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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1928)
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He doesn’t eat them. He throws them in a hole. He is civilized. He kills hawks. A chimpanzee is our country cousin. We disown him. He is too close. A dog is a lot less human. We make a pal of him. He is not so close. —Bill Jones, ’32. The Temporary Editor cannot re frain at this point from indulging in a small private bonfire to cele brate the growing impatience of the Aggie mind with the All’s-Right- With-The-World Credo that serves as an excuse for so many Americans to refrain from realistic thinking. He humbly submits the foregoing collection of contemporary Campus verses as a Moss of Gloom of which Schopenhauer would not be ashamed,, as an exemplary obedience to Niet- zshe’s maxim “Be Hard!” and as a series of Dirty Digs which the Great Mencken himself would not despise. Perhaps, on the whole, we have the last gentleman to thank for the gen eral tone of the collection. But while after a long surfeit of Ploney in college verse, this dash of Gall and Vinegar is invigorating, we respectfully remind the Campus Bards that Hard-boiled Eggs may in time become as tiresome as Soft- boiled—that Byronic Gloom hath its monotonies no less than the unre lieved and watery sunshine of a shallow optimism. * * * THE INTELLIGENT WOMAN’S GUIDE TO SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM. By George Bernard Shaw. Reviewed by A. Paez. After six years of intense labor George Bernard Shaw has finally succeeded in compiling and pre senting before the public what he believes to be his greatest work, which he calls his “last will and 'testament.” The long title with which he baptised the book is rather misleading. Anything else that one may call that book will come closer to expressing its contents than the title “The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.” Of course anyone familiar with Shaw’s style and books may rightly guess that it is a purely ironical or sarcastic title, and that it is, and besides it is attractive enough to make the dumbest female feel the urge of buying the book and reading it, if merely for the self consolation of being considered in telligent. We certainly must give Shaw credit for knowing human na ture—yes, especially woman’s nature. What the book really is, is a compilation of Shaw’s knowledge and phisosophy on every imaginable sub ject of life, all centering about the central theme of equal distribution of income for everybody. The book is divided into eighty-four different parts. Some of these are necessarily dull and lengthy, but the brilliancy and directness of the others greatly outweighs the dullness. He opens the book in the first part saying that what we have to consider is not whether our distri bution of income shall be altered or not, but what further changes are desirable to attain a prosperous sta bility. This question, he says, re opened in the nineteenth century under the banner of Socialism, but it is one on which every one should try to form an original personal opinion without prompting to So cialism. However, thinking is neces sary in attempting to form this opinion and it is here that Shaw scores his great victory, ' for this book is absolutely the most thought- provoking book ever written. From the beginning he warns its readers “Never forget that the old law of the natural philosophers, that Na ture abhors a vacuum,—it is true of the human head.” Thus he encour ages thought throughout its many pages, a thought which is specially valuable because it is directed upon the subject of how human beings can best manage their life-in-common. As the book progresses he enum erates and later discusses each of the seven ways of distribution of wages that are at present advocated or practiced. These are: “(1) To each what he or she produces. (2) To each what he or she deserves. (3) To each what he or she can get and hold. (4) To the common people enough to keep them alive whilst they work all day, and the rest to the gentry. (5) Division of society into classes, the distribution being equal or thereabouts within each class, but uneaqual as between class es. (6) Let us go on as we are. Mr, McMurray Waxes Poetic over Tobacco Carrollton, Texas May 15, 1928 Larus & Bro. Co., Richmond, Va. Gentlemen: Having been a user of Edgeworth for over eight years, I can truthfully say that it is the best on earth. I am enclosing a little ditty that I believe expresses my sentiments entirely: Old Man Joy and Old Man Trouble Went out for a walk one day. 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