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HERALD BENEVOLENCA HUMANITY BROTHERHOOD

Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable 'copies to: SUPREME LODGE, S.P.J.S.T. P. 0. Box 100, TEMPLE, TEXAS

ROCNIK (VOLUME) 51 eislo (No.) 8

20. UNORA

PODPORA LIDSROST BRATRSTVi

(FEBRUARY) 1963

WASIIINGT N, OTEC VLASTI Dvaadvacateho imora oslavirne 231. vY- Unie, zajedou si skoro v2dy i do Mount kterY je zarizen tak, jako byl zarizen roei narozenin George Washingtona. Vernon. Prochazeji domem, nahlfZeji do tehdy. Po opuSteni , domu jdou PeSinou s Datum ma nepochybne nejvetSi yYznam pokoje, v norm Washington zemrel, a travnatou obrubou, projdou brankou a zastavuji se u hrobky. U nohow lezi jim pro obyvatele hlavniho mesta zeme, nebot' George Washington 2i1 v tomto dye proste mramorove desky s nadpisy: George Washington 1732-1899 — Martha kraji Ameriky ,davno pied tim, neZli se Washington 1732-1802. stal prvnim presidentem a "Otcem vlaOim vynikal n-10, k jeho mistu posti." Tam se narodil, tam "ail,' zemkel i sledniho odpoeinku pkistupuje tolik lidi byl pohilden. Okolni krajina nas neustas pietou?

Ie na , nej upomina; zdaji se z ni na nas dYchati tradieni vzpominky na jeho Pamatniky a xastupy navetevnikii votni poslani. zdaly by se nesporne podivnYmi muZi, kterY si tolik cenil soukromi. WashingHlavni /nest° nese jeho jmeno, vevoton, kdy'Z byl dovedl americkou revoluedi mu vysokY, bilST pamatnik Washingni armadu k viterstvi v boji o nezaviJeho jrneno je zachovano i v 130slost, uchYlil se do Mount Vernon s najmenovani dvou tamnich universit: 'Ze tam stravi v klidu zbytek sveho George Washington University a GeorgeZ'ivota. Ze sveho milovaneho zatisi byl town University. vSak povolan narodem, aby se ujal politickeho vedeni zeme. Podridil se pkani Pies feku Potomac le'Zi stat Virginie, syYch yrstevnika jen vahave. kde se George Washington narodil. 610Je poehopitelne, 'Ze priklad a siova tovek, jedouci po Washington Memorial Po timrti Washingtona v prosinci r.

Highway, projadi mestem Alexandria a 1799, americky kongres podal a phial hoto vynikajiciho mute pronikla tkani americkeho srnYAleni. KdY2 po dvou terkolem kostela, kde Washington konal svou poboZnost. 0 nekolik mil dale silni- aklamaene resolute venovana zesnulemu minech v fifacl!it presidenta Washington vficicovi. Resolute koneila: ". . . skuteene odeAel na zaslou2eny odpainek, ce konei.

Ocitame se u Mount Vernon, Washing- v popiedi v dobe valky, v popredi dal svSirn sourodaktim radu, kterou se tonova domova, bileho domu se sloupo- vyjednavani miru, a prvni v srdcich sna'Zily riditi vSecilny nasledujici generace: vim na vyvYSenine, z na se otvira, vY- svYch rodakii".

"Chovejte se ke vSem narodrim poetive hled na zakrut ieky Potomac. Drim a Pii loueeni se sqmi spolupracovniky a a spravedlive. Pestujte mir a soulad se nekolik set akar pozemka, ktere byly po Washinritonove smrti zanedbany, byly vzdani se vefejne einnosti, povidal WashNabOenstvi a moralka, toto chonovejSi dobou restaurovany, aby se co ington: "Jak ic to o rnno l;em lepe se vani nakazuji. Svobocineniu, osvicenernu nejvice podobaly majetky z doby Wash- venovat budovani a zlenSovani iivotu na a v nedaleke budoucnosti velikeniu nasvete, nei obdriet Vgechnu slavu doci- rodu bode ke cti, da-li lidst • u. . ingtonova 'Zivota. lidi, vZdy se fidicich, vzne§enou NavAtevnici Washingtoriu, D. C., yeet- lenou nepretriitou karieru valeeneho spravedlnosti a blahovini." ne exkursi Skolnich deta ze v gech state viterstvi!"

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Entered as second class mail matter, January 3rd, 1933 at West, Texas, under the Act of Cong ress of August 24, 1922. Send Form 3579 t6 Su p reme Lodge SPJST, Box 100, Tem p le, Texas fiREDNI ORGAN SLOVANSKE PODPORUJICI JEDNOTY STATU TEXAS OFFICIAL ORGAN OF SLAVONIC BENEVOLENT ORDER OF THE STATE OF TEXAS REDAKTOR — EDITOR NICK A. MORRIS — Box 85, West, Texas Residence: 1204 N. Davis Street Telephones: Res: III 6-5989 — Sho p : 6-5282 V y davatele — Publishers CECHOSLOVAK PUB. COMPANY, WEST, TEXAS Pfed p latne $3.50 — Subscri p tion $3.43 p lus 7 cents State Tax -- Total $3.50 Zmeny adres zasilaji se do Hlavni fifadovny Box 100, Temple, Texas Changes of address must be sent to Supreme Lodge, Box 100, Tem p le, Texas Pfedplatne a oznamky bud'ta adresovany ne Vestnik, West, Texas iivoto p isy zemfelYch Mena se uvefeRittii bezplatne The obituaries are p rinted without charge BLAVNI titADOVNA — SUPREME LODGE EDWARD L. MAREK. President JOE B. HEJNY, vice-president R. A. URBANOVSKY, Secretary JOS. KOLIHA, JR., treasurer BEN ZABCIK, financial secretary All of Tem p le, Texas, Box 100 AUGUST KACIR. attorney. Tem p le, Texas DR. MARVIN LESIKAR, medical director P. 0. Box 410 — Taylor, Texas itEDITELE -- DIRECTORS JOHN A. KUBENA, First District La Grange, Texas HENRY E. VITEK, Second District P, 0. Box 43 — Granger, Texas ROBERT CERVENKA, Third District West, Texas R. E. BROZ, Fourth District Rt. 3, Box 320 — San An g elo, Tessa J. M. SKRABANEK, Fifth District 4720 Bellaire Blva., — Bellaire, Teta* ED P. SRALLA, Sixth District Rt. 1, Box 110, Edna, Texas CHAS. HOLASEK, Seventh District 2513 Nemec St., Corpus Christi, Texas TISKOVY VYBOR—PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE PAUL SABLATURA, Chairman P. 0. Box 8 — Louise, Texas MRS. FRANCES OLEXA 6 4 02 Taggart St. —. Houston, Texas RUDOLPH -move n, c/a S.P.J.S.T. Rest Rome — Taylor, Texas BTANOVN$ IT -Y. 130R — BY-LAW COMMITTEE E. E. KRENEK, p resident, Dime Box. Texas PAUL SABLATURA, Secretary P. 0. Box 8 — Louise, Texas

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OKRSEK I V. 13. BARINA ROUTE 1 Smithville, Texas OKRSEK JOHNNY J. PLASEK P. O. Box 88 Rosebud, Texas OKRSEK HI ARNOLD VRLA 6307 Saratoga Circle Dallas 14, Texas OKRSEK IV FRED KVETON Route 1 Abernathy, Texas OKRSEK V JARDA CERNY 1521 Woodyine Drive Houston 24, Texas OKRSEK VI LEO KRAUSE, JR. P. 0. Box 427 Inez, Texas OKRSEK VII JAROSLAV KLEPRLIK 202 Schmeltzer Lane San Antonio 1, Texas Telephone DI 4-1700

Do neznama Cas se vali, hbite, jako keky tok; nail ,dnove v nem se hall — Zivot nad malt v nem krok.

Seznam vedoucich mlideie OKRSEK 1 Mrs, Rud. C. Mate** Rt. 4, Box 504 Bryan, Texas OKRSEK II Mrs. Clara Hell Route 4 Temple, Texas OKRSEK Mrs. Wilma Nesuda Telico Road Ennis, Texas OKRSEK IV Mrs. Ed Haisler Rt. 1 Seymour, Texas OKRSEK 'V Mrs. Maxine Sefeik 2301 Airline Drive Houston 9, Texas OKRSEK VI Mrs. Frank Brdeeka Rt. 1, Box 150 Rosenberg, Texas OKRSEK VII Mrs. Marcela Kleprlik 202 Schmeltzer Lane San Antonio. Texas

Proto hled'me, bychom do'kud k tomu mame Cas: vklyt' jsme veera mladi byli dries u2 bell, kidne vlas.

Ten, kdo nedba, aneb deka, ten Z'ivot si upira: budoucnosti on se lekd v ptitomnosti urnira.

MocnY Cas vie rychle meni, on nam plany pievraci: co bYvalo, to uZ neni a nikdy ,se nevraci! ) )

Oddil dopisovatelii Mili etenaki Vestniku a ctenY bratte redaktore: Dries nam pkidel nas Vestnik a velice se nas dotklo pfeeteni dopisu od sestry 8ramkove, ze nad bratr a dobr' tel Podival zemkel. ManZele Podivalovi jsou nail dobki pkatele jiz po =oho Tedili jsme se s manZelkou, 2e az to praci trochu dodelame a bude trochu mirnejdi podasi, ze k nim zajedem.

Oky kdYZ jsme jell pi-es Buckholts jsme se u nich stavili. Radi jsme se ,uvideli a si od srdce k srdci pekne pohovokili. Bratr Podival byl mirumilovnY elovek jako i jeho rnan'Zelka.

Ted' neco od nas. Fanny jsme prodaly a odstehovali jsme se sem k Bryan na ten nad kopeeek 21. ledna. Jsem se stavil na podte v Wheelock a sl. podtmistrova, mne data podtu co jests pkidla na nail starou ,adresu. Na starou adresu jsme dostali nekolkk vanodnich Diky vdem nadim pkateltim za mile vzpominky. Srdeenk• pozdrav na nail ceiou Jednotu. Budu psat pozdeji vice.

Vail pratele, Frank a Albino, Vytopil, Bryan, Texas )0 ) Z kadu Oslo 88. Houston.

Stall elenove radu Odycky radi vzpominaji a vhly znovu je zajima, 'kdy'Z' se nekdo zmini o uplynulYch, tfeba ne tak davnYch dobach. Vytrysknou vzpominky na easy, o kterych se tak rado mluvi, mladi slydi radi y ypravet o minulSrch dobach, jak jejich rodide pracovali a bavivaly se spoleeensky ye stelnem du SPJST. Stab se tak v mesVni kadoy e schtzi 8. Unora za dobre neasi i Clenstva, kdy'i bratr S. Valeik vznesl dotaz,

Ve stkedu, dne 20. anora 1963 jak se nalok. s plastickou mapou Texasu a malou sbirkau staroktnosti a pamatek, choyanYch v hale dnekii sine. Pamatky jsou dary starYch osadnika a Texasu, kteki pkiki a tzemi dneSniho 6eskoslovenska a mapa byla sestavena byvalym pkecisedou spoleenosti eeskoslo y. muzea Dr. Henry MareSem za spoluprace zemkeleho bratra Franka Olexy, bratra. Fr. Dvokaka a jinych Cleat' naSeho kadu.

Bylo reeeno, ze sbirka ani mapa nejsou majetkem kadu a budou prayclepodobne odevzdany do sbirek pamatek Ceskoslovenske emigrate. KaZdY se proto z nas nyni rad, podiva zahlouba aspori na chvili na veci v hale yystavene.

Spravni vYbor kadu a jine komise usiluj i nyni pilne o to, aby byly yypracoArany definitivni plany stavby nove sine, aby se stavba mohia yeas zadat podnikateli, aby byla dokoneena, co mono jeke v tomto rote. Finaneni pkedpoklad k tomu je velice dobry, nebot' penize od, elena, a to bud' penekte dary, zaptijeky anebo certifikaty pojistek, schazeji se v takove mike, Ze pies polovinu, nakladu na stavby jest jiZ zajEteno, jak prohlasil bratr F. Olexa. Podle jeho doznani pkispeli pkedevkm staki elenove kadu v neeekanein poetu a znaenymi eastkami, zavazujice se -dobrovolne dalkmi pkispeyky, pak-h rad bude potkebovati vice penez na novostavbu.

Clenove sprayniho a finaneniho vYboru, jmenovani v dopise, kterY byl elenfun kadu zaslan poStou v lednu, osobne pki spivaji ke zdaru finaneniho naboru vysyetloyanim podrobnosti vSem zajem cum. Jest to place nenrala a bratr F. Olexa doufa, Ze pki obetavosti Clem y Ypomoci finanene , svem ukadu to mire jako se ukazalo a2 dosud, nebude snad tkeba dlukt se vabec anebo pouze male od Hlavni akadovny. Bude tak dobke i pro eleny, Ze penize a firoka zustanou, elentm, kteki penize ptijei, neZ aby se musilo platit Hlavni Madame. Bratr 0lexa, bude ye Vestniku u yekejnovat jmena ceenu, kteri pkispeli kadu Penekinni dary anebo zapajekami.

Ve sclatzi bylo rovne as oznameno, spolek Hlahol zaeal zkou g ky na hru Bat'och, ktera bucd'e pfedvedena koncem bkezna. Thohy jsou ji2Z obsazeny a spolek doufa, Ze provedeni bude pkiznive pkijato naMm obecenstvem pki hojne navaeve. Budeme mit jeAte eas o teto lake se zminiti ve Vestniku.

Skola eeskeho jazyka zaeala. 4. anora Z9, vedeni osvedeeneho bratra S. Valeika 1. tkida ma yyueovani kaZde pondeli weer od 7:00 do 10:0G. Do prvni yyueovaci hodiny se dostavilo 22 'Zan a Zakyri, dospelYch i deti. Pkihla gek je mnohem vice a bude ote ykena tkida v jir13, den

\T ES TNiK - WEST. TEXAS podle pkani a dohody s pkihlaSenymi.

Bratr S. Valeik poda milerad vysvetleni na dotazy. Bude doloke, kdy2, kodiee pkihlasite sve dospivajici dal do techto aby nezapomnely vas rodny jazyk.

Posledni dye soboty byly yypIneny taneenirni zabayami weer ski hudbe jednou J. Kurtze a pki rnaSka,rnim veeeru dne 9. &lora. R. Baei. Obe zabavy byly clobte nayStiyeny, mladi i staki se dobke ba,vily pki valeikach, polkach i moderMbh tancich. Obe posiedni zaba yy y ynikaly srdeenosti vS'ech tancechtlyYch. Vkus a pestrost masek u nas ye viasti bychom to jmenovali spite Sibrinky se dobke vyjimala i do poetu. Cleno ye kadu ptiyedli ten dosti svych znamYch v maskach i bez masek. Doufame, ae se hostam v nak sini zahava take libila a ze Pkij dou opet.'

J. V. Pokorny 'dopisovatel )O)

3 50.00 S.V.P.S: proti onni odboeka, 00:00 Pi. Mary Johnson - 116.50 Frank a Frances Olexa 25.00 W. E. Crozier -- - 10.00 A. B. Gregory - 10.00 Pi. John Sostak - 5.00 Jan Jureak ÂŽ - 3.00 Joe Jaroslav Pokorny - 3.00 Ceikem - - $1335.00 Mnohokrat dekujem vSem elenam za tyto pound pen,eZni dary, tea vfele diky ySern elenam za jakekoliv pujcky ueinene S bratrskYrio poadravem, i 01exa, precis:Au stavebniho fondu.

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C-anado, Texas Ve Victoria, Texas se narodil synaeek manZehim T. J. SrubarovYm. Pkivitali ho tki sestrieky: Ramona, Krystina,, a Monika. Prejeme jim by rostly k jejich raw Zpraya od i a Iat Pokrok Houstonu els. 83 dosti to jim prole strYeek C. M. Srubak, Ganado, Texas a stakenka Josie Ledwik Cteni bratki a sestry: Spravni vYbor v mimokadni schazi ye West Hope. ) 0 ( 7. ilnora 1963 pkijmul architektskY aby vypracoval podrobne ea a East Bernarci, Texas plany a specifikace co2 vezme asi 'Cede- Ctenk redaktore Vestniku: sat dni, pak bude moZno pokraeovat a Pkilolene naleznete eek na $3.50 co nabidkami a stavb y nove budovY. predpiatne na Vestnik. Vidim podle znaeJakmile se poeasi ustali bude elenstvo ky Ze tune clochodi 2-63 tak to posuhte o poladano aby se koncem nektereho tYcl- rok clopkedu. ne zaeastnilo eisteni a yysekavani podP01 teto prilektosti napP,i per kedka rostu na tom naSem pozemku. Prineste do Vestniku. Poeasi je zde idealni pro sve naeini a pomoZte pak s tim uklidem.

Piljeky peneZni jako ji certifikatove rolniky, Deb preprcha, mrzne, a zase suSi, naddle pkichazi od nagich elenti tak Ze a to je pro pudu dobre, neb sem se ky'name nee° pies polovici ustanoveneho pG a ,hinyz se ztraci, a tak pro 'Cirodu je pekna nadele Ze rnozria peline pc-ileac obnosu jiZ pfijeeno neb upsano.

Byl jsem poladan naSim vyborern abych a dude- pekne rasti. Ale zase na, lidi tato uvekejnil jmena jako i obnos jednotli- pohoda neni valud, neb jest hodne vych da,rcil do Pamatniho fondu a jsou moci pa lidech, jako rymy, kake a ySelicos jde na elo y eka, kdyZ jiZ ma pies 50 jak nasleduje: A. L. Hilsher - $516.50 anela 60 let. Wadi tio vice yydr21, ale starT. S. Kostom 150.00 k elo y ek ma to krev kidkou a se vice chladn Oscar a Tillie Helmcamp - 35.00 Co se zasc tyre ,dobytka, ten se milsi E. J. Kadleoek - - 25.00 krmit, a yydrZovat aby neztratil na vaze Stephen S. Kelly - - - 18.50 Ruby OernoSek 16.50 a vzrastu, a tend. Rolnik musi yYdelat Alvin M. Hokeica. - 16.50 trochu vice, net jej stoji krmivo. DrieSRosie Ann Hokeica 16.50 ni dobu to nejde, jak to ko za. starch Lillian Kruse 16.50 east' a neb let.

Dale by se mnoho plat, co kdysi bylo, Johnnie Sontag - - - - - 16.50 Willie J. Vornsand -- 16.50 a co dnekai dobu j e, a co bade ciale.

Evelyn Vornsand 16.50 Ale irk do toho? Jai; tacit? Co by clne g -prespadesatni--nildte rozunil?My, Ernest J. Hanka 18.00 John Kahanek, Jr. - - - 16.50 ci a staid, linae na, to hledime. Druzi Emil Vala - 16.50 mezi 30 do 40 let, ten maji jine nahledy, Jarda A. 0erny - 16.50 a 20 let do 30 , let, ten maji jine nazory.

- Louis Hanug 16.50 A ta, clnekoi mladeZ! tateZ md, jine roAlbert J. Bkistik 16.50 Zumy! A rodiee? Si nevi onekdy rady, a j. J. Ennis _ 16.50 neuei jich venkovni waci na polich a Noami Kostom 30.00 neb \Testi domacnost. Radej daji jich do

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vyMich Skol, vyneiti jej, tak aby za ma- SuSne, kterY zenatel v pondeli a pocho- TRIDA K: Splatkova do 65t1 let, doZllu praci, dostali veljky plat! van byl ye ctvrtek o 4 hodinach z Marrs %AM My starS'i jsme delali od rana do noci, Funeral Home. Farat H. 13eseda vykonal ffi4DA i.. Dvoinasobne ttrazove po.p.stea to za par cenin donne, a yypomahali pohtebni °Windy, pak byl dovezen zde na Wouuic, inuenant.y) sousedtim pti kopani, sbirani baviny, a Koval' a pochovan na presbyternim htbiivl: Pensijni pojistka. Po dosatedo konce, ph zabijaekach v zime, co pa- cove. Pohteb byl velikY, lidu pkijelo hodal 65 tobn stars clen dosta. ya medlo prasat, a delalo se jitirnic, jelit, klo- ne a i zdaleka.. Zerntelemu dej o Pane sicra prijem aokuu nv. Gemre-li bast a slaniny i 'Sunky. To byly easy? e? odpoeinuti a portistala rodino pkinnete kited. 'ib iety start, dedicl dostanou Dnes se naporudi keznikovi, dojet pro ansi soustrast. prijem do 75 vyroci narozeprase neb dobytee, a ostatni at' udeld? nin diem), Nemocna byla sestra Rozalie Vyvyjala.

A plat za to. Plati za to skorem, dvoj- Pobyla nekolik dni v nemocnici a ze do- 1.114)A. 2liti let5, Uplsova ochrana nasobne co kdysi by si koupil cele pra- bte pokraeuje, tak uZ je doma ze nemocKtera se roerle zmensujt se.

MX: 10l 'eta upisov5. ocnrana nice.

Take nemocna a v Dr. Thomas ne.

Ktera se rozne zmenAuje My stargi na to tak hledime, i to '&01- mocnici je pain Lydia Wiest, manZelka stvi. My chodili ptes 3 mile v zime, Jana Wiesta. Ptejem ji dobre zdravi aby ML: zba ieLa upiduva oenrana mrzlo, prSelo, na poly obleeeni. A dnes? mohla brzo domu.

Ktera se rocne zmenSuje.

Kdyby mel jit taky eas, jen ku busu etvrt U rodiny Paul Juticovkc.h maji maleho L'EtTDA MD: 30ti leta upisovb, ochrana mile. Rekne "Tato dovez mne tam! saera se rocne zniensuje chlapeeka, tak ted' maji dva chlapce a I:AIDA 5T: 5t1 iota niuttu. Obnovltelna Nu dale! co dneSni politika? Kde je dye dcernSky, tak maji starieci radost. a zmenitelna• Minulou nedeli nas velice ptekvapili svoboda? Nesmi g cleat to, a jen tolik set', anti leta. lhutni. Obnovltelna a drub& muss omezit. Ale nadelat rolnik dobti ptatele a soused& kdy2 ptijeli a CRIDA a zmenitelna aby met co krmit pies zimu, to ne, to se narn dali "house warming" o kterem ma koupit, aby byl nadbytek umenSen jsme nemeli ani poneti. To vise ptipravili ['AIDA 20'1'; 20ti (eta lhutni. Zmeniteln5. co ze vlada ma na ruce a v zalohach, to as obstarali: pan a pi. George VaSek a 1RIDA T-bD: lhtitni do 65 let. se nam tika, ale ja to nevidim, kde to pan a pani August Higdiik, a pani Lil♦ 0 lie Evieic. Srdeene dekujem za vSecko, je!

V DETSBEIVi. ODDELIENI. Tak by se dalo psati dal a dal, ale tolik jidla donesli a obeerstveni a velice nevim, jestli se komu zavdeeim redak- krasnYch darkti donesly . Budem pama' DA JT: Docasno pojiSteru do 16 let toru aneb etenattim. Tak pozdeji budu ovat na vSecky. ktere se 010.. e zniertiti na kterekopsdti dale.

