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SEZNAM OEGANIZATORti District Organizers OKRSEK 1 V. H. Bakina Smithville, Texas OKRSEK II Johnny J. PLIAek P. O. Box 88 Rosebud, Texas OKRSEK III Arnold M. Vrla 6307 Saratoga Circle Dallas 14, Texas OKRSEK IV Fred Kvetoll Route 1 Abernathy, Texas OKRSEK Jarda OernS• 1521 WoodvIne Drive Houston 24, Texas OKRSEK VI Leo Krause, Jr. P. 0. Box 427 Inez, Texas OKRSEK VII Prozatimne nezastoupene SPJST

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r VANOCE, SVAT,K7,7 RADOSTI LASKY Sladke kouzlo vanoenich svatka pronika a uchvacuje srdce a mysli vgech lidi. Koho name radi, tomu !projevujeme to vhodnYm darkem v ty tiny kaMe srdce je citlivejsi, htejiva, laska je prozaiuje. Cosi velkeho, nevy, slovitelneho jako neviditelna tekutina protelca srdcem lidi, protOe je to ehvile, o niz pravi nesmrteln3"/ basnik vrchlickY: "Dries vSeelmy struny s srdneb raciest ci jich clotYka, . ."

Z echo prameni viocka to radost? Jo dosti znamo, Ze uz Serf' davnevek znal tyto svdtky, jako slavnost slunovratu.

Zeme, na sve draze vesmiru ciospela k bode nejvzdalenejSiinu od slunce a nyni °pet se vraci k slunci. A tento navrat slunce, piichod svetia, oslavovali na gi preclkove. Znamenala pro ne he zeme se vysvobodi z pout zimy a lean. Byla to uZ", dalekd ozvena jam, tedy nova° Lvota. Kiest'anstvi, na svO pods` to tak krasne a jeaNa

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SEZNAM VEDOUCICH MLADEtE DISTRICT YOUTH LEADERS OKRSEK I Mrs. Feud. C. Matejka Rt. 4, Box 504 Bryan, Texas OKRSEK II Mrs. Clara Hejl Route 4 Temple, Texas OKRSEK III Mrs. Inez Zalman 2523 McKenzie Waco, Texas OKRSEK IV Mrs. Ed Hatsler Route 1 Seymour, Texas OKRSEK V Mrs. Tillie Helmcamp 432 West 32nd St. Houston 18, Texas OKRSEK VI Mrs. Frank B•deeka.

Rt. 1, Box 150 Rosenberg, Texas OKRSEK VII Mrs. Maxine Pavliska Route 2, Box 151 Floresvllle, Texas

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noduche, phejalo tuto slavnost a oslavuje jim zrozeni Bella — Lasky, Tedy ptiehod Lasky na svet. Dne gni elevelc, moderni a eivillsovany, red zapomina na oboje. Nerad touM po novem, lepgim 2ivote, zije se mu pohodlneji v neupiimnosti, ve starYch zvyeich. A jak mai° je dosud to lasky na zemi, to eiste, trvale? Doba tisice let je dlouha doba, jez postaeila Upine k uskuteoneni raje na zemi. A ic tornu staeilo jen jedine pilkazdni lasky pakdzani lasky elovelca It elo yeku. Jo napsdno na dne kahleho liciskeho srdce. Ale snad proto, ze je az na dne ukryto, talc nesnadno se k nemu dostavame. Zasypano prachem navyku a lhostejnosti 'klesd v zapomenuti. Proto dejiny eloveka jsou yypineny bojem a krvi a ti, ktai se postavili proti zi p , padaji a umiraji v bratrovra'Zedrikela bojich.

Smime proto zoufat? Nikon. Idea Lasky zapasi stale a je na postupu. A betas koneone ifiterstvi daleko a zda se, jako by paad unikalo a mizelo nom pied alma jako majak v nedohlednu kdesi v bouNive noel. Jake by kdosi nevi_ditelny kupil ptcka'ZIcy na cestu. k nit. Idea pi. esto vitezi. Co znamenaji tedy tyto sv(ttly pro nas? Znaei pro nos nejeu (lc:Watt se pine na

Ve stieda dne 23. prosince 1964 chvili eiste radosti, ale je to i doba jakehosi zpytovani svedomi a prohlidka Tett z roku minuleho. Znamenaji svleci start' at chyb a Spatnych navykil, lhostejnosti a zloby a nastoupiti onu cestu nejtd gi, ale nejjistej gi a jek dinou — cestu Pravdy, a jiti po slunci, k svetlu duk k LASCE. Prot projevujeme lasku jen dva, tii dny v roce? Proe lifejivou lasku, Pratelske city, nepestujeme i ye vgeelni dny? Ostatnich pies pul etvrta sta dnu zustaneme sobci se studenYm srdcem? Po vanocich budeme zase se svafiti, vzajemne si prekakti? V2dyt' laska, Usniev, pfatelsky cit, bratrske porozumeni — to, co rozehriva srdce a pusobi ucinlive na srdce a tiny lidske, nieeho nestoji a bohate odmeriuje — zase laskou, oslazuje trpkY 2ivot, dava, radost k praci, tvoii St'astne lidi. "O. piijde" — pravi mistr Vrchlicky — "prijit musi chvile, kdy zmlkne za gt' a nendvist, kde baji bude trpici, kde zla a zmaru na mohyle si date ruku, basnici! Co v hloubi ducha tusili jste, proo druhdy svet se smaval varn vzpla, velike a eiste jak drahokam a lidstvo vas zpe y v srdce vetkne, vic kol se fizy vagi netkne, vg e bude ryzi, velke, svato, at' pero, paka, Stetec, dlato, a nade vgim laska sam."

Co dame na gi SPJST jako vanoeni darek? Udelejme ji letos radost, slibme ji, ze kahly z nas budeme pravidelne :nav gtevovat mesieni schilze, spolupracovat s fadovYmi iiredniky; pomahat bratram organisatorinn pfi naboru novYch clenu. Kdy2 kaZdy z nas dodr2i slib, kdy2 se nage jednota .behem phgtiho roku zvetgi o jegte vetgi poeet bude ji to jiste nejmilei gi vanoeni darek!

Dnes vice ne2 kcly jindy je potfebne, aby svatek narozeni Mistra z Nazaretu zpomalil blaznivY beh dne gni doby, aby ka,2dY si uvedomil, 2e jsme eleni jedne velike lidske rodiny, spolupoutnici testy 2ivota, vzajemne si rozumeli a pracovali pro lep gi budoucnost nas vgech.

Svet vice ne2 kdy jindy potfebuje bratrskYch organisaci, jako je nage SPJST, pracujicich za docileni sbratfeni vgeobecneho lidstva.

Zilstane, jako j i2 po fadu let, pouze pfi slovech, ktera budou zapomenuta rychleji ne2 byla pronesena? Doufejme, 2e leto gni svatky budou opravdu dny miru v myslich a srdcich v gech lidi sveta. K tomu pfejeme a tou2ime po svetoqm a koneenYin rniru pa eem

VESTN 11C toil& narody celeho sveta — a dilstojnost eloveka.

V teto nadeji pfejeme yam wean, vaAim rodinam a drahYm, PilliJEMNE SVATKY VSNOCNi. Redaktor, vydavatele Vestniku a personal v tiskarni •

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Vanoce jsou svatky kouzelne Kdo byl jednou objat jejich nadzemskou silou, nevymkne se 112 z jejich naruee. I kdy2 bude od nich utikat jako syn z otcovskeho domu, tim sanevice ji budou ho pritahovat zpet. dim ' se jim bude chtit vzdalit, tim spi ge bude citit dotyk jejich .neviditelnYch rukou. Jako vytr2enY strom z kofend bude schnout a hynout. VeenYm uprchlikern bez tepla a domova stane se ten, kdo ye sve dugi -nema mista pro to, co pfinagi lidem pokoj a mir. Cim vice kdo by chtel na vanoce zapomenout, tim vice probudi v nem vzporninek a.2 zazafi stromeeky v ptedveeer svate noci.

Vanoce jsou svatky bo2ske.

Proto ta jejich sila. Proto ta jejich kouzelna. moc.

Piinageji radost, pokoj a mir.

Chceme-li pro2it a procitit zpev andelskYeh kuru z betlemskYch strani, musime jen the naslouchat a odpoutat se od tihy tohoto sveta. A jsi-li na torn to svete chudy jako pasty f s paletsinskYch hor, staei, kdy2 zazpiva g svou seri, nemd g -li nic vie. * • Vanoce jsou rodinnj., mi svatky Ten, kdo u2 nema nikoho, s kYm by mohl zasednout k rodinnemu stolu behem Stedreho yeeera, i kdyby byl sebe zvyklej gi na osamely 2ivot, neubrani se pocitu stisnenosti. kidykoli spatfi za okay, zrosenymi teplem domova a raclostneho ruplern domova a radostneho ruchu roz2atY vanoeni stromeeek.

Jiste se rozpomene na doby, kdy i on se podilel na vzru gujicich okam2icich, pfi nich2 vdechoval do sebe vuni z mamineiny kuchyne, ochutnaval v g echny ty dobroty, daval a pfijimal darky z lasky.

I kdy2 na okam2ik pozapomeneme na poesii Betlema, s ni2 jsou vanoce pine spjaty, radi pfiznavame, 2e bez domova a bez rodiny pozbYvaji smyslu.

Nelze se proto divit tern mene gt'astnYm, pro ne2 pfedvanoeni pfipravy znamenaji tisen v srdci a easto Si keknou "kdyby ty Vanoce u2 radeji byly za namil" Jak mnohem ra-

3 dostneji se dotykaji tech, Merl je budou proZivat v kruhu rodiny a zvlagte tam, kde nebudou schazet deti a vnouekove.

Nikdy nezapomeneme, jak nag synek v dobach, kdy byl jegte malt' a vefil ye gtedrost "jdi gka", vstal na lo2i na BoZi hod vanoeni je gte za tiny a pied stromeekem usnul na podlaze. A co2 kdy2 nade gel okam2ik rozdileni a otvirani darkil! V takovych okaan2ilch rodiee razem zapomneli na rmuty a starosti v gedniho 2ivota a srdce sva spojili radosti a teplem vdednosti.

Vanoce jsou take dobou vzporninek.

Ty radostne se °Wei kolem tech, kdo2 dosud tvoii okruh na gi rodiny. — Smutne vzpominky zaletaji za temi, kteii odegli na veenost, anebo jsou pfilig vzdaleni, ne2 aby se rnohli s nami v radosti podilet. I toto vzpominani jest nerozluenou soueasti Vanoc.

Nebude schazet na vdeenosti za dart', jim2 se v -Leto velke, krasne zemi te gime: za svobodny zpilsob 2ivota, v jeho2 ramci jsme kapitany sveho vlastniho podnikani, za svobodu slova a nabdenskeho vyznani, I za to, k po skoneene denni praci nrifZeme beze strachu ulehnout k odpoeinku.

A to jsou pfieiny, pros ze viech ostatnich svatkit tyto zilstavaji pro vet'Sinn z nas nejkrasnej gimi, ponevad2 jsou prodchnuty intimitou lidskych srdci. Ke2 do kahle jedne rodiny nagich etendfil proniknou v techto dnech teple, nieim nezkalene paprsky opravdove radosti!

STAROtESKY STEDROVaERNi STN. 0 yanacieh, noivetgich a nejslavnejgich svateich v roce, sna2ily se staroeeske kuchafky vYberem a jakosti jidel dokazat svou dovednost a vynalezavost. Stedry den, opi-edenY kouzly a bajemi, poskytoval jim k tomu nernalou pfilditost. Ponevad2 v gak v petsvatne dobe , vanoeni vkchno konani a prate mely sve proe a proto, mely v2dy svuj zvla gtni vYznam i pokrmy, podavane na gtedroveeerni Vgude a vMy jedli stolovnlei z jedne misy. Podayani pokrind oostaravala nejstarAi , deveeka, hospoilyne nesmela pc) rely weer vstat och stolu, aby ji dobfe sedely husy. Pov gechne se setkavame se zvykem podavali na still vice druird jidel. — eirn vet gi poeet jidel, tim vice mandelti obili se pfigtim rokern urodi. Na gi pfedkov6 nebyli vgak naprosto tak vybiravi, jako jsme my dnes. Ryby se jidavaly malokde. Zvyk upravovat k gtedre veeefi rra ritznk

4 zpusob ryby, je novej g i a cilouho se neuZival. Bylo to zejmena proto, ze ryby byly v krajinach bez vody drahe a vzacne, take i zamoZnej gi rodiny moldy si dovolit pouze rybi polevku. Kde ryby nebyly, uvarila se polevka zasmaSena s houskami a houbami. Jmenovali ji "praknka", na Morave "geedraeka".

"86edraeka" byla polevka bohat gi, vlastile hrachova nebo Coekova,, se zava renYmi bramborami suchYmi houbami, gvestkami a hrugkami.

Po vgech koneinach Ceske vlasti byly podavany k gtedroveeerni veeeki nekde v by. Upravovany byly rezne huste zapraSene polevce, jinde jako zviastni jidlo. Nejobvyklej gi je "Cerny kuba", nekde zvany kratce "kuba" nebo "marias" varene to krupky s rozsekanYmi su genYmi houbami. Jinde se varily houby s jahlemi, krupici, rYZi a krupkami, east° byly pridavany I brambory.

JinY pokrm, kterY nesmel chybet na eeskem Stedroveeernim stole, byl hrach.

Byl to pokrm symbolickY, pro svuj obraz kalicha, ov gem mel Wit podavan nemastny a neslanY, na znameni toho, ze Kristiry kalich je trpkY. Leckde polily se k podavani hrachu i pane zvyky. Tak na Kralovehradecku vzal eeledin misu s hrachem, jakmile v gichni pojedli prvni 1Sici, a skakal s ni kolem stolu, aby kone byli bujni. Zbytek hrachu dostali kone do Zlabu.

Po hrachu pri glo na stul nee° sladkeho. Obyeejne pripravovaly hospodyne 'odvarku", to je onideka ze su genYch gvestek, zlep g enou v bohatYch rodinach hrozinkami, mandlemi a vla g -skYmiorechy!Ddvarkyblned podavany knedliky, jinde placky, t. j. kola& nebo pletence ci stedrovnice, to je nage vanoeka.

OblibenYm pokrmem gtedoveeernim byl teS "muzika", dodnes zname varene sugene gvestky, hru gky a krilaly. MouenYch jidel byl take vzdy dostatek. Podavaly se obyeejne s kavou. KaZdY Clen domacnosti dostal "Stedrovnici" velkou jako dite. Krome toho se still napinil vrchovatYmi misami kterYm byly davany v reznYch krajich rozliena jmena. Tak sly gime, .2e se o gtedre veeeri jedly perinky, buchtiely, nakrajovanky, pecivalky, mechurky, hvezdieky, nalevance, vesmes to druhy koldeu nebo vdolku, nekdy pinenYch nadivkou el pomazanYch, jindy pouhe testove buchtioky. Po mouenYch jidlech pri glo na stul varene zeli se smaknou cibulkou, ktereho si kahly mel vzit alespori lz%ci, aby nedostal pragivinu. Na ukoneeni veeete

VESTNtK mush dostat kakly doinaci vrchovatou misku eerstveho ovoce a orechu, aby se v geho toho v pri gtim rote hodne urodilo.

Bohatost gtedroveeerniho stolu je rezna, Ligila se krajem, majetnosti, zvyky. Avgak temer vgude platila sada: podavej na stfil co ma g, co ti nese tvuj dem a tve hospodarstvi. Lide byli skromnei gi a spokojenej gi. Nebylo prepychu, drahYch vzacnYch jidel a napojt. Ke spokojenosti a Stesti staCilo kouzlo a klid domova, zimni uklidneni a odpoeinek, snehove metelice provasene kvilenim meluziny, hluboke zaveje odlueujici dedinu od dedinY, dlouhe yeeery zpestrovane pohadkovYmi pribehy, tajernnymi bajemi a obyeeji, zneni zvonu, naplriujici po svatnou noc gteciroveeerni — veene stejna, nemenna to poesie \Tame.

• • Ja oslav VrchlickV": VANOCE Bias zvonu -Ohne nad zaveji, kdes v dalce tie zanika; dnes vgechny struny zneji, neb mladost se jich dotYka. Jak strom jen pohne haluzemi, lined strasa ledne krigt'aly, rampouchy se strech visi k semi jak varhan velke pigt'aly.

Zem jakby liliemi zkvetla, kam snih pad', tam se zachytil; Bah esine y v tve.rich, v oknech svetla a v nebi hvezdy rozsvitil.

A stare pisne v du gi zneji, a s nimi jdou sny jeslieek kol hlavy me, jak ye zaveji has traticich se rolnieek.

Mtlj duck zas tone v blahu mori,

vzdech srdcem tahne hluboce a zvony zneji, svetla hori O vanoce, O vanoce!

• VZNIK PISA TICHA SVATA NOC Ve vesnici Oberndorfu, vysoko v horach rakouskYch na 8tecirS7 den veoer roku 1818 farar dp. Josef Mohr pripravoval se k vanoeni ptilnoeni m gi svate.

