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MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 1934.

SOME PENALTIES OF DEMOCRACY

A point which is often over- looked by students of world affairs is that democracy's short- comings have to be accepted along with its benefits. The in- dustrial warfare which has been causing so much trouble in the United States is a case in point. There is, quite naturally, a de- mand that some way should be found out of upheavals of this kind. Unfortunately, however, the time has yet to come when industrial strife will have be- come a thing of the past. In one sense, these periodical inter- ruptions of the normal run of life, destructive and costly they may be, are almost

as

in-

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY

| RECRUITING RUSSIA

POLITE WORDS YOU SHOULD NOT USE

"unreliable."

By ROBERT LYND

'con:

corre-

The Very Idea!

THE BUDGET EXPLAINED

By George

GETTING the new angle

of the Budget was the job deputed to us over the week-end and frankly, it proved a little beyond us.

The great thing appears to be

Through a lobbying campaign such as was never seen before at Genova, France, and other sym. pathetic nations, have succeeded in At Irregular intervals

It is difcuit-Indeed, imposelblo winning a free road for the entrytroversy arises in the Press over to any nt what point an objec- of Soviet Russia to the Lengue of the use and misuse of words. Itlonable word ceases to be objec Nations. In spite of opposition, Purists rush into print to denounce tionable and becomes adapted into not the Icast of which came from the split finitive, the use of the family of good speech. "Mob" the Vatican, and which consequent-compare-to" Instead of "compare and "cab" 'were once objected to ly created a dollcate situation out with," and that evergreen mon. Jaa vulgar abbreviations; but their side the political aspects of the strosity (as they think it) usefulness in daily speech has out-that seven million reduction 'in case, Rusela has appareatly been

weighed all objections. We have expenditure but when we asked "approved" by the fraternity of

Econ in our own time how "cinoma" a high Government official why Just at present a lively nations and her early attendance at the Council table can be anticipated, spondence is going on in which has become good English, while we are going to take this huge An understanding has been reach the modern Englishman is taken photo," a much older abbreviation, amount of grease from the cogs ed, and the charges that France to task for the barbarous way in has never been accepted such. Why? of industry he said: "The truth was attempting to evade or cir-which he mishandles his language, Perhaps because the Victorians is we are not taking it out bo- cumvent the League's Sixth Com-He is particularly censured for the were more pedantic than we.. Many cause we couldn't put it in.""

are absolutely hung up for mission, which is supposed to de- unprecedented recklesseness with of them objected oven to the abbre-dough all round, and on

which he employs nouns as

ad-viation, "lunch." Some people con- reason Wo are estimating for cide whether a country applying

Jectives,

tinue to object. I for my part will less in

phrases the for membership has the necessary luxury car" and "mystery ship." continue to write and say "lunch." credit is stopped long before we qualifications, have been forgotten: Romo's warning

As for other words that the au- reach the total we had hoped to that Russin'a It is true that nouns have been i

less to explain away. admission, against the will of employed as adjectives for cen-thorities tell us not to use, I dislike get through, we shall have so much member nations, might further ahire" is an adjective as well

turies, and correctly so. "York- most.of them myself. At the ns beginning of the century one be- undermine the prestige of the a noun, and no one can object to came impatient of such words as League, has had no effect. Per-"Yorkshire pudding" either as A "moticulous," "obsess," "intrigu- haps the suave diplomacy of M. food or as á phrase.

ing" and "arresting," partly because "But who do you think is going Litvinoff has helped to counterart

At the same time, it seems averybody used them till one was to spend seven million loss?" We opposition.

absurd to use nouns as adjectives as tired of them as of last year's asked of another official who was where good adjectives are already music-hall songs and partly because smoking a Dulken Sobranie?

