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...President Kemal made official use of the ordinary European alphabet in writing Turkish, last week, and announced that this daring innovation will soon be made compulsory throughout Turkey...
...widespread illiteracy of our population," he said shrewdly, "will make it far easier to introduce a new alphabet in Turkey than in a country where many people already know their letters. . . . Millions of Turks have abandoned the fez for the hat. . . . Thousands will find it even easier to adopt a new alphabet . . . [which] the millions will learn as their first...
...letters in the name of J. D. Rockefeller, who gave each of the globe-circlers a lucky dime; 3) the 13 letters in the name of Standard Oil Co., which "brought Mr. Rockefeller no ill luck"; 4) the first letter of "Mears" is the 13th of the alphabet...
Came the news from Budapest to Paris. Unhappy Acting League Council Chairman Tcheng Loh found himself a helpless victim of the alphabet. He was the wrong man in the wrong place. He speaks for a nation where wholesale smugglery of arms has produced incessant civil war. The very "Chinese Republic" from which he stands accredited at Paris has vanished in a welter of Chinese anarchy. Therefore his position in respect to a mere five carloads of smuggled machine gun parts was exquisitely awkward. No wonder then that Tcheng Loh betook his gangling, spidery self, last week, to the office...
...bathroom instead of in a glass tub before a mixed audience is not an infringement of the freedom of bathing; and my advice respecting the proposed lecture of Mrs. Russell no more affects the liberalism of the University of Wisconsin or its loyalty to free speech than the Hottentot alphabet-if there is one-affects the selling price of Wisconsin cheese...