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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Flag of the proposed new Czech
Slovak state. Designed by
Joseph Mrazek.

Hall. the Jan Hus Neighborhood House
and two Roman Catholic parishes.
The Bohemian National Hall, estab-
lisbed thirty years. is supported by SIX
tv Czech clubs. Free Thought is the re-
ligion. Bohemian is the language. The
EIGHT hundred pupils that attend its
free day schools. and the six hundred
children enrolled in it's Sunday school
arc instructed by four teachers, who
sneak little&nglish. One of its teach
ing staff is librarian of the Bohemian
Library.
The collection of seven thousand
books in the Bohemian tongue occu-
pies. as il has the last ten years, the
TOP floor of the Avenue A and Seventy
eighth Street Branch of the New YORK
Public Library. There may be read
the two daily Bohemian newspapers
and six periodicals printed in the
quarter.
This Bohemian literature is a prod
uct of the last fifty years. Continuous
wars DESTROYED the inheritance of CEN
turtles. for the Kingdom Of Bohemia
was once literary power TO be
rcckoned with.
Since the great war this library,
which is rich in music, no longer cir
culates, and is confined to reference.
The restriction is due to fear of not
being able to replace the books
owing TO Old World conditions. 1t is
the foresight of Miss Griffin, of the
East Seventy-eighth Street branch of
the New York Public Library, who
supervises the Bohemian section. For
years hers has been intelligent SYM
patty with and practical understanding
of Czech character and aspirations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Prisoners Paid and
Virtually Free

/ On the way got pictures Of Ger
nan and Austrian prisoners workinS
on farms at two rubles go centsl a
day, with plenty Of freedom. They
were satisfied and happy end earned
quite a good deal of extra money al
odd Jobs and making and selling toys.
met one Austrian from the Ford
works in Detroit, and he told me- he
wished he had never left that city
The prisoners were all contented. IN
GLIDING a crowded trainload Of Ger
man lads in brand-new uniforms,
whom | met at Omsk. The extreme
youth of these boys showed that Ger
many is drawing on her last resources.
All along the railroad in Siberia
bags Of wheat were rotting for want
Of transportation. People went hum
cry in Russian cities, yet no one
would hitch even ore freight car to
the express trains that crossed Siberia
weekly. Siberia can feed the world.
7 took pictures Of that beautiful, roll
'ng country, covered with wheat .clds
and forests of birch and spruce.
saw coal on the surface there. One
need not dig two feet to get coal.
But the Russian burns wood IN ms
engines because wood is still s"~'"r
to get, and so cannot obtain an even
supply of steam.
The railway has plenty Of rolling
stock, but they don't roll it. The first
thing they did to the two hundred
freight cars we sent over was to tear
out the air brakes and put in crude
handbrakes; and then they cut two
extra doors. making three. saving that
it was too dark to load freight in a car
with only one door.
The Stevens commission is trying to
lick that railroad into shape trying to
get repairs made; but il is difficult to
get Russian to work now. They will
only run their engines eighty miles a
day, forty miles each way, and every
train is independently governed. A
superintendent alights at a station,
learns that the road is clear, and tells
the chief engineer to tell the engineer
to go ahead. There is always friction
between the college bred superinten-
dent and the engineers. Nothing is
ever accomplished in Russia, because
every official "has to see some one
else"
When we landed with our greatly
needed stores in Petrograd we waited
four days for Russian cooperation.
They hired warehouse for which our
Red Cross is still paying rent and
Fired motor trucks to haul the stores to
the warehouse.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09

cushion Mrazek has knocked of the
royal crowns.
The flag, in armorial sections, is sent
from the local Bohemian Alliance, IN
East Seventy-second Street, into Bo..
hemian homes, where prototypes OF
Betsy Ross are these days skllfully
embroidering them in silk of rlIliant
Czech colors-red, blue, green and gold:
Previous TO Americas declaration Of
war the flag displayed in various
Bohemian centres and carried in their
civic parades exploited on field OF
white the ancient coat of arms, topped
of with q quasi jewelled royal crown:
Since the birth Of the new flag the old
and its tingly ensigns has been con-
signed TO oblivion. -. g.,
The Czechs are the highest civilized
and most advanced of Slav people. VI
all immigrants that pass through Ellis
Island the percentage of illlteracy Is
lowest among the Bohemians. :,
New York's real Bohemia substan-
tiates this statistical record. In music
arts and crafts theirs is creative gem
ius. distinctive contribution. Three
forces are making for its New World
progress and fusion with the body pol
tic. They arc the Bohemian National
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Took $3,3OO,OO0
In Liberty Bonds

