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It Seems to Me HEffiOOD BROUN r'ATHER COUGHLIN in his last radio broadcast warned Americans that we should remain aloof V from those nations, "who already have repudiated their juat debts owing to us.” If the (food father trvans merely that the United States should never acain finance directly or indirectly a European conflict I am with him absolutely. But I am not at all inclined to agree that debtor nations are beyond the
pale of our sympathy, our understanding and our very lively cooperation for peace. After all just who is it who owes this money? Is it true that the 18-year-old lad in Germany, or France or England today entered into solemn obligations to which he and his children's children should feel forever bound? I do not think so. Old men of old nations sat around a table and wrote preposterous things on paper which turned to scrap beneath their fingers. They had neither the wisdom no* the right to set down “so be it”
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* with a Spencerian flourish to int dirate that these deals and dickers should endure forever. Wilson was an old man and Clemenceau was anriant. Lloyd George persists, but merely as an amazing relic. It was a little group of wilful men who east the Treaty of Versailles and set it into an iron mold. The treaty which they wrote should have *w**n buried with them. No doubt they meant well. Let that be inscribed upon their monuments, but let it not hamper any instrument by which men are to live down through the generations. The dead hand of the pcs and the curdled wisdom of a war-time settlement provide no fit channel for life which flows ahead How could the wisest of the wise men have any ronrrpwon of the world which he was so shortly to leave behind? mam A o Such Person ns *Europe ’ F'ATHER COUGHLIN errs when he says that Europe repudiated its just debus. There is no aueh person as Europe. There is not even a stocky man in riding boots bearing across his breast the cartoonist's label "John Bull.” Instead we must deal with miners at the pit mouth and small clerks and farm laborers We must face folk exactly like ourselves We must harden our hearts against those who had not yet learned to crawl when Belgium was invaded. If "Europe” is to mean literally all those who dwell in England France. Germany and Italy, we must say to the pacifist and to the fledgling, “you spent our money for your war. Come pay it back or accept the role of outcast.” With one breath Father Coughlin blames ‘‘the International bankers” for the late carnage and with the next he saddles the woe and weight of waste upon those who never had the slightest, inkling of what it was all about. Suppose that all you remembered of the great Vwar was of being held up to the window to watch the troops of king or kaiser parade away to the railhead. would you still feel bound in honor and morality to make good the excesses of rulers long since deposed? And would you agree that after you had slaved through all your life to support the monstrous toll you would willingly pass it on to Hans or Grcel. Percival and Winifred? I would not and I would glorify the refusal. m m a There's Another Cure IF Clemenceau were still alive to pay Wilson well and good but I have no patience with the notion that the workers of the world should be bound to square the debts piled up by their exploiters. If it were true that a stem and Shyloek attitude upon the part of the United States served to preserve the peace of the world there might still be some sense in holding to the Coolidge dictum—"they hired the money." But who hired it? Not the same frightened people who are being herded once more into the shambles Surely the front page of your morning paper furnishes proof that America’s aloofness has not acted as a soothing lotion in its application to the wounds of the world. We have salt upon old scars and added such epithets as "rogues” and “swindlers” and /"w-elchers.” And then with amazea eyes we have grumbled. “Why Is it that the nations of the world don't seem to love us?” I'm all for our staying out of a foreign war if there is one. but I know a much better plan than that. The best way to avoid getting into a war is to co-operate with ail peoples in order to effect the fact that there shall be no war to get into. (Copvrluht. 1935)
Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN—
