The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-08-23
Howe About:
Our Indignation
Simple Writing
Nostalgia
q Bell syndica,s-wNU Service.
BY ED HOWE
O. Bell Syndicate

should be exterminated like rats, as
they are not worth the expense or
keeping them In penitentiarles. lie
even went so far as to say that IL
members of the American Legion
should engage In revolver practice,
they would not find the judges In our
courts ioath to assist them"
Everywhere the Indignation against
racketeers and politicians Is feroclous.
but the pitIful fact Is, nothing is be
Ing DONE Even this fierce judge did
the same old thing. sent the bandits
to the penltentiary. to probably be
pardoned after a few years more OF
expense to decent taxpayers.
irwin Edman recently wrote OF 1.-The
instincts that masquerade as faiths,
and the lusts that parade as Ideals"
To me this is not only very
good writing, but Indicates sense. Ed
man also wrote: I'm these matters
(the doctrines of the relativlsts, the
patter of the new physicist think 1t
is important to be simple; In all the
completely of modern scientific fur
mula, 1t Is the same old sky with the
same things beneath 1t. | believe In
the common world of things rs they
are about us. the things | touch. see.
taste, smell. hear; In the world that
workings feast and want In"
I plead for the use of simpler words
by writer's, and simple forms OF ex-
preston. There Is writer named
Emmanuel Kant. admittedly man OF
unusual intelligence, yet his sentences
are SO involved that his name has be-
come an epithet: people say long
and involved statement Is KANT mean
Ing 1t is poor argument and poor
sense.
people of his own time named their
dogs Emmanuel Kant. Had the man
been content TO write more simply,
his good Ideas would have accom-
rlIshed more good.
arraign the ugly and unnecessary
word nostalgia. 1t means home-slek-
ness. a more expressive and better
looking word Our dictionary contains
many other Instances Of annoyance
and waste of hme. believe can
name from memory HUNDRED words
often used and which I do not quickly
know the meaning Of In reading. al
though / have looked them up many
times, know the meaning OF nos
talgia now. having Just referred to the
dictionary, but the next time EN-
counter 1t, shall be annoyed again In
my reading.
| know d young soldier who served,
during the late war. only two months
In d military camp near his home.
He told me at the time he never had
more to eat, less to do, or enjoyed
| himself more. And while he was off
soldering, his wages at home went on
| Now, this soldier is as fanatical and
| unreasonable about the soldiers bonus
| as some preachers we're about pro-
| hibition.
(Let me add In parenthess intended
! only for ounces that In denouncing
this fellow, intend no lack OF respect
! for those former service men who ac-
tually engaged In battles, and were
lncapacltated)
II went to india" says traveller,
with the idea that the British bedev-
lied the country, but when got there
realized that the real parasites are
not the British, but fourteen million
sacred cows which not only destroy
meager crops, but eat food needed by
the women and children The people
are unbelievably ignorant. dirty and
poor. 1t would be crime against hui
manity and against India'E own future
for England to withdraw, and let In
dia's three hundred and sixty million
people develop Into a political ane
moral breeding ground for world ret
repression Its land Is naturally yer,
poor: In addition, wornout, and TIL!
handicap has been added to by thu
people widely accepting a religion
worse than constant war during a pc
Rod OF constant famine and slavery.
The women have various organiza
tions Intended to improve the condi
ton OF their sex; very commendabl
work, Ii well attended to.
often wonder they do not induce. tn
managers Of telephone companies Z
conduct schools to teach women man
ners and efficiency. have never know
I telephone girl not above the averag
In these respects; and they are ur
trained girls taught In schools conduct
] ed by the heads Of telephone compa
MES.
: 1t seems to me (speakIng again Q
the panic) that every mans other trol
, bles have increased, and that tires &
! fiat more frequently on every road |
} 1884 than In 1920, or any other of tn
Good Old Days.
1 Old Cornelius Vanderbilt, first OF tn
5 family to amount to anything, used
r | gav he WINS ma big a rogue as anybOd