Show I I Hardly Anyone Can Pronounce It Jt T J j Y YBY BY CHARLES P. P STEWART N NEA EA Service Writer WASHINGTON July 25 Extra Extra Extraterritoriality territoriality I 1 ITry ITry Try saying it It It can be done of ot course course course-by by most people But mighty few can say It on high A vast majority have to throttle down and feel their way What I mean is Can you come to extraterritoriality extraterritoriality l lIty unexpectedly In n the he middle Iddle Ot 01 a sentence ana anu taice talce It u uninterruptedly uninterruptedly and go right on without a pause or a backward glance or a passing thought that you topped that hurdle In pretty good style Ill I'll take the negative on all bets beta offered and win by a wide margin in the long run To illustrate ate Heres Here's the opening sentence In a letter fr from m President Green of the American Federation Opening of ot Labor to President Coolidge of ot the United States See if you can read it rapidly and distinctly clearly clearly clearly clear clear- ly pronouncing every word from start to finish On behalf of ot th the American la labor labor la- la bor boo movement I wish to urge for your favorable consideration and speedy action that the United States take the in calling an international conference to make plans to abolish extraterritoriality in China See there You Tou couldn't do It Until Until Un Un- til you come to extraterritoriality everything went okeh Not that the first thirty-five thirty words were all just little syllable one affairs But when you got to the extraterritoriality though you had to bring up up up- abruptly too too and and consciously grapple with that word Some people who dont don't even stammer cant can't say cant say extraterritorialIty extraterritorial Ity For instance there was B B. W W. Fleisher editor of the Japan Advertiser Ad Ad- He couldn't a few years ago when I knew him In China where he was living then In the meantime he may have practiced until he got it But then no Extraterritoriality prevails in China as dispatches from there have brought out conspicuously since the still pending rookus which started with that strike in Shang Shang- hal flat began Consequently its it's a a. word that anybody living Jiving in China has occasion to use a good deal His inability to relieve himself of It drove Fleisher nearly wild Fleisher was determined Hed He'd choke and struggle and turn t black blackin in the face and exert himself again and again Finally Just as the Impulse to grab hold and drag It out forcibly was becoming almost Irresistible with you you Heck hed he'd exclaim X or br r words to that effect I I cant can't say It but you know what I 1 mean Saying extraterritoriality is a al serious problem In the state depart department department ment right now Chinese troubles I have been uppermost there for several several several sev sev- eral weeks and extraterritorial itys their keynote In many experts experts' experts experts' ex ex- 1 opinion so 80 It has to be talked about half halt th the time Some of ot the department folk by constant effort and application have got it down pretty pat Some have trouble it every time A few tew cant can't say It at all I ts t's delayed business appreciably If It the efficiency bureau which is deeply concerned In such matters I is to be believed Delays Delay's Inefficient clent So the bureau asks Why not abandon the darn word In future lets let's say extraterritorial rights You gotta hand It to that bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau It does think up the brightest things |