Pfejem vSem dobre zdravi a ptijd'te do ln, line pojtStera Kdykoll y nez Nazdar! schtize co nejvic to j e jak nejaka besesahne 16 let sveho veku (Diky za ptedplatne. — Red.) da, kdy2 se tak sejdeme. No, psaIa jsem 1'R11.)11 W. SpiaMova au 85t1 let, do±1)0( ze jen par tadkit ale se mne to natahlo, votni. Plus, obnos poji.Steni se vytak na shledanou do ptiAti sehtize, 'AAA eislo 38 Koval* plati v ptioadu umrti od veku jedMary Stepan, dopis.

Bratti a sestry a ctena redakce: noho roku )O) Tak zase aspori par tadkil napisi aby cfttDA PR: Prednostni (Zabylo nee° v torn naSern milem Vestniku. elnani y 5 rokti staff i) Tech eeskYch dopisfi je malo pro ty narRIDA C: 20t1 splatkova dotivotni. Ping se a statenky a elenove co anobnos pujieteni ye vyplati v ptipaglicky neumi eist oni z toho nic neuZiji, du tmrti oci veku jednoho roku staa piece radi si ty dopisy pfeetu. PiS"te ff. vice mile sestry is bratki, at' mime co rktDA D: 15t1 splatkove. dotivotni. Plat eist, aspori veeerama neb pies den neobnos pojiSteni se vyplati v ptipadu zbYva easu na eteni zaene rypani v zafunrti od veku jednoho roku.

CRIDA E: lOti spiatkova, do2ivotni. Plnt hrade a jin§i, no ale ze kdyZ jeden milobnos pojiStem se vyplati v pkipada Ze a chce Odycky se neco najde delat. dmrti od veku jednoho roku Vklycky prace dost aZ nadbyva. Ja, jsem Vfbe rtiznkelt pojistek nagi SPJST vyberte si die potteby TRIDA F: 5ti leta nadaeni piny obnos tepry sea mak ten rannY mi zmrzl a na W Splatkova do &5t1 let, do,'a, pojfsteni se vyplati v piipadu umtento uz je 1 trochu pozde, ale jsem si ti od veku jednoho roku myslela jestli bude tak bude, a jesetli ne votni rftiDA G: 2011 leta nadaenit piny obnof., tak tea dobre. Co bylo v zahradce zelene rEiDA PR: Prednostin doZivotn1 se vyplati v pripadu umrti od veku v'Secko pomrzlo, jen ten hmyz se drZi, ritiDA C: 20t1 sp1Mkova., doiivotni. Pojednoho roku tomu ani zima ne'Skodi. Veera bylo dosti platky se plati pouze 20 let teplo tak byla dosti dobra nav'Ateva ye iDA D: 15ti splatkova, doZivotnl. Po- Trt.tDA H: Nadaemi ve 65ti let. PluS- obnos poji.sleni se vyplati v peipadu schtzi. Bratrt a sester ptiSlo hodne. l q f Ic y se plati nouze 15 let umrti od veku jednoho roku Ptedseda. Vaclav Batina zalaajil schtlzi. TRIDA E: lOti splatkova, doZivotni. PoI'IUDA I' 20ti splatkova, nadaeni v 60t1 Byla vzdana vernost flak vlajce kterou blatkv se piPti pouze 10 let letech. Piny obnos pojieteni se vypfednes1 piedseda a elenove za nim opa- TRIDA F: 15ti leta nadaeni. Obnos cer.plati v ptipadu iimrti od veku jedkovali. Tajemnik Jerry 8tepan pteeet1 tfikatu test vyplacen za 15 let. noho roku protokol a byl piijat.

1I DA 20ti let& nadadni. Obnot ISIDA J. E. Nadadai v dosaZeni 18 let, Tajemnik pfeeet1 podekovani od rodiny ertifikatu jest vyniacen za 20 let. plry obnos pojtSteni se vyplati v ptiMalinove po zemtelem bratru Willie Ma- TRIDA H: Nadaeni v 65ti letech. Olen pade funrti oa veku jednoho roku plati poplatky aZ do 65t1 let. linovi.

Bratr Willie Su'Sen dekoval za potfe- ITZIDA I: 20t1 splatkova, nadaeni v 60tI iRIDA K: Splatkova do 65 let, doZl yotni. letech bovani sine, v den pohtbu bratra Jana Pint obnos pojiAteni se vyplati

iTe sttedu, dne 20. tnora 1963 v ptipadu tuaarti od veku jednoho roku rAIDA L: Dvojnasobne trozove pojia6., ni (Double Indemnity) rnA Pensijni pojistku. Po dosa geni 65 rokfi stati, dlen dostavd, mesidni ptijern do '75 vYrodi narozenin alena. PLnY obnos pojisteni se tryplati ptipadu rimrti od veku jednoho roku PAYOR INSURANCE: Jednota poskytu je dlenrirn platicim poplatky na detske certifikaty tu vYhodu ochrany, e v padu t pine nemo2nosti ndusledkern nemoci aneb poraneni aneb Padu rimrti platiciho, poplatky na ten detskV certifikat budou samodinme zapiaceny.

Respectfully, Joe B. Hejny )o(

Oznameni HO, schilze JARNI SCHUZE NASICH OKRSKU PRVNf OKRSEK U tadu Bedtich Smetana, eislo 39, v Bryan. Datum a jine podrobnosti pozdeji.

DRUIlt OKRSEK Dne 31. biezna 1963, u Mdu Lodge Praha, Oslo 29, v Taylor.

TRETt OKRSEK Dne 24. btezna 1963, u tadu dislo 154 ye Fort Worth.

CTVRIrfr OKRSEK

Nekdy na podzim PATY OKRSEK Jarni schaze pateho okrsku bude pokadana 21. dubna, 1963, u tadu Pokrok Houston eislo 88. Schtze zapodne v 10:00 hodin rano.

SEsrt OKRSEK Dne 28. dubna 1963, u fádu eislo 63, Pokrok Sweet Home, ve Firemen's Hall, byv. SPJST Hall. SO-raze bude zahajena v 1 hodinu odpoledne.

SEDMt OKRSEK Dne 5. kvetna, u tadu Oslo 107, Floresville. ) Schulenburg kid eislo 67 Ctene sestry a bratiq, My, nine podepsani firednici Padu Bratri Svobcdy eislo 67 yam timto oznamujem, le naSe pra yidelna schnze na§eho tadu bude se konati v nedeli, tota 3. btezna jak obyeejne o dvou , hodinach odpnndne v Legion Hall. Tak nezapomente a hled'te se dostavit co v nejvet-

V T K — WEST, TEXAS im podtu. Jestli budete mit navdtevu tu nedeli tak ji ptivezto sebou. V null schfizi jsou navStevnici v gdy vitani. Po schtzi budem mit nejake obeerstveni a pak se pobavime. Tedy nezapornerite a na shledanou ye schnzi.

S bratrskYm pozdravem Ray F. Ktenek, p1-ed.

Frank Holub, taj. a fleet. )O) '1161MMISIMIMMINUIr

NA ZALOV RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI My, nine podepsanY resolueni vYbor tadu T. G. Masaryk Sisk) 160 v San Angelo, Texas; vyslovujeme Wadi uptinme citenou soustrast pozdstale rodine nad ztratou jejich man gela, otce, dedeeka a nakho spolubratra, Frank Koke:g, r. kter odeSel dne 8. ledna 1963 ye stati 81 let a pohtben 10. ledna na Lawnhaven lattitove v San Angelo, Texas. Pohtebni obtady byly z kostela OeskomorayskSrch Bratria ye Wall, Texas. Mild rodino, vime, le velice gelite jeho odchodu, ale budig" Vain fatechou, le i my spolkovi bratti a sestry 2elime j eho odchodu.

ZesnulY bratte odpodivej v pokoji a Sest budig' tve pamatce. Za 1-ad T. G. Masaryk Sislo 160.

Jerry S'efeik C. S. Bubenik Frank Havlak Resolueni vYbor )0( Neodpoustitelna nevedumost V novorodnim aisle American Bulletinu Si poste govala redaktorka, le neznalost Ameridand svetoveho komunistickeho nebezpeci je neuveritelna a casto k zoufani. Dokonce i Americans eeskoslovenskeho pfivodu se nedali poueit tragick3im ptipadem oeskoslovenska a stale nechdpou co komunismus znarnena, jakY je kvot lidi za komunisticke vlady, jak y je zivot bez svobody. tvaha zaujala natol'ik vydavatele a gefredaktora "Citizen", yydavaneho pro chicagska ptedmesti La Grange, Lyons, Brookfield, Riverside atd'., le elanku z Bulletinu dal y3'7razn.3'7. nazev "inexcusable Ignorance" a k nenau ptiklady neuvetitelne nevedomosti americkYch obeand..Citoval pojednani znameho deniku„St. Louis Post Dispatch vYsledcich kursu o komunismu pro stu-

V denty v Jacksonville, Florida. Stat Florida jiz delk dobu se zabyvd pa.oblemem nevedomosti obeanri a ptimlouva, se, aby thema "komunismus" bylo povinnym ptedmetem na vetejnYch akolach.

V Jacksonville byl udinen prvni pokus a jak uvadi St. Louis Post Dispatch, po ukondeni kursu polovina studentia propadla. Mnozi nedovedli zodpovedet zakladni otazku: Je mo'gno, aby Slovak byl dobrYm americkYm obeanem a laid tom vernYm stoupencem koministicke strany?

Vydavatel Hassman ptedmestskeho chicagskeho dasopisu "Citizen" vita yetejnou diskusi a uvetejnil jiz odpoved' na eldnek CSNRA a St. Louis Post Dispatch. Nak dvaha zaujala pozornost i kongresmana Edw. Derwinskeho, na jeho2 Zadost bylo flak pojednani , uvetejnano ve vladnim dennim zpravodaji Congressional Record.

Redakce OSNRA poslala Nn'istti gek ze "Citizen" s pravodnim dopisem na sto adres, na prvem mists tajemnikbm odbodek Rady a spolupracujicim organisaelm, se Zadosti, aby tomu byla venovana pozornost na schiazich.

Dale Zada, aby krajanske organisace, i jednotlivci zasilali jmena redaktord americkYch mistnich easopisd, s kterYmi navaku pisemnY styk a kterYm bude posilan zdarma American Bulletin i jiny propagadni, material, na ptiklad nade broaura "Czechoslovakia in the Heart of Europe".

Za tteti 2ada, aby byly posilany élanky z arnerickYch novin o Oeskoslovensku, at' ptiznive, Si neptiznive, na ktere budou reagovat dekovnYin dopisem na amaecir.ickou redakci neb pattienou inform Na schdzich, I v soukromem rozhovoru miidete klidne upozornit, americke organisace, Skoly, easopisy a vefejnost vribec dostava se nyni tam, kde Oeskoslovenska narodni rada americka stala 112 pted dvanacti lety; Z'e konedne zadinaji pracovat tam, kde Rada zahajila svou proti-komunistickou Sinnost roku 1948. Mnozi tenkrate nechdpali, nevetili — natal nechapou je gte ani ,dnes — mnozi narn vyt'Ykali, "le nam do toho nic nenj, co se deje v oeskoslovensku," ale dnes jiz pracuji s nami, ponevad g se poueill udalostmi, na ptiklad nedavno na Kube, kagc137r, chce-li bYt dobrYm arnerick:Ym obeaneni musi branit tuto zem prat ,: komunistickemu svetovernu spiknuti.

Nezdary nET1s nesmi znechutit, tith vice Sasu a energie musirne venov 2 t tomu, abychom nerispech obratili v tispech. Na priklad ukazky nelispechu kursu 0 komunismu v Jacksonville primely yzdela-

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vatelske a obeanske kruhy v jiZnich sta- pracovniky ministerstva k teto Uprave? tech, aby zavedly vyueovani v srozumi- Zaeneme u kavy pokraduje Mlada telne a rozumne forme. Nedavno znamY Fronta — u nas byla, v ablibe ta, co stanovina,k Itosco Drumond napsal o torn la 5 dkg E korun. Este I proto, e byla syndikovanY elanek (Chicago Sun-Times, nejlevnejei. Take byla michana z neko,dne 22. ledna) a dava nam za priklad lika druhe. Kalkulace odpovidala stare Floridu, kde koneene, po dlouhYch pH- cene. Tu nam veak naei obchodni partpravach se zahaji na verejnYch gkolach neri ze zapadu prestali dodavat druhy, povinne vyueovani o komunismu. Weser ze kterYcla jsme tuto kavu michali, a ekolni priruoky je et'astnY: "The Mean- posilaji druhy draii. Tak mame na tring of Communism" od William Miller, ha kavu vYberovou a dalei druhy", naredaktora Life magazine, ktera vyjde- mlouva el/S.7m etenartim fronta. "S nakladatelstvi Simon and Schuster ,ve ledniekami je to Dile. I k jejich vYrobe dvou svazcich; jeden s vysvetlivkarni nektery material dovaZime. To veak nepro uditele a druhy pro studujici. ni rozhodujici. Rozhodujici je, Ze jde o navetevovali v lete eestitYdenni kurs na nedostatkove zboZi. . Pracovnici vniti cstatni universite, aby byli schopni pou- niho obchodu At se trh nasyti, Covat jine. tJeelem kursu je vysvetlit piijdeme ,dolii nejen s vYrobou, ale i s cevecne a pravdive naladYm obeantim filo- nami'." sofii komunismu, dle ktere se ridi Chrugeov a Mao-Tse Tung, v eem se liei od Podobne obehrane vYmluvy a 12i eiri naeich názort ia ivot, predmet bude Mlada Fronta o zdraZeni cukrarskeho vyneovan poctive, bez nadsazky, :bez •zbo2i: "Take ceny cukrarskeho zbo21 byly opravnene zvYeeny. V pilvodnich strachu a nenavisti. nebyly totiZ" obsakny skuteene naklady Priklad statu Floridy bude snad na- za suroviny. Vemte si treba, sukrarkau sledavan i jinde, kali& svou fivahu Ros- vanooku, ktera, stala 8 korun, a zeptejte coe Drummond. K tomu dodava,me: u2 se kterekoliv hospodyne, zda by ji za ty je na Case.

—6SNRA penize upekla?" )0 ) Ze zprav ostatnich listti vyplYva,, 2e 2ivot v eSR ji2 doglo nebo v nejbli2ei dobe dojde k Vanoce byly velice chude. Veeho malo zavedeni vygeich cen te2 u jinych druhy a fronty na veechno. Hospodyriky mely zbo2i, napriklad, u automobilovYch souco Mat, aby sehnaly to nejnutneje,i na eastek, cibule, koreni, fazoli, eoeky, jednu z nejchudeich 8tedrovecernich madnich novinek a sezennich vyrobkii.

•) 0 kterou vtibec kdy pripravovaly. Jejich snaha sehnat aspori neco pro rodiVanoce v Brne nu byla zveenena timto vtipem: Ze soukromeho pramene do gla dalgi Pcpa: "Jestlipak vi, kde Ziji nejsta- zprava o letoenich vanoenich svatcich v teenejei 2eny na svete?" oeskoslovensku, ktera dokresluje predVella: "To nevim. Mutes mi to pro- chozi informace. Prosinec byl nejlepzradit?" sim mesicem v leto gnim roce, co2 inforPepa: "To bys mel vedet. V. oeskoslo- mator vysvetluje snahou re2imu °dyes:, vensku! Vklyt' tady ty na ge chuderky pozornost verejnosti v ridobi XII. sjezdu bojuji na veech frontach." ad hospodarskYch obti21, a zaroveri ad (Na g e Hlasy, Toronto.) obti2i, je2 neekavaji es. spotkebitele v 0) race 1963. Pres tato zlep gene zasobovani veak bylo main vanoenich stromkti, ZvVeovani cen v Ceskoslovensku Jak bylo mono oeekavat, neda yno o- ktere si lide musili east° kupovat "na hlag ene zaokrouhlovani cen v SSR by- demo" za premretene ceny. Propaganlo jell jinYm jmenem pro zvY g eni cen da to odavodriavala tim, de se musi demnoha- druha potravin a jinYch vYrob- flit es. lesy, oveem verejnost to pochokn. Tento lstivy manevr pochopitelne vy- pila jako pokus oslabit krest'ansky chavolal vgeobecne pohor geni. Oetne es. 11- rakter vanoc.

Jinak byl vânodni trh v Erne. odkud sty, napriklad Rude pra,vo, bratislayska Pravda, pra2ske, Prace i Mlada Fronta se tato informace prameni pomerne dovg emoZne sna2ily jej omlouvat a osprave- bre zasoben, i zbo2ini, ktere nebylo v tadlinit. Posleze uvederlY list napsal 9. led- kove mike po dlouhou dobu k dostani. V na: "101kteri `radikalove' si pfili zas obchodech se objevily sardinky, aka, jednut na sve! Kupte co mtiZete, od No- kavidr, dokonce i jinak. vzacne gameveho roku bude veechno draZ gl - iikali." ranee,,citrony, fiky a datle. Take veproA Mlidd Fronta je nucena, priznat, e ti- v6ho a masla byl dostatek. VYber vYrobto radikalove nemeli tak d'ocela neprav- kti spotkebniho prdmyslu veak nebyl o du: "Re zvYg eni cen dal° u cukrarskych nic lepS'i ne2 v jinYch mesicich, tak2e vYrobkii a lednieek. U kavy musela bYt nakup darkft byl east° spo j en s velikYcena upravena. 4 4 Jake &wady vedly mi obti2emi.

ye stkedu, dne 20. finora 1963 Jan Werich o krizi es. divadelnictvi Cs. tisk byl V posledni dobe easteji nucen mluvit otevrene o hluboke krizi, v ni2 se ocitly jak es. diviadlo tak film.

Jeji prieiny byly snad nej yYstiZneji popsany y rozhovoru a Janem Werichem uverejnenem v Divadelnich novinach 29. prosince.

"Dramatik by eekal, Ze ted' je doba, kdy se bai davere, prota2e nenausi psat pro soukrome podnikatele, ant pro ureite kliky, ktere ovladaly divadla. Oveem tuto dtiveru poznamenava Werich dramatik nema. Mi12e ho napadnout anebo rozhodovat o jeho dile anonymne kdokoli*a kdekoli... to znamena elovek, o kterem nevime, patkiene vzdelani nebo vedomosti 0 divadle." A o new dãl Werich trpce podotYka: "Za tech sedmnact inn pa druhe svetove valce jsem se innohokrat se gel a lidmi, ktefl nemeli 0 divadle ani pain, ale meli yeekerou moc a divadle rozhod,ovat. To plati i 0 filmech. Nejde mi do hlavy, 2e je mo2ne nil schvalovacim systemu nagich kdy od prvnich dvou stranek at. po tak zvane. Drehbuch je yeechno schvaleno a podepsano, aby se natoeil film a pak se zavrel do sejfu. Já bych chtel vedet, jak je to mo2ne, a pros to schvalovali a kdo to schvaloval."

Werich pak polemizuje se zna.mym argumentem partajnich poskokt, kteki odtivodrinji zasahy cenzury proti filmim a divadlu tim, 2e by jim obecenstvo "nerozumelo" nebo 2e by je "nespravne chapalo", a rika napino: "Obecenstvo nebo ten lid, ktery chodi do divadla, je chytrej gi a vzdelanejei, ne2 nekteri z tech, kteri o divadle rozhoduji." )O) Inspekce i ve sklepe 6s. re2im na gel novY slidiesky rikol pro sve pomocne "obeanske" .organy. Jsou to tentokrat sklepy. Podle Prace z 20. ledna uhlim v Praze zavadi . se "v zasobov ani doeasna novinka. Kdo u2 nema eim topit, pod-add- domovni komisi nebo °beanskY vYbor, kterY nejprve na miste provePi stay zasob, a potvrdi, 2e jde o spotrebitele, kterY ye sklepe nic nema. .Odbor obchodu ONV pak 2aridi dodaku uhli behem tki dud. Kdo ma elm topit, musi poekat."

Je samo2rejme, 2e podobna, opatreni ien zvYgi vgeobecnou nespokojenost a reptant. V teto souvislosti je zajimave, %e se novY vrchni es. planovae Alois Indra neprimo obratil ye svem vYkladu Narodnim shromaldeni 24. ledna proti takovemu reptani:" . pokladarn za potrebne otevrene reagovat na pokusy nekterYch kruhil ze zahraniei, ktere ne'g etki sil, aby dokazaly, 2e prieinou naeich obti2i v hospodareni s nalivy ie

Ve sttedu, dne 20. Unora 1963 neUmernY vYvoz uhli. Jak je tomu ye skuteenosti? Uhli vyvaZime u po leta a . . letos poeitame s vyvozein pevnych a tekutYch pall y ye vi 5,5 mil. tun.

Manta vYvozy platime za velmi pottebne dovozy nekterych hutmeh materialu, ale i potravin. Proti tomu v gak dovezeme z SSSR z Polska a NDR 6,3 mil. tun pevnych a tekutYch pall y, ktere vyrobime z dovaZene ropy. Ve svetle techto faktti splaskne tedy kaZda. fale gna, agitaeni bublina," prohlasil soudruh. Indra podle Rudeho prava z 25. ledna. Jeho uklidnujj ci slova zajiste "zalitala" dechoslovaky aspori na chvili. .9 0 "Opustig-II nine, zahyneg!"

Koncem srpna 1962 pro gel americkYm a kanadskYna krajanskYm tiskena did' nek, jeho2 autor, krajansky novinat, uvaZuje 0 budoucnosti na geho tisku. V Clanku jsou citovana prorocka slova z Dykovy basne "Zeme naluvi" a jeden jeji verg jsme si vyptajeili pro symbolickY nadpis tohoto elanku. Autor iwahy o krajanskem tisku ptipomina, de je nutno resit otazku budoucnosti nasich sopisia protole tato otazka je den ode dne nalehavej gi. Uvddi take tti hlavni starosti, se kterYmi ,u2 po leta zapasi nag tisk a ktere se velmi lehce mohou start zaeatkern 'konce. Je to: 1.) Lhostejnost velke vet giny krajant a nepotadek odberatela p1k placeni. 2.) Nedostatek schopneho tiskarenskeho personalu 3.)

Nedostatek redakenich pracovnikt. "Nezajem o krajanske easopisy," pokraduje autor ye sveuc elanku, "ubijime jedineho sveho mluvdiho a hloubime i hrob sami sobe. Hledat ndpravu a snalit se odstranovat vznikle pfekaZky je take kus dobre narodni prace. Jak ji mime konat?"

Odpoved' na tuto otazku je velmi sloZita a meli by se ji zabYvat ptedstavitele vgech na gich krajanskYch organisaci at' jid v Americe, zapadni Evrope nebo Australii. Na g e organisace by si mely uvedomit, de je to dnes jeden z jejich hlavnich Ukolii. Take Spolednost pro yedy a umeni (SVU) povaZuje to za svuj ilkol a proto z jejiho podnetu do g lo jiZ v tomto smeru k nekolika akcim. Na ptiklad na sjezdu SVTJ letos o velikonocich ve Washingtone byla, uspotadana vYstava v gech eeskYch a slovenskYch easopisin kterd vychazeji mimo oeskoslovensko. Dale byla z popudu SVU provedena inventura na geho tisku a vYsledkem byla sjezdova brolura "Czech and Slovak Periodical Press Outside Czechoslovakia. Its History and Status as of January 1962", kterou napsal redaktor Voitech N. Duben. Stostrankova braura o dne g nim stavu a historii Ceskeho a sloyenskeho zahranieniho tisku vy gla sl-

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VEST Ni X— WEST, TEXAS ce anglicky, protole zajem o ni projevily arnericke knihovny a Utedni mista, avsak autor pracuje jiz na podrobnejgi studii v be gtine. Mimo Ceskoslovenske dnes dije na dva miliony osob, ktere se hiasi k Ceskemu nebo slovenskernu du. Vydavaji si na 130 rtiznYch pravidelnych publikaci, od deniku ad po roeenky. Jen se SpojenYch statech vychazi tdme? 45 45 OeskYch easopisii a temet 30 slovenskYch easopiste (Presne Cislo nelze uvezt, protoze jejich pocet se stale meni).

