The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-19
Current Events
By T. J. O'Flaherty

ACCORDING to an editorial in the
IA New York Telegram, George
Bernard Shaw said that men without
religion are physical as we'll asNmoral
towards. In all probability, by the
time, this Shayian saying has made
the rounds of editorial pages from the
metropolis to Sauk Center, George
will emit another chuckle and dub the
trusting editorial hacks lot of
gullible saps who did not realize that
the notoriously inconsistent Celt was
kidding them.
CHAW believes no more in the Spine
y stabilizing effect of religion than
he does in the infallibility of meat
diet as health protector. Shaw is
an atheist and his favorite religion is
tickling the risibles of the litcrate
portion of humanity in return for
their coin. Shaw is consistently turn
ing political and philosophical son1cr-
saults. He is branded q, socialist and
perhaps he is, as socialism goes now
adays, but certainly not of the Marx
Engels brand.
THE wealthy dramatist, early in his
life discovered the knack of get
ting his name mentioned in public.
While engaged in the menial task of
g. dramatic critic in the kindergarten
stage of his literary career he would
attend public meetings with supply
of cards carving the legend: "Mr.
George Bernard Shaw would ike to
ask a question" Young George
would hand one of those cards to the
chairman who invariably read it out
loud before he had time to think
about the unusual publicity stunt.
The originality of this method got
Shaw his initial publicity and he has
improved his technique every year
since Not so long ago he was thoroly
hated by conservative Britain and
particularly by the orthodox clergy,
but only the type that thinks Lord
Robert Cecil is a revolutionists fears
him any more.
ONLY a few years back Shaw de-
y Tended the proletarian Dictator
ship in Russia in an article which was
published in the Labor Monthly" of
England He still remains on speak
ing terms with the Soviet Govern
ment, but he is lined up 6olidly with
the reactionary wing of the trade
unions in his hostility to the Commu-
nists. Shaw loans money to British
municipalities and insists on his in
terests. Tho he pokes fun at the
British bourgeoisie occasionally he is
an imperialist at heart and his fame
adds lustre to the empire. Shaw is
having a lot of fun, tho we often
wonder if the role of literary clown
is more spiritually invigorating now
than it was in feudal days, when the
court testers were repaid with kicks,
between goblets of mead and chunks
of pork.
lest the souls and perhaps the
IL bodies of the American Legion
naires should be polluted by contact
with certain section Of the female
population of the gay city of Paris,
prefect of police Chiappe, has cleared
the boulevards of the provocative
females who look with hungry eyes
on the patrons of the side walk tables
and the wines thereon. If we know
our gallant veterans of many a
giddy swivel-chair, the boys that
ferreted out the Germans in the
dangerous files of the department of
justice in Washington, we fear
Chiappe will have to do better if he
wants to save the immortal souls of
our puritannieal warriors from the
temptation Of "Paris Nights"
THIAPPE'S name reminds us that