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ye stiedu (Wednesday) 27. DUBNA (APRIL) 1955

BRATRSTVI JE NASIM HERD' YLO JASNE a lifejive nedelni odpoledne na zadatku dubna.

Dva mladi sazedi z tiskarny . krajanskeho easopsu "Texan" prochazeli se mesteekem Granger Ali vlastne z potty, ktera se nalezala na YYchodni strane mesta pies drahu do zapadni — eeske etvrti.

V tom zaznel nekde na blizku eeskY zpev. Zdal se takovY mekkY, lahodnY. To zpival nekde smitenY sbor, dojemne a s jakousi vroucnosti. Alespori tak zdalo se clvema mladikin. Bylo v torn zpevu cosi velebneho. I slova bylo zfetelne rozumeti: "VznetenY na g udel, bratii, nadtenim nam naplii hrud', ye slibu si stajme pevne, naeim heslem lidskost bud'."

"Kdo to tam zpiva?" . ptal se mladei z hocht, asi devatenactiletY. "To bratrskST spolek ma schilzi," vysvetloy al starei, "Jednou za mesic se sejdou v nedeli odpoledne, zazpivaji si neZ" zaenou rokovani ye schtizi a pak znovu zpivaji, net schilzi ukonei."

"Ty fikae, Hatko, ee je to bratrskSt spolek? Prod bratrskY? oni si navzajem tykaji? A nemaji jeete nejakS, jinY noel?"

Mladei hoch byl zvedavST na dalei informace o skupine lidi, ktera, zpivala. Teprve nedavno prijel ze stare vlasti, a proto mnohe veci z krajanskeho Zivota byly mu nove.

Hoei zastavili pies ulici od zdene budovy, z jejiho2 vrchniho poschodi nesla se k nim zretelne slova pisne: "K praci dile at' nas vede jejich laska, desk' zpev."

"Abych ti to vysvetlil,"- mluvil dale marel z hocht, "pokud sam o torn vim, je to bratrskST spolek, kterSt slibuje svSlm num, 2e kdyby nekterY z nich umrel, ostatni se postaraji, aby vdova nebo deti, nebo i vdovec s cletmi, dostali pet set nebo tisic dolara na zaplaceni leku, leka,fe

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kadu (Pietisk na tadost KomenskY v Granger) nebo pohiebnich vYloh, a aby jeate hodne zbylo. Krome toho, kdyt by nekdo z nich onemocnel, druzi si zvoli ze sveho stfedu vYbor, ktery nemocneho jde opatrovat.

Krome toho maji mezi sebou jette jine zavazky, ale ty jsou tajne, protote ten, kdo se stane jejich elenem, musi se zavazat destnYm slibem, tie vaechny zavazky bude zachovavat, ale te je jinYm lidem, kteti nejsou eleny spolku, nikdy neprozradi."

"Nu, a jak poznaji, kdo je Menem a kdo neni, jestli se vaichni najednou nesejdou?"

"Mail tajna, poznavaci znameni. jsem, te kdyt chce jeden o druhem veclet, zdali tet path do toho bratrskeho spolku, (la si ureitY prst bud' prave nebo 'eve ruky nekam na tvai nebo na krk. A aby se ta.clnY neelen nedostal mezi ne, tak u dvefi stoji strat, ktere musi katdY vstupujici poteptat heslo."

"To musi bYti velice rortifenY a silnY spolek,' Ze si mohli postavit takovou kladnou zdenou budovu. Nebo maji to budovu jenom zpachtovanou?"

"Zpachtovanou? Ty ming pronajmutou? Ne, to je jejich vlastni budova. Vidig ten letopodet? 1908. To se slotili a budovu si postavili, V ptizemi je Martinctiv obchod, a nahoie se schazeji ke schtizim a k zabavam. Kolik maji zde alma, to nevim. Ale to je pouze mistni spolek. Jmenuji ho fad KomenskY eislo 20. TakYch spolkii maji po celem statu, v katicle deske °sada jeden. Vtem spollthm dohromady fikaji Sloyanska, Jednota, nekde take Texaska, Jednota."

"Prod se ale nejmenuje Bratrska Jednota? Rikal jsi, ze je to bratrskY spolek?"

"Asi 'tie se nechteji temi jejich bratrskYmi zavazky nebo sliby prilis chlubit, ad jednim z jejich yekejnYch hesel je "bratrstvi". Ta dopisni ohlaveni, co jsme

yeera tiskli, mela hesla "Podposa — Lidskost — Bratrstvi". To asi m i veiejna hesla a pak asi tet tajna, hesla, ale nejsem jistY. °Tolik vim, ze na bratrstvi si potrpi."

"Co tim minis?"

"Nu, vezmi si zde gtefku, Kopeckeho, Ventreka, Jelinka, Mikuleneaka Jilka to mat jako jednou velkou rodinu: Slibili si, ze budou jedni druhernu jako bratii -- a take jako bratii postaviii si tuhle budovu. Patti vtem, Jak to dokazali nebo pit si vypomahaji, to nevim. Ale jeden na druheho kfiveho slova nekekne. Lepti net krevni bratii. Kdybych mehl se stati elenem toho spolku, myslim 'tie bych nevynechal ani jednu jejich schnzi. Sejit se dohromady, zazpivat si, miti respekt, porozumeni a laskavost pro katdeho, to je co vlastne bychom vaichni podebovali.

Bratrstvi by melo byti natim heslem.

Potiebujeme pfiblititi se jeden k druhemu. Men bychom miti vice a vice bratrstvi a se naueit vyslovovat "bratfe" s opravdovYm porozumenim. A elovek, kdyti, by obeas pkitel do takove bratrske spoleenosti snad by se naueil lepe kontrolovat svou prudkou puvahu, a sve hruba slova. Jak Hkam, nevynechal bych ani jedne schtze, abych z katcle si odnesi lepti pojem o bratrstvi."

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To byl rozhovor dvou mladikil, kteii pied etyki a etyficeti roky stali naproti budove fadu KomenskY. Rozumovali o bratrstvi ve schtizich kadovYch. Nebyli eleny, ale videli v Jednote SPJST cosi IAtlechtileho, poyznatejiciho, Jeden z nich, ten starai, Ben Hatka, padnul nekde ve Francii. Ten mladSi protel celou fadou zkuaenosti v bratrskein spolku, zatil vaelicos, i co nebylo blizke bratrstvi, ale pies to vae dosud yeti, ze v naai SPJST mute bratrstvi bYti otiveno jako zasadni heslo.

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Nebudu popisovati schiizi druheho dis. triktu, ktera/ se konala v nedeli 17. dubna v sini radu KomenskY v Granger.

Budou nektcri fadovi clepisovatele neOo navetevnici schtize, kteki se o jedriani a programu rozepiei. Mimo toho distrikt druhY zvolil si schopneho zpravedaja, bratra Calvina C. Chervenku, kterY jiste poda, referat o torn, co se projednavalo ye -schtizi v Granger. Proto domnivarn se, ge me kadky byly by nemistne, nebot' pkebiral bych tim praci Ci funkci, ktera patki jinym osobarn. Omezim se jen na to, co jsern vyslechl a nasbiral mezi aleny v soukromem rozhovoru.

Samogrejme kaidV kterS■ jde do distriktni schtize, ma zajem na torn, aby se v distriktni schtizi provedlo nebo pkijalo ncco, dim by se spolkova einnost distriktu a v cele Jednote povzbudila.

KYvnul. na mne jeden znamY bratr, dlouholetY pracovnik, kterY ve svem domacim radu zastaval snad veechny mogne Utedni povinnosti. "Pojd', pkisedni, chci ti neco kid," vyzval mne, abych se posadil na prazdnou gidli Yedle nej, "Tak se nine porad zda, ge tern naSim distriktnim. schtizim cosi chybuje, ze nejsme jegte tarn, kde jsme Ohteli bYti, kdy jsme novali a zalogili distrikty. Ty distriktni schtize maji bYti mistem, kde v gichni dohromady planujeme, probirame rozmanite napady a navrhy, ro yname svou spolkovou cestu, a hledime delat takovou praci, ktera, se dkive delavala jenom na sjezdech. Vime to veichni, hlavni fitednici nezavadeji sami zadne novoty, ge to musi nal:11.0 Wit probrane a promyslerie v radech a v distriktech.

Nasi vYkormi urednici jen vykonavaji sve kag dodenni povinnosti, ale na distriktech je, aby ye svy'ch schtizich probiraly nejake novoty."

Skoda, ze zminerdt bratr zamitnul me Pozvani, aby o techto bodech se rozepsal nasem Vestniku. PI'S, on promluvi doma ve svem fade, on Pkijde do ka gde distriktni schaze, ale v novinach se "roztahovati nebude se svYmi rozumy." Ale mnohdy by nahledy zku geneho spolkoveho iikednika a bratra pomohly yysvetliti nekterou nevy •eeenou otazku. Mnohdy by takovY dopis byl cennYm pfispevkern, zrnkem, ktere mute padnouti na prave misto a mute z neho yypueeti rostlina ugitedna,.

Distrikt drul-4. ma dobreho piedsedu.

Je jim bratr Frank V. Spailhel, kterY v pfitomne dobe je tea tajemnikem fadu Hvezda Texasu eislo 47 v Seaton,. Pfedseda Sparihel snail se yeemogne, kdy pkigly na pfettes nove zale gitosti a otazky pro dobro celku, aby nekdo z pritomnYch

Ve stredu, dne 27. dubna 1955. vyvolal ten el. onen bod, o Tiein g by se mohli eleni rozhovokit. Nikdo se nehlasil. NikdO si nevzpomnel na gadnY z tech bodti, ktere : byly probirany ye schtizich jinYch distriktu, Nebylo vzponienuto museum, ani nemocenske a arazove pojigteni, ani pkitomna soute g yeech nabor Cienu, ani zanedbano hnuti mlade ge, ani fitulna, ani •co by se meld ipodniknouti, aby bylo lepei zastotipeni . v -distriktnich schazich. Znovu a znovu : opakoval pfedseda l Sparihel svou vYzy u,- zda by nekdo chtel promluviti o jakekoliv -veci ye prospech Jednoty, ale neozval se nikdo.

Dam na§im distriktnim einovnikilm malou radu. Kdy g planujete program diStriktni schtlze i nezaporninejte, 'ge od yedoucich v distriktu se oeeka yalaby pkipravili • nejen zabavni progralh, ale tea aby si pkedem poznadili nektere body, ktere bylo by dobre ye schtizi probrati.

To je prate piedsedy, mistopfedsedy, ta,jemnika a distriktniho keditele nebo je• -ho naltradnika. Tyto osoby jsou ona koleeka, ktera, !uvedou celY pohyb distriktu do behu. Az budeme miti distriktniho organisatora, ten roma bude patfiti do Cinnost v disskupiny, ktera se stara, triktu. A a g - budeme distriktniho zastupce mlade ge, on nebo ona hudou .v distriktni planovaci schtizi velice platfebni.

Vraciin se k one poznamee, kterou v -soukromi ke mne pronesl onen dobrj1 spolkoyY bratr, ze "tern na gim :distriktnim sdhtizim cosi chybuje, ge nejsme jeAte tam, kde jsme chteli bYti." Ano, chybuje nam hodne, ale to se neda, feechno nakomandoyati. To mug i waist' v nas samotnYch postupem • easu, vYmenou nahledti. Distriktni 'nfednici maji ureite povinriosti. Nekteki- distriktni ittednici si to uvedomuji: Poznal jsem to- z feei s bratrem 8parihelem po schtlzi v Granger.

Pfiznal se, ge oeeka yal od distriktni selvage Vide neg co se vykonalo. Ale proodekavat od pfitomnYch zradil, • k sami p •inesou nejake nahledy a navrhy. Sam 'nechtel s nieim za,einati.

Daval napfed druhYm pfile gitost. Druzi 'nemeli dosti porozumeni, nemeli nic promyelene, nic pohotove. V takovYch pi• ipadech je nutno, aby probirani jednotlivYch bodti ve .schUzi glo die pfedem yypracovaneho planu.

Plan postupu jednani" ye sehilzi ma fitly bYti promyelen a yypracovan spoleene veemi tifedniky r distriktu v jejich posledni planovaci schtizi. AC feditel v distriktu nezastupuje vYhradne svilj distrikt, kdy g je zasedani hlavniho telesa, je on dille'g itYm Cinitelem a poradcem planovaci schtizi distriktu. MC bYti pokagde uvedomen od distriktnich • ge ten a ten yeder se kona, vYborova schtize, kdy se bude jednati o programu pro pkieti distriktni schtizi.

Ve stredu, dne 27. dubna 1955. tel by se mel do teto solvate dostavit, jestli mu jen trochu motno. A mel by ye schirzi bYti tet nahradnik, protote on se do vgeho ma pomalu zaueovati, aby v eas potteby nahradil nepritomneho red:tele.

Vezmeme si skuteet4 piipad nektere prigti distriktni schuze. V nedeli 15. kvetna bude schtize gesteho distriktu v Hillje. Planovaci vSibor jiste mel sve schilze, aby se vypracoval ureitSt postup jednani. VYbor se usnesl, to dopoledni zaseciani bude k tomu, aby hlavni rirednici meli priletitost poskytnouti nejake pokyny tern, kdo takove pokyny pottebuji.

Na odpoledni jednani zbYva zabavni program deti a mladete, cot je duletitou veci, aby deti se citily east: velike rodiny SPJST, a po programu prijdou na prettes otazky distriktu a cele Jednoty.

Aby cela schilze odpoledne mela ureit3% smer a neco znamenala, museji se firednici gesteho distriktu je gte jednou sejiti dohromady, aby tajemnik distriktu mohi si predem udelati poznamky, co by v distriktni schuzi melo bSrti probirano.

V teto poradni schrizi ma bSiti pledseda, mistopredseda, tajemnik, pokladriik, ditele a ty osoby, ktere byly ustanoveny pro vedeni detskSrch programu v distriktu. V gestem distriktu jsou dve sestry dohlititelkami, aby hnuti mladete stale se rozmahalo. V katclem distriktu jsou dve osoby, ktere byly schvaleny vrchnim telesem a jsou ye stalern spojeni s bratrem Markem, kterSt riyni vede celou akci, aby mladez v kahlem distriktu byla pokud rnohno co nejvice nou. A v teto poradni schtzi si distriktni Urednici nastini pro sebe nezavaznSr a pokusnY program, podle ktereho se budou probirati jednotlive body. Jestli firednici nechteji probirati otazku irtulny, a nikdo z pritomnSrch elenft tuto vec nevyvola, mohou se probirati dal gi body.

Na priklad, gestY distrikt nema nahradnika, prestal bkti elenem SPJST. Predseda, si mule udelati poznamku, zdali tento bod chce vyvolati. Kdyt ne, prechazi k bodu dalgimu. Ale pro katdou sonzi ma predseda a tajemnik distriktu miti poznaCeny vgechny body, na kterYch se planujici vYbor piedem usnese, to bylo by zahodno , je probrati.

Distriktni saline budou elm dale tim duleiitejsimi soueastkami v na gi Jednote. Distriktni arednici budou nadmiru dfiletitSrmi einiteli, ponevadt oni spolu s distriktnim reditelem budou ye sySTh poradnich schtzich planovati dalgi postun prate v distriktu. Dosud vgechny distrikty, i ten nejeipern'elgi treti distrikt, hledali cesty a zprisoby, jak by se uplatnily. Museji hledati nove cesty.

My dnes tijeme v dobe ohromnYch zmen narodohospodarskSrch a politickSich, kdy ani bratrske spolky nemohou a nesmeji si dovoliti, aby staly na starch a ptetil-

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13%ch zpilsobech. Ze ty na ge schrize nejsou dosti navgtevovane, nemirte bSrti svadeno jen na moderni vynalezy, na pohybliye obrazky, na televisi, na autornobilove vyjitd'ky. My jsme zanedbali vyutitkovat techto vynaleztt ye sviij prospech. Proto distrikty maji pled sebou ohromnS, rikol, aby zavedly to a nasty cesty k tomu, by nage mladet prichazela vice a vice do na&eh sini.

Vzpominam si, ie jsem pied nekolika roky ukazoval v nekterYch radovYch sinich pohyblive obro.zky. Prigli stari a phisly take deti, dorilstajici chlapci a devZatim co tatinkove stali nebo sedeli ye skupinach, zatim co maminky se bavily hovorem mezi sebou, ti mladgi byli 'zvedavi, jak' promitaci pristroj pout:yam, jake jsou filmy, jak je spojuji dohromady, kdyt se rortrhnou. Ti stargi eleni nemeli mnoho zajmu na tech novotach, zato ti mladi meli odi a u gi vgude, kde by se ne'demu priueili. Prot bychom jim nedali priletitost, aby jejich harem se stupnoval, Jii davno jsem nabizel hlavnim atednikilm, he jim prenecham svilj film o nagi SPJST k volne disposici, ale ti stall ritednici nemaji mu, a mlade aredniky mezi sebou nemame.

Chtel-li by nekterY distrikt ..pouiiti barevnYch filmu, meho promitaciho stroje a moll째 promitaciho platna ye svilj prospech, jen mne to oznamte a s radosti tyto veci kteremukoliv distriktu zdarma zapiljeim. Snad najdete mezi vagi mlatieti nektereho mladika nebo devee, kteti se ye gkole nautili, jak zachazeti s takovYmi vecmi. Snad by to prospelo, aby u nektereho radu nebo v nekterem distriktu se vyvinul lepgi jem o veci spolkove timto zpilsobem.

Rovnet sestra Hilsherova nechala rekordovati nekolik kusit "Pisne S. P. J. S. T.," cot take lets u ni ladem, jako u mne bez utitku odpoeiva za $900 barevneho filmu. Ti stall eleni a Utednici nemaji o podobne veer zalem, a ti nagi mladi hogi a deveata ani nevedi, co mame a s aim by se mohli sami pobaviti.

Je to pravda, to je nemUteme do nagich sini dostati, ale hledali jsme cesty k prave? My jen mame omluvu, na gi omluvu.

A tech omluv mime dosti pro vSechno.

Jit pled tremi etyrini lety agitoval jsem, abychom do nagich elenskStch certifikazavedli vy'hody, jako najdeme ye vgech jin3-rch pojistkach. Hdy2 byla distriktni schilze tletiho distriktu v Sokolovne ye Fort Worth, chytil jsem se s bratrem predsedou pro tuto vec do kritku. Pry to nemiiteme provadeti bez povoleni sjezdu. 81i jsme za nagim aktuarem, aby nas rozsoudil. Ten rekl, he v gechny obchodni pojigt'ovny to maji,, my to take milteme svSrm elenrim dati, kdyt bychom chteli. Koneene tato dal gi vYhoda byla

Strana 3 zavedena asi pled rokem a VII, v3ihoda anglicky zvana "installment options," nebo vyplaceni amrtni podpory dle prani pojigteneho dedice v ureitS,ch lhiltach nebo v uraitYch eastkach.

Kdyi v minule schtizi vedouciho telesa byl ueinen dotaz, zdali je "po takovYch pojistkach" jakit poptavka, bratr Marek vysvetlil, te dosud pri gla jen jedna tadost. Zapomnel rici, anebo sam nepopochopil, he se to vztahuje na vgechny certifikaty jakehokoliv druhu v obnosu $3,000.00 a vY ge a na vgechny nadadni certifikaty. Ze o teto vYhode nagi eleni nevedi, nebo he jim dosud nebyla vysvetlena, poznal jsem z dotazu, zdali jsou podobne poptasky. My to vS/hodu jit mame, je samoeinna, a mute ji vykutitkovati katdST, kdo ma za tri tisice vbyeejneho pojigteni. Take bratr Bakina v dopisu v dnegnim disle pripomina, te podobna pojistka byla by pro nas vYhodou, a he snad prigti sjezd nee째 podobneho zavede. My 3:2 v gak tuto vSrhodu mame zavedenu, den je treba, aby v distriktnich zich byla na gim elerriun vysvetlena. A bude-li mi dana priletitost, abych nekdy opet mluvil v nekterSrch osganisatorskSrch schnzich, tento bod bude chlkladne naglin organisatortrin vysvetlen, jedna iadost, aby do cerAni, tifikath elena byla vlotena klausule, he dedieka elena ma pra y째 vziti si celou mrtni podporu najednou nebo v nYch mesienich ti etvrtletnich eastkach.

Prigla ta.dost od redaktora, kterY yid: v torn vYhodu, kdy vdova dostava mesieni prijem misto velke sumy `najednou.

PPM bych si, aby eleni, kteri maji tivotniho pojigteni od SPJST bud' $3,000.00 nebo vice, rovnet se hlasili o vloteni teto klausule do jejich certifikatil. Nechci byti sam, a bude-li nas vice, snad drive dojde k vyrizeni na gich tadosti.

Je cela kada podobnych zlepSeni, o kterYch bychom mohli v katde distriktni schuzi rokovati a pak spoleenou iaclosti na nage vedouci Utedniky tyto dobre zmeny zavesti, pokud to stanovy dovoluji. Jsou veci, s kterYmi musime eekati at do sjezdu. Ale jsou jine vYhody, ktere jsou nutne a byly by Jednote prospe g -ne,kdybchomjel:cnjdfive.Dstrikni schuze jsou mistem, kde se v gechny dobro navrhy mohou probirati a doporueovati.

V minulem eisle byl uvekejnen v . anglicke oast dopis od bratra S. C. Bundila, predsedy radu San Antonio eislo 133.

Nedopattenim nebyl pod jeho dopisem podpis bratra Bundila, cot timto omlouvame.

Pristi nedeli, na 1. kvetna, bude schitze prvniho distriktu ye Snook, schilze exstudent:I a slavnost Majales v Austinu a pekne Ceske divadlo v Houstonu,

V f, S T N I H — WEST, TEXAS

Ve stredu, dne 27. clubna 955,

ZPRAVY 011LASY Z DISTRI1{113 POZVANi K BANKETU Organisatai pateho distriktu timto srde(ne zvou vgechny organisatory lie distriktu a jejich rodiny ke spoleene hostine a ptatelskernu pataveni v nedeli 22. tvetna 1955 v Houstonu v sini tadu Fokrok Houstonu eisio 88 na jedenactou hoc-Unit dopoledne.

Nemame v Umyslu rozesilati "a.clne 0sobni pozvanky v techto dvou distriktech, doufame, ze toto oznameni neujde pozornosti nagich organisatorti a vyhovi svemu iteeltt.

Zadarne laskave, abyste se v gechni melte dostavili, nebot' chceme spoleene miti ntijernne pobaveni v duchu bratrskem.

J. M. Bkrabanek, ptedseda 5 distriktu Rudy J. 8efelk, tajemnik 5. distriktu )•

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DROBTY ZE SCHUZE DRUHEHO DISTRIKTU Irotadane due 17. dubna u radu Komeri sick eis. 20 v Granger, Texas.

Schuzi zahajil br. Frank Bpanhel, dis triktni pfed geda, za ptitomnosti br. mistoptedsedy a tajemnika.

Br. Holubec, ptedseda, pohostinneho tadu, spra yne volenSrmi slovy pozdravil navAtevniky a ptedal tizeni br. Bpanhe Sestra Clara Hejl od tadu eis. 47 v Seaton, ktera meta vest zabavni program, se tohoto zhostila predanim mlademu Menu od tadu cis. 24 v Cyclone, Bobbie Hoelscherovi. Celr program byl libivST a byl zasloaene oclinkien chvalou.

Ptivitaci proslov byl prone gen hezkSrm kanetem 2enskeho pohlavi. Pri doprovodu piana byla zazpivana pisen. "S.P.J.S. T." sborove mladek. Dye solova eisla na tahaci harmoniku, "Zapadlo sluneeko za hory vysoke", a dal gi "Pod javorem", tednesla sleena Hejlova, jestli se nemSTkde za prvnich akordil bylo zfejme, ze jest hudebne nacland. Prone geny deklarnanky v eeske Peel, i anglietine, pisne eeske i anglicke.

Dye maia deveatka ptednesla solova eisla na nastroje mne vtibec nezname.

Nebyl to klarinet, ale snad nejakST dalekST jeho ptibuzn3i. Snakly se, jen co je pravda. Dye eisla americke etverylky a jeden ptednes "tap dance", kterS r ptednesla vila drobne postaviely.

Program tento byl ptipraven spoleenY. m Usilim a spoleenou praci dvou cis. 47 v Seaton a Cis. 24 v Cyclone.

Ptedstavte si: Dva tady, n6kolik mil

vzdalene od sebe. Rodiee po celodenni Praci vezou to drobotinu ku zkougkam.

Rano jdou deti do Skoly bez dostataneho spanku. Tata utraci ta'ce zasloaeiV grog na gasolin. Mama utraci na gateeky svYch dceru gek, aby byly na programu hezke. To neni jen vediej gi yydani, aneb nadobyeejna trpelivost jak tak i vedoucich. Ale zde nekdo musi do takoveho price vlokt i cele sve srdce, aby se dila yydatilo.

A my, dospeli maove a zeny, kteti se east() chlubime s yYmi oiny, jsme doposud nepochopili, Z s e na gi povinbosti jest, abychom sna-2eni teto mlaciae alespai easteene odmenili na gi stoprocentni pritornnosti v nagich distriktnich schuzich.

Prove z teto iteinkujici mladae nam jednou vyrostou pracovnici, kteti budou zkyptovat ptidu na lanech na gi JednotY, a dovedou ji ku vykf2enernu cili, aby byla chloubou 'desk& vetve v Texasu.

Po ukoneeni programu br. ptedseda se ujal znovu tizeni schfize.

Oteni protokolu bylo ptijato bez jakekoliv zmeny. otena eisla a jmena tadti.

