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PODiLNiC VELIMIO PODNIKU ASTAVIL ',Mel plitele: "Josefe, Z chtel bys bStt podilnikem v bance?" Josef se nedilvetive podival na tazajiciho: "Nu, co2 o to, podilnikem bych chtel bSrt, ale kde bych vzal k tomu kapital?"

Nage SPJST operuje jako velkSr pene2ni ustay . Ne2 zadala provadet v roce 1897 svilj penelni obchod, musela si vziti statni povoleni na padesat let. Nei vyprgelo padesat mica, povoleni muselo laSIti obnoveno. Tento "charter" byl vystaven za jistSrch podminek. Jedna z nich byla, 2e podilnici—dlenove SPJST--nesmeji miti iadne akele. Jednota byla inkorporovana jako podparnSr spolek bez akcii, bez kapitalu, aby nebyli jen nekteti podilniky, kteti by dostavali dividendy.

Jednota byla organisovana a je nucena operovati pro spoleene dobro vgech elenil. Nikdo nenulk miti veal nebo mengi prava. Nikdo nemilk miti osobni zisk, pro svnj vYdelek, pene2ni vYtetek, ale vgechen obchod musi bYt veden pro eleny a jejich dedice nebo beneficianty.

Dale Jednota nebyla by dostala povoleni od statu, kdyby se nezavazala, 2e bude operovati pornoci svSrch filialek nebo odboaek v rilznSrch mistech statu. Tyto mistni skupiny mohou se nazyvati odboekatni, rnistnimi tady, 162emy, nebo i jinak, ale museji operovati die ptedpisti vrchniho telesa, a museji miti ureite obtadnosti.

Statni povoleni, aby Jednota mohla operovati, bylo vystaveno s podminkami, 2e hlavni Atednici a domaci utednici budou pravidelne voleni od Mena nebo od jejich zastupcit, aby ka2demu elenu byla dana stejna ptiletitost Edit bud' vrchni teleso nebo mistni skupinu.

A koneene statni povoleni bylo vystaveno s podminkou, ie vgechny vYhody a peno2ni podpory budou vyplaceny die zakonitSrch piedpis0 ve statu; a take ce4+ obehod bude veden die zakonu a pod kontrolou statniho od_boru pojigt'ovani.

Ka20 Mtn SPJST je podilnikem yellMho pojitt'ovaciho Ustavu, kterSr dnes

ma pies sedm milionfr majetkil. Jestli dnes polo2ime otazku, "Josefe, chtel bys bSrti podilnikem nageho Ustavu?" nemusi se pfitel Josef vymlouvati, 2e nema, dostateenS7 kapital. Podilnikem SPJST muse se stall kahlSr obean dobreho charakteru, kdy2 mu to zdravi a stall dovoluje. Kapitalu k tomu netteba, pouze asi ttiprocentni splatky merle na obnos kapitalu, kterS7 chce vybudovati bud' pro sebe nebo pro sve dedice.

Jestli jsme podilniky, m'ame te2 ureite zavazky vuei svemu poji gt'ovacimu Ustavu. Nikdo z podilniku nerna vet gi nebo mengi prava. Tak 7ni zakon. To znamenebo mengi pond, ie nikdo nema Bratti a sestry: Koneime start rok a hledime zpet s vdeenosti, 2e byl napinen vim dobrYm. Vzpominame na ta mnoha po2ehnani, co nam byla udelena a radujeme se a vdeeime, 26 byl tak gtedrY pro nas v gechny. Co jednotlivci meli jsme zdravi, veseli, lasku svSrch milSrch a ptatel a Uspech ye' svem povolani. Co bratti a sestry nagi SPJST te2 jsme vdeeni za Aspech a pokrok, co jsme udelali; vdeeime za nag novS, domov, za na§e distriktni schilze, za na g Youth program a za Uspech v na gi organisao'ni praci, a tak dale. Toho jsme docilili tim, 2e jsme vg ichni v bratrske lasce a v bratrskem dorozumeni pracovali pro dobro v gech, pro dobro cele Jednoty. Za tuto vaSi spoluprici yam vgem jmenem cele Hiavni Utadovny dekuji. Byla to radost se s vami v teto praci podileti.

Ptichazi nam NovS, rok. Jiz nyni hledime do budoucnosti a Mame nove resoluce. Doufame, ze tento NovSr rok bude pro nas vAechny dobrY a S'astnY, 2e nam ptinese mno-

vinnosti, ale vgichni stejne v'hody a stejne zavazky. Olen, ktert plistoupil ma stejnY hlas o torn, jak se me, spolek vest, jako ten, kdo byl ye spolkl padesat rokil. Ovgem novaeek se z postatku ostcha.. "A co ten se tady rortahuje, kdy2 teprve pied nekolika mesici pilstoupil?

Ja, jsem byl pfedsedou dvacetpet rokri"; —to v bratrskem spolku neplati. Aspori die zakona by nernelo platit. To je, eemu rikame "demokracie spolkoveho Zivota."

Jsou vgak jegte jine zavazky. Nejsou jen povinnosti elena ku spolku, ale take povinnosti mistni skupiny `vuei celernu telesu. Nage SPJST maze operovati jedi(Pokraeovani na strane 4.) ho dobra, proto bratil a sestry, vybizim vas v zajmu nagi bratrske prace, pomahejte vagim tadovSim rikednikrim, ktere jste si zvolili, vzbud'te dalgi zajem pro nase distriktni schrize, zvolte si reditele mladeZe, nebot' v na gi mladeli je nage budoucnost; bud'te napomocni nag im organisatorum v ziskavani novSTh olenti pro naai Jednotu.

Pofadejte radove besidky, svadiny a tak dale a shledate, Ze v bratrskem shromaZdeni je mnoho poteg eni. Pracujte tak, aby ta vznegena hesla nag i Jednoty: Podpora, Lidskost a Bratrstvi — byla na gim voditkem.

Jmenem v8ech rirednikt, reditelri, vrchniho lekare, reditelky mladde, redaktora a tiskoveho vSiboru preji varn zdravi a gtesti v tomto novem roce a slibuji varn, ze budeme vgich-r ni v teto praci se po'dileti a pracovati tak, aZ tento nova rok ukonei, abychom mohli rici, Ze byl pro nas vgechny gtedrS7 a polehnanSr. S bratrskSrm pozdravem Edward L. Marek, pfedseda Hiavni idadovny.

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V kaidern oluliode a podniku provich se koncem roku zvana "inventura", totiZ soupis majetku, aby se poznalo, zda, podnik v uplynulein roce nee° prinesl.

Jsme na konei roku 1953, proto mfiZeme i V natem snoll:ovem ,,vote uvaZovati o torn, zdali jsme men. ..isk 'nebo ztratu.

Milkme prozkommoi a vy46tovati nestranku finaneni, ale take pat zisk nebo ztratu moralni. MfiZeme se vyrov-i nati Se syYm vlastnim. svedomim, svyin snaienim, se svYmi skutky, s vtim, co jsme vykonali pro sve rodiny, pro sve bliZni, pro sVnj pfb do-. by( ) okoli a pro lid! vubec.

P •ellledneme peneini' hospoclorstvi nai;i SPJST. Jsme navykil me•iti takrka v,l;oshno v dolarech -a .centech, v hodnotOch, ktere jsou hmatatelne. Zaeatkern roku melt .jsme '25,422 certifikatd. NekterY elen ma dva tri certifikaty, proto nrnerne_ jen odhadovati, kolik "della jsme melt. Tyto certifikaty predstavoValy pojitteni—nebo rekneme budoucI majetek—v obnosu $23,317,600. Dle odhadu hlavnich name slibnou nadeli, ze rok 1953 ukonClime -s pottem certifikatft 'presahujicim 27,000. AZ budou oznameny zavereene cislice za mk 1953, list& pribude nom pies niilion a NI noveho pojitteni.'

• Nati G •ganisatoi• se letos vyznamenati jako inkdy predtim. Jeden z inch upsal pies • sto risk noveho pojitteni, 'nekteri maji blizko 75,000, a je hekolik nich; kteri dosahli sve dobrovolne kVoty 50,000.

Je. pravda, Se byly poradany organisator-' ske schuzo„v prvai polovine roku, a take byly organisatortun po.silany zpravy, kaZd± mesic, aby .vedeli, .jak si kdo v borove praci stoji. V posledniCh mesicich roku navy zajera byl vyvolan souteli Inez' dvema dtstrikty, coZ. 1-.L1kC, hncine pamohlo.. VYslerdek soutUe nebude ziaam nekdy v mesici lednu. Na, hlavni Uss rado y nu pillchey.elo (Jenne patnact 'az. d, lest nov,":( . 11 prihla,ck, takze muselal bYti pribrana vYpomocna pisarka nai stroji, aby se dohnalo vyhotoyovam novYeh certifikatil. Ac or.2a,nisaerii Odbor neivi jet.e takovy, jak bylo ureenO pod slednim sjozdem, byl letcs proveden Vel-1 mi znate.n, kick kupiedu.

E loom nelnalo take distrikt-. vvvinula velmi ni schlize, krie 15 agitace, hlavne programy deti a omladiny. Pred nekolika roky byly konany Pokusy s org,anisaenimi ci okrskovYmi schtizerni. Obyeejne hlavni fifednici sezvali okolni rady, oznamli, ze tam psi-1 jedou, a celY podnik byl planovan svrchu dole; Zavedenim distriktil aivujici

Ve streclu, dne 30. prosince 1953. miza jde od kdenii nahoru. Ka'Z'dS7 distrikt ma svou samospravu, svou iniciativu. Pracuje to prirozenou cestou. Jde silo od korentit, od Clean.

Zavedenim dis'riktnicli sehfr bony p•itahm..Lp byly hove a nnade si1y. Musime pripomb i Si vlivnn -oraci se try Birdie iiiklaerm ,11a. schr )stb'vez, me si Gas, nesetri ni',n1.1ily. a co hlavni10-11e1T1USi se uskrovnovat: kdY Z• Vycidni nepovbli nebo nez‘plati Hiavni Ufadovna„ plat! to sama. Vydani, kter6 closud bylo venovario na omled.noye hnuti, je neoatrne v pomeru k u dtku, kterY nati SPJST z tohoto hnuti .11Z plyne. Je take vYhodou, Se sestra Hirskvelou pomoc ye tvem mansheroVa bratru Alfredu Hilsehovi, mistorediteli pateho distriktu a nave zvole'nem predsedovi raft'. Pokrok Houstonu.

V pritonme Globe kaScly pattlialk se, aby oznamoval, aby dobrou reklamon proniknul do verejnosti. "Sedavej, nenko, v koute, budett-ii hodna, najciou te" bylo prupowdkou skronme slovanske poVahy. V inodernim peneZnini a y ete dnes plati, "Nate je tak dobre jako to druhe, a v neeem je jette o drobatko Vtechno dnes pottebuje reklamu.

Bez reklanay ant vanoce, by nebyly vanocerm--aspon dnetni svet tak south. NenniZeme narikati, Ze jsme nemeli reldamy. Napred to bylo zakoupeni budovy v Temple. Byla to novinka i pro denni tisk.

V polovici leta dotio na prestehovani. Zase to byla novina a reklama. Pritel sjezd Narodnilao bratrskeho kongresu v Dallas, kde jsme vykonali svou b.ostitelskou povinnost. Psaly o nos noviny po eelVch SpojenYch statech a take v Kanade, A koneene v polovici listopadu dotlo na slavnostni oficiahai otevreni naseho domova v Temple, Opel dostalo se nati PJST hodne pozornosti od verejnosti.

A to vtechno prispivaku zvY,terii znamost a obt,hodu.

A jette dalti vee tfeba piipomenouti.

KaZdY obchodni . podnik ma svu,j drub Natim zboZirn jsou nate certifikaty. Na toto zbari—na nate certifikatymtiZeme bYti hrdYmi. Mluvil jsem v kvetnu s jedrnm fraternalistou, se sta,tnim organisatorem jedne velke bratrske jednoty. Mluvili jsme spolu otevrene, ne jako konkurenti, ale jako zajemci o stejne veci. Ptal se rune 11a, nate certifikaty, na nati funrtnost elenu, na nase reservy, na nase bez ekaa ke ky, zkreAka na \feel, ktere zajimaji toho, kdo vi o Nvolnim pojitteni trochu ce net prurnerny elen. Pak pronesl tuto poznamku: "Vy mate - dobre zboZi. Jedine, Co vyrozumivain Ze potrebujete, abYste si vychovali asi dvacet opravdovYch pracovnikt, a rnezi nimi aby bylo test nebo osin, kteri by prodej Zivotniho pojist'ovani povaZovali za svilj irajic, za, n

Ve sttedtt, dne 30. prosince 1953.

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sve tivobyti. Mate vkhoda, 2e si udrtujete svou fed. To je pro vas velika vkhoda. kdybyste mezi sebou se stale domlouvali anglicky, sem tam padne mezi varni p eeske slovo, ktere vas sblituje. Katdk elovek hleda nem cenneho, co se mu zda, to mel zdediti po svkch ptedcich. A vy to jeg te mate, tieba =milk z vas si toPiejeme vg em sestram a braho neva& Vy mate v Texasu takove ponag i Jednoty spokojene ukonle, te mohli byste konat zazraky, kdyby-. eeni stareho roku, radost z dobre men y naborove praci takove elenY,/ vykonane price, dobrk a gt'astnk kteti znaji iivotni poji gteni, yeti v nei, novk rok 1954---Uspech v praci soudovedou lidu vag emu vysvetlit, co vaekrome i spolkove. chno tivotni poji gteni pro katdeho eloveka znamend."

Vg ichni chceme v novem roce V listopadu mluvil jsem s jinym fraterpracovati lope—i my. Vekime, nallstou, kterjr take zastupuje bratrskou nam v torn pomatete svou radou, organisaci v Texasu, Louisiane a v Asvkini ptipominkami, svou kritikou labame. Ptal se mne na nak SPJST a i sykrni dobrymi nahledy; le nam na rAzne podrobnosti. Kdyt slysel, ze napomatete, aby na g spolkovk tYdese nejvyggi risiko je deset tisic, pravil: nik Vestnik byl opravdu vernjan "Jednou dojde take ye vagem spolku k tlumodnikem v geho toho dobreho, tomu, to budete poji gt'ovati na vetgi co se v na gi 'SPJST ukazuje a ma obnosy. Ovgem, nektell vagi elenove buuplatilovati. dou proti tomu. Budou namitat, te byli to ti mali, chudobni, nemajetni eleTiskovk vkbor nove, kteti zalozili Jednotu a pomohli ji vybudovat. Ale to bylo tenkrat, kdy bochVydavatele nik byl za etyki centy. Dnes je za Osnmact. Muj otec jezdil tenkrat do Reda,ktor sehaze na geho spolku na kdearku s balikem sena vzadu. Misto hotovkch penez Yez1 do schilze vejce, ktere odprodal v Mesteeku, aby zapravil svuj poplatek./ Dnes rauseji bratrske spolky poueovat katdk certifikat je opatien ta,bulkou `hodnot. Dnes katdeho stareho Mena musve eleny, te male poji gteni je tak teme eislicemi a vkpoety ujistit a pteaeelne jako male Uspory.*A jestli dnes sveddit, ze spojeniin zaloiniho fondu s byste dostali elena, kterk by si vyzvedamrtnim nic neztratil, ba, naopak jeho za $25,000 pojiSteni, muzete si podr- certifikat nabyl_vetsi pajdovni (reservtet jen urditou vkSku a ptedati to, co je ni) hodnoty. nad va ge risiko, jine spoleenosti: A katdk takovk prominentni °bean, kterk si Krome. dobrkeh a lacinkch certifikaod vageho spolku vezme za $25,000 poji- tii mame jegte jinotr foe, ktera nas slu ggteni, je pro vas reklama, je pro vas dalobehod mezi jeho znamkmi a ptateli." ne representuje v oeich vetejnosti. Je Mame tedy—dle posudku jinkch odbor- to nas spolkovk list, net Vestnik. Je hodnikft-dobre zboti. To ostatni, co jegte ne rozgitenk a etenk i nrezi neeleny, ae pottebujeme, nebo co bychom meli mi- zase mnoho je elenu, kteti ho nedostivati pro potiebu na gich dlent, muteme si ji, ba ani nevedi, te jsou na spolkovk easopis opravneni. Nedavno mluvil se casein potiditi. mnou elen, to mu pted ttemi mesici pte• KFlysi nage certifikity nemely lidnkch stal dochazet Vestnik. Jakou ma g pojistzaloh. Tenkrat stall elenove si katdk rok ku? ptal jsem se. Dvacetiletou, prase platili jeden dolar katdeho zati do tak mam ji doplacenoti. Vysvetlil jam mu, zvaneho zalotniho fondu. Tento zalotni ze kdo si doplati certifikat, musi si na fond mel lakti neco jako "stoleeku, pro- Vestnik zvla gt platit. "No, ja, a to to stf i sc." Bylo to jako v pohadce—at bu- manklka a d ye deti rnaji poji gteni, to de g stark, sahne g do zalotniho fondu a ut neplati?" Nebo zemte mantel a vdodale nebudeg platit. JeSte dnes mnohk z va-dlenkyne ptestane dostavat Vestnik. tech starch elenti pevne veti, te to by- Az za rok, za dva, pode. stitnost, prod se ji Vestnik neposila. A zase mame neelenespravedlnost, ie to bylo oSizeni, ten aa i 1odni fond nemel se spojiti s fon- ny, kteil si Vestnik p •edplaceji, ae to (ern amitnim. Dosud stoji na stanovisku, nejsou noviny, neptina geji zpravy, ale te slib je slib, te se mel dodrtet, at' se pouze Yeci spolkove a elanky pro poueevezme odkud se da. Ale prose spojenim ni a pobaveni. 13a na gel jsem take Axle ZO4oiniho fondu, kterk u Zadneho elena bratrske mesieniky, •vydavane ponze v nebyl vetgi net $20, dostal kaZdk certifi- angliatine, ktere otiskuji anglicky ` clankat zalohu a piljeovni hodnotu. Dnes ky a avahy z na geho spolkoveho listu.

Na rahu noveho roku .

Strana 3 Kdyi si zopa,kujeme v gechno, to, elm nas ve spolkovem tivote obdatil stark i rok, mu eme iici, ze byl pro nas veilce pfiznivjr . To je mineno vgeobecne, v meiitku cele Jednoty. Jak tomu bylo u vateho domaciho faclu, to posoudite sami nejlepe. Mne, redaktoru, je znamo jen ' to, co jste psali do organu nebo co jste mne sclelili pri osobnim setkani na distriktnich schuzich. Vim, te nektere dy mely velmi aspeank a plodnk rok. Vim take, te nektere jine tady nemaji se dim pochlubit. Ale nikde neni situace tak i beznadejna, aby ji nebylo mono zlepaiti.

Navgtivil jsem nedavno atedniky jednoho tadu. Vypravovali mi, ze kdysi to byl leinnk tad, ale v poslednich letech to vgechen zajem upadnul. V nekolika letech tad ztratil tietinu Menu a neziskal ani jednoho noveho. AC Utednici ledavali Zadnou nadeji, do tadu za dva%clny pkibylo lest eleral a Jednote za $13,000 noveho pojigteni. Pii dobre vuli a pti opravdove snaze da se mnoha, beznadejI na situace napraviti.

Novi nebo znovu zvoleni tajemnici jsou upozorneni, aby co nejdiive zasiali na tajemnika Hlavni atadovny zmenu schOze nebo novou adresu domaciho tajemnika. Adresat je uvetejnovan v org a.nu jednou za etvrt roku. Pti jmene a adrese tajemnika ma v adresati tet bkt udano, kdy tad ma svou pravidelnou schiizi. Je to tadouci kvuli korespondenci, aby jive tidy vedely, kdy se pravidelne schtize u toho nebo onoho kadu konaji. A jestli dojde na jmenovani statniho organisatora, bude to nutnosti, aby statni organisator to vedel, mel sprivne udano, by sve nav gtevy u tadu mohl die fulajft v adresaki planovati. dovi tajenurici, prosim, Leptchladnote, ale oznamte co nejdtive.

Dostal jsem dva, dopisy, v nichi se pisatele vyslovili, ae roclaktor se primlouva, aby anglietina mela v nagem organu piednost. Prvniho dopisu jsem si mnoho nepovAitnnul. Ale pti gel druhk, z docela jineho mista, a byl psan v podobnem smyslu. Asi ze nejakkm nedopattenim uklouzlo mi nejake slovo nebo nejaka seta, ktere byly nejasne nebo dvojsmysine. Jako se jednou stalo, ze mne poZdravil mladik eesky a dal jsem se s nine do rozhovoru anglicky. Pozdeji se vyslovil, te' a si jsem spatny vlastenec pochybnk uditel ee gtiny, kdy on nine pozdravi desky a ja, zaenu hovotit anglicky. Zapomnel nebo si nevtimnul, .za aim stale jeho rblada, lenuSka, ktera, by z nakho deskeho rozhovoru mnoho utitku nernela. Asi riejakkm podobnym zpbsobem si nekdo mute vykladat mou. anglietinu. Tolik mohu iici s distkm svectomim, a ae se s mladSi generaci desetkrat leheeji pracuje—vetMnou zna11; co se od dopisovatela oeekava a co se

E'trana 4 v novinarstvi poladuje—fldy chci tern starsm vyhoveti. Vim, le ninohY ze stare vlasti, kde mel vice $kol nemockYch nel CeskYch, a proto ochotne V'e;.)11.suji polovinu CeskYch dopisft. Vim ' e tem starSim le tCeba dati it eenovinach aspon Cast toho, eim anglicke noviny primo hYri. A dokud zde ty poctive a uprimne Ceske cl chei jim poctive sloulit. Nevefirn, abyehom spechali s tim, by 1cC vymizela. Dostaxam nyni ske listy od jednot jinonarododivili byste se, 'le je v nich italskas portugalska, ukrajinska -. nernecka. Nemci byli ye SpojenYch statech dvakrat v nevYhode. Dvai _l at jsrne valeili proti Nemcfun. Amerieti loyaini obeane nemeckeho pfivodu byli okoinostmi prinuceni upustiti od Oeskoslovensko ma dosud dobre jmeno—alespon. 0eskoslovensko Masaryka a Benek, proto neni treba ustul' wat d.o Ustrani. Ba naopak, dties jsou nladici, kteii znaji nekterou z dvanacti slovanskYch reel, vyhledavani a nabadani, aby .se zdokonalili k tomu, co jim bylo od rodicu bez namahy darovano. Nikdy nebudu zapirati, le jsem se narodil ra mora yskem Vala$sku, nebo ze umim k)ke. jine keel krona() anglietiny. AC uznaxam, le oegina je velmi telka hdysi jsem myslel, a.e ji znarn dosti obtojne, dnes se musim stale prehraboyat v Ceske mluvnici—chci se v 'ee gtine zdokonalovat, abych mohl nakmu eeskemu lidu sloulit pokud mne toho bude no, slouait v mile mater gtine, potekt srdce a mysl tech, kdo jsou mezi narni jen jako na besede. A kdyz dostanu clopis od nektereh.o mlad giho dopisovatele, o kterem jsem myslel, ae &sky vubee neumi, a kdyl vidirn, jak hezky dovede ovladati 6,e gtinu, tteba to vyklepava na anglickem stroji, mam z toho opravdou radost. Neni to s narni jeAte tak ale, jen si valme toho, co nam samo nebe zachovalo. cistern zaene bkt ye Vestniku uvelejnovan zaea,tek romanu, na kterk chtel bych upozorniti v$echny na ge etenafe; tedy i takove, kteti prohlaZuji, ze romany neetou, 'le to je pouze pro lidi, kdo nemaji dtilelitej giho zamestnani.

-"Varne na svete jeden druh ucitelu, ktePi dovedou prinesti nove ponatiaeni 11blvVm a lehkYna apusobem. Jsou to spiovatele ronsana, a povidek. Kdyl bylo rozhodnuto, aby romany byly hledel jsem najit nejakY, ktin-Y by mei jistou litero.rni hodnotu. S led oim jsem fipine polio el, protole se do li.tho jini. DruhY jsem vybcal, kterY byl napsan CeskYin 2urnalistou pro etenafe trochu seetelej gi. Pak jsem stale hledal, Ceti, vybiral, as jsem piisel na obyeejne, lidove, vesnicke,

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vklada.telti), v Lovelady (6 vkladatelU,) pri Thrall (5 vkladateln), v Nada (7 vkla datelu), a ye Woodsboro (6 ,vkladatela). A mime take nekolik docela bezvYznamnYch poji$Covacich ustavu v kterkch mistech, ktere jsou vice ku $ko-de neZ k uZitku celemu naSemu peneZnimu obchodu.

