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Show 1 CZECH WITH A SCOTCH NAME Editor of New York Hlas Lldu Dc scended From Rob Roy's Clansmen. i If Harry I.nudcr were to rem! tbnt n MntOregor was one of the lenders of Czocbo-Slovnklnn thought In Amerlco he would douhtlciis conclude that the printer iiinn lind pled the type. Just thp wmie It's n fact that the patronymic of 11. C. Gregr, editor of the New York Ilohemlnn ilally, Hlns Mdu, Is nothing less than a Czecho-Slonk remnant of MiuGregor. And the answer Is that one of the editor's Ihellist nnccstors was nn adventurous ad-venturous Scot of the great Rob Roy's clnn who found his way to Ilohcmln nnd stayed there. The real llohciuln of New York, ltiit unknown to the pallid Hoheml-nns Hoheml-nns who crltlcbe life from the elevn-linn elevn-linn of a Greenwich village tnblc d'hote, llfi In the Seventies, between Second avenue and the Hast river. Slncu the wnr Its Inhnhltniils cull themselves (Vedin-Sloiiiklnns. IMIlor Gregr, whoe forefntliers forgot for-got to hnnd hi in ilnwii n Scotch ncccnt. nnd who wouldn't know how to say "Ilnot. monl" either In Scotch or (Vet hu Slovak, Is n son of a renowned Itnheinliiii patriot who servrd for CO enw n n parliamentary representative representa-tive of his people In tho legislature of llielr AiiNtro-Hungarlnn oppressors. The editor himself Is n profound student stu-dent of International affairs and Is looked upon as n sago by the 700,00) Crechn-Slovaklnns In America. New-York New-York Sun. |