The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-10

pie use profanity and none of them
are very good.
d. Irritation.
Q. Habit.
8. To add emphasis to language.
A. Moral depravity.
A man should be too well balanced
to allow himself to become petuIant
and irritated in public to the point
that he would use profane language.
"A more common reason or rather
cause for there is no reason" In any
case, Is that OF habit. Men form the
habit of using swear" words with
out ever thinking what the purpose
is.. There are some places where
they swear worse than in others.
Over in Newark they make a busi-
ness Of it, but then just look where
the Molders are in the percentage
column. We are somewhat suspi-
cious that q little of the same may
have been INDUCED in here IN Ma
rion rel emily on similar prowocation.
The notion that profanity adds en-
phasis to language is found on analy-
sis to he incorrect and a delusion.
AS matter of fact it weakens Ian
guage. Language to be strong must
be sententious. Expression should
be crystallized thought. The more
clearly and sententiously one can
express himself, the greater will be
the forcd of his words. Our most
thoughtful and best educated men
use neither expletives nor profanity.
They exclude all irrelevant words
and phrases both in their conversa-
ton and writing. If such a man in
tends to bring suit at law against
his neighbor he doesn't say
We'll, by c., dontherknow, / in
tend to sue Bill Smith, you know,
c. d him
He merely says,
Il intend to sue William Smith"
That is stronger than the above
and also more dignified. The man
who says 1t that way is also more
likely to bring the suit. Lawyers say
that the man who comes cussing and
snorting about his neighbor seldom
brings a suit and makes poor cli-
ent when he does. The modern at
tempt OF people to be considerate
and complimentary presuming that
you know what they intend to tell
you, or a portion of 1t, is almost as
bad as profanity, and 1t may require
some profanity yet to cure 1t on "the
hair of the dog is good for the bite
theory. 1t is a frequent occurrence
that one interlards his remarks 1--WE
notice ladies never, or hardly ever,
offend in this partirulaD with such
complimentary expressions as "See?"
''Sabe?" you ketch on?" You
know "Doncherknow" and similar
felicitious and translucent inter.arda-
tons. The effect or these useless,
expletive phrases is the same as that
of profanity so far as strengthening
language Is concerned but they are
not quite so wicked-not quite. But
they weaken expression just as much.
Such expressions seem to he the re-
suit OF an overwhelming desire to
be pleasant and complimentary. Put
into print they would make language
h.deous. Suppose We should write:
''The tornado, you know, struck the
town OF Yellville, doncherknow, yes
terday. and whipped 1t into shavings,
you know"
The fourth objection TO the use OF
cuss words, moral depravity, is, aft
er all, the chief one. II man be-
longs TO that class he shouldn't de-
sire to advertise 1t.
But what we intended to call at
tention TO, in this article, Is the no
tion that man has the legal right
to swear little "if the home team is
losing" That was established at Sa-
vannah, Georgia, Monday, as the fol-
lowing dispatch shows:
Savannah, Ca, June 8.-'ISwearing
when the Savannah baseball team Is
losing is entirely justiiable," said
Recorder 81 ahwarz yesterday in dis
missing John Brown, business man
arrested at the ball park for cursing
where women could hear him.
Brown, when arrested, admitted
that he had INDUCED in some profan-
ity, but said he couldn't help It, as