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Pioneer of "Impossibles"!
Ernest Archdeacon
Human Rights Declaratioi
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CONTENTS - ENHAVO
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French Pioneer of "Impossibles" — Archdeacon
The Language Problem      ....
Human Rights Declaration in 25 Languages .
Esperanto in Action.....
The World's Classics in Esperanto
The Editor's Desk                                     G. Alan Connor   16
Unu Jaro de la Universala Deklaracio . Carlos P. Romulo 19
Helpu Diskonigi Gravan Dokumenton! . , . .20
Dua Volumo de la "Leteroj" . . . W. Solzbacher 21
Trafa Opinio de Kolego      .       .       "La Espero", Svedujo   24
EANA Honor Roll, 1949.......25
Kanada Informo.........27
Esperanto - Kroniko........28
Deziras Korespondi........32
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Vol. 64                          JANUARY-FEBRUARY                           Nos. 1-2
FRENCH PIONEER OF "IMPOSSIBLES"
AUTOMOBILE, AIRPLANE, ESPERANTO
A TRIBUTE TO ERNEST ARCHDEACON
If you drive an automobile, if you fly an airplane, or if
you use Esperanto as a means of worldwide understanding,
you owe a debt of gratitude to a man who died at Versailles,
France, on January 3, 1950, at the age of 87. During his
long and adventurous life, Ernest Archdeacon had a passion
for demonstrating to the world how wrong those are who
say that "it can't be done." Born into a wealthy and influ-
ential French family of Irish descent, he became a pioneer in
many fields: photography, cartography, balloon flying, auto-
motive engineering, aviation, Esperanto. The New York
Times, in the headlines of its obituary article (Jan. 4), called
him a "French Aeronaut, Lawyer, Esperantist, Who Set
Balloon Record in '85, A Flying-Machine Pioneer."
Those who claimed that the automobile was nothing but
a toy and could never become a serious competitor to rail-
roads and horse-drawn carriages were proven wrong in the
late eighties by Ernest Archdeacon and his friend, Leon
Serpollet, when they made the world's first automobile jour-
ney over a major distance. The trip from Paris to Lyon, more
than 300 miles, required 11 days, and there were innumer-
able accidents and repairs enroute. The car, built by Serpollet
and equipped with a new type steam engine invented by him,
was a primitive three-wheel affair. The back wheels, driven
by the engine, were equipped with iron rings while the for-
ward wheel, used for steering, had a rubber tire—which
jumped off every mile or so. But Archdeacon and Serpollet
reached their destination. "When we finally came to Les
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Cheres, a village just outside Lyon," Archdeacon told his
friend, Georges Avril, in an interview, "I was completely
exhausted. I never slept better in my life, although I shared
my bed with Serpollet and there were six other beds in the
room filled with twelve snoring teamsters."
In 1896, Archdeacon was one of the founders of the Auto-
mobile Club de France, the first in the world. Later, however,
he told Avril in the interview which appeared in Franca Es-
perantisto, in April, 1948, "gasoline motors became more
and more efficient, and automobiles were generally accepted.
... From that time on, they did not interest me any more."
Archdeacon's merits were even greater in the field of aero-
nautics. In 1885, at the age of 22, he established a balloon
speed record by ascending from Paris during a high gale. He
put down at Mezieres after realizing an average speed of 75
miles per hour.
His spirit of adventure was always combined, however,
with logical reasoning and natural caution. This saved his
life in 1887 when two of his friends tragically perished in a
balloon on the high seas. Here is Archdeacon's own story,
as told to Georges Avril for Franca Esperantisto; "We had
a beautiful balloon named L'Arago after the famous French
scientist, and there were three of us in the gondola: Lhoste,
26 years old, who headed this expedition; myself, then 24;
and Mangot, 20. We wanted to establish a long distance
record and started out hopefully. We expected the wind
would blow from the West and carry us over the unlimited
land areas in the East. But the wind turned around and car-
ried us West. After two hours, we were over Quillebeuf,
close to the spot where the Seine River flows into the English
Channel. I told my friends it might be better to descend and
discontinue our journey. I pointed out that the sea was very
close and that we had no maps of the British Isles and could
not be sure that the balloon would carry us there. We could
not foretell either, I said, in which direction the wind might
turn. We landed, and I left the gondola. I then heard Lhoste
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say to Mangot: 'Well, shall we try the adventure?' Mangot
replied: 'If you are willing—O.K.' Suddenly the balloon
rose. It was never seen again. Nor were my over-confident
comrades."
Archdeacon's interests turned to the construction of hea-
vier-than-air flying machines, and he became a close friend of
A. Santos Dumont, Voisin, and Henri Farman, the flying
pioneers. He experimented with them in the dunes of Berck-
sur-mer, on the plain near Issy-les-Moulineaux, as well as on
the Seine River and on Lake Geneva. In 1903, Archdeacon
joined with Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe to found the 50,000
franc ($10,000) prize for the first man to make a circular
flight of one kilometer (1,094 yards). The prize was won
January 13, 1908, by Farman with a bi-plane powered by an
eight-cylinder Antoinette gasoline engine developing 49
horsepower at 1,100 rpm.
Ten weeks later, Ernest Archdeacon became the world's
first passenger ever to fly in an airplane. Here is the story,
told in his own words: "When Farman won the Deutsch-
Archdeacon Award, there was a banquet, of course, and every-
one who had any interest at all in flying was there. The guests
included the sportsman Charron and the Marquis de Dion,
both of whom played an important role in the history of the
automobile. Suddenly Charron asked me: Well, when do you
think the first airplane flight of one kilometer with a pas-
senger on board will take place?' 'Oh, in about three months,
I guess,' was my reply. 'I am willing to bet that there will
be nothing of the kind for at least a year,' Charron said, and
the Marquis de Dion offered to join in the bet. I stuck to my
prediction, of course, and the bet was formally put on paper
and signed in the presence of witnesses. On March 30,1908,
only two and a half months later, Farman gave a flying
demonstration at Ghent, Belgium, and I flew with him a
distance of 1,200 meters (1,315 yards). I won my bet."
Archdeacon was a member of the reception committee
which greeted Charles A. Lindbergh on his arrival at Le Bour-
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get in May 1927, terminating his trans-Atlantic flight in The
Spirit of St. Louis. In January 1930, Ernest Archdeacon
visited Roosevelt Field in order to see the place from which
the flight started.
But, more than the automobile and the airplane, the need
for a world interlanguage intrigued Ernest Archdeacon. He
joined the Esperanto movement in 1908 when a journalist,
M. Aims, sent him an "Esperanto Key" and a descriptive
pamphlet. He learned the language immediately and began
to work for its promotion. Henri Farman, the aviator who
won the Deutsch-Archdeacon Award, was one of his first
converts. Tristan Bernard, the famous playwright and novel-
ist, was another. (See American Esperanto Magazine, March-
April 1949.) In 1910, Archdeacon published his famous
book Powquoi je suis devenu Esperantiste, a volume of 266
pages, with a foreword by Henri Farman. In 1913, he edited
the Esperanto part of an International Aeronautical Diction-
ary (English-French-German-Spanish-Italian-Esperanto), of
which jR. d'Armon was the principal author (See American
Esperanto Magazine, TECHNICAL VOCABULARIES IN
ESPERANTO, 1949, p. 113).
Ernest Archdeacon served as President of the Paris Espe-
ranto Society and, for 20 years (1926-46), as President of
the French Association for the Promotion of Esperanto
(SFPE). Together with Georges Warnier, who now presides
over the French Esperanto Association, he founded "La
Maison de l'Esperanto," an institution giving financial sup-
port to various Esperanto activities, offering prizes to suc-
cessful students, and winning leading circles in government,
business and science for Esperanto. Archdeacon published
innumerable articles on Esperanto in newspapers and maga-
zines. During many years, he lived on a houseboat named
"Esperanto" on the Seine River.
Ernest Archdeacon fully appreciated the progress which
the Esperanto movement made while he participated in it.
