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di na prvni misto, ale ptal bych si, aby bratr redaktor venoval mernu easovemu rozjimani o na gem bratrstvi tolik pozornosti, aby ma ilvaha neoctla se aZ Dade za romanem. Dal jsem si s elankem praci, aby me myglenky byly pl• spevkem k dalgimu rozjimani mezi dleny. aim vice o tom na gem spolkovem Zivote ptemY glim, tim jasnej gi main obraz, k osoba, ktera samostatne sve nabyte vedomosti a zku genosti sdili s temi, kteti jdou za stejnYm cilem to na ge spolkateni stmelit, abychom meli opravdovou pevnost v bratrske SPJST, takova osoba ma teZlosti, aby byla pochopena.

A nasledkern nepraveho pochopeni se o takove osobe Miri v zavetti nenavist. Z nenavisti nasleduje umele vyvolana nedtivera, neuptimnost, fale g . To vgechno nese neblahe nasledky, kterYmi trpi nejen nekolik jednotlivell, ale east° celek. Na konec celek to nevinne odnese.

Lee melt bychom resit skutednost.

Z nekterYch poznamek, ktere byly onehdy udineny ye Vestniku, mohi bych take citit se doteenY, Ze me dobte mi/tette nahledy a pojednani o zaleZttostech Jednoty narazily nekde na tplite nepochopeni. Nemohu souhiasit, aby ma, mysl a mtij itsudek byl ovlivtiovan kYmkoliv mimo man vlastniho dlouholeteho pozorovani a elenstvi v SPJST, ktere se datuje od roku 1911. Co zde piM, delam z vlastni yule. Vim, se jestli je nekde kout, musi tam nee° doutnat.

Nemart v g ak ani to nejmengi chuti foukat, aby se plaminek ukazal. Z to pH.ditty voila' slova, ktera, i kdy uZ dobre villi neposlouZi, nemuseji nikoho rozhnovati a celek nijak nepogkodi.

KaZda, vetejna osoba nebo iftednikkterY je za svou sluZbu placen, vi, Ze se vystavuje vetejne zaslouZene kritice, ktere ani na g president SpojenYch sta-

(Podava Jan Stria) uniknout. VZ"dyt' jinak by ani nevedel, eini-li dobk nebo zle. Ten, kdo verne vykonava a pini sve povinnosti, za ktere je ujednanYm platem odmenovan, nemusi se bad sveho stinu.

"Vladnouci teleso" dle svYch vYkonu je pak dle zasluhy posuzovano a odmeneno. Kdo nerespektuje vuli elenstva, neni tim nejlepgim utednikem. Do spoleeneho podniku, jakYin je na ge Jednota, maji pravo vgichni eleni zasahovat a podilet se na spoledne pre i. Jak Jednota, tak prate v ni, patti v m stavajicim Merit:1m a elenkam zastoupenYm nejen v Hlavni ntadovne ale ye vgech domacich tadech a distriktech.

Bratrsko sesterske vztahy mezi Menstv.em se nedaji vynutit. Ty museji byti pesteny dAverou a laskou, ktera, ma nag povznesti z toho na geho vgedniho a denniho Zivota k Zivotu vy ggimu, aby to odpovidalo tomu duchu spolkovemu, za, kterStm2to tleelem takove spolky byly zalokny. V tech naaich spolcich by nemelo bYti mista pro zastra govani neb falegne ptedstirani. Podobne pomluvy a costa jsou metlou lidstva, ktera dnes zasahne tune a zitra tebe.

K spravnemu vyte geni povstalYch problemti patti dobra informace v gem elentm. Nepatti to jen "vladnoueimu telesu." protok nejsme akciova nebo korporani spolednost. Mame mezi sebou nejake procento, ktere je ochotno poradit a vypontoci, ale je mnohem vice tech. kteti jsou ke Vgemu lhostejni, zaujali postoj v nstrani, nebo nazory jejich staly nepovgimnuty a ignorovany. To bYya i v tadovYch schazich. Z tech nagich spolkovYch schfizi jsem se pollen, Ze je dobre miti otevtene oei, u gi a vyplachla usta.

Do ramee informaci spada ten nag Vestnik i s jeho redaktorem. Vice net kdokoliv jinY, na g tinny redaktor, bratr

Valeik, pkijde ve styk s nagimi take s eleny jinYch bratrskYch kteti v duvernem hovoru jemu povi a sveti se i s takovYmi problemy, ktere by pile osobe, Menu nebo ntedniku se nesvetili. Taint, Ze raznost my glenek a nazort dela, na gi Jednotu lep gi a silnou.

Pakli se vaak nekdy stane a ptijde ten osudnY den, kdy pravo vgech elentt bude odebrano tim "vladhoueini telesem," pak vina padne na vaechny ty, kteti dnes mlci nebo klidne ke vaemu pahliZeji. Bude to velke poru geni zasad a pravidel na gi Jednoty, ktere zakladatele ji ureili. Sam nebudu nikdy davati ptednost profesionalnimu bratrstvitim minim bratrstvi z povolani a pro vYdelek.--pted stavajicim tadnYm, opravdovym a uptimnym bratrstvim.

6asto se doneslo , k memu sluchu, pry idednici Hlavni ittadovny male etou aneb vabec neetou ten na g spolkovy orga,n Vestnik. Bratr Valeik, kterY byl poveten tkolem tidit ten Vestnik, to asi take slYchaval. Vzal si to asi k srdci, Ze se ptieini, aby ten Vestnik byl etenY tim "vladnoucim telesem." A to pfeci snad neni nic zleho 'Usti nekdy nee° i o sobe. (Poznamka redaktora: Bylo mi od hiavniho Otednika vysvetleno, "Bratte redaktore, ja ti povim, jak eteme Vestnik. KdyZ pkijde, tak se ptame toho, kdo ho ma prave v ruce: `Mk co? Zas nam nekdo dava hell?' Jestli ano tak si to pfeeteme v gichni. Jestli ne, tak si toho ostatniho ani nev gimame."). Ja pohliMm na nag Vestnik s pocitem, ze je to zrcadlo, ye kterem se mame vgichni nekdy shlednout. Dle zasluhy se nam objevi na g vlastni obraz.

Ptiznavam, to nekdy nejsem sam se sebou spokojen. To proto, Ze kdybych si dal na neeem vice zalekt, venoval tomu vetgi pozornost, Ze to mohlo bYti lepgi. To se vztahuje i na me dopisy (Pokraeovani na strane 4)

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Snad jeg te nikdy piedtim nemel jsem takovou radostnou a raZovou naladu pri psani :svYch redakenich fivah jako tenkrate. Pozoruji, ze je mezi eleny velika touha po zlepSeni a zdokonaleni naSich spolkovYch pomera. Tato touha prenesla se pomalu take na nase hlavin aredniky.

Je pravda, ze jiZ asi pied dvema roky bratr Marek, predseda Jednoty, sdeloval mi, 'Ze si dela poznamky a raznYch bodech, ktere bude nutno v priStim sjezdu zlepSiti. Take bratr Chupick, tajemnik Jednoty, sveril se mi Jared nejakYm Casem, Ze i on ma asi etrnact dalaitYch bode, o kterYch zamYSli podati sirsi pojednani ye Vestniku /lady letos na jaVSechny tyto nastradane navrhy pro zlepSeni byly pravdepodobne probrany clakladne ye schtlzi Hlavni aradovny.

Schaze trvala pinYch pet dna, od 5. do 9. brezna, tedy jistotne nesedelo trinact elena, kteri vedou naSi bratrskou organisaci, ye schazd nadarmo, ale Ze toto PCtidenni zasedani, prinese pro nas vSechny blahodarne vysledky.

A fined n 'edujieiho dne byla vgeela, na doporueer Hlavni frradovny predana devitielen !emu, stanovnimu vYboru, ktery pracoval na opravach dva dny, totiZ v sobotu 10. brezna a v nedeli 11. brezna. Nemel jsem prilelitosti, abych zjistil od nekoho, kolik z techto doporudeni a navrha od Hlavni aradavny bylo stancvnim vYbarem prijato, ani jake opravy to byly, na ktere Hlavni Uradovna kladla duraz. Jsem ale presvedeen, Ze petidenni snaha, astredny a dvoudenni prace stanovniho vYboru jiste nebudou nadarmo a prispeji ke zkraceni pracovni doby a celkove diskuse v na.stavajicim sjezdu. Jsem te2 dosti jistY, 'Ze do tYdne dostanu informace bud' od Hlavni &adovny nebo ad stanovniho vYboru. Bude tim uspokojena, nedookavost Olen& kteri v distriktnich schazich a v domacich radech debatovali o nekterY'ch novotach, a nyni jen eekaji., co Hlavni aradovna a stanovni vYbor predlaa elenam k mu uvazovani.

Jegte jinn vex pkispela k me naiove nalade. Prislo devet archa navrha a opra y od radu Nova Osada Cislo 69 v Rogers, nedaleko Temple. Zalekl jsem se toho mno2stvi navrhu, kdy jsem obalku otevrel. Za.eal jsem Usti a dim dale jsem Ceti, tirn jsem byl spokojenefSi. Bylo to tak dakladne promySleno a sestaveno, Z • e jsem litoval, prod tech devet archtl nebylo poslano prima do Hlavni. radovny na zaeatku petidenniho zasedani. Aby Cleni pochopili vYznam a yellkost mySlenek, podanYch v opravach od I radu Nova Osada, dovolim si rozebrati

Ve stredu, dne 21. brezna 1956: jednotlive body.

Napied odbeehn clroWtk •, abych v:Sechny bratrske podparne spolky v Americe napodobuji ye svych stanovach konstituci (0..stavu) SpojenYch .statik A take vSechny zmeny a apravy stanov jsou vlastne opakovanim a ozvenou toho, co bylo projednavano onemi paciesati pal delegaty, kteri pa ctyri mesice v rice 1787 Formovali Ustavu zone. Kdo podrobne prostudoval protokol onoho -etyrinesidniho zaseclani, vsechny debaty, zahoitle proslovy, -nave a dolSi. pokusy uspokojit vetSinu a vybudovati marsinerii pro' budouci republiky, vidi a musi priznati, Ze vAechny nase bourlive'sjezcly jsou vlastne jen michanim kavy hrnieku v porovnani s tehdejSimi o:strYini debatami o torn, jab volit zastupce, jak male skupiny jsou zbracovane a prehli't:me, jak velike skupiny chteji iliit vgechno po svem, jak ristredni vedeni n.esmi bYt "panem" nYbr2 "sluZebnikem." Pri etoni onech opra y o_d radu Nova Osada Oslo 69 poznal jsern, Ze kdo sestavoval tybi navrhy, byl dotre obezname-n s konstituel SpojenYch state, s rnaAinerii demokratic,keho sloleni a Ze dostava se nam do rukou nem vyjimeene zdraveho a dakladne promyAleneho, navrhy do deta.ita prostudovane.

Na.vrhy byl podepsany predsedou radu Nova Osada, bratrem Calvinem C. Chervenkou, a tajemnikem iadu, bratrem Jesse E. Shiner em. Soudim, ze preva2".na, Cast navrhil byla formulov(ina bratrein Chervenkou, ktery je graduantem statni university v Austinu a ktery pokradoval ve svYch studiich dosahl akademicke hodnosti "master's (agree." Systernaticke sloleni °pra y ukazuje, ze je sestavoval nekdo s odbornYin 'Ze je to prace mistrovska. lined V uvodu upozorimje, ice nase stanavy by mely miti vytiAeno zneni onoho povoleni od status kteri4nu se •ika "vYsada," anglicky "charter." Pripomina, kdy2 by to nebylo prakticke, proe by otisk nebyl uverejnen aspon jednou roene y e Vestrilku. Nee() podobneho najdeme y e stanovach kaZdelio jineho americkeho bratrskeho spolku, znen i. Celt 2adosti, vy.svetleni o adelu spolku, podpisy zakiadatelik potvrzeni od statniho sekretare, celY dokument. Venal prilehavY pokyn pro sjezd nebo pro stanovni vs r -bar.

Druhy teeny pokyn od 1:adu Nova 0sada je upozorneni, aby je gte pied zahajenim sjezdu bylo zjiSteno, kteri delegati davali by prednost anglietine pied e'eStinou. Je to pokyn pro budoucnost, kdy poeet delegata, k.fc.ri ovladaji ee§tinu, bude zmenSeny. Nebyl jsem v lednove sehuzi Hlavni araclovny, ale bylo ml reeeno, Ze byla v one schazi probira,na otazka jednaci reel ve sjezdu a

Ve sttedu, dne 21. btezna 1956. nalada byla pro anglietinu. Mam to z druhe ruky, nevim, zda je to pravda, ale musim potvrdit, ae vkchno jednani ve schazi Illavni ritadovny je vedeno v ankde jedinY bratr Chas. Holasek z Corpus Christi mluvi Cesky. Ostatni davaji ptednost anglietine. NaS'e budouci sjezdy stanou se dvoujazyene. Pokyn, aby na povetujicieh listinach bylo poznaeeno, jake teei ten ktery delegat dava piednost, je ,spravnY. Tlak vody dlani nezastavime. Proud anglietiny je nezadraitelnY. K udraeni souladu a pro lepSi spolupraci mezi mladYmi a starYmi delegaty musime pamatovat na ptekaaky v ieei, na ktere bratr Calvin Chervenka znovu upozorriuje.

Tretim bodem v nivrzich od 'richt Nova", Osada je srozumitelnY naert celeho sloaeni,SPJST. Naert byl uvetejnen v an,glicke east minuleho eisla. Naert ptedstavuje obrazne cele stanovy a vysvetluje naAe demokraticke sloaeni. Dekteti jsou poslani do sjezdu, jsou zakonoclarci, sestavuji pravidla a regulace, die nicha je naA bratrskY spolek veden. Distrikty a mistni tady pHk tomu, aby do sjezdu se dostali delegati nejlep'Aich kvalifikaci. Az pod delegaty, distrikty mistnimi tady jsou umisteni hlavni atednici a teditele. Neni zapomenuto ani na nahradniky.

Osobne rad bych vide' v naertu vyznadeno dalk zlepSeni, totia zavedeni tti odborri v hlavni atadovne. To vak jsou detaily, ktere bude tfeba lope prodiskutovat je‘Ste dtive nea pkijdeme k pavinnostem jednotlivYch hlavnich nikil. Pottebujemte lepai dohled na praci u mistnich tadft, chceme-li operovati jako bratrskY spolek. Pottebujeme stale ukladani penes, abychom nekdy nerneli ptebytek, jindy nemuseli vypaeovat. A pottebujeme zavedeni organisaeniho odboru, abychorn stale planovali einnost mistnich organisetor-in Tyto detaily nejsou yyznaeeny v naertu bratra. Chervenky, ale naert milk se snadno doplnit. Musime ovalem miti napied dohodu mezi sebou, kterY z hlavnich fitednika bude zodpovednY za. tu nebo onu praci, vlastne kdo bade zodpovednY za nezaplaeene poplatky od mistnich iadu, kdo bude miti na starosti organisatory, a kdo bude dohliaeti, aby nam penez neellybelo nebo nenadbYvalo. To vSechno musime mezi sebou prodiskutovat jeSte pied sjezdem. Dnes to ma na starosti eels Illavni atadovna, tedy Best atednika a sedm teditela, vSiehni dohromady.

Mezi nanohe povinnosti delegatii sjezdu ptipada take akol, aby sjead naznaell ucel distriktu a zpilsob, jakYm distrikty maji bYti vice uaiteene a schopne pro SPJST. Mezi navrhy ad tadu Nova Osada je navy elanek nadepsanY "Distrikty," kterYato elanek ma devet

VAS TlitK— WEST, TEXAS K tomuto 'elanku o distriktech vratime se pozdeji. Co yk.k za.sluhuje vetAi pozornosti je odstavec, ae delegati z kaadeho distriktu zvoli, a ye sjezdu volba se schvali, nasledujlei distriktni einovniky: jeden distriktni teditel, jeden distriktni nahradnik ieditele, dva eleni a jeden nahradnik stanovniho vYboru, a jeden Men a jeden nahradnik tiskoveho vYboru. K tomuto navrhu je ptipojena poznamka, ze volba dvou elena z kaadeho distriktu do stanovniho \TYboru byla by vice dle demokratickeho vzoru, aby prace byla lepe rozdelena a aby bylo vice spolupracovnika, kteti ureon pravidla a zakony bratrskeho spolku: Je ovkm otazkou, zdali etrnact elena stanovniho vyboru by vykonalo vice nea ttinact clehu Hlavni ritadovny vykonalo v petidennim zaseclani. Je Pravda, ae Hlavni fitadovna upravuje pouze pokyny na zaklade svych zkuknosti, ale netvoti a neformuluje nove elanky stanov. Takova prace je -akolem stanovniho vYboru.

poti.ebnY formulat: A prave to mne te% ae my, stall spolkati, musime znat, ae ti miadsi eleni maji zdrave napady a ae musime se od nich mnohemu ptiueit, ae nam to nejde pod vousy a radi mame vSechno "po starem.

Do Chinku o pravidelnYch schiizich hlavniho telesa pPine gi. l'ad Nova Osada, tento dodatek: "V gechny schaze Hlavni ill'adoy ny maji bYti sledovany redaktorem Vestniku, aby tento mohi informovat eleny a prunehu a jednant Schuze Hlavni atadovny jsou tea otevieny pro eleny, kteii chteji ptednesti nejakY navy navrh, kdya zminena, otazka je vzata v avahu. Jini navatevnici, v poetu pokud zasedaci mistnost dovoluje, maji miti piistup dle dohody s hlavnim ptedsedou. Ma vady bYti dbano, aby byl povolen ptistup do schrizi Hlavni -atadovny elentlm SPJST za fieelem, by mohli pozorovat vYkonnost a postup ve schfizi. Takove nalikevy schazi Hlavni Ciadovny maji bYti ueineny na pozvani ieditele distriktu. Schaze pit uzavtenYch dveiich, kdy se projednavaji privatni otazky jednotlivee bez vztahu na Cleny SPJST, mohou se uskuteenit pouze kdyi tti .etvrtiny zawdajicich atednikil a teditela se pro takove soukrome sezeni vyslovi."

V dalgich navrzich od eadu Nova Osada eislo 69 jsou popsany velmi zajimavym a praktickYm zpilsobern povinnosti ptedsedy, mistoptedsedy a tajemnika.

Jsein jistY, ae te,to doporueeni byla by podana trochu jinak, kdybych yam bY-val se rozepsal o zavedeni tti °ciboru trochu chive. Ale vzdor tomu, ae bratr Chervenka nemohl tu git, o Cern budu pozdeji plati, totia ae pottebujerne administrativni, investieni a organi,saeni oddeleni v nakm risttedi, jeho navrhy jsou stejne velmi dfikladne promy gleno. 0 techto boclech, jak jsou navrhovany iadem Nova Osada, zminim se ptiSte. Mezitim tad mama vypracuje mve navrhy, jak vest' hnuti inladeae v na:Sieh dech, jake druhy oznarnovani je nam tteba a bude pro nas nutria v nedaleke budoucnosti, a tea kdo se ma starati. o museum, knihovnu a pamateeni listiny, ktere se pomalu schazeji do mistnosti na geho domova v Temple.

Nejlepitn dtitkazem, ze navrhy bratra Chervenky a jeho tadu byly do vAech podrobnosti promySleny, je dodatek k elanku 33. "Tyto stanovy clovoluji zakonite a pattiemi nresurry ptijatYch élankii. Stanovni vybor je poveten uspotaclanim a pqeislovailina aby elanky fistavni byly oddeleny od pravidel, a aby zneni ceIYch stanov bylo ja,sne a srozumitelne." ) •

Zajimave je tea, ae fad Nova Osada navrhuje, aby tiskovY vybor nebyl zruAenY, ale byl zvetSenY o etyti dalS1 eleny.

V navrhu neni vysvetleno, zdali tento zvetknY tiskovy vybor me' by tea nejakou zvetknou nebo dodo ,eenou funkci nea doposud. Vidim zde aasne moanosti velkolepe reklamy pr naai SPJST, kdya by v tiskovem vYboru byly osoby, jake si bratr Chervenka ye svem navrhu ptedstavuje. Bratr Chervenka byl v redakeni rade studentskeho easopisu, byl tea komentatorem pies rozhlas, ma tedy hodne g irS1 a bohatSi rozhled o reklame, o giteni dobreho imeno SPJST nejen pamoci Vestniku, ale vaemi moanYmi moclernimi zpasoby. Rozhodne bych se ptirnlouval, aby budouci tiskovy vybor byI rozgiten, ale aby nebyl nazkvan "Publication," nYbra "Publicity" Committee. To zahrnovalo by nejen Vestnik, ale reklamu vSeho druhu. Jednou i k tomu dojde. Zatim vSak musime odstranit nedorozurneni mezi nynejSim TiskovYm vYborem a nynelSimi hlavnimi atedniky.

Dal gi pokyn od fidu Nova Osada je ye veci delegati. a jejich voleb, aby se yedelo, kolik clams kterY delegat zastupuje. Za tim &elem . tad Nova Osada navrhuje, aby tajemnik Hlavni .iadovny ptipravil formulat, kterY by byl poslan na tajemniky doniacich iadu, na kteremato formulati byla by uvedena jmena., elenil a eisla certifikata, kteti maji sve eertifikaty doplacene, plati tadove poplatky a jsou opravneni k zastoupeni ve sjezdu. V poslednim sjezdu v Hailstorm men jsme nektere tady, ktere poslaly do sjezdu vice delegatri nea byly tady opravneny. Hlavni ritadovna neNejvzacnejai u oloveka je vlastni ein — mak takove veci kontrolovat, a proto ptikl tento navrh, aby byl vypraeovan Emerson.

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ye stredu, due 21. brezna 1956.

MEDITACE 0 UPMMNEM SPOLKAikENi (Dokoneeni se strany zpravy, presto Ze za to me psani nejsem placenY. Take o ten plat neZadam, mame z eeho Ziti.

A jestli rikam, Ze Vestnik je zrcadlem, muslin dodati, Ze na g redaktor rostl s tou na gi Jednotou. Byl Menem Hlavni tradovny od roku 1924. KdyZ byl v torn roku poradan sjezd v-Houstonu, byl zvolen do ilradu neetniho vYboru. Po eas sjezdu jsem s nim a jinYmi bratry delegaty zasedal na vYboru pro opravo stanov. On je dobre obeznamenY s nasi Jednotou, s jejim rizenim, s jejimi prednostmi i s jejimi nedostatky. Sam jeho elanktim rozumim trochu jinak neZ to "vladnouci teleso," a to proto, si je pozorne proetu a nepredpojate o nich uvaZuji. Zaverek vkly vyzni, Ce to dobre mini pro tu na gi Jednotu. Ovgem takovY, kterY se naueil jen poroueet jinYm, nerad prijima rady od druhYch. 2adnY, ani ten, kdo se slohem tech burcujicich elankti nesouhlasi, nemnZe nagemu dneg nimu redaktoru uplit jeho snahu, jeho schopnosti a jeho velike .touZebne psani, aby se docililio lepgi harmonic, a to na pr ynim mists v torn hlavnim Ustredi. Pripomina, Z"e je treba zavesti nove yYhodnejAi pojistky, upravit lepgi nabor noveho elenstva a pojioZivit einnost odboru inladeZe. Necpomene poukazovat na to, jak bychom meli miti zapracovane nove sily v to na' gi idadovne. Ze povzbuzuje stale k vetgi eirmosti, to je pouZivane proti nemu.

Sam jsem eerpal z hlavniho pramene.

Od samotnYch nekterYch na gich vedoucich v Hlavni firadovne jsem sly gel, Ze za vgechny ty roky, co vedou a ridi tu nagi ftradoynou, zauoili patnact vYpomocnYch sil, ale dodnes nam neodchovali nahradni silu za sebe v pripadu nahodilYch tamrti, zneschopneni, atd. Priein a vYmluv bylo vkly dosti, pros se tak stalo. Nebudu je zde opakovati. Kdo by to chtel yedet, dopigte si primo do Hlavni ftradovny, nebo jak to bylo neclavno prekiteno do " ylidnoluelho telesa."

Musel jsem nekolikrat vyslechnout gpieate jazyky, ktere si vy gly na prochazku. ,V jedne schtizi byl dokonce yypugten balon, jak velike penize dela bratr Valeik z toho statniho organisatora. Bylo to predloni na podzim, 'ease Jednota upsala v torn roce dva a pul milionu rekordni obnos novYch Menu a pojistek. Miti zavistivou povahu, kdy'Z jsem to sly gel, tak bych se byl take nechal proti nemu popudit.

Kakleho tegi, kdy2 mu schopnost dovoluje vydelat si na ten denni chlebieek co nejvice, a pritom pamatovat na degtive dny a gpatne poeasi. ohn vice

se pribliZujeme k tomu podz i mku Zivota, tim usilovneji sledujeme nagi budoucnost, abychom nebyli na obtiZ svYm tern a dobroeinnYm fista.vam. e bratr Valcik praktikuje, co blasa, je dostateene dosvedeeno kvitovanim nejen ye Vestniku ze dne 15. anora 1956, ale i v jinYch eeskYch easopisech. Bylo oznameno. Ze Oeska Vzdelavaci Nadace v Texasu obdrZela velkodu gne dary. Mezi temlto je sedm, kteri yenovali po jednom tisici dolarri. Jmeno redaktora eika je zarazeno mezi Omit() sedmi. Zde mluvi, za, nej nejen sloVa, ale take jeho skutky. Podle peri zname ptaky.

