Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-06-10

PREPARED by the National Geographic So
ciety, Washington, D. CO..
CZechoslovakia, which has recently
lifted q ban against the Importation
of American cotton, may thus become
one of tbe first of NE Central Euro
pean coun tries to Start in MOTION the
stream Of products between america
aud thatportion of HE world.1
y Because it is colofful country with
Quaint people and CUSTOMS and cos
tunes, observers have often# written
almost exclusively of these Rases of
life Id the new nation. Buf it h>also
sindustrially of great importance. THIS
is especially true Of life Czech parfs
(which is usually called Bohemia. 1t
was the workshop of Hungary.
II you saw an Austrian velour hat on
Broadway or an Austrian-made
Turkish fez beside the Golden Horn,
the chances were four to one that it,
was produced in what is now Czecho1
slovakia since four-fifths of the in-
dustries of the former Hapsburg
monarchy were concentrated there.
Textiles formed the largest group of
prewar industrial products, and Inade
the country an important customer
for the cotton Exported froH our
southern states. 1t estimated that
about one million bale of cefton are
required each year to keN TIE Czecho-
slovakian textile factorieNusy
The textile industryafS catered at
Bratislava, which is CzechosNgakia's
main port On the Danube, to Which
vessels of thousandt tons can come
at all seasons. In spite of the financial
Difficulties of Central Europe a
market for the finished product seems
assured. Every country in Central
Europe needsv tfxt4ses.
skoda Works Transformed.
The great SAoda pu1ition works at
Pilsen, the main source Of Austro-
Hungarian war materials. we're as
famous ingthefN way as the Krupp
factories at Essen, Germany. They are
still fully capable OF making some of
the most powerful Of war engines,
but In these days Of peace for Czecho-
slovakia there hast BEEN striking
transformation. WbileN guns and
swords are not literally being beaten
into plowshares, the machinery which
has turned out everS variety of
ordnance in the past is bow busily
engaged in making tools, locomotives,
car wheels, printing presses, and
various other implements of industry,
transportation, and enlightenment.
Bohemia is known, too, for its glass.
One of the important centers OF glass
factories is what a younger genera
ton of geography students were taught
to call Carlsbad, one of the worlds
best known watering places. Inc
towns new Czechoslovakian name IS
KarIovy Vary, a change which to the
outsider seems very much like the
deliberate destruction of valuable
trademark. CZechoslovakian glass is
best known, perhaps, by two special
products, the so-called amethyst glass
and emerald glass.
Sugar, Beer. and Water.
In the northern portion of the re
nublic, near large fields of sugar beets,
are located numerous sugar factories
which turn out large quantities OF this
product. Before the war about S1O,-
600 600 worth of sugar was sent out
annually from the territory. which now
constitutes Czechoslovakia. One OF
the most recent suggestions for facili-
tating the export of American cotton
to Czechoslovakia is that sugar from
that country be exchanged for the
cotton
The name alone of Pilsen (now
Plzen) tells in part the story Of
another important industry of Czecho-
slovakia. 1t is the raising of hops,
the preparation of malt and the brew
inc of the famous Pilsner and other
beers. Both the raw materials and
the finished products have always been
exported in large quantities. An
Industry that may seem in way
striking contrast to that of brewing,
IS the sale of waters from the famed
springs of the new republic. Bottllng
mineral water may not sound ike
big industry but the mineral waters
of the Bohemian and Moravian health
resorts are widely sold. One peculiar
thing in travelling in Europe is that
On the restaurant cars one Is forcen