Osmnact radix, patticich do druheho distriktu. eSte nikdy se nese gly ku spoleene po/ ade Tfinacte bylo pfitomno, pet radti zu ,,talo doma.

Odlorene a nedokoneene jednani VoIne navrhy, ptipravne navrhy do sjezclu, kterS7 se kvapem blizi — Mdne. Zda se, Ze jsme odespali spankem sprovedlivSr'ch.

Jeclna dobra vec, ktera nos na teto schuzi potkala, bylo vysvetleni od almacti zastoupen3"Tch tacit jejimi zastupci, jak sou jejich schiize navStevoyany.

Nekte •i hlasili dobrou nav gtevu. A ptieina toho? Br. Heil, ptedseda tadu Hvezda Texasu, iekl toto; "Mame ptipraven ravrh. na ceh rok doptedu. Obeas pozveme tecnika, pot adame svaeiny p11 schiizich a krat,si plogramy inladY.ch Menu, a vkly mime polovieni zastoupeni sester."

TakovSi to potad jest jiste nanejvVg chvalitebnSi. Ne v gak kady tad se mohl timto zpasobein pochlubit. Jini hlasili dostateone naN gtevy, a zase dal gi sotva dostateene, az na twine nedostateene.

Zahloubame-li se v my glenkach do teto situace schtizovS7ch na ygtev, musime dojiti ku pi.esvkleeni, ktere its*" nemti2e nam slouziti ku cti.

Na. teto schtizi jsme poznali, kde stojime a kam spejeme. V nekterSTch ptipadech skuteene stojime beze hnuti, ba pokraeujeme opaenY'm smerem.

Br. redaktor Valeik promluvil ku shromaMeni prvne. Privez1 sebou koS bodd, jak tuto na gi ubohou Udast napravit. Zel, ze zazraemi lek jsme v nagi schtizi neobjevili.

Dalg i promluvil br. ptedseda Edw. Marek o praci v ittadovne, ktera jim pterttsta pies hlavy. Br. J. F. Chupick mluvil o spolupraci. Br. Navratil, teditel distriktu, podal svoji zpravu jako obvykle.

Volba ittednikit: Za ptedsedu, Frank Spanhel; za mi gtopicedsedu, Joe Jakubec; za tajemnika, Joe Belieek; zvoleni aklamaene. Za zpravodaje br. Calvin Oervenka do anglicke east.

Ptigti schiize bude u tadu Hvezda Texasu v Seatoh eislo 47. Datum schiize budeureeno az po prozkaumani kadoveho kalendate, a yetejnosti yeas oznameno ye Vestniku.

Timto koneim popis na gi schtze, ktera mohla bYti lepe navgtivena, kdybychoin meli yetgi zajern pro na ge vlastni dobro.

Vag tajemnik Joe Be-Week. )• 4o Z TitET1110 DISTRIKTU Bratre redaktore: Laskave zarad' mezi oznameni distriktnich schuzi, ze ptiSti ischtitze ttetiho distriktu bude v sini radu Ennis 'Oslo 25 v nedeli dne 19. eervna, tedy na Svatek otct.

Bratr Cervenka, reditel tretiho distriktu, oznamuje nam, Ze toto je jedina nedele, ktera je aZ dosud volnd. a ktera neni dosud ureena pro nejake radove a spolkove podniky jincle, Tedy abychom si tuto nedeli zajistili, laskave to oznarn ve Vestniku co nejdrive. SrdeenY dik za Tvou spolupraci.

S bratrskYm pozdravem Johnnie Hrabina, tad Ennis C. 25. ) • oTo ° ( Z DISTRIKTU gESTEII0 El Campo, Texas.

Sestra a bratti: Veeer 15. dubna se gel se v3'7bor, aby projednal program na gi distriktni schiize, ktera ptipada na 15. kvetna. naslePo del gim jecinani jsme clujici program: V 10:30 dopoledne zahajeny budou skupinove sell-62e v geeh pfedsedtI a tajernnikil S'esteho distriktu, a take fSech organisatorti gesteho distriktu. Zadame piedsedu Marka, aby vedl schuzi ptedsedt, tajeinnika Chupika, aby pfe yzal vedeni skupinove schilze tajemnika. Vime, ze je mnoho cennSTch a citilaitSr ch pokynti, ktere oni mohou poskytnouti tadovYrn tedniktim, Dale Mclame bratra Valeika, aby on pledsedal schtizi organisatoril, jestli mu to bude mane. Je nesporne, 1e on mite poskytnouti organisatordm mnoho ponaueeni. (Poznamka redaktora: — Milerad bych to vykonal, jenk od 1. Iedna

Ve stfedu, dne 27. cinbna 1955.' bratr Mareit prevzal veSkere vedeni organisaenich schnzi, oznamovani naborove prate, odmeny organisatorfim, vedeni klub() "50-M" a "12-M". Dohodnete-li se s bratrem ptedsedou, ochotne vypomohu.)

V 11:45 se bude podavat chutnY • °bed skladajici se z mnoha dobrot.

Po obede v 1:30 zapoene zabavni program deti z East Bernard a z okolnich kado. tleinkujici deti budou odmeneny hned po ukoneeni programu, kterY nebade deli ne2 hodinu a pal.

Pak se zahaji distriktni schnze. Doufame, 2e eleni v§ech Itacin se schilze zaeastni a prinesou nejake dobre navrhy k projednani, aby se pak u getrilo mnoho drahocenneho easu ye sjezdu.

Hlavne o nal mladek by se dalo mnono rokovat. Vklyt' to vlastne byla mySlerika tech, kteti navrhli zalo2eni disaby se mohlo v IffSim kruhu pracovat pro mlade2.

Zaroven tad techoslovan bade tuto distriktni schtizi pova2ovati za svou pravidelnou rn.esieni schfizi v kvetnu. Toti2 neetni a pokladnik budou ptitomni, aby u sveho stolku ochotne ptijali fimrtni poplatky od v'Sech elenii, kteti si budou sve povinnosti zapraviti, Jste vg ichni zvani, abyste ptijeli•do distriktni schfize 15. kvetna a ptivezli s sebou sve zname a pfatele.

S bratrskYm pozdravem James Hradeckr, tajemnik Aesteho distriktu.

(V17-19) ) Z TRETIHO OISTRIKTU Dallas, Texas Bratfe redaktore: Laskave za,tad' mezi distriktni zpravy oznameni, ze v nedeli 22. kvetna bude hromaciftY zajezd bratrtl a sester z tietiho distriktu do Houstonu, kde eleni teho distriktu pozvali nas na pohosteni.

Takova, bratrska spoluprace stoji za to, aby byla oznamena cele nag ' bratrske vetejnosti. Upine podrobnosti budou podany v ptiStim eisle Vestniku. Zatim tato kratka, zprava a zatad' to take do kalenclatti, aby to nebylo ptehlidnuto.

A jeate neco: Ka2dou sttedu hraji na gi bog, totit2 "Mieova, Beta etyfiaosmdesatnikir v Samuell parka MAO Oslo 2, ktere je hned naproti autovemu obchodu Otto Janouglca. C'as hry bude oznamen kahlY tSiden.

(Bratr Ben Jarma ji2 oznameni poslal.

Red.) Za uvefejneni srdeene diky. Nazdar.

Frank B. Steiner ( 4. ) madame dlouholete studie na pravniku, drive ne2 jest mu dovoleno provozovat prakci; ponechavame vYrobu zakonil jakemukoliv vrtaku, jeho2 jedind kvalifikace jest, 2e vi, jak ulovit hlasy.

VESTNIK — WEST, TEXAS

Vyberte si die potieby Tfinact druhfi certifikatti MUST pro dospele: Tfida B: Do givotn/, poplatky se plati do mai.

Tricia C: Poplatky se plati 20 roku. obnos pojiAteni se vyplati kdykdykoliv v pfipadu Vida D: Popla.tky se plati 1 rokii. Plt4 obnos pojigteni se vyplati kdykoliv v piipadu iimrti.

Tfida E: Poplatky se plati 10 roku. Ph4 obnos pojiSteni se vyplati kdykoliv v ptipadu Tfida F: Piny obnos certifikatu je vyplacen po 15 letech nebo kdykoliv pfedtim v pfipadu Vida G: PlnST obnos certifikatu je vyplacen ye 20 letech nebo kdy koliv pfedtim v pfipadu Umrti Tfida H PlnS7 obnos certifikatu je vyplacen po dosakni 65 let stars nebo kdykoliv pfedtim v pHpadtt &nth.

Vida I: Poplatky se plati 20 rail. Pln$ obnost certifikatu je vyplacen po dosakni 60 let stall nebo kdykoliv pfedthn v pfipadu (=Ai. Tfida K Poplatky se plati do veku 65 let. PlnY obnos pojigteni se vyplati kdykoliv ,v pfipadu Vida L: Dvojnasobne itraZove pojigteni (double indemnity). Certifikat se vystavuje pouze do obnosu $2,500, dodateerie k jitemu certifikatu.

Tfida M: Poplatky se plati do veku 65 let. Po dosakni 65 rokii stati, glen dostava mesieni pfijett dokud ziv. Zerhte-li pied 80 lety stars, dedici dostanou mesidni pfijem do 80. vYroei narozenin Mena.

Vida M-C: 17pisova ochrama na 20 let ktera se zrnenAuie. az zOstanP vyplacene pojiAtoni na $1,000.

Poj gteni se vyplati kciykoliv v pfipadu funrti die klesajici :Itupnice.

Tfida N: tpisova ochrana jen tern, kdo mail od SPJST yyptijeene penize Pet druhil cerWikatii SPJST pro With Vida J-T: Doo'asne pojigteni do veku 16 let, ktere se milk zmeniti na kterekoliv jine pojiAteni po dosskni veku 10 let, nebo pozdeji.

Vida J-C: Poplatky se plati 20 rolo).

PlnST obnos pojigteni se vyplati kdykoliv v pfipadu mrti ye veku od 16 let vfAe tmrtni pojistka pod 16 let stag je die stupnice.

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Poplatky se piati 20 roku, Phi* obnos pojiAteni se vyplati kdykoliv v pfipadu mrti od veku 1 roku. Do 6 mesic0, $250, pod 12 mesictl, $500.

Tfida 1-E: Poplatky se plati do 18 let stars. PlnY obnos certifikatu se vyplati po 18 letech stafi nebo kdykoliv v pfipadu mrti od veku 1 roku. Do 6 mesicti, $250, pod 12 mesicti, $500.

Tfida J-G: Poplatky se plati 20 roku.

PlnSr obnos certifikatu se vy- , plati po 20 letech nebo kdykoliv v pfipadu innrti od veku 1 roku. Do 6 Aesicii, $250, pod 12 mesicti $500. (dz) ) • 4 • (

Distriktni schfize Schfize v jinSrch distriktech budou uvefejneny jakmile distriktni ittednici usta,novi datum schnze ye svem distriktu.

Distrikt prvni, 1. kveena, Snook Distrikt druhY, 17. dubna, Granger Distrikt ffeti, 19. eervna, Ennis Distrikt etvrtSi, 14. srpna, Lubbock Distrikt AestST, 15. kvetna, Hillje Distrikt seclinSi, 29. kvetna, Floresville ) • 4 Piedpojatk porotce.

Soudce met znaene potik se sestavenim poroty. Kandidati poroty se vymiouvali na Irk mo2ne. Soudce prase vys1Srchal jednoho z obeslanSrch.

— Je to nejaka pricin g, prof byste nemehl ptedsudku rozhodovati a vine nebo nevine ob2alovaneho?

Ano, yak ctihodnosti. Jeho tvat kazdy jeho pohled mi pravi, ze je to za,tvrzelS, kriminalnik a ja bych ho jiz na zaklade toho jeho vzhledu odsoudij nejvetS'imu manemu trestu.

— Ale elovede, v2dyt' ukazujete na statniho navladniho, na vefejneho 2alobce. Ob2alovanST tady jegte neni! + PiesnS, vSrpoeet.

Zak akoly dostal pri pisemni zkouke otazku: Poseee-li jiste pole dvacet delnikfi za osm hodin, jak dlouhou dobu bude potfebovati k poseeeni teho2 pole patnact delniki0 Zak pfemY'glel dlouho a pozorne, ne21i napsal svoji odpoved'. Kdy2 31 odevzdal zkouS'ejicimu uCiteli, Ceti tento: Ponevad2 bylo jig pole posedeno tern! dvaceti nemohlo byti seeeno terni patnacti.

Naldim k prastaremu pokoleni.

"To je videt, sleeno."

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Z CINNOSTI DOMACICH RAN Od 'aft Ennis Oslo 25.

Posledni schuze byla slaba pro poeasi, ale se dojednalo to co melo bYt. Tak varn davam. vedet, 2e kvetnova schilze bude prvni nedeli v kvetnu za pkieinou, druha nedele pkipada na Den Matek.

Take vara mam dat vedet, abyste se vgichni dostavili, ka&IY Glen i s rodinou, neb tad ma pro vas neco ptichystano, 2e se budete mit v gichni dobfe. P,del ma trochu tech kulovatych a nema dluh, tak vam tez chce nee° z toho dat. Tak nezapomerite na prvni nedeli v kvetnu na jednu hodinu po poledni. Nezapomerite vzit vgechny vase ditky Take yam davam vedet, 2e na druhou nedeli ptipada Den Matek, tak bude pokadat tad taneeni zabavu pri dobre hudbe. Pted zabavou bude pokadan k tomu dni s malYmi ditkami program pro maminky. Tak nezapomerite a ptijedte zblizka i zdaleka, nebudete litovat, neb u nas, jak ji2 vite, ka.2dY se ma dobke, o vge naldite postarano.

Take jsme tu men v Narodni sini, to jako veera v nedeli, "Veselou vojnu", Ale na takovou vojnu bych gel i ja. Byla 0pravdu vesera, no jako z Dallas; tam to um i sami vyslou2ilci staki od vojska, jako Jureak, Jureik a ostatnich nevim jmena. Konec koncu v ge to dopadlo dolake. Ondrffgek mei dore ochotniky a on hral doloke. Bylo to pekne, vesele divadlo, i ty zpevy.

J6., M se olizuji na tu prvni nedeli v kvetnu. Tak nezapomente, aby toho nepadlo moc na mne.

Take kdyby si nekdo pkal vzit pojistku u nag eho radu, jen mrknete na F. J. Hagkovce, neb na toho velikeho Jnaku HejnYho, oni yam to hned sprain.; a jestli se jich bojite, dejte vedet ml, ja jiz zatelefonuji.

S pozdravem John W. Laa. P. S.: Take pkijd'te vdovy i vdovci Cleni, mfigete ptijet pospolu, j a zamhoukim jc dno oko. ) kid

Slovan 'Oslo 9.

Snook, Texas.

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radu Slovan eislo 9:

V rninuld schrizi bylo ujednano, ze nase pravidelna pristi schfize bude konana, prvni nedeli v kvetnu o deset tficet dopoledne. Odpoledne bude distriktni schtize a pak program. Tak kteki chcete platit sve poplatky, tak si to zapravte dopoledne, aby urednici nebyli zamestnani odpoledne.

J. T. 'Skrabanek, tajetunik radu Cislo 9.

Ve Sti'edu, dne 27. dubna, 1955:

KALENDA1

itad Slovanska Lipa eislo 66.

Waco, Texas.

Mili bratti a sestry: Nage schtize se konala v nedeli odpoledne ye 2:45, 17. dubna v Shady Rest a pkedseda Anton Mazanec ji zahajil.

Vzdana eest vlajce v gemi eleny, pkedkikanou sestrou Barbora Jean Parma, a bylo nas asi 30 pfitomrio.

Pan Louyal Bessire byl nav gtevnik, ale nez schrize se odroeila byl na g novY Oen, on je zet' nageho tajemnika bratra Ed. Mazance. Radi jsme ho mezi nas ptijali a doufame, 2e i on bude mezi nami spokoj en.

Sestra Barbora Jean Parma oznamila narozeniny v dubnu a jsoti to bratti Edwin Narovec, Roman Parma Jr., a William Kudelka. Zazpivali jsme jim "Happy Birthday" piseri.

Sestra Lydie Daneak z Kalifornie zaslala svoje pojistne a zasilame ji na g pozdray.

Neradi jsme sly geli zpravu z Vancouver, Wash., 2e na g dlouholetY a zakladajici 'den, bratr Emil .ZahurnenskY odegel, odkud heni navratu. Jeho duge at' odpoeiva v pokoji a Cest budi2 jeho pamatce. Jeho rodina at' ptijme na gi vfelou soustrast.

Dostali jsme zpravu, 2e je na ge sestra Matilda Hanug nemocna. Doufame, 'k to neni nic vaiZneho a 2e se brzo uzdravi, Thetni vYbor pfehledl knihy a nagel vge v pokadku.

Schrize netrvala moc dlouho, tak jsme si mohli popovidat nd se podavala veeeke a jak obydejne bylo dobreho jidla dost a kafieko, sodovka a pivo. Vern chutnalo a '2e byl pelinY den, tak jsme jell. do Linden Park se podivat jak se stavba dat i a videli jsme, ze uz je zaklad udelanY, tak se tegime jak budeme •mit prvni schazi v nova sini. Stavebni vYbor se pticinil, aby se mohlo tak brzo zaeit a diky vgem za jejich namahu.

Tetieko Svita.kova, jsem rada ze uz jste gt'astne doma z Kalifornie a vzpominam na Vas a Vagi milou rodinu. Te2 Andko Silhava Tebe pozdravuji a doufam, 2e usZ jseg zas zdrava.

SrdeenY pozdrav na v gechny Cloud a vzdalene eleny pteje RirZena Parma, dopisovatelka.

Gratulujeme bratru Otto Hanu govi za povYgeni v ttetim distriktu a v gem druhYm fitedniktim td, a bratrum Pokladnikovi a Hogkovi dekujeme za jejich obOtavou praci po tak dlouhou dobu,

✓ titer* veCer kaidS- tirden cvidi se sborove zpevy dospelYch v sini radu Pokrok Houstonu. Ochotnici a hoste jsou vitani. Zaeatek v osm veder.

Kaidou steedu je vyudovano prakticke hovorove gpanelg tine v sini l'adu Pkrok Houston od 8:30 do 10:00 weer. NavAtevnici jsou vitani. Zavolejte na redaktora o informace.

Kahlou sobotu taneeni zabava v sini radu Pokrok Houston, poOinaje v sobotu 16. dubna. Prvni sobota v mesici je pro eleny zdarma.

Ve steedu 27. dubna hraje dalla mieova, Beta S.P.J.S.T. proti Republic National Lite na,hfi gti Samuell Park Diamond No. 2. Zaeatek v 7:30 veder. ✓ sobotu 30. dubna eeskSi film "Habibka" dle Bo'Zeny Nemcove v Sokolovno v Houstonu. Podrobnosti jinde. ✓ sobotu 30. dubna pada.. Sokol v Houstonu pravou Ceskou veOeti poeinaje v Best hodin veeer. ✓ nedeli 1. kvetna Ceske divadlo "Tin mugket3"rri" v sini radu Pokrok Houstonu. ✓ nedeli 1. kvetna schfize Sdrub,ni Ceskych ex-studentri Texasu v 10:00 rano v Lisle 315 Texas Union budovy Texaske statni university, Austin, Texas.

V nedeli 1. kvetna eeska, oslava MAJALES y e 2:30 odpoledne v hlavni sini Texas Union budovy Texaske statni university, Austin, Texas. Zakusky po programu. ✓ nedeli 8. kvetna tad Osveta dislo 38 v Koval', Texas, bude miti po schtzi program k °slave •svatku Den Matek a spoleenou svaeinu.

Ve stredu 4. kvetna hraje dallaska S.F. J.S.T. mieova, Beta v Samuel' parku, 'Ste eislo 2, nalezajici se hned u Samuel' ulice, v Dallas, proti mienve Oete Southland Life. Zaeatek v 8:30 weer. ✓ nedeli 8. kvetna Sokol Houston dava divadelni kus "Manly, na ge deske manly" k pocte svatku matieek. Wimnete si oznameni na jinem miste tohoto eisla. ✓ nedeli 22. kvetna: Oslava 361eteho zalaeni radu Stefanik eislo 142 v Houstonu. Zaeatek v 10 hodin rano. Odpoledne spoleenY obed. Odpoledne bazar s programem ditek. ✓ nedeli 22. kvetna hromadnST zajezd bratrU a sester z tretiho distriktu do Houstonu na pohosteni, ktere tretimu distriktu daNaji eleni pateho distriktu. ✓ nedeli 29. kvetna Sokol v Houstonu dava, jarni piknik. ✓ nedeli 29. kvetna majovS' piknik Sokola Houston. oistS7 vSrte2'ek jde na cestovne evidencum na slot,

stiedir, dne

dubna 1955.

VESTNf 1

'Strang.

WEST, TEXAS

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ISY A NAMEDY MAU Bellville, Texas V_a2eni etenaki: V redakenich tivahach bratra Valeika ze dne 20. clubna bylo pojednani, ktejsern cetl s velkYm zajmem, toti2 any odstavce, kde pie o pSycliologu a hla y -rieton,jakmysezvkliystnage sehtrZe a jak ukazujeme ve schnzich slovanskou povahu. Pi gi sve tadky naliked v angliotine, ale pical. bych'si, aby bratr redaktar 'upra'vil me my glenky v eeStine,. AC dovedu eisti a mluvit &sky, ma zasoba eeskYch sla y piece neni tak bohata, bych jimi yyjacifil v gechny my'Sienkoye otistiriy, jako to dovedu v anNa druhe strane myslim si, 20 to co chci zde naznaeiti; Prespeje tem, klet'i etou jen eeskY, daleko vice no2 tern, Me- majiptile2itost eikti o techto vecech v anglietine. Mam na, mysli psychology a psychologii," o kterYch se rozepsal redak tor Valerk.

Mel jsemnekolik rokti zkugenosti, kdy jsem byl zastupcem jednoho velikeho xaskeho pivovaru a mYm akolem bylo vybudovati.mezi lidein dobrou povest a spravne yekejne mineni. Ve schtilich, ktere jsme meli za tim fieelem, a take z osobriiho styku s* pkigel jsem k tointi poZnani, 2e dobra poYest a vefejne mineni se baduje pOnleci psychologie.

Chci zdezdarazniti, ze blovek, kterY vi nee° o.nsychologli a kterY ye svem styku s lidmi .pouZiva pravidei psychologie, je y2dy pfekvapenY, k jakemu zclarneinu vYsledku se mute dopracovati. Kdo studoval.psychologii, ten, je na torn jako by doyed1- oisti myglenky druliYch. A jestli ciovek procia.va cokoliv, jestli je necim vice net jen na vypineni objednavkY, musi vedet, jak. si ziskati pkizeri a dobrpu ,v011 svych zakaznika, musi nap•ed rozumeti pot •ebam zakaznika a ziskdti si jeho dtiverY. DobrY obchodnik zastupce musi napted nabidnouti cam sebe, svou sluflau a ochotu ,a teprve mute nabizeti sve: zbo2i..P,sychologie neni nic jineho lidi jecinati s nimi die jejich pkant.

A ted' abych se vratil k tomu, jak se v nasich schuzich ukazuje nase slo yanska ,po yaha. Musim doznati, ze bratr Valopravdu yystilmul raise chovani ye kde ukazujeme ,na gi miklonnost, povahu, anebo fekneme si to obytiejnynn slovy, nage Spatne zvyky. My bud' nevime lep gi nebo nestojime o to, abychom meli schtize lep gi, abychom nase jednani ye schtizich vedli . dle parlamentniho pokadku jak .je to zvykem a pravidlem mezi lidmi, kteki chteji rozhodevatt vkaSich otaZkach. V nagich schazich, ktere jsou typicky na ge a prozrazuji na gi VrOZelIC)11 , poyahu, makime

vetginu easu ha gtekenim o nepatrnYch a bezvYznamnYch vecech; my znovu a desetkrat opaltujeme, co uZ moblo bYti davno pkiveciene ke konci, ale my nevime, kdy bychom meli o jiste veci pkestat a zaeit o neeem dide2itel girn. A jestli se pkednese neco novelio, lined' skoro v gichni zaenou mluvit mezi sebou nebo nekolik se hlasi o slava najednou, a to muzc svou palieku rozmlatit na t •isky ne2 se slovanska natura vymluvi.

A tento druh schtizi je takkka v gude mezi narni. Mame je v mistnich fadech, mame je v distriktech a mime je take na sjezdech. Nejsem obeznamenY, jak se vedou schtize Hlavni ifiadovny, proto2e jsem ye schtizi vrchniho Mesa nikdy byl. Ale jak yyrozumivam ze zpravy bratra redaktora, a jak jsem zjistil z jinYch pramenti, schtize na geho vrchniho telesa jsou stejneho razu .jako Vgechny jine.

Takovo vedeni na gich schtizi mute se zdati komicke a zabavne pro nekoho, ale je to bolestne pro ty, kdo maji je 1-iditi.

Ba stane se mnohdy, 2e velmi dalaite a prospe gne otazky nejsou rozebirany, a nekdy ani vzpomenuty, proto2e zmakilo se mnoho drahocenneho easu na otazkach zbyteenYch. Mtij nahled je, 2e bratr Valeik by prospel mnoho, kdyby eastO . upozornil na takeve kizeni v gech na.gich schuzi. Zda se, 2e na,gi eleni se_neozvou a nieeho si nevgimnou, a2 kdy2 je nejaka vec podand jako kritika. A kdyby bratr redaktor zapinil tfeba," pui Vestniku podobnYmi kritickYmi , Uvahami, nejen 2e by nazi to vgem prospelo, ale 2adnY z nas by to nemohl pova2ovati za osobni nara2ky, proto2e vetgina z nas byli bychom vinniky.

