THE OREGON DAILY mii-HAL. PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER It, It.
SPELLING REFORM DISCUSSED
BY PORTLAND HEN AND WOMEN
.00 A WEEK
Soma Bellave It Should Com to
Past, Whilo Oth art Daclara
It la Nonaanse.
"7
DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
REGARDING ITS EXTENT
Entire Language Could Not Be
Changed, Say Soma, While School
Teacher Generally Declare Spell
ing Reform la Utterly Impotaible.
Tha term "spelling reform" haa eoma
to pall "nooens 10 mmir ,iu ,
v..- t.iirxi nf u much by the dally
press, and yet each en has hla own
ideas on the subject. Many wond.r
What It mum and confuse tha Idea of
i,a. .uutn and anlltnK reform
with phonetic spelling. In reality they
are different and on may champion the
one and condemn the other; may ap
prove of Hooaevelfa plan to elmplify
the spelling of certain worda without
acceptln tha countleea would-be funny
-ki.h tntiat tha Snellen lan
guage Into hideous cpntortloae to make
them aa mucn unuao ins -
lrducatora of Portland nave thetr
a .. na and it la inter
hnar wMdv they vary.
Bom advocate a mild change; othere a
radical change; .while atlll othera pro
teat against any change at all.
tj. a vrnnf who uiufttlv lines UP
eh the aide of reform, preaent hie ap
probation of greater freedom In wrlttag
the language thet there may be more
Individualism.
"All spelling, la Intended to be pho
... l i a '-it h Xn he. Lan-
. . - - thAiivht- thmisht la
guage is i" .,..
the soul of It; language le eaaentlally
sounds words are eemnds letter are
to Indicate sounds, and written words
. - . -a . AnMaa tha. true sound
of the words. Therefore, all spelling
Is meant to be and all true speuins
....hi.. hii-h corractlv ex-
presses the spoken sound of the wora
is good spelling. Before the silly
pedantry of the ' dictionary put Its
claims upon us men spe.-ea inaiv.uua.i,
as they pleased and Were spared the
useless waste or time m speiuns
. .- mIwmi children: and a man
kui mmm - - -
was not claaaed as Ignorant because he
palled In his own fashion. Dictionary
palling haa been a fetter upon the
mind, a wast of time, and has- created
a false standard of- culture and educa
tion, for Iron-bound spelling Is the moat
shallow and useless knowledge In the
world.
mm
sB '' A
1
Professor T. T. Davis.
"Spelling does not today Indicate the
origin of words. If you think so try it
with your friend and aee. If anything
Indlcatea it. It le the eeund. Origin
are not important anyway. It la today
meaning which counts. What we need
to .know Is the meaning of the living
word today. For example:. "Lt." which
meant to Mndsr. now means the re
. verae ; "preveaV which, by Its roat
gg
that la tha whole object of epelllng.
Ivook lnte a dictionary. It will give
the accepted veralon or a w '
then proceed to speu " poumuuu. -Indicate
how it should be pronounced
Why should mat pnoneuo a
valuable, be kept in the sola and exclu
..... at tha dictionary T If It
be valuable In . the dictionary to lndt-
, . . w. .ma nrnnunr ri on 1 1 is m ' " '
valuable out of the dictionary aa the
real spelltifg of the word. However. I
do not believe toat , mwr -'k
betlcal characters are res.uy
and I do not believe the spelling reform
goe half far enough. To my mind
wa should be aa rre in pinn aa
Shakespeare. Jonaon, Milton and the
maker of our language. It never oc
curred to them that there was any value
la spcljlng except to Indicate the sound
of the word. They were free to spell
aa they chose. I believe In free spelling
and In removing this cheap sneer of
cheap people from the man who spells
not according to the dictionary."
Ai ' u .... t am an enual Diane.
. , una m.iuU amnhatlcallv against
thla Idea of spelling reform." said T. T..
Davis, principal ox we . ruriwiw na i
school. "I am not prepared to glj
eaaanna at lenatll. but I think the
. ..th.wan aattafartorv and
Bnaw " j - - i
can sea no necessity for a change. I
won't say that they can't Improve the
nreaent method ror mat wouia o i""-
, - li,tA ton itmnr but I SSV I
don t believe mey wi"'"" "
their meddling." . ,t
rw t whitcomh Brouaher of the
Mnt nantiar church always has his
ij.n. ... mMMtB or modern ad-
. i, ia not hard to euess on
THUVU . -
. . m. . eiid thla modern nrescher
who champions . the removal of wemaa'a.j
hats in church, the, providing .of kln-,
Senator John M. Gearin.
Senator John M. Qearln looks at ths
matter from two standpoints the per
sonal and the general.
"Anything that will excuse bad spell-
t - i f.,.A. nf " he aald laugh
ing X BUI v , V
Ing. "but that Is purely a personal mat
ter, ror i nave i
speller If anyone will do anything that
will make It easier for me to spell I
will thank him. But seriously speaking.
(here are, or course, nvim .
our languaga that are spelled abaurdly,
bat how are we going to pick them" out.
Who IS going tO OO It ann wnare ai
we going to draw the line? Aa the
matter stands now 1 don't know what
anyone means by spelling reform or
phonetic spelling, for everyone has a
different Idea. Who can authorise any
one change T If we agree to spell by
eound why shouldn't It be kat' as well
as 'cat,' yet we are used to spelling It
with a "c," and who Is going to authorise
the change to VI And why should It
be ' apy more than 'c't The presi
dent, who la supposed to be the arbiter
of all things, ha picked out certain
means to go before, means with us to
drag back or obstruct.
