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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph from Maynard Owen Williams 

 A BOHEMIAN TEAMSTER OF PII.SEN (PI,ZEN), CZECHOSLOVAKIA 

 The Bohemian driver is very fond of trappings for the harness of his horse. 



Milwaukee on their way to Lansing. 

 Propaganda bureaus are doing their best 

 to perpetuate hate and a paper shortage 

 in all the countries of central Europe; 

 but if the politicians aren't" careful the 

 people are going to fraternize until it will 

 take a lot of persuading to get another 

 big army into the field. 



DANGERS ARE ECONOMIC RATHER 

 POLITICAL 



THAN 



Austria-Hungary was a patchwork of 

 peoples, but the same is true to a lesser 



degree of every present state from the 

 Baltic to the TEgean. 



With the best of intentions, the newly 

 formed governments cannot function 

 without hurting the feelings of such of 

 the minorities as were formerly of the 

 ruling class. There is bound to be some 

 friction. If those who were subject to 

 autocratic power only a few months ago 

 are now humming "I've got my captain 

 working for me now," it is not to be ex- 

 pected that the erstwhile captain is very 

 enthusiastically applauding the effort. 