KaZda, banka ma svou mistnost ku provozovani sveho obchodu. V kaZde bance je vyvekno povoleni, ktere Lanka obdrIela od statu. Kdo byl kdy v na gi hlavni kancelL'i, videl podobne povoleni od stat nib° odboru poji$Vo yani.KaldY mistni rad SPJST operuje na zaklade toho, le deset nebo vice elenft kdyst pled lety poaddalo Hlavni fdadovnu o pravo, aby v okoll, kde tito elenove aiii, mohla byti zarizena filialka SPJST, mistni lad.13ovoleni. se vystavilo, zakladatcle tohoternistMho poji$Voyuciho fistavu byli na dekretu nebo diplomu vyjmenovani, a mistni podnik mel pray o poji$Vovati, vklady plijirnati a penize odvadeti. Toto povoleni ztraci platnost, kdyl se pravidla, ped pisy a zakony nedodrluji, Kdysi pled lety, kdyl jsme se Jose-M. zda chtel by bYt podilnikem v sem poji$Vovacim Ustavu, Josef ochotne nechal se zapsati. Praco-vat, pornahal, tadoval, as doilladoval. Mel jen podil na tisic dolarfi. Mel je$te ukladat as do vysokeho stall. Ode g el, a jeho podil se vyplata v pine hodnote. Odekl a zfistali druzi. Ale Josef schazel. Bybo to znati na tom, le tato inala filialka. velikeho pajiSt'ovaciho nstavut jil nefungovala, jak (Dokoneeni se strany 1.) tomu bylo, dokud Josef Uradoval. ne pomoci mistnich iadu. jako kdyby v tele nemeli zajmu. Dnes je tarn mene Temple byla vrchni banka, ktera ma 159 vkladatelu neZ pled dvaceti roky. mistnich bankovnich zavodii. V listoNag e Navin teleso inusi dodrCovati padu nebo v prosinci se sejdou podilnici predpisy. Podlizend telesa maji fipinou mistni bulky a voli si sve nteclniky a IT- samospravu. To ale neznamena., Ze nedltele. Wade tato mistni filialka—mist- museji dodrlovati sva pravidla nebo ony ni. tad SPJST—vede svtlj mistni obchod podminey na zaklade kterYch dostaly docela znamenite. Mail svou mistnost, voleni, aemohouoperovati. trednici schazeji se, prohliZeji knihy, odesilaji macich spolkfi jsou dosud vykonavatele vklady do hlavni banky v Temple, voli ptedpisft. si kaZdeho roku sve iftedniky, ptedsedu, Jsme v g ichni podilniky velikeho pojizapisovatele, kolektora, kasira Ci pokladWavaciho Ustavu. Nezapomenme toho pli nika, Eve teditele. nastolovani iirednikft a vYborti pro roll Pfitomn6. SPJST ma 159 mistnich To jsou mistni pojiH'ujici zavody. Kaalk 1954.

4, 9 z nich ma sve Atedniky, svilj zptilsob ye, deni obchodu. Nejvet gi filialka SPJST je O mladYch a je$te neaku genYch manHoustonu, kde bankovni odboeka je nej- lelkach byla uverejnena jil spousta hisilnejAi, protole ma blizko patna.cti set storek, a proto zase jednou pro amevkladatelil. Tato nejvetS1 filialka odvadi nu musime plinesti neco o mladem man.do hlavni banky v Temple asi $30,000 liTkovi. roene, a doma ze sveho obchodu si no"Koupil jsi vSechno?" tale se -nl q dinechava asi $20,000 roene. Nejmeng stva SPJST je v Garwood, kde mesioni s!'Ano, drahou$ku, v gechno," odpo vklady byly lonskeho roku jen od peti da on, vyndavaje veci z koSiku. vkladatelft. Tajemnik filialky nedavno "A kde ma$ to houbu na myti, ktcrou zemtel. Co se s timto mistnim poji§t'ova- jsem ten chtela?" cim fistaVena stane, nevirn. Danl. male pomeli jich tarn ne"Tu j-sem nekoupil jigt'ovaci filialky marne v New Ulm (5 kolik, ale v'Sechny mely u2 v sobe

mo hloupe, povidani. Nebylo jineho—a nebylo kritiky. Ale nebyla to eetba zuAlecht'ujici ve smyslu literarnim. Proto Main novY pokus. Mam k tomu dva dnvody: aby elenove poznali jednu z nejcennej$ich a nejznamejSich knih svetoye literatury; a za druhe ae dobre Ceske knihy, ktere byly by pomerne nezname, nejsou k dostani a k nalezeni. Roman, ktery predkladam, Ceti jsem vicekrat. jsem pled triceti lety byl na telskern Ustave, dostali jsme dloulaY seznam knih, z nichl men jsme si vybrat dvacet jako povinnou eetbu. Zvolil Isom si tento roman. Pozdeji, kdyl" jsem podal svfij referat, profesor oznamil, le jsem byl jedinYrn studentem toho roku, kterY • si vyb •al a precetl onu km u—ply to jeden z nejlep g ich romanu svetove literatury, ale ze je, p ills te2kk ku eteni.

Pro etenale Vestniku zkracuji dloulak roman na jednu desetinu, aby eteni bylo lehke, a aby etenaPi dostali jen ty nejzajimavejk kapitoly. Je to roman, kterk byl napsan pled sto roky francouzskkm spisovatelem, stark roman, ale pokud na svete budou ubolaci, potud roman bude easo y k. Je to roman od Vika tora Hugo pod francouzkYm nazvem Les Miserables—y eeAtine Bidnici, vlastne spravneji "Ubogaci". ) • 4 • (

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tam nikdo nechce otevi-it hubu. — Lasku Za druhe se bratr BroZ boji, ze nebude 6echtil k Sol/ea= ilustruje Kohout na te- snad pozdeji schopnSrch sil \Testi na gi Jed' to anekdote: Na kraji silne frekventova- notu. Myslim, ze toho se neni tkeba oba,Culver City, Calif. ne silnice stal velikt strom, kterST pkeka- vat. Je ovgem jiste, ze jsou na gi akednici Zel doprave. Nikdo vgak tento start strom east() odsuzovani, ale to jen temi, kteki Bratke Valeiku: nechtel skacet. AZ kdosi dostal napad a malo o fizeni spolku vedi. Myslim, maPosilam vystkiZek ze zdej giho "Mirror". Chtel jsem jej pilvodne poslati jen v noci vyvesil na strom tabulku s napi- me, zvlagte v pkitomne dobe, schopne apribuznjim do Texasu, ale pak po krat- sena: "Tento strom je majetkem Sovet- kedniky, nadmiru ocliotne. Kdyby se stagim rozmygleni jsem se rozhodl poslati skeho svazu." — A jeg te teZe noci nebylo lo a na sjezdu vetgina si piala zmenit kedniky, tak mame dosti universitne vyjej Tobe, snad'by se na glo pro to misto Ve po stromu ani pamatky.

Jako tketi anekdotu McCaffin uvadi: SkolenYch deskYch advokat0, lidi s vysoVestniku. Takto by to bylo paitkem pro vice lidi a ne jenom pro me pkibuzenstvo. Tajna komunisticka, policie velmi 'east° kogkolskSrmi doktorskSimi tituly, ktedch Jak videt, be gi neztraceji nacieji ted', navgtevuje kostely a pomoci tajne umi- stale pkibYva, a kteki jsou schopni zaprajak ji ztratili za Rakoouska-Mad'arska a stenYch mikrofonn odposlouchava mod- covati se do jakehokoliv akadu. best musime dat na gim zakladateltim za Hitlera. Snad jsi tento elanek Videl ye litby vericich. Jednou tajnST agent zastavagich houstonskYch denicich, toti2 jest- vii starou babieku u dveki a 'Aisne se ji Jednoty, kteki byli schopni apine vest li z niCh odkupuje elanky od zeptal: Za koho pak jste se dnes modlila? nagi Jednotu v tehdej gi dobe. Sleduji po"Chicago Daily News". Jestli ano, teZ do- — Za Malenkova, odpovi stakenka. — A stup Jednoty 43 rokii. Jsem zakla.clajicim za koho jste se modlila pied rokem? pta, elenem kadu Svaz eechoslovvii eislo 92 bke.

I se dal tajnY. — Samozfejme ze za Stall- ye Fort Worth. Pokud se tYeit)mena nagi S bratrskS7m pozdravem jsem Joseph V. Bayer. na, povida, babieka a doda: A vidite, jak Jednoty, teprve nemohli na gi zakladajici prilkopnici vybrat lep gi jmeno v P. S.: Asi je Ti znamo, ze zminenS7 Ja- to dola •e dopadlo!

Pilvodni anglickY elanek nazkv'a Jam eegtine. Tim jmenem se zahrnuji vgichni ra Kohout je ten same co jsme se mu -- "Bob Hope of Czechoslova- Slovane, tkeba tehdy nemyslili na Rusmali v oeskSich filmech s Anton!! Nedo- Kohouta 11 • sy, Polaky neb Belorusy, ale pouze na ginskou a jinYmi. • •( Cechy, Moravany a Slovaky. Ale ted' to blanek v pkekladu nasleduje: Fort Worth, Txas. jmeno zahrnuje vgechny.

NewyorskY dopisovatel Chicago Daily Kdyby vgak nadegel eas, a bylo nutno News, Win. McCaffin, pkinesl v sobotnim Cteni bratki a mile sestry: Je uz tomu nekolik rokil, co jsem ne- zmenit jmeno nasledkew toho, ze v gichvydani Daily News na prvni strane deli elanek' o es. komikovi v exilu, Jan]. Ko- mel ZadnY dopis ye Vestniku. Rad Vest- nu, co umeji slovanske jazyky, odejdou na houtovi. blanek byl doprovozen velkYm nik etu, ledaco si pamatuji. Posuzuji, jak veky, tak bude spravne, tteba za dalgich obrazkem Jary Kohouta u mikrofonu — nage Jednota pokraduje a jak se Vestnik 50 let, pou'Zit jen jmena, ktere uz mame,.

Radio Free Europe s jeho dcerou Alenou. midi. Ale jen tehdy se rozhodnu neco na- totid Slovanic Benevolent Order of the McCaffin uvadi nektere z jeho vtipil a psat, kdy2 nine k tomu nekdo jeho dopi- State of Texas. (Poznamka redaktora:— Mnoho nagich elenu ma nesnaz pH psani anekdot, jake Kohout vysila rozhlasem sem takika Pkinuti. svobodne Evropy do Ceskoslovenska. Me-' Co se parna,tuji — je tomu vice ne g ety- tohoto prv,niho slova v anglietine. Slovan zi jinSrmi uvadi anekdotu o velkem nedo- ri roky — posledne jsem psal, kdy't jsme je v anglietine "Slav", slovanskSr je statku lekakti v Ceskoslovensku. Je jich zde 'men sjezd na gi Jednoty. Tenkrat "Slavic" nebo "Slavonic", jell& "Slavotam talc mai.° — rika Jara Kohout, jsem odpovedel na dopis bratra Franka nic" znamend take "ze Slavonie". Mezi rnusili postavit tisic delnika podel Zelez- Steinera z Dallasu, kdy'i nas po sjezdu bratrskSimi spolky ye SpojenYch statech nieni trate na jiste stanici. Mistni roz- trochu nespravne odsuzoval z nejakeho mame take Western Slavonic Association, hlas pak zavelel: Vgichni vyplaznout ja- vYdelku pH sjezdu. Ale to at necht' je sidlem v Denver, kterSdto spolek byl zazyk! Hned na to pfejel stanici — expres- zapomenuto. laen v rote 1908 pkistehovalci ze Slavoni viak a z okna jednoho vagonu vystroil Tentokrate mne k dne gnimu dopisu nie. Nage Jednota nese anglickSi nazev hlavu ministr zdravotnictvi. KdyZ viak pflnutil sam bratr redaktor a pak bratr "Slavonic", prvni slabika jako koncovka pfejel stanici, rozhlas oznamil: Vgichni Matej Bra z Gonzales. jmena Jaro-slav, Bohu-slav, tedy ne "Slovan-ic, ale "Sla-von-ic".) Je gte k tojste pro gli lekakskou prohlidkou a v gichPkedne bratr Bra pi ge, h se doeitava mu pridam, aby se na pfi gtim sjezdu dal ni jste zdravi a milZete nastoupit praci v ye Vestniku, jak se ma, nazvat na g Vest- navrh, aby se to jmeno dalo registrovat dolech! nik. Zajiste bratr Bra se to dodet1 z do- a patentovat nal/My. McCaffin dale vypravi o torn, jak Jara pisu mai° bratra John Beeana od ladu Kohout ani pi i nebezpeenem nteku z Oe- Fort Worth Oslo 154 ze dne 9. prosince,1 Myslim vadne, ze se nemame za co styskoslovenska neztratil sviij humor. Ko- kde pige, ze by se muselo jmeno Vestniku det. Kdyby se stalo za nejak3'rch 300 let, hout s rodinou zabloudil pH torn v pohra- zmenit, kdybychom dali napked anglickou a nekdo se na to odvolaval, tak nage nienim lese a ztratil smer. Kohout tedy Cast. Jinak ze toho neni zapotkebi. S tim hlavni aradovna bude mit ulaeno v zavytahl hodinky a vzal je do ruky, — kte- nahledem ja fipine souhlasim. Nejsem suvkach ty na ge teZke zaeatky, zapisy, rou natahl a pomalu se s hodinkami ota- proti anglicke east. To je mistne, neb je podobizny na gich pfedakti a jine pkedmeeel a prohlasil: "KdyZ po hodinkach ne- mnoho na geho mlacieho elenstva, ktere ty, za ktere se nemusime stydet ani pied kdo clanapne, talc to maze laSrt jenom ne- neumi eesky Gist, tfebale mluvit urni. americkou vefejnosti. Ba eim dale jsme jalcrusk vojak — a smer, kterYm se da, KclyZ vgak ale nastane eas, fekneme za va,ZenejSi. Ba nemusime se styclet ani za na ntek, mice 1V: t jenom v3'ichod. Tak 20 nebo 30 rokti, nebo di-ive, a bude nut- nage prilkopniky farmake. Mame pkiklad potom.se obratime na opaenou stranu a no tisknout Vestnik jen v anglietine, z bratka J. J. Mikesky, o kterem se pi ge v dostaneme se za Zelenou oponu." ti stari pomalu vymizi a nebude dost tech anglickem oddilu Vestniku ze dne 16. proDopisovatel Chicago Daily News pak zde rozenYch, kteri by dovedli eesky Gist, since. (Zda, se mi, ze bratra, Mikesku jsem je gte uvadi dal gi posledni vtipy Ja- pak teprve je dost easu na zmenu jmena poznal pied mnoha lety, ale nepamatuji ry Kohouta: Dentisti v Oeskoslovensku Vesniku na Slavonic Herald nebo Sla- se kde.) Mame fadu takovSrch farrnarti., maji Obtile s vytahovanim zubti, proto2e vonic Record. Ale na to je dost easu.

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My se celkem nemame za co stydet, ani mame asi tti Belorusy a nekolik Maloru- Svitakova je dopisovatelkou v Ceske fedi za nage jmena. Neni tkeba menit Bileho sa, Polaka, Nerncti, Jihoslovanti a jine v a Mary Jane Svaeek v feei anglicke. Obe na White, Oerneho na Black, Oervenku Jednot y . Ale kdyZ ptijdou do na gi schaze, tyto dopisovatelky se IA ukazaly v tisku. na Redding, a podobne. A take na g pavod, tak naslouchaji ee gtine — ba i America- Proto ted' uz dam s dopisovanim pokoj, at' je to Cech, Moravan, Slezak, Rus, Po- ne — a jsou radi, ZI e k nam patki. ac rad napi gi svoje nahledy. 1Vlana, se anebo Belorus.

Timto koneim. Kdy2 jsem se tak roze- nekomu nekte0 maj napad zalibi.

A ted' chi opravit na geho redaktora psal, tak pti gte napi gi nee() o Rusku, jeho KdyZ' chceme jit doptedu a snaZime se kterS7 asi byl nepravne informovan, aneb historii, a jak ptitomna vlada ptisobi na udelati z na gi Jednoty prospe gnYI spolek, se zmylil, kdyz nas, rodinu Beeanti, na- Oeskoslovensko. ibylo by Zadouci, aby ti eleni, kteki si plati zval Belorusy. Jsem jisty, Ze to nemini S pozdravem i na celS7 rok, si take uvedomili, ae je poBeeanovy v Houstonu, ktere neznam, jen Josef Beean. , tkebujeme mezi nami ce1S7 rok. jsem o nich slygel. Jako nejstar gi Becan (Diky za vysvetleni. Byl jsem nespravve Fort Worth se odvolavam a opravuji ne informovan, Ze cele dve generace Vagi I A ted' vain oznamuji vS7 sledek nagich voleb. Zaroveh chci upozornit, ze nag bratra redaktora. rodiny vyrostly v okoli Minska na Belo- tad bude konat schtizi druhou nedeli v Ve Fort Worth je nas zde uZ hromada rusi. Maria take, Ze jsem si to y e sve lednu. Tak se dostavte 10. ledna, druhou z jedne rodiny Beethati. My nejsme Belo- makovnici popletl.

Redaktor.) nedeli v mesici. rusy. Ale i kdybychom byli, tak se za to ) • 4 • ( Za pkedsedu zvolen byl Vlad'a Hejl; za nebudeme stydet. My jsme eeskeho pakid Dennice Oslo 94. mistoptedsedu Rudolf Kubala; za tajemvodu. Moje matka pochazela z okoli PkiEdge, Texas. nika John W. Bevan; teetni Anna Vilabrami pod Svatou Horow. Jeji diva jme- Cteni bratti a sestry: nova; pokladni Mary Hejl; pravoal Emil no bylo Mikova, otec jeji byl Mika. Maj Musim oznamit vYsledek volby z minuotec Bedan pochazel z okoli Kolina. Moje le sciatize konane v prosinci. Pro ptigti Kubala; organisatorka Anna Milan; dobabieka z tatinkovy strany byla z rodu rok zvoleni byli nasledujici fitednici: pisovatelky Anna Svitak v eeske Bene gova, krevni pkibuzni presidenta pkedseda, Ed Chytil; mistoptedseda, J. J. Mary Jane Svaeek v feel anglicke.

Na teetnim vS7boru jsou Wilbur Mason, Eduarda Bene ge, pokud ja vim. Kdy2 za Seasta; tajemnik,, J. A. Rychlik; atetni, Laddie Struska a Chas. Renfro. prvni valky Vojta Bene g teenil po Texa- Albert Seasta; domovnik, Will Rychlik.

Na resoluonim v3-Tboru jsou John Besu, on to tatinkovi dotvrdil.

Na vYbote (neni udano jak' vYbor — Ovgem maj otec se vystehoval na ru- red.) byli minule Joe Mikulec, Henry Can, Joe Milan star gi a Rud. Kubala.

Reditelka mladae Mary Renfro. skou Ukrajinu (Malou Rus), ne na Belo- BlaZek a Alfons Quitta.

Na zabavnim vflx)ru jsou loratri Rud. rus, kdyz otci bylo osm let. Dedecek mel Dalgi vYbor bude volenSi dle potteby z Kubala a Laddie Struska, pak sestry Mapet sync, a maj tatinek byl etvrtSim. To ptitomnSTch Mena. ry Martinec, Maxine Merlik a Eva Mason. bylo v letech 1870. Ma matka se dostala Co toto pigi, uz zase poprchava. Zda se, Zde dodatek ohledne volby: — Jegte do Ukrajiny asi v roku 1876. Tam rolni- ke budeme mit mokre vanoce. Po tki roky jsem nevidel, aby byli vgichni nave zvoleDedeeek zeintel v roku 1895. Tatinek si kaalSr natikal na sucho. Nyni je zase se vystehoval do Texasu v vas rusko-ja- slyget, ze u2 je toho date dost. Mand, Ze ni atednici ptitomni v lednove schazi, aby mohli slait slib, ae budou zastavat sve ponske valky nebo kratce po valce. V ten pro zmenu bude zase mokrSr rok. atady spravne a poctive. Tak proto by se eas okolo roku 1907 se vystehovalo na sta A nyni yam, bratti a sestry, pieji gt'arodin a jednotlivcu do v gech state Ame- stiV novY rok, coa zahrnuje bratry a se- to mohlo jednou uskuteenit. Proto ptipominam, abyste nezapomneli na tu schazi. riky. Jen do Texasu jelo asi 20 rodin, 'le- stry cele Jednoty. To vam pteje i, vice. Vim tolik, Ze jich bylo zde ye Fort J. A .Rychlik. Bude take tteba, abychom tu nemocenskou dali nejak do potadku. Tak na shleWorth v roku 1912 asi 15 rodin a mnoho ) • 4 • ( danou. jecinotlivcia. V gichni byli dobrSrmi Cechy, tic]. Fort Worth Oslo 154.

John W. Beek', tajemnik. a nehlasili se mezi Malorusy ani Belorusy.

Fort Worth, Texas. ) • •e Pamatuji si, Ze asi v roku 1910 bylo Cteni bratti a sestry: Z TEET II0 PISTRIKTU S. P. J. S. T. Ukrajine na volynske gubernii asi 80,000 Nu, zas jeden rok se ukonduje a mama Cecilia a Morava/1h. Po teto posledni val- po volbach. Proto ptedne pkeji v gem gt'aGrapevine, Texas. ce ruska, vlada jich na tisice vystehovala stiaST a prospe gmiI novST rok 1954.

S ptanim mnoho zdaru a spokojenosti do Sudet a do jirdrch east' OeskoslovenMaj posledni dopis ptigel pozde, ale v tomto nastavajicirn novem roku my niska. Moji ptatele byli mezi nimi a tea vzdor tomu schtize byla dosti pekna, tak Z I epsani a •ednici va geho tketiho distriktu, ptatele bratra Antona Tirka, kterS7 je ptejeme si podekovati kademu z nagich asi sedmiprocentni. z Ukrajiny, a take nekolik Mena jeho roNevim, jak se komu libi moje nahledu, Clem, kterV jak3imkoliv zpasobem byl diny. Podrobnosti nevim, neb zpravy od- ale myslim, Ze bychom moll miti volby v nam od minuleho bkezna, napomocen a tamtud vice nedostavam. mesici lednu, protae v prosinci se mame tak usnadnil snaZeni, b3iti v eestnem poChci je gte podotknout, ze jsem vabec hodne radi kaZdS7 ma na mysli Miku- staveni mezi distrikty na gi SPJST. do eeske gkoly, ani do americke, necho- lage a vanoce. Po svatcich mame vice eaDoufame, Ze i nadale soueinnost vagi dil. Pkijel jsem, kdy2 mi bylo 12 let. Cho- su a rozumu. si udrZime i Ze die svYch sil budete nagim dii jsern 7 roku do rusk y gkoly, kde jsme Ted' a musime poeitati na dve feel pki organisatoram budoucne ye sv3./ch osamy deti ueily sveho ruskeho ueitele eesky schazich. ttednici by meli umet eist an- dach naponiocni. a on nas rusky. Ueitele se naueili &sky glicky i eesky. Ne snad proto, ae je nas Ffejerne yam jegte jednou At'astnS( no-zpivat a ta jist eeska jidla. Pochybuji, malo, ale spige proto, Ze ua o s ytij eeskS7 vS7 rok, tea zdravieka hojnost a spokojeie Se nejakST Oech v Rusku poru gtil, ne- spolek nedbame. Ti Meth, co jsou pro ee- nost. bot' jsou ty reci v necem podobny. Jegte ske jednami ye schaich, zastavaji doma; Cyril Pokladnik, predseda. mina trochu rusky mluvit i Gist, polsky do schaze ptijdou jen ti, kterYin se musi J. F. Hrabina, mistoptedseda. ta. Ma matka nine naueila eesky gist a v anglicke feel vysvetlit, a se jedna.

Otto Hanu g, mistoptedseda. psat.

U nageho tadu ye vSTrani schfizi jsme Ludva 0. HoAek, tajernnik.

Dale, abych na geho redaktora ted' u- si zvolili dye dopisovatelky, podobne jaF. J. BlaZek, pokladnik. clobkil, tak dodam, ze zde ye Fort Worth ko to ma uZ nekolik radu. Sestra Anna Robert Cervenka, teditel III. distriktu.

