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NA POWIOC MAMI D NI ONCEM MAMA TOHOTO ROK ku bratr J. M. 8krabanek, pfedseda tfetiho distriktu, prones' nahled, te snad bylo by k prospechu fachl tfetiho distriktu a cele Jednoty, kdy by mohl navAtiviti nektere dfimajici kady, vyetfil jejich pomery a tetkosti, a zaroven. pozval. Afedniky a dleny techto neeinnYch facia do schuze pateho distriktu.

V tomte2 ease planovano bylo konati kadu pfedna gek pro mistni organisatory.

V- katcle pfedneice mel WI pfitomen pfedseda Hlavni idadovny, feditel onoho distriktu a redaktor. Ne,hled bratra Skrabanka byl pfijal a upraven. Hlavni piedseda pfijecle do pateho distifiktu, vezme feditele a redaktora, a spoleene se rozjedou do mist piedem ustanovenYch. fifednilram neeinnYch fan poke se pozvani, aby se v ureenou hodinu dostavili na urtene misto, aby se prodiskutovala situace mistniho fadu.

Prvniho dne vykonala se nav gteva u sedmi malYch fan. fteditel 8krabanek se svYmi dvema pomocniky vyjel z domu po sedme rano a pfijel nazpet kolem ptanocl. Vgechno bylo pfedem vyplanove.no. Nevedelo se, jakY iispech se ukate. testa pfalo ii prvniho fadu. Dostayin se vkchni utednici. Zjistilo se, te schtize ii iadu se konaji pravidelne katdY mesic, ale jen za pfitomnosti ufednilcii a jednoho nebou dvou Menu. Jit po mnoho rokil nebyl do faclu ziskan tadIV novY e'en. Byla udinena dohoda, 'te redak.tor tam pin gti nedeli zajede a pomute mistnimu organisatoru ziskati nejake nove eleny. Rad dostal etyri nove deny.

'Schttzka s fifeclniky druheho a tfetiho fade nebyla jit tak zdafila. Pfiki pfedseda, iteetni a pokiadnik od jednoho faciu. Nepti gel tajemnik. Chodi do saltze jednou rodne, ponevadt fad jinYch sch4zi krome vYrooni nekona. Do Ufa-

du nebyl tajemnik zvolenY, pouze byl potadan, aby veci fadove vedi a pedet' opatroval, kdy start tajemnik po mnoha letech tie usnul. Od tfetiho kadu neptiSel nikdo. Tajemnik pry jel s drtbeti do mesta. Oznameni schuzi mohlo bYti rozeslano o tri, pet, sedm dni dfive. Nekdy je tetko meniti osobni plany nahle pro veci spolkove.

U 'etvrteho faclu nebylo nikoho doma u piedsedy, u ktereho schazka byla smluvena. fteditel distriktu, hlavni piedseda a redaktor eekali. Koneene pfijel tajemnik Za ptll hodiny vratil se domu i piedseda. Ne, u nich se neda nic delat. Sejdou se jen tfi, etyfi, jednou za tfi mesiee. Kdyk se penezi, ktere byly v pokladne, rozdelili. Poslali do sjezdu delegata, ale to byla jen nahoda, ze Clen bydlel v Hailstone; tak mtr dopsali, aby fad zastupoval, a on to pfijal. Kdyby to nebyl z dobre yule vzal, ani zastoupeni na sjezdu nebyli by men. Ale bude lepk, kdy se fad rozpadne, stejne o tu praci tadnY nestoji. Hlavni piedseda si napsal poznamku.

Ve spoleene schazce patella a sesteho fklu byli takika vkchni ntednici obou Prodiskutovaly se mistni bolesti, zodpovidaly se dotazy, jen byla stitnost, te neni v okoli ladneho mistniho organisatora u techto dvou radu. Kdyby tak hlavni fifadovna mohla v tech mistech nikoho zapracovati a pro naborovou praci ziskati. Zase redaktor si napsal poznamku. Ma na vedomi zaueovani organisatord.

Veeer tehot dne jelo se do schtize sedmeho kadu. Musela to bYti novinka pro pfitomne Cleny, ponevadt si nemohli vzpomenout, kdy byla jejich posledni schitze. Dva se dokonce pfeli, ktery z nich je pfedsedou. Schilze dopadla uspckojive az na male nedorozumeni v uotech s hlavni idadovnou. Poznamky si delali pfedseda z itstfecli, ieditel dis-

triktu i redaktor, kteremu pfipadla novinnost zapracovati nekoho do naboroye prace. Pozdeji bylo ziskano do tadu pet novYch A jeSte jeden nedinny fad byl nav gtiy en. Jel tam pouze redaktor na pokyn hlavniho pfedsedy. Jel, aby seznal pomery. Ujel 120 mil, nein koneene natel tajemnika, ktereho znal pouze dle jmena z Vestniku. Tajemnik neznal redaktora ani dle jmena.

Po naletitem seznameni redaktor vysvetlil, te pfijel na 2adost hlavniho piedsedy, aby vygettil, jak spolek pokraduje.

"Nijak," byla odpoveci'. "Jit pied dyema lety, kdy tady bratr Marek byl, jsem mu, aby nas rozpustil a ptipsali pkimo do hlavni tfadovny. Jsme jenom dva窶馬e, tfi jSme, ja, piedseda a j ate jeden."

Redaktor nav gtivil pfedsedu a tet onoho tfetiho elena. Takfka beznadejne. Jeite kdyby mohl tam zajeti organisator, kterY by seznamil se s osadniky, pobyl tam dva, tfi dny, tfeba celY tYclen. koneene pozde 窶｢dpoledne redaktor seznamil se s jednou uvedomelou stark. deskou pani: "Ano, tady by se moblo neco vykonat, ale musite jit za terni mladYmi. Hled'te, moje dcera, jeji mut, jejich deti, pak druha dcera, ktere, je obdarena Cetnou rodinou, pak jsou tu jeSte . . ." a vyjinenovala tucet a pill novYch, mladYch, nadejnVch ptirilstkii do SPJST. Litovala, te sama je uz pokrodileho veku a nepfeSla by lekafskou prohlidku. TfielennY fad, zapomenutY ,jit mnoho nezdal se po rozmluve s onou vlasteneckou pani byti tak beznaclejnY. Redaktor pedal o situaci tfielenneho faclu zpravu ve schtizi 'vedouciho telesa. Bratr piedseda usoudil, te tam zajede s jednim organisatorem, zastane

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Jsou mezi deny rortru goyany nehezke poznamky o redaktoru. Pry redaktor povaZuje vgechna to pekna slova, hesla a elanky jen jako stupinek k dosaZeni ygelijakYch hodnosti s hmotnYm prospechem. Je treba se o teto nemile veci niti jen proto, ze se tim mine pogkoditi budouci organisa,eni einnost. Domohli jsme se letos velikeho a neoeekayaneho Uspeclau. JenZe s tspechem prichazi pokaale skryta zavist, ktera mute podkopati dal gi porotumeni. Jestli si budeme jeden druhemu hazet balva.ny do cesty, zhasne na.d geni. Pak se podivime, jak nag e spolkova eInncst .se zase potalane hlemYZdim. tempen.

Stragi v mysli nekterkeh nagich zprava, ze redaktor dosta ya, nahradu za svou organisaeni praci. Bylo to vysvetlen0 v zapiscich ze schtze a uyerejneno hned 11. unora tohoto roku. Tenkrat bylo ye schtizi Hlavni trado yny debatovano,jak bychom zvYg ili naborovou einnost.

Redaktor byl Zadan o dozrozdani, proto minuleho roku daval mistnim organisatortim iruitrukce a yysvetleni. V poT slednich ti-ech precicha.zejicich letech upsali jsme kolem jednoho milionu pojig teni Redaktor byl toho nahledu, ze pri rozumnem planovani a lepg im zajmu mezi organisatory mohli bychom ziskati milion noveho poji gteni kaZde otyri mesice nebo tri miliony mane.

Ne, nemoZne, to nikdy nebude! Ale redaktor Yzponmel si na jednu prednagku organtsatorskeho kursu. Jeden z feenika na Purdue universite mluvil o torn, ze on vkly zaene prodaYati Zivotni pojig teni kdyZ mu nekdo rekne "Ne". Byla to trochu jako vYzva nebo sazka, Ze da.ktor po2adal, aby mu Hlavni Uradovna dovolila podati dukaz,'ze to piljde pri spolupraci ysech. "A CO za to budeg poZadovat?" ptalr se redaktora ze mu nebki o penize, ani o hmotnY spech, ale o dUkaz, ze to jde. CelY rok predtim konal to jen za rnilovne. Hlavni firadovna, sama nabidla 9% z prvniho roeniho poplatku, kdyZ si reda.ktor svern cestovani bude hradit sam ze sve kapsy vSechny cestovni yYlohy, stravu, noclehy, y Ypomoc, ba i po gtovne. Pry na.hrady neni mnoho, ale neco snad z toho zbude za praci, planovani, ztratu easu.

Nekteri bratii si nedovedou vypoeitat, kolik obnagi 9%. KdyZ se ziskalo za milion pojigteni, tak to musi bYt deyade sat tisic, nebo devet tisic, nebo ohromna eislice je to tak nebo onak. Kdyby se to mohlo takovYm zpusobem poeitat, z redaktora by byl v kratkosti milionat. Prodali jsme detskeho poji gteni v tride "J-T" za $150,000. Dle tohoto poeitani by re-

74. listopaci n 1954. daktor mei dostati $13,500. On vgak dostal jen $64.50. Redaktor vypracoval noyou pojistku "M-C", ktere se procialo za nejakYch $200,000. Z teto pojistky za svou praci deviti mesicet obdrZel redaktor asi $180.

Mnoho prace bylo redaktorem vykona, no, zadarino, jen aby Hlavni tiradovna mela nejakY prehled, jak nakladna bude einnost statniho organisatora. Vlastrie se nejednalo o vydani, jako spige zjigteni, kolik asi hlavni organisator musi ziskati noveho poji g teni, aby vyclani s nim spojene se samo sebou hradilo.

VYbor organisacni dosud nepremYglel, zda by se platilo hlaNnimu organisatoru sluZne a provise, nebo jen provise, nebo jen sluZne. Redaktor byl toho nahledu, aby kaZdY organisator byl pla.cen dle sveho prieineni. A jestli redaktor pri sve organisaeni praci zustane pohodlne lenet na brige, ani Jednota nebude miti milion prirustku za etyri mesqce. Tim, ae nezustal zahalet, ze vzbudil a vyburcoval distrikty, organisatory i rady, byl ziskan rovnY milion ye trech mesicich. To mano dnes smele rici, aZ si na ge mils Jed nota najde statniho organisatora—dnes ZadnY statni organisator neni—bude jeho nahrada nejrnene d yojnasobria. Ale bude se stejne sam sebou yyplacet, jestli sti. edna priddi se toho nahledu, aby si svou provisi ("koniisne") yydelal a zaslouail. Kdyby vg ak platilo se statnimu organisatoru mesieni sluZne, takova smlouva by nemela smyslu. To v ge redaktor slibil pro Hlavni firadovnu zjistiti a vyg etriti. nekterY Glen proti tomuto pokusnemu zarizeni namitky, ma pravo kritiky—ne v gak rozna geni pomluv a podrYvani.

Ve stredu minuleho tYdne zahajeno 'bylo v Galvestonu zasedani Texaskeho bratrskeho kongresu. Organisace tato zalolena byla v roku 1900. KaZdeho roku schazi se eino ynici a vedouci bratrskYch a sesterskYch jednot za freelem y zajemnYch stykrt, pro yYrnerm nahledu, ke spoleenYrn poradam jak zlep giti praci a uZiteenost s yYch spolku. Leto gni zasedani je padesatYm et yrtYm. Nab SPJST prihla.sila se do tohoto dobrovolneho statniho svazu asi pied desiti lety. Pisatel techto radkii byl tenkrate jedram z rediteln, navazal styky s tajemnikern Narodniho bratrskeho kongresu a pripravil pfidu, ze na sjezdu v Corpus Christi dog lo ke schvaleni od delegatt, aby nab SPJST stala, se Menem Narodniho bratrskeho kongresu. Tak do glo zarover"). ke elenstvi v Texaskem bratrskem kongresu a jeden z na gich firednikti, bratr Chupick, byl zvolen do reditelstva.

V pritomne dobe je v Texaskern bratrskem kongresu zastoupeno dvacet bratrskYch a sesterskYch podparnYch jednot.

KaldY spolek musi miti paZadovank po eet svYch elenir ve statu Texasu. Nejsil

Ve sttedu, dne 24. listopadu 1952. nejtim bratrskYm spolkem operujicim ye Statu je Woodmen of the World Life Insurance, jejit iisttedna je v Omaze, Nebraska. DruhYm velikYm spolkem je darnaka organisace Woodmen Circle, rovnet Omahy. Po techto dvou ptijde na potacli dle velikosti netnecka, organisace Sons of Hermann, sidlem v San Antoniu. Od teto bratrske jednoty jsme kdysi pii zaklaclani nati SPJST mnohe zptsoby a pravidla piebrali, ktere nebyly ye stare ASPS, od niz jsme se pied 58 lety odtrhli. ZesnulSr tajemnik SPJST, bratr J. R. Kubena, se nekolikrat vyslovil, 'te nate SPJST byla nemeckemu spolku Sons of Herman svYm vedenim nejbliti. Tenkrill take byly tyto dva texaske spolky asi stejne silne. Ale u nemeckeho spolku provedeny byly ureite zmeny, vedeni pieglo do rukou nynejtiho energickeho ptedsedy a pod jeho vedenim spolek nerneckl• nas ptedskoeil o nejakYch deset tisic Mend. Na etvrtem miste v zastoupeni texa.skYch spolkA jsou Praetorians, kteti mail ustiednu v Dallas. Na patern miste je nate Jednota. Jsme opravneni v zasedani Texaskeho kongresu na testnact delegatu.

VESTNft — WEST, TEXAS Hite' rok 1953, kdy zasedini Texaske-

ho bratrskeho kongresu bylo umisteno v Houstonu. PH planovani prograxnu nabidly se oba houstonske tady k vYpomoci.

Jak natim delegatfim je znamo jette z houstonskeho sjezdu, houstonske SPJST tady maji dosti ochotniku a schopnYch pracovniku, takte nate SPJST se zase dostala mezi ostatnimi bratrskYml organisacemi na sve zasloutene misto. A kdy ptitlo na volbu vedouciho Utednika pro hnuti mladete ye vtech dvaceti bratrskYch podpurnYch jednotach v Texasu, sestra Hilsherova, byla zvolena jednomysine. Na ni piipadla pozdeji take povinnost, by vypracovala celY program pro letotni zaseciani Texaskeho bratrskeho kongresu v Goalvestonu. Dle vYroku mnohYch delegatu, samotneho ptedsedy a take tajemnika Texaskeho kongresu, sestra Hilsherova vykonala daleko vice net bylo kdy ptedtim vykonano. Ale o torn ponecha redaktor slovo jinYm elemAm SPJST, kteti zaseciani a programu byli plitomni. Nechci chvalit sestru Hilsherovou, ad by si toho pinou merou zaslou-tila. Potlesk a ovace vtech delegatil bylo pro ni svedectvim pochvaly.

A opet byla to nate SPJST, ktera, pH-

Do podzimu roku 1950 nevedel takika

nikdo z natich clenu, to pattime do nejakeho federativniho svazu nebo ze /name ptiletitost se pfluditi od jinYch vettich organisaci, jako dobro bychom mohli konat v nati Jednote. Mela bYti padesaa konvence Texaskeho bratrskeho kongrev Dallas Tenkrat v anglicke east Vestniku zadaly bYti psany tivahy ve smyslu, to malo platne je nam elenstvi v jakekoliv organisaci, kdy se sami prate nezileastnime. V Dallas jsme meli prvni obstojne zastoupeni, kde bratr Chupick in l proslov, a kde byla ptitomna vettina natich hlavnich iitedniku. 0 rok pozdeji bylo zasedani v Corpus Christi, kam se jiz dostavili nejen nati hlavni fitednici. ale vyslani byli nekteti delegati od dornacich 'tan jako z Dallas, Houstonu a Corpus Christi, aby sledovali jednani.

Tenkrat meli mnozi delegati jinYch organisaci legraci z natich inicialek. Zdalo se, to si je zumyslne pietli. Ale dvema eisly, ktere byly podany Sokolkami a kariaty mistnich Sokoha, dobyll jsme si jakesi ptizne. Bratr Marek byl pocten tim, ze pronesl proslov. Bud' ze skromnosti nebo z nejakeho jineho dilvodu °paznenul bratr Marek piedati svou psanov tee do zaznamt jedno,ni toho roku. Melo to bYti vykonano. To ptilitne ustupovani do koutu, ta nejistota na flOru vetejnosti je rysem nati narodni povahy a mezi sobe rovnYmi neni v na g' prospech. Prote 0 rok pozdeji, v zaseciani v San Antonio. byli jsme jako celek opet ptehlednuti, at na to, ze sestra Birdie Hilsherova byla jmenovana bratrem Chupickem jako schopna pracovnice v hnuti mladete.

spola nejkra.snejtimi eisly k programu Texaskeho bratrskeho kongresu. Ve stiedu weer ptijelo Sestnact deveat z Caldwell. Ptedvedly etyti nadherne, disla.

Kdyby nebylo techto eisel, yeeirek a program omladiny by dopadnul dosti chudobne. Bylo by zahodno, • aby nekdo jinY z ptitomnYch podal o ptednesu deveat z Caldwell svilj nestrannY Usudek. Redaktor byl pouze jednim ze testnacti SPJST delegatti, a jeho chvala nemusi bYti brana jako metitko. Zavdeeite se olentim, kdy nekdo podate sve dojmy o teto skupine z Caldwell.

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q em v Galvez hotelu byli to ()pet eleni 3PJST, kteti ptispeli nadmiru peknym islem k veeernimu programu. Jak tomu jiz zvykem pH katcle konvenci, a nejazabava pro delegaty je vtcly ptipraJena. Obyeejne se vyplanuje nejakY ye:• erni program, aby bylo osveleni pa ceodennim sezeni a rokovani. Sestra Hiltherova mela na starosti nejen pokad ;clanze po tti dny, ale teZ' veeerni pobaieni. Do programu mely bYti zatadeny iSechny mistni spolky v gech organisaci, tere jsou eleny Texaskeho bratrskeho ;.,:ngresu. Nate SPJST ma v Galvestonu iva tidy, ale tady nemaji mezi sebou Jostateene ochotniky k vetejnemu vy3toupeni. Ale 'Alo o reklamu a represenaci SPJST, o destne vystoupeni eleml 3PJST pied vetejnosti, jako to plasm/sly jive organisace. Do zasedani mela aage Jednota pra y() na S'estnact delego.A. To bylo povoleno, ale na finaneni z Usttedi pro representaci, na vYlohy s nacvidenim reklamniho Cisla ne-

Strana 3 bylo nadeje. Date na to neco? Nemtiterne. Ptispejete osobne. Nemtiteme. Poskytnete nahradu na dopravu ochotnikii odjinud? Nemuteme. Pkijede testnact delegatu, kteti se budou divat, co jine crganisace dokati. A Oas letel, do konvence zbYvaly jiz jen etyki tYdny.

Cleni Mein Pokrok Houstonu

poradni schilzku. Piece ohled na sebe same a reputace cele Jednoty vytadovala, aby se neco podniklo, kdyt od vyg-, si instance nejde tadnY pokyn, tacine povzbuzeni, tadna finaneni pomoc. Mame novou pisen SPJST. Jsou k ni slova eeska i anglicka. Proe by nebylo mono zazpivati pisen SPJST? Kdo bude zpivat? Kdo bude chodit do zkoutek? Kdo pojede zadarmc, do Galvestonu? Do sboroveho zpevu bude tteba aspon tticet zpevakti, aby to melo hodnotu. Ptihlatilo se jich pies dvacet. Ale bude tteba dostati nekoho, kdo by ochotniky ovieil, kdo by byl dirigentem. Take dirigent se natel, vlastne dirigentka, vYborna, peitkyne, ktero, studovala zpe y a hudbu na statni universite v Austinu, bYvala sleena Elsie Dvotakova, nyni pani Kaderovi.

Malou dcerutku ptenecha do opatrova=ni mutiekovi, a nacviei s ochotniky noyou pisen SPJST. ZbYvaji tii tYdny, tti nebo ayti hodiny zpevu. Ale zaene se pikesne v osm hodin, ne patnact pa osme. Jak to dopadlo, musi pm/edit nekdo jinY, ponevaa pisatel byl te2 jednim z heinkujfcich.

0 pisni SPJST, cot bylo etvrte eislo na programu pii banketu, vypravala jedna americka, (lama nasledovne: Bylo to neco tak Uta,sne uchvacujiciho, ze se mne dojmem nekolikrat zadrhlo v hrdle.

Chtela jsem jasat i plakat zaroven. Napiked pkig la ta vase malinka deveatka bilYch lesklYch tateekach jako pet mctYlka s tem' vatimi inicialkami SPJST. A jak si pti zvucich to vati pisnieky pochodovaly. Ten pochod zpevakt, damy v beloskvoucich plesovYch gatech a pani v hezkYch eernYch hborech, ve dvojstupu, parek deveat v bilem a parek muzu eernem, byl naramne libivY pH tizne hudbe to va'Si pisne. OvSem, nikdo nevedel, co to za melodickY pochod. Ale nez Oislo ulQcneilo, melodie utkvela vet'Sine divakh v mysli i v srdcich. Poeitas ti, stojicich v polola jsem vas na jevi S kruhu, pani na vyvYS'enem stupnl, osm jich bylo, a tkinact devOat pied nhni.

Ovgem meli jste dobreho pianistu a dobrou dirigentku. Napied to solo jako sttlbro aistYm hlasem od docela mladeho devOete. Ta mela nadhernY hlas. A kdy zaeala zpivat tketi skku, vpadly do jeji ho zpevu muZ'ske hlasy. Napted pinYmi hdery zvont, pak jako z dalky klekara, a zase .silneji a libiveji, al do toho vpadly Oiste ienske hlasy. A naraz, kdy to lsylo nejkrasne,W., jak by ut'al. Jen to piano (Pokradovani na strane 23)

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V tS T N TIC -- WEST. TEXAS

Ve sttedu,, dne 24. listopadu 1954.

CINNOSTI DOMACICH RADA Z COR.PUS CHRIST1, TEXAS V, -roeni seh-aze Teloeviene jednoty Sokol y corpus Christi, Texas, se pork-12,1a ✓ 14. listopadu odpoledne za Pok(aCasti elenstva., Mere bralo 'ANY zdjem • sokolske einnosta.

Jedwini se lalovn6 vedlo 0 ptipravach v Mac y :L:6, kde se mA zaelt s nacvieovalanai novYch prostnYch pro Slet do St. Louis. Vzpornerluto take. , aby so pripravy zaeoly delat pro 25lete zalozeni a. trvard j°6noty a cslavit to take v priatim roce.

Pro zajezd cvleielho elenstva, jiZ letos se OCJaiy r-Ozne zabavne podniky a bude se v nick poicraeovat, aby ccstovni fond so utvoril k nabrade ce,stovneho.

Jednota tato v pedeil ell if-Jtech se pona mnoha vzdalenYch Sletech Sozavodech a v nacviench kUrsoela nejen zde v Texasu ale I if Chicagu, v New Yorku, v Ornaze a v Clevelona. Jako v g ada jinde jsou nedostatky i prekaAky, tak i zde je mushne premahat a doplAovat, nahr g,ovat proridle rady, nursery utvorene phlrozonYm neb obvyklYm vYwinem v k0;de" organisaci.

Schaze pritomni viichni stavajici idedoici a v uznani, ze svoje povinnosti vet n6. vykonavaji, byll jednohlasn pro priai rok 1955. zastupce do '±upni schilze zvolen • br. Rud. Troubil a nalcrodnik, 'or. V. FIC!1:1 y a.Thapce. Do sjezdu v St. Louis take 1?,ttd. Troubil a hr. Albert Regmund, nal-) ral -Ececlrakil a vYboru: Starosta V. namestek, Rod. Troubil; jednatell:a, Annie Regnion.dova.; iteetni, Doris pokladni, Anita Regraundodopisovatel, John SlaSa; re2iserka ( 1.1vt:;11a, Marie Rendlova; naeelnik, Alb. 4 egen.nd; riaeelnice, Annie M. Castrova. ✓Ybory: RifojetkovST -- FrankijanskST, Bosley, Alb. Regmund.

