Show PROFANE PENS Tho The stress of or war brings the Lords Lord's namo name to many a serviceman's tongue tongue- to some reverently to others profanely says the Christian Science Monitor There are those too who attempt both uses but their spiritual needs in this out all modern modem warfare are forcing a realization that to revere one minute and revile revUe the next hardly brings down the blessing of ot heaven as the first Commander in Chief pointed out to tho the United States Army of ot 1776 The General is sorry sorry to Inform that the foolish and wicked practice of or pro pro- profane profane profane fane cursing and swearing a 0 vice here here- heretofore little known in an American Army is growing into fashion rash Ion He Ho hopes the officers will by example as well as Influence endeavor to check eck it that we can have little hope of ot the blessing ble of ot Heaven Heavel on our arms if 11 we Insult it by our impiety and folly Added to this it itis Ita itIs is a vice so mean and low without any temptation that every man of or sense and character detests and despises despIses' it G G. G Washington This admonition has been conveyed to present-day present troops by means of or camp bulletin boards and camp news news- newspapers newspapers newspapers papers and in other ways the Army is attempting to curb profanity On the home h me front however the trend appears to be in the opposite direction So called realistic writing writing- In books magazines and newspapers newspapers- is so interspersed with oaths and what were hitherto considered unprintable expressions that It not only Offends bends adult taste but stands in danger of a be becoming be- be becoming coming an accepted mode of or expression of tho the younger generation Mothers and fathers athers particularly are concerned at this turn of ot the pen and ask what can bo be done to check its flow low That flow is 15 governed to a consider consider- considerable considerable considerable able extent by public opinion If It the many readers of sense and character were to make known to those in charge of ot such publications their distaste for forand forand forand and serious objection to t the tion of or such profanity into their homes jt it t could not help but have a n purifying effect I |