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AL PH ABET IS DEVISED FOR ALL-WORLD USE Owen, Blind Ex-Senator, Says It Simplifies Language Study Special to T he N ew York T im e s . W A SH IN G T O N , Jan. 8— Former Senator Robert Latham Owen of I Oklahoma has created a global alv" phabet to simplify international communication and has presented >sJ it to President Roosevelt for con sideration. In a letter to the President, Mr. Owen, who is blind, said that the global alphabet of thirty-three let ters would enable learning of all '"languages by pronunciation and hence in only a fraction of the 'Si time required to learn them by "S i'S their individual alphabets and spelling systems. ' “ A s our Commander in Chief you J S js h a v e the power and the opportunT Ss* ity of rendering the world, through \ this mechanism, a service of in calculable value,” the letter de clared. “I beg of you to request the Secretary of State to make a report to you on this plan, or with your approval to take such action as the public interest may justify. Professor Pei and his associates have just published the book \ ‘Languages for W ar and Peace,’ including all the leading languages. He has prepared textbooks for > teaching eleven foreign languages to be almost immediately available -~AN-xWhich can be put in the global alr>habet.” ^ One hundred and fifty copies of ^ the global alphabet have been sent to State Department officers and foreign service members abroad. V
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