Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-27
ESPERANTO RED CROSS
A ererchman Advocates The Iuterna-
tional Language in Var and
in Peace.

The following was translated for
The Eevning Capital from "Amerika
Esperatisto."
IF the physicians. nurses ana
women of the Red Cross always had
to nurse only the sick and wounded
who speak the same national language
ne themselves. an auxiliary language
would not be necessary in hospitals
But il is otherwise in many cases.
and the present war fills the ambu-
lances and the hospitals with wound
ed and doctors speaking many diner
emit languages and not always capable
of understanding each other.
Dunant. the founder of the Red
Cross. himself recognized the need OF
an auxiliary common language which
would enable the wounded and their
attendants to understand each other
without an interpreter. In his
Souvenir of Solferino,' speaking OF
The operations performed on the
wounded. he says: Think of a seri-
Gus operation then, when an Austrian
understanding neither Italian nor
French. must allow himself to be lea
as a sheep to the slaughter, not being
] able TO excahnge one word with his
tormenting benefactors! And again,
concerning those who died: Would
those dying, forsaken in the Casu-
glionean ambulances. in the hospitals
in Brescia-of whom many could not
make themselves understood on &C
count of dissimilarity of language
would they have breathed their last,
cursing and disappearing, II they had
had at their side a comforter to listen
to and give them consolation
"Such two extracts from the work
| of the founder of the Red Cross have
impressed our lamented fellow-citi-
zen. Captain Bayol, of the 51st lnfan-
try. when he was only instructing
lieutenant at the special Military
| School of Saint Cyr. Anticipating
| that on account of the leagues made
! on both sides, the future war would
| locate on each side persons speaking
many dissimilar languages, and that
| those persons in the hospitals, II
| there was lacing an easy means OF
| communication. would not succeed in
understanding each other, he wished
to place at the disposal of the future
doctors. nurses and wounded as well
as the members of the Red Cross, the
| Esperanto language, that auxiliary
common language so simple and SO
logical that by a little perseverance
every one can learn it by himself in
the course of very short time, and
to that end he published in 1906 his
| school book entitled Esperanto Red
| Cros.'
"Not only in war, but also in peace,
4 this international auxiliary tongue
will assist the Red Cross, as was evil
| denced by such catastrophe as the
| earthquake on Sicily. Therefore all
members of the Red Cross in every
land should by all means master Es-
peranto. So should the people in gen.
eral, for who knows but what he him
| self will some day be sick or wound
/ ed in foreign country? We can not
i better conclude this article than by
| citing the lines which our friend, Cap
| tain Bayol, in dedicating his book to
him, wrote to NJ. Mojgnier, President
of the International Committee of the
| Red Cross at Geneva: That the
union of the Green Star of Esperanto
| with the Red Cross of Geneva, facili-
tating international relations, may en-
able the generous supporters of the
Red Cross to do yet greater good
This we will be sure to have bene-
i filter the great human family
| IL. DEMARCY."