But sometimes he became impatient and complained that
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too few people, especially among those with wealth and
influence, were willing to give the Interlanguage the boost
which it needs to become fully effective. Writing for the
Or a Libto de la Esperanto-Movado in 1937, he stated:
"I sometimes become angry when I see that tremendous
amounts of money are spent on war preparations or on expe-
ditions to explore the North Pole or the South Pole or to
climb the Himalayas, enterprises whose practical usefulness
is not at all certain and which are often inspired by rivalry
among different nations. A small part of the money so spent,
if it were devoted to the promotion of Esperanto, could assure
its victory throughout the world. When will some rich phi-
lanthropist or some intelligent Head of State take action to
give the Esperanto movement the 'lift' it needs? It would
bring them immortal glory and would secure for mankind
the greatest progress it has known since the tragedy of Babel.
I am not in a position to predict the date of the final victory
of Esperanto, but I do predict that, sooner or later, its victory
will be inevitable. All recent progress in praaical fields is
due to the principle of standardization: improving the organ-
ization of work in such a way as to obtain the greatest pos-
sible results with the smallest effort. Esperanto presents the
most admirable application of this principle. It will be as
impossible to prevent its final success as it is to stop a stream
of water from following the steepest slope on its flow to the
sea.
Exemplary Esperanto Booklet on Karlskoga, Sweden
How a modern medium-sized city is run in Sweden is shown in a
beautifully printed and abundantly illustrated 56-page booklet in
Esperanto at the expense of the City Administration of Karlskoga,
in Varmland Province, Sweden. The articles were written by the City
Comptroller, the Chief Architect of the Town-Planning Committee,
the Director of the City Hospital, the principals of the local schools,
the Lutheran pastor, and other officials of the city.
THE LANGUAGE PROBLEM
"Isn't it wonderful" we read the other day in a Dutch
periodical, "that an Italian may hear in French what a dele-
gate from Finland may be trying to say in English?" This
was a somewhat sarcastic comment on the simultaneous
interpretation system used at an international convention of
newspaper publishers held in the Netherlands. It brought
out the decisive fact that the earphone system does not place
everyone on the same level and does not enable all delegates
to speak or hear translations in their own languages. It does
this only for those whose mother tongues are given the privi-
leged position of "official" languages.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in
which 81 nations cooperate for the coordination of their
telegraph, telephone, and radio networks, has run into con-
siderable language trouble, according to its Secretary-General,
Dr. Franz von Ernst. Writing in the United Nations Bulletin
(Jan. 1,1950) on ITU's activities in 1949, he stated: "Rich
in experience, the General Secretariat would have had no
difficulty with these multifarious tasks, had it not been for
the difficult problems which now arise from the use of five
languages for general publications and of three—sometimes
four—languages, both written and oral, for working in con-
ferences. The financial implications of this matter have not
been least among the General Secretariat's preoccupations."
—Dr. von Ernst indicated in which direction ultimately a
solution of the language problem may be found when he
signed a petition urging the United Nations, "in view of the
worldwide use of Esperanto, ... to help to spread the use
of this language in every possible way."
"The Language Problem, its History and Solution," by E. D.
Durrant (1943), should be read by everyone. Fully outlines the
language problem and reveals the history and achievements of Es-
peranto. 168 pages. Paper-bound edition for only .35c.
HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION REACHES
WORLD'S PEOPLES IN 25 LANGUAGES
INCLUDING ESPERANTO
Esperanto Translation Pictured & Described
With 15 Others in United Nations Bulletin
December 10 was celebrated throughout the world as the
first anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. In the United States President Truman proclaimed
the day as United Nations Human Rights Day and asked that
it be observed in succeeding years. At New York's Carnegie
Hall 3,000 persons stood in silence, as they would for a
national anthem, when Sir Laurence Olivier, the famous
British actor, read the Preamble to the Declaration which
states that "recognition of the inherent dignity and of the
equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human
family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the
world."
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Chairman of the Commission on
Human Rights, Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, Presi-
dent of the UN General Assembly, and Mr. Trygve Lie,
Secretary-General of the UN, were the principal speakers
at this ceremony, which was watched over television by an
audience undoubtedly numbering hundreds of thousands.
When the Declaration was adopted at Paris, December
10, 1948, as "a common standard of achievement for all
people and all nations," the Assembly asked that the text
be widely publicized. One year later, the UN Department
of Public Information reported in Press Release SOC/807
of its Press and Publications Bureau how this request has
been carried out. Under the title, "Worldwide Dissemination
of Universal Declaration of Human Rights—Multi-Language
Drive in All Information Media Has Carried Historic Dec-
laration to Peoples of the United Nations," it stated:
"In the year gone by, the Declaration has been published
and distributed not only in the five official UN languages,
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Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish, but also in
Burmese, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, German, Greek,
Iranian, Irish, Japanese, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese,
Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil,
and Turkish. Translations in a number of other languages
are in preparation.
"The United Nations Department of Public Information
has published in poster, folder and booklet form, over a
million and a half copies of the text of the Declaration, which
have been distributed by governments, delegations, special-
ized agencies, non-governmental organizations, information
centers, leading newspapers, broadcasting stations, universi-
ties, libraries and schools. Phonograph records of the text
of the Declaration have been made in Chinese, English,
French and Spanish. The Department of Public Information
has also made a film-strip illustrating the Declaration. It is
available in English, and editions in other languages are
under preparation.
"Photographs from this film-strip are being used for large
and small-size displays. At the Exhibition organized by the
Government of Haiti on the occasion of the bicentennial of
the foundation of Port-au-Prince, the United Nations, as a
participant, has chosen as it theme 'Human Rights'..."
A photograph showing editions of the Declaration in 16
languages, including Esperanto, was released by the UN
Photo Distribution Office at Lake Success. It was reproduced
in newspapers and magazines as well as in the December 15
edition of the official UNITED NATIONS BULLETIN,
published semi-monthly at Lake Success (in English),
Geneva (in French), and Mexico City (in Spanish). An
article in the same issue (pp. 746-749) mentioned 23 lan-
guages in which the Declaration had appeared (the same
as those listed in the Press Release, except Dutch and Tamil,
which probably were added in the last days of the first year).
The Esperanto edition, mentioned in these United Nations
publications, appeared at first in the AMERICAN ESPE-
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RANTO MAGAZINE (Sept.-Oct. 1949, pp. 138-145) and
was later issued as an eight-page booklet, containing also an
explanatory statement by Mrs. Roosevelt. The Esperanto
text, as it stands now, was compiled from two translations
made independently from each other by Mr. Ralph Harry,
of Canberra, Australia, who served on the Australian U.N.
Delegation both in Paris and New York, and by Dr. William
Solzbacher, President of the Esperanto Association of North
America and Member of the Esperanto Academy.
At the request of Mr. Benjamin Cohen, Assistant Secretary-
General of the United Nations, EANA sent the UN Depart-
ment of Public Information 1,000 copies of the Esperanto
text for worldwide distribution.
A number of our members and subscribers have ordered
quantities of this important document and have mailed copies
to friends and correspondents in many lands, including coun-
tries in whose national languages the Declaration is not
available. We are sure that many others will wish to do the
same and to have a share in this modest, but very worthwhile
effort to make the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
known throughout the world—via Esperanto.
We also call attention to the Esperanto translation of an
article by Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, of the Philip-
pines, President of the Fourth Session of the United Nations
General Assembly, in this issue of the American Esperanto
Magazine.
DECLARATION AVAILABLE IN ESPERANTO
UNIVERSALA DEKLARACIO DE HOM-RAJTOJ: Order in-
dividual copies at 10c each, 10 for 75c, 30 for $1.50, larger quan-
tities by special arrangement. We also have copies of the excellent
special issue of AE containing the Declaration and Mrs. Roosevelt's
article. One copy is 35c, but five or more at only 20c each. (Five
for one dollar.) Order as many as you can possibly use. Aid in the
distribution of this document in Esperanto will help to promote
Esperanto in the United Nations.
INTERLANGUAGE PROGRESS
Sweden's consumer cooperatives have just issued a richly
illustrated booklet in Esperanto for worldwide distribution.
"Consumers' Cooperation and the Economic Life of Sweden."