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ROCNI ZPRAVA (Obyeejne zpravy re vYroeni schtizi bYvaji suche, raidne, nezajimave. Zprava ptedsedy tadu Pokrok Houstonu eislo 88, podana, bratrem Rudou Sefeikem, mirk slougit druhym ptedsedtim a fitednikfim za vzor. ,Pogadal jsem eleny tadu Oslo 88, aby mne dovolili uvetejnit zpravu, bratra Sefeika, jak ji podal elentim v obou •eeich• Neni to zprava fipina, ponevad g nestadil jsem, abych v gechn.o zachytil pri delani poznarnek. Ale je dosti obkirna, aby elenove tadu Pokrok Houstonu, kteti nebyli ye vYroeni schfizi, si ji pteectli. — Redaktor.)

PikEDSEDY

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na zajem a prospech spolku. Myslim, planovaci vYbor, kterY by se ohli gel po je to povinnost ka gcleho, kdo se u tadu nejakern vhodnem pozemku dale od ?hraPokrok Houstonu necha zvolit do fitadu nic mesta, kde by mohlo bYt tadem vynebo do YYboru. Ze jsem se v gdy zastal budoVane sticedisko pro zabavy a osve gesveho faclu, je phrozene. Prete bych mel ni, a kde by nejen, dospeli, ale take deti, bYti elenern toho neb onoho Mesa, kdyg meli vice volnosti a ptile gitosti k pobavebych nebyl aspon trochu hrdY na sve ni a zotaveni. Tonto planovaci vYbor mei elenstvi? Nekdy se opravdu citim nemile by mit pra y° a take nejake finanoni prodoteenY, kdy g slygim nektereho elena kri- sttedky, aby mohl vhodnY pozemek tisovat to ei ono u nakho tadu, a kdyg hledati a take zajistiti do doby, nez' by takovY Glen se vyhne ka gcle praci a zod- plan byl ptedlo gen elearim ku schvaleni. povednosti. Zvete ho do schuze ne5 ' A koneene, jako za.vereenou ptijde. On ma jine starosti nez aby si je- znamku, chtel bych ptipomenouti, tie I mame v na gem distriktu eleny, kteti si Ste ptibiral spolkovou praci. zaslougi od na geho tadu uznami. Chci se Za tech lest roku sveho atadovani zminiti o tediteli pateho.distriktu, o brajsem chyby. Ale kdo nejakou chybu tru J. M. Skrabankovi, kterY v Angleton Sestry a 'bratii: Dovolte mi, abych opakoval v deske teei, co jsem prave neudeld, nedela nic. Ty chyby, ktere jsem vyzval tteti distrikt k soute gif a ziskava. ptednes1 y am anglicky. Mnozi z vas ra- udelal, nebyly zUmyslne. Vgdycky jsem ni novYch elenft. To byl kreik, kterY deji srygite vYroeni zpravu v eeske teei. mel na mysli dobro tadu eislo 88. Na bYt udelanY pied 20 lety. Mo gna, ze. neklad, co se tyre zmeny vedeni schfizi v Napted vysvetlim, proe jsem nechal o- I anglicke feel. Nadel nine iika, ze nage kteti z vas si mysli, ze takovY zavocl-nie statni tadove atedniky podati sve zpra,- spolkova budova je nag domov, kde ma- neznamena. Ai se zavod ukonel, mogna vy. Obyeejne' poda,val jsem jako ptedse- me miuvit jen svou reci. Ano, a prave poznarne, ze tyto dva distrikty ziskaly da svou zpravu nap ped. Teprve po nine nine ptichazi na mysl, ze mame souseda, dobe zavocht vice elenti a poji gteni nez oprisli druzi a jenom potvrdili to, co jsem kterY zna jen jednu tee, a kterY nas na- statni distrikty v gechny dohromacly.

A take chci Upozorniti na elena tacit' ptedtim tekl. Tak jsme to dean petkrat. vgtivi v nagem domove. Kolik z nas byLetos, v gestem roku maw fitadovani,_ I chom chteli mluvit ve svem domove jen Pokrok Houstonu, na geho redaktora, bratra Valeika, kterY s yYipi ptedfiagkami chtel jsem, aby druzi mluvili napped. syYm zpfisobem? Mnoho z nas jiste ne. organisatorfim ye vaech distriktech, sy-YNeg ptikroeim ku sve roeni zprave, chci yam podekovati za tu test, ze jste Neptijmu vice fita,d ptedsedy pro na- mi elanky. ye Vestniku, a svymi radami mne zvolili gestkrate za sveho ptedsedu. stavajici Mk. Mezi dvanacti sty 'deny ji- mezi hlavnimi fitedniky plahnul stojatou Je to eest. Mela by to bYt nest pro ka gcle- ste najdete dosti jinYch, kteti tento fitad vodou. Komu test, tomu test.

Jegte jednou chci y am vgem podekoho zvoleneho. Nekdy se zda, ze je to We-- zastanou. Minim to va gne. Budu vas gameno byti ptedsedou spolku, kde je ptes dat, abyste mne tentokrate vyneehali pti vati za poctu, ze jste mne zvolili po Best dvanact set elenfi. Pro mne to bylo vy- nominaci. Bude dobre, kdy g se v fipadech rokft sy Ym tadovYm ptedsedou. Tem, kdo / znamenani. vysticidame, vyrnenirn.e, jen kdy g zusta- prijdou po nine, budu pomahat, kolik nine bude mog ne. To, ze nechci bYti letos Chci dnes dnes podekovati v gem mYm neme dobrYmi demokra.ty.

Za sveho gestileteho ptedsednictvi pti- nominovan, neznamena, ae p •estanu pmspoluatednikfn; ne pouze tem, kdo byli se mnou fitedniky v minulem roce, ale gel jsem na nektere veci, ktere bude do- covat. Jenom chci, aby se u tadu Pokrok kdo se mnou slougili v poslednich gesti bre pozmeniti. Kdybych zaeinal znovu,' Houstonu elenove v iitadu ptedsedu vyletech. Muslin podekovati bratru Aifredu delal bych to jinak. Proto bych rad po- menovali.

Memu nastupci . a vg em fitednikilm pc>, Hilsherovi, sestte Frances Olexove, bra- dal nektere pokyny, aby byly udelane davam pomocnou ruku. Pfeji jim hodne tru Alberta Bfi gtikovi, sestte Louise Ka gmeny pro lep gi vedeni MAIL yam vgern je gte jednou clekuji.. zdaru.

A dleekove, bratru Ernestu Hankovi a bra1. Doporueoval bych, abyste nepo gado°(— )• tru Jerry Ermisovi. Bez jejich pomoci vali od ptedsedy nebo od mistoptedsedy, tezko by se mi atadovalo. Vam, sestry a by odebirali penize, ptepoeitavali je, a it a d Fort Worth Oslo 154. bratti atednici, path mfij dik. A take ne- teprve je odevzdavali ppkladnikovi. PMFort Worth, Texas. smim pfehlednout vgechny vYbory, ktere nechejte tuto praci pokladnikovi. Pted• Mili bratti a sestry: pracovaly s nami uiedniky v uplynulem seda mute dostati vYkaz v gech ptijatYch Nage schfize konat se bude a g druhou roce a .po celY eas meho ptedsednietvi. penez ze zabav a tadovYch podnikfi, aby nedeli, to jest 10. ledna, ve dve hodiny V tomto rninulem roce ztratili jsme osm veal, jak v gechno pokraeuje, ale penize odpoledne v Sokolovne. Odlozili jsme elenn nasledkein Umrti. Byl jsem na peti nemusi ptijimat a poeitat. schfizi na gi o tYclen, nekteki nah bratti a pohtbech. Pti t •ech z nich vykonal jsem 2. Dejte tajemniku praci vedeni zapis- sestry si vyjeli nekde na svatky k ptibuzpolifebni oblady dle ptani portistale ro- kft a vytiZovani korespondence a fieetni- nYm a -nemohli by se zuoastnit schtze. diny. Za sveho kstileteho ptedsednictvi ku vegkere vedeni uctu. To ov gem budete Tak ptijd'te, nezfistavejte Boma, meli jsme 44 pohtbil. Byl jsem na 26 z muset take nale gite odmeniti ph udelo- se trochu mezi nas pobavit. nich, a ph 18 pohtbech jsem vykonal vani odmen za vykonanou praci.

Ted' zase nem jineho. Program v dove proslovy. Krome toho byl jsem po3. Pamatujte, se tad ma, investovano kolovne byl velice peknY, vsem se zvan na jedenact jinYch pohtbfi, kde pCes $10,000 v pozemku htbitova. jen gkoda, ze jsme si nezazpivali asPon jsem vykonal obtady pro zemtele, kteii ye by meli si uvedomit, ze je to kapital, jednu tu deskou piseri, tu po celem svete nebyli eleny na geho tadu Pokrok Hou- kterY byl investovanY pro dobro Menu. mezi nagim eeskYm lidem znamou, stonu.

H •bitovni pozemek mel by bYti rozpro- rodil se Kristus Pan, veselme se". nq Jako ptedseda nejvet giho tadu SPJST n mezi eleny. snad ag se nom vrati domti Jerry Mllart,. dbal jsem toho, abych v gdy pamatoval 4. Rad by mel zvolili nebo ustanovit kterY studuje na universite u profeaorit

Strana 8 ieka, snad ut nazi Ledo deskeho pray! tem dedeekam a babidkam, aby jim zp •ijernnil ten konec jejich tivota.

Dostala jsem opravdu krasnY vanoeni darek. Byla jsem v Dallas na divadle, bylo nas tam z Fort Worth asi deset. To se pan Houdek usmival jako mesieek. Bran "Na svatem kopeeku", a pak "Byl to eeskY muzikant". To byla hudba, kdyt ten pan Kmoch spustil "Koline, Koline", "Andulko Safakova, husieky nemaA doma" a jine ty krasne eeske pisne. Jo, demuzika, to srdce pronika.

Srdeene diky pani a panu. BotikovYm,, te mne vzali do Ennis videt ten krasn3r film "Cestou kritovou". Stavili jsme se tot u jejich syna dhstojneho pana Botika ye Waxahachie. Had lads uvidel, patese s tathakem a maminkou. Zavedl nas ' fez do kostela. Ma tam krasne nove varhany, na ktere nam zahral; ty, maji takovY hlas, te se to neda ani vypsat. To jste lined blite k Bohu.

Take jsem se byla podivat na program radu Cis, 92, ale ut jsem pti gla pozde.

JakY meli program, to asi yypiS'e sestra Juranova, umi dobtet a pane psat, tea rink sestra dopisovatelka v anglicke keei vain napiSe. Dekujeme v'Sem po •adatelum. Ug musim ukoneit a pieji v§em etoucim, aby ten novY rok 1954 jim Tell vSe to nejlepk.

Anna Svitak, dopisovatelka. ) o Rad El Campo Cislo 50.

El Campo, Texas.

Mile scstry a bratti: Prichatim mezi vas s nekolika iadky. l'rosincovou schuzi jsme odbYvali, ale volby hiedniku nc, pro nedostatek Hylo lone narizeno, abych potadala sechny 'deny na geho iadu El Campo Cis. 1;0, aby se dostavili do schtze 3. ledna 1954 a zvolili si iliedniky pro tento rok. lit by bylo na Case, aby nam starYm dniktim dali odpoeinek. Mame mnoho mladkch, co by to mohli zastat — ale ono je mnoho jinYch mist, kde radeji jedou nai do self-ate. Ale vtdyt' my staid tady pora.d nebudeme.

Dale tadame tleetni vflaor, aby OHM" a prohledli knihy. jediati nak sestru, pani Josef 1 nernocnou ut mnoho mesich, v neinocnici, Piejeme ji larzka •/ !cavern. rak tento rok brzy preSel, fie:di se nadame budeme psat 1954.

1-teji vdem dVastne vesele vanoce mnoho zdaru v pffatim rode.

Se srdeenYm pozdravem Ida Peterka, tajenanice. )o N'etnost pi'epinand jest vylhanou choulostivosti, ale choulostivost opraycloya, jest natnosti klaniu prostou,

VEST N1 — WEST, TEXAS MAIVIINKA PSALA

Ve sttedu, due 30. prosince 1953.

idu zvolen br. Frank G. Svadleliak; za miI stopiedsedu, br. F. S. Lekkar; tajemnik Rudolf Sliva br. A. L. BoudnY; iteetni ses. Lillian Katparek; pokladnik, br. Fr. Hejl.

Nevracej se &mil, manntika ml psala.

MajetkovY vYbor: bratii Edwin Kova,P, Dvacet dlouhSrch rokil jedno jsem si Fr. Drozda, Julius Hurika, Jerry Mucha a Emil PokornY. pkivitat te doma, Zabavni vYbor: sestra Lillian KaSpaa to piani stale v koutku srdce nosirn. rek a br. Albert Kagparek.

Silnejk net tivot byla moje vira, Dalk vYbory budou ustanoveny v pkiSti te ty jednou ptijdeS. Ale tech' te prosim, schtizi. nechod', chlapce, doma.

Sestra ylasta IviciC zvolena za reditelku mladete a take nam prednesla s naVe snach vidala jsem, jak se otevird cvieenou omladinou krasnY program, branka na zaprati do naS'eho dvorku, kterV byl bezvadne proveden; a •xlem, vchazig ty, tva tend a vnoueata moje. soude die potlesku, se vehni zamlouval.

Za vsi na pahorku MajetkovY v.Ybor sdeluje, ze kdo by se obleka se slunk° do zlateho kroje, zajimal o misto domovnika v sini Padu ye strani te zdravi lipy osamele, Praha, at' se ()brat ptimo na b y. Edwibtizky rozmlouvaji jak o botim tele, na Kovake, an.eb poda nabidku v fkiki sktivan v poli lita,, schtizi. jirieka te vita, Bratru redaktoru a vS'em &Lanai:um po dnech setmivani ape pieji St'astnY novY rok 1954.

Nevracej se, synku.

S bratrskYm pozdravem Zlou lays naS'el cestu.

A. L. BoudnY, tajemnik. ti v meste do arestu, Is& tt tekli, te je kulak, nevim, co to znadi.

Caldwell, Texas.

A ja, fitechu ut nemam ani ,v Vkchno nad jsme deli, vSechno to nam Ctend redakce Vestniku: Dnes prichazim jen na chvilku. Mela vzah, jsem psati jit da,vno, ale nebylo milady me oei se davno ze slz vyplakaly. ani chuti ku psani. Kdyt neni nalada ku Tatovi ut bude osmdesat ran, psani a my piece piSeme, tak ten dopis tetce oddychuje psi katdiekem kroku, za nic nestoji, a ted' pied vanocemi nea jak veci grisly, oAetfeni stale ni mnoho dasu ku psani. Chci jen oznaa plesnivou ktrku ma ted' v kriminale. miti, tteba jit pozde, to jsme ztratili doNepracuji, nejim. To je zakon novST, brou sousedku a spolusestru Mari! Taraza to musim volat Slava Stalinovi. bovou, ktera zemkela 30. listopadu a poTiebate jsem vlasti etyki syny dada, hthena byla 2. prosince. Jeji zdravi bylo te jsem etyri syny dobte vychovala, dosti dobre jejim vysokem staki 86 let. v chalupe me vlastni neni pro mne mista. Nekdy trpela revmatismem a nekdy si Z tech mYch synif tadny neni komunista. naiikala na nespavost, ale jinak byla Zivorime, zhynem. Slabi jsme i v hnevu. zdravi. Posledni dobou ztratila sluch a zrak, tak to ji hodne trapilo. Casto jsem maple na tarn chodivala a pokud ona mohla Cisti, Nechod', chla,pde, do tech navgtevu. rada mluvila o dopisech, ktere si ve VestZe sbirky basni Rudolfa Slivy: POZD niku piedetla. Ted', kdyt tarn pkijdu, je NI ZEN, kterou v peelive graficke eel- nine smutno, postradam ji. My jsme nekove aprave vydal Kruh ptatel eeskoslo- objeclnali ta,dne kvetiny, tak misto kvetin jsme poslali $2.00 na Mouektiv fond k venske knihy v Chicagu. Kniha je do' pinena fotografii autora, pfedmluvou a ucteni jeji pamatky. Zda se nam, to je tivotopisem z pera samotneho autora. mnohem lope darovati neco na nejakY dobrY Teel k ucteni pamatky nakch miObjednejte si tuto knihu co nejdfive, CalYch ptatel net kvetiny, neb kvetiny za na vYtisku $1.25. Adresujte: 1545 West nekolik hodin svadnou a pak neni z nick 18th, Chicago 8, Illinois. nic, kdetto co dame na Mouektiv fond, 4, + bude kti vtdycky. Aspon si myslim, te at Moudktiv damov postavime, te i kdyt kid Praha Cislo 29.

Taylor, Texas. my starg zde jit nebudeme, te ti mladk Brat?' a sestry a zvla gte vy, kteti jste se budou starati o to, aby nikdy nezaniknul. Sestte Tarabove p •ejerne sladkY spave vYroeni sehrizi nebyli ptitomni: `Pak se mne zda, to by ka gdr Clen aspori nek, o kterY ona, tolik prosila, a rodine ttikrat neb etytikrat do roka se do send- Sefelkove patil nak hluboka„ soustrast. ze rnohl dostavit. Ale kde pak! Znam Poteglo mne, kdyt jsem uvidela etyti mnoho, to jegte v tadove sehrizi nebyli dopisy ye Vestniku 'Oslo 49, psane pro uptitomni. Proe? Nu, to netteba povidat, drgeni eeske reel v na g Jednote. Pekne psala sestra R. H. Kampenova a sestra, to dobre vime.

Volby dopadly nasledo yne: za predse- Andela Cablova. Tesi nano, sestro

Ve stkedu, dne 30. prosinee 1953.

V.g STNIK — WEST, TETA::

Ze se mnou souhlasite. Dlouldr a velmi pekne psany dopis mel bratr Vaclav 13akina. Beze strachu povedel pravdu do °el tern, co na gi ked ubiji. Bratr J. A. 8efeik to nemel rad, ae cely program na oslave nagi Hlavni iftadovny se odbyl v keei anglicke. Ja tea ne. Byla to oslava nagi Ceske neb slovanske Jednoty, proto mely bYti pkedna gky aspoii vetginou CeRESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI ske, a zatim jen jeden eeskSr vYstup, totil My, niZepsanY resolueni vS,bor kadu uvitaci kee sleeny Matu gove, ktera nas Vlastenec Cislo 45 v Shiner, Texas, timto tak pane v Ceske keel pkivitala. Jegte projevujeme nagi hluboce citenou souchci iici, bratke Sefciku, ae mne te gilo se strast portistalYm detem a rodine nad s Varni seznamiti. IT&ly jsem Va ge dopisy odchodem jejich matky a babieky a naai rada Cetla a ted' kdyZ Vas znam, nine spolusestry budou jeate vice zajimati. Pii seznamerii Marie Hurta, bratr S ‘ efeik kekl: "Ja jsem si vas pked-7 ktera zernkela dne 12. prosince 1953 a bystavoval jinak, myslel jsem, ae jste tako- la pochovana dne 14. prosirice na va, (a nadstavil ruky do oblouku), kdyZ ye Lesko-MorayskYch Bratki pH Shiner. se Zadneho nebojite". Asi se bratr 8efeik DoZila se veku 69 let. Vime, portistala rodomnival, ze jsem statna a hodne za- dino, ae teace nesete jeji ztratu, ale budiZ tloustla Zena, a ja zatim jsem takova yam Utechou, ae i my, bratki a' sestry tinterka. Bratie Sefeiku, ja vZdy pi gi jen scucitime s Vami ye Va gem zarmutku. pravdu, tak se nemusim nikoho bati, neb Zminena sestra at' odpoeiva, v pokoji. pravda se vyvratiti neda, Resolueni vS(bor kadu Vlastenec eislo 45 Ve Vestniku Cislo 50 mela peknSi dopis v Shiner, Texas: Frank M. Mikeska, John sestra Bolena Valeikova. TeZ dobra za- H. Elgik, Frank Mikeska. stankyne nagi Ceske keel. Musime stale o) • 4, • ( pakovati, ae si nepkejeme, aby byla naae RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI Jednota poamerikanisovana, neb jestli se My, nitre podepsanST resolueni vYbor to stane, tak oni nam ji pak alpine se- kadu Ce gti Bratki eislo 44 v Industry, Teberou. xas, vyslovujeme nagi uptimnou souMy tea nebudeme vatioeni listky posi- strast manZelce, ditkam a dal gi pozUstale lat. Odeslali jsme jen 'al a to pkateltim, rodine nad ztratou jejich manZela, otce, s kteilrmi si dopisujeme. Dluhovali jsme dedeeka, pradedeeka a naaeho mileho jim psani, tak jsme odpovedeli na va- spolubratra noenim listku. Misto posilani listku jsme Franka J. Langera, poslali $2.00 na Mouekiiv fond. kterSr zemkel dne 8. prosince 1953 ye svem A ted' ukoneim, stejne mne to psani domove v Industry, Texas. dnes jaksi neide, moIna podruhe napigi Dean • se veku 80 let a dva mesice, a do zajimavej gi dopis.

Jednoty SPJST , pfistoupil dne 13. fijna Jegte pfejeme vaem Otenakum mnoho 1907, a zarovefi staff se einnYin Menem gtesti a nejvice zdravi v nastavajicim fadu 6egti Bratti 'Oslo 44 v Industry, Tenovem roce. xas. Byl tajernnikem tohoto fadu po Pi. P. P. Mikeskove.. dlouhou fadu let, a zaroveti ziskal mnoho • 4 • ( elenti do Jednoty za dobu jeho einnYch kid tegti Bluth eislo 44. let. , IncluStry, Texas.

Byl velice pfivetivStm a ildnYm Clenem Cteni bratki a sestry: a rad si zaapasoval, neb byl vesele poTimto vam vgem na vedomost davarn, vahy. ae ye .v"froeni schtizi, ktera se konala druProto vyslovujeme timto portistale rohou nedeli v prosinci, byli va gi iikednici dine hlubokou soustrast, a zemfelemu vgichni znovu zvoleni na pfi gti rok. — bratru pfejeme klidnY odpoeinek.

Schilze se nadale budou potadat kaadou Miroslav Petrusek, Joe F. Coufal, John druhou nedeli v mesici dopoledne.

Marek st., resolueni vStbor. , . 4, • S bratrskin pozdravem Miroslav Petrilsek, tajemnik.

RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI ) • 4 • ( My, nine psany resolucni vYbor kadu KomenskY cis. 20, SPJST, v Granger, TePrakce nade Synailek: "Marninko, kdybych nahodou xas, projevujeme jmenem naseho radu byl pozvan k veeeki, .kde by na konec byl uptirnnou soustrast pozdstale rodine nad pkedlolen paj, main ho jist vidliekour iimrtim jejich milovaneho otce, bratra a Matka: "No, tot' se rozumi samo se- nakho spolubratra 1bou!"

Vine. C. Dugek, Synacek: "Nema g to nekde nahodou kterSt od nas odekl navady k veenemu kousek paje, abych na nem mohl zatim. odpoeinku dne 16. prosince 1953 ye staff 72 let, a dne 18. prosince byl pohfben na brakticirovat?"

fStrana 9 hkbitove Lesko-Mora ysk3"Tch Bratri v Granger za velke neasti pkibuznYch pfatel.

Zesnu1377 bratr Dudek patiil k Nadu NomenskY pies 48 let. Byl dobrYin Clenem pracovnikem hiclovYrn Vy, portistala, rodino a ditky, pfijmete jeate jednou na.si uprimnou soustrast zesnulemu budiZ zeme lehkou.

Dan° za rad KonnenskY Ms. 20, SPJST, v Granger, Texas.

J. H. Huser, John P, Trlica, Henry Vid tek, resolueni vYbor. ) • 4, • (

KALENDAII V sobotu tohoto tydne a ka'Adbu nasledujici sobotu lad Pokr9k, Houstonu Cislo 88 pokada pkatelskou zitbavu. Nava Caj a zakusky jsou vldy zdarmai Veeefe dle pkani. Navgtevnici jsou v2dy pozvete sve zname.

V nedeli 10. ledna dramatickY krouZek Ozvena sehraje v sini l'adu . -.3tefanik Cislo 142 peknY oeskY kus pod nazvem "Rozmysli si, Mal•enko." ZaCatek ye 4 hodiny odpoledne.

4 t Phi letog ni bouki, rozmlouvali spolu na pavlaei domu soused Se sousedkou. Pojednou zahkmelo, phi oegaZ sousedka chopi souseda za ruku a pevne se ho drZi. Soused se pta: "Prof se me chytate?"

Sousedka: "Piece se kika, hkmit, abychom se chytili nejakeho dkeva."

•( 1 • DobrS, poslucliae.

RaZdemu neni dam, aby umel sve myglenky a nahlecly plynne vyjadkovati. MIeelivi lide citi se zvla gte ye spoleenosti velmi zaraaeni a rozpaeiti. DobrST ton site vyZaduje, aby kaZdY jistou merou spel k zabave vaech shromaZdenSrch, ale kdo nema dar keel, nenytiZe si pomoci.

