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THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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Dying Out For Want Of Fixing"

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Oct. 15. for it has revealed in all their Mr. Hilaire Belloc, witty and | splendour two of the main chare- majestic as he has ever been, teristics of the English people lectured the English Association their power to creat imaginary to-day in the great hall of West-people, and their humour. Bat al minister School. His subject w the fixing of English; his dis course was a survey of all those languages which have made and preserved the civilisations of the world.

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Backen, says Mr. Belloc, is glor ous language, but it is in peril of dying out for want not o standardisation but of a de Anit on that will be permanent. At present it changes with the years. and phases and words that once meant one thing now mean another. Words change, and we do no now speak the same language as that which our grand. fathers spoke, sa our grandchildren will use

the words which which we use but in a different sense and for different purposes.

In Mr. Belloc's young duys" nobody spoke of "raising a hat: nobody "faced up" to problems or "fell for delights. Indeed, Mr. Belloc dreads the day when it will be necessary to add a footnote to "Thou wast not born for death

that immortal bird," to explain "bird" in those days did not mean "old chap."

The English language is the twin of the the modern world, for it did not. In spite of all the arguments of those who disagree with Mr. Belloc. arise until the Afteenth century, and since then it has wandered casually, due to the "indeterminate political

societies in pansion of M.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.

Engilsh is the medium."

"I find that · Bisurated Magnesia taken after my meals is the only thing that keeps me free from pain and discomfort, and I take it regularly. I often prescribe it for my patients, and hav had very good results.

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that cannot last unless" something is done and done quickly, Today the Frenchman speaks in the language. of his classic writers, but the Englishman, who missed the chance to dx his language in the days of Swift and the classic eighteenth century, even now may have missed the opportunity of perpetuating his glories, fox no language can become even one of these "dead" languages which have made civilisation live and endure unul it has been confired within the flexible borders at agreed usage

LANE, CRAWFORD OF SHANGHAI

Goes Into Voluntary

Liquidation

A resolution that Messrs. Lane. Crawford Co., Ltd.. one of the oldest firms in Shangha should be wound up voluntar.ly was pass

ea at an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders at the registered office of the company.

23 Nanking Road, on Oct. 29.

The resolution, proposed by Mr. D. W. Crawford and seconded by Mr. D. Mernie, read, as follows:-

That the Company be wound up voluntarily and that George Aisten Buyers

Oscar and Brian Blaken chartered accountants, botn of 20 Canton Road, Shanghai, "be and are hereby appointed joint and several liquidators. for the purpose of such winding-up.

Present at the Meeting were Mr. Snobbery. according to Mr. BelD W. Crawford, chairman, Mr. D. to hus done much harm already Mennle and Mr. J. A. Cheeseman. | quality which influences us as directors, and sa representation of

much as appetite. It was snobbery 1.504 shares. which did its best to utterly and for ever drive" the split infinitive out of daily use.

A NOVEL CLUB IN PRAGUE

in moving the

The Chairman resolution, said:-

This meeting has been called in order to consider, and if thought at, pass

a special resolution to wind-up the company voluntarily. I feel that it is hardly necessary for me to explain why this step is necessary as you must all be only too well aware of the pro- sent Anancial conditions prevail-

Members To Tell Aing in Shanghai which, of course,

!

Joke A Day

reflect on bur Trade. For the

past three years the company's

annual accounts have shown losses and this has also been the case (Special Air Mail Service)

for the present year to date as London, Oct. 17. may be seen from the statement They have founded their Club. of accourt lald, Before the meet- those men in Prague who have ing. Furthermore, there are no pledged themselves, by the mera Immediate signs of better "times act of membership, tq, play, or at coming and

your directors feel the least to tell, a joke a day. It therefore, that they have no alter, is not difficult, perhaps, to guess native other than calling a meet to what professions they will being a shareholders for the pur- found to belong. For there are pose of going into liquidation. callings which can only prosper if they keep "homo sapiens" in good temper: stockbrokers, for ex- ample, who are having constantly to explain why that has not in fact risen which had so inevitably to rise. Doctors. dentists, chir- Isopodists-the public

It has no traditions as Etruscan Italian. Castilian Spanish, and French have tradition; and un like Greek. Latin, and French, it has never been fixed

"It is." Mr. Belloc affirmed to-day, "the busi- ness of our time to fix the English language before it

is too late: otherwise there will be no such thing for posterity as the English language."

