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6islo 21.

LETOSNI PEACE V DISTRIKTECII schtizilch tietiho distriktu. A dojde-li a povzbuzeni organisaeni einnosti v dis-

RAVE JSEM SE VRATIL Z di- nekdy , na stanoveni nejakYch pravidel triktu, a jestli teditel oznamuje, 4po se

p striktni schilze v Hilije, kde nebo smernic pro distriktni schilze, mtii-

gestY distrikt mel velice peknou navg tevu. Byl jsem na v gech schilzich g esteho distriktu, krome jedne, a musirn dal distriktu kredit, k! tentokrate nav gteva byla rekordni. Vklyt' od jednoho tadu zjednali si eleni Skoini autobus, aby se jich dostavilo co nejvice. To tfg nee° znamena. To u2 je obetavost a nadgeni.

PtemYglim, uvaZuji a posuzuji, zda takova obetavost ptina gi take ureite vYsledky. Rad bych napsal, Zeschilze v Hillje ptinesia nee° ySrznamneho, cenneho, povzbuzujiciho pro vgechny ptitomne a take pro celou Jednotu. Rad bych to napsal—ale nebylo by to uptimne. Jedine, co mohu napsat, ze ye schilzi v Hilije bylo mnoho navgtevnika, bylo o ne fa.dem 6echoslovan velice pohostinsky postarano, a ze to byla nad oeekavani veilka, navgteva—pikniku.

Jalc3.7 je vlastne Teel distriktnich schtizi? To je otazka, kterou by si mel zodpovedeti kaZdY fitednik v distriktu. Jak3i cil mame, kdy svolavame distriktni schtize? Co se vykonalo v tech schazich, ktere se letos konaly?

Vezmeme si schilzi, ktere, byla v patem distriktu. Pokud se pamatuji, byly ye volnSrch navrzich probirany dva dosti zajimave body: volba ieditele v posledni distriktni schtizi pied sjezdem, a ustanoveni distriktniho stanovniho vSrboru, kteilr by v ptigti distriktni scinizi ptednesi navrhy na opravu stanov, vztahujici se jak na samotne distrikty tak i na celou Jednotu.

0 tti tSidny pozdeji byla schilze tletiho distriktu v Dallas. Mono tici, ze tieti distrikt aZ dosud byl syYm jednanim ye schtizich peknSim vzorem pro v gechny ostatni distrikty. Mam poznakeno osmnact bodil, ktere se projednavaly ye

Zeme takovou praci smele i3ttedati eleniim v tietim distriktu. Tam se jednalo promyglene o praci organisetort), o volbe novYch fitednikil na doporueeni nominaeniho vYboru, o nemocenskem pojigteni, o moZnosti distriktniho delegata do sjezdu, a o volbe sveho teditele v distriktni schuzi. Na tyto posledni dva body byl zvolen z ylagtni vY'bor, kterST se hned po schuzi segel. Navrh na distriktniho delegata byl vSrborem zamitnut, kdeZto navrh na volbu teditele byl dopinen nasiedovne: V posledni distriktni schtlzi pfed sjezdem zvoli si distrikt sveho teditele a ta jeho nahradnika. Volba proVedena bude cielegaty, zvoler4rmi ye vSTroeni tadu, die pato hiasu, na jaky je kaZdS7 tad die sveho elenstvi v ten eas opravnen.

vykonalo, mel by te2 ptipomenoutV co se opomenulo ve spolkove praci vykonati.

Na 1. kvetna byla schilze prvniho distriktu. Nebyl jsem ve schuzi. Zapisky byly uvetejneny, a z nich je violet, ze zabavni program byl velice peknSi, vgem se libil. Ale zda se, ze ani ye schazi prv-' niho distriktu nedo gio na Zadne nove nebo ptipravne navrhy pro dobro celku.

Ihuina? Museum? Theva starim olentim?

Neeinne Moly? Financovani distriktil?

Nemocenska a iirazova podpora? SouteZ organisatoril? Asi ze o nekterch techto bodech byla nejaka, debata, ale zapisky neoznamuji, jake bylo jive jednani.

Kdyt uvalime einnost distriktil die jejich schilzi, musime vzpomenouti slov bratra Batiny: "Na ge Jednota muze byti pravem na na g tteti distrikt hrda.

Tteti distrikt je opravdu na gi chloubou."

V imoru potadal tieti distrikt banket po druhe, a minulou nedeli zajelo taklka padesat elent z ttetiho distriktu a2 do Houstonu, aby povzbudili k lep gi einnosti eleny v distriktu patem. 0 tom doetete se pti gti tS7cien.

VYbor tletiho distriktu podal je gte dalgi pokyny, ktere byly uvetejneny zminenYm vYborem ye Vestniku ze dne 13. dubna, a ktere stoji za tvahu. VYbor spra y -nepozaml,ejtodilSrkov tizeni einnosti na gich distriktu.

A prave o tuto einnost v distriktech Od btezna a'Z do dne gka konalo se pet nam bezi, aby einnost byla promyglena, distriktnich schtizi. Jedna z nich nememela ureit3i steer a Teel, znamenala ne- la ZacinY zabavni program, same spolkoco pro budoucnost cele Jednoty. y e rokovani. Schilze v Dallas byl celodenni, kde zabavni program byl dovr geV dubnu byl jsem ye schtzi druheho nim spolkoveho jednani. Zb3ivajici tti didistriktu v Granger. Zabavni program strikty kladly diiraz na hnuti miacide a omladiny byl libivy, lahodn3i, promygle- programy zabavni. Je to surer chvalitebnY a nacvieenSi s nadobyeejnou peal IV a dilletit. Lee stejne je calelite, aby Spoleana, porada, voine navrhy, ptipravy distriktni schilze nepromenily se v pouhe pro sjezd, toho v geho ye schfizi nebylo. pikniky.

Vgechny zastoupene lady podaly zpravy, nektere velmi pochvaine, jine obstojByly doby, kdy pli kahle distriktni ne. Pet taciti nebylo zastoupeno. Nediv- schuzi delal jsem si poznamky o 'novYch te se, tli z nich nebyly zastoupeny ani nametech. Leto gni prate v distriktnich na sjezdu v Houstonu, ani ye Fort Worth. schilzich poskytla mi poznamek velice Jestli dikrikty byly zaloleny pro ziepgeni mak).

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Jednou ml kdesi dal vybornou polltickou raclu, ktera se hodi pia kaZddho, kdo chce bYti na vAeclany strany libivY: "Jestli nenniZe,§ o Jednote napsat neco hezkeho, tak radeji nic nepiS." Pokouim se, abych byl poctivy Sam k sobs, uprinanY k druhym, a proto neize jinak, ne2 abych slovy Petra Bezrude, basnika od brehu Ostravice z bezkydskYch hor, povzdechnul si: Casein S'patne verse piSu, na Stesti mne dtou jen malo, v poloshaslY plamen dk§u, tfeba se mi panstvo smalo Casem tichou pisen zpivam, odpust'te mi S'patnou notu, jako kovkop v praci bYvam od soboty po sobotu. Ca' sein zni to ye sluch hranou, jak bych stag nad bratra rovem, jak kdybych pruskou stranou Hudinem a Benekvem.

V bournou dobu, kdy svet laudi ideji a fantasie, jednotvarnym tonem zyudi jedna tl mne melodic.

Tak rad bych psal radky chvaly, ale kdy by to mnohdy byla fantasie a ne praycla. Jako pra ye dnes, druhY den po clistriktni wchuzi v Hilije. Takove nadSeni od nayStevnikti, takova obetavost od elenti ze yzdalenYch mist, takova prava domacich takovY UpinY nezdar a nepripravenost, aby se po od polednim programu neco ve schtizi projednalo. Dovolte mi, abych opakoval radky bratra, Franka 8tepana, predsedy radii! Hvezda Miru eislo 33 v Bleiblerville, ktere byly neda yno uverejneny ve Vestniku. Psal: Ve schtzich opravdu ukazujeme nasi slovanskou povahu. To nase chovani ye schtizich odkrY ya,'nase Spatne zvyky. My bud' nevime lepSi nebo nestojime o to, abychom melt schtize lepSi, abychom nak jednani yedli dle parlamentniho poradku, jak je to zyykem, a pravidlern mezi lidmi, kteri chteji rozhodovat o vanSTeh otazkach.

V naSlch schtzich marline vetSinu easu yykladamin o nepatrnYch a bezvYznamnYch vece ,..b. My znovu a desetkrat opakujerne stare veci, a my nevime, kdy bychom melt o jiste veci prestat a zaeft o neeern clidelitej§im. To psal bratr Frank 8tepan pied tremi tYdny vSeobecne, aniZ by tuSil, ze schtize v Hillje ptijde presne die tohoto vzoru.

Do sehtize prijeli tez fiiedniei a haste ze sednieho distriktu, aby si odnesli domii a do jejich schuze priSti nedeli, 29. kvetna, nejake ponaueeni, uZiteene pokyny. Nedostali jste pokyny, ale mate ponaueeni, vlastne vYstrahu. Nedelali jste dalekou cestu nadarmo. Mate 'Skolu.

Kdyz jako mladik studoval jsem na ueitelskem iistave—a je tomu dobrYch etyricet roku byly nam, hochilm, da-

Ye stredn, dne 25, kv6tna 1955: vany dvakrat rane poradne lekce. Byli zavolani do vetSi mistnosti, kde dva tri profesori si nas vzali jak se path do prad.la. Bylo nam kladeno na srdce, ze jako budouci vychovavatele mladeZe musime napred sami znati, in sluSi a co se nesluM. Bylo nam priporrenuto, ze mnohy z nas byl doma zvyklY chodit bos celY den, ale ze treitel nesmi chodit bosy. A kdyby mei jen jeden par strevien, jeho obuv nesmi ukazovati znamky nedbalosti. od kavy na kosili nebo zami] -)ne manZety nejsou dobiFym vysvedeemm pro uditele. f•cba doma, kde Bylo nam poukazano, bylo u stolu osm as, dvandet deti, hazeli jeden druhem krajidky chleba Ares still, ye spoleenosti se podobne zpftsoby neschvaluji, jako se povaZuje za nezptsob napichovani chleba /vidliekou, kdyZ nam je chleb podavanY'nebo jedeni nozem a, olizovani jej pi' Byly nam scieleny a poskytnuly mnohe intimnaq i a diaverne pokyny, protole vettuna z nas vyrostla v dob; , , kdy nebyly jeae na farmaeh splachov„ci zachody, kdy se svitilo petrolejo you lampou, kdy se eistily a Zehtily obleky doma, kdy lena obuv bylo tak potrebne jako kartareek na zuby.

Jestli 'lady zapomenu ehvalit rfizne ty poradky a pomery v naSi. Jednote, je to snad proto, ze jsem byl vychovan, abych daval rady a pokyny. Ta kantorska povaha se neda, zaprit. V naSich distriktnich Schilzich stale victim, ze by to melo bYti jako pokraeovaci S'kola pro spolkove jednani a vystupovani. Jdeme do kaZde distriktni schfize hlavne proto, abychom dostali ponaueeni, lepS1 chut' k dalSi spolkove praci. A pritom abychom si povedeli, co 11i18 kde bolt, jak bychom neduhy sve vyleeili nebo aspofi zmirnili. A kdo jsou temi ueiteli v naSich distriktnich schrizich? Na'Si yedouci firednici, naSi reditele, nisi organisatori, naSi domed yysionZili predsedove a jini Cinovnici. Redaktora v distriktnich schUzich nepotrebujete a take ho nikdy nevolejte. Jednak nerrniZe v:§nde jezdit na sve vlastni itiraty, do y Sech sedmi distriktft; jednak on ma kaZdou nedeli praci s or s;anem, ktera, muss bYti vykonana a odeslana; jednak on mute podati sve nabledy kaZdY tyden, Redaktor je v distriknieh schtizich --jako reenik—zbyteenosti. Ale ma tam bYtt jako pozorovatel, jako rekordovaci pristroj, kterY vSechno yerne zachyti a ve vhodnou dobu, kdy to ma &el a vahu, ostatnim elentlm predloZi. Main z toho radost, ic tentoikrate oba hlavni Urednici, bratr Chupick i bratr Marek, oznamovaii, ze na pristilll Sjezdu museji se provesti jiste zmeny, bode nutne nektere veci v na§i. Jednote zmodernisovati. VS'ichni posluchadi s

Ve sttedu, dne 25. kvetna 1955. hlavnirni il •eclniky jiste souhlasili, "name velice clobrY spolek, kterY zylaSte v posledni dobe pokraeuje nadmiru speSne, ale musime si tento zdokonalujici postup udrZeti. A prave na to jsou distriktni schtize, kde hlavni vedouci nem teknou, jake znieny by cloporueovali, a my jim zase dame sve nahledy, svou kritiku, nebo se nechame od nich jeSte dale poueiti. Proto red vidim, kdy2 take naSi vedouci pIijdou do distriktni schilze p •ipraveni s novYmi namety, s nejakYnii pokyny, jak to v poslednich nekolika distriktnich schtizich provedl bratr Chupick. Jen aby tech pokynil bylo vice a aby byly od posluchaeil nale2ite uvakny. nesmirne mo gnogti, abychom lope pronikli do vetejnosti; abychom sve vlastni deti dostali do spolkove einnosti, jen abychom vecleli, jakYmi cestami bychorn men to provadet, jak do tobo, a jak si vychovati vedouci v naAi naliecle2i. Material meme, finaneni prost •edky jsou te2, tteba o inch nevime, rozmarlitY talent je videt vSude mezi jen abychom sli mezi dortIstajici eleny spravnou cestou. To neni jenom nas problem, na torn pracuji vSechny vetSi a pokrokovelSi bratrske jednoty.

Nektere z nich dokonce piestaly vydavati organ pro stare eleny, ale easopis je zametenY jen pro mlade2, tot.i2 pro ty, kteti teprve dortistaji a zaeinaji se o spolkove veci zajimat. Je nekolik jednot, ktere yydr2uji pro sve hochy a deveata letni tabo •iSte a samostatnY easopis. Jsou etyti bratrske jednoty—a mo2na je jich vice, co2 mne neni znamoktere inaji a na sve ntraty yydr2uji vySSi pokraeovaci skoly, jen aby pro sebe vychovali budouci zoclpovedne a sciaopne pracovniky.

VESTINTiK WEST, TEXAS las. Ve etvrtek je rokovani o vSrchov6 statnich a distriktnich organisatoril, cog z ylaSte pro nas je otazkott velmi zajimavou a clilleLtou. Zval jsem bratra aby jel se mnou, poslal jsem mu dva dopisy, ale nedostalo se mi odpovedi. V patek bude zasedeni tech organisatorti, kteti ji2 prosli dvema bratrskYmi kursy, slo2ili dye zavereene zkou2ky a osvojili si dostateene znalosti o vYhodiich bratrskeho pojiU'ove.ni. Jsou to schuze nesmirne dfile2itosti, kde by vlastne bylo tteba, aby nas bylo vice, abychom poznali, jak v jinYch bratrskych organisacich se planuje, prace provadi nebo co noveho se v budoucnosti Pavodne nemel jsem v timyslu, ie do Chicaga pojedu. Ale ptikl dopis od ptedsedkyne oddeleni novinatti a redaktorti Narodniho bratrskeho kongresu, Louise patrickove, abych jako mistopiedseda tohoto oddeleni se take dostavil, budou ptitomni jini redaktoki, a 2e bude zahodno poraditi se o rilznych bodech pro ptiSti schnzi redaktord, ktera nude na podzim. Je to vlastne reklama naSi SPJST, nikoliv osobni hodnost nebo vyznamenani, kdy2 mime zastoupeni v nekterYch oddelenich Narodniho bratrskeho kongresu. Proto jsem se rozhodl, 2e v zajmu dobreho jmena naSi SPJST mel bych jeti. Jako jedeme doma do distriktnich schtizi, navStevujeine jedni drrrhe za noelem lepSiho seznameni a dalSi spoluprace, takte2 ve vetSim metitku pracuji vSechny bratrske organisace a vymenuji mezi sebou sve nahlecly. Je ye SpojenYch statech 175 bratrskych a sesterskYch organisaci, z nich 160 n:aji sve spolkove orgeny, veWna z nich vycho yave. sve organisatory, vedeji houti omladiny a detske krougly, buduji fitulny, nemocnice, letni tabotiSta. a stele nee() planuji a podnikaji. A jako jedu do kii2de distriktni schilze dome, abych pozoroval praci, u nas, tak zde se nine, 2e bylo by tteba stYkati se s jinYmi organisacemi a jejich vedoucimi, abychom poznali dobrou, zaslu2nou a vzornou. praci jinde. Nemohl jsem dostati nikoho z ustiedi, abychom jeli spoleene pit stejnem vydani autem, proto j em jel sam, ac s pocitem zklamani, 2e zase buciu sam jediny, kdo bude poslouchati vyklady a proslovy zkuSenejSich od jinYch spolk0, a 2e jednomu se to te2ko tahne, kdy2 se vrati nazpet a vysvetluje, jak jinde pracuje nebo jak jinde se statni organiseto •i vybiraji a najimaji.

0 vSech teehtc mo gnosteeli a novych cestach pro vYcli.ivu spolkovYch pracovnikti jeclne se prave v Chicagu, kde pisi tyto tadky. Snad nekdo tekne, toulam, to na bratrskou konvenci, to nekam na organisatorskY kurs, a pti torn 2e svou redakeni praci hodne zanedbevam. Ale jsou to prave takove zejezdy, kde . sbirain a 'eerpam nove poznatky, dalSi informace o pre.ci jinych jednot. Jsem tedy v ptitomne dobe v Chicagu, kde t •i velka oddeleni Narodniho bratrskeho kongresu konaji sve zaseclani. Ve sttedu seSli se zastupci a fitecinici velkYch bratrskych organisaci, aby porokovali o torn, co je tteba einiti pro vYchovu inladek do naSich spolku. Hlavnimi teeniky byli etyti ptedsedove dobte znamYch bratrskych jednot. Pozoruhodne, ze jednim z techKu piikladu, dnes dopoledne ve to tee: pike byl pobratim Charvat, pted- etvrtek, byly pilednaSky o vYcviku *orseda Charvatske Bratrske Jednoty, bratr V.. I. Mandich, s kterYm se naSi eleni ganisatorn a nic jineho. Jeden teenik seznamili na veeirku v Sokolovne v Dal- niluvil, jak se ma do organisatorske

Strana einnosti zapracovati no ydeek, ktery o bratrskem pojiSt lovani nialo vi, jake instrukce rna dostati od statniho organisatora nebo od distriktniho organisatora a jak jeho einnost rna bYti sledovana po nekolik mesicu, aby se poznalo, zdali organisator ma schopnosti, je v nem nadeje, nebo je to plYtvani Casu. Hned na to nasledovala druha ptednaSka, jak se ma metiti prace a vYkonnost takoveho organisatora, kterY jig pracoval tteba nekolik rokil, ukazal se uspokojivYm, ale jake pomilcky start' organisator pottebuje. Recnikem tohoto druheho proslovu byl jeden muj start' znamY, kterY nedavno ptijel ze severu organisatorslcY kurs davanY na, Southern Methodist universite On Sam vede organisaani praci v 35 statech, proto nepotteboval onen kurs, ale fuel v kursu na SMU zapsa.no osm ci dtset organisator0, prat() piijel, aby zjistil, jake instrukce dostanou, kolik se od nich po projdeni kursu miize oeekavati nebo do jake miry museji jeho organisetoti dostati dalSi pokyny. Tketim te'enikern byl teditel organisatoril a asistent presklenta jedne velike bratrske organisace, kterY mluvil o praksi a methoclach schopnYch organisatoril a znazoiloval, jakYm zpilsobem postupuji, aby ye svem vystupovani jednali co nejsluSneji i kdy2 by jim nekdo nejradeji ukazal dvete. Takove ptednaivsky a pak volna diskuse pottebe vYcviku organisatorfl jsou Laidka k nezaplaceni. Skoda, pteSkoda, 2e byl jsem zde od SPJST sam jedinY. V pkitornne dobe vYcvik organisatoril, jak bylo ureeno naSim poslednim sjezdem v Houstonu, je nas nejtvrai ofiSek. Lee stejne ditle gitkrai byly piednitAy y e sttedu, 18. kvetna. Bratr Mandich ukazoval nem film, jak Charvatska Jednote pracuje s omlaclinon. Pak p •aisedkyno jedne velike sesterske organisace mluvila o tom, jak vyvolati v nasich mladYch elenech a elenkynich zajem o spolkovou praci pomoci uvedecich Cot, ktere jsou zorganisovani v kadern de, kde je nejakY spolkovY 2ivot. A cennou byla te2 predne.Ska jednoho ptedsedy znarneho bratrskeho spolku, kterY nastinil budoucnost naSi omladinove prace. VYznam a cenu techto ptednakk rou ge odhadnouti jen ten, kdo je slySel a nadkni z nich eerpane pro2i1.

Pripisuji nekolik sloe po svera navratu dome. MCI jsem obavu, 20 zejezclein do Chicaga ztratim tit tiny drahocenneho easu. Zatim ziskal jsem vice rid na tYdenim kursu v SMU. Z Houstonu vyjel jsem pied pulnoei, vyspal se na letounu, probudil se rano v Chicagu, a nazpet, trvala testa od peti odpoledne do pizl desete veeer. Ptivez1 jsem etyri pleny k organisaeni praci, ktere ptedlo2im naCim vedoucim k uvaleni.

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Mil' bratre redaktore: Poprej mi opet kousek mista, abych elenfun sedmeho distriktu oznamil, co main na srdci. Okoinosti mne k tomu Jak se kdo pamatujete, na posledni schtizi sedmeho distriktu v Corpus Christi bylo nine dam) na starost, abych vypracoval nejake pod.robnosti pro nagi mladeZ, kdo z nich by chtel se podileti soute2i y e zpevu eeskYch pisnieek.

Po delgim premY gleni, jak by to nejleph pracovalo, oznamil jsem ye Vestriiku ze due 6. dubna, aby soute2 byla pro Acohokoliv ye sta •i od osini do gestnacti let. Take jsem oznamil, ze risen si maze vybrati dle libosti.

A protae kaZda souta" musi miti oznameni podminek a take oznameni, jake ceny budou udeleny, napsal jsem nasled.ujici: Prillla gky innZete zaslati na mne eio 28. kvetna aneb i pred distriktni schnzi ye Floresville dne 29. kvetna mifZete se pri lold.siti. Musite ale mit na listku nebo dopise udano, den narozeni, ku kteremu radu bud' site nebo jeho rodiee path, a zdali rad path do sedmeho distriktu. Take jmeno pisnieky ma bYti oznameno , 0 viterstvi bude rozhodovat bud' obecenstvo nebo soudci k tomu anoveni ,die pozdej gi dohody. Ceny budon ne mono ne". deset dolaru prvni, pet dolaru druha, dvaapnl treti, a pak ne vice jak deset dal gich cen po dolaru.

V nedeli 24. dubna vYbor sedmeho distriktu mel schuzi v Orange Grove, kde vYbor uznal za dobre zmeniti ona praviclla a podrninky, a take ceny, ktere jsem tri tYdny predtirn ve Vestniku oznamil.

Je to snad vice vyhovujici, kdyZ cele zeni souteZe bylo pre yzato vYborem, a neni to na bedrach jednoho elena.

Kdyz se vYbor mezi sebou dohod y , aby byly vytvoreny skupiny, a take aby byly davany jine ceny ne2 jak jsem drive ye Vestniku oznamil, proto je slu gne a mistne, abych vSechnu praci tYkajici se soute2e ye zpevu eeskYch pisnieek prenechal distriktnimu vYboru, a take abych odvolal, ze bude cena $10, $5, a jine Bude to talc lep gi, abychom na jedne a teZe veci nepracovali dvema rtiznYmi smery.

VYboru dekuji, ze nine 'Leto zodpovedne funkce zbavil a praci mi uktril. Protc dal gi vedeni souteZe prenechavam vS7bcru, kterY se toho ujal.

S bratrskYm pozdravemFrank Bolf.

— WEST, TE"..' S

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stPedu, due 25, kvetna 1955.

si vo nasledkem neplaceni 6. Pornoc mato cinnyni a neeinn3im radian.

7. Zavest nemocenskou a nrazovou podporu, die nejnovej gich osvedeenYch vystavo y anYch certifikatil.

8. Prikroeit k planovani fitulny pro stare elenstvo, Ceti jsem v cisle ze dne 20. dubna 1955 no strance kde pravni radce A. D. Pavlieek v jeho zprave ma doporueeni Plant:, by Hlavni nradovna mohla pomoct P1 atit radovYm neetnim za vybirani elenskYch poplatkii.

Z toho vyrozumivam, ze si wfiZerne dovolit vydat nejakY ten dolar,,ila na gi organisaeni a propagaeni pram.

Doufan-r,. ze distrikty a rady v jejich nejbliZ gich schnzich si zvoli stanovni vsrbony, aby se mohlo ucielat dal gi zlepgem John Stahl, zastupee. v nasi Jednote.

