| Show Bernard Shaw Pens New Year Message for America By George Bernard Shaw I Copyright 1916 Ji by the Newspaper I Enterprise Association U DO Jan Jun o. o o.-it o. In lh the I IL L LONDON new year 1917 Americans Americana have Ilave the tho opportunity to he truly tills happ happy for the reason rel I that t the e American constitution continues continues continues con con- to stand the tho strata strain I Americans cannot govern All i Americans confess this hits when in Huron Hu u. ron i Let et Americans feel fecI happy happ the they arca are arc out ont of it hut But a are they out u t of oC it War oar and poverty po are arc the the greatest drags rags on oft humanity They insist l on the lower life rhE They allow the greatest greatest great great- rat est cst tyranny because It Jt appears to safeguard law and order I l Fear Kear ar is the great t re enemy W Wo console con sole ourselves for all nil our blunders and I disgraces ces by lay the braver bravery o of our 1 sol sol- 01 I diers diers as as set forth Corth in ht war wat correspondence correspondence correspondence corre corre- carefully edited h by them them- selves 1 No doubt our soldiers fight fiercely enough there if is nothing new now In tn tho thu I fact that lint man Is 18 tho most dangerous of oC the animals War nr is an orgy urge of oC I crime based on oil the lie determination of or i ithe I Ithe I the soldier to stick at nothing to brin bring brine it to an end and get out of or dall daily dan danger er of oC bein being shot Every cry soldier 1 confesses this his pet paradox la ts that clemency clemene is IR mistaken kindness TO FIGHT FIGHT POVERTY But the great evil ern to fight is s pov pov- I erty By Br our failure to relieve c poverty we wearn e arc arn brigands Money loney is the most important important important im im- I thin thins thing in the lie world and all the evils e we have havo to struggle against I are duo to the tact fact that children are not taught that from their earliest years i I hear henr bishops r recommending the tho people of east st London to bo ho thrifty I THe bishops who do that commit a crime If Ie a poor man saves sa a a. single j farthing lie he heis is behaving selfishly because because be be- cause ho is saving it oft off clothing or lodging of his children and un under cr I such circumstances he lie is a scoundrel The poorer tho people the tho more important im tm- I IThe it is to spend all they have lm Our present system would work if it only people died If IC an unemployed I I Iman man could be he thrown into the street I with the Buret surety that dial he would die i shortly It would he be all right But Buthe Buthe he does not die lie lIe He becomes a factor factor fac fac- tor for drink or other outer infectious disease disease dis ds- ease case which most of us catch If Ie I were prime minister I would s start rt with very simple beginnings s and bring in a bill for the communization I of or bread This ol old idea was sot up under Elizabethan poor laws but hut people peo peo- people nowadays are too proud to take tahe advantage ge of ot it Friends of mine who I have been in prison assure me that the best bread i is baked h by the state and Uio next best is poorhouse bread There Thero would be a bl big biff rush for it at first and much waste but after a little there would be bo no waste waste neither would anyone anono go hungry as under the Ule present social system IThe I The next item itom of oC my ministerial program would be bc that a 3 town should I belong along to tho the people who lived In tn it H The Tho citizens would then build their I town for themselves without slums I IThe IThe The landlords would be he paid for their j I Iland land and tho the cost of ground rents rents rents' I removed from the overburdened tax tax- payers Then I would put a tax tar of or 62 cents In fn 5 6 on the unearned unearned un un- un earned increment and I would reduce the tax on earned Incomes to G 6 cents I In 5 6 I CANT CAN'T AFFORD OTHERWISE But to return What makes maltes the new year car a hopeful one for fol Americans The immigration that is being killed I off and the education they ma may build up The m modern dern system of education is isa isa a tremendous hypocrisy A child is isa isa isa I a savage cruel noisy Dolsy dirty inquisitive tive tIvo being Indiscreet creet to the point of telling tho the truth regardless of oC the I feelings s of others Persons who livo live with their children do so 0 because they I cannot afford to send them to board boar ing school The rue good point about boarding schools II is that they save children from the demoralizing influences influences 1 of ot the home inane Still SUII I 1 do not know a a. more ghastly spectacle than thana a number of oC children in ha having a ales ales- lesson Ics Ics- son and forced to sit Bt il it ou out All this must bo ho altered England has no money to change the tho anomalies of the present educational system but America cannot afford to do oth oth- Tho Tito teacher must be tau taught hl to as say sayto y to the Uie child chil While you OU arc are Interested stay star when you OU aro bored bore go out and play pia Teach Tench the children to rea read and write an and then lieu their education so 80 Carus far Car faras faras as us the lie school chool is conc concerned is i complete com com- pl te I learned rued practically nothing at school but look Jook nt at me Tho Thu result result re re- sult stilt 1 is eminently satisfactory My 1 wife who hail hUlt an expensive e education education uca tion comes to mo run when she wants the housekeeping books bools added up lip OUT OF FASHION The war nr goes gots on I am no store more morea a Christian than are alO you gentle gentle- I I reader yet ct after aCtor contemplating alto tho world and human nature for or almost I sixty years ears I have seen een no way WilY out I I I of the tile worlds world's misery but hut the wa way VAV which would havo o been heen fouled by hy I I ehri Christs Christ's ts t's will if it he had undertaken the lie work ork of oC a no modern practical states states- man lIlan I The moneyed respectable capable world has been sic anti Christian inn since the Christian era began The Tho mention of oC God Cod has gone out of fash fash- I ion You never hear about Go God in parliament nn and anI only occasionally Inthe in inthe inthe I the law v courts iCe I We Ce are neither r bigoted enough h to j cut each others other's throats nor religious j I enough to respect and understand ono onoe another's beliefs belles I 1 IThe The religious man is not a person who does or does not belong helon to any creed but hut a man who has a constant knowledge that he is here as us tho the Instrument instrument instrument in in- strument of the universal force Coree The main truth is that lint God has no hands but your han hands s no brains but hut I your brains for tor God is nothing but buta a will I b believe that hat the higher I power the tho almighty force we call God cannot do tho the work of or the world without without without with with- I out our help hell Hence this great benevolent lent Jent will of God has been working through evolution to get men and I women to do 10 his work worl I 1 |
