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# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Convention of Bohemian Catholics

CONVENTION OF BOHEMIAN CATHOLICS.
The National Alliance of Bohemian Catholics which was established on February 6, 1917, for the purpose of cooperating with the Bohemian National Alliance in the campaign for Czechoslovak independence held a convention in Chicago on February 25th and 26th. The delegates present numbered 75, and in addition a large number of priests from many states attended.
The convention was called to order by the Rev. Innocent Kestl, president of the Alliance, who reviewed the activities of the organization during the past two years. Joseph J. Janda of Chicago was then elected chairman of the meeting, and Frank Šindelář submited a detailed report of his work as secretary of the Alliance for the past two years. From the report it appeared that the National Alliance of Bohemian Catholics had at present time 132 branches in the United States and Canada. Mr. Šindelář’s efficient work as secretary of the Alliance received the warmest approval of the convention. It was voted to continue the existence of the organization in the general interest of Bohemian Catholics, the head quarters will remain in Chicago. The next convention will be held again in Chicago in June 1920.
Officers elected for the coming term are as follows: John Straka, president: Joseph E. Mašek, Anton V. Tesař, Hynek Dostál, V. J. Jelínek, vice presidents: Rev. Frank Jedlička, chaplain; John Voller was elected secretary, since the present secretary refused reelection, Joseph Kopecký was elected for treasurer and Mrs. Rose Nedvěd, Mrs. Marie Novotny, J. J. Janda, Charles Radouš and John F. Novotný were elected members of the executive committee.
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# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Current Topics (1)

Current Topics
* Chamber of Commerce proposed
* December issue of the "Asia"
* With the Slovak League
* Making friends among Americans
* The Uhro-Rusin plebiscite
* Tvrzický goes to Bohemia
* To prof. Masaryk and to deputy Kramář...
* Announcement
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 6/Chapter 160

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The Countesse of Douglas out of her boure she came, And loudly there that she did call: 'It is for the Lord of Liddesdale That I let all these teares downe fall.'
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 6/Chapter 164

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AS our king lay musing on his bed, He bethought himself upon a time Of a tribute that was due from France, Had not been paid for so long a time. Fal, lal, etc. He called for his lovely page, His lovely page then called he, Saying, You must go to the king of France, To the king of France, sir, ride speedily. O then went away this lovely page, This lovely page then away went he; And when he came to the king of France, Low he fell down on his bended knee. 'My master greets you, worthy sir; Ten ton of gold that is due to he, That you will send him his tribute home, Or in French land you soon will him see.' 'Your master's young and of tender years, Not fir to come into my degree, And I will send him three tennis-balls, That with them he may learn to play.' O then returned this lovely page, This lovely page then returned he, And when he came to our gracious king, Low he fell down on his bended knee. 'What news, what news, my trusty page? What is the news you have brought to me?' 'I have brought such news from the king of France That you and he will never agree. 'He says you're young and of tender years, Not fit to come into his degree, And he will send you three tennis-balls, That with them you may learn to play.' 'Recruit me Cheshire and Lancashire, And Derby Hills that are so free; No marryd man nor no widow's son; For no widow's curse shall go with me.' They recruited Cheshire and Lancashire, And Derby Hills that are so free; No marryd man, nor no widow's son; Yet there was a jovial bold company. O then we marchd into the French land, With drums and trumpets so merrily; And then bespoke the king of France, 'Lo, yonder comes proud King Henry.' The first shot that the Frenchmen gave, They killd our Englishmen so free; We killd ten thousand of the French, And the rest of them they ran away. And then we marched to Paris gates, With drums and trumpets so merrily: O then bespoke the king of France, 'The Lord have mercy on my men and me! 'O I will send him his tribute home, Ten ton of gold that is due to he, And the finest flower that is in all France To the Rose of England I will give free.'
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Zerboni di Sposetti, Joseph