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Zde podavam zase zrnka k uvf0,eni do schfize VII. distriktu.

Jest zapotrebi premY glet, aneb se oddavat pohodlnemu splaku? Jest to zajiste soadnejai nechat jive za nas mysleta take delat onu praci s tim spojenou.

OvSem ze zku g enosti vime, jak to v takcvYch pripadech a zalelitostech nekdy dopadne, Pak hieda.me uzdravujici leky, za zraene proutky a studanky, a kdy, to vg e nalezneme, tak nevime onu spravnott miru a proces, jak to pouht. Bereme nahodile zase to odhozenou forniuli a gkoda udeland opakovanim, nedd na sebe dlouho eekat.

Potrebujeme osvedeene a trvale forumle (navody). Pokusy nas staly uz =oho penez.

V nagi distriktni schuzi, poradane 31. jna 1954 jsem podal nekolik navrint mezi terni byl jeden, kterY se vztahoval na financovani na gich distriktu, kde by aspori deset procent (10%) z kaZde uSchnze v jinSrch distriktech budou uvePsane pojistky glo do pokladny distriktu. tejneny jakmile distriktni:nrednici ustaohlasu u vetginy Tento navrh na gel novi datum schnze ye svem distriktu. pritomnYch, ale narazil na odpor se straDistrikt treti, 19. eervila, Ennis ny Hlavni nradovny, kde bratr Marek, Distrikt etvrt:c• , 14. srpna, Lubbock predseda Hlavni nradovny, odvolaval se Distrikt sedmY, 29. kvetna, Floresville na stanovy a vysvetloval, ze nam z techto pojistek nezbYva dost aneb nie, co by se mohlo dat distriktean. Je g te dnes jsem DISTRIKT aSLO 6. v pochybnostech, ze tomu tak jest. V g lKdyZ jsme v nedeli 15. kvetna prijiZ"chni vidime a men bychom chapat, neelem distriktu take jest prase org.'ani- deli s manZelkou k na g'. sini v Hillje, dusaeni a propagaoni, ku ziskavani novYcli gieka se mi trochu trasla, jak ta nage Mend a pojistek. Dosud jsem neslygel schtze dopadne a jestli 0 tarn nada ZadnY lepsi plan neb navrh, jak ty di- bude. L(2 tam byla hrStka nav glevnikit a strikty financovat, mimo dobrovolnYch zastupcti od radu, 1 .4era se stale rozrtidarti z kapes tech, kteri se schtizi di- stala, takle v 10:30 predseda Hlavni fitadovny bratr Marek moll zahajit skupistriktnich zneastfluji.

Kdy2 byly prohlidky knih, tak poetari novou schuzi predsedil, tajemnikti a orod statniho poji gt'ujic,iho odboru i s naa ganisatorti, neb sin byla jiz pekoe zaplsim poetarem (aktuarem) p. Mimsem nena.

Zatim se dostavil i br. Chupick, taodporu.eovali prenesti dosti velkeho obnasu z nm • tniho fondu do fondu na bezne ienmik Hlavni firadovny a pozdeji rey ydani Hlavni nradovny. To by zahrno- I ciaktor Vestniku, br. Valeik s man2elkou.

Nebudu podrobne popisovat jednani v valo asi nasledujici: 1. Leph vYhody v gem na g im elenum v teto schuzi, neb se tarn vethnou mluvilo obou odborech, jak clospelYch tak v clot- 0 eislicich a to hodne velkYch. Probiral se finaneni sta y nagi Jednoty a jake maskein odboru.

Na p •itornne vystavene certifikaty vy- me vyhlidky do budoucnosti.

Pak pre yzal slovo br, Chupick a daval stavovat rani dividendy, die toho jak instrukee, jab si maji tajemnici poeinat jest dlouho v Jednote, 2. V detskYch tridach snilit platebni v podavani zprav a vYkaan z jejich schnzi, dale jab maji yyphiovat listiny v tabulky.

3. Finanene podporovat hnuti mlade'.2e. pade ninth clean, pak prestupni listiny, tab aby se usnadnila a urychlila prate Znovu obsadit misto, ktere zastavala raezi firadovnou a domacimi fastra Hilsherova.

4. Obsadit odkladane misto statniho dy.

Zatim z kuchyne uz zaeala se 'Shit liba organisatora i okrskil.

5. Postarat se, by dostateenou infor- vane a za nedlouho bylo v g e pripraveno, maci jsme -neztraceli stare i nove takle v 11:30 pri gel rozkaz k obedu.

Aze

Ve -sttedu, dne 25. kVetna 1955.

Obed byl “TbornS7, diky spolusestram, ktere se v kuchyni otdeely jak na obrtliku. Bylo videt, 2e vgem chutna znamepti cemz se vesela nalada stupnovala a na tvatich navahvnikii bylo videt spokojenS7 Usinev v oeekavani veci Program zaliajen v 1:30 spoleenSfin zpevern pisni "My Country" a "Hej Slovane".

Sestra Bohaeikova, sestra Kubenova a ptedseda tadu Karel Jona g Cis. 28 pNvezli jejich omladinu a site jednoho hocha a pet devatek, kteti za doprovodu piana zapeli pekne pisne a site: "aervesuk3inka", "Chaloupky pod horama", "Co se nam miize stat", a jednu anglicky, "Open up your heart and let the sunshine in". — Pak jedno deveatko zazpivalo anglickou pisen, ale odpust'te, jsem jmeno pisne nezachytil.

Za kahle dislo sklizeli bouii potlesku, neb zpivali velice pekne a my uptimne dekujeme jim a sestram Bohadikove a Kubenove, se nam jejich peveckou druZ'inou pomohli zpestfit na g program.

Add Karel Havlidek 'Oslo 4 nas mile pfek,vapil, za cos br. Budkovi a vgem, kt •i brali ileast na teto easti programu, uptimne a vtele dekujeme.

Udelali k nam opravdovou vStpravu na busu a piivezli skupinu divek a hochil, kteti nam krasne p •edvedli SPJST drill.

Behem neinkova,ni sestavili hvezdu Texasu, znak naafi Jednoty a zakoneili anglickou pisni SPJST, za cos byli odmeneni bouti potlesku.

Ku konci je g te etyti deveatka zazpivala, velmi pane nag i starou oblibenou "Louku zelenou".

Timto byl program ukoneen a ptedseda dekuje fidinkujicim a v gem, kteti na tomto programu podil.

Potom, jak obydejne se teenilo, "mike" g el z ruky do ruky. Koneene nejdele zustal v ruce br, 'SenkSrtika, ale se nas zase volali k svaeine, tak schtizi ukoneil, dekuje vgem za tak hojnou navgtevu zeal vgechny do pti g ti schilze nageho clistriktu, ja bude konana, v Taiton, Texas dne 6. listopadu.

Jmena tech, kteti ifeinkovali v nagem programu. Od tadu Karel Jona g eis.28: Georgie Kahanek, Birdie Jo Kubena, Victor Vedera, Annete Barton, Albina Hanzelka, Claudia Jana, Margaret Wieke, Henrietta Konatik.

Od tadu Karel Havlidek Cis. 4. Deveata: Helen Rose Getka, Guye Nell Gorowes, Vivian Berger, Sophie Va gek, Judy Trenton. Hai: Allen Ray Grovves, Bennie Gardinek, Herman .VaSek, Bryce Groves, Victor Vagek.

Jestli jsem nektereho vynechal, neb jmeno zkomolil, prosim opravte nine.

Po svaeine se rozproudila ptatelska zabava, nekolik bratil si pane" zazpivalo a

VESTNIK — WEST, TEXAS neZ jsme se naddli, chPlo se k vederu a navaevnici se zaeali pomalu rozjihlet zpet ku svSlm domovilm.

Doufam, se se vgichni dobte pomeli a se se zase opet sejdeme a to ye velkem poetu v Taiton dne 6. listopadu. Zaroven dekujeme br. Jerry Kaha.nkovi za zaptijeeni zesilovade hiasu, kterSr pro nag obsluhoval. Diky, Jerry!

S bratrsk3im pozdravein James HradeckY, tajemnik distriktu eislo 6. ) • A, • (

Vyberte si die pcnreby Tfinact druhit eertifikatii SPJST pro dospele: tfida B: Doilvotni, poplatky se plati as do mirth Tfida C: Poplatky se plati 20 rokfi. PlnY obnos pojigteni se vyplati kdykdykoliv v pkipadu Tfida D: Poplatky se plati 15 rokti. PlnY obnos pojigteni se vyplati kdykoliv v ptipadu Tiida E: Poplatky se plati 10 rokt. PlnY obnos poj gteni se vyplati kdykoliv v ptipadU Tfida F: PlnY obnos .certifikatu je vyplacen po 15 letech nebo kdykoliv ptedtim v ptipadu Tilaa G: Piny obnos certifikatu je vyplacen ye 20 letech; Mb() kdykoliv ptedtim v pfipadu umrti Tfida H Plny obnos certifikatu je vyplacen po dosaleni 65 let stall nebo kdykoliv pfedtim v pHpadu Vida I: ropiaray se plati 20 rokti. Pin§ obnost certifikatu je vyplacen po dosaleni 60 let stars nebo kdykoliv pfedtim v ptipadu (mutt Tfida K: Poplatky se Plat do veku 6l let. PlnY obnos poji gteni se vyplati kdykoliv v pfipadu Vida L: Dvojnesobne Urazove pojiAteni (double indemnity). Certifikat se vystavuje pouze do obnosu $2,500, c_lodateene k jinemu certifikatu.

Tfida M: Poplatky se plat do veku 65 let. Po dosaleni 65 rokii stab., 'Men dostava mesieni pfijerA s iv. Zemfe-li pfed 80 dokud Z lety stars, dedici dostanou mesieni pfijem do 80. vYroei narozenin elena.

Tkida M-C: tpisova ochrana na 20 let kterk se zmenguie, as z(istatkP vyplacene pojigteni na $1,000.

PojiSteni se vyplati kdykoliv v pfipadu funrti dle klesajici stupnice.

Tfida N: fjpisova, ochrana jen tem, kdo

Strana, 5 maji od SPJST vyptleene penize Pet druhii cerWikatii SPJST pro dal: Tfida J--T: Dodasne poji gteni do veku 16 let, ktere se mute zmeniti us kterekoliv jine poji gteni pa dosaeni veku 10 let, nebo pozdeji.

Tfida J-C: Poplatky se plati 20 mita.

PlnY obnos poji.§teni se vyplati kdykoliv v ptipadu ye veku od 16 let vY,ile. tmrtni pojistka pod 16 /etstati je die stupnice.

Vida, J-S: Popiatky s piati 20 roku PlnY obnos pojiAteni se vyplati kdykoliv v .ptipadu *.nrti od veku 1 roku. Do 6 mesicti, $250, pod 12,sitesicil, $500.

Vida T-E: Ptplatky se plati do 18 let stars. PlnY obnos certifikatu se vyplati po 18 letech stall nebo kdykoliv v picipadu Utnrti od veku 1 roku. Do - 6 mesicil, $250, pod 12 mesicii, $500.

Tfida Poplatky se p'0',,9 ,ti 20 rokil.

PlnY obnos certifikatu se vyplati po 20 letech nebo kdykoliv v pkipadu funrti od yeku 1 roku. Do 6 mesicii, $250, pod 12 mesicii $500. ((ix) ( ) • 4, Stare nohy.

Do obchodu puler telnatST pan koupiti si nova boty a kdy: . mu prodavae: ukazal asi t •i tucty rozliench druhti, vrtel stale zaporne hlavott a vedl svou: takove, jake Main " 8iroke . gpieky na nohou — jen glroke v prstech."

"Ale, pane, letos je moda nositi boty s tizkymi apiekami —" "To opravdu lituji," odpovedel pan, "ale :id nosim stale je gte sve lonske nohy giroke v prstech."

• • Ztrata pameti Ptipostargi (lama sedi za tidieim kolem. Nahle krach a bum. Skoneilo se to pak v nemocnici. Laai prohledl zranemu a diktuje o gettovatelee svilj nalez: Zlomene 2ebro, vykloubend lopatka, nekolik odi'enin. Kolik je vain let, sleeno?

Jednadvacet . . .

A ztrata pameti, dodava, lekat. ) Zahadne zraneni - Prosim te, jak jsi pi i gel k tomuto zraneni na hlave?

-- Ale, jeden grocerista mi hodil na hlavu rajska• jablieka.

— To to v gak nemohlo tak zraniti?

- Kdy'Z on si ale nedal praci vynde je z plechovky

VP S TN1K — WEST, TEXAS

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Vc stieciu dnc 25, kvetna 195:1.

L CINNOSTI DOMACICH RADII itad Rezkvet Zapadu CIA° 107.

Floresville, Texas.

Sestry a bratii: Cas kvapi, neZ se nadame bude 29. kvetna, den distriktni schnze ye Floresville. Frail bychom, aby vas hodne My budeme mit nem od hladu prichystall°, barbecue, klobasy, vSe co k masu path. My sestry rname kuchyri na starosti. Je na nas, abychom donesly nejakou zeleninu nebo peeivo a vypomohly kde je treba. Bratri teZ mail prate dost. Kdo chce pomoct, hlaste se.

Je nas hodne zvedavYch, jak dopadne soute2 deti eeskYch pisni. Maminky, vim ze to neni snadna vec naueit deti Ceske pisne. My musime na to dbat, aby ony se to naueily.

Veeer bude taneeni zabava.

Kvetnova schtize byla dosti dobre navStivena. Byly rozdany tri darky. NejstarSi mamince, sestra Johana. Sralla; nejmladSi Maxine Pavliska. NejmlaciSi z nej vice 00, sestra Agnes Pavliska.

MalY Bruce Svoboda prednes1 basal "Mother". Maid Joan Pavliska zazpivala "Had a little monkey". 2a-driT jeSte nechodi do Akoly.

Budeme se te§it na velkou na,vStevu.

Nezklamejte nas. Pozdrav vSem. Libuk S. Bayer, dopisovatelka.

Cameron, Texas.

VSern elenum radii Pokrok, Jihu Cis. 71.

Ctene sestry. a bratii: Na veclomost se yam diva, abyste se dostavili do schuze dne 12. dervna 1955.

V posledni schtizi bylo rokovano o navrzich pro vetSi navStevu schtizi, to je aby byly vice zajlinavei. Navrh jedcn se zamlouval vSem pritomnYm elentim. Vak pritomnost je Zadouci y e schtizi, ye ktere se bude jednati o tomto navrhu. Co je to nepovhn, prijdte a uslyilte a podle ujednani se budeme naddle radio, aby aZ my stall eleni odejdeme z tohoto slzavelrio nebyla po nas potopa. Na shledanou s vami se tesi J. J. Stoklas, tajemnik. ♦ Dallas, Texas.

Cteni bratii a sestry: Posledni dobou jsem mela napsane dva dopisy do Vestniku, ale neposlala jsem je. Uclelala jsem, co rikaval br. redaktor Moueka. NapfSte dopis a nechte ho do ran g, rano ho preetete a jsem jistY, ze ho opravite, neb vnbec nepcAlete ku otisknuti. Tedy i ja jsem nechala dva dopisy Nae si delat nentatele, delam li si jc mini dopisy.

NeZ piece, bratri a 8c6try, jeA treba

psati do Vestniku, chcete-li si udrZet jeSte i po priStim sjezdu desk Vestnik.

Posledni dobou jsme byli my dopisovatele jaksi zakriknuti Hlavni Aradovneu, neb se oni tam chili, ze jsou kritisovani, a i v nekterYch radech se nee° podobneho myslelo, ze se deje krivda firedniktim Hlavni Uradovny. Dle meho nahledu nevi kritikou to, dim se poukaZe na zavedeni novYch veci, ktere by dlenstvu a cele Jednote byly ku prospechu. Ale my 0 jsme takovi lide, becla nam ukaZeme-li, ze neco vice vime, tedy se valy najde nekdo, kdo to nemilk snest, a tedy pryd s nim, za kaZdou cenu.

Psala jsem jednou, ze nejsem spokojena s prvni schUzi Hlavni Uradovny, neb po preeteni protokolu jsem si jen povzdychla, misto krok ku predu piljdeme do zadu. A pak slovo s po yclekem jsme prijali "resignaci". Ja bych napsala "s politovanim". Vidime ty yYsiedky, to co se udelalo pro omladinu ye dvou letech, v tretim ztra.cime a ye etvrtYm to 0 nedoleneme.

Stale chce jiti ton ujetou cestou a branime se, , aZ je to smeSne, kade novote.

Nedopust'ine aby byly zrukny distrikty.

Jest 0 nej yyS-Si eas, abyste v distriktnich schtilich dali ureitY saner, jak by mely bYti ustalene, dat jim ureite pravidlo a pravomoc, a to musite miti vypracovane do priStiho sjezdu. Az ye sjezdu bude na to pozde. Pak ty dlouhe keel ye schUzich nemaji Zadneho yyznamu.

Ono se to pekne posloucha, ale tim se zakrYvaji va,Zne problerny, ktere by nrely bYti v distriktnich schtizich probrane.

VSimejte si dobre toho, co je ye Vestniku napsane. Preetete dvakrat, trikrat, napike na kousek papiru a vezmete sebou do distriktni schtize. Tam se na to zeptejte, nebojte se promluvit. My mnohdy nemame radi nektere lidi a za nic na svete by jsme jim nedali za pravdu, neb trochu toho uznani, a mnohdy lide takovi to mini ku nakmu dobru, my bychom z toho telili, neb nak att. Dejme si pozor, kali° volime, treba i jen do malYch podradnYch UradO. Nevolme tam lidi, kteri ihned kriei "poloZit na nekterY z havrha, ani g by byl napreci ten navrh vysvetlenY, objasnenY co mini.

Velice nerada viclim, 2e se odmleeli psanirn nekteri bratii a sestry, kteri mivali velmi cenne dopisy, ktere staly za to o nich premYSlet, aneb na ne dopisem navazat. Nebojte se debaty, vecna, netriaZejici debata neni ha,dka. NaS" Vest7 nik jest tim mistem a pak jsou to radove schaze a z tech distriktni.

Se zajmem sieduji zpravy ze San Antunic), so tam vgicimi dohromaci3

a postavite si narodni dam, kted by path!. cele Ceske osade, De. se to udelat, jen dobre vide a nekdy i astupu. I my v Dallas bychom potfebovali dati se dohromady a postavit peknou moderni budovu.

Bylo by v ni misto pro vgechny etyfi spolky v Dallas. Vgdyt' jsme to stale jedni a ti sami lide. Poicada-li nee° Sokol, jsou tam navgtevnici z obou kada a i ze Zapadni Jednoty. Maji-li zase nejakou oslavu rady, tedy zase se sejdou jedni a ti sami lide, tedy jak rozdil? Vge se da udelat, jen slevit ze sveho ja. Na zdar.

Antonie Horakova. ♦( --) ♦ Rad Karel Jona, g e. 28 East Berna!d, Texas.

Brati'e redaktore, bud' tak la'skav a doprej nam kousek mista ye Vestniku, kde chceme podekovati bratram a sestram ochotniktim od divadelniho krou gku Hlahol u kadu Pokrok Houstonu eislo 88 za jejich dobrou van, ze se jim neti gilo tak daleko jet a to v noel, kdy nam nage plesnive jevigte provetrali a obecenstvo ag k plaei rozesmali. Zajiste ze gaden, kdo ten veder s nami ztrhvil, nebude toho litovat a na to divadlo bude dlouho pamatovat.

Psati kritiku a chvaliti hence, to by vypadalo jako by do studne vodu ill, anebo do lesa drivi vozil. Zkratka, reeeno, kagdS, z aeinkujicich podal svoji alohu znamenite. Jest to chvaly a ticty hodne, ze mnozi fieinkujici, a jest to vetgina z nich, vzdor jejich stall poild tahnou ten spolkod a narodni pluh s iismevem na tvaVgechna Cest yam. Timto vain za vagi dobrou rail jmenem i'adu viele diky vzdavame a vk dobre do budoucna pfejeme, Kojime se nadeji, ze aZ zase nekdy new nacvidite, ze se zase s nami rozdelite. Na zdar!

Zabavni dbor. ) ♦ 40 • ( tad Ilvezda Miru eislo 33.

Mill bratii a sestry: V minute schazi, konane 8. kvetna, bylo ujednano, ge budeme mit pligti schazi 5, dervna. Tedy nezapomerite, prvni nedeli v eervnu ye dye hodiny odpoledne.

Mame nekolik dlena, kteri jsou s placenim hodne pozadu. 2adarne, by se vyrovnail. Ti, co si plati na celY rok, kahlY dostane karetku, kdy mane schfizi. Ja odesilam vgdy 25., tak gadam, aby do to doby si to kagdY vyrovnal.

Mame jednoho bratra nemocneho. Ernest Siptak je v nemocnici Veterans Hospital v Houstonu. Ji g ho operovali asi dvakrat, mei take operace. Piali bychom si, aby se brzy uzdravil a vratil se zase zdray.

Vincent Chaloupka, tajemnik.

ire stkedti, dne 25. kvetna 1955.

Rad Svaz Cechoslovarth eislo 92.

Fort Worth, Texas.

Midi bratri a sestry: Radova. schtize a ()slava Dne Matek (Ada, kterou jsme poragali spoleene v necleli 8. kvetna, byla zdatild, i solarize eetne navhivena. — Nekolik Zadatelti a elenstvi prijato jedriohlasne. Po preeteni a oprave radovYch pravidel a zvlake, co se tYka nemocenskeho odboru, tyto teZ jednohlasne prijaty. Dalhho jednani nebylo mnoho a schtlze brzy ukoneena.

Pak nasledoval program ku pacte tech riaSich milYch matieek a tatinkti. Deli se zhostily s yYch tiloh velice dobre.

Dva nejstarh a dva nejmladSi Mani rddu obdrZeli kaZdY penehtY darek.-Z nejstar gich Josef Kopova a bratr Rud. nejmladh bratr a sestra Barkharter-ovi.

Ona je dceruSka bratra a sestry Robert ROZidkovYch. Mam podekovat tem nahrn obetavStrn maminkam, ze ty jejich detieky tak hezky na program nacvioily, a sestre Flora Koei, reditelce, ze se tak o veechno postarala, sestram za to vYborne peeivo, zahavnimu vYboru, v‘Sem kteki vyponin.-hall a vSem navetevinktim path srdeene diky.

Az z Amarillo prijel nas dlouholetY elan a spolubratr, pan LevandovskY. Pravil, ze Ceti ye Vestnik.0 o nah oislave, tak se prijel podivat mezi nas. nas.

Z Dallas nas naystivili manZele pan Frank Slovakovi. Dekujerne, Bratr Steve Matusevich se jiZ tak dalece pozdravil . a prised do schilze. TeZ stakenkk:LuUova pttgla na veeer mezi nas, coz nas tesi a pkejema jim veichni opine uzdraveni.

MinulY tYden byla operovana v nemocnici Sv. Josefa sestra Albino. Handle, Je to dcera stafenky LukS"ove, a ze dobre pokraduje, dovezli ji dnes dome. Prejeme ji vhchni brzke a trvale uzdraveni.

Pkgti radova, schtize pripacla na nedeli 12. eervna, pri ktere bude spoleene uvaden' novYch Mena a pak to oslavime spoleenou svaeinou.

Posledni nedeli v tomto mesici, 29. kvetna, bude taneeni zabava pri hudbe Heitzman orchestra. Vhchni, zblizka i zdali jste-srdeene pant. S pozdravem M. Juranova, dopisovatelka.

• ♦ Zde jsou jmena deti na programu eastnenYch: 1.) Mother, by Nancy Greer.

2.) Flowers for Mother Gordon Lee Hubenak.

3.) Pamela Rurhaln -- Song, 4.) Cynthia Watson and Peggy Wright — Open up your heart and let the sun shine in.

5.) Evelyn Dana — Poem.

6.) Priscilla Watson — Rock-a-Locka.

7.) Barbara Dana — Poem to Mother and Dad. •

VESTNiK — WEST, TEXAS 8.) Brenda Krivanek and Barbara Dana — Sincerely.

9.) Cynthia. Watson — Poem.

10.) Melinda La Bate — Bimbo, 11.) Mary Kay Locke — Piano.

12.) Priscilla Watson Melody of Love.

13.) Billy Kodi, Mary Kay Locke a Jimmy Locke -- Song "Mother".

14.) Michele La Bate -- Delicato.

15.) Kathryn Fay Huberiak — This Old House.

16.) Brenda Kkivanek — Water Spirits.

17. Erica a Sylvia Koch, Evelyn Dana, Marilyn Sue Spadek, Johana Motl, Nancy Stowall a Michael Greer, kaZdY prines1 pismeno pro jrneno "Father".

Mary Ann Juran doprovazela na ne v programu, a Calvin RitZieka byl obradnik.

Sestra Flora Koh, keditelka mladeZe. ) Rad Slovanskit Lipa dislo 66.

