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Profanity, All Too Often Habit Of
Speech; But 1t Has Had Noble
Usages in Great Moments"

the enemy's spears into their own
breasts so that their own eountrymen
might break into the hostile phalanx
over the patriots bodies.
think that no man or woman wor-
thy Of the ineffable privilege Of life
should be anything but ashamed Of
ever having run into perils of sin and
hatred for the sake Of ideals that de-
mand sclf-Sacrificc.
PROFANITY OFTEN HABIT.
That soul which is never wrought
to such breaking-points that an out
cry Of wrath and agony cuts through
all restraints, has never felt deeply,
lived well, or lived at all. Profanity
is all too often a mere habit of speech,
a kind of slang; but it has had noble
usages in great fierce moments.
Dcfoe warned those who swore all
the time that crises would come when
they would suffer for lack of vigorous
explctives. l warn those who never
swear at all that the same danger
threatens them. This applies especial
ly to ladies.
Men have long since learned to pro-
vide themselves with good round words
or with their pitiful hypoeritieal imi-
tations such as by Godfrey, Great
Scott, dear me (really do miol, by
Jove, Gee, Good Gracious, Great Heav-
ems" and the like, which are not wor-
thy of an exclamation point. Wicked
old Aaron Burr used to content him
self with by General Jackson, and I
recommend to the sickeninsly nice,
by Carbonated Soda :"
As for me, l have vast admiration
for Queen Elizabeth and many another
heroic woman who fought through life
at its highest, and knew the grandeur
of such moods as wrought them TO
blasphemy. And l have only pity for
the woman Gf ever one was) who
could live for hundred and nine
years, or fifty years. or even nine
years without ever feeling more
heartbreaking anger than could be ex-
pressed in Darn that GOVT"
II that woman really lived and real
ly repented that phrase, she is re-
GREETING the wrong thing. She should
pray for forgiveness for never having
had anything more important to
swear at.
Copyright, 1925, by the Bell
r Syndicate. Inc.)
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his place in the frisbtful wrangles and
double dealing politics that kept the
Constitution from being accepted for
five years. He accepted the presidency,
knowing that it meant what was COM
ing, an unbroken storm of as vile
abuse as ever man endured.
His true greatness was in his I'M
willingness to run away or yield or
revenge himself upon the opponents
who could not see with him. Yet he
would not have beer. human enough o
be Of use to humanity, if occasionally
his soul had not been carried beyond
restraint.
When Edmund Randolph turned
against him and apparently betrayed
his own cabinet, and then published
a pamphlet haunting Washington with
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25

THE. following true story may seem
sensa tional to you. 1t is not sen'
sationsl. 1t is not even uncommon
Judge Ben Lindsey in his amazing
new book-"The Revolt Of Modem
YOUTH gives a score of such stories.
They are tragic stories. They do not
make pleasant reading But it will do
US no good to squirm and storm and
deny them. They are part Of our pres
ent life and we must adjust ourselves
to them.
Such adjustments will strike deep
at the roots Of our most cherished
traditions. But some of our most
cherished traditions need a shock or
two. In fact, we'd be better humans,
and many leaps nearer civilization, if
they were uprooted entirely.
refer particularly to the tradition
which brands the child born out Of
wedlock.
DAUGHTER OF WEALTH.
Two months from now, Rosalind
will bear such child. Yesterday she
came to my office and told me
about it.
Rosalind is small and sweet. She
was the cherished baby Of a wealthy,
powerful family. She had every
thing in the world she wanted" Life
was a great, golden fruit ready for
her plucking. She did not know how
bitter could be the seeds Of that fruit,
nor how acrid the Juice. All was joy
that came her way.
30 II came that one night, when
her head was filled with dreams and
her blood with bubbles, Rosalind
plueked at life. And the fruit that
she plucked in her young reckless
ness was forbidden.
NOW SHE LOVES 1T.
r.. a..,..- x.a,,tk. H. hoe konp bfI.
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THE papers told the other day Of
woman (whose name l can't
rccall) celebrating her one hundred
and ninth birthday with statement
to the general effect that she had only
once lost her temper and said some
thing she had regretted ever since ;
and that was when she was a young
girl and milkmaid and let slip the
horrible, unladylike and objectionable
remark, Darn that cow!"
I never trust my own memory or
the memory of anyone else, and l have
learned from sad experience that re-
ported remarks are often the very OPP
posite of what one says or believes.
So am quite willing to assume that
the old lady really said, as many
other old ladies have said, that she
owed her long life chiefly to conscien-
tious use of liquor and tobacco.
She may have been like the dear
old soul man told me about a month
ago In Washington They were try.
ing out some new traffic regulations
there by electric signals both for mo-
tor.murderers and their natural prey,
the pedestrians.
SHOCK TO THE MAJOR.
NV friend, Major G., seeing the
"stop :" signal flashed, paused on the
curb. but a richly dressed and veneer
able grande dame on the opposite curb
started TO cross. When she arrived Ill
the middle of the street she found
herself in a torrent of swiftly dashins
automobiles. After a few borrowing
moments on the brink of death, she
made a dash and achieved the curr
next to the major.
She looked up at him in all the
reverend beauty of snow white halr
and gentle age, and murmured.
swell. isn't that the d--dest thing
you ever saw"
The major, being unused TO profan-
ity, almost tainted while somebody $
grandmother moved on.
II this anecdote had been written
about Queen Elizabeth, who talked the
same way, the historian would have
put it about thus:
sThe great queen could never have
ruled as she did without occasionally
finding her temper considerably tried.
And though she had her feelings I'M
der magnificent control, it is reported
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There Is Nothing Really Sinful in Swearing But the Mar
Who Swears Constantly Has No Expressive
Words Left for Emergencies"