V. bor zSbavni AM. Regnaund, Anita Rud. Trqubil.

VYbor. stanovni *John Stara, Rud. Troubil, Chas. Holasek.

Cvleebni hodiny za6nou v Sokolovne v p: tek, 19. listopa.du 1954, v 8 hodin veeer budou ka2d7;' batch nasledovat v torn so•em Case, 1:•,2 do doby znat`ny, kterd bade, bude-li jaka, oindraeala rtheelnikem, valy psi evid.cich hodinach. kteri by chte'li do cviMcich rad • se prihiasit, jsou vitard. Zaroven, kteri by chteii svoje deli pribdasit, bude jim venovana pozornost. Nail vedouci a cvieltele radi si daji tu prac.i a bude je to tim vice 'Le git, kdy2 to nage sin bude zase

napinena temi, pro ktere jest ureena a udrZovana.

Nedovolte pkedeasny zanik nageho shromaZd'oveni, v duchu takovern, kteremu se dosud te gime, kde si mitZeme to povedet v takove keel, v jake se dovedeme nejlepe vyjadrit. My stari to mane je:sle dosud redi po na gern a ti mladgi zase pa svern. My Cesky — a oni anglicky.

Br. Chas. Holasek, co reditel sedmeho distriktu, dekuje Sokolu jmenem SPJST za neinkovani v programa pa schilzi distriktu. Usneieno jeSte, Ze se bude zase poradat vanoenit nadilka, spojend s phpadnYm programem, dne 19. prosince 1954. Povolen z pokladny obnos, kterST by nepkesahoval $75.00, slovy — sedmdeset pet, dolara.

Priiti schtize stanovena druhou nedeli v lednu 1955, odpoledne. Nato schuze odroeena a nastalo pochutnanieko na to jitrniekove veeeri. Trochu jsern to teZ"ko nest, Ze jsem tech hoda nemohl take okusit. Mtlj 'Zaludek ma predepsand jidla doktorem, kterY jest nade mnou panem po nekolik Na to prikroeeno bylo zaujmouti ph' pravena mista v hlediiti a eekat na odhrnuti zeclovy v jevi gti. Cekalo se dole neZ zvykem obVyklYm zde bVva, nasledkern misii v blizkem kostele, ktera take entail prijit a shlednout to divadlo.

Divadlo melo peknST Uspech. Neni divu, kdyZ se viichni herci snazili tak dokonale vystihnout svoje naueene idohy. Vgalc naviitevnici je take podarovali zaslouZ'eriou salvou potlesku — a to nekolikrat!

Zaslechl jsem v hledi gti mnoho pochvaln3ich projevit a to de zase nove sily a povzbuzeni, by ti nail herci zase neco brzy pripravili pro ty milovniky OeskY. ch her.

Schtize radova take byla, obstojne na.vgtivena a viichni' elenove a elen.kyne jsou zvani do prosincove schaze, 12., ve 2 hodiny odpoledne. Bude to vS7roeni schrize a volby ilrednika kadu Anton dermal elslo 56. Ma se projednat spoleene podileni na vanoeni nadilku a program.

V prosinci, 5., 1954, ye dve hodiny odpoledne, jest stanovena schtize .) spolku 'Oslo 30. Slovanskeho Vzajemne Pojigt'ujiciho Spolku proti ohni, blesku a bouri (SVPS). Vy viichni, co jste elenove v tornto spolku, take jste timto uvedomeni, ze vase pkitomnost jest Zadoucna, neb nam take nastevaji volby turednikti pro rok 1955 a zastupce do sjezdu.

kid Slovan eislo 9 Snook, Texas d' Ienum kadu Slevan, eislo 9. Mam narizene, Se vas main timto uvedomit abyste se dostavili do nail ptigti ze, ktera pkipada na prvni nedeli v prosinci, na 2. hodiny odpoledne. Ve schtizi se budou volit ilfednici pro rok 1955. V kijnove schtizi jste se dohodli, ze v proanoove schuzi se bude volit yYbor na zabavy, barbecues, a t, d. tak se dostavte prvni nedeli odpoledne.

S pozdraven J. T. 8krabanek, aaj. ) • 4 itad Jaromir Zislo 54 West, Texas Bratri a sestry: V posledni sehrizi bylo nas malo. Nevim pros. Poeasi bylo pekne, tak mobil ptijit.

Schtze byla zahajena, protokol preetenY, a vie bylo v poradku.

Zase ztratili jsme jednoho 'elena. Bratr Josef Zapalae odeiel tarn, odkud neni navratu. Byl star 85 let. Schazi vZdy red navAtevoval. KdyZ jsem ho tak mi pravil, Ze ho to te gilo, mahlli se mezi nas dostavit, ale citil, ‘Ze dlouho nebude do schazi chcdit. Vzdali jsme jeho pamatce test poystanim.

Pkipominem, ‘Ze prigti schaze bude 5. prosince, presne ye d ye hodiny, kdy mus ti rok. shine miti volbu iikednika pro pfi S Nezapomerite se dostavit. Objednal jsem na tu nedeli pane pobasi, tak pfijdete vgichni. Jestli by objednavka pekneho pc Cash se nejak popletla a pri glo nam nee() vody, tak to take neuikodi. Po .schtizi budeme miti svadinu, abychom zaeali dalgi rok y e spolku v nejlepii nalade.

A vy, bratri, kteri jste nemocni, vezmete si me plan i k srdci, abyste se do to doby pozdravili a take do schaze p14511.

Slyiel jsem, ze bratra Hugo Freunda odvezli do nermenice, a take bratr Frank Janek je na delii dobu nemocnSr. Toto je muj posledni dopis pied vYrooni schazi. Doufam, ze ve schtizi se to nejak spra y', aby mistoptedseda a dopisovatel nebyla jedna osoba.

Za tad Jaromir.

Emil Klaus • )• tad Jaro eislo 130 Dallsa, Texas Bratri a sestry: 1 Laskave vezmete na vedomi, ze vYroeNevim, jestli to mam vie napsane, co ni sclraze Mau Jaro `eislo 130 bude prvni jsem mei oznamit. nedeli, 5. prosince a zaene ye tti hodiny Hlavni jest, abyste viichni se dostavili odpoledne. Pfedleha nam volba tadavych do tecbto schazi dle va gi moLaosti. fitednikti pro pristi rok, proto bylo by S bratrskSrm pozdravem, velmi vitane, kdy2 by se ye schuzi objeJohn Staga. vilo hodne n.ovVeh tvati. Vlastne je to

Ve stkedu, dne 24. listopap 1952. "vase povinnost, pravo a v)isada, abyste se vgichni do schtize aspon jednou za rok dostavili. Pc. schtizi bude podavana svadina.

Ve etvrtek 23. prosince budeme miti v sini vanoeni nadilku pro dal. Tato "Christmas party" bude konana spolednZ se Sokolem.

Sokolske cvideni je kaZclY patek od 7:30 do 8:30. Apelujeme na rodiee, aby dovezli sve deti do Sckalovny, doprati jim trochu telocviku a take aby sebe vypra.vili jednou tYdne z domu. Pfi dobre vuli jde vSechno.

Joe Maca, tajemnik radu Jaro C. 130 • • ' kali Karel Havlieek 'Oslo 4.

Hallettsville, Texas.

Mill broth a sestry: Brr, ach to je dnes rano chladno a tak prosim o trochu misteeka k zahrati, ale jen timto dopisem mezi vami.

Tak, na g spoleenY °bed jest jiz minulosti, ale men jsme velkY hloudek elena pritomnYch a lidu v gady az a2. A jestli to kdo nejlepe vi, jsou to na ge kuchafinky a lido, co pH tom pracovali. Veru, ti v gichni zasloidi diky a uznani. Vgimla jsem si, jak na g tajemnik, Charlie Holy, byl unaven a i ostatni co pomahali, neb vge museli dovezt z farem do sine. Mu• seli velmi skoro rano zaeit. Mr. Holy jest vkly pri vgem; pomfiZe nejen slovem ale i skutkem.

Ja byla trochu tak zklamana, neb jsem myslela, Ze ti novi elenove budou pfijimani jak my, kdy jsme pfistupovali ku zdej gimu kadu. Ted' se vge odbude zkratka. Ja. jsem Puntiekakka, jak mfij staroug fika, a vge musi bYt akorat. Nerada vidim zanikat ty nage Ceske fadove obkady a zvyky; nefikam, sem tam neco obmezit a popravit, ale ne v ge. BYvalo to tak hezIce a upkimne za starYch dob. A ted'?

Vge jen honem, honem.

Bratr Chupick pronesl krasnr proslov a kolik lidi rozumelo a pochopilo piny jeho yYznam? Letos tech zabav, slavnosti a vgeho bylo moc, take kdy pkijde neco vyslechnout na chvili, lido jsou netrpelivi a 112 aby to bylo odbyte a jelo se zase na nee° jineho; moderni doba!

Dsmeho tento mesic, dva heczci mladi lido, elenove na geho fadu, vstoupili do stavu manZelskeho, toti2 Evelyn Wojtekova, a Erwin Holy a \rem to byla pekna svatba. Jejich pan farad' Kostohryz, mel vge v Ceske feel Bylo to dojemne slyget zdavky v to na gi drahe materStine a slzy se draly do oei. — Bole, kde najdeme peknejSi slova a vYrazy neZ v tech deskYch nagich pisniekach a basnich, kde?

Odpust'te, trochu jsem odboeila. Ale ted' ,k veci. Oznamuji, ze zdej gi fad Cis. 4. Karel Havlieek, bude mit 12. prosince, druhou nedeli v prosinci, vanoeni stromeeek s nadilkou pro ditky. KaZde ditko

PISTE fit WEST. TEXAS bude obdarovane ovocem, cukrovim a pod. PH tom bude malt' program, jako: pisne, prednesy a tak dale. Prijd'te v gichni a udelejte radost ditkam. OvSem Mikula g neb Santa Claus nebude schazet.

Co se tyre nageho 6. distriktu, nic nevim, ale inam strach, Ze nebyl vtibec zastoupen v Elmaton.

Jak Franku a Tva mild 2enu gka? Jen dojed'te, v2dy Vas radi uvidime!

Ja do Ceske gkoly vilbec nechodila a co umim, jsem se naudila sama s pomoci rodieu a bratra Poldy. KdyZ" rodide do Ameriky, mela jsem nee° pies 5 let, ale uZ jsem umela Gist, a ostatek jsem se naudila Ctenim novin, knih a tech bylo veru kopa. Dolva kniha jest nejlepAi pHtel eloveka. Ptatele umfou, opusti, ale kniha nikdy ne. Ovgem, Jo, si vZcly pra.la dobre gkolni vzdelani a pak bYt dobrou ogetrovatelkou, ale nebylo to moZne a tak zilstaly jen vzpominky. Za tech ease ditky nemely to prilelitosti co maji dnes.

Tak pozdrav v gem — a br. redaktorovi slibuji, ae dam pokoj na chvili.

S pozdravem, Mara Fabian.

(Ne, ne, mild sestro! Jenom pi gte -- a Casto. TakovYch nam tfeba tisice! — Redakce.) )• • kid Praha eislo 29.

Taylor, Texas.

Ctene sestry a broth: Vgem seStram a bratfim se dava na yedomost, ze pfi gti schfize 12. prosince, fadu Praha eislo 29, se bude konati o 3. hodine odpoledne.

Volby rikednikri byly 14. listopadu odloZene at do prosincove schrize. Proto, 'ge nam koneene v nedeli, 14. listopadu, pane zapr gelo, aekoliv nejvice prgelo v dobe kdy byl Cas jeti do schrize, stejne se jich jegte hodne dostavilo a fadove zaleZitosti se brzy vykidily. Usne geno, pokadati spoleenou veeefi a vanoeni stromeeek na Mikula ge, 12. prosince Proto schrize zapoene az ve 3 hodiny, aby se to vgechno po sobe odbylo. Po schrizi bude vedefe a po veeeki pkijde Mikulag.

Bude to na zprisob jak to vkly miva,me. Kandy si ma donesti dareeek nejrnene za 50c a tak dostane Cislo a darky se vymeni. Pro deti, kdo chce, mute si take donesti sve darky, aby Mikula g mel vice prate rozdavat, mimo toho, co dostane ve vanoeni nadilce.

K spoleene veeeti Zadame sestry, aby donesly, co ktera, mute dobreho. Tedy nezapomerite na 12. prosince.

Se srdeenYm pozdravem, Marie 8vadlefiakova, dopisovatelka. ) • 4, Rad Vernost eislo 51.

Ellinger, Texas.

Mill bratki a sestry: Prosim pamatujte, ie na ge pravidelna

Strana 5 fadoya schrize bude konana v nedeli dne 12. prosince o 1. hodine odpoledne v Jurenove holirne, totiZ ye zdej gi poStovni budove. Bude to vYroeni schilze, pri ktere prilelitosti se budou volit radovi ci. Pkijd'te vgichni.

S bratrskYm pozdravem, D. A. Juren, tajemnik-. ) • ••• • kid El Campo eislo 50.

El Campo, Texas.

Ctene sestry a bratki: Bylo me nakizeno, abych uvedomila bratry a sestry na geho kadu, .aby se co mono dostavili do prosincove schrize; mame volit rifedniky, jak je yam vgem znamo. Na g mnoholetY pkedseda, bratr Josef Peterka nam ode gel navkly; zemfel 22. srpna 1954. Cest budi g jeho pamatce.

Zii a zemfel pro dobro SPJST. Nage tajemnice se taky vzdava sveho rikadu. Nag fad ma mnoho elent, ale o schtize a flkad se nestaraji. Tak vas prosim, pkijd'te do schrize v prosinci, nekdo to musi delat.

Rada etu Vestnik, dopisy atd. Ten nag redktor k nam mluvi tak od srdce, ano, mame mu zae mnoho dekovat.

SrdeenY pozdrav, Mrs. Joe Peterkova, tajemnice. )• •t

KALENDAII V nedeli kadoti prvni a tketi v mesici tad Pokrok Houstonu potada, taneeni za.bavu, ktera je pro deny kadu zdarma.

KaZdSr je uctive zvan. ✓ pondeli veeer kaZdfi tSrden cviei se sborove zpevy dospelSrch v sini fadu Pokrok Houstonu. Ochotnici a hoste jsou vitani. Zaeatek v osm veeer.

Ve stledu veEer kaZdSt tSrden jsou vany taneeni a zpevni hodiny pro midden v sini kadu Pokrok Houstonu, 1140 Robbie. Kak1ST je uctive zvan. ✓ nedeli 5. prosince Sokol Houstcn svou vYrodni schrizi. Po schrizi telska zabava, obeerstveni a hry. ✓ nedeli 28. listopadu bude pravidelna schrize fadu pokrok Dallas Oslo 84. Tato mesieni schfize je pfelolena o tYden pozdeji neZ obyeejne na tfeti nedeli, kdy bude distriktni schrize ye Fort Worth.

V nedeli 19. prosince rad Pokrok Houstonu 'Oslo 88 porada vanoeni program odpoledne ye 3:30 hod. Vstup zdarma, Uctive zve vYbor.

• • (-Ti, kdoZ men velke va gne, pokud jsou gt'astni i ne gt'astni, Ze byli z nich vylkeni.

• a • t Byt' byla sebe vet gi naklonnost sveta zle souditi, piece snaze pokloni se svet klamne zasluze, neZ by dopustil se nespravedlnosti na zasluze opravdive.

Strana

Vt STN1 — WEST, TEXAS

Ve et edu, ane 24. llstopadu 1954.

DOPISY A NAHLEDY CLEM) an Antonio, Texas lat. Ale at' maji ty nejlep gi gkoly, oni take museji miti zku genost. Tu zkugeCteni bratti a sestry. nost. nabudou jenom v praci pod doZase maul tro gieku &guy tak pticha- hledem starych zku genYch oei. Uvedu zim mezi vas a doufam, ze si me tadky ptiklad. Spoleenost, pro kterou delam, pfeetete. Tyka se to budoucnosti nagi Sears, Roebuck and Company, stale hleJecinoty. Prosil bych vas, bratti a se- da schopnosti a zku genosti. Ale kdy stry, abyste to co pi g i, dobte uvazili a najdou poladovane schopne mlade lidi, dobte prornysleli, dtive nez si udelate U- neiekne spoleenost, "tady tobe ptenechavame obchod. Ty ho ved' a spravuj sudek.

Jak ten teenik v plenarni kon- tak, aby nam vynesl jisty zisk." Nikoliv, bratti a sestry. I kdyby to byli graduangresu fekl: "My bratrske organisace time na nepravem mister" Dle meho ti tech nejlepgich universit y novi zamestnahledu rekl vskutku pravdu. Podivejte nanci se musi po4volna a od zaklada zase na to takhle: My jsme si najali ty pracovat. TakovY nadejnY budouci utednik spoleenosti zaene na nejspodnejgim nejlepg i schopne vYkonne sily, aby nagi hlavni utadovnu. My jsme zjed- stupni. Napted dostane "titul". Je nanali schopnosti, ktere by se melY uMvat zvanY "trainee", co2 by v na gem bylo jenorn pro zlep geni nag eho obchodu a neco jako ueednik nebo zamestnanec, k fizeni jeho. To vYZaduje ty nejlepgi ktery se zaueuje, aby v gemu rozumel. Z tohoto prvniho stupne pomalu a die schopnosti a zkugenosti.

Tyto Utedniky na gi hlavni iltadovny syYch vloh postupuje schodek po schodidivaine nejen pro vedeni toho nageho ku. Kdy' pfejde kaki* stupen uspokojive, obchodu, kde zku g enost a schopriost roz7 tak jde dale. Ale neZli on dostane obhoduje mezi vYdelkem a ztratou, ale my chod k tizeni, vezme to ne mesice ale je take uEvame k praci, ktera maze bYti leta.

Dle na gich stanov se mute stati, vykonana obyeejnYm pracovnikem, bud' holkou nebo hochem. KdyI nagi hlavni bychom v kteremkoliv sjezde zvolili v geiftednici museji take konat tu obyeej- chny hlavni fitedniky nove. To by nas nou praci, jakou maze zastati jiny po- mohlo stati velike ztraty. Ne snad -Ze mocnik, tak jim nezbYva, easu ptemYglet by novi Atednici byli nepoctivi, ale 'Ze a planovat, jak a kde by se mohlo u- jejich zkugenosti by nebyly dokonale.

Zde bych doporueoval, aby kahlY nove delat to nebo ono, co by nam vyneslo daleko vice nez by nas dostateane po- zvolenY Utednik do hlavni Madovny nastcupil sve misto hned po sjezde, tak amocne silt' staly.

Musime si uveclornit, bratti a scestry, by nabyl alespon easteenou zkugenost ze nagi fitednici nemaji na starosti je- nez ten star gi fitednik odstoupi. Tento nom vybirani poplatku, vystaveni no- dodatek by mel bYt danY do nagich vYch certifikatti, a zaneseni jich do Stich stanov.

Je to velice dulezita vec, aby na gi Aknih. Oni maji na jejich bedrach take investovani na gich periez, aby nam pti- tednici v hlavni Atadovne melt dostatek nesly ten nejvetgi zisk. Oni se museji sta- easu planovat na g pokrok a take aby rat o vedeni celeho na geho obchodu meli dosti easu vykonavat tu praci, ktevyiaduje zkugene ruce. Na g obchod (SPJST), tak aby prospival. Ale kdy oni jsou nuceni vykonavat praci, kterou (SPJST) je dnes veden jak jsme ho veby mohl vykonat obyeelnY pomocnik ne- dli pied deseti, ba dvaceti roky. Je to bo zamestnanec, tak nejen ze nemaji obchod, kde majetek se pa,ei blizko osmi dosti 'easu na cinkladne pternY gleni, ale milionii dolarn Takovy obchod vyZaduje oni take pracuji dlouhe hodiny, daleko vice pracovnich sil. Aby prospival, bude vice nez vyZacluje jinY obchod. A tako- muset mit vice pracovnich sil. Proto ye zavedeni neni spravne ani pro nage bych navrhoval, abychom na ptigtim sejzdu zavedli dva mistoptedsedy a aby fitedniky, ani pro na gi Jednotu.

Vetim, Ze bylo by nam prospe gne, kobt' oba byli aktivni, totiZ stale zamestnani bychom zacvieili mlad gi lidi, schopne v hlavni Utadovne. Jeden z nich by si Tr:lade lidi, kteti by jednou mohli nastou- vgimal vice prace ptedsedy a zapracovapiti na mista na gich hlavnich ntedniku, val by se pod dohledem ptedsedy; ten az je jednou ztratime. Dnes kaki* ob- druhy by pomahal vice v praci tajemnichod, kterY dba o svou budoucnost, cvi- ka, aby y jakemkoliv ptipadu nutnosti ei mladg i lidi, kteti jednou nastoupi na mohl vykonavati povinnosti tajemnika.

Dale bych take navrhoval, aby nag mista tech star gich vedoucich. Mluvirne dnes o schopnostech, zku genostech a pravnik byl v na gi hlavni Atadovne a vYvzdelani tech mlad gich, Vy- "adujerne, aby kong.val praci, kterou jsou nuceni vykoti mladi meli takove a takove , gkoly, nez navati ptedseda a tajemnik, spadajici Jim dame pkileiitost pro nas neco ude- spig e pod zakonne vykizovarii. Jsern jisty,

Ze ptedseda anebo tajemnik museji Cast° psati listiny, ktere ye zkuteenosti a po pravu by mely bYti psany nagim pravnikem. Zajiste jsou v hlavni fitadovne kahlodenni ptipady, ze se hlavni iiednici museji obratit na na geho pray gim stano--nika,byseud'vyhoelna vam nebo statnim zakonfun. Kdyby pravnik byl v hlavni inadovne, ugettilo by se easu i penez.

Nag redaktor by take mohl vykonat vice prace anebo zleheiti a zlep giti svou vYkormost, kdyby mel svou kancelat pobliZ hlavnich atednikt. Netikam, te on nevykona dost prace, ale sam se jednou ptiznal, ze nestaei psati, co si mysli. Jsou rozmanite rekordovaci ptistroje, ktere by mohly redaktorovy my glenky zachytiti. 0 kolik vice dobrYch veci by ptiglo do Vestniku, kc134 by nemusel matiti eas ptepisovanim a takovou praci, kterou nekdo jinY by vykonal rychleji a phi mengi namaze. Kvalita redaktorovy prace by se take zvfgila, kdyI by byl v hlavni utadovne a mel vgechno, co jeho zamestnani vYZaduje.

Bratti a sestry, eas utika. Net se nadame, nag sjezd bude tady. Zaeneme s praci hned. Dejme na ge palice dohromady a pfemyglejme. Tak dejme sve myglenky na papir. Pak z toho vybereme to nejlepgi. TakovYm zpilsobem budeme dovat nagi SPJST dale. Mejme v'Zcly na pameti, ze Jednota path nam v gern. A kdy'Z prona gime sve usudky, chovejme se tak, abychom v.2dy budovali a netrhali to, co nz mame.

S bratrskym pozdravem Otto Hanus ) • iTi • Dallas Texas Tteba jen kratkY dopis, ale phece povzbuzeni pro Enniske ochotniky, kteti u nas sehrali peknou zpevohru, "Na Kadojde" velkym fispechem. Diky yam vgem!

Bylo to znamenite! Abych ka;Zcleho zvlagte jmenovala to nebudu, neb v gichni zasiouZi pochvaly, od re gisera do napovedy a vim, Ze to delali v gichni z laskou a nad genim. Ocenily jsme vagi praci, a ocenili jsme na ge divadelni ptiznivce, kteti phisli na divadlo, kdyz se na nas i nebe rnraeilo; pr gelo jako z konve a prosim, byli to votginou ti star gi a mladez sedela u Kamen. Pak se pohad ti odstrkuji. To se tekne: (To jsou ti sta.Kdybych jich nebylo, nebylo by ani tech mladYch. Ov gem ze mame velkou radost z jejich prace, ale maji bYt phitornni, kdyz miadi herd hraji divadlo.

Ano, byl to dobrY nazev: "Na katcleho doj de."

Jegte jednou dekujeme v gem a tegime

It e sti'edu, dne 24. listopadu 1952. ! se na leden, kdy Mira Jureik bude mit 4. nedeli v lednu relii. Bude i Zupni sokolska schtize a pak divadlo pod nazvena: "Vyptifeena, Panimarna". Prosim, ptiprovte se! Zatim nazdar!

