ESPERANTO LEAGUE FOR NORTH AMERICA N E ¥ S L E T T E R/l96Lt:2 Published by the ELNA Information Center, ESPERANTO DOMO, 180 Riverside Drive, lew York, Mew York 1002U. (212) 799-2800* Cable; NYUNICCRE. Bernard Stollman, Director; Mary Murray, Associate Directorj Joe Horn, Office Coordinator» 1. A MEM ESPERANTO DOMO III NEW YORK begins operations as this issue goes to press. An 8 room cooperative apartment at 180 Riverside Drive (90th Street) near Columbia University, it is a sunny 9th floor suite with a magnificent view of the Hudson River aid the Hew Jersey shoreline. The building was erected in 1929« and it has a 2k hour doormana ^Plans have been drawn for an Esperanto library, a lecture hall salon seating ?5 people, and classroom facilities, in addition to space for processing the NEWSLETTER, correspondence, and other related activities^ Our immediate needs include Esperanto books, bookshelves, 100 stacking chairs, a 16 M sound projector, movie screen, public address system with 2 microphones and mixer, work tables., office chairs, and other items which will be listed in later issues of this NEWSLETTER, A special ESPERANTO DOMO issue will appear shortly, containing photographs, floor plans, and an inventory of equipment needed,, 2. MOTHER UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL story has been filed and should break any day now in newspapers from coast to coast» The story was carefully researched by the nation-wide news agency, whose representative drew* all of his facts, figures and conclusions from data furnished by the Esperanto Information Center. According to a\xc grapevine., it may well be the most effective statement for Esperanto yet to appear in our press» Other major press breaks are expected momentarily. When you see this story in your local.newspaper, please tell us about it. 3» ELNA MEMBERS and MEMBERS OF JUNULWO ESPERANTISTA de NORD-AMERIKO will receive both publications, the NEWSLETTER and the JEN BULTENO., in a combined format, beginning with the current issue. „ k* The ELNA ESTRARO is composed of FRANCIS HELMUTH, president) CONRAD FISHER, secretary^ and ROBERT BAILEY, treasurer. The ESTRARA KOMITATO is composed of THOMAS A, GOLDMAN, ROAN ORLOFF-STONE, DOROTHY HOLLAND, JONAIgAN POOL, WILLIAM GLENNY, DR3 JAMES LIEBERMAN, DAVID RICHARDSON, and ANN BODIME. £. DORIS VALLOM has been named ESPERANTIST OF THE YEAR, for her tireless and remarkably successful efforts to introduce Esperanto into the California public schools. Here is her reports ESFERANTO YOUTH MEETS IH AMSTERDAM. 170 delegates from 21«- countries saw Ivo Osibov, Yugoslav attorney, take over from West German Gŭnther Becker as President of the World Organization of Young Esperantists (TEJO), at the organization's recent Congress in Amsterdam. Becker has served with the organization since 195&, and has seen it grow tenfold in this period. As he moved on to take office as Secretary-General of the Universal Esperanto ... Association, the Congress welcomed into TEJO four new national sections — in Austria, Australia, South Korea and Hungary. TEJO plans to meet next j August in Kyoto, Japan. ' CANADIAN WRITER DOROTHY HENDERSON'S fascinating and ekciting book, People have Power, is designed as a stimulation to "practical democracy" for organisations and individuals. "It is my conviction," writes Mrs. Henderson, "that democratic government cannot be maintained unless society becomes more effectively a training ground for the democratic process. While touching briefly on politics, art, religion, history and scientific research, this book is essentially a book on human relations. As such, it is designed to interest not only the general reader, but also family, school and community groups who wish to use chapters of their choice as stimulants to further study and dis- cussion." One of Mrs. Henderson's chapters deals with "Language". Here she sets out her reasons for supporting and using Esperanto, drawing]on forty years' experience as group organizer. All groups, Esperantist or non-Esperantist, should have a copy. Published by Harvest House, Montreal, cloth $5«00> paper $2.50. HUNGARIAN STUDENTS' FANTASTIC RESULTS WITH