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SOCIALNI OVi" ZAKON SOCIALMHO 1-.1) pojikeni, kterY veSel v platnost na 1. ledna tohoto roku, zahrnuje do programu take larmate a farmatske delniky. Protole je mezi naSimi eleny innoho tech, kteti se zabYvaji farmatenim, a prate& v'Swilny okolnosti, za jalich farmati rroneu ziskati socialni pojiSteni, nejsou dcposud 째pine jasne, usoudil redaktor, ze poda podrobnefSi vysvetleni pokud se tYee farmatil a farmatskYch delnikil.

V organisaenim kursu, kterY je studovan nekterYmi na,Simi organisatory, je cela kapitola venovana dtkladnemu a podrobneinu vysvetleni, jak socialni pojiReni pracuje a co vSechno nazi organisatoti maji o nem znati. Nova dodatky k zakonu budou vyZadovati, aby v WA:6 organisaeni schnzi byly hlavni body socialniho pojifteni nakim organisatorfun vysvetleny, zvla,Ste tern, kteti, dosud organisadi kurs nestudovali.

Ne2 pfljdeme dale, musime se obeznarniti s eeskYin slovem, ktere odpovida anglickemu terminu "benefit." Ptichazeji mi informace od vladniho odboru zdravotnictvi, Skolstvi a socialni pace.

Mam to ptekladat z anglietiny do Catny, abych Ceske etenate, kteti nemaji dostateone znalosti anglickeho jazyka, informoval o rozmanitYch vYhodach a pravidlech. Pro anglicke slovo "benefit" je Ceske. slovo "po2itek.." AC poZitek muze znamenati ten telesnou nebo du gevni rozkok v dalSim smyslu slovo "po2itek" znamena tea plat, ptijem penez, dtchod. Kdy2 eeskoslovenskY 째bean naluvi o po2itkovem zakonu, vztahuje se to na zakon o pkijmech a platech.

PtibliZne 72 miliony Amerieanil spadaji nyni pod socialni pojigteni. Jestli obdelavate farmu a jestli vas eistY ptijern z farmy je vice ne2 $400 merle, poeinaje rokem 1955, znamend to, 2e budete

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POJISTEN1 FAR NI A ra

tit poplatky na socialni poji gteni a 'oadete miti naroky na poZitky. Pfijem za rok 1955 millete oznamit as pa uplynuti roku 1955 a poplatek na socialni pojiAteni bude zahrnut do vaaeho darioveho ptiznani, ktere vypinite nekdy zadatkem roku 1956. Danove pfiznani je eeskY nazev pro "income tax return."

KaZdY farmat, kterY spada pod socialni zajiAteni, zajfkt'uje si pensijni poZitky dle toho, jak bude jeho eistk roeni vYnos z farmy, kterou sam obdelava a soudasne zajiSt'uje si pojiSteni ye prospech rodiny pro ptipad sve smrti. Tyto poZitky jsou vypoeitany na zaklade jeho priimerneho yYdelku z farmy od 1. ledna 1955. Kdyt farmattiv prilmertY vYdelek bude jen nee째 nad $400 roene, jeho poZitek nebude vySSI neZ $30 mesiene. AvAak farmatfiv poZitek mute bYti a2 $108.50, jestliZe vydelal nejmene $4,200 v ka2dern roce od 1. ledna 1955 a2 do roku, kdy bude opravnen na poZitky ze socialniho pojiteni. Aa farmatova manaelka dosahne rovneZ veku 65 let, bude take ona epravnena na poZitky rovnajici se polovine manZelovYch poZitkit. Kdyby vaak manaelka byla starai ne2 manael, nedostane Zadne poZitky as kdyZ mantel dosahne 65 let stati.

sam svou nebo Cast sve farmy, obdelava a farma mu ptina2S1 dostateenS7 vydelek. Oim vetSi yYdelekl tim vykki poplatek na socialni pojiaeni, a take pozdeji tim vyssi paitek bude mu vyplacen.

Jestli vaak majitel farmy pronajme sviij pozemek nekornu jinemu, at' jia najemne je placeno v penezich nebo v podilu na sklizni, takovY majitel neni kryt socialnim pojiStenirn jako farmai. Jakekoliv najemne, at' je to v meste z obydli nebo na farme z farmatske nemovitosti, je poditano jako ptijem z majetku a nespada ptijemce najemneho pod zakon o socialnim pojiSteni. Ale jestli Ramat sam na vae dohlili, tfeba by mel jeate mirno sveho dohledu zjednaneho manaZera, pak je povaZovan za farmate, a musi za sebe odvadeti poplatky na socialni pojiSteni.

Poplatky farmate na socialni pojAteni plati se tfi procenta z 'distal째 zisku do vYS"e $4,200 roene. Jestli vYteZek z farmy byl jen $400, poplatek je $12 roene, a poZitek po dosaZeni 65 let bude $30 mesiene, a pro man2elku $15 mesiene. Jestli vYteZek z farmy aspon po d ye leta je patmerne $4,200 root* poplatek na socialKvuli snadnejSimu pochopeni vezmeme ni pojfAteni je $126 merle, a poZitek busi farmate, kterY v roce 1955 a 1956 ma de $108.50 mesiene a $64.30 pro manZelprilmerne $1,800 roeniho ptijmu a v ra- ku, kdy2 dosahne veku 65 let. ce 1957 dosahnul veku 65 let. Jeho poZakon socialniho poji4eni ma opatteZitky budou $68.50 rnesidne ,a jeho manielka, jakmile dosahne veku 65 let, do ni, ae k poZitku bude opravnen ka2dS, stane $34.30. Jeho manaelce vaak nebu- farmat, jello2 vYdelek v roku 1955 bude $400 merle nebo vice a kterY bude zadou vyplaceny aadne poZitky a2 kdy2 rnestnan jako farina'. od 1. ledna 1955 al. saline zmineneho veku. do 30 derma, tedy ne male ne2 18 meMa vaak ten farmat, kteremu je jia 65 Farmat, kterY bude spadati pod let, naroky na socialni poZitky? Ano, je- zakon, musi si opattiti legitimaci socialstli bude obdadvati svou farmu letos v niho pojifteni.

1955 a priAtiho roku. S vYplatou poZitDnes socialni pojiSteni dela farmation kii se za6ne as v roku 1957, kdy se zjisti, kolik yYdelku mu farma prinesla za dva potiZe. Ale kdysi bude to znadnYm ptiroky. To plati jen pro .farmate, kterY lepknim ve

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Nage Zeska fed, jako kaid'Y jinSr iiv* a moderni jazyk ma v sobe mnoho mezinarodnich slov, ktera jsou ponaivana take v jinYch jazycich s timte2 vYznamem.

Na ptiklad 'name v ee gtine slovo "egotismus." V hovorove teei toto slovo nepouZivarne. Misto toho kekneme, Ze "stale strka to sve ja, do poptedi." vzporneneme na drsnY a troehu neomalePia' byeh si, aby etenaii nepovaiovali na,sledujici nvahy za egotismus. I to se mne uz stab, Ze mne jeden bratr tekl: "VA, mag 'lady dobre nahledy, jenom kdybys to sve ja nestrkal elenitm stale pied oei." Podobne kritiky se neuvaruje nikdo, kterS7 stoji ve svetle vetejnosti.

Ctm jasnej gi svetlo, tint znatelnej gi stir.

Uvahy kohokoliv, kdo pi ge die sveho pfe• sveddeni, budou miti urditou sveraznost, znamku osobitosti, a ptece to nemusi byti egotismus.

Jsem v nalade, ie chtel bych mluviti k nagim 'clentim dtiverne, opravdove, od srdce k srdci, abychom jeden druhemu rozumeli. Je pub jedenacte veeer. NeZ sve Mdky dopigi, bude moZna, po pulnoci.

Prave jsem byl uvedomen o nahlern skonu jednoho dobreho znameho, spolkoveho bratra. Jeate ptedeveirem v nedeli odpoledne, byli jsme spolu v Sokolovne a debatovali jsme o nevdeenosti ye spolkovem Zivote. Pied chvilkou volali na mne ptil3uzni z pohrobniho zavodu, zda bych mohl zitra odpoledne ptijiti a za vgechny zname a ptatele se s nim nanosledy rozlouciti. Bratr Rudolf ' ebelt do-koneil ', y ou <polkovou einnost.

Zpriva o nahlem odchodu spolkoveho einovnika mne rozechvela. Nevime dne, ani hodiny, kdy take, my dokoneime svou spolkovou einnost. Pod zornSm thlem yeenosti v gechno to charnteni, hamiZovani, spolkove gimrani, ba nekdy ptimo gtvani, nema vYznamu. Jakoby nekolik brouen na nedohlednem piseitem pobreli more se mezi sebou hadali o kousek rnotske travinky. Za chvilieku vali se nova mofska vina, aby jejich zbyteenou disktAi riavZdy rortegila.

Piece vgak kaidY myslici elovek snail se vykonati za sveho Zivota kousek uZiteene prace, aby nejaka, pamatka po nem zbyla. Leo kaZolY jedna die sveho sudku. NekterS7 chce zanechati po sobe to, jin3"T ono. A nekdo si dokonce, mysli, po titre at' si piijde tieba potopa. Nechci nikomu sahati do svedomi, tot' °creel jednotlivce, ale myglenky me dnegniho vedera tool se okolo pfedmetu riam vgem spoleeneho, okolo one prace, ktere nyni venuji vice neZ osm hodin denne. A o-pet opakuji, Ze snad etenati nebudou povaZovati ma slova jako egotismus.

Ve st.fedu, dne 23. bl'ezna, Trochu none na nasi Jednote Ba osmeluji se tvrditi, ze nine na ni hodne protole vidim ye spolkovem Zivote na, gich Pada a cele na gi organisace moZnost vykonati pro na g lid hodne dobra. A kdybychom men lepSi rozhled, a kdyby nas nektere uz netla6ilo start k zenn, mobil bychoni. vykonati hodne vice. Proto take povakiji Vestnik, na.S spolkovy organ, za dillezity prostPedek k poueovani, nabadani, sieni toho leogiho rozhledu mezi eleny. Nebudete mnozi se mnou soublasit, nebot' se domnivate, Ze je to zbyteena a vSedni vec. Zvykli jste si dostavati Vestnik kak1Sr tYden, zev gednel yam, omrzuje se van] stale burcovani. JenZe je to jako umY'vani rukou—eiste jsou jen na chvilku, a pall se to must stejne opakovat.

SpolkovSr organ je vlastnictvinf vSech Menu, nikoliv jen listen' pro nekolik jednotlivat. Redaktor must slou'Ziti zajmilm celeho telesa, nikoliv jen , jiste east". NCkteri pova r'zuji redaktora za podfadneho einitele, za osobu main znamenajici.

Zaldi na tom, jakou smernici, spolkovY easopis udrZuje. Jestli to nen', prostre;dek k sieni lep giho rozhledu o spolkove praci, pak redaktor je zbyteenYsm ptive gkem a easopis je nakladnou libastkou. Jestli ale je to spolkovy organ pro pokyny, pro lep gi spolkove informace, pro poueovani a nabaciani, pak redaktor mute bYti vice platn.Sr neZ nekterSr z tedniku. To vg echno zaleli na ptani samotngrch 'dent", na direktive od vedouetch, a take na schopnostech osoby, ktera, zastava funkci redaktora. Tento nazor, ze redaktor je dide2it'Ym einitelern jsem osobne zastaval od doby, kdy jsein vstoupil do JednotY, kdy karal jsem sve pkeddinidee a stale hajil stanovisko, redaktor must "k lidu niZ a s lidem vfg."

Nah17'y odchod pfitele, s kterSIrn jsem je gte pied nekolika bodinarni debatoval o spolkove einnosti, mne nejen rozbolestnel, ale take ptivedl na my glenku, Ze ani sarn zde stale nebudu. Must nekdo jin3•7 nastoupit na me misto. Bude-li to 13fi gtim sjezdu, nebo bude to pied nim ci po nem, to jsou veci nam nevyzpytatelne. Ale prave pro svou nejistotu, jak to mute dopadnouti, meli bychom techto moZnostech uvaZovati a na v gechny eventuality bYti trochu ptipraveni.

Jestli Vestnik ma bSiti prosttedkem k rozhledu a znalosti o cilech nagi Jednoty, pak je tieba miti jak3isi plan pro pokraeovani techto informaci.

Ale jestli Vestnik je pouze tYdennimi novinarni, bez kterch se 'Men' na gi Jednoty obejdou, pak nezaleli, kdo je redaktorem dnes nebo kdo bude jim za mesic.

Dovolte mne, abych v nalade, jakou prave dries v noel pro givam, sdelil s vami sve soukrome mySlenky. Redaktor mei by bSrti tam, kde jsou druzi vedouci,

Ve steeclu, dne 23. bfezna 1955 poneva0 on zasahuje do 2ivota nagich &lend, iada, distriktd a cele Jednoty daleko pronikaveji ne2 mnohY jinY nil nebo keditel. On mluvi kahlY tYden ke yg em elentim a take za v gechny deny, tedy i za ty vedouci. On mel by byti tam, kde je centrum einnosti, kde fgechny nitky spolkoveho jednani se sbihaji, kde je citit tlukot srdce Jednoty. Nepopirejte, ze Jednota srdce nema, Ano, ma a ma take mozek kterY pfemY gli a planuje. A easti toho mozku je dobrY, svedomitY, snaZivY redaktor. Tam by men on bYti, aby kahleho tYdne se poradil s ostatnimi, co je teeba zdtrazniti, o dem je tteba informovati, na kterou strunu je treba zavadit. Vestnik jde mezi deny kahlY tYden. Podobna spoleena tYdni dohoda mezi redaktorem a jinYmi vedoucimi by organisaci jen prospela. Ovgem, kdybychom melt jen mesienik, v kterem by se vgechno psalo a podavalo sumarno a v kratkYch zpravach, tYdenni porady byly by merle nutne.

Nage Jednota vyrostla ze s yjrch detskYch kalhotek. Peed teiceti lety, kdy melt jsme sotva za milion majetku, byl redaktor v kaZdodennim styku s vYkonnYm idednikem Jednoty. Od tech dob se hodzmenilo. Jednak oddelil se redaktor od fisteedny, aby nepodlehal jejimu vlivu, jednak doplfroyali se dalgi a novi vedouci v fisteedne. Dnes vzrast Jednoty je takovY, Ze prace je rozdelena mezi vice vedoucich, a '2e to vy2aduje lepgi spolupraci. Jestli v gak mate praci v Jednote rozdelenu tak, ze kahlY einovnik pracuje sto mil jeden od druheho, prace vazne, mnoho se vytizuje telefonem, a piece neni dosti dostateena domluva.

Prominte, Ze to kikam oteveene, ale nekdo vain to mel vysvetlit u2 da yno. 6im delve budete miti ty hlavni einovniky pod jednou steechou, tim lep gi se da yypracovati celY pochod prace jednotlivYch oddeleni.

Dovolte mi, abye,h se zpovidal dale, dokud jsem sdiiny, dokud jsem rozcitliWY, dokud to lidske plahodeni peipada mi prave bez yYznamne a malicherne. Ad stale dostavam a sly gim pochvalu, ze Vestnik stoji za Cteni, sam s nim nejsem spokojen. Za jedno, nejsem spojenY, s asteedim nedostavam od vedoucich Z'adne elanky, Zadne pokyny, 2adne informace. Mam-li konati dobrou spolkovou praci muslin mitt informace.

VYjimku eini brats Chupick, kterY mi pog14, vSl sttiNv a zpravy z jinYch arneriel4ch novin. Za druhe, spolkova nost u peevaZne vet giny nagich dornaeadd je na tak nizkem bodu, nine sotva, mute klesnouti. Ze 160 eaclii napoeitate jen asi deset tadd, kde se da miuvit o nejake spolkove praci. Kdyby jieh bylo 16—co2 neni—bylo by to deset procent radu. De yadesat procent nedela

VESTNIK — WEST. TEXAS proste nic. Proto take nejsou zpravy od eadd takove, jake by Inely bYti. A za ti, Yetgina peispevkil pro Vestnik stale dochazi a2 v druhe polovici tYdne, eim2 se celY plan kaIdeho eisla vy gine z rovnovelly. Redaktoru nezbYva, ne2 aby perspevky nahazel do eisla pate pees devate, veci easove a vzpominkove vynechal, jen aby se vyhovelo a zpiljerrinilo dopisovani nekoho, jeho 2. peispevek peigel v posledni den a celY rozvrh eitaci latky rozsekal. Pak to neni pane upravena peoinka, ale musi se z toho udelati gulag nebo sekanina. Zatim co sam peipravuji svou latku v pondeli, nterY a ye steedu, peepisovani a opravovani dopisir peijde obyeejne az v patek a v sobotu.

Stale jsem mel dojem, ze einnost redaktora je dosti dillelita pro Jednotu, aby byl teZ zapeahnut do einnosti agitaeni, do naborove akce, aby ji spoleene propagoval s organisaenim vYborem nebo s vedoucim, kterY ma na starosti yeci organisaeni. Nabidnul jsem se dobrovolne, a mohli jste sami pozorovati, M se to osvedeilo. Lee usouzeno bylo, abych si hledel "sveho Vestniku". Ano, sveho Vestniku, jakoby Vestnik nebyl prosteedkem k lepgi agitaci, nebo jakoby Vestnik nepateil take ostatnim. Tedy ant ne tak, jako kdy'Z' hloueek mravencd tahnou spoleene steblo travy. Naopak, hied' si sveho Vestniku, to je tva zabava. A bude pro Jednotu lep gi, kdy tech redaktorskYch rozumil bude merle. Ziskavali jsme deny bez redaktora, budeme je ziskavat i nadale. Uz je tech jakYchsi novot od sjezdu peespeilig.

Lee jednou dojde i k tenni, ze redaktor kdysi v budoucnosti zaujme mIsto mezi temi, kdo planuji pokrok Jednoty, a Ze nebude ve schfizich vrchniho telesa seat jen jako nelibe trponY nav gtevnik. Je teeba planovani, je teeba stalYch novot, jak je jine bratrske spolky pHbiraji a zava,deji. Bude teeba, aby redaktor poradil, yysvetlil, take se peeptal a byl zapojen do spoleene akce. Jednou dojde k tomu, ze redaktorskou praci bude vykonavat jeden z tech, kdo bude miti pra y° dati pokyn nebo radu. Mo2na to bude jeden z mistopeedsedil nebo ten, kdo povede organisaoni a reklamni odbor v Usteedi. Pak teprve Vestnik bude petnageti informace vgech odbord a vgech vedoucich, a nebude to prace jednotlivce.

Jegte jina, yee potii.ebuje vysvetleni. Nemine tYdne, aby nynefal redaktor nedostal nejake dopisy nebo Zadosti, ktere nemaji nic spoledneho s jeho redakeni praci. Je to v zajmu na gi Jednoty, abychom byli ochotnYmi vypomoci a podati informace, kdyZ" jsme o ne Zadani. V iisteedne jinYch bratrskYch organisaci kona takoYou praci redaktor nebo odvetvi pro informace a reklamu. Tak jen namatkou

Strana 3 vyjrnenuji Zadosti, ktere mne do gly tohoto tYdne. Pr ynf byla .".adost, kde by 'Zadatel dostal noty napisnieku "Kdyt' jsme opougteli Prahu." DruhY byl dopis od elenky, ktera peed pet roky eetla elanek ye Vestniku, ale nevidela nebo peehledla vysvetleni one zahady, o ktere elanek jednal. Treti byla Zadost od jedne mlade zda bych pro jeji maminku pee., loZil do oeStiny 75 anglickYch ota.zek, kter6 by se chtela naueiti, aby dostala obeanskY list. otvrtY byl dotaz stran jiste divadelni knaky. Path', byla Z'adost o napsani vhodneho proslovu pro jistou spol7 kovou uddlost. 8esta, 'Zadost byla za rie'etem vysvetleni, prof SPJST nevystavuje jisty drub certifikatfl. To priSlo od. patku do riterka. Zitra, mriZna, nepkijde nic podobneho, ale do konce Udne jiste dostanu aspori jednu nejakou 2.4dost o vysvetleni neoeho. Rad to Mani, jenZe pc).treboval bych k tomu jinou sekretafku ne2 je ma xnanZelka. A to je prave on spolkova einnost, ktera by' nemela bYti zanedbavana, ale rozSiPena do to miry, aby eleni mohli se smele obratiti na povelenou osobu v ristredi o jakekoliv informace, i kdyby se to prave netYkalo piljeek, certifikatu a Zivotni.ho pojiSteTakova informaeni karicelar v fistredrie by na gi Jednote a rek: l ame nageho spolkoveho ‘Zivota naramne prospela.

Zkratka vidim mo'Znosti, kde by budouci redaktor—ne dne gni—byl lep gim propagatorem, agitatorem a informatorem ne2 tomu bylo a2Z doposud.

A kdo bode psati jell° ic'edakeni dvaby, kdy2 by podobne vedlejS1 \TM zabiraly hodne jeho Casa? KaZdY elovek mysli desetkrat rychleji flea pik. Jsou dil qovaci a rekordovaci stroje. A jsou pisafky na strojich, ktere vykonaj.i dvojnasobnou praci za polovieni inzda. Nejednou jsem si myslel, kdy jsem cestoval nekam v zajmu Jednoty, a ccsta trvala dve nebo tei hodiny, ‘Ze rovneZ mei bych si diti peenosnY rekordovaci peistroj, do ktereno bych mohl pa dlouhe ceste sve myglenky zachytiti. Tak to Mail druzi, kteti Seth easem a kteki nenechaji svou mys1 se toulati buhvikde. Jenne oni maji sve sekretarky, ktere •dociolaji zapoeatou vec a pf-epiSi nadiktovanou dvahu.

Tot' moderni zprisob prace.

Ani jsem nepozoroval, je bodn'e pees prilnoc, manZelka dtavno spi, kdeao redaktor dosud hra,je na klavesnici gsaciho stroje. Ale vyzpov I dal jscin se. Sderil jsem elenfun nee° o praci redaktora a take o tom, j_ik by se naa Veetnik mohl Jsem dokud vdeenY za to ze mohu slouZit elentim naSi. Jednotv. a rad to elela.m. Jen nejsem sam svou . e. by mohla bkti praci spokojen, proto Z hodne lepSi, u.O.teenejSi. zatini dobrou noc.

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ZPRAV Z TPLET1II0 DISTRIKTU PROGRAM CELEHO DNE 27. BR.EZNA S. P. J. S. I VECER Grapevine, Texas.

Osrmi distriktni schfize III. distriktu Sestry a bratri: v Dallas, Texas Velice mile te gi, ae na sklonku d uheho roku nagi distriktni einnosti mohu Schfize zahajena v 10:00 hod. dopoledne. sdeliti s y am!, ae dik nev gedni ochote a Predneseni narodni vlajky a distriktni. pohotovosti hosticiho radii Oslo 84 v Slib vernosti SpojenYna stattim.

Dallas, i zakoneeni tohoto druheho roku Pri yitani od pred g edy radii aislo 84 i distriktu. bade skvele.

Obetave sestry a bratri tohoto radu Predstavovani nav gtevnikii, Hlavni diadovny, distriktnich itrecln kti z jinYch Ze bude rine 27. brezna o kaZdeho navg tevnika distriktni schtize jak leli, telesne i du gevne postarano. Zveme Hla g eni na gich 21 radii " nejstargich vas tedy v g echny z blizka, z na gich sdrunejrnlad gich Menu.

Zen:crch radii o i ty vzdalene z jinYch onejvzdalenej gich Merin. krskt. Srcleene vas zveme a ja jsem jist, organisatorti. ze nebudete zklamani. dopisoyatelii. " Mina° toho, ae predlehaji nam k pro- eteni zapisu, clopisn, neat. jednani ramie didelite zastoje pro bu- ateni finaneni zpra vy pokladni. douci agitaeni a spravni einnost distrik- Zpravy distriktnich iiredniku. i cele Jednoty, na g vYbor radu es. 84 Zpravy pritomnYch claysta v poledni prestavce chutnSr ()bed POLEDNI PRESTAVKA: a po schtizi odpoledne program mladeZe. Proslovy navAtevnikti vztahujicich se na Veeer, jak mne,oznameno bylo, druZina distriktni einnost, obmezene na 5 ochotnikil Sokolske Jednoty Dallaske seminut. hraje divadelni predstaveni ve prospech Nedokoneene jednani, nove zastoje, nastavebniho fondu to Jednoty a. to teZ v vrhy, pojednani, namety. sini hosticiho radu, kterS7 mistnost i je- Zpravy vYbortt. Volby distriktnich firedvigte svoje k tornu fieelu ochotne proZakoneeni schfize.

Program ditek, kterST nacvieila nage Program ditek vedenS, sestrou mila sleena Anieka Steinerova., bude uA. Steinerovou veden zvlag t' a zapoene o 4 hod. odpo1. Basel). -- Johnnie Pokladnik ledne.

2. Baseia — Vickie Lynn Kopeck Obed bude vysluhovan. o 12:30 a to 3. Piano solo — Betty Jean Staglik chef upozorniti, Ze eistST vkteZek bude 4. Solo na harmoniku -- Mary Jane Yenovan distriktni pokladne.

Barta Mel jsern poznarnenati, ae pri divadle 5. Basal — Barbara Ann Orldrit gek a veeer budou neinkovati dobri herd. i z Larry Petr jinYch na gich spolkti mimo Sokola, ba 6. Piano solo — Jerry Ann Urban z Ennis, Texas, coa dosvedeuje, ae nage 7. Basal — Mary Jane Barta chasa pro dobrou vec vkly je ochotna, 8. Zpey -- Johnnie Pokladnik. pohotova pracovati ruku v ruce. — Pre9. 136.sen. — Gloria Jean Kalich jeme jim vgem za tuto dobrou snahu 10. Solo na, harmoniku — Mary Jane =oho zdaru.

Barta Baseri — Robert Sill, Nodya Rejeek, 11.

Prosim na ge bratry u Cechoslovaka, Johnnie Sill aby pro nag ten peknY program vytiskli Piano solo — Jerry Ann Urban 12. zylagte, asi 400 kusil a vratili nam jej, Spolecny zpev vs'Jech pritoninVeh. 13. tak aby mohl bgti pH schnzi ponZivan.

