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ORGANISACNi ODBOR NAM JEDNOTY A OTAZKU jednoho bratra, kten ry byl na kadove °slave' v San Antonio, zdali rids ptiSti sjezd pkijrne nejake novoty, pokreil jsem rameny. A kdy se dotydnY bratr ptal dale, zdali bych osobne se pkimlouval o nektere zmeny nebo dopineni neaeho, co jeSte u Jednoty nemame, o prones1 jsem nahled, ae prospelo by nam, kdybychom si vybudovali lepSi organisadni odbor.

Slovo dalo' slovo, at z toho byla deli debata. Pkedne musime pkipustiti, ae organisaeni odbor u naai Jednoty mame jit od tech dob, kdy zatali jsme ziskavati nove eleny pomoci domacich organisatora. Je tomu jit hezka, kada rokii, kdy se konaly prvni pokusne schilze s temi, kdo se dobrovolne ptihlasili. Byla vypracovana pravidla, riltne druhy odmen a okrsky pro kaaleho organisatora. Byly proslovy a byly i hostiny. Byly plany takove a jine. Nektere se udrtely dodnes, jine se davno zapomnely. Byly naborove soutete, koupily se nekomu hodinky a jine odmeny, a davaly se tea penetite obnosy.

Byla organisaeni prate a byl organisadni odbor v jakesi neureite forme. Zkratka, byla snaha, abychom men domaci organisatory.

Maine je dosud. Jsou pod dohledem hlavniho pkedsedy naai Jednoty. V jeho zprave neni udano, kolik mistnich organisa.torii mame. Pochybuji, ae by podet jejich rnohl bYti uverejnen. Nekteki z nich jsou dosud poditani za organisatory, ae ziskali pouze jednoho elena v nekolika letech. Rovnet neni udano, kolik mame takovYch, kteri ziskaji a upiSi deset tisic nebo vice pojiSteni do roka.

Mame organisaani odbor, kterY byl vytvoten spoleenou snahou vice elenti Hlavni ntadovny. Na sjezdu v Corpus Christi bylo cele vedeni tohoto odboru pkedano do rukou aktivniho mistopkedsedy, a ye Fort Worth do rukou pkedsedy. Ve sve piedsjezdove zprave oznamuje ptedseda, ae naai organisatoki uclelali dobry kus prate. fteditele to podali surname: za Ityki roky 4,759 novYch elcnii. 8kocia, jen,

ae nebylo udano, kolik mistnich organisatodi melo na ziskani techto novYch clenu nejvetSi podil.

VSechno nasvedeuje, ae jsme na spra y -necst,abypkiSsjezdavlM zlepSeni v nakm orginisaenim odboru.

PtedsjezdovY stanovni vYbor jit vypracoval podrobny plan, dle nehot ma bYti stat rozdelen na sedm organisadnich distrikta. Zaroven stanovni vYbor odporutuje, aby byl ustanoven statni organisator.

Dale stanovni vYbor slibil, ae vypracuje nezavaznY a pokusnY plan, jak by se organisaeni prate mohla provadeti pomoci techto sedmi organisaenich distriktil, pod vedenim statniho organisatora a snad pomoci ustanovenYch distriktnich organisatorii.

Zajiste nikdo nepovatuje naS dosavadni organisadni odbor za dokonalY, ani za dotivotni praci nakho hlavniho piedsedy. Jemu • to bylo dano proto, 'te nebylo jine osoby, ktera by tuto zodpovednou praci konala. Snad nekdo tekne, ze stalo se to take proto, ae nebylo penez na statniho organisatora nebo te nebylo jineho, kdo by organisadni praci tak dobte rozumel.

Na techto dilvodech nebo onduvach je nee° pravdy. Nemuteme pkIrovnavat na§e domaci orga,nisatory k poj1§t'ujicim agenttim. Ani nag' statni organisator nemate bYti nekdo, koho bychom pfebrali od nektere obchodni pojiSt'ujici spoleenosti. Pomery a okolnosti u bratrske jednoty nejsou tytet jako u obchodni spoleenosti. Katda bratrska jednota vybira si svoje eleny. Ani my nebereme je Smahem.

NaSi domaci organisatoki nemohou jeti od farmy k fume, od domu k dotau, a za-, pisovati katdeho. Ad se nechceme liSiti od druhYch, jsme dosud spolkem zalotenYm eeskYmi imigranty a naai organisatoki museji znati obstojne eeskY i anglicky.

Lee v jednom ohledu 'name neco spoleeneho s pojik'ujicimi obchodnimi podniky: — prodavame pojiSteni a ziskavame dalSi. pojiStence. To znamend, ae bychom meli miti vice takovYch lidi na-

Sich elena, mluvicich dolake desky i anglicky — kteki by rozumeli tivotnimu poj gt'ovani Tedy nejen chut', eas nebo schopnost prodavati, ale tea dalAi kvalifikace..

Soudil bych, ae at bude ustanoven statni organisator, dojde i na, organisatorske kursy. Nebylo by radno, abychom se unahlili a jen Si fekli, ae budeme hledati statniho organisatora. Musime piece znati, jakou osobu hledame a Ake kvalifikace od neho potadujeme. Druhe bratrske spolky, ktere jit zdokonalily si svaj organisaani odbor, potaduji od svYch statnich a distriktnich organisator0, aby takovY aadatel se vyko.zal, te proSel jeden nebo dva nebo i vice organisaenich prodelal potadovane zkouSky s uspechem a dokazal, ae prodal jiz za tolik tolik tisic pojiSteni v ureitem ease. PodobnY zatateeni kurs, jakY je vypracovanY a odporueenY Narodnim BratrskYm Kongresem, vytaduje nejmene tki tYdny bedlivych a sousttedenYch studii. ZkonSky jsou v rukou lidi nestrannYch a ne-znamYch, pod dohledem Narodnich Bratrskeho Kongresu.

Kdyt bychom takoveho elena naali, kterY by chtel podobny kurs projiti a zkouSky sloziti, pak jeho povinnosti jako statniho organisatora bylo by vybudovati organisaeni odbor pro vSech sedm organisaenich distriktil, aby zaueova,1 (Pokraeovani na strane 4.)

OZNAMENI DO OKOLI ItADUM eislo 73, 76, 77, 85, 90, 95, a 134.

V nedeli dne 28. dubna friednici tliadovny se dostavi do spOleene schaze vagich tadil ktera se bude konati v fadove sini v Seymour, Texas. V to same sini co jsme posledne konali spoleenou Program zapoene ve 2 hodiny odpoledne. Zveme Vas vaechny k ueasti a pfivezte s sebou take vase sousedy a zname.

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Preloieni distriktni schilze z Rosenberg do Needville oznamuje v . tomto eisle tajemnik onoho —..—distriktu, bratr Vladimir StraZnickY. SelnIze bude v tent den, etvrtou nedeli v dubnu, jenZe bude komina v sini legionafft pri silnici vedouci z Rosenberg do Guy a Damon. Zaeatek bude v jednu hodinu odpoledne. Bylo by Zachmeno. aby kaZdY fad v okoli postal do schuza svoje zastupee, a hla-s"me aby clele o.ati od dvaceti zminenYch radfi ye zmineneat distriktu byli pritonmi, kdyZ budou vyvolana jejich jmena. Jak redaktof byl informovan, tato schilze nude posledni predsjezdova, kde bude hodno se dorozurneti na spoleenYch otazkach, ktere budou projednavany na sjezdu. Proto nezapomerite na schuzi v Needville v nedeli 27. dubna

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tutu nedeli pfipa.,141. dve dui( 'a_e schuze. Jeclna bode v Taylor a druha se kond v Hilije. Na obou schnzich budou projednany otazky, na kterYch m 1ji veliky zajeni VS: icing einni elenove Jednoty. Zajimavo bude zjistiti, ktera z techto dvou stejne didelitYch schUzi bude lope nebo poeetneji zastoupena.

Seznarn clelegatik a nahradnikil naleznete v predchazejichn eisle Vestniku.

Jak poclotYka, tajemnik Hlavni ftradovny, neni to seznam itpiny. Vzdor tomu, Hlaviii draclovna znovu upozo • nila rady zvlaStnrin dopisem, Ze volby delegate maji bYti oznameny do konce brezna, jak elanek 10. v naAich stanovach p02aduje, upoz?rneni bylo p•ehlednuto.

Rekneme, nebo pomysleme si, je to maliekost a nepatrne prehlednuti. JenZe ne y Simavost v jedne male veci saviriuje nevsimavost a pohodlnost v druhe veci, zaerie se uvolriovati zde a onde, aZ cela soustava je uvolnena, rozvikla,na nikde necl0f. l'odobny nedosta.tek dbalosti a poruclay sebekazne, mobil bychom pozorovati v navAteve • aclovYch schnzi. Kandy to prizname, ze navStevy v naAich schfizich mohly by bYti hodne lepSi. Veiilne li v idealy fraternalismu, spoleeneho bratrskeho souZiti, a pestovani obeanskeho kamaradstvi, pak je naSi povinnosti schrize nav:Stevovati, jak stanovy narizuji. Nemeli bychom omlouvati svou vlastni nolmdlnost tim,, ze o schitze stejne nikdo nestoji. Tot' prace radovYch rirednikti, aby elenove stall o schuze a je nav g tevovall. Jsou to ty uj ete a hluboke koleje pohodlnosti, Ze nechavame v'Se pri starers. lIe inalokdy zmenime radove vYbor,v, rad. y e firechalky a celkove idy l to dobre nae to opravovat? Libujeme si, Z'e to dobre bezi, ac sem tam by nektere koleeko melo byti upraveno, aby se nevyklalo. Napred si libujeme, Ze to beli, Ze to ma svou setrvaenost, an! si nevSlmnerne nepatrneho vYkyvu a kymaceni, pak prehledneme, Ze chcd se zpomaluje, pak nastane liknavost, a dokonce ochablost. Nejeden z naBich fadit byl by na torn hodne kdyby se pravidelne mesieni schfize stfij co sttij dodrZnvaly a kdyby radovi Ureclnici co nejvice se stridali. Je dokazanYrn faktem, Ze dokud se elovek neeemu doted ho price zajima. KdyZ ale elovek dostane pocit, ze svou praci dobre zna, dela svou praci setrvaone, ne VAak stoprocentne. KaZda price a kezdY Arad ma bYti y Yzva ukazati svou zruenost, treba by Alo jen o "kumAt" jak privabiti vice elenil do schfize. My jsme tuto zruenost, udelati naSe schuze zajimavejSi, nikdy nepestovali. Nyni na to doplacime liknavosti elenfr.

Ta kovou likna.vost a tivolnencst mel jsme pied letv a 1-11avni uradovny. ma-• fft,e se zeptal i bratra Chupicka a bra-

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tfrbanovskeho, kolik tisic zaponienutYch poplatku bylo skolektovano, kdyZ se zavedla presnej g i kontrola knih, Tote.% vidime a domacich radu, kde se zaveas clehledne na moZnY dlottZek neZ vyroste y e veliky dluh. Tota v navUeve schfizi: napred vynecha jednou, dvakrate, pak prijcle aZ ado schfize vYroeni, a pak, aZ kdyZ se voli delegat do sjezdu. riff p • ehlfieni seznamu delegatn 'modek pricfrazi myslenka, zdali svMchni byli zvoleni die narizeni stanov. Zase jde o vec, ktera na pohled maThepatrnY vYznam, ale jen pokud si neuvedomime, re kaZdy delegat jcle na sjezd jako zakonodarce, jako jeden elen kterY bode tvcriti budouci stanovy nail Jednoty.

Prikladne poSleme na sjezd elena, IcterY nenavStevuje sclulze pravidelne, nenra zajem o sviij rad, neni na Zadnem stavYbortt, ale neclaa se zvoliti za delegata. Jak mute takovY clelegat upra-vovati jine elanky stanov, kdyZ nechce clodrZovati onen elanek, tYkajici se delegatu? Nae je treba nakladnYch sjezdu?

Nac je treba predsjezdoveho stanovniho vYboru? Nac to fSechno, kclyZ by se na sjezd meli posilati elenove, kterYm stanovy jsou pro kocku?

N'ekolik braird se dotazovalo, proe nez redaktor nepodal svou predsjezdovou zpravu, jako to ueinill hlavni firednici.

Redaktoru to ani na mysl nepriSlo, Ze by ten on mel sestavovati nejakou zpravu. 0 eem? 0 tom, co kaZdY tYden pile?

Nebo kolik easu venuje redaktorskYrn povinnostein? Nebo kolik to vezme hodin, neZ nekdy sesmoli nejakY kloudnY elanek? Ostatne redaktor neni kern, nYbrZ' pouze najmuta, neba vybrana osoba k vykonavani jisteho druhu prace. tJsudek, jakou praci dela, nebo do juke miry jeho prace uspokojuje Odeny Jednoty a etendre Vestniku, musi bYti ponechana vAem tern, kdo Vestnik etou.

A stave se nekdy, ze redaktor nevyhovi, i kdyby se jak snaZ11. Prikladne vykladala ini sest • a Kremenkcva z Jourda.riton, ze jedna jeji pritelkyne nedav-no hodila organ do kouta. Byla zklaindna, obsahem Vestniku. Pry tam nebyl roman "Washington". Ona pry o ty dlouhe zpravy nestala.

Asi pfed rokern mel redaktor v rimyslu zjistiti, kolik nasich Clenu stoji lehkou romanovou Oetbu, nebo zdali bylo by zahodno povidky a romany z na•Aeho Vestniku nadobre y ypustiti. Neda se upriti, Ze mnoho naMch etenafti si libuji lehkou, nekdy napinavou eetho.

Jscu ale jini, kteri povidky a romany neCtou. Soudim, Ze dobra polovina naTUch hlavnich firednikt1 nemaji Z'adne zaliby oeskYch romanech, ba priznali se mi nekteri, ze samotnY Vestnik malokdy Cton. Roil to osobni navyky a libirstky. Nekteic i z tech, kdo nemaji potfebu pro eeske rornanv a povidky, Otou

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pravidOne anglicke romany v tYdeniku teenYch starosti a nesnazi. Nebo nikdy Saturday Evening Post. Beletrie, totit dedic zemie Wive netli e'en, certifikat krasna, proza, povidky, romany a novely, se neapravi a at po smrti elena fitednici jsou potadavkern mysliciho eloveka. Kni- musi hledati dal giho dedice a jsou s tim hy a hudba jsou dva ptedmety, kterYm zbyteene starosti. Obchodni spoleCnosti se nevyhYba, tadnk elovek, kterk si o- chrani sebe proti pcdcbnym nesnazim sobuje misto v popiedi. Stark . Masaryk take v to motnosti, kdy mut a Lena ptijeitaval dva romany tYclne. President Wil- dou o tivot v negtesti, aby byli ustason, kdykoliv chtel si do-ptati dugevniho noveni tak zvani "contingent" benefiodpodinku, sahnul po nejake detektivce. cianti, eventualni (picipadni, kdy toho Nejvetgi uditele dm:11116110 lidu byli v2dy bude tfeba) dedicove.

MnohY 'Oen ani netugi, to redaktor je spisovatele, kteti dovedli podati sve ndhledy, ry e neeni, svou moralku ye for- take davernikem elena, kteremu se easto me lehke a poutave, v kresleni povah pole dopis soukromeho a daverneho cblidi zabavnym vypravovanim, v ramci sahu. Takova davera samortejme tegi tiovidek a romana. Nynej gi redaktor a redaktor sna2i se, aby podobn'ch souVestniku zastava, stanovisko, to lehka kromkch sdelepi a spra y nikdy nezleheil romanova Cetba ma sve misto tet ve a nezneutil. Jsou v gak jista, soukroma spolkovem .organu, ate romany a povidky sdeleni, nebo snad je to vice geptankm jsou jednirn z vYchovnkch prostkedka. "povida se", ktera nejsou zrovna ptijemNemateme proto zazlivati tem, .kdo se nd, zvlagte nyni v dobe pied sjezdem. zbobili, to na misto Washingtona Zavory Pro zabavu a pote geni vgem tern, kdo si byly v organu atedni zpravy. V gem se libuji v Septane propaganda, must renikdo nezachova, ani redaktor. daktor vetejne oznamiti, te nema tadnY Pii zrnince o zpravach nagich atedni- zalusk na atad hlavniho ptedsedy, ani kti chceme upozorniti, to jedna z nich, hlavniho tajemdika, ani kterehokoliv zprava bratra Augusta Kacite, nageho jineho hlavniho titednika nebo teditele. pravnika — upozorriuje eleny, co bychom A bude-li se dale geptati, to redaktor nemeli zapominati v budoucnosti: pod- chce to nebo ono, zde je to derne na biporovani nagich starcienta na vy ggich gko- lem: vas ptitomnk redaktor se snati, aby lach. Vtdy jsme to podporovali, ale bylo nage Jednota mela dobre a eiste jmeno, to, jako bychom davali odbytne levou abychom na ni byli hrdi, abychom men rukou a ptitom hledeli nekam jinam, v nagem vedeni pokud mono ty nejlepgi aby mc.,m tddnk nevidel do oei. Mame lidi, mall v ne pinou driveru, abychom mezi sebou dosti nadane mladete, ktera zlepsili si nage schtize, abychom nalepottebuje trochu povzbuzeni. Obyeejne zli smernice a zpasoby, jak ziskati nagi vyskytne se v osade nejakk mladik ne- mlaciet mezi nas, a abychom ptirastali bo device, ktefi davaji piiklad jin'm. trojnasobne net rosteme nyni. A dodoTakovou byla kdysi rodina, z nit vyrostl Wend' by se mohlo ptipojit, to redaktor dr. Josef Kopeck' a jeho devet souro- neni sam se sebou spokojen. Medi vyzencti, kteii vgichni dostali kolejni vzde- konat tolik, kolik za stavajicich pomerti lani. Takova byla rodina Sktivankovych, lze vykonati, ale neni to dosti a 'nolo by kteti maji mezi sebou pal tuctu leicatt, toho bYti daleko vice. Kdyby mu Hlavni uditelti a profesora. Takova je rodina atadovna byla poskytla tent honorak, Musilova ze Stamford, od nicht katdeho jakY povolil sjezd tesnulemu redaktoru, roku je nekdo na statni universite v Au- mohl si nynej gi redaktor sjednati vkpostinu. Takova, je rodina Le gikarova z moc, ktere by nadiktoval ttikrate vice Taylor, a takovkch mame cele tucty ro- alanka a avah, aby organ byl ttikrate din. Jente dosud jsme pro nose Ceske lepgi. Kolem redaktora leti spousta nestudenty vykonali velice malo. Upozor- zpracovane latky, nadatkch a nedokonn neni bratra Kacite, abychom v budouc- eenYch elanka, civky rekordovanYch nosti podporcvali na ge nadane studenty ptednagek Cekajici na pt'epsani, takte v dalgich studiich, k dosateni vyggich redaktor nennite mluviti o spokojenoakaciemickYch hodnosti, stupria rnistrov- sti. A den ma pouze 24 hodin. Jscu nova skYch a doktoratti filosofickYch, je ye- hospodyriky, kterYm aklid domacnosti jde lice easove a nemelo by bkti ponechano pomaleji, a wi g nynej gi redaktor je asi nepov ginmuto. Pfeetete si zpravu bratra z tech, kteremu peace nejde od ruky.

Kacite je gte jednou a uvatujte o ni.

0 vzorne navW've schtizi vykladal mi Fri proh1iieni zpriv nagich hlavnich bratr La,ta, Olen tadu Kingsville Oslo 118. hlavnich atednika napadlo mne, to ta- Jak jiz zvykem, zaeali jsme mluviti o dnY z nich neupozornil, je to daletite, spolkove dinnosti, pti 'Cem. bratr Lata aby katdk Glen mel dedice ye svem cer- uCinil nasledujici poznamku: "Jak to tifikatu spravne stanovene. Nebylo tech pozoruji z dopisti ye Vestniku a zprav ptipadri mnoho v minulosti, ale mate cdjinud, my si nemateme natikati, to jich bYti hodne vice v budoucnosti, kdy bychom men schaze malo navgtevovane. mut ustonovi za dedice svoji tenu, za Skoro bych tekl, to -na ge navgtevy schanekolik let se rozejdou, ale certifikat zri- zi jsou lepgi net jinde. Nemame sve sine, stone nezmenenk Po smrti je na opravy a musime konati sve schaze pokatde jinpot& a atednikilm vznikne spousta zby- de. Ale manic schate vice spoledenske,

Strang 3 kde\ Oijemo vice piatelstvi. Gadny nen,. vynecha schazi, kdy nemusi, lee by mu do plasm ptigio nem neptedvidaneho.

A jegte i v takovem ptipadu se katdy hledi omluviti." Bylo ptijemne vyslechnouti tyto poznaanky bratra Late z Kingsville, jehot tad ma koiem gedesati Glenn, a mohl by bYti vzorem ninchemu' daleko vetgimu i-adu.

Fri sestavovani elanku o organisadnim odboru, kterY je na ptedni strance dneS, niho Cisla, vzponmel si redaktor na mal' pokus, jak' byl pied dvema roky ueinen u tadu Pokrok Houstonu 'Oslo 88. PHgel napad, to by tad =hi potadati kurs pro organisatory. Oznameno bylo, ze kdokoliv by mel zajem o tento kurs, mate • pripti a vyslechnouti, o eem bade jednano. Ponejpry ptiglo dvano.ct navgtevnika, podruhe jich bylo men& potteti jegte men& Ale v kursu bylo pakradovanc asi deset tYdnri pii nav gteve 6-8 zajenica.

Dvakrate ,byli pozvani atednici Hlavni atadovny, ale pokatcle z jejich navgtevy seglo pro jine jejich zavazky. Kurs byl tczciOlen nasledovne: Prvni veder byla ptedna g ka o dejintich bratrskeho pojin gt'ovani, kdy a jak povstalo, a jak'm zprisobern se yyplacely funrtni podpory v prvnich dobach. DruhY Wen byla ptednagka o rozdilech mezi obchodni pojigt'ujici spoleonosti a bratrskYm podptirnym spolkem, o "otevtene" a "uzavtene" smlouve, o spolkove einnosti a o praci organisadni. Dalsi ptedna gly byly o daletitosti organisatorti, o nutnosti 21votniha Pojigteni v ptitomne doh& pak tti ptednagky za sebou, komu moano prodavati pojigteni, vzorky rozhovorti pti prodavani, a jakYm zpiisobem musi b'ti organisator sv'm vlastnim panem a svojiti si tueita, pravidla pro svilj vlastni aspech. Pak byly porovnavany ramie cortifikaty, vystavovane na gi SPJST, jak vyplriovati tadosti, jak vysvetliti rrizne poplatky, a slugne chovani k dodrtovant sto.tnich zakona a pravidel spolkuptiprodeji pojigt'ovani. Po desetitYdennim kursit, cot bylo jednou tydne, pti gly letni prazdniny, pak pti glo vyueovani eegtiny V tent den, a v dal gim organisatorskem kursu nebylo jit pokradovano. PeednagkovY material je dosud pohotove a mohl by bYti. zapajeen kteremukoliv jinemu tadu, kdyt by o ptedna g ky nebo o poclobnY kurs byl zajem. At jednou dojde na potadani okrskovYch ptednagek v projektovan'ch distriktech, material ten bude v'bornou porntlekou tern, kdbz buck"' na ptedna gkach praccvat.

ArYber dobre eetby pro male dtenate a dospivajici deti je vatnej gim a te2Sim iikolem net eetba pro dospele. Redaktor ma neustale potite s vYberem pohadek a povidek pro detskou besidku. co napi, se "StrYeek Mieek", nestaei a nutno stranku dopiniti jinou Cetbou. Po delgim vahani, rozhodl se redaktor, dil nagim mlaciym etemitam jcdnu z riejlep gich a

itradia, nej yYznadnejSich knih Ceske literatury devatenacteho stoleti, "Babieku" od Bokny Nerncove. Tteba jsme ji my, staii, tli nekolikrat, "13abielca" zitstane sveZi i middle. A co hlavniho, jsou v detbe `BabiSky” zosobneny cluk deskeho lidu, vdrava. mouclrost prYkici ze zk6enosti nich, pina lidovYch ptislcvi a YY ra ral, ktere by nak dot' mely znati. I pro statAiho eloveka je v teto lehke dethe hodne poueeni. Ba najde se nejedno desire slovo, ktere by melo bYti zname i v nasi texaske matetkine, ale mak) kdy ho zde zaslechnete. Proto "Bableka" bude uZiteenou detbou pro kaaleho.

Osobni. — Brats Joseph F . Houdek z kterY ukazuje Ceske filmy v rilznYch mistech v Texasu, poslal redaktoru uyeclomeni a poz yani, aby se ptiSel poclivali na krasnY deskY film "Zen.a na ro/cesti", kterY bude bratr Houdek ukazovati v Houstonu ve etvrtek veder 24. dubna. AS redaktor Seth. svYm Sasem jako chudobny nekolika centy, rad vyhovi.

Snad se tech Sedesat minut Si d ye hodiny necha vynahradit jinak. Ostatne film bude ukazovan pouze nialou vzdalenost od redaktorova domo ya, ye State Theater, v eisle 5913 Washington Avenue. Dtive nak krajane z Houstonu jezdivali na Se- , ske filmy bud' do Crosby nebo do Rosen-1 berg. Tim, ze bratr Houdek mei gtesti dostati mistnost ku promitani syych deskYch filmd ye State-Theater v Houstonu, budou nak krajane miti y etsi poZitek nasledkern modernejS'iho zatizeni, lepSich promitncich strojti a dokonalejk promitaci opony. Dalk ukazovani SeskYch Minn bude zaviseti na podpote nakch midivadla a na zajmu, s jakYm tuto vev mezi sebou rozhlasi' a pomohou ji ozn(I rnit. - Redaktor dekuje bratru Houdkovi za pozvani.

Organisaern. odbor Jednoty (Dokoneeni se strany 1.) dalk eleny. On by musel vypracovati si eviSitelsky kurs pro sve pomocniky v kaZ dem organisadnim distriktu. On by musel vychoyavati talcove organisatory, kteti by ye spolkove praci vicleli budoucnost.

Ale co nas to bude stati? napadne mnolaYm. Z poedtku by nas to stalo jen prozatirnni smlouvu, ze po ukondeni kursu a po sloleni zkoukk nahradime budoucindu statnimu organisatoru St yrtinu nebo polovici jeho vYloh s onim jednomesienim kursem a pak Ze mu dame mesieni sluZne rovnajici se odngene za pc mi deseti nebo patnacti tisic. Tolik pojiSteni by se od neho oSekavalo. Dalk jeho plat by S'el dle toho, jak by se pridirioval.