Takovi lide laSTvaji obdaheni jinSrm talentern, jsou vdeenS,mi posluchaei, cod pak pfichazi velmi vhod lidem hovornrn. Tito jsou naramne at'astni, kdyZ nekdo je se zajmem poslouclia. Proto se nemluvnSt elovek nemusi nad svSlin nedostatkem rmoutiti, mode se uplatniti co posluma-li se chao, a koneene je snad lepe vybirati ze dvou zel bYti spine tichS/m, neali ) • 4 Matka ho mot neodstragila. budeg Matka: Ale poslouchej, Wou -litakjechvilst,akprneA. Wou: All right -- tak ml ukrojte jeate a potom jcl ete s testy. kousek kejku •( Mu2 duchalpnY byl by easto velice zaraaen, kdyby ocitl Se mimo shromaZdeni

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VESTNiK— WEST, TEXAS

Ve stiedu, dne 30. prusinee 1953.

Z pame prvnich 6eskSrch osadnikii v Texas (Fokraeovani) (Pi.,e F. J. Fojtik z Flatonie) doSel mesic na, farme, byl jsem totiS Bylo to jednou r podzim, byl jsem v nebylo ric teSkeho pro mne a v poledne i zjednan na mesic, odstehoval jsem se k emi pochajill, nemu. Pan KopeckY by) te2 milovnikem Schulenbur;,- a •sly ,isein tarn star g iho Pii obecle uS me piede v g gemu rozumim a delam jako luty- huclby a vyborny houslista, aekoliv noty elo yika jak min vi o Fayetteville a pak ze uS v takove praci davno. 1,0 neznal, byl jak se iika "old time fiddler". povidal, ;.0 by rad 'lase', nejakeho mla- bych byl jsme spolu, on housle a ja, klaridika k comento've praci. Ja jsem chvili jsem se hned citil, jako bych byl o sto- net a nekdy jsme hrali i na bale. naslouelial a kdyS jejich hovor trochu Pu povyrostl a veeer jsem jim za to z Nedaleko nick tam tenkrate mel gropf•stoupil jsem bred na klarinet. aiehnul, °smell), jsem cerni Sloru a nalevnu piva pan Petr KneAnimansville jsme k nemu a, ptal jsem se jej, j estli by nine I Tam u Dubiny bilk. Byl to te2 jeden z prvnich muzikana mohl potrebovat. On se mile vyptal, jak' meli praoi a asi do prosince. B.ylo to tti Baeovy kapele, ale tenkrate nehraval, te u Drobikti a Mens.ku a ostatni jmena se jmenuji a odkud a ei jsein a je g kdesi cosi a pak se mi sam piedstavil, nepama,tuji. KclyS jsme byli s praci hots neb obchod zabiral vgechen jeho eas.

KdyS nas uslygel brat; tak nas casts poto je Araustin Bdea, z Fayettevillu a Se vi, tak jsem rnel 110 rozvaSenou, jestli yeeer pfigli k nemu a tam je strYc el; toho Baee, co ma to dobrou mam jet s Baeou do Fayetteville, ale tou- bid',, a.bychom zahrali.

Za to nas vSdy dobie podastipval kapelu ye Fayetteviilu. Fovidal mi, to ha spatrit dale svet u mne zvitezila, tea jednou jsme hrali do — ale neleAjte trope e : • mentuje studne a dela cemen- dy jsem se pustil s Baeou do Fayettevillu. I jizdy to by se , ze uS tenkrate, do radia— to bylo do tove aajdvoky' a jinou cementovou OvSem v nynej gi dobe rychle , praci a ptal se mne, jestli bych se neloal nebylo Me, to ted' ujede za hodinu, co telefonu. Na Willow Springs tenkrate mel lezti neb bYt spu gten do studa i Liebe. nam tenkrale na vozu vzalo celY den, a ()behold nejakY pan Gatlin a mel telefonnaklad na vozu ni spojenido Fayetteville a, s Kneblikem. sto stop b'uboke. Ve nine to lirklo ja,ko k tomu je gte jsme , Jednou kdyS jsme tam zase hrali, tak hodinach, ale nen rania.1 isem studnaiskeho rOeini a forem na cement. ye, Kneblik jej zavolal po telefonu, to no si ,be znat a iekl jsem mu, e se Dojeli jslno do Fayetteville iiiS veeer j( , tli (dice slyget peknou muziku, aby ponebo jnn. ale kdylay mohl eisti mojc (11, - 0 pan' Baenvd Warnochystala veceri. 11, pies telefon. Tedy jsme glenky, tak by byl posnal, Se jnem to la nemecke narodnosti. eesky neume'a, ,3toupili co nejbliCe telefonu a hrali a o"ne" pri Pan siove nebojim 1,/d • ,I,e1 ale nebylo mi to na skodu, nob vgcchno ni tarn poslouchali a bylo jim to pry vyne.1.1:11.

I mezi sebou mluvili nemecky, tak ja jsem vzacne, ze jeden. clruhemu Nebylo to - I LL s tim lezefum do seine, tez nerneinu dosti dobre pochytil, Se jsem chatko a kaa1Y to chtel slyvytrhoval sluget. My jsme tak zle, nob ,a ce l Y cas cu jsein pracoval se pak protloukl i mezi Nemci. Ano, papro pang Baeu, dtslal jsem se nejhloube- ni Baeova me naueila i nemecky Gist a hrali a oni tam poslouchali a pan Garji do zeme jen asi i5 stop. Kdy2 jsme peat. neb veeery ueivala svoje kluky; me- lin od nich kolektoval na nasi pocastnou a pak 'ctrl panu Kneblikovi, kolik ma pro s panem Bacou seznamili a se dakladne li al a tak ja se ueil s nimi.

Inas penes, aby nam nalil za to piva, Se piedstavili jeden druhemu tak nine lined Praci pan Baca zrovna Sa'dnou nemel na druhy' jak ak pojede vedle do Fayeastoval a vybizel, abych s nim jel hned ale rikal mi ' abych byl u iaich a udelal etteville, Se mu penize odevzda.

Se delaji u Dubiny, asi 9 mil od Schm- se doma na jak dlouho chci, Se mi za Jednou, jak jsme tam u p. Kneblika lenburgu. Ja jsem ov gem hned s nim stravu nebude nic poditat, jenom abych tak nam kikal, Se p. Frantigek J. jet • nemoill, neb jsem tarn mel kone se! poklizel dobytek a kone a na g tipal die Baca, zaklaclatcl a kapelnik Baeovy kasedlem, kt,eia% nil nepattil a pak gatstvo vo na topeni. Ale kdyby se mi hc-raka el, ale na an iak poly by nas Fez tad sly gel brat, Se jak jsem newel, jen co jsem mel na sobs a prace trefila, abych g , pro nas po gle, abyto bylo, en jsem mei nejlep gi svateeni; se zase otcvrc jeho prace, Se muslin jit tarn nekdy prijde ze tak jsem piece nernohl lest do stulne a zase s nim. Na ttetl den uS jsem incl pra, chom mu zahrali. Ale my jsme ani nemichat cement, ale vyptal jsem se je j ci na farms , chic',' sly get, mysleli jsme si: kdepak, taRu.,, Prairie. clobre, kde dela a shbil jsem. mu , Se se 1 Bylo to na Novy rok, se gel isem se ve kovi gkrabaci a brat pied vylalagenSrm kapelnikem a hudebnikem. tam na drub Y den necham dovezt. I Fayetteville s ueitelem Martinem Kopec- Za nejakY eas na to jsme jeden veeer Tedy veeer, jsein si posbiral to nejnut- kYm, ucil tenkrate y e skole v Bordovicic by_li s Martinelli pilne zabrani do ucenr nel gi a ovg em klarinet jsern teS nezano- asi 3 mile na vYchod od Fayetteville. Je a tu , prijde pro nas p. Ernest Or.sak a mnel a net se rano rozednivalo, tak uS to ,tnatranec doktora Jos. Kopeckyho y vyrizoval nam, Se p. Kneblik pro rids pojsem se blizil no Slapeuku k Dubine. Kdy'S San Antonio. Znali jsme se spoilt uS da y slal, abychom tam zase pti gli hrat, Se u -jsein dorazil na misto, prvni mne uvital no, neb on tez ucil ve skole Greive po Garlina je velka spoleenost pohromade velk-ST hafan, ale 'Se jej hospoddi lined dva roky a ja jsem k nemu chodil neja- a se nas chteji poslouchat po telefonu zakiiknul, tedy nine nechal jit do duo- ky eas do yeeerni Skoly. Byli jsme oba jako minule. My jsme ov gem nemegkali ra. Ptah se nine, jestli jsem u2 mel sni- prekvapeni, ze jeme se tak spolu se.q i aa lined jsme byli, jak se rika -ready." dani. Jd jsein rekl, to ne, ale ze nemam tak blisko sehe jsme bYvali a jeden o (Pokradovani.) hladu, ale laospodyn hned uchystala sni- druhera nevedel. 1idy2 jsem mu tek1 kde i 4. 4, clan!, to piece d otakove teSke prace ne- jsem a co delani, on lined na me, Se mu mohu jit hladnY. Kdy2 jsein byl po sni- sim jit k nim do Eordovic. On byl jegte Frvni ona: Verite, Se klobouk muse dani, to piece do takove teSke prace ne- svobodnY, ale bydlel s matkou. Povidal, zmeniti hodne oblieej? myslela, ale tolik vim, ze poznala, ze to tam v botni u Cummings potoku ma Druha ona: Ano, to veiim — kdy2 jsem zrentovano nekolik akrn pole, Se ma dva ja, minute pfinesla si domt ten maj novY jsem lhal, kdyS jsem ji pied snidani to nemam hlad. Ale povate si, ta,kovST kus kone, to mu to pooram a zaseju a Se se klobouk, mela jste videt, jak maj stare] cesty pies noc urazit a to glapcuku, kdo budeme veeer ueit, Se ma, skladat ueitel- z/nenil oblieej. by nevylaladolrel; utel jsein asi 20 mil. skou zkoutku, aby dostal vysvedeeni vy gPan Pica tarn kopal a cementova) tiidy, tedy Se se budeme &At pohrostudni a kdy2 jsem dal na sebe pracovni made, Se nam to lope piljde a pak Se poMut: "Kdy'S se oholim, vyhliSim hned uniformu, tak me vial ku studni a jedeme do La Grange ku zkou gce. Tato naladgim!" vgechno ml vysvetloval jak to pracuje, cot nabidka se mi zamlouvala, tedy jak nil I 2ena: "Oho', se jests jednou, muSiekur

Wednecday. December 20, 1053 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF SLAVONIC BENEVOLENT ORDER OF THE STATE OF TEXAS

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MUSINGS OF THE EDITOR "—AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL." With those words Brother Hornak ended his letter of instructions to the editor.

It was a letter received about two weeks before Christmas. It was a semi-official communication advising the editor that the Publication Committee, the publishers, and the editor will meet in Temple in the offices of the Supreme Lodge on Saturday, January 2, 1954, as provided by the article 66 of the by-laws. His letter was closed with these words: "And I would appreciate if you place in the Vestnik the customary greetings from the Publication Committee, the publishers, and the editor wishing merry Christmas' and a happy New Year to all." * WE DO HOPE THAT YOU HAD THE best of all gifts around your Christmas tree, around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. And we wish you that all your troubles during the coming year be as short-lived as your 'New-Year's resolutions. And if you want to copy our recipe for a Happy New Year, just cut the following lines from the Vestnik, and place it in your billfold. ' Read it occasionally, read it often enough to know it by heart before long.

• -• • TAKE TWELVE FINE, FULL-GROWN MONTHS, and see that they are thoroughly clean from old memories of bitterness, resentment, grudge, hate, and jealousy; wash and cleanse them completely from every clinging spite; pick off the specks of pettiness and littleness; in short, see that these months are freed from all the dirt of the past. Have them as fresh and clean as when they first came from the great storehouse of Time.

CUT THESE TWELVE MONTHS INTO 30 or 31 equal parts. This batch will keep for just one year. Do not attempt to make up the whole batch at one time.

So many people make the mistake to make up more of it at one mixing, but they spoil the entire lot in this way.

Prepare only enough to last you one day at a time, by mixin g it as follows:

INTO EACH DAY PUT 12 PARTS OF faith, 11 parts of patience, 10 parts of courage, 9 parts of work (some people leave out this ingredient and so spoil the flavor of the .rest,) 8 parts of hope, 7 parts of fidelity, 6 parts of liberality, 5 parts of kindness, 4 of rest, 3 of devotion, 2 of meditation, and one well-selected resolution. Put in about a teaspoonful of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of folly, a sprinkling of play, and a cupful of good humor. * * POUR INTO THE WHOLE MIXTURE enough love to suit your taste, and mix with energy, vim, and vigor. Cook thoroughly in a fervent heat. Garnish it with a few freshly-gathered smiles. It should be served with unselfishness and cheerfulness. If this recipe is followed as directed, the Happy New Year dish will remain appetizing and delicious any time you reach for it. * * ANEWYEAR'SRESOLUTION should be made for one day only. This is the natural limit of man's spiritual fortitude. And each morning, for as long as possible, the resolution should be repeated, but again for one day only. A resolution that stretches out for a whole year is intolerably hard to keep. But one that begins each morning and ends at night is both simple and practical. It asks no more of us than we can do. It makes each day the measure of our responsibility, endurance and growth.

WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE THE NEW year bring you? What would I? Nothing in excess. Nothing fanciful and airy, but plain everyday strength.. And courage, too. And health, so that I may work with cheer. And hope to keep me young, at least young in thoughts and spirit, even if my liver and kidneys tell about my age. And flexibility of mind so that I would not get too much like some other old people—opinionated, stiff in ideas, obstinate, unduly adhering to preconceived notions, dictatorial. * * WHAT WOULD I HAVE? NOTHING OUT of ordinary. r would like to have more friends, constant and true friends. And intimate friends, too, whose words would

give me new vigor and dispel the clouds, of discouragement. And the New Year could' bring me some new thoughts. I need them badly. I am beginning to repeat myself, which is bad, very bad for any editor. New thoughts, so that the Vestnik would be filled with worthwhile. stuff.• And I surely need sounder judgment, or more wisdom, which would give me a gentle push to keep quiet when I have said enough.

• • THERE ARE NEW YEAR'S CLEAR ance sales. Well, I could offer some good bargains, too. I have a lot of prejudices which have ceased to be of use to me. I have a large supply of gloom that I shall have no use for after the New Year; also slightly shopworn jealousies. I offer bargains. Who will buy?

Come, bid, and take the stuff away.

Then I have a lot of wishes I have out and a stock of foolish old beliefs. For a good measure, I will throw in some of my pride which once I was, glad to own. I also wish to dispose of a large assortment of ill will, serious doubts and bad faith. I still do have a large supply of harsh and sarcastic words with plenty of stingers in them.

Does anybody want them? This is a clearance sale, I'm closing out.

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THIS STOCK MUST GO. I NEED more room for kindlinesS, for hopeful courage, for good cheer. For sale is also my stock of dark suspicions and the fear.

Then there is a large supply of frailties I shall have no use for after the New Year. All this is offered as bargains. Who want it? Come, bid, and take the stuff away. A new stock of merchandise is coming right after the New Year. Come on, I'm closing out. ) • 4, An elderly farm couple journeyed into town to shop and happened into a home appliance store where they stood transfixed before the latest model electric washing machine, complete with glass door. There in full vision, they watched the wet laundry, soggy and splashing in the demonstrator. Turning to her husband the little old lady muttered, "Well, if that's television, they can have it."

Wednesday, December

30, 1953

Yearly Report of the President of Lodge No. 88 (Editor's Note:—I had to do some fast thinking and scribbling in order to get the following report. While I was listening to the annual reports of the officers of Pokrok Houston Lodge No. 88, I couldn't help but think that the same procedure—mostly dry reading of figures— was in progress at many lodge meetings.

Then suddenly I perked up. Brother Rudy Sefeik started with his annual report.

As he went on, I commenced to write down his remarks. What follows is not a complete report, but it is a summary.

Those members who were absent should know what he said. And no doubt it will be of interest to the 158 presidents of the other local lodges.)

Sisters and Brothers:—This years, I let the other officers make their reports first. I did that for one reason. In the past five years I had made my report first, but I had felt that I had not sometimes left much for them to report. So today, I let them have their reports first. But before I go into my report, I want to thank you for the honor of having elected me as your president for the past six years. I consider it an honor and I feel that it should be considered as much by anyone that is elected.

Sometimes it seems as though it is a burden to be the head of an organiza tion of 1,200 members; but to me it is, first, and honor. I want to thank all of my fellow officers, not only for the last year, but for the past six years; namely, Biother Alfred Hilsher, Sister Frances Olexa, Brother Albert Bristik, Sister Louise Kadlecek, Brother Ernest Hanka, and Brother Jerry Ennis. Without their help, my job would have been much harder to perform. They went out of their way to be helpful, and to them again, thanks.

Also my thanks to all of the committees that have worked with me the past year and the last six years.

In the last year, we lost 8 members due to death. I attended five of the funerals and I officiated at three of them.

In the last six years, we had 44 deaths.

I attended 26, and represented the local lodge by officiating at 18 of them. I also officiated at 11 funerals that were not members of our local lodge. I have always tried to carry out my duties as president, and always placed the Lodge first in my consideration where the Lodge was concerned. I think that any officer who accepts an, office of Lodge No. 88 should do so.

It is only natural that I always took up for Lodge 88. After all, why should we be members of an organization if we would not take up fore it and be proud of it? In this connection, I wish to say me—and I mean this that it really

om the bottom of my heart—when I must do something in that respect. Let hear some of our members talk down us get a committee for that job, prob.our Lodge, and continually find faults ably a three-member committee, and with Lodge 88, but will do nothing them- give it some power to act within set selves to help correct anything. Ask them limits. to take an office , and the say: "Not on 5. In closing my report, I want to give your life!"

Whiles I have served you and your credit where credit is due—to some of Lodge, I have made some mistakes. But our members who deserve a pat on the believe me they were not intended as, back for the work in District Five. First, they evidently appeared to others. The I wish to mention our director, Brother only apology which I can say in that re- J. M. Skrabanek, who challenged Disspect would be the words of our great Aria Three to the contest at Angleton.

President Roosevelt: "He who does not He did something that should have been make mistakes, does not do anything." done 20 year_s ago. You can see the large I will not accept the position of presi- amount of good the contest has done. dent any more under any conditions this Some may argue that the contest isInot year. I feel that out of 1,200 members a very great help, but wait and see. ‘li am we certainly have enough qualified for sure that you will find District Three the office, so do not even nominate me, and Five writing as much or more in the please. I feel that we need a change, but last four months of this year as all of let's keep it with the Democrats. (Mem- the other five districts put together.

Another deserving member is our edibers laughed.) tor, BrOther Stephen Valcik, sitting right After looking back over the last six years, there are some things that I there and taking notes of what goes on. would do differently if I were to do them His inspiring, sensible, and highly inagain. But that is the thing of the past. formative articles are of muchaid to the Looking to the future, I would recom- SPJST. Let credit be given where it is mend the following suggestions for more due!

Once again I thank you for the honor efficient operation of the Lodge: 1. Take the responsibility of handling of electing me your president for six money away from the president and years in succession. I will give all the vice president and give it to the one it help that I can to the new president. belongs, namely, the treasurer. The pres- I don't intend to quit working for this dent should see the operating statement Lodge by step p ing aside like this.

I wish our Lodge and its future offioftlie business at least once a month c ers much success. Thank you. ' in Order to keep fully informed about 1•4•s what is going on.

2. Let the secretary be a recording An and correspondence secretary, and let the financial secretary do all the bookFor the last ten days, every clay have keeping work. Of course, you would have come holiday expression's of good-will to make the necessary corrections in the and understanding to your editor. pay of the two officers at the end of These heart-warming greetings bear testhe year. You will find that these things timony to strong fraternal ties. will help you get officers easier, and I express try sincere appreciation. It the business will operate more efficient- is impossible to thank you individually or ly. to send you a personal card of thanks 3. I would like to call attention to the for your friendly expression. But I wish cemetery lots that the Lodge has. The you to know that your greetings have membership should be aroused to more added inspiration to my work at the beinterest in that investment. After all, ginning of this new calendar year. we would not build a building for $10,000 Kindly take these words as my perand just let it stay there. The members sonal thanks to you, individually, for should definitely take more interest in my wife and myself. that.

Stephen Valcik, 4. I would recommend that the lodge Editor of Vestnik ) 0 4, , membership elect or get appointed a committee to do something in way of An irate bus driver was honking his planning to go farther from the center horn at every car that crossed his path. of the city. The committee should find His passengers were getting annoyed, a place for the members more interest- but nobody said anything until a tening, suitable for recreational activities, year-old boy boarded the bus. He stood especially in the summer. We should 1 silent behind the driver for five blocks find some acreage for a place, and prob- or so, and then asked loudly, "What else ably kei,p this one. I definitely feel we did you get for Christmas?"

Appreciation

'Wednesday, Dedember 30, 1953

VEST N X -- WEST, TEXAS

Strana 13

A SYMBOL OF NEW BEGINNINGS I was a rather special New Year's Eve. The little girl in the family, having reached the ripe old age of seven, had decided she was old enough to stay up and we:come the New Year with the rest 'at the party. There was no dissuading her. Hadn't she obediently gone to bed early on Christmas Eve, much as she wanted to stay up and help wrap packages, decorate the tree, and perhaps catch a glimpse of Santa Claus? Not that she really believed in Santa anymore; the boy next door had dashed that dream. But just the same, wouldn't it be wonderful if there really was, after all, a jay old — somebody? And on Christmas Eve, in spite of wanting to be sure about this, hadn't she gone to bed early? She had!

So when the little lady demanded, as a reward for going to bed early on Christmas, that she be allowed to stay up for New Year's Eve, there was a double reason for allowing her the adventure. The reward was primary, but in addition there was the selfish parental knowledge that if she stayed up late on New Year's Eve she would not be up with the dawn on New Year's Day. Therefore, she was invited to the party.

She had a fancy costume and a sack full of whistles and horns to blow as the witching hour struck. It was very exciting.

As each guest arrived she had to repeat in elaborate detail that she was one of the party and had permission to stay up until midnight. It would be the very latest she had ever stayed up, she would occasionally add to impress some of the more responsive guests—always mentioning her age to emphasize what a coup this was. Sometime she would demand hew late a gentleman and lady guest had ever stayed up, and they puffed her vanity by assuring her that when they were her age they had never stayed up till 12. The first few assurances of this wind provoked an excited burst of gay, triumphant laughter; but, maturing rapidly, she seemed to be fast learning to take the flattery in her stride shrugging it off as if the whole affair was a con.monplace event fOr her bedtime, and she was getting sleepy.

By 11 o'clock she had curled up on the sofa with her paper hat down over one eye, her bag of noisemakers clutched in her tiny fist, and one shoe half off. In spite of the growing bedlam of party laughter and talk she was sound asleep.

Someone suggested carrying her upstairs and putting her to bed. But that was promptly vetoed. She had asked to attend the party. She had been granted

By Ted Malone) permission. She was downstairs, and downstairs she could stay. If she wanted to sleep, she could take a nap and still be wakened in time to watch the old year out and the new year in. And that's the way it was until five minutes before midnight.

Then she was wakened out of a sound sleep smack in the middle of a New Year's party she had forgotten all about.

For a moment she was bewildered. But only for a moment. Then she remembered, and was all excitement again.

Some of the guests had their noisemakers out and their streamers ready to throw. So she carefully took hers out of her paper sack, testing the horns and whistles quietly, loosening the seals on the streamers so they would be ready too. Someone by the television set called out, "Two minutes!" The music was blaring, the announcers were describing the crowds. Each of the guests was finding his partner to make a toast or a wish and bridge the years with a kiss Excitement seemed to mount; the noise from the television was louder. It was only seconds now. Horns and whistles were ready. Suddenly the announcer shouted, "Happy New Year!" The band began playing "Auld Lang Syne," and at the party everyone shouted "Happy New Year!"

Her eyes wide with wonder, her cheeks bulging, the little lady was blowing her horn, too—but not very hard. She forgot to throw her streamers. Puzzled, she looked up and said, "Is this all that ever happens?"

If anyone heard her through all the noise, no one attempted any defense of what had obviously been a major anticlimax, if not a monumental disillusionment in her young life.

Fortunately, there, is a rather wonderful "explanation" for New Year's.

The midnight merriment isn't "all that ever happens." This is only a symbol, a ceremony or ritual to dramatize the occasion. It isn't "all that ever happens."