Karla Kraftova -) '' .I, • ( Sokol v Houstonu Sokol Houston bude konati ,svoji vVroeni valnou hromadu v nedeli .5. prosince.

Schtize se pfeklada z druhe nedele na prvni nedeli protole druhou nedeli bu de konati svoji vSrroeni schiazi tad Pokrok Houstonu. Broth a sestry vezmete tot° na veclomi a dostavte se na schtizi v pcietu co nejvetSim. No, potodu podavani zprav a volba, einovnika na pi SU rok. Po schtizi ptatelska zabava, obCerstveni a riazne hry. Tedy . nezapomennte . na prvni nedeli 5. ptosince.

Jednatel 1 • A 2IVOT NI ZKUSENOSTI ZESNULEHO SPOLUBRATRA PAVLA DUJKY Narozen byl na Slovensku, v mesici listopadu, v roce 1867. jeho rodide pochazeli z Moravy, ze Zadveric u Vsetina. Byl nejmladSi ze §esti deti. Kdye odsloueil tehdej§imu rakouskemu cisari FrantiSku Josefovi — prvnimu a poslednimu — tri leta vojenske slueby, pak opustil sestry, bratry, rodiee a — jel hledat §testi v Americe. V roce 1898 pfijel do slunneho Texasu, do okresu Austin, osady Nelsonville. Po S'esti letech odjel do okresu Waller, osady Sunny Side, tam jej potkalo §testi, neb mu tam vpadla do oka hezke polka' Rosalie a to se mu tak zalibila, v kratkem ease poeadal jeji rodiee, Pavla a Annu MalYch o jeji ruku, co g oni bez odporu svolili a v kratkein Case jim veselku vystrojili. Za par let, kdye sobe neco ugetkili, koupili sobe sto akrovou farmu, na 'dere ale dlouho nebyli, neb se jim naskytla pfileeitosti koupit lep§i farmu 100 akrii v okrese Wharton, osady East Bernard. Kdye tuto farmu zvelebili, zase ji dobte zpeneeili a koupili zase sto akrovou farmu v okresu Fort Bend, v osade Krasna pri Wallis. Na to forme pobyli nejdele, celych 30 let; pak v roce 1939 onu farmu prodali a koupili od John Moora 227 akrti, blizko Orchard, neobdelane prerie. Tam meli s celou rodinou hojne legrace zabavy, neb tam bylo nutno veAkere hospodatske obydli stavet, ploty Mat a to panenskou pildu lamat, aby mohla jemu a cele rodine eivobyti davat. Tak toho tancovani men vachni dost a nemuseli jezdit na Mixville, ani na Riverside a co hlavniho tom bylo, ono to tancovani nebylo Utratne, ale neslo krasne ovoce. Jo, jo, tenkrat byly jine easy; tehda, se dola.ry stfadalv a fanny se kupovaly. Ted' se dolary ukladaji do fordovYch plechaa a do muzikantske basy. Vylidovat zde v ge, co zesnulY s jeho dobrou a pracovitou man-

V tSTNIK WEST. TEXAS eelkou v jejich zaaateich zkusili, zabralo by hojne mista a mnolaSi by tomu nevetil.

Wive byli lide vytrvalejAi a snaAenliv6jM; proto stare vzpominky a nynejAi udalost se od sebe hojne lisi. kika se, ze kde se ptatelstvi a laska k sobe druZi, Ze tam se da vypestovat na jednom sipku hojne MIL Tito manZele vypestovali tech rtili 15. Pet synii a, deset deer. (Bratte redaktore, vzpominam si, ae jsi sveho easu vyueoval v obecne Skole na Krasne, ge jsi nektere z tech deti udil.) Mimo nejmladSiho Williama jsou jiZ v§ichni synove nati a dcery provdane.

Josef, Adolf a Jerry bYvaji na Orchard, Julius P. v Hhoustonu, William doma.

Dcery: Olga Schoppe v Somerville, Antonie MartiSak v Orchard, Joyce Marie Otto v East Bernard, Julia Barta v Rosenberg, Anna Belle Peek v Rosenberg, Mildred Cotharn v Rosenberg, Rose Lee Hamock v Angleton, Frankie Straelk v Angleton, Lissie Curtis v Atlanta, Georgia, Emilia Lyn Koehler ye Wharton. 28 vnukir a 18 pravnukti a vnueek.

Pavel Dujka byl mime povahy, spravedlivS1, poctivSr, aadnemu nezastal nic dluZen. Byl vzornS7m manZelern, starostlivSun otcem, svornStrn a snagenlivSim sousedem. Nikdy nadpkirozenou bytost nidim neobteeoval. Kdye poti'eboval nekdy nejakou pomoc, poeadal o ni souseda, a eaden mu nikdy nic neodepfel.

Nejvet§i radost nrei z toho, ee nemel rodine eadneho mrzaka,, ani neposluAneho paliedka. Vedy se o rodinu peelive staral, aby netrpeli zimou a hladem.

Sam postradal dobreho vzdeleni, ale ditkam ho dle nejlep§i rnoenosti dopral. Byl elenem SPJST radu Karel Jonas Cis. 28, od roku 1906. Nikdy kadovYm utednikum jejich praci nezteeoval, neb sve povinnosti v pattienk eas zapravoval, Byl take elenem bYvale jednoty OSPS, nynej§i reorganisovane OSA v Chicagu, Iii. Doeil se Uctyhodneho veku 87 let. Zeinfel 31. iijna a 1. listopadu byl uloeen na hfbitoye Krasna, k zasloueilemu odpoeinku.

Toto v§e posbiral a na papir dal • i redaktoru Vestniku k otisknuti zasla,l, jeho spolubratr J. G. 1 • 4g, • ( JAK PLYMOUTH OSLAVUJE DEN

nixtvzDANi tvrtS7 etv •tek v listopadu, Thanksgiv ing Day, kterY vyeaduje vdeenost AmeriOmni za poeehnani uplynuleho roku, je prileeitosti k jedineene °slave ye meste Plymouth, v Massachusetts. Onoho svateeniho dne odeji se tamni obyvatele do jednoduchYch oblekit s yYch pf.edkil a predvedou obilad "Pilgrim's Progress", datujici se z dob prvniho vzdavani diku Prozfetelnosti roku 1621. Podle zachovane legendy byl prvni Den dikfivzdani oslavovan pruvodem, vedenYrn cirkevni hlavou Plymouthske osady, pozastavaji-

Strana 7 ctrsr z famikil a zakoneenYm guvemerem Bradfordem.

Obyvatele Plymouthu; v neme byl oslavovan prvni Den diktvzdani, obnoViii tento obtad roku 1921 na oslavu ttisteho vYrodi obtodu pinrodniho, a od to dOby ho ka2doroene opakuji. Snali se pti nthia pokud mono vystihnouti autentienost krojil a seskupeni rodin podle zachov,) ljch spra y z doby pked vies nail ttemi stoletimi. KaZdS7 ireastnik oslavy "Pilgrim's Progress" representuje ureitelio Poutnika. Mnozi z techto modernich "Poutnikti" jsou ostatne potomci tehde).J. rich osadnikti, a v nekterVeh ptipadc nesou i totes jmeno.

Prvni Den diktwzdani byl sloven skus pinou otuZilSreh anglickSTh kolonisttt, kteki pieaili krutou zimu a nyni na pbdizim se radovali z dobre Urody. Tradice,:k niZ poloaili zaklady, poslouZila za vzor k oslavam pozdej§im, takle i dnes slavime tento den modlitbou, psvicenskou hojnosti a pohostinstvina. Roku 1621 pozVal guvernor Bradford na oslavu inclianskeho ndeelnika Massasoita, kterSr s sebou ptivedl i devadesat ptislusnikir sveho kmene. Poutnici byli ponekud uvedepi do rozpakti neoeekavankm poetem zvanch hosti, ale nedali se "ptivestiz konceptu" na dlouho. Poslali hned neko7 lik muZfr, aby postkileli vice divokSiell krocantr, a 2eny pustily se do ptipravy pokrmil.

Modlitby, duldite slaky denniho r2ivo-to Poutnikii, nebylo pH oslavach zapomenuto. Oslavujici einili Caste ptestavky v radovankach, aby se modlili a zpivali hymny.

Mynenka oslav Due dikiwzdani Sitila so pomalu z Plymouthske kolonie po ce16 semi. RilznYch pkileeitosti bylo vyuZiva=, no k oslavam vzclani din, a nektere ty ozna6ovaly ureitY den za oficialni Den dikiwzdani. SkuteenS7m americkSma svat, kern stal se vAak Den dildivzclani teprVe roku 1863. Hlavni zasluhu o to mela pant Sara J. Haleova, z Massachusetts, ktera ptemluvila presidenta Lincolna, aby prohlasil onen den narodnim svatkern.

Lincoln tak ucinil Zadosti, aby "ob6Orie . . . oslavili posledni etvrtek v listopadit . jakato den Tzdavani dikil a chval.Sr nakmu dobrotivemu Otci, jen g dli na nebesich".

Od tech drat je Den dilanrzdani vyhlac= govan kadoroene presidentskou prokla, maci. Je to den modlitby v kostele i ma. Je to den obnovovani •odinnSrch .spojra a' radovarlek, sdilenSrch s pfatell a sousedy. Je to den, kdy obyvatele Ply-1 mouthu, v Massachusetts, vraceji se teig stoleti do minulosti a proZivaji den ziri14. sobem, kterSim ho na pude' Noveho sveta protili prvni koloniste.

—Common Council.

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Ye ettedu, dne 24. listopadu 1954.

Sedm distriktii S.P.J.S.T. Na tadost mnoha taclovYcb ttednik0, a elentt SPJST Iflavni ttadovna vypracovala seznam jednotlivych tad0 a jejich rozdeleni a umisteni v jednotlivYch distriktech. Laskave uschovejte si tento seanam pro objasneni a budouci pottebu.

DISTRIKT PRvid ft editel: A, C. 8tegin, P. O. Box 808, Brenham, Texas.

Okresy

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Austin

22 33 37 44

Bastrop Brazos Burleson

Fayette

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Sidla

Jiti Washington Hvezda Miru Nova Vlast teAti. Bratti Bratti Mit-1u 13ratti Svornosti Vesrnernost Nova Doba techroslovak Jan 2itica Osve'ta Bediich Smetana Ladirnir Klacel Rovnost Slovan NovY Tabor Slovan§ti Barth Pokrok Made& Hej Slova,ne Rozkvet Cooks Point Pokrok DeanvilIe Pokrok Texasu Kopernik Svojan Dubina Fr. Palackk Vernost Pokrok Plumu Bratti Sviabody Pokrok Flatonia techo-Moravan Jan .11us Elovansky Dilworth Texaska Orlice Veseli

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DISTRICT DRUB/ Reditel: — Chas. Navratil, Temple, Texas, 816 E. Ave. A. Nb.hradnik: -- F. V. Spanhel, Little River, Texas.

Okresy BO

Falls Houston Milam Robertson Travis Williatusion

:lisla tad't 24 47 69 80 86 87 89 74 15 72 94 155 20 29 46

Jmena tada ., Cesky. Prapor livezcla Texasu No4 Osada Tyr SlovanskY Svaz Hvezda Svobody RO'iovY Dveir BorovY Hai Svornost Jihu Pokrok Jihu Donnie.

Hlava Tekasu Praha, VAehrad

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Sttatit 9 Bartlett, TeXas Coupland, Texas Granger, Texas Thrall, Texas

DISTRIKT TAM!'

fteditel: — Robert Oervenka, West, Texas.

Nahradnik: — Fr. Blaek, Fort Worth, Texas, 3433 — 8th Avenue.

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Cooke Dallas

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Ellis Grayson Hill Kaufman McLennan

Tarrant

Imena ád Pokrok Gainsville Pokrok Dallas Jaro Ennis

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DISTRIKT trvRrie fteditel: — Fr. J. OervenY, Munday, Texas, Route 2.

Naluadnik: — R. E. Brot, San Angelo, Texas. Route 3.

Okresy

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Baylor

73 77 98 134 85 90 157 49 160 76

Foard Haskell Jones Lamb Runnels Tom Green Wichita

Jmena fan Sam Houston Hvezda Praporu teskV Den Brattejov Pokrok Haskell Slovanske Sdruienj Rozkvet na 'Plains Pokrok Rowena T. G. Masaryk Neodvislost

Sidla Seymour, Texas Bomarton, Texas Seymour, Texas Crowell, Texas Weinert, Texas Stamford, Texas Littlefield, Texas Rowena, Texas San Angelo, Texas Wichita Falls, Texas

DISTRIKT PATt fteditel: — J. M. gkrabanek, Bellaire, Texas. 4720 Bellaire Blvd.

Nahradnik: — A. L. Hilsher, Houston, Texas, 1215 Heights Blvd.

Okresy Brazoria Fort Bend

Harris

Liberty

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Jmena tada Danbtuy Pokrok Brazoria Tome.A Jefferson Needville Krasne, Rosenberg _.

Jaroslav Vrchlickk F. B. Zdrubek.

Vyzovice Prapor Magnolia Pokrok Houstonu San Jacinto

gtefinik Pokrok Baytown Liberty

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Strain, 10 Galveston Waller

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TIMM

Rozkvet Woodrow Wilson lVforavan Slovanska Pkilelitost Svatopluk

Ve stfedu, dne 24. listopadu 1954.

Galveston, 'Texas Galveston, Texas Sunnyside, Texas Brookshire, Texas Waller, Texas

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keditel: Okresy Calhoun Colorado

Matagorda Victoria

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Novo. Ratolest Prapor Svobody Srdce Jednoty Pokrok Garwood Slavie Pokrok Slovarni Touha Vytrvalost Pokrok Benview Novohrad Karel Havlieek TexaskY Mir Ella Hora Velehrad Nova Morava Pokrok Moulton Vlastenec Pokrok Sweet Home RadhoSt' Rozkvet Svobody Culak Elmaton Markham NaiSinee Placedo Vitez Primori Karel Jona,S Hvezda Jihu Oechoslovan El Campo Calumbus Wharton, Texas

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DISTRIKT SEDMt

f?.editel: — Chas. Holasek, Corpus Christi, Texas. 2541 Lexington Blvd.

Nahradnik: — John IlranickY, Orange Grove, Texas. P. 0. Box 75.

Okresy Atascosa Bee Bexar Cameron Karnes Icllebtrg :LT es

Refugia San Patriclo Wilson

Cisla tadt 78 147 161 26 133 164 93 127 118 112 56 '19 117 152 150 137 61 107

Jmeria, fadfi Dobrota Vesela, Osada La Parita Slovan Jihu San Antonio J. R. Kubena Karnes Pokrok Kenedy Kingsville Svepornoc Anton termak Corpus Christi Robstown Pokrok Agua Dulce Aug. Haidusek Taft Vesmir Roakvigt Zapadu

Sidla Dobrowolskt, Texas Jourdanton, Texas La Parita, Texas Skidmore, Texas San Antonio, Texas Rio Hondo, Texas Hobson, Texas Kenedy, Texas Kingsville, Texas George West, Texas Corpus Christi, Texas Corpus Christi, Texas Robstown, Texas Agua Dulce, Texas Woodsboro, Texas Taft, Texas Poth, Texas Floresville, Texas

Wednesday, November 24, 1954

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Reports from Lodges, biographies, etc., intended for publication, must be in the hands of the Editor a BENEVOLENT ORDER week before the date of issue. Address all editorial matters to: OF THE STATE OF TEXAS Editor, 6402 Prague, Houston 7, Tex. Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 With Undeliverable Copies to SUPREME LODGE SPJST, TEMPLE, TEXAS

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF SLAVONIC

MUSINGS OF THE EDITOR UNEXPECTEDLY AND WITHOUT solicitation, your editor received material tic:• cover this editorial page. It has to do with orchids. The subject of orchids was brought about in a conversation on the third day of the Texas Fraternal Congress convention. One of the well-known Fraternalists, not an SPJST member but very active in his own organization, was discussing the entire program of the fifty-fourth annual convention, and he made this statement: "I am glad that Birdie got an orchid, too. And your SPJST certainly deserves orchids."

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THIS REMARK WOULD MEAN NOTHing to anyone who was not present at the Texas Fraternal Congress convention held in Galveston on November 17, 18, and 19. It was a three-day period of fraternal activities, in which the SPJST played its share, mostly to the untiring efforts of Sister Birdie Hilsher, general convention chairman. She engineered the entire convention program and directed twelve committees of the convention. On top of all that, she was the president of Texas Fraternal Congress Youth Section, presided at the Youth Breakfast on Wednesday morning, the Youth Reception on Wednesday evening, and supervised the banquet arrangements on Thursday night. She was the hardest working person at the convention.

• SUCH WAS THE OPINION OF MANY impartial . observers. Rex James, secretary-treasurer of the Texas Fraternal Congress, constantly referred to Sister Hilsher as the "work-horse" of the 54th convention. Other delegates and officers made similar remarks. So it happened on the last day of the convention that your editor was standing in the lobby of Galvez Hotel discussing the entire program, when the well-known fraternalist made the statement that he was glad Sister Hilsher got an orchid and that our SPJST deserves full credit for what was done in the convention.

• NOW, WHERE DO THE ORCHIDS come in? Well, this fraternalist, who was

talking with your editor, thought that there was some undeclared and secret competition between the SPJST and another fraternal organization in Texas.

This fraterna,list pointed out that the same composer, Mr. John Pech of Chicago, who composed our SPJST song also wrote a song for the other fraternal society. Furthermore, the best numbers on the Wednesday evening program were presented by the group of girls from Caldwell, Texas, invited to some to Galveston by Sister Hilsher, and another group of girls invited by the other organization from Houston. The girls engaged by Sister Hilsher presented four beautiful numbers. The group of girls from Houston, engaged by the leaders of the ether fraternal society, also presented very charming numbers. The closing act was pinning a huge orchid corsage on the leading lady from the other fraternal society. None of the SPJST ladies were so honored, not even a small boutonniere for our officers.

• • BUT WAIT. THE NEXT EVENING it was a rivalry again, according to the opinion of the impartial fraternalist.

Sister Hilsher not only wore an exotic, magnificent orchid, but she received a whole basket of roses. So this fraternalist thought that is was proper for Sister Hilsher to get an orchid, and that the SPJST would deserve orchids, too.

That judgment should be passed only by those who attended the convention and watched the entire program.

• • THE SPJST DID HAVE A WONDERful number on the program following the annual banquet. It was presented by the members of Pokrok Houston Lodge No. 88, of Houston. It was the new SPJST Fraternity Song. When someone mentions a song, it means a melody and nothing else. But the SPJST Fraternity Song was more than that. It was a chorus composed of eleven ladies, eight men, a pianist-composer, and five small girls carrying the letters 8, P, J, S, T.

sing, but I did not expect anything so wonderful. It was so touching that I felt tightening in my throat and I did not know if I wanted to shout or tra cry. It was simply marvelous. Of course, the small girls marching in to the music of the piano and carrying the letters were cute. But when the singers started to• march in, two ladies in dazzling white, followed by two men in dark, white, dark, white, dark, about two dozen singers, I knew it would be grand.

The singers made a striking picture on the stage; the men in dark suits and white shirts with small bow ties standing behind and above the girls in white made an impressive setting. You had a wonderful soloist, a girl with a silver tone. But when the men started to sing with the soloist, my throat tightened. It was just superb, those deep voices. And when the ladies started to sing with the men, and the soloist carrying her own melody high above every one else, it was just marvelous. But you stopped when it sounded the best. And you stood there watching Sister Hilsher receiving her roses. And when everyone thought you were ready to march off the stage, there came that wonderful refrain "Our S P J S T." No wonder Birdie Hilsher was wearing such a gorgeous orchid.

She should be proud of her singers and her number. The whole convention was thrilled by your singing."

• • WHEN THE NEW SPJST SONG WAS announced, there was some criticism here and there about the futility of such a song. Those critics should have been present Thursday night at the program given before the delegates of the 54th annual convention of the Texas rraternal 03ngress. It was one of the finest publicity numbers that our organization could have selected. We should be proud f the song. We should get busy organizing singing groups and sing the song • • The SPJST Fraternity Song certainly HERE ARE THE WORDS OF A LADY brought orchids to the entire organizawho watched the number and described tion, thanks to the thoughtfulness of her feeling. "I knew you, were wing to Sister Hasher;

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Wednesday, November 24, 1954

THE LIGHT UNDER THE BUSHEL We are living in an era when our relations with the public and its understanding of our work are of paramount importance. Indeed, any company—any business -- any institution — assumes a heavy handicap when it forgets or neglects its relations with the public, or shuts its eyes to the effect that public relations will have on its future. We are living in an era ,when poor public relations can not only handicap, it can destroy, a business. And whether we know it or not, every act and every failure to act, has its direct and immediate effect—either for good or bad—upon our relations with the public, and therefore upon our progress.

Let the Light Shine There are certain features of Fraternalism and Fraternal Life Insurance, as I see it, that are woefully misunderstood and misinterpreted by the public today.

This ignorance has had, and is having right now, a harmful effect upon the growth of Fraternal Life Insurance. It is weakening the morale of the Field Workers and it has caused the buyers of life insurance to shy away from Fraternal Life Insurance. They have bought only in small volume, or have refused to buy at all.

This situation exists, notwithstanding a magnitude of wonderful philanthropic work Fraternals are doing and notwithstanding the unqualified fact that no life insurance can be safer, more positive in its agreements, or its contracts more certain to be carried out to the legal letter and in the full spirit, than legal reserve Fraternal Life Insurance.

This great, glowing light of Fraternalism is shining, and the world needs its rays to shine on its peoples. But, unfortunately, the light is hid under a bushel.

In the Sermon on the Mount, immediately following the Beatitudes, Jesus said, "Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house." Yes, despite this common-sense philosophy, we Fraternalists are doing this very thing. We are hiding 'the light under the bushel. The hiding of the light has hurt every phase of our public relations. The public does not understand. Therefore, it does not appreciate the great values of the many Fraternal activities, In life insurance, the representatives of commercial companies, on the whole, literally, have no conception whatever of what Fraternal Life Insurance is. I know this, for I have purposely asked many high-calibored, honest and honorable agents

(An address at the National ,.,,Fraternal But a certificate. That instrument Congress by Alden C. Parmer) carries all the promises and all the what they knew about Fraternal Life wonders of the policy. Then it has someInsurance. I have yet to have a reply thing more. It certifies that the insured that indicates that they know anything is a member—not a policyholder—of the about it. Invariably, and without a sin- society, and is thereby entitled to all gle exception, the reply is, "Why, that the• privileges of membership. He is enis life insurance that is subject to as- titled to the privilege of electing delegates to express his opinion of the acsessment." tions of his society. He has the privilege Assessment life insurance! You have of talking with the management. He has heard it many times. the privilege of naming his representaYou know that what I say is correct. tive to select the leaders of his society.

And today there are over 150,000 com- He has the privilege of fellowship in mercial life underwriters, meeting and the local lodges and sharing the benetalking with a million buyers of life in- fits of the society. surance everyday. They are telling these And the representatives in the field millions of people, when asked, that Fraternal Life Insara,nce is assessment in- are not agents, broad and meaningful though that term may be. They are Field surance.

And I have heard many of you con- Workers. Their task is broader and demn these men. You blame them for grander than that of selling life insurtheir ignorance. We do not like to ad- ance. For upon them rests the fine remit to any fault ourselves. Yet right sponsibility of building the local units, here is where the major fault lies—right of establishing new groups, of keeping with us, ourselves. It is our fault, be- alive in these lodges the spirit of Fracause we have not told the people the ternalism, and of putting into action facts about Fraternal Life Insurance. 'the purpose 'of the society.

We have kept—and we are keeping—the These men and women are life underlight under the bushel.

But I think the folks that are hurt the writers in all that that name signifies. worst are the Field Workers. For they They have a sacred duty to perform, as are the ones that feel directly the ef- does every life- underwriter. But the fect of this lack of understanding. They Field Worker's service goes far beyond are in the front lines. And I have seen the work of an agent. these fine people become overwhelmed We say that in a Fraternal society we with the lead they carry. I have seen find pure mutuality. That is true, But them beaten down in morale, afraid to what does it mean? Does it mean anycall on the bigger buyers. I have seen thing to the average man or woman? them talking in terms of $500 and $1,000 What is "pure mutuality?" Have we excertificates, when they should be selling plained it so that the Field Workers un$5,000 and $10,000. I have seen them derstand is fully, and so that they can carefully avoid calling on the leading become enthusiastic about it—so that citizens of their communities, either to they can carry that enthusiasm into the discuss lodge membership or life insur- field? ance, then go into the factory districts And our Fraternal organizations are and the poorer areas to do their work.