stronger than the pale blue skim-milk
of human kindness.
1t seems to me that n man or woman
who, at the end Of long life, has
nothing to repent but a little feeble
strong language and a slip or two of
temper, and whose chief consolation is
the memory of temptations ain ost per-
fected resisted, has wasted his or her
one lifetime on tais beautiful, terrible
footstool.
There is so much cruelty OF fate
and circumstance, so much inhumanity
of man to nan, so horribly much tor
ture and tragedy due TO stupidity, vi
ciousness, cowardice or Indifference
that only he or she can keep from vic
lent rage and violent action W no keeps
away from the fields of usefulness
sinks off cravenly into n solitude
where selfisbnessIis replaced by ego
mania, and devotes his or her whole
thoughts to the saving of his or her
own soul, leaving the rest OF the fell
low-sufferers to wellow in ignorance,
error, misery and despair.
NOTHING TO CONTROL.
Self-control is a glorious thing. 1t
exacts ficr:e tax from the character
that has any self to control. BIT it
is always TO be wondered whether
those who are blameless of storms are
not also incapable of intense emotions.
or so afraid Of them as to avoid all
danger of them.
The saviors of mankind. the lofty
patriots, the fathers of countries, the
Joans Of Arc, the Florence Nightin.
gales, the heroes and heroines of his
toby, have been those who flung them
fclves into the Thick of the press,
where there were wrongs TO b. right
cd, victims to be rescued, sorrows to
be assuaged, dangers to be shunted
away from other people by receiving
them upon ones own breast. truths
to rescue from the dark, 1nl- by en-
during abuse and persecution from peo-
pie unable or unwilling to seek it for
themselves.
Whether Martha Washington ever
sworc or not, i have no information.
was ferociously rcviled for repeat
ing the welI-establishcd fact that her
husband did. The reason George Wash
ington had to swear now and then was
because he never fled from the points
of danger. In the battles he was so
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Rupert Hughes Pities Anyone Who Never Had to Swea

