Judge — April 7, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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» Editor, Norman Anthony Usque Ad Nauseam ions. ie country is sick and tired of Senatorial inves- tig: They are political and serve no good purpose.” These words, hot from the pen of a Republican National Committeeman, have an casy, familiar sound. ‘They made a good line four years ago. They got across then, Will they get across again? The oil scandals, black as they were, barely made a smudge on the Republic seutcheon in 1924. The party was saved from disgrace partly by adroit poli ties and Coolidge luck, but chiefly by the habit of ho-humming. voters’ Campaigns are waged by blinking the real issues and hollering about false issues, by double-crossing, flimflamming and snig gling. It has been pointed out that such stuff as was squeezed from Hays the Holy on the stand in Wash- ington would have caused the fall of any British government. But “throw the rascals out” is a feeb n when most of the public has an idea that an other batch of rascals is waiting just behind the ballot-box. It may be doubted, therefore, whether the noble work of Senator Walsh is going to help the Demo- crats much. What it may do is to boost the cause of mugwumpery. It ought to shock large numbers of ns into the resolve to be forever independent, ve no more to do with 4 rties, machines and campaign funds, to put no more trust in party plat- forms, pledges or palaver, and to vote always for individual candidates on the basis of individual ree ords, characters and abilities, having faith that the strong inan once in office will rise above his party. Slang and the Saxophone lexicographer, a saxophone, in that both scrve to express every mood of the human heart, from the most free to the most tense. D" Frank Ho Vigerecoy, the says that slang is like He explains slang as “a direct product of the spontaneous com bustion of the emotions." Slang is virile and snappy. Yet, he s, “the redundance of unauthorized words and bizarre expressions frequently proves a source of unutterable annoyance and vexation.” In these com ments the good doctor is not as felicitous as he usually is in the choice of his own words, and therefore does not make a very good showing for pure English as st slang. Still, when he says “redundane we're with him, Slang is almost our favorite part of Associate Editors, Richard J. Walsh, Phil Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan speech, We like to hear it, and we like to use it when we're not inhibited by the presence of experts who know newer slang than we do. But the virtue of Redundance is vexation indeed. slang is variet The youth or maiden whose line includes one slang noun, one slang verb and one slang adjective, and who with this meag equipment ranges in one sittir tenderness, mirth, hope, faith, love, philosophic truth and sudden thirst, is like a saxophonist trying to play Stravinsky on three notes Everybody should have at Teast ten) slang words handy. N word more than once every thirty seconds. And through joy, rage, ndy should be allowed to repeat the same weekly changes of the entire slang vocabulary are Perhaps there's a fortune in this ic for some correspondence school, advised. * * * H“ shimmer through the springtime haze as the base Good resolutions all season epens cague at least, Shorter 1, No more: stalling in the Americ bt the example have been made, and no ¢ will spread. and snappicr games is the ic will be permitted. The pitcher will have just twenty sceonds to get his signals, wind up and deliver the ball. The batter will not be allowed to step out of the box just to tease the pitcher. balls cannot be tossed around the infield to rub the shine off. Resin will be supplied upon request from a vanity case carried by the umpire, so that the pitcher won't waste time getting a secret dose from under his visor. These and other reforms, it is hoped, will enable all fans to get home in time for dinner, Just to read of them makes us wish once more that the valuable institution of an umpire could be intro duced into golf. No. 16 B and girls in South Carolina have to go to school only four months in the year. They can quit at fourteen and go to work ten hours a day in and in any other more hours as Younger Generation Notes. nills, mines and messenger servic sort of job they can work as im, they like. The country over, somewhere between half a million and tildren under sixteen are busy at ul occupations.” Obviously the entire Generation is not dancing, motoring, necking Here's to Child 1 million ind ginning from morning to night. Labor—the bulwark of morality! Rod i. comicbooks.com