The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Telling the American people who we are

TELLING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO WE ARE.

The good work of telling the American people who the Czechoslovaks are and what they stand for is being kept up. In addition to the activities of Mr. Pergler, men and women of Bohemian descent give much of their time freely to boost the people of whom they are so proud. One may mention here Prof. B. Shimek who in spite of ill health addresses frequently American audiences in the Central Western states on the subject of the Czechoslovak Republic. In Chicago Prof. J. J. Zmrhal gives lectures on the same topic in the public evening schools. In the East Jeremiah L. Trnka, one of the original four-minute men, has worked unceasingly for two years to make the word Czechoslovak familiar in the large Jersey suburbs of New York, while Mr. E. F. Prantner of Albany publishes many articles dealing with this topic in the New York papers. On the Pacific Miss Madeline Veverka, assistant superintendent of schools at Los Angeles, gives addresses in schools and clubs about the land of her fathers.

It is to be devoutly hoped that in the course of the present generation through efforts like these all of the one hundred and ten millions of America will learn to know who the Czechoslovaks are.