Dobr,", statni organisator by si svuj plat muse! sam yydelat,

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V necleli, 27. dubna, bude se konati distriktni schtize vSech radii ze svrchu jmenovanYch okresti v Needville, Texas.

SchOze zapoene v jednu hoclinu odpolain° a je Zacloucno, aby se dostavili vSichni tadovi zastupci i sjezdovi delegati neb se bale jednat o dfflelitYch vecech tYkajicich se naSeho distriktu a PtEtiho sjezdu.

Aby schuze nebyla piilis sucha, proloZime ji talc trochu menkm programem.

Doufam, ze nas teZ dle moZnosti nav giyi bratti titedniei z hlavni fita,dovny, br. redaktor a vkchni elenove S.P.J.S.T. naSeho i sousednich distriktil jsou srcleene zvani. Ptivezte svoje rodiny, o °beerstveni a nejake zakusky bude postarano.

Vzdjemne seznameni nand jiste prospej e.

Od nak prvni distriktni schfize v Houston uplynulo pal rokua celkem jsme neudelali nic, aelcoliv jsem chtel schttzi distriktnich zastupcii od vSech facht - nedostal jsem k tomu schvaleni. Dle meho nahledu men zastupci jiZ claim() mit nejaky program yypracovanY pro distrikt — pro celY rok. One se mnohem snadeji nee° dela, kdyZ se o tom vi dosti dlouho do ptedu.

Tedy nashledanou v nedeli 27. dubna v Needville, Texas. Schtze se bude odbYvat v sini legionatt, ktera se naleza na ceste 'Oslo 36, hneevedle sine S.P.J.S.T.

Vida B. — DoMvotni, ye ktere glen plapoplatky az do sve smrti.

Vida C. -- 20 lete splacene, e'en plati v teto t •icle poplatky 20 rokt, avAak v padu smrti podpora jest vyplacena, kdykoliv se tato ucia..

Vladimir StraZnicky.

1. avojnasobne poji gteni pro pfipad smrti neAt'astnou nahodou.

yes

Had Elmaton eisto 148.

Blessing, Texas.

Cteni bratti a sestry:

CELOU ROUINLI.

Vida D. — 15 lete splacene, e'en plati jen 15 rokft; vyplata podpory jako ye tfide C poznaeeno.

Vida E. — 10 lete splacene, e'en plati jen 10 rokii, s yYplatou umrti jako ye tkidach C a D. Vida F. — 15 lete nadaeni, obnos certifikatu jest vyplacen po 15 letech placeni.

Tiida G. — 20 seta nadaeni, obnos certifikatu jest vyplacen po 20 letech paceni.

Tiida Vyplacene v 65 letech stati, Men v teto tfide plati poplatky al do dosaleni 65 let, kdy je mu obnos certifikatu vyplacen.

Tiida I. — Dvacetilete vyplacene v 60 letech, Men v teto tride plati poplatky po 20 roku a obnos certifikatu se vyplati kd3.4 den dosahne 60 let stall.

Tiida K. — Poplatky plati se do *van 65 let, ne'Z obnos certifikatu vyplati se a2 po smrti.

Haig vYhody k feint° pajistkaan jsou:

2. ZproSteni poplatkd v pripadu trvaleho zneschopneni elena.

Detsky Octbor:

Ehttni pojiSteni do 16 let.

Dne 27. dubna v nedeli budeme miti vedeti v Narodni sini v Elmaton ye proVida J--C.— UspornY clo2ivotni certispecla teto sine. fikat yyplacenY ve dvaceti letech, s pinYm Prosim sestry od faclu Elmaton, by do- obnosem podpory ye veku 16 let. nesly jak obyeejne nejake slepiei maso, Vida dvacetileta claivotni, s kolade a jine ptikrmy. Vedete bude node.vana v 5 hodin a veder bude taneeni za- pinYm obnosem podpory ye veku 1. roku. bava. Ptespolni •ady Zadame, by jejich Vida J—E. nadaeni ye veku 18 let, eleni priki se mezi nas pobavit nebudou s pinYm obnosern podpory ye veku 1. toho litovat. roku.

Dale upozornuji Cleny nakho tadu, Vida J--G. nadaeni po dvaceti lekteti ye scianzi nebyli, aby, se saeastnili distriktni schtize dne 20. dubna na Hillje. tech placeni, piny obnos podpory ye Okla Bylo by 2adoucno, aby se dostavilo co 1 roku. nejvice Clenu z tohoto distriktu, zyla:Ste DalSi vYhody v Detskem Odboru jsou: delegati do sjezdu men by miti zajem o tuto schuzi. Zajiste se tam budou probiPojiSteni platiciho (Payor Insurance); rat dUlaite otazky, ktere prijdou pbed ochrana tato za mirny mesieni neb rodni ptiSti sjezd. Vymenenim nazorti v techto poploatek zbavuje, v pripadu smrti poptedsjezdavYch schuzich moZ'na, se cla u- platky platiciho, povinnosti dal gho plaSettit Sas ye sjezdu. ceni poplatict na, takto chranenY certifiTedy na shledanou kat, kterY ale prodlnZuje ve gkere hodnorank Hlolek, Sr. ty v nem uveclene. (dz)

ye stfedti, dne 18. riiil)n q 1652

Oddil DopisovatelsV Dallas, Texas.

Je does nejak zainra'eeno, jen spustit degt'. Rano, kdy jsem obchazela moje kytioky na zahradce a vsala do sebe vzduch, povidam si„ citim houstonske poeasi, bude prget. A take jsme jej dostali, a dost, bylo ho zapottebi, po tech pragnYch boutich, v ge bylo zaprageno hrtiza. Nadherna je ta jarni zelen, ale ty zapra gene domeeky se mot dobte v torn nevyjimaji. Kdybych byla colada, tak bych si otevtela obchod, kterY by se dobfe vyplacel, unikvala bych baraky od prachu, koupila bych Spic a Span a domeeky byly by jako nove. Jestli eist'oueke, aneb bez barvy, to je gte nevim. Mu-. sim to zkusit napied na na gem, neb ten prach me leze na nervy.

Velikonoce jsou pied dvetma, etu ye Vestniku, ze bude potadano hledani vajieek pre deti, a my velci, staff, nebo mladi bychom men hledat ty na ge Ceske pisnieky, ktere se pomaloneku ztraceji, a'Z se ztrati, pak opravdu uk nebudem nic mit. Spravne je to v to pisniece. Vzpominam na Houston u Stefanikii. v Sokole. To bylo kdysi zpevu, zpivali jsme — ak td jsme nemohli, kazde Bcderika 8ihanova, nynejgi Chladkova, se nahrala, ak ji prsty bolely, nebo Jindfigka Earlova, ale vetginou Bcdenka, pak se glo do Sokolovny zase k nam a zpivalo se do pihnoci., men jsme z kalde strany domeoku padesat stkevicil mista, take jsme tim sousedy nezlobili. Pamatuje g, Domine a Lilka?

Rozveselte se zase, deti moje, vklyt' jste jegte mladi. Vig, Domine, jak jsi vklycky pookfal, a Vy vgichni, pfatele moji, hledejte zase ty pisnieky a oni V.ds spoleene spoji a daji yarn zapomenouti. Udelejme si zase v srdci maj, jak je to v to Haglerave pisniece "Jaro je tady, slyget je vgady, muziky hraji, po celem kraji, ptaeci o lasce zpivaji." Vidite, ja stara babka, ktera, myslela, ke se jara, nedoekam, tak dnes, kdybych mela ktidla, tak bych letela s ptaekama o zavod .a vite kam? Do Haustonu, k me zlate ma mince, ktera byla nemocna. Ale sestra Silva mne telefonovala, ze se citi uk lepe.

Zaplat' Pan Bith. ji bude letos 82 rokfi. Jedenact deti nas mela a devet je nas, co se chuddeek nastarala, neki nas vychovala. Pii torn stale usinevava, a pisnieku stale na rtech. Jeate dnes nam tekne, kdyZ si zpivame, dej pokoj — tak to neni, a zazpiva nam ji sama. Inu, ty na ge stare zlate mamy.

Vidim to energii u nich, tady u nas v Dallas, ty nejstar gi leas prostfedni strei do kapsy.

V t4—F:Vt' N f

WET,

Tak VeSele velikonoce, od vasi Karly Kraftove, vaem houstonskYin a dallasskYm pfateliim.

Abych nezapoinnela. 6tvrtou nedeli v dubnu bude sehrano v na gi sokolovne pekne 'Ceske divadlo pod nazvem "Hvezda Veletrhu", za retie bratra. F. Sebestika, ileinkuji; same vYteene shy a je to velice pekna komedie, 2e nevyjdete ze smichu. V pfigtim Cisle se o torn . cbgirneji rozepi geme. Tedy Ctvrtou nedell v dubnu, posledni Ceske divadlo v teto sezone, pak nastane ptipravna prate pro sokolskY 2upni slet, kterY bude 6. eervence ye Fair Park.

Karla Kraftova.

A• Dallas, Texas.

Mill etenati Vestniku: Jsou rfizne udale.sti, ktere yarn znemokli zasednotrti ke stolku a psat, ae dobra yule zde je. Ale rd jsem zde a vezmu ty moje zpravy po. fade. Nejdtive si odbydu kvitovani darii na Motiekilv fond.

Na misto kvetin k ucteni pamatky br.

Franka Polavky, darovali p. a pi. Ben Pfevratil $3.00, pi. M. Kubinova $3.00, z Corpus Christi zaslala pi .M. Rendlova $3.00, pi. Elznerova $2.00, col eini s dtivejSimi dary $23.00. Vgem darctim srdeene diky.

Tak zde mime jaro, ae dnes prave sluneeko nehteje, ale dobte se sedi u teplych kamen. Na vanoce bylo teplo a nebylo tfeba ani zimnich kabatit a na velikonoce, — kdy deti, mladi . i stall maji ptipravene nove letni aatstvo, radi si obleknou kabaty.

Pfiroda slavi sve vzkfiseni, ()Una je v nadherne sveki zeleni. Ride jsou jiz v plnem kvetu a i jine kvetiny oblaluji nage oei a cele okoli, je ta jak v to naai rodni hymne "Kde domov mtij . . ." V sade skvi se jara kvet, zemsky raj to na pohled. I ten na g fad Jaro Cis. 130, mel 30. bfezna svitj podnik — °bed. Nebyl sice eetne navativen, ale jsme s vYsledkern velmi spokojeni. Jen lituji, ke jsem tech slepic neobjednala, vice ne'Z tficet liber, ale byly vYteene. Pob.dala jsem ses. Macovou, Helenku Vrlovou, ml.

Kraftovou, aby je doma upekly a ptinesly doeokolovny uk hotove. Br. Sil zhotovil pro nas 50 liber dobrYch jitrnic a take nam sestra Silova vypomohla doma s peeenim.

Citim se, jako vedouci, podekovat vaem sestrain a brattim za vzornou spolupraci. Sestry samy mne sdelily, Cim me mohou vypomoct, co ptichystat. A ty, co se neptaly, donesly vYborne peeivo Spolefind chut' k praci vyvali vaecko, co se na prvni pohled zda bYti telkkm. Mile sestry, ke si valim Va gi prace, napigi jen Vage jmena, co jste mne poinahaly v kuchyni a co jste pfinesly peeivo a jine. A jestli nekohe zapomenu, prosim za odpugteni. Zamestnana vluchyni, ne-

Strana 5 videla jsem, co ktera donesla. V kuchyni vypomohly setry: NeSudova, Vrlova st., Jureikova, Podhradska ,Stranska ml., Sebestikova, Loraine Gallagher, Fanea Jureikova, Matenka Filipcova a Albina Jureakova.

Peeivo donesly sestry: Hem'Zalova, Filipcova, Hulovcova Seveakova, Linkova, PtevratiloVa, Malikova, Stra.n.ska ml., Nesudova, Vrlova, Valeikova a Podhradska.

V baru yypomahali bratti: Vrla, Valeik, Jureik, Hulovec a Rotrekl. (Ti mne pledbehli v praci. Sla jsem do Sckolovny v 8.15 rano a bratr Hulovec a Rotrekl teal byli a ja myslela, ze budu prvni.)

Bratti: Seveak, Ondru gek, Arnold Vrla a Maca, ,meli na starosti bingo a kola Sestra Sev eakova, Vrlova ml. a Macova • -jim vypomahaly.

A nesmim zapomenout, ae ty slepice Warn obstaral bratr Sid, pokladnik,---a ptenechal nam je bez zisku, jen to, co on za ne platil. Ja Vam v gem, jmenern tadu, dekuji, a vaim si to Va gi krasne spolu-. prate. Take dekuji nejmenovanYm mankteti jsou eleni na geho sousedniho fadu Pokrok za zaslani $2.00, s poznamkou, ze nemohou pfijit. Penize za dva ,obedy zaslali, jako by tam byli. Navgtevnici ptichazeli do kuchyne projevit sve uznani kuchafkarn, ze v gecka bylo velice dobre. Tana nas ta pozornost.

A ted' je gte se vracirn k to ittulne pro stare Cleny. Zda se, ke je Cirn dal, tim vic zajmu o ni, z tehoZ' mam velkou radost. Oetla jsem ye .Vestniku, ze dne 26. btezna, fivalm bratra redaktora "Ukoly pfigtine sjezdu", Kde mezi jinYm br. redaktor pige, ae na ge Jednota ma za gest a tti etvrte milionu jmeni a kaldY mesic, ze pfileYva pies sto tisic. Pi ge, milionove jmeni roste samo sebou, jen kdYk se hledi zarooit kaLlY dolar. Oeekava, ke do sjezdu, od ktereho nas deli ani ne tti mesice, vzroste • toto jmeni na pinYch sedm milionu. A chteli byste vedet, zda11 main z toho milonoveho jmeni radost?

Mam a nexnam. Main, ae dobte hospodalime a 2e na, nag poeet elenstva, proti druhyrn poji gt'ujicim telesum, kteti maji vetg i poeet elenstva a jsou star gi, muzem se jim smele postavit v bok.

Jednota na ge, z tech chudYch padatku, pled 54 lety, kdy byla nouze s chudobou u tech naaich pionYrti domovem. Bylo malo penez, mezi na gim drobnym lidem, kteti zde ptijikleli ze stare vlasti velmi

V gein dopisovateliim Vegkere dopisy p,o Vestnik, a referity posilejte na adresu redaktora: EDITOR OF VESTNIR 6402 PRAGUE HOUSTON 7, TEXAS

Strana 6 easto za vypajeene penize, zaeinali to sve 2ivobyti vydobkvat na chudkch pre.riich primitivnim zprisobem. Sekera, pila a motyka, bylo jejich natadi, a domov?

Stlueene dohromady tak, jak se dalo.

Tezka prace Zen i muff', deti, mnoho odtikani bylo jim po mnoho let ridelem..

Za, svoji telkou praci, byli farmail velmi chude odrneneni. Byly to na prvnim miste ty nag e pracovite rozaafne Zeny, ktere byly tern svymuzum ye vgi mad napomocne. Vika jejich prace a2 po dlouhem ease pkina gela odmenu, pozvolna rostl ten jejich Uspech. Dobie obdelana, pole, skroperia potem poctive prace, zaeala pfindaet lepai u2itek a ptedeila fanny starch obyvatel, kteh tuto zemi vlastnili. Narod naa aesko-morayskk, (Moravane v Texasu ptevlaciaji) ma zde svoji historii.

Velke pkevraty se od doby jejich poeatkU staly. Co svet svetem stal, v2dycky ti chudi, odstraeni, vykonavali ty nejte2gi prace. Dovedli se v gak pilzprisobit kaZdkm pomerilm k svemu prospechu.

Nag lid je spoleeenskk. Jak jen troaku mohli zakladat spolky, na gi Jednotu Sokola, katolici a evangelici staveli kostehay, kde se v nedeli schazeli ku spolednemu pobesedovani, posteskli si jedni druhkm a vzajemne pobavili; a tot' se vi, ze bez lidskeho pohadani se to neobeglo, vaude koukol mezi p genici bujne roste, to uz je tak stare jak svet. Lidem ptibkvalo deti, majetku, Jednote dlenu, az vzrostla na tak mohutn.k strom, jeho vetve se rozgifily na 165 fa.dfi mezi 25-30 tisici Clenri s milionovkm majetkem. To je, z echo main. radost, A ted', z echo nemam ra lost.

Nemame closud sveho dornova Illavni uraclovny. A jak to vypada s term nagimi hesly, Podpora, Lidskost a Bratrstvi?

Jaka odmena z toho kyne pro ty nak starce a statenky, kteii pomahali z velmi skromnkch prostfedkri na ten milionovk majetek? Velke nic! Stall nuti elo yeka k ptemkgleni. Jsou mnohdy okolnosti, ze mate smutne stain, zustanete bez prostfedkri a mnohdy nevdek deti boll. z nas nevi, jakk bude konec naseho /ivota. Mnozi odejdou nahle, takova smrt je po2ehnanim boZim, a velmi bych si ji pkala pro sebe. Mnoho se jich zabije ye sralce Icar, vlaku,, aeroplanem a jinou tragickou smrti. Nejhorai ze v geho je, lcdy2 se po leta musite trapit na luaku, zbrouceni zdlouhavou nemoci, a jsme btemenem tern, kteti nas musi obsluhovat. Tu stavame se naaim detem na obti2. Proto prosim vas, bratil a sestry, nevahejte hlasovat pro stavbu fitulny pro nage stare eleny. Je pravdou, jak pile br.

Bro2 z Gonzales ye svem poslednim dopise, aby Jednota povolila na to 30 (a ja dodavaill i 50 tisic, i vice, a projevila kutb.eni tit podporu, Lidskost, Bratrstvi,

V t. S T N I K — WEST, TEXAS a ona tak rada ueini, jen kdy elenove budou pro to hlasovat. Ne na Hlavni fitaelovne, ale na vas v gech brattich a sestrach to buds zale2et.

Co2 abyste uspotadali ye svkch tadech pro ten noel obedy, veeete, svaeiny, bazar jen jednou za rok, nic vice. Byli byste pfekvapeni dobrkm vYsledkem. My z naaeho obeda vydelali bezmala 100 dolarri oisteho yktaku, kterk ovaem pfipadl flak pokladne. Na vydani fadove je tfeba penez, i na podporu nemocnkch. Uvadim to jako ptiklad.

A ted' na konec jeate neco z Krou2ku 2en. Na g e dopisovatelka ses. Decikova se nam toula nelcde po Floride, a tak poladala, abych zaujala jeji misto o vksledku schrizd a za ni napsala.

Ttetiho dubna, kdy se konala schrize Krou2ku, bylo velmi gpatne poeasi, ale piece se dostavilo 22 elenek. Jak by take ne, kdy2 nas tam v2dy dobra svaeina, kolace a kava okkava, a odna gite si peknou vkhru, vzpominku na dobre pobaveni a mnohe ovaem i praci. Toho dne mely jsme toho hodne k vytizovani. Byly volby novkch ritednic, jenom 2e si ty U1:ady odnag elk zase ty bkvale starai idednice, ktere zvoleny byly aklamaene. Jen sestra Vrlova st. pievzala misto sestry Machaeove na nemocensick vkbor, kupo\Tani clarkil pro nag e nemocne sestry. Sestra dopisovatelka nebyla ptitomna a zajiste az pfijede odpoeinuta, si sve misto ponecha, a za odmenu nam vaem sve zd2itky ze sve cesty napik. Budeme se Resit. — Projednavaly jsme zabavu na Den Matek. Usnesly jsme se jen na taneeni Zabave a prodeji jistkch sladkosti, ale to vain nemam prozrazovat, mate plijit v hojnem poetu a nechat se pfekvapit.

Mirky obdr2i nejstarai pfitomna maminka a nejmladai.

A 2e se na ge Sokolska, Jednota chysta ye dnech 5.-6. eervence na. Zupini slet u nas v Dallas. Oeekavame navatevu i z jinkch state sokolskkch hnizd. Po2adali nag kroukk, zdali bychom jim pfevzaly vedeni kuchyne na starost. Bude to v eervenci, kdy u nas slunieko hezky pfipeka.

Bude to horka prace ptipravit pro nekolik set lidu dosti jidla. A ze my se prace ani lost malo nelekame, pfislibily "jsme se o kuchyri postarat.

Jen p •ijedte k nam odev gad, my se radi s yami seznamime, a svoji velkou navgtevou posilite na ge Sokolstvo a necht' — i cesta daleka, to Sokolika neleka — jen at' vaechny cesty yak smefuji k nagemu Dallasu. Postup sletove prace yam v2cly Sclell zpravodajka sletoveho vkboru.

Jak u2 jsem shora napsala, 2e prace nas zde Ceka hodne, vaak svorna prace dava, silu a dojde dobrkch yksledka.

A ted' jeate pozvani k nano do Sokolov.u( den 27. dubna, kde na uzavteni

Ve stkedu, dne 16. dubna 1952. jarni divadelni sezony bude sehrana nasimi povedend fraaka "Hvezda veletrhu". A nezapomente, ze 23. dubna bude pan Houdek opet ukazovat jeden z jeho krasnkch filmy, "2" ena na rozcesti".

Jsme panu Houdkovi diky zavazani, ze nam Ceske filmy zde ukazuje, opet v Lago Theatre v 7 h, veeer. A uz delam teeku. S pozdravem vsem etenafam se zna Bokna Valeikova. mend, ) • 4• • San Antonio, Texas.

Mile sestry a bratil: Ptichazim trochu pozde, ale nemohu odolati, abych aspori easteene zvla gte rifednikum od Hlavni atadovny vzdala srdeenk dik za jejich pfitomnost ph. nagi °slave, a jeate vice za ty kra.sne proslovy, kratieke, ale povzbuzujici k dalaim pracim. Bratr Marek nas obZivil jeho slovy k nam pronesene. Bratr 8vadleriak podal zpravu, jake zaeatky byly u tadu Praha Cis. 29 a jak se domohli k to krasne budove. elenove byli obetavi, pracovalo se v miru a nadaene pro dobrou yec, a2 do splaceni v geho dluhu, kterk si ptedsevzali. A ted', kdyZ vae vyplatili, jsou disti. Ti, kteti pracuji ph jakekoliv zabave, dostanou za praci zaplacene. Nemohu do podrobna vypsati fed 8vadletiaka a doufam, ze nekdo tak ji2 ueinil. Tak se pokraeovalo jeden po druhem, eas se kratil, talde ostatni Utednici omezili proslovy a zkratili.

Bratfe Valeiku, promitani filmu, jsem ujiatena 2e se vaem velmi libilo. Take vas jeate jednou vaecky vespolek ujiat'uji, ze jsme si vasi ptitomnosti vaZi11, i vaech navatevnikri od jinkch tadri, kteii jste se zteastnili. Byli jste nam vitani a srdeene dekujeme.

Na konec se citim poclekovati nagernu piedsedovi bratru Bundilovi za vynasna2eni, za pozvani orchestru, kterk vyhraval pri obecle a ph progranm. Bylo to od vsech vas krasne, ze jste nam prisli zaneb bez eeske muziky neni eeska. zabava. K tomu sestra Leizarova ptispela s krasnkm zapenim eeskkeh pisni.

Varn, sestro Leizarova mnohokrate dekuji. I varn, ditky, byly jste Pane a zapely jste krasne. Zabavni vkbor si za.slouZil Pochvaly. Pracovali jste vaichni spoleene. Vain vgem dekuji za cely fad, i zenam Emellia Amburn. v kuchyni, k 4 ) kid

eislo

Inez, Texas.

Uvedomujeme Vas vaechny, ze nage pravidelna schfize na tteti nedeli 20. durbna, jest odlo2ena a bude konana o tyden pozdeji, 27. dubna o 2 bodinach oclpolednich.

Pkieina toho jest, 2e Va g tajemnik a neetni se steastni distriktni pfedsjezdoye schrize v Hillje v tento den.

S bratrsickm pczdravem Leo Krause, Jr., tajen

Ve stkedu, dne 16. dubna 1952.

NAROZENINY VERY STEEKOVE.

Houston, Texas Ctena redakce, bratli a sestry!

Tady, je obrazek se mne a s mojich 4 deer, ktere mne p •ekvapily v dome nejmla.clei dcery Elizabeth a Henry Calihan v Houstonu •k mojim narozeninam v nedeli 3. Unora r. 1952.

Od /eVa na pravo jsou: Pi. Angeline Loewen, pi. Ella Kubin, ja. jsem v prosttedku, pi. Vlasta Kubin, pi. Elizabeth Calihan.

Na nic jsem nepomyslela, na zadnou ptekvapenku. V sobotu 2. Anora, ptijela ke mne moje dcera Angeline Loewen a pOvidala rime, ze abych se vypravila rano v nedeli 3. Unora k dceti. Elizabeth Ca/than na °bed. Elizabeth pozvala tetu Annu Ju •enovou na obed, 2e kdyt tetu zve aby jsi i ty ptijela, abyste si mohly spolu promluvit.

Angeline mi povidala, 2e my jsme pozvany k ptateltm tarn blizko Elizabeth, a tak se rano pro tebe stavirne.

Urnely to ty moje dcery narafteit, to byth se ledaeeho jineiho nadala nez to plekvapenky, proto, ze moje narozeniny byly 0 6. Unora ve stledu.

Tak ten eas utika, ani se mne to nezda pravda, ze uz tak da yno jsem tu ve Spoj. statech. Mela jsem 20 let, co jsem sem ptijela 14. zati roku. 1907, tak uz jsem zde 44 let.

Kdyz jsme rano lc nedeli 3. nnora pHjell k moji dceti Elizabeth Henry Calihan, na dvote nebyl tadnY automobil, byly u sousedu schovane. Tak jdeme do domu a ja slyeim hrat, ani jsem nepoznala na co. Myslim, `Ze mail novy rekord. A to mne vyhraval na harmoniku J. D., llletY synaeek man2e1t1 moji nejstarei dcery Vlasty a zete Joe Kubina ml.

Hezky hral, on se dobte Ja- jsem zustala stat a slzy mne kanuly po tyati, a tak mne posadili. Jak ptestal J' D. hrat, yeichni nine blahoptali k mo jim narozeninam a tazali se, proe pla.eu 26,c1nY ti neumi'el a rude se radovat na svoje narozeniny a bYt vesela.

Ano, ja jsem slzela z to radosti, ze mam tak hodne veecky deti, jak dcery tak i zete a jejich ditky, ze tak se o nine staraji a radost mne delaji. Srdeene vam dekuji,

VESTNIK a WEST, TE moje deti. Zaplat' vain Pan Bilh za yeechno.