BLOOD is the most Important material in your body. Not only must your tissues be supplied with blood, hut the blood must be sufficient in amount, contain enough oxygen, and carry enough antisubstances to infection to keep the body free from disease. Because of this, you should consider the circulation in planning any program of hygiene. For instance. poor posture crowds the heart by adding the pressure of the chest wall and that of the organs to the burden which the heart has to bear, and in this wav poor posture is bad for the circulation. Insufficient exercise results in poor muscle tone and poor muscle tone increases the burden of the heart, because it results in congestion in the tissues. The heart must be a well-functioning organ or it can not propel the blood in circulation. Wi.en it weakens in its work, fluid accumulates, congestion Increases, and the burden becomes increasingly great. nun ONE of the flrst signs of a deficiency in *he blood ■ is appearance of anemia. This means that the blood doesn't contain enough red blood cells and hemoglobin, or red coloring matter, or else that certain portions of the body are not sufficiently supplied with blood. One of the most common causes of anemia is loss of a -rood deal of blood from the body following a wou.id. or disturbance of the periodic functions in women. The blood cells also are destroyed by V chronvr infections and by invasion of parasites such as occur in malaria. There may also be a failure in the diet substances necessary to stimulate formation of red blood cells. When any part of the body becomes suddenly white, it is a sign that the blood vessels have become constricted and that the blcod is not going suitably to that part. If a sudden stoppage of the flow of blood to the brain occurs, dizziness and faintness occur, and then loss of consciousness. n n n TO build up proper blood, certain substances are important. In the diet, liver and lamb kidneys are essential, because these stimulate the formation of red blood cells better than almost any other foods. An extract which is known to have this power has also been prepared from ih? -all of the stomach. Irtm is of exceeding importance as a drug for overcoming various forms of anemia. Finally, one of the most significant features of proper formation and maintenance of a good blood supply is rest In fact, many of the leading authorities emphasize a great deal of rest in bed as the most significant factor in overcoming anemias. There are various rough-and-ready methods of determining whether the blood is adequate. You may compare the redness of the palms of the hands or of the fingernails, but the scientific method Is / most certain. A few drops of blood are taken from a puncture In the ear or fingertip They are diluted with a solution wtuch keeps the red blood --ells i n good order. Under the microscope the number of red blood cells is counted. Q—What was the date and loss of life in the coal mine disaster at Monogah, W. Va. In 1907? A—The accident occurred Dec. 6, 1907. and 361 fives were lost. Q—What Is Max Baer's home address? A—3ls St. James-dr, Oakland, Cai.
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GEORGE V—2s YEARS ON THRONE
Empire to Celebrate for Two Whole Months Beginning May 6
BY MILTON BRONNER NEA SfniM Corrrspondrnt LONDON. March 27 —This old gray city will become a sea of flags by day and a gem of light by night for two whole months beginning May 6. It will know a gayety, prosperity. liveliness and boom such as it has not seen for many decades. Princes and potentates, generals and admirals, soldiers, sailors and airmen, diplomats and statesmen, delegations from the four corners of the globe will be wending their way to London as the focal point. The reason will be the silver jubilee of King George V's accession to the throne of Great Britain. For the younger generation of Britons it will be the first of the kind they have seen. For the older people, it will bring reminsc°nces of the golden jubilees of Quten Victoria, grandmother of the present king. King Geo*-ge is nearing 70 and so is older than his grandmother was when, in 1887, she celebrated the 50th anniversary of her accession to the throne. There is another difference between them. Queen Victoria was revered as an institution. King George is loved as a man. With all her many qualities as a ruler. Queen Victoria never quite understood the changes that had come over the world. She never quite grasped the idea of being a constitutional monarch. She was apt to insist upon having her own way. a m m PALMERSTON and Gladstone both had their difficulties with her. If her favorite Prime Minister. Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield. had no such trouble it was because of his cleverness. He once said his bitter rival, Gladstone, addressed the Queen as if she were a public assembly. He himself spoke to her as a woman. In contradistinction to his grandmother, the success of King George has been that he has been the perfect constitutiona. monarch. He has never overstepped the line. He has never rowed with his ministers, be they Tory’, Liberal or Labor. He has hearkened to the voice and mandate of the people. He has lived the life of a modest middle-class English family man and has thus appealed to the good will of his subjects. He has seen thrones topple all
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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND —By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen —
WASHINGTON, March 27.—Oldsters throughout the country don't knjw it yet, but the Townsend Old-Age Pensioners are seriously divided among themselves. One group still sticks by the good doctor's original pension plan, insists on the figure of S2OO a month or nothing. The other group prefers a modified plan, has been working with Congressmen to put it through at the present session.
