The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-09-14
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1927


JIS' BLUE
Js' blue, God,
js' blue.
Amt prayin' exactly jis' now
tear blind, l guess,
CANT my way through.
You know those things
asst for many times
maybe hadn't orter repeated like the Phar-
isees do;
but amt stood in no market-place,
it's JUS tween me and you.
And You said, CAST" = =
somehow amt astin' now,
and hardly know whut to do. ~.
Hope jis' sorter left, but Faiths still here
Faith amt gone, too. =
1 know how 'tis-a thousand years
is as single day with you.
and I amt doubtn' you.
But amt prayin tonight, God
jis blue.
Eta BALDWIN Oldham in the Forum.
ED HOWE, BERNARD SHAW AND AN OLD,
OLD QUESTION.
r. W. Howe, by way of being indignant and
II informative, puts down a foolishness
- Bernard Shaw's recent statement that ev-
cry person earning less than $4,000 year should
be put to DEATH
But can't Mr.. Shaw be indignant and in
formative, too, without being called foolish? His
statement is not foolish since its purpose was to
challenge attention to certain social defects in
our civilization, which is exactly what Mr. Howe
does in his own way (which is not different
from Mr.. Shaw's), every month in the year and
charges only 25 cents year, or 81 for five years
for doing it.
Mr.. Howes teaching, if we have not mis-
read it, is that this social and industrial civiliza-
ton of is pretty grand affair, and that any
person who can't be happy and prosperous under
it is somehow defective. He is either idle or
dishonest an idiot.
Mr. Shaw is not quite so we'll satisfied with
it. Civilization has fixed certain standards of
living and of life that all its human products
have to come up to be counted out of the
race. AS it happens these standards SO
high as to be out of the reach of great many
people who may nevertheless want to drag along
in the game and may not be wholly without as
pirations to get something out of it. 1t is poss-
ible Mr.. Shaw recognizes that if to ac-
cept civilization and it's standards we can have
no possible use in the scheme for people who
cannot participate in its benefits.
This Irishman has to the conclusion
that no person with income of less than 5000
a year can stay in the game with any usefulness
to himself or others, can share in the benefits
II
realize any human aspirations under it. That
being the case, Mr.. Shaw can see no logical con-
clusion than that every person who hasn't the
price to take chips in the game should be denied
4 seat at the table. If civilization is, to pur-
sue the figure trifle further, $4,000 game,
then its objects would be greatly advanced and
much impedimenta swept from the scene of its
action, if everybody without $4,000 stake to
shove in should be killed off.
The difference between Mr.. Howe and Mr.;
Shaw is that the former thinks everybody who is
ut all deserving can share in the benefits of
civilization, while the latter thinks only those
who have at least $4,000 can get a peep in. We
will not assume to decide between these two
views To the holder of each the other may
appear foolish, but the bearings of the dispute
are too wide, we fear, and have engaged too
many great intellects too many thousands Of
years. to admit of this simple disposition of the
question involved. For after all it is the old
question as to whether wide diffusion of social
benefits is possible under any system of society
the world has known, or whether that result is
only possible under new one yet to be devised
Having brought the issue between Mr.. Howe
and Mr.. Shaw up to this point, will STEP
aside and allow them to carry it the rest of the
way if they think of any place to take it
Maybe they can-they're both smart.-Kansas
City Star.