They have done this, and are doing this, not companies. They are Societies and because they, themselves, do not see Associations. Again, there is a difference.

A society has all the duties of a life the light that is hidden. insurance company—and more. It also Misunderstood Phases carries out the great objectives of the Let me review some of the phases of oreAnization—the philanthropic and the Fraternal work that are misunderstood charitable work, or the religious work, —some of the features which to the lay- or the patriotic work—whatever may be men have little or no significance. the' worthy goal of the society. It has First, we say that the Fraternal Life more meaning than does the word "comInsurance contract is a Certificate and pany." not a policy. Why? Because there is a world of difference in the terms. A poliBut does the layman know this? Does cy is merely a contract a wonderful he understand that there is a differcontract— of protection. It is'entered in- ence? We know he does not, unless he to betv'teen the company and the policy- is, himself a member of a society. Even holder, and the company agrees to pay then, I doubt if he appreciates what a sum of money at death or at some fu- the difference is. And why does he not ture date. understand? Because he has not been

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told. Because the light is under the bush- conservative rate of interest. That rate

Merited Privileges el!

I have asked life underWriters what they could tell me about the philanthropic work of Fraternal societies. All the reply I get is a blank stare. For they know nothing of it.

Yet the Fraternal societies of our nations spend outright, literally, millions and millions of dollars every year for great benevolent and humanitarian purposes. They support wholly, out of their own treasuries: Orphan Homes, Orphan Schools, Homes for the Aged, Sanitariums for the ailing, Medical Clinics and Health Centers, with supplemental Nursing Service. They carry on, on a large scale, relief work in times of catastrophe—storms, floods, fires, earthquakes and epidemics. They take part in the great charitable drives, such as Polio, Community Chest, Heart and Cancer Funds, Blood Donor campaigns for the American Red Cross. They furnish hospital care for thousands of their members. They provide •college scholarships for worthy and talented young people.

They contribute large sums to church organizations. They promote youth movements, which aid greatly in controlling juvenile delinquency.

What would happen to our countries if, suddenly, all these great movements were stopped? What would happen to the welfare of our people? Thousands would suffer, and the state and national governments would have to pick up the financial burden, thereby adding to the already heavy burden they carry.

All of this is just common everyday routine work of Fraternal societies. Yet the public, as a whole, actually knows little or nothing about it. Why? Because the public has not been told. The light is „under the bushel!

Our Field Workers tell their prospects that they represent a "legal reserve life insurance" organization. That, of course, is the truth. But those are merely words.

What do they mean to the average person? The answer is in just one word— Nothing!

But that phrase has vital meaning.

It means that: The Society uses exactly the same mortality table as does every commercial life Insurance company. It assumes that the same number of people of given ages will die each year. It means that the Society underwrites the same risks.

The phrase also means that the Society maintains a reserve fund and a surplus, to meet its future obligations, on exactly the same basis, and in the same ratio, as does the commercial company.

And it means that the Society assumes that the money it invests will earn a

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and that assumption are no different from commercial companies.

It, means that the Society is under the same supervision by state insurance commissioners and the Dominion superintendent of insurance, as are commercial companies. It is examined in the same way, by the same examiners, and the standards 'of reserves and methods of operation are on exactly the same high plane.

It means that the same type of investments are made. And the Fraternals could not, if they would, take a chance with the fundp in its care, any more than could a commercial company.

It means that the Society follows the same scientific underwriting methods as do all life insurance companies. It means that only good risks are accepted, and that these risks are evaluated by corn-, petent and experienced underwriters, qualified to serve as risk underwriters in any company or society in the world.

It means that the Societies issue the same type of contracts with the same protective clauses, for the benefit of the insured, with the same privileges and the same guarantees, as are found in the commercial life insurance contract.

All these things serve to insure safety and security for every member's investment. They guarantee the full performance of the contract.

But this great light, too, has been kept under the bushel. It has been hidden in a phrase that too often even the Field I Worker has not been taught to explain.

I asked a good friend of mine, a million-dollar producer in a midwestern city for a large commercial company, if he could explain the phrase, "Open Contract," as applied to a Fraternal certificate. His reply was, "Open-end Contract? What is that?."

And when I inquired further his opinion of Fraternal life insurance, he replied that he supposed it was all right, if the assessments that were levied were not too heavy.

I think these answers reflect the actual limitations of the knowledge that the average good, honest and honorable commercial life underwriter has of the Open Contract.

You and I know its great values. We know that it guarantees the complete performance of the contract, beyond any other type of life insurance contract.

We know that the Fraternal rate is just as definite, and just as sure, as is the rate of any life insurance company.

You and I know that the Open Contract has the greatest safety clause in any life insurance agreement. You and (Continued on page 19)

WHET TO CO SUNDAY TWICE A MONTH: Sunday—Every first and third Sunday of each month Lodge Pokrok"Hous ton No. 88 sponsors a dance. Every one is invited and members are admitted FREE. MONDAY EACH WEEK: Monday—Every Monday of each week, at 8 p.m. chorus singing practice will be held. Any one interested is welcome at Lodge Pokrok Houston No. 88, 1140 Robbie.

WEDNESDAY EACH WEEK: Wednesday—Every Wednesday of each week dancing and singing lessons are sponsored for the youth of Lodge PC krok Houston No. 88, 1140 Robbie.

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 28: Pokrok Dallas Lodge is postponing its regular meeting to the fourth Sunday on account of the district meeting in Fort Worth. Kindly take notice of the change and assist in notifying others:.

Vie know that our governmental system and our way of life may all short of our ideals in certain respects. But we have enough good sense to realize that given the conditions under which the system must operate, the difficult and manifold problems of a ter_diriologi-' cal age, and the frailties of man, the perfect society is likely to remain a utopia. Moreover, we are aware that no people, Cr nation has a monoply of all the good things in life. We should not feel that because we have a high regard for our country, ethers must necessarily follow in our footsteps. After all, we are what we arc, and considering the youth of our Nation, we have acee,'mplished much

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HOW MANY ItABIES 'WERE BOltN AMONG YOUR RELATIVES AND. FRIENDS LAST MONTH? DID YOU GET Ail' TO JOIN OUR 5,E .0.EPAlt.VI'Aik' Nr,r.:? fI N-O T

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Wednesday, November 24, 1954

REPORTS FROM LOCAL LODGES LODGE SAN ANTONIO NO. 133 Sisters and Brothers: "Time and Tide Waits for No Man." And before I realized it, it is six weeks since I contributed to the Vestnik. During that time two lodge meetings , and a district meet have been held. Time certainly goes quickly.

Our Lodge meeting held October 10 was fairly attended although for that special occasion the turnout was expected to be much larger. The special occasion was on tap to bring more interest into our lodge work, to bring out the moms and dads and their children, to watch our juvenile members who were voted officers for that particular meeting, to take over and run the meeting.

But the main reason for this was to inspire our youth to take interest in the procedure of lode activity that they may of their own accord form- their own club and later, perhaps, even a charter of their own. The greatest hindrance to this tentative plan is that we have lost the help of the preceding generation, now moms and pops, who will not be entertained with the stupid idea of attending meetings no matter how many picnics and entertainments the lodge endeavors to bring about, for their interest and pleasure.

No responsibility for them. No, sir! Let grand paps or Eliza do it. But outside of meetings, it is said, "why don't we conduct our meetings in English? Why don't we have our own ball?" Grand pap is an old fossil, he's too far behind the times. and Eliza didn't do her work right."

When we did conduct the meeting in English, they didn't attend and then some members present remarked that was the worst meeting we ever had.

What some of our members do not realize is that it takes the whole-hearted cooperation of all members to plan for the future. A few members beside the officers of the lodge can't take the responsibility of building a hall, or any other project. There must be over half or all of membership present to discuss future plans. They must put some effort in these discussions, show that they really want it and shall work hard to pay for it. Paying for it is the $64.00 question.

To get back to our meeting, the young officers did take over and did a good job of it. The business of the Lodge was transacted without any great effort.

Some of them were enthusiastic about it that they had been given the opportunity to be in a responsible position. Al-

though this meeting was to be executed by the youth• just once, the following meeting, held Nov. 14, found our youthful vice president, Raymond Dietrich strolling to the vice-president's position and nonchalantly sat down. Since Bra, Kalmus, vice president did not attend the meeting, Raymond held that position to the end. We can't say our youth will not do this or that, given the inspiration by the example of their parents, our youth will not fail us.

The youthful officers were: Stanley Kalmus, president: Raymond Dietrich, vice president: Lonney Kutil, secretary; Patsy Murie, treasurer, accountant; and Barbara Kati, guide. Missing were other moms and dads and their children who are members of our lodge.

At our last meeting little Miss Terra Lee Burgin made the president very happy by presenting a bouquet of roses to be put on the rostrum in front of him.

This enlivened our room. Thanks a million, 'Terra Lee, She is the granddaughter of Sister and Brother Ed Holly who brought her and her sister to the meeting. Recently the girls became our members.

Starting with the meeting in October, it was agreed the Lodge would give $2.00 as attendance prize at each meeting.

Those present at the inauguration of this prize had a chance to win it the following meeting. Sister Zofie Maly was the lucky winner at last meeting. It works this way: the names of those present are written on slips of paper and at the following meeting they are shuffled in a hat and some one draws one of the slips. Whose name appears on the slip wins the $2.00. You must be present to win. Sister and brothers come to the next meeting, December 12 and get in on the fun. Children are included.

Bring them along because there will be a Xmas gift given to all children who attend, followed by a social hour.

Not forgetting our social hour after the last meeting, it was an enjoyable affair with all the good kolaches and cakes simply melting in one's Mouth. This was followed by a penny bingo game, one jackpot being won by Raymond Dietrich.

To the surprise of all Raymond handed his winnings over saying, "I give it back to the Lodge." Isn't that wonderful?

Brother Obey Amburn has been on a serious sick list the past weeks. I am happy to report he has responded favorably to treatments recently, and is doing fine.

Just as I'm ending this letter a puff of wind invaded my domicile and blew

my current calendar off the nail, revealing another old one of some years ago which for some reason or other I didn't discard. I'll try to give you the picture as I see it. The scene seems to be in a cabaret, where three young females are doing a ballet dance. Each has a red feather and a red and white button on their heads, and from their big ears hang sapphire earrings. The 'orchestra composed of a kettle drum and a couple of eerie shaped horns, are whooping it up to the delight of the dancers, whose sole attire are red and blue hulavhula skirts. They're barefoot with one foot kicked high while the other is about 4 inches off the floor, evidently having a hot time of it.

The orchestra members are males who evidence a pleased expression on their faces as the girl's tails take on different curls in the performance of the dance.

They are monkeys!

In front of the stage is a table covered by a white tablecloth on which can be seen three glasses, nearly empty, possibly mixed drinks, a cigar and a halfeaten apple. At one side of the table sits a very serious faced baboon, puzzled as to the result of figuring out his income tax which is at his side. He preferred to figure on the white table cloth, that way he could see the figures better. His side of the table was a conglomeration of figures and on the edge of the table, starting to scorch the tablecloth, is a big black smoldering cigar. He could be the proprietor of the place. Sitting across the table is a fat pig holding a cigar with his left front paw, laughing as all get out at the antics of the ballet.

There are two apple cores thrown on the floor, as well as, a big banana peel.

Passing the table is a penguin attired with a white collar and tie and a towel hanging over his right arm. His nose is turned up to show his self importance and does not see he is in danger as he is about to step on the banana peel as he carries two jiggers of spirits on • a tray to some customer, beyond the picture.

Isn't it silly?

Just think what imagination the artist was capable of.

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AMERICANS "eat out" to the tune of $10 to $11 billion each year. There is now one restaurant for every 704 persons in the United States and one-fifth of the American food dollar is spent in restaurants.

Wednesday, November 24, 1954 SVAZ CECHOSLOVAisit LODGE NO. 92 Dear Readers: Fort Worth, Texas Lodge Svaz Cechoslovanu No. 92 held its regular meeting Sunday, November 14. The next meeting, December 12, will be election of officers for the coming year, everyone try to come to the meeting and put the person in office who u think will make a good officer.

BrO. Steve Waco has been in the hospital but is reported at home and much improved. We want to wish Bro. Waco a speedy recovery to good health.

8Is. Anna Langer asked that all the mothers whose children are to be in the Christmas Play or want a part in the Program to be • at the Hall, Friday night, November 26,' at 7 P. M. to get their parts and make plans for the program.

Fraternally, Jay Dee Waggoner • )• LODGE JARO, NO. 130 SPJST Dallas, Texas All members of Lodge Jaro 130 are requested to attend our next meeting which is to be on December 5th, first Sunday, at 3 o'clock, as we will hold our yearly elections. It would be nice to see some new faces in the meeting once a year. Coffee and doughnuts will be served after meeting.

There will be a Christmas party on Thursday, December 23, for the children. The party will be combined with Sokol.

Gym classes for children are held every Friday, 7:15 to 8:30. You parents, please bring them and get out of the house kr your own good once a week.

Joe Maca, Secretary ) • a • ( SLOVAN MITI LODGE NO. 26 Dear Sisters and Brothers: I'd like to inform all the members of Lodge Jihu No. 26 that our regular meeting will be held on December 5, 1954.

The officers for 1955 will be elected, so all of you members be there.

Bro. Nedbalek wishes to retire as president. He held the office for more than 50 years. So• all of you members come to the meeting.

Fraternally yours, Mary Veroda, Sec. Lodge No. 26 ) • 4 RAD CESKY PRAPOR NO. 24 CYCLONE Rogers, Texas Dear Sisters and Brothers: Here I am again: . just a reminder that at our next meeting Sunday, Dec. 5th, there will be an election of officers for 1955. I hope you, members, come out and vote for the one you want to hold office next year. We can't hold an election without your help.

Well, .I think many a farmer is hap

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py by now, for getting such a good rain.

It surely did look wonderful to us, for we all did need rain badly, water was everywhere, but soon that dry ground drank it up fast.

Your reporter, Mollie Zavodny • 4 • LODGE VERNOST NO. 51, ELLINGER Dear Members: Your attention is directed to the regular meeting to be held by this lodge en Sunday, December 12, at 1 p. m. at the Juren Barber Shop, in the Ellinger Post Office building. Please realize that the election of local officers will be held at this meeting. Your presence is requested.

Fraternally, D. A. Juren, Sec'y )• •( ROBSTOWN LODGE NO. 117 Robstown, Texas Attention all members of Lodge 117, Robstown, Texas: We are having our annual organizational meeting on the first Sunday of December, the fifth. May we take this means to urge all members of this lodge to make it a special point to attend this meeting as the election of officers will be held and other business of importance to the lodge for the coming year will be conducted. The meeting will be held at 1 p. in. at the Moravian Hall as usual.

Officers of Lodge 117, Oscar Hrncir, Secretary ) • a. • SOKOL FORT WORTH Hello everyone: Well, I finally managed to scrape together a few moments to write. I' know I've missed too many editions, but every week I think' I'll make it and before I know it, the deadline time has come and gone and it's the same thing all over. again.

We are very happy that our son-inlaw, Cpl. A. L. Mobley Jr., is back home with us again. He was in Europe for a year and a half with the Armed Forces.

He was stationed in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. Their little son, David, was ten months old when his daddy saw him of the first time. They have bought them a lovely new home in Haltom City.

It is still under construction, but they are hoping to be in their new home by Christmas time.

Fred, my husband, and I went along with them while they were house hunting and we were simply amazed at the way Fort Worth has grown in the last few years. Everywhere you go there is a new addition with the, most beautiful new homes. They are all finished coin-

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I want to invite everyone to our last dance of the season at Sokol Hall, Saturday, November 27. The "Starlighters" from Dallas will play for us. I also want to announce our next Sokol meeting on November 28 at 3 p.m. All of you members make it a point to be present. Also Brother Maly, drilling instructor, from Chicago, will be in Texas for a month so all of you drillers be sure to attend all drill meets.

Recent visitors in Fort Worth were Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Pavey of Oklahoma City. They formerly lived in Fort Worth, then Houston. They have many relatives who are always very happy to see them. Come back real soon, Bennie and Mary.

I'm very ha ppy to report that we have no one on the"critical sick list. Lets hope it stays that way. Mrs. A. A. Svacek recently underwent surgery, but she is up and around now and doing fine.

I guess I have to say good-bye now as my daughter, Doris and I, and my little grandson, David, are goin to town to see what Santa will bring down the chimney for him this year. David just started walking a month ago and I'm afraid we'll have to hang our Christmas tree from the ceiling this year. See you at the dance!

Maxine Merlick ) • 4 • NO PLACE LIKE HOME It takes more than four walls to make a home. Within it there must be tender, sympathetic hearts that beat togehter in harmony and love. Hohe is where love lives, and reigns, and train.

It is where love holds the, front-door key and has access to every room and closet.

Someone has suggested that there is as much difference between a house and a home as there is between a refrigerator ' and a sun parlor. Why not ask ourselves the question, "Is our home the warm, sunny, loving place it ought to be, loved by every ,member of the family?"

A stranger, passing through a small town one day, asked a lad at play, "Sonny, is your home in this town?" Lookirr.; up with a smile, the little chap replied, "Sure, our home's in this town. We ain't got no house for it yet. Dad's buildin' one." There was love in that boy's heart for his home.

One day after returning from several appointments, my wife related an expe rience she had had with our youngest boy earlier in the day. It had been necesary for him to be corrected for a misdeed, and in response he had hastily decided to• run away from home. Meanwhile I had an opportunity to talk with him.

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J. A. Kubena, mistopredseda, La Grange, Texas.

J. F. Cbupick, tajemnik, Temple, Texa3.

R. A. UrbanovskY, neetni, Temple, Texas.

Jos. Koliha, ml., pokladnik, Temple, Adolph D. Paylieek, pravni radce, 606 Shell Bldg., Houston, Texas.

Dr. Marvin J. Leshikar, vrcnni lekat, P.O. Box 410, Taylor, Texas.

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14. Veseli Wesley. Ed G. Vavra, Rt 1, Brenham, Texas. Schilze 2. nedeli v mesici.

15. Svornost Jihu Buckholts, Texas.

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Frances Olexova, Houston, Texas.

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P. P. Baron, Fayetteville, Tex. Schil25. Ennis — Ennis, L. J. Kudrna, Rt. 2, ze 2. nedeli v mesici.

Ennis, Texas. Schtize 2. ned. v mes.

2. Kopernik RoZnov, Chas. Hilsher Skidmore. Mrs. Mary La. Grange, Texas, Rt. 2, Schtze 1. 26. Slovan Jihu Veroda, Rt. 1, Skidmore, Texas. nedeli v mesici.

Schuze prvni nedeli v brezna, eer y3. Novohrad'--- Moulton, Aaolf J. Mika, nu, zari a prosinci.

Moulton, Tex, Rt. 1. Schdze r3. ne27. Pokrok Moulton -- Moulton. Frank deli v mesici.

C. Wagner, Rt. 3, Shiner, Texas.

4. Karel Havlidek Hallettsville. Chas.

Schnze 2 nedeli v mesici.

Holy, Rt. 1, Box 169, Hallettsville, 28. Karel Jonas -- East Bernard, CaroTexas. Schtize 2. nedeli v mesici. line Bohaeik, East Bernard, Texas.

5. Tioga Tioga. Steve Novak, Rt. 1, Schtize 2. nedeli v mesici.

Tioga, Texas.

6 Moravgti 13ratti — Cottonwood. 29. Praha — Taylor. A. L. BoudnY, Taylor, Texas, Rt. 1, Box 285. Schdze 2 Louis Kazda, P. 0. Box 251, West, nedeli v mesici.

Texas. Schtze 1. nedeli v mesici.

Hvezda Jihu -- Talton. J. F. Fiala, El 30.

L. Caldwell.

J. J. Krupa, 7. Rovnost Campo, Texas, Route 1, Box 292.

Caldwell, Texas, Route 1. Schtze 2.

Schdze 1. nedeli v mesici. nedeli v mesici.

8. Prapor Svobody — Weimar. Adolf 31 Pokrok Slovand -- Yoakum. E .E. Bushek, 313 Nelson St., Yoakum, Barta, 1008 Baumgarten St. SchulenTexas. Schuze 2. nedeli katde 3 Meburg, Texas. Schtze 2. nedeli v mes, sice.

9. Slovan — Snook. Jno. T. Skrabanek Snook, Texas. Schtize 1. nedeli v me- 32. Nainec Schillerville. Leon F. Drozd, 1401 E. Warren, Victoria, Tex. sici.

Sclulze 2. nedeli v mesici.

10. TexaskY Mir — Shiner. Aug. Madala, Yoakum, Texas, Route 2, Bux 102 33. Hvezda Mira Bleiberville. Vincent Chaloupka. Rt. 1, Bellville, Texas.

Schuze 2 nedeli v mesici.

Schtize 2 nedeli v mesici.

11. Svojan -. Praha. August Jalufka.

Route 2, Box 179, Schulenburg, Tex. 34. Slovaneti Bratki -- Morava. J ., G.

Wednesday, . Novntfber 24, 1954 lefas, Rollie 4, Charanza, Schtize 2 nedeli v mesici.

35. Nove Kvety Axtell. J. A. Holub, Rt. 1. Axtell, Texas. Schuze 2. nedeli mesici.

36. West — West, Texas. Jerome Kopecky, West, Texas. SchOze 2. sttedu v mesici.

37. Nova Viast — Frydek, Norbert Jet, Route 1, Box 179, Sealy Texas.

38. Osveta Smithville.c Jerry Stepan, Route 3, Flatonia, Texas. Sehtze 2. nedeli v mesici.

39. Bedtich Smetana — Bryan. Mrs. Frances Homola, Rt. 1, Box 184, Bryan, Texas. Schuze 2. nedeli v mesici.

40. Cechoslovan Hillje. E. K. HajovskY, 515 E. Correll St., El Campo, Texas. Schuze 2 nedeli v mesici.

41. Nova Ratolest Port Lavaca R. Machdeek, Rt. 1, Box 17 Port Lavaca, Texas. Schilze 2. nedeli v mesici.

42. Moravan -- Sunny Side. Roland R. Dreahm, Rt. 3, Box 6, Hempstead, Texas. Schtize druhou nedeli v mes.

44. Ce'Sti Bratti — Industry. Miro L. Petrusek, Route 1, Box 90, New Ulm, Texas. Schtze 2 nedeli v mesici.

45. Vlastenec — Shiner. John Podang, Rt. 2, Box 15, Shiner, Texas. Schlize 2 nedeli v mesici.

47. Hvezda Texasu -- Seaton. Frank V. Spanhel, Rt. 2, Temple, Texas.

Schuze 1 nedeli v mesici.

48. Vyeehrad Beyersville. John W Maresh, Route 3, Taylor, Texas.

Schdze 1. necieli v mesici.

49. Pokrok Rowena — Rowena, Vaclav Kvasnieka, Rowena, Rt. 1, Texas.

Schfize 2. nedeli- v mesici.

50. El Campo — El Campo. Mrs. Joe Ida Peterka, 606 So. Mechanic St. El. Campo, Texas. Schuze 1 nedeli mesici.

Ellinger, D. A. juren, El51. Vernost linger, Texas. Schuze 4. nedeli.

54. Jaromir. — West. Emil W. Popp, P. 0. Box 8, Abbott, Texas.

55. Hvezdnaty Prapor -- Tours. A. E. Petter, Rt. 2, West, Texas. Schuze 1. nedeli v mesici, o 2 hodine odpoL Anton Oermak -- Corpus Christi.

56.

Betty Jutica„ Route 2, Box 899, Corpus Christi, Texas. Schtze 2 nedeli v meslci.

57. Jan Hus --- Gonzales. Jacob Oitek, 828 St. Paul St., Gonzales, Texas.

Schtze 1. nedeli v mesici.

58. Rad Columbus — Hungerford.

Joe Priesler, Rt. 2, East Bernard, Texas. Schtze 2 nedeli v mesici o 2 hodinach odpoledne.

59. Bratil Jihu — New Ulm. F. A. Weige, New Ulm, Texas. Schtze 3. nedeli • mesici.

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60: Bratti Svornosti • - Wallis, Chas. 83. Srdce Jednoty Columbus. Chas.

J. Hrugka, Rt. 2, Columbus, Texas.

Zalesak, Route 1, Wallis, Texas. Scha Schaze 2. nedeli v mesici. ze 1. nedeli v mesici.

