PURITY OF LANGUAGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 157, 4 June 1929, Page 2

PURITY OF LANGUAGE.

MEASURE FOR PRESERVATION

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 3. The first group of the returning Australians from the A ancouver Educa tional Conference reached Wellington to-dav on the Makura. consisting or Mr f'ranklin. headmaster of the M-) bourne Grammar School. Mr Gm.:tn Director of Education for New_ Sou::: Wales, and Sir A. Strong, Professor o: English at the Adelaide University, “The major theme of the conteren ~ was education for leisure, and one the most impressive figures v-s Sir Rabindranath Tagore, ’ s- - Mr Smith, who gave three long addresses on the _ philosophy of leisure, telling the conference that time was money. but leisure was wealth. W hilc in Canada and Annrfca Air Smith took the opportunity m investigate the talkies, and he is strongly of the opinion that if we are to preserve the purity of "the Engliii. language drastic steps must be taker, to keep out films which do violence t • our Saxon speech. “Legislation iwanted.” he said, "to enable the censor to exclude all calkie pictures whirr, disregard the canons of pure speech as practised amongst the educated classes in British communities. In the interests of the boys and girls of our lands some drastic step must be taken."