The Nome daily nugget., 1935-02-09

A JOD0E HI hLduSiPAAN A declared from the bench that bandits are buns and parasites who should be extermtnated 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 ican Legion should engage in re volver practice, they would not find the judges in our courts loath to assist them"
 Everywhere tbe indignation against racketeers and politicians Is fero- cious, but the pltiful fact Is. noth- 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.
 I Irwin Edman recently wrote of "the instincts that masquerade as faiths, and the lusts that parade as ideals" To me this is not only very good writing, but indi- cates sense. Edman also wrote: Tn these matters (the doctrines of the relativists, the batter of the new physics) think 1t is important to be simple; In all the cOmplexity of modern scientific formula, 1t is the same old sky with the same things beneath 1t. I 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"
 plead for the use of simpler words by writers, and simple forms of expression. There Is writer named Immanuel 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 Immanuel Kant Had the man been content to write more simply, his good ideas would have accomplished more good.
 I arraign the ugly and unneces- sary word nostalgia. It means home-sickness. a more expressive and better-looking word. Our die tionary contains many other in- stances of annoyance and waste of time. I believe I can name from memory a hundred words often used and which I do not quickly know the meaning of ip reading, although I 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 1t, 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 dunces that in de nounclng this fellow. I intend no lack of respect for those former service men who actually engaged fin battles. and were incapacitated.)
 q went to India," says a travel CT. with the idea that the British bedeviled the country, but when I 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. It would be crime against humanity and against India's own future for England to withdraw. and let h. 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"
 Il know little of Sir John Falstaff except that he is acclaimed today as the worlds favorite rogue. Sir John thought himself one of the few good men of hls time, and said l: "There live not three good men un- hanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old,' (meaning him. self). Capt. William Kidd, an other famous scoundrel, declared on the gallows he was a much wronged man. A book has lately been an- nounced to prove that Captain Kidd was an eminent New Yorker, and a bold and capable navigator of high