The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-06-20

That alone can give US salts
Factions heavenly adlatus.
' CLEMENT WOOD
RECENTLY r. P. A. Che conducts The Con-
ming Tower in the New York Tribune, you may
not have known) suggested to his thousand and
one contribs the line, Let Us Build Lattice. !
Lotus" rs a theme for versifcation. II the /
mail service doesn't fall down We expect the
resultant contributions to save Us lot of
work.
AS for cribbing from his colyum-well. he |
has more time to write than we have. And. !
having more time, he doesn't have to use it
his work for him rAll Of which proves to us
that there amt no justice in this world,
nohow".
Well, What About 1T
:. [From the Aledo Times Record.1
Miss Matilda Swanson of Rio Is here
spending the week with her son, John L.
Peterson.
IT WAS as surprised as Hamlet when he
saw his fathers ghost when went out again
and saw Frank l.. Smith and this julius john
son."-Rep. Smell.
But was Hamlet really surprised? young
man who could fondle the skull Of q one time
friend strikes US as being imperturbable.
CONCERNING THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
PROFANITY"
Sir: Surely the article quoted by you from
the Dearborn Independent should be another
reason for not reading that already discredited
publication. One need not disregard ethics in
order to consider psychology; neither need he
disregard decency and reverence
The assertion that Profanity is caused by
q situation in which there 10 a high degree Of
emotion. usually Of the aggressive type, accom-
panied by feeling of helplessness," is so over
Ar Nm n n
from psychological standpoint, but disregard.
ing nothing. that not one-tenth OF the pro-
family used Is the outspeaking Of emotion and
= sense Of helplessness The most Of 1t is cold
blooded. deliberate, mean and silly. IT is the
product Of the poverty Of ideas and decency,
accompanied by desire to show OF in q low
and vulgar way. People who have respect for
themselves and other people and reverence for
God, find no use for profanity. HELEN.
INTERRUPTED at this juncture to go to the
window and watch the lads of the 123rd march
by we returned with the memory of an Incl
dent that may, or may not, have something
to do with the psychology OF profanity. In
the early days Of the forgotten Thy some)
World war a clergyman happened into the Of
flee Just bulletin was received telling Of
the first American boys gassed by the Germans
He read the news, was silent moment and
lthen-"Damn 'em! Damn 'em!" he exclaimed
softly. That. perhaps is not exactly pro-
family. Still, we remember as a small boy
being told that anything with "by" to it was
swearing; that "by gosh" was the implica-
ton of the more blasphemous exclamation.
| THE use Of profanity, we agree, is not to
supply safety valve for otherwise helpless
emotions. About 80 per cent Of the "cuss
words" in daily use are the result of habit,
spoken without malice and-alas!-without re-
greet. -. All Of which is no excuse for pro-
family, Of course.
THE ARGUS failed to take advantage of a
clean scoop Saturday on the julius johnson
affair. Johnson" concluded a special dis
patch from Springfield, told me privately yes
terday noon that MacNeil's charges were
false" We trust we are betraying NO conf
dence in this matter.
P-p-pleass P.p-pass the P.p-pfunes!
[FrOm an Argus Short Story]
mo. I'm not going Mary, with the
beautiful hands. the glorious face and
sparkling. soulful eyes-another index Of
the pure sole Within"
Dear Mr.. Tombstone" writes A. W. R.. en-
closing some verses clipped from the Line O
Type, Il have sort of felt this way about the
little pest myself and haven't much use for
the advice Of so-called bird lovers who tell OF
poisoned corn. If it's not q breach of etiouet
in columnins will you please favor me by re-
printing!" All, oui; of a surety. Il is that
We delight to obiige, nest ce pas? VOLTA!
LEETLE BIRD Wild GOLDEN HEART.
Dat leete song sparrow l lax heem fine,
She got NO hne fodder on hees head:
But bagash. she got fine color in bees heart
Hees soul, bet, she sky blue pink and red,
Else why he seeing all tam lax dat?
When fine wedder she all gone away.
Dat leetle bird she seeing dees song:
"See! See! See! Very pretty davis