Byla ticha jasne, mesioni noc, kdy tak pozoroval od sve fary ty vysoke hory pokryte snehem a pod nimi skryta edoli. Na jasnem nebi pino hvezd, ktere vnag ely v jeho mysl slova pisne Vanoeni, kterou lined ye fare napsal.

Vgichni umelci maji sve tvorive chvile kdy dila sva je treba jim jen poznaeiti, jinak by sotva je kdy sehnali a

ye strain due 23. prosince 1961 pamatovali. Tak povstala nesnirteind pisen `riche noc, svate noc.

Ve svatek BoZihe narozeni za g el dp.

Mohr k svemu piiteli mistnimu ueitell, milovniku huclby Gruberovi, aby k to pisni slosh napev. Kdy2 byl hotov, zazpivali tu pisen ponejpr y spolu doma, pak v kostele kde skladatel napevu Gruber doprove.zei zpev na kytare jelikoS kostelni varhany byly p rave P a gela manZel--kany.KdStupisenly ka ueitele, zvolala: "Tato piseri piljde svetem!" — Netu g ila sama, jak prorocky naluvila. Tato piseri skuteene v Case vanoenim zazniva po celem si Tete, v mestecla, na venkovskYch osaclach, ba i v dZunglich Indianii, eernochil a na leclo y cich Eskyinakft nebot' byla prelolena do v g ech reci, ale stejny napev me ye v gecla reeech.

Dp. farer Josef Mohr ve sve skromnosti pisen uloSil do sveho psacihe stolku kde zustala dlouho leZet neznema svetu. Zda se ze a2 po jeho sna •ti byla nalezena jeho pritelem knezem kterY rozhodl Se pisen to me prijit do verejnosti mezi lid a postaral se o to. Z ncznaine prieiny v g ak byla pisen. uvedena bez jmena autora i skladatel.

Kdy2 nemeckY kral sly g el poprve tu piseri, na Venoce roku 1854, byl ni tak nadgen, ze hned chtel vedet kdo je autorem pisne a skladatelem nepevu. Ale nikdo toho nevedel. Rozkazal tedy aby na jeho etraty byli autori Vzalo to v g ak nekolik mesice casu patrani po ccle zemi neZ nalezli ueitele Grubera. Ten potvrdil svuj napev i jmeno autora pisne, dp. Josef a Mohra, kterY kretce pied tim zemrel.

V prvni svetove valce kdy aniericke a nernecke zakopy byly blizko sebe, oznamil nemecky velitel ArnerickYlu vojakilm, ze na AtedrY veeer se v g echno nepratelstvi zastavuje. Na obou stranach v zakopech v obou reeech zoivena byla vanoeni pisen Ticha noc svata noc, na kterou Nemci jsou jaksi hrdi neb vy gla od jejich krajana aekoli se duchem jejim mnozi z nich malo

Ve stredu dne 23. prosinee 1964

VtEITZIrfE STATE YOUTH LEADER JIM KUCERA

Br. Jim KuCera Bratre redaktore Morris: ' arla.e me o komentar k me fotografii, to je pro mne tag., nez kus hmotne prace.

Po 53 leta Cinnosti v rfiznYch organizacich veetne SPJST a Sokola navyknul jsem behem easu, aby co jsem konal s pochopenim a laskou k veci bylo o me psalm, ne2 abych psal svoje chvalozpevy. ✓ mem nynejeim firade YynasnaMm se vykonat vse nejlepei ku prospechu a viditelnenau pokroka mezi kluby mladeZe v SPJST. Budu potrebovat pomoc od rodieti a veech elenfi Jednoty s fispechem pokraeovat v praci a za fikolern provadenY jiz nekolik let Br. Joe B. HeinYm a predsedou br. Joe B. HejnYm a predsedou br. Markem. ✓ prohloubeni a zvykni einnosti, hlavne udrZet v mem prostredi *Yeechnu na,Si mlade'Z rodieff eeskeho vodu. Vedoma, podpora od rodiefa yedoucim mladeze v kaIdem radu, je predni nutnosti jim a za vedeni okrskovYch vedoucich inlarle2e, moje snaha bude usnadnena, a ja se vynasnaZim vyjit jim veestrannYm zpfisobem vstfic.

Bud' radon, literaturou, pismem, neb moji pritomnosti veude a kdekoliv to bude potreba.

S bratrskYm pozdravem a pranim v'Seho nejlepeiho po dobu vanoeni a At'astnY a veselY NovY Rok yam preje, Jim Kucera

Brother Jim Kucera, the recentlyelected SPJST State Youth Leader, was born in Policka, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia on September 11th, 1893. His father's trade was that of a shoe maker, and had a hard time making a living for 9' children. In 1905, Brother Kucera's father decided to leave for the United States to seek a better life. Two years later, four of the oldest children, two sisters and two brothers (Bro. Jim being one of the two), followed their father to Racine, Wisconsin, a wellestablished old town on the shores of Lake Michigan, 30 miles south of famous Milwaukee, and 60 miles north of Chicago, well-known throughout the country as Karel Jonas' hometown.

Brother Jim went to school for a couple of years until the financial panic forced him to quit and go to work to fully support himself. There was no money in circulation, only "script," which tided one through the usual six months' period of employment until factories were shut down.

To get by, most young men went to seek work on farms during the harvest. All of them pulling together during those hard times were able to save enough to bring the rest of the family to the United States.

All of the Kucera boys were active in Sokol Mladocech, and together with other large groups of immigrants, were able to form the largest Sokol group ever registered. In 1914 their Sokol unit won the championship award of two reefs, the highest award given in those years. The boys worked in factories 10 and 12 hours a day at 5c an hour. There was no transportation other than the bicycle — if you happened to own one -- otherwise, you depended on your own two feet in all kinds of weather, sometimes as much as four feet of snow. Streets and sidewalks were cleared of snow by hand.

In 1916, Bro. Kucera went into partnership in a tavern operation, but that didn't pan out for two people. Before the winter set in, Jim said good-bye to all his friends, to all his fraternity brothers, theatrical circles, singing Choral Club Lyra, the Sokol, and left for Dallas, Texas. As far as finding a job was concerned, Dallas was no better than it had been up north. Some young CZech men were returning with Pershing's army from Mexico and most of them reenlisted in the Army. Jim joined them by joining the 36th Infantry Division. After a year of service, the U. S. entered World War I. Being subjects of the Austro-Hungarian

pire, Jim and some of the others were not allowed to go overseas, so they joined the Foreign Legion.

Upon returning to the U. S. in 1919, Jim went back to Racine to get a job with Hamilton Beach, where he had worked before, and where he tried to recuperate financially. At the same time, he trained a group of men and women to participate in the Sokol Slet in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 11)20, all from the Sokol group, Mladocecii.

In April, 1920, he went to Dallas and married Venuse Polavka, and later moved to Dallas permanently. The two of them have travelled life's journey since that time. Their first son was born two years later, but died in infancy, -Mrs. Kucera, worked for the Texas Farm Mureau, and Jim worked for the H. J. Heinz Company. The second son was born just before the Depression hit. The Kuceras battled the period gallantly like everyone else.

First, they were in the grocery business, lost everything, and later, joined the Ford Motor Company, which was one of the first firms in the South to open its doors for business after the Depression. In 1936, just before the Texas Centennial celebration, Jim was asked to teach the beseda to some young people in Dallas. He and Brother Kos travelled many miles and many months training young folks to dance the beseda. Many of our people no ,doubt remember that year and the Centennial.

Shortly after that, the Kuceras moved to Corpus Christi. He became involved in the same sort of activities in Corpus that he had while in Dallas.

When people like Rudol ph Troubil moved to Taylor, Jim was forced back into the Sokol organization to carry on, in fact, in both the SPJST and the Sokol, so that many years of hard work would not be lost or forfeited.

When Brother Kucera, left to take up his present position in Temple, the SPJST, Sokol, and RVOS lodges in Corpus were left in good and capable hands, one of them being Brother John Stasa, long-time friend and co-worker of Jim's throughout the many years.

Mrs. Kucera will join Bro. Jim in Temple as soon as circumstances and family conditions permit. Also, before too long, Bro. Jim hopes to write more on the history and experiences of our people in Texas.

Brother and Sister Kucera extend their best wishes for a Happy Holiday Season to all, and hope that the New Year brings many successes to all our endeavors. — Editor.

VgHTNAK

Oddil dopisovatelfi Rad YoIna eechie Oslo 135. v Ennis Cteni bratri a sestry.

Posilarn vYsledek volby radovYch einovnikt pro rok 1965, ktefi byli zvoleni ve vYroeni schrizi v nedel1 13. prosince.

Pfedseda — Jos. Vytopil Mistoptedseda — Julius Chudej Tajemnik — Mary Latnovska teetni — Jerry Chudej Pokladnik — Fr. A. Latnovsk;;Vedouci mladete — Alene Skrivanek Geskk dopisovatel —Jos. Vytopil AnglickY dopisovatel — Sylvia Lanovska.

ITYrodni schtze byla dosti pane zastoupena eleny radu a zpravy firednikit byly dobre a velmi chutna svaeina take. Byla to velmi pekna schilzka, takova spoleend beseda, ktera se protahla do 7 hodin veeer.

Oblibenemu fediteli Domova Odpoeinku SPJST v Taylor, bratru Rudolf Troubilovi, rodak z Nesedlovic v naeem Kyjoyskem okresu, posilam moje aby tvoje zdravieko se hodne zlepeilo a mohl jeete dalsi roky ftditi ZeskY Domov ku spokojenosti tech, kteif se nachazeji v Domove. ✓ novem roce znovu do prace, aby jednota SPJST byla lepel a silnejei.

Dne 31. prosince ye etvrtek v den toho silvestra, feude jsou poradanY ty zabavy na rozloueeni se se starym rokern a ptivitati NovY rok a u nas v SoMoyne v Ennis jako obyeejne budeme miti peknau zahavu pri oblibene hudbe Ed. Faraizla z Fort Worth.

Ptijd'te veichni se pobaviti. Nevim proe na toho silvestra bYry6, tak veselo — asi ten sv. Silvestr musel se rad napiti, kdy2 ho tak rad lide napodobuji.

O silvestru kdyby mel taludek nice, myslim, te by dal mnohernu. facku, kdyt ho majitel nuti ptijmout co taludek nechce a mnohy dava, toho moc do toho taludku. Veeho z mirou.

Bratr Anton DYmdeek v Mineola, Texas, 'Oen radu eislo 135 rodak z Krucenburgu nyni je to Kfitova ma narozeniny na den toho silvestra a proto milt' Tondo dej pozor, aby jsi jate mnoho daleich narozenin se dotvoji man'telce dela spoleenika.

S pozdravem Jos. Vytopil -SPJSTkid Jaromir C. 54 ve West (pozde dodano) Mili bratfi a sestry, v3-7roeni schuze nakho eadu se ko-

a

nala 6. prosince ye dve hodiny odpol.

Naveteva byla obstojna, vzdana Cest vlajce, pak oten protokol a prijat. Mistopredseda Albin Sulak sdelil, ze predseda Robert Cervenka slouti radu jako ptedseda jit 40 let a byl odmenen diamantovYm ependlikem za jeho praci v HI. firadovni. Nat rad je jemu vdeenY za jeho dlouho obetavou praci.

Nastala volba firednikfl. Znovuzvolen jako predseda radu Robert Cervenka, rnistopfedseda Albin Sulak, Frank to6ek tajemnik, Joe Mazanec ffeetnik, Joe Barton pokladnik, Edmund March stra. Na zabavni vYbor byli zvoleni Raymond Voleik, Ernest Zahirniak, a Ray Barton. Dopisovatelky jsou sestra Elenora Voleik anglicky a moje manekost do Ceske east.

Pak se jednalo o Vananim programu ustanoveno pro mladet, sestra Estelle Marek vedouci mladete a Adele NC mec vypomocna. Program se bude odbYvat dne 20. prosince. Katda sestra ma donest nejaky zakusek a darek na vymeneni, dolar pro dospele a 50 centil pro deti. Chci pri teto priletitosti YYslovit vSem moje prani k VeselYm nocim a St'astnemu Novemu Roku a hlavne hodne zdravi v ptietim roku.

Litujem, ze naee dobra dopisovatelka, sestra Bennie Soukup se vzdala firadu neb nam konala dobrou praci.

Rada jsem s ni pracovala a doufam, to bude east° mezi nas chodit. Preji ji yeecko dobreho. 2elhne, to naee dobra sestra Frances Popp byla vane nemocna, vzpominame na ni v naeich modlitbach. Byla opero yand v nemoc/del Scott & White v Temple. Doufame, ze bude zase brzy mezi nami. Teel nas, .te bratr E. W. Popp se pozdravil pa jeho operaci na oko tak Ze mute znovu chodit do obchodu.

Zas nam odeSel jeden ze zakladajicich Menu a to bratr Rudolph Barton, bYval firednikem v fade mnoho let.

Zemfel ye staid 78 let ye svem domoye pti Abbott. Pohrebni obrady vykonali fatal"- Gordon Hejl z West a fafar P. J. Kostohryz z Temple v Bratrskem kostele ye West, pochoyan byl na BratskY-m hititove ve West dne 11. prosince. Zanechal mantelku, etyrl syny Harry, Jerry a Ervin; jednu dceru (chovanku) Tracy Wright; 6 vnukft.

Cest bucifti jeho pamatce a pozustall nccht' pfijmou nai nejhlubid soustrast.

S pozdravem Mollie Barton, dopis.

ale steedu dne 23. prosince 1964 Dallas, Texas CtenY pane Morris.

Chci podekovat veern co peispeli na darky pro Veterany v tomto gpitale Lisbon, penetnimi dary bylo toho 46 Krouiek eeskyeh ken D. StranskY, M. Stransk3r. ,A Herdial, A. Pokladnik, M. Nesuda, R. Kopeeek, J. Lanieek, V. Sykora, J. Slovak, A. Hendrix, J. Malik, A. Steiner, F. Steiner, M. Prevratil, T. Vedera, A. Houdek, A. Koza, A. Horak, A. Machac, J. Jurosek, M. Schefeak, T. Dukk, Salinas, Calif., Potiebne yea od B. Valeik, M. Dueek, A. Bunker, Braeky od R. Kopeeek.

Veem darcum srdee'nSr dik. Radostne Vance a etesti, zdravi, v novem Roku 65 pfeje Marie Toberna -SPJSTVanoeni veCirek v Linden Hall Mill eleni a pratele: Nat vanoeni veeirek se pane vyda-v sobotu veeer 12. prosince. Sin byla pina Clem), a hostfi a malSreh deti, ktere eekaly at Santa Claus pfijde. Sin byla pekne vyzdobena a krasnSr velkSr stromek cely( osvetlenk stal v jednom rohu sine.

Frances Miller peedeikala, modlitbu pted jidlem a pak si kazdy napinil bylo riizneho jidla, vkchno dobre a mohl si vybrat co kdo chtel.

Po jidle peedseda Otto Hanug povolal Chris Otto Spence, aby vzdal Cest vlajce a fSechni peitomni ta se podileli. Pak byly peedstaveni vkchny byvale kralovny a statni kral a kralovna; vgichni iftednici a jejich manklky, feditele a jejich manklky, peedseda hlavni idadovny bratr a sestra Edward Marek, Bratr a sestra R. A. UrbanovskSr, bratr a sestra Ben 2abeik, dale bratr a sestra Alvin Nesuda, bratr Jim Kneera, statni teditel mlada.e, bratr a sestra Nick Morris, redaktor Vestniku a eiditel nakho zpevniho sboru a bratr Robert eervenka. TeSilo nas velice, 2e v:Sichni k nam Peedseda Marek k nam pane promluvil o bratrstvi a co maji Vanoce znamenat v Lvote lidstva a dokoneil kra.snou modlitbou, dekoval v'Aem za sebe a mantelku za pozvanku k nam a ze pry je velice tesi s nami vanoeni veeirek ztravit a peal v gem Wastne a vesele svatky.

Peedseda Hann§ pfivital vgeehny 61eny a hosty.

Sestra Libbie Parma pak pfevzala program a rne"kolik darkii se rozdalo.

W 'Stredu -dne 23. prosince 1964 Darek od nas vSech pro predsedu Hanuk a, jeho manZelce, bratr Edward KP z.ane c za, nag peveckY sbor dal. Bratru Nick ,Morrisovi a jeho manZeice darek. Bratr Morris dekoval ySem a pravii, ze chee dat pochvalu a uznani tern m.ladiktun co nam pomohli pri sjezciu a v Dallas Fair. Mrzi nine, ze jsem aTiemohla ,pamatovat vSechny jmena, ale oni vedi, kteri to jsou a flak vrele diky jim vyslovujem. (Byli to Charles, Nemec, T. J. PISek, a Bennie Nors — red.) Sestra Estelle Motis rids pekne doprovazi na klavir a ji jsme tog dali darek. Diky ji te2 path. Cynthia Moore za mladeZ podala sestte Mazancove jejich darek, Frances Miller podala, sestte Libbie Parma a sestre La Nell Brem darek od dospele mlaideZe. Beverly Gaidukk podala darek Frances Miller a Norma Hensel podala Cynthia Moore te2 darek. Kathy Mazanec za sestru Mazanec podala darek sestte Parmove.