Written by Thorsten Odhe, Director of the International
Cooperative Alliance, it describes the history, organization,
and achievements of the cooperatives which, according to
the author, have played an important role in the development
of Sweden's industrial production and in the "fight against
monopolies, trusts, and cartels." The booklet, entitled La
konsumkooperado kaj la ekonomia vivo de Svedujo, is free
for the asking. Write for it—in Esperanto, of course—to
KOOPERATIVA FEDERACIO, Stockholm 15, Sweden.
Nova Espero ("New Hope"), the small sailing-boat in
which two young Englishmen, the brothers Colin and Stan-
ley Smith, crossed the Atlantic last summer in 43 days, from
Dartmouth, Canada, to Dartmouth, England, has been shown
to tens of thousands of enthusiastic visitors at Blackpool, the
famous English seaside resort. The brothers, who are active
members of the Esperanto movement and, therefore, gave
their boat an Esperanto name, used the opportunity to spread
a special message urging everyone to learn Esperanto. Many
Esperanto textbooks were sold and information leaflets dis-
tributed among the visitors.
In Japan Esperanto is widely used in scientific and tech-
nological publications. Several college textbooks and other
recent additions to scholarly literature provide translations
of technical terms in English, German, and Esperanto, for
instance, Professor K, Inoue's "Introduction to Biology,"
Professor M. Suzuki's "Introduaion to Physiology," and
K. Ossaka's "Engineering and Construction of Railroad
Cars."—Articles in Esperanto appear in "The Bulletin of the
Chemical Society in Japan," and in the "Memoirs of the
Faculty of Science," Kyusyu University.
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ESPERANTO EVERYWHERE
The Dutch State Teachers College at Hengelo recently
made Esperanto a compulsory subject for all freshmen. At
the State Teachers Colleges of Deventer, Leeuwarden, and
Haarlem attendance at Esperanto classes is optional. The
present number of students learning Esperanto at these four
institutions is 48, 48, 44, and 21, respectively, totaling 161.
This augurs well for the future of Esperanto instruction in
Dutch public schools, with increasing interest everywhere
in the Netherlands.
In England the Foreign Office Language Society has added
Esperanto to its list of courses .These are open to all civil
servants, officers of the armed forces, and police officers. The
Esperanto course is given at the Treasury, Whitehall.
The Slovak Government's Commissariat for Information
and Enlightenment in Bratislava has begun regular publi-
cation of an Esperanto translation of its monthly Kultura
Revuo (Cultural Review). Its political bias is what one
might expect. Some items show, however, that news does not
always travel fast from Moscow to Bratislava. The November
15 issue, for instance, contains praise for Theodore Elmer
whose novel, "Stalingrad," recently appeared in a Slovak
translation. When he wrote the book, Plivier was a Com-
munist and lived in Moscow, his home for 16 years. In the
meantime, however, he fled to the American zone of Ger-
many and issued statements branding Russian Communism
as "slavery" and calling it "as great a danger to human
freedom as Nazism was."
For the seventh time the well-known Norwegian zoolo-
gist, C. Stop-Bowitz, curator of a museum in Oslo, has pub-
lished a scholarly monograph with a summary in Esperanto.
The publication deals with some of the findings of a Nor-
wegian expedition to the Antarctic.
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ESPERANTO IN ACTION
The Netherlands High School Teachers Association at its
annual convention adopted a committee report containing
the following recommendations: "Esperanto instruaion in
the lower classes of our high schools would not complicate
but facilitate language instruction because a knowledge of
Esperanto is a good basis for the subsequent study of other
languages. We consider it advisable, therefore, to make
Esperanto an optional subject in the new standard curricu-
lum which is now being prepared. Experience shows that
good results may be achieved by two hours a week in a one-
year course or one hour a week in a two-year course."
In Korea, according to the Australian Esperanto monthly
La Rondo, Esperanto is taught at 6 high schools and at an
evening college for adults. The Korean Esperanto Institute
at Seoul has published textbooks and other teaching aids. The
Korean Esperanto movement is in great need of instructional
materials and literature in and about Esperanto. During the
war years, the meager stocks of Esperanto publications in the
Korean language were entirely depleted.
Parents as well as children are now learning Esperanto at
the Lymington County Secondary Boys' School, Dagenham,
Essex, where Esperanto classes have been a compulsory fea-
ture of the curriculum for a number of years. Last Novem-
ber, the headmaster, Mr. F. J. May, invited the parents to a
meeting at which a lecture on Esperanto and a demonstration
lesson were given. 60 fathers and mothers came, and en-
thusiasm was so great that an evening class for parents was
started at the school.—A similar class for the parents of chil-
dren learning Esperanto is now under way at a school in
Whitburn, County Durham, Northern England.
The German Railroads have- established an information
bureau answering inquiries in Esperanto. Address: Deutsche
Bundesbahn, Eisenbahndirektion, Hamburg.
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AROUND THE WORLD
At Western College, Bristol, England, Mr. Montagu C.
Butler, Educational Secretary of the British Esperanto Asso-
ciation, gave a course of 5 lectures (12 hours) on The Art
of Teaching Esperanto. The local Education Office sent
announcements to the faculties of all high schools.
International travel for pleasure or business is greatly
facilitated by the use of Esperanto, as the experiences of thou-
sands of people from all over the world have shown. In Den-
mark, Mr. L. Friis organized last year three successful
"caravans" (guided tours) using Esperanto. One, with 30
participants, visited Southern France, a second ,with 13 trav-
elers, Finland, and a third, with 33 people, Belgium and
Holland. He also organized international summer courses
in Esperanto at Helsingdr. They were attended by 300 per-
sons from 10 countries.
For the third time the Olomouc Regional Management of
the Czechoslovak State Railroads has invited its employees
to study Esperanto. The railroad authorities organize classes
at government expense wherever a sufficient number of
employees register.
In Buenos Aires the Argentine Delegate of the Interna-
tional Association for Esperanto in Science (ISAE), Lazaro
Musih, aided Dr. Carlos Cardini, of the Institute of Bio-
chemical Research, in obtaining important data on enzyme
research carried on in Japan. Dr. Cardini asked Dr. Yukita
Ohta, a Japanese authority on enzymes, to send him some
of his findings. Unable to use Spanish, Dr. Ohta wrote in
Esperanto, adding reprints of several of his articles and en-
closing the address of the Buenos Aires ISAE Delegate. With
the aid of a colleague, who is both a chemist and an Esperan-
tist, Mr. Musih, who is an electrical engineer, then supplied
the translations.
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ESPERANTO IN ALL LANDS
An Egyptian journalist, Tadros Megalli, is at present on a
successful lecture tour in Sweden. All his lectures are in
Esperanto, but Swedish translations are provided by local
Esperantists wherever they are needed. Megalli has been
addressing school assemblies, churches, and organizations of
all kinds.—A shorter lecture tour, also using Esperanto, was
recently completed in Sweden by a Chinese writer, Chun
Chan Yeh.
In Japan the recently founded Japanese Catholic Esperanto
Association has published a prayer-book and a catechism in
Esperanto as well as the first issue of a quarterly journal,
Esperanta Katoliko, It is a 30-page booklet, about two thirds
in Esperanto and one third in Japanese.
In France, according to incomplete statistics, Esperanto
is being taught to more than 600 students at about 30 schools
including the State Teachers Colleges at Paris, Versailles,
Orleans, Besancon, and Nice. The Teachers' Esperanto
League (GEE, Groupe des Esperantistes de 1'Enseignement)
has about 200 members, all of them teachers at public high
schools and public elementary schools.
The school authorities of Dagenham, England, paid part
of the travel expenses of 20 students to the Lymington Sec-
ondary School who attended the Conference of the Esperanto
World Youth Organization (TJO) at Versailles, France.
In Norway two new Esperanto organizations were founded
recently. One is the Norwegian Railroadmen's Esperanto
Association, established with the cooperation of Egil Hal-
vorsen, Educational Secretary of the Norwegian Railway-
men's Union. The other is a Norwegian section of KELI,
the International Christian (Protestant) Esperanto League,
which has headquarters in Sweden.