Dubnova studie zaznamenava, vgechny tyto easopisy, jejich historii i politick smer a odhaduje, de asi 120 easopist, ktere vychazi ye svobodnem svete, ma na 33 milionti vYtiskd v jednom roce. Historie eeskeho tisku ye SpojenYch statech zaeina roku 1860 dasopisem "Slovan AmerikanskY". Za sedm let pote Josef Vacla y Frid v 2eneve vydaval sviaj exulantsky dasopis "eech", prvni CeskY emigrantskY dasopis v Evrope. Av gak prvni desk y easopis, ktery zadal vychazet anima dne gni Uzemi eskoslovenska, se objevil u2 roku 1761 ve Vidni v Rakousku.

Slovenska Zurnalistika mimo eskoslovensko zaeina v Budape g ti v polovine 18. stoleti, av gak prvni emigrantskY slovenskY dasopis se objevil roku 1885 v Arnerice. To jsou ukazky z historie, jak je zaznamenava Dubnova studie, kterd mimo to ptinagi i seznam a popis cizojazyenych dasopisil Oecht a Slovakia v zahraniei a seznam 1 popis easopish, ktere vydava nynej gi vlada v Ceskoslovensku pro zahranidi.

Autor studie v iwodni kapitole konstatuje, de poeet easopist zahranienich cilia a Slovakia v2dy byl a je I dnes nepornerne velkY. e§i. a Slovaci ve svobodnem svete se za to nemusi styclet. Jejich neobyoejne diva, Zurnalisticka dinnost je podle autorova ptesvedCeni nejlepgim diakazem ptikladne Ziveho turniho, spoleeenskeho a politickeho Zivota zahranidnich echit a Slovakia,.

OdraZi se v ni take jejich politicks rilznorodost, cod j en potvrzuje jejich vet:nost demokraticke tradici. Otazka ovgem je — a to ponechava autor na tavaZeni nam vg em zda by piece jen uvaZovani o budoucnosti nageho tisku nemeld ht volena pro zaeatek ta nejschiadnej gi cesta: cesta koncentrace. Merle by bylo vice! Jiste o torn uvaloval Ladislav Radimsky (spisovatel Petr Den), kdy2 se sve recensi Dubnovy studie napsal do "Sklizne": "StostrankovY segit veinal dobte informuje o dejinach, dneg -nirstavupozeCkhslvnskeho tisku za hranicemi Oeskoslovenska, a je — vokud je mi znamo — prvni modernej gi publikaci sveho druhu. Pozornemu etenail neujde, de Dubnova stu-

die ukazala na jeden zjev ,.;patny a jeaen zjev dobrY: poeet aeskYch a slovena jejich vYtiskii stale ych xlesa, nasledkem odnarodriovaciho procesu (predev gim v Americe) — naopak vg ak po roce 1948 vyvstavaji z narodniho popele po celern svete nove easopisy, jejich2 kulturni &oven je mnohem vyggi, ne2 easopista zanikajicich. Jakost pornalu a jiste vitezi na kolikosti mnoZtyi se asimiluje a mizi, elita kidne, stavd se vsak vybojnejsi a hebejistej gi." To je jeden nazor. Mohou bYt i jine a odligne.

Kdyd toti2 studii preetete, ueinite si teprve pravy obraz o na gern tisku. Proto kaZdY, kdo ma zajem o dal gi existenci nagich novin ye SpojenYch statech, Kanade, JiZni Americe, zapadni Evrope a v Australii (kde nyni podle studio vychdzi jeden z nejlep gich easopisil zahranienich Oechtit a Slovakia), mei by mit brozuru ye sve knillovne.

SVU mute nabidnout na gi vetejnosti ji2 jen nekolik zbyvajicich vYtiskU za reZijni cenu dol. 1.25 1 s po gtovnYm. 0 broluru o Ceskem a slovenskem tisku pigte pokladnikovi SVU: Mr. Oldtich OernY, 1828 Harvard Street, N. W. Washington 9, D. C. SVU Washington, D. C. )O) Osudy

dobreho vojaka Svejka

PIE JAROSLAV HASEK Dil prvni — v zazemi PokraCovanI A on plakal a Mika': "VZdyt' node museji bejt drobeeky% Tak hledali drobeeky a nena gli, ponevadZ tak chytry jsme byli taky. Co jsme sami nemohli sdrat, poslali jsme pogtou na 'Mute do druhYho poschodi. Nemohli nam nic ,dokazat, adkoliv ten bibec potat ved svou: `Dyt' ty drobedky /lade museji bejt'. Celej den yam nic neZral a ddval pozor, jestli nekdo neco neji a nebo nekouti. Druhej den se k oliedu je gte take netknul minaZe, ale veder mu Sly ty shnile brainbory a kapusta k duhu, jenomZe se u.2 nemodlil jako chive, ne2 se ddval do kinky a do vajidek. Potom jeden od reds dostal zvendi zpilsobem dramky a to zadal s ndma ponejpr y mluvit, abychom prej mu dali gluka. Nedali nic jsme mu."

"Já jsem mel strach, de jste mu toho gluka dali", poznamerral 8veik, "to byste zkazil celY vypravovani. TakovY glechetnosti jsou jen v romdnech, ale na garnizOne za takovejch okolnosti by to byla blbost".

V11 STN] — WEST, TEXAS "A deku jsto mu nedali?" ozval se disi hias.

"Na to jsme zaponmelli".

Nastalla ticha debata, me-li dostat Ike vAemu deku ci ne. Va gina byla. pro.

Vypravovani pomalu zatichlo. Usinali, Akrabajice se pod paAcii, na prsou a na beige,' kde se v pradle vAi nejvice dr2i Usinali, davajice si zavAivene deky pies hlavu, aby je neru gilo svetla petrolejoye lampy Rano v osm hodin yyzviali Svejka, aby gel do kancellate.

"Po levej strane kancelate je plivatko, tam hazeji Apaeky", poudoval Svejka j eden. "Potom v prvnim poschodi jcleS take kolem jedneho. Metou chodby aA v devet, tak tam nee() bude."

Ale 8vejk zklamal jejich nadeje. Nevratil se vice do 'Seat/tacky'. Devatenact podylekadek kombinovalo a hadalo vacWake. veci.

Nejakk pihovaty vojak od zeme brany, kterY mel nejvetAi fantazii, Ae gvejk stfelil pa avem hejtmanovi a Ae dnes ho odvezli na motolske cvidiAte na popravu.

• • 8vejk vojenskYm sluhou u polniho kurata ...

Znovu pain& jeho odysea pod destnYm pravodem dvou vojalcd s bajonety, kteti ho meli dopraviti k polnimu kuratovi.

Jeho prilvoddi byli muZove, kteki se dopinovali navzajem. Jestli jeden z nich byl eahoun, druhY byL malt', tlusty. 6ahoun ■kulhal na pravou nohu, malt' vojak na levou. Oba slouAill v tYlu, ponevadA byli kdysi do valky Upine zpro gteni vojenske sluthy.

Sli va,Zne vedle chodniku a divali se ()hews ilkosem na Svejka, ktery kraal uprostted a salutoval kdekomu. Jeho civilni gaty ztratily se ye skladigti garnizonu, i jeho vojenska depice, s kterou g el na vojnu. NeAli ho propustili, dali mu start' vojenskY mundtr, kterY patkil nekakemu btichadi a o hlavu vetAimu, neA byl gvejk.

Do kaihot , ktere nrel na sobs, byli by se ve g li jeAtd tki Svejkove. Nekoneene faldy od noh a2 pies prsa, karn a is sahaly kalhoty, mimovolne zpilsobovaly obdiv Ohromna blilza se zaplatami na loktech, zama gtend a g pinava, klatilla se na S' vej kovi jako kabat na hastrog ovi. Kalhoty visely na nem jako kostym na klaunovi z cirkusu. Vojenska pice, kterou mu teA na garnizone vymenil!, Sla mu pies Na lismevy divaku odpovidal Svejk mekkYm Asmevem, teplem a nehou ch dobrackYch

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dne 20. finora 1963

A tak Ali rio Karlina, do bytu polniho utedeg nam? My bychom men z toho nekurata. pkijemnosti. Nernam pravdo, Toniku?" obratil se k dahounovi, ktery- potichu Prvni promluvil na 8vejka, malt', tla- fekl stY. Byli prase Oa Male Stran g ' dole pod "Bodla bychom mohli sundat. Je to podloubim. pfeci nag dlovek."

"Odkud jseg?" otazal se malt' tlustY. Pkestal byt skeptikem a dugi jeho na"Z Prahy." pinila soustuast k 8vejkovi. 'te"A neutedeg /ram?" vhodnY prajezd, kde sriali bodaky, a tluDo rozmluvy vmisil se dahoun. Jest sty dovolil 8vejkovi, aby kradel vedle neto prazvla gtni zjev, e jestli mali, tlusti no, bYvaji povetAine dobromyslnymi optmisty, dahouni, vytahli bYvaji naopak "Koutil bys, vid'?" kaki, "jetlipa,k...." skeptiky.

Chtel "Jestlipak ti daji take za,kouneZ to popraveji", ale nedokoneil yeA proto dahoun tekl k malemu: "Kdytu, vycit'uje, Ze by to byla beztaktnost. by moh, tak by utek."

Zakoutili si vAichni a prilvaddi 8vej"Co by utikal", ozval se malt' tloatik, kovi paean sclelovat jemu a avYch rod."je tak jako tak na svobode,venku z nach na, Kralovolaradecku, o Aenach, degarnizonu. Tady to nesu v paketu."

"A co pak je tam v tom paketu k pol- tech, o kousku polidka, o jedne 'crave.

"Jo. mam Aizeri", tekl Svejk. nimu kuratovi?" otazal se dahoun. ahoun s malym podivali se na sebe.

"To ja nevim."

"Nekam.

Ina jednu bychom take Ali", "Tak vidiA, nevig a mluvig."

811 pies Karlily most za naprosteho tekl malt', vycit'uje dahoumly souhlas, mleeni. V Karlove ulici promluvil opet "ale nekem, kde by to nebylo napadny".

"Pojd'me na `Kuklik', vybizel Svejk, malt', tlusty na Svejka: "Nevig , prod to vedeme k polnimu ku- "kvery si date do kuchyne, hostinskY Serabona je sokol, toho so nemusite bat. ratovi?"

"Ke zpovedi", tekl ledabyle Svejk,tiHrajou tam na housle a. harmonitra mne budou veget. To se vklycky tak ka", pokradoval 8vejk, "a chodeji tam dela a tika se tomu duchovni utecha." poulieni holky a rilzna, jina, dobra spa"A prod to budou j ako tento....?" 0- leenost, 'ktera nesmi do Reprezefit'aku". tazal se opatrne eahoun, zatimco tlu6ahoun a malYm podlvali se jegte jestY soustrastne se podival na Svejka. dnou na sebe a pak tekl dahoun: "Tak Oba byli i-erneslnici z venkova, otcove tam piijdem, do Karlina je jests dIaleko". rodin.

Po ceste jim Svejk vypravoval ruzne "Ja nevim", odpovedel 8vejk, usmivaj e sedobacky, "ja, o nidem nevim. Patr- anekdoty a v dobre nalade vstoupili na "Kuklik" a udelali to tak, jak 8vejik rane to bude osud."

"Asi ses narodil ina negt'astne plane- dii. Ruenice uschovali v kuchyni a Ali ts", znalecky a se soucitem poznamenal do lokalu, kde housle a harmonika, narnalinkY, "u nas v jasne u Josef ova plriovalymistnost murky oblibene plane: jegte za pruskY valky povesili take tak "Na Pankraci, tam na, tom, vraidku, stojednoho. Ptigli pro neho, nic mu netekli ji pane stromotadi...."

Nejaka sledna, ktera sedela na kline a v Josefave ho vyZilemu miadikovi s hla,dce uoesamou "Ja myslim", tekl skepticky dahoun, "Ae pro nic za nic eloveka nevesi, ke mu- peSinkou, zpivala chraplavYm hlasem: Mel jsem holku namluvenou, ale jinej si byt k tornu valy nejaka ptleina, aby se mi za ni chcidi". to odavodnelo."

U jednoho stolu spal •opilY sardinkat, "Kdy2 neni valka", poznamenal Svejk "tak se to odtvodnuje, ale ye valce se chvilemi se probouzel, ,uhodil pesti do na jednoho eloveka nebere ztetel. Ma stair a zabreptal: `Nejde to," a zas spal Za kuleenikem pod zrcadlem sedepadnout na fronts, nebo bejt pove grely jine tti sleeny a pokkikovaly na nenej Boma. PeAky j ako za vozem."

"Poslouchej, nejsi ty nejakej politic- jakeho konduktera od drahy: "Mladej kej?" otazal se dahoun. V ptiz yuku je- pane, daji nam vermut." U hudby ho otazky bylo znat, Ae zadina, byt S'vej- dali se dva, ze nejakou Matku vdera likovi naklonen. zla patrola. Jeden to videl na vlastni "Politickej jsem a2 moo", usma1 se bei a druhy tvrdil, se gla s nejakYm vovej k. jakem se vyspat k "Valg in" do hotelu.

"Nejsi na,rodni socialista?" Nyni pa- U samYch dveti sedel vojak s nekolika dal byt maly opatrnYm. Vinisil se do to- civilisty a. vykladal jim o svem zraneni ho. "Co je nam do toho", tekl, "je vAude v Srbsku. Mel obvazanou ruku, pine kapino lidi a pozorujou nas. Aspofi kdy- psy cigaret, ktere od nich dostal. Cikal, bychom nekde v priljezdu mohli sun- Ze az nerntiZe pit, a jeden z to spoleenodat bodla, abyc to tak nevypadalo. Ne- sti, pleg atY dedek, neustale ho vybizel:

Ve stkedu, dne 20. Unora 1963 "Jen pite, yojaeku, kdovi jestli se jests sejdem. Mam vain dat need zahrat? Mate rad ‘Ositelo Bite'?"

To byla totia pisen plaateho dedka, a opravdu ji zachvili zahrali na housle i harmoniku, pricemz , dedkovi vstoupily sizy do ad a on zpival ttaslavYm hlasem: "KelyA 112 rozum bralo, na matku se ptalo, .na matku se ptalo ...."

Oct idruheho stolu se ozvalo: "Nechaj si to Jdou se vyspat. PoveSejt si to na. lakebik. Odprejsknou s tim sirotkem."

A jako posledni triunf poeal neptatelskY sad zpivat: "Loueeni,' ach loueeni, me srdeeko je cele zhroucenY, zhroucenY ...."

"Franto!" volali nla raneneho vojaka, kdy2 pkezpivali, zahluAivAe 'Osikele dite', `nech ua je bejt a pod' si k nam sednout.

VykaAli se uA na ne a poSli sem cigarety!

BudeA je bavit nadivy."

Svejk se svymi prilvodeimi divan se se zajrnem na to vAechno.

Svejk vAil se ye vzpominky, kdy'z' tu easto sedaval do vojny. Jak sem chodil policejni komisat DraAner na policejni prohlidku a prostytutky jak se ho bdly a skladaly na neho pisniely s obsahem opaenYm, Jak prase jednou zpivaly cherem: "Za pana Dragnera stale, se tu mela, Matena byla voArala. a Dragnera se nebala."

V tom pti g el Draftier se evYm dem, straAny a neriprosnY. Bylo to jako kdy2 stteli do lkoroptvi. Civilni straAnici setadili to vAechno do houfu. I on, 8vejk, byl tenkrate v torn houfu, poneva,d2 pri svem sniffle kekl komisakovi Dragnerovi, kdyA ho vyzval, aby se legitimoval: "Maji na to povoleni od policejniho tediteltvi?"

Svejk vzpominal ten nai jednoho ba snika, ktery tu sedaval pod zrcadlem v tom vAeobecnem ruchu "Kukliku", zpevu a pod zvuky haxmoniky psaval basnieky.

Naproti tomu u 8. vejkovYch pritvodeich nebylo 26.dnYch podobnYch reminisced. Bylo to pro ne z cela neeo noveho. Zaeinalo se jim to libit. Prvni z nich, kterY naAel zde ripineho uspokojeni, byl malt' tlusty, nebot' tact lids krome ayeho optimismu mail velkY sklon bYt epikurejci. '6ahoun chvili sam s sebou Vasil. A jak ztratil jia svilj skeptimismus, ztracel pomalu i svoji odmekenost a zbytek odvahy.

"Ja si zatancuji", tekl po patem pive, kdy2 videl jak tancuji pary Alapaka.

Maly odal se opine po2itkatstvi. yedie nett° sedela jedna sleena, mluvila opizie, a oei mu. jen hraly.

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8vejk, pil. Cahoun pketancoval vratil se se svou taneenici ke stolu. Potom zpivali, taneili, neustale pili, poplaedvali sve taneenice. A v atmosfeke proclejne lasky, nikotinu a alkoholu 'krouZito nenapadne stare heslo: "Po nas at' pkijde potopa!"

Odpilldne k nim ptised inejakY vojak a nabizel se, 2e jim udela za petku flegmenu is otravu krve. ma s sebou injekent stfikaeku stkikne j im do nohy nebo do ruky petrolej. I3udou s t im leAet nejmiri dva mesice, a jestli budou krmit ranu slinami, tak tkebas pul roku, a must je pustit fipine z vojny, Cahoun, ktery upine ji2 ztratil vAechnu duSevni rovnovahu, dal si na zachode od vojaka sti'iknout petrolej pod ktrAi do nohy.

KdyA se schylovalo jiA k veeeru, navrhl Svejk, aby nastoupili cestu k polnimu kuratovi. Maly tiouStik, ktery uZ zadal breptat, svadell 8vejka, aby jests poOkal. bahoun byl take toho minent, 2e point kurat mute &kat. '8vejkovi se vAak pkestalo jia na "Kukliku" libit, a prat() jim pohrozil, ‘Ze pujde sam.

Tak Ali, ale musel jim slibit, 2e se vAichni jeAte nekde zastavt.

Stavin se za Florend v male kavarniece, lkde tlustY prodal sve sttibrne hodinky, aby se mohli jests dale veselit.

Odtamtud u2 je Svejk vedl pod pa2di.

Data mu to stra gne. mnoho prace. Neustale jim nohy podklesavaly a chteli stale jeAte jit nekam. Maly a tlustY byl by malem ztratil paket k polnimu kuratovi, tak byl Svejk nucen nest paket sem.

Svejk je neustale musel upozorriovat, kdyt Ael naproti .dfistojnik nebo nelaka, AarZe. Po nadlidskern risili a namahani podatilo se 8vejkovi ptiviect je k domu v Kralovske trifle, kde bydlel point kurat.

Sam jim nastreil bajonety na ranice a ptinutill je dloubnutim pod 'Zebra, aby ho vedli oni a ne on je.

V prvem poschodi, kde byla navAtivenka na; dvetich bytu: Otto Katzs, Feldkurat, ptigel jim otevtit nej akk vojak. Z pokoje ozyvaly se hlasy a cinkot lahvi a sklenic.

"Wir — melden — gehorsam, — Herr — Feldkurat, "tekl namahave eahoun, salutuje vojakovi, "ein Paket and ein Mann gebracht."

"Lezte ■dal," tekl vojak, "kdepak jste se tak zkidili? Pan feldkurat je taky. . " Vojak si odplivi.

Vojak odeAel s paketem. ockali v pted sini dlouho, a2 se oteykely dvete a jinii neveAl, ale vletel do pfedsine point kurat. Byl jen ve vests, v race drAel doutnik.

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"Tak. LTA jste tady," kekl k 8vejkovi, "a to vas pkivedli. E —nemate sirky?"

"PosluSne hlasim, pane feldkurat, Ae nemam." pros nemate sirky? KaAdy vo"E jak ma mit sirky, aby si mohl zapalit.

Co je?"

Vojak, ktery nema sirky, je "Je, posluAne hlasim, bez sirek," odpovedel Svejk.

"Vence dobi'e, je bez sirek a nemii2e nikomu ptipalit. Tak to by bylo jedno ted' to druhe. Nesmrdeji varn nohy, 8vej ku?"

"PosluAne hlasim, 2e nesmrdeji."

"Tak to by by lo to druhe. A ted' to tketi. Pijete kokalku?"

"PosluAne hlasim, ze kotalku nepiju, jenom rum."

"Dobte, podivejte se tady na, toho vojaka. Toho jsem si vypirjeil na dneAek od obrlaj tnanta Feldhubra, je to jeho puciflek. A ten nic nepije, je ab-a.b-abstinent, proto ptijde s marAkau. Po-ponevadA takoveho eloveka nemohu potkebovat. To neni pucflek, to je krava.

Ta pije taky jenom vodu a bud jako Ty jsi abstinent," obratil se na vojaka, "Ae se ne-nestydiA, pitomee. ZaslouAIS per facek."

Point kurat obratil, svou pozornost na ty, kteti 8vejka ptivedli a ktett ye snaze stat rovne klatili sebou, /name se 0pirajice o sve rueniee.

"Vy jste se '0-will," tekt point kurat, "opili jste se ye sluAbe a za to vas dam za-zavkit. 8vejku, vy jim vezmete ruenice a odvedete je do kuchyne a budete je hlidat, dokud neptijde patrola, aby je odvedla. Ja hned zatelefonu-nu-nu -ju dokasren."

A tak slava Napoleonova: "Na vojne se merit situace kaAdYm okamakem", doSia i zde sveho ripineho potvrzeni.

Rano ho ti dva vedli pod bajonety a bali se, aby jim neutekl, pak je sam pki vedl a nakonec je musell hlidat sam.

Zprvu si dobte neuvedomili toho obratu, a2 kdy'A sedeli v kuehyni a u d yert videli stat vejka s ruenici a bajonetern.

"Ja, bych neco pil," povzdechl malt optimista, kdato Cahoun dostal opet zachvat skepticismu a fekl, A'e je to vAechno mizerna, zrada. Jal se hlasite obviriovat gvejka, 2e je ptivedl do toho postavent, a vyeeti mu, 2e pry jim sliboval, 2e bude zitra obeSenej, a ted' 'Ae je videt, Ae to je legrace i s ton zpovedi, i s tim obegenim.

Svejk mleel a pfechazel u &vett "Volove jsme byli!" ktieel Cahoun.

Nakonec, vyslechnu y vAechria obvineni, prohlasil Svejk: "Nyni alespon vidite, Ae vojna neni

10 trldnY med. Ja konam svou povinnost.

Ja jsem se stejne do toho dostal tak jako vy, ale v obecnej reci se iika, ze se na mne stestena usmala."

"Ja bych new pil," opakoval z_oufale optimista. ahoun vstal a g el ke dvekim vravoravYm krokem. "Punt' nas domt, "kekl vejkovi, "kotego, neblbni."

"Jdi vode me," odpovedel Svejk, "ja vas musim hIldat. Ted' se nezname."