Obradnik (Master of Ceremonies) — Ku konci je gte jednou: Pfijd'te James Janougek jste srdeerie zvani!

PE,ESTAVKA: Na slaledanou u radu eislo 84 IT Dallas, Texas, 6225 Floyd Street o 10:00 hodin Veeer divadelni predstaveni vybranSrela clopoledne! bereft z Dallas a Ennis, se zpevy a hudS pozdravem bou.

Ludva 0. Hogek, VYtEZek venovan stavebnimu fondu t. c. tajemnik tretiho distriktu. Sokola. oTo • (Ii as:dy uctive zvan.

Bohatstvi nemeni eloveka. Shodi s neho jenom masku jeho prave povahy.

Cyril Pokladnik predseda

L. 0. Brack tajemnik

e' LENCIVE PRVNiIIO DISTRIKTU Fayetteville, Texas. ✓ mem poslednim dopise uverejnenern ye Vestniku a adresovanem sestram a bratriun prvniho distriktu, kterY byl v disle 11 ze dne 16. brezna, byla maid tiskova chyba. ✓ odstavci, pojednavajicirn o volbe stalo mezi jinYm:"NynejS'i nici MUSI byti navrZeni, atd." Melo stati 1V1U2I na misto musi.

U nas v distriktu neni nic nuceneho.

Snad by varn to bylo srozumitelne, kdybyste byli porovnali zminenY,eeskY. dopis s anglickYm znenim tehoz dopisu, uverejneneho v tonata eisie, kde stalel,"rnay" a ne "must". At' ji2 jste si toho vAhnnuli nebo ne, povaZuji za vhodne podati tuto opravu.

S bratrskS7m pozdravem P. P. Baron, tajenmik.

(Poznamka redaktora: Ma vina, ae jsem Tv fn rukopis, zretelne psanY na stroji, nepodrobil dfikladne prohlidce.

Asi ae jsem jen klop "Ytnul pies slovo "muZi" a ea' jsem to "musi". CeStina je nararnne teZka fee. Kdybych'rukopisu Yenoval lep gi pozornost, zamenil bych nespravne napsane slovo bud' za drednici museji" nebo za "itrednici mohou." Lituji nedopatreni.)

(K tomuto vysvetleni redaktora sazee dodava, ae mu bylo teZko porozumeti vete, jak byla v pilvodnim dopisu napsana (na psaeim stroji bez akcentt): Nynejsi urednici muzi byti navrhli do jejich nynejsich neb kterykoliv jinich uradu, totiz jestli jsou zvolujici sluziti.) ) • oTo • (

Distriktni RUIN Schtize v jinY'ch distriktech budou uverejneny jakmile distriktni U •ednici ustanovi datum schtze ye svem distriktu.

Distrikt prvni, 1. kvetna, Snook Distrikt drulV, 17. dubna, Granger Distrikt treti, 27. brezna, Dallas, Texas.

Distrikt S'est, 15. kvetna, Hillje.

Distrikt sedinY, 29. kvetna, Floresville ) ° olio • ( Neni Zacin:(7 blazen tak veliky, aby je'Ste vetAi blazen ho neobdivoval.

• • Jest nam moZno protlouci se Zivotem s drevenou nohow, nikdy vg ak, maitre-li pihlave. o

Kdo jen nadeji Zije, umira zklarnanim.

• Prijde doba, ae dela ukazovati budou museich, jako nyni se tam ukazuji skripce, a diviti se budou, ze neco takoveho bylo vilbec moZno. — Viktor Hugo.

Ve sttedu dne 23. btezna 1955

17tSTNtIC

'WEST,

Presidentska Tiskova Konference KdyZ' je president Spojemich stater ye Washingtone, vstupuje kaZdou stkedu asi o pul jedendcte dopoledne do sine stare budovy statniho departmentu. V teto mistnosti, oficialne zvane Indian Treaty Room, p •edstupuje pied skupinu nejakYch dvou set pkednich zpravodajil ze vgech koutri SpojenY• ch state, aby zodpovedel jejich otdzky, Tato tak zvana presidentska konference tiskova je zjevein jedineene arnerickYm, jakousi dramatickou spojkou mezi narodem a zvolenYm jim pkedakem vlddy.

Takove periodicke schtlzky se zdstup-ci tisku a odpovidani na jejich otazky zavedl poedtkem tohoto stoleti tehdejdi president Theodore Roosevelt, kterS .7 pkijimal malou skupinu korespondentri pHmo v pracovne Bileho domu. Vdichni jeho nastupci se v mendim nebo vet'dim rozsahu •kidili jeho pkikladem, a zmemli ho tak v americkou tradici. President Wilson pokadal takoveto tiskove konference jenom zkidka, zvladte po vypovezeni valky Nemecku roku 1917. President Coolidge stanovil, 2e vdechny otdzky musi bYti podany piedem pisemne. President Hoover take se schdzel s zpravodaji velmi nepravidelne.

Teprve president Franklin D. Roosevelt ueinil z tiskove konference oboustrannSi' prostkedek ke komunikaci s rodem. Prostkednictvim konferenci mohl upozorriovat Amerleany na mnohe veci, o nich men bSrti podle jeho ndzoru informovani, a z otdzek mu kladenS7ch mohl naopak zjia`ovati smer, kterYm se neslo vefejne mineni. Za s“t.ch dvandcti let v Bilem dome rieastnil se 998 konferenci. President Truman take pokadal Caste schrizky s representanty tisku, a president Eisenhower schazi se s nimi stale easteji.

Presidentske tiskove konference pozristavaji obyeejne ze dvou edsti. Prvni z nich je pfeeteni pkedem pkipravene zpraVy o nejake veci, kterou chce president zdfirazniti, nebo o ktere se ji2 jednalo v konferenci pkedchozi. Teprve pak pkichazi na kadu Cast druhd, — odpoviddni na otdzky. Korspondenti tai se na rrizne zale'Zitosti politiky domdci i zahranieni; zajirnaji se o rrizne faze federdlni vlddy a na.rodniho 'Zivota. V nekterYch pkipadech, kdy, president nedovede na nee° odpovedeti, pkizna se k tomu otevfene a slibi, ae opatki ' o,dane informace pozdeji. V nekterS7ch dech, kdy jde o otdzku politickSich smernic, jejich vefejne projednavani nebylo by ve vefejnem zajmu, muse president odpoved' odepkiti. Nejeasteji odpovidd vdak president pine a konkretne.

Dokiad teto presidentovy ochoty nachdzime v eastYch novinakskYch zpravach,

sepsar4ich na zdklade techto schrizek.

Aekoli presidentskd tiskova konferenm 13S7vd, east° napadana jakoZto zdroj nedostateene propracovamich prohldkni o drilelitYch otazkach, je celkove piece jen povaZovana za uZiteenou a typicky demokratickou praktiku. Tyto osobni sohilzky presidenta se zastupci tisku zarueuji narodu verohodne informace z nejvyddiho mista, a soueasne slouZ1 i jako zkou§ka presidenta sameho. Na konferenci musi president spolehati jen sam na sebe; zptisob, jak si na nich poeind, ma clnleLtY vliv i na rispech jeho administrativy. ) • IT.

Vyberte si die potieby Tfiniet druhn eertifikatit SPJST pro dospele: Trida B: Do2ivotr4, poplatky se plati a2 do smrti.

Vida C: Poplatky se plati 20 roku. P10 obnos pojiSteni se vyplati kdykdykoliv v ptipadu Ttida D: Poplatky se plati 15 roku. Piny obnos pojiSteni se vyplati kdykoliv v ptipadu Vida E: Poplatky se plati 10 rokt. obnos pojitteni se vyplati kdykoliv v ptipadu

Strana 5 vyplacene pojiAteni na $1,000.

Poj gteni se vyplati kdykoliv v ptipadu innrti die klesajici stupnice.

Vida N: tpisova, ochrana jen tern, kdo maji od SPJST vyptijeene penize.

Pet druid! certifikatti SPJST pro deli: Vida J-T: Dodasne pojigteni do veku 16 let, ktere se mute zmeniti na kterekoliv jine pojiAteni pa dosakni veku 10 let, nebo pozdeji.

Vida J-C: Poplatky se plati 20 mica.

PlnY obnos pojiSteni se vyplati kdykoliv v ptipadu mrti ye veku od 16 let vYSe. timrtni pojistka pod 16 let stati je die stupnice.

Ttida L: Dvojnasobne trazove pojigteni (double indemnity). Certifikat se vystavuje pouze do obnosu $2,500, dodateene k jinemu certifikatu.

Vida J-S: Poplatky se plati 20 rola Piny obnos pojiSteni se vyplati kdykoliv v ptipadu ft1.nrti od veku 1 roku. Do 6 mesict, $250, pod 12 mesicil, $500.

Vida t-E: Poplatky se plati do 18 let staff. Piny obnos certifikatu se vyplati po 18 letech stall nebo kdykoliv v ptipadu Umrti od veku 1 roku. Do 6 mesicii, $250, pod 12 mesicii, $500.

Vida F: PlnSr obnos certifikatu je vy. platen po 15 letech nebo kdykoliv ptedtim v ptipadu Vida J-G: Poplatky se plati 20 rokil.

Piny obnos certifikatu se vyVida G: Pln3-7 obnos certifikatu je vyplati po 20 letech nebo kdyplacen ye 20 letech nebo kdykoliv'v ptipadu funrti od vekoliv ptedtim v ptipadu innrti ku 1 roku. Do 6 mesicu, $250, pod 12 mesicii $500.

Ttida H: PlnY obnos certifikatu je vy(dz) placen po dosakni 65 let stall nebo kdykoliv ptedtim v ptipadu *mitt Sleena, Vera sedela pki hostine vedle Ttida I: Poplatky se plati 20 mkt. Pink pana Semerada.

Pan Sernerad zaeal namahave rozmluobnost certifikatu je vyplacen po dosakni 60 let stati nebo vu: "Jak se yam daki, sleeno?" kdykoliv ptedtim v ptipadu "Dekuji, dob're."

Umrti.

"To me teal. A jak pani matte?"

Vida K: Poplatky se plati do veku "Dekuji, dobte." let. PlnY obnos pojiAteni se vy"A jak se dab panu otci?" plati kdykoliv v ptipadu funrti "Dekuji, dobfe."

"A jak se dati sleene sestte?"

Ttida M: Poplatky se plati do veku 65 "Dekuji, dobte." let. Po dosakni 65 rokil stati, "A panu bratrovi?" e'en dostava mesiani ptijem "Dekuji, dobfe." dokud 2iv. Zemte-li pied 86 Zde Zivd, rozmluva uvazla. Pan Semelety staxi, ache/ dostanou merad byl u konce sve duS'evni pohotbvosti. sieni ptijem do 80. vYrodi naMleeni trvalo minuty. Tu mu sleena Verozenin dlena. ra pomohla opet do sedla. rtida M-C: 'apisova ochrana na 20 let, " kekla s "Mdm take jeate dedeeka, ktere. se zmenkje, as zustane ptivetivYm Usrnevern.

V tSTNiK — WEST, TEXAS

CINNCTI DOMACICII kovec byl te2 hotov, no a ja 2e poekain Needville eislo 81.

Needville, Texas. o2 prijedou. Jo prijeli a &iv, ale sami, neb devedtko jim zemkelo za mesic, talde Cteni bratri a sestry: Jak je yam povedomo, nage schtze se se s nim dlouho neradovali a my te2 ho konaji druhou nedeli v mesici, ale toti2 neuvideli, neb zemkelo nahle.

Tak proto kdo mate deti neodkladejte druhou nedeli v dubnu ptipada nedele jak ja, a jestli jim chcete koupit pojistvelikonooni, tak v posledni schfizi bylo ku, tak nejlepe hned. Jen dejte vedet a ujednano, 2e pristi schfizi budeme padto s radosti spravi, elm driv tim se yarn dat prvni nedeli v dubnu, totiZ 3. dubna. lepSi, minim Tak prosim, vezmete si to na vedomi.

Tak pro dneSek dost. Jen kdyby bylo S bratrskYm pozdravem neco od radu a pro dobro radu, tak varn John Blinka, tajemnik radu Oslo 81. darn vedet.

S pozdravem na. viecky.

John W. La2a. ) • 44 ♦ ( Od radu Ennis eislo 25.

Sestry a broth: tt d Vesmernost eislo 68.

Tak zase jdu mezi vas po to nail yeeNelsonville, Texas. rejii schnzi, ktera byla jeite dost navitiCtene sestry, bratri a pratele: vena, ale mohlo ptijit vice 'dent, no ale Meli jsme schfizi 13. brezna, viechno klapalo to vie dost dobie, bylo dost o eem se dobie vydarilo. clebatovat a co hlavniho, tak , jsme nedoteetni vYbor je 2adan, aby prohledli &elan, a to je to, o eem jsem psal posledne, ze chceme udelat pro eleny, no take knihy a prinesli vYsledek do priiti schtielenky a tes ty, co radi chodi mezi nas — ze druhou nedeli v dubnu.

Nove oleny mame: Dospela, Ima Jane at' je elen neb ne—peknou besedu. Ale je LubojackY. Ditko Judy May MoudrY. veil na vas, byste se co nejvic dostavili Tri eleni nam u2 zemreli tento rok do priiti dubnove schfize a pbmohli nam, jak bychom to nejlepe udelali, aby byli PripraVujeme se na distriktni schrizi. viichni spokojeni, tak nezapomerite na VYbor a organisatori prvniho distriktu dubnovou schtizi. rnaji schfizi tento tYden v Nelsonville.

Ta tam mely sestry nejakou schrizku Zabavni oddeleni pristavuji peknY pHohledne programu s temi rnalymi, co a stavek k sini.

Mame pekne poeasi, viechno pane rokdy dam vedet neb daji vedet. Take je priprave zabava na. Den Matek. Vim, 2e ste, ale potrebujeme vice vlahy.

Vgichni bud'te veseli a mejte se radi. z okolnich radii radi k nam pHjizdi, tak Jos. W. Je2ek, dopisovatel. ji2 planujte a ja te2 dam jeite 'Oda. • 4. ♦ ( Take zde meli organisatori schrizi, kde te2 vie klapalo dobie a ji2 se -Mil, 2e Had Cechoslovan eislo 40. st bude u nas v Ennis zase, to jako disHillje, Texas. triktni.

Mill broth a sestry: ✓ posledni sclafizi jsme se usnesli, Jeite se vratim na tu nedeli Den Matek a kdy2 si tak na vie vzpomenu, neni nebudeme mit sclnizi 10. dubna, budeme to rnalo jen jednou do roka mit matku mit schtizi prvni nedeli v dubnu, totiZ 3. rad a jen jednou do roka ji ukazat tro- dubna. Prieina je, ze pripadaji velikonoechu to lasky, vlastne oplatit, jen se roz- ni svatky. Tak bratri a sestry, nezapomyslete, a to vi jen ten, kdo ztrati rodiee nnerite kdy budeme mit schnzi.

Te2 2adame eleny, kteri jsou pozadu s v mladi ja jsem mezi nimi, j a mei jedenact a br. Josef etyri, to jii nebyla placenim, aby se jiste dostavili do senato postYlka tak ustland a take sny ne- ze, neb naSe pokladna u2 bude mit soubyly teZke s prazdnYmi ialudky. Skoda chote.

S bratrskYm pozdravem vzpominat, proto kdo je mate, uka2te E. K. Ha.jovsk, jim kvitko ka2clY den, to kvitko lasky, tajemnik radu Oslo 40. e jen jednou do roka. Doufam, 2c mi —) ° 4. • ( prorninete, 2e toho vice piii a to proto, 2e nemame odkladat, co mame udelat dnes.

Humor z iistavu krasy Pomocnice (v ristavu krasy, stare pani, Pied mesicemdostali zpravu od r e a jeho ktera prichazi dat se omladit) : "Oh, minaieho syna S-Sgt Willie La 2 pozde!"

2eny, A.F.S. Calif., 2e jsme starieky, 2e lostpani, prominte, je 112 Stara pani: "Jalde? To je drzost, rozuse jim narodilo deveatko a nam ho privezou ukazat nekdy v dubnu. Le byla mite? 2e je pozde? Proe by bylo pozde?"

Pomocnice: 'My toti2 tt2 prave zavirdzrovna schrize, ja mel sto chuti ji zrovna pojistit. No a na g organisator F. J. Hag- me."

ye sdedu, tine 23. /Ream 1955.

KALENDAik V UterSr veer kazdy Wert eviei se sborove zpevy dospelSrch v sini tadu Pokrok Houstonu. Ochotniei a hoste jsou Zaeatek v osm veder.

Kaidou steedu je vyneove.no prakticke hovorove ipanelitine v sini radu Pkrok Houston od 8:30 do 10:00 veoer. Nav6tevniei jsou vitani. Zavolejte na redaktora o informace.

Haidou sobotu taneeni zabava v sini radu Pokrok Houston, pooinaje v sobotu 16. dubna. Prvni sobota v mesiei je pro eleny zdarma.

V nedeli 3. dubna po schimi "radu Hvezda Texasu eislo 47 bude velikonani program a hleda.ni vajieek.

V sobotu 16. dubna tanecni ziabava u radu Pokrok Uouston. Oleni mail vstup zdarma.

V nedeli 24. dubna bude piknik u radu Pokrok Houstonu. Nove zakizeni na opekani rattle (barbecue) je zavedeno pkimo v kuchyni.

• .70 • ( Vstoupil pan do restaurace, usedl a dal si predlott jidelni listek. Vybral si polevku. Pikolik mu ji prinesl. Pan se na ni podival a kekl: "Nemohu ji jist." UlekanY pikolik jen zatvatlal: "Okamtk, zavolam pana vrchniho." Vrehni pill el.

Fan rekl: "Vite, nemohu tu polevku Vrchni mu vpadl do reel: "Okamtk, proshn, zavolam pana keditele." fteditel nastoupil. Pan zase pravil: "Promirite, ale ja nemohu tu polevku jist "fteditel zrudl a zakoktal: "Okamtk, zavolam pana majitele." Majitel, bled rozpaky, se hostovi uklonil se slovy: "Raete odpustit, co je s tou polevkou?" A pan odpovedel: "Nemohu ji jist. Oni mi zapomneli dat Hid." ) ♦4♦( Kautorskj7 vtip Na jedne stredni ikole se roznemohla epidemic 2vYkaci gumy po worn. americkern (nebot' i Garry Cooper ZvYka!) a bvla to podivana pro bully, kdyt hot i divky pri vyuenvani rejdili ar elistmi, zaparice s nekoneenou sladkosti gumy.

MrzoutskY profesor B., historik, ale jinak hodny clovek, uZ se nemohl na tato utrpeni mladYch gentlemant a slienych skwafs divot. Jednoho dne pri hodine d'ejepisu, kdy2 prof. B. vykladal o valee tileetilete, se otevkely dvefe a ve'Ael ktery nesl stare gumove kolo od automobilu a postavil je pod tabuli.

"Tak, studenti," ukazal prof. B. na kolo, "zahajime gumovou hostinuP 4+ Nejte2Si kukurienY klas je ten, kterST se sklani nejniie.

Ve stiedu, dne 23. bl'ezna 1955

vESTNtK

BOFTSY A N Fort Worth, Texas.

Va2eni bratti a sestry: Nejdiive vain vSem p •eji mnoho zdravi v tomto roku 1955, neb je to vec nejdra2na svete, Icterou to chudY elovek ma.

Byla jsem v nemocnici na operaci. A ponevad2 jsem Sla zaveas, ne2 jsem byla vice nemocna, tak jsem se za dva mesice talc. uzdravila, ae si delam vSechnu praci sama, i travu sekarn. Citim se dobte. Ale jsou nemoci, jako mela ma dcera a mftj mua, 2e ani operace nepomohou, neb mu--* seli oba zemiit.

Vy.sloVuji hlubokou soustrast rodine Parmov3ich a Zebrovych ye Waco, Texas, nad rimrtim v jejich rodinach. Je to troc,hu pozde, ale nemela .jsem jejich adresy, -a ma sestra, pani Svitakova, odejela do Kalifornie, tak jsem nemohla adresy dostat. Te2 bratru Zebrovi pteji, aby se bi• / uzdravil.

'Dekuji na§einu •tadu Svaz echoslovana eislo 92 za kvetiny a za pozdravnS) listek, coa mne poslali do nemocnice. Take clekuji nemocenskeinu v3)boru za vyplaceni podpory, ktera mi byla dobra, neb jsem za ty etyti dni v nemocnici mela $180 vyclani.

Te2 dekuji vSem, kteti mi pozdravne listky poslali nebo kteti mne piiali navativit, a take pani Tulisove za cukrovinkove kolCCky (cookies), co mi donesla.

Tolik jsem jich snedla, ae jsem mela strach,' zpatky do nemocnice.

Ale,nehylominic, a jeSte druhY den jsem je dojidala.

Dekuji obeina naaim •adovSfm dopisovatelfini ' za vzpominku ye Vestniku a za jejich ntani, abych byla brzo zdrava.

Zasilarn srdeene pozdravy me sestke a jeji rodine v Kalifornii, a pteji ji, aby se brzo zdrava, vratila.

Bratte reclaktore, prosim Vas, ten roman nezastavujte, a nechejte ho otisknout a2 do konce. Nam, lidem ziEvropy pkijeUm se libi. Jsou ovaem mnohe romany peknejSi, ale co je to platne, kdy2 ua jSme je ptedtim eetli. Jeliko2 jsem roman ye Vestniku dnes nevidela, ale vidim tam dopis od pani Kovatove, tak si myslim, kdy2 nas bude vice, tak to vyhrajeme.

Mnoho srdeenSrch pozdravri na vSechny etena •e a etenatky VeStniku od VaSi.spoAgnes '8 ilhave. lusestry ) ♦ 01. ♦ Guy, Texas.

Mile sestileky a bratti: Jsem sama doma; tak je mi smutno.

Syn se snachou jell dnes, 11: biezna na pohteb sestte Willie Fosove na Pleak. Zemi'ela nahle dne 8. btezna a dnes ma pohtebni obtady v pohtebnim dome Germany-Janea v Needville, Texas. Lituji,

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2e mi neni moano zaeastnit se, mile sesttieky, jejiho polatbu, neb jsem ji znala co male deveatko. Byla dcerou naaich sousedit zde v Guy zemtelYch, Frank a Barbora Kola •ovSich. Ptistehovali se do Fort Bend okresu, myslim ae v roce 1906 ze Sealy, tam se WiluSka narodila r. 1903. kolu vychodila zde v Guy. V 16. roce se stala elenkyni tadu F. B. Zdrribek eislo 112 SPJST, telly byla Clenkou tadu 38 rokti.

Provclala se v eervnu 1920 za bratr y Ed Fossa. Mladi manacle byli sikovni, veseli a pracoviti a radi navatevovali schtize.

Ted' manacle Fossovi vlastnili menSi obchod na Pleak, jiane od Rosenberg. Zemtela sestra zanechala truchliciho man2ela Ed Fossa, jednu dceru Lydell a syna Clarence, dva bratry, BecIfich- a Julius Kolatoyi a jednou sestru Lydie, pani Lowry, etyti vnoueata a vice rodiny. Zesestru Fossovoti pfedeSlo ve smrti, take v inladem velcu, pet sester.

Moscow, Texas.

CtenY br. redaktore: Dne 28. btezna tomu bude prave rok, kciy nam ntiS drahY tatinek, p. John HOtelica z Flatonia, Texas. ocleSel na veen§ ocipoeinek; ale natal se potad zda, ze zde jeSte s nami mel hit. OdeSel tak nahle, a natal je po nem moc smutno.

Maminka je ua delSi eas zde s nami, a Bost se ji libi v torn texaskern Moscow; nebot' na pohled je zde krasne, ten borovY les je celY rok krasne zelenY. Jeate chci napsat, ae ten roman "Sedlaci" se nam libi. Maminka se narodila ye Slersku v Kotlech a ke kostelu patkila na Moravku, a do Ameriky ptijela ctr male devee. Nekdy nam zajimave .vypravuje, co si zapamatovala z EvropY." Tak povidala, ae ten roman "Sedlaci.": opravdu musi bYt psanY ze skuteeneho' aivota, jak to tarn za dtivejSich easff sty bylo, a tak proto 2e jest tak velmi 20,4jimavSr . Ale tea tekla, ae mnoho je gte v; tern remane by se dale napsat zajimave:ho, ale ae to nejde vae napsat v aadnem romane. Tak doufame, ae ho nepkestanete uvefejriovat a Skoda, ae nemate dost mista ye Vestniku, abyste mohl v2dy• kus toho romanu otisknout aspen na aesti strankach. Take VaSe nahledy "Na-; Sim flientim od redaktora" a dopisy se nam velmi libi; celY Vestnik je zajimayY. Se srdeenYm pozdravem Vlasta Michal. )

Pohtebni keel vykonali anglicky farati J. R. Vilt a Allen Brown z Needville. Jejich zpevaCky zazpivaly pohtebni piseri v pohiehnim dome Germany-Janea v Needville a na htbitove. Poh •bena byla na novem htbitove p •i Richmond, Texas.

Pohitu se zfleastnilo .mnoho lidu, spol-, kovYch bratrri a sester a ptatel, ae mega mnoastvi kviti je diikaz, ae byla od ptatel a znamYch milovana.

