Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-07-07 | Page 40 | Germans Yet Study Language of English

GERMANS YET STUDY LANGUAGE OF ENGLISH 0 Huns' Huns Experience in Past Shows Value of Knowing Enemy Tongue By Dy y United Press Pres I LOSt ONI 1 Jul July h A. A A lot of ot English people think ate are doln doing the Jer I mans a permanent injury by lo to study stull or speak ik tho tim German lerman language or to permit their children to do so o England never did dill know much about the Gorman German If he lie had known him better her hor military Intelligence department de spy spy service would service would have hn hail II a much easier casler time when wen war came Sanie a because there thero would have ha been beell no scarcity of agents wOo knew the tho and could speak his lan language The fewer British Know German the better the Germans will like It There aro are no more fervent te h hite practitioners than the Boche Boches but their schools have e not ceased ceasel to l W When hen the war Is finished and the Roche Boche b begins hIi hh peaceful penetration pen pen- Into Inlo the commercial world at large his business houses houles will be projected pro pro- toward Corel foreign n lands b by a business business busi busl- ness neSA of ot thou thousands ands who nave na learned to speak English Trench French Spanish Italian and Portuguese r. M HUS-M L N. There Is a drive on Russian In tho the German schools today the today the machine machine- ruled n nation tion training its young Idea In inthe the wa ay It should camp complete Ie Ie Russia's V vassalage as sa I a go Before DeCore tho the war the Germans specialized on English and 1 for Cor or the United States and Great Britain and Spanish for tor penetrating pene peno- I rating the South bouth and Central American Ameri merl can commercial fields At that time England was wal overrun o with German young oung men who could speak not only their own tongue but English 1 too and very very vory often either Trench or Spanish or both The Tho British Brit ish youth was more fond of or booting a football In his spare time than of at parsing a g guttural German verb so there thre were comparatively few who could make themselves useful as ns for for- el eign n correspondents for Cor bl big business houses house These concerns In their need nece turned to the young oung Germans and found Cound them capable Till II Y These Bo Boches hes would work for lor or merely merely mere more I ly nominal wages pay ay 8 so low in many cases that tile recipients couldn't couldn t live Iho on It Their families sent remittances to supplement their earnings earn earn- ings char charging the cost to education remittances might have been traced back through twisting channels I Ito to the German government go I IThe The Bocho Boche wormed his wa way Into the commercial fabric of or the South American Ameri Amerl can countries so 80 thoroughly thorough 1 that even today tOllay a number of Important firms are not entirely rid of tho the Boche In- In diligent e forts to cast It out I The British arc are proud in peculiar ways The They used to think a barber barbera a low person so there were few Cew English English Eng Eng- lish barbers In England before the war The Briton would be a valet a valet a gentleman s gentleman but gentleman but he wouldn t trim run a gentleman gentleman's s dun dun- d r eary arI The knew this and with his lila own pride held down for Cor the sake ake oCth of oC th the Fatherland o h he came across to England to shave c the faces and trim the hair of oC the people he lie hated most moat TI III I I It BI ItS IE 11 It 10 D. D In England land found Cound out to ncr her cost how I much mill military tar Information and knowledge knowledge know I led ledge e of her own customs and and affairs these people had han been amassing In their years ears of ot humility t and cheap se service cc Back in those almost forgotten da days of or Indolence and peace a great reat many many- English people would take summer trips on the continent For France they had rJ to know a list of oC common phrases In French But w when hen they the en- en feted German Germain they found Cound Germans In every ever emergency who could step stel up English RailwaY Rail Rall- and oblige e with good w waY y porters ba baggage ae bath attendants hotel servants All aIl seemed to have worked In Fn England land German advices nowadays Indicate that the schools are arc teaching Spanish Students to a record proportion of ot This fact holds the forecast of oC a trade contest against the tho United States after the war var The United States however was as alive to this opportunity for year ear before the war so It Is unlikely tha the G Germans will 11 be able to turn loose a commercial army as good as our own for that field The British still 13 lag and arid they thy They The dont don't know German I too much muth Spanish dont don't know an any and they don dont ont I seem eem to appreciate the 0 opportunity n I t I