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III.
A bluejay is an outlaw. He kills
unborn birds. Man is civilized.
He criples unborn men.
A hawk is cruel. He kills other
birds and eats them. He must live.
Man is civilzed. He kills other
men. 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.
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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
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Carrollton, Texas
May 15, 1928
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