The Coolidge examiner., 1933-10-20

coal cars from the south. One ship
from New Orleans unloaded 1850
bales of American cotton in a single
day.
Naturally, the Poles hold the Po-
lish Corridor to be essential to their
very existence. The builder of the
new port was cheered loud and long
during his address at last summers
sea festival when he said: "Our an
cestors did not come to this Polish
shore either as guests or immi-
grants; they did not here establish
themselves by the grace or through
the protection of anyone; here we
stand on our own soil, rooted in our
own past, oftentimes heroic and vic
torious, sometimes cruel and bitter.
Here we will remain and achieve our
destiny"
Sheltered from Baltic storms by
the sand spit of Hell, Gdynia, al
though an artificial port, is well pro
tected and capable of almost unlim-
tied expansion. A school for the
merchant marine, a huge modern
post office. through which all pos
sible foreign mail is routed, and the
shipping offices connected with Po-
lands growing fleet are prominent
along the shore. Modern machinery
is used in transshipping the exports,
principally coal, lumber, zinc, bacon,
eggs. sugar and butter, and the i'm
ports of foodstuffs, cotton, metals,
and machines.
Lowicz is Colorful.
To the photographer the Gdynia of
today is less picturesque than the
barren. breezy beach dotted with
Kashube fisher folk, and the real
treat for the eye and lens is Lowicz,
capital of peasant Poland. No lens
hunter was ever tempted by finer
promises of Photographic game than
in Lowicz.
To be chosen from the ever-mov-
ing ranks of women In spotless ker-
chiefs, rainbow skirts billowing wide
over heavy petticoats and high-laced
boots might be an honor, however
awkwardly phrased by the eager
photographer. but to accept the in
vitation would be to subject oneself
to the jollying which familiar friends
can make most embarrassing in the
presence of strangers.
There is no lack of cordiality on
Sunday as the bright parade leaves
the abbey church. The broad-faced
women of the fields gayly smile into
the lens so long as they can keep
moving and hence not reveal any in
dividual vanity concerning their un-
questioned attraction.
Beautlfied by splendid parks and
gardens, furnished with wide ave-
nues and broken by large squares,
across which the massive piles OF
Warszawa (Warsaw) rise In solemn
dignity, the Polish capital always
seems a dull background for the ir-
repressible Polish spirit; yet one can
still say, as did Napoleon. WARSAW
is always amusing"
Until one has seen the Polish thea
ter he does not realize the variety
and beauty of the modern stage. Po-
lands romantic poets and dramatists
of eighty years ago. such as Adam
Mickiewicz, Zygmunt Krasinski, and
Juljusz Slowacki, either wrote in ex-
lie or were subject to a sitting CEN
sorship.
Interest in America.
True, to the Poles themselves even
strictly censored dramas were
packed with thrills, for behind in
nocuous allegories they sensed the
rebellion of the Polish spirit against
oppression. But with the coming of
freedom Polish drama developed a
catholicity of interest and dramatic
method unsurpassed in modern Eu-
rope. Street Scene" Broadway"
and Anna Christie" have all been
admirably presented in Poland, and
there is a keen interest in all things
American.
Partly this is due to the presence
of many Poles in America. but much
of it dates back to the days of our
Revolution. in which the Poles took
a keen interest and in some cases
personal part. Today one can tel
ephone to Poland from any city in
the United States, but in the days of
the Thirteen Colonies the American
Revolution was physically far away
and England ruled the seas.
Poland not only observed the
Washington Bicentennial in Poland,
but also, on May 3. Polish national
holiday and anniversary of the pre-
mature Constitution of 1871, praised
by Edmund Burke, Poland issued q
30-grozy stamp picturing Washing
ton in the center with KosciusZko
and Pulaski.