WAR ON GERMAN SCRIPT

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 March 1916, Page 2

WAR ON GERMAN SCRIPT

The super-patriotic Germans press is in high dudgeon over the "transonabie'' attempts oi 'V.cript relorniers, wJio ch.sire to abolish the German chraciers in which German newsp,ij)e;'o and books, as well as o. dinary correspondent, still appear, an<l substitute. lliitmin .vtters. The movement is led by a weil-kiiowu nianufactum - ol Genuah pen-nibs, ilerr Eriedrick ttoeniiicken, of Jionn, who recently ( made propoganda ior it in the "Cologne Gaze Lie ' under the title of "A lvultur Question." Anyone who has ever been condemned to read German type wil< sympathise with the nib-maker's crusade. A. great many leading German newspapers have tor years been printed in both Gei man and Roman, the 'atter being used almost always for the financial aud. commercial pages. Many books are also published ill Eoinan, and business correspondence _ when typewritten is cointiicted in that lettering. formerly only the teaching ol penmanship in Gei man script -was-permit-ted m the schools but now Itoiuan is taught as' well. Professor Tesch, or t 01l gne. wriiing in tile Hevenitivhut ■■Deiiische Tegaszeitung" (December 28) bemoans' the lact t»iat "at.an nour wlien we are lighting a terrible struggle to pn servo everything which is (lonian, anybody should' be louna readv to wage war on so priceless a net ancient' a 'lvultur asset as German script."