But we have to live a long time, stay up late a lot of times, before most of us iscover what a perfectly wonderful adventure welcoming the New Year really can be and is.

New Year's Day, the new beginning of the new month of the new year, is a dramatization of faith in the future. It's recognition that all life can and does "begin •again"; that yesterday is past, used up, disposed of; that life has carried us beyond a new milestone, started us in a new direction; that everything is beginning again.

"Is this all that ever happens?" No, not even this. There is no end, so even this is only a beginning.

Condensed from Lifetime Living • • dt. • SELF-SUFFICIENT WIFE It's 'never too early to begin to teach a wife to be self-sufficient—just in case you have prolonged illness or are otherwise incapacitated.

It takes only moderate preparation.

Put a portion of your' pay into a joint checking account. Then after instruct-. ing your wife on how to make out checks and keep accurate records, turn over to he all the business chores of ruening the household. Let her pay all the bills. Let her decide hdw best to balance the budg et. Let her figure out how much insurance you can carry (and you should carry as much as you can afford).

Then there's one more, one very drastic step. Let her work out the income tax!

Whether it's a joint return or a singe one or two individual returns, let your wife do the work on it. vliet her keep track of deductible expenses during the year, let her chart the entire tax program for the family.

In this way, she'll have to be acutely aware of your business, of your income, of your expenses, of your investments.

With this simple expedient of making her share the responsibility, she will, through the years, acquire a fairly decent knowledge of the business world. It will be only a short time before she's asking you why you allow $200 to lie idle in the checking account when it could be earning 21/2 per cent at a savings bank or even more if it were properly invested.

Women have a penchant for details that men seldom pessess. Once she's started, she'll be the best business partner you ever had.

The husband who makes a business partner of his wife will be rewarded tenfold. The free time he gains by having her handle the bills and checks and the taxes will be insignificant compared to the peace of mind he will acquire. He'll know, once his wife is a capable husi-' nesswonian, that she can handle herself and her family alone if the need arises. He'll know that if she should come into a large sum of money—say the' payment of h e r husband's insurance policy—she'll use the money wisely, exercising business acumen, sound judgment and seasoned reasoning. In short, she won't be a worry to her relatives or, worse, a charge of the community.

—From the book "Teach Your Wife To Be a Widow." Copywright 1953 by Donald.

I. Rogers.

Strana 4

TNIK —WEST, TEXAS

MORE MESSAGES TO CARRY Nearly 40 years ago a man named Elbert Hubbard wrote an article which was read by hundreds of thousands of people on two continents, and the title of which became a byword oft quoted even today. That article was called "A Message to Garcia." Do you recall the story?

It was a simple one. It seems that when war broke out between Spain and the United States, it was imperative that the President of the United States, communicate with the leader of the Insurgents—and quickly. "Garcia was somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba—no one knew where." No mail or telegraph message could reach him and the President must secure his cooperation—and at once!

A man named Rowan was recommended to President McKinley as the fellow who could do the job. The President sent for him and gave him a letter to be delivered to Garcia. Without a word or moment's delay, Rowan took the message, went to Cuba, landed by night off her coast in an open boat, disappeared into the jungle, traversed nearly the whole of a hostile country on foot and emerged three weeks later, his mission completed. "The Message to Gacia" had been delivered.

And Elbert Hubbard in his renowned article brought out a point which can never be repeated too often and which we would like to drive home in the Vestnik pages this week. When McKinley gave Rowan his letter for General Garcia, the fellow simply took it and delivered it. He did not delay—he did not ask "Where is he?" And Hubbard says: "By the Eternal! There is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: Do the thing—"Carry a message to Garcia!"

Lo, General Garcia ana President McKinley have been dead these many years and not many people remember much about the Cuban business, but the lesson contained in Hubbard's articlle is as alive today as it ever was and never was it more needed. There are so many messages to carry! There is so much work to be done every day and by men and women who will not question why or waste endles hours in making inquiries and in arguments, by men and women who understand clearly what the task is that is expected of them and "hop to it."

There will always be a good place in

this world for the Rowans, and without doubt a considerable amount of security and success. We can all be Rowans. We should be Rowans. There is much to be done. There are many messages to carry —messages of our own SPJST, messages of fraternalism.

Times changed since the day Rowan carried his message. Times change, but right ideas do not change. Home life changes. New comforts and luxuries are added. The old and cumbersome methods of the past are no more.

But the need for proper home life has not changed. The home still occupies the most important place in our existence.

The love of home does not change. The lives of men and women and children still center around the homes. The strains of "Home, Sweet Home" must, and will, always, find an echoing chord in the hearts of all of us.

We are beginning a New Year-1954.

Let's carry the message of the SPJST, the message of Fraternalism. )• 4 • (

I Ain 1953 I am 1953. I am gone from you forever. I am the last of a long procession of yesterdays, streaming behind you, pouring into mist and obscurity, then into the ocean of oblivion.

Each of my days has been a burden of triumph, of defeat, of laughter, of bitterness. I do not love you or hate you.

I only judge you.

I have no compassion; only Today has that. I have no encouragement for you; only Tomorrow has that.

I stand at the door of the past welcoming the single file of days that pass through, watching Tomorrows becoming Todays as they join me. As you grow older I absorb your thoughts. You turn to me more and more, less and less toward Tomorrow.

My snows cumber your back and whiten your head. My icy waters put out your passions. My exhaltations dim your hopes. My dead loves, burnt-out enthusiasms, shatered dream-houses, dissolved illusions, move to you, surround you.

Tomorrows come unnoticed. Todays slip by unheeded. More and more you become a creature of my Yesterdays.

I am 1953, made up of the world's Yesterdays. If you know enough to put your feet upon me, you can rise rapidly. But when you let me ride on your back, I strangle and smother you.

I am 1953. Learn to look me in the face, to use me, and not be afraid of me. I am not your friend. I am your judge and your fear.

Tomorrow is your friend.

Wedne.•-,clay, December 30, 10C,;1

The Birth of an Airplane The week before Christmas there was the national observance of the 50th anniversary of powered flight. It was on December 17, 1903, that Orville and Wilbur Wright succeeeded in getting their "flyer" into the air four times. The first flight went 120 feet and lasted twelve seconds. The fourth flight went 852 feet in 59 seconds. The plane was then damaged by a gust of wind and • experiments were halted.

For the next decade progress in aviation was slow, faltering. It vies not until World War One presented pressing need, plus unlimited funds, that an aviation industry actually was begun.

In this connection, another story should be revealed. A good many years ago, an Eastern bishop paid his annual visit to a small religious college in the West. He was lodged at the home of the college president, a rather progressive young man who also doubled as professor of physics and chemistry. The president invited his small faculty in to meet the bishop, and receive the benefit of his wisdom and experience.

After supper, the bishop said, in discussing the millenium, that the great event could not be far off since, among other signs, everything about nature had been discovered, and all possible inventions had been made.

The president reluctantly said that by couldn't agree. He felt that the next 50 years would produce many more inventions and discoveries.

The bishop was outraged. The president was challenged to name just one possible invention of the future. He replied that, in his opinion, man would, within 50 years, be able to fly like the birds. bishop.

"Nonsense!" shouted the "Flight is reserved for the angels!"

The bishop's name was Wright. He had two sons—Orville and Wilbur.

When the Wright brothers had concluded their historic initial flights at Kitty Hawk, they hurried to the nearest telegraph office, where a detailed account of their successful experience was transmitted to an elder sister at Dayton, Ohio.

Hastily donning her hat and coat, and clutching the precious bit of yellow paper, the sister rushed to a local newspaper office. Breathlessly she handed the message to an editor. He read it over, looked up and smiled. "Ah, how nice", he observed. "Now the boys will be home for Christmas!"

Wednesday, December 30, 1953

LETTERS HVEZDA SVOBODY NO. 87 Temple, Texas Dear Brothers and Sisters: Our regular meeting was held in the recreation room of the First National Bark Building Monday nite, December 14th. President Stanley Kacir opened the meeting and it was quickly voted to dispense; with business for the nite and get on with the Christmas social that the Sisters had planned for the nite.

We had a nice attendance, there was 60 present, and it was swell to have the visitors that attended. We would like to see you come to our meetings more often. It just seems that our local lodge is getting stronger and stronger.

Bro. Bill Brodie announced the program which was very entertaining. The chon from the Czech Moravian Brethren Church of Temple was with us and rendered four beautiful numbers and then they led all of us in singing "Silent Nite". The choir members were Brothel' and .Mrs. J. W. Baletka, Mrs. Joseph Hega.r, Mrs. Frank Jez, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Chupik, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Heil, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Sebesta. Miss Wildean Chupik, Mr. J. E. Zalocik and Mr. Norman Hluchan. If I'm not mistaken, all of the above are members of the SPJST. Miss Wanda Kosarek and Miss Margie Vaden entertained us with a saxophone duet.

These young ladies had just attended the annual music meet at Marlin and won first and second place respectively.

The Sisters really extended themselves in preparing the delicious kolaches, cakes and candy. Preparing the eats were the following; Sisters Edward Marek, Zatlukal, H. H. H. 1101, John Coufal, Jr., J, J. Kurtin, Pete Horava, and W. E. Kosarek. Coffee and service was furnished with the compliments of the First National Bank. We extend our heartiest thanks to all who took part in the program, to the Bank, and to the Sisters that brought the food.

And from all of us to all of you, extend a very happy and prosperous 1954.

Fraternally yours, W. E. Kosarek )• •(

VESTNiK—WEST, TrtxAs the many of you who so faithfully help.; ed with the program and bringing all that delicious food. It is so wonderful when at C'hristmas we can all be together and enjoy a pleasant afternoon with the whole family, such as we have had. We are hoping that by next Christmas, the rest of you members will ALL be able to join us.

On the program we had a "Welcome Everybody, Welcome" by little Joyce Hilsher; "Hello, Folks!" by George Zaludek; a "Christmas Wish" by Diane Thomas from Pasadena; "Merry Christmas" by the 'Kadlecek twins, Johnny and Charles; a song "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by George Bravenec, and played on the piano by his sister Ruth Ann Bravenec; a reading "The First Christmas Day" by Mary Frances Rubach; a solo "The Snow is Falling Softly" by little 4-year old _Gary Zaludek; a piano solo

by Charles Kelly; "Our Little Children on Christmas Day" with songs and motions and toys, dancing around the tree and throwing snow balls, by all the tiny tots; a poem "A Treet' by John Bily Jr.; a duet "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by Margaret Ann Rezek and Jimmy Kadlecek; "Christmas Vows", a poem

by Betty. Gayle Hilsher; "SANTA CLAUS Acrostic by group of Betty Gayle Hilsher, Sue Blaschke, Sallie Bravenec, Charles Kelly, Jimmie Kadlecek, Ray Bravenec, Barbara IVajdak, Katherine Pavlicek, Margaret Ann Rezek, and Ruth Ann Bravenec; Solos: "0, Come All Ye Faithful" Robert Hilsher in English and Ray Bravenec in Latin; a poem "My Stocking_ Can Stretch Just So Far" by Kay Blaschke; "White, Christmas" by teenagers in playlet form—sung by Helen Fusig and danced by Marilyn Earl in falling snow; a Czech •poem "Co Prati?"

by Jimmie Kadlecek and also one in English "Arranging It"; piano solo "Joy To The World" by Sally Bravenec; duet "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" by Barbara. Vajdak and Ruth Ann Bravenee; The Christmas Carols sung by all the teenagers; and a closing poem by Margie Havel "Announcing Santa Claus" with Ruth .Ann and Barbara again coming out to sing Here . Comes Santa Claus with everyone joining in—and sure enough there was SANTA!

CHRISTMAS PROGRAM AT LODGE • POKROK 88 Other numbers on the program were A lovely time was had by all who not presented due to illness. We are hapcame out to our Christmas Party Sunday py you came out to be with us and we Deeember 20th at 1140` Robbie. And all hope to see you around more often—with deParted after they enjoyed a wonder- the children, too. fal performance by the YOUTH, watchThe Youth Directors ed Santa, Claus give out the bags and ) • 4 • ( gifts, and enjoying a delicious lunch with coffee. We were very happy to see A mans own good breeding is his best so many of you come out and help sup- security against the ill manners of othport the Youth, and would like to thank ers.

Strana 15 DAY AFTER. CHRISTMAS (By Carl 'Victor Little) 'Tis the day -after Christmas and all through the flat All the folks are berating Old Santa, the rat; The gold watch of dear sister has tarnished all green Arid the tie he brought brother has loSt all its sheen.

Our dear mother is blue for her silver-, ware's black And the stogies for father tobacco did lack All the family's sore at that dastard St. Nick, Such a .playful old mug witl . a short selling trick.

'Tis the day ,after Christmas and all the stores Are besieged by the public who smash in the doors.

Come to rectify errors that Santa made, Tq untangle the scurviest tricks ever, played The white whiskered old gent, weighted down by the years, And so muddled and heedless with wax in his ears, Got his orders so mixed in confusion and haste, On the worst information his giving was based.

A maternity garb went to maidens unwed And those asking for red he gave purple instead.

Blowsy tipplers got sweets, teetotalers gin, The poor hungry got banks with no money therein; The plutocrats fat got more stock by the block For to bury with what they hid in their. sock; The wee kiddies of two got new razors from Chris, What a fine mess of fish, not a hit but a miss.

Tis the day after Christmas and 'all over town All the folks are denouncing Old Santa, the clOwn, For the girls who got cards and no fine minkish coats, (What a hell of a crop for a year of wild oats!)

And those getting no gems from their tight-fisted beaux, Are not taking so kindly deeds malapropos.

We don't wonder a bit they're indignantly roused And are asking today: Was old Santa Claus soused?

Contributed by Birdie Wisher

Wednesday, Decernber20; 19:,1

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STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER ZPROA PftIJMIT A VYDANI ZA MESiC LISTOPAD, 1953.

Mortuary Umrtni

REC'EIPTS - PkIJEM Payments on mortgage loans- Splatky majetkovYch pilj6ek ..

Payments on certificate loans -. Splatky na certifikatove piljeky Collateral Loans Dues from subordinate lodges - Poplatky od tadii Interest from certificate loans - Urok z certifikatovych ptijeek interest from mortgage loans - trok z majetkovYch Meek Interest from bonds - firok z bona RM -0 Sale of timber - Prodej stromu Rent from Home Office Building - Najemne z budovy Appraisal fee - Na odhady Sale of Lodge Supplies - Prodej potteb Maim

88,572.62 4,262.48 13.01 20,030.54 2,029.12 26,376.85 1,250.00 446.62 37.00 1,951.19

Expense Vydanl

Juvenile Sick Ben. Detskt Nemoc.

Moucka F. Moudkuv

11,214.26

To Soul

99,781 4,26: 1: 32,80: 2,051 28,63: 1,251 441 3' 1,95: 89: 2:

8,095.50 4,677.28 21.10 2,256.50

891.00 21.95 144,969.43 199,050.41

9,008.45 18,169.14 9,988.40 13,137.87

793.58

29.26

172,14' 222,991

344,019.84

18,996.85 31,307.01

793.58

29.26

395,141

Mortgage loans - Majetkove Vijay Certificate loans -- Certifikatove ptijely Home Office - Budova lilavni ur.

Claims paid - Vyplacene podpory . E. 0. Insurance R. E. 0. Taxes R. E. 0. Repairs Home Office Maintenance - Na vydr'Zovani budovy Returned premiums and bonus - Vracene fnrtni popl. and bonus Advertising - Oznamky Appraisal Ex pense - Za odhady Attorney fees - Pravnikovi za vykizovani Car expense - vYlohy na auto Commission to organizers - Komisne organisatortim Contributions - Dary Lekakske prohlidky Medical examinations Non-medical examinations -.- Bezlekeske prohlidky Vestnik and editor's salary - Vestnik a slidne redaktora Office maintenance - Na vydilovani fitadovny Officers travel - Cestovne ittednikit Organizational Expense - Organisdeni vylohy Postage --- PoStovne Officers and Directors Salary - Slukie firednika Salary of employees - Sluhie vYpomoci stationery and supplies - Tiskova prace a psaci potteby Telephone and telegraph - Telefon a telegramy Youth activities - einnost mlade2e

134,007.39 9,734.00 50.00 20,497.44 2.21 1,062.15 58.30 1,649.41 21.61

2,978.13 168.00

Total disbursements - Celkove vydani Hotovost 11-1-53 Cash Balance 11-1-53

167,082.51 176,937.33

13,626,50 3,243.99 5,370.35 28,063.02

793.58

183,95 29.26 211,19!

344,019.84

18,996.85 31,307.01

793.58

29.26 395,14

793.58

29.26 211,19 1,099,251 292,61' 4,835,99: 490,18, 100,00' 226,60' 34!

61

CelkovY ptijem Total receipts Hotovost 11-1-53 Cash Balance 11-153 V 3DANI - DISBURSEMENTS:

136,981 9,901 51 20,49'

1,06: 51 1,64!

111 291 681 2,851 6; 1,31' 151 411 351 2,44 25' 23!

10 41 2,401 1,04' 67: 22 51

97.86 296.78 686.74 2,850.75 68.53 1,317.16 150.00 416.00 350.85 2,448.80 257.57 239.98 105.19 43.81 2,400.00 1,047.75 675.46 221.13 50.00

ASSETS - MAJETEK JEDNOTY' (Ash - Hotovost U. S. Bonds - U. S. Bondy County and municipal bonds - Okresni a mestske bondy Mortgage loans - Majetkove Vijay Certificate loans - Certifikatove pfijcky Stock - Akcie R E 0 - NcnovitY majetek Collateral Loans R M 0 - Minerblni a OlejovY majetek

176,937.33 1,099,250.00 283,012.65 4,383,924.76 481,783.67 100,000.00 226,600.61 349.55 60,00

5,370.35 28,063.02 9,605.10 452,067.70 8,405.90

Vilednesday, - Decernber -30;1953

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7{E'X'AS

Equity - Podily Furniture and fixtures - Nabytek a zarizeni v nicadovne

Strana

10.00

10.00 17,805.79 500.00

17,805.79 500.00

Automobile - Automobil

6,751,928.57 23,676.15 498,141.72

793.58

29.26 7,274.569.27

Fraternally yours -S bratrskYtn pozdravem R. A. UrbanovskY Financial Secretary INCOME FROM LODGES IN NOVEMBER 1953 PitiJEM OD itAD'e V MESiCI LISTOPADU

Lodge No. Add 6islo 1

9 10 11 12 14

15 17 19 20 21 23 24

25 27 28 32 33 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 44 45 47

49 50 51 54

56 57 58 59 60 61 63 64

67 68 69 71

Date Datum 14 12 18 19 12 12 23 18 18 17 23 27 12 24 23 19 17 27 25 23 24 19 12 13 19 13 19 21 20 13 19 12 21 17 21 12 25 18 24 12 20 12 17 26 12 19 20 25 18 24 25

1953 Amount Obnos $ 446.58 24.85 22.56 1,067.95 284.44 170.47 342.56 349.68 33.73 71.97 11.58 91.01 336.13 1,059.76 79.33 1,337.82 45.55 365.44 1,776.42 530.42 305.87 1,741.48 11.83 487.98 86.76 51.07 I 9.33 174.62 72.38 889.65 78.21 7.38 75.35 65.17 867.22 445.08 517.26 48.88 685.39 639.36 25.29 662.11 5.62 57.26 87.91 336.70 22.76 293.63 620.83 43.12 26.98

163 72 73 77 78 81 82 84 85 86 87 88 89 91 93 94

95 96 98 99 101 105 107 108 110 111 112 113 114 118 119 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 132 136 139 141 142 143 145 146 147 148 150 151 152 153 154 157 158 160 161 162

20 21 27 19 27 12 20 17 14 20 12 25 25 23 12 20 20 23 20 21 25 24 23 23 27 23 12 21 16 27 12 23 27 21 21 23 16 12 12 12 24 20 27 23 23 20 12 18 25 24 25 23 19 24 24 24 12

58.20 87.79 10.04 24.54 723.64 59.71 493.86 39.80 115.00 376.67 2,959.66 175.46 481.36 54.87 162.11 22.90 32.58 21.19 26 .57 12.11 17.57 179.37 352.24 137.91 101.71 546.88 18.19 38.35 72.88 5.50 45.09 18.41 65.68 14.96 128.04 108.83 435.09 44.51 938 1,120.87 442.19 271.76 530.48 31.44

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• EXCHANGE DAY IN HOUSTON

Today is a holiday, no less than yesterday, one known in the merchandising trade as Exchange Day. Many a Houstonian was downtown this morning when the stores opened, exchanging this for that, or that for this, hoping, somewhere along the line, to get something desirable or at least to break even. We won't vouch for the following fragments of conversation, but it's likely that something like this took place.

Customer: I'd like to exchange this little blouse for something of not such a vile color.

Salesgirl: (Unwrapping) This thing!

(Holding up to the light). Whoever told you a cheesy looking article like this came from our store was kidding you, sister.

Customer: It came in one of your boxes.

Salesgirl: That doesn't mean anything.

You see lots of cheap people in mink coats. It ain't the wrapping but what's inside. (Looking at the label.) This is the nuts-to-you brand. So-and-so down the street handles that junk. You better go see them, lady. And never believe what it says on a package. Everyone pulls that old trick on Christmas.

Customer: I'd like to take a due-bill on this perfuule. Just make out a slip for $4.98 and I'll get something for it later.

Salesgirl: $4.98 my eye! The price on this cheap, stinking item is 98 cents. We sold a jillion of them for that around Christmas. Good value, though, for 98 cents.

Customer: Here's the price written on the box-$4.98.

Salesgirl: Whoever gave you that for Christmas was pulling a fast one, dearie.

They just ran up the price to make an impression. They put the 4 in front of the 98. The best of them do it.

67.73 83.36 997.43 35.70 326.52 45.48 193.67 1,024.37 97.31 Customer: And just to think I paid two 10.53 dollars for her's. The lying hussy. Wait 547.22 till next Christmas. I'll fix her. Good 113.43 day to you. miss!

101.70

-Contributed by Jos. Kosut, Sr.

Strana 18

Wednesday, December. 30, 1953

VESTN1K — WEST, TEXAS

WHAT'S YOUR IDEA ABOUT AGE? How old do you think you are? I didn't ask how old you. are—I asked how old you think you are. This question came up. one . day not long ago when I was reading about the new serum that allegedly will keep us all alive until we are 150 years old. I began to wonder how many people would really want to live to be 150. Let's see, it's 1953 now; when I'm 150 , years old, it will be 2058! And that's a thought that gives me pause.

What would it be like? If we all lived to such an age, would life be different?

With all that future to look forward to, we'd have more time to get things done.

Do you suppose we'd actually do more?

Or would we. say: "Well . . . lots of time for that . . . . Do it tomorrow"? We'd probably all take longer to grow up— though now, with only about half of 154 years to live;. a lot of us never do grow up: But of course everything would be different if we knew we had a century and a half guaranteed. Just think, when we turned 50, we'd only •-be getting started. Just getting out of school, maybe.

• The first thing that occurred to me when I thought of that longer lifespan was that the world would progress by leaps and bounds, with our great inventors and writers and statesmen all living longer, able to produce longer, able to teach others longer. But while I was considering that angle of the question, I recalled that many of the great things I human beings have done were accomplished by youth. Benjamin Franklin at 26:Wa,s the best and biggest printer in Atherida; he was doing all 'the government printing for Pennsylvania, Delaware,-Maryland and New Jersey. He had founded the first. German-language newspaper. in this . country and was editing the magazine that 'has since become The . Saturday Evening Post. All this he had accomplished by the time he wag '26.

• Thothas Jefferson was only 33 when he drafted the Declaration of Independ-: en,ce.Charles Dickens was 24 when he began The Pickwick Papers, and 25 when he wrote Oliver Twist. Isaac Newton formulated his Law of Gravitation at the age of 24. Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper when* he had just- turned 23.

Samuel Morse was 21 when he conceived the idea of the telegraph, and at 22 he became internationally famous when one of his paintings placed among the first nine out of 2,000 pictures submitted for an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.

There are impressive facts and figures, but there is another side to the argu-

old. Jimmy Durante managed, but he' had a hard time. Then, in February"; ment which is more impressive. Benja- 1944, his wife died, and Jimmy was-.left'• min Franklin didn't stop at 26. All his alone. So he turned to his old tonie,' long life he went on producing — books hilarious, boisterous comedy, with a. new pamphlets, inventions, ideas. And when intensity. First, the night clubs • again, he was over 50, as his far-seeing eyes and then radio and television. His secbegan to fail, the ingenious genius in-' and triumph was a landmark in the hisvented bifocal lenses. He was getting too tory of shoW business. It was if a 'great old to climb up his library ladder for a ,clown had suddenly been born again, book on the top shelf, and so he devised and people found themselves thinking; the claw-hooked pole that is still used "You're never too young, or too , old. . today in libraries and grocery stores.

