Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1922 — Page 3

TOMMY’S SLANG TO BE KEPT IN FOND MEMORY War Dictionary of Words and Phrases Being Compiled for British Museum. SEEK HISTORY" OF ORIGIN LONDON, Jan. 7.—An effort Is to be made to preserve in the British Museum | the war-time slang of the British Tommy. For the benefit of the students of the great, war a dictionary is in the course of compilation dealing with the many words and phrases born of the war. The secretary of the Imperial War Museum has issued a request for notes on the subject giving the slang terms used in the British army, together with the meaning of the words and, if possible, their derivation. Much of this slang was a legacy of the old regular soldier at Mons and originated for the most part in the East. The most popular and the most romantic and sentimental slang term of the lot undoubtedly was “blighty.” That is now almost universally used. It is derived from the Hindustani and means home. However, the history of such expressions as "kip,” "posh,” "wangle,” ‘eyewash,” "swank,” "square pushing” or “wind-up” is not yet written, ant] the secretary aforesaid is now carefully collating his data. In his request for data the secretary very naively suggests "that, of course, many of the army terms are not polite and hardly fit for publication.” Asa rule, however, the slang of the British Tommy has a much more wholesome derivation than most of the French “argot les tranches.” ONLY ONE TRENCH LANGUAGE. Perhaps the most astounding thing about the army slang of the British is the generality of its uses. Those knowing Great Britain know that the dialect of no two counties is alike. The accent of the Lancashireman is as different as possible from that of his neighbor, the Yorkshireman, while the troops from Northumberland were completely and wonderfully unintelligible to the rest of the British army. Many of the Welsh regiments, too, could speak no other language bat their native Welsh. Yet the language of the trench was the same for all. To all a “brass hat” was a staff field officer. True, the Scotsman put two extra "rs” Into it, and the Northumbrian, as he is wont, “gutteralled” the “r” and made it appear like —well, certainly nothing which could be printed. Some of the examples are as follows: Air-fiappers—army signallers. Archie—an anti-aircraft gun. (Probably a corruption of aircaft.) Bully—bully-beef, tinned edrned beef. (A relic of South Africa.) Buchshea—-anything which is to spare or can be borrowed. (Derived from the Arabian beggars’ term, backsheesh.) Blighty—home, England. (Hindustani.) Bynt—a young woman. (Arabic.) Cushy—soft. (Derived from cushion. A cushy wound is a slight wound. A cushy job is a task which can be performed sitting down.) SOME HINDU, TOO. Dekko—to look. (Hindustani.) Eyewash—over-elaboration, generally in some scheme to hoodwink a general. Emma Gees—the signaling term for the initials “M. G.,” i. e., machine gunner. Jerry—a German soldier. Kip—to sleep ; a bed. Lancejack—a lance corporal. Leaf—leave of absence. (Corruption of leave.) Monjy—bread, or something to eat. (Corruption of the French.) Posh—ultra smart. Padre—an army chaplain. Quarter bloke—the quartermaster. Red cap—an army policeman who wears a red cap. Scupper—to wipe ont completely. Square pushing—to walk out with a sweetheart in a soldier's best uniform. Sapper—an engineer. Swanking—four-flushing. Snob—the regimental bootmaker. Snips—the regimental tailor. Wangle—to achieve an object by doubtful means. “Wangling leaf” means to get leave of absence by giving a false reason. Wind up—to be nervous and apprehensive. It does not necessarily mean to be frightened; many of the bravest soldiers confessed to having “the wind up.” In the officers’ mess it was known generally as the “vertical breeze,” or the “draught.”

HAMPERED IN DEVELOPEMENT OF SCIENCES Germany’s Chemical Advancement Hindered by Lack of Equipment. Scientific Germany is somewhat like a broken man, who has been sick and is now living on his stored vitality of past years. It must not be said that the patient will not recover, but Just now scientifically he is largely relying on the achievements of better days before and during the war. There is a tendency to capitalize the things that were developed then. The dearth of equipment, books, supplies and all the things that make up a workshop for scientists is a real one, not only chemically but in all scientific lines. The talk of poor conditions that we have been hearing is more than mere bluff. Many of the largest universities and research laboratories whose names were awe-inspiring in chemical circles before the war, have had practically no American scientific literature since the beginning of the war in 1914. And It is a financial impossibility for them to obtain foreign publications without outside help. The mark has lost so much caste among the monies of the world that when it gets outside of its own country’s borders it can hardly demand anything. Not to know what the chemists of other nations have been doing for seven years is a serious handicap to the work of German scientists. It is declared that in all Germany there is but one set of the Physical Review, the Journal of the American Physical Society, complete to date. The lack of chemical literature is believed to be just as great. Universities are having a hard time of it financially. University salaries and grants are notoriously hard to increase in this country, and the conditions are similar in Germany. One of the institutes of the University of Bonn on the Rhine has had a superficially generous increase in yearly funds from the prewar sum of 17,000 marks to 170,000 marks, but this becomes small indeed when it is learned that it costs 50,000 marks to heat the buildings of the institute. What the German universities lack in ipnds and equipment they have a tendency to make up for in students. The research laboratories at Leipsig are declared to be very crowded. —Watson Davis in the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry.