Portistali jsou truchlici manael Ed Foss a dve ditky, jeden syn Clarence a NEC() OD NAS Z DALLAS dcera Lydel a 4 vnotreata, 2 bratti BeDallas, TeXas. eitich a Julius, jedna sestra Lyda, pani Ovkm to zase nove divadlo "Vesela.• Lowry v Needville, (bratti jsou usazeni v Guy), a vice jine rodiny zerritela zane- vojna". Nekteki etenati si keknou, aneb si pomysli Ta 2enska, asi nema na stachala. rosti nic, neali to divadla, vid'te! Mo21-1a PozristalY manZeli a bratke Ed Foss, k mate pravdu; nevyvracim 2adneho, pkijmete moji upkinme citenou soustrast nazory nebo domnenky, ale ae nekdy_ nad ztratou vaai mile manaelky, mamin- main divadla pinou hlavu, ae me to i ky a sesttieky. noel stra gi, je pravda. Kdy2 se me v noTy mild sestro spolkova, spi klidne el zda, 2e to herci skopali — to pak je vyspanek. bran°, to vim kuptedu, ae to dobte cloDne 5. bkezna mne a Mikesky navStivi- padne -- a take je to pravda. ly sestra Rozara Peklova a jeji dcera Ale co, nekdo se starat musi, ae jo? U2' sleona Bessie, a sestra Anna Kovakova, jsem se toho tolikrat vzdavala, ale jsem' vSechny mile ptitelkyne z Houstonu. v torn potad. Doufam, ae me nekdy 'va1Dne 12. bkezna nas navativily sestra chni ti herci doprovodi ke hrobu, v2dyt', Olga Horakova a jeji matinka, moje se- ua pomalu to bude 42 rokri moji divadelstra Johana Polakova, obe z Rosenbergu. ni Cinnosti v Americo, ne ale jenom Delcuji za vlSechnu navStevu. kdy, to je stale, od sezony do sezony Metj Svakr`Roman Polak z Rosenbergu ka2c13'7m rokem. Dokud je elovek yytrvaleai nemocnY v nemocnici v Sugarland. lft, trochu eipernY a na.a lid dobrosrdeen1 V to same nemocnici je nemocna, moje a divadla navatevuje, tak to jde dal. Pro.: ptitelkyne pani Marie Pkikrylova ze Su- to prosim vas, nezlobte se, ae vas s temi garland. Pteji nemocnYm brzka, uzdra- divadly stale krrnim; jen pekne ptijd'te veni. na divadlo a my budeme spokojeni Na zdar.

Je pry to sto let, co se hralo v Arnerice Rozi Mikeska-Truksova. prvni Ceske divadlo. Tak vidite, kdy i'

Strana 8 jsme to vydraeli 100 let, moand ae to vydrairne je gte 50 nebo 75 let. etla jsem, ae by se mei° sehrat vgude na oslavu 1001eteho v3°Troei pekne Ceske divadlo (o torn se rozepi gi pozdeji, neb vSiroei je as do konce roku 1955).

Nyni y arn chci oznamit, ae 27. biezna bode sehrana hezka zpevohra "Vesela, vojna", ktera ma pekne pozadi, ma, to jin raz jak posledni divadla. Je to z vojenskeno aivota, kde se humor ozSrva east° velmi jadme nejen v pisnich, ale i v mluve. Pane herci hraji, umeji sve dlohy dobke a zpevy jsou tea hezoueke. Nasmejete se do sytosti. Uvidite zase dye nova divadelni sily na jevi gti. Je to sleena Vlasta Laanovská a pan Va,naura, kterY hraje vYborne.

Ilrano to bude pc, distriktni schtzi v taclove budove Pokrok eislo 84.

Nezapomente se dostavit ye velkern poetu. Divadlo je sokolske, reale Vince Ondrtigka, zpevy doprovazi na piano Heda 8ebetkova, housle PodhradskY., a harmoniku Frantigek Fitz.

Divadlo "Myslivecka krev", za reaie Jana Kebrle, a doprovodem na piano sleenou Silvii Laanovskou, ktere bylo opakovan° v Ennis, dopadlo skvele. Navgteva velika. Diky yam, lidieky zlati, to je ta nejlep gi odmena tern hercinn.

Nekdy oslavujeme nektere divadelni umelee jako kdyby to byli nadlidi ovgem ae je to umeni, rovnat se jim nemtae ale je to take dobte placene umeni; dostanou svoji mzdu, a s nami nemaji co jednat. Tady jsou ale ochotnici, nektere opravdu samorostle skvele na ge deti, delaji vge z ochoty neb z lasky k veci, jezdi do zkougek daleko a ndadaji za to mzdu, jenom tu va gi naNgtevu. Proto prosim, jim ji vady dejte a uvidite tu vdeenost a radost na jejich tvatich je gte na jevigti.

"Myslivecka krev" bude opakovana 14. kvetna v Temple, Texas, pki statni schtu pana S ' eleika za pfitoramosti hlavinch Utednika, pant Hromadky, senatora Ilru gky a p. Vyskoeila.

Kcgiekova veeete v Sokolovne v Dallas dopadla velice dobte. Bylo dost veselosti, program byl vSTteen3"7. Vetim, ae addnSr nelitoval, e piiiel. VYteaek jde na sokolskY stavebni fond.

Zatim zdar.

Karla Kraftova.

•4 Floresville, Texas.

Ctena redakce Vestniku, bratti a sestry: Ve Vestniku ze dne 16. biezna na ptedni 6trane pod ohlavenim "Jestli chceme riasti" je rozebirana otazka, aby distrikty volily sve teditele a nahradniky. S tim navrhem já tpine souslasim a doclavam: letos v prosinci se budou volit delegati do ptigtiho sjezdu. Tedy po Novem roce pied sjezdem v distriktnich schilzich at' so zvoleni delegati sejdou v distriktnich

V2STNIX — WEST, TEXAS schtzich a z jejich sttedu at' si zvoli sire teditele a ri.ahradniiky. Jenom delegati at' hlasuji die poetu hlast, kolik ma kaad3"/ k odevzdani, jak se yob. na sjezdu.

Kdya se volby timto zptsobern provedou, tak nevyboeirne ze sjezdovYch koleji; a aa na ptigtim sjezdu ptijde na, tadu volba teditelt a nahradnikti, z ka'acieho distriktu se oznami, "To ua je vytizeno". To by byl asi prvni krok k u getteni draheho Casu na sjezdu.

Bluth a sestry, co o torn soudite? Stanovy nam to nezakazuji. A jestli nekdo mate k tomu dodatek, yen s nim.

Ted' se tu mime dobte, kdya neprgi, nemusime moe pracovat.

Na zdar.

Ad. Mieulka, tajemnik kadu Vesmir eislo 61. )•„T„ * PODEKOVANi Pfejeme si tirnto vysloviti na g uptimnST dik vgem na gim ptateltm za vie, co pro nas vykonali, kdya od nas ode gla navady moje manaelka, na ge matka a staienka Terezie Baletkova, ktera zesnula v riemocnici Svateho Josefa v Hbustonu ye stf'edu rano 2. tinora 1955 ye stall 56 let po krat gi nenioci.

Vyslovujeme nag srdeenY dik bratru Oldtichu Valovi za jeho clastojnY a ptilehavY proslov v feel Ceske a pastoru R. P. Halbertovi v tea anglicke jak v kostele tak na hthitove, jakoa i zpevaktim za jejich krasrdr zpev.

Dale srdeene dekujeme fg em darcam kvetin a nosietm rakve a take Vgem, ktedoprovodili nail drahou na jeji posledni misto odpoeinku v South Park Cemetery.

ye stfedu, dne 23. biezna 1955.

co na ge stard vlast je, nedovedeme zapomenout. Co vg ak na ge mladea? Bude nage colada generace miti aspori to nejzakladnej g i znalost na geho jazyka a nagi. literatury?

Velmi nas zde pote g ila zprava Velikeho Josefa od Vlekti v Ohio, Ze na ge eitanky pro rnladea i dospele se libi v v Bruselu i Stockholmu. Diky za zpravu.

VelikS7Josefe, mel bys ptijeti na na g Majales, jena se bude na universite konati v nedeli, dne 1. kvetna.

Aa do nedavna sam jsem nevedel, ac je moano dostati opravdu hodnotnou Ceskou eitanku pro ty, kteti snad umi es esky mluviti, ale pisernne jazykove znalosti se jim nedostava. Je to Ceska Citanka od odbornika, pedagoga z povolani, univ. profesora Dr. Ed. Mieka.

1 Ptijel do SPojenYch state pied tiiciti lety, aby wueoval Ceske keel na zdejgi Texaske statni universite. Nemelo by se zapomenouti, ae v dobe druhe svetove valky na g e universita byla jedinou na svete s pravidelnYmi kursy Ceske keel a literatury. Je to historicka skuteenost.

Take je pozoruhodne, ae na g e universita texaska je i dnes pravdepodobne jedinou universitou na vete, kde CeskY jazyk, Ceska literatura a Ceske dejiny jsou ptedna geny studentarn opravdu svobodne. Zde mladi Amerieane, ponejvice potomci CeskYch ptistehovalcil z Moravy a z Cech, sly gi PRAVDU o 28. iijnu, zde z Citanek profesora Mirka se seznamuji s aivotem a tvorbou Nenicove, Sladka, Nerudy, Bi'eziny, Jiraska, Masaryka a cele lady jinSrch velikana nail literatury. Zde se tea seznamuji s CeskYin malitskYm umenim, protoae eitanky jsou bohate oMaJaroslav Baletka, menael. zdobeny nejlep gimi kresbami Alege, nesa, ''vabinskelio a jinYch. Jerry Sr., Raymund J., Richard R., synoye, a etyti vnoueata. eska Citanka je rozVraeria do etyt di) o 4, + podle Ctvero roenich poeasi. Kandy ma ptibliane osmdesat stra p . Z ccleho CO ZDE DELAME. obsahu dYchaji vzpominky detstvi a lasMladik, jena z dirlditeho davodu riechce, aby jeho pine jmeno se objevilo ve ka k rodne hroude. Myslim, ae tyto eigi co pro nail vetejnosti, poaddalCeske Literarni Sdru- tanky jsou dosud to nejlep mladea i dospele bylo ptipraveno a proto aeni, o uvetejneni jeho projevu, co a radi je vtele kaadernu doporueuji.

Dosud jsou einime. na sklade eitanky Leto a Podzim, jea Sto pate vYroei narozenin Masarykomoano objednati na adresu: Dr. Ed. MivYch bylo osiaveno na Texaske statni Cek, University Station, Austin, Texas. universite diistojne ye dielach Ceske teei Vyaadejte si jeho podpis do eitanek na v Universitnim Ceskem klubu a odbor slovanskYch jazykil uspotadal vYstavku, pamatku. Genii jedne Citanky je pouhy jea dosud se tail znadne pozornosti. Las- dolar.

Ctenate 1 reclakei srdeene pozdravuje ku k rodne kcal ado projevujeme skutkern F. F. a Moravy. as od Casu se objcvi v nagern tisku S uptinanYin pozdravein zprava o nejake nova Ceske publikaci. JiEd. Mieek. ste nas to pote gi, nebot' ka,adS7 no ySr spis -) 4 .7. 4 ( je neklamnS7m znamenim, ie eeska vzdeZnaenS7 rozdil. lanost a duch naroda aije, i kdya toho neni mnoho. — Jedna vlastnost literatuObr: "Oh, jak se Clo y& citi malSrm ry je ptiznaena",: vgimli jste si toho, pied nekonrionem!" nail spisovatele phil temet vSihradne jen "Vy se citite nialYna? A co pro dospele etenate? A piece my vime, inam, jeminakku, lid i chit ja?"

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Po gesti letech jsem se rozhodnul farmu prodati a vyhledati jine misto nekde no jihu. Svou farmu jsem prodal po 90 neb 92 dol. za akr, ktera v gak na dluhy rok byla prodana za $200 akr. Tak tenkrat jsme se odstehovali pryo od Stesti, neb tehdy pozemky znaene vy gly v cene.

Narodily se nam tarn d ye dcerky: Libide, ktera nyni bydli IT Deming, N. M. a Marie, ktera se provdala za Rudolfa Paclika a ktera tarn nyni Do Gainesville jsme se nastehovali roku 1910 a roku 1917 jsme se odtud odstehovali ke Sweet Home, okres Lavaca, kde jsme se gvakrem Sack3im zakoupili farmy po hledani na raznYch mistech Texasu. Bylo nam keeeno, ze se tam kagdY rok nee° urodi, ale nebylo tomu tak.

Prvni rok 1918 jsme udelali 8 bath. baviny asi ze 40-45 akru. DruhY rok jsme udelali asi 9 bald. Tketi rok byla velice bavina slibna, neb mohla udelati 3/./ balu z akru, ale pkigel hurikan a date, ze bavina potom odpadla s listi i Aupek, jen nektere bolce ji g odrostle zastaly. Tak ten rok jsme udelali 11/2 balu. Dostal jsem za ni asi 3 sta dolart, ale co to vgak bylo pro na gi rodinu, neb jsme meli 5 deti a v ge po prvni valve bylo drahe.

Mouky jsme dostali asi 6 liber na osobu na mesic, tedy pro na gi rodinu 42 liber, ale zaroveri jsme museli tolik liber koupiti jine grocerie. To bylo tehdy nespravedlive ustanoveni, gkodlive pro kupujiciho, ale dobre pro obchodnika. 'C'tvrtSt rok to bylo jegte hor gi. Hurikari, kterSi nam i vyrazil tabule z oken v dome, pokazil arodu baviny tak, ge jsme udelali jen 600 liber v semen.

PatY rok jsme udelali asi 8 balti, ale na me dluhy, ktere jsem byl nucen udelat, to bylo Indio na splatky. Proto jsme se rozhodli farmu 120 akru pronapti a odstehovati se ku Taylor, okres Williamson, kde se bavina dobke sadila, ze delavali nekter3i rok blizko sto tisic bale v celern okresu.

Mel jsem jig zname pkatele pH Taylor, Svadlenaky a Leshikary ,kteki nam nagli rent u Jana Koppy. Roku 1922 na podzim jsme se nastehovali na ono misto. Nasledujici rok jsme udelali 17 bald, ale to jegte nestaeilo zaplatit dluhy. Ten rok hospodak Jan Kropp farmu prodal a koupil jinou a nam ji pronajal na rok 1924. To byla nejvet gi aroda jakou jsem ye svem givote udelal. Av gak hospodak mei tu farmu Opel do prodeje, proto nam nezbvalo leda hledati rent, ale ten jsme najit nemohli, tak jsme se tu farmu od hosPodake rozhodli koupiti po $165 za kar, 89 akrii. Pen& jsme nemeli, ale dostali jsme vypajeit od dobrS7ch lidi, a od federalni banky, s tou nadeji, ze v ge brzy,splatime,

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jestli udelarne dobrou arodu a farmu pH Sweet Home prodame, neb jsem, ji mel do prodeje. Prodal jsem ji, ale u g nevim v kterem roku.

Ale elovek mini a osud meni. Rok 1925 nas zkratil asi o 3 tisice dolara, neb sucho ktere zaealo hned v Ike 1924 a trvalo 18 mesica. Pri gly jen male de gte, ze zasete setheno vze glo, ale brzy usYchalo.

Sell jsme dvakrat, a z druheho seti jen nekde vyrostla. na 6 plea bavina vysoNasbiral jsem galon baviny v semen& Korn take jen misty vyrosti na 3 stopy.

Tim jsme se ocitli ye zle situaci. PHplatit (lane, kterYch bylo $110.00, aroky, koupit krmivo pro dobytek a givobyti, to vge vygadovalo pevni vale a trpelivosti, abychom neze gileli. Ale pkatele vypomohli, i federalni banka nam poshovela na splatku a arok. Musel jsem i do banky Zadat o vYpomoc, kterou jsem dostal, ale po podepsani ,morgyee ye kterem jsme vezeli v jedne pkestavce a g do roku 1944, kdy jsem farmu prodal se ztrahou asi 5 tisic dolara. Po petadvacatem roku to vzalo nekolik let ne g jsme trochu poplatili zpateeni dluhy. Pak v roku 1929 pfigla deprese a to nam °pet prodlougila zapas. Pozemky kiesly v cene tak, ze bych sotva byl dostal polovic ceny co jsem za svou farmu dal. Cena baviny klesla, ze jsme dostavali za bal 3540 dolarfi, a to se mnoho neurodilo. Korna se rodila dosti dobfe, ale jaka byla jeji cena! 15 centir za bu gl, tedy $15.00 za sto bugle. To nezaplatilo ani dovoz do mesta. DrolenSr korn byl za 25c bu gl, tak jsme ho doma drolili, abychom za nej trochu vice dostali. Ka gdStm rokem po prodani arody nam chybelo 4-5 set dolara, abychom se byli dostali na vrch nagi deprese.

A tak jsme to farmakeni protloukali do roku 1944, kdy ceny pozemk y trochu vystouply, ze jsme farmu mohli prodat za $110 za akr, tedy ztrata skoro 5 tisic dolara.

Po prodeji farmy jsme poplatili dluhy a narn malo zbylo po mojim asi 49 let farmakeni. Odstehovali jsme se ku Victorii na zet'ovu farmu, kterou pro nas koupil. Tam jsrne jen pestovali norky a slepice dva roky.

V druhem roku man gelka onemocnela a 10. kvetna roku 1947 zemi'ela. Vychovali jsme 6 deti, pet deer a jednoho syna.

Nejstargi Hermina, provdana za Antona Lunskeho, bSivaji v Deming, N. M.; druha Ra gena, provdana za Frank Parkana, bYvaji zde ye Victorii a ja u nich mam domov. Syn August, genat a bSrva, v Taylor, va gi a tkidi bavinu; Libu ge, provdana, za A. M. Speirse, bSrva na fume v Deming, N. M.; Marie, provdana za Rudol-

fa Paclika, 'Ova v Gainesville na fume; A Olga, provdana za Elgin Lala, bYva zde.

Vgechny deti jsou zdarne, i jejich mugove i nevesta, proto u nich bYvam u kagdeho na chvili, ale nejvice zde ye Victorii. Tak az potud' jsem dovandroval na to pouti givotem. To dobre a zle, co jsem si nasbiral 'Ahem givota, main schovane v uzlieku, gadnS7 mne tam nePi'ida ani neubere. A to ma 1:i rti soudcem, az ma svice givota zhasne.

Byl jsem veden syYm osudem tam, kde na nas eekal nezdar v myth pozdejgich letech. Nemel jsem gtesti ye farmakeni, proto manZelka kikavala, ze jsem mel bYt knezem a ne farmakem, ge ono by byla gla ke mne za kuchakku, ale asi ani V torn bych lep gi nedopadl se svYm osudem. kika, se, ze na koho to eeka, toho nemine. A tak jsou Tide vedeni and by o tom vedeli, tam kde se ma jejich osud vyplnit.

Tak mill etenaki, vyzpovidal jsem se yam ze svYch chyb, co jsem ye svem Hvote natropil, ted' mne sud'te. Zit jsem mezi cizimi lidmi nekolik let, kteki ke nine byli dobki a shovivavi, proto nemohu nakikat na opu gtenost od rodieti, byl to muj osud. Sloh meho givotopisu je vgelijakSr, vetginou chybnSi, neb jsem si na neco vzpomel pozde. Proto gadam eteflake a redaktora za prominuti.

C. V. Adamek.

---) • it• • ( Dobre srdce Josefa IL Jednou jel cisak vesnici a zahledl na prahu jedne chaloupky psa, kterSr byl kost a lade. Cisat vystoupil z koearu a gel k chate. Z to prase vybehla bled'oueka, chatrne odend holefeka.

"Copak je tomu psu?" ptal se cisak prisne.

"On, prosim, nic ne gere!" kekla holeieka uctive.

"A proepak nic ne gere?" ptal se cisaf.

"My mu, prosim, nic nedavame!"

"A proepak mu nic nedavate?" gasl cisat.

"My, prosim, sami nic nemam • Zaeind zase obdobi plesfi a radovanek pro mlade g. Taky pan Kueka nechtel zastat pozadu a tak vyzval svou snoubenku na tancovaeku.

Rejdilo se vesele. Po bujnem foxtrottu pkekvapil nahle pan Kueka sve device 0tazkou: "Mag mne opravdu rada?"

Divka bez zapYkeni odpovedela: "Mam. Prave jsem ti dokazala."

"Jak?" ugasl pan Kueka.

"Tim, ze jsem s tebou taneila."

"To je take dfikaz lasky?"

"Ovgem! Mag poneti, jak ty taneig?"

VESTNiK — WEST, TEXAS

'Ve-s eclu, One-23. WezdIa.-W.

Z MYfr CH VZPOMINE;Z: 1)0MA I ZDE (Pokraeovani.)

0 rok pozdeji koupil otec 15 strychil pole od Hanzliku, jea v ge vyprodali, polnosti i hostinec. Ted' jsme byli nuceni stavet. Tak jsem zaeal zednieinu doma.

Takto jsem stale je gte byl zamestnan ye vapenici. Pres zimu se nalamal kamen do gruntfi, nakopal pisek, v ge se pkipravilo na jaro. Nejdtive jsme vykopali studnu. Ta byla skoro cela ye skale; muselo se stkilet, byla 56 stkevict hluboka.

To byla druha, studna na vr gkach. Sousedi s podminkou, bude-li dost vody, ve si ji budou moot brat. Jinak se muSela voda nosit ze zdola ze vsi a site v putiOch. Napked se tahala okovem, pozdeli clan pumpu.

Si avbu jsme delall pod stavitelem Panogem a site se strejekem Houdem z Chcinic. Fostavili jsme chlev na 5 kusfi krav, kezarnu, stodolu s mlatem, kama se mohlo zajeti se aebkinovYm vozem. Pak jsem z to eerne kuchyne udelal " gperovanou" kuchyni a pec na peeeni chleba a koldefi.

Potorn otec musel nechat prace ye vapenici a nastreil tam me. Bylo me 19 rokti, tak jsem to tam ridil sam, neb ua se tam tolik nepatilo, neb v Reporyjich postavili kruhove pece a prodavali vapno za polovieni cenu, tak u nas jen tak pro c. k. dvory a na pole. Tam jsem mel dobre easy, domfl jsem gel jen v nedeli. Jidlo me tarn nosili a ostatni jsem si uklidil sarn. Tak jako samostatny jsem si taty myslel, ae Lie si mohu neco dovolit a koupil jsem si fajfku. Ja totia pied otcoin kourit nesmel. On se pokaade preptal hudebnikt, kolik jsme dostali cloutjestli ho ne gidim. Bodejt', muzikani:, a nekourit, vadyt' ua jsem si taky namlouval a na to namlouvani ja byl expert.

Tak o tom koukeni. Koupil jsem si peknou. dSrinku "Oldtich a Boaena", dloulr5"/ tcoubel a .koukilo se, ovgem ae jen veeer, j sem veal, ae ua tarn aacinS'T jde. Fajfku jsem mel pkes den uklizeposteli pod matraci. Jedno rano inatka me prinesla snidani a chtela snad drobct postel uklidit, asi ji tam nagla.

Me ale nic netekia a gla doma jako jincly.

Bylo 10 hodin, pri gel otec a rovnou do s v etnice. Za chvili me void. Me to bylo jindy gel pkedne na vahu prohlednout knihy, na leccos se zeptal a gel zas.

Ale za chvili jsem se dovedel v ge. Jak jsem otevrel dvere, videli jsem fajfku leaeti na stole, "Kdo ti dovolil kourit?" se vymlouval, ae ua jsem dost start' a ae ua vgichni chlapci kouki a nano ae se smeji. "Ja ti to osladim", vzal ten trou-

Tam se nic nepsalo. Spravec chtel uhli, poslalo se mu a pak S"afa.f., poldasnY a zkratka vkchni sl pro uhli do vapenice. bel (nob mu gtuk), byl tri strevice a tim mne rnlatil, pokud mel kousek v Inn, kdya to bylo cisatske, aadnST to neruce. Jegte ted' me jde mraz po zadech. Sethi — a my take ne. Tak se vozilo uhli Tak se tarn hospodakilo, kaadS7 Druhe veci rozglapal. koukal jen pro sebe a my tea.

Do me ale vjel takovS7 odpor, ae ,jsem V 21. race jsem g el k odvodu, ale gt'amu hued kekl, "Tak vidi g, cos proved; fajfku jsi rozbil a mne jsi zbil. A myslig, stab' jsem pro gel a via ua, jsem ne gel, ae a,e's nee° ziskal? Ne a ne! Veeer si kou- ism byl Upine zdrav, snad v torn bylo to pim jinou, rano artrae g prijit a zas ji roz- c. k., ze jsem tarn byl zapsan co sluaebnik. Tak jsem zaeal delat rem,eslo a Bice bit." ye dvore, kde jsem byl dva roky. Se Otec ani nemukl, °tail se, gel domfi. spraxcem jsme dobre vychazeli.

Snad mu to ptec bylo hanba. Ja si koupil Tarn jsem vial ten ubohY weer jinou, ale to jsem jia neschovaval, to stela na okne. Od to doby jsem koupil kteri tam byvali kaacIST rok na:gpraci. Ti byli ubytovaRi v tak zvanSlch ratejnach. verejne a mel jsem pokoj.