This compromise provides that the pensions to be paid shall be neither S2OO a month, nor $l5O a month, nor any other fixed sum, but whatever amount can be raised by the proposed 2 per cent sales tax, plus other minor taxes. The plan still provides that those receiving the pension must spend it within a certain period of time, thus putting the money in circulation. This compromise plan got as far as a mimeographed release by the Townsend headquarters in Washington. Anew bill was prepared for Congress. Copies were distributed to the press with Dr. Townsend's approval. Then suddenly protests began to come in. There were not many of them, but they were violent :n tone. Dr. Townsend suddenly brxktracked withdrew his mimeographed statements, decided to stand by S2OO monthly or nothing. The compromise plan, however, still goes on. Nearly 100 Congressmen are behind it, and the bill would have a good chance of passing the House if the Townsendites were united. Many of them seem more interested in the Townsend Clubs as a source of future political power and as a means of present livelihood than in framing a bill acceptable to Congress. The original Townsend plan will not pass, nun BIG JIM FARLEY isn't the only member of the Roosevelt Cabinet having trouble on Capitol Hill. Miss Frances Perkins is also under fire. Few details of this controversy have appeared in the press, but in some respects it is far more bitter and serious than the war on Mr. Farley. Although personally unpopular on Capitol Hill. Mr. Farley is being atracked by only Huey Long. Miss Perkins, on the other hand, is feuding with two major committees, the Senate Labor Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee. With both bodies the cause of their hostility is essentially the same—resentment against Mme. Secretary's bossy manner and her attempts to extend the bureaucratic jurisdiction of her department. The Ways and Means Committee clash revolves about the social security bill. As sent to Congress by the White House, the bill provided social security should be administered by ’he Labor Department. But the committee vetoed this, placed the progiam under an independent board. Whereupon Miss Perkins laid aggressive siege, bombarding the committee with demands that it restore the original administrative features of the bill. This the committee refused to do. Finally its members became so irked that they demanded Miss Perkins' exclusion from their conference with the President on the measure.
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around him and today is on his own more firmly established than ever. When he was crowned King, he became one of the big four who reigned over the mightiest kingdoms of the world. The others were his first cousin. then Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany; his other first cousin, then Nicholas II of Russia, and the aged Franz Josef, emporer of Austro-Hungary. Today the Czars are no more and Stalin rules Russia; the former Kaiser, aged 75, lives in exile at Doorr., Hoi land, and Hitler rules in his stead, and the Aus-tro-Hungarian empire has been torn to pieces, with the last of its rulers, Emperor Karl, dying in exile. matt T T THEN George V came to the VV throne, most of Europe had dynastic rulers. Today a large part is either republican or under dictatorships. Only one reigning ruler is older than Jie is and that is the King of Sweden, who is 15. Only two have reigned longer than he —King Victor Emmanuel of Italy who came to the throne
MISS PERKINS’ trouble with the Senate Labor Committee is over the Wagner labor disputes bill. Testifying before that committee she declared in favor of the measure. But she demanded a number of changes, chiefly an amendment putting the permanent Labor Relations Board under her department instead of being an independent body, as the bill provides. This is opposed by Senator Bob Wagner, author of the bill; Francis Biddle and Lloyd Garrison, present and former chairmen, respectively. of the National Labor Relations Board. They contend that the board must be completely independent, and not subject to possible political interference and domination under the Labor Department. Miss Perkins’ persistence has caused a sharp split between her and the liberal sponsors of the bill. They are openly accusing her of endangering its chances of enactment.
CITY Y n UTH IMPROVES STUDY ROOM LIGHTING Purdue Student Completes Task for Senior Thesis. Bv J'imr* Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 27.—R. F. Suhre, a senior in the Purdue University School of Electrical Engineering and son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Suhre of 2617 N. Gale-st, Indianapolis. has recently completed a study of student desk illumination at Purdue. The work, which was undertaken as his thesis required for his graduation in June, was an effort to improve the lighting conditions by eliminating glare and improper distribution. • In developing his results, young Suhre demonstrated how two new study lamps could be improvised by individual students at low cost. These lamps employed the principle of indirect lighting and produced a soft light which permits students to study longer hours without eye strain. FORMER PRINTER DEAD Leopold Michelson. San Francisco I'nion Official, Passes. Leopold Michelson. former Indianapolis printer, died Sunday in his home at San Francisco, friends were informed here today. Mr. Michelson was born here in 1869 and joined International Typographical Union. Local No. 1. in 1887. Since firing in San Francisco he had been secretary’ of the union there from 1908 until his death. Among those surviving Mr. Michelson are three sisters, Mrs. Louis J. Franklin. Miss Laura Michelson and Miss Stella Michelson, all of Indianapolis. i
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1935
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During the two-month celebration of his monarchia! silver anniversary 1 , King George V of England will be greeted everywhere by huge electrically lighted crowns like that above, hundreds of which have been prepared. At left the bust modelled by Lady Hilton Young will be unveiled during the festivities. He is shown at right in 1910, the year he was crowned.
