| Show I Bernard Advocates Burying Alive in in Politics 10 Letter tr Special Correspondence ONDON Feb r leb has bu announced hi his Intention or of L attending the or of the I Labor bor party larty to be iMd hd at Ports Port Portsmouth mouth shortly and ond this I it i 15 th the great and perceive nit to lal candidate O Ct B M 4 all as K II political I It h has Ion long batol been mo more than a which h has lver never ben been that th author h has desIgns oa 05 pr par parliament sad and if he pta gets In Saw with lament I M 14 p behInd hi his magic loiters Ihl a literally mor more wi will enter upon book novel Idd field ot of activity than writing itself Many ur of hl his opponents art already ahead speaking slightingly of 01 hi his In polItics nd some hv have Ind descended to spelling hil hIs name aam tn cv 0 I refusing to take hil his an seriously but bul therl there can can b be little doubt that thai he be I Is this time at atIt least In almost deadly It In a recent W on this Ib pub Joel t said ald The London p press have law consistently ignored Or my political although they readily print ed ad an any reference to Ib Shakespeare pr serious critIcism which uttered u as Into became transformed somehow gro and stupidity Iru Please do not that I complain ot of this suppression I It I of 01 the Ireal great Fabian so 0 service tO the cit t poble re tt CiEt ply Thank to I it our nur operations a aner ar never ner by th the enemy nUI WI we carried tUI tt ro b by which less les time opposition to u UI 1 IS hopt hopS VIEWS ON It might b be mentone mentioned with ref refer referenCe ence to Mr Shaws I hail remark ma that the themselves u as being the elte elite lf of the Iba alIM movement In England H O Cl wu Wa Ion long associated NIta wih with them Ihm and nd no non that thai WellS hu has resigned na Bernard t is their lerry literary leder leader What Whatever ever h has been done toward cuing In the mu masses In England through tractS and nd by propaganda I is claimed by the to hv have had hadI Its origin with them though of course I this thle 1 is challenged it Bernard by other 1 gets e Into Parliament one of 01 hi his lInt tasks wi will b be to 10 the HuM of Commons Common which b by the way is III an undertaking which nobody but Shaw b would tk tickle I I HI methods of 01 accomplishing th this able ble object would be unique It not pe pecullar Iular cullar for Shaw holds tr trang vIews vIew on For Por h ho recently gave hi views view 01 on politic In general onel a as follows follow It I is a thing that man mankind kind I ii WI sUll en to 10 politics that It Iannot cannot be m made to tad aron aronI strong I on public without th the as of 01 some om stupendous c calam calamity Iy ity I 1 think w we might take a len lemen from Africa In this respect When an African kin king wn wants to 10 hi be seriously at attended to hE buries a large lare number of people alve alive under the foundation of hi his palace not because h he wants ant to bur bury people alv alIve but because no nobody hod body will 1 listen to 10 him I ir he does not notI I suggest t that I If a careful selection of th the proper people 1 was me mad ad adI and I there was a large burying alive every three o or four yn year wold would become ome quite an n intelligent country The e nol ry Ihal hock e came m to u us continued Shaw with It the South African cn can war ar alter after the appalling and socialist slump of th the nineties T The wr war was our burying alve alive Just Justas I as the earthquake In San n Francisco was U a alv alive tr there to 10 an all end the munIcipal years which r had ben been placidly Iad J tolerated for forr Or Of course ou Mr r Shaw hw 4 does not on th the fat fact that litany n or of h his own op opponents would welcome among mon th the advantages of the buril burial aUve lve scheme the interment or of 0 B d hi himself and if hi his politics included the of 01 a removal uh such it hI he suggest h might I a It Were rl its w hoist with hI his oln own pt petard or lit al I I hurled hurle Ih In the hole 1 It C till Io lak make th lb t liNt Shew I is aul I ti wake things lp ii ii III 1111 iiiI Ih I tie orld wl will I he expected to take due nol kc WIH WITH MAIT MART What Whal bOM do folks II in Lol Lou Loudon don read III I a question In Which a a humber ot of th ar at present deeply IIII interested III I It Im I b be mr inor or I lea recognised that lions Uon ot of lOoks are arc often around Ih tho of 01 London Wet Waist End rh Pho Ill chatter at 1 a swell dinner mi non vital I it matr matter or of thousand of f ali gales t an I tho there whO who works work ar are ii condemned over the 1111 H el nuts Raymond hl in ben been investigating this I II subject by means mean or of as interview lb oaf ine or of the beat t Informed I Iii Mr Humph ue C Ih I lie manager maner of famine and historical hok bop In Piccadilly Which used t to be the resort on of nt RH Re and nd ald tone In the early dy days amid t stIll wield a powerful In oVer Or the choice of 01 th the I End In the mater matter of bk books SOME E IA FAVORITES Mr Humphrey Humphr opinion I as to 10 what bob are popular with lh lh lish smart nt act is Ie worth quoting Novel Novelists come I first said I h both with men and nd women Hichens K E 1 F Mary Maurice Anthony Hitie Coa Do V V Jacob JHk london Lucas La MI Miss A U D Elinar m I these are rf thO the favorite novelists But Bul then he continued many sti ety clety people ople In their reading Psychic literature nowadays I is fully uly Ien 1 so John llen bu ha ha had a great Vo vogue a 11 a hn hiis F W t 1 Pastern stories which naturally deal with lh tho spiritual phase lt of human existence Arthur Machens achen bok books ar arvery r very popular The CitI of 1 Buddha though anonymous displayed great reat merit which immediately aUt attracted Ibl the agile ln and alert mind of modern modem so society 0 Fielding iII hail Inward tIght LII alt also la is popular You will that an enormous number ot of oun oung I 50 clety women and d girls Ir are r ken keen rd read era en of Walter Ier Paler Iter R H L I Steven Stevenson son lion and George Merith Merdith the hatter of nt whom hom is their high priest They e ar are also Ia keenly alive lve to Sir Olver OlIver Lodges excursions Into Ue the other world and Nature or of Man As t tt poetry Browning Sal Id have subsided and nd Hott aur ur dye Iv and aad Lawrnce Hope Eastern baUa are very PoPular HUMOR POPULAR No bk book of genuine humorous In I Is ever by ThOe Those of Martin Ro Roses and 1011 Miss Edith SomervIlle merle are arl always Iway popular ac H Halan arc alan lo J B V L 11 amid Mr f r I Ile I a Icy le An American book which ta somewhat ot of a hi hit II iii JI j i inow now I Th The Red Rd City 11 In V Mitchell Mn Many critical lulI are r giving this bk book ms mo II I commendatIons One or of Ih IhNot Not one of Ii I i Re lied City I is tam tame or iulI while the wonderful f 9 the Pu plague whIch ravaged th U i ii ut of the Ibe ch chase between two sin I I Ithe Ih the mystery of sums lOl lost 1 ii i ira are ra Positively thrilling that this Is Ie a an b j n with lb the city of Peon In ii I Washington It Is quie quit UI fluid I it receiving so 0 j i ilion lion II E England Ind CARLES CHARLES |
