To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

It was with much pleasure that I noticed in your editorial of last Saturday entitled Oh, Sugar!" the laudable success achieved by the "descendants of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona'" in abolishing seventy-five percent of the profanity in their city. I fully agree with your statements that "such heroics should not pass unnoticed", and that this matter concerning profanity is something for "all sober-minded Harvard 'men" to think about. However, it was too bad that you should introduce such child's play in your last remarks; and, above all, that you had to bring in that much-strained joke about giving the name of "H. E. L. L." (Harvard Emasculated Language League) to a society which might be formed to combat the bad language of today. If you have no helpful suggestions to make about this work in Verona (and most obviously you have not), you will do best to "let well enough alone".

It is said that profanity is no sign of intelligence. How true that is! Those who argue for "strong language" show either their ignorance of or heedlessness to many things. Most certainly they do not know or do not reverence the Bible. They do not perceive that the last way to gain renown is by using bad language. In the third place the "strong language" been do not realize how detrimental is the effect of their unseemly mode of speech not only upon their moral standards but also upon their power to express themselves clearly and forcefully. They also do not appreciate the fact that it is just as easy and far better to be a "good fellow" and at the same time to have a clean mouth. In a word, then, they do not see that the person who uses clean language has everything to gain and nothing to lose, while the one who uses bad language has everything to lose and nothing to gain.

In closing I wish once again to give my cheer for "the descendants of Shakespeare's 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'", who are so courageous and successful in their work. FREDERIC M. WHEELOCK '25. November 8, 1922.