The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30
TURKISH PROGRESS
Is BLOW TO CzECHS
Abolition of Fee Hits I'm
portaat Industry.

washington. Nv hen news reached
the world that Turkey had abolished
The fez 1t created mild interest.
That Is, the interest was mid ID
nearly all the world except In d little
Cxechoslovakian village In tho BenmsF
Wald, where It stirred up anazenaant
instead. Now the people Of Strakonstx
have protested against Turkeys ahan-
Comment Of Cts traditional headgear
because u cripples their industry Of
supplying fezzes to Turkey.
'eThe predicament Of Strakonitz
1.-THE Cxechs spell 1t Strakonicel az
fords a falling crOsssectfon OF
CxechosIovakian industry" says bull
letin from the headquarters Of the Ms
tional Geographic society in Wash
ington.
"Long before Czechoslovakia be-
came an independent state It had the
habit Of making things for other ma
lions. When the buying power OF Eu-
rope ahrank after the war. Czeckc-
siovakians were forced afar for mar
kets as they never were before. The
Yankees of Europe as they have been
called, have been doing business with
the Yankees OF America. What worn-
an Ia not familiar with Cxechosiova
khan giazs beads from Gablonzs with
Czech embroidery and Bohemian
glasswarel
''StrakonitE. Gallons, KadnO, Prib-
ram, Brunn and other manufacturing
towns are In the western end Of the
country. Cxechoslovakia. at arst.
seemed an awkwardly long name, bat
Il helps one remember the geography
Of the nation. Czech IS a short, COM
pdht name, and likewise the western
or Czech, or Bohemian section, % as
compact as box Slovalxia stretches
out On the tongue and geographically
tapers out along the Carpathian range
like scarf trailing behind the Boz
hemian box.
THE edges Of the box are moun-
tain ranges and Strakonitz lies near
the south wall. Another way OF giv-
Ing its position Is to say thst Strako-
nitz lies half way between Ceske Blu
dejovice and Plzen. A still better way
Is to say that It lies half way betweon
Budweis and PiIsen, for the German
! spellings Of those towns are far more
familiar to an American than the
Cxeeh srellings.
veIssoad Act Grieved pIIaen.
s@Th0 geTrow caused Strakonitz BY
the Turkish edict against the fen Il
: -. a. a.. hv,,frnk 1,enn.2a. Al - evwRn@
Piisen faced because Of the United
States declaration OF prohibitiOn. PHI
Beu's municipal brewery Is the largest
In C8echeslovakia and one Of the lerg-
ast IN the world. It's product goes to
nearly every land. This brewery b q
community project operated by few
hundred house owners Of the town.
while the textile industries, In
Guiding the hat making Of the Strako-
nf31 district, ARE extensive, even a
slight inquiry into the Czechoslova-
khan trade reveals that Bohemia is es-
pecially dedicated to beverages. First
there Is Hama (Prossnitzl In Morayia,
betwean Bohemia and Sloyakia, ia
nous for It's barley malt, which ID
shipped all over the world. Then
thers Is Saax (zatec) In the far west
Of Bohemia, famous for Its hops,
which are shipped to Pilsen and to
Germany. There also are che numer-
Gus breweries. And finally there is
| the extensive glass industry centered
In CabionS (Jahlonec) for fancy ware
and Teplitx (Teplicel, Prague (PKa-
ha). etc, for palmer ware.
"PIisen, StrRkonstz and Budwels are
also within the chief health springs
district OF southern Bohemia, one Of
the most famous OF Europe In past
ages the country was literally sprin-
kied with small volcanic peaks. Vol
canic activity has survived Only IA
the warm health springs. such as
Ksrlovy Vary. better known as Karls-
bad, and Mar Lame. better known as
MarienbaG.''