the law to curse then, as it still is
in many states.
But Washington was the greatest
law breaker of his day. He not only
refused to pay the royal taxes, but he
took up arms against his king, chased
all the kings officers (when they were
not chasing him) and finally robbed
his sacred Majesty Ito whose anoint'
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ed divine right he had sworn alIeg,
lance more than once) of the most
precious colony in the British crown
And to George Washington, more than
to any other ten men, was due the
success of the revolution; for he held
it together again and again solely by
his own uncanny power and determin'
alton. when his fellow Americans in
the Congress, and the army, and
among the public, seemed most de-
termined to tear it to pieces.
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being afraid to leave Hamilton's side
and with supporting and protecting the
people who were trying to turn the
young republic into a monarchy, Wash
ington did not say Darn that COW.
ard! :"
He roared:
RIGHT AT BREAKFAST!
BY the eternal God, he is the
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that on one occasion when number
of coachmen almost ran over her in
ignorance of her identity, she used ex.
tremly vigorous language, not unmixed
with Anglo-Saxon.
IF 1T WERE MARTHA.
If the same story had been told
of Martha Washington, it would have
been done in one of two ways.
First: "On a certain occasion when
the sweet old soul was going to mar
ket in Philadelphia, as she always did
in the sweet old custom of the dear
old days, she endeavored TO cross the
street. and narrowly escaped being
struck by passing chariots and gigs
whose drivers were not aware of the
fact that the beautiful mother of her
country (by marriage) was the sweet
ly simple figure on the cobbles.
Providence, however, preserved her
for better things when, to the immense
relief of the spectators, she reached
the other side in safety, she was heard
to exclaim, Dear me, but Philadelphia
is growing so. fast that body is not
safe even in the middle of the
street,"
Or, secondly, the above text might
have been improved in its conclusion
as follows: when she reached the
other side in safety, several indignant
cavaliers drew their swords TO punish
the reckless drivers, and one Of them
cied, BY my halidom, l will cen
avengc this insult to We fayrest ladye
in We land But the demure Martha
checked him, saying with a smile !:
Nay, Sir Knighte, / cannot tell I've !:
the faultc was mine owne. / should
have waited for we traffickc cope to
give ye signallc. Blame motto yc dri-
vcres; We poore men thoughte doubte-
Jesse of their WIVES and kyddies!' And
so, my children, We see how soft
answer turns away wrath and we
learn from our ancestors how good all
people were in the good old days"
A WASTED LIFETIME!
Nevertheless, while l strongly sus-
pcct that tie woman of a hunLced and
nine was unsupported, the alleged boast
a confession that she lost her temper
only once, reflects an ideal held up
By countless people who are in the
trade of making virtue wish-washy and
begging people to give forth nothing
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Rosalind awoke with the baby.
Family against the black wall OF
her desolntion love began TO flame
wanly at first, fearfully-then ip
growing srlendor.
Il vas 70 alone with him." src
whispered to me, in her little girl
voice. "All alone with my little baby
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II Martha never swore, it was be.
cause her husband protected her from
the worst of it. She lost her temper
often enough and let everybody know
it. l feel sure that now and then
she let flv a good crossword, and
cleared the air with it, as lightning
stroke breaks up the suffocatinS op-
preston Of a sultry day.
But, whether Martha swore or not,
no end of other women of her day,
could curse and did, and there are
records enough to prove it. Even
among the Puritan women, profanity
is often mentioned. And they must
have had as fierce temptations as
ever Uncle Toby had, whose oath the
sympathetic Recording Angel wrote
down but blotted out with a tear.
Mark Twain, to his dying day, new
err forgot the CHASTITY silence and the
whitening rcbuke he had for saying
in speech in Boston, that while
everybody was always praising the
Pilgrim Fathers his heart went out
to the Pilgrim Mothers, since, from
what he could learn Of the Pilgrim
Fathers. their poor woman folk must
have led a CHASTITY life.
CAN'T FIND SIN.
Ny feeling toward profanity is that
Of Daniel Defoe, who said that there
was nothing really sinful in it, but
that the man who used it constantly
for minor occasions, would find him
self with no expressive language when
he came to a really trying emergency.
George Washington, who drank,
swore and gambled. issued orders to
his troops forbidding drunkenness.
profanity and gaming. So I would
agree with those who say that pro
family is highly reprchensible, though
I would take the laws against profan.
fly off the books along with about
fifty thousand other asinine laws that
iGiotic bigots have written among
the useful codes.
But l would also urge nobody t.
avoid the scenes where the tempta
tion to profanity might be met. Their
are times when the patriot must kill
steal, lie and commit nearly all tn,
sins; take all their dangers of punish
ment on his own soul for the sake o
his fellow-citizens, just as n dozel
Arnold Won Winkelrieds used to gathe
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scornful of peril that he rode among
his soldiers berating the towards and
risking his life till his own officers
had to restrain him at times.
MIGHT HAVE RETIRED.
After the long war he could have
retired into the seclusion of his be-
loved farm and been canonized as a
saint while he lived. But he accepted
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WHY HE SWORE.