Z dopisu nepo fivahy noveho reditele, bratra Franka V. Stepana. se poucuji, Ze v predegle lednove schtizi na gi vYkonni irked/lid a kontrolujici reditele byli prejmenovani na "vladnouci teleso" S.P.J. S.T. Je to pro mne novinka. Ci snad tento velmi yYznamnY krok byl opomenout bYti nalelite protokolo yan? Pierod z yedoucich tiredniku na "vladnouci" potentaty ma nesmirnY yYznam pro bratrsky spolek. Je velikY rozdil mezi "vedouelm " nebo "vYkonnYm telesem a "yladnouelm telesem.” Mame bYti donuceni verit, Ze Hlav ii Uradovna je neomylna?

Je znamY poi r. jak staval uZ dosti dlouho, Neste redaktorstvi zesnuleho bratra Moueky mezi nim a nekterYmi deny Hlavni in•adovny. Tento pourer se prenes1 samoeinne na nynej giho redaktora, bratra Valeika.

UeinenY yYrok, Ze na ge SPJST by prospivala bez Vestniku zrovna tak fispe g -nejakoprsivymjen sine povidani a nerozvaZne psani. Nov' reditel by tim chtel elenstvo pripravit posledni zbytek informaci a spoluprace.

Ci nepripusti ani to, Ce prave jeho apel a reklama ve Vestniku pripravily mu pfidu, Ze so stag reditelem? Ze bez Vestniku by nebyl tam, kde je dnes? At' novy to vysvetluje jak chce, " yladmewl teleso" neni demokraticke zarizeni. Kdo vladne, neni demokratem. PiemYglejte o tomto. Had bych byl presredCon, Ze se mYlim. Co se dnes dela bratru Valeikoyi, pozdeji se mute delat ygem-totiZ navkly elenstvo =Feet, bez ohledu, jsrne-li zasluZni o vzrilst elenstva a dobreho jmena pro na gi bratrskou Jednotu. Premena, z "bratrske" organisace na "akciovou" (mutual) neni die texaskeho zakonaprilis teZka. Pripada mi to v gechno jako zaludna propagace, ,Napred "vladnouci teleso," a hued v tomteZ okarnZiku odebrani Vest niku. To malo by poslouZilo zakladnimu elanku 2, hued na zaeatku na gich stanov pod ohlavenim "teel Jednoty." Ne-

bude na gRodu opakovat aspon Cast jeho pro lep gi porozumeni.

I:JOEL JEDNOTY elanek 2. teelem tete Jednoty jest poskytovati na gemu-lidu eeskoslovenskemu jeho priznivcarn vYhodriou Zivotni ochranu ye zpusobu dobrehO '2,1votnih0 pojigteni a peeovat o zachovC.ni eeskeho jazyka v teto- zemi; a snaZiti se o v geobecne povzneseni spoluroclakti nagich jak v mravnim tak i dugevnim a blahobytnem ohledu.

ZCdny rozumnY zahradnik pri prorezavani sveho zdraveho a glechtenelio stromu nebude odstranovat yetve a vetvicky, ktere nesou ovode: Olenstvo je opravneno Anklet pravdu, a jen skuteenou pravdu!

Vedouci nebo vYkonni firednici—ne vladnouci—sami zavdavaji prieinu, aby kteri si zalektosti Jednoty rnaji, delali dotazy, pros to ei ono se dela, aneb zase jine se nedela, jako v nasledujicim pripade: mei jsem zodpovidat dotaz ohledne volby noveho reditele v prynim :distriktu. Nebyl jsem dosti informovan, jsem na to kratk.Y. Ale kdy;''. ani reditele nekdy nevedi, na Coin se yYkonni iffednici nekdy ye spechu uradi. Zde tedy zalektost prvniho distriktu, kde na rychlo byla svolana schtize, podobna malemu sjezdu, pry stala nagi Jednotu asi $590.00. Z toho povstala dalPrde ti samotni iffednici, ktesi ri tak horlive dbali o zastoupeni prvniho distriktu v lednove schuzi, neukazali stejnou horlivost vfnei paternu distriktu?

Piece ved_eli Ze reditel J. M. S.krabanek nebude moci bYti schrizi pritomen pro vanou operaci, tak proe patY distrikt nemohl byti zastoupen nahra,dnikem, bratrem A. L. Hilshereni, inanZelem sestry Birdie Hilsherove, ktera kdysi tak spe gne vedla Nage Omladinove hnuti? A kdyZ Si hlayni firednici nev gimali pâtého distriktu, pros dostali najednou ohromnY zajem o distrikt prvni? A pro6 n.emeli zdjem o nahradnika v prynim distriktu eels dva roky? VYkonni firednici sami zavdavaji prieiny, Ze Clem, kteri premfaleji o spolkovem : Z"ivote, maji d.otazy.

Trochu vice uprimnosti bychom si memezi sebou. A take stejli nou miru pro kakleho, at' je to distrikt prvni nebo patY, statni organisator na severu nebo na jihu. Zanechejrne v pamet' na gich spolubratra a spolusester, s kterYmi se stYkame, dojern uprimnosti, by na nits vZdy, i kdYZ zde vice nebudeme. ien v dobrem vzpOrriinali. eis ( ) Beda vain, kteri dobre mluvite o vgech lidech.

Ve stkedu, clue 21. biezna 195

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ZPRAVY A. OHLASY Z DISTRIKA Z PATHO DISTRIKTU Rudy Sefelk, z pateho distriktu dovolujc si podati nasledujici odpovecii. Napred ocipoved' na dopis bratra Franka Vytopila. Asi ze jste, bratre Vytopile, rozumel, ze chceme mitt souteZ o "Miss SPJST" prig tim sjezdu v Temple letos v lete. Tomu neni tak. Ale chceme tuto myglenku prechiesti delegattim ye sjezdu, aby to uvaili pro pri g ti dobu. Pokud se tYee easu, jsem jisty, ze se to da vystvetlit v nanejvy g deseti minutach. Ostatne miZeme o tom debatovat mimo zasedacich hodin. My citime, ze takova reklama a podobna verejna udalost by vratila nam nekolikanasobne vylohy s tim spojend.

VSichni vime, jak jindc takove reklamni prostredky pomahaji, jenom my se bojime nee() zaditi.

V b •eznovem eisle Bratrskeho Vestniku ZOBJ, na strance 97, pie George J. Novak o vYrodi, ktere budou poraciati v Cedar Rapids, Iowa: "Delame pripravy vybrati si Kralovnu Krasy z tech mladYch cieveat, jejichZ jmena budou zaslana vYborn od rriznYch eeskYch spolku."

A jestli nekdo by se rad presvedoil, jak se takova zabava pro y adi nebo kolik pro nejakou organisaci znamena, tak jej zvu na sjezd TSSA (Texas Service Station Association) y e dnech 3., 4. a 5. dubna 1956 v Shamrock hotelu v Houstonu. Tato organisace je slolena jen z chudobnYch obchodnikft olejovYch stand v Texasti, ale je to organisace dosti usilujici o reklamu a hledici dopredu, take ye stredu veder, 4. dubna, budou miti za Peenika kongre.snika Jarnese Roosevelta z Kalifornie. Mala mistni organisace nehcji se publicity, ani planovani, co by ji cialo rekiamu.

Nyni prejdu k jine veci. Ve Vestniku 22. finora je dopis od nove zvoleneho reditele prv-niho distriktu, bratra Franka • Neroz y‘Une. napsal, ze "SPJST by prosnivala bez Vestniku zrovna tak spegne jako prospiva nyni s nim." Dle meho skrom peho nahledu, neni mezi eleny velikY zajern o spolkove veci, o schtze, o napravy. Vestnik je je g te dosud tim nejlep gim prostreclkem, ja.k se udduje zajem mezi (deny. Prestarime vyclaVat Vestnik a nebudeme miti uZ" docela ZaclnY zdjem. Na g distrikt doporuduje vydavani Vestniku cl y akrat za mesic, ale rozhocIne nebudeme souhlasit s yYrokern, ze "bez Vestniku to bude zrovna tak fispegne."

Jsem dlenem SPJST a z Vestniku se dozvim o na gi Jednote daleko vice neZ jakYinkoliv linYm zpusobem. A kdyZ', jsem ph torn, prozradim, ze jsme melt schti.zi clelegatft, kde bratr redaktor ukazal nam dopis od mistoptedsedy Hlavni Uradovny„

kde brats mistopkedseda psal: "0 zalaitostech na gi SPJST nevim vlastne nic neZ co se doetu ye Vestniku." Talc jestli hlavni inednik musi cisti Vestnik, by zvedel o zalelitostech SPJST, my obydejni Cleft ho potrebujeme daleko vice.

to, aby reditele nebrali za schfizi denni plat a aby se schtze neprotahovaly na nekolik dni. Neni to spravne, ze se jedna sehtize rozdelila na dve a platilo se dvakrat pc) $25.00. ft e d ite 1 Stepan o tom je A. td nic nevi, protn2e to nevidel ye "vYkaDale pige nove zvolenY reditel S' te- zu vgeho, co bylo ye schuzi vykonano." pan, ze "kaZde tri mesice poda se vYkaz Stalo se tak dvakrat. vgeho, co bylo ye schuzi vykonano." JeKdo2 vi, jestli dostaneme zase jenom stli se podiva do eisla, kde je na pked- "vYtah" nebo dostaneme "vYkaz vgeho", ni strand jeho vlastni obrazek, reditel kdyz Hlavni firadovna detla stanovy pet Stepan uvidi, ze je to "vYtah z protoko- dni, dlanek po dlanku. Myslel jsem, ze lu." Jak ja rozumim deStine, "vYtah" je firednici a reditele znaji stanovy nazpajenom to nej,hlaynej§i, a tak to nemtUe met. Kdo vi, prod si od posledniho sjezdu bYti "vYkaz vseho, bylo ye schuzi vy- nemohli pc) cele etyri roky delat poznamkonano." Jsem jistS7, ze vrchni tajem- ky pri kahle .schOzi nebo v kaldem pronik ma rely a podrobnY zapis ze schtize, tokolu, co je treba pozmenit. Jsem take ale ze on diva do Vestniku jenom ty zveclavY, zda to bude za celou schuzi nejclillelitej gi body. A kdyZ bratr ta- $25. My druzi dleni stuclujeme elanky zajemnik napige, ze je to "vYtah," ne- darmo. PeknY vzorek byl v minulem dimel by ho reditel Stepan opravovat a sle Vestniku od bratra Calvina C. Chertvrdit, ze je to "vYkaz, vgeho." yenky. Podal tam nektere dobre navrVysvetlim lepgi, prod si myslirn, ze je hy, na ktere by na gi hlavni firednici sotto jenom vYtah. Ale drive chci se zmi- va nit, ze to povaZuji za povinnost redakTo vgechne by melt na gi eleni vedet. tora, aby sedel ye schfri, vgechno pozoroval, a potom elenu'n nakresil obra- Reditel Stepan pi ge, ze "kdyby yetgina zek, jak ty schtize Ma y/ Utadovny jsou tech trinacti elent na, geho vedouciho tevedene, co se v nich d is nebo nedela, lesa se pokusila provesti new- pochybeco se v nich zapomnelo udelat, jestli se nen° anebo neco nesrovnavajici se s rodfilelita otazka poloZila na still a jestli zumem, anebo udelati naco tmaveho v se z komara delalo velikanske zvire. Re- techto schfizich, ze samotnSr redaktor by nemohl takovemu einu predejiti a prinudaktor ma na v gechno hledet Oeilna • poslouchat take geptane veci, a psat titi vgechny ostatni eleny vykiditi to vec o torn, co se do protokolu nikdy nepige. spravne, jenom proto, 2e on tam sedi Redaktor mel elenOm povedet, jak se ku- mezi nimi." Asi ze redaktor by nic nepovala budova SPJST, kde se dal zavda- dekazal ye schuzi, ale "pen is mightier yek $15,000 primo majiteli, aby si ho ne- than sword"—pero je mocnej gi nez med. chal, kdyZ by se budova nekoupila. Ne- Ty zarrileene a zatajovand veci nam nadelaji nejvice boleni hlavy. psal o torn, kdyi byl 'ZadanSr, aby Redaktor o tom mel eleny inforrnovat.

0 techto vecech nemluvil jsem s braJak jsem zvedel z jinYch prament., a ne trem redaktorem, ale s reditelem pateho od bratra redaktora, on zapomnel psat distriktu, bratrem J. M. Skrabankem, take o iinYch veceh, kdyZ' se miu reklo, kteiy je take jednim z tech, co ye schtiaby o nick nepsal. Nebylo o techto p11- zich Hlavni irradovny hlasuje "proti" napadech nic ani ye "vYtahu." Na pfiklad darmo. Nyni, kdy bratr redaktor nebyl do nebylo. r.ic oznameno, ze pravni radce schfue pripugtenY, a kdy ani reditel odevzdal Jednote dek na $2,000.00, ale ‘ krallanek nemohl po operaci do sehtize, dostal z toho $500 za svoji slnZbu. Myani posl at za sebe nahradnika, eleni doslim, ze brats redaktor mel to oznamit a stali z posledni schrize jenom "vYtahy."' vysvetlit, Ze Hlavni nradovna darovala Jsem toho nahledu, ze kdy2 Hlavni arapravnimu 'Octet tech $500, trebaZe je za dovna chtela studovat stanovy, mela zatakovou extra praci odmeriovanY obno- volat take redaktora. Citim, ze jsem dlesem $150 kakly mesic, a to i kdyZ extra nem velike demokraticke organisace, a price neni. proto rad bych mel co nejvie informaci Take jsem nevidel nikde ye "Otahu" demokratickSm zptisobem. PovaZ'uji naani ye "vYkazu v geckeho", jak se ye geho redaktora za schopneho, aby ram schuzi ochilasuje, ze ptijde se k vdeeki a informace nodal tak, jak si to prepo vedein zadne druha schtze, za kterou jeme. reditele dostanou dal gich $25.00. Byl Jsem s bratrskYm pozdravem a pro jsem mistopredsedou posledniho sjezdu lep gi Jednotu a pamatuji se, ze reditele dostali $25 a Rudy J. 'Sefeik milovne za schuzi. To bylo udelane pro-

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OZNAMENI VgEM DELEGATtM DISTRIKTU CISLO 6. S. P. J. S. T.

Louise, Texas.

Vgichni delegati distriktu cis. 6 jsou timto uvedomeni a zvani, aby se dostavili SCHUZE TitEliHO DISTRIKTU do schtze (co stanovni vSrbor) dne 2o.

Timto chef ptipomenout v gem elentm biezna. Schtze zapoene ye 2 hodiny odpo.

SPJST, a hlavne elentim v tketim distrik- ledne v Hillje, Texas v SPJST sini. tu, ze schtze na geho distriktu bude pfigti Bude to v nedeli a doufam, to se vas nedeli 25 biezna v sini tadu Jaromir eislo dostavi co nejvice, aby se probiraly stano54 ve West, Texas. Je to dOldita, schtize, vy a take nove navrhy od spolkt. y e ktere ptedleha, nam mnoho bode k vyToto bude schuze jen . delegatt, kteti tizeni a take volba novYch distriktnich jsou zvoleni do pfigtiho generalniho sjezttednikt na ptigti obdobi. du nagi Jednoty. Ovgem eleni jsou take Toto bude vSrborna, vlastne posledni vitani Wit pfitomni teto selnize. ptilelitost pied sjezdem, abyste vy, eleni Vgeobecna schite distriktu eislo 6 bua delegati, ptednesli sve nobledy. Ac ma- de konana dne dubna a to v Moravii. me dobrou Hlavni fikadovnu a znameni✓ bratrskS,m pozdravem, tou Jednotu, na kterou v gichni mtleme Paul gablatura, bYti hrdi, pfece eas od easu vyskytnou se ptedseda distriktu Cis. 6, SPJST. nektere pottebne opravy. Zadna lidska, )•4•( organisace neni dokonala a ladnS7 obchod nenride udrZet sve tempo, kdyl" si ptestane v g imat nov3ich nebo zlepgenSTch poladaykt.

Sehilze v jin31,eh distrikteeh budou uveA kdy 2. nekterST z nas pkednese nejakou myg lenku, mite se to zdat na prvni po- tejneny jakmile distriktni Ofednici ustahled neprakticke, ale vede to k dalgimu novi datum sehtze ye svern distriktu.

Distrikt prvn 29. dubna, Schulenburg. uvalovani a ptinese to nekdy dobrST naDistrikt druh 29. dubna, Taylor. zor, co bychom si mohli pozmenit a zlepDistrikt tteti, 15. biezna, West.

Proto ptijdete v gichni, kdo mitete a District dtvrtSr, 6. kvetna, Wichita Falls nebojte se podati sve nahledy.

Distrikt gesty, 22. dubna, Moravia, oChtel bych vgak upozornit na jeden kres Lavaca. dtlaitY bad, kterY se vztahuje na nage Distrikt sedin, 15. auona 1956, jour schtze. Stalo se nekolikrat, kdyt jsme danton meli schtze, ze proneseny byly trochu jiz•4, live poznamky a naralky, ktere se jineho nemile dotknou. Snad je to v povaze nekterSrch bratru, museji jinernu dat na jevo, jak malo vahy kladou na slova jine✓ sobotu 24. biezna promitani filmu v ho. Nate organisace neziska, tim nieeho, sini tadtt Hvezda Texasu eislo 47. 'Z'adne kdyz budeme jeden druheho oblaZovat vstupne. nevhodn3"rmi poznamkami. Neukazuje to, ✓ sobotu 31. biezna rodinnST yeeirek ze rozumime bratrstvi nebo le se dovedebude davan u kadu Pokrok Dallas eislo me ye spoleenosti slu gne vyjadtovati.

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Proto bych si ptal, abychom v nagich ✓ nedeli 1. dubna kogieloy ST ()bed u distriktnich schtzich zachovali si klid a rozvahu, a ned5.vali ptilelitost tern mlad- tadu Sam Houston eislo 73 v Seymour. ✓ nedeli 1. dubna velikonoeni program Mm elentm domnivati se, le "elm je elen deti u tadu Pokrok Houston. stargi, tim je tvrdohlavejgi."

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Distriktni scheme

KALENDAf

A znovu opakuji srdeene pozvani od vgech Akednikii tketiho distriktu vgem elenftm SPJST, delegattm, hlavnim tediteltm, bratru redaktoru, elentm a tkedniktm jinSich distriktt, aby byli nagimi hosty ve schtzi tfettho distriktu pkigti nedeli, 25. biezna, ye West.

Na stoprocentni zastoupeni od mistnich tadtt ttetiho distriktu se opravdu vgichni tegime. pkedseda ttetiho distriktu.

S bratrskS)m pozdravem J. F. lirabina,

✓ sobotu 14. dubna podavana bude spoledna vedeke v sini tadu Pokrok Houstonu Oslo 88. 'Srna,Zend kutata. Po \Tee•i zabava hudbe Rudy Zatopka. vedte zname i neeleny. ✓ nedeli 29. dubna piknik u tadu Pokrok Houstonu. Obsluha peeeneho masa (barbecue) zaene ye 12:30. Odpoledne tanecni zabava zdarma. ✓ nedeli 6. kvetna DramatickSr kroulek Hlahol fsehraje v sini tadu Pokrok Houston veselohru "eeska chaloupka". Po divadle taneeni zabava.

Ye stredu, dne 21. biezna 1956.

OPRAVY STANOV Bratke redaktore: Zasilam dal gi navrhy na opravu stanov. Zaeinam z toho bYt piimo "nesvtj", ze ty opravy ptichazeji al ye tki etvrte na dvanact. A vim, le pokadna zasoba je kde, co bude ptineseno al do schtze 10. biezna. Vim le z pateho distriktu pfijde neco, a od Hlavni ttadovny take, ponevadi "zasedali" etyti dny - a nic dosud neoznameno. Tak by to nemelo bSrti delano - a eekano. Na podani oprav stanov mel by bSiti -ureen jistSr eas, jiste datum.

Co v takovem ptimo zmatku mite stanovni vSrbor &int? Ted' mame schfai, za arnact dni nebo za mesic dostaneme zase dime opravy. A to zase opravovat?

Nynej gi zasilani oprav stanov povatuji za kocourkov - a tiebas mne za to uktilujte.

S bratrskSim pozdravem Jos. Slavik, tajemnik stanovniho vYboru. )•4 Navrhy ku oprave stanov od kadu cis. 145 Mt. Calm, Texas.

Cl. 65. Dodati, aby uchazedi o vydavani Vestniku podali ye sjezdu zapedetenou nabidku 61. 66. Dodati: aby uchazee o redaktoraodal ye sjezdu zapeeetenou nabidku.

Cl .. 46. Pravni radce: Dodati, aby uchazed podal zapeeetenou nabidku ve sjezdu.

Cl. 25. Dodati: Aby se daly natisknouti jen zmeny a dodatky stanov.

Cl. 17. Br. 8napka, delegat navrhuje, aby se delegattim platilo jen cestovne a ostatni at' si plati sam nebo jeho tad.

S bratrskYm pozdravem L. Vanduch, tajemnik. )•4•( Kaldeho jitra dostava kral stejne jako sedlak novou fonografickou desku. &me na ni psati, co chceme, ale budeme odpovedni za v gecko, cokoli pigeme. Na nave desce budou vytisknuty v gecky nage myglenky, nage pohnutky, nage ctiladost, nage nadeje, na ge touhy a kaldSr skutek toho dne. Cokoli na ni napi geme, je neznieitelne a bude verne reprodukovano v nagich livotech, stane se ea.sti na geho karakteru. Mtilerne vloliti do teto desky piseri, ktera obveseli, basal, ktera oblali kaZdeho, kdo ji pozdeji usly gi. Mfteme na ni napsati slova lasky, uznani, pochvaly, vdeenosti, slova je ts nadchnou mnolstvi lidi, nebo miteme napsati sve hnevy, sve msty, sve Zarlivasti. Miteme na ni vytisknouti einy dobre nebo gpatne. ) • 44 • ( "Jonagi, zima je ptede dvetmi, meli bychom objednati uhli," "To je zbyteene! Nemame zaplacene time, tak to budeme mit nekolikrat za mesic exekutora a ten nas "dohi'eje" zadarmo!"

Ve stredu, dne 21, brezna, 1956.

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domti, byl nad g en a vzpruZen pro dalig eislo 142 Houston, Texas praci na gi Jednoty.

Mill tratri a sestry: Zvenie sestry a bratry v gech distriktu, by se zneastnili.

Chel y am na.psatkratkint zpravu -ze S bratrskYm pozdravem. schuze -pate ho distriktu. ktera se konala: Robert 'Cervenka. v sini radii Stefanik. Nav gteva byla veli • ) • ka,•obdcl si hoste: velice pochvalovali, itad Jaromir eislo 54. stnaZena kOata,, klabasy,akoldee; dorty, paje, -cho bylo. dost. To lige- Mill broth a sestry: sester,.ktere se -cho-Pravidelna radova schtize se konala doriesly dne 4. brezna ye 2 hod. odpoledne. ZahaDoufame; kLa byla predsedou Robertern Oervenpokojeni is dobre se ti nas kat'. Pak protokel preeeti tajemnik E. W. Popp, kterY byl prijat jak &tem V teto schttzi prijali jsme dva nove Zde icon jrnena sester, ktere darovaCleny do nag eho xadu, jsou to Helen Ann ly do kuchyne nasledujici: Srubar do Detskeho odboru, a Edward Cykalova, dort; Zahnova, kolaee; MelLouis Rejeek do Odboru dospelych. Vitanarova, dart; Voltrova, kolaoe; Mynaro,,, , me je va, paje; Beeanova., kolaee; Brezinova, Zas rune odelft jedna dlouholeta henpaj; Vajova, koldOe; Triskova,, pie; Char- kyne z naSehu radu. pani Rosie Vrana lie Kubineva, pdj; Zahnova mlad gi, paj; Kelarkovd, dort; Kunetkova, kolaee; ye stari 86 let, ktere byla vzdana east povstanim.

Shilkova, kolaee; Frank Beeanova, paj; Zabavni vYbor opravil vnitrek sine a Kovarova, koldee; Kotrlova od eisla 88, dal novo chladiee do nalcvny. koldee; Kubinova, koldee; SopeaPriAti Padova, schtize hl. lie konana druxava, koldee; Valovd, maso; Ermisova, hou nadeli v dubnu, do 8., misto prvni andivku a tell; Sturmova, salat ze syronedeli, ponevadZ nam 1 Hpadaji velikoveho zeli; Cykalova, krasne vygivanou noeni svatky na prvni nedeli. Tak si to plachetku, na kterou jsme prodavali ei- pamatujte a prijd'te do schlize druhou sla do vYhry a udeali jsme $16.00. Krome -Lelia baste Joe CilnY starAi natal predsta- nedeli pri gti mesic. vil kuchyn a jeho praci natal daroval.

VYbory se pilne pripravuji na Wein se to voice libi. nil schuzi. ktera bude ve West dne 25. brezna, jak kuchynskY tak prograanovY. S pozdravem Lena Kunetka 'regime se na shledani s vami. Doufame, ) 4 4 ( Ze prijedete ye velkem path.

