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THE

HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.

JULY FRIDAY,

9,

1937.

He is very clover,

vory antiseptic, and

a marvellous tonic

lo sagging minds.

"It Is. Interesting and very Important to note that in some respects Commun- ism and Fascism produce similar changes. Both make short work of Liberty and Democracy understand them."

G

EORGE

as

Liberals

BERNARD

SHAW wrote this, and it comes from the two new chapters, "Sovietism" and "Fascism," which, together with a new "Author's Note," he has added to "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism," expressly for its reissue as two volumes of the new sixpence-a- time Pelican Books.

Value for money: for a shilling you get 465 pages of decently printed text, 23 pages of index, 12 pages of amusing synopsis, besides title pages, paper covers, and so.

on.

Mr. Shaw assures readers "they have in their hands the authentic original text in full, word for word ... with the addition of two new chapters dealing with events that have occurred since its first pub- lication in 1928. The present edition is, in fact, a better bar- gain....

B

ETTER than "review- ing" these new chapters will be to give you some quotations from them, to show what Mr. Shaw has been thinking about.

First, he has a bee in his old bonnet about Bovietism, beileving that

"... had the Bolshevista studied our British Post-Marxian Socialist literature they might have

avoided the ruinous business ́er- rors which so nearly wrecked the Russian Revolution."

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"It was partly their fault for Idolising Karl Marx, and despising his Fabian súccessors as bourgeois, very carelessly, as they were all bourgeols themselves. Marx among the propheta, perhaps Among the greatest of them; but prophets are very incompetent guides to the art of running a business."

"Fortunately, mistakes are not hushed up in Russia; they are attacked and remedied with un- compromising vigour; for there are no capitalist veated interests to be conciliated. After a few ruin and years of indescribable confusion...

Lenin publicly told

his colleagues that though their revolutionary principles were be- yond praise they know less about practical conduct of bus

business

the

than a

a Capitalist office boy."" **** He was learning from bitter

nce what experience

ho might have learnt

from

the English Fabians, if they had been included in the Marzian canon instead of being placed in the index as petit bourgools. . .'!".

CONCERNING the Btalin-

Trotsky split, however... Mr. Shaw is OK, by the Kremlin anti-Trojäkyist first last, and all the time.

Trotsky told Leuin that elther he or Stalin must go

to Lanin managed

arrange

matters; but the incident

marks the beginning of the breach -between Trotsky and Stalin which

Shavlan Thought_

WELL lathered to half shaven. THOMAS FULLER.

COUNT. THE “TELEGRAPHS"!

EVERYWHERE:

G. B. SHAW

lays down the

LAW

began with the banishment of Trulsky and led Inter on to con- spiracies for which some of the old Bolsheviks had to be executed; for revolutionary habits are hard to change; and it still holds good that one of the first jobs of a successful revolution is to get rid of the revolutionists."

Was A

Stalin's victory triumph of common sense; and nea-Trotskylami

opinion in Europe and America, "As the only result of convin- cing the world that Communism is in the least like Liberalism would be to destroy all interest in it, the prudence of this resurrec- tion of the Rights of Man is not obvious."

Of course, Mr. Shaw long since announced that he was done with Bberty and all that, so there is nothing in FRacism to shock him very deeply. And he has always had a sneaking liking for strong supermen. He is naturally against

Fascism uncompromis-

ingly. But, slyly, he likes to detect its good points,

All your would-be dictator has to do is to deal with fools accord- ing to their folly by giving them plenty of the stuff they like to swallow whilst he sets to work energetically on reforms that appeal to every- one's common sense and comfort. and stops the more obvious abuses of the existing order.

The next step is to get rid of all the political and economic or- ganisations formed by the people independently of the dictatorial power. This can be easily done by simple violence.

the

"Bodies of very young and athletic men, devoted to now means a

dictator... will quite simply and conspiracy of anti-Stalinists who

naively break into the omces of do not believe that Socialism, can

these institutions, beat up the maintain itself without foreign alliances and concessions to occupants, smash tho furniture, empty the till, and use the lists of Capitalist allies East and West."

members to track down and beat On the U.S.B.R. Constitution,

up all the persons who have pre- which was recently modified be-

sumed to join such associations." fore it had operated, Mr, Shaw is illuminating:-

"Must of it might have been written by Tom Paine. It may be dismissed as a feat of window dressing

conciliato

to

Liberal

"Bo for a time, with a good leader. Fascism flourishes, and is thoroughly popular and demo- cratic, that is why there is Always a practical tendency to Fascism

·

over and above the fact that the average citizen is a Fascist by nature and schooling, and that the reformers and revolutionists are to him only a minority of seditious, cranks."

So far, so good. But not much

further.