Take vice avah a elanku o psychologii, a pros jsme takovYmi, jakYmi jsme, by nam neugkodilo. Psychologie, jako kkest'anstvi, je jednoducha, k porozumeni.

Kkest'anstvi pravi, "jakZ' byste chteji, aby, yam Tide cinili, tak i vy cinte jim." A psychologie pravi, "name se, co druzi chteji einiti a co eini."

Bratke redaktore, chce g-li vypiniti kousek Vestniku, bude mne to te git, kdy2 tyto kadky uvekejnig . Za upraveni meho eeskeho pfekladu Ti pkedem dekuji..

S bratrskYm pozdravem Frank Stepan ) • it. • ( Smithville (Kayak), Texas.

Mile sestry a bratti: Ptichazim mezi vas, abych vain sdelil moje dojmy z posledni schaze tketiho distriktu, kde jsem mel to gtesti Wit pkitornen. Take chci podati zku genogti z tSr na-denihaorgstkehours

Southern Methodist universite v Dallas, Texas.

Rikava se, ze jest nekcly lepe kdy2 se elovek narodi St'astnYm nez bohatYrn. Nine se site netYka jedno ani piece ale jsem niel radost, 2e mne bylo dopkano bYti pkitomnYm v teto schuzi pozorovat, jak tam pekne pracuji. Nevim, jestli jest to vYjimeena schopnost itkednikti, zvla gte pkedsedy bratra C. Pokladnika, aneb dobra y ule vgech elenit distriktu, myslim v g ak, Ze jest to oboje a prcto jim to tam tak dobke klape.

Ano, libilo se nine u vas. Tava ge srdeenost to vase schopnostovest Nge, schuzi, chutnY obed, program, veeer to zabavne aivadlo tak hladce a pane — nage Jednota, ba cela slovanSka vekefnost v Texasuma ge byti pravem na nag tieti distrikt hrda. Jste vy opravdu nasi chloubou.

Ten organisatorskY kurs na bylo ovgem case neco jinelio. Kdy2 nine nag hlavni pkedseda, bratr Marek, sdelil, '2e se marn toho kursOneastnit a pkijet do Temple, tak abychom mohli dost easne vyjet, abychom se mohli zueastnit 'ddpoledniho zasedani distriktni schtize tiho distriktu v Dallas, a pak zastat CeIT tYden na tom kursu, odpovedel jsem; ze tedy pijedu. Na schuzi jsem se tegiljaa ten kurs mot ne. Myslel jsem si, jsi start', na to co jsi se kdysi davno ve gkole naueil, 112 jsi dam) zapomel, pkitomne na new takoveho nejsi v praksi, tak karn ae hrabeg?

Pripomel jsem si v gak, 2e dobra, vale vgechno zmill2e a tak tedy, ac jsem trochu strach, jel jsem piece.

Nu a yidite, dopadlo to na konec dobfe.

Certifikat jsem dostal a nyni se mohu pochvalit, ze jsem s prospechem progel kurs na universite. Ov gem lehke to ,p1-0 nine, zyla.gte prvni dny, nebylo.

Meli jsme dobre a velice schopne profesory. Ty pkedna gly se z nich sypaly jak z rortr2eneho pytle, a pak jim, eloveee, star, Byl jsem rad, 2e jsem staell zaznA*7 menavat aspori ty hlavni body. Odpoledne po gkole jsem pak dohanel to ostatni.

Jsem jist3'7, ze jsem i tak mnoho ziskal.

A radim ka2demu, kdo se zajima o prodavani poji gteni a bude mit pkileZtost takovY kurs prodelat, aby tak rozhodile ueinil. Pli nagich mistnich organisatorskSrch schazich jsem se vzdy obdivOval bratrovi Markovi, aneb bratrovi vi, jak to dovedli ygechno pekne a dobke yysvetlit. Inu, byli v torn 'cvieeni, tedy jim to glo.

Ono se nam nekdy zda, 2e i bez toho ueeni to dobke doka2eme. A jest to prayda. Jenom ze kdy2 neco od zaklada studujeme, tak pkijaeme na mnohe, na co

Strana 8 bychorn Jinak nepi' gli; a pri torn pozname, jak se to da nejlepe provost.

PojiSteni s Uspechem prodavat jest opravdu dovednost, neb tarn nabizime neco, co ten kupuji'ci nevidi. Neni to totiZ" innotne, jako treba pozemek neb kara, neb nee° podobneho. Pak vYteZek z toho take prijcle aZ pozdeji v innoh3.7ch pripadech. Jest tedy na prodavateli pojiSteni, aby clokazal presvedeiti kupujiciho, Ze ty hodnoty tarn skuteene jsou.

V tomto kursu se dozvite, co se dopo savad nejlepe osvedeilo a co se i naciale bude osvedeovat; a take poznate, jak po Hizuji pojiSteni ti, kteri vladnou znaciiym majetkem • Velka vet'Sina jich ma vetSi dnveru v poji gteni ne' v obchod, proto si kupuji hodne poji§teni, aby byli chraneni v pripade netispechu v obchode aneb pri jinSi. pohrome.

2ivotni pojiSteni jest ten jedirV obchod, kde ma vSechny vYhody ten kdo je pojiSten3.7. VSechny jine transakce jsou planovane tak, aby prodavatel tim nejvice ziskal. PojiSteni nemtiZe pojiSteneho nikdy zklaniat, jestli dostoji syS7m vazktim.

Z'ivotni pojiaeni se sklacla ze trech zekladnich pojistek a sice: doeasne, doZivotni a nadaeni. K nim se Vea.k druZ1 mnoho jinYch, take se infiZe vyhovet ',mob prizptisobit ke vSemu a kaZdemu.

Na:Se Jednota ty pridruZene v mnoha pripadech jefte nema, myslim 'Oak, •Ze priSti sjezd v tom udela napravu a jisto prijme aspori tu zvanou "annuity", kde se pojistka vyplaci tak jak to potreby pojiSteneho yyZaduji — mesione, merle a v jistVch eastkach. Zda se to bYt oblibene pojistka, neb tak se z toho i vice vyziska, kdy'Z spoleenost (Tele penize drZi a y yplaci dle toho, jak to pojiStenY poti buje. Jest to v mnoha pripadech praktieke, lepSi nea ceb"+' obnos najednou.

Bylo toho na torn kursu za ten trden mnoho. Jsem jistY, Ze jsme v gichni mnoho ziskali a cloufam, Z"e v budoucnu bude zase della prilditost navtivit takovY kurs tern, kteri se o to zajiinaji.

Ja jsem red, Ze jsem tu prilelitost vy1.0;11 a rueim yam ySem, kdo udelate poclobne, ze toho litovat nebudete.

Jsem vele61V tern, kteri se o to postarali a dekuji jim srdeene. Taim se, Ze se vami ninohYrni sejdu na naSi schtizi prvinho distriktu prvni ncdeli v kvetnu ve Snook, Texas.

V..atim se srdeenYrn prenina vSeho dobreho a s bratrskYrn pozdravem na chny etouci zustavam vas Vaelav ) •( Bylo by zajimave zjistit, kolik kori skYch sil si inuZ uSetril od poeatku sveZe se dr'Zel zasady, urnYvani tt. -alobi a ulelizeni je prirozend prate Cony.-- -H(ywood Brown.

VES TNIK — WEST, TEXAS

Ve stredu, dne 27. dubna 1955.

Bojoval za svobodu jako chlapec a kdyi vyrostl stal se presidentem Psal se rok 1773. Skupina starYch muau v malem meste JiZni Karoliny poslouchala pozorne jak desitiletY' Andy prodCite, novinovY Clanek o velkYch nepokojich v koloniich, protole Anglie na ne nespravedlive dane.

"To je sympatickY mladik", poznamenal jeden z posluchaeft, kdy2 Andy skonOil a speSne odeSel. "Je," odpovedel jirV, "ale ponekud piIlis velkY na jeho leta. Aika, ze a2 vyroste, vstoupi do armady, aby bojoval proti prijdou-li do naSi zeme aby ji A take to tak ueinil. 0 tri leta pozdeji, tedy kdy2 mu bylo teprve trinact let, i se svym bratrem vstoupil do ,revolueni arniady, Bratr byl v bit ye ranen a kdyZ mu Andy pomahal zpet k jejich liniim, byl zajat s nim.

Nedlouh0 potom bylo Andymu narizeno britskYm clustojnikem, aby ocistil jeho blative boty. Nato mu Andy hrde oclpovedel, ae je valeenYm zajatcem, nikoli otrokem.

RozzurenY dastojnik vytahl na to svou Savli a sekl po vrchni kuai jeho hlavy a poranil aZ ke kosti Andyho ruku, jeZ chtela chranit hlavu. Na to Andy putoval do vezeni Upine bez potravy. Byl to vojenskY tabor, kde se setkal i se s yYm bratrem. Zde dostal ne'Stovice a aZ pak se podarilo jejich ovdovele matte vymoci jejich propuSteni. Posadila chlapce na jejich jedineho kone. Bez kabatu, bos, v mrazivem desti, musel takto Andy ujet 40 mil k domovu, kde upadl hned do deliria., ZUstal na Zivu, ale jeho bratr zemrel a o rok pozdeji ztratil Andy take matku. A tak ye veku pouhYch etrnacti let zilstal Andy ye svete sam.

Byl vSak ctiladostiq, piny vide k Cake praci, vytrvalY a prirozene i telesne velmi otuZilY valkou. Prfeel pozdeji do statu Tennessee, kde se stal advokatem, pozdeji dobr3.7m soudcem.

Aekoliv jeho zptisoby nebyly uhlazene, lid mu velmi dtiveroval • Porotctim se 11bil jeho stale prostY zptisob. Lid mu ,cliiveroval natolik, ho poveril serisanim konstituce, lecly2 se Tennessee stain sta.tern.

1Viinisterstvo valky ho pak poverilo y elenim bitvy u Novell° Orleansu. Nepratelske anglicke jednotky tvorilo deset tisic otuZilYch veteranti za veleni vevody Wellingtonskeho, jeZ kdysi porazily slavnou Napoleonovu armadu svYmi silami.

A tak Andy s nekolika svSrmi starSqui spolubojovniky, nekolika dobrovolniky pozoroval blyStici se bajonety Britt'. Onoho rana, osineho ledna 1815, vzpomnel si

na sveho bratra a jeho pest se bezdeky zat'ala. Byl rozhodnut. Sklonek dne uvidel pak Anglieany ujiZdet z bojiSte, kde byli naprosto poraZeni.

A od toho dne za6al Nov ST Orleans Andyho zboZnovat. Zvony rnesta vyzvanely vesele a zvestovaly radostnou zvest.

Andy se pak vzdal sveho postaven! r. 1821, aby odeS'el na odpoeinek na Hermitage, kde byl jeho dtim, blizko Nashville, ale svemu ureeni Andrew Jackson neunikl. Byl zvolen za sedmeho presidenta SpojenYch state..

Dnes v zahrade Hermitage, S'est vysokYch bilYch -orecht, streli hrob mute, jen2 jako trinactiletY chlapec fieastnil se prvni bitvy pro svou milovanou vlast — Ameriku!

Jaroslav F, Chmelieek. ) 4, is ( OPERETA V HOUSTONU

Zpevy, Zerty, smith a httclba Ceka vas v nedeli odpoledne v sin! radu Pokrok Houstonu Oslo 88. Budou hrati operetu o trech jednanich pod nazvem "Veseli muSketYri," a bude to same veseli od za,eatku as do konce.

Jirka Bohan, mladY hyril, zanedbaneho zevnejSku, kterY nemo, nic jineho na starosti neZ honbu, pitky a hrani v karty, je zaprisahlYm nepritelem vSeho, co nosi sukne. Jen s nejvetSim sebezaprenim udrZuje si hospodyni, starou komickou pannu vzdychajici stale po nejakem Zenichu. Na jeho statek prijdou tti vandraci, kteri stale zpivaji, jsou tri muSketYri, o kterYch Dumas napsal veilk.Y. roman. Stara panna by si vzala z nich kterehokoliv, jen kdyby brali. Tot' zaeatek' hry.

DalSi jednani nelze prozrazovati, to musite sledovat! sami. Nezapomerite se dostaviti. Zaeatek je o pul etvrte odpoledne.

Na hojnou neyStevu domacich I prespolnich se teSi Zabavni vYbor a Divadelni krouZek "Hlahol".

--) • 4* • ( DobrSi

Oclhocilal se jeden Urednik a zakl nyni ye kvartale na pana "Pane S'efe, podivejte se, jsem jiz u vas rok. Vite piece sam, '2e pracuji za Mohl bych dostat niesiene aspori o dve ste korun vie?"

DobrS7 S'et se zamyslil: "Pridat yam zrovna nemohu. Ale jrnenujte ml ty tri, co za ne pracujete, ja je vyhoclim."

A

streciu, clne 27, clubna 1955.

VPSTN i

ZA FRANTIsKEM HATLOU se udelala dobra aroda, take si koupili farmu 60 akra na South Elm v sousedstvi Jana Slovaka, kde v tu dobu byla v najmu i rodina Teperova, a na zapadni strane zase mel svoji farmu Frank Hejl.

Na tuto farmu se pristehovali uZ co t •i(Henna rodina, neb v prvnim roce manZelstvi byli obdareni dceru gkou, kterou si fiojrnenovali Lillinka. Ta jest- nyni provciana za p. Albert 8odka a farmuji Levelland. Dva roky pozdeji dostali syna, ktereho pojmenovali Ladik Frank.

V roce 1911 byla jakasi stehovaci horeeka do okresu Fort Bend. Svakr prodal farmu a koupil 80 akrovou farmu 5 neb 6 mil za Beasley v okresu Fort Bend. Je7 ho strYc Jos. Paulin, kterY byl v najmu kteresi roky i u Gelneru. na Ed Hall v Milam okresu, se svoji rodinou take se stehoVal do okresu Fort Bend a koupil farmu myslim 120 akru; pravili tomu na Holubicich. Byla to eeska, osada v pal testy mezi Rosenberg a Needvilie. Pan Jos. GardovskY byl zase Svakr Jos. Pavlina, a tak rentoval pole od PavlinovYch. Take Svakr Frank Poboril prodal farmu,pri. Red Ranger; moji rodiee take na podzim se pripravovali ku stehovani se na zakoupenou farmu pri Rosenberg, asi 4 mile na poledni stranu od mesta.

Svakrova farma byla na preriich, kde to bylo malo jegte obydlene, a mezi jinonarodovci. NejbliZ gi jejich sousedi byla francouzske rodina, ktera byla asi jednu mill vzdalena. V zimni dobe v kukurienYch polich tam pribYvaly divoke husy kachny. Po de gtich nebylo take Zadne nouze o ten ,Zabi koncert.

Po jednoroenim tam bydleni farmu prodali panu Stralnickemu a koupili nasi farmu. My jsme v torn Case tam vlastnili dye farmy, ktere sousedily vedle sebe. .Moji rodice pa dvouletem pobYtu,1912 a 1913, vyprodali a stehovali-jsme se nazpet do Buckholts.

Svakr s jeho rodinou za kter3"Tsi rok prodal jeho farmu a koupili si zapadne od mesta Rosenberg farmu, ktera byla bohata Cernice, a jen asi jednu mill od Potkebovali jsme sberaee baviny, neb mesta. To bylo v dobe prvni svetove 37 bala jsme si netroufali sami sklfdit, valky. tak jsme najimali pomocne ruky. Moji Oba byli einnYmi Cleny osvobozovaci rodiee se znali s pani Annou Hatlovou jegte ze stare vlasti, neb ona byla rodaC- akce Narodniho SdruZeni a VCelek. Franka z nagi obce Police, okres vala gsko- tik byl dobrY vlastenec a chtel se dat mezikieskS7, a jeji divci jrneno bylo Anna odvest do sluZeb str3)ce Sama, aby poPaylinova. Frantik omrzen bytem mezi mohl poraZet kaiserovy vojska, by rodna neznamou spoleenosti, zatouZil po svojich jeho zeme byla vysvobozena od Habsburkrajanech, hlavne po svoji matce a se- kft a dostalo se ji samostatnosti. Kdy stre, chtel bYt jim na blizku, a tak se byl zamitnut a omrzen farmovani, tak vyprodali u Rosenberg a jalOsi kratk-i dostal k nam pomoci sbirat tu bavinu.

Zdomacnel u nas tak, 'Ze se je gte v ten Cas se nastehovali do Houstonu, kde s jistYin spoleenikem vlastnili restauraci. podzim stal Menem nagi rodiny.

Po zkugenostech, ktere v kratkosti naMoji rodiee jemu pronajali asi 30 akril zeme. Oni si pak zakidili svoji domacnost byli, svoji polovici vyprodali, a iacin3) a hospodarske nakadi. V roce 1909 zase spoleenST obchod vice nechteli a nemeli.

Dne 12. dubna, 1955 do toho veeneho neznama ode gel z nageho kruhu jeden z tech innohaletYch clenu na gi rodiny, milj pribuznY a mantel moji sestry Anny. Zemrel neoeekavane, jsa stiZen srdeoni va(Jou. Bylo to jeho prani zernkit nahle, bez bolestneho trapeni, ac jiste na smrt jegte nepomYglel. Ale kdy slygel neb Ceti, Ze ten neb oven nahle zemrel, mel k tomu poznainky, "mel lehkou smrt, nemusel se dlouho trapit jak natal nemocni-lidi."

Poslednich nekolik let tento druh itmrti jest znaenY. Jest to v gak ale bolestne pro ty pozastale, kde je pfekvapi a stihne neneekavan* zarmutek.

Svakr Frantik byl narozen v roce 1885 ye StraZnici na Morave. Do gkoly chodil v Krome •ili, a take se ,noil v Kromerili. zahradnikem.

Po vyneeni, kdy jemo bylo 18 let, rozhodi se, Ze bude chtit spatrit vice dila sveta. Jeho cil byl Cameron, Texas. Jel sam z jeho.rodiny a adresu mel na rodinu StoklasovYch, kteri bYvali na farme pri Cameron, Texas. Co svobodnY a odvaInSr mladik, chtel mimo statu Texas poznat i,jine staty teto novo vlasti.

Z jeho vypravovani si pamatuji, Ze asi pui Ameriky procestoval, nekde pegky, jindy zase na slepo na • nakladnich vlacich. Po tki neb ety •i roky tak jezdil a pracoval, vet ginou na pilach v lesich. Byl getriV a hospodarskY, a kdy prijel spatky do Cameron, tak mel pri sobe pet set dolara nagetkenYch. To bylo v roku 1908.

Mezi tou dobou, to bylo asi v roku 1905, jeho matka a jeho sestra Stele (Stepanka) dojely take do Cameron. Stefie se v roce 1908 provdala za p. Frank 8tacha, kterST mel obchod v Buckholts.

'8vakra Frantika jsem poznal v roce 1908, bylo to na podzim kdy se sbirala bavina. Moji rodiee men farmu pri Buckholts, a kde jsme sklizeli na gi prvni arodu, neb jsme . byli take zaeateenici. Nage rodina petielenna pozastavala z jiZ star-. gich rodice, jednoho bratra a sestry, ktei•i byli stargi mne.

Pa del gim hleclani si koupili farmu Temple. To bylo nekdy v roce 1920, kde jim zase gtesti p •alo a byli spokojeni. A0 kdyZ v roce 1933 nebo 1934, melte uz nevim, udelala se slab gi &oda, a bylo to , viadni omezovani baviny a dobytka, tak jejich syn, kterY byl svoboden, odjel do zapaclniho Texasu s jinYmi hochy, kamarady, sbirat bavinu. Tarn v torn Case se Maly velike itrody, a pozemka bylo dost na prodej za pi•imerenou cenu. Myslim Ze cena se rovnala, kde za jeden akr proclanY pri Temple, tam na zapade si mohli koupit dva akry. °pet se rozjel na pfehledy pozemkii a koupil pal sekce meste Littlefield, kde do dvacetiletern rolnieeni tarn dooral svoji brazdu v zi rtpadni easti Texasu.

Zanechal zde zarmoucenoii; a take ne-7 zdravou, manZelku, ktera se nalezala v nemocnici v dobe smrti jejiho manZela; jednu deem Lillie Sodek; jednoho syna Ladika, kterY obdelaval onu farmu a take na ni bydlel; pet vnoueat; jednu sestru 8tefie Stach v Rosenberg, Texas, a jednoho gvakra, jimZ jest pisatel techto kadkii.

Odegel jeden z tech, kterST v praci a yedeni nalezl uspokojeni. K ucteni jeho pamatky prikladame pouzazku na $5.00 do Monokova fondu.

Pkeji Tobe klid po tom Zivotnim boji Cest budi1 zachoVana Tvoji parnatce.

Tuto posmrtnou vzpominku Ti venuje Rodina John Stagova. ) VZIII:JRU

• 4 • ( NA SLAVNOST!

Jiste znate stare Ceske prislovi: Neschazeji se hory s horami, ale Tide s lidmi. To se osvedeilo roku lonskeho na jarni siavnosti Majales v Austinh, kdy se na nisegli dva pratele, kteri se nevideli pies= tficet let. Bylo to skuteene radostne shledani • Na slavnosti pro dospele i mlade'Z se,jdou se na ginci a naginky z celeho velikeho Texasu a rodiee na gi mladeZe prosime, aby na slavnost vzali jejich dcery a syny, aby po siavnosti mohli se seznamiti.

Ana, v naladeli je nage budoucnost.

Slavnost zaene pkesne ye 2:30 odpoled ne jiZ tuto nedeli, dne 1. kvetna v budove Union Texaske statni university. Budova je pri hlavni ceste a snadno ji najdete.

Vgichni se te gi na krasnou Morayskou besedu, jine tance, hudbu a zpev. Zazpivame si take spoleene jako loni ... Na shledanou.

S pozdravem a na shledanou se WI Ed. Mieek. ) • 4, Ne to ureuje hodnotu eloveka, v jakYch skvelYch pomerech se narodil, ale co na zaklade danSrch pomera provedl.

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RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI My, nine podepsank resolueni vYbor d u Bi111. Hora eislo 16, vyslovujememe tiint. o pozustale rodine tiprimne citenou soustrast nad ,ztratou jejich milovanpr ho manZela, bratra a naseho spolubratra John L. Fojt, k^ pry zentrel tine 5. dubna 1955 ye start' 60 let ye Weimar Youens nemocnici a 7. dubna byl ulolen k veonemu odpoeinku na likbitove v Weimar. Fardr Kostohryz ykon al smuteeni obi'ady. thatr John L. Foyt pkistbupil do nasi .L.dnoty 11. ledna 1920.

ZesnitlY spolubratr at' odpoeiva v pokoji a cest budiZ jeho paniatce. rad Bila flora eislo 16.

1;(_stinerii vYbor: Julie Dugek Henry Melnar Julius 8eveik. ) •4, • RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI My, nine podepsank resolueni tibor ruclu Bila Hora eislo 16,vyslovujeme timto portistale rodine uprimne citenou soustrasi. nad ztratou jejich milovane matky a nagi spolusestry Marie Mara,k, ktera pristoupila do na gi Jednoty 7. e'erveuce 1897 a zentrela tine 9. brezna ye 4t iii 88 let ye Wharton, Texas, a pohk beim byla due 11. bkezna na hrbitove ye Weimar za fleasti rodiny a prate'. lesnuld spolusestra at' odpoeiva, v pokoji, test budiZ jeji pamatce.

Za Lid Ella Flora eislo 16.

Resolucni vYbor: Julie Dugek Henry Melnar Julius 8eveik. ) o RESOLIJCE SOIJSTRASTI My, nizelpsany resolueni vYbor radu Slovanska Lipa eislo 66 ve Waco, Texas, v:c,slovujeine tiinto pozfistale rodine uprimne" citenou ,...oustrast nad ztratou jejich manZela, otce, cledeeka a naS'ello spolubratra Emila Zahumenskeho, jen po kratke nemoci zenarel dne 31. brezna 1955 a pohrben byl ye Vancouver, Wash., kde Zil uZ nekolik let.

Ocichodem jeho ztraci rodina dobreho a stal'osiliveho manZela a otce a rad nag obetavebo a vzorneho spolubratra, jenZ I byl ,:akladajicim elenem nakho

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Oest budm jeho p cimatce, necht' odpo-. diva v pokoji.

Vime, poznstala rodino, Ze Zal vas nad john odchodem jest velikS7, ale bucli2 yam atechou, ze i my 2elime jeho odchodu.

Dano ye Waco. Texas, 17. clubna. 1955. , Resolueni vSrbor: Edward Mazanec Frank Parma.

Rose Parma.

SOLUCE SOUSTRASTI smutnou povinnost Koname nak sestre, ktera, celou dlouhou radu let konala to, co nine podepsank resolu6ni vYbor radu Pokrok Houstonu eislo 88 musi vykonati pro ni samotnou.

V sobotu rano, dne 16. dubna 1955, odala z na geho radu jedna z nejlepAich a nejspolehiivejkch radovYch sester, Ruzena Hantiovit„ aby ulolena byla v pondeli 18. dubna po boku sveho manZela Louis Hanuk starSiho na hrbitove radu Pokrok Houstonu eislo 88 na Brookside Memorial Park za velike iidasti spolkovYch sester, bratri a prate'.

Tako je vypsat vSechno, co zesnula sestra pro rad Pokrok Houstonu vykonala a v na'Al spolkove einnosti znainenala.

Po mnoho let opatrovala na,S1 knihovnu, vedla, nagi spolkovou kuchyn, byla tajemnici charnatickeho krouZku Hlahol, byla napovedou pri vetgine na gich ochotnickkch clivadel, slouZila ochotne na kaZtient vStoru, na kterem bylo treba Zenske ruky, pracovala nendrodhe a neanavne.