V nedeli 10. Unora byla jsem na ziate svatbe man2eln John a Lucy Soet'akovych. Pkijela jsem jim blahoptat k jejich zlate svatbe a dalennu stavu ma0elskeho ziti. Mnoho nas bylo v jejich dome, odchazeli, pfichazeli, sedeli, ani soudce C. H. Chernosky tam nechybel. Tez t•i hudebnici jim vyhralali, byli to Gerych, Kahanek, Novosad, a nas ptedseda br.

Rudy 8efeik od tadu cis. 88 Pokrok Houstonu zpival. Hrali a zpivali veecky ty stare pisne, ktere jsem i ja zpivala, kdW', jsem busy a kravy pasavala. Ach, tak to bylo vaecko hezke, jak oni zpivali a hrali.

Byli to sami mlatli hoei a tak pekne vzpominali ty stare easy, nestydi se za stare lidi. Dekuji yam, hoei!

Ta yam, ma0ele Zastoupilovi v Dallas, Tex. blahoptejeme ja i moje dcery VIasta a Joe Kubin a Ella a Eddie Kubin. k Vagemu daleimu et'astnemu ma0elskemu ziti, abyste se doekali diamantoye svatby. Dcery Vlasta a Ella Wdy mne vypravovaly o Vas, p. a pi. Zastoupilovi, i o Tobe Bolenko HounY, jak se s Vaini eivaly, kdy'Z v Dallas pracovaly. Tak ja, kdW jsem uvidela obrazek ye Vestniku, tak jsem to dceram tekla. A tak mne poVidaly, a'Z budu psat, abych za ne napsala blahoptani yam p. a pi. ZastoupiloVYma srdeene Vas, i Tebe B0enko HoupY a celou Tvoji rodinu pozdravovali, a to same plati i ode mne. Take Tebe, Karliku Staglikn, Tvoji manZelku i Vaee dev'data srdeene pozdravujerne.

V nedeli 10. anora byla jsem na divadie u tadu Pokrok Houstonu C. 88. Bylo velice pane a take pouene, vaichni herci hezky hrali a tak ztetelne eesky mluvili.

P. a pi. Pekatovi, kte •i pekli chutne pe eivo, zdedili milion penez. A tak pi. Pekatova. tekla, Z'e to musi bye u nich vae obracene, musi se obratit do panskeho stavu. Pan Pekai musi bYt milostpan a pani Pekatove musi veichni tikat milostiva.pani ruku libam, a d ye dcery musi bohate eatit, bohati 2eniel, tovarnici se musi pro ne najit. Pani Pekatova a jeji mladei dcera Tonea byly hued vypraveny v panskY stay, milostiva pani, ruku libam, a milostiva sleono, ruku libarn. Ale pan Pekai a jejich starei dcera Pepina ztlstali pti stavu pekatskem, jako Wive.

Milostpani hubovala manZ'elovi i starei deal. Pepine, ze jsou potad sproste a neumi se vpravit do stavu panskeho. A stark dcera Pepina, ktera byla zamilovana s hochem pekatem, take ji chtela milostiya matka z hlavy vyhnat. — Takoveho chudobneho sprost'aka si nesmie vzit, ja ti najdu bohateho fabrikanta, toho si music vzit. Chtela matka trestat dceru Pepinu, kdW to ji tekla, ze neodstoupi od sveho pekate, ktereho ma rada. Ze ona nebude prodavat lasku za penize.

Strana Tak vidite, mili etenati, jak je to na torn svete, ze nekteti lide, kdy2 zdedi par tisic neb ten milion, chteji to vae utra.cet, neZ' by si uschovali na stare kolena.

Ale vezrneme si pfklad z to starer. dcery Pepiny. Ona milovala vice lasku n0 pet nize, a tak to ma bYt. Pied divadlem tednil na g br. redaktor Stepan Valeik aesky a anglicky tak pekne, 2e by byl z neho dobrY feenik, ale ten potte!bujerne ciobreho redaktora.

Ty, p. J. F. Sefeiku, co popisujee ty vzpominky, v nekolika mistech mne poteeny a pi•ipomely mne, kde jsem (Mayala. Taky jsem sloZila ye Vidni. Co pike to pisni, slyeela jsem deveata zpivat jak • jsme pravaly pra.dlo v pradelne, panicky mely rady svoje slaky kdy't zpivaly; moje pani byla racia, kdy2 ja zpivala, at' jsem zpivala pobohlou neb svetskou, jen kdy‘Z jsem zpivala. Ja jsem moji pani musila ka‘ZdY yden tikat "gnadige Frau, kiiss die Hand", eesky "milostiva pani, ruku libarn", v2cly2 jak nekam odeela. anebo odnektid ptiela. Pracovala jsem 2 Leta u p. a pi. Jakub Spira na hlavni ulici Mariahillstrasse. Byla eiroka a po obou stranach vedle chodnikil jely tramvaje dvema smery, tarn i zpet, uprosttedy jezdily koeary a nakladni vozy. KOdY musel bYt okovanY, tak to delalo mnoho t'ukani po dlaIdene ulici. Kd •y" jsem pte-: chazela tu ulici, musela jsem dva- neb ttiknat Mat zastavku. Nekolikrat jsem stala vedle sameho koedru, ze jsem i fistne pozdra.vila naeeho cisate Frantieka Josefa Prochazku. On kakly den jezdil o 8. hodine ranni z mesta do parku Schonbrunnu, a potaci dr2e1 ruku vzhilru, salutoval lidem.

Pane John Kohut v Temple, Tex., tak jste start' a jeete pieete. To my mladei se mOeme styclet, ze jsme lenive psat, Vain je 0 90 let. Pieete, ze ty romany vynechat, ale nektere jsou pouene, jako tento o torn Zavoru starem i mladem, jak to druha manzelka ho eidila a • M.clala od sveho manzela penize ,na to a ha ono, a • ona je posilala, tomu darebakovi. Ja; kdybych to neeetla, ani bych nevetila, tak epatni lid& jsou.

S pi. Mary Poeivalovou z Buckholts, Tex. a pi. Rozi Lukaeovou z East Bernard, Tex. seela jsem se u kostela Mary Poeivalo ya byla na naveteve u sestry pi. Army Vilove, a pi. Rozi Lukaeova byla na naveteve u dcery Elly Davenport v ,Houstonu. Tebe, Rozi Slovakova v Shiner, Tex., pi. Rozi Lukaeova pozdravuje ja. taky.

S pi. Sebestovou, Snook, Tex., jsem se sega ye schuzi KSE O ‘ MB. v Houstonu.

Dekujeme za navetevu.

Pi. Rozi Spailhelova, Temple, Tex., je, pilna dopisovatelka a je spokojena se. veim; i my maine bYt spokojeni se feim, co na nas Pan Bilh

Strana, 8

V ESTNIK—w-E8T,TExAs

Cela rodino Blahutova, p •ijmete ode nino I od cele moji rodiny hluboce citenou soustrasti nad ztratou Vak drazemilova,ne mantelky, matky a stalenky Anny Blahutove ve Wallis, Tex. Dejt ji, 6 Pane, tithe odpoeinuti a tame budit Ti lehka. Amen!

Se sesterskYm pzdravem, Vera 8tefka.

) • 4.

San Antonio, Texas.

MUli etenati a mile atena.tky!

Musim se s mantelem pochlubiti, jake ptijemne piekvapeni nam phpravili sestry a pfatele v patek 14. btezna t. r. v sale International Institutu, kdyt jsem s detmi nacvieovala taneaky. Kdyt jsem byla v nejlepaim (deveata tanaila lidove tance v kruhu), tu najednou od vchodu se hnal pravad deti funicich jako lokomotivy. Nechapala jsem co se deje, vtdyt' jsem s nimi nic takoveho nenacviCovala.

Byl to opravdu celY datskY vlak. Vptedu Frantik Parma s tetou Baruakou (sestrou Ricbeovou) tahnul neco vysokeho a straane tetkeho, za nim Joddymu Mokremu pomahala Andelka Parnaova nesti ja.kousi ohromnou krabici a hned dalai Stanley Kalmus s Eddy Poppern vlekl neco hrozne dlouheho jako trumpetu a koneana' Joyce Mokra phala s ptaniakem.

Aby se tento ptetitenY viak nahodou neptevratil, doprovazela jej sestra od ktere se nam tat dostalo vysvetleni co to vae znamena. Eekla nam kratce, ale upiamne, to jsou radi, ze s nimi pracujeme, to si vati vgeho, co jsme za nageho pobytu v San Antonio jit vykonali a na ditkaz vdeenosti ze nam daruji v trvalou upoininku do nakho noveho, nedavno koupenelao domku stojaci lampu, koberoc a peknou barevnou soupravu do kuchyne (na mouku, ka yo a pod.) Bylo to velmi dojemne a zapilsobilo na, nas tim vice, to ucirteli vae v naproste tajnosti do posledniho okamtiku.

To ale nebylo vse, dalai pfekvapem nasledovalo. Net jsme byli hotovi s rozbalovanim, byl v ainnosti druhy "expresni" vlak v kuchyni za vedeni sestry Amburnove. Jako koutici lokomotiva s vonici kavou objevila se sestra Stahova, zaJim co sestra Murieova za pomoci ostatnich sester rozlotila vaeclany rrachystane dobroty na ptipraven:cr still a ut to alo. s mantelem jsem to musela zaait, potom jeden pa druhem pinil hrneeky a talitky, pak svoje taloudky a je gte toho zustalo tolik toho donesly. Vae bylo velmi chutne, vesmas vybrane druhy peeiva, vlastni. vS7roby.

Byl to krasnST weer, odnesli jsme si nezapomenuteine dojrny a radi si east°, velmi easto, vzpomeneme. Odevzdane nam dory jsou venni vkusne a hodnotne,

jsou nadhernou ozdobou naaeho bytu a budon vtdy peknou trvalou uponainkou na vaechny, ktell nam to piekvapeni ptipravili. Jejich krasny ein jiste zasluhuje, abych vgem podekovala vetejne. Abych snad na nekoho nezapoinnela, vyjmentiji vaechny v potadi, jak se zapsali do lista darca. Jsou to: Mr. and Mrs. 0. E. Amburn, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Bundil, Mrs. Gus. Blanat, Miss Hilda Baldvin, Mrs. Hugo Clarner, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Holly, Miss Ann Holly, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kalmus, Mrs. Marie Kalus, Mrs. Justina LanCa, Mrs. Bettie Leazar, Mr. and Mrs. J. IVIurie, Mr. and Mrs. F. Mal y , Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mikua, Mrs. Anna Novosad, Mr. and Mrs. Albin Popp, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Riebe, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parma, Frankie Parma Jr., Mrs. Josephine Staha, Mrs. Frank Tobola, Mrs. Sophie yelas, Mrs. Joe Vermersch, Mrs. Lillian Clauss, Mrs. Joe Ktupala, Mrs. Julia Clauss, Mr. A. R. Nesuda, Mrs. J. Mlynarczyk.

Opravdu velmi hezke od vas, sideene vam dekujeme, neobyeejne si toho vatime, pokladame si to za velikou Best a pokud jde o praci s vami, chceme vas ujistiti, to udelame co bu'de v flak moci. Na dalk spolupraci s vami vgemi se uprimne tagime.

Sluai ptipomenouti, ze tYt vekr z dalalba nacvieovani s detmi jit sealo. Po drutnem hovoru za doprovodu piana zatanaili jsme si nekolik kouska a "practice" odlotill na phate.

Poutivam teto ptiletitosti a oznamuji, to v tYdnu "Fiesty", ye sttedu 23. dubna t. r. veeer v "La Villita" v San Antonio, no, potadani slavnostniho vYboru zatanaimc "Ceskou beseciu", a to v narodnich krojich. Muti budou obledeni jako byl pan Rudolf Petrak v Maze Jenika a telly v kroji, jako meta pani Jarmila Novotna v Oloze Matenky v Onoro zde sehrane "Prodane nevesty". Je to na g typickSr nejlibivejai narodni kroj; kdyt jsem V nern s ostatnimi vitala na nadrati pani Jarmilu Novotnou, byla jsem ji radostne ptivitana volanim "Matenko"! Tentokrate nebudeme tanait besedu pouze za doprovodu piana, nYbrt ph hudbe naseho aeskeho orchestru za fizeni bra,tra MUDr. Josefa Kopeckeho. Byla nain na, opet krasna ptiletitost representovat nag CeskY narod a ja cloufam, to se nam vge vydaii ke spokojenosti vkch. Ket se nas tarn sejde hadn't!

0 nagi jubilejni ()slave jste jiz detli pojednani v minulern aisle Vestniku. Vyznelo vae manifestaane, muteme bYti spokojeni a, jiste ptanim nas vaech je, aby i ostatni naae spoleene podniky mely stejnSi ohlas. Nemarn, co bych chtela jeate podotknouti. Wein, kteti mi ph uspokadani progTarnu byli napomocni jests dodat( (me (lekuji, tviaate naim &stem,

Vc stiedu, dne 16. dubna 1952. ktere vyslovily prani cvialti vice, aby toho umely hodne.

Lituji Jen, grave tak jako muj mantel, to pro imine zaneprazdneni nemohla jsem si se vaemi alespon trochu pohovotiti. Takla jsem se na to, nebylo to proste motne. Snad ptiate budu se mod vice uvolniti. Jsem rada, to poznala jsem tam osobne pana Dr. Miaka a aspori kratce si s nim popovidala o stare vlasti.

Dekuji jeate jednou vaem a pteji mnoho zdaru naafi dalai spoleane praci.

Marcella, M. Klepriikova. kacl Jaromir eislo 54.

Bratti a sestry:

West, Texas.

V naai dubnove schazi, ktera byla hojne nav gtivena, nemeli jsme mnoho jednani. Po placeni ptispevkil br. ptedseda Rob. Cervenka odevzdal nekolika star., aim elenfim dividendy z Hla,vni tatadovny. elenove, kteti dosahnou 70 rokd a jsou v Jednote SPJST 35 let, dostanou ze sve pojistky nejake sratky, a tak je dostalo nekolik Pak se aeti dopis z westske distriktni schfize, kde nam fitednici dekuji za pohosteni. Bratr Hugo Freund se tate br. pfedsedy, jestli ten dopis nemohl bYt psan aesky?

Pak br. ptedseda a zabavni vYbor va, navrh, abychom meli ptiati nedeli 20. dubna taneani veairek pro eleny a jejich rodiny a katc1S7 elan si mate dovest nekoho znameho. Nato schilze byla ukoneena.

Na velikonoce sc citil kaZdY clobre s, byl veselY, nob jsme doslali minuly tYden dobrY praelo po dva dny pomalu, takte voda vsakla do zeme. Podasi je pekne, tak se katclY teal, to se to vgecko nyni rozzelend, jenom ty ovocne stromy se nechti rozzelenat. Main velkk jablorio\TY strom a je stale bezlistST, tak .nam asi uschne, i broskvove stromy jsou takove, to prST nemaji spodni MinulY tYden doprovodili jsme na posledni cestu pani Anetku Stanislavovou, rozenou Cernoakovou, ktera zemtela jegte dosti colada, 44 let, a zanechala mantela a 5 ditek, d ye malleke, ktere jests nechapou, co ztratily, statiakou inaminku a hodna ptibuznYch. At' ji zeme netlaai a odpoeiva, v pokoji.

Pak zemtel p. Jos. Krema, 79 let star, a byl pochovan na Bold Spring htbitove.

Pi. Stanislavova, byla pohtbena na katolickem hititove ye 'West.

Tarn mrtvYm ptejeme v gichni tichY' spanek a rodinam path nas v gech uptimna, soustrast.

Srdeany pozdrav vaem, Marie Klausova.

Ve sti:eclu, due 1G. dubna 1952.

eESK.A. SLAVNOST NA TEXASKE UNIVERSITE V NEDELI 27. DUBNA. Pestry program, radostnk zajem studentstva, tisku a krajanske vefejnosti. Tisic kolaeldi na poliosteni navgtevnikii.

Unikatni piedmety ye vkstavce tisku, knih, lidoveho umeni a pamatek.

Austin, Tex., 15. dubna. -- Tak jig jen kratkY eas a na ge studentska slavnost tu bude. Tot' vite, 2e jsou mnohe starosti s takovYm pestrYin a rozsa.hlYm programem. Kdy2 je ale nad geni a prate je rozdelend, tak to jde pekne a hrave ku ptedu. Zkougek jiZ bylo habadej, vlastne od sameho poeatku gkolniho roku se v eeskYch tticlach cvieil zpev ' a studovala se literatura, dejiny a rozhovory pti setkani a k osobnim dotazam. Bude tedy program Ceske slavnosti vlastne ptehlidkou vgeho, co jsme cvieili a se &ill. Mame radost ze zajmu o slavnost ptedne mezi nami samotnymi, nebot' ka2clemu zaleli na tom, aby to bylo v ge hezke, aby se yam navgtevnikum i vgem tern, kteti sledujete zpravy na ge, vystoupeni libilo a uspokojilo.

Mame radost take ze zajmu pro tento program u ostatnich studenta zde a take i u panti profesorti a i pracujiciho personalu v knihovne a v atadovnach administrace. Zvla gte redakce, jak na gich krajanskYch tak i anglickYch novin pigi s velkYmi hiaviCkami o eeskem studentskem festivalu. A pak take Clenstvo mistnich spolkft SPJST a KJZT s nami radostne pracuji a slibili napeci tisic kola.oku s makem, tvarohem a povidly. Ro y -neZisprav olenskhdomuna podava gtedrou ruku a tak je nadeje na dobre potizeni a zdatilY program. RaclostnY je take zajem elenti klubu Besedy z Temple, ktera ptijede s banderinou bud' na konich nebo v samohybech. Inu, pestre a vesele to bude a doufame, Ze bude i velka nav gteva krajanri z Austinu a z celeho okoli a Ze nedate studentstvu kogikem a nezklamete jejich oeekavani.

PROGRAM bude zahajen ye 2:30 hod. fivodnim proslovem k vYstavce a vyhravanim eeskYch kouskil laskavosti assistenta fysiky p. Jaroslava, Kopeeka, M.A. z Ennis. Olenove deskYch ttid budou pohotovi u kaldeho oddeleni podati podrobne vysvetleni a zavadeti rozhovory s vgtevniky. Naraz ve tti hodiny se za.peji hymny a co prvni Cislo bude ptedveden ZivY obraz z eeskYch (-thin v Evrope, v Arnerice a v Texasu. Budou to tti oddeleni a v .ptestavkach a vYmene Aeinkujicich zapeji Ceske ttidy spoleene s obecenstvem narodni pisne: Letela belounka. holubieka; A ja. sam; Oervena, modra. fiala; Aj lueka; Jede, jede po gtovskY pandeek; Bude vojna, bude; Mne se, mne se, mile se; U panskeho dvora; Pod dubem, za dubem; Kukulenko, kde jsi byla a dalAi, v'eetn'e Hej Slovane a Texas rely na

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VLSTN K WEST, TII:XAS vas hledi! Dal gim eislem bude ptedstaveni hosti a ptatel nag eho studentstva ptedsedou Oeskeho klubu C. tervenkou.

Nato budou pozdravne proslovy, mistopteds. univ. Dr. J. C. Dolley a prof. Ed. Miekem a tajeinnikem statu J B. Shepperd. Slavnostni tee ptednese dekan fakulty vYchovy Education Dean — L. D. Haskew. Dale zdravice ptespolnich hosta a eteni pozdravnYch dopisa a telegramti od ptatel z blizka a zdali.

To pak budou asi 4 hodiny a nadherna, dvorana se pteda krojovane druZine z Temple, ktera pod vedenim Waltera Jakubce a E. B. l-resse ptedvede narodni reje a tance besedy. To bude podivand pro nage universitni obyvatelstvo a jiZ se mnozi fanougkove s fotografickYmi aparaty tegi, jak si budou brati obrazky. J6 paneeku, kdyby se to ptedvedlo na nadvoti pied hlavni budovou, to by byla podivand, ze ano? ToZ snad aZ na podruhe! Ono by se tu mohlo je gte mnoho yeci ptedvest ve velkolepem metitku jeliko2 tu jsou vhodne podminky jak personalu, tak i vYpomoci a zatizeni. hudebni konservatot nam pomaha nacvieit zpev a zaptijoi kostYmy k Zivemu obrazu. Dramaticky odbor nam pomaZe s Upravou jevi gte a uspotadanim scen. SpoleeenskY citim Texas Union nam dava celou budovu k disposici a s podavanim obeerstveni spoleene s Clenstvem eskeho klubu a s mistnimi spolky SPJ ST a KJZT. Z toho vidite, Ze nedele odpoledne 27. dubna bude universita statu Texas pattit na gim krajanum, a proto by jich tu melo bYti hodne, aby se tu citili jako doma a ukazali, Ze si vazi teto ptilelitosti a Ze se dovedou "ukazat"!

Bylo by take povzbuzujici a uglechtile, kdyby byly zaslany k teto prvni Ceske slavnosti studentri na Texaske universite pozdravne dopisy a telegramy od atednictva nagich jednot a spolka a i jednotlivca, kteti pfeji teto snaze zdar, a fieinkujicim dodaji povzbuzeni a uznani. Adresujte na: Czech Folk Festival, U.T.B. Hall 3, neb na Texas Union, Austin, Tex. Tc:d na shledanou v nedeli 27. dubna.

S pozdravem, TiskovY a Slavnostni vYbor.

Dougka: Velmi radi bychom na nagi slavnosti uvitali vYpravu z Dallas v Cele s pi. Bolenou Valeikovou a Karlou Kraftovou. Zvla gte kdyby ptigly v sokolskYch krojich s jejich juna.ky, to vge bychom pottebovali do seen Ziveho obrazu. Mohli bychom yam to oplatit sokolskem slete 6. eervenee v Dallas. A na pti gte kdoZ vi zdali by v nagem Gregory Gym by nebylo mono uspotadat Narodni Festival se Sokoly, s Besedou z Temple a nagim studentstvem. To by za to stab, ne? Kokardy, jasot, na praporu prapor. Stejne bychom radi uvitali i vYpravu ze San Antonio jako oplatku za navAevn pft jejich

jubileum, kde na.s zastupoval p. prof. E. Mieek. A tak bychom mohli vyjmenovat celou tadu okolnich mist, odkud ureite oeelcavame nav g tevniky. Co nejsrdeeneji delcujem i milemu redaktoru Vestniku za VYbor. skvelou spolupraci a ochotu. ) •t ZAJIMANA PEEDNA gKA S FILMY V YOAKUM 20. DUBNA. Na nedeli odpoledne byl pozvan do Yoakum Dr. Arnogt ZiZka, 0.S.B., aby ptedna gel a ukazal nekolik filmic z jeho cesty v Evrope v Notre Dame, Ind. a Texas University. Bude to zajimavy program, nebot' dp. A. 2Pika za dlouhou tadu let jeho prisobeni jako uCitel, misionat, cestovatel a spisovatel i novinatskY zpravodaj nasbiral mnoho poznatka a progel nmohYmi zkugenostmi, z kterYch dovede pro jeho posluchaestvo ptipravit vYbornou kytici pestreho kviti z luha Zivota.

Take mu nikdy nechybi dobra gpetka humoru,. tak Ze posluchaestvo je uvedeno do vesele nalady a zaroveri i do valnYch a praktickYch pohledft uddlosti dnegka, Rad poukazuje na svetle stranky nagich pomerti a zvla gte v otazce spolkove a yetejne Cinnosti je v2dy optimistou, jak to dokazuje jeho nynel gi pasobeni ye tticlach eegtiny na statni universite. Texas.

Po ptedna gce ptedvede tadu barevnYch filmu z nedavne cesty v Evrope, veetne v v Aline s prrivodem sv.

Otce a mnohYmi pamatnostmi jako pavodni klagter sv. Benedikta v Subjako.

Nejkrasnej gi partie filmii jsou z slovenska, pamatnY prtivod sv. Vojte g -skYcholavCeribskupmJo. Beranem a s tadou vynikajicich pracovniku, kteti dnes jsou v Zalatich a pracovnieh taborech, Budou tu take sceny z kolleje sv. Prokopa v Lisle, z university Notre Dame, Ind. a Texaske, jako i ny z nedavne slavnosti "Round Up Week" v Austinu.

Ptecinagka se kona pod za gtitou mistnich spoiku SPJST a KJZT v auditorium mestske vy ggi gkoly. Zadatek je ye 2:30 hod., vstup volnY a kaZdV je uctive zvan k navgteve. Reanika ptedstavi pan monsignor Jos. Pustka. Dp. Arno gt ZiZka, 0.

S.B. je znam v okoli Yoakum, neb pied 5 lety kazal na rnisiji pro farniky u sv. Anny. )•

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kid eclioslcvan Oslo 40.

Hillje, Texas.

Mili bratid a sestry: V nedeli 20. dubna kond Prvni distrikt svoji tfeti schrizi v sini tadu Oechoslovan 6islo 40 v Hillje. Vgichni delegati od vgech tadu Prvniho distriktu jsou 2adani, aby se ureite dostavili. Schtize zahajena bude o 1. hodine po poledni. Tak bratti delegati a sestry delegatky zapamatujte si to. S bratrskYm pozdravem E. K. HajovskY, tajemnik tadu els. 40.

ES T N I K --- WEST, TEXAS

Tait, Texas.

Mili etenati Vestniku: Ptichazirn zase s paru fadky. Na ge diva(11o, lirane 23. hkezna, path. jit minulosti, ale doposud se tadnY neozval, aby dal kytieku uznani hercilm. Vgichni herci se syYch Uloh zhostili skvele. Nebot' brali prvotkidne. To byla perla divadla. 0pravdu jsme ze smichu nevychazeli.

Sokolski schtize, potadand 6. dubna byla, dobte nav gtivena. Byl dan navrh, bychom si zalotili peveckY kroutek. Navrh byl ptijat, tak bratr jednatel ma na starosti zaopatrit apevniky.

A jegte neco: v na gi sini v Corpus je Ivo, jit se tarn pilne cviei. Sestry Sokolky nas chteji na Den Matek ptekvapit jejich peknym eislem. Ptala bych jim laojnou navgtevu.

Po schrizi byla ptekvapenka pro mantele Ku.emovy, kteii oslavovali jejich 32Iete spolutiti. MilYch pratel zase u nich bylo pina residence. To byl pekne ztravenY jeden veoer.

Kde mate hodne de gte, tak nam ho sem pog lete, neb to such° zde se sta.va katastrofalni.

Na ge jevig te je pekne vymalovane, a to vSe bratti delali zdarma. To je opravdu abet', nebot' v gichni maji sve price dost, a to vymalovani museli delat jen veaery a nebo v nedeli. Ale nevim, kteti vg eci se na praci podileli a proto je nebudu jmenovat.

Volam srdeene diky yam, bratti.

