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Hummel, of the literature division of the| District of Columbia Library Associa- tion in the Congressional Library last | night on “The Cultural Renaissance of | These are great days fer judges t China.” show what ther made of The present Chincse remaissance fs| _Mr. an’' Mrs. Lafe Bud went t'a night | the fifth that country has expericnced, | club last week an' were shot at sunrise the speakerdeclared, and e “a city like Peking i the most s . : lating_ place in the world today intel- Col. Knight Reassigned. lectually.” it was claimed. Col. Henry E. Knight, U. . Infantry, The “history of the split between |at the Army War Collcge, Washington written and spoken Chincse which ex- | Barracks, has been ordered to Fort isted over 1,000 years was traced by | Benning, Ga.. for duty at the infantry Dr. Hummel, who pointed out that it | school at that p was on January 1. 1917, that eight | =———— — principles for the reconstriction of the Chinese language were laid down by a teading writer, and i is from that day that the Chinese date their present ' renaissance. Reduces Characters, | i%he Meation of those principles has b & reduction of the number | of Ch] characters from 44.000. to | about 4,000, the speaker said. Americans, he said, can now learn Chinese in two | or three vears instead of cftht or ten. With the stimulation brought about by their simplified language, many Chi- nese have turned to writing, Dr. Hum- mel said. In introducing the speaker. Frederick W. Ashley. president of the association. | pointed out that there are 95.000 Chinese volumes in the Library of Con- | gess. Joint State Meetings. The association ratified the constitu- tion of the proposed Columbian Re- | glonal Library Association. which would | join it with similar organizations in nearby States. Miss Isabelle Hurlbutt. represen } - the American Library Association, briefly on dessemination of library news R Up That Cold that it would prove profitable and enter- 00sen p at 0 taining for half of the mectings of the . next few months to be conducted by Wlth Musterole some of the individual groups making : A ap the 169 libraries in Washington, such | Have Musterole handy when a i as those in the Agricultural Department cold starts. 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