The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25

would compile c book, Q sort of Q bible devoted to little else but the names Of foreign places, with an agreed on pronunciation for each one" And now, lol such Q book has appeared.
 It is called World Words" and is written by W. Cabell Greet, Asso. ciate Professor of English In Bar. nard College, Columbia University. Each entry Is respelled in two ways: first in c SlmpllAed Websterian ale phabet (which presents no difh- cultieS to anyone accustomed to American dictlonaries) then phone- tieally without special markings 50 that the pronunciation iS self evi. dent.
 The book contains useful general notes on the pronunciation of names in various foreign languages, from Albanian and Arabic to Thai and Turkish, There are also recommend ations as to the preferred forms of some niiSpronuonee or disputed common English words.
 It S published by the Columbia Press for the Columbia Broadcast. Ing system. It's price iS $500, and I'll bet that before long it will be Q MUST on the desk of every radio newscaster who iS sick of founder. Ing around for the correct pronun- eietion Of names Of places just be- fore going on the air. And I'll bet ltll Do Q MUST in the library of everyone not an isolationlst, who Ill continue to talk about the far distant cities and villages of the world long after the war Is done.
 Vending It's way eastward, Amer. ica's Town Meeting of the Air will stop off in St. Louis ThurSday, Sept. 2e for . discussion of the topic, "Slouid Returning Soldiers Have Job Preference Over Senior Work ers9" The program will Do heard from 8:S0 to o:30 ?. Ili., over WATR and the Blue Network.
 Speakers approving tho pfoposis ton that first choice of jobs be awarded ex.servicemen are: Harry W. CoimeFy, Past National Com. mander, the American Legion, and Col. Paul K. Griffith, Chief of the Veterans' Personnel Division, selec- tive Service System.
 Refuting their arguments will be Aaron LoVenstein, Director Of the Labor Department, Research Insti. ute of America, and James Wis. hart, research head of the United Automobile Workers Union. Wishart was formerly head Of the economic department of Wooster College, Wooster, Ohio.
 How c Pfc. "Somowhere in Norths ern Ireland" helped the WATR Blue Network locate his eight.year. old brother in Huntington, W. Va., has been revealed in Q batch Of correspondence, marked the Wright family" received recently by Isabel Manning Howson, writer and mar. rator of the networks program, The Land of the Lost.
 Each week, The Land of the Lost, which is an imaginary Kingdom un- der the sec, conducts Q contest for It's child listeners. The fantastic uils dcrwater monarchy, according to Mrs. Hewson, is the place to which oil toys 60 that children lose. Therefore, the seven youngsters writing the best letters about lost toys to the programs broadcast, every Saturday, at ii:30 c. Ttl., 70" coIve the closest duplicates of these toys that can Do found in the earth's toylands.
 Among the thousands of letters that Mrs. HewSon receives each week was one from young Paul Wright, whose wagon, used to carry groceries for his widowed mother, had finally broken down. Paul wrote about his father, who was c manual training teacher, and about his sole dies brother, who liked toys good" In his enthusiasm about his broeh- or, who was no longer on hand to mend the wagon, he sent the broths er's fuii APO address, but omitted his own.
 Anxious to i'll Paui's request for a new wagon, Mrs. HewOon wrote the older brother who, tt turned out. Was stationed in Northern Ireland. n due time, she received afl sSi' Swer from Pfc. J. Leo Wright, who said:
 r tried usisucceGsfuiiy to cable you, but tho message was not osfi. clai enough to Dc accepted sor transmission"
 ReinaFking that Paul was "a re- markabIe wee lad, ag they say here in Ireland, and will Do cveFjoyed II his letter Is selected" Pfc. Wright sent the Huntington, ". va., ads dress and asked for . further report on young Paul's efforts to get 6 new
 Hcth the wagon and tho report