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HERE THERE
EVERYWHERE
Diplomat Resigns
President Roosevelt has not been fortunate in his diplomatic appoint- ments.
Mr. Bingham, his London Am- bassador, has poor health.
SATURDAY JANUARY 27,
SLOVAKIA'S CLAIM FOR JUSTICE
CZECH BRINGS TRIAL
OF RUIN
UNITY WITH HUNGARY WANTED
Mr. Straus, his Paris represents- (By Professor Dr. Francis Jehlicka, Chairman of
tive, has had to return to the United States for a minor opera- tion. **
Another Minister, in an Eastern
the Geneva Slovak Council.)
Slovakia, which is my native joint meetings of a size unpre-
Kingdom.
European State, is on the Senate land, was for a thousand years au cedented in our history at Zvolen Banking Commission list for in- integral part of the Hungarian and Nitra, and made the following
solemn declaration to the world: quiry Into income-tax returns,
'Now Mr. White, the American Minister in Prague, has resigned.
It formed an ideal geographical and economic unit with the Great
He has been less than five months Hungarian Plain, and was entirely in his new post, and he has an- self-supporting and prosperous. All nounced to the Czech Press that, as our rivers, and the passes which the diplomatic representative of are the only highways among our the world's richest Power, ha is mountains, lead southwards Into unable to live on his salary,
Unfurnished Palace
Hungary. We have no natural
“We are, and were from time" i immemorial, the Slovak nation. We intend to remain so in the futuro.
te"Wa are not Czecha, or Czacho- Slovaka. Such a thing as the Czecho-Slovak nation' has never
.existed.
"We regard ourselves 28 # sovereign Slovak natión. No one has the right to deny our. Indivi- duality and national identity." The Czechs have done their best.
He says he is returning to the communications with, the country! of the Czech, to which we were States to work for his living.
joined against our will by the Paris Peace Conference that redrafted the map of Europe after the war.
"Destroy the Austro-Hungarian to`suppress this statement, and to monarchy." vas the bad advice conceal it from the world. "They
Mir, White is not the first Ameri- can Minister to find the· Prague Legation too expensive..
It is, in fact, something of tendered by the Czech leaders, Dr. recently forbade the issue of any white elephant. It is the former Benes and Mr. Masaryk. It led the publications by the largest Slovak Schonbrun Palace, and is the show Paris Peace Conference to carry political party. Legation, of Europe. Its hanging out a vivisection of the Hapsburg Ruthless Exploitation gardens are world famous.
Empire which resued in economic In order to bring about the dis- It was bought very cheaply by decay and catastrophe for the whole appearance of the Slovak nation- the American Government 10 years territory, and for my country, ality, they do everything in their ago. But they refused to furnish Slovakia, in particular.
|power to "Czechify" my people. The
it.
Your Daily Smile.
•
born Slovaks.
to emigrate by
I use the word "catastrophe" de-schools, the Army, the Government, For five years now no American liberately. It is a catastrophe that and the Press are all employed to Minister has lived in it.
Slovakia's formerly flourishing in-serve this purpose of denationalisa Once a year, on July 4, he gives a dustries should have become bank- tion. party in the gardens. If it rains, rupt as a result of having been cut Acting DA orders from the the guests troop into the Legation off from their Hungarian market. Government at Prague, the Czech this truth than to make them proper. There they see its furni-)
We are no longer able to sell the Academy has manufactured a new alert to what is going on in the tureless conditien.
timber of our mountains; Our idiom for Slovaks, smuggling into world day by day. This is not
agricultura. labourers can no longer our native tongue several thousand Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 27, 1934. the business of the social science
and work in the Hungarian plains Czech words and expressions. This |department. It is the business
at harvest-time.