Ve dveitich objevil se polni kurat,:;"ja, ja se nijak nemohu do tech kasaren dozvonit, tak idete domil a pa-pamatujte si, ze ye sluthe se chlastat ne-nesmi.

MarS!" Ku cti pana polniho kurata budit kekno, to do kasaren netelefonoval, ponevadt, nemel doma telefonu a mluvil do stojanu na tarovku.

Svejk vojenskym sluhou u nadporueika Lukage 1 Stesti Svejkovo nemelo dlouheho trvaNelitostnY osud pferval pkatelskY pomelt mezi nim a polnim kuratem. Jestli polni kurat at do to udalosti byl osobou sympatickou, to co nyni provedl, je s to strhnout z neho symaptickou tvarnost.

Polni kurat prodal Svejka nadporueikovi Lukakvi, cili lepe teeeno, prohral ho v kartach. Tak citiv prodavali na Rusi nevolniky. Pfi glo to tak znenadani. Byla pekna spoleenost u nadporueika Lukate a hralo se "jednadvacet".

Polni kurat prohral v gechno a na koneo tekl: "Kolik mne phjeite na metro vojenskeho sluhu? Ohromny pitomec a zajimava figura, nee° non plus ultra.

Jegte jste nikdy nerneli takoveho vojenskeho sluhu."

"Merin ti sto korun," nabidl nadporueik LukdS; "jestli pozitki je nedostanu, pole mne to raritu. Miij pucflek je protivny elovek. Stale vzdycha, pi ge domit psani a pkitorn krade, na ptijde.

Uz jsem ho bil, ale to nevi nic platne.

Pohlavkuji ho na potkani, ale nepomaha to. Vyrazil jsem mu par ptednich zubh, ale chlajpa nenapravil."

"Tedy plati," tekl lehkomyslne polni kurat, "bud' pozitki sto korun, neboSvejka."

Prohral i tech sto korun a gel smutne domtl. Vedel ureite a take nijak o tom nepochyboval, ze do pozitki nesetene tech sto korun a ze vlastne Svejka mizerne a bidne prodal.

"Mohl jsem ti kict o dye ste korun," mrzel se, a pfestupuje na elektrioke tramvaji na trat', ktera ho za, chvili mela odvezt doms, dostaval zachvat tdoitek a sentimentality.

"Neni to ode mne hezke," pomyslil si, kdyt zvonil u dveti sveho bytu, "jak se

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"Milt' 8vejku," tekl, kdyt byl doma, ‘dnes se stab neco neobyeejneho, Mel jsern takovou smulu v kartach. ,Hopsal j sem to vSechno a mel pod rukou eso, pak pkigla desitka a bankek mel pod rukou kluka a dotah to taky na jednadvacet. Liznul jsem si nekolikrat na eso neb ona desitku a wady jsem mel stejne s banketem. Projel jsem vsechny penize."

Odmleel se. "A nakonec jsem prohral vas. Vyphjoil jsem si na vas sto korun, a jestli do pozitti je nevratim, tit budete pattit ne mne, ale nadporueikovi Lukagovi. Mne je to opratvdu lito. . ."

"Sto korun jests mam," itekl Svejk, "mohu je yam pujeit."

"Dejte je sem," otil polni kurat. "fined je zanesu Luka govi. Nerad bych opravdu se s vami loueil."

Lukag byl velice pfekvapen, kdyt uvidel polniho kurata.

"Jdu ti zaplatit dluh," kekl polni kurat, rozhliteje se vitezoslavne, "dejte mne take kartu."

"Hop," ozval se polni kurat, kdyt byla rtada na nem. "Jedno oko," hlasil, "pfetah jsem."

"Tak tedy hop," kekl pit druhem chodu, "hop — blind."

"Dvatet brat," hlasil bankek.

"Ja mam celYch devatenact," ti ge pronesl polni kurat, davaje do banku poslednich etyticet ikorun ze stovky, kterou mu pujeil Svejk, aby se vykoupil z noyell° nevolnictvi.

Vraceje se domfl, pfigel polni kurat k ptesvedeeni, ze je konec, ze Svejka nemixte zachranit, ze jest to pited,ureeno, aby sloutil u nadporueika Lukage.

A kdyt mu Svejk otevtel, tekl k nemu: "Vgechno je marne, Svejku. Proti osudu se neubrani nikdo. Prohral jsem vas i tech va gich sto korun. Delal jsem vge, co bylo v me moci, ale osud je silnej gi mne. Hodil vas do spare nadporueika Luka ge a ptijde doba, to se musime rozloueit."

"A bylo v banku hodne?" Otazal se Svejk klidne, "nebo jste malokdy deal forhonta.? Kdyt nepada karta, je to velrni S'patne, ale nekdy je to mizerie, kdyt to 1de at piin g clobte. Na Zderaze ail nejakej klempit Vejvoda a ten hraval vtdy mariag v jedne hospode za "Stoletou kavarnou'. Jednou taky, Cent mu to napiskal, povida: 'A cot abychom si hodili jednika o petnieek! Hrali tedy petniekovYho jednika a on drtel bank. V gichni se ztropili a tak to rostlo do desit'ry. Starej Vejvoda chtel poptat t aky lruhYmu nee° a potad tikal: 'Maid, Spatna domil: To si nedovedete pitedstavit,

ye sLkedu, dne 20. -Calor y. 1963 jakou mel smillu. Maid, gpatna ne a ne ptipt, bank rost, a tit tam byla stovka. Z hraei nikdo tolik nemel, aby to mohl nopnout, a Vejvoda uz byl celej upocenej. Nebylo nic jinYho sly get net jeho: `Maid, Spatna damn.' Pkisatovali po pace a spadali to rn ytdycky. Jeden kominicks/ mistr se dopalil, Sel si domii pro penize, kdyt tam bylo ut pites pill druhy stovky, hopnuj to. Vejvoda chtel se toho zbavit, a jak potom povidal, chtel tahnou tkebas at do tkiceti, jen aby to nevyhral, a misto toho dosta d ye esa.

Deal, ze ' nic nema, a schvalne povida: `Sestnast brat: A to nkominickY mistr mel vgeho vgudy patnact. Neni to smilla? Starej Vejvoda byl celej bledej a neSt'astnej, kolem ut naddvali a Sugkali si, ze dela volty, zc ut jednou byl bit pro falegnou hru, aekoliv byl to nejpoctivejSi a sypali tarn korunku za korunkou. Ut tam bylo pet set •korun. Hostinky to nevydrtel. Mel prave ptichystany penize do pivovaru, tak je vzal, pkised si, streil napted, do toho po dvou stovkach, pak zamhoutil oei, otoeil pro gest a tek, to to v gechno, co je v banku, hopa. `Hra j eme,' povida, 's tevreminla kartama.' Starej Vejvoda byl by ja nevim co dal za to, aby ted' prohral. Vgichni se divili, kdyt otoeil a ukazala se sedma a on si ji nechal. Hostinsky se smal pod vousy, ponevadt met jednadvacet. Pti gla druha stedma starymu Vejvodovi a on si ji take nechal. `Ted' pkijde eso nebo desitka,' keki hostinsky jizlive, `Arsadim krk, pane Vejvodo, ze budete trop.' Bylo ohromn3lr ticho, Vejvoda °toei a vona se objevi treti sedmiCka. Hostinskej zbledl jaku ktida, byly to jeho posledni penize, vode gel do kuchyne a za 'chvilku pkibehne kluk, kterej se u neho ucil, abychom gli pana hostinsk3tho ukiznout, ze prej visi na klice okna. , Tak jsme ho odrzlr, vzktisili a hralo se 'dal. Ut nikdo nemel ‘tadny penize, vgechno to bylo v banku pied Vejvodou, kterej jen kikal: 'Maid, Spatna domh: a za tivYho boha chtel bejt trop, ale ponevadt musel votdeet svoje karty a vylotit na still, nemoh, delat tadnej podvod a schvalne pfetahnout. Vgichni byli tit nad jeho 'Atestim blbi a udelali 'si to tak, ze kdyt ut nemaji penize, ze tam budou drivat svoje Trvalo to kolik hodin a pied starym Vcjvodou costly tisice a tisice. Kominickej mistr byl ut do banku 'dluten pies pill druheho milionu , uhlit ze Zderazu asi milion, domovnik ze `StoletY kavarny' 800.000 korun, jeden medik pies dva miliony. Jenom v pince bylo pies 300.000 na samych ittrtkach papiru. Starej Vejvoda zkougel to vklijak. Chodil pokad na za-

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chod, a • vddyeky to dal jinYm.u, aby to se vati grog. Rano se haste a nadporuvzal za neho, a kdy se vratil, hlasili mu, eika Lukage."

Svejk s novYm mukm _stravili pkijem7 de bral, 'de mu pti gto jednadvacet. Postali pro novY karty, a zas to nebylo nic ne noc vaienim grogu. K ra.nu, stal tluplatnY. KdyZ se Vejvoda zastavil na stY infanterista sotva, na nohou a p onacti, tak mel ten druhej ,etrnact. Vgi- 'orueoval si jen podivnou sores z ritznYch chni se divali vzteklo na starYho Vej- ndrodnich pisni, ktere se mu spletly dovodu a nej vic lateiil jeden dladdia, ke- hromady: "Okolo Chodova teee vodioka, rej do toho vgeho vgudy dal na hotovosti genkuje tam ma mild piveeko eervenY. vosum korun. Ten votevtene prohlasil, Horo, horo, vysoka jsi, Sly panenky silde takovej elovek, j ako j e Vejvoda, by nici, na Bile hote sedlaeek ore."

"Vo tebe nemdm strach," tekl Svejk, nemei chodit po svete a mei by se zkopat, vyhodit a utopit jako gte'ne. To si ",s; takovYm nadanim se u feldkurata unedovedete pfedstavit to zoufalstvi sta- drdig." rYho Vejvody. Koneene pti gel na na- Tak se stalo, de to dopoledne uvidel pad. "Ja jdu na zachody povida komini- nadporueik Luka g ponejpry poctivou a kovi, 'vezmete to za mne, pane mistke.' uptimnou tvat dobreho vojaka Svejka, A jen tak bez klobouku vybeh na, ulici a ktery mu hlasil: "Poslu g ne hlasim paptimo do Myslikovy ulice pro strddniky. ne obrlajtnant, de jsem ten 8vejk, prohranej panem feldkuratem v kartach."

Nagel patrolu a oznamil ji, ze v tej tej hospode hrajo hazardni hru. StradII nici ho vyzvali, aby gel napted, ze pti- Institute chistojnickYch sluhti je prajdou hned za nim. Vratil se tedy a hia- stareho ptivodu. Zda se, de jiz Alexandr sin mu, 2e zatim medik prohral pies dva Kakedonsky mel sveho pucfleka. Jisto miliony a domovnik pte tki. Do pinky ze vg ak je, de v dobe feudalismu vystupoclan Apis 500.000 korun. Za chvili vrazi- vali v to filoze doldneti rytitti, dim byl li tam stradnici, dladdie vyktik: 'Spas Sancho Panza Doha Quijota? Divim se, se, kdo mndeg ." Ale nebylo to nic platny. ze historic vojenskych sluhti nebyla doZabavili bank, vedli vgechny na policii. posud nikYm sepsana. Na gli bychom Uhlii ze Zderazu se zprotivil, tak ho pti- tam, de vevoda z Almaviru snedl sveho vezli v koeatince. V banku bylo v dlu2- vojenskeho sluhu pia obledeni Toleda z nich Apisech pies pulp miliardy la na, hp hladu bez soli, o term vejvoda sam pige -tovYchpenzi atcse."I'ohljm ye syYch pametech, vypravuje, ze jeho jegte ne d s ral,' kekl policejni inspektor, sluha mel samo jernne, kkehke, videne, kdyZ vide' takovy zavratny sumy, 6tohle chuti se podOh al l ei neeernu mezi kuteje horgi ne2 Monte Carlo.' Zustali tam cim a oslim. vgichni, aZ na starYho Vejvodu, do rdVe stare gva.bske ' knize o umeni vona. Vejvodu jako udavaee pustili a sli- jenskem nalezame ted pokyny pro vobill, ze dostane zakonitou j ednu tietinu j enske sluhy. Pucflek stare doby mel byodmeny ze zablaveneho banku, asi pies ti zbanY,. ctnostnY, pravdomluvnY, sto gedesat miliont, von se ale do rana skromny, stateenY, odvadny, poctivy, pra z toho zblaznil a rano po Praze covitY. Zratka, mel to bYt vzor eloveka. vobjednavat si nectobytnY pokladny na Nova doba. na tomto typu zmenila tucty. Tomu se tika gtesti v kartash." mnoho. Moderni "fajfka" nebYva obyPotom gel Svejk vatit grori a dopadlo eejne ani zbodny, ani ctnostnY, ani pra y to tak, ze polni krat, kdy'd v noci po-domluvnY.Lie,podvasehpna datilo se Svejkovi dopravit ho s n.ama- promeriuje velice east° divot sveho velihou na postel,.zaslzel a zagtkal: tele v prave peklo. Je to lstivy otrok, vy"Prodal jsem te, kamarade, hanebne myglejici si nejruznej gi zaludne triky, prodal. Proklinej mne, bij, drZim. Hodil aby ztrpeil svemu panovi divot. Mezi jsem to napospas. Nemohu se ti podi- touto novou generaci pucflekil nena j vat do oei. Drdsej mne, kousej, nic. Ne-dousetacibvore,ktflbys zasloudim nic lep giho. Vig, co jsem?" ciali snist svYmi pany bez soli jako g le0 polni kurat, zabokuje uplakanou chetny Fernando vejvody z Almaviru. Na tvat do polgtate, tekl tide, jemnYm, mek- druhe strane vidime, de velitele, zapasikYm hlasem: "Jsem bezcharakterni pa- ce na, divot a na smrt se s yYmi. sluhy nodouch," a usnul, jak okdyd ho hodi do ye doby, pouZivaji nejrozmanitejgich vody. . prosttedkil, aby udrdeli svou autoritu.

DruhY den polni kurat, ITY11 baje se BYva to jistY druh hrtizovlady. Roku vejkovu pohledu, odedel easne rano a 1912 byl ye StYrskem Hradel proses, ph vratil se ad v noel s ne j akYin tlustym kterem vynikajici aloha bral jeden hejtinf a nteristau. man, ktery ukopal sveho pucfleka. Byl "Ukadte mu, Svejku," tekl, vyhYbaje tenkrat osvobozen, ponevadZ to uclelal se °pet Svejkovu pohledu, "kde co ledi, teprve podruhe. V nazorech tech panft aby byl orientovan, a pouete ho, jak nema, divot pucfleka 'Wine cony. Je to

ptedmet pouze, v mnohem ptipade fackovaci panak, otrok, sluZka pro vechno. Neni pain divu, de ta0ove postaveni yyZaduje od otroka, aby byl vyc4tralY, lstivy. Jeho postaveni na nail planete moZno srovnat jen s utrpenim pikolikn za starych dob, vychovavanYch k svedomitosti pohlavky a mueenim.

BYvaji vg ak ptip,ady, de pucflek vy gine se na faforita, a to stava se hrtizou roty, batalionu. V gechny g arie snail se ho pociplacet. On rozhoduje o dovolene, on se maze piimluvit, aby to u raportu dopadlo dobie.

Tito faforiti bYvali Za valky oclmenovani veikymi i stribrnYmi :medailemi za stateenost a chrabrost.

U 91. pluku znal jsem jich nekolik.

Jeden pucflek dostal velkou sttibrnou proto, ze walel bajeene pent husy, ktere kradl. Druhy dostal malou , stkibrnou proto, ponevadd z doinova dostaval nadherne zasilky a provisace, takle jeho pan v dobe nejvetgiho hladu ptecpal se tak, ze nemohl chodit.

A navrh na jeho odmene-ni medailemi stylizoval jeho pan takto; A za to, de v bojich projevuje neobyeejnou stateenost a , chrabrost, opovrhoval syYm divotem a neopou g tel sveho dtistojnika ani na krok pod silnou palbou nastupujiciho neptitele."

A on zatim nekde v tYlu plundroval kurniky. zmenila pourer pucfleka k panovi a ueinila z neho nejnenavidenej giho tvora mezi mudstvem. pucflek mel vkly celou, konzervu, kdyd jedna byla rozdavana peti muzum. Jeho polni lane y byla vZdypina rumu nebo koriaku. Celt' den takovY tvor ZVYkal. Cokolddua drab ,dtstojnicke sladke suchary, koutil cigarety sveho clUstojnika, kuchtil, vatil cele hoedny a nosil extraDilstojniekY sluha byl s ordinaci v nejdnvernei gim styku udeloval mu hojne odpadky ze sveho stolu a ze vgech tech vYhod, ktere mel. Do triumviratu ptibiral si je gteneetniho gikovatele. Tato trojka, Zijici v bezprosttednim styku s dUstojnikem, znala v gechny operace i valeene plany.

Ten gvarm byl vZdy nejlepe informovan, kdy to zaene, jehod desatnik kamaradii s dustojnickYm sluhou.

Kdyd ten leki: "Ve dve tiicet pet budem brat roha", tak ptesne yr, dy e tiacet pet rakou gti vojaci zaeall se odpoutavat od nepkitele.

DixstojnickY sluha byl v nejintimnejgich stycich s polni kuchyni a potuloval se velice rad u kotle a poroueel jako by byl v restauraci a mel pied sebou jidelni listek "ja chci Zebro", Zikal kuchati, "veera

12 j si mi dal ohanku. Pkidej nine taky kousek jater do poleyky, slezinu negem."

A nejvelikolep gim byl pucflek v Mani paniky. Pri bombardovani pozic srdce mu padalo do kalhot. Nalezal se vtu dobu se syYmi a sveho pana zavazadly v nejbezpeenejkm blindai a ukrYval hlavu pod deku, aby ho granat nenakl, a nemel jineho prani, ne'g aby jeho pan byl ranen a on se !dostal s Min do tYlu, do zazemi, hodne hluboko.

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Vyvinuli se ye zyleAtni kastu. Jich sobectvi neznalo mezi.

III Nadporudik Lukas. byl typem aktivniho dUstojnika zchatrale rakouske monarchie. Kadetka vychovala z neho oboj givelnikat. Mluvil nemecky ve spoleCnosti, psal nemecky, Ceti desk& knigky, a kdyg vyudoval ye Akole jednorodnich dobrovolnikt, samych techt, kikal jim daverne: "Bud'me deAi, ale nemusi o torn nikd y vedet. Ja jsem take tech."

Povagoval Cestvi za jakousi tajnou orPaniku pestoval soustavne s jistYm ganisaci, ktere je lepe zdaleka se vyhtajnilsikaktsvim. "Mne se zda, ae skianout. daji telefon", sdeloval di verne po Avarmech. A byl St'astnY, kdy g mohl kici: Jinak byl hadnY elovek a nebal se "Ug ho slogili." svych pkedstavenYch a pedoval o svou rotu na manevrech, jak se sluk a P a Nikdo tak rad neustupoval jako on. g"dy pro ni pohodlne rozmi--th.Naklv V torn okam g iku zapominal, ae svisti steni po stodolach a Casto dal ze sve mu nad hlavou granaty a 'Arapnely, a skromne gage syYm vojaktm vyvalit probiral se neunavne se zavazadly ke sud piva. ;Stabil, kde stain vozatajstvo. Mel rad rakousky tren a neobyeejne rad se voMel rad na pochodu, kdy2 zpivali vozil. Pou g ival v nejhorSich pkipadech jaci pisnieky. Museli zpivat, i kdy2 sanitnich dvonkolek. Kdy g musel jit na cvleeni i ze evident. A jdouc vedle dela!, dojem ne j znieenejkho Clove- sve roty, zpivat s nimi: ka V takovem pripade nechal zavaza"A kdyg bylo v ptiil noci, dla sveho pane, v zakopech a tahl jen voves z pytle vyskodi, synj majetek. gnmtarija bum !" `Mil se oblibe u vojakti, ponevadg Stal-li se takovY pripad, ze se dustojnik byl neobydejne spravedlivY a nernel ye zachrann fitekem pied zajetim a on tam zvyku nekoho tYrat. zustal, neopomenul datojinckY suha v Salle se pred nim tkasly a z nejsuro2adnem pkipade odvleknouti do zajeti i vejkho kkovatele udelal za mesic prazavazadla sveho pana. Ona pkeka v j evela beranka. ho majetek, na kterein 11361 celou duSi. lime!. Pravda kfieet, ale nikdy nenaVidel jsem jednoho zajateho datojni• daval. Pou gival vybranYch slov a vet. ckeho sluhu, kterY od Dubna Ael s dru"Vidite," kikal, "opravdu nerad vas trehYmi peSky as do Darnice za Kyjevem. stam, hochu, ale nemohu si pomoct„ MCI sebou krone sveho bat'ohu a ba- ponevad g na discipline zadai schopnost t'ohu sveho dato j nika, kterY pled zavojaka, zdatnost a bez discipliny !armajetim utekl, jeSte pet rudnich kuffikii da je trtinou vetrem se klatici. Jestli raneho tvaru, d ye pokrYvky a poNtar vy nemate v pokadku svilj mundfir a krome nejakeho zavazadla, ktere nesl na hlave. Ste g oval si, 2e mu kozaci dva knofliky nejsou dobre pkikty a. schazi, je videt, ze zapominate na sve povinkufry ukradli. nosti„ ktere mate k armade. MT& byt, Nikdy nezapomenu toho eloveka, kte- ze zcla, se yam to nepohodlne a nepory se tak mokil s tim pies celou Ukrali- chopitelne, prod mate byt zaviien nu. Byl to Nvy specliterskY viz a nemotomu, yam veera pki prohlidce jeho si vysvetliti, jak to mohl unest a ta- den knoflik schazel na blaze, takova hnout tolik set kilometre a potom jest ma.linka nepatrna vec, ktera v civilu se s tim a do TaAkentu, opatrovat to a Ubl ne nrehledne. A vidite, Ze takOve zaumkit na sv,Ycla zavazadlech na skvrnity -tedb6ni vaSeho zevnejku na voine mutyf v zatateckem tabore. mit vzaneti trest. A prod? Zde nejde Dnes jsou dUstoinidti sinho-ve 9 to, ze yam schazi knoflik, ale o to, 2e po cele nak re p ubliee a vv-nra,vuji si zvyknout na pokadek. Dnes si o svYch hrdinnyeh skuteien S"turmo- n e-r ik i ete knoflik a zaeinate lajdaCit. vali Sokal, Dubno, Pinvu. Ka:. 'itra n' cc yam bude zdat obffine ronich je Na p oieonem: "Povidal jsem na- 'ebrat flintu a vydistit ji, pozitki zapog ernu obrstovi, aby telefonoval do Sta- menete nekde v hospode bajonet a nato InfiZe zaeit." k onec usnete na postu, ponevang jste PoveVine bvii reakeionafi 9 mOstvo !meal s tim net'astnYm Iknoflikem je ner0.videlo. Nekteii clona:§eli a bylo pivot lajdaka. Tak je to hochu„ a proto pro de zvlaktnim poteknim, kdy g" se vas trestam, abych vas vyvaroval jests mohli divat, ,jak nekoho uvazuji. horkmu trestu, za veci, kterd byste mo-

Wednesday, February 20, 1963 hl provest, zapominaje pomalu, ale jiste na sve povinosti. Zaviram vas na pet dni a preji si, abyste o chlebu a voile pternYkel o tom, trest nein Mstou, ale pouze prostkedkem vychovnYm, sledujicim napravu a polepkni trestaneho vojaka."

