SOME INTERESTING ITEMS.
V. A . Geringer, United States trading commissioner in Prague, was received by President Masaryk upon his arrival in Prague. He has opened an office and is now engaged in compiling a handbook giving all necessary information to American businessmen desirous of establishing trade with the Czechoslovak Republic.
Rudolph Kohlíček-Hartwald of Cicero, Ill., a Czechoslovak legionary ,is now serving as Y. M. C. A. secretary in Prague. A number of Czech Presbyterian ministers from the United States are also serving their people through the Imka, as the organization is known in Bohemia; among them are the Rev. Ludvik Burian of New York, the Rev. Francis Souček of Chicago, and the Rev. W . Regnemer of Mingo Junction, O.
At the forty first annual congress of the American Library Association, held at Asbury Park, Mrs. Anna V. Čapek delivered an interesting address on “The culture which the Czechoslovak and his child contribute to America.” She emphasized the point that social workers, librarians and others who come in direct and daily contact with the immigrant and his children cannot fully understand their psychology, unless they know something of the history and past associations of the people they deal with. Her arguments found sympathetic appreciation from some 300 children’s librarians who heard her speak.
Mrs. Clara V. Winlow, author of several of the My Little Cousin series published by C. L. Page & Co. of Boston, has been active in Los Angelas lecturing on Czechoslovaks. She delivered more than twenty addresses before the University Club, Public Library Staff, Library School and prominent clubs of that city. She also arranged an interesting and successful exhibit of Czechoslovak art, embroideries etc. Mrs. Winlow is sister of Mrs. Anna V. Čapek, co -author of Bohemian Bibliography.
University of California has a Slavic department, the head of which is Prof. Geo. Rapall Noyes; he teaches Russian and Bohemian and lectures on various Slav literatures. Alexander S. Kann is instructor in Russian and Milutin Krunich is instructor in Serbian. There is also a Slavic Society at the university, meeting even two weeks for discussion of men and events in Slav nations. Phyllis Modjeska Harrington is president, and Lydia Marie Swoboda is vicepresident.
John Pešek, Bohemian heavy-weight wrestler of Shelton, Neb., defeated Wladko Zbyszko after a two hour tussle in Gordon, Neb., on June 25. Pešek thus gets in line for world championship.
