Arizona republican., 1918-02-03
ONE LANGUAGE FUR THE WORLD
 PEACE PLAN

' 1 has seen as much of the world that IS of its area as well as it's experi- ences as any other man. MT. Linden meyer is native of Basic. Switzer- land. He came to this country with ms wife soon after the great war. Previous to leaving for America he resided in Paris, where he began a work of two volumes, only one of which has been completed It is called the Ideal Life.' Though written in German he has translated it into English and has been dedicated to bertha Non Suttncr, author of Ground Arms"
 1 In this work MT. Lindenmeyer out lines condition of society, that is of political society similar to such as would exist if the terms of peace inn posed by President Wilson and Lloyd George were accepted. The Ideal Life is not the ideal of a socialistic community but of a cooperative l world.
 Things have not gone well with MT Lindenmeyer in this country. He has done whatever he could to find to do and though a man of education and family, he has not hestitated to en- gage in the lowliest of vacations to support himself and his sick wife.
 He became desirous of leaving the country last August and applied to Governor Campbell 10 use his influ- ence in securing their deportation. Nothing could be done then and later 1 the matter was taken up with the national government. Arrangements have since been made for their de- portation. They will be sent to Eng land, whence they will go to Paris, where Mrs. Lindenmeyer will under go an operation for an aiment of the ear, for the elimination of the | voices"
 As a means of preserving world peace, MT. Lindcnmeyer makes plea for universal language. In a let ter to The Republican recently, he said: There is fundamental prin- each other and that is the lan- guage. When people speak different languages they cannot fully compre- bend one another and they never will so long as they have various tongues. I have no doubt that this is one of the drawbacks of interna- | tional life, and, consequently, one of the causes of the present conflict.
 "The peace conference, looming on the horizon after the presidents ad- mirable statement of aims should have as one of its objects the fixing of a universal language. By this, do not mean an official, diplomatic language, which I suppose is still French, but language to be taught in schools with a view to ultimately efface all others as dead.
 T am not competent in many things. but if I am competent in one. it is in this one. There is a dormant essay of mine somewhere in the world written about six years ago, treating this subject. Being Swiss, of German tongue, having lived in Swift zerland twenty-five years, in Ger many. a few months, in England. three years, in France seven and a half years and in America, three and a half years. and being married to an English lady twelve years, and consequently acquired the English language to the extent of being able to express myself better in this lan- guase than any other, including my mothers, I have come to the con- clusion that English is the most suit able for a universal language, apart from the fact that it is the easiest in grammar, and is spoken more eX- tensively than any other with the exception of Chinese, which of course, has no chance of becomin a universal language.
 The only languages that could be taken under consideration are French German and English. 1 have no in terest in artificial languages such as Esperanto, which are not already spoken by communities and have no literature.
 French and German have the great disadvantages of needing, a special effort in pronunciation, resulting in shrill sounds which easily lead to eX- citability and by that fact are a direct cause to nervousness. They are too pointed. They are easier when filed down to dialects. This leads to a sympathy in tongue with English and for this very reason the German Swiss, who speak German dialect acquire. as a rule. a better English pronunciation than Germans oI French It was a curious fact that my English wife can can pronounce the Swiss German dialect better than the correct German and the latter better than the French. She can even sing a Swiss cong without under standing it.
 Both the German and French srammars are ridiculously compli- cated, and for this reason alone arc not advisable. The vocabulary oi the English is larger than the others which is an advantage (to pacts) There are about 32,0oo French, 42, 900 German and 49.0o0 English words if I remember well, not counting American made words such as '.jif- fey" 'jitney," "flivver," ''milch-s goat, etc.
 There is historical evidence of the greater suitability of English for 6 universal language as compared witl the German-if it be true. About two years ago in conversation witf German in San Diego, I was tolC that in the congress of the United States after the Declaration of In dependence, the national languag' was decided. English and German held equal votes, when the vote oi the chairman, a German descendent turned the scale in favor of the Eng fish. May he in hell once more bt fried for this, said the German |