The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-19
Bernard Shaw ROdSts the Press
Dramatist, with Usual Courag Raps London Papers for
Their Snobbishness-Goss from Old London.

Especial Cable from the International /
News Service-)
London, June 1S.-George Bernard |
Shaw. with his usual courage, Is the |
only man in all England who has dar- |
ed raise his voice against the almost |
incredible snobbishness the Eng |
lish press on the occasion of the re-
cent death of King Edward, which
was almost too much for royalty it.
self.
In an article ON the late king in
which Shaw says that Edward was
popular because he was more Of a
man than a king, he writes:
You cannot make man king and
then know anything about him. The
divinity that hedges a king is, in the
last analysis, a general agreement to
pretend that he is what no man ever
yet was; and just man made perfect.
A king, in short, is an idol: that is
why | am a republican. l know as
we'll as anyone that if you have an idol
you had better have disputes about
the succession by having the post
hereditary instead of elective.
But why should any human being
be made a political convenience of to
this extent? Has not the king an indie
feasible right to be man, and not
an idol? Why should Queen Mary. the
proud mother of five strong sons. be
forced to bring them up to decay
ing trade and an unhappy lot?
! Let the coronation be at Stone
London with it's mighty traffic, is no
longer a place where pageants can be
tolerated The propaganda of roy
alism, which is the purpose of these
pageants, need not suffer; far more
people will see them on Salisbury
Plain than can be wedged behind the
troops in Piccadilly; and the cinema
tograph will work all the better in the
open.
OF the many schemes to recover hid
den treasure from the sea one of the
--latest is that just formed for the pur-
pose of salving some of the numerous
wrecks that lie round the South At
rican coast. A company has been
promoted with the idea not of en-
gaging itself in mere treasure hunt
ing" but of recovering the contents
of wrecks already located, and in
many instances surveyed.
A start will be made soon with q
suitable steamer fully equipped with
all the necessary diving and salvage
apparatus The expedition will depart
under the superintendent of we'll
known salvage expert, Captain Chas
Gardiner, who will begin by directing
operations at spot where British
transport went down with metals ant
specie valued at over $4,000, 900
: Captain Gardiner selected list of 10
of the more accessible wrecks aftel
searching the archives of Cape Col
l ony. and has succeeded in locating
80 of them.
For twenty-five years Captain Gar
diner has led the sea life full of dar
ing and romance.
MY adventures began with the Am
erican Salvage company, operating il
4 salvage work in China, Australia
South Africa, North and South Amer
lea. l remember once 1 was gropin
my way inside a sunken vessel, try
: ing to get the cargo out of the hol
when a heavy so foot beam fell RICH
|. across my airpipe and life lines. l Gu
). the life lines and severed the air-pipe
i holding the end between my finger
after allowing my diving suit to fl
q. with the exhaust air when, of course
=. II rose to the surface. I was in tina
perilous position for about ten mir
utes.
II Il have met many sharks at the bo
tom of the sea, but l have Away
: found them harmless if left alone.
have stood and watched 1s-foot blu
r man eaters off Africa and Australi
+ pass me at distance Of three or fou
h yards.
g I'm all my experience l have know
q only one diver to be attacked, an
: that was his own fault. He hit tn
r. fish with a crowbar. have worked b
a electric light with school of II {
:. IA sharks glazing at me but they hav
: never harmed me.
: AN octopus is quite different. H
r will always attack you. l speak frol
4 experience, although the particuls
\, fellows / have encountered were cor
paratively small, measuring eac
about seven feet across, with thre
foot tentacles. My advice to ma