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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1938.

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Y this time, no doubt, Lord' Runciman has met everybody who is any- bolly in Prague.

He has moved about Czecho- slovakia trying to discover what the Czechs, Germans, Slovaks, Ruthenians, Poles Magyars of that State really do want and how they can be given it with- out upsetting each other and the rest of Europe.

He has found himself trying to understand the likes and dislikes of fifteen million people of five or six different racen (not counting gypsies) iving in a long, narrow country strelching from Bavaria nearly to Russia

A solution for the Czech-German quarrel is, of course, his first anxiety. but all the other races will be in- terested.

10. perhaps, Lord Runci-

Sman might like a few

for instance, care to meet Jan Kacurek at his office. Dr. Masek in his surgery, Adolf Reuth in is frontier house, Frau Stoder in her kitchen, Josef Grunik behind his counter, Ferene Kisar in his

hotel, Michael Krivan in his forest,

and the Rabbi of Brustura in his praying shawi.

A chat with these people might

help him. They are nobody and yet they are everybody. They are nearly all the races of Czecho- slovakia,

They are the ordinary people who will have to suffer whatever Lord Runciman proposes and Herr Hitler disposes.

Jan Kacurek he will find in the Bubence district of Prague (I will give him the address if he wants

A typical Czech this Jan- Janck to his wife,

it).

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URING the World War he was in command ot an Austrian field sun- dry which never went near enough any frontier to allow him to escape and join the Czech legion fighting for the Allies.

That is his secret sorrow, but his sense of humour allows him to tell the tale of his laundry days against himself.

Ee will not admit that the Ger-

Ruthenion

Hungarian

Hola

A few introductions

for Lord Runciman

80 Jan marked off a portion of the garden and said politely: "Here

I shall grant you extra-terṛitorial rights."

Dr. Masek, another stocky Czech, is also a man of Prague, but he Hves six hundred kilometres cast, at the other end of Czechoslovakia. on the Carpathian edge of the Hungarian plain. Ifis patients are the queerly mixed people of Muka- cevo, small town of the province of Ruthenda,

that mountain and

forest corner of Europe tucked be- tween Poland. Rumania and Hun- gary and inhabiled by primitive Russian-speaking Ruthenians, by Magyars, Poles, Jews and Gynsles.

Just down the road is the dusty. untidy, thatched village of Russian Mokra.

That part of Ruthenia is thickly settled by Jews. They own all the Inns, and many of them are Iar- mers, working

the fields, with their side curls blowing and the broad-brimmed black hats flap- ping in the wind,

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is not RAU STODER anti-Jewish, but she said chattily to me as she served a dish of sweet pancakes: There is only one Jew in German Mokra, and he does not prosper."

The Rabbl of Brustura, not so many inlles away. on the other

Dr. Masek had no great desire to live in Ruthenia. A medical stu--hand, does prosper. He is a tall.

dent when war broke out. he passed through Mukacevo (un- garian Munkacs then on his way to fight the Russians in the Car- pathian forests.

With other Czechs he deserted. from the Austro-Hungarian forces, fought for a time against them.. and finally pushed his way across Siberia and round the world to Prague again.

In Prague, during the hard after-war days, there was no work for him. But the far eastern pro- vince needed plonecr doctors, He found himself once more in Muka-

DOLF REUTH can tell what happened in the German speaking parts of the country. His guest House les close to the Saxon Iron- Lier. under the Schneekoppe mountain north-east of Prague.

It irritates him, when he goes down to market in the country towns of Hohenelbe or Spindle- miinle, to and them called Vrchlabl and Spindleruv Mlyn.

Also, he doesn't like the clank and bustle of military prepared- ness near a frontier which is so pleasant mountain strolling ground for the tourists out of whom he makes a living.

The winter Adolf is anxious. sports and summer holiday trains from Prague bring prosperity to m and to thousands of other Ger- man guest-house and hotel keepers. He believes that his is a superior race, but he would like to be allowed to go on cooking his wiener schnitzels in peace.

powerful man with a lean, hawk nose and a black spade beard and kind of side curls. He wears black frock coat and knee boots against the Brustura mud,

When I arrived on a Friday evening he showed me to an inner room, and said, "The Sabbath is just about to begin. You must order all you need for twenty-four hours. That is our tradition."