Prvni dverni cenu vyhrala Mary Sue Moore.

Druhou cenu vyhral Bratr Alvin Nesuela.

Treti cenu, vyhral bratr H. H. Vahrenkamp.

Bratr Nick Morris zatim otevrel svtli darek a mel radost, ze dostal elektricky strojek na holeni a dekoval nam a slibil, ze_ valycky prijde oholen do naS'ich zkoukk. _Pak zadal program deti a Frances Miller privitala vkchny pritomne za Na krasne vyzdobenem jevi§ti bylo narozeni spasitele.

Panna Maria byla Kay Gerlich Josef -byl Johnny Gaidigek JeZIA byl v jesliekach, tre kralove byli Johnny Engelke, Mike Kutni, Eddie Mazanec. PastYri byli Joyce Briggs.

Janice Briggs, Mike Galler, Thomas Galler,'Andele byly Melanie HanuS", Deborah Grolier, Margaret Gaidukk, Patricia Stanislav, Tana Kutni, a Julie Slovak.

Mengi deti co zpivali byly Cynthia Moore, Norma Hensel, Barbara Gaidukk, Kathy Moore, Donna Gerlich a Kathy Mazanec a oni zpivali "Away in a Manger", "0 come all ye Faithful," "Joy to the World", a Kathy Moore sama zazpivala "0 Holy Night" a vkchni zazpivali "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" Sestry Barbara Stanislav a Rose Marie Banik zazpivaly: "I heard the bells on Christmas Day" a naposled zazpivali brats' Nick Morris a sestra,

VESTNIK Barbara Stanislav velice kratsne "0 Holy Night".

Pak naS pevecky sbor zazpival "0 come, all Ye Faithful", "Angels We have Heard on High," jeden ver y anglicky a jeden Cesky "SlySeli jsme le", dale "First Noel", "Posvatna noc, "Silent Night anglicky a desk' a koneene 'Jingle Bells" aby Santa Calus SO. To jsme zpivali nekolikrat ine2 MikulaS" se dostavil a deti k nomu utikali se sniichem a pino radosti. KaZde dite dotalo darek a saeek ovoce a cukrovi.

Byl to velice pekny weer, kterY budem dlouho vzpominat.

Prejem vSem. firednikinn a jejich manZelkaim hlavni Uradovny .St'asline a vesele svatky, vkm elentim, cele redakci a bratru Morrisovi a jeho cele rodine.

Sestersk' pozdrav RtiZena Parma, dopisovatelka.

SPJST

Temple, Texas Oznanneni do Seaton a okoli:

Timto y am davam vedet, ze schitze Narodniho hititova v Seaton se bude konati v obchode T. T. Sefelka prvni nedell v lednu, totiZ 3. lecina 1965 ve dy e hodiny odp. Dostavte se do teto schtlze neb bude cifilelite jecinani.

Frank D. Mikeska, tajemnik SPJST- —

Svaz Cechoslovanu c. 92 ye Fort Worth

Bratri a sestry, oznamuji vYsledek voleb z na.H.vroeni schfize ze dne 13. prosince. Predseda Josef Paprskar, mistopredsecia Robert RUZleka, tajemnik Mary Paprskar, iteetni Joe Krivanek, poklaclnik John Murphy, pravodei Josef Botik.

Na Spravni vYbor byli zvoleni Carl Zich, Robert Easley, Frank BlaZek: na stanovni vybor byli zvoleni Albert Kubala, John Murphy a Joe Hubenak.

Vfidce mladeZe je Mary Paprskar.

Predsecikyne zabavniho vVboru je Victorie Murphy. Dopisovatele jsou desky Josef Beeain, anglicky Mary Paprskar.

Velkolepa a kolosalni veselice sylvestrova se bude konati v nisi sini dne 31. prosince, zaeatek. v 8 hodin \meet: aZ do rana ,noveho roku 1965 pH bucibe Charlie Nemec a jell() Starhters z West.

-vancia, bude poO vhodne pobaveni starano. Prijerte kdo bratrskcTm pozdravem a s pranim k Novemu Roku 1965 jsem VaCS dopisovatel Josef Beean

TeiXas Fort 1V 61 redaktore a p diky za 'cal< obHrnY to ina. prvni strance nakho Ve:.toms stran Dominika Napla y y, onoho prvniho vo.7 jina z Texaco padiello za s yobodu v prvni svetove vale. Zasluhuje,§ sknteend pochvaly. ,Ta se mimeluji Ti clat.tu•• pochvalu za colon eeskoslovenskon. .verejnost v Texasu a v Americe vubec.

Jo to he2ky vzorek redakdni price.

Dale, ei• •:, i 7voie rizeni Vestniku, metro jest velice uspokojive a ctivalihodne od kaZdeho elena SPJST a etenaiiiii Vestniku vtibec, Volam. Tab() Nazdar; Tvilj Josef Beear ---SPJST

broth! ) se;ia.y Kvituji dory pro I?onlov Odpoeinku a sice: 16 ticteni pamatky Anna DvorskV, p. a pi. Victor R. IVIikeska $5.00 K imam) pamatky pi, John Fronek rad Tiliyeala Svebody eisio 87 SPJST — $5.00 K ucteni pamatky Anne Ilabrnal, ta.cl Oslo 125 SPJST — $6.00 ucteni pamatky CharleS Martinek, pl. Josephine :Kuchar $2.00 p. a pi. Jim Martinek — $5.00 K ucteni pamatky Cyril F. Pokladnik, Ernest J. a Pearl Hanka — $5.00 K ucteni pamatky Rosie Sralla, Ernest J. a Pearl Hanka -- 5.00 Dcera a zet' Frank L. Hunka 25.00 K ucteni pamatky zemiielYch deti, decry a sad, pi. Rosalie Du.jka 5.00 K ucteni pamatk),T otce Joseph Sefeik, st., Ed. a Agnes Vlha — — 5.00 K ucteni parno.tky John Fojt, rad Komensky eislo 20 SPJST 5.00 K ucteni pamatky maim:inky Anna Fabian, pi. Stanley Fabian -- 3.00 K ucteni pamatky manZela Josef Ste^rtrek. a Anton a Franti§ka Potrekl, Agnes Stepanek 10.00 • uctani namatky Anton a FrantiSka Potrekl, p. a pi. Thomas Koneeek 5.00 K u teni parnatky Tom W. Mrazek, rad Robstown eis. 117 SPJST 5.00 Iii ucteni pamatky Charles Motteka Sid a Justine Pokladnik — 10.00 Josenb a Anna Ondrukk — 10,00 p. a pi. Otto W. Janou§ek — — 5.00 pi. Ha:"-ikovec a pi. Joe Honzovd. 2.00 K ucteni pama.ky Marie HaSkovec John a Antonio tilebetka, 4.00 ucteni parnatkv Woodrow P. Bryan, ___ 5.00 A. I,. BoudnY a rodina

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pi. Ruby L. Malish a rodina — 3.00 tad Praha eislo 29 SPJST — 5.00 K ucteni pamatky Karla a Jindticha Moueky, pi. Anna Herzan — 5.00 K ucteni pamatky Rose Sim.eik Ed a Agnes Mazanec — 5.00 K ucteni pamatky John J. Kunz tad KomenskY cis. 20 SPJST _ 5.00 — -- 10.00 Roclina E. G. Kunz K ucteni pamatky pi. John Cuba — 2.00 p. a pi. an Mohel — p. a pi. Albert KaSParek, st. 2.00 tad Praha cis. 29 SPJST — 5.00 K ucteni pamatky A. C. SvatopolskY tad aermak cis. 56 SPJST 5.0(1 K ucteni parnatky Anna Hatla 5.00 manZele John StaS'a — pi. Adolphie Macha — 5.00 K ucteni pamatky Frank Ehrenberger p. a pi. Henry Cechan — — 5.00 PelleZite prispeli Domovu nasledujici: p. a pi. Steve Lunak — — 5.00 p. a pi John Tykr — 15.00 p. Anna PSeneik, Mary Holick a Janie Nedbalek -- 2.75 — 10.00 pi. Tom Veeera Anton a Marie Bederka — 5.00 p. a pi. Ed Marek — — 5.00 pi. Anna Pokladnik, misto vanoenich listku — — — — 5.00 pan Frank a Jane Petrusek — 5.00 pi. John Hokelica a Carrie Jo -- 10.00 pi. Anton Dtiska nam darovala vy‘Sivani na The Taylor Jaycee-ettes ptinesli koovoce.

Pani Anton Polakk otechy.

Vkm clarcian nak vrele diky. Ptedem se omlouvam jestli jsme nekoho vynechali a neb udelali chybu. napiSte nam a milerad opravim. Jmenem Domova Odpoeinku naS'ich. -1Aech hostii Vam pfejem prijemne svatky Vanoeni mnoho zdaru v Novem roce, hlavne zdravi.

S bratrskYm pozdravem zustavam jako v2cly Vas Rudolf Troubil -SPJST

Gustav Kleinberger (v IIlasateli r.

1963).

PitED 45 ROKY BYLA UZNANA SAMOSTATNA eESKOSLOVENSKA ARMADA VE FRANCII Dokoneeni Eduard Benes zavital mezi nas, aby s nami sdilel radost z dekretu, pohovotil o politicks situaci, o naich cilech a povzbudil nas k boji. Organisace na'S. 1 narodni armady ye Francii teprve zaeinala a slo . nam o to, jaka bude. VZclyt' jsme byli vMchni dobrovolniky, nebylo mezi nami temer diistojnikti z povolani, vy'SkolenYch ye vo-

jensk9ch uciliUtich. Valku jsme nenavi- boj nam byl vnucen — sli jsme do ciziny vojensky nedostateene p11praveni.

OvSem v Cognacu mezi nami byli jiZ Octal, vehni zku'Serd dUstojnici, blame z rusks fronty. Byl to major Otakar Husak a jeho cltistojnici od Zborova.

Jini bojovali na DobrudZi, na solunske fronts, a jinde. — Zapadni spojeneckou frontu vSak nikdo neznal. Nelze se proto: dlvii, ze vrchni velitel zapadni fronty vyZadoval, aby naSi clUstojnici Iii nejprve na frontu na straZ do francouzskYch jednotek a aby vySSI dastojnici od velitele praporu poeinaje nalich pluktl ve Francii dalo se totiZ temer vYliradric,.‘ dobrovolniky z Ameriky a pro vzdalenost nemohlo pokraeovat talc rychle, jak jsme doufali. 23. pluk na frontu jiZ nekl y e Francii, ale zasalil hlavne po primeri doma do boje p11 obrane Slovenska.

Ihned po clekretu hldsilo se k nam sPontanne macho krajana ze SpojenYch stattl, ac men ten moZnost hlasit se do armady americke a to za podminek daleko vYhodnejSicia.

Velitelem nak brigady byl francouzsky plukovnik, pozdeji general Philippe. Vedl nas do boje v Olsasku a pozcleji v Champagni a v Ardernach, v bitvach . u Terronu a Vouziers. Velel pak u nas armadnimu sboru v Hradci Kralove.

Organisaci es. vojsk v zahraniei, — to jest i v Italii a na Rusi by1 poveren francouzskY general Janin. byvaly spolupracovnik marSala Joffra.

Na jate roku 1918, kdy2 president Poincare odevzdal slavnostne prapor 21. pluku v Darney a za pritomnosti zastupcU vlad, spojeneckYch uznal Narodni radu za prozatimni eeskoslovenskou vladu, ocleMi jsme na frontu. Plukovnik Philippe svetil mi stra, praporu.

Tato cost ulozila ml, myslim, nejen symbolicke povinnosti — prveho praporeenika naSich plakft y e Francii, ale povinnost vernosti francouzsko deskoslovenskeinu ptatelstvi.

Po lett nail svobodne republiky — za presidenta Masaryka, snaZih jsme se vybudovat lepSi svet, lepsi Evropu.

Vite, jak naSe na.deje byly zklamany ,mnichovskou smlouvou. Tato smlouva zdala se bYt mnotrYln z nas koncem naS'eho ptatelstvi s Francii, ba dokonce koncem Francie. Co Mnichov byl, vim dobte. Treba:'7:,e jsem se po prize svetove valce trvale usadil ye Francii, zastihl mne Mnichov opet u 21. Os. pluku v adslavi.

Ve stkedu dne 23. prosince 1964 Vim tedy dobte, co holkosti nalil Mnichov do VaSich srdci. Mnichov byl vS. ak pohromou celeho zapadu. francouzska, vlada na ni nese jiste velkou zodpovednost. — To ale nebyla Francie nebyl to duch Francie. A Ouch Francie nezemtel. — Ve druhe svetove valce mel jsem 'Casio prilaitost zdnraznit v naSl statni rade, jakY by to byl omyl, kdybychom se trvale od Francie odvratili.

Kdy2 bylo nejlant, Francie v2dy naSla mule velkeho srdce, ktery ji ved1 k viterstvi. V prve svetove valce to byl Georges Clemenceau. Dnes je to Charles de Gaulle. Dnes je Francie opet v poptedi zapadni civilisace a v poptedi mocnosti zapadni Evropy.

Bez Francie nebude svobodna, Evropa, jen s Francii pujde politicky vyvoj v Evrope smerem k svobode eloveka a tedy i eeskoslovenskeho lidu.

Svoboda ovkin nebude vybojoyana jiZ valkou. Valka by znamenala zhoukti lidskeho pokoleni. To dnes vidi v1-adci Sovetskeho svazu.

Nak osvobozeni vSak ptijde za, sti Francie. To, prosim, drazi ptatele, mejte na pameti a nezapominejme na slova Masarykova: "JeliS a ne cisat! — To je smysl naSich dejin."

Dnes miiZeme dodat, ze je to i anysl budoutenosti civilisace lidstva. rybniku, Heel( a Fotolift Nebudou to jinni Cechy, ktere jsou nejpopularnejSim krajem rybnikti, kam etenare chci temito radky zavest. I zapadni Morava, ktera vlastne svou oblasti navazuje na jinni Cechy, ma jich naseto tolik, Ze bez nich by ztratila sviij charakteristickY raz. Jen v nejbliZSina okoli NemeSte nad Oslavou je jich pies dve stoyky.

Jako stlibrite skvrny na ktidlech motyla perlet'ovce, jsou rozsety mezi mozajkou poll, zelenych WaynatYch Ink a malebnych lesti a lesiktil. 00 NOramee, pi-es Pozdatin k NameSti nad Oslavou, v souvislYch shlucich davaji podhorske krajine malebnY kolorit, mnoha lidem obZivu, tidkYm turisttim, taborniktim, trampiktim, milenctim a hlavne rybattlm a jinym lidem, kteri maji radi klid — radost ze Zivota. Dlimyslnou soustavou struh, nahonft a pottiekt jsou spojeny navzajem, napaji jeden druheho a vkchny svym v1hkym dechem zavla2Zuji vzduch celeho kraje. Rortodivne jsou jejich tvary, rortodivna i jejich jmena: Vrbines, Ostrovec, NovY, Mad, Netulil, Stejskal, eepieka a mnoho a mnoho ji° nYch, ktere jim HOC vymyslili, podle

Ve streclu tine 23. prosince 1964 tvartl, obsahu, majitelft. Najdete je na na ysicla i hluboko mezi lesy, v oborach, mezi leukami i i oli. Ziakaji kaateno, kdo ma rad posezeni na jejich hrazich.

Jejich hladina malokdy klidna, sama uklicinuje.

Na podzim nektere vydechuji takou vtlni bahna. To jscu v pohybu. Jsou YetSiny vypouSteny, aby vydaly Urodu.

Je doba jejich Zni, doba vylovu, IcterY se deje odliSne od vYlovti rybnikt1 jihoCeskYch, kde se lovi pomoci nevodu.