This is the Bohemia that rushed in
response to President Wilson's first call
TO arms to enlist in the United States
army and navy-the Bohemia tina,
bought 100000 of Liberty bonds 10
the first sale; 100000 1T the second
sale.
It has scarcely a family, it viii tell
YOU. without children who possess
Liberty bond or are paying for one on
the instalment plan.
Organization Is its long SUIT. 30
cieties, clubs, leagues abound.
The Bohemian National Alliance
founded in Chicago IN August, lSiA'
established, week after America de-
clared war, headquarters at $40 Eas,
Seventy-second Street, the heart OF
New York's Bohemia. In its wake came
TO the same locality the Sloyak League
whose headquarters we're formerly III
Pittsburgh. The Alliance Is composed
of Sokol gymnast societies lhhe the
German Turn-Verein), czech fraterhai
organizations, social and LABOR cIuDa,
1t has branches throughout the Ohited
States and Canada. II IS the mouth
piece of $4,000 Bohemians resident IN
the United States. a,
Since last October the National Al
lance and the Slovak League have been
housed with the Slav Publicity Bu-
reau. which both organizations sup
mort. in an attractive suite In TIE
Tribune Building, Park Row. The
trio is affiliated with Red Cross
work. the American National League
for Woman's Service and the Food
Commission.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Ian Illus House
Centre of Activity

The Jan Hus Neighborhood House,
East Seventy-fourth Street. IS the cen
tire Of up-to-date sociological activity.
DR.. Vincent'Pisek. rector of the Protes-
tant Bohemian Church (Hussite fol-
lowers), is its motor power. Born in
Bohemia, educated in New York, DR..
Pisek is art lover, collector and wide
awake man of the hour.
Church, rectory and Neighborhood
House are under one roof. with tower
that harks TO Prague. Built in 1883.
this plant is foremost in the revival of
Czech peasant art and crafts and per-
petuation Of Bohemian drama and folk
lore.
Across the threshold Of DR.. Pisek's
rectory one -pictorially-in O'd
Bohemia. Walls. furniture, pottery,
decorations, are all hand wrought By
Bohemian craftsmen. frop peasant
cottage interiors, preserved in rare
print collection in the Bohemian
library.
J JOY is the dominant note. Conven-
tionalized leaf. flower, fruits, horn OF
plenty, mating birds Of the Central
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Germans Took Food
And Stopped Fish Supply

There was no resistance to the Ce'
mans in their march on Petrogrsd, ou,
after they had seized thirty miles o.
fertile land, covered with foedstun'
they did not proceed further. They h1i
not men with which 10 hold Petrogrss
and eontented themselves with the 'ss
stores of provisions gained ana
shutting off and diyerting Petrogrses
fish supply through the Archangel ses
Eighteen days under fire has mao,
us careless. Instead of waiting uhss
night, the only time when one
traverse the parallels from the trensns;s
with safety, our party started on 'as.
return Journey in the afternoon. l
mediately we found ourselves tnssJ
for rain Of shells. Nobody stoPi~
to take pictures. We ran for our so's
mobile on the hill. gained IL, ana ~
away-shells following ns'~
noticed until we were IN safe P's~
that doctor had been left behind, 4,
We sent the chauffeur back Tor p's
Those chauffeurs at the front are u.
The doctor was found hiding IN wv"
rescued and brought back TO US
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Great Mass Of Peasantry
and Townspeople Can
Be Led by Any Agita-
tor With Loud Voice
By N. 6. Travis, Camera Man,
and M. w. Mount

