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NOTES OF THE DAY

RECRUITING RUSSIA

KAZALEATS WORLD 'REVOLUTION

the

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 1934,

POLITE WORDS YOU SHOULD NOT USE

"unreliable."

48

By ROBERT LYND

phrases

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Many

The Very Idea!

THE BUDGET- EXPLAINED

By George ETTING the new angle of the Budget was the job deputed to us over the

less to explain away.

our

With this pessimistic forecast for 1935 he took out an Isla de Perfectos cheroot and steamed slowly nway.

"But who do you think is going

wlit be cut down test of the this year and many of tho Government tenants will refrain from paying their rent. This will reduce our income and ao we shall spend less."

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

Through a lobbying campaign Buch as was never seen.bofore at Geneva, France, and other sym- pathetic nations, have succeeded in

At Irregular intervals a con- It is difcult-indeed, impossiblo winning a free road for the entry troversy arises in the Press over to say at what point an objec of Soviet Russia to the League of the use and miaune of words. tionable word ceases to be objec- Nations. In spite of opposition, Purists rush into print to denounce tionable and becomes adopted into not the least of which came from the split infinitive, the use of the family of good speech, "Mob" Week-end and frankly, it the Vatican, and which consequent compare to" Instead of "compare and cab" were once objected to proved a little beyond us. ly created a delicate situation out-with." and that evergreen monak vulgar abbreviations; but their The great thing appears to be side the political aspects of the strosity (a they think it usefulness in dally speech has out-that, seven million reduction in ense, Russia has apparently been

wolghed all objections. We have expenditure but when we asked "approved" by the fraternity of nations and her early attendance at

seen in our own time how "cinema 4 high Government offcial why Just at present a lively corre- 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 takenphoto," 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 eir

which he mishandles his language, Perhaps because the Victorians we are not taking it out be-

cause we couldn't put it in." cumvent the League's Sixth Cant-He is particularly censured for the were more pedantic than we.

"We are absolutely hung up for mission, which is supposed to de- unprecedented reckiemeness with of them objected even to the abbre dough all round and the only

as ad- vintion, "lunch." Some people con-

reason WO cide whether a country, applying which he employs nouns

are estimating for tinue to object. 1 for my part will less jectives, as in the

Is because when for membership has the necessary qualifications, have been forgotten."luxury car" and "mystery-ship." continue to write and any "lunch." credit is stopped long before we reach the total we had hoped to As for other words that the au- get through, we shall have so much Rome's warning that Russia's It is true that nouns have been admission, against the will of employed as adjectives for cen-thorities tell us not to use, I dislike member nations. might furtheruries, and correctly 80, "York-most of them myself. At the undermine the prestige of the shire" is an adjective as well as beginning of the century one be- a noun, and no one can object to came impatient of such words as League, has had no effect.. Per "Yorkshire pudding" either as

"Intrigu "meticulous," "obsess." baps the guave diplomacy of M. food or as a phrase.

Ing" and "arresting," partly because Litvinoff ins helped to counteract

At the anmetime, It seems everybody used them till one was to spend seven million lesa?" We opposition.

absurd to so 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 beenage smoking a Balkan Sobranie? in existence. Why, for example, most of them were comparative "We have all got to mako has it become the almost universai 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- But there is something yet to

of the "England team" in cricket tended to say more than the writer wards and in other games? "English," and meant. The great remember. An official Anusian

as shurt a word as "England," and correct use of words is whether the newspaper recently said that "when has for centuries been recognised writer uses them vaguely and lazily the drums of the great Red Army as the correct adjective. I do not or whether he means exactly what think anybody speaks of the he says. The chief objection to resound and the Russian bayonets "France team" in any sport. It is many vogue-worda. Is that they lend jare raised, It will be the moment

all very well to use a noun an auto lazy, writing and so to hazy for the liberation

of India and adjective when no suitable adjec- rending. China and the dawn of world re- tive exists, in "income-tax volution." Will the Soviet forget form." but the genius of the language demands that when an

This suggests that all words are SOME PENALTIES

these dangerous doctrines when she adjective is already there, it good if they are used with a full accepts League membership and should be given first choice.

sense of their meaning by a good "Woll, the fact is," he replied. OF DEMOCRACY

promises to strive for the preser-

writer. A good writer can turn a "that's the only way we can get our vation of

The misuse of nouns, however, neologism or a sinng phrase into hand on the Colony's surplus funds. Dence? Will Moscow is not the only sin against the good English. Not that good While they are being hoarded up A point which is often over-cense those operations overseas language imputed to the modern writers always write perfect Eng- they remain a temptation to every looked by students of world which have been calculated to stir Englishman. He is also accused lish. Is it not from their works enterprising mind besides running 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. affairs is that democracy's short-un-Sevletized world? Unless she and useless novelties into the grammar are taken against which While we're spending it we know comings have to be accepted does, her attendance at Geneva Innguage that shock the eye and the grammarians warn us? it's there and when It's gone we along with its benefits. The in-will provide a moat

