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i^uuui i 7 Phonetic Alphabets In the last 2 decades 350 nation alities have adopted phonetic alphabets which an individual can learn in one day and immediately read and write his own language or dialect. It is rapidly abolishing the illiteracy, ignorance and poverty of people in Asia. The Russian Soviet Republics, under the guidance of Lenin and Stalin adopted the phonetic alpha bet as a means to Immediately over coming illiteracy of the Russian people, who had been kept In ignor ance by their highly cultivated, literary educational leaders. By the phonetic alphabet 30,000 , new books per annum are being printed phonetically, teaching the Russian people all the arts and sciences, modern technology, chemistry, agriculture, animal in; dustry, increasing their production i over 400 per cent within a few years in spite of previous ignorance j and poverty. What the phonetic alphabet is doing for Russia it is doing for the people of India also and for the Philippines and Africa and of South America. The American press has an oppor tunity now of informing the Amer ican people of the supreme im portance of the phonetic alphabet as a mechanism for overcoming ig norance and poverty and creating enlightenment and abundance. The global alphabet, devised by an humble servant of the American people, is an improvement on all other phonetic alphabets by ex treme care in the forms employed in the 33 letters used. Such forms beginning and ending on a central writing line are stenographic. With the global alphabet a Russian could write his own language three or four times as fast with a pen as lie can now by printing his letter,s ' with a pen, the global alphabet letters consisting of only one or two strokes of the pen. Such Ial ters are more legible than the K>3lish letters, the Roman letters nr the Russian letters. Ame children 8 to 10 years of agc crin learn the global alphabet in o"e day, some of them in one hour, it will enable American children to write their own language Intelli gibly and legibly and five times as fast. The global alphabet requires only half the paper to write on or to print on. ROBERT L. OWEN Washington, Jan. 10. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— APPENDIX : constitutional right of s are made legal, then :an be sent to each base dless of his home State, t home to be counted, ltial candidates' names i vote a straight ballot home. Anyone In the • the head of the ticket presumed to vote for •-icket. Why should a ited for a soldier, sailor, 'one really question the \ to vote for his choice, isire of Congressmen to ecause they believe they ity of servicemen will lug to protect their franchise where State procedures fail. I refuse to say to the soldiers and sailors overseas that the Constitution of the United States, which is strong enough to put them in uniform and place them un der the fire of the enemy, which enables us to remove them from the civil courts and subject them to military law, is too weak to empower the Congress of the United States to protect our fighting men against the loss of their right to vote. G lobal Alphabet EXTENSION OP REMARKS OF o be determined that 0 vote. Then why not .1 discussions of constiolies to peacetime elecobstacles in the way of ote? 1 States has a better' is Governors than the ho is giving his or her I. R . MURPHY, ie (1 s t c l . ) . United, .eserv e. ihlngton Post] -use" 11 that comes out of without provision for be an advertisement tre that their Congress r a finger in enabling this year's great detate to be so accused f Congress. It would eglect with hypocrisy ballot will give the oting opportunity as esident declared that tg a fraud upon the nit too harsh a word State of New York, in New York State war ballot commisnted pages. Clearly I air mall. It would io would the other h the dates of most i summer and early ihance at all of the i scattered over the are subject to contion, receiving State out and return by recommendation to nd facilitate voting amount to a denial Let that be clearly mspices Is the only ir voting. All that to do Is to set up y are no longer is they would have icas-Green-Worley .v entailed is that vould prepare and ilmpllfied uniform . collect the exefor their dlstrlbu.als of the voter's id under State law tssured that their No constitutional e Infringed by this is. The Inclusion servicemen voting -Is the irreducible ss should do. The .heir obligation to hope, repeat with men and women in lgress will do noth- HON. A. S. MIKE MONRONEY OF OKLAHOMA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, February 15, 1944 Mr. MONRONEY. Mr. Speaker, under leave to extend my remarks in the R ecord, I am submitting to the Congress a recent letter by Hon. Robert L. Owen, one of Oklahoma’s most distinguished sons and former Senator, with further explanation of his global alphabet. Sen ator Owen, who for so many years in the United States Senate crusaded for many reforms, is now battling for world literacy through the adoption of a global alphabet, based on phonetic characters that are capable of representing in a written form all of the sounds of the languages of the world. The letter printed herein further ex plains this great work: J anuary 19, 1944. N ew H aven Journal -C ourier , N ew H a v en , C