Vestnik 1952 06 18

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IIOUSTON, TEXAS *5ERVNA 1952

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Shown is a sketch of new outdoor type generating station being built in McLennan County.

OW ... as a result of a vast expansion program begun in 1946 . . . the Texas Power & Light Company can supply mor than twice as much electricity to North, Central and East Texas as it could just before World War II. By 1955, the Company will again more than double its capacity to supply electric power service. Of this, 5,000 kilowatts will be added to the Gainesville plant in 1952 and 60,000 kilowatts, in the new plant being built in McLennan county in 1953 Two other plants, still to be located, will increase the TP8a power supply by 80,000 kilowatts each in 1954, with another 60,000 kilowatts becoming available from a private source in Milani County Thus, TP&L continues to plan ahead . . . build ahead ... for growing Texas' increasing power needs!

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TY ST4TU TEXAS Entered as second class mail matter, January 3rd, 1933 at West, Texas under the Act of Congress of A u g u s t, 24th, 1922 trim.° 25 ROONIK (VOL.) 3:1;.

West, Texas, ye sttedu (WEDNESDAY) 18.. CERVNA (JUNE) 1952.

Postmaster, please send Form 3579 with undeliverable copies to SUPREME LODGE SPJST, Fayetteville, Texas KAREL HOLASEK:

VPSTNiK SP.ST* A JEHO REDAKTORI DYt VYJiMAME z pogtovni schranky eislo na geho Vestniku, K maloktery si uvedomime, kolik pr ace ratty osob, prate telesne a jiste vi-; cc dugevni to vzalo, netli toto eislo nam inohlo bYti v naletite forme a tak hod-( notnYm obsahem &clan°. Povatuji Vestnik za nejdtile ts itej gi pomiicku v praci organisadni.. Nerad etu a sly gim, ze by thorn meli a mohli nee° ugetriti na nagem spolkovem easopise, zmeniti jej na mesionik a . omeziti jeho obsah na iffedni zpravy. Vestnik jest zrcadlem ' prace jednotlivYch radii, pojitkem mezi Hlavni iiradovnou, faclovYmi tredniky a eleny, informuje nas v gechny, co se deje a podnika v kterem rade, jet jsou poloteny easto y e velkYch vzdalenostech ohromno rozleldeho statu Texasu. Mame na sta elcnii, bydlicich nyni daleko od syYch domacich radii, na Floride, Oklahome, v Kalifornii a jinde. Jak radi oni vtcly sahnou po Vestniku, by zvedeli neco o Karel Holasek sy Ych spolkovYch bratrich a sestrach a jejich bYvale domovine.

Uradovny leckere boleni hlavy, zodpo8 etime, ale na spravnem miste. Mejme Nednost a praci, jit mail nadbytek. UAdvaznou 'smiouvu s vydavatelskou spoleenosti, ale uvedomme si, ze podnik ti- ch:2eti Vestnik ye stavu jako je nyni, skarenskY, zpilsobilY vyhoveti v gem pod-I easopis vzdelavaci nro SPJST informaeni minkain spravne dodavky easopisu, ja- a propagaeni, pro eleny oeskoslovenskekeho si prejeme a potrebujeme, musi v ho piivodu v tot° na gi nove vlasti nepoLeto dobe miti investovano nejmene stradatelnY, vezme krome financovanil $75,000, udrtovat tiskarnu v pravidel- Hlavni Uradovnou tedy vgemi eleny nem chodu, opatrovati material a pla- schopneho redaktora, zodpovednott vytiti zamestnanciim primerene mzdy. — davatelskou firma, jet disponuje dostaSjezd — zasturici v gech radii — Irbil re- teenYm kapitalem k udrtiovani kontrakdaktora a koho vyberou, zajiste maji du- tu a zamestnava, zapracovane a zkugene veru v jeho schopnosti a spolehlivost.. tiskafe a sateee, jako byl treba zemfelY Ponechejme mu prcito vice volnosti ye bratr Demek u Cechoslovaka a dosud akvYberu eitaci latky a censuru omezme. tivni bratr Horrialc taintet. Take je trePres to vgak si ponechme tiskovy vYbor, ba udrteti a vatiti si starch dopisovajako jsou bratr Moravek jent by mel bYti spig e jako rozhodei v telu na,hodilYch se snad otazkach technickYch z Robstown, ses. Truksova v Guy, bratr a finanenich, spajenYch s vydavanim GajevskY v Orchard, ses. Mikeskova, v Vestniku a take jakousi ochranou a rad- Caldwell a fada.jinYch jicht cenne pHcem redaktorovi pri uvefejnovani clan- speyky a ilvahy napomahaji k zvYgeni 1 ii a dopisii Jednote nekdy sSkodlivYch. iirovne cbsahu listu. ZesnulY nedayno Tiskovy vYbor uspori vedoucim Hlavni br. Pr. Domorad z Blessing a Jos. Barton

z El Campo, mnoho vykonali v torn mem a zasluhuji si vdeene vzpominky.

Jako jest Vestnik ukazovatelem spolkove dinnosti, zaleti mnoho kdo a jakY redaktor iidi jeho obsah. Povatuji redaktora nageho organu za tak driletiteho einitele, jak0 kterehokoliv iftednika Hlavni Utadovny. On jest ()kern a uchem, co se kde mezi nami deje, dostane z pr y -nirukyzpav,nekdyiotaz.Vce, netli kdo jinY nejen opravnen, ale ma i povinnost upozorriovati na nedostatky anebo pochvaliti podle zasluhy. Jelikot jsem nekolik let .sveho mlacleho veku ztravil vlastne se ptitivoval — v eeskYch tiskarnach v Texasu . pri torn dernem sazeeskem a tiskafskem femeSle po pfijezdu sem ze stare vlastl a znal jsem take vgechny dosavadni redaktory Vestniku, ba mohu tici, ze jsem s byl v pratelskem styku, mohu Oactive priznati, ze Jednota mela gtesti pri jejich vYberu. Obetavi tito bratti: zesnulY jit bratr Frant. Fabian, Jos. tapal, Fr. Moueka a nynej gi redaktor bratr Stepan Valeik, zaslouti si v tomto pfedsjezdovent eisle vzpominku a uznani, jejich, velike, ale easto nedocenene wade pro vzrrist a rozmach nal mile SPJST. V teto stati kratce vypisi moje vzpominky na ty na ge redaktory a za jakYch ckolnosti jsem je poznal. K vuli tivotmm datum brartra tapala a Mouelty buide na miste uverejniti dopisy, jet jsem 01)drtel od mantelky bratra. tapala, pi.

Army tapalove a pritele meho z i pritele bratra Tapala, br. Rud. lapanskeho, nyni na odpodinku v Kalifornii.

K tivotopisu bratra Moudky poskytl data a yysvetlivky jeho bratr Chas. MouCka v Ennis, Tex., nyni zastavajici iirad Feditele v na gem mohutnem spolku RVOS. Diky jim za ochotu a vkpomoc.

Nebude mi zazlivano snad, zmininv-11 se nekolika slovy o me maliekosti, koliv jsem nikdy nebyl redaktorem, ne.bo nejakYm 'vynika,jicim oinovnikem Jednote. Osvotli to vSak etenattim

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Frant.' Fabian, Tehdy jeate neexistoval komunisinus v nynej gi forme, ale kraja21. listopadu 190 v Galveston, Texas, ne byli rortri gteni rozbrcji nabolenskyparclod' Kassel, North German mi, anebo Ze 6ech el Moravec nemilre _Lloyd spoleencsti, s nia jsem byl Wastne nikdy byt Rakugak. Hned druhY den po sem z vlasti dopraven, s $11.00 v kapse, mem prijezdu do Hallettsville mne vzali l'z roku 9 niesicii stari a s vysvedeenim moji spoluzamestnanci od Doinova, seao 6. tridy c. a k. realneho eeskeho gym- znamiti se s tiska •i a saredi z Obzoru. ilasia v Kyjove na Morave. Po kratkom Pro Nov' Domov tehdy pracovali p. Lin(dpoeinku u KriZanti, vydal jsem se do hart, foreman, Vacla,v Lura, Otto Jetel, rort Worth, kde tehdy bydlela n* ses- sazedi. Ja a p. Kfeinek, nyni dZinar nera Rama Vankova. Svakr byl zaniest- kde pri Flatcnii, ucni. U Olmoru byl fo',an ye Swift, Packing House jako tesar. reman bratr Rudolf 81apanskS/. Poznal !hied za dva dny jsem obdrael krasncu jsem ten veder br. Frant. Fabiana. Seu Swift 03., k eemur mne nejvice etelY, vzdelanY pracant, ale povahove dopomohlo inoje gymnasijni vysved- uzavrenY, slioro samotafskY. Dle vgeho c'Tni, znalost latiny, ee gtiny, nemeiny, rodirme pomery pusobily neblazei V 01:1 niathematiky, geometrie, fysiky, tesno- zoru bratr Fabian tiskl pfilohu pro !Asa atd. Skrabal jsem ohreblem pijaky SPJST, ale za jakYch podminek, nemokole prave aabitYch neodrenych ho- hu rici.!Bratr Valeik ve z ylagtnim 'elanku ezakii ! visicich na zvolna se tahnoucim o praci bratra Fabiana, bude jiste miti ekoneenem retezovern elevatoru. Pro za- podrobnejai informace. Jako pravidelnY atekjiste zajimavii a pri tom vista pra- redaktor a vydavatel Vestaiku, byl bratr ye. Plat 15c na hodinu. Neni tudia divu, Fabian ustanoven ye sjezdu v Granger po dvou tYdnech jsem se zaeal roku 1912 a i'idil Vestnik do roku 1916, !-aacestvi v tiskarne Novell° domova easteene z Hallettsville a ea.steene od vlastnil p. Jos. KopeckY v Halletteville, Svobody z La Grange. 0 tehdejaim poTex, Podminky vyjednal avakr Vanek. bytu z Hallettsville chci jeate pripojiti: 13yio to: Prvni mesic byt a stravu, druh' Zivot narodni byl ru gnejai ner nyni Bymesic byt a stravu a pet dolara. Tie- lo nas nmoho z vlasti, nad gencu snad 1i. mesic $28.00, her bytu a stravy. Bylo nekterYch jak treba, reknete ja — preZe nine matka na cestu dobre nekterYch — jak treba , reknete — ja, preosorila, neb nevim, jak bych to zde prvni mratenca. lVfeli jsme dvoje Sokoly, Na1,: dc pretloukl, nc jsem se otrkal. Do rcdni Jednotu, jejir odboelcy zakladal I Tz7lettsville jsem pfijel k y eeeru dne 15. spoleenY cvloitel Franta Chuclej a Sokol pri ince 1909. Preprchalo a bylo chlad- Orel, jejZ v Texasu propagoval a organino. Vystoupil jsem z vlaku s eerne na- soval p, Malec, tehdy redaktor Noveho trenym kuffikem, jak' mivali rekruti, Domo,y a,. V Hallettsville byli usazeni: Br. eleny klobouk s paskem, pies rameno Musil, nyni ye Stamford, Bolt ye Florespelerin a kapucou, cor byl infij paradni • Slapansky a jini.- Mne to tahlo k kus obleku, ale zde pro smich. Rozhlilim gokolu narodnimu a Clenstvi jsem si udrse a tu ke nine pristoupi vytOble ael likes apatne easy ar do dne gni Ameko asi 151etY a pravi: Ty si Moravec, ricke Obce Sokolske. Ale to je dost o mne. ae? Vykulim !ca., uvedomuji si, co vlastRedaktor bratr Josef Tapal za svoji ne vice a pravim: "JO, jsem a Moravy, ale Cech!" On na to: "Tomu ty nerozumig, mnohaletou praci pro Jednotu si zaslumy tu rikame Moravec anebo naginec. huje eestneho umistneni mezi narodniini Ale myslim, ae ty jsi ten greenhorn, co pracovniky, vystehovalci eeskeho piryodu ma delat pro Kopeckeho u Domova." ✓ Texasu. Ponejpr y jsem pcznal bratra Zde jsem tedy dostal prvni ponaueeni, tapala, kdy jsem prijel pracovati do co je Moravec a co je tech, a ja, neve La Grange, pro Aug. Haidu gica u Svobodomec, rczenY na Wrave jsem ten roz- dy. Bylo to 10. Unora 1911. Bratr Tapal dil nernal. Ten mladik se jmenoval byl tehdyxedaktorem Svobody. Byli jsme Strauss, nemohu ale tvrditi, Ze to byl ubytovani, ja, br. Tapal, Rudolf Slapannynejai senator Strauss z Hallettsville. skY, tehdy foreman u Svobody, Rudolf 13uclu-1i mit prileritost se a num setkati, Danek, pressman, a nekolik jinYch tak se ho pozeptam. (Byl to jeho bratr "matky" Kainecke v jejim "hotelu". PouLeo Strauss, a nima se nynejai redaktor hych $13.00 mesiene jsme ji platili za setkal za podobny:ch okolnosti. — Porn. svetnici a dobrou stravu. Vapominam, Ze y tu dobu bYval v La Grange take br. re J. ) John Horriak, nyni u Cechoslovaka sari V teto dcbe bylo inesto Hallettsville Vestnik, byl zamestnan u nemeckeho snarl nejclideaitejai streclisko narodni a easopisu. spOlkove prate na gich lidi v Texasu, at' Byli j.5.me tehdy v gichni mladi a rad uz si rikali Ce gi nebo Moravci. Vychazely ✓ mysli zaletim do tech dob, kdy jsme tam dva easopisy v reel Ceske, NovY Do- Zivot videli jen v rtirovYch barvach. Ztramov, vlastnenY p. Jos. KopeckYm, s re- vil jsem innohou pfijemnou chvili v kruclaktorem p. Vlad. Malvern, a druhY ce- hu jrnenovazYch. Pfi debata.ch bSrval br.

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clue 18, cervi'in• 1952, ?Papal uanavan i m rozhocleirn, neb byl pfeci redaktorem a nezapominal zachovavati vkly dekorum sveho stavu. Byl povahy spice y arne, pri tom vAak spoleeenskY. Casto se priznaval, rI e nesouhlasi se starYm Haici g kem, se smerem yecleni Svobody o politice, prohibiti, no,rodnich otazicach, ale iikaval, Ze jest jeho zamestnancem a Haidu gica, Ze nikdo neptedela, Na .pfiklad Hajdu gek nikdy nechtel uznat ze Ce gi a Moravane jsou jeden narod a nehylo ho morno o torn presyedeiti.

Abych mohl podati spravna riyotni data bratra Tapala, jak jsem jiz drive uyedl, poradal jsem o vYpornoc jeho manrelku, vdovu, a ter br. Rudolfa 81apan.skeho. Jsem jim povdeeen za jejich ochotu. Snad nag redaktor blade miti v tornto aisle dosti mista pro tento stlanek a uverejni oba dopisy v pinern andid Dopis pi. tapaloVe: Mr. Chas. Holasek, Corpus Christi, Texas.

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Dekuji za, vapominicu na meho manZela, a S rackosti Varn vypomohu, jak nejlepe dovedu. Ovaem, Ze kdybych byla doma, ve Fayetteville, meth, bych eitej gi data, ale i tak vim v ge dosti dobre z pameti.

Josef Tapal se narodil dne 12. eervence, roku 1884 ve 81apanicich u Brna. Po ukoneeni obecne gkoly, vychodil stiedni &chi v Brne a pak tam. studoval, aZ dostal diplom civilniho inZenYra. V prosinci roku 1910 prijel do Spojerich. Statri. Nekolik mesicil pracoval v Rosenberg, Texas a potom prijal misto reclaktora Svobody v La Grange. .

Dne 16. fijna 1913, pojal za, maraelku Annu Novotnou a jejich mantels -tvi bylo. porehnano dvema detmi. pcerou I stou a synem Josefem. U Svobbely pracoval do poloviny fijna 1916, kdy se s rodinou odstehoval do Fayetteville. Tam, po upraveni tiskarny, vy glo prvni ei.s!o Vestniku dne 22. listopadu 1916, ktereho se stal redaktorem ye sjezdu galvestonskern, kterY byl konan ve dnech 24. afr 28. eervence roku 1916. Redaktoreni Vestniku byl ar. do 1. ledna 1933.

Redaktorem Pokrok Jihu byl necele dva roky .Nejaky vas pracoval pri "Old Age Pension" a pri "Liquor Board",. Po smrti bratra J. R. Kubeny byl yYpomocnYm tajemnikem, jeho nastupce, br. Joe Kubeny aZ do sve smrti. Skonal dne 29. brerna 1939. Mesteeko Fayetteville mel velice rad a take tarn odpoeiva, a to vedle bratra J. R. Kubeny, sveho nejlepgiho pritele.

Se ardeenYin pozdravem Anna Tapal.

Ve streclu„ due 16, cerviia 1'c)a2, Dopis br. ' lapanskeho: Verdes Est, Calif.

Milt' piiteli, Kai.le Holasku!

2aciAg , abych podal nejake blizsi zpravy o prvnim redaktoru a vydavateli organu SPJST, o zemkelern jiz bratru Frantig ku Fabianovi. V prvnich 18 letech nase Jednota nernela svirj samostatnY organ, nYbrZ. byl jim zvolen easopis "Obzor" jej2. tYdne vydaval zminenY pan Fabian v Hallettsville, Texas. Pracoval jsem u "Obzoru" jen asi rok, nejsou mi tudiZ znamy o jeho vydavateli nejaka podrobnej g i zpravy, o jeho einnosti jak novinakske tak i spolkove; v to dobu (1909) jsem je gte nebyl elenem SPJST.

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price nas vaech tki nov .speeenych vyciavatelti jsme v gecku tuto praci zdolali behem jednoho Zatim v gak bYvalemu vydayateli organu p. Fabianovi vygla smlouva s na gi Jednotou, a tak se stalo, ae nejakk tYden neb dva, Vestnik nevygel. Za redaktora noveho Vestniku na Fayetteville byl ve sjezdu zvolen nyni ji.z zem •elY br. Josef Tapal. Narodil se roku 1884 v Doma gove u Brna, kde jeho otec provozoval truhla •stvi a kola •stvi. Tam vychodil i obecnou gkolu, nacea se cela rodina ptestebovala do 81apanic u Brna, kde pii panskern dvote provozoval jeho otec sve kemeslo dale.

Kolem roku 1900 pfi gla na na g brnenskY kraj a myslim vrtbec na mora yskY yenkov, jakasi llna, davat rnlad gi synky a dcerky do 'nest na studie. Snad to bylo nasledkern vatistajici mod. Ce gstvi ye znemeenYch mestech aspon v pkipade Brna tomu tak skuteane bylo. A tak JoZku Tapala i pisatele tato vina take s seboo strhla, ale jako synkove nemajetnych rodien, si rodiee jen dovolit, aby synkove na studie do Brna jen dojiZdeli vlakem a &ma bydleli.

lasee a oblibe se teSil, nejlepe dskazuje utvoreny Mouektiv fond. Bude oil toho fondu dosa%en? Had bych se dozil, abych mohl spatriti Utulnu pro na ge sestarle bratry a sestry, •adu ntulnYch dornkci s administraeni budovou, ph Nice s hs;jnosti ryb, peknY pareik s pobodlnYmi lavicemi a uprostfed sochu Frailty jak jsme jej videli v nadSenem na reenicke tribune.

V kratkosti Ziyotopis j(1 ) Karel Moneka:

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Rodiee Karla a FrantiSka Mouciky, otec narozen v HoleSove a matka na Ve sele, v Holei'sove Morava. Tatik byl vyu Cent' obu ynik, a matka prala a pro mestskY lid. Meli dva syny: FrantBka

Po skoneeni studii na realne akole, dal se Joi2.ka Zapsati do inZenYrskeho kursu na Ceske technicke glcole a po dvou ro, cich mu nastala starost s umigtenirn.

Bez mocneho strYeka, pkimluvce -nebyla to snadna vec.

F. Fabian Jen si pamatuji, ze pan Fabian byl Povahove velrni uza y kenY, tichY, nebyl teenikem, ale v pisemnictvi dobre s loehly. Pinnak byl. Jell() easopis se po vetsine zabYval zalelitostini hospoclakskYmi rolnickYmi, hodne podobne, jako ornalsky "Hospodar.

Za pkilelitosti sjczdu v Galvcstone, Tex., r. 1916 jsme se (mezi jinYrni) uchazeli o tisk organu, take tki zamestnanci "Svobody" a to: Josef Tapal, NqrpomoenST redaktor, Rudolf . .lapanskY, tiskak a formai' a Jaroslav Rolak, strojovy sazee. Byli jsme tehdy v giehni kol 30 let, obory svoje jsme znali dobi•e a tak sjezd projevil nom svou driven( a tisk organu nam zadal. KdyZ jsme tuto zpra-. vu pkednesli vydavateli "Svobody". zemkelemu p .August Haidu gkovi, netkeba podotYkat, ae z toho byl velikY poplach. Po p •estehovani se tti rodin do Fayetteville, zalotili jsme vydavatelskou spoleenost "Vestnik Publishing Co." se sidlem ye Fayetteville, Tex. Zde bylo nutno vybudovati zbrusu novou tiskarnu se vaemi nutnYmi stroji — tiskacim lisem, skladaekou, sazecim strojem, lisem na tiskove prate, kezaekou, se givaekou, dirkovacim strojem a jinYmi menaimi poNemalou \reel bylo poiizeni a-pine noveho a.dresake, aby elendve mohli dostavat organ. Stars' adresak z Halletsville nain clan nebyl. Nasazenini nod-

Tu dobu pisatel uZ byl v Texasu a po dvouroenim pobytu, zasteskla se mu po Moravence a vratil se do rodneho kraje, kde sveho pkitele JoZku nalezl na duchu sklesleho bez zamestnani -- a bez nejnieng i vyhlidky na umisteni. Povzbudii jsem ho v odvaze, aby se podival troFranta Motti..'ka chu do sveta tkeba do Texasu s vrhem, ae ueinim v ge, abych mu k tomu namzeneho (Inc 30. ledna Mt) a lard,, dopcmohl. Pkijato a vie ujecinano a v roku 1910 nas ua lod' unaaela ke narozeneho- 25. zari 1889.

Bratr, kdyZ mu bylo (levet PAU, meal, Galvestonu. V - pkistavu tehdy prase dlel zemkelY jiZ J. J. Cadil zememekie z Ro- se uditi hrati na housle a bra byla mu — takZ,e po vyjiti akoly dal se na senbergu, ktery po seznameni se s JoZkou, vzal si tohoto s sebou do svYch slu- vojnu k marinUm v Pola r. 1899. • Zeb. Po neja.kem roce, zmenil misto i zaNa vojne pobyl 9 rokil, byl na ranoha, mestnani a nastoupil misto yYpomc.c- riiznYch mistech s vojenskou kapelou. neho redaktora u "Svobody". Tam zadala Pak se rQzhodl, ze se podiva ze nami do jeho redaktorska kariera, ktera, jej ko- Ennis, coZ uskuteenil a roku 1908 i sejneene p •ivedla, aZ k Vestniku SPJST., slednou RUZenou 8edMu, dali se lie ce-11 kde pc) 17 let_ pilsobil zdarne ye prospech stu. PIbjeda do Galvestonu, muSel hned °Zonal, jinak by RtiZeim Jednoty dle svYch nejlep gich sil. z lode nepustili. Do Ennis prijeli Rudolf 81apamikr, elen kadu Oechomoravan C. 106. co manZele k matte, ktera byla po drutio' * , provdana za Jana Noveho. Ja jSCITI Jest jiste v give pameti redaktor br. moval s matkou. Pfijeli asinekdy v sop-, Frantigek Mae,ka. Vidim zketelne jeho nu pied pikovanirn. Pomahal, totia se vyrazncu tvak, slygim jeho mohutnY hlas zaueoval do farmateni, co :7?, se mu zo.-: — takle, roku 1909 zrentovali jsme. p • i jeho spolkovYch a narodnich slavnostnich proslovech, pinYch citu-a Lasky spoleene velkou farmu Naveho a ja hd. k nagemu lidu. Charakter ryzY, p•imY, dale ueil farmakiti. Z poctivy, nenaroenY, \erny narodu, Jed- sli dva synove a -W. dcery. Nejstar gi je note; Sokolu i s yYm prateltim. Odegel na vojne, druhY farma •i u Ennis. Jedna dccra ma Jerome Kopeckfilai Ve West, nail) pkedeasne. Jiste uroll() dobra vykonati, nebYti Zakekno neinoci. Jake druha rna Chas, ZuAtidko, Atc., v

T 1 i Tj, tteti je v Corpus Christi a ma Nemeeka a West.

P- p •ijezdu bratra do Ennis, lined se prililasil do ochotnickeho krouZku, ktery isme to s bratrem Josefem Zazvorkou za'ozali, -pi torn sorganisoval kvarteto a to byla prvni srnyecova huciba v Ennis. 'o/cleji zaloZil velkou plechovou kapelu.

P case zaloZili jsme Sokola, ktereho velkym nad genYm elenem.

Paktnateni se mu nedatilo, tak se dal k novintim k Cechoslovaku co redaktor• tehd y jeg te za Augusta Morise, ale pozdoji prodal sve podily br. Jos. Holdskovi a p • ijel do Ennis r. 1924.

Na nag natlak pri sjezdu SPJST, ucha.zel. se o• misto reciaktora Vestniku, coZ take clastal a tak se zase stehoval do

WEST, TEXAS

PREDSEDA JEDNOTY PRESIDENT OF THE SPJST.

Manaellm ieho' RilZena, zemtela roku 1929, pocIrliho olenil se roku. 1934 s pi.

Mardi Cernochovou z West.

Tot' I. ,4 vse rtizne ptihocly by ,asi e tenafe neza j imaly Marnona.it nikdy nebyl, vse vlasteneeke podporoval. Ob-1 vvlaSte za prvni svetoye valky -- •eenivall kazcle sokokke slavnosti i p p odsiehovdni do West.

• v s,-2bota odpoledne, dne 6. ledn a I a.31, y e s\P k ra dumove ve West.

S povdravem Chas Moueka * '1'finto ea c ent jest redaktorem Vestniku br. Stepan east`eeslcou i angliekott. Nisi slabosti narodni je uziadvanie praci a zasluhy na gich einovniku, az je ztratime, aZ pa jejich smrti, kcly si tepr y o uvedominie, co vykonali a co aharnextall: , A • ja '' se ,v tomto ptipade teto "ctivalitebne” . vlastriosti pHnelaOt'; bratr Valeik jest dosud meal narni-a; ma: se k Zivotu riekdy pr ilig Mimo ..toho bratr Valeik by si sotVh ptal, abych mu' psal agitaeni eldnelV• prO' jeho Ptigti szvoleni, neb toho nepot6ebtije' , a letio prace mhivi za ho.

Medal j sem ; y • slavnostnich eislech inforMace ohleclne Zivotopisu bratra jednom-stoji pcuze, je rodent Morava-n.5 Vala gska a Ze ma povest poetive pracujiciho p •edaka naA halaze- Texasu. V jinem sla ynostnim • pie bratr Valeik misto 3e' "prce vlastne nepoekat, az bude se mnou'hotov pohrobnik? je piece • jako.feka: dvakrat se podivej, vypacla stejne• lee. dneA'ii voda , neni tataZ co pi'ecl rokern. 2ivotopis milZe psati jen. ten, jelaoZ Zivot se sclayluje k veeeru."

Poked se parnatuji, poznal jsem br.

Vafeika zia sjezdu v Houstonu r. 1924, kdy' byl n, olen -do fteetniho vYbortk Hl. SPJST. SIouzil v tom fi • ade do roku 1937 a mi,toptedseda Hiavni tkado\ tiy ch, 14, u 1941. Ve sjezdu taylorskem 1940 iednim z editelii, a byl jich pfectsenoti po ety • rokv. Neby10 by na ini-

Edward L. IVIarek Bratr Edward L. Marek narodil se na fame pH Meeks, v okresu Bell, Texas, 4. listopadu 1893. (Otec Frank Marek narozen byl v Industry, okresu Austin, Texas.

Matka Marie narozen byla v Benatkach v Oeehach.) it se svYmi rodiei na farme aZ do y eku nsmnacti let. Pro gel venkovskou Skolu, tea pro gel korespondeneni obchodni kurs. Venoval se obchodu od sta •i osmnact let as do to doby kdy ve g el do vojenSky sluZby behem prvni svetove valky.

Ve stirp clu, drie 18, tlerVna 1952.

Po ciconeeni We (vet se venoval obchoI du.

Wdy brad velkou least ye spoleeenskem Zivote ye svem okoli a pro nas eeskY' lid. Venuje se spolkove a bratrske praci na gi Jednoty od roku 1952. SlouZil co U Cetni u tildu CeskY Prapor eislo 24 aZ do roku 1933, kdy nastoupil svou praci co a1 eetni Hlavni 'Otadovny, drive neZli byl zvolen za ptedseclu, ktery fu-ad nyni zastava od XV. sjezdu.

Brother Edward L. Marek was born near Meeks, in Bel! County, November 4, 1893. His father, Frank Marek, came from Industry, Austin County, Texas; and his mother was born in Czechcslovakia. He lived on the \farm of his until he was eighteen. There he attended a rural school, afterwards he completed a business course by correspondence. He began his carrier by working in a general merchandise store until the ..WOrld War One. After his discharge, he Opened his own general establiShment. He has always taken great interest in the social affairs of his community and for the improvement of the Czech settlers.

His first position in the SPJST was the job of financial secretary in his, home lodge, CeskY Prapor No. 24. He kept this. position until 1933 when he had taken over the duties of financial secretary of the Supreme Lodge. In 1944, he was elected vicepresident of the Supreme Lodge, and, in 1948,. president of ' the Order. ) • 4; • (

Sestry delegittky Bratii delegati

ste uvesti v tomto elanku nektere jedPouZivani posledni ptilelitosti pied zananisjezdu v Corpus Christi r. 1944, kdy hajenim rfa geho gestnacteho ..sjezdu, avgech sedm •editeln jejich bylo ,Asunuto. bych \Tam vgem pisemne pn,;:sttednictvim Pripomindm to jenom proto, ze v krdt- nageha spolkoveho organu Cu/midi moje kosti se musely zmenit nahledy na ritzne nejvtelej gi ptani k Va gemu zdarnemu uddlosti, nebot' bratr Va,leik obdrZel sa- jednani. tislakci ye sjezdu konanem ye Ft Worth, Oeekava nas v gechny dtilelita, prace. kde byl ustanoven reda,ktorem anglicke Bude ji snad vice neZ na sjezdech pkedeasti Vestniktk. Pczcieji, po smrti bratra chazejicich. Doufam, Ze v ge bude vy •e geMouelcy ustanoven TiskovYm vyborem se, no svorne a v duchu bratrskem pro doschvalenim Hlavnifitadovny redaktorem bro nagi Jednoty a pro budotkci jeji i "deske edsti Vestniku, jejZ vede vzorne, vzrtist. jak eteme v pochvalnYch dopisech i od S bratrskYm pozclravem neelenit na gi Jednoty.

Edward L. Marek, Nejsem snad neskromnYm pozorovateptedseda Illavni lem, ale snaZil jsem se vain podati fitadovny SPJST. daje o Vestniku, jeho redakterech, ta.k ) • 4 • t jak jsem je za 42 rokd yypczoroval a MitZeme bYti s yYmi nejlepgimi p•ateli poznal.

Nastavajicimu sjezdu v Houstonu pfejl, nebo nejhorStini nep •ateli. Budeme-li aby byl jako v gechny na ge minule sjez- prateli vgeho, co je At- nas nejvy ggiho a dy, dalgim schodem k vzestupu a rozma- nejlep§iho, budeme ptateli v gech lidi. chu . nagi mile SPJST. A budeine-li neptateli v geho,'cp je v nas Na zdar! nej yyggiho a nejlepgiho, budeme nepte.Corpus GliiLIt., Texas, ,1 Zvi tu, t9.2. , tell vgech lidi.

(Ralph 'Waldo , Trine, )

?:7r, [1edu, dne 32. _;.erVna 1952.

MISTOPREDSEDA VICE-PRESIDENT SPJST.

VPSTNt

, TE XAS

na volebni listinu bez oposice. Jake statni zakonodarce byl bratr Svadleitak sten na mnoha diiielitYch legislaenich vYborech, a jeden z nejhlavnej;;;Ich byl vYbor v oboru pojiSrovani. NaSe Jednoty a vSechny bratrske spolky mail v bratru Svadleriaku spolehliveho zastupitele. ye svern okoli je bratr Svadlenak znamY ponejvice jako podnikavY dinar a UspeSny rolnik. Nasledleria s yYch obchodnich a politickYch stykit je bratr Svadlenak snad nejvice znamYch Oechern v Texasu, a to nejen mezi krajany, ale i mezi americkYm obecenstvem a vysokymi statnimi funkcionati a Uted-

TAJEIHNIK JEDNOTY SECRETARY OF THE SPJS'i'.

Frank G. Svadlenak, Vice-President is fifty-two years old, being the youngest son of the Joseph and Johanna Svadlenak family. His parents settled near Taylor, Williamson County in the year 1881.

He married Bessie Peter in 1926. Three daughters have been blessed to this union.

Frank G. Sy:idle-flak MistopPedsecla nasi .Jednoty, brats Frank G.' Svadk,nak, nelstarSi z rocliny Svadlenakovy, je pritonme 52 let star. Jeho rOdiee, Josef a ,Tonana Svadlenakovi, pristehovali se pobli2 Taylor ve William son okresu roku 1881. .Bratr Svacilefiak vyrostl na farrne, navSte yoval venkovskou skolu, pak S• el na ueitelsky astav do San Marcos a sveho dalSiho vzdelani 'nabyl na statni ui yersite v Austinu. Roku 1926 oknil se, pojav so clruZku Zivota sleenu Bessie Petrovu. Maji dceruSky. Do Jednoty bratr Svadiena.k ofistoupil v 1918 k radu Praha eislo 29, a byl einnYm ve spolkove praci od dne sveho ptijeti. Zastaval .pisto na ritznych raclovych vYborech, aZ roku 1938 byl zvolen ptedsedou f‘adu, ktereZto misto zasta.va, dosud. Od doby, kdy prevzal vedeni mistniho spolku, fad Praha vzrostl o vice neZ osm set 'della. Lee bratr 8vadleriak odmita, jakoukoliv zasluha a tvrdi, ze je to vkchno pkieineni dobrYch organisatorn, ktere rad ma, a nasledkem spolumace bratra a sestet' radovYch. Roku 1940 -bratr Svadlenak zvolen za jednoho ze sedmi feditela Hlavni nradovny a na 8i ezdu y e Fort Worth byl zvolen za mistopfedsedu. Roku 1942 obCane okresu zvolili ho za, poslance do statni legislatury, a toto yyznamenani dostalo se mu jiZ petkrate. Letos byl dan znovu

Brother Svadlenak joined Lodge Praha No. 29 in 1918 and has been an active member of this lodge since that date.

During the earlier years of his membership he served on various committees working for the interest of the organization. In 1938 he was elected president of Lodge Praha, and still holds this office today. The membership of Praha Lodge has increased well over eight hundred members during his administration.

Brother Svadlenak attributes this marvelous success to the excellent cooperation of brother and sister officers of the lodge and to the active membership.

In 1940 brother Svadlenak was elected Director of the Supreme Lodge and in 1.948 at the Ft. Worth Contention he became Vice-President.

In 1942 he was elected by the people of Williamson County as their State Representative to the Texas Legislature. He has been re-elected five times to this important office and has announced for the sixth term. He has no opposition. During these many years of public service he was appointed to many important legislative Committees. The one that he values most is the Insurance Committee. This Committee processes all of the proposed legislation covering all fields on insurance.

At home Brother Svadlenak is active in the cotton ginning business and in farming. He recently sold his retail business.

He was educated in a small country school, San Marcos State Normal College and at the 'University of Texas.

' aZifft4 J. F. Chupick

J. F. Chupick, syn Jana a Franti'Sky ChupikovYch, rozene Sebestove, byl narozen 26. bfezna 1889, pri Ellinger, v okreso Fayette, Texas. Jeho dedeekove z ot7 cove strany, ktefi pochazeli z Hat'alkoye na Morave, a jeho dedeekove z ny strany, kteih pochazeli ze Zadveric Morave v Oeskoslovensku, pfistehovali se do Texasu na sklonku roku 1855, ptistavk v Galvestonu na tyteZ lodi. Chupici se usadili nedaleko Millheim v okresu Austin, kde jeho otec vyrostl, ale pozdeji se pfesidlili ku Veseli v okresu Washington. Sebestovi se usadili pfq Biegel, v okresu Fayette, a pozdeji take se pfeste-,. hovali do okoli Veseli, kde jeho matka se narodila.

Jeho rodiee prvnich par let bydleli na farme nedaleko Veseli; pak se pPestehovali do Brenham a pak koncem roku 1883 se pfestehovali do Effinger v okresu, Fay-. ette, kde J. F. Chupick se narodil.

Nav'Stevoval obecni 'Skolu v Ellinger; pak v roku 1905 graduoval z vy ggi skoly (high school) v La Grange. Pozdeji studoval obchodni kurs v Massey College v l-7otistonu, pak tri roky "extension" kursy pravnictvi v La Salle Extension University, a v anglietine a obchodnim yedeni v Alexander Hamilton Institute v Chicago.

Jeho obchodni karieru zaeal co zamestnanec v bankach v La Grange a v Ellinger. V roku 1913 zorganisoval, co jeji ka- • sir a tinny afednik, ,Fayette yille State Bank ye Fayetteville, Texas, se zesnulym bratrem J. R. Kubenou co pfedsedou.

V2STNIK— WEST, TEXAS

Kdyt byl kasitem Fayetteville State Bank byl ustanoven statnim prehlititelem bank, kterou praci konal at do nastoupeni vojenske slutby v prvni svetove valce co cvihnec ve etvrte dastojnicke g kole v Leon Springs (Camp Stanley) Texas.

Od roku 1920 at do jeho zvoleni co tajemnik Hlavni Ufadovny SPJST ye sjezdu v Taylor v roku 1940, zabYval se prodavanim pozemkil a kolonisaeni praci a behem to doby rozprodal mnoho velikYch kusil pozernku a vybudoval a prodal takfka na sta farem v rfiznYch eastech Texasu. Indy mel thjem ye farmareni a dosud ten zajem udriuje, neb vlastni farmu neb rend v okresu Atascosa, kde je jeho druhY domov.

Born March 26, 1889,, at Ellinger, Fayette County, Texas, son of John and Frances Chupick, nee Sebesta. His paternal grandparents who hailed from hostolkova in Czechoslovakia and his maternal grandparents who hailed from Zadverice in Cezehoslovakia, immigrated into Tex in the fall of 1855, arriving at Galveston, Texas, on the same ship. The Chupick family settled near Millheim in Austin Austin Co., Texas where his father was reared and later moved to Wesley, Washington County, Texas. The Sebesta family settled at Hiegel in Fayette County, Texas, and later also moved to Wesley where his mother was born.

His parents resided at Wesley a few years after. their marriage, then moved to Brenham and later on in 1883, to Ellinger, Fayette County, Texas, where J. F. Chupick was born.

He attended the grammar school at Ellinger and High school at La GrangQ from which he graduated in 1906. Later he completed a business course at the Massey Business College at Houston, a three year extension course, in law, from the La Salle Extension University, and a three year extension course in English and Business Administration from the Alexander Hamilton Institute in Chicago.

He began his business career by accepting employment in banks at La Grange and Ellinger, Texas. In 1913, he organized, as its cashier and executive officer, the Fayetteville State Bank at Fayetteville, Texas, with J. R. Kubena, as its president.

While cashier of the Fayetteville State Bank, he was appointed a State Bank Examiner, which position he led until about a year after the outbreak of World War No. 1., when he entered the service by entering the fourth Officers Training Camp at Leon Springs (Camp Stanley) Texas.

From 1920, until he was elected Secretary of the Supreme Lodge of the

SPJST at the Taylor Convention in 1940, he was engaged in real estate and colonization work in which capacity he handled and sold many large land subdivisions in various parts of Texas. Farming always has been his hobby and he maintains his connection with it and owns a farm and ranch in Atascosa County, Texas, which he calls his second home. ) • 4 • (

Ve stfedu, dne 18. dervna 1952. c:lekova, dcera rodiefi Jos. 6oekovStch z West, Texas.

Born on a fb.rm near West, McLennan County, Texas, on November 11, 1901. Son of John Urbanovsky, a pioneer born in the community of Latium, Washington county, Texas, on January 4, 1876, and Josephine Sykora Urbanovsky, born near Live Oak Hill, Fayette County, Texas, on August 19, 1879. After comfIUTNi JEDNOTY pleting studies in the West schools, enrolled in the commercial department of FINANCIAL SECRETARY OF THE SPJST St. Mary's College, La Porte, Texas. During the first year at St. Mary's was forced to abandon studies being stricken with scarlet fever. Enrolled and gradu-, ated, with honors, from the Toby's Business College, Waco, Texas in .1921. Was employed as bookkeeper and salesman in various business establishments in West, Houston, San Antonio and Hillsboro.

In 1933 was appointed City Secretary, Assessor and Collector of Taxes of City of West, where he was employed until 1942 when he was called to the service of the country in World War II. After his discharge from service, returned to his employment with the City of West until July 1943, when he was appointed Financial Secretary of the Supreme Lodge SPJST and, holds, this position to date.

Brother Urbanovsky is married. His wife is the former Miss Hattie Cocek, daughter .of Mrs. Julia Cocek and the late Jos. Cocek of West, Texas. ) -• 4. • ( gTESTI. Raymond A. Urbanovsky

Narodil se dne 11. listopadu 1901 na farme nedaleko West, McLennan County, Texas, z rodiefi John UrbanovskYch, pionyril rozenYch v Texasu. Po ukoneeni studii ye westskYch gkolach studoval ob7. chodni kurs v St. Mary's College v La Porte, Texas. Nasledkem nemoci "scarlet fever" byl nucen ptestati studie v St. Mary's v prvnim roku. V roku 1921 nastoupil studie v obchodni kolleji, Toby's Business College, Waco, Texas, kde graduoval s vyznamenanim. Byl zamestnan co knihvedouci a prodavad v obchodech ye West, Houston, San Antonio a Hillsboro.

V roku 1933 byl ustanoven mestskou radou ye West mestskYm tajemnikem, assesorem a vYbereim dani, kde pracoval aZ kdyZ byl povolan do vojenske sluZby v. roku 1942, v druhe svetove valce. Po propueteni z vojenske sluZby °pet byl zamestnan mestem West do doby kdy2 byl ustanoven ifeetnim Hlavni ttadovny dervenci 1943, ktere misto zastava dodnes. Bratr Urbanovsky je Zenat. Jeho manZelka byla dtiVejei sledna Hattie

jakmile ho nikdo tak schvalne hleda. Ten, kdo hleda Stesti, jit ho ztratil. Cloy& katdY rad je St'asten — jiste, jakmile vSak merle Stesti tak vyhledavat, jit ho nenaleza. Velmi pane jest to povedeno v pohadce 0 hloupem Honzovi. Ti dva chytti, vzdelani pani bratti, ktefi jdou za Stestim, nenalezaji ho; ten hloupy Honza nehledal Atesti, ale kde bylo tfeba, jak dovedl pracoval, pomahal, a vida — byl et'asten a nakonec musil jeete pomoci obema bratfim neet'astnYm. V teto, pohadce o hloupem Honzovi nos lid nejvetei etickou moudrost nom povodel, totiZ: nehledat etesti! To Umyslne, dokonce rafinovand hledani etesti eini neet'astnYm. Moderni elovek po velike revoluci nejen hospodatsky a politicky, nYbrt i filosoficky a umelecky honi se po ztracenem etesti, po ztracenem rail — ale honbou po etesti jeete nikdo et'astnYm se nestal.

T. G. Masaryk. ) A • ( Klient: Mnoho-li mne to bude stat, pustit se do toho soudu?

Pravnik: To je tetko rice — pit& na to, mnoho-li mate.

Je po stesti,

Ve qtedu, dne 18, C erYria, 1952, POKLADNIK JEDNOTY TREASURER OF THE SPJST

Jos. Koliha, nil.

Jos. KOliha, ml., narozen ye velkomeste Chicagu, ve statu Illinois, dne 27. fijna 1902. Otec mel zde krejeovskou dilnu.

Na radii lekate, otec tuto prodal a rodina Kolihov,l se odstehovala do mesteeka North Judson, ye ,statu Indiana, kdyti Josefovi bylo asi 5 mica, zde otec praco\ al pro '2eleznidni spoleenost.

Zcle ve statu Indiana narodily se manticlum d ye cicerugicy, Julie a Ratiena.

Josei na ysU, voval yetejnou Skolu. v mestecku North Judson.

V listopadu roku 1915 rodina Kolihova se odstehovala do statu Texas, usaclivgi se na iarme asi 5 mil zaphdrie od rnesteeka Skidmore, kterYtito pozemek Josef& otec asi tti •nebo etyfi. roky Josef nav gtevoval vefejnou §kolu v mestecku Skidmore, vzclalenou 5 mil od domova. Cestu do gkoly, prvni rok co rodina pilila do Texasu, konal Josef pesky, I 3 k rano tat( ocipoledne, pak pozdeji jezdil do skoly na kole (bicyklu).

Po ukoneeni gkolniho vzdelani rolnieil doma s rodfdi, a na podzim roku 1923, po sebrani arody, poprve pracoval mimo domov.

V rote 1924 pfijal praci co yYpomocnY rozvatiee' venkovske po gty (substitute rural letter carrier), kteretito zarnestnani mel po 16 a pal roku, pri demti rolnieil.

Jak Josef kolikrate itypravel, bylo to ph tomto zarriestnAni co vladnf rozva'k'd no-

VEt TNI — WEST, TEXAS ty, vynakl, ze rausi se poditat s cehtid- Benefit Department. He was re-elect,d ky a take 2e musi bYti spravne vedeni in 1948. * di' • ( fleZtfal.eatkein roku 1931 pojal za manelku 'PR8VNi RADUE 'JEDNOTAY sleenu Hattie Machovskou. Toto manklATTORNEY OIL THE SPJST stvi bylo obdateno tfemi ditky, Josef, nejstar'Si z ditek, jest ye sluthe vlasti co maritrak. Prodelal bitvu v severni Koreji, za coZ obdrkl vyznamonani, (jest nyni serantem), utaboten na Parris Island v Ji2"ni Karoline. Pak jeho &era Dorotka, ktera jest o'Settovatelkou v La Grange Memorial nemocnici v La Grange, Tex; a nejmladSi synek Jaroslav, ktery prave vySel obecpi (grammar) Skolu ye Fayetteville.

Br.atr Koliha ml. take pracoval asi 21/2 roku pro talc zvanY AAA vlddni odbor v okresu Bee, sidlem v Bellville, Texas, V roku 1942 ptijal zamestnani a yelkoobehodnika H. E. Butt, kde venni zdatile pokiaeoval, kdy'Z v dubnu roku 1943 byl fediteli SPJST ustanoven a svei •en mu mad poLladniica SPJST a take iweni Nernocensktho odboru SPJST, ktele2to oba afady doposud zastava.

Obe sentry bratra Kolihy zemrely, sestra Julie v roku 1938, a sestra. Raena roku 1948, a matka Josefova zemi •ela v roku 1950. Otec Jom , fav, ktery v Cervnu t. r. bude miti 85 rokil, tilje a jest ubytovan u rodiny Josefa ve Fayettevitle, Texas.

Jak Josef vtidy fika, "na ge zaeatky byly dosti krugne, ale vytrvalosti a tetikou August liaciipraci, irge jsme pfekonali, a tiznavam tie jest lepgi dati eloveku za'jeho tiivota jedNarozen 171 dubna 1892 ye Fayel nu kytielcii, netili celY wagon po jeho okresu, Texas. Vychodil gkolu v. LaVad,1 smrti. okresu, vyudoval tame .Skolu po pet let, na to slouZil ye svetove valve.. Je eleacn Brother Jos. Koliha, Jr., was born in Komenskeho jihOza.padni texaske the metropolis of Chicago, October 27, uditelske kolleje v San Marcos,. elenem 1902. Five years,later, his parents moved tadu Pokrck Sweet Horae eislo 63. od )0 to North Judson, Ind., where two girls, ku 1912. Graduova,1 co pra ynik na statla Julia and Rosie, increased the Koliha's Universite v Austinu r. 1923 a po te usafamily. In North Judson, Ind., Joseph, dil se v Temple, kde venoval se vYhradne Jr., received his early schooling. Then in praksi civilniho prava, Od roku 1924 jest 1915, the family moved to Texas, where pravnim, radcem nakho Bratrstva. Ve Koliha, Sr. bought a farm some five miles snahach o udrZeni des'keho narodniho west of Skidmore, in Bee Sounty. There tivota v Texasu, br. Aug. Kacir w2ciy stoJoseph had to attend the public school ji na pattiOnem miste. five miles distant which distance he Brother August Kacir, our legal made, day after day, on foot, the year of his graduation was able to obtain a bi- advisor, was born in Engle, in Fayette cycle. He helped his parents on the farm County. He attended a public schOo1 in for a number of years. In the fall of 1923, Lavaca County, later he taught schools after the crop has been gathered, Joseph in the same county after he graduated for the first time ventured to make his from the Southwest Texas Teachers Colown living. ,He accepted a position of a lege, in San Marcos. He is a. veterar\ of substitute rural carrier. He held this job the World War One. After being disfor 16 1 2 years, simultaneously farming charged from the Army, he studied at and working for Uncle Sam. In 1931, he the. University of Texas, receiving married Miss Hattie Makovska. In 1942, Bachelor of Law degree. He settled in while he had a promising position with Temple in 1923. He always supportted the wholesale firm of H. E. Butt and every worthy cause pertaining to the Company, the directors of the Supreme betterment cf the SPJST members and Lodge appointed him as treasurer of the the Czech citizens' aspirations and unSPJST and also as manager of the Sick dertakings.

VESTNiK --- WEST, TEXAS REDITEL JEDNOTY DIRECTOR OF THE S.P.J.S.T.

"I have learned a bit, but not much, since I was born! but Knowledge is vast that cne cannot become wise in a short lifetime," said the man of sixtyfive.

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iftEDITEL JEDNOTY DIRECTOR OF THE SPJST

J. C. Eineigl editel Eineigl vskutku aettil informaceini ohledne sama sebe. Redaktor vi o fern jen tolik, ze bratr Eineigl narodil se ye FrYclku, v kraji basnika Bezruee, v tornte2 kraji, kam pololen byl dej romanu “Na Kresach". V mladYch letech odstehoval se do zeme Svobody a usadil se pti Yorktown, Texas, kde az dosud bydli. Vime, ze je horlivYm Sokolem a Ze prate pro Cesky lid ho vkly velice tesila, nejen v okruhu naSi SPJST, ale pro celkovY p rospech naSeho dobreho CeSkeho lidu.

There was no way to extract information from our Director Eineigl. He is another Calvin Coolidge when it comes to his personal history. He comes' the same spot of the Old World that was the birthplace of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. Brother Eineigl when asked about his life, fumbled in his billfold, pulled out a folded clipping, handed it to the editor, and remarked: "This fits into everybody's life—and mine too." So, instead of getting personal inrermation, the clipping must do. It goes 'ilcc this: 'Daddy, I know how to do everything" the little boy of five.

"What I don't know isn't worth knowing," said the young man of twenty.

"Well, anyway, I do know my own trade from A to Z," said the man of thirty"There are very few matters, I am sorry to say, that I am really quite sure .*out," said the man of fifty.

Ve Stkedu, due 18. eervila 1952. se svoji farmy do mesta Temple, by se mohl lepe'venovati spolkove praci, a te2 k vuli zdravotnimu stavu jeho manZelky.

Jest on tee dobrYm organisatorem a ziskal za sveho pOsobeni velky podet client' pro naSi Jednotu.

• • Brother Chas. Navratil, one of the five directors of the SPJST, became a member of the Order back in 1906, forty-six years ago. At that time, he joined Novy Tabor Lodge No. 17, in Caldwell. Now he has been corresponding secretary of the third largest Lodge, Cesky Prapor No. 24, for more than thirty years. He claims to have a 99.40% pure record, for he had missed only one meeting in those thirtyodd years. Not only that, but he is active and holds important functions in six or eight other organizations. In 1938, 'hen Brother A. A. Lesikar resigned from Le Auditing Committee of the Supreme Lodge, Brother Steiner made the motion to fill the vacancy by appointing Brother Navratil. The motion carried unanimously. In 1944, during the convention in Corpus Christi, Brother Navratil was elected as a director for the central district which position he still holds. As an organizer, he pushed himself to the first and leading position with nearly 300 new members in the last four years. ) • 4, • itEDITEL JEDNOTY

3:VIMPag$,.

Chas. Navratil

DIRECTOR OF THE SPJST

?IiirtAk,VSTS Ptistoupil do Jednoty 9. zaii 1906 a site do tadu Nov Y Tabor els. 17. Od doby jeho elenstvi bral vZcly ZiNTY; zajem ye spolkovem Zivote a pracoval v2dy pro paltrok a vzriist naSi Jednoty. Jest tajemnikem nyni ttetiho nejvet giho faclu naSi Jednoty jiZ 30 let a za jeho iitadu co tajemnik ma rekord, Ze vynechal jen jednu TeZ jest irtednikem spolku RVOS cis. 107 od jeho zaloleni v roku 1916. Ptitomnou dobou jest odhadeim toho eislo. V minulem sjezdu RVOS byl pocten faadern ditele VVRVOS, aekoliv se snad o ZadnY idad neuchazel. Jest elenem Evangelicke Jednoty CMB ye sboru Ocker, v kteremZto sboru slouir v U •acle tajemnika jiz dvacatY rok. VZdy bral podil na kaZde narodni praci. Pied asi 20 lety bYval eastYm ochotnikem pri divadelnich ptedstaveinch pro dobroeinne fieely. V roce 1938 po resignaci br. A. A. LeMkara co elena teetniho vYboru SPJST byl .ustanoven Hl. idadovnou na doslouieni jeho V roku 1944 ve sjezdu v Corpus Christi byl zvolen feditelem stfedniho distriktu naSi Jednoty, kterYito Utad zastava od nynejZi doby. Poslednich 20 let se br. NoBratr Frank Rod, jeden z peti feditelft vratil venuje vkhradne spolkove praci, naSi SPJST, narodil se roku 1896 nedalezylaSte praci pro naSi Jednotu. Pied 61/2 ko Moulton rodierim eeskYch ptistehovalrokern se prestehoval se svoji manZelkou ca. ye ti:ech letech jeho veku rocliee jell()

f7tIeclu, dne 19. CTr yna 19.52, Ptestehovali se do okresu Wharton, kde vyrostl a navStevoval venkovskou Skolu.

V roku 1916 ukoneil obchodni kurs v kolleji Brantley-Draughon Business College ye Fort Worth. Roku 1918 hlasil se dobrovolne d6 armacly SpojenYch statit a byl poslan do dastojnicke :§koly v Camp Tvfabry v Austin)). Po svem propuSteni z vojenske slu2by rolnieil p •i El Campo, a2 roku 1925 vykoupil poclil v obchodu v meste El Campo, kterY2to obchod vedl a.2 do 1928, kdy svirj podil prodal a venovai se pozemkovemu obchodu. V tutee dobu ptevzal mistni jednatelstvi -v-&"eho druhu, krome 21votniho pojiat'ovani. Roku 1931 prodal sv(ij jednatelskY obchod jinernu pojiSt'ujicimu agentu v El Campo, kteremu2 ale o2 dosud yypomaha. Byl tenkrate zvoleny za Mena mestske rady v El Campo. Bratr Rod stal se elenem radu El Campo Cislo 50 na podzim roku 1917 a byl zvolen tadovYm tajemnikem kratce pc) svem ptijeti. Pozdeji byl fadovYm pfecisedou, a nyni slouzi mnoho let jako tadovy iteetni. S vYjimkou jednoho a pal roku, mei v2dy nejakY tadovy atad. Na podzim, kdy teditel Zgernanek zemtel, bratr Rod byl ustanoven na jeho misto. nastoleni novYch .-atednikit zaeatkem roku 1949, byl bratr Frank Rod znovu ustanoven na misto zesnuleho bratra Jos. Zemanka, aby slou2i1 za nej celou pinou Z pet teditela SPJST je bratr Rod jedinY, kterY sloai svou prvni lhatu.

Brother Frank Rod was born in the vicinity of Moulton in Lavaca County in the : year 1396 of Czech immigrant parents. When he was about three years old, his family moved to Wharton County, where he grew up on a farm and attended rural schools. In 1916 he cornPleted a busines course in the BrantleyDraughon Business College in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1918 he volunteered for service in the Army and spent some time with the Student Army Corps at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas.

Upon being discharged from the Service he continued to farm until the year 1925, when he purchased an interest in a mercantile business in El Campo. He was active; in the operation of this business until 1928, when he sold his interest and engaged in real estate brokerage. At the same time he established a local general insurance agency, writing all kinds of insurance except life insurance. In the year 1931 he sold his insurance business to another local agent in El Campo with whom he has been associated since that time In 1933 he was elected to serve one term as a member of the City Council of El Campo, Brother Rod became a member of Lodge No. 50 in the fall of 1917 and thereupon was elected Secretary of that Lodge.

TNIE.-- W MT, TrIxAs Later he served as president of this Lodge and now, for some years, he holds the office of Financial Secretary. With the exception of about 1 1/2 years, he has held one office or another in his Lodge continually since becoming a member.

In the fall of 1948, when our Director, I Brother Zemanek, passed away, Brother Rod was appointed by the Supreme Lodge , to fill the vacancy. In the early part of 1949 he was re-appointed to serve his: first full term as a Director of our Order.' )• •(

nuje se stavbe novYch doma i obchodnich a jinYch budov. Od sveho navratu z prvni svetove valky byl stale einnYm v raznYch bratrskYch spolcich, hlavne u spo1.7 ku RVOS a naSi SPJST. Na sjezdu, kona nevi v Corpus Christi, byl zvolen tedite lem nejvetgim poctem oclevzclanYch hla80, a byl znovuzvolen na sjezdu konanem ye Fort Worth. Pro sve zlcUSenosti v votnim pojfat'ovani a sve znalosti cen nozemkovych i hodnoty domova a jinYcl) staveb, bratr Skrabanek je velmi cenn:imi Menem naai Hlavni fifitadov.ny.

REDITEL JEDNOTY

Bro. Skrabanek Director J. M. Skrabanek was born in Burleson County, in Czech community called Snook. In 1896, his parents moved to Liberty County, and later settled near Crosby, in Harris County. He became a member of the SPJST in 1912. Shortly afterwards, he secured a position in the office of the Great Southern Life Insurance Company. He held the position until 1917 when he volunteered for the Armed Forces during the World War One. .

He was assigned to a military band, After being discharged, he resumed his former position with the Great Southern Life Insurance. About the same time he organized his own orchestra which had been active for a number of years. In 1924 he switched from the office work to the field work, and became an under-' writer. He followed the profession of life insurance salesman very successfully for more than ten years, until, in 1935, he acquired a large tract of land near Danbury, in Brazoria County, and he ventured into rice fanning and cattle raising. Today he owns several thousand acres of land and is considered a leader among the rice farmers in that vicinity.

A few years ago he established another successful and prosperous business in Angleton by turning his talent and energy into home-building and construction. These various interests do not keep him, however, from taking active part in every civic and fraternal organization.

He has been known in the RVOS organization and the SPJST lodge work as a dependable worker. At the convention, held in Corpus Christi in 1944, he was reelected by the largest number of votes cast for any director or officer. l-ts experience as a life insurance salesman, his practical knowledge of the value of land and the cost of building has made him to be a valuable asset in the management of the SPJST. ) • d. • t Nepracuj, jakobys byl ph tom ne gtasten, nebo proto, abys byl obdivoyari nebo litovan, spine usiluj jen 'o jedno, abys svou silu uvadel v pohyb nebo ji zadrZov,al, jak to pe vy2aduje prospech (Marcus Aurelius.) celku.

DIRECTOR OF THE SPJST

J. M. Skrabanek fzeditel Skrabanek narozen byl ye Snook, v okresu Burleson. Rocliee jeho se odstehovari v roku 1896 do okresu Liberty, pozdeji do osady Crosby. Stal se elenem SPJST v roku 1912. Roku 1913 zaeal pracovati v atadovne pro poliWujici spoleenost na 2ivot, Great Southern Life Insurance Company, v Houstonu, Texas, kde pracoval a2 do •oku 1917, kdy dobrovolne vstoupil do armady SpojenYch sta.ta. Byl ptidelen:do vojenske kapely a : po proptrateni vratil se nazpet k pojiSt'ujici spoleenosti. V torn Case zorganisoval tea sviij orchestr, kterY aeinkoval po nekolik roku. Roku 1924 zamenil sve kancelatske mist() u poji:§t'ujici spoleenosti za jine u te2e spoleanosti, eim2 stal se prodavaeem Zivotniho pojiSt'ovani. Agenturu tuto si podr2e1 as do roku 1935, kdy zakoupil si kus pozemku znaanYch rozmera a venova,1 se pestovani ry2e a chovu dobytka v okresu Brazoria. Pied nekolika lety zatidil si citevosklad v meste Angleton a y e-

V E STN1K— WEST, TEXAS EREDSEDA TISKOVEHO VYBORU CHAIRMAN PUBLICATION COMMITTEE

cation Committee, let him only review the responsibility that the Committee, and chiefly the chairman of the Committee, Brother Hornak, had to bear. The entire matter of the publication of the Vestnik Was the hands of the Com mittee. Besides, it had to find a competent editor for the English section, and when the late Brother Moucka got seriously ill, the Committee had to locate a suitable substitute. All in all, Brother Jos. Hornas, with the enthusiastic support of Sister Antonie Horak and Sister FranL;es Olexa, have achieved very good results make the Vestnik what it should be.

• T • LEN TISKOVEHO VYBORU MEMBER OF THE PUBLICATION COMMITTE E

Josef Horriak Narozen 10. prosince 1890 v Nechvaline Kyjova. na Morave. •Na podatku roku 1905 ,odebral ,se do Vidne ueit temeslu.

Pracoval ve Vidni at do roku 1911. V torn samem roce povolin, do vojenske slutby na tti roky. Sloutil 2 roky v Krometiti na Marave u 25. petiho pluku. V roce 1913 v rain poslan do telefonni a telegrafni 'Skoly do Vidne na jeden rok. Netli kola uonCila byla valka zahajena proti Srbhu a Rusku, Poslan na frontu proti Ru;ku. Byl na ruske a rumunske fronte at ilo iinora 1918. Onemocnel malarii a po,ilan do. St. Felten u Vidne, kde se zdrtel at do p •evratu. Po ptevratu v prosinci 1918 vstoupil do deskoslovenske armady a sloutii v telegrafnirn pluku at do zati 1919. Byl propuSten na neureitou clovolenon. V fijnu 1918 pojal za mantelku sleenu Annn Drozdovou z VelkYch Loveic na Morave: Ptijel ,do Ameriky a Texasu 1. srpna 1920. a usadil s v College Station, Texas, kde on a jeho avakr John Mendl vlastni krejeovskort dilnu pod jmanem :_\10)1d1 & •TAoriiak. Do Jednoty SPJST oupil v race 1928. Jeho mantelka Anjeho tii ditky Vladimir, Ann a Lijsou elcny naSi Jednoty. Do 1,Iskoveho vyboru byl zvolen v roku 1936 \ t ;jezciu v East Bernard •a, slouti dosud.

I 13rutlier Jos. Hornak, chairman of the Publication Committee, has been serving on the Committee since the 12th SPJST convention held in 1936 at East Bernard.

Should any member wonder about the c I li )r the purpose of the ?gbh-

Ve stkedu, due 18. eervna 1052, lem nebyli dinnYmi. Vychovali dva, syny, Jindticha a Erwina, kteti so_tva zadali choditi do S"koly, Ueinkovali v detskych divadlech. Dali hochfun universitni 'neeIani, a byli radi, kdyt se jim synove, jako elftstojnici, t"Vastne a zdrivi vratili, jeden at z Indie, druhy z mnoha • Sister Frances Olexa, secretary of the Publication Committee, was appointed as a member of the Committee in the Corpus Christi convention. Your editor has failed to obtain her biography, but he has known her ever since she arrived from Vienna, Austria, where she was born. The entire Dvorak family, the parents, five sons and one daughter, settled in 1910 near East Bernard. Then the Dvorak family moved to Rosenberg.

In 1922, Miss Frances Dvorak married a handsome young man from Houston, named Frank J. Olexa. Pokrok Houston Lodge No. 88 gave them a big wedding party. They deserved it, for both were very active in the Lodge. And their activity did not stop, did not diminish, but constantly increased. For many years Sister Olexa held the position of corresponding secretary, while her husband, Frank J., served as president of the Lodge. Now Sister Olexa is serving second term as lodge treasurer. She was reappointed to the Publication Committo at the Fort Worth Convention. ► • a. ♦ (.LEN TISKOVEHO VYBORU MEMBER OF THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE

Frances Olexa Sestra Olexova narozena byla ve Vidni v Rakousku, rodnYm jmenem Dvotakova. S rochei a bratry prijela, do Ameriky roku 1910. Rodina Dvotakova byla napted usazena nedaleko East Bernard, pozdeji se ptestehova.la k Rosenbergu. V roce 1922 provdala, se za Franka J. Olexu v Houstbnu, kde si zalotili domov a kde dosud bydleji. U taciu Pokrok Houstonu eislo 88, kde je olenkyni, zastavala fitad tajemnice po jedenact rokti. Nyni slouti druhou lhatu v ntadu pokladnice. Do Tiskoveho vyboru ustanovena byla ve sjezdu v Corpus Christi, spoleene s bratrem Hornakem a sestrou Horakovou.

VYborem timto zvolena byla jako tajemnice vYboru. Jak u sveho tadu, tak ve Antonie Horikova spolkovem tivote vrtbee, talc° by bylo Narozena jsem ye stare vlasti. S rodiei jmenovati jediny zaslutnY podnik, na nerut by sestra Olexova, i se syYm man ge- jscin prijela do SpojenYch state v rocs

Ve 5,-ttedtt, tine 18. &Irma 19'32.

1904 do okreSu Parker.

V roku 1908 jsem se provdala za Jana Ondrtigka., a v roku 1921 jsme se ptestehovali do Dallas, kde jsme v kratke dobe vstoupili do tadu Pokrok Dallasu Cis. 84 a asi za 3 roky jsme ptestoupili do tacit' Jaro cis. 130, Spolkova prate se mne velmi zalibiia a ja v ni nag la mnoho pekneho a poueneho za tech 30 rokii. Prace spolkove jsem brala jak Sly: — Na rtiznYch VS/b0rech, tajemnice, organisatorka, dopisovatelka, sehnala jsem dohromady detskY odbor, ktery jsme pak saloSili. Zakladajicich ditek elenti bylo 16.

Do tech sjezda jsem ala na sve ntraty.

V Ennis po celou dobu; East Bernard totei; v Taylor jen po dva dni. Ve sjezdu v Corpus Christi jsem byla co delegatka, kde jsem byla zvolena do ittadu Tiskoveho vybortt. Ve Fort Worth jsem byla zase vyslankyni, kde jsem byla znovu zvolena do tiskoveho vYboru a kde bylo radoSti pracovat s bratrem Jos. Horttakem, co ptedsedou, a sestrou F. Olexovou, kterou jsme si pak zvolili za tajemnici V§echny dopisy a jine, co pi•iglo ku rozhodnuti uvetejnit neb ne, neb opravit, jsme ueinili tak, ze ja ani sestra Olexova jsme se nikdy ptedem nedomluvily, ale sve dobrozdant„ napsaly s ylaAt' do dopisu a poslaly br. Hortiakovi.

S vydavateli Vestniku, ittedniky Hlavniho •aclu, Yaude shoda to nejlepai, i s bratry redaktory.

Redaktor bratr Moudka, nyni zemtelY, byl elovek velmi snaSenlivY. Nechtel nikomu a velice teSce nest, byl-li napaden rtiznYmi dopisy, kter y mnohdy mely dosti pravdy, ale nedaly se uvetejnit. Br. Moueka potteboval Tiskovy vYbor v poclobe censora. On znal hesla Bratrstvi, Lidskost, ale nekteti. elenove je Redaktor bratr Stepan Valeik jest muS razne povahy. On si pomnSe sam, vidi-li, Se jest nee° zavadneho, tedy to neuvetejni, censorem jest on; ale ja, bych neodporudovala, aby byl zru gen Tiskovy vybor.

Ten plat, kterY vYbor dostal, se nam cele Jednote vratil spokojenosti a oblibou eteni Vestniku. Odporueuji, by byla dana Tiskovemu vYboru Yak zodpovednost.

Mite napomahat praci organisaeni, ku ziskavani novych Clenu, radce, teenik, dopisovatel a jine. Nam jest ticeba vetSi Cirniosti, tedy zaptahneme do prace kaSdeho schopneho Clena.

VS'em tern, kteti meli ve mne dtveru, Se zastavam svilj iitad spravne, srdeene de-kuji.

Sjezdu konanemu v Houstonu, Texas, preji mnoho Marti.

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all the leading local organizers, are to be introduced to the membership. Your editor is compelled to do likewise. It is not an individual publicity, but an overall account of what goes inside of the Order. A short biographic sketch is published with each picture. Your editor, Stephen Volcik, of Houston, was born in the heart of Europe. He was twenty-one and he still did not know English. Three years later he graduated from Sam Houston Teachers' Institute, with honors, but with only a limited knowledge of many things, including English. Consequently, thirty years later, at the age of 53, he went back to school, attended night courses at the University of Houston, received Bachelor of Science degree, and Master cf Letter degree, His research work in the field of Psychology has temporarily been stopped by his taking over the . editorial duties of the !late Editor Moucka.

4, ) ZACHOVAL SE DLE NAkiZENi Vrchni redaktor ptijal noveho zpravodaje, veda ze z.kuS"enosti, Ake nesnaze pusobi mladY a neskilgenY zpro.vodaj, uminil si dati mu ponaueeni.

"Musite vedeti, jak psati zprav y," pravil k nemu, "kdykoliv se new stane, vyhole y twodu struene celou udalost Stepan Valeik pak tepr y die yYpovedi lidi pust'te se Nebylo inYin amyslem psati o sobe. Ne- do lideni podrobnosti." dayno mluvil jsem s bratrem KleprliA takto ponaueen pustil se report Cr kem, ktery mi sdeloval, ze. Cleni se ho na loy spray. ptali, jak ten nynejSi redaktor vyhli.21.

Nahoda mu ptala. Jisty tesat, pracuJde tedy o formalitu o uspokojeni Menu.

Zesnuly bratr Moueka take nebyl pro o- jici na sta ybe jednoho eeskeho domu v sobni oznamovani, ale kdyS vypadlo Ceske etvrti mesta, smekl se a zlomil pero z ruky, nebylo jeho podobenky. Jen si nohu.

Ha, to byla vitana ptiletitost pro zpras velikou namahou se na ge' skupinovY snimek, z nehoS pracne se dala reprodu- vodaje; pkinese 6eskou zpravu — nekovati podobenk y redaktora, , ktery do- bot' tesat byl take tech -- a pH tom psal. Ptedstavuji se Menu= a etenattim, ukate, jak dovede se tiditi die navoclu ale Sivotopis podam az za jinYch okolno- vrchniho redaktora.

A druhY den yylieena byla ona eessti. A kdybych se k tomu nedostal, svet stejne se bude todit. Kdysi bral jsem sebe ka sensase nasledovne: OblibenY a nad jine vaienY tesat, vaane. Dnes poznavam, ze Clovek je ye titech osobach: jeden charakter, co si °bean Sekerka, zlomil si veer°, na sta ymysli, Se je; druhY charakter, co si o be domu yaSeneho obeana Btichopasnem jini mysli, Se je; a tteti charakter, co ka, nohu.

"VaSenY a oblibenY °bean Sekerka krasam vskutku je. Pokud Clo y& nevidi sebe ()alma druhych,sidi sam sebe. Lasto je eel po prkne, kter y spadlo a valenk °btteba, aby 'Clo y& nebral sebe vaSne, ale ean Sekerka spadl a zlomil si nohu. zasmal se sam sobe. Nedovedu to jeSte KdYS, jsme jej v byte jeho dolate. Proto i mtij Sivotopis musi je'Ste vypravel nam veakere podrobnosti polltovani hodne teto nehody, jak nasleduje: Cekat.

Stoup jsem na, prkno, kter y se mnou spadlo a ja jsem si pti tom zlomil nohu.

Here is the man 'that used to place the Jeden z jeho spoludelnikti, jeni byl oeiinitials "A.E." at the end of the articles tYm svedkem neResti vypravel nam nain the English section—meaning Asso- sledujici: Kraeel jsem za Sekerkou a viciate Editor. In this souvenir issue, all del jsem, jak vstoupil na prkno, ktery the supreme officers, directors, and mem- s nim spadlo a Sekerka si padem zlobers of the Publication Committee, also mil nohu.

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y e stredu, dile 18. ttervba 1952.

MORAVEK:

DEJINY ikADU ROBSTOWN aSLO 117 tento byl uveden do Jednoty brarem tajemnikem Hlavniho radu J. R. K.Ubenou 9. listopadu 1913. Protokol ze schtize nepravi, mnoho-li bylo novYch zakladajicich cienu. Jsou zanaena jmena 'dent s prestupnimi listinami.

Uredniei zvoleni: Ad. I3erko yskY, predsecia; Jan Rektorik, dozorce; J. C. Grossman, tajemnik; Jan Veselka, teetnik; Al. Rektorik, pokladnik; Rud, Mrazek, prfivodei; Jan Mrazek, vnitrni. a Fr. Veselka venkovni stral. Poeet Menu udan nevi. V druhe schtizi byla s poydekem prijata zprava od br. dozorce Jana Rektorika, ze jim Skolni dozorce dovoluje konati schfize ve Skole, ktera stoji na pozemku br. predsedy a takkka y e stredu Cesko-morayskYch osadnikti. Dale ujednano, ze novi ptistupujici elenove musi platit $4 vstupne, a nemocenska podpo"a bude 25 centil na jednu Zadost. Prijem ve schtizi $10.60, vydani $9.70. V zari 1915 tiamocenska podpora sniZena na 15 cenAadosti o podporu stale pribyvalo a pokladna tmedle prazdna. TeZ ujednano, ) pill roku budou novi elenoye Ze bez vstupneho. Za tajemnika zvolen hr. Jan Veselka (a ten 'Arad vedl u.% do roku 1944, poz. pis.) Do sjezdu vySlancta zvolen br. Jan Rektorik. Tel dan n(Avrik aby br. tajemnik obdrZel $1.00 rocne za jeho praci. Navrh prijat. Na rok 1916 4a predsedu radu zvolen br. Jan Rek torik, a jestli nezeinte, tak jim bude pohad bude Jednota existovat. Roku 1917 1)117.? tajemnika zvYSen na $2.50. Povoleno $5 na AmerickY Oervei4 kriZ. kad ma 23 elenti. Dale, Urednici ziista yaji rok k roku ti sami. Nekolik elenti bylo vyloucuno pro neplaceni poplatkti. Nekolik novym v okoli se zakladajiI); f'Aouplo cim radilm a tak co by rad mel mohutnet, slabne. Asi v roku 1916 neb 1917 katolici v okoli Robstown usazeni sobe postavili hostel na pozemku krajana p. Ant. Fritze. Boure ale hostel rozmetla. Osadnici drevo posbirali, neco prikoupili a postavili Sin pro konani spolko yYch schnzi. p. St. Prochasky, ktera stoji 7do ku konani schtizi a divai (tr. Ed. Mieek zde byl "s jeho taneeni zabavy atd., a tak i naS tad dodgy ma po starosti, misto zajiStene. V roku 1919 nemocenska podpora byla Add si bude jeho nernoct:e podporovati sain. Zavyslance do sjezdu zvolen br: 'Fr. Veselka. V roku 1920 yybirany prispevky ku postaveni SPJ -ST si roteince. Vybrano $27.00. Roku 1922 ujednano, aby penize ku stavbe siroteince vYbrane byly elenfirn yraceny, proto;,-%e neni nadeje, ze k to sta ybe kdy clojde. V roku 1924 v dubnu jsou k radu prijati br. a ses. F. J. Moravkovi od radii Cis. 91. Plat

tajemnika z yYSen na $5.00, takte.z hr. nik ma narizeno, sepsat dejiny radii pro eetni JaroslavRektorik dostane plat :5.00. jubileni Oslo Vestniku, ylastne to mel byBr. Moravek zvolen vyslancem do sjezdu. ti Parmitnik, ' kterY vnbee vain nebyl.

Rad ziskal nekolik novYch Clem, tahoe Roku 1947 dobrovolna sbirka pro trpici v je nas 27 a v "kase" mama. $214.54. Roku CSR vynesla $21.00. Bratr tajemnik ma, 1927 br. Vaelav PodeSt' zvolen delegatem odeslat na. patriene misto. Roku 1947 br. do sjezdu. Vyslanec ma narizeno, zasta- Jarosl. Rektorik zvolen vyslancem do Yat Hlavni Uradovnu na miste kde je. sjezdu. 1949. Sbirka pro A.C.K. Br. Jan Orednici zUsita.vaji stale stari. Roku 1931 Rektorik $25.00, Jarosl. Rektorik $5.00, vyslaneem zvolen 'or. Moravek. Br. a ses. Moravek $2.00. Tento rok jsme Hlavni ' Al. Rektorikovi sobe vzaii "paid-up" a z radovne odeslali $1,105.88. Rok 1951. Dar jednoty vystoupil. Br. Moravek zvolen na ACK $10.00. Br. Jos. Kocianovi zaplaradovym poklapikem. V rod 1937 ma- con jeho celoroeni poplatek co podpora me pretniho nemocneho elena, br. Jos. v jeho nemoci. V eervnu mame schtlzi se Kociana. fta.d mu udeluje podporu $25.- svaolnou. Nate spolusestry °patri zakus00. Roku 1933 no navrh hr. Mora yka rad ky a bratri pitivo. Br. Jarosl. Rektotik udeluje $25.00 na obranu Pad kou- I zvolen vyslancem do sjezdu. Br. Morapil U S. bondy v cone $308.00 1943 daro- yek se chce jeho Uradu yzdati, ale mar\rano na A.C.K. $10.00. Do sjezdu zvolen na jeho Zadost. Jak eloveku dochazi osmbr Jan Rektorik. Roku 1944 nam odchazi desatka., jest jiZ to jezdeni hodne neliste. rulS" dobrY Utednik, velice dobrY elovek, Do Sclatize jeSte jak tak, ale ze sChtize dobr. Jan Veselka. 29 roku zasta.val Urad mu? Organisatorstvi prebira br. Jarosl. tajemnika ku spokojenosti tak i Rektorik, ac ji.Z tech itradti ma nekolik.

Hlavni Uradovny. Jeho iirod prebiril br. Br. predseda slibuje, Moravka do a ze Moravek. Pro odboeku Nemocenske Pod- sehitze vozit, ale jeSte k tomu nedoSlo. pory pii Hlavni Urado yne neni zajmu.

Tak to by bylo asi vSeeko, co za zminRcku 1045 rad daroval $25.00 pro trpici ku stalo a co se ze starYch protokohl deti v CSR. fia.d opet ztratil nekolik Hevybrati. nn. Misto co byehom melt rtisci, klesame. odborech. Jest to shiSny pReet pro toto Tu jsem se rorhodl, Zadne velke udalosti pri radu 'se organisatora. WM. jsem predcm, ze Zad- necely. Z' adne vaZne, zdali ja.ke viIbec ny zazrak neprovedu, nebot' jak se itika: rozepre jsme nemeli, vZdy se jednalo ling huba, hotove neStesti, TYsledek bratrsky, primo a otevrene. Vhly se vSe byl lepSi nezli jsem oeekaval. Celkem klidne jsem ziskal 20 no yYch elenft do obou odTrebaZe naSi elenotie ma.lo sclatize tia.born. Na to ja Urad organisot.ora predal vStevuji, nemel jsem jeSte Zadne potiZe s br. V. Janakovi a to proto, ze ja jsem s tou angliekott reel stale jeSte na Stiru. kolektovanira penez a to je co za 22 rokil Neco podrobne vysvetiovat, to nejde. Br. riot. Proto zdar nasemu radu,zdar cele Janak se ale toho brzy vzdal a tak to zu-' naSi. mile Jednot y a velky zdar priStimu stalo za na inne. V roku 1946 br. tajem- sjezdu.

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ROU2EK 2EN ikADU ENNIS tiSLO 25 is ;n pied Ovema mesici pro-1 litererni poznstalosti pc) zesnulem, hratru IVIonekovi, easel jsem v zesuvcel inezi jinymi vecini pn.hou fotografii a' popis, to ona fotogralie predstavo-! ale, Stain tam: "P:silam obrazek Zen-1 t , kelaci krouku a struCnY popis jeho pra-I ■ ,(" Datum do pisu bylo 4. brezna 1947 podepsena byla pain Bolena Radova nis.

P kna a vecna pametka to byla, o kte-1 nevedel. Dopsal jsem do Ennis t ;tISi informace. Obratem poSty odei!

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bratr F. J. HaSkovec, Ze "obratJ6. ledna 1941, seAlo se nekolik Zen cacti 'Oslo 25, k uklizeni nerodni sit a k St itt zack:n. A tarn pH. to praci Idyl den pcdnet, aby she zaloZil "Z'enskY :KrouZek". JiZ 14. nnora svolana byla schnze, kde 15 Zen a divek, stave se Menkami Krouku. Za fikol si aeny v kroukut pracovat ye prospech dobroeinnych neelu, a to rOznYmi zgasoby, ktere by phrulSely "finaneni fispech." Do &a l poky, aby byl za--xctbylranpiedt n da jubilejnihLi eisla Vestniku, na.

Ito• vilbec nedo,;10, Tenkrate KrouZek Zen t:ykonal innoho ,prate, sebral hodne pelk a podpofil mnoho naelu. Dnes Krouttek jiZ nevi. Nevim, mime-li se does (thlubit, co bylo vykonano v minulosti. rs/echavam to no rozhodnuti Tobe, brat le redaktore."

Rozhodne iname zachovati .pamatky st ye layvale prate, proto uve •ejriuji nejen (tit , Jzek, ale te.%:. popis, jak byl" pied pet r,nri6 n ,zr,, f-rrr/ Prtdoron

loZniho f:ndre daroval Hid Cis. 25 kronZ25 dolarn.

Zapodaly preci s pro:Sivanim prikrYvek pro lidi, za coZ braiy jeden dolar aZ do 2 dolarta od jedne, die vypracovani. Ne.-1 koiik jich proMly k vydraZeni. Haekovaly, rtizne kytieky a panenky k pozdeji, ne-' joke zabavni veairky poradaly a hezkYch per dolaria se jim seSlo cd uz.nalYch a pro nos iteel nadSenYch (Wren.

Toto vSe p •ineslo za pet with krouku peknY Winos, tak./e asi kt:lem peti set &tarn, krouZek mohl vyplatiti na podpo-

rech a prci rtizne potiebile neely. Mimo Who uSily Zeny pro americkY OervenS7 Ki'12 nekolikery Zemke gaty, uhaekovay sto kusel detsktirch Satieek, deset svetril, tri eepiee a 1..ri patty rukavic.

Vezme-li se v uvaliu,ze KroutZek 'Zen se skladal aZ no tiq Ci etyri Clenky ze Zen farme. •skYch dopraccval se ph jejich teZkYch pcvinnostech pekneho Uspechtu.

Na obrazku nesou vSechny Zeny krouZku, ktere jej zalozily, neb nektere se odstehovaly a nektere se k fotografoveni nedostavily.

Zeny na obrezku jsou, stojici z leva do prava: Anna Gurecka, Albino Nesudava, A neka.Ozialova, Dolfi Hrabinove, Milada Trcjadkova, Leona Juricove Vilma Nesudova, Albino Gurecka.

Sedici z leva do prava: Milada fIaSkovcova, Marie Vrlova, SoZena Ractrava, .Marie. Trojaakove, Anha Nel:Tftv(T., Anna Troj{i

Ku 42. vSmoel zaloieni tadu Pokrok Houstonu.

Po tolika letech a it pi ilezitosti sjezciti Slovanske Podporujici Jednoty Statu Texas y Houstonu, sidle tohoto tadu je spravedlivo vzpomenouti toho vYroei zaloleni a jeho dejin a jelikoZ" dejiny tadu Pokrok Houstonu jsou vlastne take dejinami eeskoslovenske osady v Houstonu, vyhcim je zde die S yYch pameti melt° pet a etyticetileteho pobytu v teto metropoli Texasu. .1<dyZ jsem p •ibyl do Houstonu dne 25. dubna v roce 1907 z Chicaga, tehdy mandril kol 65 tisic obyvateln, neveclel jsem o Zacinem krajanu zde. Teprve kdy2 jsem zaeal pracovati v zavodu Oriental Textile Mills v Severozapadni mesta Houston Heights, tehdy samotne mesto, dotazoval jsem se po naSich krajanech.

Superintendent zavodu sclelil mne na maj dotaz, lie jsou tarn deveata majici divne znejici jmena a dovedl mne ku jedne jmenem Mary, nevim nyni presne, jestli se psala Schwartz ei 8varc. Veeer po ukoneeni , prate S • el jsem s ni k jeji matce, s kte').•ou jegte bydleli dva jeji synove, Charles nilacISI a Richard starAi. Ten byl pozdeji ;Menem ['ado Pokrok Houstonu. Pani Svarcova mne pfijala na byt a stravo%rani, Ci jak ona to nazYvala "no Mist".

Rodiny FonovYch a KurtinovYch bydlely pobliZe a HudeekovYch nekolik Ctvercu To byly prve Ceske rodiny, samy se zvaly "Moravci", jeC jsem seznal nej-, drive v Houstonu, neveda o jinYch. Kra-. janskeho stCediska tu v onu dobtt nebylo, lecla hudebni kapely, zaloZene zminenYm Richardem 8varcem, sestavanci se neb etyk synn. FojtovYch, Charlie 8. varce a Franka Kurtina a Po'aka zde rozeneho, Frank Mayjaka. vavali u Fojtd.

Narazil jsem site bud' prvY neb druhY den na sve yYzkumne pouti po Houstonu: ye Ctvrti zvane "Patou wardou" na u'lici zvane Chaloupka street, ale tarn nezvedel jsem nit ani o nem, ani o nejakYch na'Sich krajanech nieeho blizsiho. Teprve pozdeji seznamiv se s bratrem Vladislavem Langrem, majicim zakazkovY krejeovsky zavod v budove Tremont hotelu na ulici Congress a Milam zvedel jsem, Ze to byl snad nejaky videnskY Ponemaely Cech, jenC tam snad mel dosti stavebnich mist a tak to ulice byla pojmenovana po nem, ale to ureite tvrditi nemohl., Byl jsem v'Sak pozdeji zamestnan, Ze mne nebylo mo2'no bUeji po podrobnostech pojmeriovani teto lice patrati. . a

Bratr Langer byl tu jiC od:uku:1889 jeho pani prijela za rok sem po nem,

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prave po tom galvestonskem hurikanu sinutne pameti. Bratr Langer byl -prvYm pkedsedou kadu Pokrok Houstonu a piedsedou prveho krajanskeho spolku. Vzclelavaciho a Zabavniho Spolku Pokrok, zalo2eneho ptecitim. Hodne pozdeji pak jsem zvedel, ze v jednom z houstonskYch Pivovarii, Magnolia Brewing Co., byl zamestnan krajan Leopold Florian, ctec sestry Carrie Vodehnalove od roku 1894.

Prod tu nebylo clkive nejakeho krajanskeho stkediska: lze asi vysvetliti Him ze tu tehdy nebylo asi vetsi prilelitosti ku zarnestnani, jet by sem krajany kalo. Byl tu jeSte druhY pivovar, Houston Brewing Co., nekolik menSich strojnickkch zavodn, hlavne vyrabejicich potkeby pro teteni oleje. Zavod Hughes Tool Co., .dries velkY rozsahlY zavod, byl tehdy trochu vetsi dilnou na severni strane mesta u mostu pies Bufalo Bayou, dnes.zvaneho North Main street viaduct; ielezakskY zavod Hartwell Iron Works na several strane mesta„ tez v one pate warde, pak tovarna na nabytek, Meyers a Spalti, rovnet' tam, 2eleznieni dilny drahy Southern Pacific, tet na severni strand, tehdy take nevelike, strojnicky zavod Layne Bowie na vYrobu eerpadel na dolni Washington ulici a Berger Ornamental Iron Works na Preston avenue, bilk mostu. V zavodech lisujici olej z bavinoveho semene byli vetSinou zamestnani eernoSi, Mexieant tu bylo tehdy malo. Byl bych hnedle ∎opornenul dva vetsi t. elezarske zavody a to Dixon Car Wheel Co., kde zesnulY bratr Frank Kratkjr prise] ku zraneni a pak Houston Car Wheel and Machine Co. V rote 1907 tu zamestnavanost pokulhavala, as odesva penetai paniky na severu.Rokern 1908 nastal to menSi obrat a ptibylo sem nekolik krajann ze severu a tak se zaeala navazovati blizsi znamost' a soustted'ovali jsme se u bratra La.ngra, ad' jsme brzo se rozhodli za •iditi spolek, kterY jsme pokktili na Vzdelavazi a Zabavni Spolek Pokrok, nelanas bylo tu jit dosti mladYch lidi. Bratr Langer byl zvolen pkedsedou, pisatel pokladnikem a bratr Frank Krabec tajeinnikem. Brzo men jsme sluSnou knihovnieku, poradaly se menSi zabavy s vYstupy a podobne. Na zaeatku roku 1910 bylo tu jiz hodne krajanii, k jsme pornYSleli na zalo-2eni nejakeho podpiirneha spolku pro piipad mrti a podpory v nemoci. Jevil se pro to mySlenku znaeny zajem a tu v ptipravnem vYboru budovano po uspikni teto akce a bratr Frank Kratky, po vyleeeni zamestnanY u Shott's Bakery jako rozvaZed, uvazal se v agitatai praci, maje yafi pkiletitost seznamovati se s tu a tam rortrouSenYmi krajanskymi rodinami. Mel v torn zdar a pa poradach bylo usneseno zalcditi zde tad Slovanske Podpurne Jeclnoty Statu Texas, jent byl po zalokni pojmenovan Oislo 88, Po-

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krok Houstonu. Dostal do vinku \Tem ptipadne jrneno, vyznaeuje se pokrokem ye sve einnosti ye sve einnosti a vzHistem poetu elenstva. Ttebas , skoro kaZdy Glen tadu byl zamestnan zatizovanim vlastniho obydlieka, naSel si jeSte Gas ku budovani stanku kadu Pokroku Houstonu na zakoupenem stanoviSti, dasti rozsahlern, jeg se naleza u fiseku peti kMovatek ulic se znaenou frekvenci. To byla velmi vYhodna koupe. Jakmile byl sta.nek dohotoven, hned vzplala mySlenka umistiti v nem stanek divadelni Musy a tak hued nekteki vedouci elenove vy'Zebrali myslim na jednom z tech pivovaru divadelni potieby, kulisy a pozacil a sroubeno jeviSte! Zprvu se hraly menSi hry a jak Sikil se zajem o hry s odvahou pustila se hereeka dri.dina na vetsi lay vethinou veselohry. Pozdeji pak na zpevohry, nebot' melt ji2 vyttibenY peveckV sbor.

Behem doby, kdyZ nase ornladina dorostla, pHbirala se postupne v tech nazi ochotnicke divadelni drldiny a pak to SID jeSte lepe a tak dnes s radosti polni Ume na tu flak hereckou druAnu jak vyspela. NaSel tu v nasem stanku faulek sokolskY . sbor, vyueovalo se v nem eeskemu jazyku niznYmi noitelskYmi silami, cat rad Pokrok finanene podporoval a v prve svetove valce pomahalo se stare •teine vSemoZnou,metou, penetni, agitaeni propagandou a p valce sberem odevin jako i jinYch Mdoucich \reel.

61enove kadu zazivall take jiste •obtuse nemocemi v rodine, stavkami, ale v praci pro dobro iadu, pro praci na narodni Se a vzdelavaci einnost jako i pro dobro elenstva nenastalo nikdy cchabnuti a jen tomu Ize piicisti netuseny jeho rozvoj. HezkY poeet elenii dokoneilo jit svou zivotni pout', i tech elenti divadelni druzimy, budiZ" jim rtdy eestna vzpominka.!

Nove obdobi nastalo, kdy2 na rniste prvotnilao, hodne zvetSeneho stanku, byl svcrnosti a bezp •ikladnou obetavosti elenstva vybudovan nov9, nynejSi a stale zvelebovanY rozvahou a peei vedoucich Ginitelu, v kratke dobe po svem vyb•dovani sproStenY dluht. Korunuje tu mnohaletou nendroenou praci a °betavost sveho elenstva, •je to vytYeenY pcinnik &site osady v Houstonu, jeji pram na kulturnim poli, Ceske pile, odvahy a Setrnosti, je zakivYm odkazem techto naSim potomkilm. Pisatel jen chova aby si toho ft adu pokrok Houstonu, jeho elenstvu ku dva a otyricatemu vYroei sveho zak-deni blahopteje pisatel a pkeje mnoho zdaru ku dalk plodne einnosti.

Slovanske Podporujici Jednote Statu Texas a sjezdu v Houstonu a delegattm =oho zdaru. Oboji je yYznaninou metou Jednoty i radii Pokroku Houstonu.

tESKI. GALILEO GAME'

Maio lidi vi, 2e u kolebky spektralni analysy Cech Jan Marek z Kronlandu, kterY til v Praze v 17. stoleti. V to dobe se vydavala veSkera literatura z nejvetSi easti latinsky, a tak se setkavame s jeho jmenem jako Joannes Marcus _Marti de Gronland. VYznanD jeho vedecke prate je dalekosahlY. Na tehdejSi dobu to byl velmi iteenY mut, kterY byl tehdy na vysoke firovni jako matematik a prirodozpytec. V nazorech filosofickYch a .pkirodovednYch byl na stejne vYSi jako ostatni myslitele, sdruZeni na tehdejSi slavne lekakskopkirodovedecke Mole paracelsovske. Jeho fi ,osoficke pojmy ptirodozpytne byly zaloZeny na zakladech platonicko-stoickych a v mnoha vecech se ztotoZnuji s Paracelsem a van Helmontem a uvadeji ho v blizkost Leibnize. Jan Marek Markin uvetejnil ti' vyznamne fysikalni objevy, ktere mu zaruduji svetove prvenstvi.

Stanoveni zakont prnZnYch kouli. Tent) zakon se vSak obyeejne ptipi •uje Wrenovi. 2. Upottebeni kyvadla k meteni easu. Kyvadlem meta tep nemocnYch lidi.

Kyvadlo ye forme hodin saved]. Huygens.

3. VySetteni rozptylu svetla. Nepraveru se pi-ipisuje Newtonovi. Jan Marek prva zavedl nazev disperse svetla. 0 dispersi. duze, podstate barev a jejich vzniku piveste'Z'ejnhn dile "Thaumantias giber."

Dilo vyAlo v Praze roku 1648. Zaeatek dejin spektralni analysy se obecne pripisuje anglickemu myshteli a vynalezei Isaacu Newtonovi. Podle vedeckYch publikaci Jana Marka Markil Kronlandu mfdeme vSak dokazat vedec kemu svetu, '2e to byl prase eeskY vedee• ktery Newtona predeSel, Jan Marek Mar z Kronlandu byl diistojnym epigonew rudolfinskYch veden. Profesor Studniek;) o nem y minulem stoleti napsal, ze byl "eeskY Galileo Gable!." celsem a van Helmontem a uvideji ho v 4_ • A young man, fresh out .of law scho:. appeared in a police court to conduct hi first case. Comporting himself in a mos approved legal manner, he awaited hi summons to the bar. Presently the case was called, whereupon the fledgling lawyer laid his hat and coat on a bench and stepped forward.

"Youni4. man," the judge exelaima testily, "is this your first appearance this court?"

"Yes, your honor," the youthful lawyer replied, wondering wildly what had re vealed his inexperience.

"I thought so," grumpily said the judge "Just move your hat and coat over when' you can watch them and proceed wit.

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STEPHEN VALC1K :

"THAT BOY WILL WIN SOM Quite a greater part of this commemorative issue brings to the reader memories and recollections of the days of pioneers. Many of the stories go back some fifty, seventy-five, or even hundred years. To counterbalance the old memories, we give you a story of a boy.

He was a messenger boy at the time when I happen to get acquainted with him. He used to bring registered mail to my window when I was stationed in the registry department at the main post office. He didn't look more than twelve, but somehow, in jesting and teasing, we found out his real age. He was fourteen.

But he never resented our teasing. He never lost his smile, neither his efficiency. One of my associates made this remark: "That boy will win some day."

By that time, I found out that he was a Czech boy.

That was twenty-five years ago. Today, in our midst in Houston, Texas, we have a modest, unassuming young man, a true and sincere Czech, who in my opinion deserves honorable mention. Tite remark, "That boy will win some day", comes to my mind as I review the life of that boy. realize that he has made good despite early disadvantages, limited education, and sometimes downright ridicule which used to beset the so-called "bohunks" some year ago. irte is none other than our active member, Brother John Ka.hanek, Jr., who first saw the light of day August 28, 1913, in Moravia, Lavaca County, Texas, the son of struggling share-croppes, John and Aloisie ( Tomanek) Kahanek.

I sincerely feel that due credit should be given him, for he, at the age of only 38, has completed 25 years of service with The Texas Company, one of the major oil companies, having become an employee thereof in 1927 at the very tender age of foUrteen. He was first employed as "hall boy", advancing to "voucher clerk" in the Comptroller's Department. Later he became a member of the Land Department. He was transferred to Fort Worth, Texas, in September, 1937, to serve as Chief Clerk of the Land Department there. In June, 1949, he was recalled to Houston, Texas, and became a Landman in the Houston Division, which office he now holds.

The burdens of life came early to John Kahanek, Jr. for times were hard; consequently, in order to supplement the meager family income,. he picked cotton, p astured cows, sold magazines and newspapers, delivered milk, mowed grass and

John Kahanek, Jr.

after school and on weekends caddied at Hermann Park Golf Course in company with s0ch golfers as Jimmy Demaret and Robbie Williams, now bath professiona: golfers. Brother Kahanek in later life himself became quite proficient in golf. shooting in the "70'c".

After moving to Houston Texas, al the age of 6, he could not even speak one word of English. His parents sharecropped not only in the aforementioned town of Moravia, but also in Tavener (west of Rosenberg), and Sugarland.

They also lived in Oklahoma, then moved to Houston in the year 1919. He received his early schooling at Robert Browning, Sikes,, Hogg and Luther Burbank only thru the 7th Grade, for as above stated he began his employment with The Texas Company at the age of 14. At this time he enrolled in night school and studied typing, bookkeeping, accounting and law.

He also attended Czech summer school conducted at Lodge Pokrok Houston No. 88 under the tutorship of Mr. Havranek; he also participated in Sokol gymnastic activities.

In the summer of 1925, in company with his parents and two brothers, he traveled to Mexico, Cuba, Florida, New York, France, England, Germany and Czechoslovakia.

He married Marie Kalousek on May 1, 1937, and is the father of two children, a daughter. :Tanis Marie, age 11, and a

DAY" son John III, age 6. has participated in numerous Czech plays and other fraternal activities in Houston and Fort Worth. At the age of 14, in 1927, he was financial secretary of Western Bohemian Fraternal Association .n Houston, and held this position for several years. He has had offices of va:ions organizations continuously for 25 /ears. In 1936 and again in 1950, he was an the auditing committee of Lodge Po:rok Houston No. 88. In 1937 he was treasurer of said Lodge. From 1938 to lune 1, 1949, he was Secretary, Treasurer and appraisor of Chapter No. 9 of ;he Slavonic Mutual Fire Insurance As;ociation in Fort Worth, Texas.

In the Convention of Slavonic Mutual Fire Insurance Association held in Ro3enberg, Texas, in 1.939, he was elected ;o the Board of Directors, in the capacity af Auditor, which post he still holds. He cias served as Convention ,Secretary of he 1939, 1943, 1947 and 1951 Conventions af the Slavonic Mutual Fire Insurance Association, and is now President of 3hapter No. 1 of said insurance company th Houston, Texas. Since 1936, he has ettended every SPJST Convention ex.-..ept the 1944 Convention held in Corpus Texas. John Kahanek is an active .nember of the Houston Landmen's As;ociation and is very active in Lodge proceedings at Lodge Pokrbk Houston No. 88.

In ' conclusion, Brother John Kahanek, Jr., is a champion of our old Czech members and is popular with the young.

• 46 • Little Sylvia was fascinated by the elaborate wedding ceremony of her cousin and asked many questions about it when she returned home.

"When I grow up," she concluded wistfully, "I suppose if I don't get married I'll be an old maid like Aunt Mary; won't I?" Her mother nodded.

"And if I do get' married," Sylvia persisted, "I'll have a husband like Daddy.

Isn't that right?"

Sylvia sighed: "It sure is a rough world for us women, isn't it, Mother?"

• • Eugene Field was once forced to rent a room in a boarding house so incredibly dirty that he was amused by a sign tacked to the front door: "Please wipe your feet."

Field stayed only a week in the place, and as he was about to leave he put his luggage down -long enough to add a line to the placard on the door. He wrote: "When you go out!"

Sunshine.

Ve stredu, dne 18. Cervna 19

N K. --- EST, TE.W

JAROSLAV KLEPRLIK:

NAPikED PRATELSTVI-PAK POJISTENI Kdy2 jsem byl po2adan, abych napsalt need pro toto eislo Vestniku, zdalo se mi to velmi jednoduche dckud jsem nezasedl ku psani. Ne snad proto, ae bych nevedel o eem psat, ale spik proto, ze nemohl jsem se dost dobke pozhodnouti, co si vybrat za thema. Abych se rczepsal o historii kadd San Antonio eislo 133, nepova2oval jsem za vhodne s ohledem na kratkou dobu meho pitsobeni zde. Lituji, ae nemohl jsem sledovati Zivot kadu aspoil jedno desetileti; za danYch okolnosti musel bych veSkera data pracne vyhledavat ye starch zaznamech (pokud ovkm jsou zachovany) a pak eerpat z Ustniho podani starSich clenu, cos by si vyZadalo mnoho easu.

Rozhodl jsem se, ae nap gi neco vSeobecne o Zivote spolkovem, hlavne veak main na mysli vnitkni usporadani kadu a naSi. Jednoty vtibec s ohledem na budoucnost s hlediska vice mene idealniho. Zdtraznuji v'Sak, ze freelem meho pojednani neni kritisovati to ei ono, toho jsem prilis vzcialen. Chci jen naznaeiti, jak ize dobke pracovati pro vzrast, pezakotveni a popularitu Jednoty zpilsobem snad zdanlive odlignYm od dosavadni prakse, tak, jak se na , vec divam po zkugenostech ziskanYch dlouholetou einnosti v rfanYch spolcich v Ceskoslovensku. Pki torn neni tfeba einit1 zasadni zmeny na dosavadni organisaci, ani finanene se zate2ovati.

Mani na mysli pkedevint otazku organisaeni vScobecne, t. j. nejen ziskavani novYch elen0, nYbrZ i usmerneni spolkoveho Zivota v Jednote a tea peel o vkchny zajmy elena v ramci rnoknosti vyteenych stanovarni. Aby mi bylo dobke rozumeno, dovolim si poukazat na spolkovY 2ivot v Ceskoslovensku a jinYch statech evropskYch. Tam totia, vyjma spolkA politickYch vtbec a nekterYch spolku vYludne obchodnich, jsou vSechny spolky eiste humanni, podpilrne, nevYdeleene. Olenstvi je vesmes dobrovolne, vice r-riene eestne a za praci neni nikdo honorovan. Poskytovam 2ivotnrho poirsteni (vydavani certifikata) spolky, jako je tonna zde, je tam veci neznamou., yeAcre pojiSteni lze . tarn obdrZeti vYlaradno u obchodnich pojik'ovacich spoleenosti. Nektere spolky zavedly si tak zvanY "trmrtni fond", cos vaak neni naprosto Mdne pojiSteni, je to neco obdobneho asi jako "NemocenskY odbor S.P.J.S.T.".

A y tom spoeiva zasadni rozdil mezi spolkakenim zde ye stare vlasti.

Ja vychazim ze stanoviska, ae ,povaha a itoel naยงi. Jednoty jsou eiste humanni, jak hlasa hrde pke yzate heslo "Podpora Bratrstvi". Ze to neni Lidskost obchodni pojiSt'ovaci spoicenost, je ka-

Jaroslav Kleprlik klemu jasne. Zalezi na torn, abychom se teto krasne zasade . nezpronevekili, aby totiZ' otazka humanni nebyla zastinena otazkou spekulativni. Chceme-li naai Jednote zajistiti dobrou budoucnost, pak vyteenY- ideal nesmi bYti nikdy a za Zadnych okolnosti doteen. Dejiny nas ze narod bez idealu by nemohi postupovati. A tak je tomu i u jednotlivcil, korporaci, spolkii a t. d. IdealepSiho jet a must byti pro nas prostrednikem k uskuteeneni lepSiho! Ideal nezmuae ovaem nic sam o sobe, k jeho uskuteeneni nutno pracovati. K tomu potkebne energie vkho druhu nam nechybeji; to, eeho se nam spik nedostava, je jejich naleLte usmerneni a spravne vyuZiti. A to bych rad k tomu neco kekl.

V letech 1932 - 1934 piisobil jsem v horode, hlavnim meste bYvale Podkarpatske Rusi (dneSni SSSR), kde jsem byl vedoucim filialky znarne eeskoslovenske automobilky "Praga". Tehdy nil jsem dobre obchody. Co vaak na veci je zajimave je skutdenost, ae vetSinu obchoda uzavkel jsem nikoliv v me kancelaki, rani v obchodnich mistnostech neb y soukromem byte jednotlivcii, nyhovoru venku, nebo brz psi druhae zabave v kavarne, psi sklence vina a podobne. Proe toto uvadim? Chci tim poukazati na psychologli lidi, dostateene znamou jiste veem z praktickeho Zivota. A tato okolnost pkivadi nine na myAlenku vytr2"iti lepe vSech pkiznivYch psychologickYch podminek ye prospech naai Jednoty.

G'hcerne-li (a o torn naprosto nepochybuji) pro naai Alec nekoho nadchnouti a ziskati co nejvice Menu, pak snthne se rozgitit dosavadni kruh na gich ptatel.

Ptedstavine se vetejnosti a uved'me se co nejlepe. Nabidneme a dejme v ge co dati milZeme, i snad za cenu mengich Jenom, prosiin vas, neprodavejme hned pojigteni, jako to cirri profesionalni zastupci obchodnich pojigl'ovacich spoleenosti, sotva, za,klepou na dvete.

Dejme kaZdemu ptileitost prijit mezi nas, nechme je spolupracovati na, bavnich, kulturnich a snad i jinYch podnicich die jejich yule a ptani (PM tom respektujme pine ustanoveni elanktr Ms. 143 na gich stanov), lidove teeeno, nechme je okoukat, nechme je zdomacnet.

JinYmi slovy: ziskejme si jejich ptatelstvi, ptijmeme je do naai velike rodiny a teprve na druhem miste prodejme jim pojigteni jako jedno z mnoha vYhod poskytovanych elenstvu. Postarejme se vgak vgemoZne, aby se jim mezi nami libilo.

Vypracujme pfesnY plan pro vgechny tady, ponechme pii tom dostatek prOnosti pro ptizgasobovani se s ohledem na mistni pomery kde se fad nachazi. Vycyieme si k tomu vice mladYch lidi a z poeatku nelitujme Pripadne i mensich finanenich nakladu, bude-li toho tfeba.

Budeme-li si pceinat dobte, budeme-li umet pkivabit pozornost airai vetejnosti, pak vrati se nam vae jiste mnohonasobne. Ma to bYti na ge visitka, na ge rcklama pro vetejnost.

Zakladejme pevecko, ochotnicke, debni a sportovni krouZky, kluby, usporadejme mezitadove turnaje s eestnYmi cenami a tak vyvolejme ptirozene zdra,y e souteZeni mezi tady a jednotlivci vabec. Potadejme zajezdy 2a Uelem vzajercaleho povatuzo4ani pouene, poutave a zabavne pfednaยงky s filmy a svetelnYmi obrazy, ofieielni taneeni hodiny, plesy, kabarety, za.kladejme knihovny, nebojrne se ani jazykovYch kursn, pii Cem. " z poeatku sledujme vice Adel moralni nea finaneni.

Prace organisatorek a organisatoria za takovYch okolnosti bude pak znaene usnadnena. Jejich \T ed bude sondovati aby ve vhodnY, psychologicky okamkk zcela nenapadne pfeSli na otazku poj g teni a die psychologie jednotliy a ,obezrele jednali. Jenom ne, prosirn, zhurta, abychcm si nekoho neodradili.

Budeme-li umet pkivabit vhodnYm zpasobem co nejvice ptiznivcu a uspokojit zabavami vetsinou dnes poiadovanYrni jejich pkani, pak muaemc bYti jisti, ae sami nas doporuei a pkivcdou svoje

VPSTNtt WrOr, zname. Tato cloporueeni buclon nail 2ivou a nejlepii reklamou.

Aby vie nalelite klapalo, muselo by bYti rizeno systematicky z Hlavni aradovny. Jako jsou tiiteny tabulky a vydavany ,smernice organisatornm pro atzne tridy pojiiteni, tak muselo by bYti clbano vydavani smernic i po teto strance. Bylo by to y jakesi studijni vYchovnepropagaene-organisaeni icdcfeleni. Studijni proto, 2e stale by se musela studovat otazka co a kde hlavne omladina Zada, jak by bylo snadno ji ziskat. Nikdo nepopre,.Ze steZejni zajem musime miti na lidech mladych, ktere si do jiste miry musime vychovat. Ty 'Made musime podchytiti, jen tak si zajistime budoucnost!

Mladi lide, vice neZ vgichni ostatni, mod_ egoismu, jen je vlastni jejich yeku, maji sklon spiie k zabavam, k• sportu a k rozptylu vieho druhu, neZ k vaZne spolkove schilzovani. Vedle vaZne otazky jazykove je to jedna z hlavnich priein, pros mezi nas nejdou a nelze jim to miti za zle. VZclyt' '2'ivot" spolkovY je jedna z nejvetiich prekaZek, prove tak jakci jednou z velkYch opor Z'ivota mlacleho eloveka. Staei viak mnohcly male pobidnuti, aby procitla trarei energie.

Nelze popriti, 2e v srdci naladych lidi vedle ipatne solidarity, jeZ toliko Padelkern va gniveho egoismu, je misto pro solidaritu skuteenou, a to dobreho zrna.

Mladi je y ekem ilechetneho .pratelstvi, jeho2 vliv se diva pocit'ovati na celY

Velka ••vetgina mlacVrch lidi, Merl se bavi, nikdy neuva2ovala o smeru sveho vlastniho Zivc,, ta a bYva strZena jako do viru vnejiimi okolnostmi, zmitana viemi vichry vain' a nekdy stava se obeti nespravne neb aspori povrchni vYchovy.

Co2 nage J.ednota nema povinnost sobe vlastni peeovati o naie ‘mlacle lidi? Zde je k tomu nejkrasnejSi prilaitost. Je to jiste taktika &lord a pak vsichni ostatni z ni budou initi u2itek.

TJznavam, Ze to fie je v theorii velmi jasne. Je treba dobre uvazit, jak se v praksi toho chopit, abychom docilili Zadoucich fispechu. Je to siroke pole pitsobnosti a 'jsem fist, 2e tato syntheticka metoda by se dobre .osvedeila. ZnamenitY vychovne p popagaeni material ma bratr VaTeik, redaktor Vestniku. Jeho prekrasne barevne filmy maji nedozirnou cenu. Je treba jen naldite totho vytilit, nejen od pripadu k pripadu, a to jeite z east. Ve Vestniku Oslo 18 ze dne 30. dubna t. r. bratr Valeik shodou okolnosti mach, 2e by byl ,cchoten zapUjeiti viechny sve filmy ku promitani kamDava vie hlavnim firedniktun k disposici. Opravdu krasna prilditost, velmi lakava, a na pOuhY dosah risky. Jedno Ceske prislovi nom pravi: "HloupY, kdo diva; ale hloupejii, kdo nebere!"

Nechtejme bYt terni hloupejSimi!

Zivot se neziskava bez bpje a nerezviji se bez natnahy. Mimo to neNje, kdo zilstava osolonim minenim pripoutan k minulosti, jeZ" je mrtva; 2ije'viak,

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a to clvoinasab, laocita li ie zkuienostml a s ponaueenimi minulosti, aby se lePe priZpilsobil pritomnosti, Ponevad2 za naSich dne je lidstvo trapeno intensivnefil potrebou spravedlnosti, ponevadZ lze rrci, Ze lide na celem svete usiluji o to, aby se vSichni spojili s Umyslem vzajemne si pomahat a kraeet ruku v race k idealu, pribliZenemu liciskeinu idealu, neuchylujme se od tchoto hnuti.

Naopak jcleme vpred z celou silou sveho presvedeeni, s vyteenYmi idealy, , s celYm nezdolnYm Zarem 54 let dosavadni einnosti nail Jednoty. Bud'me viak vZdy Pametlivi, ze nestaei prona get sebelePSi reel nebo svolavat z ylaitni schnze.

Je potreba predeviim posilit vuli nas viech a to se ziska a rozvine jen soustavnou a neziitnou praci, lirdinnYm a stalYm obetovanim nenavideneho ."ja", je2i se stale stavi mezi naSe touhy a . skuteenast.

Jak jsem ' jiZ vpredu nvedl, nevi naprosto mym drnyslem nejaka kritika vecna, tiro niene osobni. PovaZoVal jsem pouze za svoji pavinnost vzbudit pozornost nejen Hlavni Uradovny, naiich organisatorek a organisatorn, nYbrZ i viech elenti Jednoty. Opraydu rad, velmi rad bych vital proteyene nahledy a nazory na moji rnyilenku, ktera V podstate neni nic jineho, neZ: "Ne prodat pojiiteni a pak se snaZit uvest dotyenou osobu uvest do nail rodiny. nYbrZ uvest do nail rodiny co nejvice prate] a pak se snaZit prodat poiliteni."

ZIVOTOPIS JANA A MARIE SVETLIKOVYCH Meth, jsem clavno v innyslu sepsat pro Vestnik aspon struenY 2ivotopis thanZelri SvetlikovYch, jenZe jsem nevedela, jestli by oni byli svolujici. Kdy2 i redaktor stale vybizi, aby poclobne spisy o za,kladajicich elenech byly sepsany, dadala jsem si odvahy a sestru Svetlikovou o dovoleni poprosila. Ona la.skave svolila. Pokladam si to za velikou eest, kde nine chybi na literarni schopnosti, i tam za to moje raclky jsou protkane laskou a vaZnosti, ktere se rodina Svetlikova u nas * * Jan Svetlik se narodil z roclieri Jan a Rozalie Svetlikovych dne 4. kvetna,, 1866 ve Vizovicich na Morave. Tarn ztravil sve cletstVi a pak ye stari 17 let prijel s rodici a sourozenci do Anierikk Pristali y Galvestonu a usadili se v eeske osacle Veseli, kotviite to nejvice CeskYeh pristehovalcil v Texa:su. Odtud se v roce 1889 prestehovali do osady Burlington v okresu 141ilau1i. Myilenky mladeho Jana viak ustaviene zaletovaly na Veseli, za jistou mladou divku, o ktere byl jistY, 2e ho yzpomina take.

Mimo Marenky, dostaIi Adamkovi vice ditek, ktere pomalu dornstaly, a oligem, Marie Svetlikova, rozena Adamkova, kclyZ z Marenky byla uZ sliend panna, se narodila dne 24. prosince 1872 v Ho- mela tiiz i znamost s niladYM Janem Sveit'alkove na Morave, y dedince, ktera je tlikena, kterY se pak odstehoVal do okrete2 rodi gtem redaktora Vestniku, bratra su Nevypinilo se pie7 isloyi: "Sejde Valeika. Jeji rodiee, Stepan a Johana s oei, sejde s mysli", ale zustali sve lasAdamkovi, kteti byli jeSte naladi, take ce verni. Tak se stalo, Ze za rok se Jepojala touha jeti do Ameriky, do zeme Meek vratil pro svoji Marenku. Svatba Svobody a piileLtosti dobYti lepiiho 21- se konala dne 12. dnora, 1890 a . mladY voloyti. Proto, kdyi male Marence bylo parek sezdal pan farar Laciak v dome pet mesicii, vydali se . na dalekou cestu 1nevestinYch rOdien. primo do Texasu. Usadili se pryne pri Nelsonville, kde viak dlouho nebyli a I Tenkrate byly zvykem hluene svatby. prestehovali se na Ujetov p11 Veseli. Po I A Adamkovi take ,takovou uspo•adali, pobyti zde nekolika let, presteliovali se s dostatkeni jidla a . piti, phi• hucibe a , tanci. Q teto svatbe 'jsem jI easto slYna druhou strain' od Veseli., Pri viech oloYeejnYch strastech 21vo- chala od moji, nyni jiz zesmile starenky ta,, zde se na,:iim pristehovalcUm piece KOelove, neb ona pomaliala chystat milo Zilo, nebot' byli mezi gyYmi zvyky svatebni hostinu. V pohadce o Jeniek.ovi a poyahou podobni. Zdejsi reel neznali, a Marence po svatbe, zakonei se slovy: it'aitne a spokojene al do skenabylo by jim mezi Amerieany ale, ItterYch zvyky jim byly cizi a odpudlive. ni". 1;66 v drsnem s yetle skuteenelio ZiJegte dnes ma pro naie krajany po Te- vota, svatba jest po pra.vde teprve saxasu rortrouiene vzpominka na Veseli 1 eatkem. Zenich sebere na sebe zodpomilt' zvuk. V tomto eeskem prostredi, lvednost Zivobyti sveho i .2eny a neveste, dopostid zvykle ochrane rodice, nastaAdamkovi spokojene Zili, (Sepsala Hilda Brtliova.)

ye sttedu, dne 18. der yna 1952.

V t S TNI

WEST, TEXAS

Kdya se zde nastehavali, meli 8 MI: nou starosti a prate Bost. Podobnou cestieku nastoupili mladi manacle Svet- Jan, Josef, Franta, Marie, Rozka, Anna likovi, aby ji po 61 let kradeli; ye ver- a 8tepap. Sotva se na novem mists u-. nosti a svornosti potkavali to dobre i zle, sadili, deti vaecky dostaly osypky. Je to nemoc obyeejna, ale zaketna a vyktere bylo pied ne kladeno.

Stoji zde za vzpominku, ae v dobe svat- aaduje, aby se pacient vyvaroval roteby mel fara• ljaciak doma nemocne chlazeni. V torn ohledu jsou lepAi male deveatko, ktere asi na ti-eti den po to deti na opatrovani, neb jim se spik zeintelo, take novomanaele prvne Ali poruei, kde'ato MAI radeji delaji po svern. na pohieb. Mnoho lidi pamatovalo, aneb Tak smY'Slel i AestnactiletY syn Joaka, dosud parnatuje, farate Laciaka, jako ktery byl takkka po .osYpkach. Kdya za dobreho eloveka. Za jeho dobre rimysly jednoho sychraveho dne otec nebyl dobyl osneovan lidmi, kteii ho nedovedli ma, pfljel k nim koupit si dtevo, nyni pochopit. Ze nemohi se zachovati vAem, jia zesnulY Vilern Schiller. — Joaka se jej tak rmoutilo, byv make povahy, lined vypravil, aby jemu ukazal, kde ze radeji si sam aivot vzal. Byl pochovan dtevo v lese bylo uloaeno, nikterak nevedle sveho deveatka na veselskem hiti- dbaje mateina zakazovani a varovani. tove a jeho rnanaelka a opuAtena v tea- Samortejme set stalo, osYpky si zachladil. kern zarnautku se vratila do stare vlasti. Oasteenou vincu svou a easteanou vinou S podatku byli mladi manacle u je- lekate, za etrnact dni v mesici Unoru jich rodieri na Veseli, as v tijnu toho ro- 1912 zemtel. tinrti hochovo teace trapilo rodiee, ku se ptestehovali do Burlington k jeho • eas, nejlepAi lekat eloveka ranu zarodiefini. Zde ovaem farinafili. Jedine to aivotni zamestnani Jana Svetlika. Od- hladil. Bostali pak jeate syna, Antona, tud se stehovali na Edgeworth, kde po- pozdeji dceru FrantiAlcu. Zirstavajici byli v najmu nejprve u manaelu Anton kyodice pottebovaly, pro ne bylo nutno LekvskYch a pozdeji u Sloyakir. Pak se zit. Zanedbany nebyly, neb 'otec se pilne stehovali do osady Marlow pH Cameron, o aivobyti staral a matka nad nimi straanou ruku draela a jestli tato ruka uAtekde se jim tuze nelibilo, neb zde bylo bud' Indio, aneb aadnYch. Ja- dtila pon%vek ma.1.4mu •eposluchovi, ko rnnozi pionYti, neali se stehovali da- tataa ruka dovedla take pohladit a size set •it. VStipila detem posluAnost a uctile, poznaaili to misto hrobeekem, byl pkipad i SvetlikovYch, neb tarn take vost k blianimu, zasady to nyni v mojeden nechali pied stehovanim osady derni dobe opomijene. Kdyby vAak deti nyni byly techto zasadach a praci uBryant Station pti Buckholts. eerie, nebylo by tfeba jen male procento V to dobu bylo tra hodne naaincu v nynejAich polepkven. oblasti Buckholts. Neni tedy divu, ae se Nyni by se ua rodine Svetlikove lepe zde zaealo proslYchat o Imuti zaloait vedlo, stall si ua davno "za sebe" dal SlovanskY pojiSt'ujici spolek v Texasu, clorristaly a ae byly y kazni a ku praci ktereato mySlenky se chytli i manacle vedene, jim statue pornahaly. Jente se Svetlikovi. Talc se stalo, ae kdya byl zalo- nad celou zemi rozestfel Cerny mrak. -aen tad Svornost Jihu 'Oslo 15, SPJST v Prvni svetova valka, a synove Jan a pak Buckholts, Texas, dire 1. eervence 1897, Franta museli narukovat jako tisice llbyli manacle Svetlikovi mezi zaklada- nYch. Bylo smutno v tech rodinach, kde jicirni eleny. Bylo to poeatkem jejich vi- synoye schazeli, a tento smutek sdilela ce jak 531eteho elenstvi. Bratr Svetlik rodina Svetlikova tim vice, kdya oba nebyl tteba tak einnYm pracovnikem synove byli poslani do Francie. Franta j ako tteba jini, ale za to se vady choval ptiLel ku ar/Weni Arapnelem, jako praYST bratr, kterYanikdy neVyhleda- vAak na bojiAti, ale nemene bolestne. val sporu ani nevyuaitkovaval tad ye Za to Jan zraneni uniknul, ad progel S V11,j, aneb jineho prospech. To se sta.- mi Utrapaini fronty. Byl to radostnY den valo, aneb jeSte stave, ae elm hluenej- u Svetlikii, kdya se oba synove Si pracovnik, tim podIoudnejAi jeho avAak meli v srdci soucit nad rodina,mi Bratr Svetlik mei v zasade pocti- mend At'astnYmi. vost a uptimnost, kterezto dobre vlast-1 Po navratil synfr, ua to diouho ye stanosti pdstil nejen soukromne, ale i ve-' rYch kolejich neAlo. StarAi ditky jeden co 'z dokl a tadu i jinde ficty. po druhem se zaealy rozchazet, aby si fejne, Cas mijel a Svetlikrim ptibylo na stat- zaloaily sve domovy. Na to byli ua roclide ku i deteeh. Jak deti prate dorustaly, pti- ptichystani a pomahali detein se whykupovali nine, takae a melt tti farmid- , tit ye svem.

Za podobnYch a jinYch ptircizenych ky. Jelikoa nebyly tyto jedna pti druhe, bylo obtiane je obdelavat. Domovem byli udalosti, eas rychle mljel a nadeAel 12. tehda, kde nyni ma domov krajan E- furor 1940 a s nim 50. vYroei sriatku duard Jurda. Jinak se jim zde libilo, jen man.2.0-0. SvetlikovStch. Za, ptitomnosti cliteli mitt vice zerne a v jednorn kuse, jejich ditek" s rodinami, ptibuzenstva a coa jich prhnelo koupiti farrnu v osade ptatel, tuto uddlost jak se patti oslavili.

Aclhall pii Buckholts, kde se nastehovali Pro oslavence bylo to velikYm poaitkem, v lednu 1912.

Debut' se (ha vzdy radi s lidmi scAli a

byli vdedni, za tak velke shromaadeni. t el, ae jeAte tehoa roku, dne 15. cervence, za smutnYch okolnosti ztratili vdancu dceru, Marti Rfaiekovou. Byla to hrozna rana pro stare rodiae, ale laskavost a pozornost ostatnich ditek jim to ..pomohla nes'0, ale nezapomenouti.

Pies veliky zarmutek, sestra Svetlikova doopatrovala svoji statiekou matku, Johanu Adamkovou, ktera u ni dokonala, take roku 1940, due 26. srpnat Byla pkevezena ku pochovani na veselskem hititove, kde ua mantel Stepan Adamek davno odpoeival. Jsou tam na mists, kde ztravili plodne 'roky sveho aivota.

Kclya roku 1947 slavilo se 50. vyrodi zaloaeni SPJST u naSeho tadu Svornost Jihu eislo 15, meli jsme jeSte tti zakladajici dieny. Byli to manaele Svetlikovi a bratr Franta TomaSek. Bylo mYm ptanim, aby jim byla udelana pceta, a za tim neelem tad usporadal se spolkem RVOS spoleenY °bed. Na pszvani ptijeli take bratti Marek a Chupick z Hlavni UCadovny, aby she. maaciene oslovili. Za tad byly take oslavenetim 0devzdane male dareeky a pak pH, hudbe a tanci se slavnost skoneila. Byla to jell jako vetAr domaci beseda, ale za to na srdeenost a uptimnost bohata.

Stati se ua nyni u obou manaelri silo, obzvlaSte bratr Svetlik ,oeividne slabnul. Jeho koten byl vAak pevnY a doail se roku 1950 a s nim Sedesati letell° vYrodi sriatku. Zase se poradala slavnost, ale jen soukroma, neb zdravi obou vice nedovolovalo. :Hued po to bratr Svetlik zaeal slabosti vice a vice trpet, oasteji a delcji na luaku zUstaval. Pies to mei zajem o sve hospodarstvi a co jemu jen silo, staeila, stale se o ne staral.

Kdya vAak ptiSel den 12. Unora to ua 61 lets vYroei snatku, Vedoi0 se, ae jeho dni jsou seeteny. zristaval skoro neptetraite na lilaku a potteboval obsluhy. Nyni se nabidli tadovi bratti v oktfovani vypomoci. Tak se stalo, ze za ptitomnosti vAech jejich ditek a jednoho fadoveho bratra, ye 12:20 rano pa veilkonnoin nedeli, dne 26. lotezna bratr Svetlik tak tine zesnul, jako tine ail. Zase dobilo jedno pevne Ceske srdce dobreho eloveka po 85 letech uaiteeneho alti, Nasledujicilio dne konal se jeho hteb z pohtebnihrLi Ustavu Marck-Burns v Cameron, za obtaciu farate H. E. Besedy a br. J. F. Chupicka z Ma yor dFadovny. 2e1, ae bylo ten den bourlivo, pi-Tee vAak zastup lidi byl velikY. DeSt' take pfekazil vypineni ptani zesnuleho, aby byl pochovan na Bryant Station htbitoVe, kde odpodivaji jeho sourozenci a 3 ditky. Byl vAak pochovan na Hope Lutheran htbitove v Buckholts, kterY jest take zvan Blinkuv htbitov, kde odpodiva dcera Marie Rilaiekova.

Bratr Svetlik ()Oki co posledni Olen jeho rodiny, neb vsichni jeho

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nci byli jiz daVno mrtvi. Byl to jeden bratr Stepan, a tri sestry, Anna Monlova., Marie Machaelcova a Rozi Pogivaloyd.

Mimo manZelky, bratr Svetlik zanechal t i dcery a etyry syny. Jsou to: Jan, Franta, Stepan a Anton. Rozka Matyagtikova, Anna Fuchsova, a Frances Vogelsang. Dale zanechal 26 vnoueat a Best praynoueat.

JelikoZ 5. brezna 1951 zemrel take bratr Franti gek Toma gek, zfistava nagemu radu jen sestra Svetliksva ze zakladajicich elenti. Jest na gim vroucim pranim, aby nom byla je gte po dlouha 'eta zachovana.

Z rodiny AdSmkovi dosud Eiji jegte tri sestry a dva bratri.. Mimo sestry SVetlikove jsou to Rosie Groette, Anna Jonri; Stepan a Jcsef Adamek. Bratri Jan aFranta a sestra Franti gka Spiesscvd,' ode gli na vdenost.

Sestra Svetlikova jest je gte Silo na sva leta. Je potteba, aby se vice getrila, ale -to ji zase nedovoluje jeji pracovita povalaa. V praci a vzpominkach jest jeji Media. Jest s ni syn Frank, kterY zustal mladencem, ale ani bez nej by opuStella nebyla, neb deti, ktere vgechny prebYvaji bud' v okoli Buckholts anebo Cameron, ji east° na ygtevuji, ,ona take &tell s nimi jejich radosti i svizele, jako vg ech svYch pribuznYch a znamYch. Leta ji nesebrala zajem o blaho syYch nich, jako se deje u ninchYch starch lidi, kteri se jen lituji, a tine Zivot otravuji sobe i jinYm. V zaveru chci je gte dodat, ze rnanZele SVetlikovi byli a ona zfistava pravY vzorej eeskeho naroda. Na gi eegti pristehovalet sy Ymi dobrYini vlastnostmi, jako poetivosti, pracovitosti, getrnosti, atd., cbohatili Ameriku. Bud'ine hrdi, ze jsme jejich potomci.

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Ve streclu, doe 18. 'eervna 1952.

FRANCES SPRTOVA:

2ivotopis myth rodicn Jana a Marie z Buhl, Idaho lovi na cestu do teto nove vlasti, a to do statu Texastr, tak majetek tam proclan a roku 1890 se vydali na cestu.

Po 2ldeni plavbe pc) mori, pristali dne 6. kvetna v galvestonskemistave. Dalcesta je vedla do mesteeka Effinger, kde je jisti pratele jiz oCekavali. Tarn se ujali prdce na farmach, kde po eele leto pracovali den po dni, od easneho rand aZ do slunce zapadu a to za 45 a 50 centil denne. Pro prigti rok moji rodiee spoleane s rodiei me maminky najmuli sObe domov a pozemek ku obdelavani, coZ jinn piineslo vetgi yYte.Zek, neZli to denni price. Za dva roky si pronajali misto ji"ne a dali se do hospodateni sami bez niamineinYch rodiei.

Talc hospcdatili deset roku -v olczipsu Fayette a pak se prestehovali do okresu Austin. To uZ nieli Otyri deti: Frantigka, Marenku, Franti gku a Josefka. Mne bylo 3 a pun roku. Neco si pamatuji, ale malo. Nejvic se pamatuji na to boudu, co my deti y ni musely bYt, jak maminka kopala nebo "pikovala" ba ylnu, booJAN A MARIE PitiLUt KOVI da byla na sankach, ktere se potahovaZ BUHL, IDAHO. ly tarn, kde maminka kopala nebo bavinu sbirala, aby na nos videla, co deObrazek byl vzat pri vYrcei jejich zla- lame. Obdelavand pdda byla, daleko te svatby roku 1948. ManZele Prilueikovi ad domu. Deti se musely brat do pole, byli zakladajicimi eleny radu Nova Vlast a to na celY den. eislo 37 ye FrYdku, pak zakladajicimi V okresu Austin si pronajali pozemek eleny radii Laskavost Sislo 70 v Guy, kterY2to tad se pozdeji s radem od Franka Sodolaka psi FrYdku, vYchodRozkvet eislo 81, a prijal Mien° Needville ne od Sealy. Na torn miste pobyli atyri eislo 81. Bratr Prilueik zesnul 11. srpna roky. Potom si koupili malou domovinu 1951, sestra Marie Priluelkova je dosud pri Sealy, ale museli si to v ge vybudoelenkyni radii Needville aS Sije v Buhl, vat, nebot' to byla jen prerie, porostla DVA KAMARADI krovim. To vge si museli yydistit a vyye statit Idaho. stavit. Pak tuto domovinu prodali a zaChoclili spoilt do gkoly, stejnou cestou, koupili domovinu v okresu Fort Bend pH Otec John J. PrilOik jiZ zemrel 11. pies dlouhY, pies drahu vedouci most.

Guy, Texas, kde hospcdarili 14 rail.

A protole Sill v pohraniei, museli proZiva- srpna 1951. Narozen byl roku 1865 ye Maminka bYvala hodne nemocna v teto ti cestou narodnostni boje. Po kaZde, vesniece Velka Lhota u Malenovic. V te- primorni krajine a tak to prodali a gli vracejice se ze eekali na ka- to vesnici pro gel trojtridni obecnou naeeZ byl dan do ueeni se remeslu za lepgim zdravim. Ostehovali se do Buhl, marady nemeeti Skolaci a bitva s ta gkas celou rodinou, mi zaeala. VYhra byla na strane kama- obuynickemu. Po trech letech ueeni toho Idaho, a to roku 1916 jen ja a mfij brats Frank Prilueik jsme S uspokojenim she rozchazeli u stu- zanechal a za prieinou priueeni se rolnidanky, kaZdY ke svemu domovu, aby Siny vstoupil do sluZby na statku rol- zustali v Texasu. se druhY den opet u studanky se gli a gli nickem, kde vytrval aZ do doby k odvoJe nos osm deft Maminka je jeAte spoilt do Akoly. du k vojsku'. Po propugteni v roce 1888 dosti Sila, je gte ma zahradku. Te gime se se olenil. Pc,jal za manZelku sleenu Marii maminkou, babielcou Leta ubihala kamaradi se rozegli, Vyoralovou ze sousedni vesnice Salag. vgichni s tou na gi a prababiekou.

Ja ale ji ztidka vidim, kahlY za sy Ym povolanirn do vzdale- Zakoupili si inalou domovinu a pak na nebot' je to daleko, ale prece jednou z4. nYch rest. torn nialem kousku poli hospodarili dye rok se v gichni, cela rodina, sejdeme.

Letos to nebude tak vesele, jak to bYvalo, AS po letech se stari kamaradi segli leta.

KdyZ tanmi sousede se ptipravovali k nebot' na g otec, dedeeek a praciedeeelc a hledali studanku, u ktere se vZdy rozchazeli. Ale studanka at byla zasypana yystehova.ni do teto nove vlasti, do Spo- tam nebude, aby uvidel sy Ych 8 dal, 24 a pole zastavena vilkami. V gechno uZ jenYch AmerickYch, tak take moji vnukt1 a 31 pravnukti.

Tento Zivotopis venuji, i s podobiznou bylo zmeneno za to leta, jen ten dlouhY rodiee, John a Marie Prilueikovi, obirali most, pies drahu vedouci, zustal ne- se myglenkou vystehovani. Pak, kdyZ se me maminky k 85. vYroei jejich narozmenen.

Marta Wohlgenutova I rozhodli i s rodiei me 'maminky Vyora zen, ktere oslavila 1. kvetna 1952.

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KARLA KRATPTOV.6.:

POHLED ZPET (erta lidske historie) Byla jsern bratrern redaktorem Valei-i kern po2adana o prispevek Zivotopisem mojich rodfon, hlavne nvoji maminky, Marie Kostkove, do sjezdoveho eisla Vestniku S.P.J.S.T., co'Z milerada einirn.

Tak premitam — prernYSlim, zdali moje pamet dosahne pies pul stoleti zpet.

Asi ano, neb tenkrat byl infij mozeeek eistY, tak tarn vie" utkvdlo, jako kcly2 je to napsano na Cistern archu papiru. Pochybuji, ze z toho udelarn nejlepSi pribeh, ale je' to nejkrasnejSi skuteenost pro nine.

NaSe maminka je rozena Kladenaeka, Marie Koubova, nejstar gi dcera ze sti deti. Kladno jest mesh v Oechach, prastareho pnvodu. Bylo nove a stare, rnesto. Kladno je znamo svYmi chrornnYmi Z'elezarnarni a eerno-uhelnYmi doly. Nejvetk vlastnictvi tarn mela Pralska '.-elezakska spolednost — Poldova hut'.

Ani si jiZ" nepamatuji, kolik uhelnYch dohl v kladenskem okoli je a znarn pou.-7 ze nektere: Thyrifeld, Schillerka, Maxovka, Vaclavka, dill SestY, sedmY a nejznarnejSi je pro nine Amalka. Adkoliv se tarn v poslednim e- ase maw pobytu v aechach nepracovalo, chodivala, jsem kolern do Skoly den co den. Miij dededek Josef Kouba a jeho syn, take Josef, oba tarn priAli co haviti o ruku. Jeden o leyou a druhY o pravou. StrYeek Josef, pies zakaz dededka 'gel tam o praci jako havit a po kratkern ease ptiSel o ruku.

Potom jako odSkodne dostal misto hlidate v zavodni nemocnici, kde byl aZ do sve smrti. I moje maminka za svobodna byla na Amalce zamestnana jako poslice.

Rikaji aerne Kladno, ale nevim prod.

Jfz jsem videla vie zadouzena mesta jako je Kladno. (Pozn. red.: na Kladne se doluje derne uhli, zatim co vSude v deskYch dolech se doluje pouze hnede a proto ten nazev. Kladenske uhli je po ostrayskern nejkvalitnejSi.) Okoli rnesta je krasne, leli na vyvYSenem miste, lemovane krasnYrni lesy. Moji rodide bydleli v Seste ulici na Novern meste. Je to nej yYSe v Kladne. Dole na konci ulice je vysoke strati zvand Vorechovka, ktera se Ohne od 12. ulice aZ nad Prfihon. z. Tito misto bylo opredeno primo kouzelnon fantasii, kdyZ jste stall nad Vorechovkou za letni noel. Z jedne strany oblaka primo horela z odrazu yypuStenYch rozZhavenYch strusek, ktere sypali na uhelne haldy, enejici vyseko do vYSe kolern Sachty; a zase z druhe strany plameny z vysokYch peci, ktere prornenily Zelezarny v peklo.

D tohoto nadherneho obrazu jera

ze se na chlapce nezmuZe? Nu, koneene ten touZenY syn prieel, ale do roka chuclaeek zemrel na psotnik (detske nernoc).

Pak priela zase hcleieka Sylvinka. To tatinek u2 nic nerikal a byl spokojenY s holkami. (Treba si myslel, ze nas bude vyclavat za chlapce). Ne2 si vie rozmyslel, dostal dva syny za sebou. Eduarda a Pepika. to bylo radosti. "Kluk" — to slovo u tatinka mnoho znamenalo. i Pak pdily zase dcery, Marenka, AneZka a Vlasta. Bylo nds celkem deset deti na Zivu, hezka hromadka na jedny mice, cc? Ale mel nas nas zlatY tata stejne rad. KdyZ jsme stonali, jednou etyri najednou, stridal se s thaminkou u postYlky, a2 horeeka preela. Pak eel spat.

Dokud jsme byly etyry deti, to bylo jeete hej, to byvalo u rids veselo. Moji rodide byli oba sporivi, pracoviti, melt oba radi prirodu, knihy a tatinek nejradeji ptaky. Men jsme je yyspane I de: stall ve skleniku, na skrinich, i na strope y pckcji visel jestreb s rortaZenYmi kridly a v drapech drZel vycpanou stoeenou zmiji. A coZ teprve tech ZiKarla Kraftova vYch ptakti! To byli u kaZdeho okna spoleepe s prirodou lidskY rozum vytvo-1 ✓ klecich, nekdy dve nad sebou, steozve se hra na fletnu, jejiZ nadherne hilci kanaarci a dva papoueky jsme telly nesou se nahoru, ze aZ dech zata- "Andalusky" — jemine, to bylo eisteni jite. Asi nejakY hudebnik si hovi na a krmeni.

Nejradeji jsme my deti mely nedele. strani pod kceatYmi or-echy, jichZ je tarn To nas maminka svateene oblekla a my na sta. To jakoby vSecka to jamb neb letni krasa se odemkla nejakYrn tajnYm tri nejstarei jsme sly brzleko rano s takliekem a uchvatila ve svou narud vge, tinkern do prirody. Jak jsme vyely za mlade a stare pareeky, dole pod Vore- I misto mezi pole, u naee hlavieky chovkou a bukou se prochazejici. Tyto nahcru za tim nejkrasnejeim pevcem skrivankem. To jsme ho nadherne vedery nebY-valy jenom nekdy,1 prirody slouchaly tak dlouho, az nam zmizel to se opakovalo easto, neb lid je tarn veselY, uptimnY, ma red hudbu a je ✓ oblacich, (my jsme rikavaly, ze zpiva spokcjen, kdy2 Cije jako elovek a ne do nebieka). Slunieko teple roznaeelo jako otrok. Pripominarn toto toe proto, jas i do naeich detskYch srdieek a prize to ma co delat se Zivotem mYch ro- jimalo vecchnu vtini prirody, mlade travy, materidoueky, fialek lesnich, na ludie& s tvrdYm osudem. kiach kopretin, blatouchu, ptomnenek, Kolem Kladna byly velike vesnice ✓ lese mlade vYhonky smrku, briz a td hodne zalidnene. VetSinou byly obYvane polit pri cestach. Vnbec celou prirodou delniky ze ZeleZaren neb haviri, kteri pronikala hudba ptaeich hrdelek. Tatiotrodili v podzemnich eachtach, kde z nek vZdycky rikeval, "Deti, v pfirode je jejich potu bohatli nemeeti neb Zidov- kaZdY nejbliZe k bohu". Nebyl mtj otec eti bohaei, Byly to vesnice Rozdelov, nijakY poboZnY, ale ueil nds tak, jak byl LibuSin, Smeeno, Sternberg, Motyein, tieenY sam.

Dubi, Krodehlavy, Stepanka a jine.

Moje maminka provdala se ye 22 le Veru, ze nam vZdycky tvarieky zeertech za Edvarda Kostku. Byli to bratra- venaly, kaZda jsme mela naruee polnich nec a sestrenice. Za paldruheho roku a lesnich kvetin a k polednimu se vranarodila jsem se ja, treba si tatinek cely dome, k obedu, kterY zatim maminpral syna, musel vzit co dostal. Tenkrat ka uvarila a my ji obdarovaly kyticerni jsem se mela v Zi.vote snad nejlepe. VSi- kvetin, nekdy i eervenYmi jahodami nechni marnineiny sourozenci chteli Kar- bo bortt ykami a tatinek vyndal z kapsy lieku chovat (ted' by si to rozmyslil) i hribeeky. To doma byly buchty makove, Bydleli jsme u babieky. Za rok priaa ktere bylo citit hned na dvoredku, jak sestrieka Helena, do druhYch dvou rokft vonely. Tatinek, ye vesele nalade, jak zase dcera I3olenka, pak Anieka -- to spat it marninku celou "dervenou od vatatinek trZ nejak knoutil hlavou — co to, reni, usmivajici se, na nas deti, neb jsme

VESTNIKF WEST, TEXAS byly jako ty kytieky rozjaiieny, zazpival ji pisnieku, ktera mne nikdy nevymizela z parneti: Pani Kostkova, velke decry ma, ona, peee buchty s makem, posila je za yojakem, hezky je stroji, k muzikam vodi, efinu guimuje, jen se nafukuje, tralala — la, la, la.

Tatinek se smal, my (Teti take, tieba jsme tomu nerozumely, a maminka se na oko durdila a povida, "'To jeste hodne vody utede, neSli je budu vodit k muzikam". Bylo radostno u nas. Po obede maminka naloSila tu nejmlad gi a bratrieka do kocarku a gli jsme si zase vgichni do lesa posedet a my dal, zahrat si s druhYmi detmi. Rano byl na g les van Krnee, odpoledne les Hvezda. 0zvany vSem, to b'Srvalo jen z jara a v lete. To byly nage nejkrasnej gi nedele v detstvi, na ktere nemoSno zapomenout.

Ty jejich slate ruce, co se pro nas nadtely. Mrij tatinek pracoval ve valcovne na hutich pit pecich, kde se roz2havovaly SeIezne "bloky" do eervena a pak to vytahovali, az z toho byly pruty jako prat silne. asto jsem byla toho svedkem, kdy jsme nosily tatinkovi v poledne obed. Tam jsem poznala to peklo za Siva V tech Selezarnach, a vycitila tu silu ptimo nadlidskou a sebezapieni, kdy'S musi nekdy takovy pokrokovy delnik pied sy S7mi, ne vedoucimi, ale majiteli zatnout zuby a mlcet y e svych poSadavcich a tahnOut dal; kdy si n yedomi, za, nim stoji ectna rodina, kterou se musi starat, pro ni it a ktornu bydlet ye meste, kde za vgcchno musi platit a platit.

Aby se nam snadmeji Silo, odstehovali jsme se pozdeji za mesto, vedle jatek, kde byl veliky dum, ovgem pro vice najemnikri, nejenorn pro nas. V zadu v zahrade byla pa,rni pila, kde se nepracovalo, nebot' majitel to progpekuloval.

Tatinek zahradu pronajal. Bylo tam 36 stromu AvestkovSrch, hru g ka "krvavka", rybiz, angre gt, a hlavne tam bylo misto, kde jsme mohli mit vsechnu zeleninu a brambory a nejhlavnejgi, my deti byly stale na derstvem vzduchu, neb by]. ze tii stran les, a to pro nas hodne znamenalo. Men jsme dostatek ovoce, hoclne kralikri, i kozy, ktere jsme dojili, a melt: jsme dost zdraveho mleka, slePice a busy. To vite, kde je tolik dcer, ze musely bSt peiiny. A byly! Vgechny isme mely do vSrbavy pefiny. To byla kaSde eeske rnatieky radost — pekna vST -bav dceram.

Maminka nas vedla k poslu gnosti a k tulle praci. Ja nejstar gi, s dobrou vybyla jsem gikoynej gi k praci venku. o mne, Se ze rune mel 1334

kluk! Rano, neIli jsem gla do gkoly, musela jsem pkinest nri gi travy i nebo easy pro kraliky nebo pro kozy. Na kravu jsme se nezmohli. Kdy'S jsem pti gla ze gkoly, gla jsem kopat na zahradku nebo jsem gla do lesa na dievo, ktereho jsme nanosily na celou zimu. Les byl pied okny, dovoleni do nej jsme melt neb jsme si ho museli do lesni spravy obdelat celY rok. Vysazovali jsme stromealy ze gkolky do paseky a za to jsme dostali cedulku do lesa. Pak jsme se nemuseli bat, ze na nas nekdo pkijde.

Sestra Helena, Se mela tichou povahu, byla vedena k domacnosti. Ti mladgi museli davat pozor jeden na druheho.

Veberami jsme za givaly — neb to bylo trhancu — nebo pletly a pkipletaly puneochy pro celou familii. Nejradeji jsme byli, kdyS maminka pekavala livance posypane skald, to jsme stall v fade jako vojaci a nemohli se dooka.t, az nam je da na talit a obedvat v gichni najednon. BoSe, to byly livaneeky, ty se nejedly, ty se pilaw polykaly. Jednodu ge, takove dovedla jenom na ge maminka. Byla rada vesela, zpivala kde jakou pisnieku pri vgi to diine. asto o'er piimhouilia, kdy jsme provedli nejakou ta gkatici, vZdyt' si sama vzpominala, Se nebyla lepgi nas. Dovedla piimo srdnate nesti Sal i negtesti, ji2 k vuli rodine, tieba ji to srdce trhalo.

KdyS jsem vygla ye 'etrnacti letech megt'anku, hned jsem se musela jit Olt Sit na 6 mesicti. Sestra Helena ala do vateni, kde se vyueovalo, k SykorovVm. Pak nine moje nejmilej gi tetieka Ane2ka nagla praci v knihaistvi u firmy 8ofc.

Tarn se rune velice libilo, jen jsem litovala, Se nemdm je gte jeden mozek, abych vgecko to krasne, ktere jsem z tech knih pfeeetla, co jsem je 'se givala, si uchovala. Radeji jsem byla pies poledne o krajici chleba, abych nemusela domu k obedu a takto ziskanSr volnY eas venovala ku eteni. Pracovala jsem tak asi dva roky v knihaistvi i v tiskarne pit stroji. Moe me tam ale nesvedeilo.

NejAVastnej gi den byl, kdy2 jsem ptinesla prvni Alplatu tii zlate za tYden.

S takovou laskou a radosti jsem je davala mamince. Chuclaci, oba plakali. Maminka, na to povida, "Slava, 112, je po nedostatku, Karla vydelava". No a ja myslela, Z'e uZ" neco v Zivote znamenam.

Moje pall& oba hodne eetli a tu lasku ku kniham zdedily jsme po nich.

Meli jsme svoje detske knihy, jako Srdce, Rajska zahradka a jine, Teo nam ale nestaeilo, touSily jsme i pa tech zakazamich. Tatinek, kterY dovedl bSTti velice pkisnY, mel srdce ze zlata. Nesmeli jsme lhat. Jak jsme lhali, jiz mela metla nekde posviceni, tieba to tatinka vie bolelo jak nas, ale byl to pro nas pokokujrci treat.

Bajeene vzpominky main na moji mi

Ve sticedu, dne 18. dervna 1952. lovanou babieku, maminky maminku -ktera, delala gardedamu do taneenich hodin, kdy jsem se Ulla tancovat "i.e Gruntri". Maminka nemohla k vrili mladaim sourozencrim, tatinek ta,nec nenavidel, tak babieka byla mrij andel stratnSr. Tam nebyl zvyk, aby mlade device glo samo tanelt. Je to lua,sna, vspaminka, proSiva-li elovek vaechno to, co Sije. Pak mne a sestru Helenu poslali do sluSby — do Prahy slouSit. Nejdrive jsme aly do klagtera do Jeene ulice, odkud za 14 dni jsme dostaly sluSbn. Ja do Smichova a moje sestra do zamku v Troji u Prahy.

KaSdou druhou nedeli jsme se na ygtevovaly pies strornovku na pkivoz pies teku.

To se nam tolik libivalo, Se jsme toho nemely nikdy dost.

Mezitim druzi sourozenci dordstali, vydani se mnoSilo a to "proe?" stale viselo nad nami jako Damokluv mee. Bude-li nekdy lip? Leta tatinkovi pfibSrvala, rodina musi Sit, dcery dortstaji, budou pottebovat vYbavu a elovek Sije, jak se tika, z ruky do ruky. Rozhodl se, Se tomu dela nejakY konec. Dovedl disti mezi fadky a vycitil ty mraky nad Rakouskem, ze kdy'S nepomilSe sobe, aspori nam detern pomilSe nekdy k lep gi budoucnosti, co.t se mu easteene podakilo, aspori svobodnem sinSi gleni a jednani. JelikoS maminka byla rozgafna, byla s nim v jednom smS7gleni.

Jednoho dne jsem dostal y do Prahy dopis: "Tatinek se rozhodl jeti do Ameriky, do Texa gu, pojed' s nim.

Ja pojedu .s ostatnimi detrni za nim, aS jak dostane praci a se mu tarn zalibi. byla tined jako na koni. Pani a pan rime to rozmlouvali, Se json tarn Caste revoluce od Mexikann --- no, ale' ja, za 14 dna jela domil do Kladna. Maminka mela radost, Se jsem to v ge tak lehko vzala a Se tatinek tak sam nebude. Mela jsem dobre ruce a zdrava jsem byla ,tak se tak lehko neztratim. Bylo nine 18 1/2 roku.

Ja cela prye, Se pojedu do Ameriky, myslela jsem na ty krasne zelene prerie, o kterS7ch jsem hodne eetla. — Jak jsem byla zklamana a cela naae rodina. Prvni pocit tesknoty na mne prisel, kdy'S v piedveeer naaeho odjezdu mne ho gi z taneenich pfi gli zazpivat pod okny "Dobrit noc" a jeate jednu veselej gi. Segli se na 14stavigti a pti gli mne sbohem dat.

Ja jsem u2 spala a jejich zpe y mne probudil. 1VIaminka je zavolala do kuchyne, kde jsem vgem sbohem dala. Bylo jich asi deset, To jsem si teprve uvedomi/a, co delam, Se uS ty chlapce sotva kdy uvidim: Od. toho okamSiku stal se se mnou velikV pievrat. Diive jsem byla berstarostno„, vesela; nyni vaSna, smutna, plad. hned na krajieku ,Dobie, ze jsme rano hned jell. Pak loueeni se sestrami, s maminkou a tetou AneSkou. Ani se nepamatuji, s kterou lodi jsme jell. Jen vim,

ye stredu, tine 18, e,ervna 1952.

Ze tarn byl nynejk velebnY pan Klobouk z Needville, kterY byl k tatinkovi velice hodny i ke mne ,neb jsem byla celou cestu nernocna.

Pak tam byla rodina, Navratil-a, jeli jsme do Taylor. Seznamili jsme se tam s rodinou Voltrovou, a ja s n-iYm prvnim manZelern, Bedtichem Otvrtnikem. Asi do mesice jsme s VoltrovYmi jell do Houstonu, kde tatinek dostal praci, ja sluthu a lined povolal maminku za sebou.

To vite, jake to bylo. Zadne slovo jsme anglicky neumeli, v Etaustone moc Cechit nebylo a byli jsme mezi sarnymi Amerikany (o tom by byl cely ptibeh, aZ nekdy to vypii). A take si dovedete predstavit, jake moje maminka mela cestovani. Ptijela tYden po noyem rote. CelY domek priSel na cestu do Ameriky. Nejinladk Vlasta byla pul roku stara. Sestry nic nechtely na lodi jist, jenom knedliky, z yldSte AneZka. Ta si doka do kuchyne pro ne, ze 'jim da hubielcy, kdyZ ji daji knedliky a tak se na ne hezky smala. Oni ji nerozumeli, tak si zavolali tlumoanika.

No ale knedliky nedostala. KdyZ maminka sestupovala z lodi po lodnim mnstku, brali jeji obrazky, nebot'sla za ni celd tada jejich Tatinkovi se moc v meste nelibilo, jeho pohadka, pro kterou jel do Ameriky, byla fauna, kterou koupil v Crosby vedle pana J. NemYho a se spoleenYm se na ni do tri let odsteho yal. Tatinek zdejSi krajinu neznal, nerozumel pozemku, koupil farmu od pana Gallie jako zelefiak. 13yla to hold prerie, trava, Ze nas v ni nebylo videt ne ty krasne louky, o kterYch jsme snili. StraSne zklamani pro oba. My tri nejstark jsme se zatim provdaly. Ja za Bedtich Otvrtnika, Helena za Fritce Thama a Bolenka za Silhana.

Otyrtnik a Tharn, oba pomahali praci radou. Moe Who sami nevecieli, ale u dela.li, co bylo v jejich mod.. KaZdY bydlel v Houstone a tenkrat to doprava byla vSelijalca. Druhe sestry, Anna a Silva, Sly do *luny. Hok, jak trochu mohli, pomahali tatinkovi na odvodnovani. Byli ,jeSte mall a jiZ tako &eh. Tenkrate bylo to yody na jihu strakie, prSelo pota,d.

Tatinek tenkrat ant orat neumel. Be, drich ho ueil. Na ty naSe polioka v Cechach jsme, potrebovali dobre svaly, rye a motyku, a zde tatinek s midama nemohl vladnout. Kdy2 soumary koupil, tak to bylo divolce jako Indiani. A kcityZ to slunieko texaske tak nemilosrdne palilo, tak si uleheil slovy "je ten Zivot nekdy sakramentsky protivnY".

Ale co rnoje roclioe sililo a dodavalo jim chuti prekondni takosti byla vira v budoucnost. 1<dy‘Z vyptrkla v Rakousku valka, mei tatinek velkou radost, ze nas odta.rntud vzal. t kal, "Doti, jen kdyZ vas

VES TNIK- WEST, TEXAS jsem uehranil bidy a hlacia,' Ale kdybychom nebyli si tenkrat talc dohromady pomahali, kdo Vi, co hladu by na tarme nevytrpeli. Dnes mi rodiee ptipadaji jako svetei, a kdybych desetkrat denne Bohu dekovala, nebylo by toll° dost, Ze nas sem do svobody dopravili.

ZylaSte maminka, pustit se jako kyoena s kutaty do dame zeme, to byla odvaha a sebezapteni, jenom proto, aby se mely deti lope.

Kdy2 jsem jela prune za, rodiei na farmu ,myslela jsem, Ze jsou na konci Texasu nebo sveta, kolem dokola se snoubila zern s oblohou, Zadne testy, jen pres prerii a travu Ze nas v ni nebylo videt.

Posledni farma a testa byla u KristinikovYch. Pak se ko v trave nebo ye vocle.

IVInj mantel rikal, ze bychom pottebovali kompas. abychom se neztratili.

Pak se provdala Anna za KuZelu, Silvi za Jana Kelarka. Nejvetk radost melt° tatinka byla, lcdyZ udeial prvni faru kukutice (tenkrat byla slibna nroda) a daroyal ji na bazar do Taylor, Texas. Bylo to pro Ceske narodni sdruZeni, "DUI, to za to, ze jste byli uchraneni valeenYch hrtiz." Nyni chuddeek, odpoeiva svuj yeenY sen na cresbo yskem fadovem hrbitove, vedle sve decry Anielcy KuZelove. Byl elenem radu SPJST v Cros-

ni ptistehovaleckou tiltru;; Pak Jana Kel ichni pohreSuji, larka, ktereho jeSte v S a Joe KtiZelu. Doekala se jeke zntivu provdani dcery Harty za Vaclava'Kraftu a Boleny za J. Veseleho. Je elenkou Sokola Houston a elenkou K Jednote SPJST, patti skoro vkchily jell cleti i s vnoueaty ,kterYch je ptes 80 a pravnotteaty, kterYch je asi take tolik,'ne-li vie.

Nyni je 82 rokt1 a je s cicersai Silvii larkovou v Houstonu. Je dobre znaina osadnikdm jak v Crosby, talc v Houstonu, kteti si ji vSichni vaZi a maji ji radi.

Doufam, ze ji nekdy navAtiVim, kdy2 uZ chticiaeek nernuZe talc chodit jako calve.

Toto je troSku dlouhy Zivotopis myth rodien, ale chtela jsem to psat jako zajimavY, skuteeny ptibeh a ne jerrom sucha fakta. ) • " • (

Tdtinek mel veirni. bojacnou: dceruSlcu a rad by ji byl vychoval tak, aby se to bojacnosti, zhcstila. Proto ji den CO den vysvetloval, jak zpozdile jest jeji chovani, jak vydave. se v posmech, a jak nema, vhbec nejmenSi prieiny neeeho se bat. otazalo St' "A ty se tatinku devedtko.

"Ne." "Ani psa?"

"Ani psa."

"Ani kooky?"

"Ani kooky."

"Ani loafru?"

"Ani tech ne."

"Ani straSidel?"

"Tech tim melte."

"Ani duchilt?"

"Nikoliv?"

"Well," dodalo deveatko, pohlizejic s obdivem na sveho hrclinneho otce, " talc ty se mimo mamiriky nieehoo-nebojiS, vitt'?"

KdyZ maminka ovdovela, zustala s EA to byla, posledni lekce, •co brdinnY dou, Pepikem, Markou, AnOlkou a Vlas- tatinek sve dceruke dal. ' tou. Bratti koupili si jeSte pozemek a oZenili se. Vzali si sestry, 13olenku a Lillii ZNALA 31.

Janikovy. Marenka se provdala za A. Zobala a odjela do Catarina; AneZka za Oei mlade novomanZelky byly zapineny L. Doskoeila a pfe yzala farmu po mamin slzami, kdyZ veeer otevirala dvete svece a nejmladk mazanek, Vlasta, si vzala mu muk. "Pomysli si, jaka, se mi stala A. Warda a je v Houstonu. uralka," hotekovala. "Tvoje matka, mne Maminka, jeji Zivot byl talc piny, ze urazila."

"Moje matkd?" divil se novomanZel. ji lehce ptenesl ptes vkcko dobre i zle, nikdy se do sebe nezavrtala. itikavala, "Vklyt' je odtud vzdalena na sto mil."'

"Jo, vim," odpovidala panieka. "Ale "To by oloveka usouZilo. Musi ottepat a bYt tuhY jako kodka". St'astna mamin- dnes rano ptiAlo pro tebe psani a ja, jsem ka, my to jiZ nedovedeme. Odstehovala se je otevrela."' do Houstonu, ze bude nas vkch, neb jsme ManZel pohiedl nyni na svou Zenu privkchni jeji deft A take je. ProZivala s sne "Aha." pravil, "nevidim vSak nami Stesti naSich lasek, s yYch ynotieaurdZky strany me matky." tek, divala se do hrobu sve dceruky AnUplakano, chot' vypravila ze sebe: "V ny, svoji nevesty Bolenky, a svY'ch tri douSce pripojene k dopisu tvoje- matka 13edricha Otvrtnika, ktereho meta pripsala: "Draha Alice, nezapometi ten nejracieji, neb jim pomahal nest tu pr y- to dopis odevzdati Jitimu."

VtSTNIK

WEST, TEXAS

Ve st •edu, due 18. eel vna 1952.

WHEN STUDENTS STUDY BY TRAVELING (Editor's Note:—One of our younger members, Brother Leo G. Mikeska, received the distinction of being selected by the A & M College a year ago, in 1951, to form a, five-member Cotton Tour Party -to be sent on an educational tour to Central America. Here is Brother Leo G. Mikeska's report of his and his companions' five-week travel through Mexfeo, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and back through Guatemala and Mexico to College Station. The editor is glad, and feels fortunate,, that he was lucky to get hold of this interesting report and to publish it in our souvenir issue.)

THE 1951 COTTON TOUR REPORT The 1951 Cotton Tour Party, composed of Walter H. Tanamachi, Pablo E. Maurer, Raymond Kunze, Leo G. Mikeska, and Dr. Luther G. Jones, as Tour Leader, left College Station, Texas, early Monday morning, June 8th, 1951. The tour was made by automobile which gave us an opportunity to utilize our time to the best advantage in studying the landscape and in learning abOut agriculture from various people along the roads.

Our first stop was Houston where we obtained the necessary travel cards from the -Consul of Mexico and visas from the Consul of Guatemala.

Being anxious to get across the border into Mexico, especially Pablo, we Immediately started to proceed towards the border of our sister republic—Mexico. On the way we stopped for a short Visit at the Beeville Experiment Station.

Mr. Hall, Superintendent, took us on an interesting tour of the Station. He explained to us in detail the research work that was being carried on concerning proper grain storage, beef cattle production, , grasses, grain Sorghum, cotton, and , clearing of mesquite from pasture land.

The next point of interest was a visit to the Weslaco Experiment Station where we enjoyed seeing with interest agriculture research in action. Mr. Jack Hubbard, Mr. • Charley Burleson, and Mr. Ted Trew, all former students of Texas A&M, took turns in showing us the variety of research work being carried on at the Station. Their major work at that time was with cotton which was in the early boll stage. Mr. Hubbard showed us the many varieties of cotton on performance trial, spacing experiments, irrigation of cotton, defoliation, and the insect spraying equipment used.

Leo G. Illikeska We were also shown some slides of the severe damage that hard freeze of January, 1951 did to fruit trees and vegetables in the Rio Grande Valley.

Mr. Trew and Mr. Brunneman, County Agent of Cameron county, took us on a tour Of the grass and legume nursery located near San Benito. There we saw the various legumes and grasses growing on trial.

While in Weslaco we met Mr. Tanamachi, Walter's father. Unfortunately we were forced to refuse an invitation to a Japanese cooked meal due to lack of time, On the early morning of June 9th we finally crossed the border into Mexico at Brownsville. At the border our baggage was inspected thoroughly by the Mexican custom officials. It was at this point that we realized how lucky we were that Pablo, who could speak Spanish very well, was a member of the party Our first glimpse or Mexico was disappointing, The rest of the day we traveled through a dry, barren region devoid of any kind of vegetation except the sage brush, cactus, and a little coarse grass. Along the road we occasionally saw a small village of adobe huts with chickens, goats, donkeys, and small children running in and out Grime and dust covered the scantily clad bodies of the little sun-cooked Mexican children as they stopped their play long

enough to gaze with curiosity as We passed by.

In Victoria we ate our first Mexican style meal which was indeed a treat for us after a hard day's traveling. After a hot but restful night's sleep we arose early the next morning and began our journey towards Mexico City. As we left Victoria the mountains came into view and we were soon walled in by a range of mountains which lent a new interest to the landscape. That day we nervously traveled through very mountainous terrain. The cool climate of high elevations was quite relieving firs from the hot' weather of Texas, but a cautious gaze out the car window at what seemed bottomless canyons below made you wish you were back in Texas.

It was fascinating to see the small plots of corn growing on seventy-five percent slopes. How the people were able to work such steep slopes was a mystery to us. The people grew mostly corn from which they make their famous tortillas. Tortillas take the place of bread in most Mexican families. They constitute the chief food of the poorer people, and are almost always found upon the table of the rich as well.

After a - day's winding up and down very high mountains over narrow roads we diZzily arrived at Zimapan where we decided to spend the night.

The most of next day we traveled through more mountainous terrain; although, the mountains were not as high as the day before. More fertile land could be seen growing such crops as alfalfa, wheat, corn, and sugar Cane.

Mexico City at last! We were surprised to find that the city was very much like our large industrial cities ip the United States with its towering buildings and Many factories. Surprisingly large cars such as Cadillacs and Buicks dominated the streets. Most homes in the large city are very beautifully built by Mexican architects. Of course, many poorly built adobe huts can be seen also in some parts of the city occupied by poor people who serve as servants to the rich.

Many of 'the poorer class people clutter up the streets as beggars:' We had to be careful and quite repulsive on the streets for many were there trying vainly in every possible way to get their share of our spending money.. There was one vendor or peddler who was more persistent than all the others—the lottery ticket seller. These vendors we met at every street. corner at every hour of the day. Some arc men, some are women,

Ve stPecht, dne 18, ier yna 1952. and some children. The lottery is very popular in Mexico and is supported by the government.

In Mexico the people are either filthy rich or dirty poor. There is no middle class of people as we have in the United States.

Next morning we visited the Rockefeller Foundation., There we met Dr. Harrar, Director of the Foundation, who took us on a tour of the various' departments and explained to us the function each has in helping to solve the many Mexican agriculture problems. The work of the Foundation is concerned mainly with the improvement of the three major food crops—corn, wheat, and barley.

Their research work is carried on at eleven different Experiment Stations located throughout Mexico. Dr. Harrar explained the Foundations accomplishments so far and its future potential possibilities in both the field of research and the training of outstanding Mexican students for research work.

That afternoon we visited the Agricultural Attache of Mexico. Mr. Winomont discussed with us the Mexican Agriculture situation in general. Through his recommedations he was very helpful to us in making our tour through Central America more enjoyable.

The following day we enjoyed a very interesting visit to Chipango, located -twenty-five miles east of Mexico City, where the Rockefeller Foundation has an Experiment Station set up. Dr. Borloug, Superintendent, was very pleased to see us and took us on an interesting tour of the Station. The Station is operated very efficiently by excellent research scientists with the help of approximately one hundred laborers. This gives them an opportunity to carry out a very intensive research program. Both dry and irrigation farming research is carried on with such crops wheat, barley, corn, and legumes. Hubam clover and alfalfa are the most desirable legumes. Hubam normally grows six feet tall due largely to, the great response they get from nitrogen fertilizer. Two crops of corn and wheat are grown annually since they have no frost to interefere. They harvest one day and plant the next which is what was being done during our visit. Our visit to the Station was climaxed by an interesting discussion on the agriculture problems of. Mexico with Dr: Harrar, Mr. Winomont, and Dr. Borloug.

The next day we left Mexioo City -and started on our eastern trip to Vera Cruz.

We passed from the cold to the teinperate region where the elevation dropped froM seven to one thousand feet.

There we saw fertile valley with fields of -corn„ wheat, barley, and sugar grow-

VPST 1\1 1 Iii— WEST, TEXAS ing. During the day we saw some very beautiful mountain sceneries including three of the highest mountains in Mexico, Orizaba, Popocatepetl, and Nevado de Toluca. The forest vegetation was very profuse along the roads with orchids and many other colorful flowers seen growing in them. This particular region is noted for its beautiful flowers. We bought- four orchids for the small sum of fifty cents that would cost thirty dollars in the States.

As a matter of interest and with curiosity we stopped to visit a mineral water plant along the road. A guided tour through the plant resulted in many interesting sceneries in observing the manufacturing prevesses of mineral water.

We considered it time well spent even though it was not directly concerned with agriculture.

As we neared the city of Vera Cruz less cultivated land could be seen and more paptures. The cattle seen grazing on the pastures and along theroadsides were of the native Mexican breed of poor quality. Near Vera Cruz we came to the coffee and banana growing sectlon. Many banana plantations could be seen along the road and under the wide banana leaves we saw the dark green foliage and berries of the coffee trees.

The banana trees are planted to shade the coffee trees, for coffee is the most valuable product. The Mexican people claim to raise the best coffee in the world, but we were much inclined to doubt this for the coffee served us in most cases was the worst I had ever tasted. Perhaps it was because of the way in which it is prepared.

We were now in the Tropics. The air was moist and warm where brief showers are frequent. The cocoa palms began to raise their heads amid the other trees of the forests.

Vera CruZ at last! The city is situated on the low sandy shore of the Gulf of Mexico. At first sight, the city was neither attractive of interesting, and was very hot indeed. Upon arrival we immediately made out for the Gulf where we injoyed a very refreshing swim. By strange coincidence we met two ex•Aggies on the beach who worked on the eradication of the Foot and Mouth disease in Mexico.

That night we had our first opportunity to sleep inside a hacienda located on a sugar cane plantation. The owner of the plantation was a close friend of Pablo's father, so we were welcomed in true Mexican fashion. Inside the walls of the hacienda was the sugar factory where we were able to observe and have explained to us the many processes which the sugar cane goes through in the production of sugar. We also had

the opportunity to see how sugar cane is grown and harvested in the fields on the plantation. All the labor is done by hand with crude wooden implements.

The following day we visited a nationally known orange plantation located at La Orduna. With great pride the owner took us on a tour of his plantation that covered many acres. He also was the owner of a manufacturing plant located on the plantation used in processing his grown oranges into orange. juice and other by-products. While at the plantation, we met a girls' baSketball team from Oklahoma that was touring Mexico and playing different girl's teams in Mexico. It felt wonderful to meet people that you' could talk with for a' change.

After leaving the plantation we drove through some very fertile valley towards Puebla. Corn could be seen growing fifteen feet tall in places, but was of the native Indian breed sutoporting only small nubbins. We were told that the Indian farmers were very difficult to convince that by planting hybrids they could double their yields. All they are interested in is growing corn only for their own human consumption.

Our next short stop was at Puebla, the second largest city in Mexico. It' is truly a picturesque city know as the "City of Churches." One can easily see how it got the name, for churches can be seen everywhere. In Mexico ninety-eight percent of the people are members of the Catholic church and they usually contribute most of their earnings to the building of churches. A visit to the largest cathedral, in Puebla, and one of the largest in Mexico, well brought this out, for it covers one entire city block. The cathedral is constructed of granite with interior decorations made of marble. Inside marble pillars imbellished with gold and precious stones can be seen. Also many priceless paintings elaborate carvings, and magnificent tapestry provide a beautiful setting.

With Pablo in the driver's seat it did not take us long to drive to Atlixco, which he proudly called his "home town'.'

There his parents greeted us . with a warm welcome and had prepared a delicious meal. As customary in Mexico, we were served a variety of appetizers before and during the meal. As a result we actually • sat at the table and ate for three full hours. After an enjoyable and interesting conversation with Pablos family we retired for the day.

The next day we enjoyed a tour through the Maurer residence (hacienda) which is in the form of fa hollow square.

In the center of the hacienda is a courtyard or patio which is typical of most Mexican homes. A gallery extends

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around the patio supported by heavy cyprdss tree one hundred sixty-five feet and Guatemala where we spent three columns covered with flowering vines, in diameter land two-thousand years hours being checked for proper passThe first floor of the hacienda is used for old. It takes twenty people with out- port papers and halting the, car fumigated. storage and as employees quarters. The stretched arms to reach around it.

Another hours drive brought us in sight Upon crossing the border into GuateMaurer family occupies the second floor.

From the hacienda one can get an excel- of the towers and white walls of the fa- mala we immediately noticed a great lent view of snowcapped Popocatepetl, mous old city of Mitla. The ruins are change. The people seemed different and an inactive . volcano of seventeen-thou- in a desolate place where only a few more friendly, probably due to the fact of the beautifully carved walls of the that they did not get to see as many sand feet elevation.

Adjoining the hacienda is a flour mill buildings, thought to be temples, remain tourists as the people in Mexico do. The owned by the Maurer family. Pablo an d in a perfect state of preservation. Imme- roads in Guatemala were not as good as his sister took us on a tour of the mill diately upon arrival several Indian chil- in Mexico. The first day we traveled on and explained to us the various pro_ dren and women surronuded our car. a dirt narrow road over high steep cesses that wheat goes through in mak- They offered for sale what they claimed mountains hoping that we would soon to be the original personal belongings, find better roads, but we never did, The ing flour. such as rings and necklaces, of the nonWith the guidance of Mr. Maurer we existent race. One could easily detect road was also very rough and rocky visited a nearby nationally known ranch that the relics were only recently made. causing us to travel mostly in first and owned by Mr. Henry Guilly. Mr. Guil- For a small foe a Mexican guide took second gear.

Not very much land could be seen unly was pleased to show us his cattle us through the ruins explaining what der cultivation close to the border except which were of the Brabham, Charlais, and Chahre breeds. His Brabham (Zebu) little evidence was found to be charac- for frequent small patches , of corn among the high mountains. Banana and were imported from Brazil and the teristic of the race.

After a short drive further through coffee trees dominated the vegetation Charlais from France. He is known to . at Tehaunte- alone the roads at lower elevation. As have the only true breed of Charlais the mountains we arrived we drove higher up the mountains, above outside of France. Due to the Foot and pee where we spent the night.

T following day we drove to Arriaga five-thousand feet elevation, the banana Mouth disease all exports from France The have stopped, making his cattle very which is as far as is possiblbe to drive a and coffee trees disappeared, and difexpen sive. By selling only females he is car towards Guatemala due to an in- ferent coniferous trees took their place. able' to retain the only true breed. He complete road. From Arriaga we had to At ten-thousand feet elevation not very ship our car by rail to Tapachula, a much vegetation could be seen except for has been successful in crossing the Brabham and Charlais to get the Charbret distance of one-hundred and sixty-five a few deformed trees struggling for surbreed which is becoming popular. In miles. The train was not scheduled to vival against the high elevations. leave Arriaga until the following day, addition to being a successful rancher and since there were no hotels in the After winding through mountains all Mr. Guilly also devotes a great deal of city we were forced to hire a cab to day we finally arrived at Lake Amatitime to the upkeep of his alvacado ortlan. There we stayed at a hotel owned chard. He follows the theory that when drive us to nearby Guitierrez. from by Mr. Mora.lis. His son, whom we met, trees are healthy they are automaticallywhere thereour we car caught plane to Tapachula was supposed to .be wait- was in the class of '46 at Texas A and resistant to insects and diseases. He u- ing for us. It felt wonderful for a change M, but did not graduate. The hotel is tilizes all . hts barnyard manure in fez to fly over the high mountains instead located pn the shore of Lake Amatitilizing the avocado trees and by do- of winding up and down them. tlan, that is the largest lake in Guatelog, so seems to be proving his theory. mala. The clear-blue lake is eleven miles The city of Tapachula was not as wide and seventeen miles long of unUnroute from Puebla to Oaxaca we picturesque as most Mexican cities are. known depth. Five towering volcanoes traveled mostly through a mountain- Instead filth could be seen everywhere. surround the beautiful lake with twelve ous region where dense, tropical forests The city is located in a high rainfall re- small Indian villages in between, named could be seen. One had to look up, and gion where living is uncomfortable due not down, for views on that road. Above to the hot and moist tropical climate. after the twelve appostles. use were overhanging cliffs and tower- While we waited impatiently for our During our short stay at the lake we ing Peaks that closed in about us until car to arrive from Arringa we obtained met five widows vacationing from the it seemed there ' was hardly room to our r passport papers with the New England States. With them we enpass. joyed a very interesting boat ride across help of a friend of Pablo's father.

Oaxaca was found to be a very old the large lake to visit one of the colorcity that contains many fine public We found out that the coffee industry ful Indian villages. The members of the building s. It has been the home of many of Tapachula is replacing the banana Indian tribe dressed very colorfully in noted men of Mexico whose statues 1 industry due to a severe fungus disease true Indian costumes. It so happened stood in the plaza of the city. During 1 destroying the banana trees. We were that it was Saturday, the weekly market short stay in Oaxaca we enjoyed a : also told that plans were being made to day, when all the surrounding Indian visited to one of the oldest cathedrals in I open up a cotton producing area near tribes gather to trade ainong themselves.. ico. We also visited a museum where Tapachula during the winter when the It was quite amusing to us to watch we 'observed some' preserved remains of rainfall is not so great. During World their trade transactions. Only the Inan ancient race that existed before the War II rubber production was Tapachu- dian women, representing different triruins of ' la's major industry, but now only a few bes, are allowed to trade among themIndian s came. The remaining the unknown races village are located Indian rubber trees can be seen along selves while the men watch close by. at llintla, a small town thirty miles from the road.

Our guide explained to us the various Oaxaca, which was our next stop of in- After two days of waiting our car strange customs of the different Indian finally arrived from Arriga unharmed tribes. He also took us to see the village ' tere Q t.

On the road to Mitla we saw one o much to our surprise. church that is know to have been built the largest and oldest trees in the world A short distance from Tapachula is in 1566. located in a village churchyard. It is a the international border between Mexico The following day we drove to Chichi-

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castenango, an Indian village located to convince that It wou1.1 be to their republics and probably the most prosseventy-five miles around each Sunday advantage to follow the various recom- perm's. The population of El Salvador to worship and trade. A guide took us mended soil and water conservation is more dense then in Guatemala, and more land could be seen under Cultivathrough the village church and ex- practices.

While in Guatemala City we met Dr. tion. The people seemed very industrious plained the strange religious beliefs and; customs of the Indian tribe. We also Larenze, who is the Director of the Ex- in relation to the people of Guatemawent through the market place and periment Stations in Guatemala. He la and Mexico. The roads of El Salvador found it very interesting to observe va- took us to the main Experiment Station were much better. El Salvador like Guarious products the Indians had to sell located on the outskirts of Guateinala. temala is a plateau broken by ranges City. The Experiment Station is set up in of mountains and groups of volcanoes. and how they sold and bought them.

That afternoon we started out for cooperation between the United States. San Salvador, the capital of El SalGuatemala City. As we left the village Department of Agriculture and the Gua- vador, is almost surrounded by inactive volcanoes. The city has been destroyed we passed hundreds of Indian people temala government.

At the Experiment Station Dr. Jones many times by earthquakes and volcareturning from market to their homes among the mountains. Most of them the chemist, explained to us the work nic eruptions, but has been rebuilt each including the women, were carrying that is being done on different fats and time by the industrious citizens. The enormous loads strapped to their backs. oils extracted from various plants. He present buildings are constructed so as Some were even seen leading skinny, stressed the importance of the citronel- to make them earthquake proof. Last hungry looking pigs that they had la and lemon grass from which valuable April a nearby city was destroyed by an ,oil is obtained. The oil is used to make earthquake killing one-thousand people. purchased or had not sold.

As we neared Guatemala City more various synthetic products. Guatemala San Salvador is different in some ways and more of the hillsides and valleys is second to Formosa in citronella oil from most other cities of Central Amercould be seen under cultivation. Corn production. The spindle bug is a new ica. It is clean and well paved. The city and wheat appeared to be the major threat to the growth of both the citre- is noted for the beauty of its women as we well noticed. nella and lemon grass. crop with some fruit and vegetables.

While in San Salvador we visited an (Someone had evidently failed to utilize We found Guatemala City a very beautiful city. It appeared very similar to the opportunity and take the A and M experiment station located nearby. The our large American city. The city, as visitors to the National Agriculture personnel working at the station took well as the people who lived in it, was School and government experiment sta- turns in explaining to :us the various cleaner then . most Mexican cities. Every- I tion near Chimaltenango, some 30 miles experimental work that was being carthing was at least twice as expensive as from Guatemala City. The party would ried on. in Mexico, though. As an example gas have received a most friendl y welcome ' Coffee, cotton, corn, and sugar cane by the agriculture students there, as did are the major crops of El Salvador. We sold for fifty cents per gallon. were told that cotton production is inGuatemala has a very unstable gov- the editor of the Vestnik in the sum- creasing tremendously along the West mer of 1947.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Editor.) ernment. We saw bullet marks on some coast. An annual rainfall of sixty-five of the buildings as a result of a revoWe also met Dr. Labeau, a plant pa- inches creates a cotton insect problem lution in 1949. The republic also had thologist, who explained to us the insect in most areas. About ninety-eight perone this summer after we returned from and disease problems he is attempting cent of the rain falls during a six our tour. to solve. An annual rainfall of one- month wet season. The other six months The major crops of Guatemala listed hundred seventy-seven inches at the is very dry causing irrigation to be a in order are; coffee, bananas, citronel- station causes great insect and disease necessity for crop production. la grass, corn, citrus, vegetables, wheat, problems. Most of the rain falls during ' After a short one day visit in San Salrice, and sugar cane. Legumes are a period of six months starting in June. vador we journeyed on towards Honducoming into the picture due to the ter- The other six months are very droughty. ras. Due to bad roads we were forced While at the Experiment Station we to spend the night of June 28th in a rific response they give as a soil building crop. also met Dr. Squibb, who is in charge small town. The town hand only two Guatemala has been and still is almost of animal nutrition and biochemistry! small hotels and the better one was one hundred percent agriculture yet work in Guatemala. He is conducting already filled upon our arrival, so untheir agriculture is far from being as some very extensive work on different' fortunately we were forced to spend the scientific as ours in the States. A great desirable rations for poultry, sheep, hogs, night in a place that could be called amount of land alone the Pacific coast and cattle. Dr. Squibb recently discov- everything but a hotel. After a restless still remains undeveloped and uninha- ered that bananas and banana leaves are nights sleep on canvas cots we arose bited. There the land is very fertile and an excellent source of protein in an ani- early next morning, with stiff necks, to has a terrific productive potentiality. I mal ration. Since their corn sells for continue our journey to Honduras.

Lack of roads in those areas and an seven dollars per one-hundred pounds As we crossed the border into Honduunstable government 'are the main rea-1 the bananas ave replaced the feeding raswe immediately noticed that it was sons for the land remaining undevel- of it to hogs, increasing the raising of the most backward of the Central Ameroped. Agricultural research workers have hogs in Guatemala ,greatly. ican republics we had seen. A glance Dr. Co gel, who is doing some re- at its roads and land answered our done a marvelous job in a short time in Guatemala as in Mexico. They still have- search work on coffee and banana pro- question as to why it is so poor. Nearly ' many problems to solve, though. Their duction, took us on a tour of a coffee all the roads or trails that wind through major one is developing different va- plantation. He explained coffee produc- the hilly country are very narrow and rieties of crops adapted for the many tion to us in general and the important rough. Most of their traveling is done varying elevations found. The lack of part it plays in the agriculture of Gua- by foot except the more wealthy people an Extension Service limits the full ben- temala. who ride donkeys. Most of the land lookefit of research in Guatemala as is the On the morning of June .6th we crossed ed very poor due to excessive erosion. case in most Central American republics. the border into El Salvador. El Salvador We were told that the people have been The Indian farmers are very difficult is the smallest of the Central American burning off the hilly land through the

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years; thus, exposing it to severe ero- sailor to Honduras, was also there to sion' during the six-month rainy sea- enjoy the evening. son.

We had originally planned to possibly go as far as Costa Rica, but realizing We arrived in Tegucigalpa, the capi- that we were far behind our schedule tal of Honduras, on the afternoon of June already we were forced to start on our 29th, The y city is located in a valley, but trip back to Texas on July 1st. the city itself is not as colorful and After a hard days driving we welcomed clean as the capital cities of Guatemala the sight of Guatemala City, which apand El Salvador. peared, like a sea of lights as we apIn Tegucigalpa we visited Dr. Holt, proached it from the mountains. The who is the Director of the Institute of following morning we had an opportuInter-American Affairs in Honduras. He nity to visit the National Palace before gave us a very interesting talk on the we drove on. The Palace is a very beauagricultural situation of Honduras as tiful building situated in the center of it is now and what he hopes it will be the city. We visited the beautifully dein the near future. corated Presidents meeting room, recepWhile in Honduras we made a trip tion room, and the room where Dean Kyle to the Pan American School of Agricul- of Texas A and M was decorated while ture, located twenty-five miles from Te- Ambassador to Guatemala. gucipalpa. The school is financed by After leaving Guatemala City on the United Fruit Company, and is under the afternoon of July 2nd we drove through directorship of Dr. Wilson Popenoe. It Antigua, which was the capital of Guais a school that places stress upon prac- temala before being destroyed by earthtical training of its students in agri- quakes. The remaining buildings of the culture and less upon theoretical instruc- city are very ancient, especially the beaution. Any student from any of the Cen- tiful churches. Upon recommendation we tral and South American republics, with visited Hotel Pasada Belem which was high intelligence, is eligible • to attend once a monastery. It proved to be a well the school free of charge for three worth visit for the colorful setting of years. There are usually four-hundred the hotel was very beautiful indeed. We applicants each year to enter the school, regretted that spending the night there but only sixty are accepted due to lack was not possible due to lack of time. of facilities to handle them all.

Instead we drove on to Lake Amatitlan Dr. Popenoe was out of town so Dr. where we once again spent the night.

Mueller, the Vice Director, took us on a The following day, July 4th, we travvery enjoyable tour through the school. eled on towards the Mexican border We visited the various laboratories and mostly in rain making the roads through found them well equipped to teach the the mountains very sloppy and slippery. boys with, We were also shown their Since it was 4th of July we were repoultry, hog, dairy, and horse barns, quired to pay an additional fee at the and had expla.'ined to us what they all Mexican border. We wondered why the teach the boys. The students rotate in Mexican people considered it a holiday. shifts doing various practical work at Being anxious to get back into Mexico, the school farm. Some work in the fields we did not bother to ask questions and while others take care of the livestock. argue with the border officials. CrossIn this way they have an opportunity ing the border gave us the wonderful to learn how to do the various jobs on feeling 'of knowing that only one more a farm. Then when they graduate they border remained between us and home. will be able to go back to their country After spending the night in Tapaand apply what they had learned and chula we loaded our car on a rail flatteach others as well. car. This time instead of traveling by After eating dinner with the boys we plane to Arriaga we decided to travel watched a baseball game between the on the train with the car as a safety prefreshmen and upperclassmen. It was caution. The train was far from being surprising to see how well they played. a modern one in many ways. The poorer That evening we enjoyed a sociable class of people rode in cars equivalent drink at Dr. Holt home in TegucigApa to our cattle boxcars in the States. We where we met Dr. Smith and Dr. Apodo- rode in first-class cars that are equal to ca, both Extension workers. After an our poorest rail travel conditions in the enjoyable conversation with the group States. we attended a square dance at Mr. Weebs Even though the train ride was not a home. Adr. Webb is the general manager comfortable one it gave us an opportuof two large Fruit Companies in Hondu- nity to actually learn more about the ras. and quite a square-dancer. We all Mexican way of life. We saw how the had quite time learning how to square people live in grass huts alongside the dance, but we finally all learned. Mr. railroad tracks, the food they eat, etc.

Shields, the present American Ambas- The train stopped at what seemed a

Ve stfedu, dne 18. b'ervna 1952. million places along the one-hundredsixty-five mile road. As we stopped at every cluster of huts to load and unload passengers, Mexican women and children clustered around the train of= fering for sale various kinds of flycovered food and drinks.

A great deal of cattle could be seen grazing on excellent pastures along the tracks. Tall tropical grasses almost hid the cattle from view while grazing on the pastures. Frequent patches of tall Indian corn were seen in addition to an abundance of banana trees.

After thirteen hours of what seemed like endless traveling we finally arrived at Arriaga. There we unloaded our car and drove to Gutierrez where we spent a restful night.

The next two days were spent back tracking towards Mexico City. Heavy rains in the mountains caused us to drive slowly and carefully, for frequently the road was partially blocked by sluffed off mountain sides, At one place we were forced to wait for one hour while Mexican workers with shovels cleared the blocked road.

We once again ejoyed a very short visit at Pablo's home in Atlixco where his parents fed us a very tasty Mexican dinner. With time running out we had to move on towards Mexico City.

On July 7th we arived back in Mexico City. During our two day stay in the city we hired a guide to take us for a visit to the two famous pyramids located twenty-five miles from Mexico City. The tallest of the two piramids is known as "The Pyramid of the Sun", and the shorter one "The Pyramid of the Moon."

The Pyramid of the Sun is three-hundred sixty feet tall and has three-hundred sixty steps leading to its top. The pyramids are estimated to have been built five-thousand years ago.

Near the pyramids we visited an ancient uncovered city that was once built by an Aztec Indian tribe. The remains of the small city were very interesting to see, especially 'he underground tombs and the place where the Indians held human sacrifice ceremonies.

That same day we attended tone of the famous Mexican bull fights. Bullfighting is as popular a sport in Mexico, as football is in the States.

Their sport is a lot more bloody though, but to us it was not near as exciting. Everyone visiting Mexico should make it a point to see a bullfight for it is something different as a sport. • While in Mexico City we also visited the Anderson and Clayton Cotton Company. Mr. Gcodrich, who is in charge of the office, explained to us the program they carry out in Mexico in relation to

Ve stredu, dne 18. eer yna 1952. cotton. Mr. Ci<pdrich said that Mexico exports all but about two-hundred thousand bales each year. Mexico is predicted to have a one-milion two-hundred thousand bale crop this year, which is far below our fifteen million bale predicted crop.

On. July 9th we left Mexico City and traveled to Guanajuato, mostly through a badly eroded plateau. We also crossed a few rich valleys where luxuriant growths of corn and alfalfa could be seen.

The city of Guanajuato is located in a canyon, providing a beautiful scene at night from the surrounding high mountains. A guide took us to see some of the historical points of the ancient city.

After leaving Guanajuato, we endured a long days drive through desert country as far as Durango. There were not many picturesque sights to be seen while driving through the desert, so every one slept most of the day, even me, the driver, that day, until the loud bang of a blowout woke us all suddenly. After that we all stayed wide awake.

The following day we again traveled mostly through snore desert country.

Near Torreon we passed through the largest cotton producing area in Mexico.

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As strange as it may seem, this cotton was actually the first we had seen on the Cotton Study Tour since we crossed the border into Mexico from Texas on June 9th.

After spending the night of July 13th in Saltillo we drove on to Monterrey. As we drove to Monterey quite a bit of land could be seen being cleared in preparation for cotton irrigation farming.

Near -Mcnterrey we stopped to visit an Anderson and Clayton cottonseed oil plant. Mr. Burns, a graduate of Texas A and M College, is the General Manager of the plant. He spoke to us briefly on various phases of the cotton industry of Mexico. Mr. Gilchrist, the plant chemist, took us on a tour cf the plant and explained to us how such products as shortening, margarine, and various salad oils are made from cotton seed.

Our last night in Mexico was spent in Monterrey, which is a city far different from the cities of Mexico further away from the border. The streets were full of Mexican people trying in every possible way to get a first chance at the American tourists spending money. To us, it was cur last chance instead of first to spend our remaining pesos, so we did some last minute souvenir shopping.

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On the morning of July 14th we left Monterrey with the intention of reaching College Station that same day, which we did. The drive from Monterrey to the border at Reynosa did not provide to many interesting new sceneries for we were all, with the exception of Pablo, as anxious to get back to Texas as we were to get across into Mexico seven weeks ago. Those Texas buildings with English signs and the people speaking the good old English language were sights and sounds of unlimited welcome to us.

I would like to express my appreciation to Mr. Eli Whitley, the members of the Agronomy Department, the Agronomy Society, and to all others who had a part in making this long remembered tour possible. Dr. Jones was as thoughtful and agreeable as a Tour Leader could possibly be. It was an ideal tour that I will remember' for many years to come.

I regret that such an educational tour is not possible for all students of agriculture. ) • A6 • 8testi je vetSi ne2 neStesti. Negtesti neudusi vzpominky na, Stesti, kdegto okamZik Stesti da mnohdy zapomenouti na leta utrpeni.

(Carmen Sylva) * •( 2ivot je komedie, rikaji; ano, ale je potrebi dobre urnet svou ulohu.

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PRVNI tESKY UtITEL V AMERICE slali k cisari Frantiaku Josefovi, jenZ, di lid do Arneriky, prohledali v gecky jeprave dvorem byl v Olomouci, deputaci, ho veci a sebrali v gecky jeho papiry a oclvezli do Vsetina. Rodina jeho byla arci jejiZ mluveim byl Josef Maaik.

1 polekana, a manZelka, jeho druhy den Omar prijal je laskave, hovoril s fliMi spechala za nim. Av gak k jejimu nejvetprivate,slbjmckoZadi,1 gimu zarmutku videla, jak jej prave odZe zvlaate na, sve mile zeme Cechy, vaZeji na voze do vezeni do val. MeziMoravu a Slezko chce pametliv bYti a Uboha omdlela, jak to spatilla a milostive je propustil. kdyZ pri gla k Et:be, sotva se s nim vidouc jej nevinneho jako zloeinZlepaeni ale nikdy neprialo, a p. Magik rikaval pak v2dy, kdyZ o torn vy- ce odvadeti do vezeni. Byl veznen nevinpravcval, ze slibiti a spiniti rakouska ne nekolik nedel, neZli poeal vYslech ylkla nikdy nedovede, aby se toho od jeho. Zatim OtiZ pozatYkali v gechny oni ani neeekalo. Bylo-li uditelhm ne- statni, zdali by se byl kdo vyznal, ze byl dobre drive, nebylo jim lepe ted' a mar- od pana Mag ka sveden k vystehovo.ni.

KclyZ ale nenalezli nieeho, zae by na, nej ne bylo Cekani a pro geni od vlady. vinu uvaliti mohli, ac dosti chytte si V rode 1851 pc:teal° se v 6ermi hovoriti potinali, zakony v gechny moZne na pomnoho o Americe. Priala tam psani ∎ocl p. moc si brali, museli jej piece pustiti na Bergmana, kterY nalezal se v Texasu, svobodu, ale prtivodni list a ostatni papichvalil nejen kraj, ale i svobodu a to ry zadrZeli a marne byly jeho prosby a zalibilo se nekterYm, ze zatoukili po Americe. Vyprodavali sve statky a hlasili Zadani, nedostal nic zpet. se o prtivodni listy. Pan Maaik Tot 'se rozumi, Ze od doby nevinne vrtoteZ, avaak od rcdiny tchana sveho byl Zeneho nan vezeni zanevtel jeate vice Dne 1. elervence roku 1881 zemrel premluven, aby nejezdil do Ameriky. Ne-1 proti vlade a v gemu poradku rakouskemu, Caldwell, Tex., okresu Burleson, zaslou- chtel vaak naddle zirstati tam pro nedo- a nectel ani slyg eti o tom, aby tam zuZilY kmet vlastenec razu oamaetyricatni- stateeny plat k vyZiveni rodiny sve. Na- stal. Ostatni vg ichni, k vuli kterYm se rat a jeden z nejprvnejaich.pristehovalcti bidl se mu lacinY grunt u Liptalu na sam zdrZel, Cekaje na ne, odjeli do Amedo Texasu, jenZ phsobil zdarne co deskY Morave, koupil jej a odstehoval se tam. riky u2 v dubnu, ale on musel zustati -Oita jak ye stare vlasti, tak i v nova Ale shledal, Ze se zklamal, neb byla pada zpet, neb nedostal list pravodni od vlasti a odchoval v trete k materatine ye- bidna, strane hole, kameni hojnost du a bez toho to ne glo, aspori nechtel ulikY podet ditek deskYch a morayskYch jalovce aZ dost vAude, ale Zivobyti to tikati z vlasti jako nepoctivec, neb si na rodien, aby byly pak udrZovateli Ceske neslo. I hledel zbaviti se toho a zatouZil oestnem jmenu svern nechal vkly salepo Americe tim vreleji. uarodnosti v osadach po celem Texasu.

Zeti velice. Podatilo se mu dostati se do Ted' uZ" Zadne domluvy neplatily u tech a tu muse! znovu Zadati o list pra1.3y1 to Josef Maaik, rozenY dne 30. brezna roku 1810 z Zaeanech na Morava. Je- neho a jal se einiti pripravy k vysteho- vodni, ktery mu na Morava nechteli vyho rodidove prestehovali se s malYm de- vani. Av gak jeho ochota a pratelstvi dati. List koneone dostal, a tak zadal se ckem do Jimramova, kde mu aestiletemu k jinYm krajanam privedla jej do ne- vypravovati na, cestu, v listopadu r. 1854 zeintel otec a porudnikem stal se tamni snazi velikYch, ktere je gte jednou jeho octl se se svoji rodinou v Bremen, vzdalen ucitel p. Zenaty, jenZ jej vychovaval pro vystehovani Kolem Vsetina roznesla se mezi ii- nenavidene vlady rakouske. stay uditelskY. Byl pilnYm a schOpnYm, Ze Pi. Terezie Skrivankova, nejstar gi dceco mladik 161ety mohl jiZ odbYti zkouaku dem zvest, Ze pan Ma gik, aditel pojede ueitelskou v Brae a obdrZel hned pod- do Texasu. Prichazeli, vyptavali se, Cetli ra pana Ma gika, vypravuje dale nasleuditelske misto na Brezinach, nade2 za ddpisy, jmenovite od pp. T. Batly, J. Ma- dovne:, dva roky byl povolan za uoitele do Cermi tugtika a V. 8' paeka, a vaem se to zalibilo V Bremen prigel k nagemu otci znamY v Cechach, kde zdarne phsobil po 23 let hnedle, Ze polaciali Ma gika, aby jim na- jeden z Moravy prose ho, aby mu nejak psal Zadosti za prtivodni listy.

Avaak teha byl uznan vladou pochvalnYm dekredy podala se vlada obavati o sve podda- pomohl na dal gi cestu, neb nemel penez, tem. ne, aby se ji nerozutikali v gichni do A- v hospode byl dltden za gest tYdna za stravu, jiZ mu hrozili, Ze jej po glou zpet Jsa svobodomyslnosti odkojen z mladi, meriky a nechtela vyclavati uz ted' listy, postrkem na Moravu, ze bude Zebrakem, ceekaval velike prevraty svobodne v r. lac po dlouhem tYrani a zdeiovani. Pan pan mu nikdo nepomfiZe. Otec vzal po1848 pro cele Rakousko, zvlaate ale pro Magik mel siraj list, ale kdyZ ostatni propenize, aby mu zaplatil pomilou ylast deskr:mora yskou. KdyZ byla sili jej, aby via ne poekal, aby meli s sledni r ye Praha ve stavu obleZeni, vybral se s ne- kym moudrejaim do daleke ciziny jeti, lovinu prevozneho a druhou polovinu mu kolika i.:bearry dermskYmi stejneho s udinil jim to k vfrli a odstehoval se do vyprosil od spoleanosti zdarrna. Cestoval aim smYaleni a nad geni vlasteneckeho, Jablunky, odkud chteli spoleene vyjeti, s nami na plachetniku. Neni to zrovna prijemne, co star gi pristehovalci v gechopatrili si zbrame a umluvili se, Ze sejdou jakmile listy prtivodni obdr2i. no zakusili. My melt na. Atesti sveho chlePan Ma nejen byl napsal vaem znagik se v Usti v poetu nekolika set vlastencti z celeho okoli, aby tahli matiece Praze mYin svYrn Zadosti za prtivodni listy, ba a su geneho ovoce hodne s sebou a na pomoc. Tu priala zprava, Ze Praha se ale i vaechny , jejich dopisy do Bremen tak jsme nouzi netrpeli. Vgem spolucevzdala, a z jejich vYpravy nebylo nic, ba psal ohledne preplavu a tu bylo priro- stujicim bylo divno, Ze z na gi rodiny nirauseli se ted' tajiti s yYm vlastenectvim, zeno, Ze pani od aradu poeali jej pova- kdo netrpi morskou nemoci na kterou stoZovati za premlouvatele toho lido a je- nali skoro vgichni cestujici ostatni .Bylo aby nemeli z toho nemile nasledky.

NovY cisar, nova nadeje. Ueitelove byli dnatele ,cdvadejiciho poddane z podruei nas na lodi asi devadesat os9b, vetginou tehdy vehni bidne placeni a nadevae se jejich. Pojednou, kdyZ se boho nejmene Nemcn ,dva polske, patnact rodin z Lech zlepaeni sveho stavu do nave vlady, po- nadal, byl eetnikem zateen, Ze pry sva- a jedna z Moravy. Cesta trvala osm tyd-

Jen nekolik slov avodem, jakym zpilsobem prisel redaktor Vestraku k tomtit() nanejvYae zajimavemu Zivotopisu prvniho uditele Ceske akoly as pUde SpojenYch state. Poslala ho pani Anna Trampotova z Crosby, eleakyne SPJST, s nasledujicim pripisem: -1■13.ala jsem y e starem rodniku "Hospodare" snarl nejstar0 Zivotopis jednoho z prvnich deskYch iicitelu v Amence, pana Josefa Maaika. 2ivotopis byl vodne sestaven pani Terezii Skrivankovou, rozenou Maalkovou, dcerou uditele Jos. Maaika. Pro Hospodar upravila Rosa Skrivankova, -vnueka Jos. Maaika. Posilam to k uverejneni ye Vestniku. Je to zajimave, co ti stari na gi predkove museli pretrpet. My uZ v porovnani s jejich Zivotem Zijeme jako v bavince. — Se sesterskYm pozdravem Anna Trampotova."

Za takovou cennou historickou pamatku jsou etenati i s redaktorem sestre Trampotove z Crosby opravdu vdeeni.

Redaktor.

Ve stiedu, dne 18. d- erma 1952.

NovY rok jsme slavili na mori a 2. ledna 1855 jiZ jsme byli vysazeni na lakeh v Galvestonu. Drahy je gte Zadne v Texasu nebylo a my tehoZ dne je gte odpluii po vocle do Houstonu, Texas, a odtud pak po vozech do statu. V gech patnact rodin melo jeti pospolu aZ do Catspring, Texas. Jeden American nabidl se, ze nos vgechny dopravi za dobry plat po voze na misto, bylo tak pekne ten prvni den, ale k yeeeru se obioha zatahla eernYmi mraky, v noel se prihnala boufe, blYskalo se a hrmelo, de gt' se jen lil a ktomu nas pr y -neprivtalsezufivy.NaStesi jsme sebou dosti perin a to nas chranilo.

KdyZ voda podala teci do starlit nageho, page dobra matinka ,chtejic sve' deti chraniti, zapomnela sama sebe a tak se sillae nastudila. DruhY den bylo po bouri a na g Ameriean vezl nas dale, ale velmi pomalu, neb byla desta rozmokla, sama louZe hluboka a misty musel i zaprahnouti i deset part volu, aby vuz z blata vytahli.

Treti den jsme piejeli pies reku (neb vlastne Tu nas potkalo to nejhorgi. Nocovali jsme tu a milo yana, matinka se tu roznemohla na "choleru", po vgech tech nesnazich a Utrapach cestovnich a tretiho dne zemrela. 0, to bylo smutne loueeni, kclyZ posledne nas papominala: "Ditky mile, poslouchejte tatinka." Rana tato pro otce a nas byla stra gna. KdyZ chudinka coati dojela a2 do zaslibene kde eekala spasu pro celou rodinu, musela zemriti.

My ji druhY den pochovali a museli jsme hrob jeji opustiti a dale jeti. CelYch etrnact dni nam to trvalo, neZli jsme se z Houstonu do Catspringu, ne celYch sto mil dostali. Ted' otec mei starosti, ja,k zaplati $23.00 za dopravu sena, neb posledni sve penize byl pujcil znamemu na cestu v Bremen a musil je ted' scianeti u znamYch, aby mohl zaplatit.

Byl to smutny poodtek v Americe. Bydleli jsme zatim u znameho na geho z Moravy, pana Matu gtika, etrnact dni. Nejstarai brat]: Josef byl Sednanact mkt, ja trinact, mlad gi sestra Rosalie osm a nejmlad gi brats Vincent pet roku star. Otec musel s nejstar gim synem na praci. Ja, bych byla misto nalezla ye sluZbe, ale otee nechtel lads dati od sebe, aby nas mohi miti na oeich a koneone so mu podatilo, neb nas vzal ygecluay na sluZbu jistY pan z Rozenberku, Nemec, potornek oeskYch Rozenberku, a rozclelil nas tak, ze podriel u sebe otce, nejmlad giho bratra a sestru, syn jeho vzal si mne a zet' jeho Josefa Tak jsnie byli ubytovani v poradne a hodne radii* arci nemecke.

Otec a brats Josef dostali po $5.00 na mesic, ja se ale musela spOkojit s $2.50.

Nag . stec past stada ovec, vychazel denne s malym Vincentem na rameno do lesa velice snauten, nob nemohl zapo-

VESTNIK— WEST, TEXAS menouti na drahou matinku. Za nejakk eas nalezl si otec nova misto u jisteho pana Vogelsanga, Nence, jen slibil nam mesiene VC svem mlYne $20.00. Byl to muZ" vzdelanY sice, ale velmi nadutY Nemec, kterY mel za to, ze kdo u neho pracuje, jest jeho otrokem a mush si nechati v ge od neho libit. Byli jsme u neho etyri a pUl mesice ,ale on nechtel otci penize trpce zaslouZene vyplatiti, az k tomu byl waidne donucen.

To otce rozmrzelo a uminil si, radeji bude pro sebe farrnariti, neb se uZ byl rozhledl, jak se tu pracuje a te21.

I najal si 25 akru pUdy a dostal k tomu bidnou chatre za byt. Byl to byt bidnY. nemajici ani podlahy ani oken, trochu sbiteho gindele tviorilo dvere. Takove bylo tehdy obydli pro najemnika, o nic lepgi, nezii Cerni otroci na sadech.

Na jaie jsme s chuti na poli zapoeali pracovati, ale uhodil such rok a my meli kukurice malo a baviny je gte mane a kdyZ jsme zaplatili najemne, nezbylo nam pranic. Brats Josef vida nezdar prvni rok, ,cdegeI a pracoval s dobrYm mistrem tesarskYin, Neincem. DruhY rok najal pticlu jinde na lep gim miste zaroy en s krajanem z Moravy s panem bestom IVIuseli si ale nejprve pro d ye Do.diny postaviti pribytky, lamali pak prerii a Stipali plotoviny a za to jim priglo Maio najmu platiti. Tesili jsme se na UrodnY rok, ale byl gpatnej gi prvniho.

Z jara v gechno znirzlo, pak bylo sucho velike, kukurice nebyla skoro Zadna a baviny se neurodilo ani pity dil tolik, co obyeejne a museli jsrne zase celY rok zapasiti s nedostatkem desnYm. Nicmene neztraceli jsme nadeji, ze piajde piece lepe pozdeji. AZ treti rok se yydaril a firoda byla hojna, takle Oitek z ni byl velikY. Tu otec poeal se rozhliZeti pc) nejakem pozemku, aby ho koupil, k 'eenau2 i pan Sebesta se chystal. I nalezli dobre mist°, a koupili 120 akril prerie a 100 akru lesa pia $10.00 za akr prerie a po $5.00 za akr lesa, neb pada j.z poCala vzritstati v eerie, 'dim vice se pristehovalcti sem hrnulo. Jegte na podzim dali se do staveni pribytku a po novem roce jsme se koneene nastehovali do sveho je gte nedokoneeneho obydli.

Byl tu kus kru gne price pro ace a ja mu pilne pomahala. Pozenaek ten nalezat se asi mili od nynej gi Ceskomora y -skeoadyVli(nbWse).Ntvao to dlouho, naginci se poeali zde usazovati a kupovati pozemky v tomto okoli, zvla g t' po skondeni obeanske valky jich sem hodne prichazelo. Hnedle byla eeskomorayska osada 'Ceti* vystavili si evangelickY chram a tu poeal otec zase vyriCovati ditky krajand s yYch v materskein jazyku a v pootech. Mel site jiZ farmu svou zaplaccnou a neco penez uhospodareno, ale nemohl si toho

aby se nevratil k povolani svernu bYva'emu laskou k ditkam a k veci materske jsa veden. Bylo to v roce 1859. Nejprve poeal ueiti v dome pana Supaka, asi etyri mile od Veseli, kde2 bydlel znaenY poeet krajantl mora yskych. Kdyt pozdeji seznal, ze nejde to dvema panum slouZat.skate a farine, zanechal farmaieni a pkidrZel se gkoly, vyueuje ve chramu ye Veseli. Byl arci prvnim OeskYm heitelem v- Texasu, ba v celYch SpojenYch Statech, neb na vYchode zadaly Ceske gkoly o nekolik let pozdeji. Delalo mu to radost, kdy2 'Zaci jeho prospivali, a ditky rady z bliZka i z dab. k neniu do gkoly chodily. Otec mival 50 a22 sto Zakii a Zakyri, kteri byli sena poslani ze vgech CeskYch osad a.z dvacet mil i vice vzdalenYch. Otec, ae na pohled silnY a zdra\TY pceal cititi stab vice a vice jsa 62 son star. V tuto dobu asi roku 1872 se za ueitele priblasil do Veseli pan Fr. B. Zdrilbek, jenZ prove byl z Cech do Texasu prijel, a otee se prieinil, aby se pan Zdribek ziskal pro osadu, co'Z se take stalb a otee s pote genim pohliZel na to jak se osada zveda.

Otec je g te trochu pozdeji vyueoval, ale nestaeily mu shy valne. Syn jeho Josef vedl zdarne obchod a pilu, mlYn na bavhau a otec mei pokojik u neho. KdyZ pak ,se syn odsteho yal severneji ve stlatu, odebral`se stariekY otec ku s yYni dceram ke Caldwell, Texas.

Jeho dilo Zivotni dokonano, jeho shy vyeerpane a °wee prate jeho jegte pied sebou hojne s pote genim a zadostiueinenim. V late roku 1881 pojednou poCal slabnouti a po kratke nemoci usnul uprostied na gi rodiny. Pochovali jsme' jej psi Caldwell, kde odpoeiva v pok'aji. ) • i • ( 11A.DANKA

Flok: Sej, ted' ti ale dam hadanku.

Osel byl uvazan k provazu jen lest stop dlouheinu; 18 stop od neho byla kupa sena — ten osel dostal zalusk na to seno; jak si to narafieil, aby se k tomu senu dostal — he?"

Cvok: Ah — jdi nekam s takovymi hadankami — ty eeka g, ze reknu "vzdavam se" — abys mi moh' rici, ze ten osel se toho sena taky musil vzdat, vid'?" zname takove gpagy. -Flok: Mylig se -- osel se opravdu k tomu senu dostal.

Cvok: Nesmysl jak moh', kdyZ byl provaz jenom lest stop dlouhY. . .

Flok: Zcela jednoduze — osel jednoduge si dogel ke kupe a Zral.

Cvok: Ale dyt' povida g, ze byl provaz jenom lest stop dlouhY? Flok: Co z toho kdyZ druhY konec provazu ncbyl na nieem uvazan?

JOS. R. ANTON:

SJEZDOVE DIVADLO DramatickY knatfZek "Hlahol" radu Pokrok Houstonu 6. 88 sehraje v pondeli 23. eeryna na Studewood ku pocte dele-, gatii a navStevniku XVI. sjezdu SPJST, vYpravnou operetu "Deti Slovaee".

Plodna prate tohoto krouZku jest jiZ dostateene zndma, nebude v$ak na $kodu, vratime-li se na chvili v my$1enkach k jeho poeatkUm. Dvacet Sest houstonskYch krajanti, touZieich po osveLove dinnosti a spoleeenskem Zivote, zaloZilo 1. kvetna 1919 (pfed 33 roky) eeskY vzdeldvaci klub "Hlahol"`.

Prvnim pfedsedou zvolen byl bratr August Walla, tajemnikem br. Josef Skrhak, pokladnici a napovedou ses. M. T. G' erna (Valova) a reZiserem br. Jindra Grossman. "Hlahol" Till se ye sytij rikol s pinou vervou. KaZdYm rokem sehrana byla aspori etyfi pfedstaveni, mimo pfileMostnich menSich programn, jako Mikula,Sske a Sylvestrovske zabavy. tfednici se stfidali a prohlilime-li pisky ze schfizi, shledavame, ae pa bratru Wallovi krou2ku od jeho poeatku aZ do dnegni doby pfedsedali postupne ses. B. Subikova, br. Frank Olexa st., Richard Svare, Frank Aneinee, Vladislav Langer, Vine Kilmer, ses, Rosie Spanhelova, ses.

Naomi Kostomlatska, ses. Frances Olexova, ses. Harriette Earl a br. Jos. R. Anton.

Tajemniky byli br. Fred Pruckner, ses.

Marie Orsag, Frank Aneinec, ses. Eugenie Zobalova, Paula Mitcha a RUZena Hanusova. Napovedy byly sestry M. T. aerna (Valova), Paula Mitcha, Rosie R,ulik (Zimmerman), Ida Hankova, AneZka, Svaeinova, RUZena Hanusova a Frances Olexova.

Jako reisefi vystfidali se Jan Subik, Frank Olexa st., Robert J. Sveter, Torn Hogek, JO g . R. Anton, Vine Kilnar, Jos. Kalousek, Josef Ka$par, ses. Frances Olexova, Rudy Sefeik a ses. Harriette Earl.

VYpomocnYmi relisery byli br. Anton Svestka, Jan Stareala, Frank Vavrik, ses.

Naomi Kostomlatska a Jerry Ermis.

Behem easu mnozi herci se odstehovali, nektefi jsou einni u sousedniho du Stefanik, nektefi ustoupili do fistrani ,a nmohe ji2 pokrYva na htbitove zelenY drn. Jejich mista byla v gak zaujata novYmi eleny, ktefi se snaZili kraeeti ye Alepejich za,kladatelfi.

Za 33 rokt bylo sehrano "Hlaholem" pies 140 divadelnich pfedstaveni. Kolik prace, narnahy, odfikani a sebezapfeni, ale take kolik radosti a $testi je v teto lobe skryto! Herci nedbali ani na namahu, ani na fmavu, a dochazeli pravidelne do zkou:Sek, jen aby mohli krajaniun pkedvesti v rodne keel zajimavou hru.

Neodekavali Zadne odmeny. Vedomi konani dobra napinilo srdce jejich blahYm pocitem, a kdyZ nekdy jejich â&#x20AC;˘vYko, ny byly odmeneny potleskem, sNieka blaha astesti skanu'a jim z oei.

Zili jako jedna velka. rodina. Ve volnYch chvilich zkouSkach sdelovali siruzne, domaci pilhody a udalosti. Nastal-li nejakY yYznaenY den; na pfiklad nekdo narozeniny, pfinesii elenove Jaime zakusky, lahev nalolenYch okurek â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a hostin g byla hotova. Za prohibice tyto tintimni osla,vy byly -ache, ale po jejim odvolani, kdyZ bylo moZn^ koupiti si sklenku peniveho vSech ihned jasneji zazafily a eastokrate zaznely sini zvuky libeznYch eeskYch pisnieek.

OvSem, Zivot klubovni neplynul vklycky klidnYm tokem. Nekdy jeho hladina byla zeefena malichernYmi klipky, nekdy padlo i nekolik pfikrYch slov a mnoliokrate si herci yjeli do paeesfi. Ale to jen tak , na chvili. Tak jako v pfirode sluneeko po bouri zase zazafi a oslni celou krajinu, tak i v krouZku druh druhu ruku zase stisknul a zavladlo opet Atesti a yzajemna, dftvera.

I btiZek lasky, Amor, zavital na Studewood a svYmi 'earovnYmi Sipy zasahnul srdeeka sestry Frances Dvofakove a bratra Frank Olexy ml., kteri dle zapisu ze, schtize konane 27. dubna 1922 "vstoupilii 25. Mezna ye sta y manZelskY. Na kolebku bylo vybrano $35.35, kteryZto , obnos nevesta darovala krouZku, zacoZ ji byly vzdany srdeene diky." "Hlahol" pak zakoupil novomanZeltim jako svatebni trofej , nadhernY pohar Lasky s pripadnYm vyrytYm venovanim.

Zabralo by hodne mista, vyjmenovati! zde v$echny herce, kteii na scene "Hlaholu" za tech 33 let vystoupili. Vkro-1 Cite-1i do radove sine na Studewood,; skoro kaZdY, s nimZ se setkate, ma' y sobe! hereckou krev a jest ochoten v kaZdY easj uposlechnouti yYzvy re.';iserovy.

Ze zesnulych Clem upfimna vzponain-1 ka nalezi bratru Frank Olexovi st., kterY! byl nadSenYm priikopnikem ochotnicke-, ho divadla,. Sepsal dve dramaticke prace, v roce 1920 "NaSi Legiondfi" a v roce, 1922 "Ponista a odpuSteni". Obe hry byly sehrany na Studewood a v East Bernard s pronikavYm fispechem.

Z reliserii nejdelSi dobu einni byli Robert J. Svetr, kterY, bohat na divadelni zku$enosti, vycvieil celou radu zdatnYch hercu, a br. Josef KaSpar, sam nadSenY ochotnik, lenZ byl z naSeho stredu vyrvan zasahem Weskit pfechodut ulice. Nynej$1 reliser, sestra Harriette!

Earl, fidi divadla, eeska i anglicka, ji.Z1 take celou radu let. Neomezuje svoji.

nost jei oni na relii, ale obstarava soueasne i kroje a vSechny potrebne rekvisity, prohlili a opravuje scenerie a kona sta ruznYch praci, ktere nejsou viditelny, ale ktere yyZaduji mnoho easu a energie. Harriette pro clivadlo ZOE , a naS krouZek je na ni opravdu hrdY. ZvldStni pozornosti zaslouZi si sestra RuZena Hanuscvd, kterd mimo itfadu fadove knihovnice a reditelky kuchyne zastava v "Hlaholu" Arad tajemnice nepfetrZite 27 rokti. Po dve desetileti byla, tee pravidelnou napovedkou, az nemoc jejiho zesnuleho marrIela, obetaveho fadoveho pracovnika a nadAeneho Sakola Luis Hanuse, ji v tom zabranila.

Kytitku neuvadajicich , pomnenek la si sestra Naomi Kostomlatska, ktera, poslednich 25 rokfi ochothe doprovazi na piano vAechna hudebni eisla a neunavne nacvieuje pisne ku vSem zpevohram.

Jest radosti sledovat jeji belostne prsticky, jak se s takovou zvlastni nehott zabotuji do klaviatury.

TeZ jeji bratfieek,Tim,za posledni etvrt stoleti znaene prispel k Uspech "Hlaholu".

Jest mistrenx v lieeni tvafi hereft, a sam na jevisti vytvotil mnohe charakteristicke figurky.

Nesmime opomenouti bratra a sestru Hilsherovy, ktefi se yzacnouochotou zapfijOuji na scenu nabytek, kOberce, lampy, obrazy atd. Br. Hilsher je faclovYm mistopfedsedou.

Ve vYpravne operete "Deti Slovaee" ptedstavi se varn cela fada talentovanYch bereft a d y e pfivabne taneeni rusalky, Marilyn Earl a Andrea Vodehnal.

SteZejni damske postavy jsou representovany' prima donnou ses. Elsie Dvordkovou-Kaderovou, subretou ses. Birdie Hilsherovou a reliserkou ses. Harriette Earl. Z muZU o fispech yeeera budou mezi sebou zapoliti na$ popularni radiovY hlasatel Franta Vavkik z Rosenberg a nadSenY herec br. Karel Matejka, jemu . lekaf pled 'etrnaet idny vyfiznul nezbedne slepe stfivko, ale kterY jest jiz zase ye svem zivlu, pinY energie a jemu samotnemu vrozeneho yzacnelio humoru.

Az vam pri solovYch a sborovYch zpevech srdce raiesti zajasa l., neskrblete potleskem, kterY naAim obetavYm herctim bode jedinou, zato v$ak blahou odmenou.

Pfeji ptijenme pobaveni v$em navReviiiktim operety "Deti Slovade".

46. ) V eloveku je boZska jiskra, at' tvoii jako umelec obrazy a sochy, di praeujeli na poll, v dilne, tovarnach a dclech.

KaalY pracujici 'Clo y& je spollf tvoticim: vezmete jeho praci raz tvorby, ochabne jeho duSevni pracovni sila a znenahla (Ant. Macek.) zanikne.

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MOJE ORGANISATORSKA PRACE Bratr redaktor mne vyzval, bych po-! Mary pochovali dues rano, a ze kdyby platil, bylo $26 za den a • to byl John Mipsal me zkugenosti co organisator, coZ nemela pojig teni, Ze by ji nemeli za co Iceska z Bellville. Spolu jsme zapsali 300 by bylo, jako bych zpival, "Ku Praze je' pochovat a ja, ac otrlY, ottiskanY sve- Menu k okolnim radian. Ale nejvic, co testa dlouha". Ale piece se pokusim yam tern, jsem plakal s tetiekou, ale jsem Si jsem dal k jednamu •adu, byl tad Karel podat zpravu, co jsem pro Jednotu tide- take vzpomnel, jak pravila, ze mile tarn Jonas Oslo 28 East Bernard. Diky Frank eert, Cones', a nyni pravi, ze Bull nine Urbigovi a mnoho jinYm, zyla,gtni dik lal.

Zakladani novYcli tacit'," Nebudu psati tam poslal, ale. nebylo by 'instate, abych bratru John Gajevskemu.

Co se tYlca prace pro Jednotu, ja jsem data, kdy jsem kterY fdd zalozil, po- neco ptipominal. Jen jsem politoval a bral se asi 200 mil k domovu, ale jsem to rad Mal a na gel jsem lidi dobre, pigi jencin jmeno, 'Oslo a misto.

Prvni tad jsem zalo.lil Wharton eislo se citil bYti ve dvou osobdch (eert a nine vypomohli a poradili, ale nejvic„ co Skodi Jednote, je dopis od eloveka, kterY 151 ye Wharton, Texas a to se 42 novYch Tato pani jeZcva data ze neZ pro Jednotu nendelal dobreho nic, jendrn kde rrejvetgi pomoc mne poskytla pand Louis Macha, necht' pijme me di- toho organisatora odeZenete od sveho syYmi rozumy Jednotu pogkozuje.

Milt bratti a , sestry, pfeetete si dopis ::z ky za jeji radu. I-tad dues dita pies sto prahu, so vzpomente, ze mama Rdit ho elenti, take krasne pokraduje. Bratr J. k vain poslal., Nevime kolik teat-) tad Crosby, ze due 23. dubna, kde pisatel pro.R. Kubena a bratr C. H. Chernosky ho ma elentt. Co jsem tarn byl naposled, vi, ze tam ptijel mluvka a zapsal 13 elenti, mel 98 'dent', takle na to krajinu do- a ze zUstali jenom tri, coz nevi: pravda, itvaciel do Jednoty.

Druby tad jsem zaloZil v San Angelo, bte pokraeuje. Tak timto manZelitm Je- : nett jsme posledni dva roky ptipsali 6 (lett a La s 38 eleny pod jmenem Ti G. Ma- ZovYm dekuji za pomoc, take obema z cletskeho : odboru mezi dospele ktere jsem tehdy zapsal. Mil' bratte, tim mluvkou saryk 'Oslo 160. Kdo nevi, jak tako jsme TrampotovYm. CtvrtY tad jsem zaloZil eislo 159 v Ro- jsem ja, a byl jsem u Tebe, bys mne pc). to shaneli, at' se zepta Bedticha Sochy, 1(terSt se mncu sjezdil kde jakou cestu, senberg pod jmenem Rosenberg s 65 radii. Ale ty, misto poradeni, kde ziskat kolem 'San Angelo, Rowena a Ballinger eleny. spojeni se s tadeni eiski 108, nove 'deny, spustil's na nine a na Jednoatd. a take musim iici, ze Bedfich So- mel novY tad asi 144 elenii. Dokud jsem tu skrze pozemek, tak jako kdybych tocha jest pravY umelec v pojigt'ovani, b'val v Rosenberg, tak oba tady velice mu ja byl vinen. Tak jestli jedna g u tadu proto, , ac pone, mu timto za sebe i dobte prospivally. Jak jsem se odste- zptisobein, jak jsi jednal se mnou, tak se nedivirn, ze nekteti si to rozmysleli. Miza celou Jednotu dekuji. tiad eita dues hoval, zaeali upadat. To yam bratti pi e,3 sto elenn. Byl uvdden do Jednoty sestry ukazuje, ze no H. U., ne redaktor, ly nekdo to musi Mat, totiZ zibratry J. R. Kubenotr, C. H. Chernoskym ale je to dobrY organisator, ktery za tim slcavat nove eleny, a ty se k tomu podle jednani nehodig . Tak bys aspori : nemnsel a Ed. Markem. Le tak tad pokratuje, jde a jde kank den i v noel; nebot' tlaeit na Jednotu, aby mne vyhodila. ViZeta psat a potadat schtize, to vam nic o to se ptieinil bratr BedHch Socha a ja mu p •eji dalgich Uspecht. Bed•ichu, nepomaZe v ziskavani novYch Clem. Ten dig sam, jakou radost organisator ma, kterY se clostavi , do domu a vi, tami kdyZ najde na ceste par takovYch Tieho nazdar! chce, ten ma UspeCh, 'nebot' jestli tam druhu, co vg echno musi zhltnout.

Vett tad jsem zaloZil v Iowa Colony, neptijde nekdo od nas, tak tam zaklepe Psal bych, kolik jsaem ziskalclenu, ale pod jmenem Fokrok 131'azoria Oslo 162 nekdo od vYdereene spoleanosti.

To je Podl e dopisu z Crosby jsem udelal y ea bylo upsario 34 novYch cieiiu. Tento /MO nahled.

Mrre H, U. a redaktor ptilikou g kodu Jednote, tak to necham H. 'U., l'ad nine dal hodne prace, protole to byla krajilka nova a novi osadnici, take kaZ- padaji jako vojska generalove. Gene- at', to povi v procentech, kolik jsem ztraclY sam se sebou zapasil, ale piece jsme ral poruei, ale ten piosty vojak to je til. Timto, dekuji vg em, kteti nine byli ten, Co to musi vyhrat. Jestli vyhraje napomocni v ziskavani novYch elenft. to s pomoci bratra JeZe usktiteenili.

• 416 ' • general, dostane kredit, kdyZ prohraje, 0 tornto bratru JeZovi yam nee° po- je to vojakova smrt. ' vim. Bratr Jet nam dal 7 deti, ale jedna deem byla v Houstone, a oni ji chtelii My ale marne, doldre vedeni, ze je ra(tat do Jednoty, ze aZ bude doma. Jako dost delat, jenomZe, jak se 71 ptevalila, organiscitcr jsem tarn jezdil east°. Jed-1 to energie mizi, tak je gte kolem domu, n. .0 jsem tarn piljel a pani JeZova pum- ale to letani po celem Texasu jsem za nechal. pa y ola vodu. Jak nine uvidela, .tak NAY tad jsem zaloZil pod jmenem clo zas stareho 6enkyiika cent nest ,". Ja jsem to sly gel, ale Markham eislo 163 a dotahli jsme to na voila nine v kate vatila, tak jsem to 67 elen5, ale Lake, kdyZ jsem se ccistemusel shltnout a gel jsem k pumpe a hoval do El Campo, tak upadal. Tento ' rodiny, phint se. jestli by nine dali vody do Ica- tad je slolenY ze Senkykikovy ry. Pri • eC:i lone povida, ze Mary je z talde kdyZ ptijedu na besedu, tak odna vysvetleni nekomu.

Houstonu doma,, tat: jsem ji zapsal do bydem schuzi JecinAy, poclClcuvq1 za vcdu a jel• Pokusil jsem se zalait tad v BrownTam v to dobu, co jsem tam Weal, byly wood, utratil jsem penize, eas a za tYclen cestv lenom blative. prace jsem ziskal etyri cleny, tak jsem Asi za ad toho easu, co jsem tarn toho nechal. Muj system poji g t'ovani byl, byl, jsem zas,c jel a zase-cesty byly Apat- kdy2 jsem piiijel do inista, Co jsem neFotografie manzelu SvetlikovS-ch ite. Ca Se zase stavil u Jen pro vodu, znal, ykly jsem si hledel najiti .eloveka, co zria okoli, a kdyZ se k tomu nehodil, Rytina, byla dcdaria pozde, aby mohla Parti JeZova vy gla, z domu a beii ke a pravi, "vitam vas, Mr. 8enkyfik, ach zapla,til jsem mu a druhy den jsem hle- hYti zatazena do Zivotopisu manZelu bo'2e, snarl Mill vas k nam noslal": Ja dal druheho, obyeejne jsem platil $2.00 SvetlikovYch, sepsank sestiou Hildou 13rz tisice, co jsme pojistili. Nejvic, co jsem tig ovou a revetejneny v ptedni easti. pravi, se plain 1)1'06? Place 000

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OUR JUNIOR CLUB In 1936 Bro. George Strunc approached the late Bro. John Hrabina, then secretary. at SPJST Lodge Ennis No 25, and suggested that a junior Club be organized within the lodge. Bro. Hrabina liked the idea and it was accepted by the membership at the next meeting. Al 25 dollar fund was set up to help the young club. The late Bro. Joe Rada assured Bro. Hrabina that he would lend his talents as leader of the young group.

The club was organized, elected its own officers and chose its bylaws, based on the model of the old lodge. It became known as the 'Sbor MladeZe. A Czech play was the first dramatic effort in fulfilling the avowed purpose of the club, to perpetuate the Czech language and culture. Various plays and programs followed. Song fests were common at meetings. The Czech Beseda and square dances were presented many times. During the National Recreation Administration's program, these dances were presented in Waxahachie, Itasca and the National Hall. Bro. Rada's health began to fail and the Sbor was thrown on its own resources in leadership. Their first effort then, was the presentation of , the festival, "ObZinky," during Ellis

County Fair Week. This effort of about I 100 young and old members was presented to an audience of a .thousand or so, most of whom had never witnessed the customs, dance, songs and costumes in authentic settings of the Czech people The festival was reproduced later for moving pictures taken for ' the Ellis County School series, The membership grew to about 85. More plays ;following one being presented in Dallas. Activities, many of which were financially successful, remained at a high level until the beginning of the second World War. Although the'club was working under its own leaders, the member's parents were most active too, and attended the various functions and supported the young members when needed. This cooperation was very easily the nucleus of the early success of Sbor Mladeie.

The young had the ideas and the older the stamina needed for progress. There was work â&#x20AC;&#x201D; plays, programs, songfests and there was plays â&#x20AC;&#x201D; parties, picnics and amateur talent shows. Dances and plays provided the finances. The money derived was used for Hall maintenance and equipment such as fans, stage rigging, club provisions and also ben-

evolent purposes.

When the War began, the club lost' many of its most active members to the services and defense work. The remain ing membership worked and gave financial support to SALT, Red Cross, Polio drives and ether needs. Work was chiefly of such nature as to raise funds for these needs.

After the War, a reunion was held at the National Hall. Being well attended, activities began anew, but a quieter an prevailed. A few plays and many other programs followed through the years. At present the membership is small'as aCtivities are not frequent The members are youngsters who were mere' babies at the time the Sbor was organized. In many ways they are hardly acquainted with the original' purpose of the &loci% Recently plans were made to have a "Red and Blue Contest" to boost attendance. The winning side is to be entertained by the losers. Reawakened interest and energetic activity on the part of the present membership as well as new members, who are always welcomed, may well lead to a full and:successful close of a second decade of the Sbor .MladeZe.

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KARLA KRAFTOVA:

RADA, VELICE RADA VZPOANANI (laneeek o kadu 8tefanik Cis. 142 piai, abych Oiivila vzpominky na pracovniky a zakladatele kadu, kteii delali vie nejlepti pro svoji Jednotu a tad aby prospival.

Kdysi v roku 1916-1918, ureite nevim, ale vim, Se to bylo v kvetnu, kdyS jia vallco davno v Evrope zukila", kdy mnoho upkimych deskYch a mora yskych ptistehovalcu, ktere vyhnala do teto zeme svobody ze stare vlasti vetainou rakouska knuta, zakoupili si pbsemky a staveli domeelcy pro svoje rodinky na Cottage Grove v Houstonu. Byla, to nove otevira.na (. tvrt, kde parcely nebyly tak drahe pekne suche misto porostle borovYmi stromy, tak akorat na pekne rodinne dornky.

13ylo nas dosti, kteki jsme pattili k du Pokrok e. 88: Ale jelika nebylo prost•edkii se tam dostat, nemeli automobilu ani brydek, zkratka bylo to po elektriee liodne dalelco, , par staraith elenti se rozhodlo, ze si zalcSi tarn novY tad, neb to byla dosti pekna, ,Ceska osada.

Karla Kraftova Nevim kolik bylo staraich eleml a s kolika novYmi fad zaeinal. Ale pamatuji iiji tak, jak jsem je vidavala v naaem se dobte, Se se sto,vel pod timto heslem spolkovem &vote. Netrvalo to dlouhc, "Podpora. Lidskost a Bratrstvi!" elenstvo chtelo svoji sin. Koupili loty, aS A to Mini melo b't svat'm. JelikoS jsme se zaplatily, shaneli na budovu. Dtevo byli vetainon tech, kdoS podpisuji-li koupili na splatky, elenstvo samo budovu (111111°1)1S, splati jej do•posledniho centu. si posta.vilo. Nebylo na torn dost, sestry A my ho men podepsany v srdci. se sebraly, cell pozemek urovnaly, naa2 ptijde sazely vpkedu keke a Ceskou lieu, ktera Skod;r ze musime eekat, abychom poznali, meli-li jsme tam dodnes stoji. pravdu.

KdyS fikednici p ijimali vice elenti naRad so zakladal ye akole na Cottage jednou, tak svetYlka radosti se jim odGrove, uvadel ho br. Kuberia a redaktor raSela v oeich. KdyS nekdo p•estoupil, 'Papal Sehtie se konaly u Ctvrtnikil v tak toho litovali, ale Jednota, celek, nic jejich clomove. Pamatuji se, Se jsme po- neztratila; horai to bylo s v,ystoupenim dad pc> slovenskem hrdinovi, z Jednoty, to uS byla strata. krtili Milan Rostisla,v 8tefanik, a Se musi bYt Co tam bylo pokadano podniku. 0 je! pevii3"7 jako ta Sula, z ktere byl mu posta- Jak bylo jeviate postavene, to bylo radoven pornnik na Slovensku. sti. Hrala se divadia. Prvni bylo "LapenY Prelo ten den. jsme, "prai nim Samsonek". Hrali bratii Kalousek, Dubstesti". Ano, v nedern, v neeem ne. Pa- elk, Ot yrtnik, Kelarek, Silvie Kostkova, Ina ti,ji si, Se jsme men i malY program. Vlasta Sebkova a sestra Volkova. Ja byla Scstra Vajova. zpivala "Pisne dcery du- v boucle. Tenkrat jsme nevedeli, kde dorho pak basal "Svatebni koaile", stat to jeviatni krasu jako krep, paruky sestry Milka PetrSilkova, nynejai pani a jine. Sminky jsme nejake dostali, ale Svecova, a Anna Kostkova, ktera jiS dti- vousy kde to vzit! Tenkrat piece de-me svilj vednY sen, ty zpivaly dueto "U sky muS mel knirky, Se ano! No, l'ednostudanky" Ferdinand Kind. s Milkou za- duae jsme si pornohli, od eeho Senske zpivali spolethe nejakou vojenskou piseri maji copy; ustilhly jsme si kaada, kus, a jine. Byl to prvni velice peknY pro- nakulmovali, bratr reSiser to nalepil br. gram. Prvnim ptedsedou tadu byl br. Jan Kalcuskovi a Kelakkovi, ostatni men svoSulda, -ta,jemnikem Bedkich Otvrtnik, je vlastni, namaloval je a my mei mipokladnikeM Josef Volek, ostatni si uS lovniky lepai jak z Hollywood. Filipek, Petrailka, Kelarek, Kalousek, to byli nanepamatuji.

V Cele naaeho tadu jsme mivali vady ai milovniei na jeviati. Sin byla tenkrat dobre bratry a sestry, kteki pro vec Sill nabita obecenstvem. ,lira ala pane, vai.",rdcem i rozumem. V mojich pkedstavach chni moll raclost a toll°. AS prijde scena,

kde sluha nese na stal tank jitrnic, a ony tak vonely, Se jsem si pkala, aby ta jitrnielca mela nohy a skodila mile tam do bondy. No nest'! Byli herci pobidnuti panem domu, aby si haste na jeviSti po-tiohli, to byl Jan Kelarek a Joe KalouOvaem, oni se nedali dvakrat pobiit. KaSdY pcpadl jitrnieku a sup s ni am patii ale ouvej, Jan Kelarek tusel mluvit a Kalousek se do ni zakous, iolknul, a pomoz panbu i s vlasem. Chu-. uak, tenkrat mu to dalo co proto. Pak jsme uz nehrali, az jsme dostali krep z Chicaga. Druha pkihcda, to uS bylo mezi narni, Kamilka Studniena, nynejai. Fojtaakova. Hralo se "Drama Ctyi ehudych sten", dosti talca hra pro cchotniky, mitsela bit hluboce procitena. Pan .-Kalousek hail Kralence havite,- Karnila jeo aenu, a ja jeho matku. P •i scene, kde p •inesou Kralence mrtveho na marach, Sena nad nim pldee, matka se s nim laska, naposledy k nemu srdceloinne promlouva — s nim to jen jen akubalo, a najednou na nas vyplasl jazyk, jak mel dlcuhY — ovaem, byl hlavou zpatky k jeviati. 'vite, ja vSita do ubredene ulchy, najednou kouSla se do rtft, zakryla oblieej a spustila — nemyslete plae — kde pak, smich! Obecenstvo tenkrat myslelo, Se placi, jak to se mnou akuloOlo. Jule a jine historky komicke a jsme Bratr Jan Sulda, nadelal tam spoustu price mali • ske, bratr Kalousek, mirj zemieli BecIfich, to byl jeho druhY domcv, on pro ten fad nil. Br. Alois Vaja s jeho kcniekem, neSli se odstehoval do Fairbanks, `udelal take peknou praci. Bratr Josef Volek, ten dovedr drSet naafi pokladnieku, Se co do ni pkialo, uS nechtel vydat. StOrY pan Petr2ilka, ten tarn zavedl elektriku, jeho syn Vilem, ten byl takova vesela kopa, Se pleti del/Catlin-1 hlavy, FilipeCek, maliekk, ten nim tarn udelal morayskY nabytek, jeate tam je. Vlastieka 8ebkova, Sibyl a Anna Kostkova, Milka Petrailkovd, Kamila Studniena-Fi3jtaakova., to byly vase prvni milovnice. Pani Petrailkova, a sestra Pavla Studniena, byly nase rosuinne sestry, ktere na vac moudke pohliSely. Gustav a Pavla Wallovi„ bajeohe veseli pracovnici. Gustovy houslieky dovedly tak zahrat k srdei„ oba manSele dob •i herci a spoleenici.

Adolf Walla s jeho Frances v humoru nenahraciitelnY, byl jich piny sal a to harmanika, na kterou oba dovedli hrOt. Br. 8tepan Valeik, s jeho skromnou Senualcou, take hravaval milovniky a zanes1 hodne Cinnosti do •adu 8tefanik.

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ManZele Vojtkovic, Ardeka, ta.ka mlad'oadka zemiela. Hraval -te2 br: Kind_ l3ratr Frank Bedan, co ten se nasil lwsiyma na divadlo. Ten hraval, zpival knplety, cn to dobfe dovedl. Nejradeji, jsme poglouchali, kdy Z . zpival parodii na nota pisne '`Po starych zameckych schodech", aneb "p'ekna bild kodieka, mriej do postSTIky skoeila", On to tak kornicky pekoe prednesl, 2e byla radost se na nej divat a jei po.51ouchat. Take jiz zemfel.

Pak rodmy Jti.na. a Josefa KovarovYch. 13.ani II,31kova, take dobra hereeka„ pi.

Kal.Duskova, Silvi s Jariem Kela•kem, Silvi hraje divadlo do dnes.

Patnatuji si, ze bylo mesic co mesic divadlo, a lake! Ne jen lehoueke veselohry kusy opravdu cenne. Siri byla vklyeky nabita 'To vite, tenkrat 25 - 35c v q upne, jedna kingm, divadelni pro napc)vectu a thqatni se muselo v gecko opsat.

Byla to prace vet g inott pan i Volitove a mole Ja napoviclala, hrdla, vitbec, byla jsem taJnva holka, pro v gecko. Rozumeli Thane i tenkrat dobre, v2dyt' jsem byla jeheh mama, a oni to vedi, ze jo!

Melo se tenkrat clenstvu za. zle, 2ei adelali rad S ' tefanik, ale muj mantelf yikaval: "konkurence je dobra, je-li dobie veciena. Takhle jsme 'dimai my a oni take u radu vedlej giho, jinak bychom zleniveli." Po valce jsme jell do t eskoslovenska. Mezi tim ti miadi se po2enili.

Pak tam pri gli Albert S' ebek s rodinou,

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pan 8vestka s manklkou, Oldtich Vala s manielkou. Uvedi se v einnost peveckY krouZek, ktery byl zalokn bratry, jegte neZli jsme do Oech jell. Dirigentem byl pan HlavatY. Zpivali tam ma.ntele Olexovi, Dvordkovi, sestra, Svadinova, Suldovi oba, dva 8vestkovi, Valdikovi a jini.

Cvidili tam operetky a pimie na pthity.

Kroutek se jmenoval Bedfich Smetana.

Tet tarn byl rozloien SvobadarskY spolek.

Nage sin nebyla zadny "Opera House,"1 ale npine jednoducha., tak;' jak to ten-! krat nase pomery dovolovaly. Nadgeni bylo vzdycky dost. VZdyt' nain nadarmo nefikali "Zapadli vlastenci", neb tam opravdtt bylo hodne narodniho uveclomeni. Pfi divadlech bYvaval hodne yenkov zastoupen.

Byly doby, kdy bYvaly take bouflive schnze. Tlakomer stoupal — stoupal, ale kdy videl pfevahu, tak zabrudel a schladl a za chvili zas bylo dobre. V2dyt' jsme delali vsichni zaclarmo, hlavne z lasky jeden ke druhemu, z vlastenectvi, a byli jsme gt'astni. Byli •jsme mladi, treba jsme 2"adnY toho mod nernel, ale byli jsme spokojeni. Dnes 9 Jina doba,. Jina generace. Neize se divit! Byly a radu doby, kdy se lenogilo. Rikali jsme doby pfechodne — aneb "Neni kostelieka, aby v nem nebylo kazdnieka." Pri gla zase pozdeji mezi jina krev, derstvej gi, aneb odpodata, kterd zahajila znova dinnogt.

Sokol tarn privedl dosti nove mladek, omladinu z tech star gich. Ka gpar, rodina

Lebrova, br. aloudek, Schovaj.sa, bratr Anton a jeho maniellta, rodina KlimovYch, dosti cetna s jejich babiekou, dinka Baletkova, Elizabeth 8tefkova, deerugky Cikaln, dcerugky Vain, Sebku, tez Jindrigka, Earle, Helena Teperova s manklein a detail., Domin Nezval s Lili a sy nem — ten nam take toho hodne no vubec kde co maloval, cele leviste bylo potreba. Jan Ka gpar hodne porno.hal fadu, Bo genka Silhanovych, nee dobra pianistka. Hilda 8 vestkova, Ht lerika Valtikova. Omla,dina rodinky Libra jezdila a2 50 mil k natn a 50 mil zpatky,,nekdy i trikrat tYdne.

Hrala se detska divadla, ktera jseni sarna kidila a sice "13abieka", "Snehurka", "Nespokojena '<Ada", "Vila Slovanka", "Jano", "Honzieek z malovanu chaloupky" a jine. Ja.k deti krasne hralv a cesky mluvily.

Nekcly ye chvili klidu otevrete to svoic Erdce a co tam shledate? Mile obrazy ktere se jevi pled va gimi zraky, jake vesele pfihody ze schnzi, ze vkoa gek, kdysi mile yam sini tadu 8ter Na g clruhY domov! Obraz za obrozeon miha. se pied vdmi jako na platne, pak ti nav gtevnici, kteu se 1)11 gli upfimne pobavit, na divadlo, na ze, na ktere jsme se vklycky vgecko vas v letech potegi.

Z nageho radu vygly dobre, aZ ta,-(1y pfekvapujici my g lenky a navrhy pp)

VESTNi Jednotu, ZI e to a2Z prekvapovalo rady sta,rgi a mohutnejgi.

KdYZ Evropa horela, plameny valky zachvacovaly kus po kuse, a krve teklo proudem, elenstvo radove se semklo dohromady se Sokolskou Jecinotou v stonu a delalo pane veci v IOeskern NArodnim SdruZeni. Neptalo se, co tad?!

Jak k tomu ptijde, 2e bude ochuzen o sve pcdniky. Rad a Sokol 'distal v nagich) srdcich, ale vYdelky z podnikt sly na dobrodinnost. V gichni slbuz d idealtim I hdskosti. Byly to na ge hlavy, nage ve- I douci sily Lebrovic, Pavia Studniend,1 Marie a Oldtich Vala, bratr a sestra Bedanovi. • Bylo po druhe valve. Clenstvo radu si oddychlo, od podnikil pro druhe, neb. muselo pracovat znovu 'na •oprave budo-1 vy, kterd se r.:.‘zgitila a potrebovala o-, pravy. Pristavenim byla zvet gena, za-

TEXAS

vladl tarn jinY ruch, kterY jde z nynejg'i dobou — jsou stale einni. Nyni je tam re'Aserem bra.tr Rudolf Sebek, vYtednY reliser, ktery rozumi sve veci. TeZ je tam novY dramaticky krottiek "Osveta", ktery hraje krasne kusy.

MnohY 112 z tech oblibenych pracovni- I kft "dtieri", kterY vychoval pro tad svoje rodiny, •dde gcl ua tam, odkud neni na-1 vratu. Ti, co ziistali, jsou stari a k tem by se mela na ge omladina chovat s day-I kou chledu, ktera pripomind, ze kaZde; stati ma tak trochu v sobe otce neho ntednika na geho radu — a i trochu umineneho ditete. Dokud ma elovek pied sebou je;gte trochu '2ivota, neni treza Nva zakopat, ale bYti v klidne ba vesele nalade ne se stranit, ale ma pozorovat to spolkovou praci, co se mladYm zanechalo a neplest se jim do toho!

Ve stkedu, dne 18. eerviia. 1952.

Kdy2 to elovek v Igecko prodela, rad si odpodine a shledd se nekdy tam na konci cesty.

Te'2 Franta Vav •ik se tam dost nahral.

Jestli jsem nekoho zapomnela. odpust'te. ikadu Stefanik uZI elenkou hejsem, nebot' jsem ptestoupila k radu Jaro do Dallas, ale rada, velice rada na to misto tam vzpominarn. — Koneim druhYm vergem z pisne , "Sktivanek zpiva": ( Marne se srdeeko brani vzpominkam na davnY vas, Jak vgechno mizi od nas, Doznela piseri mild, ktera rn kratce neslygi nage volani, aby se vratila . . ezdu v Houstonu zdar!

"Mnohj, uz z tech oblibenjrch pracoynikit ode§el roc 23 clenu, zachycenYch pied 30 roky, devet "ode glo u2 tarn, odkucl nevi navratu.

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FR ANCES.oLEX

BIRTHDAY CLUB OF LODGE POKROK HOUSTON O. 88 This birthday club was organized on the 9th of October 1946 with 31 sisters as I charter members, Before I continue with the history of I our Birthday club, I feel it is proper to familiarize you, readers, of the Sisters' activities preceding this club. The Sisters of Lodge No. 88 always were ready for any emergency . that presented itself.

In the past, we did have manyl emergencies staring us in the face. These, We always disposed of with vigor and determination. As everyone of you know, in every organization is only a handful â&#x20AC;˘ of willing members to give their time, energy and financial support.

During the World War One, we sisters worked each week for the Czech Red' Cross under the name of "VCELKY" (BEES), and a beehive it was. We helped orphans, widows, and our boys.

During the Second World War, we worked at the Lodge one day each week for our American Red Cross, sewing, knitting and rolling bandages, for which we received the Red Cross button. We collected bundles and bundles of old clothingmanymany of you, all over Texas helped in that respect). We cleaned and mended these and boxed them to be shipped across to England for the use of the Czechoslovak Red Cross. Later these boxes were shipped to New York to Friends of Czethoslovakia organization.

We conducted bazaars to 'raise funds and many a gitf was mailed to 'us from all over Texas. When at last the horrible war was over, we continued with serving lunches and used the profit to help wherever we thought was necessary.

Out of the $475.68 we donated $115.00 for war orphans in Czechoslovakia; $50.00

for a Home for Orphans in Moravia; $65.00 to a hospital in Temple, Texas; I $50.00 to the Community Chest; $25.00 to I our countrymen in need; $15.00 for Christmas gifts; $8.60 fee for shipping old clothing; $67.95 to our Lodge members in need. $82.00 were turned over in: to our Lodge treasury. This lasted' about ,/a, year. The Sisters, tired and worn, tried I to relax and gave up the idea of serving lunches. To few of us it seemed like it wouldn't be fair just to sit back and for; get about everything.

One day we were invited to Sister Rose Spanhel to a quilting party. Fourteen of Us were present. All of a sudden, the ; idea of organising a Birthday Club came to our mind. Without any hesitation we set the date to the 9th of October and notified the Sisters of our plan. When

1st roil;' 'rent left: Pauline Studnieny, Agnes Svacina, Frances Top row: Albina Drawe, Annie Vrla, Rosie Harms, Vlasta 1(neTearâ&#x20AC;&#x17E; josePhine Burl, Harriette Earl, Frances Olexa, Birdie 131, Annie Baethe, Mae Belle Schulte, Della Kadlecek, Loui,e iiilsher, Irene Slovatek, Helen Valcik, Lucy Sostak, Louise Katliccek, Marie Kahanek, Anna Elz.ner, Marie Rezek, lief 1,1 Kahanek, Marie Temple.

Middle row: Alma Gaudin, Georgie Zaludek, Mary Elzner, Ag-. Williams, Estelle Kelly, Willie Mae Powell. nes Buri, Anna Svestka, Vlasta Kotrla, Amalie Syptak, Mary Rubach, Frances Chalupnik, Janie Dvorak, Frances Walla, !tir o t on picture: Betty Elshick, Anna Kcstome, Albina rural, Frances Dvorak. Evelyn Mikolas, Annie Vala, Frances Ka- Lillie Pryor, Evelyn. Roeder, Helen Schnell, Ara Skrabanek. ; Miss Maxime Stavinoha, Rosie Zimmerman. dlecek,

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the day of the meeting arrived, 31 of the Sisters were present. We organized this club for our pleasure. Each month we celebrate the birthdays of all the sisters having their birthday that month. The following sisters are charter members: Alma Gaudin, Johana Rulik, Hilda Krpec, Frances Dvorak, Lucy Sostak, Marie Rubach, Daisy Drab, Anna Elzner, Vlasta Kfiebl, Della Kadleeek, Frances Tesar, Harriette Earl . Anezka Svacina, Josephine Burl, Emilie Kalousek, Aloisie Kahanek, Anna Orsak Vrla, Louise Kadlecek, Anna Svestka Rosie Dixon, Annie Baethe.

Anna Kostomlatsky, Jannie Dvorak, Frances Olexa, Rosie Hanus, Terezie Olexa, Rosie Zimmerman, Mary Elsner Albina Forai, Mary .Faltisek, Anezka Buri. rWas elected chairman of this club and Precided for two years. After two years I declined the nomination. By that time, the club had a membership of 49. Sister Birdie Ililsher was elected as chairman and reelected for the : fOurth term last tall. had new ideaS and had the rules of the club changed. The improveinCnts took place to the satisfaction of all the members. Our club now is in its 0th year of activity, and is very helpful in various programs. FOr raising funds for the Lodge we mode several quilts which v ,e. raffled:off.

Two years ago, the Brothers mentioned of raising a fund for. coming SPJST convention held here in 17liDuston. Before the Brothers realized what's going on the Sisters had cc bazaar planned with a delicious supper and Bingo. That was our kiek off and from than on we-served suppers every third Saturday of the month, 'which in two years brought us a profit of $3,200,00. Than we helped the Brothers to sell chances on prizes which were given away at a dance, The chances were under the supervision of our chairman Birdie Hilsher. The Sisters of the Birthday club made a miraculous showing of salesmenship. In all, we now have $1, Gq0.00 in our convention fund. Naturally, any thing Lett over will go automatically to the treasury of the Lodge.

'The Sist(Ts try to contact all mem larrs on the sick list i 11 person or returinherin.,; them with a card or the tio\ccrs the sisters bring from their ;garLash Christmas, we remembered our

servicemen with a small gift, not only the members, but also boys that patronized our dances. At. Easter. we sent them greeting cards, in respond, we . 'received numerous "thank you" letters from these boys. Twice before Easter, last year and Ibis year we took up a collection and

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mailed it with a greeting card to one of our very ill members. In return to show his gratitude the sisters received a greeting from him for every 'occasion.

Our club is closed to 50 members, the reason for this is simple. Fifty members, plus 10 or 20 guests, means to take care of 60 to 70 people. In case the membership would rise to 100 this wouldn't be pleasure any more. In this way, eight Sisters serve twice a year in the kitchen and still have a few minutes to chat with the other Sisters after their task is finished .Now we have three Sisters on the waiting list. We are glad and pleased to have any visitors to come and enjoy themselves in' our midst. Sisters, a club like this would do wonders in any lodge.

In our picture all the Sisters are not present. Some were ill and some out of town on their vacation. We are sorry that all could not be present.

FRANCES OLEXOVA: NABOZENINOVY KLUB RADU POKROK HOUSTONU CISLO 88.

Tento klub sester byl zaloZ'en dne 9. itna, 1946 za freasti 31 sester. Na ge sestry tadu Pokrok Houstonu disk> 88 po mnoholete praci uznaly, ie si zaslouZime neco jenom pro nog, ze budeme si hoveti a baviti se rnezi sebou. Kandy mesie ie se budeme schazeti a 'pti torn oslavime riarozenin, sester v torn mesici narozenych.

Nefli uudu pokra.dovati o postupu nagelto klubu, musim nastiniti dagteene raei sester, kterou konaly rady a vZdy verne. Ov gem jak katclk vi, 'Ze at' jest to organisate jakakoliv, v2dy jest to jenorn hrstka elend, kteti venuji svirj as a podPoruji finanene, aby Pspech Ocly byl uspokojujict.

Za doby prvni \Talky, jak mnoho z vas si pamatuje, byl nag zapal pro pomoc vojinu, sirotkA a vdov. V druhe svetove valve padl na nas zase -*el. Pro Americky Ceneny kii2 jsme ptijimaly giti a plctcni, schazivaly jsme se v na gi sini kaMy tvden a, pak odvaclely riotovou praci Poaleji sbiraly jsmc ebriosene gatstvo, zasilali jste nam je z celeho Texa-: su. Zase jkliie se schazely kaZdY tYden nebo poclle potteby, kolik balikiz do glo do nak sine k odeslani 8atstvo se podle mo2nosti opravilo, yydistilo a pak balilo a odeslano ptimo na Oervenk kkd deskoslovenskY v Anglii a pozdeji do Novelle Yorku na "Friends of Czechoslovakia".

Bedna za bednou byly oclesilany, aby pkinesly iilevu tern ubohym post genYm. Po•adali jsme bazary, (pti techto nam pornahala giroka, vetejnost) a Uspech jsme v‘Zdy inch Oasny. Tyto penize zasilany

Ve stkedu, due 13. cervna 1952. byly na nag e Sdkuieni zde -Teifasir.

KdyZ byl inir prohlag en, uditovaly jsine naddle nak einnost v rnen gim metitkU, potadaly jsme jednou mesiene obedy a za tyto jsme ziskaly $475.68. Darovaly jsme $115.00 do Oech sirotkPm, $50.00 na ozdravovnu na Morave, $65.00 nemocnici v Temple, $50.00 Community Chest, .125.00 neg testim postiZenemu krajanu, $15.00 na vanoeni darky detem, na d'opravu beden $8.60, $67.95 dary nagim elervern, $82:00 demo bylo do tado ye pokladny. Tato einnest trvala, asi rok. Pote nage sestry, navene praci, zadaly ochabovati. Tu pti jedne ptilektosti, p15 progivani pokryvky u sestry Rosie 8panelove, bylo nas pkitomno asi 14, zrodila se v nagich hlavach myglenka "Narozeninoveho klubu". Zdalo se nam, Ze tak uditime nose sestry pohromade a kdyZ se naskytne, ce bude nutno zase ruce pi ilorti zase k praci, budeme hezky sdrutene. To bylo tak v polovine zaki.

Na, 9. tijna, 1946 svolana byla schilze za fidelem zaloZiti "Narozeninovk klub". Do tete schdze ptiSlo 31 sester. To jsou kldajici sestry, jak misleduje: Alma Gaudin, Johana Rulik, Hilda Krpee, Frances Dvotak, Lucy So gt'ak, Marie Rubach, Daisy Drab, Anna Elsner, Vlasta Knob!, Della Kadleeek; Frances Tesar, Ha.rriette Earl, Anaka Svadina, Josephine Buri, Emilie Kalousek, Aloisie Kahanek, Anna Orsak Vrla, Lucie Kadleeek, Anna Svestka, Rosie Dixon, Annie Baethe, Anna Kostomlatskk, Janie D yerok, Frances Olexa, Rosie Hanus, Teresie Olexa, Rosie Zimmermann , Mary Ebner, Albina Forai, iVla.r y .F'aitisek, Anaka, Burl.

V; tete schtizi byla j6o-ni zvolena nas pkiptedsedkyni klubu. Do clvou bylo, bylo nas 49. Po dyou leteeh jsem se vzdala sveho fitadua ria, moje mist°. zvolena byla: sestra Birdie HilsherOva, ktera, scistrami znovu zvolena byla na etvrtoll Ntis klub jest nyni v cinnosti §estS, rok, Za tutu dobn bylo =oho udelano pro clobro radix. U gily jnic nekolik proSivanYch pokryvek, ktere byly vydraene ye prospech kadu. Pted civerna roky zminili, Ze jest nutno pomYg let1 na nag blikci se sjezd. Tu sestry bez ho vahani se usnesly Pokadati jednOu mesiene veeete spojene s hrou Bingo a tak hledeti zbudovati sjezdovY fond. Price se nam datila a doposud sestry samy ti lietfily $3,200.00. Pak byla potadana taneCni zabava a prodej listki na krasne cony brattimi, vgak sestry za vedeni nagi ptedsedkyne rozprodaly I/MAI east listka, take nyni v tomto fondu sjezdovem se naleza $4,600.00. Tonto fond blade sjezdo-

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vYborem poOlt c.o nejvYhocineji,; mocnici. Tenth brat • , vietinosti na nas! ptebytek sainoeinne jde zpet do faciove! vzpomina., nebot' nemine jeden svatek jako vanoce. Nov' rok a velikonoce, aby pokladny. si na nas nevzpomnel krasnym pozciravSestry klubu snati se navStevovati na- nim listkem. se nemocne deny taclu a kclyt to jest; Sestry naSi SPJST, vite, to takovY klub obdatitii tyto kvetinami, ktere sevami sorganisozany, ptines1 by do vaAi stry do klubu ze svYch zahrad ptinesou.; spolkove piece povzbuzeni? Mely byste: Na vanoeni svatky vzpomenuto bylo nakatclY mesic na neco se te'Sit. Ptala bych Sich inladYch vojinn, ne jenom elenn, yarn, abyste podle motnosti nas zde nevgalc• zaroven neelenn, ktere jsme znaly kdy navativily a videly byste, k jest ui z'navStev naSich zaba y. Taktet na yellnas jako v alu. NaS klub jest uzavten pro konoeni svatky zaslany jim byly po- 50 elenek, pakli nektera elenka vystoupi, zdravne listky. Vime, ze je to pote gi, ne- tedy sestra, ktera se &I've ptihlasi o bot' obdrtely jsme spoustu poclekovani ta elenstvi v kiubu, ma ptiletitost ptistoupinaSi pozornost. Po dvakrate mezi sebou ti. Nyni Mame t •i sestry na ptihla gujici I sestry udelaly sbirku a zaslaly obnos ne- listine, ktere vyekavaji, at se uvolni mimocnemu bratru nachazejicimu se v ne- sto, aby mohly byti do kiubu ptijmute.

Na vysvetlenott, proe jsme urciiy ureltou cislici elenek nakho kiubu, jest toto: Katt' mesic osm sester se ptilrilaguje dobrovolne, aby se postaraly o nasyceni vkch elenek a navRevnikil, kterYch nekdy Ova od 10 do 20. To znamend postarati se asi o 60 nebo 70 lidi. Jest to dosti velka prate, ale tato aloha na katciou elenku ptipadne jenom dvakrat do rcika, cot nevi tak tie. Ge jsme uzavtely klub na 50 eienek, nam takto dava pfiletitost take se trochu i pobavit, kdyt si svou praci ten mesic odbudeme.

Na ptilotenem obrazku nejsou v gechny nak elenkyne ptitomne. Nei/wee a take prazdniny nedovolily jim, aby byly take na obrazku. Litujeme velice.

Mrs. Irene Slovaeek, secretary- easurer; Mrs. Birdie 'Usher; president; Mrs. Frances Olexa, past president; Mrs. Harriette Earl, reporter English section; not present, Mrs. Anna Kostome, reporter Czech section.

YESTNiK WEST, TEXAS

Zivotopis bratra Pavia M. Machu zokladajiciho elena SPJST, 1. eervence roku 1897.

a byl elenem jak u Jednoty tak i u cirkve aZ do sve smrti.

Pomohl take vybudovat spolkovY stanek tadu Komensky, cis. 20.

Zen el 18. b •ezna roku 1944, ye stab 86 rokir a 9 mesict.

Jeho pozirstali Zijici ditky jsou: Pavel L., Frank, John, Eduard R., a Raymond M. Machu, bydlici v Taylor, Texas., Joe F. Machu San Antonio, Texas.

Emil Machu, Manor, Texas a Albina Spaeilova, Taylor, Texas, 20 vnuktt a vnueek a 17 pravnukti a pravnoueat. 1 zet 'a t•i snachy.

Zivotopis

ye sttedu, dne 18. "Cervna 1952. sky, Cis. 20, SPJST., kadu Granger, 'Oslo 187. CSPS a Oeskobratrskeho evangelickeho sboru v Granger a Taylor, Texas, a byla jejich elenkyni al do sve smrti, jak u jednot tak i u cirkve.

Zemtela 1. bkezna roku 1933, ye veku 72 let, 1 mesice a 12 dni. * ) • 4, • THE POWER OF FEAR Do you remember the time you had the wits scared out of you? Your heart was pounding, the top of your head felt as though it would burst, your palms were wet with perspiration and your muscles were tense. You probably also found that the inside of your mouth felt like sandpaper.

sestry Terezie Machu

The thing that was happening to you was the "fear reaction" and it happens to all of us many times in various dezakladajici elenkyne SPJST, 1 .Ceryence, grees depending upon the force of the roku 1897. the stimulus on one hand, and on our individual physical and mental makeups on the other. The sensations you exp'erienced can all be recorded graphically and it is upon this fact that the principle of the lie detector is based.

Centuries ago the Chinese were mindful of the changes that occur in the human body under tension and made practical use of their knowledge in courts of law. They knew that ,the person who is afraid will find that his mouth becomes dry due to a decrease in the flow of saliva. The suspect was made to take a certain amount of powdered rice in his mouth while being questioned. The court knew that it was impossible to swallow the rice without the aid of moisture provided by the saliva. It he could not swallow the rice, it was assumed that he ,was lying and hi§ fate was sealed.

Thus, the original lie detector.

Zcsnuly zaklidajici glen Pavel M. Machu (Nalczeno ptizteistalostech redaktora Moucky Pavel Martin Machu byl narozen 20.

Ciervna, roku 1857 ye Vsetine, na Morave v Ceskoslovensku. Do Ameriky ptijel 20. prosinee, roku 1880 a to do Hallettsville, Texas, v Lavaca County, kde se usadil na prvni dva roky. V roce 1882 , se ptesteho-, val do Williamson County a usadil se pi Granger, Texas, kde ptelaYval a farmatil po 22 roku. Pak se s rodinou ptester hoval k Taylor, Texas, kde zi1 a farmatil aZ do sve O2enil se v roce 1880, pojav za manZelTerezii Bczniekovou, ktera jej ptCdeSla na veenost v roce 1933. Z jejich man-2cistvi povstalo 11 ditek, 8 synO. a 3 decry; ti'i ditky jej ptedegly na ye6nost.

Byl eilYm a pracovitYm Clenern Jednoty, jak y e spolkovem, tak i v narodnim a eirkevnim Zivote a2 do sve smrti a take byl dbalYm Clenem na zapravovani svYch sPolko-Och povinnosti.

By-1 take zakladatelem tadusKomenskS7 Cis. 20, SPJST a Cesko-bratrskeho evanf,;elickeho sboru v Granger a Taylor, Tex.,

• AI • He was undersized, meek, different, subdued, and he had applied for a job as night watchman.

Zesntda sestra Terezie Machu Terezie Machu byla narozena 19. ledna, roku 1861 v Senince u Vsetina na. Morave v Oeskoslovensku. Arneriky ptijela dne 2. unora roku 1882, za svym manZelem Pavlem M. Machu, kde se s nim usadila pH Granger, Texas, ye Williamson County, kde sila po 22 let, naideZ se ptestehovali k Taylor, Texas, kde Zila se sidm synenm a se svou rodinou 29 let, al do sve smrti .

By int zalk ktdajici olenkyni tadu Kinn Tu.

"Well," said the boss dubiously, "the fact is that we want someone who is restless and uneasy, espicially at night.

Someone who is always listening, thinking there are bad characters around We want a large, aggressive, intrepid and dangerous person, bad tempered and revengeful. In short, the kind of person who, when aroused, is a fiend." he "Okay," said the little man walked away. "I'll send my wife." )• •t I often pause and wonder At fate's peculiar ways: For nearly all our fam_ us inun Were born an holidays.

Ve st1edu, dne 18. eervna 1952.

VSTNIK

WEST, TEXAS

JAKUB 8RAMEK:

DEJINY ik,ADU BEDit•CH SMETANA CIS. 39, SPJST Kdy‘Z povstala raztdka mezi texaskY- tech samYch pcdminek jako ma. S touProtokol ze dne 21. kvetna 1911: mi severnimi a jiZnimi rady Jednoty to vYhodou rad SPJST ute g ene rostl, takWbor na zakoupeni pozemku a stavbu CSPS, _a Zaloleni nove jednoty SPJST, Ze sin byla valy dosti naphiena, totiZ nove sine, rozhodl se pro umisteni na tak vetSinou cele rady CSPS, ptistupovaly sin radii OSPS, kterou on vlastnil a jell- zapadni strane mesta, a rad Bediich k nove jednote SPJST. V nakm radu, koZ jsme byli ponejvice eleny °bon Smetana C. 39, SPJST, stava se spolutedy jsme mivali schtize spoleene, majitelem po sloleni $100.00, co zavdaHvezda Jihu 'Oslo 158 CSPS, bylo mnoho 'demu proti prestoupeni v celku, neb si CSPS dopoledne a SPJST odpoledne vek. neprali pribrat vice pojiS'teni.

Dna budova vSak byla postavena pouze Sin ma bYt v rozmeru 28x48 stop. Sta y KdyZ jsme se nemohli shodnout na na, jednom lotu, take se nedostavalo -baudovypkra ldostirazne,kodost mista pro povozy, byli jsme imaa- me nekolik najatj/ch remeslnikfi, vypoprestoupeni v celku, tedy nekolik CSPS, v osobe Smetana se seSlo v jed- knuti. mahali elenove obou radii pri stavbe JelikoZ protokolni knihy radu SPJST zdarma, take sin byla odevzdana svemu nom neobydlenem najemnim domku a usnesli se na zaloleni radu SPJST, pod nejsou k nalezeni, tak dal8i vyjimam z Adelu jiz v zati 1911 a stab, i s pozemkem knihy CSPS) jmenem Bedrich Smetana. $1,496. itdc1 CSPS byl na tom dobre, neProtokol 4. prosince 1910. Dr. A. L. bot' mel penize za str.knou budovu, Na A tak jiZ hotovou vec predloZili ostatnim alenum CSPS, a kteri by si prali Mondrik navrhuje, abychom prodali na- _rad SPJST pripadala polovieka $748' a misto a zakoupili spoleene nemel ani dost hotovYch na sloleni zapiestoupit, by se prihlasili. Tak se jich se jeSte nekolik prihlasilo a podali ‘Zadost s SPJST, prihodnejS'i misto, nekde na vdavku, onech $100.00, nato2 celeho obo uvedeni do SPJST, coz se stadia 4. kvet- kraji mesta, kde bychom se mohli take nosu. Tak nekolik bratri mekkeho srdce na 1902, bratrem J. R. Kubenou ,tajern- nekdy pobavit po desky. Navrh tento, tak a tvrai kapsy, zapujeili neeo pentz bez nikem Hlavni faadovny SPJST, pod 'di- dtilelity, inel take a y e protivniky a pro- firokft rya uhrazeni prvni splatky. Na uslem 39, se zakladajicimi 'deny tohoto to nemohl bYti jen tak nakvap vy•izen, moreni celeho dluhu rad si odhlasoval radu: Karel Vesmirovsk Dr. A. L. Mon- zatim byl ustanoven vybor k vyhlednuti minicra.clne popla,tky, 25 centia na elena. rik, Jakub 8rarnek, Torn Holik, Fr. Ma- mveho mista. VVbor ten sestaval z br.: ttad pokraeoval uteSene. Menu prilaYrek, Jos. Kral, Jindrich Regmund, Jin- I Dr. A. L. Mondrika, Jos. Merka a Jaku- valo. Schtize se zahajovaly i koneily zpe(Rich BlaZek, Tom Syptak, Jan geasta,, ba 8ramka. vern. Obeas jsme porada.li nejakou zaWill Hajek, Rudolf Kubena, F. J. RegProtokol ze dne 16. dubna 1911: bavu i divadla, a tak to Slo a'Z do doby mund a manZelka Anna, Jan Hudec a VYbor na zprostredkovani koupe no- to prosperity a lid vstoupil do toho pannlariZelka Marie, Jan Kubin a manZelka veho mista, pro spolek ,zahajil souboj, skeho stavu, zvlaSte to colada generace, Marie, Albert Stra g rychta a manZelka Dr. A. L. Mondrik haji jeho oblibene vyhleclava vice rozruSujici zabavu a tim Marie, Jan Bednak a. manZelka Johanna. misto na zapadni strane mesta, proti to- navSteva schftzi ochabla.

Poplatky na fmarti u obou jednot byly mn se ,opird vsi silou bratr Sramek; tenPres to vSak rad pckraeuje ku pfedu, totil 10 cen- to odperueuje jine misto na jinni strane. vSeho elenstva tad nyni aita. 154, z toho stejne, v jakemkoliv kaZde vyvstale iunrti, jenze u mesta, kde je slibnejSi vyhlidka do bu- 30 osob prestoupilo 60 let sveho veku. tu SPJST moldy bYti pfijimny Deny za doucnosti.

12 elenti prestoupilo 70 let sveho veku a 4 eleni ptestoupili 80 let sveho veku.

Padesat let jest hoclne cllouha, doba, v niZ' se stane mnoho zmen a premen, tak i z nakho radu nam zustali, ze zakladajicich Menu. jen dva Zijici Clout . .

Jak dlouho . .

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A man who was fond of playing practical jokes, sent a friend a telegram, charges collect, which read: "I am perfectly well."

About a week later, the joker received a heavy package on which he was required to pay very considerable charges Opening it he found a big block of concrete on which was pasted the message: "This is the weight your telegram lifted from my mind."

-1 • dh • The average housewife --- Spends nearly four years of her life washing dishes.

Quarrels twice a month with her husband. Threatens six times in twenty years to divorce him, but doesn't. Bakes 350 cakes before her twenty-fifth wedding an4INENTIAI niversary, 300 of them his favorites. jednum neohydicnem mije ► nim domku za10: -,Ai by! ad Bcdrich Smetana." Walks 1,052 miles needlessly every year in her home.

Fotografie rokit 1902.

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1:0; 1-ll\TA VALOIKO

tESKE VSTAVKY V DALLAS isyla jsem vybidnuta bratrem reclakto- chisledne a usilovne praci Sokolske snahyl vene sve rueni prace a Zeny byly obleabyeh pidspela nejakYm elankem do telesne vychovy.Jak zni sokolske heslo: dene v krojich sve. vlasti. Velmi zajimave.

"V zdravem tele, sciravY cinch," Toto je jen I MIA CeskoslovenskY stanek tam byl vyLvnostnilio disla Vestniku.

Watt- redaktor pitle, "vim, ze mate mno- sledovala tone cely den pH praci i v noci, baven deskoslovenskYrn umenim, sklem, lenkrat nejbahatAi sbirku meli li!istratine zajmy, ale snad nejvdednejAi az jseni ji uniela dobte. Pomatuji si, ze 0 ■'-eclinet pro Vas by byl popis Vami vede- jsem pracovala na jecluom niiste na Vse- manZele Maliicovi, kteri si toho ptivezli ilYch vystavek ruenich praci, jeZ jste ne, tine. Byla a nas clivadelni spoleenost, velkou bedmi v roce 1926 se sve nav'SteLalikrate poradala u Vas v Dallas, a kdy- tenkrate s nejpopularnej§i pevkyni Em- vy, kterou podnikli spoleene s manZeli 1:Yste mela nejake fotografie ,nechal bych mou Destinovou. Sla jsem na operetu ye Stranskymi a VandurovYmi tri, ktere ona zpivala "Dolarova princezhay. StranskY, Malik a Vandura, spi svilj YRznotovit rytinu, aby Vas elanek mel illustrace, rovneZ bych mel rad VaAi PHStiho due jsam sedela a krmila busy nY sen v zahrade zelene. Jejich manZelminiochodem pozvani. 0 postupu teto "turkyni" tkokuricit a zkouSela jednu s! ky patri II:Sect:my tri do nakho spolku prace vas informuje zpravodajka sleto- tech pisni, co Emma Destinova zpivala.1 js,on velmi dinne v praci narodni ManZele Malikovi pochaseji oba z No(5ho vYborit, sestra Karla Kraftova. A Bylo to v zadnim dvorku. Z nenadani se tarn objevil pan, a nich jsem slou'Zila, vet) Hrozenkova, "kcle jsou Raichovy ! .roto bode mkt ellanek struenY. Mnohe'ty podrobnosti ykstavek se mne a pravil: posloucham deisi dobu, a skelne Mite a pani Malikove dela rodina vykou • ly z Navy, starno, zapominam. jdu se podivat, co to to mime za Desti- tarn byla zamestnana, jako brusidi jemOstatne jsem yarn vScly o nich nee° na- novou". Zastyclela jsem se a nemohla neho skin, proto jim bylo moZno si pHosala. V mladi jsem mela velmi dobrou jsem ani slova promluviti. Neveclela jsem, ! vest venni cenne brou gene soustavy skle!,amet. 'Mita jsem se brave dlouhYm vla- ze mne nekdo poslouchti a zdali nine to feneckYm basnim, kte • e se v me filave u- povida. jen Zertem, di doopravdy. Od- I Byly no vYstave rueni malby nagich tirSely dodnes, ad LIZ je to 45 .- 50 let, kte- pust'te, ze jsem odbehla od thema, ktere umelcn, samookit, kovodelnicke vYrobky, ■ ,:"!! jsem u lads na 'ValaAsku i v jinYch me- jsem mela psat. Jen se chtela naznadit, ! staroZitnosti a krasne Zenske rueni pra.1;ech besvadne prednaSela pti rfiznYch ze jsem meta dobrou pamet. Ale to id je ce, palidkovane krajky, kterou go praci prilelitostech. Byl to mil-0 konieek. A dro- moc a moc davno, ted' uz jsem babioka. zde predvadela krajanka pi. DoleZalova., Pokud se pamatuji, prvni vYstavka rtizne haekovani, pleteni, vYSivky vS'elro !IV!, na kterem jsem se rada projela, byl vaech narodil ye 'vet.zlim meritku byla u druhu, od vetSich stehn kriZkove prace zpe.v. Priroda di Brim nine obdatili dobrYm Sanger ye velkem departmentnim bbcho- az po to nejjemnejSi sitkove vygivani. dasem. Zpivala jsem v'Sode, i pH paseni de, tuaim v Sestem poschodi a to v roce Moho bez nadsa;_ovani napsat, ze stanasich koz. A my, deveata i hosi, za kras0Ych vederil vylezli jsme na nekterY ten 1934. Byly tam k tomu adelu postavene i nek eeskoslovenskeho umeni byl jeden nejbohatSi umenim a Oirct vybaven. roped a sedice, zpivali jsme pisne jednu budky, kde kaZda narodnost mela vysta1 clruhou. Ani se nam domii nechtelo 11. NekterY z chlapcii hral na harmonik!! obyvatele Vsetina meli koncert zda.

1:terYsi z tech chlapat brat krasnu Obyeejne zaeinal, "RiliZe ma, ty* samote, v saclu pozde vykveteV, "Sc..

130111 oncly AumnYin hajem", "Jen dale s 1:inou paid-, a mnoho jinYch, brad s ci em, tak krasne'se to neslo z toho kopc (lo adoli, Se nelze na ten poZitek spevr... hodebni zapomenout.

Jak uZ jsem napsala, mela jsem spevni ialent. Moe rada jsem chodila do divazvlaSte na operetky. Spokojila jsem mllacinejt'nm mistern, na stani na li‘pM p •i naSi ehudote nebylo. KdyZ jserr rslyS'ela jen jednou meloclii pisne, prom; podobenku z posledni doby" a toZ zde n ,..!.! 1)riS,sla pro nine v nevhodkcly jako tajemnice Sokolskeho loo vYboro mCm velmi mnoho prapisemneT. Rozesilam dopisy do vSech ,at, spolku, Zadosti o oznamky do poz:vani, tikety a jine. Jsine elenove Sokola pilne zamestpHpravnYini pracemi pro na g blilici let 'L'opy Min. Mobil y am prozradif aril velkou radost ze zajmu na tel i z .rod nalad gich, cvidicich dlenti. A o kilo muses, Prijed' k nam ye dnech "Ne chasela ani pernikova elviloupka, ani. Maienka s Jenieicerti . dervence a presvee se sam o teto Vlevo sestra Kopedkova, vpravo sestra Kraftova 1

ye stieclu, cl.ne. 18. _e'ervna 1952.

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VYstayky tyto bYvaly celY tYden a byly sti, na ktere i my jsme se podileli, nagm se mnoho na geho lidu, aby se podileli obecenstvem hojne nav g,evoyany a ob- proslulYm brougenym sklem, vygvkami, na vederi a pak na programu.

Lonskeho roku, 1951, moje spolupradivavany. Byla jsem jedncu ze sberatelek. malbami na &eve, staraitnostmi, haeveci pro tuto vYsta yku. Jmena druhych l kovanim a jinym. Ani pernikova cha- covnice byla pani Ted DuSlova, kterd uz nepamatuji. NaAe krajanky, je2 vla- louka neschazela. kterou umelecky zhc- ma take krasnou sbirku veci z mora yskestnily kroje, se ye stanku sttidaly, zpra-1 tovila pani Karla Kraftova, (ale tot' vite, ho Slova.cka, kde byla na, nav gteve a voclajove od novin brali obrazky, ktere, ze ji asi Vakk Kraft poinahal stavet). s sebcu privezla, neb ji to bylo poslano.

VS'ak se =fie loriske vedeni tohoto pros ptislugaYm popisern uvetejnovali ye, .Neschazela u ni ani 1Vlatenka s Jeniekem, kupinach samostatne. Jednote z nich ktere pani Kraftova uhaekovala a tam g,ramu moo nelibilo. Zalezi na vedqupostavila. Dali nam k pouZiti jednu ce- cich: Byla glee take vYstavka, vsa.k velbyla take ease Marta. etyti narodnosti Druha vYstavka v race 1936, kdy jsme lou mistnost. Moje spoltepracovnice byla mi skromna, jen asi oslavovali Centennial ve Fair Park, a na pani Rosa Kopeekova, v krasnem kyjov- a program? Pouhe "style show," a moderniho : atstva, a zdd kterou jsem byla zvolena jako vedouci skarn kroji. Nage vYstavka se te gila vel- den a nine k ruce byla ptidelend pi. Anna Ko- ke p3zornosti. To jsme a2 v posledni se mne, ze jeden tanec. Nernela jsem o sovo., byla celostatni, ne jen domaci. Na chvili poladali nekolik krajann o za- to mnoho zajmu — vYsta yka snad jen vYkyu v novinach, krajane a krajanky piljeeni veci. Pan a pani Skotakovi a ! hodinu trvajici, ze to nestalo ani za tu zasilali sve umelecke ptedmety na, moji manZele Kosovi byli na yStevou v Evrope I cestu tam a zpet. Musim valy nekoho i pi. Kosove adresu. Az z Chicaga nam v roce 1948 a p •ivezli si krasne veci, kte- te2ovat, aby nine tam vzal, kdyZ my nuposlali man.-2ele Bud' Piistupinskych 2 re nam na vYstavku Pani Kopee- mime karu. Je to bud' pan Kraft nesklenene ptedmety. Krasnou brolgenou kova a te2 pisatelka maji rtizne veci, jeZ I bo Nesuda. Jseni jim za jejich ochotu misu — vasu, v jeji skle bylo ptimicha,- stoji za podivancu. ManZele Zvolankovi, Ycleena. Na g ani na programu se nepodino olovo a v zaii sluneeni hrala duho- Hulovcovi, MalYch, MarSikovi, Kraftovi, leli, jen troche peeiva jsme tam meli s em stanku, ktere jsfne prodali za vymi barvami. Velmi krasnou sbirku je- pi. HemZalova, pi. Ha'Skova, maji krasne na na S mneho vygvani i barevneh• , zaslala na veci, ktere nam pfijoili. Take tam brali $4.00 a penize odvedli na ten Teel.

Vim, de etenati namitnou, tak toto nag vYstayku pi. Jos. Vondra gova, z nekolik obrazkii. Dali vYsta yky narodPrave vratili manZele Von- nosh byly Afrika, Oina, Finsko, Francie, je strue! ne napsano, jak nam Valeikova drak,vi z na ystevy z Ceskoslovenska, fteckO, Mexiko, Guatemala, Polsko, Indie, z t poeatku dopisu slibovala? Vgak mne Nemecko, Holandska. NaSe sokolska 0- zoate. Ale uZ clelarn teCku. odkud si t: r veci Zdravirn v geebny atenake!

Bylo se radost podivat na to krasu, vy- mladina zataneilv, slovenskou besedu v (Pozn. red.: — Sestie Valeikove musi krojich.

Frank Cejchan, Marie Filipec, tvofenou lidskou• rukou. Tak jako zahradka pestrYch kvetil lahodi oku va- manZele Bob MazanY, inanZele Stanley se reclaktor omiuviti, de z dopisu muscl gemu, tak i to vYstavka, upcutala vag Frank Vrla, Frances Jureik, Harold Stru- vypustiti nekolik •adek, aby zbylo pozornost. Pani Du§anova, z Crocket, za- cely u piana Lorraine Gallagher, dostavilo sto pro obrazek.) slala jeji krasne umelecke price, vypalovani ye &eve a jine. U na geho lidu pronekdy bez vy ggiho vzdelani az obdivuhodne se projevuje umeni y e vyMvani, zakladni tvaiy sami si kresli die vzOrkii kvetin, rozpitlene jablieko, planr; tak ! zvarie srdeako, zvonek, •itZe, chrp porunenky a jine. Je tak rancho tech nich praci na gch Zen, ze bych jejicl pisern nebyla tak brzo hotova.

Ale nejen Zeny, ale i na g Mtd•J` mi mnche krasne ruoni grace. Na! noun praci, vykladanou ze dteva kouskn danych dohromady, velmi pi prate, kterou zde dela pan Jan Finpe tazne vyiezavane prace, malby, pan Kebrle, ze skla p. F. StranskY, BlatnY jini. Prosirn, nezazlivejte mne, ze vas v!Se chny nejmenuji. Napsala jsem, ze ye svern staff zapominam, tak jako statni. BYlo s tim nmoho "prace a rosti, aby se nic nepokazilo, pon , vim, ze na tech pamatnYch vecech kaZcly 1pi a opatruje je jako !sic° v hlove. Ale vg echno clobte dopadlo.

Od to day vYstavky nebyly, az v roce 1950 me poiadal Svaz SvetovYch kteti maji svuj program druhe v listopadu v budove YWCA a ku kteren jsem kaldeho roku Pozvana, abych zastupovala na g eeskoslovenskou s:o2ku "Nage vSrstavka se Willa velke: •ozornosti dallaskou. vftly ngjake 'Oslo v programu a tu• beru nasi mlade 2 . . toinkuji Sestra Koso y a se sestrou Valeikovou. Panenka, ktera je ma j etkem sestry Kosc-;yk.!. muka chile v buclbC 7.pevu. taneenim besecly v kro- ma na sobe tentyZ'kroj jako sestra Valeikova. Nahote jsou ;1. zhotovil a v:-3(.: upt.tvJi Roku 1950 H16y \'ytuvicu Haructilo

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Czech in Texas: Sociological and Economic Evaluation Today, most people in United States of religious belief by infiltration, today, a word of mouth in the • huts of the peasant America, think they 'know who the very familiar term. The enduring unity folk. • Protestantism was born on their soil Czechs are and where they come from. of the Czechs has therefore been cultural It is true that they come from. Czecho- rather than nationalistic. In the ninth and at the time' of the losS of independslovakia, but Czechoslovaks,come from century, A. D. many of the' Bohemian ence, 1620, 90 per cent were Protestants, there too. Central-Eastern and South- nobles finding themselveS squarely be- and after 300' years of government eastern Europe has been in the limelight tween the two great centers of Christian gion, 90 per cent were Roman Catholic, for many, many years. During wars, thought, Rome and Constantinople, ac- but all having church affiliation. All the peace treaty negotiations and the west- cepted baptism under Eastern Orthodox wwrs they have waged, have been fought ward advance of Communism, or the Iron rites, and presently the arrival of Cyril' on their own soil, always over religion Curtain, ownership, ruling power, na- and Methodius, missionaries from the and always fighting defensively. Just as tionality, and -religion, all of these have Byzantine court, punctuated the most it is in !Czechoslovakia today, when the changed often. Written and spoken significant event in the history of the real. assault, is against the private conwords similar to the eye and ear, brit Czech people. These learned men, fluent science as such, it has been so through-. basically different in meaning, have add- in the spoken Slav tongue, created the out the history of these people. Today, ed to the confusicn. Czech, for instance, Cyrillic alphabet, which became the lit- however, the Czechs are up against a is an ethnic term. Bohemia, Moravia, urgic language of the Eastern Slavonic hideous and ruthless ideology. In Commuand Czechoslovakia, are geographical or Church, the vehicle of the first Slavic nism there is no place and no job for political designations. Bohemians and Bible, and the foundation of modern God. The welfare of the state is placed Moravians are often, but not always Russian literature. By the tenth century, above the welfare of the human soul.

First Czech immigrants of record came Czechs. In the country formed after however, BoheMia and Moravia had beWorld . War I, known •as Czechoslovakia, come Roman Catholic, Slavic priests be America in the seventeenth century, are both Czechs and Slavaksand theword were not in evidence and the third lit- Augustine Herrman, cartographer, and Frederick Philipse, architect, being Slav, meaning glory, fame or honor, has urgic language was dormant. no relation to our slave or serf. For over These people are indi#iduals, peace-lov- among the first. George Washington 300 years, the Czechs, while always pre-, ing and inherently religious. Upon their courted the charming Mary Philipse who serving their racial and spiritual entity, request Christian missionaries came. For was a descendent of Frederick Philipse. were designated as Bohemians or Aus- this mission, they created an alphabet Later came William Paea, advisor to gentrians or whatever country or govern- in order to be able to translate the Bible eral Washington and signer of the ment was in political or military power. into the native tongue, and; as a con- United States Declaration of IndependCzechoslovakia is about the size of the sequence, the third liturgic language was ence.

State of New York. Bohemia and Mora- established. The Czechs were Christian: Frederick Lemsky, who in 1836 played via about the size of West Virginia. ized. very rapidly because religion was "Won't You Come to the Bower?" at the There is a similarity, a parallel between taught in their native tongue. The tins- Battle of San J 'acinto, lived in Houston United States ands Czechoslovakia; in ! sionaries came froin Constantinople and for over twenty years, where he engaged habits, customs, attitudes, cultural aspi- Constantinople did not !cbject, but Rome in business and taught music. Jorge rations and government. The Constitu- did object to the third liturgic language Fisher, known An the old country by the tion was !written in Philadelphia; fash and Rome did not rest until this was sup- Czech name of Rybaf, was an important ioned after ours, adopted and sponsored ; pressed. figure in the Texas Revolution. Moraby Woodrow Wilson. For the 20 years, I Up to the eleventh century, there was vian Karl Postel, who wrote tales of early between the two. World Wars, when only one Christian church, and when the Texas, visited here briefly in 1828, was Czechoslovakia enjoyed freedom, it was ! great schism caused-the split, the Czechs widely read and influenced immigration. as a beacon light of democracy in an leaned towards the Eastern but were in Czech families began to come in the ocean .of socialism. In order to be able the hands of the Western Church and late 40's landing at Galveston. Of these, to evaluate the social and economic sta- ! there was nothing to be done about it. osef. Ernst Bergman (Horak) settled in tus of the Czechs in Texas it is necessary In the fourteenth century the Univer- ! 1849 at KaSprlink, or Cat Springs, later to say a few words about their past, who sity of Praha was founded, the Czech Vesely, and now .known as Wesley. Im- • they were, where they came from, in renaissance bloomed and in Jan Hus, migration began in earnest in 1852 due short,- what was their social and econo- spiritual forerunner of Martin Luther, ! to a wave of oppression following the nile contribution to the development of lby a century, the Czechs found a symbol revolutionary year in Austria-Hungary their homeland.

• of freedom of thought. For nearly three of 1848. Whole families came via GalvesTexas Czechs -derive ethnically from centuries thiS area was a battleground. ton and New Orleans, with money to buy a Slavic people living continously in Bo- Added to the military ravages were the their land and a determination to stay hemia and Moravia and in parts of Au- now familiar processes of spiritual sub- here. They usually brought their famistria, Hungary and Poland since the fifth jugation, the ! destruction of churches, lies; none came alone, planning to send emtcry, A. D. Whereas the topography schools and books. Execution, cOnfisca- for their kin later; none returned to of Bohemia and Moravia has stabilized tion and the wholesale changing of stir- Europe after a competence had been acpolitical boundaries, their position in names was the rule. Thus many people ! cumulated in Texas. This influx continthe middle of a warring neighborhood of Czech blood have names that reflect ued up to the outbreak of the Civil War. has exposed them- to invasion for cen- the nationality ! of an invading power. I The civil and 'military strife embodied turies, and periodic trespassers usually The population fell from three million the very things from which they hoped tried to impose their economic and . polit- to leSs than one million. Thereafter, for to escape by coming to Texas. Their ical views on the Cveclis attacking- their century. n'a(lif loll was 1' pt, alive by sympathies were with the Union, but

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irney had a surfeit of war and had arrived too recently to have been drawn emotionally into the conflict. In the North, where Czechs had settled earlier, a Czech company was organized in Chicago, taking the name of "Slavonian Lincoln Rifle Company," but in the Southwest there were no volunteers and few willing conscripts. As a class they were more concerned that men should be free than they were that men should be equal.

Immigration increased after .the-Civil War. Until 1900, most of the immigrants came from the, middle classes; 7 ,then- for a decade, or, 'in to the beginning of World War I, came a larger percentage of laborers„ With the beginning of the twentieth centi lry, oil was discovered in Texas; and with the beginning of World War I, Texas became industrialized. Both of these developments created farm problems affecting profoundly the Czech population, however, they adapted themselves to the evolutionary changes and stuck to the farm, like a captain to his ship, and today, after 50 years, still are safely at the helm—of the farm.

Because of an inherent aptitude towards husbandry and handicraft they had gravitated to the richest soil in the State, settling the black lands and u p -percoastlinbets,rchingaos the state, north and south, from Denton to Brownsville. The Czech immigrants chose rich soil, developed and conserved it, made a living on it; and today, after a century, they still own and live on the land. Very few are tenants; very few are migrants; about 98 per cent own the property they live on. This holds true both for the rural community and the urban dwellers. The pride in property and home ownership and the love of soil, and conservation of same, are inherent qualities. Through these two basic and fundamental attributes, the Czechs made their greatest contribution to the upbuilding, worth, economic stability, and permanence of the structure of the State,— and the nation. It may be noted here, that today, conservation of soil and natural resource is a paramout issue in state planning, and has assumed such proportions in national consciousness that not only home economics but foreign relations are based on it. It is an inexorable truth that no nation can exist without these two -potentials.

Today, the most densely populated counties are Fayette, with twenty-two Czech communities: Lavaca with thirteen; Austin, Burleson, Williamson with ten each; Wharton, McLennan, Fort Bend with nine each; and Bell and Victoria with six each. In all there are 252 communities, A community designated

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as such, has a local lodge of some benevolent organization or a parish or a church or all three. Towns having a large number of Czechs are Temple, La Grange Haliettsville, Caldwell, Taylor, Granger, Elgin, Yoakum, Shiner, Moulton, Bellville, Sealy, Ellinger, Smithville, Flatonia, and Schulenburg. Ninety-four per cent of the Czechs live in thirty-two contiguous counties. Place names like Anton, Bila Hora, Dubina, FrenStat, Frydek, Haiduk, Hegar, Holik, Fglub, HostYn, Krasna, Lipa, Marak, Marekville, Mikeska, Moravan, Moravia, Nada, Nechanitz; Novohrad, Polanka, Pisek, Praha, Ratibof, Rosanka, ► o.:Znov, Sebesta, Shiner, Smetana, Tabor, Vokaty, Vsetin, Vy gehrad • and Lizkov, assert their Czech origin.

A large percentage of Czech . immigration came from rural districts of Bohemia and Moravia. These Czechs were either farmers or artisans. Their feeling of independence—growing out of land-ownership—their inherent love of the soil and anything associated with the working of it and their love and pride in being farmer account for the distinctive orderliness, neatness, and even luxury of the Czech farm settlements. This, however, is the only distinguishing feature as far as nationality is concerned.

They all speak English and only a census taker could find out the country of origin. Their great contribution has been in the line of agricultural pursuits, and praises of their skill and application are often heard from officials and state departments of agriculture. In medicine and sociology, people are classed by their occupation. It is considered that people who are close to the soil are close to God and these people love the soil and anything associated with the working of it.

The Czechs are good farmers, but it should be noted that they do well in all professional lines. They had the strength and the genius to rise above circumstances of life, acquire knowledge, however opposed by difficulties, during the early days in their stay in Texas, and to advance their station in life. Some achieved positions of affluence and eminent usefulness, and altogether they participated in the common affairs of the days of early settlement in Texas. Today, we have a large number of physicians, dentists, nurses, lawyers, memberrs• of State Legislature, editors educators, bankers, executives, musicians, as well as those engaged in mechanical and allied basic industries.

The illiteracy rate is low, 1920 Census records it as 1.7 per cent. Texas Czechs have preserved the best of the mother country's culture. 'They are wholesome

and industrious and if they have clung together it is because their language has almost no affinity with the English, German, French and Spanish of their neighbors. The urban population is growing, however, and the Czech language is taught in a number of public schools, colleges, and universities, having been introduced into the curriculum of, the University of Texas in 1915.

The first impulse of the early Czech families or group was to build a church.

A schoolhouse followed; soon a reading club or fraternal or benevolent orzanization was forthed to coordinate the common effort. The growth, influence, and comprehension of these organizations among the Texas Czechs, beginning with a deep respect for inherent spiritual and educational needs, and functioning now as a movement that touches every phase of cultural, economic, and physical activity, approximates a Czech . design for living. It is interesting to find that today even the fifth generation still speaks Czech, and yet searching through the records and histories of these organizational self-sufficient community activities, there is not a single, word or expressed desire for a nationalistic life, lacking the two indispensable features to make it so—official (Czech) language and independent (Czech) government. Their inherent character, traits, desires, aspirations were the same in their homeland as in the newly adopted home; there was no wide gap or void, merely transferring tneir allegianc from one government.to tnat 01 anothe These are some of the reasons why the agricultural Czechs fitted so in conspicuously into the atmosphere of agrictilhiral Texas.

Much of this culture is a concept of the organization of the Sokols. Literaly the word Sokol means falcon and symbolizes the organization's lofty ideals as does its motto, "A sound mind in a sound body." They believe that men who learn to play and play fair will never quarrel or kill. One of the most precious heritages of this deeply devout people is a valedictory expression, "s Panem Bohem", "God is with you now and with you on your way."

No • immigrants ever brought more books to a new land than did the Czechs.

True, they brought religious books, Bi bles and prayer books, but these - avid readers, once here, published their own newspapers and periodicals. Today, they include: Svoboda, Novy Domov, Naginec, Oechoglova.k, Vestnik, TexaskY Rolnik, Bratrske Listy, and Husita.

No Czech is without church affiliation, About 70 percent are Roman Catholic, 25 percent protestants, and the remain-

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der liberals or freethinkers, "without confession." There are 252 Czech communities, and in these communities there are 101 Catholic churches, and, 61 churches, congregations, and missions of the Evangelical Unity of the Czech Moravian Brethren. The Hus Memorial School, Temple, Texas, belongs to the Unity. St. Ludmila Academy, Shiner, Texas, belongs to the Czech Catholics. The Southwest Bohemian Presbytery has nine churches and four congregations. The Freethinkers have a state charter; and the supreme lodge is in Houston and there are four other local lodges.

Of all European peoples the Czechs admittedly are the best fitted for democratic government. No nation has ever been so quick to readjust itself after a comparable ordeal of despotism.

In January, 1942, Dr. Jan Masaryk, minister of foreign affairs of CzechosloVakia, made an official visit to Texas, visiting the larger Czech communities and most of the cities and universities.

Masaryk was not surprised at the progress of the Czechs in Texas. He was only too familiar with their inherent ability to make homes for themselves in a new land, and he was both, proud and gratified with their progress and their contributions to the agricultural, industrial, professional, and social life of Texas.

The Czech easily orients himself in Texas because its atmosphere of freedom is the ideal of all true patriots. Although Czechs form only about five per cent of the population, their ballot box influence is great and out of all proportion to their number. Paradoxically, while a Czech seldom runs for office he never fails to vote. In certain Fayette County precincts where the voting is solidly Czech, usually every citizen pays poll tax and in the ensuing primaries or run-off, every eligible vote is cast down to the last exemption. They value the most precious heritage of a free man, the voting franchise, and, if American democracy has a weakness, it lies in the apathy of the electorate.

Texas has been 'good to the Czechs, I, and., the Czechs are a part of Texas' Greatness.

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SPOLUPR ACE A DOBRA YULE hovalo a nahrady neby/o, take zajem upadal. U tadu naSeho jsme pokraeoVali dobte, elenu v geho veku pribYvalo, schiize jsme vtdy konali pravidelne, a co hlavniho, vlastnime svoji sin,,kde poradame zabavy, pikniky a propujeujem ' jak jednotlivaim, tak i spolkam a ratnym organisa,cim. To jest nem, co velmi pomaha udrtiet shodu v osade a zajem u tadu.

Po ea,s valky jsme zde zalotili Wadeni Oeclutslovaku, v nenit byly zastoupeny v g echny kostely a spclky v taint° okoli. Take jsme zde tou dobou sehrali spoleene pane Ceske divadlo, jent Jane sami nacvieili. dent sousednich radii nak riizne zabavy vtidycky navgtevovali a koneene proto, tie se jim u nas libilo, se s nami spojili. Prospech z toho byI na I obou stranach. Nebot' v obou ptipadech Inam ptinesli peknou eastku hotovych

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"To jit je clruhe, co vas fad prebird eleny jineho ; flay ; mohl bys o tom napsati clanek do predsjczdoveho Cisla, jest to zajimave."

Takto mne bylo psano pied nekolika dny. Ano, ji`Z dva sousedni rady se s na.mi spojily, rad VSeslovan pied nekolika tydny, o demZ jsem se nedavnQ y e Vestniku zminil, a fad Svetlo pied nekolika roky. 'rave si vzpominam, t'e to bylo take kratce pied sjezdem v Corpus Christi.

AC jsme byli jit spojeni, tad SOU° posud ev seznamu byl. Tak ja jsem hlasil, kdyti jsem byl vyvole.n. To vypadalo, ze zastupuji rady dva, kdyt jsem se dvakrate hlasil. Nat nejeden, ale nekolik delegan fined vystoupilo a protestovalo, t,e pteci neni ; dovoleno zastupovati vice net jeden fad. To dokazuje, ze naSi eili ,delegati jsou bdeli a te tak nee° neujcie. Nu, ale dal jsem o torn patis iene vysvetleni, jak doSio k tomu spojeni.

Mohlo by se snad rici, ze jsme' k tomu prisl jako slepa, slepka na zrno. Tak The Texas cotton crop is the most valuable crop grown in a single political jednoduche to vSak pfeci nebylo, nebot' jenom nahodou se rady neslueuji. subdivision in the world. ) Hlavni p • iCina obou radii k nam pfiWilliam Howard Taft was the first 1 st,,DuplYch byla ta, ze byly mak) Cinne; .Pceskicnt of the 18 states.

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Napsal jsem eastku. Nemyslete vSak; tie .snad jenom eastku toho, co meli, to ne.

Oba rady nam odevzdaly celou jejich hotovost. Bylo to sloueeni jak Oen*, tak i majetku. Ale od to coby, co jsme jali rad Svetlo, uplynulo jiti osm roku a je g te jsem neslyAel, tie by kdo toho toval a jsem jistY, tie 'den/ od facia V g eslovan toho take litovati nebudou, nebot' jest to ku v g eobecnemu prospechu; My se u na geho tadu vtdy snatime drZet zasady :"Rovnopravnost v g em — zvla g tnich vYsad nikoinu". Opakuji, co jsem peal v mem , ptede glem dopise, to dobra vfile v g echno zmilie. Take si muslime v2dy pamatovat„ to neiname tadnemu Ciniti to, co nechceme, aby bylo einem) nam. Cot jest "vlastne to pray° bratrstvi.

Ono to vla,stne nic telkeho neni, udrtet si mezi elenstvem dobrou van, viclyt' oni ti na g i lido jsou vesmes dobti, musime v g ak hledet jim rozurnet. Orly dva kády se pripcjily k nam proto, tie k nem mely clAveru a my, jsme je take s diiverou prijali a VSichni z toho mame prospech.

Co plati u iadu, plati take u cele Jednoty. Menne vtdy na, mysli dobro celku a ne jenom prospech nekterYch jednotlivcii a jiste se dobreho vYsledku neminern. Bud'rne si toho zvlaste pametlivi na tointa sjezdu naSi Jednoty.

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Too much outward perfection usually means chaos inside the head.

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PRVNI REDAKTOR NAAEFIO ORGANU MalokterY z na gich Menu vi, ze SPJST nejvetgi bratrska organisace aeskeho du v Texasu, mela po celou dobu sveho trvani spolkovY organ. Hned kratce po zalcdeni Jednoty roku 1897 pcmVAleno bylo, aby spolkovY easopis byl pojitkem mezi Many. a tee aby list propagoval yetejne zajmy spolku. Bratr Lid'ak ,podpisoval se Lidiak) upozvolil se bYti redaktorem a vydavatelem listu, ktery nesl nazev "Vestnik."

Organ pod Pizenim bratra Lidiaka vychazel ne celY rok. Neal znamo, prod Lidiak p •estal vydavati tehdej gi Vestnik.

Je vg ak znamo, ze brzy pote ueinena byla dohoda s bratrem Fabianem, aby spolkoye zpravy byly otiskovany v rolnickem dasopisu, toho easu vydavanem v Halletsville pod nazvem "Obzor Hospodaf• skY".

5. aisle VI. roeniku, ze dne 15. kijna 1899, vydavatel Fabian oznamil, ze byl nucen zkratifli jmeno listu na "Obzor", ponevadZ stare ohlaveni bylo v tiskai.skem lisu ("presu") rozmaekano a nova pismo. v Hallettsville nebylo k do-, stani. Proto vydavatel Fabian musel se spokojiti s ohlavenim, ktere nemelo had-

ku a earek a dalo se lehce nahradit, totiZ OBZOR. Meth, tedy na ge SPJST napfed Lidialatv "Vestnik", kterY netrval ani rok. Pak organem by "Obzor HospodaicskY," vyclayank Fabianem, kterYZta list byl 15. fijna 1899 zmenen na "Obzor." Az teprve na sjezdu v Granger, na druhY den sjezdo'Moo zasedani, dne 9..eervence, byl p•ijat navrh, aby SPJST vydavala samostatnY organ a melt( vlastniho redaktora. Byly podani dye nabidky na redaktorstvi, od Jos. tapala a Franka Fabiana. Bratr apal vzdal se ve prcspech bratra Fabiana. Byl dan navrh, aby organ obsahoval 16 stran a nesl nazev "Vestnik." Tim stal se bratr Frank Fabian prvnim samostatnYm redaktorem "Vesizriku," a vedl nag organ od roku 1912 aZ do,1916, kdy redaktorem byl zvolen bratr Jos. tapal.

Poznal jsem bratra Fabiana, kdyi je"Obzor" v Hallettsville. V ste pozdej gich letech ztratil jsem ho Lee pied deseti roky sahnul jsem nahodou po vYrcanim aisle "Hospociale", kde bratr, Fabian mel svilj 'alanek. Psal tenkrate z Argentiny.:- Koneil svilj elanek

slibem, ze "az mi bude na dui vesele ji, ndpigi jegte, co jsem proZil." Napad1 mne, ze v tomto pfedsjezdovein aisle by melo bYti vzpomenuto tech redaktortt, kte •i ptede mnou vedli nag organ. Dopsal jsem bratru Karlu kovi, ktery jako bYvalY sazed v Hallettsville znal bratra Fabiana, zda by sestavil elanek o drivej gich redaktokich. Jeho pkispevek najdete v dnegnim Nevedel jsem v gak, zdali bratr Fabian je dosud na Zivu, Psal jsem vydavatelstvu "Hospodafe". Pan Anton Piskae, vydavatel "Hospoddi.e", s nevgedni ochotou prohledal archl y , nagel mnoho élankft psanYch Fabianem, • poslal Fabianuv Zivotopis i podobenku, a podrobne vypsal, v kterYch eislech "Hcspociake" mel Fabian sve prispevky. "Ve rYroenim 1943," psal pan Piskaa, "byl posledni spevek od F. Fabiana. Nepamatuji se, to doby oznameno v "Hobylo-li spodaii" jeho .6mrti."

Bylo to od palm -Piskaee velice hezke, ze talc ochotne vy gel mi vstfic a snaZil se zjistiti, co o bratru Fabianu zjistiti se dalo, a ze poslal nejen elanky, psane Fabianem, ale teZ Zivotopis; ba ze do-

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Zmenetili fotografie rtaietto ergdou, vydavaneho bratrem Fabianem v Hllettsville od rcku 1898 do 1912.

vtsTNIK— WEST, TE.X.AS konce dal si tu filasne teZkou pra.ci vyhledati mezi tisici a tisici stocky a rytinami podobenku bratra Franka Fabiana. Zivotopis je velice eennYm historickYm pkispevkem, a proto bylo by nevdekern, kdybych neuvetejnil alespoid nejzajimavejei jeho easti.

Z MEHO ZIVOTA Napsal F. Fabian Chaco, Argentina Narodil jsem se y e Valaieskem Mezina Morava, 17. listcpadu 1862. Obecni ekolu a gymnasium navetevoval jsem "Slovenske realize gymnasium" bylo v Zaeateich, a pgnevad2 nemelo vlastni budovy, byly tkidy rozstrkany po domech kolem namesti. Jmeno astavu pozdeji zmeneno na "Ceske gymnasium," s ponechdnim kresleni; "slovenske realni" odlokno. ' , Do Ameriky jsem se dostal o Vanoetch r. 1880 lodi Braunschweig z Brelnen.

Mel jsem v Texasu strYce Josefa Lid'aka; kterY se tarn s rodinou vystehoval pied obeanskou valkou, ktere se steastnil.

• ,jak unionisti tak konfederati chytali rekruty kde se dalo, a tak strYc se dostal do konfederaeni armady a nejstarei syn Jan' k vojsku federalnimu, severnimu.

StrS)c byl pozdeji propueten na zakroteni rakouskeho konsula v Galvestone, bratranec Jan vratil se vea,k aZ po valce. Pozdeji pkirknuta mu pense jako invalidovi.

• StrYc easta vybizel rodiee, aby vymenil Rakousko za Spoiene Staty, ale nemo se k tomu odhodlat a.;Z roku 1880 velka povoden zle poekodila: , •floli feky Beevy zrovna o Znich, a nejednoho obyvatele pkivedia na mizinu a donutila, aby v cizine zaeal znovu. Ve Studence, kde nos vlak mei dalei zastavku, ukdzala se, Ze jsou nos pine dva vagony.

Prvni maj atulek v Texasu byl u bratrance Jana Lid'aka v Ammannsvilie, asi 12 mil jiZne od La Grange. Pozdeji jsem se octnul v La Grange u' bratrance Frant. Lid'aka, jenZ vydaval "Slovana."

Tak jsem se dostal do tiskakskeho a novinakskeho Zivota a na mnoho let v nem uvazl. 1VIYm domovem byl nyni Texas, aC pObyl jsem ten v rozlienYch jinYch stdtech Unie, pii s yYm povolani rnezi Cechy, Amerieany a Nemci.

Do to doby (1885) pkipada take politicks afera s kosmopolitanem Josefem Oadou, kterY vykoupil "Slovana." Toto stranictvim vyvolane rozviteni zaealo site bola• live, ale skonailo mlhou.

Pkieinu k neniu zavdalo soupekeni stran demokratieke s republikanskou.

Demokraticka .strana k niZ hlasili se poraIeni konfeclerati, byla dlouho Sitezi—republikany zneuznava.na a odstrko-

vana.. JiZni demokrate snaZili se veude z tohoto poniZovani se vyprostiti. Ze lid SpojenYch Statii i jinde mel zpupnosti republikanske strany dost, dokazaly volby roku 1884, kdy demokrat Grover Cleveland byl zvolen presidentem SpojenYch Stata.

Take v okresu Fayette, Texas, dopa dly volby y e prospech demokratam. 0 byvatelstvo okresu skladalo se z Ce ehd, Ameridana a Nemca..

Co se politiky tyee, hlasili se Amer-Cane skoro vYhradne k demokratilm, Nemci k republikanam a naei krajane tahli s poeatku hodne s Nemci, protole tito byli dale v Texasu usazeni a naei mobil se s nimi spice domluvit. Pomoci Cecha vyhravali Nemci republikanam pri volbach.

Demokrati to vypozorovali, a hledeli ptevest naeince na svou stranu. To bylo pohnutkou, Ze na demokraticke konvenci byl teskY pravnik Aug. Haidueek navrZen pro dad okras. soudce, a tak 'Ceske hlasy svedeny pro demokratickou stranu. Nasledek toho byl, Ze republikaniNemci musili radnici.opustiti a demokrate se soudcem Haiduekem v eele chopili se spravy okresu Fayette.

Ze s takovYm cbratem republikani, ktei'i od skoneeni valky v okrese nebyli spokojeni, netieba vykladat a Ze poinYeleli na pomstu, neni divu.

A tu objevil se Cada, eerstvY z kraje.

Doma zamestnan byl u delnickeho easopisu, die jednech socialistickeho, die jinYch anarchistickeho-- v torn se naee colada chasa zde nevyznala--v sta•em kraji jsme se o politiku 'floc nezajimali.

Cada ncznal anglicky, ale nomecky mluvil plyne. To se nerneckYm republikanarn hcdilo. 0 jeho kosmopoliticke zory a politicks pkesvedeeni se nestarali, jen kdy die jejich poueeni tepal v deskem easopise demokratickou okresni spravu, pomahal rozbijet Ceskou sjednocenost, rczetepit Ceske hlasy . a tak porazit demokratickou stranu.

Pomera znali krajane vysvetlovali ,dovi, Ze za republikanske ,spravy opravovaly se testy, budovaly ekoly a jine y etejne potfebnosti napked v nerneckych osadach, Americana Ze si je vyrnohli treba pesti, ale naeinci byli skoro zapomenuti. Cada tomu nemohl rozumet a odvolaval se na poradky ve starem svete.

A tak vznikla jakasi ta.jna censura nad "Slovanern," a kdy objevil se v nem eldnek "Nose Zany," naeel se tarn "chlup,"' kterY za normalnich poinerit sotva by byl zavadnYm. Ocenovala se v nem pheinlivosti a vytrvalost deskYch Zen u porovnani s jinYmi, lepe situovdnymi, ale - mane spolehlivYmi. Vyskytio se tam jakesi slovo dvojsmyslne. MnohY 6eskY• vYraz ma v cizi keel vice vYznamu a haopak. Ve sporu uZiji strany vYznarnu, kterY se jim hodi.

Ve stkedu, dne 18. e'ervila 1952.

Strhla se bouke, jaka bYva spodine potitkem, ale rozumni lids ji brzy zarazili.

Nalr,dou ten den byl v La Grange sadnik Jan Vrba, elovek povatlivSr, mluvil anglicky a nemecky, a brzy situaci pochopil. PriAel do tiskarny a povida: "Hoei, zavrete dve •e a rozejdete se, at na jednoho nebo dva, aby Cadovi odparei nemohli z vas tahat rozumy a nepkibSTvalo zmatku. V hlidani zavodu se sttidejte. Cada. je smola • a ma pinou hlavu eernYch much. Nekde new proti zvyklostern se stalo, noviny to rozmazaly a Cada nechtel zastat pozadu.i V okresu Fayette take se jests neohkal a ja chce kritizovat okresni spravu, treba pomoci nemeckYch brejli. Ale nic se mu nestane.

Nemeeti politikaki s advokatem Rosenthalem v Cele vedi, Cirn jsou mu povinni."

Mel pravdu. Dopoledne se inluvilo na court house pro a proti Cadovi, myslim do unaveni a odpoledne eel kaalY po sve praci.

Cada, brzy prodal "Slovana" Kralovi v Bryan.

V La Grange zaeala vychazeti "Svoboda" (pied Vanoci r. 1885,) zalolena akciovou spoletnosti. Soudce Haidueek byl zvolen kiditelem. Citil s Texasem a byl mu celou duei (Adam Nebyl'o divu; do Ameriky pkieel s rodiei v -Calera veku a vyrostl mezi texaskYmi Amerikany. Stykem s pristehovalci a domorodei mei piileLtost poznat rozdil, kterak hledi na obecni zajmy AmeriCan a jak Cloy& stareho sveta. KdeZto domorodec hledal poueeni o svem pravu a take se ho v pravY eas doinahal, naeinec malo dbal, co se kolem neho deje a nepadlo-li mu samo neco klina, nedbal, jestli jini uZivali, co jemu patkilo.

KdyZ se Haidueek stal pravnikem a dosahl hodnosti zakonodarce, tu teprve nabyl jasneho poneti o politicks vSr e krajana. Pod monarchickou vla--chov dou byl °bean veden, aby se oddal pohodine politicks neeinnosti a nevedomosti — vea.k cisak pan, knilata, hrabata a jejich slednohove za obearika mysli a obeeni pokadky vedou ovem na pr y ye sviij prospech — a pOd--nim ist claneho utvrzuji v domnece, Ze by bcz "tatiekovskeho" vedeni nevyZil. Jakmile se Haidueek "Svcbody" ujal, zaeal krajany z politicks neteenosti burcovat. Prace se dost darila a byla uznavana.

Ale i tu neuvedomelost lidu vyvolala nova nedorozumeni a bouteni.

Pi:Telma k tomu dalo vyudovani na obeenich :Skolach.

Stat Texas jako jine staty k Unii patrici ma zakon narizujici, 'te ye veiejnYch Skolach, jet jsou vychtovany stdtern, Musi bYti poOdvano anglieiny jako reel vyudovaci, a ueiti jinYin rceem ne-

Ve sttedu, dne 18. eervna 1952. zakazuje. Ale zakon tento nebyl dodrtovan. Ptistehovalci, kde meli v osade vetginu, zjednali si ueitele sve narodnosti a ti vyubovali ponejvice ye sve mateittine. — Stat Texas ponechaval spravu obecnich Skol skoro fipine v rukau okrestt. Stafi uditele, kteid meli pouze okresni vysvedeeni, platici na dva roky, byli ponechavani ye slutbe bez zkou§ek, jen kdyt stranili vitezilm nad konfederaty a pH vyneovani dejepisu neptiznive o nich se zmiriovalk Demokratum to ovAem nebylo vhod.

1Cdy.t, byl zvolen John Ireland guvernerem Texasu (1882-86) natidil, aby ueitele, kteti nemaji vysvedeeni ze statMho aditelskeho fistavu anebo jine Skoly statem uznane, podrobill se bezvYinineene zkouSkam die planu statnim skolnim odborem. vypracovaneho.

Okresnim Akoldozorcem a kde tito jag -tedicnsurohlbYvei,ksnim soucicurn misto Skoldozorcti zastavajicim, sveteno vedeni techto zkouSek .spoleene s okresni Skolni radou.

Tyto zkonSicy ukazaly jak mnoho neschopnYch lidi bralo ueitelsky plat. Vice net zitouMca platila, jak ut.sitel "dobte" volil a pr;, stranu pracoval.

K temto guvernerem natizenYm zkoitg kam mnoho take ueitelii se nedostavilo.

Jini zase, kteti brali plat jako uoiteli prvni sotva obstali v tteti Byio to pfekvapeni jako kdyt blesk vlitne korninem mezi hodovniky, kdyt se vsak vzpamatovali, zacal poplach mezi vlastendichni fangliekati, ze tee matetsita je zaSlapavana,. PH tom lidu malo ét,;ticimu se zatajovalo, ze guverner, inspektoki a soudcove uvadeji pouze platnost, Ga zakon natizuje. Soudce HaiduSek dostal svilj dil merou. vrchovatbu.

VytYlta.no mu, ze je odrodilec, ze odpira naiim detem sna gi a lepAi vzdela.ni v mateittine a tak ae ptivadi v aivct naS'i narodni zubotenost. NaSinci, kteti jadro veci, bylo trpeno poslouchat hruvyeitky a hanoveni chrlici se z fist zaostaleho lidu, ktery sotva chapal se jedna. Vzalo to nekolik mesicti net proti Haidakovi unalklo. K tomu Wa yne p •ispelo vybira.ni eeskych mladikti a divek schopnYch obou teai za ueitele a dosazovani jich na mista ptevahou Ceska. Pied tits v takovYch Skolach vyOman ponejvice Nemci. Tak dostaval se naS neteeny lid pomalu k svemu pravu a cho.pal sebeureeni.

Demokraticka strana nabYvala stale vice stoupenct v okresu a zavlddl klid.

V roce 1886 17. zati jsem se otenil s Franti'Skou RainoSkovou. Melt jsme 7 deti, pet hoehit, z ni ght dva zemteli a dye deveata. Dne 9. eervna 1886 jsem ziskal obeanstvi SpojenYch stath.

R.-kti 1886 29. btezna zemtel na 131uf-' ic aluj tiejstatSi bratr Josef, 27. finura

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1887 zeni •ela matka a 27. eervence -1889 tu jsem p •estal meal nine trapiti Pochovani jsou na I •bitove Bluff- ky dech. skein, 6 mil jitne od La Grange. V roce "Tak, ted' jsme doma," zvolal doktor.

1891 ptestehcval jsem se do Hallettsville, "Pro vas by bylo nejlepe odstehovat sc okres Lavaca a zabYval se tiskatstvim neicam kde severak neni moc znam a a novindtstvim at do svetove valky, kdy sila jeho je nepatrna. Takto bySte se stiten jsem byl velkYm plicnim nedu- vyhnul jak fieinkfun • neptijemnehb:pevetti, tak nepochybne i fteinkfun Oikrohem, ktery zkrizil me plany. organismu. Mate male deti?"— zaBylo to na poedtku svetove chladil jsem se, z toho vyvinuia se in- "Nemam, doktore," odpovidam. “Doery fluenza, po ktere zaeata nine trapit za- jsou vdane a synove tenati, at na ducha. Lay domacimi lekati ptedpiso- miadSiho. Dva nejstarSi sloutili vane ulevily vzdy na kratko. Vyspal jsem sku . SpojenYch Stata ye Francii as .svese po nich nekolik noel a du:sent a la- tove valky. Ttetiho, kterY chtel pain po vzduchu zaedlo move. Konedne sledovat, jsem nepustil." jsem se P:zhodl hiedat p .31110C u specia"Dle toho nestava, tu snad ptekatek, listy a zajel jsem za tint fteelem do San ze byste nemohl ptelotit sire bydliSte Antonio, Texas. Tinto me prohle(11, dal utiti nejakY lek a tekl mi abych se ne- kam do jizniho Texasu, do Mexika: nebokolik dni zdrtel v San . Antonia a den- na Fioridu, kde by yam podnebi Kaune k nemu docha ze 1 , aby b mohlpozorovat tilo?" fieinek len; abych zatim nepil pivo Kdyt mi pak napsal tti recepty a pouani jinYch lihovYch napojii. Patelto dne dil jak zaridit svou tivotaspravu, r(lsze,gli prohlasil, ze ptielnou tetkeho dechti je jsme se. oslabeni plic dtivejSim neduhern a pak ROzhodi jsem se fiditi radon lekare. citiivcst tela vbei nejake latce vdecho- Uspo •adal jsem majetkove zalezitos i u vane, jako prach, chlupky, hinyz, pei, pravnika, slotil trochu nejpottebn6jAipli nebo jidio, atd. Tomu se tika "allergia' veci do kufru a jel do Laredo na .rnelPrieinu tern kdyt domaci lekat nevy xickYch hranicich, a po nekolika zkournal on, vzdalenY ji u'hodnout ne- podle hranic dale na vYchod. Pti' mate. pcbyl jsem na miste tYden, dva, jak Vyptaval se mite, trpel-li za- mne jedna stanice omrzela, jel jsem duchou neb jinYm plicnim neduhem. na druhou, az jsem vystoupil v BrvvnsPovedel jsem mu, ze za Skolnich let jsem ville. Skoro ani nemysle dostal jsem •se byl povatovan za slabeho na prsa, ale pres Rio Grande do Matamoras v Mciido Texasu, teple poca- ku a tu jsem se posunoval zas po popra si brzy vsecky obtite rczehnalo, az za- &eh oceanu az do Tampico: Tam jsem se behem valky mei jsem nehodu, ze se v hotelu seznamil se spolenost,i nine v lednu stihl na ceste severak s letnikft, ktei • hodlali naVaiviti nic',sto deAera. coa.mne vyneslo influenzu. Kdyt Tampa na Floride.. V ptista y ti inch

s achtu, nesouci imeno "Paloma". S nini se dostal na Florida. 'riha na prsou povolila a ja, pracodelg i eobu v Tampa pri drobne obchodni praci tiskarske, lee jsem nemel nikde stani, nic mne nedovedlo upoutat.

Aldatka, schazela mi krajanska spolee ;lost, domacke beseclovani. Shleclat kroutek, nic by mi neschazelo.

Dochazel jsem obeas do dekaren preplavnich spoleenosti, abych si prohledl rattle zahranieni noviny. Dohlititel mne j f2 znal a na mou tadost uschovaval mi vizokrajske listy. Skoro po katde navgteve dnakl jsem si balieek novin v ritznYch 'Teich ZadarmO to zrovna nehledel jsem se jinYm zpilsobem oclvcledit.

Jecinou jsem nagel mezi easopisy takto riskanymi eislo tYdenniku "Jihoameri y ky Oechoslovak," jent vychazel v Buenos Aires. PH prdhliteni tehot, trefil V;(2111 na dopis z Caka, v nemt lieeny, by1y pomery v krajanske osade pH Saenz Pefia a o pckroku pestovani baviny. To.• /el jsem se dohlititele jak k tern noviHan) prisel. Odpovedel, bylv ciociany firmou Missler a to je ve sklepe jegte nekolik disel! Zamluvil jsem si je.

Z listu takto ziskanych ,/ybral jsem nekolik aclres krajaml v Bueno3. Aires a je o zdeleni nekterYch podrobnosti o 6aku. Dostal jsem vice odpovedi, lee Posadky si odperovaly. Skoro katdy se • nyal, ze v 6aku nebyl a vi o nem. jell to, co od jinYch sly gel nebo deft Jrcina odpoved' byla zajimava, myslim od p. Pulkraba. Psal, to v Caku nebyl, ale ponevadt use zajima o tivot krajanti ✓ Argentine, dopiltral se uvatent hodnYch posucikti o okcli Saenz Pena a .o nagem lidu, tanmei gi k •ajinu osazujicim.'

Dobre "Indy h:dici se pro zemedelstvi a clobytkarstvi je tarn dOst, ale na kobylky a vykorist'ovatele je' tato pristaova eclat kolonie take potehnanti. obsahoval asi tAo: "NeproJinS7 1111 upi, kdo se pusti do Caky. Pczemky cc tam d'Obre a pristehovalec zabere si, late chce a kdlik chce ptidy. 0 placeni ho tadnY neupomina, treba bavina se iz prodava, za, etyri sta a vY ge tuna."

Takove napadne sobe odporudici posudky o Oaku mne diouho zdrtovaly net jsem se rozhodl jeti do Ar,gentiny. — V tee (lobe jsern projel nektere jitni zeme.'

F-1APINZ PERA!" vyvolaval kondukter,' ociek)iraie listky cestujicim, kteri men zde Vlak uvolnoval bah, at pled s1 ,niJui budovou zastavil. Bylo to 3. kijna Nov hl '1illek pristehovalcri, kdyi octnul se nu nit.4Uupisti, hned se rczbehl ku kromaci6 zavazadel, jet zrizenci vyhazovali z v-agonit a katclY vyhleclaval svuj kulr, beds an ,nebo uzel, aby po odevzdani listku 1110111 sve yeti pfe-

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JOS. KOLITT,A, Jr.:

Sestra Amalie Sugarkova, rozena Horalcova, narodila se dne 6. dubna 1856, poblite mista zvaneho Cat Spring, v okresu Austin.

Jeji rodiee, rozeni ye stare vlasti, prigli do Texasu zadatkem roku 1856, usadiv gi ; se v okresu Austin, pozdeji se prestehovali poblite Fayetteville v okresu Fa3 ette a po mnoho rokti zde byli usazen.L. Pak se odstehovali do osady Praha, nalezajici se v zapadni easti okresu Fayette a bylo to zde, kde se seznamila s mladikern Karlem Sugarkem, za ktereho provdala due 9. ledna 1877.

Mantele bydleli zde v osade Praha pu nekolik let, nadet .se odstehovali do osady Moravia v okresu Lavaca, kde si zakoupili farrnitku, na ktere bydleli at do podzirnu roku 1890, a prodav ge svou domovinu odstehovali se do okresu Bee, usadivgi se v osade zvane Central, ktera, se naleza asi Best mil na jihozapad od okresniho mesta Beeville, kde zakoupili kus pozemku, kterY svou prieinlivosti a vziti a nekam na hospodu se uchYlit.

Bylo jit pozde odpoledne, kolem 5. hodiny.

Jako v gude na eakenskYch stanicich tat zde bylo hcdne barevnYch zevlounn, kteri si nas zveclave prohliteli a sve rozpoznani projevvovali poznamkami z•nicht hlavne vynikala slova: "Enstrangeres!

Gringoes!"

Amalie (floral() Sugarek

vytrvalosti zvelebili v peknou domovinu a kde mantel& bydleli a kde take Karel Sugarek stark zemtel dne 22. lijna 1932.

Po mantelove smrti sestra 8rtgarkova se odstehovala do mesta Beeville, kde bydlela at do sve smrti, dokonavgi svou pozemskou pout' dne 21. srpna 19M. Dotila se rictyhodneho veku 95 let, a v okresu Bee bydlela 60 rokti.

Z tohoto tivotopisit, tiverejnenem Byla matkott gesti ditkam, peti synti nekolika eislech "Hospxlare" v letech 1941 — 1943; poznavame, to bratr Frank jedne dcery. Jedno ditko zemlelo v cletFabian jel dc Argentiny proto, ze mel stvi, syn Eddie, co vojin, byl zabit v pr y -nisveto alc,synLidumlzet jakYsi druh allergicke zaduchy, a prijel do C'hacc), Argentina, 3. Nita 1924. V po- dubnu roku 1951. slednim svem prispe yku kondil slovy: "At Dya synove Vincenc a Karel, dosud bymi bude u srdce volneji a na du gi vese- dli v osade Central, kde maji krasne zaleji, papigi jegte nektere historky, jet litene farmy. Dcera pi. Mary R. Longino jsem protil." bydli v Ingleside, Texas.

Napadlo mne, ze motna ztistal elenem Statenka take zanechala zde dvanact SPJST i kdyt, byl at v Argentine, ate vnoueat, trinact-pravnoueat a jedno praHlavni nradovna by mohla podati dalk pravnoude. informace. Odpoved' od bratra Chnpicka Sestra 8ugarkova pristoupila do Jednoznela: ty SP.JST k radu Slovan Jihu dislo 26 v "Dle nagich zaznamn bratr Frank Fa- zari 1904, a vtdy brala zajem o praci spolbian, prvni redaktcr Vestniku, zemlel kovou a osadni podniky, zvla gte v jejim v Chad:, v Argentine, Jitni Amerika, dne mladem veku.

24. rijna, 1945. Dolare si pamatuji jeho; Byla nejstarg i olenkyni radu Slovan nebot' mi to vzalo nekolik mesi- I Jihu a take nejstar gi Matkou Zlate HvezCu net jsem dostal v gechny dostateene dy (Gold Star Mother) v okresu•Bee. • • informace opravriujici nas k vyplaceni jeho iuilrtni podpory."

Sweetest music in the world is not Bratr Frank Fabian ode gel ve stall from a symphony orchestra nor yet from 83 let. Co mne zajima, jako nynejkho a mockingbird. It's the voice of the girl redaktcra Vestniku, to jsme se narodili you married year ago, corning via long ve stejnY' den, ye stejnem kraji Vala g !distance when you're away on business, -ska,eoyYrzdilen30. saying that all is well at home.

Ve stkedu, due 18. eervna 1952.

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DEJINY EA.DU tECHOSLOVAN tiS1,0 40 sepsane L. C. Vychopnern pled 5 lety. ftdd eislo 40 by..1 zalblen rine 18.. kvetna zabavach se mim jeAte nikdy nestalo, aby tak ae neradi, jsme je museli vyloueit 1,902, a jeho otevlerii provedl dozoree 1 se stala nejaka vraZda, nebo nejaka, vel- 1 a co jsme za ne zaplatili, tak jsme -:tD hirtimiho lt'dtt 7.7r116§ Hrii?:ka. ' ' ka bitka. Ov'Sem, nejaka. Sarvatka se nelztratili. Doufam, le do priStiho sjezdu to dotahnem na, pet set Clem.ftdd bade zaklacialici Clenove byli: Jos \ , 'no- kdy strhne, ale vSe se zase t provna. pen, John V ychopen, L. C. \. 7 ,ehopexi, Tak z 13 Clem, kteki zalolili lad roku I asi pokadat velkou oslavu 45 let .;aloFrank Knebel, John Orsak, Alois Tioj- 1902, vzrostl na vice jak 300 dospelkchl leni ladu a zaroven zlate jubileuin Jedsale; John Chrsmeak, Karel Kal-uitnek, a asi pies 90 deti, takle iname hodneklotY. Ed. L. C. Vychopen. pies 400 elenn.

F. J. Rech, Lea Na zdar!

Anton Hubenalc, Frank Paprskak.

Kdyl uvalime, ze kraj jest pomerne Prvni hrednici zvoleni: Karel Katja.-- nove osazen a v zapadni easti okresu preci:seda: Jos.. 'Vychopen, mistO- Wharton jsou jeAte tli jine lady: Taiton, pkedsecia; John chrornaak, neetni: Pierce a El Campo, pak nedaleko jest Rech, poliladnik; Ganado a El'Maton, musime uznat peG'. Vydhcpen, jempik. ceikeni 13 elenii. Ed. Kainer pak knk rozinach Neni temel jedne schtize, ze spolku':yystoupil a Fr Paprskak aby rids ta.d neptijmul nekolik novkch stQupil ku iticlu.• do Fort Worth a pled za col name co dekovati naSi donclavnem plestotipil Karel Ka,hanek k bre organisatorce, sestle Hradeolte. facia do Jourdanton, NOA lad takknebyl nktlen valeenkch 'Zenateli l 7 tech prVnich za,kladajicieh nebot' ztratil, dva eleny, a sice Oen-a: Leo Hlava,tk, Pr. Reck a Ed Kai- laratra John Badaka, ter zemlel v zaner, takle 7 zaklaclajicich )est„tt jeti v Japonsku po padu Ccrigadoru a radii Od zaloleni. (21enoVA se schaieli,ku bratra Stanly Sobolika, kterk byl sestteodb,Vv c. l,n1 schitzi v cion4 Jos. VYekrolirle, len nad Nemeckem. 23 bratra bylo ye nM)o -ve skole Acianns, A v race valce.

Vaelav a t (die Hradecky si lad po sta v il mengj sin Pkitomai iriednici ladu jsou Josef se pozdoji nedostaialV ,mista, tit se . .",,16predseda; Ed. Kresta, mistopkedAl potud psa,1 nyni nz zenikeV: btH.r nove usnesli, pastavit,,sobe velkou sin, seda; E. K. Hajovskk, tajemnik; Vaclav L. C. Vychopen. Ocievzcial mi je col se stab rokti 1928. Sin postavena Hradeckk, fieetni; Glib Hafernick, po- Psani, abych je zaslala tenkrate jav rozrnirech 96x136 stop, take sin tato: kla,dnik. Bratr E. K. Hajovskk zastava bilejnihO disla Vestnikti. se radi k jedne z nejvet gich 'v Texasu, urad tajemnika po dobu 35 let, col" jest Na'S k 1. lednu 1952 vital 520 do,Siri je. -zaplacena a mame nekolik tisic opravdu dlouha doba. na krome zakoupenkch bondt. Tak hied me s dilverou do bud.3ucna spelch Mena 'a 117 deti a ze My, stall elenove .jsme vekili, jestli le rad poroste 1-naddle, nebot' okoli jest cich Clenn jsou jeke na livu: chceme, aby. iad rosti, ze musime dat haste osazeno naaim lidem, aekoliv be • Frantikk Knebel, Anton liubenak, mladeli nejakou zabavu, nebot' vefime, reme jinonarodovee a nezklamali jsme Or8a,k, Josef Vychopen. Alois Ttrojeak, ze elovek, pottebuje ve svern Zivote tki se v nich al na male vyjimky. Nas lad kterk si vzal "Paid up" a je take .jests veci: praci spanek --- a , zabavu, a tak nebyl take ti. etlen penelnich ztrat, ne- Lv a doufam, ac bratr Fr. Paprskai 2,' kte jsme postavili velkou sin, aby se meli kde f bot' jsiYre museli hodne elenu vyloueit rk pkestoupil do kadu Fort Worth, take. schazet a .se sluthe poba,vit. A' ono Vol pro neplaceni. Add za ne platil na, Hla,vni Mame milou vzpominku na man'1,ely'Papracuie doble u na'Seho kaldu, nebot'pH aladovnu, 'a az nam byli hodne dlulni, prskarovy'ze sjezdu, ktery se konal- c

Cechoslovan 1,odge No. 40, in Hillje, Texas, distriktni sehazi "247a: rad byl 'The home of 'district 'meeting was held • On -June -17; 1951. •• Byla k,inana 17. eervna 1951 v tett)

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vzaia praci jako organisatorka,. On do- seda a rieetni; Frank Churan jako pfedvede elovekti tak mile dodat' chut' k to seda a mistoptedseda; Ign. Boon jako spolkove a narodni praci, Ze takovYch ptedseda; L. C. Vychoperi jako ptedsespolkovjrch pracovnikil bychom pottebo- da. Vgichni tito bratti j.sou :na. veenosti. vali vice. Cest budiZ Varn, bratte. Kne- Byli to ygechni dobfi spolkovi pracovt\tame asi nejstar iho tajemnika,. ne- bel a na gim pfanim jest, byste jegte nici a bratti. best budiZ jejich pamatee! minim na leta, ale 40 let neptetrZite dlouha leta byl mezi narni.

Dale jegte W. C. Kunetka slodzil jako sloe it v jednom &ad & . jako bratr E. K. pokladnik; Alois TrOjeak jako rieetni; Tak dalece, jek jsem mohla zjistit, vy- Ant. Bozos jako neetni. Na g nynej gi pted1-lajovs14, to ttZ je rekord. A pak nag zakIklajici Glen bratr Franti gek Kne- stficiali se nasledujici bratti v rtiznYch seda, brate Josef Rube g uZ nam bet ktery je dosud inn jako pokladnik ritadech: Fred Pola gek, jako tajerimik a neptetrZite 14 let, brats' Ed. Kresta jako Majetkoveho vYboru. Co ho znam, on je ptedseda; Adolf •ola gek jako ptedseda mistoptedseda 17 let; E. K. Hajovsky jak,3 otec tadu. Na jeho podnet jsem a mistoptedseda; Vine Kuleak jako pied- ja.ko tajemnik 40 let; Vaclav HradeckY ; jako rieetni se 'vzdal po 22 letech. Nyni ma.me Chas. Kuleaka jako neetniho; Gilbert Hafernik jako pokla.dnik se vzdal po 18 letech sluZby a ted' p0 nem slotai Frank Sablatura.

V rode 1950 jsme obarvili sin a pti. staveli kuchyri, moderne vybavenou a zavedli butane gas. Sin, je ted' pronajimana ku svatbam a k osadnim slaynostem. Te2 R.V.O.S., oclbYvaji u nas sve schnZe. Nag tad byl prvni, co svolal distriktni TeZ v dobroeinnosti jsme nezustali pozadu. Kdyi yypukla v Evrope valka, daroval na g tad $25.00 pro uprchliky v Anglii, krome dobrovolnYch rek. V eas einnosti S.A.C.T., byla sin zdarma zaprijeovana pro zobavy pro ten noel. ftdd podporoval Matici Vyggiho Cerveny ktiZI , Polio Drive a na Mouekfiv fond bylo zaslano $50.00. ftadove schfize bYvaji dosti dobte navgtevoy any. Otytikrat do roka mivarne spoleone svadiny, coZ je dobra reklama mil beseda.

Bratr E. K. Hajovsky a jeho Volam fadu zdar! ofie Hradecka.

Bratr Hajovsky ma za sebou 401ety rekord co tacloyY tajemnik Fort Worth, kdy nas : v jejich hezkemI ((um eeku hostili. KeZ by mohli ptijet no na§i kvetnovou cslavu 50 lete oslavy nageho facht, 20, kvetna.

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ZALO2ENi NAgICH S. P. J. S. T. RADU Od to .cloby co nage Jednota byla zaloZeno, nekolik facIn na gi Jednoty, pro ruzne prieiny, se rozpadlo neb pfestaly existovatl. PonevadZ vim, Ze mnozi z nagich (lemi o techto tadech nikdy nevedeli a mnozi na ne zapomneli, rozhodnul jsem se venovati na pamatku ternto za, glYm fa.dam nasledujici vzporninky:

na 1928.

Pfivodni tad eislo 38 — Svetlo, byl za; lolen 26. ledna 1902, ye Smithville v okre, I su Bastrop, Texas. Tento fad a fad eislo 52 - Osveta, ktery byl zalolen 12. eervence 1904, take v okresu Bastrop, Texas, spojily se dohromady v eervnu 1944 a utvotily nynej gi tad Osveta eislo 38, kterY je sidlem na Kovar, nekolik mil jihozaPuvodni cad eislo 5 — Jaroslav, byl za- , padne od Smithville, Texas.

1olen v Ammannsville, v okresu Fayette, : slo 43 Bratrska Podpora, byl `rexas, 1. aervence 1897, v den kdy na e ! Add O Jecti.ota, byla zalolena, a rozpadnul se v; zalolen v El Campo, v okresu Wharton, (morn roku 1931. Na g nynej gi fad eislo 5 Texas, 8. 'derma 1902. Tento fad a tad Tioga v Tioga, Texas, byl zalbgen 11. eislo 50 — Pokrok Pierce, kterY byl zaloiljna 1933.

Zen 17 .6ervna 1904 spojily se dohromady 1 ,fijna 1946 a utvotily na g nynej gi tad Puvodni fad eislo 36 — Slovanska, Raze, El Campo 'Oslo 50, kterY je sidlem v El byl zalOZen 21. eervence 1901, v Kinkier v Campo, Texas. okresu Lavaca, Texas, a rozpadnul se v ; lecinu. 1928. Na g nynej gi tad eisio 36 —I Add eislo 46 -- Volnost, byl zalolen 4.

West, y e west, Texas, byl zalolen 29. led- ledna 1903 v Sealy, v okresu Austin, Te-

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Puvodni tad -Oslo 56 -- Uptimnost, byl zalolen 5. kvetna 1905 v Yarrelton, v okresu Milam, Texas, a rozpadnul se 1. tijna 1931. Na g nynej gi fad eislo 56 - - Anton Cermak, byl zalolen 27. fijna 1933 v Corpus Christi, Texas.

Add 'Oslo 53 — OeskY Lev, byl zalolen 2. tijna, 1904 ye Frelsburg, v okresu Colorado, Texas, a rozpadnul se v srpnu 1950.

Puvodni ,tad eisio 78 — Osvetou k Svobode, byl zalolen 16. srpna, 1918 v Lyra, v okresu Palo Pinto, Texas, a rozpadaul se v fijnu 1922. Na g nynej gi tad Oslo 78 -Dobrota, byl zalolen v Dobrowolski v okresu Atascosa. Texas, 29. dervence 1923.

Privodni tad eislo 79 -0 Rozkvet, Holliday v okresu Archer, Texas, a rozpadnul se v. prosinci v roku 1921. Nag nynej gi tad

Ve stredu, dne 18. eervna 1952. tislo 79 -- Corpus Christi, byl zalolen 2. unora 1922 v Corpus Christi, Texas.

Puvodni fad eislo 83 -- Kotva, byl zalolen 13. unora. 13. itimora 1910 v Deweyville v okreau Newton, Texas, a rozpadnul se v kvetnu 1922 Nat nynejti tad dial° 83 - Srdce Jedrioty, byl zalolen 18. eervence 1924 v Columbus, Texas.

Pdvodni fad 'dist° 97-- Strom Slovanti, byl zalolen 17.•dubna 1911 v Orchard, v okresu Fort, Bend, Texas, a rozpadnul se ✓ prosinci 1918. Na g nynej g i lad eislo 97 Placed°, byl zalolen 29. prosince 1918.

Pilvodni tad 'Oslo 70 -- Laskavost, byl zalolen v Guy v okresu Brazoria, Texas, 3. unora 1907, a spojil se s fadem Roz,kvet Rule dislo 81, kterY byl zalolen 25. eervence 1909, a tyto dva spojene lady utvotily nas. nynej g i tad Needville eislo 81, ktery je sidlem v 'Needville, Texas.

Ptivodni lad eislo 74 -- Svatopluk C'ech byl zalolen 29. bfezna 1908 v Halletts• v okresu Lavaca, Texas, a 3. dubna.

1933 spojil se s tadern Karel 11-lavlieek eislo 4, ktery je sidlem v Hallettsville, Tex. Puvodni fad disk) 104 - Texastti Bratfi, byl zaloten 23. sal! 1911, v Yorktown, ✓ okresu Dewitt, Texas, a rozpadnul se 1. eervence 1937. Druhy lad 'Oslo 104 -Svatopluk tech, byl zalolen 22. dervence 1937, v Eagle Lake v okresu Colorado, Texas, a rozpadnul se v roku 1944.

Puvodni tad eislo 113 -- Rozkvet Beasley, byl zalolen 27. dubna 1913, v Beasley ✓ okresu Fort Bend, Texas, a rozpadnul se v lednu 1931. Na g nynejti fad "Oslo 113 Svepomoc, byl zalolen 1. btezna 1934 v George West, Texas.

Ptivodni fad dislo 118 - RudY Prapor, byl zalolen 8. unora 1914 v Thurber, v okresu Erath, Texas, a rozpadnul se 14. srpna 1921. Na g nynejti fad Oslo 118 -Kingsville, byl zalolen 7. prosince 1924 v Kingsville, Texas. ftdd eislo 121 -- Spravedlnost, byl zalolen 2. srpna 1914 v Dickson, v okresu Lavaca, Texas, a pfidal se k fadu eislo -27 - Pokrok Moulton, kterY je sidlem v Moulton, Texas, koneem ledna 1950.

Piwodni fad eislo 137 - Lilie, byl zaloien 24. bfezna 1918 v Louise, • v okresu Wharton, Texas, a rozpadnul se v Onoru 1939. Na g nynejti tad disk) 137 - Taft, byl zalolen 5. bfezna 1939 v Taft, Texas. ',tad dislo 159 -- Rosenberg, kterY byl zaloten 12. unora 1937 v Rosenberg, v okresu Fort Bend, Texas, a spojil se vi roku 1942 s tadem eislo 108 -Jiri PodebradskY, kterY byl zalolen 5. eervna 1912, a tyto dva lady 'utvolily nynejti fad 081 108 -- Rosenberg, kterY je sidlem v Rosenberg, Texas.

• Ponevadl jsem vynatel, le kdyi nekterY fad se rozpadne a to same eislo se pak da nektereinu novemu radu, ze z toho pozdaji povstavaji na Illavni itfadovne

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zmatky a nedorozumeni, od to doby co Rad Pokrok Pierce Cis. 50 --rt. srpna jsem nastoupil Utad tajemnika Hlavni 1904. fadovny a site 1. ledna 1941, pfijali jsme Rad Vernost Cis. 51 - 17. eervenee1904. pravidlo, le kdyi je zalolen novy tad, tak Rad Jaromir Oslo 54 - 1. prOgitice le tornu novernu fadu vldycky dame nova 1904. dial°. Pro to ptieinu nemame v na g i JedAdd Hvezdnaty Prapor Cis. 55 3./ note nasledujici disla facia: 43-46-52-eel, 3 Jul tqc+7401,44sk i I Atv kvetna 1905.

53, '70 104-121 159, neb tarly nesouPad Anton Cermak, cis 56 - 27.111n-a. ci tato eisla ptestaly existovati od 1. led1933. na 1941.

Rad Jan Hus, cis. 57 -- 25. eervna' 1005.

Doufarn, le toto ptipomenuti tech zaAdd Columbus els. 58 -- 6. eervonce, g lYch neb rozpadlYch nati Jednoty 1905. ptivede jim do mysli nekterYch nagich Rad Bratfi Jihu, Cis. 59 -- 5. listopactu, teems a z y latte tech, kteti patrili k ne1905. kteremu z techto za g lych radii a pfipo- I Add Bratti Svornosti, Cis. 60 mene jim blphe vzpominky do minulosti stopadu, 1905. a mnoho veci na ktere jiz davno zapo- 19 Rad Vesmir, Cis. 61 -- 26.

Innen.

Prvnich petadvacet radii nati Jednoty Rad Rozkvet, Cis. 62 -3. ledna 1906. bylo zaloleno soudasne se zalolenim. nagi 21.

Rad Pokrok Sweet Home, Cis. 63 Jednoty, L eervence 1897. ledna., 1906.

27 kvetRad Slo yan Jihu - eislo 26, byl zaloAdd Pokrok Plumu, eis. 64 'ten 19, sat i 1897, a fad Pokrok Moutonu na, 1906. dish) byl zalolen 17. fijna 1897.

15. ecrAdd Prapor Magnolia, els. 65 vence, 1906 Dalt" nasledujici byly zaloteny, jak n 16. za•, Rad Slovanska Lipa, eis. 66 sleduje: Add Karel Jona g eislo 28 -- 20. btezna 1906.

26 P1Rad Bratti Svobody, eis 6'7 1898 na, 1906 Rad Praha els. 29 - 16 dubna 1899.

Rad Vesmerrtost, eis.68 - 25. li;-,topadu, Rad Hvezda Jihu Cis. 30 - 17. sari 1899. 1906.

Add Poltrolt Slovanft cis. 31 -- 17. proRad Nova Osada, els. 69 - 20. ledna, since 1899.

1907. lad Na g inec Cis. 32 - 16. dubna 1900.

Rad NovY Raj, Cis. 71 -- 19. kvetira, 1907 Rad. Hvezda Miru eis. 33 - 10. eeryna 1. cer\ h 0, Cis. 72 Rad Pokrok 1900.

1907.

Rad Slovantti Bratti Cis. 34 - 28. N1. prosince, Rad Sam Houston, Cis. 73 ita 1900.

1907.

Rad Nove Kvety Cis. 35 - 3. unora 1901.

Rad Borovy Ha,j, els. 74 - 3. fijna, 1934. ftdd Slovanska Rule Cis. 36 - 21, eerRad Svoboda, els. 75 28. dubna, 19051 vence 1901. (Tento fad se rozpadnul v Rad Neodvislost, els. 76 -- 4. eervcncr, lednu 1928).

1908.

Rad Nova Vlast Cis. 37 - 27. fijna 1901.

Rad Iiivezda Praporu, els. 77 - 5. YetRad Svetlo Cis. 38 - 25. ledna 1902. vence, 1908 .

(Tento tad se spoil! s tadem Osveta Cis. Rad Dobrota, Cis. 78 - 16. srpna, 1922.

52, a tento spojeny fad je nyni tad OsveRad Tyrl, Cis. 80 - 28. ilfmora 1909. ta Cis. 38).

Rad Needville ;els. 81 - 25. eervence, Rad Bedfich Smetana els. 39 - 4. kvet- 1909. na 1902.

Rad Oechil Domov, Cis. 82 - 7. listopa Rad 6echoslovan Cis. 40 - 18. kvetna du , 1909 • 1902.

Rad Srdce Jednoty, Cis. 83 - 18. OcrRad Nova Ratolest Cis. 41 - 25. kvet- vence, 1924. na 1902. ftdd Pokrok Dallas, Cis. 84 --- 20. unora, kad Moravan els. 42 ---- 1 eervence 1902. 1910.

Rad • Bratrska. Podpora Cis. 43 - 8.

Rad Pokrok Haskell, Cis. 85 - 22. unora 'derma 1902. (Rad tento se spojil s fadem 1910.

Pokrok Pierce Cis. 50, a tento spojeny fad Rad SlovanskY Svaz, Cis. 86 - 24. unora, je na g nynejti tad El Campo Cis. 50).

Rad Hvezda Svobody, Cis. 87 - 25. dubhad t etti Bratti Cis. 44 - 6. dervence na, 1910.

1902.

Add Pokrok Houstonujis. 88 - 1. kvet-Rad Vlastenec cis. 45 - 19 .zafi 1902. na, 1910.

Rad Volnost Cis. 46 -- 4. ledna 1903.

Rad RillovY Dviir, Cis. 89 - 15. kvetRad Hvezda Texasu Cis. 47 - 1. lakez- na, 1910. no. 1903.

Rad Slovanska Sdruleni, Cis. 90 -Rad Vytehrad Cis. 48 - 18. fijna 1903. kvetna, 1910.

Rad Pokrok Roweny els. 49 - 2. kvetna.

Rad San Jacinto, eis. 91 -. 26. eervn, 1910.

1904.

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kad Svaz 6'echoslovantii, Ms. 92 - 4. za •i, 1910.

Pad Karnes, eis. 93 • - 30. fijna, 1910.

Rad Dennice, Ms. 94 --- 24. listopadu, i 910.

Itad 'C'eskSr Den.,eis 95 -- 29. ledna, 1911.

Rad Krasna, cis. :96 -- 22. Unora, 1911.

Rad Placeclo, els. 97 - 29. prosince, 1918% Add Vitez, cis. 98 -- 30. dubna, 1911 Rad RadhoSt', els 99 --- 21. kvetna, 1911. :Rad Pokrok MlacieZe, cis. 102 -- 28. kvetna, 1911.

Rad- Pokrok Gainesville, Ms. 101 18. cciwna, 1911.

Dad Hvezda MladeZe, els. 102. - 16. eery ( ne(y, 1911.

Pad`Pokrok Flatonia, cis. 103 - 17. zaci, 1911.

Ilej Slovane• Ms 105 - 21. listo 1911.

1 Ceeho Morava,n, Cis. 106 • , )12.

Rozkvet 4Znpaciu, eis. 107 11, 1912.

Pr)M nIa 1 ,:„cis. 101 ■ r cervna, 1Zailecky, eis. 109 • 25. srpna,1912: lna Pos.ich"- cis'. 119 27.'

2 Jaroslay Vrelnicky, pt wince, 1912.

IT1 . 13. Zthi l nek els. 1 12 6. duly n9 10111 IDid Svenolnoc, eih 1, 40:ozria 1924.

V.Yzovien, cis. 114 8. eervna, ,1913.

Ciarw000, cis. 115 - 17. srpr Pozkvet Cooks Point, cis. 116 23.

111 3.

Robstown 117 - 9. listopadu, 1113 b".ingsville, Cis. 118 - - 7. prosince, 1924.

Slovanska, Prilditost, Cis. 119 22. bi.ezna, 1914. tio.c1 Pokrok Deanville, Cis. 1.20 -- 29. (':ervna, 1914.

Rad Nova Doba, cis. 122 11. Mina, 1914.

Rad "VS'eslovan, Cis. 123 - 6 prosince, 1914.

Rad. SlovanskV Dilworth, cis. 124 -- 28. bkzna, 1915 . :Rad Touha, cis. 125 - 11. dubna, 1915. .-,kad Dubow(' HSj, cis. 126 -- 6 .prosince. 1915 Pokrok Kenedy, cis. 127 - -1. ledna 19[1 ii' nlratrske Spojeni, cis. 128 -(16le 1916.

Ladimir Klacel, Cis. 129 -.- 23. club1,a, 1916.

7. ledna, 1917 ED ci Jaro, &is. 130 1 Unora, 1917,1 1Z,-id Alamo, Cis. 131 11';,(1 Svatopluk, Cis 132 25. nnors,

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1917.

Fad Texask7, Kvet, Cis. 158 -1, .zati, Rad San Antonio, els. 133-- 18. bfezna,, 1936..

1917.

Rad T. G. Masaryk, Cis. 160 - 20. kijRad Bratfelov. Cis. 134 8, Ce.rvence, na, 1937. .

Rad La Parita,. Cis 161 -- 6. ledna, 1938.

1917. • Add Pokrok Brazoria, Cis. srp,Rad •Volna 6echie, Ms. 135 28. eerna, 1938. • vence 1917.

Add Markham, Cis. 163 20. zaki, ftact Liberty, cis. 130.-- 26. prOsince, 1941.

1917.

5. bfzena, 1939. . Rad J. R. Kubena, Cis, 164 •- 20, dubna, Rad Taft, cis. 137 • Rad VytrValost Ms 138 - 24 brezna 1942.

Rad Culak, 'eis 165 - 1. .listopadu, 1918. ' Add Danbury, cis. 139 30. eeryna, 1950.

Predchazejici seznam radtz a datum 1918.

Rad Rozkvet Svobody, Cis. 140 23. jejich zaloleni pkedkladam yam; bratki sestry, s mySlenkou, ze snad Vas to bade Unora, 1919.

Rad Cechoslobak, Cis. 141 - 18. kvet zajimati, 'kdy erase kady byly zaloieny a take proto, Ze kdybyste hekdy chteli na, 1919.

Rad 8tefanik ;Cis. 142 -- 17. srpna, 1919. pokadati neja,kou oslavu na vSrroei zalokad Primo ti, cis. 143 - 17. srpna, 1919. Zeni nekterYch z techto radtt, abyste 'veRad Slavic,, Cis. 144 -- 20. bfezna, 1920. deli datum' jejich zakleni. )• Rad Mora, ysk:Orliee (. 1 ,, 145 1 bfezAPPRECIATE YOUR ENEMIES na, 1925.

Rad Woodrov 146 4. proYour best friends wpn't tell you. Ti eY since, 1921.. will gloss over your faults, unwilling to Rad Elms nt.nn 15. dubna, hurt your feelings -- or maybe they have 1928. the same faults and that's Why they're 0. fij- your friends. But if you want the real lOw Rad Tonv Jefferson, Cis, 149 na, 1928. clown on how to rate, listen to your eneRad. AuL, ust liaiduAek ois. 150 - 19. mieS. The'll not only tell y2u '- they'll listopadu 1933. tell everybody else! ftacl • Wharton, els 151 -- 25 11,-1opadu I must admit Fin pretty far from be1933 ing the perfect human, but any improveAdd Pokrok Agua Dulce, Cis. 152 16.1 ment I've ever made was accomplished prosince, 1933., by listening to my enemies. Yes,, we all fiad pokrok Benview, ci8.153 6. pro have them. since, 1933.

Friends are wonderful for our. self.t'ort *orth, Ms. 154 - 6 eei vna, esteem; they smooth the hard places and give us a lift when we need it But if you 1934. itad Maya Texasu, Ms. 155 8. bkezna, want an honest picture of yourself, just 1935. listen to your enemies descibe you. It may ftad Pokrok Baytown, Ms 156 -1, kvet- be a caricature - and .a cruel one -- but na, 1935.

-1 they-11 put their finger on your outstandRad Rozkvet na Plains, Ms. 157 L. 18. ing fault, a.,nci that's something •to- be eternally grateful to them for! elervence, 1935 .

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STEPHEN VALCIK:

FIGHTING FEAR OF A LANGUAGE After having taught college and university students for. almost a decade, Dr.1 John M. Skrivanek, professor of Slavonic! languages, makes some pointed remarks I concerning methods of teaching and learning foreign languages. For instance, FEAR cf a new language calls for prompt! preventive measures or the psychological defect will remain to haunt the student! for years and years. The Language Laboratory, which professor Skrivanek has used during the last school year, is an innovation which not only helps to banish fear, but also improves considerably the understanding and speaking faculties of the student. Use of tape recorders in, classes as well as during office hours and in conferences with students, makes it possible to separate the analytical-synthetic part of the language course from that of the initiative-reiterative. The latter, which is of a mechanical nature, usL'ally consumes seventy-five per cent (75/0) of the class time it is here that modern innovaticns such as the recorder can be of great aid to t,he teacher of beginners' foreign language classes.

Every earnest student, desiring to acquire the knowledge and skills that go with a new foreign language, knows that he must, first, get to know his professor well; conversely, a good teacher must also know his students; secondly, every effort must be made to gain entry to a small class in preference to the large classes; thirdly, beginners' fear of the language must be banished by introducing foreign language words into the English conversation gradually; fourthly, modern innovations must be utilized to the greatest extent; fifthly, laboratories must be available to every student; be used to help those who are slow, and need help with translations, conservation, reading exercises and special oral

practices.

Today's scientifically-minded professors will not only demand changes, but , will also help to . bring about smaller I classes, properly equipped laboratories,' where phonograph records, tape record-1 ers, ear phones, etc. are standard equip-, I ment of modern language laboratory.

Searching for additional uses of the tape recorder, Dr. Skrivanek decided to, use it in every examination during the and finally, outstanding students should Past semester. The results were good and students enjOyed the experiences 'very

much. During the final examination of the extension course at ,Lodge Pokrok No. 88 recently, the members of the Czech class had an opportunity to listen to a tape recording of their own voices. Each student was able not only to hear himself read in the Czech language, but also to observe his skill in articulation and pronunciation. In sholt, the recorder not only simplified the professor's home work, but also extends the auro-oral instruction beyond the limits of class 'time. and improves greatly the understanding and speaking faculties of the learner.

MOM

Dr. S.

M. Skicivinek

ANTONIE HORAKOVA:

TROCHU MINULOSTI I BUDOUCNOSTI Jako kaZde etyti roky, i letos pied sjez- 1 Jan Filipec. dem nagi Slovanske Poclporujici Jednoty " Zakladajicich Menu bylo 14 a s pfeStatu Texasu, jdou vzpominky co jsme stupni listinou 27 dlenft. Dosud zijici zaza ty ctyri roky udinili, neb co jsme opo- kladajici dleni jsou: Marie Filipec, Anna menuli. Jderne-li dale do minulosti hle- IVIachae, Julie Robinson, Baena Valdik. dat, pokraeujeme-li ye glepejich nasich Ostatni dlenove bud' vystoupili neb ptali zakladajicich neb jsme se minuli k jinemu tadu a ti, co zemteli, spi veenS7 povolanim.

1 spanek.

V techto radkach zajdu trochu do mi- I tlenove, kteti ptigli s ptestupni listihulosti. , I nou, tech jest dosud na 'Zivu cela iada Rad Jaro eislo 130 byl zalolen dne 7. jau dosud napomocni v praci ta,clove. ledna. 1917. Uveclen do SPJST bratty souNovo zalozeneho radu dosud Ziji: Jan i'adu a to bratry Vavtin Drobil a Filipec p â&#x20AC;˘edseda, Alois Sill mistopferlse-

da, Josef Goebl Ueetni, zeintel, Jan Van dura tajemnik, ta zemfel, Joe ZazWorka pokladnik, dosud Zije a je u fadu v Ennis.

Eruha schfize byla v tomte2 mesici, dne 28. ledna, kdy ptistoupilo dal gich 5 elenil a zavedena nemocenska, podpora, popla,tek 15 centii na elena inesidne, a vyplati se v take nemoci tti dolary na jedno etvrtleti.

V to same schazi uz byla 'Zadost o podporn v nemoci. V listopadove schfizi (oho sameho roku si stauje br. fieetni, Dove neplati mesidni poplatky na

TFIXALI tad a odporueuje, by se tako yYm poeitalo po nekolik let s nade.ii, 2,e pfece zao 5 centft mesiene vice, neb br.,neetni ma plati, ale nestalo se talc Koneene jsme tini dvojitou praci. se nautili upominat kahle tri mesice a kdy2 nezaplati, clan ho Utednici na susProeitam jeden protokol za druhYm a pendaeni listinu. setkavam se stale se stejnou stiSnosti.

NynejSi • bratti, tajemnik Joe Maca a Na ykteva schuzi tee mala. Co se WO, pra- neetni Arnold Vrla pini ustano yeni radoce sester, nejvice jest jmenovana sestra, ye a pracuje to.

Hem2.."alova, neb neni jednoho podniku, V tomto roce 1952 Mame 211 dospelYch aby neptinesla nejakou rani praci ku Menu, v detskem odboru 74 eleny. NejyydraSeni, nejvice na nemocenskou pod- vySSi pojiSteni elenti dospelYch 'name 2 pont. Pak jest Marie Filipec, Anna Ma- I 'deny na $5.000.00, 1 Glen na $4,000.00, 3 ehae, Baena Valeik. Tyto sestry dOsud I deny na $3,000.00, ostatni eleno ye jsou POdpoti kaidY taclovY podnik a z bratril na dva tisice a na, tisic dolaru. vypomohou Stan. Etilovec, Who dame k V cletskem odboru mime jen jedno ditwalevne, a br. Alois Sill nam nadela dobre pojiSteno na $5,000.00, ostatni maji 2 jitrnice. V roce 1928-29 br. Jos. Vita byl 1 a 1 tisicove pojiSteni. ustanoven fadovYm organisatorem. ikaclovY majqtek: $2,03.00 uloSeno Dosud nemame saloSenY cletsky. odbor. bondech a $2,111.32 jest na hotovosti.

Tedy teto price se ujala sestra, Ant. OnVe sjezdu y e Fort Worth jsme meli cleclruSkova a detskY odbor saloSen dne 1. nu 261. Tedy co se tyka elentt ledna 1930 a . uvedeno do neho 16 ditek. Z jsme upadli, ale byli jsme nuceni nektetechto sakladajicich Menu jest 9 u na ge- re dat prye, za kteryrni jest i velka fiho tadu s pojistkou 201etou. Nekteri se naneni strata, a pak dosti elenti ma vyodstehovali a picestoupili k tamnejSim iplacenou 201etou pojistku, a tee nekolik •acWm. Umrti jsem men.

Bratr Vita se vzdal organisatorst yi a Toto vSe neomlouva naSe organisatory. feho misto zaulala sest. Ant. Ondrigek. Die Hlavni Uradovny jich mame pet. TM Ziskavdme nave 61eny a i finanene tro- z nich jsou praci zamestnani denne, i chu rosteme. Ustanoveni za tri leta dalM pozde do noci. Tedy prace orga,nisaeni u organisatoi•i: J. BouSka a Wm. Nesuda. riaSeho raclu neni dobra, potrebujeme poNovyeh elenu stale pribyva, ale s nimi pohaneee. Ja samotna ua nejsem organiPacioveho dluhu. Tecly v teto povinnosti satorkou. Po mnoho let musela jsem to jsme se closud nepolepsi1i. Jaci byli zakla- I price nechat nasledkem nemoci v rodine. dajiei clenove, takovYmi byli a jsou i no- Lituji toho dodnes, neb kdyS jsem se zave pfijati. Byli jsme nuceni nektere vy- , pracovala, meta ziskane eekatele, jen pHloueit, platili jsme za ne rnesieni poplat- jit v pozdejAi dobe, tak jsem toho museftad

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due 1l,erVXAa. 1952.

In nechnt.

Mne teSila price Organisaeni, price spolkoya, schtize, price hlavnich nrednikti, ujednani sjezdoye, iprava, stanov a pak finaneni sta y. U raclu a po nekolik let u Sokola jsem stale horovala o koupeni i nejakeho pozemku, kde bychom si postavili peknott budovu spolkovou s dostateenYm mistem pro parkovani kar a lifiSte pro cleti. Dosud k tomu nedoSlo, a ja starnu po 301ete praci spolkove, zaeinam ustupovat.

RAO Jaro jest star 35 let. Neoslavili jsme to letos, snad moje vina. V loni v, lete jsem si uctelala poznamku v mem za-: pisniku a pak jsem na to zaponmela.

Pripravy ku sjezdu odbYvanemu dne 23. dervna letos v Houstonu, Texas, sleduji s velkym zajmeni.

MYm pranim by bylo, bychom men svou Hlavni Utado ynu prestehovanou ye vetSim meste a v na gi vlastni budove.

DluSime si to sami sobe na naSim novYm denim.

Potrebujeme rozdeleni statu na organisaeni okresy a upravit praci orgO,nisae ni. Mnoho Clem zaeina miti vyplacene 15-201ete pojistky, umiraji stari elenove, jejich misty se musi dopinit. ttulek pro stare nemajetne eleny aneb peneSitou mesioni podporu.

PremYSlim-li o tom vSem, tak tento sjezd bude nejaileSitejSim ze vSech sjezcin predchazejicich.

Preji vSem bra.trum a sestram delegattn ye sjezdu pritomnYm mnoho zdaru.

Slovan Isla 9 z roku 1947

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JOSEF KOLIHA, Jr.: Seznam zaklidajicich Slovanske Podporujici Jednoty Statu Texas Mrs. Amalie (Horak) Sugarek Jmeno Pat fl k radu Pfistoupil Jmeno Pahl k faclu Pfistoupil elena Kubenka, Frank Kubenka, Karolina Jureak, John Jureak, Frances Prasatik, Anna Prasatik, John Shiller, Matilda Bohae, Frances Balcar, Frank Junek, Marie Junek, William Ktenek, Julia Hajek, Marie Matik, Terezie Baka, John Jalufka, Agnes Hroinadka, Terezie Kubena, Joseph Valigura Terezie Svetlik, Marie Marek, Marie Valchat, Terezie.

Dueek, Marie Krajea, Marie Kueera, John Mynat Pavel Surovik, Jos. Vavra, Jos. N. Sirnek, Frank Lukea, Tom Dueek, Therese KozelskY, Johana Kunetka J. A. Maly, Tom Holub, Aug. Kruppa, Aloisie Zisa, Frances Olejnik, Anna Tobolka, Anna Bilek, Frances Balcar, Jos.

eielo k fadu eislo elena. 'eislo k rad') eislo 3 3 Balcar, Marie 65 9 65 3 Balcar, Vine 9 71 Prikryl, Agnes 6 Matocha, Josefa 72 15 89 Dada, Veronika 15 Surovik, Rosie 17 89 91 9 Vajdak, Josefa 18 Janota, Tom 98 100 9 Sebesta, Anna 100 9 Slovdeek, Joe 9 9 Fojtik, Anna 103 19 9 9 13 Mares, Frances' 120 11 10 1 126 Husak, John Sr. 10 10.

1 Husak, Anna 126 11 11 133 24 Marek, Jos. J. 11 11 33 133 Kubala, Frank 12 12 23 165 Mladenka, John 13 13 27 Svoboda, Veronika 165 13 13 165 Valenta, Terezie 10 15 15 Tito shora uvedeni elenove a elenkyne 16 8 v poetu 60 jsou pozhstali z tech 880 ele16 16 nn, ktefi 1. dervence 1897 na gi Jednotu 17 17 zaloZili v La Grange, okres Fayette, Tex. 17 17 Jsem jistY, ze vyslovuji a tlumoeim city 17 17 a myelenky veech Menu na gi Jednoty, 17 17 kdyZ jim jmenem cele mei Jednoty vy17 17 slovuji nag e blahopfani, Ze se dbZili XVI. 17 17 sjezdu nagi Jednoty a soueasne 55. jubi21 21 lea zalokni nagi Jednoty.

7 24 Tern, ktefi zemfeli, venujeme milou 11 28 vzpominku a pfejeme jim tichY spanek, 12 28 yeenY mir a pokoj.

10 31 Veem zakladateltim nasi Jednoty jsme 17 39 vdeeni za to, Ze oni nasi Jednotu zaloZili 40 a za to, co oni pro na gi Jednotu a pro nas 40 vykonali.

10 45 At' vzbominka na ne a naee vdeenost 17 47 jim, nikdy nevymizi z nagich srdci a 50 16 mysli.

12 54 J.' F. Chupick, 9 65 tajemnik Hlavni Ufadovny SPJST.

1-10W MUCH SLEEP?

How much sleep is enough? Edison is • id to have slept an average of only 20 to 21 hours a week. Napoleon is said to have required equally little sleep. Cool- ' idge, on the other hand, is supposed to have needed nine to ten hours of sleep every night.

Why do men vary so in the amount of sleep they need? Well, partly because they vary in the actual amount of expendable energy they possess. Perhaps the chief reason some persons need less sleep than others is that they have perfected the art, of remaining relaxed. They are fully relaxed when they sleeo, and

thus receive more beneficial sleep. Such persons, too, usually train themselves to take cat naps during the day. The quality of your sleep, therefore, is much more important than its quantity: Sleep comes from habit, exhaustion or drugs. You may be put to sleep (in the sense of losing consciousness) by a hypnotist, a political speech, or a blow on the head with a baseball bat. You would not expect to recover-from each of these with the same degree of refreshment and high energy. ) • 4 • I The President of the United States should be addressed as Mr. President, or Sir.

Mrs. Amalie (Horak) Sugafek was born in Austin County, near Cat Springs, Texas, on April 6, 1856. Her parents, born . in Czechoslovakia, came to Texas in the early part of 1856 and settled in Austin County, later they moved to Fayetteville in Fayette County, and after living here a number of years they moved to Praha, located in the western part of FaYette County, and it was here that she met and married Chas Sugarek. The wecldine, was on January 9 ,1877.

The young couple made their home at Praha for several years, then moved to a't place called Moravia in Lavaca County, where they purchased a farm and where they resided until the Fall of 1890 when they moved to Bee County, settling about six miles southwest of Beeville, in what is called the Central community, where they purchased and improved a tract ,01 land, it was here that Mrs. Sugarek continued to make her home until after the death of her, husband, which occured on.

October 22, 1932. After the death of her husband she moved to Beeville, Texas, where she resided until her death which occured on August 21, 1951.

She lived to be ninety-five years of age and had resided in Bee County for sixty-two years.

She was the mother of six children, five sons and one daughter. One son died in infancy, another son Eddie was killed in action in World War I, and another son Lidumil died in April 1951.

The two surviving sons James W. and Charles El., still reside in the Central community, on well improved farms, and the daughter Mrs Mary R. Longino resides at Ingleside, Texas.

Surviving her at the time of her death were also twelve grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren and one greatgreat-grandchild.

Mrs. Sugarek joined the SPJST, Lode Slovan Jihn No. 26 in September 1904, and always took great interest in lodge work and community affairs, especially during her younger days.

She was the oldest member of Lodge Slovan Jihu No. 26 SPJST at the time of her death, and also was ' the oldest Gold Star Mother in Bee County. ) • 4 • t Six attempts to gain statehood were made by Utah before it finally suyceeded on January 4, 1896. Admission was repeatedly refused because ;;I" polygamous practires.

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A takovY okamZik nezmerneho vYznamu — kdo2 vi, kdy rids (Dean Alford.) ptekvapi?

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Vzdavame, uprinme diky dp. Josetu Koppovi a dp.

Idlatochevi za vykonant smuteenich obiadu a za laskava slava utechy.

Dale dektdeme varhaniku, zpevakilm, daream kve-: On a, panu Sn'Jthovi a Edw. Da •ilkovi za vypraveni poVgenr sestram a brat am Oda Po'krok Moultonu cis.'

27 SPJST, a vSeln piatelum, kteri nom jakimkoliv zpfisobent I.yli napomoeni v naSent zartnutku a zesnolon k veenemu odpeeinku doprovotlili.

VS'em Pan .Bith zaplat'.

Spi sladee draha maniellto, matko, babielto a prababieko, a edpoeivej v ,pokcji.

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Jezdila do Brna uZ .LAWRENCE DITTER iadu let \Tidy v ureiZa okresniho klerka tYcn obdobien, kdyZ se • • 31. nanfornaano vice vyWELDON B. DAVIS sivek. Bravais, je do Za okresniho navladniho prodeje i domacim dev(County Attorney) cattm, Pti pradeji miM. H. KIENSTEADT vala dosti nspechu, proto snad, ze se jeji Za vYbereiho - odhadoiho dani • zjev kaZdemu libil; TRUMAN A. MADDOX ba2c to byl zjev uz stazagerifa reekV. Oblekala se tak pekne, eiste, ze mnoheOKRES BURLESON mu se namanulo v myELDRIDGE W. BARTAY -13abka — ale AvarZa gerifa • . ua babka!"

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Mel jsem ze zaeatku na mysli oriu lit- I ku napsati dostibrzo, aby se to dostalo, do tisku pied vanoci aneb vannenich sel, ale nedoglo k tomu.

Z techto za prvni, kdynfij posledni dopis byl odhadovan na body, kde osm bodd bylo uznanYch co nezavadna latka, ale devatY bod co zavadnY a skonfiskovanY, pry patrici sjezdu, tu jsem se odmleel, neb jseni musel dopinit moji knihovnu, abych si byl jistY v pravech obeanskYch a po tro ge, pokud mi Cas volP. a pi. John Staga, nY dovoluje, studoval tu na gi dstavu SpojenYch state a take ta prava obeanska, stolafem v Hodslavicich, rodi gti Palackenemluve neb nevyjimaje na g e stanovy a ho, jestli se dobre pamatuji. Jeho rodina stanovy rfiznYch spolk0 poji g t'ujicich na portstavala z manZelky, jedne dcery EZivot. milie — volali ji Milka podle velikosti Mtij nalez shrnu jen paru slovy ye vy-1 mela g kolu uz vyjdenou, a dvou chlapcu, jadteni, ktere to snad bude postaeitelne jeg te skolaku. Jednomu • bylo, myslim, prozatim: Frantik, a druhemu Rudolf. Pravili mi, KaZdY obean tato zeme by se mel na ze zde v Texas maji bratra Josefa, kterY prvnim miste obeznamit s tou na gi dsta- jest fararem. Pozdeji jsem take poznal you, a take s temi obeanskYrni privy; a Rev. Jos. Bartone. BYval v Granger kakdykoliv by chtel nekdo jej karat a brat zatelem (",l esko - MorayskYch Bratri, a mu ta zarueena zprava, aby umel se bra- kdyoje matka zemrela, tak vykonal nit; ten se odvolat tam, kde to nejvic je pohrebni obrady. Bylo to v roce 1940 v Zadouci. A to misto snad je na prvnim Buckholts. Ona si prala, aby on ji pochomiste v redakci neb u redaktora, pak u val vzdorv tomu, ze byla yyznani katoliTiskoveho vYboru, jestli stava jakY, pak ckeho. Rudolfa Bartone, kter' byva u Hlavni dradovny, a doladovat se u West, jsem jednou potkal a to ye sjezde techto rovnopravi, aby take oni °bens si ve Flatonii, kde RVOS spolek drZel sydj zopakovali obeanska prava, ne-li jiz elen- sjezd, pry na poeest Bohdanu Kalusovi, ska a spolkova. K tomuto dodavam, ze bYvalemu tajemniku VYkonneho VYboru mravy jsou jistej gi zaglitou spoleeenstva RVOS. Rudolf byl tehdy take delegatem. neZli zakony.

KdyZ jsme se nasnidali, tak jsme se Kemal jsem naladu hned psat, ale ze dali prohliZeti mesto, obchody, domky, ujsem tak slibil, to slibu chci dostat; a lice a take namesti a trZi gte, ktereho bypak vyzkouget take nove darovane pero. ly dva etverce. Rolnici tarn na vozech A nyni k tern dojrntim pristehovalce. kofirni a mulami dopravovali svoje vYrobKdyZ jsem s mojimi rodiei a stargim ky a bavinu v balech po odZinovani. Kupbratrem Josefem a sestrou Annou vyci bavinovi si vylezli na vdz a nolem sko,stoupili z vlaku Santa Fe v nadraZi mero celY obal jutovY porezali, kde si brali sta Temple 11 .prosince 1906 nekdy v noz vlakna vzorky a podavali svoje kupni ci ,pied ranem, eekala tam na nas sestra gtni. Na Marie s jejim muZem. Byla provdana za ceny. Nabidky tyto byly zvla klad, jeden kupec rekl, "Dam ti 9 a pill"; stargiho osadnika Frantu Poborila pri odruhY rekl, devet a lest bitil"; jiny sada Seaton. "devet a sedm osmin" a nekteri kupPo privitani se byli jsme zavedeni do ci pouZivali ty zlomky i v gestnactkach, velke restaurace, kterou vlastnil eirian. kterym rolnici mene rozumeli a nekdy Byla v tu dobu hodne popularni. byli i podvedeni. Nyneigi zpdsob stotinoMimo nas vystoupili z vlaku dva chlap- vY jest praktietejgi. ci, Theodor a Jaroslav s jejich matkou, Prodavali take kornu, seno, o yes, dona ktere take Cekal jejich otec a muz, Jo- bytek hovezi, veprovY a drtitbeZ. Kari a sef Dana. Pak jeg te jeden svobodnY mla- mull byl velkY vYber. Kteri vlaStnili lesy, dik, jmenem Jan DoleZal, kterY jest jiZ, prodavali kordove drew) na topeni a tadavno mrtev. ke i na drobno na gtipane. Cedrove sloupTake rodina Bartoriova jela tou samou ky byly take oetne zastoupene, ponejvice lodi co my, a ja s chlapci na lodi °Was lidmi z cedrovYch lesd od Belton. Dnegni se segel a s nimi mluvil. Pan Barton byl dobou na jednom torn etverci jest chlouba,

mesta, mestska radnice, "City Hall", a ten druhY etverec , uZ take .malo 0, 4,3*Igegg Tebdy mi ani ve mu nenapa,d1o, ze za tficet let povedu na jedne tete, ulici, mezi temi dvema etverci, nastup pro eeskou Besedu, ktera, portistavala, ze Aesti kolon.

Osady, vlastne i mesta, byly zastoupene: Temple, Seaton, Cameron a .Buckholts.

Byvali jsme v to dobu v Temple, bylo to v roku 1937, kdy jsern byl povefen dat aekolik kolon dohroma,dy a secvidit je.

Toto nacvieovani jsme delali v seatonske sini radii Hvezda Texasu 'Oslo 47, pH fonografu, kterY i s rekordy Ceske Besedy zapdjeil br. Frank Matush. Cvieili jsme i Iv Cameron, kde jsem take dojiklel i s manZelkou, ktera, mi byla hodne napomocna, nebot' ona mela eeskou Besedu i sokolske cvieeni v malieku. Havrankovi, jak a nas bYvali, mnohemu taneenimu kroku nas naueili.

Tarn v Cameron v sini zase Polda Majek pri cvieeni hraval na tu jeho dvoufadovku.

Templovgti krajane, sem .tarn byli jsou dodnes podnika,vi a zale2elo jim, abychom jinonarodovce pfesvedeili nebo obeznamili s naimi narodnimi tanci. 2e program byl pfedern dobfe oznamen v dennich novinach "Temple Telegram", o co se br. Matush staral,a redaktor toho deniku na druhY den mel obAirnY referat, kde oznamoval, ze nastup kolon, tanec a odchod pri hudbe Ignace Baee z Buckholts.

Bylo to nee° zvla gtniho, co bylo pfijate pochvalne zastupem . shromaZdenYm v Temple. Divan pfitomnYch bylo odhadovano od desiti do dvanacti tisic. Mesto Temple nielo v . roku 1937 nejakYch Ctrnact tisic obyvatel, tak'Ze mnoho divaka pfijelo z dalekeho okoli.

V roce 1906 vet gina ulic byla 'riedla2dena, a kdyylo po ton ta 'Orifice mela v sobe hodne lepka.vosti..

Pokud se pamatuji, jen Main Street byla dlaZdena a to di'everi rmi etvereeky velikosti 6x6 pike a kladene stojmo ne podle sebe. Jak sly hluboko do zeme, to nevim, ale pamatuji se, 2e kdykijel cirkus do Temple, a chtel paradovat po to ulici, ze musel od mesta mit k tomu z yla'Stni povoleni.

Nejvet§i gatni °belled se jmenoval Mississippi, kterY take zamestnaval Ceske prodavaee.

Jednim z techto prodavan. byl Jos. Stacha, kterY pa valce odjel do nove republiky 6eskosloveriska. Take tam byla zamestnana tehdy sleena FrantiSla Marakova, z osady Marak, dcera Stepana Maraka, jena se pro ydala za p. John. J. Ko- ,

V E S TN 1K -- WEST, TEXAS Ve stiedu, due 18..ecr yna 1952. hutka, kterY zemrel 29. ledna 1952 v stoji, taug stavaly inadtale "wagon y'ard", doprovazeni na misto-odpoeinku a klidu.

Temple_ kde si kaZdY za malt' poplatek mohl zaPamatuji se, ze vetSinu, ne-li ilechny DruhY datni modni obchod se jmeno- jet s povozem, od piahnout potah a uva- ipolarebni obrady vykonaval zdarma. val McCalvy. Na teto Main Street meli zat u Lahti. svoje krmivo, mohl A bylo jich hodne, neb do okresu Bell i bratri Jan a Henry Stavinoha ZelezaitskY krmit svojim a nemel-li, tak si tam mohl Milani clojt2deli eedti evangelleti kazatele a sedlarskY obchod. Henry zemrel jedte koupit. Take voda tain byla zavedena a ze vzclaleneljdich okresu, a bylo jich v tu hodne mladY, ale Jan dosud Zije, zaslu- dobytek nemusel trpet Zizni. Vzda.lenejAi dobu po celem Texasu asi tolik, kolik hou ma, snad dobrY Zaludek. V onu rolnici jezdivali na dva (My. marn asi pistil na s y Ych rukou. P. F. J. dobti tarn u tech Stavinohu byli zamestMaly kousek od toho wagon yardu byl March pojal ze sousedstva za manzelku nani dva hluchonemi, kteri delali peknou obchod, kde rolnici hodne nakupovali, dceru p. Jana ' abeika, nejzamoZnejdiho pm(' 9odlaiskou. byl to srnideny obchod, podobnY 1VIondri- farmare v torn okoli. Tento vaZenY osadNaproti pies ulici byli take "nadi roda- kovVen v CaMeron, grocerni obchod a sa- nik zemrel v roce 1916, kdy jsem se take ci", 1ak nas vdechny pristehovalce jme- lon v jedne budove. Obchod patril p. Koz- stleastnil jeho pohitu. Jest pochovan na noval svo doby Aug. HaiduSek, vydavatel lovi. Byl to Olovek nemeckeho puvodu. Ne- eeskem hrbitove v Ocher, tam, kde i matSvobody v La Grange. Jos. Zvolanek u vim, zdali mluvil cesky, ale zamestnaval ha moji deny byla pochovana v roce 1906. jeho verpanku, a Jos. Sebestik, krejoi. prodavaee, jmenem p. Woltman, kterY Kdyd jsme se pozde veeer dostali k cili, Sebestik pouZival tu jeho teZkou Zehlie- mluvil Cesky, nemecky, i anglicky. Cast° cestou na vozu utrmaceni, na, misto neb ku, do ktere se Zelizka rozpalovala na bYval nadim lidetn tlumoenikem, kteri se k domovu dvakra Franty Poborila, tam ohni. ye stare vlasti meli pro to jakYsi nemohli dorozumet anglickou reel. Ten- nas pitivitaly jeho etyri deti Poborilovy humor, ze pry kdy krejei jde vandrem, to p. Woltman byl pied tim tad zaeal de- (sestra se provdala za vdovce) Agnes, ze musi, mit tu teZkou Zehlieku pr i sobe, lat pro p. Kozla v Temple, zamestnan Jo na, Frantik a Albina, s piipravenou aby jej vitr neodnesl.

Franty Motla v obchode v Seaton, veldi- vee-eri.

LIa druhV den vim, de jsem take na seJos. Sebestik byl dobry'm houslistou a nou k vozeni zasola do obchodu z Temple. pozden si zalozil svoji kapelu. Jeho huMesto Temple melo elektrickou poulie- be vhodil ten "piksak" a del sbirat tu badebnici byli vetdinou vyneeni Karlem ni drahu (street car) a take ve spojeni vInu. Stonky byly asi dest stop vysoke.

Sintkem. mezi Temple a Belton, mimo Zeleznieni Bylo to v "brechovine", pine elmovYch Jos. Sebestik byl svoboden, tak jako drahy, byla potdivana tato elektricka pareztl a bavina davala nano vie jak bal Jos. Staeha, a tak jim bylo lehce odjeti draha. Belton jest sidelni misto okresu z akru. Pikovalo se celY leden. J Vii, moc nedo Cr.skoslovenska. Take Pavel Malina, Bell a vzdalenost mezi mesty byla 9 mil. napikoval, neb jsem to moc okiral eiste Temple melo ud tehdy 3 nemocnice, ze skorapek vylupoval, a list; ktevdovec, kterY bYval salonikem v Temple, tam take odjel a usadil se z tom jeho bY- Santa Fe, Scott w White a King's Daugh- ry byl na stonkach, se nil do-taval do baviny, a ten zmrzly list nesniel prijit do ters. valem domove krasneho Valadska.

Auta v to dobu neexistovala a vial baviny.

Mesto Temple uZ v tu dobu melo dve Ty prvni praite vanoce u Poborilt1 jsem pouze jedno, cod bylo velikou zvlaZeleznice a dve nadraZi, Santa Fe na jiZni strane. a MKT (Katy) na vYchodni. SThosti, jak jej poudival obchodnik V Cy- zostaly podnes v zive pametk neb tam bylo zvykem strelbou a olariostroji oslaNatal. Zeleznici MKT jmenovali take clone, jmenem p. Lehman. vovat svatky.

Kaea. Obchody a hotely byly v blizkosti Tedy po prohlidce me,sta a naicapu Kdyd jsme meli vdechnu zasobu ratech nadraZi a Santa Fe mela velkY ho- lodili kufry a zavazadla a pozde odpoledtel a restauract, ale pied patnacti lety ne toho samtlho dne vydali se na voze k chejtli pouZitou, tak jsme nailezali kusy jej zbourali, nevyplacel se. Cestujicich nademu nastavajicimu domovu, na far- vodovYch trubek, nabijeli prachem a urn vetSi rana, tim take ovkm i radost. Tato vlakem ubYvalo nasledkem pribYvani nou, 1 tera byla slabe t r i mile ' t ; radost byla n2,hle preru'Sena; kdyi jedna veho vozidla aut a truckil. na jihovYchod. Myslim, de to mohlo byt rana opozdend se thela stat velmi Na ulici, kde dnes se vypina. Professio- nejakYch 14 mil z Temple, temi klika•Y- not" JoZkovi P_oborilovemu. Mil myslim yskym stezkam. mi cestami podobne kra nal budova a hotel Dorring, byla hlavni tehdy 12 nebo 13 let. SO se podivat, proe cesta na vYchodni stranu, kde jezdili oMuselo se hodne objiZdet k vuli lestim rana je g te nevYAla a jak se L tOmu nasadnici z Oscar, Ratibor, Seaton, Ocker, a potokum, neb jen nekde byly mosty. bnul, tod to bouchlo jemu do tvaite, div Meeks, Cyclone, Doubleheader, aloeik- NO, se dojelo do Seaton, muselo se pl'ejet ze mu to oil nevypalilo. ville, Westphalia a pozdeji Red Ranger, tfi potoky. Cottonwood, Little Elm a Big, Byl v oblieeji cely eernY, a i tee eerne Seveikville a Stringtown. Mezi Seaton a Elm. Ti, kteri jell dale, na priklad na Ma- opalene ad streineho prachu. - - . t' abeikville Jan Hrudka mel sve doby ta- rekville, prejmenovanY na nynejii gab Pies svolky meli u Voborilu hodne beke velkou budovu, obchod v prizemi a tamuseli prejlZdet etvrtY potok, neeni sin nad obchodem, nee° podobne- kterY . se jrnenuje Camp Creek. March-, sedy a my "Deli hromadu vysvetlovani; jak t stab. Ja jsem se brio obezn.o.ho jak ma Tom Sefeik. To misto tam ville byl zalolen p. Lugou, ktery za kte-1 mil s ondadincu ze Byli to jmenovali HruSkaville. . I rysi rok vyprodal onen obchod p. F. J.1 chlapci a deveata ,Tana Simka. Amalie; Pokucl chlapci Aneincovi bYvali doma Markovi, nyni take bydlicimu v Temple,1 Pozdeji provdana za Karla OndraSka, svobodni na fame mezi Seaton a Red i p. Lugo no vyprodani se vystehoval do; Lad'a, Willem 'a Adolf. Ty dalSr nejme-, Ranger, tak tam zaloZili Sokolskou Jed- Temple a vedi tam restauraci a pivnici nuji, ,neb tehdy byli jete: mall a mezi notu Oenaville a mivali tarn verejne cvi- skoro po cely divot, co jsem jej znal. studenty nesmeli. Tehdy jeSte staheekeeni a pikniky. (NynejSi. redaktor VestFrank Matush i Henry Jukubik, pokud inlkil Zil. Chlapec Vince Hejla, F. E.' niku ta tarn vystoupil na verejnem v byli svobodni, delali v obchode v Marekby Zena, vzal si dceru Emilie a Jos. 1913. — Pozn. red.) ville. Pan F. J. Marek byl syn nyni lid Leikara, take ze sousedstvi, ktera ZemSin tato vyhotela a Jan Hrudka posta- davno zesnuleho p. Jos. Marka, kterY byl rela 14. srpna y roce 1951. Henry ten tavil si na tom samem miste jen malt' ob- znam pod jmenem Zpevak March, a' ke pornYSlel uit, do toho manZelstvi bacnout a byl vice p Baboved neZ mezi nami. chod. Portleji se odstehoval do zapadni- mnoho osadnikfl v okresu Bell byli jsou vdeeni za sluiby, kteVinca, JcZka, Janik, Willik a Jerry,. ho okresu a tam farmoval, aZ z toho u- co na Zivu rep vykonaval, kdy se leueime s naMmi vkei byll hodni chlapci. Dve deveata mrel.

Na tom m ste, kde ten Dorringl y hotel milYmi bytostrni, na caste to posiedinho Hejlovy byly muyslini u‘Z take provdane.

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Jedna mela Lojzu Babovce a oba zemteli, Brzo na to jsem se pollen, 7e u Kukla na kornety. Emil DiviS baritonista, Fran.na tu zaketnou flu. Myslim, 'le to bylo ladnych deerek nemell. Josef Mikulas, ta Mikeska basista, a bratti Ondraskove tenor a alt, na bubenistu se nepamatuji. v roce 1917.

1 nejstark syn po otci, nesl imeno Josef Druha meld p. Jana Chupika, kterY ml. Asi o rok pozdeji, vzal si za naanklku Kdyl se nasvieovaly pochody, tak si vyki take v torn roce zemtel na influenzu. dceru Jana LeSikara a oba ul jsou mrtvi na cestu a ph tom pochodovali .

Karel, v race 1916 znovu za,kladal Vinca mei za zena dceru Jitiho Labaje, nejakYch 15 let. Jejich domov byl pli kapelu, nab-A' pied tim Jos. Sebestik seatonske sini SPJST, radu 47 Hvezda ktera ho jil pied nekolika, lety ptedeka: mei nektere jeho hudebniky zatazene ve Texasu. tam, odkud se dosud lddnY nevratil sve kabala, nikoliv vSak vSechny a tak odeka mla.da, neb jeji otec teprve ocleaell Pak byl Jan, Tomes, Karel a Vinca.

6. ledna 1952 ye staid 85 ackri, v Gran-; Tomes zemlel v prvni svetove valce. i ji se pricial a foukal jsem alto. Karel ger u syna. Jo2ka si vzal sleenu Francku Byl to tichY hoch. Kousek od farmy Po- Simek hral zase kornet a Stepan HruSka Ondra gkovou a byl At'asten take, neb botilove byla farma Jos. LeAikara, kterou druhY kornet, Emil Divi g bariton, Josef Hejl klarinet, Karel OndraSek bas, Torn jsem jej vidaval pozdeji dosti east° a v tu dobu rentoval a obdelaval OndraSek tenor a Franta OndraSek, myBart6A. to v2dy veseleho. slim, le take kornet a nebo bubny.

Take chlapci J ose f a LeSikara, byli ka- I Tam zase ptevladala sama deveata, Muslin se vratit tarn, kde jsem zkou§el jen jeden neb dya chlapci byli.

Z tech mardinejstkyJofbl(aobirat bavinu ze stonkii. Dlouho jsem ji lem v seatonske Akole, kde po Vralelovi' starkch jsem znal.jen Liclii, jen se pro- nesbiral, nebot' za nekolik dud me ptiptevzal ueeni na podzim roku 1907, kam vdala za Jos. Zavo ne'ho, ktery take uzy ka nabidka, pracovat v Seaton v koi moje 2ena k nemu chodila do Akoly co, nellje a Marie provdala se za Valu, o varne pro p. Jana Sebestu. On vykoupil Skolaeka. Josef ztistal svobodnYm mla-' tech mladSich mnoho nevim, neb oni kovarnu od Karla Merendy. Merenda se odstehovali na zapad do Seymour a dencem a jest'dlinatem a majitelem odstehoval prye, a zanechal tam matku ny v Seaton, kterou vlastnil pled nim do Buckholts. Take Balejovi tarn sousedi- sve leny, pi. Kutejovou, tato nam hospoli s Mikulak a s farmou Pobolilovou, ktejeho bratr Adolf, jen odekl take tam, clatila do to chvile, nel si Sebesta na kokde nas nic neboli a zanechal mladou rou rentovali po nejaky eas Jan Dukat- Cate clovez1 novou hospodyni, kterou mel nikovi a Jan Mazaeovi.

Mazaeovi se odvdovu, dceru Jos. MackovYch od Rati-1 ji2 vyhlednutou. Byla to Lojzka Jedliebote. Take po nedelich odpciedne jsme stehovali do okresu Fort Bend nekde pti kova, dcera p. Aloise Jedlieky, kterY ye .Guy. se schazeli dohromady i deveata Franty Jan Baleja st., mel syna Jana, kterY stare vlasti bYval hajnYm. Jedliekovi Legikara. Tito meli farmu mezi Jos. F. se se svoji zalolenou rodinou odstehoval bydleli u sameho Big Elmu a kdyl ten se Legikarem a Jos. F. Sefeikem farmou. vylil, tak voda vystoupla al k samemu k Fort Worth.

Take Mikulakvi byli vkchni svobodni, jeich domku. gka,,kteJedna dcera Balejova, Franti a2 na Rosi, ktera byla provdana za Jos. Mela jednoho bratra Aloise mlactkho a Bartka a bYvali na Doubleheader. Je- ra byla tehdy svobodna, vyueovola nepak jednu sestru starsii Annu, ktera bydelni Akolu v Seaton v kostele, kterY byl den eas to tam jmenovali Harris Range postaven na pozemku, clarovanYm rodiei la provdana za Robert McCormick, a a 2ilkov. cbdelavali v tu dobu farmu, kterou J. F. 8ev-eikovSrmi.

Druha dcera, kterd se jmenovala Anna, Ten kostelik se naleza.1 pies cestu na zdeji koupil Frank Sparihel. Kde sve byla pozdeji provddna v Buckholts a ne- vYchod od narodnilao htbitova. V poz- by' se take vrtalo na olej a objev vim dodnes, jak Jan Knlel se odvalil dejSich letech tento kostelik byl zbou- zakryt. Kdosi tam napsal na starlit jedne lovit v cizich revrrech. Jan uz tehdy byl ran a postaven vetSi u nave ,cementove bandy toto: "Na olej se doSlo! ALE DO filosof. Bylo to jednou, jak jsme se ze testy, ktera vede z Temple do Rosebud, ROGERS!" Byl to vYsinech tehdy a mnoSeaton ptestehovali do Buckholts na far- na torn samem pozemku, kterY patli J. F. ho zklamani. Maine zprdvu od Josefa mu, to2 nanj dobrY a v2cly uptimnY ka- 8eveikovi. Ta nova testa byla postavena Blalka, ze tarn v loni zase vrtali, a no marad Jan Jurea mne vyzval, abychom za doby . ntadovani "Maury" Fergusonove, olej se dodo, ale bez toho Rogers, oni zaki ke'Kuklum, bylo to dobre tli mile kdy2 byla guvernerkou statu Texas. jsou v blizkosti farem, na kterYch byly od nas. Takovi louts, kdy2 chteli si vyFrantiSka se provdala za J. J. Beeku, vyvrtany dve pokusne- olejove studny, razit v nedeli p pto celotYdenni pcidni Karel Simkovi bYvali nejblilk sousedi tehdy je vrtal Wilson z Rogers. Kdo tam museli se vydat pe'Sky, nebot' ko- Pobotiln a pa deset let byli bezdetni. Po nyni vrtal, nevim. ne nebo rattly musely mit odpoeinek. deseti letech manlelstvi se jim narodil Anna McCormickova dli p uho neaila, To jen bohatSi synkove meli sveho kone, Eda, Karlik, Edwin, JaroS a Lilie. U Ja- nebot' po narozeni druheho chlapce brsedlo, nebo i koear (Bugy) a mohli se na 8imka jsem uvidel prvni americkY zo zemlela. Jedliekovi byli Robertovi rozji2clet jako skora nyni vSichni v autu. srub, kde meli z neho udelanou ku7- hodne napomocni deti opatlit a on pa Kdyl jsme ptiki ke Kuzelum na dvtir,1 chyri a jidelnu pohromade. Byl to prvni to nechal farmaleni a dostal zamesttoz jsme slyseli hlas klarinetu. Jan byl domov, co statieek Simek postavil a mel nani na poke v meste Temple Rozna.nahote, aby ho dole ve svetnici nebylo tli syny, Josefa, Jana 'a Karla. Mel-li Sel poku. Rad jsem pana Jedlieku slykl tak slyAet. Jan mel Ctyry bratry: Vilema take dcery, o tom nevim. Josef mel far- vypravovat jeho zalitky, a jeden nryvek Jindticha, Emila a Ludvika. KterYsi ho mu pti- Seaton a sousedil s obchodem mi utkvel v pameti. Povida: "oral jsem upozornil, ze mail cizi navkevu, byl jsem Franka Motla. Ze byli bezdetni manlele, jednou v poli, bylo tarn jeke hodne, jim neznamY. Mezi kluky je mai° se- tak si plivlastnili nalezeneho chlapce tezit, klel a nadaval jsem phi torn, a . naznamovaci ceremonie; to kde jsou dev- a dali jemu jmeno Jolka, kterY jest do- jednou se tam objevi jistY farm, kteeata,, tak to musi bYt okazalejk. Kdy2 late prosperujicim obchodnikem v Tem- ry dojildel do seatonske osady vykond1 vat kazani. (Tehdy kazatele dojildeli a jsme se tak honem plivitali a ja. se 0- ple.

Jan Simek bYval take dobrakem a kde jeden nebo dva dny dtive do osady, kde hlecial, zdali nekoho vice neuvidim, on, Jan to postlehl a povida: "Vite co, ty kdo ho ponlival na zaruku, a2 mu to pasobili.) Volal na mne a domlouval ml, nose dcerky jscu takove py'Sne, ony ne- akodilo a jeho 2ivot byl takto zkracen. at' tak nekleji, ze hteSim. Omlouval jsem stoji o 26.clne chlapce." Chvili mi to Jak jsem se dovedel, Karel Simek jeke se, a phi torn jsem mu nabidl, at' to zkuvrtalo hlavou, neb vSude, kde jsem byl 2ije a je ve Fort Worth. Jeho 2ena v'Sak si; jestli on to dovede bez toho kleni."

Pled tim, 2adna dcerka neodolala sve jiz zeintela. On mival zalolenou decho- Dopadlo to pry tak, le ne'l objel`jednou zvedavosti, a aspori nekcle potajmu na- von kapelu, sam hraval na kornet, bra- dokola, umel klet leak ne'l on sand. 0tti HruSkovk Ja,11 a 8teNal take hravali mlouva.1 se, a k! pry IA se nedivi, pm -6 se koukla.

VESTN1K WEST, TEXAS musi . ph torn klet. Ja jsem pozdeji phi ruzne eetbe se doeetl, 'le jest to jakasi ventilate, poulivana mezi lidem, aby si tim kaki* ulevil od plic, kdyI teplota vystoupi na bod varu. Podolone jako para v kotli vystoupne do vysokeho stupne tlaku, al se kotel rortrhne a vybouchne, a proto ae jsou vSechny parni kotle opa-Crane ochrannYmi zaklopky, ktere vYSSim tlaku se otevrou a paru vypusti. ✓ Seaton byl tehdy jeden obchod vlastnen a veden p. Frank Motlem, jeho na byla sestra Josefa, Jana, Bendy, Franty a Vince LekkarovYch. Frank Motl bYval mnoho roku pokladnikem u radu dislo 47 Hvezda Texasu.

BYval vesele a humorne povahy a rad si popevoval a jeho oblibena pisen byla "Na prahu stala, hezka se zdala, ja ni mrk, mrk, mrk, voila se smala,'. 'atd. ✓ tom jeho obchode byla i poStovni stanice, kde osadnici z dalekeho okoli si chodili pro patu. Pata tato take phjimala dopisy k odeslani a musela jet pies Oenaville, rnisto primo templovskou poistou. ✓ to dobu nebyla jate zavedena yenkovska dodavka poSty, a take laic nevim o baliekove pate v tu dobu.

Obchod tento byl 'ores cestu od Merendovy kovarny, byl suchY, ZadnY salon, ale ve Stioru se prodavali patentni mediciny a tak to Severova a Formankova horka, My dost na cdbyt, a v kovarne se tim mezi sebou eastovali. V kovarne bylo Ody dost mulskYch a veselo. Ti, kteri rano jell do Temple pies Seaton, nechaii jejich hospodarske nadini v kovarne ku sprave, a veeer, kdyZ se vraceli, tak se pro to zastavovali. TeZko bylo vyhovet a utrefit zakaleni Spice pluhove a nebo "sviby", kaZdY to chtel mit na tenko vykute, ostre, kdyZ pak co chvile narazil na pales a parez t yrdY nepovolil, ostri se bud' zahlo, aneb ulomilo. To se easto stalo, ze kovar tomu byl vinen a nechtel-li se hadat, udelal to znovu, to jest bezplatne. Prace bylo porad dost pro tri kovare. Take Franta VlachyriskY tarn Mal. Byl tehdy take svobodnY, ale myslim, ze byl vdovec, a za, kterYsi rok se znovu olenil.

Dostaval jsem $14 mesiene, byt a stravu. pracovalo se od svitani do tiny, na hodiny se nehledelo, o delSich dnech, na lare, to bylo i dvanact hodin dello& VZdy jsem touhl, naueiti se brat na housle, a tak jsem si je objednal, ale misty, abych se na nich veil hrat sam, delil jsem se s mistrem Sebestou. Jeho take zajimala hra na housle a tak se uell take. Nikdy jsem se nenaueil je ovladat.

Kovarske kiadivo a houslovy smyeec, to nello dohromady.

Mel jsem nabidku z mesta Temple od jedne strojirny, ale le jsem mel pouhych 16 let, tak jsem musel poslouchat radiee a jit od meho remesla a kopat travu a

bavinu, platili jeden dolar donne. Kopall jsme u Robert McCormicka, o kterein jsem se ji g shora zrninil a take u Ca blanit P. Jan eabla, byl v tu dobu vdovec a koupil farmu take od Amerikana, ktera Vydavala vlechno moZne travisko, joke jen o lenoSni Amerikani dovedli naplemenit. Na to farme bylo misty hodne kameni a to se kopalo vice tupymi, ostrYnai motykami.

Pro mne to byla velice teZka prace, nezvykla. U eabra men tri chlapce, nejstarSi Jindrich, Josef a Jara, Dcera Jo sefa, ktera ua byla dost velka pro vedeni domacnosti meta pine ruce prace doin g i v polit Brzo odella z domu a p.

Cabla se na to olenil, a vzal si za Zenu sleenu Marii Svebodovou, ktera take ne davno prijela ze stare vlasti tea z naSeho kraje. Tam v Seaton v tu dobu, ua stavala dZina, eistirna na ba ylnu, kterou tarn postavil jeden z tech prvnich csadnikil Karel Motl. V tu dobu Karel Motl byl ul odstehovan na zapad, ph San Angelo, a ja jej nikdy nepoznal. Dva jeho syni, kteri zustali psi Seaton, ty jsem. znaval, Janka Motla a jeho bratra Karlika, kterY zemrel 25. prosince 1951 ye stall 73 rokii. Onu dZinu v tom Case vlastnil Jos. Shiller, ml., jeho lena byla dcera MareSova a na rake 1907 dostali prvni prirtistek do rodiny. Josef nemel rad, kdyZ na neho had° volal honem, mel na to valy svou obyklou odpoved'.

Nevidel jsem jej od toho roku, jen jsem se doeetl, Ze bYva ye West. Jeho mlaciSi bratr Wilik, obeas bYval u nick pri Seaton v torn malem hauziku, kde byly jeSte vSecky stony z jecinoduchYch, dvanacti palcovYch prken, Lie* stal ye stinu velkYcla stromn jilmu a "hackbern" pobliZ ably, kde se po 'eas dZinovani poutivalo parni sily a topilo se kordovym drevem, ktereho bylo dostatek, za emu od dvou do tri dolarti sah (cord).

Wilik byl asi meho stari a byli jsme velci kamaradi. Po veeerach a v nedeli jsme byli hodne pospolu. Doeet1 jsem se, ze jig take nelije a Sc jiz zemi.el pied innoha roky.. Tito synove byli z Meeks osady, kde jejich matka jiZ tehdy byla vdovou a nejakY ElSik pro ni delal po mnoho rokii hospodare na farme. V roce 1916, onu dllnu vlasnili spoleene Karel Simek a Jan Dukatnik ml. San b'Yl mYin Svakrem, melt jsme polosestry..

Matka moji Zany byla rozena take hekde v okresu valaSskem. Jeji jmeno bylo Marie Srnenska a jeji matka, nel se provdala podruhe za. p. Pavia Reznielm nesla .ono jmeno, a take lena p. Martina Muchy nesla divei jmeno ,Srnenska a byly vlastni sestry. P. Martin Mucha byl case bratr Zeny p. Jos. ;3efeika. Synove jejich byli Jan SefOik, kterY po mnoho rolcir bYval p11 Belton J. F. Seveik na jejich domovine Pavel Sefeik take v torn

Ve stredu, dne iii. cer yna 1952. sousectstvi, a Karel, ktery na Harris range, kratkau dobu Zenat, semrel jeSte mladY. Toho jsem neznal, nebot' v tu dobu jsem byl jeSte ye stare vlasti.

Meli jsme' byt v rodine, kdyby byl na Zivu, nebot' on mel sestrenku moji leny: Jeho lena byla Anna Muchova.. Z tohoto manaelstvi yzeSly d ye deti, Karlik a Anna. Jan Mucha v Caldwell a Josef Mucha v Temple jsou synove Jana Muchy a :Zeno, p. Jana Hine, take na Harris Range a Zeno, Wilerna Chudeje, nekde v okoli Temple jsou dcery Martina Muchy. P. Pavel keznieek se asi olenil's pi Srnenskou a synove po Pavlu ikezniekovi byli mladSi a byli tri bratti. Jan, Josef a Franta a pak byla jeSte jedna sestra, pi. Janiekeva. Byli ph. Camp Creeku mezi Zabeikville a Red Range. Jmenovala se Albino, a provdala se za p. Janfeka.

P. Frank Reznicek nekdy v letech 1908 nebo 1909 nechal farmakeni a otevrel si novY obchod, kterY pojmenoval Red Range, ale dlouho nehl, nebot' vodnatelhost mu ukratila Zena mi yypravela, jak ona meld rada starieky Rezniekovy, jak jeji rnatka ji nesla na zadech k nim na besedu, kdyst byla jeSte male dite. Poborilovi bYvali tarn, kde jest nyni domov neboli farma p. F. E. HejlovYch a starieci. Pavel ftezMed, bydleli vedle farmy HruSkovYch, kde jest nyni A. 8enkSri: a Jan Pala.

Matka moji deny take byla dvakrat vclana, prvni jeji nartZ se jmenoval Maehalek, nevim jeho krtici jmeno a zanechal zcle dve decry. Rosie a Annu. Rosie zennela nekdy v roce 1934 nebo 1935 Presne se nepamatuji, byla svobodna a bydlela tarn, kde nyni bydli jeji vlastni sestra, kte,ry path drive ji. Take ovdovela kterYsi rok pied tim, nea jeji sestra Rosie zemrela. Jeji mul, Jan Dukatbyl synem Jana Dukatnika st., o kterem bratr J. F. Sevelk mel popis a byli spolu Svakri. Na Seaton jsou dve vdovy Dukatnikovy, mlada a stard. Sprarile by to melo znit, stakenka a prastarenka. DruhY muZ matky moji Zeny byl Frank Poboril a z onoho manZelstvi phbyly etyri ditky, jak Ira jsem se zminil predem.

Josef Blalek si vzal AneZku za lenu, Albina se stala moji Zenou, Joaka pojal za Zenu ciceru Tom Dukatniks z Caldwell Olgu a Franta jest svoloodnikem, star mladenec. v okresu Bell mimo nas.

Matka moji Zeny byla, die vypravovani jejich deti veinal pracovitn a Setrna.

Chtela mit pro kaZde dite jednu farmu jako u Jos. ',alkal', kde 1.2 deti dostalo farmu, kaZdY jeSte za Siva syYch Srdeeni zachvat, privodil neoeekavane jeji smrt a preruSil jeji plany. A kdyZ se roznesla zprava na 1. dubna 1906,

ye sttedu, dne 18. eervna 1952. ze Marie Pobotilova, zemkela, mnozi myslell, ze je to april.

Byla velmi blizko sveho che, nebot' v onu clobu jit vlastnila, 280 akrit toho nejlep giho pozemku mezi Seaton a Red Range, kde voda z potoka se ani po nejvetgich de gtich nedostala.

Josef Blazer si z Who drti 45 akra, ostatni pfeglo v nove majitele. F. E. Hejl 80 akrft, jejich prvni domovina Jan Chlapek 45 akrti, Henry Jakubik, 45 akrti, a Emil Divig 65 akrit.

Emil Divig mel za term take dceru Jos. Legikara„ Zalku. Emile, udelals dobry kup.

• vy vgichni jste Udelali dolorY vklad.

Prvni domaci bar jsem videl u Jos F. Sefelku. Svakr, Jan Pobotil hraval tech domacich zabavach na harmoniku.

Mel on tehdy novou dvouta.dovku a byl v pfatelskem styku se v gemi v toms okoli.

Bylo to brzo po vanocieh, myslim, na Stepana, po veeeti, zaptahlo se do vozu par mull, nevim, jak jsme se vgeci na ten vtiz ve gli, a jelo se k 8efeikum, na bar, kterY byl dle v geho ptedera umluven. Tarn ut jedna svetnice layla vyprazdnena od nabytku a jen lavice a tidle pro hudebnika zabiraly misto okolo sten. V kuchyni bylo jak nabito, a jak by ne, vtdyt' katdY rad piveeko a jidlo, ktereho bylo dost.

Tato zabava byla pteru gena na chvili gkrabotem vYrostkil 'LH bratii, Jindfich, itehot a Stepan MundrychovYch. Byla to polska rodina, tito chlapci se radi opijeli a pak se mezi sebou prali. ✓ tu dobu bYvali take pti Red Range, a o nekolik roka pozdeji koupil Jan 8irnek koupil jejich farmu, kteri l mela tuAim 160 akrit. Mundrychovi se odstehovali do Michigan statu. ✓ Seaton, v roce 1906, byla postavena nova sin, kterou vlastnil fad Oslo 47, Hvezda Aexasu. Tam hravala dechovit kapela Havlikova. Havlikove v torn ease farmatili nekde v okoli Cyclone. Take kapela, laratti 8eveikovrch tam hravala.

Tito mei nastroje strunove. Pamatuji se, ze Tomeg hraval kytaru, Franta prvni housle, a Wilik druhe housle, Jan byl dobrY harmonika' a kdo vice s nimi hraval uz nevim.

Jan byl prvni rok tenatY, jestli se dolate pamatuji, ti druzi byli mlad gi a jeAte svobodni a bYvali s jejich matkou nokolik rokil u Vobotilft na rente. Jednoho bratra, nejstar giho, Petra, men pti Caldwell, kde farmatil. Franta I Wilik zemieli v prvni svetove valce. Kdyt byla, taneeni zabava v to nove sini, my jsme po yetgine chodivali pe gky, vgak jsme to nemeli piing daleko. Aspon jsme nemusell hlidat, ze nam nekdo potete postroj a nebo sedla. Take se stavalo, ze nekdy i provaz, na kterem byl potah uvazan, odvazali nebo pketezali. Kdyt se toCary

V2STNiK— WEST, TEXAS

Mat kodary s gumovYmi rafy, tak i ty rafy pogkozovali a guma jit se nedala nijak na tie pticielat.

Tota pog kozovani ciziho majetku se del° ze zavisti a ze insty a nekdy i z rozpustilosti.

Na Cyclone take mivali taneeni zabavy u taciu eislo 24. Bylo zvykem, delat ty zabavy vtdy za etrnact dni. Take i v Seaton. 0 praeky nebylo nikdy nouze, a maloktera zabava se odbyla, aby tarn nebyla nejaka rvadka.

Amerikani, tenati i svobodni z okolnieh /nest Temple, Rogers, Buckholts, Cameron, Burlington a Rosebud, ptijeli obydejne pokuratneni lihovinami, kterou si i vozili aebou, aby mel vice kurate pfebirat pti tanci deska deveata nagim hocham a nadavat jim do "bohungs".

DobrYmi obraner tech na gich hocha, pokud se troche pamatuji, Wilem Marek, Wilern Stepan, Jan Marchak a J. H. Kohut, kterY bYval v Temple, a° Amerikani mel" z nej potadnY respekt, byl dospelY a ovladal dobre anglictinu.

V roce 1907, y okoli Seaton, byli v tu dobu tito farmati: Karel Motl, Jan Bubela, byl tam, kde dues je domov Tom .8efdika, Jan Hurta, kteremu tikali fednookY, Josef Motl, kterY tam mel take hodne pozemka a farmu pro katdeho syna a dceru a pti zdravi jiste mu vgeci pfejem doekat se to stovky. Josef Jet, kde moje sestra Marie na gla prvni domov po pfijezdu do Temple. Pi. Jetova jest u syna v Temple a pi. Kamila Foj ta gicova se east° o ni zminuje ye zpravach v 6echoslovaku.

Pamatuji jeji rodide Vrlovi, byli jsme tam u nich jednou na besede. Tom Hurta sousedil s Jos. Motlem. J. H. Hurta jest synem Torn Hurty a mel bratra Josefa, s kterYin jsem take kamaradil, byl je gte svoboden, ale J. H. Hurta, nynej gi a mohu napsat mnoholetY piedseda VYkonneho vYboru R.V.O.S., byl tehdy jit tenat. Jeho bratr Josef zemtel v dobe prvni svetove valky. Severne od Seaton bYvali Josef Simci a take men jednoho neb dva rentYke, a bYval tarn take Josef Mikeska na rente, tikali mu Maly Mikeska, a Jan Bravenec. Josef Chlapek a Jan Chlapek, mei" farmy J. 'Holane, v tu stranu, jak- se jelo k Double Header a Temple, kde byli usazeni broth Bartkove, Jan, Josef, Franta a Stepan. Stepan pozdeji postavil na jeho farme dtinu Mezi starymi usedliky tam byli Jiti Labaj, Jan Maruna, Jos. Hotava, Jakubci, Vanieci, Grigati, Martin Mucha a rodina Jan Hrrii, Ana Sev'eik, Jena po Karlu 8eveikovi. Torn Hrria, Chudejovi, Cyril Fojta,gkovi. Poblit Ratibote byli darnel, Tala gci, Sodci, Machalici, Hordei, Chupici, Babovci, Jos. Mackovi jim iikali Hovorant, to bYvalo jrneno jejich

obci na Morave. Pablit Seaton byli Marci, Coufalovi, Novosadovi, Hurtici, 8tenci, Matugove a Vine Shiler. V R,atiboki byl obchod, kterY vlastnil p. Naivar pozdeji tam byla postavena diina p.

Pal/len" Olejnikem. Na vYchod o'd Ratibote byl When" Maresh, kterY ))YYOI notatem, a v sousedstvi Oablovy farmy byl vdovec p. Labaj, se dvema dcerami. Jedna se provdala za pana Sodka a Rosi byla svobodni. V lolizkosti tam byla stara gkola, asi pal mile od Hrugkaville.

Mezi Hrugicaville a 2abeikville byli usazeni Jan Dtevojanci, Zavodni, Frank Bartek a u Camp Creeku Frank Hut'ka.

Vinca Vanek, ktery take 1 se tenth" zemtel na influenci v rode 1917 a zastaly po nich dve male deti. Vince byl Velko shire postavy jako na ptiklad Loiza 13abovec, byl vesele a dobre povahy. Jan Va7 nek, bratr Vince, ze byl chude menAl postavy, influence se mu vyhla. Martin 8tepan, bYval zase dlouholetyrn pOklas17 nikem u tadu Oesky Prapor. Ernest Baktek, kteremu iikali plantatnik, mel nekolik rentYta, ale jejich jmena si nepamatuji. Jeemenci tarp nekde v okoli, pak Pettekovi, Pechalovi, Krahuller, Tala govi, Vihci, Mardi, Manacr, Kamasovi, Martin 2abeici a Ondrageici.

V okoli Cyclone a Meeks, Ventreici, Mikesci, Fid get, Pagadovi, kteti tam meli dtinu, Shileri, zase Mardi, Frank Marek, rodide Ed. Marka; ptedsedy Hlavni Utadovny S.P.J.S.T., Bedti gci, Vychopriovi, Doskoeilovi, Sylva Bartek a Jan Bartek.

Mezi Seaton a v okoli Red RUnge, mirno shora jmenovanYch, byli ;Stepan Hrugka, kterY mel dceru Josef a Legika.ra, oba jit na odpodinku yeenem, Skopalovi, Chudejovi, bYvali tarn v rentu u Jchu 2abeika farme. Frank Mikeska, dvoji Pechalovi, Kovatovi, Jan Balcja ml,. Pola gcr, P gendicovi, Martinci, FojtaSci, rodide Josefa, Pavla, Cyrila a °eery, ktera byla provdana. za PolanskehO. Anton Neda,s u Rogers. Benda Legika,r Red Range, byl na sve fume, byl to Joe Le gikara bratr, 8imanek, rodiee Ernesto a Adolfa, kteti byli east° tamestnani ph stehovani Kdyt chtel nekdo pietahovat budovu, tak oni to umeli Jejich yelke, sechnisttevicove postavy, byly k tomu jak stvoter ny a kdyby ten nejmlad gi nebyl mengi postavy, tak mohli se postavit ku etyfrohove budove a nalotit na valec stehovaci bet groubovYch zvedakil. Rodina tato byla nemeckeho pfrvodu, ale Ernest mel tenu na ginku, tak se naueil desky, by rodina byla desky vychova,vana. Ernest east° byl najiman na udrtovani potadku v eeskYch sinich.

Pied prvni svetovou hodne nageho lidu se ptistehavalo do okresu Bell a Milam. Mimo jmenovanYch rodin, to jest co jsem znal, Cablova rodina, Za:-

11' tloukalova rodina, An'Oincova rodina, ptibyly rodiny Svobodova z naSeho kraje,l oni jsou z Vystrkova. Vystrkov byl mezi Policemi a ValaSskYm Mezitieim. NaSe rodna obec byla Police. Rodina Rychlikovi, Spaeci, Koptivovi, Kalendovi Karel a Franta, Holeeek, L. Pavelka, Jos Neneikovi, Fr Pohl, KosteleckY, Urubek, kovat Hudec, kovat Leo Krupka, kovat Skupin, § a kovat Josef Bartek, Jos. Peeena, Jii i Zirek, kovat Jan MikulaStik, otevtel druhou kovarnu pti Seaton, na sve fame, mezi Seaton a tadovou sini..

Ptes cestu od Motlovelio •cbchodu meli Fr. Motlovi farmu, kterou rentovali, ale tiZ se neparnatuji, kdo ji tehdy obdelaval, a vedle pti ceste bYvala statenha, vdova pi. Zabeikova, ale nejsem jilt, zdali ona byla matka Jana a Martina 2abeika. Dle start jejiho bych uscudil, ze to mohla bYt jejich matka.

NejbliZSI cicktoti byli v Ocher dr. Stolza a v Cyclone dr. Herring, oba Nemci.

V Cyclone v tu dobu nebyla dZina na bavinu, aZ pozdeji ji tam postavil Belcher, take Nemec. Take v 2abeikville nebyla v tu dobu dZina az o tti nebo etyti roky pozdeji tarn Nemec Bigler postavil dZinu. Tagaeova dzina na Meeks, byla nahrazena novou dZinou, kterou tarn v jinem miste postavil pi. Adam. Na Oscat pozdeji mel dZinu p. Raynolds. Pak byla jedna dZina mezi Rogers a Red Range, jmenovali to Gindale a pozdeji ptejmenovali na Lindale. Take mezi Seaton a Rogers byla dZina, v malem Inesteoku, stoprocente amerikanskem, String town, kde Jim Little byl majitelem a bosem toho meste'eka. Tento Jim byl take -handlitem dobytka a byl znamY v okresu Bell. Byl proti jinYm Amerikanirm vice civillsovan a dalo se s nim jednat.

Nemohu minout Frantu Krystinika, abych jej nevzponiel. Byl on take v blizkosti Poborilu, jen pies Vine HejlavYch farmu, kterou rentoval od Jos Le'Sikara, Myslim, ze byl tepr y nedavno nat, a pozdeji, jak si pomohl, toZ se odstenovali bliZe k Temple do sousedstvi Jana JeZe, kde melt svoji farmu pane zatizencu. On, Franta, nikdy nezarmoutil, kdy jsme se ptilelitostne setkali na tech'eeskYch slavnostech u Tom Sefeika v sini, a nebo na Seaton v tadove sini, kam jsme dojiZcieli mezi ty naSe bYvale zname, pooktat a pobavit se. Mam pied oeima ten jeho Usrnev. Jeho tvat byla valy kulata jak mesieek v Uplriku, a to velice ptijemne na mne pirsobilo a opravdu jsem se s nim rad setkal. Nemile se nine dotklo, kdy jsem pied Casem eetl, e ItZ neni mezi nami. Jak ten eas Teti a my, S nim.

Cela tada, tech na gich milYch ptatel, ptibuznYch a znamYch odeSlo. Mel bych zde innohYch vzpomencut a vyjmenovat

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je, ale niqs1rn se omeziti a si tr('dornit, ze to neni moZne. rak jako neni mono, podat upinY soupis obyvatela tech osad jeZ popisuji, bylo tarn mnoho rodin, ktere ja neznal, nebot' s nimi nemel co elniti, a proto jsem se cmezil na rodiny zname, s kterYini jsem ptiSel do styku pied etyticeti Pal lety.

Nemohu vSak ptejit, abych nevzpo'-mei dobreho piitele a spoltaveho pracoynika, jakYm byl Jan KlinkovskY, ktereho jsem poznal o 11 6' 03 pozdeji, z doby jiZ Havrankovy, kdy sokolska price nas sbliZovala, a take ze sjezdu, kde jsme zastupovali spoleene zajmy rolniku, pokud jsem take jeSle rolnieil. Zprava o dmrti bratra Jana KlinkoVskeho -na nine priscbila, jakoby neicclo blizkY z nafd rodiny odeeel. Jan mel rad ptime povahy, miloval pravdu a hajil pravdu jak nejlepe dovedl.

KdyZ jsem jenni poslal projev soustrasti nad ztratou jeho mile bytosti, nenadel jsem se ,ze on tak teZce nese 'ztratti sve mile Zeny a jeho odpOvecl', ze •bude posledni a Ze si jiZ vice dopistr nevymenime. Odepsal mne toto: Mill ptatele: Timto yam ze srdce clektrji za projev soustrasti nad iunrtim moji manZelky, kterY mne potesil, 'eehoZ vskutku potiebuji. Dokud elovek podobne nezakusi, nedovede se Olt do toho, co to je. Obzy laSt' pro nine je to krute, ponevan ja byl jen doma, sami sobe jsme si staMil, a nyni• jsem skuteene opu gten. Zda se to k neuneseni. Proto Vam dekuji, ze jste si na nas teZ vzpomeli. Bud'te hOdne zdravi v novem voce, to: Vain pteje Jan KlinkcvskY. Ku konci chci v gem, co nos ptedeSli do toho neznama, ptati -klidnY odpoeinek, a necht' jen naSe mile vzpominky je. doprovazeji.

Otenattim, a v gem 'tem, CO zde jeete Alapeme tu pudu pod nohama, pieji mnoho zdravi, a kdo ho nema, toZ hodne tech Washingtonti, aby si zdravi koupili a takto sobe ulevili.

Budu-li mit jeete nekdy . pozdeji eas a nala:lu, a v redakci to ptijmou k 0tiStern, tak budu pokraeovat .v popisu, jak jsme se z okresu Bell dostali do okresu Milam, do Buckholts na farmu.

Koneim s pozdravem a zUstavam VC'S ) • i. • C Jest mnoho lidi, kteti pracuji jen tolik, kolik must, a to je znakem jejich nizke kultury.

• )• KdyZ vojak natika na svou namahu, nebo rolnik atd., zustavme YeY bez price. )• ► •f Pri neclokonalem dile eas pada na vahtt, ale pit dolconalem dile na Case nesejde.

7e KAREL MUER:

Teaching Science In The Atomic Age i'rom an Address Presented April 19,1952 at the Annual Meeting, Mid-South Association of Independent Schools, Chattanooga, Tennessee Surely, it was not the means of transportation used by Socrates nor the gadgets in the imagined home of Aristotle that counted. After all, we know of only one record where the Lord Jesus rode and that was sitting upon an ass. Yet, it is His words and, above all else, his supreme example of saintly life which became more eloquently expressive in this atomic age than ever before. Prophetically, we hear the voice of ages: "Jesus or Ceasar, Jesus or atomic deluge."

In our teaching of science we must not try to create a dubious equivalent of cheap salesmanship, and in our materialistic age keep on stressing the lure of an ever-greater material comfort of our various engineering devices and the speed of transportation of our sinful bodies from one place of futility to another.

Our holy and sacred role of teaching science must be only to help reveal the wonders of God's universe about us and the laws of harmony which must be the moral guidance and divine inspiration to the negle(ited religious and spiritual values in man's inner life.

Let us not compete with the material promises of the Communist world which entices the masses with a materialistic heaven of soulless life of a robot.

The role of a teacher of science today is that of a most responsible servant in the age of an ominous crossroad in the history of mankind.

Let us not pervert science into a tool of Communist interest by stressing so meticulously the misunderstood meaning of science: The elimination of everything supernatural. It is exactly this which works in the interest of those dark forces now sweeping half a billion of this world's population. Science must be and must only be the instruments of higher spiritual interest. If its role be at its highest, then it becomes a channel toward the realization of an ever-living presence of God. (Excerpt accepted by the members of the Annual Meeting of A. I. S. for the circulation among the science teachers).

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As Czech-Ainericans most of us enjoy a wonderful heritage that has been passed on to us. Yet it is one of those, things that is commonly accepted or brushed aside, by most young people without giving any thought whatsoever to it. To give it the "dusting off" treatment is rather unfair to our forefathers, whose hard work and ingenuity has gained us our heritage of today.

As youngsters most of us read in historical fiction and novels all about the glories of migrating to a new country.

These movements, however, have all too often been seen through rose-colored glasses, as the modern saying goes. One should not be misled into believing that most of our forefathers who migrated to the United States were rich and possessed a lot of material wealth, for such was not the case.

In reviewing the history and background of the early Czech settlers in the Snook community in Burleson County, Texas, not one of the immigrants.boasted of their parent's wealth. Instead, they related stories of hard struggles for survival and of the many reasons that they decided to come to this country. Among the reasons given were: (1) religious persecution; (2) political upheaval: (3) military impressment; and (4) the belief that in America they would be free and could have a chance to make a decent living.

A few case histories are presented so as to better understand the real reasons why the Czech migrated to the United States. These statements were made to the writer in Czech and are freely translated by him.

The first statement is that of an elderly gentleman who came to America in early adulthood: "I was born in Hranice (in Moravia) in 1877. My father was a cottager (chalupnik) who raised a large family, and we never were well off. My uncle had a mill where he ground wheat, barley, and oats, and he also took newspapers from America. One day I saw an advertisement in the newspaper telling about the wonderful land called the United States. In the same issue a Czech from Lavaca Coin-Ay, Texas had an article in the paper about the operation of a beef club. I remember saying to myself `how good a life those people in America must have to be able to raise cattle and to kill one to eat and to even divide the beef among themselves.' Then and there, I decided to go to America. But I didn't have enough money. (The cost was about

us, it was partly a Matter of religious principles. The Hapsburgs (wha ruled Mbravia at that time) wouldn't even let us ring bells to announce church, s( 'vices. And they wouldn't let us hold church services in any building that had a church steeple of any kind. My father said that we would just have to take a chance, as he didn't see how he could bring us kids up under those conditions."

A female member of one of the first families to arrive in Snook stated: "My. parents were very poor. They had to work as "nadenici" (day laborers)., We had such a big family that I would say pool.'7 ness drove us out," One of the immigrants who came to.

America in 1893 gave this explanation as to why his family moved to America: "My mother and father had ten children and they owned a little farm. We pobrer people had to farm the hills and had to do all the work by hand. We raised Irish potatoes and stuff to eat. Our biggeSt tool was a hoe. Some of the bigger farmers had horses, but these were very few.

R. L. Skrabanek We couldn't live on the farm produce, so 50 koruny, at that time equivalent to we had to go to work. When I was ' 13 about $10.00 in this country.) Not a years old, I went to work in a furnitnre single person that I knew had that much factory for 23 cents a day and had to money. After asking around a great deal, board.myself. :My older brother had gone.

I finally fOund out that my sister had to ' Texas and he wrote to have saved that much, but she wouldn't lend the family come to America, as things it to me because 50 koruny was so much were better here. He sent us the money money to all of us, and her family had for the trip. We thought he must have worked so hard for so many years to been awfully rich to send that money." save it. Finally my father, ordered her One of the later immigrants made to lend me the money. She did so, but this statement: I came to America only after I swore on a cross that I rather late (1913). In Europe, two famwould pay it back. Imagine how wonder- ilies lived in the same room in our house. ful America looked to me. The very first I started to work in a knife factory when day that I was ashore a man in Wives-. I was 13 . years old for 24 cents a day. I ton gave me the $10 to send to my sister really came to America alone to marry and also gave me a job that paid enough my girl friend who had moved here With so that I could easily save as much money her parent's:" in a month as it took most people in the ' One of the ladies thought that het" old country years to save." parents moved to America because they One woman made this statement: had heard so much about the opportu"Three of my brothers had come to nities in the new world. She said: "My America and were working here. They two cousins came back to Europe after wanted someone to cook for them so living in America for a few years. They they sent me some money for the trip told my parents what a good living we and I came here. I didn't want to come, could make here. My father arranged but my mother said that although she for my uncle to send us money for the hated to see me go it would cut down trip to America, but we had to work for On the number in the faMily at home him three years to pay off this debt before we could start renting land for ourthat would have to share the food."

Another person put A this way: "Some- selves."

Such are some of the statements of one wrote my father about Texas. We were pretty heavily squeezed for money our Czech forefathers, of whose achieve-7. and my father didn't like the idea of ments in this country we should be justly having to work for an unfriendly , gov proud. Other statements could be added. eminent three days a week for nothing., Ito the preceding list, but these should.

T 1d f K suffice to support our thesis that many Czechs came to this country to make a plate for themselves under adverse conditions. These conditions were not easy to overcome but they have succeeded in making a better place in which the present-day Czech-American lives.

The Czech people of Texas should be proud of such forefathers as have been deScribed. They shOuld be proud of the fact that this group started with virtually nothing and through hard work and ingenuity made their communities wonderful places to be envied by others. It Is indeed an easy, thing for a person to accept good times and prosperity which now exist, btit one should never lose sight of the fact that had not this first group of hardworking Czechs settled in Texas and opened up the country for us, that ours would not be such a wonderful life today.

It is to this group of early Czechs to whom should go the tributes of today, for we, their progeny, are merely reap, ing the harvests of the seeds that they have planted. This harvest, which we so readily reap, is the Czech heritage that has been handed down to us by our Czech forefathers.

• 4, LINK HUMAN EMOTIONS TO MOON

The next time you hear the old wives' tale that the moon is linked with mad/less, don't Taught. There may be some truth in it.

A Duke University psychiatrist, Dr. Leonard J. Ravitz, says his studies seem to show an electrical connection between the moon's changes and human moods nd emotions. = Ravitz reached his conclusion after 4neasuring the electrical "potential" of people and noting their behavior patterns in relation to the readings. He found that peak readings coincided with the full and new moons. He also found that peaks in emotional disturbances came at the same time.

The psychiatrist began his research under Dr. Harold S. Burr at Yale Yale. lie continued his studies at Duke last year and recorded experiments with some 51 Duke students and patients.

"Despite complex individual variations," he told the association, "there : appeared in all subjects considerable .potential increases every 14-17 days, occ,ti •ring at approximately the time of the 'full and new moons—usually preceding or following the lunar day by 24 to 72 hours."

Ravitz said there appeared to be a relationship between the high readings in his subjects and a general unrest and tilisturbance in the psychiatric wards in 'Duke Hospital.

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HISTORICAL MILESTONES The younger generation is just as ambitious as we used to be many years before our joints got stiff and our thinking set in a groove. Take the students who study Czech courses at the Texas University. They also try to learn something about the cultural -background of the Czech people. Here we have four papers.-One was written by Donald A. Dacy and tells about the first Czech settlers in America. The second paper is by Joseph S. Rolback dealing with the present Czech population in the United States. The third article, discussing the Czech immigrants in Texas in the last 120 years, was prepared by Henry Tyroch.

And Johnnie B. Vavrecka prepared his article about the interest of the Czech people in Texas in education in general.

—The editor of the VESTNIK gladly gives a space to these four students in order to encourage these four—and many others—in their aspirations. -

The initial Czech immigration began at the time of the political unrest in Europe in the middle of the last century.

The inducements to immigrate were not only the hope of gaining quick wealth abroad, nor crop failures' at home, but their departure is evidence of a search for a new and better life in a new land.

As those who had preceded them, they reconciled themselves to the difficulties that lay before them, for they were possessed of a dream, and of a hope. The early immigrants did not remain in eastern industrial centers, but continued to the farm lands, and settled on a range extending from Wisconsin in the north to Texas in the south.

Donald A. Dacy

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The passionate desire for freedom, and because of religious, political, and economical conditions, are the reasons why 1. the Czechs came to the United States, THE FIRST SETTLERS At first they came in small numbers, The earliest American Czechs were but shortly after the Civil War, the among the adventurers than colonizers: favorable economical outlook attracted they came as a result of the thirty years many more. In 1903 European unrest and slack economic conditions brought about war.

Some Czech names are found among the greatest migration when the number the first American settlers. Of them, the of Czech immigrants exceeded 100,000.

The background of the early Czech imname of Augustine ;Ferman, who arrived in New Amsterdam in 1633, is remembered migrants was basically rural. They came as the man who first surveyed the boun- to New York and moved onwards to the dary between the states of Maryland middle west. From Galveston they moved and Virginia. In recognition of his serv‘-' to all parts of the state and some miice he was awarded 20,000 acres in Mary- grated north. The background of the' land by Lord Baltimore, and he called later Czech immigrants was basically industrial. They settled mostly in urban this huge estate "Bohemian Manor'.

A contemporary was Frederich Phillips, centers—New York, Chicago, Cleveland, a merchant who acquired considerable and other large cities. wealth, and one of whose descendants Chicago is considered as the cultural is said to have been courted by George center of Czech life and activity and had Washington. assumed a leadership to which many of Johann Amos Comensky, noted Mora- the Czech people look for guidance and vian educational reformer, received and inspiration. 'The Czechs have won this accepted in 1636 an invitation to lecture respect and reputation through their inat Harvard College, an appointment he itiative and renergy in the publishing of was unable to fulfill, but which never- business enterprises, and through their theless testifies to his renown in the long experience in the field of national new colonies. endeavor. It is called the.Praha of AmerMissionaries of the Moravian Brethren ica and boasts a population of approxi founded settlements in Pennsylvania and mately 300,000 Czechs which includes the in Georgia in 1740. One year later, in suburbs. Cicero a suburb which adjoins Pennsylvania, they established the towns the city on the west side has the distinc-' of Nazareth and Bethlehem, the later of tion of beirig the largest village in the which became the center of the early world. Of it's 60.000 inhabitants, about activities of that Church in this country. 2/3 are Czechs.

Bishop Jan Neuman, the fourth bishop The Czech immigrants who came to of Philadelphia, was born in Bohemia ar- the United States brought with them rived in the United States in 1834. He was their folk art, their know-how of the many industrial and commercial entera prominent scholar of his time.

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prises in this country, and their agricultural skill to put into the development of new homes, These which have been in process of development for centuries past, together with their spirit, their courage and their genius,â&#x20AC;&#x17E;generated Under the varying tempos of the centuries, and preserved through the generations, they brought into the new country. In their rural communication, they early began the publication of periodicals, the building of schools and churches, the organization of educational, singing, histrionic, sporting and literary societies, and making their contributions to the larger state areas of which they would forever be a part.

Joseph S. Rolback

THE CZECHS IN TEXAS (1832-1952) The early Czech pioneers in Texas were confrontend with the usual pioneer conditions. Although Texas offered excellent opportunities for agricultural pursuits, droughts, floods, and other adverse conditions came, and the pioneers suffered from hunger, illness and other hardships.

But they never lost faith nor courage,

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and, with belief in a Divine Providence, they accepted what came.

From the beginning, the Czech people have played a vital part in the progress and development of Texas. Dr. Anthony Michael Dignowity, who was a close friend of Sam Houston and is generally credited with being the first Czech settler of Texas, came to Austin in 1833.

Some other pioneer names were Bergman, Pypl, Chupik, Reymershoffer, Kopecky, and Maresh.

The people soon realized that they needed something to help Sustain them in their efforts and, as a result, they formed fraternal and religious groups Bich were a source of inspiration to them. Being a very religious people, the Czechs naturally sought first to establish churches. One authority writes that Texas holds the distinction of being the first state in which the word of God was ever preached in the Czech language.

The first Czech Evangelical Church erected in Texas was at Fayetteville, where it was built in 1855 by the Rev. John Zvolanek. Others quickly followed under the leaderShip of such pioneer preachers as the Reverands ChlumskY, Juren, and Motyeka. In 1903 a perma-

nent union known as the Evangelical Unity of the Czech-Moravian Brethren was formed. The Podpurna Jednota and the Ktest'anske Sestry are among the organizations of this religious denomination Father Bohumir Menzl, who came in 1840, and Father Josef Chromeik, who is often considered the father of the Catholic faith in Texas, were pioneer leaders of the Catholic faith. Fayetteville, Dubina, and Praha were among the first parishes. Other pioneer priests included Fathers Netardus, Nesvadba, and Valenta. The KJT and KJZT are strong organizations for men and women of the Catholic faith.

Fraternal organizations have also played their part. The SPJST, dealing in life insurance, and the RVOS, dealing in fire insurance, are among the better known and larger organizations. The Vestnik is the official organ of the SPJST while the TexaskY Rolnik is the official organ of the RVOS. The Czech people have made remarkable contributions to their communities in social, economic, political, cultural, and religious fields. They have served their state and country as doctors, law-

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VESTNIK WEST, TEXAS yers. politicians, teacherS, preachers, business men, and farmers. Since the first Czech came to Texas a hundred and .nineteen years . ago, the Czechs have -.played a vital role in the state's progress.

Henry Tyroch IV. CZECH SCHOOLS IN TEXAS By 1860, many of the Czech Mimi• grants had -settled in Texas. They were mostly farmers who put much land into cultivation. Along with their desire to improve the land, they also wanted to improve the mind. Schools and-churches were built and produced a fine community . spirit which has , always been the beSt form of economic and social seemity. These schools were characteristic of the primitive conditions of the time. ,The first classes, which provided general education, were held in people's homes under shade trees, and in small shacks.

Good American Citizenship was the main objective of these schools. While getting acquainted with the American way of life, they also cherished their Czech cultural heritage. This heritage later was included in the general education, and

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was introduced into the public and dependent schools.

In 1915, the Wagstaff Bill provided appropriations to establish the Chair of Slavonic Languages at the University of Texas. For many years, this department has' the Czech language as a major subject in the College of Arts and Sciences.

In 1923, Czech was approved as an accredited course to satisfy the language entrance requirement for high school graduates entering the University. The approval by the University helped to so popularize t■lie language that the 'high schools began adding it to their curriculum, -thus widening the general knowledge and study of Czech languages among Texas citizens.

Johnnie B. Vavrecka

lem day by day, or you'll find to your sorrow you have made the trouble greater, and have needless care invited,- for worrying is not the way how wrongs may be righted.

• Strength for the day, will be supplied.

Have faith in the assurance that never are we called to face a task beyond endurance. So, if your trouble can be cured, just tackle it and cure it, but if there is no remedy, then face it and endure it.

—Author unknown

Want To Know What To Do? For every trouble, great and small, unde • the shining sun, they say there is a u' or lee there is'none.

Now, if your trouble can be cured, just, tackle it and cure it; but if there is no remedy, than face it and endure it. And don't dwell on the thought of how you'll handle it tomorrow; just face the prob-

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NERVE TEST—NO INSTRUCTIONS Dr. Robert Wartenberg of the University of California has hit on a simple way of cilagnosirg diseases of: the central and peripheral nervous systems. No instruments arc required. "Sit on this table," says the doctor, "and let your legs hang over the edge." Then the doctor lifts the legs of the patient, and lets them Ian and swing freely. In a normal person the legs usually swing six or seven times. If there is nervous tension there are changes in the swinging time. In the disease known as Parkinsonism, a form of paralysis, the legs swing much less than they ,51iould. This may be the only diagnostic sign.

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OBERANKU,KTERi' PISKAL NA FLETNU Byl jednou jeden dobrY earodej. Umel stoupil ted' k pastYri, poklepal mu na hY den .17 =echny. easopisy mesta, a purkvykouzlit z obyeejneho kousku dreva tak rameno, ba dokonce mu i blahosklonne mistrovi, kterY tu mel prvni a hlavni podivuhodne veci, ze jim nebylo v girem dal Snupnout ze sve slate tabaterky, a sluhu, bylo ze vSad gratulovano. Po meste nemluveno o jinem, neS o umelci besvete rovno. Tak na priklad vy •ezal ze pravil: dreva muZieka, a sotva ze jej hotoveho "Mil' priteli, mel jste' ye svem stade rankovi,,a za kratko dostalo se mu lichopostavil na zem, zadal muZik hybat noZ- perlu, ale vy jste ji nerozumel-VaS be- tivYch pczvani i do jin'ch mest a zamPurkmistr se ted' nadobro oddal yekama a chodil jako ZivY; taky 'Dolma ranek je velkY umeleckY talent, ale je kroutil a dasnemi klapal, jakoby chtel mu' treba zdokonaleni a vyttibeni jeho deni beranka. Na radnici to chodilo jako mluvit. Anebo earodej zrobil mlYnek, a talentu. Je videt take, Sze neni zvyklY v2cly i bez neho dobre, a tak se vydal s kaleeka se v nem toeila sama, mlynar v hrat pied vzneknou spoleonosti. Nektere berankem na umeleckou pout'. Projeli nej sypal obili a mlel mouku a po dvo- jeho tony postradaji one jistoty,kterou mnoho mest a berankova slava rostla. re behali dreveni psiekove a kravy. ye- dodava jen Casty evik a zvyk verejneho Hral pied knilaty a vevody a koneene byl ci ty hotovil pro hodne deti a stavel jim vystupovani. Prenechte vYchovu mla- i s purkmistrem pozvan k cisarskemu je v lese a v Polich do cesty, aby je tu deho talentu ipne. Prociejte mi beranka, dvoru, a v kratce na to udelen mu byl i naky a s nimi si hraly. Skryl se pak kterY pro vas nema zvlakni ceny, a ja fad, jejZ pak nosil na hedvabne stuke, a purkmistr byl za sve zasluby povYS'en vidy za stmm nebo v obili a t'eSil se z si s nim jiZ vezmu dalk praci. na Alechtice. VjiZdel-li ted' nekam do toho, kdyZ deti nad hradkami jasaly a PastYr div purknistrovi ruky nepollmesta, vitala je u bran cela mestska radomil je odnakly. bil. Byl rad, ze se zaearovaneho beranka da, damy sypaly na ne z oken raze a Jednou shotovil ze dreva fletnu. Ta zbavi, nebot' nechtel do smrti nejdelk mela podivutrodnou vlastnost, ze vzal-li mit new s kouzly a eary. Uklonil se na po koncerte nadSeni posluchaei beranka i purkmistra na ramenou. Beji kdo do fist, sama od sebe hrala nej rozchodnou v'Sem pritomnYm mile na ni piskat poene! Ale stab se ne- vzal purkmistra, za beranka dva.zlate ranek dobr9mi easy UZ tak stloustl, ze ho libeznejk melodie. Oarodej polo211 ji na penize a neopomenul se i berankovi na bylo do koncertil treba nosit a usadit na stezku za mlYnem podel louky a skryl se rosloueeneu hiuboce poklonit; povaZo- podiu na pclkar. Ale hral stale krasne u splavu, dekaje, a2 tu kdosi piljde a valt' ho ted' skorem za rovna vSem tem a vS'eobecne byla uznavana jeho vzacna skromnost.

Bann, zdvihne. Smal se v duchu, jak vsacnYm panfim!

Jednou hral beranek ze yzacne ochoFe se to pak stane z kterehokoliv hlupaoPurkmistr si odvedl beranka domil a ka, jenZ fletnu zveane, velk' umelec, jak bedlive jej i fletnu pozoroval. Tepr y ted' ty na dobroeinnem koncerte ye prospech chriapl po ni, chteje ji nakousnout. Jak pomyslil, zda ho past's neakdil. Ale chudYch deti. Deti sarny take aeinkovaly, co jineho. necht' vloZil berankovi do huby fletnu zpivajice pisne, kterYm se byly naueily.

Na louce u mlSma oveak pasaval ovce lodykOliv, tent° vFdY stejne krasne na Bylo jich tu v komnate vedle koncertni sine s obdivem, ba skorem az s posvata vodil je po stezce, kde fletna leZela. ni zahral. nort bazni na beranka, kterY tu Stare ovce ani oveak si fletny Purkmistr prohliFel i fletnu, ale nenaale jeden mladY beranek myslel patrne, Fed na ni nic zvlaStniho,, jeFto byla ze drimaje na pohovce a eekaje, aZ dojFe je to nejaka mlada, chutna haluzka a dreva jako kaZda jina, pristizoval vSe- de na nej. Hral pak snad jeSte kra,schriapl po ni, chteje ji nakousnout, jak chnu zylaStnost a vza,cnost krasne hud- neji nez kdy jindy. Odnesli ho po se mu fletna ocitla mezi zuby, rose- by berankovi a krmil ho, Fe beranek ni- sluhove zas do komnaty a uloSili b s net hrala se libezne, tak libezne a umele, ze kdy takovYch easti nepoznal, a vlastni za- nou no, pohovku. Ale potlesk v . sale , nese to libilo i hloupemu beranku, tak ze slubou by se byl nikdy takovych nedoe- prestaval a bylo treba, aby purkmistr s berankem za potlesk se dekovali. Purkji nepustil, ale prevracel ji v hube sem kal. mistr shledal tu za vhodne promluviti tam a fletna tim umelejk melodic ze Purkmistr mel s berankem dalekcsa- k pritomnYm delk keel, vylieuje objevesebe vydavala. hle plany a tyto se mu take v gechny da- ni berankova talentu, jeho v9-voj i svou Krasne zvuky prilakaly pastYre stada. ponevad2 fletna nikdy neseihala peel a zasluhu pH torn v'Sem. ftee jeho Strnul podivem, vida, Fe si beranek usedl a stale krasne hrala. — nemela konce a chlapci vedle se jiF nuuprostted cesty a pekne si na fletnu Na zimu zaealy koncerty v meste a piska. aniZ by mu k tome bylo treba naS" beranek slavil prvni vekejne vystou- dill. Prohlzeli si fletnu leFici na pohovce, dotYkali se ji zprvu jen koneeky prprsta. Poznal, ze v torn vend nejake peni. Vykoupali ho a rozeesali mu vinu, ry, a neodvaZuje se ani beranka ani kolem krku uvazali rtikvou pasku, a stri, jakoby se ball spaleni, ale koneene fletny dotknout, beZel do blizkeho m1Y- purkmistr sam, jakoZto pestitel jeho ta- se osmelili a vzali ji i do ruky. Nejsrnena a vkchni sestoupili se kolem beranka, lentu, privedl ho na koncertni podium lejSimu z chlapcu, Frantikovi, napadlo, Se bade hrati na beranka koncertistu. kterS, neprestaval krasne piskat. a vlastnoruene mu dal fletnu do huby. Sedl na pohovku a jinY hoch mu vstreil "Treba vec oznamiti uradu ye meste," Beranek se zprvu zlekal a couval pied fletnu do fist Frantik prejel pa ni trochu pravil mlynar. "Takoveho divu svet ne- obecenstvem, avSak jak ucitil v tlame rty a hle! fletna zapiskala jako slavieek, poznal!" znamcu fletnu, jeja tony mu byly jiS Hnali beranka do mesta, vyriavSe mu jako prijemna, ukolebavka, stab 'pevne Pomohl si trochu prsty a stiskl fletnu a jal se na ni piskat. A fletna se rosezprvu opatrne fletnu z huby a zaobaliv- a piskal. pela a hrala a hrala tak krasne, Fe se Se ji do Satku. — "Ach, jak je rozkoSnY!" Septaly si mla- az detem dech zatajil. V sale oz'val se DoSU az na radnici, pastSt mlynar, de sleeinky prvni fade, "a jak mu to novY potlesk, prava boure potlesku,;tak jeho chasnik a kouzelnY beranek, a oz- ruZova paska sluSi!" Fe tam zvuk fletny nedolehal. namili vec pambn radnim a panu purkOpreni o zed', stall po strana,ch huFrantik pustil fidivem fletnu. mistrovi. Predvedli beranka a vloZili mu debni kritikove. Ale necht' naklaneli hla"Vklyt' ja umim take tak hrat jako do huby fletnu. Jak ji beranek v zubech vu na pravo ci na levo a naslouchali ucitil, zaeal na ni pavYkavat, a liana sebe pozorneji, hudbe nebylo co vytY- beranek!" zvolal. hrala aZ milo. kat. 'Peony znely 'Oiste, bezvadne a• sklad- "Piije mi Harm!" volal drulaY a jiZ Pan purkmistr byl chytra hlava a ha byla pfekrasna.. Beranek byl vskutku ji bral a kladl k Usttim. A liana, znela znamy pritel a podporovatel umeni. Fib dokkmalY unielec! To potvrdily i na dru- i v jeho ustech stejno sladce. A trcti

sTRIk— inst TLS etVrtY a desatY hoch se chape nastroje a vAichni hraji stejne umele jako beranek.

"Plana je umelec! Beranek je hloupse ji c zvil'e!" bor, kriei. jásaji, dupaji, a liana v to pronikave piska divoky tanec. Uprost?ed nejveni vravy vchazi purkmistr s berankem.

Ale rozdovadeni hal strkaji ho zpatky na podium a rad se za nim i s fletnou.

Zde rozestavi se v okolo a jeden druhemu fletnu podava a v§ichni stejne krasne no ni hraji. A beranek stoji hloupe uprostred nich a ohluSen nezvyklYm kolkclem beei smutne: "Beeee—!"

Bylo po slave a po respektu. Purkmistr Odtahl s hanbou i s berankem, a ujel drub den kamsi do ciziny. Zli jazykove tvrdili, e ze zlosti koneene beranka snedl, ale na torn nam ji Z Indio zalai.

Vklyt' beranek k nieemu jinemu na svete nebyl, a elm se bYt zdal, nebylo jeho zasluhou. Kam vgak se podela konzelnd fletna? Zmizela v torn zmatku doeista..Uzmul ji nekterY hoch ëi byla rozMa.pana? Kdot vi?

Po letech poTridalo se o jednom z hodhu, zineastnenYch p?i odhaleni beran. koVy falené slavy, Ze v noel, kdy vkchno spi, vychazeji z jeho podkrovni komurky tony krasne, jakoby slavik zpival. • Kda vi? Snad on to mel kouzela hraval si tu na ni sam a nou Pavia Mondra. sam•

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ZVY' SENY KREVNI TLAK Poznamka, Ze nekdo ma vysoky tlak krve, nebo jak zde v Americe jsme navykli vkchno jmenovati anglickYmi terminy a rikati "high blood pressure", neznamend jeg te, Ze zdravotni sta y eloveka je nebezpeenY nebo beznadejnY. Kdosi nedavno napsal, Ze dvacate stoleti, v ném iijeme, lekati mana jednoho dne nazvou "stoletim vysokeho krevniho tlaku".

Je tato predpoved' opravnena? Je zvYknY krevni tlak skuteene vlastnim a vYluenYm znakem nakho stoleti? Lze o tom pochybovat. Sffik je mono se ptat, zda jsme se tu nestali obeti statistiky. KdyZ se krevni tlak zaeal soustavneji merit, to jest zaeatkem naSeho stoleti, zjistilo se, Ze zvySenY krevni tlak je zjev dosti Cast*.

KdyZ se pak tlak zaeal merit u vetSiny nemocnYch (je tomu asi dvacet let), ukazalo se, Ze mime z yYSenY krevni tlak je velmi Cast. Z toho plyne logicky závér: pied dvacatYm stoletim nebyla tato pozorovani ueinena proste proto, nebylo pristrojt k meteni krevniho tlaku.

Je tedy mylne domnivat se, Ze zyYSenY krevni tlak charakterisuje stoleti, v nemZ Zijeme, a Ze tu jde o "novou" nemoc, ktera je plodem nakho neklidneho veku.

Lekati vyuozorovali, Ze zYSTSenk krevni

tlak v akern slova smyslu, to jest tlak vyS"Si ne2 normalnich 130-80 milimetra rtuti (130 — nejvyAS1 tlak odpovidajici kontrakci srdce; 80 — nejniZ g tlak odpovidajici klidu srdce) je nadmiru eastY. PonevadZ se o nem musi mluy it, zaeala se tomuto priznaku (priznaku, nikoli nemoci) poznenahlu prikladat d1eitost, kterou ye skuteenosti nema. Pro mnoho lidi je zykkny krevni tlak jakYnisi druhem straSaku a prave jejich staid fizk.ost starost, a nikoli telesny sta y, se stavaji nebezpeenVmi. Co lze ye skuteenosti zjistit? To, 'Ze lide se zvYknYm krevnim tlakern iji zpravidia dlouho, ba velmi dlouho, a Ze kdyby bylo mono zbavit je jejich fizkosti a odvest je od piIli prisne Zivotospravy a od jisteho druhu leeeni easto fipine zbyteeneho, ili by Zivotem naprosto normalnim.

Existuji prirozene take piipady tak zyaneho zhoubneho vysokeho krevniho tlaku, ale tyto pripady jsou velmi ridke jeden ze tiiceti nebo i merle.

Nejeasteji se krevni tlak nemocnYch po hybuje kolem 180-100. Je mane, 2e nekterYélovék mel tento tlak ji Z deset let nebo i (Tele, an g pocit'oval nejakou vd Z. nou zavadu. Ale ponevad2 dnes lide vedi,

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;,e '- 180 je tlak vy:(;S'i ne'Z norniAlni, si s tim zbYteene starosti.

Dosti Oasto se stave, le Nov& trpic,i zvYSenym krevnim tlakem, alravY a Oily dokud o sve "nemoci" nevi, skuteOne "&nemocni", jakmile se o z ySiSenem tlaku pri lekarske prohlidce Prato je treba mit na mysli, ze ye velke vetaine pripadii staei vest sporadanY Zivot bez vYstrelkti v jidle a piti, vyhy"bat, se pril gne finave neb6 namaze a doprat si, kdykoli je to moZne, trochu odpoeinku (mimo spanek).

Dlouho se verilo, le z yYSenY krevni tlak je znak star'. a priznak zraleho veku, asi tak padesatky. Od doby, kdy se krevni tlak zaeal soustavne merit, se zjistilo, tlak dosti easto na poeatku, etyrieitky mime stoupa a ustaluje se ye vetS'ine pripaclfi kolem 100-90. Na tomto stupni muze zfistat po desetileti, nekdy se sniZuje, jindy jegte stoupd. Ale je temer obecnY zjev, le organismus se zvYS'eni krevniho tlaku prizpfisobuje, aniZ z toho vznika nejaka vaZna komplikace.

Jsou i pripady zvYS'eni krevniho tlaku, ktere se projevuji prudkou formou, dosahuji vysokeho stupne, ale zasluhou 00-poeinku a sporadaneho Zivota zahy na,Stava. navrat k normalnimu nebo temer

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Velmi rozSi •ena je pil-edstava, ze tlak 200 je. innohem vaZnejSi nel 180. To nevi spravne. Veci nejsou tak jednoduche, jak bychom si chteli namluvit, a nevi moZno opirat se jen o eislo. Jsou lide, kteri sal Seji tlak 200 innohem lepe ne2 jini 180.

Je Lake nespravne domnivat se, Ze ten, kdo ma. tlak jen 180,bude Zit dele neZ ten, kdo ma 200. Statistiky dokazuji, ze je-jich vytilidky na pra.vdepodobnou delku Zivota jsou stejne a Ze stejna je i pravdepoclobnost moZnYch vaZnych komplikaci.

Neco jineho je, o krevni tlak hodne vysokY, jako 250 a vyS'Si; ovSem takoye pripady nejsolit obvykle. Jak jsme jiZ poznamenali, ve velke vet'Sine pripadu stava, zvYSeny krevni tlak pod 200.

IVIluvi-li se Wane. o krevnim tlaku, uvadi se vldy nejvyMi tlak, to jest prvni, vy'SSI eislice. Na priklad osoba, ktera ma tlak 160 100, stare se jen o cislici 160; kdeZto fidaj nejniMiho tlaku (100) se ji zda bezvYznamnY. A velmi east° je dUleZita pra.ve tato drulaa eislice, ale jen le-kat.' mule posoudit pathologickY yYznam stupne nejnilitio tlaku a rici, zda rozpeti mezi nej yyMim a nejniZAim tlakem je normalni ci nikoli.

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mi nesnazemi: narikaji si na boleni hlavy, na pocit Unavy, na nespa.vost, na, nedostatek nebo nepravidelnost chuti k jidlu a pod. Jestlile se pak zjisti, ze mail zvYSenY krevni tlak, jsou nakloneni pHpisovat ptivod vSech svYch malYch nesnazi jen a jen tomato z yySenemu krevnimu tlaku. Vznika u nich pak pocit itzkosti, kterY zpftsobuje, ze skuteene poruchy se doopravdy Ustali a probihaji zpiisobeni opravdu znepokojujicim. Zbavime-li ta.-: koveho eloveka jeho zbyteenYch starosti, shledame, ze zaroven zmizi i nesnaze.

Zaverem pripomerime, ze je naprosto nutne aniZ chceme otazku zvYgeneho krevniho tlaku brat na lehkou vahu .-abychom se vyvarovali prikladat temto priznaktim vYjimeenou cifilelitost; prede vSim se musime vyva,rovat toho, abychom se povaZovali za lidi trvale nemocne, kteri jsou navZdy odsouzeni vest od•ikavk; neeinny livot, vazanY na prisnou Zivotospravu a rUzne zptisoby leeeni, ktere ani nemnZerne yypoeitat. Ve velke vetAine priPadt1 jde jen o to, vest spora.dank vot, trochu si odpoeinout, kdyZ je to motne, a zylaSte se vyvarovat vSech vYst •elkn. Tato jednoducha a zasadni opatrnost dostaei, abychom si zajistili dlouhe a spokojene

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V S T N 1 — WEST, TEXAS POTRESTANA PREPIATOST Qen. Sherman jednoho dne cestoval ye spoleenosti nekolika darn v okoli jezera George, kdyZ to jedna z dam, o ni2 bylo znamo, Ze vynika vice prepjatosti neZli znalosti dobre foamy, pojednou zvolala: "Ach, generale — neni-liZ to hrozne?"

"Co pak, =darn?" otazal se general Sherman.

"Nikoliv, generale," odvetila nic netu1 Sid stydliva lady, "jsem jista, 2e jsou to chlapci."

"Odpust'te" odvetil general klidne, "ja na takovou vzdalenost nemohu je poznat — mate patrne bystrej gi zrak, ne2li ja."

1 ) • • "Chlapci — madam, v2dyt' se mi zda, Lide radi veri tomu, echo si preji.

(Caesar.) ' e jsou to deveata!"

"Ach jak se hanbim pohled'te tam na ty koupajici se chlapce — ftpine nazi!"

General Sherman pohledl v naznaeenk tuctu nahYch smer a spatriv asi dovadejicich ye vode, uminil si prepjatost one damy potrestati a proto pravil:

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Svitorit: "Vitame vas, "Jak mazes neco takoveho t yrpoSad'te Se, dined y am clit,i,, donesu neco k °beer-, "Zcola dcbre. At' se rekne o stveni."

Ze je jako andel anebo "Ja jsem ale chtel. ." jako diblik. Obe znamend toted."

0 `To poeka, to pooka, nejdfive se najezte, doe= „Cele dejiny lidst y a jevi se jako nesu yam jeSte trochu veliky posvatnY chram, jenz je vystaven no milienech brobU. smetany."

"Pant PokSova, jsem y am ." vim, co jineho maze prinest bernionrednik; ale jen si od-H Sjezdu SPJST painte a pojezte, jiste mnoho zdarn pi'eje po ceste unaven."

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IN. THE SPAN OF THIRTY-FIVE YEARS The 35th Anniversary of Lodge San. Antonio 133 held March 30, 1952 with the living- charter members on the stage in full view of the large *attendance present, brought to mind the thought that the history of the Lodge heretofore has not been written in the English language. I hope this may be of some value to some future generation, It was on Shrove Sunday at a Czech ball in 1917 that a few Czechs agreed to found Lodge San Antonio SPJST. Among them being: K. J. Hanak, Edw, Valicek, F.. Maly and wife, L. Steffek and wife, J. Vanek and wife, J. Miller and wife, V. Podest and wife, Karel Valicek and wife.

This was the third attempt, having failed twice previously three years before.

K. J. Hanak called the first meeting at the Crockett Hotel. Those present were F. MalY, V. Podest, L. Steffek, K. Fajgl, V Miller, J. Haas, K. Valicek, J. Vanek, Rose Gold, Hedvika Gold, Marie Bezdek, Ed Valicek, B. Havel and Mesdames Maly, Podest, Steffek, Fajgl, Miller, Hanak, and Daughter, Valicek, and Vanek. It was agreed at that meeting the Lodge be started at once and all present to take it as their duty to get in touch with as many C'zechoslovaks living in the vicinity of San Antonio, to bring in as many members as possible.

The second meeting was held the following Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. Maly, at which meeting, beside the above named, other countrymen present were: Miss L. Silinya, Steve 'A. Halusek, K. Vrba and wife, P. Olsovsky, J. Peters, and wife, Chas. Mikody, A. Kos, V. Miture, Dr. Kitowski, Joe Valicek and wife, Miss L. Zaiontz. Agreed to recognize Dr. Kitowski as the Lodge physician. A $1.00 initiation fee was asked to pay for examination after a ,temporary committee was formed composed of F. Maly, President, K. J. Hanak, Sec'y K. Fajgl, Treas.,. Having been threatened ,with expulsion from KJT., if they joined this organization, Misses' Rose Gold and Hedvika Gold withdrew their connections and joined this group, and were taken in without the payment of initiation fee.

The founding of Lodge San Antonio was to take place March 18, 1917 in the W. O. W. Hall where the meetings have been held ever since. Supreme Lodge Secretary, J. R. Kubena and the Lodge Attorney Pazdral were requested to be present on the above date.

Inauguration of Chapter 133 San Antonio into the SPJST Society.

At 3 o'clock on March 18, 1917 fortyfive people met in the W. 0. W.' Hall to celebrate the inauguration. Among them

S. C. 1: were the following, K. J, Hanak, F. Maly and wife, J. Haas and wife, J Peters and wife, K. Fajgl and wife, J. Valicek and wife, V. Podest and wife, K. Vrba, and wife, Rose Gold, Hedvika Gold. M. Bezdek, K. Siliny, Misses. Psota, A. Haluska, A. Jansa, A. Matula, M. Fiala, L. Zaiontz (Polish) M. Sheerova, C. V. Bueche, Ed, Valicek, B. Havel, Dr. Kitowski, Dr, Bruenstad, P. Olsovsky, A.' Kos, Chas. Mikody. A. Zella, L. Steffek and wife. V. Miller and wife, Anezka Jaluvka and Preisova. Guests arrived from Fayetteville, West, Gonzales, Yorktown and Flcresville.

The meeting was called to order at 4 p. m. by K. J. Hanak who welcomed all present and explained the reason for this festive meeting after which he introduced the guests and members and then turned it over to the temporary chairman F. Maly, who after a short address in turn put the meeting in the hands of the Supreme Secretary J. R. Kubena and Attorney Pazdral.

J. R. Kubena at once began the festive function and acquainted the members with the rules of the Order, the whole then inaugurated into the SPJST: Order.

Then began the election of officers for the year. Those elected were as follows F. Maly, Chairman; M. Haasova, Vice-chairman; K. J. Hanak, Secretary; Rose Gold, Bookkeeper; K. Fajgl, Treasurer; J. Vanek, Guide; L. Steffek, Outer guide; Ed. Valicek, Inner guide; J. Haas,

Delegate to the Assembly; Zofie 'Maly Delegate to the assembly, Dr. B. C.- Kitowski, Lodge Doctor and IC Podest, Correspondent to the organ Veitnik.' The Chapter hereafter to be called Lodge San Antonio No. 133. Thus Lodge San Antonio, came into being. Agreed that w143ever shall appily for !membership within 30 days shall be considered a charter member. The initiation fee of $1.00 was agreed upon. AlSo agreed that the committee call a ocnSultation * meeting March 25 at the home of the Vicepresident Sister Haas. Thus began the collection of local dues destined for each month to be 25c. , Further business attented to was the Purchase of backs for $8.50. Rent of Hall $3.00; paid J. R.' Kubena $15.00 as charter for entering the lodge into the SPJST. Attorney Pazdral made an iMpressive speech regarding Ceskoslovenske Narodni SdruZeni â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;˘ Czechoslovak National Council; its purpose and its efforts and requested all members join the organization. K. J. Hanaic in a short speech reminded the assembly that besides being Czechoslovaks we are also Americans. Agreed' that a telegram be sent to President Wilson assuring him of our loyalty and sympathy with our star Spangled Banner. At the meeting, "My Country 'Tis Of Thee", followed by "Kde Domov Muj" was sung. Sister: Haas played the Star Spangled on the piano.

The closing of , the meeting as well as the celebration was closed at 7 p.

At the first committee meeting held March 25,- 1917 at the home of Sister Haas it was agreed to purchase the necessary correspondence papers and envelops as well as many other'papers needed. The President of the Lodge . and Vice president named the following ccmmittee for the sick; Zofie Maly, Mullerova, J. Haas and J: Vanek. As manap:ers of the entertainment committee. K. Ha nak and Piesident Maly were elected.

To serve with them were the following : A, Fiala, M. Bezdekova, Miss Psota Ed. Valicek, A. Kos, B. Havel, Hedvika Gold.

Now in full force the Lodge was ready to go forward. The first entertainment was held April lst. Ed. Valicek haying the duty of pincuring necessary foamy refreshments. Within 30 'days four con tributing members were accepted into membership and two to regular membership. The first . ball was held April 22, 1917, the proceeds of which were voted to go to the American Red Cross.

At the 4th regular meeting it was agreed not to announce meeting in writing'.

Later that year this was changed. The

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year ended with 9 new members besides Lodge -Stefanik No. 142 to vote for this was not kept. In April 1933 it was

the charter members.

Not everything ran smoothly that year.

The Lodge had two secretaries Bro. Barak, and Bro. Podest; treasurers: Fajgl, IMiko4, then again Fajgl for one month, and M. Sheerova. Three bookkeepers: Rose Gold, Albin Peters and A. Kos., In June 1918 it was agreed to have made a,Czechoslovakian Flag, and further agreed to march in the parade on July 4th ,with a banner reading "San Antonio Bohemians" (Bohemians is a misnomer. For instance, in Texas there are in re Moravians than Czechs. In the Northeast and Canada more Slovaks.

Czcchqslovakia is composed of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia. No wonder we have been called Bohemians when we uura‘lves advertise it so.)

August 1920, the first delegate to the convention, Bro. F. Maly, gave a report •O agreement that SPJST build a Czech Orphanage in Texas. A fund of 5c a member was established by Lodge San Antonio for this purpose. At this 1iin p an effort was made to establish a Czech School provided the Catholic SocicLe would, join in this idea.

In the period 1917-1927 the Lodge aany went forward under the quidtie hand of eight presidents: F. Maly, 1917-19; J. J. Marek, 1919-20; Albin Pete • , 1920:-23; and again F. Maly, 1923-24; Jos. Variek, 1924-26; again F. Maly 1926— 27; J38`. Vanek, beginning in 1927, re signed the first month.

There were four vice presidents: A. 1i-La; 1917-20; Karel Valicek, 1920-24; AdultVana 1924125; Anna Kos, 1926-27.

Thttate'' were six secretaries: K. Hanak, sec ' vitt from March 1917 to July 21st the ante ' year; same year, V. Podest July 21 to November 17; same year, F. Maly, limn November 17 to January 1923; Antun Kra:,, January 1923-24; Marie Vanek 1924 26 and Jenny V. Brehmer, 1926-28.

Fivq, treasurers, in order: K. Fajgl; .1.1i1;o:iy: again Gajgl for one month; I , Sheer, 1918 = 26; Justina Lanca 1926-27. Seven accountants: Rose Gold; Albin Peter; Anton Kos; J. Vanek, resithicd t March 21, 1920; L. Kallus 1920Frank Marek, 1920 August 1926, and An ton Kos 1926-27. Anton K3S resigned e olticer In enter the Armed Forces in 1918.

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the Lodge was held the 5th year, July 4. 1922, and the Lodge also celebrated tile 7th, 8th and 10th anniversaries. In 1924 a furore was caused by a complaint that at the last dance there s Flo Czech music. In the same year an effort n'a.c made toward owning a 1.011, and -\ vas recommended that SPJST , Hospital. o nut huila an Orphanage :Jr In 122 ,1, a Icque.6t was ICCeivecl Loin cony of

Stephen Valcik for Secretary of Supreme Lodge. In 1925 Bro. Anton Bily spoke at regular meeting regarding the founding of Czech Fire Insurance Associatton.

At the end of 1926' the Lodge had saved a total cf 560.00 and by its benevolence had donated money for various causes.

Many things t happened during the following decade. In 1927 the Lodge celebrated 30th Anniversary of the SPJST Society and in September that year a lively debate took place as to whether or not SPJST remain a brotherhood or just another life insurance association. It was agreed that Bro. Dressler, secretary and correspondent w•ite to the Vestnik putting Lodge San Antonio no. 133 on record as for brotherhood. The Lodge members really meant that, for during that period 1927-37, many donations were made to worthwhile causes amounting to hundreds of dollars, the largest being given for the Czech Centennial Exhibition in Dallas, 1936 in the sum of $115.

To this the Lodge added $25.00 morn for Czech day to the National Czech Society. (Narodni Sdruzeni). Help was given to one of its member amounting $25.00 and many other charities, among, them being for blind soldiers, orphanage and institution for crippled children in.

Czechoslovakia, American Home in Brno, orphans in Viena, orphans in Chicago, Council of Higher Learning in Texas, and also in Chicago, and for many other worthwhile causes including help to members of various Chapter of the SPJST. Not only was the Lodge as a unit benevolent, but also the members themselves contributed individually in special collections. The San Antonio Czech Orchestra, directed by Dr. Jos. Kopecky, helped by S. C. Bundil, put n a dance, proceeds of which were turned over to .the Czech Centennial Exhibition. In the minutes of 1929 is this notation: "Anezka Dressler donates the reward of 19.20, half to the Lodge and half to the Sokol."

The same year i nauguration of San Antonio Chapter of the American Sokol t ook place to which 30 members joined; agreed to hold Czech school for a time to be taught by Mr. Slavicek; donated $20.00 as half of expense agreed on with the Catholic side toward a Czech Concert. Just before that a delegation of Czech teachers from Prague arrived but would not hear of a big party in their honor, so instead the Lodge chartered a bus for $40.00 for a sightseeing tour of the city and the vic• inity.

A second attempt at owning a hall was made in 1930; nothing of this. In 1932 Bro. Maly gave a brief history of the LOCILy: fee Lice lust 15 ,y eat's.' Record of

reported that a move was on the expel the Czech language from the UniverSity of Texas. It was agreed that A. A. Mi7kula and Dr. Kopecky send a resolution protesting this move. auslu qwqwq wqW www" In the spring of 1934 there as great sorrow for the writer. An accident occurred at the railroad trackS where a train plowed into a Sunday School bus killing five children, three of whom were his sister's children, Mr. and Mrs," C. Book, thereby at one blow, taking all they had. More sadness occured that year. Bro Srubar was in a wreck he survived, and the Lodge lost members by death: Rajnosek and Tous. And the evening of Christmas, 1934 . Bro. Bundil and Sisters Bundil and Bright narrowly escaped in an auto crash, hospitalizing Mrs. Buridil for quite some time.

In 1935 the Lodge donated a book titled "Czech Pioneers in Texas'" to the city library. That year the Czech students of the University of Texas put on a play in the Polish Hall.

In 1936 the first mention in the minutes of the Lodge's history that a report of the Lodge's activity during the year was made. But the report itself was • not written into the minutes. The same year Secretary, Bro. Dressler was requested by editor Moucka to write about activity of the Czechs in San Antonio.

No record of this was found in the minutes of the Lodge.

During this decade the Lodge ' initiated 36 members, including the writer, and in the 20 year period, 1917-37, lost 21 members by death. At the big celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the badge 9 new members were initiated into the Order: Evelyn Tobola, Hugo Woellert, Louis Marchak, Ann Marie Marchal, Obey Amburn, Lawrence Kallus, Louis Ferian, Joe Kopecky J •., and Louis Murie.

During the twenty year period' only one meeting was not held on account of insufficient members to call the meeting to order, and that was June 1934.

During the decade there were five presidents at the helm; five vicepresidonts; four secretaries; four treasurers; five accountants. To save' space I shall 'omit the names.

The period of 1930-40 which most of US remember and never forget was the time of the greatest depression the world has ever known. Times were hard, employment scarce .and many Members were helped by the benevolence of the lodge.

Some had to resort to borrowing on their certificates in ordef to pay their clues.

As time went on discord among the members developed which was destined to have influence on- minimizing turnouts fur iliCetillp. LOSS activity developed as

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the result. No amount of persuasion in' 1938, this entry was noted;" Bro. Bun-1 the Vestnik by the secretary had much' dil made a motion to or a Lodge effect. There was no choice for new Band which was postponed for future , leadership, since the loyal few who did! action in 1950." The Lodge had sent' turn out were the lodge workers and of-' $100.00 to the Czechoslovakian Red Cross) ficers themselves. However, it was not] In October 1939 the Lodge voted to always so. There were spurts of attend- become a member of the San Antonio which were encouraging and new Chapter of the American Czechs of efforts made to bring about more in- Texas with a membership fee of $5.00.'

And for the first time in the history of terest.

So that it will be understood I explain the Lodge a report for the full year was that for instance 1927-29 means serving written into the minutes: 109 adults;1 as of January 1 through that year and 13 juniors, a total of 122 members. Total property owned by the Lodge, $1348.-1 ending January 1 of 1929, etc.

00. _In December 1940 meeting, 13 mem1927-1937 Presidents: A. A. Mikula 1927-29; Louis bers applied for sick benefits policies, Dressler 1929-30; F. Maly, 1930-32; Dr. Which department had, lately, been es-: Kopecky 1932 ,-36; F. Maly, 1936-39. Vice tablished by the Order. At the same: presidents: F. Zidek 1928-30; Louis Sac- meeting, it was agreed that all mem- ' ky, 1930-31; F. Zidek 1931-32; S. C. Bun- bers who had been members of the dil, 1932-37. Secretaries: Louis Dressler SPJST not less 40 years, nor less than 1928-29; J. A. Brehmer 1929-30; A. A. 120 year members of Lodge San AntoMikula 1930-1920; Justina Lanca 1929-31; nio, and who are not less than 70 years, J. V. Brehmer Bundil 1931-39. Accoun- , old, shall be relieved of paying local; tants: Emil Busek, February 192'7 to dues. Also at the same meeting it was March 9, 1930. Fred Novak 1930-31; L. A. agreed that any officer of the Lodge not present thrice in a year shall be dispossed Sacky 1931-34; Marie Vanek 1934-37.

On March 19, 1937 it was agreed to • of his office. Donated $25.00 to San request Bro. Kadanka to help in the Antonio Sokol Association.

These were critical times but the zampaing for new members. Some t;,.

Lodge planned for a big celebration of these were initiated into the Order at the big celebration of the 20th Anniver- the Silver Anniversary. However, on acsary of the Lodge as stated above, April count of the sneak attack on Pearl Har4, 1937. Honored guests present were bor, December, 1941, which started World four officers of the Supreme Lodge; C. War II, it was agreed not to hold a big H. Chernosky, president; J. R. Kubena, affair, but to celebrate it quietly withSecretary; A. A. Lesikar, Treasurer; Ed- out fanfare. Bro. Dr. Kopecky was asked win L. Marek, Accountant. Also Edward to speak at the meeting but he was Micek, professor of Czech language at called out of town unexpectedly and was the University of Texas. With him were not present. Bro. Maly was asked to over thirty members of the "Club speak in his place but excused himself Czechie" who sang a number of Czech saying he was not prepared but consongs, including the "Eyes of Texas". sented to a brief outline of progress' of That year congratulations were sent to the Lodge recognizing the good work the Supreme Lodge Secretary, J. R. Ku- done by the charter officers and their berm, in appreciation of his uninter- cooperation and working many years rupted service as SPJST secretary. This without pay; and valued the efforts and was sent on the 40th Anniversary of willingness of those working for the good of the Lodge later on. The beginning of the Order.

1942 found the lodge with 116 adults, The next year brought frowns on many 12 juniors and donated near $100.00 for foreheads—the beginning of Social Se- charitable purposes. In March, five govcurity taxes, which all paid Lodge of- ernment bonds of the "F" Series were ficerS must pay, and no buts. Later, on bought. In July, three. Red Cross kits the 80th birthday of President Masaryk, were bought to be sent to our soldiers Governor Allred proclaimed March . 7, overseas..

1938, Czech Day. At the regular meeting At this time everybody in the nation Bro. Maly requested Bro. Dr. Kopecky to brief the meaning of the memoire, was hard at work in the war effort. Many of us had more work than we could which he kindly did. handle and there was no help to be The 21st Anniversary of the Lodge was gotten for love or money. Some had to celebrated in March at which a number work overtime until the strain sent many of SPJST officers were present, and the on the sick list. War interests were in San Antonio Czech Orchestra did its the mind of every one of us and, as a restuff. The following June, sadness fell sult, the meetings were poorly attended. on the Order. The Lodge paid its re- Donation was sent to the Cechosloyak spect to the passing of Bro J. R. Kube- Relief and War Chest. At the end of that na, who had met an untimely death in year the Lodge had a savings of $1030; an auto accident. In the minutes of Aug., 7 war bonds; 119 adults and 10 juniors.

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Attendance lagged in 1943, but the workers were on the job just the same.

And in July .Secretary Dressler an nounced that the members of the Lodge, the Lodge itself, including the SPJSI Order, had bought $300,000 worth of War Bonds. It was said that by request or the Supreme Lodge Secretary one big bomber would be named "SPJST of Texas". In September 5 more War Bonds were purchased. In January 1944 four more bonds were bought and later, 1t) more. At the end of 1944 a total of prop erty was valued at $1752.00. At the beginning of 1944, a total o 131 members including juniors, and 21 members ill the Sick Benefit Department. The Lodge also contributed 'to a charity institute of Jerusalem.

In our Armed Forces were the followiw.

Brothers: Reuben W. Blanar; S-Sgt. J. E. Dressler; Sgt. Jcs, Gold; Capt. N. F. Maly; Douglas Nickel; S-Sgt. Dee Sherlock; (Navy) Jos. Svoboda; Capt. 'Jos Till; George Tobola; Rudolf Valchar; Ed. Valicek Jr., S-Sgt. Chas. Vanek; Jos. Vanek, Jr., Hugo Woellert; Dr. Joe Ko pecky Jr.; Dr. Leon Kopecky volunteered but was deferred. At the end of this year the property of the Lodge totaled $1858.00 including 22 War Bonds.

In September 1945 a tax of $100.00 was sent to headquarters to go toward S. A. C. T. but the next month it was returned. It was agreed to divide the sum; $40.00 to go to S.A.C.T. $25.00 to war orphans; war fund to Czechoslo vakia $10.00; Community Chest, $10.00: and to Anton Onderasek who lost every thing in the big storm at Palacios, $25.00. At the end of '1945 the Lodge had 140 members including juniors. Donated during the year $127.00. Total estate $1864.00.

Looking ahead toward the 30th Anniversary March 1947 a campaign for new members started in April 1946. It was pointed out the Lodge was losing many members by transfers and paid-up policies. There will have to be a strong effort to make up this loss. At the annual meeting the secretary asked to be allowed to collect voluntary contributions from thOse present to be sent to American Relief to Czechoslovakia. $18.50 was collected and the Lodge donated $25.00.

Later $11.00 was given by T. J. Sokol, San Antonio.

During the 10 year period four presidents guided the Lodge; F. Maly 1936-39 A. A. Mikula, 1939-42; Sister Sofie Maly.

1942-45; F. Maly 1945-47. Vicepresidents were seven: Ellie Mae Murie, 1937-38; I,.

V. Kalus, 1938-39; Frank Parma, 1939-40 Zofie Maly 1940-42; Evelyn Tobola, 194244; Ella Ross, 1944-45; Jerome SilVa, 1945-47. There was but one secretary; Louis Dressler. J. V. Brehmer Bundit, 1932-39; Irma Woellert, 1939 —August 1

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I 041, F. Maly 1944-45, were the treasurers. Accountants; E. Bucek, 1932-39; L. A. Sacky, 193945; From January 1945 accountant and treasurer merged as one office handled by Hugo Woellert in 1615-50 and Alfred Kalmus in 1950-52.

There were big preparations for the 30th Anniversary of the Lodge. The Supreme Lodge officers were invitated to speak Czech and English. Bro. President Kalmus was given the chore of procuring the meat for the barbecue and the intertainment committee each had their work to do. Sister Bundil with the help of Sister Holy prepared a program composed mostly of small fry.

The big celebration of the 30th Anniver'saty was held April 13, 1947, and hmored guests present were; C. H. Chernosky Supreme Lodge President; E. J. Chupick, Supreme Lodge Secretary; Edward L. Marek, acting Vice-president; Edw. Micek, profesor of Slavic Languages at the University of Texas; Jaroslav Zivny, his helper; Marie Zivny and Adolf Pa. ylicek of Houston.

July 13, 1947 the Supreme Lodge sent the history of the Order to lodge secretary Bro, Dressler, written in English, requesting the secretary to'give same to the lee4 dailies for publication. The editor of one daily promised to publish the most important points but nothing was ever seen in the paper. The writer himself wrote` many articles which were turned down, but twice a mention was made re'garding a special event. At least I give them credit for that. On the other hand, one can pick up a paper any day and read of the Jewish activities in the city.

In September 1947, Jos. Vanek Sr. had the misfortune of being hit by a railroad train which broke seven ribs. Only his strong constitution kept him alive, and he is well today. Announcing the resnit of a membership drive during the last nine months, the Supreme Lodge the result of a membership drive during the last nine months, the Supreme Lodge had token in 1101 members for a total or $1,071,750. As of January 1, 1948 the Lodge San Antonio had members including 18 juniors. Took in seven new members, 3 were transfered elsewhere, 2 were transfered to Lodge 133, and 3 paid up policies and one death. During the year the meeting were poorly attended and a move was made to hold them weekdays in the evenings to bolster attendance. This was not done; however.

In the meeting of October 1948 S. C. Barniil gave an account of his experience of his journey to Czechoslovakia.

In March 1949. a bill in the Senate brought be Senator Kelly to tax the incomes of ,.11 fraternal. societies in Texas was vie. ,irously protested by all Lodges of the SP,TST, Lod;ie San Antonio No. 133 sent Protest to Senator Tynan to

vote against this move. In April, at the beginning of Fiesta week, the Czechs of San Antonio joined with other organizations to make the annual Pilgrimage to the Alamo. On the Committee from Lodge San Antonio were sisters J. V. Bundil, Emilie Amburn and. Hilde Balvin. In June Mr. Matocha of KJT visited the Lodge to bring before the meeting the unity of all Czech organizations toward building a Czech Hall. This was subsequently forgotten. In 1950, the upstart of a president brought this up again and the committee and the comittees of all organizations met to discuss procedure in this important move. The committee worked* hard but couldn't agree on anything suitable. Sites were found but would have to be remodeled, besides, it was said they were either too far south, too far north, east or west. It must be centrally located. It was suggested to buy the U. S. 0., after which all interest in said proposition died. Later, it was suggested the Lodge itself do something about a hall, and again interest revived when it was pointed out, there is need for entertainments, but must have a place to practice for programs, for without that it is difficult to work out programs and rehearse at individuals home. In the meantime the Lodge was active in social gatherings.

Thanks to our ingenious entertainment committee a good start had been made in working up interest by activity. Our organizers, Bro. Dressler and Sister Barie Blanar are putting out extra efforts to bring the membership to 200. January 1, 1952 it has risen to a total of 187 members. Savings in bonds $,328.00.

Since gaining more and more members it requires more work, therefore tools to make work easier such as a Bingo set, mimeograph machine and adding machine have been purchased lately.

Never a year passes that the Lodge does nat donate for charitable purposes. But after 35 years it should become a little less generous and do something for its own self.

San Antonio, a historic , city, with its many, many military installations and beautiful homes and industries, is a fine setting for SPJST headquarters. The members of Lodge San Antonio unanimously agreed to instruct the delegate to the convention to vote in favor of San Antonio as Suprema headquarters. Sisters and Brothers, let's work together in harmony, forget our petty grievances and let's be proud of the work we are doing to make Lodge San nAtonio one of the best in the state.

In the remaining five years there were two Presidents: Alfred Kalmus, 1948-50; S. C. Bundil. 1950-52. Two vicepresidents; Marie Blanar, 1947-50 and Jaroslav 1050 51, Two Secretaries; Louis

Ve stredu, dne 18. Cervna 1952.

Dressler, 1934-51 and Jaroslav Kleprlik, 1951-52. Accountants and Treasurers merged as one as of January 1, 1945, Hugo Woellert to 1950; Alfred Kalmus, 195052. Officers serving longest at a stretch Bro. Dressler 17 years; Treasurer Sister M. Sheer 8 years, Sister J. V. Bundil; 8 years. Accountants L. A. Sacky, 6 years.

Presidents, Dr. Kopecky, 5 years. Vicepresidents, S. C. Bundil, 6 years.

Presidents serving more than one stretch: F. Maly, 1917-19; F, Maly, 192324;F. Maly, 1930132, F. Maly, 1936-39. F. Maly, 1945-47. Jos Vanek, 1919-20; J. Vanek 1924-26; J. Vanek from 1927-Feb. 1927; A. A. Mikula; 1927-29; A. A. Mikula, 1939-42. Vicepresidents serving more than one term: F. Zidek, 1928-30; F. Zidek, 1931-32 Secretaries: Sister J. V. Bundil, 1926-28; . J. V. Bundil, 1929-30; Louis Dressler, 1928-29; L. Dressler, 193451. Treasurers: Justine Lanca, 1926-27; J. Lanca, 1929-31. Accountants: Anton Kos 1917; Anton Kos, 1926 to February 1927. My apologies to the good officers, our guides, whom I omitted naming for the reason of time and space. I hope I am forgiven..

On our honored list of the dead we have as follows: Marie Haas, June 8, 1924; Anezka Jaluvka, May 11, 1924; Albin Marek, May 4, J. Tendler, December 1927; Anna Valicek; Klara Williams; William Rajnosek, May 6, 1934; Albert Tous, December. 1934; Anna Matnla, December 1940, Frank Tobola, June 19, 1941; A friend of the writer, Louis Sena, August 14, 1941; Adolf liana, took his own life September 3, 1937; F. Kadanka although not the Lodge's member, was our organizer and friend; Annie Georgie Dressier who met an untimely death in an auto . accident August 2, 1942; which ended her efforts as being a nurse, and was a great shock to our secretary 'Bro. Dressler and to the family. She was loved by all who knew her for her pleasing sacrificing nature; Lawrence Kallus, a good worker, a soldier in the first world War with a heart for the Czechoslovakian people, passed away July 27, 1943; George Tobola, a young airforce trainee, met an untimely death in an airplane crash November 13, 1944. Within a few years his mother lost a husband, and a son which was a great shock to all; E. Raska, June 1946; Dr. B. B. Kittowski, the Lodge doctor, April 19, 1947; Clotilda Sacky, a true member and faithful sister known for her cheerful personality, passed away June 4, 1948; Mrs. Josephine Balvin, beloved mother of Sister Hilde Balvin, passed away February 23, 1947. Her friendship and association among us was a source of pleasure to the Loge The writer should pay a tribute to the memory of a good friend, mother of Dr. Kopecky during his stretch as President of the Lodge 1932-36; the

Ve sikedu, dne 18. e'en/11a 1952. writer lost his mother in 1931. A. A. Mi-, kula, one of the most colorful figures' in the Lodge passed away November 24,1 1949. Sister Georgie Novosad Cason lost; her beloved husband, Roland N. Cason,' June 24, 1951.. Let us pause a moment while we are reminded of our dead to d6 honot t °those who have left'us.

I take this opportunity to thank Bro.' DresSler for the loan of the picture taken at the 20th Anniversary of the Lodge, and to Ellie Mae Murie for typ -ingthsforme.Thankslot.

- (Editor's Note:—We really regret that the group picture, as clear as it was. could not be published on account of its extra length.) ) • 41. •

V t BTNIK WEST, TEXAB

Z.ivot op's p1. Frant. Sef6 Alcove roz. Dukitnikove Narodila jsem se dne 15. •ijna roku 1877 v Caldwell, okres Burleson, co dcera Martina a Marie DukatnikovYch, kteri pochazeli ze stareho kraje od Vsetina na Morave. Do Ameriky se pristehovali roku 1867, take prrsli s temi prvnimi prilkopniky. Usadili se ph.

Veseli, okres Washington, a po paru le-

SCHAZELA MU "VYSSi ZNALOST."

(Vzpominka na Lincolna.)

0 Abrahamu Lincolnovi je znamo, za Z'adnou cenu nechtel nikoho pokorit, neb pohanet a i kdy2 nucen byl nejakou : "aclost zamitnout, ueinil to vZdy svYm zvlaStnim zpilsobem, ze odmitnuteho Zaclatele ani dosti ma.lo nepohneval.

Jednoho dne dal se u neho ohlasiti jisty washingtonskY; °bean a Zadal, aby mu bylo demo v kapitolu misto "straZce dveti tajemnik Lincolntiv chtel doternetadatel proste ukazati dvere, lee Lincoln obeanu vlidne pokynul, aby phstoupil.

"Tak vy chcete misto strake dveri? tazal se.

"Ano, pane presidente."

"Mate nejake zkuSenosti jako stralce dveri?"

"Nemain."

"14emate-li zkuSenosti prakticke, tedy znate aspori nee° z theorie o zavirani a otvirani dveri?"

"Theorie? — to ne — to neznam, pane pre.sidente."

"Jste seznamen tedy aspori s etikou otevirani a Zavitani dveti?"

24datel vyvalil eel a bezmocne zavrtel lila you.

"NavAteveval jste nejake prednaSky o povinnostech straZce dveri'l" ' " Ceti jste tedy aspori nejaka pojednani povinnostech strace dvera?"

"N-n-ne!"

"Patrol jste po nejakYch spisech, k r6 o tomto predmetu pojednavaly?"

"Ne." "Nute myslite tedy — ze jste pro tcn Mad zprisobilkm?"

"Ne." "Good-bye!"

A nas °bean odchazel, maje radost, ze ten Mad, kterY tolik vedomosti a znalosti yyZadoval, presidenta nedostal.

Maniere J. F. Eicleikovi (obrazek ze svatby pied 53 lety) tech se prestehovali do okresu Burleson, a tak ja, jsem narozena na to otrokarske fatine mezi temi "lejky". Kdy byly tii roky, stehovali jsme se do okresu Williamson do okoli Rice Crossing. Byli jsme v tomto okresu leta na rtiznYch mistech a stehovali se do okresu Coryell, do mista Cow Haw. Mel stari bylo tehdy 6 let, ale miim v pa-1 meti mnohe ty svizele, ktere nam byloi preliti, neb na tuto cestu jsme se vydali jen otec s nami detmi, neb matinka rozhodne odeprela se tarn stehovali, tak my museli sami jen s otcem, nas 6 deti. NaSe staff bylo, sestra Terezie 131eta, Marie a bratr Josef llleti, me start bylo 6 let, brart Vinca 5 let, bratr Frank 3 leta. Tato cesta kol 90 mil sebrala nam Casu 11 dni ji prejeti. Cele zarizeni jsme vezii na jednom voze, ale museli jsme hnat pies dvacet ovci, a ty jsme nemohli pies vodu prehnati, neb mostii v tu dobu jeSta nebylo. Na teto dlouhe ceste jsme jell jen pies jeden most. A k tomu brzy celou cestu prSelo a take nas prekvapila velika zima, take jsme vSichni hodne nachladli.

Koneone, kdyZ jsme prijeli na misto, nebylo tarn 'Zadneho Staveni, jen kousek kamenne ohrady a tato byla naSim pri7 streSim po dobu 18 mesic.n. V deti jsme pro oiichranu meli malt' stan, orneho pole zadneho .nebylo, vodu jsme 'uzivali •VSecko v iivdte jest navzajem spoutano jako vSichni jini, z potoku. vSecko se zrodilo z Tatinek po pristani na misto brzo oprieinnYch nutnosti a kaZdY okarrilik 7anechava, za sebou nasledky aZ do vee- nemocnel, neb cestou velice se nachladil, nosti.

(F. V. Krejci.) leZel 6 mesicil, a my deti jsme si nevedely

rady, 03 poeiti — zasoba mouky r0,r4 doSla a jineho take nebylo.

NejstarSi sestra slotdila u onoho farm:ate, co jsme u nej byli v najinu, a on ji za tu praci vyplacel kornovici a;take nekdy obdaroval kouskem Speltui Xdy2 priSlo veSno, bylo treba orat, totit . "brechovat", neb orneho pole nebylo, a kdyZ' otec leZel, tedy jsme oraly my deti. Ale neni mne znamo jsme toho Zoraly, jen vim, ze jsme 2adnou Modu ten rok nerneli.

Take druhYm rokem jsme malo udelali, ale bylo to piece lepAi, neb jak otec: 0zdravel a jen trochu okral, jel pro rfp.tinku, kterotr piece premluvil a tak:prijela s nim. V tu dobu jsme radosti ani nespali.

Za tu dobu, nei; se rodiee jsme zanily much° strachu, neb jednu noc u onoho farmate, co sestra sloutila, priSla jakas Silena, ZenStina v noci a kdy nano vstanuli, rnela pinY dvrir napraneho pradla — 'Z'adny ji neznal a 26.dnY . nevedel, odkud prrsla. Kdyz se schylova./o k yeeeru, sebrala pradlo do rink a Ma onen Windt dale. Kdy'Z odeSla, tu i se sestrou a nakazali net, necht' za .Zadnou cenu ze stanu nevychazirne-yen, a privazali stan k zemi co mobil nejlepe. V tu noc jsme tadnY oka nezarnhoukill, ale 'ZcnStina nenkiSla vice.

MilZete si domyslet, jakou radost moll, kdyZ jsme se po pal roku s-inatinkou shledali. NeZ matinka tarn nernohla privyknout a ustavlene nalehala naOtce, aby se prestehovali do okresu Bell, neb ✓ tu dobu mela jiZ dve dcery provchina ✓ okresu Bell: Rosalii za ;Motla, Annu za Josefa LeSikara, ale Mee' nechtel ani slySeti, a tak se stalo[ ;2e;tretiin rokem, kdyt jednou otec odjet do mesta., tehdy to sebralo easu Vkly dva to matinka dny, nail se mohl vratit s narni detmi se sebrala a My jsme pesky, a etvrtkin dnern jsme zristaly u' jisteho farmare ph Gatesville, pomahat'Mu ;sbirat broskvy a pak je suSili. Odtud'inatka psala. Motlovi, aby pro nas prijel; co/ on • s radosti Minn. Jako vSichni ti zaedteenici, mei jen menSi domek, a tak jSine u nej bydlet nemohly, a tak jen matinka s temi menSimi zilstala u nej a my Ileveata jsme musely jit slouzft. Ja mela te= prve 10 let, kdyz jsem nastoupila do , prvni sluZby, pla,kala, jsem brzy ka ` dY den, neb mile bylo velice teskno pa sotrozencich a take po matinee. A tak die toho mop mlada, leta radio to radosti nepreji to ZadnYm ditkam, by nrusely prUZivat vSechnY ty neAt'astne -chvile a leta, co musely proZivat nektere deti tech prvnich Bylo nine 11 let, priSel druhY rok

rtnerntit sltr b y , kterj se mile stal osudnYm. Bylo to 14 anora 1886, kdy Olga velika zima ktere neni pametnika. Nejcitive napattlo nee° snehu a pak se pfihnal velikY blizard.

Nebudu zde uvadet jmeno onech lidi, kterYch jsem sloulila, jen podotYkam, ze to udelali z neveclomosti, aneb jim o snad ani nenapadlo, jake nasledky: to mule mit. T3ti'l tu noc, co ten Wizard tak iadil, citila jsem, ze mne prochazi zima celou noc, ale piiMo rano a bylo trend vstavati. Tedy jsem vstala a zadala.' kem rozdelavat ohen, ale le byl snih namrten i v dome, take citevo bylo pod snellem a tim se stab, ze jsem na ZadnY pad nemohla zatopit, neb mile to nech-: fel° hoiet, tak ze jsem se zimcu cela Tedy volam no, ony manZele, e mne mcc zima a obeli ze mite nechce boret. Myslela jsem, ae nekterSt vstane • pone mne (Men udelat, ale nestalo se talc. Onen pan mantel vystrei hlavu • pod peitiny a povida: "Mne je take zi-i ma, jdi do postele a al se zahrejeS, teprve zatopiS. ." Ale ja vedela, ze kdyz. nme byla zima v posteli jiZ drive, tak se nyni jia ne'Zahteji, a talc povidam, 'main ku, svetnu bratru Janu Dukatniko-I vi, u ktereho tehdy zilstavala i ma ma-1 tinka. On na to povida: "Talc si delej co elteeS." Ja vzala na sebe jen lehkou kazajku, neb kabat jsem ladnY nemela, na hlavu sale a vytla jsem. Nebylo to daleko, jen 4 mile, ale Ze jstne musela jiti proti tomu stratnemu blizardu, tak kdy jsem byla nsi v pith ceste, tu jsem mela itcly cele ztvrdle, nejvice mne studilo na rune, a k tomu jsem musela pfechazet plot. IiiclyZ jsem k nemu tu jsem • n6,j zastala stat a hledela jsem, jestli bych nekoho uvidela od bratra, ae bych no nej zavolala, aby mne ptitel pomoci pres plot pfelezti, nebot' jsem se obavala, ae jestli se svalim, talc jil nevstanu, nebot' Ody jsem mela jiz cele t yrde. Ale 2e jsem I.Adneho nevidela, tedy jsem s eelott jeSte zb3ivajici silou se pcdkulila pod plot, a s velikou namahou se postavila na nohy a ubirala se pomalu dale.

Kcifg jsem pfichazela ke staveni, tu jsem rune jiZ necitila a usta jsem zavrit jiZ netnohla, a kdy2 jsem koneene pki gla ke veni, vypadli na mne psi. Tu vybehne Svakrova na veranda a vola, lide, pojcl`te se podivat, jak se Francka smeje, neb ona toti2 rayslela, kdy jsem mela Usta otevtena, '2e se smeji. Ale tu jft vytel bratr a vykPikne: "U std ona je zrnrzla," a skneil ke mile a sebral mne do naru6e a vnesl mne do svetnice, ovSem ze do chladne a tu se mnou delali vSeci mne udy tri pies tri •hodiny, ale pak ty bolesti. trsta moc neutrpela, jen rty byly neco omrzle, za to ale rune byly zle, neb ze sesti prstu mne zustaly jen pahYle, neb, 1(1.`ri,e a maso sr:3e opadalo a tak tyto pr-

sty jsou poclnes pokrotteene, a. sebralo to mnoho mesicn, net mne na nich maso a Vile narosta.

Nel tteba nevzhledne, ale Bohu chvala, ae nejscu horti, neb vtichni mysleli, le s nimi vladnout nikdy nebudu.

Take zde podotYkam, ae mnoho zasluhy musim pffeisti tehdejti ueitelce, pani Anne Hunt-ove, neb tato Llechetna clob •a Zeno, ttikrat denne mne davala masal, ttela a natahovala ty lily, aby se staly ohebne. Ona, byla polovieni lekatkou a v obeanske valce zastavala otettovatelku. A tfeba dlouha leta spi svfij tichy spanek v to zelene zahradce, ja no, ni vldy s laskcu a fictou vzp .ominam.

Ten rok jsem jil nesloulila a pak nasledujicim rokem jsme zaeali rentovat, nebot' za pomoci Vince Motla a Joe Le g -karbt.JanDuktia,jsme potidili potah a nejnutnejti natadi. Byli jsme v najmu u Jack Harris. Na tomto miste jsme byli d ye beta, pak jsme se stehovali na Ocker, kde se na nas ttesti usmalo, neb po dvou letech jsme si vSecko poplatili a je ge mnohe ptikoupili.

Ale jak to cby'dejne bYva, kdy se elc.vat.? zaene vesti epe, vldy mu do toho nee° padne, a talc se stab i nam, neb' po dvou letech maminka onemocnela a po kratke nemoci zemfela, a talc my zfistali jen sami — a druhYm rokem sestra Marie se provdala za Franka 8ilera.

My rentovali jette jeden rck a pak jsme se rozetli kaldY na svcu stranu. Mne nezbYvalo nic jineho, net zase hledati slulbu. Prvne jsem slouzila v okresu William-1 son u sestry a Lvakra John gimek, tam jsem byla jako doma. -Ale le jsem jil jaksi ptivykla v okresu Bell, tedy jsem si hledala misto v Bell, a tak druhYm rokem jsem slou gla u John Hutka. Melo, jsem to vyjednano na celY rok za $70.00, ale le ptiSel velice such' iok, tedy po gesti mesicich mne povida, ze mne nerad propoutti, ale 2.‘e by mne to nemohl zaplatit, kdy je firoda talc mala, a tak jsem chodila po praci, ale le bylo sucho, tedy i pikovani bylo malo a o slaky l'adnY nestal, tak jsem ten rok malo yydelala.

Blilil se -Nov' rok, a ja pfemYtlela, kde budu, ac jsem mohla jit k nektere sestfe, ale le byli vtichni vettincu v rentu;' tedy jim nezbYvalo, by si mohli yydrZovat Musela jsem se ohleclat po shabe jinde.

A to prave par dni pied novYm rokem piijei mladik John 8efeik a povida, tie ho rodiee poslali, jestli bych k nimsla slouZit, le by velice potiebovali sluku.

Rodinu 8efeikovou jsem jil znala a yedela, ze jsou to bide spotadani, tedy jsem slibila, ze slulbu pfijirnarn. Mela jsem to sjednano na rok za $56.00, ale prave ten rok bylo, vte velice lacine, bavina spadla as pod.4c a vte ostatni byla take velmi laeine, takte bide nemohli zase

Ve st*edu, &le

18. .P1t:11.1.

Plata, a ja se zase obavala,ze si musirn zase hledat druhe misto.

Tu se stab, ze mne jednou pani 8ef61kova oslovi: "Slytit, Frances, mame jil jen krtitkou dobu do Vance, a ja se prave citim tento rok jaksi nezdrava, a talc nerada bych to ze shifty propustila, net pti teto mizerii nam to nebude rno2ne ti zaplatiti, neb mame vets' splatku na farmu splacet. Zvykla, kern si no tebe a jsem s tebou, spokojena a tak bych nerada to videla odchazet. Davam ti no,vrh, mam syny, tedy na ptitti rok si misto penez vyvol jednoho z nich".

Neco pcdobneho jsem neoeekavala talc •jsem byla velice ptekvapena a 'zfrstala jsem na ni hledet, jak se tika: "jako tele na nova vrata", a nevedela co lid, az po chvili pcvidam, le to si muslin nejcitive rozmyslet. A talc v pr y -nichdejsmnvedla,copit.

Vddvat se nine nechtelo, a od Sefeiku se mne take nechtelo, neb jsem tt nich byla se vim spokojena, nebot' to byli bide uznali, zvlatte pani 8efoikova byla lena rdzna, ale ku kaldemu uptimna.

Tak jsem ptemYtlela, kdyl jsou tti, ktereho bych si mela vyvolit, abych se neotidila; tedy jsem se rozhodla, zyclim si toho prosttedniho.

A tak se stab, ze jiI dne 12. listopadu 1898 nas smirei soudce oddal. Ani se Cloy& nenadd, jak to beta ubihaji, neb jil 53 let oslazuji ten divot tomu svemu muliekovi jak nejlepe dovedu. Ale Lake bych se poeitala za, Apatnou kuchatku, kdy vidim pottebu, abych neutila kofeni.

Byli jsme obdafeni 5 ditkami, 4 dcerami a jednim synem. Dcery jsou jil vtechny vdane a syn lenatY. Nejstar g Blanka se provdala za Joe Orsag, Antonie za Adclfa Orsag, Olivie za Ludvika SirnY, Julie za Antona Vitka, a syn pojmul za mantelku Matyldu 8efeikovou.

Tak jsme se octli tam, kde jsme byli pied 53 lety. Tehdy jsme byli sami a nyni jsme sami zase. A talc svou pill a tetrnosti jsme se domohil ku 200 akrilm pozemku.

Abyste vy, vzdalenejti pratele a redino vedeli, kteremu tomu Sefeikovi patfim, neb v natem'okoli je nekolik drun tech Sefcika, tedy vam scleluji, le patomu, co na jeho pozemku jest kostel Oesko-Mora yskYch. Brat& S pozdravem

Frantika SefeikovA

VZPOMINKY pite

J. F.

Sefeik

Chci se jette zminiti o zhoubne SPchu, ktere postihlo stat Texas v r 1885 a 1886.

Nevim, jak daleko a 'Simko to bylo, nebot' mne bylo teprve 9 let.. Mam mnohe v pameti, ale ti j ete flifel v okresu

Ve Atedu, dne 18. derma 1952.

Bell–zajist•O-.,.take. Pan •lvestr -Bartek, bydlici v osade Mix, a pan Joe Reznieek, inotilf by •hinohe -sclellt , veiejnosti. Za myth mlaclYch let bYvali poblit sebe, tedy Zajiste se na to parna.tuji. Ptestalo prget v terVencf rOku 1885 a prvni deft' pti gel v rlistopadh 1886: V teehto 17 'ardsicich pr gelo jen tolik, co jen 'Ont neco znuaktilo, 'ale ani kdluzka ' yody hikde nezilstala. To utrpeni; co tab jegte' v dnegni dobe . V parritti:. N• bylo Stebla travy, nebylo tadrid'ktmiva, ba ani list na stromo vi nebyl, a 'co ' hldvniho, nebylo vody: Vyschly staidne, YysChly potoky, vyschla i mala teka; ktera - beti ptes; okres Bell, pH Cameron bylo jegte neco vody.

Tilnt se' stalo; te zhynulb 'na tisice hlav c;obytka, liide studhe vgiChni a vgucle.

Otec ,nifij a soused Pavel Reznidek, kopali v potOce, tvanem Elrri. Vtdy nejaka voda" byla,' jerle nialo. Mali jit dvanact studni a jegte , polovic dobytka bylo tizzniyo. Maniinka s narni detrni kopala na farm& 'dOina. Vykojaa.li j gme etyti.

Nektere byly 20 . stop ,hluboke. Tri byly suche, ye etvrtehylb neco vody.

Pro kftchyriskou pott,ebu stadia, ovgem de se musela, gettit, neb, ji bylo as etyti vedra denne. Upozortiuji, ze pH teto 'atmte studni se na,m ptitrefilo ne gtesti. Ro dide potada.li . sousecitt . .Ignace Va gka, je stli- by byl tak laskav a pustil siren° syna_ Janka, leteho, by pti gel studni Vylotiti neb on se svym otcern nektere studne Yykladal. te pHjde rano.' Oted, mel .jit prkna natezane. Ale 'de ta, vodieka byla vzacna, tedy aby se I/Seel:Ina otec spustil do stud-, ny laratra s, nejakoirnaclobou, • aby vcdu inohl,•mgeelmu vybirati.. Bratr byl sekdyi Se, jedna strana ,studne sesula,.takte;bratru bylo videt jen kousek na,thdech karle. V tu chvili, prave ptigel Janek Vafku. Tedy ho rodlee rychie spustill ,:do stucine... Ten rukama spadlou hlinu nejrychleji, takte bratra mohl za . limec Kane,. Jankovi se poyedlo,., hlavu bratra • metro vytrhl , z to kypre hliny. Bratr byl je gte pH yedomi a rodide ho rychle vytahli na, eerstvy vzcluch. Nebylo • mu nic, ale bez pomat by si,hepomohl, jak mu hlina spadla .na zada,.rieb byl prave sehnutY, tedy mu ,to pkira,zilo hlavu na, tu na.dobu, takdc se mu nalomil hos, na cot ma znamku do ane g ica. Tedy Janek Va gkil musel nejdtiv pornoci vyklidit hlinu, a•teprve prima. Ale jen kdyt byla voda.

Vichni ti nagi usedlici byli zadateeniky. Vgichni meli zakoiipenY ,pozemek, rozumi se, ze na, splatky. Ale kdyt se nic nesklidilo, tedy jim nebylo mane, dame, ftroky a sp,ldtku od yesti. Tedy bylo dos-Li obavy; ze v gichni farmy pozbitdou. V tu dobu byl v mesteeku Temple usazen od Brenham; jrnenoval . se Neton.

VESTNiK— WEST, TEXAS Texas- a -mit _obstojne tesk§. 'Mel mengi obchod, ditel ze v geho neco. A ttebate . 'nagi Tide; jak jsem ninehdy slygel, v gelijaka, nepekna jmena davaji, tenhle Lid si zasloutil od nageho lidu •krasnk'pomnik. Itclyt k nenou ptichazell se stitnosti, ze . mu nemohou dluh za Zboti, co jim prodal zaplatit, "Vklyt' . to VidiM, ze fie, a 'vim, ze nine to splatig, jak ti to bude mane" MnohYrn dah-a firoky zaPlatil. Pak•zaealo prget a arody . byly-dobre, talc v gechno se po-• platilo, a na.gi Ede dale 's timto obchodovali.

Lee lze 'sr domysliti, co takva. pohroma znamenala pro . chude zaeateeniky, KcIO to 'neptail, nedovede to pochopit.

Neni mne znamo ,jsou-li o torn nejake zazna,my, noinene. Kdyt jsem as ptccl 25 lety odbiral "Hospodat" Ceti Ism; ze ve statu. Nebraska men velike sucho v letech 1894, o kterem upravil data pan Ondiej J. Ktikae pro "Dejiny Ceehil v Nebrasce", Zajiste, ze by to bylo 'krasne a pravdive tteni, kdyby se sepsalo neco podrobneho o na gich eeskYch plohyrcith ' y Texasu, neb snad katclY zaail neco yeseleho a pH torn i talostneho.

Bylo to 4. eervence roku 1908, kdyt nag tad Hvezda Texasu, potadal oslavu, pH ktere mel mit ptedna gku zemtelY Emil Motis. Nevim, pro jakou ptieinu se nedostavil. Na tuto slavnost ptijel take jit zesnulY Josef Bunata. Tedy byl potadan pan Buriata, by neco promluvil.

Ta, nemel tu test jej sly get, neb jsem byl zamestnan v nalevne, a take jsem jej pied tim nikdy nevidel.

• Bylo Udjedenact hodin v noci. Ptistoupi ke mne neznainy elovek a pta se: "Jst2 vy Josef . 8efeik, co ptebyva v torn domove, tulle' pies cestu?" Odpbvida.m, "ano". Tate se,lestli bych byl tak laskav, a poptal mu do rana odpodinku ye svem domove, neb once tu tadne zname nema. "Je teplo, ja se vyspim na veranda:" Povidam mu, ze mute jiti se' mnOu, nebot' prase v nalevne name Mist° nastup6val driihy delnik. Tedy se vyspal na, podlaze, na kterou se prosttela jen deka.

Rano, net ma,ntelka p•ipravila snidani, jsme se doll do teei. Rikal mere, "Mate tu nekde v okoli seetoleho. a zku--. geneho eloveka". Dale tikal naygtevnik: "Potkali jsme se veera ,ale nezbylo . nam na to case, ale za to chvilku, co jsme spolu mluvili, seznal jsem, ze je to elovek seetely. Je malo tech lidi, co na vesnicke akole se nautili to, co tento Mut. JO se jej otaZal, jak se jmenuje.

Maj navgtevnik odpovedel: "Jan Nolan".

JO tikam, "Tot' infij soused." Na to se pan Butiata tazal, jestli bych mu rnohl tici neco ze divota, meho souseda, co protivali,.v kterem roce 'pti gli do Ameriky a do ktereho okresu. Povidam, "By16 to kr.il roku 1870 neb 1871, jar& ptesne

jestli se usadili v okresu Au•stin, nebo v okresu Fayette. PtebYvali jako vgichni v tu dobu v domku, kterY byl na Mali tri ditky, je gte ye vlasti zrozerie, nejstargi dceru gka 8 lets, ho gik 6, 'a oak deeru gka 4 160.. Roclide seli bavinu; 'pH Cemt byli zamestnani oba. A ze trava byla' dve stopy vysokd a sucha, nejak 'se vzriala a to ditky dostaly strach, ze' phi sh 1i i dOmov, chtely as utikat za-rodiei, ale. te . ohen byl mot velky; neniohodee ho . 'ptebehnout,' oba 'ty dcerte gky zustaly v plamenech. Ten hoaik 6 lety;-ziistal.lati dome; ten zustal na tivu, jente Sly gel ten stra gnY natek . teeh •sitYch ttidek, tak se dolekal, ze mu t6 na jeho mozek a nervy, to kdyt radite' Ptichvatali, nemohli se s nim doniluvrt ;" zfistal hluchonemy po cely svilj Tak jsem to v gechno panu krate Vykladal. Ted' k tome jen prig` vain, ze Onen . hlitchonemY vyrcistl"'ir mute a zen-itel tokh . 1948 ve stall ;84 let: Dale jsern je gte povidal panu ButiatOVV:!

"Tito riegt/a4ni rodiee'nejen 'de he gli ten skon tech avYch &you milaekii, ald i ze tieti se staff mrzaekem."

Po tun ne gtesti se pti gtim. rokem lahovi ptestehovali do: drubeho okiesti, neb jak pain' Holanova vtcly katcle; kdy't pti gla v ono misto, •1cfi_e jeji dva milaeci ztratili sve tivoty, nemocna. A nemusi se tomu tacinY : divg, ,.• neb to byla rana, ktera katclYm ott,eset, netku-li to citliye srdce, rodtee ji .vtdy, jak mohli, Holanova zenatela je gte v mladenf neco pies 40 let. Zajiste ten tal urychlik,, jeji skon, odpoeiva, na torn zapomenif:: tern hititiiyku Camp Creek, kde .je4t.,jen . as devet rove.

A tak dale jsem sdeloval panu Biihdt,0 vi, ze jsem mnoliOkrat slygel Holane, take od pana Pavra neb oni byli v najmu u Burwella, (t6to byl plairtatnik, nebot' vlastnil tisic akril pozemkil) byl prvni Ameridan, co pojmul Ce glitt za mantelku. Byl to syn p. a pi. RitiVdilovYCh, a dcera Burwellova • si yza,fa',6eL: cha, mezi nemeckymi roclinarni2gdItOy stavalo 'east°. Dale Holati east° vZpio. nal na jednu truchlivou uddlost, se udala pied sto lety. Bylo to n'ekdd!'' poblit mesteeka Austin pH retie do. Jel lekat s mahtelkou a s 6 nen' letou dceru gkou na kooarit, kdyt; dva Indiani, kteti neco kali, ale •ciii jim nerozurneli.. India li. zasttelili oba a tu dcerii gkii vzali ho tabora. Ale ze to bylo velky sty, strhla se straana elektricka bciiife; pH ktere blesk zasahl °nob .° jezdce; e mel pied sebou to deveatko. Zabilo. to kone i toho zbujnika, ale deveatkii tak' dalece nebylo nic. Tedy ten druhY Indian" ji clones! do tabora, a kdyt to scleill,'-jak

ITPE)TN to vS'e bylo, tedy naelnit to skupiny 11 Old% by to deveatko zanesli do Austinu, neb 2e to byl trest boZi, jen je stihnul za usmrceni jejich rodieri. Toto Holanovi vykladal ten syn Burwellovych, co si vzal za mariZ'elku Karlieku Volnych, nebot' on v pant letech mhivil spravne cesky. Nevim, jestli si to pan Buriata poroamenal nebo ne. Vim jen to, Z;e v

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Volneho a spravne mluvila eesky.

Manlele Jan Holariovi, meli jeSte jedZanechal krasnou farmit 2011 akrit. Ten noho hoSika, kterY byl narozen jiz na mladal syn HolariovYch v roce pride SpojenYch Statri AmerickYch. Po 1920. VAichni odpoeivaji na narodnim annti ay e manZelky zristal vdovcem. Ri- hititove v Seaton.

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NE2 JSEM NAkA SEBE Mani narizeno, at' tentokrate pik jenom. same chytre \ Ted do slavnostniho xla Vestniku. Tak nine musite pro❑ uncut, jestli tent() dopis nebude na. nine pPclobnY. Dnes, talc Krasny majovy den, mohl by PouZit k pomiloy dni, kdyby byl nekds 1 ,0 ruce, ---: ale v hloubi meho srcice. je 1(4ko. Dnes, 15. kvotna, pripada 25 rOkti, co nas milovany synek Johnie Orsag stretnul se smrti utopenim v rece ye elm 12 1/2 roku. A nebYti dobrYch kteri mini pornohli nase b •emeno nest, Tad bychom se byli minuli- s rozumem. e jak prichazi dalk roky, tak pribYva i rozumn; elevek shledd, ze tu na tornto svete byl jenom na podivanou a na 1,0secle.

Mne na tento svet privedli rodiee JoPaulina Obadalovi ze Vsetina na IMorave. Jak jsem se pozdeji dovedela.

A) Ameriky jsme se stehovali jencm I vuili mne. Ja jsem zadala byt nemocna ,alto prede mnou moji sourozenci, kteri y emreli, prve neZ d,cZili jednoho roku eho veku. Bylo nas lost deti a jenam , (1 ve jsme zustaly na Zivu.

Rodiee se prestehovali do Ameriky do Psady Sunnyside v ckresu Waller. Jejich y deatky byly velice take a proto asi take kratkY eas zemreli. Mne bylo teprve Pet rokti a sestre sedm, kdy2 oba.zentreli, Sestru Marukt, nyni pi. Ed. Po4ivaloy ou v Buckholts, si vzali na vychovani p. a pi. Srnensky c Sunny 'Side. Mne si zase vzali p. • a pi. Karel DvorskY Wailer. Byla to moje dobra '"sestrenka,, ktera jeSte Zije.

Nevim, kolik mica jsem u nich bYvala, ale jak si pronajali misto ye Frydlcu a ireli se tam stehovat, ja dostala hnoznY strach, ze to je velice daleko a ja uZ vickrat moji sestru neuvidim. Talc 'ja, vzala do zajedich a utekla jsem. Bylo to ,,si 15 mil od nas, co sestra bydlela, ale jsem strach nemela, sla jsem pies pastry a pies prerii, a kdyl jsem doSla' cio polovice cesty, talc jsem byla asi unavena, a stavila jsem se u rodiny Dujlcove.

Na druhY den mne pan Dujka za-, vezl zase zbyvajici kus cesty k Srnen-1 skym.

Tahi jsem zase byla tYclen. M si prot inne .4prijeli p. a pi. John Kadleekovi, ze; p ni'inne chteji, a ze to Wide blizko -me: ",estry.

Tak jscin sla bYvat Ice Kadleektims Oni meli takoy eho hezkeho kluainu, jme-; naval se Eddie, a ze ja jsem mela oc171 lakZiva deti rade., talc nine teskno neby-; hi. Ale za rck meho pobytu u nich pan! q'adlec c k povidal: "Ja jsem vykoupil Starit - na Frydku a jak opikujeme ba-1 1, Inn, talc oe buci p m stehovat do FrYclkul

ptavaly na hlavni osoby od filmove poleenosti. Koneene dtesti nam ptalo,, ale ze aZ za dva tYdny se mime dostavit, 4e si s nami jista, spoleenost upide My, cele blakne, chodily pa m4ste, puchyke na nohdch jako pest, aZ koneOne jsme vie chodit nemohly. Rozhodly jsme se, k si datstvo pro jevidte nakoupime, aZ upigeme kontrakt. Stale P;i1INN jezdily po rUznYch parcich, vSecko sgma krasa: bylc to v mesici eervnu, vAOcko kvetem obalene.

Ale any jsme piece spokojene nebyly.

Mely z neeeho piece strach. Jedte nam zbYval jeden tYden, ne2 upideme liontrakt. Penez ui bylo malo, talc my pine zadaly jisti jen dvakrat denne, Slibily jsme si, ja.k se dostaneme do filmu!, to vynahradime.

Posledni veder byl tu. My utrapen atri nemohly. KdyZ bylo rano,: sly jsme se o 10. hodine pkedstavit *nit jsme snidaly na ureene misto. liEdyZ jsme se pkedstavily atedniku, on se nas ptal, jestli mame nejaky "championship", jestli jsme kdy vyhraly v kontestu krasavic, anebo co nejlep gi plavkyne,,tak ze by nas dal zapsat hned, ale jestli hrxemaine Zeddne podobne vysvedCeni,tki mesice aZ na nas pkij-

Anna Orsag za DvorskYrna. Ale ze pani Kadleekova itZ moje mykenky vedela do predu, talc tomu vS'eniu predeka. Povidala, "Annie, budeme tarn miti "Storu" pinou cukrovi a ty tarn budes prcdavat, a do Surly ide prijedeine dasto."

Ale ye FrYdku jsme pobyli jcnom Elva jsme sme mely hlad a v taste penez roky a zase jsme se stehovali do Rose- [Maio — a k tornu jeste tri mesice Ce,kat — poviddrn: "Andelino, tobe je dobre bud,; Texas, kde jsme meli V Rosebud jsme byli roky. Pan ty -mad bohateho otce".

Penize, co jsme mely, jsme utratily Kadledek se rad stehoval a ja sia vsade s nimi. Z Rosebud jsme se stehovali do za co pojedeme domtl? Ptitelkyne :teCameron. Ja us jako mlacla sledinka legrafovala otci, at' ji po gle penize, a zase sve pani, pro kterou jsem pied zacala divadla. Pan Kadleeelc byl reliser,' tak nine ve vsem dobre vedl -tim dva roky pracovala a to mne vy§voboclila a pomohla mne domn. a nine se to libilo.

Netrvalo to pkilid dicukio, ze rx-,xne. do I Tak kondila ta, na .ge cesta do 161imozku sednul eer y a myslela jsem si, ' fornie a my jsme za tri mesice byly tidy, kdy main bYt na jevi gti, tak at' za to l ze jsrne v Cameron, Texas. Ja jsem si dostanu zaplacene. Nebyla jsem nidim I odsluhovala moji zpateCni cestu a moje vazana. Sto dclarti jsem mela vyslou- kamaradka byla doma u rodieu. Zai to ZenYch, tak pojedu do Hollywood. NC- ale ted', moje ptitelkyne bydli v kdo mne pied tim rekl, ze vlasy a zuby fornii ale ze pry se do "movies" nepokcugi dostat, ze pry oni tarn nejradeji ze' mam pekne a talc jsem si myslela, tvar take prejde. Ostatni moje figura berou blondynky do filmu.

Neni smutnejSiho pohledu neZ na, 'Clojako pro jevike stvorena. Pochvalila sebou jsem se moji• pritelkyni se svym riapadem veka, kterY nedovede sem a ona byla hned hotova, ze ona pojede Nage nejvetdi bohatstvi je klid a ivyrditrianost,' eernZ -Clovek nikomu Inic se nix-Jou a talc jsme jely.

Cesta nam ubihala asi talc jak jsme, nezavidi, a dovede sna geti zlovuii, rozsi to predstavovaly. Chvilerri jsme spaly,I mary i pomluvy vdelijakYch lidi, vplzase jsme detly, tu zase kcaidukter si; ne spokojenosti se svYm postavenim. k nam prised]. a my mu vypravely,. Ze' Jestlik nam v mysli huci nespokojenost, mu dame vedet, v kterem filmu budeme ktera nam namlouva ze tam neb onde hrat, a on nam uroite slibil, ze na ten by nam bylo lepsi, anebo ze by nmbhe tisicovky zvykly nak spokojenost, neobraz se ptijde podivat.

Ani jsme se nenadaly a my se ocitly v vette tomu. To je vdeCkn jenom pOVichni Hollywood. Pak Do ci lia Llny jsme se do- I lash a Klani,

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It. 0. W. Window Units Doors and Special Doors Window Screens Screen Doors Mouldings Sliding Door , units Telephone Cabinets

E MOVABLE 0-PERATES SMOOTHLY W-EATHERSTRIPPED

FORT WORTH OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE 110 RUPERT STREET Phone Fortune 8006

IL E. Chupik — President and General Manager S. F. Chupik

Vice Pres.

Matilda Chupik — Sec'yTreasurer

Jack W. King — Assistant to Manager

WACO SALES OFFICE

Gilbert Morris—Sales Manager

CHU PIK WOOD MANUFACTURING CO., INC. MANUFACTURERS WHOLESALE ONLY ESTABLISHED 1929

811 East Avenue A PHONE 3-6807

Temple, Texas

Phone 4-3911

vF [.Trrlu, cinr iii (rl a rn:7! 1952.

•V ftl STNi K ..

WEST, TEXag

Temple

Kde se Villa dostane piivaiveho ovitani a kde .ubytovini lohy jsou levue.

Municipalni budova v Temple, Texai Zdali se rozhodnete pro p • estehovani va g i lllavni n • adovny, Temple jest dosta,Mettle male aby bylo piatelske, zaroven dostaatelne pro vSechny vase potieby.

Obchodni Femora a Li& mesta Temple Vas vi ail

NAg NOVi OBCHODNi DOMOV zdaru XVI. sjezdu SPJST TEMPLE JE, DOME MISTO PRO DOMOV USIDLENI MANN* tRADOVNY FRANK MATUSH PHONE 3-7414

TEMPLF TUNIS

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stfeclu., due 13. eervlia 10;32.

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VZHURU NA SOKOLSKi".

SLET!

ZDAR SJEZDU S. P. J. S. T.!

iupa Jiini v Dallas se zborem svjrch jednot vzala si za ukol letogniho roku poiadat u nas tupni Sokolskj* Slet.

SHADY BROOK FARM

VE DNECH 5-6. tERVENCE 1952 V sobotu sejiti vgech cvieicich a spoleenjr abed

v sokolovne 3700 Carl S Dallas, Texas

Grapevine Rt. 1, Texas (TARRANT COUNTY) 1.0U1S 0. IIOSEK, Jr.

LOUIS 0. ROSEK

ANNA M. HOSEK, Scc'y and Treas.—JERRY J. IIOSEK

Odpoledne zavotly

Veber taneefni veselice v sini adu Pokrok 2625 Floyd St. - Vstupne 50c osoba Hudba Sokolski V nedeli v 10 hodin rano zkonsiky Viech cvieicich 12:30 SPOLEeNY OBED V SOKOLOVNE Zaiatek hlavniho programu ye 3 hodiny odpoledne

Grand Stand ye Fair Park Porad programu 1.

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Breeders of Hereford

Cattle

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Nacvieeni pochodne.

Nistup ovieencti.

Narodni Hymny Sokolski:, orchcstr.

Proslov — Ben Prevratil piedstavi J. B. Adaue jr. majora mesta a br. K. Prchala starostu A. 0. S. Majova ztei — fteny Fort Worth.

Prostna evieeni iactva.

Zvlagtni vYstoupeni muift.

Vihy o rukou trojice.

Cvieeni s tYeemi — ieny.

Piemity tela (tumbling) Dallas Athletic Club.

Naiadi ieny.

Kruhy — muii Dallas.

Hrazda Bradla — Rozdani cen vYteziim.

Spoleena prostna. zatanei hctste z Temple.

Ceska beseda Ceskoslovenska Narodni beseda — Rudba Sokolsky orchester

Always interested to win some of our Czech Farmers or Cattle Raisers to settle with us between Ft. Worth and Dallas, Texas.

K hojne ueasti nejen domacich ale i krajand z celeho Texasu Uctive zve SletovY vYbor Vstupne na Slet $1.20 (daft zahrnuta)

SRDEONE PREJEME ZDAR SJEZDU

SLOVANSKE PODPORUJICI JEDNOTY STATU TEXAS OdbSrvaneho v Houston, Texas

Ennis State Bank Ennis, Texas

tEEDNICI

RIDITELE

J. E. WOODS—Chairman of Board WALTER B. RIDER—President IRVIN McCREARY—Vice President JOE BALDRIDGE.fictive Vice President FRANK B. VRLA—Active Vice President FRED H. CARK—Cashier W. B. RIDER, Jr.—Assistant Cashier PAT COSGROVE—Assistant Cashier WINSTON WEBSTER—Assitant Cashier

JOE BALDRIDGE FRED H. CLARK EDD LEWIS IRVIN McCREARY WALTER B. RIDER J. E. WOODS ELAINE MILLER—Knihvedouei GERALDINE ZHANEL—Knihvedouci

• • ZakIadni kapital, piebytelt, reserva a nerozdelen* zisk $253,969.22 •

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Vklady a bondy zakaznikii $3,949,523.39

eleni Federaini korporace pojigteni

SRDECNE PlIEJEME ZDAII SjEZDDU

SLOVANSKE PODPORUJid JEDNOTY STATU TEXAS Odbfwaneho v Housten, Texas

The West National Bank WEST, TEXAS J. R. CUFF, Predseda F. E. SEITH, Mistopiedseda EDW. A. DEITERMAN, PoklvInik N. ALMA HORTON N. WILLA ANN PLAEX

JOHNNIE E. POPP

SI GEORGIA ANN HOLACK A PAVE! S. gKRABANEK, HMO RUH. STANISLAV, iiditel RAMON S. RAY, fiditel

Zakladni kapital, piebytek, reserva a nerozdelenY zi'k 5175,755.00 Vase vklady jsou za,ji gteny nejen pevnosti tit() hanky ale zaroveti Federalni korporaci pojiยงteni NARE BANKA PftECHOVAVA VZDY BEZPECNE PENIZE S. P. J. S. T. JIt OD ROKU 1922 Pfejeme si throveil odporueiti vydavatelskou spoteenost "tECHOSLOVAK,"

co schopnou a zasluhujici, k vyclavani nadfile Vaยงeho spolkoveho organu VESTNIK.

PREJEME SI ZDE VYSLOVITI NASE firkin/NE BLAHOPRANi SJEZDU

SLOVANSKE PODPORUJiCi JEDNOTY STATU TEXAS Poiaclanemu v Houston, Texas

West Flour Mill _a_

West Chick Hatchery E. W. PLAARK, Majitel

WEST, TEXAS

Z w iclejte vfryhracIrze WEST BRAND KRMIVO PRO DIEttBE2 A DOBYTEK 01) VASEHO OBCHODNIKA S KRMIVEM