Russia is drunk with freedom, and
acts upon momentary impulses like an
intoxicated man. / could, had wished.
any time have gone in the Nevsky,
harangued a crowd and collected mob
Of 5000 to go and shoot up some desig-
mated spot. That is the sort OF thing
that went on all day in Petrograd. |
saw the /. W. WIS talking cxcitedly TO
throngs on street corners-girls and
men from New York's lower East Side
who have gone back to Russia and
fomented this last revolution in that
country. I recognized several of the
agitators and spoke to them.
These erstwhile factory hands are
telling the people that America is ruled
by capitalists and wants Russian terri
tory, and that Russia will be downtrod.
den in the same way that America Is.
The long crushed, unthinking Russian
is swayed by anybody who talks 70
him, and follows any leader who can
gain his car. He is densely ignorant
and is possessed Of but one idea.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09

twenty-eight pounds on Petrograd
diet. Bread, sugar and shoes cannot
be had at any price in that city, al
though large consignment Of Ameri-
can shoes is at the border, not allowed
entrance. The people wear straw on
their feet.
There were seven Of US in the W.
B. Thompson Red Cross Mission to
Russia. The mission established a
base for medical supplies. OF when
there were none. Mems limbs were
being amputatcd without the use oil
cbloroform and the 800 gallons that
We took to Ninsk and the base hospi-
tai was still untouched when left
there.
From yladivostok we travelled $3.50
miles over the Siberian Railroad to
Petroerad. We carried supplies, but no
food for ourselves, as we expected 10
find sufficient in Petrograd. We mad
however. stores of canned food en-
route, but our party did not get any
of it. -.,-..-
Two thousand miles Of the Siberian
Railroad is double-trackcd, and much
Of it rock-ballastcd. The tracks are
wider than ours, with cars proper
tomato in width and exceedingly COM
Portable. VIC travelled for fourteen
DAYS on the Cars imperial tram
Nothing i'm America can touch that
train for gorgeousness and luxury OF
appointments, and included in the
eleven cars was the splendid one
formerly used by Rasputin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Workers Seize Shop
And Sell 1t Back

AS an example of the Russian idea
of freedom-and it is a sincere belief
in their ignorant minds-I was film
ing mob scenes in a factory where
workers had struck and seized the
plant. A deputation waited on the pro-
prietor.
eve now own this shop" they in
formed him. "But we are willing to
sell it back to you for $4,000"
The owner considered. "Well," said
he, "there is a bill due for machinery
that has been delivered. That bill
must be met at once. 1t is $4,000. And
next month a note falls due. That is
1880. Since you own the factory you
must pay these Obligations
The deputation withdrew and con-
suited together. 1t was impossible for
them to pay such sums of money.
Presently they returned.
eve will sell you the factory for
$780," they offered. The deal was
closed.
1t is impossible to get a Russian to
hurry work II you try to hurry him
a little he Immediately quits. 81 have
no boss he argues, "why should |
hurry"
When / tried TO get films developed,
such as ] obtain in a few hours in
America, the Russian would not hear
Of producing anything under ten days
or two weeks. Neither does his idea Of
time stretch to meet engagements. |
made an appointment to meet a man
at IL o'clock in the morning. At in
the afternoon he showed up and won
deied why was not there. 1t was the
same way when the Red Cross tried to
get $4,000 cans of condensed milk from
Sweden for Russian babies. Sweden
agreed to furnish the milk if Russia
would make the cans.
why" asked the Russians, SHOULD
VIC make cans?" And they didn't.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
By Ida Rose McCabe

BY Ida nose NlCSdDc
TO YOU know New YOrk's reaI
| Bohemia?
1t took world war TO put 1t on
the map, as it took President Wilson's
message to the Allies to prccipitate its
motherland into the limelight of the
Entente.
This Bohemia is not to be confound-
cd with Greenv ch Village or like met
ropolitan quarters of story, verse, paint
or drama. Thirty thousand Czech Slavs
make up its population. For half a
century it has been Towering here in
numbers, wealth and democracy. From
Avenue A, First and Second avenues,
greensboro Bridge 10 East Eighty
sixth Street is its area.
Reminiscent Of Prague are the names
on the shop signs. Czech Slav tongues
titillatc the car Of passing Americans.
Riotous Czech colors, TO which the
Russian Slav, Bakst, introduced Fifth
Avenue, meet the eye in home interiors,
social centres, and occasionally in hol-
idav dress Of the oldest or latest immi-
grant. In the vanguard Of nationallsm
is new generation Of fair-haired,
light-skinned, dark-cyed children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Have Faith in
Victory Of Allies

