ESPERANTO

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 810, 2 November 1929, Page 10

ESPERANTO

Sir,— Through the medium of The Sun, I would like to reply to Mr. Atmore s interim reply to a deputation which recently approached him on the subject of the teaching of Esperanto to schools. While he admits the necessity of an international language, h* says that the distance of New Zealand, from the Continental countries minimises to some extent the urgency of the need for such a language. No" this very fact that we are so distal seems to point the need for a link <-’• culture and a means of conimunics' tion between the old and the ne* countries, that ordinary methods ° : traffic—aimed to eliminate spacemake more difficult for us than & j those who live in the older lands * used this argument in my w*?? speeches abroad, and I never met wH ; ; opposition. For the most part I this reply: “Yes, you are right. J* like the English better than any otb# nation when we can understand and we need more than a. few wore* about business to do that.” Tb* present-day speeding-up demand; more than ever that we shall adopan easy method of learning the. Jd pa ; of men and women of other And so we may, any time now, ** j listening in to tlio views of wf idealists broadcast from Europe. £*' ready there are TO stations send l *’ out Esperanto to each one that br oa* casts a national language. Our youjl folk must be ready to listen Re*® 1 ! in London County schools show children keep up Esperanto they soon tire of other language* ! Hie London Chamber of offers prizes to encourage the » P Te r : of the international language. I Cook’s offices in Europe employ services of an Esperantist. at the Jamboree recently ln England who spoke Esperanto b an immense advantage fellows who had to get alcmf *l3 lads from other lands by the prinm means of signs. F. KO> °< 1