Show THE CZECHS recent dispatches reporting attempted uprisings among the radical element clement elet clet men t tn in czechoslovakia and statements ments s that a stronger and stronger enmity toward the german inhabitants Is being shown on nil all sides by tile the cachs czechs and slovaks center interest once more on this newly created central european republic that was carved after the war from germany land and austria hungary the following description of the czecho czechs Is based on a communication to tile the national geographic society from prof ales hrdlicka A 1500 yearlong year long lire life and death struggle with the german race which surrounded them from the north west and south with a near burial within the austrian empire for the last three centuries failed to destroy or break the spirit of tile the little nation of czecha czecho or bohemians Bohem ians they are the vve westernmost branch of the slays slav their name being derived according to t tradition from that of oe a noted ancestral chief the term bohemia was TH applied to tile the country probably during the roman times and was waa derived like that of bavaria Bavar ln from the boll who for some time before the christian era occupied or claimed parts parag of these regions nature has favored old bohemia an important part of czechoslovakia perhaps more mi than any other oher part of europe its ita mil mall Is so fertile ind and climate so favorable that more than half of f the country Is cultivated and produces richly in its mountains at al moat every useful metal and mineral except tilt salt Is 13 to be found it Is the geographical center of the european continent equally distant from the baltic Adri adriatic atle end north seas reas and though by mountains Is so easily accessible because of tile the v valleys 11 of the danube and the elbe rivera rivas era that it has tia served in history a as the avenue of many armies annles besides bohemia the czechs czecho occupy Ifor moravia avla and nd adjacent territory in silesia both formerly parts of austria hungary the slovaks who show merely dialectic differences from the abl czecho czechs extend from moravia eastward over most of what was formerly northern hungary the czech Is kind and with a stock of native natho humer burner lie ile Is musical les joves songs poetry art nature fellowship the other sex lie he ts Is an talent latent thinker and restless seeker of truth of learning but no apt schemer ire he Is ambitious and covetous of freedom freedor a in the broadest sense but tendencies to domineering oppression power by force over others tire are foreign to his nature ha ardently searches for god and Is inclined to be deeply but la is impatient of dogma dogin ft as of all other undue restraint ile he nifty be opinionated stubborn but Is happy to accept facts and recognize true superiority ile HP Is easily hurt anil and does not forget the injury will ft light but la Is not lastingly revengeful or vicious ile ha Is not cold calculating thin lipped nor again its as as 03 the ho pol iole or the southern slav but Is sympathetic and full of trust and through tills this often open to imposition ills endurance and bravery in war tor for a cause which he be approved wore were proverbial as was also ills his hospitality in pence ile he Is often highly capable in inn junges ganges science literary ami technical education and Is inventive as well na as industrial but not commercial imag inactive artistic creative rather than inclined at times to melancholy brooding blooding pessimism ile he Is 13 yet set deep deel lat at heart forever buoyant optimistic hopeful hopeful not of possessions however ho eer but rif nt human happiness and of tile the freedom all and 1 I future golden age of not lot merely his own but all people |