Mrs. Agnes Elzner.

S pozdravem •( )• Rad Tioga

5.

Tioga Texas. l3ratti a sestry : Jak kdysi jste cliteli, tak mile z(.1e mate zas.

Ani nevite, jak to nerad delam, nekoho upominat by se vyrovna.I, ale jaka porn0C. Jak, bratti a sestry, v lednove schrizi bylo ujednano, ae buderne mit schnzi dne 20. dubna, tak se dostavte co v nejvetgim poetu. V ptipade Apa,tneho poeasi, schfize bude o tYden pozdeji. Jak to poeasi pokraeuje, tak nevypada, ae bude gpatne, netot' je stale pekne.

Tet tem, kteti nebyli v posledni schuz1 r-namuji, ae jsou zvoleny tri sestry vc vYborit, b y vtdy ye schnzi nekoho necini pitkvapily. Zaletet bude, kdo bude tak gt'astnY a vytahne jeho eislo. Co to bude, to ja nevim, neb to maji ony sestry mezi sebou.

Tak ptijd'te do schtize, a dovite se, co to. bude. A vy, bratfi, nemejte strach, ae budete mit tii.zen inne se zda, nee° vim, ale nepovim.

Ttintict("sho clubna jsou svatky, tak nebudete mit vYmluvu, ae jste se nemohli (10 :-.chute dostavit. ell:LS liejilS7.

6 pozdravem

El Campo, Texas.

Ctena redakce Vestniku: Sestry od tadm Cechoslovan Cis. 40 jsou aadany, by laskave donesly nejake pediyou do kuchyne v nedeli 20. dubna do nagi tteti distriktni sch('ze. Tet bude na programu ileinkovat br. Fr. Vavtik a Rosenberg s jell() taky. Doufam, ze si nikdo nedd ujit to priletitost je vyslechnout.

Tea' nag dornaci vYbor ma neco prichystano.

Srdeene zve vg echny Melly z okoli k Hradecka.. hojne neasti, 4, • e kid Vernost Oslo 51.

Ellinger, Texas.

Mili bratti a 'sestry: Uvedomuji vas, ae na ge pravidelna schnze bude konana v nedeli dne 27. dubna, o jedne tticet. (1:30) odpoledne.

Schiizi koname v kuchyni budovy Ellinger Auditorium. Bylo rozhodnuto v posledni schtizi, ae budeme mit dalgi Site jednani ohledne slavnosti v teto schtizi, proto vas upozorriuji, ae toto bude velice didetite jednani a rad bych videl velkY poeet Clem ptitomnYch. Pamatujte, ae jsme se rozhodli, aby sestry ptinesly nejake zakusky a bratti se postaraji o nejake obeerstveni jak pro mladet tak i pro ty co mall maji to penive. Ale to bude at po jednani. Ptijd'te v gichni a budete radi, ae jste S bratrskYm pozdravem, D. A. Juren, tajemnik.

✓ sobotu tohoto tydne a kaidou nisiedujlei sobotu je u tadu Pokrok Houstonu potadana hra bingo. Kaalou sobotu vecne a hezke cent'. ✓ sobotu 19. dubna spoleena vedete u 'radix Pokrok Houstonu. Srnatend kutatka na rogtu (barbecued). Zaeatek v pet hodin odpoledne. ✓ sobotu 19. dubna jaternicova veeete u tadu Stefanik eislo 142 v /1-7.3ustonu.

Obsluha zaene ve etyti odpoledne. Po ye'Ceti hra bingo. ✓ nedeli 20. dubna ptelo&na schUze fadu Sweet Home eislo 63, o tYclen pozdeji. ✓ nedeli 20. dubna ptedlolena, schAze tadu Praha eislo 29 v Taylor, o tYden pozdejL V nedeli 20. dubna spoleena schilze delegatu od v§ech tad(' ye sttednim Texasu je svoldna, do sine fadu Praha eislo 29 v Taylor. ✓ nedeli 20. dubna kona Prvni Distrikt svou tteti schuzi v sini tadu Cechoslovan eislo 40 v Hillje. VSichni delegati od vSech tad0 I. distriktu jsou Zadani, by se ureite dostavili. Ptedleha dfilelite ptedsjezdove jednani. ✓ nedeli 27. dubna distriktni se/laze vSech tad(' z okresti Fort Bend, Harris, Brazoria, Galveston, Liberty a Waller bude konana v Needville (nikoliv v Rosenberg) v sini Legionatn. Ptitornnost vAech sjezdovYch delegatn je Zadouci.

V nedeli 4. kvetna distriktni schilze radovYch zastupcu a sjezdovYch delegatu v AN 2 Holland od vSech taciu ve sttednim Texasu. Obed pro vSechny ve 12. Zacatek schute ve d ye" hodiny. ✓ titer* 20.kvetna veeer bude soukroma AIMAMMENEEMBII °slava zaloZeni tadu Gechoslovan eislo 40 v Hillje.

RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI. ✓ nedeli II. kvetna tad Bedtieh SmeMy, nitepsanY resolueni vYbor tadu tana eislo 39 v Bryan oslavuje sve 501ete Danbury eislo 139, v Danbury, Texas, vYroCi zaloleni kadu Podrobnosti pfiAte. timto vyslovujeme nagi hluboce citenou ✓ nedeli 11. kvetna KroWek Hlahol od soustrast na gi sestte Anne Uhrove a jeji fad(' Pokrok Houstonu eislo 88 sehraje dceti Mary Errnisove nad ztratou jejich na Studewood krasnou operetu pod namute a otce a na geho spolubratra zvern "Deti Slovaee". Zaeatek ye 3 hodiJana Uhra, ny odpoleclne. kterY zemtel 19. brezna 1952 ve stab 79 )• •t let, a byl pochovan zde na danbursken Jeden kamarad vy aa.l z naprsni kapsy htbitove. dva doutniky a podaval jcden druhernu Tobe, drahY bratte prejeme klidnY wee- karnaradovi. ny spanek.

"Jsou vYteona," pravil, "dva za et yrResoluent vYbor kadu Danbury cis. 139 Vak." -v Danbury, Texas.

"Dva za etvrt'ak," odvetil obdarovanS, Mrs. S. G. Bulanek, M. F. Svoboda, kdy2 se byl po prvnim bafu ocklibl, "tos I. H. Logt'ak. mi tedy mel dat ten dvaciticentovy a s10be nechat tenhle pet'akevy." ) • 1+1. • C• SlunnY elovek je milovan kaZdYm VSeDena (ete noviny): Ty niuZi, co je to chny clvete se pied nim oteviraji. Svou opa,sice? clobroduchoki odz;brojuje pfedsudek /avist, a ie v gncle vitan - - jak sluneeni MuL Oposice, to je .v politickem Mvote paprskovaiii.

Mai den. elm jsi ty v dornacnosti,

AS ZALOV

Sttedu, dne 16. du•rta

R. Jaromir Nenkat

Washington Zavora teskoamerickY roman

Paluby parniku se zaealy ottasati prudgimi a prudg imi zachvevy. Sroje spu gteny na pinou paru a zelenave vody s bi1Yrni pruhami peny se eerily do Site po obou bocich. Za lodi zastavala na kupicich se vinach do dalky patrna uhlagen:ft testa s bilou obrubou pen.

Take pohyby lodi ze ptedu , na zad a obracene zadaly bYti znatelnej gimi. — "Nekteti cestujici, ohledava.jice si galudky, spechali do sy Ych kabin. Jini, zahalujice se fig e do svych Sail!" a PokrYvek, usedali na lavice a popruhove lodni gidlice, vetice v dotty vhv eerstveho motskeho vzduchu. Toho nebylo nedostatek.

Vitr si zahvizdal ye ste gnich a lanech.

Lagkovne mlhy severniho mote dokazovaly jib eilYm tempem, ze jejich gpatna povest neni ptemrgtena a chvilkami nektera divodej gi z nich nakoukla cestuji cim pies zabradli do tvate.

Washington byl jednim z tech, ktetl vydrgeli na palube nejdele. Odebral se do vnitf. lode teprve, kdy se ozval zvonek svolavajici passagery k obedu.

Drge se zabradli a sten, gel nag Ameridan do sve kabiny, aby odlo gil svrchni gat a eepici a upravil se ku stolu. Byla to kabina pro etyti, kterou sdilel pouze s jednim cestujicim, nejakYin Neincem z Rise.

Na stolku, je2 tvotila citevend plogka timyvacila, le gel nejaky dopis. Pohledem na obalku se ptesvedeil mlady mu g, ge jest list ureen pro neho. Nebylo na torn nic divneho, nebot' posilani dopisu na za odjigclejicimi je dnes silne rozgiteno. Dopisy piijdou na lod' pted jejim dojezdem ovgem, ale na jich odevzdani cestujicim nebo do jich kabin dojde lo kdy pted zdvfg enim kotev. Na torn nebylo tedy nic divneho. Ale podivne bylo Washingtonovi, kdo mohl vedeti, kterou lodi pojede. Vgdyt' o svem odjezdu s nikYm nemluvil s vyjimkou snad pana Hale-a ye Vidni, jen se jej pti telefonickem rozloueeni ptal, po ktere lodi se do Ameriky navrati. Na hlavni pogte ve Vidni, kde se ptal pted syYm aljezdem, neni-li tam nibeho pro neho, nedostal gadneha dopisu, a po gadal, aby byly v gechny zasilky, jeg by ptipadne pro neho dog ly, zaslany zpet do Chicaga no, jeho adresu. Nemohl to tedy bYti gadnY dopis z Ameriky, za nim poslanY. Pismo na obalce mu bylo imlne nezname, a k tomu jegte jedna zvla gtni okolnost jej zarazila. Na obalce nebylo gadne

7.717T, T17:71,S, poStovni znamky. Muselo tedy bYti .psani bYti dodano ptimo na lod', nebo sem pologeno nekYin, kdo byl na lodi. Ale koho by rnohla jeho ptitomnost na lodi zajimati? Kdo by jej mohl i jeho jrnenem zna.ti? Tyto my glenky vystkidaly se v mozku Washingtonovu v lobe dvou jich bylo zapottebi k .otevi.eni dopisu. Jeden pohled na, konec dopisu jej poucil, ze psani pachazi od pana Hale-a z Vidne.

"111tij clrahY, mlacik Often," zaeinal dopis stareho chefa detektivii. "Doufam, ze se neminete s Oink* dopisem, a s tim, kdo yam jej odevzda. Bud'te ptipraven na rti gna pfekvapeni,•je g vas °dekavaji na lodi. Jede s vami nekdo, kdo vain slogi fifty z jednoho sta dolarti, jeg jsem si od vas k jistemu aaelu vygadal.

Penize ty zpet nedostanete, ponevadg jsem jich pouzii — doufam, ze k vagemu dobru. Vge cstatni, co by vas mohlo zajimati, Vam sdeli mnj vyslanec bud' na locli nebo v New Yorku.

Pteji Varn z pina srdce mnoho gtesti pro celY givot, jsem Vag odda.nY A. Hale."

Washington Zavora, kdy byl dopis trochu zlobil na sveho videfiskeho ptitele, prof mu nepi ge vge hned, ztetelne, bez hadanek a tajnosti. Ale pak ziistal ph nahledu, ze ma pan Hale zajiste dobv.:11 ptieinu k svemu jednani.

Ulozil dopis do sve kapsy, vzal si z kuftiku eerstvY limeeek a man gety, a fist a upraven, jako pravY American gel ku stolu do jidelny. Svoje misto v jidelne j ig vylvag'eno.

Washington doufal, ze mezi spolucestujicimi najde, uhodne onoho vyslance sveho videriskeho ptitele. Slibil si pczorovati v gechny tvate, a dihati, diva-li se nan nekdo. po oeku,. hledati ye zracich syYch spolucestujicich, kde by nagel blesk podezteleho zajmu, osloviti pak onoho tajemneho posla &l ye, negli tento se odhodla k osloveni jeho. Zkratka, zahrati si v techt6 okolnostech sam na detektiva.

Stoly v jidelne byly jen spote obsazeny. Snad vela vet gina cestujicich byla is zaearovana Neptunovou houpaekou tak silne, ge.bud' nemohla, nebo se neodvagovala zasednDuti k jidlu. Zavora, jen statedne odolaval potutelnYm inokfim mote na atroby - eloveka, a ptemahal oSklivost, stoupajici mu chvilemi k hrdlu byl z tech ceStujicich, kteti neveti v theorii prazdneho galudku, ale doufaji ptemOci vnittnihs neptitele udrgovanim syYch -Carob v pravidelne einnosti. Jedi tedy, of ne s piin g velkcn chuti, ode vgeho, co bylo na jidelnim listku.

Ph jidle sede zady k stene jidelny, u prvniho stolu prohli gel si vgechny tvate ostatnich ptitomnYch kteti k nemu byli oblfdejem obraceni. Vytrval u stolu posledni aby mohl pozorovati odchazejici

Strata 11 a prohlednouti si i ty kterYm a stolu net. mohl do tvate vicieti.

Jeho pozorovani nevedlo k gadnemu cili, mimo ten, ze rozptYlilo jeho mygienky od rebelujiciho galudku, tak skoro zapomnel na nesnaze, houpanini a ustavienYm velmi citelnYm chvenim lodi zpiisobene.

Kdyg odchazel od stolu, obdivovan stewarty i chistojniky, ktetl v gichni v nem vicieli uctyhodneho jedlika, myslel si, jeho tajemny ptitel je asi mezi temi nebogo.ky kteti se nemohli k jidlu dosta.viti, a doufal, ze jej vydiha pozdeji. • Ale uplynul den a uplynuly dva. Podasi se znaene vyjasnilo, cestujici, zvyknuvgi si jakg tak na chvatne tempo gigantickYch strojti, dunicich v utrobach lodi a zachvivajicich celYm telem, vynotovali se jeden po druhem, ze syych kabin, bledi a zmalatneli. — Vychazeli krokem opilYch na palubu, aby se nalokali eerstveho vzduchu, a oeekavali zazneni zvonku svolavajiciho k tabuli. Vysttidali se snad jii v gichni u stolu, Washington prchlednul v gechny tvate — a nena gel nikcho,'na ne g by se mobbo phssati jeho podezteni.

MlaclY Zavora zadal se ji g vzdavati nadeje, ze sam sveho neznameho prilvodeiho objevi a aekal netrpelive, az bude pojednou tajemnYm Hale-ovYm vyslancem sam osloven. Ttetiho dne, kdy se lod' jig kvapne bligila k poloviece cesty, a oeekavanY neznamY se doposud , neobjevoval, zaeal mladY Ameridan ztraceti nadeji, ze se s nim na lodi iiabec setka. Pak mu ale napadlo, ze neznamY muze take zcela dobte v prvni tride, kde gto on, jsa getrnY a nenavide ptepych, ne v trice satnotne, ale mezi cestulicimi namnoze will k svym cestam sttedni cestu druhou kabinu .. .

Lod' plula nekoneenYm lod'stvem ocednu. Kolem ni poskakovaly viriy . se zrcadlove hladkYmi, modravS7m1 boky -a rozeetenYmi hiavami. Kdy g se zatahla obloha mraky, zeernaly boky yin, a mezi nimi objevovaly se pod gurnicim pOvrchem bezedne tune tajupinYch, studenYch hlubin mote. Obzor byl negirokY. Nic z tech bachorek' o nedohledne vodstva neobstalo pted skuteanosti.

Obzor se uzaviral nedaleko zubat'm pohyblivYm okrajem z gedYch vin. Zdalo se, ze by zemi vzcialenou hodinu cesty nebylo za tim menivYm obzorem videti.

Jenorn kdy se ailvila mrtvost mote zjevem jive lodi, ktenou na nekolik hodin doptedu ozriamoval obladek dYmu, mohli cestujici poznati nespolehlivost lidskeho zraku ye meteni vzdalenosti.

Washington Zavora, kdykoliv tomu poeasi dovolovalo, vysedaval cele hodiny na zadni nejvy ggi palube, s knihou v ruce, s myg lenkami tisice mil od knihy vzdalenYmi. Bylo-li pOdasi ptilig neptiz-

Strana 12 five, seg el do salonku, kde nekteti cestujici hravali karty, jinni eitali, neb si kratill eas yypravoyanim ' v kroukcich. Jini rczlokeni na podugkovch laviekach, neb pozorovali hru nekolika deti skota'eicich mezi stoly. Do kutarny, jek byla zaroveti hospadkou a hernou pro ty brace, kteti radi hazardovali s penezi, vabec nechodil. Rad si vykoutil dYineeku tabaku nebo doutnik, ale na vzduchu, nahote na palube. Sedaval tam, zahalen do sveho zimniku a koute jests po vedeti, a ziraje do eire tmy nakupene kolem lodi do nekoneena, naslouchal duneni strojti, hluenemu gumeni groubii pod zadi lodi a tajuplrieniu gplYchani yln z ternnot. Podasi nebylo lakave k takovYm seclankam. Nanejvfge nekterY parek mlaclYch lidi seznanaivgich se na lodi, gel na vysokou zadni palubu vzdorovati chladu a yetru, a sklizeti za to odmenu poicradmeho objeti, uzmuteho polibku. Svobodna deveata na lodi neseda yala a neprochazela se dlouho sama. 0 rytitske prtivoclei nebyla pro tech nekolik csamelYch passakerek nouze. Nektere z nich ovgem vysttidaly za tech nekolik dni plavby rytiiu nekolik.

Bylo to ye tteti veder plavby. Chladn3"/ vitr, pohanejici pted sebou tidice vihke vloeicy snehu, za,pla gil kde koho bud' do kabin nebo do spoleZnYch mistnosti.

Washington Zavora sedel apine sain na vysoke palube. Zvolil si misty° chrtnene pied vetrem s na laviece postavene tesne k dtevenemu domeeku, v nemk ma svoji stanici operator bezdratoveho telegrafu.

Kolem nebo sipal a sydel vitr, ale v torn tniavem zakouti se hezky sedelo, ad tam pills tePlo nebylo. Washington dlel na svem mists asi pal hodiny, kdyk se na sclaticlkach cd niZ gi paluby vedoucich zjevila v matnem odlesku svitilny temna postava. Byla to nejaka kenska, jek rychle vystoupila na hotei gi plochu, a zmizela na druhe strane budky.

Washington si toho lunch° leda ke mu probehla hlavou rnyglenka. Aha, za par minut se k to "ona" oblevi nejalcY "on". Tak to obyeejne delaji, mokno nenapadne. Vytrati se ze salonku, jeden napied, za chvili teprve druhY a zde se pak ye tnaavem koutku sejdou k tomu, cemu my v Americo tikame "spooning".

Ale nekli se objevil rytit nezname, ucitil Washington spiSe neZli vide', ze navStevnice obekdSi budku., usedla na tutek lavieku, na ktere on seal. Pro tmu rozeznaval sotva obrysy postavy a z tvate nevidel pranideho. Neznama, povzdychnuv gi si trochu, poposedla blike k nemu.

"Oho, holubielco," iekl si nas hoch.

"Spletla jsi si nine se svYm vyhlednutym.

Myslela jsi, ze to sem ptede gel, a nyni se asi divig, e je ze d?eva. Nu. poeka g si!"

Zu elivilfeku prisedla tajetnna navatev-

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Ve stiedu, dne 16. dubna 1952.

nice jegte blike. Washington call jik syYm hotej gi maji peknYch par ptieek po kekolenem zahyby sukne a tu gil, ze mezi btiku, nekli se dostanou do sve krabieteem jeho a neostYchave cestovatelky ky. A jist nam nenosi kakciernu zvlagt', neni proctor vet gi nekli dva palce. Ale ne- jako yam. To dostavame na jedne miss tikal jests nieeho. Omyl to keny mu pri- pro pUl tuctu osob najednou. Do jidelny pravoval kratochvili. Vedel, jak se husie- cestu mame take u gettenou. Jidelna je ka poleka, az usly gi vedle sebe zcela ne- hned vedle Icknice, a loknice nejsou tak znarnY hlas, a jak rychle zmizi, kudy malieke jako vase jsou. Nas je asi etykibyla prisla, ak se dozvi, ke si pkisedla na cet v jedne a kdyby byl piny podet cechybnou adresu. Mezitim poposedla sou- stujicich, bylo nas tam aspoii sto. A sedka je gte blike, a jejich ramena a lok- cok to ventilace! Ty rtizne zapachy!" te se dotkly. Ted' se odhodlal Zavora proWashington Zavora, jenk poslouchal mluviti: jako ye vyjeveni, uchopil ruku sve spo"MYlite se asi v osobe, madame, ja ji- leenice, jek ve tine nahmatal a zvolal: ste nejsem ten, jeho hledate!" — to mluvite, sleeno? Snad "Probah, "Nikoliv, nenaYlim se ani dost mak), nejedete v mezipalubi?" pane, ponetadk ten koho hledam, jest "Ano, pane Zavora, jedu v mezipalubi. pan Washington Zavora z Chicaga," od- A co je na torn divrieho? Proto nejsem vetila neznama k nesmirnemu pkek ya- negt'astnej gi tech druhYch, jek jedou 0peni na geho cestovatele. Illas divky pH- nou ttidou. Ja ji jedu, anik bych k tomu gel mu ale hned venni povedomYm. Vzpo- byla InnatnYmi pomery nucena. Vgechminal okamkik, kde ten hlas naposled ny ostatni keny ,jek tam joeu, nemohou slygel, ba ptipadalo mu, jakoby to byl si na lep gi pohodli obetovati a ty jsou vilbec z poslednich kenskYch hiasu, je- nine mnohem negt'astnejgi." muk delgi dobu naslouchal. Pojednou, ja"Ale teknete mi jen, jak to piijde, ke ko blesk, proletlo mu hlavou poznani. Vy- jedete posiedni tkidou, a to nyni v tutu skoeil s lavice jako vyhczen elektrickou dobu kdy je i v ostatnich ticidach o trojiskrou a thiniene zvolal: chu derstveho vzduchu nouze."

"Coke! Neklamu se? Miss Annie? Jste "Nejedu sama tou tfidou Maj snoubeto skuteene vy, miss Hale?" — nec se mnou sdili muj osud" — Jeho napfakena ruka citila se sevte"Vag snoubenec!" vzkkikl Zavora, a puna dvenia jemnyma ruelcama, a tlak stil jeji ruku Na, to dodal tenme: "Nu, techto rudek ptimel jej k usednuti na pak mel vac otec pravdu, ptipravuje nine lavidku. na yelka p?ekvapen.i."

"Ano, jsem to ja, Miss Hale-ova," od"To yes tedy mrzi?" tekla Annie divvetila navgtevnice. nYm tonem v hiasu.

"Vy zde, na teto lodi!" divil se stale "Ne, nemrzi ... totik ... ostatn6 vy jests Zavora. vite dobte, ke co se mne Wee .. jak "Nedostal jste dopis meho otce, v neink bych kekl: zkratka, nemana prava, abych vam ptipomina, Ze na vas dekaji mluvil da vagich zalekitosti nebo aby • ptekvapeni?" nine to dokonce mrzelo. Muslin si mysle"Ano, ale tato piekvapeni . . . to je ti, kg jste na gla ten svdj ideal, sveho vyvrchol vgeho! Podniknouti cestu pies sneneho Americkeho hocha. Mrzi mne mote v tuto tak malo ptihodnou dobu. jen to, ke vain vas zenith neinirke zaoA to vge snad jen k vtirli mne? K vali pattiti lep gi pohodli na cestu, nek jake mYrn zalekitostem?" poskytuje tteti ttida."

"Oasteene ano, Upine ne. Sly gel jste "Nemiike, chudak," vzdychla si divka. ode mne jik u nas ye Vidni, ke se chystam "Ostatne to neni ani kadnY americkS7 na cestu do Ameriky. tkol, jen vykada- hoch." val meho zastani pouze urychlil den me"Coke, vy ke byste upustila od sveho ho odjezdu." idealu? Zadala se nekomit jinemu? To"Je gte dolote," tekl Washington, ke jste mu nemain chut' vetiti. Jake narodnosi zvolila, k tests nejvet gi moZne pohodli. sti je vas nastavajici?"

U rids v druhe tilde to site neni zle, ale "PlnokrevnY Videfiak," odpovedelo devu vas je tro zajiste znaene jests lepSi. 'ee.

A pak mate pi'idu lode, kde se to neu"Tak? zeptal, se mladY muZ skoro jizstale chveni lode tolik nepocit'uje. Ja live. "NejakY se S'tetiekou nebo pirkem jsem neSel do prvni ti'idy, ponevadZ ne- za zelenym kloboukem, s napalenYmi navidirn to Akrobenost lidi, kteti v ni vlasy a rozeechranYmi vousky?" jezdi. Ale kdybych byl veal; ze vy si ji "Vy jej lieite, jako by jste jej znal." zvolite, nebyl bych vahal jeti v tae "Kdo je to tedy ten y ak nastavajici, de. Jak by cesta rychleji ubihala v ta- smim-li se ptati?" kove spoleenosti! Jsem ale rad, ze aspori "Nebude yarn to nic platne, nebot' jej vy jste si zvolila lepSi zptisob cestovani." osobne neznate. Ale jmeno vain mohu Miss Annie se zasmala. tici, jmenuje se Fritz Horrichter.

Washingtonovi se okamZite vyjasnilo, "Oh, ano, to vy v druhe bide nemate n tom ponel 1. co je pohodli! My u rids jakoby se byla obloha pted jeho zraky nntiice lukka vkdy etyri Bad sebou, a ti modravYm bieskern rortrhla. Ciaopil se

Ve stkedu, dne 16. dubna 1952. diveiny ruky a pfitiskl ji na sy e rty. Pak kekl: "Ted' chapu. Tedy k vali mne a k te, ji2 miluji, tato vase nesmirna. °bet'.

Jen abyste mne dovedla k c!li, jej mi objevil vas otec, podrobujete se tomu stradani, nepohodli a atrapam testy v mezipalubi, tak mad° se hodici divce vageho vychovani. Tedy pro mne to v gechno! Kdy a jak se yam budu mod odmeniti?"

"Nemluvte o obetech, ani o odmene, drahY pfiteli," Peklo devee, mitic jej, aby si znovu sednul. "Ten, kdo se zjevuje zamestnani, v nen-12 mne otec vycvieil, musi bkti jako vojak. V2dy pohotave k snageni jakYehkoliv titrap. Pohodli a nage prate nesedaji east° na jedne 2idli."

"Oh, miss Annie, vy jste hotovY andel. fteknete mi nyni v ge, jak jste se sem dostala, co jste ji g ueinila, a co zamyglite einiti, keknete mi v gechno, hotim nedoekavosti: Ale ptedev gim: je Fritz Hofrichter na tett) lodi?"

