CHUCK THE JARGON

"Never," said an eminent professor of English composition in recommending Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's famous essay denouncing jargon. "Never has cheap English been more cleverly shown up."

The eminent professor's idea is a good one: to denounce slang in terms of slang; to turn the enemy's own guns upon him. But the campaign might well be carried further by the embattled members of the Society for the Preservation of Pure English. George Ade, with his "Fables in Slang" could be given a chair in the Department of Classics; Ring Lardner should be appointed to a professorship in English; and Rube Goldberg ought immediately to be elected president of the Advocate.

Slang must be squelched. Now that jargon has been shown up, let it at once be given the gate!