Cteni bratri a sestry: Waco, Texas.

Pkedseda Anton Mazanec zahajil zi y e 3 hodiny v nedeli odpoledne v Linden Park, na blizku nah nove stavby, a bylo nas asi 40 pritomno. Byla vzdana dest vlajce vSemi pritomnYmi a pkedrikana sestrou Shirley Hanueovou.

Navktevou jsme meli pana a pani Krupiekovi, pan a pani Edward Mazancovi s dcerth§kou Kathy a sestru Julii Luewal, ktera byla diouho nenaocna a radi jsme ji zas privitali. Bratr a sestra Otto Hanue a syn Daniel byli tez zde LIZ ze San Antonio. TeZ nas tesilo, ze se mohla sestra Hanti g ova do4tavit. V2cly radi ma,me nayStevu.

Sestra Emma oe gka byla trochu nemocna a bratra CeAky maminka je teZ nemocna., tak jim prejeme, aby zas byly brzo zdravi.

Sestra Barbora Parma pravila, ze tito eleni meli narozeniny v kvetnu. Jsou to bratki Emil Hanuk Leslie Dungan a Alvin Reznicek, a sestra Barbora Parma.

Zazpivali jsme jim "Happy Birthday" piseri.

Sestra Barbora Parma je tento rok jedina, co dokonduje Waco High School od nakho facia Oslo 66. Tak Ti, mila Barbaro gratulujeme a pkejeme mnoho etesti a zdaru. Sestra Barbora je dcerou bratra a sestry Frank ParmovYch. Sestra Mary Simeik upekla a krasne okra glila pro Barbara dort, kterY se vkm libil a chutnal vkm, protole Barbora dort rozkrajela k vederi a kaZdY dostal ochutnat.

Mame novou maliekou elenku v detskein odboru, jednorodni Catherine Ann Mazanec, dcenthca mladYch manZelti Edward MazancovYch ml, Usnesli jsme se, 2e budeme mit schtizi druhou nedeli v dervnu, to bude 12., protole distriktni schnze pripadne na treti nedeli, to je 19. dervna, v Ennis. Otvrtou nedeli nemhZeme ji mit, protole bude

Strana 7 velkSr piknik od kostela Sv. Josefa. Tak si pamatujte, ze phsti nae schrize bade 12. eervna, zase v Linden Parku.

Piedseda Mazanec vybral 3 'deny, aby ne.m vypracovali nejake za.kony tYkajici se nah nove sine. Jsou to bratri John Simeik, Otto HanuS a Edward Mazanec.

Stavba pokraduje velice pane a u2 to jde k stre§e, ale ye vnitr bade hodne prace, co si chteji eleni sami udelat ye volnem ease, a tak je§te nevime, kdy budeme moci otevrit novou sin. Radi bychom men pFhti distriktni schtlzi u nas, ale jegte nevime jak to dopadne.

Schaze odroeila ye 4 hodiny a pak se delaly obrazky stavby a teZ sestry Barbyry s thn dortem, neZ ho nakrajela.

Na,S. e sestry valy prinesou velice chatne jidlo a vSem nalelite chutnalcOrenku pod stromy.

Co tento doriis jsem zadala, tak nam pane zapr gelo a jeae pry ma pr‘Set dnes a zitra. To bude trava rust rychle, ze?

SrdeenS7 pozdrav na vAechny Mud a It'echno dobre yam preje RriZena Parma, dopisovatelka. ) • 4 Rad Osveta eislo 38.

Koval' — Smithville, Texas.

Ctene sestry a bratri: Kratce podam zpravu ze schrize 8. kvetna.

Schilze zahajena bratrem predsedou u phtomnosti hojne nav gtevy elentl a prate'. Sestra Dorothy Susnova prednesla prohlaAeni vernosti vlajce SpojenSrch state. Po vyrizeni radovYch za.lelitosti, bratr Batina preeet1 basen v deske i anglicke fedi k ucteni svatku Dne Matek, a Pak sestry. Joyce Hribek a Dorothy Susen se ujaly rizeni programu, kterY byl velice peknY. Diky path temto dvoum mladYm sestram za jejich namahu, rovneZ i teal co rieinkovali v programu.

Po ukoneeni programu bratr Barina predstavil pripadnYmi slovy predsedu Hlavni tradovny, bratra Edwarda Marka, kterY promiuvil desky i anglicky.

KaZO rad vyslechl jeho krasna slova.

Pak byly udileny darky pro nejstarAi matku pritomnou, kterY obdrZela sestra Amalie Valek. Darek pro nejmladh matku phtomnou obdrZela pani Naomi Klause ze San Antonio, Texas. Darek pro nejmladh pritomne ditko obdrZel Gary Lee Meduna. Pak nasledovala spoleena svaeina a pobaveni.

Se zajmern jsem det1 od bratra redaktora, jak rozdelime na g milion. V2cly rad preetu avahy od redaktora a myslim si, ze by se melo vice dbati ye schnzich a zyla§t' distriktnich schtizich o podobnYch problemech promluvit — porokovat neb sjezd se S bratrskYm pozdravem Jerry Stepan, tajemnik.

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V E. S TNf K — WEST, TEXAS

Ve stkeclu, dm; 25. kvelna 1955.

DOPISY A NAHLEDY (LEA Z UTULNY NA HILLJE z Taylor, Misto kvetin poslala penize na VYkonny VYbor pro atulnu jednohlas- utulnu.

Prosim vas co ptedsedkyne atulny ne poladal p. Pavia Sablaturu, predsedu stavebniho vyboru, aby podal kontrak- abyste tuto kampan vaZne uvaZovali, a torfun prilelitost podati nabidku na byli 'tam napomocni se stavbou. Valyt' staveni prvniho ktidla k hlavni budove je to VaSe ittulna postavend se Stedrosti Utulny. Ted' zaeala kampan na ziskani za VaSe penize. Je to pro naSe dobre potrebneho obnosu na zaplaceni v hoto- starieky a starenky, ktere ji2 nemohou vosti se stavbu. Kridlo bude vyZadovat dAle pracovat. Predsta y te si co ti dobri asi $30,000.00 vydani. Pi. Marie Baca, po- lide za2,ili ve svete. Jak byli mladi, pokladnice, ma na ruce nejaky obnos ale mery byly jinadi. Pomahejte nam na vyneni dostaeitelny na vyplaceni vYloh dr2ovani fitulny. OSetrovatelky, kucharspojene cc stavbou. ky, grocerie, Satstvo, ySe vyZaduje veilAhyste vedeli jak pokraeujeme s hos- ke yydani. Posilejte darky na sponsorpodareni Utulny, tu podavarn zpravu pi. ship fund. Z tohoto tondo vyplacime Terezie Markove, reditelky fitulny. Dries naSe vydani denial ktere jest velike. je Utulna prepinena. Nachazi se tam Laskave posilejte VaSe dary na 21 dobrYch stariekii a starenek. NoMrs. Zofie HradeckY, vYch Zadosti pribYva. Jak prvni kridlo Assistant Treasurer, bude hotove, budeme v postaveni ubyRt. 3, Box 193 tovat vYhodne 16 osob.

El Campo, Texas Pristaveni k Utulne pochazi z nutnosti. Ona-byla VYkonnYin VYborem zvolend Nenth2ete si predstavit jak smutne jsou yYpoinocna pokladni. okolnosti pro nas kdy2 rnusime sdeliti Andelina Matocha eekanctun kdy2 prosi abysme jich obyPredsedkyne Thulny ) tovali, Ze prozatim nernri2eme jejich Zadosti vypinit. Oni prosi o pristreSi, a Ellinger, Texas. misty pro ne neni.

CtenY bratre: Mohu Vas ujistiti 2e ti stariekove a Kdy2 bratr F .Fabian kidil a vydaval starenky ktere bydli v Utulni maji tu prvni yestnik v letech 1913-16, otiskoval nejlepSi opatrnost. Oktrovatelky jsou v jednom roaniku zkuknosti z obeanske zamestnane ka2dou hodinu. Schopne a valky od zdejAiho vYznaeneho narodniho zkUSene kucharky Iddy jsou na miste a spolkoveho pracovnika a ye doby, A. M. aby vkly mely hotove chutna jidla. Ji- Koniakovskeho. Venni zajimave. Skoda, je valy to nejlepk, Cistota vSude pa- ze jsem tehdy neuschoval. Had bych Ceti. nuje. Nernocni nebo neschopni kteri ne- znovu. Jsem jist, Ze zajimalo by vkchny, mohou se dostavit do jidelny, jidlo se kdyby znovu otikeno ye Vestniku. — di:dava do jejich svetnic. Zdravotni ko- Pied easern Vam br. John GajevskSt po116'; statu Texas, v Austinu pova2uji slal Oslo z to doby. Nealel by nahodou utulnu vzorem. Hdy2 nada si preje in- take disla Vestniku s praci Koniakovforniaci jak tie atulna moderni ma ri- skeho? KoniakovskY se take co "didit, pi. Markova jim rada vse vysvetli. vak" zireastnil otevreni Oklahomy roku Ndy2 jedna nak starenka byla dodana 1889. Jeho popis teto udalosti zdejSi podo ncrnocnice, 2adala v plaei bYti vrace- vidkar Hugo Chotek dal do kalendare na zpet do ntulny vzdor nejlepSi pozor- Amerikana. Take zajimave; 2ive popsanosti v nemocnici. Kteri jste prispeli s no. KoniakovskY zemkel a pochovan zde nejmenSim clarkein na utulnu nebo jeji roku 1898, ye veku 57 let. Mel vysokovydrZovani, ucinili jste dobroeinnY sku- 'Skolske evropske vzdelani. Byl uditel, tek, a za ka2clY dar sebe menSi jsme znamenitY malit, lekarnik; ptitel noviVain vdeeni. nate a spisovatele mnoha eeskYch teZa finandni pomoc jsme Vain vcleeni. xaskYch povidek, Hugo Chotka.

S bratrslQiin pozdravem l3ez VaSi pornoci nemohli bysme dati pri0. B. PokornY. strcSi tom stariektini a .starcrikam v ) • A • (— tuli kteri si to mist() zasluhuji. .Apcluji na naSe spolky, KJZT, KJT, El Campo, Texas.

SMJST, HD, Sv. Isidora a jine. Z yla- Bratte redaktore, sestry a bratki: ty spolky a jednotlivci kteri jcSto ()pet vain muslin podat smutnou zpraZaved'te program nejakY ye vu, ze nam odekl jeden z tech starYch, vaSi osade, tanedni zabavy, bingo, atd. milYch bratra k vedne arma.de. Je to br.

PoSlete prisp6vky na pi. 2ofie HradeckY, Martin Ka'Spar. Byl zakladajicim Clenem vS7pamocnou pokladni. easto misto kve- Jednoty. Slibil, Ze mohu napsat jeho Zitfn pri pohitti posilaji obnos co by byl vctopis, ale jaksi k tomu nedo glo. Jeke na kvetiny, na nejakY dobroeinnY to pondeli pted jeho onemocnenim jsem nee'. KratnY priklacl clala Slechetna pani ho vidala seat na, pavlaai a povidam si

v duchu, music tarn bray zajit. Ale smrt nedekala a vzala ho z kruhu jeho deti a vnuka, kteti melt statieka tak rady, zvlak' jeho vnueka, maid Jenny Martinka, kterou on naueil ty nak Ceske pisMoly, take ted' east() zpiva pies radio stanici KULP. Bratr KaSpar I/My pracoval pro dobro nak Jednoty, eeho2 je dakazem, Ze temet cela rodina, i pravnuci path k nagi Jednote. Vtele odporueoval zkizeni atulny pro nak stare eleny. Oest pamatce Tvoji, bratte, a odpoeivej v pokoji.

Tak na,k distriktni schaze uz path'. minulosti. Byla nad oeeka.voii zdatild.

Mne se to zdala takova v pravde bratrska beseda. Nevim o 'dem se jednalo, neb jsern 176tAinu easu byla v kuchyni, ale at' yam to napik distriktni tajemnik.

Ja jen mohu podekovat vkm sestram, jak od nakho tadu tak i od sousednich tacit( za vSe, dim ptispely do kuchyne, a take za pomoc v kuchyni uptime diky.

Nak hlavni atednici a nmoho jinYch se byli podivat do atulny. Vern se velmi libila. Doufarn, Ze br. yam povi, jak jemu se tarn libilo. Bratke Navratil, lituji ze jsem yam tak ne gikovne primaekla ten prst, jak jsme sedali do kary, ale jedna pani si asi za d ye hodiny rozmaekla palec jeSte hat-, zrovna pied tulnou, tak ji take nausea poskytnout prvni pomoc, (ale to ja jsem ji neudelala). Bratr Valeik dovezl name' kalendaod sestry Pavly Studniene do atulny, a sestra Baena Valeikova darovala $2.

Uptimne diky.

Mame ted' v &table jednu nak spolusestru, ale mane Zadost ad dvou spolubratril, co k nam chteji jit jak bude misto. Zahajili jsrne opet kampari k ziskani dalSich 20 tisic dolarti, tak jsem rozeslala 2adosti o pomoc na vkchny Ceske spolky. Bratke Valeiku, posilam Ti matrici nak atulny a z toho cirkulate, prosim, uverejni naSe plany do budoucna v anglicke east Vestniku.

Hradecka.

S pozdravem )•A•( Houston, Texas.

CtenY spolubratte redaktore: Muslin se pochvalit, Ze jsern clovrkl paclesatilete dlcnstvi v nak Slovanska Podporujici Jednote. Ani jsem nevedel, Ze jsem tak star', aZ mi to bylo oznaineno z Hlavni atadovny, ze mi zasilaji zlatY odznak.

Tak deltuji Hlavni atadovne za tu pczornost, NaSe stare eleny to ka2delao pateSi, kdy2 nejsme -Opine prehlednuti, tee ba 112 neni dosti sil do spolkove prate.

Take si myslim, ze mohli bychom miti (Poltrakvani na strana 9.)

V stPedu, due 25. ItOtna 1955.

VESTNIN —1 t,ST,

ICE DNI 30. KVETNA "Memorial Day" obti.ady se pavodne konaly pro obeti valky mezi Severem a Jihem, avg ak nyni valavame test vgem padlYrn hrdintun ze v gech valek atak lid posiluje svoje vzpominky pomniky. Kdybychom neslavili svoje narozeniny, tak bychom neposuzovali na g odchod do neznama a tak se stal svatek "Zdobeni hrobti".

Misto, kde prvni poutnici pfistali u Plymouth Rock. Misto, kde prvni osadnistvi hledanim svobody, je znamo co Plymouth Rock Misto, kde prvni osadnici ye Virginii postavili sve chaty, je dal/no opugtene, avgak slibne to misto jich zadatku v obrovskem novem svete je oznaeeno pomnikem.

Oregon Trail ,stezka, po ktere se ubirali pionSTki do neznameho zapadu, je 0znaeena pamatnYmi pomniky, neb narod potfebuje bSt pfipamatovan na utrpeni a stradani tech prakopnika. My jsme hrdi na ptitonmost av gak nezapominame jak Braze na ge pkitomnost byla vydobyta.

My vzpominame poeeti na gi adoptovane vlasti, Den prohla geni nezavislosti 4. eervence a narozeniny Lincolna a Washingtona jsou zakonite svatky. A tak dale my vzpominame a posilujerne nage vzpominky pomniky.

Zlo, ktere lide natropili, gije pro vkly, avgak dobro mnohdy je s nimi pohlteno. Avgak vydrgovanim pamatnika jich pamatka gije, aby ukoneila to zlo, pro ktere oni obetovali sve givoty pro dobro lidstva.

Zdobeni hroba,je na ge nejhloubeji citend vzpominka, na nage vojiny, ktetil pologili svoje givoty za vlast. Na slunnem jihu ,kde kvetiny kvetou ranne, se svatek ten cti easneji a pozdeji v severni easti, kde kvety se rozviji pomaleji pro "zelene tette stany", A nas to upamatuje na svate pofekadlo: "Vet gi lasky nemel elovek, nee kdy g dal ' ivot svaj pro sveho bligniho". A vetgi vdeenost nemagem dat najevo pro ptitele, kterST se obetoval pro nas.

VelikST pokrok a vzrast lidstvo ueinilo po veky, mnoha vzdela.ni a objasneni, avgak aiti spoleene v miru a dobrote, s rozumem, bez nenavisti a nasili, to se jegte nenaueili a to je co pkivadi valky a (Dokoneeni se strany 8.) kalde tri mesice ve Vestniku seznam tech, kdo se sveho 501eteho elenstvi doNevim, zda me radky pfeete g. Jsem na torn hodne gpatne se s yYm zrakem, a take ruka je tvrda..

S upkimnSim pozdravem Felix DlouhSr, Glen kadu 8tefanik C. 112.

nevinne obeti. Narod, kterSi chce • uchranit svoji svobodu, musi se hajit proti sill a tak mugi a nyni i geny musi jit do valky a bYti pflpraveni zemfit — pro jejich vlast a pi'atele. A kdo by neuctil vzpominku na ty, kteri zemreli, aby jich vlast mohla zastati na givu?

A nage uctivani Dne zdobeni hroba je zachovavano v duchu, z ktereho vzalo pocatek, ocenit tiny vlastenca; Oni vlasti a pro nas se obetovali neb •dali to nejdra ggi svaj divot pro °Ulna a jim vzdavame test a jsme jim vdeeni.

To je vge, co pro ne ma gem ueinit s myglenkou rostouci trpelivosti a moudrosti, ae brzy prijde den, .se takove obeti nebudou vice paadovane.

My pripouSlime, ae americka verejnoSt zapomind krasu a posvatnost slavnosti u rove hrdinti na ten pamatny den, avgak zbytky tech, kteri ztratili svoje kamarady na poli valeenem se shromagd'uji u jich hroba od starodavne Korthage v Sev. Africe do Honolulu v Hawaii, tisice mil od domovii. Jich stejnokroje vybledle a kroky nejiste, zdlouhave a Pee vahava. AvS"ak oni budOu uprimni v srdcich, ti zbyli hrdinove z valek od 1898 do dne gni doby. Se slzami v srdci a vzpominkou na sve a svSich kamaradit mladi, kdy" syffilS7m krokem pochodovali za valeene hudby, chranit svou vlast a kdy.A posledni eestnou salvu vypalovali nad hroby s yYch spolubliMich pii spougteni do matiely zeme v dalne cizine. A te g ti kteri ztratili sve nejmilej gi nezapominaji a zatiMni kvitirn tie vstoupi do klidu smrti a vzpominky se vali do zpola zapomenute minulosti a size jim kanou na kvety a Zdobeni hrobil gije v uporninnaddle. — Rudy Nygrin. ce. ) •, 4, KOLONIE DOMKITJ PRO STARNOUCI POPULACI

"Roosevelt Park Colony for the Aged", maid obec nedaleko mesta Millville, v New Jersey, je jednim z pokusil o rozfegeni problemu, jak se nejlepe postarati o rapidne vzrilstajici poeet starAich Amerleanii, Tito lido nagli ye zminene kolonii mognost, jak zachovati svou neodvislost a sebeactu v prostkedi, ktere jim nejlepe vyhovuje.

Mugi a deny, vytvafejici tento jedine g T projekt, • jsou vg ichni pies 65 let. Nej--nS starAimu z nich chybi ua jen dva roky do stovky. Tito Ude vedou vlastni domacnosti, ziji, jak se jim libi, a iteastni se vefejneho givota, kterST je pfizpasoben potrebarn a zajmam jejich veku.

Kolonie neni ani astavem ,ani domovem pro vekem se gle lidi. Je to nevdeleenS7 . obytnSr projekt, zalog"enST roku 1937 parii Effie Morrisonovou, ktera tou dobou pracovala pro department starob,-

Strana 9 pomoci v abet Cumberland, v New Jersey. V Lomto zamestnani inela prilelitost mluviti s mnoha starSimi lidmi, kteri nemeli 'Zadnou rodin y, nebo kteri davali prednost samostatnemu 2. ivotti a zdrahaii se proto Ziti u decry nebo u syna, Toupo domove, na kterY by aili jim staeily jejich skromne prijmy.

S poinoci pratel a verejnYch einitela podatilo se pani Morrisonove premluviti Millville, aby ocldelil 30 akrti pildy, nich by bylo mono bez placeni dani zriditi obec pro starSi populaci. Federal:ni vlada poskytla penize na vystaveni malYch dornkti• a cest a na zavedeni kanalisace. Kdy'2, byla kolonie roku 1937 otevrena, portistavala ze trinacti chat a obecniho strediska. Dnes je v ni 37 domkil, z nichg nektere byly vystaveny lidmi, kteri v nich bydli, a kteri rieplati Zadne time. Po jejich smrti privadnou tyto domky kojonii, ktera je poskytuje jako pristreSi novYm najemnikilm, kteri vyhovi vekovYm a finanenim podminkam.

Domky pozustavaji ze dvou mistnosti a z koupelny. Nektere maji oddelenou kuchyn, v jinSrcla slou gi jedina mistnost za kuchyli I obytnS7 pokoj. Najemnici plati nepatrn3i najern, kteripo se aiva k udrZovani kolonie. Projekt spravuje reditelska, rada, skladajici se z mistnieh • obeanti millvillskych. RoMirovani a mo.-; dernisovani projektu zavisi na soukromYch prispevcich.

Kandy obyvatel Roosevelt Park Colo7 ny ma stale co na praci; vede .domacr7 nost, pracuje v zahradce, chodi nakupovat do Millville, holduje nejakemu koniekovi. Jednou tYdne porada se zabava v obecnim stredisku. Lide se mezi sebou navaevuji, doma etou, chodi si zazpivati do rekreaeni mistnosti. Inter-denorni-• naeni bohosluthy odbYvaji se primo kolonii. Obyvatele maji pratele meli detmi i dospelYmi v Millville; mnozi z nich maji rodiny, s nimia udrZuji styky a tak je prate a zabav habadej.• Pani Morrisonova, ktere je dnes ua take petaedesat, je stale jate reditelkou kolonie, Rika, ae asi "nikdy nedohoni" korespondenci se aadateli, kteri by se ra7 di usadili v kolonii.

Podobnou kolonii buduje v pritomnosti ealounicka unie (AFL) na Floride.

Pokrok v lekarske vede a roz'Airena yerejne-zdravotni sluZba zaslou gili se 0 znaenSr vzrast v poetu lidi ye veku pies 65 let. Roku 1900 tvorila tato vekova skupina toliko pet procent celkove popu-• lace SpojenYch state. Dnes tvori j g 10 procent, a oeekava, se, ae roku 1975 bude tvofiti procent patnact. "Roosevelt Park Colony" je jednim z mnoha zpUsobii, jak se stargi lido snagi eeliti problemilm pokroeilej giho veku bez ztra.ty vlastni dastojnosti a za prizniv3ich pro ne Common Council' nek 2ivotnich.

vEsTi4fit

Ve Hecht, tine 25: liV6 .t.nO 1955.

WEST, TEXAS

Rozjimani v Den zdobeni hrobti Je 2lvot lidskSr jako kvet, net pornyslid, u2 zvadne fined, je konec vdemu sneni Smrt ma.vne 2iYot podkosi jak v smutriSTch ranech ben osy mraz kvety v podjesent Bud' mrtvYin pokoj, klid a mir, at' nerudi je sveta vir a vdern bud' parnet eistal A neboj se vie srdce me, vdichni se opet sejdeme o2 smrt nam lft2ko zchysta Dle davno v2ite tradice putovati budeme due 30. kvetna na node hrbitovy, abychom venoYali pietni vzpominku padlYin syntm-bojovniktri. Uctime ro yne2 pamatku vdech na.dich mrt yYch, kteki spi sviij veenY sen na nadich krasnYch hrbitovech a dokazujeme tim, 2e na ne nezapominame.

Meli bychom co nejvice hleclet vytait z tohoto vzpomindni. Meli bychom se podivot, je-li nam to jen trochu mono na to posyatna mista posledniho odpoeinku nadieh milovanYch a tak svetit jejich pamatku. Meli bychom veeer tohoto dne usednout, oprostit srdce i mysl od vdednich starosti, nechat pilsobit jedine minulost, naslouchat jejimu depotu, dat na sebe pitsobit ne2nYm vzpominkarn, dat ci efilovat pred nadim dudevnim zrakem vdem zesnulYm, se vimtim ruchem, jen2 obklopoval jejich i nag 2ivot.

A stone Se pak s nami neco podivuI-10(1116h°. Z ' ivot se nam bude zdat la-kavejdi, mirnejdi. Trpkost a litost buclou odvaty jako mIhy. A strach nas sti podobne jak mrak mizi na letnim nobi. Lternena nadeho 2ivota se budou zdat uazs a schopnost unest daldi a ochota jc nesti se zvetdi. Vzpominani ma opravdu podivuhodnou vlastnost. Uchovava v nas to, co pova2ujeme za pravdive a dobre, a dale nds inspiruje a podnecuje, osve2uje, oeist'uje jako tekouci voda pkes nisek dasu.