ESPERANTO. An experiment carried out by Dr. Istvan Szerdahelyi and reported in the student magazine Universo recently, shows the amazing facility of the International Language compared with national languages. A group of'fourteen girlis from the same class, all about the same age, studied Russian during 390 teaching hours and Esperanto during only ten. When asked to translate a Hungarian text first into Esperanto and then into Bussian, they made on the average mpre mistakes in the Russian translation than in the Esperanto one. This difference was evident in all categories of mistakes — spelling, vocabulary and grammar. YOUNG ESPERANTISTS IN THE MALAGASY REPUBLIC have begun producing the first youth magazine ever to be published in Esperanto in the African conti- nent. This is an exciting new development in.the progress of Esperanto in Africa. Entitled Junulara Kurlero, the magazine gives news bf international- activities of the World Organization of Young Esperantists,: and activities in Madagascar itself. Annual subscription is $2.70, payable through Esperanto Information Center. i i ... ,1 :■ . t ■■■< 4\ !■ rvjiC #$■(.■■(■' m\ fatitwi't1* rtfVJW! f^English stnid^becamelimeanirigfmb^ logical grammatical structure j]:]': Another iii^ortantfacet of^ajsaim^ng ;j£S|)erant^e, is; in the i area of children experiencing! subc^^lifn1!^ either because they !are culturallyrdis^^taged,;|pr^n other ways, know 'repeated failure]!ih|self-expr^^onpfin^witt^'''br; spoken English, i -■•-. 1: "$t jj |, 11; Esperanto is! an 'teasy; language.;,'; Children can know^'success in it. As a ineW; language} for|||yery»cĥild cachj|l^tthe :sarIle^c^llenge'"in learning to 'express himself H Success'"!in Esper^tolj'serves.' tofstiraul^te! study and achieve» iment 'in '.English! fahd j later ,%in\mo*ej.diff icult foreign" languages. ■tf'V> if* I had: $§en:pr:epar£| \ of:|dŭlng;)jth|eir; !'ŭe$l; ■ siirring|liMleil|p) on four;[bulletinIb )ard: IMejdemandu, idu^kioh faros' via lando por' vi, sed demandu kion vi , I tliiTI \Ŭ'U " "' v'povas'far'i!^orivia^d^.^^;:'!f t iMiitlr '.■(-?■•*-la •■!:; ■-!" I ii»;#\i' ''«^w-j^'-^-i^.^iii^iMlf v'^i Hh~+ $'■■'■•"• IJlAsk-'npt whaS your fcountry;iriw$dj:foriybu^wt asKjwhit you' can \'\\ I'ft | '| |>t '- ti' ; )\I *fff!dorfor«yourt country.!' * : i ;| J As (you can see]! I! theirfteadher. \j\ ■i i'i'ij'-'vH. 1 > i i v '. ■! ■ hi'! •: rr »'f w EsperantQi,,became:1a„uSeful tool for.;my"classjand for me as J!„|il:i||!jr Dor is Villon, Fourth Grade Teacher, MfPrfi \ 1 "'fohvibi&i 'Elementary School w San Mateo, California, U.S.A. 5lj::;;iDR.;;:jEDttnŭ;F^^ teachers in ,.J San Mateo.'I |Six|^en;teach!erstare|^ten^ has !! receivediibfficiw!&pproval*£r© for teacher credits'."IJTnc jnect oibjectiwfa£||«^ with Dr. Feldman, CATOY|Sa|Ul2E .ahdfpORISJVMIjC^|fwriir^gfa isokewhat? awesome- aggregation of tifail'fbreakers,|'^ the' fdrma3i|ihtr^duction^bf: Esperanto; into the newly com- pjilsoiryj^l^ ta^^ school system. Communiques |will .be'irjelayed'i'tp MEVJSLBTn^'fe^erstas^l^'ey^'a^e' received. iJhatiareiyou doing in-your | area to >win* adoption of Esperanto by your school system.'1 jlJhy not Jdbtalnf additional.copies^faf, DORJtfe^VĴfulliDJSI|s ;report, and,1 give1 themlitb iour local l^guage^ teachers,,andlanguage' department heads, together i BOGRAD'S speaks your language... -ii ■ 1! .1 i t !: j. ■ ',: ;* >",*.U jiij.,,,;):; ]h, ■■ ' -,!•: «,: „;>j,rr;..;[;; ^,;-« ' ., ,. - Tlie universal ]arijruapqflf.lJovv!t,rRll)AVI TO » 8R4.VD SAM$S FqVSnATWS ji)v,\nnmssisG ketails^, . <; ■ I ! , NEWYORkH '*•! piffajtf ESPERANTO CONVENTION -1 ■ .:)*', «(i ' li -I *- TRIUMPHANT CONGRESS IK THE HAGUE — the ^9th annual Universal Congress of Esperanto taking place this past August in The Hague, Netherlands, was'a further remarkable display of unity and clearsightedness on the part of speakers of Esperanto. Congress delegates numbered 2,500, representing all the world's major nations. As well as meetings of the Esperanto movement's professional organizations, meetings of the Universal Esperanto Association, working sessions on education and on publicity methods, the Congress also included cultural items. Among the most outstanding