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A Leaguer to Suppress ProfanityAccording the Cnieago I WordHeralu. a league bus oeeti fwrm*-d fur lint* pur post* uT creating sentiment against the use of jirofane language* Says the Windy City paper:Its object is to oblu n erforee-tneni of the law against usnrs of sueh language and Ui »h* anything else that rnuy be nec*‘-.iry to check an evil in our publ c -vi duet 1 ,lt; tnanj A iierteaii*. are addicted to foul and v 111.gar speech Beturniog travelers and vectors (non foreign shores - on.* an offensive profusion id s itih language an sum, as tue n u e port Is reached. !• las no P»rd|c in I ..nipi und no proper place here, IV reaps it. exists he* unsuul the greater nerv hi* strain thur is on An, r «-,m- p* rhaps it is a result o' fre- don from sumo of therest ra tits on tie individual i hatexist in the older country. \\ hatever its cause, ns results arc had. It is easy, of court**, ami aUu ib.n-gerous, to go to extremes tu sup-press]njp profane* and Indeeer an-
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Lexington Gazette
Lexington, Virginia, US
Wed, Dec 18, 1912
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