Show I I r PRESIDENT t m I AND u f M MIf 0 If His Ideas on Matter do Not Meet Public Approval They Will be Dropped NO POLICY N I for Cm to In 14 A t of r 1111 Ic Sentiment Ami Slit Not Iwig Jn liar hay Sept Opt LIn IIII a letter to Charlet Char 11 A Stilling Stillings public printer ut at Washington Wn Provident r lt wrote that If It the changes In lit spelling advocated advocated by hy II the simplified spelling board and amid put ut Into use In document meet approval they the Iho will still III be made permanent If Jr not nol he wrote roll thoy v will be lie dropped The presidents letter loller follow rollow I lieu Hou Charles A t Public Printer Washington U V C t My 11 Dear Deaf Mr Me Ir Stilling I endow herewith copies of ot certain circulars of or orthe the simplified ip spelling t which cnn can be frost fre from ruin at Xo No 1 I Madison venue 14 lie New Ne York City Ully I Pleas Phone h r fier direct that In lit all got gov government gO publications of or time the executive departments department the chars above WO MO words count enumerated orated In III circular No o 5 Khali shari IK be spelled an III therein I set et forth If Jr anyone Hike isaks the reason for the Ihl action Atlon refer him to tu circulars cIrcular 3 J 4 1 and 6 S a as aM issued by b the simplified 1 board Most Mom of the Ihl of oC the pro IKel step Ip in Ie evidently made in entire InUre Ignorance of ot what the step III is no ut less I III in entire of or f the I th h very cry el moderate lo and oral common views MH us to the IIII I to 10 Iw lie I achieved which views are Rrt so o excellently m jet forth In iii Inthe Inthe the time circulars to 10 which I have referred inferred There Is 18 not nol the tue Ih slightest Intention to 10 ell anything revolutionary or Initiate any The purpose simply U is I for tilt the government of ot Pigging lugging behind r sentiment to advance 1111 1 abreast bre st of ut if It and amid at the Ih caine time abreast of oC the views It of ot the Ihl ablest and amid most educators of ot our time sis III well as its of rt the lie most profound scholar men of oC tho the stamp of or Prof Lounsbury anti and Prof If It the slight flight changes in Iii the Its spelling of or the soe words wholly or partial partially ly my I meet inept popular l pJ roal then the Iho changes will become I permanent with without without out any an 11 IV I to 10 WhAI public ofil dills clam or Individual 1 ual private may mil lull feel If tr they the do not ultimately meet In I I with lIh popular approval they Ih y will willbe willbe willlie be lie dropped and that Is II all there Is about It They The represent nothing In Iii Inthe the Ih world but hilt a very wr slight extension of the movement which has made agri agricultural agricultural cultural Implement makers and farm farmers erA ers write plow Instead of ot plough ploll h which has made moot moil mo Americans write writ I honor hollor without the somewhat absurd superfluous u 11 and which I 1 even tn now nol making milking people p write program with without without out the Ihl me mite just JU I as RJ all 1111 people who speak English J h now no write bat set sel dim sum and fish Instead of ot the batt sette dl and which makes vw tot write public almanac era fantasy and wagon lIlon Instead of or al at manack aera and anil of our great grandfathers It II is not nol an attack on fin th the Ihl language of ot Shakespeare soil and Milton because It Is In lit some come Instances A 1 going olm back to the forms they tho used usell and in other merely mere I the Ihl extension of or changes s Which as re rl regards garcIa gards other words word have ha taken place lacA since their time It is not mint an attempt to do anything or sudden or violent or Ot Indeed anything very er great at nt all al It Is merely merl an attempt to 10 cast what i ht weight can mn proper properly ly I be cast on the side aide of ot the popular fortes which are arl endeavoring to make our polling a Il little less lesl foolish and fantastic Sincerely ouma ROOSEVEtT ROOS ELT |