Zanechala jednu dceru, pani RUZenu Frank C. Rutland, a jednoho syna, Louis HanuSe mlaciSiho, kterYna jmenem radu vyslovujeme na gi hluboce citenou soustrast nad odchodem jejich starostlive a peelive naatieky. Zanechala take velikY kruh spolkovYch sester a bratri, kteri budou postradati jeji pomocne ruky pri kaZdem radovem podniku a pri napsani ka,Zde resoluce.

Cost budiZ pamatce teto nefinavn6 spolkove pracovnice.

Za rad Pokrok Houstonu eislo 88: Frances Olexova, Anna Svestkova Anna Vrlova. „T.

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HanugoTiOu Putovani ukonCeno, zhasla svice Zivota, nezrite vie zaH slunka, pro vas u2 jen temnota.

Z^t tu VaSi lasku k lidem, kterou jste valy v Ziti mela temito chudYmi verSi podekovat bych. Vain chtela.

Poradou jste vzdy prispela kaZdemu, kdo pomoc chtel, aniZ byste Zadatele v ziti videla anebo znala.

Proto kladu z lasky na hrob tuto chudou kytieku; nebudete zapoinenuta, mild pani Rozieko.

A nejsem to jen ja sama, jest nas jiste mnohem vie, kterYm, ctouce tuto zpravu smutkem zachmuri se lie.

Proto jrnenem rnYin I druhkch, jim2 jste dobrou radu kteri stejne jako ja jsem radu tu s povdekein vzala, jinaZ to zprava neeekand slzu z oka vynuti, prejern Vam v naruei matky pi-irody lehke' odpodinuti, Anna V lova. ) • 4„

KY FILM "11ABICKA" Prateltim v Houstonu a olsoli oznanijeme, de Sokol Houston bude miti &sky' film "Habieka," cod bude v sobotu veeer 30. dubna v Sokolovne, 4515 Edsee ulice.

Posledni desk film, kterY by promitan v Sokolovne, a kterY mel nazev "BoZi soud," byl krasnY a libil se vkm, kdo pri§li se na nej podivat.

Bratr Vavrik ma nyni novo promitaci platno, na nemZ, se obrdzky velice zretelne odraZeji, takle je to jeho prdni, aby zabava byla co nejlep gi. Posledue men jsme dobrou naN gtevu, ale prali bychoin si, aby pri iihnu "Babicka" byla Sokolovna zapinena, aby nas tam bylo jeSte vice. &deli u lekare v dekarne tri pani.

Nazdar! chni pekne zrizeni, sama boule a modriMiroslav na. Sedeli tik a trpelive eekali. Koncene • 4 * (-) lekar otevrel dvere: BezvladnY vrak se pomalu nori ke dnu.

"Tak prosim, kterY' z pand prikl pr y -ni?" Na palube je velike zdekni. Pribehne kormidelnik ke kapitanovi: Zvedl se jeden a povida: "My jsme "Sma,rja, pane kapitane, za deset misli najednou, pane doktore. Tady ten pan byl prejetej autornobilem, tenhle- nut jsme pod vodou. Co budeme delat?"

"No, no; jen klid," povidd kapitan a ten druhej je kfer od toho autoniobilu, toho tak zridil ten prejetej pan, no a ja ukazuje na mapu. "Podivejte se semlale, jsem jim chtel clomluvit, aby se tak ne- zde je bod. Jestli to neudelala moucha, tak to je ostrov, a jsme zachraneni.'? hadali."

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1Vednefttay, April 27, 1955 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF SLAVONIC BENEVOLENT ORDER OF THE STATE OF TEXAS

VESTNIK

Reportszfrom 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.

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

MUSINGS OF THE EDITOR ON THE MORNING OF APRIL 12, 1945, the day ten years ago when Franklin D. Roosevelt died, the value of his estate was over two million dollars. Before the end of the same day his magnificent estate had lost more than onefourth of its value. The death of the former president cost his estate nearly $630,000.00. Not even the president of the United States can escape the high cost of dying.

• • HOW MANY OF US EVER STOP TO think about the high cost of dying? No man can say that he is leaving an absolutely clear estate. A man may write in his will, "I leave everything to my beloved wife," and everything will go to her except (1) any unpaid income and property taxes; (2) any debt which automatically becomes due when husband dies; (3) the expenses of last illness and funeral; (4) all administration expenses; (5) losses involved in selling property to get cash needed; (6) costs of transferring titles; (7) losses involved in changing assets to more conservative type. So the will should read "I leave everything to my beloved wife except the following items." And those seven items mentioned above cannot be settled with one $1,000.00 certificate.

feels that it wants to do right by him on this last occasion upon which they can show the extent of their love and affection. Often new and expensive clothing is purchased, fancy casket cloths, and too elaborate headstones. In a few hours of sentimental spending, a small fortune can be pledged for these things.

• • MUCH OF THIS USELESS EXPENSE can be eliminated by careful planning.

Every family head should sit down with his wife and calmly talk over his wishes with regard to his funeral and its cost. Most men prefer to leave their es-, tates to their wife and family rather than to the families of the funeral director and the merchandisers of caskets and headstones.

• OF COURSE, EVERY ESTATE OWNER should sit down with his lawyer, insurance man, accountant, and proposed executor and plan his estate to Minimize settlement costs and death taxes. Tax avoidance should be the major purpose of such planning; yet, if taxes can be reduced 25 or 50 per cent without defeating the owners purpose, full use should be made of all tax-saving devices.

• • EVERY BUSINESSMAN, IF HE HAD the foresight to enable him to see that he would die within a year, would not leave his estate as it is. Most businessmen would change their estates quickly. Yet so few men even take a few moments out of the busy years of accumulation to insure the safety, security, or continuity of their estates; nor do they give sufficient thought to some of the most simple and practical means of reducing estate expenses. And there is only one intelligent answer to this problem—the estate planning through life insurance.

When an estate is composed principally of life insurance, settlement costs are small indeed, since life insurance is not subject to probate and administration expenses.

YOU MAY FEEL THAT YOUR WIFE will be well off when you leave her $25,000 of property. But don't lose sight of the fact that the estimated cost of estate settlement will run pretty close to 10% or $2,500.00. Add this the cost of last illness and the funeral and the estate shrinkage will be another 10%.

Your property will shrink by 20% or $5,000.00. That's the reason your $1,000 SPJST certificate is not sufficient to do a bit of "mopping-up operation" after your death. That's the reason we would do a great favor to every one of our prospects if we declared that we do not sell any $500.00 certificates. That amount does not buk today a medium-priced coffin.

• • • • ESTATE PLANNING PAYS OFF AT THE LUXURY OF IGNORING THE financial aspects of death is a very ex- a rate far in excess of the value of the pensive one, indeed, Take funerals, for time and effort it consumes. First of all, instance. When a man dies his family an orderly listing and analysis is made of

all the assets and liabilities of your estate. Next there is a hypothetical liquidation of the estate in order to reveal costs. It takes the estate through probate and indicates where shrinkage will take place. Conferences will then develop newer and better ways of carrying out your wishes for your family and for the future ownership, manlgement or control of your business arl'd other investments:• • IN MOST ESTATES PROBABLY THE best way to arrange for liquidity is to use an asset that is certain to increase in cash value upon the death of the owner rather than to depend upon assets that may bring only a fraction of their value at forced sale. The on* assets that increases in cash value at the death of its owner is life insurance. Under a life insurance plan, the same contingency (death) which creates the estate liability will create an offsetting estate asset in cash. Therefore, life insurance is the most logical method of meeting estate obligations.

• EVERY ONE eOF OUR ORGANIZERS, should be furnished with a blank to help our members or our prospects figure their financial objectives. The blank form may be distributed freely. They may be left with members or with prospects in order to make them aware of the immediate cash needs in. case of death. Any man can tell the value of his estate now, but seldom he takes time to estimate his family needs if he should die now.

THOSE BLANKS SHOULD BE PRE-. pared by Brother Marek according to the instructions he received in the special course at the SMU recently. The blank forms would be an ideal help for our SPJST organizers in discussing the high cost of dying and the need to buy additional insurance. ) 4, APOLOGY Our apology to Brother S. C. Bundil, president of San Antonio Lodge. He had an article in the last issue, but his signature did not appear at the end of his report. Really sorry.

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V.EbT .N1 K .- WEST, TEXAS

Wednesday, April 27, 1955

REPORTS FROM DISTRICTS ANNOUNCEMENT OF DISTRICT THREE Dallas, Texas Prar Editor: Kindly place this short notice in the columns of the Vestnik: On. Sunday, May 22, there will be a mass invasion of members of the Third District to Houston. The purpose? To accept the invitation from the members of District Five to come to a friendly get-together and to enjoy mass feeding that members of District Five will have ready.

Details of the trip from Dallas to Houston will be given in the next issue of the Vestnik.

And one other item of interest: Every Wednesday our Lodge No. 84 SPJST softball team plays on Diamond No. 2 Samuell Park, directly opposite Otto Janousek's Auto Lot. Exact time is given in the WHERE TO GO column every week.

Many thanks for printing this announcement. Sincerely, Frank B. Steiner ) • 4 • (• INVITATION TO DISTRICT ONE MEETING Fayetteville, Texas Dear Friends and Memberg: You will see the announcement of the program at Snook on May 1st in the following schedule.

We the officers of District One beg each and everyone to be with us there 11 ni no other way than to put in a good word for the work done and donated by every one for the benefit of District One. PROGRAM SCHEDULE: Sixth District Meeting of District One, SPJST to be held on May 1st, 1955 at Lodge Siovan No. 9, Snook, Texas Meeting will be called to order at 1 p. m.

Registration members and visitors in charge of Betty Jean Stepan Songs — by volunteers Pledge to Flag Welcome address -- by Oscar Slovaeel>. president Lodge Slovan Response to welcome address — J. F. Chupick, Secretary Supreme Lodge Introduction of officers, members and visitors: Local Officers.

Supreme Lodge District Officers Entertainment Committee Officers from other Districts Youth Directors Organizers

and visitors Officers from other organizations Messages: Edw. L. Marek, President Supreme Lodge; J. F. Chupick, Secretary Supreme Lodge Statements By: President District One, A. C. Stepan Vice-President, District One, Ladgie 131azek Secretary, District One, P. P. Baron Roll Call Reading of minutes from previous meeting Discussion of old and new business How to vote—Who to vote—New positions such as Treasurer, By-law Committee, etc.

Diitrict officers relinquish facilities to the EntertailA Lunt committee Arranged by: John T. Sicrabanek n clv, 111 Janosky John J. Srubar Stanley 1V1rnustik Dr. R. L. Skrabanek, master of ceremonies and program director.

1. Duet Tweedle - Dee—Bonnie Fojt and Annette Orsak 2. Trio — "The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane"—Yvonne Orsak, Mary Lynn 1V1ikeska, Mary Kay Brewton 3. Piano and Accordion Duet—Mrs. F. J. Fojt Jr. and Miss Mary Slovacek 4. Trio — Annette Orsak, Bonnie Fojt, Billie Giesenechlag 5. Hearts of Stone — Yvonne Orsak, Mary Kay Brewton, Leatrice Lewis, Mary Ann Kulhanek, Dorothy Frank, Fannie Maude Cook, Margaret Rubach 6. Visitors program: Song — Audience — End of Entertainment Program 7. Words of thanks to entertainment program -- President of District One — Continuation of District Meeting. — Presentation of Youth Activities Directors Joyce Hribek, Gus Novosad Organizers' Discussions in charge of President Edw. L. Marek Respects to Youngest SPJST member present —Oldest Members not from District One—SPJST members for fifty years or more—Visitors not members of SPJST Floor open for suggestions and discussions Installation of New officers for District One Selection of place for next meeting May we see you all in fraternal friendship at. Snook.

District One Officers — A. C. Stepan, President; Ladgie Blazek, Vice-Pres-

ident; P. P. Baron, Secretary Treausurer, Respectfully yours, P. P. Baron, Secretary-Treasurer District One ( ) el.

REPORT FROM DISTRICT TWO A meeting of SPJST District 2 was held Sunday, April 17, at Komensky Lodge 20 in Granger. The meeting began promptly at 1:30 p.m. with an entertaining program which was presen‘ Prated by young members from idesky por Lodge 24 at cyclone, livezda Texasu Lodge 47 at Seaton, and the Lodge 24 Square Dancing Club. Bobby Hoelscher of Cyclone was master of ceretionies and the program was directed by Mrs. Clara Hejl of Seaton.

After a few words of welcome to Granger from Brother Holubec, President of Lodge 20, District President Spanhel asked those in attendance from each lodge in the district to stand in order to determine which lodges were represented. Approximately 200 members and visitors were preseitt. The minutes of the last previous District 2 meetings were read by Secretary Belicek and they were approved as read.

President Spanhel then requested that a representative of each lodge describe the current situation in his lodge concerning the regularity of meetings, in terest shown by membership and attendance at meetings, and lodge activities.

The comments which followed indicate that most lodges in the district are truly active only in their soliciting and collecting functions and are serving only the insurance needs of the people in their communities. However, it was evident from the comments of many lodge representatives that their performance of the fraternal functions of the SPJST are being to a great extent neglected.

Although most lodges still hold• regular meetings, these meetings are poorly attended by only a small percentage of the members. After paying their dues and possibly participating in some bus iness matters, these members usually are not very interested — or their interests have not been properly directed and adequately aroused — in planning or engaging in any special or benevolent activities or services.

Brother Stephen Valcik, Editor of the Vestnik, was the principal speaker at the meeting and responded to the evident needs of those in attendance by discussing how increased interest and attendance at local lodge meetings could be achieved. He recalled how he first became interested in the SPJST because

Wednesday, April 27, 1955 he heard group singing coming through an open window in the SPJST \lodge hall while he was walking down the street in Granger. He had only recently arrived in this country from Europe and was only 19 years of age at the time. When he learned about the purposes of the SPJST and the true spirit of fraternal-• ism and the fine fellowship which prevailed in the lodge meetings in those days, he readily joined even though it was difficult for him to spare the money required for membership.

Brother Valcik explained that local lodge meetings should be more than just dry business sessions. Although business must be conducted, the main attraction of the meeting should be some form of entertainment provided by junior or adhlt members of the lodge or by non-members. He suggested that Supreme Lodge officers should be invited periodically to attend and speak at local lodge meetings. Other persons may be invited at other times to speak on subjects not necessarily dealing with the SPJST or insurance. There are a great number of speakers' subjects which would be informative and of interest to most lodge members. Of course, it is not wise to have guest speakers at every meeting; and speechmaking should be alternated with other forms of entertainment such as musical programs, comedy skits, educational and entertaining movies, and many others.

The entertainment should also be designed to on occasions include participation by the members of the lodge.

Group singing is good in this respect because almost everyone — especially the Czech — dikes to sing.

Attendance at meetings can also be enhanced by the serving of refreshments -- a svadina. In addition to the refreshment provided, this is a very good time for just plain visiting with one another.

These refreshments should be varied and should not always be an imposition upon the ladies of the lodge to bake kolades — even though they are most tasty and most of us probably would not tire of having them at every meeting.

The lodge meetings should be designed to interest both old and young men and women and junior members — truly a family affair. It is often desirable to have the entertainment at the beginning of the meeting which should start promptly at the scheduled time. Then a guest speaker who may have other engagements is free to leave (don't attempt to rush him off — he may be more interested in tile SPJST than you think) and the children may engage in some recreational activities outside the lodge hall if perhaps a lengthy and dry

VESTNIX -- WEST, TEXAS — to the children — business session is required. Lengthy business sessions, however, can usually be avoided by wise planning by the officers before the meeting and adherence to the agenda and standard parliamentary procedures at the meeting.

Social events, usually separate from the lodge meeting itself, are also an important lodge activity to obtain and hold the interest of members. These social activities should include events other than just public dances and picnics -although these are certainly good. There are many more occasions which may be used as "excuses to get together." Brother Valcik suggested the celebration of birthday and wedding anniversaries or otherwise honoring -- especially the aged — members of the lodge.

Brother Valcik also explained that placing responsibility for various projects and activities upon various members would help to increase attendance at meetings. This can be done most conveniently by appointing members to various committees during the year , and by having at least some change in personnel in the elected lodge officers and appointed standing committees from year to year. If persons are appointed to a special committee to investigate or plan something and are asked to prepare and submit a report at the meeting, all committee me/mbers will most likely appear at the meeting in person. In addition to being good strategy to increase attendance, this dispersal of duties is a good way to increase the scope and assure the success of the activities of the lodge.

The top administrator in any undertaking will usually tell you that his job is one of leadership and that he would not be successful and receive a large salary if he constantly concerned himself with the details which come up in the operation of his organization. He usually delegates some of his duties and authority to qualified subordinates.

Most of his working time is used for thinking and planning for the future and for making major decisions and supervising those who work under him. If local lodge officers try to do everything themselves, most of their time will be consumed by details and not much more than routine business will be accomplished by the lodge. If, on the other hand, the officers do the planning, if their plans are acceptable and approved by the membership, and if they leave much of the "spade work" to others, while they think of future activities; then there is practically no limit to the activities . and services which the local, lodge can engage in and perform.

Strana 13 Although there is practically an endless number of suggestions which could improve the present conditiOns at local lodge meetings, it is up to the local and Supreme Lodge officers to use their individual and combined initiative and ingenuity to improve the current performance of most local lodges. Brother Valcik encouraged the local lodge officers to each analyze his own lodge's situation and determine which of the suggestions and what particular application of them would be most likely to improve the performance of his lodge..

Brother Valcik expressed a belief that if the Supreme Lodge officers were requested and could in any way help the local lodges in this respect, that surely such help would be rapidly a?cl most willingly forthcoming.

The district officers were re-elected by acclamation and they are: Frank Spanhel of Hvezda Texasu Lodge 47, President; Joe Jakubec of Tyrs Lodge 80, Vice-President; and Joe Belicek of Tyrs Lodge 80, Secretary. A new office of Reporter for the district was created and Calvin Chervenka of Nova Osada Lodge 69 was elected to the office. After an invitation from Brother Frank E. Hejl, President of Lodge 47, it was decided that the next district meeting would be held at Star Hall at Seaton on a date to be selected by the disrict officers.

After a few appropriate and inspirational words from the Supreme Lodge President Edward L. Marek and Secretary J. F. Chupick and a report from District Director Charles Navratil, the meeting was adjourned. The members of Komensky Lodge 20 then served a delicious and refreshing buffet luncheon which undoubtedly was greatly enjoyed by all those present.

Calvin C. Chervenka District 2 Reporter ) • 4 • t INVITATION TO A BANQUET

The District Five organizers are extending a cordial invitation to the District Three organizers and their families for the banquet and a friendly get-together on Sunday, May 22, 1955, at 11:00 a.m. in Houston at Lodge Pokrok No. 88.

There will be no personal invitations sent in either District, and we hope that, this announcement will serve as an invitation to all. We wish and trust that this notice will not be overlooked.

Please do not disappoint us as we are anticipating a grand time in a fraternal way.

J. M. Skrabanek, President District 5 Rudy J. Sefcik, Secretary District 5

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REPORTS FROM LOCAL LODGES SLOVANSKA LIPA 66 WACO Dear Brothers and Sisters: Members of Waco Lodge 66 met in regular session at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 17, 1955, at the Shady Rest. Attendance was good. We are happy to welcome another new member, Brother Loyal Bessire, who was initiated into our Lodge.

The Sick Commitee reported that Sister Otto Hanus was ill. We hope her condition is not too serious and all wish her a speedy recovery. Also, Sister Frances Parma and Sister Frank Bartos had been on the sick list but seem to be doing better now.

Members of Birthday club celebrating April birthdays were Brother Roman Parma and Brother Edvin Narovec. All the group joined in singing the "Happy Birthday" song for them. Sister Barbara Jean Parma reported that the Birthday Club received $5.75 from the sale of pictures.

Following the business session we all enjoyed the social hour and delicious supper.

Our next regular meeting will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 15th, at Linden Park.

Fraternally yours, Emma Ceska • oye • ( CESKY PRAPOR LODGE NO. 24 Rogers, Texas Dear Sisters and Brothers: Here it is time to announce our meet-, ing date, which will be held the first Sunday in May; this is on May 1. I hope to - see some of you there, for we will talk about our fUture lunch at the meet-, ing.

It appears that quite a number of our members were at the district meeting at Granger last Sunday. Our Youth Club had a nice part in the program and it looked like everybody enjoyed the pro, gram very much. The meeting was carried out very nicely, too.

See you in my next report, Your reporter Mrs. Jerry Zavodny (Editor's Note:—I won't fuss if you mail it Thursday instead of Friday.) ) • 4, • SOKOL FORT WORTH Dear Friends, We extend our deepest sympathy to the sorrowing family of Henry John Jez and to him eternal rest and everlasting peace. Henry „died April sixth in a local hospital in Temple, Texas, after several months of illness. He was in the prime of life, just thirty-seven years old. He

is survived by his beloved wife, Lorene, son Larry, his parents Mr. and Mrs. John F. Jez and two grandmothers, Mrs. Jennie Bartek and Mrs. Anna Jez, all of Temple. He had many friends and relatives in Fort Worth also.

Happy newly-weds are Mr, and Mrs. Johnny Gregory. The bride is the former Miss Dena Gossett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Gossett and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gregory, all of Fort Worth. We wish them a long and happy married life.

Mrs. Benny Pavey and Mrs. Louis Ha-ha of Oklahoma City were recent visitors in Fort Worth and Dallas, and while they were here, we had a grand get together. All the girls who gathered at Sokol Club were former Sokol drillers together and are all still good pals. We had a delicious friend chicken luncheon with all the trimmings and a gab fest afterwards recalling all the good times we used to have. I'm afraid there were quite a few husbands that had sandwiches for dinner that night as it was hard to leave that fun-loving group.

I hope we can do that again real soon.

Well, I'd better quit now and go fight the weeds and cut worms some more, so good bye.

Sincerely, Maxine 'VI erl ick ) 4 ( LODGE POKROK MOULTON NO. 27 Shiner, Texas Lodge Pokrok Moulton No. 27 will hold its regular meeting on the first Sunday in May instead of the second Sunday on account of Mother's Day being on the second Sunday.

Frank C. Wagner, Secretary ( 4,„ SMITHVILLE (KOVAR), TEXAS Dear Brothers and Sisters, I wish to share with you my experience I gained not very long ago attending the District Three meeting of our SPJST in Dallas, and also tell you what I got out of attending the special course in Insurance Marketing at the Southern Methodist University. It is said that sometimes it is better to be born lucky than to be born rich. While I do not have any connection with either of the two, I did consider myself lucky to be present at that District Three meeting and see what co-operation and good-will can accomplish.

I wish to tell all you members of that district that you have made me feel very much- at home while I was, with you. I like the way you do things over there and I admire your accomplish-

ments. Your district should be example and pride of the whole SPJST. The special insurance course at the SMU was, of course, something else again. While I looked forward to the district meeting, I felt some misgivings about atending the insurance course.

I thought to myself, you are old, out of practice, you have by now forgotten most of what you did learn while going to school long ago.

But, then again, it came to me that maybe if I tried hard enough I might make it. I remembered that determination alone has pulled me throuip often enough, so when our Supreme Lodge President, Brother 11/larek, notified me to go, I said I would. And I made it, got my certificate which I'm very proud of.

However, it was not easy. Those professors are very fine men. They know what they are talking about, but for me they were entirely too fast.

I did manage to catch and put down at least the most important parts.

To any one interested in selling insurance, this kind of course is very beneficial and my advice to you is to take the course if you have an opportunity.

You may think that you are doing quite well without it; however, during this course you will pick up entirely new ideas and learn how to put them over.

Then too, you will get a different look at the insurance business. It is a big business growing bigger every day. Our SPJST should adopt some of the policies that we yet do not have, such as annuity and probably some others in order to be able to compete with other insurance companies.

Most of these policies are so flexible they will fit almost anyone's needs.

The annuity seems to be the most popular.

It will pay the insurance acording .to one's need, monthly, annually, in the amounts needed. I think I got a lot out of this short insurance course and I hope that many of you others who are interested enough will take similar opportunity when it presents itself. I am thankful to ,those who made it possible for me. I have enjoyed it very much.

Hoping to see many of you readers at our District One meeting at Snook, Texas Sunday, May 1st, I remain fraternally yours, V. H. Barina ) o 4, e, Our teen-age son tells us that a blind date is when you expect to meet a vision and she turns out to be a sight?— S.P.J.S.1% Sr,

Wednesday,. April 27, 1955

LETTERS S. P. J. S. T. SOFTBALL TEAM Dallas, Texas Dear Brothers and Sisters: Just a few lines to report the results of our softball game played last night, Wednesday, April 20..Our S. P. J. S. T. team came out on the short end. of the score with Sons of Herman, the final results were 16-14 in their favor. Nevertheless, the game was more interesting than the score would indicate as the final outcome wasn't settled until the last cut was made.

We now have 1 win and 1 loss.

Batteries were Wilbur Munger, pitcher, and Jody Zmolik, catcher. Our leading hitters for the night were Raymond Smith with 3 hits, and Albin Vrana 2 hits. The following had one hit: J. D. Griser, Jody Rejcek, Hal Maher, Wilber Munger, and Ben Jarma. We had a very nice turnout of members and friends who seemed to enjoy the game.

For future reference, I am giving the names of our players: 1. Ben Jarma., manager 2. Raymond Smith 3. Bill Griser 4. Jody Rejcek 5. J. D. Griser 6. Wilbur Munger 7. Frankie Jezek 8. Bill Matula 9. Hunter Newman 10. Joe Jarolik 11. Jody Zmolik 12. Albin Vrana 13. Ray Vrana 14. Hall Maher 15. Bob Wright For those of you who would like to know who we play and date and time of our games, I am enclosing a schedule for the first half of the season.

