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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1952 THE DAILY TIMES - GAZETTE I Ie da at La EE i an teat T= pKaE TWENTY-FIVE Infinitive Fissionable In Pinch As if the English-speaking peo- ples of the earth did not have troubles enough to vex them, the thorny matter of split infinitive has to again turn up, writes a New York Times columnist. Out in Los Angeles a learned just written a book on reported: What he did criticize, and publicly, were no errors in the law but the author's use of phrases such as '"'tov completely disregard," and "to so treat a sit- uation." AUTHOR ADAMANT The author bounced right back, for if there is one remnant left of the basic rights of the Anglo- Saxon it his right to split an in- finitive. The author threw every authority he could find at the judge and the judge bowed. His letter to the author was a master- piece. In it he said: "To always split an infinitive, I think, would be to sadly torture the English language. But it is probably all right to now and then split one." The best discussion of the split infinitive ever written is that In Fowler's 'Modern English Usage," as sly and witty a book as was ever written and particularly on such a dried-bone subject as gram- mar. Fowler begins his discussion by dividing the English-speaking world into four groups: Those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is; those who do not know but care very much; those who do not know and condemn, and those who know and disting- uish. Those who neither care nor know, says Fowler, are a happy folk, to be envied by most of the minority classes. For them he has no harsh word: 'To really under- stand may be a lot closer to what these people mean than 'really to understand." SECOND GROUP It is the second class that Fow- ler goes after, 'those who do not know but do care, who would as soon be caught putting their knives in their mouths as splitting an in- finitive, but have hazy notions of what constitutes this deplorable breach of etiquette. These people betray by their practice that their aversion to the split infinitive springs not from their distinctve good taste but from tame accept- ance of the misinterpreted opinion of others." These are the sort of folks who go a long way around to avoid an imaginary error, say- ing "a matter ought further to inquired into when 'further' could just as well go right in its obvious place and not split an in- finitive at all. Bogy-haunted crea~ tures, Fowler calls them, as he yanks out their horrible examples of 'carefully to be explored," "most carefully and considerately to be exercised," and "very large- ly to be increased." For the third group, who know snd condemn, Fowler also has a description--the non-split diehards. These are the folks who will swal- low anything . even intelligibility, to be free of infinitive sin. They have produced in their time, as Fowler quotes them, 'to organize legally public worship," "to forbid flatly hostilities," and "to prevent effectually financiers." GIVES OWN VIEW "After this inconclusive discus- sion on which, however, the auth- or's opinions have perhpas been allowed to appear with indecent plainness," Fowler sums up his own point of view. Which is that, while some split infinitives are not in themselves desirable, a real split is preferable to real am- biguity or to patent artificiality. "We will split infinitives sooner than be ambigous or artificial," Fowler says in what seems to de- fine forever the rights of infinitive splitters. But better than that-- maybe the sentence can be recast so that the problem need not come up. Anyway, it's only a family mat- ter for the English-speaking folks. In one other widely spoken Euro- pean language does the infinitive a chance to insert something con- venient between them. Someone - might see to it that the "to" of the infinitive is pushed into the verb itself, as in French, German, Rus- sian, Spanish and a lot of other languages. Those who criticize all split infinitives might better spend their energy trying to quickly in the hope of simplifying the Eng- lish language so that the point need to never, never again come up bring this about. Regains Life In Northland Vancouver (CP) -- A California businessman who went to northern British Columbia "to die with his boots on' is back in Vancouver today with a recipe for health and happiness. Last June, doctors gave 48-year- old Jim Porter of Santa Rosa three months to live because of a heart condition, 80 he sold his automobile busi- ness, got a specially-built trailer and with his wife, Carolyn, and omeranian, "Alias Puddles" eaded for British Columbia's n orthland. "I wanted to die with my boots on," he said. He said today he believed he is alive because he has been living like an Eskimo. 