Edition of 1920. See also Joseph Zerboni di Sposetti on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
ZERBONI DI SPOSETTI, Joseph, German philosopher: b. Breslau, 1760; d 1831. In 1796 he wrote to the governor of Silesia a letter in which he set forth the absurdity of granting to the nobility exalted privileges through
right of birth. Knowledge of the letter reaching Frederick William III, he was imprisoned for three years on a charge of high treason. When his case was brought to trial he was freed, with no political disability, and later received various official appointments.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Zephyranthes

Edition of 1920. See also Zephyranthes on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
ZEPHYRANTHES, a genus of Liliaceæ, indigenous to the warmer regions of America, and most commonly represented by the atamasco lily. The species are bulbous, and are not hardy in the Northern States, but make charming summer-blooming window and greenhouse plants, resting in the winter. The foliage is linear, springing from the bulb, and a scape, appearing at the same time, is crowned by a regular, three-parted corolla which is nearly, or quite, erect, from one to three inches across, and red, yellow or white. Z. candida is one of the white-flowered species, and is also one of the hardiest and thriftiest. It is a lovely, crocus-like plant, with pure-white blossoms, opening out flat in the sunshine, and evergreen foliage.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Zerafshan

Edition of 1920. See also Zeravshan River on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
ZERAFSHAN, zĕr-ăf-shān', Asiatic Russia, a river rising in a valley at the junction of the Hissar and Turkestan Mountain chains, and after a westerly by north course of about 400 miles, passing the towns of Penjakent, Samarkand, Katakurgan, Kerminch and Bokhara, dispersing itself in the desert sands, between Karakul and the Oxus River. A railway line traverses the valley from Karakul to near Penjakent.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Zephyr

Edition of 1920. See also West wind on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
ZEPHYR, a soft, cool, agreeable wind; in Greece the west, or rather west-southwest wind, typified in Greek mythology by the god of the west wind Zephyrus (q.v.). The Greek name, according to the etymology, signifies life-bringing, because at the time when this wind begins to blow, the plants are restored to life by the balmy spring air.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Zerbi, Gabriel

Edition of 1920. See also the disclaimer.
ZERBI, or DE ZARBIS, Gabriel, Italian physician and anatomist: b. Verona in the 15th century; d. there, 1505. He lectured for some time at Rome, and became professor of medicine at Padua in 1495. His chief work is ‘Anatomy of the Human Body’ (‘Liber Anatomiæ Corporis humani’), published about 1490, a work remarkable for its keen insight and deductions confirmed by later discoveries in anatomy.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Zephyrus

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ZEPHYRUS, zĕf'ĭ-rŭs, in Greek mythology, the god of the west-wind, a son of Æolus, or of Astræus and of Aurora. He was married to Chloris, goddess of fruits and flowers, their son being Carpus, god of fruit. By the harpy Podarge he was the sire of the swift horses of Achilles, Xanthos and Balios. His love being rejected by Hyacinthus, he was the cause of his death by blowing Apollo's quoit against his head. Some make him the husband of one of the Hours. Flowers and fruits are under his protection. He is represented as a gentle beautiful youth, naked, with a wreath on his head or flowers in the fold of his mantle. According to Horner he was brother to Boreas, with whom he lived in a palace in Thrace. The Romans identified him as Favonius, and his wife, Chlris, as Flora.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Zerbst

Edition of 1920. See also Zerbst on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
ZERBST, tsĕrpst, Germany, a town in the duchy of Anhalt, on the Nuthe, a small tributary of the Elbe, 70 miles southwest of Berlin, and 27 miles southeast of Magdeburg, on the Dessau-Leipzig Railway. The chief buildings are the great Schloss in a fine park; the 15th century Nikolaikirche, and the stately 15th century Rathhaus on the market place where are the Roland column (1445) and the Butterjungfer, a slender column bearing a female figure. The chief educational institution is the Francisceum, a gymnasium of high repute. The town has manufactures of noted bitter beer, of silks, plush, cloth, leather, machinery, musical instruments, etc. Zerbst was founded in 1007. From 1603 to 1793 it was the capital of a principality of the same name, which in 1797 was absorbed in Anhalt-Dessau. Pop. of commune about 19,210.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Zerah