DALLAS PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT Municipal Athletics Men's Insurance League Samuel! No• 2 Diamond — Wednesday 7:30 p.m. •) S. P. J. S. T. vs 2) Southland Life, April 13 7:30 p. m. )4 Sons of Herman vs 1) S. P. J. S. T., April 20 7:30 p. m. 3) Republic National Life vs 1) S. P. J. S. T., April 27 8:30 0. - m. 1) S. P. J. S. T. vs 2)-Southland Life, May 4 8:30 p. m. 4) Sons of Herman vs 1) S. P. J. S. T., May 11 8:30 p.m. 1) S.P.J.S.T. vs 3) Republic National Life, May 18 Our next game will be April 27 and we play Reptiblic National Life at 7:30 P. m.

In closing my report for this time, all

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I can say that we are sorry we did not win but we hope to do better next game.

Fraternally yours, Ben Jarma, Manager Softball Team • 4 EX-STUDENTS MEETING IN AUSTIN Do not let the word "ex-student" deceive you when you see it used in publicity concerning the Czech Ex-Students Association of Texas meeting to be held in the Texas Union Building at Austin at 10:00 a, in on Sunday, May 1.

Although the organization was originally founded by college ex-students of Czech descent, Mr. August Kacir, president of the association, has assured me that the meeting is open to anyone who is genuinely interested in the purposes of the association, namely the support and encouragement of higher education among the Czechs in Texas and the preservation of the Czech language and culture in general. These purposes were included in the by-laws printed in the March 2 Vestnik and were discussed in my article in the April 20 Vestnik.

This association is engaged in work which should be of interest to many Czechs in Texas—whether or not they are ex-students of any college. Also, the association is engaged in somewhat similar activities and has problems similar to those with which other Czech organizations in Texas are confronted. Consequently, all interested persons are invited and strongly urged to attend the meeting in Austin as individuals or as representatives of their organizations.

Let's have some representation from every section of Texas.

Come early enough for the meeting and plan to spend the whole day in Austin visiting friends and seeing the many sights in your state capital. At 2:30 p.m. on the same day in the same building, the Department of Slavonic Languages at the University of Texas is present, ing a Czech festival, "Majales".

Calvin C. Chervenka Vice President ) • 4 ( CZECH EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS Austin, Texas Dear Ex-Student, Plan now to come to Austin Sunday, May 1, 1955. Two big events will take place. The first is the meeting of the Czech Ex-Students in the morning at 10:00 a.m. in Room 315 of the Texas Union Building on the campus. Come a few minutes sooner so as to register and chat a bit with old friends.

In the afternoon at 2:30, p.m. the Czech festival "Majales" will begin in the Main Lounge of the Texas Union.

Strana 15 You will enjoy the folk dances and other numbers of the program. Most of the participants will be in folk costume. After the program refreshments will be served during a social hour.

Come and enjoy a pleasant day on the campus with old friends and acquaintances. We're anxious to see you again.

Na shledanou!

J. E. Zivney, Secretary •( )° OPERETTA AT POKROK HOUSTON If you like a very snappy operetta, don't miss the Czech play to be given next Sunday, May 1, at the hall of Pokrok Houston No. 88. It will be an afternoon of very fine acting, singing and general entertainment.

The three•act comedy has a‘h unusual' name, THE-THREE MUSKETEERS, and it promises not to have a single dull mol' ment. You may not understand all the Czech lyrics and prose, but your nerves will vibrate to the snappy tunes of the`' actors. Be sure to come. We shall be looking for you.

Entertainment Committee and Dramatic Club "illahol" ) • 4 • ( KITCHEN MANAGER WANTED The Board of Directors of Pokrok Houston Lodge No. 88 wishes to announce that the Board would like td contact a person, either man or woman, who would take charge of the kitchen in our hall. This announcement is made in order to give everyobdy an equal opportunity.

Our kitchen is open every Saturday. , night, and also every time there is a program or a gathering at the hall on Sunday. Any further information will be glady given.

Ernest J. Hanka, Chairman Board of Directors • )

Resolution of Sympathy Lodge Kingsville No. 118 expresses our synipathy to the bereaved family of Sister Christine Campbell who passed away April 9, 1955, in Corpus Christi, where she resided.

The deceased was 53 years old and was a member of our lodge for 30 years. She was laid to rest in Sea Side Burial Park in Corpus Christi on April 11, 1955.

Annie Laza Lula Elsik Mary Farek Resolution Committee ) • et) ° ( A common mistake of youth is that" it thinks intelligence is a substitute for experience; that of age that it thinks experience is a substitute for intelligence.

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STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS ' AND DISBURSEMENTS FOR MARCH, 1955 ZPRAVA PRIIMU A VYDANi ZA MEW BREZEN, 1955 ivf, !Wary tmrtni

RECEIPTS - PfZtJEM Payments on mortgage loans - Splatky majetkovYch piljeek Payments on certificate loans - Splatky na certifikatove Vijay Dues from subordinate lodges - Poplatky od radii' Interest from certificate loans -- • rok z certifikatovYch pfijeek Interest from Mortgage Loans - trok majetkovYch pfijeek R. E. 0. Rent - Najemne z farem R. M. 0. - Z mineralniho majetku Rent from Building - Najem z budovy Appraisal fee -- Na, odhady Sale of supplies - Prodej kadovYch pAreb Contribution to Moucka Fund - Dary pro Mouelftv Fund Total Receipts - CelkovY prijem Cash Balance 3-1-55-Hotovost 3-1-55

69,041.34 3,255.57 51,522.39 1,842.32 14,155.35 620.00 739.68 2,319.88

Expense Vydani

Juvenile Detsky

$5,587.04 266.00 14,321.38 11,995.46 42.54 1,396.64

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Moucka F. MottekfL y Son 74,61 3,59 77,81 1,88 15,58 62 72 2,31

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1,014.00 22.70 17.00

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143,496.53 436,050.36

15,358.08 19,287.68 8,015.45 23,548.60

',17.00 150.51

178,15 467,76

579,546.89

23,373.53 42,836.28

167.51

645,92

92,892.98 10,932.00 105.00 1,50.0.00 19,808.51 157.92 2.69 236.00 1,642.19

24,000.00 594.00

DISBURSEMENTS - VYDANI: Mortgage loans - , Majetkove pujely Certificate loans - Certifikatove Vijay Commission sale, R. E. 0. - KomiAne z prodeje majetku Matured Ednowment - Vyplacene nadakni Claims Paid - Vyplacene innrtni podpory Returned Premiums and Bonus - Vratene Umrtni poplat. a bonus R. E. 0. Insurance -4, PojiSteni na majetek R. E. 0. Repairs - Opravy na majetek Building Maintenance - kizeni a vyditovani budovy H. Ur. Advertising - Oznamky Appraisal Expense - Za odhady Car expense - vYlohy na auto Commissions - Koingne Freight, and Express Liability Ins. - Poji:Steni proti odSkodnemu Medical examinations - Lekarske prohlidky Non-medical examinations - Bezlekafske prohlidky Vestnik and editor's salary - Vestnik a &lane redaktora Office maintenance - Na vydr2ovani Utadovny Office Rent - Najemne z idadovny Officers- Travel - Cestovne it•ednikit Organizational Expense - Organi,Edeni vylohy Postage - PoStoyne Salary of employees - Slukie vYpomoci SluZne iffecinika Salary. Officers Etate Examination -- Statni prohlidka Stationery and supplies - Tiskova prace a psael potteby F. I. C'.. A. - Tax - Dan. Telephone and telegraph - Telefon a telegramy Total disbursements •, Celkove vyclani Cash Balance 4-1-55,-Hotev ,3st 4-1-55

116,89.

11,52 10 1,50 19,80, 24,

88.88

231 1,64; 8 85 12 2,871

89.80 854.72 129.75 2,872.17 3.34 8.16 207.50 213.60 2,526.48 73.66 400.00 19:30 333.69 15.32 1,275.00 2,225.00 3,367.32 415.07 88.68 167.33

20' , 21: 2,521 7:

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2,221 3,36' 411 81 16'

127,277,29 452,269.60

15,286.19 24,682.88 8,087.34 18,153.40

167.51

167,241 478,67'

579,546.89

23,373.53 42,836.28

167.51

645,92,

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478,67' 995,22( 266,604 5,311,174 531,971

ASSETS -•- MAJETEK fEDNOTY trash -- Hotovost U. S. Bonds - U. S. Bondy.

County and municipal bonds -- Okresni a mestske bondy Mortgage loans - Majetkove pujdity Certificate loans -- Certifilatove piijeky ,

452,269.60 995,220.00 256,957.40 4,755,180.46 518,537.33

8,087.34 18,153.40 9',647.40 555,993.86 13,414.90

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tock - Akcie P. J. S. T. Building - S. P. J. S. T. budova :eal Estate - Majetek 'ollateral Loan - Collateral pOjeka M 0 -- Mineralni a OlejovY majetek quay - Podlly 'erniture and fixtures - Nabytek a zatizeni v tfadovne attomobile Automobil

100,000.00 221,314.56 38,075.25 190.00 60.00 10.00

1,500.00

21,158.15 2,725.00 7,337,814.60

31,970.49 597.229.56

101,500,00 221,314.56 38,075.25 190.00 60.00 10.00 21,1.58.15 2,725.00

1,667.51 7,968,682.16

Fraternally yours - S bratrskYm pozdravem R. A. Urbanovsky, Financial Secretary - ieetni.

INCOME FROM LODGES IN MARCH 1955 Lodge Date Amount $285.21 3 24 19 533.36 84.84 16 10 377.70 29 161.03 8 101.36 28 9 19 300.63 10 74.15 24 11 21 25.62 12 10.92 22 13 203.81 24 14 52.09 23 15 1,198.37 21 16 171.71 23 17 1,263,10 23 18 79.32 10 23.56 19 24 21 1,198.90 20 21 113.51 22 441.62 23 26 24 1,411.71 23 25 554.53 23 26 217.51 15 440.72 27 23 28 1,603.96 19 5,507,74 29 10 582.50 30 10 8.65 32 22 16 429;75 33 16 3.58 34 3,132,24 19 35 7.62 22 37 272.47 25 38 305.79 23 39 119.67 41 23 69.70.

19 44 192.35 45 22 1,198.89 47 24 468.92 48 23 1,042.55 49 10 587.94 22 50 396.18 23 -51 1,041.59 54.

18 38.76 22 55 1,862.96 56 30 87.49 12 57 274.41 22 58 2.73 18 59 87.83 60

61 63 64 65 67 68 69 71 72 74 76 77 78 80 81 82 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 105 107 108 110 111 112 113 113 116 117 118 119 120 122 124 125

10 21 21 22 26 25 28 21 29 25 15 26 17 24 25 22 28 23 10 10 21 15 20 17 30 15 23 11 22 16 30 23 22 10 22 '12 25 24 23 26 24 12 22 16 23 22 29 28 26 16 23 16 23

79.39 127 745.65 128 25.62 129 43.81 314.06 130 225.89 132 13 3,056.99 133 113.43 135 76.63 136 197.92 138 33.75 139 22.32 140 10.82 141 63.70 142 863.10 143 11144476 11,245357339.. 426325 145 147.65 310.55 1,356.99 9,290.23 1,437.55

148 151 152 115553 154

476.81 5,300.67 141.50 960.85 75.21 14.48 994:65 3.2 4:65

156 157 158 160 161 162 163 16

22 23 24 10 10 23 24 22 23 26 25 26 26 12 10 23 21 10 25 23 24 24 10 28 26 22 22 24 16 .10 10

38.38 91.75 89,01 2,578.89 7.44 429.59 220.52 83196.360 8 3,162.29 112.57 106.24 448.18 548.65 354.50 '111).72 82.51 1,001.86 385.94 33.25 170.21 1,321.60 202.13 96.35 18.06 875.54 385.00, 132.94 665.49 623.54

20.43 $77,839.23 35.34 12.11 )• 4 • ( 89.44 There is a story told of a some-what 16.97 41.73 tipsy man who piled into a crowded.

459.68 bus, and lurched into a seat beside a 471.35 priest. He sat for a few minutes, blear140.30' ily eyeing the priest, who was reading 101.50 his Office. Then suddenly he said in 'a 640.64 loud voice: "1 ain't going to heaven, 14.37 because I feel there ain't no heaven!"

39.25 The priest, pretending not to hear, bur161.34 led his nose in his breviary. At this the 580.87 man bellowed at the top of his lung,: 722.62 "I said, I ain't going to heaven, oe5.50 cause there ain't no heaven! Now what : 72.75 do you say, padre?" The priest, replied: 171.28 "Well, go to hell then, but do be quiet 6.44 about it." - Clare Booth Luce, Catholic 153.41 ,World.

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can't remove him any other way, the psychological method is used on him to Bellville, Texas such an extent and in such a way that he finally decides the position is not Dear Members: worth the misery and resigns.

In reading the comments by Bro. Valcik, editor of our Vestnik, in the Czech Now, to get to the Czechoslovakian way section of his editorials in the April of conducting meetings, I must say that 20 issue, I particularly noted and en- Bra Valcik certainly is on the right joyed the reference he made to the word track when he says that it is the Czech"psychologist" (psycholog in Czech, I oslovakian attitude, or disposition, (or presume) and its meaning. But, the most in plain words, a habit), of not knowing interesting part of the editor's com- how, or, of not caring, as to how to conments in discussing the above topic was duct meetings in an orderly manner and the part referring to us, of the Czecho- according to parliamentary rules as slovakian extraction and our behavior in should apply to any meeting of people conducting meetings. I should and would for the purpose of deciding matters of like to, write this in Czech as it will importance. In our typically Czechosloprobably affect more'of the older Czech vakian meetings much of the time is members because, those of the younger wasted in discussing and bickering about generations have had much more op- small and unimportant matters, bring portunity to learn about both, the con- ing up questions that have been disducting .of meetings and the meaning of cussed over and over already, etc. If any psychologist and psychology. But even new matter is brought up, almost imthough I read Czech perfectly, I am not mediately every one present starts talkversed well enough to write for publica- ing, giving suggestions and advice and tion in Czech, so will say what I wish to the chairman can knock his gavel to say, here in the English section. (Ed- splinters before he gets any attention or itor's Note: The Czech translation of establishes any order. This manner of your article is published in this issue.) conducting meetings, is typical of the Speaking of psychologists and psy- larger portion of all of our meetings, chology, I want to mention that in my which includes local, district and state several years experience in the capacity convention. I am not in position to say of a good-will and public relations dis- that the Supreme Lodge meetings are trict salesman, employed by one of the included in that category, as I have nev4arge Texas breweries, I had the oppor- er attended one; however, from reading tunity to learn first hand, through meet- Bro. Valcik's comments, and information ings conducted for that purpose and by from other sources, those can be also personal contact, about psychology and included. its meaning as aplied to the individual.

This method of conducting meetings I wish to emphasize that if a person can can be comical and amusing to some master psychology and makes all possi- people but it is a pain in the neck to ble use of it, he will be surprised at the those in charge and very frequently results that can be accomplisher. He will prevents important and beneficial matbe almost in the same position as if he ters from being acted on, or even enacted were a mind reader. bacause the time is running short.

In selling anything it means that I think that Bro. Valcik can accoma salesman (not an order taker), regard- plish much good by often calling at1,88 of what he is selling, has to sell him- tention to this unruly method of conself first to the prospect and if he sells ducting meetings. It seems that many himself, he will have no trouble selling of our members will not notice much whatever the article may be. A psycholo- of anything in the Vestnik unless it is gist can soon discover what it will take criticism of some kind; and if he would to sell himself to the prospect and con- fill the Vestnik half-full of that sort of sequently, sell him whatever he is sell- criticism, no one could get "peeved" be ing.

-causemotfareguilty.And,evPsychology can be used for gainful tually might realize our misbehavings, purposes in many ways, but likewise, it just as one will realize that he is not so can be used for harmful purposes by good looking, if he keeps looking in the someone wishing to use it so. As for in- mirror. A few more write-ups on psystance if unfair criticism is used against chologists and psychology should also be some person for something that he is not very helpful to lots of us. To my way of the cause of, the person so criticised will thinking, psychology like Christianity, eventually lose interest in the perform- is very simple and easy to understand. ing of his duties. This often happens in To understand Christianity one has to connection with public positions when learn "to do unto others as you would certain individuals or certain interests have others do unto you"; and to underwant some official out 'of the way and stand psychology one has to learn "what

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Wednesday, April 27, 1955 the others want to do and will do."

Well, Bro. Valcik, if you need something to fill out some space in the Vestnik, I will appreciate your publishing this; and I want to remind you that I have not forgotten my promise to give you a good feed if and when you come up to one of our barbecues or fish-fries.

We are having one Sunday, May 15, so come up and bring the Missus.

Fraternally, Frank V. Stepan (Editor's Note: Sincere thanks for the invitation for Sunday, May 15. Can you guess where I would have more fun, at Eleiblerville attending the fish fry or at Hillje attending the district meeting? So it is business before pleasure.) ` • BE TOUGH WITH YOURSELF

Check up on yourself to see just how you fill the day. Ask yourself such questions as the following about your work and answer them honestly: 1) How much time did you lose by coming to work late, by getting a late start?

2) How often did you poscrastinate —put off making a call, or put off writing a report or memorandum for your files?

3) How many days did you take longer lunch periods than you should, or knock off earlier than you should?

4) How many days did you give your work a "once-over-lightly," passing up the tough ones, not calling on prospects?

5) How much time did you waste gossiping with your brother salesmen, and office employees, or suspects, or prospects, or policyholders, or playing solitaire with prospect cards — time in which you were of no service to yourself or to them?

Be tough with yourself? Get out of the disorderly habit of letting chunks of those hours slip away forever, as useless to you as though you had never lived them. Gel into the orderly habit of using those hours to make your work much more successful, more profitable, and thus happie, e . — William Bauman. ) ( UNDERSTANDING

A big-league umpire once remarked that he could never understand how crowds in the grandstand hundreds of feet from the plate could see better and judge more accurately than he, when he was only 7 feet away.

Another man commented that in life, too, we call strikes on a chap when we are too far away to understand. Perhaps if we had a closer view of the man and his problems, we would reverse our decisions. —Friendly Thoughts.

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-_rn, !CATE IS A CONTRACT What The Word 'Czech' (By Otto Hanus)

(Editor's Note: The following excel- while my work has carried me to sunny lent address by Brother Otto Hanus, first San Antonio temporarily that I can forevice-president of District Three, was see the time when we will return and misplaced by the editor with the numer- live among the finest people in the world ous papers obtained during the special in District 3; and we will again take up course at the SMU. The address of the reins and start plowing for our great Brother Ham: s should have been pub- SPJST and the mighty District 3. lished shortly after it was delivered beTo each and everyone of you I wish fore the SPJST members gathered for the greatest of success. the District Three meeting in Dallas 1 last month. My sincere apology for the omission.)

Mr. Chairman, Brothers, Sisters and Friends:— I am very happy to be here today and to have an opportunity to tell you something about SPJST. Many of you think that an SPJST certificate is nothing more than "That if I die, SPJST will pay my family whatever the amount is". I would just like to clear this up in your mind and de fine just what I 'think such a certificate actually is. An SPJST certificate is simply a statement of the terms under which the certificate holder is buying a given sum of money for future delivery. It is an INSTRUMENT OF FINANCE whereby you purchase certain sums of money to be delivered to you under certain condition's or to your loved ones 'Should you unexpectedly be called away.

There are many types of SPJST certificates. You may buy one to give you a certain sum of money when you are no longer able to work; another that will guarantee education for your children; another which will pay for your, home should you be called away; and many more. In each case you have the assurance that if something should happen to you and you are unable to complete such a contract through death, your SPJST will carry out such a contract completely and in full.

An SPJST Life Certificate is a CONTRACT that buy's you an income for your old age: It buys education for your children. It buys an estate. It buys a cash reserve when you need it and an assured income for your family if you're unable to carry out the contract should you be called away. With an SPJST certificate you buy a certain sum of money for future delivery to you in cash if you live and an immediate full sum to your family should you pass away.

Our SPJST has just about any ty e of modern contract for your needs. I would suggest that you, contact your local organizer and let him show you the many kinds of contracts available at the lowest possible terms of payment In closing I would like to say that

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Means To Me The term "Czech" in the dictionary-1s defined as " a member of the most westerly branches of the Slavonic family."

But I would like for all the readerS of the Vestnik to know what the "Word "Czech" truly means to me.

I am of English descent and, siXars. ago I married a Czech. During ` the ik4f: six years the word has become very`` dear and familiar to me.

Although I don't speak Czech and ;my in-laws don't speak English, our relationship is wonderful. When people enjOY the' same things together and Ark 1;06.1•dt: the same goal, it really doe' n't rn'atfeer" what language they speak.

I have found that the Czech 'peoplei possess a great love for family. They are :' hard-working and thrifty people:A /OVe, for the soil seems to be instilled in their souls. Their hunger of knowledge lea'd many of the children to a higher 'edti= cation. My husband's desire for a 'higher': education is a good eliample. Ile viai' forced to leave high school during sophomore year due to asthma. He'thern helped his parents on the . farrii-','€nel' later went to work at a filling statiOn:' Still desiring more education, rolled in the "American School," 'a;:higW school correspondence course. He l cOiti-c' pleted this course with the exception tif algebra. Ater completing his high'sehoor/ education in the Air Force, he tdokFtWO'; courses at Midwestern University 'at'-Wi-h chita Falls, Texas, due to financial' reasons and lack of time he is no longet: attending college, but hopes to return' someday. (Editor's Note:—Keep the fire., burning, encourage him. I am intithately: acquainted with a man who went tor college at 53 and received his master's degree at the age of 58.)

The Czech women excel in handwork,' and culinary. I never tire of showing my: friends the beautiful pieces of handy work my mother-in-law has given ,mexAnd the "klobasy" and kola:ay :-.)are.: delicious.

Even though they are proud of their past and love the old country, they make, the most loyal citizens of the Bnited States.'

I hope that the short sketch that,,T,, have written will give you a clear picture-, of what the word "Czech" means to me, Mrs. Virginia Zgarba, 1202 Nancy Drive Corpus Christi, Texas

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" .s being taught at the hall 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 of each month free for Members.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT, APRIL 27: Dallas SPJST Softball Team plays the Republic National Life on Diamond No. 2, Samuell Park, close to Samuell Boulevard, Dallas. Come and support your team. Game starts at 7:30 p. m, SUNDAY MAY 1: The meeting of the Czech Ex-Students Association of Texas, at 10:00 a. m. in Room 315, -Texas Union Bldg, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.

SUNDAY MAY 1: The Czech festival MAJALES at 2:30 p. m. in the Main Lounge of the Texas Union Bldg., University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Refreshments after the program.

SUNDAY MAY 1: Mother's Day Program and lunch at Seaton Star Hall! Dance at Night Music by Albert David from Granger.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT, MAY 4: Dallas SPJST Softball Team plays the Southland Life Insurance team, Samuel Park Diamond 2. Game starts at 8:30 p. m.

SUNDAY MAY 2: Lodge Osveta No. 38 at Kovar will have a Mother's Day program and luncheon after the regular meeting.

SUNDAY MAY 22: ) • 4 ° ( SPJST meoibers of District Three Will Truth is the most valuable thing 'We go to Houston to be entertained by memhave. Let us economize it.—Mark bers of District Five.

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Care of the Skin The skin, with its more than 7,000,000 pores, has the most extensive depurating surface of any organ in the body, and requires special care to keep it in good working order. When health is perfect, the 'skin is soft, moist, smooth, and velvety, Depuration (meaning cleansing or purification) through it takes place freely, and has no offensive odor. If, owing to 'incorrect habits, the skin becomes clogged, depuration will be checked, Very little matter is secreted, or it is thrown out profusely in certain parts, as in the axillao or armpits.

Where the circulation is not well balanced the skin often perspires in patches, some parts being dry and others moist. Many persons have better health in hot weather than when it is cold, because they perspire more, and the impurities in the system do not accumulate so rapidly. These occupations which favor free perspiration keep the skin unobstructed; this is on: .! reason why active employment promotes health The skin is encouraged to do its work, and there are fewer headaches or other ailments; bilious attacks come: less frequently or not at all.

In this connection, we must not overlook the effect ef sunlight upon the skirl:The rays of the sun are life-giving; they invigorate the whole system. This is shown in the face and complexion.

Those who work in mines or dark places or live in apartments from which most of the sunlight is excluded, either look pale or sickly or the skin is extremely salloW.-, There is none of that ruddy, healthy glow which is acquired by living in the open air and sunshine.

The use of condiments in food is very injurious to the skin. The pores of the skin try to eliminate these substances and the result causes the skin to become harsh and rough, owing to the greater amount of labor imposed and the irritation that is produced. If stismulating substances, as salt and pepper, are used in connection with a greasy diet, the surface of the body is apt to be covered with pimples.

They may create a jaundiced condition, and the skin is sallow; it becomes practically sealed and to a large extent ceases-to depurate. Heavy coffee and tea ,drinkers and chocolate eaters show a greasy and pasty skin condition due to caffeine, tannin, oil and other bad ingredients. '1 he effects of an improper diatein most people will cause some skin disortier.

The rule is, if you wish to have beautiful skin, keep the body in perfect

VESTNiK -- WEST, TEXAS

Wednesday, April 27, 1955

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

By Herman Yezak April 18•22 —• The omnibus tax bill was engrossed two minutes before midnight on Monday by a vote of 74-67. The bill includes new and additional taxes as follows: 1. A one-cent tax per gallon gasoline at the retail level which will make it a five-cent per gallon State tax.

