Foreign Language Press Service

When John D. Shoop, superintendent of the Chicago schools, was asked last night whether he is willing to take steps to remove the obnoxious article about the German Kaiser from the school books, he answered that nothing could be done. "We cannot be sentimental in this matter," he said.

Mayor Thompson may feel gratified with the behavior of the School Board appointed by him. The Board, like the Mayor, is avoiding everything that might possibly hurt the feelings of the Germans, here and abroad, and it is striving to show that Chicago really is "the sixth largest German city i

There are not too many citizens of Chicago who can boast of a record in private as well as in public life that is without the slightest blemish..... Our Czech community in Chicago possesses men like these, and is justly proud of them. Our Czech community knows these men, and it also knows tha

The Beseda J. V. Fric, a club with Socialistic tendencies, but also active in Czech nationalistic affairs, has taken upon its shoulders the task of supplying Czech prisoners of War with reading matter. At the same time it is bending its efforts toward the acquisition of clothing for our desti

The quarterly meeting of the United Czech Building and Loan Association of Chicago was held here yesterday afternoon. Mr. J. L. Novák presided. After the routine business had been taken care of, the chairman reported the results of a survey of the membership and the financial status

The Chicago School Board, which is controlled by Mayor Thompson, had to submit to the pressure of public opinion, finally. It has administered a regular "kick" to His Majesty from the House of Hohenzollern by banning the page containing the Kaiser story from the schoolbooks. This vi

The Bohemian Review, a monthly printed in the English language and published in Chicago by the Czech National Alliance, is very carefully edited by Dr. Jaroslav Smetanka; it is in high favor with the American newspapers, which frequently reprint articles from it, or give them a friendly comme

Among the officers selected to be instructors at Camp Rockford, Illinois, is one of our Chicago Czech fellow-countrymen, Jan [John] F. Zajicek, captain in the United States Army. It is said that he is the only Czech promoted to the rank in the recently established officers' camps. He has had

The Czech community of Chicago can justly boast of a goodly number of men who have become prosperous businessmen, though they had to start with small means.....There are, however, some among them who deserve special mention. Emanuel J. Petru, merchant, is known all over the United S

In every State and City of the United States, preparations are being made for collections for the soldiers who are in the trenches abroad, and also those just leaving for the battlefields. The men are fighting for democracy and offering their lives so that militarism will be beaten, and the s

Lectures on certain subjects are given and completed in the various classes established by the Czech branch of the American Red Cross. They will be repeated and new students admitted. The lectures are delivered by physicians of our community, whereas the mere practical training is taken care

Otto Zeman, a registered pharmacist, owns a drug store at 3002 South Central Park Avenue in the Czech district called Czech California. He was drafted for service in the Thirty-third Division, but requested the Recruiting Commission to exempt him on the ground that he is the only druggist in

At this time when the recruiting stations are completing their work, a report regarding the stations located in predominantly Czech districts may be opportune. Recruiting division number eighty-three is almost exclusively managed by Czech-Americans. The chairman of its recruiting co

The regular classes of the Czech liberal schools will begin September 4. [The schools are maintained by an organization which conducts them on a free religionist (rationalist) basis as differentiated from parochial or sectarian schools. No religious services are held or prescribed.]

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Alderman John Toman is back from Boston, Mass., where he and other members of the City Council license committee studied conditions of the saloon business. He voiced his admiration for the manner in which it was handled in that city, and expressed his earnest desire to see a similar system es

Czech-American art has been augmented by a new unit, a young artist to whom connoisseurs and mature professionals predict a brilliant future. The interesting feature of this news item lies in the fact that the young artist in question was, so to say, an unknown quantity recently. A few cartoo

Moaning cries for help are reaching us from our Czech brethren who are fighting in the ranks of the French army, in whose service they enlisted as volunteers to prove their attachment for the French nation, and to help destroy the murderers of our nation, the Germans. The majority of the Czec

About two months ago, we called the attention of our readers to the newly formed band which consists of Czech-American musicians. This body known by the name of "Ceska Kapela" [Czech band], offered its services to Uncle Sam and was accepted. It functions as the military band of the Thirty-eig

The exclusion of the German language as a subject in our public schools probably will be realized, and there is little doubt that the majority of the populace will be in accord with the measure. The only question is the attitude taken toward it by Mayor Thompson, head of the "sixth largest Ge

The ideas which guided President wilson in his proclamation against Germany, and which he emphasized in his answer to the Pope's peace proposals, do not represent simply a performance of official routine business. -They are documents to which a great historic significance will be attached. No