MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
MONDAY, MAY 20, 1963
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
. Let's talk today about an
Englishman who thinks there
ought to be a WORLD lang
uage. His name is William L.
Simpkins, and he lives In
' Berkshire County, In England.
He Is a retired banker, and
back in 1950 he decided to
roam the world.
He' has visited 40 different
countries since then and has
had many interesting exper
iences and has met many in
teresting people. And, he says,
he has enjoyed every minute
of the time.
But
He adds
There Is one complaint.
Trotting around over the
world, one finds so many peo
ple one can't talk to. Why
can't we adopt a UNIVERSAL
language like ESPERANTO,
so that we could all converse
together wherever we travel?"
WELL, everybody to his own
likes. Mr. SimDkins likes
Esperanto. And it would be
wonderful in these days if
there were a world language.
But
Approximately 270 million
people already speak the Eng
lish language, according to
the best estimates. More peo
ple speak English than any
other language except Chi
nese, which is too complicated
to become a world language.
French probably comes next
after English possibly as
many people in the world
speak French as English.
And there are only a FEW
Esperantists. Common sense
tells us we'd better stick to
English and French as a
means of getting understood
over the world.
MR. Simpkins himself is an
Eperantist, and wherever
he goes, he says, he spreads
the message of Esperanto and
hands out leaflets from Esper
anto national headquarters in
Meadville, Pa.
"Foreign- languages are
very difficult to learn for the
average English-speaking per
son," he said to a reporter in
Portland the other day. "But
not so Esperanto. I learned it
fluently in six months.
, There's a Harvard student
Who learned It in three
' weeks.'!
ESPERANTO, he told his
Portland interviewer, is
perfectly phonetic each let.
ter has a single invariable
S sound. Accent is always on the
next-to-last s yl 1 a b 1 e. The
. grammar has but 16 simple
rules, with no exceptions.
Words are .self-identifying:
i nouns end. in "o", adjectives
in "a" and adverbs in "e".
He added that although 60
per cent of Esperanto's "roots"
come from Latin, Esperanto is
- much easier to learn than
Latin.
gave some ex-
HE then
amnles.
"Bongan tagon," he said to
the reporter, and added: "cu
vi . volas renkantl Britan
mondvogaganton," . and then
; translated: "Good morning, do
you want to meet an English
traveler?"
Then he gave another ex
ample: "Mi havas 69 jarojin
meaning "I am 69 years old."
He added: "Esperanto - mi
satas" I like Esperanto.
Maybe that's easier to trans.
late than Latin, or German, or
French. He evidently thinks
so. But, looking at the stuff in
print, one can't help wonder
lng.
" A LL you have to do," he
" said, "to get in touch
1 with fellow Esperantists is to
look in the phone book for the
local Esperanto' organization,
and when you find an Esper
antists you're happy. But,
once you leave him your lan
guage troubles bob up again."
. To identify himself as an
Esperantist, Mr. Simpkins
wears an identifiyng trian.
gular-shaped lapel pin. To an
other Esperantists, that
means:"You can talk to me
and I can talk to you.
Varicose Veins Are
Common After Age 40
Chicago -(UPD- After the
age of 40, one of every two
women and one of four men
will develop varicose veins
of the legs, reports Dr. Noah
D. Fabricant, of Chicago.
Pregnancy and heredity
seem to be predisposing fac
tors in women, and heredity
in men. Varicose veins are
enlarged blood vessels just
under the skin that have lost
their elasticity and no long
er function properly.
FAST EATERS
Cambridge, England tUPD
Waiters at Clare college, Cam
bridge, have been told to
slow down serving dinner so
students do not rush out to
watch television in the eve
ning. "It reached a state
where undergraduates were
bolting a three course meal in
15 minutes," William Black,
an acting tutor, said Sunday.
County Youths To
Attend Seminar
Five Jackson county boys
are registered so far among
the high school students who
will participate in an engi
neering career seminar being
sponsored June 12 in Portland
by Pacific Power and Light
company.
Those registered for - the
Junior Engineers and Scien
tists Summer Institute at Ore
gon State university June 9
to 22 are Robert R. Bruce,
Central Point; Don McKen
sie, Medford; Fred Swingle,
Phoenix, Craig Williams,
Medford, and Terry Moozer,
Central Point.
"The seminar provides an
opportunity for the boys at
tending the institute to ob
serve PP&L engineers at
work and to discuss engineer
ing career prospects with
men actually engaged in vari
ous fields of the profession,"
a PP&L official said.
PP&L President D. R. Mc
Clung and E. R. de Luccia,
PP&L vice president and chief
engineer, and other officials
of the electric utility com
pany are to speak on the need
for more young men with sci
ence and mathematics apti
tudes to pursue full courses
of study leading to useful ca
reers in industry, it was explained.
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: By BENNETT CERF
ALONE DINER at an airport restaurant was handed a
check for three dollars and ninety cents, and gave the
waiter a five-dollar bill. The waiter put a dollar and a
dime on the silver tray.
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suits, six acres, seven credit cards and be lucky if he has eight
cents in his pocket."
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