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Drawn by A. H. Bumstead 

 A MAP OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA WHOSE PLACE) NAMES PRESENT SERIOUS PROBLEMS EOR 



THE STUDENT 



Many of this new republic's cities and rivers are known to American readers solely by 

 their German names. But the Czechs are anxious to have the world know their towns by 

 their geographical ''maiden names," so all official Czechoslovak maps published in the home 

 country designate Prague as Praha, Pressburg as Bratislava, Brunn as Brno, Marienbad as 

 Marianske Lazne, Karlsbad as Karlovy Vary, Ungvar as Uzhorod, and Pilsen as Plzen. 

 Even the familiar province name of Ruthenia becomes the difficult Podkarpatska Rus. From 

 northwest to southeast, Czechoslovakia has a length of six hundred miles. When its canal 

 system is completed it will have access to the North, Baltic, and Black Seas through the 

 Elbe, Oder, and Danube rivers. The Oder, which is not shown on this map, is to be con- 

 nected with the Danube by a canal running the width of Moravia and entering the latter 

 river at Pressburg. (See also the New Map of Europe, issued as a supplement with this 

 number of The Geographic.) 



Czechoslovakia has enough glory to go 

 around. Her present task is to divide 

 this glory a little more equally, so that 

 the soldier of fortune will have some- 

 thing beside his medaled uniform, and 

 the Magyarized Slovak farmer, recently 

 released from Hungarian influences, will 

 take a justifiable pride in being a citizen 

 of a fine, free race. 



CZECHS AND SLOVAKS UNITED BY 

 OPPRESSION 



For three centuries Bohemian national- 

 ism, fearfully oppressed, cherished the 

 memory of a national defeat at White 

 Mountain. 



While the Czechs felt oppression from 

 the north, the Slovaks were being ex- 

 ploited by a hated autocracy and cultoc- 



racy to the south ; but as they faced their 

 foes they drew near to each other. 



One who has known the whole-hearted- 

 hospitality, the intelligence, the artistic 

 sense, and the downright democracy of 

 the Czechs cannot but echo the greeting 

 and farewell which he hears on every 

 side— "Na zdar!" 



Slowly steaming up the charming 

 Moldau, with a military band playing on 

 the upper deck, we looked out to see a 

 picture of rare grace. Two little peasant 

 girls, hearing the music, had dropped 

 their rakes and were dancing lightly 

 along the bank, keeping perfect time to 

 the music. As the music stopped, they 

 waved their hands to us and shouted, 



"Success to 



vou 



I" 



and our reply to them 



was our wish for Czechoslovakia — "Na 

 zdar !" "To you success !" 



INDEX FOR JULY-DECEMBER, 1920, VOLUME READY 

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