Zde na NameSt'sku je vypouSteji as na rnalou rozlohu kolem braze, a houfy ryb se prcste vybiraji saky a nosi do lejt, z nichZ je trial a rozvaZeji do sa- dek a rybniktil komorovYch k prezimovani. Takovym kemprovYm rybnikem je Rathan, v bezprostredni blizkosti Naposlednich par let velke siciliSte. Hloubkou pies closet meted., zaraeaje vpuStenYm rybam pot •ebny zimni klid. T •eba ze neni nejvetSi rozlohou, ma ale ze vSech rybnikti nejvet'Si obsah vody, pies 600,000 krychlovYch meted. BYva loven na late a ryby odtud se venal do rybnikU vYkrinovYch. Jaro u nich (leto si necham na konec) se projevuje jinak. To kolem nich prochazeji ornitologove a pozve-li vas ornitolog na jarni prochazku tirnto krajem, nikdy neodmitnete. Byl jsein s jednim z nich, ueitelern Smitalem z NameWe nad Oslavou u NetuSila. Preskakujeme ‘Siroce rozvodneny potneek a po prikrem brehu hlavni hraze S'plhame k vocle. V posledni chvili zahledneme jeWe dve Come skvrny potapejicich se rohaeil eernokrIcych, kteri byli prekvapeni blizko u kraje. Na rybnice jakoby Mvota nebylo. Jen zdanlive. Nasad'te si treidr a. jak zazrak! Tady pet, dal sedm, mezi dva velci vod-, ni ptaci se pohupuji mezi duh:ove vInami. Parek s jasne bilYmi naprsenkami, to jsou rohaei velci, ti tri vzadu (jeden prave vzletll jsou kachny Mieaci (maji zobak rozSireny do 12ielcoviteho tvaru). Tech pet to jsou polaci velci a houf vzadu kachny chechtave. Od nich napravo s krasne krkem je ostralka. Nekolik hnclecleS'edivYch ptakti, sotva je okem ye stejne zabarvenem prostredi postrehne'A mihavYm a neklidnYrn letem opoudti barnisko sluky otavni. Na zpateeni caste mne rikt1 mtij laskavy prilvodce, Ze zde ornitolog mine za jaro, leto a podzim uvidet na osmdesat ciruhti vodniho ptactva. Sam ma itpinou sbirku jejich vajfeek.

Bezesporu nejkrasnejS'i je u nameStskVch rybnikft leto. C' ista vonici voda chlacli a tithe proStredi mezi lesy a tvetoucimi loukarni ulebei unavenYm

v Namesti nact Oslavou nervum. Jen krok a jsi ve smrei nebo ve smiSenem lose, abys objevil kolonii zdravYch hub, ei na pasece se do syta najedi ke krajici chleba s maslem vonicich jahod, maim, nekcie i boravek.

Unaven si pak lehne'S na hrazi a IlechaS se kolebat jak ty viny choralem leta do spanku, snad se 1 vykoupeS a osveZen In veeeru dostihl clomov.

Prekrasne jsou name'St'ske rybniky.

MUZete kolem nich bloudit cele hodiny, na jaro, v late, na podzim iv zime, za mlhavYch ran, di Zhaveho poledne i tepleho yeeera. vo,dy objevite neco. noveho, co vas zaujme a zdr21. Kdo jednou navWvil nain gt'ske rybniky, podlehne jejich kouzlu, tak typicky Ceskemu prostredi, ze se k nim stale vraci. verlia z Rakous do eeskYch zemi. Take v okoli je •ada mist zajimavYch pro turisty. Je to nape. Kandl ►iv nalyn, vrch Libin s vyhlidkou vezi aj.

Kulturni pfinos

Mestska pamatkova rc ce rvnce v Praebtleich Praehatiee byly za • azeny do stitcin ehrinenYch pamatko yYch rezervaci.

Mesto nia velky poect krIsnYch starYch dm-2M zejmena z doby renesance, z Wehi, •ada jii byla restaurovana a da1§1 se opravuji. BYvala literatska La, kteron podle traclice nav4evoval Jan Hos, byla ro y nei s nakladem opravena a spolu s ni zachranena buctouenosti i bYvala solnice. Frachaflee Iezi na bYvale, Zlate stezee,

Harmonikaf Zdenek Vlach na, gramfonove desce Krajanska firma na vYrobu gramofonovYch desek Gamut Records v Hartford, Conn., prave vydala d ye velmi zajimave novinky. Na jedne hraje eesky virtuos na harmoniku Zdenek Vlach nejoblibenejS'i melodic se svetoveho repertoiru; na druhe jstou stare ruske pisne v provedeni ruskeho zpevaka Borise Evtushenka, jenZ pasobil radu let v Oeskoslovensku.

Vzacna Vlachova schopnost je zachycena na jeho desce "L'Accordeon Romantique". 'Jake v kaleidoskopu se na ni stridaji melodie nejrozmanitejSiho ptivodu, ktere v gak poji dohromady jedna vet. Je to mistrovske provedeni Vlachovo, pine citu a vYrazu, at' ua hraje sines eeskYch a slovenskYch pisni, ei ohnivY mad'arskY eardak tklivou melodii z Prodane nevesty "Verne milovani," nebo velkolepou "Granadu". Krorne techto skladeb je na desce joSte lest pisni ruskYch, italskYch, srbskYch, tyrolskYch, typicke francouzske valeiky, Chopinova melodie (Vyznani lasky), 6ajkovskeho Ro-

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mance, Fibichdv Poem, Moonlight Se renade, od Glena Miller a nekolik jinych. Deska prinese posluchaetim nanoho hodin prijemneho posleehu a dobre nalady.

skrz - through, on account of mimo - besides, out of (town), miss (the target). na - on pod - under v - in pied - in front of po - after mezi - is between nod - over

--SP.1.43T

Poiske museum--v Americe Predstavitele polskeho musea v timemeriee se seSii fine 1. listopadu v hotelu Sherman. Pritomno bylo 40 elenti reditelstva. Jednani zahajil bkedseda Walerian Karcz a rozvinul program a fl ee' postaveni polskeho musea v Americe bud' zde v Chicagu a nebo pkimo ye; Washingtone, D. C. ,Tednotlivi elenove keditelstva podavali zpravy kaZdy ze sveho Useku prdee a svereneho oboru.

Referent -pro obstarani mista, pozemku, rozmerti pozemku a budovy dr. Rytla oznamil, ze museum postaven bude, ale prisluniei polskeho naroda z dfivodu vYznam.0 jak pro Polaky samotne, tak i pro eizinee a AmeriCany je'Ste neshodli, v kterem meste bude toto museum, ktere me upominat nos lieu polskeho pnvodu v Americe jak po strance kulturni, tak i vojenske, telocviene sportovni umeleeke a technieke.

Pokladni sleena Adela Lagodzinska oznamila, ze se v pokladne za pal roku, kdy2 se rozhocill museum polske vybudovat, seslo se jiZ $27,768.32 a to ze je jen od znamVeh, Ze ofjcieJne sbirku jete nezaeala a jak vYsledek ukazuje, penez bade, (lost.

Je obdivuhodne, jak Polaci, kteki jsou rovneZ rozMipeni v nekolik skupin, jsou jednotni a dokaZi velke veer, jakmile jde o vet a yYznam celomirodni. _SPiSTSpoti'ebit6e Kultury Nakladatelstvi St. Martin's Press wave vydalo knihu Alvina Tofflera "Spotkibetele kultury", kterd se zabYva jednak fenontenainim vzvtistem yerejneho zajkau v USA c umeni za uplynulYeh 15 let, jednak finanenimi a spravnimi problemy nevydeleenYch kulturnich instituci, j ako muzei a syn-1fonickYch orchestra. Tuition se dOMIliva, ze tato "kulturni exploze" souvisi jednak s blahobytem obyvatelstva USA, ktere podporuje kulturu jednak' ze skuteeneho zajmn, jednak 1 ze snobismu. Toffler odhaduje, ze o kulturu se dnes zajima asi 45 milioni) Aineri6aTento zajem zpusobil ruzne revoluee, v prve rad.a tn, ze penize na pcdnilry fines neposkytele jen nek-olik railion6a:slleh rodin, n}'brz 1)2 ne korporace a nadace, udrZiovane z prispevkil Menu z fad strednich vrstev.

ye stredu - dne- 23. pi'eSine& 1964

Assignment Construct sentences, using all of the above prepositions.

Lekec dn,e dvacatA - Lesson 29 The proposition - Predluika There are 2 types of prepositionze.; primary and secondary Trin ary prepositions are v, na, bez, etc., ad secondary prepositions are formed from declinable words through combination with primary prepositions, such as o-kola, po-dil, etc.

There are also prepositional phrases, frequently used by people in the journalistic profession, such as: v diisledku neeeho, v ramci neeeho, etc.

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Here is a list of the most commonly 1. prepositions: lssz - without die - according to (short form of podle - according to pod el - along, alongside vedle - beside de - into dovniti - (go) inside kolera round, around around, bypass - besides, with the exception of - place, spot fâ&#x20AC;˘ern, away from ed - in the center of se anal s - with ze and z - out of, from.. . u-at.. itr - inside behem - during the course of . as isteilkem - as . a result of . za uCelem - for the purpose of. v dUsle dku - as a result of ... na zaldade - on the basis of. .. k, ice, and ku - to, up to proti -- against -_ across from - in regards to.

- because of. , . an. - after, behind pro - for (also through and along, when used as a prefix lures - across

Translate the following into Czech: 1, He came without his hat.

2. According to her, she no longer cares.

3. The scenery was beautiful along the river.

4. She sat beside her husband.

5. Father said, "go into the house!"

6: Mother called "go inside!"

7. The ring of beseda dancers went round and round.

8. They danced around the wedded pair.

9, There is no one here besides Inc. 10. What a beautiful place!

11. I am from the region of Domailice.

12. They sat in the middle of the circle.

13. Come with us!

14. He ran from the fire.

15. Is she at their home?

16. During the conversation, I learnend he was from Chicago.

17. As a result of our conversation, we started corresponding.

18. We went for the purpose of looking at the art exhibition.

19. On the basis of these figures, we can proceed, 20. Go up to him and greet him.

21. Walk un to the wall and look over.

22. They live across from us.

23. Because of her, we got wet.

24. She followed her brother.

25. Do this for me, please.

26. Walk across the street carefully.

27. I was out of town on business.

28. His shot missed the target.

29. Sit on the bench.

31. Mier the meeting, a social will be held.

32. A oicture hangs over the mantle piece.

33. There is mud under the table.

34. We stopped in front of the gate.

35. Come join us!

Some of the listed prepositions have other meanings than those listed, especially when they are used as prefixes. Ex.: PRO-iel, PRO-zkoumat, PRO-myslit, PRO-hrat, PRO-delat. A f, 00d dictionary must be consulted for these various uses and meanings.

Wednesday, December 23, 1964

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May the Joys of This Christmas Season Be With Each and Everyone of You SUPREME LODGE SPJS EDWARD L.

MAREK,

President

JOHN A. KUBENA, Director

JOE B. HEJNY, Vice President

HENRY E. VITEK, Director

R. A. URBANOVSKY, Secretary

R1BERT CERVENKA, Director

JOS. KOLIHA,

JR.,

Treasurer

ROBERT E. BROZ, Director

BEN ZABCIK, Financial Secretary

J. M. SKRABANEK, Director

AUGUST KACIR, Legal Adviser

ED P. SRALLA, Director

DR. MARVIN LESHIKAR, Med. Director

CHAS. HOLASEK, Director

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Oii il ICIAL ORGAN OF SLAVONIC BENEVOLENT ORDER OF THE STATE OF TEXAS FOUNDED 1897

TNtIE

Wednesday, December 23 19U4

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Reports from our Lodges, or any other Reading Material to be pubp oled should reach the Editor, Saturday before the date of issue.

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

—HERALD—

Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 With Undeliverable Co p ies to SUPREME LODGE SPJST, P.O. Box 100, TEMPLE, TEM

FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK THAT CHRISTMAS GIFT December invariably brings with it the difficulty of deciding what to select as appropriate Christmas gifts for members of the family. Fraternal field representatives might well align themselves as active aids to Santa Claus and to worried husbands and fathers in solving this important problem.

We have ail heard of the Christmas gift certificates issued by some of the larger stores, which enable the recipient to select his own gifts up to the limit of the face value of the certificate. While this type of gift certificate no doubt solves the problem very effectively in some cases, why not present the thought of a Christmas gift certificate consisting of a certificate of membership and insurance in a fraternal beneficiary society? Surely no certificate or other gift could mean more to the recipient, not only at Christmas time but on through the years.

The perfect gift is not notable primarily for its beauty or its intrinsic value, but rather for the thoughtfulness and love which goes with it. There are few gifts which can be pUrchased for money which express these qualities to the extent that they are shown by a fraternal insurance certificate.

The purchase of life insurance in itself expresses love and thoughtfulness for the protection of the family. No investment could be wiser. Even with the amount of inflation that we have, life insurance is still the cheapest item on the market.

The amount of insurance carried is important because what may have sufficed, 10, 1.5-, 20, years ago, is no longer enough. At this point, it may be well to mention that when local lodge officials pay death claims to the beneficiaries, they might explain the advantages of our various insurance plans and encourage the individual to purchase new insurance to replace

MAY THE VISION, THE BLESSINGS, AND THE JOYS OF THIS HOLIDAY SEASON ABIDE WITH EACH OF YOU NOW AND THROUGHOUT THE COMING YEAR! THE EDITOR, THE; PUBLISHER, AND ENTIRE VESTNIK PERSONNEL. the deceased member. By the same token, when a matured endowment policy is paid, to suggest to the member a renewal of a policy. o e A fraternal juvenile certificate is an ideal gift, carrying with it practical values and other benefits which can be enjoyed before the practical aspects are realized.

All boys and girls like parties, they enjoy games and association with other children, and they are fond of meetings and the ritualism of the juvenile lodge, in which they will have an opportunity to take part. Any boy or girl knows of the many good times which his friends enjoy in their juvenile lodges, and wishes that he could share in them. A juvenile certificate will give him these things immediately, and in addition will aid in instilling in him high ideals and principles of good citizenship.

Then, in later years, the boy or girl

will come to realize the practical aspects of the gift. He will come to realize the true meaning of life insurance, and will appreciate the fact that he was given an early start in building his life insurance estate. Thus the juvenile certificate gives the immediate pleasure a gift to a child should supply, and also is a gift which will always be appreciated, o It is a good thing to observe Christmas Day. The mere marking of times and season, when men agree to stop work and make merry together, is a wise and wholesome custom. It helps one to feel the supremacy of the common life over the individual life.

Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people and to remember what other people have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you and to think of what you owe the world; to put your rights in the background and your duties in the middle distance and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground; to see that your fellow men are just as real as you are and try to look behind their faces to their hearts; to know that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life but what you are going to give to life — are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas.

Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and the desires of little children; to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you and ask yourself whether you love them enough; to bear in mind the things that other people have to bear on their hearts; to make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open — are you willing to do these things even for a day?

Then you can keep Christmas.

Are you willing to believe that love

Wednesday, December 23, 1964 is the strongest thing in the world — stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death? Then you can keep Christmas. And if you can keep it for a day, why not always?

VESTNIK

nary policies, although group life insurance is also up substantially. The percentage increase in credit life insurance in force is larger than for any other major category. Purchases of in4 dustrial life insurance show a slight "...AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD dip, but the amount of industrial inWELL TOWARD MEN" surance in force is virtually unchangLet us pray that strength and coured. age abundant be given to all who work The increases reflect the fact that, for a world of reason and understandon the average, Americans are buying ing -- that the good that lies in every larger policies than ever before. The man's heart may day by day be number of new policies show relatively magnified — much smaller gains than the amounts That men will come to see more; of new life insurance, clearly not that which divides them, Life insurance executives cited sevbut that which unites them — eral important factors behind the That each hour may bring us closer surge in purchases in 19466: "C o tinaT victory, net of nation over —The strength of the American riation, %;;", of man over his own evils economy. With production, employand wea:nas 3sas that the true Spirit ment and incomes all showing imof this C,n±istmas Season, its joy, its portant increases this year, families beauty, its hope and above all its abidneed more protection and could afford ing faith, may live among us --- that to buy more. the blessings of peace be ours, the —The cut in federal income taxes, peace to build and grow, to live in which probably had a psychological harmony and sympathy with others, effect as well as providing extra funds to plan for the future with confidence. for life insurance.

—The growing numbers of young 9 0 people who are getting married and 'TIS CHRISTMAS . starting families.

—Greater public awareness of the . . It is Christmas need for life insurance, and its vital and I wish you happiness, role in building financial security for and tomorrow, because it will be families. the day after Christmas, California again bought more ordiI shall still wish you happiness nary life insurance than any other and so on through the year. state and had by far the largest dolGood will to you is what I mean, lar increase. New York continued to in the spirit of Christmas.

—Ifcnry van Dyke rank second and Texas third. But Texas had a larger increase than New York.

Be sure aid and read the tnature article Premium income of U. S. life insuron State Youth Leader Jim Kuecra in ance companies rose to an estimated the Czech Section, in both Czech and $22.3 billion in 1964, an increase of English. about $1.2 billion or 6 per cent. The total includes $14.8 billion in life inowamaassszpue., surance premiums (up $534 billion or 1964 SET RECORD 4 per cent); $5.6 billion in health and INSURANCE, PURC /ASES accident premiums (up $495 million or 10 per cent) and $1.9 billion in anThe Institute of Life Insurance estinuity considerations (up $158 million mates that purchases of life insurance or 9 per cent).

by American families during 1964 Policy reserves of U. S. life compacrossed the ::100 billion mark for the nies are estimated at $120.6 billion, an 'first time in a single year.

That would be an increase of about increase of $6.3 billion or 6 per cent $11 billion or 12 per cent over total during 1964. purchases in 1963.