in 1900, and King Gustaf V of Sweden, who became ruler in 1907. The celebrations in the King’s honor will start on his accession day, May 6, when he and the Queen will drive in state to be present at thanksgiving services at St. Paul’s Cathedral. The drive to and from the church has been so designed that the maximum of people may see him. That same evening the King will broadcast a message to be sent throughout his empire. Boy Scouts will light bonfires all over the kingdom and all public buildings of London will be flood-lit. For the days and weeks following this, a program has been laid out which will test the Kingjs endurance to the full. May 8 he will receive the diplomatic corps
HEAD USHER NAMED FOR SUNRISE RITE Foster Clippinger Jr. Given Assignment. Foster Clippinger Jr. has been named chairman of ushers for the annual Easter sunrise service which is being arranged by Mrs. James M. Ogden in conjunction with a general committee of church women. The service is held on the steps of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. Mr. Clippinger will head a group of Boy Scouts from several city troops which have taken part in the service since its inception. Those who will assist in ushering include Walter Byrd, Donald Bruce, Junior Cole, Robert Cosier, Charles Crumbaker, David Guthridge, Richard Hughes, James Hutchinson, Richard Hutchinson, Paul Lorenz, Harry Link, William McWorkman, Malcolm McVie, Richard Riser, Emil Rassman. Jack Roberts. Harry Silliman, Robert Smyth, William Steinmetz, Richard Stradling. Gerald Wadleigh and Maxey Wall. Red Men to Convene The Improved Order of Red Men will hold a district meeting Friday night, April 5. at North-st and Capitol -av. Principal speakers will be Huston J. Patterson, Indianapolis, great sachem, and Edward C. Harding, Indianapolis, great chief of records.
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and the representatives of the empire at Buckingham Palace. May 9 in the morning he will drive to Westminster Hall to receive a congratulatory address from both houses of Parliment and that night will give a state dinner at Buckingham Palace. a a tt ON May 11 the other parts of the United Kingdom will have their share in the ceremonies. The Prince of Wales will, as is fitting, represent the King at the Welsh town of Cardiff, while the Duke of York represents his father at Edinburgh and the Duke of Gloucester at Belfast. On the previous Sunday, May 12, there will be thanksgiving services in all the churches in the kingdom. A state ball will be held at Buckingham Palace May 14.
10,000 Women Organize Meat Strike in West
B’J United Press LOS ANGELES, March 27.—More than 10,000 Los Angeles housewives went on a meat strike today. They prepared to bombard Secretary Henry A. Wallace with letters demanding Federal aid in lowering the high cost of living.
Two organizations, the Housewives’ League of Los Angeles and Southern California and the United Conference Against the High Cost of Living, threw their combined memberships of more than 10,000 into a war on food prices and launched their campaign with a wholesale boycott on meat. Meatless menus were broadcast through the city by house-to-house canvass, telephone and radio in an effort to make the meat boycott airtight. The Housewives’ League, which claims a membership of 3000 women and says it has “thousands" of other volunteer workers, issued a complete menu for all meals which substitute meat dishes with “lima bean roast," macaroni and cheese, “vegetarian chops," and other vegetable dishes. n n n WITHIN a few more' days we expect to have the entire city organized,” said Mrs. Margaret M. Matteson, secretary of the Housewives’ League, “and we won’t stop until we have every one of the nation’s 10,000,000 housewives pledged to feed their families
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On May 20 there wall be a sucond state dinner at Buckingham Palace and May 22 the King and Queen will go to a reception at the Guildhall tendered them by the Lord Mayor and corporation of the city of London. May 31 the King wall hold a levee at St. James’ Palace and June 13 there will be a second ball at Buckingham Palace. July 9 there wall be an investiture at the palace, and July 10 there will be another. July 13 he will review the army at Aldershot, and July 16 he will review the navy at Spithead. July 20 he reviews the London police at Hyde Park and July 25 he gives a huge garden party at the palace. But there is one part of his program especially designed for just the plain folks. The King has always considered himself a Londoner and he wants to see as many of them as possible. Therefore, weather permitting, he and the Queen will drive through four different sections of London on four successive Saturday afternoons when the people are not at work —May 11, 18, 25 and June 8.
