July 13.
When the signatories of the Treaty of Versailles pledged the Great Powers to the protection of the rights of the smaller nations, they not only laid the foundations but erected part of the superstructure of a modern Yower of Babel in Europe. pre-war days, one could count the real official languages of the Continent on the fingers of both hands. To-day, there are no fewer than a hundred and twenty languages spoken within the same area—not dialects, but real, recognized tongues used in universities and schools and printed in daily newspapers.
'A few years ago, English, French and German with smattering of Spanish or Italian would take one almost anywhere on the Continent. They probably would to-day. But if things continue as they are, this state of affairs cannot last for long. The rising generation in numerous small states are now being educated through the medium of tongues which have been promoted from being crude dialects, expressing the thoughts of uncultured peasants, into real languages whose vocabu-' laries ave being augmented 20 that they can express the latest ideas and discoveries in science and philosophy, As one writer recently remarked "whereas the Roman Empire taught its subjects to chant Latin in unison, the League of Nations tries to
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