If Washington swore-and he did
it was when something peculiarly
unbearablc got past his guard and I'M
der his skin.
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He's like my little partner And now
in two months they say l must give
him up. But l can't! l CAN'T!
ais it wicked of me to say ] cent,
Elsie? Win | be making all his life
miserable if ! refuse TO go through
with It? I've bought q ring-IVc
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A WASTED LIFETIME!
By Elsie Robinson

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m m altogether I a i'm ne al
gdn hh tt voice him where no
kmwt like ESQ story 1 lowell b. to kh You
t plan For first thee 50 dear Hours amp maybe lay or
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MAKE YOUR CHOICE

This is what | told Rusalind. This
il what am telling all that pitiful
company of littls girls who came to
me in trouble. Is it what YOU
would tell those girls?
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by the eternal God, he is the
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him, just because can't bear the
The Washington times., 1926-04-23
RED GALOSHES
TRADE JOKE

MOSCOW, April 23.-A comedy
of Soviet trade has just been
concluded here with the arrival
back in Moscow of 10000 pairs Of
rubber ovefshoes. the famous Rus
sian galoshes, which had been
shipped three months ago to Wen
ma, by the Soviet manufacturers,
the Rezino Trust.
The galoshes were exported in
the first place just as the domestic
market faced veritable famine Of
rubber goods.
While the 10000 pair were on
their way to Vienna, crowds stood
in line before Moscow galoshes
shops, waiting hours in order to
get the ration of one pair of rub
bers per person.
Shipped from Odessa, the 10000
pair went by way of Constants
nople, Greece. and Tieste,, to vi.
emma.
They were addressed to the vi
emma branch of the Rezino Trust.
But when they arrived, it was sud
denly remembered that the Rezino
Trust had closed its Vienna office.
For the lack Of consignee, the
overshoes were returned, and after
a long and expensive journey over
land, have finally reached Mos
COW again.
The Washington times., 1926-04-23
U. s. MAY AVOID
ARMS CONFAB
By H. X. REYNOLDS
international News Service

LONDON, April %. = Reports
were current in diplomatic circles
today that the United States has
notified the League of Nations that
it will not send delegates to attend
the Leagues preliminary disarma-
ment conference.
This report, which states that a
note from Secretary of State KEEL
logg has already been received In
Geneva declining to attend the con-
ference, persists despite the fact
that Washington reports have an
nounced the names of the American
delegates
The impression prevails in some
circles here that the United States
intends to call a disarmament con-
ference of its own, if the League
effort fails.
In official circles the reports that
the United States has withdrawn
from the Geneva conference were
received with reserve.
The Washington times., 1926-04-23
ANNUAL FURNITURE SHOW
or w. B. MOSES CONTINUES

The annual spring furniture show
of w. B. Moses and Sons. at Elev-
enth and r Streets Northwest, will
be continued this afternoon and to-
night for the benefit of those who,
on account OF the large crowds,
were unable to attend yesterday.
Modern and period furniture dis
plays as well as suites designed
and made in foreign countries are
on view. The feature OF the show
is an exhibit OF furniture for use
af country estates1
The Washington times., 1926-04-23
RADIO BURGLAR
AIDED GIRL.

NEW YORK, April 2s.-Pretty
Alice Craig, who has been wrecked
In body and soul although she is
only 5, today told the authorities
about the good side Of Paul Hinton
the radio burgIer," who is charged
with murder.
Alice said she had been lured
from home by John Macdonald, who
cast her off after wrecking her
Life. She was i'll and homeless
when Hinton gave her a home and
bought medicine and paid doctors
for her.
Macdonald is under arrest on a
charge of robbery.
The Washington times., 1926-04-23
JERSEYS MOSQUITO FLATS
TO BE AIRPLANE FIELD

NEW YORK, April 23.--New Jer-
sey's MOSQUITO breeding fields. the
Jersey flats, may be turned into
large landing field for airplanes.
The plan was proposed and urged
today by Lieut.. Walter Hinton, the
Navy's famous flyer, who spoke be-
fore the New York Junior Board
of Trade.
Hinton suggests "two-deck"
field. The ground could be used
for storing planes and the roof
for taking off and landing. The
place he suggests is the nearest
open space to the heart OF New
York.
The Washington times., 1926-04-23
FUGITIVE FOR 40 YEARS
FREEDtFRoM PPM AT 80

