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SOME POSSIBLE CAUSES.

BRITAIN AND DYES,

HOW WE HAVE FAILED,

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Flo omphasised that the groat German dye plants were potential] arsenals which kept Germany supplied with ammunition, pro- vided poison gasos, and added essence of the chemical warfare.

In the old days it used to be London, 24th March-Criticls- assumed and generally withing the new constitution and justico, that the cause of bad management of the Dyestuffs spelling was 'scant roading. Of Corporation on the 23rd March, the modern, outbreak of the dis-Doctor Levinstofn declared that ease there oan ho no explanation the wartime lessons of the 80 simple, for most of those who nation's vitul dopondence on the nowadays suffer" from it road dye industry had boon forgotten. onough in all conscience.

How is it, then, that in this literate ago there is so much apparont uned for a dictionary on the writing-table and so little apparent use made of it? How is it that, though we repol the sug- gestion that cross-word puzzles.

It will be a surprise if future may usefully increase the solvers belligerents only launch a vocabulary, we are got bound to substance

valueblo and admit that they may have some dangerous na inustard gus. But

that is available value in teaching their devotees when how to spell? What blind spot sufficient quantities it will secure in the contemporary eye allows a victory, word seen again and again in There will not be time to print to be after all written wrong-provide a reply. Therefore the ly and to go to post with its orror nation, would sleep more com- unperceived?

fortably if it possessed a patent Perhaps those who goom doom-force to counter the onomy's od to bad spelling huve some

activities.

Dr Lovinstein added that} strange disability to observe or

in

to remember the shape of a word: Lord Ashfield, when President of for words, like faces, are remem: the Board of Trado in war time, bered by their shape and expres- forced the amalgamation of the sion better than by any deliberate companies into the Dyestuffs according of their component Corporation, but failed to fulfi his promise to restrict the imports of dyes for a decade.

parts.

Porhaps this disability is the outcome of roading that is too fast or and this is at least as probable-too slow. Perhaps the sinners whom the discipline of no dictionary will redeom, ondured some curious system of phonetics in their youth and have never recovered from it..

Parliament passed the Dye- stutis Acts after renewed Gorman importe had irretrievably dam- aged the industry.

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Lord Ashfield, despite eighteen other directorships, was

the Dyestuffe chairman of Corporation and had introduced reconstruction causing great loss to the companies.

In the amalgamation Dr. Levinstein's company's shares) were now murely wastepaper.

He added that Lord Ashfield |

But none of these reasons, nor all of them together, will agent for the man, often of considerable culture, who flounders for ever. between errors and mnomonics, or for the lady who knows every- thing else worth knowing but suffers repeated humiliation be fore “seizu" and "siège." Those are incurable; ou advice, our encouragement, and our diction-country, handicapped industry aries are all in vain

und stimulated Labour unrest,

The truth is that after many years of torment, bad. spellers, if they have not the saving affront-i Tery which wisely makes light of trivial urrors, loso heir nerve and are overwhelmed in their own,

dispair."--"knee?% «

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was an example of the cult of the titled amateur entering business. This cult was unknown outside

England and was ruinous to the

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