Czecho-Slovak mixture has been: of the school as a whole. At-
THAT WINNING SMILE Since the Peace Treaty, at least made, compulsory, under the title of titudes toward the world in A: "Where nowadays will you 300,000 Czechs have moved into the "new orthography," in mil: which we live and move and find the youth who can smile when Slovakia, occupying all the best Slovak schools and offices. Thomas Jesse Jones, the have our being should be ready everything around him is going positions and displacing native- Even the very soll of Slovakia in educational director of the to function "just as
language wrong?"
being "Czechified," by the settle. Phelps-Stokes Fund, is to be skills should." It is pertinent
B: "On the links to-morrow As a result, half a million Slovaks ment. upon it of many hundreds of thanked not only for his own re-to recall also Mr. Ramsay Mac- ply to the question, "What is Donald's definition of an educat morning, carrying my golf clubs." have had to emigrate to different thousands of Czechs, who are tale parts of the world, while another ing the places of those Slovaks who education?", but slag for recall-jed man given a few years ago to ing the classic answer of Thomas the graduates of a workingman's WHEN THE RELATIONS HEARD helf-million are unemployed. When have been forced
"How much was old Jackson's they demand work and bread, they famine, as a result of the artificial- Huxley, made sixty-five years college in London: "The educat- ago in an address at the Southed man is a man with certain estate sworn at?" Higgs asked are fired on by the Czech gen- distress that has been created.
darmes, Slovakia is a country of All, who dare to protest against." London Working Men's College: subtle spiritual qualities which friend of the old fellow's family.
"Quite a lot, so I'm told," he was hunger and despair.
these outrages a make him calm in adversity,
declared "That man, I think, has had
This separation of Slovakia from anemies of the State." They are: liberal education who has been so happy when alone, just in his informed. trained in youth that his body is dealings, rational and sane in the "Ecally, you surprise me," said Hungary, and its annexation to the condemned to Imprisonment in the ready servant of his will, and fullest meaning of that word in Higgs. "I was under the impres-country of the Czechs (Bohemia), such numbers that the prison bulld- does with ease and pleasure all all the affairs of life." And as ston that he left practically were effected against both the in-ings are proving inadequate, to terests and the will of the Slovak house them. The most prominent the work that, as a mechanism, to where he may be found, the nothing.”. it is capable of; whose intellect is Prime Minister added, he may be "You were right," said the other, people.
Slovak leader, Professor V. Tuka, For ten centuries the Slovak has already served five years of a a clear, cold, logic engine, with back in the country somewhere "that's why it was sworn at quite all its parts of equal strength, singing the old folksongs or talk-¦® lot.”-
had been loyal citizens of Hungary, fifteen years' sentence for having and had no desire to be detached demanded autonomy for his coun- and in smooth worlding order; ing about his sheep or dogs or ready, like a steam engine, to be quoting Burns. He may never
from her. In the World War the try that same autonomy which turned to any kind of work, and have been in a college or a uni- "Miss James is learning to ride Slovaks fought loyally for Hungary, was promised to the Slovaks by spin the gossamera as well as versity even.
a bicyde," said Freeman, with a true to the oath they had taken to President Masaryk in the solemn
defend the national flag. This inconvenant drawn forge the anchors of the mind;
wry smile."
up at Pittsburg. whose mind is stored with a
"Really?" said his companion itself was a great plebiscite in during his propaganda tour of the knowledge of the great, and fun-
"But she rode one last year. Why favour of Hungary, signed in United States in 1818. ** Įdamental truths of Nature and of
is she learning again!”
Slovak blood up the battlefield. the laws of her operations; one
"Well, last year her brother who, no stunted ascetic, is full of This saying, which has been taught her" explained Freeman. life and fire, but whose passious repeated for at least two thou-"but this year her brother's friend are trained to come to heel by a sand years with an ill import, is doing it.” vigorous will, the servant of a has been given for the first time tender conscience; who has learn a benign and an Inspiriting ap-Hush *
"Blind Leading The Blind"
LESSONS SHE LIKED
...