It has affected the English char acter, this instrument which

In the opinion of your director, the company is solvent as regards creditors and

Oi declarat on solvency has been signed and Aled with the Registrar of Com- nantes to this effect, and so iz consequence, the winding-up, I may fear decided upon by you at this meet-

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behind their bland faces, fear the public more. Clergymen have

ing, will be a members liquida; tion. As I have said. your direc- tors are fully confidert that all a place la their daily round for creditors will be paid in full but

what retnin of capital share- holders may expect, I would assure you.. however, that all conerned will do their utmost to make the return t share

a jest or two as they go patting I cannot make any forecast as o heads; and. as for commercial travellers, they are the very soul and backbone of the Club. It is their self-appointed and arduous task to meet the same faces. over and over again, after lapsen of time sufficient to disprove the

rosiest of earlier estimates. And on the other side, there are the grim, complacent phalarxes of those who have no sort of need for Jokes; civil servants of the covenanted sort and "homo bure- aucraticue" in all his many gulses. Solicitors may be found hove: ing doubtfully between the Their brethren of the wig have decided long ago that jckes, in very strict moderation, are

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Ust-

ful adjuncts to a prosperous car. eer; but then advocates are by de- Inition men who have to placate. Solicitors try to maintain a thin trickle of humour, to keep things easy in their consultations with cllents. but woe betide them If they attempt their imper- fectly mastered jesls in the chambers of barristers By and large in 3 world eager to trade, the joke is secure of its place, and the Prague Club deser- ves to be welcomed by the many men, in every country, who rea- lize, after some lost years. that what is holding them back is no specific ignorance or incompeterea in their tasks, but a wooden lack of geniality which must be var- nished over at all costs.

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holders a substantial as possible. Before nutting the resolution tu the meets. I shali pe pleased to answer any questions which share- holders may care to ask.

There being no questions asked, the Chairman put the resolution to the meeting and it was carried

nazimously—N.C.D.N.·

HOME COMMODITY VALUES

City Unruffled By

Sanctions

(Special Air Mall Service,

London, Oct 17.

The prospect of the applications of sanctions against Italy had uttle appreciable effect in the City to-day. The City has been discounting the effect of sanctions for some time past by raising com- modity, values and lowering curity prices.

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Holders of Italian lire notes in this country are to-day making strenuous efforts to sell their hold- ag at ever widening discounts.

To-day stock markets were fair- ¡y stfady apart from a further de- cline in Gift-edged stocks and Where the Prague Club is show-some commoditles such as wheat, ing itself timid and remiss is in cotton and th further advanced, not providing for the invention Other metals, however, were lower. of now jokes. There exists in the elaborate machinery of human life means of easing the social difficulty of the oft-repented jest, People somehow cannot obey the preliminary injunétion to say at once if they heard the tale before. They prefer to listen and to at tempt a hollow. laugh, because they dread the embarrassed silence when they have robbed a fellow

But although the discount has widened to 81. lire to the £ com- pared with the rate on Friday of" 74 na buyers are coming forward. Business based on legitimate trade deals is still being done at the man of the best thing he had to pegged spot rai; of 804 lire to the

say: It is not so much distrust of £.

histrionic capacity which seals the

egger lips of the novice as well-

grounded fear that the sort of

mature, travelled and important cept bitter trial men, whom it is chiefly necessary Club which could guarantee that its to conciliate with culled quips, Jokes are not only good but-new for will have heard anything good would have an eager rush long before. He is not so much membership, and plenty of .can- afraid of telling a joke badly as gidates .entered by their of telling a chestnut; yet there is sighted parents long before their no way of knowing a chestnut ex- birth.

and error.

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