Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-22
LEAGUE OF NATIONS PLAN
APPEALS TO ADVOCATES
OF LANGUAGE

Two movements. both tinged with
a sane decentralization, have met
The League to Enforce Peace has in
troduced itself to the E~sperantists
It has translated into Esperanto. the
universal language" the address II
which william II. Taft, president oil
the league, declared himself at It's
Philadelphia convention last May, foT
war that We may have peace.
This message to the E~sperantists OF
the world, a message which prOclalHls
the Wilson doctrine of force to the
uttermost, has been sent IN their own
pet tongue to thousands of Esperant-
lists in their ~centers of activity. Thence
II has circulated into the highways
and the byyays. into h studies oil
men and letters and int i trenches
in Belgium and France; It has pene-
trated Japan and copies have oeen
SAINT to be dropped by italian aviators
who hover over Austria-Hungary'
There Is every aso to hope that Dy
this time It has reached E~sperantists
IN Germany through their brethren In
neutral lands.
The response was immediate and
cordial. Vvery mail brings requests,
many of them from strange orner OF
the world, for additional copies to De
sent to individuals.
Where ordinary propaganda seed
might find barren soil this message IL
Tsperanto insinuates Itself INTO al,
urays receptive crevice OF individual
hobby and sprouts strongly. 1t seems
to be beyond the power OF the Esper-
artist to resist the appeal or MS arti-
fcial language and whatever the crit
ics OF the idea may say of them as
saa-f-A =, II - - 4hn nnqf q6VATA ADMIT
that the Esperantist is a man VINO
does his own thinking. II Is to such
that Mr.. Taft's address has the
strongest appeal.
Grid the World of Monster War"
There are thinkers shouldering rifles
and packs or driving oamions IL
France today and N OF them, q
French soldier In the transport seIV-
ice, has written to the League to En-
force Peace;
"Having learned recently about the
League to Enforce Peace, l am mosI
cheerfully embracing the occasion 70
tell you how glad l ar that at Ias'
helping hands are coming forward
from all sides to insure to th'
creates blessing-Peace!
"As is often the case when a prob
lem offers itself for solution there art
presenting themselves all kinds OF
sol1tions-wise, unwise and prepos'
ferrous. And so, rs egard the kho'tS
question about the establishment VI
a sure and lasting peace tnere "rIT.
auite likely, many Propositions =
"a desirable that all the proposals
brought forward be praeticaple am
that they be especially keyed up TO tht
nrime objective: Forever to rid oui
overwhelmed world of the monster
War!'
To this uniformed philosopher OF
tbe steering wheel on whom the mes
sage of the League broke as Inc dawn
Of a new day, Ii appears that men hsh'
because they do not understand one
another. II they spoke n common
tongue they would come to understaho
one another and then they would ho'
fight. Until 1889, he declares ln
pToof. thirty-two French provinces
snake thirty dialects and fought
among themselves. Their came the
Revolution, the division of Franc
into fewer and larger departments
tha enforced study of the official lah-
gnare and from that time on there
vuresno meTe-tnh be seen one epa
-isnt Warning against q nelshpor ue-
partment."
letter from Belgian Artnleryman.
A BelgIan artilleryman writes In
similar vein and from another OF thoSs
thinking, fighting poilus m thls' T..
.'Your League Is right II
crushes the heart to write these WORDS
yes A. Is awful to counsel war@tne
most abominable war possible tIe
war which has captured the Wnole
world. war which has been carried on
by the worst methods.
.,Rut. thanks to YOU, we snail tuc-
oaod ana the ~peoples, compromising
each other, will realize the true, en-
during, International Peace ioreseen
bv our master, DIR. Zaminhof.
An American Esperantist obtained
several copies which he gave 10 .
friend. a captain IN the air service OF
the italian army, with the request
that no have copies made and drop
,ben from his aeroplane when flying
above the city of Trieste. Before the
war there were about 1000 Esperant-
lists In Trieste.
Germans Feared Esperanto.
rho effort appears to have been
abandoned. Either the Germans ais
severed that they were working on an
hypothesis or, as some rs
nerantists assert, they feared 10 en-
courage such n movement, being Cd
sessed with the idea of making Ger
nan the world language and suddenly
to the fact that they were
csressing a dangerous rival. The ex-
t-ansiveness of the field in which Mr.
Tsaft's words have been sown and lts