The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-03
EDITORIAL NOTES


 Hungarians in America as well as at home will celebrate today the cen tenary of the birth of Baron Jozsef EotVos, statesman, novelist, poet and orator Although he has been dead for over forty years, Eotvos still lives in Hungarian literature and politics, and some of his books have already taken their place among the classics of his country.
 EotVos was born in Buda on Sept. 3, 1913, and was educated in the Uni versity of Pesth Buda and Pesth were chen separate municipalities, but have since been consolidated under the name of Budapesth. Eotvos was a precocious youth, and was only seven teen wken he commenced his literary career by translattng one of Goethe s works. This was followed by two original comedies and a tragedy, whick showed such remarkable beauty of tyle as to immediately place the youthful author in the front rank of Hungarian writers.
 At twenty Eotvos began his official career as a vice-notary, and after two years went to Vienna. In 1886 he travelled through Germany, Switzer- land, France and Great Britain. He returned to his native land to become the editor of the Ariskonyv, in which appeared fis great novel, ''The Car thusian."
 . Eotvos was a leader in many re- forms and his works on these sub jects, as well as his fiction and verses, gained for him the respect of Europe. He was a brilliant advocate of prison reform, end his eloquent defence of '"The Emancipation of the Jews'' was still more remarkable. Many of his works of this period were published d for the benefit of the sufferers from the terrible flood which devastated Pesth in 1888.
 TT, 7QAn 1,a house of the Hungarian Diet, and be- came a leader of the advanced poItti- cal movement of that period. Soon afterward he lost his fortune, and was forced to seek a subsistence in the labors of his pen, while he continued to espouse the national cause. In his novel, '"The Village Notary he boldly exposed the abuses connected with the rule of the nobIes. This volume was translated into English and several other languages. He was the champion of standardization, while Kossuth defended the autonomy of the counties.
 In 1s49 Baron Eotvos received the portfolio Of minister of public instruc- ton, but the story course of events that shortly followed led to his retire ment. He went to Vienna and after ward to Munich, but returned to Pesth in 1851, when he published his ''The Influence of the Ruling Ideas of the Nineteenth Century on the State.'' In this work he expressed his confidence inu the faithfulness of the age to hu- manitarian ideas, notwithstanding it's utilitarianism. He was largely in strumentaI in preparing the popular mind for those constitutional changes which were afterward introduced. Fol lowing the coronation of Franz Jozsef as King of Hungary in 1887, when the second Hungarian ministry was call ed into existence, Eotvos was again made minister of public instruction He was at that time the president of the Hungarian Academy of Science, and many other honors had been con- ferred upon him. He died in 1871. A monument in the city of his birth com memorates his name and fame, and his books continue to exert a profound influence on Hungarian thought.
 Boscobel, the house in which Charles 1T. took refuge after his defeat by Cromwell in the battle of Worcester 262 years ago today, still stands, and the principal parts remain as they were in the days of the civil war An the royal fugitive climbed to escape Cromwe1I's horseenn, stands near the house.
 With the death of Ferdinand August Rebel, the distinguished leader of the German social democracy, the dfstinc- ton of being the worlds foremost so- ciaIist probably falls to M. Jean Leon Jaures, the eloquent parliamentary spokesman for French socialism. Since 1885 he has been member of the Chamber of Deputies and has warred unceasingly against the established or der, refusing all offers to go over to 'fthe enemy
 M Jaures will receive the congratu- 1ations of his colleagues today on his ffty-fourth birthday. He was born on Sept. B. 1859, in the little city of Castres, in the south of France. He had a natural bent toward the study of philosophy and economics, and, af- ter leaving college, determined upon a career as educator. For several years he held the chair of philosophy at Albi and Toulouse. Always a radical, EN,zMzNn.N1z-Nzzzv,zz