ra" ''"' 'IF=i1n Hi HE 1 Amenka fajmrattttata i 1 DECEMBER, 1917 «i ilOBOli----------ilS 5 ! (Official (Organ of ajtje 5aperantn Aaantiation of Kottlĵ ĴUnetita ogiuMD) Google PRINCETON UNIVER5ITE AMERIKA ESPERANTISTO Official Organ of THE ESPERANTO ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA, Inc. a propaganda organization for the furtherance uf the study and use of the International Auxiliary Language, Esperanto. CLUB DIRECTORY is are listed for 12 issues of the maga- keeping in close touch with the work in other cities, for the exchange of ideas and helpful suggestions, and for the formation of valua- ble friendships in a united field of endeavor. il. The heading,—name of ctl inserted free. This matter «a. ediate attention of every club • SAN FRANCISCO. CAI.IF. San Francisco Rondo, meets Friday eve.. Era. 305 I,ick Bldg., 35 Montgomery St., F-ino M. D. Van Slonn, Sec'y. 946 Central Ave. BERKELEY, CALIF. Berkeleya Esperanto Rondo,—Classes Monday and Tuesday evenings at ri.'O. - Meetings Wed- nesday evenings. Address H. S. Lane, Sec'v, 1323 Oxford St. OAKLAND, CALIF. Oakland Esperarm-Rondo; L. D. Stockton, Sec. & Treas., 436 15th St. BOSTON, MASS. Boston Esp. So&, 402 Pierce Bldg., Coplev Sq. Meets Tues., 8 P. M. R. Coodlaml, Sec. WORCESTER, MASS. Worcester County Esperanto Society. Business Institute, every Friday, 8.00 P. M. BUTTE, MONT. Argentarka Esp. Rnndo, kunvenae vendrede, B.OO P. M. C. L. Williams, Sek., 311 E. Mar- CHICACO, ILLS. La Gradata Esperanto Smieto, Dvorak Park. Kui l kaj 4 I-land Ave ROCKFORD. ILLS. Skandinava Es'Tmilo-Timtitnto, 417 7th St. Joseph Johnson, Sec'y, 2315 Parmelee St. CINCINNATI, OHIO. Cincinnati Espeianto Sue. 629 Vine Street. Miss Florence Becker, Sec, 332 Third Ave., Dayton, Ky. DF.LPHOS, OHIO. Delphns Esperanto Kluho, Carnegie Library; Meets every Tuesday. 7.30 P. M., A. J. Laudick, Sec'y. CLEVELAND, OHIO. La Zamenhofa Klubo; S. Kozminski, Sek., 3547 W. 44th St. PORTLAND. ME. Portland 1 i Society, Trelawny Bldg.. MILWAUKEE, WISC. Hesperus Esperantos S-ino B. H. Keener, Sek., 632 Summit Ave., 3rd Tuesdays, 8 P.M. DETROIT. MICH. Detroit Esperanto Office, 507 Breitmeyer Bldg., open daily. Library at disposal of everybody dailv. 7 A.M.-9 P.M., except Tues. and Fri. Classes meet Tues. and PH., 8.10 P. M. La Pola Esp. I'nuigo ĉiusemajne, Magnus Butzel Librarv, Harper X E. Grand Blvd. La Septentrio. Tues., 8.00 P. M„ 578 Alexan- drine Ave.. W. HOUSTON. TEXAS. Houston Esperanto Rondo, ciun mardon, 8.00 " C. A. S-ro A- F. Sunder- meye , Sek. NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. The Greater New York Esperanto Society, including all chartered clubs in Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Ourrns, Richmond. Long Island, Westchester Comity and the New Jersey suburbs, C. C. Coigne, Secre- tary, 2633 Creston Avenue. Esperantists vis- iting New York should call Fordham 2749. Cermana Esperanto-Societo — activities sus- pended during the war. PHILADELPHIA, PA. I'hila Esp. Soc. J. F. Knowlan, Sec, 45 No. 13th St. Meets' 4th Fry, Windsor Cafe. 1217 Filbert St. i de Litovo-Polaj Esp l.i\ ing-t'il PITTSBURGH, PA. . 2833 PI.A1NVIEW, NEBR. Kspcri,,ito-Fakn de la "Sola Skolto" (I,, SctBlt), 500 N. Dearborn, Chicago, 111. f vtii) por la liiiiuli-.n). Organizu grupoin ir b, gckliab-.j. C.randa sukreso. Abonu t lare .75; Kvarmonate .25.) Fakestro, Chas. P. Lang, Plainview, Ni HOBOKEN, N. J. "LO.O.F, Esperanto Club No. 1 of Crea N.Y." meets every Tuesday at B.3H P.M. 61 First St., 3rd "Floor West. All welcoi Pres., Mrs. M. O. Haugland; Sec'y, W PtWllMl Instructor, A. Mendelson. Addr all ciinimnnications to the secretary at abr address. Got -glc PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Amerika Esperantisto American Esperantist Entered as second-class matter May 15, 1913. at the I'ostoffice at West Newton Station, Boston. Mass., under the Act of March 3. 