Reservovat si ten den ke Yzpominkam, je podobito otevreni d yer'. 2ivota, vedoucich k nejcennejdim nadim pokladtim a nezmernYin hodnotam. Den Zdobeni ITrobn eini tuto zemi bohatdi, jeji lid jcninel§i, pravdivejdi, jeji minulost po2ehnanejdi, vznedenejdi, jeji budoucnost zariveldi a proziraveldi.

Den Zdobeni Hrobil stal se ptivodne zakonnYm svatkem obeanit v nadieh severnich statech za ircelem ozdobeni jejich vojinti pad1STch. v Obeanske Bylo to v r. 1868, kdy general John A. Logan, vrchni velitel armady Republiky, prohldsil tricatY kveten za Den Zdobeni ureenY k okradleni hrobil udatnYch Od r. 1899 pripojili jsme pak k to-

muto dni take hroby udatnYch mull panelsko-Americke yalky, po r. 1919 padle v prvni svetove valce a po skoneeni druhe svetove valky jsme pkidali k nim i bojovniky, kteki obetovali sve aivoty pro svobodu.

Jen nekolik jiZnich statu ma rrizne dny pro tentY2 tak, Alabama vzpomina na sve hrdiny due 26. dubna, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi a obe Caroliny, dne 10. dubna. DrulaY patek v kvetnu ma stat Tennessee. Louisiana cti sve bojovniky aZ 3. dervna, v den narozenin Jeffersona Davise, velkeho vtidce JiZni Konfederace.

Pkipomerime si stateenost onech lidi, ktera vedla pied lety k ustanoveni Dne Zdobeni hrobtl. S horouci a hlubokou vdednosti vzpominejme dedictvi, jet nam bylo odkazano temi, kteti bojovali a umirali za na.k problemy. Cteme je za ten yzneknSr skutek, kterY tolik ptispel k zlepkni lidstva.

Den Zdobeni hrobti tohoto roku obsahuje vzkaz pro celY svet, proto2e nejen jest charakterisovan hluboldni citem, ale 2e je tohoto roku predevdim proklarnaci demokracie. Po vice ne2 153 let, lien tento ndrod sve vlastni obeany a take ostatni svet skvelYm mo2nostem eloveka; ueil, co vdechno mute vykonat lidskY rod na ceste pokroku, je•li mu dana p •ile2itost.

A 2adn S7 narod sveta necial tak mnoho Zivotnich ptilelitosti jako prave na,§ rod.

Na htbitovech v proslovech teenici zajiste vzletne budou zdinaznovat, Ze nova, nadeje a nova odvaha rozzati tento den.

My 03cm-lac, mtiZeme, musirne tato slova si vziti k srdci a zasvetit se zalelitostem prava, krdeeti voted, da.vance to nejlepS1 co maine, nikdy neumdlevajice, a2 dospejeme k nej yyS"S"im metam.

Ptatele, bratti a sestry, nebudeme stat u tech rove abychom kekli nad nimi: "Prach jsi a v prach se obratir, nVbr2 "Kvetem jsi byl a kvetem pro vlast stoned. , vavriny znstanou vitezam-reVzpominame na sk yele ciny na• dich milovanYch, at' ji2 slou2ili pozemnicla ohriti bitev, nebo na moil, ye vzduchu, at' ji2 jsou to rodiee, ptibuzni anebo ptatele, a ptejeme si toto: Ncchme odpoeivat flak 'nave, pro vkchny size a bolesti nam nenahraditclna jejich hroby, ne; nechrne paclat i svetlo sluneeni, zpev ptakti za letnich drift budiZ jinn hudbou v nisi, kde je vednST soulad, mir a snti nekoneenY cyklus.

Vzpornerime vkho toho dobreho, co pro as zesnuli vykonali, i toho krasneho, co jako odkaz sve lasky k novYm pokolenim zanechali. Snad tarn nekde v zadumani nad hrobem, bucleine aspon v mysli kikat

to, co jsme tern rnrt yYm za jejich 2ivota — zapomneli rici. Venujte dostatek dasu jim ye sve dull v tento pamatnY den, nebot' opravdu, jell zapomenuti jsou sku, tedne mrtvi.

— Jaroslav F. Chmelieek ) e

.KALFANDA:7 ✓ titery veeer kaitly tYden cviei se sborove zpevy dospelYch v sinitadu Pokrok Houstonu. Ochotnici a hoste jsou vitani. Zaeatek v osm yeeer.

Kaidou st •edu je vyliCoydno prakticke hevorove Spaneidtine v sini kadu Pkrok Houston od 8:30 do 10:00 vedert Navadvnici jsou vitani. Zavolejte na,'redaktora o informace.

Kaiidou sobotu taneeni zabava v sini tadu Pokrok Houston, poeinaje v sobotu 16. dubna. Prvni sobota v mesici je pro eleny zdarma.

Ve stked71 25. kvetna dallaska micova seta SPJST hraje proti midove dote South land Life v Samuell parku, htiS"te 'Oslo 2.

Zadatek v 7:30 vecer. ✓ nedeli 29. kvetna kad Tyrd 'Oslo 80 v Holland porada, svou v3"Troeni slavnost.

Dr. Eduard TaborskY z Austinu bude teenikem. Huciba Patkova orchestru ze Shiner. ✓ nedeli 22. kvetna hrornadnY zajezd bratrn a sester z tietiho distriktu do Hailstorm na pohosteni, ktere tretimu distriktu davaji eleni pateho distriktu. ✓ nedeli 29. kvetna Sokol v Houstonu clava. jarni piknik. ✓ nedeli 29. kvetna majo y Y piknik Sokola Houston. ('-.,istY vYteZek jde na costovne cvieenctbn na slot. ) 4 eTe • NEDOSTAVATE VESTNili?

Nekdy v budoucnosti se mule stati, le oravidelna, dodavka Vestniku bude nekomu z vas najednou zastavena a organ ptestane clochazet. Stane-li se to jen jednou, vim pravdepodobne nese podta.

OpakujeAl so to dva, tri a vice trciria za sebou, dopidte na Supreme Lod g e SPJST, Temple, Texas, at' pripad je vyktten.

Nepilte viii na, vydavatele, ani na redaktora, ale na Hlavni titaciovnu, Stanovy naiizuji, ze kilo si pteje Vestnik, niusi dopsati tieetnimu Hlavni fikaclo yny, ktery vede seznam -adresdre elenu dostavajicich Vestnik.

MtiZete dopsati na Hlavni idadovnu sami, nebo poladejte vakho tajemnika, aby to pro vas vykonal: KaZdS7 Men, kted si plati na pojiSleni v tide dospelYch, je opravnen na Vestnik, jestli si ho pkeje. iclz)

VPSTNL IC WEST, TEXAS

dnesitay, May 25, 1955

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Reports from Lodges, biographies, etc., intended for publication, must be in the hands of the Editor a BENEVOLENT ORDER week before the date of issue. Address all editorial matters to: OF THE STATE OF TEXAS Editor, 6402 Prague, Houston 7, Tex. Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 With Undeliverable Copies to SUPREME LODGE SP.IST, P.O. BOX 400, TEMPLE, TEXAS

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF SLAVONIC

MUSINGS OF THE EDITOR THERE IS SO MUCH TO TELL YOU this week that I can touch only the high spots. First, let me give you my sincere greetings from Chicago where I write these lines. I am attending three fraternal meetings, the Fraternal Youth Counselors As4ociation, the Fraternal Field Managers Association and the Fraternal Insurance Counselors Association.

These three represent junior work, state and district organizers and salesmanship. These meetings are held every year in May and are distinguished by addresses and lectures of practical value by leaders in their lines. The exchange of ideas always brings out many stimulating ideas and methods.

about it, to give it my support, and come back for the purpose of filming the Home in order to get additional publicity and support.

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ALL OF THIS IS PASSING BEFORE me as I am sitting in a hotel in Chicago. inspired by the addresses of the many leaders from various fraternal ore ganilations. I:, is a pity that I could not get some of our officers to make the trip with me. We need inspiration, and plenty of it. We also need to know how other organizations are trying to solve the problems which we have not as yet been able to solve. Our biggest problems, still unsolved, are the Youth movement, the hiring of a state organizer, and the training of our district or local MY MIND IS BUSY GOING OVER organizers. These three problems are bemany things that happened since I wrote ing discussed in the three-day meetings last week's columns. There was a district in Chicago. meeting in Hillje which again showed • • and proved what we can do with our AS I WRITE THESE LINES IN MY younger members and how they wish to co-operate with us; and which again de- hotel room Wednesday night, May 18, monstrated what Brother Frank Stepan, I am already well pleased with what I of Bellville so aptly expressed in his let- heard this morning and this afternoon. ter. He pointed out that it is our atti- The first talk was on the topic "Buildtude, our disposition, or our bad habit, ing Today for a Better Tomorrow." This of not knowing how to conduct meet- lecture was followed by four presidents ings in an orderly manner and accord- of leading fraternal societies. Some of ing to parliamentary rules. He truth- our members will remember Brother V. I. fully pointed out that we don't differ- Mandich, supreme president of the Croentiate between the important and the atian Fraternal Union of America, from trifling in discussing small things at his visit to the Dallas Sokol Hall in the length and forgetting to mention the fall of 1953. He was one of the principal speakers this morning, discusing "Develmatters of importance. opment of Sturdy Youth Through Fra• • ternal Societies." He also showed us a movie of some of the 35,000 young memALSO, I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS bers of the Croatian Fraternal Union. my visit to the Catholic Home for the Would you believe that those thirty-five Aged, located some five miles west of thousand youths hold their own conEl Campo, where at present some twen- 7entions? Educational, athletic and sumty old men and ladies enjoy the twilight mer camp problems are discussed when of life. It was a touching experience to they get together. be taken through the Home by Sister • • Baca and Sister Hradecky, and having ANOTHER UNIQUE SERVICE IS OFeverything explained by Brother James Hradecky. I saw two of our Supreme fered to the junior members of the CroLodge members inspecting the Home atian Fraternal Union. The young memjust before our group arrived, and, at bers have their own magazine. Brother that time, I certainly wished to be a Michael Graeha, who is director of Junmind reader. I was so impressed with ior Activities, is also editor of the "Junthe humanitarian work done at the ior Mazaginc," a bi-monthly publication Home in Hillje that I promised to write full of pictures and interesting articles

which appeal to the youngsters. Any junior who has attained the age of 18 years must transfet i to the adult departlient. Happy Birthday page is published in every issue, announcing those boys arid girls who reached the 18th birthday, with a regret to see them leave the Junior Department. Some of our members may recall meeting Brother Gvasha in the Sokol Hall . in Dallas. He told us that he was stationed near Brownwood for tete • years, and that he got used to the summer heat in Texas.

• THERE WERE THREE MORE MAIN speakers who talked cn the subject of building up youth membership. I have been taking' notes on all the addreSres, just an erl I erial habit from the college days, but it would have been much better if two or three young SPJST sisters were sitting here beside me. What will the notes be for? I know I can use them, develop them into larger articles, but I doubt if my writing will produce one-tenth of the inspiration and enthusiasm as I experienced listening to the lectures. I am too old to do niuch good with the youth. It takes someone twenty or thirty years younger. But I cannot, help but think what we are missing by not giving this type of instructions to our SPJST Sisters like Wilma.

Nesuda, Annie Steiner, Selma Grones, Clara Hejl, Mary Hairier or Amelia Sturm.

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TWO MORE DAYS OF LECTURES and addresses await me on Thursday and on Friday. Tomorrow, the Fraternal Field Managers Asociation will hold its regular session. The program calls for discussion of the subject "Training of Agents." It will be a series of lectUres which I should record on a tape recorder and play it back for the benefit of our leaders who have the task of selecting a state organizer, what his duties are, and how he should train the new organizer, the establithed agent, and the inexperienced field worker. Then, on Friday, there will be a session of those who have passed the Fraternal Insurance Training, and obtained the designation' of F.I.C. More about this next week.

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FROM DISTRICTS SUciC

agiTR, DISTRICT niG Corpus Christi, Texas Every member who is interested in the prog,, res of the SPJST should stop and think what we are trying to accomplish by our district meetings. Shall we let ether eeembers do all of our planning and thinking?

In our last district meeting, held in Corpus Chris:.i. on October 31, 1954, I presented a few suggestions. One of them was to get at least 10% of the first year premium of every new certificate issued for the operations of the districts.

Tins sr ggcstion was approved by the majority members present. Brother Marek voiced a strong opposition by claiming that the By-laws do not provide for any financial aid to the districts; and, also, that the first year premium is not sufficient to take care of all the expenses in connection with placing a new certificate on our books. I would hope to see the actual figures to change my present belief that we can help the districts in some manner.

We do not support our districts any other way than for these who are interetsed in this type of promotional work to reach deep down in their own pockets.

Yet we know that the districts have the job of helping in the organizational work.

As I understand the reports from the headquarters, the state department examined our books. Gur actuary, Brother Miras, was also present. And it was decided to transfer some pretty large sums of money from the mortuary fund to the expense fund. If we can transfer the funds, we could also think about the following improvements.

1. Better benefits in the adult and the juvenile departments, or additional insurance.

2. Lower the rates in the juvenile classes.

3. Support the Youth Movement financially. Fill the vancacy which was made by the resignation of Sister Hilsher.

4. Hire a state organizer and appoint district organizers as in the By-laws.

5. Take steps to prevent more lapses fur non-payments.

6. Assist in places where the local lodges are inactive.

7. Revive the sick and accident insurance.

8. Take a definite stand about the Home for the Aged.

When we read the recommendation of Brother Adolph D; Pavlicek, published on April 20, 1955, we come to the conclu-

sion that we could spare some money for the organizational activity.

It would be proper if districts and local lodges would appoint planning committees! or By-laws committees to study these improvements.

Fraternally, John Stasa, District Delegate 4 •( PROGRAM DISTRICT SEVEN May 29, 1955 — 1:30 p.m.

Song. "America The Beautiful"—Audience.

Welcome Address: (Czech) Libbie Ann Bayer. (English)—Barbara McCloskey.

Poem: "Daisies"—Kathryn Jurica Lodge No. 56.

Poem: "The Months — Dorothy Jurica, Lodge No. 56.

Pantomine Act: "Sisters" — Julia Ann Majek and Frances Jurica, Lodge No. 56.

Song: "Playmates" — Bruce Svoboda and Joan Pavliska, Lodge No. 107.

Poem: "Mislay Pudlik" — Johnnie Svoboda, Lodge No. 107.

Dances: Youth Club, Lodge Noe 133 — "Jarni Zvyky," "Tance ()kola Maie."

"Morayska Beseda."

Song: "Old Uncle Ned," Barbara, Mary K. and Joan McCloskey, Lodge No. 107.

Saxophone Solo: "The Eyes of Texas," Libbie Ann Bayer.

Song: "Pisnicka Ceska"—Audience.

Drawing for door prizes and others.

Czech Song Contest)e 6.

HOW INTEREST COSTS ADD TO HOME PRICES Financing a $15,000 home on a 4.5 percent mortgage: If you put $2,500 down and take 20 years to pay— $15,000 Price of house 6,490 Mortgage interest $21,490 Total cost If you put nothing down and take 30 years to pay— $15,000 Price of house 12,373 Mortgage interest $27,378 Total cost ) • 4 ° Grandmother kept a peacock on her farm. We were visiting her one day, when little Mary wandered into the yard and discovered it. After gazing in silent admiration, she ran back into the house and cried cut, "Oh, granny, come see!

One of your chickens is in bloom."

Wednesday, May 25, 1955

Keep Speeches Short The. Gettysburg Address, one of the shortest speeches on record, is perhaps the best known speech ever to be made.

Within a few short paragraphs Abraham Lincoln packed a message as vital and beautiful today, as it was that day when the Gettysburg Battlefield was dedicated as a national shrine.

In contrast, one of the nation's great orators delivered what was to have been the main address of the day, a speech which took him a full two hours to deliver. Few remembered what that statesman, eloquent though he was, said.

Length is not the measure of a good speech. A speech is good only so long as it holds the attention of the jiteners.

Those who have sat through many speeches will concur that twenty minutes is long enough to allot most speakers.

Program. chairmen might bear this fact in mind when inviting a guest speaker, and they should also notify the speaker well enough in advance so that he, or she ,may be able to prepare material to suit the time limit. An exception might be made in the instance rif the speaker who is being paid, or the person who plans to illustrate his talk with movies or slides.

Nothing makes for interesting programs than a good speaker. And nothing curdles a good program sooner than a speaker who goes on and on until the audience is bored. Likewise a short and sparkling introduction , by a member will put the audience in the proper mood, while a long flight of oratory will put the listeners to sleep before the main speaker has his chance. Try and persuade the toastmaster or the speaker introducing the speaker not to compete with the speaker.

Mark Twain, a much sought after dinner speaker and one who had served his time covering speeches of others before he left the newspapr field, once told a story program chairmen might heed when they ask a person to speak.

On an occasion he attended a lecture by missionary. After ten minutes Mark Twain was so carried away by the eloquence of the speaker that he decided he would drop every penny in his pocket in the collection plate. After twenty minutes he thought he should drop his silver change in also. Thirty minutes went by and he started thinking maybe he was being too generous toward the heathen.

Forty minutes crept slowly by and then when the collection plate was finally ex- • tended to him, he reached in and took out two dollars to pay for the time he had spent in the place.—The Log, W.B. A.

Wednesday, May 25, 1955

V AS TNIK

WEST, TEXAS

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Secrets of the Dead Letter Of "My darling," the young man wrote to his sweetheart, "more than anything else in the world I want to marry you.'!

But realizing that he had not yet achieved the financial success he wished to share with her, he added, "If I don't hear from you, know you can't accept me, and you won't ever hear from me again."

In his excitement, he accidentally dropped his letter behind a mailbox instead of into it. It remained there 25 years—until the box was replaced. When discovered, the letter was taken to the dead-letter office of the post office, where examiners deciphered its faded addresses and had it delivered.

The woman to whom it was addressed accepted the writer's proposal, and the two were wed. But the bride was then 52, her groom 54. Both had lost a quarter century of happiness.

That was just one or the tragedies that daily come to light in dead-letter offices throughout the country. Most such tragedies result from carelessness.

One drama with a happier ending involved a young adopted boy whose foster parents had sent him to summer camp while they were establishing a new home in a different part of the country.

The youngster wrote to them but addressed his letters illegibly. They all ended up as dead mail.

Failing to hear from his foster par' ents, the boy decided that he was •no is loved or wanted. He ran away from the camp but continued to scrawl his pitiful messages, always signing them Stubby, always addressing them illegibly, and always neglecting to give a return address. In one, he pleaded, "I am now working for my keep, and if you'll write me I'll send you some of the money."

A conscientious postal examiner, himself a devoted father, happened to open all the boy's lost letters, and became personally interested in the case. He worked week on his own time tracing Stubby and his foster parents, and eventually reunited them.

A "dead" letter is one that is undeliverable and unreturnable, usually because it bears an incorrect or illegible address and no return address. Since post-office policy is to use every possible means to deliver every letter, regulations permit postal examiners to open dead letters and read them for clues.

If a dead letter contains no money over a dollar, and if it gives no hint that justifies a search to find sender or addressee, it is destroyed immediately after being read. Otherwise it remains in the examiner's active file for one

(By Joe P. Faulkner) year, during which it is subject to claim.

Despite, enormous volume, the deadletter offices operate with astonishing humaneness and speed. During the 2nd World War an elderly woman appeared at one office and tearfully explained that six months earlier she had written her marine son on a Pacific Island. The letter had been lost. In the letter was her only group picture of herself, her husband, who had since died, and her son. "My boy was killed in battle," she said, "and I'm all alone now. But I wouldn't be so alone if I could get the picture back."

Her letter was produced within 20 minutes, the cherished picture still in it. An examiner had sensed that someone would be claiming that picture. The envelope bore an illegible address; the letter had never left the city in which it was mailed.

One night, a homeward-bound bookkeeper, walking through darkened streets, suspected that he was being followed. He pulled out his wallet, containing $500, and dropped it into a corner mailbox. Minutes later he was robbed of his wrist watch and pocket change.

The following day, at the dead-letter office, he recovered the wallet, money intact. He had established his identity and satisfactorily described the wallet, giving approximate time he had dropped it into the mailbox, and location of the box.

More than $250,000 in cash is found yearly in dead letters. If unreturnable after one year, all such money is deposited in a miscellaneous postal fund.

Valuables other than money, if not claimed within 60 days, are publicly auctioned, the proceeds going to the miscellaneous fund.

Many senders go to absurd extremes to tax the patience and abilities of postal examiners. Some address their mail in Morse code. Others with a smattering of chemistry write H2Otown or H2Oburg for Watertown or Waterburg. Still others use nicknames of states or cities like Dallas, Lone Star, or Brotherly Love, Pa. When asked why the government wastes money to help such jokesters, most postal examiners reply it's the post office's job to deliver mail, no questions asked. Moreover, they say, the time spent decoding trick addresses is a minuscule part of the work put in on the annual • 22 million "nixies" (any incorrectly addressed piece of mail), almost all of which are produced by carelessness.

What it all adds up to is that if you'll remember to address your letters clearly and always include a return address, you'll not only be more certain of delivery but you'll be doing your bit to save tax money. Besides, you won't have strangers reading your mail.—Condensed from Good Housekeeping. ) • ot• • ( MOST ACCIDENTS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN

It has been stated that 90 per cent of the accidents should not happen. The tragic part is that most of the victims were injured because they were in a hurry to save time.

The housewife in a hurry to epare, a meal on time becomes careless and catches her clothing on fire from an o- • pen burner; the motorist in an effort to trim ten minutes of his usual time driving to work fails to stop in time to avoid a head-on collision; the pedestrian late for an appointment rushes against the traffic light and ' is knocked over by a car. A cracker-box philosopher once said the time to get in a hurry was in getting out of bed in the morning. A sound bit of advice for many of us.

The place to start cutting down on the number of accidents is in the home.

Statistics reveal more accidents occur in the home than in the factory. Anticipate the possibility of an accident and then remove the cause. The step that is j ust about to break down should be mended before it breaks. Don't overtax the electrical wiring in the home, or you may not have a home very long. Keep poisons, matches, sharp knives arid other articles which could cause the death or serious injury of a child out of its reach.

• • $1,000 DOESN"F GO VERY FAR

Some day when you haven't many interviews scheduled, go through your files and pull out the cards on as many as possible of your $1,000 insured. Call each on the phone. Tell him that you paid quite a number of death claims and you can't help but be distressed by how little $1,000 will do today. Tell him that you hate to think of his family trying to get by on that amount and you feel certain that he does, too. Then suggest that you get together and see if the two of you can figure out a way for him to make his family more secure. ) • 073 * ( Sympathetic Person: "Hel o! What's the matter, little boy? Are you lost?"

Little Boy: "Yes, I am. I mighta known better'n come out with grandma. She's always losin' sumpin'."

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REPORTS FROM LOCAL LODGES CYCLONE SQUARE DANCE CLUB in charge of the kitchen to bring whatRogers, Texas ever you want to bake or make best. To those that will be reading this report Our square dance club had a meeting and would like to bring something to the May 5, to elect new officers for the com- kitchen, but don't receive a call, you are ing year. They are: President, Bobbie welcome to do so.

Hoelscher; Vice-President, Helen. EngThe lodge wants to thank each one of brock; Secretary, Loretta Engbrock; you that assisted in the repairs of the Treasurer, Edward 1V1archak, and Re- roof on the building. And thank you, porter, yours truly, Linda. Wychopen. We Nancy Rejeek, for having that flash all hope that the new officers do as well light for Jody so he could see where the air conditioners should be put in place. as the ones we had for the last year.

When school is out we will start having As yet, Nancy isn't a member of the lodge our meetings regularly every second and but is a very good helper. She promises fourth Tuesday as before. We hope that to become a member in the near future.

Many times we do not hear of differmore youths will be coming out and enent members being on the sick list, but joying the fun as we do. we do want them to know that at all Linda Wychopen, Reporter times we wish them a speedy and comCyclone Square Dance Club ) r plete recovery.

Since May has five week-ends, we will LODGE POKROK DALLAS NO. 84 Dear Members and Friends, have our.usual 5th Saturday night dance Probably by now, all you members of on May 28th. The Rejcek Band will play.

The free members' dance will be held District 3 know that our next meeting will be held June 19 at Ennis Lodge No. on the 3rd Sunday, June 19, as usual.

Our next special event will be the soft25. Anyone that is interested in these meetings bear that in mind and remem- ball team dance and that's on July 30.

Everyone is invited so watch for future ber to attend.

Most of you members of Pokrok No. 84 advertisement of this.

Remember our next lodge meeting is will notice that June 19 is the date of our regular lodge meeting, well, since the re-scheduled for June 12.

Fraternally, district meeting will be held then, we have moved our meeting one week aFrances Baleja ) • 4 head. Don't forget that and come to the lodge meeting on June 12. Usual JOURDANTON LODGE NO. 161 time, around 4 p.m.

