The Saturday evening post . pppPPP CkmldliL cttfcSCf*,FILLER Jountain fPxm lluy today, from leading dealers, a Conklin Pencil. and tip the new freedom. They see the same oldtowns and the same old buildings and —worst jolt of all—the same old officials, inmany cases, who ran things under Austro-Hungarian rule. There are the same land-lords and merchants and usurers to takethe money of the peasants; and prices,instead of staying where they should havestayed, are the only things in sight thathave shown any freedom in their move-ments. They have ascended miles in theair. A highly educated Sl
The Saturday evening post . pppPPP CkmldliL cttfcSCf*,FILLER Jountain fPxm lluy today, from leading dealers, a Conklin Pencil. and tip the new freedom. They see the same oldtowns and the same old buildings and —worst jolt of all—the same old officials, inmany cases, who ran things under Austro-Hungarian rule. There are the same land-lords and merchants and usurers to takethe money of the peasants; and prices,instead of staying where they should havestayed, are the only things in sight thathave shown any freedom in their move-ments. They have ascended miles in theair. A highly educated Slovak who had beenthe editor of a Slovak newspaper in Amer-ica for eighteen years commented on thesituation frankly. The Slovak who comes back, said he,finds these same old wrongs in existenceand longs to right them. He longs to ridhis country of the landlords and the usu-rers; he longs to break them over his knee;but he hasnt the endurance to stick it , he looks for the first hole inthe wall, and when he
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