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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1902)
CHEriAWA, OREGON, FRIDAY JANUARY 3. 1902. A Victory In Name Only. One Alphabet for all Languages. The Hiemawa football team was de feated Xnoas day by the Multnomah Club, of Portland, by a score of 6 to 0. But if one could have been m the field and heard t lie hisst-s of 1000 disgusted spectators at different times during the gme when certain uufair decisions were rendered in favor of the white Aristocrats, which pr. vented the Indian hoys from scoring and defeating their opponents, they could easily haveseen that the Muitnomah Club in tended to keep up its old reputation of winning a game by foul methods, when they Had their opponents too much for them. Any way to win is their mtto and every athletifi team in Oregon is well aware of it. If the Multnomahs consider it such an hon or to win a contest by all sort of schemes and "rotten" decisions they are certainly welcome to that kind of u victory. Nine tenthsof the spectators rmdered a verdict, in favor of the Chemawag, as be ingtlie le8t p'ayers mid the winners of the game by right. Tley did s in a most em plmtie manner and in a way which cmld not be in'eiUkii, Tl)f Mnltnomahs can have all the vic tories they dtsire if they are willing to gwallow the denunciations of thn hun dreds of true lovers of clean sport who wish to Hee fair play and Justice metxl out to loth teams. Surely the hisses of 1000 dis satisfied and enrugd people against the favoritism shown th M-i t.notnahn muse have been sweet music to the eais of the Multnomah Club men who could distinctly hear it from the porchvs of (heir tlguic C'ub House. Tho Chemawa Indian boys can if rd to lose L'ames nndf r those circumstances but they would like to nu'et th Multnouu h team anywhere outside of Portland where Ihey know fair play would be assured. Tacoma (Wash.) Daily Ledger. Dae, 23, 'Of . Major Frank Terry, of the Puyallup In dian agency, is in receipt of a telegram from Congressman Francis W . Cushman, announcing that on last Thursday he in troduced a bill directing the president to re quest the other uations to appoint a num ber of their most distinguished scholars to attend an international conference for the purpose of devising and agreeing upon an alphabet of printed characters adapted to the use of all languages. The conference is to meet in Washington, D. C, ou Jauuary 1, 1903. Alphabets Differ Widely. "The object of this proposed legislation said Major Terry yesterdav, "is to provide a universal alphabet, s' devised and ar ranged that by its use any language now spoken by man may be represented with ex not nicety. At present a large number f alphabets arp in use, differing so widely from each other in essential respects th -tit isi mp )ssible to correctly print . one lan guage with the alphabet of another. Also each language has certain elementary sounds peculiar to itself, that have no repre sentation in the alp'iab 'ts of the other lan guage. Hence, no language can be correct ly represented in writ g, nor can it be learned from the printed text, except by the use of its own alphabet. It is nectts ary, therefore, iu the learning of languagts to learn a new alphabet in every case. This is generally the most difficult part 'of the task, and the cne in which u large per centage of those who m ike an attempt fail. A decided advantage will be gained by pro viding an alphabet that Is common to all languages, aud'vvith which any language may be represented correctly.