1879. Published Monthly by THE AMERICAN ESPERANTIST COMPANY (Inc.) WEST NEWTON. MASS- Dollar a Year. Single Copy Ten Cents. ■ptitaj. Mallongaj verkoj. tradukajoj kaj novajoj ĉiain prefc Oni ne resendas ncakceptitajn maniiskriptojn. se la sen dint 0 ne kuni sendis la resendpagon. I.a Redakcio kouservas por si la raj ton korckt maiuiskriptojn laŭbezone. Oni donos la preferon at manuskrptoj skribitaj skribmasine. DECEMBER, 1917 IT'S JULY 18, 19. 20 AND 21 AT GREEN ACRE By unanimous vote of the Execut- ive Committee the above dates were fixed for the Eleventh Annual Con- gress of the Esperanto Association of North America. Workers in the local groups arc earnestly requested to call the attention of their col- leagues to this fact ami to thus insure a large attendance at the "Dekunua" Henry W. Hetzel. Chrmn. NEW HEAD OF EXAMINATIONS COMMITTEE The Executive Committee has re- cently appointed Mr. Benjamin W. Reich, lately of New York, to be the Chairman of the important Committee on Examinations. All candidates for either the Beginners' or Advanced Degrees should communicate with Mr. Reich. His present address is 214 West Ballard St.. Ada. Ohio. WILL THERE RE DIALECTS OF ESPERANTO? Occasionally we meet a person who thinks that "all steps toward a univer- sal language are futile" for the reason that, as lie says, even assuming that we could ever get the people of the world to speak one tongue, in the course ci years differences in pronun- ciation, localisms and even changes in the grammar would arise to make the future linguistic aspect of the world after all very much as it is today with all the compiexit'es and varia- tions that we now find. Esperantists, of course, know that such an opinion is founded upon two unwarranted assumptions. Ao io the first, no one is really proposing a "universal" tongue. Esperantists. at least, are not guilty of any such stu- pidity. Their proposition of an inter- national language is not only a more modest one and therefore more easily realizable but it takes into account the vast accumulations of culture ma- terial that have grown up in the ex- isting national languages and the preservation of which really postulates their preservation as national tongues. at least as far as we of the present generation are concerned. As its name implies the Interna- tional Language would only be used between people of different nations. While leaving each group of people free not inerelv to make use of their own national speech hut also to de- velop their own civilization along lines which are just as peculiar,—and. I may even say, just as sacred,—to Digitized by GO >gle PRINCETON UNIVERSITY AMKRIKA ESPERANTISTO tl cm as their language ami religion. Esperanto offers a vehicle of co mu- 11 i cat ion at once simple and logical, absolutely neutral in its relat'on to the iiat'ons of the world. Even after the ttioat sanguine Ecperamist has had lils way you and 1 will still be using English a.in ng ourselves and in all Rel hood giv ng very little encour- agement to any scheme to abolish our mother tongue. The second of these erroneous ideas is founded upon a wrong no.ion