Dne 7. brezna se prihnal chladnY seveRad Jam eislo 130 Dallas, Texas rak, takle byl dosti silnY led na vode, dnes dne 12. brezna prigla zas zima, takle leritun radu Jaro el. 130: VelikonoCni svatky pripadaji letos pea- radio hlasi, Ze bude mrznout do rdna, coil pozastavilo rolniky se setbou korny a jiye na nedeli, kdy je na ge pravidelna clova schuze. Z toho diwodu schtize je neho krmiva. Jest obava, ze nam v gechodlolena as na etvrtek, yeeer 5. dubna, no ovoce zmrzne, neb stromy jsou obalene kvetem. na pill osme yeeer.

Po schuzi nas uctily dobrou svaeinou Laskave vezmete na vedorni toto prelor2ene datum schtize. Ddvam toto ozna- sestry Frances Matu g a Rosie Matug, koldeemi a kavou. Dekujeme. Na, primein do Vestniku dvakrat, abyste to neprehledli. Oeekavame ye schtzi va gi pri- Ste si vezmou kuchyi na starost sestry Rosie eoeek a Frances Popp. tomnost.

Mollie Barton, dopisovatelka.

S bratrskym pozdravem 4* Joe Maca, tajemnik radu Jaro 130 fLid Ces.14 Prapor Mslo 24.

(12-13) ) ° eTs • ( Ctene sestry a bratri: Ravi Jarornir 6islo 54.

Breznova schtize na geho radu byla doDeath a sestry: sti dobre Many zastoupena.

Pri g ti schilze , tretiho distriktu je za Maria y am oznamit, Ze pri gti schtize budvermi. Sestry radu Jaromir Cislo 54 se de druhou nedeli v dubnu dne 7. Bude pripravuji,' aby vie bylo v torn nejlepgim adlolena nasledkem toho, ae prvni nedele a aby kaZdY byl nalelite obslouZen. pripadne na velikonoeni svatky. Asi mnoJe to na gim pranim, by tato schuze by-- zi by se nemohli dostavit. Hled'te se dola dobre nav g tiyena a konala se v duchu' stavit v co nejvetSirn poetu. S pozdravem bratrsk.ern, tak aby kaZdY kdyZ pojede Lydia ZavodnY, dopisovatelka.

ita'd Slovanska LIpa a-lo 66.

Mill bratri a sestry: Nage mesieni schuze se konala v nedeli odpoledne ye 3 hodiny 11. brezna v LiX1!; den Hall. Predseda Roman Parma ji bajil a meli jsme obstojnY poeet Clenft pritomnYch. Cest byla vzdCna vlajce vge., nil eleny a predrikana malou Zephyr Fay Spence.

Na yStevou jsme male pani Cervenka, sleenu Barbara Kelincke a mladeho Monroe Yanke.

Protokol z nuniziC schuze byl eten prijat.

Sestra Emma ae gka. bratri John Sinn elk a Otto Hanu g jsou na vYbaru pro plC' novani zabavy pill sjczdu od naSeho spol ku. iJ3 byli nekolikrat v Temple na schn-„ zi a doprovazeni byli bratrem Otis eel. gkou a sestrami Otto BanuS a John 8" imeikovou. Sestra ee gka byla jednou z new kolika vybrana pro zdbavni vYbor y Temple. Tea sestra Ceska nam pravila, programt!: chteji nasi inladeZ pouZit Tak chime, 3e je to pro na g re ad eest, chteji nail pomoc pill planovani a usktu teeneni programu.

Sestra Barbara Parma ni'an preeetla lmena tech alma, co maji narozeniny tento mesic a sice: sestra Matilda Holly& pani Rose Narovec, Mary Nell Narove6,, bratri William Kudelka, a Albert Casper Jr. Zazpivali jsme jim "Happy Birthday: Prigti nedeli budeme mit find, baryero, Zidli a jineho 6isteni v naSi sini, aby by394 viechno MAC neZ nam zas zaenou Mame 25 novYch Ldli a 1.1017 A kamna dd, kuchyne. tak ted' mama d ye plotny,tak: name dost mista, CdyZ checnie necoNa-.; Ht. TeZ to nedeli oduolechie bude sestr-a Barbara Parma poradat pomlazku pro mladeZ. Na g prvni tanec bude na vclikonoeni nedeli weer a kaMou sobotu yeeer, tak, dufame, ze case budete k nam jezdit na tance jak prede gle. VaZime si va gi fieastia jste viichni srdeene zvani u nas se bavit.

Musime se pochlubit, ze na4 colada s` estra Emogene Hanu gova, Ward vyheala nag pryni Contest, tentokrate dostala tak dobre vysvedeeni ve vyA gi gkole z tiny, ze se dostala mezi 28 PnYch deveat' a hochil do National Honor Society. Tq nejvetgi odmena za dobre vysvedeenis anglietiny. Musi mit aspon 94. Jsrne ni hrdi a prejeme ji a jejim rodiebm,bratru a sestre Emil Hanu govYni, ze std-: ce toto vyznamenani, Na listku nemocnYch jsou sestra Agnes Mazanec a bratr Vaclav Z ' ebra. Pkejeme jim, aby byli vase brzo zdravi a mohll mezi nas pkijit.

Strana 8 Bratru a sestre John SimeikovS7m gratulujeme k narozeni noveho vnuka, kterY se narodil man?elam Carroll 8im6ikovSirii. Mlady otec je nas Glen. Prejeme jim, aby hoSik jim rostl k radosti a Stesti.

Dne 25. brezna bude distriktni schuze ve ,West, Texas u radu Jaromir cislo 54, tak: nam sestra CeSka pripominala, aby se nas hodne. seSlo, kdyz to rname tentokrat tak blizko. priSti schtize bude zase druhou nedeli v mesici, tak to pripadne na 8. dubna a dnufame, 2e se nas hodne do-

VESTNIK -- WEST, TEXAS chovana na mestskem hrbitove v Moulton. NaS.e soustrast Tobe, pani Kate Fisbeck.

NeZ ukoneini, tak vas ?edam, spolusestry a bratti, abyste se dostavili do schnze. ktera bude jak yaly bYva, druhou nedeli v mesici dubnu.

ZUsta.vem jako I/My vase dopisOvatelka za nas fad, Bo?ena Fojtova.

My vime, poznstala rodino, ze bol yfiA nad jeho odchodem jest velikY, ale budiZ vain Utechou, ze i my Zelime jell° odchodu: Necht' odpoeiva v pokoji.

Dario v Hillje, Texas dne 12. brezna 1956.

Resoluen vYbor: E. K. HajovskYr 2ofie Hradecka Leo. Triska.

4, 4, RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI

Tetieko Svitakove, mete se dobre u dcery 'a jeji rodiny, Ze ani se Vain nechce donni. Budete tam jeSte dlouho? SrdeenY pozdra y na vas vkchny tam v to dalne Y' l'ferritu Piste nam, jak se Vain tam libi.

Nez tento dopis bude v tisku, bucle jen RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI per dai do velikonoc, tak preji vain S't'aniZepsanY resolueni vYbor radii My, stile a vesele svatky, obz ylaSte naAim Nova Morava eislo 23 v Moravia, Texas, vZdalenYin elentim.

RUZena Parma, dopisovatelka that() projevujerne jmenem radu uprimno citenou soustrast rodine nad ztratou jejich otce, dedeeka a nakho spolubratra tdid Culak cislo 165.

Josefa Konviaa, Mae etenarky a etenari: kterY zenifel d le 29. Unora 1956 u jeho Dries main chvilku volno, tak napisi par sync August K' ivicky. Pocho yan byl dne ractkti. Foeasi mauve mizerne na brezen.

1. btezna na spc. oventhrbitove radu NoRadio hlasi, Ze pry ma mrznout. To by ale va Morava eislo 23 za neasti jeho rodiny, bylo zle, nen mnozi mail jiZ kornu yen. spolkovYch bratri, sester a pratel. PoJa vZdy rikam, kdybych ja byla mu?, Ze hrebni obrady vykonal predseda naSeho bych zemeryjcom ribbyla, siebot' rolnik radu, bratr Frank J. OthoyskY. musi priliS mnoho prijmout zkazy na ZminenY spolubratr pattil do Jednoty rode. od pfirody. Ve meste dostane delnik 54 let, nyni jeho stall bylo 87 let. Byl ye$800 a? $400 mesiene a jeSte jdou na sta y sere povahy a dbalY s yS.r ch spolkovYch -kn.Acomyrlidstaezmc? povinnosti.

Ktiybychom vSichni farmati pestovali Vince, portistala rodino, 2e teke nesete wi c . no mnoho, teprve by bylo vkchno phjeho ztratu, ale bucliZ yam atechou, ze i 11: : lacine. my soucitime s vami ve vaSem 'zarnnitku. 'r Gera, druhou nedeli v mesici, toff? 11.

ZesnulY bratr necht' odpoeiVa v pokoji a 1,r;:n.a konali jsine, naSi pravidelnou cest budi? jeho pamatce.

Bylo nes tam velice malo. jenom Dano za rad Nova Morava eislo 23 v Dverni cenu obdr?el Harvey Moravia. Texas.

Ul'evo na nove stoly jest ji2 dovezeno„ j nom je zhotoyit.

Jeliko2 bylo malo elenti ve schtizi, tak jeme dtile?ite jednani edlo?ili a? do priS"ti Sc haze.

Prosim vas, spolusestry a bratri. co se vnm stalo, Ze jste zustali doma? Pfijd'te do,druhe schtze, abychom mohli si vyplanovat nejake pobaveni anebo piknik na letoSni rok, nob vite ze "United we stand, divided we fall." JSille jenom jednou na svete a proto mame prile?itost se y e spoleenosti scjit a pobavit se vesele. .A2 ze' me, -a2 nas potom rozhradi s tou hri_iudou zemskou.

Nak spolusestra pani Kate Fisbeck, jenC vede grocemi obchod v Moulton, ztratila svou rnatku. 'ktera zemrela v nedeli rano. Byla to pani Sam Johnson, kteta, prebYvala se svYin manZelem na farrne blizko Moulton. Dues odpoledne bude po-

'Ye stredu, dne 21. brezna 1956.

Resoluneni vYbor: John Kahanek Paul BroZ Emil Vrana. ) • 4. • ( RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI My, niZepsanY resolueni vYbor radu oechoslovan eislo 40 v Hillje, Texas, vyslovujeme tirnto portistale rodine uptimne citenou soustrast nad ztratou jejich otce, decleeka a nakho spolubratra.

Ernila Kubeshe, jenZ po dlouho trvajici nemoci zernrel dne 27. Unora . a pohrben byl za velke neasti pratel a zna.mYeh dne 29. Unora na katolickem hrbitove v Hillje, Texas.

OdeSel nam zase jeden z tech, 'kterS7 ma velkY podil v tom. Ze nas fad tak zmohutnel. Byl to jeden z tech mala, kdo byl hotov porhoci vSude, bez ohledu na to, jake uznani za to dostane.

My, nine podepsanY resoluenivYbor fadu Svojan eislo 11 v Praha, Texas, chceme dint° vysloviti naSi uptinmou soustrast pozUstale rodine nad ztratou jejich otce, dedeeka a nakho spolubratra Frank Blahuta, kterY zemfel dne 27. ledna 1956 a byl pchiten 29. ledna v East Bernard, Texas.

ZesnulY byl dobrYm elenem a valy fadne pinil sve povinnosti. Pristoupil do Jednoty 10. Nina 1897 ku nakinu. radu. Ze- ' mrelY se doZil 89 let. test jeho pamatce a at' klidne odpoeiva po vykonane Dana v Praze, Texas, dne 11. brezna 1956.

Resoluoni vYbor radu Svojan Simla 11.

Aug. Jalufka, Frank 8embera Frances Jalufka. ) • 4•( RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI My, nine uodepsanY resolueni vYbor Mau Svojan eislo 11 v Praha, Texas, vyslovujeme naSi soustrast pozUstale rodine nad ztratou jejich otce, dedeeka a na geho spolubratra Frank Svasta, kterY se odebral na yeenost dne 29. ledna 1956 v nemocnici ve Fredericksburg, Texas po kratk.e. nemoci ve staff 90. let.

ZesnulY bYval zvolen sveho easu do rtiznYch firacIii jako tajemnik, predseda atd., teZ bYval vyslancem do sjezdu. Posledne bydlel v nemecke utulne v Comfort, Texas.

Pohfben byl dne 30. ledna 1956 ye FlaWilla. Texas na mestskem hrbitove. test budi2 jeho pamatce. At' odpoeiva pokojne po Zivotnim boji.

Dano v Praze Texas, 11. brezna 1956.

Hesolueni vYbor tadu eislo 11 v Praze, Texas: Aug. Jalufka Frank 8embera Frances Jalufka. )•4 Jsme-li fysicky slabi, ifahame ueiniti tok na prekaZky, ktere bychom snadno prekonali, kdybychom byli mohutne silnYmi. Co se zda bYti krtei hromadkou muZi pineho zdravi, stave se horou, je-li jcho iivotnost nizka.

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DOPISY A NAI1LEDY CLEW BEZ REDAKTORA VE SCITEZI, BEZ VESTNiKU V JEDNOTE Orchard, Texas.

Sestry a bratri: Ja ne a nemohu pochopit, prod bratru redaktoru na geho Vestniku jest zakazan pristup do schtze Hlavni Uradovny. KdyS jsem byl prijiman do Jednoty k radu Karel Jona g, bratr star gi predseda mezi jinYm mi daval tohie ponaueeni: "Co lide jsme vg ichni krehci, lehce chybam a vadam podlehame a proto se spojujeme, abychom se navzajem poznavali a chyby napraveVali. KelyS ale budeme jeden pied druhYm dveie zaVirati, s tim chyby nenapravime, pouze nepratelstvi zavadime."

S tim zakazena jest zavdana prieina k nedtivere, aby se elen gtvo domnivalo, Se v tech schtizich se kona neco nepattioneho, a ze to vedouci nechteji. aby to bylo uverejneno. VSclyt' ve sjezdu, kde se tvori cpravuji na p e stanovy a projedndvaji se rtizne oSehave veci, tam ma pristup kaSdY. A mimo toho v minulein sjezdu bratr sjezdovY predseda ustanovil tri zpravodaje, kteri meli podavat zpravy sjezdoveho jedndni do mistnich novin. AIe ze schtize Hlavni Uradovny se nesmi elenstvo dozveciet, co v g e v to schuzi bylo projednavano.

Bratr reditel Frank V. Stepan ye svem dopisu y e Vestniku Cis. 8 nam sdeloje, v tech schazich neni bratra redaktora treba, Se po kaSele schtizi Hlavni Uradovny jest poclan struenY protokol vegkereho jednani. Snarl a sestry, kooknete se na tu struenost do protokolu z posledni schtlze Hlavni tradovny. Tam jest ppznaeeno dvakrate, Se byl eten dopis feditele J. M. Skrabanka, ale co v nein bylo, po torn nam neni. Jsem jistY, Se kdyby v to schtizi byl br. redaktor pritomnY, Se bychom se byli dozvedeli, co v tom dopisu bylo.

Dale br. reditel 8tepan pipe, Se nape Jednota by prospivala bez Vestniku tak fispegne, zrovna jako prospiva nyni s nim.

Ja zase tvrdim, ze nebYti Vestniku, to nap e Jednota ji2 cla yno by nenesla, jmeno SPJST. Pamatujete si, bratte Stepane, na rok 1931, jak se nekteri snazili zreorganisovati ji na vzajemne pojigt'ujici spolek? Pamatujete, jaka spousta protestir posilana proti tomu do Vestniku? Kdybychom nemeli Vestnik, kam by(thorn ty na p e protesty byli posilali? Bratre redaktore, aby si nekdo nemyslel, Se nevim co pigi, posilam Ti jedno eislo Vestniku, y e kterem je tech protests sedrn.

A sice I. J. Gallia, Joseph Knapp, Stepan St'astnY, Paul Fojta gek, Frank Vytopil, Jos. Bartog a moje maliekost.

Bratre redaktore, byl bych rad, bude-li nic

moSno, abys ten rnitj dopis ze dne 11. brezna 1931 uverejnil, neb je tam take zminka o praci organisatorske, kteri tenkrate je gte" hodne pokolhavala. Ovgem Se jegte dues neni dokonala.

Velika chyba jest, Sc ' sjezdove usne gern neni docIrSovano, neb budou etyri Leta pa sjezdu a statniho organisatora jegte nemame. Doufam, Se se to v pri gtim sjezdu napravi. • ZesnulY president Masaryk rikal, Se udelat ze Spalneho nee° dobreho, to neni dovednost. Ale ,udelati z neeeho anbreho jeSte neco lep gi, to je dovednost.

Marne Jednoto dobrou, jen nedrimejmc pilne pracuime, a stujme na strati, kdyS no in neptitel naraZi, a udelame ji jegte psi. Jen nezavadejme v bratrske Jednote Saclue nepratel gtvi. Ja myslim, Se vYrnina nazorti podand ye Vestniku sluanYm zptisobem Sadnemu neubliSi a Jednote prospeje. A OA torn vgem nezapominejme . na ta slova, ktera jeden Slovak Jano, kup masa, za pet masa, pojez —masa„ popijmasa, milujmasa, ale — nedajmasa.

Prigtimu sjezdu preje zdar John GajevskST. Orchard, Tex. , 1. brezna 1931.

Bratre reclaktore. odp ,st'te, Se obteSuji.

Nerad tak einim, ale kdyS bratr Chupik pichnul do yeelniku, anebo lepe reeeno probudil elenstvo z jeho spolkove neteenosti, a Melo to dobrY ifeinek takSe se to jen hemSi ye stati dopisovatelske, tu neni moSna. aby se Clo y& zdrSel a svuj nahied na jevo nedal. USnavam, Se by se mei° nee° ueinit pro ziskavani novych elentt, neb poslednich nekolik rokti priliv noveho elenstva nejak ochabnul. Ale zde dluSno podotknouti, 'Se je to vinou Menstva samotneho, Se se neridi die hesla nag eho yelikeho ueitele Palackeho. kterY mezi jinYm y e syYch spisech napsal tohle: "Kde muS, tam Sena; kde rodina, tam ditky!"

Znam jen u nageho radu Karel Jonag mnoho clenu, kteri jsou dobrYnai eleny, Jednota je take dobra pro ne, ale — ne pro jejich deti, neb je dali pojistit u jine jednoty aneb u pojig t'ujici spoleonosti. A zde je ten kamen Urazu — jak tomu odpornoci? Zde je dobra rada drand. Co se mne tYee, ja verim v agenta eili jednatele, kterY ma dobrou vytidilku a ncstydi se za ni. Co dobrY jednatel dokaSe, zde uvadim priklad.

Sve doby, kdy jsem pracoval ve stare vlasti ye VitkovickYch zavodech, jednu nedeli jsem zagel k naYm znamYin na besedu. Bavime se vsichni hovorem, a tu najednou zaklepe nekdo na dvere. Na znameni "dal", dvere se otevrou a v nick).

se objevi agent se so gkami Fanny Marie Loordske. Pani clomaci hoed no agenta spusti, "S Pariem Bohem. nebudem kupovat. Za prvne nenatine penes, a so druhe us :name zrovna takovou so gku, A jestli neverite, tak se podivejte." A cite vrela dvere do druhe s yetnice, kde neni so:aka stala na pradelniku.

A myslite, Se se oven agent nechal tim zastra git? I kdepak! Ten tepr y spustil stavidla sve vYntluvnosti, "Ale, panimar mo„ vy byste mela leoupit jednu, alc? tri sosky. Zde vidim tri cinepivajici due rtig ky a soudim. z e jedna z nich us napadnika." Pri tech sloveell mrknul gel, movsky okem po Ione. "A Se nemate penez? Tomu ja neverim. Kde panuje takoe vy poradek a cistota, jako y e y a gem doe take penize." A panimarna, mu, tam jsouc nad g ena chvalou agenta, ptala jej. co takova soska stoji. Agent rikal, jedna stoji nest korun, ale jestli panimama koopi tii, Se je necha go peti korti7 nach. Vyslectek siolon yy bv1. d ye sosky devet korun.

Panimama, chtejic sosky sapMtit gla pradelniku, nazvedla soaku. vytahla z pod ni peneSenku a yyplacelit agenta. A to teprve agent zaeal: "Ale, panlmamo. co ? Prodavam ty so gky tip pies deset let, ale dosud jsem pochyboval 29 by byly tak zazraene! AS vy jste nine vyvedla z Waldo! Vile en, kdy2 to Panenka Matle Lourciska pun sedet na penezich. vy byste pree meta koupit jeStir, )edim sogkui v kratkem Case byste byld Panimiama uS vie..' so g ek nekoupila, dala na still kafe a kolStee, a pobidla. agenta k svaeine. KclyS po svaeine agent odegel. pohrozila panimama za nim pesti se slovy: "Ta potvora. ten to min. yye. dojil ze mne devet kortm." Pantdta tom udelal poznamicu: "Stara, mid, nmdojil, v2clyt' ten agent z tebe jsi tech devet korun vyttila z Fanny 1\4arie Lourdske." Potoni r i rezpredla vesela dobata. Tenkrat jsem poznal, co dovede dobra vyridilka. jsou

Ovgem takovY jednatel pro na gi Jedrioto by musel bYti dobre placen. aby se Ja nine mohl venovati svemu povolani, jiti eci domu k domu, vyevetlii stinne strcinky pojigPojicieh spoleenos•i a poukazat na svetle stranky naseho 1.‘ratrskeho pajigteni. KdyS, ale bratr Chupik oznami, bode y e scrnizi Who neb onoho radu za prieinou siskani elenti pro nazi JednOtu, do schtize malokdo faijele pro obavu. aby see ditky nemusel cio Jednoty zapsat.

111avni vele, no kterou clici v tomto dopisu poukazat, jest, Se jsem pro zavedeni ruzneho pojigteni a ma gi Jednoty, ktere by vyhovovalo nynei gim poinertim. I\Tpr jsem ale a nikdy nebudu pro to. aby pa-

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Se'Jednota byla promenena na spoleenost. Neni ,tomu davno, co jsme naSim rodaktim ye stare vlasti pomahali dobYvati samcstatnosti a svobody. A zde; pod ochranou zakona mime svobodu .lava, svobodu tisku a pra y () shrornaZd'Ovaci, meli bychem se toho dobrovolne zrcanout? Ne — bratri a sestry, na to kme v minulem sjezdu v Temple nepovoliii Beset stipendii pro Ceske studenty na stolid slovanskeho jazyka na Statni Universite v Austinu, aby nak Ceske spolky zde zahynuly. My jsme to udelali v to nadeji, ze oni studenti budou vzpruhou rlaSich eeskYch spolkti aZ dotud, dokud nebudeme okolnostmi ptinuceni rortaviti se v torn stoprocentnim kotli.

A ze bychom tou promenou na akciovou spOleenost dosahli finaneni Uspory, tomu neVerim. Kdyby ta promena byla udeldno. vime dobte, ze takova spoleenost by musela miti svou budovu a ze by takova budova nemCla Zadneho yYznamu, kdyby byla postaVena u rids na Orchard, to uzna kdy. Ta by musela bYt postavena ye vdIkem meste jako jsou Houston, San An• 1.(.‘ino, Dallas a jive. A stavet ji nekole zameStem na lacinYch lotech, to by take ,J,Alo. A postavit ji nekde ye sttedu me-Sra? To by pohltila celY nas imirtni fond.

A co potom? Ja, vim, a vy, bratti a sestry, take vite, ze tieba by pat •ila ta spolee.ndst nam vsenl, veAkere povinnosti k ni by"-.horri moll, ale jednaei neho rozhoduji-ei 'pra y° Zadne. A co by se stab s naSim *festnikem? Vence malo manse tech easeYe kterYch se nepestuji vraZdy, kraloupeZe a jine zloeiny. Tou promenon bychom byli o jeden door' easopiS Zkraceni. Tak na to hledi John GajevskY. e4 •( -Houston, Texas. ry a bratti.: Muslin take napsat ,nekolik kadek do Vestniku, abyste yeah, ze jeSte ziii, neb 'dneSniho dne 'Clo y & nevi, kdy maze Zivot. Muj bratr Franta Kuropata byl .v. automobilovem neStesti. Jeho zet' jt1 pro neho. Jak si sednul do auta a jell asi dva bloky, tak se srazili s druhou ka,tak se stab, ae obe kary byly potluBratr byl nejvice potlueenY, mel ziamanY nos a poranenou hrud'. Pobyl si v nemocnici nekolik dni.

Take piSu proto, ze bych rada zvedela, k.de jsou Markovy deveata, Karolina obe jsou proydane Klapkovy. Hermina a Matilda. Vim ze Matilda je v Hailstone, ale nevim za koho se provdala, ant nevim jeji adresu. Jestli vy budete tento dopis cisti, tak prosim, piSte nme, velice bych rada od vas uslySela, neb je tomu mnoho roku, co jsme spolu kamaradivaly. My jsme kaZdY rok jezdili pies Lickholts, kdyZ muZ jeSte Zil, ale kdy2 jsme nevedeli, kde bydlite, tak jsme se

neshledali. Bude tomu 11z dva, roky, kdy mtirj mu2 zemtel. Je ten Zivot plant bez neho, vSnde mne chybuje, neb byl on dobrY elovek.

Jestli nekdo z vas chtel by navod, jak zachranit mlada norcata (krtity), tak rime poSlete obalku se znamkou a ja vain dam spolehlivY navod.

Doufam, ze bratr redaktor opravi me chyby.

S pozdravem Olga Drizga, 5327 Egbert Street, Houston 7, Texas.

Wheelock, Texas.

