THE KING'S ENGLISH IN WAR TIME

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3169, 21 August 1917, Page 2

THE KING'S ENGLISH IN WAR TIME

: . "THE ABSO. iflN." It's no use blinking tue truth (says a writer in the "Ba"y Chronicle"), til the menace of tho Übos is removed- we sliai hi have 2 cut down our lives 2 Wγ Jibso. min. The Chron Ts small enough as it is. but if the papr famine continue, it may be evn smaller, & then the only way iu which the days news can j> glVn is 2 cut our words according 2 our papr. With smaller paprs must cum shorter words. Itl .take some doing, but needs must wen the Übos dive. The die must bo compd, al tho big words givn the biff & al tho short words cald out i service. Big words that hav 2 their a/o. many years of useful service wil not be scrapt, but ■ their letr rations wil b sverly cSE down. .JYinstanco therl never be room to print the Captl of Turky in 1 issue of tho Chron. ■ Snople must be eulT. It don't look nice. It is a blo,w 2 tho liberti of tho Pres, it fhretns the glori of our ma tongue, our English of Shakes & Wordy. But 2 go on in {ho old way ii quite iniposs. We must make up oul- ' minds 2 it. Beading the newspaper wil not be the old idl balliance over the brek table it was. Our lessur mos. t gon 5 a. We shal feel wen we tak up our Chron or Tele & pick out the itmsj of news with much diff, that we r really doing our' V.c; Nor de we spose events wil l> h rtpnThfj just bekos we havnt the papr 2 print them onT On the con, it looks as if the bigger the haps the smallr will b tho papre <fc the greater our task in keeping peple inl'onnd of whats going on. i this state of things no 1 is drectl.y 2 blame. Its just war. The nation with al its Allies is girded up to c the thing thro. Our gal prem Mr. Geo. is working mite & main in conjunct with the Gov & War Cab 2 dfeat an unscrup to while Pros Wil & Mr. Bal r not letting the gras gro under their feet. Our superb army under Sir Dug Haig is doing ldrs. & fulfilling al the hopes roposd in them by our- C of Stf Sir Wni Eobson. The Hindy line is bending under the combind bW of the Franco-Brit legions, while th ss. Prince Ksr Wm's Horn hope is already a back no. If our Navy is 4 tiie mo chekt by the Übos, it is only pro tern. Sir J. Jell, in not btn by any means. The fight wil )>o fought out 2 the ful no. of rounds and we al kno where the Übos wil be wen Time is cald. The U.S.A. has 2 be reckond with & if £ what they say Is tra the Übo3 wont nose around with impu wen Tom Ed'gets busy. v Meantime tilings cant b as usual. War makes al the diff. Facs must lie facd. We must adjust our lives 2 uTO sit. Praps the terror of living 2 enfiiire a few cols of this sort of thing fiaily ,may stir us up 2 xtra efforts 2 win thro as quickly as poss so that wo may njoy again, among the blessings of peace, zAvi & overflowing measure of the King s Knglish.