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Show GERMAN JEWELERS INSIST ON ENGLISH Special Cable to The Tribune. T1ERDTX. Aug. 27. The efforts to exclude ex-clude trim public use words of foreign origin, wjil'-h have, been occuuvlng the nftentlnn of the fterlln police for wpoUh, ban met with H m first serious opposition from i ho Jewelers. They indicate, like miiny fjt tiers, that the work should begin at home n; mely. in the police depa rt-rrifiit rt-rrifiit with Its grist of Krench and English Eng-lish words and h Iko tnko Issue with the police over the forelgnnsH of some of the undeslr.iblp words, Thrcy of these r-specla lly MI under thf hut) "hrlilant," "juwell" and "juweller" i diamond, jewel and Jeweler). The president presi-dent pf I hy TJerlin Jewelers' asMocia tJon points out to the police that, the word "hrtllianl" lias come to curry wlt.h It a peculiar meaning, denoting a diamond of Hper-b.l cliti ract.-r, for which there is no iJcnnan equivalent. Like- some Amerb-an fdang, the word has been us.fr so long thai It h;is rrnpt (nlo good1 unajs'f. The u-wfkj- pi-fsldcnt then rendu the police po-lice a litHe lesson In German literature and -voerh. nml by derbi il nK that it Is bv rm 1',c;ijih r.ertaln t hu t Its origin hi not Uermnn. IJlif "hri llii n t . " it ha H eome to )iiiy with It a speelal im-tinlrig pow-by pow-by no ot her M.rd. Jf "n wel" in b 1 1 ma " ' JcnuH n, iio inalB'a Mia t "Juwtller" la, too. |