o n n . G e n t l e m e n : The New Haven JournalCourier's excellent commentary on the global alphabet was received. It is right In refer ring to the 47 sounds of the English language but this has been fully covered by the global alphabet which uses 33 letters of Immutable sounds, which in combination make every sound referred to. The global alphabet does not contemplate standardizing any language. It only pro poses to make visible to the eye the spoken sounds as employed In conversation, which it can do and does do effectively, thereby en abling books of instruction to put the spok en words of any foreign language Interlinear with English of Identical meaning, thereby enabling any very cheap book costing prob ably not exceeding 10 cents as a book of in struction for the Englishman to quickly learn the words and pronunciation of any foreign language and to enable anyone speak ing a foreign language to immediately read and pronounce the English equivalent to the words of his own language. This is pre cisely what Is done In a very Inadequate man ner now used by the Army and Navy in teach ing American soldiers and sailors to speak a foreign language but they are compelled to use English letters which have multiple meanings and their method requires instruc tion by an individual teacher using his voice and records recording the sounds of the voice in English. The global alphabet avoids this pitfall and the need for records or the human voice of the Instructor. You say with truth that the present Eng lish spelling is a "hodge-podge of the sort that makes the language a nightmare to adult students learning it for the first time.” This valid objection is completely met by the global alphabet. The President referred the petition on the global alphabet to the United States Senate, Senate Dooument 133, to the State Department, which Is now study / A795 ing the matter with a view to determining its claims of perfect efficiency. Eleven books are now available prepared under the direction of Prof. Mario A. Pei, of Columbia University, and 60 linguists co operating with him for teaching the princi pal languages of the world to English stu dents. His book, Languages for War and Peace contain 7 of these books. It is pub- • llshed by S. F. Vanni, of New York. These books could be printed in the global alphabet, which is not only phonetic but stenographic, enabling the people of the world with the pen to write their own language with great speed and ease. The global alphabet is a revolution and can be employed to abolish illiteracy throughout the world by enabling the world to write every sound of any human language Btenographically. The illiteracy of Russia has been abolished by the phonetic alphabets employed In Rus sian and in over 200 of its dialects. Illi teracy is being rapidly abolished by the work of Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Ph. D., and his as sociates operating with the cooperation of over 120 foreign missionary societies in over 80 different nations using the special phone tic alphabets devised by Dr. Laubach. Their production should be increased in like man ner. I send you under separate cover the proof of the truth of these statements. I thank you for your excellent'editorial and I agree that my chief obstacle In persuading the world is the apathy, indifference, and possible opposition of literary men who are content with the hodgepodge spelling to which you refer. Our obligation to literary men Justi fies our thanks to them for what they have done, but they cannot stand in the way of the mechanism already employed by over 350 nationalities wlch are now spelling and print ing books with the phonetic alphabet, alpha bets which can be learned in 1 day and in which hundreds of thousands of new books in the phonetic alphabet are now being printed. In Russia this alphabet and the Intensive education of the people with it has regener ated Russia,, and already has Increased its production over 400 percent. When all na tions adopt the phonetic system, the produc tion of the world will be correspondingly in creased, creating a world of abundance which will result In other nations sending their surplus to America for credits with which to buy the products of New Haven and of America and of other friendly nations. Prof. Pei’s instruction books in teaching foreign languages conversationally employ only about 1,200 words which are sufficient for conversation dealing with social and com mercial matters, but this opens the door to all other words required. It must be remem bered In phonetic printing the symbols em ployed are not supposed to be microscopic, but only sufficient to bring to the mind by the symbols and the context the spoken word. This has been proved to be sufficient. Moses wrote Genesis with 22 phonetic letters. It sufficed. Yours very respectfully, R obert L. O w e n . Eternal Vigilance— The Price o f Liberty \ .----------- e x t e n s io n o p r e m a r k s • or HON. LESLIE C. ARENDS OF ILLINOIS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, February 15, 1944 Mr, ARENDS. Mr. Speaker, under leave to extend my remarks in the R ecord, I include the following address of the gentleman from Massachusets, Hon, J oseph W. M artin , J r ., minority
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