Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1918, Page 5

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1918 _—— CW ACK, CWACK, THE DUCK WOULD SAY, IF BOSTON MAN COULD HAVE HIS WAY; ‘QA Robert W. Mason, seeretary, who} slaims to live in cultured Boston, is| the latest to spring an orthographi-| cal persuasion and his efforts are di-- rected at the letters “q” and “u” in the English alphabet. He says he wants to eliminate those letters before January 1, 1919. He says they’are useless. Probably, someday, he says, he’ll- give us an| entirely new characted to take their | place. s | Three of his letters already have) gone into the. waste basket, but here comes the. fourth ong, and persist- ency usually wins. -He says: “Well, q-and x seem to bé going the way of the Czar and Kaiser— the sooner the better! You aré about ready for the hew, character to take the x place and we will here state that it will” be- th.-most. effective and efficient Character ever brought into English txpograp! and, when! brought into full use. ill do more to clarify our orthography than any other single innovetion! Standing with the vowels, it creates a-full set of long-sounded vowel symbols; fol- lowing a consonant it becomes a syl- lable-accent mark! Jt: > will eceur oftener than any letter of the alpha- bet, or nearly as often as ‘e’ does, now! Yet it is a very simple affair, almost in tact already and will per--| form a large service with the slight-; est change on the printed page—we believe that you will hail it. “Now there are three weeks left of the year to make the final drive on q and x and to be ready for the ned character early in January there-) | classieal Greek usage; and is Span- | ND ‘xX’ TOO MANY. | ‘fore put up a terrific drive on q) and x, if you will: | “Use ew for qu (swich, frewent). This was Old English usage before | the Norman Invasion (1066); was! ish usage of today—occurs once to; about 400 words. Use es for x (mics, | neest.) This was Old Latin usage | of the days of Cicero, and with us the x-sound is served more often by| es, cks, ks, cts. (politics, stacks, | books, acts) than by x itself—occurs | once to about 400 words—see di tionary on q and x. | “Now the point is this, q and x) are worthless letters—‘ecsewisit’ (ex-| quisite) ; they have no vital assecia- tions clinging to them; they are bar- barisms forced into English through invasion.and it is rather a disgrace for an intelligent people, now in the forefront of world affairs to be so backward and barbarous in its orthog- raphy. ‘Let’s do a little house clean ing.’ If you will just try this out) and give us a chance we will show) you something good to come out of it. “Yours in good hopes, “ROBERT W. MASON, “Secretary. “Pp. S.—Just O. K. this idea and} turn the leaflet over to the proof! reader who will make the changes | (about five to 1,000 words) in the} proof-reading—cw for qua (cwick, frecwent); c, only, for que-final, picturesc; e-insert in antiec)} cs for) x (mics necst) ; s, only for x-in-plural | (bureaus) ; z for x-inisial.” | STATE TAXES MANY NOT BE NECESSARY LONGER CHE NE, Wyo., Dec, 23.—The State of Wyoming may soon be re- ed from the necessity of levying ite taxes for administrative pur-| s. Reports filed with Governor | Houx by the State auditor, secretary | of State and State Land Commis- ioner, show an aggregate profit, | above expenses, or $1,200/000° for | current year, and reports of other of- fi is expected to increase this gure to approximately what is re- | quired to meet the running expenses of the State for a year. Large sums received for leases on State oil lands add greatly to the total, and indica- tions are that funds from this source will increase in future years, is predicted that another year showing such profits wilh entirely re- move the necessity for State taxes except for public improvements, and the coming session of the State Leg- islature will be asked to appoint a sy, > N N PPD LDS LILI PS. % 4 4 WPM MAO OA EAP LOAII ILL IIL LLG BG OMG LG MM. | prices paid by the British govern- ‘ plete clips, with wool being produced PRODUCTION OF WOOL | EXCEEDS CONSUMPTION. Australian growers arc increasing | their flocks, and stocks of wool are rapidly accumulating, despite the tow ) ment. By September, 1919, there will | be on hand in Australia three com-| at a faster rate than it is being con- sumed. ee MIKE YOKEL, JACKSON'S PRIDE, LOSES THE BELT | Mike Yokel, world’s champion mid-| dleweight wrestler, lost his laurels in Los Angeles on Thursday night of last week, when Walter Miller of St. Paul, gained two out of three falls} in their mat bout for the champion. ship. Yokel is a native of Jackson’ Hole in Lincoln county, and his met- eoric career has been followed with great interest by his many admirers in that section of the county. committee to thoroughly go over the matter and make a report. MY GOODNESS! You MUSTNT S) COME NG ! Feels Twenty Years Younger Can Walk a Mile Now Where Be-| fore Taking Tanlac Couldn't Go Two Blocks “Since Tanlac has relieved me and built me up so much I feel twenty! years younger,” said Mrs. W. B. 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