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Show ROOSEVELT INDORSES NEW-FANGLED SPELLING; TO USE IN MESSAGES the reform spelling, but his correspondence corre-spondence also will be spelled .'a the new style. -Secretary Loeb has sent for the list of 100 words which have been reformed, and upon its arrival will immediately order all correspondence of the President Presi-dent and of the executive force of the White House spelled in accordance therewith. As the spelling reform committee shall adopt new reforms, those will be added to the President's list aud r.lso that of the public printer. While the order to the printer today does not contemplate an immediate reform re-form in the spelling of official documents docu-ments from the executive departments in Washington, it is regarded as more than likely that the respectivo hnads of the departments will fall in line with the President's ideas and have their official documents printed in-the new spelling. OYSTER BAY, Aug. 24. President Roosevelt has indorsed the Carnegie spelling reform movement. , . ' k - He issued . orders -today . to Public Printer Stillings that hereafter all messages, mes-sages, from the President and all other documents emanating from the' White House shall be printed in accordance with the recommendations of the spelling' spell-ing' reform committee headed by Bran-der Bran-der Matthews, professor of English at Columbia university. . . This committee has published a list of 100 words in which the spelling is reformed. re-formed. This list contains such words as "thru" and "tho," as the spelling for "through" and ''though." The President's official sanction of this reform movement is regarded as the most effective and speediest method of inaugurating the new system of spelling throughout the country. Not only will the printed documents emanating from the President utilize |