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etters To The Editor*l. j> ...- - - ________________ ... - . ■ e. is strugnd WPA, lire town one was iy home .own here many of iders fo rd lor it. •emendous [erful pay, •ters com e used to .ions, the on three orial with ach one of lant newsendlessly. ■ I’m sure, , lervisors, a said only in Boeing ply even a r hours by t the vital vice before jtbooks o f ius? Mine t our gena plain of us about is retooling. *1 West Hartford. Language and Peace To the-Editor o f The Tim es: 7 In all o f our 48 states, we speak, think and act as one. This* is one o f the answers to the ques tion: W hy is our nation strong and great? W e understand one another a n d . with understanding comes peace and strength. One does not have to use his imagination very hard to realize what this country would be like if we had a different language spoken in each o f the 48 states. It would be just another Europe. It is so easy to misunderstand some one who speaks a language which you do not know. It creates mistrust, fear, confusion and jealousy. T o have a universal language would o f course require the c o operation o f all nations and m uch time spent in education but I be lieve that as a postwar factor for peace it could be accon)plished and I am sure it would do more to cement friendship between na tions than anything else for it would break down misunderstand ing and increase trust and good will. , D. H. BF.LDEN. . ...... ...... ity 0 his 1 Com are t convi tritei bring is th you £ his . dogs term chec] nor', prog: the t turb Go eyelii flaps .*row •ibilit the ' force terist Indiv bight but t flaps. J1 )hube Global Alphabet ‘r ' T - ' T - , * 7 ' j Few days pass without sohie . of international misunderstanding. I cannot help but feel that a good deal of this bickering and stale mate is caused by language bar riers. Former Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma, president of the World Language Foundation in Washington . . . has worked dil igently on a tool he feels is seri ously needed by the world in ordet to raise living standards and main tain peace. That tool is a key to all languages— so that the millions of the world’s "men on the street” can learn each other’s language. That key, a “ Global Alphabet” of 37 simple phonetic symbols, is now perfected. Senator Owen is com■ pleting bilingual books in seven e leading languages interpreted in y the Global Alphabet. 3 The World Language Foundation ‘ staff knows that the Global Alpha* bet “ w'orks." They have demon strated it to natives of all countries ‘ whose languages are interpreted " in the Global Alphabet books. They * understand that the Global Alphal bet supporters do not wish to “ re" form” present spelling of any j language, nor the form in which j languages are now printed. They J . understand the Global Alphabet 1 for what it is— a simple phonetic £ key that fits any language in the i world— and which can be learned 1 easily by illiterate and scholar i , alike. 1 i Global’s inventor, Senator Owen, 1 ,-has spent his life in public serv- t r ice. He feels that the invention of ( l the Global Alphabet is his greatest f * s contribution to a world in which 1 y he still has faith. I suggest the t n world take a few minutes off and j n investigate the Global Alphabet— T 1 I believe it would agree with the ii inventor. PEACE-LOVER. o Washington. a v
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