* . * ESPERANTO LEAGUE for WORTH AMERICA. NEWSLETTE R/196U:1 Published by the ELNA Information Center, 305 East kO Street, New York 10016, New York. (212) 661-1666) Bernard Stollman, Director; Mary Murray, Associate Director. WHAT IS THE ESPERANTO INFORMATION CENTER? It is the New York office of the Esperanto League for North America, maintained on a full time basis by a staff of volunteers who include Mrs. Mary Murray, a retired school teacherj Mark Starr, former educational director of the ILGWUj John Futran, former treasurer of ELNA and an Esperantist since 1921; and Bernard Stollman, a practising attorney. They are assisted by volunteers from the New York Esperanto Society. The Information Center was established in 1962 by Bernard Stollman. In April of 196k, ELM assumed responsibility for supporting the Center, and it became part of ELNA. UHAT ARE ITS ACCOMPLISHMENTS? It has told several million Americans about Esperanto via the press, radio and television. Feature articles have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal, and other big and little newspapers across America, partially as a result of a United. Press International feature story which Xiras sent, in Apr 1, 196U, to over I4.OO U.S. newspapers. Elsewhere in this issue we have reproduced some of these articles. Radio network shows have included the Betty Furness Show, Arthur Godfrey, CBS Dimension News with Richard C. Hot- eletjand most recently, on Skeptember 23, 196)4, the Mary Fickett CBS Dimen- sion broadcast, with Bernard Stollman as her guest, was carried by over 200 local radio stations. In the week that followed this broadcast, over 600 letters and cards were received by CBS. They are all being answered by the staff of the Information Center. New York stations WOR, IJBAI, UKCR and UEVD have been carry." ng our Esperanto broadcasts. Mark Starr is presently con- ducting a 13 week series of taped lessons 'over WEVD. E. L. M. IJensing, a Director of Philips Industries of Holland, founder with.two associates of the INSTITUTO POr' ESPERANTO EN ROMEROS KAJ INDUSTRIO, and vice president of the Universal Esperanto Association,, appeared on Channel 13* New York's educational television station, and over 'VJEVD. THE NEW YORK CONVENTION BUREAU GUIDE TO VISITORS, a lavishly illustrated full color brochure published by the City of New York, appeared in Esperanto for the first time in 196k* Bernard Stollman sold New York on the project, which was partially financed by ELNA, which paid the production costs of the Esperanto version. ELM's Joel Silverman toiled for days to provide an Cevalo Is Her Favorite Anima Five - and - a - half - year- old Lisa Helmuth has just come back from the 49th In- ternational Esperanto Confer- ence in Holland. She was the youngest delegate there. Lisa discussed Esperanto between somersaults across the Statler Hilton lobby the other day. "My favorite animal is the cevalo," she said, "that's horse." "And I can say a poem about. 3. apple," she added. Taking a deep breath Lisa reeled off: "Porno porno dela nomo Dolca frukto vi Se mi estus rego Mi sidus sia1 sego ICaj magnus pomojantri" Ajid just to prove that she knows «'hat it ail means, Lisa gave her free translation: "Apple, apple, good fruit, if 1 was a king I'd sit, on & chair and eat those apples." "I learned that, from Mommy and Daddy," she explained. Mommy and Daddy are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Helmuth, of San Mateo, Calif., who were also delegates to the Esper- anto conference. Mr. Helmuth, a builder and developer, learned Esperanto with his wife as a second language and has taught It at San Diego High School. Lisa's part of the confer- ence was held in an old man- sion outside of Rotterdam, where there were ducks and geese for the younger Esper- antists to play with. But it's a side trip to Finland that she remembers most vividly: "In Europe we went to Finland. I ran in a little lake and talked with an uncle, a Esperanto uncle." Lisa is very proud of a snapshot of herself in Pin- land, talking' with two little Finnish girls in Esperanto as they all make mudpies in a birch grove The littlest Esperanist of them all has blonde hair, brown eyes, and a lot of poise in either of the two langu- ages she speaks. She's been learning both since sh.e was two months old; her mother talked Esperanto to her in the mornings, English in the afternoon. Fresh from her first conference and a. tour of Europe in Esperanto, she's more at home in that language right now than in English. Lisa just happened to have with her two of her favorite stories right, now: "La Marv- irineto"—Hans Christian Anderson's "Little Mermaid" and Ali Babo. '"Lots of things end in o in Esperanto." she says. Mr. and Mrs. Helmuth add that most children's stories done in Esperanto are published in Europe, as these are. When she can tear herself away from AH Babo, Lisa has some strictly non-Esperanto interests: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, Marshall Dillon, and a special version j of Monopoly played with gingerbread men. When she grows up, she says in either English or Esperanto, she wants to be a children's nurse. '• jtSJJfiFJWl1 MM to - lew York Herald Tribune, September 25s I96U Lauded As World Peace By MYRON FEINSILBER United Press International NEW YORK — In- trigued by the sound of the un- familiar language, attorney Bernard Stollman sat at the lunch counter and eavesdrop- ped. Suddenly the man wearing a beret turned from the pretty girl he had been speaking to and challenged Stollman: "You don't know what language we're using, do you"" "Crotian?" guessed Stollman. "Turkish'? Yugoslav'?" their exchanges of letters and records. Esperantists want the lan- guage adoptee! universally as everybody's second tongue, but no one's first language. They argue- that only by speaking a common'' language. free of the need for.interpreters arid free of the chance for mis- interpretations, can the people of the world understand each other. And they argue that no language is as easy to learn. English has made great strid- Esperantists say any oi knows English can rec three-Quarters nf the 3Es to vocabulary. Americans traveling to 1 find Esperanto <■ useftu). hotel and railroad clert policemen in Europe kno New York City, getting to welcome foreign visit the World's Fair, recent!: Hshed a guide in Esperai Tlris delighted Stollms Balbin. They felt it was ie who ognifce perah- Suroibe Many s and w it.. ready ors to PUD- )tO. n and afficial MEW YORK TIMS March 15, 196U ESPERANTISTS GET A BID TO THE FAIR ilnvitation to the 'Novjorkan; Monti Foiron' Is Sent Out ' ' By RICHARD F. SHKPAHP "Vizilu la Novjorkan Mond "Foiron!" This injunction to visit ihe iNcw York World's Fair, in no-" jbody's native tongue, is being; I distributed in 15,000 copies; : around the world in the hope of lurin n in the suhterfcrvojo turnstile. ■ fir by autobuso, boato. hoHkop- tcro or automobile, Tlie pampniet it a joint proj- ect of the Universal HsperauUi Association audits North Amcr- : lean league, which initiated it, ■ jand of the New York Convention! I and Visitors Bureau. The bu-1 jreau is distributing identical j brochures in English, French,! [Spanish, Italian, German, ,Por-j j tuguese, Japanese and Russian.. A spokesman for the bureau! ,[.explained that much of the; \ printing cost had been paid by : the Esperantists. who. ho said.: i'.vere "'very travel-prone pc-opl A world Esperantist congress is held each yen;-. This year's will be at The F#sue and the next in Tokyo. There is a feel'"/: that it would be nice to "■• "e such 'meetings to New York. ; Bernard Stollman. director of j the Esperanto Information Cen- ter, S05 East 40th Street, said: organizations devoted to the] spread of the artificial lan-i guage would distribute 10/">0| pamphlets while the convention; :bureau would dispose of 5,000.; lit is said that one million to' seven million people in the world can pass the time of a-