"The origin or all spelling wn
netlc and the soul of all spelling must
be phonetic. The uprcar made over tha
few worda which It la propoaed to ac
cept In that one of several forma of
spelling which Is simplest shows only
the Ignorance of press and people. It Is
silly. Every one can still spell as he
chooses and nothing sacred haa been
attacked. As for myself I agree with
Bernard Bhaw that as spelling Is pho
netlc and ean never be anything else
what we nee if anything la more al
phabetical chfraetere so that we ahall
have a character for each sound, and
not have to depend on arbitrary knowl
edge for our pronunciation of such
words aa dough, cough, sough, slough.
Proper spelling would indicate how each
of these wo'-cls Is to be pronounced
CURE CATARRH NOW
Do Not Wait Until Winter or Disease
Will Become Chronic.
w tn Portland are beatn-
gag as. ii arps
nlng to cough and hack with the fall
symptoms of disagreeable and offensive
Tha tnneue. Is coated In the
morning, and they do not sleep well at
night on aceounx or oxsagrvaaois u
ting and dropping at the back of the
remit of catarrh Before
tha disease becomes chronic they should
use Hyoml and get complete freedom
A u. I . ..a.nrrlil troubles.
iron, . . i
If you neglect to treat catarrh when
It first come on, the chances are that
It will become so firmly rooted and
deep-seated that It will bother orou all
Winter and may become chronlc'end al-
. I.. ... .nl
The flrat day's ue of Hyoroel will
.. a .a ..(.,., Imnrovement In health.
nu, a . ... -
and In a short time there will be no
further trouble, and you will be rree
from catarrh, and coughs and colda will
luiw.. wmi durina the winter.
Remember that Hyomel la sold under
.kaniMt, guarantee that It costs
.uu.. ...laaa It cures. Woodard
.,.... a r-o have sold a great many
,... i ..tia everv one with their
personal guarantee that It costs nothing
unless It cures, sna ny .
..w,.rv.hie evidences of the cura
tive powers of Hyomel Ihst they tre
- . . . . . W t - .11...
very glad to crtnunue "a
ntee with every peckage
A complete Hyomel outfit coata but
WW w0HaV
H -fW swam. aaS gsl
stmCTsT si
C. K. 8. Wood.
Rev. J. Whitcomb Brougher.
worda for chance, but why should he
pick them? If we admitted anything
at that kind. .jicb of us would have a
different group of worn wrrrr.n we
thought should be .changed and there
would be endless trouble and confusion.
Anv arhltrarv change would result thus
mA Mnn there would be no standard
If the prominent educatora of the coun
try should get togetner ana settle on
a system there might be some method.
to.., if a unlvaraal rule Is made to STJSlI
. " " - -
by sound everyone would be a Judge or
his own sounds and then there would be
no such thing as spelling. The English
language wonia ne revolutionises, i mm
to tell. I think we are Dutting up
against a queetlon too big for us."
xastiBTs AM Against It.
Teachers almost as s unit will be
..a .Hn.i II. . nmnnaaa reform In
i'iuiiu a ' . k' "r .
.rvlllna t in snlte of the trouble they
sre at to teach the oung Idea day In
and day OUt met ana rein era
the same but that "read" and "read"
are different, and la spite of the tact
u. hiah aehnals rat and in col
lege they receive eaaays from struggling
..a.-i- nr,ntln "there effort" or
HkaiMin ,ham their" thev are dlt
tlnctly opposed to a change by which
tha natural spsjisr ana we uuuaiuia
dergarten to dlapoae of the children
during aervlces, and making the church
a eoclal center Sunday evenings where
the young men can bring their young
women end alt and hear themselves
talked about In a practical way from the
pulpit. -Brougher
Is for It.
"My whole sentiment U In favor of
tha new change," said Dr. Brougher
accommodatingly coming up to expeo
tatfons. "If some one who has the time
wll work out s system It will simplify
the language and save a great deal of
time In learning It. I am In favor of
the Roosevelt recommendation, though
of course It will take some time for It
to enquire permanence, but I think It
ls a start In the right direction and the
rest of the change will follow naturally
In time."
Spelling reform." saw Mrs. t-nsries
Rltton of the school board, "to a cer
tain extent might be desirable; but to
destroy the beauty and established form
of the English language; in tne raxin
would bring a change and a loss greatly
to be deplored."
date set by court
FOR SLOANE'S TRIAL
(peeUl rilipaMi to The Joeraal.)
a .wTU. rvt 12 Tha trial of fttdnev
Slaane for the murder of hi father
was set yeeterday in Judge Huneke's
i.u..w.Ai nr rne nierrict court tot
November 1J. H was seen In laTl and
Informed of the fact.
v. . ...... .apaa Tmmn naivina mill
talre with a well-worn pack of cards
snd adrclHatl with a smile that the
game, whs a monotonous thing and he
WOUld Oe giao wimii wBiiTi,iaiiM in,-
nened to break tha monotony of the
. . . . .....J V. . will
place. IX IS preu3,wi tuai fcww wwra"
sins
j. W. Davenport. Wlngo. Ky.. wrltea.
June 1. llV'. 1 io iii jrwu i
believe Bollard s Snow Liniment saved
- Ufa I was 'inner tne irmtmeni or
.my "': ,h,r told ma one nf
my lungs was entirely, aone. and the
StKer badly affectea. I also bad a
I! m v side. I don't think that I
nnuld have lived over two months
lr?oir I was Induced by a friend to
t ?Batlard's Snow l-lnlment. The drat
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flfty-cent bottles cured me sound and
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. wh. (Vt. 12. The case
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