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Show KNOWS NEARLY ALL TONGUES . . i "There really is, so far as I know, only one language that Is absolutely Impossible for a white man to master, and that is the original language of the North American Indian. Those who think they are talking Indian languages lan-guages are, as a matter of fact, talking talk-ing Chinook or something similar." If every ona in the country knew all the languages that John D. Prince, ' professor of languages at Columbia j university, New York, knows there would be no call for a universal tongue. Instead, we could go right ahead talking to every stranger we happened to meet in whatever language lan-guage the latter chose to talk to us. When he isn't busy teaching the young men at Columbia Professor Prince finds time to lake an active interest in-terest in politics in Patersou, N. J.. ! where he lives and for seme years be has been state senator in the New Jersey legislature from his district. Professor Prince admits that his marvelous mar-velous knowledge of languages has more than once won him the vote of some newly made citizen wrho hadn't as yet acquired Euglish. As the crowning crown-ing performance of his use of languages, lan-guages, he recently made a political speech in which 'he employed 17 different dif-ferent languages. If on? asks Professor Prince how-many how-many languages he knows he modestly modest-ly disclaims complete knowledge of any. even the English. A little closer questioning, however, discloses the fact that he can make himself understood under-stood in practically every distinct language lan-guage that is used on the face of the globe, end a, few minutes' study of any of the hundreds of dialects hat are spoken In various corners of.. the earth will enable him to decipher' much of what is written In it. , "I doubt very much," saiI Professor Prince, "whether any one man actually actual-ly knows even the English language. For example, I doubt if I understand the English language as it is bow used In the science of aeronautics.' Just bo others who may be thoroughly familiar famil-iar with the English language,! as they suppose, do not know one-half the terms employed In the automobile industry, in-dustry, for each bolt and nut in' amo-or amo-or car has a distinct name. |