The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07
By FRANK O. CARPENTER

United States"
 This was my answer so a well dressed, intelligent looking young man while we waited together in front of the cashiers window of tho largest bank in Warsaw. The man replied:
 'Washington Is not ths capital of the United States. Albany is the capital"
 'is that soY" said l.
 "Yes," was the reply. Tt was moved some years ago. I know Washington was the capital, but AL bany Is the capital now. have 2 friend just come from America and he knows. He told mo so."
 ''I think you are miBtaken." said ]. "I live in Washington and our President lives there. His name Is Coolidge. Tho capital has not been moved. Albany Is the capital of
 No! think 1t is the capital of the United States. I think you aTe mistaken, but you possibly may be right"
 Some Facts About Poland.
 This conversation showw what one Pols knows of our country. doubt not many of us have quito eS hazy ideas tf Poland. What do you know about it7
 Do you know that Poland Is one of the biggest countries in Europe? II is bigger than Norway, or Italy, or Great Britain and Ireland and only Russia, Sweden, Germany, and Spain surpass 1t in size. It Is as big as Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia and Maine put together.
 Do you know that Poland has more chan three times as many people as New England. and more than twice as many as New York state with New Jersey added thereto? It has in round numbers from 2S,ooe.oo0 to SO00o0o0, or about one-fourth as many as all the people under the American flag.
 America are more than &.eo0,eo0 and that for a decade prior to the World war these Poles were sending back homo more than s4o,00o,ooo a yearf
 Do you know that Poland Is more thickly populated than almost any part of our country? It has more persons to the square milo than New York state. including New York city It Is a land of big towns and numer- = our villages. It has more than oo cities which exceed 2b.0o0 in popu- lation. Warsaw. the capital. is all most twice as big as washin cton. Iodz, the great textile center, out ranks Cincinnati and Lemburg has more citizens than Omaha CrAcow, the old capital, is fast approachlng 100000, and there are a haf oozen other cities which will soon have AVT,oOy Do you know that those PCfes were once more powerful than the Rus sians or Germans. and that they nac o a sort of republican government Svs years before we declared our inoS- nendence of England? In the miodLo ages they were everywhere noted fer their civilization and culture
 A Roman Catholic PeopIs.
 wonder if you realize what kind of people are the Poles on to1ay. You have probably assooiatSo ,a Hne.n Catholic Russia, but the majority or tbem are neither ProtestantB 1or Creek Catholics They are menp CTS 2 of the Roman Catholic church ano 2 they use the Latin alphabet insteao nf the Greek. The now conga tuti on SacIaraa Roman Catholicism to be tne Sominant religion. and cardinals ap- pointed by Rome have their neao- ouarters in Warsaw and Poson- Inoso Poles are Slavs. and l have a1wSys associated the slavs and the othcr neoples of the Baltic with the Or!no- SoT church, This is not S0. The finns are Luth erans and % are most aF tha Esthonians and LAtvt1ns. Inc Torwegiana and Swedes recognize I,utheranism as their stace reAslon and that faith was introouceo in.o Denmark shortly after Columbus stsrted ont to carry Catholicism to the far west. Today there are morS Roman Catholics on the borders o1 Russia than Gresk Catholics In Inc game region.
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 Do xou know that Poland Is also . I.nd of the Jews 1t has thirty times aa many 1srAelitss as Palestine A' has more lows than Any other ooun- trv in Europe, and just. anous cro fifth of all the Jews on the 9iooe' The bulk of our Jews came run n Poland. There are . quarter oh = million Jews in Cnicaso' s0n cisyslsnd' risvy and In New York city fifteen TOT every one in the Holy Land. .-
 More than one-third of warsaw IN homnoaed of Jews. It has 6se synA- gogues and tho religion or its pSo- pie is more ancient than modern. tns city has large Jewish Qunseel nis ~s it's streets are thronged with people who look more like the typical Je" of inc stage than the Jew as we Know him The Polish Jew often wears th. old Jewish costume. Ho has 2 skull or fur cap. with no vlsor. anu a long black coat which buttons to the neck and falls almost 10 tne 
 Lars and a long, spiral curl unually hangs down out of his cap on eacn s,d. of his face in front or his ears This is according to the law 4aio down in Leviticus:
 Thou shalt not mar the corners o' thy beard" n. worshinper, who stand and wall out .ida the old wall of the Temple A. | Iarusalem. They are not attractlv' ana hava no resemblance to the wen dressed modern Jew Of the Aner iod q. citv. They came chiefly from spar and Germany, beginning hunoreo wears or so before Columbus ols- covered America, when they
 persecuted In these countries
 Poland welcomed all immi grants.
 Today the Jews swarm in everS town of this country. They do DIE mart of the business in Poland ano are Interested In all of tho big un' dertakings as well as the small ones In the past, every rich lanoowhoi had his Jew who manassd nls proP erty, buying and selling ana msh th, ing his bargains. The Jews are th' middle men of the new republic They do not take to farming and are essentially traders. l see Heorew f stores everywhere and the business signs are quite as frequently Hepre" as Polish. tics and they have DE part M the government. They have theli repre sentatives in parliament ana their own political parties. The or thodox party Is largely religious. US organ, the Jewish World, IS pup llshed in Yiddish and 1t has an enor- nous circulation. The Zionist party has its own schools and clubs. II
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