Mel byt ua davno hejtmanem a nepomohla mu jeho opatrnost v narodnostni otazce, ponevaa vdCi svYm predstavenym vystupoval s opra,vdovou phimosti, neznaje ye slugebnina pomeru iadneho podlizani.

To bylo to, co zachoval z povahy sedlaka na deskem jihu, kde se narodil ve vesnisi mezi eernYmi lesy a rybniky.

Jestli vnei vojaktim byl zpmvedlivY a netrYznil jich, byI v jeho povaze zvlaSAM rys. Nenavidel sve sluhy, ponevaa" vkly mel to 'Stesti, g'e dostal nejprotivnejkho a nejpodlejkho pucfleka.

Bil je po hube, pohlaykoval a snazil se je vychovati domluvann sk'utky nepovaguje je za vojaky. Zapasil s nimi beznadejne kadu let, stkidal je neustale a nakonec si vzdychl: "Opet jsem dostal podle hovado." Sire , vojenske sluhy povagoval na ni gk druhy givodistva.

Neobyeejne rad mel zvikata. Mel hozckeho ikanarka, angorskou kocku a stajoveho pinde. Wichni sluhove, ktere vystridal, nakladali s temi zvikaty ne Mike, neg. nadporudik Luka,S' naklacial se sidrmi sluhy, kdyz mu provedli nejakou pod1°s Katnarka mokili hladem, jeden sluha angorske kodce vyrazil jedno oko, stajovY pine byl od nich praskan na podkani a na konee jeden z pi-edehildett Svejka odvedl chudaka na Pankrac k pohodnemu, kde ho dal utratit, nelitu j e dat ze sve kapsy deset korun, Oznamil potorn proste nadporudikovi, •ge mu pes utekl prochazce a !druhy den •0 mag iroval s rotou no, evieeni.

Kdyg Svejk se pk gel ohlasit k Lukaeovi, ze nastupuje slu g bu, na,dporuelk, Luka2 zavedi ho do pokoje a kek] nernu: "Vas odporuCil pan polni kurat Katz a pteji si, abyste nedelal jeho oclp,-.)rueeni hanbu. Mel jsem jiz tucet sluhu a Zadn7 z nich se umne neolnal. Unozorfluji vas,. Ze jsem piisnY a Ze strakie trestam kahlou podlost a le2. Preji si, abyste mluvil vZdy pravdu a vykonaval bez reptani vSechny me rozkazy. Jestli feknu: `Skoete do ohne, tak do toho ohne musite skoeit, i kdyby se y am neehtelo. Kam to koukate?" ' vejk se zajmem dival se na stranu na zed', kde visela kiec s kanarkem, nyni, upiraje sve dobracke odi na nadporudika, odpovedel milYm, dobrackYm tenem: "Poslane hla,sim, pane nadporueiku,ze je tam hardskSr kanar."

Wednesday, February 20, 1963 A pferueiv tak prou tea nadporudika, Svejk stal pa vojensku, a ani nemrkaje, dival se mu primo do odi.

Nadporudik chtel rici nee° ostreho, ale pozoruje nevinnY vYraz 8vejkova oblieaje, rekl jedine: "Pan polni kurat vas rekomendoval jako ohromneho pitomee a myslim. Ze se nemYlil."

"Posluene hlasim, pane nadporueiku, Ze se nemYlil opravdu pan polni kurat.

KdyZ jsem slouZil aktivne, byl jsem sur perarbitrovan pro blbost, a jeete k mu notorickou. regimentu nas tomu pustili dva, me a jeete jednoho pana hejtmana von Kaunitz. Ten, s dovolenim, pane nadporueiku, kdyZ eel po ulici, tak se soueastne porad dloubal prstem leve ruky v leve nosni dike a druhou rukou v prase dirce, a kdy2 gel s nami na cvieeni, tak nas vZdy postavil jako pid defilirungu a rikal: `Vojaci, eh, pamatujte si, eh, Ze je dneska streda, ponevacIZ zejtra bude etvrtek, eh.' "

VbSTNIK — WEST, TEXAS a Met: `Posluene hlasim, Ze jsem proved tohle a tohle.' A co se tYka V poctivosti, je to vkly moc hezka, vec, ponevadk s ni elovek vklycky nejdal dojde. Jako kdy2 jsou ty zavody v chuzi. Jak zaene fixlovat a beZet, uZ je dotancovanej. To se stalo mYmu bratranci. Poctivej alovek je vgude valenej, ctenej, spokojenej sam sebou a citi se jako znovuzrozenej, kdyZ jde leZet a mute het: `Dneska jsem byl zase poctivej.

Mezi tou reel nadporudik Luka g sedel jiZ dlouho na Zidli, 'divaje se 8velkovi na boty, a myslil si: "Miij bole, vidyt' i ja easto mluvim takove blbosti a rozdii je jen ye forme, kterou to podavam."

Nicmene, nechteje ztratit svou auto-. ritu, rekl, kdv2 8vejk skoneil: "U me musite si eistit boty, mit svou uniformu v poradku, knofliky spravne ptieite a musite delat dojem vojaka a ne nejakeho civilniho otrapy. Jest to zyldetni, Ze vy neumite se ZadnY drZet Nadporudik Lukas pokreil rameny, vojensky. Jen jeden mel ze veech tech ko elovek, ktery nevi a nenaleza rychle mych sluhfi bojovne yzezteni a na koslov vyjadrern ureite myelenky. nec nine ukradl paradni uniformu Progel se od dveri k protilehlemu ok- prodal ji Zidovi."

Zamleel se a pokraeoval, vysvetluje nu kolem 8vejka a zase nazpet, prieemZ 8vejkovi veechny jeho povinnosti, 8vejk podle toho, kde se prave nadporu- eemZ neopomenul klast hlavni dilraz na eik nalezal, deal "rechtseaut" a "links- tote musi byt verny, nikde nic nemluvit, eaut" s takovYm cliirazne nevinnym obco se doma deje. lieejem, ze nadporneik sklopil oei, a di"Ke nine chodi damy na navetevu," vaje se na koberec, rekl nee° co bylo be- podotkl, nekdy zde nektera ostane pies ze vei spokojenosti se Svejkovou poznamk'ou o pitomem hej tmanovi: "Ano noc, kdyZ rano nemam sluZbu. V takovein pripade nosite nam kavu do posteu mne musi byt pofadek, eistota a nele,, 'kdyl zazvonim, rozumite?" smi se mne that. Miluji poctivost. Nene,"Posluene hlasim, Ze rozumim, pane vidim lei a trestam ji bez milosti, rozuobrlajtnant, kdybych prieel znenadani mite mne dobke?" k posteli, tak by to mohlo byt trebas no"Posluene hlasim, pane nadporueiku, ktere dame neptijemne. JO, jsem si jedZe rozumim. Neni nic hor giho, neZ kdyZ nouprived jednu sleenu domil a moje poelovek lie. Jak se zaene zaplitat, tak je sluhovadka nam prinesla, prave kdyZ jsme se naramne dobfe bavili, kavu do ztracenej. V jedne vesnici za vem byl nejakej ueitel Marek a ten cho- postele. Lekla se a polila mne cella zada dil za dcerou hajneho 8pery a ten mu a jeete kekla: panbilh ,dobrYtro: Ja, dal vzkazat, Ze jestli se bude s holkou vim, co se sluei a path, kdyZ nekde spi schazet v lese, ze mu, kdy2 ho Potka, Zama." pusti do zadnice z ruenice etetiny se soli.

"Dobre, Svejku, vuci darnam musite Ueitel mu dal vzkazat, Ze to neni pra- zachovavat vZdy neobyeejnY takt," rekl vda, ale j ednou zas, kdyZ se s holkou nadporueik, kterY dostaval lepei naladu, mel sejit, tak ho ten hajnej natrefil a ponevadZ ked nreela na pfedmet, kterY ui chtel na nem udelat tu operaci, ale yyphioval u neho prazdny eas mezi kaon se vymlouval, ie prej &Ara kvetiny, sarnami, cvieietem a kartami. potom zas, ze eel chytat nejake brouky, 2eny byly duei jeho bytu. Ony .stvoa zaplital se 'dim dal tim vice, aZ nako- 'fily mu domov. Bylo jich nekolik tuctii mnohe snaZily se po dobu sveho pobynec vodpiisahnul, jak byl celej ulekanej, Ze eel klat oka na zajice. Tak ho milej tu vyzdobit j eho byt rtiznymi tretkami. hajej spakoval a vodved na eetnidkou Jedna pani kavarnikov6,, ktera zila u stanici, vodtamtud to elo k soudu a udi- neho celYch etrnact .dni, ne2 si pro ni tel byl by bYval malem zavienej. Kdyby oan ManZel prijel, -vyeil'a mu rortomile byl rekl holou pravdu, tak dostal l pouze orehoz na st01, opattila mu veechno spoty etetiny se soli. JO, jsem toho mineni, dni pradlo monogramy a byla by snad Ze je vklycky nejlepei se pfiznat, byt vo- dokoneila vygivani nastenneho koberce, tevtenej, a kdy2 ui nee° provedu., kdyby byl mantel neznieil tu idylu.

13 Jedna (lama, pro kterou za tri nedele prijeli rodiee, chtela udelat z jeho damsky budoar a rozestavila veude ruzne titernosti, vazieky a povesilk mu nad postel obrazek andele stra2ce.

Ze vS'ech koutii loZnice i jidelny vyciCovala se Zenska ruka, ktera vnikala do kuchyne, kde bylo moZno videt neicozmmanitejei kuchyriske natadi a nacini dar jedne zamilovane pani tovarnice, ktera pkivezla s sebou Rrome sve vaSne tezaci ptistroj na yeSkerou kuchyriskou zeleninu a zeli, ptistroj na strouhani Zemlieky, tteni jater, kastroly, pekade, panve, vateeky a brillvico jeete.

Odeela '64a,k za tYden, ponevadt nemohla se smirit s myglenkou, 2e ma na,dperudik krome ni jeete asi tucet jinYch milenek kolem sebe, co2 zanechalo jiste itopy ve vYkonosti uSlechtileho samce v uniforms.

Nadporueik Lukde vedl tez obeirnou korespondeci, mel album svYch milenek a sbirku rtiznYch relikvii, ponevaa posledni dva roky jevil sklon k fetigismuo.

Tak mel nekolik rfiznych podvazkii daInskYch, etyry rortomile damske kalhotky s vyeivanim a tri prfizraene jemne, tenke damske koeilky a batistove gateeky, dokonce jednu enerovaeku a newlik puneneek.

"Mani dnes sluZbu," rekl, "pfijdu az v noci, opatrujte veechno a uved'te v poi'adek byt. Posledni sluha odjel dnes pro svou nepotadnost s marekou na pozici."

Pokraeovani Pitt ZNIENE VASI ADRESY POI4IJTE TOHOTO KUPONII Supreme Lod ge SPJST Box 100, Temple, Texas 2adam Vas o zmenu me adresy jat nasleduje:— Moje nova adresa jest:

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Wednesday, February 20, 1963

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Address all matters to the Editor: P. 0. Box 85, West, Texas.

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OF CEO GE WASHIN z TON To gain their independence, and to establish. a strong and dignified government, the American people needed two kinds of leadership.

They needed, first, a rc :•ourceful general to -lead their co; • 1.q-,l.ro . !;ively untrained troops aga:in: ti, British and, second, a wise statesman to guide the new-nation. It was America's great good fortune that it found both the general and the state .,ms in the person of one man George As military leade::, Washington proved to be single-minded and steadfast in purpose. In tile early days of the Revolutionary War the rm .g ed, ill-fed, untmined Ameirican re ts suffered terrible defeats. And in 1780, after four years of indecisive battle, the whole country was in a state of exhaustion.

WASHINGTON'S • 7171THDAv.

This same largeness of spirit showed itself in the confused period which followed the winning of independence.

George Washington saw that freedom was not enough — it had to be balanced with authority. And although he had hoped to retire from public life to his farm in Virginia, he responded to the call of his countrymen to preside over the convention which wrote the American Constitution, and after that to become the first Presid.l, of the United States.

In both roles, he made it his function to mediate between conflicting groups and opinions. As President, he brought into his Cabinet the two leaders of rival oarties, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. And just as he tried to keep peace within the country, he also strove to keep America at peace with the rest of the world.

Although it ran counter to the prejudices aroused by the war, Washington did not hesitate to make a treaty cementing peace with Great Britain. He believed that principle was everything and that national policy roust have moral value.

But Washington never despaired or lost heart. Throughout the bitter conflict, he remained a figure of dignity W..SHINGTON AND LINCOLN and serene moral courage, He was convinced of the rightness of the American This month our nation celebrates cause and of the inevitability of victory. The birth of two great sons.

Along with his brilliant generalship, First Lincolns birthday came along; his steadfastness and courage, Wash- And now comes Washington's.

America was indeed fortunate to find ington had one other quality which enAside from chopping cherry trees, in its time of crisis a man like George, deared him to his countrymen. That Washington. But his qualities — his unquality was his largeness of spirit. He George did some other deeds. derstanding of the times, his constancy showed this trait as commander-inof purpose, loftiness of outlook and deHis rise — thru honesty — is known chief of the Army. A number of his c,, envotion to justice — made Washington orals intrigued against Washington's To every child who reads. more than a national leader, From his leadership, but whenever one of these While "Honest Abe" — who loved man- own day to the present, Washington has generals was in trouble, Washington was kind -been recognized as a truly world figure. quick to help by sendin g his best troops.

His personal traits — like the causes of Thru his unfailing vision He accepted the blame in time of ad- Proved some high Source can guide our liberty and democracy for which he fought — transcend national boundarie& versity and, refused to claim the credit roves 0( in tines of success, Although some ' guar `21s with him, tnd mold each grave decision.

Measure your mind's hei ghts by the ste his energies What ails our 'country? Do you know? shade it casts. s Mc), rrelin :,3p:ant all his —Robert Browning Somehow, r ye just been thinking forcefulness in to rouse the people Perhaps, right now we need more • to effort and crifice, "Our came folks On earth there is nothing great but noble," he wrote. It is the cause', Like Washington and Lincoln! man; in man there is nothing great mankind."

—Wm. Hamilton —Lyla Myers but m ind.

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We apologize for the .delay in resum- coming up, and the time will be ripe for

the Czech lessons. However, we want this feature.

From The Editor's Desk ing to make sure we do the most correct and

o • beneficial thing, and we are hastening Isn't it strange how, when you visit to get them underway. Please bear with people you don't know, you discover us just a little longer. that you're related, in one way or another? In fact, aren't all Czechs related Your editor had a very interesting to everybody else? It seems so. It hapvisit to the Elk Lodge Sunday the 10th. pens to all of us, doesn't it? Recently.

I trust I didn't shock those assembled in shopping in a big department store in too much. The people were so nice. Even Waco, we encountered a lady who though I reached the hall by a rather turned out to be our second cousin devious route, I did arrive safe and whom we had never met. Absolutely sound, after having some very amusing amazing! Not that my personal backexperiences on the way. We all had a ground is so interesting, but there have few good-natured laughs over the whole been so many who have inquired of our thing. Thank you, good people of Lodge relationship to the late August Morris, Nove Kvety, for your standing invita- former co-publisher of the CechoWe are liking West more each day. tion.

Next time, I will take the proper slovak nere in West. ,F or the sake of We made up our minds long ago that brevity, I have always answered that we were going to like it here, and that's and short route! • August Morris was my uncle. Actually, e the way it has turned out. Neighbor my father, John Morris, and August and friends have been very nice to us. As time and transportation and all Morris were first cousins. That would Everyone is friendly and helpful. There other factors permit, we will be visiting make us second cousins. This family are several differences between living other lodge functions. I have been asked tree business can become quite involved, here and in a big city like Dallas. I was if I attend only those lodges to which I intricate, but interesting. Joe N. Morris born and raised in Bomarton, in Baylor have been invited. Definitely not. I con- of Sweet Home is the only immediate County, which is a lot smaller than sider ALL of our SPJST lodge homes a uncle I have in this country, from my West, so I know how things go in small priviliged domain, and I hope that I father's side. From my mother's side towns. After having lived abroad (Euro- shall be welcome at all of them. (she was Annie Mares), there are a 0 • pe) and the Far East, and Washington, nost of Mares' in the Cistern-Flatonia D.C., this is a nice change — peaceful, Notice to people in the New Ulm and area. As Brother Valcik has previously and conducive to much mental exercise. Rosebud areas: be sure and get a copy pointed out, the Mares immigrated to of the current issue of TIME Magazine, this country from the village of Cermna For those who may not know, our dated February 15th, for an article writ- in Bohemia. (Vaclav Barina, Organizer home is located across the street from ten about your community. In a way, it for our District I, is my uncle by marLodge Jaromir 54, on North Davis Street. makes sad reading. See page 28, under riage). My father and two brothers Caine Note that the first column, second page "Communities." This suddenly catapults to America from the village of Chleboof the Vestnik carries our address, our your area into national prominence. vice in Moravia.

• • home telephone number, and the num- What is the answer?

• • ber at the print shop. We thought Remember, we welcome news items there may be occasions that friends or A nice "Thank You" to Lodge Jaro from your area involving our members members may want to get in touch on 130 in Dallas for their nice gesture in and friends. We encourage you to write. very short notice, so please note the the form of a card, "For Your New Everyone has something to say. How 'formation. Please feel free to drop by Home." Very thoughtful. about YOU? our home and pay us a visit, if you are )O ) travelling through West. We're sorry we have missed some of our callers. Please Your editor would like to publish articles on some of our young people who come again. have "made good," attending colleges and universities, .studying abroad, or All contributions to the Vestnik should Editing your Vestnik is a rewarding engaged in some unusual or special pur- be dispatched so as to arrive in West experience. From all the comments we suits. We need to spotlight those young- NO LATER than early Saturday mornhave heard, people are pleased with the sters who have parted from our im- ing, preceding the week of publication.

Vestnik. We wish also to hear any un- mediate midst, but are making an in- Material reaching us after Saturday favorable comments. The personnel in delible impression on the world about morning cannot be included in the next the print shop have been most helpful; them. A good example is that of young issue. We finish setting type on Saturwithout them, of course, it would be James Janousek, , studying at the Uni- day, put the whole Vestnik in form on hopeless. Let your editor know of your versity of Nebraska, and president of Monday, and start printing it at 8 ideas about the Vestnik: the Czech Kornensky Club of the cam- o'clock Tuesday morning. The Vestnik Also: please take note of the "Keep In pus. If at all possible, send along a 2x3 reaches most of our readers on WednesMind" coium in this issue. It has been photo, or similar size, that we can pub- day; the remainder on Thursday. expanded somewhat to include what we lish, along with a biographical sketch of Address all correspondence to the consider to be helpful information for your activities. This, by the way, goes Vestnik, P. 0. Box 85, West. DO NOT our readers. Refer to it from time to for ANY of our young people. The var- address items for the Vestnik to the ious queen and duchess contests will be Cechosiovak Publishing Co., or to the time.

Your editor and family made the final move to West on January 26th, a very cold Saturday, and it has taken these two or three weeks to get settled. The job is not yet complete. Those of you who have been faced with the task of moving know what is involved. Where did all the "stuff" come from? Boxes and crates were stacked around ours house for some time. Frank Zalkovsky's Central Transfer and Storage did a magnificent job of moving us. His personnel is tops.

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Supreme Lodge in Temple,. This only tures, and we should like to publish some causes delay. Any change of address in each issue. must be directed to the Supreme Lodge, In writing to the Vestnik, always inBox 100, Temple. clude your lodge name and number at Dance ads may be addressed' to the the top of the first page. At the end, vestnik. Regular advertising should be include your name, and your position, addressed to the Cechoslovak Publishing if any. Concentrate on making your material as interesting as possible. Your Company. editor relies upon you to help make all If material is typed, it should be our news as interesting as possible. Be double-spaced, so that corrections ..can brief, but include ALL you wish to say. be easily made: Translations from one Do not be disappointed if the Editor relanguage to, the other are not made as a words or re-phrases your material. We rule, unless requested by the writer. will try out utmost to retain your originCorrespondence to the Vestnik is defi- al idea or meaning. That's the job of an nitely not limited to lodge reporters and editor. correspondents, although. reporting a Contributions that are thought to be lodge's activities is their primary re- of a controversial nature, i.e., of a polisponsibility. If you, as a reader, have tical, religious, anti-religious, or desomething to say to the membership famatory nature, will be submitted to that will be of some benefit, then by all the Publications Committee, as provided means, write us about it. We welcome for in the By-Laws. A good rule of news items from your lodge area, primarily concerning lodge members, per- thumb to follow on matters of this kind taining to births, marriages, funerals; is: "Will this be of genuine lasting beneand other timely, newsworthy pieces. fit to the whole SPJST?" Always try to answer who what, when, Because of postal regulations, we canwhere, why and how, regarding a news not publish any items having to do with item. If you do, your information will be raffles or games of chance. complete. )O) Photographs mailed to the editor cannot be returned to the sender . unless return postage is enclosed. As a general policy, and as in the past, those pictures having to do with an SPJST function will be printed without charge. WedDistrict 1 dings are not considered to be in this V. H. BARINA category.

Route 1 Smithville, Texas When you take pictures for publicaDistrict 2 tion in the Vestnik, try to take them JOHNNY J. PLASEK head-on or as bold-faced, with as much P. O. Box 88 dark and white contrast as possible. A Rosebud, Texas small snapshot with a large number of District 3 people is to() minute and cannot be published. The , principals in the picture ARNOLD M. VRLA 6307 Saratoga Circle must be recognizable. If the picture is Dallas 14, Texas not sharp and clear, it is difficult to District 4 make a cut of it and then publish it.

FRED KVETON Poor pictures do not help our Order.

'When you mail photographs, place them Route 1 between two stiff pieces of cardboard for Abernathy, Texas protection. Never roll a picture. Name District 5 people in the picture, if you wish to have JARDA CERNY them identified, listing them from left 152]. Woodvine Drive to right, ond double-check your names.

Houston 24, Texas Do not write on the back of the pictures, District 6 because to do so will leave an impression LEO KRAUSE, JR,. and will conic through in making the P. 0. Box 427 cut. Try to get action into your pictures.

Inez, Texas Make them as interesting as possible, District 'I but stay away from the "snapshot idea," JAROSLAV KLEPRLIK because those are good for the family 202 Schmeltzer Lane album, but are not suitable for publiSan Antonio 1, Texas cation." The Vestnik welcomes pieTelephone DI 4-1700

Addresses of Our District Organizers

Wednesday, February 20, 1963

District Youth Leaders' Addresses DISTRICT 1 Mrs. Rud. C. Matejka

Rt. 4, Box 504 Bryan, Texas DISTRICT 11 Mrs. Clara Hejl Route 4 Temple, Texas DISTRICT 111 Mrs. Wilma Nesuda Telico Road Ennis, Texas DISTRICT IV Mrs. Ed. Haisler Rt. 1 Seymour, Texas DISTRICT V Mrs. Maxine Sefcik 2301 Airline Drive Houston 9, Texas DISTRICT VI Mrs. Frank Brdecka Rt, 1, Box 150 Rosenberg, Texas DISTRICT VII Mrs. Marcella Kleprlik 202 Schmeltzer Lane San Antonio, Texas )O(

Newshriefs Wanda Sue Marek, 21/2-hour-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Ma.rek, Jr., died in Ren,ger Memorial Hospital, Hallettsville, on January 27th. The baby was born premature. * Adolf Pesek, 85, of the Komensky Community, died 25 January. Funeral services were held from St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Hallettsville. Burial was in Moulton..

