The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Making friends among Americans

MAKING FRIENDS AMONG AMERICANS.

One of the principal duties of the diplomatic representative of the Czechoslovak republic is to make addresses at various more or less official occasions. Charles Pergler, the present commissioner, happens to be a highly gifted public speaker and is constantly in demand, addressing congresses, chambers of commerce and mass meetings.

Another speaker who is doing effective work to make friends for the new liberated nation is Charles M. Atherton. Mr. Atherton was until recently a Y. M. C. A. worker in the Second Czechoslovak Regiment in Russia, he returned to this country for medical treatment, but is now able to make addresses on the romantic adventures of the small Czechoslovak Army in Siberia. His talks are given under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. in military camps and being accompanied with excellent and unique slides arouse much interest and sympathy for the brave fighters in the Urals. Mr. Atherton is also preparing a book on the same subject, and expects to give a course of addresses in various colleges.

Under the auspices of the New York City Board of Education Mrs. Anna V. Čapek is engaged in giving illustrated lectures in the various public schools of New York City. She has a number of beautifully colored slides, showing the best scenic and architectural gems of Bohemia, and being an accomplished musician she adds to her descriptive lecture samples of Bohemian folk songs. If we could have more competent lectures who would cover the country as New York City is covered, every one in America would soon know something of the new republic in Central Europe and Bohemia would be loved in America as much as America is loved in Prague.