Ambrose Sperry, the inventor, began Immanuel Kant was '74 when he wrote: his career at the age of six. You think' his finest philosophical works. Verdi was that is too young 'for being an invenior?

80 when he produced Falstaff and 85 Well, young Ambrose didn't know 'that, when he wrote Ave Maria. Michelangelo and he invented' a remarkable horsecompleted his greatest work at 80. At radish grater for his aunt. At 70, on his 90, Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes death bed, he was still inventing. It was wrote some of his most brilliant judicial a July day in 1930, hot as only NeW' opinions. At the same age, George Ber- York can be hot, and the hospital room nard Shaw was still going strong, his wit where the old man lay was Stifling. and pen as sharp as ever. And the grand Someone thought of a tub of ice with a old man of music, Arturo Toscanini, is fan blowing across it, and this helped' fond of saying in a tone that belies his some. But it was still dreattfully hot.

80 years that the modern idea of ald age Ambrose Sperry opened his tired eyes is warped. One day not long ago, he and whispered feebly, "If you put some was at a party, and at midnight one of water in the tub, it will give more cool his friends rose to leave. Toscanini pro- ing surface." They tried it, 'and it did: tested: "Wait a while! Soon the old folk And just before he died, the old man Will go, and we'll have fun!" opened his eyes again and smiled. I Maybe Toscanini is right, and our called him an "old man." He was not ideas about age are all wrong. If so, we young. But he was not too old'. should revise them. We'll be forced to, Youth is often quick to reject the laif science gives us a second three-scoreand-ten to live. It always did seem bel "too young," but maturity too Often rather silly to me when I heard some- meekly accepts "too old." And yet the one say: "Even though John is over 60, world is constantly enlivened and enl-' wo7 he's pretty spry." And now that I've had riched by the example of men and enough birthdays to realize that 60 is men who just haven't time to be too old' also going to happen to me, too, I realize for anything. One of the best of these that such attitudes are completely ab- examples is a soldier and statesMan. who, in addition to new politieal honors,* surd.

There used to be a little song called has recently won new laurels as "They-re Either Too Young Or Too Old," painter and essayist while he has been and a lot of people I know echo its sen- adding to his fame by publishing vol-timents in an unsentimental sense to ex- umes of reminiscence (Which have plain their own failures. Too young for moved critics to call him "the greatest responsibility. Too old to learn new historian of the twentieth centhry").' tricks. Too young to understand. Too old Yet Sir Winston Churchill was 79 last to change. Nonsense. It is possible to be November. too faint-hearted, too lazy, too unimagiWhen Carrie Jacobs Bond, the Womnative for many of life's adventures; an who wrote "The End of a Perfect. but for most of them, you're never too Day," was 84, the most interesting thing young or too old. about her was not her very interesting, There was a time some 40 years ago past, but her program for the future. when Jimmy Durante's mother said that She had a complete and crowded her 17-year -old youngest son was too schedule for the next 25 years, and. young to go into show business. But there was nothing "old" in . it. Among Jimmy proved that he was not, and in other things, she wanted to write, a few years he was a top star. He had sect and produce a motion picture—bat. been a sensation as a comedian for years not until after she had gone around the when the depression hit the night-club world in a trailer! In her opinion, life circuit. For the next ten years, Jimmy was dull if nothing had happened in the had a hard time; jobs in show business last five minutes, and right. up to the were scarce, and they said he was too end she devoted her very considerable (By Ted Malone)

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energies to making things happen.

(9) The judges , will not participate in Most of our ideas about age come from the contest other than to impartially our ideas about time. Time marches on, judge all entries. The decision of the we are told. And yet, it seems to me it judges will be final. isn't time that is marching at all— it's (10) All entries shall become the propIn the last meeting of District 5, held you and I. Time, after all, is something in Angleton, Texas, on August 30, 1953, erty of District 5. we invented.

I read a fairy tale once about a little it was decided to conduct an Essay ConThis gives you youngsters between the island where there was no time. A ship- test somewhat similar to that being ages of 10 and 18 in District 5 a wonwrecked mariner found himself on the sponsored by District 3. derful opportunity to give vent to your shores of the island, surrounded by naThe Essay Contest Committee, com- feelings, both complimentary and othertives who stared at him in wonder. And posed of Sis. Birdie Hilsher and Bros. wise, and to also win one of the three he stared back at them just as wonder- John Kahanek, Jr., and Vladimir Straz- prizes offered, so let's get hold of that ingly. Every one of them he saw, then nicky, formulated the following rules pen or typewriter and mail in your enand later, was young and radiant with and regulations for the Essay Contest of tries. It is anticipated that a great deal health. On the whole island, there District 5: of good and constructive criticism will wasn't one old person. What happened (1) The Essay Contest is open for flow from the pen of anyone who desires to their old people, he wondered. Lat- member and non-member children to touch upon topic (b) above. er„ when he had learned a little of (whose father or mother is a member of their language, he asked them. But they the S.P.J.S.T.) between the ages of 10 Please re-read the rules and be cerdidnt understand. and 18, who reside within the confines tain that your actions conform thereHe learned their secret by living with of the Counties comprising District 5, to. The judges would not want to disthem. And at last he realized that he such counties being Brazoria, Fort Bend, qualify any entries that do not conhad been wrong—there were many Galveston Harris. Liberty and Waller. form to the above rules. "old" people on the island. Some of To repeat, the deadline is December (2) The Essay must not consist of more them had been living as long as what than 300 words.

31, 1953, and all entries are to be mailed we would count as a hundred years.

(3) The Essay must be written or to: "The Fountain of Youth," he thought typed on one side of paper and mailed to John Kahanek, Jr. excitedly. But he was wrong again. The John Kahanek, Jr., 5421 Long St., Housisland secret was not a serum, but a ton 7, Texas. Do not place your name or 5421 Long St. way of life. There was no word for time other idetifying marks on your Essay.

Houston 7, Texas in their language; the idea of time had Write your name, address and age on a never occurred to them. And so no one separate sheet of paper. This way the and the envelope must be plainly hurried; there was no hustle and bustle judges (to be selected by the Essay Con- marked "Essay Contest."

The Essay Contest Committee in their work or play. There was no test Committee) will not know the iden- (dz) time for work, no time for play—only tity of any party writing an Essay and ) • 41 • ( now and a task to be done, or some- will judge each Essay strictly upon its thing beautiful to be enjoyed in the merits.

-never-ending satisfaction of the present (4) Your entry and identity informamoment. And when he told them of his tion shall be included in the same enown world, they, looked at him with in- velope. In order that the envelope is not finite pity and invited him to stay. opened until after January 1, 1954, please In this complicated world of 1953, of write "Essay Contest" in the lower left There is o n e hundred twenty dolcourse it isn't possible to live as sim- hand corner of the envelope. lars to be given away to six boys or ply as those simple people on the island (5) The Essay envelope must be post- girls. outside of time. But maybe we could mated not later than December 31, District Three, which is the part of steal a few of their secrets. I wonder if 1953. the state around Waco, Ennis, Dallas, the new serum that is said to prolong (6) The contestants will be divided inlife for 150 years might help us to un- to three separate groups so that a 10- and Fort Worth, will give away $25, $20, derstand those simple, wise inslanders year-old will have as much opportunity and $15. any better? I wonder . . . if we knew to win the 1st prize as un 18-year old.

District Five, which is around Houston, that we were going to live for 150 years Originality will count.

Rosenburg, Anngleton, Galveston and —would we accomplish more?

(6) Three prizes will be awarded to the Crosby, will give away $30, $20, and $10.

Once I read an article written by an lucky ones. One 20-year policy with one How do you get it? It is very simple. eminent scientist who believes that if year premium paid, plus $30.00, for the You may ask your parents. Or you can we continue to progress as rapidly as we first prize; $20.00 for the second prize, read about it in this issue of the Vestnik. have done the past few centuries, hu- and $10.00 for the third prize.

Find the article which says "Essey Conman beings will soon be much improved (7) The winning Essays will be pub—in a hundred years or so, that is. We lished in the Vestnik. Interesting ex- test." will be taller and thinner (which seems cerpts from the other Essays will also Start asking questions. like a good idea). We will have no ton- be published.

You have until December 31, 1953, sils and no appendixes, and our co-ordi(8) The Essay must confine itself to to write your piece. nation and rhythm and mental processes will be ten times better than they one or both of the following topics: Get busy right now, are at the present time. If that is true, (0_ What I like about the S.P.J.S T. You will get a part 'of this one hunthe world of 2058 might well be worth (0) 1Nnat I dislike about the S.P.J.S.T. and what I would do to improve the dred twenty dollars, if you really try. living to see. (dz), —Condensed from Lifetime Living matters of dislike.

Essay Contest District 5 SP.J.S.T.

Attention, Young Members

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THE LODGE S (Editor's Note: This address, reprinted (By Evan C. Evans) om Fraternal Age, November, 1953, as delivered before the F. I. C. Chapter for and appreciation for beautiful rituof t h e Kentucky Fraternal Congress. alistic work. We should not overlo(.1.: Mr. Evans is Regional Director of the this fact or accept the erroneous stateWoodmen of the World Life Insurance ment that people no longer care for Society, and has long experience in good ritualistic work. We 'should str` you to r training and developing fi e ld workers to to see that the degree staff is well thinking, trained and able to give a gaud demonsell fraternal insurance.)

SCIENCE has made the world a corn - stration of their proficiency in situ' --unity. Both time and distance have alistic work. Let's not make the error been removed. From here to the most Of thinking of the lodge system in distant place in the world is less than terms of many years ago. We live in forthy flying hours. Movies, radio, tele-- a new day and a new world. It has vision, and other educational and en- changed so gradually that we are hard-, tertaining media have brought to the -i v conscious of the shift. We should living room the things we once went wake up and realize that if the lodge a distance to see and enjoy. Inflation system is to survive we must modernize has made money plentiful. People have the procedure • and the program. We, more money to spend for entertainment nimt think of the lodge room in a and they will drive a distance to sr broader sense than just good ritual tzr work. In . -1-iould think of it as a tieir, favorite entertainment and sport: . we her lcas is a re born and ex-Therefore, the lodge system has had :)lans ma de and executed , very keen competition and some leader shown in community feel that it is impossible to eompete , and bon welfare. Let' s think ith the present day entertainment am f the ledge as a unit for service. We attractions. and see that there we iust lift our lie Weon must to focus our atter,-is ion the refuse unfavorable aspects and an opportunity for service to other well as the members. No, let's not ail to see the picture in its entirety.

There are some things that the lodge rget the members. We aree honor nder tm:o them such assistsystem can give that the contemporary ,illund. tore , encoura.gement ance, entertainment program can not give. and comfort as their. circumstances Partic.ipation — It is just as nat1. ral for people to want to participate nand and our opportunities afford.

Salt Lake in Utah does not have as it is for the day to follow night. single outset. The hills and mountains The pleasure, satisfaction and enterthat surround it prevent any outflow. b ° t,i inment that one gets from looking at The lake is becoming smaller all the a normal alto:,ereens fails to satisfy the urge to time.

It is literally drying up. T b e participate and be a part of it. In the other day I stood at the head of the lodge room we have an unexcelled opMississippi.

River, the father of waters, portunity to get the members to participate. There is an opportunity for in Itasca Park in Northern Minnesota, Y a person to use any talent that he may and thought of the little stream which I coo us. possess—speaking, presiding as an offi- coMd step across, how it winds its way for about 2,790 miles growing larger, cer, group leading, dancing, singing deeper, bigger and more powerful as it playing and serving on committees. flows southward to the Gulf of Mexico Ja T-it .tot Together in Fellowship and hove it pours a tremendous amount -11. ° 2. T togetherness—The entertain- of water into the Gulf. Yes, ghiing all °Ain nicht, enjoyment and satisfaction which and at the same time growing'. Li.k-ePr0vide eadjo, television and the screen bring' wise the - lodge, that flows out into corn t Bey C2d1, ic living room will not satisfy the patriotic services is the loche that wid un" 1a bo deco. s- and urge to be together in fel- become larger and more attractive. b ut al .;o lowsilip one with the other. In the ties, Li Frog-ram for Community Youth lodge system you may bring the mem4.

The lodge that provides a program ity.

Will hers together with their families and ,ends in wholesome fellowship, fun for the children and the young people enlertainment and work. The lodge is the lodge that will be well and favor-I has the unique advantage of ably known and attractive in the coin- n.i; ,g able to br`mg people together re- munity. It will not only attract for chess of their political p arty affitia- the present but it will be building for tion, church connection or social status. the future. If we build on insurance 3. Pitualistic work -- From the ear- only what do we have to offer in addiliest recoidcd history of mankind down tion to what the commercial companies slog to this day we find evidence of a desire have to offer? We have seen the chile t at vision

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brought in for special programs where every member of the family may have a part. Prizes may be awarded to the liree S.P.J.S.T. Lodge Karel Jonas NO. 28, in East BerlargeA family, et cetera. '`1,-Ts of Lodges, to all nard, Texas, extends its heartfelt sym' all Whers interested. patry to the bereaved family;parents, 6. Make the meetings interesting and subcommittee meeting of the III. nappy. Start on time and do not hold beloved wife, dau ghter, Katherine, and am, District of the S. P. J. S. T. was held on too long. Have a well balanced pro- son, Melvin, in the loss of their , August 16, 1953, in the hall of and grandfather, gram. The lodge programs should be husband, father alias. Lodge No. 84, at which brother, and our beloved member, planned for the entire year in advance fleeting the following rules for the Johnuy A. Koym with committees to sponsor each pro.y C ontest" were formulated and who passed away December 10, 1.953, gram. the age of 61 years and 19 days. And was adopted: 7. The field representative should be laid to rest December 12, 1953 in the , 1. The Essay Contest is open for interested and enthusiastic about the Mehtodi4 CeMetery at East Bernard,' members and nonmember children. lodge program and the services it can Texas. Rev. S. P. Wright was offi(iatingi 2 The contestants must be between render. Let's remind ourselves again I and grave side services by American' 10 years and 18 years of age. that the lodge system, meetings, pro- Legion Post 226.

3. The contesf ants must be living in grams and services we can render are Our beloved brother may you rest in one of the eight counties co prising just as much a part of the fraternal peace!

District Three k.;'JS''.. namely, Cooke, system as the insurance. In the field In the name of Lodge Ka el Jonas No.. Dallas, Ellis,. Grayson, Hill, McLennan, representative is not sold on and does 28, East Bernard, Texas.

Kaufman, Tarrant. not believe in the lodge system, but Annie Duckett gives it "lip-loyalty" only, we have our 4. The essay is limited to not more Aug.Klecka. doubts about the contribution he will than 300 words, Herman Laidolf, meke to the Fraternal System.

Resolution Committee 5. The essay must be written or typed Summation on one side ,of paper. The signature, Arrange the meetings so as many age, and address must be on a separate THE INVITE OBSECTED as possible may participate. Do not let sheet of paper. It most ibe sent to L. It was one of those cases were the the same officers fill the same station 0.

Hosek, Secretary, Grapevine Rt. 1, for more than two years. Pass the husband liked the plan, but the wife objected to the cost. She said the money , Texas. honors.

6. The envelope with the essay must 2. Have special meetings where you could be put to better inc buying many postmarked not later than Decemmay bring members, their families and things she needed for the house. She be 31' 1953. named sonic of them paperingthe up, ber friends together in a special way for 7. Three prize awards are: First, One entertainment, fun, instructions and en- stairs room, a new living room set,'120 year policy with one year premium new linoleum for the kitchen. joyment.

The life insurance salesman handled paid, p0 $25 in cash; Second, $20 in 3. Have good ritualistic work. it his way: "Mrs. Smith, I can see you cash; an iird, $ 15 in cash.

4. Provide a good program for the 3. Three disinterested judges will are a good housewife and that you love children and the young people. select the winners in the Essay Contest. your home. y our plans for improving 5. Have meetings of such nature that , 9. All the essays will gradually be pubit prove that. it will draw the family as a unit.

"If your house needed a new roof, tidied in the Vbstnik.

6. Make the meetings interesting 10. The essay must answer One quessnappy and not too long. Do not have I'm sure you wouldn't think of paper- lion "Why I like S. P. J. S. T.?" g the rooms until you had a ne,x long speeches.

All essays become the property of Dis7. The field , representative should be roof put on. Think about Mr. Sim tract Three. nterested, active an d enthusiastic policy in the same way.

L. 0. Hosek, "Like a good roof, it is a necessity, about the entire program. line Lodge System will not work- not a luxury. With it, you will know secretary District III. for sure that your home and everything un.ess—you work it.

Grapevine, Rt. 1, Texas l ie Lodge System will work—IF-- in it will always be yours. Without it,' you will never be able to rid your elf you will work it. of the fear that all you are now doing' RS and D.STERS, we want o ot m you do have your sleAnik. When you Two drunks were driving furiously late to ake your home more comfortable is night and along a road that was pa- and attractive might be for the belief:1,, have change in address, please send ntil gl with the railroad track. Suddenly 'of a total stranger, it you ever had to your change of address to the Supreme Lodge sp 96T, Temple, Texas. Don't for:I speeding train, dark except for the give it up.

"Which would y o u r atlrer have if get to fill it out like this: engine, flashed past going in the opposh.•2 direction. "Say," asked one man, anything should happen to Mr. Smith, ; I have a new address! you see that little town we just clear title to a comfortable home lack-- . ing some of the most modern convendro ye through?"

NAME ..... ........ ..... ...... iences, or a house fliled from eel Lvr to ,:ure did," the companion said. t, OLD ADDRESS F unny thing. I believe that first house roof with the best that money n buy—and blanketed by a rnortg,•._ a:is on fire." ; lessly beyond your powers to pay ( )• —Home Life NEW ADDRESS • Great minds discuss ideas; average , Mail to: SUPREME LODGE F1PJST Here is a poor rich man who mistake minds discuss events; small minds disTEIVIVLE, TEXAS. his flatters for his friends. cuss pe.aple,

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BOB HOPE OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA The following article came all the way from Culver City, California, with the note: "Would you find room in the English Section of the Vestnik for the enclosed clipping? At first, I thought that I' would send it to my relatives in Texas. Then it occured to me that by plactrig it in Vestnik the article would reach a much wider circle. Thanks for the favor, -- Fraternally, Joseph V. Bayer, member of Lodge 107.

The clipping is from the Mirror, a daily published in Los Angeles. It reads: Czech "Funny Man" Thorn to Russians

By William McGaffin, Chicago Daily News Writer Have you heard about the shortage of doctors in Czechoslovakia? It's awful.

They're so short of doctors that 1000 workmen were lined up along the tracks at a certain railway station the other day and commanded by the local radio, "Everybody strip to the waist and put out his tongue."

After all was ready, an express train zipped by. Looking out at the men from one of the train windows was the Czech Minister of Health. After the train had passed, the local radio announced, "You have just passed the health checkup.

Everybody has been found fit for hard labor."

It's jokes like this that make the longsuffering Czechs quietly cheer — and their Communist masters boil. " Every time a new refugee slips across the border to freedom, he reports how much the people love and the Communists hate the man who feeds a daily' diet of anti-Communist jokes to Czechoslovakia via the Munich transmitters of Radio Free Europe.

Forty-eight-year-old Jara Kohout, who thinks up these jokes himself, is no stranger to the Czechs. Now living in New York, he was one of the most famous comedians in Czechoslovakia until the Communists took over.

He owned his own theater, played the lead in 68 Czech films and was known as the Bob Hope of Czechoslovakia.

The Communists confiscated his theater and private property and tried to make him propogate Communism on the Czech radio. But he refused and escaped with his wife and three daughters in 1948.

There were some 'tense moments during the escape as they slipped through the forests along the border at night.

But even at a time like that, Kohout could not restrain the clown in him.

Once, for example, they found themselves suddenly lost in the woods. Ko-

Wodne-day, December 20, 1953

POLKA DANCE

hoot took out his watch and held it at CALENDAR arms length.

(Calvin C. Chervenka) "I dont know that Boy Scout trick of finding direction with a watch," he THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31 said, "but if I slowly swing around with Klein's Old Timers orchestra — New my watch extended like this some ComEve Dance -- Weinheimer's Hall munist is bound to sneak up and make Year's in Stonewall. off with it. That will be east. We'll go Sil Krenek orchestra — New Year's the opposite way."

Eve Dance — Coshatte Hall near BellKohout, who has reddish hair and a ville name that means rooster in the Czech Rudy Kurtz orchestra — New Year's language, came to New York after his Eve Dance — St. Hedwig Hall near San escape and began to bombard his native Antonio land with jokes and satirical sketches.

Adolph Migl orchestra — New Year's His shows, which he writes himself, Eve Dance — Plainview Hall 'tear El are put on tape recordings here in New Campo York headquarters of Radio Free Europe ! Joe Zatopek orchestra — New year's and flown to Munich for broadcasting.

Eve Dance --'SPJST Pokrok Hall in HouHere are three of his latest jokes: ston.

1—The dentists have a hard time pullAll the above dances are at night uning teeth in Czechoslovakia now because less otherwise specified. This is a free everyone keeps his mouth shut. service but applies only to those dances 2—The love of the Czech people hold at which mainly polka and waltz music is for the Soviet Union is illustrated by played by a live orchestra. The Vestnik or the following story. An old tree, growwriter will assume no responsibility reing in the Middle of a busy road, was an obstacle to the traffic—but nobody sulting from any dance atnouncements which are listed in this coi"mn. Listings was willing to fell it.

Then one night someone fastened a from orchestras and dance halls should sign on it reading, "This tree is the be received at least one week before pubproperty of the Soviet Union." In the lication. Send all listings to Calvin Chervenka, Route 2. Rogers, Texas. morning there was not a single shaving ) • .1. • (of the tree left on the road.

The place to take the true measure 3—The secret police frequently go into of a man is not in the darkest place or the churches behind the Iron Curtain in the amen corner, nor the cornfield, with microphones to find out who the but by his own fireside. There he lays people are praying for. The other day aside his mask and you may learn whean agent stopped in front of an old ther he is an imp or an angel, cur or woman and asked, "For whom are you king, hero or humbug. I care not what praying?" "For Malenkov, of course," the world says of him: whether it crowns she replied. "And whom did you pray him boss or pelts him with bad eggs. I for a year ago?" "A year ago I prayed care not a copper what his reputation for Stalin, naturally," said the old wo- or religion may be: if his babies dread man, and look how well it turned out." his homecoming and his wife swallows 4•( ) her heart every time she has to ask him for a five-dollar bill, he is a fraud of the CHRISTMAS.. . first water, even though he prays night Little Betty was overcome with joy and morning until he is black in the when Christmas netted her the two gifts face and howls halleujah until he shakes she wanted most, a wrist watch and a the eternal hills. But if his children rush bottle of perfume. All day long, she to the front door to meet him and love's sunshine illuminates the face of his wife chattered about them.

Just before the relatives came for every time she hears his footfall, you Christmas dinner, mother gently admon- can take it for granted that he is pure, ished her. "Now, dear, everybody knows for his home is a heaven—and the humabout your presents and everybody is bug never gets that near the great white happy for you. But we mustn't go on throne of God. — "A Man's Real Measure," by W. C. Brann. talking about them all the time."

So little Betty behaved during most • 4 • ( of the meal. When it came time to serve Diplomacy is the art of letting somedessert, though, there was a lull in the conversation. Unable to restrain herself one else have your way. any longer, Betty said deliberately, "If anyone hears anything or smells anyIf what you did yesterday seems big thing, it's me ' to you, you haven't done much today.

Ve steedu, dne 30. prosince 1953.

VESTNIK WEST, TEXAS

Karolina, "na tichejch, teplejch vinach.

Ruce nemam, nohy nemam, jen tiehY Bohumil kiha: viny mi Aumeji vokolo hlavy!"

Miady lekat nahmatal jeji pals a starostlive ji pozoroval. "Kolikrate to bylo dite?" obratil se k Polde.

"SedmY," odvetila Polda. NepeestavaObraz deskS,eh lidi la udr2ovat matku poi vedomi. Karolina ve vyklizenem fizemi • mela , kolern rtu vYraz temee At'astnY. "U2Z je mi dobee! Nech me spat! Poldo!" eikala Karolina.

"Ne!"-varoval lekat a pak dodal: "MuKdy2 Vojta Matejus s mladYm lekatem veSli do svetnice, bylo v ni uzkostne ti- sime ji zvednout tlak!"

