Show i I AND LOWI low I YE J OWN LANGUAGE GE By CHESTER n H ROWELL HOWELL Modern psycho analytic jargon ha reached the assault and bat bat- bat bat- battery battery battery tery stage stace A California school hoard board candidate accused his ls op- op opponent op op of Inferior Interior and Incipient paranoid paranoia p ranol In other words he was a boob and a nut nul I Whereupon bellicose ma- ma ensued with with consequent traumatic contusions con- con v In others oth- oth I ers cre words they mixed It and one of them got z bumped on the rh o betzer Which ot of these t r languages Is En- En English i En-i glish Neither S S y tho if nor x W Is la standard sty style Ie t V One Is la above f and the other below the tho level leveland I T y and yet Ve we alls alt all I 1 s tend to use uso one I or the other In our specialties we use technical vocabularies InI In I conversation we fall tall Into slang In ancient Latin similar ten ten- tendencies ten tendencies dencle finally dev developed loped differ differ- tnt font ant languages The language of books and of the people became I unintelligible until one I Of bf them froze Into Monk Latin Monk and the other fused Into I French rench Spanish Italian and their variants If It the same thing does not happen la to English we may owe oe It to the tho newspapers and the radio Newspaper reporters write prInt English but they have to write It so as to be of I the people R Radio dlo announcers are not yet et all literate and what some of them speak Is Ie scarcely English I but as they and their broadcast broadcast- broadcasters broadcasters they ers become an Institution I will have To learn to speak at east as well welt as reporters write I Thus the gap sap between print and speech will be bridged Which Is for lor being boing able to say each to each I getch Referring to one of California's many freak religious sects this sects one scared seared Its saints paints with hot the Iron the New York Herald Trib Trib- Tribune Tribune Trib-I Trib une uno says say's In America the com com- combInation combination of an social I order and a raw but literate I fron-I Iron fron frontier tier psychology seems to have given gl bad results I This Is the provincialism of the effete East which judges the Far Neat est by two-gun two movies Some Somo of It tho the West treat nd nd espe cape especially especially Call California cheerfully con con- concedes concedes con concedes cedes The freak sects we ac- ac acknowledge ac knowledge also the social order A now w country Is not yet either solidified or ossified ossi ossi- ossified ossified fied And the literature we not noton on only Iv confess contess but proclaim California with thirtieth one-thirtieth the nations nation's population has bas one tenth one IU its high school students The pro pro- proportion proportion pro proportion portion of university students Is even greater grealer The University of California Is the largest university In the world A state with these things Is Ie certainly literate Bat But the frontier psychology We repudiate If K there are any frontier conditions of society or of mind left In America they are located east cast of California The Thep Pacific p coast Is frontier only In the sense that It Is now the front door instead of the back backdoor backdoor backdoor door of America ENEMY 11 BLOC llUC SYSTEM ClUE op 01 DECISION The first comment on the Oer- Oer Ger German man ma election was that it showed the futility of the bloc system Later La- La La Later ter developments Indicate that the bloc system Is curing Itself Even at the first election the conserva conserva- conservative tive and bourgeois parties had united on one Cne ne candidate Now for tor the tho second election the moderate and liberal parties are aro uniting on Chancellor Marx whose election seems to be assur assur- assured assured ed cd Thus for the presidential election a two-party two system Is actually In operation with ono one of the best and safest men in Ger Oer- Germany Germany many as aa the tho candidate of the tho prin prin- principal principal 11 cipal pal party I When hen something something- has to be de- de decided de the ability of tho two party two system to reach results and the tho futility of anything else become evident This the first presidential elec- elec election election elec tion ever held on the continent of Europe by popular vote Is teach teach- teaching teach ing nl lessons which may make mako for political education away from system system chaos oven en In par par- parliamentary par 1 elections I For lor even In parliaments though I their first function Is to discuss discuss I their final responsibility is 1 I to do de- de deI i dc-i I cido The bloc system Is la the chief enemy of ot decision |