Mile spolusestry a bratti:' Prvne musim podekovat bratru redaktcrovi a redakci Ea to, ze me posledni dopisy doslova uvetejnili.

Promin, bratie redaktore, Ze Vas zase obteZuji. Predem Te ujiSt'uji, ze tentndopis piSi bete vkho hnevu, ale citirn se trochu doteen. Jestli se parnatujeS, asi pied rokem napsal jsem dopis do nakho Vestniku. ze ten roman v nakni Vestniku se mrie nelibi, protole jsou v neni uLvaria nesluSna slava. Donmivam se, ze vetSina elentr; co jej etbu, se mnou souhlasi. Nepsal jsem na Zadneho uraZeni nebo sniZovani. V nasem Vestniku ze dne 7. biezna ma dc pis bratr Hokk. Pod jeho dopisem T , bratie redaktore, inag svoji poznamku. )iSeS, co Ti psala Tvoje sesttenka z Taylor. Myslim, ze neni tieba bych to cele opisoval. Mezi jinYm piSeS, a vy to vite, protesty dukvnich trpaslikil na torn nic nezmeni. NemysliS, bratie redaktore, ze bys byl lope udelal, kdybys to byl nechal sari" pro sebe? Je nas hodne elenti, co se jim ten roman nelibi a pak je nas te2 hodne, co vetime vice, jak jen od kolebky ku hrobu. One pani z toho Taylor odpovim jen par slovy: Pane, odpust' jim, nebot nevedi co eini.

Dale, bratie redaktore, die meta tisudku mel jsi napsat teZ one pani jmeno, bychom vedeli„ komu mane podekovat.

Ana, mile spolusestry a bratti, za vSechna ta iota, za vkchnu to praci a obetavost, co jsme pro nail Jednotu ueinili, kdyZ si dovolime v nakm Vestniku podat sluSnYm zpitsobem na g usudek, jsme nazvani v nag em Vestniku dukvnimi trpasliky, Sestry a bratti, kteti etete onen roman v naSem Vestniku, pkeetete si ho znova ze dne 29. Unora. Zanayslete se nad tim, jak se domlouvala Borinova duSe se svatYm Petrem u nebeske brany, jestli to ma, jakY smysl. Had bych veal, kdo je poslouchal. Jsem jistY, ze ten spisovatel ne. Z toho moZno s'audit, ze je to hodne vymyTomu neporozumi ani ti duSevni trpaslici. Mole manZelka kdyZ on-a poznamku coda, ze zajiste se to nemile dotkne sestry Kraftove z Dallas. SeSla se s ni jednou v Ennis na divadle a poznala,

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Ve stiedu, dne 21. btezna, 1956. ze je to mild a vzdeland pani, hodne pro na.S 6eskY narod vykonala.

Pozdrav na celou Jednotu.

Frank Vytopil.

(Poznarnka red.: A cos kdybys byl navrZen do Tiskoveho vYboru, ptijal bys takovou funkci?) ® +( 4 Illasujme o torn ye schfizi Grapevine, Texas.

Mile sestry a bratti: JiZ jsem neminil pied naSl distriktni schtizi vice do Vestniku psati, ale neda nil to, abych se nedzval v otazee platebni sjezdovym deleg;attn.

Zda se mi, ze kdyZ zastupujerne nak elenstvo veSkere, cheeme-li skuteeno neco uSettit, ze bychom meli nechati celemu elenstvu rozhodnouti, pied sjezdem, mrioho-li deiegati maji bYti za ztracen' cas svtij odSkodneni.

Dejme torriu, Ce bychom odparueili $4, $6 neb $8 denni plat a cestovne a nechali bychom a tom cienstvo v tadovYch schuzich svych hlasovati.

Obnos, kterY by obelrZel vetSinu elenskYch hlasu, by se pak stal platem delegatti a nebylo by vVeitek, ze tarn jedeme pouze na "vYdelek".

Co o tom sestry a bratti soudite?

S uctivYm pozdra.vem Ludva 0. HoSek. • (Pozn. red.: VYbornY napad. Je pied narni jeSte Sest distriktnich schuzi. Jerkne pat' distrikt ma po schazi. Proe by se ctazka nemohla ptedloZit k dobrozdani posouzeni elentim a delegattim v distriktni schtizi? Nebylo by to clefinitivni, ale bylo by to meritkem pkani Olenti.) ) 4

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NEDOSTAVATE NIESTN1137 to Nekdy v hodcucnosti se mdZe pravidelna dociavka Vestniku bode nekomu z vas najednou zastavena a org6n ntestane dochazet. Stane-li se to jen jednou, vino pravdepodobne nese po§ta.

Opakuje-li so to dva, tti a vice Vdnd za sebou, dopi;:;te na Supreme Lodge SPJST, Temple, Texas, at' ptipad je vyrsetten.

Nepi§te ani na vydavatele, ani na redaktora, ale na Hlavni ittadovnu. Stanovy natizuji, ze kdo si pieje Vestnik, musi dopsati iteetnimu Hlavni ttadovny, kter9 vede seznam adresate elentl dosta.vallcich Vestnik.

Mtl2ete dopsati na Hlavni O•adovnu sami, nebo poladejte vakho tajemnikh shy to pro vas vykonal. Ka2c13"/ Glen, kterSI si plati na pojifteni v tilde dospelS7ch, je opravnen na Vestnik. b t.li si ho pteje. ) • 43 Bylo tieba cloktort, aby vytahli jeh-lu z ruky jedne divky v Baltimore. A to bylo ponferne snadne — uvaZte, jaka maha by to teprve byla, vnutiti jehlu do Journal. ruky modern' divky.

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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. AdOF THE STATE OF TEXAS dress all editorial matters to: Editor, 6402 Prague, Houston 7 Tex. Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 With Undeliverable Copies to SUPREME LODGE SPJST, P.O. BOX 400, TEMPLE, TIMM

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VESTNIK

MUSINGS OF THE EDITOR TWO IMPORTANT MEETINGS WERE held recently. One was a five-day session of the Supreme Lodge; the other was a two-day meeting of the preconvention By-law Committee. Since I was not present at either one of these meetings, and did not have a chance to get even a secondhand information as to what had transpired in those meetings, I am just as curious as anyone else. But I hope to get reports on the meetings before the next issue of the Vestnik goes to press.

LAST WEEK, I CALLED YOUR ATtention to the work done by the New Colony Lodge No. 69, of Rogers, Texas, regarding the changes of the SPJST By-laws. The caption reads that it is "A Motion to Change the SPJST Constitution and By-laws." The wording is appropriate, only I wish to call your attention that what we call the By-laws, is really a collection of everything. It should be "The Constitution, By-laws, Rules and Regulations," and it should be arranged as such. I am not criticising any previous By-law Committee or the previous sixteen conventions, but I will hold it against the coming seventeenth SPJST convention if we don't separate the "constitution" part from the "bylaws" part, and the "rules and regulations" part. New Colony Lodge proposes that it be done. It should be.

NEW COLONY LODGE NO. 69 GOES even further to make our new By-laws up-to-date. It proposes that "This bylaw shall permit the legal and orderly accomplishment of needed widespread changes in the composition and form of this Constitution and By-laws of the SPJST." It also gives the By-law Committee the right to "rearrange, assign new numbers to, and regroup the bylaws concerning same or related subjects in appropriately labeled sections," using or adopting a new numbering system such as Dewey decimal classification, and to "remove ambiguities and minimize cross references by number to .other articles." I do hope that this amendment will get the approval of the By-law Committee.

IT IS MY SINCERE OPINION THAT the article of the By-laws dealing with the various duties of respective supreme officers will get reworded and completely rearranged. That particular section of our By-laws should be rewritten. We don't have what we need. This statement is not made to reflect on any person or any supreme officer, but it has reference to our business dealing with fraternal insurance. We are to have the seventeenth convention. We should do some intelligent planning how to improve our business. The future of the SPJST can be more prosperous if it is based on intelligent analysis of what we can improve.

• • OUR SUPREME OFF CERS ARE OUR executives. The progres of our SPJSTthe success of any busi ess—is the product of planning of one sort or another..

Whatever the planning be, it will affect the road on which the local SPJST lodges, the seven SPJST districts, the Supreme Lodge, and the entire SPJST will go forward. This planning includes good judgment, experience, vision, and courage. Our ability to plan improvement suitable for the future needs of the SPJST will be tested at the next convention. In other words, it will reveal to what extent our delegates have studied our needs and have prepared for the greater strides of the SPJST. • WITHOUT FLATTERING ANY ONE in particular, let me say that the suggestions offered by New Colony Lodge No. 69, as published in the last issue, are sound, practical, workable, and deserving to be studied by the supreme officers, by the By-law Committee, and by the delegates. I don't mean to say that I, personally, agree with the suggestions in every respect, but I certainly would give them or any similar suggestions plenty of thought. It is a refreshing departure from the stereotyped recommendations and superficial thinking. I don't care, for example, how the duties at the headquarters are distributed among the supreme officers, but I am pleased to see that new and important duties are being mentioned: Youth programs, advertising, museum, librar y, archives. Two or

three additional features could be added, but we may wait until we organize ourselves in those things which we have to have.

THIS ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE: we need a separation of all executive duties into three departments, administrative, organizational, and investment.

Don't scatter the administrative duties among three or more supreme officers.

Place the responsibility where it should be—in the head of the department. He then should be responsible for all the administrative expenses and be able to tell us how much it costs to keep my one-thousand certificate on the books in 1953, 1954 and 1955. At present, I give, donate, or contribute one dollar out of every five to the operation of the SPJST. I think my donation or my share—evrybody's share—is too costly. It should be less. I would like to see it about $3.50 —$4.00 average per one thousand certificate. And if my assumption is wrong, I Would like to get a courteous explanation, not an insinuation that I am a cantakerous codger.

PLACE THE RESPOSTI3ILITY OF THE organizational department where it belongs—in the head of the department.

He may have assistants, helpers, coworkers, but he should tell us with a snap of his fingers how much the cost of getting a new member with one-thousand certificate was in 1953, 1954, or 1955. Did we spend all the first-year payments? Did. some of it go to help in paying for the clerical work? Did we lose on a new member the first year did we come out even; or did we gain financially? * * I DON'T CARE WHO IS PLACED IN charge of each of the three departments we need, only don't scatter the responsibility. Pin it on one man. Shortly, you will find out whether or not he has the executive fibre. But as long as we have the responsibility and the smooth functioning of a department distributed in such a way that you cannot place the finger on the one who makes the errors, you have a wobbly department. The SJPST is too big to have wobbly wheels in its fraternal machinery.

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REPORTS FROM DISTRICTS THIRD DISTRICT MEETING IN WEST, 12ht. DISTRICT MEETING, OF THIRD TEXAS, MARCH 25, 1956 DISTRICT AT LODGE NO 54, WEST, TEXAS, MARCH 25, 1956 To all members and especially delegates of the Third District, this is our MEETING CALLED TO ORDER AT annual meeting and a very important 10:00 A. M. one, It's the last pre-convention meet1. Presentation of Flag and Pledge of ing and we will also elect new officers Allegiance. for the coming year.

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Welcome by the President of Lodge Members and delegates, this will be No. 54—Brother Robt. Cervenka your opportunity to express your thoughts and ideas in the way of im3. Welcome of Supreme Lodge Officprovement and betterment of our Order. ers and visitars, from other districts Although, we have a good Supreme Or4.

Roll Call of 21 lodges of district cicr and by-laws by which we govern Three. ourselves, there is always the necessity for, change and improvement. No bus5. Presentation of local Organizers iness, whatever its nature, can grow if and local Officers and Third Disit doesn't keep up with the trend and trict delegates to the convention. requirements of the present day.

6. Reading of minutes of last meeting If a member expresses or brings forth and financial report. an idea, perhaps it may not be practical, 7. Reports of district officers, director but from his suggestion may come the and committees and reading of sugbasic foundation for a good amendment gested ammendments. to our by-laws. So let's all take an 8. Open discti iion of committee reactive part and make this one of the ports. best meetings we have had.

Here, is where I would like to stress a point. There have been many times in the past, when during the course of our meetings, some unecessarily barbed words were used and accusations made.

Several brothers can't help but use this manner to call down a member, who they think shouldn't have spoken and who they think is unable to think for himself.

Our organization certainly doesn't gain a thing if we, as members, have to call each other names in public. The person degrading another member doesn't show his fraternal feeling or his intelligence.

So during this meeting let us all make an effort to keep our tempers at a normal feeling or his intelligence.

So during this meeting let us all make an effort to keep our tempers at a normal level, so that our younger members, whom we need in our fraternal work, will not turn away in disgust and comment, "Who wants to work with those old hot heads".

Once again this is a sincere invitation to all members of the SPJST, the delegates, the Supreme Officers, the directors, the editor, members and officers of other districts and their guests to come to our district meeting the fourth Sunday in March in West, Texas.

Fraternally yours, J. F. Hrabina, Pres. of the Third District.

ADJOURNMENT FOR LUNCH AFTERNOON SESSION: YOUTH PROGRAM; Prepared by Sisters Frances Popp and Rosie Cocek. Under the direction of Sister Bessie Rose Popp 1. Address of welcome—by Rose Marie Marek.

2. Presentation of Charter Members.

3. Poem dedicated to charter members —by Betty Jean Mikeska.

4. Gay Chick Ballett—by Condance Tobola.

5. Song, "Chaloupky pod horami",—

by Linda Popp.

6. Poem, "Three Wishes"—by Shirley Ann Marek.

7. Accordion solo—by Mary Frances Hykel 8. Swing and Sway, Tap Dance—by Condance Tobola.

9. Songs—by Dorothy Mae, Margie and Hattie Maths.

10. Accordion solo "1st Clarinet polka", and "The Rock and Roll waltz"—by George Hallford, No. 154.

(Ending of Youth Program.)

MEETING CALLED TO ORDER. 1. Unfinished business.

2. Election of Third District Oficers.

3. Designation of the next district meeting.

4. Adjournment, singing "Kde Domov

DISTRICT FIVE From District Five, Rudy Sefcik writes: First, I wish to answer the request of brother Frank Vytopil in the issue of Vestnik, Wednesday, March 14.

I do not believe that you understood what we meant in our recommendation on the "Miss S.P.J.S.T." contest. We do not intend to have a contest in this convention, but plan to present it to the delegates for future conventions. Properly explained, We are sure that it will appear a lot different than it has been represented by some people. As for the time it will consume in the convention, I assure you that I can explain it fully to the satisfaction of everyone, in about 5 or 10 minutes. We feel that this kind of publicity would pay us back much more than the $700.00 that we would put into it. Of course, it would have to have a lot more receptive attitude from the ruling body than it received this time.

We all know that this type of publicity cannot hurt us, and can help a lot, the same as an old-folks home would, but we are doing nothing in that direction!

In the March issue of the Fraternal Herald of the WBFA on page 97, George J. Novak writes: "We are making plans to select a Beauty Queen from. among applicant's names submitted to the Committee by participating Czech groups."

That is for their Cedar Rapids Centennial — Sponsored by Czech Groups, June 16th and 17th, 1956.

If anyone would like to find out what this type of publicity can do for us, I invite them out to see the TSSA convention in the Shamrock-Hilton Hotel on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th of April, 1956.

That is a convention of service stations operators of Texas, mostly hard-working men and woman, but they are forwardgoing enough that they are going to have the Honorable James Roosevelt, 'congressman of California, from Washington, as their guest speaker April 4th.

Our plan is to the future, and the delegates will be able to decide on the matter. I hope that this explains your question.

Now to something else. In the 'February 22 issue of the Vestnik, I read with interest the letter of our newly-elected director, Brother Frank V. Stepan. I wonder if he really means what he says, i. e., that our SPJST could operate just as successfully as it does without the Vestnik.

In my opinion, there is little enough interest in our organization, in its meetings, without considering taking away the one thing; the Vestnik, that does

Wednesday, March 21, 1956 keep them at least somewhat together.

We are proposing that the Vestnik be published twice monthly, but I am definitely opposed to the idea, of stopping it all together. Or are we to be just a commercial insurance writing company? I am a member of an organization, the SPJST, and I would like to know what goes on with my investment. Am I not entitled to that?

He further writes that after each quarterly meeting a full report is sub mitted to the Vestnik for publication.

If he will notice, the published report is an "EXCERPT" from the minutes. I'm sure that our supreme secretary has the complete minutes in his records for each meeting, and that he is putting in the excerpts as the supreme body wants them, but the report does not give a full report. They would probably be too long, but Brother Stepan is definitely mistaken when he says full.

I think it is the DUTY of an editor to sit in these meetings and report things as he sees them, he being the eyes and ears of the membership. For instance, he was asked by the Supreme Lodge not to publish anything about the building being bought for headquarters, until it was bought. He complied, but I think he did wrong, as the membership should know about these things. He did not write about these following things, and I did not see them in the excerpts of the minutes. yet. Not only I, but many others know about the $500.00 that was paid to our counsel for commission on a $2000.00 check he turned over to the Supreme Lodge. I feel that that type of duty falls under the duty of for his retainer fee that we pay him each month.

I have not seen anywhere that the directors received 2-day pay for "two" meetings just because they adjourned at 6:00 p. m. and, then came back latter and had "another" meeting; yet I understand that this is the case. In other words, they went to supper, came back and received' $25.00 two times in one day; $25.00 per meeting, or $50.00 a day. I imagine that was before his time as a director, but I understand that it was done a couple of times. I imagine that this is all right, but the membership would probably like to know about these things.

He writes about the directors or a majority of the thirteen members of the governing body trying to pull a shady deal in these meetings, and that one solitary editor would not be able to prevent them. That may be so, but he surely could let the membership know about it. Em sure that this is not any shady deal, but let us say this: if all of the directors decide to get paid for these tunes _of meetings. I'm sure that all or

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a majority being in favor of it, and then instructing the secretary to keep it out of the "excerpts", and no editor writing his notes of these meeting, the we "members" would be quite in the dark.

I think Brother Stepan wrote a little before he investigated some things.

I did not get this from Brother Editor, but from Brother Skrebanek, who really feels that he represents a district of the SPJST, and doe.s his best to keep the membership in his district informed how things are, especially when we ask him about various things. The editor should have written about those meetings more fully, I feel. I am a member in a great democratic organization, and I would like to be democrativally informed.

Yours for a better SPJST, Fraternally, Rudy J. Sefcik )• e

Explanation, Please!'

In the last pm-cOnvention meeting of District No. 5 at Stefanik Lodge in Houston, when it finally came to the order of business to ele t new officers for the district, Directo' and Alternate it was nearly 6 o'clock .n the evening and good many members present had already left the meeting. There were perhaps 30 members present and included in this number were about 10 of our delegates elected by their respective lodges for representation at the next convention. I understand that District No. 5 has at least 45 elected delegates to the next convention.

When the time came to nominate and elect the new Director and Alternate, the Chairman announced to the assembly that only the new elected Delegates present were empowered to vote and so the regular members just kept their seats.

I will now quote an abstract from our Supreme Lodge By-Laws adopted at the last convention in Houston: Under Article No. 30 (b) Directors are elected during the convention.

Each district must elect its own Director and substitute.

I don't think there is an attorney, even if we got him from Philadelphia or Praha, that could determine what would be legal according to the above worded by-laws. The first sentence says, as plain as "vanilla," that the Director is elected at the convention. The very next sentence says each district must elect its own director.

My questions: 1. Do we go by the first or the second sentence? If the district elects a certain member as Director and the con-

Strana 13 vention decides to also elect one differen the one elected in the district meeting, who is going to be the Director?

2. How did the District President determine who was qualified to vote?

There is no explanation in the by-laws about who is qualified to vote, whether all ir embers present or just only the delegates present.

3. Assuming that it was "intended" in the by-laws that only the Delegates do the voting at the District meeting, what about the votes of the 30 or more delegates that were not present in the District meeting? What will happen if they come up with a protest at the convenLion?

4. How did the chair at the Houston District meeting determine that that was the meeting in which you elect the Directors? The by-laws do not explain in which meeting of the District they are to be elected.

I was a member in No. 5 District about 15 years and knowing the members as well as I do, I am practically positive that there will be no protest from their District over the results of the voting in their case--BUT—there arc still five more final, pre-convention meetings Of Districts to be held yet, at this writing.

I sincerely hope that come next convention that this matter does not resuit in disputes that may go into hours, perhaps even a day or more, and cost our Order thousands of dollars in waste of time.

I am, however, a little disappointed that only such a small per cent of the duly elected Delegates were present at the No. 5 District meeting. It seems that about two-thirds of the Delegates elected have sort of "laid down on their job."

Fraternally, I remain, Charlie Cerny, San Antonio, Texas 4 MANY, MANY THANKS!

On the evening of February 14th, my, co-workers and friends of the Hlahol Dramatic ' Club called and surprised us at home with a most delightful visit — house warming!

To the many that came and brought food, refreshments and presents. I want you to know what pleasant thoughts I enjoy when I recall this occasion; and it certainly goes without say that it meant a lot to us.

We enjoyed each and every one of you, and want to say, "Thank You," again for everything and for coming in such a happy group. I shall always re-' member your kindness.

Sincerely, Naomi Kostom

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Wednesday, 1V arch 21, 1956

\TES TN.iK— WEST, TEXAS

REPORTS FROM LOCAL LODGES SOKOL, FORT WORTH Hello Everyone!

We sure are having some winter weather again. It's sleeting, raining and freezing cold. We had some warm and springlike days last week which everyone took advantage of and started gardens and flower beds. All I got in the ground was some garlic. My neighbor says it's just as sure a sign of spring as seeing the first robin, to see me setting out my garlic buds, but it looks like I rushed the season this time.

The monthly Sokol meeting will be on Sunday, March 25, at 3 p.m. Let's all plan to be there and on time.

The Southwestern AAU Gymnastic and Tumbling Meet will be held April 13-14 at the Riverside Recreation Building at 3716 East Belknap St. The next Sokol dance will be April 7, on Saturday night, starting at 8 p.m. at Sokol Gym, 3221 NW 28th St. Music

by Joe Milans Orchestra. Mr. Milan has been ill. He spent several weeks in the hospital but is at home now and feeling much better. We wish him a speedy recovery.

Well, I think I'll pull 'my sewing machine into the living room where we have our television set and catch up on some patching and sewing that I've been putting off, and eniov my television at the same time.

Sincerely, Mrs. Fred (Maxine) Merlick ) ♦ I•1 s ( RAD VOLNA CECHIE NO. 135 Brothers and Sisters: Our last meeting was held the second Sunday of the month. Opening as usual, minutes of the last meeting were I read. Our financial secretary was not with us as he was attending a by-law committee meeting in Temple for the past two days. I am sure he will come back with a lot of new literature. There was no new or old business. Sister Mary Ann Bouska was announced as a new member; Welcome to our lodge.

Sister Stazie Hejny and Brothey Frank A.. Laznovsky are to attend the district meeting in West the 25th of March, so we arc all looking forward to our next meeting on April 8 because we know they will come in with some good reports. Here's hoping to see you all at that meeting.

Your reporter, Elene Skrivanek • " •t WACO S.P.J.S.T. LODGE Dear Brothers and Sisters: The meeting of Waco Lodge No. 66 on Sunday, March 11, at Linden Hall was

well attended. It was opened with the Pledge of Allegiance led by Zephyr Faye Spence. We were happy to have as visitors Mrs. R. W. Cervenka, Miss Barbara Kelinske and Monroe Janke Jr. Brother Krejci who is in the florist business in Corpus Christi, had made an offer of various shrubs and plants to beautify Linden Park and means for transporting them to Waco was worked out. We are indeed very grateful for this fine offer.

Also it was agreed that Sunday, March 18, be designatted as gene`ml clean- up and fix up day for Linden Hall and Linden Park. All members were asked to participate. A picnic dinner was planned for everyone and for the youngsters an Easter egg hunt during the afternoon.

A big job will be accomplished by eveone cooperating and too,' a good time had by all.

Members of the ,Birthday Club celebrating March birthdays were Mary Nell Narcvec, Mrs. Rose Narovec, Albert Casper, Sister Mat lda Hanus, and Brother W. E. Kudelka Best wishes for happy birthdays were :xtended to each.

Our Sick Committee reported that Sister Ed Mazanec had been ill. Also that Brother Vaclav Zebro had been quite ill but had shown a little improvement.

We sincerely wish both a speedy recovery.

Our congratulation's to Sister Emogene Hanus who was one of the twenty-eight Waco High School students recently initiated in the National Honor Society.

She is the daughter of Brother and Sister Emil Hanus.

Sister Emma Ceska gave a report of the meetings held in the Supreme Lodge offices on February 6 and 20 regarding the program for the Convention to be held in Temple in June. The Committee attending from Waco were Brother Otto FIanus, Brother John Simcik and Sister Emma Ceska. The Youth group is very enthusiastic about the opportunity of appearing on a program in Temple during the Convention week.

Our congratulations to Brother and Sister Carol Simcik upon the arrival of their new son, their second. Happy grandparents are Brother and Sister John Simcik.

It was decided that a bazaar would be held on June 3. Also a celebration is planned for the 50th anniversary of Lodge Slovan.ska Lipa on September 16, the Lodge being organized on September 16, 1906.

Following the business meeting we all enjoyed a delicious supper.

Our next meeting will be held on the second Sunday in April.

Fraternally yours, Emma Ceska, Secretary, Lodge Slovanska Lipa No. 66 ) • 4.

HVEZDA TEXASU LODGE NO. 47 Seaton, Texas Dear Brothers and Sisters: Our meeting which is held the first Sunday in each month opened with the Pledge.