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THE WORLD'S CLASSICS IN ESPERANTO
SHAKESPEARE: *Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, *As You Like It,
The Tempest, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Midsum-
mer Night's Dream, * Romeo and Juliet, * Anthony and Cleo-
patra, *The Merry Wives of Windsor, * Anthology (from
Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear).
DICKENS: A Christmas Carol, *The Life of Our Lord Jesus, *The
Batde of Life, Bardell contra Pickwick.
HOMER: The Iliad (translation in verse), The Odyssey (in prose),
*The Odyssey (Tenth Book only, in verse).
VIRGIL: The Aeneid.
DANTE: *Inferno.
GOETHE: *Faust, *Iphigenia in Tauris, Hermann and Dorothea,
The Sorrows of Werther, *The Roman Elegies, *The Diary,
Brother and Sister, Selected Poems.
SCHILLER: *The Robbers, Wilhelm Tell, The Nephew as Uncle,
Poems.
MOLIERE: L'Avare, Le Misanthrope, *Georges Dandin, Marriage
Against Will, The Imaginary Sick, Don Juan, Le Bourgeois
Gentilhomme.
BALZAC: Eugenie Grandet, The Vendetta, The Firm of the Ball-
Playing Cat.
RACINE: Thalia, Esther.
IBSEN: *Ghosts, The Emperor and the Galilean.
STRINDBERG: Caster, *Island of the Happy, conscience Stirs,
Pariah, Miss Julia.
LAGERLOF: Costa Berling, *The Children of Bethlehem, *The
General's Ring, Queen of the Forest.
TOLSTOY: The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, The Prisoner in the Cau-
casus, *The Reign of Truth, Of What Men Live, The Siege of
Sebastopol, Where Love Is There Is God, Three Deaths, The
Way of Life, One God for All, Kornei Vassilyev, The Confession.
SIENKIEWICZ: Quo Vadis, Captured in Nubia, *Short Stories,
The Third Woman, The Judge of Osiris, Let Us Follow Him,
It Happened in Sidon, Janko the Musician, Who Is Guilty?
THE BIBLE: *The Holy Bible (Old and New Testaments), *The
New Testament, The Four Gospels (Catholic Edition).
Available Esperanto Translations of the Classics
Books marked by an asterisk {*) are available from EANA's
Book Service. Address: Esperanto, 114 West 16th St., New York 11,
N.Y.
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AMERIKA ESPERANTISTO
g. alan connor, Editor            THE EDITOR'S DESK
114 West 16th Street
New York 11, N. Y.
"CLw 10c a Day — to E.A.N.A." Elsewhere in this issue, we point
with pride and gratitude to those members who give tmstintingly
of their financial means to help promote Esperanto in America. Our
indefatigable co-worker and President, Dr. W. Solzbacher, discusses
the problem of support for Esperanto on the opposite page. We wish
only to add that die loyal support thus far provided for EANA has
made it possible to show considerable gains for Esperanto in America.
If, however, a greatly increased number of members would now
join the Sustaining Board, and give "10c a Day" (little more than
the price of a one-way trolley ride), EANA could make gains as
yet undreamed by Esperantists on this side of the Atlantic.
New Life Member. We wish to acknowledge the addition of a
new Life Member to our growing list of members in the higher
categories, namely: Markian A. Stanko. Our sincere appreciation.
Who will be next?
New Member of the Academy. Our American movement is
honored by the election of Dr. W. Sokbacher to the Academy of
Esperanto. His qualities of leadership in both practical and theo-
retical linguistics will make him an outstanding member of that
important organization.
Nominations Committee. The Executive Committee of EANA
has appointed, as Chairman of the Nominations Committee, Mrs.
S. S. Marks, 712 South Tillery St., Rocky Mount, North Carolina,
to whom suggestions for the coming 1950 elections may be ad-
dressed. Those who attended the Wilmington Congress will remem-
ber her for her high ideals and sincere interest in the progress of our
Association.
EANA Congress 1950. Although negotiations have not as yet
been entirely completed, it is likely that the lovely Letchworth State
Park, in the upper New York Lake Region (near Castile), will be
the next setting for the Congress. Howard E. Latham, Chairman of
our Youth Department, was asked by the Executive Committee to
negotiate for that superb location.
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The Esperanto Association of North America
LET'S PUT THIS CAMPAIGN OVER THE TOP!
On pages 25 and 26 you will find a heartening list of members
who during the past year have generously supported EANA. It is
with a sense of deep gratitude that your Board of Directors and
your Executive Committee wish to mark them for honor. A number
of members have been contributing $3 to $10 every month, some
of them year after year. Others have made very considerable con-
tributions in lump sums. Then, there are those who pay membership
dues in the higher categories as Patron Members and Active Sus-
taining Members. It is encouraging that membership in these higher
brackets has been increasing.
Many, even in the lower brackets, are truly sacrificing to aid their
Association. $1 a month is a generous sacrifice for some of our
members. But surely there are others who can well afford to take
up the challenge of the campaign started by our now deceased
President Edwin L. Clarke, who asked for "10 cents a day for
EANA." This is the time to take this slogan up again. We must
not allow the relatively few regular contributors on the Sustaining
Board to carry an unproportionately large share of the burden. Is it
too much to hope that 100 members will join the Sustaining Board
and pay 10c a day, or $3 a month, or $36 a year, for a working
headquarters of Esperanto in North America?
Our Central Office, under the able direction of our General
Secretary, G. Alan Connor, has considerably expanded its activities
and technical facilities. Great things are in the making, and several
plans are ready to be put into operation if and when proper financing
can be secured. Membership has been growing, and thousands of
requests for information about Esperanto are being received. Mrs.
Connor has not only done more than her share of work in the opera-
tion of our national headquarters, but has also given much time to
the preparation and teaching of courses. A full-time helper was added
to the Central Office staff recently. His services are essential to the
proper functioning of our organization. The future looks bright—
if all of us work together in harmony, unity of purpose, and devo-
tion to our common cause. Will YOU give "10c a day for EANA"
and help to put this campaign over the top?
—WILLIAM A. SOLZBACHER, President, EANA
All contributions are deductible for income tax purposes.
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DIVERSAJ ANONCOJ
UEA-MEMBRECOJ por 1950: EANA estas oficiala land-
asocio de UEA en Usono kaj Kanado. Ĉiu membro de EANA
automate fariĝas Asocia Membro de UEA, kaj ricevas serv-
okuponaron por uzi en la internacia korespondo al Delegitoj,
Sed por aldona partopreno aliĝu al UEA kiel individua mem-
bro: MJ (kun Jarlibro) $1; MA (Jarlibro kaj gazeto de
UEA) $2.50. Sendu vian UEA-kotizon por 1950 pere de la
Centra Oficejo de EANA.
PHOTO STAMPS FOR YOU: Personalize your station-
ery, invitations, announcements, greeting cards, etc., by at-
taching your photo in stamp form. Send us any size photo-
graph or negative. Your photo will be returned unharmed.
Black and white, 100 for $2.00; Color toned, 100 for $2.50.
Send your order to: Joseph Leahy, 1754 Lanier PL, N.W.,
Washington 9, D. C.
DIA REGNO is the monthly journal of KELI (Kris-
tana Esperantista Ligo Internacia), whose purpose is: "To
create effective contacts among Christians of different coun-
tries, and by means of Esperanto to spread the Gospel of
Jesus Christ." Membership in KELI with journal costs $.85.
Subscription only at the same price. Those interested ask for
a sample from: Sandgren, V erkm'dst argot an 18, Orebro,
Sweden. (AE accepts subscriptions for Dia Regno at the
above rate.)
LITERATURA MONDO informas: "Pro financaj mal-
helpoj la aperigo de la revuo ne plu estas ebla. Ni ankoraŭ
restis ŝulda al niaj abonantoj por du numeroj dum 1949.
Kvankam ni ne sukcesis enkasi eĉ la preskostojn de la kvar
numeroj, ni disponis ĉe niaj reprezentantoj, ke ili repagu al
la abonanto la trionon de la pagita abonsumo, se la abonanto
tion petas de ili."
