New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-20
TWAIN ON "SPELLlN."
Speaks at associated Press Dinner
at Waldorf.

Marx Twain spoke on Reformed 1pellin' at
the dinner OF the newspaper editors OF the United
States. comprising ThesAssociated Press OF Amer
lea, held at the Waldorf last night Melville T.
Stone. general manager OF The Associated Press.
was the POSTMASTER. With Mr.. stone az the guests
table also sat General Horace Porter. former Am
bassaeor to France. VINO replied to the toast. "Our
Guests; Henry A Shute. OF Exeter. " H., the
author OF "A Real Boys Diary told OF "Critics.
whils Professor George Z. Vincent. OF Chicago Uni
versity. spoke Of the Purely Academic"
Mr.. Twain said. IN part:
am here to make an appeal TO the nations in
because they cannot All bs reached except through
you There are only two forces that carry
sum IN he heavens a S Ths Press
down here. may seem TO be hattering the sun,
Just and fair ali round You speak with million
voices no one can reach SO many races so many
Kiplng. aad he cannot do II without Your help.
smplted forms and thus spread them 70 the ends
Of the earth. covering the whole spacious planet
eulties are at an end Every day Of the sS tbs
s only pages o. the worlds countess b &
and devils that can read are those pages that are
so beg you I bsseee9 yOH-Oh. inplore you.to
spell them in our simPiihed forms. DO this daily.
three months-it is ali I ask. The infallible re-
DO see Is be sssn a hs goO de Of the world?
That Is the idea IL Is my public attitude: prt-
vately, am merely seeking my OWE profit We
ali do II. Sut It Is sound, and Il IS virtuous for
no public interest Is anything other or nober than
when the smDlihed sPelling movement FIRST tried 70
MAKE noise. was indifferent TO IT, more even II
revsrently scOned al Il What needed vas az
object lesson. you see; Il g the only way 70 teach
was scGambins along. A earning the famiiys bread
on magazine work at cents a word. compound
present SR Was t ths pr 1GsS as u sR cara
I-cent slave under boiler iron contract. Ore day
write ten pages on this revolving text; "Consid-
uFs4fT n1TI
experimentation OF the OrnithOrhyncus. as fore
saurian anisodactyIous aspects
Ten pages OF that. Each and every word sew
cents word. I saw starvation staring the family
IN the face. went 10 the editor, and took a
down in black and white I said Read that text.
o5 s3 gas ei - On ts Eseer9 Te9 ~ out out
Alleged SubJerranean HOOphotaI ExtempOraneOus-
OTnithorhyncGs, as Forsshadowed by the Uninteli-
gibity OF Its Plesosaurian AnisodactylOus AS
LIS SAID H. You want ten pages q those 51m6IIag
81 e t tbs sumner aa t asI P ana you expect
He said: "A words a word. and seven cents Is
said jae IoI a tSs qs SS I o1pro
What's VIA ar, an ay s,rT English wordT'
I said: Nothing Of the kind; that's French and
English word IS four letters and half BY hard
honest labor have dug all the large words out OF
Is three letters and half can put 100 words on
your page and there's not another man alive that
me. II takes exactly as long TO III your maya
zine page with long words as It does with short
injustice OF this requirement OF yours. am care
t t fn a Ss % o. my time end 5S E3s
metropolis for cents. because can get the same
can get the same price for cop; And 80 on and
so on never write valetudinarian az all, Tor not
the point where viii do word like that for :
cents. wouldn't do n for Is Examine your OBJ
and said It was twenty,foHT. asked him 70 count
the letters. He made. Il a3.
From that day 70 this have been devoted dan. and
ton the International Association FOR the Pre-
ing with Carnesie's simpIifed Committee and with
my heart IN the work
General Porter said in part;
I have always observed that a man spends the
t R5 az ms a6 I9 be trE ase n yn to get
II out A tack on the hOOr Is never so dangerous
OF an editor is never so dangerous when il
points downward. OaughterD
speaker has a decided advantage over the editor
IN that he doesn't have 10 spell the words he uses
(LaughterJ
Mr. Stone In building up the Associated Press IN
Europe. His remarks were greeted with much ap-
R most worthy man OF Of this Procession
Among those present were g. 7. Oliver. TIE ~,
'aThe Philadelphia Press: T. r Martin, The
Providence Journal { 81 BSynton, The Asso-
Louis Wiley The New York Tines; G. H Rem
bold. .'The Cincinnati Tineg-star''; z B. Lillsy,
The Cleveland Plain Dealer: Hart Lyman, The
New York Tribune: Q. V. Van Anda. The New
9SJk q q TaTd Ta ThS New Yor EsSS
POST: J. H Fahey. The Boston Traveller; A ].
BaTT The o PistsgurE 1851 PSs5 S sf Pbnas
phia Enquirer; c. J, Brooks. The San Francisco
HsTSpS General Charles T. Taylor Se Boston
Globe; Victor LAWSON. The chicago pai!y
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