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Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-11-14 | Page 4 | Editorial Postscripts

Type issue
Date 1933-11-14
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Editorial Postscripts
Type article
Date 1933-11-14
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 4
OCR Text I EDITORIAL POSTS POSTSCRIPTS I Maxim Litvinoff traveled to America Americ in pa palatial pa- pa quarters aboard the magnificent Bereng Beren- Beren g garia gria ria paid for by the sweat and blood of the proletariat living on cabbage soup to put over the five five year ear plan In fashionable cutaway coat and striped trousers he could only be distinguished distinguished distin distin- from our bourgeoisie by his floppy black felt hat So passionately devoted to the communistic idea of one stratum for all society he abhors a shiny silk hat Well well we'll forgive forgive forgive for for- give him on that score All such hats ever were good for was snowball targets But we will still wonder if cabbage soup is regularly served at atthe atthe atthe the table of the soviet commissar of foreign affairs Now comes forward a plan for a world langua language lan Ian gua guage e that will receive acclaim from every pupil in all t tie the e schools of this fair land Simplified Simplified Simplified Sim English is the prescription for universal understanding It would include only words of them nouns nouns adjectives and 16 verbs One might carry a whole dictionary around as a bookmark The only objection to it would be raised by politicians who would feel practically dumb with only adjectives with which to point with pride and vi view w with alarm It would render Huey Long speechless which is perhaps its ts best recommendation
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