Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-23
THE WEsTERNER AND HIS
 TALENT FOR TALKING.

TALENT FOR TALKING.
 From no less an authority than Judge Robert Grant a member of the Harvard Board of overseers cones the assertion that the young of this country are inferior conversational powers those who have ceived their education in other English speaking tries Whether this received in spirit of humility is met with resentment depends much upon the importance that is attached to it. l. is a sweeping commentary and provokes the suggestion that Judge Grant might have modified it with an explana- tory dealing with conditions in this country and England which makes comparisons difficult
 If he will limit his observations to young en- toying the advantascs of Oxford and Cambridge and compare their conversational ability with equal her of young of Harvard and Yae-these unversi- being selected because they represent the oldest institutions in their respective oountreswe inclined to belief that young America would suffer great ly by comparison Also the young men in this cou1- try unable enjoy the advantages of college eiueatiou doubtless better equipped than those districts of Great Britain England has her Yorkshire men with their dialect and the United States her Down East Yankees with their twang
 Conversational ability in this country tent matter of geography believe. If this view be accepted We are inclined proer the West the palm of superiority The westerner be credited with ruggedness directness of expression that will make it's appeal wherever spoken to whatever company of intelligent men. Conversation is in elusive term having to do with subject diction these several oomponents. The Western may not or. these several components The westerner may or nament his conversation in the others.
 may his subjects do tend to the scholastic But be it in the drawing room or elsewhere opne ;I hafnr vaudil ence than the intelligent westerner with his wholesome topics his of delivery and his breezy but unboisterous charm In the matter breadth of gen. eraI knowledge, he need keep silent in company of redblooded wellread men.
 This treatment of Judge Grants observations mar be broader than warranted by premises which made it is therefore only quote him briefly:
 There is reason to believe that English in everyday speech by the undergraduates is inferior in simplicity drectness and variety to that of other Engsh-speaking young of the and with equal educational advantages outside of the United States"
 As for dreetness always thought that Young America had shortcomings that The sub iect of slang inadvertently discussion cause Americans avowedly employ it than any nation earth. It is pertinent repeat the follow ing Dr. c. Stanley Hall. president of Clark Uni yersity worcester. Mass who said address:
 Good slang is permissible" In England. especially. GOOD slang spoken by Amer jeans is appraised high valuation enjoyed defended by many who place themselves above the attacks pursts ard grammariaEs The editor of The Review may pardoned in Tecounting that while London 1911 the occasion of the coronation of King George an English editor of a worId-known Lon dor newspaper requested article the coronation l ron an Americans viewpoint
 It would please if you will good Amer l cau slang in your description of the occasion" the said
 Good slang has legitimate place in conversation. It constituent in the qualities which lend sparkle md indicate aIertIess conversation The Engshmar gladly would exchange his tresome pun the equal of good American slang Until universal standard for conversation. specifying what excellent a' what inhibited, lostbe to believe that the Toung men Of America fall far short Of their English ,rcihers'a