The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-01-14

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IM | English and American republic of letters is "camouhage" 1t
NEyyAn is possible that dictionaries of the future, will list and define
H4a3@74A "Bolshevikf' and it's derivatives; but unless the unspeakable
USN thing which it means lives, it will be cassed as rare "obso-
NGNYSN lee" or formerly applied" There are other "a words now
49, general use, but they are specific, and when the thing they
describe ceases to be, the vocables will pass ut Of The common language.
(s W e nw us f1, ."Iooverize" eve thrift" Tin the special ar sense),
are but occasional; mere echoes-o O the event that will die with the thunder
of the guns and the shouting of the captains.
"Camouhage" however. will live because it has a use aside from It's
original application. 1t is an expressive term from the French and conveys
a score of meanings that could OF D. oherwlse aecuraoeN mueaeu, no
general ense is that of deception, but the kind of deception is subtly differ
ent from that which is universally practiced; IS the word graft "a a
meaning all it's W and entirely distinct from such cognate words as de
fraud" "swindle" "rook," blk" pluck" o the legal phrase obtain by
false pretense" The Cupreme Court of California has "legaized' the verb
form of the word in a peculiarly adjecdva1 connection by declaring n a
recent decision that 1.-The action of plaintiffs attorney discloses the
fact that he was knowingly engaged in conducting a i1-camouhaged trans
action for himself and others, using the name Of the plaintiff whom h knew
had no interest in the subject of the action" -.
No doubt the photographers of the future will quote this authoritative
sentence as a correct example of the use of "camouhage" In va use a
"camoudage" is a screen cover, shade Velb blind; yt 1t is more r II
not only protects a a cover, but it deceves the enemy as to its purpose
and complexion. When Birnam wood came to high Dunsinane, Macbeth was
camouhaged by young Malcolm; pt Wne ue cutensn couqs me wac I
with an nky trail he is not camouhaging he is "gassing" his pursuer, which
is not the san thing.
1t is extremely difficult to translate the meaning Of a word from one
language int another Hence the French meaning of "camouhage" is even
more fine and subtle" than in English; and although in its general sense
it is the same, there is a shade of difference for which there is nc equivalent
in our tongue. Archbishop Trench. in his chapter on THE Morality in
Words" notes this popularity of language, and cites a core Of words br-
rowed from the French with which there is nothing to correspond in Eng
lish-such words, for example, as "persihage" "badinage" elan" "verve
'Iason" "parvenu" "espieglaie" "coeries" "chic" and "chicane" We
think we know the meaning of these words, and n doubt we have given them
a meaning of our own; but it isn't the French meaning and nobody except
a Frenchman knows the meaning.
"camoufage' is N of these exotcs; and although we have transplaned
it and are assured of its vigorous growth in our literary garden, it will not
bloom with quite the color and perfume that characterizes it in the vocabu-
merely the camoudage Oft the French word "camouhage"-[san Diego Union
IF the dye makers are reasonable in their treatment Of consumers,
giving them the benefit of lower production cost, Congress will not permit
the industry to be wrecked"-LNew York Times.
In other words. if American dye makers reduce prices to consumers.
Congress may give the manufacturers a reasonable protection. Reducing
prices first means reducing wages. Why not give the industry adequate'
protection and keep wages up to a reasonably high figure? The Times would
force prices down before protection is given. Protectoniss would give
adequate protection and insist that laborers get protection wages first
Paying school teachers tor time lost when the schools yer closed on
account of the epidemic is a question which is attracting much interest in
winnemucca. 1t seems the concensus of opinion tina. the teachers should
be paid, and it IS probable that a bill will be introduced in the forthcoming
Legislature to authorize the payment That is the desire of the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
One by the landmarks of the old West disappear. Old cap" Hance,
known to almost every tourist who yer visited the Grand Canyon. in
the material trails Many friends will hope that he struck SOL other
Bright Angel trail than the n he as instrumental in building!
With all respect to the venerable John Burroughs. who says that the time
hs com fol Germany to repent openly we would suggest that repenting
openly is one of the easiest things a sinner does-it is repenting inwardly
hat counts. We should see o it that Germany repents all the wal through
One of the incidents which o western people to Theodore Roosevelt
is recalled by a dispatch from Santa Cruz, where Teddy" o One of his
visits. ave a beau-u-thul exhibition Of getting mad when he observed the
Dissertation of some If the giant redwood trees in the nearby park.
One woman bought a whole barrel of rice -four when the use IF wheat
substitutes as urged. The other day she found two fve-donar bills in the
bottom of the barrel Who says that virtue is its only reward?-[Tonopah
Times.
Why don't somebody star a little epidemic Of happiness? We dare say
it would be as contagious IS other epidemics-Iclark County Review.
After W re have beaten our swords into plowshares. the next thing vii. be
to sraighten out u corkscrews into hatpins-lKansas City Star.
The armisice terms should have required the Huns tic tell the truth for
a period of thirty days-IGreenviIe (S. c. Piedmont
The DR.. Jekyn of Berlin o has fears for the safety of his Hyde
1.-THE Gamecock University of South Caroina).
Will there be just n League of Nations? Or a Major League and a
Bosche League?-INew York Evening Sun.
Free trade makes the nations debts and protection must devise means
to liquidate them-[American Economist
Germany started out to lick the world and only got rs far IS its boOts,-
Tampa Tribune