were comparative "We have all got to make in existence. Why, for example, most of them has it become the almost universal newcomers to the language and sacrifices to attain the common custom in recent years to speak partly because they usually pre- good," he replied. "Even R.O, re- of the "England team" in cricket meant. The great test of the this

tended to say more than the writerwards will bo cut down and in other games? "English," and

year and many of the

WORLD REVOLUTION

་་

But there is something yet to remember. An official Russian newspaper recently said that "when the drums of the great Red Army resound and the Russian bayonets are raised, It will be the moment for the liberation of India and China and the dawn of world re- volution." Will the Soviet forget these dangerous doctrines when she accepts League membership and premises to strive for the preser- vation of Juce? WII Moscow ceano those operations overseas

·

is because

when

our

With this pessimistic forecast for 1936 he took out an Isla de Perfectos cheroot and steamed slowly away.

It was obvious we were getting a great deal nearer to the truth. "But why, are you budgetting for a two million deficit? wo queried of another offelal as he casually extracted our last Gold- flake from its case?

as short a word as "England," and correct use of words is whether the Government tenants will refrain has for centuries been recognised writer uses them vaguely and lazily from paying their rent. This will as the correct adjective. I do not or whether he means exactly what reduce our income and so we shall think anybody speaks of the he anys. The chief objection to spend less." "France team in any sport. It is many vogue-words is that they lead all very well to use a noun as anto lazy writing and so to hazy adjective when no suitable adjor-reading. tive exists, ав In "Income-tax form," but the genius of the language demands that when an This suggests that all words are adjective is already there, it good if they are used with a full should be given first choice.

sense of their meaning by a good "Well, the fact is," ho roplled, writer. A good writer can turn a "that's the only way we can get our. The misuse of nouns, however, neologiam or a slang phrase into hand on the Colony's surplus funds. is not the only sin against the good English. Not that good While they are being hoarded up language imputed to the modern writers always write perfect Eng- they remain a temptation to every which have been exlculated to stir Englishman. He la also accused Ish. Is it not from their works up revolt among the workers of the of introducing all kinds of woolly that most of the examples of bad up a constant storage account. un-Sovietized world? Unless she and useless novelties into the grammar are taken against which While we're spending it we know it's there and when it's gone we does, her attendance at Geneva language that shock the eye and the grammarians warn us?

ear. He has recently, for example,

know we've had it. That's our will provide a most

At the same time, there is a polley.""" ridiculous taken enthusiastically to using such anomaly, and do more harm than adjectives as "carefree,

""worth-

general consensus of opinion about the

Following which inspired disser while" and "colourful." good..

words that are Reviewers

good English

We may the Bank and withdrew, our last tation on high financé we ran to` and a "worthwhile book." It may dislike of cope with. We $30 speak of a "colourful narrative" and those that are not.

not all agree with Lord Oxford in bo argued that the fact that thou- sands of people have adopted these words into their speech is a proof that they were needed. I doubt this, however.

MINORITIES PROBLEM

The constant use or misuse of a

but

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enterprising mind besides running

We weren't going to be stung for storage.charge anyway.

•

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES. By Juliet Lowell. Sign On The Red Line. Harry Elmer Barnes Dear Mr. Barnes: World-Telegramme

levitable where democratic ideas Poland is bound to work with other in speaking of the British would agree as to whether a word join the Communistic party when

altered

re-

Lucy Blue.

(signed)

8-13

may not share the traditional anti- to food, though to me, I confess, it pathy to "partake of" in reference Poland has announced that she

is an object of dialike. We may feel will no longer co-operate with

that those who wish to expel "re- International bodies in the protec

liable" from the English language tion of minority populations, and

on the ground that It is an illegiti the weight of world opinion, or at word does not inevitably hall-mark mately formed word are over-zeal- least, of the Great Powers, is it as good English. The word "in- of the clergyman's objection to the ous. Wa may fail to see the point against her. Baron Aloisi of Italy dividual has been misused as a dreadful word amenities, "