Mrs. Alvina Barton Krizak, of the Oakland-Weimar area, died January 10 at the age of 78. Burial was in the Masonic Cemetery in Weimar.

Erwin Knesek, 21, of Corpus Christi, died January 22nd, of asphyxiation from gas fumes while he slept. Funeral services and burial were in Shiner.

• Mrs. Theresia ((Fetsch) Brossma.n, 78, died in the Rhineland Community, on January 20th. Burial was in the Rhineland Catholic Cemetery.

• Mrs. Vince Hutyra, 71, of West, died January 23rd at her home here. Services

Wednesday, February 20, 1963 , were from The Church of the Assumption, and burial was in the West Catholic Cemetery.

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Mrs. Mary Nors, 84, of West, died January 22nd, in West, Services were from the Church of the Assumption, and burial was in the West Catholic Cemetery.

• • Steve Kolacek, of Waco, died in a Wo o() hospital on January 23rd.

Mr. and Mrs. William Fojt of Shiner are happy over the birth of a baby boy, born Sunday, January 27th at the Wagner Memorial Hospital in Shiner.

John Iiercek, 84, of Yoakum, died at his home in Yoakum on January 19th.

He was born in Czechoslovakia, and was q retired carpenter. Burial was in Shiner.

• • Joe Sefcik, member of SPJST Lodge 68 of Nelsonville, died January 16th, in New Ulm. Burial was in the National Cemetery in Nelsonville. Mr. Sefcik came to this country from Zadverice, CSSR, in 1876.

• Joseph Stryk, 83, passed away suddenly at his residence in Engle. Services were held from the Flatonia Catholic Church, and burial was in the Praha Catholic Cemetery.

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• Mrs. Valentine (Anna Janie) Roznovsky died suddenly at her home in Moulton, January 21st. She was 69. Services and burial were conducted in Moulton.

• • Daniel Jalufka, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Jalufka of the ifysehrad Community, was seriously hurt about the face, when a valve blew out of an oil well where he was working at Bloomington. He was taken to a hospital for surgery.

• • Kent Sobotik, son of Mr. and Mrs, H. H. Sobotik, of Hallettsville, has been accepted by the Institute of European Studies, Chicago, for the 1963 spring semester at the University of Vienna, Austria.

The State Homemaker of Tomorrow award from her school was recently captured by Jo Ann Rainosek of Hallettsville. She is now elegible to compete statewide for the state title.

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on January 31st. Funeral services and burin: were held in Hallettsville.

John Havlik, 75, died in Veterans Center in Temple, on January 23rd. His home had been in Moulton. Mr. Havlik was a member of SPJST Lodge Culak No. 165. Interment was in the Moulton Catholic Cemetery under the auspices of the Moulton American Legion and VFW posts,

Mrs. John Safarik, 66, died at her home near Taylor, on February 4th.

Services and burial were conducted in Taylor.

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Walter Malec, head of the Malec Publishing Co. underwent major surgery in Renger Memorial Hospital in Hallettsville on February 6th, and is reportedly recovering satisfactorily.

• Edward Kalich, 69, died hi Schulenburg on January 27th. Funeral services Rev. Lawrence J. Saha of the Conand burial were conducted in the Cath- gregation of the Holy Cross, and native olic Church and Cemeter y in Schuten- of Houston, will be ordained in the burg. chapel of the International College of 4.

4) Holy Cross in Rome. Rev, Saha is the Fred Baca, of El Campo, recently re- son of Mr. and Mrs. James J. Saha in ceived the highest honor an adult can Houston. receive in Scouting — the Silver Beaver • • Award — for his life-long work in scoutAugust G. Cervenka, 62, died at the ing. The awards were presented at a Youens HoSpital in Weimar. He lived in huge banquet, where almost a thou- the Komensky Community. Burial was sand people were in attendance, includ- in the cemetery at Moravia. ing Astronaut John Glen. ♦ • • • Anton E. Kolos, 57, passed away FebMrs. Willie Balcar, 56, of El Campo, died at her home January 28th. Funeral ruary 5th, on his way home from the services and burial were from the Cath- doctor in Schulenburg. He was a native olic Church and in the Catholic Ceme- of Hallettsville, and lived on a farm near Shiner. Services and burial were tery in El Campo. conducted in Hallettsville.

• c • In West, Saturday, February 9th, Betty Robert Opella, a mid-term graduate Mashek became the bride of Bobby Ingram of Waco, and 'Patricia Novotny be- of Sam Houston State Teachers. College in Huntsville, has just completed his came the bride of Benjamin Marek. tour of student teaching, and is now • 4, Mike Benes, 46, died February 4 from ready to enter the teaching profession. injuries sustained in a severe electric He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest shock. Burial was in Shiner City Ceme- Opella of El Campo.

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John D. Kovar, 82, of the Plum Com4), • Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Baca of Flatonia, munity, died February 5th, at Fayette had a new baby girl, born January 30th Memorial Hospital in La Grange. Burial at the Wagner Memorial Hosnitai in was at the Catholic Church at Plum.

• • Shiner.

Jesse A. Coufal, 29, native of Fayette• • Mrs. John Bartosh, 53, passed away at ville, has been appointed director of the Fayette Memorial Hospital on February Physical Therapy Department at St. 1st. Mrs. Bartosh was from Ammans- Mary's Infirmary in Galveston, acvine. Funeral services and burial were cording to a recent announcement. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Coufal, in La Grange.

Sr., of Fayetteville.

9 • • 4) Mrs. M. H. Zapalae, 58, passed away Funeral services were held on Febin a Waco hospital on January 29th. ruary 7th for John Susen, 83, of SmithBurial was in Waco. vile. Burial was in the cemetery in e • Kovar.

• 'Mrs. Anton ,Su.mbera, 80, died in the Funeral services were held for Joe F. Youens HoSpital in Weimar, February in La 3rd. Funeral services and burial were Krenek, 72, on February 10th, Grange. Mr. Krenek was a retired busiconducted in Schulenburg. nessman. Burial was in La Grange.

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Mr, and Mrs. Frank Lesikar of Cypress Mrs. Marie Bezdek, 88, died in a Waco Mrs. Emile Mikulenka, 78, died in are the proud parents of a new baby boy hospital on February 4th. Funeral servRenger Memorial Hospital, Hallettsville, born January 26th in TombalL flees and burial were in West.

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Mrs. Margaret Muhl Zapalac, of the Hallsburg Community, died Sunday, February 3rd, in a Waco hospital. Funeral services and burial were held in Waco.

• • Mr. Frank Sijansky, 87, of Corpus Christi, died January 31st. Burial was in the CC Memorial Cemetery. Brother Sijansky was a member of Anton Cermak Lodge No. 56 in Corpus Christi.

• • Mr. John Holub, 87, of the Elk Community, passed away January 13th. He was a member of Lodge Nove Kvety in Elk (No. 35), and served as secretary of that lodge for 50 years. Funeral services were held in Elk, and burial was in Waco Holy Cross Cemetery.

• • Funeral services were held Wednesday January 30th, for Mr. Edward Posival Sr., who died January 28th in St. Edwards Hospital in Cameron, after an extended illness. He was 78. Funeral services were held in Buckholts, and burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery in Cameron. Bro. Posival was a member of Lodge Svornost Jihu, No. 5 in Buckholts.

• • Mr. Frank Schovajsa died in a Bellville hospital on 13 January at the age of 82, after an extended illness. Funeral services were conducted in Nelsonville.

Brother Schovajsa was a member of Lodge Hvezda Miru 33 in Bleiblerville.

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Mr. Thomas Vitek died 27 January at the age of 83. He was buried in Seaton.

Brother Vitek was a member of Lodge .:wzovy Dvur 89 in Rosebud.

• • Emil J. Bartos, 50, well-known orchestra leader, died February 5th at the Frank Wagner Memorial Hospital in Shiner. Death was attributed to pneumonia and complications. Mr. Bartos was a long-time resident of Moulton. Services were from St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Moulton, and interment was in the Moulton Catholic Cemetery. Mr. Bartos headed a 7-piece band, famous throughout the state. Their last engagement was at the Bill Mraz Hall in Houston January 26th. )0 ) Ten of our states still spend less than $200 per pupil per year on all education costs — yet we wonder why we have so few scientists. )0 )

LETTERS LODGE NO. 4, HALLETTSVILLE

Dear Readers, Our first social for this year was held Sunday, February 10th. It was well attended. First, the adult and then the youth meeting was held.

We all were sorry o hear that one of our old members, Mr. Leon Kahanek, is in a Houston hospital. We all wish him a speedy recovery. We were glad to see our good member, Mr. Alfonse Holly, back with us. He underwent an operation in the Veterans Hospital in Houston last month.

After the meeting we had a friendly get-together; some played dominoes and some listened to the music, furnished by Hilmer and Alex Galetka and John Mascheck. A delicious lunch was served by the good ladies and after lunch the names were drawn for the prizes. The following won the birthday cakes: January — Anthony Grones February — Mr. F. K. Bucek March — Mrs. Lester Holly April — Mrs. Jim. Kutach May — Helan Zabransky June — Leon Grones The groceries were won by Mrs. Robert Kolklenburg and Mrs. Jim Kutach. The door prize winners were Helen Zabransky and Mrs. Annie Galetka.

Our next meeting will be held on March 10th. We are hoping to see all of you then. The youth club decided to give door prizes at every meeting. We would like to see more of the young members attend our meeting and join the Youth Club. We need you all. See ycu March 10th!

Anthony Groves, Reporter — )0 ) LODGE NO. 54, WEST

Dear Sisters and Brothers, Our last monthly meeting was held Sunday, Feb. 10th, and I am sorry to say that the attendance was small, but just the same the meeting was an interesting one.

The meeting opened with the saying of the Pledge of Allegiance, led by Kathy Marek, Joyce Mikeska and Caroline Cepak. All are Youth Club members.

A moment of silence was held in Cairo, (Egypt, New York, and Illinois), take their names from the Egyptian memory of Sister Caroline Rydel who word for the planet Mars, which was died Jan. 17th. She was a member of visible when Cairo, Egypt, was founded. cur Lodge for many years.

Wednesday, February 20, 1963 The minutes of our previous meeting were read and approved as read. The financial report was given and various letters that were received were read.

We have one new member who joined our Lodge, namely, Daniel Matus, Sr., and have three transfers from the Cottonwood Lodge to our Lodge; also Jour juveniles. We are glad to have all of you in our Lodge and hope to see you come to the meetings, held on the first Sunday of each month.

On the sick list we have four members who were named in the meeting. They are: Sisters Lena Motis, who is sick at her home; Mrs. Hugo Freund, who is Ili, in a Waco Hospital; and Mrs. Henry iVlatus who underwent surgery, but is now recuperating at her home, and Brother Joe Tobola who is also sick. To all these members Get Well cards were signed and sent. We wish all of you a speedy recovery.

The discussion as to what wages will be paid to toe officers was left for our next meeting in March.

Several dances are booked: the Longhorn Dance on Feb. 23, the CYO Dance on I eb. 24, then later several weddings are coming up, and Vrazel's Band will play on the 4th of July.

Youth Leader, Sister Mikeska, introduced Shirley Nemec, who was chosen as Duchess of Lodge No. 54 for the District Three Meeting, which will be held in Fort Worth, March 24th, She introduced Judie Barton, who was selected as the Queen of Hearts of Youth Club, The Property Committee brought up a sketch of what repairs they will want to have done to improve the inside of our Hall. They will change the bar area and put up a partition to divide the bar from the dance floor; also enlarge the ladies' lounge; close up the windows and get a new air conditioning system. All these things were discussed but left open for further discussion at our next meeting in March.

The Youth ,gave a nice Valentine program, consisting of a Poem recited by Kathy Ma..ek; Jane Mikeska and Joyce Mikeska each sang beautifally; Rose Marek and Charlene Voleik recited a poem; Shirley Nemec and Dolores Cepak sang a nice song; Johnny Kaluza finished the program by playing severa: nice numbers on his accordion.

After the meeting was adjourned, fine Valentine Party was held. The main table was beautifully decorated with a white table cloth with red Valentine hearts. Food consisted of hot dogs and lots of various kinds of fine pastry, serv-

Wednesday, February 20, 1963 ed with punch and coffee.

Our next nieetina will be held on March 3rd.

Fraternally, Mrs. Bennie Soukup) Reporter 0( NEWS FROM LODGE _POKROK :HOUSTON NO. 88 Dear Brothers and Sisters: The Board of Trustees, in their special meeting of February 7, 1963, accepted the architect's sketch and instructed him to prepare detailed drawings and specifications for the new lodge building, which will take approximately sixty days, so they can be let out for bids.

Some weekend whenever weather will permit we will call on our members to form clean-up parties and help with cleaning up, so bring your shovel, ax, hoe or rotary lawn-mower and help clear off the underbrush on our new property.

VESTNtK- WEST, TEXAS Many thanks to all the members for the wonderful donations to this fund, and I also want to thank the many, many members who responded with whatever loans or pledges they could to help their lodge.

Fraternally yours, F. J. Olexa, Chairman, Building Fund ) DISTRICT III MEETING Dear Brothers and Sisters: The SPJST District III Meeting will be acid at Lodge No. 154 in Fort Worth on Sunday, March 24, 1963. We would like to see each Lodge in our District represented, and also would like to urge all our delegates during the last Convention to attend this District meeting.

Many important and interesting discussions are held and plans made during these meetings, and, in addition, we know you will enjoy the fraternal fellowship. So make your plans to attend.

The following is an outline of the activities for Sunday, March 24th:

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Cash as well as certificate loans con- 10:00 a.m. - Meeting called to order by Brother President E. G. Mazanec, tinue to come in from our members so that we have a little over one-half of Presentation of colors. the stipulated amount already subscribed. The Board of Trustees required Welcome by President of Lodge 154. than I acknowledge all donations along Roll 'call of officers. with the amount donated to the Memorial Fund and they are as follows: Introduction of Supreme Lodge A. L. Hilsher $ 516.50 Officers and Visitors.

T. S. Kostom 150.00 General Business Oscar and Tillie Helmcamp 35.00 E. J. Kadlecek 25.00 12:30 Noon - Adjourn for Lunch.

Stephen S. Kelly 18.50 Ruby Cernosek 16.50 2:00 p.m. - Entertainment.

Alvin M: Horcica 16.50 Rosie Ann Horcica 16.50 2:30 p.m. - General Business.

Lillian Kruse 16.50 Election of Officers Johnnie Sontag 16.50 Installation of Officers.

Willie J. Vornsan,d 16.50 Evelyn Vornsand 16.50 Placement of next District Meeting.

Ernest J. Hanka 18.00 Emil Vala Adjournment.

16.50 Jarda A. Cerny 16.50 John A. Cerny 16.50 Do remember the date - Sunday, John Kahanek Jr. 16.50 March 24, 1963, at Fort Worth Lodge Louis Hanua 16.50 No. 154. We hope you will make every Albert J. Bristik 16.50 effort to attend. raternally yours, J. J. Ermis 16.50 E. G. Mazanec, President Naomi Kostom 30.0C SPJST District III Slavonic Mutual Fire Ins. By: Emma Ceska, Secty.

Association, Chapter No. 1 50.00 )0( Mrs. Mary Johnson 100.00 Frank and Frances Olexa 116.50 LODGE NO, 35, ELK W. E. Crozier 25.00 Dear Members and Friends: A. B. Gregory 10.00 Elk Lodge held its regular meetings on Mrs. John Sostak 10.00 Feb. 10, 1963, at 2:30 p.m.

Jan Jurcak 5.00 Joe Fusig 3.00 The meeting was called to order by Jarosla.v Pokorny 3.00,Brother President Zalman. Two Youth Total $1,335.00 Club members, Janie Pavelka and Kathy

19, Zalrna.n, led the Pledge of Allegiance.

New member recognized and accepted was Franklin Delano Palla, Jr. Last month we had two new members recognized and accepted, but this writer didn't receive the names due to absence.

These two members were Stella Ellene Beralek and Donald Edward Beralek.

Brother Secretary Pavelka read the minutes of the last meeting. They were accepted and approved.

Correspondence received was from District III Organizer, Arnold Vrla, who congratulated Organizer Edwin Holub of Lodge No. 35 for being a winner for three monts in a row during the sales contest. His award will be given him at the District III Organizers' Banquet, which will be held February 24th at the Ennis Lodge.

The committeemen gave various reports.

There was no trustee meeting on the usual date, Feb. 3. Brother Woods, chairman, asked for a ,trustees' meeting following the regular meeting. He stated the possibility of changing the meeting date so that we can have more attendance as far as the 'Trustee meetings are concerned.

Brother Zalman suggested that the nursery needs to be finished and a cooling system be acquired for the kitchen before summer. Too, he suggested a recommendation from the members to have a "clean-up date" as soon as possible, concerning the fire hazard beneath the building.

Under new business a discussion was held concerning the future Queen's Contest. Youth Leader, Norma Pavelka, read correspondence from the Supreme Lodge concerning the contest and urged more members to be present at the next meeting so a queen, duchess, and escort can be chosen A discussion from a member was held concerning a Resolution of Sympathy Committee. Volunteers are: Sisters Martha Miadenka, Lydia Vicha, and Norma Pavelka.

Visitors were: Brothers Charlie Gajdica, Ernest Noss, and Nick Morris, editor.

Brother Morris arrived during the meeting, since he became lost trying to find Elk, but we were all happy to have him with us. A question-and-answer session was held w i th Brother Morris concerning, the Vestnik, which was very 1-iterestlrig and we hope helpful to Brother Morris. A standing invitation was extended to our Editor to come and visit us at any time and as often as possible. Everyone received a joyous

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smile from little Nicholas Morris, son of CLASS W: Whole Life, Paid-Up at age 85 Mr. and Mrs. MOrris. We do hope that full benefit at age J next time Mrs. Morris will be able to CLASS PR: Perferred Whole Life, kbe come and visit us as well. ginning at age 5) A motion was made and seconded that CLASS C: Twenty Payment Life, Iul we adjourn. oenefit at age 1 Fraternally yours, CLASS D: Fifteen Payment Life, fu: Sisters Norma Pavelka, oeneiit at age I Reporter CLASS E: Ten Payment Life, full benefit P.S. Attention Trustees! The monthly at age .1 meetings from now on will be held at CLASS F: Fifteen Payment Endowment 1:30 p.m. before each regular "lodge full benefit at a ge 1 meeting. This was brought to this writ- CLASS 11: Twenty Payment Endowinetr er's attention by tile chairman of the full benefit at age 1 Beard of Trustees, Brother Vernon :,`LfisS H: Endowment at age 65, fu, Woods. He urges all the trustees to atbenefit at a ge 1 :LASS 1: Twenty Payment Endowment tend. )O ) at age 60. full benefit at age 1 LASS JE: Endowment at age 18, tut benefit at age I CLASS K: Ordinary Life, Paid-up w age 65, full hener i.s at age 1,AsS L Double indemnit y Insuranc, CLASS M: Retirement at age so. fu, benefit at a ge 1.

D AYOR INS r„JRANC: This Order offer the Favor of premiums on a child' certificate the benefit of Favor In surance. which providee that 13 rase of fetal disability or death o' the Payor, the premiums will automatically be paid.

CLASS W: Whole Life, Paid-Up at age )O) 85 CORRECTION: CLASS PR: Preferred Whole Life In last week's issue in the "Excerpts CLASS C: Twenty Payment Life from Minutes . . of the Supreme CLASS D: Fil,',een Payment Life Lodge," page 26, paragraph 3, the senGLASS E: Ten Payment Life CLASS F. Fi fteen Payment Endowment tence should read: "The plan recomCLASS 0: Twenty Payment Endowment mended by the Insurance Committee was adopted." — Ed. CLASS H: Endorsement at age 65 )O) CLASS J: Twenty Payment Endowment at age 60 JNO, P TRLICA IS RETIRED CLASS K: Ordinary Life, Paid-Up at ER BUT ONLY FROM PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS L: Double Indemnity Insurance Jno. P. Trlica of Granger, a small CLASS M: ,Retiti:rnent at age 65 • man whose eyes twinkle as though he CLASS MC: Twenty Year Decreasing ',-vows a secret, retired a few years age.

Term Mortgage Plan a professional photOgrapher aftel CLASS MX: Ten Year Decreasing Term -eine: in the business for 55 years.

Mortgage Plan "I'd just been in the darkroom too CLASS ML: Twenty-five Year Decreas on r ," he says with a smile. ing Term Mortgage Plan fellow who has admittedly CLASS MD: Thirty Year Decreasing ulost of his life in the darkroom.

Term Mortgage Plan Trlica can shed a lot of light on CLASS 5'1': Five Year Term, Renewable any different subjects which interesl.

-, and Convertable -Um, such things as fraternal orders, inCLASS NT: Ten Year Term. Renewable u.rance and weather statistics. just tc and Convertable CLASS 20T: Ten Year Term, Convert .arite a few. ,h1 p only.

Weather-wise, Mr. Trlica is the officio.'

CLASS T-65: Class Term to age 65 nan in the know as far- as rainfall is concerned around Granger, For the past irMEN'r several years he has carefully tabulated 1.1LASS .7T: Term Insurance at 16 year all measurable moisture and has supeft age which may be converted in ulied the information monthly to the to any nth'e Class of insurance be Granger News. He also keeps a . record fore attaining age M. book in order to make comparisons from

Types of Cxtificates Offered by Our SPJS1

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month to month and year to year.

"I just like keeping up with the weather," Mr. Trlica gives as his explanation for gathering the statistics. And this is not an odd explanation for a man echo seems to get a kick out of almost everything.

One thing that the Grangerite has dways especially enjoyed and taken an nterest in is fraternal lodges and their insurance programs. In fact his lifetime interest in these lodges has now become even more than an interest — it is his occupation. He is the agent for several If the organizations. Lodges which Mr. Trlica represents include: The Mutual Aid Society of the Unity of the Brethren, of which he was a charter member when the company was organized in 1905 and which he has served as treasurer for a number of years; the SPJST (Komensky Lodge, Granger) of which he is local treasurer and has a membership which extends over the past 60 years; and the alavonic Mutual Eire Insurance Assoj,ation, which he has served as state treasurer for 32 years.

Mr. Trlica's office — maintained in the western half of downtown Granger — reflects both his present and former ccupation. Lining the walls are handcmely framed photographs, some of nembers of his family and others are oictures he took when he was a proessional photographer. Blending perfectly with the "Rogues Gallery" are framed certificates from fraternal orders, and there is a large desk for his insurance, lodgework.

Highly treasured among the photographs is one Mr. Trlica DID NOT take. it shows him, his wife, their four sons, and daughter and their families, 25 in

Wednesday, February 20, 1963 all. It was taken last July at a family reunion.

Mr. Trlica, who has lived in Granger for the past 02 years, came there from Hallettsville where he was born, and he brought with him one definite left over from his youth. It is the manner in which, he spells his first name, "John."

He always uses the old fashioned abbreviation, "Jno.," which he explains this way:

V2STNIK — WEST, TEXAS

SPJST Bulletin Board LODGE NO. 67, SCHULENBURG

Dear BrOthers and Sisters: This is a reminder that our lodge will hold its regular meeting on April 3rd, at 2 p.m. If you happen to be having company, bring them with you. Visitors are always welcome. There will be refreshments after the meeting.