Pokud jsem jegte chodil do gkoly, tak Tam to spalo na zemi na slam* vgichni pohromade. Psat adclnST neumel, to rneli jsem mei v jedne to Milne kraliky. Jedno sveho gazdu, ten v gechno vedl a tea ,svese mne na ne dostal kocour. StrSTc Horak ho kuchate, ktery pro ne vakil. To se vi, u nas pracoval. Byl tam pro drivi a tak ae o vsi tam nouze nebyla. Jak rano ho tam'videl. Tak jsme mileho kocoura vstali, tak se pokriaoval a rovnou utikal chytili, byl pekriV, bilY s dlouhou srsti. k aidovi na koralku. Bez to se neobegel Stryc povida, "Ja, ho spravim!" vzal se- addriST. 0 nic jineho se nestarali. To bylo keru a usekl mu ocas. "Ten sem jiste ne- za Franty Prochazky. Dnes ov gem vge pkijde." Ale za chvili ten ramus! On byl vypada jinak, dne gni Slovaci umi eisti, mildeek aeny toho Nemce, co byl spra y psat a jdou s duchem easu jako jive na-cemtavhsklProaez- rody. ske spoleenasti. Ale ae aaelneho nevideli, Tea tarn bSwali na praci trestanci rnuseli mleet, Pankracke trestnice, a byli mezi nimi giToho Nemce nonel aacinST rad. Kdya kovni remeslnici i bide gkoleni. Chodivali tam ptigel, byl taktka bos, prave co mei jsme /lady yeeer mezi ne. Tu mnohY vyna sobe, byl jeho majetek. Tenkrat byl pravel, jak se tam dostal; a mnoh)), kdya inel vyjit, tak nee() provedl a oni si ho rad, kdya mu tata aaplatili nejakou skletam zas nechali. Byli tomu aivotu zvykli Mei piva. Ale umel poeitat, hned objed- a nechtelo se jim do sveta, ktcrY' mnohe nal uhli a zaeal ho prodavat a mel do- zklamal. brY odbyt, neb drive museli sedlaci jezJednou byla u nas muzika a tki tam udit pro uhel as do Du gnik. Za eas koupil kone a ty tahali ty voziky s kamenem ze tekli, tak druh)) den je odvezli zpatky skaly, a sedlaci tak prisli o vYclelek. Asi Prahy, kde si odbyli zas SVtilj trest. pa race za sebou povolal rodinu. Mel dva tam musel hned rano jit a davat do vgech hochy a dy e deveata. Hued se koupil kooken mriae. Ten den varil kuchar fazocar a z naheho se vyklubal milostpan a le se gpekem. Ja to nikdy nejedl, tak me milostpani, a tak se jim, taky muselo dal ochutnat, a bylo to dobre. Co se tyre kat. Nemci jak poleno. nett odvezli do jidla, meli dost a dobre; a za praci pies Prahy do akol, ov gem ae do nemeckS7ch, eas, to bylo jejich a mohli si za to koupit, kluci kdya odrostli, gli do kadetky, kde se na co men chut', nejspi ge pivo a kourepak stall poddlistojniky. Pokavad byl ob- ni. Takto praci se nepretrhli. chod, bylo dobre; ale pak to tarn zavreli, nn dostal nejake odbytne a odstehoval Co se ty pe prace moji, nebyl jsem aadsc do Prahy. Tam si koupili °him a byli /Vial kornandovan. K ruce jsem mei umeat'aci. Pani chistojnici ale potiebovali eednika, kterY v ge pripravil a weer zas hodne pcnez, as to prasklo a MISR o v ge- uklidil. Kdya nekomu nechtelo hokct v chen majetek. Jeden syn se zastrelil a kamnech, tak Welt na zednika: "Nemodruh3"7 prigel o divot v souboji, a star)) hu Inc upect, nechce to bora." Obydejne pan se stal mestskSim zametaeem ulic. to potrebovalo vymest saze a hokelo to Tam jsme ho 'east° videli. A co se stalo zas. Takova tam bYvala pram. Dvakrat se sleeinkami, nevim. do roka se tam bilk kravin a druhe mastale. Tu praci jsem delal od stkevice a Bylo tea oeekavano, ae se zavre vapehodne to vydelalo. nice naeisto, cod se tea stalo bez revise a poeitani. keklo se konec a bylo hotovo.

(Pokraeovani.)

(Frank Volt Britt, Iowa)

Wedrie8dal, March 23, 1956

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Reports from Lodges, biographies, etc., intended for publication, must be in the hands of the Editor a week before the date of issue. Address all editorial matters to: Editor, 6402 Prague, Houston 7, Tex.

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF SLAVONIC, BENEVOLENT ORDER OF THE STATE OF TEXAS

Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 With Undeliverable Copies to SUPREME LODGE SPJST, P.O. BOX 400, TEMPLE, TEXAS

MUSINGS OF THE EDITOR LAST YEAR OUR ORGANIZERS HAD done many wonderful things. They sold one million of new insurance in three months. And they sold more insurance for children than ever before. I don't have the exact figures for the month of December, 1954, but I estimate that our organizers sold nearly one hundred thousand of juvenile insurance in one month alone.

• • WE HAVE AN UNUSUAL SITUATION in the SPJST regarding the Junior members. Don't take this to be a criticism.

I am only reporting the facts. But I would like to point out some inconsistencies which in my opinion should be looked into and probably remedied. I may be wrong. The irregularities may not be corrected at this time. Let me tell you about the matter, if only for the sake of information.

• • SOME OF OUR MEMBERS WHO ARE ten or twelve years old may be classified as members belonging to the adult department. Others, who are of the same age, are in the Junior department.

And we may find some extreme cases where the members are in the Junior department together with their children, thus making the entire family in the Junior department. It may look funny, but we have such cases. ♦ • THESE IRREGULARITIES HAVE DEveloped gradually, as the new provisions of the bylaws were adopted from time to time. We originally started with membership at the age of sixteen. Then we added the term insurance protection for the children from age two to the age of sixteen. Then we added new certificates for juniors, the endowment at 18 years, and the twenty-payment life from , age one to age fifteen. If a girl of 14 had taken out one of those 20-year life certificates in 1935, her juvenile certificate will be paid up this year. She is 34 years old today, but she is still in the Junior department. Her two sons, one 12 years old, the other slightly under 10 years of age, are SPJST members, but they belong to the adult department.

AS I HAVE JUST STATED, I DON'T

know whether we can make any adjustment now or in the near future. But we should look into the matter and study it. It is unnecessary confusion. It may not cause any disorder on the books at the headquarters, but it does not show a true picture of what we have in the Junior and the Adult Departments.

Some of you may say "What of it?"

Personally, I always like to have statistical figures. However, I am only one of the 28,000 (or is it only 25,000?) members. You see, I don't even know how many members we have. And I would be willing to buy a new $25.00 Stetson hat for one of our seven directors who could tell me the approximate number of SPJST members as of January 1, 1955, when the annual report was made to the state department.

we would have every member under sixteen in the Junior Department, and every member older than sixteen in the Adult Department, is in the state law. It says that "no member under age sixteen shall have voice or vote in the management of the society." That's the law. Now let us see what had happened when we had our last SPJST convention in Houston. Take Jaro Lodge No. 130, of Dallas. It reported 208 adult members. It could have been that ten of these Were youngsters under sixteen.

I am not saying it really did happen that way. Ledge No. 130 could have counted only those adult members who were sixteen or older. But if the Lodge No. 130 did not make the proper deductions? See the point?

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OR TAKE POKROK HOUSTON LODGE No. 88, who was represented on the strength of 1081 members. Isn't it possible that some of the children between the ages of ten and sixteen were repre7 sented at the last SPJST convention?

Or Praha Lodge No. 29 with 949 adult members, were they all older than six teen? Or Osveta Lodge No. 38 with 205 members, didn't it have some of the members under sixteen included in the count and representation? That is the state law that no member under sixteen shall have voice or vote. Our own bylaws direct that every lodge is represented by its delegate who is entitled to one vote 4 4 for every insured member in the adult THUS, WE HAVE MEMBERS TEN department if he is sixteen years of age years of age in the adult department. or older.

And we have their fathers or their mothers who are still in the junior IF WE GREW LIKE TOPSY, AND IF class. Once a junior, always a junior, we pulled some boners in the past, we someone may remark. But it does not can watch our growth in the future. have to be in the fraternal order, if we There are many mistakes a person makes change it. And that is the reason I am while he is growing. It's the same with explaining this unsystematic system. You any growing organization. The purpose can change it, if you desire. But you of this editorial is to make you think. will have to study every angle of it. And Don't agree with the writer. Tell him so, if you yourself do not know the correct if you feel that way. On the other hand, way to change it, you'll have to ask if you feel that we should have all memsomebody's advice. That's what other bers under sixteen for the representation fraternal societies had to do when they at the next convention counted and found out that they grew like Topsy. separated, express yourself. Get inter7.

4 4 ested in some phase of the SPJST acONE GOOD AND STRONG POINT IN tivities. That's the reason this is being favor of changing the condition so that thrown at you. Get interested.

IN THE WELL-KNOWN CLASSIC "Uncle Tom's Cabin" there is a young negro slave girl named Topsy. Her ignorance and unconscious humor are really comical. Her replies to questioning, "Never was born," and "I 'spect I grow'd" have made her the symbol of that which develops aimlessly. Without being facetious, I'd say we "grow'd" like Topsy. We added something here, something there, until we matured to be a pretty big fraternal insurance organization. We are not an exception.

Others grew like Topsy, too. Like others, we were not conscious of our growth.

VISTNI â&#x20AC;&#x201D; WEST, TEXAS

It Takes Wisdom to Keep Friends Sooner or later, almost every friendship will stumble over a temporary irritation. A thoughtless remark, a trivial omission, and plans are upset, feelings are hurt. If the injury strikes deeply enough, we may suspect a malicious motive. The normal and healthy reaction is self-defense, When our self-esteem has been badly jolted, physical as well as emotional health demands that we right the balance, that we rid ourselves of the resulting anger and irritation. We need the bolstering reassurance that not only has this hurt been soothed, but another like it will not come to us in the future.

Unfortunately, in cleaning out the emotional impurities, there is sometimes a tendency to throw out the baby with the bath. Your adrenal glands, charging your system with defensive energy, do not know the difference between the attack of a saber-tooth tiger and impatience with an habitually tardy friend.

If you haven't a system for channelling that energy, you may blurt out all the scathing things you'd like to say, or swallow your resentment and simmer inside. Either way is destructive, either way will tear the tissue of friendship, to say nothing of hunting you inwardly.

unique, has some special quality to offer.

As you widen the circle of your friendships, you will notice a corresponding growth in your personality. The circle grows into a magic spiral. Your enhanced personality draws more and more people into its orbit, irresistibly attracted by the warm, luminous glow. And as they, in turn, find themselves added to, there will come back to you, somewhere, somehow, a reward for what you have given them.

Life brings its gifts to us in strange unexpected turns. When you give something to yourself, not asking for anything, simply giving what you have to offer, it is inevitable that something you need will come your way.

The treasury of friendship is so inexhaustible, the open sesame so simple to uncover, it's a devastating pity anyone should be without many and varied companions. No matter how self-reliant one is, there is no such thing as complete self-sufficiency. Life to develop, must be shared; a narrowed circle takes its own subtle revenge â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in dithinished energies, faculties, interests. The loneliness of the soul is a terrible burden. The famous psychologist, Dr. C. G. Jung, has been quoted as saying, "If you can stand There is no more perfect mirror of yourself, thoroughly alone, for half an ourselves than our attitude to others. hour, you have accomplished someFirst you must love yourself; accept thing." yourself, as you are, with all your shortFriends, many warm, interested comings, imperfections, weaknesses.

There isn't one of us who hasn't faults; friends, keep you young. Their varied and we'd all like to be a little better interests refresh your life; they keep than we are. Faith in yourself is the body and spirit alert, interested, lively. first step; faith that you're doing the You literally forget to grow old.

There is so seldom a valid reason to best you can now, and will probably be able to do even better in the future. drop a friendship, if it means someImpatience, rudeness, hostility or in- thing to you. No one can, or should, sufdifference to others indicate that you're fer under repeated rebuffs. But before not getting on with yourself very well. angrily blaming the other's rudeness, or Cultivate an attitude of loving-kindness coldness, it might be worthwhile to see and tolerance to yourself, and you will if it hasn't been unconsciously invited. find yourself able to understand and ac- Because there's the chance that if the cept others wholeheartedly. Without in person reacts this way to you, there is any way violating yourself, you will be a quick in you that will call it forth in equipped to unsnarl the difficulties that others. are almost inevitable in any human reEvery friend is a gift from life. Every lationship. friendship has a purpose. We may never Rooted in this basis of mutual respect, know what the purpose is. We may, on sympathy, and understanding, true the other hand, discover that someone friendship can be almost unbelievably has been sent beforehand, for a time rewarding. We glow in the warm ac- when he's needed, to give the kind of ceptance of those whose personalities help only this one person can give. Geblend easily and intimately with our nuine friends have a way of sensing own. Not only is the conscious personal- your needs; money to tide you over a ity enhanced, but hidden, unknown temporary financial setback; encourage;ides revealed. Every person we meet, no ment in a difficult decision; or tactful, Matter how commonplace he appears, is unquestioning comfort in grief.

Wednesday, March 23, 1955

Be A Community Leaded' Life is short . . . it really is, when you stop to think of all the fascinating place to be found in odd corners of the world. Life is short, much too short, when you think of all the interesting, exciting and pleasant things there are to do.

It's short when you think of the great things you'd like to accomplish or the fortune you'd like to leave behind you, or the things you'd like to do for family, friends, and the millions of destitute people who can't help themselves.

Life is short enough at best, I but did you ever think how carelessly you shorten the "Span allotted by failing to make the most of each day that comes along? Did you ever realize that a day wasted in pining, in quarreling, or in aimless wishing for better times, is a day that might never have existed, for all the good it has brought you?

You want a more gracious life. You can have it, but not by wearing a chip on your shoulder and daring everyone who comes along to knock it off.

You can find a place for yourself in the community, if you will try to do that community a service, instead of holding yourself aloof from the townspeople and looking down on their stupidity."

Suppose the neighbors haven't the high-caliber intellect on which you pride yourself? Are you doing anything to help them attain a broader life?

Not if you gaze down your aristocratic nose at your "inferiors," not if you refuse to associate with them.

As a matter of fact, when you follow the latter course you are deliberately narrowing your own horizon, shutting yourself up in a tight, stingy little world, shortening your life by refusing to share it.

Put this intelligence, on which you pride yourself, to work. Be a community leader, not a looker-on-with-scorn, not a slacker who sneers at the ignorance of others but refuses to do anything to better conditions himself. ) o 4,â&#x20AC;&#x17E; This Air Age

Brooklyn man drove his wife to the Newark, N. J., airport and put her on a plane for Buffalo. After fighting his way through the traffic, he finally arrived back in Brooklyn and, wearily ascending the steps to his home, found this telegram in his mailbox: ARRIVED SAFELY LOVE LULU,

Wednesday, March 23, 1955

VESTNIK — WEST, TEXAS

REPORTS FROM DISTRICTS PROGRAM The Eighth Meeting of District Three Sunday, March 27, 1955 Dallas, Texas 1. Meeting called to order at 10 a. m.

II. Presentation of the flags and the pledge of allegiance.

III. Welcome address by president of Lodge No. 84 and of District Three, Brother Cyrill Pokladnik IV. Welcome of the Supreme Lodge officers, district officers, and visitors from other districts V. Roll call of 21 lodges of District 3; the presentation of the oldest members; the youngest members; the ones who traveled the longest distance; local organizers; local reporters.

VI. Reading of the minutes, reports, receipts and disbursements VII. Reports of the officers of District Three and delegates of local lodges Noon Recess VIII, Addresses of the visitors relative to the district affairs.

IX. Unfinished business, new business, reports of the committees

X. Election of districts officers XI. Adjourn of the business meeting.

Entertainment Directed by Sister Annie Steiner 1. Poem by Johnnie Pokladnik 2. Poem by Vickie Lynn Kopecky 3. Piano solo by Betty Jean Staglik 4. Accordion solo by Mary Jane Barta 5. Poem by Barbara Ann Ondrusek and Larry Petr 6. Piano solo by Jerry Ann Urban 7. Poem by Mary Jane Barta 8. Song by Johnnie Pokladnik 9. Poem by Gloria Jean Kalich 10. Accordion solo by Mary Jane Barta 11. Poem by Robert Sill, Nodya Rejcek, Johhnie Sill 12. Piano solo by Jerry Ann Urban 13. Group singing by the audience Master of Ceremonies: James Janousek Evening recess A Czech stage play by the amateurs of Dallas and Ennis Everybody welcome.

L. 0. Hosek Cyrill Pokladnik, president District III—sec'y District III

REPEATED ACCIDENTS Does someone in your family — or perhaps you yourself — seem to have repeated accidents?

It could be due to "accident proneness."

That's the phrase coined by the experts — psychologists, industrialists, physicians, insurance men and others on the theory that many accidents result from the victim's emotional make-up.

Studies by agencies interested in health and safety have shown that relatively few people are responsible for a high percentage of accidents. Conclusion: a person who has one accident is more likely to be involved in another than a person who has had none at all.

State Department of Health studies confirm this. For example: A public utility company, trying to cut down accident rates among truck drivers, ordered an investigation of every factor which could be contributing, from weather to reaction time of drivers.

Truck accidents increased despite an intense educational campaign. But when drivers with had records were shifted to other jobs, the company's driver accident' rate fell to a fifth of the former rate.

The transferred drivers? They kept on having accidents in their new jobs and at home.

The experts have traced definite personality patterns in accident prone people. Almost invariably they are impetuous, following impulses without deliberation or planning. Their decisiveness is, in reality, a drive for independence and self-reliance in the situation of that moment.

For the most part they have a history of neurotic traits in childhood. They simply reach a point, in their failure to handle an emotional situation, when an unpleasant happening becomes a physical and emotional necessity.

Result: an accident.

While admitting the part accident proneness plays, Texas State Health Officer Henry A. Holle would stress environmental hazards and biologic conditions like fatigue, temporary stress-produced inattention, impaired vision or hearing, and underlying disease.

"Too much emphasis on accident Proneness tends to obscure the need of correcting defects in industrial equipment, slum housing, inefficient traffic systems, and inadequate playgrounds."

There is another consolation for accident prone people. Dr. Holle points out that the same studies which show them to be susceptible to accidents also shows them to have illness rates well below the general population.

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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 fc., 15 years; benefits paid as provided -1 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 is 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 classes.

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 be issued to members up to the age of 50 years, who have real 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 be fore 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 ono year, payable at death.

CLASS J-E: Endowment at age 18, with mortuary face value at age one year.

CLASS J-G: 20 year endowment, mortuary face value at age one year. (dz)

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REPORTS FROM LOCAL LODGES LODGE PORROK 84 DALLAS

Dear Members: Each year with the coming of spring and warm weather comes the desire for pnrticipation in outdoor activities. The first one that comes to my mind is baseball. The spring feeling has hit us at Lodge Pokrok 84 as we are again organizing a men's softball team to represent the SPJST order in the city InSurance League this season. We have started working out and have several more practices before the season begins on April 11th. Our league will be composed of the following teams: Southand Life, Sons of Hermann, Republic National Life, and our own SPJST Fraternal Ins. All of our league games will be played at Samuels Park, Diamond No. 2 on Wednesday nights, the same as last year.

Sisters and Brothers of Lodge Pokrok 84, thank you for making it possible for our having a softball team again this year. Your continued support will be greatly appreciated.

Fraternally yours Bennie A. Jarma, Mgr.—Softball Team SEYMOUR, LODGE SPJST NO. 73 The Seymour Lodge No. 73 met March 5. Since the RVOS met too, our youth didn't present any program as that takeS up time when two lodges meet.

Mrs. Petrek brought the door prize which was a handmade scarf. Mr. Frank Simaichl was the lucky man. I'm sure his wife can use it. So be sure and not miss the next meeting as Mrs. Frank Storek has already donated a beautiful crocheted chair set. You may be lucky.

The next meeting we will have an Easter egg hunt for the children. Each child is to bring 4 eggs either hen eggs or candy eggs.

We will have our regular lunch with soda water for children and drinks for men.

Last year our team won the League Championship and received a trophy of which we are all very proud. We expect stronger competition this year and we know that it would be too much to expect to win the League Championship again. Regardless of our place in the League at the end of the reason, we Our square dance is progressing fairfeel that our team will have given a ly good. We have a good instructor. We good account of themselves. are dancing in the Lively school during Our team will be composed of many Lent on 1st and 3rd Saturday night. of the same fellows from our last years After Lent we will dance in the Lodge team, plus several new faces. An open Hall on the same Saturdays. You other invitation is extended to all prospec- lodge members from the other lodges tive ball players who would be inter- have a cordial invitation to come and ested in playing softball with us this learn to square dance with us, if you'd season. You may contact either me or like.

We are still having dry weather. The any of the members on the team. My phone number is FA-5357. There are two grain will need a rain soon. Gardens major requirements, first that you are a have to be watered to survive the drouth.

Mrs. Mary Haisler member of the SPJST Order; second, that you can play ball.

We hope that this season we will have NEEDVILLE LODGE NO. 81 the support and presence at the games Dear Sisters and Brothers, of all the good supporters who cheered These few lines are to let you sisters for our team last -season.

Believe me, your presence and cheer- and brothers know that our monthly SPJST meeting for April which is usulg was deeply appreciated. ally held on the second Sunday of the I also want to say that the team is month, will be held the first Sunday in going to miss one of the co-managers April because Easter comes on the secfrom our last years team. Brother Ben ond Sunday. So please keep this in mind.

David was recently transferred to Tulsa, Sincerely yours, Okla. We're going to miss you here in Willie Mae Blinka ) _ Dallas and wish you success on your new job. We want to wish the same to our LODGE OSVETA NO. 38 last year's catcher, Brother Ed KolenovSmithville (Kovar) Texas The regular monthly meeting of Lodge sky who is also leaving us on account of a promotion. Austin, Texas is Ed's desti- Osveta was held at 2 p.m. Sunday, nation. Both Brothers were good work- March 13. The attendance was fair, but ers in the Lodge and we feel a great loss should be better. President V. H. Ba.rina at this time but we are happy for them outlined several things that will have to and their families. be done and it was voted that our Lodge

will have a Mother's Day program and also a lunch immediately afterwards.

Please, MEMBERS, mark this on your calendar and make it your business to be present. The date is MAY 8, 1955.

Our entertainment committee will again show us what Kovar and Lodge Osveta can do.

And now before we get too far ahead of the story, your reporters were rigidly instructed to make it known that the next monthly meeting, which is on Sunday, April 10, all the ladies who are members of our Lodge to be preifent to decide upon what kind of refreshments will be served on Mother's Day. So please pass the word around about this, especially to those members who do not take the time to read the Vestnik and ask them to be present to make their wishes known. Quite often some of our dear members claim that they did not know about some of the happenings that took place, when allthey had to do was to look into their Vestnik to obtain the information.

Your reporter, E. E. Hollub

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Nelsonville, Texas Dear sisters, brothers and friends, Our regular meeting March 13 was well completed.

The finance committee is urged to look over the books and report the findings in the next meeting which is second Sunday in April.

New members are Ima Jane Lubojacky, adult, Judy May Moudry, juvenile.

Three of our members died this year.

We are preparing for our No. One District meeting. The committee and organizers have meeting this week at Nelsonville.

The hall members are building a nice addition to the hall.

We have nice growing weather and need more rain. Keep on smiling.

Your reporter, Jos. W. Jezek ) • 49 • ( LODGE NO. 25 Dear Members, There will be an Easter egg hunt, followed by refreshments for all the members' children of the SPJST, lodge at the home of Mrs. Mary A. Toupal, 308 North Paris Street, Ennis, Texas, on the 3rd of April, 1955.

This will be sponsored by your Youth Council.

Mrs Mary A. Toupal

Wednesday M ch 23, 1965

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Questions Related To Our Health Civilized man is now engaged in perhaps the most fantastic experiment ever conducted. This experiment, if carried to its catastrophic end, could easily dwarf anything which will ever happen to mankind as a result of fission or fusion of the atom.

Involuntarily and without fully realizing it, we are engaged in a concerted mass effort to learn what will happen to entire races if every possible trace of natural mineral and vitamin is removed from our basic foods and if we try to live on, the dead residue. This experiment has already produced some grave results which we can observe — and some amazing paradoxes.

Yards of words appear in newspapers and magazines, by writers worrying themselves and their readers into frenzies about the possibility of producing a race of stunted or otherwise distorted bodies as a result of atomic radiation.

Then we remove from our basic foods the elements which will produce properly proportioned bone and muscle. We are impressed by the fact that we are growing taller on the average each generation, ignoring the equally important and serious fact that we are weighing less per inch of height each generation.

These "giants" of the basketball court are not giants but distorted advance warnings of racial degeneration.

We worry along with the writers about the atom making most of us sterile — unable to reproduce. Yet, we remove from our food the principal portion which directly controls the health and activity of the reproductive organs.

We worry along with writers of "science" and "health" articles about heart ailments. Then we consumes as a daily habit so-called foods from which we have removed the very portions which keep the heart muscle healthy.

Everyone over twenty-one has wondered if he or she will be the next victim of a joint ailment and will have to take shots of cortisone or some other wonder (less) drug. Yet, we have removed from our food as much as we can remove of the elements used by the adrenal gland cortex to produce cortisone.

the blood vessels are forced to deposit much of it on blood vessel walls, decreasing their diameter and raising the blood pressure.

We read in the news about a "worldwide assault" on the problem of high blood pressure, the report coming from a congress of over 1,000 doctors in Stockholm. They call high blood pressure a killer more terrible than cancer and say that experts authorities are "still groping in the dark as to the cause." (One wonders how anyone who is groping in the dark can be called an expert and an authority — truly our language is wonderfully flexible!). They also admit the latest drugs are only temporary in effect and cause side reactions of severe constipation, headache, disturbances of vision and impotency in the male.

But, in addition to removing from our food those elements which keep blood vessels healthy, we have removed the elements which would keep the sympathetic nerve system healthy — the nerves which control the tension of muscles in arterial walls and thus control pressure.

We worry about polio, while the American Dental Association warns that we are consuming thousands of tons too much white sugar per year for general good health — while one of the consistent laboratory indications of polio is — guess what? — a greatly increased quantity of sugar in the spinal fluid!

In addition, the minerals which keep nerve cells healthy, including those of the spinal cord,.the point of origin of polio symptoms,—are removed from the natural juices from which sugar and syrups are made.

But, back to the food question: What are those all-important elements removed from our foods—and from what foods? It is so simple: We remove the mineral and vitamin (the coating and the wheat germ) from our wheat and try to live on the starch residue, white flour, bleached by a harmful chlorine compound. (The same thing, unbleached, is sold in paint stores as wallpaper paste.) We remove the germ, or germinating part, from corn — the part which contains the life-giving oils and proteins — and try to live on the dry, starchy remainder. We remove the mineral, vitamin and enzyme and try to get by on the carbohydrate residue. )• 4 • (

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Activities of Junior Members CYCLONE SQUARE DANCING CLUB Hi! I'm writing to the Vestnik with new experience for our youth club.

We presented a square dance party at McCloskey Veterans Hospital. It was a great new adventure for us as well as our first time to appear there. Our hearts went out to those who are so lonely and enjoyed our visit that all of us promised to come back and perform some more.

The club was taken on a very nice tour of the hospital by Miss Benedict.

It was very interesting and educational.

Of special interest was the "Hobby Shop" where matients make most anything that is unusual and pretty. Visit it some time.

Linda Wychopen gave two piano pieces and our club danced for one solid hour by popular applause.

Mr. Richard Robertson called a wonderful evening of square calling.