Dear Members: This is to inform you that the next Also, I want to remind all once more about our 14th annual celebration of meeting will be held at the home of Mr. our lodge building. This falls on June and Mrs. Pete Valchar and family on 5. There will be a delicious dinner served June 5, 1955. We would like all the memstarting at 12:30 p.m. and following that, bers and friends to attend. we will have a main speaker and short Reporter program, which will be under the superBettie Lou Valchar ,• • vision of Sister Annie Steiner. We will still have plenty to serve to those that HVEZDA TEXASU NO. 47 SEATON wish to eat that night.

Dear Sisters and Brothers: On the same evening, June 5, there First I want to thank all the children will be a dance with music furnished by who took part in our Mother's Day Eric Honza. We want everybody to come program, also the brothers for the wonout and enjoy themselves whether a derful food. they brought for the lunch. member or not.

We really enjoyed the treat. Too bad we It seems that for some time, there has do not have more Mother's Days in a been a lot of praise for our lodge broth- year. We found out that men make good ers, doing this or that, or a good deed in cooks and waitresses. behalf of the lodge. But I want you all Now it will be the sisters' turn to to know that not only the lodge brothers honor the brothers. So on June 19th are doing these things. Equally active we will have a Father's Day lunch and are the lodge sisters, because when it program.

The RVOS Lodge No. 5 and comes to deal with the kitchen, there SPJST Lodge No. 47 will have a joint celalways is a helping hand in providing bakeries 'and salads for occasions, like ebration. So if you are a member of either of the two lodges come. special dinners and dances.

Sisters are asked to bring potato salWe are asking all sisters of the lodge ad, pies, cakes, kolaches, etc. And the that will get a phone cad" from the ones lodges will provide the barbecue, pickles,

and bread. So all of you come. At night we will have a dance. Music will be furnished by Adela and Her Music Masters.

At our last meeting, solemn moment was held for Brother John Coufal Sr. who passed away on Thursday, April 14. I wish to extend my sympathay to the family.

On our sick list we have Brothers Joe Chlapek who is in the hospital in Temple and Jodie Bartek who is in a hospital in Galveston..

I wish to congratulate Brother and Sister Johnnie Vanicek, on the arrival of their new son, Ronnie John.

At our nest meeting we will give a door prize and conduct a tittle contest on "How Well You Know the SPJST." Everybody come and enjoy the fun. The person making the highest score will get a prize.

Plans for our annual picnic will also be made.

Congratulations to Brother Ladis Matons who was :married on May 14 to Miss Lera. Mae Girndt. I am wishing you much success and happiness in your married life.

I extend congratulations to all graduates of all schools.

So remember the next Meeting June 5th at 1:30 p.m.

• A•( LODGE ROZKVET ZAPADU NO. 107 Floresville, Texas Dear Members and All:--It's about time I gave a little report from our Lodge doings.

Qur regular monthly Meeting was held May 8th which was also Mother's Day. Meeting was opened by our President Henry Sralla with the pledge of allegiance to our flag, minutes were read and approved then business matters were discussed. Also 3 new juvenile members got their certificates, can't recall their names. We also discussed our district meeting which will be here in our hail near Floresville May 29th as I think all of the members: already know.

I was asked to write and ask all SPJST Lodge -No. 107 sisters to please bring a dish of something for dinner for the district meeting, just anything besides meat, potato salad and bread, that is already taken care of. Let's have a big turn out.

After meeting some of the little members recited pretty little pieces and songs for us mothers. Libbie Aim 1Thyer played a number of her saxophone for which we thank them. After that all enjoyed a delicious lunch and refreshments. The oldest member was Sister Janie Sralla;

Wednesday, May 25, 1955 youngest, Maxine Pavliska; having most children, Sister Agnes Pavliska. All received nice gifts.

Our next meeting will be second Sunday in June, the 12th.

This is all for this time hope to see all of you in the meeting.

I remain, Fraternally yours, Julia Vaclavik, Reporter P.S. A dance will follow the district meeting at night. ) • 4 LODGE OSVETA NO. 38 Smithville (Kovar) Texas The regular monthly meeting of our lodge was held at 2. p. m., Sunday, May 8, 1955. The attendance was good and after the regular business was disposed of we turned our attentions to again pay tribute to our mothers, this being Mother's Day. Brother V. H. Barina, introduced the speaker of the day, our good friend and president of SPJST Brother Edward L. Marek of Temple, Texas. In his usual charming way, Brother Marek paid a beautiful tribute to mothers.

We consider it an honor to have him take time out from his busy life to pay a visit to Osveta, and all of our members want him to know that we appreciate very much having him with us.

Our good president, Bro. Barina, reminded your reporter to extend the thanks of the lodge to all of our good members that brought food and helped in any way to make the Mother's day program a success. We appreciate very much the efforts of Miss Dorothy Susen, assisted by Miss Joyce Ann Hribek. in gutting on the nice entertainment for our enjoyment. We have some wonderful talent in our lodge and we shall look forward to seeing more of them in the future. So thanks a lot all of you.

You too, Brother Barina, for after all you are the one that puts the life and spark into everything that we do at Osveta. Let's keep it going!

We were happy to learn that our own Brother V. H. Barina, was elected president of District One. He is one hard worker and he lives the SPJST. I know that we can depend on him for wonderful leadership, so let's all give him a helping hand members of Osveta and the entire district one. We will look forward to bigger things.

Your reporter, E. E. Hollub ) • ets SPJST SOFTBALL TEAM Dallas, Texas Dear Brothers and Sisters: On Wednesday night, May 18, 1955, our SPJST softball team won their tuurth game of the season with a mud-

VESTN1 — WEST, TEXAS dy 15 to 5 victory over Republic National Life played in the rain. It drizzled throughout the game and finally the umpires called the game completed after five innings of play. We really broke in our new jerseys, they were wet through and through. Guess the surest thing to getting rain here in Dallas seems to be our having a ball game to play.

We were rained out last week in our regular scheduled game with Sons of Herman. This means we will have to make-up this game at a later date which will be on Thursday night, June 2, at Samuel's Diamond No. 4, game time 7:30 p. m. This game will conclude play in the first half of play and should we run over Son's of Herman, then we would both end up in a tie for first place. We would have to play another game to determine the first half winner The second half of the season will start next Wednesday night, and we will play Southland Life Ins. at '7:30 p. m. Next week I hope to have the schedule for the second half and will includue it in my letter.

Leading hitters, or nudders would be more appropriate, for the night were Hal Maher, Jody Rejcek and Ben Jarma with two hits each and Raymond Smith, Albin Vrana, J. D. Griser, Joe Jarolik and Raymond Vrana with one hit each.

Batteries were: pitchers, Raymond Vrana and Wilbur Munger and catcher Hal Maher. The winning pitcher was Raymond Vrana, who twirled the first four and one-third inning of the game.

Even the few spectators who came out to watch us stayed through the game and, of course, they got wet, too. Thanks for tht loyal support.

Next week we play Southland Life, at Samuel's, Diamond No. 2, game time 7:30 p. nt, So let's all meet at the next game.

Fraternally Yours, Ben Jarma Mgr. Softball Team Lodge Pokrok 84, Dallas ) ° 4 • ( LODGE TYRS NO. 80 Holland, Texas Dear Brothers and Sisters: This is to inform you that the seventh annual all-day picnic of Lodge Tyrs No. 80 will be held at the SPJST Hall in Holland, on Sunday, May 29. Barbecue and plate lunches will be served for luncheon and supper. There will be plenty of entertainment for young and old.

We are fortunate that we will have Professor E. Taborsky, of Texas University, for a speaker that day. His address will be at 1:30 in the afternoon. It will be a treat for all of us.

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Everybody is invited to come and spend the day with us.

Entertainment Committee Lodge Tyrs No. 80 (19-21)

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

WEDNESDAY EVERY WEEK: NI A course in4"Conversational Spanish" ss being taught at the hall of Pokrok Houston from b:30 to 10:00 in the evening. Visitors are welcome. Call editor for information.

SATURDAY EVERY WEEK: Dahcing at Pokrok Houston Hall, beginning April 16. First Saturday of each month free for members, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25: Lodge Pokrok Dallas Softball Team vs Southland Life game at 7: 30 p. m.

At Samuels Park Diamond No. 2.

SUNDAY MAY 29: All-day picnic of Lodge Tyrs No. 80at the SPJST Hall in Holland. Prof. Taborsky will be the guest speaker. Music

by Patek orchestra. Details elsewhere in this issue.

SUNDAY JUNE 5: Hvezda Miru No. 33 SPJST will hold its next meeting first Sunday, June 5th.

SUNDAY JUNE 19: Father's Day Program and lunch on Sunday, June 19, at Seaton Star Hall.

Dance at night. Music by Adela and Her Music Masters.

IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of Clarence W. Franek A dear one from us has gone A voice we loved is stilled, A place is vacant in our home, Which never can be filled, Our eyes many a tear God only knows how we miss you As this ends the tenth sad year.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert V. Franek, Needville, Texas ) ° eTe • ( The greatest undeveloped territory in the world 1 e under the average man's hat!

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CONTEMPORARY LIFE IN The news is out that President Eisenhower has been exchanging personal letters with Marshal Georgi Zukov. Also, a group of American soldiers just went to Moscow to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the American and the Russian forces meeting on the banks of Elbe River.

There are signs that we are beginning to learn more and more about the contemporary life in the Soviet Union. Recently, a selected group of American editors visited Russia. One of them, May Craig, wrote three articles. They were reprinted in the Congressional Record.

Your editor believes that many readers of the Vestnik will read them with interest. it tells what goes behind the Iron Curtain as far as the American editors were permitted to see. First, they visited the Russian newspaper Pravda.

Here is what May Craig tells: BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN—FIRST AMERICANS TO SEE PRAVDA PLANT Moscow—The newspaper Pravda, famous voice of official communism here, carried a story about the American editors' visit, and people everywhere notice us, recognize us, ask our guides if we are not the American journalists.

They noticed us before, because we look different, look foreign, but after the story in the paper, they knew who we were.

We had a unique opportunity to go over the Pravda plant, the first time Americans have been there. It has an enormous circulation—about 5 million, with an extra half-million on Sunday.

This circulation had never been officially revealed up to the evening we were there and the manager of the publishing company, Gorgi Romanchicou told us. About 2 1/2 million papers are published in the Moscow plant; the rest in other key cities, with mats sent there from headquarters here, so that there can be no mistake in the official version—no bad copy—either in the numerous magazines or the Pravda and the smaller newspapers also printed at the plant. Some papers are air-mailed out.

We saw the floors where they get out the color magazines as well as the newspapers, and the children's magazine Pioneer; the humorous magazine Crocodile, which is like the London Punch; the Peasant Woman and others.

The editors . were enthralled with the trip; they peered at the presses and the rotogravure machinery and asked a thousand questions. Answers came through an interpreter who accompanied us. The editors said most of the machinery was not as good as ours. Pravda has

machinery from Germany and Britain floors up, roofed with glass. Balconies as well as the Soviet. None from the run along the sides in each wing, on United States. every floor, with little departments along After the tour we went up to the man- the side. People stroll along the balager's office and had a press conference, conies, sit on the steps and eat. It is also hot tea and cakes. The plant cov- a whole shopping center, but under covers 6 acres of ground and has many er. floors below street level. It is modern, Whn you select something, the salesbut the elevators were not what we would girl gives you a slip with the amount, call modern. They buy newsprint by the you take that to a cashier in the corrimeter (length) and not by weight as we dor, with the money, she receipts the do. slip and you take it back to get your I asked if they had a union of work- purchase, ers and reporters and he said yes, and People go to the store to look and goshe belonged to it. Explanations revealed sip and see friends, not necessarily to he really runs it, because he has the fin- buy. I didn't find the goodsVine even al say. He was one of the workers him- when expensive. The Commuinsts do not self in stereotype section, and many go in for .eansumer goods, that is the greeted him familiarly as he conducted policy. The money goes into "producing us. things to produce other things" needed It may sound like nothing to you, that for the national build-up plan. we went through this plant, but it was unusual. None of the American corresSUBWAY STATIONSr ARE ART pondents here had ever been through.

GALLERIES The Associated Press man was so enThe Moscow subway beautiful and, vious he offered to carry a brief case so far as I could tell, very efficient. It for one of us if he could slip in with us. is one of their showcases and they are Of course, there is no such thing as justly proud of it. Nobody would think slipping in, in this country. Each one of taking anybody down into a New York of the editors is a marked person and subway except to get somewhere. But our permits are very explicit. in Moscow the stations are art galleries.

It isn't easy—or cheap—to be a cor- I saw four of them, the best of course. respondent here.

What they may be out at the end of The cost is one reason there are not the line, I don't know. But I don't know more correspondents here. One corres- anything Aike the four I saw, anywhere pondent said living is expensive—he pays else. Fare is 12 1/2 cents as long as you a chauffer $500 a month, a cook $250. want to ride.

This is under the ruinous exchange rate.

In the first place there is none of that Four rubles to a dollar. Apply that to the prices — calculated on the much ugly clutter of advertisements that discheaper ruble value and you find a figure our roads, our railway stations, small triangular silk scarf for a woman, our streetcars, and buses. The Union single thickness, $20. The smaller souv- Station in Washington is a disgrace, with advertisements stuck everywhere, enirs cost several dollars. so you can hardly see the directions for Ther are long queues at food stores; travelers. the International News Service correspondent's wife said she spent a good There are no advertisements in the deal of her time in queues. You get the subway trains, which are clean, painted, servants through the government and bright, efficient. Trains run every 105 there are gimmicks in that, too. An A- seconds on the main lines. At the Kommerican can't get a license to drive a somol Station, the big one, they can car — that is, not for years and years handle 100,000 passengers per hour. This and under all sorts of conditions. That is under the Komsomol Square. means he has to have a chaffeur selected The stations are mostly marble. "Easy by the government, who know exactly to clean," the guide told us. They are where he goes and probably listens to very large. At each end there is a large every word said in the car. Most Ameri- piece of bronze statuary—in the Byelocans don't want a license — one acci- russian stations, there was a memorial dent and you are in the clink for 3 years to soldiers; at the other end a symbolic maybe. statue of a man, woman and child. ByeShopping in the biggest department lorussia is one of the Soviet Republics. store is an experience. It is a state store, This station was designed by a woman. of course, though there are some small Women here do everything—many of the private enterprise stores. It has a huge doctors are women. There are more arcade from street level to the top, four women than men students in the great

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- .WedneMny, May 25; 1955 Moscow University on Lenin Hill, in the Moscow suburbs.

In the ceiling of this subway station, there are colorful mosaic pictures of life in Byelorussia, pictures of people in native costumes. In the Komsomol Station there are historical pictures on the ceilings. The beauty of the stations, their size and fine proportions must be a daily pleasure to the people. I try to remember that this is all done by the state, that the faults of our system of paying by advertising is the price we pay for free enterprise and choice by the people of what they want. It's like having government radio and TV—you may not like the commercials, but the audience gets a control by what they chose to listen to. It's our choice, not the government's choice, with us.

The Moscow subway has three long lines criss-crossing the metropolitan area. Then they have a complete circle line, half way from center to the ends of the lines. So you can get from one line to another by the circle. Total mileage is 42 miles.

The subways are immensely deep-240 feet is the deepest. Practically all stations have escalators, and some of them are terrifically long. The stations were used for meetings and as shelters during the war, in bombardment. There is absolutely no clutter, no chewing gum stuck anywhere, no litter of old newspapers and cigarette stubs; there are receptacles for trash and the trash is there.

I felt more friendliness in the subways than almost anywhere else. Men saw we were strangers and got up and gave seats to even the men in our party.

One lady spoke to me and I answered— I knew she asked me where I was from, but neither understood the other. So I leaned over and asked our lady guide to translate. Sure enough she. wanted to know where we were from. She had two children with her and I asked the guide to tell her . I had four grandchildren.

The lady smiled and said I looked too young—which flattered me immensely— but the women of this country work so hard that they get old at 40.

People do not seem to care about their clothes. They go around in all sorts of nondescript clothes; there is no style.

Our hotel has as good food as any place in the city we were told by residents. Americans. This is because it is a cosmopolitan place, many foreigners stay here.

It is the Intourist Hotel, the official Russian travel agency. There is a dining room on the street floor for outsiders; upstairs is for the guests of the hotel and their guests.

There are guests of every nation and

VP:S. TNIK WEST, TEXAS the talk is a polygot of all languages.

The waiters speak some English, but you never know what you will get when you order. One editor asked for the little thin rolled pancakes, with jelly wrapped inside, which are a breakfast specialty. He got four little square pieces of poundcake.

When people came in with very informal dress—though never the kind of undress you see at American beach resorts—I asked how they could afford the high prices. Answer` was that prices are about the same anywhere; that all workers get paid pretty well; that prices for them were not what the ruinous rate of exchange made our dollars; that they care less for style of clotheS than we do. It is a sidelight on character—important.

MOSCOW BALLET, SOMETHING TO WATCH The theater and ballet in Moscow are wonderful. They always were, they say, back in the days of the Tsars. The Communists continue them because they want to show the world that they are a cultured people. The ballet is subsidized by the state, controlled by the state,. which is probably why it can be so good.

The great Bolshoi Opera House, where we saw the Fountain of Tears, wordless ballet adapted from Pushkin's story, is magnificent. Impressive with its great pillars and the bronze horses jutting out over the pediment; it is beautiful inside, gilt and red velvet, and the tremendous curtain with wheat ears woven into a pattern with CCCP, meaning the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the date of the revolution in 1917 woven into the pattern, so that at first you do not notice the words and figures.

Above the large stage, above the curtain, a medallion of Lenin and above that in gilt and color, the hammer and sickle, and over all, the star, symbols of the USSR. The hammer and sickle symbolize the union of labor and agriculture. The scenery was also magnificent, bold in concept, imaginative, colorful and because of the size of the stage, vast in some scenes. The actors, down to the least) extra put a verve and enthusiasm into the ballet that made it a thrilling event. The star ballerina was Ulanova and after the show we went back and were received by her and the other fernintne lead and the two male lead's. The audience was much more demonstrative than I have ever seen an audience in. the States. They stood up for curtain calls and shouted praises, as well as clapping; many trooped down the aisles to the edge of the orchestra pit for the curtain calls. The orchestra leader got

Strana 17 the spotlight and applause individually, after each act and when they filed in for the next.

We cannot ignore this bid of the Communists for leadership in culture. President Eisenhower is aware of its importance. In his last budget he asked for a small sum of encouragement for arts, for prizes for artistic achievement. In Washington we have difficuly getting private subscription for a modest national symphony; we have only the Daughters of the American Revolution hall for concerts, we have no theater worth the name, only two small old buildings. Should we subsidize theater

by Federal aid—will that lead tt Federal control? Other American cities have concoirt halls and theaters, but not VWashington, the Federal City.

The highest hill in Moscow is named Lenin Hill and there is the University of Moscow It was built in 4 years, completed in 1953. It has a central tower-like building 32 stories tall, with smaller pinnacles below the summit and the spire.

On the wings there are }ewer towers and pinnacles, giving a sort of modified Gothic aspect. I asked if this type of building which you see elsewhere—the Institute of Culture and Science in War-. saw has it—has a name and the guides said, "No, it is just modern Russian."

There are wide steps leading up to the impressive entrance, marble and bronze, statues and color.

Here they combine classrooms and living quarters, in long wings. There are separate buildings for such specialties as physics. There are 6,000 rooms for students and 200 flats for professors and instructors. Each student has a separate room, tiny, but complete, with couch-: led, clothes raloset, table-desk, and his own toilet, basin, and shower.

This combines what would be our senior high school with the first year of our university, in a 5-year term. Entrance is by competitive examination, and there is a complicated system of scholarships and rewards for good marks so that a student may really get both tuition and living free. They have several thousand correspondence students; 2,500 instructors; books and equipment are free; professors and officials are paid extremely well and have a most respected status. Education is highly regarded here, and an effort made to turn out many scientists and technical men and women. The aim of the Soviet is to develop this country materially and mentally, and the State provides the education. This is for both peace and war and while we haggle in Washington a(Continued on page 18),

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Contemporary Life in Russia (Continued from page 17) bout Federal aid to education, Communists are actually doing it.

The system includes jobs for the graduates, more or less compulsory, I gathered. There is a Committee of Distribution of Young Specialists. The various governments say what they want; the committee offers the graduate a limited range of positions. When he accepts he must remain in the job 3 years.

He need not accept but may tify to find a job for himself, but from n 115 observation of the system, he wouldn't get much of a job except in what is offered 'by the committee.

Wcn Has Not Stopped the Czech Cttliolic Home for the Ard, now that it has been built and is actually in operation. On the contrary, its friends fell that the Home is just getting stated.

Originally planned to house 12 men anti women, it now accommodates 20.

This was done by "doubling up," placing more persons to a room than had been planned. Now under construction i; a new wing which will house 16 more of our "senior citizens." The new wing will include 12 single rooms and two doubles, along with some other badly needed facilities.

Nor is this new wing the stopping plee.e.' In the planning stage is another wing of similar size, to be erected when funds are available, at the other end of the main structure. Then • the board pia ns ultimately to enclose the entire noloc by connecting the two new wings across the rear, forming a deligtful Mier patio.

While most of the residents are paying at least a substantial part; of their own way, either through assistance by relatives and friends, there are always some cases arising where there is just no, money available. To these good people,: the CZECH CATHOLIC HOME exLends a helping hand, and they are just as •.welcome as paying guests. Several are in the home now, and efforts are bein g made to accommodate others.

The more paying guests there are in the home, the more non-paying guests can be accommodated along with them.

It's just a dollar-and-cents matter. a heart-warming experience to roe the peace and contentment that has 00010 to some of these elderly people-who perhaps have known little tranquility tor many years. Some are Baptists, or Muthodist; or niumber6 or other :.

,,iths—and at ms of the present _osidents is not a citiz ∎ -I of this country and has absolutely no relatives and few friends aside from those she has made since coming to the Home.

The Czech Catholic Home for the Aged Must continue to rely upon the generosity of its friends of all faiths— a generosity which has been so warmingly shown in the start that has been made.

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The member or the beneficiary has 4; no reinvestment or administration worries because both are handled by the insurance organization.

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While the building is impressive, with great educators, writers, philosophers, doctors, etc., it is not well-built inside. statues, paintings, mosaics of the world's great educatorrs, writers, philosophers, doctors, etc., it is not Wrell-built inside.

Wooden floors are already wearing; composition-stone stairs are chipped on the edges. There simply cannot be any comparison in fine workmanship with our Mayflower Hill Colby College. We saw one of the swimming pools, with a woman instructor; a gymnasium, with girls doing calisthenics at one end and boys doing push ups at the other. Physical culture is obligatory. The sports equipment cannot be compared, for instance, with the gymnasium of the new Skowhegan school where I spoke last fall. They go in for size LInd massiveness—but will it last? I ask that about the whole Communist system. ( MARRIAGE When a farmer buys a cow he looks at her long and carefully, goes over her point by point and weighs his pocketbook against her virtues and her faults.

He should be no less calculating when he takes a wife. A young farmer, whose chief asset is ambition,. should keep in mind that he will rise or fall on his choice of a wife. — R. J. McGinnis, "The Farmer Takes a Wife," Farm, Spring '55. ) • 4 • ( The Chinese believe that when "there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty; when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there F are too many soldiers there can be no peace.

4 •( Every hero becomes a bore at last.— Einerem.

Wednesday, May 25, 1.955

VPSTNI — WRST,r'h7A„S

COFFEE AS YOU LIKE IT Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the United States. It is estimated that we consume 100,000,000.000 cups of the amber brew every year. If you have some trouble reading the string of zeros, we help you by saying it is one hundred billion. And if you don't believe this a lot of coffee, then visualize it as a lake one mile wide and 35 feet deep.

Unfortunately, however, not enough of us know how to make a really good cup of coffee. Stop and think how many times the breakfast table conversation has started out with the question: "What's the matter with the coffee?"'

Carelessness is the cause of many a bad pot. A balanced brew demands balanced preparation, which means just the right amount of coffee to just the right amount of water. Clean equipment, the use of fresh coffee and the use of fresh water are also vital contributing factors.

Anyone can produce a cup of delicious coffee everytime he tries, according to the Coffee Brewing Institute, nonproffit membership corporation whose sole function is devoted to improving the quality of beverage coffee through research and education. There's the qualifying "if," however. That is, if a few simple steps are followed.

reemaker, Use a smaller utensil if less is desired.

Best results, according to the experts, are obtained by using one standard coffee measure (which is the equivalent of two level measuring tablespoons) to each six-ounce cup of water (which is three-fourths of a standard measuring cup.) These proportions go for all methods of brewing coffee.

On the different types of coffeemaking, here is what the institute suggests: Percolator--Start by measuring fresh cold water into the pot. Put it on the heat and leave it there until it boils.