The secretary read a letter of the lodges and how many new members 'were added the last two months. Out of 165 lodges 58 signed up new members.

Our lodge No. 47 Seaton is in seventh place. We think this is a. good record, as seems like just a third of the lodges are working. We need some awakening.

Don't you all think so?

The building committee gave a report on repair made on the old kitchen out. side. The cost of it was $172.20.

We are happy to have with us new members Dorothy Martinek, and Patsy Martha Klusacek.

A report of the entertainment committee was given. Our lodge will have Sunday night. We will have a political picnic Sunday, June 24, and a barbecue dinner and supper. All delegates and everyone are invited to come. There will also be a dance at night with a good orchestra.

On Saturday night, March 24, we are going to have a Dutch lunch and then Brother Stephen Vaicik, our editor, will show us films on various SPJST programs, the latest being the dedication of the new hall of Lodge No. 66 in Elm Mott. He will also show his flight to Toronto, Canada, to attend the National Fraternal Congress, and many other interesting scenes.

Our next regular meeting would be on Easter Sunday so we will have it Saturday, March 31. We will have an Easter egg hunt for the children at 6 o'clock. Then we will have a snack.

Sisters are asked to bring sandwiches and pastries or whatever you like to bring. Then we will have a youth program, and after it our regular meeting.

Members bring your children to the hunt and also stay for all of the things we plan.

I want to congratulate Clifford Hoelcher and Dean Mikeska on their recent achievement at the Houston Fat Stock Show. Their team won second place among 148 teams in the junior dairy judging.

Clifford won high individual and Dean

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sixth out of 444 boys. They each received $200 certificate to buy a dairy heifer.

Clifford is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hoelcher. He is SPJST member in Lodge No. 24, Cyclone.

Dean is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mikeska and member of SPJST in Locige No. 47, Seaton.

I also want to congratulate Alvin Hejl as the tenth high individual in a grass judging. Clifford and Dean are members of the Rogers FFA chapter and were coached by J. H. iVIerka, agricultural teacher.

I wonder. why our Supreme organization can't sponsor some sort of a program for our youth, like they're always saying keep, the , youth interested in SPJST, but I don't see them doing anything.

Sincerely,, Mrs. Ed Mikeska, Reporter ) • af'.)` JUNIOR DIVISION LODGE NO. 25 ENNIS

Our junior division of our. Lodge No. 25 met on February 17th at the National Hall. We elected officers for the next six months. They are Judy Hrabina, president ; Annette Martinek, Vice president; Katherine Toupal, secretary; Dolores Toupal, treasurer; Roger Nesuda, reporter.

On March 2nd we met and in a short session we selected committees. These are: Budget, Dolores Toupal; Program work, Betty Jean Haskovec and Roger Nesuda; Play planning, Patricia Trojaeck and Carol Ann Nesuda; Hospitality, Ella Jane Skrivanek and. Lorraine Jaresh. Our counselor is Wilma Nesuda.

Several received . their SPJST letters for their shirts. All whose mothers will make the shirts for them will receive the letters.

Attendance in the first meeting numbered 25 and 27 young people in the second meeting. We will meet every two weeks, on Friday night at 7:30. Everyone may come. We have fun, games and refreshments.

Roger Nesuda • _ _) • LODGE NO. 33 Bleiblerville, Texas Dear Members, Cur lodge met on March 11, 1956 and there were a large number present. I guess the beautiful weather we had helpec.' our attendance.

'The business session consisted of appointing Brother Willie Schovajsa to replace. Brother Ben Schovajsa's position as committee-men temporalily. Brother Ben has had some bad luck in his family; his wife underwent a serious operation, but is doing fine now. We all hope

V tSTNt — WEST, TEXAS she will continue to improve so Brother Ben can resume his job.

We had two new members in the Class JE Education Policy at Age 18. They were Larry Allen Dodd and Sherrie Lyn Stepan. We are so happy to receive so many new members.

We are looking forward to the free wedding dance which will be held here on April 7, honoring Betty Thielemann and my Brother, Raymond Schovajsa.

I'm sure we'll all be out for a good time.

Attention all ladies! You are to bring refreshments to our next meeting, April 8, don't forget. We can hardly wait to eat all those good homemade kolaches, cookies, etc. Those are some of the most enjoyable meetings because we know that good food awaits us.

Seeing that I am all out of words for now, I'll just close and be with all you good people next month.

Respectfully yours, Gloria Schovajsa ) •

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ENNIS LODGE NO. 25 Being assured that Sisters Trojacek, Hrabina and Toupal would assist me, I asked to work as youth ( ounselor in our Lodge this year. The m tubers told me that I also should m ,Ke reports on lodge activities. So if Le editor thinks my reports acceptable I shall do so occasionally.

Our youth division has held two meetings this year and its report appears elsewhere. Attendance has been good and we expect many more next month.

Plans are to have the group meet every two weeks during spring. These Friday night gatherings have been pleasant for the parents as well as the youngsters.

Members as well as their friends enjoy the visit with each other. As always we welcome any youngster who wants to come.

Our Lodge has discussed the many problems facing our coming convention.

Brother John Ilra-bina submitted an amendment to the By-laws Committee which many of us here feel has its merits. By consolidating organizational and publicity duties in one office directly responsible to the convention much needed progress could be made in this field. At the same time training for these duties could be affected by selection of district organizers who would be receiving field training. Then should necessity elevate the vice-president, one of seven men would be prepared to fill the vacancy. As one of our delegates, Brother Hrabina will appreciate your comments on the various changes of by-law presented for preconvention study. Incidentally, I was rather amazed

by Brother Slavik's comments preceed-

Strana 15 ing Brother Hrabina's letter in the Vestnik. Since apparently Brother Slavik has very little time to follow news of our Third District or its Lodges I am sure he could not know that Brother Hrabina is a very active member of SPJST being past president of our Lodge and at present president of the district.

Following By-law direethies we make .a point of electing ONLY members to convention delegations, and presidencies.

Having seen the letterhead under which Brother Hrabina's letter was written, I noted his name as president as well as the names of the affiliated Lodges of this District. Surely if he felt that even further indentification was needed he would have given it. So sometimes in our mad rush of making a living and giving of ourselves to our fraternity we raise the public ire of the impatient and brotherhood forgets to be courteous.

Then some poor soul is left panting for air! May the day soon come when those claiming brotherhood find it less irksome.

THIRD DISTRICT MEETING MARCH 25th, LODGE JAROMIR NO. 54, WEST In a spirit of amicable brotherhood may we all meet in our district meeting on the 25th. Our attendance will increase if those who have personal grievances do not air them so that we may get everything done as quickly as possible. Conducting the business under our jurisdiction in a business-like way is the best publicity the district can have.

Wilma Nesuda A * * LODGE JARO NO. 130 Dallas, Texas Dear Members: Due to Easter being the first Sunday in April, our regular meeting will be held, on Thursday evening, April 5. The meeting will start at 7:30 p. m.

Kindly take notice of this change, talk to other members that you may meet before the date of the meeting, and be sure that you come to the meeting.

Fraternally, Joe Maca, sec'y Lodge no. 130.

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We all know that the huge amount of instalment buying in this country `is causing grave concern. Much of this boVe rowing is derived froin home mortgages.

Only a very small portion of this is covered by life insurance, in spite of the fact that policies such as the home guarantee form are readily available. Only a relatively infinitesimal amount of other types of private borrowing are hedged with life insurance protection.

Obviously, there is room for considel e -ablexportin hsdrection.

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Fraternal Life Insurance as a Career Fraternal Life Insurance offers to any man with intelligence, with integrity, with initiative, and with industry an opportunity to have an income commensurate with other businesses in which a large amount of capital is invested. In the life insurance business the underwriter invests no capital. This puts him at a decided advantage. Fraternal Life Insurance work is a business of making friends and strengthening the bonds of friendships , in those already made. They believe in Fraternal Life Insurance, and are not policy peddlers.

Contrary to many vocations, the results of life insurance can be seen in the disasters life insurance prevented, in the benefits life insurance bestows.

It is through these means that a life underwriter finds much of his spiritual hunger appeased.

You feel it the first time you settle a death claim.

You feel it in your pride in a little girl's new dress which one Of your tough sales made possible.

You feel it when you drive past homes yout persistence saved.

You feel it when you shop at stores where the doors have been kept open because of your knowledge of business insurance.

You feel it when you have a grateful letter from a boy just graduating from college.

You feel it when you watch employees going home from work in factories which might have been closed if your key man insurance proposal hadn't hit home.

You feel it one day when an elderly man says, "Bless you," because your uduct made possible his comfort.

This is one business that your checks do not stop when you stop, but through the system of renewals you are paid for a number of years after you have actually actively disassociated yourself from the business.

The Fraternal Life Insurance Representative, like the doctor, dentist, and the lawyer find that increased years bring increased earning power. This is true because of the fact that over a period of years a man establishes contacts and friendships, and that he can write more business with less effort as in years he grows older.

Another important factor influencing one who accepts Fraternal Life Insurance as a career is that of service to others. The more you serve the greater are your individual rewards.

(By Buford Hurt) Let me leave no false illusions. The Fraternal Life Insurance Field is a big field, with many problems. We don't glide by on clouds of ease, but rather are challenged for the best within us from the minute we begin field work.

Our profession is essentially one of helping others solve their problems. We must be sympathetic, understanding, and yet aggressive in offering our product as a solution to their problem.

Many times we hear said of th,e life insurance business that one of its great advantages lies in the fact that we are our own bosses'. This point has always been accepted by me with some qualifications. It is my opinion and has been my method of operation that there is no such person as one without a boss.

We may not be required to be at work at a certain time, take a specific amount of time off for lunch, have our work schedule planned for us, but if one is to succeed in the Fraternal Life Insurance Field, he must in my opinion, have that burning r'esire to succeed and a constant awar. less of the presence, guidance, and help of the Supreme Sovereign of tl. Universe, and so I say that conscience to whom I refer to as the -boss must always keep us aware of not only the problems in the fraternal life insurance field, but must keep us alerted to the vast responsibility that we as Fraternal representatives have accepted.

Several times we have conducted surveys among our field representatives as to the number of calls as against the interviews, as against the sales, as against earnings each day. We have conducted these surveys for a month at a time and always our results have shown that every time one of our field representatives drive to a man's housed walks into his office, opens the gate, knocks on the door, he has earned as much as the skilled doctor who has spent years in medical school training for his profession, But there is one difference. The doctor makes visits after he has been called. Consequently the number of calls that he can make are limited. We are limited only by our willingness to pay the price of hard work, intelligent effort, conscientious service.

So I would say to State Managers, District Managers, and Fraternal Field Representatives that in your career as a Fraternal Life Underwriter you have the opportunity to make an income sufficient to maintain a good standard of living, provide for an adequate retirement, provide for technical training for

your children, render service to your community, be thanked by countless numbers of children, yet unborn, and old men and women, who, save for your persistence, would be spending the sunsetting years of their lives as an old man or woman without an income. And while this is being accomplished, our circle of friends will continue to multiply as we increase our services.

I think Edgar A. Guest expressed it in these words: "I'd like to think when life is done That I had filled a needed post.

That here and there I'd paid my fare With more than idle talk and boast; That I had taken gifts divine, The breath of life and manhood fine, And tried to use them now and then In service for my fellow men."

•( )• THE GNARLED OLD TREE "Old" in our culture is an epithet.

And old age is too Often an affliction, a penalty for survival, a yoke attached by the young and immature. It need not be.

There is a gnarled old apple tree along a walk I take on many a day. Its trunk severed at shoulder height, a black stump shows where the lightning struck.

Field mice and rabbits have munched on its bark. A few limbs hang from the remains of the trunk. The tree seems more dead than alive.

And yet each spring this old tree sends out on what limbs remain, cheerful pink blossoms. And each fall, on what branches still stand, you will find the richest, juciest apples in the county.

Here to me is symbolized the capacity of our old folks, even though they may be beaten by life's misfortunes, to still send forth pink blossoms of cheer and service to their families and friends.

Here is expressed the inherent strength and fortitude of the old, and above all, that not until all life is wrung from man does he lose his inherent power of creativity.

Each of us has within him the power to send out new shoots of service or creativity regardless of our age or previous condition or debility or immaturity.

Our task is clear. Until "old" is an honor and old age a reward, until old age at the very least receives for its contributions its due in recognition or return, until old age is accorded in our society at least the courtesy of equal opportunity, there is work to be done.— Thomas C. Desmond, Chairman, New York State Joint Legislative Committee on Problems of the Aging.

'Wednesday, March _21, "1956

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MORE ATTRACTIVE .LODGE MEETINGS (By B. W. Erhardt, Vice President, Skwak Gymnastic Union Sokol

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To The Memory of Bro. Huser

I take this opportunity to express our Recently one of our local officers meeting to give them the outline of the Wrote that the reason our i monthly prOgram for the meeting. deepest sympathy for the passing of our meetings are so poorly attended is that 5. Appoint hostesses for each meeting dear friend, Mr. Joe H. Huser, who was they are usually very dry and dull af- who will serve coffee and refreshments taken from our midst February 21, 1956, fairs. There is a good deal of truth to after the meeting. following a long illness. Mr. Huser was a this statement and certainly it is at 6. Invite friends of the members to retired rural mail carrier and financialleast one important reason why so many attend an occasional "after the meet- secretary of our local SPJST Lodge Koof our members refuse to devote even ing program." Promote membership en- mensky No. 20 for 40 years. one evening or afternoon a month for eollmeiat during these affairs.

Although physical strength was gradSokol meetings.

As an example: One such meeting was ually failing, his thoughts of serving the Meetings' are •and have always been held in Bridgeport. A food expert rep- SPJST were with him until the end. essential for the 'continuity and solid- resentative of the Bridgeport Gas Light Through his untiring effort our lodge arity of organizational life. Because of Co. demonstriated the art of preparing gained number of members, and now the numerous attractions which Com- salads, etc.-Mernbers invited friends and finding ourselves with his loss, we must Pete for- the time , and , interest of the a total of , approximately 100 were pres- continue in his footsteps. members,-the lodge officers must find cut. Membership . drive circulars were Being indeed a kind and trustworthy ways of Making' the lodge meeting pro- mailed to each member with a bulletin gram at least as interesting and en- announcing the program (a play), the man, leaves within us a scar of sorrow, tertaininge Of course, we do not ex- time and place of the meeting. Plus which sends out rays of these thoughts pect our officers to provide professional this mailing : of the bulletin, our tele- which I have gathered. talents at these meetings, but there is phone committee; consisting of the Our life is like a summer dream. no reason why the quarterly semi-an- chairman and eight members, phoned It has shadows, and the sun has beams, nual, etc., meetings could not be made all members requesting them to be pres- Though in a while fades away, • more elaborate affairs which would cre- ent at the meeting and to bring along And return no more. ate a greater response among the mem- a friend. The time and effort were well spent. The outcome was a very enjoy- Our life is like a summer dream, pers. able evening, and a well attended meet- It is like a flower, In Bridgeport we have made several ing. In addition our president had the Fragrant and beautiful in the morning, experiments in this direction and the opportunity to mention the membership wilted in the evening. results show that we have had consid- drive now in progress, as well as other Our life is like a summer dream, erable success. I would like to suggest particulars about the organization.

Other programs have been held dur- Dark clouds so often veil the sky, to other lodges that they attempt, withThough our voyage be smooth or rough, in the existing conditions of their own ing the year such as: knit of course, to make their meetings 1. Movies shown by one of our mem- The Lord knows why, and that's enough. the interesting and informative events hers taken on her trip to the West and We know not why we are led, they could be.

Mexico.

So often in the paths we dread, 2. A lecture by one of our members But, trusting Him we'll press our way; Suggestions for Women's Lodges who is a registered nurse.

The Lord knows why — we will obey.

Establish programs for monthly meet3. A talk on education by a member, ings: (a) to encourage larger attend- a newly appointed principal in one of We may not know why death should ance; (b) promote membership drive. come, Bridgeport's schools.

1. Invite a speaker — demonstrator • 4. A talk on citizenship and problems To take the dear ones from our home, (member or non-member) to take part of the immigrant by an International But, tho our eyes with tears be dim, after the meeting.

The Lord knows why — We'll trust in Institute Director.

Use',filits, showing our activities or.

Him Throtigh these affairs we have made outside interesting subjects. additional friends who now attend.

Just as we must part 3. Mail cards—bulletins to members; With the priceless beauty of a flower, I am sure that if this method has So must we part with the priceles remind them of the meeting, notifying helped our lodge it will help yours. them of the program in effect, etc. friendship of our dear ones, The cards or bulletins can be mimeo- Since we have had these programs pub- Though we will not understand, graphed by one of the members work- licized in the local papers we have had But the Lord understands each mystery. ing in an office and in this way save several requests from others to come to Dedicated by a friend — the expense of printing, etc. They can our meetings. A beauty specialist, hair Mrs. Henry E. Vitek. be written in English or Slovak—as the stylist and a china and silverware demGranger, Texas group thinks best. However, both Eng- onstrator are on our list. There is no March 14, 1956 lish and Slovak can be written on the cost attached to these programs other same bulletin. The envelope can in- than the coffee and refreshments served.

•( —)° clude membership drive circulars, etc., —The Fraternal Monitor. and can be sent in open envelopes for In Saudi, Arabia, any driver who has e ) which the postage is only 2c. The monan accident resulting in a death is exey used would be well spent.

It is strange that people take up a ecuted. When they say "The life you 4. Form telephone committees which life of crime when there are so many save may be your own" in Aarabic, they Will phone each member before the legal ways to be dishonest. aren't kidding,—Changing Times.

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Wednesday, March 21,1956

LAUGHTER IS GOOD MEDICINE Laughter is one of the priceless gifts to man. It is a medicine for our minds, our hearts anal our bodies and it has a healthful effect upon us whether sick or well. Different from most medicines, it does not require a physician's prescription and there is little danger of an overdose. Best of all, it does not cost anything.

Man, we are told, is the only earthly creature that really laughs; and the difference between smiles and laughter is only one of degree. Children laugh Inure readily than adults. Tickling wri uses youngsters to laugh but oldsters Ln'c more likely to be annoyed by it.

What seems amusing or funny, ludicrous or incongruous to one may not seem to another.

Laughter is a priceless gift manifesting both his wisdom and goodness. Like speech and weeping, it is a form of selfexoL e:.;:sion essential to our welfare, and by it we are able to communicate our joy to others in a way that is infectious. And joy shared is joy doubled even as grief shared is grief halved. Laughter helps us to bear the present even as fc •getfulness relieves us of the burcien, of the past and hope helps us to face the future.

Le- use our minds and our bodies arc one, laughter does far more good, however, than merely provide a medium for us to give expression to our joyous emotions or to communicate our joy to others. Laughter is nothing less than good medicine. It is good for our disposition, our mind and for all our internal organs.

Those who have a disposition difficult te get along with usually take them;e!ves too seriously. There is no better antidote for that than a sense of humor. Do not be like that British lord of the past century, so famed for his refined manners, who boasted that since he had come to the full use of his reason lie had never been heard to laugh!

Li 'that laughter causes the diaphragm, that muscular tissue separating the chest cavity from the abdomen, to jump up and down it stimulates the circulation of blood in all the internal organs much the same way as do massage and exercise. This is because all our internal organs either are fastened to the diaphragm or lie adjacent to it or adjoin muscles that do, there being no hollow spaces in our abdomen. earty laughter causes our lungs to take in from two to four times as much air as we ordinarily do, and the more air the more oxygen and the better for lungs. Thereby we also 'push out the

stagnant air in the extremities of our lungs, thus making us less susceptible to such lung ailMents as pulnionary tuberculosis.

Hearty laughter is medicine for the stomach, The massaging that it gives that organ aids it in its work of churning and preparing the food for assimilation. In fact, we find it very easy to laugh after a good meal, even as Solomon indicated: "Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life."

And if more people would take plenty of the medicine of laughter, heart trouble would soon lose its bad reputation as the No. 1 killer of modern man.

Hearty laughter massages the heart, which is very good for its circulation.

The liver, ow largest internal organ, is benefited from the massaging it gets when we indulge in hearty laughter. It increases the flow of 'bile, which, in turn, aid digestion, and so there is good support for the saying, "Laugh and grow fat." Young folks keep their liver in good shape by running, jumping and throwing; for older folks, hearty lau ghter serves as a good substitute.

Laxatives are thn most widely used of man's medicines. But deliberate indulgence of good hearty laughter several times a day will do more to lessen the need of laxatives than anything else.

How so? Because it massages the intestines, and massage of them has been found to be one of the most effective means of lirproving their peristaltic activity.

And finally, laughter, like both exercise and massage, is a conditioner. Just as these help those overweight to lose weight and these underweight to gain weight, so experiments have shown that laughter helps to lower high blood pressure and raise low blood pressure.

The same principles apply regarding Cheerfulness and laughter. They tune up the body by means of the effect that emotional states have upon the body's vegetative nervous system and its ductless glands. Laughter is such good medicine that even if we take it in such small closes as smiling or cheerfulness of disposition we are bound to be benefited by it. And the converse is also true. Frowning is bad for the body.

And finally, laughter is medicine for the mind. Taking oneself or one's problems too sEnqously, worrying or brooding encourages mental ilhaess. For all such 1-3othing is better than the refreshing and healing medicine of laughter.

In social contacts, and especially at the table, a geod joke is always in order, since cheerfulness and laughter

aid digestion, and such is but following the ac'vice of the wise king: "Eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart." A genial smile will often break the ice and the hearty laughter occasioned by a good joke may prove more effective in gaining one's point that seven good reasons.

Truly, laughter is one of the priceless gifts to man. Its very expression makes for well-being.' and it is con-, tagious, making others feel better. It is good for our disPositions, our bodies and cur rands.' ) 0 , 4 0 (-CHANGE Everybody seems " to: feel that his particular profession, business or trade has had more changes in recent years than anybody else's. That just isn't true but what is true is that,, regardless of what our profession, business or trade may be, if we don't stay abreast of the changes we are gone goslings.

A friend of mine, Don Ross of "Successful Fanning Magazine," recently addressed the Allied Farm Equipalent Manufacturers' Association Convention.

If you think the farmers haven't had to keep abreast or sink, here is part of Don's story: "Do you realize that if an ancient E g yptian farmer from the days of Moses had returned to earth 1200 years later, he would have proceeded with his farming as it was done in the days of the Caesars? Or, almost 2700 years later, when Shakespeare was writing his plays and sonnets, that same farmer could have gone to an English farm and proceeded to operate, using oxen as had been his custom in ancient Egypt. In fact he could have gone to Thomas Jefferson's farm here in America and found fanning had changed little since his days in Egypt:" So there were centuries of little or no progress. Now look what the last few years have done: "There were 25 million horsei; and mules on farms January 1, 1910, 12Ln, the figure has dropped to 5 million in 1955.

During the same period farm tractors rose from 1,000 to 4,600,000."

That's a lot of change in a very few years, isn't it? But not all farmers, just like not all underwriters, have kept pace.

"Z9 per cent of ail farms yet 83 per cent of total cash income."

Slim pickings for the 61 per cent who didn't or couldn't keep abreast. -- Will Noble.

Wednesday, March 21, 1956

V i_;,; S T N .

— WE2,T, TEXAS

Strang

A GARDEN FOR HUMAN PLANTS More than forty years ago when I had to absorb some of the history of education, I had to learn how the kindergarten idea was started by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator.

Almost a million and a half children will attend kindergarten classes in our Country this year. Yet, a, century ago there were only six kindergartens in the whole Western Hemisphere, and all of them could have been found in one small room in Watertown, Wis,. where a comely young matron, Margarethe Meyer Schurz, had just opened the first kindergarten in America.

One hundred years ago Watertown was the second largest city in Wisconsin, the bustling terminus of a plank road and a new railroad from Milwaukee. People and goods were pouring into the town, and, for a brief interval, it was the distributing center for western Wisconsin.

Among the newcomers was Carl Schurz, fiery German revolutionary who had made a name for himself on two continents by rescuing his favorite professor, Gottfried Kinkel, from a Berlin prison under the noses of the Prussian police.

Imbued with the ideals of freedom and democracy, Schurz had brought his bride to America and was on the lookout for a booming grassroots community where he could put his ideas into practice and at the same time cash in on rising values in real estate.

Watertown in the middle fifties seemed a sure bet to Schurz. Several of his relatives had already settled there. He had paid a high price for an 89-acre farm about a mile and a half from the center of town and divided it into building lots. On an imposing elevation overlooking the city, he began the construction of a new house. which was just about finished when his wife and their three year old daughter, Agatha, arrived in August 1856.

Daughter of a wealthy, cultured Hamburg family, Margarethe Meyer had been only 19 at the time of her marriage in 1852. She became the mother of five children and an excellent housekeeper, in spite of a tendency to frailty.

Carl paid her this compliment in a letter to a friend: "She has worked herself so effectively into our life here, and proved herself so splendidly practical therein, that (without boasting) our house is the pleasantest to be seen far and near, and everyone of whatever nationality

is at ease with us. My children thrive splendidly."

As a 16 year old girl, she and an older sister had sat at the feet of Friedrich Froebel, father of the kindergarten.

Margarethe had taken such excellent notes of his conversations with children that the master called them the best things ever written about him.

They were sent to Berlin on loan, only to be lost in the mail. This misfortune has usually been ascribed to the inefficiency of the Prussian post office, but it may have been due to the efficiency of the Prussian). Government, which had just passed through the revolution of 1848 and was intensely suspicious of everything new in education and politics.