In a month or so we will entertain at McCloskey and any one 15 years old or over who would like to do a little good for humanity is invited to come and get on our Band Wagon.

Rosamond Hoelscher Lodge 24 Square Dancing Club ) • 4 • INSECT BITES AND YOUR BLOOD From an old National Geographic magazine (April 1926) comes the following excerpt from an account of an Amazon expedition by Captain Albert W. Stevens of the U.S. Army Air Service: "These Indians were not bothered in the least by mosquitoes or gnats. Their fine brown skin, smooth and satiny, showed no evidence of insect attack although they wore nothing for protection.

We developed a theory that their fail• ure to use either salt or sugar so changed their blood and perspiration that they were not attractive to insects.

"The Indians later on met our main party, but Hinton and I never saw them again. We mentioned to members of the expedition the peculiarity which had so impressed us and we were informed that our savage friends when last seen were slapping mosquitoes with great energy, This seemed to us to bear out our supposition that, when they began to eat white man's salt and sugar, their insect troubles began."

Armed Forces researches have conclusive proof that about 70 percent of all the young men in our nation of combat age have some degree of coronary occlusion, choking off the blood supply of the heart muscle. But we have removed from our food the materials which To be good is noble; but to show others ) •4,• keep the blood vessels healthy and the how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Life insurance puts bright silver linaverage person consumes sO much grease —Mark Twain. ings into dark financial clouds.

TitStN.1:1C--'WEST, TEXAS

Wedneday,

HAS THE 'MYSTERY BE r N SOLVED?, .

El Mundo, California Dear Editor: My mother has a story that she kept from one of your back issues, Vestnik, July 6, , 1949, which is about certain rancher named Tom Kenny and his mysterious old cellar. I do not know if you keep the old Vestniks or not, so I am sending you the story.

What we want to know is this: Did the men whom they paid expenses to solve the mystery of Tom Kenny's 80,000-yearold cellar ever come back with his solution, and what did he find?

If at all possible, could you please tell us the end of the story? Or still better, could you send us a copy of what had happened afterwards? We are very interested in the outcome of the mystery of the cellar, and if the sequence had ever been in the Vestnik, and we failed to see it, would like to get the issue.

We will be looking for your answer of the story one way or other.

Thank you very much for your kind service to your readers.

Yours, truly, K--MYSTERY OF THE 80,000-YEAR-OLD CELLAR Tom Kenny, rancher in Plateau Valley on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies, had a cellar to dig for his winter's vegetables.

When he turned the first shovelful of earth Tom Kenny unwittingly initiated an archaeological controversy.

Reaching a 10-foot depth. Tom's shovel contacted a hard object. Clearing the dirt away with his hands he was surprised to find that he had uncovered several squares of what appeared to be tile.

Further uncovering revealed more tile laid in nearly uniform five-inch squares.

The entire expanse of the cellar floor was then cleared of earth and it was found that this tile extended over all of it.

"Well, I'll be a cross-eyed mule," said Tom to his hired hand, "we got the fanciest doggoned cellar in the valley."

And that he had. The tile was the color of sandstone and very hard. Separating each square was mortar of putty-like consistency.

An item in the local newspaper reached the attention of an archaeologist at Denver who came to Plateau Valley with a party to have a look.

"There she is, gents," said Tom, with a sweep of his hand. And there she was —12 feet of, perfectly laid tile. The men

extended the floor two feet all around and discovered tile of the same character. Perplexed, they sat on the floor, and as Tom relates, "just stared at each other."

"Mr. Kenny," one of them said, "you've got something here, but we're damned if we know what."

The party returned to Denver with a specimen of the tile and mortar for further study. In the spring the Denver party, which now included an archaeologist from Chicago, returned.

After days of exploration and nights of speculation, the experts failed to arrive at an agreement on the origin of the tiled floor.

One thing they did agree on was that the tile was laid somewhere between 25,000 and 80,000 years ago. The glacial material overlaying the valley at the cellar depth told them that. But who laid the floor? . . . and why? . . and whence came the artisans? . . . and where did they go? . . • and what was their fate? These were questions without answers.

Somewhere in the world, they reasoned, there must be a source that could unravel this mystery.

The Archaeological Society of London was approached. Yes, there was a man but at the moment he was in Egypt exploring the tomb of an ancient King of the Nile. Would he come to America, all expenses paid, to assist in solving this riddle of the ages?

One month later the best archaeological brains in the world walked through the gate of Tom Kenny's ranch. Days of exploration followed. Holes were sunk to the level of the cellar floor and eight feet from each side of the cellar. Similar tile was encountered at the bottom of each hole. No possibility now of a trick.

The putty-like mortar was examined chemically. There was no earth in the valley that was comparable. Study and research was made of the surrounding territory. Many fossils, including that of the three-toed horse, had been discovered in the valley, which was proof of nothing except that the three-toed horse lived contemporaneously with earth's first man.

Finally the man from Egypt rendered this verdict: "Gentlemen, we have here an improbable possibility. This tile was laid many thousands of years ago, before the glacial action covered this valley with its deep carpet of earth. Human knowledge to this date tells me this tile could not have been laid by man. Therefore, it must have been laid through pressure and chemical action,"

Tom Kenny described the heated argument which followed, coming near to physical combat. But there the matter rests.

Somewhere in the world, our imagination tells us, the man who helped solve the mysteries of the tombs of Egypt today sits pensively in his study. His thoughts are in Tom Kenny's cellar. He knows in his heart that pressure and chemical action did not lay that perfect floor of tile. He is almost equally certain that man did not lay it. Will he return to his tombs of Egypt? No he thinks not. Egypt is for amateurs. He walks at night to his window and peers through the endless mlies of heaven. Someday, he promises himself, he'll return to Plateau Valley in the Colorado Rockies.

Editor's Note:—One of the members of the editor's family suggested that the story may intrigue many readers of the Vestnik. As I recall it, the story originally appeared in the Denver Post. Since the story was published in the Vestnik, the editor had several inquiries about the exact location of Torn Kenny's ranch. One party from Houston, going to Colorado for summer visit, tried his best to get the details to the regret of the editor who did not, and still does not, know the answer. ) • el. • ( OOPS! WRONG BOOK The country clergyman was just toneluding a visit with a family, in his parish. He asked for the family Bible, hoping that the family `Might like to have me read a few lines before I leave."

"Oh, yes, Reverend," said the wife, beaming. "We'd just love that." She called her young son. "Johnny. Go in the other room and bring the Bible for us." Putting it on a little heavy, she continued: "You know, Darling—the big book were always reading. The book we love so well—."

In a trice the lad was back, a happy smile on his face, the Sears Roebuck catalog under his arm.

LET US EXERCISE OUR BRAIN A person rarely can measure or is aware of his own mental mediocrity. He is more or less adjusted to his r surroundings. He knows how to give a passable answer, one way or the other, he can make pat remarks, he gets away with the work he is doing on his job, he is a cog. He doesn't know how dumb he really is, or that he could do his work 500 per cent more intelligently.-- J. I. Rodale in PREVENTION,

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THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE Many, many years ago, when the writer was still attending the grammar school, he accidentally got hold of a 32-page booklet to study the "universal language." The booklet had the following sentence right at the beginning.

Helpa lingvo internacia estas absolute necesa. (Auxiliary international language is absolutely necessary.)

Can you understand the paragraph that follows? Try it. Take your time.

You will be surprised how easily you can make out its general meaning, especially if you have studied one of the Romance languages. ,Inteligenta persono lernas la interlingvon Esperanto rapide kaj facile. Esperanto estas la moderna, kultura lingvo por la internacia mondo. Simpla, flexsebla, praktika solvo de la problemo de generala, interkimpreno, Esperanto meritas seriozan konsideron.

Now let us look at the translation.

An intelligent person learns the inter-language Esperanto rapidly and easily. Esperanto is the modern, cultural language for the international world. A simple, flexible, practical solution to the problem of general intercommunication. Esperanto merits serious consideration.

How well did you do? Fine. Then you won't have much difficulty learning Esperanto, the world interlanguage. And as Napoleon often said, "A man who knows two languages is twice a man."

In the last helf-century the world has shrunk in size. Swift modes of communication developed in our lifetime have made the need for international understanding and co-operation vitally important.

But internaltdional understanding is hampered by the babel of the 2,796 tongues (estimated by the French Academy) by which mankind expresses itself. In the words of Professor Jose Martel of the College of the City of New York, "Speech which sets man apart from the rest of creation and is his greatest social asset, (at the same time) serves paradoxically to separate him from most of his fellow humans."

The language difficulties at international conferences, for example, are enormous. Misunderstandings due to faulty translations have been responsible for many a political deadlock. At the time when Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kai-shek were the Big Four, they could not converse directly. Both Roosevelt and Churchill spoke excellent French. Stalin, whose native language was Georgian (quite distinct from Rus-

sian), knew several of the languages spoken in Russia. And Chiang Kai-shek knows Japanese. The four men together were probably able to handle 15 languages, but had no common tongue.

What is desperately needed is an easy, neutral world language—a "second" language for international communication, invented for just that purpose. Such a language would be ideal for scholars to use in exchanging their findings, for businessmen in making world-wide agreements, or for diplomats in conducting international affairs. International telephone, telegraph, and radio services could operate smoothly, and travelers would profit.

In all, about 500 artificial languages have been 'invented. The first synthetic language came into practical use was Volapuk (World Speech), invented by a Catholic priest, Msgr. Johan Schleyer of Konstanz, Germany, in 1880. A few years later, a new language supplemented Volapuk, being far superior on every count.

The new language was Esperanto.

Esperanto was invented 68 years ago by a Polish-Rusian physician, Louis L. Zamenhof. He understood that the msot important thing was that the language should be extraordinarily easy to learn.

After many years of experimentation, he finally published a little textbook.

By nature modest and retiring, Dr. Zamenhof did not put his name to the book, but simply used the pen name Doctor° Esperanto, which in the language he invented means "the doctor who hopes." Esperanto became the name of the language, and in many ways it is the hope of the world.

Esperanto is far easier to learn than the average national language. First of all, it contains no sounds that are very difficult for anyone to pronounce. Its make-up and vocabulary are taken from the chief European languages, with 80 per cent Romanic, 16 per cent Germanic, and 4 per cent Slavonic. The open sounds and the many Romanic words cause it to sound a lot like Spanish.

Esperanto has stood the test of time.

It is steadily growing in practical use in every civilized land. An estimated 1.5 million people now use it, including 5,000 in America. Eight hundred international conferences have already used either spoken or written Esperanto. Esperanto short-wave broadcasts average over 150 a month. It is taught in over 500 schools and colleges, including several in the U.S. Approximately 100 Esperanto journals are published regularly, and over 7,000 books are available in Esperanto, including the Bible, the works

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The Meaning of Good Health "The statistical evaluation of our .des, tiny is of comparatively little import, That, out of twenty adult men and women, five must die of cardiovascular disease, three of respiratory involvement, two of cancer, one of violence and nine of other numerically less frequent maladies is interesting, no doubt. But it has little meaning for those of us who live.

We are not concerned with death, which, as a natural process of elimination, provides that the withered leavet of autumn become the wet nurses of, the spring.

What is important to us is the fullness of our life, the joy of hopefulness and self-reliance, the health of mind and body which spell fortitude, control and tolerance, the spirit which seeks and seizes opportunity and revels in success.

We see it all portrayed in the advertisements in the street cars and the illustrations in the popular magazines. Do we feel it in ourselves as we set out for the office or the shop? Do we meet it ut home in the evening when the frivolous activities or distracting occupations of the day have ceased to enliven hope and conceal our true feelings? If not, it mattees little that we are assured of organic soundness; we have exchanged aging for infirmity; the warning that we might heed is already displayed; the storm signal is out which none but the doomed would affect to deny," Dr. T. Wingate Todd, Western Reserve University The Scientific Monthly ) • 4. • ( THAT HANDY TUBE OF TOOTH PASTE We have just discovered how your money is being divided for that handy tube of tooth paste you buy at the drug store. Chemical Week for April 3, 1954, tells us that 70 per cent of the price you pay for toothpaste goes for the tube, the wrapping and so forth. The other 30 per cent pays for the toothpaste. Incidentally, fifty per cent of the price of soap pays for the fancy packaging. We don't know which of these figures includes the advertising costs, but considering the scope of the advertising programs for both soap and toothpaste, you can be sure that a big chunk of your money goes for advertising, too.

Even though some of you readers may say "What of it?" there is something by way of general information. of Shakespeare, The Divine Comedy, Faust, and several of G. K. Chesterton's books.

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Wednesday,, March 29, - 9

VASTXM - WEST, TEXAS

TEEN AGERS ARE O. E. At a recent meeting of the National Recreation Congress, delegates from all over the country agreed that young people are reaping a lot of undeserved blame because of the serious mischief ceused by less than four per cent of our teen-aced youth.

The job of the teen years is to make the last long pull toward becoming co useful, productive adults, each according to his own capacity. They must grow away -- even break away — from the family roof and from school.

They have to start working, learn to relate themselves to the opposite sex and grow to mature relationships of all But today's world poses a special problem to young people. Otto Klineberg, professor of psychology at Columbia University, sums it up like this: "The adolescent is supposed to achieve maturity - but when? how? and how much at a time?

"He wants independence, but will he know what to do with it when he gets it? ,• "What is he now, a child or an adult?

As a member of his family he is supposed to act in a certain way. With friends his own age he is also expected to act a certain way. Sometimes the two ways will conflict. Which will he choose? How can he reconcile them?

All kinds of opportunities are opening up for him, but all kinds of restrictions are being put in the way of their realization.

-Frustration is the inevitable result."

Die Ellineberg, of course, points out that there are no clear cut rules for our yotingsters to go by, while many other cultures do have definite rituals that confer adult status on young people and clearly mark the entry of the youth into adult society.

"We have • nothing like it," he says.

"Not in church confirmation ceremonies, or graduation exercises, or even in the act of starting to earn a living.

The transition of adult life is ill defined. It comes slowly, gradually, imperceptibly. It is difficult to know how long the struggle for status must go on and impossible to say when it is over."

Yet, in spite of the conflict in nine of every ten homes — where as one teen-ager put it, "we wage a sort of cold war with the adults" — most teenagers are meeting the serious challenge of life with courage and determination.

They ;tee successfully handling far more difficult problems in a more uncertain

word than today's adults faced in their youth.

All over the country teen-agers are proving, in increasing numbers, that the frontiers of opportunity are still with us, and with sympathetic guidance, it's never too early to explore them.

Perhaps teen-agers themselves should hear more of this kind of talk. We adults should encourage more and condemn less. Business men who have worried about how they can protect themselves against teen-age lawlessness should begin to think how they can stimulate teenage enterprise. Teen-agers represent a vast reservior of energy and ambition which the American community •can use to tremendous advantage.

Let us keep our faith in our youth's soundness and ability to continue America's progress. In doing that, we will be keeping faith with our youth. They richly deserve it. ) * sTe *

LETTERS, SOKOL FT. WORTH Hello Everyone: Well, it seems like winter-time is back again. It's cold and dreary in Ft. Worth this morning, due to a cold front.

Quite different from yesterdays spring weather.

The regular monthly Sokol meeting will be Sunday, March twenty-seventh, at three p. m.

I want to wish Henry Jez of Temple, Texas, a speedy and •complete recovery.

Henry has been quite ill for several months, spending part of that time in hospitals. We went to see him last Saturday and were glad to find him feeling a little better. We went there and back the same day so we didn't get to see but a few of our many relatives there, I also hope my uncle Frank Marek of Rosebud, Texas will be able to be up and around soon. He also has been ill for a very long time.

Jack and Mona Hattendorf and their two children, Billy Jack and Judy, are the new custodians at the Sokol Hall.

They are very popular with everyone and we are very pleased to have them.

Anyone wishing to enjoy themselves, Sunday afternoons playing dominoes, ping pong or just visiting is always welcome. Refreshments are always avail able. Don't forget that Tue:sday nights are drilling nights. The Sokol Hall is located at 3221 N. W. 28th and the telephone No. is MA-0611. We are also planning to make Friday nights, regular bingo nights. Everyone is cordially invited.

Maxine Merlick Sincerely,

Your Attention, Please There is a blank al the end for members who plan to move soon, or who have already moved to a new address and have not notified Headquarters. We hope any member who has a change of address notice will fill in the blank and mail it to Headquarter at once.

Headquarters has received a number of complaints of late from postmasters stating that copies of the Vestnik can not be delivered because the person to whom it is addressed left no change of address, and failed to notify us. Second Class mail does not have to be forwarded and the notice given for forwarding of First Class mail does not assure you your magazine will be forwarded by the postoffice.

Fill the blank out carefully. Be sure to include the new and the old address.

And when possible notify Headquarters before you move to your new location since it takes from two to three weeks for and address change to go into effect.

For those who may not understand why a change of address notice does not go into effect immediately let us explain that the mailing list must be sent out well in advance, and the sooner we receive your notice the sooner you will start receiving the Vestnik at the new address.

I have a new address!

NAME• OLD ADDRESS LODGE NEW ADDRESS Mail to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P. 0. BOX 400, TEMPLE, TEXAS (dzco) °

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THE SPEED OF YOUR READING How fast should you be able to read?

It all depends, says a Yale University reading expert. Fast reading, just for the sake of speed, is like running down the hall of an art gallery glancing from left to right, he adds. Your rate should be determined by the flow of ideas from the printed page, and their complexity.

A competent reader, he thinks, should be able to read 300 words a minute—from material of average idea difficulty and which he has average incentive to read.

WNther,tiay, March 23, 1055

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WEST, TEXAS

HOW TO PREVENT BALDNESS (By W. L. Woodruff) About forty-five years ago I read an article on this subject by Bernarr McFadden, which made a profound pression on me as the simple truth. Today, he at 86, and I at 65, have full heads of hair. My: brothers are bald and asked me how I kept my hair Here is the substance of that article 45 years ago: No Man Ever Lost His Beard. It is simply hair above the neck like the hair on top of the head that goes. Why does the beard stay, even on the thinnest man? Because the cheeks and chin afford a Pad of flesh for the hair to grow on. All nourished by the same blood. New, it is quite plain that what is needed on the head to keep hair is a pad of hair or muscle with the blood circulating as it does in the cheeks.

Now, comes the question how to develop the pad of flesh. It is so simple but it does require persistence. Make the performance a habit—an agreeable one.

It makes the scalp feel good. A few moments a day are sufficient. Grab the hair in your hand and pull it backwards, at the same time working the scalp forward by control just as you would raise an eyebrow. There will be very little skin and scalp movement at first but persistence will make it almost as loose and pliable as that on a small dog's back and the hair will be luxuriant.

Of course where the hair is already gone, it won't do any good; this system is for prevention. Massage helps. It is gcod to carry things on top of the head, too. Like groceries when leaving t h e store. See-sawing them a bit on the head to move the scalp around and get some life and blood in it so the hair will be luxuriant. Of course, brushing vigorously with stiff bristles is very good— any rough treatment which will not irritate or bruise. The writer has been to several foreign countries where it is quite common to carry property on top of the head. These carriers are never bald. The reason more men than women are bald is that women move their scalps more than men in combing and arranging their longer hair.

The writer read of some authority who said men lost their hair more than women because they cut it more often. Well, how about the beard—many men cut it by shaving, daily, and with age it seems to become more luxuriant.

For cleaning the scalp a good habit is to rub olive oil in the scalp once a week and go .to bed with it on, using a towel around the head. Cleanliness is always a good idea, but some of the heaviest heads of hair I have ever seen were

on Indians and the hair next to the scalp simply matted in grime and filth.

The hair, like your lawns, will thrive if you give to its roots the elements it must have to live and grow. Take this away from either the hair or the grass and it will die and disappear. The beard always gets it because of the pad of flesh.

I'LL NEVER DO THAT AGAIN She had badly misjudged the distance from the "high swing" to the ground, and had collected a bruised knee and a quantity of dust in the fall. For a minute she stood surveying the damage disgustedly, and then with five-year-old determination, she said: "Well! I'll never do that again!" And I knew then that if I could have one wish for her it would be this; that she react to every grown-up misjudgement in exactly the same way . no self-reproach, no blaming the High Swings or the hands that failed to catch her.

Children have a natural ability to leave an error lying where it falls, to stand apart and look it over and decide not to do it again. How much more effective we could make our own lives if we but could recapture this knack. How many hours of regret would be saved, how much frantic casting for scapegoats for our blunders if we could look over the wreckage, shrug and say, "Well! I'll never do that again!" And then get back —Life Today to work. ) •4 BABIES, BABIES, BABIES A baby is born in the U.S. every eight seconds.

Someone dies every 21 seconds.

This was disclosed by the Census Bureau last week when it reported that the nation's population rose in 1954 by 2,823,000, the largest one-year gain in United States history.

Births were at an all-time high (4,073,000) and deaths at the lowest point in four years (1,485,000). These factors, plus a net immigration gain of 1,442,000, brought the estimated population as of Jan. 1 to 163,930,000. When the last census was taken, April 1, 1950, it was 150,697,361.

The census Bureau predicted the rate of population growth-1.8 per cent last year and an average of ' 1.7 per cent during the last five years will remain stable. This means a population of 177,426,000 by 1960. ) ° .1. • ( I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.—Lincoln.

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Lovely Roses In This Area Some of the loveliest private rose gatc, dens in the country are found iri the Southwest, .according to the Texas .ASsociation of Nurserymen. This is ''due largely to the sunny, dry climate and the small amount of effort required to produce exceptionally good flowers.

Soil preparation is important in'growing top quality roses. Peat moss in eon= siderable quantity should be added to the soil, about one part to three. A type manure worked into the bottom' of the bed also is helpful. The beds should be mulched heavily with peat moss in the winter or early spring. Sulphates shdtild be added where the soil is alkaline. Consult with your nurseryman as to the quantities of fertilizer and sulphates needed for your own soil conditionas Due to nationwide system of test gardens in various parts of the 'United States outstanding new roses are selected for home gardens each year. These new creations are then added to the list of former favorites so that the home owner always has outstanding, tested varieties from which to select. Newest in the rose world is the grandflora type which has numerous large flowers ..of outstanding qualities in color, form and fragrance. Specific names of leading grandiflora roses may be obtained from your nurseryman. Of course there also are many outstanding roses in thesflor, ibunda, hybrid tea and other classes.s Roses like plenty of sun. They will grow excellently in partial shade and sheltered from heavy winds. They like plenty of water. Each watering should be a deep one, soaking the soil thOr: oughly around the roots. The plant then should not be watered again until 'the soil becomes dry. Winter watering, net so frequent as in summer, is definitely required. For its many returns in hea,u= tifal flowers and gardens, the rose plant is most necessary. ) • 4 WATCH THE POISONS For children under 5, accidental death and crippling from household poisons is greater threat than childhood diS7 eases, the "Journal" of the American Medical Association reports. Chief causes of fatalities, it says, are drugs—mainly aspirin, with the sweetened and chewing gum kinds being especially hazardores. Other household items, it warns, should be kept out of reach of little hands: Bleaching agents. Lighter . and cleaning fluid. Kerosene. Furniture ;NIish. Permanent-wave solution. Detergents. Nail-polish remover. Shampoos.

VEBTNIK — WEST, TB

Coca Cola And Our Pure Fg d Laws

Whose Job Is Most Vital?

The phosphoric acid in cola beverages is so caustic that "You could drop it on the Capitol steps and it would erode them." At least. that's how Trainmen News for October 23, 1950, quoted Dr. Clive M. 1VIcCay, Cornell University professor and nutrition expert, when he spoke before the Delaney Committee to investigate chemicals in foods.

Have you ever discovered whether the grass actually is greener on the other side of the fence? And did you ever get into a hot discussion with a fellow worker as to whose job was more important around the plant? ... Well, it seems that the Captain and the Chief Engineer of a ship got into such an argument, and they decided that the only way to settle it would be to exchange jobs for a spell.

So, the skipper went down into the hold to supervise the steam boilers, and the engine room chief went up to the bridge to navigate the vessel. The Captain fiddled around with the steam valves and gauges, getting hotter and sweatier and sootier with each hour— but to no good. Finally he gave up in disgust, and started up the iron stairs for the open decks.

Halfway up he met the Chief Engineer, coming down. "Take over your engine room matey," said the Skipper, "I just seem to be able to get up enough steam for those boilers, and keep it up."

The Chief Engineer grinned. "Well, it doesn't matter anyway, skipper," he said.

"We've been aground for two hours!"

So each went back to the job he did and did well, knowing at least that it takes a lot of men doing well the jobs they can do best—,and convinced that every job in the whole outfit is important to the whole operation if it is done well—to keep the operation running smoothly and for the benefit of all hands.—Cooperation. ) e o(

Dr. McCay declares that Naval Research Institute tests proved that "molar teeth of rats are dissolved down to the gum line if the rats are well fed but given nothing to drink except cola beverages for a period of six months."

Cola el-en straight out of a bottle of the ty p e from which American public swills, dissolved the enamel like magic from extracted human teeth.

His next point is this: If there is no way of preventing the sale of such searingly corrosive beverages, then our National Food and Drug Act should be amended in such a way as to make it compulsory to list both ingredients and amounts on packages and bottle labels of such injurious products.

As they now stand, the protection afforded by our Pure Food laws is practically non-existent, since they are not implemented to prohibit manufacturers from putting untested new chemicals into foods. Bread, which is truly the staff of life for our low income groups, is a good example of a practice Dr. McCay charges is resorted to "in order to make a cheaper product appear like a better one." He adds: "Today we allow alum as a conditioner for flour and most of us probably ate some ground calcium sulfate (gypsum) in our breakfast toast or roll. The latter was probably used by your baker under the name of yeast food and as a carrier for bromates which 'helped the baker get a larger loaf volume.

As ter the amount of such food as milk ( quid in bread, that too can be guaran feed to be nutritionally what it :Mould be only by requiring the listing of amounts on all bread wrippers. "Our present law," explains Dr. McCay, "says the manufacturer must list the ingredients but not the amounts . .. We don't want a pinch of milk, we want six per cent." )° e( One should he either sad or joyful.

Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.----Eugene O'Neill.

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY Scolding little Bobby for his misdemeanors, mother asked, "How do you ever expect to get into heaven?"