All that evening a muilled, wall- ing.. prayer sound reached me Next through the wooden wall. morning the Rabbi sent his Gentile servant to collect the money for my lodging.

Ferenc Kisor of Stary Smokovec is a slender, polite. good-looking but slightly haughty young ma“. His Hungarian father keeps a hotel

How Wild

at the foot of the High Tatras which thrust their jagged, Dolo- miteish peaks up over the Polish frontier.

Once that highest range of the Carpathians was a playground for wealthy Hungarians.

The Czechs? Oh, yes, they bulid schools, they look after the forests, they are good engineers, but... He Ferenc shrugs his shoulders. implies that they are, well, not quile

Jan Kacurek has an answer to that:

"We lost our aristeerney during the Thirty Years War," he

rays. They were all killed. We are a middle-claɛs and peasant people. The Hungarians have 1 more aristocratic charm of Therefore their propaganda is bet- ter. But we work harder."

manner.

ORD RUNCIMAN. finally, I think, ought to have a word with Josef Grunik. He is a Slovak and he spends his life behind the counter of a grocer's shop at Kosice. He talks to his customers overy day in five languages. He has to know the word for everything from boot- polish to sardines la five lan- guages. And he, likewise with a shrug of his shoulders, poses the problem in a sentence:

"Whoever rules, I shall atill need five languages."

A.B.Austin

Flowers Get

Their Names

WHAT attractive names some of Nature's Medicines

our wild Bowers have, nomes as charming as the flowers themselves! I do not mean the Latin

names,

which convey so much information to the learned, but the old-fashioned country names, the simple names we have known since nursery days.

particular hardship, but he would

people. These like to be friendly with them. Their masterful manners he tries to treat as a joke.

ms house, insisted on re-designing

One young German,, staying at

names

Bee and Butterfly orchis take their from a fancied resemblance to the insects, while many other names are descriptive, such as Butterwort, the sticky surface of the leat suggest- ing butter or grease. And wo get Knotwort, with its gnarled joints, and Cleaver, which certainly does cleave.

get

We sometimes nsit ourselves how and why they got them. Some carry

Perhaps the uld use of herba to back to the old days when the

cure all diseases gives us more Church dominated the lives of the names than anything else. Seifheal

are the Biblical Old Frau Stoder is also German, but she is not so anxious.

natnes like Jacob's Ladder, Two hundred years ago Maria Theresa, Johnswort, and Aaronsbeard. Empress of Austria, sont Frau the many flowers which Stoder's ancestors and many other prefix "lady" are called after "Our Austrian peasants as colonists into

Lady," the Virgin-Our Lady's the. wilds of Slovakia and Mantle, Ruthenia. Their descendants now Lady's Bodstraw, Our Lady's

PAR AVIAN The delivery on Saturday morning of the first "All-Up"

England mail from

brings Hongkong into line with other parts of the Empire. That it is possible to despatch a letter from Hongkong to England by air at the nominal fee of fifteen centa is reason for satisfaction, and expressions of any senti- ment other than gratification would, at this carly stage in the development of the Empire Mail scheme, appear somewhat gra- tuitous. Nevertheless, comment is necessary, on one or two

Ho lan patent agent by profes- points, if only to remove cause for future complaint. The decision and a great many other things sion

of the postal authorities for fun. He is short, broad, tough and fortyish, plays tennis earucstly. that First Class mail cannot be and likes walking barefooted along sent other than by air to those forest paths, his shoes tied round

his neck. parts of the Empire included in the "All-Up" scheme will, we are sure, give rise to opposition who houses Chater Road. from business

utilise the mails for despatch- ing and receiving valuable documents. Although aviation has reached limits of safety almost comparable to those of other types of com- munication, there is neverthe-mans in Czechoslovakia suffer any

be less risk that mails can irretrievably lost. By a peculiar first "All-Up" coincidence, the mail to Hongkong on Saturday brought letters posted in Lon-