Ray Krenek, President "When I was growing up, my uncle Frank Holub, Secretary was also named John Trlica I used ) 0 C. the abbreviation to distinguish myself SPECIAL NOTICE TO DALLAS AREA from him."

LODGES Though he has long since outgrown the need for a distinguishing mark The 1963 Czech Festival Committee such as "Jno.," he keeps it because he's will hold its first meeting of the yeas used to it — all of his official papers on Monday, February 25, 1963, at 7:30 plus the sign above- his office door are p.m., Sokol Athletic Center, Dallas. You marked with the abbreviation, which is will recall that this date was announced in our letter to the Vestnik in the issue almost his trademark, of 7 November 1962.

Would the ()ranger man like to go back to his former profession of pho- The main purpose of the first meeting is to elect your new chairman and thographer?

-"Not on your life." Though he en- other officers for this year. I trust that joyed taking myriad pictures of brides, all area lodge presidents have either anniversaries, reunions, etc., he likes it appointed or had elected their lodge's better outside the darkroom where he representatives to serve on this year's can keep up his interest in just about committee. Each lodge should have two representatives and two alternates. In everything under the sun.

—The Granger News order to make sure that all organizations are represented at this first meet• • ing,,I am taking this means to ask last Granger, Texas, Feb. 7, 1963 year's secretary, Miss Frances Jurcik, Mill bratri Hl. idednici; to contact each of the concerned presidents, a-nd ascertain whether two repZitra 8. Unora 1963 bude tomu 60 let co jsem elenem radii Koniensky eislo resentatives have been appointed.

20 SPJST. MinulY mesic za jeonoho deSt'oveho dale prijela z Georgetown nejaka pain a: pravila, 2e je poslana od Williamson County Sun Publishing Company, abych ji dal tuto story — dosud je to pro mne puzzle prole prave jen promne prijela — a ne ku nekornu jinernu mffZete ten clipping zaptijeiti Temple Telegram -- SrdeenY pozdrav na Vas v fdadovne. VaS Jno P. Trlica (Blahopkejeme a pi. ejem Vam mnoho zdaru a ,' 'testi. — Red). )0 )

The best I can recall, the following ace the presidents Sister Jurcik should contact: Will Nesuda (SVPS); Bernard Patak (WB1eA); Sid Pokladnik (SPJST, Lodge 84); Arnold Vrla (SPJST. Lodge 130); Ernest Janecka (CSA); Mrs. Marie Prevratil (Czech Circle); Jody Pokladnik (Sokol); Charlie Adamcik (KJT); Marie Michalski (KJZT). If there are any errors in these names, they can refer you to the proper person. There are a total of nine organizations represented, so I don't believe I've omitted anyme. (Include Aug. Hlavenka,. (RVOS).

I plan to come to Dallas to open the During the average year, Americans meeting, and preside until a new chairbuy four million or more of each of these man has been elected. I hope our repappliances: washers, refrigerators, wa- resentation is 100 per cent, and I look ter heaters and kitchen ranges; three forward to seeing all our friends. Let's million or more of air conditioners; get a good start, and make this year's clothes dryers, and vacuum cleanen.

Czech FLvtival the best EVER! )0 Nick A. Morris, Chmrc. ,, ;-:-,ech-Americari Festival, 1962 The level of the streets of Damascus )0) ----One of the oldest cities on earth, has risen 30 feet since Biblical times, so ofter 'Inc dean of many ancient peoples have they been destroyed and rebuilt on were buried lying on their side, in the the old ruins. normal sleeping position.

21 SCHEDULE OF SPRING DISTRICT MEETINGS DISTRICT I

To be held at Lodge Bedrich Smetana, No. 39, Bryan, Texas; date to be announced later.

DISTRICT II

To be held 31 March 1963, at Lodge No. 29, Praha, in Taylor.

DISTRICT III

To be held 24 March 1963, at Lodge No. 154, in Fort Worth.

DISTRICT IV

Sometime this fall DISTRICT V

To be held 21 April 1963. Place and time to be announced.

DISTRICT VI

To be held 28 April 1963, at Lodge No. 63, Pokrok Sweet Home, in Firemen's Hall, formerly the SPJST Hall. The meeting will convene at 1 p.m.

DISTRICT VII

To be held on April 21, 1963, at Lodge Pokrok No. 88, Houston, Texas. The meeting will convene at 10.00 a.m. )O) SAFE CAR

A safe car is equally as important as safe-driving methods, according to safety specialists. Motorists should have cars thoroughly checked periodically to make certain they are in reliable operating 1;ondition.. System and parts that must be in good condition to assure safety and comfort of driving include brakes (shoes, bands, hydraulic system and adjustment); electrical system; headlights, directional signals; horn; windshield wipers; heater and defroster; steering assembly; wheel alignment; tires, etc. )0 ) If elephants could be bought for a lunar dowri, and a dollar a month, it would be interesting to see how many there would be in backyards.

• • Uncertainty is still one of life's surest certainties.

Junior will Stop worrying about wnaZ do when he grows up --- better go see what he is up to now!

Blessed are the poor, for they are not compelled to pronounce hors d'oeuvres.

• • Don't forget that YOU, are a part of the people who can be fooled some of the time.

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LODGE 107, FLORESVILLE Dear Readers, Our Youth Club had its monthly meeting on February 2nd.

At this meeting we elected officers.

They are as follows: President: Carol Bench Vice-President: Kenneth -Pelech Secretary: Judy Polasek Treasurer: Janice Baumann Reporter: Shirley lima, We would like to thank last year's officers. They did a fine job. After attending to old business the meeting was adjourned by our new president, Carol Bench.

After the meeting everyone enjoyed themselves by playing games. The games played were volleyball and Bunco. The prizes won in Bunco were a gold pin, won by Mrs. Jerry Polasek; a set of silver cuff links, won by Richard Janek, and a ball point pen won by Carol Bench. Everyone had fun and I am sure looking forward to our next meeting.

Reporter, Shirley Hrna )0 ) LODGE NO. 54, WEST Dear Members and Readers, Our Youth Club held its second meeting on February 10,' 1963. We discussed, and chose our duchess for 1963, who is Shirley Nemec. The door prize was won

by Dolores Cepak.

The birthdays for this month are: Rose Marek, Helen Cejak, Estle Merck.

We all want to thank Mr, Popp for his kind donation to our Youth Club.

After the adult meeting we had small program and a Valentine Party.

For refreshments we had, cakes, cookies and candies and a bi g bowl of punch.

After all had eaten, we played a game in which there were three winners: Judy Barton, Darlene Nemec, Joyce Mikeska.

Then we had some accordion music by John Kaluza, which I am sure ever y -onejyd.Thentparyde.W want to thank those who made this party possible.

We also chose our queen of . who was Judy Barton, ment committee: Rose Ma. Volcik, Dolores Cepak, Billy Kral, and Jimmy Nemec.

God bless each and every one of you Dolores Cepak, President, Youth Club

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election of officers for 1963. The follOwing are the results: President: Bobby Podhrasky Vice-President: Larry Janousek Secretary: Kathy Vrla Treasurer: Cindy Sebetka Reporter: Elaine' Tupy After the meeting the Youth Club served a covered dish supper and plan a goulash supper next month.

Your reporter, Elaine Tupy )0 ) LODGE NO. 54, WEST Dear Members: Our meeting was held Sunday, Feb, 10 at 2 p.m.

We said the Pledge to the Flag and sang "America."

Our new business was to elect a duchess and queen. Our duchess is Shirley Nemec, for 1963, but we didn't choose our queen.

The birthdays this month were: Sisters Estelle Marek, Helen Cepak, Judy Barton, and my sister, Rose Marie Marek.

The door prize was won by Dolores Cepak.

Our lovely Queen of Hearts is Judy Barton.

We all exchanged our lovely Valentines from a beautifully decorated Valentine box made by Sister Estelle Marek. We played some heart games and then had a lovely party, which turned out best of all.

Our table was decorated with a white table cloth and nice red Valentines all over, with some delicious pastries, Valentine cakes, hot dogs, all sorts of cookies and punch.

Thanks to everyone who brought food and helped make our party a success.

Oh yes, it is snowing here DOW. I hope all you members enjoy the snow.

LODGE NO. 130 DALLAS See you at the next meeting.

Dear Readers, Fraternally yours At our February meeting, 20 members Kathy Jane Marek of the Youth Club and 7 adults were )O) present. , After the call to order the Pledge of Allegiance was said. The .q ,ODGE NO. 130, DALLAS "Point S,ystem" was discussed and the Bear Headers, blue books were handed out. Everyone As the outgoing president of 1962, seemed to be very excited about it. and in behalf of the SPJST Lodge Jaro It was decided that after our next No. 130 Youth Club, I would like to exmeeting we would go ice skating. We press our thanks to our past youth leadarc also trylng I) arrange an Easter er, Sister Martha Vrla. It was through It it is aioproved her efforts that our Youth Club started.

11 '••. l,eld y afternoon, April We do appreciate the time and effort ore on that later, It she devoted to us. that Sister Valcik is During 1962 we went on swimming, ste ctin , Lod >:e 130 Children's Sing- skating and bowling parties, plus an alling Gro •.,, A Valentine party and lunch day outing at "Six Flags Over Texas." are also being planned for them.

We sponsored covered dish suppers aftThe last item on the agenda was the er the regular lodge meetings, which

LODGE NO, 54, WEST Dear Readers: The meeting was called to order at 2:20 p.m. by our President, Dolores Cepak. Then our secretary,. Rose Marie Marek, , read the minutes of our last meeting. There was no old business. Our new business was to elect our queen and duchess. Nominations for duchess were: Kathy 'Merck, Rose Marie Merck, Joyce Mikeska, Shirley Nemec, and Dolores Cepak. Shirley Nemec will be our duchess for 1963, but we still don't know who our queen will be.

The birthdays this month are: Sisters: Estelle Merck, Helen Cepak, Judy Barton, and Rose Marie Marek. We all wished and sang them a Happy Birthday.

The door prize was won by Dolores Cep-ake We elected a group for our entertainment committee. They are: Jimmy Nemec, Billy Kral, Charlene Volcik, Rose Marie Marek, and Dolores Cepak.

The Queen of Hearts is Judy Barton.

The meeting was adjourned at 2:45 p.m.

We had a short program and Johnny Kaluza played some nice numbers on his accordion. Thanks, Johnny, and come ec us a,?•ain.

We also had a Valentine party with all sorts of pastries, nice Valentine cakes, hot dogs, punch, and all sorts of cookies.

It was all delicious. I would like to thank everyone who helped with the party.

Mrs, Estelle Marek made our Valentine box and Frankye Mikeska brought all sorts of Valentines for our decorations.

I would like to thank all our sisters who brought pastries and who helped in the kitchen.

Rose Marie Marek, Secty., Lodge 54 Youth Club )

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proved to be very successful. We also LODGE NO, 6, COTTONWOOD had bake sales.

In September, we had a Queen's Coro- Dear Readers: nation Ball and Elaine Tupy was crown- These pictm es were taken at our last ed our queen. This was a beautiful oc- meeting. One is a. picture of our Youth casion with the queen, princesses, duchesses and all their escorts dressed in their finest!

I want to congrattilate our newlyelected president, Bobby "Pod" Podhrasky, and wish him the same cooperation and success that I enjoyed as president last year.

We all are looking , forward to an exciting 1963.

Sincerely, Kathy Vrla ) O( LODGE NO 25, ENNIF Dear Youth Readers, Our Youth Club of Lodge No. 25, met for the first time in 1963 on January 24.

We planned a teenage record dance that was held February 3, The attendance was nice and everyone had a good time.

Another meeting was held on February 10. The new officers were elected as follows: President: David Nesuda Vice President: Roger Nesuda Secretary: Sharon Sheliga Club President, Jo7 . nnie Krizan, preTreasurer: George Gurecky senting Sister Emilie Vochoska, a gift of Reporter: Patricia Trojacek.

Since everyone had such a grand time white plastic flannel-backed table cloth, at our teenage record dance, we planned as a toker of the club's a ppreciation for birthday cake each month. another on March 9, from 7:30 to 11:00 baking es p.m. with a small, charge of 25e. We would like to see all our teenagers come out and bring a friend.

The Youth Club also planned to have a Bake Sale on March 2. On this day we will ask the mothers of the youth to make some sort of pastry. The proceeds from the sale will be used for further activities.

The next meeting of our club will be held on March 3 at 7:30 p.m. We would like all the young members and friends I to be present. We also wish to see some of our small children and their parents at the meeting because we are planning more activities that will be lots of fun for both you and inc.

Fraternally yours Patricia Trojacek )0 ) — The Mississippi River carries some 2,000 gallons of water into the Gulf of Mexico each day for each American. )O)— Procrastination is said to be the thief of time — but so are lots of other big words.

23 on the cake and having his or her picture taken. In February, this distinction fell to James Hromadka, pictured with Sister Emilie Vochoska. ) 0( LODGE NO. 35, ELK cling of February 10, 1963. e meeting was called to order by Vice-President, Betty Pavelka. The secretary read the minutes of the last meeting and the Vice President approved them as read. No changes were made.

Dues were then collected by the Secretary.

The Vice President asked if there was any old business that needed to be discussed. New business was then taken up.

We would like all of the members to attend the meetings and participate in the activities as much as possible.

We need more participation than just, a few peaple.

Lynda Pavelka, Reporter )0' LODGE, JAR() NO. 130, DALLAS Dear Readers, My name is Teresa Vrla. I am eleven years old and in the fifth grade at Saint Thomas Aquinas School. I am• a member of SPJST Lodge No. 130 in Dallas . This is my first letter to the Vestnik. My parents are Mr. and Mrs. Stanley E. Vrla. My grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. Vrla, also of Lodge No. 130, and Mr. arid Mrs. Harry Q. Brown of Lodge No. 84.

We have a new baby in our family.

His name is John Edward Vr1a. We was born at 6:05 p.m. New Year's Eve. He He weighed seven lbs., and fifteen czs. have two other brothers; Kenneth, ten, and Steve, seven.

At our last Youth Club meeting we went bowling. We talked about going ce-skating next time. When we came back from bowling we served casseroles, sandwiches dessert and coffee for the mother lodge. °

For the summer we are planning to go swimming and picnicking. My favorite activity is going on hayrides. When we do go on hayrides we usually have wiener roasts.

Last year I was a Duchess in the Queen's Cdronation held by our lodge. I also represented our lodge at the Youth Activity Day, talent division, in Ennis. played my accordion. I was also a duchess at the coronation that night. I enjoy going to the Youth Club meetings and invite other members to come on Whoever has a birth d77 fail on a day out and join the fun. nearest to the date of a meeting has Sincerely yours, the honor of blowing out the candles Teresa Vrla

24 LODGE STEFANIK, NO 142 Dear Readers, On March 3, 1963, Lodge Stefanik No. 142, Youth Club will hold its monthly meeting at 4:30 p.m. At this meeting we will select representatives from our . lodge for the Princess and Duchess Ball of Dictrict V. Also, plans for a Youth Club are being made.

I hope to have my letters in the Vestnik more often. Since school is nearing an end, I will have the whole summer to correspond with you readers More often about Lodge 142 news.

At our last meeting, we held a cake walk. Everyone had a good time. One family in particular was very lucky.

That was the Alvin Melnar family, winning, five cakes. Our Youth Directors Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cieslewitz won two cakes. All in all, everyone had a good tine, even though some people didn't win cakes.

On February 9, 1963, Lodge Stefanik had a dance with music by the "Melody Polka Boys." Everyone who came out had a joyous and dance-filled evening.

Don't forget the Youth Club meeting Sunday, March 3. Come out in your Western clothes because it's "Go Texan."

Bring a guest and tell him to "Go Texan." See all you buckaroos and rodeo stars March 3. Until then, I remain, Respectfully yours, Nona Cieslewitz, ("Texas Lil") President )O)

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sure to come and get in on the activities, relatives living in Texas during the Betty Wavra, 1770's.

Reporter Their house was built near a wonder)0 ) fully cool spring, over which they had LODGE NO. 54, WEST constructed a small building. A boardOur Youth Club held its meeting on walk inside the springhouse enabled Sunday, February 10, 1963. The meeting them to lower jugs of milk into the was called to order by our president, heart of the spring. While the menfolk Dolores Cepak. were working in the fields, the woman's The Pledge of Allegiance was recited task took her to the spring several times by all the members. a day.

The new business was to elect a One day as the woman stooped over duchess for this year. We voted and the spring in the little building, a shadShirley Nemec was elected. ow suddenly fell across her. The woSince it was our Valentine Party we man had heard no trace chains or other drew names for Queen of Hearts for our sounds announcing the return of the party to lead us in our games. The men. So she silently prayed a moment lucky girl was Judy Barton. She was before she raised up to turn around. A tall Indian stood in the door watching crowned by Raymond Barton, Jr. The birthdays for the month of Feb- her intently, while several others crowdruary were Rose Marie Marek, Judy Bar- ed outside. ton, and Youth Leaders, Mrs. Estelle The woman and Indian stared into each other's faces for a full minute, Marek and Mrs. Helen Cepak.

The door prize was won by Dolores both undecided. Then the woman took down the dipper that always hung Cepak.

Our Youth Leader appointed a enter- on the wall, filled it with cool milk, and tainment committee for this year. They offered it to the Indian. He accepted it are: Billy Kral, Jimmy Nemec, Rose and drank deeply before passing it on Marek, Dolores Cepak, and Charlene to the next.

The dipper was filled again and again Volcik.

After the adult meeting the Youth until each had drunk his fill. The woClub presented a short program. Poems man took a hesitant step towards the were recited by Kathy Marek, Rose Mar- door and the Indians parted to let her ek, and Charlene Volcik. Songs were pre- pass. She led them to the house where sented by Jane Mikeska, Joyce Mikeska, She gave them what food she had preShirley Nemec, and Dolores Cepak. Four pared. They ate in silence and rode selections were played by Johnny Kalusa. away.

Refreshments were served. The table As soon as they were out of sight, she LODGE NO. 88, HOUSTON was decorated with red hearts with two threw a white pillow up on the roof — heart-shaped cakes in the middle. There the signal the men watched for as a Dear Readers, were other kinds of foods, with punch sign of trouble. Hastily, they unhitched The Youth Club had its monthly meet- and coffee. their hourses and galloped hame to hear ing and it was very well attended. We Then we distributed Valentines. I got the shaken woman's story. saw some new faces — visitors and one some that I didn't expect. I thank evA guard was left at the house for a new member. The new member is Mich- eryone for the Valentines. while, but the danger seemed to be over ael Rioland who attends Saint Thomas Our next meeting will be the 3rd of and the whole thing was forgotten.

High School. Welcome to the club and i March, so don't forget to come.

Months later, as the family was having hope that you have as much fun as its meal one Sunday, they heard a disYour reporter, we have had. Here at Lodge 88 we are turbance, outside. It was the same band Charlene Volcik very lucky to have Mr. Stephen Valcik. of Indians, and this time they came 1 0( Mr. Valcik is here to teach Czech to the bearing gifts of wild fowl and venison.

COOL MILK members and others'who want to learn.

What was later to become a warm Mr. Valcik is also known for his teachfriendship had started with a dipper of (A Short Story) ing of Russian to students and parents cool milk.

By Jack Freeman at Spring Branch Senior High.

— Texas Parade Most writers have pictured the Ameri)O) We had our big Valentine Dance last can Indians as total barbarians, asso"I'll bet you think twice before you Saturday, and one of our Youth Club ciating them with- nothing but mas- leave your wife alone for the evening?" members was crowned Queen of Hearts. sacres, cowardly burnings and blind "You're absolutely right. — First I Congratulations to the lucky girl. hatred for the white man. There- doubt- have to think up an excuse to get out I would also like to say that we are less is some truth in the charges, but cf the house. And then I have to come planning a big social this month. We are too much "color" has been added in the up with a reason for not taking her with me." going to the Fat Stock Show and Rodeo. telling. )O) So all of you come out for some fun and My favorite account concerning Inlet's go Western! In March we are going dians was related to me by my grand- 'Tis the mind that makes the to have another meeting. All of you be mother. It happened to a family of her body rich.

—Shakespeare

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11 press our sincere sympathy to the bereaved family of our departed sister, THERESA FOJT who passed away January 25, 1963, in a Houston hospital at the age of 61 years.

Funeral services were held from the Snook Brethren Church on January 27, RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY 1963. Rev. Dan Marek, Rev. Frank KosWe, the undersigned Resolutions Corn- tohryz and Rev. Henry Beseda officiatmittee of Lodge Svornost Jihu, No. 15 ed. Sister Fojt was laid to rest in the Buckholts, Texas, in behalf of our mem- Snook Cemetery beside her 'husband. bers, wish to express our deepest sympaHer death was a shock to this cointhy to the bereaved family at the passing of their husband, father, grandfather, rnunity as she was very active in business in this area, and was always wiland our beloved lodge brother, ling to lend a helping hand in any way EDWARD POSIVAL, SR. who passed away in St. Edward's Hos- she possibly could. pital in. Cameron at 9:10 p.m. Monday She was a very active member of the night, January 28th, after an extended Snook Brethren Church, member of the illness. He was 78 years old., Christian Sisters, and also a member of

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Funeral services were held at 2 p.m.

Wednesday, January 30th at the Buckholts Czech Brethren Church with the Rev. John Baletka of Temple officiating. Interment was in the Oak Hill Cemetery, in Cameron, with Marek and Burns Funeral Home in charge.

Brother Posival was horn Dec. 1st, 1885, at Wesley, Texas. He' married Marie Obadal on September 7th, 1908. They were blessed with a family of five children. A. little daughter, the oldest child, died an infant.

Brother Posival lived in the Buckbolts community for the past 54 years and was a retired farmer. He joined our SPJST Lodge in the year of 1900 where he was a very active member. He served our lodge as president for over 2.0 years, and never missed a meeting until h_is health began to fail.

Brother Posival is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Frank Lesikar of, Buckholts; three sons, John Posival of Fort Worth, Edward Posival, Jr., of Irving, and Marvin Posival of Cameron; two brothers, Stanley Posival of Buckbolts and Frank Posival of Cameron; two sisters, Mrs. Rosie Janes of Temple, and Mrs. Willie Schultz of Wesley; fourteen grandchildren and one great, grandchild.

To the loved ones, our sympathy; to our lodge brother we wish eternal rest and his memory shall be honored unto eternity.

Mrs, Kathleen Jurca, Val Nemec, Mrs. Sidonia Svoboda, Resolutions Committee )O(

the SPJST Lodge No. 9.

Mrs. Fojt is survived by two sons, Frank J. Fojt of Snook, Texas, and Albin Fojt of China Lake, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Elsie Hull of Littlefield, Connecticut, and Mrs. Jaunita Edwards of Houston, Texas; two sisters Mrs. Emma Fojt of Snook, Texas, and Mrs. Alvina Falka of Weimar, Texas; nine grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.

May nor departed sister rest in peace.

Resolutions Committee, Bennie Hejl, E. R. Jakubik )O( RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY We, the undersigned Resolutions Committee of Lodge Slovan No. 9, Snook, Texas, wish to express our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family of our departed brother,

WILLIAM JUNEK who passed away at his home on January 26, 1963, at the age of 85. Funeral services were held from the Snook Brethren Church on January 28, 1963, with Rev. Frank Kostohryz officiating.

