A Patriotic Service
Pending the completion of the important tasks involvd in the preparation of the Handbook, the Board mesurably reduced its field activities, which the unrest in the colleges and scools, incidental to the reorganization of educational work to meet the conditions imposed by the country's entry into war, in itself made advizable. As more favorable conditions develop, the Board wil expand its efforts to the extent that financial support and volunteer effort may be forthcoming. It trusts that the great part that a rational simplification of English spelling can take, not only in the more speedy Americanization of our foren population, but in rendering English more available as a means of international communication, wil forcibly appeal to all those who cherish these patriotic aims, and wil make it possible to continue on an Enlarged scale its work for this important educational reform.
SIMPLIFIED SPELLING BOARD
Original members: E. Benjamin Andrews,[1] chancellor of the University of Nebraska; O. C. Blackmer,[1] fonetician and publisher, Oak Park, 111.; David J. Brewer,[1] justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; Andrew Carnegie[1]; Samuel L. Clemens[1] ("Mark Twain"); Melvil Dewey, author and library economist; Isaac K. Funk,[1] editor and publisher of the Standard Dictionary; Lyman J. Gage, formerly secretary of the Tresury; Richard Watson Gilder,[1] editor of The Century Magazine; William T. Harris,[1] U. S. Commissioner of Education; George Hempl, professor of English in the University of Michigan
^Deceast.
