Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1910-07-27
ONLY ESPERANTO TALK
To Be Used AT The Sixth Inter
national Congress About To
Meet
THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
Washington viii Hear II In Baseball. A
Piay. BHSiuess Nestiags And Enter
tsiHmests s-FOrty Naiioas To
Have Representatives

The sixth international congress Of
Esperanto will begin at Washington
on Sunday August Il. Meetings
will be held at which the only Ian
guage spoken will be Esperant to.
As You Like It. will be given in
the words in Esperanto. The five hun
dred delegates from the forty nations
70 be represented will attend a game
OF ball at the American League Park
All the rules will be in Esperanto.
Some Of the decisions will be an
uounced IN IL.
Friends OF Esperanto say It has been
making progress in the United States.
IL has been taken up bv scientists,
linguists, teachers, public men and
commercial houses. At its last ses-
son the Maryland Legislature passed
a law permitting the study of Esper-
anto in the public schools.
Owing to the use Of the term uni
yersal language many have been
misled into the belief that il was in
tended TO substitute Esperanto for all
other languages. That this IS erroue-
Gus will be emphasized at the con-
gress. It's author, Dr. L. L Zamen-
hof. Of Warsaw, Poland, will first in
English and then in Esperanto tell
what be had in mind when he prepar-
ed the first text book and what asso-
citations all over the world have been
advocating Esperanto is meant to be
a language 70 be used at information
al peace conferences, between busi-
ness men in different countries and in
all cases in which a common language
IS lacking
The teaching OF the language in
the public schools Of this country and
abroad will be the principal topic
during the congress 1t is believed
by the leaders that through the chill
drsn in the schools success IS To be
obtained Il is declared by the sdvo-
Gates OF the language that in the
study OF English and foreign tongues
the knowledge Of Esperanto will be
of more value than Latin or Greek
Missionary work to this end will be
planned
Another thing that will be emphs-
sized az the meeting is the use OF the
language TO bring nations and race
closer together. 1t is pointed out
By Ivy Eellermsn, Ph. D., author of
several works on Esperanto, that Es-
peranto will help 70 bind nations to
gether and dispel the doubt with which
races regard each other. She will de-
liver an address along these lines,
pointing out the difficulty Of travel
abroad under old conditions and the
ease with the use Of Esperanto by
many foreigners
While the congress will not be con-
vened until Sunday. an informal re-
ception and concert will be given Sat
urday night, August 13, at the Airing
ton Hotel All the vocal exercises
viii be in Esperanto. On Sunday
morning church services will be held
in Episcopal and Catholic churches.
In the evening there will be a con-
cert, the vocal parts being repeated
il Esperanto.
On Monday the first business will
be conducted Or. Zamenho will de-
liver an address, after which the
governmental delegates will be pre-
sented On the following days there
will be business meetings, diversi-
fed with excursions and entertain
nents- On Saturday the congress
will come 70 a close with business
meetings. and the election Of officers.
In St. Paul's Episcopal Church the
Rev. Paul F. Hoffman. Of Baltimore,
viii conduct the service. and the Rev.
James L Smiley, OF this city. will
preach the sermon in the new tongue.