Edition of 1920. See also Zerah on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
ZERAH, (Heb. Zarach), king of Ethiopia, known to the Egyptians as Azech Amen, who flourished in southern Egypt about 900 B.C. He conquered Egypt and invaded Palestine, where he was defeated by Asa, king of Judah. Zerah then abandoned not only Palestine, but also Egypt (2 Chron. xiv).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Zenobia

Edition of 1920. See also Zenobia on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
ZENOBIA, zĕ-nō'bi-a, queen of Palmyra (q.v.). Her native name was Septimia Bathzabbai, and she was instructed in the sciences
by the celebrated Longinus, and made such progress that besides her native tongue she spoke the Latin, Greek, Coptic and Syrian languages. She also patronized learned men, and herself formed an epitome of Egyptian history. She was married to Odenathus, king of Palmyra, accompanied him both in the war and the chase, and the success of his military expedition against the Persians is, in a great degree, attributed to her prudence and courage. Gallienus, in return for services which tended to preserve the East to the Romans after the capture of Valerian by Sapor, king of Persia, acknowledged Odenathus as emperor, and on his death, 267 A.D., Zenobia assumed the sovereignty, under the title of Queen of the East She preserved the provinces which had been ruled by Odenathus, and was preparing to make other conquests, when the succession of Aurelian to the purple led to a remarkable change of fortune. That martial prince, disgusted at the usurpation of the richest provinces of the East by a female, determined to make war upon her; and having gained two battles, Antioch and Emesa, beseiged her in Palmyra, where she defended herself with great bravery. At length, finding that the city would be obliged to surrender, she quitted it privately; but the emperor, having notice of her escape, caused her to be pursued with such diligence that she was overtaken just as she got into a boat to cross the Euphrates, in 272. Aurelian spared her life, but made her serve to grace his triumph. The Roman soldiers demanded her life, and according to Zosimus she purchased her safety by sacrificing her ministers, among whom was the distinguished scholar, Longinus. She was allowed to pass the remainder of her life as a Roman matron, and her daughters were married by Aurelian into families of distinction. Her only surviving son retired into Armenia, where the emperor bestowed on him a small principality. Consult Gibbon, ‘Decline and Fall’ (ed. Bury, 1896-1900); ‘Life of Aurelian’ by Vopiscus in ‘Augustae Historiae Scriptores’ (Eng. trans., Bernard 1740); Ware, ‘Zenobia, or The Fall of Palmyra’ (1837).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Zeppelin, Ferdinand

Edition of 1920. See also Ferdinand von Zeppelin on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
ZEPPELIN, tsĕp'pě-lĭn, Ferdinand, Count von, German airship builder: b. Constance, Baden, 8 July 1838; d. Charlottenburg, Prussia, 8 March 1917. His father was Count Friedrich von Zeppelin, a Württemberg court official. After studies at the Stuttgart Polytechnicum, the Ludwigsburg Military Academy and the University of Tübingen, he entered on a military career and as a lieutenant was one of the German military observers in 1863 attachid to the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War in the United States. His first ascent in a balloon made at Saint Paul, Minn., during this visit, is said to have been the incentive of his later experiments in aeronautics. He took part in the Seven Weeks' War of 1866, fighting for Württemberg against Prussia, and was an officer of cavalry in the Franco-German War 1871-72. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-general in the German army and in 1891 at the age of 53 retired and devoted his time and wealth to experiments in connection with dirigible balloons. While increasing proofs of success encouraged him to continue his efforts, a record of failures which reduced him to poverty marked his experiments for several years. Imperial patronage and public subscriptions, however, enabled him at last to conquer all difficulties, and in 1908-09 dirigibles of the type constructed with his name were making successful journeys ranging from 350 to 1,000 miles. Thirteen Zeppelins, however, had been destroyed and numerous lives sacrificed during the experiments up to 1914. During the European War, Zeppelins were used mostly for raids over Belgium and England, and over 40 were reported as destroyed. Their failure as warships is said to have been a great disappointment to Count Zeppelin. (See Aeronautics; Dirigible). Consult Hearne, R. P., ‘Zeppelins and Super-Zeppetins’ (New York 1916).
# The Doctor’s Dilemma/Medical Poverty

