Show T n. WHAT JI JIT T ENGLISH THINK S British Press Give Scant S Sympathy to 0 Presidents President's Plan I r London Aug Aub 25 President President Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's veits decision to adopt the reformed spelling in his messages and executive correspondence Is commented on b by bythe bythe the newspapers of London this mornIng morning morning morn morn- ing In anything but a sympathetic spirit The Standard bluntly declares S' S that the president overrates his jOWers powers powers pow pow- ers adding that It declines to believe that scholarly and cultivated Americans Amer Amer- hi leans will sacrifice the tho history and andi r i meaning of oC the tho language by adopting r f 5 the tho Carnegie jargon Other newspapers newspapers news news- r papers deal with the matter In a humorous hut hu hu- hu- hu t 5 r vein ein The Daily Dally News points L out that if tr American publishers wish S to Invade the British market thc they should be conservative consel in their own fr orthography The Chronicle which S has more sympathy with some of oC the tho changes change says fays I j l I Whether wo we like the thc new spelling f fc i. i i or not It probably will vil be forced upon up up- hy on us because th the United States is coming more marc and more moro Into control of cS the printing presses of oC the English English- speaking peaking world If H only President Roosevelt Roosevett can establish uniformity In S America on the lines he prescribes S tho the new spelling will vill be likely to beS become be be- S come dominant como In Great Britain buas but bu butas S as ho Is strong ho he might have havo been beenS S merciful an and summoned an Anglo Anglo- American congress to endeavor or to ar arrive arrive ar- ar rive at an agreement on a common mode mollo of or spelling so 50 that the Pre l- l dents dent's English and the kings king's English should be the same S |