without meat unless prices are brought within reason." The meat boycott is not directed primarily at the neighborhood butcher, according to Mrs. Matteson. “The packers are responsible," she said. “The Federal processing tax also helps to keep the prices up and for that reason we are appealing to Secretary Walalce." Mrs. Matteson, a former Washington social leader, and aunt of Doris Duke Cromwell, "world’s richest girl,” is confident of the campaign's success. She recalled that in 1926 the league fought and won a drive against the high cost of ice. Unless the baker and the candlestick maker take a tip from what’s happening to the butcher, Mrs. Matteson warned, they will be next in lire for "boycott.” “We won’t have any trouble signing up 10,000,000 women,” she said. “Why, it’s got to the point where folks can’t eat anything but carrots and you have to pay fi v e cents a bunch for them. Our office gets phone calls all day from women who want to join.” The league will call butchers, packers and other food dealers to a mass meeting in the near future for a “showdown.” “We just want to hear their side of it,” Mrs. Matteson said. DOCTORS GIVE WARNING ON EXCESS ASPIRIN USE Potentially Dangerous Is Verdict of Pharmacy Council. Ily Science Service CHICAGO, March 27—Warning against the indiscriminate use of acetyl-salicylic acid, or aspirin as it is commonly called, was issued by the American Medical Association here today. Aspirin is potentially a dangerous drug, is the verdict of the association council on pharmacy and chemistry, which investigates new remedies as they come on the market and also the claims made by manufacturers for both new and old remedies. If aspirin is to be used as a home remedy it should first be prescribe# by the family doctor, whose knowledge of the individual's personal characteristics can alone make its unqualified use safe and advisable, the medical association says. GROUP TO PAY TRIBUTE TO CHARTER MEMBERS Eight to Be Guests Tonight of Royal Neighbors. The eight surviving charter members of Center Camp. No. 1397, Royal Neighbors of America, will be guests of honor at a thirty-sixth anniversary observance of the camp at 6:30 tonight at North-st and Capi-tol-av. The eight members are Mrs. Maggie Arbuckle, Mrs. Pauline Maas’ Mrs. Etha Marshal, Mrs. Sadie Me? Mrs. May Moore, and Mr. and M. Oliver R. Wald, all of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Catherine Basso, Sierra Madre, CaL *
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I Cover the World WM PHILIP SIMMS WASHINGTON, March 27—Developments of vital importance to th° new European balance, now so startlingly taking form, are impending in Poland. It is these developments that are behind the journey of Anthory Eden, British lord privy seal, ordered to hurry on to Warsaw with the ending the conversations between Chancellor Hitler and Sir John Simon. French foreign minister. Pierre Laval, may likewise change his itinerary to include Warsaw, stop-
ping* there on his way to or from Moscow. This, however, will be determined by the course of the now rapidly racing events. Poland, with a population which will shortly equal that of France, and militarily strong, has it in her power to make or break the Eastern Locarno by which France. Great Britain and the Soviet Union set such store. The next fortnight will likely decide whether this "key to the European edifice.” as Napoleon called Poland, will throw her not inconsiderable weight on the side of the former Allies or to Germany,
toward which power she has been leaning for a year. As if in preparation for the increasing role she is to play in the European lineup, Poland's Sejm dower house. Saturday night voted itself virtually out of existence and prepared the way for the president to become a constitutional dictator. Spurred on by a Europe that is feverishly arming, Poland today is on the point of joining Italy, Germany, Russia and other nations as a one-man state. This she proposes to do for the sake of domestic unity and the added strength which unified control is supposed to give. tt tt u France's Ally Since War r |''HE constitutional reform bill just passed at A Warsaw makes the president the supreme head of the state —over the cabinet, parliament, the army, navy and the judiciary. He not only will have the power to appoint civil and military officers and dissolve the Sejm and the Senate, but he can name his own successor and decide on peace or war. Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, great Polish hero and idol of the army, is expected shortly to become the first president under the new deal. He has several times refused the office in the past, preferring to be the strong man in the background—the power behind the throne. He is now minister of war. France and Poland have been allies since Poland was reconstituted after the World War, following 150 years of erasure from the map. France, however, ruffled the pride of Poland by carrying on diplomatic exchanges with other central and western European powers without consulting her. A year ago Poland and Germany effected a rapprochement after more than once approaching the point of war over the Polish Corridor. It was agreed to bury the natchet for 10 years, during which time Germany would forget her claims to the Corridor. a a a Russia Wants an Answer RECENTLY, however, the Nazis have startled Poland by their aggressive tactics in Danzig, Memel, Silesia and elsewhere. The Hitlerian edit of March 16, decreeing an army of 500,000 men, a menacing air force and plans for doubling the German navy, materially added to her alarm. Today Poland’s position threatens to become precarious. On one side is Russia with a million men under arms. On the other is bellicose Germany. She knows Germany still desires the Corridor. She must begin to suspect the non-aggression pact was only to gain time. Hitler rose to power on a program of expansion eastward and that could only be with Poland as an ally against the Soviet Union and the Baltic States, or despite Poland and partly at her expense. This has led to Soviet suspicion against both Poland and Germany. On which side does Pohind stand? The events of the next two weeks should go a long way toward clarifying this complex situation. To a large degree the European balance depends upon the answer
Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ
THE time has come, according to Prof. Edward L. Thorndike, famous psychologist of Teachers’ College, Columbia University, and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for scientists to take a hand in shaping and directing the development of the English language. He thinks it particularly important for philologists and other students of the science of language to take a hand. “Language,” Prof. Thorndike says, “is our most important social tool. It is more important than the plow or the derrick or any other machine. “We can improve upon our words and an improvement there is just as useful an invention as an improvement in an automobile or a radio or a printing press.” Prof. Thorndike is of the opinion that scientists have missed their opportunity in this direction in the past. For example. Prof. Thorndike points out, scientists wanted to say “aeroplane," making it a word of four syllables. The man in the street insisted on saying “airplane." “Today,” he adds, “airplane is accepted as right and it is a much better word.” nan SCIENTISTS did a tip-top job in the invention of one word, Prof. Thorndike says. It was “gas.” “The word was simple, short, easy to distinguish from other words, and pronounced the same in practically every European language," he says. "Until Americans shortened ‘gasoline’ to ‘gas’ it had only one meaning. “To see what a good invention it was, one need only compare it with the word, “electricity,’ a long, involved, and cumbersome word.” But Prof. Thorndike raises a word of caution about this business of improving the language. “It must be undertaken by experts and with great care,” he says. “Otherwise we may find ourselves in the position of the biologist who kills off some bug that has been damaging the crops only to find that this bug formerly ate another which in turn becomes a worst pest.” Words have been a chief study of Prof. Thorndike. Just as another scientist might study the prevalence or distribution of starfish or mayflies or double stars, he has spent his time in tracking down words. u a o PROF. Thorndike and his assistants have counted more than 15.000,000 words in the last quarter of a century. They have counted the number of words—that is, the number of times each word occurs_in the Bible, the works of Shakespeare, other classics, school books, juvenile books, magazines, newspapers, political speeches, and so on. This led in 1921 to the publication of Prof. Thorndike s famous “Teachers Word List of 10.000 Words.” This list, now an indispensable tool of all writers of juvenile textbooks, classified \hese words according to their frequency, giving the 10,000 words which were used the most. Subsequently, it occurred to Dr. Michael West, then head of a school in India, to rewrite “The Count of Monte Cnsto,” using only about 1200 words. His students read it with so much ease and liked it so much that the typewritten copies which he had prepared were literally worn out. This was probably the first book written with a scientifically restricted vocabulary. Dr. Laurence Facett, who formerly taught in Pekin, China, is now preparing books in similar fashion for he use of foreign students learning English. Text>oks in French, German. Spanish and Italian are also being prepared on the basis of the scientific knowledge of the relative importance of words.
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