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UNU JARO DE LA UNIVERSALA
DEKLARACIO DE HOM-RAJTOJ
Brigada Generalo Carlos P. Romulo, Filipina Respubliko
Prezidanto de la Ĝenerala Kunveno de la Unuigitaj Nacioj
Estas pruvo de la prudento kaj bona volo de la popoloj de
la mondo, ke ili sukcesis venki siajn diferencojn sufiĉe por
kompili Universalan Deklaracion de Hom-Rajtoj, asertante
la eternan superecon de la homa spirito kaj la organan unu-
econ de la homa familio. La Deklaracio superas landlimojn
kaj malaperigas dividojn de raso kaj religio. La amatajn libe-
recojn, por kiuj individuaj nacioj batalis en pasinta tempo
kaj kiujn ili metis en la Konstituciojn de siaj ŝtatoj, la Dekla-
racio disvastigis al ĉiuj homoj. Gi estas la unua kolektiva
proklamo de la neforigeblaj rajtoj kaj liberecoj, kiujn du
homo devas posedi kiel civitano de la mondo.
La Deklaracio estas harmonia kunmeto de la diversaj po-
litikaj, ekonomiaj kaj socialaj idealoj de la internacia ko-
munumo. La grandaj konceptoj de politika libereco, espri-
mitaj en malnovaj dokumentoj kiaj la Magna Carta, estas
reasertataj imprese kaj elokvente kaj aperas flanke de arti-
koloj, kiuj difinas socialajn kaj ekonomiajn rajtojn necesajn
al stabileco kaj bonfarto de la moderna mondo. La Dekla-
racio estas produkto de interrenkonto de ideologioj reprezen-
tantaj diversajn kaj eĉ kontraŭajn formojn de kulturo, tradi-
cio kaj vivmaniero. Tial ĝi estas sana bazo por plua progreso.
La Deklaracio, kvankam grava per si mem, estas nur unua
paŝo en la plenumo de unu el la ĉefaj celoj de la Unuigitaj
Nacioj. La celo, difinita en la Enkonduko al la Ĉarto de U.N.,
estas la rekono, respekto kaj praktika apliko de la funda-
mentaj hom-rajtoj kaj liberecoj en ĉiuj membro-ŝtatoj. La
Deklaracio difinas tiujn rajtojn kaj liberecojn. La proponita
internacia Kontrakto pri Hom-Rajtoj, kiam ĝi estos finre-
daktita kaj aprobita, igos la rekonon de tiuj rajtoj lege deviga
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AMERIKA ESPERANTISTO
por duj ŝtatoj, kiuj ĝin subskribos. Poste oni kreos organizon
por la aplikado de la Kontrakto; ĝi starigos regulojn por
efektivigi protekton de la rajtoj.
La fina celo estas helpo al la realigo de daŭra paco kon-
struota sur nedetruebla fundamento de libereco, justeco kaj
universala respekto por la esenca homa digneco kaj por la
hom-rajtoj donitaj de Dio.
—El UNITED NATIONS BULLETIN, 15 Dec. 1949
HELPU DISKON1GI GRAVAN DOKUMENTON
La Esperanto-Asocio de Nord-Ameriko ĝis nun presigis 5,500
ekzemplerojn de la Universala Deklaracio de Hom-Rajtoj, 2,500 en
AE kaj 3,000 en aparta broŝuro 8-paĝa. Eminentuloj en kaj ekster
UN multe laŭdis tiun publikigon. La UN-Sekretariejo en Lake
Success petis nian asocion, sendi al ĝi mil ekzemplerojn de la Espe-
ranto-teksto por mtmonda uzo. Laŭ nia scio ĝi estas la unua presaĵo
en Esperanto, kiun UN disvastigas.
Okaze de la unujara datreveno de la Deklaracio, la Esperanto-
eldono estis menciata en diversaj oficialaj UN-publikigaĵoj. Sur
UN-foto montranta diverslingvajn eldonojn la Esperanto-teksto
elstaris tre klare. Cetere ni rimarkis kun iomete da amuzo en la
artikolo de la oficiala UN-BULTENO, ke diversaj tekstoj, inter ill
tiu en Esperanto, estas "preparitaj au aprobitaj de la aŭtoritatoj de la
koncernaj ŝtataj." Car nia lingvo estas internacia, la "aprobon"
sendube devus doni ĉiuj registaroj de la mondo aŭ UN mem!
Estas grave, ke la Deklaracio estu vaste diskonigata kaj ke tiel la
utileco de Esperanto povu esti denove demonstrata al gravaj rondoj
en la internacia vivo. Ni sincere petas ĉiujn legantojn de AE, ke
ili helpu nin en tiu klopodo! Amikoj en diversaj landoj bonvolu
instigi siajn Esperanto-libroservojn, ke ili enmetu la broŝuron en
siajn librolistojn! Kie estas neeble pagi per mono, interŝanĝo
kontraŭ libroj kaj broŝuroj povos esti aranĝata.
En okazo, ke via enlanda Esperanto-libroservo ne vendas la Dekla-
racion, vi povas mendi ĝin de Amerika Esperantisto, 114 West 16
St., New York 11, N. Y., Usono. Ni sendos unu broŝuritan ekzemple-
ron de la Deklaracio kontraŭ du int. respondkuponoj. Aŭ, ni sendos
unu ekzempleron de la speciala numero de la gazeto AE kiu enhavas
la Deklaracion kaj la artikolon de S-ino Roosevelt, kontraŭ kvar
int. respondkuponoj.
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LETEROJ DE L. L. ZAMENHOF
DUA VOLUMO DE LA KOLEKTO
{Recenzo pri gram Ubro.)
Leteroj de L. L. Zamenhof. La tragedio de lia vivo rivelita de lia Jus
retrovita korespondo kun la francaj eminentuloj. Prezentado kaj komentado
de Prof. G. Waringhien. Vol. II, 1907-1914, 376 pp. Volumoj I kaj II
estas eldonitaj de SAT, Parizo, 1948. Riceveblaj de EANA. 114 W. 16 St.,
New York 11. N. Y. Binditaj. Unu vol. $3.35 afrankite. La du volumoj
kune $6.50.
Por la historio de nia lingvo kaj movado la Dua Volumo
de la "Leteroj" estas eĉ pli grava ol la Unua. Gi priskribas
la Ido-konflikton kaj la dolorigajn eksperimentojn kaj ba-
talojn pri la organiza problemo antaŭ la unua mondmilito.
Se oni deziras studi la homajn kvalitojn de Zamenhof, oni
eble trovos la Duan Volumon malpli kortuŝa, car ĝi en-
havas nenion, kio estus komparebla al la Javal-afero.
Estas evidente, ke ĉiu, kiu deziras funde koni la historion
de Esperanto kaj la vivon de Zamenhof, nepre devas posedi
ambaŭ volumojn. Hi plenigas multajn, kvankam ne ĉiujn,
mankojn en la ĝisnuna scio. La "perfido" de Beaufront an-
koraŭ restas iomete mistera, sed oni nun vidas klare, ke nek
Beaufront nek Couturat ifitencis krei rivalan lingvon. Hi
havis la iluzian opinion, ke ili povos devigi la Esperantistojn
kaj la eksteran mondon akcepti "reformitan" Esperanton.
La malnova demando, kiu estis la aŭtoro de Ido, ĉu de
Beaufront ĉu Couturat, nun, ŝajne ricevas la definitivan
respondon, ke la ĉefa aŭtoro estis Couturat, la kunaŭtoro de
Beaufront, kies kontribuo al la projekto Ido fakte konsistis
nur el la pluralo per -i, la imperativo per -ez, kaj la distingo
inter la seksoj en la personaj kaj montraj pronomoj.
Leganto admiros, kiel en la Unua Volumo, la prudenton
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AMERIKA ESPERANTISTO
kaj praktikan senton de Zamenhof. Li ankaŭ ekhavos gran-
dan respekton por la jugkapablo kaj organiza talento de
Generalo Sebert.