61. Vesmir Poth. Adolf Mikulka, Flo- 84. Pokrok Dallas - Dallas. Frank Voresville, Texas., Route 4, Box 183. dieka, 5211 Garland St., Dallas 10, Schaze 1. nedeli kaidY tteti mesie Texas. Schaze 3. nedeli v mesici.

62. Rozkvet - Galveston. Marie Cor- 85. Pokrok Haskell - Weinert. Mrs. J. C. dray„ 3923 Ave Q 1/2 Galveston, Tex. Baty, Munday, Texas. Sehilze 2. neSchuze 1. etvrtek v mesici. deli v mesici.

63. Pokrok Sweet Home -' Sweet Home.

86.

Slovansk2 Svaz ZUkov. 0. V. VaJoe N. Morris, Sweet Home, Texas. nieek, 1411. E. Adams, Temple, Texas Schaze 2. nedeli v mesici, Texas.

64. Pokrok Plumu - Plum. Mrs. Katie 8ulak, La Grange, Rt. 1. Texas. Scha 87. Hvezda Svobody - Temple. .1. J. Kurtin, 812 No. 8th. Temple, Texas. ze , 2. nedeli kaldir tteti mesic.

Schtize v budove HI. at. 3. pondeli 65. Prapor Magnolia - Crosby. Mrs. Al3. pondeli'kaIdeho mesice v 7:30 yee. bina Balcar, P. 0. Box 194, Crosby, Texas. Schaze 2 nedeli kaZdy druhY 88. Pokrok Houstonu - Houston. F. A. Kadleeek, 614 W. 16th St. Houston rnesic.

8, Texas. Schaze 2 patek kaZdeho '66. Slovanska Lipa - Waco. E. G. Mamesice v 8 hodin weer. zanec, Route 4, Box 387, Waco, Tex89. Rii2ovy DI/Ur-Rose-Imo. John J. Piaas. Schtze 3. nedeli v mesici. gek, Box 88, Rosebud, Texas. Schaze 67. Bratti Svobody - Schulenburg. Fr. 2. nedeli v mesici.

Holub, Rt. 3, Box 18, Schulenburg, Texas. SchOze 1. nedeli v mesici.

90. Slovanske . SdruZeni - Stamford, 68. Vesrnernost - Nelsonville. B. W. Frank Pustejovsky, Rt. 2, Stamford, Schiller, Box 23, Bellville, Texas.

Texas. Schaze 2. nedeli, Schaze 3. nedeli v mesici.

91. San Jacinto - Crosby. R. J. Logt'ak, Box 352, Crosby, Texas. Schaze 1. ne69. Nova Osada Rogers. Adolf Shiller, deli dopoledne.

Route 2, Rogers, Texas. Schtize 2.

92. Svaz oechoslovana - Fort Worth, • nedeli v mesici.

Jay Dee Waggoner, 2107 Ross Ave, 71. NovY Raj. - Penelope. R. J. Pkikryl, Fort Worth, Texas. Schtize 2 nePenelope, Texas. Schaze 1. nedeli v deli v mesici. maid.

72. Pokrok Jihu - Cameron. J. J. Sto- 93 Karnes - Hobson. F. L. PustejovskY, Hobson, Texas. Schtize 3. nedeli v klas. Rt. 1, Cameron, Texas. Schaze mesici.

2.. nedeli v mesici.

73. Sam Houston - Seymour. Frank 94. Dennice - Wheelock. J. A. Rychlik, Coufal, Rt. 1, Seymour, Texas. SchiiEdge, Texas. Schaze 1. nedeli v ze 1 nedeli v mesici. mesici.

74. BorovY Haj Lovelady. Martin 95. CeskY Den - Seymour. Emil Holub, Svoboda, Crockett. Texas, Route 4.

Rt. 2, Seymour, Texas. Schtize 2. neBox 87 deli v mesici.

75. Svoboda -- Bartlett. Jos. Pacha, 96. Krasna - Krasna. John Marek, RoRoute 1, Box 21, Bartlett, Texas. senberg, Texas, Rt. 2, Box 56. Scha&haze 1. nedeli kaZdY tteti mesic. ze 2. nedeli v mesici.

76. Neodvislost - Wichita Falls, Mrs. 97. Placedo Placedo. John M. SchoHenry Sottek, Rt. 1, Box 27. vajsa, Rt. 2, Box 99AA, Victoria, Tex. Wichita Falls, Texas. Schaze 2.

Schaze 2 nedeli v mesici. nedeli v mesici. . - Guadalupe. Wm. Janota.

98 Vit & 77. livezda Praporu - Bomarton. RayVictoria, Texas, Rt. 1, Box 408. Schemond Pkibyla, Bomarton, Tex. Rt. 1. ze 2. nedeli v mesici.

78. Dobrota - Jourdanton, Julius Vra99.

Radhat' 1 Radhat'. Henry A. na, P. O. Box 355, Charlotte, Texas.

Spanihel, 704 N. Texana St. HallettSchtize 1. nedeli v mesici. sville, Texas. Schtze 2 nedeli v mes.

79. Corpus Christi - Corpus Christi. J. J. KrainskY, 2425 Johana. St. Cor- 100. Pokrok Mlade t• e - Sebesta. Miss Clara Schoenemann, Star Route No. 2 pus Christi, Texas. Schtize 1. nedeli Lyons, Texas. Schtize 1. nedeli v me v rnesici.

80. Tyra - Holland. Joe Belieek, Rt. 1, sici.

Holland, Texas. Scheze 1. nedeli v 101. Pokrok Gainesville. Rudolf Paclik, mesici.

P. 0. Box 340, Gainesville, Texas.

81. Needville - Needville. John Blinka, Schaze 2. nedeli v mesici.

Route 1, Needville, Texas.

82, 6echu Domov - Ennis. Wesley F. 102. Hvezda Mladete - Coupland. Raymond M. Machu, Route 2, Box 80, Strunc, 700 N. Clay, Ennis, Texas.

Taylor, Texas.

Schaze 2. nedeli v mesici.

Walla 103. Pokrok Flatonia. - Flatonia Alois Dostalik, Rt. 1, Flatonia, Texas. Sella ze 3. nedeli v mesici.

105. Hej Slovane-Gus. Joe Matejeek, Rt, , Lexington, Texas. Schaze 2 nedeli.

106. Cecho-Moravan - La Grange E. H. Francke, La Grange, Texas. Schaze 2. nedeli v mesici.

107. Rozkvet Zapadu - Floresville. Mary McCloskey, Rt. 1, Box 51, Elmendorf, Texas.

108. Rosenberg - Rosenberg. J. S. Jane, Box 171, Richmond, Texas. Scheze 2. nedeli v mesici.

109. RadeckY - Granger, Arnold Zrtt ■ bek, P. 0. Box 445, Granger, Texas.

Schtize 2. nedeli v mesici.

110. Jan Rosicky - Kaufman. Joe Slavik, Rt. 6, Box 95, Terrell, Texas.

Schtize 1. nedeli v mesici.

El/. Jaroslav VrchlickY - Sugarland William Haisler, P. 0. B. 98, Alief, Texas. Schilze 1. nedeli v mesici.

112. F. B. Zdrilbek - Guy. J. H. Mikeska, P. 0. Box 357, Guy, Texas. Schaze 2. nedeli v mesici.

113. Svepomoc - George West, Texas.

Frank LukaAik, P. 0. Box 191. George West, Texas.

114. Vyzovice Fairchilds, Mrs. Milady Walenta, 1410 - 1st St. Rosenberg, Texas. Schaze 2. nedeli v maid.

116. Rozkvet Cooks Point - Cooks Point.

John Kubin, Caldwell, Texas.

Schaze 2. nedeli v mesici.

117. Robstown - Robstown. Oscar Hrnelk, Rt. 1, Robstown, Texas. Schilze 1. nedeli v mesici.

118. Kingsville - Kingsville, Frank ElAik, Box 376, Kingsville, Texas.

119. Slovanska PtileNtost - Brookshire.

F. L. Gregor, Brookshire, Texas, Rt. 1. Schilze 1. nedeli v mesici.

120. Pokrok Deanville - Deanville. Jos. Balcar, Caldwell. Texas, Rt. 1. Schaze 2 nedeli v mesici.

122. Nova Doba - Wallis. Jos. F. FeleMan, Wallis, Texas, Route 1, Box 97.

Schaze 2. nedeli kahlY druhY rnesic.

124. Slovansky Dilwortn - Dilworth. Albert Velek. Shiner. Texas.

125. Touha - Westhoff. Louis Zissa, Westhoff, Texas. Schaze druhou nev mesici.

126. DubovY Haj - Ross. Jos. Foit, Rt. 2 West, Texas Se/laze 1. nedeli v niesici.

Kenedy. H. W. 127. Pokrok Kenedy Mareak, Kenedy, Texas.

128. Bratrske Spojeni. - Joe L. Mills, Rt. 3, Mart, Texas. Sci-Oze druhou nedeli v mesici.

Ladimir Kiacel - Edge. Frank Vten129. treek, Wheelock, Texas, Rt. 1, Box 45. Schtize 1. nedeli v mesici.

Strana 18 130. jaro - Dallas. Joe Maca, 7011 Concord, Dallas, Teatara Sc'ntize 1 nedeli v mesici.

132. Svatopluk. Waller. J. J. Kulhanek, Hempstead, Texas, Rt. 3. Box 29.

Schtze 2 nedeli v mesici.

133. San Antonio - San Antonio. Jaroslay Kleprlik, 1206 Lamar St., San Antonio, Texas. Schtze 2. nedeli v mesici.

134. Brattejov - Crowell, Chas. Machae, Route 1, Crowell, Texas.

135. Volna Cechie - Ennis. Jos. Vytopil.

Ennis, Texas. Schtze 2. nedeli v mesici• 136. Liberty - East Gate. Frant. Kalenda, Route 3, Box 40, Dayton, Texas.

137. Taft - Taft. Mrs. W. J. Janda„ Route 1, Box 124, Sinton, Texas. Schtize 1. pondeli v mesici.

138. Vytrvalost Ganado, Ed. A. Dybala, Gonad°, Texas.

139. Danbury - Danbury. T. H. Losta,k, Danbury, Texas. Schaze 2. nedeli v mesici.

140.. Rozkvet Svobody - Wied. Victor J. Gerlich, Rt. 1, Box 151, Shiner, Tex. 141. Oechoslovak 1VIlxville. Adolf Feleman,.Sealy, Texas, Box 193. Schtze 'kaZdou 2. nedeli v mesici.

142: Stefanik -- Houston. Mrs. Mary Chupik, Rt. 2 Box 1215, Houston, Texas. Schaze 1. nedeli v 143.

- Inez, Leo Krause, Jr• Rt. 1 Inez, Texas. Schtize 3. nedell v 144. S'avie - Nada. Ed. Rina, Glen •lora Texas. Schtize 2. nedeli v mesici.

145 :\tora yska, Orlice -- Penelope. Lud. Vanduch, Rt. 2, Mt. Calm, Texas.

Schtize 1. nedeli v mesici o 2. hod. odnoledue.

143. Woodrow Wilson -- Galveston. Mrs. :Lucille Weinberg, 2002-35th St. Galveston Texas • Schlize 2. nedeli v mesici v 7 hodna vecer na 3505-P1/2.

147. Vesela Osada Jourdanton. --- Tom Vpntreek, Rt. 2, Box 73, Jourdanton, Texas. Schtze 1. nedeli v mesici, ye dye hodiny cdpoledne.

148. Elmaton -- Blessing, Frank Hlo'Zek, Jr. P. 0. Box 65, Blessing, Texas.

Schtize 1. nedeli v mesici.

149.• Toina','S Jefferson -- Alvin. J. 0.

Strouhal, Alvin, Texas. Schtze 2. nedeli v mesici.

150.. Aug. HaiduSelt Woodsboro. Mrs. Anton Strouhal, Woodsboro, Texas. ,Schnze 1. nedeli v mesici.

151. Wharton --- Wharton, Ladik. Stavinoha, Route 3, Box 133, Wharton, Texas.

152. Pokrok Agua Dulce - Augua Dulce.

John HranickY, P. 0. Box 75, Orange Grove, Texas. Schtize 2. nedeli mesici.

irtSTNiK MOTs TEXAS

153. Pokrok Benview -- La Salle, Adolf Ellek La. Salle, Texas. Sehtze 2. nedeli v mesici.

154. Fort Worth - Fort Worth. John W. Beean, 2011 Clinton Ave. Fort Worth, Texas. Schtze 1 nedeli v mesici.

155. Hlava Texasu - Austin. Raymond Prasatik, P. 0. Box 1151, Austin, Texas156. Pokrok Baytown. Cyril Ptaeek, P. 0. Box 3867 - Baytown, A, Texas.

Schtze prvni pondeli v 'nested, veeer.

157. Rozkvet na Plains -- Littlefield. Mrs. Ernest Kristinik, Route 1, Lubbock, Texas.

158. TexaskY Kvet -- West, Frank Kofnovec, Route 2, West, Texas. Schtze se odbYvaji 1. nedeli v mesici.

160. T. G. Masaryk -- San Angelo, Texas.

Emil Kfupala, Wall Route, San Angelo, Texas. Schtize 2. nedeli v mes.

161. La Parita jourdanton. Joe lulleek, Jourdanton, Texas. Schtze 1. nedeli v mesici.

162. Pokrok Brazoria - Iowa Colony Charles Krampota, Route 1, Iowa Colony, Texas. Schtize 2. nedeli mesici o 2 hodint,ch odpoledne.

163. Markham - Markham, Mrs. Albina J. Gauthier, 3221-8th St., Bay City, Texas. Schtize 1. nedeli v mesici.

164. J. R. Kubena, --- Rio Hondo. Mrs. Gardina Krietof, Rt. 2, Harlingen, Texas.

165. Culak Mutton. Adolph A. Wa g -ner,Moult Texas.Schzdrue ttersi v mesici, veeer. t &• BAIL BOND LAWS EXPLAINED

From time to time there is a great deal of talk about the need tar revision of Texas laws relating to criminal bail bonds. Since this is a topic about which most people have more curiosity than knowledge, perhaps a brief explanation of bail bond procedures will be of interest, However, in this column there will be no attempt to discuss possible defects in the system.

In the United States a defendant in a criminal action is presumed to be innocent until his guilt is established beyond a reasonable doubt. His guilt or innocence is established at his trial - not when he is arrested.

With this concept in mind it is not hard to see why the right to bail in criminal cases is guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, with the exception of capital cases. A capital crime is one which the punishment may be death. In Texas, murder, treason, rape , and robbery with firearms are capital offenses.

All prisoners are bailable in. Texas except where the proof is evident that a capital offense has been committed and

Wednesday, November 24, 1954 it is probable that a jury will assess the death penalty.

An officer making an arrest is required by law to take the accused promptly before a, magistrate. It is the duty of the magistrate to examine into the truth of he accusation made. He determines whether the accused should be discharged or bailed or held without bail. If bail is set for the defendant, the magistrate must determine the amount.

The law provides a procedure for reviewing these decisions before the . Court. of Criminal Appeals.

When an accused is on bail when hi trial commences he has the right to remain on bail during the trial of his case. Where the punishment of a defendant has been assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for fifteen years or less the defendant has the right to remain on bail pending the appeal of his case. If the penalty is more than fifteen years the defendant is kept is custody from the moment the jury returns its verdict.

The Constitution also says that bail may not set in excessive amount. What is considered a reasonable amount depends largely upon the circumstances and the risk involved. Bail must be set high enough to assure the court and the state that the person will not run away, but will submit to trial on the date set.

The judge usually will ask he prosecuting attorney for a recommendation as to the amount of the bail. The ac eused's attorney may then ask that the amount recommended be reduced, giving his reasons. The judge will settle , on an amount he believes reasonable to assure the accused's presence at the trial.

-Contributed by L. 0. Hosek.

• & MOTHERS-IN-LAW aren't nearly as unpopular as the jokes picture them to be. In a recent study cf more than 500 couples married 3 to 5 years, only 17 per, cent of the wives disliked their husband's mother. Only 8 per cent of the husbands disliked their wives' mothers.

• *Ilh • ( • To husbands: "Women love to be surprised. Some Sunday morning slip down to the kitchen and prepare a tray. Fix bacon and eggs and orange juice. Place the morning paper next to a steaming cup of coffee and, as a final touch, add a tiny rosebud. When everything is ready, carry the tray into the dining room and have a leisurely breakfast.

"When your bride comes down she will be delighted to find that you've eaten and g ,t out of the way."-Collier's

Wednesday, NevenibET 24, 1954

iTana 1

V ASTNIK WEST, TEXAS

THE LIGHT UNDER THE BUSHEL (Continued from page 13) I know that the only times any change can be made is when comes some great economic or physical disaster, which would strike down all types of life insurance alike.

And we know that there is no such thing as a "closed" contract—that the commercial company's contract can be, and has been many times, opened, the same as a Fraternal contract can be opened. We know that it is only a matter of the different way in which the opening is done. With one, the door is burst down, with violence and great loss.

With the Fraternals, the door is unlocked by the key already provided.

With the Fraternals, the door is opened by the members themselves, in the presence of friends. In the other situations, the door is opened in the presence of vultures, who are ready to pounce upon and carry away every asset they can get hold with their talons.

All this we know. But the public does not know. Nor does the commercial life underwriter, who in all honesty of purpose is saying that Fraternal Life Insurance is assessment insurance. They know no better, because we have not told them. The light is under the bushel!

Time For Action It seems to me the time has come to do something about this problem, something that everyone can do or the public will go on in understanding. They will be skeptical of Fraternal Life Insurance, and if they buy, they will buy the smallest amount possible, rather than "risk" too much in this form of protection.

And the work of selling Fraternal Life Insurance will be handicapped in the future, just as it is now, and has been in the past.

It is not right that this condition should exist. You and I rebel at it. We dislike seeing Fraternal Life Insurance, so fine and so splendid in all its ways, being merely a hanger-on in the field of life underwriting. It seems to me something must be done!

But what can be done? I don't know.

I believe the remedy could be found in a great advertising campaign, with the story of Fraternal Life Insurance and Fraternalism told in big space in the leading magazines and periodicals of the land. But I know, too, that such an advertising campaign would face great problems. I know it would cost thousands and thousands of dollars every month.

I believe that such an investment would be one of the greatest that Fraternals could make. But I doubt if it can be done. I doubt if enough of you are willing

to make such an investment in the future of Fraternalism.

In lieu of that, it seems to me that there should be a broad, aggressive movement started, to keep before all Fraternalists and all Field Workers the outstanding features of Fraternal work.

The stories should be told again and again, ever and over. Every home office magazine and house organ should emphasize some part of these great truths in every issue, every month, every year, year after year,. This would be an educational campaign right among our own people. And I believe they need it badly.

I believe it would build an enthusiastic spirit of evangelism that would have substance behind it It seems to me, bco, that the publicity departments of the many Fraternals could see that material is furnished local newspapers whenever important meetings are held; that these releases should tell not only who the speakers are, but should give the substance of their messages that should be given to the public.

And we should see to it that every Fraternalist and Field Wc•ker that meets the public knows the full story of Fraternalism. That we should see he is a shouting evangelist for Fraternal Life Insurance. We should be sure that they not only know the facts, but that they are on fire with enthusiasm because of them.

If we can only realize that something must be done. I have enough faith in the ability of Fraternal leaders to believe that something worth-while can and will A Forward Program be done.

I believe that Fraternal Life Insurance is ready to go forward as it has never advanced in all history. It is standing ready on the threshhold of real progress.

I say this because: 1—Fraternal societies have cleared up most of their problems of the past.

2=-Home offices are field minded— There is a better understanding of modern selling.

Contracts are modernized and made to fit needs.

Field departments are progressive and alive.

Field workers are better salaried and better trained.

Field forces are being developed on a full-time basis.

3—Management is not content, in most societies, to drift along. It has begun to recognize the importance of progress.

4—There is an upturn in Fraternalism, itself. There is a resurge of the

fraternal spirit.

Future Possibilities For the Fraternal Life Insurance in force today is but a fraction of what I hope to live to see before I die. Within twenty-five years, we should have $40 or $50 billions in force. That, it seems to me, should be our long span gml. Envision, if you will, what $50 billions of Fraternal Life Insurance will mean.

Think of the influence on the economic life of our countries. Many times the number of homes protected—more nearly adequate protection for fathers and mothers. Five times the number of boys and girls brought into our junior groups and taught the principles of thrift of estate creation. Fewer homes broken by death. Fewer weary working widows, coming home in the evening to work long into the night as a housekeeper for their children.

Think of what it will mean in improved health for our countries, when the medical work and nursing services can be enlarged five times what they are today.

Think of the thousands of lives saved and their actual financial worth to our nations.

Then the effect upon the ideology of our nations. With the sound truths of real democracy brought to our peoples, and its ideals ever held before our eyes.

If we had fifty million members of fraternals that include the members of every race and every creed—all believing fervently in the principles of our nations' fathers — all upholding the standards of our two great nations— then we will have erected the greatest and strongest bulwark against Comma nism and all the isms of foreign lands, and make our way of life forever secure, to be enjoyed by the generations of the future.

Does any one question the great potentials of Fraternalism? Is it nOt a vision of hope that thrills every one of us? Can we be content with less thaii.' this magnificent-goal?

Then we must let the light of Fraternalism shine in all its glory. Like a glowing rainbow of hope in a world now shaken by the storms of doubt and cynicism—of jealousy and selfishness.

I urge you leaders of our Fraternal societies, you voc•rkers in the field, you heads of local lodges, you members in the ranks—to look on this vision And then to work to make it a reality.

For, as St. Paul said to the Roma= "The night is far spent, the day Is at hand; let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light."—The Fraternal Monitor.

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V it S T N f K — WEST, TEXAS

Wednesday, November 24, 1954

An Enthusiast For Nursing Tells Her Views Mothers who try to nurse their babies

By Myrtle Meyer Eldred your request for leaflet No. 4 to Myrtle can not say enough good things about Meyer Eldred in care of the Star-Teleit. Would that there were more who did. which means thinking of the baby's gram, Fort Worth, Texas. — Contributed,

by Mrs. L. 0. Hosek.

Mrs. D. S. writes, "It is gratifying to welfare and not of the mother's own • 4, e see so many good articles on nursing recreation, time and "figure," is an esin our department. Nursing babies is sential prerequisite for successful nursIn a Minnesota State Legislature deright down my alley as I have spent 42 ing. bate on the merits of front or rear months in all, nursing my five in the license plates, a senator argued that the last 10 years.

Our leaflet "Information for Nursing rear plate was more help to pursuing Mothers," may be had by sending a police, clinched his point with: "After -I am sold on.the superiority -icf breast all, most pinches are made from the milk. Even if it made no difference to stamped, self-addressed envelope with rear." the baby's health—and I think it does— there are still many advantages. I'd 10 times rather get up at night and lift a baby from its warm basket and nurse it than I would to go traipsing around (By Dr. Benedict Lust) warming bottles. When nature provides the exact food a baby needs, at the right Health is the most precious gift of weeks later on ' the street she accosted temperature, loaded with antibodies and nature man can possess, a hundred times me and said: "Doctor, your diet is great, with no increase in the grocery bill— more important that wealth, gliory, a big but I forgot to ask you just one more that's a bonanza and I can't under- reputation, or material success. And it question, "do I have to take this diet stand why more mothers do not take is, in addition, much cheaper to acquire before ior after meals?" advantage of it. and keep good health, than it is the The real doctor is the doctor within other gifts mentioned But what do we you, that doctor that works through "The trouble seems to me that people nature and normal functioning of the gee around us everywhere?

We see sickexpect you to bottlefeed. It has become as a totality. If we keep in touch one of our national mores. At every baby ness, debility, nervous troubles, epidem- organs ics, early senility. How many of us with mother nature, live close to the shower one sees an array of bottles, would not give all they have to regain soil, and follow natural laws we keep warmers, sterilizers, holders, etc. There their former glorious health again? And healthy and fit. So let us think right, are times when I have felt like the vil- how few of us have succeeded through let us exercise self-control, let us, who lage freak, nursing my baby. sane living and self-mastery to keep and live in big cities, forever keep in mind that we are not just machines with limit"Last summer when I took my baby preserve this most precious treasure?

These are questions that lead us to in- less capacities for work as well as for infor a checkup, the doctor said, 'What quire into the real reasons of the pres- dulgences, that we should not be slaves formula is he on?' and when I said, nurse, him,' he said, 'It's such a rarity ent plight of mankind and that should to temptations and that the natural lead everyone of us to a determined laws are valid to city dwellers, office, you don't expect it any more.' right for keeping and bettering his state and factory wc :kers, rich and poor alike.

