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Show I SENATOR LODGE AND GRAMMAR. So Arthur Balfour, Henry Cabot Lodge and Charles Hughes subscribed to a treaty in which one of the first rules of grammar was disreparded, .ind, worst of all, Charles Hughes wrote the treaty. In the debate on Monday, Senator Ashurst pointed out that "between" instead of "among:" was used when reference was made o the United States, Great Britain and France. Senator Ashurst stated that a school boy making this egregious blunder would be marked down, but Senator Lodge, in his resourceful way, declared de-clared that the use of "between," as referring to three or more persons tl just as good as "among " In other words, the senator from Massachu setts refuses to be bound by the rules of grammar. Shakespeare made er rore in grammar and so Henry Cabot Lodge, the purist from a New Eng lend home of culture, feels he is In I good company. But let us inquire as to whether ! Senator Lodge is right Between is' a combination of two words, be or by. and twa or two The wordH are "by two " Among means a crowd. To say "between the United States, Great Britain and France" is equlva lent to "by two, the United States. Great Britaiu and Trance." Senator Lodge may Justify this solecism by saying that France did not cotrat and after all the understanding was "between" "be-tween" the United States and Great Britain. However, even the statesmen and students of language make their slips in the use of words and drop into errors er-rors quite as Inexcusable as those made by school boys. oo |