"Ano, jest na teto lodi v mezipalubi jako ja.!"

"A jegte nekolik otazek: Jak jste se dostala z tketi tkidy sem do druhe`i" "Zeela lehce. Kapitanovi jsem se pfedstavila kdo jsem, a mo.m jeho povoleni k vniknuti do kterekoliv easti lodi. Zastoupi-li mne nekdo cestu, ulta2u mu kapitanovo povoleni."

"A jak jste nalezla mne? Jak jste mohla v tetio tme tu giti ,2e ten tiehY samotaf zde nahofe jsem ja.?"

"Pfedeveirem a veera veeer jsem ji2 byla zde v druhe tfide, a zahleala jsem vas, jdouciho sem, nahoru. Dnes jsem gla tedy skoro na jisto. Ov gem, jjsta jsem nebyla."

"Jak jste to tedy vyakoumala?"

"V2dyt' vy vite! Pfisedla jsem si k tomu tichemu samotaki,, a pfibli2ovala jsem se k nemu. Kdy2 zastal chladnY jako kus ledu, kekla jsem si: to je on!

Ale jegte jsem zkougela tak dlouho, a2 jsem vyvabila vase osloveni, a pak dle hlasu jsem jiz nabyla -bine jistoty."

"A co2 kdyby tu byl sedel nekdo jinY na misto mne, a tu vyzYvavou diveinu pekne chytil kolem pasu a pfitiskl si ji k sobe?"

"Tu by se mu to vyzYvava divoina vyAvihla z rukou, a fekla by asi tote2, co jste ji iekl vy: Pane, vy jste se zmYlil.

A ne21i by se yzpamatoval, byla by vyzYvava diveina, v mezipalubi, kam by mu jiste nenapadlo jiti ji hledati."

"Indy na v ge ptipravena," ze gepta.1 si Zavora. "A nyni, prosim vas, vypravujte!" dodal, pfisedaje k ni bli-2.c a hodil cip sveho velkeho zimniku Pfes ramena gtihleho deveete.

Sedeli pkituleni k sobe jako dva milenci, a v srdcich jejich dlely pocity bratra a sestry. Jejich my glenky byly zarnestnany, net aby dotek jejich

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a ustaran obavami, nicmene pfijal na ytel mohl vzbuditi jine city. , S hlavou temek na jeho ramenou sklo- g tevu devecte radeji ne21i stareho dornanenou zapoeala Miss Annie Hale-ova ciho, a jeho zaletna krev mi hned pfi prvnim setkani prozradila, 2e s nim nebudu svoje vypravovani: miti telkou praci. Napted mne poslal zeXXII. ptati se na onu po gtu, jsou-li tam peniZa kulisan-ti ze. Na po gte mi fekli: Oh je! To zde ji2 "Jakmile jste od nas odjel, vydala I bylo lidi, poptavati se pa tech penezich. jsem se na cestu, abych donesla Fritzo- Ne, neni tu nieeho na tu adresu, ani 2avu domacimu sto korun za uloupene do- dnYch penez z Ameriky. Pro Fritze to pisy. Mysleli. jsme, 2e se mohl domaci, byla hrozna rana, ktly2 se to z myth ast od pfede gleho dne dovedeti neco o hle-' dovedel. Tana jsem ho, p pi tom jsme se danem 2enichu va gi nevesty a neklamali sbli2ili; hned mne po2adal, zdali bych mu jsme se. Domaci, jak mne spatfil, zvolal vesele. Nenesete-li etyfi stoviely, mohla neja.kou zlatkou vyponioci, nee mu vrat'te se hned pro ne. Kdy2 jsem mu ty penize pfijdou. Ja si nic jineho nefekla, 2e map penize u sebe, dal mi do- pfala, dala jsem se "pumpnouti" o petku, naae2 se mne ptal, nejake svoje pis, jej byl dostal od Fritze. penize. Meli jsme s otcem vypoeitano, 2e Fritz byl ye velkYch nesnazich. Dom- na to dojde, a meli jsme plan do pfedu nival se, 2e ma na jistem po gtovnim fi- sestaven. Jen jedno se nam do nasich rozfade v jednom pfedmesti penize na ce- vrhil nehodilo, a hrozilo nam v ge pokastu poslane, a nemohl k nim, ponevad2 ziti. Chteli jsme toti2 Fritze, bude-li mo2vedel, 2e je pcgta ona hlidana tajnYmi, no, dostati na tutee lod', ktera, rnela odkte •i maji rozkazy oloupiti jej o peni- vezti vas, abyste se mohli pfipadne sejiti, ze, jakmile by je dostal. Do svehO bytu si a abyste si mohl sveho elovieka lined na take netroufal, veda, 2e by jej navgteva ceste pfipraviti k tomu, co s nim budete ye starem obydli vydala rukou chtiti podniknouti v Americe. Kdy2 jsme teltl. V to situaci se obratil na sveho do- to meli ji2 pekne rozpoeitano, vzpomneli maciho pisemne. Sala s nim, 2e ma na jsme si pojednou, 2e bude-li s vami Fritz jistem pogtovnim afade znadnou eastku v jedne t pide, bude videti na seznamu penez, 2e v gak si je nemft2e vyzdvihnouti: pasa2erti, na rozsazeni jidelny nebo na 2adal damaciho, aby mu byl ye zmocne- kabine vase jmeno a jakmile uzfi„ ze s ni se penez napomocen, 2e mu za vY- nim jede Washington Zavora, bude se pomoc zaplati neco hned, a v ge co je mu miti na pozoru. Ponevad2 jsme na to nedlu2en, 2e mu pogle ihned, jakmile se pomygleli dfive, a neporadili y am, abyste dostane do Ameriky. Za zaruku, ze vge se dal na lodi zapsati pod jinni jmenem, zaplati, nabizel svoje dopisy. Psal o tom bylo nutno pozmeniti na g plan. Meli jsme asi takto: Zarueuji se vain svYm dest- ujednano, 2e ja vyu2iji to pfile2itosti a nYm slovem, 2e vain ty penize poglu a pojedu do Ameriky zaroven, abych vain jegte o sto -zlatYch vice. Abyste vag eho hosta hlidala. A tu nezbYvalo ne211 pinou jistatu, vybefte v gechny dopisy z jeti v mezipalubi. meho kufru a dobie si je uschovejte. Vy Fritz Hofrichter, dovedev se, 2e mam vite dobie, jakou maji ty dopisy pro nejake penize fekla jsem asi tfi sta mne cenu, 2e bych je za tisic zlatYch neprodal a ani za deset tisic bych je ne- zlatYch — vyekal jen chvilieky, ne21i jsme chtel tratit. To yam bude tedy dobrou obratili fee na neco jineho ne21i na pezarukou. A2 vain po glu z Ameriky penize, nize, a vyznal mi svoji lasku. -Minn to poglete vy mne balieek s dopisy a foto- mak) lep gim zpilsobem, ne21i jeho bYvagrafiemi. Prozatirn mi tedy pomorte do- lY domaci, ale jeho jsem neudr2ovala na stati se 'k penezilm, abych mohl do Arne:: uzde revolverem, laYbr2 odkladem, a2' buriky odejeti. Penize le2i na jednom po- deme svoji. Fritz chtel nap ped, abych mu g tovnim afa.du, kam nemohu jiti si je ty penize pajeila, 2e mi odevzda v brzku dvakrate tolik a je gte si mne k tomu vezvyzvednouti. Netroufam si vystreiti vu na ulici, ac jsem hodne vzdalen od me, ale vida, 2e ode nine do ruky penez etvrti, kde mne lido znaji, a a,e jsem si nedostane, ueinil mi navrh, na kterY ,jsem dal kniry oholiti a jsem k nepoznani eekala. Navrhnul, abych utekla od strYzrnenen. Udavam svoji adresu, pfijd'te ce a abychom jeli spoil' do Ameriky, nine navgtiviti a ujedname se na torn, se v New Yorku bez odklaclu vezmcme a hned napovidal hromadu hezkYch veci jak by se daly ty penize vyzdvihnouti. o budoucnosti. Trochu jsem se rozmy gle* Kdy2 jsem mela ten dopis v ruce, bylo la, dlouho vahala, ale pak jsem se dala hradkou Fritze vynajiti. Diktovala jsem jeho ohnivYmi slovy svesti. Ne21i jsme se domacimu dopis, jim2 mne, svoji nedav- rozloueili s ureenim, na kterem na.dra21 no z Moravy se pfistehovav gi netef po- se druheho dne sejdeme, navedl mne, ana svem mist& Za dfivod, proe ne- bych svemu strYci, jeho bYvalemu domapfichazi sam jsme udali, ze je revmatis- cimu panu ukradla svazeeek s jeho domem upoutan na la2ko. Fritz, jeho2 jsem pisy. nagla v prabidnern pelechu v jednom (Pokraeovani vzdalenem pfedmesti, byl zmofen bidou,

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Ve strelm dne 16. dubna 1952,

VZPOMINKY A lcdy2 se koneene nelccle bylo jim proZivat vSecicy nesnaze; neznali tee, nebylo orneho pole, nebylo dratu, aby ten nejalcY kousieek toho polielca si mohll. ohradit. Obyclelniho staveni take bylo nialo, talc ze se dosti east° stavalo, ze v nevelkem domku bydlely aZ tti rodiny. A co hlavniho, na mnoha mnoha rnistech nebylo vody, bylo nutno dovaZet ji z potoka, a to na sanleh, nekdy 1 ze vzdalenYch mist. Kdy2 udelali nejakou tai arodu baviny, nemeli ji komu prodat, ponevadZ nebylo mesta, a kdyZ nebylo mesta, nebylo an! Zeleznice, take to musell dovaZet do vzdalenYch 'nest, a z nich zase ptivaZet, totiZ ti sami formani, pHZivobyti a rnzne potteby. Az byly postaveny Zeleznice, teprve se zaealy mnohe krajiny osazovat a zaealo bYti lepe, neb mohli dovaZet i stavebni My, kdyZ jsme ptiki do okresu Bell, men jsme na drahu asi 7 mil ptimym smerem, jenZe jeden most a .ty ptechody ptes potoky byly od sebe moc vzdalene.

Kdy2 nebylo lid!, nemel to kdo zhotovit, tedy se musela mnohdy zajiklet znaenY kus. Ale co bylo Mat. Vgichni si mysleli,-jen kdy2 ptejedu. V onu dobu, at' se jelo kainkoliv, tyto veci bylo nutno s sebou vozit— ,pluh, lopatu, motyku, sekern. Asi mnozi se ptate, proe tyto 'sled vozit; kdyZ se jelo do mesta, mill pratele, to se vozilo s sebou proto, ponevadZ ZadnY nevedel, ne2 se vrati, zaene-li prSet, a kdyZ se potok zdvihnul stavalo se, !e pfejezd byl po'Skozen. To se nejcitive musel srovnati bteh, aby potah mohl po nem kraeeti, lopatou se zahazely ty menvYmoly. Sekera se upottebila na auto vec ponevad2 cesta byl pina patezn., tedy icdyr"Z naprava vozu zachytila za takovY pakez, elovek vlezl pod vitz a ten pakez. musel po troSce usekavat, chtel-li jeti dale.

Dobte mam v pameti jak jednou na jare otec se sousedem Paulem ikezniakem si vyjeli do mesteeka Temple. Bylo zamraaeno, tedy spechali aby co nejdfive nalcoupili potteby; nea vyjeli zaealo prSeti, ale oni nedbali, ae prk a ublrali se k dornovu. Ty menk potoky piejeli, ale kdyZ pijeli k potoku zvanemu Big Elm, tento uz zaplavil btehy,,tedy yyptahli potah a uvazall k paseni na trave, a sami se uchYliii pod via. DeSt', co mel ptesta vat, tak jegte silil. Pkiko rano, potok byl kroce rozvodnen, tak ze byli nuceni ztravitt pod tim vozem dva dni. Medi velikY hlad, neb Zadne jidlo s sebou nemeli.

Otec vezi boket jablek, a ikeznieek nic, tedy pokud meli jablka jedli je, ale jak doky, tak jen kourili z fajfky.

Museli proZivat take mnoho jinYch svizeiti a nedostatkn. Ale po letech se vSe ziepAilo a nastaly lepSi easy. Nastaveli

J. P. Sefeik (Poicraoovani V.) jsrne krasne a dobre silnice, ale ptemkSinn, jsou-li k trZitku nebo ku zkaze lidstva, nebot' kdy2 Oteme ty denni zpravy, aZ se hrnzou ottasame nad tim, kolik lidi stale ptichazi o divot, a kolik je jich zmrzaeeno.

A tak tteba ae ti nak star! rodieove ProZivali ty trudne a tale chvile a Zili v nedostatku, oni meli a citili lasku jeden k druhemu, a Zili jak krevni bratti, totiZ byli spolcojeni.'Kdy2 se stab, ze nekdo v osade zemtel, tu si dali vedet jeden druheinu a vhly se ptiki vdichni rozloueit se zesnulYm, totiZ vkchni ptiki na. politeb.

Oni ti nak Ceti lide, kteti ptichazeli z to stare vlasti, ptinesli s sebou tyto dobre vlastnosti pilnost, sttidmost, getrnost.

A po letech v‘Sichni se domohli svYch domovn a majetkii. A dnektim dnem vidIme, kterYm zdravi slouZilo a kesti ptalo, ze jsou majetniky mnoha set alai toho nejlepkho pozemku a ritznYch jinYch maj etkn.

Ku pkikladu, dnes si chceme zbudovat novY domov, tedy si nejcitive zajedeme do mesta, okoukame nekolik tech domovu, pak poladame majitele, aby nam dovolil podivati se dovnitt, jak to maji za,tizeno, a pak teprve stavime dle middy. Vystavime krasnY dun, vybavime ho modernim nabytkem a vAint pohodlim, a kdyZ je to vSe hotovo shledame, Ze nam chybi to nejhlavnejk vec — spokojenost. A tak se domnivam, ze nam chybi ta pospolitost jednoho ku druhemu, ale doufejme, Ze se polep§ime.

A nyni se vratim do doby svelto mladi a sdelim yam, co v S. e elovek vytrpi neZ se oleni. Ja jsem ye syYch klukovskYch letech hrozne rad jidal sladice vodni melouny, jsem se donmival, Ze na, svete neni nic lenSiho a sladdiho ne2 takovY sladkY vodni meloun. Ale abyste z toho nee° vedeli, muslin vam to povedet od zaeatku. Stall pionYti, 60 nebo vice let, ani k tem zabavam krasne sine, jake mame nyni. Ale oni si ty spoleeenske a sousedske zabavy potadali po domech, jednou u toho, podruhe u jineho, a moji rodiee men k tomu postavenou jednu prostrannou svetnici, ve ktere se to krasne hopkovalo. Obyeejne v sobotu rano otec tekl, "Honziku nebo Pepiku, sed. ecky ty soune'S na kobylku a 'objede'd v A sedy od jedne do S'esti mil, a vytid' jim, aby yeeer piisli na taneeni zabavu, Ze Jan Bartek bude vyhravat na flaknet." A ti lide vkly bez vYjimky se brzy vkchni dostavili. Na ty zabavy k nam dochazela take jedna devukca, kterd se radeji bavila s hochy neZ s deveaty. Staeilo, kdyZ ji ne-

kterY mladenec tekl, "Malko, dej mi sladlcou thibieku." Ona mela takovou naturu jak ten velkY anglickY statnik, v-Sak jste no znali, ten v;c'e iidil parapletem, jak politiku tak poeasi, a tato devngka zase iidila ty hubielcy ofulcaoem neb yejitem. Ona obyeejne chytila Honzu do sy Ych pazourn, a dala rnu jich tolik, ze kdyZ se dostal z jejiho objet!, tak oddychoval, jako kdyZ vas ponotim na minutu pod vodu. A kterY nahodou dostal jen jeden takovY polibek, tak si obyeejne kekl, ae toho bylo malo, ale bylo to sladSi flea vodni sladky .meloun. A talc ja, kdyZ jsem to tak ye sve nevinnosti poslouchal, tu jsem si vkly pomyslel, milt' Bole, co je to jen za sta y, kdyZ, je to jeSte sladk neZ sladkY meloun, ja o nieem sladAim nevedel. A tak si myslim, ze to musim take okusit.

V nagem okoli bydlela diVenica asi meho star!, 15 nebo 16 let. To vam scieluji, a ujiSt'uji vas, ze jestli v te dobe byla kde v Texasu Sikovna a dobra dcerka, toZ to byla jedna, a k tomu byla take hezky, tak ja jsem si myslel, Ze to bude prvni device, ktere polibim, a ze takova hubleka bude ze vkch nejsladk. Jednou v nedeli jsme se bavili hoAi s deveaty, snad to byla hra s prstYnkern, litali jsme kolem, a tu ona beli a postavi se ptimo zady ptede mne. A tak ja si myslim, Pepo hYbej se rychle ptistoupim k ni, polokl jsem ji ruku pies prsa, nahnu ji do zadu a chci ji polibit na eelo. Ale ona se vymrkila jako zpruZina, jeji maid pestiaka se mihla vzduchem, a neZ byste tekli puk basordie, jir2 jsem ji mel no nosu a to takovou, Ze na kratkou dobu jsem se musel stranit sppleenosti, nebot' infij nosanek zaoinal nabYvat podoby zrale okurky. KdyZ jsem pak ptikl domn, thatinica spraskla ruce a tekla, "Ale, Pepiku, co se stab s tvojim rat'afakem," a ja jsem tekl, "Ale nic, matinko, jen emelak mne pichl." A pak jsem met dost easu ku ptemYkeni o torn, byloli to sladice nebo trpice. Vim jen to, Ze to bylo hezky teple, a tak se to patti. Tato divenka se po letech provdala, ale domnivam se, ae ten jeji vyvolenY nebyl to jeji eiste lasky hoden; jinak to byl hodnY elovek, pracoval, a snad i miloval svoji rodinu, jen tu vadu mel, Ze se ptespkiliS ptidrZoval to zpropadene skllnky, a ta byla ptieinou jeho ptedeasneho skonu.

My mnozi jsme mell tu vadu, kdy2 jsme ptiki na zabavu nebo do salonu, tak jsme mysleli, Ze dokud se dobte nenapiji, po ptipade nepoperu, ze nic neuZiju, aekoliv v posledni dobe my stark jsme o kapieku lepSi, nebot' tech kYvalti tolik nevidime, a to kaZdemu slouZi ku cti.

(Pokraeovo,n1).

Ve st•edu, dne 16. dubna 1952.

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nehvizdej, zabije g me! bohdej2, to s tyymi penezi nehoda zadavali. jdiEti na kolo!"

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Vernost.

Dedecek vypravoval: Kdyi jsem by! m a 1 chlapec, meli jsme v zahrade nekolik ulu vCel. Jednoho dne me tatinek zavolal, abych se s nim sel podivati na veelin. Videl jsem, ze jeho tvai je smutna a z toho jsem poznal, ie se neco stab°. A take se stalo.

Jeden roj nebyl dosti chrinen proti zime a zamrznul. 0 b a nernohli ani prom! jsme viti.

Tatinek mi jen rukou ukazal na veeli vchod do alu. Tam byly dye zmrzle veely. Byly to d y e straikyne, ktere vytr y* ai do sin rti na kchn byly pudic vc

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(Napsala Bc gena Nemcova I. Bableka mela syna a d ye dcery. Nejstargi Gila mnoho let ye. Vidni a prate', od nich se vdala. Druha dcera 'Ma pak na jeji misto. Syn, femeslnik, td byl samostatnyrn a ptiknil se do mestskeho domku. Babieka bydlela v pohorske yesniece na slerskYch hranicich zila spokojene v male chaloupce se starou Betkou, ktera, byla jeji vrstevnice a ja a rodiet slouMa. Ndila osamotnela ye sve chaloupce; vMckni obyvatele vesnieti byli ji bratrimi a sestrami, ona jim byla matkou, radkyni, bez ni se neskoneil ani kkesi, ani svatba, ani pohreb.

Tu najednou p •ig el babiece list z Vidne od nejstar g i dcery, v nemz ji vedomost davala, manZel jeji sluthu pfijal u jedne kneiny, ktera ma, velike panstvi a site Nachodske v Cechach, ktere je jen nekolik hodin vzdaleno .cd pohorske y esnieky, kde babieka bydli. Tarn '2e se nyni s rodinou odstehule, man2e1 pak v'gdy jen pies leto ge tam bude, kdyz i pani kneZna se tam zdrauje. Ku konci listu stala vrouci prosba, aby babieka k nim se odebrala navaly a 'Zivobyti svoje u Beery a vnoueat ztravila., kteri se jiz na ni tegi. Babieka se rozplakala; nevedela, co ma delat. Srdce ji Ohio k dceh a vnouPreeti nekolikrat s tatinkem nebo eatktim, jich2 neznala je gte, davnY zvyk maminkou, popros, aby Ti nee° vypra- poutal ji k male chaloupce a k dobr'm vovali o veelach a pak napig elinek do p •atelftm. Ale krev nehi voda; touha seSitu bez ehyb!—Strfeek je rad, ie se premohla davnY zvyk, babieka se rozmyto "Pohadka o zlate rybee" tak libila. slela, ze pojede. Chaloupku se v gim, co v I jemu se kdysi libila, kdyi byl jegte ni, odevzdala stare Betce s doldenim: malYm chlapcem. Ale uz je ternu davno. "Nevim, jak se mi tarn libiti bude, a jestli piece zde neumru mezi vami."

S pozdravem KdYg jednoho dne vozik u chaloupky Snit CEK .

MICEK Z AUSTINU se zastavil, naloiil nan koei Vaclav ha3• •( bieeinu malovanou trhlu, v loktugi svasane periny,,kolovrat, bez nehoI byt nemohla, ko gik, v nemz byla ctyri chocholata kuratka, pytlik s dverna etverobaI veal Cigan o. medvedu a vedl 6erta revnYmi kot'aty, a pak babieku, ktera k jeho dife. "Jdi tarn," povida, "vzbud' pro plat ani nevidela pied sebe. ho a popadni se s nim." Cert tarn vlezl hnanim pkatel provaz.ena odjela k novea fekl; "Vstavej, vousaei! budern spolu mu JakehO to oeekavani, jakeho radoviini zapasit!" — A medved se do neho pustil, popral a po gkrabal ho poradne a na Starem belidle! Tak toW nazyval pak ho z di •y vyhodil. — Koneene po- lid osamele Staveni v rozko gnem Adoberadil start', kdo silneji hvizdne, tak ku, jez pani Progkove, babieeine to dceaby ho bylo na tri mile slykt. eert hvizd- ri, za byt vykazano bylo. Debi vybihaly nul, a.z to zaznelo i za gumelo. A Cigan kddou chvilku na cestu, divat se neje-• tekl: "Co to! kdy'L ja hvizdnu, tehdy de-li uz Vaclav, a kaalemu, kdo sel kooslepneg i ohluchneg — zavat si °di i lem, vypravovaly: "Dnes prijede nage 6ert zavazal. Tu vzal Cigan palici, babieka!" Samy pak mezi sebou si ustaco drivi Stipaji, a uhodil eerta za ugi viene povidaly: "Jaka pak asi to babieka Oj, poekej! pj, bude?'' jednou i po druhe. -

liho zakona postaveny, aby hlidaly vchod do U. Take v Texasu krajane mivaji veely.

Od nich se deti mohou ueiti pilnosti a poiadku jak dorm tak v obci, ve spolcich a viibec mezi licirni.

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sttelti, Itine-111;thi1ra 1952.

Jen se zeptat!

ObyeejnY smrtelnik (ete): " . A Kdyt. I by riemohl kratce a moudte napsat, slunce sklonito se za nebetyane hory, nastal . veeer. )• 4, • ( Po ulici ubiral se pohtebni prtivod.

Kdo to umtel, synaeku?" taeali jsme rozprosttel se nad krajem tmavY zavo) Mu Nu Feki dkc.,w nastalo Sero — a velebne ticho ru.Sene.)! se na blizku stojieiho chlapee.

Liena: Appendicitis. bylo jen evrlikanim evr6la . ." (VypukJO. nevim," tekl chlapee, "ale myslim, Vidig — já ti potad fikal„ aby jsi e to bude ten elovtwtk, co je nvni v te ne) Hrom do tech g krabalti — co ti vy-i se k nemu nefintila, mohla's to odbyt I PlYtvaj i zbyteene papiru a inkoustu; jako tfeba ion pouhYm nastuzenim. akvi

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Prvni: Ne? to se tedy vane dcerutika u vratila domil z to pevecke Akoly?

Eldridge W. Bartay z Caldwell, kterY oficielne ve •i v jeho heslo, tie "Moje slovo je moji zarukou", spinomocnil v tonito tYdnu tenth easopis ku oznarneni jeho kandidatury pro demokratickou nominaci jako Serif a okresu Burleson. . P. Bartay byl silnYm kandidatem pro ten atad tierifa v demokratickYch primarnich volbach ptede dvema roky, a na mnoha vyzvani od jeho mnohYch ptatela ✓ celem okresu, on se opet nabizi jako kandidat pro tento vysokY a dttletiitY alad.

Narozen v okresu Austin, Texas; on byl ✓ obchodu v Caldwell a v okresu son po poslednich patnact roku, a byl residentem v Caldwell po poslednich sedm • Je dobte znam v obchodnich, obeanskjich a cirkevnich kruzich v to osade. P. Bartay je tienat, jeho mantielka je dtivejtii sl Hazel Williams z Caldwell, a mail tri ditky, Tandy, Eldridge, 13, Gary Kent, 15, a Gail Kathleen, tti a pul roku veku. Ta rodina se vtidy aktivne podilela na zaletiitostech to osady.

Co se tSrka schopnosti p. Bartaye ohledne spravneho vykonavani povinnosti toho uradu, o kterY on se uchazi, on veli tie jeho dlivejSi zkuSenosti jako specialniho atednika. pro Santa Fe Railway Company v Beliville, a jako specialni deputy pro federalni yladu ye Freeport, Texas, byly cennYmi pro kvalifikovani ho pro ten lad 'Serifa,. A krome tech dtivefaich zkutienosti, jestli bude zvolen, p. Bartay zamysli prodelat zvlatni kurs ku rortiiteni jeho vedomosti tYkajicich se zakona a potadku.

V tom jeho oznameni pro uve•ejneni, p. Bartay prohlasil: "Ptedne, ja si pfeji podekova rti lidu v tomto okresu, kteti mne podporovali a volili pro mne v tech volbacli pled dvema roky. A pro ty, kteti pro mne nevolili, ujitit'uji tie nernam nic proti nim, ale pfeji si, aby uvatiili ptiznive to moji kandidaturu v tech ptichazejicich primarkach.