I think more,. could nurse if of physical well-being. Children have It is sometimes very difficult for the they took it for granted that they could glorious health without bothering a- modern man to keep in touch with naand laid in a supply of nursing bras in- bout it, while most of us adults worry ture and natural law. But with a little stead of bottles. I am weary of hearing, about keeping or regaining our normal good will we can accomplish just as `I wanted to nurse, but I got a cold,' or, physical and mental state, and are for- much as those who live closer to- the `Someone came to visit and I lost my ever pondering the problem of which soil. Keep in mind that every comprodrug to take, which doctor to go to, mise with your body has its consemilk.'

"That doesInt, mean that we haven't which so-called diet boi follow. We worry quences, and every infraction of nature's all lost our milk, at some time or an- too much about this and that disease, will may be paid back to us a hundredother, but it comes back with more fre- when we should be thinking about glor- fold in later years in the form of disease quent and longer nursing periods. And ious health. We are laboring under the and suffering, and only to us as inbeware of supplemental feedings. That's illusion that health can be bought for dividuals but also to society, Whatever I have done for others, whether another way to diminish the breast sup- cash.

In this respect health is largely a con- it was now paid or not, has made me ply. dition and a state of mind. We are what I am today and has made me hap"I am weary of hearing that nursing healthy only of our minds are unpol- py and satisfied my life. Life is given us I will ruin a mother's figure. If she eats luted. As a matter of fact the best doc- to enjoy it here on earth. Every day normally, and doesn't get fat; if her tor is helpless if the patient does not should be a new day in the fullest sense, breasts are supported day and night cooperate with his mind and his good a day of thanksgiving and a day of joy. with a good bra, her figure should not will. And the best health regimen is We should always feel like doing things, be damaged. useless if it is succeeded by new over- like jumping out of bed and thanking "Perhaps I am slightly bullheaded, be- indulgence and excess. No diet can have God that we are alive. Only then can our cause I have had so little trouble, but permanent benefit if it is not adhered physical bodies function in unhampered that's my philosophy. I can't discuss it to continuously. Not so long ago a rather coordination when our spiritual and freely with my friends because they obese lady asked me for advice and I moral functions are attuned to it If we readily gave her a strict diet plan to are gloomy and downhearted our physidon't agree with me." it's a refreshing viewpoint, nonethe- which she promised me she would faith- cal system is unable to function nrmless and an unselfish one. Unselfishness, fully adhere. When I saw her a few ally.

CORRECT LIVING

Wednesday, November 24, 1954 HAVE YOUR CHOICE Thirteen SPJST certificates for adults: CLASS B: where a member pays premiums during his lifetime.

CLASS C: where a member pays premiums for 20 years, but in case of death, the full benefit is paid as provided by the by-laws.

CLASS D: where a member pays for 15 years; benefits paid as provided in Class C. CLASS E: where a member pays premiums for 10 years with death benefit paid as provided in Class C and D. CLASS F: Full -Amount of certificate is paid after 15 years.

CLASS G: Amount of certificate is paid after 20 years of payment.

CLASS H: proper amount of certificate paid when member attains the age of 65 years, member pays premiums until he attains the age of 65.

CLASS I: member pays premiums for 20 years and proper amount of the certificate is paid when he attains the age of 60 years.

CLASS K: member pays premiums to age 65, and the proper amount of his certificate is paid upon his death CLASS L: Double Indemnity insurance which is issued up to the sum of $2,500.00, and is not included in the amounts of the other classe.

CLASS M: Annuity Policies.

CLASS M-C: Mortgage cancellation insurance with gradually reduced benefits and $1,000 paid-up insurance after 20 years.

CLASS N: Mortgage 'insurance will bt issued to members up to the age of 50 years, who have teal estate loans from this organization.

• Five SPJST certificates for children.

CLASS J-T: Term insurance to 16 years of age, which may be converted into any other insurance after the child reaches the age of 10 years and before attaining the age of 16 years.

CLASS J-C: 20-pay life, face value at age 16, payable at death.

CLASS J-S: 20-pay life with face value at age one year, payable at death.

CLASS J-E: Endowment at age 18, with mortuary face value at a ge one year CLASS J-G: 20-year endowment, mo• tuary face value at age one year.

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V tEITNiK — WEST, TERM A FRATERNALIST'S CODE Recent history has recorded many changes throughout the world—some caused by war, others by advances in science and medicine, new inventions, and a. great mass production system.

The changes wrought in our ways of living have been acutely felt by fraternal societies as well as by church groups and practically every other type of organization.

The more pessimistic among us say that the competition of theaters, autos, radios, and now television, has doomed the fraternalsa.a we knew them in days gone by; and They point to some which have forsaken the character and traditions on which they were founded.

Others. more optimistic, believe that the good, the fine, the glorious traditions of fraternalism have a place in the new way of life.

But we must realize that our society and its traditions which we cherish (true democracy in business, for example) are an achievement of determined men — our forebears—who were ready and willing to sacrifice some personal pleasures now and then,to build well so that the structure they were tuising would survive to be enjoyed by those thye loved.

We cannot expect to do less today.

Nothing worthwhile is attained easily.

We must not give up in despair because some of our members prefer to stay at home with their still-new TV sets, rather than attend lodge meetings.

Our fathers and their brothers in the lodge were not affraid to meet the issues with some personal sacrifices when it became apparent some 30 or 35 years ago that the fraternal insurance setup no longer adequately met the economic changes of that time. No, in convention assembled, they courageously made the necessary revisions in their rate structure and then stoutly and successfully defended their action against all form of vicious slander. Fraternal societies survived a perilous period because resolute men willed it so.

If we are worthy of such predecessors, we will be just as resolute today. We will attend our meetings regularly—that is most important! We will take part in planning activities and entertainment so that other members will want to spend an evening each week or month, as the case may be, with us.

We will speak vIell of the Association to members and non-members alike; and recommend our friends for member-

Strana 21 are dedicated to preserving intact our present structure.

We will invite acme member who might otherwise not atend meetings to ride with us.

We will visit our sick members or of them encouragement by letter or card.

If our lodge is inactive, we will assume leadership and invite others to join with us in reactivating the members.

In short, we will set a good example for all to follow—and we won't have to worry about the kind of society we bequeath to our children. ) • At • ( At a party, a tactless guest cornered her host and babbled, "Who is that old lady chattering over there in the corner?"

"That," said the host with frigid dig nity, "is my eldest daughter," "Oh dear," exclaimed the embarrassed guest, "she's lots older than you are, isn't —This Week she?

OLKA DANCE CALENDAR

(Calvin C. Cherveno.a) Wednesday, November .z.,1 Sil Krenek orchestra—Plainview Com, munity center near El Campo Joe Patek orchestra — Bill Mraz Hall in Houston Thursday, November 25 Sil Krenek — Thanksgiving Dance American Legion Hall in Crosby Joe Patek orchestra — Thanksgiving Dance — Plainview COmmunity Center near El Campo Pavelka orchestra — Thanksgiving Dance — K. C. Hall in Robstown Saturday, November 27 Lee use orchestra — Fair Grounds La Grange Sil Krenek orchestra — Carmine Hall Rudy Kurtz orchestra — VFW Hall hi Moulton Joe Patek orchestra — SPJST Hall in Taylor Starlighters orchestra -- Sokol Hall in Fort Worth All the above dances are at night unless otherwise specified. Th i s is a free service but applies only to those dances at which mainly polka and waltz music Is played by a live orchestra. The Vestnik or writer will assume no responsibility resulting from any dance announcements which are listed in this catemn. Listings ship. will will accept office or committee as- from orchestras arid dance halls should signments when called upon to do so be received at least one week before pub and discharge the duties faithfully. lication. Send all listing.. co Calv,in CherWe will elect to office members who venka, Route 2, Rogers. Texas.

ESTNiK — WEST, TEXAS EDUARD WES: MAL)?

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nag Den Dildrvzdani neslavi se ye etvrtek, nSTbri v nedeli. StrYeek pieje ma1 m velikYrn etenatinn prijemnY Den Diktivzdani. Strkeek bode v ten den v Austinu a rad uvidi navgtevniky.

S pozdravem

Uete me Cesky CAST Tali. DOPLNENA

eT y tticot

PATE CVICENI.

posviceni.

Pojd'te, deli, pojd'te domix, tata na vas voli; bride u nis posviceni, zabili jsme vola! etvii owe a Alva skopce, prase take k tome, bade u nits posviceni, pojd'te, dell, domfi!

STRICES MICEK Z AUSTINU. ) • .T. •

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Babieka (Napsala Bokna Nemcova.)

(Pokraeovani.)

"Jste vy to itvitkove z rara gkovy zahrady, aby mel ueitel s vami svatou tripe"livost," pravila babieka. Deti ji povidaly je gte mnoho o gkole a jak se jim po ceste datilo; byla to prvni jejich testa, a nemalo se na svoji samostatnost pygnily, jakby z Pah& se byly vratily. "A kde maS homolky? snedli jste je?" ptala se jegte babieka, zkoumajic, co v ge deti jedly, .nebot' o jejich zdravi starest mela.

"Jednu jsme snedli, druhou jsem si chtela nechat domt, ale kdyZ jsem u tabula psala, vygantroeil mi ji Koptiva z rnoginky. On sedi za mnou. Kdybych mu byla co tekla, byl by mne, aZ bychom sli ze gkoly, nabuchcoval, ten je peknej."

Babieka nedala detem za pravdu, ale v dugi si myslila: Vklyt' jsme my nebyly lep'Si. Deli dobte vedely, ze je babieka shovivavej gi neZ matka, ona k mnohemu detskemu gelmovstvi, co chlapci provedli, oko zamhoutila, nebranila, kdyZ si nekdy Barunka zaskotaoila, proto se ji take se vgim svetily spige neZ matte, ktera dle sve p?isne povahy v ge ptisneji brala.

XIV.

Bylo to za nekolik dni po prvnim maji; byl etvrtek, deti nernely gkolu a pomahaly bablece v zahradce zalivat kvetiny a vino, ktere se jiZ po zdi zelenalo.

Sly si take zalit svoje stromky; ony mely ten etvrtek vabec mnoho prate; nebot' tri dni neprohliZela Barunka svoje panny, chlapci nemohli prohnat koniky, vozy, flinty a mice leZely v koutku. V holubniku take nebyli, a kraliky krmila Adelka. Ve etvrtek muselo se to opet vge nahradit. Babieka hotova jsouc se zaliTo vanim, nechala deti hrat, sedla na drnove sedatko pod modrY bez a pustila se do ptadla; nebot' nebyla zvykla ani chvili zahalet. Byla smutna, ani si nezpivala, ani si nev gimala eerne slepice, ktera veMRS° a 71.gla otevtenYmi vratky do zahrady, a kdyZ nikdo nebranil, na zahonku si hral bat zaeala. Siva husa pasla se u plotu, Zluta jeji housatka prostrkovala hlavieky plotem, v geteene do zahrady Pieki s tatinkem nebo maminkou jice; bableka mega je velmi rada, ta hounekolikrat a popros je, aby Ti vypravo- satka, a ted' si jich ani nev gimala. Na o posviceni v eeskoslovensku. Tam kolikero stran myglenky jeji. za,bihaly.

To je zlate posviceni, to je zlati nedele, mime maso a zas 9, k t-mu kfmrek Trieere. le 'ate posviceni, e Ante Trmdeli, e ve em v.

Ve sttedu, dne 21. .11Ttopadu 1954.

Piigla zvest z Vidne od Jana, ze neptijedou v polovici maje, komtesa Hortensie ze se 'Oka roznemohla. Da-li ji Bah zase zdravi, pak ze by snad pani kneZna se podivala na panstvi, 'jisto vAak ze to neni.

Pani Terezka, kdyZ list pti gel, plakala, deli take plakaly. Vilim mel na dvetich jen nekolik earek je gte k smazani, a tu najednou bylo vSecko te geni nadarmo.

A ta dobra, mila Hortensie aby mela umtit, to jim neSlo ani do hlavy; nezapornhely ph Zadnem modleni obetovat oteenag za jeji uzdraveni. Ale coZ deti spokojily se zase, pani Terezka v gak beztoho malomluvna jegte mene mluvila, a kdykoliv babieka do pokoje k ni pti gla, videla ji uplakanou.

Posilali ji tedy na nav gtevy, aby se vyrazila; ona byla babieka Oboe rada, kdyZ Terezka nekam si vy gla, nebot' videla ptedobte, ze se piece jen dceti v oSamelem stavenieku mnohdy stYska, a ze by radeji Ziva byla v hluenem svete, jemuZ po innoha, leta byla uvykla. V manhestvi byla velmi gt'astna, ale to zle bylo pti tom, ze Jan nejvet gi Cast roku ye Vidni travit musel a ona ye strachu a stesku bez neho Zit musela. A nyni nemela videt mankla, deti otce snad rok. "Pro Zivot zas Zivot," povidala si babieka S Janem chtela ptijeti Johanka. druha dcera babibaina; chtela se ptijit na matku podivat, s ni se potegit a take poradit, nebot' se mela vdavat. Velice se jiz babreka te gila, a nyni mela teZ po nadeji. Mimo to vSe trapil ji Miluv ()dyad.

Mila byl gyarnY, uptimnY hoch. Kristla byla hodne device, babieka je mela oba velmi rada, byla by ptala, aby se za sebe dostali. "Kdy2 se rcvnY k rovnemu sejde, bYva shoda, a Panbtth sam radost ma z takoveho manaelstvi," rikala. Av gak i to radosti hrozila taka, rana, Mila gel rano s ostatnimi k odvodu. To v gecko leZelo babiece v hlave, a proto byla smutna.

"Babieko, jen se divejte, .Cerna tu hrabe. Poekej, ty opice! V gga!" ozval se Barunein hlas, a babieka pozdvihnouc hlavu, videla slepici letet ze zahrady a na zahonku vyhrabanY "To je kide, jak si chytte pti gla! Vezmi hrabe, Barunko, a oprav zahonek!

Hled'me ji, a busy jsou tu take. Ono mne to vola, je eas, No by to na ja se trochu zapomnela. Musim jim nasypat!"

To tkouc cdloZila bableka vtetanko a Na nakrrnit driTheZ. Barunka zustala v zahradce, srovnavala zahon.

Za chvili pfiSla Kristla. "Jste tu sama?" ptala se, nahlidnouc pies plot.

"Jen pojd' dale, babieka ptijde hned, Na sypat drtithezi," zvala I3arunka.

"Kde pak je matka?"

(Pokradovani)

Ve stkedu, tine 24. listopadu 1952.

VYBERTE SI DLE POTREBY Tkinaet druhfi eertifikatik SPJST pro dospele: Vida B: DoNvotni, poplatky se plati ai do smrti.

Vida C: Poplatky se plati 20 rota. Piny obnos pojiSteni se vyplati kdykdykoliv v pfipadu amrti.

Tfida D: Poplatky se plati 15 rokii. PlnY obnos pojieteni se vyplati kdykoliv v pkipaciu fund'.

Vida E: Poplatky se plati 10 roku. P114 obnos pojAteni se vyplati kdykoliv v pfipadu firnrti.

Vida F: Pink obnos certifikatu je vyplacen po 15 letech nebo kdykoliv pkedtim v pkipadu Tfida G: Piny obnos certifikatu je vyplacen ye 20 letech nebo kdykoliv pkedtim v Pkipadu Tkida H: PlnY obnos certifikatu je vyplacen po dosateni 65 let stall nebo kdykoliv pfedtim v pkipadu umrti.

Tfida I: ropiatky se plati 20 roku. Plnj obnost certifikatu je vyplacen po dosaeni 60 let stall nebo kdykoliv pfedtim v pfipadu

VESTNilE

T. TEICA5

$2,500, dodatedne k jinemu certifikatu.

Vida J-S: Popiatky se plati 20 rok0 Plny obnos pojieteni se vyplati kdykoliv v pfipadu od veku 1 roku. Do 6 mesict $250, pod 12 mesic0, $500.

Tfida T-E: Poplatky se plati do 18 let stafi. Piny' obnos certifikatu se vyplati po 18 letech stars nebo kdykollv v pfipadu Amrti od veku 1 roku. Do 6 mesiett, $250, pod 12 mesicii, $500.

Tfida Poplatky se plati 20 rola PlnY,obnos certifikatu se vyplati po 20 letech nebo kdykoliv v pfipadu innrti od veku 1 roku. Do 6 mesicil, $250, pod 12 mesic0 $500. (dz) ) • i • Lenost jest nam ze vkch vaAni naAich nejmene znama. Neni va§ne prud g a ziomyslnej g, aekoli gkody, ktere pasobi, jsou velmi skryty. pozorne k jejimu teinku, vidime, ze pokatcle dovede opanovati city nage, zajmy nak a radosti nak : ona jest j pfekatka, ktera zadrti i nejvet g lodi; jest bezvetti nebezpeenej g v zaletitostech velenutnSTch nad Uskali a boute. Klid lenosti chova pro dutajne kouzlo, ktere ru g nejhorlivejg nag einnost a nejpevnefg odhodlani.

Vida K Poplatky se plati do veku 65 let. Piny obnos pojiSteni se vyplati kdykoliv v pfipadu Vida M: Poplatky se plati do veku 65 let. Po dosaieni 65 rok0 stati, elen dostava mesiCni pkijem • A, • ( ' dokud ziv. Zemke-li pied 80 lety staff, dedici dostanou mesidni pfijem do 80. vYrodi narozenin 61ena.

Tfida M-C: npisova ochrana na 20 let, ktera se zmen guie, az zustane vyplacene pojiSteni na $1,000.

(Dokoneeni se strany 1) Pojieteni se vyplati kdykoliv v.pfipadu timrti dle klesajici tam dva nebo tri dny, at se mu podaki tad vzktisiti stupnice.

Na pomoc malSrm radum

Zaeatkern listopadu potfeboval redakTfida N: Opisova ochrana jen tern, kdo mail od SPJST vyptjeene pe- tor od hlavniho pfedsedy chlletite informace. Odpoved' neptichdoela. Za tSrden nize. psal znovu. Na dvanactST den ptiAla tePet druh0 eertifikatii SPJST pro deli: lefcnicka omluva. Pote gla, ponevadt Vida J-T: Doeasne pojigteni do veku 16 bratr pfedseda sdeloval, k se prave naSel vkchny redaktorovy dopilet, ktere se mute zmeniti na kterekoliv jine pojiSteni po sy na svem stolku, na omluvu oznamuclOsaZeni veku 10 let, nebo je, ze zajel k onomu mrtvemu ta.du s bratrem organisatorern a ziskali 'aestpozdeji. nact novYch Vida J-C: Poplatky se plati 20 roku.

To tit je elm se pochlubiti. To omlouva . teni se vyPlnY obnos poji S i zanedbanou korespondenci. To je dvaplati kdykoliv v pfipadu ye veku od 16 let vYk. krat vice net kolik elena mel fad pH Umrtni pojistka pod 16 let svern •zaloteni. Gratulujeme ptedsedovi Markovi a tediteli Navratilovi, stars je die stupnice.

Nasmi od redaktora (Dokondeni se strany 3) zaealo btulcet v divokem tempu, zatim co zpevaci stall jako sochy a jen pozorovali kcS kvetin podanSrch sestte sherove. A vtom znovu zaznel bon refrain "Our S P sT S T." Jestli si kdo pleti dtive yak iniciaiky, vati zpevaci nautili rids spravne je vyslovovati. Bylo to 'Oslo vrcholne umelecke ceny. A kde jste to piseti naSli? Jak dlouho jste ji abyste ji tak virtuosne, mistroVsky ptedvedli? Vy musite radi a stale cvieit, abyste si udrieli takovou jistictu hlastl a celkovou harmonii, Kdyby vgak nebylo venal myglenky sestry Hilsherove, ktera piseki nechala vypracovati profesoru. Jana PechoVC Chicaga; kdyby nebylo obetavosti a sebezapteni sestry Elsie Kaderove, ktera znovu a znovu cvieila se zpevaly jednotlive pasate a ptechody; a kdyby nebylo samotneho sklaclatele pisne, fialia Pecha, kterSr zavital do posleclnich._ cvidebnich hodin, aby sam pfevzal WI; pianovY doprovod; kdyby ne toho vkho, ani to nejlep g rule zpevakti by nebyla nic platna. Snad proto nekdo se vys104, te kit° nacvideni na g nova SPJST pisne bude stati nekolik set. Lee nebudezpevaci si sami vSechno zaplatili, di, protote vedi, ze to pfinese na g 'led= note nezaplatitelnou rekiamu. Byla to perla, ktere, nebyla hozena nazdai4ulg Kolik uiitku meta nakeh sestnact legattl z celeho zasedani kongresiride by mohli nejlepe popsati oni sami. Snad se to pczvolna ukate v einnosti jeji,Sl* v domacich kadech, v distriktech, nab cele Jednote, az vykliCi semeno pokynu, praktickS7 ch navodti a povzbuzujicich, rad naoerpanch y e tkidennim _zasQd ni Texaskeho bratrskeho kongreSu. Doufejme, ze take po teto strance laudeme miti znatelnSr tspech.

• ( I ,„, w, V pkatelstvi jako v lasce elovek easte bYva. St'asten tim, deho nezna, net tiny c zna.

•( ) Slabost jest, vetSi opak ctnosti net n•T,= rest. ) • •( Za velkSrch , udalosti hled'me mane tve-; kit nova poniery, za to spik snatme se vyutiti pomertl prave platnSrch.

Nikdy se nenaskyta, ze bychom mohli zle pochoditi, kdybychom se vzdaliikillpi Tfida L: Dvojnasobne trazove pojieteni Ted' zbYva jen Vr01.1ci ptani, aby se 'Alo breho, jet o nas se mluvi, s podminkou; (double indemnity). Certifikat na pomoc take jinYm malS7m faclum. Ne aby o nas take nic zleho nebylo mluveTi4f, se vystavuje pouze do obnosu az za nekolik rokil, ale co nejdkive. no.

Strata 2,4

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DOPISY A NAHLEDY CLENt AUTEM Z TEXASU DO ARKANSASU LOUISTANY (Popisuje Jaroslav Kleprlik) (Pokraeovani) II:t Springs, krasne mesto obklopene zalesnenYmi kopci, jest jako velikY park. Je to kontrast koperi a ridoli, a to j e Wave co lahodi oku kaIdeho pozorovatele. Hlavni ulice je Central Avenue, prechazejici stredem mesta. Po jedne strane ulice jsou vaechny lazeriske domy, zatim co na strane ()paella (jitni a zapadni) jsou hotely a vetSinou obchodni domy a drobne prodejny. Vidime zde zraame obchody jako Sears Roebuck and Co., Kress, Woolworth a t. d. Veder jsou to aukeni sine, kde je zajimave poslouchat lakave povidani prodavadu, vet ginou ZidU. Lze tarn koupiti vie od knoflidku ke koAili a pc) nejluxusnejSi berky, broukne sklo z 6eskoslovenska, obrazy a pod.

Pokracovanim lazeriskYch domft je kratky park s kaSnou s pramenitou horkou vodou, nadherny hotel Arlington, na pretdj g strane pak vysoka, budova "Medical Arts Building", za ni ‘Z jsou vysoke shady. V severni 'easti ulice po obou stranach jsou soukrome domy, jejich t majitele pronajimaji bud' jen pokoje, neb pokoje s kuchyrikou, t. zv. kitchennette, aneb i eel& byty, vac, samortejm6, zatizene pro pohodli utivatele. Domy jsou rozestavene rrizne; bud' u same hlavni tridy, neb za, malou zahradkou, a to opet bud' v rovine s vozovkou, nebo hodne vysoko a na skale, kam vedou dlouha schodiate ze dteva, kamene neb i kovu.

Stavebni sloh je velmi pestrY, rozhodne neni misti, je to sines vkch jinonarodnich slohU. Velmi oblibena je tarn magnolie, vyrristajici v mohutne stromy, dodavajici celkovernu vzhledu nadhernou okrasu.

Na janim konci lazeriskYch budov je °Pet kaana s pramenitou horkou vodou a u ni je nevelika budova musea, kde je mnoho zajimaqch veci, obrazri, fotografii, nakrest i statistik, a to nejen kajicich se vYluene Hot Springs, ale i krajin v jinych statech Unie. Vstup do musea je voln*, prohlidka objasni mnohe dohady o prirodnich zahadach, dopo6uji k nava:eve.