About that time it issued a decree outlawing kindergartens in Prussia.

The loss of the manuscript mattered little to Mrs. Schurz, however. In her pretty head, covered with brunet curls, were stored all the essential facts of the new education, as it was called.

She had had practical experience, too, helping her sister establish a kindergarten in London. It was during her short sojourn there that she met and married Carl.

In Watertown, four little cousins came to visit Agatha, and it wasn't long before Frau Schurz was playing kindergarten games and singing kindergarten songs with them. Word got around that she had a special knack with preschool age children and a system for helping them accustom themselves to life. She was only too happy to yield to the request of friends and relatives to have their children join the little group.

Since it was rather far for little folks to walk out to the Schurz farm, she looked around for a suitable room in town and found one at the corner of Jones and Second Streets. It was fitted out with a piano, chairs and other kindergarten materials, and there, one day in November or December, 1856 (the exact date is not known), half a dozen toddlers—five girls and a boy—gathered to take part in the mother songs, stories, dances, exercises with yarnballs and geometric figures, and the nature study that constituted the curriculum of the Froebelian kindergarten.

The course was conducted in German.

It continued during all of that school Year and the following year.

Unfortunately, neither Margarethe nor Carl seem to have been quite aware of the historic significance of the first course of instruction for preschool age children in our country. If Margarethe

had only written up her own classes as fully as she did those of Froebel, what a priceless record her notes would be today; or if Carl, a prolific writer, had just once described his wife's kindergarten as vividly as he described almost everything else in the pioneer town.

From his pen we know now, during the first year of the kindergarten, farmers used to come to town with wagon loads of wheat, how they were paid in cash and how they dispersed into the stores with filled pockets to purchase goods to their heart's content, while newly arrived immigrants—the green ones—stood and gaped enviously.

From his pen we also know what happened in the next year when the short but sharp depression of 1857 brought ruin to half the merchants and made money so scarce that Carl jokingly suggested that they might soon have to buy groceries with their table and get back their chairs in change.

That depression—and the continuation of the railroad toward La Crosse, turning Watertown from a terminal into a transit town—blighted the bright hopes of the Schurzes for quick wealth: It also spelled the end of the kindergarten, for they moved to Milwaukee late in 1858 and spent only the summers in Watertown during the next two years.

By that time Carl was already launched on the career that would make him Lincoln's minister to Spain, a Civil War general, a United States Senator, and Secretary of the Interior under President Hayes.

But Mrs. Schurz's contribution to the kindergarten was far froni over when she left Watertown. In 1859 she and Agatha accompanied Carl to Boston, where he was to deliver an important speeCh at a Jefferson Day dinner.

They stayed with a family in which there were four rather noisy children.

Another visitor, Miss Elizabeth Peabody, noted that the presence of Agatha had the effect in the house of a calm coming upon the storm of young life.

Many years later Miss Peabody wrote an account of that visit and of what it meant to her.

"That child of yours is a miracle," she exclaimed, "so childlike and unconscious, yet so wise and able."

"No miracle, but only brought up in a kindergarten," replied Mrs. Schurz.

"A kindergarten? What is that?"

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Wednesday, March 21, 1956

A Garden For Human BETTER KNOW WHO ENDORSES CHECK Many people scarcely look at the in- idea where to find the stranger, and dorsements on a- check, even though he ended up losing about $40 in tools Plants and $60 cash.

(Continued from page 21)

"A garden whose plants are human.

Did you ever hear of Froebel?"

By the time Mrs. Schurz had told her all about Froebel, Elizabeth Peabody had become a convert. The next year she opened a kindergarten of her own.

In 1870, after studying the technique at first hand in Germany, she founded the first public kindergarten in America at Boston.

Margarthe Schurz, meanwhile, succumbed to ill health and invalidism, and died in 1876. Her husband lived for another 31 years, lovingly attended by Agatha, the first kindergartener, and her sister, Marianne.

And. Watertown, after its brief dream of becoming a metropolis, lapsed into a quiet midland town, developing a culture all its own and treasuring memories of the first kindergarten. ) * THE MONKEY'S DISGRACE Three monkeys sat in a cocoanut tree Discussing things as they're said to be Said one to the others "Now listen you two: There's a certain rumor that can't be true; That man descended from our noble race.

The very idea is a disgrace!

they accept it from a stranger, and that can lead to trouble.

Take Jack Storm down at the neighborhood hardware store, for example.

He's one who will warn you—emphatically, with gestures—that it's smart to follow the simple rule: "Know your indorser."

Our laws set up many rules to protect us, and one of these rules protects the holder of a check by declaring that if he can't collect from the person who wrote the check (the drawer),- he can collect from the person who signed the check over to him (indorsed it). This, of course, applies only where a check changes hands at least once.

We mentioned Jack Storm. He accepted a $100 check from a nice looking fellow who said he needed it to buy a kit of tools for his new job. We won't use real names, but let's say the check was made out to Will Works and signed

by Art Jayson.

"Sure, Art Jayson's lived in tne neighborhood for 20 years," Jack said. "I know him well. Just sign your name on the back."

Jack forgot to identify the indorser, and it turned out that Will Works was a phony name, and that Art Jayson's signature was a forgery. Jack had no

Right after that a good friend, we'll call him Bob Samson, bought a $2 paint brush from Jack, and gave him a $60 check. It was made out to Paul Smart and signed with "Regno Canning Co., Inc., Rex Rogue, President." Bob Samson placed his signature beneath Paul Smart's indorsement, and Jack gave friend Bob the paint brush and $58 change.

Well, there wasn't any Regno Canning Co., Inc., and this check also was worthless. But it was a different story this time for Jack. He contacted Bob Samson, and, of course, Bod had to make good on his indorsement.

Bob Samson managed to find Paul Smart, and it was Paul who ended up minus $60. But, what if Smart had been a stranger to Samson?

In a nutshell, anyone who indorses a check guarantees that any previous signatures are genuine and that the check will be paid. If the check is worthless, or the original maker's signature has been forged, then you may collect the amount of the check from the last indorser. Be sure you know the indorser personally, so you can fall back upon him in event it becomes necessary.

—Contributed by L. O. Hosek.

"No monkey ever deserted his wife, Starved her babies and ruined her life And you've never known a mother monk To .leave her babies with others to bunk, Otipass them on from one to another, Till they scarcely know who is their mother.

"Other things you'll never see: A monk build a fence round a cocoanut tree And Iet the cocoanuts go to waste Forbidding all other monks to taste.

Why, if I put a fence around a tree -Starvation will force you to steal from me.

PT

"Here's another monk won't do: Go out at night and get in a stew, Or ue a gun or club or knife.

To take some other monkey's life.

Ye,s,. Man descended, the onery cuss; But, brother, he didn't descend from us!"

--Contributed

In the February meeting- of Anton Cermak Lodge No. 56, in Corpus Christi, the .-ntire family of Henry E. Marek was initiated. The above group pictures Brother Henry E. Marek, his wife Verna Marek, six-year-old son Henry M. Marek, and four-year-old daughter Deborah L.

Marek. Both Brother Henry Marek and Sister Verna Marek volunteered to accept responsibility in preparation for a festival which Cermak Lodge is planning to have on June 10, 1956, here in Corpus Christi—John Stasa, organizer.

Wednesday, March 21, 1956

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Czech Reader "Winter"

WHERE TO GO SATURDAY MARCH 24: Free colored films will be shown at the hall of Seaton Lodge No. 47.

SATURDAY MARCH 31: Pokrok Dallas Lodge will have a "Family Night."

SUNDAY APRIL 1: Seymour Lodge No. 73 will have a basket dinner.

SUNDAY APRIL 1: An Easter day party with a program by the children at Lodge 'Pokrok No. 88. beginning at 3:30 in the afternoon.

SATURDAY APRIL 14: 5:30 p. m. at Lodge Pokrok No. 88, Houston. A fried chicken supper, and a dance in the evening; Rudy Zatopek playing.

SUNDAY APRIL 29: at Lodge Pokrok No. 88, Houston.

"Barbecue." Serving to begin at 12:30.

Free dance in the afternoon.

SUNDAY MAY 6: The Dramatic Club of Lodge Pokrok No. 88 to present a Czech Play in Houston. Dance at night. Special invitation to all Czech and friends.

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"Winter," the fourth in a series of illustrated Czech readers by Dr. Eduard Micek, is a new publication of the University of Texas Czech Literary Society. t

Dr. Micek, Slavonic Languages department chairman, compiled all the books, built around the four seasons and containing the best literature of those seasons. "Spring" appeared in 1951 "Summer" in 1952 and "Autumn" in 1953.

"Spring" had three editions, and all the volumes have been sent to all parts of the world where Czech peo ple are living. Each book contains pictures— photographs and drawings by promin ent Czech artists. "Winter" has 64 illustrations.

The non-profit publication project was undertaken after it was discovered that the Communists in Czechoslovakia were changing the masterpieces of Czech literature, omitting certain parts and substituting their propaganda.

Czechs in the U. S. asked the University (RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BY-LAW group to publish books for adults and youths, presenting UNCHANGED texts COMMITTEE FROM LODGE of the ORIGINAL literature.

NO. 47, SEATON Article I

Article 63 — Editor of Vestnik must be located in a suitable place in the Supreme Headquarters under the supervision of the publication committee.

"Spring, "Summer," "Autumn" and "Winter" are the answer to their requests. A picture of the University of Texas Main Building appears on the front cover of each book.

Dr. Micek reports that the University Article II Article 46 --- Supreme Attorney must and its Slavonic Languages department be a full time employee and located in have received much credit for the endeavor, and that "young and old like Supreme Headquarters. the beautiful readers." The pictures Article III have done a great deal to interest peoArticle 63 — Vestnik be published week- ple in Czech art, he adds. ly as at present.

Literature selected for the readers, Article IV Article 38 — in our By-laws, 2nd para- stresses the democratic way of life and graph---No officer or director of Supreme individual freedom, he emphasizes.

Lodge or his wife can be an insurance Dr. Micek has taught courses in Czech solicitor for this organization and re- language and literature at the Univerceive renumeration for his services. sity since 1926 and has been chairman Article V of the Slavonic Languages department Certificates or placques be given to since it was established in 1929. He also members in recognition for outstanding teaches courses in Russian. After Hitfraternal work done in each lodge. Mem- ler closed the famous Charles Univerbers to be chosen by local lodge. Rules sity in Prague in 1939, the University and awards be given by Supreme Head- of Texas was the only university in the quarters. world offering courses in Czech lanArticle VI guage and literature.

Refund per member be made each year

by Supreme Headquarters to all local Copies of "Winter" may be ordered at lodges for collecting premiums from their $1 each from Czech Literary Society, University ofTexas, Austin 12, Texas. members.

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Have Your Choice Thirteen SPJST certificates for adults: CLASS B: where a member pays premiums during his lifetime.

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

CLASS D: where a member pays for 15 years; benefits paid as proVided in Class C. GLASS 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 C: amount of certificate is paid after 15 years.

CLASS H: proper amount of certificate is paid when member attains the age of 65 years, member pays premiums until he attains the age of 65, CLASS I: member pays premiums, for 20 years and proper amount of the certificate is paid when he attains the age of 60 years.

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

CLASS M: Annuity Policies.

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

CLASS N: Mortgage insurance will be issued to members up to the age of 50 years, who have real estate loans, from this organization. * * Five SPJST certificates for children; CLASS J-T: Term insurance to 16 years of age, which Tray be converted into any other insurance after the ehiicl, reaches the age of 10 years an& 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 fave value at age one year, payable at death.

GLASS J 7 E: Endowment at age 18, with Mortuary face value at age one year.

CLASS J-G: 20 year endowment, mor7 teary fave value at age one year (dz)

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Ve sti‘edn, (hie 21. bi eZna 1956.

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sloiit kosti svoje Tak rad east° prohlaim k.77 si obrazek a bSrt piikryqr tvrdou y eistio 1.Jete eernou zemi. a s iisme'vem ma matka CAST PATA, DOPLNP,NA. DVANACTE CVICENI pravi, V upominku napsal za h ta se Na p matku Karel Balej, m Mcrto RokycanCechy.

T. G. Masaryka. by dal u Pan Beth s tatinkem nebo niaminkou nekolikrat a pak spravne °pig do se§itu! dlouhe zdravi. prohlikl jsem Na, den 7. biezna piipadlo 106 vYroei narozenin presidenta T. G. Masaryka.

Mnozi vzpominali jeho price pro osyo.Nebeklik, bozeni Ceskeho naroda z rakouskeho jha.

A tak ee ne_jak mateino S pozdravem v nee z atka si easto STRIDEK MitEK Z AUSTINU. i slovech tech srdce 14resa strSrekova je: Ed. Mi'e'ek, chvelo, Dr. University Station, tra mezi sva Austin. Texas. ) • 4, • ( pistoupi1 jsem k e obrazek MasaryBROUtCI matce b1i D

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libal jeji erelo.

Ted' vim, proe n./0 obrizek ;c mezi svatS7mi vgemi, hcde: e cti t6, vratil svobodu to drahe Ceske zemi.

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vzala do rukau A bed' vim, co mu to dabyla lo za mad, c 5.1a spi spanemtv ways ysaihia sir te; dales. a priiel do sve otany

(Napsal Jan Karafiat) (Pqk•aeovaro, "Broueku! VAak ja vim. 'Ze jsi ty broueek. Take pry yam rikaji svatojanske musky. Ale vZdyt' ty nejsir maim, ty jsi broueek, vid', Brouoku?" — "Ale jak pak ty vis, Ze ja jsem broneek?" — "I tatinek mne to povidal. On se po tobe yeera ohliZel, a tys t.z byl prye. A povidal, Ze to byl brotfeek, a 'Ze jste hodni.

A vid', vy lidem a jinYm brouekum svitite. Ja bych hned chtela bYt takovkm brouekem." — "A poslouchej, Verunko, co pak vy delate?" — "My? My povidame lidem karn se dostanou, jestli do nebe anebo do pekla." — "A jak pak vy to vite?" — "I to my ta vime. Kdy'Z letime nahoru, tak se dostanou do nebe, a kdy2 letime dole, tak se dostanou do pekla." — "Ale! A poslouchej, karn se dostanu ja a maminka a tatinek a Janinka a kmotriCka a kmotrieek a BeruSka?" — "Kam? To ja nevim. Poekej, ja se zeptam tatinka, aZ pak on jest?" — "On letel po-. vidat lidem, kam se dostanou. Vgak on ut brzo (Pokra6ov6n4 ) Nezdafena peklona.

Pan (pid veeirku): "S vami, milostiva pani, mluvim nejradeji. Ty prilis chytre damy jsou nine stralive."

Ve sttedu, dne 21. biezna 1956.

"Jdzinko, kdopak -tak pekne laraje?"

"To Vitek! Naueik se tomu od Pettika a ted' potad ag to v usich boll!

Vitku, ptestan, zalo g radeji htibattan jetel!" . , Hous grulklY; =ale' gebtak mel necO v planu, proto g e Vitkovi, jakmile chlapec pribehl k chalupe, velice laskave rekl: "Tu maS desetnik, kdy g tak znamenite umiS" heat!"

Chlapee se yelmi Zaradoval.

"A zalaral bys i nabogne pisne?"

"Co uslySim, v'Sechno zahraju!"

"Podivejme. .. nu, ka gda liSka svuj ohm). chvali. No, a zahrajriS i tuhletu?"

A gebrak g abeeel, jak umel, pisklave a vre(Jtive, jakousi kostelni pisen.

Ale Vitek ho ani tadne nevyslechl, nes1 housle, usedl vedle neho a ptehral docela verne tote g ; potom spustil i dalM pisne, jak je slYchal v kostele, a to tak spra yne, ge se gebrak nestaeil divit. "i'-che, byl by z tebe dobrY varhanik!"

"VSeeko dovedu zahrat, vSecko. . . takove panske, i ty, co zpivaji v kremach," nadYmal ce Vitek ve sve radosti a zahral mu do ouSka, ag slepice na hrade zakdakaly. Ale to ptiSla Hanka, ktera ho hnala, aby sel pomoci Josce.

Venku se udelala ripina, tma, posledni dervanky hasly, vysoke, temne nebe se zarosilo hvezdami a yes se ukladala k spanku; jenom ad kremy dolehal vzdalenY poktik a rineiyy hlas hudby.

Hanka sedela pted prahem, krmic deck() a ro gmlouvajic se gebrakem; lhal, potvora, ,jen se praSilo, ale Hanka mu neodporovala, myslila si sve a hledela teskne do noel.

Jagna se je:Ste nevratila, ale u matky taky nesedela — hued zveoera odeSla na naves mezi deveata; jen ge nikde nedovcdla posedet. Potad. ji cosi pohanelo s mista na mist°, jako by ji nekdo za vlasy vladel; nakonec soma samotinka se toulala po vsi. Shligela dlouho do vody, pohasle a chvejici se ye vetru, do sti11:a malounko rozkolebanYch, do svetel, ktera padala z oken na hladinu rybnika a rniela v jeho hlubinach..Kamsi ji to tahlo, pespichala za- rnlYn, a g na louky, kde uz legely teple ko gichy min. .. Cejky se s poktikem mihotaly nad Poslouchala Sumeni vody, padajici pies stavidla do Cerneho chktanu reky,

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— WEST, TEXAS

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pod vysoke, jakoby spici olAe, a hukot "Neboj se, napiSe, ja ho poprosim!" teky ji ptipadal jako galostne volani a tekia matka a zaeala mu stlat na ponatek prosycenY plaeem. hoy ee proti oknu. Obsluhovali ho ba i sane varhanik pkines1 tadnY hrUtekla od vody a hledela do mlynatonec a se smichem jej streil pod pohcivku. vYch oken, z nieh g yyragelo svetio, hovor VSichni se dlouho s Jenikem loueili, a fineeni nejdele matka, ktera ho s pldeem tiskla Motala se od jednoho konce vsi na k prstun a libala. druhy jako bludna voila, ktera darmo .hleda odtok a galostne bije do neptekro"Spi, synku, sladce, spi, det'atko!" eitelnych "Odtikain modlitbu a hned si lehnu, Zralo ji cosi, co by ani povedet neby- ,aminko." lo rnogno. . . nebyl to gal, nebyl to stesk, Kondene se rozeAli. nebyla to potieba lasky. . . oei mela Jagna videla, jak v sousedni svetnici pine sucheho garu a v srdci se ji zvedal vSichni chodi po Spiekach, jak tlumi bias paleivY, straenY vzlyk. a zaviraji okna; zakratko celY dim oneNevedouc, prod a jak, octla se pied fa- mCi a pohrou gil se v rou; nejaci kone pied vraty hrabali neI ona chtela domfi, u g se i trochu natrpelive kopyty; na fate se svitilo jen v ptimila, ale zaro yen jako by ji nee° phijedinem pokoji,' y e kterem hrali v kar- drgovalo za nohy — nemohla se odtrhty. flout s mista; tim moeneji se pritiskla, Sourala se pak kolern zahradek, ktere hrudi k plotu, jeSte se schoulila a zUstadelily Klombovo hospodatst yl od sadu la jako odarovana, hledic do posledniho faratovYch, bazlive se pli gila pod 'Zivym otevteneho okna, v nem g bylo jekk svefilotem a svisle haluze viSni ji oro.senYmi tlo. litsky Simraly po tvati. S1a bez cile a Jenik Ceti y jakesi tluste knize, Patom nazdaittth, a g ji zastoupil cestu nizkY poklekl pied oknem, pokti goval se, sepjal clam va.rhanikuv. ruce, obratil ()el. k nebi a dolemnYrn Viechna etyti okna byla osvetlend a potcm se pohrou gil do rnodleni. oteyteria.

Noe byla hluboka, nesmirne ticho Ptitiskla se do stinu pod plot a zadi- 1/10 svet, hvezdy se na vYSinach mihaly, vala se dovnitt. prohic atY, vonny vzduch vanul z poli; Varhanikovi s cletmi sedeli pod visaci ehvilemi zaSelestilo listi a kdes i zazpi-7 lampou, popijeli (Jab Jenik chodil po po- val ptak. koji a cosi vykladal.

A Jayn se zaeala ttast, srdce ji tlouSlySela ka'ide jeho slovo, ba ka gde vrz- klo jako Silene, odi ji vlhly, seytena, nut podlahy, neptetr gite tikani hodin, ba sta palila a ruce samy od sebe se natahovaly k nemu; a aekoli se pternahala, i take hekani varhanikovo.

A Jenik vypravel takove jakesi bajee- takove divne, neptekonatelne ttesern ji la& veei, g e nieemu z toho nerozumela. piepacllo, Cc se bezdeky optela o plot s Hledela jenom na nen° jako na sva- takovcu silou, a g praskla tyeka. tY obraz a pila jako rnedovinu kagdY Jenik yystreil hlavu z okna, rozhledl zvuk jeho hlasu. Jenik chodil po svet- se, a pak se znova pcnotil v modleni. nici, chvilerni se ztracel v hloubi mistnoAle s ni se del() cosi nepochopiteln& sti a hued se zase objevoval v kruhu ho, takovy oberi ji helm!. VSemi gilarni a svetla; Casein se zastavoval u okna, a poleval ji .:; arern, ge diy nektieela z to Jagna se tiskla polekana k plotu, aby ji sladke muky. Zaporr.nela, kde je, a sotva nezahled1; ale on se dival jenom na sipala, tak se v ni NT:Seek° chvelo a planebe pokryte hvezdami, potom tekl ne- nulo. Byla cola v horeenem rozechVerif, co pro obveseleni a v‘Sichni ye svetniei jako blesky chtely z ni vyrazit prudke, se small. . radost jim zatila nay tva- Mien& yYktiky, ohnivy vitr ji zachyadorich jako slunce. Koneene usedl vedle val, straMae prahnuti ji sviralo a podl. matky; male se_stry mu poealy lezt na mario yalo. . . ug se chtela pkiplazit blig kolena a veSet se mu na, krk, Jenik je k nemu, aby se aspon zesty dotkla Jech jeho bilYch rukou, aby pied nim pokletiskl k sobe, houpal je a rtazlil se s a g se cela svetniee ottasala detskym kla a bloc:161a rnu zblizka do tvate a modlila se k nemu jako k zazraenemu obrasmichem.

Hodiny odbily a varhanlkova vstala. zu. Ale nehnula se, padl na ni jakYsi div"Povidame, povidame, a ty ma°sl eas JV strach a cosi jako hrfiza. muj JegiSi milosrdnY!" vyrval do postele. MusiA piede dnem vyjet."

"Ba, musim, maminko! Jak byl ten e ji z pr-ou tichY ston.

Jenik po ystal, vyklonil se hluboko z den kratkY!" vzdychl Jenik sractne. by hleclel na ni, zvolal: JagrAN jako by nada srdce baleUne okkna, "Kilo je tady?" stiskl. . . slzy ji samy teicy Jagna, ztuhro, zatajila deck, srdce 3x "Ale zanedlouho budaa prazuniny," 0zval se znova. "Pan regent sliboval, ge ptestalo tlouci a duSe ji uvazla kdesi v . Cna St'aztneho nepokoje se mi da nejakY Cas dovolenou, jestli gk na'S hrdle. chvela v tici1Jrrll oeekavani. farm o to napiSe!"

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Ale Jenik se jenom pcdival do zahradky,a kdy-U ni koho nespattil, okno, rychle se odstrojil a zhasl svetlo, . •

Knez si Sriupl, mohutne kYchl a zeptal Den byl vSedni, pracovalo se na ceSQ, ottiraje si nos: stach kolern rybnika bylo prazdno; je"Dnes se asi budete radit o podilech, nom deti si firaiy tu a tam v pisku a co?" slepice se hrabaly v rozhazenych kravin,Tngna, tie schoulend, sedela jet "Ano, to 10, je tak zvyk, ze teprve v cich. Bylo jeSte easne, ale slunce 112 pek•-cllouho, zadivana do eernelm, nemeho oktavu. . . " piisvedcili. htalo; na. Stesti pofukoval chladnY • okna. Chladno ji proniklo a jako by o"Tak vida! Prave o torn jsem chtel s vitr, sady, pine uz zapalujicich se viSni, perlilo stiibrnou rosou jeji duSi; vSech- varni promluvit! Delte se, ale pamatujte: se kolebaly a obili bilo do Werth jako no, co v ni vielo Zadostivosti krve, poha- v clobre vuli a spravedlive. At' mi z-tciho vzboutene vody. sio a rozillo se po ni nevYslovnYin nepovstanou svary ani hadky, nebo to Chalupy staly otevtene, vrata vaude Sneslo se na ni sla ynostni, posvat- teknu s kazatelny! Kdy-Z bude neboUtik m, ticho jako zaclumani kvetit pied vY- videt, ze se o jeho pozastalost rvete jako dokotan, na plotech tu a tam vetrali rinV. • . a kaUdY, kdo se mold hYbat, prachodem slunce; poeala se modlit modlit- vlci o berana, ptevrati se v hrobe! A Pan coval v polich. Tu a tarn nekdo jeSle bu' Stesti, ktera nemela slov, ale jenom Buh vas chrari, abyste ukrivdlli shot- svaUel posledni opoUdene seno, jeho vu.divnou sladkost vytrUeni, piesvate Uas- kum! Giela je daleko a Joska, je jeSte ne Simrala v nose, na haluzich, visicich nuti duSe, nadsmyslnou radost budiciho hloupe zabe! Co komu patti, to se mu nad cestou, pod kterymi p •ojiklely vrse jarniho due, radost propletenou yell- da svatosvate do posledniho ..groSe, At' chovate nalolene vozy, poletovaly piekYmi zrny blaZenYch slz jako rilZencem si udelal 0 svern majetku potizeni, ja- hrSle stebel jako vytrhane vousy.. milosti a diktin ice chtel, jeho yule se musi spinit. On, all zvolna, tiSe a rozvaUovall o podi3 chuddeek, snack v tuto chvili hledi na vas Hanieko!" zaprosila Jos- a mysli si: lidi jsem z , nich vychoval, lech. ka a poloUila hlavu na lavici.

