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INTERNATIONAL^ IIanguage £0 Vol. VII. JULY, 1930. Price 2d. MOHTHLY THE INTERNATIONALISM OF LITERATURE “In Search of Rare Meats” Hebrew Hebrea Folk-Humour „ Folk-Humoro I. OLSVANGER HAUPTMANN HARCKE De RAYMOND SCHWARTZ OFICIALA BULTENO DE LA 22a UNIVERSALA KONGRESO DE ESPERANTO 150 INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE 03' ELDONEJO A Plebs Book. Out To-day. ESPERANTISTA The Workers’ VOĈO Esperanto YASLO (POLLANDO) Movement Ĝiaj eldonoj sin rekomendas per sen- riproĉa lingvo, bona presado kaj malkara By E. LANTI prezo. (Translated by H. Stay). Jen ekstrakto el nia prezaro de kelkaj rekomendindaj verkoj : ____ 03 Price 6d. (7d. post free)* 03 Discount for quantities. NAXJLINGVA ~ 03 ETIMOLOGIA 03 LEKSIKONO Pr. sv. S Bastien. Pĝ. 249 .. 5.— 03 N.C.L.C. Publishing Society, Ltd., 03 16 SOUTH HILL PARK GARDENS, LONDON, N W 3 03 VORTOJ DE 03 PROFESORO CART 0303030303030303030303030303030303luksa eldono kun du portretoj. La plej grava verko post Lingvaj Respondoj. 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SPERANTO in the Schools.— Editorial , Advertisement and P ublishing In our March issue we dealt Offices : with the question of the intro 142 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.l. duction of Esperanto in the schools, a subject which deserves more prominence than usual in Telegrams : Esperanto, Westcent, London. view of the impending legislation Telephone Holbom: 4794. for raising the school leaving-age to fifteen. In the space available it was impossible to do more than outline some of the arguments for the Editor—Cefredaktoro L. : N. N ew ell. introduction of the international language, or quote Assistant Editor—Vic-ĉefredaktoro: K. R. C. Sturmbr. ) more than one or two of the educational authorities Radio Editor—Radio-Rtdaktoro W . H : . Matthews. who support the proposal; and we therefore Welcome R ates op S ubscription (induding postage to any part of the world]— a pamphlet which we have received from the British Twelve months, 2/6. Single copies, Three Penny Stamps. Esperanto Association, entitledEsperanto in the Jarabono : 3 svisaj frankoj. Unuopaj ckzempleroj : po 30 centimoj School : A New Idea in Education, by M. C. Butler. (respondkuponoj de U.E.A.). Oni sendu manuskriptojn alLa It presents its case very cogently, and skilfully marshals R edakcio. La Redakcio reseudos nur tiuin manuskriptojn, kiujn akompanos afrankita koverto, afi respondkupono. the support of the special committee appointed by the British Association, the League of Nations, Sir'William Manuscripts should be typewritten and be addressedThe to E ditor. Each manuscript should bear the name and address of the sender andRamsay, Professor J. J. Findlay, various H.M. be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope. Although every careInspectors of Schools, and many other authorities. will be taken to return rejected manuscripts, the Editor does not hold We heartily recommend it to all who wish to be himself responsible for any loss or damage, nor can he undertake to return any manuscripts unaccompanied by a stamped addressed envelope.in possession of the facts bearing on the educational Advertisement R ates w ill be quoted on application toB usinessthe value of Esperanto ; copies may be obtained from the Manager. British Esperanto Association, 142 High Hoibom, Small A nnouncements are accepted al id. per word (minimum if- per London, W.C.l. issue). Address to theB usiness Manager. All such announcements At the same time we learn that a system of Inter- must be prepaid. State and International School Exchange has been set The E ditor is not necessarily in agreement with views expressed in up by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, and that signed articles, but accepts responsibility for all unsigned articles. Esperanto will be used for the furtherance of the ends Any Article in this Magasine, unless specially marked otherwise, may in view : mutual understanding between the nations be reprinted, provided that the source is acknowledged. and the maintaining of the national culture in touch with the cultures of other countries. Those who are interested in this work should write to Secretario CHIEF CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER Geral do Correio Escolar, Prefeitura, Pra£a da PAGE Republica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The W atch T ower .. .. 