WAR ON GERMAN SCRIPT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2692, 11 February 1916, Page 9

WAR ON GERMAN SCRIPT

• .®, s fP® r "P a ti''°tic German Press is | ui nigh dudgeon over .the "treasonable" attempts ol "script- reformer's," who aesire to abolish the German characters m which German newspapers and books, as well as ordinal'}' correspondence, still appear, and substitute Roman .ii el i'. S ' 10 mov °ment is led by a well-known manufacturer of German pen-nibs, Herr Friedrich Soennecken, or isonn, who recently made propaganda lfc ' n J' le "Cologne Gazette under the tit eof "A Kultur Question." Anyone who has ever been condemned to IP German type will sympathise with the nib-maker's crusade. A great many leading German newspapers have for years been printed in both German and nlw!\ a "'c ?i ln i ter ' leine llsecl almost always for the htianeial and commercial pages. Many books are also published in Komau, and business correspondence wlifii typewritten is conducted in that lettering. Formerly only the teaching of penmanship m Herman script was permitted ill the scliools, but now lioinau is laught as well. Professor Tescii, of Cologne writing in t| le Reventloviau Deutsche lapszeitiuig" (December bemoans the tact that "at an hour when we are fighting a terrible struggle to preserve everything which is German, anybody should be found ready to jvage war on so priceless and ancient a Juiitiir asset as German script." i ' '■