presentations were trans- lations of plays by Lorea, Chekov, Ionesco, Sartre and others. These presen- tations, by the Paris-based International Theater of the Arts, and under the direction of Yugoslav actor-producer Srdjan Flego, were backed up by the film Angoroj, in which Flego took one of the leading roles. Angoroj is the first full-length feature film in Esperanto -- a further significant breakthrough for the International Language. Other cultural items included the annual Literary Competition, and the Pub lie-Speaking Competition., this year won by a young Indian delegate. The Congress honored Mr, H. W. Holmes, for many years a vice-president of the Universal Esperanto Association, and now elected Honorary President of the organization. Patron of the Congress was the head of state of the Netherlands, Queen Juliana. A VOLUME OF SHORT STORIES translated, into English from Esperanto is something of an event» From California comes Behold You and Me, stories by Sandor Bako, a refugee from. Hungary, now living in Los Angeles. An Esperanto edition is scheduled for publication in December. The English edition can be obtained from Al-Ba Books, 956 South Morton Avenue, Los Angeles, California, price-$2.50. ESPERANTO HAS BRIGHTER.. OUTLOOK IN SOVIET UNION. Lifting its ban on publications in the International Language'Esperanto, the Soviet government has just pro- duced several new publications, including a volume of Selected Verse by M. J. Lermontov, on the oc.casion'of the 150th anniversary, of the poet's birth. Publi- cations scheduled for 1965 include two large Russian-Esperanto and Esperanto- Russian dictionaries, and a textbo'ok. When a new textbook on Esperanto was recently published in Braille in Moscow, all copies were sold in a matter of days. Efforts are now being made to have a second edition published. (IGS Rot- terdam) , UEA ELECTS NEW EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. The Committee of the Universal Esperanto Association,meeting in The Hague, elected bv an almost imnMi'mnno wi-t-o Pt.nfoc<-^ %, itcl K:Ĵ i; iftiii' I** 9. Advance plans should be iade now to attlnd the EHifl Kongreso in Portlan^Oregon, i July 23-26, just prior to the 1Q1II0 i!ESQ> Contact ffi MM, M S.U. larigold Street, lltnoiah, 1 further details, affllllOI CfflUC Ml MIHI, Her address is 3o vf m, »», 10$, (larcy Place), 11, 1 El OQftST ESfEilO BOOR SERVICE is m in operation, of II L101, JR, Address all orders to lest Coast Esperanto Book Service 2125 Elisabeth Street, San Carlos, California $|Q?0, the direction j .lilliiS. lJ.OSlSSIŬlBILLH.R.l^hasoeeni] (Pa), providing for scholarships in the Humanities and Ms at nonprofit feu» and foreign institutions of higher education, To help pass lis bill, U could k used to do research in the use of Esperanto by college students, write to your a, or to Rep, loorhead, U Congress, fehington, D.C, 13, ESPER1T01IS1S CIS are available froi is, Donald Greenland, 1)021 S,E, |?th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 91206, at a price of 10 for 11,00 Hi, The m ESPEMTO DCS '^ located in the lovely hoi of % AIDK, II SE1J1, parents of Hi STQLIii, «ho have provided El with a spacious 13x1? room, with private bath, in addition to storage, kitchen and reception facilities, This space meets our present needs, with some provision for growl, 1$, Discussions are being conducted between representatives of SMS and Ell """"ming the feasibility of coordinating programs, Founded lfo years ago in Deniark by Robert luitweiler,»..........______ 21 countries to travelers, including to days and to nights of board and lodging, without cost, Some EH neihers are IBS hosts, It is ejected that new El «hers will be found aiong the host families of IBS, The next 1S1ET1 will carry further details, leanwhile, your opinion on the desirability and feasibility of coordination of efforts with like-minded organizations fill be welcomed i] us, ĥ Have you heard the new Sing-Along LP, '111 Ml EI ESPE111 ?It laiies an interesting and valuable gift to a language student, 11, Sext issue„„tA 101 HP, SERVAS PROPOSAL, ESPERANTO 10 PUS, IS FRO!! 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