151 The I nternationalism of Literature .. 153 International Telephony.—The International Com “ 1-n Search of Rare Meats ” .. .. 156 mittee on Long-Distance Telephony has enlisted the Book N otes and R eviews .. .. 158 services of Esperanto in devising a new articulation Metropolis and V illage —U rbego kaj V ila G o 159 test for international telephone apparatus. T he R ealm of Radio .. .. .. 161 In a test system used internationally, exact similarity H ebrew F olk-H umour—P ri la H ebrea F oi.k- of pronunciation is of great importance. The British H umoro .. .. .. .. 162 • Post Office, which is represented on the Committee, H auptmann H arcke .. .. .. 165 when asked to deal with this difficult point, decided P erson a j Titoloj kaj D istingo j en Britujo 168 that Esperanto was the best language to use for the Bulteno de la 22a U niversala K ongreso .de purpose. The system is based on 4,000 syllables Esperanto .. .. .. .. 170 divided into 40 numbered sections, and in making The Esperanto Student .. .. ., 173 a test, one section is read out by an operator, and 152 INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE taken down by another at the other end of the line. the world-famous director of Universal Films. Mr Comparisons with the list are then made, and it is Laemmle expressed his conviction that Esperanto possible thus to ascertain the percentage of error of the would be very useful to the “talkies” (a conviction instrument which is being tested. he has held for some years), and referred to the very Having discovered the clarity and euphony of high costs of producing talking films in many languages. Esperanto, the Post Offices of the various States He is taking a great interest in the talking film should not take long to discover that it is the ideal mentioned above, for he believes that great results language for all international telephonic com depend upon its success. munications. Italian Guide Books.— The Italian Touring Club, the English Generosity.— Although the fact may be biggest of the Italian touring organisations, will shortly unsuspected by the majority of the world’s peoples, publish an Esperanto guide book to the district round we English are a generous race ; or, at any rate, sopie Lakes Como and Maggiore. The Italian Touring Club of us are generous—embarrassingly so. The latest is known throughout the world for its carefully compiled proof of this trait is given by Sir Richard Paget, Bt., guide books and maps of Italy, and the Esperanto who has just published a book entitled Babel—or the edition will be arranged on the same lines as the Past, Present and Future of Human Speech. In it, Italian. The price for the book (which will be specially Sir Richard Paget proposes to make a present of the interesting to those travelling with the B.E.A. caravan English language to the whole world, after we have to Como in August) is 10.50 lire (about 2/6), including done a little touching-up and re-modelling to make postage, and it can be obtained from s-ro Aleviano the gift a worthy one. In his opinion, Bisetti, Itala Esperantista Federacio, Casella Postale if the language were improved . so as to make it consistent, 166, Torino. hut without altering it so much as to make the classical form Youth and Age.— We have on several occasions difficult to understand, English would in all probability become in a relatively short time the universal language of the planet.heard small children talking Esperanto with as much ease and accuracy as their mother-tongue. In fact, Now, w’e may be lacking in generosity, but we are in some cases Esperanto was one of their mother- not inclined to alter and maltreat our language, tongues, for they had learnt it at the same time as the so that it may be further altered and maltreated by mother-tongue of their parents. We have recently the rest of the worid. For the alteration would have received proof of the easiness of Esperanto for children, to be very drastic ; it would not be enough merely to even when not learnt in so natural a way. Joan, straighten out a few irregularities, and remove some who is in her eleventh year, was given an Esperanto exceptions : it would be necessary to shun the idiomatic textbook as a birthday gift on the 20th October of last use of the language—which would be tantamount to year; on the 28th of the same month she wrote the killing it.