OUTLOOK FOR 1965 The Institute also estimates about The underlying strength of the na$795 billion of life insurance in force throughout the United States at the tion's economy suggests that the cornend of 1064, an increase of $64 billion Ming year ought to compare very favorably with 1964 for business as a or 9 per cent over yean-end 1963. whole and for the life insurance busiBy far the largest dollar increase both in purcases and ownership repre- ness. But there are also some underlying strains, because of which the outsent individual protection under ordi-

13 look does not seem as clear now as it did a year ago.

We look for production to continue at a high level. The prospects are that general business activity will continue to expand throughout 1965, although possibly with some slowing down in the rate of expansion later in the year.

We expect employment to remain high, despite some persistent pockets of hardship. Personal incomes should continue to rise at a reasonable, healthy rate.

Mutual Goodwill Another important factor is the encouraging rapport that exists between business and other institutions, including government. This attitude of mutual goodwill is vital to the future of the American people. And the role of business in building a better future for all the people is perhaps more widely understood now than ever before.

Assuming no monetary upheaval during 1965 and a stable political situation , in the world, the life insurance business can confidently look forward to another year of expanding service to American families and leadership in providing investment capital for the growth of our economy.

PL'.rchases of life insurance during 1964 have shown an important increase over 1963. It is difficult to predict whether the year-to-year gains in 1965 will be as large as those of the past year, but we do expect to improve upon the record of 1964.

For the foreseeable future, there is every reason to believe that our business will continue in the forefront of America's overall progress. The need for life insurance to protect the income of American families has never been greater, And Americans seem to understand better than ever the importance of life insurance in their families' financial affairs.

Family Formations Also, there are more and more families being -formed, as Americans born in the World War II and post-war "baby boom" reach young adulthood.

During the first half of the present decade, the number of people between the ages of 20 and 2' is increasing by 411 an average of about ,..)0,000 persons or 4 per cent a year. During the latter 1960's the increases should average almost 700,000 or 5 per cent a year.

As these young people get started in their careers, get married and have children, they need substantial amounts of life insurance protection.

Helping them build a secure financial future will be a challenge to the life

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insurance business. Meeting this challenge will put a premium on good management throughout our business.

In fact, in my opinion, the single biggest problem facing all business, and one we cannot escape, is the recruiting and training of management personnel adequate to the responsimilities of business. But the very fact that we are aware of it is the first step toward solving this problem, which will require the best minds and efforts of every company.

Institute of Life Insurance

-SPJ ST-

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DONATIONS/ACTS OF PUBLIC CHARITY Circle of Czech Women, Dallas Birthday Club Sisters, Houston Lodge No. 6E, Waco Lodge No. 51, Ettinger Lodge No. 47, Seaton Lodge No. 165, Moulton Lodge No. 14, Veseli Lodge No. 35, Elk

Officers re-elected at Lodge No. 165 Culak, Mot) L to R: Wm. Mikulencak — organizer, Adolph Wagner — secretary, Zat Johnson — 2nd vice president. Front: Fond. Krejci president, Jerome Vasek financial secretary.

(Is your lodge listed?)

Features A TRIP TO MOULTON On Sunday, December 13th, your editor visited Lodge Culak No. 165, just east of Moulton, on the Gonzales highway. I arrived just after the lodge meeting had gotten started, on a cord Sunday that found the women folk huddled around a nice hot stove in the lodge hall, 3 miles west of Moulton.

The Culak lodge was organized on November 14, 1950. Shortly after, the members purchased a county schoolhouse, which was up for sale after school districts were consolidated.

The building has been nicely painted inside and serves the needs of the lodge quite well. An event that attracts wide publicity in that area is the annual chicken noodle soup dinner, held in the winter months. This year, the dinner was held one week prior to my visit, something I regretted very much. Home-made noodles are used, the price is 35c a bowl, and there is always a huge crowd for this affair.

Lodge Culak has 183 adult active members. I failed to get the figures for the juvenile membership. They have one social member. Local lodge officers include EMU Krejci as president, 2nd vice president Zat Johnson, secretary

Sisters present at the recent lodge meeting at Lodge Culak, Moulton, were, rear, L to R: Viola Wagner, Bozena Fojt (reporter), Helen Vasek. Front: Anna Gertner, Julia Krejci.

Adolph Wagner, Jerome Vasek financial secretary, Wm. Mikulencak organizer, and Bozena Fojt is the reporter.

First vice president Roman Zidek was not present. All the officers were reelected by acclamation at this meeting.

Lodge Culak voted to make a nice contribution to some local charitable institution or project. They also voted to accept the SPJST banner being ordered by the Supreme Lodge.

A frank and open discussion was held and a wide range of problems was covered. As a rural lodge, it faces many of the same problems that other rural lodges (face: a lack of young people, young folks leavin g the farms for the bigger urban centers, and rather stiff competition from other fraternals operating in that area. Nevertheless, lodge spirit is high and there are hopes that things will improve.

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Cola% No. 10, Moulton. A al two-room country No. 1 5 converted it into a nice meeting place. (Details in acconnjanying article).

Here, in the .big middle ef the oldest Czech settlements in Texas, it was once again proven that if-you talk and delve into family histories deep enough, you will discover that just about everyone is related, one way or another, to almost everybody else, and that someone knows somebody that you know. It was from this general area that Czechs fanned out into other parts of Texas -- northward, northwestward, cast, and west.

It was a very enjoyable visit, and I thank you peed sisters and brothers of Lodge Calak for our mutual exchange of ideas and views, and for your warm reception. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Editor.

JOAN RICE AND BARRY KIDD

EXCHANGE VOWS Miss Joan Andeth Rice and Barry Gentry Kidd were married November 25, at eight o'clock in the evening at Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, Texas, with the Reverend Dean Milton Richardson officiating.

"Oh Perfect Love" as a solo, was sung byl urri. and M. 1:,arrY L. Rice are the parents of bride, and the groom is the eon of Mr. and Mrs. Gentry Kidd of Houston.

The bride, given in marriage by her father, chose for her wedding a gown of light ivory peau de sole. The sculptured bodice was fashioned with a circle decollatage outlined with reembroidered Alencon lace that came over the to of the long tapered sleeves and into the hack where small buttons extended. The dome-shaped skirt was marked by lavish applique of the beautiful French lace and curved into a circular train of court length.

Roses of the silk held tiers of ivory illusion that floated over back of the

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gown to beyond the train's hemline, and she carried a. white Prayer Book with a white orchid.

Sea coral velveteen was chosen for Miss Barbara Rich, the maid of honor, and the bridesmaids, Miss Connie Lynn Rice, sister of the bride; Mrs. Jon Montague, sister of the groom and Miss Lois Grasshoff. The fitted bodices were styled with high ring necklines and long sleeves, and a cording of the velveteen encircled the waistlines. The softly pleated skirts were worn at ',formal length. Bow bandeaux of the coral velveteen and matching silk slippers completed their costumes.

The groom was attended by Peter Hamel as best man, with Michael

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Bucek, of Cape Girdeau, Missouri, nephew of the bride; Jon Montague and Buddy 'Moore served as groomsmen. The ushers were Don Plumlee and Bill Phillips.

Immediately following the ceremony, a a reception was held in the Crystal Ballroom of the Rice Hotel, with William Hilsher's orchestra playing for the evening.

For her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Rice chose a turetaoise chiffon floor length gown with pearls and crystal beaded to the waistline, with matching accessories.

The bride is a graduate of Spring Branch High School and attended Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville.

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The groom's schools include Texas Military Institute, Texas Christian University and the University of Houston.

For their wedding trip to New Orleans, Mrs. Kidd's travel ensemble was a camelia velveteen suit with black accessories and an orchid corsage.

Mr. and Mrs. Kidd are living at 3601 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas.

Joan is a member of SPJST Lodge 88, Houston and is a past princess of that lodge.

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thought that Dad had been spared this grief.

Twenty years have passed. The years have been long and many — the tears even more. There is no consolation .. . what is lost is lost . . . it cannot be replaced. We loved you so . . . we grieve and weep today as we did that day. Mother and Dad have joined you .. what a Happy Reunion that must have been!

Your Brothers and Sisters • • August Joe Lee Zavodny, son of the late Joe and Lydia Zavodny, was a member of SPJST Lodge Cyclone, Cesky Prapor No. 24. He joined the service on November 9, 1962. He took training at Fort Riley, Kansas, Camp Maxey, Texas, and completed his training in England where he arrived in November 1943. He went into combat a few days after the invasion and remained on the battlefront for four months. He lost his young life at the age of 23, somewhere in Belgium. He served with the 38th Cavalry Reconnaisance Unit (Mechani•ed).

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LODGE 66 CHORAL GROUP, WACO

AUGUST JOE ZAVODNY 1944-1961 It all started with a telegram, "We regret to inform you . . . killed in action in Belgium." OUT minds screamed, "no, no, God, please not him!"

For days, weeks, months and years we kept a secret hope alive in our hearts. There could have been a mistake; it has happened.

Then a few of his personal belongings arrived — the pictures, billfold, a few foreign coins, and a well-worn, bloodstained rosary.

Three years later on a cold November day, the flag-draped cofin arrived.

How we waited for you; how we hungered for the first sight of your dear face; how we knew your first words would be, "Hi everybody! I'm home.

Let's have something good to eat."

And now this . .

We laid you to rest beside your father, and we drew comfort from the

Dear Members and Readers: The Lodge 66 Choral Group has had a very eventful and successful year.

This past September marked our first year anniversary. and that year has been packed with many exciting performances. Our very first public appearance was at the spring 1964 District III meeting at Cotonwood.

Since Lodge 66 was host to the XIX SPJST General Convention, the choral group was part of the coronation program at the Coronation Banquet in the Karem Temple Ballroom. In response to those who have since asked, we wish to list the choral selections we performed that evening. They were: "Aj, lucka lucka," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " "Ja som Slovak," "Home On The Range," "Nest'astny Safaruv Dvoracek," "America, The Beautiful," and the finale number, "Battle Hymn of the Republic." We were joined on the latter number by Mr. Jesse Young and his famous Conn Organ, and a special brass ensemble with tympani' made up of some very talented young people from West High School. Incidentally, this group also augmented the choral group on "America, the beautiful." If the applause and comments afterward were any indication of how the performance was received, we may conclude that it was indeed a huge success.

Our next performance Was at the

Wednesday, December 23, 1964 State Talent Contest at Holland on September 20th. There we sang "Santa Lucia," "Nest'astny Safaruv Dvorecek," "Lil' Liza Jane," "Aj Lucka, Lucka," and "America, The Beautiful," and Battle Hymn of the Republic," the latter two augmented by the brass ensemble from West. That same day, we sang at the parish picnic at Marak, where we sang from the same repertoire.

Then came the fall meeting of District III at Elk. There we sang "Lil' Liza Jane," "Ja jsem z Kutne Horny," "Blue Skirt Waltz" (in both Czech and English), and "Beyond The Sunset," with "America, The Beautiful" as an encore.

In September, we forgot to mention a good many of OUT group joined with Brother Morris' church choir at West for a special performance, a combination farewell-welcome at St. Joseph's hall in West for Fathers Bonhard (farewell) and Foltyn (welcome). On that occasion, the two choirs were joined by the brass ensemble in "0, God Of Lovliness," a hymn played by the USAF Band at President Kennedy's funeral, "Battle Hymn of The Republic," and "Aj, Lucka, Lucka."

Our choral group joined With the choral group of Lodge 84, Dallas, and the KJT-KJZT singers, to sing the following selections at Czech Day at the State Fair at Dallas on October 11th: "Co se nam mute stat," "Aj, Lucka, Lucka," "Vzpominame," "Jetelicek u vody," and the finale number, "America, The Beatutiful," the latter accompanied by the brass ensemble from West High School. We traveled to Dallas once by chartered bus to participate in a rehearsal about a month before Czech Day. At the annual Christmas program at Linden Hall on December 12th, we sang several beautiful Christmas carols, both in Czech and English. They were: "0 Come, All Ye . Faithful," "Andele jsme slyseli" ("Angels. We Mave Heard on High"), "The First Nowell," "Posvatna noc," and "Ticha noc, svata noc" ("Silent Night, Holy Night").

As this is being written there are plans (not yet definite) to sing for a choral concert at the .SPJST Rest Home in Taylor sometime between Christmas and New Year's. There are other things in store for us early in 1965 which you will be hearing about.

Our choral group has bought and accumulated quite a library of music. both 'cviginal Czech selections and English. Sister Libbie Parma has done

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tole Cihiar, Choral Group, Lodge 66, Waco, observed it first year anniversary in September of -I is Hedviga Mattis Marie Janecka, Agnes Mazanec, Libbie Parma (librarian), Barbara, Stanislav (treasurer), e..-ey (no longer with the group), Estelle Motis (accompanist). Middle row: Rose Parma, Ella Mat, fl-.., l ta;:.:c necka, Hanus, Marie Caiduek, Shirley Gerik (no longer with the group), Nick A. Morris (director). Wachs raw: k Miller, John Simeik, Carroll Simcfk, Edward Mazanec, Jr., Ed Ma zanec, Johnnie Gaidusek, Marvin Mai) ,•oup, Mr. Roman Parma, and Otto. Hanus. Not shown are Otto Mattis, and two couples who recently joined thf.‘ clior and Mrs. John Kutni, and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Macha. The abo%e picture was taken of the group jus: nTioe their performance at the Convention Coronation Banquet last June, 1964 . The ladies have also donned taltiform O' ,'- ses, black with white collars. a tremendous job of maintaining an elates his time and efforts. We are all better off for having this choral group ever-growing library of music. We try as one of our lodge organizations. Both, to sing all our selections in two, three, and four-part harmony, mostly SATB. director and choir enjoy the most ami-, cable relationship and the cooperation We like the variety of both English is splendid. Much credit also goes to and Czech songs, thereby satisfying our accompanist, Mrs. Estelle Motis of the musical tastes of those who unWest, who is also organist for Brother derstand either one of the two lanMorris' choir there. She hasn't missed guages. Much credit goes to Brother a single rehearsal.

Marvin Matus, who donated so much Officers of our group are Ed Ma-, of his work and time preparing some of our music sheets, and lately, our zanee — president; Roman Parma — vice president; Barbara Stanislav — thanks go to Brother John Kutni for doing the same job. John and his treasurer; Libbie Parma — librarian; Frank Miller — secretary and reporter. wife are two of our latest additions It's been a wonderful year. We trust to the choral group, as are Sister and that we can make even further strideS Brother Louis Macha. We now number right at 35 voices. The members at- 'forward in 1065. The Choral Group of Lodge 66, Waco (Elm Mott) wishes all tend rehearsals regularly, held most of you the very Merriest Christmas of the time every Thursday in Linden Hall. Some of the arrangements we and the best of New Years!

Fraternally, have learned have nat been easy, and Frank Miller,. all of them have required a good deal Reporter of rehearsal, , going over passages of SPJSTmusic again and again. That's the only way to learn it. As the Czech saying Tree Customs goes, "bez grace nejsou ant kolace."

The Christmas tree custom was We are grateful to our director, started in the United States by Hessian Brother Nick Morris for the many solders fighting with the British Army hours he devoted to this work. He does in 1776. German immigrants who later came to this country continued the this in addition to directing St. Cecelia's Mixed Choir in West. We are custom as they had done in the "old fOrtunate to ,have him, Lodge 66 appre- country."

FOR CHRISTMAS TAUf,7ES A Mirex. Glass Factory em ploye in Jabionec, - Czechoslovakia, pUts the finishing touches on Christmas tree decorations before they are baxed and shipped, The Czech plant manufactuxes 60,000 dozen glitte,:ni ,:; Christmas artifacts each year, the majority of which are shipped to Italy, Noland, England, France. Canada, and the United States..

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LETTERS LODGE SLOVAN NO. 9, SNOOK

Dear Members, In our annual meeting in November officers were elected for 1 1 965. The officers are as follows: Richard Vajdak — President Moody Faust — Vice President E. R. Jakubik — Secretary Richard Junek Financial Secy.

Frank Jakubik — Treasurer Committees will be elected in th6 January meeting.

The lodge decided in the last meeting to see if we can lease the hall in the future. If any of our members are interested, have your sealed bids in before the January meeting. In the January meeting, we wish to also announce that we are planning a social after the meeting to which the ladies have agreed to bring cakes, pies, kolaches, and coffee for a snack.

Please try to be present at this meeting so we can decide on leasing the hall.

Fraternally yours, E, R. Jakubik, secretary GREETINGS FROM DISTRICT 6 LODGE PRIMORI NO. 143, INEZ

Dear Sisters and Brothers: Since the year 1964 is drawing to a close and will soon become history, I feel that I should visit with you through our organ the Vestnik and thank you for your cooperation and good work during this year. Especially I want to thank you good organizers for securing new members for our Fraternal Order, the SPIET. Your good work is appreciated, and I do hope that you can continue in the coming year.

I have enjoyed working with you, and am looking forward to working with you in the coming year. It is my wish to secure more new members in the future.

I want to take this opportunity to extend to you my best wishes for a Merry Christmas, and a Happy new Year. May you have Happiness, Health, and Good Fortune.

