The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-08-08
South Slavic National Coun-
Gil Sends Letter of Graft
tude to Patriots Fund
Committee of Kenosha.
REVIEW OF SLAVIC RACE
Origin of the Many Slavic NATIONAL
ties That Are Scattered over
Both Europe and
STA.

Many letters expressing the graft
tude Of the writer's are received at
the Patriots Fund in response to some
appropriation by the Patriots Fund
Committee for some object which seems
worthy Of it. Among the latest to be
received by the committee is letter
from the South Slavic National Coun-
Gil, of Washington, D. G.
The letter, written by John j.
Grgurevich, secretary in charge, says:
Through Mr.. Mirko Mulch, 649 Racine
avenue, Kenosha, one Of our repre-
sentatives in Kenosha, we have re-
ceived check for $1,000, represent
ing your contribution to aid the work
I of our council
/ Permit US to extend to you our
most sincere gratitude and to say
that we feel proud that our work in
propagating loyalty among the Jugo-
slavs in the United States to their
war aims, in gathering volunteers who
are fighting on the fronts for the cause
OF America and the Allies, and in as
sisting this great active country Of
ours in everything pertaining to it's
military and industrial preparedness,
has been recognized and approved by
such a patriotic organization as the
Patriots Fund Committee Of Kenosha
county"
| Thomas Capek, of the New York
bar, in his book 1.-THE S1ovaks of Hun
gary" estimates that in the year
1904 there were $4,000, 900 to lat ,o0o,-
600 Slavonians in the world. In the
east live the Russians, the mightiest
branch of the Slavic family, numbering
some 100000. They are divided ac-
cording to dialect into Great Russians,
Little Russians, and White Russians.
In the south are the South -Slavs or
Illlyrians, known as Servians, Croatians,
Bosnians, Montenegrins, Slavonians,
Dalmatians, and Slovenes, respectively,
to which may be added the BuIgarians.
In the west are the Bohemians, the
Moravians, Slovaks, Poles, Serbs, and
Lusatians. Slavs owe their allegiance
to four great governments, Russia,
Austro- Hungary, Germany, and Tur-
key. They belong to the Greek Or
thodox church, the Roman Catholic,
Uniat, or United Orthodox, Protestant,
and Mohammedan.
White or Great Croatia, a country Of
indefinite extent, traversed by the
Carpathian mountains, and situated be-
tween the Vistula and the Dnieper is
the fatherland Of the primitive Slavs.
From this country they spread north,
west, and south, either in search Of new
possessions, or because they were
thrust out by other nations.
In the Seventh century they occupied
in uninterrupted continuity a vast
tract east Of the Elbe, the Saale, and
the Bohemian Forest, southwark to the
\ Adriatic Sea, IN the regions where they
are to be found today. The names Of
rivers, cities, and villages with Slavic
roots or examinations prove that in
ancient times Slavonic was spoken in
saxony, Brandenburg, Pomerania, and
other provinces now German.
Before the Introduction of feudalism
among them the Slavs were as free as
any barbarians in Europe. An ancient
law of theirs provided that captives of
Slavonian nationality, by whomsoever
held, should be free the instant they set
foot on Slavonian SOIL Castles and
hereditary power were unknown. Each
clan or village existed as separate
republic, and "all must be persuaded