'Leave your cares behind. Go north as close to the good God as you can get. Fish in a lake, If that won't cure your ills, nothing else will." The Porters used boat, bus, plane, car, train, dogsled and snow- shoes to get them around northern B. C. and Alaska. . Porter said he now intends to show home movies of the north throughout the United States." Nearly all the more important animals native to ancient Egypt were regarded as sacred. be | writer, George Eliot: causing torists. The Commission, Strikebound--Some Citizens Like It This Way Strike-bound Toronto street cars remained on the Transportation Commission grounds for the seeond day, thousands of persons to walk to work and other thousands to hitch-hike rides from passing mo- appointed by the city council, and the union leaders both see a long strike ahead. But to many commuters, used to standing on street cars and buses, the strike has proved a blessing. They drive in private ears to work now, enjoying the ride with friends and neighbors. --Central Press Canadian. Town Recalls Author Mandarin, Fla.--This little Flo- rida town, 15 miles south of Jack- sonville and just west of US 13, with a population of 900, has the charming, old-fashioned atmosphere it had when Harriet Beecher Stowe lived here at the close of the Civil War. A window in a small chapel commemorates her work among the people here. When Mrs. Stowe came to Flo- rida she was already a celeb- rity and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had been translated into a dozen lan- guages, but here she and her hus- band, Prof. Calvin Stowe, lived simply, visiting their scattered neighbors, white and Negro, in an old two-wheeled mule cart on which two camp chairs were pre- cariously placed. As Mrs. Stowe wrote a friend, '"You ought to see us riding out in our mule cart. Poor Fly (the mule) who looks like an animated hair trunk and the wagon and harness to match. It is too funny; but we enjoy it hugely." Their house, which stands on a bluff overlooking the St. Johns River five miles wide at this point, is as original as was Mrs. Stowe herself. She describes it in a letter to her friend and fellow "The history of the cottage is this. I found a hut built close to and with over-arching boughs 80 feet up in the air, spreading like a firmament and all swaying with mossy festoons. We began to live there and gradually we improved the hut by lath, plaster and pa- per. Then we threw out a wide veranda all around, for in these regions the veranda is the living room of the house. TREE GROWS IN HOUSE "Ours had to be built around the trunk of the tree so that our cottage has a peculiar and origi- nal air and seems as if it were half tree, or something that has grown out of the tree. We added on parts and have thrown out gables and chambers as a tree throws out new branches till our cottage in like nobody's else, and yet we settled into it with real en- joyment. There are all sorts of queer little rooms in it, and we are at present accommodating a family of 17 souls." The arrival of the Stowes in Mandarin every winter from Hartford, Conn., was something of an occasion. They would take the St. Johns River steamer from Jack- sonville to the little wharf where all of the neighbors would be wait- ing to welcome them with waving flags and handkerchiefs. "We emigrate in solid family," writes Mrs. Stowe. "My two dear daughters, husband, self, spend the winters here and so go together to our northern home in summer. .. "When YI get here I enter another life. The world recedes; I am out of it; it ceases to influ- ence; its bustle and noise die away inthe far distance, and here is no winter; an open-air life, a quaint, rude, wild, wilderness life, both rude and rich. My old rabbi (her favorite name for her hus- band, the eminent professor) and I here set up our tent, he with Ger- man and Greek and Hebrew, de- vouring all sorts of black-letter books, and I spinning idle webs out of bits he lets fall here and there," THEIR PRIVACY INDVADED They were not always, however, quite out of the world. An enter- prising steamboat company in Jack- sonville advertised excursions to Mandarin and Mrs. Stowe's orange grove without asking her permission, The Stowes took it, however, very good-naturedly and received the tourists hospitably. Their orange grove produced 75,000 oranges a year, which {were sold at a good profit, but | Harriet Beecher Stowe was like all the Beechers in that money meant less than nothing to her. She must have a cause, and here her mission was to aid the Negro she had helped to set free. She built a little church and school house where Professor Stowe preached eloguent sermons and she taught a Sunday school class of Negro children. Court Grants Appeal on Charge 0f Doing Damage Toronto (CP) -- John McGibbon, a sheep farmer near Merrickville, yester was found innocent in an appeal to the Ontario Supreme Court of wilfully damaging his neighbor's tractor by putting corn syrup in the crankcase. | MecGibbon was convicted at| {Smith's Falls Sept. 24 by Magis- trate D. C. Smith and sentenced | | to three months in jail. | Of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Old Name 0f Hotel Dies Hard Complication attending the change in name of a famous hotel are much like those facing a new bride who must resign herself to answering good-naturedly, for a time, to either her old or her new name, Helen Henley writes from Chicago to The Christian Science Monitor. The public quite naturally shows a proprietary interest in a hotel such as the Stevens which, since its completion on the lake front in 1927, has attained fame