afford good clothes they would have accomplished nothing. “The man who is bitter against the world has only himself to blame.”— Yours, etc., t AN OLD DOG. March 24, 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27928, 27 March 1956, Page 3
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