Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-11-02

E1A q imagine. When b
getting The wires coming In. he reaIl
gets stun ahead OF the news.
Now you know In last Sundays pape
| saw Irwin Cobb with a Sunday syndl
Gated article. and Lord | would give N,
best horse IL | could write one half q,
good Do you know that rascal Is Jus
about the best writer We got in thi.
country. He is rich and lazy. but he Ii
sure funny. and he can do tricks with
those words and Bugs Bear. he Is Jus,
= rnarv~'- Lord the things that bird car
compare something to. What do you
call EN- SMILES. | cant even say 1t
much less think OF one. but Lord | could
50 on by the hour singing the praizes
OF folks that write In the apers that
| ike to read.
Then there Is on every newspaper
some wonderful writers that never eren
gef their names signed to anything, but
thank b Lord the boss OF the papers
know who does it. 1t must be almost
heart breaking for those splendid writ
ers 10 see what some OF us syndicate
birds get away with.
Course with q. O. McIntire it's differ
eat- O O. would be a great writer ever
il MS name wasent on his. Course o. %.
on account OF being raised down there
On the Ohio River. around those sfea M
boats with those Negroes he has copied
4 trait the Negroes have. he does love
70 use biz words sometimes. but / don't
believe he means 1t. cause he is an
awful nice fellow. and he Eouldenf
harm a soul
| got me q dictionary one time, but
goodness it dident last long II was like
looking I'm a telephone book I never
called up anybody In my life IL / had TO
look up their number. Nobody Is worth
looking through all those numbers for.
and that's the way 1t was with my die
tionary. ! could write the article while
| was trying to see what the word
meant and that's one good thing about
language. there is always a short word
for IT, Course the Greeks have d word
for It. and the dictionary has a word
for II. but believe In using your OWN
for it.
The minute you put In a word thai
don't know. you have just
mnddled mp that many readers. Rum
ming onto a word you cant read, or I'M |
is just like a detour In the
road You cuss 1t, and about a half
dozen OF EN-. and you will take differ
road the next time. | lore words but
don't like strange ones.
Then a lot of writers like to ring In q
little French sentence every few para
They could make 1T a lot
to every body by explaining I'm
heir first sentence that they went TO
Paris one Summer, instead OF seeing
Fhat they should hare OF America
Then Its the same with the English
There Is every ones In awhile some
creeping into various writer's
Nothing will make a reader
'awn any quicker than good English
| tell yOu these foreign languages
must be kept out OF our way. Now for
Instance | know a few Mexican words.
cant spell en-. In fact | don't believe
hey can. but | never try to fog the
ssue by using any OF EN- In any Of nay
or speeches, nc matter what
type of audience is. Course With a
peech, you can use some big word. and
In handy sometimes. Your
udience will be confused over II. and
will give you a chance to think OF :
,mefhing- Big words In speeches you
70 are just used for about the same
JASON q speaker stopping and taking a
He amt thirsty. he is just hungry
n the Hext sentence.
l run onto this Emil Ludwig out here
le other day. He waits around all over
10 world till some prominent nan
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