Show simplified SPELLING board has received much encouragement from prominent enz ien ten new york april 3 chairman brander matthews 09 0 the simplified spelling board at its alt annual meeting yesterday submitted a report stating that at least persons were using tho the form of spelling urged by the organization moat most of the criticism against the boa boards ads activity prof matthews declared had como from men of letters but this had been more than offset b by the support of tho the men of science C chairman matthews said president Roosevel ts favorable attitude toward simplified spelling had bad been a powei powel in advancing the work Tie resolutions sOlutions wore ware adopted thanking andrew carnegie for tho aid ho lie had bad rend rendered ored tho the board and d expressing the conviction that through the help thus rendered thore would be insured for countless t a groat great diminution in the labor teaching and allua learning laang with appropriate easo ease thin things taught aad learned a vast inar increase e ase hi the facility allty of spreading ideas and therefore a vast increase in each in s stocks of ideas 11 prof thomas 11 of yah aalt was elected president dunt of the board dr charles P 9 scott secretary r rec e c commended mended om Orn an all active effort to onlia the support of teachers and professors and that the efforts at international operation cooperation co be continued and steps bo be taken to bring about the establishment of a committee in great britain andrew carnegie and onlan lyman J tribune and representative of great britain on the board and thomaa thomas wentworth higginson were among th speakers who favored simplified spelling mr higginson said wd in impart part foreign languages multiply daily daill among us A single shi ship from europe lately latel V brought to the united united states representatives of twenty alae different languages As a result the pupils of our city schools one year pickup pickup eve every ry language and make it into english or something called ea elsh like magic to meet the pressur preisur pres sur the english tongue needs simplify iA alf aa as the french and german have a already received |