Show NEW mm PROFANITY mm salt lake ner hero 0 A great crusade against profanity in public places or elsewhere has been inaugurated in ill canada and ami good effects are arc already noticeable in the toronto police court not long ions ago a man mail was as fined filled 5 for swearing A policeman heard hira use profane language rud and promptly arrested him there have I 1 beell other cases and there will be others until the evil has been ampre viably checked the example of 01 canada could and should be followed in this country even in salt lake city we do not know that salt lake city Is wor other cities of its size in this respect we do know that hat IL ii is almost impossible to lo walk the leng length th ot of a downtown block without hearing profanity sometimes it Js Is of a most bloodcurdling blood curdling character but bul nobody seems to lo pay a great deal of attention to it yet ye there Is in an ordinance against the use of profanity in public bubli c places the man mail who utters oaths renders himself liable to a line ine and a short term of imprisonment anyone alio swears said the bishop of carlisle in a recent sermon manifests mani tests tile the beggarliness of 0 his h is vo another writer says people swear because they do not know the possibilities of plain eng aili s or have not the skin skill to manipulate it so that it will yield the amount of fire they want you can do almost anything with common words word no matter how tame and lifeless they look standing in stupid rows as it if they did not noc know enough to come in when it rallied rained they can be made niada to lance dance like imps to frolic like fairies to float angel wise on light wings to glow like ire fire spirits they can do things that make the lie ordinary bits of profanity loo 1001 k like feeble scared aws stiffened up with a fence stake slake it 1 is possible to imagine circumstances ot of extreme provocation circumstances cum cuni stances under which a little oath bursts out of its own accord gut but the oath help matters in the slightest degree and if tile the user has the instincts of a gentleman ho he is at once sorry that he used jit it the most objectionable profanity because it Is the commonest is its use in ordinary conversation to illustrate a point to enliven in the profane mans inaus opinion ills his utterances |