Show Iu U. U So SCHOLARS BURYING ENGLISH Too Much l Attention Given to Foreign Languages c tI Prof Driggs Asserts 1 1 American scholars are helping to give English the status of or a R. dead deall language lan Ian guage b by their use of or Latin Greek Greck and anel other foreign Jan languages ua es according to Prof Howard lEeward R R. Driggs of tho the University Uni Uni- of Utah Professor Profesor Driggs has recently returned from a tour of ot the middle western estern states stales and addressed 2500 In instructors at at the win winter tea teachers teachers' teachers teachers' teaches teaches' teach teach- ers ers' t Institute t u to at Clinton la In According to Professor ProCessor Driggs s scholars are arc slighting slighting- the English lan Ian guage They are directing their ef efforts of- of forts to mastering mastering- the foreign n languages lan Ian ages g and each one cite that do does s this he asserts Is n assisting in burying tho the thoEn En English lIsh language Professor ProCessor Driggs visited schools at nt Lincoln and Omaha Neb arid and at Council Council Coun Coun- cil cli Bluffs Blurs antI and Clinton IH IR His Ills En English lIth text book Five Language Lessons which thich is In son general Ial use throughout the country and has haa Jus just t been adopted for another five years cars b by the schools o of Utah was the tJ-te subject of oC man many ad addresses addresses ad- ad dresses before teachers and anti scholars In these addresses emphasis was w laid 0 on the Importance of or mastering the r English I h language and encouraging Its use instead of oC that of oC foreign tongues Tho The Institute at al Clinton lasted two lays and amid Professor Driggs Is enthusiastic enthusiastic enthusiastic over o the Interest and willingness willing willing- ness with which the Instructors of or this state stale met the problems brought brol about b by the war ar The tour consumed a littie little lit lit- tlc tie over a week |