Show BOHEMIA LAND OF PATRIOTS popular idea concerning the country and its it people has been far from the tha truth when shakespeare wrote of the 1118 seacoast aen coast of bohemia he showed no cheer fuller disregard of tact fact than most of us now do when we think of that richly storied country as a land of gypsies forever bent upon gay or adventure bohemian has haa stood for many an aa age as 99 an appe appellation ila for carefree wanderers yet as a originally applied by the trench it probably referred to the expatriated disciples of the bohemian martyr john huss HUBS spiritual and patriotic fervor rather than lightheartedness are the traditional marks of this people who after long generations of subjection to touton austria are coming into their own bohemia was the home hom is of the czech for hundreds of years year beaw germanic invaders broke in groft apon its happy freedom as an early indeed as a the sixth century before christ the czecho ciechi love of country and of liberty and their sense of slavic kinship with their oppressed slovak brethren dwelling near by never died or dimmed despite tyranny and persecution they have bayst clung to pride in their past and to hope hep for their future they have cherished their language their literature and customs their common falth faith and ideals atlanta journal |