CZECHOSLOVAKIA 



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Photograph by Dr. V. Sixta and Son 

 SLOVAK GIRLS OF THE VALLEY OF THE VAG (WAAG) , CZECHOSLOVAKIA (SEE PAGE 1 49) 

 The town of Pistvan, of which these young women are natives, possesses mud and 



sulphur baths which attract thousands of people annually 

 distinguished for its ruins of feudal castles. 



The whole country around is 



the foremen in the region were Hunga- 

 rians and they hired their fellow-coun- 

 trymen, thus forcing the Ruthenians to 

 become farm laborers in Hungary. Now 

 both foremen and laborers are Ru- 

 thenians. 



In spite of all the optimism one can 

 muster, however, one cannot ignore the 

 fact that here, as elsewhere in post-war 

 Europe, boundary lines have been erected 

 which violate the principles of geogra- 

 phy, and Podkarpatska Rus probably has 

 difficult days ahead. 



In Uzhorod we saw an interesting side- 

 light on what one writer has called "the 

 United Hates of Central Europe." About 

 all the attractions that end-of-the-earth 

 town could offer on our first day there 

 were a theater, a cabaret, a moving-pic- 

 ture show, and a football game. We 

 voted for football and saw an excellent 

 game between the Uzhorod team and a 

 Hungarian eleven from Budapest. 



The Hungarians won, and in the din- 

 ing-room that evening these huskies cele- 

 brated their victory by singing some of 



their national songs. Can you imagine 

 the Wisconsin pigskin artists sitting 

 down in the main restaurant of Ann Ar- 

 bor the night of their victory over Michi- 

 gan and singing songs of triumph? Yet 

 the audience in Uzhorod not only allowed 

 their late enemies in war and sport to 

 live, but roundly applauded their singing 

 as they had their play. At the same time 

 an eleven composed of Hungarian pickets 

 along the Danube came across the bridge, 

 with its barbed wire entanglements 

 marking the Czech-Hungarian boundary, 

 and played football with the Czechish 

 soccerites. 



POLITICIANS ARE ATTEMPTING TO PER- 

 PETUATE RACIAL riATREDS 



If an American thinks that many of 

 the European boundary squabbles are 

 petty, he has only to look back to the 

 time when Ohio and Michigan mobilized 

 their militias over the question of their 

 boundary line and discover why it is that 

 the members of the Michigan legislature 

 from the northern peninsula go through 