He has recently, for example,

know we've had it. That's our ridiculous taken enthusiastically to such

At the same time, there is a dustrial warfare which has been anomaly and do more harm than adjectives us refr to using arth general consensus of opinion about low

good English tation on high finance we ran to Following which inspired disser- causing so much trouble in the good.

while" and "colourful." Reviewers the words that are United States is a case in point.

speak of a "colourful narrative" and those that are not. and a "worthwhile book" It may his dislike of "cope

not all agree with Lord Oxford in the Bank and withdrew our laat There is, quite naturally, a de-.

with. We $30. be argued that the fact that thou-

We weren't going to be stung mand that some way should be

sands of people have adopted these may not share the traditional anti-

for storage charge anyway. words into their speech is

pathy to "partake of" in reference found out of upheavals of this

A proof Poland has announced that she that they were

It to food, though to me, I confess, needed. I doubt is an object of dislike. We may feel. kind. Unfortunately, however, will no longer co-operate with this, however.

that those who wish to expel "re- the time has yet to come when international bodies in the protec-i

liable from the English langunge industrial strife will have be-tion of minority populations, and

The constant use or misuse of a

on the ground that it is an illegiti- a thing of the past. In the weight of world opinion, or at word does not inevitably hall-mark mately formed word are over-zeal one sense, these periodical inter- least, of the Great Powers. is it as good English. The word "in of the clergyman's objection to the oue. We may fail to see the point Baron Aloisi of Italy dividual" has been misused as a dreadful word 'amenities." " ruptions of the normal run of against her.

My child sucks a red for generations, but no

ribbon and teaches for her Daddy's life, destructive and costly as has pointed out that while there noun

Is a possibility of the revision of long custom justifies a writer to- 99 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 they may be, are almost in-

the Treaty of Versailles, by which day in speaking of the British would agree as to whether a word join the Communistic party when evitable where democratic ideas Poland is bound to work with other agriculaturist 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 was conscious. realised when we look abroad to minorities, revision can only be by Fowler. Great writers misusedly a purist, but oven su scrupulous other countries. Russin 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 he

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

Unfortunately, if I remember right, workers to strike against except with the approval of all. He ally." used in the wrong sense, are were.

"Phenomenal" and "phenomen-she did not tell us what they themselves. Technically, at might have found an analogy with sturdy survivors of years of de-

which China Is familiar, namely, nunciation. Everybody is agreed The fact least, they

le, own the country.

good 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 ending "remarkable" or "exceptional," tradition while, at the same time. the management because they them, she cannot do so without the entirely unnecessary

is an abuse of language, and antaking liberties with it. Even so, are the management. That is consent of other Powers who are there are so

abuse, since hope few of them will take the 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

come

MINORITIES PROBLEM

in which strikes are unknown. are concerned, any more than the The Italian worker cannot strike make his contract null and voli party of any leghi undertaking can

because; if he does, he strikes by refusing to conform. There is against a Government which international machinery for rt- will have no hesitation in coming there is in civil law.

vision in such matters, just on The rules of down on him. He is really a the game must be observed; and

infringement cog in a machine, and in that for

there is A penally... 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 democracy, America's war on crime, the neither of these solutions la pos- authorities' campaign to stamp out federal and state and municipal

sible. There must remain, then, big business racketeering, has been Jan amount of freedom within brought to what some people de- which either the employer or the care is a successful conclusion. Diamond, Capone, Detroit's Furpla worker can, if he feels justified, Gang, Egan's Rute of St. Louis, indulge in industrial war; and

million dollar organisation, all of thom, are gone. There is only the there is no way of making this debris, the little gunmen, left; and impossible except by sliding off they are not 0 major menace, in the direction of either Fascism There remains, however, another battle to be fought, not with [ør. Communism which, of machine-guns, and sawed-off shot-. course, means abandoning demo-guns in back streets and speak- cracy. These thoughts reveal asics, but a shrewdly calculated und strategic contest in which some the kind of deep water we get of the sharpest legal wits will be into when we talk about making pitted against each other. The strikes impossible. The strike-la time to attack the unscrupulous federal government has decided it less millennium will have to wait attorneys who koop criminals aut until the whole industrial field of prison; and will work, to purgo is pervaded by the justice, the the country of lawyers who con

nive at

and abet illegal acts. When public spirit and the sense of they have been removed, America responsibility which are, ulti-will be able to boast that it has mately, democracy's greatest moment it is much too early, for crushed the gangster but at the Isafeguards.

complacency.

CAT.

now.

(OLD DURY

HOT

all

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

Lucy Blue,

(signed)

8-15

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

SOME Instrument! Jack Berger

Radio Station Hongkong.

Dear Jack Berger:

I have invented an in- strument that makes sounds like a saxophone only it is small like a harmonien and it looks like a violin. You blow it with your Even if you have a cold it sounds pretty good. How much is it worth to you?

Hopefully yours,

Charles Tryall.

(signed)

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