"Po deseti letech jako mirovk irtednik, ja mam daveru, tie ta velika, povedomost a ty mnohe zkutienosti ziskane budou mi umotiriovat schopne vykonavani povinnosti tierifa.

"Nejde p11 tom o tiadne velke politicke otazky, ani jakekoliv kampanni sliby pfi uchazeni se o ten ifiad, ponevadti poVinnosti tierif a jsou jasne pledepsany zakonem. Ale tim jednim slibem, kterY chci

Elfr6ma 17 ueinit, jestli budu zvolen, ja se budu vtidycky snatiit podle myth nejleptiich schopnosti o to, abych si udrtiel daveru mne venovanou. A ja ujitit'uji lid v tornto okresu, tie budu po vtiechny easy administrovat ten tierilav (dad svedomite nejleptiich zajmech toho okresu stale na mysli.

"Ja fina.ncuji to moji kampair v ka2dem ohledu, a nikdy nebudu "loutkou" pro kteroukoliv ttidu, jednotlivce, nebo politickou maAinu. MSim hlavnim cilem bude hledeti k tomu, aby zakony byly vynucovany, a davani katidemu v okresu Burleson takoveho druhu ochrany za jakou daneplatei plati, a jak to ten Wad vytiaduje. Take, jestli budu zvolen, ja budU venovat maj Cas napted povinnostem toho diadu, a jestli budu mit nejakY eas mimo ten iikad, ja ho planuji vyutiiti k podporovani tech nejlepSich zajmu mladYch lidi.

"Ja uptimne tiadam o hlasy a vliv voli cu v tomto okresu, a budu si velice vatiiti jejich laskaveho uvatieni. 'A jestli mne uznaji za hodna zvoleni jakojejich gerifa, ja ueinim vtie moine pro fizeni toho atadu podle zakona, a budu stale pohotoy jim sloutiiti. yam velrni oddanS, ELDRIDGE W. BARTAY, Caldwell, Texas.

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Bratr IWzda ma slovo easy se meni a lidi s nimi. Dlivejc zakladaly se novy spolky jenom proto, aby bylo vicejc mist pro uredniky — tejkone se rnuseji spolky doprotiovat, aby nekrej riakY to atednictvi vzal.

• • • Ta,k se mi lim dalejc vicejc zda, tie by se nam stall nekerY nasi kamaradl nara,mne mot neptijemnYmi dyby se pie stall najednou ptetvatovat.

• • • east° si nekterSr lidi stetiujou, tie jim lidi ukradaji lest —• ale to je vet, , kerou nikdo ukrast nematie; jen dyti si da katidy pozor, aby ji nezahodil sam.

• • • Nekerej tatik ual syna, jak je to nelickY zatilapnout brabence, ale otiidit bli2 niho tie je orajt.

• • • Jeden muzikant povida, tie dyti slytiime poladejc opakovat jeden zvuk, tie se ten zvuk v achu natiem meni. Tohlenc se mi nebot' dyti sly'Sime od zda bejt pravda nekoho potadejc volat "ja.," "ja.", zni to za chvilku jako "ia",

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Cteni bratti a sestry: Timto se varn oznamuje, Ze behem mesice biezna 1952 Hlavni ritadovna SPJST vyplatila pojiSteni po na gich zerntelYch bratiich a sestrach, jak nasleduje: Umrti eislo 5157. Ses. Rosie Picha, zamestnanim hospodyne, od tadu TexaskY Mir cislo 10, zemtela dne 14. imora 1952 ye start 66 let. Do Jednoty ptistoupila dne 3. ledna 1907. Certifikat A-2130 na $1,000.

Umrti Cislo 5158. Bratr Frank Kohout, zamestnanim rolnik, od tadu Pokrok Houstonu eislo 88, zerntel dne 19. fmora 1952 ye stall 84 let. Do Jednoty ptistoupil 2. dubna 1911. Certifikat A-3314 na 81.000.00. tmrti eislo 5159. Ses. Annie Bell Sill, zamestnanim hospodyne, od tadu Jaro Cislo 130, zemiela dne 20. Unora, 1952 ye stall 41 let. Do jednoty ptistoupila dne 13. dubna 1934. Certifikat 0-2084 na $1,000.00.

Umrti eislo 5160. Br. Joe Krigtof, na odpoeinku, od tadu Rovnost eislo 7, zemtel dne 10. btezna 1952 ve star! 63 let.

Do Jednoty pkistoupil dne 11. tijna 1931.

Certifikat B-1444 na, $1,000.00. ilturti Oslo 5161. Br. Adolf Filip, zamestnanim delnik v gasolinove stanici, od tadu Vlastenec Oslo 45, zemiel dne 10. biezna 1952, ye stati 57 let. Do Jednoty ptistoupil dne 14. eervence 1912. Certifi kat A-2142 na $1,000.00.

Umrti eislo 5162. Ses. Anna Rogge, na odpoeinku, od tadu F. B. Zdrilbek eislo 112, zemiela dne 8. bkezna 1952 ye stati 82 let. Do jednoty ptistoupila, dne 4. kin 1906. Certifikat Faid-up eislo 299 na 0603.00. ihurti Oslo 5163. Br. Tom Bravenec, na odpooinku, od tadu Vesmerriost Cislo 68, zerntel dne 7 .biezna 1952 ye star! 80 let.

Do Jednoty ptistoupil dne 8. ledna 1905.

Certifikat A-4795 na, $1,000.00.

LTmrti eislo 5164. Br. John Uher, rolnik od tadu Danbury eislo 139, zenatel dne 19. btez.nar 1952 ye star! 78, let. Do Jednoty ptistoupil dne 13. dubna 1913. Certifika,t A-6528 na $1,000.00.

Umrti 'Oslo 5165. Br. John Sost'ak, na odpodinku, od tadu Pokrok Houstonu 88, zerntel dne 8. btezna, 1952 ye stall. 77 let. Do Jednoty ptistoupil dne 9. kijna 1910. Certifikat A-216 na $1,000.00.

Umrti eislo 5166. Ses. Mary Pechacrk, zamestnanim hospodyn6, od tadu Nove

VES T N I K - WEST, TEXAS Kvety eislo 35, zeintela, due 16. btezna 1952, ye staff 54 let, Do Jednoty ptistoupila tine 26. zati 1933. Certifikat B-845 na $1,000.00.

Umrti eislo 5167. Br. F. R. Cervenka, rolnik na odpoeinku, od tadu KomenskY eislo 20, zemtel dne 20. btezna 1952 ye stall 79 let. Do Jednoty pristoupil dne 1. eervence 1897. Certifikat A-1526 na $1,000.00.

Umrti 'Oslo 5168. Br. Rudolph 'IranickY, dZinat, od kadu 13ratri Svornosti, eislo 60, zemtel 7. latezna 1952 ye stall 67 let. Do Jednoty pfistoupil 4. ledna 1908.

Certifikat A-4026 na, $1,000.00.

Umrti eislo 5169. Br. Frank J. Polavka, krejei, od tadu Jaro Cislo 130, zerntel 21. finora 1952 ye stall 55 let. Do Jednoty ptistoupil 16. btezna 1913. Certifikat A6064 na $1,000.00.

Umrti eislo 5170. Sestra Jenovefa Kolenovsk)./, hospodyne na odpoeinku, od du Hvezdnaty Prapor eislo 55, zemiela dne 24. btezna 1952 ye stall. 88 let. Do Jednoty ptistoupila dne 13. dubna 1913.

Certifikat A-10770 na $500.00.

Umrti eislo 5171. Ses. Rosalie Oervenka, hospodyne, od kadu Komensky Cislo 20, zemiela dne 24. biezna 1952 ve stall 79 let. Do Jednoty pristoupila dne 1. eervence 1897. Certifikat A-19747 na, $250.00.

Hlavni-fitadovna SPJST timto vyslovuje portistalYm po techto zemtelYch bratfich a sestrach jeji nejhlubAi soustrast.

J. F. Chupick, tajemnik Hlavni Utadovny.

• • OSLAVME SVATEK NASICH MATEK! Z Austinu ptichazi zprava, Ze se tam na Kvetnou nedeli konala pravidelna schtize Ceskeho Literarniho SdruZeni pH Texaske statni universite. Dr. ArnoSt Jan ZiZka, profesor Ceske keel, promluvil o dulelitosti Ceskeho tisku v Americe a zadal, aby nak Sdrukni dale gitilo heslo: Do kaZde nail rodiny Ceske noviny. Po tom upozornil na vYbornY elanek krajana J. K. "Nezapomente na sve deti a ma tetskou fee," jeni byl uvekejnen dne 29. biezna v New YorskYch Listech. Zvlagte upozornil na zakoneeni elanku, jeZ" zni: "Bratti a sestry, ziji pH malem v-Ydelku, I ale i z toho India se da. Zit. A tak dues ji2 main pro deti nejake ty deske udebnice, nebot' nechci, aby zde v to samote zaostaly. Objednal jsera jim krasnou ditanku od profesora Mieka. Je to jiZ druha eitanka "Jaro" a "Leto". Je to eitanka velmi pekna a je nas vSech eechoslovakteti mame deti, povinnosti, abychom jim je objednali a i sami si je pte&JUL A tak doporueuji vain ykrn, abyste si na,Se krasne Citanky objednali. I pH sehe inenAim yYdelltu se to da, uktkiti, nehot' je to jen jeden dolar za eitanku, ale pro df ti to ma c.enu tisIcii. Je to nak deska ekni, kttrd zde zylaSte v techto

Ve sttedu, dne 16. dubna 1952. sarnotach pottebujerne. A tak nezapoininejte na size deti a nenechte je zaostat.

Chceme se vratiti zpet, do sve vlasti. Adresa na vydavatele Citanek je: Dr. Ed. Mieek, University Station, Austin, Texas.

Oitanky jsou dye: "Jaro" a "Leto" a kaZda stoji jeden dolar. Tel dekuji prof Miekovi za jeho obetavou praci pro naSe skoslovenske deti. Techto par l'adek jsem napsal proto, Ze i v delnicke vrstve jsou take prava deska srdce a Ze nebaZi po bohatstvi, ale Po svobode. Vercim, ze Btlh mi dopleje, abych se vratil na svou milova, nou umavu.

S J. K." Autoru elanku vyslovujeme srdeony dik za doporueeni. ilbtorn bylo jednano o bliliciin se Dnu Matek. Je Zadouci, aby svatek nagich maminek byl dtistojne oslav-n v domacnostech, v kostelich i ye spolkovYch sinich. Nutno pospiSiti s ptipravami na to oslavu. Jen jeden mesic v rode je krasnY kveten a v nem jen jeden svatek Matek.

KaZdy z nas vi, co pro nas nak maminky znamenaji nebo znamenaly. V eitance "Jaro" zvlaSte i v ditance "Leto" je nekolik krasnYch, dobte volenYch basni pro Den Matek. Nektere jsou kratke, nektere delSi, nektere pro deti, jine pro dospele, ale jsou snadne k naueeni i pro menu! deti. Dbejme, aby nale deti v naSi teei uctily jejich maminky na jejich svatek: Den Matek. eitanky se nyni prodavaji po dolaru a lest derail ye znamkach na poStovne za jednu. Neoclkladejte, ale limed piSte na adresu Dr. Ed. Mieek, University Station, Austin, Texas a eitanka jedna nebo obe yam budou IHNED zaslany, abyste mohli zaeiti s ptipravami pro ditstojnou oslavu svatku naSich Matek v nail•matetske feel, col zdUraziaujeme. Zakoneeno s heslem: Do kaZde nail rodin3r Ceske noviny.

S uptimnYm pozdravern Ed. Midek.

1 • sr• • I O RAJSKY TEXASE. (Podle napevu: S Bohern ty z LeSetinskeho kovate.) krilsnr Texase, kdy spattim TO zase, o Tobe stale snim, o Tve krase.

O,

O slavnY Texase, Ty perlo v oase, Ty stkviS se pod nebeic jak v pohadce.

0, rajskY Texase, ye Irene extase, chci la,sku proZivat ✓ Tye case.

Texase, Texase, za Tebe modlim se, zdravirn TO naposled ninj Texase!

Anna Domini 1952, Chicago, Illinois.

1,-trana

Wednesday, April 16, 1952

All contributions, correspondence of Lodge rePorters, bio g ra p hies, etc.. intended for publication, must, be in the hands of the Associate Editor a week before the date of issue.

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF SLAVONIC BENEVOLENT ORDER

All communications relating to editorial matters of the English Section should be addressed: Associate Editor, .640? Prague, Houston 7. Texas.

OF THE STATE OF TEXAS

-POSTMASTER: Send form 3579 with undeliverable copies to S. P. J. S. T Fayetteville, Texas.

MUSINGS OF THE EDITOR NOTHING HAD BEEN MENTIONED by any of the supreme officers about having a summary of their reports presented and published in English. Since the main purpose of the preconvention reports is to give every member ample time to study the reports so that everybody can talk about the reports in his lodge meeting, it appears , that at least the high spots of the reports should also be given in English. It should be for the general information of the members who know better English than Czech, and it should especially aid those younger delegates who would like to get all the facts.

• YOUR EDITOR HAD ALREADY reported the main points taken out of every one of the reports published recently in the Czech section except the report of OUT attorney, Brother Kacir, and the consolidated report of the directors. In the report of Brother Kacir he gives itemized schedules as to in what counties the mortgage loans were made.

It appears from his report that the greatest number of loans was made in Harris County, with a total of 185 loans in the amount of over $700,000. Wharton County would be in the second place, with 129 loans in the amount of $525,000.1 The third position—in the size of the loans—goes to Fort Bend County in the amount of $478,000; and Bell County had loans in the amount of $436,000. Altogether, the SPJST made in the four years 1948-1951 over 1350 loans in the total amount of nearly four and onehalf million dollars.

THE CONSOLIDATED REPORT cf the four directors—Brother Kubala being ill and unable to help in drafting the report—is a concise recapitulation of the reports made by the various officers. In the report the directors give the membership growth and the insurance increase. They state the number of loans granted and they also give, two sets of figures for comparison at the beginning of 1948 and the end of 1951.

IN THE HUMBLE OPINION of your editor, there is one omission in the report of the directors. Maybe, it was omitted intentionally in order not to make

any discrimination. It was a report made by four directors pertaining to the entire amount of work done by all of them.

But suppose a member wishes to know whether or n9t there was the same amount of work done by each and every director. In other words, was the work of the directors equally divided? Or who was the busiest director? Or who was compelled by the circumstances to devote far more of his time to the welfare of the SPJST? It would not be discriminative or in the nature of giving - more credit to one than to the other, but it may be a lead to some new idea as to how the proposed districts should be outlined.

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NOW, TAKE THE ABOVE FIGURES regarding the amount of loans granted.

The county of -Harris shows 185 loans, and the adjoining county of Fort Bend shows 84 loans. It means that cne director made in these two counties alone 270 inspections and had secured for the SPJST over one million dollars worth of loans in two counties. No doubt, the same director had made inspections in three or four additional counties. The point is raised here as to how the work of each director compares with the work of any other director, or is it equally divided.

PROBABLY ANOTHER OMMISSION may be pointed out if no one takes it to be a personal affront. The editor does not intent it to be as such. Our members would no doubts wish to know the cost of operating the SPJST, not including the cost of getting new business. Let us make it more to the point by saying that we have so many outstanding certificates, including paid•up certificates which contribute nothing more to offset expense, and including juvenile term certificates. Now, what was the cost of operating the business of the SPJST in 1948? Or in 1949, 1950, and 1951? We had to pay out in salaries and wages, in bins for rent, supplies, and equipment.

Now, what was the figure per certificate?

is not operated efficiently or economically, or that some of our money is being wasted. This is only to give the members an idea whether or not our expenses are climbing too steeply, or whether or not anything- could be done about it. It is just good business, or call it a Common horse sense. When we know the expense figure per certificate, we may analyze it or compare it from year to year, or compare it with :other similar organizations and see for :ourselves if we are a dollar or fifty cents higher or lower. By knowing those, figures we can predict or estimate our expenses for the next , year or the four years till the next convention, THERE IS STILL ANOTHER ANGLE to this operating cost. It may bring us to realize more forcefully that we are not taking care of the insurance needs of the people of Czech descent in Texas.

Too many of our people have joined- the SPJST and have taken certificates for $500 or $1000. Maybe, they could not•see their way clear to take more insurance.

Or maybe we did not know how to -explain to them the need of more insurance. Anyway, they have later gone to life insurance companies to buy additional $2,000 or $5,000 or even $10,000 of life insurance. That has happened time and again. That is something we should not be proud of, if we are in the insurance business to serve our people. By knoWing the operating cost per certificate, we may wake up to the fact that the higher the amount of individual certificate, the lower the -operating cost. It is our business to be as progressive as we know how.

THAT ALSO IMPLIES that we should have every modern feature in our certificates that we issue. It is our responsibility to study the insurance-. business, to know of the trends, and to suggest them now—before the convention. We should do it whether we are paid for it or not. If we are good and sincere members, it is our responsibility, because THIS REMARK IN NO SENSE should every member benefits by improvements be considered as imputation, reproach which rechice the net cost of our insuror discredit, or to imply that our SPJST ance.

Straw. 20

VESTNIK— WEST, TEXAS

Wednesday, April 16, 1955

THE TRAGEDY OF GOOD FRIDAY IN 1865 The American Nation had two tragedies which occurred in the first part of the month of April. One of them happened on the 12th of April, 1945. It was the shock which numbed the entire Nation when the people heard the news that President Rooselvelt passed away.

Even now, seven years later, millions can recall precisely in detail where they were and what they were doing when the dread news was heard A situation very similar was experienced by the whole Nation eighty years before. Four words stirred the people in cities, at crossroads, on farms—four smiting words. "President Lincoln is dead" or "President Lincoln is assassinated." And the people had no words, they had only grief—sorrow beyond words.

Even the national flag didn't seem right, people sensed a black border or a piece of crape festooning to it.

Old Abe was gone. President Lincoln —it was all finished and over While the clouds of war were still settled darkly over the land, an election was held. Lincoln could have declared himself dictator and dispensed with an election. But such thought was abhorrent to him. He ran for reelection. His opponent was General McClellan, whom Lincoln had fired. Abe won.

A month after his second inauguration, the Union troops captured Richmond, Va., the capital of the Confederacy.

Five days after General Lee surrendered at Appomatox, President Lincoln went to Ford's Theater in Washington.

He was tired; he wanted to relax. He had liked plays since the days when he started reading Shakespeare. While this good man sat in a rocking chair in a box laughing at the comedy on the stage that night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth quietly opened the door and shot the President in the back of the head.

For nine long hours Lincoln struggled against death, but a little after 7:00 the next morning he died in a rooming house across the street from the theater.

The Southland lost its true friend; the Nation its greatest leader. Father Abraham was dead.

On The Saturday following Good Fri'day thousands of sermons were laid away as of no use for Easter Sunday.

A new sermon had to be written after the news arrived that the President was dead. In great stone cathedrals of the cities, in little cabin churches at country crossroads, in hospital chapels and navy ships and in outdoor army camp services. Easter Sunday sermons memorialized the dead President.

The press from day to day gave its readers the facts as they developed. In language and feeling the news stories mourned with the readers. In blackborder crape typography, in editorial comment and letters and poetical effusions, the newspapers went along with the grief of the public.

Beyond any doubt, said leading men and journals, there never had been on earth a man whose death brought in all countries such quick, deep human interest, such genuine sorrow, such wide flung discussion and commentary.

These were meditations and impressions of the American people in days following April 14, of 1865.

There was a funeral.

It took long to pass its many given points.

Manny millions of people saw it and personally moved in it and were part of its procession.

It was garish, vulgar, massive, bewildering, chaotic.

Also it was simple final, majestic.

In spite of some of its mawkish excess of show it gave solemn unforgettable moments, to millions of people who had counted him great, warm and lovable.

Yes, there was a funeral.

From his White House in Washington — where it began — they Carried his coffin and followed it nights and days for 12 days.

By night, bonfires and torches lighted the right of way for a slow-going railroad train.

By day, troops with reversed arms, muffled drums, multitudinous feet seeking the pivotal box the silver handles.

By day, bells tolling, bells sobbing the requiem, the salute guns, cannon rumbling their inarticulate thunder.

To Baltimore Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, they journeyed with the draped casket to meet overly ornate catalques.

To Albany, Utica, Syracuse, moved the funeral cortege always met by marchers and throngs.

To Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Chicago, they took the mute oblong box, met by a hearse for convoy to where tens of thousands should have their last look.

Then to Springfield Illinois, the old home town, the Sangamon near by, the New Salem hilltop near by, for the final rest of cherished dust.

At last to Springfield came the coffin that had traveled 1700 miles, that hod been seen by more than 7,000,060

people — and the rigid face on which more than 1,500,00 people had gazed.

In the State capitol, in the lower house of which he had been a member and where he had spoken his prophet warning of the House Divided, stood the casket.

Now passed those who had known him long. They were part of the 75,000 who passed. They ' were awed, subdued, shaken.

There were clients for whom he had won or lost, lawyers who had tried cases with him and against, neighbors who had seen him milk a cow and curry his horse, friends, who had heard his stories around a hot stove and listened to his surmises on politics and religion.

All day long and through the night the unbroken line moved, the home town having its farewell.

On May of the year 1865 a procession moved with its hearse from the State capitol to Oak Ridge Cemetery.

There on green banks and hillsides flowing away from a burial vault, the crowded thousands of listeners and watchers heard prayers and hymns, heard the second inaugural read aloud.

Evergreen carpeted the stone floor of the vault. On the coffin set in a receptacle of black walnut they arranged flowers carefully and precisely; they poured flowers as symbols, they lavished heads of fresh flowers as though there could never be enough to tell either their hearts or his.

And the night came with a great quiet.

And there was rest. ) • at. • (– "Grand Jury'—A young lawyer was presenting his first case in court. It. was a simple damage suit of a farmer against a railroad company whose train had killed 24 of his hogs, but the youngster was trying to dramatize it.

"Just think of it, gentlemen, 24 hogs," he stated impresively: "24! That's twice the number there are on the jury!" ) • a% • t Still in a fog--Driving in a dense fog, a motorist followed the tail light ahead of him, free from worry. Suddenly, the car ahead stopped and he crashed into the rear bumper.

"Hey," he shouted indignantly to the man ahead, "why don't you put out your hand when you're going to stop?"

"Why should I?" came the casual reply. "I'm in my own garage." )8 Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin; it should make you get up and do something.

V S T I■1 K

Wednesday, April 16, 1952

Strana 21

WEST, TEXAS

THE GESTAPO METHODS IN TEXAS Recently, a friend of ours and a welknown SPJST member living in the Rio Grande Valley, narrated to me the conditions of .the farmers down on the Mexican border. "We don't have any help for work and we can't keep what we get. All of our workers in the field are Mexicans, and they are constantly being taken away from us. Our cottonpickers act like a bevy of quails: as soon as they spot an unfamiliar car on the road, they scatter in every direction.

The border patrol is always busy catching our field workers."

The other day, U. S. Congressman W. R. Poage, from McLennan County, received a letter from one lady living in the Valley, in which the lady bitterly criticises the Gestapo methods of the Border Patrol. congressman Poage had the letter inserted in the Congressional Record. Since we say things about conditions elsewhere, we should know the conditions of our own people living here in Texas. As the second president of the Texas Republic once said that "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance," we should be watching so that we do not lose our precious freedom by inches. We should be guardians of democracy, and that in spite of displeasing some bureaucrats.

Here is the letter received by Congressman Poage: Harlingen, Tex., March 28, 1952 Hon. W. R. Poage, Congressman From Texas, Washington D, C. Dear Mr. Poage: Will you bear with me while I pour out my woes to the one factor I've been taught all my life would protect their people—the United States Government. This is addressed specifically to you, as Representative to me and for me, of that Government.

As we in this remote spot have known for some time we are living in an intolerable situation. Last night it was brought graphichally to my attention. My husband and I live 5 miles from Harlingen, and have had for over 4 years a faithful femme sole, who came to this Valley to get away from starvation in Mexico. This is not a figure of speech.

Perhaps she has been here illegally, but not by her wish or ours. She wanted to work (what a strange phrase that will sound to some people) and there is no legal process by which we could keep her here. Investigate ,and you will learn what I mean. To get on with my story: Mr. — — is out of town, and just at dusk a Border Patrol car spied Clara— our Mexican woman—coming home from the grocery store a mile away. They forced her into the car, which had no

official marking—she didn't know who they were— and brought her to the house. When I went to my back door to investigate, a young officer, with a very big pistol, informed that he would have to take her and her two children to Mexico. I remonstrated. "Not this time of night, and leave me alone on the place." His reply was "Now. And she must take everything she possesses."

She was in a state of such terror, and I had to give her money, so I said, "Come with me, Clara," but the Gestapo said, "What you have to say you must say here." I replied, "What I do in my own house is my business," and I took her away to calm her and give her money.

When we returned I was asked my name and address and informed that I would be repqrted for "interfering with an officer." When I pointed out that he was in my house with no warrant, the threat was not referred to again. Clara and her two little girls, all weeping bitterly, were loaded in the car, and taken to be dumped unceremoniously in a border town, at night If we did not care what happened to the poor things, I should think Mexico would Please don't misunderstand me. I know all of the serious problems involved— the immigration laws, the dope smuggling, and infinite others. We want to be law abiding, and would so easily be so, if an intelligent handling, such as prevails along the Canadian border were worked out for our southern neighbors. But because we are far away from Washington, labor agitators from Wisconsin, North Dakota, New York, and what not ,and "do gooders" from anywhere but the Rio Grande Valley listen to the bad stories and ignore any good ones, Ask me. I can tell you wonderful stories of kindness and mutual trust. Is there no one who will really study this shabby situation and try to remedy it?

Copies of this letter are going to all the Texas Representatives in Washington, to Governor Shivers, to the State Department, and to the United States consul in Mexico City. I am not living in a remote, Godforsaken country. I am living in the United States of America ,and am entitled to decent laws and living conditions.

Yours truly,

come farm-labor shortages as regular workers go to better-paying industrial jobs, Congress has once . again debated the controversial issue.

Late in February, the House approved a bill making it a felony to harbor wetbacks. Some Texas congressmen suecceed in modifying the bill to provide that employing illegal immigrantS does not mean harboring them. The teeth in proposed measure will give the right to search property for wetbacks to immigration officers who have sworn under oath the need for a search warrant before "a court of competent authority."

As previously, no search warrant will be needed in the 25-mile zone along the border.

• 4, • ( CIVILIZATION RESTS UPON SOIL This country has been built on a;highly productive agriculture, based on the ability of the farmer to produce more than he needed himself. Back some 100 years ago about 85 percent' of our people lived on the farm. They Produced enough to meet. their personal requirements, with enough left over to feed and clothe the 15 percent' engaged in industry and located in the towns.

