Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-23
THOMAS eARRIGuE MAsARYk
Bx G. S. s~trandyold.

AZ the new Czecho- Slovakian repub-
-. rha t;rst actually elected parlia.
nc. ~ theSs state approved with an
oyerWne ;tnnt Is.de nv the pIovisiona,
ial In4.u. s.ennhiv in prague. ~,
les : is ~edin difficult to- find
- aheGit President Masa-
III = ~ n nIrelv personal way. 50 T
~; 10 rovself in meeting one
~ his intimate friends, Professor Arr
o oav 4i1 krans' to whom I obtained An
Introduction. For two hours we sat in
hotel and talked about nothing and
nobody but Masaryk. Whatever l now
know about the. man is due to the
courtesy of DR.. Kraus.
y w. r, nv .Nohsnar
was hho"" W souo
When, Masaryk was thirty years old.
nobody knew him; he was an obscure
instructor at the vienna university,
and lived in an attic with mis- young
American wife whom he q married
in the United States a couple or years
before. At that time was
working on a voluminous book about
Suicide as 9, Mass Phenomenon". The
Czechs in Vienna knew IN q general.
way about his listlc work IN an
attempt to promote education among
them. <
Ten years ,later Masaryk a be- :
! come an intellectual storm center, and
HIS nationalistic ideas, bravery advo-
Gated in the heart OF German Austria.
closed the entire press to him; only
one weekly, n NCas"and the month
ly magazile. "Athenaeum", had u
age enought to defend n man, and
I.they did it so effectively that he was
elected a members of the imperial
parliament as a representative of his
race.
Ready to Bring Sacrifice.
When Masaryk was fifty years old.
his nan,c was once more in the fore-
1ground because ne nan a.revi-
SUI ~ n ~ n'i low ~ wa g s,,snectad nf havinr
LLi1Iod :. rhr;st;a n Girl FOR the rno
If is;ne her blood In connection Win
carta;n ,,e,ip;ons rites and to SAW
t ~ inr%occn4iv cha,ped man MasarvEp
hrau his antire infiGenra in the hsrH>
ane" nn"sn,nar' whose Ensa -
n.as ,,as r,,;ned hoca ,sa NJ his fieb,
n9t ho Ala NOT caro- Much re his ia.
fIuenno ,uas Lost He did not Worry
liuene. WsS pa w y. "oanS
a,aonod ~. 49, nd ,,os so.d,, ~
Srins s,cr;fices IN ordersto nbS+.i,,
;ustieo' n,,r;ns Tho ~nrecedino .nm
F!aons - hos ne, ~ in no,to ~ 49,
~ ,,,it;oaI an5 ,talilantuaI Re- ~
h = ~ VA naus nartv had hcan fnr,o-
ID ~ oronnd hin, IInSwhat vas tEan
! known as bohemia people were
;,,Snaa .ooorSinS 20 r.,,ethor 49,
'v un FOR ~ arains+ AZ. sarvEt A+ A. Nc
M weiu ient| a.ns' th LASH chs ~ ~ ,,,ia,,s n ns
Si .,,a;ssa - g,tharadWMr "
alavio rena.1sa.ce eSyuwyuso-
, 1 ia not nav anwSattent;nn ~ the
faue he was ' an ,ov;nc and Tho iossNaf
i]nfInence that c%onfrnnted him he a. "a
prt ba Won omf ohtsinod y ra,ision
~ tba o,.;darce antl tha trial q and ,,od
stho .at;sfact;on ~ seo;ns ~ innoonr+
man set frea :. $500
II
t"s
whan Ia . r,a : s; = ~ re- fr aiad
caihored for To f;.st tin 70 nav +rtl,s
nnta ~ inoItho,.a an5 +hnys.nd.
az hem On THE ncca s;on he ans
no,,ncod +h,t 10 haa oin1aHS n.nod1 =,
po e l. .ia. ne itao always wanssu ~
readv t. s' a,p'j in 1ear anq now eM c me was
new 800 me-, ha .ddad tSo4 ho ,,n,,!d
devote The next 4wentv Near ~ HE
life as a student nf ;nfernat;onai law
ana n,,;tios 80 ~ ""
], Th;s was nota bo,,ou, nbr,a az. Az
hestr,s,e Cd re~nresentati,,nv of4ha I,,eos
islay ! nsS he 10 i. cnnnTeroI the ,,aft,,
d;Fe;n, lay con4uereo III pe!.y-
2 va fa,si liz oe,%een serbs M
horojcaiiy in an 4temnt 10 nrntest
against the naiI metbSds ~ tic
Vienna. rovernmenf and time and
again he haTtaken mart in ali thaIin.
tellcctnsl nolemicai fishtsrth,t go
arried m IN The rostiess nant of re
tOld World " p"i' ~ ~
n WAS thus NV -, ,,,,
dent that a Rohenian naner conce;yad
fhe idea Of asL;n" -. ra,ders ,,ho-
wo,,,d he the;r ,,raforrad $500 I
candidate in casa +ha im nos.,hIa4
should h,nnon that pnhar hoanne
an ;~ndenandont sta.a sam o e .
cred II a isst t,,,t ~ ainn; e LEY
voters said thav u-.ntad w. '"0
"''e NAasa'sA.
Masaryk the Ihberator.
When Masarvk was -seventv vears
old-his birthday was in March This
year-an entire people, with the ex-
ceptlon or some d%isgruntled Bolshe-
,fher,, 20 u i'o'iaee 70 MasarSh ,he
Tate IN .po,o,
Bohemia ana nvo,t isAh, ne nae iene
ono not;ned ~; .ren,enuouslS tnat no
inv v n1tlced ms departure. Only a
a rI% enostn irlenos were informed.
CIV ~. IN contact WIN NM. Ihey,
nnisht aNna Inc soca'ted Mal1ia. =.
ann Expect arrest and execution at
IN 1918 he appeared at Geneva, now
me sea- OF the League OF Nations.
= 1919 me frencn ampassaoor
dissoIred tnal ne
line tfeu WAS preposterous aims
wh;r,,nn .ns uual monarcny was Jusl
anna hne vn.ousn a STATE OF exuoer-
hnt. eeCausS " great successes on tne
T-.elus' Later ne Iectured AT the