Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1917 — Effect of Language. [ARTICLE]

Effect of Language.

Few people have ever dreamed how great is the effect of the employment of language upon mankind. Now and then we are face to face with persons who suffer from color blindness, and wd recognize that the affairs of life-rtrade generally, travel and warfare particularly—could never be left to persons who suffer from this abnormality. Yet the whole of human life in communities seems to be conducted by persons who have no language sense, who have ho understand! tig of the words they employ or who are enslaved by meanings that have been attached falsely to words for generations.