Today it is just the reverse. There are 85 percent of our people engaged' in industry and livin4 in cities and towns, and only 15 percent on the farmS. In 1951 a little over 10,000,000 farm workers met the agricultural needs of the 155,000,000 people in the United 'States, and had enough left over a fair export to other countries. That means that each farm worker produced enough for , himself and 14 other people. It ,means that only a small fraction of our citizenry produces all the food and fiber— which are the lifeblood of our very existence—for themselves and for our expanding . population.

Stop for a minute and think that over.

It means that 14 people are dePending on one farm worker. It means that why one man does with the soil be „farms will determine how well those 14 other people live. In the broader sense, it means that all 155,000,000 of our people-and the number is increasing steadily— are directly affected by what happens By way of a postcript, we may add that to our farm lands. Thomas Jefferson put Mexico has refused to make a long-term it this way: agreement on the employment a its na"While the farmer holds title . to the tionals for seasonal farm work in the land, actually it belongs -b3 all the people Southwest, unless adequate guarantees are given against the hiring of illegal because civilization itself rests upon the wetback Mexican immigrants. To over- soil."

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WHAT MANY CITIZENS DON'T KNOW Li Texas every citizen is his own policemah—up to a point.

Authority to make arrests in certain situations is one of several little-knowh and seldom-used powers Texans have under the constitution and laws of their state. Ordinarily, the priVate citizen's role in-government is a passive one.

Al Ler he has voted for public officials to represent him about all he can do is sit back and hope for the best. There is someone to represent him at every level of government, and he can always hire a lawyer If he feels that his rights are being trampled on.

Under certain circumstances, though, John citizen can take matters into his own hands and still be within the law.

For instance, he needs no deputy's commission or special authority to make an arrest for a felony, breach of the peace or to "prevent the, consequences of theft," All he needs is nerve, judgement and perhaps a modicum of physical brawn, Lacking any of those, the attempt to play peace officer could get - a fellow into trouble.

Texas law gives private persons no power of arrest in case of misdemeanor.

If a Misdemeanor other than theft is being committed on your property you can tell the offender to desist, and if he refuses you can eject him—which is legal jargon for "throw the burn out." But if you want him arrested, you'd better call a policeman.

PriVate citizen's power of arrest to "prevent the consequences of theft," whether felony or misdemeanor, is based on the highly practical theory that if you don't catch a thief before he gets away with the loot you may not catch him at A famous case in point is that of Luera vs State, decided by the court of criminal appeals in 1882. Originating in Duval County, the case involved horse theft, a midnight chase, lethal gunplay, and other elements of a modern Western movie. .Among other things a private citizen can do in his capacity as an active partner of the government are these: Sue to prevent what he considers an illegal use of public funds.

Contest an election, even though he was not a _candidate.

Initiate legislation at the local level.

• The Texas Supreme Court upheld the first named right in the celebrated case of II 3. Terrell, comptroller, vs W. C. Middleton .This was the socalled "chicken salad case" involving payment for catering service at the Governor's Mansion in Austin. Middleton, a private cit-

We=canco lay, April 1, 1925 SAFETY RULES FOR THE ROME

Never smoke in bed. izen, sued to enjoin the state comptrolKeep non-safety matches in metal ler from issuing a deficiency warrant containers only and keep away from the to pay the bill and finally won to estab- stove. lish a precedent which is credited, with Keep all matches out el' reach of small saving the state a lot of money. children.

Another case often quoted is that of Watch the gas stove carefully so that City of Austin vs John D. McCall, in the pilot light does not go out and so which a taxpayer successfully sued to that flames are not extinguished by keep the city from incurring a debt to drafts. buy an electric power plant. (By the way, Have a rubber mat or hand-hold in if a complete history of the SPJST be the tub, so that you do not slip getting ever written, "Judge" ' John D. McCall in or out. Records show that this is one would get his place in it, together with of the most common causes of accidents "Colonel" H. C.. Burt, promoter Friday, in the home.

Keep very sharp knives' entirely out and others, behind-the-stage characters.) of reach of the children.

Always wrap broken glass or china in In election contests the cry of "we wuz robbed" ordinarily is raised by a plenty of old newspaper so that no one defeated candidate if it is raised at all. will be cut by it.

Never leave anything cooking on the But the courts also are open to the voter stove and go back to bed. It may boil if he feels he is being shortchanged on over and put out the flame without your any part of the election process. knowing it and you may be overcome The Galveston Court of Civil Appeals by the fumes.

Never use worn or defectclearly affirmed the voters' rights in the case of Clancy vs. Clough, from Houston. ive wiring or plugs.

Never leave any electrical appliance Arising out of the 1928 Houston city connected when you leave the room, Democratic primary, the case involved even though you expect to be gone "only several issues, but the court of appeals upheld the right of a voter as well as a a minute."

In the laundry use only moisture proof candidate "to have the primary election wiring for all electrical equipment. conducted in a legal manner so that the Stairs in the house present one of the result thereof could not be held void." greatest of all hazards, especially those There are several cases in the Texas leading to the cellar. legal reports of private citizens contestCellar stairs should be well lighted. ing bond and tax elections. H. H. TreacNever allow a broken step to remain car of Galveston was the plaintiff in in that condition. two which frequently are cited.

Never keep brooms, pails, etc., at the Texas citizens do not have the power head or foot of the steps or allow the those of California and some other children to leave toys on or near the Western states posesss to initiate legis- steps. lation by popular petition. They do have Be sure that all carpets or treads on broadening legislative powers on the lo- stairs are firmly secured. cal level. In such matters as legalizing Do not allow rusted nails to stand out the sale of liquor and beer, organizing from the wall, to catch or scratch. water control and fire prevention disDo not burn rubbish too near the tricts, and adoption of stock laws, elec- house and never go away and leave rubtions May be called by popular petition. bish rer leaves while they are still burnCity home rule charters sometimes mo- ing. dify the general 'local option powers Never leave the rake with the prongs which state law confers upon political up. subdivisions.

Never leave coils of rope where they Only the legislature can initiate pro- can be tripped over in the dark. posals to change the state constitution, Never start your automobile engine but no constitutional amendment can while the doors of your garage are be adopted without a vote of the peo- tightly closed. Never park in a tightly ple. No other right of citizenship is more closed automobile with the engine run-, generally neglected. Less than 5 percent rung. of the state's potential voters took part Never leave your car on a cliveway in the election last November 13 when or incline, even with the emergency five porposed amendments were submit- brake on, without turning the wheels at the down end of the car to the curb. ted' to the electorate.

All in all ,Texas citizens have as much °Remove ice or snow promptly from individual governmental power as most walks. If this is not possible, be sure to of them care to exercise—and, in many cover all slippery spots with salt, ashes or cinders. cases, a lot more.

Wednesday, April 16, 1952

LETTERS LODGE VERNOST NO. 51, ELLINGER Dear Brothers and Sisters: At the last meeting it was decided that the next regular meeting will be held on Sunday, April 27, at the Effinger Auditorium Kitchen at 1:30 p. m.

Some important matter that has been left unfurnished, regarding a special celebration which we plan to have is due for thorough discussion. Besides this we also have other very important matters to be brought before the members at this, meeting. We urge you to be present and take active part in our discussions.

Members also decided that the sisters are to bring something to eat, such as sandwiches, kolaches, cakes, etc. or prepared dish, etc. and the men will see that we have plenty of refreshments to go with it. The lunch is to be served after the meeting. ,Fraternally yours, D. A. Juren, Sec'y ,) • 4 • t SAN ANTONIO LODGE NO. 133 Brothers and sisters: The 35th anniversary celebration of Lodge San Antonio no. 133 is now behind us leaving memories unforgetable for some time to come: the meeting of old friends who clasped one another's hands warmly; the meeting of acquaintances making friends more firmly; the brotherhood and fellowship evident on all sides, the making of new friends heartily. Observing that the rains, which were so needed, had let up just in time to allow convenience of attendance and kindly starting to rain again the next day. Surely some kind providence had decreed that this celebration be a suceeSs... It was.

Attendance was everything wished for, and although the atmosphere was somewhat humid one could feel that spring 'was in the air, the season when the young man's fancy waitingly turns to thotights of love, and the young women's prayer with the look of "I dare you" written on her face.

I' regret tlia.t we failed to provide seating for those who waited outside until they could get their dinner. I know of some friends who did not stay for the program and left after eating because of the long wait and standing in line, which fatigued them. We're learning something at every function and next time we try to improve. So please bear with us.

I want to take this opportunity to pay respects to the Supreme Lodge Officers who turned cut in such a large number for, the celebration. At the end of the prog .am my aim was to do this but in the furore following bro. Valcik's

'STE' S TNIK — WEST, TEXAS showing of the films, I couldn't even hear myself talk. Besides, some of the officers had already seen them and had left on the long journey homeward.

I want to thank you, in the name of Lodge San Antonio, for your presence as well as for your contributions to our program. We'll be looking forward to seeing you again at some future date.

Bro. Valcik's colored films were really remarkable, bringing out the beauty of the la.ndscape and the flowers most prominently. Even beautiful than when you see them in your garden. All in all they were very interesting and everyone appreciated and enjoyed them to the last. Thanks' again bro. Valcik.

Among the pictures shown were the San Antonio representatives to the all National festival which was held last year in Houston where they danced the Beseda in full costumes. I could tell from the Ah's and Oh's that they were pleased seeing themselves as others see them, forwards and backwards. Also interesting to many were the delegates seen attending the Slavonic Mutual Fire Ins. Asso'n. (SLIPS). convention at. Rosenberg last year, where it was agreed that this Czech organization give our members the best fire protection for the money available anywhere. Yes, sir!

Bro. Urbish, the grand sec'y, and bro.

Vytopil were seen with a bellied candle in their hands, hiliarously gesturing to the camera man as much as to say "here's mud in your eyer, bro. Valcik."

Then. there was the delegate from San Antonio, whom for the first time in his life saw himself walking (how terrible) while he was sitting down. Which reminds me of the Indian whom for the first time in his life saw a man riding a bicycle, said he "Ug! Big dam foolsitdown-n-walk!" Fraternally yours Sylvester Bundil ) • IL • JARO LODGE NO. 130 Dallas, Texas Dear Readers, The regular meeting of Lodge Jaro 130, Dallas, Texas, as held Sunday, April 6, and the attendance was fair. It was a very interesting meeting as there were many topics of interest to all members covered—among them our coming Convention. We would like to see more of our members attend these monthly meetings.

The Lodge wants to take this opportunity to thank all of you that helped make our dinner a huge success—especially Sister B. Valcik and her staff in the kitchen and the sisters who brought all of that wonderful Czech pastry. We had a nice turn out and everyone enjoyed the bingo after the dinner.

Strana 23 'We hope to have another dinner this fall and hope to see all of you there again.

Sincerely, Mrs. A. M. Vrla ) • 46 • 1 A REMINDER! Don't forget that delicious chicken Barbecue Supper that will be served by the SPJST Birthday Club at Lodge Pokrok No. 88 at 1140 Robbie in Houston, April 19th from 5 till. There will be DOOR PRIZES; and of course, BINGO! Everyone is invited. Come out. .

THE COMMITTEE Birdie Hilsher )• • CZECH FOLK FESTIVAL IN AUSTIN Czech history in Europe and America ill be presented in tableaux by University of Texas students during a Czech Folk Festival April 27.

Exhibits will open at 2:30 p. ,m., and the program will begin .at 3 p. m, in the Student. Union Building. Costumed, dan. cers from Temple.will perform.

Speakers will include Secretary- of State John Ben Shepperd, University Vice-President James C. Miley, Education Dean L. D. Haskew and Dr. Edward Micek, Slavonic languages department chairman.

Coffee and Czech tarts, "kolaches", will be served.

Student narrators for the historical portion of the program will be: Abbott—Albert L. Ozymy.

Austin—Donald A. Dacy, 400 33rd; Joseph S. Rollback, 1304 San Antonio; and Elizabeth Strauss, 4411 Alice.

Hubbard, Oregon—Frank J. Nemec.

Moulton—Edith Okruhlik.

Shiner—Ethlyn Freytag.

Stamford—Lillie Musil.

Sugarland—Johnnie B. Vavrecka.

Taylor—Evelyn Zak. Temple—Henry A. Tyroch. \• •( MEN WHO SUCCEED "The men whom I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a smile cn their faces, and took the changes and the chances of this mortal life like men, facing rough and smooth alike, as it comes."

—Charles Kingsley )• • Telegraph Error—As a newspaperman, I am always glad to know that we are not the only ones who make typographical errors. One of my neighbors, on a business trip t o Chicago, sent his wife the following telegram: "Having a wonderful time. Wish you were her.

T rt —

WHERE IS BROTHERHOOD? One of the most frightening tragedies that has overtaken man in this second hall' of the twentieth century is his growlng inability to respond to tragedy.

We are slowly becoming men whose senses are blunted. We can no longer feel heart-sick—as once we could—at outraged justice. We are no longer sensi"tive—as once we were—to individual human suffering, persecution and the deliberate taking of life.

We are no longer capable of terrible indignation when human dignity is • trampled on; we are no longer able to weep tears of pity and wrath over tyranny and torture.

We have become—or we are in dangel of becoming—men whose minds are dulled by mass slaughter. Our intellects, our senses cannot grasp the meaning of the 22,000,000 human beings killed in World War IL The wounding of 34,000,000 others in the same war is too vast, too horrifying for us to comprehend. The coldly planned extermination of 7,000,000 Jews is so enormous and unbelievable a tragedy that it can hardly make an impact on us. At the most, it leaves us numb and with a feeling of something unreal.

We are theratened with a return to barbarism—not simply because man has devised means for the mass slaughter of his fellowmen, but because he no longer feels the meaning of that slaughter.

The miracle of human life no longer seems miraculous. The preciousness of the. individual and the inviolability of his God-endowed rights belong increasingly .to the past.

•We accept much of this loss without being conscious of our losing it. We tend to a contagious fatalism which implies that tragedy on a world scale is inevitable.

'Our newspaper can preoccupy us day after day with loud, streaming headlines reporting the battle against nature of a single man on a broken ship 100 miles off England. But death sentences imPosed—without trial, without justice— on nine freedom-loving men in Spain receive no headlines, no columns of newsprint.

Nine men in a cell in Spain, condemned to death—nine obscure men, as obscure as Sacco and Vanzetti were—they are our brothers more intimately than any mortal kinship could make them.

They were convicted, "on the charge of devotion to democracy."

And yet the future of our world, the dwindling promise of peace and sanity and of all human values depend on our hearing the voices of such men as these

condemned to death in Spain. Even more, the survival of human decency and dignity depend on the voices of such men --in prisons, in death cells, in slave labor camps wherever they exist in the world—reaching the millions who are still free.

For our own survival, for the right of men to walk again with their heads high, for the freedom of our Children and the generations to come, we must not only hear those voices we must recapture the capacity to be aroused by them. We mist again become capable of deep pity- and profound anger. We must restore to the world "brotherhood" the emotional meanings that make us deep inside our "brother's keeper. ) • TRAVELOGUE FILM AND LECTURE

BY REV. E. ZIZKA IN 'YOAKUM' SUNDAY, APRIL 20th.

Sunday April 20th, 2:30 p. in. the local lodges of SPJST and KJZT will present Rev. E. Zizka, OSB. at the High School Auditorium in a travelogue film and lecture.

Rev. Ernest Zizka, promises to give interesting program since he has very wide experience as a lecturer, traveler, writer and missionary, over thirty year8 both in this country and in Europe, especially in Czechoslovakia, where he was born and came to this country at the age of 14 to Cleveland 0. He has been an Army Chaplain in the last War,,serving in number of Texas Camps, including El Paso, Abilene and POW at McLean. He has written many newspaper columns on his travels and in the field ,of Sociiology and holds a Ph. D. degree from Charles IV. university in His film presentation will include " include many historical events from Rome.

Paris and Prague where he was lecturing traveling at the time of Communist "putsch", (Feb. 1948 Rev. Zizka is well known in our Community and throughout Texas and many Czech communities in all parts of America, by reason of his lectures and research in sociology. At present Rev. Zizka is on the Staff of U, T. in the Slovanic Department. He will be introduced by the pastor, monsgr.

Jos. Pustka. * & ( FRAGILE

A woman was mailing the old family Bible to her brother in a distant city.

The postal clerk examined the heavy package carefully and inquired if it contained anything breakable.

"Nothing but the Ten Commandments," was the quick reply.

Wednesday, April 16, 1925 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS CZECH FOLK FESTIVAL—APRIL 27—TEXAS UNION

The Czech Yolk Festival on April 27th at the Texas Union promises to be a splendid demonstration of student initiative and teacher direction in preparing the attractive art and book exhibit, historical milestones tableau and a selection of popular czech folk songs.

For many weeks the students of Czech classes under direction of Dr. Ernest Zizka, their Czech professor, have been busy in searching for interesting facts for the historical tableau dialogues. The earliest period is narrated by Ethyl Freytag, the second covering the establishment of Prague University in 1348, by Edith Okruhlik, and the period of 30 years war marking the loss of Czech Independence by Adalbert Ozymy and the Revival Period from 1780 to 1950 by Evelyn Zak. The American Czech background begins at 1636 when Augustin Heman and the Prince merchant Bedrich Phillips occupied important positions in the New England development, when Amos Comenius in 1646 was invited to Harvard and the Moravian Brothers settled in Kentucky and Pensylvania in 1780. Czech pioneers, a political refugees of 1850 settled in East and new wave came after the Civil War in 1870. To Texas first came Dr. A. Dignowity in 1832 contemporary of General Austin and to New Braunfels came from Bohemia the early missionary Bohuslav Menzel in 1847. Another great leader of Texas Czechs was Judge Haidusek, who already in 1885 established the first Czech Newspaper Svobocia and urged his kinsmen to take active part in public life. Fraternal and Church groups thrived and helped to keep all engaged in civic and social programs. This part of the historical tableau will be narrated by Donald Dacy, Jos. Rollbach, Henry Tyroch and Elisabeth Strauss: In the finale will be told how the Texan Czechs contributed to the upbuilding, of this state and particularly about their cultural contributions through splendid organizations and through the Czech Department here at U. T, and the Czech Club. John Vavrecka, Fr. Nemec, Lillie Musil will narrate this section.

The exhibit will document the tableau.

Large group from Temple in national costumes will dance the Beseda. Speakers will include J. B. Shepperd, T. S. S., Dr. J. C. Dolley, U. vice president. Educ.

Dean L. D. Haskew and Dr. E. Micek, Cr. SI. L. )• •( A Chinese proverb says: "A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than 10 years' study of books."

Wednesday, April 16, 1952

VESTNIK WEST, .TEXAS

OFFICE OF SUPREME LODGE April 1, 1952 Dear Brothers and Sisters: You are hereby advised that during the month of March, 1952, the Supreme Lodge, SPJST, has paid death benefits due by virtue of certificates issued to the following deceased, brothers and sisters, to wit: Death Claim No. 5157. Sister Rosie Picha housewife, member of Lodge Texasky Mir, No, 10 died February 14, 1952, at age 66. Admitted into the Order on January 3, 1907. Certificate A-2130 for $1,000.00.

Death Claim No. 5158. Brother Frank Kohout, farmer, member of Lodge Pokrok. Houston, No. 88, died February 19, 1952, at age 84. Admitted into the Order April 2 1911. Certificate A-3314 for $1,000.00.

Death Claim No. '5159. Sister Annie Bell Sill, housewife, member of Lodge Jaro, No. 130 died February 20, 1952, at age 41.

Admitted into the Order April 13 1934.

Certificat C-2084 for $1,000.00.

Death Claim No. 5160. Brother Joe Kristof, retired, member of Lodge Rovnost, No. 7, died March 10, 1952 at age 63. Admitted into the order October 11, 1931.

Certificate B-1444 for $1,000.00, Death Claim No. 5161. Brother Adolf Finn, filling station worker, member of Lodge Vlastenec, No. 45, died March 10, 1952, at age 57. Admitted into the Order July 14, 1912. Certificate A-2142 for $1,$1,000.00 • Death Claim No. • 162. Sister Anna Rogge, retired, member of Lodge F. B. Zdrubek, No. 112, died March 8, 1952, at age 83. Admitted into the Order Septem ber 4, 1906. Certificate Paid-up No. 299 for $603.00.

Death Claim No. 5166. Brother Tom Bravenec, retired, member of Lodge Vesmernost, No. 68, died March 7, 1952, at age 80. Admitted into the Order January 8, 1905 Certificate A-4795 for $1,000.00.

Death Claim No. 5164. Brother John Uher, farmer, member of Lodge Danbury, No. 139, died March 19, 1952, at age 78. Admitted into the Order April 13, 1913. Certificate A-6528 for $1,000.00.

Death Claim No. 5165. Brother John Sostak, retired, member of Ledge Pokrok Houston, No. 88, died March 8, 1952 at age 77. Admitted into the Order

March 9, 1910. Certificate A-216 f $1,00.00.

Death Claim No. 5166. Sister Mary Pechacek, housewife, member of Lodge Nove,Kvety, No. 35, died March 16, 1952, at age 54. Admitted into the Order September 26 1933. Certificate B-845 for $1000.

Death .Claim No. 5167. Brother F. R. Cervenka, retired farmer, member of Lodge Komensky, No. 20, died March 20, 1952 at age 79. Admitted into the Order July 1, 1897. Certificate A-1526 for $1,000.00.

Death Claim No. 5168. Brother Rudolph Hranicky, ginner, member of Lodge Bratri Svornosti, No. 60, died March 7, 1952, at age 67. Adynitted into the Order January 4th, 1908. Certificate A-4026 for $1,000.00.

Death Claim No. '5169. Brother Frank J. Polavka, tailor, member of Lodge Jaro, No. 130, died February 21, 1952 at age 55. Admitted into the Order March 16, 1913. Certificate A-6064 for $1,000.00.

Death Claim No. 5170. Sister Jenovefa Kolenovsky, housewife, member of Lodge Hvezdnaty Prapor, No. 55. died March 24, 1952 at age 88. Admitted into the Order April 13 1913. Certificate A-10770 for $500.00.

Death Claim No. 5171, Sister Rosalie Cervenka, housewife, member of Lodge Komensky, No. 20, died March 24, 1952, at age 79. Admitted into the Order July July 1, 1897. Certificate A-19747 for $250.00.

To the bereaved relatives of our deceased Brothers and Sisters, the Supreme Lodge, SPJST, expresses its heartfelt sympathy.

J. F. Chupick, Secretary Supreme Lodge, SPJST I • • A teacher once asked a small tyke in her class if he underStood the phrase "rapid enunciation."

With the candor of the young, the boy replied: "Yes'm, it's the way folks say their prayers on cold nights."

• 4. • ( BROTHERS and SISTERS, we want you to have your Vestnik. When you have a change in address, please send your change of address to the Supreme Lodge SPJST, Fayetteville, Texas. Don't forget to fill it out like this: I have a new address!

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Enclosed Please Find .

Dear Sir:

In reply to your request to send -a check, I wish to inform you that the present condition of my bank account makes it almost impossible. My shattered financial condition is due to federal laws, state laws, county : laws, brother-in-laws, and outlaws.

Through these laws I am compelled to pay a business tax, amusement tax, head tax, school tax, city tax, gas tax, light tax, water tax, sales tax, liquor tax, income tax, food tax, * furniture tax. I am required to get a business lincense, car lincense operator's license, truck license, not to mention a marriage license and a dog license.

I am also required to contribute* to every society and organization Which the genius of man is capable of bringing to life, to woman's relief, the unemployed relief, and the gold digger's relief. Also, to every hospital' and 'charitable institution in the city including the Salvation Army, Community .Chest, Red Cross, Purple Cross, Double Cr Boy Scouts Girl Scouts, Cub ScotitS, Y. M. C.A. and Y. W. C. A., as well as Way Stations for Wayward Girl's '`and Boys' Ranch and Boys' Town.

For my own safety, I am required to carry health insurance, life insurance, fire insurance, property insuranee,' • 1Wbility insurance earthquake insurance, tornado insurance, unemployment 'coin,. pensation insurance and old age' inr, surance.

My business is so governed that it isno easy matter to find out who owns it* am expected, inspected, suspected, 'diS respected, rejected dejected, examined, re-examined, informed, required, stimmoned, fined, commanded and compelled until .I provide an inexhaustible supply of money for every known need, desire or hope of the human race.

Simply because I refuse to donate to something or other, I am boycotted, talked about, lied about, held up,- held down and robbed until I am almost ruined.

I can tell you honestly that except for a miracle that happened I could not enclose this check. The Wolf that comes to many doors nowadays just had 'pups in my kitchen. I sold them and here is NAME the money.

Your very truly, OLD ADDRESS John Q. Blank ) • .14 • LODGE "Father," asked the small boy, "which can go faster, horses or buses?"

NEW ADDRESS "Buses, of course," answered the father impatiently.

Mail to: SUPREME LODGE SPJST, "Then why," asked the small boy, FAYETTEVILLE, TEXAS (dz) "don't you bet on the buses?"

WHAT DOES THE TRAIN WHISTLE SAY? WHERE TO GO If you are aWakened some night by a train whistle and you are listening to its echo, you are inelined to think that some inconsiderate engineer is having fun making a - mice in the middle of the night.

At least that is what I used to think until an old retired railroad engineer told me a different kind of story.

This is what I learned: The engineer is actually saying something definite, something important.

The commonest whistle, two long toots, a short and a long one, is a warning to pedestrians and cars and says, "I'm coming to a grade crossing. Wait. Let me get by before you cross."

Sometimes the signal is one short and che long blast. That means the engineer wants the train crew to get busy inspecting the air line for leaks, or for sticky brakes.

Three shorts and one long signal the flagman to protect the front of the train; one long and three shorts to protect the rear.

Perhaps the train is so crowded that an additional section has been added.

In that case, when the engineer is passing another train he gives a long blast and two short Ones, meaning that a second section is following.

Occasionally an engineer really wants an answer to his Signals—a two-way conversation. For instance, when he sees

a train break in the middle he gives three long whistles and waits for an aswner of two short ones.

Some signals are either all shorts or all longs. One short blast means the train is stopping. Two short ones are always an answer to any signal not otherwise provided for. Three short whistles when the train is standing still; I'm going to back up! Three shorts when it is 'tuning mean that it is going to stop at the next passenger station.

Four short toots are a call for signals. The engineer is saying, "Some body tell Me what to do."

A whole series of short rapid whistles is an alarm. "Get off the track!" he is telling anybody, in his way. • What- about long whistles? A very long one is notice to railroaders and those working in the mail car that the train is coming to a station, some junction, or a railroad crossing. "Get ready."

