GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2418, 18 April 1922, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Slang, if more trenchant than the more sedate words and phrases, is permissable, but should not be overworked, said Mr Harry G. Paul, president of the National Council of Teachers of English, at the council’s annual meeting' at Chicago. “If two boys are lighting, don’t tell them to ‘desist,’ ” he advised. “ ‘Cut it out!’ is more effective. If the cinema film is bad ‘how inferior’ may describe it, but ‘Good night’ conveys the richer feeling.” The English language is afflicted with “stylistic pedestrianism,” according to Miss Helen Hughes, of Wellesley College. “We are haphazard, prosaic,'and dull in the choice of words,” she asserted. “We care little as long as we are nOt misunderstood.”

“How flinch money have you got?” demanded an iminigratidn authority of a passenger on the liner Makura, as she was making her way from Victoria to Vancouver. “Have a little. Why, what’s the game? Is if any crime if I haven’t?” replied the passenger. “Come on, now; we’ve plenty of work to do. Have |u find fail if you fellows have enough money to enter the country according to law. Dig-down and look over your roll,” commanded Uncle Sam’s official. “Well, here’s a letter of-credit; for fifty thousand pounds," replied the passenger, producing the document. “I can get more if you want it." “That’ll do,” said the of-' licial, somewhat abashed. He was talking with D. Clark, one of Australia’s biggest cattle kings. , Captured German cannon are no lifting ornament for the. gateways of the Cook County forest preserve, Illinois, the Forest Commissioners ruled'in response to an offer from the War Department. “The forest is the handiwork of the Creator,” wrote Daniel Ryan, president of the county board to the Forest Commissioners, “and it would be in bad taste to decorate gateways of the forest preserve district with such menacing reminders, which, though necessary to the human business of warfare, have no place in our peacefu] recreation tracts.” The idler added that Gold Star mothers had received permission to place tablets in memory of soldiers slain in the war, and to plant memorial trees, but said: “Let these cannon and other war trophies be converted into plowshares and other material for use in the arts of peace.”

It is announced that the body of ‘the Rev. Dr. Henry David Jardine, an Episcopal clergyman-of Kansas City at I he time of his death, thirty years ago, has been disinterred and will be buried in ground reserved for burial of Episcopal ministers. Dr. Jardine af the time of his death had been inhibited by a church tribunal from occupying the pulpit until his guill or innocence of certain charges brought against him by members of his'church in ecclesiastical courts was determined. He died before final judgment was passed by the church authorities. The charges brought against the clergyman and counter-charges brought by bis adherents, attracted wide attention. r fhe burial in consecrated ground, after thirty years’ interment in a public cemetery, is in the nature of vindication of the dead man, according to former parishioners and the present rector. An amusing story of detectives being mistaken for the burglars l hey were seeking comes from the little town of Templin, near Berlin. Berlin’s Scotland yard bad been informed that a well-known gang planned to “clean out” the shops in Templin. A Hying squad was dispatched. They asked the shopkeepers to help them. One of: them was suspicious. While the detectives were concealed at night in his shop he locked them in, and then told the inhabitants that he had “the Berlin burglars” safe. The townspeople, armed with sticks, pokers, and any other weapons they could lay their hands on, gathered before the shop, shouting “Come out, you bandits!” The detectives emerged from I heir hiding place, and were severely mauled. Finally the chief managed to identify himself and his companions. The next night the real burglars came.