Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — LANGUAGE OF LOVERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LANGUAGE OF LOVERS

Lithuanians In America. The Lithuanians In Europe number about 8,000.000. Scattered through the Baltic provinces and in various other parts of the world, including the United States, there are another 1,500,000, making a total Lithuanian world population of some 4,000,000. Nearly a million are In this country. The 1,000,000 Lithuanians In this country are chiefly workers In the mines, factories and stock yards. They are known as among the most industrious and law-abiding of our foreignborn citizens. More than 80,000 of them are now fighting In the United States forces overseas, and 50 per cent of these are volunteers. The Lithuanians will not form a part of. the new Slavic legion, which Is to Include Poles, Russians and other Slavic peoples. They are not Slavs, but from a race apart, together with the Letts and Livonians. Their aim, according to their leaders, is “an independent Lithuania and a confederation of all the small countries along the Baltic peopled by their race.”

She—Oo is me? He—Oo’s my ’lttle snow-white dove.