En preskaŭ ĉiuj leteroj pri la Esperanto-movado en Usono
(precipe N-roj 415-423) Zamenhof esprimas dubojn pri la
seriozeco de la movado en Ameriko. Eble la elekto de tiuj
malfavoraj leteroj estis pura hazardo. En ili Zamenhof dis-
kutas precipe piano jn por organizi Universalan Kongreson en
Chautauqua (kie oni unue intends okazigi ĝin en 1909)
kaj en Washington (kie ĝi fakte okazis en 1910 kun kon-
siderinda sukceso). La Originala Verkaro enhavas nur unu
gravan leteron pri Usono (N-ro 29). Gi estas favora.
La Indekso de Temoj kaj Personoj estas utila en ambaŭ
volumoj. Bedaŭrinde ĝi ne estas kompleta, kaj paĝociferoj
ne dam estas fidindaj. Ekz. Couturat, laŭ la Indekso, "hazarde
rivelas al Jespersen la identecon de Ido" sur p. 174; fakte la
raporto troviĝas sur p. 167.
Mi tute ne komprenas, kial Profesoro Waringhien eltrovis
tiel malbonan sistemon por indiki la elparoladon de nomoj.
Washington tiel fariĝas "ŭo!ŝin'txn", Sussmuth (la libro
skribas Sussmath) "zysmat", North American Review ' not'-
ame'.rikxn rivju!".
La malbela k anstataŭ kaj eble ne estas kulpo de la kom-
pilinto, sed de la eldonejo. Gi estas karakteriza signo de ia
"SAT-dialekto" en Esperanto. Plej akre atakis tiun "stran-
gajon" SAT-ano, G. J. Degenkamp, en "Esperanto 60-jara"
(p. 31), skribante, ke k "estas rimarkinda nur pro sia
sensenceco, kontraŭnatureco kaj -reguleco: per k anstatau
kaj oni ne ŝparas atentindan spacon. Se ŝpari spacon oni
dezirus, tro multvortaj aŭtoroj pli bone limigu siajn vortriĉ-
ajn artikolojn . . . Escepte de 'Sennaciulo' kaj iuj malgravaj
bultenoj neniu serioza Esperanto-gazeto plu kripligas la
vorton kaj" Kiel longe verkoj eldonitaj de SAT ankoraŭ
suferigos paciencajn legantojn per tiu monstrajo?
La bindo de la Dua Volume* estas multe pli bona ol tiu de
la Unua. Preseraroj ne estas multnombraj. Kial verko eidonita
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AMERIKA ESPERANTISTO
en 1949 pretendas esti aperinta en 1948, estas sekreto de la
eldonejo.
Malgraŭ malgrandaj kritikindajoj la verko estas majstre
kompilita kaj komentita de Profesoro Gaston Waringhien,
kiu meritas sinceran dankon de la tuta Esperantistaro por
bonega, grava, kompetenta kaj sendube treege temporaba
laboro.
—W.S.
SECOND LARGE PRINTING OF "ESPERANTO"
A new edition of the book ESPERANTO: THE WORLD
1NTERLANGUAGE, by G. A. Connor, D. T. Connor, Dr.
W. Solzbacher, and Rev. Dr. J. B. Se-Tsien Kao, is just off
the press. For the first time, this important book has been
made available in an inexpensive paper-bound edition,
($1.50 per copy, 10% discount for orders of 6 or more).
It has been revised and brought up to date in many respects.
Readers will find, for instance, the results of the United
Nations Petition for Esperanto (pp. 33-34), the new ad-
dresses of ISAE (the International Association for Esperanto
in Science), SEL (the Scout Esperanto League), KELT (the
International Christian Esperanto League) and other organi-
zations (pp. 141, 142, 131, etc.), and a reference to Dr.
Solzbacher's election to the Esperanto Academy (p. 125).
A few minor mistakes which had slipped into the first edition
have been corrected.
The authors of the book, with the exception of Father
Kao (now in Hongkong), are scheduled to present the case
for Esperanto in the world-famous lecture program of Town
Hall, New York, Tuesday, February 14. A demonstration
lesson of the Cseh method of Esperanto teaching, by Doris
Tappan Connor, will be included as one of the principal
attractions of this program.
See enclosed announcement for details about the book.
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TRAFA OPINIO DE KOLEGO
Pri la oftaj atakoj kontraŭ la demokrataj landoj, precipe Usono,
en kelkaj orienteŭropaj Esperanto-gazetoj, la redaktisto de la sveda
Esperanto-gazeto LA ESPERO, S-ro Oskar Svantesson, rimarkigis
en la numero de Januaro 1950:
La nuna situacio en la "orientaj" landoj tre similas al la epoko de
Hitler. La esperantistoj en Bulgarujo eldonas gazeton, en kiu oni en
ĉiu numero atakas la okcidentajn landoj n, precipe Usonon, kaj uzas
la plej malbelajn esprimojn kiujn oni nur povas inventi. La espe-
rantoorganizoj en Ĝekoslovakujo elsendas propagandon por sia ŝtato
kaj en siaj gazetoj de tempo al tempo sonigas la tonojn de malamo
kontraŭ la liberaj landoj.
Ni ne povas kompreni la aferon alimaniere, ke esperantistoj estas
devigataj tiel fari, car se oni ne farus, oni ne estus "lojala" al la ŝtato,
kaj oni devus ĉesigi esperantan agadon.
En Germanujo antaŭ la dua mondmilito la esperantoorganizajoj
staris antaŭ simila problemo. Oni provis turni la mantelon laŭ la
vento, sed daŭre oni ne sukcesis fari ĉiujn akrobataĵojn, kiujn deziris
la regantaj naziistoj.
Nun oni vole-nevole devas demandi al si, kiom longe la veziko
restos sendifekta en la orientaj landoj. Kiam la esperantistoj en tiuj
landoj ne sukcesos montri la utilon de la lingvo por la prospero de la
nunaj diktatoroj en tiuj landoj, oni versajne malpermesos esperanton.
La esperantomovado staras en tragika pozicio. La liberamantaj
esperantistoj certe ne ŝatas lasi la batalkampon al la komunistten-
dencaj esperantistoj, kiuj ja tute ne respektas la homajn rajtojn pri
libera pensado. Kaj aliflanke la plejmulto de la liberamaj esperantis-
toj preferus eviti la batalon kun la subfosantoj de la libera vorto,
de la libera interŝanĝo de leteroj kun ties pensoj, de libera j vojaĝoj
inter la diversaj landoj, de libera parolo pri iu ajn temo, kondiĉe ke
oni ne perfortas.
Signa por la situacio estas, ke la alispeca diktatoreco en Portu-
galujo malpermesas esperanton kaj persekutas la esperantistoj n.
Kiel oni en tiaj cirkonstancoj povas akcenti la unueccn de la espe-
ranta movado? Kiuj el la pli idealismaj esperantistoj povas ŝati la
elvomitan malamon de la gvidartikoloj, ekzemple de Internacia
Kulmro?
"JARMILOJ RASAS," de Hermann Haefker, estas tre grava verko
pri universala historio, verkita originate en Esperanto. Kvar libroj
en unit granda, beta volumo de 500 paĝoj, 6 artajoj, 11 skizoj, lukse
bindita kaj presita. $3.65 afrankite de AE.
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EANA HONOR ROLL, 1949
(See editorial page for a word of comment and appreciation.)
Members of
Dr. Luella K. Beecher
G. Clayton (Canada)
John L. Clewe
R. E. Dooley
Robert Eadie
David B. Ericson
Dr. G. P. Ferree
Dan Ward Gibson
the Sustaining Eoard
Thomas A. Goldman
Tony Nabby
Arnold Pennekamp
R. C. Palmer (Canada )
H. S. Sloan
Francis H. Sumner
John W. Wood
Mrs. Flora Wyman
Special Contributors
L. E. V. Anderson
John M. Brewer
A. M. Brya
Mrs. Olive H. Campbell
Preston Davis, Jr.
Ernest G. Dodge
J. H. Furay
W. D. B. Hackett (Canada)
George Hirsch
to Sustaining Fund
Dr. Stevens T. Norvell, Jr.
