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U rges R e fo rm o f A lphabet L ON DON , M arch 30 (/P)— G eorge B ernard Shaw declared today that he w as w ijlin g to bequeath his en tire fortune to establish[ a new fo r ty -tw o -le tte r E nglish Llphabet that would represent a lf speech sounds in the language In a letter to The Tim es o f L on don endorsing B asic English, Mr. Shaw said he had used the alpha bet— which he devised him self— fo r years to save time in his own w riting. “I f WASHINGTON. D. Urged to Erase World Hatred only the British G overnm ent g i b e d .^ intell* ent as 1 « m “ be Im m ediate adoption o f a universal language was called for yesterday by Dr. H arold B enjam in, director o f International Educational R elations, U. S. O ffice of Education, as he headed a discussion before the W a s h i n g t o n L uncheon Forum -of Y outh Serv ing Agencies. “ One word describes the barrier that stands in the way o f better understanding am ong the w orld’s nations and that word is igno rance,” Dr. B enjam in said. "H a tred is dissolved by dispelling ignoran ce,” the educator added. , r 'V£(r haVe 110 En£ lish alphabet,” has fort'v fWr°^e ' ‘‘E n£lish speech nas fo it y -t w o sounds w hich m ust be spellable before the language - rp® or read intelligenty. Po do this with tw en ty -six let ters we have to resort to perm uta tions and com binations.” t h i r T i V v f f Ahat R ussia- w ith her u n ity -fiv e -le tte r alphabet can steea d m o fnafm e With tW° le “ ers in m a k it possible y us to c o n i m a k el it*.im fo u r . m afor con ceivab ly said6 e? TJ ically w ith R ussia,” he n om t hee * lp hia wet 8aved y ow nhy using tn a I n l b ® for m years w orks anH Vle y U 11 have to be transcribed fn Phnen ^ SGt UP and Prin ted avp ! " ? 1 s0 nobody ’s time is saved except m y ow n.” | Robert M | Sends P residem Vfo Global Alphabet 9 ' A form er United States Senator irom Oklahoma sought President R oosevelt’s aid yesterday in proi m otlng acceptance o f “ a global al phabet” which, the, author said, could be m ade a world language and increase production o f 60 per . 2 ° f the w orld’ s inhabitants by 400 or 500 per cent.” R obert L. Owen, now a W ash ington attorney, m ade public a letj ter lie had written to the President |d escribin g his alphabet as “ a m echanism by which the English anguage can be taught as a w orld language.” * j j ‘ 1 t - Some P ropose English. He said one o f the quickest ways o f dispelling the ignorance that blocks the path to better world co-operatiotl is the adoption of a universal language. M an y o f his foreign friends, he said.-have advo cated the adoption of English as a world language, but he did not voice any favoritism fo r any par. ^icular tongue.. Dr. B enjam in w a s -o n e o f the U. S. delegates to the U nited Na tions O rgan ization ’s E ducation - C om m ittee when that group m et in L ondon recently, A veteran o f both W orld W a r s ,'h e was dean o f education at the University o f M aryland before entering the arm y at the beginning of this war. Cites Anglo-U. S. Friendship • ; I he phonetic stenographic alp h a b e U w ritten by sound sym bols .ana not b y S pelling,.consists o f 18 consonants, Six com pound con so nants and 18 vow el sounds' which Owen said have “ one im m utable prim ary sound o f the human voice with no silent letter.” ( :! ji !! \ \ \j T he educator attributed the friend ly relations th a t -h a v e ex isted in recent years between this country and England to the fa ct that the people o f both countries speak the same language and to the efforts o f educators o f both coun tries to dispel the type o f ig norance th at causes international friction . He said the UNO e d u c a t io n ! com m ittee m ust spearhead the^ fig h t fo r adoption o f a u n iv e rsa l' language. P rof. M. S. Sundaram , O x ford 1 educated H a s t . Indian, w as the other: leader o f the discussion. He said a ll,th e nations of the world, both large and sm all, are looking to the United States fo r a share o f the m oral, intellectal and e c o nom ic prosperity this coun try is en joyin g. He advocated abolition o f the veto pow ers of. big nation m em bers o f the UNO. C om m issioner Joh n W . Studebaker o f the U. S. O ffice o f Education presided over the discussion w h ich took place at a lu«icheon in the Y.W .C .A ., Seventeenth and K Sts. NW.-
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