How to get the almighty dollar behind spelling reform

              How To Get The Almighty Dollar Behind Spelling R eform.
Our absurd spelling wastes fifteen per cent of all the books and papers printed in the English language, and this loss amounts annually to some fifteen or twenty million dollars. On the average it squanders two years of every child's school life, and these every twelve months aggregates some three or four millions. It prevents children from following analogy—from developing their reasoning faculties. It causes them to be illogical and desultory. Further, it overloads the memory with a crushing weight of litter that very few, indeed, ever master. But worse than all this, it kills the mental appetite. No one cares to have sand in his sugar or sawdust in his bread. Consequently, many boys and girls fail to be interested, drop out of school, and grow up in ignorance.
The great majority of scholars favor spelling reform. Some years ago the Philological Societies of England and America recommended certain rules for the simplification of orthog-laphy. But these failed, merely because almost every one waited for the others to begin their use the first. Many individuals have spent their lives in moral persuasion. But there must be something more than moral persuasion. The Almighty Dollar must be put behind the movement.
The English-speaking governments should give bounties to the publishers to induce them to use simplified spelling. To facilitate matters, a new rule, with the list of words coming under it, could be introduced every three months, until the reform is complete. This would give the typesetters the opportunity of becoming expert in setting up the new spelling, and at the same time let the eyes of the readers become gradually accustomed to the change. The countries concerned could make out a program somewhat like the following: 1908.
January 1. Drop the silent a when phonetically useless, as in
hed and lerning. April 1.    Drop the silent e when phonetically useless, as in siv
and yoman.
July 1.      Drop the silent 0 when phonetically useless, as in
yung and lepard. October 1. Drop the silent u and ue when phonetically useless,
as in gard and leag.
1909.
January i. Drop one of every doubled consonant when phonetically useless, as in eg and puf.
April 1    Drop all the useless letters, as in thru and thoro.
July 1.    Use t for ed when so sounded, as in wisht and helpt,
Ootober 1. Use f for ph and gh when so sounded, as in fonetics and laf.