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nurses and physicians gave drlii III
rescuing and treating the wounded on
a battlefield. Esperantists from every
nation represented at the congress
took the part OF wounded soldiers,
without previous drilling In their re-
spective parts. The Red Cross aids
rushed upon the supposed battlefield.
ascertained from each sufferer the
nature OF his wound, and bore him
Off to the hospital-speakiag to MN
and giving all directions In EsperaE-
to only.
At the coming congress in wash
ington, Edwin C. Redd, secretary
treasurer of the Esperanto Associa'
ton OF North America, has arranged
a demonstration that is truly unique
On the Washington police force are
dozen or SO men who were mem
bers OF the International police force
during the Boxer trouble in China
some few years oga, MIR. Reed, who
has been working night and Gay upon
the success of the congress at MS
desk In the rooms of the Washing
ton chamber of commerce, has found
time to take these men and teach
them Esperanto. They are now pre-
pared to assist the foreign delegates
in getting about the city and to an
swer all questions in the common me-
dium of communication.
Delegates to the congress, repre-
senting a total of 80 different national
languages, will be present from Japan.
the Philippines, South America and
nearly every country in Europe.
France is decidedly the stronghold of
Esperanto, with Spain and England
close seconds. The language has
been given an astonishing welcome
in Japan, where it is taught IN the
imperial University, at Toxic, no less
parsonage than the minister or
foreign affairs, being the president
OF the Japanese Association of Es-
perantists. Norway and Belgium have
officially recognized it, and the United
States, too, to the extent of trans
hitting, through the embassies and
legations abroad, an invitation tol
every government to participate by
delegates. At the congress last year
Edwin C. Reed represented the
United States on nomination of the
commissioner of education and ap-
pointment by the state department.
Among the delegates OF prominence
will be found Prof. w. J. Spillman. OF
the department of agriculture. mem
Der Of the national executive com
mittee and the Scientific Association;
Charles r. Russell, now mirister toi
Persia and formerly assistant attor-
rey general of the United States; Ed.
win F. Smith. one of the best-krown
bacteriologist in the Department of
Horticulture; General Sebert, of
France, member of the famous
French Academy and president of
Il e International Esperanto Congress
committee, and FREDERICK Puiula VI
Wales. president of the fifth congress,
ana his wife.
Esperantists claim much for their
language, without intending that It'll
shall disphce any of the great nation
al languages. 1t is not meant to bel
a universal tongue, they say, butt
simply an international one. Thous-
ands of volumes of the best in thei
literature of other countries hayet
been translated into Esperanto, thus
affording all nations a literary feast. |
Many OF the great foreign scientific
works are being similarly handled. |
and there are now no less than 1911
Esperanto magazines published ini
various parts of the world. Eventual
iy. they say. it will become part of
the school curicula OF all civilized
nationg. Already the subject has
been made one Of those named inl
the school law for the State Of Mary
land by act of the legislature
In a commercial way. they claim. |
It is OF a practical advantage to all
doing business beyond the national
borders: scientifically. BY offering
opportunity for an '1nternationaF
version Of all the great scientific
works OF the world For travellers,
they state, it is an immeesurabieI
tIessing, eliminating the incohveni-
ences OF having to contend with sol
many foreign tongues. Last year. Mr..
Reed travelled from northern France
clear through the Continent to BARGE
Iona. Spain, speaking nothing ous
Esperanto. With the full establish
ment Of this International language.