"None of our present Fascist leaders," warns Mr. Bhaw. "can answer the question, Who 13 to succeed you? or escape the con- tinual suspicions of their sanity- and the certainty DE their approaching senility which makes It impossible to guess what will happen next.

"That la why diplomatists cling to parliamentary systems under which nothing can happen."

Nor can the leader plunder any- ono except the poor. Fascists 'will burn an Irish creamery, an Italian Friendly Society, a Co- operative store, a Trade Union office, or any printing house of the Red Press. But ask them to burn country house, or sack the Bank of England, or lynch a Con- servative Cabinet Minister, and they will conclude that you have gone mad or joined the Reds."

HERE are some curl- ous exceptions to the rule that Fascism. cannot plunder the rich... Führer Hitler has plundered the Jews and made it a crime to be a has Jow in Germany. But he .. had to leave their Jcbs and their belongings to be owned and ex- ploited by German employers who aro sweating the German prole- tariat as rapaciously as any Jew.

By making the Jews and thels friends his enemies.. and trying to organise a European crusade against Russia (the grave of Napoleon's greatness) the Führer has run a risk which may prove the undoing of German Fasciam: certainly a much rasher risk than Versailica his tearing up the

Treaty and the Locarno Paet, when he know, as avery clear-headed diplomatist in Europe knew, that the Allles daït,not reopen the war ot 1914-18 in defence of these foolish, spiteful, or impracticable documents."

MENTAL RADIO

Many are Telepathic Without Knowing It

UPTON SINCLAIR, the American practised by Mrs. Upton Sinclair is The Earliest "Telephone"

writer, has perplexed some of a form of clairvoyance; the second his many admirers by declaring his is much more important and inter- belief in the existence of telepathy eating. or "mental radio," as he describes

it.

students.

It 13 not

for

PRISON CHAPLAIN TELLS A STORY

PE

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Pres. Coolidgo nember me, air? We were in the pri son together."

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the Arst offenders that his Pres. Pieret amongst Freat opportunity iles. Theirs, Pres. Van Buren dood, a sorry plight, and tragie are the Pres. Garfield stories to which the chaplain listens. Some have held positions of public trust, and, because of their crime, have been deprived of job and future pen- ton. All have lost situations to which, it seems, they can never return, The tigma and shamo of prison is not theirs alone; It affects wife and family. A mother tells her children that their father has Kone

abroad for a few months on business for his firm. An- other makes believe that daddy has joined the Army and won't be heme for year. Many are the vows of a new beginning nde in the chaplain's pre-

sence.

Made, Not Born

hardened it is for these men, not criminals, hut seemingly decent folk suddenly gone wrong, that I would onlist And your sympathy. The probation Borstal systems came to the aid of

a little youth. Surely erring might be done for the first offender.

more

Why is it that so many employers do little or nothing for the convicted man once in their service? What an oppor- tunity is theirs to streich out a helping hand! In most cases the first offender hna learned # terrible lesson. lie knows what it means to be outcast by society. He realises acutely the suffer

to others. wrong-doing brings ing Above all, he is grateful for the chance to make good. There is little danger of him disappointing his employer a second time.

Don't let any good you can u in thin because connection come to naught someone anys "criminals are burn, not would made." Few prison chaplains agree with that statement. In all my prison experienco 1 only met ons born thlet. io was a reul kleptomaniac, and concedied in his coll all kinds of queer and trilling things.

Criminals are made and very often have their beginning in the disappoint- ed, dallusioned, released first-offender. A big effort must be made by the com- munity to save these mon from the fate of the old lag, and to win them for the ways of law and order. This work iles, nat so much with the prison authorliice, as with you and me.

Value of Environment

A. habitual concentration, example, to gaze at an inkpot and recall, through it, school or office ex- pertences. By practising concentra tion on inanimate objects, one gains in will power and thus becomes more able later to experiment with thought rays on human beings.

The advent of wireless broadcast- That two persons widely apart can ing has undoubtedly opened the eyes communicate with each other by of millions of people to the existence means of "thought waves" has long of unseen waves in the air, and the

claim that thought con be trans been accepted by occult

Nearly all great leaders possess the milled is therefore not regarded as and mast average But selenilsts people have all been sceptical on the so fantastic as when Prentice Mul- sixth sense," although most of them ford made it over forty years ago. are unware of it. In Oriental coun- point.

