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G.B.S. RETALIATES
"JIX" AND LORD HUGH CECIL
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ROBBED BY OFFICIAL THEFTS Mr. G. Bernard Shaw writing
DUE TO GAMBLING recently to the "Sunday Dispatch" | observed:-When statements Arc Edward Albert Rix, aged 43, of
Streatham, made about
in your me
S.W., widely Eardley-road,. circulated paper, most of your read-superintendent of the Registry at ers write to me cffering me remon-Scotland..Yard, pleaded guilty at strance for raedical treatments. London Sessions recently to steal- In your issue of the 3rd instant, ing £1,749 belonging to the Receiver one of your contributors informed of the Metropolitan Police.
Mr. Eastwood, prosecuting, said the world that I was stung by a wasp, that I suffered terribly, that Rix's salary was £650 a year. He I was cured by a lotion and not by was in charge of the money paid a magic box, and that I am quite by the public for reports of accid- Rix had probably used the well.
Will your readers kindly inter-money in gambling since 1922 or pret this in the light of the follow-1923.
Chief Detective-Inspector Collins, ing facts:-
ents.
I am not quite well (who is?); of Scotland Yard, said that Rix had He had have not been cured by a lotion; Irisen from a boy clerk. have not suffered terribly; and it is a large staff under him and would more than 65 years since I was last have been entitled to a substantial
pension when he was 60. stung by a wasp.
It is alleged further that I am "interested in any attempt at break- ing down the present obscurantist rule of medicine."
Interests of Lucidity
remarkable As this
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Mr. Laurence Vine, defending, said Ria had betted in an endeavour He lost to pay back the money. money and went on plunging.
Sir Robert Wallace, in passing sentance of 18 months' imprison. ment in the second division, said it was not a case of sudden temptation..
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I am made to declare that I have
seen wonderful results from the DOUGLAS
use of electrotonic reaction.
I
never used the word electrotonic in
my life, I never saw it until
T
I
read your contributor's little com- mentary on what he calls. the my- stery of Abrams's Magic Box. have seen neither wonderful results nor magic boxes.
M.P.s' Kadlo-Activity
To ignoramuses a telephone Te- ceiver or a wireless set is a magic the same box; and no doubt to simpletons the rheostats of Abrams and Dr. Boyd are equally suggestive | of something between Joanna South-I cott and J. N. Maskelyne; but I am not in that category,
Whether history will confirm Sir James Barr's classification of Abrams and Almorth Wright as the two outstandingly great medical discoverers of his time. I do not know; but I do know that the mat- ter is not one to be disposed of by journalistic comic strip or profes- sional scurrility; and I await developments with respectful in- terest.
I should look forward to the forthcoming general election with) much less misgiving if some dia- passionate interpretation of the radio-activity of the candidates' bloods formed part of their quali- fication; and I think the time has come for the Sunday Dispatch" or some other enterprising newspaper to obtain samples of blood from Sir William Joynson-Hicks and Lord Hugh Cecil, and ascertain whether there is any difference in their rays corresponding to their differences about the Book of Common Prayer, Beyond that it would be rash to ge at present.
The "Sunday Dispatch com- monta: We are glad to learn that Mr. Shaw's friends were mis informed when they spread the rumour that the great man, had been stung by a wasp..
It is difficult to believe that even the most Prussian wasp would have the temerity to attack such dangerous material as “G.B.S.” M
As for the other parts of Mr. Shaw's letter, a characteristic Shavian production, it is surely un- charitable for such a consummatə master of paradox to complain if he is occasionally misunderstood. Who could ever be sure that he had pinned down Mr. Shaw to any exact meaning or Interpretation
But, frankly, we believe that the great man purposely wrote his letter in order to have his little. fling at "Jix" and Lord Hugh Cecil.
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