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waiting until future generations to make their dreams come true. So I am for Wilson, honestly and enthus iastically. N. D. Cochran. BRITISH- CENSORSHIP. British censorship now is going to forbid the International News Service from using the cables and news agencies in England. They think that because some paper prints the news regard less of-the British censors that it is a violation of England's power. They seem to think that they can levy their rights upon American in stitutions in order that their lying censorship may be able to doctor the news so that we Americans are to believe that England is fighting a war of justice and that the Germans are barbarians, etc. Do I wonder that some papers slam England when it comes to censorship? C. P. Lowe. - CONCERNING BOHEMIANS. In your statement of the 18th inst you remarked that some of the readers use your Forum columns as much as three times a week. I have been one of the offenders and I trust that this will not happen again; I will try to reserve at least one day a month to write "a few lines, but will not indulge in personalities. I will try to make my letters concise, but this one I trust you will print in full. I come from a settlement of Bo hemians, and as I regard The Forum as the best medium to express one's opinion, I take it for granted that I will be understood. Most people state their side of the story and to this they have their right, but why don't our Bohemian friends try their best to propagate their language after being persecuted so many centuries. The history of Bohemia is one of tears. But today we are considered among the cultured na tions, although not having a self governed country. I am an Ameri can, born and raised in this glorious land of plenty, and I am proud of it. I am not a hyphen, and stars and stripes are my emblem, but I write this for the information of the many misinformed who take the-'Bohemi-ans for wanderers and gypsies. We are today represented in every pro fession and politically in almost every department, from U. S. con gressman to city councilman. I do hope that I will live to that day when the Americans will have a better and fairer opinion of us. I wish to ex press my thanks to Frank Smith for his contributions. W. Zelnicka, Jr. DECEIVED AND WRONGED. I am a deceived man; in fact, a wrong ed man. I have been going along comfortably and feeling quite pleased with my little learning and reading, when along comes a "Forum vriter and spoils it all. He informs us that there is intelli gence back of a tree and proves it by several citations. Here pre 'been flattering myself by believing that I was the intelligence back of my trees. , Ipray them and trim them and I built a boat out of a couple of them, and as for resting my eyes on the leaves I never could risk that They wobble so, my eyes might roll off. He then tells us about the gasoline engine, that it is necessary to think about it and plan before one can be built I thought they mined them or caught them with a hook and line. But most startling is his informa tion about the planets and that this earth of ours is not the only one. Spellbound I've watched the beau tiful "Pleiades rising through the mellow shades, glittering like a swarm of fire flies tangled on a sil ver braid," and marveled at stupen dous Arcturus. who exceeds our sun in volume 275,000 times and who would melt the earth like a snowflake if he changed places with our sun. T Qvntt ninr "Astronomers tell us that all these stars which we see are planets not unlike our own earth." I weep. My books must all be -;it -.--a m. j...A,a6felaaHcfcfcifcJidfai