Brother Junek had lived in this community for about 75 years. He was a charter member of the SPJST and also a member of Snook Brethren Church.

He is survived by one son and datighter-in-lai,v, Richard and Sydonia Junek of Snook, Texas, with whom he had lived, and one sister Mrs. Mary Balear of Houston, Texas.

May he rest in peace and s memory live forever.

RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY Resolutions Committee, We, the undersigned Resolutions ComBennie Hejl, mittee of Lodge Slovan No. 9, Snook, Frank J. Fojt, in behalf of our members, wish to exE. R. Jakubik

25 RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY We, the undersigned Resolutions Committee of Lodge Pokrok 63 in Sweet Home wish to express our sympathy to the bereaved family of our departed brother CHARLES FAREK, who passed away February 9, 1963, in Huth's Hospital in Yoakum, at the age of 69.

Funeral services were held at St. Joseph's Catholic Church Monday, Feb. 11. Rev. John Matoc,ha officiated. Interment was in St. Joseph Cemetery.

Brother Farek was a faithful member.

May he, rest in4 peace.

Mrs. Louis Targac, Mrs. Emil Kutac, Emit Kutac )O) RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY We, the undersigned Resolutions Committee of Lodge , Praha No. 29, Taylor, Texas, in behalf of our members, wish to express our most sincere sympathy to the bereaved family and relatives, at the passing of their loved one and our beloved lodge sister, KAROLINA SAFARIK, who passed away at her home February 2, 1963, at age 66.

She was born August 25, 1896, in Tap,lor, and lived here all her life.

She is survived by her husband, John Safarik, one daughter, Mrs. Lewis Werchann, five sons, Jesse, and Leroy, of Taylor, Ervin J. and Johnnie Ray, of Austin, and Arnold, of Thrall; one sister, and one brother; seven grandchil-; dren and two, great-grandchildren.

May our departed sister rest in peace.

Resolution Committee of Lodge Praha No. 29 Lillian Kasparek, Ben Mikolaj, A. L. Boudny ) It appears that it cost the United States government at least $4,522,964 to maintain order at the University of Mississippi this past autumn.

This, however, is slightly less than the expense envolved in enforcing desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957-58. This expenditure represents the cost of enforcing federal court orders to admit a Negro student to the university. )0 ) In 1830, there were five times as many people in American jails for debt, as for crimes.

Wheat is planted and/or harvested someplace in the world every day of the year.

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LIFE INSURANCE INVESTMENTS IN THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY

A big share of the financing needs to land an Astronaut on the moon is corn ing from America's 122,000,000,000 life insurance policy holders. Life insurance investments in companies which are major factors in the aerospace effort now average about $40 per policyholder.

About $5,000,000,000 in life insurance funds is being used throughout tfie United States directly and indirectly to help develop, manufacture and launch spacecraft, satellites, missiles, jet aircraft, electronic equipment and rocket fuels for military and civilian usP About one-third of these policyholder funds is invested in firms whose operations are mainly or entirely concerned with aerospace.

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The other two-thirds is the overall life insurance investment in such widely-diversified firms as American Telephone and Telegraph, International Business Machines, Radio Corporation of America, Westinghouse and Genera Electric, whose vital aerospace contributions are in addition to their more earth-bound functions.

This money comes mainly from funds that life insurance companies set aside to meet their future obligations to policyholders. Until needed, the money is put to work m America's race to the stars. Part of each premium paid by policyholders is invested in the nation's economy, and earnings from these in-, vestments help to keep down the cost of insurance 'co the policyholder.

Because the aerospace effort is a venture into the unknown, the greatest financial need is for new research, de- can. The At' al:„) pc ered the orbits of Life insurance policyholders' investvelopment and testing facilities. In Astronaut, Scott Carpenter and Walter meats in other firms have also played many cases, the money for these facili- Schirra. a role in developing the Atlas — for exties comes form life insurance fund:.

The military version of the Atlas is ample, about $14,000,000 in Thompson For example, General Dynamics Corp- America's first intercontinental ballis- Ramo Wooldridge, whose Space Techoration has received more than $140,- tics missile, with a range of more than 000,000 of policyholders' funds through 9,000 miles. Atlas bases across the Unit- nology Laboratories did much of the direct loans and other forms of in- ed States form a deterrent chain against technical direction and engineering; and about $4,000,000 in North American Aviavestment. This is probably the largest enemy aggression. life insurance investment in a single tion, whose Roeketdyne liquid-oxygen The Atlas itself is built on the same engines give the Atlas a thrust equivalent areospace firm. More than half of the money was loaned in 1958, when it principle as a football. Taller than a to more than five times the horsepower helped the company's Astronautics Di- live-story building, its heaviest sections generated by Hoover Dam. To the unvision move into a new 252-acre re- are formed from circular walls of steel trained eye, these fantastic power search and production center at San rolled almost as thin as wrapping paper. plants look more like antique vacuum To keep these walls from collapsing, cleaners.

Diego, Calif helium gas is pumped under mild presFrom this center came the Atlas. the sure into each finished Atlas. Then the General Dynamics Astronautics' scisleek tube of gleaming steel that hurled great silver tube is sealed off and hoist- entists are working to perfect the liquid Astronaut John Glenn into the first ed into a wheeled cradle for shipment hydrogen-powered Centaur rocket sysmanned orbit of the earth by an Ameri- by air to Cape Canaveral or elsewhere. tem for sending large instrument pay-

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loads on interplanetary flights and missions to the Moon. For instance, the Centaur is designed to launch the Surveyor instrument capsule which may be able to make a detailed analysis of the Moon's surface.

America's nearest hope for matching Russian ability to put heavier payload, into space may be the Saturn launch vehicle, on which much developmental work has been done by Chrysler Corporation. Chryisla's overall operations have received financial support from life insurance investments totalling more than $250,000,000.

Here are other examples of life insucance funds which have helped to finance important aerospace projects: — About $34,000,000 in Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. At least $27,000,000 has been used to finance Lockheed's research, engineering and production facilities in California, including new laboratories at Burbank. Lockheed is the prime contractor for the Navy's Polaris missiles that gave the sharp bite to America's nuclear-powered submarines.

Lockheed's Agena space vehicles put 11 helping smaller firms to grow and prosthe Navy Department appointed a court satellites into orbit in 1961. Life insur- per in the aerospace industry. ance funds are also helping Lockheed An example is Bourns, Inc., of River- of inquiry. Although the government build satellites to detect enemy missile side, Calif., which started after World urged the public to reserve judgement, launchings; F-104 Starfighter jets; Elec- War II in a family kitchen and garage, sonic of the more sensational newspapers tra prop-jets, the work-horse of many and has grown into an important ma nit- — notably Hearst's New York Journal, commercial airlines; the C-141 jet cargo facture]: of potentiometers and sensitive attributed the disaster to enemy agents plane; electronics equipment and plas- electronic instruments for measuring!: and demanded United States interventics. position, pressure and acceleration of tion in Cuba. "Remember the Maine!" became a popular slogan. Swayed by the — Nearly $70,000,000 in United Air- missiles and jet aircraft. Bourns prodery powerful demand in and out of Concraft, the largest manufacturer of jet ucts are now used in Virtually ev President McKinley on April 11th engines and a major factor in rocket en- major space program, including, the con- guess , gives (including the liquid-hydrogen troI system of the Atlas. Bourns instru- ackad for "forcible intervention" of the Prat Sr Whitney engine for, the Cen- menuwere used in th.e, capsules that United States to establish peace in taur). United also makes prOpellers, carried the Astronauts ,on orbits around Cuba. On April 24, 1898, Spain declared war against the United States. the earth, helicopters and other equipment.

— More than $67,000,000 in Martin- A $350,000 loan from a life insurance Teddy Roosevelt, resigned as SecreMarietta, a major factor in missile sys- company in 1958 enabled Bourns to buy tart' of the Navy to lead the "Rough tems, electronics, nucleonics and other new equipment and take a big step for Riders." Cuba was taken from Spain and space research. ward in its expansion program , since our secinity in this hemisphere , was in— Nearly $28,000,000 in Douglas Air- then, the firm he grown, so rapidly that 'cured.

--- )0 ) — craft, maker of DC-8 jet airliners and its total employees have about tripled. the Navy's A4D Skyhawk attack bomber; Bourns recently increased its life inSAID "RETIRE"? an important factor in such missile- surance loan to $1,500,000 to help conA ret i red postal employe has fff space programs as the Genie air-to-air solidate most of its operations in a rocket, Honest John aritllery rocket, modern, new plant on an attractive 45 ed as a freshman at Falls.

Midwestern University in Wichita Henry Burge Nike-Hercules, Nike-Zeus, as well as acre, landsca p ed site at Riverside. is 70.

'Thor missiles, and the second stage of , )0 "I 'ant to be a .more useful citizen," the Saturn C-1 space vehicle. 'he ex plained.

— More than $23,000,000 in Boeing U. • S,. AND CUBA — ISM Company, a leader in commercial jet On February 15, 1898. 65 years ago, the After he decided to enroll, Barge found airliners and military bombers; a prime United States battleship maine while at that a school fire had destroyed his contractor on the Minuteman inter- anchor in Havana harbor, W aS destroyed fiig1I school graduation records. continental ballistic missile, the Bomarc by an explosion which killed 260 officers Midwestern officials told him if he interceptor missile and the Dyna-Soar and men. The Maine had been ordered passed the entrance examinations, he space project. to Havana, after a Cuban riot in Jan-- could enroll. He passed easily.

Besides helping to finance large firms, uary of that year, to protect American Burge said he plans to get a degree life insurance policyholders' funds are life and property. After the explosion, in electrical engineering.

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VASTNi1K— ST,TE LOOKING BEYOND

"And I said to the man who stood At the gate of the yard, Give me a light that I may tread Safely into the Unknown."

—M. Louise Haskins Only to man is given the instinct and the desire to look beyond the present.

Such is one of the great distinguishing characteristics between man and beast.

So he buys his home. So he saves money. For he is trying to look into the. future — into the Beyond — and to' build safeguards against life's hazards.

Of course, God did not intend that we should look too far into the future, to predict successfully, our individual joys and sorrows. Life would hardly be worth living, it would seem to many of us if we could see far ahead. So We can see only a sad little way into the Beyond. Indeed, we cannot see clearly twenty-four hours — or even twenty-four minutes — ahead.

We can only guess as to the future value of our tangible possessions, our houses and lands, our stocks and bonds.

We have no idea how long our good health will last. Although well today, we know we may be in the hospital tomorrow.

Though the mortality tables show that at age 35 or 40 or 60, the expectancy of life is a certain definite number of years, each of us knows that for himself, death may come before another sunrise.

Yet man continues to ,gaze into the Beyond with hungry eyes, seeking and ever seeking for some small light that will guide him safely into the Unknown.

Now here is an interesting and unusual fact: To the Life Underwriter is given the power to see some things, not only in the beyond, but to see beyond the Beyond!

He sees the uncertainties of life, as does everyone. But he sees farther. He sees the consequences of misfortune, that may be spread over generations yet unborn.

He sees so many exciting investment plans presented. He sees the innocent swayed by fine words, spacious figures and eloquent phrases. And he sees beyond.

For he sees those enticin g: plans, entered into so enthusiastically during the capital-creating period of life — he sees them fail. And he sees still farther. He sees the tragic results when fine old men and women become dependent upon public benevolences; or worse, on family charity.

He sees countless examples of hu-

man weaknesses, that destroy the most earnest thrift programs. He knows how these weakneSses make- so many of the regular savings efforts futile.

He sees the hopes of fond parents for the success of their bright-minded children, and he sees those hopes shattered by the death of a father. He sees beyond the Beyond. He sees — and his heart is heavy at the sight — the world deprived of all the immeasurable talent that could have served mankind — all that might have been.

He sees the lights glowing in many homes, where families gather around their firesides. And he sees still more.

He sees many of those homes broken, even the children taken from their mothers, or denied the full measure of love and care that only a mother can give, because so many must earn the family living.

And there he sees the seeds of delinquency being sown, soon to yield a harvest of crime.

All this he sees beyond the Beyond.

Since the Life Underwriter can part the dark 'curtain of the Unknown, he therefore, is given the Gift of Prophecy.

And as he sees the misfortunes and griefs of the future, with their despair and their tears, he knows he has the only plan that prevents the wasting of property and talent. He knows he has the solace for much of the sorrow that follows in the wake of death.

In the strength and vitality of men and women today, he arranges life insurance contracts to anticipate life's hazards. And he envisions the future maturity of those plans, when the simple promise on a piece of paper becomes the foundation of a new life.

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gone past, a life insurance income was set up by a thoughtful father who cared.

All this he sees, and more --- much more. Because he has the Gift of Prophecy and can see beyond the Beyond.

There are other worthy and honorable professions, of course. And their work is a vital part of our living. They serve earnestly.

But they lack the faculty to look into the Unknown, as the Underwriter can.

The banker is concerned with the value of properties today. But he seldom reckons with the frailties of human nature, or the disaster brought on by disability er death.

The lawyer is concerned with the rights and liberties of persons. He can give little thought or concern to such things as protection of home and family tomorrow or a generation from today.

The schoolteacher is concerned only with instilling knowledge and building character in immature minds. The physician is concerned only with the preservation of health and life. Not even the minister is concerned with the problems of financial salvation and family solvency in event of death. His work is to ease mental worries and to bring soul happiness.

But neither the minister nor the doctor, neither the lawyer nor the banker, neither the schoolteacher nor anyone else can offer the perfect guarantee of financial security in the future. For they do not see into the financial future.

They do not atempt to see. For, from that point of view, they cannot see beyond the Beyond. Only the trained and dedicated Life Underwriter has that grave responsibility.

He sees an income paid every month Only the Life Underwriter has the to a widow and her children, come lamp that lights the way safely into drouth, disaster or depression. And he the Unknown! sees still further, far beyond his own life. He sees an old lady living a con- The beginning of a new year is a nattented life, free from the ignominy and ural time for making a fresh analysis of strain of cold public almsgiving. Because one's work. It is a splendid time to study many decades past he, himself, saw and anew its o pp ortunities and its responsibilities. Then to plan new courses of planned beyond the Beyond.

He sees a baby in a bassinet today. action.

He parts the dark curtain and sees into But New Year's plans and resolutions the Unknown, when this babe, now an mean nothing, if they are made only cud gentleman, begins to receive a life because it is a natural time to make income that nothing can reduce, take them. Indeed, they can be worse than away, or destroy, and which he can nev- nothing, if they are continually broken. er outlive.

For then they destroy one's purpose and He sees beyond the Beyond, for he weaken his spirit. They develop the sees the income going on for maybe habit of expecting failure. thirty or thirty-five years, or even more — perhaps for a hundred years from toTo mean anything, a New Year's resday. And every clay brings independence olution must be backed by deep sincerity and happiness. All because in the long and intensive determination. If it can't

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l ave this support, one is better off if it is If in that spirit one approaches the -icver made at all.

New Year his resolution will carry 'When the Life Underwriter gets the Uhrcugh. For then every call and every interview will have behind it an earnestfull understanding of his calling and acness and warmth — an emotion and a (.-:pts the responsibility that is the vigor — that will generate a vibrant, livheart of it all, then he finds, as has been ing passion, which will overcome all ob30 well said before, that he isn't in life .-.ta cies and all discouragements. insurance; instead, life insurance is in Then disappointments will lose their kim! enfeebling power. Then courage will rise It is then, of course, that he become :o new heights. ;ruly dedicated to his calling.

And there will be found, as the old Sanskrit poem says:

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"The bliss of growth, the glory of action, The splendor of beauty; For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is only a vision; But today, well lived, Makes every yesterday a memory of happiness, And gives to every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this Day!" —From The Fraternal Monitor, by Alden Palmer. )O)

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SPRAVNE VYKONANA POECREBNI SLIT2BA V hodine 2alu zarmouceni naleznete Edward Pace pohi.ebni ustav pohotove k sympatickemu vylizeni nezbytnYch jednotlivosti a k vypraveni dojemneho pohitu.

Levne ceny jsou na gi zasadou.

Edr rard Pace Polaiebni feditel J1en SPJST Tel. Prospect 3-3606 113 N. 5th St. TEMPLE, TEXAS

One crater on the moon is estimated to be over 150 miles across. )O)

MA 6-5681 "FOR EVERY OCCASION"

The poison of the black widow spider is 16 times more poisonous than that of he rattlesnake.

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SENT Entertainment Calendar Is a matter of policy, only those activities and functions promoted by or sponsored by the SPJST, or any of its lodges, will be published in the SPJST Entertainment Calendar section. Such notices for publication should be submitted by a bonafide lodge officer, or, in some cases, by lod ge hall managers.

• . -.=-3ockholts Lodge No. 15 Saturday, Feb. 23 -- Vrazel's Polka Band Entertainment Committee No. 25, Ennis, l'exac Tuesday, February 26 --- Dance — Music

by Wally Pikal of Minnesota Saturday, April 27 — Dance — Music

by The Music Masters of Ennis Saturday, May 11 — Mother's Day Dance — Music by Polka Peppermints of Dallas Thursday, July 4 — Dance — Music by The Music Masters of Ennig Saturday, July 27 — Dance — Music by The Music Masters of Ennis.

Joe A. Martinek, Hall Manage

VESTNtK — WEST. TEXAS Lodge No. 66 Waco February 23rd — The Music Masters of Ennis • • SPJST Lange No. 84, Dallas Sunday, March 16 — Regular Monthly Lodge Meeting and Family Fun night.

Entertainment Committee • • Lodge Pokrok Houston No. 88 Feb. 23 — Saturday Night: Western Dance — Music by Jimmy Brosch .

March 1 — Friday Night: Board of Directors meeting. Entertainment Committee meeting March 2 — Saturday Morning: Birthday Club Sisters Kolache Sale Saturday Night: Dance — Music

by Henry Tannenberger March 8 — Friday Night: Regular Monthly Lodge meeting, Youth Club meeting March 9 — Saturday Night: Dance — Music by Ray Jurecka Orchestra of Weimar.

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Lodge No. 92, Fort Worth Saturday, February 23rd — Dance Sunday, March 10th — Lodge Meeting Sunday, April 14 — Easter Sunday, Polka Dance music by Bacas Orchestra Saturday, April 20th — Dance 0

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SPJST Lodge No. 35. Elk Sokol Zizica xrtl Lodge moo, 1.30 Saturday Night, Feb. 23 — Slim Haisler wallas, Texas and His Play Boys of Temple, Texas. Feb. 23 — "Mardi Gras" Dance, Music Floor Chairman,

by Eric Honza, Orchestra.

Rudolf Vic•a, Jr. March 9 —. Brought back by popular deU mand — Jim Allen Orchestra Image No. 39, Bryan, Texas March 23 -- "Roaring 20's" Dance — Saturday, Feb. 23 — Dance, music by Eric Honza Orchestra Jessie Lee and the Play Boys.

April 13 — Dance — Music Masters Steve Regrnund, President April 27 — Dance — Hosts: Mr. and Mrs. 0. K. Jones. Everyone invited.

Lodge No. 40 Millie Eric Honza Orchestra playing Saturday, February 23 — The Traits May 11 — Dance — Polka Peppermints.

Saturday, April 27 — The Traits.

Sponsored by SPJST Lodge No. 130 • • May 25 — Dance—Eric Honza Orchestra.

Hvezda Texasu Lodge No, 47, Seaton • • Saturday, February 23 — Entertainment Stefanik Lodge No. 142, Houston Night at Seaton Star Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Fun and entertainment for all ages. February 23 — Dance — Music by the Houston Play Boys.

Taroky players are asked to bring For the Entertainment Corn. their Taroks. Refreshments will be Henry J. Linhart sold. Come out and enjoy yourself. )0 Everyone is cordially invited.

Walter Haisler, manager The mind can weave itself warmly in )0 ) the, cocoon of its own thought and An American isn't going to let any- dwell a hermit anywhere. body deprive him of the right to say — J. B. Lowell what he pleases, even though he's afraid • • to do it most of the time.

• • Little minds are interested in the It takes a mighty good bookkeeper to extraordinary; great minds in the commake a deficit look like a surplus. monplace.

—Ernest Hubbard

Wednesday, February 20, 1963

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Hilsher's Home Supply Co. 2020 Washington Ave., CA 8-8424 730 E. 20th at N. Main UN9-1441 5225 Washington UN 9-3387 301 East 11th Street UN 9-3351 HOUSTON, TEXAS For All Your FURNITURE APPLIANCES and EVERYTHING ELSE FOR YOUR HOME Be Sure to See

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Wednesday, February 20, 1963

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Ladies Please Note Wives who do not pay too much attention to the proper care and feeding of their husbands might note the incident which recently took place in Nicasto, Italy.

There, Giuseppe Gugliotta, police say,

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stabbed his wife to death because she A lot of the wrinkles in a business gave him to smaller plate of soup than man's face are trade marks.

• • their three grown sons.

Opportunist: A person who, finding It was not the soup; it was a case of himself in hot water, decides he needs wounded honor. And that honor may a bath anyway. be wounded still More before the incident is finished.

There are people in the world who think they can argue with electricity.

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Lodge Pokrok. Houston No. 88 1140 Robbie St. Houston, Texas SATURDAY, FEB. 23rd MUSIC BY THE POPULAR

Jimmy Brosch torch. of Houston PLANING WESTERN, MODERN and OLD-TIME MUSIC PLENTY OF REFRESHMENTS FOR ALL. EVERYONE CORDIALLY INVITED! COMING: MARCH 2nd — HENRY TANNENBERGER MARCH 9th — RAY JURECKA

CORONATION DANCE SPONSORED BY K.J.T. and K.J.Z.T. YOUTH CLUBS OF DALLAS

SATURDAY, FEB. 23rd, 1963 8 P.M. to 1 A.M. SP.TST HALL, 2625 FLOYD ST., DALLAS CROWNING OF KING and QUEEN AT 10 P.M. MUSIC BY

DANCE BILL MRAZ BALLROOM 835 W, 34th — HOUSTON

FE tz. 22, 23, and 24th Three Big Nights That Famous Orchestra From Hutchinson, 1%111-Meseta

WALLY PIKAL ORCHESTRA The Leader Who Plays Two and Three Trumpets Al One Time. You Must See Him and Dance to His Music!

BARBECUE WILL BE SERVED — 12 NOON TIL ?

SUNDAY, FEB. 24th PIKAL WILL PLAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. ADM.: FRIDAY, $1.25 — SATURDAY, $1.50 and SUNDAY, $1.25 — GOOD DAY - NIGHT EVERYBODY IS INVITED TO EAT, DRINK and DANCE!

MARDI GRAS SOKOL ATHLETIC CENTER 7448 Greenville Avenue Dallas, Texas SATURDAY, FEB. 23

Johns . Rejcek Orchestra

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ERIC HONZA ORCHESTRA

DOOR PRIZES: 1st Prize: Ham 2nd Prize: G.E. Iron 3rd Prize: Kitchen Clock BENEFIT BUILDING FUND EVERYONE CORDIALLY INVITED!

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A SPECIAL SURPRISE OR TWO FOR ALL THOSE WOO COME IN COSTUME.

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I wilit th6 best . for y)baby!

Of Course You Do Mother...

Including, in all likelihood, education to get the young man (or lady) off to a good start, career wise.

This will take money. But you can have "what it takes" when the time come, if you s tart now, by buying him (or

her) our Education Plan.

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