S pomoci Matejusovou vpravil Karolicho. Karolina upadala do rnrakotneho spanku. Jeji lic byla bezkrevna ru- no do 2i1 vetCi mndstvi tekutiny, zcela ka kterou drkla Polda, chladla, od pr- podobne vode, kterou si peines1 ye skle1 anYch ampulkach. Mel je uschovany v sta. podlouhlYch dtevenSTch krabiekach, aby Frankota v to chvili tie natikal ye je snad po ceste nerozbil. staji. Karolinino jmeno mu klouzalo Uplynula palhodinka ticha, za n12 se pees rty a z kanuly jasne krilpeje. do svetnice vratil Frankota. Jakmile spaMu2 plakal a kobylka k nemu obracela , ttil lekafe, svitlo mu v oeich. 1/2dyt' s sve udivene lekalem chodiva do domu nadeje. FranBabieka jia spala ye svem ptistenku s kota ji zeetelne citil. novorozenetem po svem boku. Ani ona, "Jak ste jen mohli pfejit pees keben!" ani dite nic netaly. V tvati jim bylo zakptal Frankota Matejusovi. Jeho proize 'dist tichou spokojenost. K tomu no- tivne rude vlasy zcela peehledl, oekoliv je teeba- peidiriovat ani slavko vysvetleni. Vojta mel na hlave i nyni.

Staki i mladi obou bylo "No; piteCli sine," zabrudel Matejus v Barbora utekla z chalupy; kdy2 ji Kaodpoved". rolina fekla, kde si preje bYt pochova"Boll -mne celST telo," poste2ovala na:. Nikoliv na hebitove mezi lidmi donyni Karolina. cela cizdmi, milort na pokraji lesa nad "Boll?" zeptal se Mime a teprve nyni Frankotovou chalupou. Aby odtamtud pohledl•na lidi y e svetnici trochu lip. mohla, paten na 2ivot svYch lidi a v ti"To je dobee!" chosti obzirat horskY kraj, kterY u2 "Rika, k je to dobee," Aeptal vzadu vstoupil do jejiho srdce.

Frankota Matejusovi.

Tohle 1.12 Barbora nevydrZela. ye sve hrudi piilis mnoho bolesti. V teles- I "To se vi, vAecko bude dobrY.," odvetil ne bide Karolinino tuSila i sviij vlastni Vojta a Frankota nahle pocitil, 2e ma, konec. Zazdalo se • ji, 2e se hory nad pravdu. Pohledl vdeene na rezaveho munimi naklaneji a neaprosne si ladaji je- 2e a zcela ztichl. Na stara, provineni a jich tivoty. Bila hraza tiskla jeji srdce. rozepte kolem nich nevzpomnel v tetp Barbera se beZela zachranit do tkalcov- chvili ani jeden ani druhY. Rano, ktere ma gic, po 'WO bouelive ay k svemu mutt a ke s yYm detem. Ale ani tam nenala klid. Bala a2 do rit- noci, bylo tithe a klidne. Ve vzduchu tkvela zima a slunce, eervene zailc, vyna s oeima oteveenYma. MladY' lekat tie oiahledl nemocnou pa- houplo se nad horskY hteben. Nehnuta n'. Ttel si ph torn zeervenale race. belost pokrSrvala horskY kraj. Jen tithe "Nenechte ji spat! Nesmi spat!" iekl oblaely koute stoupaly k nebestim a proPolde. * zrazovaly, ze kolem ohniAt' chalup jsou "Mami! Mami!" volala tine Polda a 2ivi lido.

Apieky jejich prsta zlehka buSily do matKarolina obhlikla svetlYma oeima noeiny tvate. va den. Byla velmi slaba, ye vSech adech, Karolina otevitela oei. SvetYlko ale teakosti v myCleni nepocit'ovala. ftevedonn ji oddalilo od Sedi vedneho kla nejprve sarna u sebe a pak nahias, zaponmeni. ae novY elovek, kterY se v noci odalil od "Nechte, me spat, "itekla a opot svira- jejiho tela, se bude jmenovat Antonin. la viCka. Toto jmeno mela odedayna spojeno s vel"Nesmi spat," opakoval znovu iekat kou libosti. Proto se tak jmenoval jeji shledaval ye svem batohu yeti ze skia a mu2, a proto se tak bude jmenovat i jeji ‘3teibeiteho niklu. posledni syn.

"Mami! Nesmi spat! Votevti 'Nei! Vincek se vratil a2 po odchodu mladenalehala 'borne Polda.

"Ale, Poldo! Nech me!" odmitala Ka- ho lekafe, kterY ode gel s Vojtou Matejurolina. "Je mi tak krasne!" Injekeni je- sern. Po mateine boku spattil nove narohla zeneho bratra a zaroven uslyAel, jak te2do Karohnina svalu a po lined druha. kou not na SkrejS'ce -Cahn se jako na vinach," Septala.

"Mel sem tady bejt," podotkl Vincek

Zeme dokoian

Strana 23 a temet se mradil, "kobylka se nechtela hnout ze dvora, tak sem tam zastal, ale mel sem bejt tady!"

"Nebylo divu v takovym vetru," tekla Karolina, "nebejt toho hocha Matejusovic, jak ste byli dnesky sirotci."

"Zlobim se na sebe a nejraei bych si jednu vrazil," odvetil Vincek. Mrzel se,, 2e spolu s kobylkou zaspali mateino neStesti.

"Sme tomu hochovi Matejusoj vdeen3"7," pokradovala Karolina, "je zrzavej, ale ma .1ePAI srdce nea riakej eernovlasej."

"Dyt' ja sem moh jit domu bez kobylky," zlobil se napolo Vincek, "moh sem ji nechat ye staji a jit donni jen tak!"

"Jo," odporovala Karolina, "kam bys chodil v takovym vetru! Polda a ma s tim hochem Matejusovym rada.Je zrzavej vic ne2 jiri* lidi, ale my sme si s tatou fekli, te se u2 na ty vlasy nebudem koukat. Prod by nam to melo vadit, dyt to Polde nevadi?"

"Taky mute nosit eepici, aby nebyl napadnej," minil Vincek.

"13a ne, Vincku," kekla Kaatolina, "ten nebude kvuli lidem nosit eepici, to ne Depak eepici! To je elouje*jadrnej! Depak eepici! To von xieudeld!"

Tehie mateine fedi se musil Vincek chtej nechtej usmat.

KP,EST NA SKREJSCE Po neeelY'cli etrnacti dnech, kdy2 ye vzduchu bylo vie slunce a mono mrazu, zah.em2ila se Frankotova svetnice lidmi.

V jednom koute seal Charvatek a jeho ulekane oei prudce pomrkavaly, v druhem koute hekala babieka svilj nekoneenY OteendS a nepeivetivYma odimo se divala po komisati, jent sedel s Barborou Pultarovou, jejim muaem a tesakem Kosourem u velikeho stolu. Komisat mel obe tvate, svrasklou i hlad-: kou, nadisto eervene, tak ho Karolini na mastna, polevka rozpalila, a tesat Kosour si tajne povoloval opasek. Jeho atroby tla.kem snedenaho jidla znaene zmohutnely. Barbora se divala nejistYrna odima po Karoline, jeji tvat ztracela svou Z. lutost jen znenahla, a pak opet po mlade2i, jez. se tisnila na la,vici pod oknem, a svou veselost tlumila jen obti2ne. Obeas to vybuchoval utajoyank smith.

V babieeine pitistenku Se ozval detskY ktik. Lido pozdvihli hlavy a nekolik 0kam2ikii ho vnimali.

"152 se probudil," vykkikla Lidka.

"Zastejc eve," iekl Standa zlostne.

Polda s Lojzkou a za nimi i Andka se vrhly do peistenku a ye chvilce se objevily s balikem petinek, z nich2 vykukovala detska hlavreka. Divky si podavaly tenhle napolo 2ivY balieek z ruky do ruky.

"Tak tohle je to dne§ni slava," iekl komisai: a vstal. AnezIa popoSla se sne.dSfm kl-adikem a2 ke komisatove hlave.

trana 24 Riede'11 nyni na sebe. Kludik ovkin komiSa •e nevidel a pomekaval si klidne dal. . "Norio," iekl komisai a volnYan koutkem Ust se trochu usmival, "ma g hlad?"

"Inu," podotkl Kosour, "deti nejvic kfieeji."

"Je to celej nebatik dedeeek," iekla ✓ rohu svetnice babieka a navyklymi pohyby si nacpavala dYinku. PYcha, nad naladS7m piemohla jeji odpor ke Pultar se rozesmal: "Tyhle dedeekove mail flaky dloulaY prsty!"

"Ty se vgemu smeje g !" iekla Barbora a zamraeila se.

"Jeri at' ive," poznamenal Frankota pokojne, "bude mit aspoil silny plice!"

"Do hor budou dobry," minila. Polda a chystala se vzit batole do svVch rukou.

Dite se vgak uklidnilo a -mist° ivani se jalo otevienkrna °alma zirat na jakYsi neznamy svet kolem.

"Ja ti ho nedam," iekla Ane2ka, "vi dig, tet'ky je spokojenej."

"Je to nekiteriatko," broukia z rohu ba,bieka a podivala se nevrle na komisaie. Nelibil se ji ani trochu a ten kloueek byl opravdu nepokftenk. To babioku rnrzelo.

"No jo," odtugila Karolina, a na pokraji slov se ji ozVvala zlost, "kdopak ho ma` pokitit? Mame se tahnout zavejema a2 do Roketnice?"

"Ale lidi," rekl komisai a zdvihl od, ditete hlavu, "vod 'deho sem piedseda spravni komise? Jd ,varn ho pokitim!"

Karolina pobledla u2asle na maleho kornisak. Tendle eloujek dokale v gechno, pomyslila si.

"No, teda dybyste. . „pfeci bez rnena nemide bejt," iekl Frankota a obratil oblidej smeren1 ke komisati. Tady v horath se uz Frankota piestal divit lidem i vecem.

Komisaf znovu sklonir k diteti hlavu a jeho kfiva asta zadala vypougte: • VielYch vet.

"Budeg se menovat Antonin Frankota, a tady na Skrej gee z tebe vyroste peknej mladej dloujek. Bude g mit hnedou tvai po,mainince a silny ruce po tatoj.

Poctivej bude po vobou dvou!"

Babieka, nekolikrat zatahla a z jejich prvnich bafil se vytvorilo mraeno kouie.

Zahalilo celou jeji tvai. Uprostied tohoto mradna, si pomyslila, aby ten malt' komisai• gel •deli od ditete dal. Aby je svou gerednou tvail neuhranul.

"A2 vyjde g ze svY chalupy," pokraeoval komisat a hias se mu malinko chvel, kolem dokola, velkej kus sveta.

A ten ,svet bude uz lep gi, ne2 je dnes.

Tobe a vaem lidem na Skrej gce a ye StarY Huti budou, patfit horskSt louky s ioriavyna senem, stada eerVenobilejch krav, svetlk staje se samodinym napajeEIM a taky mlikarna."

N i — WEST, TEXAS

sifedu, dne 30. presinee 1953.

Karolina poslouchala celou svo tvaii. tyhle veci nejsou tmaidr, sou svetlY. DeTinave odi ji svetelkovaly. Jak tohle v ge- pak Cerny zaclonky! Ty si vytahujou jen chno svemu malfekemti batolatku ze takovY prachzatracenV lidi, kerY mysles •dce piala! ji jen sami na sebe! Ale my? Dyt' my (Jervenobily kravy, myslil si Frankota, delame jeden pro druhYho! A prav to neni apatna race! proto sme taky gt'astnY'!"

"Svet, bude jinei a lidi taky jiny," 8koda, 2e sem hlucha, pomyslila si bamluvil dal komisai. "Budou vic gt'astnk, bieka. Byla by komisaie rada slygela. protok pani budou u2 docela zapomenu- Pozornost ostatnich lidi ji jen tY a lidi budou vedle sebe Mat jeden "Tak sly gig," fekl Pultar a obratil se jako druhej. Jejich still bude pinej jidla ke sve 2ene. a po praci si zazpivaji!"

"Moana, 2e je to tak," odvetila tine Sakramente, pomyslil si Pultar a tike Barbora. Bylo ji teako pied °alma toli• se usmival, ka lidi a zase nebot' se ji zdalo, Mule bejt v horach nekdo at'astnej? 2e tuhY krunYi jejiho osameni piece piemitala Barbora a myslila pii torn na jen napraskl. sebe.

Snedk kloueek v peiince oteviel oCi Ne2 to tak bude, to se nam eAte no- za,eal °pet ivat z pina hrdla.

Padne prohne hrbet, uvakval Kosour.

"Ale, malej," pohupovala ho, Ane2ka.

"Sea na g prvni Cloujek tady naroze"U2 za.sejc,ibve," iekl Standa zarputinej," rekl je gte komisai a ztlumil hlas„ le. Nemel detsky kfik rad. Nadobro ua kdy2 videl, ze oei ditete hledi uz jen zapomnel, Fe pied lety poivaval prave matne, "ale ne posledni!" tak.

Polda s Ane2kou na sebe pohledly a o"Ma hiad," iekla Karolina a sahla bema derven zbarvila lice. To bylo tim, kluekovi, "muslin mu dat najist!"

2e myslily na tute2 vec.

(Kopec.)

"A ted' spi, malej," dodal tine komiSa,i; ) • 4 • „spi!"

Kdyi dite pospicha do gkoly.

Hogik tine vrnel a vieka na odich. se "Matka poslala si dceru gku do blizke mu poeala lehce svirat. Ane2ka ho inekce pohoupdvala„ Polda, nekolikrat 'za ge- grocerie pro kvart mleka. Deveatko ptala pgpg, a viola na detskYch odich se behlo, sotva dechu popadajic — ale piineslo mleka pouze pint. sev •ela docela. Ani malt' kousek jimi neprosvital., "A prof jsi nekoupila kvart, jak jsem Babidka prohledla zavojem . dYmu a ti iekla?" tale se maminka. podivala se na komisaie znovu. U2- se 31 "Ja, nemohia, mama," odpovida, cela unezdal tak o gklivY jako prve. Svraskld, dYehana dceru gka, "koukla jsem se tam tvar se mu uvolnhla a praminek atesti na hodiny a videla jsem, jak je u2 pozcle pozmenil jeho celY oblidej. Bylo dokonce — tak jsem koupila jen pint."

• pekne na neho hledet. * To nerd zadnej komisai, to je vobyeej7 fitecha. nej eloujek, pomyslila si babidka,. A meMladk mantel shleda ku svemu la na pril pravdu. Byl to obyeejny elo- peni, ze jeho manklka bude miti po sedvek. mem mesici man2elstvi decko. I rozbehl "Sakra," rekl Pultar a pozdvihl vzru- se k lekafi: "Pane doktore, je cosi takogenou tvai. vela° mo2no?"

"Ty dycky kleje g v nepravej eas," - vy"6 ano," odvetil lekai, "podobne pkipahrkla Barbora. Take ona byla vzritgena.. dy nejsou nijak vzacny, ba stavaji se, zeKiidio svetle tudoucnc,;,i se dotklo i je jmena ted' v povaleene dobe velmi Cajiho nemocneho srdce. st°. Ale budi2 yam atechou, 2e stava se "Ale ne, ja nekleju," ohradil se Pul- to pouze pH prvnim diteti." * tar, "jen si tak potichu myslim, jestli tadyhle komisai' dovede takle pekne po"No tak — zasejc se poidd slibuje, kitit take dospelY lidi!" kdybudou zvYgeny dane z majetku "Jobigku, ty si dycky mysli g vic, net by jen je chteli zase zvSrgit."

"Olovek, co to mluvite? Majitel nekoje mo2nY," usmival se Frankota. lika domil a 061 byste si, aby byly dane "Ja vim," iekla Barbora, "mtij mysli na me. Ale se mnou to u2 nejde. zv3igeny? Prod' to?"

"Tak si to vypoeitejte: dejme tomu, Mne se pc:11'dd zda„ 2e mam v gechno pied setou zataknY eernejma zaclonkama. mi na ka2c4m torn inSrm baraku pfirazi Komisai zavrtel hlavou a podival se stovku --- to by bylo 112 hodne. All right svVrna pronikavSpa odima na Barboru. uka2u to svym najemnikilm, ieknu Jeho prava tvai opet svraskla a leva ka2dYmu, 2e mu nasledkem toho znatelne pobledla. piirazit desitku na rentu — a tak na to "NC; pani," iekl pomalu, "volayeejnST stovku dostanu od ka2dYho najemnika lidi nemaji ye svym aupliku 2adnY roene 120 dolarfi. Vite, Movek mush Cerny zaclonky. 'Kaalej z nas ma kolem techle dobach umet poeitat, chee-li dosebe 'Zivy lidi a 2ivk veci. A tyhle lidi a bie vychazet."

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NE2 BYLY SPODE NE STATY Mnohdy mnohY z nas si ptedstavuje,Ze Spojene Staty jsou starou zemi a maji dlouhe dejiny za sebou. Zapominame, 2e v dobach, kdy v Rakousku a take v Oechach vladla Marie Teresie, americke kolonie byly jeSte drlavarni anglickYmi. Neni tomu ani pinYch dye ste let, kdy byla v Americe vedena sedmilete, Revoludni valka, kterou se ,pozvolna osvobozovalo obyvatelstvo americkSich kolonii.

Nagel jsem kratk povidku z tech dob osvobozovacich, z tech dnil, kdy ProhlaSera nezavislosti bylo jen ja.kousi matnou vidinou, v kterou veiili nekteti, ne vSichni. Vojaci v Revoludni valce byli dobrovolniky. V povidce je vypraveni jednoho americkeho vojaka,, kterY dobrovolne vstoupil do armady, aby s jinSTmi pornohl vysvobodit americke kolonie z anglickeho panstvi. Tento start vojak vypravi, jak se s nimi tenkrate zachazelo. Je to pouze dryvek, pouze vypravovani, jim se odhrnuje rouSka dejin, aby etenat poznal tehdejk poraery mezi americkYmi kolonisty, kdy za,sady demokracie nebyly jeRedaktor.

Ste znarny.

Na pamet' statanYch vojakti pennsylvanskyeh Je to nejiste podinani, kdy/ usedne stated, aby popsal ptibeh sveho mladi z clavnYch dob; nebot' i kdy ma dobrou pamet% jeho vzpominky dasem vyblednou, a at si pa,matuje sebelepe, pile drama, jeho herci zemteli a kulisy se vymenily . .

Vzpominarn si, jak jsme byli pied nedavnem v New Yorku, a videli tam ptedbtaveni Krale Leara. Hammond Drice v nem hral starce tak skvele, ze jsem se tam druheho dne vratil, abych mu rekl, jak dobte jsem ho pochopil a jak me dojal. Byl bych snad gel do zalculisi jegte tdhol vedera, ale odradila me ptedstava slavne a oslnive osobnosti hercovy nebot' v Yorku v Pennsylvanii, kde dosud nemarne divadlo -- a odlozil jsem to na ptiSti den. Ale druheho dne me k tomu man2elka donutila, a tak jsem tam gel; nebot' i kdy jsem nebyl, zvyklY zpiisobrIm velkomesta, byl jsem dvakro.t poslancem ye snemovne, a nikdy jsem neproved& politicke kejkle, abych se tam dostal, a jednou jsem byl take v kongresu, a jako advokat jsem vykonaval pre,vo, v neml se snail najit nejen 2ivobyti, ale stejnou merou i spravedlnost. .. Ale vidite, ze jil odbiham a odboduji, jak se stave, starci, kdy se pusti do popisovani prosteho sledu udalosti. Zmiriuji se o torn proste proto, le divadlo druheho dne skonailo. Kulisy byly od-: s'ran .'", ny a nakupeny kolem velkeho hokho jevikeia kostymy dostaly ten protiv-

splasklY a ne'2i.vy vzhled, jak miva odlo2enY a pohozenY staromodni oblek.

Proto jsem ztratil vSechnu touhu setkat se s nekYm z tech, kteti vypada,li tak nadherne a vzneSene v prudkem svetle minuleho vedera, a odeSel jsem, jak jsem jen o trochu smutnejk.

Rekl jsem, ze tomu neni davno, ale je tomu jil Best let. Tak eas ubiha, a behem tech let mi odeSla navldy lena a mnozi jirii dobti ptatele. A tak citim dim dal tim vie, ze jsem ja, Jamie Stuart, ptelil svou dobu. Proto chci vSechny sily, ktere mohu sousttedit na tak vyderpavajici venovat sepsani tohoto ptibehu, kterY jsem vldycky chtel vypravovat: ptibehu cizineckYch brigad pennsylvanskych za davn3ich dnd meho mladi. Chci jej napsat jak dovedu nejpravdiveji, nebot' nevim o nikom jinem krone sebe, kdo si pamatuje, co se udalo v tech starch trudnYch dasech, a je to pribeh, kterY by nernel upadnout v zapomenuti.

Melete se pravem zeptat, kdo je Jamie Stuart, le mu mame naslouchat? A prod se 'name dat otravovat Zvanenim tech stared, kteti neuznavaji, ze svet jde dal?

Jde dal, ja vim; ale ptimichat trochu stareho do noveho, to je dobra smes. Jako ty rozSafne pennsylvanske hospodyne, ktere nikdy nesnesly plYtvani potravinami. V koute na plotne mely hrnec polevky a byla to moc dobra silna, polevka — a 'Iral'dodenni zbytky Sly do hrnce na ptiAti den. Tak mely vldycky k jidlu 'derstvou polevku, ale valycky v ni zbyla chut' po stare.

A ja, sam, kdy mi 'Zeno, zehatela a zanechala me tu jako opuSteneho starce sedmasedmdesati letech - ted' je mi pies osmdesat jsem mel maJo chuti It dal. Nebyl to ani tak zarmutek, jako spiS' jakasi naprosta, beznadejnost. Den za dnem jsem sedal a podital, jak das ubiha. 2ivot je jako okamlik, a mcf2ete seat v rostoucim chladnu a ukrat se, vyhovuje-li varn to; a tak jsem sedel jedne noci, napinen jakousi stateckou sebelitosti, kdy nekdo rychle a prudce zatloukl na dvete. 8e1 jsem ke dvetim a zeptal se, kdo to je.

"Bydli tu advokat Stuart?"

"Bydli, ovkm Ze tu bydli. Ja jsem advokat Stuart; a kdo, k dertu, jste vy v tu- , to nodni h d' 9" "Jen otevite a uvidite, ptisam Bilh!

Mame naspech, cheete snad nad nami narikat celou noc?"

Otevtel jsem dvei'e, protoe nebylo deho se bat; chteli-li oloupit starce, jako jsem byl ja, nebo mu rozbit hlavu, byl to stejne dobry zpilsob jako jiny, jak ukoneft hruzu z opukeneho oeekavani smrti.

Bylo jich celkem Sest, dva beloSi a etyti

dernoSi, a oba belok meli puSky. Byli to mladi, tvrdi, rychle hovotici mull, kteti mi ptimo vysvetlili, le patti k "podzernni draze", ktera pornaha eernochurn na Jihu z otroctvi, a tihle etyti path ke skupine, kterou pkevadeji na hranice Britske Kanady. Jejich pravidelnou spojkou je pastor McGilcuddy, a fara presbyteriaw. skeho kostela je jejich obvyklou stanici.

Ale tlupa ozbrojenYch muzu od virginskYch hranic PteruSila v nekterem bode spojeni a deka, na ne nyni u fary; a co je mi milejk? Chci krvavou kez tady v pokojnem mesteaku Yorku — nebot' jak tekli, byli rozhodnuti nevydat svilj ne,kl ad jinak, nee kdy zari pololi vlastni 2ivoty a dokali tak jeho cenu lirebo jim zajistim na nod ptisticek, staj pirb kone a moZnost spojit zase elanky tetezu?

"Pojd'te del," tekl jsem, "nestiljte tu venku a nehulakejte, jako by to bylo vase dobrodrulstvi."

A celou tu dobu jsem se snalil srovqat si v hlave fakt, ze mirnji a tich3i pastor Lyton McGilcuddy je jednim z d'abelskYch abolicionistd, a tady byli dya dalSi ptimo v me vlastni cVdbe — prvni, ktere jsem kdy videl nebo kterSrmi jsem mluvil — totiZ nepoditaje pastora. (Abolicioniste, ptivrlenci hnuti pro zruSeni otroctvi a otrokatstvi. V Severni Americe se utvotila r. 1775 ve Filadelfii Pennsylvanska spolednost abolicionistd za sednictvi Benjamina Pranklina R. 1790 svolil kongres k zruSeni africkeho otrokatstvi, ale vec odrodil al do r. 1808. V letech tticatYch hnuti znovu olilo, tentokrat proti opetnemu uzakoneni otroctvi v jiZnich statech.)

