Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1928, Page 38

LANGUAGE LISTE AMONG SCIENGES Should Be Taught as Such, Says University of Wyom- ing Expert. BY V. C. COULTER. Of the University of Wyoming. By the Associated Press. LARAMIE, Wyo., December 20.—Lan- guage is the instrument with which man has built his civilization. The most | important difference between Billie and his dog is that Billie uses language and his dog does not. Language enables the individual to make the necessary adjustment to his environment, but more important still, it is the tool with which he fashions his own personality. ‘When Max Muller delivered his lec- tures on language at Oxford, he recog- nized the function of language in the development of man, and added that it was a “disgrace that in our general sy tem of education, and even of elemen- tary education, no place should have| been found as yet for the science of | language.” Statement Applies Here. It he were to address an American audience today, he could make the same statement. At no place in our school system is there provision to teach, except to a select few, the value and the nature of our most precious in- heritance. What we do teach is the mere eti- | quette of language behavior. Impor-| tant, but no more related to the “teach- ing of language” than rules of deport- ment are related to a course in hygiene and physiology. In this day of science we ignore the science of language, the science which is most intimately related to our racial culture and to our mental growth. Language is a normal function, not & body of facts and rules to be learned. We “teach” a function when we bring 1ts processes into consciousness, evaluate them, and give more adequate controls. Unconscious of Powers. Any 5-year-old knows more lan- guage facts than we try to teach him in the schools—facts of word order, word formation, the ways in which words get meanings, the curious shifts these meanings undergo, the relation of words and sentence idioms to his thinking, etc. But he does not know that he knows these things. To “teach” him language is to make him conscious of these language facts, to systematize and evaluate them. This 1s to put him in command of the instru- ment of his thought, the tool of his mental development. This is the science for which we make no provision in our educational system. RGeS, Although the United States has only 6 per cent of the population of the world, we have in recent years pos- Policeman Practices Quick Gun Drawing: Gets Better and Better, Then Too Good 3y the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 20.—Thomas Pagnl, trafic policeman, was practicing the fascinating art known as “quick on the draw.” He was getting pretty good. From a posture of absolute nonchalance he suddenly would drop his hand to his holster, whip_ forth the weapon and blaze away. It ceased to be a matter of seconds. 1t became a matter of split seconds. It got so that Officer Pagni’s finger would curl around the trigger even as the weapon was leaping from its holster, so that the bullet was well on its way 8| 1ong before he could say Jack Robinson. | It got so fast, in fact, that Officer Pagni pulled the trigger before the gun was out of the holster, which explains why he was in the hospital today with a bullet in his thigh. D. C. MAN ARRESTED. Companion Escapes When Police Charge Liquor Violation. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. BOWIE, Md.,, December 20.—A man describing himself as Frank Le Droux of Washington was arrested Tuesday by Prince Georges County Policeman V. M. Nichols, charged with possession of intoxicants. Another man escaped. Justice of the Peace H. W. 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