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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, JULY

1937.

He is very clover,.

very antisoptic, and

a marvellous tonic

to 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 as Liberals understand them."

G

EORGE

BERNARD

SHAW wrote this, and it comes from the two new chapters, "Soyletism"

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 408 pages of decently printed text, 23 pages of index, 12 pages of amusing synopsis, besides title pages, paper covers, and so

on.

Mr. Bhaw assures readers "they bave 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

to

ETTER than "review- ing" these new chapters will be

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 Sovietism, believing that

had the Bolshevists studied ur Briush Fost-Marxian Socialist literature. they might have avolded the ruinous business er- rors which so nearly wrecked the Russian Revolution."

"It was partiy their fault for idolising Karl Marx, and despising his Fabian successors as bourgeois, very carelessly, as they were all bourgeois themselves.

Marx la

among the prophets, perhaps among the greatest of them; but prophets are very incompetent guides to the art of running a business."

Fortunately, mistakes are not

up in Russia; they ar bushed attacked and remedled with un- compromising vigour; for there are no capitalist vested interests

Atter

a few to be conciliated. years of indescribable ruin and confusion Lenin publicly told his colleagues that though their revolutionary principles were be- yond praise they knew less about the practical conduct of business than s

& Capitalist office boy." "He was learning from bitter experience what he might have e learnt from the English Fabians if they had been included in the Marxian canon instead of being placed in the index as poilt bourgeois,

C

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

Trotsky told Lenia that either he or Stalin must....go. Lonin managed to afrangy matters; but the incident

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

Shavian Thought_ WELL lathered is half shaven. --THOMAS FULLER,

COUNT THE “TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHE

G. B. SHAW

lays down the

LAW

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get

began with the banishment of Trotsky and led later 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 Arst jobs of a successful revolution is to rld of the revolutionists."

"Stalin's victory

was a triumph of common sense; and nco-Trotskylam now means a conspiracy of anti-Stalinists who do not believe that Socialism can maintain itself without foreign alliances and concessions to Capitalist allies East and West."

On the U.S.B.R. Constitution, which was recently modified be- fore it had operated, Mr. Shaw is illuminating:

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

conciliato Liberal

to

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 resurres- tion of the Rights of Man is not obvious."

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

Fascism uncompromis- ingly. But, alyly, 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 pollicul and economic or- ganisations formed by the people independently of the dictatorial power. This can be easily done by simple violence.

"Bodies of

very young and athletic men, devoted to the dictator... will quite simply and naively break into the omces of these institutions, beat up the occupants, smash the furniture. empty the till, and use the lists of members to track down and beat up all the persons who have pro- sumed to join such associations."

"So 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 citizer is a Faselst by rature 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 can leaders." warns Mr. Shaw, answer the question, Who is to succeed you? or escape the con-.. tinual suspicions of their sanlly and the certainty of their approaching senility which makes it impossible to guess what will happen next.

"That cling to parliamentary systems under which nothing can happen.", Nor can the leader plunder any- Fascists one except the poor. "will burn an Irish creamery, an Co- Italian Friendly Society, a operative store, a Trade Union office, or any printing house of the Red Press. But ask them to burn a 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."

why diplomatists

(THERE 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 Jew in Germany. But he .. had to leave their jobs and their belongings to be owned and ex- ploited by German employers who are sweating the German prole- tariat as rapaciously as any Jew. "By making the Jews and their 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 Fascism: certainly a much rasher risk than the Versailles his tearing up Treaty and the Locarno Pact, when he knew, na every clear-headed diplomatist in Europe knew, that the Allies dare not reopen the war of 1914-18 in defence of these foolish, spiteful, or impracticable documents,"

MENTAL RADIO

Many are Telepathic Without Knowing It

U

JPTON 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 esting. or "mental radio," he be describea

IL.

PRISON CHAPLAIN TELLS A STORY

ank A prison chaplain the same questions. "Does your work produce results?" "Are your duties not depressing?" "How do! you deal with the man who is out end day and in the next?" "Do you say, Rack pain, you rascal!--and pass un?"

PEOPLE Invariably

Prisons land for the tragic side of Ha; nevertheless, a chaplain's work is net without reaults and humorous incl. dents. Every chaplain has had the ex perience of being balled in the street by an effusive strangor, who cries for all the world to hear, "Don't you re- member me, sir? We were in the pri zon together."

in pelson phraseology, there are two kinds of criminals--the "old lng." whe has spent the greater part of his life behind locked doors, and the "Brat offender," the man who la convicted for the first time.

While the chapinin retunes to give up hope of the oldest lag reforming, it is unongat the Arnt offenders that his great opportunity llos. Thairs is, io- deed, a sorry light, and tregle are the atorica to which the chaplain isteni. held positions of public Some have trust, and, because of their crime, have been deprived of job and future pen- sion. All have lost situations to which, it seems, they can never return. The stigma and shame of prison is not theirs alone; it nocts wife and futally, A mother tells her children that their Iow father has gono abrend for n months on business for his hem. An- other makes bellove that daddy has Joined the Army and won't be home for year. Many are the vows of a new beginning. made in the chaplain's pre-

Bence.

Made, Not Born

burdened.

