Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-05
Wtat Women Are
Doing in Wdshington

MIHEN Secretary Lansing recently ex-
Vpressed the sympathy of this country
with the national aspirations Of the Czecho-
Slovak and Jugo-Slav peoples, he opened the
door to official cognizance of the presence in
this country Of the great Czech leader
Thomas Garrigues Masaryk, and his daugh-
ter Olga.
Professor Masaryk came 10 this country
by the way of Vladivistok from Russia
where he had been engaged in the organi-
zation OF Czecho-Slovak regiments to figh, In
France against the Germans He was
joined In Washington by Miss Olga Masarvl;
who had been in London for two years closely
associated with her father in the movement
for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Aust ria Hungary
and the establishing of its peoples into inde-
pendent States
Olga Masaryk IL half Slav, half American
Cher mother was an American). ieaGer of the
student movement among The women Of Aus
tria, tennis champion of Bohemia brilliant
scholar-she has nearly completed her work
for Doctors degree in the University of
Prague she is good to look upon and very
magnetic to talk with
nR ALICE MASARYK. her sister. was in
- Jail in Austria soon after the outbreak of
the war. She arrested because of her
suspected complicitv in the movement for Bo-
hemian freedom. Through the efforts of the
American ambassador. before this country
became a belligerenr. she was freed and al
lowed to live with her mother in Prague
The Aus.rians keep both under strict surveil-
lances as hostages for the good behavior of
PROFESSOR Masaryk and This other daughter
Olga.
Bohemian freedom" seema TO western
cars a redundancy in terms The word
Bohemian Is gypsy tainted 1t has a wild
and awleSS flavor. Few in America know
exactly where Bohemia is in the first place
t-hN or,t, 10
The English are as bad as we Some Of the
hardest work undertaken by Miss Masaryk in
England was to educate the British public as
to the Czecho- -S.ovak nation. She had to in
form the press and public that it was the
same as the Bohemian, and then she had to
induce her people to use the technical or
other term to avoid the popular msconcep-
tion of Bohemia.
"Czechi' pronounced checkee) is what the
Masaryks call themselves a branch of the
Slav race of which the Russians, the Serbs
the Croals, the Sovenes and the Slovacs are
all members. The Czechs are the most liter
ate and have. perhaps the highest cultural
attainments, according to Miss Mararyk. All
czech men and women can read and write
and they are devoted readers of newspapers
The nations capital is Prague in Bohemia
The Austrian Emperor, Kari, wanted to be
crowned as Bohemian King when he sue
ceeded to the throne. but the Czechs and
Sloracs refused to allow the ceremony For
them. as for Olga Masaryk and her father.
the times of kings passed and done with
T ADY MURIEL PAGET has been twice in
~ Washington this month once as guest of
Henry White. the Ward McAllister of the
captaTs society, and again with the British
war mission at their headquarters on Mas
sachusetts avenue, near du Pom, Circle.
Lady Murel. returning to England after
three years spent in charge of hospital in
NleV Russia. is one of those demanding jap
anese intervention in Siberia. 1t can be un-
dcrstood that she has little liking for the Bol.
shcriki. who confscated her hospital ambu-
lance soon after they came into power She
tells an inc dent. which shows that she be-
lieres they would make but slgh, resistance.
u let the ambulance 60" said She 'on con-
dition that 1t be used solely for peaceful pur-
poses | stipulated that the car was never to
be employed in military way Imagine my
surprise when d few days later one of the
Bolshevili chiefs drove up to the hospital In
our machine with guns firmly mounted front
and rear. tod him at once that he had
broken hia agreement and that he must give
the car back TO us again--whch after Il while
he did. Yes. there some argument. He
did not want to return it in fact. you might
say that it required frnness my part to
make him do So"