Fraternally yours, Leo Krause, Jr. Organizer, District 6 —riPJSTFLORESVILLE, TEXAS

Dear Fellow Members, I hope everyone is enjoying our cold weather. I sure am because to me it's another reminder that Christmas is near and that soon the streets will be crowded with shoppers, bundled up

warm, shopping for that special something for that special someone.

During Christmas 'everyone is happy because old Saint Nick will soon come down the chimney or through the door as the case may be, with gifts for everyone. But the most important reason for everyone's happiness is that it is Christmas. Merry Christmas and may God bless you all.

Fraternally, Judy Polasek Dist. Seven Queen --SPJST--

LODGE NO. 48, BEYERSVILLE

Dear Members and Friends, Our annual meeting was held December 6 at 2 p.m., and was called to order by President B. C. Stalmach.

Minutes were read by secretary J. W. Maresh and were approved as read.

We then held our election for the coming year. Officers are: President: B. C. Stalmach Vice President: Leon Shiller Secretary: J. W. Maresh Treasurer: Mrs. Gilbert Shiller Financial Secretary: Richard Batla Reporter: Alfred Gensler Sergeant-at-Arms: Eugene Greenles Our Christmas party was a success and there were a lot of new laces.

Santa Claus was there to visit the children and everyone had a great time.

Our new members this past month are: Beverly Joan Wolfel, Carol June Wolfel, Janet Joyce Wolfel, and Edward Monroe Wolfel. Additional members are Annie Svoboda, and Ned Fails.

The door prize went to Billy Shiller of Austin. Next month it will be secen dollars.

We'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Fraternally, Mrs. Edwin Turek SPJST

RESERVATIONS FOR NEW YEWS FIT DANCE, LODGE 92, ET. WORTH Table reservations are now open for the New Year's Eve Dance at SPJST Lodge No, 92, 3316 Roberts Cut-off Rd., Fort Worth. Charlie Nemec and The Hi-Liters Orchestra will furnish the music for the evening for both young and old, starting at 8:30 p.m. Horns and caps will be available for your enjoyment. Tickets will sell tor only $2.50 per person, or $5.00 per couple. We will be happy to accommodate as many couples or persons as you wish to make reservations for. Tickets are on sale at the Hall, MA 4-0251, or call me at MA 6-5707, and I will mail the tickets to you. Call in your reservations as early as possible for choice of tables.

First come, first choice. Tickets will

Wednesday, December 23, 1904 be sold at the door that evening, but no promise of choice tables. There will be plenty of fun in store for you: just come out and help ring in the New Year. Support your lodge.

Fraternally, Joe Krivanek Committee Chairman 2924 N. W. 28th St. Fort Worth, Texas 76106 Phone MA 6-5707 SPJST

RESERVATIONS. FOR NEW YEAR'S DANCE AT LODGE NO. 88, HOUSTON

Table reservations are now open for the New Year's Eve Dance at SPJST Lodge No. 88, 1140 Robbie in Houston, and will close on Monday, midnight, December 228th. This will be our last time to celebrate the old year out at at our present lodge location, and we hope to make it a gala occasion.

Wm. Hilsher and his Rhythm Kings will furnish the music for the evening for both young and old, starting at 8 p.m. till — ?. Nice table decorations will prevail on all tables. Horns, caps, trinkets, balloons, and other New Year favors will be available for your enjoyment. Tickets will sell for only $3.00 per person, or $0.00 per couple.

We will be happy to accommodate as many couples or persons as you wish to make reservations for. We do ask, however, that only one person from each group or party make the collections of the tickets and mails them to me, and I will immediately mail you the tickets. Call in your reservations as early as possible for choice of tables.

First come, first choice. Tickets will be sold at the, door that evening, but no tables promised. So round up your group, and call me. There'll be plenty of fun in store for you; just come out and help ring in the New Year. Support your lodge!

Harley Cox, Entertainment Chairman, 1430 Hewitt Drive Houston 18, Texas OV 2-2402 24J02

LODGE NO. 35, ELK Dear Vestnik Readers: Our regular meeting was held Sunday, December 13. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Linda Pavelka and Janie Pavelka.

The RVOS held their meeting first and elected officers for another year.

Visitors recognized by President Antone Pavelka were Sister Ethel Breitkreutz, Brother Raymond Pavolovsky, Brother and Sister Bill Rauschhuber of West, and of course, our regular visitors.

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Wednesday, December 23, 1901 New members accepted were Ronnie Robert 1Vh--Lvek, Terry Lynn Marck, Gary Don Jackson, Donald Ray Jackson, Margaret Ann Jackson, Shari Lynn -Williams, Timothy Alan Farck, Carolyn Jane Salk. Cathy Lynne Herndon, Jessie Dean and Lucille Williams, Minutes were read and approved as read.

A thank-you note was read from Brother Willie Navara for the gift the lodge sent him.

Youth Leader Sister Ruby PaveJim ; read an invitation -1-rem Lodge 66 to their teen Christmas Party.

'Iwo persons were reported on the sick list; t thel Gaskamp and Brother Henry Farek. Hope you both are feeling better by now.

The lodge hall was all decorated in style for Christmas. The ones who did the job, were Sisters Ruby Pay-elk-a., Norma Paveika, Rosemarie Banik; Brothers Charlie Pavelka, Albert Banks, Vernon Wood, Antone Pavelka.

Thanks to all of you. The decorations gave the people the Christmas spirit.

We had election of officers and the following were elected: President — Antone Pavelka Vice Pres. — Henry Breitkreutz Secy•.Treasurer — Rudolph Zalman Reporter — Rosemarie Banik Youth Leader — Ruby Paveika Floor Chairman — Edward Armstrong Bar Chairman — Vernon Woad Assistant — Charlie Paveika Kitchen Chairman -- Mrs. Frank Lassetter Cleans p Chairman — John Mach Trustees — Theodore Bordovsky, Dorothy Banik, Charlie Pavelka Auditor's — Clarence Hoffman, Billy Bordovsky.

After the meeting we had our Christmas party. The Youth Club gave a program of Christmas songs and recitations. All the children were good but the little ones ware really good.

Charlotte Banik, 3 years old, counted 1 through 10 in three different languages, German, Czech, and English, for all the old timers. Thanks to the Youth Club and the Youth Leader for the splendid program you had!

The ladies served a turkey supper with all the trimmings to about 200' people. We hope all you visitors enjoyed it and come back again.

Then Santa Claus came; the children were all excited to see him.

They all talked to him, and he gave them all a bag of fruit and candy.

Albin Maths, a member of our lodge,

brought also callhis bend. ed on all the talented I): there, so vie had plenty of music t*. rest of the night.

It was a v.‘ronderful Chrisimas party.

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Cincinnati to receive my ..eectilicate nci Table from the pr, !.1 cut of the. to ;onio of exTE3en:vo' ; consistas." listirance Mg or people who societo cempanies, associkti, tics which are on the 1' I reserve code of basis. The preamble of ti ethics of NAL.X..1 says: UnderThe position of the Li w 'her is tini-tue in that he :lie liaison h:. :• (111.inaber) and his (Order). es a ' .rd pis IJrile he

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Fraternally, Mrs. Wallace Bartek Youth Director am, Dear Broil:I, Late in 1061 T v. • as an organi . :T for Lod.Dec r Recently, eared in the Vestnik ;7_31.s. Robert, immediate past president of Beaumont Ludge 166, mid Bro. Frank Ber;-;n, organizer ter Lodge Woodrow Galveston. Both referred to These have reminded me been thinking for sofa.• writing to let you kno.,• .13rother Cerny has helped to : p ;cceed as an insurallee sales 1-eiP1-1,Ontativ p for amp •Orcier, Then today I saw

by Brothers more hAters in the and ArAlvin H. Melnar, F. A. a. „ hold Vrla, which all r. er Cerny 's fine work. Til• I noticed Brother Jaroslav explicit letter.R(P.ading Pr•,lli to pi-ilk's letter definitely decided -a write a fe y/ lines.

Up to now, representing our Order to prosp ective new members has meant happiness for roe. Brother Cerny has guided me into membership in the 'Women Leader q. Round Table of the Nat1enal writers. ft Jy for as many as he can sary effort One the most pleasuraLT.e e • periences of my life was my appearance, before the international convention of the Women Leaders Round Table of the National

e. betty 01 cccl any obligations." introduced'ie to the Brother Ce luso., world al convincing; me that, I activity in which • and that I would be fascinated • and inspired by my experiences as I increasmy ability to appreciate •.opportunities that would come my y. ay. He stressed all or that when he first apnroached me, and he keii ;:•9,?.ating it yaw for over and CVO: Until myself that it was re:• My _lather, Frank Z • • 1 116: 1 , whose family settled in Austin. Cat; .•dy near Sealy in 1887, was involvrj with our Order ever since I have any memory of him. My mother, Rosie &-..1..;:cka, who still lives in Sealy and '..;.110 regularly dr1ves into Houston to spend a few dny,S at a time with me, my . husband Lowman, and my son Larry,' still retains lac-2 membership in their old lodge, Lodge Nova Vlast, SF, S1' No. 37, at Frydek.

Iviy first reall„ sigraificant meeting with Brother Cerny WaS during one evening late in 1961 after he telephoned :for •an appointment to talk to me and my husband. Brother Corny came out to our house at about 7 p.m.

W e talked pinta after 11 o'clock. The idea he brought with him was completely at odds with a statement I had made shortly after we moved into the For what new house whe ..e we now 0 which inover us. iian that no matter what happened "a life insurance salesman was something that I would never be." But, that night when he first came over to our house

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on a visit, Brother Jarda Cerny convinced me and my husband that he was offering me an opportunity which was even then appealing to me.

When you give consideration to how your father and mother were both long-time members, you must concede that you have a powerful inherited interest in the SPJST," he insisted.

It was after I disclosed how much I enjoyed using the Czech language, and never hesitated to let anybody know of my pride in my Slavic background,; Brother Cerny really bore down on his theme that there were very promising, possibilities in the idea he was proposn

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SiE. 1,...l'ATIVE FOR THE Sr5ST. He stated if I would agree to follow his guidance he in turn would promise that I would achieve a success greater than any I had ever hoped for. By way of explanation, he said the SPJS'F was ready to accept some new points of view which, could not possibly have been introduced even a few years ago.

Fie felt there would be enough support thrown behind his activities as they were demonstrated to be sound and effective to more than offset the inevitable complaints and criticisms which he felt would be aroused by the impact of the changes. in short, Brother Jarda Cerny was asking me to make it my practice to devote myself to a scheduled plan of work. He said he wanted me to become an example of what could be done by a life insurance sales representative of the SPJST who was willing to go out into the world to which the SPJST was a stranger. He wanted me to organize a file of prospects whom I would obtain through personal solicitation in places other than lodge functions. He, asserted that ni7f/ best op p ortunity to do a good job would came from taking a missionary attitude, which meant I would be expected to go outside the circles all other organizers moved in. He emphasized that it would not be any picnic, but would take lots of hard work. I feel sure he had by then determined I was a restless and energetic person who leaned to doing many things outside my home.

So Brother Jarda Cerny ta.11,ed use for the is into selling' We :ft a soon proven to me that an enjoyable occupation. in Tact, I got to liking to on much that I neglected to keep my eye on the economic effect the work had on my fam-

ily finances. Brother Cerny was careful to impress upon me the conviction that I would not get rich selling life insurance for the SPJST. He stressed that I would earn every dime I was ever paid if I succeeded in writing a substantial volume of applications for membership in our Order, because any substantial success I enjoyed would come from more Work than I had ever devoted to anything before, it would take much of my time, it would require much persOnal sacrifice, and it would be expensive. On the other hand. one point I soon learned to be true was that my greatest satisfaction would come fl. oin knowing that I was aiding my brother and sister fellow members of the SPJST obtain a greater safety for their equity in our Order by helping to spread the risks on all lives insured over a wider basis.

There were times when it was awfully hard to swallow some of Brother Cerny's reasoning, Two things stuck in my craw for conte a while. But now I am glad that Brother Cerny did as he did. What happened there were tames vihen I dNcuissed with him ideas -for writing out descriptions of inserance plans for prospects to conside • . Be went along with me about how the proposals should be written.

IJ- a.eally something about them caught his attention and he made some suggestions. Then he left it up to me to work out the proposals in their final form. After that, I prepared lots of 'written proposals, many of which helped me close some nice sales. Then, one clay I found out he had a stock of asso • ted proposal forms in his office which he could have let me use. I was really burned up with Brother Cerny because of that. It was real easy to tell him her I .felt about his putting me to co much unnecessary work when titere were forms available all ready oat. T was mad and didn't g t the tine accept his explanation that it ■-.) ,:riefitted me immensely to learn. to make out proposals tailored to the neecki of my prospects. In looking hac!k over my experiences I am now very '1.a.ft. I learned to be original with my proposals.

The other thing that hacked me for a long time 'A': that Brother Cerny did 710t give me any prospects. Somewhere, T. the idea that it was the respiim. ; ::iity of the District Organize.r . to provide local organizers with prospects to call on. It took me some time to realize that 90 per cent of a life insurance salesman's time

Wednesday, December 23, 1934 goes into finding prospects. The District Organizer simply does not have the time or the opportunity fo g prospecting. It is the local organizer's job.

Brother Cerny kept telling me that he very seldom got a prospect. 'I hen he pointed out that when he did get one he usually needed the prospect for the purpose of stimulating some other organizer out of stagnancy, or on occasion to help a new organizer get started with organizing work. I understood that to be a logical explanation and was afterward no longer displeased because of not getting prospects from Brother Cerny.

This letter is becoming longer than what I started out to write, but with so much coming to mind about experiences as an or ganizer it seems appropriate to mention something that will be remembered by all delegates from District 5 to the Waco Convention. It will probably interest you to know that Brother Cerny is principally responsible for the retention of Oa, field supervisory system used by our Order as exemplified by District Organizers. At the final judgment of the delegates there was almost unanimous approval of the proposition that Brother Cerny should be retained along with all the other fine organizers of the districts. After the delegates in convention rejected the proposal that he and the other District Organizers be dispensed with, Brother Cerny spoke to the District Five delegates when they were selecting Brother Ernest J. Hanka as their new District Director about his plans for working with the district.

Brother Cerny explained tint he was not satisfied with the one-sided power of Lodge 88 in District Five. He explained further that it was his intention to return to the district to work out a plan for enough increase of membership in the other lodges of the district to bring them up to a level of ability to take their proper place of influence. One thing that he emphasized at that time, though, was that there was no way to accomplish that objective until after Lodge 88 itself was established as a stimulant to all the SPJST. Successful development of Lodge 88 as a shining example of what can be done by an individual unit of our Order is 11 ow well on its way to realization. Some other lodges in District Five are already beginning to respond to this wonderful stimulus, Brother Cerny has overc:;ote many problems as he has worked for improvement and betterment of condi-

Wednesday, Joe mber 23, 1964 tions in the district. He will probably be confronted by more serious problems from time to time, but with the help of all of us who are interested lit improvetneY.it and bottelna ent conditions in our district we should all be able to achieve our goal. It is my very great pleasure to publicly thank him for responding to the vast number of times I called on him to help me with problems arising from my organizational activities.

In closing, here's wishing every one of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Fr ate rn a ily, Lillian Kruse Lod ge Poi:rok No. 811 LODGE NO. 50, CORPUS (1=7" Dear Readers: Our last meeting was held December 13, 1964. We had the election of officers and they are as follows: President Adolph Sassin, Vice-President Libbie Peters, Secretary John Stasa, Financial Secretary Annie Castro, Financial Treasurer Annie Peel; Sick Callers are Libbie Peters, Jul u:, Majek and Charlie Tiolasek. Book Auditors are Charlie Majek, Charlie Holosek, and Roy Peel. Resolution Committee: John Stasa, Adolph SEtssin, Charlie Holasek.

We are also going to start our youth club and I would like for all of the parents to bring their children so we can get started. The new youth leader is Mrs. Charlie Mejek and her assistant is Mrs. Frank Majek. They will have their election of officers January 10, 1965. I think it will be a lot of fun, so all of you children that are interested come and join in.

I'll close for now and I will have another letter next month.

Sincerely, Libbie Peters Your Reporter (Good luck with your youth work!

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December 17, 1964 Dear Brothers and Sisters: Listed below cue selected organizers who represent local lodges in District 5, other than Lodge 88. The Columns by years show how much they have written in those years.

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1963 Oranezr Lodge 1962 1931 Anna Baker $ 1,000 111 Frank Beran 146 $ 8,000 64,500 59,000 Join Blinka 81 1,000 5,000 E. E. Cat:Peron 82,000 139 A, V. Franek 81 1,000 2,000 4,000 Bessie Franck 69,000 78,000 81 50,500 81 Leroy llamas 35,000 32,500 14,000 Louis 1 t.rupota 81 3,000 48,000 A. J. 41,500 91 33,000 Alvin 142 18,500 15,500 9,500 Joseph i‘•:• • 132 1,000 Joe Perricone 2,000 106 3,000 Jury Pioehazim 22,000 6,000 1,000 65 Robert Soimbeing 166 9,000 Suchma 81 1,000 6,000 Lutivik Surm:ec 112 6,000 3,000 $134,000 Increase ov a' previous year:

$227,000

$309,500

$ 33,000

$14•,500

The production of District Five Director Sm. J. M. Skrabanek, has been left nfr because it would com pletely distort the significance of this report. Most of his applications have been made as a result of real estate loans. In order not to confuse business which is part of a real estate brokerage consideration with the applications obtained by the other oTganizers in the district, his name is not included. It is easy to see that the production by these other or ganizers is rapidly increasing all the time.