It is for these men, not criminals, but seemingly decent folk

I would enli nuddenly gone wrong, that

and probation your sympathy. The Burstal system come to the aid of

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

naore

Why is it that so many employers de little or nothing for the convicted mat onee in their service? What an oppor tunity in theirs to stretch out a helping hand! In most cases the first offender has learned a terrible losson. He known what it means to be outcast by society. He renilses acutely the, suffer- to others. ing

brings wrong-doing Above nil, be in grateful for the chance to make good. There is little danger af him disappointing his employer a second time.

Don't let any good you can do in this because connection come to Daught someone says "criminals are bort, not would prison chaplains mado." Few agree with that statement. In all my prison experience i only. met one burn thief. I was a cost kleptomaniac, and concealed in his cell all kinds of queer and trifling things,

Criminals are made and very often have their beginning in the disappoint- ed, dailiuslonod, released Arst-oftender. A big fort must be made by the com- munity to save these men from the fato of the old lag, and to win them for the ways of law and order. This work ilos, nat so much. with the prison authorities, as with you and me. Value of Environment

Was

A habitual femalo offender It is not concentration,... for

brought before a Magistrate on the example, to gaze at an Inkpot and

same old charge. The number of her recall, through It, school or office ex-convictions Alled the magistrate with The advent of wireless broadcust- periences. By practising concentra-

dismay. The woman pleaded guilty and That two persons widely apart can ing has undoubtedly opened the eyes on von inanimate objects, one goins asked for a light sentencs as she had and had kept communicate with each other by of millions of people to the existence in will power and thus becomes more been working for the past eighteen straight. On the strength of her recent means of "thought waves" has long of unseen waves in the air, and the able later to experiment with thought months it laundry

that thought can be trans- rays on human beings.

good conduct, the Magistrate odmontah- been accepted by accult

students, claim

Nearly all great leaders possess the

ed the womba and nilowed her to go Bul scientists and most average mitted is therefore not regarded as

tree. le discovered later that she had in a months people have all been sceptical on the so fantastic as when Prentice Mul- "sixth sense," although most of them

worked for eighteen are unware of it. In Oriental coun- ford made it over forty years ago. point.

sense

ls everywhere re-laundry, but it was the laundry of tho We are just on the threshold of tries the facts

local Jalt. documented

cognised and practised. There is no produced by Upton Sinclair, and our knowledge of thought power, explanation but telepathy for the scores of greater experts in the field, Even the medical profession now fact that long before telephones and are causing a slow but sure change admit that without the mental co- telegraphs in opinion on the subject. In other

er operation of patients cures are al travelled

of words, more and more people are most impossible in serious cases keeping an open mind on telepathy. lness or accident. It was only his undreds

The carefully

If it

were

almost

use

news Instantaneously thousands of and eve

und China, Tho miles in India

to the

s clearly established that there indomitable will to live which saved Indian Mutiny was known

ences to the human

a sixth sense in human beings the the late King from death during his natives in Bombay long before it

Tacy severe

illness in 1928. That men reached the white merchants. fall to be momentous.

All the wonders and powers of and women of average Intelligence 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 with success, to dabble in telepathy good to themselves and wonder to explored. That elusive "sixth sense" does not greatly impress the ordinary their friends, can fairly be sald to may well become one of the most that this sixth sense can be culll be established,

man or woman, but if it is proved

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

is radically changed.

on

The first essential is good health, for without that complete concen- :

that two persons

of close

wonderful and precious possessions of every man and woman, but it has to be learnt. You have to practise, Just as a baby has to practise walk- ing.

Frank Bardon.

The methods by which this sense can be acquired appear to be very varied. Mrs. Upton Sinclair, the one tration becomes exhausting and even CONSIGNEES' NOTICES. who convinced her husband of the injurious. It is well known to most truth of "mental redio," Iles full people length on a couch and concentrates affially, not merely family relation-IIOLLAND-OOST AZIE LIJN, N.V.

and when thoughts, what she wants to know, about ship, can frequently read each other's

unspoken place, or

separated, one or the other often has any particular person, object.

A well-known London clairvoyant a sensation of getting a message or goes out to her garden and alte under even of seeing what the other is do n tree, A German telepathist being at a particular time. lieves in gazing intently into a clear stream, while an old who is noted

The point is, that it was easy for the woman to go straight in the prison laundry, for there no evil could come nigh her. Now in prision, everything possible is done for the good of the Aret-affender. He la kopt away from the old lags. He is visited as often as possible by the chaplain and en couraged in his determination to make too. It is onry to do right in prison. good when his time is up. For him, The big problem is his environment on returning to the world and society again. It Here that you and I have a part to play. The tntn's household must put the word prison right out of their vocabulary. Instead of shunning the unfortunate fellow, friends must gather round and do their best to create an ovironment that will more than compensate for the loss of oldi

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Ime more powerful and successful. Con round. Bennett rounds

centration is now almost a lost art pressed and was fond of varying the car the modern world, and hardly ane experiment himself afterwards.

"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 I in a scaled letter, &c., one specific object, that is, to exclude owing to rapport with the willer or from the mind all thoughts and as- sender, and that which can send and sociations that the object' brings to receive thought messages. The Brst mind.

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J. F..

ends like coal.

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DOWN

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