Then take it off. Meanwhile, just the right amount of coffee has been meas ured into the basket. "Regular grind" should be used for this type of coffeemaker. Now insert the basket into the pot, return it to the heat and let it perk slowly for six to eight minutes.

Remove coffee basket and serve beverage.

Vacuum-Type Coffeemaker — Measure out fresh cold water into lower bowl and put it on heat. A "fine" or "drip grind" is used. Main thing to remember is that the upper bowl is not inserted into lower bowl until water is vigorously boiling. At that point reduce the heat or turn it off, then insert upper bowl with a slight downward twist. Be sure the bowls fit snugly to assure a tight seal.

When most of water has risen into upper bowl (there always will be a little left in lower bowl), stir coffee-water mixture in both directions for about 30 seconds. From one to three minutes later remove the coffeemaker from the burner.

ThD coffee maker must be absolutely clean. So often we just rinse it out and forget it. It may look clean but it isn't.

An (Thy, almost transparent film forms on the walls of the coffee maker. If it isn't washed off it tends to turn rancid. When the next batch is made, this film tends to contaminate it.

Coffee should be bought in quantities that will be used up within a week. The fresher it is, the better it is. This rule ) • 4 • ( doesn't apply to storing in a supply of Six-year-old Henry was feeling very vacuum or pressure pack coffee, how- odd. He had been sitting on his foot for ever, if either of these packages remain the better part of an hour, and now it unopened. was "asleep." Trying to describe his When getting right down to the actual plight to his mother, he finally came up making, use water 'cut of the cold water with, "Mama, my foot feels like ginger tap. When we're in a hurry and use ale." water from the hot water faucet, it has 4, 4 a tendency to carry rust and other undeOf the 12 million US citizens who are sirable particles out of the pipe. And age 05 and over (11 per cent of the coffee and rust do not mix, agreeably. population), 45 per cent are dependent Consistent timing is among the musts on relatives; 30 per cent on charity; in coffeemaking. But here is where in- 23 per cent still working; and only 2 dividuality comes in. Find out how long per cent independent. )• 4 • ( it takes to make coffee to suit the tastes We are turning out, as if through a of you and your family and stick to it.

In the word to the wise vein, never al- mould, a type of human being whose low coffee to boil — that's what gives chief interest is to find security, to become somebody important, or to have it that dark brown taste.

Also one should never use less than a good time with as little thought as three fourths of the capacity of the cof- possible. — J. Krishnamurti.

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!Medical Insurance Reintroduced (Christian Science Monitor) The health reinsurance plan has been revised considerably since its initial presentation to Congress last year, the new version calling for a working capital of $100,000,000, compared with the $25,000,000 originally requested.

It would provide federal reinsurance of health insurance policies issued by private companies in order -to encourage development of lower-cost plans with broader coverage by removing 4he risk involved in such a venture. *4

It represents the administration alternative to the controversial plan for national compulsory health insurance, put forth some years ago by Oscar Ewing, former social security administrator.

It recognizes the need for making such insurance available to a larger number of people, but would accomplish that by accelerating the extension of voluntary health insurance through the reinsurance plan now under consideration by the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby, the first administration witness, said the proposed new program involves no federal regulation of private insurance companies and would be carried out only in "close collaboration" with state authorities.

Various phases of the program, such as this, showed administration effort to overcome objections to last year's version by insurance, medical, and offier spokesmen.

The only other new feature of the program original with this administration is the proposal for a type of mortgage insurance to stimulate hospital construction. Otherwise, the bulky bill deals with the extension, consolidation, or revision of long-established federal services in the medical field.

The. government already provides outright grants for hospital construction, but, as Mrs. Hobby put it to the committee, "We need a new program of aid those sponsors of health facilities who could finance the costs of construction if adequate credit were made available from private sources."

What the new plan purports to do is to encourage those private sources to loosen up by providing government backing for hospital construction mort—Contributed by S. C. Bundil gages.

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VESTNiX — WEST, TEXAS

Wednesday, May 25, 1955

TI RE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR WORK

Have Your Choice

(By S. L. Youngquist)

Thirteen SPJST ceilificates for adults: CLASS S: where a member pays premiums during his lifetime.

CLASS C: where a member pays premiums for 20 years, but in case of death, the full benefit is paid 14 provided by the by-laws.

CLASS D: where a member pays fa..

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

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

CLASS H: proper amount of certificate 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 t4 age 65, and the proper amount of his certificate is paid upon his death CLASS L: Double Indemnity insurance which is issued up to the sum of $2,500.00, and is not included in the amounts of the other classes.

CLASS M: Annuity Policies.

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

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

Many, many times in the past we have compared what we think is an all-around life insurance man to the oldfashioned doctor of years ago. The old doctor of years ago not only was a good M. D., but he was a counselor for the community in which he lived. He was respected, even more than the banker.

And this was in the day before psychiatrists—when people would go to the old doctor, tell their troubles. He was always kind and sympathetic and gave advice.

He led a hard. life—he was a man that you could call in the middle of the night and just as soon as possible he would be at the-bedside. Surely we are in a new era so far as doctors are concerned.

We know a few along that line today— but they are getting more and more scarce.

A short time ago we had a doctor friend of ours and his wife who live out of town, come to stay all night with us and this doctor, even though he is only 43, suffered a coronary occulsion a year ago and now is able only to spend about three or four hours a day in his office. He can make no calls whatsoever, bui got to reminiscing and telling about his earlier days; how he beat his brains out driving over the hills in the country in which he lived, at all hours of the day and night ... and we coiildn't help but think of the life insurance men that We knew 25 and 30 years ago who did the same thing.

Our weather for the past several weeks has been terrific and we have heard a lot of complaints, but 25 or 30 years ago we knew agents who faced blizzards and all types of weather and never thought anything of it. As a matter of fact, in those days in the comitaa; in wlich we lived, the standard equipment was a -pair of tire chains, a tow rope and a small shovel in the back end of the agent's car . , . and believe us, he used heal!

He put in 10 to 12 hours a day trying to sec people and it was a rare occasion when you heard any agent in those days comp)a Ming in regard to the weather, and believe 'it or not, he wrote business.

Alai as we put these two stories together, we are just wondering if the people of today are getting soft and complaining and we come back to the old statement that idleness breeds contempt. We hear a lot about new, -fantastic ideas and streamlined sales ideas to sell insurance, but it's a rare occasion when we hear anybody talking about work. Iii our book there is no substitute

for work. Nobody will deny that the world is cockeyed today and it's our honest conviction that if everybody rolled up his sleeves and went to work, there would be less complaining and more happiness.

The most recent success story we heard and saw on television was the one of the young geologist who discovered one of the richest uranium deposits that's been hit in a long time. He didn't do this with a geiger counter—the easy way that many people have tried and failed—but he did it by drilling. He worked for over two years from daylight to dark and it showed a pair of his last shoes which were worn out that had been gold-plated. His uranium deposit is computed to be worth from 60 million on up. Cjeme people will say he is lucky, but had he sat around dreaming and working a few minutes each day with a geiger counter he would never have made the strike that he did . . .

There is no substitute for hard work if you want success! -- Fraternal Monitor. oca DO YOU WISH TO CHANGE YOUR BENEFICIARY? Have you notified Headquarters in case you wish to change your beneficiary? Ii not, we advise that you take care of this matter promptly.

Those of you who have married, remarried, or whose beneficiary has died no doubt may wish to make a change.

In order that your wishes are carried out notice of cfunge of beneficiary must be received at Iileadouarters. Either write to Heaftaarters or ask your local secreassist you in taking care of the t_ L ter. e epe (

Down in the country, it's customary to measure medicine in homespun ways.

Not long ago, a. small-town doctor met the husband of one of his patients on the street.

"How's your wife, Ezra?" he asked.

"Did you g ive her that slee ping powder as I suggested? Just as much as you could get on.a quarter?"

"Well, Doc," answered Ezra, "I didn't have a quarter so I gave her what I could get on 5 nickels. That was a week ago and she's still asleep and things havn't been so peaceful around the house for years."

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

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

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

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

CLASS J-G: 20 year endowment, morToday's machines are so nearly hutuary face value at age one year. man they do things without using any Mag. intelligence at all. Sunshine -(dZ)

Wednesday, May 25, 1955

House Of Representatives Austin IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

By Herman Yezak A constitutional amendment to divide counties into County Commisioners precinct based on population after every decennial census failed to receive the necessary vote for submission to ft vote by the people.

Resolutions proposing to redistrict Congressional districts and Judicial district.s has failed to receive favorable approval and is considered dead for the session.

The' House concurred in a conference report on a previously pasSed constitutional amendment which would authorize the investment of the permanent University fund in certain revenue bonds.

Set for vote in the next general election is a constitutional amendment authorizing a judge certain discretionary powers to set a bail bond on a person charged with a felony while under bond.

A resolution was adopted designating a House committee to investigate any undesirable activities within the State by the National Education Association.

A Senate bill is pending before the Houses requiring students in State colleges and universities to take six• semester hours of American History before they can graduate, The Senate passed a House bill authorizing an independent school district to enter into a contract with an attorney for the collection of delinquent taxes.

The Appropriations committee of the House reported favorably on the minimum base salary pay raise bill, for vocational teachers.

A Senate bill was defeated on the floor of • the • House that would have given certain counties tax benefits at the detriment and expenSe of other counties under the economic index provisions of our school laws.

The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill making Tarleton State College of Stephenville a four-year institution.

VSTNII I K— WEST, TEXAS retain the amendment tacked on the bill when it passed the House.

On Thursday the House debated all day on a labor control bill aimed at regulating picketing. An amendment substituting the provisions of the TaftHartley law for this regulatory bill was submitted but failed to receive the necessary vote.

Passed in the House and sent to the Senate was a bill prohibiting retailers and wholesalers from selling or offering for sale merchandise below cost in certain circumstances. Several amendments were added to the bill before it passed.

The House passed a Senate bill which is one of the major water bills aimed at improving water legislation this session. The bill abolishes the Board of Water Engineers and creates a Texas Water Commission and regulates its powers.

The Senate passed a series of House Concurrent Resolutions granting individuals and corporations permission to sue the state on their claims. ) • • WHAT CAN PARENTS DO FOR TEENAGERS? A group of high school students drew up this eight-point Bill of Rights for Teen-Agers.

1. Start treating us as young adults.

We don't want to be treated as oversize kids, though we know we shouldn't be allowed to run wild.

2. Give us some privacy. We resent parents opening our mail and listening in on our phone conversations.

3. Help us overcome our self-consciousness. Especially in the case of girls where a little make-up "camouflage" is necessary for adolescent skin blemishes.

4. Put us on a flexible time-table.

Don't confuse late hours with low mor7 als.

5. Welcome our friends, but don't choose them for us. Don't disapprove of our companions. We have enough good sense to choose wisely; and stay in the background when we entertain.

6. Help us over the rough spots. Place the facts before us and let us make our choice, don't push us into doing everything your way.

7. Set ns a good example. We are more influenced by what you do than what you say.

8. Show confidence in us. We'll reward you by showing we deserve it. et)

The House granted permission for a "How do you like your new baby sisconference committee on a Senate bill disqualifying persons from unemploy- ter, Tommy?"

"Oh, she's all right, I guess. But just ment benefits. This measure is known as the Ford Motor Company bill. The House like pop says, there are a lots of things instructed the conference committee to we needed worse."

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POLKA DANCE CALENDAR (Calvin C. Chervenka) Wedne.sday, May 25 Rudy Kurtz orchestra — Plainview Community Center near El Campo Saturday, May 28 Baca's Original orchestra — American Legion Hall in Crosby "Lee use orchestra — Needville Hall Emil Bartos orchestra — Sefcik Hall at Seaton near Temple Joe Cervena orchestra — SPJST Pokrok Hall in Houston Sil Krenek orchestra — Carmine Hall Rudy Kurtz orchestra Bill Mrat Hall in Houston Majek orchestra, — Herman Sons Dance — Moravian Hall in Corpus Christi Joe Patek orchestra — Echo Hall in New Braunfels John Rejcek orchestra — SPJST Pokrok Hall in Dallas Sunday, May 29 Baca's Original orchestra — Tomato Festival and Battle Dance — Ellinger Lee use orchestra — Tomato FeStival and Battle Dance — Ellinger Sil Krenek orchestra — La Bahia Hall Rudy Kurtz orchestra — Taiton Community Center Joe Patek orchestra — All Day Picnic and Dance at Night — SPJST Hall in Holland Cat Spring Polka Band — Country Bar in Mara-k Wednesday, June 1 Joe Patek orchestra — Plainview Community Center near El Campo Lee use orchestra — Free Dance O'Quen Hall Adela and Her Music Masters Country Bar at Marak All the above dances are at night unless otherwise specified. This is a tree service but applies only to those dances at which mainly polka and waltz music is played by a live orchestra. The Vestnik or writer will assume no responsibility, resulting from any dance announce. merit which is listed in this column., Listings from orchestras and dance hallS 'should be received at least one week 'be. fore publication. Send all listings to Calvin Chervenka, Route 2, Rogers, TeX. )° 4°( A small boy returning from an interchurch meeting asked his mother and father, "Why is it they are always talking about, John the Baptist, but never • mention Jesus the Presbyterian?"

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Preeti nekolikrat s tatinkcm nebo ;snib. Potom se po- maminkou a potom sprivne opis do sesitu! Pokus se, etene yypravavati. Po,sly na slunIelu® A pros rodiee, aby Ti neznanizi slova! byly suche, cupity S pozdravem STRitEK AltEEK Z AUSTINU dupity do stod ly. Tarn Adresa strYekova je: Dr. Ed. lItifek, vinu. Bylo University Station, Austin, Texas. kiekolik pytlex. Kea je ) ° otivez1 do tovarny.

Babiela (Napsa,la. Boena Nemccva ) V tovarne ud lali z vl(Pokra6ovani.) ny latku na gaty. Byla "To je snad on samr Komtesa neodpovedela, rumencem poSc ji tvat'; povstala.- , "Zda: se mi, pateola a pea pruhova- lila knana lede."

Babicka dovtipila, ona v;:.‘ciela jiZ", co , by se Z to- sleene chybi. Nebyla to juste pani kneZna. Komtesa se zase posadila, a babicka po nekolika 'vytaCkach zaeala mluvit o my poslali latku do Krestle Milovi; svei'ila se komtese, 2e by stranu toho rada s pani kneZnou du. promluvila. Komtesa pak schvalic jeji Jak ove6ka ogatila Barugku.

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`Ana, slay P.1 any Marie. Povida se tak tom kvitku. Kciy2, l'Una Krista de na Kalvarii vedli, Palma Maria ho lif.51edo vain, aekoliv ji srdce pukalo.

KdyZ videla no ceste krvave stopy ran KristovsYch, horce zaplakala, a a tech slz Matky boZ'i a krve Syna jejiho vyrnAaly pa ceste no Kalvarii takovato kvitka," pravila babieka.

"Je to tedy kviti bolesti a 16.sk37," ienl kneZna. "Milenci netrhaji jeden druhemu slclay, mysii, Ze by museli plakat." zatala zase babicka a podavala pain kneZne smetany, prosic spolu poniZene, aby prijala za vdek. Pani kneZna babiece neodeprela. "Ty muj Bole," pokracovala babicka v predeMe keel, ono je v%dy prod plakat, i kdyby slzieky se netrhaly, pi i lance bYva hare itadost. Jestli jsou milenci St'astrii, fbai lide jim pelynka prisypou."

"Draha kneZno,, babicka chce take orodovat za neSt'astne milence, vyslyS ji prosim to, draha kne2no, ' pomoz!"

Komtesa sepjala rune a prosebne vzhledla ku kneZne. "Mluv, starenko, ja ti jiz jednou rekla, abys obratila se ke mne, ze rada vyslySim tvoji Zadost; znim te, ze bys neprosila za nehodne," rekla knana, hladic bohate viasy milene schovanky a divajic se ph tom privative na babieku.

"To bych se neopovaZila, milostiva pani, kdybych vedela, Ze toho nezasluhuji."

A babicka zaeala povidat o Kristle a o Milovi, jak pri§el k odvodu, jedine to zamleela, Ze pan spravce ustaviene (-levee pronasleduje. Nechtela mu tkodit vin, nez by treba bylo.

"To je to same device a ten hock, co melt s Piccolou hadky?"

"To same, milostiva pain."

"Je tak hezka, Ze se o ni inuMti derou?"

"Devele jak jahoda, milostiva pani; o oUinkach ponese venec, to ji milostiva, pani uvidi. OvSem bolest krasy neprida; kdya Lanka deveete trpi, sklopi hned vinko, jako svadlY. kvitek. Kristly je ted' jen stn, ale jedine slovieko ji vzkrisi, Ze bode brzieko, jak bYvala Milostsleena je take bled'aueka; ale da Panbtih, aZ" uvidi svuj kraj a co srdci milo, Ze ji tvarinky rozkvetou jako rtiZove listeeky," ciodala babicka sehvalne a na slova "co srdci milo" poloZila takovY du4az, Ze Umys-1, slibila ochotne piq mitvvit se. (levee do rozpaku prislo. KneZna bystre KneZna se vratila, priSla pa stezce, pohledla na komtesu, pak na babieku, prazdnY koear jel pa silnici. Velmi sr- ale posledni delala jako nic, chtela jen deene pozdravila babieku: Hortensii po- knezno upozornit, a vice ji to neMo."Jedala kytku i'kottc: "Ty miluje divoke stli ji na ftesti toho deveete zalezi, bode . karatlatky! Natrnala jsem je po caste si dalSiha hled,et," myslila si v duchu.

Komtesa se uklonila, polibila kneZne (Polumeovara. ruku, kytku zastreila za pas.

"To jsou slzfeky," pravila babicka, pohlidnouc na kytku.

Neni treba pordaet strong . abyste chy`Slzieky?" divily se damy. till kosa, kterY na nem seth.

Ve stkedu, due 25. kv.etna 1955.

WLADISLAW STANISLAW REYMONT

SEDLACI tzunummanal ((Pckradovani.)

(DejovS7 celek:—Matej Boryna, prvni sedlak v Lipcich, bezmala Aedesatnik, chce se Zenit po tketi. Boryna ma etyki (lett Zenateho Antonina, provdanou Magda, vojaka Cilelu, a desetiletou Josku.

Antonin, ktereniu tikaji Antek, se svou Zenou Hankou a s detmi, bydli v jedne polovici selskeho staveni. Boryna s nejmladAi dcerou Joskou bydli v druhe polovici. Pacholek Kuba a pasak Vitek spavaji ve staji. Ve vsi se septa, ze Antek, at ZenatSt , chodi za nejhezdim svobodnY'm deveetern v Lipcich, Jagnou Dominikovou. Nejvetk klepna ye vsi, stara, JagustSrnka, byla toho tajneho milovani oeitS7m svedkem. Boryna mel soudni proces se svou bS7valou deveekou. Cestou od soudu donni, Boryna svezl starou Dorninikovou, matku krasavice Jagny. Snad

by Dominikove mohl fici, ze se mu Jagnieka libi. Do Tymova na jaimark hrnuly se zastupy lidi. Boryna sel peSly, ale cestou se svezl s varhanikovSmi, jejich2 syn Jenik studoval na kneze. Na jarmarku seAel se Boryna se svS7m zet'em, lipeckSm kovafem, kte • ptipomnel Borynovi, ze by mel dcai Magde, kovatove 2ene, nechat pfipsat kousek dedictvi. Kdy2 se chystalo k svatbe Boryny s Jagnou, Antek byl eel* bez sebe. Nemohl se smifit s mySlenkou, 2e jeho milenka se ma stati 2enou jeho otee. Pki prudke hadce mezi otcem a synem, starS7 Boryna vyhnal Antka z dorm. BM se snad, Se by se Antek tool kolem sve milenky, ktera, se stare hospcloyni v Borynove domacnosti?)

Ale probouzel se, kdykoliv veseli vy glehlo ostkeji a vi'ava a dusot zidiveho cifrovani chtely roznest dam, vyproAt'oval duSi z temnot, probiral se z bezvedomi, vracel se ze straSnSich dalek a naslouchal.

A tu a tam se pokouSel jist anebo tiSe, srdeene Zeptal: "Cesinko, Cesi, Cesi!"

Ale duSe uZ z neho pornalu odchazela, nesla se v Sire svety, jako ten Kristriv ptadek jeSte krouZila, nemohla se vSak odtrhnout a chvilemi se primykala k BoZi semi, aby si odpoeinula z anavy a trapeni, aby pohrouZila svaj plat do viavy lidske; pfichazela mezi milovane lidi, mezi zive, k bratiim 2aloane volala

VE$ T-11FX — WEST; TEXAS a u srdci prosila, o pomoc, az posilnena mod. a milosrdenstvim• Pana JeliSe vstoupila na jakesi jarni pole, na ohromne BoZi ahory, neobsahle, ozakene veenS7m jasem a veenSrm radovanim.

A letela idS a dal q, dal, aZ tam.. .

AZ tarn, kde neize slySet lidskSr plat a :Lalostne stenani duSe. . . . . . Tam, kde jenom lilie voni, kde kvetna, pole op1Sivaji medovou sladkasti, kde tekou hvezdne feky v bareviVch •oefStich, kde je veiny den. . • Tarn, kde jenom ticha modlitba plyne a vonne d3imy jako mlhy se yznaS . eji, kde zvonky zvoni, varhany tiSe hraji, svata, obet' se nep •etrZite kona a lid, uS bez htichu, andele a svati prozpevuji spoleane chvalu Panu Bohti, do onoho chramti, jenZ je svatS7, nesmrtelBoZi. Tarn, kde duSe eloveka se mute jenom modlit a vzdychat, radosti plakat a veselit Sc s Panem na veky Pra.ve tarn se vznaSela du ge unavena a touZici po odpoeinku, du ge KuboVa. Svatebeane zatim tancovali dal a veselili se celYm srdcem, s vetSi chuti net protole poeastovani bylo hojnejSi a hospodali pobizeli jeSte vic. Tantili taneili, at do Upadu.

Vreli uZ jako nkrop na silnem ohni, a kdykoliv jen troSleku ochabli, hudba s novou silou zahrinela a oni jako lam pole, do neho2 se optel vitr, se vzepjali, na brali novYch sit, zadupali, at se prach zviril, a s jasotern se pouSteli v novY tanec, se zpevem, hluene, jednim proudem a ohnive.

Jejich duSe nadobro rortaly Zarem, krev kypela varem, rozum odchazel, srdce se va gnive hrouZila v hYrivou rozkoS . .. kaZdY ner y se chvel do taktu, kUZdY pohyb byl tancem, kaZdY k • ik zpevein a vSecky oei svitily svatebni radosti.

A tak to trvalo po celou noc, a2 do svitani!

A vstaval den, teZki, tichS, den, a ranni svitani vyslalo na svet posupne, neproniknutelne hory mraka; pied vSichociem slunce se nahle zamradilo, setmei° a zaeal padat snih. Poletoval z podalku jen tu a tam a krouZil jako jehliei ye vetrnY den, nakonec tie vSak rozchumelilo nadobro.

Snih se sypal jakymsi hustYm sitem, padal kolmo, primo, stejnomerne, bez Selestu a pokrYval sti• chy, stromy, platy, celou zemi jakYmsi vybelenYm, nakdlYin predivem ei nedranYm perim.

Svatba taky uZ koneila. . . veThr je'Ste sejdou v krome, ale zaCali rozchazet Jenom druneve s diu2dekami, s hudbou v Cele, se postavili na. zaspi a zazpivali jednim hlasem posledni pisnieku:

Strati& ,13 Dobrou noc Zenichovi 1- neveste!

Dobrou noc!

Dobrou noc vam vinSujeme a yam k slutham zustaneme.

Dobrou noc!

Kuba prave v tu chvili skladal svou duti pod svate nohiy:aeliSe Krista.

KNIHA II. Zima Zima se blilila, blilila se den co den, hodinu co hodinu, kaZdou chvili.

Koneene ptiSla. SotvaSe odzvonili poledne, a se smrahalo, snih natal padat ye velikSich kusech a sypal se tak haste, ze ye chvilce PopraSil vSecky stromy a vyanivajici mista.

Noc se snesla nahle, snih 'vSak padat neustal, sypal se po •ad husteji, o nee() suMi. a sypeejAi, a padal a apadat telou noc.

Za svitani le elo snehu uZ na dobre,tki pide, zakryl 11.2: celou semi koZichem, zahalil uz eels' modravou bell, ale pacial bez p•estani.

Na zem Se sneslo velike ticho, jedinY vanek se nepohnul, jedinY zvuk S'o,n.eozval mezi padajicimi paperiin, nic, t ^secko zmlklo, ohluchlo, onemelo,—lako by svet, stal pied zazrakeit, ptiprav'en zaposlouchat se slavnostne do toho . va slySitelneho . elestu, do toho tiOtieho lctu, do to mrtve bell, rortrepene a nepi• trZlte parlajici.

