| Show THE LANGUAGE PROBLEM A gentleman of or North Tarrytown N NV Nis V Y IH is of or the opinion that the general adoption of ot nn an artificial a universal lan Inn language guage une Is In merely a 1 question of ot money mOlle In Ina 8 a leaflet he lie calculates that for tor five billion dollars the object could be ae III The coet would cover co r the nicking making of nt If the th language free tree text textbooks books literature salaries for tor teachers bounties for scholars tree free libraries etc tte It If says the tho author ot of ho leaf leat leaflet leaflet let lie te United States State Great ireat Trance France Germany and Russia HUsHla would each give a It billion of ot dollars the great Ireat would be n solved Hut Iut It If n a great rent imitation agitatIon were aroused many other countries would give KII considerable cen so lb that no nation would need necil neel to devote moro than half halt a 1 billion and ami this would be tie distributed over ti n number of et years eare so 0 that It would not be he burdensome It U Is la hardly hud necessary to discuss such Ruch sucha Rucha a proposition No country Is going to appropriate n a billion dollars or even half n a billion for tor time the creation of ot n ii new language us an long ionic nH as tho need of ot It Is in innot not felt move generally general than titan Is the case cane new The fhe Esperanto I en ell enthusiasts Rt ore lire really crossing cro the tho river In search for water In lii their efforts nt lit establishing a n common medium of or com coin communication of ot thought This Thill object would he lie gained through MI rn agitation In favor of ot the practical In every ecly common school throughout the civilized world orld of ot a 11 couple couille of ot foreign language languages or more mor n as 1111 could be he agreed on flu at nn alt International conference of ot educators educator and business men inert Hy Ity 11 that means tho the problem of ot an 1111 International language would MIT be solved Ant And It would bo ho h entirely I practical to solve It that way wa It Is not miot much mitch of n a 1 trick to tl learn enough of ot u n foreign language to speak n a little of ot It II nud understand it when hen spoken sicken The thorough mastery of lit n a language Is IR another thing altogether Hut But ut the Ilia acquisition of or a limited vocabulary ular the facility for building semi sen eu accurately enough for all practical practical purposed does cloos not nol require any more labor titan than must he expended on un for Instance It would there therefore therefore fore rore be entirely practical to agree Duree on ona onI ona a I couple cotilde of or living languages arni adopt them throughout time the world as an 8 universal sal pill studies that thai would solve the thu problem We e 0 have hae mentioned nn an Esperanto Wo understand a third Jargon has been beet constructed under tinder the th name of ot Idiom Neutral and anil that tho the world Is I now nos being asked to forget the former Idioms and amid contemplate time the beauties of ot this Hut nut It Is oil nil wrong to burden tho the world with new artificial t II fl l III languages It U in like trying to force farce Imitations of ot food on a 11 market already overstocked with nil Ill kinds of ot eatable There l Is III no scarcity of nf languages There Is in no need of ot a poor pOOL Imitation An International for fur the tho purpose c of ut if upon a 0 language or two for use UPI such Mich n on WaN WUK proposed pome years yearn Ir ago by 11 thu Iho Association for the Advance Advancement ment of nt Science would do ito more gool goni all nil the tho agitation for tor a n new mix turn tum without history and without literature and dead anti and cold ns RI n n 0 marble statue |