2. A 1 1/2 cent tax increase per gallon on liquified gases, 3. Increase cigarette tax at one-cent per package, except those sold on military bases, and making permanent oneCent tax that was scheduled to expire.

4. A graduated tax on cigars and also a tax on pipe and chewing tobacco and snuff. These items carry no state tax now.

5. Making the eigth cent tax on natural gas at the wellhead permanent.

It was scheduled for a, drop to seven cents.

6. A five per cent tax on trade stamps.

This is a new tax.

7. Increase license fees for wholesalers and retailers of beer and wine.

8. A five per cent tax on the value of uranium produced in the future.

A tax on the transfers of stocks within the State was abolished by the terms of the Moore amendment.

It is estimated that the new tax proposal would raise $51,000,000 in taxes annually.

The Governor submitted three emergency measures to the Legislature this week for consideration and they were: (1) Request one-fourth million dollars to the State Board of Health to process and supply Salk polio vaccine to children of indigent families and children in State in .i_tutions; (2) Making an ap-

Ipropriation to the Livestock Sanitary Comthission to pay indimnities to owners of sheep and goats which have been destroyed due to a disease known as scrapie and (3) An emergency appropriation for the Attorney General's office for prosecuting offenders and violators for fraud in the Veterans Land program.

A motion was made and adopted to instruct the Rules Committee to report immediately on the lobbyist regulatory bill.

The House approved a proposed constitutional amendment increasing the retirement benefits a school teacier or college professor may receive under the State Retirement program. This amendment is scheduled for a vote 'at the next general election.

A senate constitutional amendment providing for a water user tax was approved by the House and it is expected to go to a conference committee for adjusting the differences that exist between the House and the Spate on the measure.

The State Affairs Committee reported favorably on the Unfair Sales Act which is endorsed and approved by the smaller grocers throughout the State.

The Judiciary Committee of the House reported favorably on a statewide Judicial redistricting bill. The bill has a remote chance of passing this late in the session.

A bill prohibiting the use of telephone equipment or other electrical devices in shocking and taking f i sh from the public waters of the State has been passed in both the House and the Senate and was sent to the Governor for his approval.

health. Frequent bathing is necessary to keep the pores of the skin open. Free perspiration greatly facilitates the process of good health. Care of your diet and the observation of the laws of hygiene is the only good way to take care of your skin. )♦ A ♦( Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to )thers; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed co see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. The way in which power works is a mystery. — Albert Schweitzer, quoted in Christian Register.

When your prospect replies, "Your insurance costs too much," explain to him that insurance doesn't cost anything, Tell him it's the things he wants to do with the money he will save through insurance that will cost — paying a mortgage costs, sending his son to college costs, being independent in his old age costs. And then, since he. 114$ already stated that he wants these things, you can ask him if he knows any cheaper way than through life insurance to guarantee that he will be able to pay for them. — Life Insurance Selling. ) • 4 • (

"COSTS TOO MUCH"

The best things in life 'are free, of The search for happiness is one of the course, but isn't it a pity 'that most of chief sources of unhappiness. the next best things are so expensive?

Wednesday, April 27, 1955

Senator Strauss' Column TO THE PEOPLE OF THE 15th SENATORIAL DISTRICT After a lengthy debate the Senate finally passed the Brucellosis control bill. The supporters of this legislation claim that it will be of great benefit to the cattle industry in the control and eradication of diseases. (Editor's Note: The dictionary defines "brucellosis" as undulant fever, in cattle more often called "Bang's disease," infectious abortion.)

On Monday of this week our Committee, on Constitutional Amendments approved an Amendment which would authorize the issuance of an additional 100 million dollars worth of bonds by the Veterans Land Board for the purpose of carrying on the Veterans Land Program. The State Commander of the American Legion and other Legion officials appeared and spoke in favor of this Amendment.

On Tuesday of this week I appeared before the. Conference Committee which is preparing the Appropriation bill and made an appeal to them to give careful consideration to the proposition of strengthening and expanding the Extension Service of Texas A. and M. College. I explained to the Committee that the education and research work carried on by the Extension Service could he of benefit tt. our people in the rural areas.

Governor Shivers sent a- message to both houses of the Legislature this week asking for an emergency appropriation of $250,000.00 to pay for Salk polio vaccine to be given to children of Texas whose parenigs can't afford to pay for this medicine.

Our State Affairs Committee gave approval this week to a bill which would create a branch of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Hospital in San Antonio. There were many doctors in attendance at the bearing on this bill. A part of them spoke in favor of the bill, and some of them were against it. The Committee vote was 9 to 7 in favor of the bill.

The Constitutional Amendment making certain changes in the Teachers Retirement Act has been finally passed by both houses, and will be voted on by the people at the General Election in 1956.

The tax bill has not yet been received in the Senate. It is anticipated that there will be a real battle on this legislation from now on, to the end of the session.

VESTNiK — WEST, TEXAS

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Have Your Choice Thirteen SPJST certificates for adults: CLASS B: whe're 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 15 years; benefits paid as provided in Class C. CLASS E: where a member pays pre-. miums 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 t( age 65, and the proper amount of his certificate is paid upon his death CLASS 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. o e Five SPJST certificates for children: CLASS J-T: Term insurance to 16years of age, which may be converted into any other insurance after the child reaches the age of 10 years and before attaining the age of 16 years.

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

CLASS J-S: 20-pay life with face value at age ono y ear , 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)

POLKA DANCE NDAR (Calvin C, ChF,rvenb.a) Wednesday, April 27 Henry Brosch orchestra -- Plainvielu =., Community Center Hall near El Campo; Thursday, April 28 Lee Ilse orchestra -- Louise Hall Saturday, , April 30 Emil Bartos orchestra — Bill Hall in Houston Lee use orchestra — Fair Ground,s La Grange Sil Krenek orchestra American 40-gion Hall in Crosby Rudy Kurtz orchestra — KT Hal1,irf San Antonio M'ajek orchestra Moravian Hall in Corpus ChrWi Joe Nesvadba orchestra — SPJST PO= krck Hall in Houston Joe Patek orchestra — SPJST Hall qn'..

Taylor Sunday, May 1 Henry Brosch orchestra — Talton' Cat Springs Polka Band — Country Bar at Marak Lee "se orchestra — Round Top Hall Rudy Kurtz orchestra— Riverside in East Bernard Joe Patek orchestra — American,J.e7 gion Hall in Shiner Starlighters orchestra SPJST in Dallas All the above dances are at night- tieFless otherwise specified. This is service but applies only to those daneeS at which mainly polka and waltz musielS played by a live orchestra. The Vestnik or writer will assume no responsibilitY resulting from any dance announcement which is listed in this column.

Listings from orchestras and dance -halls should be received at least one week: before publication. Send all listings to Calvin Chervenka, Route 2, Rogers, Tex. ) • Re • ( MOTOR VEHICLE CLAIMS INCREASE -IN 1954 Motor vehicle fatalities accounted for 'f 20,000 life insurance death claims in '-thd first half of 1954, representing aggregate payment's of $39,000,000, the tute of Life Insurance says.

This compares with 18,000 claim for $37,000,000 in the first six months' - of, 1953. The increase stemmed more from the greater number of insured persons than from any rise in fatality rate, the latter appearing to be running somewhat lower than the year before.

Last year,. the 12-month aggregate of • motor vehicle death claims was 40;000 for $76,000,000.

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6dee'ek rad vnoue'avypravoval poi e'10U bajku o g tice a kaZni:

"Videl jsi yak viechno active ustupovalo, kudy ja jsem plula, a pied Tebou n c?"

"Videl9 kyva kapr lhostejne. "Ale to ustupovali ti mall a slabi vii-'

chni ne pied Tehou, nirbrii pied Tvirmi g eredStihla g tika za tepleho zuby!" a une6niho odpoledPit• ti nikolikrat, ()pi g do seneobratila se z hlubiny situ a popros tatinka,spravne aby Ti bajku troehu vysvetill! Plyne z ni poneeni.— StrVeek sA te gi, te uvidi male i velike nika na meleinu, a- etenale v nedeli v pfil tieti v Austinu na Majales a prod je, aby se po slavnosti se vyhiala. k, nem nnz smerern, ale tro_au podil g iiky, p 1 u y, tlusti kapr. udy itika se ubirala, drohne rybky, vgechny jako stielv v p ravo, v levo prchaly.

Kdyi potom na se zatece rnusely se °be velike ryby setkati, p ravia g tika hrde ke kapro-

S poznravern STRitEK MKEK Z AUSTIND.

Ve st h - ult; dile 27. dillana 1955.

dev na blede devee; "jestli pak se jit Mila trochu vpravil do sveho stavu?"

"Co ma delat, chudak! Musi, ad mu tako dost," odpovedela Kristla, obratic se k oknu, aby ukryla slzy.

"To ve •im," ozval se myslivec; zavrete ptaka ttebas do slate klece, les mu bude ptece "Dokonce kdyZ tarn samieka po nem touSi," uSklibl se po strane mlynak.

"Ja byl take vojakem," zaeal pan ProSek; Usmev pohraval okolo peknVch fist, kdyZ to iekl, a modre jeho odi obratilv se na pani Terezku.

Usmala se te2, pravic: "Tys byl hrdina ty!"

"Jen se nesmej, Teresko;kdyZ jsi chodila ,se divat na hradby s tetou Dorotkou, jak se exerciruju, plakaly jste obe dye."

"A ty s nama, zasmuSala se pani Terezka.

"Tenkrate nam ale Zadnemu nebylo do smichu, leda tern, co -se na nas divali."

"Musim se priznat," tekl dobrosrdedny hospodar, "Ze jsem si pranic z toho mne kdo za baba nebo nedelal, hrdinu nebyl jsem to Zadostiv. CelYch tech 'etrnacte dni, co jsem byl vojakem, provzdychal a proplakal jsem, hrube nejedl ani nespal, tak Ze mne nebyl ne2 stin, kdyZ jsem dostal propuSteni."

"Tedy jen etrnacte dni jste byl vojakern — no, to by si nechal Mila libit, kdy'S by se mu poeitali dni za leta," fekl mlynak.

"Vgak bych ja, se byl netrapil, kdybych to byl napped vedel, ze dobrY pfitel jedna, o moje vyplaceni a bratr Ze se za mne stavi. Piislo mi to z vista jasna. Bratrovi se vojenskY sta y libi a take se vSecek vSudy lepe k nemu hodi neZli ji. Nemyslete VAak, ze jsem zbabelec! Kdyby teeba bylo hajit rodinu a domov, byl bych prvni v fade. Nu, nejsme vAickni lido (Napsala Rotena Nemcov4 ) stejni, jeden se hodi k tomu, jinS , k jinemu stavu Vid', Terezko?"

(Pokraeovani.)

To povidaje, polcdil pan Progek ruku "Kdo to milk vedet. Nema-li jineho v na rameno pani Terezky a upPimne se ji srdci, mohl by se ji zalibit, je hesk,9 podival do oei. elovek," odpovedel Jan. "Ano, ano, Jene, vy pathte jen mezi "Vgak to, jestli se ji linSr lope nelibi." nas," odpovedela babieka misto dcery, rekl pan mlyna.P, podavaje panu Pro g a vSickni ji v duchu p •isvedeili, znajice -koVitevnoupiksl;"rotgusZadUtlocitnou pova,hu hospodarovu. nS, diSputat." Bylo to jeho oblibene "Tuhle naSe SenkVika m'ela by uZ Kdyi se praitele kozchazeli vklouzla Po svatbe a nechodila by jako pod vo- Kristla do babiediny sednice a vytahnuvdu spuStend, kdyby ji slaci nebyli odve- si sanadil psanceko, na jeho pedeti dii to, co se ji libilo," dorekl mlynat, byl odtisk vojenskeho knofliku, pravila bera, kdyZ vSem podal, i sam. Sriupec, a ti ge: "Od Jakuba!" mZikna ph tom stranou po Krestle, kte"No, to je hezke, co pi:s'e?" fekla bard tarn take 'bvla. bieka, teSic se spolu s deveetem.

"Litoval jsem vas oba, kdyZ mi to Te(PokraaVani.) rezka psala," pravil pan ProSek, pohleAdresa strfekova je: Dr. Ed. Mieek, University Station, Austin, Texas. ) • 4.

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Z M.f(CH VZPOMiNEK DOMA (Pokraeovani) DrulaY den jsme Sli o praci do jatek.

Tam stab() na 100 lidi, co hledall praei. Z tech stra2ce vybiral lid, kolik potteboval, Te2 nine si odvedl. Dostal jsem praci v poraZce u hoveziho dobytka Dali mne Meek, abych tahal stieva, jatra, zkratka vnittnosti do kanalu, kaZde do jineho; a oclpoledne u prasat. To ale se nedelalo plnY das, die -toho mnoho-li se poraZelo dobytka. Nekdy dopoledne a nekdy taky 12 hodin. A to byl krasnY plat 10 centil na hodinu. Pozdeji jsem dostal jako zednik praci v jatce, dlaZdit rajce, to u2 jsem mel 25 centiI. Ze salonu jsme se odstehovali k jednomu Amerikanu. On byl zamestnan v meste v hotelu a deal v noci. Platili jsme 15 dolarfi mesiene. Byli jsme tam tii — Mrnka a Novotny. Tam bylo dobte, vSe eiste a ticho. Byli to hodni bide, meli d ye deti, chlapce a holku. Tam jsme byli a2 do kijna.

Na zaeatku tijna ptijel do Fort Worth dohlilitel ze skaly v Ranger, sha.nel lidi na praci ye skale. Ftikal, Ze tam plati dva dolary, stra,va, Ze se plati 50 cent0. a Ze se dela kaZdY den. Tak jsme tam jeli. Bylo nas deset. Cestu jsme meli vyplacenou.

Jeli jsme okolo to skaly, ale vlak nas zavez1 dale do stanice Tiffin. Tam nas vyloZili a kolern do kola ZadnY barak, jen same vrchy a skaly, pouha. prerie. S yrZena boN kara pfecIstavovala nadraZi, ale bez ptednosty.

Tak co ted'? KaZdY sedl na svilj kuffik a jeate jsme dojedli a dopili, co bylo v zdsobe a eekali. V kratkem Case jsme videli jak jedou nejaci lide na punapvagnu, dva pumpovali a tahli za sebou jeate jednu karku. Byl to ten dohlilitel s lidmi.

Rekl,nam, abychom eekali, 'Ze pro nas jedou jinou karkou, ale to ae tlael", oni ae jedou do mesta Ranger, pro matrace. Take brzy NaloZili jsme sve veci a jeli zas do noveho domova. V tom miste byla prohibice.

Byli jsme Vaclav Mrnka, ja, Fr. NovetnY, V. Mergl, F. Crk, B. Naizner, Kadleak, V. PraZak, J. mid, V. Cerny. Tarn has vyloZili pied barakem, v nemZ bylo upraveno deset 111Zek, vady d ye nad sebou (palandy). Vzduch distY v noci mobil poeitat hvezdiely na nebieku .Kuchatern tarn byl Polak, ten umel polsky, nernecky a anglicky, s nim jsme se domluvili. Dilovedouci byl kovanY Nemec, kova• byl tea Nemec, ale takto hodiV kamark/. Hral housle, tak s neini brava/.

DruhYch deiriiku bylo osm. Jidlo bylo dobre a dost.

(Frank Volf, Britt, Iowa) nich tepla Kamen se stiilel; to se vrtaly diry shora doh 10 sttevicil do hloubky, tak se vital° strojem deset der naureitou vzdalenost od sebe. UZival se dynamit i prach, to se michalo; odsttelovalo se to elektrikou. Dole pak se vetgi kusy jeate odsttelovaly, die potteby, pak se to muselo pietloukat na menai kusy, a to se nakladalo na vozikr a mulami odtahovalo k maeltadltim. KaZdY den jsme musely namaelcat tti kary. To se vozilo po draze kde bylo tieba.

Po praci a po veeeti jsme hravali, a boss lads rad poslouchal, tea jsme zpivali.

Jedenkrat jsme `zpivali "Ztracene atesti" a on se dal do pldee a odeSel. Kdy2 jarni slunko do oken se smalo, a libalo tvilj milt' krasnY vlas, vady v lesy zrana vySli jsme si spolu, zda nekcly na to vzpomeneS si zas?

A weer, kdyZ jsme vraceli se domil, ja ve , sve tiskl bilou rueku tvou a kdya jsi lekala se temnYch stirra, ja, vie to sevtel v Zhavou name svou. [: 0 tehdy jak jsem miloval to draha a zbo2floval to jako andela, pro tebe byl bych se ztek' vaeho blaha, ale tys me ptec jen rada nemela:1 Nekdy jsme hrali pod jeho bytem a on s pani poslouchal. Ona tam byla samotna ditky Zacine nemeli. Byli to Nemci, ale moc hodni lide. 6asem nam zahral na fonograf a tea nas podaroval nejakou flaSkou piva, neb kotalky dal vypit. KdyZ ptiSly vanoce, tak na StedrY den jsme se museli eiste tabled a on nas vzal do mesta, to se vi ae s muzikou. Tam nas vodil po syYch znamYch, kde jsme bran a zpivali vanoeni pisne a koledy.

Wilde nas eastovali jidlem i pitim, takle nea byl eas jeti donna, tak jsme meli vaichni pod eepici. Tak.ove byly naae prvni vanoce v Americe.

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dili na hen a riosili domii, ale kuchaf to neumel ptipravit. On to upekl jak jive maso, a to nemelo aadnou chut'. Tak jsme to Mali sami. On nam dal velkS' kastrol, apek, koteni, sub, pane jsme to proSpikovali a nechali dva dni stat a pak se to venku na ohnieku pekne upeklo.

Chutnalo to vSem, dilovedoucimu i jeho paniece jsnae museli poslat.

Co se tree pradla, to jsme si prali sami. V sobotu veeer se vSechno Spinave pradlo namoeilo do pill sudu do horke vody a v nedeli po snidani jsme an k'potoku, a tam kaZdY sve si vypral. Pak se to dalo na ktovi a alo se na hon: NeZ jsme priali zpatky, pradlo bylo suche.

Tam jsme prvne videli sm_•adlavou kooku. Jednou v noci jdu vent a ptede mnou new pfebehlo a zustalo to sedet-,na kolejnici ped vagony, co , tam byly na Sterk. Tak vzbudim V. Mergla. On vzal flintu a pH svetle mesieku po torn stkeiii.

Are ono to uteklo, jen zustala tam krev a chlupy. Ted' kaZdY hadal neco jineho.

Majzner z toho udelal jezevce. Rano 41yZ jsme se oblekli, tak jsme to vystopoYali do strane pod skalou. Tam to bylo y diFe, ale nebyl na to eas, knuseli jai:1e k snidani a hned do prate. V poledne po obecle se Slo zas na to. Mergl tam sttelil a Maizner si utizl dlouhY prut a zadal tam at'ouchat, ae to vytahne. Setva.,,tarn dosahl a odtamtud se vyvalil hrezriYsmrad. My vaichni utekli ale on nepovolil. a2 to vytahl a ptinesl to k domku. XOt dilovedouci Sel do skaly, tak se pta, kilo to Oinesl. Teprve ted' jsme se dovedeli, co je to za zviaatko. Ten elovek srerdel 14 dni, maeel hadry, pral, ale stale to smrdelo.

Po Novena roce si vzpomel Joe 8rnicti pojede do Strawn, tarn prohibice nebyla.

StYskalo se mu po pive. Skrze piti byl;ta: ke zbaven mista ueitelskeho. Tak jsme mu dali na soudek piva take pro nas a Zeleznieati ae nam ho ve skale shodi. Jel, ale zpatky LIZ nepti gel. Skakal na vlak, snad byl napilY, nohy mu ujely, pod vlak a byl okamZit'e mrtev. Zelezni7 cari vyfidili ye skale dilovedoucimu; C6 se stab(. On tarn druhY den jel a vypravil mu pohteb. Co po nem zbylo, poslali jSine4 na adresu jeho rodien. Byly to zlate hodinky, nejake penize a nee° lepSiho- sat stva a pradla. Pro malo si jel do Ameriky. Skeda ho, byl to hodnY kamarad. At' odpciva v pokoji.

KdyZ jsme ptijeli z4t, tak jsme si je Ste zazpivali, as jsme se z , toho rozplakali.

Zastesklo se nam po dornove a po sySrch milYch. Brzy po svatcich odjel Cerny do Baltimore ku bratrovi, on byl sedlak z Moravy. Pied jarnimi svatky si vzal kuchat prazdno jednu nedeli a Vincek PraZak kuchtika, tak musel valit sam.

Povida., "Podkejte, chlapci, dnes yam udelam aeskY obed." Taky jo, nudlovou polevku, knedliky se zelim a veptovou. V poledne, kdyZ to dal na still, tak Ameri(Pokraenvani) kani na to koukali jak zajici a ZaclnY ar' tax nepich. OvSem ae men ten • 4 Li davali hlad nemeli. Zato ale my "Prosim te, proe ten pes vZdycky tolik a veoer tea. ateka, ItclyZ si natantijeS baekory?i" Kdy2 priael dilovedouci zpatky, tak mu "To jsem ho tak nau6i1 ,aby mela stark Co se tree prace, ta byla dosti teaka, zylaSte pro ty, kteil si v tom peumeli vy- to Zalovali, ale ten se jen smal. Tarn bylo vztek. Ona mi totia fika., ae as natahnu hovel, v otevtenem lomu pii sa a 90 stup- tea hocine zajicii a kralikil, tak jme eho- badkory, Ze pa nine ani pes nettekne.",,

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((Pokraeovant) (DejoYST celek:—Matej Boryna, prvni 3.lalcc v Lipcich, bezmala Sedesatnik, chce, ,se zenit po tteti. Boryna ma etyki deti, 2'enateho Antonina, provdanou Magdu, vojaka Gfelu, a desetiletou Josku.

Antonin, kteremu fikaji Antek, se svou 2cnou,Hankou a s cletmi, bydli v jedne polovici selskeho staveni. Start Boryna s nejmladel dcerou Joskou bydli v druhe P91gyli ci. Pacholek Kuba a pasak Vitek spavaN ye staji. Ve vsi se septa, ze Antek, Zenat3i, chodi za nejhezeim svobodr4pi deveetern v Lipcich, Jagnou Dominikoyo!,r. Nejvetei klepna ye vsi, stard JagustSrnka, byla toho tajneho milovani oOlt$ktn,,svedkem. Boryna mel soudni procome, svou bYvalou deveekou. Cestou od Boryna svezl starou DominiPyou, matku krasavice Jagny. Snad Dominikove mohl iici, ze se mu JagrAileka libi. Do Tymova na jarmark hrnuly se I zastupy lidi. Boryna sel peSky, ale cestou se svezl s varhanikovYmi, jejich syn Jenik studoval na kneze. Na jarmarku -seeel se BOryna se s yYm zetern, lipeckY'm kovakem, kterY ptipomnel BorynoV1,5 ge by mel dceti Magcle, kovatove Zen& netthat ptipsat kousek dedictvi. KdyZ se chyStalo k svathe Boryrry s Jagnou, Antelt byl celY bez sebe. Nemohl se smifit s myelenkou, ze jeho milenka se ma stati ietiou jeho otce. Pfi prudke hadce mezi otters a synem, start' Boryna vyhnal Antka' =z -domu. Bal se snad, ze by se Antek tddirkolem sve rnilenky, ktera se atane hoSpdoyni v Borynove domacnosti?)

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Na modrem nlzkem nebi nebylo jedio .obladku.

Ale na pane peCasi to pfesto neukazovalo. . vrany se tloukly kolem doma a_ kohouti kokrhali.

Byl nedelni den a ye vsi, a'dkoliv zvony jeete nezaCaly vyzvanet do kostela, ttiveecko ykelo jako v ule. Pul vesnice se OhYstalo na. Borynovu a Jagninu svatbu. t•

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chalupanli a zajinenYmi sady pobihala deveata, ruce pine stuZek, vlfader ,a raznych kouskil Satstva. t chalupach byl zmatek a shon; pfipravoYaio se, zkoueelo, lids se strojili, z oken a ze dveti veteinou pootevterlych s ely radostne hlasy a sem, tam uZ vyra Z zaznela i svatebni pisnieka.

Taky y ehalupe nastal

spech a zrnatek, jakSr uz v takovS) den bYva. DUm byl eerstve obilenY. . jen na vIhkYch mistech y apno trochu a u2 z ddlky napaclnY, protoie byl ozdoben jako o svatcich. Chlapci heed Yeera celou sttecha posazeli smreim, ktere nastrkali, kam se jen dal(), i do rterbin ye stenach, a cest a mezi pioty od silnice a2' do sine byla'vysypana jedlo7 vim. vonelo to jako v lese na jare.

I uvniti staveni bylo vgechno slavnostne ITotadano.

Na jedne strane, kam se ukladalo domaci harampati, plapolal mohutnY 0hen, kolem neho2 se otaeela a s pomoci nekolika, sousedek a JagustYnky vatila Evka od inlynaiii. .

Z prvni mistnosti vynesli veechen nObytek do komory, zUstaly tam jenom obrazy; chlapci rozestavili kolem sten dilkladne lavice a .dlouhe stoly. Svetnice byla eerstve vybilena, vymyta, krb pticlonen modrou plachtou, kde2to strop tramy zaeernale statim Jagnieka zakryla ozdobami. Matej ptivez1 z mesta barevne papiry a ona z nich yysttihala strapata koleeka, kvitky a rtIzne fantasticke predmety... psy prohanejici ovce, pastYke spechajiciho s holi za nimi, cela pracesi s knezem, s korouhvemi, s obrazy a tolik jinSIch rozmanitosti, ze te2ko si je pamatovat... Vrecko tak trefne a pekne, jako give. . . Zenske se veera; kdyZ Jagne rozpletaly vlasy, nestaeily divit. Ale to nebylo v gechno, co Jagna umela; dokazala, nae jen pomyslila nebo nae se podivala. . . v Lipcich nebylo chalupy bez jejich stiiha.nek. .