"Kdo yam tekl, abyste Hi ke Inner" ptal jsem se jich, prohliZeje si je nyni od hlavy k pate a vida, ie se mnoho neli gi ad jinYch lidi Spinave boty, pracovni kalhoty a bavinene kokle a tfidenni vousy na tvatich, ale jinak obyeejni hoSi, a dernogi za nimi byli unaveni a Spinavi a take vycleSeni, ale nebylo v nich nic hrozebneho; vyvolali ye mne vzpominky, ktere jsem jiz davno, davno neprobudil — vzpominky na, jine hochy, kteti mivali divokou odvahu k svobode; a to se clovite, kcly2 cloetete do konce ptibeh, kterST tu piSi. .. Pastor," odpovedeli, "pastor kekl: Kdy2 se dostanete do fizkStch, jclete k staremu Jamie Stuartovi."

"Nu tak jste ptAli ke mne," teld jsem, "nechte tu tedy eernochy a jdete si kone do staje . . . " Tak jsem se dostal mezi ne a stal se jednim elankem podzemniho tetezu, jeho stanici, zastavkou pro mute, kteti prchall nocemi za svobodou; a tak jsem se take ja, Jamie Stuart,_ stared na sklonku

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To je take jeden pribeh -- ale ten necht' vypravuji jini. I ja, jsem v nem hral malou filohu, ale jsem start', prastarY, a kdy vidim mlade, ptichazet a odchazet z meho domova — kdy vidim e'ernochy, ktere zahlednu jen na okam2ik, jak ptijdou a odejdou pini touhy po svobode -- bYvam napinen jinYin druhem smutku, ne2 jsem bpal chive. Chci yedot, jak tohle skonei, a uvedomuji si, Ze toto poznani je pro jine, ne pro mne.

Jsem jim malo platnY, schoulen v chladnYch dnech u ohne, kde se snatim zahtat si bolave kosti; ale milj durn jim path", i Irk ostatni, co main. Jsem si nimi spojen jinak, a prave o tom chci vypravovat.

Casto se mi zdalo, ae i kdy elovek nemfde videt do budoucnosti; a v me vlastni minulosti je dobrodru2stvi, ktere neni clocela bezvYznamne. Kolik 121 se napovidalo o tech easech! Ale kolik 12i se napovidalo o dne gnich mladYch lidech, kteti si tikaji abolicioniste! Tak ano2na, kdy se ohleclnu zpatky, nebudou to pouze tekave statecke vzpominky, ale klie k tomu, co lei v budoucnosti. Alespori si to tikam.

Rozhodne nezastal ji g d s hikdd jinY na Zivu pokud vim — kdo by, mohl vygraVo`Vat ptibeh velke vzpoury cizineckYch larigad.

Jsou vgichni mrtvi, moji karnaradi, rozvati jako listi do ctyr svetovjrch stran, a jelleh doba 'zennela s nimi. Nebyli to inuvi otdici po staff, nebot' zima jejich 2ivota pti2la na jare; a plod, ktery jsem ja ochutnal„, nebyl,pro ne ureen, pro ne byl plod mnohem trpei. jakou men silu, ktera pti2la nazmar a rozplynula se; nekdy se zda, Ze jejich chladna tela byla napineria medern, takova bohata a prudkd dinnost z nich 'vyzatovala!

Vite, byli to vojaci; rnu2stvo pennsylvanske kolony kontinentalni armady, skala tech podivnYch a zmatenYch dob.

Byl jsem jednim z nich. Bylo nas jedenact plukfi, tvrdi vojaci tvrcle doby, a ja sam, Jamie Stuart, jsem byl stargini serZantem 11. pluku. Pfivodne jsem slouZil v 1. pluku, tehdy mi bylo teprve sedrnnact let; ale pozdeji, kdy byl sestaven jedenactY a posledni pluk, vybrali rune a Dannyho Connella a jmenovali nas v nem ser2anty; a tarn jsem byl, kdy doSlo k velke vzpoute.

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a studoval a stal se advokatem kikal ,jsem psi, to Isiy,ykonal, Jamie Stuarte, a proto jsi vynikajichn mu2em, nepodobnYin bidne chatte, ktera, bojovala v brigadach — nebot' kde ti jsou? Rozmetani jako smeti Ale ty, Jamie Stuarte, jsi sklidilo dobrou Zen a o2exiil se se svou sladkou Molly Brackenovou a zalo2i1 si domov a videl sve deti rust a rozkvetat, a take pohtbil nekolik deti a ochutnal trochu to pocty a one pocty — a proto komu test, tomu test.

Mohll byste take Mei, co je prye, je prye, a 2e sny a bolesti muzu, ktere jsem kdysi znal, byly promarneny? Nebot' kdy jsem zustal v stati sam, byl inflj 2ivot zbaven smyslu stejne jako ptatelstvi, a teprve kdy ti dva mladici k nim dvetim a s nimi etyti prchajici eerno2i, spattil jsem zablesk nepterldeneho a pokraeujicilao ptibehu.

Proto jsem se rozhodl popsat svou ("least v nem a dobrodru2stvi, ktera se mi prihodila v rote 1781, abyste trochu pochopili vYznam jedenacti cizineckYch ktere hajily Pennsylvanii za starYch eastI, ne2 jsme men Spojene staty, jako marne dnes. (R. 1776 poclepsali elenove,Kontinentalniho Kongreau ye Filadelfii Prohlageni nezavislosti vyhlasili samostatnou republiku SpojenYch state.

R. 1787 'by's., schvalena jeji Ustava.)

Musim nejdtive povedet neco o sobe a o svych zaeatcich, abych dal ptibehu trochu logiky, v kterou vethn; nebo' vethn, ze i 21voty lidi Iivoty ,narodil 3ve ochlvodneni. 0 tom Isern jednou hovotil s velmi rnoudr yrn ' mu2c;rn, lekatem ye Filadelfii jinenem Benjamin 'Rush, a byl to on, kterY mi prvni tekl, 2e je skoro vS'echno poznatelne, kdy jsou dana dostateena fakta, a pou2ije se jich spravnou metodou. A tim se chci tidit a popsat ptibeh na2eho dobrodru2stvi, jak nejlepe j ej pamatuji.

0 sobe Musim na zaeatku tici, Ze jsern se narodil tady prave v tom miste, kde pravdepodobne skoneim Zivot — v mesteeku Yorku v Pennsylvanii. Narodil jsem se roku 1759 z rodiefi, kteti byli najati za nevolniky z Glasgowa v stare vlasti. Nestydim se za to, nebot' ma matka a muj otec byli dobfi a poctivi lido, i kdy byli dr2eni v otroctvi clvanact let. Take se nestydim rici, 2e jsem se narodil z kteti byli otroky. Dnes je v2eobecnY nazor, 2e jen eerno gi jsou otroky nebo vhodni k otroctvi, takovou py gnou a drzou modlu jsme si ueinili z vlastni svobody. Ale mak) dnes vime o vykupni cene Cast°, jak eas mijel, valka se stala minulosti a kaZ'dY se snail zapomenout a teto svobody a v mem detstvi byli mnozi belosi otroky stejne jako ti, jejich kide chtel zapomenout, ptemY glel jsem o obyla, eerna. kolnostech nagi vzpoury, abych v ni nagel nejakY smysl. Ale bylo zrejrne stale a Ma matka byla z rodiny MacAndrews stale nesnadneji pochopit smysl. y e Skotsku, deera chudeho na'denika; jsem svou 2ivotni drahu; pracoval jsem mfij otec byl povolanim tkadlec a svo-

Ve sttedu, dne 30. pro6ince 1953. bodnY, dokud neonernocnel nemoci, ktera. mu na nekolik mesicfc znemoZnila u21vat prstil --- a ji2 nikdy nenabyly dokonale obratnosti. Aby se vyhnuli srnrti hladem, prodali se oba do Ameriky do nevolnictvi, na "'sabbatical" neboli na sedm let. Ale kdy se ptipoetly vYdaje a vyclani za nemoci a porody, bylo z toho dvanact let, kdy se deli na svou svobodu na virginske planta2i, a v to dobe se jim narodil hoch a device, kteti oba zemteli.

Kdy2 dosahli svobody, pti gli do Yorku, kde otec zamYilel zkidit sta y a vratit se k tkalcovskerlm temeslu, a tady jsem se narodil. Ale matte zustaly nasledky po porodu, na ktere zernfela, za dva roky.

DalSich osm let me otec vychova.val, jak nejlepe dovedl, co2 znamenalo, 2e jsem bez matefske peee belaal jako zvitatko po lesich a ulicich. Pak zemfel narieStovice a v deseti letech jsem byl sirot4Am, sam na celem svete.

Tak jsem 1;3,1 sirotek bez otce a matky a vSechno jmeni, ktere jsem po nich zdedil, by se dalo vtesnat do naprstku. Nedovedl jsem` ani eist, ani nic podobneho, nebot' to bylo pted tim, ne2 si me pastor Bracken oblibil a naafi me Gist a psat.

Mflj otec byl v cirkvi, tak me starSi presbyterianske cirkve zavolali a fekli: "Nu tak, Jamie, tady jsi bo2iho dopuSten' sam na svete, bez jedineho pfibuzneho, kterjr by ti pomohl, a co soudiA o sve budoucnosti?"

"Budu loupe2nikern," odpovedel jsem.

Zdalo se mi to jedinou praktickou mo2nosti, jak si udr2et telo a ducha, a mel jsem .02 jakesi poneti o torn, Ze se poeestnemu eloveku nemfde na svete dobte data, nepou2iva-li trochu,zloclejny.

Ale na stargi to neudelalo dojem. Naznaeili mi„ Ze to neni pro mne spravna testa, doufam -11, 2e budu ptijat do nektereho bohabojneho dotnova, a take naznadili, 2e takova pravdepodobnost neni ptiliS velka vzhledem k tomu, jak me nechaval otec rust. Stal iSern 'Diced nimi, palce mi vylezaly z bat, kolena se prodirala z kalhot, lokte z rukavil — otrhanY, kostnatY hoch zfejme nevabneho vzhledu; a dodnes si dobte pamatuji na svou hotkost a k nim, k tem zbo2nYm zpinomocnencilm bo2im s tvrclYmi delistmi a ostrYmi nosy, kteti to konali soud nad desetiletYm chlapcem. SkotskY spratek, myslili si o mne, patrne divoke zvitatko jako v2echny ty deti bidnYch skotskYch 2ebrakfl a sluhfl, kteii si mysli, 2e najdou zlato na kahlem kroku v nove vlasti. Ma fee byla v to dobe tRka a 'g iroIca., a jejich vlastni byla ostra, a bintica.

Tak se na mne divali jako na nejakY hmyz a me srdce bylo pino pomsty.

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Kam Leiikar a Kacii PRAVNICI TEMPLE, TEXAS Madovna 2nd Floor Temple National Bank Building

John W. Leiikar RRAvNis

LONG THEATRES BLDG. 2229 Avenue F. — Phone 4520 BAY CITY, TEXAS

WEST, TEXAS

Ve Sttedu, dne 30. proslnee 1953.

NASE SPJST POSEYTUJE NASLEDUDR. THOS. N. MVO= JICI POJIATENi PRO CELOL RODINU. OtN1 LEBAR Vida B. — Dotivotni, ye ktere glen Brtle sprivne ptipraven6 plati poplatky at do sve smrti. as die amiury Vida C. — 20 lets splacene„ e'en pla 513-17 S. P. J. S. T. Bldg. ti v teto tilde poplatky 20 raft, avgak liThadovna 3248 Res. 2687 v padu smrti podpora jest vyplacena TEMPLE, TEXAS kdykoliv se tato uda.

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Lavaca Co. Abstract

Edward Pace

Hilsher's Home Supply Co.

Adolph D. PavliZek PRAVNill 511-13 Shell Bldg HOUSTON, TEXAS

H Chernos10 PRAVNIK Vyfiznje veikere soudui Zaletitosti adovua 936 Bankers Mortgage Building, pies ulici naproti Kress budov6.

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HILSHER S

Ve sti'edu, one 30. prosince 1953.

V ,STN ift — WEST, TEXAS

moji rodiee, zemreli v takovYch Sindelfr se stfechy a otvorem Padal girostrastech. Udelejte si to a jclete k aertu!" kY pruh svetla na sta y a take na jeho Sel jsert • doint a ulehl jsem sam v ma- tva • . Hraval jsem si proti nernu na pole kolne, kteroa otee najal a kde byl jeho dlaze. Nekdy jsem vzhledl a setkal se s rani stay, lavice a dva nebo tri kusy jeho pohledem, a celY jeho oblieej se ubytku, ktere byly jeho jedinYm majet- smal, nebot' jsem byl vSim, co me' na kern, a to vSechno ani nebylo moje, ale svete. Ale jindy si neuvedomoval, te ho zastayeno na zaplaceni najemneho. Dru- •pozoruji, a tu jsem si vSiml neuvetitelheir° dne me zavolali k Stefanu Dobki- neho smutku v jeho tvati. Ach, jaka tam novi, ptedstavenernu cirkve; byl u neho byla starost! JakY smutek nad tenkou Svec Fritz Tumbrill, obludne velkY a tlu- kintou chleba, kterou podaval svemu disty 'mut s praseeima ookama, s tuenYm teti! Skot je pry t yrdY, kikaji, ale to vialimcem z vlastniho masa na krku, v nemt stnost se v eloveku nerodi, spiSe pochazi l sedela hlava -jako pudding ye'St'ave. z bidy, kterou tie.

"Tohle je dobrY mistr Tumbrill, kterY Otec mel dlouhY fizkY oblieej, jako ,souhlasi, te si te vezme za udednika a mam ja. Klenute oboei a po obou stra. nauei te, remeslu," rekl Stefan Dobkin. nach vela lehce vystouple kosti — jako "Takova je milost JetiSe Krista, naSeho main ja. Nos mel dlouhY a ptimY, lebku Pana," pokradoval, "a Bala ti!pomoz, pro- klenutou, vlasy vybledle piskove barvy a jeviS-li nekdy nevdeenost."

Sedozelene oci. Bradu mel velkou, ale "Mtij otec byl tkalcem," ktieel jsem. jemnou, dlouhou a nzkou a krk huberrY, "Budu tkalcem, a ne , protivnYm Sevcem!" jako byl celY, vysokY, StihlY s dlouhYmi Tak jsem dostal prvni lekci z padne svaly. Kdyt si odmyslim etvrt stoleti, to 'ruky Fritze Tumbrilla a poueeni o jeho je ptesnY popis mne sameho, Jamie Stu• moralce. S podlahy, kam me srazil svou arta, kdy jsem podpisoval svYm jrnenem ranou, jsem poslouchal jeho ptedpisy o prihlaSku do armady a stal se vojakem torn, jak mam mluVit v jeho ptitomnosti v revolueni armade svobodneho statu Pennsylvanie. Byl. jsem podle obvykleho a v jeho domacnosti.

Tak jsem vstoupil do'jeho sluteb a ueil Usudku oSklivY hoch, ale mel jsem vlastse Sdveovine a pinYeli sedm let jsem byl nosti, ktere jsem sam malo znal, dokud jeho otrokem, net jsem mu hodil kote- jsem nebyl obrouSen jako met na brusu, , nou zasteru do oblieeje a odeSel jsem se a pak mi pro tyto vlastnosti dali posta ptihiasit do 1. pennsylvanskeho pluku, yeni ne bezyYznamne pro dvaadvacetilekterY se tehdy chystal k pochodu na, se- teho hocha jak uvidite. blehani Tak jsem yam ovedel trochu ze sveho m ver, ab Y porno hl farina:fir n mesta Bostonu.

Zrninuji se o tom, protote tivota obema smery, trochu o torn, co by, ,behem ptibehu, kterY chci vypravovat o lo za starYch case, kdy se jeden den pi tom, co se ptihodilo mire a mYm kama- liS nelisil od druheho, a ja se lien nastaradirm v time 1781, byste se mohli tu a vovat zada tak, aby rany Fritze Tumbriltam zeptat: "Jak y ysvetlit tyto mute? la dopadaly co nejleheeji, ueil jsem se Co je stvotilo a co jimi hYbe a prod sna- vykrajovat knti na podratku a ptiSivat ji k svrSku, krajet, formovat, lemovat a it Seji to, co snaSeji?" byste se mohli zeptat na toho, Sidlem, pit a hYtit s holkama, a trochu o Tate kterY pie tento ptibeh: "Co Jamie Stu- torn, co ptiSlo pozdeji, kdy jsem zestarl art? Narodil se v americke zemi. Jake to a odpoutal se od vzoominek na miadi. trpke sousto stale ptetvykuje a pliva o- Ale Fritz Tumbrill ze mne nikdy neudelal zvite, nebo bych se byl stal jemu strou St'avu mezi tuby?"

Ale nemam v irmyslu sbirat takove podobnYm. Misto toho jsem ztvrdl a stal zpravy. Jestlite jsem jit ye dvaady aceti jsem se neeim jinYm, a pomoci Molly nebyl chlapcem, tim merle jsem jim byl Brackenove o nit uslySite vice — jsem v deseti. Detst y i je pro ty, kdo si je mo- se naudil Gist a psa,t. Tak jsem mohl Gist hou doptat, a muj vlastni meSec byl od v novinach o uda,losti, ktera se stala v zadatku lehkSr. V letech, kdy jsem sedel Massachusetts v dubnu 1775, (R. 1775 kreen na verpanku v dilne Fritze Turn- doM k boji mezi massachusettskou milici brilla, hlavne pied tim dnem, kdy vela britskYrn vojskem u Concordu a Lex-1 do kramu Molly Brackenova jako slu- ingtonu. Milice zvitezila, a tim byl dan neeni pa.prsek proniknu y Si do temne signal k revoluci.) a mohl jsem si take studne, v tech letech sem east° myslil na pietist, te se tvoti pluk z pennsylvan-: skYch mutir a vSech ostatnich, kteti se otcovu hubenou a unavenou-Avat.

SloVo o te tvati, net se pustim do pti- ptihlasi k poratce tyrana za told, premii behu, kterY musim vypravovat; nebot' a stavu. Vedel jsem, co ma.m. Mat, a unayslim, ze net skoneite, budete trochu dela,' jsem to, protote odpo yedi na me zveclavi na muj vlastni vzhled, a kdyt u- otazky byly vepsany na myth zadech I take v me parneti. vidite meho otce, uvidite take mne.

Pamatuji si ho nejlepe u stavu. Svetlo' To staei o Jamie Stuartovi k °sprayed' v kolne, kde pracoval, bylo slabe, a proto neni piibehu, kterY chci napsat. Byl jakdy't bylo pekne podasi, sundal pill tuctu ko jini muk, o nich' budu take vypravo-

Strana 31 vat, a miloval je hluboce a Poznal je dobte.

Necht' odpoeivaji v pokoji, rikam si.

Salrali po hvezdach 'a' vyrebili •brubY k otevteni bran nebeskYch. To budou lat i jini, a klie bude lepSi; tak -pro ne nechci plakat, 'ani vas nad nimi rozplakat; chci jim jen dat, co jim pathi.

V piedveeer . Noveho roku 1781.

Skuteenosti, ktere tady chci popsat .k poete sy Ych mrtvYch karnaraciti i jino pocty se jim nedostalo —mely trade zaeatek; ale eirn vice aVatuji souvislosti yeti, tim vice poznavam, zaeatek nelze vypatrat — cot jest jen dobre, nebot' pak plane v mem srdci skra nadeje a uvatuji motnosti, te net je stejne nevypbeitatehrY jako zaeatek. A je-li tomu tak, pak' alespori ja vetim, ze tu byl nejakY smysl a neel a te dosed zbyva, naPsat zaveteehou kapitol. k tome, co jsme vykonali.

Ale at' je tomb jakkoh, -iiusim rnit n&jakY bod, kde zadit, a k tornu jsem si zvolil smrt ma,leho Tommyho 'Mahoneye, protestantskeho bubenika z rnestil Dublinu, kterY zemtel v ptedveeer Noveho roku 1781 v taLbote pied Morristowt nem v New Jersey, Povim varn take, te jsem zvolil smrt toho uboheho ztraceneho maleho chla,pce, protote jsme po ni svolali prvni kongres kolony; ale mohl jsem take zaait jinde. To, co jsgre_ueinili, mela zaeatek jeSte pied valkou, -ba jeSte ptedtim, nez se 'kdokoli z nas rodil, motna dokonce v tak davne dobe, ,kdy vedl Kristus lid, kierY se neliSil od nas, nebot' byl stejne Spatne ()deny a tivenY. Je to znarny zjev, kterY ani lekati dovedou. vysvetlit, ze elovek nechce dal, kdy ztratil touhu po tivote; a vSern, bylo jasne, kdyt jsnie-pochOdovali z TOtowy do Morristownu, ze malt' Tommy Mahoney neztistane dlouho na teto zemi.

Nebyly to chladne vetry; ktere vamay nebyt' tak ostte od severnich fakt, te jsme se zivili troSkou praten',e kukutice a nikdy jsme neochutnali mat so; nebyla to Irak 'nahota, naSe'''Spina, naSe nernoci — nebot' na to vSechrio jsme byli zvykli a nem, takoveho isnle protivali jig chive a meli toho pine zuby, kdyt jsme leteli u Valley Forge. (R. 1777 pfezimoval Washington se svYin vojskem ye Valley Forge a zrestauroval tam svou armaclu.) Bylo to proto, jsme ptestali doufat, te jsme byli peni a zrazeni; a ten malt' chiapec znal na,Se postaveni lepe net innonY z nas, mnohdy dost start', aby byl jeho esteem.

BezvousY oblieej mu zSedl a jiskry mu pohasly v oeich. Kdyt bubnoval, byl to novy rytmus, smutnY a beznadejnY rytmus.

(Pokraeova,ni.,

Mrs= 33

Maly Oznamovatel SW* Na prodej 160 akril pozemku, dobre, farina pro pe,steni baviny a obili, asi 16 mil od Vernon, Texas. Cena $125.00 za akr. Piste na majitele Vince Sokora, Stuttgart, Arkansas.

(50-52p) ) •4 Dr. N. B. McNUTT Zubni Lekai Nad Ellison's Likarnou Hlavni ul. — Vchod 107 Vych. 26. ul.

Bryan, Texas Tel. 3583 (50-1p) ) • st. • ( 1r Jsem star gi 'g em, hledam praci u samostatne star gi Zeny, neb u samostatnth° stargiho mule bydliciho ye meste.

Pigte na znaeku "Hospodyne", c./o. Vest(ltp) nik, West, Texas.

v L :41: ix yvLisT,

Darkove de teskoslovenska vyfizuji.

Jsem zastupce pro firmu Gift Parcel v New Yorku. rotate s ye drahe zaslanim balieku ze gvfearska a Danska

Mrs. B. Valcik

4015 Metropolitan Ave DALLAS 10, TEXAS ) • el fa • ZjigtenST pacitatel.

V jednom meste byl mestskY hajnr, kte0 neumel eist ani psat. Jednoho ,dne pristihl starentr v mestskem sadu jak sbirala roAti, coa bylo tehda prime zapovezeno. HajnST milou babu zadrZel, do ru.ky ji dal notes a tuZku a porueil, aby se podepsala. DruhSr den priSel hajnST na stra2nici a radostne oznamoval, ze chytil zlodeje drivi v mestskem lese. A Neprozietelna fee.

Sleena k navStevnikovi: maj otec mi jako doklad vytahl notes, v nemZ bylo daruje yalycky k narozeninam nejakou jmeno pachatele. Urednik vzal notes a preeet1 k nemalemu smichu vSech priknihu. tomnYch: "Vies mi, cledku starej, na zdnik: To tedy mate u2 slugnou Na ygtey da!" knihovnu.

Vc steclu, chic 30. prosince 1953.

HOUDKOVO ESEE DIVADLO Velmi peknSr film

`Na svate kopeCku" WALLIS — 31. prosince.

SCHULENBURG — 5. ledna.

SHINER — 7. ledna.

Velmi pekny yesnickSr roman je Roman katrolickeho kneze a jeho osadnikterY se yam bode libit.

"Cestou kiliovou" ROGERS — 10. ledna GRANGER — 12.-13. ledna Detske rozumy Maid Evieka snidd kavu a vahoeku.

Vanoeku si vSak-ta snedla a zbYva, ji dista kava. Chvili kavu usrkuje, ale najednou povida rozhorlene: "Dej mi, mami, jeSte kousieek vanoeky! VZdyt' to kavu nemohu tak suchou ani polknout!"

May the New Year make a happy landing in your home HILLSHER'S HOME SUPPLY CO. Houston, Texas

n ringing tones we send you our warmest wishes for a joyful and prosperous 1954.

RobertR. Pfeil, 201 W. 4th Taylor, Texas Josef Leshikar, Rt. 2, Box 87 Taylor, Texas