St. Louis Gamblers Hampered by Closing of Night & Day Bank ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 7.—The operations of the gambling fraternity of this town are likely to be hampered for a while, due to the closing of the Night and Day Bank, accord'iig to members of the police gambling squad today. The bank, according to police, was patronized to a great extent by gamblers who found its late evening hours a great help in putting their winnings away where the moths couldn’t get at them, and on occasion, in gMtting enough funds quickly to continue Their “Uttie game.” Half a million dollars of gamblers’ money is said to be tied up it ihc closed bank. The tie-up of these funds, however, w 11 not put the gamblers out of business, it was said, as they had accounts in other bauks.

LLOYD GEORGE PLANS PARTY TO WIN ELECTION Collapse of Coalition Does Not Mean Downfall of Welshman. KEEN OPPOSITION SEEN LONDON, Jan. >.—The political futur* of the prime minister is the most talked of subject throughout Great Britain. When he appeals to the country for anew lease of power within the next few months, will he be able to retain his position ? The coalition government Is quickly breaking up. It Is,hated by Liberals and Tories, while Labor will have nothing to do with it. It is so unpopular that no candidate at an election dare brand himself as a Coalitionist. Neither the Irish settlement nor the results of the Washington conference have increaseed the standing of the government in the slightest degree. DECIDES TO FORM PARTY OF HIS OWN. Therefore, the Premier., without a paYty or organization of his *>wn, finds himself aparently tied to a mass of unpopularity which must break into its componenf parts—thus ceasing to exist —and be, either singly or as a whole, snowed under in the coming fight L!ovd George is far <oo astute to be caught in this fashion. When the Coalition break, Lloyd George will be a leader without a party. Therefore he has decide t to form a party of his own. To do this he has had to find his chief adherents. First of all he las picked those members whom he does not need. ' Os these, Austen Chamberlain comes first. He is unpopular and would permeate the I new party with the old Toryism. Lord i Curzon comes next. Useful in some ways, 1 he is a Jonah- when it comes to active politics. Balfour doesn’t matter either way—he is a very old man. Worthington Evans, secretary of the war department, and Stanley Baldwin, secretary of the board of trade; Lord Lee of Farcham are three fairly able mediocrities. ; TWO IN TRAINING FOR PREMIERSHIP. Tho two men whose cooperation stood out as absolutely necessary are Winston Churchill and Lord Birkenhead. Next to the Premier they are the two most powerful forces in British politics. Both are marked out for the Premiership, and Lloyd George says that he does not mind I which gets it after he is through with the job. Then came Sir Robert Horne, Avho. within a few years has risen to be chancellor of the exchequer. Next came the two very able millionaire Jews, Sir • Alfred Mond and Edwin S. Montagu, and ,so on to the second raters. Together ! these represent Liberalism and Toryism jln and about equal sections. Their one ! party principle la allegiance to Lloyd j George, coupled with success at the j forthcoming election. The program will be of a gently progressive nature, but strongly antisoclalistic and anti-communistic. Opposition to Bolshevism will be one of lrs chief planks. Moderate social reform will loom large. This party Lloyd George will lead unchallenged. It will undoubtedly attract an enormous amount of support throughout the country, particularly among women, to whom the old party names mean little or nothing. On these lines the Premier believes he can again SAveep the country at the election which Is at hand. Consquently he looks forward to another long term of untrammeled power.

BUREAU SENDS $596,868 ABROAD EVERY MONTH American War Veterans in 86 Foreign Countries Remembered. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.— World War Veterans who cast their destinies with the American flag and who now reside in foreign countries receive a total of $596.868 70 every month from the United States Veterans’ Bureau, according to an announcement by the bureau. The disbursements are sent to eightysix foreign countries to meet the allotment and allowances, Insurance and compensation claims of the men who served with the Ameircan expeditionary force* in France, the announcement said. Italy, the land of sunshine, music and spaghetti, receives the largest part of the monep sen tout. Checks aggregating $215,917.96 are forwarded each month by the bureau to satisfy the various claims of American ex-soldiers and their dependents now residing in rtnly. Ireland, traditionally famous for her fighting men, ranks second in the amount of money received hy former American soldiers or their dependents. A total of $07,421.81 finds its way monthly to the shores of Erin, where former members of the American fighting rorces hare taken up their abode. Former American soldiers or their dependents who now live in Germany receive checks every month totaling $3.36.06 in compensation for their injuries or losses. Every civilized spot under the sun i represented on the disbursement lists of the bureau. One man, on the remote Island of Tahiti, in the Pacific, received a check each month calling for $47.74. Five checks are sent every mouth to Asia Minor, four to Egypt, one to Esthoni, ninety-one to China, twenty-eight to Japan, eight to the Island of Trinidad and eleven to Barbados. - cur THIS OUT—IT IS WORTH MONEY DON’T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip, enclose with 5c and mail it to Foley & Cos., 2835 Sheffield Ave.. Chicago, 111., writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in return a trial package containing Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and croup, Foley Kidney Pills, for pain in sides and back; rheumatism, backache, kidney and bladder ailments; and Foley Cathartic Tablets, a whoiesome and thoroughly cleansing cathartic, for constipation, biliousness, headache and sluggish bowels. * —Advertisement

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