Show i SEE DARK PLOT IN ROOSEVELT ORDER Frenchmen Suspect Design to Change Language of Diplomacy 1 OPINIONS OF WISE DIFFER Philologist Philologist- Agree gree r That the lie Plan to e Spelling Reform Is IsI I f I Typically American r f Paris Aug 25 President President I volts volt's order to he government printing print- print t t Ing office In regard to the new tylo 3 r A of oC spelling receives marked attention t. t from lom the tho French press largely bc- bc i 2 t j C cause tho the same sort ort of reform has s hasi K been dra dragging ging along here for tho lie last five fi years The French academy haq has been giving the subject a great r v amount of thought but has taken no i. i practical steps s In the direction of the desired reform j r M. M president of th thet the the- t French section of the Esperanto eol soV so- so V l J j I clet clety who left this morning to I t the thc Geneva Gene congress congress- sa says s 's it Is the tho thov v most typical American IH performance in recent years ears The directness and promptness of oC the Presidents President's action as as ho had decided that tho the thov v Idea was a good one calls c. for a curl curl- J v c Oi ous outburst of oC general praise e. e Such t I. I wholesome ome expedition Is fairly bewildering be- be i V to the European mind Aside from Crom this aspect of oC the question question ques- ques tion however o opinions differ f r To Supplant French In the place the tho French see seey in iii the th the tho y act beginning of or an all attempt i to supplant French by English as ns the thc o diplomatic lan language through the simplification of oC the features that thal have ha made English so formidable to foreigners Secondly French philologists philologIsts and etymologists look hook with distrust this dis trust on the tho success s of oC such a 11 i le evolution tion inn begun b by an executive e governmental govern govern- I mental officer flanked by a public printer It Is agreed that this is too r thoroughly American and is sure to result in deforming rather than dignifying lying the new American merican language Mr 11 Roosevelt's scholarly attainments attainments attain attain- ments are arc not taken talen seriously in iii the thc neighborhood of oC tho the Institute of France where mall many of the wI wIsest st S heads wagged dubiously when In Informed Informed In- In formed farmed that the American president S by a single fine gesture had accomplished ac- ac what it would take a quarter of oC a to do here t Comment varies between such j I broad limits as that of Louis Liard rector of or the tho Sorbonne who said s that thai mutations of C the sacred structure of or any national language should bo be effected cf- cf only b bj by collective erudition 0 oJ of the race and should even oven then be long hong and ser pondered and that of the Anglo Phobe Francois- Francois Coppe who said with a grin a a. rattlesnake for our friends the Eng- Eng to A v |