Transcribe
Translate
Cora Whitley writings and speeches, 1924-1927
Unidentified Correspondence Page 1
More information
digital collection
archival collection guide
transcription tips
Seattle-- One of the interesting studies for the thoughtful reader is to note how in the course of years new word or combinations of words find their way into the common language of the people & thus the vocabulary is enlarged and sometimes the horizon also is widened by its by its coming. The world war introduced many; the results of scientific research have made imperative the creation of new words to describe new inventions. Our ancestors would find unintelligible much of our ordinary conversation with its references to telegraphs and telephone and radio and a host of others. But new movements bring with them also enrichment - to the language and the vocab - &c. Can you remember when Theodore Roosevelt call for a conference of governors the subject of conservation of nat res. had a sufficiently unfamiliar sound so that one congressman asked another "What is this thing that my governor is coming on to Washington for - something about conservation - and the other said "Oh just another of Roosevelts fads". And what wonder that our people were so slow to learn the meaning of the word conservation or its need - where the inexhaustible resources of this rich land of ours have been the foundation upon which our whole economic system has been built up. They have been the theme of Fourth of July orators and the inspiration for ardent forces. And there was justification for all that has been said or sung as to the richness of our national heritage. No people on earth ever began their national existence with such a heritage Always impressed in crossing this continent This time the great wheat fields of North Dakota - the ? swelling reaches
Saving...
prev
next
Seattle-- One of the interesting studies for the thoughtful reader is to note how in the course of years new word or combinations of words find their way into the common language of the people & thus the vocabulary is enlarged and sometimes the horizon also is widened by its by its coming. The world war introduced many; the results of scientific research have made imperative the creation of new words to describe new inventions. Our ancestors would find unintelligible much of our ordinary conversation with its references to telegraphs and telephone and radio and a host of others. But new movements bring with them also enrichment - to the language and the vocab - &c. Can you remember when Theodore Roosevelt call for a conference of governors the subject of conservation of nat res. had a sufficiently unfamiliar sound so that one congressman asked another "What is this thing that my governor is coming on to Washington for - something about conservation - and the other said "Oh just another of Roosevelts fads". And what wonder that our people were so slow to learn the meaning of the word conservation or its need - where the inexhaustible resources of this rich land of ours have been the foundation upon which our whole economic system has been built up. They have been the theme of Fourth of July orators and the inspiration for ardent forces. And there was justification for all that has been said or sung as to the richness of our national heritage. No people on earth ever began their national existence with such a heritage Always impressed in crossing this continent This time the great wheat fields of North Dakota - the ? swelling reaches
World War I Diaries and Letters
sidebar