Fraternally, Jarda Cerny District Organizer, District Five t of the IJistziet teas sat ewhaat negiectet..

Testnik, page 22, Dec, 16, 1961 IN DISTRICT 5 FOR 1062, 1963, PRODUCTION 4).:1,' y -1' 14:10NTII13 IN 11164 aelive lodges in District Five, (Included are two lodges which were dormant when present District Organizer was appointed). . however,

Lodge 68 81.

88 112 139 ** 142 146 166

19132, $ 6.000 75,000 260,500 33,000 5,000 618,000 11,000 8,000 17,000

1363 $ 1,000 106,000 453,000 41,500 7,000 537,000 19,000 59,000 1,000

Revived lodges.

These figures include insurance Written, with real estate loans in the following an 017,005 •*** Two organizers lout because of death and disability. New organizers being developed.

536,000

11 Mos, in 1961 $ 22,000 118,500 1,166,140 48,000 6,000 2.87,000 18,500 64,500 11,000

205,000

Jarda Cerny District Organizer, District Five

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SPET Bulletin Board Lodge No. 88, Houston All who want reservations for Lodge 88's New Year's Eve Dance call Harley Cox, OV 2-2402, or mail your money to him at 1430 Hewitt Drive, Houston 77018. Reservations may be made from now through Monday, December 28.

You can make reservations for as many as you like.

-SPJSTSCHEDULE OE SPRING DISTRICT AIEETINC:S The spring meeting of District I will be held on Sunday, May 2nd, 1965 at Kovar Hall. Host to the meeting will be Lodge No. 38.

District III will hold its spring meeting on March 14th, 1965. Host Lodge is No. 154. Sokol Hall, Fort Worth.

-SPJSTThe spring meeting of District V will be held on March 28, 1965. Time and place will be announced later.

-SPJSTDistrict VI will hold its spring meeting at Lodge No. 153, in La Salle. Date has been set- for the first Sunday in March, March 7th, 1965.

-SPJSTDistrict Seren will hold its spring meeting on April 25th, 1965. Robstown Lod ge No. 117 will be host to the meeting in the Community Hall.

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LODGE NO. 39, BRYAN Wheelock, Texas Dear Readers, We had a meeting Sunday. It sure was a wonderful meeting. We had 57 in the meeting that could vote. With the children there were about 100 of us there. We had a wonderful attendance.

I wish we had that many every meeting. You all come to every meeting; I love to see our meetings grow. That shows that people are interested in our meetings.

Our Christmas party turned out good, too. We all had a good time.

There were 60 of us there. It was more like a good old house dance.

Daddy is putting up the Christmas tree. I hope everyone is ready for Christmas. I am not- because I don't have any money. Mother and daddy did their shopping ,Saturday.

We got our pictures today at school.

So I am sending one to the Vestnik. I will get out for Christmas the 18th of December. Boy, I am glad.! But I feel sorry for the mothers with the children around for two weeks. Mother

said she's going to keep us busy.

I will close for now I hope everyone will have a really nice Christmas and a Happy New Year.

God bless everyone.

Love, Kathy .Manthei (The picture will appear with your next letter. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Editor).

-SPJSTLODGE NO. 39, BRYAN Wheelock, Texas Dear Readers, How is everybody these days? I am glad that it is almost Christmas. I went out in the woods this evening to get our Christmas tree. Daddy is putting it up now. It's pretty. I got all my Christmas shopping done. I am just waiting for Santa to come. I sure wish Ludy could be at home for Christmas.

I miss him so much. I hope he has a good Christmas and a happy one, too.

I was at the meeting Sunday. We really had lots of fun. We played football all evening. I wish they had a meeting every Sunday. It sure was a big meeting. I enjoyed it. Thank you, Aunt Albino, for our party. It was so sweet of you to give us a party. I also thank the nice ladies for those good cookies they brought for OUT party. We all had a real nice time.

Bye and good luck, Gary Manthei -SPJSTLODGE NO. 54, WEST Dear Readers, It sure is cold today, and another cold blast is on the way. I am dreaming of a white Christmas. We are getting out of school on December 22. Oh yes, we will have a Christmas Dance at our hall December 25th and also- on December 31st; music by the Rhythm Kings, so let's all come out and dance.

Our next meeting is January 3rd at 2 p.m. The Youth Club will have their election of officers.

I am wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a HaPpy New Year. May God Bless you all.

Shirley Nemec Reporter --SPJE3TPlum Pudding Plum pudding evolved from an early English dish known as "trumenty."

Traditional at the English Christmas feast, "frumenty" consisted of wheat boiled until the grains burst and after straining, reboiled with broth or milk and yolks of eggs. Somewhere along the line an imiginative cook added raisins, another added prunes, some mace, chopped suet, etc., and eventually the plumb pudding came into being.

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NECROLOGY RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY We , the undersigned Resolution Committee of Lodge Slovan No. 9 at Snook, Texas, wish to express our sincere sympathy to the bereaved family of our departed brother, JERRY CHARLIE VAJDAK, who passed away suddenly of a heart attack while on a hunting trip to Kindell County.

Funeral services were held on December 6, 1964, for the Snook Brethren Church and laid to rest in the Snook Cemetery, with Rev. John Gantt officiating.

Brother Vajdak was a rancher and a merchant, and really enjoyed deer hunting for his sport. He was a member of Snook Brethren Church and also SPJST Lodge No. 9.

He is survived by one brother, Eddie Vajdak, and one half brother Raymond Vajdak, both of Houston; four sisters, Mrs. Liddie Kovar and Mrs. Frances Sebesta of Snook, Mrs. Mary Kovar of Beasley, Mrs. Lottie Cervenka of Houston, and one half sister, Mrs. Rosalie Philpp also of Houston; and a number of nieces and nephews and a host of friends. Brother Vajdak will be missed by many.

May our departed brother rest in peace.

Bennie Hejl, Frank Fojt, Jr. E. R. Jakubik, â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Resolution Committee --SPJST-

RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY We, the undersigned Resolution Committee of Novy Tabor SPJST Lodge No. 17 at Caldwell, Texas, in behalf of our membership, wish to express our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family on the death of their husband and father and our beloved lodge brother, HENRY WALTER HEJL, who died suddenly of a heart attack on Saturday, December 5, 1964, immediately following the plowing of his garden and preparing it for spring planting.

Brother Hejl was born on September 17, 1904 in Snook, Texas, and moved to Caldwell in 1919 where he lived since. On January 19, 1932, he

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Wednesday, Decemb'er "23; 1964 . . married Miss Annie Krenek;Re.'was member of the Caldwell . Brethren Church, and the NoVy . Tabor ;SPJST Lodge. IDS hobbies Were fishing, huntnig,. and gardening, Brother Heil :was a truck driver for the Texaco wholesale: dealer.

• " . ;; ' ' He is survived by his tvilc. Annie, of onel 'son, thin -11'6 .1- 11 ell of Austin: arid his . Mother," Mrs. Iltisie Hejl, of" Cardwell: IWO Seven • brotherS arid five 'sisters: Funeral services" conditcted from ; ,the Caldwe4,,Brethren Church with Rev. Dan Marek and Rev. .Henry Reseda officiating: . Burial followed in the t Masonic Cemetery:,,-To::the loved ones and to our beloved brother, we wish eternal rest; ,;and may his memory be hondred-unte eternity.

'John t W. Vavra Meltin H2 Skrabanek —Resolution Committee SOLUTION OF' SYMPATHY

We, the undersigned Re,solution Committee of Slovanska Lipa, Lodge 66, in behalf of Our membership, hereby wish to express our sincere sympathy to the family of our beloved lodge brother, JOE KUCERA,

who passed away in a local hospital Sunday at 8:35 p.m., November 8, 1964, at the age of 68 years.

Funeral services Were held at 10 a.m. in St. Joseph's Catholic Church, with Father Walsh officiating, with burial in St. Mary's Cemetery at West.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Ann Kucera; one son, Rudolph J. Kucera of Decatur, Ala,; three .brothers, Frank Kucera and Bill Kucera both of West; and Charlie Kucera of 1325 North 62nd Street, Waco; seven sisters, Mrs. Albina Gronus of Abbott, Mrs. Millie Cepak of Bellmead, Mrs. Julie Baler, Mrs. Agnes Sembera, both of West, Mrs. Josephine Blagg of 2304 Shelton Street, in Bellmead, Mrs. Hattie Cinek of Waco, and Miss. Mary Kucera of Bellmead; four grandchildren.

Rosemary Spence Alice Bruns George,Trefny —SPJST

RESOLUTION OF SYAIPATHY

We, the undersigned Resolution Coinnittee of Lodge Praha No. 29, Taylor, Texas, wish to express our sincere sympathy to the bereaved family of our departed sister.

ALBINA CUBA,

who passed away December 1, 1964, in

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Taylor hospital at the age of 79 year 5 months and 17 days. On July 15, 1906; she was'married to John L. Cuba, who preceded her in death December 9, 1962. She was also preceded in death by one son, Edwin J.; nine sisters, and four brothers.

Survivors are six daughters; Mrs. Dan Kovar, Mrs. Wilburn Obermiller, Mrs. John Mrs. Cecil Kneip, Mrs. Daniel SVoboda, Mrs. Oakley Reed; six sons, Daniel Cuba, Alfred A. Cuba, John M. Cuba, Arnold Cuba, Lionel Cuba, Marvin L, Criba; a sister, Mrs. Anton Michalik; 25 grandchildren and font great-grandchildren.

Funerai services were held December 3, in Condra. Memorial Chapel, Rev. Jos. A. Barton and Rev: Gordon Hejl officiated.

May our departed sister rest in peace.

Lillian Kasparek Ben 1Vlikolaj L, Boudny —Resolution Committee

years. He was a good farmer; helping neighbors and friends and visiting with them was his favorite pasttime.

Survivors inculde his wife, Mrs. Terezie K. Busch; one son, Joe F. Dusek; and Miss Ella Dusek, all of San Antonio Prairie; Mrs. Joe (Millie) Blaha of Dime Box; Mrs. John (Margaret) Cottrell, Dime Box; one brother, Frank B. Busch of Harlingen; three sisters, Mrs. Charlie Kristof, Caldwell, Mrs. John Lesikar, Bastrop, Mrs. Ella Phillips, Pasadena; three granddaughters, and one great grandson. His parents, one brother, and two sisters preceded him in death. We join the family of our departed brother in their sorrow, and may their loved one rest in peace.

Joe F. Sebesta, Edwin Kristof, Franklin Sebesta, —Resolution Committee —SPJST---

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RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY

We, the undersigned Resolution Committee of Lodge Rovnost No. 7, in behalf of our members, wish to express our deepest sympathy to the bereaved family, of our departed brother, JOE JERRY DUSEK.

Brother Joe Dusek passed away after being ill for about, two months at his residence on Sunday, November 29, at 3;50 p.m. at the age of 80 years.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, December 1,1 at 2 p,m. from the Harvey-Schiller Funeral Chapel, with the Rev, Daniel J. Marek officiating, and was buried at the San Antonio Prairie Cemetery.

Sercing as pallbearers were A. P. Luksa, Raymond Jurica, J. D. Watson, Lee Roy Wiederhold, Willie J. Sebesta, Ben Wolz, Bill Blaha and R. G. Kretzer.

Joe Dusek was born July 4, 1884, in New Tabor to Josef and Rosalie (Sebesta) Dusek. He moved from the New Tabor Community as a boy to the San `Antonio Prairie Community and spent his entire life in Burleson County. He was married Nov. 30, 1905 to Terezie K. Kristoff. Brother Dusek was a member of the SPJST, Lodge No. 7, San Antonio Prairie, for 61 years, and also a member of the CSA lodge of New Tabor. Ile was treasurer of the SPJST lodge for about 40 years, and secretary of the CSA lodge for about 32 years.

He served as a school trustee for many

FIRST DAY OF ISSUE OF SOKOL STAMP IS FEB. 15, 1965

Postmaster General John A. Gronouski announced the first day of issue of the Sokol Physical Fitness Commemorative stamp as Monday, February 15, 1965. All signs are "Go" throughout the entire nation. Years of effort are crowned by the official recognition of the U.S. Government. One hundred and twenty million stamps will carry this news throughout the world and will be sought after reminders in millions of house; as long as philatelists avidly pursue this intelligent hobby.

Desire for physical fitness is expected to receive much needed impetus from the publicity associated with the Sokols Commemorative Stamp. Excursions are ebing planned from every corned of the United States to arrive in Washington, D. C. on Saturday, February 13th.. Dignified and imposing ceremonies will be held to make this historic event a memorable one.

1. Saturday evening, February 13th Physical Fitness program.

2. Official Banquet aria program on Sunday evening, February 14th at the Statler-Hilton Hotel at 6 p.m.

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3. First day of issue ceremonies on Monday, February 15th in the Departmental Auditorium. High government officials recognizing the value M' the Sokol movement will attend all of these. Other planned events will be wreath ceremonies at the Tomb of the 'Unknown Soldier and President Kennedy's grave, visit to the White House, and tours of the city.

What greater thrill could any Sokol expect to have Ulan to be an eyewitness and participant of what will occur in Washington, D.C. on February 0, 14, and 15, 1965. Here will be a great democracy's recognition of a century of devotion and the grand entrance into a new century to prove that the past was not a phantom, that within it thousands upon housands of the finest people of our ethnic group gave of themselves and what they had without a single doubt about the value of their efforts.

This is one time every conscientious Sokol would love to turn the clock back, to lift the veil of the unknown so that those magnificent souls that have passed on could share in a nations appreciation for what they did for us and cur country. Dy our presence we can also represent them and prove to the wcrld our determination to carry on the Sokol idea and ideals for which they gave so , much.

- ST: JST___ THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS

While the exact origin of the practice of kissing under the mistletoe is not known, there are several popular stories about it.

The Druids of ancient Britain paid it more than lip service—they thought it could heal diseases, neutralize poisons, and protect against witchcraft!

They wore charm bracelets and rings made of mistletoe, and fastened the plant over their doorways to ward off evil spirits.

A Scandinavian tale involves Frigga, the goddess of love and beauty, Researchers report that Frigga first made mistletoe an emblem of love and granted some lucky man a kiss be neath its branches — beginning a smacking good custom.

Of course, the Christmas tree is a center of attraction in most homes during the Yule season — a place of honor, incidentaly, solidly rooted in history. For thousands of years before Christ's birth, evergreen trees were revered by German tribesmen as symbols of immortality. When the pagans were converted to Christianity, they

transferred their feelings for the ever tzreen to the new religion.

The first person to put lights on a Christmas tree was Martin Luther.

Walking home one night shortly before Christmas, the Reformation leader felt a strong tie between the starry night and the love of God. At home, he placed candles on a little evergreen tree to help his children experience the same wonder of God's heavens. The custom grew and spread through Northern Europe,. then to America.

Tt'he word "carol" means to dance in a ring, and the man who popularized the practice was the beloved St Francis of Assisi. To bring the Christmas message vividly and directly to his 13th century villagers, most of whom could not read, he arranged 'a manger scene using real people and animals.

When the villagers came to see it, St. Francis led them in joyous celebration — "caroling."

About those Christmas stockings: one legend says that the original St. Nicholas who was a charitable Turkish bishop—taking pity on a man too poor to provide a dowry for his daughters, dropped gold pieces into a stocking hung up by the fire to dry.

One of the most recent of the popular Christmas customs is the Christmas customs is the Christmas card.

The first one was sent in 1845 by W. C. Dobson, one of Queen Victoria's favorite painters. Louis Prang of Boston made the first American Christmas cards in 1875, but only during the last 50 years has the practice of sending Yuletide cards become widespread.

History records many other Christ mas customs. But in all lands which celebrate this ancient holiday, the feelings of reverence and joy are the same.

--SPJST- HISTORY OF THE CHRISTMAS TREE

To most modern Americans the Christmas tree is a dazzling symbol of Yuletide gaiety. People flock to see such famous firs as the giant tree in New York's Rockefeller Plaza. But many people are unaware of the long and fascinating history behind this familiar Christthas sight.

The Bible tells how Jesus "bore our sins in His own body on the tree" (I Peter 2:24). According to Dr. Oswald Hoffmann, the Christmas tree does have great religious significance for many people around the world. However, trees were not always looked up on in the way we see them today.

In ancient Greece, for example, the

Wednesday, December 23, 1664 fir was sacred to the worshippers of Dionysius, and a branch tipped with cones and twined with ivy was carried in his honor . The wood of the silver fir was used in the ceiling of Solomon's temple.