Bobby thought a minute, and then said. "Well, I'll just run in and out. and in and out, and keep slamming the door—till they say, "For goodness' sake, come in or stay out.' Then I'll go in."

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RECIPE FOR RHETORIC One famous preacher, asked for his formula for a successful sermon, answered: "Begin low, go slow, rise higher, take fire, and sit down in the storm." e( )° SAMPLING A Texan ordered steak in a high class Washington cafe. When the waitress placed his order before him, he picked up the small portion, examined it critically and said, "Yes, that's what I want.

Bring me some." —Coronet (Nov. '54.).

Wednesday, March 23, 1955

WHERE TO GO TUESDAY EACH WEEK: Every Tuesday, until further notice, at 8 p.m. chorus singing practice will be held. Any one interested is welcome at Lodge Pokrok Houston No. 88, 1140 Robbie.

WEDNESDAY EVERY WEEK: A course in "Conversational Spanish" is being taught at the ball of Pokrok Houston from 8:30 to 10:00 in the evening. Visitors are welcome. Call editor for information.

SATURDAY EVERY WEEK: Dancing at Pokrok Houston Hall,beginning April 16. First Saturday °reach month free for Members.

SUNDAY APRIL 3.

Easter program followed by an Easter egg hunt after the meeting of Lodge No. 47 at Seaton.

SATURDAY APRIL 16: First after-Easter dance at Pokrok Houston Lodge. Free for members.

SUNDAY APRIL 17: District Two meeting will be held in Komensky Lodge No. 20 in Granger at 1:30 p.m.

SUNDAY APRIL 24: Barbecue picnic at the hall of Pokrok Houston. ) e4, WHEN MAN IS RIGHT This is the story of little Jimmy, who said, "Daddy, please read to me." Father, himself absorbed in a book, must find a way to divert little Jimmy's eager interest.

On Dad's desk, under a plate glase, is a map of the world, which he cut up like a scattered jig-saw puzzle into more than a hundred pieces. Dad says, "Jimmy, you shall have a dollar if you put this map together," thinking that it will take the boy the whole evening to complete the task.

In less than thirty minutes Jimmy says that he has put the map of the world together. The father questions this. Jimmy is insistent. Father looks, and there on the desk is the map of the world, every piece and parcel fitted and completed to perfection.

"Son," asks the father, "how did you do this so quickly, and so well?"

Jimmy says," "Daddy, on the other side of the map was the picture of a man. So, I put the man together, and when I made the man right, the world was right."—Nathan W. Shefferman, Executive Director Labor Relations Associates of Chicago, Inc.

Wednesday, March 23, 1955

VaSTNIX WEST, TEXAS

Btrana 21

Senator Strauss' Column

A New Beauty Contest

The House You Live In

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE 15TH SENATORIAL DISTRICT

The American Hearing Aid Association, a non-profit informational organization whose purpose is to dispense facts to the hard of hearing, has announced plans for a national beauty contest different from any yet conceived. Entrants will be girls between the ages of four and ten who wear hearing aids.

If someone were to ask you where you live, would you say on Maple or Main Street? These are suitable answers—but they are artificial.

In the final analysis, you live in your own mind. You can migrate to NeW York, Paris, or Podunk Center, but you cannot leave your mind behind you.

You can switch off your radio and look your door, but you cannot escape from yourself. If therefore behooves you to take stock of the house you live in.

Are there smudges of envy n Our living room rug? Are there mty cobL webs of hate festooning your furniture?

Do insects of fear dart through your house? Do you clutter your rooms with the bric-a-brac of haughtiness, selfishness and greed? Is your house narrow and low; drab and uninviting? Or -do you build a clean, simple and spaciOtie house where both friend and stranget* can come to enjoy a quiet hour?

It is not easy to havt a beautiful: house to live in. The millionaire, with all his money, cannot hire an expert to, build one for him. We are all given tile., tools and materials free, but we must choose the best, hew them, cement them, and adorn the bare walls. No one else can do this for us. Once built, we nittst guard against hurricanes from without, and we must keep a broom handy inside, if we are to enjoy living.

—M J Knisely ) COINCIDENCE

On Monday of this week the Senate passed a Constitutional Amendment which would permit the State of Texas to advertise. At the present time Texas is not p ermitted to spend any money advertising this State for the purpose of attracting industry or tourists. This provision was placed in our Constitution after the Civil War. At that time the people of Texas wanted to keep the "Yankees" out of the State.

On Tuesday night of this week our Criminal Jurisprudence Committee held a lenghty hearing on the bill which would outlaw indecent, lewd or immoral comic books in Texas. The bill was given favorable approval by the Committee.

The Senate also passed a bill this week which would permit Commissioners Courts to have independent audits made of all County offices and County funds. At the present time it is very difficult to have such an audit made by an independent auditor.

We have now had 365 bills introduced in the Senate, plus a number of Constitutional Amendments. These bills cover nearly every possible subject. One bill would make it a felony to steal a dog. Another would make it a law violation to throw beer cans along a highway.

We had a lengthy debate this week on a bill which would authorize the governing boards of State Colleges and Universities to levy a $20.00 per semester student activity fee on all students attending these instituthms. At the present time the payment of such fees is optional with each student. No final action has been taken on this bill.

We have had a number of history and civics and other groups of students to visit the Legislature. It is always a pleasure to have these young citizens to visit us and to give them a proper introduction to the Senate. We feel that it is a very fine move to give high school students an opportunity to witness their State Government in action by visiting the Legislature in session.

Sincerely, Gus. J. Strauss ) • 4 .• ( Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.—Lincoln.

The purpose of the contest is to break down the small child's resistance toward wearing a hearing-aid. Surveys have indicated where children with impaired hearing have been outfitted with hearing aids their marks in school have improved. In many instances children who have been hard to manage have been greatly aided when it was found that these children were not trying to be disobedient, but were unable to hear.

Vanity starts young with the feminine sex, and it is with the idea of convincing these tiny tots, and also their parents, that one can be glamorous and still wear a hearing-aid device, that the unusual contest was devised. The winner is to be crowned "Miss Hearing Aid of 1966" and awarded, among other things, $1,000. Second prize will be $500 and third prize $250. An award will be made to each state winner, boosting total prize money to $6,550. All entrants must be legitimate wearers of hearing aids.

Parents should watch for tell-tale signs of deafness in their children. It has been found that most hearing losses among children can be cured, or other progress arrested, if discovered early enough.— This story was told by the lady conThe W. B. A. Review. cerned: She was talking to a friend over ) • ,y, • ( the phone, explaining that she couldn't go out because she had a cold, when unA SUPER-FRUIT A neglected baoxyard tree is about to expectedly a strange third voice broke in give to the world "the richest known. on the wire and said: "Madam, I am a.. source of vitamin C." The fruit is known doctor and I suggest that you try this as Puerto Rican cherry, West Indian prescription for your throat," whereupoh cherry, or acerola. The tree grows semi- he gave her the prescription. She asked wild in the Caribbean Islands where na- him his name and he replied: "You'll tives say a tree in the backyard will never know that." A few nights later, at, "keep colds out of the front door." A six- a dinner party, she was amazed to hear ounce glass of the juice contains as one of the gentlemen at the table tell the much as 8650 miligrams of vitamin C— story of the telephone conversation. She more than 85 times as much as a six- said nothing, but got his telephone numounce glass of orange juice. It would ber from her hostess. Next day she' take 50 pounds of raw cabbage to equal phoned, explained she was the lady who • a glass of acerola juice in vitamin C had the cold, and thanked him for his content. The value of the fruit was first advice. "Who are you?" asked the docdiscovered in 1945 by Dr. Conrad F. tor, astonished in turn. "That you will Asenjo of Puerto Rico. A Miami orange never know," she said, and hung up. ) ° •ff9 • ( grower became interested and after alProsperity is only an instrument to most ten years of efforts, the first commercial crop finally has been produced be used, not a deity to be worshipped.— Calvin Coolidge. and is ready for the market.

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r2trana EDUARD MICEK:

MALY CTENAR ete me Cesky (AST CTVRTA, DOPLNENA DVANACTE CVICENI.

Nevim kdy a nevim, jak jsem se naueila elvelikou radosti se je ,atinek mi nesta61 Ikupovati pohadky. Nosi rn tenke kniiky obrizTrove o Karkulce, o Modrovousovi, o Popelce, o sedmi zhavraneliich, brat r ich, o bratiiikovi a ,Srl Etirierce.

Nejmilefii byla ni poh6dka posledni. isem i od t6 doby, neznim ji g jejiho deje, ale byla tarn neha, obk, ediikani, a to se mi I Aloe Male di'v q7‘,6,tko tam bratrovi, he, sna g i s nim proti-

venstvi, zachrini mu ii-

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vot. To mne mne uchvacuje!

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U nas v hostinskem pokoji stoji police s pHhradkami. Tatinek mi vykazuje jedno oddeleni. Stavim si t a m do adky sve kniky, chodim se na ne divest, teg im se z toho, ze mr jich piibfrva. Nestael mi jedno add6leni, tatinek je n u c e n postoupiti mi druhe a tIeti. Mam svou vlastni knihovnu a 6tu ce16 odpoledne.

RIIT2ENA SVOBODOVA Piecti s tatinkem nebo maniinkou a spravne °pig do seg itu! Spisovatelka Rdiena Svobedova patiila mezi predni Ceske Fp i sovatelky a rozurnela dui ie. Karliku z Yoakum, nekolik elankU o Ma,sarykoVi najde g v eitankieh Leto a Podzitn. Tam jsou take podobizny Ma,7arykaVy. Citanky str3'reek rad Ti zagle.

Zaeni si take zaklallati vlastni knihovnu!

S pozdravem STRitEK MICEK Z AUSTINU. Adresa str7iekova je: Dr. Ed. MWek, University Station, Austin, Texas. e j„. • ( Z'ena dokonala musi bYti kralovnou sluZkou.

• • Kdo se boji utrpeni, trpi uz tim ze se — Montaigne. boji.

Babieka (Napsala Ilolena NemCOVA.)

(Pokraeovani.)

Vgichni se na pana Beyera zahledeli, as se babieka ozvala: "Mate pravdu, pane Beyere: milo vas poslouchat jako svatY vYklad. Ale eas uloZit chasu; vas` synek bude od testy umdlen, vy tea; zitra si ostatni povime."

"To 'cane mi, Orliku, dej pro vYra, co s nim?" iekl myslivec bera ruenici na rameno.

"I s radosti."

"My ho k vain easninko rano donesem," prosili chlapci.

Valyt' musite do gkoly."

"Zitra odpustila jsem jim Aitolu aby ' uZili hosta," fekla matka.

"No, ja mrije sojaky necham take doabyste meli dobry den. Pfijd'te tedy; dobrou noc! Bud'te zdravi!"

"PidvetivY pan bratr dolrian, jak mu pan Beyer nekdy rikal, podal pkateltm ruku, zavolal Hektora, kterY se Orlikovi velmi libil, a vygel ze dveri. Rano, ne2 deti oblekly, stal jiZ Orlik na vorech, s kterYmi ku biehu plipldttli. Po snidani gel pan Beyer s chlapci do myslivny, babieka s Ba •unkou i Odelkou sly do hospody, ddt Milovi s Panembohem. Sednice v hospode byla nabita; matky a otcoye louelcich se vojaka, kamaradi, sestry i zname" tam byli. Aete jedni druhYm domlouvali, ac i hospodskY i Kristla nestaoili nalivat, ba i Mila nalivat pomahal, aete i chasa zpivala rozlione vojenske i vesele Aisne, aby si srdce dodali, piece to vgecko nic platno nebylo; ani se ' .o,dnY neopil, jako kdyZ gli k odvodu. Tenkrate si nastrkali zelenYch chvoji na Cepice, vYskali rozpustile, pill, zpivali, aby zatopili, ohlusili strach a bazeri. VZdyt' mel piece hrstku nadeje i ten nejrovnejten nejhezoi hoch. Pak jim lichotilo litovani deveat, te gila je laska rodieti, ktera v takc,vYch okamZenich jako vrouci proud, ukrytY v It nu zeme, na povrch se yyPinuje, py gnili se risudky znamYch: "Oh, ten se nevrati, takovY hoch urostlY jak sosna — v gecek jak by ho ulil z takovYch vojaka maji radost." TakovYml sladkYmi kapkami rnirnila marnost napoj, ktery nutna povinnost pied ne stavela; a naopak co oslazovalo zdravYm, peknYm hochtim trpkou to cestu, to ji ztrpeovalo tern, kterYin netfeba mitt strachu, kteri si veclomi byli telesne chyby; mnohY marnivY ji ale za to talc:Wee nest, ae by radeji vojakem se byl stal, neZ pokfiky poslouchal: "Nemusi pro to mama plakat, v gak na buben pfisahat nebude g, jsi psu do podvazku"; anebo: "Hochu! dej se k rejtharam, ma g nohy jak val rohy!" a podobne Zehavky, jimi2 je (Pokraeovani)

S_T.N4 K WEST, ruxAaRESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI -

RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI itad Ennis Oslo 25. .„ My mzepsany resolueni vYbor radu Ennis eislo 25 timto vyslovujeme nagi soustrast poznstale rodine a na gi Padova spolusestry Aloisie Takata, ktera zemtela dne 18. Unora 1955 v nernocnici v Dallas, Texas, a politeb jeji se konal dne 21. anora na Calvary Hill htbitove, rovne2 v Dallas.

Vime, poznstala rodino, 2e 2elite du sve matieky, ale budi2 yam Utechou, 2e i my, spolkove sestry a bratti, neradi ztrachne dobrou spolkovou spolusestru.

Zerntela spolkova, spolusestra zanecladva jedenact ditek, a prinalaela k du Ennis padesat jeden let.

Ptejeme Tobe, bys v klidu odpoeivala a oest budi2 Tvoji parnatce.

Dano Ennis, Texas, dne 24. 'Mora 1955, za rad Ennis eislo 25.

Resolueni vYbor: L. J. Kudrna F. J. Hagkovec F. B. Vrla. ) •4♦(

Rad Derinice eislo 94.

My, ni2epodespanY resolueni vYbor Dennice eislo 94 ye Wheelock, Texas, vyslovujeme timto pozustaie rodine u)timne citenou soustrast nad ztratou vageho man2ela a otce a na geho spolubratra Willie Milberger, kterY zemiel 28, Unora ye staid 40 let a pohtben byl na hititove ye Wheelock, Texas.

Vime, pozilstala rodino, ze vas zarmutek jest velikY, ale vette 2e i my 2elime jeho odchodu.

A ty spolubratte odpoeivej v pokoji.

A za Tvoji uptimnost a skvele jednami diva Ti celY tad a vYbor to nejvat gi. eest.

VYbor: J. A. Rychlik L. V. 8kubal Joe Mikulec. )•„T, RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI

Strana 2$_ ne Vagi jmenem radu hluboce citenou soustrast.

A Ty bratte odpoeivej v pokoji a eest budi2 tvoji pamatce.

Dane, v Moravia, Texas, dne 13. brezna .1955 za tad Nova. Morava eislo 23 SPJST. Resohreni vYbor: John Kahanek Frank J. OlgovskY Paul Bra. RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI

My, ni2epodepsanY resolueni vYbor du Hvezda Svobody eislo 87 SPJST v Temple, Texas, timto projevujeme nagi hluboce citenou soustrast portistakernu man2e1u, ditkam, vnukiim a nagi va, erie sestry Janie Matush, ktera zeintel'a dne 28. imora 1955 v tiemocnici v Temple, Texas, a pohtbena, byla dne 1. btezna 1955 na hititove Bellwood Memorial Park v Temple, Texas.

Nage zeintela sestra pkistoupila do Jednoty dne 8. btezna 1914 a byla tadnou elenkyni 0,2 do konce sveho 2ivota.

Portstalomu man2elu a ditkam zemfe.t le projevujeme na gi uptiMnou soustrast a zerntele sestte ptejeme•lehke odpodtinuti.

Dan° v Temple, Texas, dne 4. bi.e?4q, -; 1955.

Za tad Hvezda Svobody Cis. 87 SPJST. Rosoluani yYbor: Stanley Kacit John J. Kurtin Henry H. Hejl.

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Clenove radu Oslo 24 v Cyclone, Texas, projevuji timto uprimnou soustrast pozirstale rodinti nad amrtim jejich man2e1a, otce a dedeeka a na geho spolubratra Joe Schillera, kterY zemiel v sobotu 12. bkezna 1955 v Temple, Texas a byl ulo2en k poslednimu oclpoeinku v nedeli dne 13. btezna na hititove v Ocker, Texas z_a velike freasti rodiny a pkatel. test budi2 jeho pa,matce., Za tad OeskY Prapor eislo 24 RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI Resolueni vYbor: Pan major 'Seflekar operuje a R. J. Marek itad Ennis eislo 25.

F. J. Marek postavi proto pied dvere novacka s rgzMy, niZepsanY resolueni vYbor radu kazem, aby nikoho neponAtel Ben 2abeik.

Ennis Oslo 25, timto vyslovujeme nagi Nova'eek pini presne rozkaz. Tu pkijde RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI soustrast poznstale rodine nad ztratou My, niZepsanY resolueni vYbor radu general a chee k panu majorovi. jejich man2ela a otce a zaroveri nageho Nova Morava Oslo 23 SPJST. v Moravia, "Jo, to panecku nebude,” povida nospolubratra Texas, timto vyslovujeme jmenem radu vacek dobromyslne.

Josefa Pouzara, uptimne citenou soustrast pozustale ro"Ale jen reknete panu doktorovi, kterY zemiel ve svem domove dne 24. 11- dine nad irmrtim jejich man2e1a, otce, jsem tady jar nora 1955. ZesnulY spolubratr zanechava dedeeka a na geho spolubratra "Prosim," povida novacek, "ja, to int z man2elku a sedrn ditek. Ptinaldel k ra-udelat, vide2tonbude:ic Frank Blahuta, du Ennis eislo 25 po dobu etyticet sedm kterY zemiel 8. btezna 1955 ve svem do- platno." let a byl v2dy syYch spolkovYch povinno- move v Moravia, Texas, a pohtben byl 8e1 dovnitr a povida: sti dbalYm elenem.

10. btezna 1955 na katolickem hi-bitove v "Pane majore, nejakY pan vas hleda " Vime, pozirstala rodino, 2e mate ztra- Moravia, Texas.

"A jak vypada?" tu ale bucli2 yam ate-Nag zesnulY spolubratr pristoupil do ho"11A:le takovY CervenY pasy na, nothou, 2e i my, spolkovi bratti a sestry Jednoty 12. btezna 1911, byl vZdy dbalY soucitime s tadovYch povinnosti a kdy2 byl po2adan "Nenv,Vo Las!" povida, S'eflekar, "at' si Prejeme Tobe, spolubratte, klidnY od- od radu, aby nee° vypomohl, v2dy to u- na octanovy obklad a do rana ,t9 poeinek po 2ivotnim boji a ecst bucli2 piimne rad vypomohl a te2 se v2dy pHdobrY!" Tvoji parnatce. mlouval, 2e kaldY mel by miti pojigteni 4, • ( Dana v Ennis, Texas, dne 5. btezna na 2ivot. ZesnulY spolubratr Frank Dla eili obetay pfitel 1955. huta byl v jeho 2ivote ye vkm Za tad Ennis Oslo 25 My dobre vime, truch l ici man2elko, ManZelka: Tvomu priteli Vozabovi -je Resolueni vYbor: jaka to rana pro Vas a rodinu. Citime s hare; mel bys ho navkivit.

L. J. Kudrna Vami, 2elime jeho odchodu a proto my, Mantel: Tot' vYborna, myglenka, resolueni vYbor tadu Nova, Morava eislo F. J. Hagkovec F. B. Vrla.

23 SPJST vyslovujeme Vam a cele rodi- se s Azorkem trochu projdu!

Vgo N K II. MINIUM 2 222 lll 1111 .5 1111.11M

WLADISLAW STANISLAW REYMONT

SEDLACI i(Pokradovani,) (DejovY celek:—Matej Boryna, prvni soctlak v Lipcich, bezmala gedesatnik, chce se Z . enit po treti. Boryna ma etyri cieti 2 . enateho Antonina, provdanou Magdu, yojaka Grelu, a desetiletou Josku.

Antonin, kteremu rikaji Antek, se svou Z'enou Hankou a s detmi, bydli v jedne poldvici selskeho staveni. Stark Boryna s nejmladk dcerou Joskou bydli v druhe polovici. Pacholek Kuba a pasak Vitek spavaji ve staji. Ve vsi se "septa, ze Antek, ae • Z. enatY, chodi za nejhezeim svobodnYin deveetem v Lipcich, Jagnpu Dominikovou. Nejvetgi klepna ye vsi, stara JagustYnka, byla toho tajneho milovani oeit,San svedkem. Boryna mel soudni proces-se svou bYvalou deveekou. Cestou od soudu dome, Boryna svezi starou Dominikoyou, matku krasavice Jagny. Snad bY. Dominikove mohl tici, ze se mu Jag:nieka, libi. Do Tymova, na jarmark hrnuly se zastupy lidi. Boryna gel pegky, ale cestou se svezl s varhanikovYmi, jejichZ syn jenik studoval na kneze. Na jarrnarku segel se Boryna se s y STm zetem, lipeckYrn kovarem, kterY pripomnel Borynovi, ze by mel dceri Magde, kovarove Zeno, nechat pripsati kousek dedictvi.1 misek stoupala Ora a halila stolovnhky v oblaeky, kterymi zaznivalo skripani 1Zic, mlaskani rtu a tu a tam i kratiekY rozhovor. : Leckdo se divil, co v gechno dobreho . . brambory v polevce, varene maso s pralenou jeenou kaSi a zeli s hrachern byla to hostina jako nekde na, zamku; k tomu v gerna je gte Boryna neustale Pobizel a nail a Joska i Hanka ,hedlive dolevaly a pridavaly.

Vitek piihazoval sucha, .polena na ohen, kterY vesele praskal, Kuba, mezitim in jedli, odnaSel zeli, skladal je na h roMadu a laene vdechoval vuni, olizuN,se. a vzdychaje.

Pal vola bych snedl na posezeni a k tomu misku kale nebo i dve. . a oni, Zerou a Zerou jako hladovi psi, jako by elo yeku nechteli nechat ani uvaZoval mrzute a utahoval si -. opasek, jak mu v briZe krueelo.

Dojedli rychle a zvedli se, davajice ‘Zaplat' Pan Bah" hospoclarilm.

"At' yarn slouZh ke zdravi!"

WEL1T,

Nastal much, vychazeli yen proyetrat se a protalinout tidy nebo se podivat, zda se nejasni nebe, mladenci pak proto, aby se na zapraZi trochu poSkadlili s cleveaty.

Kuba si sedl na prah s miskou na kotenor' a jedl, a2 mu uSi ticasly, ani Lapy si neVainial; ten na neho vSelijak dordZel, ale kdyZ videl, ze nic neporidi, vySoural se na zapraZi ke psam, kteri se tarn sebehli kolem lidi a prali se o kosti, vyltozene Joskou.

Vraceli se k peach prave y e chvili, kdy Hoch 5 pozdravem veSel do dveri.

"Na voky," odpovedeli sborem.

"Kilo pozcle chodi, sam sobe Skodi. . .

PriSel jste pozcle, ale i na vas zbylo!" zvolal Boryna, piistrkuje mu Zidli ke amn m "Dej mi, Josko, mliko a chleba, to mi stash!"

"Je tarn je gte i kousek masa," ozvala se nesmale Hanka.

"Ne, zaplat' Pan Bah, Inas° ja nejim!"

VSienni se na chvili odrnleeli, pohliZejice zvedave na prichoziho, ale kdy zeisecil k jidlu, rozhovor a smich se rozproudil znova.

Jenoin Jagna se east° ohliZela na poutnika, divic se, ze to je zrovna takovY elovek jako vSichni ostatni, ac u hrobu Kristova byl, pal sveta zchodil a tolik diva videl. Jakpak to asi v torn .svete vypada? Kudypak se tam jde?. . .

Koiem clokola jsou piece jenom vesnice a pole a lesy.. . a za nimi zase vesnice a pole a lesy. . . To asi elovek mush jit sto mil nebo snad tisic . .

Jagna a inela podivnou chat' se na to zeptat, ale neodvaZila se, protole mela strach, aby se ji cizinec jeke nevysmal.

Hoch Rafolu, kterY se vratil z vojny, Mines' housle, naladil je a zaeal prehravat razne pisnieky. Nastalo ticho, jenom de gt,' peal do oken a psi obeas zaStekali pied domem. Mladik, heal porad nove melodie, prsty a smyeec mu lehce klouzaly po strunach a pisnieka jako by z nich sama yyletala. Heal naboZne pisne, ty asi pro poutnika, kterY s neho oei nespoug tel, ale potom i jine, svetske, tu o Jenikovi jedoucim na vojnu, kterou si divky Oasto zanotily po polich. . . vyluzoval nape y z tech prkenek tak Zalostny, ze probihal vSemi kost mi a Jagniece, ktera byla citliva na hudbu jako ma.lokdo, pramenky slzi stekaly po tva.rich.

"Prestari, Jagna place!" zvolala Na,stka.

"Ale ne.. jen tak. . . v2dycky • me housle tak dojirnaji, to nic. .. to Mc. . ."

Septala Jagna, skryvajic stydlive tvar v zastere.

Nebylo to Mc platne. At' se branila, jak chtela, slzy ji vyraZely z oei z to div-

Ve sti•edu, dne

ffona

ne tesklivost, ktera ji wristala v zrdci, sama nevedela, pros.

Ale mladik neprestaval hrat, jen Z s e ted' se do ucha draly ohnive mazury a skoene; deveata vyskakovala na mistech, tiskla kolena chvejici se rozko gi a pohazovala rameny, chlapci podupa yali a \resole prozpevo yali. . . svetnice se naplnila vravou a smichem.

Nkhle zaeal pes vyvadet po sini a vyl tak, ze v gichni umlkli.

"Co se stain?"

Poch se rozbehl do sine, div ze nenpadl pies kruhadlo.

"Ale nejakY kluk mu privfel ocas ye dverich, proto tak vyl," volal Antek vyhlednuv z dYeri.