of why today differences in speech ex- ist at all. The big reason why the Chinaman and the Frenchman, for instance, have different langu spi cli. is a kind of eugenic gunge. while evolui of latt l othei well i the i ■ ohv: foi lite difference between the speech of the Yorkshireman and that of the Londoner is not hard to understand. Not only had primitive peoples sepa- rated before the developtneit of means which give permanence to language, but they then found themselves cut off by seas and mountains from easy means of communication with their cousins of other lands. The latter of these two causes has certainly been the mere potent, for. if we assume howsoever great a dispersion of peo- ples with as great a dispers'on of tongues as we please, still, assuming qn» bin I .iwein the several parts, with thoro system» of telegraphy the world over and with hooks and newspapers freely t'ross'cg the boundaries thru the nie- d turns hip of efficient postal systems,— given these, we say. and the most pro- nounced differences of speech would tend to extinguish themselves. In- deed, this very process is now being worked om right under our eves. Slowly, it is true, hut nevertheless with a certainty which leaves no stud- ent room for doubt. Even the casual observer has seen and commented upon the changes which recent events of world importance have made in our own mother tongue;—changes which point to a sure-enough "melting pot of languages." real tho by many un- dreamed of. right under our very eyes—or rather, about our ears. To some extent this melting pot has always existed, hut the selection of language elements has gone on al- ways more or less unconsciously by what, if we may change the figure of things as art, music, science and_ ... vention is very manifestly a consc:ous process, why, ask the Espera itists. should language, which is but anot'er bun an tool for other human needs, be subjected in it: growth to the whims and unreasoned changes and distortions wh'ch come with time? A d why wait for centuries to effect a gradual change toward uniformity of world speech, meanwhile painfully trudging and struggling along handi- capped by the diversities, illogicali- ties and super necessities of the so- Cftl'ed "natural tongues"? The uniformity of the accent and pronunciation of Esperanto by the peoples of various nations has long been a comtno'iplacc observation among those who have attended the International Congresses, So marked is this uniformity that the nationality of a speaker 's absolutely disguised by his neutral speech, unless revealed by the cut of bis clothes or other iin- linguistic evidence. N'o, Esperanto will never he in any danger of split- ting up into dialects. Rather the con- trary will he the result. As the lan- guage w'll he used onlv internation- ally localisms will have no chance to develop. Individual nations, it is true, will enrich the common speech with contributions of their best thought, but these will tend to diffuse them- selves tbruout all the civilized world. LA TERURA EKKRIO Mi oflc afidas, kiam mi fmas argu- incntoii por Esperanto. "Ho jes! La ideo estas bona kaj Esperanto estus alprenimla afero se ciu persono ĝin at pre nits." Tio £i min ridetigas kaj mi ĉiarn rememoral fabelon ktun mi ie lŭdis,— aft eble mi ntir gin clpensis;—ne estas grave. Jen ĝi: Antaii niultaj. multaj cenljaroj. dum tempo nun tutc forgesita estis la in- sulo Toruno en la inezo do la Suda Marn. N'e demandu al mi kie precise estas aft estis tin nun