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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4326, 5 October 1921, Page 1

It is sad to hear so much profanity and disgusting language in use by young people under the mistaken impression that oaths lend point and emphasis to their speech. The members of the Anti-Profanity League know how easy it is with a little training and concentration to speak impressively without getting . away from good dictionary English. I Heard Dr. Bumpus, the president of the league so successfully admonish a lift boy at a city hotel, that but for my own presence of mind in pulling the cord we should have gone through file roof, lift and all, ” She here,” said the doctor in r< ply to an off-hand remark by the • lad, “you slacksallted, transubstantiated niterdigital greanium, you i antipole sacrosciatic rock barnacle, you—if you give me any more of your caprantipplene, paragastular, megalopteric „ jactitation, I’ll/ make a lamellbranchiate gymnobixine lepidopteroid out. of you.” It is wonderful what can be done bykindness when you come to try. An ordinary person might have used some bad words that w’ould have started that boy on the downward path.