Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-11

than the young women Of our other
peoples. their homelife Is mtrh the
same. They go to school. usually,
from their eighth until their fifteenth
year and then find employment in
factory of some kind remaining a
wage Garner and perhaps contributing
10 the upkcep of the home. until they
are seventeen or eighteen when
Prince Charming usually comes 10
claim them and to take them away 10
"A plain little home that they have
helped in advance to prepare.
The Polish people we meet here are
ot the German type. They are blonde.
rather below the stature Of their
AnElo-S Saxon neighbors. with nne
white skin light eyes. wide expressive
resemblance to the Teuton hut insist
the likeness ends right there. Both the
young men and girls are seeking high
cr education than is afforded by the
ss.hools teaching their own languar re
and more and more are enrolling in
the Grammar and High school classes
cf our public Institutions year by year
The young men are taking to the
y
ence and the law. and TO the trades
whare they can educate their hands
and brains and lift themselves ahov.
The ranks Of the manual iaborers. II
may be inferred that they are highly
Ambitious. and II is Improbable that
the second generation of those born in
this country VIII be found in the
morocco shops and ship yards. those
who have watched the advance Of
these people, the first OF whom came
here little more than twenty years
ago from West Prussia have noted
with amazernent their rapid advance
ment under the invigoration OF the
opportunity they found awaiting them.
However poor and patient they
may have been in their humble homes
on the other side OF the Atlantic under
| the devilish oppression OF Russia
Germany and Austria or Turkey for
the Poles have been the footballs Of
cruel fate that would have destroyed.
heart and soul, any other nation-they
arc still loyalty proud of their nation
ality and deeply sympathetic for the
.orrows OF those Of their own people
| left in the old world TO continue the
| fight for the right 10 live free and un-
i trammeF1ed and unhampered. In
| earnest of this the people of our Little
! Poland sent back 10 their old homes
/ si25, 900. which they exchanged for
war bonds, 10 aid the motherland in
her recovery from the devastations
OF war and to guard against the torch
and bomb Of the Bolshevik.
/
These people are proud OF their
nation, and of its heroes. and they
never cease TO sing the praises OF
those great souls of the past who have
Hong been their inspiration. No May
Sd passes that the faithful ones here
de-, not celebrate the anniversary OF
the first constitution that was adopted
| by the home government. 1t meant
equal rights for the poor as well as
the rich. but the hope ii contained
was never realized, for Germany
Austria and Russia could not have en-
dured with such an example of po-
Iitical equality existing across the
borders and they nullified this great
step for the advancement of the nation
and the rights of the Polish plebian
had never found recognition until the
recent overthrow of autocracy ano
tyranny in those old world nations
brought this long fought for right al
most to the point of consummatior
with only the Reds intervening for
the moment in some parts of Polish
Russia.
SO these people with glorious pas
are warranted in the pride they main
tain for their country. and for theil
forbears. and here under the new
stimulating conditions, with liberty IN
the largest possible measure assured
with ample outlet for their energie:
land ambitions and in full realization o
the opportunities now opened TO then
| without let or restraint, we shall bt
proud of Little Poland or whatever
we may designate this Polish towr
| within our own gates, for il viii re-
quire but short time for these people
for ages in the leash of tyranny ant
restraint, to come into their own ant
to play a big part in the further ad
| yancement of the cause of liberty ane
equality under the Stars and Stripes.
1T will be interesting 10 watch tht
progress and development Of the Poles
llr, America, where there are more thar
900. 900 of the race, and especially w
shall be surprised to note the rapiditl
0f their progress, growth and useful
ness here in the future.