ATLANTA, Ga. April 23.-"U Uncle
Asa" Patterson. SO-year-old prisoner,
serving life term at the State
Penitentiary, was set free yesterday
when Governor Walker committed
his sentence to his present service
and ended one of the oldest Grim
inal situations recorded in prison
annals.
The old man. broken In health-Hnd
suffering with paralysis, recently
was recommitted to the prison after
beingNat liberty as an escaped con-
was sentenced to life imprisonment
on a. murder charge more than
forty years ago.
The Washington times., 1926-04-23
Widow Sues for $50, 900

WASHINGTON, Pa, April 20
Mrs. Anne Smollar, left widow
with 10 children when her husband,
Michael Sinclair, was killed April z.
when an automobile truck conveying
20 miners overturned while, 1t IS
alleged, tire driver, Paul Lapzvic, was
racing another car near Bea1lsvflle,
filed suit in court here for 100000
damages for herself and children.
Sam Lapzvic, father Of Paul Lapzvic
in named defendant in the action.
A porous. sound absorbing plaster
has been invented for walls Of rooms
where It is desired to decrease noise
The Washington times., 1926-04-23
NARRoWEsT N. Y. STREET
SOON TO BE WlDENEn

NEW YORK. April 23.-Allen
street. known by tourists from all
over the country who go there to
Dny ornamental brass, may soon
pass away like many other Of the
Old New York land marks.
The street, which is the narrowest
and darkest on the East Side. is to
De widened to 13s feet and turned
INTO a boulevard with parks and
play grounds in the center.
The Washington times., 1926-04-23
What Il ! Continuous Sale !

Al day-to-day offering Of ex-
ceptionaI values continuing
indefinitely. The stock i re-
pIenished repeatedly, insuring 2
complete selection at all times.
You can shop at your own con
venience, knowing that these
rare savings are always ct
your disposal.
Evening star., 1926-04-15
BROWNING TO SEEK
]. QUIET FAMILY LIFE
In Statement, Says Spring
Brought Love Ardor and
Endless Romance.


NEW YORK, April 15.-Edward w.
Browning expects to realize his great
est ambition-to preside over a happy
home and family. He fell in love at
first sight in the Spring and his
romance promises to be endless.
Thus the wealthy 51-year-old real
estate operator explains his marriage
last Saturday to Frances Heenan.
15-year-old schoolgirl.
In a statement issued at the honey
moon house in Cold Spring, n. Y, he
says he had no intention of an inn
mediate marriage with his latest
"Cinderella girl until the action
taken by the Children's Society to
investigate his relations with her
made a wedding desirable as "a re-
buke to those who either conceived
or believed the motives attributed to
me by the Childrens Society
Wants Home and Family.
"tIy greatest ambition is to preside
over a happy home and family" the
statement goes on. My ideals were
rudely shattered by the unfortunate
outcome of my first marriage.
This idea grew upon me until with
the OutburSt of Spring, l set forth
with all the ardor of youth and met
Frances Heenan. 1t was a case of
love at first sight and was enthuSias-
tiCally reciprocated. My courtship
was romantic and beautiful and
promises to he an endless one
Whether the injuries suffered by my
Frances at. the hands of an acid
thrower were the result of jealousy /
can not say.
Seeks Quiet Dcmesticity.
I'VE will try to find a suitable
place to retire from the public eye to
a quiet happy and domestic establish
ment 1t is not considered good taste
to disclose the destination Of the
honeymoon trip we hope to take
later. What will happen after our
return? Who knows?"
The bride is still under treatment
FOR acid burns, which she says were
inflicted by an intruder in her
mothers Manhattan apartment be-
fore the marriage.
Ernest X. Coulter. general manager
of the Children's Society. said yester-
day that the organization had
virtually abandoned proceedings to
take the girl from custody of her
mother. The proceedings were started
before the marriage.
Evening star., 1926-04-15
COMMUNITY MOVIE SHOW
"Vincennes" to Be Presented To-
night at Eastern High School.

The Yale Chronicle photoplay,
''Vincennes." in three reels. will he
shown tonight in the auditorium of
Eastern High School, under the aus
pices of the East Washington Center.
at o'clock and will he preceded by
the second installment of the pictures
taken by the United States Signal
Corps showing the congressional tour
by water from New York to Alaska
Tonight's scenes will be Panama and
the crossing of the isthmus via the
Panama Canal.
AS always on Thursday evening
programs at Eastern, the public is in
vited. The series of educational mo-
tion pictures will continue at this
center through the month of May.