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Show CZECH WITH A SCOTCH NAME Editor of New. York Hlas Lldu De- ecended From Rob Roy' i ;, Clansmen. If Harry Lauder were to read lhat ft JIacGregor was one of the leaders of Czecho-SIovaklan thought In AmcrIcn he would doubtle3S conclude that we printer man had pled the type. Just the same It's a fact that the Patronymic at II C. Gregr, editor of the New Ioik Bohemian dally, Hlas Lldu, Is nothing less than a Czecho-Slovak remnant or MacGregor. . And the answer la that one of Uie editor's liveliest ancestors was an adventurous ad-venturous Scot of the great Rob Roy a clan who found his way to Bohemia and stayed there. The real Bohemia of New York, quite unknown to the pallid Boheml-. Boheml-. Rns who criticize life from the elevation eleva-tion of a Greenwich village table d note, lies In the Seventies, between Second avenue and the East river. Since the war Its Inhabitants call themselves Czccho-Slovaklans. - Editor Gregr, whose forefathers forgot for-got to hand him down a Scotch accent, and who wouldn't know how to say "Hoot, monl" either In Scotch or Czecho-Slovak. Is a son of a renowned Bohemian patriot who served for BO years as a parliamentary representative representa-tive of his people In the legislature of their Austro-Hungarlan oppressors. The editor himself Is a profound student stu-dent of international affairs and Is looked upon as a sage by the 700,000 Czecho-Slovaklans In America. ew York Sun. |