Odkudsi z poll, kde lide .,okopavali pekne hospoda •stvi• jsem jim zanechal, "Vezmi nohy na ramena a let'!" osopi- tak se piece ted' pri delenI nepokouSou brambory, zalehla chvlemi pisnieka la, se na ni Hanka a sotva vzhledla od jako psi. lkikam vUdycky s kazatelny nesla, se s vetrem kdovikam; pod m1YruUence. svornosti vSecko na .svete- trva, 'rozbro- nern nejaka Uenska buSila hluene do "5 1<dyU je rri v Uivote tak divne a tak jem jeSte nikdo nic nezbudoval. No, fi- pradla a voda padajici na kola hueela mdlo. ." karn yam, nezbudoval, krorne, htichu a a 'Surrela.

"NeruS pobo:i=nost, tined bude konec!" urday BoUi. A na kostel pamatujte:Ne"MlYn ted' pracuje bez ustani, ozvaA skuteene, fatal' uU koneil tichou za.- boUtik byl StedrY, at' to bylo na..svetlo, la se Magda, duSui mSi za dui Borynovu, kterou je- na mSi nebo na jine potieby, groSe neli"Je ptede Unem•i, mlynat ma Une!" ho todina objednala v oktav jeho smrti. toval, a proto mu taky Pan Bith poUeh"Letos je to horSi nea loni. VAude je VSichni nejbli2Si ptibuzni sedeli v nal. . ." bidy au hrriza, u podruht ptimo hlad." boenich lavicich, Jagna s matkou kleeeKnez hovoiil dlouho, Uenske se rozpla- vzdychla, Hanka. pted oltatem; z cizich tu nebyl nikdo, kaly a s diky mu objimaly kolena; Jos"Kozlovi taky eenichaji po vsi. .. aby jenom kdesi pod kruchtou Agata hlasite ka, se mu vrhla s pldeem do name': knez se kaUdY bal, ze mu deco ukradnou," odiikavala modlitby. ji ptivinul k prstirm, polibil .11 na eelo a prohodil kovai.

Kostel byl tichy, chladnY a temnY, dobrotive iekl: "Nepovidejte bachorky! Hledi si, chuda- , Tpuze prostiedkem se tahla velikanskY ci, pomoci jak mohou — veera Kozlov"Nebree, hloupa, sirotky Pan Rah opruh planouciho svetla, protoUe slunce chranuje piedevSim." va prodala varhanikove kaeata, tak jiUhnulo otev • enymi dvenni a rozlevalo se "Vlartni otec by nemohl do duSe le- ste neco ma!" ke kazatelny.

"Brzy to proleji hrdlem. Netikam o pe promluvit," zaSeptala, dojata Hanka.

Varhanikil y Michal piisluhoval pii VelebnY pan byl asi taky vzruSen, pro- nich nic zleho, ale je mi divne, ze pen. ,jako vUdycky zvonil zvoneeky, toUe si incradkem otiel osi, poeastoval z meho Icaeera, co se mi ztratii pti otzalehaly, vyktikoval responsoria a kovaie tabakem a rychle zaeal mluvit cove pohtbu, naS Mates na gel za jejich torn deima sledoval vlaSto yky, ktere se o jinYch vecech: chlivkem," tekla Magda. s ustraSenYm zaSvitotenim mihly "A kdopak to tenkrat vzal vase pen,,obeas • "Talc- co, dohodnete se s hrabetem?" p o kostele.

"Dohodneme, dnes jich k nemu jelo ny?" dodala Joska.

Kdesi u rybnika se rozlehaly klepajici trU pet. . ."

"Jakpak je to s tim jejich soudem prorally vrabci cvrlikali za okny a "Chvala Bohu. Ja budu slou2it msi sva- ti fojtovi?" ze hibitova do kostelnich vrat potad le- tou na Unlysl to dohody!"

"Za moc to nestoji, ale PloSka je podkvoona s celYm hejnem ski "Zda se mi, ze by se yes mela sloUit poruje, talcUe asi fojtovtim potadne sopl*icich kutatek, az ji JambroU mush na delcovnou mSi svatou s vYstavem! soli." zalmat.

"2e ten PloSka tak rad strka nos do Jakpak ne, valyt' je to jako novY ptidel jakmile knez skoneil, vSichni vySli na ptimly. . docela zadarmo!" cizich veci!"

"Co by ne, chce si ziskat ptatele, zavo"MAS rozum, Michale, mluvil jsem o KdyU uz ptichazeli ke zvonici, Jam- tobe s hrabetem. No, jclete s Bohem, helo mu fojtovstvi." bioZ za nimi volal: : Pies cestu pteSel Jankl, kterY tahl za clobre vuli a y e spravedlnosti. . . Micha"Poekejte trochu! VelebnY pan yam le!" volal knez za odchazejicimi, "podi- h •ivu spoutaneho kone, vyhazujielho a nee() chce!" vej se pot= na rnuj koear, prave per° vzpirajiciho se mu ze vSech sil.

Za malou chvili ptibehl udYchanY die trochu o napravu. . ."

"Nasypte mu pod ocas pepte, hned kneZ s breviatem pod paUdi a utiral si "To se tak zmaeklo pod laznovskyrn yarn ptijde jako htebec!" lysinu; pozdravil je srdeene a tekl: "Jen se posmivejte! Co jsem ja, uU zkupanem faratem."

"Lidieky, chtel jsem vam Mel jenom sil s tim konem!"

Knez uz neodpovedel a Borynovi jste si poeinali spravne, jako kte"Vycpete ho slamou, ptidelejte mu nost'ane, kdyU, jste clan slouzflt msi svatou rovnou k domovu. vY ocas a zaved'te ho na jarmark, tieza neboUtika. Biel-1Si to jeho dui a poJagna vedla matku az posledni, proto- ba hO nekdo koupi misto kravy, za kone rn-He ji to k y eenemu spaseni. Ano, jiste ze stara, se vlekla namahave a co chvi- e tak jako tak nehodi!" Zertoval MipomilUe!" le odpoeivala. chal; vSichni se razem dali do smichu,

Ve sttedu, eine 21. biezna 1956. protoe kiln se Janklovi vytrhl, skooil do rybnika a nedbaje na, prosby ani hrozby, zaCal se tam docela klidne valet.

"To je chytrak, ten je jiste od Cikant!"

"Dejte mu vedro koralky, moZna, vyleze!" zasmala se varhanikova,, sedici nad rybnikem u hejna kaeat, jet plavala na vode jako Zlut'oudke chomaeky; rozeepYtena, kvoena kdakala na btehu.

-Pane hejno, ty jsou jiste od. Ko zlover zeptala se Hanka.

"Jsou, porad jeAte utikaji na rybnik. kat, kae!" volala varha,nikovd, hazejic kaeattim pine hrsti jahel, aby je pfivabila.

Ale kadky veslovaly iia ,druhST breh a varhanikova, musela beZet za nimi.

"Pojd'te rychleji, Zenske," pobizel kovat. KdyZ pak veSli do chalupy a Hanka se dala do chystani snidane, zaoal znova prohliZet vkchno ve svetnicich i v hospodalskS7ch stavenich; nevynechal ani jamu na brambory, as Hanka, kekla: "Divate se vAude, jako by nee() ubylo."

"Nekupuji zajice v pytli."

"Vy znate v gecko lip net ja sama!" 1ekla Hanka kousave, naleva,jic kavu do hrniekti. . "Dominikova, Jagno, pojd'te k snidani!" zvolala na druhou stranu, kde se dcera s matkou zaviely.

Usedli na lavici, pili kavu a ptikusovali chleba.

Nikdo se neozSrval, nikomu se nechtelo zadit, kaZdY rozvaZoval a ohliZel se na druhe. I Hanka byla, podivne zdrZenliva; ovkm, nutila k jidlu, ptilevala, v gem, ale nespouAtela oei s kovale, kterS7 se vrtel na lavici, jezdil odirna po svetnici a znova a znova odchrchlaval. Jagna sedela jaksi zachinurene a vzdychala, odi se ji leskly jako od nedavneho plade, Dominikava se depYtila jako kvoena a cosi ji eptala; jedind Joska, jako obydejne brebentila pâté pies devate a toCila se pilne kolem hutcu pinYch bublajicich bramborti.

Vkm to ut piipadalo dlouhe; •akonec zaeal kayak: "No tak, jak to udelame s delenim?"

Hanka sebou trhla, vzpiimila se a tekla, klidne a rozvaZne: "A copak ma bYt? Ja, to jenom hlidam to, co patii inOovi, a nemaan. pravo 0 nedem rozhodovat. AZ se Antek vrati, tak se podelime."

"Kdypak on se vrati! Takhle to piece zustat nemhZe." "Ale zilstane! Mohlo to tak byt po cely eas otcovy nemoci, mute to tak bYt dokud se Antek nevrati."

"On sam o deleni nerozhodujer "Ale je nejstarg i, na nem je, aby po otci prevzal hospodatstvir

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"To se podivejme, ma stejne pravo ja"Tak jak? Vzala jsem je snad a ko ostatni &Ai." ted' ltu, co?"

"Ticho, tenske! Nehadejte se! Nech "lVloZna, Ze to dostanete vy, kdyt si to tak s Antkem dojednate. Ja se prece toho, Magdieko! Kdo ukradl, bude 'mit s vami hadat nebudu, ma vtle nerozho- na kOSili do hrobu." duje."

"Sama duchna vatila bezmala tficet liber."

"Jagniekor ozvala se pevne Domini"Povidam ti, drt hubu!" krikl kovat kova, "prihlas se o sve!" na term a vyvedl Hanku na dvar; tvatil "A proe, vSechni piece dobre vedi. . se, jako by se sli podivat na prasata.

Hanka g la za nim, ale mela se na pro, nanle zeervenam, kopla v zlosti Lapu, ktery se ji namanul mezi no- zoru. hy, a rekla skrze zuby: "Chtel jsem yam new poradit."

"Tot' se vi, vime dobre o vkch tech Hanna nastratila dychtive uAi, pro,! krivdach!" tote ut vedela, kam miii.

"Povidejte si, co chcete, tady jde o "Vite, bylo by dobre, abyste jeUe pied Best korai, ktere nebottik dal pripsat soupisem nekterY vceer prihnala ke mne asi dy e kravy. Prasniei mutete sverit Jagniece, a ne o hloupa slova!"

"Jestli je mate pripsane, nikdo yarn bratranci, a to, co se da,, poschovavat je nevezme," zarnrueela hnevive Magda, u lidi. . . V.Sak yam povime, kde. 0 ktera sedela celY ten eas potichu s dec- cbili pri soupise feknete, te je damp kem a prsu. prodano Janklovi, on to ochotne potvr"To taky mame, listina je sepsand na di, cid se mu za to nejakY korec. KObylUrade a pied svedky." ku si vezme nalynat, napase se na,fehO "Cekaji vSichni, mute pookat i Jag- pastvisku, a z naradi by se mohlo'neco nieka." schovat v jamach, neco v titech.• a"To je jiste, ze musi poekat ale co se dinv vam to z eisteho pratelstvi. Kaiak; jeji, to si hned vezme; a navic ma kra.vu kdo ma rozum, to tak dela,. Vy jste drela jako kun, yam path vie. Mne z s teletern, svhai a husy. . ."

"To je spoleene, to se musi rozdelit," toho neco date, nejakon maliekoSt'''A povstal tvrde kovar. nieeho se nebojte, budu pri vas veiseiii "Rozdelit! To by se to Milo! Co do- stat. To bude tit ma starost, abysteLO., stala venem, to ji nikdo nesmi brat. stali na grunt& Jenom me posledi061 Snad se nechcete delft taky o spodnie- te, nikdo jeSte nemel Akodu z me 'iidy ky a periny, co?" mluvila Dominikova . . . i sam hrabe me rad poslechneY-Rii stale hlasiteji. tak, co fikate?"

"Ikekl jsem to jen tertem, a vy hned "Ale feknu jen' to, Ze sve meld .1. jako drak. ." ciziho nejsem laena!" odpovedela 14.an= "No ano. . vAak ja, jsem vas dobte ka zvolna a upiela na neho pohrdlivk prohledla..." pohled. Koval se osil, jako by 404 "Skuteene, co tady budeme marne ho- klackem pies hlavu, piemefil ji vorit. Mela jste pravdu, Hanko, le je zasyeel; treba pool-tat na Antka. Ja., pospicham k "A ja uZ bych byl zapoinnel, jak hrabeti, tam ut na mne eekaji." Koval ne jste obrala otce. . ." vstal a zahlednuv °taw kotich, kterY "Neni potreba , vzpominat! Povim i , k>1 nt7 visel v koute na tyece, poeal jej sun- kovi vkchno, at' si s vami prom101,:9 davat. te rade."

Koval jen tak to nezaeal klit, "Hodil by se ml, je na mne jako SitY." "Nechte ho bit, at' vyschne," brani- si a pri odchodu krikl otevienStm olcp.prii la mu Hanka. do svetnice: "Ale aspori ty boty mi dejte, vkk "Magdo, davej na Veecko pozor jsou uZ jednou podSivane," vykladal ko- zlocleji zase nee() neodnesli!" vat' a stahoval boty s tyeky.

Hanka na neho hledela, s ugtepaenSr.rn "Nedovolim, yarn nieeho se dotknout! Asnaevem.

Kdybyste si vzal nevim jakou maliekost, Koval bet31 jako oparenY; kdy2 lido by Pekli, Ze jsem rozhazela, pul ho- ye vratech srazil s fojtovou, ktera spodaistvi. Nejdriv se udela soupis. Do- ye prichazela, dlouho ji cosi vyklada,ia kud hiad v'kchno nesepik, nenecham hrozil pestmi.

Fojtova prinesla jakYsi ritedni papir. vzit ani kolik z plotu."

"Je to pro vas, Hanko, laosel jej,.par "Soupis je'Ste nebyl, a u2 se nekam podely otcovy pekiny. . ." nesl z kancelare." "ftikala jsem ti, co se stab! lined po "Snad o Antkovi!" za geptala Hanka,,a otcove mart je rozvesili na plot a nikdo s bazni vzala papir do zastery.

"Pry o Grelovi. Mut nevi doma, jel: je v noci ukradl. Nebylo myazna, abych okres; posel rikal, te pry Gtela na vkcko pamatovala."

"To je divne, k se tak najednou na- nebo neco takoveho. . ."

"Jeli'S 'Maria!" vykrikla Joska. lezi zloclej. . ."

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Vgichni hledeli na ten papir s hriazou a strachem a obraceli jej bezradne v tresoucieh se prstech.

"Ty snad, Jagnieko, to dovede g preeist," prosily Hanka.

Sta.ly nad ni piny nepokoje a strachu, ale Jagna no cllouhe chvili slabikovani narzute prohlasila: "Kdepak, neni to psdno po na gem, to ja nedovedu Gist." "'rohle pro ni neni! Zato line veci urml znarnenite!" zasykla fojtova, yyzYvaye.

"Jclete si po syYch a nechte lidi na pokoji, beztoho se yam z daleka vyhYbaji jako pra give. . ." zavreela stara. Dominikova.

Ale fojtova, ktera na gla vitanou Zitost, ji t'ala v odvetu: "Druhe karat, to dovedete. . . proepak nez.hranite dceri, aby svadela cizi muZske, co?"

"Dejte pokoj, Petrovar vrnisi ila se do sporu Hanka, kdyZ vid.ela, k eemu to gruel:We; ale fojtova se rozohnovala stale vie.

"A-poi jednou si musing ulevit! Tolik jsem se kvilli ni natrapila, tolik jsem ti:,trpela, ze ji to jakZiva nedaruji!'

I mel si hubou, jak ehee g. . . kdo by se a tebou Stekal!" zamru gela Dominikocelkem klidne. Ale Jagna zrudla, a studem, piece jakasi mstiva nenavist se ji vzedmula v srdci; stale vie vypinala hlavu, jako navzdory vYsmNne na fojtku hledela a uStepaenY ji hral kolem rte.

Fojtova otevrela hubu jako vrata, a protwe byla jejimi pohledy zasaZena do Ziveho, nadavala a vztekle vypoeitava ! a jeji viny.

"Brebta g hlouposti, jsi opila vztekem!" preru g ila ji Dominikova, "ale tvfij muZ bade teZko pied Bohem odpovidat za Ja mino negtesti!"

"No ano, ten se zodpovi tobe za to, ze svedl nevinne clet'atko! Tot' se vi, det'atko, ktere s kdekYm vleze do krovi!"

"DrZte hubu. . . nebo, jak jsem slepa, naidu jeSte cestu do va gich paeesta," hrozila Dominikova a sevrela hill v ruce.

"ZI:uste to! Jen se me dotkni, dotkni!" krleela vyzYvave fojtova.

"Vida, z toho, oe jin.e pripravili, ji narosLI hrebinek! Ted' se bude chytat di jako kligte."

"Oepak jsem to pripravila ja, co, oe?"

"AZ bude tvtij muZ sedet v kriminale, tak se to jiste dovig!"

Fojtova skoeila proti Dominikeve se zat'atYmi pestrni, ale Hanka na Stesti je legto y eas od sebe odtrhla a ostre se na ne oborila: "Proboha, Zenske, Mate mi z chalupy kremu!"

Umlkly v okamZiku, jenom prudce od-

VESTN 1 K ---- WEST, TEXAS dychovaly a supely. Dominikove se vyrinuly slzy zpod g atku, kterYm mela zava.zane oei, a tekly ji proudeni po vyhuble tvari; presto se vzpamatovala prvni, usedla, vzdychla a sepjala nice: "Jeligi, bud' milostiv nine larigne!"

Fojtova vyletela z chalupy jako ale vratila se je gte z testy, vrazila hlavu oknem do svetniee a krikla no, Hanku: "Povidam ti, yyZen z chalupy ty behny! VyZen je, dokud je eas, abys toho potoni nelitovala! Nenechavej si ji ani na hodinu pod strechou, jinak to odtud vykouge, to potvora pekelna! Radim Hank°, nemej s ni slitovani ani milosrdenstvi! Ona jen ceka, aZ se tvtlj maZ vrati, uvidi g , co'ti pak provede!"

Fojtova se naklonila jegte vie do svetnice, hrozila Jagne pestmi a vztekle je"Poekej jenom, ty pekelnice jedna, pookej! Neumru s pokojem, ke svate zpovedi nepiljdu, dokud se nedoekam toho, ze to ze vsi holenal vymlati! si za vojaky! Tam je ta re. misto, svinskY zmetku, tarn!"

A odbehla. Ve svetnici nastalo ticho jako v hrobe.

Dominikova se trasla zadrZovanYm plaeem, Magda houpala. decko v naruei, Hanka se zadivala v hlubokem zaniySleni do krbu, Jagna pak, ac jeSte mela na tvari hrdost a zlY fismev na rtech, zbledla jako stena, protole posledni slova ji t'ala prima do srdce; mela pocit, jako by ji nahle sto note projelo, se vgeeh stran jako by se ji rinula pinyin proudem: krev a ji zustal jen nevyslovnY sal, jakYsi zhola nadlidsky Cal; chtelo se ji bit hlavou o zed' a krieet ze vgech sil, premohla se vgak a gkubajie matku za rukav g eptala zimniene:"Pojd' odtud, maminko! Pojd'me rychle! Utecme!" nemam sil, ale "Ano, pfijdeme! ty se sem nausi g vratit a hlidat to, co ti a2Z do konce."

"Nezfistanu tady. Tak se mi tady v gecko zprotivilo, ze to dele nevydrZina!

Mela jsem si radeji nohy polamat, net vkroeit do toho stavenil" "To ti bylo u nas zle?" zageptala. Hanka.

"HU? neZ psovi na reteze, i v pekie musi bYt lip."

"To je divne, Zes to yydrZela tak dlouho. . nebylas piece uvazana. Mohlas jit! Neboj se, nepadnu ti k noham a nebudu to prosit, abys zfistala!"

"PUidu, pujdu, a vas at' mor vgecky zahubi, kdyZ jste takovi!"

"Neprivolavej pomstu, abych ja neukazala, elms mi ty ukrivdilal" "Vtichni jsou proti nine, aid yes, vgiehni. ."

"2ij tak, jak se sluSi a patti, a nikdo ti nerekne zleho slova!"

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"Ticho, bud', Jagnieko! V2dyt' Hanka neni proti tebe. Ticho!"

"At' si povida! At'! At'! Z takoveho gtekani si clelaral Copak jsem vlastne udelala? Ukradia jsem neco? Zabila jsem nekoho?

"Ty ina g jegte smelost se ptat, co?" rekla udivene Hanka, jet stela pied ni.

"Neclrahli ride, abyeh ti neco nerekla!"

"I 'allude si a povidejte, co chcete, nine je to docela jeclao!" jeeela Jagna stale vztekleji; zlost se v hi vzmahala jako polar, byla ut cdhodiaria ke vge-mu, i k nejlaorgimu.

Hance nahle Slay ul! • dei, vzpominka na Antkovu zradu sc ji zat'ala do srdce tak bolestne, sotva vykoktala: "A co jsi vyvadela s mYm nauZem, co?

Pan Huh to potresta za nine, uvidi g ! Pokoj jsi mu nedaVala. . . belaala jsi za nim jako. . jako. . ." Dech ji selhal, Hanka za.eala vzlykat.

Ale Jagna se vzePjala jako vlk papadeny ye svem doupeti, kterV je odhodlan sapat se s yymi tesaky na v gechno, co mu prijde do testy; nenavist ji vstoupila do hlavy a mstivost ji napjala drapy.

Jagna skocila do prosttecl svetnice a rozvzteklend na nejvy ggi stupen zaeala chrlit pridugend slova, jako by bieem glehala: "Ja ze jsem za nim litala, ja? LZeS jako pes! Vgak to vsichni vedi, jak jsem se proti nemu porad brMaila. Knoural jako u dveri, jen abych mu aspoil dfevak ukazala! To on me n(isilirn nutil!

To on me tak omanail a delal si pak se mnou, co chtel! KdyZ tedy cheeS, povim ti pravdu, ale jenom abys nelitovala!

On me mel rad, ze se to neda vypovedet! A ty ses mu zprotivila jako starY, ueouran;"7 hadr, mei ehudak uz po krk tveho nailovani, lezlo mu z krku jako stare sadlo, tak tak, ze neplival, kdy si na tebe vzpomnel. Byl dokonce odlio(Ilan neco si udelat, jen aby to uZ viekrat nemusil videt. Tady ma g , co jsi chtela! A pamatuj si, co ti je gte povim: kdybys mu i nohy libala. . . kdy j6, budu chtit, kopne to a poled za mnou treba, nay kraj sveta. Pochop to a ke nine se nepicirovnavej, rozumi??"

Jagna byla jizliva, ale uZ se zcela °viadale, rozpaeitost ji opustila a byla krasnei g i neZ kdy jindy. Ba i 1.11atka ji poslouchala s obdivem a strachem, pripadala ji jaksi jinn, skoro cizi, a zaroven strag na, zla, a hrozna jako mrak, z nehoZ glehaji blesky.

(Pokraem Stejna zvedav•st.

Ucitel: SobiSku, proe chodime do gloly?"

Zak: "To jsem se uZ take mockrat ptal, pane ueiteli."

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SLAVNE Velke filmove spoleeriosti vyhledavaji pterozmanite n'amety ku z yST'Seni syYch ptijma a ku pobaveni obecenstva. Hrdinkarni filmy jsou i proslule 2eny z davnYch dob. Jen vzpomeri si, etenati, na Salome, na Kleopatru, na Davida a Betsabe, na Helenu Trojskou, na Samsona a Dalilu. To vS'echno byly filmy nedavne o Zenach davnYch. Jsou jista jmena Zen, ktera vzbuzuji ptedsta y u eehosi dokonaleho v ureitem smeru, v ureitem smyslu bud' dobrem nebo zlem. Jak je vysloviA, uz ptitahuji pIivlastek, neodlueitelnY pro vechny easy, znamY girokYm vrstyam, je2 easto o pftvodu jeho nerriaji ani zdani.

Helena! Zdal k tomuto jmenu bezdeone neptipojuje se ptidavek "krasna", aby vytvoril pojem absolutni 'Zenske krasy?

Kdo byla vS"ak tato "Krasna Helena", a byla opravdu tak kraSna, 'Ze pro v2dy vtiskla syYm jmenovkynim nejhledanejk vlastnost Zany? Zila skuteene?

Xantippa! Zia, Xantippa. Zda2 se vain nezda, ze jmeno Xantippa uz samo 0 sobe zlobou sala? A byla opravdu na svete zla Xantippa?