To make matters worse, doctors are hideously poor. The Irish gentleman doctor of my boyhood, who took nothing less than a guinea, though he might pay you four visits for it, seems to have no equivalent nowadays in English society. Better be a railway porter than an ordinary English general practitioner. A railway porter has from eighteen to twenty-three shillings a week from the Company merely as a retainer; and his additional fees from the public, if we leave the third-class twopenny tip out of account (and I am by no means sure that even this reservation need be made), are equivalent to doctor's fees in the case of second-class passengers, and double doctor's fees in the case of first. Any class of educated men thus treated tends to become a brigand class, and doctors are no exception to the rule. They are offered disgraceful prices for advice and medicine. Their patients are for the most part so poor and so ignorant that good advice would be resented as impracticable and wounding. When you are so poor that you cannot afford to refuse eighteenpence from a man who is too poor to pay you any more, it is useless to tell him that what he or his sick child needs is not medicine, but more leisure, better clothes, better food, and a better drained and ventilated house. It is kinder to give him a bottle of something almost as cheap as water, and tell him to come again with another eighteenpence if it does not cure him. When you have done that over and over again every day for a week, how much scientific conscience have you left? If you are weak-minded enough to cling desperately to your eighteenpence as denoting a certain social superiority to the sixpenny doctor, you will be miserably poor all your life; whilst the sixpenny doctor, with his low prices and quick turnover of patients, visibly makes much more than you do and kills no more people.
A doctor's character can no more stand out against such conditions than the lungs of his patients can stand out against bad ventilation. The only way in which he can preserve his self- respect is by forgetting all he ever learnt of science, and clinging to such help as he can give without cost merely by being less ignorant and more accustomed to sick-beds than his patients. Finally, he acquires a certain skill at nursing cases under poverty-stricken domestic conditions, just as women who have been trained as domestic servants in some huge institution with lifts, vacuum cleaners, electric lighting, steam heating, and machinery that turns the kitchen into a laboratory and engine house combined, manage, when they are sent out into the world to drudge as general servants, to pick up their business in a new way, learning the slatternly habits and wretched makeshifts of homes where even bundles of kindling wood are luxuries to be anxiously economized.
# The Doctor’s Dilemma/Doctors and Vivisection

The importance to our doctors of a reputation for the tenderest humanity is so obvious, and the quantity of benevolent work actually done by them for nothing (a great deal of it from sheer good nature) so large, that at first sight it seems unaccountable that they should not only throw all their credit away, but deliberately choose to band themselves publicly with outlaws and scoundrels by claiming that in the pursuit of their professional knowledge they should be free from the restraints of law, of honor, of pity, of remorse, of everything that distinguishes an orderly citizen from a South Sea buccaneer, or a philosopher from an inquisitor. For here we look in vain for either an economic or a sentimental motive. In every generation fools and blackguards have made this claim; and honest and reasonable men, led by the strongest contemporary minds, have repudiated it and exposed its crude rascality. From Shakespear and Dr. Johnson to Ruskin and Mark Twain, the natural abhorrence of sane mankind for the vivisector's cruelty, and the contempt of able thinkers for his imbecile casuistry, have been expressed by the most popular spokesmen of humanity. If the medical profession were to outdo the Anti-Vivisection Societies in a general professional protest against the practice and principles of the vivisectors, every doctor in the kingdom would gain substantially by the immense relief and reconciliation which would follow such a reassurance of the humanity of the doctor. Not one doctor in a thousand is a vivisector, or has any interest in vivisection, either pecuniary or intellectual, or would treat his dog cruelly or allow anyone else to do it. It is true that the doctor complies with the professional fashion of defending vivisection, and assuring you that people like Shakespear and Dr. Johnson and Ruskin and Mark Twain are ignorant sentimentalists, just as he complies with any other silly fashion: the mystery is, how it became the fashion in spite of its being so injurious to those who follow it. Making all possible allowance for the effect of the brazen lying of the few men who bring a rush of despairing patients to their doors by professing in letters to the newspapers to have learnt from vivisection how to cure certain diseases, and the assurances of the sayers of smooth things that the practice is quite painless under the law, it is still difficult to find any civilized motive for an attitude by which the medical profession has everything to lose and nothing to gain.
# The Doctor’s Dilemma/Limitations of the Right to Knowledge