Udelala se Maya tma, jet narostla a nehylme stanula; mlhavY, neposkvrneny svit se sypal na svet vinod 'fiejbelejSi, nejmekei, nejkrasnejSi, spIS7val hmtYrn proudem jako zamrzle, rrieS101 za • , jako by vSecka hvezdna svetlost utuhla v jini a rozemleta na prachlctem pod ncbesy zasypala svet; lesy se Zaokem je nerozezstfely, pole zapadla naS cesty zmizely, cela yes se rozplynula a propadla v bel, v oslepujici oblak; nakonec oei nevidely uZ nic net proudy sneho yeho prachu dopadajiciho na;qem tak tile, tak piimo a tak sladce jako nolupinky tranovYch kvetit v ci.

Na ti kroky nebylo videt chalupu >ani strom, plot ani eloveka, jenom h16.0 se vzna.Sely v to bell nejiste jako motYli. nebylo mo2no rozeznat,y 'odkuud a kam plynou. . . stale slabeji se trepetaly, stale tiSeji.

Takto dva dry a dve noci; chalupy hiy nakonec zasypany a podobaly <c .:ne.hovYrn kulkam, z nich2 vyraZeji Jen Spinave kotouee dYmu, cesty se zarovnaly S poll, v sadech dosahoval snih k tye.tkant plotin rybnik pod zavejemi zmizel, Lila rovina, neproniknutelna, chladna, nezbaatelna., mekounka a 'earovna, pokryla zemi; snih padal—dal, jenZe byl porad suSS1 a hal, za noci bylo videt mihotani hvezd, za due tu

Ptcrin m tim poletujicim paperim prorazilo modrave nebe, vzduch za:Cal bYt °mutehlasy se rozlehaly ostreji, prudCOL la • motneji. Ves jako by se probouzela, nastaval ruch; to a tarn nekdo vyjel na sanich, ale rychle se vracel, Protole cesty byly zcela nesjizdne, jinn zase prahazovali pedinky mezi chalupami, odstrariovali snih prede dvermi a otvirali dokoran chlevy. Radost se zmocriovala vdech, zvladte deti, ktere se rozkodi div nezblaznily; psi na vdech stranach podtekavali, olizovali snih a o zavod se prohaneli s kicky. Na cestach se vyrojili Tide, pied domy se ozvalo volani, kluoi se koulovali a valeli v mekkem, podclajnern snehu, delali ohrornne koule a vozili se na sanich; jejich radostne vYskani a shon napinil celou yes, Rechovi nezbylo net nechat toho dne vyuCovani, protole nemohi nikoho u udrZet. Troth° dne, uZ za sameho soumraku, piestalo snait; chvili jedte padal popradelc, jako by nekdo pytlik od mouky nad svetem vyttepa.val. . . nebe se pozvolna zachmurilo, vrany se sletly chalup, posedavaly na cestach a suet se snesla noc, bezhvezdna, olovend, osvetlend jen temi setmelYmi sally a tak ticha, t yrda, a mrtva, jako by byla zbarvena vdi sily.

"Kdyby pridel sebelehei veterek, bude pekne," zadeptal zrana na druhy den star' Bylica, kdyZ vyhlecll okYnkem.

"No at'. . . nine je to docela jedno!" zurnrueel Antek, zvedaje se z postele.

Hanka podpalila v krbu a vyhledla ze Bylo brzy, kohouti kokrhali po soumrak byl jedte hustY, jako by nekdo vapno smisil se sazemi a posypal tou Sines' zemi; nebylo moZno rozeznat ani romy, ani chalupy, ani vzdalenosti, jenum na, vYchode blikal prvni zabresk jaho pod popelem; . na zemi leZelo hlubhke ticho a vanul krutY chlad.

I ve svetnici radii pronikavY, navlhlY, vlezly mraz, °hen v krbu sotva, e-rstva jalovcova, chvoj jenom praskala a eadila; Hanka z jakehosi prkna mudila naStipat trisky a pristreit do o hne slamu, teprve pak haluze plamen(n1 chytly a osvetlily svetnici.

-Napadlo snehu, to uz vystaei na celou zimu," promluvil znova starec, dy•(11,,je na okenni tabulku zamrzlou silnym zelenavYrn ledem, aby se mohl podivat na yes.

Stardi hoch, kteremu s10 ut na etvrtY rok, za'eal na. posteli poplakavat; s druhe strany domu, z bytu Stachti, se rozlehala ostra, hadka, nada yky, pidteni dal a bouchani dvermi.

"Verunka zaeina, den modlitbialcou!" z:uo Antek pohrdlive, ovinuje si nohy onuelcann nahratYmi nad krbem.

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"Naueila se takhle ramusit a ted' bartusi, i kdyZ toho neni potreba, ale ne prcto, to je zla, to ne. . ." ozval se tide star Bylica.

"No o_vdem, deti taky netluee proto, ze je zla,. . A kdyZ Stachovi nerekne jedineho dobreho slova jenom na neho dteka jako na psa, to je taky z dobroty?" zeptala se Hanka a klekla ke kolebce, aby dala prs nejmladdimu, kterY se rozplakal a kopal notkama.

"Jak je to dlouho, co tady u vas bydlime tri nedele — a jedte ani jeden den se neodbyl bez kriku, biti a hadek!

Pena je to, ne Zenska! A Stach je t'ul pas, kterY si necha na hlave drivi dtipat. . . dre jako kun a ma se hid net pes!"

Stark se polekane ohledl, chtel dokonce rici nee° na obranu druhe dcery, ale vtom se otevrely dvere a Stach vstrell do svetnice hlavu a cepy, ktere nest na rameni.

"Antku, chcet jit mlatit? Varhanik povidal, abych si jedte nekoho vial na jeemen, je suchY, dobre a lehce se mlati. . mutes si new vydelat. . ."

'Pan Bah zaplat', ale vemte si Filipa, ja k varhanikovtim vydelavat nentijdu."

"Jak chceS, Farm Bohu porueeno."

Hanka sebou po odpovedi Antkove trhla, ale hned zase sklonila hlavu ke kolebce, aby ukryla slzy a utrapenou "Takova zima, takovY mraz, takova bida, jsme tivi jenom na bramborach se soli, gro g v kapse nema.me, ale on delat nechce. Cele dny sedi v chalupy, cigarety kouri a duma nebo zas se honi kdovikde, jako blazen, za, nejakyrn vetrem snad! Bole, Bole!" premYdlela Hanka bolestne. "UZ ani Jankl nedice davat na dlub.. . Kravu dice prodat. . . opravdu, vzal si to do hlavy a proda ji, ale do prace neptjde. . . Tot' se vi, ".?_e mu je vdelijak, kdyZ ma jit na vydelek, mrzi ho to, ale co poeit, co?

Kdyby ona byla na jeho miste, milj Bonelitovala by rukou, treba by si hnaty aZ po lokty udrela, jen aby ji kravu neprodali, aby se jara dockali, zimu vydrZeli. . . Ale co jd, chudak, spravim?"

A Hanku rozbolelo srdce nad tim, to si nedovede pomoci.

Dala se do obyeejneho kaZdodenniho poklizeni a Ukradkem se divala na mute, kterY sedel pied krbem; stardiho chlapce zabalil do dosu koZichu, nahraton dlani mu zahrival noZielcy, hledel ponure do ohne a vzdychal; start' Bylica u okna loupal brambory.

Zlovestne mleeni, hrozive a prosycene tajenYm utrpenim, podnecovane dkrtivYm vedomim bidy, se vznadelo nad Nepohledli si do oei, nepromluvili, slova mueive vazla, itsmevy hasly, oei jiskrily tlunaenYmi vyeitkami, v bledYch,

kvethri vyhublYch tvarich se zraeilo hole, Zaloby, stesk a zaroven hrda, Zelezna, ne..

Ustupnost. Minuly a tri tYclny od odclaodu z otcovskeho domu, ale pies tolik dlouhYch dni a dlouhYch noel ani jeden ani clrulaY- nezapomnel, nepieko nali jeSte krivdu, nevzpamatovali se ze zavileho vzteku citili viechno tak, jako by se to bylo stalo pied chvili.

Ohen vesele praskal, teplo se rozlevalo po svetnici, led na okennich tabulich se rozpoudtel, pruhy snehu navateho Stierbinami pod stenou tdly, hlinena podiaha se potila a zalevala rosou.

"Prijdou ti handliri?" zeptala se koneene Hanka.

"Rikali, ze prijdou."

A zas ani slovo vie. Jak jinak? Kdo z nick mel promluvit prvni a (go? Hanka?. .. Ta se bala otevicit asta; aby vdechno hone, nashromaldene v srdci, z ni nevytrysklo treba proti jeji vial! Ne, tajila vdecko v sobe, zdrZovala se, jak mohla. . . A Antek Co ma povidat? e je mu zle? To vdichni vedi talc jako talc, kdyZ nikdy nebyl piilis otevrenY ani piistupny k pratelskemu pohovoru, bYt' to bylo i s vlastni tenou! Jak taky mluvit, kdyZ dudi s:Zira nenavist, kdyZ se mu pri kaZde vzpomince sviji ,srdce bolem a prsty sebou trhaji a napinaji se talc vztekle, to by byl hotov vrhnout se tieba na celou yes!

U2 nevzpominal sladce na Jagnu. jako by ji nikdy nebyl miloval, jako by ji nebyl bral do tYchZ rukou, kterYmi byl ochoten ji rozsapat, Ale taky nic nezazlival.

Nektera Zenska je jako pes, da se vodit a jde za kaZdYm, kdo ji, ukaZe vetidi skYvu chleba anebo ji pohrozi holi. Myslil na ni, ale ne Wind east°, protole mizela v jeho pameti pod navalem pal-. eive ZivYch a bolestnYch uraZek, jichZ se mu dostalo od otce. Start' je vinen, otec je pnvodem vedkere krivdy, ktera mu vnikla do sameho srdce a palila porad ostreji. . jen kvtili nemu je to vdecko, jen kvlili /Amu! Antek shromaZd'oval v sobe vSecko zlo, viecky krivdy, jet doznal, a prerikaval je, s ytij nezapomenutelnY oteenad! Byl to rtiZenec bolestnY a jitrivY, ale Antek si jej presto otoeil kolem srdce, aby si jej tim lepe pamatoval.

Vlastni bida ho netrapila; je zdravY chlap, jen kdy2 bude mit strechu nad hlavou. . . vic nepotrebuje, o deti at' se postara Zena. , ale krivda soma ho lila jako °hen a rozrustala se v nem ja ko paleiva, kopriva! Jak by ne, jsou to teprve tri nedele a cela, yes se uZ od neho odvratila, jako by ho neznala, jako by byl nejakY privandrovalY svetobeZnik, vyhYbaji se mu jako pradive ovci, nikdo na Oho nepromluvi, do chain-

Ve stiedu, dne 25. kvetna 1955. py k nemu nevkroei. nepolituje, dobreho slova netekne, kaZdY se na neho diva jako na loupetinika.

Ne, ne, doprog ovat se nebude, ale po koutech se taky nebude skrYvat, nikomu nebude s cesty uhYbat. KdyZ to ma bit kysele, at' je to jako ocet! Ale pros to vg ecko? Ze se chytil s otcem? Stalo se to snad y e vsi ponejprv? Copak Josef Vachnikil se nebije kakych par dni? Ci snad Stach PloSka nevyrnkl svemu otci hna.t? . • A tem nikdo nekekl kikveho slova! Jenom jeho tak odstrkuji, protoproti komu Pan Rah, proti tomu i vgichni svati. To je dilo stareho, jenom stareho, kterY dostane za v gecko zaplaceno, dobie zaplaceno!

Antek az sipal mstou a my glenkou na ni, cell ten eas Zil jako v horeece a bezvedomi; k praci se nemel, na nouzi nemyslil, na zitiek nehledel, jenom se choulil do svYch takYch muk a rozdiral si nitro. Nejednou za noci vyskoeil z postele a letel na naves, bloudil po cestach, skrYval se v temnotach a snil krute pomste, ptisahaje, tie se sveho nevzda.

Snidani snedli mleky; Antek seal zasmugile dal a travil v sobe vzpominky jako bodlak pichlave a hake.

Uti se udelal bill den, oheri hasl a ponekud rortalYmi tabulkami vnikalo do svetnice Wave, studene svetlo snehu; ledovY, smutny ptisvit se tiepetal po svetnici a obnakval jizbu, ktera, se ted' ukazala v calk sve nouzi.

Bole! Borynova chalupa se zdala zamkern vedle teto chartee! A nejen chalupa, i v chleve otcove by se dal( lip bydlit. Tady je to prohnilY chlivek, ne dtlm, kupa plesnivYch load, hnoje a shnileho smeti. Podlaha bez jedineho prkna, pouze hlinenY miat pinY ptimrzleho blata a zadupaneho smeti; jakmile ji jenom trochu °hell rozehtal, vyraZel z ni smrad hor gi neZli z hnojtivky.A z toho bahniska se zvedaly stony, zborcene, ztrouchnivele, prohnile, mokro se z nich jen lilo, v koutech se usazovalo jini, stony byly sama dira ucpana hlinou, tu a tam dokonce slamou a hnojem! NizkY strop visel nad hlavou jakou stare potrhand te geto, protok nem bylo vic slanly a pavuein ne2 desek.

Jcnom naiadi, gatstvo a nekolik svatkch cbrazkil halilo trochu tu nouzi; vogak s rozvegenYmi gaty a sktiii kryly prouteLou p •ehradu, za kterou staly kravy.

Hanka, tiebas pomalu, piece jen zanedlouho byla hotova s domaci praci; vgak ji nebylo mnoho: krava, jalovice, prasatko ,nekolik hus a slepic, to byla vgecka slava a cele bohatstvi. Ustrojila chlapce, kteti hned nato odbehli hrat si s VeruneinYmi detmi do sine, odkud se brzy ozYval hovor a kiik; sama se rovne2 trochu lope oblekla, protok moll ptijit

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Chtela se napied s muZem poradit o prodeji. Ale neodvakvala se zadit, prototie Antek stale jests seal pied vyhaslYm krbem, zahleden kamsi tak ponatie, tie ji jimal strach.

"Co mu je?" Zula dtevaky, aby ho nedraZdila hiukem, ale easteji s bazlivou nehou a nepokojem pohlikla na neho.

"Doleha to na neho vic, protok neni jako ostatni, mnohem vic to na neho doleha," myslila si a zmocnila se ji ukrutna shut' pohovotit si, poptat se a politovat ho; uZ k nemu i zamiiila, majic na jazyku dobre slovo, ale znova ztratila odvahu. Jakpak maze neco nisi, kdyZ si ji ani nevgimne, jako by vithea nic nevidel! Hanka bolestne vzdychla; bylo ji te2ko na dugi, necitila sladkY med, nYbrg hotkY pelynekl "Kriste Jeli gi, jinYm ZenskYin je hej! I ty podruhyne jsou na torn lip!" Ale na ni lezi v gecko starej se, opatruj, na v gecko mysli, dki se, ale s kYril promluvit neni, neni si komu postekvat! Kdyby na ni Mee', kdyby ji tiebas i bil, vedela by aspoii, 'tie ma v chalupe tiiveho mute a ne eltevo. Ale. Antek nic tu a tarn zamruei jako zlY pes, a kdyg se podiva, jako by eloveka dui polil mrazem... nesmi na neho promluvit, ani k nemu pkistoupit s uptimnYm srdcern, jak to obyeejne mezi manZely nebo ptateli bYva. kekna neco, posteZujeg si — ale on nic. Jedna on s ni vithec jako se svou Zenon? Je mu dobra, jen na to, aby uklizela dam, uvakila a deti ohlidala. CoZpak on se o neco stare? Copak ji nekdy pohladi, pomazli se s ni, dobrotou pkekona, ptivine k sobe, rozhovoii se? 0 to v gecko on nestoji, oh ne! Jenom v hlave potad neco nosi, chova se k ni jako k cizi, nevi ani, co se vedle neho deje! A ty, Zenska, sama si se vgim porad', sama trp, sama se trap a starej. .. on ti ani dobrYm slovem neodplati!...

Hanka uti nemonla zadrZet bolestne viny litosti a slz ;utekla ke kravam, za piehradu, opiela se o tilab a tine se rozvzlykala, a kdyti ji Jelena podala oeichavat a lizat ji hlavu a ruce, propukla v hlasitY natek: "Ani tebe uti nebucleme mit, kravieko ani tebe, piijdou si pro tebe... smluvi se. . . postranek ti uvazi za rohy. . . vyvedou... do sveta to povedou, Zivitclko nage... do sveta!" geptala objimala kravy krk a tulle bolavou dui k tomato tvoru. Uz neptemahala stenani ani plae, zvedl se v ni nahlY, mohutnY vzdor.

Ne, takhle to nemilk dal trvat, kravu jim prodaji, neni do fist co dart, a on sedi, praci nehleda, ani na to mlaceni, kdyZ mu •ikaji, nejde . . . kdyby vydelal tieba jen zlatY dvacet za den, bylo by na na omastek, kdyt uz nebude ani to kapka mleka.

Vratila se do svetnice.

Strana 25 "Antku!" iekla ostie, smele, odhodla:. . na vLecko vypovedet.

Antek k ni otoell fiche, zarudle oei a pohledl na ni tak teskne a truchlive, Ze se ji udelalo v dui smutno, hnev)i opustil a srdce zabuSllo litosti.

"Rikal jsi, aby ptigli pro kravur rekla tine a jaksi Mace.

"ITZ asi jdou, tamhle na ceste psi Ilk nekoho Stekaji."

"Ne, to gtekaji u namitla,. kdyZ yyhledla yen.

"Alkali, Ze piijdou pied polednem, tak je muZeme co chvile eekat."

"Musime ji prodat, musi to bit??'

"Jakpak ne, penez je tieba a krrrieni taky na dve nestadi. musirrie, Haniekg jaka pomoc. . . gkoda kravy, tot' se vi,.. ale bez penez neni nic, ani 1 Antek mluvil tine a s takovou obrottra Ze Hance zjihla du ge a srdce se ji ,zaealo tkepotat radosti a nadeji; hledelai'nru do oei jako vernY, poslu gnY pes a ,v,Au chvili ji nebylo lito kravy a nieeho.. Di-. vala se jenom bedlive a bez Zalosti do, to milovane tvate a naslouchala hlasu, kterY ji jako oheri pronikal srdce a,prohtival ji dobrotou a nehou.

"Tot' se vi, Ze to musi bYth‘Valovicestane, oteli se nekdy v pull postu, tak tie se je gte ddekame kapky mleka." ka horlive piikyvovala, jen aby Antka ptimela k dal gi feel.

"A kdyby se nedostavalo krmenrop tieme ptikoupit."

"Leda ovesne slamy, protok s tiitnOu do jara vystaaime."

"Tatinku, odvalte jamu, musnue .er podivat, jestli nejsou brambory to "Jen sed'te, je to na vas totile, odkopu sam."

Antek sundal katiich, vzal lopatu;, vygel pied Snih sahal az po sttechu, protok star. veni stab() na \Tetra skoro ati za nY kus od cesty, a nebylo chraneno,,p4t plotem ani sadem; nekolik planYch, zktivenYch viani rostlo pied okny; ale byly tak zapadle, ae jenom haluk snehu vyenivaly jako prsty chorolarke4 pokroucene. Pied okny Bylica hned ztana snih odhazel, ale jama s bramb&Y, byla zavata. tak, ae ji nebylo moan( Pad snehem rozeznat.

Antek se dal bystte do prate; snehu napadlo az po ramena, a as byl eerstvy slehl se ua a trochu ztuhl, takk jej"bylo nutno krajet v cihly. Neti Antek" 16.. mu odvalil, tadne se zapotil, ale praeo= val s chuti a byl dobre mysli. chvile hodil snehovou kouli po detach, dovadejicich pied prahem. Jenom ehvilemi, kdyZ na neho padla vzpominka na minule trapeni, mu poklesavaly ruee, ustaval od prate, opiel se zady o stenu( hledel do dalky, vzdychal a znova bloudil dui jako ovce ztraceno, v temne nuci. Den byl poclunurnY, gedivY a pki-

Strana 26 bledle nebe viselo nizko, snip byl roséstlank jako hunatk, mekkk koZich, sakam aZ oko dohledlo. . modrava hlucha, mrtva plan; rinhavk vzduch, plnk ztuhleho jini, obaloval celk svet jako protole Bylicova chalupa stala na mirnem kopeeku, bylo videt celou yes jako na dlani, Lady hromadek nebo tich zasneZenych rove sedely vedle sebe a taltly se jako venec kolent zasypaneho rybnika; nikde nebylo videt chalupu cevtecky zmizely pod snehem. Tu a 1,nn e eernaly strechy stodol, kere a imuy, rude kotouee dkinu z rateliny u,ul)aly k nebi, hlasy ostre Sc rozlehajici tou belosti letely vesnici z jednoho konce na druhk a jednotvarnk tepot cepa dunel hlute jako zpod zeme. Cesty byly prazdne, zasypane, na zasneZenkch pollen ani dote, nic net to preohromna bila mrtva pustina, ustydla ye snehu. ZandZene ddlky splkvaly, ze nebylo moZno rozeznat nebe od zeme, jedine lesv promodravaly belavou mlhou jako nejakk nara.k.

Ale Antek dlouho nebloudil sneZnkrni pn , tinanair vratil se oeima ke vsi a podiv.d se na otcovu chalupu; nentel jette cas nen si pornyslet, kdyZ Hanka, 'dere. vlezla do jamy, vykrikla: •• Neznarzly! Vachnikton je vetry tak zastudily, ze skoro polovic jamy museli zkainit prasaty, ale nate jsou zdrave.'

"To je dobre, Pojd' yen, zda se mi, Ce handliri oZ jdou! Musime kravu vyvest pi•eci dtm." mou duti, jsou to oni, nikdo jink . no, tot' se vi, jsou, to ti prativci!" :wolala Hanka zlostne.

A sladeene, od l'emy po cestiece, docola zasypane a jen misty poznamenane Stachovymi drevaky, se hrabali dva . . psi snad z poloviny vesnice se hnali s nesmirnou rozkoti a s velkkm siekotem za nimi, vztekle na ne i ice.. . Antek jim vytel vstric a ochranil je: "Jak se mate, co? Opozdili jsme se-7 moo snehu, moc snehu, neda se pies nej jit ani jet, vid'te? Ale v lese u2Z proliazuji- cestu!"

Na tyto reel Antek neodpovedel a zavedl handlire do svetnice, aby se trochu ohidli.

Hanka otrela krave zamazane boky, mleko, ktere se od rana nashromaZdilo, a pies svetnici ji vedla na dvur. Krava se vzpirala, tla nerada, a kdyC prekroeila prah, natahla tlamu, ecnichala, olizovala cnih, z niOeho nic protahle, tine, Z'alostne zabueela a zaeala se na postranku tak tkubat, Ze ji st.irk Bylica sotva udrZel. Hanka to ur2 nemohla snest, zmocnila se ji litost tak prudka a bodavd, re vybuchla. v plac... za ni se daly do parka i cieti, ktere se ji drZely za sukne; Ant-

VESTNfK — WEST, TEXAS kovi taky nebylo viselo, zat'al zuby, oplot se o steno a dival se na vrany, ktere se sletely na rozkopank sni p nad jamoo; prekopnici drmolili neco mezi seboo, zacali kravu ohmatavat a se vtech stran prohliZet, Antkovum bylo jako na pohrho, odvraceli se od kra,vieky, ktera sebou na provaze marne trhala, darmo toeila vycletene, ustratene del pa hospodarich, darmo temne btioela.

"Jetiti. . . Na to jsem te, kravieko, pasla, ria to jsem to chovala, na to jsem se o tebe starala. . . aby to vedli na poraZku. . na zabiti. . ." narikala Hanka bilk hlavou o zed'; deti ji doprovazely vzlykanim.

Ale marnk byl Ode a narek, marne vsecko, protole nutnosti se nezbavit, osud, eloveee, nepremUet a to, co ma bkt, nezmenit.

"Co za ni chcete?" zeptal se koneene starsi handlir.

"Tri sta zlatkch."

"Trt sta zlatkch za takoveho Zebraka?

Poslytte, Antonine, vy jste se zblaznil, ne?"

"Jenorn neZvaii nic o Zebraku, mohl bys nejakau do.stat! podivejme se, krava je otlada, jde ji sotva na pity rok, krmna. je. . ." krieela Hanka. ptt — pri olochode se nesmi "Ptt vezmeelovek hued pro slovo hnevat . te tricot rublti?"

"UZ jsem rekl, kolik chci."

"Ja taky rikam, kolik dam, jednatricet . no, jedna,tricet a pub. . . no, dvaatricet dejt rtiku. . . no tak, dvaatricet a pal. . . placnete!"

"UZ jsem rekl!"

"Posledni slovo; tri-a-tricet! KdyZ ne, tak ne!" prohodil ledabyle mladti a °nilZel se po sve holi; starti si zapinal kabet.