Jagna, se v komote trochu oblekia a jerte polepovat steny pod obrazy, proto2e nikde jinde uz nebylo mista.

"Jagnieko, dej u'2 pokoj s temi svYmi zazraky, druZleky ptijdou co ne yidet. . lide se zaenou schazet, hudba uz chodi po vsi. a ty si hrajer. . ." "yrak ja, do to doby budu hotova. . . odpovidala Ja'na Useene, ale brzy naiepovani nechala. . pfeAla ji trpelivost.

Sypala podlahu jedlovYm jehliciii'i, pokrYvala stoly jemnymi ubrusy, uklizela v komote, da yala se do keel s bratry nebo yychazela pied °Ulm a divala se dlouho do dalky. Ale radosti v sabe necitila Zadne, docela Z'adne. MySlila jen na to, .e si zatanei, 2e` bude brat hudba a 2e se bude zpivat, co2 mela nesmirne ra.da. Byla jako ten den, den jasnY, iozjittenY, ale podzimne mrt yY a onemelY. Kdyby ji vrechno kolem neptipominalo, 2e ma dues svatbu, ani by si na ni nevzpomnela. Boryna ji dal yeera, pti rozpletani vlasit arm Antizr koralft, je2 mu zilstaly po nebo2kach. Le2ely na dne truhlice, ani si je neozkusila. Nestala o Nejradeji by se ne, nestala' o nic.

Ve sti'er411, dne 7'7. clubna 1.953, byla nekarn rozletela, nekam daleko do sveta. . . Kam? Copak to vi?. Veechno ji mrzelo, do hlavy se ji stale vracelo to, co ji matka, povidala o Antkovi. . . Ne, ne, on ze by ni nee° rikal, on?. .

Nemohla tomu uvetit, nechtela. . . a bylo ji do place!` . . Ale kdoyi! Kdy'Z vdera u rybnika, prala, eel kolem a ani se na nepodival!

A kdyzsli kdy rano s Borynou ke zpovedi, potka.li ho pied kostelem. . . obratil se na miste, jako pied zlYin psem. • . KdoZ tedy vi?. . . Ale at' si steka, kdy je takovY, at' si Atekal. . .

Zaeala proti Antkovi osnovat pldny, ale vzpominky na onen veeer, kdy se vracela z obirani zeli od Borynil, ji z aista jasna vyvstaly v pameti, zatopily ji ohnem, sevtely ji dui takovou silou a oNly v ni tak zfetelne, ze si 41emohla, nemohla pornoci. . . a nakone0 nieeho nic kekla matce: Po oddavkach "Vite co, maminko. mi vlasy nesttihejte!"

"To se podivejme, co si moudreho vymyslila! Copak to nekdo slyeel, aby deveeti po oddavkach nechali vlasy?"

"U panu a v mestech si je nestkihaji!"

"Nu ano, to je pravda, tam je potkebuji pro yeelijakou marnost aby mohli lidi eidit a vyclavat se za, neco jineho. . . Hled'me ji, bude tady zavadet nove potadk.y! Dvorske sleeinky at' si ze sebe delaji pometla, at' si chodi s paaesy jako nejake cimfrliny — tern to projde, i kdy jsou hloupe, ale ty jsi selska dcera z decla i pradeda a 2adna mestska coura, music se proto chovat, jak pkikazal Pan Butt a jak se vidycky na naeem selskem delavalo. . . Znam ja ty mestske vmysly, znam ty jeSte nikomu nic dobreho neptinesly! Pakulova Ala do mesta slouZit a co se stab()?

Kdyt fojt dostal ten papir na kancelak, stab() v nem, ze decko uduzila a soma sedi v kriminale. . . Nebo ten Vojtek, Borynav ptibuznY po sestke,—ktery v meate dopracoval talc daleko, ze ted' po vsi chodi iebrotou. . . ptedtim mel na Voice hospodatstvi, kone a chleba, co hrdlo radi, ale protole se mu zachtelo, houstieek, ma k staru Zebrackou moenu a hill."

Ale Ja,gna nevzala, na vedomi yeechny ty moudre rady a pfiklady a nechtela ani slySet, ze by si dala ustkihnout vlasy. .. Domlouvala ji Evka, 2ena zku'rena, ktera znala nejednu vesnici a rok co rok - chodila s procesirn do 6enstochove, yysvetloyala ji to i JagustYnka, ta, tot' se vi, po svem, s asmeSkem a dobiranim: "Jen si vlasy nech, nech si je, Bory-0 novi se budotr dobre hodit otoai si je kolem ruky a pridr2i si te, aby to mohl holi lip zmalovat. . . pak si je usttihnee soma. . . Znala jsem dost takoyYch geialktfiCi;011 II . I

Ve stkedu, dne 27. dubna 1955.

Dal se nedostala,, protote ji volal Vitek. JagustYnka se trotit, kdyt vyhnali Antkovy, pkestehovala k Borynam, protote Joska nemohla soma v gechnu prael ye staveni zastat. Ted' JagustYnka pomahala Evce vatit a jen na chvilku vtcly odskoeila podivat se k Boryrram; start' dnes na nic nemyslil, Joska se tit od re.na strojila u kovakil a Kuba je gte pokad ston al.

"Pojd'te honem, musite . se jit podivat na Kubu!" nalehal chlapec.

"Myslim, ze ano, protote nakika a stem, ze je to sly get at na cestu."

"UZ jdu, tit jdu. Lidieky, podivam se jenom, co s nim je, hned jsem zase zpatky."

"Jagnieko, ty si taky music pospigit, drutieky ut katdou chvilku pkijdou. pohanela dceru matka.

Ale Jagna nemela naspech, chodila jako ye snach, posedavala na la,vici, ale hned zase vstavala a zaeinala nee° kutit; prate ji vgak padala z rukou a Jagna postavala u okna bezmyglenkovite•hledic yen. Duge se v ni zmitala jako voda a cc ehvile narazila na nejakS7 balvan. . na vzpominky...

V dome shon ustaviene vzritstal, protote pkichazely nove a nove kmotry, pkibuzne a panimamy, a podia davneho obyeeje ptinagely slepice, bochniky bileho chleba, placky, sill, mouku, slaninu nebo i stkibrnSt rubl, v papirku — to vgecko oplatkou za pozvani no, svatbu aby hospodyne nemela gkodu.

Pripily si se starou Dominikovou po kaligku sladke, pohOvaily, podivily se a rychle zase odbehly.

Ale DoMinikova se otaela jak se path... dohlitela na vakeni, uklizela, opra' vovala, vgude radio a pomahajic; k praci pkidrtovali i syny, kteri, jak jen mohli, vybihali z •chalupy d6 vsi, k fojtovi, u nehot ut byli muzikanti a kde se schazeli drutbove.

Na velkou gel malokdo a velebn.S7 pan se zlobil, ze kvuli svatbe zapominaji na slutby BoZ1; mel jiste pravdu, ale Lipeed trvali na torn, ze k takove svatbe, jako je dnes, nedochazi katdou nedeli.

Hned po obede se poeali sjitelet ze sousednich vsi vgichni, kdot byli pozvaJ11.

Slunce se ut pkechYlilo pies poledne a vyzakovalo blede podzimni svetlo, nine se tkpytila jako v rose, okna glehala plameny, rybnik se 1eskl a mihotal, voda v pfikopech u silnice bleskotala jako skleIlene tabulky —I/ gecko bylo prosyeeno svetlem dohasinajici jesene a poslednimi paprsky tepla.

Ohluchla, nema, tigina objimala ziatistou zemi.

JiskfivY den dohofival a pomalu uhasinal.

Ale v Lipeich bylo hlueno jako na jar-

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marku.

Jakmile odzvonili na ne gpory, vyhrnula se od fojtii na cestu hudba.

Nejprve, zaroveri s fletistou, gly housle, za nimi vreel bubinek s einelami a vesele broukaly basy, ovegene stutkami.

Za hudbou kraeeli oba starosvatove a druSbove — tech bylo gest.

A pak vgechna mladeS, urostli chlapci, gtihli jak sosny, v pase tenci, v ramenou rozloSiti, naruSivi taneenici, pygni chvastalove a zdatni rvo,ei, kteri nikomu neustoupi z testy... poctivi, sel gti synkoye. nom se prostkedkem silnice jednom chumlu, hlava na hlave, svatebne rozjakeni, 'Acne vystrojeni, a zeme jim dunela pod nohama; jejich spodky a easy, eervene rukavice, chlumdee stuSek u kloboukii a bile haleny vlajici ve vetru jako kfidla hraly ye slunci faerni barvami.

Hlasite vSrskali, vesele prozpevovali, ohnive podupavali a gli tak bujne, jako by se mladY les zdvihl a letel s Muzika hrala polskou, protote tahla od domu k domu z yat svatebeany. . . nekde jim zavdavali pied domem, jinde si je zvali dovnitk, v dalgim staveni jim odpovidali pisniekou — a odev gad yychazeli nastrojeni lide, pkidavali se k nim a sli spoleene dal, v gichni zpivajice jednim hlasem pod okny drutieek: Pojd' uz, drutieko, pojd' ut, Anieko, je na svatbu eas — Bude se tam hrat, zpivat, tancovat, slygim housli hlas — A kdo nechce pit, dobke se dnes mit, pujde domil yeas!

Oj, dana, dana, oj, dana, dal Juchali, jen Se to po vsi rozlehalo, af2 do poli zaletly hlasy svatebeanil, zpivaly pod lesem a letely dal v girt' svet.

Lipeeti vychazeli pied dtim, do zahradky, k plotu, a leckdo, trebas nebyl pozvan, se postavil, aby ` se aspori dival a poslouchal; ne2 do gli k domu nevestinu shromaalila se skoro cela yes a obstupovala svatebni prilvod hustSim daVem, kted se pohyboval pokad pomaleji; deti v nespoeetnem zastupit beSely s kfikem prozpevovanim v eele.

Hudba doprovodila hosty do domu svatebniho veseli, zahrala jim vstupu a gla pro Senicha.

Vitek, kted se stulami u kabatu pyShe chodil vedle druSbti, utikal natured: "Pantato, muzika a druSbove uz jdou!" kiikl do okna a letel za Kubou.

Hudba na zaspi fizne zahrala a Boryna yzapeti vygel ze staveni; ote y fel dvevital hosty a zval je dovnitt, ie ale fojt s 8imonem ho vzali v pase a ug ho vedli rovnou k Jagne, protote byl eas jit do kostela.

Boryna si vykraeoval ktepce, bylo ag ku podivu, jak mlade vpadal, ostkihan,

Strana 25 eiste vyholen, svatebne naparaden, ztepilY jako malokdo, nadto sebevedom*:, mohutnSr a yysokSr, uz zdali napadnSr., vaSne tvale; smal se vesele a mluvil hlavne s kovafem, kted se na neho ne7. ustale lepil.

Doprovodili ho, jak se slu g, a patil,''k domu nevestinu, shroma gdenST day se rozestoupil a priivod ve gel zvesela, s hudbou a zpevem do svetnice.

Ale Jagnieka ye svetnici jegte nebyla): Senske ji dostrojovaly v komofe ,pevrie zameene a peelive stkeSene, protosSe denci se dobYvali dodveki, delali Vrileh skulinky a dovadeli s drutiekamiz jizba se otrasala pi gtenim, smichem a SenSkSfrii vkiskanim, Matka se syny pfijimala htts y, easto= vala je koralkou, star gi rersazovala po vicich. . . mela oei v gude, protoSe priglo tolik, Se se jen tetko dalo 'projit svetnici, stall i na sini, ba i na peglike pkede dvekmi. A nebYli to hoste ledajacl.

Sarni hospodari, ze selskeho rodu a mi bohati — v gichni pkibuzni, pokrevril kmotri Borynti a Paeesti, ostatni pak i vsdalenejgich neznami, jeS Tot' se vi, Se tam nebYli ani Kltimbo vi, ani Vintorkovi, ani takova, SebrOta;co ma jeden nebo dva korce poll, `Ita chamrad', ktera, chodi po vYdelcich a di'=' ti vtdycky se starYm Klombem.

Neni pro psa klobasa, nevi med' prasata!

Teprve za hodnou chvili se otevkety dveke komory a varhanikova, s mlynaki.! kou vyvedly Jagnieku do svetnice.,,Dru Moly jako venec ji obklopily, vgechny,byn ly krasne a nastrojene jako kytieky,,:ona vgak, nejsvitnej gi a nejkrasnejgi stala uprostked nich, cela v samitu, perech, stuhaeh stkibke a- zlate, podobna obrazu, jak nosivaji o propesich. . . vg echni v nemem obdivu najedro, nou zmlkli• Hej, co svet svetem stoji, nebylo slienej gi nevesty!

Drutbove zaeali ramusit a z pinCh plic spustili: Hrajte, houslieky, zahrajte tut!-", Jagnieko, otce, matku odpros Zahraj, fletnieko, o zahraj tug, Jagnieko, sestry, bratry odpros Boryna postoupil kupredu, vzal jagnu za ruku a oba poklekli; matka nad uclelala svatYm obrazem kriS a zaeala jim Sehnat a kropit je svecenou vodou; Jagnieka s pldeem padla k mateinYM no=, ham, potom objimala nohy i ostatnini vgeehny odpro govala, loueic se s nimi.

2enske ji . braly do naruei, objimaly, a nakonec se v g ecky navzajem rozplaka-, ly. . . Nejvic je dojala Joska, kdyS xiporninala na neboSku maminku.

Vyhrnnli se pied dum, naletite kadili a vykroeili pe gky, protote do kostela bylo, co by kamenem dohodil.

Strana 26 Hudba s1a napred a hrala,, co ji sily staeily.

A za hudbou vedli drldbove Jagnu — tla usmivajic se pies` slzy, ktere ji jette ulpivaly na •asach, ve svatebni nadhere jako rozkvetIV ker, a jako slunce k sobe vabila oei vkch; viasy mela nad delem zapletene, v nich vysokou korunu ze zlateho dracounu, z pavich odek a vetvieek iozmarYny, a °el • to koruny ji splYvaly na theta dlouhe stu'ZIty \Aech barev, vlaly za ni a trepetaly se j4ko duha; bile., icasnata sukne byla v pase nabirand, tnerovadka z aksarnitu blankytne modreho st •ibrem vySivakotile s rukavy jako balony, pod Siji bohatV krejzlik obit modrou nit'. . snury koralar a jantara obtodene kolein krku ji sahaly aZ do prili prsou.

Za ni druIdeky provazely Mateje.

Jako roarostlY dub v lese.kraei za hlou sosnou, tak Boryna vykradoval za Jagniekou, pohupoval se v pase a rozhliZel se na vSechny strany, mato& se Irat zdalo, ze zahledl v zastupu lidi AntZa nevestou a zenichem tla DominiItalia se svaty, kovarovi, Joska, mlynakovi, varhanikova a nejvaZenejAi haste.

Za prrivadern se per ceste valila cela yes.

Slunce 1.1" zachazelo; viselo nad lest', bervene, obrovske, zalevajici celou cestu, •ybnik i domy krvavVin svetlern, a oni Sli zvolna v to zaplave, az oei prechazely od tech stu&k, pavich per, kvetil, tervenYch nohavic, oran govYch suknic, tatkCi a bilVch &pea. . . jako by .se to reit3iboval zahon rozvit,Vch kvett, kalebajicich se volne ye vetru; k tome se rozlehal zpev, protea druMoky tenkSTmi husky co chvile spustily: A jednbu, jednou a vozy skaeou, ty ma Jagnidko, pro tebe pladou. . .

Hej! A co zpivaji, zpivaji sobe a na zarmutek, Jagnieko, Jagnielto, tobe.

He)I Dominikova celou cestu poplakavala, clivala se na svou dcerku jako na obrazr,k neslytela, co k ni kdo hovori.

Jambra rozsvecoval svice V kostele ria , "Oltari. Zastavili se na okam'Zik v predsini, srovnali se do parri a pak pied altar; xnez zrovna vychazel ze giikristie. •

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tiddayky se odbyly rychle, protoe Mak' spechal k nemoenemu. Kdyz vycladzeli z kostela, varhanik spustil na varhanach mazur, skoenou a vklijake kupavjaky, a2Z nohy samy od sebe poskakovaly a leckterY svatebean, kdyby se byl yeas nevzpamatoval, by byl sam spustil Vraceli se bez jakehokoli poradku, per vele §iti cesty, jak se kon-iu libilo, vra-

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cell se hluene, proto& druNaove zavoVSichni se namaekali ke dverim dili s druZiekami kriku a jedeni, jako by koutti, ztichli a sii ;-,-!,aseni. jak je vkchny na nole bral.

Boryna jako nezmar. vytadi stale ohniDominikova napred; kOrt' veji. . nekteri nenaohli . vydr'iet; aby si prilvod prichazel k domu, vitala u'Z na alespori do taktu ilepridupdvali, zatim prahu novoma.n&ly svatYrn obrazem, co ti prudSi tr2 brali deveata a pouSteli Boznn cnlebem a soli a se vSerni se za- se v kolo na vSecko zapominajice. dala znova objimat a zvat je do svetniJagnidka, ad byla pina ily, najednou ce. ochabla a podala poklesavat. .. teprVe Hudba vedla svou na . . ka2dV, v te• chvili Boryna prestal visit a doprokdo prekrodil prah, chytil v pase prvni vodil ji do kornory.

'Zenu, ktera se mu narnanula, a Soupa"KdyZ jsi takovV chlapik, jsme kamavYm krokern se dal do "chozene" . . . radi. . psi prvnich krtinach me Pozvi nary v jizbe jako had meriavYch barev za ltmotra!" volal rnlynar bera, ho za se toeily, naklanely, krouZily, vracely se, rameno. naldite podupdvajice, privabne se kaleMlynak a Boryna se haroucrie pobra;baly, plynuly a vinuly se par za parem, protole hudba nahle umlkla a na-hiava na hlave, jako zahon dozraleho o- staler eastovani. bili huste promichaneho chrpami a v1Dominikove, jeji syriove . agtist3inka aim inakem. . . a prede vSemi v prvnim zadali 11bite toeit s pinYmi paru Jagnielta s Borynou! mi a ItaliSky v nice, ltaZdemu pripijejiSvetla postavend na pristreSku nad ce z ylatt,". Joska a krnotry tozn g'itely na krbern se mihotala, celY dim se chvel, rektech nakrajenV chleb a kalaee. zdalo se, ze steny puknou pod tim tlaVrava vzrastala, kahly vedl nahlas kem a pod tou silou, je'2 vybuchovala z svou a vSichni se ochotne chapali taneenikt. aby Will svatebniho veseli co nejTrvalo to drahnou chvili, ne'Z "choze- vic. nou" Na lavici pod bknem*'..usedl mlynar, Hudba spustila pak prvni tanec pro fojt, varhanik a ostatni predni hospoda7 rnladou pani, jak to bylo odjakMva oby- H. I tam kolovala z ruky do rukY ladejem. hvialta, znameniteho araku a nekolikrat Svatebeane se natladili ke stenam, vy obehla kolenr, kdyZ' jim pak donesli jeplriujice vkchny kouty a mladenci Ste pivo, hojne si navzajern pripijeli a tvorili velike kolo, ke kterem zadala Jag- tzlajecael. i se brat pod pa.21, srdeene se brana tandit. Krev v, ni zahrala, jeji modre oei se rozzarily a bile zuby v mineVe svetnici staler spousta ,utvari.!. ne tvari se zaleskly. Tandila neanavne, li skupiny, jak a s kYm se--komu libilo-, Stridajic tanedniky, protole s kaZ"clyn-I hlasite hovo •ili a ani na nezamusila pretantit alespori jednou kolem. pominali, Muzikanti hrali, jim ruce brriely, V komore, osvetlebe lampou yyptijdeale Jagnielta jako by teprve zadiriala, nou od varhanikin se seSly hospodynk jenom o neco vie -zrieZemela. . . tandila s . varhanikovou a inlynarovov V , "Cele,. va.Snive, fabory za ni poletovaly, bily do usadily se dUstojne per truhlach a po tva •i a Sukne vzdute taneeni vichrici pl- vicich pi'ikrytYch vlriaky, cedily skrze, n ily jizbu. zuby medovinu, v prstech lamaly deliMladenci, rozdovadeni, buja•e katne sladke kolade a . jen to a tam prra-' pestmi do stolu -a ohnive jucha,li. hodily nejake to stove; poslouchaly pro,: Teprve nakonec _ yzala do kola is eni- zorne, co mlynarka vypravuje o svYch cha. . . Boryna byl uz pripraven, detach. skodil k ni jako rys, uchopil ji v pase, Taky v sini bylo pino, ba i na dru zatoeil se s ni jako vitr na miste a krikl hou stranu dornu se lido tladili; ale ' na hudebniky: ka je vyhanela, protole tam chystali pit', "Mazur, chlapci, a hezky zostra!" ne vederi, z niz tZ' se per celem dome Instrumenty zahlaholily, a'Z se svetni- la vane, Simrajidi • itdekoho v nose.' ce otratla.

MladeZ se vyhrriula pred na Boryna pritiskl Jagnu pevneji k so- stieku meal Platy a na zaspi; noc bylgi be, prehodil 'tosy kabatu pies ruku, na- studend a ticha, poseta hvezdami, a?, rovnal si klobouk, dripl a vytoeil, se s .mladi se prochazeli a vesele bavili, smi-: mista jako vichr. chem, krikern dupertern Se vSecko tray` slo; honili se v zahrade, a2 je starSi. Hej! Tanen, tandil, otakel se na ste a hned zas na druhou stranu, ci- z okna okrikovali. froval, aZ trisky z podlahy litaly, ju"Hledate kytieky? Jen abyste tam, clev-' chal, toeil s Jagniekop, vinul ji k eatka, tied' v noci neztratiia neco jineoba splynuli v klubko a jako pine ho." vreteno per svetnici a vitr a sila sly Ale coZpa,k nada poslouchal? ad nich.

Hudba •hrala ohnivk, aileny mazur.

(Pokradovani).

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Maly Karlieek dostal prvni dlouhe kal"Podle eeho, Rumplasi, pozna g, 'ge hoty. Citil se jako mug mezi mugi. Ko- se jaro?" " 'Sim, podle toho, ze ptaei pfiletaji z neene se zeptal maminky: Ja jsem bydlel celS7 givot bilge Weimar, jihu a maminky se hada, s tatinkem o "Mann, midu ted' tatinkovi iikat Tonmuj vek jest 72. Poslednich 16 mesicil penize na paradu!" jsem trpel nasledkem "tumor" galudku. do?"

• Mel jsem lekatskou leebu, ale tato mne U holiae nepomohla. Bylo nine radeno, bych se kika. se , Z"e spravedinost ma v2dy zavaHolié k zakaznikovi: "Vak vlasy r nechal operovati, ale mel jsem obavy, tato by mohla ptinesti rakovinu. Nemohl za.ne odi, aby soudila nestranne. Neni nou, pane. Zkou§el jste jii na'ai znamou jsem spat nasledkem bolesti. Te gko nine Vaak tak slepa, aby nepoznala vinnika, vodu "Perfekta"?" bylo stati na nohou. Plyny a bolesti v kterY ma penize a kterY nic nema.

"Ne, mne ridnou samy od sebe." mojim galudku neustale tizily. Miuvil jsem s ptitelem, kterS, odporueil Dr. Broden N. D. nine. On mne leen petkrat a bolesti jsou prye. Mohu spat celou noc dobrSrm a hlubokSun spankem. t'adne daMi plyny a bolesti. Dye ttetiny "tumoru" jsou prye. Ja citim, ge jsou odstraneny.

Rad, ochotne odpovim na VAechny dooznamuje tazy. V dopise pillo gte obalku se znamkou a vagi adresou pro odpoved'.

WILL TURNER, WEIMAR, TEXAS Dr. Broden ntadovna jest v Hallettsville, Texas ye etvrtek, v pkek cele dny a v sobotu do 12:00 v poledne. pii hudbe Ve Victoria, Texas v pondeli, v nterST ve sttedu cele dny. Neni zapottebi miti dtivej61 eas stanoven k navgteve.

V PHIPHAVE: (Adv. dzc) )•A•( 15. kvetna "JOHN DLABAJ" feel naphiuji ducha novSqn vgdy 28. kvana "JOHN REJeEK" 1)ve a rostoucim obdivem a fictou,. dim easte(p) ji a vytrvaleji myglenka jimi se obira: hvezdne nebe nade mnou a mravni za—Jan Kant. kon ve mne.

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Ve suede, dne 27. dubna 1956.

CO MA ZNATI AMERICK17 0136AN (Dokoneeni) Tato je osmY a posledni elanek o torn, co .byste men znati, nez poladate o obeansky list.

V pfedchazejicim clanku byl pokyn, jak si mate vypracovati nacrt o sestaveni ylady SpojenYch state. Jestli jste onen nakres dosud nevypracovali, zkuste ho Pr9 v esti. Jestli vas prvni pokus nebude u.spokojivY, zkuste po druhe a po tfeti. AZ budete , miti tento nakres tak utkvelY v , y ho dovedete vypracovati z parnidete s jistotou jiti k distriktnimu soudu a pozadati o listinu "Form N400." Tato listina je "Application to File Petition for Naturalization" — pfedlo2eni Pisemne Zadosti o obeanstvi.

