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Show "THRU" WITH NEW SYSTEM. Roosevelt Will Drop Simplified Spelling Spell-ing Owing to Action of Congress. Washington. Simplified spelling received re-ceived a llnnl quietus in tho houso on Thursday. The subject has been under un-der moro or less continuous discus-aion discus-aion on the floor and in commltteo since congress convened, but It was brought to sudden termination by a resolution favoring tho return to tho old standard of orthogrnphy, adopted luut beforo tho houso adjourned. It was understood that this action had been taken as a result of an interview with tho president In which ho had Bald that If tho house should go on record against the new system ho would abandon It. Tho resolution was ndopted unanimously. |