"Za takovou kravu! . . Ze se Boha nebojite, lidieky. . . krava jako stodola . . . podvodnici nekrest'aritti. . ." jeeel stark, poplacaval kravu, ale nikdo si ho nevtimal.

Kupci vztekle smlouvali, Antek stal rovna tyrde na svent; neco sice slevil, ale nestalo to za ice, protole krava mela opravdu znaCnou cenu. . kdyby prodaval k jaro sedlakovi, dostal by padesat robin jako nic. Ale kde nutnost pohani, tam bides za of tahne. Handliti to dobre yeah, a trebaZe krieeli Chu del hlasiteji a stale vatniveji sahali po Antkove ruse, aby si placl, prihazovali jen malo, nejvkt ptil ruble.

Nakonec neslioda dotla tak daleko, Ce s hnevern odchazeli. Hanka 0, tahala kravu do ohrady a Antek se rozzlobil tak, Ce byl ochoten od prodeje upustit; ale kupci se vratili a zaeali krieet, smlouvat a prisahat, Ze vice ddt nemohou, placali si do dlani a znova kravu prohli-

Ve stredn, due

• kvetna 1955.

2e1i; koneene se domhiVill na etyriatricon rublech a dvou zlatkch ocasneho pro Bylicu.

Penize vyplatili heed na dlan; stark odvedl kravu za nimi k sanim, ktere eekaly pled kremou, a Hanka s detini doprovodila Jelenu aZ na cestu. . . co chvilko ji bud' hladila pa tlame nebo se o ni opirala, nemohouc sc odtrhnout od mileho zvilete, ani utisit smutek a Cal... jette na zpateeni ceste postavala, divala se za kravou a proklinala z cele dote ty handlire nekrtene!

0 takovou kravu NAM. . . nebylo vu, Ce cele jeji nitro zabourilo pomstou.

"Jako by nekoho z ehalupy odvezli na hrbitov, tak je to prazdno. . ." rekla kdyt se vratila; co chvile se pak divala do prazdne prehrady neb,(! hledela oltnem na podupanou petinu, Poznamenanou lejneM a sledy kopyt, a znova a znova propultala•v plat a narek.

"Mohla bys uz prestat! Hai v jednom kuse jako tele!" vykrild. Antek sedici pled penezi rozlolenkon pa stole.

"Kohn to neboli, ten vtecko dovoli!

Tebe jako by se netykalo, Ce jsi kravu priyedl nazmar a bandliri na zabiti!"

"Mom se snad rozkrajtt a z rukavu penize vysypat?"

"Ted' jsme 0, jako ti poslecini podruzi, jako Zebraci, ani to kapku naleka nebudeme mit, ani Zadne poteteni! Toho jsem se doekala na svent, toholale, JeCLI Jini se staraji, droll jako kone, spit neco do doom plikoupi, ale on posledni kravu, kterou jsem dostala od rodie-a, proda. . . Ted' U nos neeeka nic net Iliad a konec. . ." horekovala Hanka jako cn1yslu zbavena.

"Tak si bee, aspon se ti ulevi. Jsi hloupa, nieenau nerozumit. Tady mat penize, poplat', kde jsi co dluZna, nakup, co je potreba, a ostatni schovej!" rekl Antek a pristreil k ni hromadku penes; pet papirovkch roblu schoval do notesu.

"Nae potrebujet tolik penez?"

"Nac? S holkma rukama neptijdu!"

"Prye, do sveta, budu hledat praci, lady hnit nebudu!"

"Do sveta.! Vtude psi na boso chodi, etude chudakovi do deraveho kabatu fooke! A ja za,stano sama, no?"' Hanka nevedoinky zabovorila silnejtim hlasem a lnozive pristoupila k Antkovi; ale ten si toho nevtimal, vzal na sebe koZicla a pas a ohliZel se po eapce. sedlakti delat nebudu, i kdybych roe] pojit, to nebudu!" rekl.

"Varhanik potrebuje nekoho na ceni!"

1?: * • Jest ku male= prospechu, 2e Rest' nos eini bonatkmi, pakli nate Zadosti nos zase cini chudkmi.

Ve stfcdu, clue 25. kvetna 1955.

V E S T N I K — WEST, TEXAS

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SHLEDANI NA PUDE TEXASKE 1. z etenaril uchoval si jeSte v parneti ony posledni okaniliky pri loueeni se s domovinou, kde sve mladi prohl.

Nektery vzpomina na bolne loueeni se se znamYmi a prateli. Dnes, kdy obrovske parniky s vetrem, o za.vod razI si cestu SirYm ocenanem, jest. cesta do Arneriky vYletem naproti onomu cestovani pied 35 lety. JestliZe dnes se vystehovalci ze stare vlasti loud se s yYmi prateli a znamYmi, jako by se ubirali na yeenost, tim bolestnejS'i bylo louoeni v dobach tehdejSich, kdy cestovani do noveho sveta bylo daleko obtanejS1 a nebezpeenejSi. Tu se zhusta odehravaly sceny, jako spatriti Ize jen u ltiZka umirajiciho otce, kdy netiprosna smrt uchvacuje jej ze stredu eetne rodiny.

Podobna scena odehrala se take na podatku dubna roku 1860 -v male decline na Upati posvatneho RadhoSte na Morave. Wed chatrnYin domkem stalo bujne spreZeni korii, netrpelive pildu kopyty tepajici, na voze naloleny byly jiZ dva obrovske kufry, vozka ze vai shy zdrZOval nepokojne kone, kdeZto na malem dvoreeku se odehravala scena loudeni se vystehovalcil do Ameriky.

Sta • i rodieove se tu loueili se synem, snachou a vnuky, jako by se ubirali na onen svet. Stafenka jeUe naposledy sve vnuky, znamenajic kaZdeho kriZem na, eele; starietY otec jeSte naposledy vroucne objal syna sveho a tiskl jej na sva riadra, jako by se bal jej pustiti; kolem stali eetni pratele, na vsi pak temer vS'ichni sousede a kaZdemu ronily se hojne sizy po licich ph pohledu tom. Koneene se mladY mua vyvinul z objeti otcova, polibil naposledy race obou starch rodidit a uchopiv nejmladai deveatko na ruku, spechal k vozu jr.2 pripravenemu, aby boltiemu tomu vystupir jiz konec ueinil. Cele mnoZstvi lidu loueiciho se shluklo se kolem vozu, jeden pa druhom podavali naposlery ruce odjiZdejicim. V male chvili octla se cola rodina vystehovalcil na voze, vozka praskl do koni a brzy na to zmizelo v'Se zraktim shrorna2denYch venkovam1. Stara matieka za velikeho na.fku odvedena byla zbylYrni prateli do chude chaloupky, sousecie si jeSte chvili po naysi pohovorili, riade.2 se kaZdY odebral Po sve praci a za hodinu na to byla dedinka zase klidna, .jako by se v ni nic neobyeejneho nebylo p•ihodilo.

Za to vi.iak v domkach i na polich v gude veden byl hovor jen o vystehovalcich prave odcestovalYch.

(Napsal Josef Buriata r. 1897) kterY ph loueeni tom citil spik radost, jakousi filevu v srdci svern. Byl to sedlak Mika, jehoZ syn se spre2enim bujnych koni vystehovalce odva.Zel. Po jeho osmahle tvalri se sice take ronily slzy ty bylo snaze mo2no nazvati slzami radocti neZ bolo. Jakmile se vtiz s vystehovale! hnul ku predu, obratil se Mika ku svemu statku a sotva ze prah prekrodil, zvolal na hospodyni vstric mu behci: "Chvala bohu, jia jsou prye! Ted' se mi ulehdilo. Ale toho kluka svehlaveho jsem musel nechat s nimi jeti. Chtel jsem poslat pacholka, aby je do Prerova clovezl, ale ogara ne a ne, ze on je sane doveze. No, at' se je'Ste naposledy rozlouei se svoji gaiankou, vSak ji beztoho jiZ vicekrate neuvidi."

"Ale ty start'," odpovidala Zeno., "mac radost z toho, ze jsi vyvaz1 z nebezpe,t, aby ti syn nepilvedl do domu chuclou Zeno, zapomina g v'Sak na jine a to herM nebezpeei, ktere nakmu Jankovi hrozi na vojne. Uboheho chlapce stiha jedna rana za druhou. Nejprve jej odvedou k vojsku a nyni se mush mad na vZdy rozloueiti s holkou, kterou jiz od maliekosti rad mival. Nevidel bysi radeji Jenika St'astneho tfeba v chudobne chaloupce, nezdi zmrzaeeneho, nebo docela zabiteho na vojne?"

Pii slovech tech se selka zajikla a vypukla v usedavY plat. Sedlak se zakabonil, veSel do svetnice a usednuv na lavici, nodal bedujici Zenu "Jd1h2 jdi, ty nerozumna, coZ mysliS, e na vojne ka2cleho zabiji nebo zmrzael? Ja byl take vojakem, prodelal jsem vOlku v Italii a nic se mi nestalo. Podivej se, kolik jich bylo z naSi dediny na vojne a kolik jich p •iglo k zabiti neb zinrzadeni? Ani jedinY. Janek jest zaUrn doma a kdo vi, kdy bude rukovat?

Ostatne pant v meste take neco Zon., zvlaSte ketyZ se jim k dobremu slovu Deco vtiskne do diane. MoZna, ze Janek vyslouZi celou vojand.;inu doma a vojenskY mundur ani neobletne."

Co takto teM1 sedlak Mika svoji placid manklku, uhanelo jeho bujne sprekni 1)0 silnici k Prerovu, rizene pevnou rukou syna jeho Jana. Mladik mel pici staZenou hluboko pies Colo a na vrchu, se mu houtla vojanska kokarda, zvand v tee!. lidu "jablietem". KaalY mladik, jakmile u odvodni komise za schepneho uznan byl, nechal si prfSiti od .starcitho vojaka na eepici Zlutou, eernYmi nitmi protkanou kokardu, podle Aokoliv mezi vesnieany kaZdY prole- znati byla "cisarskeho mute", jak se toval hoite size loueeni se vystehoval- mu mezi lidem rikalo. Jan Miktiv byl eti, iialezal se v zastupu piece jeden, tedy jiz cisarskYm muZem asi n).Wc

a o'eeka.val doma, kdy povolan bucle k einne sluthe vojenske. To jej vSak nermoutilo tak jako odjezd lidi, jeZ prave do Prerova vezl. Byl to chalupnik blizkY soused Mikity, to vSak mlacleho Jenika tak nehnetlo jako to, 2e se do daleke zeine ubird tea Marenka, nejstari, to dcera Vanova. Jenik byl 21, Makenka 19 let stash. Vyrostli takita pospolu, jiZ co deti se meli radi, coZ to divu, v letech dospivajicich zahorela obe srd cc k sobe laskou milencu. Chodivali spolu do Skoly do sousedni vesnice, pozdeji chodivali spolu i k muzikam a na poute. Nepozorovali ye sve nevinnosti, ze pomery jejich se zmenily. 13a nepozorovali ani, ze mezi nimi zeje protast' venkovskeho kastovnictvh. On bpi synem nejzamoZnejSiho sedlata ye vsi, ona vSak jen dcerou chudeho chalupnika. On mohi odekavati, Co se stane bud' panem statku, nebo Co se a bohatou viroavou priieni do nejakeho stejne velkali° statku, kdeZto MaruSa Vanova se mohla naditi jen male vYbavy z domu otcovskeho, ktera by ji ueinila hospodyni v dornacnosti jeSte chtrUi, ne2 byla cna rodied jeji. Ale coZ se mladi de ohliZeji na ostatni svet a na pomery kolem. nich. Oni se miluji a to jim postaei. Laska jest jim vSim, ostatni svet Z blaZenYch snit lasky byli oba mladi lido vyrugeni nahle zakroeenim obou rodieti. Laska, jejich ovsem nebyla tajemstvim ostatnimu svetu a ten .koneene nevahal, aby nalil pelyriku do sladke diSe lasky mladistve. TakovY jest svet. TakovYmi jsou lido. Na miste, aby se radovali z blaZenosti jinYch, usilu? ji o to, aby blaZenost tu bolestn'ni raT: nami znieili, v Cal promenill. Start' ka upozornhl sousccla sveho Variu nano lujici se den, ac toho upozorneni ani treba nebyle, Dal mu na srozumenou, Ce mu neni pc) chuti zamilovank porn& synth/ s dcerou Vanovou a to staeilo ku sboenh chramu lasky mladYch tech srdci. Jecine nedele, kdy se Jenik chystal k nejake vyehazce, oslovil jej otec: "Kam pak, Janku? Zase se stroji'S na zalety k Variovic MaruSi?" "Ano, otce,' 'odvetil syn, "ptijdeme spolu do sousedni dediny, je tam muzika".

"Ani krok!" zvolal popuzenY sedlak.

"Pamatuj si jednou pro vZdy, ze Mara Vanovic neni holka pro tebe. Ty, syn ze .statku., ohledni se po nejakein jinem cleveeti, ktere je ti rovno a to Zebroty si vice neySimej. Pakli mne neuposlechneS", uvidiS, co ti udelam."

(Pokradovani.)

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VESTNIK WEST, TEXAS

Ve strecht, dne 25. kvetna 1955.

Z P. (CH VZPOMINEK DOHA I ZDE (Pokraeovani)

(Frank Volf. Britt, Iowa)

✓ lete se zas Maio v cihelne. Druhou zimu jsem dela' na draze, kterou praci jsem zeal z domova. Tam bylo 461/2 centu na hodinu, pak na jai-e zas v cihelne. To aZ zaaal pomdhat syn'Oldrich. Dostal se teZ k topeni a treti zimu jel do Fort Dodge, kde dostal praci, teZ v cihelne, jelikoZ v Boone cihelnu zavieli nadobro.

Tak jsem jel teZ do Fort Dodge, kde jsme byli na strave a jen na nedell jsme jezdili clornti. ✓ race 1926 jsme se prestehovali na Otho, to bylo d ye mile od cihelny a 8 mil od Fort Dodge , Tarn jsem zas topil. Delalo se pri topeni 12 hodin, smena denni a nooni; clelal jsem nod. Byla to dlouha g ichta, ale price byla lehei jak ye dne, a pak bez dozorcu. Oldrich pracoval u stroje, u lisu co Mali dlaZdice (tiles), gpalky a jinY material. Od roku 1937 se delaly tri smelly pri topeni, tak uz bylo merle hodin, ale vice prate. Toho roku byla zalolena Social Security a hned take unie. Ten rok jsme si koupili na Otho domek o sedmi svetnicich, sklepeni, dva loty a gard.2, tak uz jsme byli ye svem.

Te2 druhY syn Miloslav uZ pomahal, tak a2 se lope Zilo.

Te2 jsme rneli svou hudbu a site fletnu koncertinu, tu hrdl Oldiich, saxafon, kornet, has a bubny, ty hral Miles, ale pozdeji jsme toho nechali, neb tenkrat v tom nebyly Zadne penize.

V cihelne se pracovalo prinnerne 9 mesien v race, v zime se jen opravovaly a elstily pece a opravovaly stroje, tarn bylo yge s elektrickYm pohonem. ✓ roce 1934, due 5. zari se proydala dcera Bolena a sice za farmare Edmonda Korsu, take Cecha. Vlastnil farmu blizko Ford Dodge, kterou pozdeji prodal a koupil farmu u Britt, Iowa, a site 240 alcru.

V race 1936, due 16. zati se olenil syn 01ffich. vzal si za manZelka Klaru Vosikovou, Ce g ku, teZ z farmy, kde prvni leta zUstaval na pronajate farme. Pak koupil farmu bli2e Otho a sice 40 akra a dues obdeldva 120 okra, ma 2 traktory, konbajn a jine stroje.

Ja byl zamestnan stale na jednom miste. Donna jsme si hledeli zahradky, kde jsme moll v g echnu zeleninu a hojne kvetin, kterYch jsme byli oba milovniky.

Doti odchazely, ale zas pribYvala vnorieaJcdnou jsem dokopaval na hranice k to., tak jsme se te gili zas s detmi nagich ousedovi. Najednou se uhel ritrhl a pri- deti.

Due 16. rijna 1940 pied vyptiknutim niaekl mi levou nohu. Musel jsem volat kamarady, ti uhel nadzvedli a nohu velky se dal Miloslav dobrovolne k voj%-y1 -111i, Ze leZela ye vykopane hline, tak sku a sice k inZenYrin, a hned druhe byla jen pomaekand. Z toho kusu jsem rano jel do Nebrasky a to k lekarske proje gte. naloZil 3 kary uhli. Domft me sou- hlidce. Pak z tarn odtud byl poslan do sed dovezl, ale piece jsem s tim byl ty- tabora Fort Riley, Kansas. MCI proglou den doma, nez jsem zas mohl se na nohu me gt'anku, dale mel pro glY kurs po gtovniho zamestnance, dale mel obehodni postavit.

Jednou jsem zabijel kravu a to u potriolca. Na strome jsem mel kladku, kravtt a rozetvrtil a privez1 maso k clomu. Ona maso prodavala mezi 1Wexilcany. KdyZ jsem uklizel etvrte, tak ona si vgimla, ie jedna ledvinka schazi. Zaeala nadavat, Ze jsem si ji schoval a mlatila drgkou jak Cuba. Ja ji rekl, ze main docielano. DruhY den jsem dostal eek a zas jsme se stehovali do Strawn.

Na tu podporu se nedalo zit, na praci v clolech nebylo Zadne nadeje, neb to obsadill stavkokazi Mexikani. Tak nekteri jell jinam do uhlodola a nekteri do Omahy. A rids pdr, co jsme nejdele jsme se usnesli rad Osvetou k svobode 78 prevest k radu Cis. 92 ye Fort Worth.

K tomu jsem byl poveren ja a bratr par. To bylo myslim r. 1922, datum riZ si nepamatuji. Dojeli jsme tarn, odevzdali knihy ku &tern, dale knihy protokolni, pokladni, freetni a teZ co bylo na hotovosti.

Z tarn odtud jsme jeli do Oklahomy, jestli tarn by nebyla price na gachtach.

Byli jsme tarn dva dny, v Henrietta, ale prate Zadnd. KdyZ jsem prijel dome, tak jsme se domluvili, Ze pojedu do Boone, Iowa.

To bylo na jare 1923. Tarn jsem prijel, Ygude je gte snih a ja mel jen letni gatstvo a pradlo jak v Texasu. Praci jsem dostal v cihelne.. Nakladal jsem cihly do Zeleznienieh yorti neb yyvaZel z pece. Koleeka byly na perach a nakladalo se 100 cihel na trakar. Dost mai() na stranu a bylo na hromade a muselo se to nakladat znovu. Plat byl od tisice.

Pozdeji jsem se dostal k topeni, to trZ bylo lehei. Delalo se 8 hodin a bylo 35 centu na hodinu. Byl jsem na strave, ale styskalo se me po detech a domacnosti.

Tak jsem si pronajal trisvetnicovY domek, ale musel jsem ho drive vyeistit, cab byl pinY gtenic. Pak jsem za sebou povplal man2elku s detmi. Prijely konerni kvetna. Tak zas jsme byli pohromaPrace bylo dost v lete, ale na zimu cilIelna zavrela. Tak jsem gel delat do doTam byly dye gachty. Prace nebyla zlo, ale gpatne stropy, kaZdY den byl nejakY kd.men spadlY a za to nechteli platit, Uhel se musel dobre hlidat, neb bez 'nameni se trhal.

kurs, umel spravne eesky Gist i psat, takZe due 30. eervence 1941 byl jmenovan serZantem kompanie 3, gesteho inZenYrskeho batalionu ye Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Jako instruktor pro gel Unlit° yojenskYmi tabory: Camp White, Oregon, Fort Lewis, Washington, Yuma, Arizona, Camp Polk, Louisiana, Camp Swift, Texas, Tucson, Arizona, Leeville, Louisiana. Jako serZant gel do gkoly na tri meside ye West Virginii gkoly pro dilstojniky, odtamtud vy gel co lajtnant. V Yuma, Arizona byl jmenovan kapitenem, dostal kratg i dovolenou, prijel domit'a due 9. dubna 1944 se olenil, vzal si za manZelku Franti gku Urban, take ee gki, ktera s nim pak odjela do Arizony oyla s nim aZ odejel pres vodu do Anglie, Francie a Nemecka, kde na rece RYnu staveli pantony.

Tak se dostal aZ do Mnichova. V3, ,pre, yel o torn, co tarn vial' mrtvol, které /*mei, nemeli eas ukliditi, pine kary. Videl ty koncentraeni te.bory a ty mueirny, ale nerad na to vzpomind. Domil pri gel v roce 1946, talde tam byl celkem pet a pill roku.

Musing je gte zpdtky. NeZ jsme koupili domek v Otho, Iowa, tak jsme bydleli na farme, to bylo 5 mil od cihelny. Tu cestu jsem kaZdY den konal pe gky sem a tam.

V cihelne bylo zamestnano kolem 80 delBylo tam 20 kruhovYch peel a sice 10 na cihly a 10 na dlaZdice a gpalky, paid() se uhlim a trvalo to 6 dni neZ byla pet vypalena. Dnes topi plynem a pee je vypalena za etyri dny. Delal se tam rtiznY sta y a rtizne barvy, k eemuZ se pouEvalo zinku a soli.

V race 1926 mne mealy bolet nohy, race, zada a hlava. Tak jsem byl tt prohlidky a doktor odporueil zuby yen; tak jsem je dal vyndat horej gi. ale bylo Po muzice. V roce 1938 musely yen i spodni.

Pak 1.0 jsem mel pokoj a hledel jsem si price a domacnosti. Ale ebychom si nezvykli na to dobre, tak v rode 1938 mela 'Zena operaci, A jelikoZ jsem se z prate nemohl vyrazit, musel jsem mit posluhu donna. V roce 1939 v eervenci si zlamala ruku. V roce 1944 jsem gel do pease a dostal jsem celYch $24.80; y roce 1950 dostala manZelka pensi $12.40; krasne penize, ale malo.

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Male. Betty spatula svou bableku, kterak pouZiva je gte stareho zvyku pri merent a natahuje latku ad konce inky k nosu. Jednoho due pribehla k ni se gpulkou niti a Zadonila: "Babieko, euchni k tomu jak jest to dlouhe."

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RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI My, niZepsanSr resoludni vStor tadu Cechoslovan Oslo 40 v Hilije, Texas, vyslovujeme na g i uptimne citenou soustrast pozitstale manZelce a ditkam naeho spolubratra Petra Stepana, kterS, zemiel 21. dubna a 20. byl pochovan na ODHS htbitove za ptitomnosti mnoha ptatel a znamYch. ZesnulY spolubratr byl vZ",dy dbalS7 svYch povinnosti, talde ho budeme v naS'em sttedu postradat, Portistala rodino, ptijmete naS1 soustrast a zem • elemu budd zeme lehka. test pamatce Tvoji.

Dario za fad 6echoslovan Oslo 40 v Hilije, Texas.

Resolueni vSrbor: Emil K. HajovskS7 Leo Tkiska &fie. Hradecka. ) • 4) • ( RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI

VESTNIK WEST, TEXAS van byl na katolickem htbitove v El Campo za adasti ptatel a znamYch. ZesnulY bratr byl tadnYm dlenem a mile povahy.

PozitstalYm projevujeme naS'i uptimne citenou soustrast a zesnulemu ptejeme lehke odpodinuti.

Za tad techoslovan els. 40 v Hilije, Texas Resolueni vSibor: Emil K. HajovskSr Leo Triska 2ofie Hradecka.

Strana matdela, otce a na§eho spolubratra Otto Karla Muellera, kter3.', zenatel dne 19. btezna a polatben byl dne 21. btezna.

Vime, poznstala rodino, ze Va g zarmutek je bolestnY, ale vette, ze i my i celr tad soucitime s Vami.

Necht' odpoeiva v pokoji, a dest bticU jeho pamatce.

Resolueni vSrbor: Ann Ward Pauline Walla Bohumila Schulda.

43 ( RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI elenove tadu s tefanik dislo 142 v 1-Ioustonu vyslovuji timto pozastale rodine uptimnou soustrast nad ztratou matky a na'Si spolusestry Anny M. -omonove, ktera zemtela 27. btezna 1955 y e stati 70 let a pohite,na byla dne 28. btezna 1955.

Vime, portistala rodino; ze Va'S zarmutek je velikSr, ale vette, Ze i my a eel)", tad Soucitime s Vami.

Zesnula sestra necht' odpoeiva v pokoji, a test budiZ jeji pamatce.

Resolueni vYbor: Ann Ward Pauline Walla Bohumila Schulda.

• • RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI

Olenove tadu 8tefanik 'Oslo 142, Houslenove tadu oeehoslovan eislo 40 v Hilije, Texas, timto vyslovuji hluboce ci- ton, Texas vyslovuji timto portistale rotenou soustrast portistale rodine detem a dine uptininou soustrast nad ztratott vnoudattim, nad ztratou otce a dededka a naAeho spolubratra Josefa Valigury, kterS7 zemtel 7. dubna a 8 .dubna pocho-

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