itekonata iusulo. Eble ĝi jam delonge inalaperis en la • «gftKdbyGougle AMERIKA ESPERANTIST)) itiaron. aŭ eĉ eble ĝi — ne trodciiiundu. Tamen. iain dura nnu el la plej prosperaj periodoj en la historic) de Toruno reg's la saĝa Reĝo Hurafo. Mi diras "saga" car neniu en la tuta insula reĝlaitdi.i havis tiom da scio pri la profunda]oj de la arloj. scicncoj, literaturo) kaj lingvoj ol la Reĝo mem. Ne nur li mem estis tre instruita sed lia plej arda pasio estis instigi la saman klcrecou al aliaj. Do, ne estu surprizita ki'im mi d:ras ke la ĉefaj elspezo' de la rega trezo- re'o estis por lerr.ejoj. biblio e' oj kaj sclencaj eksperimentadoj. Precipe, la studo de astronomic lit! allogis. kaj nature per obacrvatorioj kaj te'.esko- poj li kaj liaj fidelaj regatoj multe okupiĝis. Unu tagon Idarn la Redo Hurafo estis en la Reĝa Bil.lioteko lcgauta volurnon pri la luno sub te al lia cer- bo ekvenis la ideo, "Kvankam la luno estas distance mtiltaj miloj da niejloj. —tromalproksima por ia facila inter- parolO inter la loĝaiitoj de nia najbara planedeto kaj ni mondanoj, eble se ni farus sufice grand an bruon tie ĉi la lunanoj, gin aiidante almeuaŭ scius ke la niondo nia ne estas senhonia," Tre bonega ckpenso! I.a sekvanta tago, laŭ la ordono tie la Reĝo, kuri- eroj kaj heroldoi trakuris la landon proklamante ke ciu regato nepre kun- venu en la tnezo de la iusulo por kun- agi en la kriego kiu certe atttigos la maiproksiman lunon, Tie. »ur la He- ruga Platajo je la tago elektita staris la tttta loĝantaro de la reĝlando, ein persono preta por fari la teruran ek- krion. En la centra de la atendanta popolamasego staris la Cefministro kaj kiani li per suprenlevita oficbas- toneto tlonis la signalon por fari la laategan bruon---------kio okazis? Cu sajna tertremo frapis la iusidon? An ĉu la oreloj de la ĉeestantoj estis fenditaj pro la terura ekkrio? Ne. car mi estas verainulo mi devas diri al vi nur la bedaŭrindan fakton, Ne- nia bruo okazis; ne eĉ unu murmu- reton oil) aiiclis. Cm persono nur si- lente atentis la bruegon kiun li aten- dis la aliaj estis farontaj. Ho ve! Ticl multe da liomoj en tin £i plibonigebla mondo estas pretaj l>or kunlabon nur post kiam ĉiu el la aliaj faros la komencon! H, W. H. TRA USONO Annapolis, Md Unu el la plej v'glaj ĉiutagjurnaloj de ĉi tin cefurbo U Rileto. Artefarita '■Allmontarsun" Bano, l.a Antaililiro, l.a Amkonkurantuj, Aladinu kaj Patomlfo Bombaato Farioaa, Consilium I'actiltalis, l)u Maljtinuloj, I)u Biletoj, Dum Kcmgreso. Eneido -Kantoj I kaj II, Kkzer- caro, Evatigelio lau Sankta Johano, El Ura- moj, Ealieloj de Anderacn, Granda MhMUtO .le Esperanto. Homa Doloro, [.a tliputezoj pri Lourdes, Iroprovizaiio de Kc.nrad, l.a Institutu Milner, l.a lnslruila Mimikisto, Katerino, Kio povas okaai se on, dcnWCM surprize, I-a Kolorigisto-Aerveturanlo. Kverko kaj Ftoro, KUrigo pri Initaria Kri-tanismo. Konsiloj pri Hicienn, Kaiitaj Vortoj de Baha' T'llah, (El la Persa), Komercaj l.etcroj, Kesumo de la Kurso pri Tenlogio, Kiou la Vivo Alportas, La Morto de Ivano Itjic, Matemika Terminaro, Muzika Terniinarn, Nati Historioj pri V Aŭtoritato, Plena Ver- karo de Pevjalnin: l.ibroj Una*, Dua, Tria, ka Kvara, I'ortreto, Pri Solidareeo inter Esperantistoj, Parizina, Petaloj, I'ri Vnu tipeco de Kurhaj l.inioj, Reaperantoj. Re- nwiliunn pri Solierino, Sinjoro Hcrkitles, La Stunpi-ti-t", Solecaj Animoj, Sieĝo de Se- haslopolu, Su|,erforta Ambicio. Tekstaro de ftonkonatat Britaj Kantoj, Innaj Agordoj. 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