We are just on the threshold of tries the SC180 19

everywhere re- The carefully documented.

cognised and practised. There is no produced by Upton Sinclair, and scores

of greater experts in the field, our knowledge of thought power. explanation but telepathy for the Even the medical profession now fact that long before telephones and are causing a slow but sure change admit that without the anental co-s in opinion on the subject. In other

er operation of patients cures, are al- words, more and more people are

most impossible in serious cases of hundreds keeping an open mind on telepathy illness or accident. It was only his If it is clearly established that there indomitable will to live which saved miles

facta

in

were

female offender Was brought before a Magistrate on the same old chargo. The number of her convictions lled the magistrate with damay, The woman pleaded guilty and naked for a light sentence as she had been working for the past eighteen month in a faundry and had kept straight. On the strength of her recent good conduct, the Afaglstrate admonish- ed the woman and allowed her to go free. te discovered later that she had worked for eighteen months in laundry, but it was the laundry of the local fail.

A

The point la, that it was any for the woman to go straight in the prison laundry, for there no syll could como nigh hor. Now in prision, everything ponsible le done for the good of the He is kept away from the old lags. He is visited as often as possible by the chaplain and on- couraged in his determination to make good when his time is up. For him, too, it is easy to do right in prison.

In use news almost instantaneously and even thousands of

Brat-offendor. India and China. Tho Indian Mutiny was known to the Is a sixth sense in human beings the the late King from death during his natives in Bombay

long before it to the human race consequences

severe illacas in 1928. That men reached the white merchants. cannot fail to be momentous.

and women of average intelligence

All the wonders and pervers of That professional occult practi- tioners or mediums should be able, can train and increase their thought the human mind have not yet been

power and make it an instrument of explored. That elusive "sixth sense with success, to dabble in telepathy good to themselves and wonder to may well become one of the most does not greatly impress the ordinary,

of every man and woman, but it has man or woman, but if it is proved be established.. fairly be said to wonderful, and precious post is ons to be learnt. You have to practise, just as a baby has to practise walk

Frank Barden.

this sense can be

vated and trained by any intelligent Affinities person within himself, the situation

ing.

AMSTERDAM, HAMBURG, GENOA,

The big problem is his environment on returning to the world and society as part to play. The Son, and I hard

man's household must put the word prlaon right out of their vocabulary. Instead of shunning the unfortunate fellow, friends must gather round and do their beat to create an evironment that will more than compensate for the loss of old

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is radically changed.

The first essential is good health, The methods by which this sense for without that complete concen-: can be acquired appear to be very tration becomes exhausting and even CONSIGNEES' NOTICES. and doubitul companions. varied. Mrs. Upton Sinclair, the one

of close who convinced her husband of the Injurious. It is well known to most

people that two persons lies full of "mental radio," truth length on a couch and concentrates amnity, not merely family relation

when and thoughts, on what she wants to know, about #hip, can frequently read each other's separated, one or the other often har any particular person, place, or unspoken object.

jewell-known London clairvoyant a sensation of getting a message or goes out to her garden and sits under oven of seeing what the other is do- There are hundreds of authentic a tree. A German Lelepathlist being at a particular Ume. Iloves in gazing intently into a clear stream, while any old Irishwoman cases on record where persons have

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"Mental radio" can be divided in person out of 10,000 is able to con- ever. to two kinds, the kind which can centrate entirely for five minutes, on divine what is in a sealed letter, &c., one specific object, that is, to exclude signed by owing id rapport with the writer or from the mind all thoughts and as wender, and that which can send and sociations that the object brings to receive thought messages. The first mind.

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Hongkong, 6th July, 1937,

12 Representation of a dame abed

with

famous novel (two words, 4.4).

a

14 Always joined in pleasant sur.

roundings

throw.

It is the old story. A man gets n Job and does well. One day the fore-15 Don't throw a pail: pale, a man gives him his books" and no ex- planation is offered. He demande one 18 Thin, Shakespearean character and I told, "We don't want jall-birds

20 He had his meal-in solitude. here." He goes to another place and

22 Lake: not crimson. the same thing happens again, and yet again. The man is labelled and hunted 24 Hop's product off job after job..

20 Don't see Naples and die: Turin and get hungry, Convinced that every man's band, lazo Just the place to give a dance against him, an embittered first-offender

to a deserter. remorta to a career of crime, and pauzes, slowly but surely, into the ranks of the 30 Bums up. old is. His excuse le, that he is just 31 A cutting off. getting his own back on a community 32 Grind. As a further hint, this

ends like coal.

that refused to give him a chance. You realise our responsibility

To say that many men prefer life in Mia_Majesty'a Forcan, to work in the civilan sense, Locust no slur on the Services. Nevertheless, the Army | to-day is under strength and recruita are urgently needed. In the cireum- stances, Is it too much to hope that the War Office will raise the ban on convicted men, and give the willing firat-ofander his chance As with Borstal boys, his case might, at least, be, examined on. Sta meritua

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6 You only got a short dinner here, though the score is pretty high.

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