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two SLOVAK countrymen From kritpina. 



Photograph by Dr. V. Sixta and Son 

 CZECHOSLOVAKIA 



The honest)- of the Slovak peasant is proverbial, his home bank usually being willing 

 to lend him money, even to go to America, knowing that he or his family will somehow manage 

 to liquidate the debt. Usually the immigrant to America sends back home as much as a whole 

 family makes in Slovak-land. No wonder America seems a wage-earner's paradise! 