as the largest in the world. MANY FRIENDS A hostelry of 3,000 rooms which welcomes approximately a million guests a year, which employs 2,000 people to serve them, and which spent a year in the service of its country during World War II when it was occupied by the United States Army, has made enough friends through the years to know that their feelings must be con- sidered when major changes are set in force. So, although the official change in name from the Stevens to the Conrad Hilton Hotel was "an- nounced at 2 p.m. October 31, Hil- ton officials have shown no hurry to make the change absolute. For a few days following the announcement, the hotel's tele- phone operators answered incom- ing calls with a mouth-filling for- mula that told the whole story before the caller could get in a word: '"'Conrad-Hilton - Hotel for- merly-the-Stevens."" When it was assumed, after a few days, that the public was wise to the change, this was discontinued. But when people calling in heard only the answering trill, 'Conrad Hilton Hotel', many thought they had the wrong number. While the girls at the switchboard patiently explain- ed to each puzzled caller that it was the right number with a new name, their boards became jam- med with waiting calls. GET BOTH NAMES That's why now, when you call Wabash 24400 ready to ask for a name or room number, you may be left with your mouth open saying nothing for the long extra seconds it takes the operator to race tongue-trippingly through both names. Understanding this public resis- tance to any change in the ingtitu- tions they have eome to regard as their own, hotel executives are con- tent to let the new name find its place gradually in the minds of Chicagoians and their guests. In fact, they haven't yet changed all the signs outside the building. Anyone who hasn't happened to hear the news might find himself confused or think that the hotel couldn't make up its mind. Since the hotel was purchased by the Hilton group in 1945, its china and most of its linen have been marked with the Hilton crest. But guests in the dining rooms will for some time to come be using silverware with the Stevens crest--partly, it was explained, because it represents an invest- ment of about $500,000, and partly because it is too difficult today to get a sufficient quantity of either flatware or hollow ware to replace it. STATIONERY SERVED Reluctant also to discard six months' supply of stationery bear- ing the old name, the hotel's pub- | licity man gave a practical turn | to thrift. He had the stationery Pedestrians Have Rights At Crossings Toronto (CP) -- The Ontario appeal court ruled this week that once a pedestrian starts across an intersecticn on a green light he must be allowed to complete the crossing whether the light changes to red or not. The ruling was made in a deci- sion to grant a new trial in a civil damage action between Wade Nor- man Burton, 53, of suburban Eto- bicoke and Kenneth Harding, dri- ver, and Edward B. Marks, owner of a taxi. Last March the court set total damages at $3415 and found Hard- ing 65 per cent negligent and Bur- ton 35 per cent negligent. Canada Urges Land Reform Paris (CP) -- Canada today urged the United Nations to press for land reform in under - devel- oped countries and offered the Can- adian system where farmers are "kings of the land" as a goal. Jean Lesage, paliamentary assistant to Canada's external affairs minister, told the economic committee that the economic dev- elopment of backward areas can- not be boosted without a good basic agrarian system, He expressed support for a res- olution which calls for a reform to bring family ownership of land, moderate rentals, equitable taxes and diversification of production. run through the presses again, "x-ing"' "out but not obliterating "The Stevens," and printing the new name above it. This, he point- ed out, not only salvaged the paper but instantly identified the two names with one hotel. Some 783 forms in use in the hotel's opera- tion are being changed as new stock is ordered. Most extensive job, pernaps, has involved the changing of the name on 2,500 uniforms of hotel em- ployes, which is being effected as uniforms are being turned in for cleaning. This lack of hurry about the change, according to a hotel spokesman, conforms to the gen- eral policy on which the constantly expanding Hilton group operates. (Hilton hotels, now numbering 16, include one in Chilhaubau, Mexico, and one in San Juan, P.R., with arrangements under way for others in Istanbul, London, and Rome.) Speculation as to why tne name of the Stevens was changed has been answered by the resolution of the board of directors of Hilton 'Hotels. These directors, in the ab- sence of their president, Conrad N. Hilton, and it is said, without his knowledge, voted unanimously to rename the largest hotel in the world the "Conrad Hilton," But as wise hotel men know, it takes more than action of a board of directors to change the habits of the Public. "Dad Dearborn." who writes a pungent comment nightly for the Chicago Daily News, one evening addressed himself to Mr. Hilton, congratulating him on the tribute thus paid him. 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