Miss Mazah E. Schulz
Herbert W. Smart
Miss Isabel P. Snelgrove
Dr. Cecil Stockard
Miss Maud Storms
M. M. Villareal
Mrs. Lee M. Wainman
Anonymous
Patron Members
William G. Adams
Mrs. Angela Alfaroli
Dr. Francis E. Ballard
Dr. Luella K. Beecher
Dr. Ferdinand W. Breth
J. M. Clifford
Alfred D. Dennison
Ernest G. Dodge
Esp. Society of Detroit
J. H. Furay
Dan Ward Gibson
Mrs. Nellie Monte Gill
Edwin W. Haynes
William A. Knox
Eugene T. Lake
Howard E. Latham
Fred H. McMann
Fritz Mitschke
Prof. Parry Moon
Viktoro Murajo
Joseph H. Murray
Lola Mae Muse
W. B. Patzer
Arnold Pennekamp
D. W. Pittman
Dr. M. J. Plese
Dr. Fritz Redl
H. Elwin Reed
Wilfrid Rouleau
Joseph R. Scherer
Charles E. Simon
Herbert W. Smart
Dr. W. Solzbacher
Prof. Joseph Tamborra
Mrs. Flora Wyman
Zendia Esperanto-Klubo
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AMERIKA ESPERANTISTO
Active Sustaining Members
H. R. Arnold
Clement Ayres
Jewell Bainbridge
Eugene Beck
Elven J. Bengough
Robert Betteridge
Joy Postle Bkckstone
Robert Bkckstone
Charles H. Briggs
Fred L. Broening
G. Ewart Brown
A. M. Brya
Sellers N. Bunch
Elbridge G. Cann
Mrs. E. G. Cann
Jorge de M. Carvalho
H. B. Catlinjr.
William C .Chapin
J. Leo Chapman
Charles Chomette
R. P. Christie
G. Clayton
A. B. Coigne
Edward Collins
Floreal Conchado
Affonso H. S. Correa
S. C. Crook
T. Edward Cushing
Preston Davis, Jr.
George Dickau
H. E. Dillinger
R. E. Dooley
Paul Doubek
James R. Douglass
David M. Earl
Franklin Edwards
A. J. Emery
Warren Ewing
John E. Falk
Cora L. Fellows
W. H. Fenton
Cipriano Ferraris
N. R. Games
Frank X. Graser
Howard N. Guthrie
Bernard Haag
W. D. B. Hackett
F. Hammerschlag
Homer R. Hansen
H. S. Harris
Evelyn Harrison
Ralph Harry
P. H. Hensley
L. A. Lee Herbert
Roy Hilton
George Hirsch
Floyd Hoffman
Carrol A. Holbrook
W. F. Holeka
Roy E. Holland
Harold Isele
Fabian S. Jacynia
Clemens O. Jaeger
Maurice Jagoda
John W. Jeffers
Princess 0. Jones
Hans B. Julow
Fred Kaelble
Peter M. Kaitis
J. Kerdelevich
Dr. Margaret Kidder
Delcevare King
A. S. Knapp
Com. & Mrs. Lambert
Russell R. Lambert
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KANADA INFORMO
Radio-dissendo pri Esperanto, en Toronto, okazis 27an
Decembro en programo de CBC F-ino Jane Weston, bone
konata kaj talenta komentisto, intervjuis la prezidanton de
Toronto Esperanto-Klubo, S-ro Jerry Lambert, en 15-minuta
programo. (Tiuj, kiuj ĉeestis la EANA Kongreson en To-
ronto en 1948 sendube bone memoras la afablajn kaj
helpemajn dissendojn tiutempe, kiujn F-ino Weston pre-
zentis.) S-ro Dez. Hackett, sekretario de la Toronto Klubo
raportis, ke li jam respondis al pli ol 20 inform-petantoj
rezulte de la dissendo, kaj jam vendis pli ol 20 lemolibrojn
al novaj personoj. Unu junulo en altlernejo, Hamilton, Ont.,
tiel multe interesiĝis, ke li kolektis grupon da 15 junuloj por
studi Esperanton kune. Gratulon al la Klubo en Toronto
pro bone farita laboro.
Granda ajiŝo en Esperanto kun la vortoj "Gaja Kristnasko
—We hope you have one" (kiel en Detroit) pendis dum la
Kristnask-sezono super unu el la ĉefaj stratoj en London,
Ont. Raymond R, Canon, studento en la Universitato rapor-
tis, ke personoj konstante haltigis ĉiun studenton—speciale
tiujn, kiuj studas lingvojn—kaj demandis: "Kion signifas la
vortoj sur la afiŝo? En kiu lingvo ĝi estas?" Rezulto: ĝenerala
informo pri Esperanto!
Oleg Telizyn, Brantford, Ont., junulo nove veninta al
Ameriko, jam komencis propagandi Esperanton en sia lernejo.
Li sciigis, ke lerneja gazeto "La Trumpeto" baldaŭ publikigos
lecionojn en Esperanto verkitajn de samideano Telizyn. Ni
esperu bonan rikolton!
Erato Saturnin skribis antaŭnelonge, ke li translokiĝis al
Victoriaville, Que., kie li instruas en Kolegio. Li daurigas sian
intereson en Esperanto, kvankam la kolegia laboro postulas
la plej multon de lia tempo.
Speciala Noto: Por egaligi la dolaron je pago per usona
mono al EANA, deprenu 10% de niaj prezoj kaj kotizoj.
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ESPERANTO-KRONIKO
Pastro J. B. Kao, famkonata ĉina Esperantisto, kiu multe
helpis la movadon en Norda, Suda kaj Centra Ameriko kaj
estas unu el la aŭtoroj de la libro "Esperanto: The World
Interlanguage," sendis al ni Kristnasko-saluton el Hongkong.
Raporto pri lia "morto" aperis en du Esperanto-bultenoj, unu
en Eiiropo kaj unu en Suda Ameriko. Felice tiu raporto—
laŭ la fama diro de Mark Twain—estis "iomete troigita."
FAKTOJ PRI DANLANDO, interesa kaj riĉe ilustrita
libro eldonita de la grava jurnalo POLITIKEN en Kopen-
hago, preskaŭ jam elvendiĝis, kvankam oni presigis 5,000
ekzemplerojn. EC en landoj, kie oni ne povas aĉeti ekster-
landajn librojn, ĝi disvastigis utilajn informojn pri Danlando,
ekz. en Ĉekoslovakujo, kie—laŭ la gazeto ESPERANTISTA,
Praha—"donaco de la reĝa legacio dana en Praha" ebligis
dissendon al preskaŭ ĉiuj Esperanto-kluboj. Alivorte, la dana
registaro pagis por la libroj. Estus dezirinde, ke aliaj regis-
taroj sekvu tiun ekzemplon kaj ankaŭ disvastigu verketojn
en Esperanto—kondiĉe, ke la informoj estu same objektive
prezentataj kiel en FAKTOJ PRI DANLANDO. La verko
estas havebla de nia libroservo por 75 cendoj. Gi estas encik-
lopedia libreto pri Danlando kaj Grenlando—broŝurita, 65-
paĝa, kun 95 ilustrajoj.
La grava Intemacia Ordeno de Bontemplanoj (IOGT),
kun 325,000 membroj, eldonos broŝuron en Esperanto kaj
promesis aperigi artikolojn en kaj pri Esperanto en sia sveda
gazeto REFORMATORN.
En Milwaukee, D-ro W. Solzbacher, Prezidanto de EANA,
prelegis la 18an de Januaro en Holy Angels Academy, kie
grupo da monakinoj nun studas Esperanton. Dum la prelego,
D-ro Solzbacher kelkfoje priparolis Esperanton. En Spring-
field, Ohio, D-ro W. Solzbacher detale diskutis la problemon
de internacia lingvo kaj Esperanton en publika prelego pri
la Unuigitaj Nacioj la 15 an de Januaro.