But neither does any government exempt the pursuit of knowledge, any more than the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness (as the American Constitution puts it), from all social conditions. No man is allowed to put his mother into the stove because he desires to know how long an adult woman will survive at a temperature of 500 degrees Fahrenheit, no matter how important or interesting that particular addition to the store of human knowledge may be. A man who did so would have short work made not only of his right to knowledge, but of his right to live and all his other rights at the same time. The right to knowledge is not the only right; and its exercise must be limited by respect for other rights, and for its own exercise by others. When a man says to Society, "May I torture my mother in pursuit of knowledge?" Society replies, "No." If he pleads, "What! Not even if I have a chance of finding out how to cure cancer by doing it?" Society still says, "Not even then." If the scientist, making the best of his disappointment, goes on to ask may he torture a dog, the stupid and callous people who do not realize that a dog is a fellow-creature and sometimes a good friend, may say Yes, though Shakespear, Dr. Johnson and their like may say No. But even those who say "You may torture A dog" never say "You may torture MY dog." And nobody says, "Yes, because in the pursuit of knowledge you may do as you please." Just as even the stupidest people say, in effect, "If you cannot attain to knowledge without burning your mother you must do without knowledge," so the wisest people say, "If you cannot attain to knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge."
# The Doctor’s Dilemma/Preface on Doctors

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It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical service of the community, as at present provided for, is a murderous absurdity. That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make one despair of political humanity. But that is precisely what we have done. And the more appalling the mutilation, the more the mutilator is paid. He who corrects the ingrowing toe-nail receives a few shillings: he who cuts your inside out receives hundreds of guineas, except when he does it to a poor person for practice.
Scandalized voices murmur that these operations are unnecessary. They may be. It may also be necessary to hang a man or pull down a house. But we take good care not to make the hangman and the housebreaker the judges of that. If we did, no man's neck would be safe and no man's house stable. But we do make the doctor the judge, and fine him anything from sixpence to several hundred guineas if he decides in our favor. I cannot knock my shins severely without forcing on some surgeon the difficult question, "Could I not make a better use of a pocketful of guineas than this man is making of his leg? Could he not write as well--or even better--on one leg than on two? And the guineas would make all the difference in the world to me just now. My wife--my pretty ones-- the leg may mortify--it is always safer to operate--he will be well in a fortnight--artificial legs are now so well made that they are really better than natural ones--evolution is towards motors and leglessness, etc., etc., etc."
Now there is no calculation that an engineer can make as to the behavior of a girder under a strain, or an astronomer as to the recurrence of a comet, more certain than the calculation that under such circumstances we shall be dismembered unnecessarily in all directions by surgeons who believe the operations to be necessary solely because they want to perform them. The process metaphorically called bleeding the rich man is performed not only metaphorically but literally every day by surgeons who are quite as honest as most of us. After all, what harm is there in it? The surgeon need not take off the rich man's (or woman's) leg or arm: he can remove the appendix or the uvula, and leave the patient none the worse after a fortnight or so in bed, whilst the nurse, the general practitioner, the apothecary, and the surgeon will be the better.