• Na konci lazeriske promenady, na vysoke skale eni majestatni budova voienske nemocnice "The Army and Navy General Hospital", Jest to petipatrova, stavba podoby velikeho pismene "V", stied tvofi budova o sedmi poschodich s desetipatrovou, py gne vystupujici yeti.

Sloh cele stavby ma v sobé hodne spanelakeho. Nemoenice, aI jen zjistil,

byla postavena v rode 1882 a ma celkem asi 600 tEek. Je krasne, kdyi odpoledne v 5 hodin tlampade vysilaji po meste vojenske vytrubovani k rozkazu. Pripomenulo ml to hodne 2ivot ve vojenskych kasarnach v Ceskoslovensku, kde jsem jako vojak vtdy rad naslouchal hlasu vojenske ktidlo yky. Rano to byl t. cv. "Budidek", odpoledne "Nastup k rozkazu" a pak zejmena veder v 9 hodin "Veeerka".

Jemne tony trubky pane se nesly po cele lazeriske promenade Hot Springs; chodci se zastavovali a s , pohnutim naslouchali.

Nad mestem, viditelna daleko giroko, j e ocelova pozorovatelna pristupna yerejnosti. Lituji, e pro nedostatek dasu jsme se tam nepodivali; neni jiste sporu o tom,'te poskytuje nadhernY rozhled do celeho okoli.

V ulicich lze videti hosty vaech spoleeenskYch trid, fcciene pros* pro,sttedne i luxusne (treba nekdy i mane vkusne) a co do narodnosti, slyaite mluvit na ulicich nejvice anglicky, pak francouzky,, italsky, nemecky a i desky. V miste jsou ruzr/t stredhika spoledenskych zahav, kde se pestuje ve dle libosti na.v§tevnikal lazni, je tarn tat mistnost, kde se hraje zde v Americe tolik oblibene Bingo, a t. d. Jinak spoledenskY tivot Mesta je zavislY na syYch ledivYch pramenech, ktere vabi hosty z daleka. Zije se tam pomerne levne, zvla gte mleene produkty jsou muchem lacinej gi net kdekoliv jinde. Na pfiklad: homegenisovane mleko 1 quart 18 centn, podmasli 14 tenth (V prilgalonovYch lahvich jeS"te o nee° levnej gi), vejce tucet 25 centri a t. d. Velike potravinafske obchody, jako Safeway a pod., jsou tetkou konkurenci drobnYm cbchodniktim, kteti jsou nuceni cenove se pflzpusobiti, aby udreli svoje Zivnosti.

V Hot Springs je asi 4.000 Cernochil, co 2 z celkoveho poetu obyvatelstva 29.307 je ptiblitne 14%. Cernoai v Hot Springs mail svoje akoly, hotely, obchody, nemocnice a lazeriskY chim pod dozorem ritadu Narodniho Parku. Lze iIci, e mimo dernochn zamestnanYch v la,zeriskych budovach, jsou to vetg inou Cernocol lze usouditi dle jejich byi dleni, strojeni se a krasnYch automobiZa lazeriskYmi budovami vystupuje hora, z jejit hlubiny vyteka lediva 111014ká voda, ktera dala mestu zaklad ke stu na lazeriske mist° svetoveho vYznamu, vyhledavane zajemnci z celYch SpojenYch Statti i z ciziny. Dne'Sni zatizeni koupelen je moderni, vylaovujici vaem potada ykrim moderni vodoleoby.

Die zaznanii). v tamnejSim museu prvni

lazeriskY diAlri byl p• staven v roce 1830, t. j. pied 124 roky, 6 roku bred tim, kdy stat Arkansas byl ptijat do Unie. Telady bylo mesto Hot Springs pouhou vetai yesnici; porovnani a dneanim vzhledem na p ohledniciCh je velmi vYstitne. Pokud jsem mohl zjistiti, v Hot Springs je eelkern 47 pramend, z nicht vyteka, denne asi 1,000.000 galonii vody 143 stupfifi teple. Nekolika pramenft ma tat chladnou vodu. Voda z pramend je svadena potrubim do 'Venice no.drte, odkud pak je hos-.

POciarne rozvadena do jednotlivYch lazeriskYch budov. To deje se velmi peCliy e poutiti nejlepSich isoladnich prosttedkti, aby se voda neochladila. Slual dodati, e vSechny lazeriske budovy jsou pod stalYm dozorem tradu Narodniho Parku. Tento fitad dba nejenom 0 eistotu a vaeobecnou hygienu v lazeriskYch domech i ye rneste, ale tat dozira na ceny koupeli a masati a ma ye sve sprave zvlaStni lazeriskou budovu pro nemajetne. Proto ve vaech lazeriskYch budovach jsou ceny tamer stejne. rozdil pause 10 neb 15 centri, cot' lze si vysvetliti nakladnefSi stavbou lazeriske budovy a luxusnejairn vnittnim zatizenim. Nektere hotely mail ten svoje lazne, ale ty nespadaji pod pravomoc jmenovaneho dladu, pani hotelieti proto maji v torn ohledu volnou ruku.

Snad bade mnoheho zajimati jakou proceduru nutno podstoupiti ph` brani koupeli. Postup je asi tento: nejcitive u ptisluane prepatly zapik kaldY svoje jmeno a bydligte, naeet Si piedplati koupele, a to bud' Lest, dvanact, osmnact neb dvacetetyfi. Oim vice koupeli se pfedplati, tim jejich cena je vyhodnejal. use Si tat koupiti jednotlivou koupel (cena je o nee° vyggi net v pfedplaceni), ale doporueuji katdemu koupiti si nejmene Best koupeli, ponevadt v pfipade, te v gechny koupele si nevybere, nevyutite pine honorovany, take nic ne• lze ztratiti. 'rota je a pfedplacenim ma saZi, Ma-li kdo neco cenneho k uschovani, mute tak ueiniti zdarma u pitepalky, kde ✓ e uloti. do kovove sktinky, od Mere dostane Idieek. Ve svlekarne jsou k kovove sktinky na Laty, klidek kaklY si ponecha. Klieky jsou• ptipevneny na pryky Ych kroukich, ktere Si katdY zayes! v zapesti, aby je neztratil, pripadne nekde nenechal. Zamestnanec ye svlelame katdeho zahali bilYm ohtatYm prosteradlem a pak se jde do dvorany pro vodoledbu. Po obou stranach jsou mramorove dlouhe vany, horke parni lazne, sedaci koupele, sprchy a t. d. Voda y e vane je 100 at 110 stuprin tepla, kde nutno vytrvati 10-15 minut, nalet dernoch eele tele, ponolene ye yea, masi-

Vc stfedu, dne 24. listopadu 1952.

ruje tinenkou. Po masati, kdy je pfipuste no pfipa.clne vice teple vody, zastane katdY dalaich 5-10 minut, 'lady i dela.

Pak dle pfani jednotlivce nasleduje bud' sedaci koupel, koupel n.ohou, rukou a nebo parni lawn, ktere. pasobi vehni blahodarne. Pak si kaldST lehne na pohodlne lehatloo s proStfenYrn teplYm prosteradlem. Oernoch s pfipravenYmi horkYmi zabaly zepta se katcleho ma-1i Jake potite a pak dle pfani vaechna bolava mista (kiouby, kolena, ruce, pate, nohy, kfiZ, ramena a t d .d) zabali horkymi ruoniky, naeet pak cele telo zabali do prosteradla. A tak jako Lazar kaidY asi 25 minut. teinek je velmi pozoruhodny, mimo zdravehe poceni citi ka tdY telesnou rilevu, jako by to ptimo tahlo z tela yen. °boas pfijde dernoch, setie pot y oblieeji a kdy uplynulo as!

25 minut rozbali kaideho a nasleduje osveteni pod sprchou, kde tede voda ne studena, ale vlatna. Po osuaeni eernochem katdY dostane eiste bile teple prosteradlo pies sebe, kolem krku rtidnik a jde do odpodivarny. Tam. je pfijemnY chladnY vzduch, kde bud' na tidli nab na lehatku lze die libosti odpodivati. Doporueuje se odpoeinek jednohodinovY. V sousedni mistnosti jsou maseti, kteti katcleho kdo si pkedplatil rnasat vezmou do prace. Umeji to znamenite, jejich prsty zarYvaji se hluboko a vyhaneji vaechny neduhy. Po skondeni masate v trvani 20 minut •citi se katclY jako znovuzrozen. Po kratkem odpoeinuti jeate v o blekarne a osvezeni vYborn•u chladnou vodou, konci cela procedura, ktera trva prumerne 11/2 hodiny.

Tolik pro informaci a nyni se vrat'me do mesta. V postrannich ulicich jsou mend soukrome domy pro hosty, ukryte v krasne zeleni, vesmes velmi tiche, pro katdeho jiste stoprocetne vyhovujici. Ntitno zdarazniti, ze pii porovnani s jinymi misty a pfi uvateni, to jde o lazne, je najernne v Hot Springs pomerne levne a proto katdemu dobte pfistup ne. Aby si kaidY, kdo tamejai pomery nezna, mohi ueiniti jasny obraz, uvedu nekolik dat z naaeho •pobytu. Pojedete-li nekdy do Hot Springs, pak rozhodne navativte naaince, kteti vas srdeene privita.ji. My jsme bydleli u pan! R. 6evelove, v ulici Holly Cis. 217. Pani eevelova, vdova, ktera, tam ptiala as! pied 8 roky z Chicago., vlastni 3 domity, z nicht katdY ma zafizeni pro 2 najemniky. K disposici ma katdY: pnostrannY pokoj s manaeiskou posteli, dobfe perovanou, &tea, 2 tidle, Latnik, plynova kamna se 4 hofaky a valeni i s troubou na pedeni, lednieku, umkvaci stal, veakere potfebne kuchyriske nadobi a nfielni, 2 nastenne skfiriky se skleniekand, miskarni, miseekami, talifi, hrneeky a t. d., elektrickY stolni pfenosnY ventilator, plyno-

v2STNIK WEST, TEXAS

VLASTA JAVORICKA:

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ZAPADU

SLUICE ROMAN

(Pokraeovani.)

Jan Slabina, byl bezradnY,—Mel sto chuti vziti holku doma a opravdu ji zavtit na zamek..

"Mario, pro Boha, jenom si dej na sebe pozor," kikala ji maminka, "nebo tatinek by nas pobil. 8ak ho znaa, tolik si na vas zaklada, to by byla pro nej smrtelna rana."

"A dyt' ja vim," kikala Maria a nekdy se dopalila a mrzute se durdila. "To je straanej tivot, mami. Abych se bala s nekYin promluvit." va kaminka pro pfipad chladneho poeasi, koneene vlastni zachod a sprchu.

Voda tede studend i tepla, bydleni velmi pfijemne, vae je eiste, vykraalene zaclonkami, deekami, pokrYvkami, koberedky, a t. d. Vzduch velmi osvetujici, je pouze 2 kroky do lesa, poloha jiste idealni. Pte.te se, kolik pani Cevelova potaduje? Dva dolary denne, nerozhoduje zda nekdo bydli sam, mantele, ei rodina. My jsme byli velmi spokojeni a proto mohu byaleni u pani Cevelove co nejvreleji doporueiti. Kdyby se snad stall) a nahodou nebylo nic volneho, pak pani evelova. katdeho rada idoporuei k jinemu naainci, kde je bydleni stejne dobre. Weer aeru se tam v klidu venku hesky sedi, sejdou se 6egi a Moravane z celYch SpojenYch Stela a pki obapolne zabave eas piljemne ubihe.. A co se deje v SPJST, i o torn jste tam dokonale informovani. Pani tevelov6, dostava Vestnik pravidelne kalkik tYden. Kdyt jsme se jednoho dne vratili z vyjitd'ky do okoli, pan! Oevelova, byla venku, smala "se a vitala nas slovy uvedenymi v mem dlanku ve Vestniku ze 6. fijna t. r.: "Tak uz jste doma z tripu? Jiste to bylo najs a nedtojovali ste to . . . ." Nejdfiye jsem, se zarazil, ze i v Arkansasu mluvi texaskou eeatinou, pak ale pani velova nam ukazala Vestnik, ponevadt pro.smith nemohla dale mluvit. Tedy o vae je tam postarano; aby se snad nekdo nudil, to je zcela vyloudeno. A nenili nekdy pro spoleenost, pak seat venku a poslouchat ptadi zpev, to je neco tak dojemneho a uklidnujiciho, nernate bYti nic krasnejaiho.

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Strana 25 Cas pak utikal a deveata dospela. Lida se vyklubala v hezke deveatko a mela u chlapca fispech.'Ve meste no ctitelt, hezke. modistka mela pfiletitost dobie se bavit. Lida vaak byla velmi opatrna. Cele. maminka. A chytra take byla po ni.

Dobte se opatrovala. Chtela bYt vzficnd a bala se tatinka. Vedela, ze je jeho miladkem, ale to by bylo hrozne zle, kdyby pfiael na nejake mildatne spady.

Ne, ae by nechodila s hochem, ale mela se na pozoru, aby o trim nikdo nemluvil.

Vyhledaval ji Ufednieek z tamni tabakove tovarny. Kluk veselY a hezkY-lako obrazek.

Deveata mu fikala — hezoun — takto se jmenoval Petr Zvolen.

Lide se nemalo libil ate byla hodnou dcerou, povedela to mamince. "To bych se mela dobfe, mami. Ti fitednici z tabakove maji hezke platy a jejich paniekam se fika — milostpanl."

"Pro Boha, devee, jenom se mei na pozoru. Dyby se tatlnek nee° dozvedel, tak by nem nezbejvalo, net se it utopit," Dora se lekala. ja si udelam, jak budu chat," "E iekla Lida Prudce.

Jedncu zase pfiael Kerbolec, aby Slabinu zastoupil a seal s nim v kancela To byl takovY sychravY, podzimni Veeer.— Mlha visela as na zem a vitr bral suche listi a metal jim pod naspy a , do avoza.

Slabina se tall na span!, ale chtet-Se jeate dodkat Lidy, at pfijede.

"Po tej holce je mi nejvic povidal Kerbolcovi, "je vesela, jerx-;,zPi4 Sme to calk dni sami s mamou ti'td na eloveka nekdy pada jako mara."

"Zet'," pfisve.deil Kerbolec, "mat hol4 ky aikovnY — po matce. 8ak se po nicli kluci uz todeji. Tu malou katdej: den doprove.zi riakej chasnik k vlaku V1dam je pokatdY, dyt jedu pfes."

Jan Slabina zavetfil a hodil nohu pies nohu.

"Co? Naai Liduaku? To snad nejni pravda? Ma to piece pfisne zakazank.

Vi, co by i Cekalo, dybych se to dovecle-1.!?

A hned byl celY poboukenY a v mu eervene preskakovalo.

Kerbolec se suae zachechtal.

"Tot' via, vona se to bude ptat. Hoy leeku, kamarade, tenskou neuhlidaa. Nmu chce, tome neubrania a vaecky 'son stejnY. S tim se nevostouzej a porno' to osudu!"

"A to zase se budu vostouzet," zy.414 Slabina. "Ja i to zarazim! Zejtra paje-, du do mesta a dam si na ni pozor."

"E — di do haje!" uplivl Kerbolec stranou a zabafal. "To ti stejne nehude nic platnY."

Strata 2G Jan Slabina se musel hrozne piernahpt. aby nedolal doma ramus. Nejradeli by byl celY den obvirioval Zerm, ae yedel, za to neintiZe. Kafzdemu muZi se ideii. kilyZ mit& vSecko svesti na Zenu.

Navart se jenom mraeil a zahliZel a nemluvil ani na Zentt, ani na dcery. Ty si jen Septaly a Maria povidala mamince: "Jci nevim, keraks to s tatinkem celej ;:ivot yydrala. JA bych si takovYho morouse nikdy nevzala. —" Dora, chudak se horce zasmala: -Ty mysliS, ze nekerej ukag e pravou tvar eSte pied svatbou? Holeolcu, to sou VSiCi hodni."

Naratri nerekl Slabina acne zase nieeho, ale odpolednim vlakem se pustil do Chvole, co2 byly tii stance od naSi zastavky. .1cdY± Dora zajimala kam jede, poze ma sluZbu a dost. Dora se jiz ne-tarala, meta dodela,vat do sobety jeSte kolik tuctu a ji2 byl etvrtek.

Hunila stroj po cely den aZ ji ruka mr tvela.

-Jencla sice uz mel konservatof za sebou, ale dostal zatim jen, misto varhanika, v jedne vsi u Brna a met plat nepatrny.

Stola tam byla take velmi slabA, tak ho museli jeSte trochu podporovat, Mimo to pak ji2 se musela starat deveatum o periny a k tomu bylo treba penez. .Jan Slabina sedel na chodbiece viaku a se ZadnYm nemluvili, ac se znal dobre se vSemi Zeleznieafi co jich tu jezdilo.

Prdvodei se s nim dokonce chtel zdrZ"et na kousek reel, ale on o to nestal.

Na stanici Chvoji vystoupil a zristal na nAdraL. VSak jiZ Slo naveSti a lide se hnali do Cekarny. Mezi nimi. na perone uvidel du.

Mela eervenou radlovku jako Sipek a huste mikado pod ni, pine rosy, ji viselo attokle na, ramena.

Pane BoZ"e, ten Kerbolec nelhal.

Licla tu nebyla sama.

Doprovazel ji mladenec. Mel peknY trenSkot a SedY klobouk proti mlze stlac ellS, do oei.

Ja il Slabina mel pied oeima mZitky a Kiev, v5ecku v hlave. Nedbaje, Ze je tu pino lidi, rychle se protlaeil k Lide a popad], ji za rameno. ,``,Co sem ti povidal, ze mi nesrniS se Z.A.clnYm chodit. Tys to zapomnela,? Pookej aZ prijedem domri. A vy, pane, si dejte pozor! Moji dceru nechte na pokoji!"

Vztekle smYkl Lidou kupfedu a na na se tak zle podival, jako by ho chtel probodnout. csT6xi neco zakoktal. Byl rudY jako ohen a jen ledabylo posrnekl. Jednani Slabinovo ho popudilo aZ do vSeho morku.

Byl jeSte inlad a nemohl to &bre pochopit.

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Lida byla jeSte eervenejSi. Skousla ret a vidouc, Ze na ni kdekdo hledi Sla vzdorne pied otcem do vlaku.

Tam se zavrela v klosetu a plakala zlosti a hanbou. Vylezla az na zastavce a utikala domu. °tee za ---KdyZ priSli do svetnice, meal velkY ramus. Jan Slabina odepjal semen a zvedl ho, aby dceru pretohl -- Lida ale skoeila za rnatein stroj a zvedla ruce nad aby se branila.

"Nech me — co sem udelala!" vykrikla a oei ji zajiskfily jako koece.

"DyZ ti tic nedelarn, tak me nech!"

Matka se tak lekla, Ze take vyskoeila a branila Lidu vlastnim telem.

"Co blazniS, pro Boha," krikla. "E Ste malo ses me natrapil? ESte zaent detma, ty — ty tyrane!"

Jan Slabina stal proti ZenskYm a funel jako prijiZdejici vlak.

"Vy ste dobre umluvenY, vy dve beltny!" zasoptel, "vy devky nieemnY!" -Takova, vada, zase jiz davno nebyla v domku na zastavce, jako toho yeeera.

Pritozene, Dora to odnesla, prottAe Lidu branila. Jan pfenes1 vSecku svou lasku ze Zeny na deti a proto zbylo pro Zenu jen to nejhorSi. Snimat jejich vi ny a trpet misto nick .

Protole se nepremohla a neco mu rekla, ba, nehodlala mleet jako kdysi a odmlouvala mu notnou chvili, dostala koneene ranu pies Usta, aZ ji tekla se rtit krev a druhou pies hlavu ,Ze ji vlasy pieletely s tYla do oei. `Esli mne udelate hanbu, tak vas zabi ju jako koely a vyhdzim vas ze staveni, to, jako Ze se menuju Jan Slabina," eel aZ bylo slySeti yen kaZde slovo.

Kerbolec to poslouchal a pod ki121. se tomu smal.

2enske tide plakaly a Lida kikala uZ" asi po ste: "Z ' es to, mami, s nim vydr'Zela? JA bych s nim nebyla ani tYden. Dyt' to neni elovek. Dela, jako by nernel rozum.

Copak je to nee° zlYho, kdyz no me promluvi sluSnY chlapec? Dyt' proto jsem device."

Jan Slabina mysiel, se Lidinu znamost pferusi, kdY2 bude vSecko moZne podnikat.

V prve fade vzal Lidu z ueeni, ac ji zbYvaly jen asi etyri mesice, aby byla vyueend Nechal ji doma a piisne nakazal, ze mu nesmi na krok z domu a rnatka musi pilne toho dbat, aby holka nedostala "od pana z tabdeenky" psani.

"JA nevim co s tim mysliS," opovalive pavidala Dora, "el si chceS nechat holku naeisto? Snad by to nebylo tak nejhorSi, dyby si i namluvil rifednik. Jen si povaZ, jakej by mela Zivot. Pohodlnej —" Ani to vSak nesmela domluvit.

Slabina zaeal zase tak hrozne Meet, ze se vSecko traslo. On, ze to nedovoli,

Ve sti". O tt, dne 74. listopacIn 1954. aby si zaeala holka znamost s nem, kterY by ji jet vyuzil, svedl a necital seat.

Holka, ze si musi vziti sobe rOVIlehO a dost.

Dora jiz mleela a povidala lade: "MusiS se s tim snairit a nechat -Lobo.

Nebylo by kriktim a biti konce. Prosim det'atko moje, mej se mnou outrpnost!

Podiv jen, co sem IA vytrpola!" A Dora sepjala pied Lidou zoufale ruce.

"Maminko, a nemysliS, Ze je to vod tebe hroznY sobectvi, chtet, abych se rozloueila se svou laskou jen pro dornaN pokoj? Mam ho velmi rada a nikcia vod flan nettpustim. K tomu nemaS prava ani ty ani tatinek to ode mne Zadat."

Lida byla dcerou sve doby a chtela jit za syYm diem, tf3eba pies mrtvoly.

A take 'Ala. Marne rodiee hlidali listonoSe, marne ji nepustili na krok z domu.

Lida se spoleila s zeleznicaii, podplatila listonoSe a utekla tehdy, kdyZ se toho rodiee nejmene Jeji hoch pfijel vlakem na nejbliZAi zastavku a Set po trati -- tam se setkali a rekli si co chteli.

Jan Slabina nevedel ovSem o nieem.

Zatim chvalil nejvice 1VIaritt.

Ta ve syYch devatenacti letech jeSte nikam nechodila. Ze Siti jela, prim° domu, hocha jeSte nemela.

JiZ byla vyneend a brala svfij skromnSr plat a tak se tvarila, jako by chtela stati s rodiel navklycky. Myslela-li to ba tak vaZne, sama, nevim, ale prisnY tatik byl spokojen, vlastne nerozunanY •

Jenda byl velmi St'asten, kdyZ se dostal k brnenskemu rozhlasu.

Zpival narodni pisne a Slagry a mel celkem sluSnY plat. KdyZ s tou radosti. pHjel doma, postaral se nejdfive, aby maminka piestala plest.

"Ani se to nesluSi," povidal otci, "aby maminka delala takovou teZkou praci, kdyZ jsme vSichni velci. Ty to tak nepozorujeS, ale ja, ze jsem maminku dlouho nevidel, jsem se aZ za,lekl, jak je udiena.

Mne uz nemusite vilbec podporovat a Maria si take vydelava."

"ViS, co mne napadlo," pravil mu otec podmraeene, do °el mu nepohlednuv," Ze by sis moh vzit s sebou do Brna Lidu. Doma jen zlobi a tam by ti mohla. troSku hopodafit. SeS sam a i by to neSkodilo."

Jan Slabina si myslil, Ze by tam byla piece jen dal a on by se zbavil ustavienail) Jenda se trochu zalekl.

Nemel jeSte takoveho prijmu, aby mohl vydrZovat i sestru a pak eekal s touZebnosti, az si bude moci zafiditi vlastni domdenost.

Lida ho vAak zbavila, vAi. starosti.

Zvedla prudce hlavu a prohlasila se

Ve stfedu, dne 24. listopadu 1952. vAi rozhodnosti, Ae do Erna nepiljde.

"Pudd a dost!" ktikl tatik az mu v kr ku pteskoeilo, ale Lida zvedla hlavu je Ate vYA nd on a ktikla take tak: "A nepudu!"

