Show PLEADS FOR STI STRENGTH PURITY OF ENGLISH CHICAGO Nov 28 Joseph Joseph Jastrow of ot the University of ot Wisconsin speaking here today before tho the National Council of Teachers of at English r referred to the tho possibility of ot a 8 society for t the tho e prevention of ot cruelty to the English language Professor Protessor sor J jastrow trow told the result of ot an nn Inquiry as 88 to what would ho he tho the outcome if it fifty objectionable expressions caught In n ordinary conversation 1 were ned lined such amounts varying from 1 cent to o 1 as ns seemed a fit punishment for each separate offense Tho The Jud Judges es sixty eight in number number num num- ber included twelve women What prompted Professor ProCessor Jastrow's unique inquiry was a ludy study of linguistic linguistics s sensibility as a field for forte the determination of ot tho the variety arlet of ot factors of ot Judging pro- pro ce e Newspaper Influence Strongest F. F N. N Scott of at the tho University of ot Michigan Michi gan an whoso whose topic was Tho The Undefined Gate Gate asked Of Ot what use use Is it to drill pupils in grammar to sweat over oyer compositions to spend month after month In the reading and stud study t of or English If steadily da day by day Mine ome powerful disintegrating disintegrating agency nullifies nil that wo we have havo accomplished l I Nol Not even en the Bible Professor Scott said Bald could now compete with the dally daily newspaper an as tho the most powerful and most pervasive pct Influence of our day and nation Accordingly Professor 5 Scot urged that the language n a w. w well as the spirit of ot the tile newspapers should bo ho the equal of that required of ot an nn any other dally visitor to the family lie said t that at slang shing col- col colloquialisms colloquialisms Indiscriminate use of or words violations of or grammar and style the split infinitive c. the dangling participle could all be corrected He lie pleaded far rat more against vl violations of the great Teat principles of ot good writing and of ot tire the appreciation the principles principles principles ples of amenity truth sincerity and self restraint |