Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-09-28

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4 n declared from the bench that
bandits are buns and parasites
who should be exterminated like
rats, as they are not worth the ex-
pense of keeping them in peniten-
tiaries. He even went so far as to
say that If members of the Amer
lean Legion should engage in re-
volver practice, they would not find
the judges in our courts loath to
assist them"
Everywhere the indignation against
racketeers and politicians is fero-
cious, but the pitiful fact is, moth
ing Is being done. Even this fierce
judge did the same old thing:
sent the bandits to the penitentiary,
to probably be pardoned after
few years more of expense to de-
cent taxpayers.
Irwin Edman recently wrote Of
the instincts that masquerade as
faiths, and the lCsts that parade
as ideals" To me this is not
only very good writing, but indi-
Gates sense. Edman also wrote: I'm
these matters 1.-THE doctrines Of the
relativists, the patter Of the new
physics) l think 1t is important to
be simple; in all the completely
Of modern scientific formula, 1t is
the same old sky with the same
things beneath it. l believe In the
common world of things as they
are about us, the things l 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 expression. There Is a writer
named Emmanuel Kant, admittedly
a man Of unusual intelligence, yet
his sentences are SO involved that
his name has become an epithet:
people say a long and involved
statement is kant, meaning 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 accomplished more good.
l arraign the ugly and unneces-
sary word nostalgia. 1t means
home sickness, a more expressive
and better looking word. Our die
tionary contains many other in
stances Of annoyance and waste of
time. 1 believe 1 can name from
memory a hundred words often
used and which ! do not quickly
know the meaning of In reading,
although l have looked them up
many times. I know the meaning
Of nostalgia now, having just re-
ferred to the dictionary, but the
next time I encounter it, 1 shall be
annoyed again in my reading.
I know young soldier who
served, during the late war, only
two months in 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 SOL
diers' bonus as some preachers
were about prohibition.
(Let me add in parenthesis in
tended only for ounces that in de-
nOuncing this fellow, 1 intend no
lack of respect for those former
service men who actually engaged
in battles. and were incapacitated.)
~ went to India" says q travel
er, with the idea that the British
bedeyiled 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 unbeliev-
ably ignorant, dirty and poor. 1t
would be q crime against humanity
and against India's own future for
England to withdraw, and let In
dia's three hundred and sixty mil
lion people develop into a political
and moral breeding ground for
world retrogression. Its land is
naturally very poor; In addition,
wornout, and this handicap has
been added to by the people widely
accepting a religion worse than
constant war during a period of
constant famine and slavery" .
know little of Sir John Falstafc
--AAnt that IN II acclaimed today