"To je jiste Vitkova prace," pozname nal Boryna.

"Bo ne, Vitek by takhle psovj. neubliill, ten po vsj„ sebere kdejakeho chcipaka a doma ho pak og etruje," zastavala se pasaka uprinme Joska.

Roch se vratil silne pobouren; nejspig, ze psa vysvobodil, protole kimeeni se ted' ozYvalo aZ odnekud ze zahradek.

"I pes je tvor BoZi a citi, kdyZ se mu ubliiuje, jako elovek. . . Pan Jell mel taky sveho pejska, kterema nikdo nesinel gkodit," zahovoril trtia,ne.

"2e by byl Pan Jell lnel psa jako obyeejni Hite?" zapochybovala JagustYnka.

"A abyste vedeli, mel, rikal mu Burek."

"Ale jciete. . . podivejme se," ozYvaly se zvedave hlasy.

Roch chvili mleel, potom zvedl sivou hlavu, oveneenou dlouhYmi, nad Belem rovne pristriZenYrni vlasy, uprel blede, jakoby vyplakane der do ohne a ozval se tile, prebiraje prsty zrnka rtIZence.

"Za onoho da yneho Casa, kdy Pan Jechodil jeg te po svete a sam nad 11dem vla.di, stalo se, co yam ted' budu vypravovat.

Pan Jell gel do Mstova na pout', ale po nejake ceste ani potuchy, jenom prikre, vyprahle pe giny. . . slunce Maio a vedro jako pied bourkou. . .

Nikde aid kouska stinu, nebylo kde se schovat.

Pan Jag gel s velkou trpelivosti, k lesu bylo je gte hodnY kus cesty, a ze syYch syatYch nohou ima you ani necitil a chtelo se mu ukrutne pit, sedl si na hromadu pisku, aekoli tam slunce praZilo je gte vie. . mostly kolem jenom kozi Brady a stinu bylo prave tolik, co ho inaji uschle divizny, pod kterYmi by se ani ptaeek neschoval.

Ale jen dosedl, ani si je gte poradne neodclychl, uZ tu byl pokuSitel v podobe gkaredeho jestraba,' in se spouSti s vYgky na uStvaneho ptaeka. A ten Lucifer dupal kopyty po piscine, valel se v prachu jako dobytee, nad nim se zve-

Ve stiedu, dne 23. btezna 1955 dal yelikY mrak pisku a takova se udela la tma, 2e nebylo na krok videt.

Pan Jet g, ae ho prach dusil na prsou a jen stet se tit mohl pohybovat, piece jen vstal, gel dal a hloupemu eertu se smal, protok veal, ae ho Bert chtel zmylit v ceste, aby nechodil na pout' pro spaseni hfigneho lidu.

A Pan Jeiig gel a gel. at pkikl k lesu.

Hezky si ye stinu odpoeinul, ochladil se vodou a nejake sousto z torby pojedl, nato si ulomil peknou hal do risky, pokhnal se ktiZem a ykroeil do lesa.

Ale les byl stark a hustY; bahnem se ani projit nedalo, y moealech a mokkinach bezpochyby sam d'abel pkebYval a houg tiny tam byly takove, ae i ptaci meli delat, aby jimi proleteli. Sotva Pan Jetg vstoupil do lesa, Bert zaeal lesem t • ast, vYt a lamat smrely — a vitr, pacholek pekelny, mu pomahal jako o za.yod; rval suche stromy, lamal duby, niell haluze a hueel a buracel po lese jako rozumu zbavenY. Nastala tma, ae by sis v lese oko vypichl. . . k tomu jeg te hluk a hi-mot. a vichtice. .. a najednou nejaka zvliata, d'abelske potvory vylezaji a ceni zuby. . . a vrei. . . a hrot. . . a sviti alma . . . a pazoury napiahuji, ale to vite, Sc ty potvory neod yatly, kdepak. . . vadyt' pied nimi stal Pan Jdi g ve vlastni sve svate osobe.

Ale Pan Jet g u2 mel dost toho hloupeho strageni a taky pospichal na pout', udelal proto nad lesem kkii a hned vgichni eerti i se svYmi neeistYmi pomahazrnizeli v batnach.

Zastal tam jenom divokY pes. . . vite, za tehdej gich easil nebyl pes je gte s elovekern tak sbratien jako dnes. Tak ten pes tam zustal a bdel za Panem Jetkm, g tekal a dord2e1 na jeho svate nohy, hned ho zuby drapi za kalhoty, hned ho chytil za kabat, po torbe chilapal a pokad se dobYval na maso — ale Pan Je2ig byl milosrdnY a 2adnemu tvoru nedovedl ublitt; ac ho mohl pketahnout holi nebo , I pouhou myglenkou zabit, tekl jenom: Tu mac, hlupaku, chlebieka, kdy2 mag hlad,' a hodil mu ehleba z torby.

Ale pes se rozzuiil a byl jako yzteklY, cent/ zuby, vreel, 'Stekal a dord2e1 a Kristu Panu kalhoty trhal.

'Chleba jsem ti dal, Mc jsen ► ti neudelal, a ty mi trha g gaty a pro nic za nic gtekag. Jsi hloupY pejsek, nepoznal jsi sveho pana. Za to bude g eloveku sloutt a nebude g moci bez neho kekl Pan Jet g pkisne; pes si sedl na zadni nohy, obratil se k nemu zady, stahl ocas mezi nohy, zayyl a jako pothinutY odbehi.

A Pan Jdig dogel na, pout'.

VESTNIX WEST, TEXAS Na ., pouti bylo lidi jako dkivi v lese nebo travy na lukach.

Ale v kostele bylo prazdno, protok :kreme vyhravala hudba a pied kruchtou u kostela byl jarmark a opilstvi, prostopa gnost a h •ich proti Bohu, jak ua to na pouti bYva. Vyjde Pan Jetg po velke z kostela rozhilt se; lido jako obili ye vetru. .. ten v tu, ten v onu stranu uhYba a bet, ten s bieem utika, jinY trha kolik z plotu a jinY bere klanici nebo se shYba po kameni, Zenske jeoi a lezou na ploty a na vozy, deti plaeou a ygichni kkiei: `177,tezklY pes, yzteklY pest' A pes uprostked lid!, kteti se pied nim rozestoupili do dvou tad, se s ocasem svegenYin Gene rovnou na Pana Jet Zige.

Ale Pan Je.i g se nelekl, kdepak. . . poznal, ae je to ten pes z lesa, rortahl jenom sviij svatY kabat a povida pejskovi, kter' se z nieeho nic zastavil: "Pojd' tiem, Burku, u mne ti bude bezpeoneji net v lese.'

Zakryl ho s yYm plagtem, vztahl nad nim ruce a povida: "Nezabijejte ho, je to taky tvor Bot . ubokk hladovY, uhonenY a bez pana.'

Ale mu2Sti zaeali ktieet a vy yddet, klanicemi tloukli do zeme a brueeli, je to pes divoky a vzteklY, to ji u'2 odtahal spoustu hus a o yeeek, 2e dela jenom gkodu, ani elo yeka ae neuktki a hned se na kaaleho cape. . . to nikdo bez klacku na pole nemak, protok kvuli pekelnikovi si nikde neni ani na krok jist. . ,ate ho proto musi zabit.

Chteli nasilim psa vytahnout zpod plagte Pana JeZ ge a utloaci ho.

At se Pan Jet g rozhne yal a yyktikl: `Ani o krok dal! '.rally se, leno gi a pijani, psa bojite. . . ale Pana Boha se nebojite, co?'

Vgichni celstouprii, prctok pocitili moc Jeho slcva: musili navic vyslechnout, 2e jsou nieemove, kteii sice pti gli na svatou pout', ale po k •emach piji, proti Ptinu Bohu hte gi a pokani necini, ae jsou proklatcl a. w:a2eclici jeden jako druhY, zlocleji, bezboanici a trest Bot 2e je nemine.

Kdy2 Pan Jet g domluvil, zvedl svou hill a chtel odejit.

Ale shromaZdeni lido ho ua poznali, vrhli se pied nim na kolena, dali se do nakikali a prosili. `Zilstati s narni, Pane, zastaii s narni, Jett Kriste! Zastarit Budeme ti yet.no sloutt jako ten pes. .. jsme pijani bezbo2ni, lide zli, ale zastafi s nami, trestej nas, bij nas, ale zfistari, jsme siroty opugtene, oveeky bez pastYke. plakali, Zebrali a libali mu ruce i svate nohy tak, 20 se olamokeilo srdce Jeho a on

Strana 25 zastal s nimi, polio- oval je, daYalrozlikegeni a ygeehny blahoslavil.

A kdy2 odchazel, tekl: `Pes yam udelal mnoho zleho. .. ale. od teto chvile yam fgem bude sloutt.

Bude hlidat husy a oveeky, bude kolem. vas behat, a kdy2 se ten nebo onen vas opije, chudoby i dobytka bude strati cem a pkitelem. 8ettte ho a neubli2ujte mu.'

Kcly2 se pak ohledl, vide, ae Burek di jegte na miste, kde ho prve zachranil. `Pojd', Burku, se mnou, copak bys tady, hlupaku, zustaval sam?'

A pes gel, chodil 'dude za Panem byl tichY bdelY a vernY jako nej1epgl. sluha.

VAude potom chodili spolu. pies; eeI pies lesy gli a pies vody l' svet.

Kdy2 nelsdy mlvali hlad, pejsek nejat kelt° ptaeka vyslidil, husieku nebo ,bet ranka pkines1 a tak spolu byli 2ivi. „ A kdy2 Pan Jet§ bYval unaven a.. odt poeival, Burek odhanel zle lidi, ba voka, zyikata; nedal Pana na geho, ne7, dal. ..

Kdy2 pak ptigel eas, k ohavni, rizeoye vedli Pana na nveeni, Burekyse, vrhl na vgecky, zaeal je kousat a branit, sveho pana, jak jenom chuddeek ulaohY umel.

A Pan Je2ig mu iekl pod dkevem kterY nesl na svou svatou muku: `Svedomi j e bude hrYzt. , . ale ty,ni e nespravig.'

A kdy2 umueeneho Pana povesili kti2, Burek usedl a vyl.

Druheho dne, kdy2 lido se u2 vgiehni rozegli a nezilstala ani nejsvetej gi ,PaA, nenka Marie ani svati apogtolove, stal Burek sam. . . . . . lizal co chvile umdle yajici svate nohy Pane, proraZene hkeby, a vyl..; vyl. . . vyl... . . . a kdy2 uz tketi den nadegel. probral se Pan Jet g, hledi, hledi. . . e nikoho pod ktikm nevidi, Burek ,sam 2alostne vyj e a tuli se k jeho noham. .. a tu se v to hodine na g nejsvetejt: gi Pan Jet g Kristus podival milostive neho a kekl poslednim dechem: Turku, pojd' se mnou!'

A pejsek v tu chvili naposled vydeleht a gel za Panem.

Amen.

Tak to bylo, lido zlati, jak jsem to vedel,". dodal Roch, konee s ye yypraii ni; nato se poktikval a ode gel na driihoti stranu, kde mu ua Hanka ptipravila cpostel, protok byl velice unaven.

Hluche mleeni se rozprosttelo po &vett nisi. Vgichni ptemYgleli o to podivne hit storii a nektera deveata, jako Jagnieka; Joska a Na,stka, si kradmo utirala-'oeL tak hluboce je dojal osud Pane a pkihoda Burkova; u2 jenom to, k se na 'sVeto nalezl pes, kterjf byl lepLi a vornejg

Strana 26 Palm net tide, v gecky naranme zaratelo. .. i zaeali postupne prona get ramie poznamky a podivovali se Botimu rizeni; nakonec stara JagustYnka, kterd pilne poslouchala, zvedla hlavu, rouhaye se zasmala a rekla: "Povidana, povidam pohadku — tradetoho kdovico. . . Ale ja y am povim p ee() lepg ho o torn, odkud Clo y& vzal vola: P")11 Bah stvoril loSika bS7k jest.

Sedlak notem gmika, uriz byika zdola a tak stvoril vola — a val jest!

To, co jsem ted' rekla, je zrovna takoye, jako co povidal Roch." A JagustYn ka se dala, do smichu.

Cela svetnice se rozesmdla, hned se rortrhl eel* pytel terta, hada,nek a ratpovidaeek.

"JagustSmka, vi vgecko..."

"Jak by ne, trojnasobnd vdova, ta toho vi!"

"Pravda... jeden ji 10.1 rano bieigtem, druht v poledne remenem a treti ji pied veeeki klanici po dvore honil," zvolal Rafael chlapec.

"Vzala bych si treba etvrteho, ale to be ne, protote jsi hloupYi usmrkanY ulienik."

"Jako se ten pes Pana Jeli ge nemohl obejit bez pana, tak se zase tenska neobejde bez biti. . . vidite, i Jagustjinee se stYiska. . ." prohodil dal gi chasnik.

"Jsi hlupak.. . davej radeji pozor, aby to nikdo nevidel, kdyt tatinkovi odnasis pytle k Janklovi, a vdovu nech na pokoji, tornu ty je gte nerozurni g," zavreela JagustYnka °Are a v gichni umlkli z obavy, aby Ve vzteku nevykrieela•v gechon, co vi. . . Jiste toho vedela hodne!

Jagustyinka byla baba zarputild a rada udelala, co rnohla nejhor giho; ke ygemu mela co rici a easto to byly veci, to lidem husi kirk naskakovala a vlasy na hlave. vstavaly. Nikoho neu getrila, ani kneze, ani kostela, takk ji ut nejednou velebnY- pan musil naporninat, aby se pamatovala, ale jako kdyt hrach na stenu hazi. .. JagustStnka potom po vsi dale: "I bez kneze katdSi k Panu Bohu trefi, jen kdyt je poctivY; at' si farar radeji da pozor na svou hospodyni, chodi sainodruha... zas to nekde strati."

Takova byla JagustYnka.

1<dyt ut se u Borynu meli rozclaazet, vstoupil fojt s rychtarem; obchazeli yesnici, aby vgichni zitra podle poradku na robotu spravovat za mlyn cest u. vyrnletou privalem. . .

Fojt, sotvate ve gel, rozprahl ruce a zvolal: "Nejhezei deveata ze vsi si ten pod givka stars plivedl!"

Vt STNT

WEST, TEXAS

kekl pravdu, byly tam jen dcerky ze statkU, ze selskeho s venern.

"Co se divite, Boryina je piece prvni hospodar ye vsi. Mel si snad sezvat slu&brae deveeky, podruhyne nebo takovou chamrad', co jich visi deset u jednoho krayskeho ocasu?"

Fojt pohovokil nejdriv se starSrm, ale tak tise, 2? e nikdo nic neslySel, pak za2ertoval s deveaty a rychle ode gel, protote mel jeSte pal vesnice na, zitra vat. Brzy nato zaeali se rozchazet i ostatni; bylo pozde a taky zeli so iii na obirani nedostavalo.

Boryna dekoval v gern dohromady a katdemu zvla gt', Zenam pak otviral dyere a yyprovazel je.

JagusUnka na odchodu rekla hodne nahias: "Zaplat' Pan Bah za poho gteni, ale moc dobre nebylo!"

"Podivejme se! Copak, copak!"

"Potrebujete, Mateji, hospodyni; bez ni tadnY poradek nenrate bit."

"Co se eta, clelat, moji zlati, co se dal delat, je to vale Boti, to umfela. . ."

"Copak je Indio deveat? otvrtek co etvrtek kid vesnice yyhliti, zda od vas nepajdou svatove k nektere. . ." miuvila JagustYnka, chytte, chtejic z neho neco vytahnout; ale Boryna, ac ut mel odpona jazyku, se jenom podrbal za uchem, usmal se a mimodek alma hledai Jagnieku, chystajici se k odchodu.

Na to chvili eekal i Antek; nepozorovane se oblekl a vy gel prvni.

Jagnieka sla dornft sama, v gichni ostatni bydleli na opaene strane, smerem ke mlYnu. "Jagno!" zageptal Antek, vynori ygi se ze tmy odnekud za plotem.

Jagna stanula, poznala jeho hias a malounko se zachvela.

"Doprovodim te, Jagniekor Noc byla temna, bez hvezd, vitr hueel vysoko nad nimi a klatil stromy.

Antek objal Jagnu v pase a oba, prituleni k sobe, zrni/cli ve tare.

0 Nazitti se ro ,ili", 11a po Lipcich zpraya o BorynovY.ch za,nubach s Jag;nou.

Fojt byl jednun ze svatil a fojtova, ktere mut natidil, ze nesmi ani ceknout, dokud se on nevrati, teprve na sam yecer odbehla k sousedce pod zaminkou, ze si jde vypiljeit sal; kdyt pak odchazela, uz,se nezdrtela, vzala kmotru stranou a geptem ji gugkala: "Jestlipak vite, ze Boryna, postal s vodkou k Jagne? Ale nikomu to nerikejte, mut mi. prisne nakazoval. . ."

"Co vas nemal To vite, to s tim po vsi nebudu behat, copak jsem uZ nekdy nadelala nejake reel?. . . TakovS7 dedek . . . a treti tenu si bude brat! Co tornu reknou deti? 6 svete, svete!" zastenala hruzou sousedka.

Ale jakmile fojtova odala, hodila na

Ve stkdu, dire 23. b ezna 1955. sebe gatek a horempadem utikala lakes sad vedle ke Klombum. prigla si vypajeit kartao na Cesani konopi, pry ji nekam zapadl.

"SlySeli jste u2? Boryna se 2eni s Jagnou Dornintkovou! Ted' pked chvilinkou k ni sli s vodkou."

"Ale jelete, to je k nevike! Co ho to napadlo. . . deti 112 jsou dorostle a on sam je taky v letech."

"Tot' se vi, 2.e neni mladY, ale ko'aem mu nedaji, uvidite! TakovY sedlak, takovY bohae!"

"Ale tahle Jagna! I.T2'dyt' to fAichni vime, lide zlati! Pomuchlovala se u2 s kdekYm a najednou z ni ma bYt prvni selka! Je to na svete spravedlnost, co?

A tolik deveat sedi. . jako ta od me sestry. ."

"Nebo ta po mem bratrovi! Akoprivovy a Nastkaa , jine! Tak by to u nas nemelo chodit, u nas na selskem, vid'te, to ne?"

"Ta se budenaparovat... ut ted' chodi jako pay a ohrnuje na v gecky nos!"

"Valyt' je to proti samemu Panu Bohu, trest Boti je nemine — kovar ani druhe deti macek nic nedaruji, to cla rozum."

"Pravda, pravda, ale et' konec konca poridi? Grunt je stareho, ten mute delat podle sve vale," "Tot' se vi, te po pravu je grunt jeho, ale po spravedlnosti naleti detem. . ."

"Jeminanku, spravedlnost drti vklycky palee tomu, kdo na ni ma..."

Ponarikaly si, posteskly na svet a jak to v nem chodi, rozeSly se a s nimi se novina roznesla po cele vsi.

Prace nebylo mnoho a nebylo naspech, lido vysedavali v chalupach, protote cesty byly docela rozmokle, a hovorili o Borynov3ich nanaluvach. Celou yes zachvatila zvedavost, jak tohle dopadne; u2 pkedem vSichni vedeli, 2e nastanou tahanice, procesy a rtizne nesvary. Jak jinak! Znali Borynovu panovaenost, ktera, kdy2 si neco usmysli, ani velebnemu Panovi neustoupi, ale Antkovu hrdost znali taky.

I lido, poslani na robotu k vymlete hrazi za mlYnem, se co chvile zastavovali a zaeinali vypravet o nenaddle uddlosti.

Prohodil nee° jeden, prohodil druhY, a2 nakonec start Klomb, 'elovek moudrY a rozvalnY, pkisne kekl: "Z toho vzejde neStesti pro celou yes, poekejte jen a uvidite!"

"Antek neustoupi, kdepak, novY krk kekl kdosi.

"Mle, prosim fa, Boryna by mel Bost i pro pet — ale o podily piljde."

"Bez zapisu do gruntovnich knih se to neobejde."

"Dominikova neni hloupd, faecky je pretrumfne."

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Jiriskovy Stan; povesti Ceske (PokraZovani) Chodove byli tim rozsudkem strakive zklamani. Div 2e se na Lammingera ne°bath. Jak smYkeli, povedel to chvile mladY sedlak z tjezda, Jan SladkY, recent' Kozina, jen se nad jine horlive chodskYch pra y zastaval. E,ekit krajskemu hejtmanu do oei, ze neveri tomu, co jim bylo eteno, ponevad2 je proti vaemu A tak neposlechli a pri o sve svobody vedli dale. Sti2nosti jejich odkazany k novernu Aetreni do Prahy k appelaenimu soudu a zaroveri narizeno, aby poslali sedm schopnYch a radnYch dilvernikft k tema soudu do Prahy. Vedle stareho KirAtofa Hrubeho, rychtare Dra2enovskeho, byl mezi nimi Jan SladkY, Kozina, nejprednejk. V Praze v2ak u soudu appeladniho nejednali s nimi o starch privilegiich, nybr2 o neposlu2nosti vuci Lammingerovi a vYtr2nostech, ktere v jeho zpravach a 2alobach naramene vzrostly. Chodove zas dovolavali se sveho prava. Na clakaz jeho ukazali ty dva dalaite zachovane majestaty. Ale soud ustrihl u listin peeete a pergamen roztrihl, dokladaje, 2e to v2e ji2 nic neplati, a 2adal na tech sedmi dfrvernicich, aby se poddali, a Lammingerovi, jelika sve vrchnosti, prisahall, poslu2nost a vernost. Kdy2 tak neueinili, uvezHill je.

Zatim Lammingertl y spravce Ko2, jednaje po prani a rah sveho pana, podra2dil - nasilnkm jednanim chodske sedlaky tak, ze se na nej i jeho sluhy °bath.

Nasilne totia vrazil v Dra2inove do statku Krikofa Hrubeho, aby se tam zmocnil nekterYch psani od posh' z Vidne sem poslanych. Kdy2 rovna tak chtel v tjezde udinit, shlukli se proti nemu.

Spravce Kos portion pansk'm mysliveum ye svem prilvocle, aby strelili do lidu. tjezati vAak Chodovaci myslivci odzbrojili, panskeho purkrabi zajali, a spravce stai jen ujel na svem koni. To Kos byla voda na Lammingertl y mlYn. Ihned si vy2adal vojsko. A vojsko skuteene pritrhlo. Nejprve do tjezda. tjezdAti opustili yes prve, nali vojaci priki, a shlukli se v lesich u Hamra. K Min tam priki Chodove ze sousednich vesnic. Odtud v gak ustoupili vojenske presile do Pocinovic. A tu se strhla bitka mezi nimi a vojskem, je stihajicim.

II. Nejeden z Choda tu vykrvacel pro zlatou, starou svobodu, ale nadarmo. Podlehli presile. Pres sedmdesat ze zajatYch rozestrkano po veznicich v Plzni, TYne a ye Stribre, a bill je jako zlooleje a tulaky. Osta,tni pak Chodove, yes po vsi, volani, bylo pied samYmi 2nemi, do Trhanova na, zarnek a tam. nursili

n.i, sedlaci i chalupnici, na sv. evangelium odprisa.hnout, .2e jsou a zustavaji, oni I jejich potomci, poddanYmi a robotnYrni lidmi. Jeho Milosti urozeneho pana Lammingera z Albenreuthu a jeho adieu, 2e vAichni uznavaji neplatnost svych bYvalYch pra y a majestatt a 2e narizene jim perpetuum silentium budou zachavavat.

Taka byla chtze do Trhanova; zamlkli, sklideni &kali Chodove pied kancelati, a2 je tam zavolaji. Byli uz na mysli zku2eni, a kdo nebyl, dobre vedel, v2eliky odpor je marnY. TemnYm hlasera odrikavali prisahu, nejeden se pri torn zajikl, nejeden hlas se trasl. M yernici jejich, Kozina, KriStof HrubY a ostatni seal' dosud v Praze v Novomestske radnici. I na ne pani nalehali, aby slibili panu z Albenreuthu poddanstvi.

A slibili, kdy2 uslySeli, CO se doma stalo.

Ale ne vkchni. Jen stark HrubY nepodepsal a Kozina. Ten panum rekl: "Lomikar nas maze nutit, habysme robotovali; hale kerak mam rict, 2e naSe pray° neplati? NaSe pra y° plati. Dame to ha; na Boha."

Ti, kteri podepsali, mohli domu. DraZenovskY vS'ak start' rychtar a jeho synovec Kozina zUstali ye vezeni.

Ale Larnminger nebyl ani ted' spokojen. Trek,. ktery aPeladni soud Chodilm ustanovil, mu nestaeil. Podal odvolani a 2aloval ku hrdelnimu soudu. A pochodil dobre. Hrdelni soud rozsoudil, aby KriStof HrubY, Kozina a 6tverak, jelika hlavni a nejprednej21 burici, byli obaeni, ostatni pak predni Chodove aby stall na pranYiri a odpykali svou odvahu tuhYm vezenim.

Ve Vidni rozsudek ten potvrdili a2 na to, ze ne tri, ale jeden ma b'ti obeSen. Zatim start' Krikof HrubY, nekdy nejva2enej21 rychtar na Chodsku, zemrel v pra2skem vezeni. Zbylo rozhodnouti, bYti etverak nebo Kozina utracen. A soud ustanovil Kozinu, protae byl "velmi vyrnluvnY a tudi2 nebezpeenY a ze vAech nejvice zatvrzelY, nechteje o pardon prositi."

I prevezli ho do Plzne, aby se stalo po rozsudku. Kdy2 se blikl den popravy, porueil Lamminger, aby osmaSedesat Chodfl ze v2ech vesnic ChodskYch, ka2dY s malYmi detmi syYrni, pri2lo do Plzne podivat se, jak budou Kozinu trestat, aby si pamatovali oni i deti jejich, aby se vypravovalo do kolikateho kolena, jak potrestany odpor a rebelie proti Trhanovskemu panu.