My child sucks a red has pointed out that while there noun for generations,

ribbon and reaches for her Daddy's is-a-possibility of the revision of long custom justifies a writer to 90 words out of 100, most writers one. Does this mean that she will authority on English would say that! At the same time, in regard to necktie whenever he wears a red the Treaty of Versailles, by which

agriculaturlat as "this long-suffer is good English or not. I do not she grows up? hold sway. The facts are better signatories for the welfare of the ing individual"--an example quoted suppose that Dickens wan conscious- realised when we look abroad to minorities, revision can only be by Fowler. Great writers misused ly a purist, but even so scrupulous other countries. Russia has no accomplished by legal methods and the word freely in the nineteenth a stylist as Mrs. Meynell was able century, but good writers seldom do to discover in his novels only two strikes because there is not, existing arrangements must be now.

words which he habitually misused. strictly speaking, anyone for the respected until they are

"Phenomenal" and "phenomen sho

Unfortunately, If I remember right, workers to strike against except with the approval of all. eally used in the wrong sense, nre were. did not tell us what they might have found an analogy with sturdy survivors of years of de- themselves. Technically, at

which Chinn is familiar, namely, nunciation. Everybody is agreed The fact 归 all good least, they own the country the Extraterritoriality agreements, that to write "phenomenal," mean-writers write in obedience to a They cannot have a dispute with Though China may wish to end ng "romarkable" or "exceptional," tradition while, at the same time, the management because they them, she cannot do so without the entirely unnecessary abuse, since I hope few of them will take the is an abuse of language, oad an taking libarties with it. Even so, are the management. That is consent of other Powers who are there are so many alternatives; liberty of giving "worthwhile" and one way to make strikes impos- joint signatories. Reform cannot be but nearly everybody goes on writ-"colourful" a permanent place in sible to liquidate the employ-brought about by unilateral actioning it.

the English language. ing class. Italy is another land where international' agreements in which strikes are unknown. are concerned, any more than the The Italian worker cannot strike make his contract null and void party of any legal undertaking can

because, if he does, he strikes by refusing to conform. There is against a Government which international machinery for

vision in Huch matters, just as will have no hesitation in coming there is in civil law. The rules of down on him. He is really a the game must be observed; and there In 2 cog in a machine, and in that for infringement

penalty. capacity he takes what is handed him-and likes it. That is an- other way to prevent strikes-WAR ON CRIME to liquidate the labour move- ment. Under

America's war a democracy,

04 crime, the neither of these solutions is pos- authorities' campaign to stamp out federal and state and municipal"

sible. There must remain, then, big business racketeering, has been an amount of freedom within brought to what some people de

clare is a successful conclusion. which either the employer or the Diamond, Capone, Detroit'e Purple worker can, if he feels justified,Gang, Egan's Rats of St. Louis, indulge in industrial war; and million dollar organisations, all of there is no way of making this debris, the little gunmen, left; and thom, are gone. There is only the impossible except by sliding off they are not a major menace. in the direction of either Fascism There remains, however, anothor or Communism which, of machine-guns, and sawed-off shot- to be fought, not with course, means abandoning demo- guns in back streets and speak- cracy. These thoughts reveal and strategic contest in which some easles, but a shrewdly calculated the kind of deep water we get of the sharpeat legal wits will be into when we talk about making pitted against each other. Tho strikes impossible. The strike-federal government has decided it Is time to attack the unscrupulous lese millennium will have to wait attorneys who keep criminals nut until the whole industrial field of prison, and will work to purga is pervaded by the justice, the nive at and abot illegal acts. Whon the country of lawyers who con- public spirit and the sense of they have boon removed, America responsibility which are, ́ulti-wili bo able to boast that It has crushed the gangster; but at the mately, democracy's greatest moment it is much too early for safeguards.

complacency.

battlo

HOU

COLD

"Well, Fil bo hangod! Martha, hore's a man who has relatives

· Kving. In our part of the country”?

My child sucka a red ribbon and reaches for her Daddy's necktie whenever he wears a red one.

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Radio Station Hongkong.

Dear Jack Berger:.|

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