Romans of pre-Christian times decorated a tall conifer in celebration of the arrival of winter. And primitive European tribes took fir trees into their homes to please the "tree spirits" who might then reward .them with immortality.

In the Votjak tribe of early Finland, the fir tree was regarded as sacred, and certain branches were thought of as family gods to which sacrifices must be made. Offerings of bread, meat and drink were given to a tree placed On the mantle; and the Votjaks believed that a new house couldn't be built unless a fir was placed under the roof, a cloth spread before the tree, and sacrifices laid out on the cloth!

The Ostyak tribe of Siberia used a fir pole to represent the fir tree, and they too, placed sacrifices before it. According to Dr. Hoffmann, one of the probable reasons for the popularity of the fir tree as a religious symbol was the fact that it was an evergreen: it always flourished through each of the four seasons, and was symbolic of a beloved God who was immortal.

In ancient Germany, the fir was said to cure gout! Some patients believed that if they went to a fir tree after sundown on three successive Fridays and recited a rhyme, they would transfer their gout to the tree; if it withered and died, the curse was thought to be working.

Germans of the Middle Ages put on church plays in which a "tree of Paradise" was cued to represent the garden of Eden. When authorities put a stop to public displays of this nature, the tree was transferred to the home, where some families hung cookies and fruit on it, The first person to Mit candles on a Christmas tree was the 16th century German theologian Martin Luther.

Dr. Hoffmann relates that while walking home one night shortly before Christmas, Luther felt a strong tie between the lovely forest he was in, the starry heavens above, and his love for God. At home he placed tapers on a little evergreen tree to recapture the scene for his children by showing them how beautiful the stars had looked through the high branches of the fir forest as they winked in the skies.

The custom of decorating a Christmas tree spread throughout Germany,

Wednesday, December 23, 1964 and eventually throughout Europe. It was introduced in England in 1841 by Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's German husband. German immigrants brought the practice to the U.S. in the 19th century. The first Christmas tree in America was displayed in Cambridge, Mass., in 1832.

The early twentieth century saw candles replaced by electric light bulbs as a safety measure, but fondness for setting up a glittering tree remained strong.

Some people regard it as unlucky to have an odd number of Christmas lights on the tree, and there are many who beileve it is necessary to remove the tree be`..bre Twelfth Night, or Epiphany. Other people say it is important that, decorations be removed before Candlemas (Feb. 2nd) or "misfortune" will follow.

In Central Europe it was thought that death of the master or mistress of the household would follow if a fir tree outside the home were struck by lightning. And in medieval Bavaria, poachers ate the seeds of a fir tree before dawn on St. John's morn to make themselves invisible from lawmen!

In modern America, however, the Christmas tree is looked upon as a symbol of joy and good will to others.

And, although it's straight and green, many children see it as curved and many-colored — as the rainbow at the bottom of which, on Christmas morning, they find the treasures they've waited for breathlessly.

Dr. Hoffmann quotes this refrain as an example of how so many adults feel about the Christmas tree (or Tannenbaum, as it was called by Martin Luther): "0 Tannenbaum! 0 Tannenbaum!

How richly God has decked thee!

Though bidst us true and faithful be, and trust in God unchangingly."

—SPJST----

LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS ABOUT CHRISTMAS Did you ever wonder about some of the strange Christmas customs celebrated in other parts of the world? Or how the more usual ways of celebrating Yuletide came into being?

The Swedes and Danes make a Christmas practice of baking a loaf in the shape of a boar-pig: the Yule Boar.

In some parts of Sweden, a man is wrapped in a skin, and he carries wisps of straw in his mouth so that they look like the bristles of a hog.

According to the Shulton Company, Queen Elizabeth really made the most

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In fact, ladies of the Court presented her with the first silk stockings worn in Europe.

To make sure that their crops grew, Polish peasants used to drive harmful spirits away during the 12 days between Christmas and Epiphany. They burned pine resin all night to rout witches from their homes, and on Christmas eve, they wrapped cloth around the base of trees to keep spirits out, and fired shot into fields to prevent supernatural beings from harming the land.

While 'Christmas can mean many things to many people, the world itself has some peculiar slang uses.

"Christmas" can mean a sparkling article of clothing or jewelry. In World War II, fliers used the word to describe a shower of metallic foil dropped by an airplane to jam enemy radar sytems. And a "Christmas tree" in the slang of drillers means the derrick of an oil or gas well!

Called "Noel" by the French, "Navidad" by the Spanish, "Natale" by the Italians and "Weihnachten" by the Germans, Christmas in our part of the world is derived from the Old English term "Cristes maesse" (Christ's Mass), a term first used in the 11th century.

The earliest known Christmas hymn is "Jesus refulsit omnium." (Jes!us, Light of All the Nations), written by Saint Hilary of Poitiers in the 4th century. However the first Christmas carol with the traditionally lighter tone was born in Itally among the early Franciscan monks.

Decorating the Christmas tree is attributed to several sources. One story tells of St. Boniface when he was a missionary in Germany in the 8th century. Trying to discourage a pagan regard for the oak, he led a group of people into a forest and gestured at a fir tree. He said it pointed to the Christ Child, and commanded them to take fir trees into their homes as a sign of their worship.

Another story credits medieval German drama with the origin of trimming and lighting a Christmas tree. In their plays, the Germans used decked-out fir trees as the "tree of Paradise," representing the Garden of Eden.

When authorities frowned on public displays of this sort, the tree was used in the home; a custom gradually evolved of decorating it at Christmas time with cookies, fruit and, eventually candles. G e r in a n immigrants

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brought it to America and the first U. S. Christmas tree is dated 1832, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The large part children play in Christmas is legendary. If he was lucky, the 16th century child got a ride on a huge Yule log when it was dragged into the manor house or castle.. While caroling and feasting went on during Christmas eve, the youngsters played Snapdragon, a game in which the players tried to snatch a raisin from a bowl of burning spices and spirits.

During the hayday of clipper ships, in the lth century, American seamen used to bring their families rare and costly presents gathered from the Orient: spices, silks, china, and teakwood. Appropriately enough, 2t. Nicholas was the patron sain of sailors as well as children. And appropriately enough, one of the finest and most popular shaving lotions given as a gift for men has a ship on the bottle.

While American youngsters arc putting their gifts under the tree, Slavic children go to sleep on a bed of straw and hay on Christmas eve, to share in Christ's humble birth.

On St. Nicholas Eve, Dutch children fill their wooden shoes with straw for Old St, Nick's white horse, hoping to have them filled in turn with candy and toys. In Italy, children set out their shoes for the female Santa Claus, Befana, to 1111 with gifts. Central American children enjoy the "pinata" game: an earthenware jug is fitted with candy and a child is allowed 3 tries to break the "pinata" with a bat — when he does, the candy is shared by all.

King Henry VII of England is credited with popularizing gift-giving in this part of the world. The joy of that night, when the sweet-smelling gifts somehow magically appear, is immortalized for children of all ages in a poem written in 1822 by Dr. Clement C. Moore, a' Presbyterian divinity professor; it begins, "T'was the night before Christmas . . ."

And near the end it says, `Merry Christmas to all!"

—SPJ ST

THE HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS Called "noels" in France, "le pastorali" in Italy, "Weilinachtslieder" in Germany, and "koledy" in Czech, carols are everywhere the welcome sound of Christmas. But few of those who hear and sing them know their surprising history — a tale well worth giving ear to.

When was the first carol sung?

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Scholars think caroling probably began in the early church when Nativity plays, accompanied by songs of joy, told the story of Christ's birth.

One of the earliest choruses of praise, "gloria in excelsis deo" (glory to God in the highest) is still sung by carolers at Christmas time. Early Latinspeaking worshippers must have shouted it forth with a "magna vox" (also Latin, for "great voice").

Though many people don't realize it, carols were originally connected not only with song but with dance: The Old French word "corole" meant "a ring dance accompanied by song." An English carol dating from 1350 has a refrain which refers to a round dance: "Honnd by honnd we sculle ous take and joye and blisse schulle we make."

Early carol composers,didn't confine themselves to Christmas themes — collection of Carolles Newly Imprinted (1550) contained more Crucifixion than Nativity carols! On the other hand,: quite a few carols of this time were not sacred in mood, but simply light-hearted invitations to feasting and toasting. The Boar's Head carol, a big hit in 16th century England and still sung annually by the student's of Queen's College, Oxford, actually cele brates the course of a Christmas dinner, in these words: The boar's head in hand bear I Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary.

And I pray you master, be merry.

The custom of outdoor carol singing is many hundreds of years old. It seems to have started in the Middle Ages when groups of people went from house to house to sing by torchlight.

Yet despite these joyous beginnings, the Christmas carol eventually ran into some rough weather. As the Puritan influence grew strong, carols became gloomy and grim; finally the Puritans made it a crime to print them or sing them publicly! After Puritanism waned in England, carols made a comeback — but in the 17th and 18th centuries were considered a rustic, socially inferior form of song! By 1882, a writer named William Hone was predicting that carols were dying out and in a few years' time would be heard no more! But even as he spoke a new upsurge of interest in carols was beginning, and today Christmas carols are enjoyed by more people than ever before.

Some authorities think that "The Twelve Days of Christmas" originally belonged not to Christmas but to the turn of the year; its roots may go far back into pagan times. "Good King

VP. S-TN Wenceslaus," a British favorite,- WaS borrowed Trona a Swedish songbook of 1582. "God Rest Ye MerrY, Gentlemen,"may 'also date back to the 161h ceittury. Some say — Adeste Fideles" w as composed by St. Bonaventure before 1274 — but the earliest surviving manuscript is dated 1790 and 'signed'

by John Francis Wade, a music dealer in France.

"Joy, to the WOrld" was taken from a hymn written in 1719 by Isaac' Watts; its current music was adapted from Handers "Messiah." John Wesly wrote "Hark the Herald "Agels Sing" in 1737; its musical accompo niment was adapted in 1855 from one of Mendelssohn's works. "0 Little Town of. Bethlehem" is less than 100 years old; it was written in 1868 by Phillips Brooks.

The most beloved carol of all, "Silent Night." ion an interesting story behind it. Accordito to information supplied by researchers. it was hastily written in 1818 by an Austrian parish priest, Joseph allohr, as a surprise for his parishioners, 1\itihr feared they would be disappointed when they learned that the church organ had broken down! He took the poem to his friend, church oiTanist Franz Gruber, who completed the famous melody in a few hours. At midnight mass that evening, the two of them sang the masterpiece to a guitar accompaniment.

Some of the most popular Christmas music of all times has been composed in the 20th century. The greatest seller of any phonograph 'record to date Is Irving Berlin's "White Christmas"; first recorded in 1942, it has sold 40,000,000 copies as or December 31st, 1963 — and is still going strong. n‘he Little Drummer Boy" is another recent record best-seller that promises to become a Christmas classic_ Ancient and traditional or up-tothe- modern, ChriStmas songs play a vital Tole in setting the mood of the season. 'For after all, " 'Tis the season to be jolly."

-- S p NTCIIRIST_3'IAS STORY BORROWS LEGENDS FROM ANCIENTS

In establishing the date by which Christmas is celebrated commemorating, the birth of Christ, it is interesting to note that Christendom did not begin its ,calendar , computations until, almost 550' years after the birth of Christ.

Mueh of the Christmas story is still unknown and untold; but legend and story has traced lts-;. history since the beginning when Christ preached among the people, "Love thy bor as thySelf."

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Since the beginning- Of the record ings of early from'the most plinth ive societies' it was -believed 11;A- the perioti• of lime When-the winter'solstice elided and the sun took on new strength to give brilliance, light' and 'fertilit y le the world,: a 'period- of `joyousness and thanks -; should celebrated throtighont the world`.

Strangely enough, many influendes have had 'their effect on' the festival of Christinas as 'it is practiced today, and none Of them 'Christian" in. the trite sense of the Word.. Yet; with them lieg the trite, -romantic, rich beginnings of the Christmas Story.

History tells us that from •every epOeh of hiStOry. from 'the old;. old', BabYlonian Festiva ls; to the Druid.

Mysteries, from the'Roman Saturnalia;. to the E<.!,yptian-Midwinter: Festival of Foods and finally- to Christ .Himself;: has Come Segments of the whole 'Of the.

Christmas story. `But there is =more` to 'the Christmas Story, ,Mach of Nth at the . Christiana) world in this twentieth century observes,''stems front ∎ „a time long years and' even "tenturiesabefore Christ.

Iti the time of the Romans,: Persians' arid' , Germanic tribe's when the 'world was yOunger, December 20 ..was the days') set aside for pagan festivities. It ',is. ; theright - 1.11 'some quarters that the Christians "``invented'' Christmas as . a sort of competitive holiday, 'And So, out Or Yule of the Northern, Europeans,- the Noel of the French, the Noche Buena of the Spanish, the Weinachten of the Germans and the 4 Christ Mass of the early Roman olie :Church, the gay, „glorious, deeply 1. religiouS'holiday that is 'e'l-iristmas has come to us.

—SPJSTOH, THOSE „._ VIKINGS! Population, explosions were different in those day's.

When the Vikings of Denmark, Norway , and, Sweden had one, around A.D. ,8004 they exploded out 'of their fjords —and set course on explorations that are still continuing, The firs:t, new commercial route in a thousand years was opened up ten years ago by modern descendants of these Viking wanderers.

From the, beginning, the Vikings made history. The Danes spread southward; in successive waves they sought loot, and later land, in England, Ireland and France. In England, they occupied a large part of the country and put their own kings on the throne.

In Ireland,. they founded Dublin — and inFrance, they became- Fierich-

Wednesday, December 23, 1964 men. As Normans — from the old Viking "Norr-men," or men from the north — they even staged a second invasion of England in 1066.

They went still further: Norman adventurers took over Sicily and, following the early crusaders, established themselves as kings and princes in Greece and Asia Minor.

Swedish commandos — half-trader, half-warrior — probed mainly southward across the Baltic and down the great rivers of modern Russia to "Miklagard" — the Byzantium of the ancients and the Istanbul of today. The first ruler of a modern Russian state was the Viking Rurik, who became overlord of Novgorod in A.D. 862. Even the name of Russia owes a lot to the Vikings — for "Russ" was the Slav term for the Northmerr The Norwegians faced west in their light but amazingly seaworthy dragon ships. They sailed to lands beyond the ken of Man at that time — first to the Faeroes, then to Iceland, on on to Greenland and finally to America itself.

Leif Ericson's famous voyage to the New World was supposed to be a missionary expedition — the King of Norway wanted him and his men to preach Christianity to the natives of Greenland.

No one knows whether Leif was blown off course, lacked religious enthusiasm, or just wanted to see what there was further west. But he ignored

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Greenland ®- he said he was blown off course — and set foot on the east coast of North America instead.

Vikings held out in America for many years before the Indians discouraged their urge to settle. But their traces remain. Just this year, a National Geographic Society expedition authenticated old Viking sites in Newfoundland.

Even after the Indians turned them away, Norsemen sought a Northwest

Passage across the top of America to the riches of Asia. In 1019, a Danish captain named Jens Munk got as far west as the mouth of the Churchill River in Hudson's Bay, Canada, But• the ice caught him and scurvey killed most of his crew. Norwegian Roald Amundsen finally made it in 1905, sailing his "Gjoa" from Norway to Nome, Alaska.

Amundsen also made the first air passage 21 years later, flying the diri-

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Col. Dernt Balchen, a Norwegianborn U.S. Air Force officer and Arctic expert, flew the first SAS survey flight from Nome to Oslo, Norway, in a DC-4 in 1949.. The old Vikings sailed by a conibination of instinct, experience and luck; sometimes they got where, they were going, and sometimes not.

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By 1952, pilots were ready for the first familiarization flights from Los Angeles to Scandinavia. Just ten years ago, the Scandinavian air line inaugurated the first regular direct airline service between California and Europe.

The historic flight occurred in the SAS plane "Arild Viking" — and the first new commercial route in a thousand years was open. In the past ten years, SA has carried 250,000 passengers on the route, enabling them to follow the Vikings' old trail in the air conditioned comfort of a jet, eight miles up in the air.

But the modern Vikings' emphasis on air travel, hasn't made them ignore their proud history • of sea voyaging.

Thor Heyerdahl made seafaring history by drifting across the Pacific on the "Kon-Tiki."

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And if there is any other passage in the world which people consider impossible, you can count on having a Scandinavian try to prove it isn't.

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New Year's Eve Dance on Dec. 31 — Music by Vrazel Polka Masters.

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Wednesday, December 23, 1904 Mistletoe Is Plant of Many Characters Boys are fond of mistletoe because of its power to invite a kiss from a pretty girl. Birds like mistletoe, too, for a -different reason.

The white-berried plant serves as winter food for mockingbirds, robbins and waxwings. These small birds are responsible for the spread of the damaging parasite. After eating the berries, the birds clean their beaks on the trees firmly planting the mistletoe seeds they do not cat.

The tap roots of the seeding pierces the tenderest portion of the tree — young branches or buds -- and the tree sap is drawn into the thick leaves and translucent berries of the guest plant.

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