Verna Penelopa, py gna a smysln'a Kleopatra, mstiva Medea, dista, Virginie, sladka Nausikaa, pokorna Ruth, odvaIna Judith, ueena Hypathie — a 'raft jinYch Zen, ktere pied na gimi zraky vstavaji z mlh davne minulosti, bli g se k nam zjasnene nesmrtelnou pamatkou ureiteho karakteru a pfechazeji pied naS'irri dukynim pohledem pornalu, jedna za druhou, zanechavajice stop syYch sladkYch asmeva, svYch slz, hotkost svYch zklamani, zapach prolite krve, touhu neukojitelne lasky, vzneS'enost matetskeho srdce. — KaZdy narod ma sve hrdiny a hrdinky, kteri jsou mu vzorem ureitYch ctnosti a jaZ nekdy zvelieuje aZ pies mez moZnosti.

J,sou vgak ureite typy hrdin universalnich, svetovYch, znamYch temet vgem civilisoyanYm narodfun vlivem vzdelanosti hla yne tiskem se siiici. Neni diva, takovYmi vzory jsou ptedev gim hrdinoye naroda antickych, narodit, kteti vynikli neobydejnYm nadanim ducha a kulturou mrava a kteti piizni osudu byli obklopeni podminkami, je2 na rozvoj jejich mely blahodarnY vliv. Velmi pilsobi take vzdalenost easova., jeZ oziacuje zanikle hrdiny mdlou, neproniknutelnou zati, zastiriuje laroty, vyrovnava ktivky a dava tu giti krasu tam, kde neni ptesneho poznani. Vlivem easu se (La yne pastavy ustalily a my v no yetime jako skuteene, nezmenitelne. Ptesna. jistota tegi prove tak jako nejistota znepokojuje. ij vYbor ZenskYch vzora z minulosti

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je odavodnen tim, ze nom stara minulast dava opravdu yYrazne Zenske pastavy, ktere zaroveri velmi dolote karakterisuji dobu, v niZ Zily a ukazuji, jakY vliv mela east°, ne-li v2dycky, Zena na mirk a na yVvoj udalosti vabec, a Ze byla v2dycky schopna pochopit my'Slenky, raz, vzdelanost sve doby.

Tvrzeni o .vSeobecne nil zdatnosti Zen byla v2dycky jen chtenou pohadkou; tolik bylo a jest pravda, Ze v normalnich ptipadech se telesnou silou 2ena muZi nevyrovnala a tedy tam, kde jen telesna sila vladla, byla Zena v hrubem poddanstvi. Olin vySSi byla kde kultura ducha a srdce, tim svobodnej gi tam byla Zena, je2 mitZi duchem staeila, srdcera ho easto ptekonavala.

A tak veru studium ZenskYch postav davne minulosti bylo mocnym prosttedkern v emancipaenan hnuti Zenskern, bylo ylastne jen pokraeovanim vYvoje, ktery se dal vZdy a kterY pudil Zeno, aby dobyla a uhajila eestneho mista poboku rauZovu.

Proto myslim, ze bude na miste vzpomenouti nekterYch tech zajimavYch ten davne minulosti a oZivit, ba ztelesnit jejich piedstavu. Nejen Ze poutaji, ale posiluji i driveru len soueasnYch, ktere valy znovu se utvrzuji v ptesyedeeni, to je laska, vernost a stateenost Zen, ktere rozsevaji dobro a polehnani, kde2to zloba, zloeiny a slabost pasobily vZcly neStesti a hritzu a v sobe samy zmiraly mukami a bolesti.

Ponotme tedy svij pohled do minulYch -aka a pozorujme Zeny, jeZ anebo snad Zily kdysi, milovaly a nenay idely, objimaly a vraZdily, aZ spadla opona po ukoneenem dile jejich Zivota.

Telesna jejich krasa nebo Akaredost zanikly navZdy, ale jejich mySlenky a einy Zily dal v pameti lidske, v pisnich kteri je ueinili nesmrtelnYmi. — Ba'2.skYnt, ne w'lak vZdy nejlenschn, darem Zeny jest telesna krasa. Zivy pavab kaZdeho pouta, kakleho uchvacuje.

Mu2e napliauje touhou a hrdinstvim, Zeny jej obdivuji. Te, jejiZ jest adelem, mute bYti pramenem opolneho a velikeho Stesti, ale ten ptieinou utrpeni a bolesti. Vizme Krasna byla Helena tecka. Tak krasna, Ze Itekove ji povaZovali za dite boZl bajice a ni, Ze se zrodila z vejce, je2 mela Leda s bohem Jupiterem. (Leda mela dle baje dye vejce; z jednoho se zrodila dvojeata, bratti Kastor a Pollux, z druheha sestry Helena a Klytemnestra.) Jsou je gte razne jine povesti o boZskem pavodu krasne Heleny. Byla jiZ jako dite znama a slavena pro svoji neobyeejnou slienost v kaZdem sineru: postavou, tvaii, eistotou a skvelosti

pleti, vyrazem a hloubkou oei, libezna sy Ym duchein, chovaniin a zpilsoby. Jednoho dne, kdyZ taneila v chrame bohyne Artemis, byla unesena, Theseem do Attiky (v Recku, Theseus mel s ni deerku. Brad:). Helenini Kastor a Pollux osvobodili sestru a ptivedli ji zpet do Sparty. Nehledice na toto jeji prolite dobrodruZst-vi uchazeli se o ruku Heleninu nejslavnejSi hrdinove Recka jako Odysseus, Ajax, Diomedes a jini. Otec jeji se obaval, aby uchazeoi se mezi sebou nepohodli a M by z toho mohly vzniknouti nebezpeene zapletky, proto svolal vSechny Zenichy a pfijal od nich slib, ze nikdo z nich nevystoupi neptatelsky proti touuti, koho Helena sama si zvoli, ale ze si budou v gdy na,vzajem pomahati. — Helena si vybrala, Menelaa, spartskeho krale. Po jistem Case navAtivil Spartu Paris, slienY syn Priarna,, krale trojskeno, a za nepritomnosti Menelaovy unesl mu krasnou Helenu do Troje (Mali Asie). KdyZ se IVIenelaos vratil, svolal vSechny sve bYvale soky a prohlasiv ein Paristiv za uraZku, vy`Zadal si pomoci shrornaZdenYch hrdint a vypovedel valku trojskYrn. Byla to valka plna, raznYch dobrodruistvi se sttidavYrn Stestim brzo na te, brzo na, one strane, ji2 lief ptekrasna hrdin.ska baseri tecka nazvana Iliada, sk yost poesie tecke.

Iliada obsahujici 15.000 verso a jeji pokraeovani, Odyssea, 1101 dej okolo roku 2000 pied Kristem, ptipisoyana je basniku reckemu Homerovi. (te se podnes na strednich Slelach, kde se vyueuje tine.

Behem valky zahyne Paris, kterY byl unesl Helenu, a ona se provda za jeho bratra Deiphoba. Pozdeji vS'ak vyda tohoto sveho manZela kektim chtit si tak ziskati odpu'Steni svYch krajanil. Menelaos se ji opet zmocni a oba, se vrati do Sporty. Po smrti Menelaove jako vdova je ze Sporty vylmana a uchyli Se na ostroy Rhodos, kde podle povesti kralovna Polyxa ji dala zardousiti v lazni a na to jeSite povesti na strom. Podia ;line tradice byla Helena po sve smrti piijata bohem Jupiterem mezi bohy a stala se hvezdou. dine zpravy tvrdily,e veene panovala s Menelaem na vzdalenem ostrove. Jisto vS",ak jest, Ze kekove uctivali jeAi pamatku a Ze pro v`Zdy zUstala vzorem dokonale krasy, pied nit se sklai nepratele. neli (Pokraeovarx.) ) 41) ( Ta cizi shwa!

Pan Rousek Ceti v novhiach: "HroznY cyklon: Tri sta lidi zabito!"

Pani Rouskova mu do toho vpadla: "Ty veci by se mely zakazat! Mne 'dera tady jeden malem piejel!"

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dne 21. bfezna 1956.

Z DOB UTRPENI (Pokraeovani.)

Privodni historicka povidka ze iivota Bucle St'asten nejen u vedomi, ;-2e prvnich eeskkch pfistehovalcil do oblaZil jsi ty, jeZ miluje g laskou synov:Rada PodhajskYho byla, aby z kaIde Texaso. skou a bratrskou, nYbrZ take ziipina rodiny, v nip bylo vice odrostlkch syntl, St'asten v namei -b. / oh Anny."

Will:lash se k odvodu jeden dobrovolne, Napsal Hugo Chotek "Jak ty vid?" s Udivem zvolal Josef ostatni ze budou miti pak pokoj. Prot a cola rodina pristoupila blue, aby vytornu byla, vsak velka VetSina, jich2 na- vytracel se z velke jizby a utikali hled byl, aby mladici skrYvali se v polich aby se pripravili ku zamYS'lenemu skrY- slechla dalSi. Ku lepSimu poppzumeni a lesich a jen v noel aby si piisli domti vain a vyhledali si v lese nebo v poll nebude na Skodu nasledujici mala odpro jidlo. Te2 do prate v poli mobil pry brloh nejakk, v nern2 bezpedni by byli chylka Stare/am POdhajskkmu a jeho warZelby se prevleci za Zenske. Zenska je i to- pled slidicimi po nich Texany. ce ji1%, ode tri let bylo napadno, prod nejmu nejsurovejSimu pa.saku osobou nePo pfil noci odeSli i ostatni z plitorndotknutelnou a rebelove ze neptijdou se nYch slibivSe si pled tim, ze budou se sta.rSi jejich syn Josef skoro napadne vysilnice do • poli, aby presvedeili se, kdo navzajem podporovati i na dale a za hybd Se vSem zhamyrn cleveatfun a ani /la "muziky" nejde. Stark byl k tonau to tam pracuje; postadi, kdyZ -midi Zen- Zadnou cenu nevyzradi skrYS dost a byl jinak velmi vnimavk. KdyZ .ske Saty a "bonnet."

Na drrihk den rano byla u Podhaj- pled tlemi roky byli navStevou u ZapaS tim ale Podhajsky rozhodne nesou- skkch dirlezita porada o torn, kterk z o- ladu LeSikarti v Austin County, tu me1 lash a pravil rozhorlene: bou brati• ma se obetovati a dobrovolne lo se za to, ze hluboce se zamiloval do "To vypadd jako vtelena zbabelost! vstoupiti do vojska texaskeho. Oba 'tehdy Sestnactilete, ale neobyeejne vyDm:Yule za kaZdYch okolnosti mai! Domezi sebou prudce a Vrantikk vinute dcery pritele Zapalade Anninky, zvi,4i se to provost marSal, bude syknai plakal a nalikal, de jej nechti ani vy- ktcra jeho lasku zdala se opetovati. Jelidilri honiti je jako zajice a bud' je 11- slechnouti. Stale tvrdil, ze by se vyzna- nik dojiZdel do Austin okresu potom ka:;ene, nebo postrili. SkrYvati se v menal co bubenik a de by se vratil dome Mkch etrnact dni a rodide oboti oeekaskYch Satech je jeSte horsi. Kdyby to vy- jako proslavenk .general. Pani Podhajski vali kaZdou chvili, ze budou poMdani, lo ven, meli bysme my Moravane posme- plecha,zela od syna k synu objimajic je aby oba rr.iiujidi prolalaSerd byli za snouclan dost pro cele priSti pokoleni. Okol- a plaeic srdceloinne, kdeZto Lidrinka hence. Pojednou ale jak by ut'al.. Josef nostt jsou proti /lam. Verte mne, bratri chodila po dome jako stin. Byla bled& netouZil. vice po dojiZelkach do okresu roclaci, ze kdybych veal, ze to neco po- na smrt od imosu Jenika zhubenela tak Austin a byla-li fee o deveatech v tommti2e, posta,vil bych se na odpor takove- napadne, Ze' rodide i vSichni platele se to okresu bydlicich, tu uSklibl se jen pomu.nasili se zbrani v ruce a Zivot svfij toho znrozili. Nenalikala si vSak ani slo- hrdlive. a odekl dale, aby nebyl vtaZen -,red bych °betra yal, kdybych vas vkch- vein a , zdalo se, ze nebere zajmu na do rozmluvy. ny mohl uchraniti od zleho. Byla by to nieem. Ze vAak vAe dobre pozoruje a .spoPani Podhajska dasto v dtivernych vlek jen mama °bet' a ja nejsem zvy- luciti, d,okazala dne8. Byla j ako vyme- chvilich dotazovala se syna Josefa, co - klk einiti marne to el ono. Hlavou zed' nena a teSila nratku i otce, sestru i branaezi nim a Anninkou Zaneprorazime a chovejme se proto po pri- try. pula.:dovou, tu ale on yaly prudce se kladtt slavnYch na gch predkti. PodrobKely'Z pak bylo na palOvic rozhodnuto, vzchopil a beze slova vybehl yen do po;:,me se nutnosti, Zachovejme ale za ka- de Josef ptijde jako nejstar gi — tu ll nebo na honbu. Zenskkin svYm dtivtiklych okolnosti svoji muZnost a vynut'- pledstoupila pled nej, objala jej pevne pem lehce poznala, ze oba se nepohodli, me si fictu a vaZnost i u surovkch a pravila hlasem va,LaYm., jakoby pro- pPece ale maji se radi a dr2i k sobe, pasakft a zfanatisovanych politickYch rockYrn: "Ano, musi-li to bYt, aby del nespouSlejice jeden druheho z mysle. strannikfi. Jaka to mySlenka, chtiti nekdo z domu, pak jdi ty! Je-li vubec Nebyla mice v lasce a jeji slastech 1 se v polich a lesich, jako lesni Tat moZno, ze bych mohla milovati nekoho strastech p111i1 zbehla, jeliko2 pled jenebo vlezti do ZenskYch sukni a vezeti v vice, jak sve drahe rodide, vas vkchny jimi libankami vyvinulo se v ge zcela tleba po leta. Blesky boZi! To bych a pak sveho Jenika, tu jiste jsi to ty, rozene a nestavalo tu MdnYch ptekar7acleji videl yriechny sve syny v Padach Josefe. Srdce me bude zrovna tak krva- Zek v ceste, pPece ale byla dosti bystrou, Al2nich vojsk, veda, ze tam jsou bez- ceti nad tv'm odchodem a nejistYm osu- aby poznala, ze tito dva mladi lido lnou peenelgi." dem, jako krvaci od to doby, co uloupen k sobe laskou vice jak obydejnou. V tom Takto horlil stark Podhajskk, v,§ak byl In Jenik. Ty jsi ale ze v'Sech nejmou- se take nerrYlila. Josef a Anna milovall Marne. I vetS'ina plitornnkch drE,, j gi — tys nejvice rnitoval a posud se vroucne, ale oba byli povahy velice zlirozila. se to mySlenky, bYti v jedne milujeS rod110 Jenika, a proto snad je uminene. Josef p11 posledni sve navSterade s temi surovYmi, neurvalYmi a el- ti souzeno, a.bys stal se stral tnym du- ye u Zapalan. domnival se miti plidiny stry nedbal'mi pasaky texaskymi, ze chem nejen nas VSech, ale hlavne nas k Zarlivosti a dal tuto na jevo slovy, vyradeji uvolili se ku vkmu i poniZujici- dvou, Jenika a mne. Jdi, milk, dobrk mtid zYvaje Anninku, aby se ospravedlnila. ' 11111 se skrYvani v lesich.

Josefe! Snad setkaS se s nim nekde a UraZena v nejposvatneiSich svYch ciNe tak ale synove Podhajs,kYho, kteib jest-li ano, bled', abyste byli oba v tech odpovedela mu hrube. Slovo dalo davali otci za pravdu. Nyni ji2 ttiadva- jedne setnine. Stane-li se to, vim, ze mi slovo a snoubenci se rozeni, jak si na. cetiletk Josef hadal se s jednadvaceti- jej boded streliti a ze mi jej Plivedeg vzajemi "na veky vektv." letYrn Rudolfem o ptednost, prinesti 0- zpet zdraveho a St'astrieho."

Pokra. eovaxrd. l "Mad pravdu. Lidunko! Snad je nam bet' ye prospech cele rodiny. etrnactiletk Frantikk ale Neal dokazovati to tak souzeno a ja ,budu moci bkti pro•( o oboum, ze oni jsou nutnejSi na farme, speSnYm Jenikovi: keZ by pledtucha, V my§lenkach. to mne neklamala! Budu St'asten u yejak on a jej ,''zre provost marsal jiste "Tato visa je dva tisice let stard. Muj bubenika. Timto zapase-m techto domi--" "BudeS Wasten, Josefe, vent" pferu- dedeeek ji ptivez1 z tiny, neZ zemtel." tri statnkch bratri zahanbeni ostatni "To u2 je tak dlouho mrtev?" jej Lidunka. "Vint clolafe, co chcd mladici v te , mire, ze jeden po, druhem.

Ve sttedu, dne 21. biezna 1956.

VESTNiK -- WEST, TEXAS

JIRASKOVY ST. isPokraeovani.)

Vg ichni se kneSne znizka poklonili.

Ona pak vaSne pokynuv gi se stolce promluvila: "Slyg eli jste, prod jsem vas, lechy, vladyky, a v gechen narod sem svolala.

Svobody si vaSit neumite. Poznala jsem to i zkusila. Z vnuknuti boht jsern oznamila, Se jiz vane nebudu vladnouti, protoSe ve svem srdci Sadate si vladaie TouSite , po vojvodovi, jenS bude brati vase syny a vase dcery ke syYm sluSbain a take ze skotu vaseho i koni vezme nejlep gi dle libosti. Slou'Ati chcete, jak jste naslouSili, a dan davati po popelici, kune a platenku, a22 yam bude teskno i hotko, Nea za to nebudete miti to hany, ze vam vladne Sena. Nechei vas stragiti, ham opet, co jsem tekla z vnuknuti boha a co take zjevil inYm sestram duch ve gti. Volte vojvodu, moudte vgak a onatrne, nebot' snadno je vladce dosadit, ale teSko dosazeneho sesaditi. Stojiteli na sve mysli, vgechno se vypini, a 2dsi, poradim yam a oznamim jeho Mien() a misto!"

"Oznam! Oznam!"

"Porad'! Porad'! zkiikli a volali v gichni jako jednemi zesty. Zastupy dNve jako zed' klidne stojici a naslouchajici, pohnuly se vzru genim a hrnuly se, tlaeily .ke stolci, jako kdyS pied nahlYm yetrem hrneu se viny obilnYin lanem.

V tom Libu ge v belostnem rou ge, s Yinkern kol dela, vstala a vztyoena nad nimi vztahla ruce proti nim. Naraz vse ztichlo; kaZdY lined stanul hlede na, vznegenou knanu. Pozdvih gi prst ukazala k palnoeniin horam a tekla: "Hle, za onemi horami v Lemuzich je teka nevelika, Mina jmenem. Blizko to ieky je dedina, v ni Stadicd rod. Od to dediny nedaleko oulehle na del i na git stodvacet krokt, oulehle divna, leuprostked mezi tolika rolemi a piece k Zadne nenaleSi. Tarn ore vas vojvoda dvema stakatymi voly. Jeden vul ma bilou hlavu, druhY jest od dela pa lithete bilk a ma zadni nohy bile. Nyni yesmete sukni a pla gt' i pieviaky, jak se na knae slush, jdete a vyi4id`te mull vzkasani, od naroda a ode nine a ptived'te sobe kniZe, a mile manSela. Ptemysl slow, a jeho pokoleni bude panovati v cele teto semi, v gem plementimt na veky."

Kdy2 pak ustanoveni starostove nejptednej gich roar', kteti by muSi ze Stadie piednesli, na eem zustal lid a kneSna, promluvila k nim, Libuge: "Cesty hledati nebudete, aniS se ptakith vas povede; za tim jeti neti. vahejte. Ten vas dovede a zpatky vede pravou cestou. Pied kterYm on elo-

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vekem se zastavi a zaiehce, ten jest, o kterem jsern mluvila. Tu nine tepr y uvetite, kciya sveho vojvodu na Seleznem stole jisti urtite."

Jak Libuge pokynula, vyveden jeji jizd.ni kun. Belou g byl girokeho krku, s neho'z huste splYvala dlouha htiva. ozdobne sedlo, pod sedleni kosmatou 'Si, a giroke prsosiny leskly se mu bronzovVini kotouei a puklami.

Jak mu na sedlo naloZili sukni, plagt' a ptevlaky, vykroeil, a vladycke poselstvo yyd.alo se za nim na cestu.

0 PitEMYSLOVCI Bylo za prvni jesene, v sluneony, tichY den. Libu gin kttri gel bystte, ureitym krokem; nikdo ` z muSn ho nevedl, ni slovem neiidil. Sel jiste tak jako by kraeel ke svemu chlevu, aZ muSove Sash, aZ viry dc glo domneni, tou eestou tan i2e po prve nejde, ze kneSna jizdou ptigernou east& to jezdila za veeerniho soumraku a zase neS zapely kury, Se se vracela do sveho dvora.

Ani krok nevyboeil belou g z cesty.

Nic ho nesvedlo s jeho drahy. Nejednou nrinul i stado koni se pasoucich; jich veselY tehot ho vital a vabil. NeZ beloug kradel dal, ni vpravo ni vlevo zraktii neobraceje. Kdy2 pak v girem poli zasedli pod planou hrugkou nebo ye slabem stinu rudokrnenne sosny, aby si odpodinuly, kun kneZnin, tine postav, sam prvni zase vykroell na dalgi cestu.

Tak ptejeli hory a plane, as tietiho dne rano se blizili k decline mezi stranemi, kraj ti zkeho dolu, jimS" teka tekla.

1<dyS uz dojadeli, vbeh' jim jakYs chlapec v oustrety. Toho se zeptali pravice: "Ej, dobry chlapeeku, to-li jsou Stadici? A je-li v nich mUZ jmenem Piemysl?" " Jsou, to jsou Stadici," ieklo jim pachole. "A tarn hle Piemysl v poll voly pohani."

Spatiili °pedal muse vysoke postavy, an v 1YeenYch sttevicich za pluhem statne krakel a pobizel ostnem spre'Seni strakatYch void. Jeden z nick mel hlavu bilou, druhY byl od eela po htbete bilk a mel zadni nohy tez jako snih. I jell k oriel g irokou mezi, a kdy'S se mu zastavil se kneZnin kdit, pak se vraz vzboell, vzepjal, radosti iehtaje. A pak se zas na ptedni spustil, sehnul hlavtv pied mladYm ordeem, jeni zarazil pluh a zastavil voly.

Vladykove vzali s belou ge knfZeci roucho: sukni dlouhou, vzacnou koleginou lemovanou, drahY a krasnY pla gt' i pievlaky, ptistoupili k Pternyslovi a nizko se mu klanice, pozdravili ho.

"MuZi blaSeny, kni& nim bohy souzenY, bud' zdrav a vitej! Pust' voly. roucho zmen, na Van se rae posadit a s

nami jeti. KneZna Libu ge a vgechen narod Cechtiv ti vzkazuji, abyss nann jel a piijal vladu tobe a t yYm potomkinn souzenou. Zvolit' jsine tebe za sveho soudee. ochrance a kniZete."

Ptemysl mirky poslouchal, inlay pak zabodl do z,eme otku. kterou mel v ruce, a pustil voly, Jho jim snimaje, pravil: "Jclete, odkud jste Jen to vytkl, a jiS se vznesli a zmizeli oba mZikem. Pod dedinou zanikli ye velke shale, jeS se jim oteviela a hned zase zavisela, ze nebylo po nich ani stogy.

K posliun pak Premysl takto promluvil:: ze jste tak rano piisli. Kdybych byl mohl tuto roll doorati, byla by po vgecky easy hojnost chleba. Ale 'Ze jste si pospiSili a mne me dilo preru§ili, yeste, ze bude v zemi east° bYvati hlad.".

Zatimt jako by zeme data suchemu ? ostnu vraz mizu a Zivot. Foeal liskoldr prut pueeti jako na jaie v he'll, a hned take tii odnoie vyhnal, tii ratolesti; na nichZ se zelenalo svetZd list)", a rnlade otechy.

Poslove Sash, vidouce ten div divonci.

NeZ Premysl jich prosil, aby podletneho ke stolu usedli, a vzal je na, snidani.

Obratilt,' pluh a vzav z meze lY t enou kabeli, vylozil z ni pecen a syr na jasnou radlici na slunci se sviticl.

"Tot' ten Zelezny stub, o ktereni mluvila!" Tak si kaLlY z vladyduchu ptipomnel a Sash. Jak sTiemyslein kol piuhu snidali z jello • wdibanu pill, uschly dye ratolesti na lisce a hned opadly; treti v‘Aak rostla ktapem a bujne do vY ge i na sir. Z toho az bazeri hosti pojala. Ukazovali si ten div. a ptali se Premysla, eeho to znamenao.Ze dye z tech haluzi zhynuly a jenom ledna zustala.

"Tot' vam povim," Piternysl vece." y ezte, ze z ineho pokoleni saenou mnozi panovati, ale toliko jedinY pan a .viadai Pak se ho poslove ptali, proe ne na mezi, ale na Zeleze ji.

"Prato jim na Zeleznem stole,", zvolenY kniZe, "abyste vedeli, rod muj bude SeleznY u vlade. Zelezo vg ak u vaSnosti mejte! Jim v 'eas pokoje role orejte, v eas zly se jim proti nepitell chrahte! Dokud Cechove budouJniti takovY still, neptatele sve ptemphou.

KdyZt pak cizozemci ten still jinn odejmou, Cechove pozbudou sve svobody!"

(Pokraeovani) ) • EsT, Specialisace.

Vsdelana divka: "Tak vy jste namofni lekat? Mirj BoSe, jak se vy doktoii specialisuj etc!"

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