Tak zvany "prvni obeanskY papir" se Twin nepoldiva, lee ye yYjimeenYch padeeh. Co vsak musite miti, jsou tfi fotografie, ktere byly vzaty ye 30 dnech pied' Zadosti. Fotografie musi byti-, dva palce pii dvou, bez klobouku nebo "gatku, a vzdalenost od vrchu hlavy gpieku braby musi byti pfibldne jeden a et,V, , rt palce. Podoba vase musi byti zfeoelem, nikoliv se strany. Fotografie hesmi byti pripevnena na lepence IuStem paphu), ani nesmi byti pode, sarta. , eStli soudni fifednik nema listinu ` ♦ Orral N•400", vysvetli yarn, zdali musite O. ,11Sfiriu Zadati u jineho soudu (distriktmhb soudu) nebo zdali listinu pro vas pothdeji dostane sam. Listina musi byti yyphiena, perem nebo na psacim stroji, spravne, zfetelne a twine. Jestli jste pfiJell dO SpojenYch state po 29. eerynu '1.9` 6; zaznarny o va‘gem pfijezdu tsou griadho k zji geni. Jestli vas pfijezd byl i;ifed= 20. eervnern 1906, musite si opatfiti jste zde pfed onim dnem byZa tento dukaz jakYkoliv sta./43, zaznain v rodinne bibli, uzavfeni siaatku a zaznamy o nem, zapisky y e starern kalenclaft elenstvi u nektereho bra; ,tpitseho spolka, nebo jakakoliv listina, ,ktera nese datum star§i ne'Z 29. eeryna i9po,

KaIdY ZadateI o obeanskY list musi misvedky, ktefi jsou obt ` 'dva dosvedei, ze Zadatel nil ye -cany, iSpOjenych statech ureitou lhatu. Kde nelil y tem i e state pinych pet let pfed podanim svo Z'adosti, naturalisaem afednik poradi, jak dostati pisemne dectvi jinYch dvou svedka z jineho statu ku dopineni tech dvou svedka, ktere si Zadatel k vYslechu pfivede.

Elide zaleZeti ye velke mire, jak ochotny vyslYchajici naturalisaeni &eelnik, a take jake schopnosti ma,ji oni dva svedci. Jeden z nich bude tlurnoenikem raezi afednikem a Zadatelem, a hodne zavisi na jeho schopnostech vyjadfovani. Je

vYhodou, kdy'Z tlumoenik sam. zna, dosti dobre astavu SpojenYch state, aby v pfekladu se sam nep•e•ekl.

Pri vYslechu musi kaZdY Zadatel p •isahu. Nedovede-li Zadatel pochopiti smysl pfisahy v anglidtine, tlumodnik mu:3i plisahu p •eeisti v eetine. Zni sledovne : "Thrito prohla guji, ze odvolavam a naprosto a apine se zfikam vsi oddanosti a vernosti k cizimu vladci, mocnafi, statu a k jeho svrchovanosti, kde jsem byl dosud poddanY nebo °bean; slibuji, ze budu podporovati a chraniti konstituci a zakony SpojenYch state ame •ickYch proti vkm nepiateltim cizim i domacim, a Ze budu chovati pravou dtiveru v ne i oddanest, a Ze befu na sebe tuto povinnost •svobodne bez jakekoliv tajne vYhrady nebo snahy ji obchazeti. K tomu mi dopomahej Bah." (6'eskY pfeklad byl mi zaptijeen imigraenim afednikem. Ma pfeklady v raznYch feeich ye sve pfiruece.)

Celt' postup o ziskani obeanskeho listu je pouze vyktfeni a zji gteni, jestli znate svou obeanskou zodpovednost. Z toho davodu jste si napsali do sveho se§itu 30 odpovedi; z toho dilvodu si mate pfipraviti nakres o vlade SpojenYch state, • Nektefi eleni psali redaktoru, Ze nerozumeji tem instrukcim, jak udelati onen nakres, kterY meli vypracovati minuleho tYdne. Jestli mate s nakresem potik, - napfed poladejte nektereho Mena rodiny o vysvetleni. Jestli ani to nepomaZe, dopiSte redaktoru.

'Abyste poznali, kolik jste si z pfedchazejicich elanka pamatovali, dopliate lad sledujici yety spravnYmi slovy. Vyberte slova, ktera dle vakho fisudku jsou nejpfilehavejAi. 1. Nejvy'g im zakonem ye SpojenYch statech je (a) kongres; (b) prohlageni hezavislosti: (c) astava.

2. Vkchny zakony pro cele Spojene staty jsou Many (a) presidentem; (b) kongresem; (c) lidem.

3. NejvyS-Aim afednikem ye SpojenYch statech je (a) soudce nej yyMiho soudu; (b) kongres; (c) president.

4. Ustava SpojenYch state ma (a) tfinact kolonii; (b) pfedmluvu, sedm kapitol a dvacet dva dodatky; (c) devet scud. cu.

5. Kongres je rozdelenY na (a) presidenta, mistopresidenta a kabinet; (b) mezi deset sekretafa kabinetu; (c) na. 96 senatora a 435 posla.nca.

6. Texas ma ye Washington (a) devet poslanca a guvernera; (b) jednoho senatora a deset poslancil; (c) dva senatory a dvaadvacet poslanca.

7. Dva senatoti z Texasu jsou (a) Allah Shivers a Price Daniel; b() Price Daniel a Lyndon Johnson; (c) Lyndon

Johnson a Richard Nixon.

8. Listina zvand Bill of Right je (a) prvnich deset dodatkti k astave; (b) dokument podepsanY na 4. eerVence; (d) dodatek pro zrldeni otroctvi.

9. VYrodi narozenin americkello naroda se slavi (a) 20. ledna; (b) 4. bfezna; (c) 4. eervence.

10. KaZdY senator je zvolenY na lhatu (a) dvou rokil; (b) etyt roku; (c) Aesti roku.

11. Pravo svobodneho slova: tisku a shromaZd'ovani je napsaho (a) v pr y -nimdoatkusve;(b)Prohlaeni Nezavislosti; (c) v Magna Charta, listine 1 nejvygMho prava.

12. OsinnactY dodatek k ustave vztahuje se na (a) prohibici; (b) odvofani prohibice; (c) volebni pravo Zen. 13. Forma vlady ye SpojenYch statech nazYva se (a) demokracie; (b) republika; (c) federalni vlada.

14. Presidentuv kabinet se sklacia, (a) z vojaka, namoknika a letectva; (b) mistopresidenta a ministru; (c) deseti sekretaftl.

15. tsta.va SpojenSlch state rozdeluje vladu na tri odbory: (a) presidenta, mistopresidenta nejvy gAiho soudce; (b) senatory ,dam poslanca a BilY dam; (c) kongres, kterY dela zakony; presidenta, kterY nalizuje vykonavani zakon y ; a vrchni soud, kterY rozhoduje o otazkach zakona.

Nikdo z vas nemaie pfedvidati, jake otazky yam budou pfedloleny imigraenim afednikem. -Mohou byti pouze tfi; mute jich byti osm, tfeba jiclg. bude deset. Zodpovezte vY ge uvedene btazky dle sveho nejletrSiho pochopeni. Jestli jste si provedli onen nakres, jak yam bylo naznaeeno, al etvrtiny vaMch, odpovedi bude spravnYch. Pro vlastni poueeni muZete tyto otazky pfedloiiti svYm znamYrn, tfeba ameri-ckYm obeantim zde zrozenYch. Grim vice budete si zahravati s Omit° yetami, tim snadneji si opravite vlastni chyby.

V nasledujicim eisle Vestniku budou nazna,eeny spra yne odpovedi. Wady pozdeji budou Yyjmenovani v§ichni poslanci do kongresu, ktefi zastupuji Texas. To vgak bude samostatnY elariek pro informaci vkch dtenafil.

Pfeetete si znovu vkchna pfedchazejici vysvetleni. Zachytite a zapamatujete si mnohe body, ktero yam pfi p.rYnim &ten' unikly.

V dal§i va§i snaze mnoho zdaru. ) • 44 Jak stragnYm byl by svet, kdyby se nerodily ustavidne deti, jet pfinakji narr nevinnost a mo'gnost kaZde dokonalosti.

—John Ruskin.

Ve stkedu, dne 27. dUbna 1956.

VESTNf

WEST, TEXAS

JOSEF LIDUMIL LEIKAR Podobne p tiho d y potkavaly LeSikara katdou chvili, neb nemajetny kupuje nejdrate. Kupoval jen na vet. a veei nejlacinejSi bez ohledu, zdali se seSlosti vekem p •iki okamtik nerozpadnou. Slo to se nimi jen velmi porr alu kuptedu a neni divu, fie jim bylo tetko ptivykat novYm pomertim, zylaSte mantelee a detem, O potraviny nebyla nouze, maso nahrazovala jim zvet, z ylaSte zajici, kterYch byla vSude hojnost, zeleninu nahrazovala trava lebeda a kavu prateno. kukutice. K rolnideni nebylo jinych natadi netli tetky pluh a motyka.

• branami se vlaidelo hatuzerni se stromu nasekanymi, na net se vladejlei postavil. I semeno bavinikove ruen4 sete • podobnYm zpilsobem zavladelo. Kukutice se sazela rudne rnezi dye brazdy a vae se motykami okopavalo.

Neni di'vu, ze novYm pomerilm, zvla'Ste nedostatktin, bylo tetko ptivykat rodine Lekkarove a vSem ostatnim, kteti ptiAli neptipraveni. Brzy po ptijezdu a mnohokrat pote vybizela mantelka Le-.

Sikara k navratu do vlasti. Tetko bylo mantelu v takovYch chvilich, ale uspokojoval mantelku, ae jen co si yydelaji na zpateeni cestu, ze tak anti, doufaje, to do to doby mantelka pomerilm zvykne a nedostatek pomine. Sam wiak ani na okamtik nezatoutil po nekdejk vlasti a ptes to, ze rodnou zem svou ctil a ji si vazil, neprojevil pfani k navrat. Sam povzbuzoval krajany k vytrvalosti a zmutilosti tee je, ze budoucnost je odmeni za v6echna dnekti uskrovneni a usilovnou praci. Pouze jedna okolnost jej hnetla, ktere si dtive neuvedomil, a to byla, ze v Texasu panovalo te doby otrokatstvi.

Jit od roku 1836, kdy se Texas odtrhl od republiky Mexicke, bylo v nem pc) zpllsobu ostatnic ► statu jitnich zavedeno otrokaistvi. V temt roce nahrnu lo se do tohoto noveho statu Unie mnoho otrokatu ze statu Mississippi, Missouri, Georgie, Jitni Karoliny, ba i ze severu, nebot' pozemky v Texasu byly velmi lacine a k tomu velmi firodne.

Neni divu, ze otroka •stvi bujelo a poCet otrokai• katdYm rokem vzrOstal.

Otrokati zaehazeli se svYmi otroky mnohem hake net s dobytkem. Pro nepatrnY odpor neb nelibost a liknavost byli zmlaceni nejsilnejAimi otroky, ae stall v bezvedomi. Sami otrokati otroky Okii a dost •elovali, aby si tak zajistili oddanost a posluSnost ostatnich.

Byly to hrozne p •ipady tYrani. Nak krajane byli sveclky tech krutosti a vypraYuji o eetnYch vYjevech v syYch vzpominkach z tech dob. Sam Lekkar byl siredkem mnohYch vYjeva kruteho

za-

chazeni s otroky, Ts/lake jeden utkvel mu v mysli do poslednich let a vypravuje o nem v svem aivotopise takto: Jeden takovY otrokat, Ameridan, kterY bydlil nedaleko nak farmy, drtel pies sto otrokti na sve plantati. Byl to surovec, jemut se tyranstvi zradilo v odich, a take -se s yYmi otroky zachazel hint netli se psy, jicht choval na plantati velkou spoustu.

Nevim, z jake piiciny jeden z otroku (dernochit) mu pH ptiletitosti utekl.

Kdyt se o torn majitel dovedel, vzal puSku„ asi tucet dobte vycvidenYch slidicich psti a asi deseti jinYm otrokum rozkazal, aby se k nemu ptidali, a vsednuvSe na kone, jali se dernocha stihati. Potkal jsem je na teto honbe nedaleko nag farmy. Zastavili mne a ptali se, zda jsem turfy nevidel utikat dernocha. Odpovedel jsem, ze nikoli, ale brzy pote jia mu byli na stope a netrvalo dlouho, kdyt naali utedence schouleneho pod skalou v lese. Kdyt psi dobehli k dernochovi, jali se jej trha.t, a kdyt je pan milostive odvolal, mel otrok rortrtenou spodni Cast tela tak Wee, ae mu vnittnosti vyhtezly. To vSak nepohnulo bileho otrokate k arpnosti, ale hodil zbehu na krk laso, ptivazal Si je k sedlu a vice vlekl nezli vedl otroka, zpet na farmu. Kdyt jsem prilvod opetne potkal, videt jsem, jak si neSt'astnik jednou rukou ptiddoval provaz na krku, druhou vnittnosti, za,nechavaje za sebou silnou stopu krve. Tak jej ptivedl na dvur, ptivaza.1 k stromu, a day do rukou nejsilnejSich otroku karabade, porucil jim, utedence tlouci a vaem ostatnim dernochurn obstoupiti a ptihliteti divadlu, aby jim pteSla chut' k podobnym zarnertim.

Snad mel v zameru dernocha k smrti dotlouci, kdyby mantelka otrokatova byla se nahodou nevratiIa z mesteeka. Spattivk toto zviieci poeinani mantela, zastala se ubotaka, ktery jia pod ranami do bezvedomi klesl, ujala se ho a obvazavgi mu rany, tak mu tivot zachranila.

stala v statech jitnich velka nevole; nebot' se vedelo, ae novY president jest odptircem otrokatstvi, a otrokatske.staty se ptipravo yaly k odtrteni se od Unie. Tet Texas piese vSechno varovani sveho vYtedneho politika Sam. Houstona se ptidal k °nem po ystaleckYrri status a jik roku 1861 ptijal zakonodarnY sbor v Unorovem sezeni usneseni, Jima tento stat byl prohla'Sen za nezavislY na Unii — za stat konfederadni. SlechetnY vlastenec Houston, tehdejk guverner statu, kdyt citil blititi se zle doby, protestoval silne proti tomuto usneseni, varoyal svilj lid, ale marne. Jeho bias ve zmatku politickem a v lobeek$Tph zajmech jednotlivai, z ylaSte Ndetnych 'a mocnYch tebdy obyvatelti otrokatn; citili, ze heti o jejich vynosne tiVOlbyti, a byli odhodlani podniknouti no, aby nemohli byti zbaveni sveho,:tiveho majetku, sveho cerneho bohatstvi.

Nechte se zproneveriti svym zasada,m, Houston se vzdal 0tadu a na jeho misto byl zvolen dosavadni namestek Ecivard Clark — zurivy zasta;ce otrokatsfyi.

Ten vydal ihned narizeni ke sbnarii a zrizovani armady; stat byl rozdeleri na vojenske ovody, z nicht kaklY doStal sveho prevost-marSala a dnem 8. detiina vyhlaSen byl v Texasu sta y obleterii.,ZAkonem natizeno, aby katda osoba imit2skeho pohiavi ye veku ad osinnacti,'do etyticeti let byla povolana k pinerii;yOjenskYch povinnosti. Vyriati byli ,potite ti, kdot vojenske slutby byli Upine'neschopni.

V takovych neklidnYch pomerech se„octli tea ptistehovalci texasAti, a byti to jmenovite nasi krajane, kteti ptirozene nesouhlasili s otrokatstvim a ptali ,vice Severu. To vedeli otrokati sami z jednani oeskYch osadnikit a sttehli kakde. jejich hnuti, aby se vojenske povtnnosti nemohli vyhnouti.

V techto tisnivYch pomerech se octli naafi rodaci, kteti se teSili na Upinou svobodu v zemi. Kdyt vaak do teto 'kerne ptijeli s nejvetaimi nadejemi, ani neohtali a jia se poealy na obloze, objevovati valeene mraky. Mnozi z nich proti svemu ptesvedeeni a proti sve byli yyryani z rodinneho kruhu , yerbi1• a tajnymi spehy a zatazeni do 1/54eane ytavy.

(Pokradovani.)

Po Case jsem se seSel s onim dernochem, byl jit vyhojen a ukazoval mi hroznou jizvu na tivote. Zanedlouho potom jsem se dovedel, ze dernoch ten opet prchl i se svou milenkou, ale to byl jia chyttejSi; namazali si nohy krayskym lejnem, aby psi jejich stopu nemohli vypatrati. Uspotadan byl novY hon, kterY trval mnohem dele netli prvni, ale )• 4 • ( tentokrate se jim nepodatilo zbeha naDneini generate lezti. Vedel jsem, ze se skrYvali celY tyPovida divka svemu rnilemu: den, dokud honba trvala, na farm y jed"Net teknu ano — musiS mi zodPovenoho eecha. det jednu otazku, Bille!"

• `Ptej se!"

Po zvoleni Abrahama Lincolna za pre"Dobra. Kdy, kde a v dem jsi sidenta SpojenYch statu v roce 1860 na- rekord?"

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PEARL RANKS 25th IN NATION IN 1954 BEER SALES It has been announced by Otto A. Koehler, President and Chairman of the Board, Pearl 'Brewing Company, San Antonio, that the Pearl Brewery has moved into 25th position in total sales among all breweries in the United States for the year 1954.

In 1953 the Pearl Brewery was 30th.

AR.,- Koehler stated that the Pearl Brewery placed 11th in the United States among breweries having a single plant operation.

The standing figures show the steady growth of the Pearl , Brewing Company, based upon the increased public demand of the people of Texas for Pearl, because it is extra light, extra mild, extra mellow, says Mr. Koehler. ) • 'A • ( Deti chapou vice neti se domnivate a citi tak hluboce jako vy, a pamatujte ‘2e na mnohe veci z detstvi vzpominaji do sve smrti. Proto s nimi jednejte spravedlive a laskave!

PRAVNICI TEMPLE, TEXAS ntadovna d Floor Temple National Bank Building

408 Houston Title Bldg.

Dallas and Caroline Sts. HOUSTON 2, TEXAS ITLEPHONE: Preston 0883

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CeskY Lekai a Operater HOUSTON, TEXAS Telefon res.: Twinoaks 1222 Telefon iiiadovny: Pres 2553 711 Medical Arts Building

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"ULICNICE" Holland, e. etvrtek 28. dubna ✓ 7 hodin treeer

Polfiebni ieditel ben S.P.J.S.T.—Tel. Prospect 3-3606 118 N. 5th St.. TEMPLE. TEXAS

Dr. Chas. J. Haub

"SOUD BO ' f" Ennis, e etvrtek, 28. dubna ✓ '7 hodin veeer

"LUCERNA" West, ve stiedu 27. dubna odpoledne VeCer La Grange, ve stiedu 4, kvktna ✓ '7 hodin veer

Edward Pace

HOUSTON, TEXAS

CESKE FILMOVE DIVADLA V TEXAS

"NASI FURIANTI" Wharton, y e stiedu 27. dubna odpoledne i veeer

SPRAVNE VYKONANA POLlIftEBNi SLU2BA V hodin talu zarmoucenflnaleznete Edward Pace pohrebr/i Usta.v pohotovy , k sympatickemu vytize. ni nezbytnYch jednotlivosti a k praveni dojemneho pohtbu.

Levne ceny jsou naM zasadou

611-13 Shell Bldg

8631 Diceman Drive Dallas 18, Texas

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COMPANY Jerome I. Koe1:30 Vyhe.tovi a.bstrakty, viastukki pravo, vyiizuje majetkove ' pojigeni tfadovna nad Peoples State Bank 't'elefon do titadovny fislo HALLFTTSVILLE. TEXAS

PRAVNiK

Mrs. B. Valcik

"ILABICKA" Wallis, ve etvrtek, 28. dubna ✓ '7 hodin ,veeer Houston, v sobotu, 30. dubna v Sakolovne v 8 hodin veer Schulenburg, v bier', 3. kvetna v 7:30 veer Shiner, e etvrtek 5. kvetna ✓ 7 hodin veeer

Lavaca Co. Abstract

Eenest J. Hanka

Adolph D. Pa .1Ticek

Darkove bali6kv

do teskoslovenska vyrizuji.

Jsem zastupce pro firtnu Gift Parcel New Yorku.

PoteSte sve drahe zaslanitat balieku ze Svkcarska a Danska

Kacii - Legikar a Ketch°

Ve sti'edu, dne 27. dubna 1955.

`..;229 Avenue F. — Phone 4530 BAY CITY. TEXAS

Victory Cour 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

Hilsher's Home Supply Co. 2020 Washington Ave AT-8421 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

ii.4SHER'S and get "THE BEST FOR LESS" CASH OR EASY TERMS Your Satisfaction Guaramettd And Free Delivery Service VASE CESKE OBCHODY

tie sttedu, tine 27. dubna 1955.

MaIS Oziiamovatel Hlavni Ufadovna SPJST dela ptijelly na fanny, ranee, a vybutlovank mestskSmajetek, kdekoliv v Texasu. Pitjeuje svoje vlastni penize na nizke uroky, dlouhe splatky a s velice pliznivkmi podminkami pro piedeasne vyplaceni. Pike: Supreme Lodge, SPJST, Temple, Texas. ) 4, ( 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. ( ) • 4, 0.111F- Hledam za treelem siiatku "naAinku" do 30 let. Jen dobrou, laskavou povahu. Piste na zna,eku "8t'astnSr Domov", c./o. Vestnik, West, Wexas. (18c) I Ir Prijrne se neodvisla, bila Aena k bydleni na miste a k opatrovani dvou ditek. M. Goodman, 6347 Prestonshirc Lane, Dallas.

(16-19c) ) 4, ( HLEDAME OSOBU NA kiZENI KUCHYNE MajetkovY vYbor radu Pokrok Houstonu Oslo 88 oznamuje touto cestou, '2e rria uprazdnene misto pro osobu, ktera by-prevzala vedeni kuchyne v radove Chcerne dati pillelitost kaZdernu, kdo by se o tuto praci zajimal. Nezaldi, jestli to bude muz nebo 'Zena nebo manZ"ele aohromady, ale cbceme miti spolehlive lidi, kteri by men schopnosti clati dobrou a zdvorilou obsluhu na§irn navAtevniktim.

Smlouva bude dle vzajemne 'dohocly.

Kuchyfr je otevrena, kaZdou sobotu yeCer a teZ pri kaZdem radovem podniku, lAerY se kona v nedeli. Da gi podrobno sti poda Ernest J. Hanka, predseda Majetkoveho vYboru. ) • sT. • Mnoho velkolepYch 6ina dokazali lide porthe ctiladostivosti, ale jegte ze ctiladosti nestal se — skromnYm.

Dr. Thos. N. Delaney OtNi LEKAlt. BrSrle sprivne pripravene Cas die Umluvy 513-17 SPJST Bldg.

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

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Slovieko mezi etykma: oeima.

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Chlapec k prodavaei: Jeden limec pro tatinka, eislo 16.

Potkali se dva politikaN. Jeden z nich, Prociava.e: JakY? kterY nekde prebral, vrazil do druheho, Chlapec: "— — a vypravil ze sebe: "Poslouchejte vy Prodavae: TakovY jako mam j jste osel!"

Chlapec: ne 4. • ( "A vy jste opilY!" odvetil osloveny.

"To je alright," odpovida na to naDobfe eisti — to jest prave knihy trun6enY, "ale zitra, a2 se z to opice vy- sti v pravem duchu uklada teMi ukoly .spim, budu zase strizlivy — ale vy zUsta- etenati, neZ kterYkoliv jinY vYkon, jejZ vysoko ceni mrav denni. nete oslem."

—Thoreau,

::E4gmaxamigamagatDivadlo v Houston u Pokeok Housionu eislo 88 Na 1140 Robbie ulici

IlditattfinEWSMAIIIMINI

Wig divadelni Krouiek Hlahol od fidu Pokrok Houstonu Oslo 88 sehraje peknou a veselou operettt o tiech jednanich

V NEDELI, DNE 1. KVETNA Zaeatek o 3:30 hodin odpoledne pod nazvem

"Vesel y Tri Musketiri."

Napsal: Richard Branald Hudbu sloiil: Adolf Branald Osoby: Jirka, Rohan, zvank divoch, majitel paststvi hr. St. Valeik Kajetan Vozembouch, nadlesni, br. Anton gvestka jeho kamarad Barugeina, Barukta, jeho ses. Naomi Kostomlatskk sve •enka vandraei, zvani "LH musketStii" br. Rudy gefeik Hanzi Holandr, krajane.k; br. Tim Kostomlatskk Vojta Aoufek, hone br. Jerry Ermis Martin Pila, tesai Rozmarjanka Voinialkova, hospodyne ses. Frances Olexa Rohanova Dej v dneAni dobe v 1.4e na lesnim zameeku Jirky Rohana podivat, zasmat, a poslechnout krasne zpevy, Pkij(Fte se a pane se. pobavit s nami na na gem "Majovent" divadle Nebudete toho litovati.

Reiie. br. Rudy. J. Sefeik Napoveda: Ses. Anna Svestka Doprovod na piano: ses. Elsie Dvoiak-Kaderova

Po divadle taneeni zabava pri hudbe Joe Nsvadba OD 8 DO 12 HODIN AISE

za jednu vstupenku, 80c Srdoene Vas zve Krou'iek Hlahol a vkboii, na 1. kvetna

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f Ve stred due 27. dubua 1955.

Sure . My Dad Has Guaranteed Me College Education Through Life nsurance" Ask Any Local S P J S T Representative About The "Educational Plan"

upreme Lodge S P.J.S T. Post Office Box 400

Temple, Texas