"A ne a ne! 2ivou me tam nedostanete," a trochu mirneji pak dodala: "Musim tady zastavat maminku. Te2-ko by se beze me vobeAla." Jenda s tim souhlasil a tak otcriv navrh padl. Slabina se site vztekal a mracii ale ostatni tomu byli zvykli.

Jenda jiA nebydlil u pani Rabocho ye.

Ta stare, dama si dala koneene Mei a odeAla z velkomesta na venkov k Olze, aby tam u2ivala trochu odpoeinku.

Prost& byla jiA stare, a sluAba cizim lidem ji zmahala.

Andel sam pro ni ptijel a povidal, ji toho vilbec neni tieba.

Jenda si vydrioval vlastni byt.

Musel, protde k nemu chodilo mnoho lidi. V radiu byl jeho hias brzy velmi obliben a nejednou k nemu ptiAly Zeny pro podpisy. Mimo to daval nekolika mladym hodiny zpevu. V kostele jeAte varhaniail a mimo to zpival v nejakYch kabaretech.

Sve pisnieky vydal tiskem a sly na odbyt, mel s tim rispechy. Proto se pokouAel dale.

Jednu vydal pani spravcove "z hluboke ricty" a jednu sleene Kamile — to z neeeho jineho.

Toho roku nemel v lete Aadnou dovolenou, nikdo mu ji neudelil a sam k sobe nebyl tak uznalYm. Pravo se mu to nehodilo. Zato v time si to vynahradil a vzal si volno na vanoani svatky.

Mel znameho jednoho slepce z brnenskeho ristavu a ten ho o svatcich v kostele zastoupil.

Rozhlas mel pino vanoenich veci, tedy i v tom se mohl uvolnit.

Ptijel na zastavku ye snehove metelici, pozde v noel, kdy se snih sypal jako z pytle a nebylo videti ani na krok pied sebe.

Otec Jan Slabina stal u vlaku a Cekal az pfejede, aby zvedl Savory a Sel zalezt do teple postele. Jenda ho pozdravil a povidal, ze je tady, je-li maminka jeSte vzhfiru.

"Jo — strojeji se zrovna ke spani. Di dal, ja zhasnu a ptidu taky."

"Jste vAichni zdravir Jenda se ptal a neeekaje na dlouho odpoved', Ael do svetnice. Maminka, jak ho uvidela, vyktikla radosti: "To budeme met veselY svatky," a padla mu kolem krku.

Deveata jiA lezela. Jedna na pohovce, druhe. v mateine posteli. Neco na sebe nahazela a obe vyskakala yen.

"Nate pani mistrova ma radio a nejradeji posloucha tebe," povidala Maria a holky zrovna tak. Rikaji, ze seS naAe

V2STNfIC — WEST. TEKAs pejcha, tady v tom zapadakove."

"Tak, abyste vedely," povidal Jenda se smichem, "tak jsem varn neco ptivez.

Chtel jsem yam to dat a pod stromek, ale nemohu to yddet."

Zvedl na still balik, kted prve postavii u dveti. "Koukejte, vezu varn radio."

Tatinek prave ve gel a zaslechl posledni slova.

"Cote veze g ? Ze ti nejni Tito penez," trochu zahuboval. To la tak po svem zvyku. Ve skuteenosti mel radost. Tajne si u.A davno ptal miti radio, ale nechtel to vyslovit.

Deveata se dala do tance a maminka sprdskla ruce. "Jemine — Jenieku, to si to milteme take poslechnout, jak v Brne zpivaA?" "No, prave, maminko, proto jsem yam to koupil. Budu mit velkou radost, budete-li mne poslouchat."

Na stanici nemeli elektriku, tak to dalo trochu prate, neA Jenda radio zavedl.

Musel vlakem do inesta pro vAelijake soueastky a hral si s tqm cely Atedd den.

Jen odpoledne pospiAil do zabehlickeho zamku. Sjel si tam na KerbolcovYch lykted si je tu nechosal v-eekarne.

Byla tam Kamilka. Jendu to neptekvapilo, Ae mu vybehla vsttic. Pane si po celY rok psali a dali si o svatcich schrizku, proto hlavne Jenda Pkesto mel velikou radost chytil ji za ruce a sevfel je vsi silou ye svS7ch, potom ji pfivinul na prsa a 'Ze tu nikoho nebylo, dal ji nekolik polibkt.

"Jendo, vek, stale jsem mela strach, se nesetkame. Na gi mne mot radi nepouaeli k stdekovi a v poslednich dnech byla obava, ze to zapeklita vanice znemoZni dopravu."

"I ja jsem hledal za sebe usilovne nahradu. Jake by to byly svatky, kdybychom se nesetkali? Ta odloueenost byla dlouha."

"Copak je tobe. Tys obletovan Aenami a zbdriovan pro svuj hias — ale mile tu bylo piing smutno."

"Velig tomu ,Ze to obletovani mne zajima? Nebo radeji veilA tomu, co jsem ti psal?" Dr2e1 Kamilu za ramena a hledel ji zative do odi.

Pfimkla se k nemu. "Radeji tomu druhemu, Jendo, a verim ti."

"A co ty? Jsi nine verna? Mam nekdy takovY hloupY strach. ViA, main to v krvi, muj tata je hrozne AarlivY a ja jsem jeho syn."

Jenda se smal a tiski Kamilu k sobe; Vtom Ala pani spravcova a oba od sebe odskoeili. Pant Olga hned Jendu poznala a nesla mu obe ruce v Ustrety.

"Nu, vAdyt' jsem to vedela, Ae ptijedeA. A prof stojite na chodbe? Ved' ptece hosta do pokoje, Kamilko. Nalej vina a podej to cukrovi z ptiborniku. ZristaneA na veeei4i, pravda-li, Jeniku?"

"Ne, nemohu, milostiva, pani, ad bych

GUAM 27 hrozne rad. Maminka se raduje z me nivAtevy. Pokazil bych ji Atedd veCer. 0pravdu, milostiva. pani."

"Nu, vetim ti. Kahle, matka chce mit ✓tent°. slavnSt veeer deti kolem sebe. Ty • jsi pozvan a jiste nam vyhovib zitra v poledne a ptijdeS k obedu?"

"KdyA dovolite, milostiva pani," Jenda se uklonil. Kamila byla At'astna a dashIa. Stara pani se pfikolebala.

Chodila rok od roku hate. Melo, take, otekle nohy, jake vidame Casto u starYch, telnatYch 'Zen. Pusobily ji pot& a mimo to mela cukrovku. Rada Jendu uvidela. Dala si Jim polibit ruku a povidala, ze to bylo leppokud byla v Brne a mela na byte studenty.

"To jsem byla mlaclAi a nohy nine lope slouZily. A byla jsem svou pani — ted' je to dine — ach je."

Pam Olga pak Jendovi svetila, ie maminka rychle starne a stale neco ma, nad eim jest nespokojena.

Jenda se nemohl zdrtet. Povidal, shani neco k zavedeni radia a must po• aby to do vedera dokondil.

Slibil, Ze zitra urdite ptijde a Kamile stiskl vYmluvne rudku. Zabehl na skok za babieltou, ktera, ji g take byla jako ye chet a stale si na neco stelovala.

Asi pied tiemi lety se musela dat operovat na new vnitiniho a od to doby za mnoho nestala. Jendu rada uvidela, ale byla take rada, ze zase Nevedela, dim by ho pohostila a deda byl jeAte s korimi u vlaku. "8a,k ho potkaS," minila.

Jenda si nakoupil v krame htebieky a Aroubky a co bylo treba a uhanel k domovu.

Ale, Pane Bole, co se zatim dome: odehralo.

Tam byl hroznY ramus — slyeel to id z daleka, jak otec tadi. —Tlude do stolit a tfiska, nadobi a kfidi tak zbesile, jako zdivodela Selma.

Jenda vrazil do svetnice a co prvne ueinil, byl pohyb k matte.

Stela zatarasena za stolem a neco kHCela na otce. — Byla vAecka rozeuchana a divoce se branila.

"Je to tvY (lecke a sam sis ho vychoval. Dobie se pamatuju, jaks i navadel i proti mne — ted's i s voka nepustil," a kdy zdivoeelY otec srazil Lidu k zemi a chtel ji sam beze smysla bit a kopat — vrhala se proti nemu jako Allen& a ktidela: "Zabiji to — esli na ni Aahna. To Pi otec? 2,e se nestydig."

"Ja vas vSecky pozabijim," soptel divoce Slabina a Zenu chytil za vlasy: "Ta se vrhla po tube, ty —" NejsurovejAi nadavky padly na ubohou Doru ,a s nimi take rany.

Jako rozkacenY tur pak se vykitil ven

Strana 28 a krieel vztekem ve vetru a hukotu rozpoutanYch zivliz. Jcdnal hut, net skutecny Maria u dveri kvilela a nice mela vzhtiru: "Todle je tivot, Jeti§i Kriste. Ja pudu 7 domu a vickrat se tit nevratirn."

Dora sedela na kufru a tiskla hlavu do dlani a Lida vzdorne vzlykajic,' stirala si krev e rtu.

"A co se vla.stne stab?" Jenda se ptal •vech podeSen a rozhoreen: "Tohle ze je gtedrY den? Maminko, co se stab?"

"Ale — Kriste Jetik! Tatavi nekdo napovidal — to Lida — te je v inYm stavu a i;a holka neAt'astna — se k tomu priznala. Ach, Bate, Dote, e'Ste to mi schazelo." Uboha Dora zalomila rukama.

"No — a je to pravda?" ZbledlY Jenda se obratila k Lide. -Je to pravda, Lido?'

Prisvedeila se zat'atYma rukama v "Je. ja sem to udelala naschval. Dyt me tatik tak hanebne tupil a uratel a hlidal tak at' vi proe."

"Lido, Lido, vit, te sis po'Slapala svuj tivot?" pohrozil ji Jenda. "Jaks to rnohla tidelat mamince?" "lVIarninka je taky vina," tvrde rekla Lida. "Neurnela-li tatinka za petadvacet 'let ptedelat, tak to musime ted' udelat my."

"Tatinek se vraci," zdekne a pritlumene zvolala Mafia, "bude zase radit."

Slabina vekl zsinalY vztekem a 'Itosti.

"Di mi s voei — ty — tahni z domu.

Nechci te mit ani hodinu pod strechou."

Tati, pro Boha te prosily'," zkouSela Dbra, ale se zlou se potazala. Zaeal na novo.

"Ven, yen!" krieel. "Ja sem poeestnej etn y,lk a nesnesu padlou holku pod SVOLT sticchou .Ven, povidarn!"

Lida neeekala, Vzala si kabat a tale a trochu okazale padla matce do naruee. Jenda si vzal take zimnik a mrkl na inatku: "Dovedu ji k babiece."

Venku vzal Lidu pod pati a vedl ji metelici a snehem, v bezhvezdne noel, pod eernou cblohou.

"Lido, je to pravda?" kdyt sli kus cesty, to ptal. "Je to pravda? Jak jsi to mohla • udelat, Lido, ty jsi lehkomyslna."

-Nic se me neptej. Co nak chteli, to Nemuseli mi kazit povest," spra yire a rozhodne odsekla mu Lida.

"A co mysli§? Co bade dal?" ziekane a ponute se ptal Jenda. Musi'S mysiet na budoucnot. Co bude — tekni, co s tebou?"

"Petr si me veme, na to."

"VI'S to jiste? Matti s nim promluvit?

Vi to, co je s tebou?"

"Nevi jests."

V2STNiK — WEST, TEXAS "Nevi? Lido, tys jeSte dite a piece —" "Nejsem jit davno dab! . Na sSi se prede mnou hadali vo takovy veci, ze mi vzali vSecko, co je detinskylya. A ja sem to chtela. Tatinkovi sem to chtela udelat, to ma za to." Ostatni slova ji rvala vichrice u samYch 6st.

Sli kousek lesem a tam byl hukot, ktery pUsobily stromy.

Narately vetvemi o sebe a tab se kymacely, te jejich koruny praskaly.

Ze spani tam vykrikla nejaka straka, at se oba ulekli a dteji se k sobs pritulili.

Snih se Mal, ale jinak bylb tma, te nevideli jeden drukeho.

Jendovi- bylc. do plaide.

"Chudak marninka," povidal, "ta ma peknY StedrY yeeer."

"A my vostatni ho mame Inds se na nej , tekji, ale u nas je jen stale peklo."

V dalce piskal vlak.

Ve snehu a vanici byl jeho zvuk ptiduS'enY — tetke oddychovani pripominalo upachteneho, upoceneho eloveka. • Jendovi napadlo, je-li otec schopen v takcvem. rozruteni mysli stati u vlaku, : tet klidne vyekavat jeho ptijezdu a spou S zavory. Lehce by mohl nee° zameSkat.

Jenda se podivne zachvel — — — "Co rekneme babiece?" Jenda se ptal, kdy2 prestupovali prah declova pribytku.

"Co bychme i rikali? Pravdu. Mne se beztak protivi at do date to veenY vylhavani. U nas se nesly g nic inyho Leda: nerikejte to tatovi. Pro Boha, at' to neslYSi. tatinek. — A tak je to stale, a stale do kola," hnevive povidala Lida, "to se eloveku koneene zhnusi!"

"Dnes? Prave dnes tiny chew ty starouSty otravit? Lido, to se jim nemilte• Mei." Jenda povidal to synutne a vzdychl.

Ach, proe neni it nas doma, jako jinde, jako u sprawl:1? Pohledl vzhtini do oken zamku, kde bydleli spravcovi. Vkcka okna planula do noci jako majak a za nimi bylo krasne.

Lida Na stateene a zaklepala u syYch starou'Skti na dvere. Ti jit sedeli u veeere.

Byli zvykli yeeeret 'easne a se slepicemi chodili spat, nemusel-li prave deda na drahu, nebo nezdrtel-li se 'Drills dlouho na pile ei v lese.

Byl za cely eas uplahoeenY a roz rzely, nejlepe mu bykc v posteli.

Kdyt uvideli Jendu s Lidou, meli sice radost, te maji na. 'aedrY -neer nenadale hosty, oh babieka to ucitila hoed, e to neni samo sebou. Nee° se jiste stalo.

Honem se ptala, co je, zdali nekdo nestime, "nebo tatik radi?" hnedle kapla na pravou strunu.

Lida prisvedella: "Bate, vyhnal me, tak du k yam. 8ak vite, jakY je u nas

Ve st!'edu, dne 24. listopadu 1954, tivot."

"Kriste Jetisi, chudak Dorotka. S jakou radcsti si ho brala. Ja nevim, co je to za eloveka? Hotovej blazen."

"To vi Luh, co mu to dycky stoupne do hlavy. Ja myslim," rozumoval deda, "Ze je to vopravdu kuler. lab de mesit delu, tak jankovati."

"Ale, nechte tatinka," Jenda se ho zastal, vkcek neSt'asten. "Ja myslim, s nim nikdo z natich neumi jednat. U nas se musela stat nejaka, chyba -fined na poeatku. Valyt' tatinek nas ma litecky rad — ale ma v sebe laejakou trp-. kost, kterou jak mi pripada taji."

"Ale hlouposti," odporoval dedeeek, "je to kuler, jak povidam. Holeeku, za to Nov& nemilZe. To je nemoc."

"Z ' adna nemoc," vzkrikla Lida a sedla k ohni. Byla vtecka zkrehla a vetrern otlehana. Jenda take. — "Ty to nevit, Jendo, co je toho nou?" Lida hovorila dale. "Tak abyste to vedeli, ja. vain to reknu. Nati se vo to jaktiva porade hadaji a mysleji, Ze ja to nevim, Ze tomu nerozumim, dyZ je mi teprve sednact let. Toho vteho set prioinou ty, Jendo."

"2e jsem jich stal tolik penez?" Jenda se zalekl. "Vtak ja jim to oplatini. jsem se rozhodl, Ze pujdou rodiee ke mne, az ptijde otec do pense. Zatirn ja tit " (Pokraeovani.)

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Po peti letech ptijel pan MesteckY z Opoena, jen pro svuj zlodin s druhem syYm, za bouii a zmatka tehda obecnYch, uSel zaslouZenemu trestu, zase do Opatovickeho klaStera, ale ne jiZ jako lupie, nYbd jako jeho ochrance. Ptivedl tam posadku, valnY houf Zoldnetti cisate Zikmunda, v jeho sluZby se dal proti svym krajantim.

Tim lidem obsadil klaSter proti HradeckYm husitskYm meSt'antim a brattim 0rebskYm. Tenkrate se jiZ neshanel po velikem pokladu v zemi ukrytem. Zany zas musil odtud, do pole, posadka vSak tu zastala a dvakrate svedla viteznY boj s HradeckYmi; v prosinci toho roku 1420 u sameho klaStera a v lateznu ptiStiho roku nedaleko, u vesnice Podonan, kde padl i vadce HradeckYch Luka'S. Ale jiZ v dubnu odtahli cisaiovi Zoldneti z Opatovic ze strachu pied velikYm vojskem PraZana, OrebskYch i HradeckYmi, kteti se zmocnili Kutne Hory.

Zikmundovi Zoldneti jen odtahli, a jiZ pf'itrhl pan DiviS Hotel< z Miletina s bratrstvem OrebskYin a s HradeckYmi, kteH se zle vymstili Opatovicam za dvoji poraZku a za mnohe poralky. Start', vYstavnY klaSter byl vypalen.

Vyhotel konvent a staveni v'Secka; v lueinate ravine u Labe, nad jeji2 zeleni a spoustou kvetti svitivaly se zlacene krize klaRernich veli a nadherneho kostela ,Cernaly se rozvaliny, rozmetane ambity kol "rajskeho dvora" puste zarostleho, a mrtve ticho bylo tam, kde mnigi kdysi hodinky pen.

Kla§ter v tom zpustokni ztistal. A hluboko pod jeho rozvalinami zastal i ohromnY poklad drahYch kova, draheho kameni i umele prace, zfistal netknutY tam, kde veky jiZ v akrytu leZel. A to misto tajemstvim zastalo. Jen povest o nem sla po mnoha pokoleni a zastavala, i kdyZ rozvaliny stareho klaStera hynuly a se rozpade.valy. — — III.

Rozpadly se a zmizely, kdy2 pak jim voda dodala. Kdysi, davno, za velike povodne Labe je zalilo, stopilo, a jak behem Casu zmenilo v tech mistech svtij tok, zastala Cast rozvali pod vodou, na jeho dne. Tak Labe, jeZ kdysi teklo vedle klaAtera, proudilo pies nej, a kdyZ byla nizka a jasna voda, chodili se lids divat na zbytky trosek pod jeji hladinou.

Jen Cast rozvalin zastala na suchu. V tech mistech pa.k, u teky, vystaveli mlYn, a tam, kde staval pry hlavni oltaf, vyrostla lipa, jeZ pfeekala \Tay. Mleei a chasa east() sedali za letnich veeeril pied mlYnem a mluvili o cisati Karlovi, o po-

klade, kde asi je, kterYmi misty; kdyby tak mohli pod vodu k nemu, jak by si pomohli. tasto se take ohledli dal, po stare liPC, jejiZ ohromna koruna vysoko Aerem se Cernala a od niZ vettik zana gel k nim S. umot a silnY, libeznY dech jejich kveta jako repot modleni a vane obeti od BoZiho oltate. A v palnoeni eas podal se koS stare lipy vyjasnovati, jako by jim prosvitovala zat vychazejiciho mesice.

Pak vzplanula v korune svetla a zalila po vkch haluzich, a zed'. svetel stoupala k noenimu nebi. Kdo ten div spattil, Zasna se ktiZoval. Domaci klekali a modlili se jako pled olta,tem; nejeden z nich zaslechl v takove chvili zboZnY zpev, jen tlumene, jakoby z daleka, kolem lipy se rest a vanul s vetrem dal, k tece, kde zmiral a tichl. — Ne2 i za bileho dne napinilo tajemne misto aZasem lid, zvlaAte pak "pana otce" ze mlYna, chasu i mleee. Kdy4 za krale Maxmiliana, otce Rudolfa II., zarazila se kola Opatovickeho mlYna sama naraz, o pravem poledni.

V'Se vybehlo yen k tece a tu div divouci! Kola stala, protole na ne voda netekla, a tanetekla, protole se vie nade mlYnem ztracela prostted tee gte padajic tam hueivym htimavYm proudem do nejake prohlubne Ci propasti. .

Tak proudila a padala tarn dobfe pfi hodiny; a po ten eas neteklo na kola nic, take mlYn stal jako zakletY. Po pal hodine vgak dala se voda zase svYm behem a proudila dal jako chive ke mlYnu a roztoeila jeho ,kola, U mista, kde voda tak zapadala, sta.' pan otec, chasa, mleei i de ze vSi jednali o divne ptihode, a2 se na torn snesli, ze tam bylo nejake kla",Sterni sklepeni, ze se jeho klenuti prve z?itilo a teka 'ze proudila do sklepa a hioub do chodeb a ze piste zalila i S'tolu vedouci k pokladu; ted' ze je po vkin, ze by bylo marno se pokou get, aby se kdo k nernu dostal.

• • A piece to zkusili. Ne domaci, ale cizozemci.

Bylo to smutneho Casu, po Belohorske bitve; tenkrate ptijeli do Opatovic, etyRekli, k jsou potapeei z Vla2Sskych Benatek, ze sam cis? Ferdinand je sem poslal, aby naSli ten zapadlY pokiad.

Nikdo jim nebranil, a tak, kdy'Z se ptipravili, potopili se do Labe v tech mistech, kde bYvalo vidati klakerni trosky. Tam chteli nejprve ohledati padu a zbytky staveb. Dlouho tam v'Sak Dva z nich ihned zase vyplavali na povrch. Dva tam dole zastali.

Druhove na ne Cekali, ale nedoekali se jich. Ti dva se , jit nevratili. Snad je

strhl proud, snad zblcudili pod vodou v rozvalinach stareho klaStera. Ani mrtvol jejich Druhove jejich se za pokladem do teky jiZ neodvazili. Vsedli na kone a odjell s nepotizenott. -A tak pokiad Opatovickeho klaRera lezi podnes hluboko v zemi a Labe, proudic pies nej, dobre ho • • — Praha!

To jmeno samo zpev. Ten pouhY zvuk tchvatne do strait Ceske duSe saha a srdce rozechviva — — Svatopluk tech.

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I. Karel IV. pozval sobe kdysi na PraAskem hrade arcibiskupa ArmiSta z Pardubic, nejvySiho kanclete, purkrabi . eeskeho kralovstvi a , jine znamenite pany Ceske a dvotany, teZ nekterk mistry uknosti slovutne, mezi nimi take sveho hvezdate. Sedel s nimi v nadherne sini,? jejiZ dtevenY strop byl vyzdoben tezbami, nialbou i zlacenim, jejiZ steny byly pokrytY vzacnYmi Calouny francouzske prate, za stolem, na nem2 v zati hojnych voskovic lesklo se a blyaielo zlate a stiff.brne nacini, talite, Cie a konvice prekrasnYch tvart a ozdob.

• Kdy2 poveeekeli a v sini poeinalo byti dusno, vstal cisaf a vyzval sve hosti, aby s nim vyAli cchladit se na oerstve povetli. I set napled s arcibiskupem na balkon, na ne,j2 se vystupovalo pfirno z toho veeei-adla: riff za nimi pant a rhistfi v Zivern hovoru.

Ale jak vystoupili na prostorny balkon, um1k1 cisat i jeho radce a ztichli take vikhni ostatni. Umlkli pfekvape ni krasou kralovskeho mesta pod nimi.

Praha diimala za letni mei v rozlitern svitu pineho mesice i v hlabokYch stinech V earovnem osvetleni zvedaly se 'Stity a sti• echy vysokYch domA, kosteveli, blyStela se okna staveni, arksrfa, a koSate koruny stromu pi) hoj-, nYch zahradach i na ostrovech splYvaly v tom zasvitu mekkYmi obrysy.

(Pokradovani.) ) • " • ( PYcha ma sve podivinstvi jako vagne ostatni: lido stydi se vyznati, ze jsou Zarlivi, ale jsou pysni, ze zarlivi byli, a :2e, schopni jsou i budoucne Zarlivosti. j • 4, • VSecky snoPnosti flak jsou neureite a pochybne, v dobrem jako ye zlem; a jsou temef vkcky vyclany na milost a nemilost nahodam. )• 4 • ( VaS'ne nejprucIS1 nekdy povoli; ale marnivost zmita elovekem stale.

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