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ESPERANTO-KRONIKO
35-^ Universala Esperanto-Kongreso, kiu okazos en Paris
de la 5a ĝis la 12a de Aŭgusto, sendube fariĝos impresa
demonstracio de la vivanteco de nia lingvo. Kunsidoj eble
okazos en la fama universitato Sorbonne. La franca poŝta
administracio konsideras la eblecon eldoni Esperanto-poŝt-
markon okaze de la Kongreso. La francaj fervojoj donos
rabaton al kongresanoj. Usonaj kaj kanadaj partoprenontoj
bonvolu informi la Centran Oficejon de EANA. Ni deziras
presi la informon en AE.
La 22-a Internacia Katolika Esperanto-Kongreso, kiu
okazos en Romo de la 10a al la 17a de Aŭgusto, havos in-
teresan programon, kun aŭdienco ĉe Papo Pio XH-a, prelegoj
de Pastro A. J. Beckers, Belgujo, kaj D-ro Bruno L. Marini,
Trieste kaj multaj vizitoj al vidindajoj. Miloj da katolikaj
gazetoj en la tuta mondo menciis la Esperanto-Kongreson
inter la aranĝoj de la Sankta Jaro 1950.
La unua televida programo pri Esperanto en Usono, okazis
en la radiostacio de la Konsilantaro de Edukado en Phila-
delphia, la 9an de Februaro 1950. Oni intervjuis samideanon
Robert P, Montgomery de la Esperanto-Societo de Philadel-
phia. S-ro Montgomery estas malnova Esperantisto, kiu dum
multaj jaroj dejoris en Ĉinujo kiel medicina misiisto. Lia
edzino, D-rino H. P. Yue, estas bone konata kiel ĉina kura-
cistino inter la primitiva "Yow" (jaŭ) gento. Nuntempe, li
kaj la familio de unu filo tri filinoj loĝas kaj studas en
Philadelphia, Usono.
Kunmetitaj vortoj el Zamenhojaj Verkoj estas grava sci-
enca verko de Profesoro Naokazu Kawasaki, Akademiano,
en Japanujo. La 162-paĝa studo estas profunda esploro de
ĉiuj kunmetitaj vortoj en la verkoj de Zamenhof. EC la unua
volumo de la "Leteroj" eldonitaj en 1948 jam estas analizita.
Kvankam la klarigoj estas en japana lingvo, la libro estas
uzebla por Esperantologoj ĉiulingvaj.
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ESPERANTO-KRONIKO
Belan komplimenton nia gazeto ricevis de la veterano de
Esperanto-Jurnalismo, S-ro Paul Nylen en Svedujo. Li skribis
al la Prezidanto de EANA: "Kiel multjara redaktinto de
gazeto Esperantista mi admiras vian AE, kies enhavo estas
ne sole interesa, sed en ĉiu detalo purore kaj tute senbalaste
modelvalora."
Gazetoj, kiuj represis aŭ tradukis artikolojn el AE, estis
inter aliaj: Espero Katolika, Nederlando (Universala Dek-
laracio de Hom-Rajtoj); Esperantista, Ĉekoslovakujo (pri
"la batalo de la lingvoj" en UNO); La Espero, Svedujo (pri
la " samtempa" traduksistemo en UNO); ECO, Argentino
(Bluzo kaj Pantalono).
Dum la Kristnaska tempo, en Detroit, ĉe Grand Circus
Park, unu el ĉefaj placoj de la urbo, la firmo Walker &
Co. starigis grandegan signon kun Esperanto-teksto "Gaja
Kristnasko." Sube, en malpli granda skribo, estis angla
aldono: "We hope you have one" (Ni esperas, ke vi havos
ĝin). La literoj de la Esperanto-teksto estis unu metron (3
futojn) altaj. Detroit-anoj multe parolis pri tiu efika reklamo.
Dankon meritas la firmo Walker & Co. Niaj samideanoj
Edwin Siewers kaj Joseph Murray bone uzis la okazon por
efika propagando por Esperanto.
En New York diversaj jurnaloj atentigis pri Esperanto.
La vespera jurnalo The Sun (nun mortinta) publikigis lete-
ron pri kaj por Esperanto de nia samideano William Vathis.
La dimanĉa jurnalo The Sunday Compass en sia Kristnaska
eldono enhavis duonpaĝan ĉefartikolon de Tom O'Connor
sub la titolo dulingva "Gojan Kristnaskon—or Merry Christ-
mas." The New York Times parolis pri Esperanto en artikolo
pri la morto de la franca pioniro de aviado kaj Esperanto,
Ernest Archdeacon. United Nations Bulletin menciis Espe-
ranton inter la lingvoj en kiuj aperis la Universala Dekla-
racio de Hom-Rajtoj.
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ESPERANTO-KRONIKO
Kontraŭ la konfuza kripligo de geografiaj nomoj en Es-
perantistaj libroj kaj gazetoj, precipe tiuj eldonataj de SAT,
bonhumore protestis S-ro Georges Warmer, Prezidanto de la
Unuiĝo Esperantista de Francujo, en Franca Esperantisto.
Menciante la filmon pri Paris, kiun li montris en Bourne-
mouth, li skribis: "En tiu filmo ne aperas monumentoj aŭ
lokoj baptitaj senrajte de niaj SAT-amikoj: Ŝajo-Palaco,
Praurba Insulo, Marsa Kampo, So-Parko, Dionizi-Pordego,
Tegoleja Gardeno, nomataj en la tuta mondo: Palais de
Chaillot, la Cite, Champ de Mars, Pare de Sceaux, Porte
Saint-Denis kaj Jardin des Tuileries."
La saman problemon diskutis la Tria Laborkunsido de la
Universala Kongreso de Esperanto en Bournemouth. Oni
avertis la Esperantistojn, ke ili ne Esperantigu geografiaj n
nomojn en adreso, skribante ekz. Novkastelo por Newcastle
aŭ Malkara Flanko por Cheapside (en London)—aŭ Orienta
Ŝinko por East Ham!
La Nacia Eduka Asocio en "Washington (National Edu-
cation Association) jam publikigis duan eldonon de la 16-
paĝa broŝureto pri Esperanto en la serio de Personal Growth
Leaflets. Gis nun ĝi presigis 40,000 ekzemplerojn. La efikaj
varbiloj estas mendeblaj de EANA je prezo de 25 cendoj
por 25, kaj de $7.50 por 1,000. Sendu dolaron por 100
ekzempleroj afrankite.
NOVA ELDONO de "Esperanto: The World Interlan-
guage" jus aperis en bela broŝurita formato. Pro preso de
granda kvanto, ili estas malmultekostaj. Unu ekz. kostas nur
$1.50. Je mendo de ses aŭ pli, 10% rabato (po $1.35).
"Senpaga Esperanto-Kurso: Jen Por Vi" estas la rubriko
super longa artikolo pri Esperanto kaj la nova kurso de Geo.
W. Bailey, Jr., en la "New Hampshire News", Oktobro,
1949. S-ro Bailey raportas, ke tiu kurso nun regule kunvenas
en la YMCA.
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(ses vorto] por 1 int. respondkupono); Enlande, unu vorto por du cendo].
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Dez. kor., inters, il. PK.
Ĉekoslovakujo. Tadeaŝ Dorotik, Komenskeho 1434/35, Most.
Dez. kor.
Francujo. Roger Bizot, 9 Cours de la Pyramide, Carpentras (Vau-
cluse). 38-j. intruisto, dez. kor. pri sociaj aferoj.
Francujo. Robert Faraill, 17 Kajo Richelieu, Bordeaux. 36-j. sporta
ĵurnalisto dez. kor.
Germanujo. Willy Weilepp, vor dem Hamstertor 6 III, (19a)
Halle (Saale), Sachsen-Anhalt, (Sov. Zono). Dez. kor.
Germanujo. Ernest Hbhne, (15a) Weimar, Thiir., Box 97. Serĉas
inters, de PM. Kor. espe, angle, france, germane.
Grekujo. Konstanteno Trahos, Str. Johanou Theologou 95. Zog-
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Japanujo. Gahoo Takezaki, Toofukuji, Kaitookjoku-kunai, (Kai-
too), Kumamoto-ken. 37-j. budhista pastro dez. kor.
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NOVAJ NOMOJf Originalaj kaj universalaj por ĉio kaj ĉiuj.
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