Sam take prijel do Plzne, aby videl Kozinu urnirat. Ten mukie se chystal na potupnou smrt a tail se tim, ze Lomikar u svetskeho soudu vyhral, ale tam u 1302iho soudu ze vyhraje on, protoie

jich vec byla prava a on 2e nevinne umV den popravy, bylo 28. listopadu I. 1695, shluklo se v Plzni nesmirne tunastvi lidu domaelho a z okoli. V2e se va= lilo za odsouzenYm, za nim2 kradela jeho rodina, jeho krajane, osma'Aedesat ChodU, vaSinou vysokYch a statnYch v plakich, v ko2i2ich, ale bez kan. Vedouce deti sve kraieeli zasmugile a s litosti hledeli na nat'astneho Kozinu. DlouhYrn vezenim byl prepadlY, ale vojaky obklopen, pevne a nesl hlavu rovne.

Pruvod se valil z mesta yen. Buben, eernVm suknem pota2enY, smutne, mend" rachotil a terrinY jeho z ylik sply, val se 2alostivYm hlasem umidku.-Za mestem na vYSine stala Sibenice. Kolem ni se vojsko fozestavilo a v prostore jim uzavrene stanuli radni p).nove, ci; tu take byli dilstojnici na konich, krajskY hejtman Hora a jemu po bdku Lamminger z Albenreuthu.

Sem do to prostory privedli Kozinin Kolem se v2e uti2iIo. SmatnYm tichem jen vzlyk a plad Kozinovy rodiny a jeho krajanil se ozval. Sam'inladY ho2p6stanuv pod Sibenici, polibil kri2 knezem mu podanY, a naposled se kolem rozhledl, po svYch lidech, po zastupu,.

A vtom uzfel mezi dustojniky na koni take toho, jen2 byl prieinou vkho La.mrningera. Kozina se vzprimil, podival se mu do tvare a v tom uZ volal kyrn hlasem, jen2 se jasnYm vzduchem mraziveho dne jasne rozlehal: "Lomikare! Lomikare! Do roka budeme spolu stat pied sialnu stolici BoNt Hin, (tam), se hukaZe, hdo z nas Vtom se velici dilstojnik vzpamatoval. Obna.'ienY jebo kord Sc zableskt vzduchem, kat podtrhl a Kozinfr y hlas unalkl. Na y:My. Jana Sla.dkeho, nazvaneho Koziny, nebylo na 2ivu.

Na smrt bledY hledel na nej Lamminger, ale ji.2 obratil kone a jel rychle mesta. Chodove a lid kclem kleoeli a° 'v pohnuti a rozeileni modlili se z to ae za nebatika. Plakali a vzlykali 'ne-' jen bide z Chodska, nYbrZ i cizi, a pini vzruSeni opakovali si, jak ten Chod pazval Trhanovskaho pana na BoZi soud. — III, Lamminger se z Plzne na TrhanovskSr: zamek uZ ani nevratil. Poslal rychlehp posla ku sve pani, by se za nim vypravila, ze ji v Plzni bade oeekavati. Do Trhanovskeho za,mku, prijel zase a2 za rok, na podzim. Vkchni, kdoZ ho videli, Jikali, ze se vSechen zmenil, ze je nejak prepadlY. Byl take mrzutej gi. Sam si ted' nikdy nevyjel, jako jindy, nYbrZ vZdycky v prilvodu. Nedtiverovalt' Choann.

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sti. V teto aeklaraci udali dtivody, proe Zase sahneme po se gitu, abychom na- vypovidaji poslugnost anglickemu krali, proe se odtrhuji ad materske zeme. Tato pred porovnali otazky a odpovedi. deklarace byla clana do verejnosti na 4. . Psnericke kolonie byly vedeny eveervence 1776. Proto se oslavuje the r opsk-S-mi zakony nul ch-uhoho stoleti.

Fourth of July, narozeniny americkeho 2. Prohla geni Nezavislosti (anglicky naroda.

Declaration of Independence) byla Prohla g eni Nezavislosti (Declaration of na, ktera premenila 13 kclonli na 13 svoIndependence) zaeind slovy, "Pokladarne bodnYch stasis. tyto pravdy za samozrejme: Ze vgichni 3. Prohla geni Nezavislosti bylo prijato lide jsou si rovni, a ze jsou jim sverena ve Filadelfii dn.-- 4. e'er vence 1776.

Stvoritelein ureita nezadatelna praya, mezi nimiZ jsou Zivot, svoboda a snaha 4. Ustavu Spojench state podepsalo za gtestim," V deklaraci se dale vysvet39 delegattit. luje, proe si zarizuji .koloniste vladu 5. tstava SpojenYch state. (Pamatuj- svou, a proe neuznavaji anglickeho krale za sveho vladce. te si, ze to je nejvykl zakon zeme.)

Jedenact roka po Prohla geni NezavisNeZ budeme pokraeovati, jen nekolik slov na vysvetlenou. Prichazeji zadosti, losti trval v Americe zmatek. Bylo treba by redaktor Vestniku poslal tomu nebo vypracovati nejakY spoleen3-7 zakon pro onomu "vgecbny ty otazky, co je treba, vgech 13 state. Tanta nej yyggi spoleen abych dostal obeanskY' list." Neco po- zakon je Ustava Spojench state. Napred dobneho je nemoZnosti. Kdy budete ne- byla deklarace (Prohla geni na 4. eervenCe 1776), a teprve za jedenact roka segli ktere dite zkou geti, jestli zna dobre nebudete ho Zadati, aby opako- se delegati ze 13 state, aby vypracovali val vgechno. Vam postael kdy se ditete astavu. Na tomto nej yyggim zakonu pro vg echny staty pracovali etyri mesice. Pa zeptate, kolik je 6x7, 8x9, a podobne.

Texasu je statni zakon, ze kaZdST student cele horke leto pies etyricet delegata vyggi gkoly nebo university, neZ dostane pracovalo na astave (konstituci). Bylo svaj prvni akademickST stupen, musi mi- treba, aby devet ze trinacti state podeti kurs o astave Spojench state a take psalo to. co delegati vypracovali. Vzalo to astave statu Texasu. TakovY kurs trva rok a ptitl debatovani, agitovani, vysvetlodvanact tydntit. Kdy student skla.da za- vani, osneovani, podezavani, chvaleni i v6reenou zkou gku, otazky jsou dosti kom- gpineni neZ astava (konstituce) byla v plikovane. Nic podobneho se neoeekava nekterYch statech schvalena. Cte se to od osoby, ktera Zada o obeansicS7 list. 0- jako velice napinavY roman. V gechny naCekava se v gak, aby kaZti Zadatel vedel se predsjezdove debaty, v porovnani s main mezi listinou, ktera se nazYva tim, co predchazelo, neZ fistava (konstiProhla geni Nezavislosti a druhou listinou, tuce) byla prijata, yypacla jako prelevaktere rikame astava, Z' adnS7 by si name]. ni vody z hrnieku do hrnieku proti oNest tyto dva duulezite dokurnenty. Pro pravdovemu lijaku. Koneene 4. biezna ., ndatele obeanskeha listu staei, kdy si 1789 debaty stat schvalil astavu. Mesta pozorne preetou tyto vYklady, a za tYden NovY York bylo vybrano jako prozatimnebo za dva vrati se, aby si elanky znovu ni sidlo vlady, ktera, se meta teprve vyNeni mono predpovidati, nae tvoriti podle elanku astavy (konstitutce). sr vygetrujici arednik zepta. Ale jistotne, Za zminku stoji, ze president Spojench sc bude ptati na neco, co ma vztah na li- state nastupoval svaj arad v den vYroei, kdy byla konstituce prijata, totiZ na 4. inu Prohla geni Nezavislosti, tedy na brezna. Den nastoleni presidenta byl tvoreni 13 samostatnSrch zmenen 20. dodatkem k astave Bude treba pamatovati si, ze koloniste Ustava Spojench state, ac na ni pranapred meli evropske zakony a zastupce evropskYch vladara. Zakony a vlada byly covali delegati etyri mesice, neni takovi, ze koloniste byli vykorist'ovani. dlouha. Snad by staeilo etyri nebo pet Museli odvadeti do Evropy vysoke dane stranek Vestniku, aby otigten byl tento a nesmeli provadeti mnohe veci. Museli nejvyggi zakon Spojench state. Cela, poslouchati zakony, ktere byly delany bez stava ma osm kapitol nebo hlav, dvaajejich svoleni, a poslouchati panovniky, dvacet dodatktit (22. dodatek byl prijat kteri byli daleko za morem. To trvalo za vlady presidenta, Trumana), a pred150 roka. Koneene se vzbourili. Vzpomne- mluvu (preamble), V predmluva je padasi, ze kdysi panovnik musel podepsati no Best davoda, proe delegati vypracovali Magna Chartu, great Charter, listinu Ustavu. V prekladu, predmluva astavy nejvyggiho prava. Proto koloniste sesta- (the preamble to the Constitution) zni: vili novou listinu, Prohlageni Neza,visloMy, lide Spojench stattl, abychom u-

tvorili dokonalej gi jednotu (unii), nastolili zajistil domaci klid, postarali se o v geobecnou ochranu zvygili domaci blahobyt a zajistili polehnani svobody pro sebe a sve potomky, sestavujeme a zrizujeme tuto konstituci (fistavu) pro Spojene staty americke. Cituji celou predmluvu astavy, abyste se s ni seznamili. KdyZ jednou jeden krajan Zadal obeanskY list v Brenham, vygetrujici Urednik se ho ptal, kolik dfivodt pro nutnost astavy je jrnenovano v predruluve.

Takova otazka je naprosto nezvykla, ale ukazuje to, ze firednik se mute ptati i na veci, ktere malokterr zde rozenST °bean zna, lee by mel 12tYdenni universitni kurs.

Pamatujte si rozdil mezi listinou, ktera, se nazYva Prohla geni Nezavislosti a druhou listinou, ktera, ma predmluvu, osm kapitol, 22 dodatky a nazYva se Ustava (Constitution). KdyZ by Se arednik ptal, jakY je rozdil mezi Declaration of Independence (Prohla geni Nezavislosti) a United States Constitution (astavou Spojench state, mohli byste vysvetliti syYmi vlastnimi slovy asi takto: Prohlageni Neza.vislosti byla prvni dulezita listina, ktera -prohlasila, ze lid ma ureita prava, ktera nesmi Wit odriata, a to prava jsou: Zivot svoboda a snaha o gtesti. Konstituce je nej yyggi zakon zeme druha, dulezita listina, ktera trvala etyri mesice, neZ byla yypracovana, a ktera zarueuje prava a vYhody. Ustava zarueuje, ze lid vladne prostrednictvim rnuZtit a Zen, ktere si lid zvoli, aby ho ye vlade zastupovali. Jestli se dostanou do vlady lide nehodni, je to chyba lidu,ze si takove zvolil. Spojene stay jsou republika, caZ znamena, ze lid nevladne sam prima ale ze si voli sve zastupce. Anebo mohli byste vysvetliti rozdil mezi Prohla genim a tstayou kraal vetou: Prohla geni Nezavislosti bylo odtrhnouti od Anglie a Ustava SpojenYch state je vypracovanST nejvy g -Sispolecnyzakrdmuvoatky.

A nyni napi gte si do sveho se gitu odpovedi na tyto otazky.

1. Kdy slavime vSiroei narozenin arne7. rickeho naroda?

2. Jmenujte valku, ye ktere jsme vyhrali na gi nezavislost.

3. Kdy byla prijata astava Spojench state?

4. Jak zaeina, predmluva astavy?

5. Kolik dodatk y ma astava?

(Pokraeovani) ) s, I3ritskY lid je narod Iva vedeny osly.

H. G. Wells.

4,

4,

Kdo z lasky vyleeen jest nejdrive, je v2dy vyleeen nejlepe.

Ve stfedu, dne 23. bfezna 1955 Orel jest nejmohutnej§im tvorem v Si ptactva. Dovede vzletnouti vie a dole se v letu udrZeti neZ kterYkoliv jinY ptak, ale kdyby kral vzduchu byl drZan v zajeti, s ,takou kouli na noze, nevzlet1 by vV'Se neZli husa neb slepice. Kdyby je jeho prirozenY pud sebe vice pohanel do vYS'e, nepohnul by se ze zeme. alovek jako tento orel jest ureen k velkYm vecem. Ale tak mnozi zabijeji Zivot maliekostmi, mist() aby konali velke einy, jichZi jsou schopni, poneva0 cosi pout, jejich schepnosti a neda jim povznesti se do vY'S-e. Jest ohromne mnoZstvi neproduktivnich schopnosti spouta-no v onech masach lidstva, ktere nikdy nemely prilelitost vypiniti poslani, pro ktere je tvince ureil. Znam tolik ZalostnYch jak lido, mu'Zi a Z"eny ztroskotali ve stiednich letech sveho veku, ponevadZ" se zdrahali prinesti obeti ctiZ'adosti ye sverh mladi. Naklonnost k pohodlnemu zivotu veznila je tak dlouho, as jejich cti2aclost pohasla a oni se vzdali Mdosti, 0. S. 1Vlayclen.

- zlepAiti svnj osud.

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Pied lety, pied lety.

" "To je velice hezka dama, "Pane, to jste ji mel videt asi tak pied patnacti, dvaceti lety, to byla o deset let mladSi!" IMmaamiawassmeamwanwooscarasseu

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ViIKST, TEXAS

Strana .29 Mnozi z nas rikaji: "Co2 kdybych ja Kdo niti2e to, co dice, je At'astnSr mu2, mei vlohy a MoZnosti to neb one osoby, avSak velkYm a moudrYm je ten, jen2 kdybych ja mel takove vYhody jako on, chce to, co mute. kdybych ja byl tak vYteene vyzbrojen ve o • svem oboru jako on! Co bych to vykonal Divenka (na lodiece svemu spoleeniku, podivuhodnYch veci!" Ale osud nikoho nepostavil v tento svet, ani2 by ho nevyj- spatriv gi na brehu I:eky sveho otce): zbrojil potrebnYmi nastroji pro ukol, pro "Tot' hrozne. na brehu stoji tatinek! Vi nej2 jej ureil a jemu2 je prizpusobil. Ne- to co, delejte jako byste nine neznal." nabrousil vSak techto nastrojt, nebot' kdyby byl tak ucinil, byl by nas oloupil prave: o to, co ma prispivati k nagemti vzrtistu a vYvinu. Telice z posledni kapky svch schopnosti, zdokonalujice svou praci den za dnem, prekonavajici prekaZky, odstranujice du gevni rum, dusici nag vzrust, a bez ustani spejice a2 k nejOCNi LEKAit, vySSimu idealu, tak den za dnern odkrYBrj le spravne piipravene vame vrstvy nekoneenYch schopnosti, uCas dle finiluvy zavrene v kahle lidske bytosti.

513-17 SPJST Bldg.

0. S. Marden.

Dr. Thos. N. DeLaney

Tel. fifadovna PR 3-3248 Res. PR 3-2687 TEMPLE, TEXAS

4. ( ) Slava mirumilovnYm, ktefi hnev svtij premahaji. --® Dante.

For BETTER FARMING

is BMOC!!

Dirt Hustlers and Clod Knocker TRACK PLOW

Marek - Burns P011ittBNi DOMOV V hodirie ziamutku najdete u alas nejlepk polakebni obsluhu a ceny levne.

Tei prodivame pobiebni pojikeni od 1 mesice do 80 rokfi Ambulance ve dne i v noel MAREK BURNS FUNERAL HOME Bill Marek a Bill Burns Telefon 546 TEXAS CAMERON, ■•••••••M11...MMORM.--,-.111

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SPOLEDILIVV A PORROBNICKA SLUZBA

,.sme pohotovi Vain posloaiti bez rozdilu jak daleko bydlite bez jakehokoliv zvlakinho poplatku.

S nami muzet mluviti &sky. My nabizime Polarebni Pojikeni pro kadeho Clena rodiny.

Pete E. Et0' FUNERAL 110M._.

Elsie PrOak-Etlinger darnska pomocnice Telefonujte "collect" Tel 33 SELINILI,F,, TEXAS

Price Per Pair .75 WHEN CLEANING YOUR SEED beds for planting. Never use bedders for Running Middles, Always use Cultivators with Dirt Hustlers. This way you will have UNIFORM R 0 W S when you plant.

For second and third cultivating, use DIRT HUSTLERS for corn, cotton or any, row crops.

They also provide an excellent means of deepening the furrow for irrigation.

Install one DIRT HUSTLER on each plow. and a pair on each track plow as shown in the above illus tration.

Price $1.00 each THE CLOD KNOCKER is your

answer for maintaining an even seed depth on row crops. It prevents choking the cover shovels and eliminates covering the seed with trash weeds and dry dirt.

The amount of dirt used in covering the seed can be controlled by bending the CLOD KNOCKER as required.

To install CLOD KNOCKER, slip it behind the sweep and wire in place as shown above. No bolts are needed.

See your Weeder dealer or order 1irect from .

Burlington, Texas, Rt. 1

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WEST, TEXAS

Ve stkedu, dne 23. hi:Cana 1955.

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Nak doba uel nas, 'ge blahobyt neni jedinou prieinou nag rozpustilosti a prostopaS'nosti.

Jenom dobri atednici jsou Apatne placeni.

"Cw eske Filmove Di® vadla v Texas PRAGA FILM SPOLEtNOST F. J. VESKRNA CHICAGO, ILL., FRANK VAVIVIK zastupce pro stat Texas p•edvadi jen prvotiidni filmy v nasledujicich osadach.

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

Ernest J. Hanka PRAVNIK 408 Houston Title Bldg.

Dallas and Caroline Sta. HOUSTON 2, TEXAS TELEPHONE: Preston 0883

NovY nadhernY yelkofilin "SOUD BOZI Houston, v Sokalavne v sobotu, 2. dubna, zaeatek v 8 hodin weer Schulenburg, v uterY, 5. dubna v 7:30 weer Shiner, ve etvrtek, 14. dubna v 7 hodin veeer Caldwell, ye stredu, 20. dubna v 7 hodin veeer Wharton, ye stredu, 27. dubna odpoledne i weer

Adolph D. Pavliiiek

"BABItKA" Alen ramanu ad Boleny Nemcove La Grange, v patek, 15. dubna ,v '7 hodin veeer Flatonia., v nterSr , 19. dubna v 7 hodin veeer 1:1 Canino, Ve stredu 23. dubna, odpoledne i veeer Wallis, ye etvrtek, 28. dubna v 7 hodin veeer

PRAVNIK

"NAST FURIANTI" Enlis, ve etvrtek, 24. biezna v '7 hodin weer Fayetteville, v pan deli 18. dubna v '7 hodin weer "PRVNI POLIBENI" Wallis, y e etvrtck, 24. brezna v '7 hodin veeer Rogers, v nedeli, 17. dubna jen odpoledne "ULI(NICE" West, ve etvrtek, 24. brezna odpoledne i veeer Priidrte a prived'to i Vase zname aby s vami lain krasnY a piijemnY veeer.

PRAVNIK

Lavaca Co. Abstract COMPANY Jerome I. Kocian Vyiiotovl abstrakty, vlastnick4 pravo, vykizuje majetkove pojiSteni Cfadovna nad Peoples State Bank Telefon do fikadovny &lo le HALLETTSVILLE, TEXAS aiutreare,,,,railal,

SPRAVNE VYKONANA POIDIEBNI SLUiBA V hodine talu zarmouceni naleznete Edward Pace pohtebni fistav pohotovY k sympatickeinuvstize. ni nezbytnYch jednotlivosti a,k vy■ praveni dojemneho pohtbu.

Levne ceny jsou na gi, zasadOU

Edward Pace Pohiebni feditel Clen S.P.I.S.T.—Tel. Prospect 3-3606 118 N. 5th St.., TEMPLE. TEXAS

511-13 Shell Bldg HOUSTON, TEXAS A- ,ossaarto■SWINCUMEIVISVSomeaffiKarmiSNIM.

John W. Lekkar LONG THEATRES BLDG. 4229 Avenue F. — Phone 4536 BAY CITY, TEXAS

Victory Court_ Charlie Cerny, Owner & Operator • AIR CONDITIONED • SWIMMING POOL • PRIVATE BATHS • PLAY GROUNDS • TELEVISION • RADIO • AAA APPROVED

1125 Austin Hwy. U. S. 81 N. San Antonio, Texas Phone TA 6-9146

Dr. Chas. J. Hollub CeskY Lekar a Operater HOUSTON, TEXAS Telefon res.: Twinoaks 1222 Telefon diadovny: Pres 2553 711 Medical Arts Building

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Hilsher's Home Supply Co. 2020 Washington Ave AT-8424 5824 N. Main TW-1441 5225 Washinton TW-3387 9219 Jensen Dr. OX-2-5031 HOUSTON, TEXAS For All Your FURNITURE APPLIANCES and EVERYTHING ELSE FOR YOUR HOME Be Sure to See

HILSHER S and get "THE BEST FOR LESS" CASH OR EASY TERMS Your Satisfaction Guaranis.

And Free Delivery Service VASE CESKE OBCHODY

Ve StfedU, dne 23. bi'ezna 1955

WEST, TEXAS

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Maly Oznamovatel

Podekovini

Hlavni tiradovna, SPJST dela piljelty na farmy, ranee, a vybudovanY rnestsky majetek, kdekoliv v Texasu. Piijeuje svoje vlastni penize na nizke firoky, dlouhe splatIty a s velice pliznivyrni podminkami pro predeasne vyplaceni. Pike: Supreme Lodge, SPJST, Temple, Texas. ( We make loans on farms, ranches and improved city property anywhere in Texas. We lend our own funds at low interest rate on long terms and with very favorable prepayment privileges.

Supreme Lodge, SPJST, Temple, Texas. ( )

Ptejeme si zde vzdati na dik Bohu, za to, ze nas privedl na cestu k pravemu

Darkove do teskoslovenska

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V ichni tti jsme byli nemocni a byla nam Odporudena open ace. Dozvedeli jsrne se o Doktoru Broden, N. D., od ritznYch jeho pacientil a jak mnoho on pro ne vykonal; naee'Z jsme se rozhodli jej nav tiviti. Nyni jsme skuteene gt'astni, ze se tak stalo. My jsme byli leceni koncern rnesice srpna a jsine zdravi od to doby. Misto omezene nedovoluje zde popsani v echny choroby kterYmi jsme byli postiZeni. Ale od to doby co jsme z leOeni byli propu tOni, zadny z nas ne-

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byl nemocen jedinY den neb i hodinu.

MUZeme zde dad. Dr. Broden na e tiejiepM odporudeni co schopnY a poctivi Doktor, kterY jest velmi dobrY a jeho poplatky za jeho sluZby jsou velmi levne.

Dtive Zadny nam nebyl napomocen ani nepiinesl itlevy. My s radosti odpovime jakoukoliv iadost neb ota.zku.

Vain adresovanou obalku se znarnkou.

Frank Pavlecek Mrs. G. L. Pavlecek Steve Zaruba Adresa — Sealy, Texas Adresa Dr. Broden jest Hallettsville, Texas kde firaduje e etvrtek a v patek Ve Victoria, Texas, a v sobotu do 12ti. jest v pondeli, v UterY a patek — 908 IS (dzc) Navaro, St.

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vyrizuji.

Jsem zastupce pro firmu Gift Parcel New Yorku.

Potate sve drahe zaslanim balieku ze gvYcarska a Danska

Mrs. B. Vakik 8831 Diceman Drive Dallas 18, Texas ) ( 4,

Prod? — Mnozi se divili, prod Kato nema sochy na vefejnem prostranstvi, kdy'Z jinym muZtim, treba bez Yznammim, Se to potty dostalo. "Jsem rad i", odpovedel mudrc, "kdyZ' se lide ptaji proe dosud nemam sochy, neZ kdyby se ptali, pro6 ji

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Jak vypodobnila otce Male Jarmilky otazal se kdosi, jak vypada, tatinek "Tatinek?" mini Jarmilka, "ma na nose bOle a na hlave pleg".

1Wohl iste ugetriti hodne penez pOUZI, ag jednou tyCinkott NONAT Protoie tato spolehlivi mast eltrani pfed myna zavinenjani nind infekeemi, Zama a plikace vain male snadne niettit hodne nepohodlt wave jako i lekalske NONAT je ur&na k uleveni bolesti od Wad v yrafek, zarostl*ch nehtti, pokonsanf od hm yzu. atd. .

Objednejte pfhodnou tyeinku jute dnes! Pfavidelna velikost 55e. Velka usporni velikost $1.05.

REG P.S. PAT OPRE

R. C. MILLER & CO. P.O. Box 285, Altadena, Calif.

Pi ijd'te na pekne vesele

IVADLO CES v radove budove Pokrok 6islo 84 na Floyd Laid, Dallas, Texas "VESELA. VOJNA" zpevni hru o 3 jedninich Upravili —R. a A. Brandlovi Sehraji IDallasti ochotnici od sokola

V NEDELI, 27. BikEZNA Za6atek: 6:30 veer vstupn6 jako obyCein6 OSOBY: General Zaborski ze Zaboru Miro Jureik Halka, jeho dcera Alice Janieek Pant Vi.ncencie jevanovieova, vdova po majoru, sestra gene.ralova — Annie Staglik Katowicz, spravce statku generalova — Bill gill KatuSka, jeho dcera Rosie Hejnj, Boleslav z Daszynskich, poruoik husarsky Johnnie gebetka TobiaS Bimbo, chistojnickY -- Vincent Ondre§ek Katzenrad, rese.rvin kadet, dfistojnickY zastupce pechoty Albert Vaniura Rytmistr Petrie z Novalova — — Joe Jureak Maryna, sluika, Vlasta Laino ∎sk5, Retie: V. Ondrfi gek Napeveda: Karla Kraft Piano: Haddy Sebetka; Housle: Julius Padhradsky, Accordian: Frankie Fitz Lieeni a fiprava Vertu: Walter lloge.k tiprava joviSte: Ann Zvolanek, Joe Maca, Johnnie Kebrie, Jr. 0 jidlo a abeersteni bode postarano elenami od kadu.

Pokrok elk° 84 eISTt VYTEZEK BUDE DAROVAN SOKOLU DALLAS NA "BUILDING FUND"

Ask Any Local SPJST Representative About the "Savings and Protection" SUPREME LODGE, S. P. J. S. T. Temple, Texas