TWo long whistles mean that the engineer is releasing - the brakes and proceeding on his way. "Let's be going.

Knowing the engineer isn't blowing the locomotive whistle just for the fun of it, but that he is really saying something important will make yoUr next train trip more interesting. It will make you whistle-conscious so that you can listen in on the engineer's conversation.

WHY SO GREAT A DIFFERENCE

. . . working in harmony . . working to win . , . to the benefit of all. )• a • ( He had been recalled by the draft board. After the physical, a bored sergeant took over the questioning." "Did you go to grammar school?"

"Yes," he answered, "and to high school."

"College?" the sergeant yawned.

"I have a B. A. from the University of North Carolina." he told him, "M. S. at Columbia. Then graduate courses at Cornell, back to Columbia for Journalism, a degree from the University of Mexico The sergeant nodded, picked up a rubber stamp, flourished it in midair and slammed it on the questionnaire—one word: "Literate."

• )• Nobody but a fool would take a two year trip around the world without making complete preparations for the carryin g on of his business,. the payment of his bills and the support of his family.

But many men go into eternity without a plan worth mentioning.

P. Cochran.)

In the United States there is one auto-! mobile to every 4. 2 persons; in the rest! of the world, but one to approximately 233. Why this great advantage which!

Americans posses? It is a result of many factors which include the teamwork of I advanced American technology, the re-! sourcefulness of management, the skill! of American workers.

These and other factors combine to produce buying power, the stimulus! that gives incentive to invention, production, future planning.- At the end of dune, personal income was running at an annual rate of $213.5-billion . . . .! wealth such as no other nation has ever known.

But buying power, as America knows! it, consists of more than money to spend!

It also means freedom to spend it how and as the owner desires . to save it for future needs . . . to invest it safely! and profitably.

Automobile ownership is but one of Many indices of America's high living! standard. It is a direct result of the! united efforts of men and management

SATURDAY OF THIS WEEK and every Saturday night there is bingo party. at Pokrok Houston Lodge No. 88 at 1140 Robbie Street.

SATURDAY APRIL 19: Bin g o and t jaternice" supper at Stela nil: Lodge No. 142 in Houston, beginning at 4:00 p. m. Everyone welcome.

SATURDAY APRIL 19: Delicious barbecued chicken supper will be served at Pokrok Houston Lodge No. 88 at 1140 Robbie from 5:00 p. m. on.

Everybody is invited.

SUNDAY APRIL 20: Lodge Praha No. 29 in Taylor will hold its postponed meeting one week later.

SUNDAY APRIL 20: Lodge Sweet Home No. 63 will have its regular meeting. one week later.

SUNDAY APRIL 20: Important meeting of the delegates from all the local lodges in Central Texas will be held at Taylor in the hall of Praha Lodge No. 29. Everybody is welcome.

SUNDAY APRIL '20: The third meeting of the First District will be held in Hillje. All delegate cf the local lodges belonging to the First District are urged to be present. This will be important pre-convention meeting.

SUNDAY APRIL 27: The proposed district meeting is transferred from Rosenberg to the Legion Hall in Needville. Representatives and convention delegates from all the local lodges in Fort Bend, Brazoria, Waller, Galveston, Harris, and Liberty counties will be expected to be there. Make plans to answer when your name is called.

SUNDAY MAY 4: All local lodges comprising the Central District in Bell, Williamson. Milam, etc., counties will hold another district meet ing in Hollad. Dinner will be served at 12. Meeting will start at 2:00 p. in. Supreme Lodge officers and eidtor will be present.

SUNDAY MAY 11: Dramatic Club of Pokrok Houston Lodge will give a Czech operetta at Studewood. Curtain goes up at three.

SUNDAY MAY 11: Bedrich Smetana Lodge No. 39 in Bryan will have a get-together to commercate its Golden Anniversary. Watch for further announcements. ) • alf.( MAKE YOUR LODGE A PLACE WHERE FRIENDS MEET

Ve stfedu, dnc 16. ditbna 1952.

VESTN±K— WEST, TEXAS Ja poznala svet, shledala jsem, Ze neni na svete ideal 0pine dokonalosti.

gtmoNtv TATiNEK Nikdo se nesmal. Filip zilstal stat, opiraje eel° o hfbet syStch velkSrch rukou, jei podpira10 thptrko kladiva, postaveneho na kova.dna PfemfAlel. Otyti jeho druzi se na neho divali a Simon, tak maliekSr mezi terni obry, fizkostne Pojednotr jeden z vyjadiuje my;Slenku vAech, fekl Filipovi: "Je to pfece mile a hotlne devee, to Blanchotta, a stateena a pofadna, pfes to, co se ji stalo; ' nenutelala by hanbu poeestnemu

Strana 27

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Record Shop

Heights

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Tuning and and repairing on makes. For free booklet and prices write to: IKRNUSTIK ACCORDION SHOP 932 rizer HOUSTON 9. TEXAS

SPOLEHLIVA POHROBNICKA SLUtBA "To je pravda," fen Jsme pohotovi Vain poslouZiti tii ostatni. Delnik pobez rozdilu jak daleko bydlite kraeoval: bez jakehokoliv z ylaaniho po"Copak je to chyba, platku. toho deveete, ie klopS41a? Byl ji slibovan S nami m0Zete miuviti Cesky.

My na,bizime Pohrebni Pojisnatek a znam nejed nu, ktera udelala tote2 §teni pro kaZdeho elena rodiny PETE E ETTLINGER a dnes si ji ka2cIS7 va21."

FUNERAL HOME "To je pravda," odElsie Pra261-Etlinger, povedeli sborem tti damska pomccnice cstatni.

Telefonujte "collect" Tel 38 •okraeoval: BelMlle, Texas VSak se chudinka nastradala, aby vychovala docela sama sveho synka, a naplakala od Le doby, co tit nechodi jinam net do kostela!

To vi jen sam Panbu."

"To je taky pravda," 2020 Washmtion Ave. At 8424 fekli ostatni.

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eini vSem krajaniim i)ozvani na pane divadlo posledni teto sezony

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"Hvezda Veletrhu" OSOBY: br. Frank Sebestik Jaroslav Kralieek, obchodnik ses. Lorain Gallagher — Otilie, jeho chot' p. Will Sill Borivoj, Krajieek, jeho pritel — Jeremia; Kolinko, obchodnik z Kladna br. Miro Jureik ses. Rosa Kopeeek Babiana, jeho chot' — — Josef Sochor, policejni komisak v pensi br. Joika Jureak ses. Marie Pievratil Barbara Slepiekovi z Kuranic pi. Ann Steglik Pepieka, jeji dcera — ses. Ann Zvolanek sluiebna u Kraliku

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ZaCitek divadla v 6 hodin Po divadle taneeni zibava pri hudhe hr. Joe Mace O jidla napoje je vidy dobie postarano Uctive zve vybor.

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dn( (-h z cinkani ostatnich z yonkir, tak i kladivo, p •ehluSujic himot ostatnich, clopaclalo raz na raz oPRAVNIK hluSujicirni ranami. A Filip yagnive koval, oko zapalene, vztyeen LONG THEATRES BLDG nad srSicimi jiskrami.

Nebe bylo p 1 n 2229 Avenue F. — Phone 644 hvezd, kdyZ zaklepal na dveie Blanchottina BAY CITY, TEXAS domku. Mel ptistfiZene vousy, na Sobe sva.teeni bluzu a eistou Mlada Zena se' ukazala na prahu aI iekla rozpaeite: "To neni pekne, pa-, PRAVNIK ne Filipe, jdete tak pozde 'neer."

Vyiizuje yeSkere soudni Chtel neco iici, ale zalelitosti. zajikal se a stab ye ittado yna: 936 Bankers Mortzrnatku pied ni.

Pokra.Covala: gage Building. pies ulici na"Chapete piece, ze proti Kress budove. nechci, aby se zase o HOUSTON, TEXAS mne mluvilo."

Tu ze sebe Filip vy sypal: "Co na tom, chcete li Wit mou Zenour 21.1c1n ;. :r hlas mu neodpovedel, ale zdalo se mu, jako by slykl v temnu svetnice hluk hrouticiho se 'Lela. Rychle wtoupil; a Simon, kterY leZel v posteli, rozeznal mark polibku, a nekolik cloy, ktere matka velmi tik zaseptala. Pak pojednou citil, jak ho jeho ptitel zdviha k sot* a drZe ho v sve herkuloyske CeskSr Mai a Operatr naruai, kiici na "Rekni svSrm kama711 Medical Arts Building radum, ze tvYm tatinHOUSTON, TEXAS kern je kovat Filip ReTelefon res.: Twinoaks 1222 my a ze yytaha za Telefon tiladovny: Pres 2553 kaZdeho, kdo by ti

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P • Sul-10 dne, kdyZ uZ byli vSichni ye tilde a vyueoviini rnelo zaeit, povstal •malt' celY bledy, a chvejicimi se rty, ale zvuonyin hiaseni iekl: "IVIYm tatinkem je kovat Filip Remy a ten slibil, yytaha za uSi kaZdeho, kdo by mi chtel ublilit."

Tentckrat se nikdo nesmal, nebot' ySichni znali clObte tohoto Fi-

Ve qtfedit dtie 1.i ii, clfOrta, 1952:

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Dallas and Caroline Sts.

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11. Provozuje pravnietvi- v akresu Bell po posledni roku.

V uptimnem pfatelstvi kladu tu moji kandidaturu do vaSich rukou, obeanft okresu Bell, a vaZne vas 'Z'aclam o vagi podporu.

VAA hlas je snakle vyhledavan.

Vam oddan

W.

Pearcy,

(Paid Pol. Adv.) Houdkovo Ceske Divadlo piedvadi krisnY novY film, kterY se vain bude libiti

Lena na Rozcest

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Hraji Jara Kohout, Zita, Kabatova, Mila Raymonova.

Dale druhY obrazek

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ENNIS-1'7. dubna.

WEST-22. dubna.

DALLAS-23. dubna.

HOUSTON STATE-24. dubna.

EL CAMPO FLOYD— 25. dubna.

Krajane v Ganado tento film nehude u vas ukazovan, piljd'te laskave do El Campo.

C. W. PEARCY, Jr. OZNAMUJE PRO

Houdkovo Ceske divadlo piedvadi krasnY novY film

OlkAD OKRESN11-10 NAVLADNIHO

"Nevinna"

lictive pfedkladam vSem obea- ky a pomahat, kde toho bude ponun okr. Bell moji kkandidaturutteba kalciYm moZhYm na urad Okresniho Navladniho v bem. demokra,ticke primarni volbe v Ja tuto pfedkladam pro yak dervenci 1952. Povinnosti tohoto informaci nasledujici fakta o vautadu jsou ustanoveny konstitu- Sem kandidatovi: ci a zakony statu Texasu. Ja nemam Zadne soukrome zavazky 1. Zenat — a tni ditky.

2. 30 midi veku. ku kteremukoliv jednotlivci, ne3. Obyvatel okresu Bell po 26 bo skupine jednotlivcil, a jestli roku. vy, obeane, uznate za zasluhuji4. Graduoval z vySSI. Skoly ciho si vaSi cInvery, a jestli budu Temple — 1938. zvolen jako vas okresni navlad5. Graduant obchodni gkoly na ni, ja, se budu pine venovat pineBaylor universite. ni tech povinnosti podle myth 6. Graduant pravnicke Skoly nejlepAlch schopnosti. Ja. budu na Baylor universite. vykonavat povinnosti meho fadu spravnYm a nestrannS/m 7. Veteran — z II. svetove ky — 31/2 roku v U: S. Navy., zpasobem ye vaech zalelitostech, ktere ml budou pfedlo2eny. A ja 8. 61en Statniho sdrUeni pray budu pohotove ku slotdelai yam natl. ochotne v kahle dobe jak vas o- 9 Olen Americke associace kresni navladni, a budu kooperopravnikti. vati s jinymi okresnimi Ufednl- 10 Potvrzen!'r vefejmi tleetni.

• Hraji 0. Korberaf, A. Mandlova, Vlad. Boesky, Dale druhY Obraz "CECHY SRDCE. EVROPY" ROSENBERG-17. dubna.

CROSBY-2'7. dubna.

Marek - Burns POIHIEBNI DOMOV V hodine zarmutku najdete u nas nejlepSi pohiebni obsluhu a ceny levne.

Tei prodavame pohiebni pojigteni od 1 mesice do 80 rokfi Ambulance ye dne i v noci.

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lipa, Remyho, kOVfife; byl to tatinek, na jakebo mohl bYt kaZdY hrdY. KONEC. Ze stare Ceske lekarny.

Snad natal z nas se pamatuji na ty stare eeske lekarny, jejichZ znakem byl typickY hmoMil a va2ky.

V takovYch bYvalYch deskYch lekarnach muselo se dostati vaech no. Jakmile by tam nedeho nemeli, jiz ztra eel lid k. lekarne clUveru.

Proto take b 'Yvan deSti lekarnici hledeli k tomu, aby se kaMemu vyhovelo. Jich nezmatlo ani, kdy2 mne po-., slal strYeek pro koma-: H sadlo. Dostalo se mt.. ho skuteene.

"Za,d pak ho chce strYeek, synadku?" ptal se stars' lekarnik bez rozpaku a stial hned, kelimek na pult, jakoby konnifi sadlo pro daval denne.

"Za deset krejear4,' ukazal jsem desetnik.

A dostal jsem ho za Sestak tolik, ie se jim,claly namazat boty cel6 rodiny.

To bylo tehdy chu, ale ne mne aprilem poslanemu, nYbij: strYekovi.

"Partyka, stars';' hneval se strYc tehdy; ,• "bude nee° malovatt Ani kdyby pochytalt. vSechny komary be, chyriskeho kraje, stanou tolik sacila." A netajil se take weer le karnikovi u karet • Se,', svou pochybnosti, ale ten zcela vaIne vykla-', dal mu, Ze to je sadlo z moskytu na Marationu v Brasilli, kde je schvalne pro sadlo mi a daleko Siroko vy-.

Ani bez humbugu ne byla deska. lekarna, Co tu tech v gelijakich re klamnich specialit a za zradnYch lekft se 'zarudenYm Ueinkem. ye vaech pripadech. Jedna lahvieka

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ie jiste; kdo jich cde-, Strom ptiliS ,abtiZenY ovocem ji se Zivotem nemocneho, trpi- neztraveneho bohatstvi.

Ant. Macek. bete deset, dostane je- se lame, Cloy & pfetiZenY ciho teakou nemoci nezaZiteho a bohatstvim a statky, se hrouti.' denactou nadavkem.

PM nejmengm hrouti se vnittne; "Dejte mi za pet krej nic nevi mu jia rozko gi; krasa, cart psiho sadla," po- jib je obklopen, nan jiZ neiroinzdravi babieka. Utie si kuje, Zivot jeho je zmai'en a draUsta vrchem opalene hocenne vtetirry Civota mizeji ruky a zdviha jednu su mu bez krasy a vznetu, stavaImi po druhe, az najde kapsat.

DR. THOS N. DeLAN.EI Timto chceme vzciati nage diky vgem nagim pateLekanik musi bYti LEKAR., kteii nam byli napomocni v jakemkoll y zpusolm v polovienim doktorern., dobe timrti nageho draheho maniela a tatinka Br*le spravne piripravene pti drobnem prodeji ye eas die umluvy ci, ktere by mohly ubli-, 513-17 Professional Bldg.

Ziti jinYm upottebenim! yyptava se, na6 se vec tkarlovna 3248 — Res. 2687 Zaroveri srdeene dekujem.e Rev. Svobodovi za modTEMPLE TEXAS pottebuje, a poradi u'21vani. Je same laskalitby, tei i sousechim za inodlitby a v gem tern, ktefi s vost a ochota. mi citili to velkou ram'. Pfateltim za kvetiny, kterkeh "Tedy psi sadlo za bylo velke mnoistvi, nosietim rakve a take br. John pet, matiCko. Ma to byt Chupickovi a br. Ed. Markovi za pronesena slova nad ze psa nebo z eubky?" rakvi a vsem tern, ktefi nain jakkmkoliv zpiisobem napoBabka je v rozpacich tflADU mocni byli, jegte jednou vzdavame na ge srdeene diky. ale posleze e rozhoduje pro sadlo ze psa, Statni Utady — $50.00 Maniellovi a tatinkovi piejem odpoeinuti z opatrnosti nebot', Statni zastupce ANEkKA CERVENKA A DTTKY, o eubeim nebYva nikde!

(Representative) — 25.00 truchlici poziistaii. slechu.

Okresni Utady — $20.00 (c) "Sriad je to jedno, Precinktni fitady — $10.00 diva se tazave na le10th Court of Civil Appeals karnika, jsouc piece v FRANK McDONALD ne;iok ji, aby plipadne Cubci sadlo snad . .

OKRES WHARTON "Ja myslim take," svedei stare Selma.

CHARLIE BUOEK "Mete opravdu psi Za okresniho S'erifa sadlo?" tilZu se po odOKRES AUSTIN choclu stateny.

JOHN L. STIERLING "I tau! Tuk jako Za Distrikniho Klerka tuk. Tu pracuje jen il(0 znovuzvoleni) luse, te, hal nebere♦ • me."

DAN HRUSKA "Ale je to klarn!"

Za okresniho soudce Pokreil rameny, "Dej (0 znovuzvoleni) me tomu, Ze by se ba♦ • biaka dopidila nekde M. H. KIENSTEADT psiho, medvediho a ji- Za vkbereiho - odhadeiho dani neho v4acneho sadla TRUMAN A. MADDOX dostanon cosi neelste-1 zagerifa ho, paclanouciho, van 1,0, nebo vtiraji do OKRESY AUSTIN a, WASHran ----- a jeSte drahe INGTON penize zaplati. Zde doW. J. EHLERT stanou kaZde sadlo, jaZa statniho zastupce ke si pteji, eiste a la(State Representative) cino. skoro fake u uzeMire, kdyb y to v lekarOKRES McLENNAN bylo moano. JakY .ERANK GIRARD pody,cd? A ne •ekl byADMISSION 50e TAX INCLUDEL Za kongtebla, 3. precinktu ste, jakou maji moje sadla zazraenou moc!

"Hru Bingo kaidir Oden v sobatu veeer" OKRES BELL Jc‘den dcbrY rndj druh, 0 Ktkusky a ob4erstveni nAvAt*vnik6 jest rjrberein naleitit6 nine kdysi o kus C. W. PEARCY, Jr. postarino. modvediho sadla. 'deft Za Okresniho Navladniho TEL. VA-0256 1140 ROBBIE ST. nebo slysel, ze je OKRES BURLESON Na doptani: 20th and North Main. vYborily nrostreclek ELDRIDGE W. BARTAY pro vzrw-t 7.a Seri!

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Ve sttedu, clue 16. dilbna 1952: dojde lid zeela, ptirozene. Co je hunatefaiho neZ medved? A co by mu srst hnalo z tela ne2 sadlo? Ze by start' medved pelichal zrovna tak asi jako my -si na lysinu na to ani nevzpomenu. Tak tedy medvedi sadlo. Ro zumi se, Ze jsem mu ho dal, co si ho ptal, z Medveda samce v nejlepMm veku."

Neco podobneho stalo se mi, kdyi jsem vla stni lekarnu otevtel.

Bylo mi site tepr neco pies tticet, ale jiZ jsem mel mai° vlastt na hiae a i ty poealy Yeti starostmi z dluhn, ktere jsem si zatizenim lekarny na rkrk uvalil.

Jednou vrazi mi do leka.rny sedlak tak prosttednich let, ale ji.z skoro tak dlysalY jako ja. Rad takove plegate lidi vidam, ne snad, Ze bych jim toho ptal, ale. ze vidim, ze nejsem sam. Oloveku je, jakoby mel ptibuzneho.

Ale chlap, zda se, byl jinehol niineni, aspon dojem, jakY jsem ja nari zptisobil, byl zcela opaenY. Zahledel se na mou airokou lysinu a byl vSecek zaralen.

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"Oeho si pfejete, pti tell?" ta.Zu se.

"Win to nemaji," ko kta .a diva se pH. torn na mojd lysinu.

"Mveee,') obracim popuzen,Ze sniZuje bud' nine, nebo lekarnu, mam s neho titul piitele a oslovuji jej pouhYm jmenem druho.vYin, "co 'Ze nemam, eloveee? Co?" 'Ne, ne, mama, tee, voni to nemaji," povida zinaten a nespusti zrakti z meho temene: "VO ni to ani nemuacu mit" "Osobo," volam uz ro zezlen, "jak milZete ci, ze neco nemam, kdyZ jste se jeate nezeptal mam-li to" htmim na neho. "Kdy jste se vfibec neptesvedeil."

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Maly Oznamovatel oar Ptijmou se manacle, muZ ku konani Iehci farmatske prace a v zahrade, Zeno, ku konani domaci price. Novy kamennY dam, pine .zatizen y; vaechny utility, a ciobrY plat. — Mrs. Belcher, P. 0. Box 1923, Waco, Tex. (ltp) • tom- Cech ,rozenY v Texasu, e stati .39 rokfi, svobodnY, statne postavy (5' 10" vysokY), hleda touto cestou seznamiti se s divkou neb vdcvou za. Ueelem ptiZeneni na ranch neb restaurace.

Nabidky pod znaekou "Pracovi ty" s ptilolenim fotky do administrace tohoto listu.

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V elovekti je boska jiskra, at' Mr" Ptijme se spolehliva na od 20 do 45 let veku sch0P-i tvoti jako melee obrazy a sonou konani domaci praci a k vY- chy, ei pracuje-li na poll, v dilne, tovarnach a dolech. Ka2dY prapcmoci s opatrovani ditka a va.- cujici elovek je spolu tvoticnn: teni. Byt strava a plat $40.00 vezmete jeho praci raz tvorby, mesiene. Piste na Mrs. H. M. ochabne jeho du'Sevni pracovni zanikne.

Glower, 4822 Abbott Ave. Dallas, sila a znenahla • • Texas, Phone Lakeside 1083.

Jedi lido maji srdce, druzi (16-17c) jen zuby ze zlata.

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MALA KURATICA AAA velkeho druhu English Bile Leghornky, take hnede a "Buff Leghornky" ptichazejici ze stad vysoke produkce nosnosti. Typ nosieek a na maso N. H. Reds, Barred a White Rocks. Slepiely i kohouty. Wechny stada jsou U. S. APPROVED — PULLORUM CONTROLED. PiS"te pro naae levne ceny nyni.

VON MINDENS- HATCHERY Fayeteville, Texas (dze) Prijme‘ se ' ena sttedniho veku k opatrovani otce invalidu.

Privatni svetnice a strava v dome. Pro dalSi podrobnosti plate na W. F. lkepka, 1541 /2 Tulane Street, Houston8, Texas (15-16c) • Car Evropske srpy -z"naeka RECORD jsou Mane z nejlepg Sty.ske ocele, lehke a ostre jako btitva. Koupite nyni v 'ZelezarskYch obchodech. Kde k dostani nejsou pfate na Jos. Vaaut, Schulenburg, Texas.

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19. DUBNA A DALM SOBOTY ODPOLEDNE VE 4 HODINY NA RADIOVE STANICI

K H B R 1560 Kilocycles HILLSBOR, TEXAS bude vysilan eesky

Kiest'anskST Program ye zpevu i v kazani Rev. Karel Eohatec, farai

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bolestmi hlavyzkaienSrm ialudkem plyny a nadymanim ztratou spanku nezaiivnosti nervosou zavinenfrmi

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Oar' Ptijme se zkukno.

Oeskosk.wenske narodnosti,. pod 45 let veku, ku konani domaci Vezrae'te Dra. Petra Hoboko prate v privatnim dome pro tti dnes' veeer—uvidite o co dospele osoby. Byt na miste, pahipe se badete zitra cititi hodlnY doinov, koupelna.. atcl. lehai pradlo potize. Blue busu a Netrpte zbyteeno ani o den &le. Berte mista k nakupu. Dost easu vol- dobou Nyzkou:erte Dra. Petra Hoboko.

Jest viee nein poeisfovaci progiedek nelto. Plat? $100.00 mesione.

—ialudeeni einnost povzbuznjlei a ve• to podrobncsti na Mrs. Dodson, try Nypuzujici lek--sestavenY (ne jen 2008 Pembroke Drive, Fort jedne neb dvou) ale 18 Prirody vlast(15-16c) Worth, Texas. nich bylin, koiinka a rostlin. AlYbradni. fort-Julie. Hoboko peivinli leni ya sti'eya • k einnosti, napoinaha jim odstraniti Ze sveta zati nam vstiic vady yaznouri odpadky plyny a jen to, co do neho vna.Sime. nadYntlini zavinene, ziepou—vzbuzuje • • posilujiel pocit tepla v i;e:aludku.Opatfte Kolik lidi uz, teklo: Tak to ne- si Dra. Petra Hoboko ye Vaktu sousmi dale jit a ono to chodi; sedst yi dnes, aneb po g1ete pro nagi zvlagini "obeznamovaci nabidkn." pokad tak,

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Slovanski Pod. Jednota Statu Texas poskytuje vyhodne utvotn poji gteni pro celou rodinu.

Nabizi nisledujici pojiiteni: Doiivotni, 101 e, 151ete a 201ete splacene, doiivotni zaplacene v 65 letech, 151ete . a 20104 nadaeni, dvacetilete vyplacene v 65 letech a 201ete nadaeni vyplacene ye staii 60 let.

Pro ditky nabizi: Lhutni pojESteni, 201ete splacene, 20Iete nadaeni, skolni pojistka hotove vyplacena v 18 letech SPJST poskytuje nisledujici vYhodue dodateene ochrany za levne poplatky

Dvojnisobne pojiiteni v pi-ipade smrti ne;Vastnou nahodou

Zproiteni poplatkil v pi-ipade upineho a trvaleho zneschopneni ku

Pojiiteni platiciho (Payor Insurance zaplacene pojiAeni v pitipadc, kdy platici zneschopuen je trvale ku wad.

Ve;kere informace s radosti sdeli

lavni Oiadovria S. P,

J. S. T.

Fayetteville Texas

1897

55 YEARS

1952

THE SLAVONIC BENEVOLENT ORDER OF THE STATE OF TEXAS (S. P. J. S. T.) Fayetteville, Texas

55 YEARS OF FAITHFUL SERVICE Adult Department Juvenile Department Fourteen Classes of Certificates, with or without, Double Indemnity, Premium Waiver and Payor Insurance Features.

Admitted Assets $ 6,621,531.14 — Total Membership — 24,876 $22,659,451.00 Insurance in Force — BENEFITS PAID — $ 4,418,607.65