Seneca High School - Arrow Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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Eddie Laity and friend in a pensive mood. In an age when the so-called ' four letter word ' is gaining in popularity as a mark of sophistication for some, consider what one famous man once said about Profanity. It is no mark of a gentleman to swear. The most worthless and vile, the refuse of mankind, swear as well as the best dressed and educated gentleman. No particu- lar endowments are requisite to give a finish to the art of cursing. The basest and meanest of mankind swear with as much tact and skill as the most refined; and he that wishes to degrade himself to the very lowest level of pol- lution and shame should learn to be a common swearer. Any man has talents enough to learn to curse and to im- precate perdition on himself and his fellow men. Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man is the richer or wiser or happier for it. It helps no one ' s education or manners. It commends no one to any society. It is disgusting to the refined, abominable to the good, in- sulting to those with whom we associate, degrading to the mind, unprofitable, needless, and injurious to society; and want only to profane His name, to call His vengeance down, to curse Him, and to involve His vengeance, is per- haps of all offenses the most awful . . . . Martin Luther 1527 A.D.

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