the garden. Jan Kacurek said he preferred his own less formal don on September 25, 1936, comprising portion of the Hong-method, but the German was firm. kong air mail lost when the air-liner Boadicea plunged into post-office closing hours. Resi- the Channel. A bag containing dents who are fortunate enough;

letter boxes at the Hongkong mail was recovered to possess from the sea by 11 fishing General Post Office may obtain their mail overnight, but for trawler near Dungeness; the

those otherwise served a delay GRIN AND BEAR IT rest of the mail has never been of from fifteen to twenty hours found. Hongkong mall, includ-appears inevitable. It is un- ing registered mail, was also fortunate that, after taking less lost in the City of Khartoum than six days to reach Hong- disaster in the Mediterranean kong from London, First Class remain in the last year and, more recently, in mail must

Colony's post offices for almost the Hawaiian Clipper tragedy another day before it in mid-Pacific.

To leave Hong-reach ita destination, but kong business houses with no under existing circumstances alternative but to despatch the postal, authorities in Hong- valuable and irreplaceable docu-kong cannot remedy the situa- would, of ments by air is, under the cir- tion. The delay

course, be non-existent if Im- cumstances, inviting protest. perial Airways could arrange It is not hard to envisage a for Hongkong-bound planes to Hongkong merchant, or even a depart from Bangkok at mid- Hongkong Government depart- night, arriving at Kai Tuck in ment, sending valuable docu- time for letters to be sorted for The ments to Macno or Canton for the afternoon. deliveries. re-posting to England, in order subsidy Hongkong is paying for to overcome the slight danger the privilege of receiving and or loss attendant upon air trans- despatching all First Class mail portation, The only solution by air is not high, in view of the appears to be the suggestion-advantages enjoyed from the and it is one worthy of con- now system. On the other sideration-that registered mall hand, the aubsidy is not so low should be permitted to go for that the Hongkong public has ward, at the option of the not the right to insist that the sender, by alternative routes. despatch and receipt of 'mail The second problem, that of should be maintained at the mall delivery in Hongkong, is a highest possible degree of of- difficult and Apparently un- ficiency, from the time it leaves surmountable one so long as the sender until it reaches the planes arrive at Kal Tack after hands of the addresseG.

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sounds as if it were the panacea for Saint all the ills of man, but we

And specific cures for other troubles. For bear the

Instance, Eyebright infused was sald to cure inflamed or aching eyes. Scurvy Grass was eaten as a cure for

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Our Lady's Smock, Our curvy in the days before cach ship carried its lemons and acids to counteract the salt diet. live as tiny German islands in a Fingers, and the rest. Bjay sca

are Some nuncy

purely Im-

A simple rule seemed to be that

Frau Stoder herself has a clean, aginative, like "Angel's Eyes" and the plant itself helped the ignorant neat house with a carved balcony Foxglove, which, I fancy, is a cor- in the clean, neat, wooden Carpa-ruption of "Folks Glove," or fairies thian village of German Mokra. glove, called after the "Good Folks."

By Lichty

"Maybe I planted the seeds upside down!"

by Its appearance. A leaf shaped like a heart Was used for heart disease, like a kidney for kidney trouble, and like the lobe of a lung for consumption. Ifaven't we got Heartsease and Lungwork in proof of this?

The Banes

"Bane," of course, was polson, so we get Wolfbane, Leopardbane, and Henbane. But one is prompted to wonder why. Would not anything poisonous polson wolves, leopards, and hens? And why stick to these particular animals and bird? Why not Pigeonband and Dogbane and Catbanc? That is one of the puzzlez our ancestors have left us.

Enchanters' Nightshade fascinating name, and suggests unholy riles performed at the dark of the moon. How was it used, we wonder, and what did it do?

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Other names are attractive, al- though in less grim fashion. Restharrow and Saintton (which various definitions .give as Holy Healthy Hay, which was used as a febrifuge.) Marygoidaanother of of Our Lady's flowers-and Speed- well, Archangel (again one wonders: why), and Blue-Eyed Grass.

-M. Forrest Willi

Veteran Has:22d Operation

Sarnia, Ont.

Joseph A. Chivers, World War veteran, is recovering from his 22nd operation. The operations were paci Tormed to remove shrapnel from hiá | body;^His÷right leg, was: amputated: