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OZEHAVA ORGANIZATORSKA OTAZKA

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EDNA 6ESKA lidova, prtipoved' pravi: "Co to nepali, nehas." Je to vYstraha, aby se elovek nedotYkal okhavYch, paldivych yea jinak je nebezpedi, 2e si zbytedne popali prsty.

Amerieani maji take podobnY vYrok: Let good enough alone.

Kdybychom vgichni se vyhYbali, aby chom nezavadili o veci chculostive, nebylo by 26,dneho postupu, pokroku a zlepgeni. Byli bychom jako ocelove per°, majici jistou pruZnost a pohybujici se jistou setrvadnosti.

V nagi SPJST' mime jednu takovou paldivou otazku: Kdy dojde k tomu, abychom meli statniho organisatora? Je to problem, na kterem si Hlavni atadovna nechce popaliti prsty.

Ve sjezdu konanem ve Fort Worth v roku 1948 byl vsunut do stanov elanek: Hlavni ittadovna ma pray() najati jednatele, kterY je schopnY ptiuditi na ge organisatory ziskavati nove eleny a ma pravo jemu ureiti slu2ne.

Uplynuly etyti roky. Dle priipovedi "Co Co nepali, nehas," nic se nestalo. Delegati se dohodli, 2e elanek musi bYti vice rozkazujici. Udelali opravu: Hlavni idadovna je povinna najmouti statniho organisatora, jehoZ povinnosti je pracovati na naborove (organisadni) praci v 11dech, kde pokrok v ziskavani dlenti vazne, a te2 v mistech, kde je dobra ptile2itost ku ziskani elentl, i kdy2 tam tad neni. Price tohoto organisatora je idzena Hlavni idadovnou. Na odporueeni statniho organisatora ma, Hlavni idadovna povinnost ustanovit pro kaZdY distrikt jednoho distriktniho 'organisatora.

PH debate na sjezdu v Houstonu stran statniho organisatora a ve gkere organisaani dinnosti bylo podano dostateene vysvetleni, co vgechno se od statniho organisatora oeekava,, jake ma miti schopnosti a jak musi bYti Hlavni atadovna opatrna, aby si vybrala schopneho elovela. Hned prvni bod debaty byl, aby nova, Hlavni idadovna, co2 by zahrnovalo take nove teditele zvolene v Houstonu,

navazala styky s osobami, ktere by da,valy nadeji, Ze by z nich mohi bYti vybran statni organisator. Osoba, k tomutolu vybra,na, by mela bYti spige mladgi nee stargi, spik 401etY ne2 60letY, spige mladgi elovek energickY a pohyblivY ne2 star gi Glen usedlY a vahavY. Za gest tYdnii po sjezdu se gel se u2gi vYbor, sestavajici z ptedsedy Marka a teditelit Navratila a Skrabanka, aby tento vybor vypracoval postup organisaeni prate a take zgasob, jakYmi cestami dostati osoby, z nich by mohi bYti vybran statni organisator. Nasledkem toho, ze sjezd naporueil, aby redaktor vypoinahal v organisadnich schtizich v ka2derri distriktu, byl jsem te2 zavolan do teto prvni poradni schOze. Celt' plan, vypracovanY timto u2 gim vYborem, byl pozdeji schvalen v pravidelne schtizi Hlavni fitadovny. Zavedeny byly organisaeni kursy, jsou mistnim organisatortim davany osobni instrukce.

Kdy vgak dojde k tomu, aby Hlavni idadovna najala statniho organisatora?

Anebo spravneji tedeno, kdo z hlavnich atednikti a teditelti ma si to vziti na starost, aby se navazaly styky s nekSrm, kdo by daval nadeji, 2e by mohl bYti yybran jako statni organisator?

Nage nova Hlavni idadovna mela dye schuze, jednu v lednu, druhou v dubnu. Odekaval jsem nejakou diskusi o statnim organisatoru v dubnove schtizi.

Ad byla to jedna z nejdel gich schuzi, ktere jsem byl ptitomen, nebyla o statnim organisatoru 25,dna tee. A kdo ji mel zaditi? Agitaeni veci nespadaji pod pravomoc a dohled ani pokladnika, ani adetniho, ani pravnika, ani tajemnika, ani tedite10. Agitadni zalektosti jsou ptedsedy a v ptipade potteby veci mistoptedsedy. Mistoptedseda nemohl byti schilzi ptitomen a ptedseda mel v minule schtizi jinYch problemit az nad hlavu.

Nejsem idednikem. Do schtize Hlavni atadovny jsem pozvan, abych pozoroval jednani, abych si vgimnul planovani a abych dlentim oznamil, co se planuje, jak veci pokraduji. Proto ye schtizich sedim,

posloucham, a delam si poznamky. M ptijdu domu, teprve davam sve itny glenky a sve pozorovani na Nekdy mne nekdo napomina, 2e to nebo ono jsem nemel davat do vetejnosti. Kdybych se musel easto rozmYglet, co smim a co nesmim psati, nebo jestli se to neptijemne dotkne nektereho elena Hlavni idadovny, pak bych nebyl samostatnYm redaktorem, kterY ma a musi ptina geti nove nahledy. Pro redaktora neplati "Co to nepali, nehas."

Videl jsem, 2e bratr ptedseda pottebuje pomoc a posilu v agitaeni praci. Druzi idednici maji ka2dY sve povinnosti. Redaktor ma bYti vlastne te2 agitatorem.

Proto jsem oznamil v minule schuzi pted jejim ukoneenim, 2e zajedu na tYdenni kurs do Purdue university ye statu Indiana, abych poznal, jake vlastnosti, schopnosti a znalosti musi mitt statni organisator. Nekdo z hlavnich idednin by to mel znati. A kdy2 hlavni idednici mne 2adaji, abych iidil organisadni schtize v ka2dem distriktu jednou za tti mesice, zda, se mi, 2e sam se musim napted zaueiti, jak bych mel organisatory pod:0vati a povzbuzovati. A aby nebylo namitek, ze studuji na fleet SPJST, platim si sam vgechny vYlohy. Jestli nem ziskam, ziska, tim i Jednota. Budu lep gim redaktorem. Budu lep gim radcem pro na ge organisatory.

Odjadim na tento zvla gtni kurs, kde Se jak poueovati a povzbuzovati nage organisatory. Jsem ji g hodne starYm abych byl statnim organisatorem, protok takova, einnost se lope hodi pro 401etell° ne2 pro mne, ale snad nejsem takovYm starcem, abych se neeemu neptiueil, co by prospelo tee druhYm elentim.

Ostatne, kdy2 si podobnY kurs mute dovoliti neutednik, mo2no, to da pokyn a pobidku nekterYm idednikum. Chcemeli, aby nage Jednota rostla, musime take sami rusti — rust v rozhledech a zkugenostech naeerpanYch od schopnejgich.

V Chicagu pted tYdnem nam to spadlo ptimo do klina, aby nekdo od na gi SPJST se pkihlasil o tento kurs. Proto jedu.

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Ve stredu, die 20. kvetna 1953.

' takove navgtevy jsou pro aredniky nutnosti. BY'valo by dobre, kdyby na gi idednici, hned kdyz bylo na sjezdu odhlasovan°, 2e usti'edna se bude stehovati, zajell si na nevgtevu k jinStm bratrskYm V pondeli minuleho tSqine zajel jsem do jednotam, okoukii se trochu, co by se neEnters as second class 'mail matter, January 3rd, 1933 at West, Texas under the Act of Congress of West, abych yyridil si nektere potfebne chalo u nas zlep giti, a dle toho dall staAugust, 24th 1922 veci s tiskarnou, ktere jsem zamegkal vebnimu vkboru navody, jak zariditi motREDNI ORGAN SLOVANSKE PODPORUJICf JED- svou cestou do Chicaga. Zastavil jsem v derni aradovnu. Kdy'2 by byla prilektost NOTY STATU TEXAS Bryan, abych pozval bratra Jos. HorridOFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SLAVONIC BENEVOLENT ka, predsedu Tiskoveho vkboru, by jel se prohlednouti si kancelare jinkch bratrskkch spolka, mnoha vec by se dala xis, ORDER OF THE STATE OF TEXAS mnou a abychom mohli diskutovati o podobiti nebo na na ge pomery prizpasoREDAKTOR — EDITOR kterkch bodech stran Vestniku. Napadlo bit. Z to prieiny jsem nelitoval easu a STEPHEN VALCIK nam, abychom zpateeni cestu volili pies namahy a zajel jsem loni se tfemi eleny 6402 Prague Houston" Texas Temple. Byli jsme oba zvedavi, jak apra- stavebniho vkboru, aby si prohledli nova kancelafi pro na gi fistrednu pokraeu- vou a moderni afadovnu jisteho bratrV y davatel6 — Publishers eECHOSLOVAK PUB. COMPANY — WEST, TEXAS je. Frank Matush, predseda stavebniho skeho spolku v San Antoniu, aby meli vkboru, kterk vede v gechny opravy, byl nejake poneti, co druzi vyplanovali a poPred p latne $3.00 — Subscri p tion $3.00 a year -V, prave na konvenci v Detroit, Michigan. stavili.

Budova jiZ" ma svaj novk napis, "S. P. J. Zraeny adres zasilaji se do Illavni fitadovny ye Pii styku s jinOni vedoucimi od rfizFa y etteville, Texas S. T. Fraternal Life Insurance". Vyjeli nStch bratrsk`kch jednot mono se poka. Change of address must be sent to Supreme Lodge jsme zdvik do tfetiho poschodi, kde gtu- de neeemu novemu pritieiti. Seznamil Fayetteville, Texas. kateri — nebo jak zde fikame, plasterers jsem se v Chicago s fifednikein od jedPiedol 6 a oznamk y bud'tff, adresovIny as mazali na steny prepa:Zek omitku. Ne- noho spolku, kterk je asi trikrate vetgi Vlstnik, West, Texas. zvedeli jsme, jak dlot-ho opravy potrvaji ne'Z nage SPJST. Podal mi svou visitku, Zivoto p is y zemfelch 61enfi se uvefeinuJi bezplatnd Za rytinu Podobizny je nutno zaslati redakci $2.50. nebo kdy budau ukoneeny. Bratr Horrlak na nia bylo jeho jrneno a te2 jakk Mad The obituaries are p rinted without char g e. For cuts nebyl nikterak nad gen; rozmery mistno- zastava u sveho spolku. Byl druhkrn miis necessar y to send $2.50 to the Editor. sti pro kancelare arednika prili g male, stopfedsedou a reditelem organisatory. stisnene, vyhovoujici jen doeasne, ne Ktomu byl take redaktofern mesioniku, HLAVNI fiDADOVNA SUPREME LODGE vgak pro budoucnost. V torn ohiedu sou- kterk jeho spolek vyclava",. Projevil jsem EDWARD L. MAREK, President Fa y etteville, Texas hlasim s bratrem Horrialem. Pri piano- svaj obdiv, jak mute zastavati tolik funkFRANK G. SVADLENAK, Vice-President vani zaponinelo se, k bude treba mist- ci — rnistopredsedou, dohled nad nekoliThrall, Texas . nosti na schaze organisatora, kde by po- ka statnimi organisatory a take bkti re3. F. CHUPICK, Secretary Fa y etteville, Texas hodlne mohlo usednouti 30-40 osob, bud' daktorem. S asme yem nine vysvetloval, JOS. KOLIHA, Jr., Treasurer na vkchodni nebo zapadni east budovy Ze ma dva pomocnilw: sekretare, kterk Fa y etteville, Texas pfes celou gifku. Asi ze kaZdk arednik ra- mu vede vgechnu korespondenci s orgaR. A. URBANOVSKY, Bookkeeper Fa y etteville, Texas dii die sveho, pamatoval jen sam na sve nisatory, vedeni zaznama a statistiky o ADOLPH PAVLICEK, Attorney nutnosti, ale zapomnelo se na budouci naborove praci; a pak ma sekretarku, 511-13 Shell Bldg. poladavky, a stavebni vkbor jednal dle ktera mu vykonava v gechnu pocifadnou Houston, Texas 'ER. MARVIN LESIKAR, Medical Director /layoff'. Ne2 bude pri gti sjezd v Temple, redakeni praci. Kdyby pry mel vykonaP. 0. Box 410, tyto nedostatky se markantneji ukak. ati vg echnu to drobnou praci, na kterou Taylor,' Texas ftEDITELE -- DIRECTORS Kdyi jsme byli v Chicagu, navgtivili staei pomocnici, trvalo by mu to dvakrat John A. KUBENA, First District jsme, bratr Marek a ja, v pravodu redak- dole ne'Z pornocnikam, a k dillektejgim La Gran g e, Texas tora Chmelieka, kancelare bratrsice jed- boffin/ rfizneho planovani by se ani neCHAS. NAVRATIL, Second District Tem p le, Texas noty oeskoslovenskSreh Spolka v Ameri- dostal. "Bez techto osobnich tajemnika ROBERT CERVENKA, Third District ce. Jednota tato je druha, nejvet gi eeska, bych nevykonal ani, paint' toho, co s jeWest. Texas bratrska jednota ve Spojenkch statech. jich pomoci mohu dokazati", dodal na FRANK CERVENY, Fourth District Monda y , Texas Nage SPJST je na rtfetim mist& Loni na vysvetlenou.

J. M. SKRABANEK. Fifth District podzim zmodernisovala si jednota eSA Samoziejme zajimal jsem se o jeho tii 4720 Bellaire Blvd..

Bellaire, Texas sve fifadovny, proto bratr Marek a ja byli aredni povinnosti, protole kdysi myslel FRANK ROD, Sixth District jsme zvedavi, kdy sami take provadime jsem si, Z'e redaktor mel by polovinu sveEl Cam p o, Texas nee° podobneho. 1VIusime gratulovati, ho easu venovati praci organisaeni, ze CHAS HOLASEK, Seventh District 2541 Lexin g ton Blvd., arednici OSA mail sve kancelare pro- mel by pracovati pro rut Jednoty nejen Cor p us Christi, Texas stranne, moderni, velmi prakticky zafi- tiskem, ale take osobnim stykern. Take TXSKOVI VIDOR — PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE zene s raziakmi kancelarskkmi stroji a jsem kdysi nadhodil Tiskovemu vkboru, JOS. HORNAK. Chairman P. 0. Box 125 pomackami na rychle vyrizovani vgech aby z redaktora udelali instruktora nebo College Station, Texas MRS. FRANCES OLEXA zalektosti. Bylo jrZ veeer, kdyz jsme pro- ueitele pro organisatory, a aby redaktor 6402 Taggart chazeli jednatlivkrm mistnostmi, nebyli mei pro agitaci nejen tisk, ale take predHouston, Texas MRS. ANTONIE HORAK jsme tedy nikomu v ceste a mohli jsme nagly a zvukovk film. Proto jsem se to5007 Alcoa, si vgechno dobfe prohlednouti. Mne nej- hoto noveho znameho od druheho spolku Dallas, Texas vice zajimal velkk pristroj na fotografo- vyptaval, jak on milk tolik prace sam STA OVN1 VIBOR — BY-LAW COMMITTEE FRANK OLEXA, Chairman vani, pomoci ktereho se delaji mikrosko- vykonati. A poznal jsem, ze zatim co sam 6402 Taggart picke filmy vgeho, co je treba uschovati, vgechno na stroji pis a mnohe dopisy Houston, Texas JOS. SLAVIK, Secretary ania by to vyZa.dovalo stohy a stohy ii- nagich dopisovatela do Vestniktt pfepiBox 426 stin, korespondence a zaznamtl. Pronesl suji a upravuji pro sazeee, on na takovou Tem p le, Texas BIRDIE HILSHE R - Youth Counselor jsem k bratru Markovi poznamku, Z'e ta- drobnou mechanickou praci ma vkpo1215 Hei g hts Blvd. kova prohlidka je vkly k uktku. Vlastne mocnou silo. Sam nepig e ani radky, ale Houston. Texas

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Ve stiedu, dne 20. kvetna 1953. vgachno diktuje sve sekretarce. Lee jak mi sdelil, jeho redaktorske funkce je veci podradnou, nebot' hlavnim jeho akalem je vesti praci naborovou, zaueovani a najimani statnich a distriktnich organisatora. A jako vrchni organisator musi jednou tcInë podati zpravu ye schazi firednika a jednou mesiene ye schazi reclitela.

Chtel jsem miti vysvetleno, jak to maji u jeho spolku zavedeno, Ze arednici maji schazi jednou tYdne a reditele jednou mesiene. Chtel jsem poznati, jestli jeho spolek ma d ye vedouci telesa, nebo "dye hlavy", jak kdysi mezi nami byla fee, kdy naSi reditele konali sve schaze bez firednika. Podival se na nine, jako by nine nerozumel. Pak pravil, "Prece kaala korporace ma vYkonne firedniky a ma take "board of directors", vYbor reditelti.

NaivYkonni arednici se sejdou kaZde iiterY rano, aby mezi sebou projednali obchodni zalaitosti, ktere se vyskytly nebo ktere se maji vyriditi. A kdyZ je sclatize reditela, schazi vede predseda reditelik a zapisky porizuje tajemnik reditell Ve schazi reditelti se podavaji zpravy firedZajimalo mne to, proto jsem se vyptaval, jakou zpravu podava on, kdyZ j e mistopiedsedou a reditelem organisatort. Vysvetlil mi, Ze on, jako druhy mistopredseda, ma na starosti organ, ma titul redaktora, ale drobnou redaktorskou praci e vykonava, jeho sekretarka, on pouze dohlili a ureuje, co ma, jiti do organu. Ve schazi reditela on musi oznamiti, kolik ma organisatora, kolik nova"ho pojilteni se pripsalo, kdo jsou dobrYmi pracovniky a ktere organisatory musel propustit. On je reditelam zodpovednY za celou naborovou praci a za v gechny organisatory v celem spolku. Ptal jsem se ho, jake povinnosti ma jejich pry hi mistopredseda. Vysvetlil mi, Ze prvni mistopredseda east° zastupuje pred sedu, a spolu s pokladnikem maji na starosti investovani penez a jsou Cleny petelenneho investieniho vYboru. Tajemnik oznamuje ye schazi kolik amrt nich pojistek bylo vyplaceno, kolik od stoupleho pojiSteni bylo vyrovnano, a ko-, lik nadaenich pojistek yyprAelo. Take oznamuje kolik raznYch podpor v neltesti bylo elenarn poskytnuto.

Ptal jsem se ho, jak je sloieno jejich hlavni tales°. Odpovedel, Ze maji pet agent" vYkonneho vYboru, jrnenoval to "executive committee", tedy hlavni arednici: predseda, dva mistoptedsedove, tajemnik a pokladnik. Maji pravnika a vrchniho lekare, ale ti nejsou firedniky. Neptal jsem se, jsou-li tito dva voleni sjezdem nebo vybrani jinYm zpasobem. Mail take kantrolora, rekl to anglicky "comptroller", tedy hlavni UCetni, kterY je ustanoven ijediteli. A maji devet reditela, z nich2 jedna, tretina, je volena kaZdeho roku

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mo deny. Tri reditele jsou na investienim vYboru, tri na neetnim vYboru a -al na organisaenim vYboru. si mysleti, ie sami mime vSechno pekne sestaveno, ale kdyZ mluvime s firedniky ad jinYch bratrskYch organisaci, prichazime k poznani, Ze jinde to maji zavedeno docela jinak. Nektere spolky maji ureite veal vYhodnejAi, ale v jinYch bodech jim to pokulladva. Jako kdyZ prohlilirne razne domovy a residence. Kai-d dam ma sve vYhody a sve nepriznive zarizeni. A jestli soused prijde na nayStevu a nevidi ty vYhody, jake mama, neprospeji nam Zadne vYkla,dy.

Spile na nas zanevre, Ze se vychloulaame.

Ani ye spolkovem Zivote neni radno propagovati nejake zmeny, pokud vetlina (Nana neotevre oCi. Ve skupinach, kde je nekolik tisic Mena, pokrok a zlepSeni postupuje hodne zvolna.

Nejviee jsem prekvapen, jakou zmenu jsme zavedli tim, Ze posledni sjezd v Houstonu vytvoril distrikty a co distriktni schfize slibuji vykonati. Jsme ovlem v zaeatcich. Ale vypravel mi predseda Marek pi-i na gi caste do Chicaga, jak on sam byl prekvapen, co vlechno je moZno oeekavati od zavedeni distrikta. Rozpovidal se o schazi, ktera, byla poradana etvrtYm distriktem v Seymour. NadAene vypravel, Ze vlech deset rada, ktere jsou v onom distriktu, bylo na schazi zastoupeno. A nekteri zastupci phijeli ze vzdalenosti vice neZ 200 mil. Zadal nine bratr Marek, bych neopomenul jmenovati v gechny rady: Pokrok Rowena Cislo 49 z Rowena, Sam Houston eislo 73 ze Seymour, Neodvislost Cislo 76 z Wichita Falls, Hvezda Praporu Cislo 77 z Bomarton, Pokrok Haskell eislo 85 z Weinert, Slovanske SdruZeni eislo 90 ze -Stamford, CeskY Den eislo 95 ze Seymour, Bratrejo y Oslo 134 z Crowell, Rozkvet na Plains Cislo 157 z Littlefield a T. G. Masaryk Oslo 160 ze San Angelo. Vypravel bratr Marek, Ze takoveho nadleni a bratrskeho pobaveni nevidel jeSte pri Zadne tine distriktni schazi, ae mnohe byly velice zdarile. Do schtize v Seymour prijely pr Y cele rodiny, otec, matka, dortistajici deti i ta menSi drobotina. Phijeli aby se vzajemne poznali jako jedna velika rodina, aby vyslechli bratra Marka a bratra Navratila, aby vymenili sve nahledy, a aby si vzajemne slibili, Ze na phi-ti schazi prijedou opet vlichni a privezou s sebou take ty, kteri tentokrate nepriSli. Die vypravovani bratra Marka, to nebyla jen obyeejna, schtize, to byla slavnost vSech tech, kdo jsou rortroulcni po celem severozapadu, od Wichita Falls a Lubbock aZ po San Angelo. Jak se vyjacifil bratr Marek, na takovou schazi meli by prijiti vAichni ti pochybovaeni, vSichni ti uplakani a neverici, kteri narikaji, Ze spolkovY Zivot mezi nami upada. A na tu schtizi by meli

Strana 3 mad 1)ti dovezeni take II, kteii ineli distriktni sehitze — lidove i'e6eno -- u huby a ztistali doina; ti, kteri nepriSli ani ponejory, ani po druhe, ani po treti. Je etvrtV distrikt nejmenli ze sedmi, ale mel stoprocentni zastoupeni. V tuteZ nedeli mel distrikt 'prvni svou schtizi, a sclaazelo tam skoro polovina, zastupcu, a to od radtii, ktere maji ye svYch raclach dobre a spolehlive pracovniky. Proe mohou nekteri jeti pi-es 200 mil, a nekteri va,haji udelati cestu 20 mil? Doufejme, Ze firednici kaZdeho distriktu se vlemoZne vynasnaZi, aby philti schtize jejich distriktu byla zastoupena pokud moZno I/Semi ra,dy, i kdyby to yyZadovalo dalSi dopisovani a nova pripomenuti.

Dobry priklad distriktni ilnnosti je vi, deti v distriktu tretim. Neni ani,lednoho Veestniku, aby tajemnik tretiho distriktu, bratr L. c1: Hoeek nernel nejake vyzvani nebo nejakoit povzbuzujici zpravu.

V minulem aisle rozepsal se take predseda tretiho clistriktu, bratr Cyrill Pokladnik. Napsal dopis anglicky a pak sedi a napsal dopis pro Ceske etenare. Al jsem prekvapenim ztistal hiedet na vYbornou .znalost jeho oeStiny. To nejeden pismak, kterY mel nekolik roku Mice Skoly ye stare vlasti, by se mohl hodne priueiti oci zde razeneho bratra Cyrilla , Pokladnika, predsedy radu Pokrok Dallas eislo 84 a nynejSiho predsedy tretiho distriktu. Jaka je to radost pozorovati ty mladli, Ze se tak o spolk,3vou praci zajimaji. Jen jim dejme prilditost; jen je nechejme ye, schazich mluviti a jednati. Oni nas mohou v mnohem poueiti, i kdyZ jejich CeStina neni prave prvotridni. Nale anglietina, take na nekterern mists pokulhava, treba jsme zcle v America jiZ dali doati neZ Ly mile deft Jen pomoci deti a niladcie porostou nale rady a 'rase Jednota. Take vase distriktni schazc museji bYti planovany, aby do distriktnich programa byly zapojeny deti a nalade2. Neeekejt,a, Ze hlavni firednici yam povedou vale clistriktni schaze. Nepoeitejte na jejich proslovy.

Hlavni firednici se dostavi, pomohou vain distriktni schtize udelati slaynostnejSimi, ale ta skuteena p1-ace budc na vasich detach, na te ondadine, kterou mezi sebou zavolate. A jak jsem slySel pri jecine neday ne distriktni schuzi, Ze phi-ti schrize bude bez programu, pouze "business meeting", neradil bych k tomu. JakY "business" chcete projednavati, kdyZ ne otazku, jak dostati mezi vas vali mlacleZ, neZ problem, jak vzkrisiti zajem mezi eleny? Dostarite deti do programa a rodiee prijdou s detmi. Pomoci detskYch programa hled'ine rozvinouti einnost v radech, pomoei deti oznamujeme nag bratrskY spolek. Jen nezaeinejme v naSich distriktnich schazich plane schtizo-

iltrana 4 vani, kde je mnoho reei a addna uaiteen prate.

Osobni: — Dye zdraviee, jednu z Detroit a druhou z Kanady, poslali redaktoru manaele Frank Matushovi z Temple.

V Kanade je usazen bratranec Franka Matushe, kterY se tam usadil po propuSteni ze zajateckeho tabora. — VYstriaek ze studentskYch novin z A & M College poslal mi nadanY student Jerry HoAek, syn tajemnika tretiho distriktu L.O. Hoaka z Grapevine. MlaelY hock Jarda floakfiv brzy dokonei sva studia. Jak jsem neprimo z jineho pramene zvedel, dosta va Jerry takrica same jednieky. Je tea Menem eeskeho Klubu, nejsilnejaiho kir"bu v A & M College. MladY HoAek poslal mi vYstriaek o prednake Eduarda Taborskeho, profesora dejin a politickYch ved ze statni university v Austinu. 'Prednaaka profesora Taborskeho byla pri banketu studentskeho fraterskeho spolku Phi Kappa Phi. VYstriaek otiskuji v anglicke easti. — Oanameni sve graduate poslala redaktoru dceruAka bratra Vaclava Bariny ze Smithville. Dokorreila svou mesAt'anku a zajiste bude nasledovati syYch Ataraich sester a pfijde na vySai studia, k eemua ji preji mnoho zdaru. Srdeene diky za vzpominky. )•A•

Oddil Dopisovatels4 Ze schfize fadu Jaro eislo 130.

Dallas, Texas.

Schfizi zahajil a vedl bratr St. Hillovec, mistopredseda radii. Mr. Miro Jureik, rddovY predseda, byl omluven nemoci jeho otce, kterY leaf zde v Dallas v nemocnici, kde mu lekari odebrali druhou nohu.

Prejeme stariekovi vaichni, by se mu od bolesti ulevilo a rodine, ktera vady stejne trpi, prejeme trpelivost; ono se to zase k clobremu obrati.

Ve schuzi jsme nemeli addne zvlaatni jednani. ten dopis od bratra L. O. Hoaka, v kterem nam delcoval za pane potadanou okrskovou schtizi. Dekujeme za pochvalu, ale chceme, byste piiael do schtze. . teetni vYbor mel prehliaet knihy, ale neueinil to, telly do priati sclattze s tim prij d'te.

Jineho jednani nebylo, tedy schilze ukoneena a priati bude poradana due 7. eervna v Sokolovne.

Na zdar!

Dopisovatelka.

A nyni par radkil "vod hu nas".

Doti S' ebetkovy volaly, ze jsou na prazdninach a chti jeti do statu Arkansas, chcf-li take jet. Odpovidam, ae ano, neb to asi bude jen jedinY natj vYlet letos, neb jsem si delala dostavemcka s lekari a ti se nechaji eastovat, takae z planu do Chicaga a dale sejde.

vESTN K WEST; TEXAS Vyjeli jsme ye etvrtek 0 5. hodine ranni. V Texarkana jsme byli o 10 hod. a abed ,jsme ua jedli v Hot Springs, Ark. Meli jsme adresu na eeskou pani Cevela, ktera pronajima kabiny a naAli jsme to brzy, takae jsme si uvaiili °bed tia v kabine.

Upravill jsme se i deti a jell jsme na obhliciku mesta. Jenda vyjel na vrchol kopce; kterY trfini zrovna nad mnoha budovami, kde jsou umistene lazne. Cele to pohori jest upraveno jako park, ten travnik, stromy, kere tak krasne zelene, ae jsme mohli oci na torn nechat. Na vrcholu kopce jest rozhledna, ktera jest vysoka 165 strevic, ma 271 schodil, ale tea je tam elevator, na kterem jsme se my nechaly vyvezt nahoru. Rozhled dolt' jest uchvatnY, s vrcholu kopce dolfi na ulici v meste jest 815 strevic. Muaete si tam vyjit peaky, jsou upravene pekne chodniky, pod stromy lavieky, tak ae si milaete odpoeinout. Nam se v Hot Spring velice libilo.

V patek rano o 8. hodine jsme vyjeli zase dale a to pies Quachita National Forest. Tam jest opravdu krasna projiad'ka, stromy, borovice, jedna jako drurovna jako svice po obou stranach pane cesty. Ja mam straane rada stromy a tam bylo talc krasne, akoda ae tam nebyl nejakY ten beelak, moand bych si dala Net. Jeli jsme lakes -mesto Fort Smith, kde jsme nezastavili. Prejiadinie Ozark hory a tam odbOeujeme s cesty 71 a jedeme se„podivat do eertove residence.

Jest tam peknY park, kabiny, koupaliate, ale mtaete kampovat venku. My jsme si tam pripravili obed, na ohniati ohrali polevku, uvaiili Icavu a jine jidlo, co jsme men, dali na, stil. Talc jsme si to libovali, hezkY klid, vae eiste; mit talc vice easu a zfrstat den, dVa neb i vice, byl by peknY odpoeinek. Proteka tam peknY potok, kde v zastavach moano rybarit. Cesta ale tam jest 12 a pill mile a jen obyeejna dosti Icamenita. To co jsme hledali, ty eertovy skrYae, jsme nenaAli, ale zato dva maid had'ata. Prvni, kdya Jenda vzal kousek dreva s hromadky udelat ohen, tak tam byl had. Pak jsme Ali hezkY kousek peaky pies strae a kameni chodnikem do toho Certoveho stanku. V jednom miste to bylo trochu neschildne s detmi prejit a talc jen Hedy se Ala podivat kousek dal.

Jenda bral obrazky. Kclya Ala zpatky, z pod kamene, na kterem pied tim stala, Vylez0,1 had. Jenda ji pomohl prejit zpet, ale ua dale jsme Tedy, bude-li testa takova do toho 0pravdoveho pekla, tak jim tam neprijdu, ale vratim se do nebe. Zpetjsme melt asi 18 mil hlinite cesty, ale ua bylo lepai, neb tam byly :sem tam (army, tedy vice ujeta a zase jsme na ceste 71 a jedeme ku mestu Fayetteville, kde jsme zastavili jen pro gas.

Ve.stredu, dne 20. kvetna 1953.

Do Eureka Spring jsme prijeli po 6. hodine. NaSli peknou kabinu, kde jsme se prevlekli do jinYch Sala a jeli jsme na weai do mesta. V peknem miste jsme pojedli dobre jidlo a dosti lacine, ae jsme byli prekvapeni cenou.

3,1esto Eureka musite uvidet, abyste si mobil o nem utiinit svfij tisudek. NazYvaji ho Switzerland of Amerika a taky asi musi bYt. Ja, jsem ua prejela hodne west v Americe, ale takoveho jsem nevidela.

Ulice flake, domy do kopciA, vlastne do kamene postavene, takae jednou ulici jste u prednich dveri a druhou u zadnich.

Ulice se otaci klikate. Jest tam dilm, ma.

8 poschodi a do kaadeho se prijde pekne s cesty.

Hned jak prijede se do mesta, tedy jest do skaly vytesane misto, velkY pelokruh.

Jest tam pavlae, pod strechou .,ide stoji male harmonium. Zed' dolfi jest cementova a jsou tam lavice.Uprostred toho polokruhu jest pomnilc veterana, kaana, do ktere teee voda z pramene, kterych jest tam dosti. Voda ma bYti , leeebna. neb jest tam tea studne, na ktere jest napis, ae jedna z indianskYch princezen oslepla a den co den priala k tome prarnenu a tou vodou si myla oei, aa zase videla. Tedy na pamatku jejiho uzdraveni jest to tam vAechno tak pekne upravene a asi se tam konaji i kostelni poboanosti, neb po strane visi kria. Jest to pane misteeko. Do to studny jsme hodili peniz, pry pro spineni prani, tedy uvidime spini-li se moje. Jeli jsme na' prohlidku mesta, ale po tech ulicich to bylo az nebezpeene a ua byla noc. Rano zase jedeme na snidani do stejneho mista a pak po obchodech neco koupit domt.

Nemohli jsme nic najit, neb jsou tam jen male story a veci v nich dosti drahe.

Doti koupily na cest y sladke koldelcy a ja bochnik reaneho chleba.

Mesto musi bYt hodne stare, ale jest vae udraovano v nejlepaim poradku.

Kdya tak jdete po rizkem chodniku, misty jen velkYmi kameny vydlaadenem, to si jen musite primyslit mute na konich s nabiranYmi limci kolem krku a aeny se airokYmi suknemi s kruhy vespod.

Praia bych si bYti pri takove slavnosti v tomto meste. Byl by to asi pohled ftchvatnY. Jedeme ulici s kopce do kopce a hle! Zde jest katolickY kostel. Jenda zastavil a seAli jsme po schodech dolt a yeah do kostela. Bylo v nem vae rannim sluncem ozatene, ae vae vypadalo velice pekne. Jenda vzal obrazky uvnitt, nevim jestli se povedou. A zase jedeme dale na ruzna mista, ktera maji bYt velice 'Yana, ale my jsme tam nalezli jen nekolik kamenu, skaly, s kterYch voda hlinu odnesla. A nekde jsme byli i zklamani. A tak co veil, kam dale pojedeme.

Rozvrh byl udelanY na 4 a pill Jenda se pta, tak kam. Odpovidam,

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nedba-11 abychom jell domii, co2 jsme taky ucinili a jeli zpet k domovu jinou cestou pies Oklahomu. Zastavka byla jen pro gas a obed a domd jsme pfijeli pied 8. hodinou v sobotu veeer. Deti maji peknou takou karu, hezky se jelo, take jsme nebyli nic unaveni.

Ja ale vzpominam tech peknfich stromt. Ta krasna zeleri, kterou my zde v Texasu nemame. Pfala bych si zajet do Hot Spring jeAte jednou a zilstat tam nekolik dni. Nejsou to jen stromy, ale i potoky. Voda, eista, tede dolri ze skal neb s kopce, i kdyZ kara jede, slySite jeji gplouchani pies kameny. Krasmi kraj to na Antonie Horakova. pohled. ) • 4. • ( Orchard, Texas.

Bratfe redaktore, sestry a bratfi: Jsem ji°2 deli dobu v lekafskem tfovani. Leka,f odporueuje odpoeinek a klid. Jo, jo, ono se to lekafi lehko odporueuje, ale pacientovi se to teZko provadi. 0 telesnSr odpoeinek se v mem pfipadu nejedna., neb moje tfiasedmdesatilete sedfene Tidy se o nej hlasi. NeZ dugevni odpooinek, to jit je jina, vec. Mozek se yam v hlave pofad tool, otevira oei, ovSem kdo si je pfeje mit otevfene.

KdyZ' jsem obdrZel Vestnik Cis. 18, etu vS'e pozorne, az pfijdu na str. 5. odstavec 3., tam jsem se zarazil. A jak by ne? kdyZ tam sestry a bratfi z toho rozkvetleho zapadu se stavaji redaktorovSrmi mravokarci. No —ze mu dali to otcovske a matefske napomenuti, to by nebylo tak zle, ale povaZte, oni si vzali na nej adoye razitko. No — a kdyby jej trefili do spanku, tak bychom meli po redaktoru, a ja bych to mel do smrti na svedomi, jsem zavdal k tomu ptieinu. Kdyby se tito mravokarcir byli koukli do Vestniku Cis. 17, tarn by byli nasli na str. 5., to ten zlooinec z Orchard br. redaktorovi slibil, ae se jiZ polepSi a ae bude jit strouhat dobrotu. Mohli sobe uktfit praci, papir, obalku a poAtovne.

Porad Cteme, ze na zapade je citelne sucho, ale dnes 6. kvetna tam museli dostat potadnST lijak, neb jeden bratr nekde od Agua Dulce hned po torn deAti, nemaje jine prate, take udelal ze sebe mravokarce a napornina, br. redaktora, aby neprznil naig Vestnik s takovou eetbou, ktera se jemu nelibi; a pfi torn se odvolava, na to americkou svobodenku.

To je povedene, jak si dovedou mnozi de "Slapat po svem vlastnim jazyku.. Rad bych veal, co provedly neeestneho, sestra R. Truksova a sestra Otilie Krejci, se tak. neSetrne onen mravokarce na ne obofil? Oi je to snad nejakST zloeinec, kdyZ se nekdo domaha, toho, aby sjezdove usneseni bylo dodrZovano? Jestli ano, pak nemusime sjezdy odbYvat a tisice utracet. Ke konci jate mam dotaz na onoho mravokarce z Agua Dulce, zdali vi, co to

slovo prznit znamena v Maim slova smyslu?

Br. redaktore, z toho mra,vokarectvi si moc takou hlavu nedelej, neb to jeSte neni tak zle jako to, co se picihodilo jednou jednomu Tvemu kolegovi.

CERTOVA ADRESA. Jeden venkovskY list zatidil si take rubriku "Rady pro domacnost a hospodarstvi". Jednou dostal redaktor tetO e'asti dotaz: "Ma.m v zahrade pino chroustt.

Jak se jich zbavim?" Dotaz podepsan byl jmenem. Redaktor odpovedel: "Ueinite nejlepe, kdy2 je setfesete a pohnojite jimi sva, pole." Obratem dostal v gak redaktor opet dotaz od onoho eloveka: "Nemaul svYch poll! U sousedu je nechteji.

Co mam tedy s chrousty ueinit? U2 nine zahnivaji". A redaktor odpbvedel: "Dejte je tedy sve drilbe2i." Vec nebyla vgak vytizena. Redaktor dostal od dotyeneho mute zpravu, ae nema slepic a ae dirtkliye Zada o ureitou radu, protole spousta chroustri nepkijemne zapachajicich uvadi ho v nervosu. Redaktor odpovedel, jsa ut nakva2Sen :"Prosim vas, beZte s nimi tfeba k eertu !" Jake ale bylo redaktorovo pfekvapeni, kdyZ na druhS7 den easne rano onen bodrST °bean vrhnul se do redakce s napechovan3"7m kogem zapachajicich chroustil.

Mladi nadavaji starSrm starch oslri a to vgim pravem, nebot' sami jsou mladi.

Do bidy pfichazime vlastnimi chybami; majetku na,bYvame chybami jinSich.

MaliekY mesic zatmi velike slunce, ale ne na dlouho. titi podle stavu znamena, nyni vydavati tfikrat tolik net se vydeld.

A nyni pfeji vS'em Ctoucim Vestnik vSe dobre a mejte se hezky. Nazdarek!

John dajevsk.

4, • ( Dallas, Texas.

Schtlze Krou'Zku OeskSTh Zen byla v hojnem poetu Clenek zastoupena a tea pfitomna byla jedna navStevnice, pani Mazana z Clevelandu, ktera jest zde na navgteve u syna. Schfize byla zahajena naSi novou piedsedkyni, sestrou Koniakovskou. Sestra Valeikova, pfeeetla protokol, a naSe nova itcetni sestra Kopeekova pkevzala knihy a sdelila nam naSe prijmy a vydani.

Z hotovosti bylo darovano teem nemocnS7m elenkam na kvetiny, co vzpominka na Den Matieek.

Take byly obetovany penize pro nemocenskou podporu staremu dedouSkovi, tchanovi nisi sestry Jureikove, kted podstoupil teZkou operaci v St. Paul nemocnici. Zaroveri zasilaji v'Sechny sestry pfani, aby se dedouSkovi hodne ulevilo. , Ted', ze jsem se s dopisem opozdila, tak ua mime po bazaru, kted se pofadal v nedeli na Den Matieek. Chci podekovat za KroliZek CeskYch Len 'dem, ktefi. ph-

Strana 5 gli na na'.s bazar, a.srdeene diky za, doneseni darn. A take mnohe diky tern, ktefi na g e veci kupovali. Velice nas tesilo mit, tak velikou na y.g tevu, col udelalo na g bazar velikYin zdarem. Bazar zaeal v pet hodin. Nejclrive byl malY program, na kterY byly nacvieeny na ge male Ceske (Teti a musim doznat, to se v gecky clobTe zadrZely. Bylo je radost poslouchat. Zasluha patri sestre Zvolankove, sestre Vrlove mladgi a sestre MazanY, ktere je tak pane nacvieily.

Pak byla vedere a otevfeni stanku (bazar) a prodej veci. A pak zadala hudba a tanec. • Prave co toto dopisuji, dostala jsem zpravu od rodiny Jureikove, to posilaji diky za peneZni podporu pro declougka.

Diky vgem sestrarn KrouZku Cell Sr ch Zen od rodiny Juroikove.

PTigti schtwi budeme mit 4. dervna.

• Mrs. Mary Dedek, dopisovatelka. ) • eTe • Dallas, Texas.

Miii etenati Vestniku: Stale se pripravuji, abych verejnosti sclelila, jak dopadla moje prvni schilzka s detmi 26. dubna v Sokolovne.

Neoeekavala, jsem mnoltb. Za prve, bylo to nedele veder divadlo a rodide, jen se pripravovali, to ptijdou na divadlo, nemohli tam privest dal na 3. hodinu a v 6:30 hod. Wit zpet na divadle, a za druhe, mnozi pry tomu nerozumeli, co to ma bit, kdyZ jsem vYzvu k rodieilm napsala a dva nebo tri jednotlivci se mylne domnivali, ze chci nekom udelat prekaky v jejich kizeni programu. Ubezpeduji vas, ze jsem od toho daleka. Moje snaha v osade byla vZdy pro sjednoceni, zvlagte deti. To snad kaZdY z vas v Dallasu musi doznat. V detech a mladeli je na ge budoucnost. Pro detske programy jsem nevybirala jen deti elenti Sokola, ale v gechny bez rozdilu, at' patrily do kterehokoliv spolku neb ne. Wdy jsem psala, to deti deskYch rodidtt jsou po vet gine talontovane. Prod jim nedat piilelitost k vystoupeni na jevi gti. Tolik na vysvetleni tern, ktefi mne narkli, ae chci delat neco na true. Price moje je clobrovolna a kdo ji chce delat lepe prihlas se, ja milerada ustoupim do pozadi. V gak v mem stall. -0 bych mein, jit na vYmenek. 40 let poctive price na jednom miste je snad Bost pro jednotlivce.

Dostavily se etyil deti, p. W. Sil pfivez1 dva jejich hochy, p. a pi. Kalichovi jejich devdatko a p. a pi. A. Vrlovi jejicb.

Katu gku. Ale to nepfi gly ve stejnou dobu, nemohla jsem udelat zadatek. Ate mnozi rodide si s detmi v necleli radi nekam vyjedou, chci to zkusit v sobotu nano a to v 9:30 hod. 30. kvetna. Dudu videt, bude-li o tyto schtizky zajem, ja ten eas rada pro ne obetuji. Proto prosim rocliee, aby to vzali na vedomi, ae bu-

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du v Sokolovni 30. kvetna v sobotu v 9:30 se vyprodalo. I neelenky piispely Muslin se aspon trechu zminit o nakm hod. eekat, kolik deti se tam dostavi. vem. Jsme jim vdeene a dekujeme. slete, kterSr byl 3, kvetna v Corpus ChriNebude-li zajmu o to, nebude mite to TiTake divadlo "Kaelza tulaeka", ope` ret_ sti• Byli tu Sokolici z Houstonu, Ennis, to, necham toho. ka rizena p. J. Kebrlem, byla vYborne Fort Worth a Dallas. Tito v gichni opravak du umeli &Mit, 2e radost je bylo pozoMnozl rodide si pieji lep gi vysvetleni, herci sehrana ph velke nav gteve.e Vg Fort rovat. Ti ho gi na hrazde, ti ale umeli to mate piilehtost ji shlednout y ktere zde podavam. Chci zavest tuto detsalto a ty veletnee. To bylo opravdu moc Worth, Temple a Ennis. skou besidku, aby deti v pisnielach, Mame mezi nami pi. M. Mazanou z hezke. A co Nei o bradlach? Jak Sokoli, kankach, ritznYch hrach, taneekach, jatak taky Sokolice, to hezky omen. Ja neko ku aervenST gateeku, Pasla Cleveland, Ohio. Je to maminka nas:' vim jak se to vge cvieeni na bradlach oveeky, 81a Nanynka do zeli, Oi2eelzu, dvojice Bob a Dolores MazanYch, vYborjmenuje.

Pak byla prostna, ale to v ge se ptadku malielY a jive, si osvojovaly za- nYch vedoucich Sokola, nacelnik a navel- m nice.

Mame ji mezi sebou radi, neb ona musi videt, aby to mohl ocenit, takove klad Ceske Peei. Zkratka, chci ty vase decvieeni mohou nacvieit jenom opravdovi ti shromaklit kolem sebe jako babieka 2aclnY 2ert nepokazi a pialy bychom si, vnouentka. A bylo by to v2dy etvrtou so- aby zustala mezi nami. Je dobra sokolska Sokoli.

S pozdravem jsem. botu v mesici od 9:30 hod. rano, hodinu a pracovnice v Clevelandu.

Mrs. Agnes Elzner. nanejvYS d ye hodiny. Bude zale2et, Trochu opozdene vitam mezi nas man) • de •( 2ele Emil 8eveakovi a jejich dye Oh, kolik Oh se dostavi a v jakem state:.

Dallas Texas.

2adneho to nic nebude stat. Moje nabid- kterYm br. Hugo 8evOak pomohl z mista, Hezky nam zde pr gi, mame z 'toho raka prace je dobrovolna. Rada si vzpomi- odkud v dnegni dobe kaklY rad utika, za nam na tu detskou besidku, jen jsem 2eleznou oponou. Budeme se twit na je- dost, neb je ,vge pekne zelene a 2aditY strach, 2e nebude voda. Byl by to proste zalohla v rove 1942. Dnes 112 jsau ty dev- jich spoltipraci s nami.

Sestra Spanelova, presidlila od nas z pro nas hroznY problem, kdybychom zde eatka skoro v gechny vdane a innohe mlade maminky. Ale tak dlouho ja, ne- Dallas do jejiho bYvaleho domova, do v Dallas nemeli vody.

Svatek na gich matieek ji2 mame za sebudu, abych mela pfilehtost jejich deti Temple. Vehme, ke okieje v to sve pekne svetniece s vyhlidkou do zahradky.

My bou.

Byl nadhernY den a bazar spojenY vest k Ceske mluve. Vim, 2e v gechny ty s programem a taneeni zabavou se v gevgechny sestry z Krou2ku na ni easto cieveatka si vzpominaji na mamu Valeistranne vydahl. Nav gteva krasna, hodne kovou. A radostne varn mohu oznamit vzporniname a piejeme v ge nejlepgi.

Take zde ptipojuji pozdrav pi. Rozi elenstva bylo piitomno od&i.v gech facia z jako vzacnost, 2e v gechny se provdaly za Mikeska-Truksove, ktera mne psala, 2e Dallas a Sokola.

Ceske hochy. Zasluhu o jejich srdeeni Detieky na jevi gti byly k pomilovani lehtosti si nepkiditam, ja jsem s nimi na je zas upoutana na 102ku, a piece pies randieka nechodila, ale radost z toho jeji nemoc a staid dopisy do casopisu na- syYmi piednesy. Zajiste jsou jejich maminky na ne hrdy, neb jsou jejich chloumam. Pet z nich si vybralo z Ennis ho- Pik* S pozdravem vem etenaitim se zna- bou a radosti, kdy2 se michaji mezi Cechy. Z Francis Vita se stala pi. Kudrno- mend Bo2ena Valeikova. skou vetejnost a tak sebevedome vystuva, z Ruth Dugek pi. Chmelarova. Helene puj • ka Vrlova nechtela ztratit sve divei jmeTaft, Texas. Prednes jejich byl vet ginou v feel Ceno, tak si vybrala zase Vrlu. Rfdenka Mile sestry a bratii: ske a velice Indio v ieei anglicize. Ty naVrlova, je pi. Parmova; Kathrin Houpa se mlade 2"eny, co je ucily a mely na staNage sokolska sclatze 10. kvetna ji2 papi. Tybitz, je narodnosti polske (tedy tarosti program, mohou bSrt spokojene. Jen th minulosti.

Byla dobie nav gtivena, takke slovanske). Helenka Balejova, je pi. tak dale a neochabovat. Mate cestiolzu o1;62 schOze SPJST byla dabie navgtivena.

Pokladnikova. Ta mela svatbu 7. Unora Nage sestra tajemnice nacvieila s det- tevtenou a mladi je gte dlouho pied seletogniho roku, na ktere bylo pies pet set bou. Zivot na zemi je krasnY, kdy2 je einlidi. Vgichni ti rodide vypravili s yYm dee- mi malt' program. Melo 18 gisel a 16 deti nY. vystoupilo.

To byly deti od 3 let nahoru. ru gkam velke svatby v Sokolovne a take Hudba veeer k tanci vyhravala o sto v sini Melo Pokrok. Ted' zde mame jegte Ta 3leta, byla rodiny Majkft. Tak se hez- lest, tak kedY new v tele pracoval. Jsou ky uklonila a ji2 se to z ni pekne sypalo.

Jarmilku HoupYch. Ta u2 taky nosi MajkovYch deti vystoupilo pet deveatek, to dobiji hudebnlci, co v nedeli hrali. Mesnubnift prstYnek a neni doba daleka, 2e Nebudu kakle to dite jmenovat zvlagt', 1i bybYt easteji, jsou dobie sehrati. Sese stane pi. Beeanova. Franti gka Jurea- zabralo by to moc mista a ja, bych se dela jsem, poslouchala a se divala na ty kova 112 take nema do toho daleko, ale to Vzpomela jsem si na maminku, prozradim pozdeji. A co Ty, Helenko Slo- mohla zmYlit a nektere vynechat, a to taneici. y.v2dycky, tieba byla v letech, rada bych nerada.

Ony ty deti tak pane ty ona vaekova? Je gte jsi nena gla toho praveho? basnieky kikaly, ale jen jedna basnieka tancila, rikala, "Pojd' si skoeit".

Tak jsem vam ty moje deveatka v gech- byla eeska, kterou piednes1 Jerry S' ijanVe stankach se skora v ge vyprodalo. ny piedstavila. Ty v gechny Oeinkovaly skY pod nazvem "Na ge manly". Hezky to Dik path tem, co nam veci darovali a 1 na programech ,mnou vedenYch. I do a- teki. tem, co koupili, i za tu na yStevu path: merickYch spoleenosti jsme byly zvane, Bylo videt, 2e ty deti to te gi. Main za peknY dik a mladiekemu Jerry HoupY za vgak jsem vain vkly o nich ye Vestniku to, 2e vgech 16 tech deti jsou v n,a gi SPJ oznamovani programovYch eisel s jevipsala.

ST v Detskem odboru. To pokadali jsme Ste. Hezky jsi to Jerry udelal, v ge v Ceske Ostatnl napi ge dopisovatelka pro Nedelni program na Den Matek v So- dohromady, Sokol a nage SPJST. Je to KronZek Zen. kolovne, vedenSr nagimi mladYmi elenka- pane tak dohromady pracovat. mi v -Krou2ku, Hlen Vrlovou ml., Ann Divadlo "Kaelza, veseld tulaelza", ktePo programu byla yeeefe. Byl to opravZvolanek, Dolores MazanY, byl s yYm ob- du pekne ztravenY pfilden. Za to patii re bylo sehrano v sobotu ye Fort Worth, sahem bohatY a v gemi detmi vzorne pro- dik nagi tajemnici od radu Anton Cer- bylo bajeene; vgichni 'drab. — jak se MU. veden. Nav gteva byla velice dobra a ba- mak eislo 56.

— jak kdy2 nama2e. Navgtevnici zar obsazen pelzmimi uhteenYmi vecmi, Nage pfigti sokolska, schtize bude 7. proste neptekonatelnl, potlesk jeden za jen nage sestry i pfiznivci Krou2ku Zen eeryna, proto2e na gich Sokolti jede na druhYm a to neuveiitelne ticho, ktere tarn donesli. A co2 v kuchyni, tam bylo slet hodne. Do Chicaga jede pet Sokolek bYvavalo ve Fort Worth v2dycky nemo2tolik rfizneho pediva a v ge tak dobre, vge eviaenek, no, cos dokazuje, 2e tan1 byla tentokrate

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VESTNIK— WEST, TEXAS

opravdu vybrand spoleenost, ktera dovede ocenit praci divadla. Dekujeme! Byli jste vy a I my spokojeni. Ty dye tulaCky byly k pomilovani. Proto pratele, kde to budou hrat, jdete za kaZdou cenu. Prigte to hraji v Ennis.

Dile 20. kvetna bode zde v Dallas peknY film, "Deveatko k pohleclani". Hraje NedoSinska. Tedy zaplfite tu mistnost v Houdkovem divadle do posledniho mie eka. Dekuji.

Karla K2aftova..

• ( raid kefanik eislo 142.

Houston, Tex s Cteni bratri a sestry: Jak uZ je yam znamo, v nedeli 24. kvetna Sad Stefanik cislo 142 porada oslavu sveho 34. vYroei trvani radu.

ChutnSi obed bude podavan v poledne, odpoledne se bade larat bingo a program zapcene ye 4 hodiny.

Nage reditelky, ses. Ann Wardova a ses. Amelia Sturmova, slibuji nam peknY program z mlad gich elenfi, jen dobrou na.v . tevu si preji.

Nagi stargi pratele si vZdy rikaji, jak jim detskY p rogram libi. Velmi si vairrie pobytu star gich mezi nami, jsou oni pro nas povzbuzenim. Proto bychom si prall vagi milou navgtevu.

Tak telly na shledanou v nedeli 24. kvetna u radu Stefanik.

S pozdravem Mary Chupik. ) • 42 • kid Osveta cislo 38.

Koval., Texas.

Ctene sestry a bratri: V nedeli 10. kvetna jsme- melt zdarilm schtzi a program k ucteni Dne Matek.

Schfize zahajena bratrem predsedou u pritoinnosti 80 Clean, a prohla geni vernosti vlajce SojenYch Statil. Po vyrizeni PadovYch zalelitosti bratr predseda kratee prOmluvii o vYznarriu svdtku Dne Matek a pak Ze ma prichystane male ptekvapeni a sice etyri darky, jeden pro nejstar$i maminku pritomnou, jenZ obdrZela sestra Frances Meduna, a jeden darek pro, maminkil, co jsou sto procent v Jednote, •kterY obdrZela sestra Agnes Sugen; jeden darek pro maminku, co ma sync v armade, kterY obdrZela sestra Emma Stolle, a jeden darek pro nejmladgi maminku pritOmnou, kterY obdrZela sestra Bernice Malina: Pak odevzdal rizeni programu sest4e Joyce Ann Hribkove, kterYZto fikol znamenite provedla. V prograinu dCinkovala mlada a hezka deveata: Mary Kalina, Ruth Ann Meduna, Janet Kalina, Dorothy Su gen, Joyce Ann Hribek, a dva ho gi: Charles Kalina Jr. a Leo Hofferek. Predne Joyce Ann Hrlbek pidvitala pritornne pekne po .Cesky -a pak nasledovalo nekolik pisni eeskYch a anglickYch. Charles Kalina Jr. pane zahral na kytaru, roma i Leo Hofferek.

Sestra Joyce Ann Hribek preeetla basen "Den Matek", a pri ukoneeni podekovala pritomnYm nav gtevnikfun a bratru Barinovi, a zvla g t' pant MareSove za yYpomoc pSi cvieeni. Po ukoneeni programu bratr predsecla vystoupil a hlasil, Ze to nejlepSi jsine si nechali naposled a predstavil hlavniho predsedu bratra Marka, kterY k nam promluvil krasna slova k ucteni svdtku Dne Matek, za ktera jemu bratr Barina srdeene podekoval a prejeme si, aby k nam easteji prijel a nas povzbudil.

Pak ndsledovala spoleena svaehia a pobeseclovani se slibem, Ze se zase brzy sejdeme. S bratrskYm pozdravem.

Jerry Stepan, tajemnik.

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Oslava Dne Matek V nedeli dne 10. kvetna usporadal "Junior Club" radu Pokrok Houstonu peknY a pestrY program ku pocte radovYch maminek za spoluileasti dramatickeho krouZku Hlahol a radu Pokrok HoustoPritomne uvital predseda radu bratr Rudy Sefeik a zvla gte blahopral pritomnYm maminkam s pranim vSeho nejlepgiho, doufaje, Ze se pote gi programem pro ne uchystamim. Po to predal slovo nadejnemu umelci, E. J. Kadleokovi uvazavgimu se v filohu "Master of Ceremony". TYZ rovneZ uvital pritomne jmenem omladiny berouci neast v teto ()slave a ujay se sve Ulohy oznamil jednu Cast programu po druhe.

"Two songs" zazpivany nasledujicimi: Billie Jean Rezek, Betty Jean Slovaeck, Robert Wisher, Charles Kelly, Johnny Kadlecek, Jimmy Kadle gek, Charles Kadleeek, Georgie '2 aludek, Billy Hilsher, Diane Thomas, Catherine Pavhcek, Frances Kroulik, Margaret Ann Rezek.

Divadelni vYstup v anglicke keel sehrdli:, Marilyn Earl, Robert Hilsher, Ma ry Louise Kadlecek, Jimmy Kadleeek, Billie Jean Rezek, Wanda Zaludek.

Zpev "Doggie in the Window", zapela Diane Thomas. eska, basnieka, prednes1 Johnny Kadleeek.

Selo na plane zahrala Frances Kroulik.

Tanec "Bunny Hop", zataneili Betty Jean Slovaeek, Robert Hilsher, Charles Kelly, Jimmy Kadlecek, Georgie Zaludek, Billy Hilsher, Diane Thomas, Catherine Pa ylieek, Frances Kroulik, Margaret Ann Rezek.

• Piseri "That Wonderful Mother of Mine", zapela na ge vYborna pevkyne, pflvabna Helen Fusig.

Solo na akordion predvedl mladSr na- , danY umelec, Jimmy Kadlecek.

Divadelni vYstup v Ceske reel. predvedli nasledujici: Matka: Mary Johnson, dye deti: Jimmy Kadleeek a Betty Jean Slovacek.

Baletni solo zataneila rladejna prima

Strana 7 balerina Marilyn E.tri.

Dueto (zpev s doprovodem na akordion) "Blue Skirt Waltz) ptedvedli E. J. Kadleeek a Helen Fusig.

Byla to hezka podivana jak na ty Male), tak i na ty odrostle, vSe jim glo tak lebounce a meli vSichni sank radost z toho, co'svedou a tint zvlaSte pote gili pHtomne maminky. Byla. to pekna ukazka prate jiZ se sestra Birdie Hilsherova podjala a ji.Z jsou patrny ukazky to snaky. Je s tim spojeno hodne price, kterou kona obetave a zdarma. Tim se dd. mladeZ lehCeji pripoutati ku na gim spolkfn. Jen je treba v takove prospeSne praci pokradovati, vzbuzovati pro ni zajem. Detem se podobna vec brzo zalibi a maji z toho radost, kdyZ jsou za to co dovedoulpoch ydleny.

Skola baletnich tanch Kotchetovskyho usporada na ukoneeni taneeniho behu velkY recitaeni program v Houston Music Hall s volnym vstupnYm. Letos budou z teto gkoly graduovati tri studentky a sice: Marilyn Earl, Andrea Voclehnal a Ann Phillips. NavAevnici naSich divadel znaji dobre Andreu Vodehnalovu, dceru naSi jare Sokolky Carrie Vodettnaloye a Marilyn Earl, dceru sestry Harriet Earl, jeZ 'Canto piispely svYrn umenim na nagem jeviSti. V torn recitaenim yeeirku vystoupi mimo v jinYch v hlavnich baletnich ukazkach; Lake Swan, The Season a The Pearl Diver.

Je to pekna podivana na ty taneeni reje studenth teto koly predvadene tem' nejmenAirni aZ do tech graduujicich. Ten to yeeirek bude poradan v itterY dne 26. kvetna, zaeltek v osm hodin veeer. Vtup je volny.

NeZ skoneim, musim je sSte podekovati vSem fieinkujicim v torn programu usporacianem u radu Pokrok Houstonu a vzdati vSem uznani za tu praci a za mile pobaveni, bylo to vent hezke.

S. P. StudnieriSr. •( )• Rad CeskY Prapor aslo 24.

Cyclone, Texas.

Cteni bratri a sestry: Timto oznamuji, Ze nak priSti schilze bude poradana jako obyeejne prvni nedeli v mesici eervnu v 1 hod. odpoledne.

Tedy tato schtze pripadne na 7. eervna.

Bylo ujednano v minule schtizi, Ze v teto derynove schtizi si poridime zase spoleenou svaeinu a pane pobaveni. Schtlze zapoene v 1 hod. a po schtizi bude pobavent a spoleena svaeina. ftdd se postara o dobre klobasy, chleb a tez dobrou hudbu. Vy, ctene sestry, jste 'ask/aye Zadany, byste jako obyeejne prispely k to svaeine tim rtiznym peeivern a moZna, Ze i nekterd lahev s okurky by byla vitana. Nu vSak vy . dobre vite, co k dobre svaeine jest potreba. Jsem jistY, ze nekteri firednici z 'Ravin Aradovny se mezi nas do-

Strana 8 stavi a Ze nam snad ten neco novel° a dobreho povi. Budeme se tegiti.

Poeasi pfitomnou dobou mane degtive a bouklive, take nam tento tclen skorci celS7 prgelo. Potoky byly nekolikrat v tomto tSrdnu rozvodnene. No vgak me tomu bSrti velmi radi, Ze to doposud nebylo hor gi. V meste Waco byli velmi te2ce tornadem postiZeni. Zabito bylo 113 osob a gkoda na majetku jest odhadnuta na 50 milionri.

Tak pamatujte vsichni na pfi gti schrizi a dostavte se v hojnem poetu, at se zase jednou spoleene pobavime a nabereme trochu povzbuzeni pro ten na g spolkovY zivot a pro dobro nasi Jednoty.

S bratrskSrm pozdravem Chas. Navratil, tajemnik.

• 4 • Dallas, Texas.

Tak zase neco z nasi Sokolovny v Dallas. Prigti nedeli nasi cvicenci pofadaji peknou veselou zabavu ye prospech jejich cestovniho fondu na slet do Chicago,. Rude vytecny obed, odpoledne v gelijake zabavy k obveselovani obecenstva a veoer taneeni zabava 4 pri hudbe. Rhytm Makers z Ennis.

To vite, mlade2 zde bude a hodne take bude v Sokolovn y opravdu veselo. Pro miadeZ to bude, rnlade2 to bude kidit, tak prosirn, jim vsichni pomriZeme s nasi navgtevou, aby na ge sokolska, mladeZ sklidila na svrij cestovni fond aspori malt' kapitalek na sokolskS7 slet do Chicaga. Na shledanoul Karla Kraftova.

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RESOLUCE SOUSTRAsTI Resolueni vSrbor radu Tyr eislo 80 projevuje timto jmenem radu na gi soustrast nad odchodem jejich bratra a nageho spolubratra Josefa Stage, kterY odc g el do velkoho Neznama, 17. dubna 1953 ye staff 64 let.

Bratr Josef Sta ga byl cozen dne 3. brezna 1889 v Policich na Morave, okres Valagske Mezikiel. Do teto zeme svobody se pristehoval s jeho rodici a sourozenci v roku 1906 co sedmnactilet3i mladik. Jako piistehovalec musel prodelat krusny zaeatek. Nekraeel cestou zivotem vystlanou rriZemi, vzdy toho bodlaai stab() mu v ceste vice neZli bylo mozno zdolat. Bratr Staga byl poctivcem, velmi rad nav gtevoval radove schrize. Sve poplatky u radu

V2S T N I K — WEST, TEXAS zaprosoval svedomite. Add ztraci jeho odchodem dobreho elena.

I Zegnu1S7 bratr zanechava jednoho bratra Jana StaSu v Corpus Christi a sestru Anna Hatla v Littlefield, Texas. ManZelka, rozena, Machieek, jej prede gla na veenost dne 11. listopadu 1951. ManZelstvi jejich bylo bezdetne.

Josef Sta ga nil 46 let v okresu Bell se stfida,v3im gtestim. Byl tficet let elenem radu Tyr g eislo 80 v Holland.

V pohrobnicke kapli pawl Marek a Burns v Cameron jsme se navkly rozloueili s bratrem Sta gou 20. dubna. Obtady byly vykon.any kadovSrmi uredniky v eeske i anglicke fed.. J. H. Hurta, pfedseda RVOS promluvil v Ceske i anglicke feel.

August Kacif promluvil anglicky. Viesne pozustatky zesnuleho byly odeslany do Dallas ku zpopelneni, jak si toho zesnub? bratr pfal.

Loperine se s Tebou, spolubratfe. Pokoj budig Tvemu popeli.

Za fad Tyr Cis. 80 v Holland, Texas: Joe Belieek, Joe Jakubec, Joe Zajieek, resolueni vYbor.

• a. • f MUSIME SI POMAHAT Velini peknou a nad jine vSrmluvnou ukazku a pkimo vizor vzajemne pomoci pfinagi Steinbeckfun roman "Grapes of Wrath" (Hrozny hnevu), v nem2 rodina drobneho najemce, dav gi se zlakati nesvedomitou agitaci, jest vyhnana zisku chtivosti banky a jede s nepatrnSrmi troskami sveho majetku hledat praci. Ale PR tom na ceste vypomaha, z poslednich penez, tfebaZe musi oeekava,ti bidu nasledujicich dni, je gto uboZ gim spoleenikfn stejne bedneho osudu. V gichni, a zviagte matka rodiny, cirri to Se samozfejmYm vedomim povinnosti, jen nepotfebuje ani vyznani ani dike, nebot' me, pro svrij din prosta slova: "Musime si pomahat."

Pkichazeji snad v• Zivote kakleho Cloveka chvile nebo doby, kdy pottebuje pomoci druhS7ch, at' je to rada, povzbuzeni nebo vlidne slovo, at' nejaka pomoc hmotna v nejrriznej gi podobe, at' veci, si nemfiZe opatfiti z nedostatku prostfedkir nebo jineho drivodu, at' je to pomoc v praci nebo v einnosti. A rovneZ se naskytaji kaklemu v zivote prilektosti, aby druhemu pkispel v jeho nesnazi, at' je jiZ jakehokoli druhu. "Musime si pom,dhat" je nejprostsi a nejueinnejSi odirvodneni, a moZno jeS"te dodat: "Jsme bide."

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Nikdy nejsou o sarnote ti, kdoz jsou provazeni krasnSrmi myglenkami.

Sir Philip Sidney.

Necht' zcestujeme celS7 svet ye snaze nalezti kraal, musime ji nesti v robe, ji—Emerson. nak ji nenaleznem.

Ve stfedu, dne 20. kvetna 1953.

K AL END A ✓ sobotu tohoto tYdne a kaklou nasiedujici sobotu rad Pokrok Houstonu eislo 88 potada pratelskou zaba,vu. Kava, eaj a zakusky jsou vkly zdarma. Vetere dle pfani. Nav gtevnici jsou vkly vitani.

Pozvete sve znarne. ✓ nedeli 24. kvetna rad 8tefanik eislo 142 porada, oslavu sveho 34. vS7roei. Obed v jednu hodinu odpoledne. BohatY program zahrnuje jednoaktovku "Kola:6e", kterou sehraje omladina sousedniho radu Pokrok Houstonu. Kandy je uctive zvan. ✓ sobotu 30. kvetna velka taneeni zabava v sini radu Hvezda Texasu eislo 47.

Hudba J. R. Bad. z Fayetteville.Aak1Sr je zvan. ✓ nedeli eervna. Add Hvezda Texasu eislo 47 v Seaton, pokada, jubilejni oslavu pit hudbe Rudy Kurtze. °bed bude podavan v poledne a program zapod-no v jednu hodinu. ) • 44 • ( TRPELIVOSTI A VYTRVALOSTI SE NA KONEC VZOY ZVITEZI Mnohe bylo uZ keeeno a napsano o trpelivosti, ctnosti, kterou my vsichni bychom melt vlastnit vie velke mire. Ruzne methody smer'ujici k tomu, abychom si zkratili eas, methody east° povrchni, ktere se pak projevuji v na‘Sem dile, cirri toto druhokadnSrm. Jeho kvalita by se pravdepodobne zlepsila, kdybychom se nautili pracovat s vetai trpelivosti.

SlavnY basnik Milton jednou fekl, ‘Ze: "ti take slouZi lidem — kteki stoji a 'dekaji." Neni pochyby o torn, Ze minil tim, ze kdy2 oekame, Ze se tim pkipravujeme pro 'mike Zivotni Bancroftovi trvalo 50 let net napsal sve historicke dilo pojednavajici jen o nepatrnem Useku, o americkem nirn Zivote. Harvey, objevitel krevniho obehu eekal dole net 10 let, aby pak oznamil svilj objev, — jen proto, aby mohl mezitim zdokonaliti sve vedeni.

Vynalezci jsou vyzbrojeni piimo dokonalou trpelivosti, ale to je pak zpravidla take dokonale odmenena. Ureite veci vyZaduji easu ku svemu vzniku nebo zdokonaleni. A zda se, Ze eim dePai je eekani, tim cennej gi je vYsledek.

Podobne je tomu s budovanim socialMho radu. Zazrak nesmi bYt vynucovan.

Zalditosti svetove jsou pouze v lidskYch rukou. Potfebujeme dobre vildce a dobre nasledovniky. Nektere reformy mohou bYt provedeny rychle, jine vY2aduji easu.

Nejvetgim Ukolem na svete je sebevYchova, cvieeni se a ovladani se, a davani pozor, vyloueeni zbyteenosti, prostudovani a prohloubeni toho, co je hodnotne. To vise yyZaduje trpelivosti a tedy vytryalo— Jaroslav F. Chmelieek. sti.

V E S T N 't K — WEST, TEXAS

Ve sti'edu, clue 20, lcvcs)tna 1953.

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Wvin eskeho SNI kolstvi v Qkresu Fayette dej do Ameriky. A talc se i stalo. Jest to(Psano kolem roku 1885) Pfed nekolika tidny poslal mi bratr Frank Volf z Britt, Iowa, hodne za2loutmu prave 17 roku, co jsem pfibyl s vice 13) svazeeek, kterY vyhli2e1 jako nejalcY• sazen3).ch, ale Ceske gkoly nemell a do prately a znamYmi no, High Hill v okre el jsem v teto stare r6ku 1868, kdy p.

A. M. KoriakovskY vzal start' kalendaf. Na g su Fayette, take jak se pravi, na slepo; publikaci dva yzacne. clanky, jeden z pe- na nejakou dobu povinnost ueitelskou na bez ureiteho ustanoveni eirn zde budu. sebe.

Jak sam se vyslovil, lame' 2acinYch ra bYvaleho uoitele F. J. PeSka, el'anek Odhodlal jsem se k vystehovani, jak k., "i poukval "Slavie". Po nem na- zmineno, na dopis meho pfibuzneho p. psanY pied 68 roky, a druh je g te starknikk, od ueitele Josefa Holce, psanY pied vice stala pfestavka al do roku 1871. Tehdy spolek "Osveta" M. Jare ge, kterY tehdy bydlel na Mul°Wane tamnej gi ne2 75 roky. Dekuji bratru Volfovi; a u je2 meta i za Akolu slou21- berry. Na High Hillu Segel jsem se s vice a postavili vefejaaji oba elanky, abych o2ivil vzpo-' ti. Ditek bylo lined hojnost, ale treitel krajany, kteti na g pfichod odeicavali a minky a znovu opakoval historicke nadmiru vlidne a pohostinne k nam se znamy. Ni2e podavam elanek ueitele Peg- schazel. Bylo to v Case, kdy byl v platno- meli. Mezi nimi se nalezal p. A. Haiciugek sti zo,kon o nucene nav gteve gkoly a kdy Ica. — Redaktor. ueitele jak gkol vefejnYch tak soukro- a Julius KoniakovskY. Byl jsem tehdy e mYch musili skladati zkou gicy v jazyku neco pies 18 roku star. Pan Haidu gek mi Bylo to na podzhn roku 1856, kde gest• , anglickem.

Nebylo tehdy 2adneho, vyjma radii, 2e bych zde mohl vyireoVati Ceskou rodin, ktere opustily vYchodni Morava a p. A. Haiduska, kterY pH stavbe gkoly pa- mlacie2, ktera tehdejk doby z clu1e2itSrch pfistehovaly se do Texasu, usadilo se na mahal, kdo by v an glieine zkougku pfiein byla velmi zanedbana u • jej, aby akol ten na' se gkolnim, nebot' zde nebylo nikoho, kdo syYch pozemcich zapadne od keky Colo- Ob cane, vyzvali rado v okresu Fayette. Otcove techto ro- vzal. Ueinil jim po vali, slo2i1 zkougicu by tu obtilnY sta y ueitelskY zastaval. din byli: Josef Petr, 'grade 8ranlek, Ignac druhe tfidy a po neja.kou dobu vyueoval. Mnozi se ov gem o to pokusili, av gak po 1VIu2nY a Josef Kalich z vesnice Tiche, a Od toho easu lid na g zbudoval o dye Aka- nekolika mesicich od sveho amyslu upuValentin Holub a Valentin Haidu gek z ly vice a vkchny jsou gkolnim fondem stili...Bylo to ve etvrtek dne 11. listopadu ()bee zvane Myk. Misto, kde tito pionyki statnim yydr2ovany. r. 1868, kdy jsem pfibyl na Mulberry k zalozili svou malou osadu, bylo pustinou, e.• memo pribuznemu a v nedeli hned na to a jen zde onde stab() nekolik barakil vice Doba, ji2 tu popisovati minim, zahrnu- pfijel pro mne pan Ignac 8ramek st. se mil od sebe rortrou genYch a Amerieany je y ak eastku meho 2ivota, a doufam, 2adosti, abych se k nim ptistehoval, 2e obYvanYch. Hmotne pomery zminenYch ze nebude na ajmu podam-li ct. etena prazdnY dornek, v nem2 bych mohl rodin byly stisnene a prvni rok tudi Z. 2a.d- Him malt' naortek meho 2ivotopisu. prozatirnne vyueovat. S radosti jsem se nY nemyslil na Skolu, ale hledel si co Narodil jsem se 10. bfezna 1850 na kni- uchopil tohoto noveho povolani a bez odnejvice price, aby potfebnou vY2ivu si kci pile blik Netolic v aechach. V Ne kladu nastoupil jsem cestu asi 4 mile Aelcoliv &oda toho roku. byla tolicich jsem nav gtevoval po 6 roku etyk- vzdalenou k jich obydli. Pan 8r mek ugpatna, pfece pfi gtiho roku zfizena gkola tfidni narodni Akolu a jeden rok jsem vedomil vgechny vakolni Cesko-americke a ditky na gich pfistehovalca ji nav gte- chodil na privatni hodinu k jistemu ka- osadniky, 2e sem pfigel CeskSr mladik, vovaly. Ueitelkou byla pani H. Simpsono- planu. Bylo hned z mladi m3im amyslern kterY bude u nej Ceske ditky privatne vyAmerieanka, a Zaci se u ni pouze an- stati se ueitelem, proee2 jsem musel za- ueovat. Sam- pak zhotovil naspech nekoglicky OHL Tato pain vYueovala nejakou poeat onu samospasitelnou nemeinu la- lik lavic a pan Filip Bueek pfiVez1 na kodobu kaZdY rok. Kdy2 vypukla obeanska mat. Z poeatku glo to velmi obti2ne, a- ni desku, z niz jsme .zhotovili tabuli. valka, kola ona pfestala, ale misto ni vgak pfec jsem byl v Budejovicich, kde Erred v poncieli se glo se asi 15 ditek do zalo2ena jina, asi Hi mile od osady; z di- jsem studie nastoupil, pfijat za 26,ka gkoly: nekteti pfinesli v gelijake starotek nagich osadnika nav gtevovaly ji pou- Ctvrte ttidy hlavni nemecke Akoly. Rok davne gkolni kni2ky a vetgina nerrieli ze Haidu gkovy. Zaeatkem roku 1864 po- na to vstoupil jsem do nemecke realni 2adnYch. Co ted' poeit? Pravi se: 2e ka2Cala desky vyueovati sleena Anna Holu- gkoly a tak jsem si musel prostkedni- d3) zaeatck jest te2kY a tuto pravdu jser4 bova v mistnosti Haidu glcovYch. Byla to ctvim obtane nemeiny klestiti cestu lc v ,apine mire zakusil. Nemaje sam v sobe 2adnYch gkolnich knih a zde tehdy prvni Cesica, skola v Texasu. Az na neja- nabyti vedomosti. ke pfestavky vyneovala a2' do doby, kdy Za easu pro.zdnin vyueoval jsem ditky nebyly jeSte 2adne Ceske k dostani, byl jsem sam, pisatel teto stati, F. J. Pegek, mYch sousecifi, tak 2e nekdy i pies tficet jsem nucen vypisovati'slabikafe sam, co2 tam zaaal ueiti. Chci pojednati `c) vYvinu 2akil tvofilo mou domaci g kolu. V roce ka2dY soudn3) etendf uzna., jaka to zdlottCeskeho Skolstvi v okresu Fayette.

1868, kdy jsem minil ze tketi realni gko- hava a obtana price byla! Jako2to kfiPo valce obeanske roku 1865 rodiny ly vstoupiti do astavu uteitelskeho, pfiglo du upotfebil jsem jakYsi druh kfidove Ignace Srarrika a V. Haidu gka opustily od vlady nafzeni,ze ka2dY student, at' hlinky a poeitadlo zhotovil jsem z dubetuto osadu a usadily se asi eyfi mile za.- si studuje za jakYmkoliv povolanim, mu- nek. To byly vgechny me ueebni pomacpadne od High Hill, tehdy vzrastajiciho si se dostaviti k vojenskemu odvodu. Ne- ky. Pozdeji jsem objednal gkolni knihy z mesteeka, ted' v gak nasledkem zalo2eni chav se od lekafe prohleclnouti, shledal Prahy prostiednictvim pana Kare ge v Schulenburgu nyni takfka zanikleho. V jsem, 2e by mne vojengtina neminula. Bremach. Cena knikk obna gela $10.00 ve osade teto vyueoval pan A. Haidu gek asi Ku konci g kolniho roku, jak by tomu ji2 zlate a kdy jsem je asi za 7 mesicu obtfi mesice z jara 1868 a po nem ja, P. J. osud chtel, obdrkli jsme dopis od pH- dr2e1, musel jsem v Columbus zaplatit Pegek, u p. Sramka Skolu zficlil. Od to do- buzneho z Ameriky; tati2 od p. M. Jare- na Express $18.35 za dovoz, nad eim2 by postavili obeane narodnosti na gi sedm ge, kterY mezi jinYm mi psal, 2e pakli jsem ustrnul; byl jsem vaak pi'ec tomu gkolnich budov na za.padni stra.ne reky bych mei chut' jeti. do Ameriky, ze i pro rad, 2e ji2 jest ponekud po nouzi. U paColorado v okresu Fayette a ty jsou 112 mne zde nejake zamestnani se naskytne, na 8ramka jsem yyrreoval po pet mesictit po nekolik let statnim fondem vydrkva- ano k i mohu zde §-testi nabyti. Aelcoliv a 2alta bylo asi okolo 25, od jednoho dony. Na vYchodni strane feky Colorado v mi to za velmi bolestne pfi glo opustit staval jsem $1 na mesic. Nektefi 2aci byli osade Ross Prairie je gte pied obeanskou svou rodnou viast, pfec mezi dvema zly az z Navidad a Bluffu. Pan Sramek a vuvalkou byl eetnY poeet na gich krajanti zvolil jsem to men gi; ne21i vojakem, ra- bee cela rodina byli ku mne velmi laska-

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Straraa 10 vi, za stravovani nieeho ode mne nevzali, toliko co jsem jejich ditky vyteoval. Velmi zaeaste si vzpomenu na ony biaeene chvile, ktere jsem v kruhu jejich zaeil a pokladam to ea, nejblaeenejS'i dobu, kterou jsem v Texasu vtibee zaeil!

Byl jsem tehdy r2iv jako ptak, bez velke starosti, viichni obeane si mne vaeili milovali a tak jsem se stal, jak dalece mi povedom, prvnim eeskYm stalYm ueitelem v Texasu na jieni strand reky Colorado.

Po uplynuti techto pet niesicti, kdye v;eobecne kopani v bavine nastalo, rose:Sly se ditky, aby s yYm rodietim napomocny byly, taktee i ja se rozloueil s rodinou p. Sramka a odebral jsem se ku sve matce, ktera, tehdy bydlela u p. Jana Bade, zete pana Jareie, kde2 z dilu &Iola krop. Prace bylo dostatek, proeee i ja, se uchopil namisto-pera motyky a pomahal dobYvat ten vezdejSi Na poeatku mesice dervna pkijel opet pro mne p. V. Holub z Navidad, a eadal ne, abych alespon na dva mesice u nich vyueoval. Opel jsein se tedy vydal asi 15 mil daleko za mYin novym povoIaninn I tarn jsem nalezl vreleho uvita ni. Bylo tehdy jenorn 9 mora yskYch ro din na Navidad a vyueoval jsem tam po ony dva mesice 19 ditek, ano i yeeerami odrostiejii mladee obz ylaAte poettra.

Starii rnladici se mne neostYchali a eadali, abych je phial do yeeerni gkoly. 2 el, e toho easu bylo tak kratce, neb se opet pkibliello sbirani baviny. Rodiny p. Holuba a pi. Kubalove, u niche jsem po tu dobu vyueoval, zasluhuji ode rime taktee nejlepAiho uznani. Ptieinili se v'Semoene, by mi pobyt mezi nimi co mand, prijemnYin ueinili. Nezapomenu toho nikdy.

Po ukoneeni sbirdni baylny usnesli se inutberAi obeane, 2e mne jib nikam nepusti, rrYbre k sarni maji dostateenY po Oct ditek, jen abych prY mezi nimi zustal, k cenur2 jsem ochotne privolil. Pan Fr. st. jal se pobliee kostela staveti nove obydli, ktere zaroven sloueiti melo za 'Skolu. Jednu sveinici jsine zatidili pro liyucovani a druhou ku bydleni. Tarn jsem vyueoval po d ye leta od 20 do 30 deti rovnee privdtne, prinnerne asi 6 mesicit v rocc, ostatni ens muscly ddti po manati doma psi polni praci. Ponevade rite male pkijmy za tech nekolik mesicu vyueovani nedostaeovaly, aby zapravily ccloroeni vYdeje, byl jsem nucen ostatni (as venovati rolnideni.

Za tim ucelem koupil jsem si od p.

Nykla Cast vedle leeiciho pozemku, na neme jsem si zatidil malou farmici a tak jsem se stale usadil v Praze, kterdeto osada drive jenorn pode jmenem Mulberry 'Andma byla. Tretim rokem proptijoil p.

F. Nykel lapel jinou budovu pro Skolu, protoee poeet Zakti vzrostl na 50. Byl mein nucen pribrati si spoleenika. Zaky

VESTNIK— WEST, TEXAS jsme rozdelili na dye tridy; natij spoleenik p. Dabney vyueoval anglieine a ja v Ceske reel.

V torn sa,mem roce, toti2 1871, nemYlim-li se, zavad.ela vlada republikanska prime skolni zakony a nucenou navitevu ikoly, a rovnee i na ueitele doSla. ZadnY nesmel bez anglicke zkouiky vyudovati. Nemaje pro nedostatek easu a prostkedkti pkileeitost naueiti se v torn case anglictirie, nebot' nejakych vypomocnYch knih nebylo k dostani, myslil jsem, 2e jie budu nucen na Cos treitelstvi zanechati. Ale obeane na me nalehali, abych toho neeinil, ee se to snad piece nejak sprostkedkovati dd. V nesnazi teto obratil jsem se na sveho pkitele p. A. Haiduika, jene tehdy v La Grange pra y -nictvsudoval.

Pan Haidukk se viemoene o to zasazoval, abych mohl v Ceske neb nemecke reei eadanou zkouiku sloeit, aviakvie bylo mune, nedosahli jsme toho. 2e viak jsem niel za spoleenika Amerikana, bylo mi povoleno s nirn bez vysvedeeni vyuCovat.

Kdye se schyloval ikolni rok ku konci, pomysleli obeane na stavbu Akolni budovy.

Za tou pkieinou zadali jsme eadost ku SIolnimu dolilleiteli za povoleni stavby. klost nak viak byla odmitnuta's poznamkou, ee jest na stare Flatonii mecko-anglicka, ikola a tam ee po pravu obec praeska sve ditky posilat ma. Tomuto jednani se viak vetiina obeana opfela a vzdor viem prekdekam dali se do stavby nove ikolni budovy. Drevo stavebni bylo tehdy velmi drahe a k tornu se rnuselo dovakt ae z Columbus pies 30 mil vzdaleneho; aviak obetavosti nekolika zamokiejSich obeanti bylo piece douciho cite dosaeeno. Pan Ondkcj Gallia daroval k tomu neelu 5 akril pozemku leeiciho vedle kostela, pan Fr. Nykel st. prevzal s vlasteneckou obetavosti sta y -bu;panoveJs.Vyjl,HakFilip Bueek, Fr. BraneckY, Torn Nykel a vice jinYch, nejenom 2e penezi pkispeli, ano i praei a povozy byli napomocni a velkou maji zasluhu o zbudovani prvni eesko-anglicke gkoly v texaske Praze.

Skola byla dohotovena r. 1872 velikosti 18x24 a stala se zakizenim vnitrnim pies 500 dolarti. Ponevacle jsem priitirn novYm Skolnim rokem slo2i1 zkouSku, nastoupil jsem sam vyuenvani v nove bucloye. Ditek bylo okolo 40, je2 koene byly 3 ae 4 mesice placeny od statu. Ostatni cas vyueoval jsem privatne, a tak jak to v kaedem zamestnani bYva, mam i ja jeite z onech dob, u nekterYch nespra,vnYch, k pohledavani moji trpce zasloueenou mzdu! Takto jsem vyueoval v nove ikole Po pet rokti a v padu kdye se seilo vice Mkt', ze jsem staeiti nemohl, yypomdbola mi se zaeateeniky moje maminka.

V roce 1877 dostoupil poeet eakti pkes

Ve stredu, dile- 20. kvetna 1954.

70, a nebylo jine pomoci, nee ee jsem byl nucen pkibrati sobe pomocnika. Pan A. Nesrsta, nynejii ueitel v Praze, mel tehdy ponekud pokdy a ochotne mi nekolik mesicu pomohl vyueovat a priiti rok na to stal se myrn spoleenikem. Skolu jsme pristaveli a eactvo rozdelili na dve tridy a po ce13'7ch 7 mkt" spolu svorne jsme vyucovali 3.2 do r. 1883.

Behem toho easu dostoupil poeet eakti pies 80. Stara budova jie nestaeovala, nruselo se pomYSlet na stavbu nove vetSi budovy. easteenYin niyrn prieinenim byl jsern. napomocen s polu postavit, ale vice jsem jie v ni nevytitioval. Po patnactiletem sobeni co ueitel, chtel jsem jiti„lak se pravi, na odpoelnek; zaridrl jsem si totie asi 5 mil jiene ad Prahy yeti' farmu a chtel jsem se alpine rolnictvi venovat.

Sotva jsem viak zapodal zarizovati svou domovinu, svolali vukolni velehradii sousede valnou schtizi a usnesli se, 2e pakli bych chtel ditky jejich vyueovat, 2e postavi novou Skolu, na misteriade drivejii velehradska ikola stavala, a kterou nekclo v noel zinnyslne asi pied iesti roky zapalil. Po cleliirn rokovani piivolil jsem k jejich navrhu, 2e budu opet vyueovat, neb se pravi, ee zvyk jest druha prirozenost. Za, nedlouho potom postavena dosti Uhledna ikola. Na podzim v roce 1883 zapoen,' jsem v nove budove opet vyueovati.

Zaku jsem mel okolo 50. Slueba ma 01)ndiela na 8 'nosier:1 $400 'a po dva roky jsem tam vyueoval. Ponovade jsem reel pies 3 mile ku ikole daleko, musil jsem kaedodemie: na koni jezdit, at' ji2 poeasi jakekoliv bylo, nasledkem toho nepoliodli vzdal jsem se toho mista, neb mi zaroven byla nabidnuta blizka nemecko-anglicka, 'Simla pod nazvern Greifiva, do ktere nemam and Upinou mili cesty. Plat mam ten samY, jen ze vice price. Letos se z tohoto okoli odstehovali nekteri nemeeti obyvatele, na, mist() jejich ditek pkibylo ml dostatek eesko-mora yskYch, tak 2e jest dye tietiny oeskYch a jedna tretina nemeckYch Lakin Viech jest now pies 40, asi polovina z okresu Lavaca a ,druha pfile z Fayette. NejvetSi obtie mi elan, k muslin ve trech jazycich vyudovat ad zaeateenika 0.2 do toho pokroeilejiiho vSem predepsanYrn predmettim.

Tuto, mileni etenalove, podal jsem vain jednoduchY a struenY naertek sveho eiyotopisu a sedmnactileteho pusobeni mezi zdejiimi 'echo-Moravany. Mnoho nesnazi a obtiee bylo mi za tu dobu pretrpeti, jee zaznamenati nehocIlam. Doutam, 20 toto postae,i, aby si ueinili pozdeji sem pkiby ySi osadnici pojem o prvnich zdejiich eesko-anglickYch Skolach.

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MUSINGS OF THE EDITOR AS I EXPLAINED in the Vestnik last week, Brother Marek, Sister Hilsher and I attended the meetings of fraternal associations in Chicago. All the meetings were held at the Congress Hotel in downtown. The first meeting—the Fraternal Youth 0.1unselors Association—was on Wednesday, May 6th. The meeting throughout the day emphasized the importance of working with younger people and the need of writing more of junior certificates of insurance. The work with younger people is building results now and in the future. Juvenile insurance grows into adult insurance.

The active junior clubs train children to be good citizens, to develop their talents, to provide wholesome 'social activities, and to prepare them for work in the adult department.

THE SECOND MEETING, that of the Fraternal Field Managers' Association, was held on Thursday, May , 7th. For a person who is interested in the organizational work, in the work of local solicitors, district organizers, and state managers, the whole day was packed with explanations, advice, suggestions, and methods. This Association was organized a few years ago to introduce study and training in fraternal field work. The object of this Association is the' promotion of higher business, ethical and efficiency standards in the selling of the fraternal life insurance.

The Association meets twice a year to discuss the field sales work in the various societies, and how the organizers should be trained.

THE THIRD MEETING—that of the Fraternal Insurance Counselors Association—was held on Friday, May 8th. This is an organization of those who have completed the basic and the adVance courses in the Fraternal Sales Training Program, passed successfully the final examination and obtained the F.I.C. designat•on. This Association is becoming to exert a strong influence to improve fraternal field work. Among the objectives of the Fraternal Insurance Counselors Association is to improve the standard of fraternal underwriting servive and salesmanship. Another is to pro-

vide educational and inspirational programs. Still another is to afford an opportunity for members to come in close contact with the successful workers of other societies, and to provide an incentive for continued study. * * ALL THREE MEETINGS were highly educational. Of course, Sister Hilsher was far more interested in the first meeting, in the talks and panel discussion on the subject of junior activities.

I was more interested in the lectures dealing with organizers and insurance counselors, where and how to find good fraternal insurance organizers,how to test them, if they may be succesful, and how to keep them when they prove to be good.

One of the speakers, who was an officer in charge of organizers in his society, explained to us that his society has 225 full-time organizers, 150 part-time organizers, but that his society has a regular plan for training of every field worker. Their local solicitors and parttime organizers secure from 5% to 10% of the total business. The highest organizers write over a million and a quarter of insurance a year. The average of new insurance, written by fulltime organizers, is $560,000 a year. Only one of them has a university degree, but all of them have completed high school. Most of them are married, middle-aged, but from 30 to 40 new organizers have to be trained every year, because that number drops out of the total of 375 organizers. He explained that his organization never employs district organizers beyond the age of 55.

Another speaker, whose society operates in many states and have many state managers, informed us that they never appoint a state organizer beyond 50 years of age. * * ONE SPEAKER EXPLAINED that one thousand dollars meant a great deal of money to cur father and grandfather.

To the grandchildren it is so little. We should be selling life insurance, not a death insurance. He went on stating that there are two kinds of insurance, one to pay death bills, and the other for the surviving members to live. Fraternal societies used to sell membership, but

we should not do it now; we should sell income to the members and their families. We usually teach the members the value ,of protection, 'give them a smallsize certificate and let the commercial companies reap the harvest of our efforts.

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SINCE WE.-ARE closer to the people than any other financial institution, we should not neglect our chances to serve the communities in which our lodges are located. Every SPJST lodge should be a center of service. It should serve not only the old members, but it should offer service to every member in the family where we have an SR,JST member.

We should stress the value of income to the members through insurance. We should start thinking in organizing junior clubs, probably English speaking lodges composed mostly of junior menberS. Age in the adult department is computed from nine years and six months. We could increase tremendously our fraternal activities if we would try to utilize the potential strength of our junior members. * * FROM THE BEGINNING, our SPJST stressed the equality of women. While other fraternal organizations had discriminatory rules, admitting only men, we welcomed wives and daughters to become our members. But somehow we fail to teach the importance of sufficient life insurance . for our wives and daughters. Yet the value of wife is rev emphasized even by the income tax.

Certificates to our wives should be in much larger amounts. No parents should let their daughters go from the parental home without sufficient life insurance.

And no man should take the daughter from her home without having himself sufficient insurance to protect her future.

THE SPJST HAS. a wonderful opportunity to do a good job for every healthy man, woman or child in the community.

The field of serving the people is virtually untouched. Oh, yes, we have a few members, we may say that we have (Continued on Page 12)

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Here is a brief report of the Program f he NATIONAL FRATERNAL YOUTH COUNSELORS ASSOCIATION held in the English Walnut Room at the Congress Hotel in Chicago, Illinois May 6th, 1953, and which will be detailed in later issues for everyones benefit.

Our President, Mrs. Edna Dugan called the meeting to order promptly at -10:00 a. m. The Invocation was made

by Anna M. Cooley. Pledge of Allegiance was given and the "Star-Spangled Banner" was sung by all of us. A Won,derful report ■o't our President Edna Dugan followed, which was most ineresting and very helpful to us. Greetwhich were extended by Harold oel, President of the Field Managers Association were nice and quite educational in the way of the Youth Movernent. Then there was the panel discussion of the Junior Activities by Anna Cooley of the Royal Neighbors of which I will relate to you later in full detail.

Miss Louise Patrick, our secretary read the minutes and gave her report, followed by the Treasurer's report by our Treasurer E. Willis Lamoreau. Close to forty fraternal organizations answered to the Roll Call, who came from all parts of the nation. Thus we recessed for lunch and took up with our afternoon esion at 1:30 p. m. with Community uging. The Auditing Committee made their report, and then we again had a "Talk and Panel Discussion" of everything, at which time our S. P. J. S. T. President Brother Marek made a very nice and effective talk of cur organizati:.n and its Youth Activities and our L;ocial District Meetings. Different Organizational Counselors and Officers made several statements of interest reuaraing -U-Lie progress of :their Youth Movement as to what they did, are doing, and what they plan to do in the future. Here we asked each other ques• tions concerning different points of interest to us in the Youth Movement that 'others are doing and finding successful. These Panel DiscusSions are always nice as one can learn a lot from the other's experience.

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W. 0. W. Activities Director of the Life Insurance Institute, Purdue UnWoodman of the World Life Insurance Society E. E. Howell made a most interesting speech on "Boys of Woodcraft Sportsman's Club" which they are sponsoring with great success. Here again, I have obtained a lot of good points of interest for our own Youth in the future.

Hal L. Nutt, C. L. U. Director of iversity made the most interesting address on the Value of our Youth in our Fraternal Organizations in safeguarding 'ourselves from taxation as a Fraternal Insurance Organization — to save ourselves that taxation expense and give it to our Youth in the way of Activities and Entertainment and show the government that we are being fraternal through our children to futher instill in their hearts our true fraternalism and to help preserve its natural state and hand it down , to our children as our forefathers handed it down to us, and let them take over Fraternities.

What gift can you give your children that can last and mean financial success to them in the future tha fraternal insurance in your own organization — not just $1,000, but $5,000 policies. And he went on saying for us to get it now while we can get it at the price we can and while there are no restrictions — thr who knows what tomorrow will bring. Grandfather purchased eggs at 20e a dozen, we pay 60c a dozen now.

But what will our children have to pay — he used as an illustration. And so on — more details later.

Then came the report of the Nominating Committee and the Election of Officers followed by the Installation of Officers by Vivian Watkins, our Past President, and Director of Junior Activities, of the Modern Woodmen of America. Mrs. Ulna Moss, of the Maccabees is our new President, Miss Louise Patrick, of Supreme Forest, Woodman Circle is our new Vice President, and Mr. E. Willis Lamoreau of the United Amer, ican Mechanics, is our Secretary, Mrs. M. Cooley of Royal Neighbors of America is our Treasurer, and leaving Mrs.

Edna E. Dugan, Degree of Honor as our Past President. Thus our meeting adjourned.

In conclusion I must say it was most interesting meeting all the other Youth Counselors and Officers from other -Fraternal Organizations and futher discussing with them about their experiences in their Youth Movement, and the knowledge I have obtained from this Convention should be of great value to our organization if we will follow it up with cur Youth Movement in the pathway of other's experiences. For as is our motto: "OUR YOUTH UNLOCKS THE FUTURE" so let us all abide by it too.

1 "A boy with a bat in one hang, and a mit in the other — will never get in trouble." and d'On't forget "It is better to have a number on the back of a shirt — than a picture and a number across the front." )• •

Musings of the Editor (Continued from Page'll) plenty members. But membership is not the yardstick. It is the amount of protection which every man, woman and child has which really counts. Let us quit selling death insurance. Let us be talking about income for the family should a father or a mother pass away.

Let us quit to act as a burial society. We are a fraternal society, giving service, offering protection, paying off mortgages. ) • CAN'T BE SURE Annie: "I wish I could be sure my sailor fiance loves me for myself alone and not just lbecause he happens to have the name 'Annie' already tatooed on his chest." ) • 4. • ( BROTHERS and SISTERS, we want you to have your Vestnik. When you have a change in address, please send your change , of address to the Supreme Lodge SPJST, Fayetteville, Texas. Don't forget to fill it out like this: I have a new address!

NAME OLD ADDRESS LODGE NEW ADDRESS Mail to:, SUPREME LODGE SPJST; FAYEI"rEVILLE, TEXAS 010

Wednesday, May 20, 1953

LETTERS LODGE OSVETA, NO. 38 Smithville (Kovar) Texas The regular meeting of Osveta Lodge was called to order promptly at 2 p. nu, Sunday, May 10. President V. H. Barina, in his usual charm and dignity lost no time in getting the business part under way, explaining that the program dedicated to Mother's Day would follow immediately after the business was taken care of. Bro. Jerry Stepan, our very efficient secretary, read the minutes of the last meeting and the corresondence that was on hand to be acted upon. After the meeting one of our distinguished guests came to me and paid a nice tribute to the way our officerrs handled the meeting with decorum and punctuality.

Miss Joyce Ann Hribek, our newly appointed assistant Youth Director, charming and talented, took over with welcoming the guests and distingushed visitors and the program prepared to honor our mothers, after the business was taken care of. She is doing a wonderful job and we predict a lot of action for her in her new field. We are behind you strong, Miss Joyce Ann. Lodge Osveta had the honor to have Bro. Edward L. Marek and his wife as our Mother's Day visitors. Brother Marek delivered a beautiful and touching address, dedicated to mothers, to those that are still with us and to those that have completed their labors and departed. We learned indirectly that Bro. Marek really made a sacrifice to be with us on this occasion, as he and our Brother Editor had to do some fast driving, without sufficient rest or sleep, in order to get back to Texas from Chicago to be here on time. We want to expres our deep appreciation to Bro. and Sister Marek for making this special effort to be with us. We hope to have you with us again soon.

Lodge Osveta acknowledges with sincere appreciation the many nice tributes paid us about the way we conrueted the District One meeting on April 26. We wish to especially mention the nice write-up from our Brother Editor, and the very nice things that Sister Birdie Hilsher said about us and the way our Youth is taking over. My old friend and brother, P. P. Baron, secretary of our District One, made a nice report and Mrs. Frances Homola, Lodge No. 39, Bryan, had a nice letter.

I know of no better way to spread brotherly love and good fellowship, than by meeting so many nice people at these district gatherings. We are now looking

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forward to meeting all of you at Lodge 35 million to 42 million dollars per year.

No. 33, Bleiblerville, come fall. In talk- Welfare spending includes payments for ing to Bea. J. J. Stomach last Sunday old age assistance, needy blind and dein regard to the next meeting, I am pendent children. A Constitutional Agoing to let you readers in on a secret, mendment very similar to this one was he told me that the program at defeated by the people in .. 1951. There Bleiblerville will have the one Osveta was an attempt made to tighten up the had beat a country block. And I under- law so as to pay larger benefits to peostand that country blocks are rather ple in need and to eliminate those who large, even larger than Houston blocks. are not needy. There was also a provision written into the amendment which Am I right, Brother Editor? would make the names of those receivYour reporter, ing benefits a matter of public record.

E. E. Holub )a The Senate committee on Oil and Gas es__ this week aproved the "Filling Station" CUL AK LODGE NO. 165 bill. There was much controversy about Moulton, Texas this bill at this session. Finally tie variDear Readers: At a call meeting the night of April ous groups that would be effected by 20, the members of Culak Lodge voted this legislation agreed on a compromise. that we sponsor another barbecue and This bill should have no difficulty in stew super on the evening of Sunday, passing now.

June 14. President Lee Jarosek appointThe Senate Committee on Agriculture ed committees for working out the pre- held a lengthy hearing on Monday night liminary plans for this affair and ac- of this week on a bill re-writing the laws cording to reports heard at the regular governing the feed milling and feed mixmonthly meeting, Sunday, May 10, plans ing industry in Texas. There was a wide are gradually falling into pattern for difference of opinion between the so this event. called big feed mills and the smaller For those interested in playing bingo, mills. The Committee placed several athis game will again be there for their mendments in the bill to protect the enjoyment. An added feature will be a farmers and ranchers as well as the "Country Store". Each member is kindly small feed mills and then gave it favorrequested to bring some useful home- able approval. made article for the country store stock.

The Senate Committee on Civil JurisA few suggestions may prove helpful prudence gave favorable approval this to some: neatly sewed aprons, bonnets, week to a, bill which would increase or hot dish pads, a jar of your prize benefits to injured workmen under our preserves or jelly, well cured egg nood- Workmen's Compensation laws from $25 dies or whatever article your particular to $30 per week. This bill has been passtalent or ingenuity can produce, will be ed by the House. welcome donations.

The bill requiring a mandatory 3 day With every member's hearty coopera- jail sentence for persons guilty of drivtion, we hope to make a successful ing while intoxicated has been passed evening of the combined supper, bingo, by both houses. The House placed an and country store. amendment in the bill which would give Your reporter, the County Judge authority to suspend Rose Helweg the jail sentence for a period 'of six )• months.

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE 15th A bill was passed this week which reSENATORIAL DISTRICT: ) quires school districts to publish finanThe Legislature will adjourn on Wed- cial statements each year. Another bill nesday, May 27, at 12 o'clock noon. The was passed' that would authorize the resolution calling for final adjourn- trustees of school districts to issue warment on May 27 was passed by the rants for repairs to buildings up to a House on Wednesday of this week. The limited amount without a vote of the Senate approved it Thursday morning. people.

The regular 120 day session was up on The Senate refused to pass.a bill which May 12. By adjourning on May 27 it would permit common school districts to means that the session will run 15 days appoint their own Assessor-Collectors. over the regular 120 days. This will be Senate Committees are still holding the shortest session of the legislature that I have ever served in. All of the hearings on the judicial re-districting ethers have extended into June and bill and also a bill which would make changes in our election laws.

July.

The Senate this week gave approval Sincerely, to a Constitutional Amendment which would increase welfare spending from Gus J. Strauss

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Wednesday, May 20, 105:1

Floresville, Texas Dear Members: The 7th District meeting is now behind us. The members of Lodge Slovan Jihu 26 had everything under control and are to be congratulated for their ettart., The program itself, as was expected, was educational as well as entertaining and from the close attention and expression on the - faces of those present I would say was well received which was evidenced by the applause.

Now a few words to our young members and all who participated in the program. From the very beginning that the district activities began I as in favor of some forth of reward f0 thcse who take part in the programs and at the Olmos meeting I again pleaded in your behalf, my throat was badly irritated and raspy, but I think I was understood, however those in authority took a dim view of this and if it was not for the generosity of Brothers Frank and C. A. Elsik and additiOnal_ lodges you would probably received a thank you.

As it is now understood yod- will receive a small remembrance. After all whatever you plan or do the person next to you will come up with an inquiry. What is this worth? Or what will that bring you?

So after all you naturally expect something. So to you young members I pledge to work in your behalf until either we MISS BETTYE CERVENKA succeed or I am replaced. I am -happy CHOICE OF HOMEMAKERS OF TEXAS three-day session include vice-presid- to tell you that at our last meeting cf ents Sue Weiser from Ray High SChool our .lodge No. 107 on Mother's Day our Pretty Miss Bettye Cervenka, 17, at Corpus Christi; Mary Swearingen, local young members surprised us with Gran.y.i, r High school senior, has been Woodville; Gayle Silcott,Olton; Louise a nice program, keep up the work and elected prciclent of the Texas AssociaWright, Hocks, and Jean Manning, I assure you that we shall work with tion of the Future Homemakers of Hamilton, first through fifth in that you, I only regret not being familiar erica. with your names at this writing, I shall order.

The new president, daughter of Mr. not let this happen again.

Elected recording secretary was Miss and Mrs. Raymond Cervenka, Granger, In Vestnik of April 29 - page cne is an was elected Saturday, May 9th, during Geraldine Walker, Donie; corresponding article dealing with dividing the state secretary, Doris Hahn.

FOrsan; historthe final day of the group's three-day ian, Lejeune Bailey, Grand Prairie, and into 7 districts, but failing to state a state meeting in San Antonio. parliamentarian, E4zabeth Jones, Web- clear objective of activities in that else Miss Cervenka's election to the state ster. it would leave the operations` in the residency is really a step to the highest hands of the district officers and proState adviser for the group is Miss gram committees, that being the case it position in Texas from her previous honor. Last year, in the executive meet- Josephine Pazdral of the Texas educa- will be doubtful for the seven districts to ing of the Texa g Association of the Fu- tion agency in Austin. come to a spearhead and arrive at the ) ture Homemakers of America, Miss Cersame objective, unless they have a workvenka was elected president of the SevA pretty Army nurse, just returned ing' agreement among themselves, what enth District after successfully serving from the South Pacific, was describ- seems to be lacking is an understanding as p r eident of the Fourth District. ing an air raid in New Guinea. "When among themselves.

Miss Bettye is a charming blue-eyed the Jap bombers came over," she said, In order to give our members a picture brunette of cheerful and winsome per- "I jumped right into the nearest wolf- of what is happening in our district I sonality, making her an ideal leader hole." shall submit to you a few figures taken among the girls. Her school record is "You mean foxhole, don't you?" inter- from 7th District up to May 1st. Nine well above the average, and her interest rupted a listner. have remitted their dues, also three inin all school activities could be a pattern "Maybe a fox dug it," said the nurse dividuals, just one half, of the other for other students in the Granger High sweetly, "but there was a wolf in it nine according to the last meeting, three School. when I got in."

I lodges were not represented and the reOther new officers elected in the state maining six I understand some are ( meeting in San Antonio during the ! waiting, for what, I do not know, but Chop suey is an American dish.

s of FutureElect Czech Girl

Wednesday; 'May' 20, 1053 a defined and clear understanding probably would answer their question.

To our director Bro. Chas Holasek and Sokol Leader Reground I wish to say it was impossible to be with you on May the 3rd.

E. Miculka ). • CESKY PRAPOR LODGE NO 24 Cyclone, Texas Brothers and Sisters! Our next regular meeting will be first Sunday in June 7.

The meeting will start at 1 p. m. and after meeting we will have good lunch.

Lodge will furnish good sausage, bread, and also good music. And we hope that the Sisters will bring plenty kolaches, pies, cake and some other good things to this lunch.. So be sure and remember the date June 7 and be present.

Fraternally yours, Chas. Navratil, S c'y

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STEFANIK LODGE NO, 142 A Cheery Hello to all: Haven't put my two-cents worth in. the Vestnik for quite some time because of first one thing and then another, which finally ended in bronchitis. I'm still barking like a pup, but feel lots better.

All of you have probably read about the interesting District Meeting and program District Five had at our Stefanik Lodge. I think everyone enjoyed himself. The part given by Lodge Pokrok No. 88 of Houston in t he program was a tribute to the memory of the late President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. This was presented by children in tableau and was exceptionally well clone. Youth Instructors Sisters Louise Kadlecka, Estelle Kelley and Helen Schnell are to be complimented on their work with the children. Results were very appreciative.

Brother Frank Vavrik of Needville Lodge also rates a good pat on the back for' his work with the Needville juniors who danced their Czech Folk Dance artistically and beautifully.

Sincere compliments go to Bro. Skrabanek of the Danbury Lodge for bringing the handsome little fellow who, though just four years old, could read like a veteran. I think it's just wonderful how lodges can co-operate if they really want to. It takes patience and time, but we are well rewarded when we stand in the background and watch the results of our work.

Lodge Stefanik No. 142 was certainly proud of the "Sailor-ettes Tap Dance" which was danced by Nell and Kay Sturm, Barbara Jean Ungrad, Vernell, 13ucek, Louise Becan, Doris and Joyce Nollkamper, Dorothy Cooper.

VESTNIK \MST, TEXAt3 The girls looked quite nice in their blue jeans sailor middies and sailor hats as they danced to the tune of "Glow Worm." Many thanks to you for a nice dance!

Thanks to Sister Ann Ward for teaching our little fellows the "Bunny and Carrot Drill." It was very entertaining and brought sincere laughter and applause from the audience. They looked very cute in their pastel colored bunny suits, long ears, bushy tails and big carrots. Their names are Marilyn Becan, Gayle Sturm. Kathy Becan, Karleen Krustchinsky, Thomas and Charlie Chupik, Louis Vaja, Robert and Rebecca Hitchcock, Frankie Krustchinsky and Shirley Svec. Thanks to all of you and to David Triska and Charles Svec the two sailors who escorted the sailor-ettes.

Thanks and appreciation go to all the Sisters of Stefanik Lodge who helped with the dinner, cake table and the program, especially those who made the costumes. We realize it is lots of work and really appreciate your co-operation.

Our sincere appreciation and thanks are in order to the gracious guests, who visited us at this time. Hope to see you again soon at our Lodge.

The twenty-seventh of May is our anniversary date, but we are going to celebrate on May 24th on Sunday, our Lodge will be 34 years old. We are planning to serve dinner at one o'clock p. m.

By the way, yours for the asking will be a delicious Special Prepared Roast, Czech Style as the main dish with potato Salad, Cole Slaw and other goodies to garnish your plate. Plenty of good coffee and coffee cake, kolade, pies, cakes, buchty Other cold beverages will be available also.

There will be a Bingo Game with beautiful gifts in the offering. There will be delicious home made cakes for the number table.

Then about 4:30 p. m. we shall dedicate a program to our Lodge Charter Members. Our juniors will participate in the program. We sent special invitations to Lodges Pokrok, Needville and Danbury requesting the honor of the juniors presence to take part in our program celebrating our anniversary. Just received a phone call from Sister Birdie'!

Hilsher who acknowledged and accepted our invitation on behalf of the Pokrok No. 88 junior members. This group of young people will present a fifteen minute Czech Play entitled "Kolaee", which will be most entertaining. I am sure the other lodges will also be here as they are quite active in junior work and quite talented. We sincerely welcome all juniors and will be honored by your presence. 1Por no truer worcjs were ever,

Strana 15 spoken than "United we stand; divided we fall." This applies to all Czechs as well as anyone else. The stronger are our bonds, the more friendly our relationship, the better chance we have in progressing and achieving whatever we undertake.

Our anniversary program will consist of our guest's activities, songs, dances, solos, music and drills. I am not going to announce the program now. After it is over I will write you the results. Don't you think surprises are more fun? I do.

So come see our program for yourself to see how much you'll enjoy it. I will let you in on a little secret; we just had a new curtain put on our stage. It's a beautiful maroon velour draw- ape and has the SPJST emblem on the top flounce right" in the center. Boy we are really proud of it!

Once again please accept our special invitation to our 34th anniversary celebration, on Sunday, May 24th. You won't regret accepting it! Best of everything Amelia Vaja Sturm. to all of you. ) • 4 4,, ( LODGE POKROK 'NO. 88

Houston, Texas The young people of Lodge Pokrok No. 88 held a wiener roast at Katy Roadside Park on Monday, April 20. There was a big crowd present, plenty to eat, and everyone had a bang-up time.

Our group gave a little play at the lodge on Mother's Day. Those taking part in this play were Marilyn Earl, Billie Jean Rezek, Mary Louise Kadlecek, Betty Jean Sl, vacek and Wanda Krismer. Two little boys from another group in this play are Jimmy Kadlecek and Robert Hilsher. E. J. Kadlecek acted as Master of Ceremonies.

On Tuesday,, May 12 we went to Hot Wells on a swimming party and picnic.

It started raining and so everyone crawled out of the pool and piled into their -cars and went back to the Lodge, where we ate and danced. Everyone got drenched again, but we all had a wonderful time.

The young people sold chances on a quilt for the Birthday Club at the play on May 3. At the Bar-B-Q on April 20 we held a Chinese cake auction. We also conducted a Ring-toss game, a Fish Pond and a Penny-pitching stand.

After the meeting on May 7 the club went over to Jennie Vee Drawe's house where we watched television, played cards, and had cokes.

The next meeting will he held on Thursday, May 28 at 7:30 p. m. We are inviting all of you to come for a good time.

Fraternally yours, Annette Rezek, Reporter

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STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL 1953 ZPRAVA PRAJMIT A VYDANI ZA MESIC DUBEN Mortuary Umrtni

RECEIPTS - PRIJEM

Matured bonds - Splatne bondy 200.00 Payments on mortgage loans - Splatky maletkov3•Tch ptijeek 02,569.28 Payments on certificate loans - Splatky na certifikatove pileky 2,103.00 Dues from subordinate lodges - Poplatky od i cadti 19,049.65 Interest from 'certificate loans - trok z eertifikUtovYch ptijeek 1,516.67 Interest front mortgage loans - Urok z majetkov;;Th ptijeek ____ 14,159.24 Interest from bonds - tarok z bondti , ' . 90.00 Dividend from stock - Dividend z akcie 2,250.00 Rent from Real Estate Owned - Najemne z majetku 1,864.34 Royalties - Z mineralniho a olejoveho majetku 905.68 Appraisal fee - Na odhady Sale of Lodge Supplies - Prodej poti .eb kacitim ..................

Sick benefit premiums - Poplatky nemocenskelto odboru TranSfer from Expense fund ---- Pfenos z fondu na vydani Contributicns to Moucka Fund - Dary na Mouektiv Fond LE...: If Total receipts -- CelkovY pfijem Cash balance 4-1-53 - Hotovost 4-1-53

Expense Vydani

Juvenile Sick Ben. Detsk/ Nemoc.

Moucka F. Mouelaw

5,435.53 13,512.63 5,847.04 12.80 1,485.43

386.00 3.25 202.26 300.00 10.00

Tota Souhri

200.01 (38,004.81 2,103.01 38.409.3!

1,529.4' 15,644.6' 90.0( 2,250.01 1,864.3, 905.61 386.0( 3.21 202.2( 300.0( 10.0(

104,707.86 166,989.66

13,901.88 12,780.85 9,625.29 14,185.29

502.26 19.38

10.00 131,902.81 968.26 191,787.8f

271,697.52

23,527.17 26,966.14

521.64

978.26 323,690.7:

Mortgage loans - Majetkove Vijay 43,434.16 Certificate loans - Certifikatove piljeky 4,288 00 Purchase of building - Koupe budovy 135,165.25' Claims paid - Vyplacene podpory 18,133.34 Repairs and insurance cn real estate - Opravy a pojiAteni majetku 84.86 Returned premiums and bonus - Vracene iimrtni popl. and bonus 160.12 Collection and Exchange - Vymena poukazek 3.47 , Appraisal Expense - Za odhady Attorneys fees - Pravniktun za vytizovani ptijoek Car expense - vYlohy na auto Commission to organizers -- Komisne ,organisatoriim Donations - Dary Freight and express - Dovozne Medical examinations - Lekat.ske prohlidky Non-medical examinations - Bezlekafske prohlidky Vestnik and editor's salary - Vestnik a sluZne redaktora Office maintenance - Na vydr2ovani ittadovny Office Rent - Najemne z idadovny Officers travel - Cestovne tittedniktit Organizers expense - Vflohy na organisaeni praci Postage - PoRovne Salaries of employees -- SluZne vS7pcmoci Salaries of officers and directors - SluZne i4ednikil a direk ortl Stationery and supplies -- Tiskova, prace a psaci potreby Supreme Lodge meetings - Schtize 111. idadovny F. I. C. A. and T. E. C. Tax Telephone and telegraph - Telefon a telegraph Transfer to• Sick Ben. Fund. PiTnos na NemocenskY odbor Sick Benefit claims - Nemocenske podpory

13,000.00 256.00

204.00

56,434.1( 4,544.0( 135,165.21 18,133.31 84.8( 294.01 32.8( 291.1( 1,614.2!

64.21 3,324.81 650.0( 87.2: 287.5( 167.8( 2,420.21 26.31 150.01 98.4' 196.8( 176.3: 989.0' 2;400.01 842.11 611.61 60.11 160.61 300.01 204.01

VYDANI - DISBURSEMENTS:

Total disbursements Cash balance 5-1-53

Celkove vydani Hotovost 5-1-53

133.89 29.39 291.10 1,614.22 64.21 3,324.85 650.00 87.23 287.50 167.80 2,420.28 26.35 150.00 98.41 196.80 176.33 989.07 2,400.00 842.10 611.60 60.18 160.66 300.00

229,811.1' 93,879.51

201,269.20 70,428.32

14,948.08 13,389.89 8,579.09 13,576.25

204.00 317.64

978,26

271,697.52

23,527.17 26,966.14

521.26

978.26 323,690.7

317.64

978.26

ASSETS - MAJETEK JEDNOTY Cash- Hotovost Government Bonds --V12,dni bandy --4 County and municipal bonds - Okresni a mestske bondy

70,428.32 1,100,250.00 ..a 298,392.25

8,579.09 13,576.25 10,605.10

93,879.51 1,100,250.01 308,997.3

Wednesday, May 20, 1953

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Mortgage loans - MajetkOve pfijeky Dertificate loans - Certifikatove piljeky Stock - Akcie Real Estate Majetek (Budova, farmy atd.)

Collateral Loans i,oyalties and minerals owned - Mineralni a olejovY majetek '_7quity and Utility Deposits - Bodily a me•itka Furniture and fixtures -- Nabytek a zatizeni v fitadovne Dar - Auto

1ATEAT,

TEX AS

Strans-1.7 426,526.38 8,091.90

4,356,040.17 467,134.40 100,000.00 182,805.64 371.88 60.00 20.00

4,782,566.55 475,226.30 100,000.00 182,805.64 371.88 60.00 20.00 15,417.80 500.00

15,417.80 500.00 6,575,502.66 24,496.89 458,799.63

317.64

978.26 7,060,095.08

S bratrskYrn pozdravem R. A. UrbanovskY INCOME FROM LODGES IN APRIL 1953 Fiijem od fadti v mesici dubnu 1953 Amount 'dge No. Date $342.20 1 17 10 21.41 22 32.68 20 512.52 24 132.87 371.52 20 22 145.75 30.93 20 272.13 20 22 95.09 105.48 29 11.55 24 399.70 25 24.28 24 341.41 10 388.25 23 946.76 25 89.47 20 588.68 23 67.48 21 23.18 21 205.48 23 1,375.36 20 602.86 25 164.92 28 249.18 20 1,410.58 16 360.40 10 11.83 15

33 35 37 38 39 40 41 42 44 45 47 48 49 50 51 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 63 64 65 67 68 71 73 74 76 78 79

15 18 25 21 20 18 18 23 25 18 25 27 11 22 17 20 10 29 20 10 21 22 10 17 20 22 28 18 22 20 24 28 21 15

579.94 117.23 9.33 308.48 169.81 978.06 66.73 3.69 131.97 114.08 706.61 259.92 224.52 1,609.11 212.23 768.69 38.18 520.58 27.29 202.06 8.43 31.55 28.99 689.07 21.64 43.68 130.13 779.71 27.16 130.59 56.89 57.80 19.36 270.17

80 81 83 84 86 87 88 89 91 92 93 94 95 97 98 99 101 105 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 122 124 125

27 23 28

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IN DEFENSE OF LAZINESS last if it weren't for the lazy spectators Think how fast the world would go who prefer to watch others take part in to the bow-wows, if it weren't for lazy competitive contests rather than take part themselves. people! Consider all the lines of busiWhat would happen to the radio business that could not exist for great ness if everyone were teeming with masses of lazy folks, and without which physical energy and doing things inthere would be a great falling-off in stead 'of only siting and listening? employment for the energetic. Look at What would happen to the automobile all the theaters and other places de- business? I doubt if even luxury shops, voted to vicarious entertainment. It isn't such as jewelry stores, would do so well energetic people who fill these theaters if their customers weren't tco lazy to but the lazy who are content to sit satisfy their own vanity by other means. still for two or three hours. An energetic fellow would rather be doing something If a. woman wishes to feel important, and has enough physical energy, she himself.

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cr make a new record at mountain climbing. But if she lacks the energy she simply talks some man into giving her a large sum of money and gains her felling of importance by buying herself high-priced jewels or ultrafashionable clothing.

Another thing we owe to the lazy is this: They are not the ones who start uplift and other movements or attend meetings of societies based on ancestry.

Lazy people are seldom joiners. And did you ever hear of a lazy man doing anything to encourage the sale of so diabolical a contrivance as an alarm clock?

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VESTNi1C— wgsT, TEXAS

Wednesday; May 20,

GENERAL MILAN RASTISLAV STEFANIK Thirty-four years ago, some of the Czech people living in the suburb of Houston, a community called - Cottage GroVe, decided to organize a new SPJST lodge. There were no automobiles among the 'working people, and it required more than an hour to ride a street car to get to the hall of Pokrok Houston Lodge No. 88.

It was beautiful, warm, blossom-filled May, when tne first meeting was called and when the question of selecting an apropriate name for the new lodge came up. But it was also a tragic day, May 4, 1919. It was the day when the news of the death of a great hero of the Ciechoslovak people was flashed around the world. General Milan Rastislav Stefa nik died on that day as he was returning to his homeland for its liberation, for which he fought, during World War I. With the tragic news presing on their minds, the Czech people organizing the new lodge chose the name of the national hero who just tragically died: Lodge Stefanik No. 142.

Who was this dead hero? What did he do? - Why was his name so -Nwellknown?

When World War I broke out in 1914, • 1t.efanik lived in France where its _ work' in the field of astronomy had attracted international atention. With the advent of war, he volunteered as a private in the French Army and successively rose to general. His personality, education, and personal qualities destined Stefanik to be at the head of the fight for liberation of the Slovak people. In the hope of better assuring the future freedom, peace, and prosperity for the people of his homeland, Stefanik joined the efforts - of the CZechs, represented by Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk and Dr. Eduard Benes, to help in gaining freedom for both Czechs and Slovaks :languishing in the jail of nations, A„n'stria-Hungary..

The enslaved Slovak people at home could not manifest their political will.

Hence, Stefanik turned toward the Slovaks who lived in America and supPorted him morally, politically, and materially.

In America, Steafnik worked to bring harmony between the Czech and Slovak people. Representatives of the - two groups met in Cleveland, 'October 25, 1915, and drafted a preliminary document setting forth certain aims of the two groups after the end of the war.

In 1918, the document was revised after personal meetings with Dr. Masaryk and representatives of American Czechs and Slovaks. it became known at the

Pittsburgh pact, and was signed May 30 in Pitsburgh.

This pact was ratified by the parliament at Prague on November 12, 1918, and signed by Masaryk again, this time as President of the Czechoslovak Republie.

Both the Cleveland and the Pittsburgh agreements, which speak for themselves, were designed to be the cornerstone of Czechoslovakia, and they hastened recognition of the state by President Woodrow Wilson.

As first Minister of National Defense during the early days of the existence of Czechoslovakia, General Stefanik lived for from his homeland. He organized and led the Slovak and Czech legions fighting on our side in Russia and Siberia. When the Bolshevik revolution broke out inRussia, Stefanik became an avoided enemy of the Communists and by his leadership prevented the outbreak of any greater sympathies in his army for the Bolsheviks. When he left Russia in February 1919, he immediately cabled a warning to his own Government in Prague as follows: "Bolshevism is not only a philsophical orientation, but it is also a manifestation of sickness and an apocalyptical chaos to brutally express the lowest instincts. Democracy must fight this movement. To 'fraternize wiitih bolshevism would be. tantamount to abandon the road of honor and sound reason. I speak to you from the bottom of my soul: The fight against bolshevism must prevail in all the expressions of our policy. Let us act energetically so long as there is time to do so. If we will not act, bolshevism will change small nations into weak nations and finally into nations in decay."

On May 4, 1919, Gen, Milan Rastislav Stefanik flew to his native Slovakia from Italy. Why, as Minister of National Defense, Stefanik did not first stop in Prague remains an open question. Instead he went first to the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava. A hugh crowd, including his mother, awaited him at the airport of Vajnory, within sight of liberated Bratislava. But the plane suddenly burst into flame and crashed to the ground. The exact cause of the crash. was never officially determined.

Thus Stefanik tragically died, but his unfinished work remained. Stefanik continues to live in the hearts of freedomloving Czechoslovaks everywhere, today more than ever before when thousands of Slovaks languish in Communist jails and concentration camps. He continues to-dive in the hearts and mind& of cou*

rageous fighters for Slovak freedonli who, at home, in the forest abroad, or in exile, try to finish, the work of Gen. Milan Rastislav Stefanik. ) • 4 • (

LETTERS

LODGE VYSEIIRAD NO. 48 Beyersville, Texas Lodge 48 plans to have the annual May Fete on Sunday the 24th of May. Miss Lillie Hollan will be crowned queen, while a large court performs a drill.

Speaker for the event will be Bro. Chupick and we look forward to thit as 1 have been informed that he is a wonderful speaker. Do plan to be with us and enjoy Bro. Chupick's speach.

Master of ceremonies will be Bro. Frank Svadlenak who is very adept at this. Bro. Svadlenak has helped us out tremendously in the past and we are very thankful to him.

Come out and spend the afternoon and evening with us. I'm sure you will have an enjoyable time. You may t et 'barbecue, and drinks so you wont even ha,vg to go home for eats.

Speaking starts at 5 o'clock with the crowning of the queen to follow immediately.

Dance beginning at 8:30 with Ray Baca Orchestra furnishing the music for the grand march and dancing. Everyone will enjoy the music as he plays for young and old alike.

We shall be, glad to have you with us on May 24th.

Mrs. Lummie Shiller, Reporter (Editor's Note:--I just barlely squeezed this in the current issue. Kindly send your letter a day or two earlier, so as to get the preference. Thanks.) ) • 4• ( PUTTING HIM OFF A man went to his doctor and re quested treatment for his ankle. After a careful examination the doctor inquired: "How long have you been going about like this?"

"Two weeks."

"Why man, your ankle is broken. Why didn't you come to me before?"

"Well, doctor, every time I say anything is wrong with me, my wife declares I'll have to stop smoking."

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There are 4.61 acres of forest land for every person in the United States. )• •( Food will cook as quickly in gently boiling water as in rapidly boiling water.

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An archangel is an angel of the highest rank.

Wedm'sclay, May 20, 1053

VPSTN Tw— WEST, TEXAS

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Interesting Facts and Curious Happenings Lighthouse of Pharos considered by historians as one of the Seven Wonders of the World Lighthouses have been in service from the earliest times, and in spite of their rather primitive, limited facilities, the ancient beacons saved thousand of mariners from watery (graves. The most famous of all the beacons of the past was the gigantic Pharos located in the harbor of Alexandria on an island named Pharos. Historians do not know if the island received it's name from the lighthouse or vice versa. It was a structure more than six hundred feet high, made of white marble and very well known throughout the then civilized world.

Since searchlights were not know in those days, a great brazier was kept burning day and night at the top and a brilliant light was produced by polished mirrors, properly placed as to reflect the light. After the Arabs conquered Egypt the lighthouse was converted into a fortress against the Christians. They were lured into dismantling it upon hearing a rumor that a fabulous treasure was secreted beneath it. Attempts to rebuild the structure, after it was discovered that it was a clever plot, failed, and in 1375 an earthquake destroyed it, writ414 the final chapter to what historians still refer to as one of the seven wonders of the world.

Oriental Temptress Cleopatra was more aggressive for power than interested in love History has recorded the lift of the languid Oriental temptress Cleopatra as a woman who devoted herself to romance and passion, when actually studies show she was much too busy with personal ambitions than to worry about love. She was not even as beautiful as popular tradition has us to believe, and was much more energetic and European than Egyptians, being a descendant of one of great Alexander's Greek generals who was known for his bravery and cunning.

She was the ruler of the powerful nation that had more riches than the proud Roman empire of Julius Caesar.

At the age of seventeen her marriage was announced to her little brother Ptolemy XII, who was only ten years old.

She was married to him with all the pomp of the period. When ambitious Caesar invaded, her husband was drowned.

She sighed, and promptly married another young brother, Ptolemy XIII, who was older that his unfortunate predecessor. He was eleven! She politely, murdered him three years later in order to

By Jaroslav F. Chmelicek make room for her son whom she had

by Caesar. It's been recorded that child marriages were not a novelty in those hectic days cf intrigue and violent death and there was logic in brother and sister marriages among the Egyptians. It was done to keep the throne in the family and believed the proper custom.

Despite her wealth, she was not hapby. She was enmeshed in political and military plans, mostly of her own doing, and at the age of thirty-eight, she committed suicide by allowing herself to be bitten by a deadly snake. The Romans took away most of her wealth and did not mourn her too long. It was only many years later that Cleopatra's fame began to spread farther than she would have dared dream it during her lifetime.

THE LANTERN OF THE FIREFLY The firefly has been placed under man's microscope to find out why it glows, and results are already obtained.

Dr. William D. McElroy of the Johns Hopkins University who is the top authority on the subject claims that the firefly's secret is a complex phosphorus-containing compound which he calls ATP, for short. It is the same chemical which is known to enable animals and people to use the energy they obtain from eating food.

FAME AND FORTUNE SLIPPED THE INVENTOR If it had not been for 'an accident during which chemicals were spilled on an hearth-stone, igniting and thus inspiring John Walker to work out a combination which would ignite, mankind might have waited a long time for the match or something similar to be invented.

John Walker owned an apothecary shop located on High Street, in the northern part of England's seaport of Stockton, and while busy mixing chemicals one day, he stumbled near the hearth-stone, spilling the contents together upon the hot surface. They ignited and gave him an idea. Patiently he put together all the chemicals again, and began to experiment. Finally, he had it!

Three-inch sticks of wood which had been tipped with potassium chlorate, antimony sulphide, plus starch and gum.

The slivers of wood were accompanied by a pleated strip of coarse sandpaper, through which the matches were rubbed in order to ignite.

The first sale of the match he invented is recorded on April 7, 1827, and 100 were sold for a shilling. The inventor

did not even realize the importance of his discovery, in fact thought so little of it that he did not even make an attempt to patent the device, and boh fame and fortune passed him by.

MYSTERIOUS WALL IN SOUTH AMERICA One of the mysteries of the ages is the ancient and curious Inca wall in Peru.

This relic of the past when the highly skillful and inteligent race of people lived there, is unexplained even to this day altho many scholars gave it a great deal of study and time. The greatest mystery surrounding the wall ktIthe fact that it is located at an altitude of 12,000 feet. At that time the Indians did not have any stone cutting tools of any kind, nor did they have the implements of copper or steel. The tall structure which has been subjected to thousands of speculations as to its erection, was a part of the Inca palace.

Restaurants Claim More. People Than Home-cooked Meals Your mother's or wife's cooking may be out of this world, but nevertheless, a larger percentage of people in the United States eat their various meals in restaurants than in any other part of the world. ) • fit. • (

WHERE TO GO SATURDAY EVERY WEEK: Pokrok Houston Lodge No. 88 holds a family gathering every Saturday night.

Bring your friends and enjoy plenty of entertainment. Refreshments served free.

No obligation, just clean enjoyment.

SUNDAY MAY 24: Stefanik Lodge No. 142 in Houston will hold its 34th anniversary starting at one o'clock with a delicious dinner, Czech style. An elaborate program is prepared, including a one-act Czech play presented by the guest Youth Club of Pokrok Houston Lodge. Be sure to come.

SATURDAY MAY 30: Big dance at Seaton Star Hall of Lcdge 47. Music by J. R. Baca of Fayetteville, Texas. Everybody invited.

SUNDAY JUNE 7: Lodge Cesky Prapor No. 24 in Cyclone will hold its regular meeting. After meeting lunch will be served. ) • 4, Flower arrangement is a national art in Japan.

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V ESTNiK— WEST, TEXAS

Wednesday, May 20, 1953

E T PLENTY AND NOT GET FAT The newest expression in advertising cheese dishes. Pot cheese is another and television circles is, "Put more pro- story. It is made of skimmed milk and tein into it." The admonition means is rich in proteins and low in calories, build it up, strengthen it. Put more You can use pot cheese as a luncheon backbone into it and is used in reference dish serve it with fruit as a salad or to anything from a commercial to a tap dessert, flavor it with just about anydance routine, Proteins are the living thing you like and spread it on stalks of building blocks with which bone, muscle celery as your private hor d'oeuvres and tissue are constructed. Small won- while the others are nibbling pastry puffs der then that the word has carried over and potato chips. from nutrition to advertising and beEggs are yours to eat in any of countcome a synonym for strength. less ways. With fried and scrambled eggs Protein is a key element in any re-, and omelets you run the hazard of high clueing diet. When you diet, you cut calorie butter or bacon drippings. You down your consumption of fat-producing can escape this pitfall easily enough by calories, But you maintain or even in- boiling, coddling, or poaching your eggs. crease your protein consumption because If you think a poached egg is a pale, you don't want your strength to melt dull thing invented for invalids, you're wrong. Have you ever heard of poaching away along with your excess weight.

There's only one thing wrong with the an egg in soup stock or tomato juice? average high protein reducing diet. It's, No reason why you shouldn't try it. strictly for millionaires. Sirloin steak Bring a small amouynt of tomato juice with the fat trimmed away, filet mignon in a small pan to a boil, slide in a raw or double-thick loin lamb chops at $1.0 egg, reduce heat to a simmer and cook a pound, no thanks. Just try putting a- for about three Minutes. Season and way lean proteins of this caliber twice serve the egg on half a tomato which a day for a couple of weeks and you'll you have grilled briefly (and butterless) find your pocketbook getting even slen- under the broiler. It's a luncheon dish for the party! derer than your hips.

New we come to fish. Ever see oysters, Now the really funny thing about this state of affairs is that it is totally clams, lobster on a reducing diet? You unnecessary. There's no reason in the don't very often and only because of world why a high protein diet should the lamentable tendency to smother be, expensive. teak and lamb chops are these delightful low-calorie fctocls in not the only proteins. As a matter of rich sauces or cook them in deep fat. fact they aren't even the best. A broiled Of course shellfish isn't exactly a budget lamb chop at $1.00 a pound has no vir- item in most areas. But still it's nice tue that you can't find in beef kidneys to know that a platter of steamed l'clams at 25c a pound. Oh yes, the chop has a is acceptable on the strictest diet and a medium-sized lobster, provided you bone that is pure waste!

Why do inexpensive cuts of meat ap- broil. it with only the merest suspicion pear so rarely on reducing diets? First, of butter, carries only about 75 calories.

For keeping cost down, there's nothing because the less tender cuts that require longer cooking are usually served like the no-waste fish fillets that can be in stews or heaped with rich sauces. bought frozen anywhere in the country.

They are laden with calories that have You must cook them quickly and serve no place in a reducing scheme. Second, them before they become dry. You can it takes a little extra ingenuity to make bake a large whole fish, basting it With the cheap cuts tasty, tender and un- white wine if you want to be festive, burdened by accompanying calories. But and serve it on a platter surrounded it can be done. And once you learn 'the by lemon wedges, parsley and tomato trick, you've acquired a valuable tech- wedges.

One of the least expensive of the nique for saving on your food budget that will carry 'over into your menu frozen fish is the whitin—a small tasty planning long after your diet is a thing fish somewhat larger than the smelt.

Whiting is round and when cleaned, it of the past.

What are the high protein foods? The is hollow and perfect for stuffing. Deanswer is easy: meat, fish, eggs and frost and stuff each whiting with a cheese. Let's consider them in reverse small carrot that has been par-boiled.

Broil and baste with consomme. Sprinkle order.

In an ordinary low-budget operation vith cropped parsley and serve with lecheese plays a prominent part. But you mon wedges. You will find that this dehad better write off cheese, except pot licious high-protein main course for cheese, while you're on a diet. Too many four costs all of 50c. calories in cheese fondues and melted High-protein, low-cost meat means

taste doesn't have to take a back seat.

Restaurant menus often have London Broil for a fancy price. You duplicate this at home by buying a flank steak which costs about $2.00 and cutting it in half crosswise. Reserve one-half for another meal. Place the half you are using fat-side up under the broiler.

Broil for about eight minutes on each side. Slice on a board, cutting diagonally so as to get slices about one-quarter inch thick. You will be serving pure juicy, fatless beef for about 25c a head.

Feel like a really hearty meat silish?

Then try kidneys and mushrooms.

Sounds as if it's bursting with calories, but if prepared 'Properly a large serving will boast only about half as many calories as a single peanut butter sandwich.

Check with any cook book on advance preparation of kidneys. Slice a pound of prepared kidneys—cost about 25c— half an inch thick and cook them in half a cup of canned consomme and half a cup of tomato juice tonvhich you have added a quarter of cup of sliced mushrooms, a clove of garlic on a toothpick, salt and pepper. Simmer for 20 minutes, remove garlic and serve. This is enough for four, and if two of the four are guests, you'll never be able to convince them that they have dined on a low-cost diet dish.

In using inexpensive meats and fish in your reducing schedule, there are a few basic rules to follow: 1. Avoid fatty cuts like plate beef and use as little pork as possible.

2. Do not fry or serve with heavy sauces.

3. When broiling or roasting, baste with bouillon, tomato juice or even wine (wine used this way is not fattening).

The basting is a substitute for the butter or margarine with which you usually dot meat or fish before cooking.

4. Mushrooms (cooked in stock, not broiled in butter), tomato wedges, generous sprinklings of parsley, garlic, herbs saces tomato paste, "VVOrch,esteithire sauce, and chopped pickles can be used as lavishly as you like to add variety and piquancy to budget Meats.

Once you acquire the knack of making low-cost meats attractive and caloriefree, you'll get a brand new kick out of your dieting. And if there is a man in your household who could use a trimming at the waist, you'll get a pleased look instead of a growl when you substitute kidneys and mushrooms for pot roast and mashed potatoes droWned in gravy. Don't expect to keep your diet to yourself. You'll have to share it with your entire family!

Wednesday, May 20, 1953

V ES TN1K — WEST, =AS

WHEN YOU SEND A CLIPPING Every profession has a set of rules in conducting its business. The editors like to adhere to their code of ethics, namely, to give credit where credit is due.

Last week, someone from Temple, Texas, cut out a clipping from some newspaper, wrote on the margin of the clipping, "Put in Vestnik" and "Please, translate into Czech for the Czech paper", placed the clipping in an envelope without any comment, adressed it to "VESTNIK, 6402 Prague, Houston, Texas", and failed to make his or her identity known.

It isn't often I get a chance to write this (and be paid or it), but I feel that it is necessary to explain the attitude of every conscientious editor who is worth his salt. Every editor works on the assumption that people want to know facts, interesting news and that the editor should present the news the right side up. To do this, the editor must know where the news comes from, who sends the news item, or how the news originated. In plain English, if you send me a clipping and are ashamed to place your name on the envelope, I don't feel any sense of guilt by throwing it away.

I appreciate very highly any clippings, but I must know who sends it and from what newspaper or magazine it was taken, if it is not a syndicated feature which usually appears in a chain of newspapers all over the country with a by-line telling by whom it was written.

I must give credit to the man who wrote it or to the paper in which it was printed.

But since I like to report anything that is of general interest to our SPJST members, and since I believe that the sender of this particular clipping did not know that both the name of the newspaper, from which the clipping was taken, and his or her name must be revealed to the editor, I publish it this time, but with the warning that it is against the rules of the newspaper business. The clipping reads as follows: BESEDA CLUB PARTICIPATES IN CELEBRATION nae Temple Beseda club participated in a Czech celebration held in the Union building at the University‘'of Texas in Austin Sunday afternoon at 2 p. m.

Three rings of four couples each danced as their part on a program of folk dancing, addresses in both English and Czech, vocal selections from Czech operas, violin selections and folk songs.

Ring one was composed of Connie Bartek, Walter Hesse, Anna Margaret Schiller, Larry Jez, Betty Jean Baca,

and Donald Vrba.

Ring two was made up of Barbara Fojtasek, Alton Fojtasek, Nancy Bartek, Albert Reznicek, Rita Moraw, Edward Hesse, Dorothy Pisek, and William Law. In ring three were Nell Beck, Gary Bartek, Eva Vrba, Edward Reznicek, Barbara Hesse, Otis Beck, Jackie Lavendusk y . and Leon Bartek.

Flag bearers and color guards were Sylvia Bartek, Carolyn Lavendusky, Patsy Moraw, Jeanette Pisek and George Schiller.

A costume contest was also a feature of the program and the Temple club won two of the three prizes offered. A handmade Czechoslovakian costume, entered by Mrs. Frank Kalenda and worn by Eva Vrba, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.' Ed Vrba,, won first prize. Third prize went to a costume worn by Lanette Schiller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Schiller.

The group was accompanied to Austin by its president, Ed Hesse, and director, Walter Jakubec. ) • 4, 4, ( THEY USED TO BE MORE DANGEROUS Only a short span of 250 years separates us from the days when women used to be considered more dangerous than men, often using the tools of witches to ensnare and entangle" the innocent and unsuspecting men.

The English Parliament in 1700 passed the following law against the wiles of women: "That all women of whatever age, rank, profession or degree, whether virgin, maid or widow, that shall from and after such act impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of His Majesty's subjects by means of scent, paints, cosmetic washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes, or bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft and like misdemeanors and that the marriage upon conviction shall stand null and void."

Evidently, the era of dangerous women had passed. We now have Max Factor, Helen Rubenstein, Toni, Jentzen bathing suits, and a billion-dollar modern witchcraft. Or has it? ) • .1.

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Strana 21 FEWER DEATHS There are about 200,000 fewer deaths annually in the United States than if 1945 health and mortality conditions had continued to prevail, we are told by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company statisticians. It is an outstanding achievement in life conservation for so brief a period and, they reported, is attributable largely to the rapid advance in medical science, the steady rise in general standard of living, and improved safety measures.

Had the mortality of 1945 prevailed in 1950, the most recent year. for which complete data are available, there would have been almost 1,657,000 deaihs instead of 1,452,454 actually recgrded.

The decline in death from disease of the heart, kidneys and circulatory system accounted for one-quarter of the total number of lives saved in that year.

This resulted, for the most part, from the reduction in mortality among women.

There were 25,000 fewer deaths than expected from pneumonia and influenza, and about the same numb fewer from tuberculosis, and the savings of lives from accidents amounted to more than 20,000. It was pointed out, that the reduction in the accident toll was from mishaps other than those involving motor vehicles.

Of the major causes of death, cancer alone showed a greater number of lives lost in 1950 than might have been expected on the basis *of 1945 mortality.

The figure was about 2,300 greater.

It was cancer of the respiratory system, up 6,400 above the expected mark, that boosted the cancer mortality. For cancer of the other sites were nearly 4,100 fewer than expected.

The report in general is good news.

The saving of 200,000 or more lives annually will mean a further raise in life expectancy. ) • 4 ° BORING WIFE A traveling salesman declared that he had the most perfect wife that ever lived.

"Isn't it monotonous to go through life with such a paragon?" his companion asked.

"Well, I may have put it a little strong — absence makes the heart grow fonder, you know!" said the home-going husband. "If she has any little fault at all, it's a tendency to profanity when intoxicated!" ) • do • ( Women are not eligible for Rhodes Scholarships.

The motorist had knocked down the careless pedestrain. Opening his car door, he turned around and shouted: "Hey ... you better be more careful." Whereupon the prone pedestrian replied: "Good heavens ... don't tell me you're coining Ambergris is worth almost twice a back!" much as gold.

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TUNAS

Wednesday, May 20, 1953

CZECH PROFESSOR SPEAKING AT Queen. In the adagio she will be sup BANQUET ported by George Haber. The Cygnets will be Marilyn Earl and Sandra Ann One of our promising Czech students, Phillips:' the fotir little swans. Dana Sue: Brother Jerry Hosek, of Grapevine who Payne, Merry Kathryn Engbrock, June is just completing his study of veterinary Schneider and Paty Weber; with a corp Medicine at the A and M 'College, was de ballet of twelve girls. thoughtful enough to mail me a clipping The Seasons has been chosen as the from the local student paper. second number, including all classes.

It is always quickening to my pulse and The Pearl Diver, features George invigorating when I receive a letter, mesHaber who will have nine girls in his sage, or a clipping from one of our stusuperting cast, one of whom will be dents. It always reminds me of the fact Barbaralee Rankin. that there are bright prospects for our The tap numbers this year are outfuture, that someone, oftentime very sthandiniz. The school is fortunate to timidly, reminds us that there is new have as its tap teacher, none other generation to take. over, if and when than Jack Dayton, who is nationally we get tired and quit our job. known.

The clipping reads as follows: In addition to the foregoing there will PHI KAPPA PHI SETS CZECH be various chal'acter numbers.

FOR SPEAKER All the choreographing was done by Eduard Taborsky, who has lived unBarbaralee Rankin, and all costumes der Communist rule, will speak on the designed by Mrs. A. Kotchetovsky, consequenCes 'of Stalin's death at the owner of the school. annual. Phi Kappa Phi initiation banThis prograM of dance wonders is quet Thursday in the MSC. pen to the public.

Taborsky, a history professor at the Andrea Camille Vodehnal, daughter University of Texas, was once secretary of Mrs. J. Vodehnal, graduates from to the late Eduard Benes, president of Kotchetovsky School of Dancing, is a Czechoslovakia. member of S. P. J. S. T. Lodge No. 88 He was that'nation's envoy to Sweden and Sokol Houston. when the Communists took over in 1948. ) • 4, • Taborsk,7's speech will be "What After Stalin?

BIRDS ARE BECOMING MODERN INITIATES 123 PEOPLE The school textbooks tell us that the animals and the birds behave the same Phi Kappa Phi, the National Honor way as they did many centuries ago, Society for all branches of higher learnand that only human beings reason ing, will initiate 20 faculty members and things out, modify their behavior, and 103 students at the banquet before Taconduct their affairs by constantly imborsky's speech. proving methods. So we pat ourselves Students , from the schools of Agriculthat we are modern — and run our ture, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and lodge meeting as we did fifty years; ago.

Veterinary •Medicine will be honored.

Here is an item reported by the Taborsky, who received his doctor's degree from Charles University in Associated Press. Mr. and Mrs. Robert ANDREA CAMILLE VODEHNAL Sondles, who live in Wadsworth, Ohio, Prague, entered the Czechoslovakian diplomatic service in 1937.

Kotchetovsky School of Dancing, insist they saw this happen this spring Fled to Britain under the directorship of Barbaralee in - their back yard: A family of sparrows, having diffiAfter the Nazi invasion he fled to Rankin will present its pupils at the Britain where he acted as Benes' sec- Music Hall on May 26th, 1953, at 8:00 culty getting in and cut of a wren house p. M. they were living in, showed up one day retary.

In this capacity he attended state The graduates this year are Andrea with a woodpecker in tow. The woodmeets with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sta- Camille Vodehnal, Marilyn Earl, and pecker pecked away at the hole two lin and Molotov.

Sandra Ann Phillips, who recieved their days until he had enlarged it enough After the liberation, he was appointed entire , dance training with this school, to suit the sparrows. Then he flew away. ♦ 4, • ( to the Swedish post. He resigned in 1948 starting as little girls with the late when the Communists came into power. Alexander Kotchetovsky, under whose NO CHANGE Since then he has taught history and supervision they were until his death It was a beautiful night. The moon political science at the University of last year. His great work is being conStockholm, Ohio State University and i tinned by his assistant of so many years, was full. The scenery was romantic. He Barbarlee Rankin, who is amazing all held the lovely • creature close to him University of Texas.

Taborsky is the author of several books with her ability as a teacher and and whispered in her shell-like ear: "Darling, I love you as no one hae ever on political theory, two .of 'which have choreographer. been translated into English.

The program.will open with the grad: loved before."

The banquet will begin at 7:30 in the I uating number Lake Swan, with Andrea ) "I can't see much difference," she reMSC Ballroom.

Vodehanal as Odette, the Swan plied.

You Are Invited

Ve stkedu, dne 20. kvetna 19b3.

Pameti (Dostal se mi do rukou kalendat "Amerikan" z roku 1916, kde pod shora uveclenYm nadpisem jest uvetejnen tivotopis jednoho z prvnich krajarni, kteii se usadili v okoli na geho eeskeho Ennis. Byl to p. Jan NovY, aekoliv ptimo neusadil se zde hned po svem pkijezdu ze stare vlasti, piece pozdejAim ptesidlenim se sem byl jednim z prvnich, kteii dali pooatek dnes velke krajanske osade. Rodina NovYch jest rozvetvena v okoli Ennis a ku jejich cti dlutno podotknouti, ae aekoliv jit pinYch sto rokil uplynulo od doby kdy dedeeek Nov' ptijel se s yYmi rodiei ze stare vlasti, piece potomci jeho at do tech nejmengich jsou mocni Ceske feel. ptepisuji tudit tuto jeho tivotopisnou ertu a posilam Vam ji k uvetejneni v naa% ae bude s povdekem pkijata girokym kruhein etenatil Vestniku nebot' rodina NovYch vesmes patti ku S.P.J.S.T. Jos. Odlotil). * * Dnes sem jezdi pkistehovalci jako na posviceni a nemaji ani poneti o ntrapach, kterYch zatili ti, kteii sem ptichazeli pked innoha lety. Kladou se jim site rilzne pfekatky do cesty vladou, za to vgak o ne zase vlacla peduje a bdi nad nimi, aby nepadli do rukou podvodnikft.

Kdyt jsem ja pti gel do SpojenYch Statu roku 1852 co 181etSi chlapec, zakusil jsem vgech tech bed a iitrap pkistehovaleckYch v pine mike. " — Narodil jsem se ye vesnici t'akove, roku • 1840, v okresu blovickem, kraj pratsky. Rodiee moji meli tam malou tivnost, kterou dva roky Po mem narozeni prodali a odstehovali se do Spaleneho el, Met koupili domek s kovatskou a cvokatskou dilnou. K domku pattila tet zaliradka, polnosti nebyly v gak tadne. ftemeslo valne neglo a proto otec dilnu pronajal a tivil nazi rodinu vYnosem prate nadenicke. Zde jsem chodil do gkoly. NAjernce nazi kovarny jakYsi Fiala, byl elovekem ryze svobodomyslnYm a uptimnYm vlastencem. Odbiral Havliekovy "Narodni Noviny" z nicht sousedilm a hochfun, kteii jej bedlive poslouchali, pkedeital. Mlaclet cvieil tet vlasteneckYm pisnirn a tak zasel yzacnY ten mut zde prvni vlastenecke uvedomeni ye vnimayou mysi mladete a tet moji. Po rote 1948 ptigla vaak persekuce a Fialovi bylo v jeho einnosti ustati, neb nan davali tandarmove, jako na nebezpeeneho lupiee, pozor. Otec tea nechtel podobnYch pomerti snaaeti a proto odhodlala se k vystehovani do Ameriky, z kteret dochazely od krajanii dopisy pine ehvaly o svobode, jake se v zamoti Geld rodina nage nasedla v Liverpoolu na plachetnik a po 6tYclni plavbe ptes'

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CeskSrch osadnikii v Americe more jsrne pkistali v New Orleansu. Od- , vise pottebne a ae to bylo pracne zbudotud jsme se dostali po parni lodi po iece vane, piece jsme si dopomohli tak k Mississippi do St. Louisu, kdet otec na- majetku. Za nejakY.pas jeSte jsme pkilez1 prvni praci na draze, ktera se tehdy I koupili sousedni pozemky, tak to jsme stavela odtud do Chicaga. Ja to chodil 6 pozdeji vlastnili 150 akril pady. Tarn mega\ do akoly, za kterYtto kratkY pas jsme se ptistehovali roku 1856 a till tam jsem se toho ov gem mnoho nenaueil, tee . at do roku 1878, av gak moji mili rodiaoanglickou neznaje. Na to jsem byl dan do ye tam slotili sve kosti. Matka zemtela v &end krejeovine, pti eemt jsem ztravil roce 1870 a otec za 5 roku po ni. pies tti roky.

V dobe tech kru gnYch poeatkil jsme se Jako katdY pesky pkistehovalec tak i museli vSichni shaneti po vYclelku kde muj otec touail po torn, aby si mohl do- jak byl. Ja si v roce 1861, co 211etY mlapomoci ku vlastni hroude, aby mohl pH dik, najal dodavani po gty mezi mesteeky zemedelstvi rodinu svou zaopatkiti. Tu se Fulton a Portland. Byla to vzdalenost 20 dovedel, ae v okoli mesteeka Portland mil, musel jsem dvakrat tYdne dopraviti json jakesi zbytky Akolnich pozemkil la- poatu z jednoho mesteeka do drtheho a cino na prodej, vyjelo se na ne nekolik za to jsem obdrZel kralovskou' odmenu st.-louiskYch krajant podivati a otec $150 roene. Wee Sam site za to platil vikoupil dve etykicitky. Byly to pozemky 1 ce, ale ja. to mel z druhe ruky a ten, ktery jit zbyle, jet tadnY nechtel, na nicht by- ibyl vlastne tim clodavatelem, vydelal $50 lo jen trochu pateml, zakrslYch stromil a I bez price a bez risku. Za to mile kolikrat kameni. Vgak take otec za ne zaplatil pH tom betel() o hiavu a pozbyl jsem pH kralovskou cenu. Za jednu z tech C;tyti- tom kone, sedlo a jine veci, ba i znaCnou citek platil bit, eili jak se jinde iika si- Cast mzdy. ling za akr, tedy za celou $5, kdetto druJak znamo vypukla v rote 1861 °beanha, lepgi etyticitka stala 50 centil za akr, ska valka. Ve statu Missotri byli pkivrCili $20 celd. Tak jsme se stall za $25 ma- tenci obou stran a z poeatku nemohlo jetniky ohromneho lanu pady, cot by byl bYti rozhodnuto, na kterou stranu se stat v Cechach jit hodnY statek. ten vrhne. Obe strany tinily zoufale poNyni se ale jednalo o to, kterak z toho kusy o to, aby se zmocnily spravy statni lanu vytlouci tivobyti. Penez nebylo na a donutily takto vgechen lid celeho sta.stavby, ania na oplotneni, tim merle na to k tomu, aby A6 s tou Ci onou stranou. dobytek a natadi. Vg e eekalo jen na ty Mesta, jako St. Louis, souhlasila se Sevenaae ruce, jen s potahem nam vypoma.- rem, ale po venicove bylo mnoho planhal soused Nemec. Za katdY den, jent v tatnikn, kteii byli fanatickYmi Jihany. A praci na nazi fume ztravil s potahem, takovYch bylo hojnost v krajine, kudy my mu zaplatili zas dvema dny praci nine vedla cesta za povinnosti. rani. My jsme se teprve museli uCiti, jak Podotknouti musim je gte, ze jsem jen staveti plot, aby nam jej vitr neb doby- jeden rok doclaval poatu za jineho. Od tek nepovalil a plot bYti musel, pakli roku 1862 jsem obdrtel sam na sve jmeno jsme chteli nrodu svou obhajiti pied do- dodavku. Mel jsem $200 mane, ale muse' bytkem, jehot se vaude kolem hojnost jsem miti sveho kone a vie, echo tieba potulovalo. vYplatu jsem dostaval jen jednou za Z poeatku jsrne byli tivi z vYtetku za Ctvrt roku, totia ku konci etvrtleti. 13a i s citivi. Co se nehodilo na delani plotu, da- tim byly °bate, neb na vladni poukazky lo se na dtivi k palivu, za nejt jsme do- z Washingtonu nebylo snadno vymeniti stavali take kralovskou cenu jednoho do- za hotove. Po prve, kclyt jsem s ni ptigel laru za kord. Pozdeji kdy jsme pokidili do vladni banky v St. Louisu, spustil na potah, tak ze jsme mohli dovateti clkivi mne jakYsi chlap bandurskou, ae pry k kece, po nit pluly parniky do Kansas jsem ji ukradl a chtel mne dat zaviit.

City a dale na jih, dostavali jsme za kord Kdyt ale vide', ae mam pro strach udela$2.25. no a ae se neleknu, teprve obratil a pouSlo to vge pomalu, ale piece jsme jig kazku vyplatil. prvnim rokem opiotili asi 10 :Ara pudy Jezdil jsem tedy s pogtou mezi mesteea na to asi 4 akry osazeli kornou. To by- ky Fulton`a Portland, nestaraje se o vallo vie obalano jenom motykami, neb ku a vie to, co s ni souviselo. Jednoho jsme nemeli jineho nacini. Mirj stargi krasneho dne, kdyt se tak s taakou na bratr byl vyueen kovatstvi a dostal praci sedle ubiram cestou, obklopi mne nahle ye Fulton, mesteeku to od nas asi 20 mil tlupa jezdca a s naptatenYmi bambitkavzdaleneho. Tam koupil od mistra, u neja mi mi rozkazuji, abych slezl. Tot' se vi, pracoval, stall/ vtz, jent opravil a nam k ze jsem uposlechl, nebudu piece tak poutivani dal. To bylo na ge prvni naeini hloupYm abych se pou gtel do nejake praa tak jsme si pomaioueku pornahali k nice s tolika chiapy, ozbrojenYmi vaelijadalgimu. Postavili jsme si obydli, staje a kou zbrani. Byli mezi nimi nekteti, jet

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V E S T N I K m WEST, TEXAS Ve st •eclu, dne 20. kvetna 1953. jsem &ire znal, ba s jednim z nich jsem pjal jsem ostruhu a hodil mu ji opovr Z s - severanft, co se mohlo stati nejjisteji se dokonce jednou popral. Byl to mladik live pod noby. Jack si ji pIipjal's jakousi prekroCenim reky Missouri. Nodaleko meho stall, a dovolil si nine jednou y e vitezoslavou, ale v torn jiZ prichazel ten Fulton se nalezalo p • istaviSte, u neho2 Fulton uraZeti, zaca jsem mu dal par stars/ Jihan a panovite mi kyna pravil: zastavovaly parniky plovouci po rece a tu nebernYch. "MriZe;§ jiti po s yYch, ale prozradi-li se na se chteli konfederati zmocniti jednoho Nekteri z jezdca seskakali s koni a je- tebe, Ze jsi neco vykonal na itkor Konfe- parniku, aby ho upotrebili k provorti. den z nick se chopil me pnStovni taSky. derace, kitties` pit tiejb.1Wi prilelitosti Aby plan jejich nebyl vyzrazen, zdrZeli Ja, mu pravini, aby to nechal, Ze jsem za zastrelen." kaZdeho, kdo jim do rukou padl a mezi to zodpoveden a musim to odevzdat poSByl jsem tedy milostive propuSten, ale temi jsem byl take ja. Kdy2 parnik pritovskeniu ye Fulton. Ten poslechl a vS'i- bez kone ba i bez ostruhy. Sel jsem tedy stal, zmocnili se jej, a se zbrani v nice chni obratili kone, porneili mi, abych i k poStmistrovi na radu, co main Mat. clonutili kapitana, ze je prevezl. tak ucinil, naCe2 jsem uprostred nick ja- Nernohu piece jit 20 mil peSky a nesti poMrie tehdy take neublilili, ale vzdor te ko doprovazen eestnott strati jel k mestu Stovni vak se zasilkami. POStmistr mne jejich opatrnosti byli piece vyzrazeni. jrZ jen asi tri mile vzdalenemu. Zde mne odkazal na druhY den, Ze se zatim pop •ivedli k jakemusi clastojniko yi a ten ohlecIne, zda by mi mohl ku koni clopo- Sotva jejich east vstoupila na lod', prico rnne k nemu privedl, pravil, Ze chytili moci. Drukeho dne mi dal jakousi herku, hnali se Severane a zalmali Jihany do Yenka. Dal jsem se do smichu a povidam, ktera sotva noharna pletla, ale bylo to lesa ' led' pak s temi na ni se-nalezajiciodplula kainsi dale do bezpeei. i ze je lehko chytit toho, kdo nentika. piece lepSi neZ jiti peSky. vSichni od Ji2ana zajati byli jsinecvem Byl tam zavolan poStmistr, kterY prijal Musim jeSle pripomenouti, mi konode nine tal3ku s poSlovnimi dodavkanii, federati kdyZ jsem se po svem .vysvobozeni a od te cloby jsem nebyl vice jiz pak vzal od neho ten dustojnik a pro- koni shanel, ae mi jej Ujec Sam zaplati. jimi obteZovan.Co bylo adresovano zna- Za onen prvni rok sluZb y jsem ani neob- JeSte se musim zminiti o tom, jak jsem hljzel mYm obeantun o nich y edeli, ze sympa- drZel cele sluZne, a ac jsem se nekolikra- dostal prvni sluZne od tijce Sama. V tisuji s Jihem, bylo poriechano a zaba- te uchazel o to, aby mi Skoda byla od prvnim rote, jak jsem z poeatku podoveny jen clopisy a noviny adresovane vlady SpojenYch Statii nahraZena, nedo- tknul, vozil jsem poStu pro jineho a dovrZencam Severu.

Co se s tim stalo dale cilil jsem niceho. Jini, jiz si napoeitali ti- staval jsem plat od nej, ac mi take za ne-` , nevim. site Za Skody utrpene ye shabach vlady kolik mesica nezaplatil. V rote 1862 jsem Kdyz jsem byl propaten, shanim se po severni, byli dostateene odmeneni, ale ja, se stal samostatnYm clovaleeem poSty a svem koni, ale nebylo ho tu. Poenu hu- chucl'as musel sam Skodu nest. Obratil drZim onen diplom, kterY mrr k tomu obovati, ze mi kdosi ukradl kone a tu ke jsem se na pany zastupce v kongresu a prayfioyal, dosud na pamatku. Po celY nine Oiskoei opet ten, co nine zajal a na Dire politikare, ale ti mi vZdy jaksi o- rok jsem tuto VeZkou skint' vykonaval, rozkazuje, abych mleel. Kate maj byl za- povrZlive odpovedeli, Ze ta maliekost za vzdor prekaZkam v cestu se mi stavicitn, haven jrnenem vlady Jihu a Ze budu je- to nestoji, 2adal jsem nahrady jen $150, ale teprve na konci etvrtleti jsem obdrZel gte potrestan, nebudu-li mleet. Konfede- kdyby to snad bylo tolik tisic, mohl jsem poukazku na $50 primo z Washingtonu. race potrebuje koni tak jak nraZu ku ob- je clavno miti, ovkin se sraZkou nejake V Portlandu ani2 Fultonu jsem nemohl neekavati, ze mi vyplati hotove penize za hajeni sve neodvislosti od Severu a kaZ- te komise. deli° ()beam, je pry povirmosti obetovati Jak jsem podotkl, stab jsem se od roku onu poukazku a tedy jsem se vydal na vge na, obranu svobody. Jsem pry mladY., 1862 sarnostatnym dovaZeeem poSty mezi cestu do 'St. Louisu. Pen& jsem ovSein statnY a men bych se postaviti pod pra- mesteay Portland a Fulton. Vozil jsem nemel a kdy2 jsem do St. Louisu por Konfederace. patovni zasilky dvakrate tYdne z jedno- byla jiz vladni banka zavrena. Musel ho mesta do druheho za $200. Nemel jsem jsem tedy eekat a2 do rana, ale jake bylo Odvetil jsem mu, Z"e jsena ye sluZbe dy severni, s niZ rnain kontrakt a kdy- tedy ani cele (-Iva dolary za cestu etyri- me prekvapeni, kdyZ pan kasir na miste bycli jej nedodrZel, Ze ztratim cele sve ceti mil a to v dobe tak pohnute, kdy vYplaty spusti na mne bandurskou: "Kde sluZne. 0 tom, pros je ta vojna, Ze nano- valka obeanska zurila a ja co sluha Se- jste tohle vzal? Vy jste.bud' sluhu vladho nevim a Ze chci s y Ym rodiettm svYm veru rnohl bYti kaZde chvile nejen zajat, Mho okradl nebo dokonce zabil. VAak bryYdelkem vypomoci, aby mohli zaplatit ale i zastrelen. Stab se pak jeSle d yakra- zy uvidime. Zavolejte policajta, at' ciliadluh na fume vaznouci. Ten pan ko- te, Ze jsem padnul do zajeti te otrokar- pika toho dovede na, policejni stanici a mandant se na to obratil k tomu memu ske Konfederace, ale vkly jsem vyva21 se podrobi nalelitemu vYslechu." Takovou "priteli", s nim'Z jsem se kdysi popral, s zdravou krili a setrval jsem ve sluZbe te na mne spustil. Nevedel jsem, co mam Mat. Vytahl jsem tedy z kapsy ten vladnasledujicim rozkazem: "Jack, dej pozor pina 4 beta, a2 do roku 1866. na toho sluhu Yanka, ja se pajdu preKdyZ jsem byl podruhe zajat od privr- ni papir, kterY mne ke sluZbe a nasledovptati kapitana,- co se s nim ma sta. Kdyr Zoned Jihu, tazali se mne na pomery v ne i ke sluZnemu opravrioval, ale jeSte by mu napadlo chtit uteri, tedy ho strel." okoli a je-li tu kdo jake vojsko severni. ani to onomu chlapikovi nepostaeovalo.

To je pane nadeleni, myslel jsem 'si, Ja odpovedel na vSe spravne, dle sveho Bylo site patrno, Ze to na jeho umirrieni ten kluk nine zastreli, dam-11 jen trochu nejlenSiho vedomi a oni nine dole nezdr- neinkovalo, ale piece jeSte na mne pou11 a jevo zajeti amysl. Proto jsem si usedl Zovall. Jen prehledli poStovni zasilky a S'tel hrdzu, Ze pry neni ZadnY dukaz a 'Ze na bobek, die zpasobu farmarskeho, ee- snad si nektere z nick podrZeli. Nekladl jsem mohl tu listinu a take onu poukazkaje, co se bude dale diti. Maj klidae ne- jsem jim ZadnY odpor, odpovidal na je- ku nalezti nebo pravemu majiteli vzit. jsa s mYm jednanim spokojen, osopil se jich otazky spra yne a tak nemohouce PoCal se nine vAak ledacos vyptavati, na mne slovy: "Dej mi tvoji ostruhu, ty nalezti prieiny, proe by mne dale zdrZo- mam-li v St. Louisu nejake zname, kteri ji nepotrebujeS a ja sluZbe Konfede = vall, nechali nine jeti. by nine zjistiti atd. JmenoVal jsern race mam pravo vSecko rekvirovati, eeho Po treti jsem padl do zajeti konfede- nektere lidi, hlavne obchodniky, jet jsem je treba k obhajeni svobody pled sever- rata za z ylaktnich okolnosti. JakYsi od- znal a u nichZ jsem co krejeovskY pomocnimi vetrelci." Co jsem men delati? Byl dil jejich vpadl do statu Missouri z. Kan- nik pracoval a kdyZ koneene pan kasir jsem vydan na milost a nemilost kluka, sasu, ale dovedeli se, Ze tu nedaleko je videl, Ze mam pro strach udelano a Ze se jemuZ jsem asi pied rokem nabaneil ne- silnY sbor severnich. Chteli se tedy co neleknu, vyplatil mi penize bez dalSiko vymachanou hubu. AniZ bych hlesl, ode- nejdrive dostati z nebezpeene blizkosti dosvedeeni.

Ve stiedu, dne 20. kvetna 1953.

Za tehdej gich rozharanY. ch pomerfi byly $200 ji2 celYm jmenim. Bylo to v' a.k v dobe, kdy viterstvi mezi Severem a Jihem kolisalo, ba klonilo se na stranu Jihu. Na poeatku roku 1863 postavila Konfederace novou armadu do pole a bylo patrno, ze viterstvi Severu je gte daleko neni zajiMeno, co2 melo velikY vliv na finance. Penize Severu byly znehodnoceny tak, ze papirovY dolar mel ve zlate hodnotu sotva polovieni. PonevadZ pak se vkcky ceny tidily dle ceny zlata, bylo velice drahe, tak ze jsem za tech $200 mnoho nenakoupil. CoZ ale naplat, kdy jinYch vyhlidek na zamestnani nebylo.

Tak jsem tedy s tou poAtovni dodaykou cikanil aZ do roku 1866. Mezitim jsem se olenil v St. Louisu v roce 1863 pojav Barboru Otysovou za manZelku. Zfistal jsem vSak pii rodidich, abych jim v praci vypomohl. Matka zemtela roku 1873, kdy pak i otec se odebrai za matkou, nemelo mne vice co v Missouri drkti. Seznav, kterak namahava prace'na'ge jest chudou pudou onou bidne odmeriovana, uminil jsem si zaloZiti jinde domov. Mimo to i zdravi poealo vypovidati sluZbu, tak jsem si uminil krajinu onu opustiti. Ze to byla bidna pfida tam ye statu Missouri dokazuje ji2 to, ze jsem za 150 akril utrZil $500. Rodina nak ztravila no, to pude 22 rokfi, vMchni jsme to pilne pracovali a piece cena jeji za tak dlouhou dobu tak nepatrne stoupla.

V roce 1878 jsem se koneene hnul z mista, kde jsem ztravil svoje mladi a kde jsem tolik neptijemnosti zaail. U Ennis v Texasu, jen 5 mil od mesta, jsem koupil 132 akril pfidy po $5.50 za akr. Kdo ma jen trochu poneti o praci na farrne, vi zajiste, ze na ni ani v Texasu peeeni holubi nelitaji do huby. Ptieinovali jsme se vgemoZne, ae se rodina mnozila, ptibYvalo i majetku. Za nekolik let jsem pHkoupil sousednich 40 akru, ale jiZ jsem za ne platil $16 za akr. Za kratko zase se mi nahodilo ptikoupiti v sousedstvi dalgich 40 alma, ale ty jiZ staly $23.50 akr.

Po letech jsem je gte ptikoupil jednu sousedni etyticitku a platil jiz $30 za akr.

TakovY je rozdil v Ode. Kdeao v Missouri jsme dteli po 22 let a celY vYsledek to prate pak jsem prodal za $500, v Texasu za stejnou dobu jsem se dornohl majetku, jej bych ani za 22krate tolik nedal.

2iji spokojene z vSrsledku sve prate ye stiedu syYch deti a vnuku. S kalde strany meho obydli se naleza, farma jednoho syna, dva synove jsou ve meste a jeden v Oklahorne. Take tti dcery jsme vychovali, jedna z niciA v'gak jiz zemtela. Ptestehovanim z Missouri do Texasu nabyl jsem zdravi i majetku. AC lido naM jsou

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Jaroslav Koudelka:

Pan na Ceske iece Roman prvniho oecha v Americe

Cecil lord Baltimore udeluje Augustinu Hermanovi, panovi na Bohemia Manoru, pozemky, ktere se prostiraji od Usti potoka svateho Jifi na jih podle teky Delaware k Usti Appoquinimink Creeku a zapadne od teky Delaware k starYm hranicim 6eskeho manstvi a ja zahrnuji onu vkchnu pfidu, jeZ lezi na vYchod od Ceskeho panstvi a prUplavu "Chesapeake and Delaware" k zkidlu Apponiquinimi ku a od vYchodnich hranic 6eskeho panstvi na vYchod k tece Delaware. ...

Vkchny Hetmanovy sny byly touto listinou ptekonany. VZdyt' Ceske manstvi se ma rozpinat od btehfi Ceske teky po ieku Delaware, prakticky od Chesapeaku az k Delaware River!

AZ mu zvlhlo potem Colo pod peS'inkou kaderi. Pozvedl svilj zrak, piny neskonaleho vdeku, k usmivajicimu se dvotanovi.

"Diky se odmitaji," odvetil dvotan. "Jeho Lordstvo svilj dar dokonaie uvailo a shledalo jej UmernYm va§i praci, namaze i vSrdajam, ktere jste, lorde, s mapou mel. Jeho Lordstvo rozMtilo vase pozemky tak, aby dosahovaly k budoucimu plavii• a aby Bohemia Manor mel z vaM myMenky — a moind i z vakho projektu — ptijmy a zaslouknY zisk. " Ceske manstvi se menilo v tole male kniZectvi.. Jeho vYmera dosahla jedineene NTYS'e dvaceti tisic akrii. Bylo to fizemi k neptehlednuti.

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1 Petrus Stuyvesant umiral na sve man, hattanske fume, "bouwerij".

Kdyl se jeho zahotklY duch, zlomer4r pokotenim, odpoutaval od telesne schranky; s nil' se byl snoubil pinYch osmdesat let, zaplal jekte v poslednim zakmitu nadeji, uptenou na Baltazara, k a Petra BayardovYch, nadeji, ktera Hkala: Start a ptelilY Petrus Stuyvesant odpracoviti a jak se iika, uZiveji se i na skale, piece je v torn velikY rozdil, kde a na jake 'Dade se kdo usadi.

(Poznanika redakce: — Jak bratr Jos. Odlozil poznamenal hned v nvodu, tento Zivotepis byl psan asi pied 40 roky. UptimnSi dik path bratru OdloZilovi za jeho ochotu opsati celY Zivotopis pradedeeka Noveho.) •

Strana 25 !chazi. Ale u Mikula ge! Nechybi mnoho, aby se byl doekal rehabilitace. obnovene, ho Noveho Holandska. Ano, laoM: Co vi' dim s prahu do zahrobi, je zase holandska vlajka na stotia,ru pied stadthuysem i na pevnosti. Vidim obnovenSr lesk Timmermanova ktesla, vidim zase spokojenY kola' osvobozen3-7ch holandskS7ch dYmek a Manhattanu. Nove Holandsko se vrati! Odchazim-li ja, 1.4 plesnivSr a nepottebnY chla,p —co na torn? Vy, vkchno napravite, vy pozvednete Nove Holandsko k nove velke slave. Vy se ujmete jeho vedeni a bohda, s vetkm Uspechem a Mestim, ne2 jake jsme men my.

Umirajici guverner se te gil z novSrch znameni, ktera pinila manhattinskou 0blohu. Francie toti2, spojene vypovedela Holandsku valku. A Generalni se Valky chopily jako ptile2itosti, aby se znovu zmocnily sire severoamericosady.

Hetman, jenz spechal, aby se zileastnil pohtbu, dobte si po yMml, ze Manhattan je nervosni a nesvfij. Stark Stuyvesant nebyl nic vice neZ neMcodna, historicka, rekvisita, a piece jeho poli •eb liS7bal NovYm Yorkem. Delo se opravdu ilk° vice neZ jen pripravy na jeden pohieb. Vynoiovaly se stare rezedove gosaie kabaty hurgheeril a v davech pluly nadelane vrouws ve sv3ich starch holandskSrch krojich s yyzlacenSimi Anerovaekami. Jako by Svehlaveho chtelo vyprovodit na posledni ceste stare Nove Holandsko. To minulost opustila svou kryptu a nyni si ulicemi a po nabfeli vykutovala ze starYch dlouhYch dYmek, ne vak jiz hlinenych, jak bYvalo je gte za Pettieka, nSibr2 jiz z blahobytnejMch porcelanek. Mynheer Lockermanse zdvihal hla,vu uprosticd sve patrioticke skupiny, v niz nechybel nestor bYvale osady, kantpr Bonsen. Poi-deb se bezdely promenil v demonstraci. V demonstraci tech, kteti chteli pattit sve holandske vlasti a kteii touzili po holandskem Manhattanu.

A bylo pohnutlive, jak vsichni ti stall mynheerove a jejich pokorne vrouws se ptipinali k Heimanovi a k nernu se aby ho aspon, videli, a on aby a poznaval je. Hovotili k nemu pies cele lady syYmi ptitlumenYmi fismevy a zdrZenlivYmi grimasami, nebot' piece jenom kra,kli za rakvi a do kroku jim tru, chlive znely zvony obou kostelu, stareho mikulakkeho i noveho, svateho Marka.

Herman neptestal bSit jejich, tiebas leta byl marylandsk3im obeanem. Byli hrdi na toho prosluleho mirk a lorda, ale nejvice ho rnilovali jako sveho riezmenitelneho ptitele, jen i ke sve osobni Akode vkly stal pH bYvalem Novem Holandsku a jen pies v§,echny zmeny easu byl pro no schopen °bet. Kel by byl 13S7val na Manhattanu vice chapan, -ka ten,

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jej doprovazeji na posledni caste, by ho tthan, obojetnY van Hoesen, otevfenec a byl bYval lepe ocerioval a vyuZival... hrubec Van der Pool a z lep gich takovY Hekman rozurnel v gem tern vYmluvnYm Newton a Warlett ti v gichni pluli s poilledrim dobie. Avgak nemohl se odho panujicim proudem, ti v'Sichni nemeli na dlat, aby jim dodaval nadeji, pa jeho, mi- nejakem pkevratu zajmu, ani vecneho aneni nadobro pfekonanYch. Wdyt' tu by- ni osobniho. Ti souhlasili s van Flatem svym clugevnim vrAdcem Ze se Stuylo tolik novYch tvaki novella ndroda, jen jiz citil i nil jinak. Tyto tvake nedove- vesantem zemfely a jsou pochovavany i clly evokovati jedinou jeho ,asobni vzpo- blahove nadeje, ze by se holandska vlajminku. Stisnene si mezi nimi pkipadal ka mohla je gte vratit na tuto peyninu.

Kdy2 se davy vracely z kostela svateho jako cizinec nebo jen jako velmi vzdalenY host. Hrnula se tu smutednimi kada- Marka, pod jehd dlaZbu byly ulo'Zeny omi nova generace. Ta jiz nespojovala s statky mysteriosniho bYvaleho guvernera, timto pohitem city, jake chovali jeji ot- prohodil Dofue Roerback ke syYm: cove a dedove. Tato velka smuteeni sla y "Videli jste Hekmana? Jak se nest v -nostjidmalenodivacky.Vlt' sametu? Jak se py gnil se syYm kordem? novY pokadek ji vyhovoval lepe nez onen A jak se k nemu tlaeili v gichni ti bYvalY nehybnY fad bez pkilditosti a bez • kteki u nas friukaji po starch zlatYch tovotnich vYSek. Byla to generace poan- dasech, kdy je SvelalavY ze sveho rikadu g lietena. Vezmeine mlade Burgery, jak se vyhazoval a kopal svou dtevenou nohou nvni jmenovali syriove a vnukove nebo- do zadnice?" aika Jorise. Nebo vizme nalade Bayardy, "Mel by se dr2et zpatky," souhlasil van krome Petra, jen zanechal klobouenic- Hoesen. "Potkebujeme nejmene, aby se tvi a venoval se theologii, aby se stal tu ukazoval nyni, kdyZ nekterYm na gincluchovnim holandske reformovane cir- aim chytaji lalavy Je jim TodobnYm symkve, Baltazar a Mikula g seal" v anglic- bolem toho, co bYvalo, jako Stuyvesant. kYch rifadech a pohybovali se mezi an- Jenne ten td odpoeiva v kostelni krypte, glickou spolednosti. Pki v gi Clete ke svemu kdeZto Haman se mezi nimi prochazi a strYci i pet vgi sve osobni stateenosti ne- yypind jako kdovijakY lord. Dodava jim buclou se nikdy bit za holandskou vlajku. zbyteene kurale a podporuje jejich Citili se j12 Ameridany. have nadeje. Nic bych se nedivil ,kdyby Hcfman se rozhleell po davech, je'Z by- ho velitel mesta zavfel, nebo aspoia yypoly velike, smutku vgak nehlubokeho. By- veal z m6sta. ." lo to jen napjate ovzdu gi, tehotne nez"Dobra my glenka," vzplanul Roerback. namYmi vecmi, jen maji pkijit, ktere No- "Nabizi se nam pkilditost, abychom vii York vyburcovaly a pkivedly do prft- • ze take ride° znamename. Maji-li ho vodu za Stuyvesantovou rakvi. Nebokik snad za 'lorda v Marylandu, my v New innohYm znamenal jen vzdalene jmeno, Yorku si z neho &lame. Zkratka a dobfe: starce, jehd nikdy nespatkili; ubirali se je tu valeene nebezpedi a Hekman je obvsak nyni za jeho pozristatky, ponevad2 tiZnY cizinec. Promluvim o tom s panem ten, jejZ vyprovazeli, pfedstavoval sym- van Flatem. Ten u2 si poradi. . ." bol uclalosti, jen mely pkijit.

MestkY sekretaf, u2 gedesatnik a zePanujici rdim se pkesto necitil ohro- ZloutlY jako such citron, vyslechi Roarz en. backa se zajmern. Skutedne, nabizi se Vlada vevody z Yorku se rnohla obavat skvela pkilditost, vyuetovat s tim lordent tohoto mrtveho stejne tak malo, jako z Vystrkova. Je to cizinec, jet-1Z ohrduje kdyg jegte Z11 na sve houwerij. Lod'stvo vojenske vekejne zajmy. Stranil DelaGeneralnich state se snad mute objevit warskYm jsou po ruce doklady newpied Long Islandem a Manhattanem. castelskeho van Naase. Sir Robert z New New York snad utrZi nejakY ten gram z Castle to jiste take potvrdi. A kdo konholandskeho lodniho kusu. Av gak anglic-! spiruje proti delawarske provincii, je neke panstvi nad Hudsonem ji.Z" pevne za- bezpeenY i Manhattanu a Long Islandu. kotvilo. Za tech osm let, po ktere se Stuy- 2adnou shovivavost!" "Beli piece i o nas, ve ,,ant uzaviral na sve farme, se zatim o nagi kfdi. Nemfderne si pkat, aby se na tonoho odehralo. Rozronokly se rozsahle Manhattan vratil dkivej gi relim. Poudim onglicke usedlosti — homesteads — a na municipalitu o tom, ze se, nedoporueuje, Manhattanu vyrrista.ly majetky, je2 za aby Haman se prochazel po New Yorku IKietaSvhloby Yap- a jitkil stare blahovce. NekdejAi zemskY vfdovany za fantasticke. Jenom mladY, spravce je nebezpeenej gi ne2 celY StuyveVreedrych Felypsen odhadoval — podle sant. Je to dobrodruh. V Marylandu se Math). — sveho jrneni na osmdesat tisic ani neohkal a u2 se stal lordem. Na taguildri --a jeho majetek rostl dale. A kove ctiladostivce pozor!" krome starousedlikft, kteri nemohli za"Beli jen o jeho zajigteni," tvakil se sepomenouti holandske vlajky, byl tu mno-1 kretak nevinne pied mistnim velitelem. hem silnejSi podet a vliv tech, kteki sam takovY nayrh nerad. Jsme s s novYmi mocenskYmi pomery. Van Roar- I Hefmanem pfateli. VZ"dyt' jsme tak dlouback, chtivY vlivu, pochlebnY van Jo- ho spolupracovali. Av gak povinnost a od-

Ve stkedu, dne 20. kvetna 1953. povednost stavim nad osobni city. Prosim o pinou mod, dal gi jig zakidim. Postadi docela struenY zatYkaci rozkaz. S ureenim na pevnost..."

Kalna odka van Flatova vitezne zasvitila, kdy2 velitel podepsal. Mazlil se vgak s rozkazern, jenZ potvrzoval jeho mod, jiste neskonale vet gi, ne2 jako Heiman ma v Marylandu. Mohl na svou abet' skodit na kteremkoliv rohu mesta. Av g ak nepospichal. Vychutnaval rozko g toho, miti v ruce tak osudovY papir. Ostatne, smutedni dny nebyly vhodne pro takovou Vzrugeni nad zateenrin Hekmana by mohlo bYti vetgi, nd by municipalite mohlo bYti vhod. Tkeba opatrneho, nandpadneho postupu. Trocha trpelivosti neuSkodi. .

Sotva po etvrt roce vyjiklel Haman znovu smerem NovY York.

Zamek i jeho mala kopie za kekou se sruby HakovYch se skrYvaly v mleenem obalu mlh. Kopyta kone dusila mokra, trava nebo vlhky pisek. Kdy2 slunce propalilo a vyssalo udolni mihy, vyrazil HekInanity of jako vier. Hnal se cvalem po caste, kterou jiz znal. Jeho nohy byla ocelova pera, jeZ se jen kmitala v harmonickern rytmu. Zdalo se tak, ze Intria a jc.zdec spige, pluji nad zemi jako utr2enS- obldeek. Nebot' to to hfebec sviti bilYm sametem. Byl to hpebec klusak, jaho2 matku, pochazejici z Anglia, Heiman koupil v Bostonu za drahe penize. "Nejoistgi beloug me staje," pochvaloval si Haman. "Pkipadam si na jeho hitete, jako bych latel na ktidlech mokskeho racka. Mrij Semik neni v gak Cadnd pland krasa. Je to vytrvalec. Je to knri zalesak."

Hekman pkijel k ,rnanhattanskemu pfedmesti u g za noci. ZdrZely ho tulacke zastavky toho dne. Krome toho pri pobkeli ho uvital de gt'. A Heiman 'Sethi Semika pied blatem jako panenku.

Doby' byly nejiste a pkichody k mestu hlidaly strUe. Pkichazely k• dobru • zbytky palisad a nektere brany, ktere po nich zbyly. Tak jako jedna z nich, brana severnim pobkek, opkend o cedr palisad s jedne a o skupinku rybaiskYch chat se strany druhe.

Branu hlidal jednoduchY pkizemni dal:oak o jednech dvekich a dvou oknech v prrieeli. Svitici loud slabe barvila okna.

Hefinan zabu gil na branu. V rybakskYch chatrdich se ozvali psi. Za dubovYmi vraty pak hlas: "Kdo to?"

"Augustin Haman z Marylandu!"

Brana se po chvilce ochotne otvirala.

Haman zatim sestoupil s kone a drZ'el jej za uzdu. Stra2 pfedstoupila a pokynula, aby vegel. Sotva se vgak octl v brany, byl str&rt k zemi a otCCe mu byly surove vyrvany.

"Jste zateen, pane Hekmane!" thunene hlasil ser&nt.

Ve sttedu, dne 20. kvetna 1953.

Herman nechtel vetiti sluchu. "Jaide, zateen? Ja„ marylandsk9 obean a man lorda Baltimora? Ja, kter9 jsem se o Manhattan tolik zaslouZil?" "0 NovST Amsterodam moZna, ne vgak o New York," u gklibl se ser2:ant.

"Protestuji!" znovu se branil Haman.

"Nevadi, prijdete i s protesty do pevnosti!"

"Vytidte tedy aspori memu synovi, Efraimovi Heimanovi v mestske kancelali a mernu ptiteli, me gt'anu Filipovi, Ze jsem pkijela byl jat. .

"Nic nevykidim. . .

"Rueite mi aspori za meho kone. Odmenim se yam, bude-li kuri dobie opatrovan. Avgak polenu k odpovednosti kakleho, kdo zviteti jakkoliv ublili!" "adne keel, pane! Kuptedu !"

Haman vztyeil hlavu a dal se vest, odzbrojen a spoutan na rukou.

Mote nablizku gumelo a naralelo do dteveneho vyztuZeni bkehu. S teto strany nekynula Zadna, nadeje. Apo pravici pusto, Zadne svetlo v domech na polateZi a nikde elovidka. Jen rybat gti psi tugi Ze se deje neco dramatickeho.

Kraeeli rychle a piece nenapadne. Nahodn9r chodec mel b9ti oklaman domnenkou, Ze bezi o patrolujici hlidku. Brzo se objevily matne obrysy stadthuysu. Zahnuli vgak znovu k mai, k mistrim, jim ✓ noci se vyh9bal kdekdo. Mani nyni skuteene k pevnosti. Nikdy, kdykoli s guvernerem pojednaval o teto ba gte, by i nebyl Haman pomyslil, 'Ze sem bude nekdy veden jako zajatec. Vysoice, zatim jegte drikladneji podezdene valy cenily do v9Sky sve zuby. A jen sem tam vysoke, stteZene okno.

Ve fortne se ani nezastavili. Hetmana toliko ptejala vezenska straZ se starYm, vousatSTrn Zalaknikem, kteremu Mi(Alai. Ten drZel v ruce teZke kliee a nepromluviv slova, dal se do kroku pled prrivodem.

Svehlav9r pevnost zal•Zil nemalo velkoryse. Kasematy se tu rozbihaly na vaechny strany. Heimana v gak nevedli do podzemi, k jeho nemale rileve. Stoupali s nim. Mijeli fadu teZkYch okovanych Koneene pied jednemi se zastavili.

• Kiic v zamku kilpave zastenal a Zalatnik mocnYm nalehnutim celeho tela otevfel dvei'e cely. Ve svitu Spinave lucerny se ukazala nevelka prostora s nepatrnYm okenkem pki vysokern st'ropu. Zafizeni — krome stolku a idle — Zadne. A na zemi rozvalena otep slamy.

"Snad bych si byl zaslouZil lep giho ubytovani," pravil Haman ,arativ se k Z : alatnikovi. Ten jako by rozvaZoval, maPotom hlasem — jak Heilt man se dornnival — nechtene drsnosti zabrueel: "Bud'te rad tomu, co mate. Mame tu, v9bar mnohem hug."

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Haman opakoval prosbu, aby se dobie nebylo poznano a vase zajeti se neprozradilo. . zachazelo s konem. 2alaimik to vytidi v kancelati. Dvete nato se zaJako by se byl do vpadl9ch, zoufal9ch vtely. A vezen osamel. oci vratil aivot. Haman jimave zageptal: Zprvu hodiny, potom vgak dny a tSrd"Sil mi ub9va, dobr9 muai. Citim, ny se poealy vied seshnilou pomalosti bych ptigel o smysly, kdybych nem& noeerva.•Noc a den se tu od sebe sotva Heiman s tisni shledal, Ze nebude koho, s k9m bych mohl pronesti aspori moci ani eisti a ani psati. ZbYvalo mu nekolik slov. Kdy2 mi nedavaji spoluveI zne a kdy2 nedovoluji, abych dal sve ro-. jen pfernYSIeni.

Kdo jeho zateeni? A proe, z dine nebo sv9m zno,m9m zpravu o sobe jakeho drivodu byl zavleeen sem na pev- a mohl se pote giti jejich na,v gtevou, ponost? A proe ho nevysl9chaji, proe s nim ttebuji aspori obeas se polaskati se sv9m nikdo nemluvi? Pr c nesmi dati zpravy belougem. To nemfiZe b9ti nikomu na ani domil na Oesk9 zamek, ani lordovi ve zavadu. Kiiri site sly gi, avgak nemluvi.

Svate Mari, ba ani svemn synovi v No- A mile to posili...

Michal ptisvedeoval celou svou zaroYorku? Co to vaechno znamena,?

Nepochybne UZI o pfehmat, jenZ se brzo rostlou hlavou. "Pravda, pravdia, pokuvysvetli. Ale keZ by se talc stab° brzo! sim se," sliboval.

Toto poniZujici jednani a tato vraZedna;i Dny vgak ibijely a stale nebyl s to kid, kobka by mu gla nejen na nervy, ale i na Ze dobie pochodil. Pry, neize dovolit, aby zdravi.

Haman chodil do staji, anebo se proKoneene piece pro neho priali, aby ho jrzdel s konem : po nadvai. odvedli k vygettujicimu soudci. Jake to Heiman ptestaval jisti a telesne schavaak byly otazky, jeZ mu kladli a jaka zel. Dosvedeovala to i stra y a ptigel se konfusni podezi'eni a obvineni byl nucen o torn ptesvedeit i spravce veznice. Jedodmitat! noho rana Heiman vribec nepovstal. ZaHolandsko pry posila sve valeene lod'- padle oci. v chorem oblideR mluvily o vystvo k americk9m btehrim, aby znovu u- sileni vezne. chvatilo Manhattan, Long Island a New Staremu Michalovi div nevypadla luJersey. Tim spi ge pottebuji jeho stoupen- cerna z rukou, kdyZ videi tu voskovou ci mute, kter9 by se jim postavil v eelo. tvat s pohledem du gevni neptitomnosti.

Tim povolan9m mute 139t jedine Auguspropada vezen ailenstvi? tin Heiman. On, jenZ ptipomind holand- lafnik se zdeaene obratil a spechal do skou minulost na Manhattanu a iece De- kancelate. Ani celu za sebou nezavtel. laware a jenZ mluvi stejrie plynne ho-, Vratil se za chvili, doprovazen ritednilandsky jako anglicky nebo i jinYm ja- kem. zykem. A koneene on, jen osvedeil svoji "Je vam dovoleno, abyste obeas ctiladost tim, Ze se v Marylandu tak za- sveho kone," oznamoval iftednik Hamahy zmocnil titulu lorda a jenZ sve ambi- novi. "Kone v gak pi'ivedou sem za vami. ce dosti prozrazuje tim, Ze sviij majetek Chodby jsou pro to dosti giroke. Budete nazYVa C'eskYrn manstvim, MoZna, Ze as- moci se s nim prochazeti a pobaviti." piruje na roll vladce v obnovenem NoMichal pozoroval s uspokojenim, vem Holandsku. Je nebezpeenY, a to je vezen ozivuje. Jako by se probiral z mradostateene provineni. Fkiei se proto ye- kot tak se znenahla jasnila jeho hufejne bezpeenosti, aby se mu dopkavala bena tvat. A zjasnrioval se i jeho duch. svoboda.

Stra si zvykala na vezriovou promendHeimanovi svitlo. Tato riskoend obZa.-1 du. s konem. A Heimanovi se vracely siloba, muae Pochazeti jedine od stvrirneho ly. A matne sklo jeho oci oaivovalo novan Flata. AvSak neda se. v9m vniti'nim svtelem.

Vkchno odmitl a Zadal o fadnSr soud "Zkusim to s malou projild'kou," tekl nebo o sve propuSteni. Nedostal odpove- jednou, laskaje se znovu se 8emikem. di: Ale neznepokojilo ho to. Tim vice ho "Chodba je dosti velka. Pote gi to me i to ponoukalo, aby ptem9 glel, jak • by se kone." zachanil, Svfij plan mel brzo hotov.

Nasedl nikoli bez namahy, av gak v seKdy2 belhavy Michal pkines1 Who dne dle se drZel dobie. Zalatnik i straZ se ‘ vezni vedeki, ulekl se vytPeAeneho, zajmem prihliaeli. Jezdec dojel konec prazdneho zraku, kterY ho uvital. chodby, jeZ korieila vysok9m oknem, a "Lorde," soucitne zakptal, "co je yam? vracel se zvolna nazpet.

Mate piani, ktere bych snad mohl spl"Je tu. gpatn9, plesnivSr vzduch, milt' nit? Byl jsem jako vojak tehdy v Hart- Michale," prohodil Haman k Zalatnikofordu, kdy2 jste tam vyhraval svou vec. vi. "Nemohl byste snad na chvili otevtit Nezasluhujete takoveho osudu. okno?"

Sim yam na vlastni nebezpeei. Staram se "Zajiste, lorde," souhlasil statec. "Ale take o to, aby vakho kone dobie opa- pravdu jenom na chvili!" troVali. JeSto yam je3 nevzali nemo(Pokraeovani.) hu se se zvitetern objeviti venku, aby

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Ve stfedu, dne 20. kvetna 1953,

pet,

Kogte‘, Potegeni.

Stena.

Doved' dite dornfi!

Ko,e skate.

Chute se d I do price!

M th:71 (71i z testa nu dk

Nekdo se ing jso i g tene a va® zane.

"Proe' hychom se nete g iii" je pisen.

Nove koite dobi'e mete.

V nedeli Wijdeme na

navtevu.

Ve gkoie mime CAD-

cos

mel, Janku, na °he'd?

Brambory, peerene,

byly mak magtene.

Triviela zeleni. zelena, to je m je potegeni.

Travki ka, zelena, to je moje Jak si smyslim, na ni sednu, jak si yslim, na ni lehnu.

Trivie:ka, zelena, to je moje

U dede&a.

evi6nu.

Ho g i se te gili na nedeli.

Po u6eni pustila miti V ten den biivali u

ea yen,

de6ka. tegiti?

Na prazu i y, ktere b zanou.

e

evil to

Snes1 jim rfizn e hracky.

Take je to pekne pajmenovani.

Wa g dedeCka? Vyiid' mu pozdrav od striT6ka Malta!

Take babkce CiLl sta. is ence neza p omet' od neho pozdrav Neeti nekolikrat devatnixte evii:pni opg spravne do segitu!

S pozdravem STRitEIC MILER. Z AUSTINU. ) •

Babiela (Napsala Baena Nemcova) (Pokradovani.)

Tovame nezdvadka!" durdily se holky. 'Co pak si o sobe mysli? Mely bychom se mu pomstit za to.'

"Jen si s takoNlqn nic nezaoinejte — mohl by y am udelat,' minily povaAlivej`Larifari, co nam mute udelat? K tomu by musel miti neco, co jsme na tele nosily, a to 2adna, z nas neda a od neho take nieeho neptijmem; jake pak tedy strachy? Jen ty se, Viktorko ,nic neboj, vS"ak my budem s tebou ehodit a jednou toho eerta piece vyplatime,' ktieely z deveat.

Viktorka se ale bazlive kolern sebe ohliela a nepotHena jich domluvou vzdychia si: adyby mi jen Panbfth z toho krUe pomohl!"

To, co Viktorka deve'atfim svefila, nezilstalo tajemstvim a rozneslo se dost brzy az pl'es pole do druhe vsi. Za nekolik dni octnul se jakSis fisluAnSr elovek ze sousedni vsi ye dvoi:e Viktoreina otce.

(Pokraeovani.)

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za.cpou Vezmete Dra. Petra Hoboko dnes veeer--uvidite o co 16pe se budete zitra cititi Odeilete tento kupon Netrpte zbytel'de ani o den li g e. Berte "zvlaitni nabidky"—Nyni dobou vyzkou g ene Dra. Petra Hoboko.

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Strana 30 VtZNIkONE DNY V KVETNU Dne 2. kvetna bylo tomu 86 let, co byla poprve provozovana na ge nesmrtelna, dnes celYrn svetem letici "Prodana nevesta" Bedkicha, Smetany. Kveten bYval v Narodnim divadle v Praze mesicem SmetanovYch slavnosti. "Prodana nevesta" je prvni Smetanova, komicka opera. Oeskost sveho slohu rnohl Smetana nejlepe ukazat na opeke z vesnickeho, tedy eiste lidoveho ZivOta. Burleska a parodie, ktera, tehdy pkevladala v beZnYch komickSrch operach nemeckS7ch a francouzskStch, byla Smetanovi proti mysli. On chtel, aby komicka opera jako celek podavala kus opravdoveho Zivota hudbou co mona, nejbohat gi. Nechtel skladat fra gku, riSTbr2 skuteenou hudebni veselohru z lidoveho Zivota. Sabinovo libretto hodilo se Smetanovi svou nehledanosti. Skuteenost, Ze nage "Prodand te gi se vAude stale vetgi oblibe, dava pine svedoctvi o jeji eerie.

Nepkelila se za tech 85 let, ztistava veene sveli krasou a lahodou svSich melodii.

Dne 24. kvetna bylo tomu 561 let, co byla panem Hanu gem z Milheima za10Zena proSlula kaple Betlemska, pozdeji statnek Mistra Jana Husa, kterST Zhoucimi slovy karal ye svSrch kazanich tehdejgi zlokady cirkevni a odsuzoval ostke jednani jiste easti Ceske glechty, ktera se odcizovala narodu a opieila se po nemeckSrch mravech a obyeejich. Hus se stal 1 kazatelem kaple Betlemske r. 1401, tedy 1 pied 551 lety. Postavil se upkimne na stranu sveho naroda. Hlas jeho znival jako boute, kdyZ' "Nos Nemci utiskuji a zabiraji ptedni "Wady v Oechach a my k tomu mleime. Podle pkiro-1 zene pova.hy veci mail Wit techove prvni v Ukadech v kralovstvi Oeskem, prave jako Nemci v zemich svSTch. tech dovede kidit podrizene sve a Nemec zase Nemce." Hus kazal v kapli Betlemske latinsky i eesky. tesky lid Husa zboZnoval.

Po tisicich hrnuli se posluchadi do kaple Betlemske, hlava.na hlave stall vedle sebe megt'ane, dvorske panstvo i prostS7 lid.

Dne 30. kvetna byla upalena panna Orleanskb., mysticka divka selska, z Dom-1 remy ye Francii. Stavgi se obeti politickSrch intrik destala se do zajeti angli- I ckeho, byla cirkevnim soudem prohla ge- I na za earodejnici a upalena v Rouenu.

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Ve stfedu, dne 20. kvetna 1953. etykini svobodami, ktere cirri eloveka elovekem, ktere umcAni souziti narodil vel10",ch i malSrch, ktere, buderne-li za nimi stat dusledne, povedou koneene k v gelidskomu bratrstvi.

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"DeZ neni 45, ta hint ja nechcu," postavili si strYc hlavu.

Trafikant poslal do jine prodejny a eislo 45 sehnal. Za tSiden piijeli strYc do mesta zas a po trhu hned sli do trafiky.

"Ta jak?" — "Vyhral jste, pantato, moc penez jste vyhral," hlasi trafikant, "vas los byl taZen — ale reknete mi, prosim vas, jak to, ze jste chtel prave eislo 45?"

"Hale toZ tak, eels -Wen' se mne zdalo vo eertovi, ha na eerta je sedmieka — toZ si povidam 7x7-45, toZ to bode geasnY — ha vidite, belo!"

ku 131Ir Pfijmou se rnanZele. konani prace v "Produce" obchode a deni trucku, Zena k vedeni 'tourist court' Pea svetnicovY dam, dobrST byt k bydlePigte na Joe Dulak, 1014 Summit St., (18-20c) Schulenburg, Texas. ° • ( " Prijme se: — Bull-dozer Operator. bezodkladne. Musi bYti zkugenSr a spolehlivST. Plat $2.00 na hodinu. Joe 8enkyilk, Markham, Texas, Phone 2437. (17-20c Zajistiti kaZdemu delniku celSi vSTsle) • 4 • ( dek jeho prace, neb tak dalece, pokud IIlir Pral bych si dopisovat s mladou vdovou, mime povahy do 35 rokil. Vlast- jest to moZno, jest zasluZnY fieel kaZde ,' nim domek v meste. Pi gte na "DobrY Do- dobre vlady. — Abe Lincoln.

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