The faith Of New Iork's Bohemia IN
the triumph of the Allies IS unparal-
leled. IN their victory they see the
Czech dream Of centuries come true
recovery OF the netherlands indie
pcndence, birth of an independent
Czech Slovak state.
Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Hun
caria-S.ovaque will comprise the new
state. Each of its units lost its ma
tionality, language, literature and arts
through centuries Of Prussian-Austri-
an-Magyar oppression. The present
war has intensified the antagonism be
tween the people Of Bohemia and the
Austro- Hungarian Empire.
1--WE take the side of the fighting
Slav nations and their allies" says
New York's Bohemia, without regard
TO victory or defeat, because right j.
on their side"
The flag of the unborn state is a .
ready made.
II went to the front some weeks
Ego with the first Bohemian contir-
gent 10 sail from America for military
training in France. The continge','
was made up OF men rejected for one
reason or another for enlistment in
the american hIHlg VI navy. III
France, where 40 per cent Of its Bo-
hemian immigrant population is at the
front, this contingent-re elected by our
recruiting stations-will eventually
fight under Bohemian officers.
The embarkation came upon the
heels of the refusal of the United
States government TO permit Bohe-
mians in this country to form "A sep
A l..
the percentage of Bohemians, il is
claimed, is the largest of any racial
group.
The new Czech -Slovak state flag was
designed and executed in New York
The designer is the young Bohemian
painter, Joseph MraZek. The ancient
coat of arms of the four Czech Slav
nations forms solid square in field
- r.d From, tho lion eagles or III rome
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Mud Bread
A Staple F God

In Petrograd we were served hor-
rible bread made Of Neva River mud,
which has fish deposits that are said
TO contain some nutriment, mixed with
bran; horse flesh, crow, little stur-
geon, sometimes 4. little chopped car
rots, and soup. Soldiers fare much
better. We had no green vegetables
of any kind. The Russ has not
caught the garden idea. | couldn't eat
the bread, but it was included in ny
hotel bill of 80 a day without bath.
We all had TO have tickets to obtain
any food. and the poor lined up twice
a day with their soup tickets and 20
get their tobacco rations. Men, women
and children desired their ration of
tobacco even more than food. | lost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09

Corporation from distributing the first
William s. Hart production, "The Mar
row Trail" and vacated the temporary
stay granted pending the argument Of
the injunction. This is the second set
back OF the Triangle in its efforts
against Hart and lnce, an application
for an injunction restraining Hart from
working for any other than Triangle
having been denied by Judge Manton in
the Federal Court last August.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Being Free He Has
Nothing to Fight For

1--WE are freel" he cries joyouslg.
"Why should we go to war and fight
and be killed, now that we have orr
freedom? We have nothing TO fight
for" There is no sense Of patriotism
whatever in the Russian man. He rec
ognized himself as a chattel of the
Car only, with no national responsi-
bility whatever, and fought because the
Cars Cossacks were behind him, 20
shoot him down il he did not go for
ward. There is no more Gar, there.
fore nothing to fight for. They say
that they will obey the Gar; that they
would like him for their first Presi-
dent. Their hatred is directed toward
the Czarina, the Dowager and Raspu-
tins coterie.
The slow-moving, slow thinking, ig-
norant, oppressed mass of the Russian
people arc awake to only one fact
they arc free. SO Gowntrodden have
they been that their minds do not
grasp the meaning of freedom. stood
on the Nevsky, filming scenes of revo-
luton, when some impulse would start
armored automobiles in my direction
and I would hasten to move my camera
to avoid machine gun fire and aim
lessly whizzing bullets. Russians can
not shoot. They seem to have no idea
Of aim.
got a picture of the custom house
under fire. The mob amused itself all
day shooting at the building. chipping
holes in the beautiful structure by way
of frolic, and not doing a particle of
damage to the police hidden among its
cornices. As for pictures of mob rule
one might have ground all day at
scenes of the populace looting stores
Freedom meant helping themselves to
everything they wanted. Consequent
ly stores closed. Everybody has plenty
of money in Petrograd and nothing to
spend it for. Money is the cheapest
commodity in that restless city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Soldiers Are Cleaned
Every Ten Days

