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THE CREED OF MR. SHAW.
"WOMAN'S GUIDE TO SOCIALISM.”
PLAYWRIGHT EARNEST
1928
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SIMLA'S APATHY.
Calcutta, June 8, Further evidence of the keen A lady, it seems, asked Mr. Bolaheylat Interest in the Calcutta Bernard Shaw to write her letter railway strike is supplied by a letter explaining Sociallen. In respublished in the Calcutta States- nonso, he wrote a book of nearly, man, giving details of the receipt 600 close-set pages-The Intelli by Mitra, the Communist atrike MOSCOW gent Woman's Guide to Socialism leader, of £700 from
through the local branch of an and Capitalism."
English bank, b
It was indeed a princely ges ture; for, as Mr. Shaw has ex-It adds that nine-tenths of the plained elsewhere, his book con- total Income of the Indian Trade tains the equivalent, of twelve of Union Congress last year came from The Statesman can- hia plays, the writing of which Moscow. would have been for him more fesses itself puzzled as to the policy profitable and entertaining, of the Indian Government, which Whether the Intelligent Woman expels Russian music-hall artists will read this Guide to Socialism from India on the ground that with the serious attention which it Russia is an unfriendly Power, but deserves is a question which Mr. permits Russia to remit money. Show has possibly not stopped to through British bankers to foment.
agitation, ask himself
..
The attitude of the East Indian. Railway authorities, who have One Thing Needful,
throughout refused to be coorced But it is evident that the world by threats from agitators, received has done Mr. Shaw notorious the official seal yesterday in a com- wrong. It has suspected him of munique from Simla, which an- mockery and scepticism; whellnounced that the refusal to acceda this book clearly proves that his to the strikers demands had the failing is rather a simple faith Government'a complete authority which much more than atones for and approval. Neither the Govern ment nor the Railway Board áre his lack of Norman blood..・・
He has a complete politico-prepared to authorise any conces econemle creed, thought out, so to sign as an inducement to resume say, to the lust galler-button. work.
Meanwhile, the strike situation is He calls. It Socialism; but it is rather his own particular brand unchanged. The whole of Tata's and steel works at of Socialism. It would better be great iron labelled Shavianism;" and it is Jamshedpor are now idic, and the founded on one fundamental directors have decided completely article-that the burden and the to close down until the strike spasms pass. The whole trouble ove" man, a mystery of all this unintelligible here is traceable to world is to be lifted by payingParsee lawyer, who ousted the re- everyone the same salary,
cognised leaders who condemn "the Who will venture to call Mr.strike. He carried a fiery torch of Shaw a scaptle now? Who among revolt through the workshops, and the devout and orthodox ever as a result the whole industry is at manifested a more astounding a standstill without reason. credulity. The world is to adopt
Agitatora, moreover, are hard at ng a solemn counsel of perfection work spreading unchecked, dis- the plan of Gibert's King, who affection In the jute mills. lived in the wonder-working. days of old," and who, to correct the world's inequalities, the top of every tree promoted every- body."
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RUSSIAN GRAIN HOARDS.. Stalin's New Menace to Rich
Peasants...
Riga, June. 2.
As Mr. William Archer often
A statement on the present grain persisted, his friend Shaw could prove anything; and it would bo difficulties has been published by Stalin in the Soviet Press. Stalin' profitless as well as dangerous declares that the Government is de- to provoke a dialectical encountertermined at all costs to concentrate with him. The only prudent the "collective agriculture This system was tried at course is to respect his obviously-system. sincere, if pathetic conviction that the beginning of the Revolution, an equalisation of income in the and better results are hoped for
econobilc new. key to political and salvation. Let us in relation to Mr. Shaw's natural piety, obey the spirit of the injunction, "Leave thou thy sister when she prays,"
Illusions.
Stalin denounces as "un-Leninist” the opinions current in certain Russian circles that the Govern ment should cease from prosecut- ing Kulak (well-to-do-peasants), thus obtaining grain for export. The objections to this basic as The present conditions were the re- sumption of Mr. Shaw's leap to.sult of the change from large units the Hips; but why elaborate hem?, lo small holdings, and the peasants They cannot prevail against marketed little over 11 per cent, of faith. Mr. Shaw has hitherto the harvest. stood as the arch-enemy of llu- sion. It is a little disturbing to after three or four years collective find him appearing as the arch-farming was bound to yield a con- victim of the enemy with which he siderable amount of grain for ex-
port.. wrestled.
But the soundness or unsound- ness of Mr. Shaw's theories is what, oddly enough; matters least in this book, for the Intelligent Woman or any other reader. Ita interest and value is that, like one of the prefaces to Mr. Shaw's plays, It provides him with an opportunity of allowing his indefatigable wit to play round an immense range of topics occupying the public mind to-day.
Stalin concluded by saying that
ANOTHER WOMAN WINS. NEWDIGATE PRIZE
UNDERGRAD FROM CONVENT WHO IS "VERY KEEN.”
Unlike last year's winner, who said she entered the competition for
The Newdigute Prize at Oxford has again been won by a woman Simple justice to Mr. Shaw de-student and a member of Lady mands the admission that he shirks Margarett Hall-Miss Angela M no difficulty. His answers may not Cave, satisfy, but he takes no refuge in ambiguity or reticence. His chapters, for instance, on Socialism and Marriage, Socialism and Chil- Socialism dren, and
and the Churches, are such as might be ex: pected from the author of "Fanny's Firat Play," but they will make nobody squirm in his seat more than a: Socialist like, say, Mr. Arthuar Henderson,
joke, Miss Cave told a Press re- presentative that she took her verse writing very seriously, and "was very keen on writing poetry,"
Mies Cave went to Oxford; three years ago from the Convent of the Cross, Boaton Park, Bournemouth.
The subject of the competition was "The Mermaid Cavern." Socialism but of common clvillen- tlón, s
The rule that subsistence.comes
Though Mr. Shaw predlots such a transformation of society as will
"Whosoever Wishes" neatly divide the sum of the na- tional wealth by the number of the
But this admission implies no population, it is comforting to know that he is, with Mr. Sidney Webb, abatement of the Quicunque Vult of an apostle of "the inevitability of Shavianism, which is thus stated: gradualness." He is no revolution first and virtue afterwards is as ary. A civil war, he recognises old as Aristotle and as new as this would only be an interruption of the book. The Communism of Christ, march of progress, and in the of Plato, and of the great religious orders, all take equality in material meantime the possessing, classes may quietén their consciences.
substance for granted as the first Says Mr. Shaw;
Should you become a convert to conditions of establishing the King- Socialism, you will not be comdom of Heaven on earth, Whoever mittted to any change in your.pri has reached this conclusion, by vate life, nor, indeed, will you find whatever path, is a Socialist, and whoever has not reached it is no yourself able to make any change Sociallat, though he or she may pro that would be of the smallest use Tess. Socialism or Communtam fa in that direction. The discussions passionate harangues from one end in the papers as to whether of the country to the other, and Socialist Prime Minister should
Mr. Shaw's book may become to keep a motor car, or a Socialist even suffer martyrdom for it, playwright receive, fees for allow
was to Mormonism, or Mrs. Eddy's. ing his plays to be performed, or Socialists what Brigham Young's Socialist landlords and capitalists to the Christian Scientist. For all charge rent for their land or in Intelligent Women and Men it will terest on their capital, or be a monument of vigorous and rod Socialist of any sort refrain from
selling all that she has and giving witty dialectic, and u it to the poor (quite the most mi to chasten and reprove the
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