Torn From Hungary
J
Kre
A whole volume would not suffice to record the wrongs and outrages
I know well what devices the inflicted upon us. Czech secret society, which took the I ask, therefore: IS THIS nama of Mafia, or Black Hand, JUSTICE? Is it tolerable that a employed to obtain possession of well-conducted, · industrióus, “Inno- Slovakia without any plebiscite.cert people should be exterminated
men, the Slovaks were driven from
or cattle. Pasig soda
I ank: IS THIS JUSTI
Hyphenation.
ed to love all beauty, whether of plication. Miss Helen Keller, The passer-by stopped and look My country was-torn from Hungery in the very heart of twentieth- Nature or of art, to hate all vile who was led out of the darked at the man struggling vainly and joined to the Czechs without century Europe? ness, and to respect others as silence by the Ingenuity, per- with his broken-down car. "Ex- ever having been consulted in the ; (Continued on Page 11). himself." The emphasis is here severance and patience of her recuse me," said the stranger, "but matter. To quote an expression upon the development of the in-markable teacher, Mrs. Anne perhaps I can help you. There are often used by the late President dividual There is no sugges Sullivan Macy, is now in turn one or two things I can tell you Wilson and by some British states- tion of the relation of the liberal-preparing her to "see" with her about your make of car.” ly educated man to the social, fingers in the darkness which is
"Please keep them to yourself, one State to another just like sheep A wonderful power has the hyphen economic or political order of closing in upon her eyes. In re old chap," he remarked, warningly;
smail which he is a beneficiary and to ceiving the honorary degree, Doc-there are ladies present.” which he has an obligation, save tor of Laws, from the University as suggested in the phrase "to re- of Glasgow, Scotland (conferred spect others as himself." Yet with a citation which included in respect for others may embrace Latin the passage from Isaiah, all those relationships which en-Then the eyes of the blind shall able the fully developed indivi-be opened and the ears of the A farm in England is devoted to mants that Slovakia was handed You need not money nor even senis dual to do-his whole duty by his deaf shall be unstopped"), Miss raining rare butterflies and moths over to the Czechs. The most de-To be a person of comarquence fellow-men. It is the recogni- Keller could not forget her teach-for sale, trees in which the insects ceitful of these was that the Slovak You glide o'er the top of the iciest tion of that obligation, especial-er and included her in the "gold-breed and develop being covered race has no existence, that "the fence pe
Blovaks are Czechs," and that When you spell your name with a ly, in a democracy, that becomes en clasp of praise," saying, with muslin
Slovakia is, so to speak, Czech ter-||||| hyphen. essential to any adequate scheme "When I think what one loving
Facts You Did Not Know.
To help us to scale the social wall?” I demand for my people the right Two contemptible names become all- of self-determination.
Latin-all
I claim justice for my country1 - When you join them with a hyphen. -It was ass result of false state-game
of education. The fullness of human being has done for me, I Microphone equipment has been ritory. NO VAN the individual life most embrace realize what will some day has invented to enable drivers if double. It was this trick which procured Bel Smith is a man you may neglect. sharing in the common burdens pen to mankind when hearts and decked buses to announce the for the Czechs possession of the John Jones you may treat with scant of mankind. Huxley in an ex- brains work together. She has names of streets being approached whole country. We, Slovaks were, Adi respectă makabag planatory word speaks of the herself demonstrated that even to all passengers and În consequence, struck off the regis- But Smyth-Jones stands among the
ter of the peoples of the world. educated man as the "mouthpiece darkness and silence combined ca
with
Mina: "Muiggins-Jinks;
#Jinks-Sm
of Nature, her conscious self, her need not bar, the progress of the X-rays have been produced with The Slovaks have never been En-nobled by a hyphen, raluister and interpréter. But immortal spirit. That she can opt I-ray tubes by a French Croche or "Crecho-Slovaks." They B that does not include the range now setually make some return scientist by forcing high voltage have always regarded themselves as And when he takes cà his lay
of the larg of human intereste unidas Nature in land for the unprecedented and electric currents through sub-a dlitinct member include the soul of man in her devote ministry of one through stances of high resistance. domain of beauty and of duty, whom alone she had contact with It is all very well, said the head the life on this planet is a crown- of the English department of anjing poetic episode in this extra- American teacher's college rer ordinary relationship which will cently, to teach students that life be remembered in the classica is real und✨ earnest, but they|friendships. It also gives hap should not be allowed.
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