Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-20

mo other people in all the world 5
history has borne oppression 50
bravely and gloriouslv as the Poles,
except the Jews; and Warsaw, where
the Russians had to keep garrison
of 100000 troops to over-awe city
of 10000 people is to Poland what
Paris to France" says a bulletin OF
the National Geographic Society con-
corning the present facal center of
world attention.
Indeed, the vivacity, the gayety,
and the quick wit of Warsaw's people
! is a constant reminder Of Paris; as
well as those deeper ikenesses which
spring from Warsaw's ascendancy in
the letters, the arts, and the social
graces.
"All this, too, in a city where the
most gruesome tragedies have stalk
ed. AS recently as the years Of our
own Civil War the Russian army
moved down thousands of men and
women as they knelt in the snow,
singing their national anthem. Depor-
tations are an old story in Warsaw,
every effort at naturalization was
followed by slaughter, and hundreds
marched the long trail to Siberian ex-
lie.
"But Polands spirit, meanwhile,
became a synonym for the indomita-
BILE. The success of the classification
of Poland has beens described as the
process of keeping 100000 Poles
pinned to Russia by bayonets. Politi-
cally non-existent, for even Poland
name was expunged from all official
Russian records, the pre-war Warsaw
Wed with world capitals in science,
particularly medicine, in manufac-
turing, in trade and in literature.
Though Warsaw betrayed none
of the grimness characteristic Of Rus
sian cities, reminders of her bygone
glories and tragedies were to be
found even before the World War
restored her autocracy.
''In the Lazienki Gardens is mon
ument to John Sobieski, who stem
med the advance of the Turks in
Europe, figure as picturesque as
Paderewski, who now sees his land a
barrier to Bolshevism's westward
spread. 1t was in 1858 that Turkish
force had thrown itself in crescent
formation around Vienna. The en-
campment was no less threatening
because it resembled a circus rather
than a siege, with its herds of cam
els, and luxurious tents with baths
and parrots within and fountains
without.
Mighty events often hinge on
slender circumstances. Sobieskl hest
tated because Leopold, Austria's en-
peror, first declined to address him
as His Majesty. But Sobieski's hes
itation is said to have vanished when
he learned that the French Ambassa-
dor had written to Louis XIV, who
rather hoped for the worst for Aus
tria, Don't trouble yourself, Sobies-
XII is too fat to sit on horse and
fight. The fat man rode his charg-
er into the thick of the fight, helping
hew his way to were the Turkish
Grand Vizier stood, and after the bat
tie handed one of that dignitary's
stirrups to an aide, with command
Take it to the Queen and tell her
that he to whom it belonged is, de-
feated and SLANT
"The sublime often is strangely
blended with the inconsequential.
They will tell you this story, with
much detail, in Warsaw; while the
Vienna visitor formerly was sure to
hear about little coffee house on
the Grahen. That was kept by de-
scendant of a brave Polish boy who
carried through the Turkish lines to
Sobieski's headquarters an urgent
call for his city's succor. He was re-
warded with permission to open the
first coffee house in Vienna, and
there originated, in jest at the de-
feated enemy's formation, the cres-
cent shaped bun, known around the
world as the Vienna roll.