Every ten days the soldiers went out
of the trenches, stripped, were sprayed
with an atomizer, brushed with brooms
given baths in the Russian bath trains
and ntted out with clean clothes. Mean
time the trenches were cleaned. On
such an occasion AN aviator, threa-
quarters of mile away, saw three
thousand men go into the woods and
picket their horses. In the night he
took up a position over the woods,
dropped pots" on them, and cleaned
up the whole three thousand sleeping
men and their horses.
| had painted my camera battle gray
and stood its tripod on the rsilrost
ties that constituted the floor Of our
trench. Sometimes rain washed down
from the hill and we stood in mud and
water. For eighteen days ground out
$4,000 feet of film pictures at the front
my lens poked through "A hole betweel
bags of dirt, with a view of the WHOLE
enemy front line and just two hundred
feet away from the German trench. or
line with our own in a corresponding
rise in the hillside.
| stood watching the customary row
OF rifles projecting above the enemy
trench, blazing their warning, when
suddenly over the top they swarmed to
meet Russian attack. Our tanks
rolled right through the barbed wire
entanglements between the two lines'
three gunners in each moving down
the enemy as the operators drove the
tanks crushing on down the trenches
Riflemen-and women-followed 70
fierce encounters, supported by srtil-
lery fire. The Germans took refuge n
their second trench. Then the Rel
Cross Of each side went out on ne
field TO pick up the dead and wounded
Suddenly my camera caught a horror
Of German warfare.
The Germans snatched sheets from
tho stretchers they bore, disclosing
machine guns, and opened fire on doe'
tors, nurses and orderies at their
work of mercy, moving down women,
and men alike. The Allies have learned
lesson, and now, when the Red Gross
goes out after a battle both sides opsp
fire.
The Germans are also inoculsting
the French army and children WIN
tuberculosis germs, contained in eano,
dropped from aeroplanes. In Petro'
grad they dropped poisoned esnoy'
which children ate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Death Whistlcd Through
A Magnificent Spectacle

Overhead, five thousand 70 SIX ths1.
sand feet, aeroplanes we're dropping
bombs-"pots" they call them thai
burst with 4 rending fare. Guns sho,
at them, sending a ball Of smoke high
in the heavens. when, as the prOjee.
tile i'm the SMOKE burst, brilliaE. dis.
play of fireworks sprayed the nigh;
skies. n was ike looking az a nag.
nifcent show.
The appalling magnitude and splen-
dor of u stunned me. ] was daIei
for twelve hours. Then | gradually
accustomed myself TO the sight and
sound of warfare, and in few Gays
stood around in the rear OF the trench
amid hurting shells and whistling
bullets as unconcernedly as did the
rest. Miles and miles Of supply
wagons. drawn by horses, would come
down to the front, and the drivers
would stop and chat with their friencs
as coolly as though Death were not
shrieking and whistling about them.
We soon learned that We couldn't
dodge the missiles; If We were going TO
be hit We would be hit.
One good thing about German shells
is the fact that half OF them don't 20
Off. But those sinister, unexploded
shells, that lie around, inspire with
fear Nobody wants 10 go near or
touch one. The Russians, on the
other hand, have a wonderful shell.
Il is made in America and ploughs
an awful hole in anything it strikes.
Taking pictures in the rear is more
dangerous than doing so in first
line trench. The enemy is always
shelling the rear. / never could inurs
myself to that awful sound-the shrek
of a she'll travelling through the air
IL always made my blood curdle and
turn cold Then. bang! Oh. the re.
lief of that explosion after the hor
Tor of suspense!
soon found it impossible 10 De.
eide where TO picture the "yplos'on Of
an aeroplane bomb. The plane,
moved at such speed that bono al
most never fell where they were in
tended. became used to seeing them
drop around anywhere. OF course, u
a pot" fell IN a trench that was bad.