Vestnik 1954 5 12

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TOTO BUDE novinkou pro nee ktere nak tady. Vlastne nemelo by to bYti nic noveho, protoSe o \teci bylo psano ye Vestniku nejmene desetkrat do roka. Take je o teto veci elanek v naSich stanovach. Ne136Si o nic noveho, CO eleny ptekvapi, Se liste spolkove povinnosti museji byti dodilovany.

Napted je ti-eba podati kratke vysvetleni, prod do'Slo k tomu, co se zaealo provadet.

KaSciY bratrskY podpihrnY spolek musi jednou mane podati zpravu statnimu odboru pcjigt'ovo.ni o sve einnosti, svem vzrOstu, svem postupu. Jestli spolek openeje ye dvaceti statech, Atednici mush vyhotovit dvacet zprav—pro kaSdY stat jednu. A kaidY stat me. sve zakony, chce miti onu rodni zpravu dle sveho vkusu nebo syYch ptedpisti.

VetS'ina bratrskYch podpiirnYch spolku je zapojena do Narodniho bratrskeho kcngresu a vet'Sina operuje v mnoha ;;tatech. Vypiriovani nestejnYch formahaft, pro kaldY stat dle jinYch ptedpisn, bylo halvolem nadmiru obtiSnYm. Proto bylo apelovano na v'Sechny komisate statnich poji§t'ujicich odborth, aby byl vypracovan jednotnY, uniformni dotaznik, stejnY pro vkchny staty v Unii. • ni v sari, pti zasedani Narodniho bratrskeho kongresu v Dallasu, byl tent° novy formulat napoprve predloSen a vysvetlen. NaSi Utednici, bratr Chupick a bratr UrbanovskY, sedeli pti vysvetiova,ni celeho puldne, aby se seznamili s tim, co vSechno bude od nich poSadovano, aby do Austinu oznamili.

Bratrske podpurne spolky jscu povaSovany v kaldem statu Unie za nevYdeleene organisace, ktere slouSi svYm ale-

num rovnm data', a kde eleni se scha.zeji prayidelne, aby provadeli ony veci, prd ktere byl spolek saloSen. Stant komisath dali do noveho formulate otazky, ktere tam dtive nebyly. V Texasu je to po prve, ze hlavni Utednici kaScleho bratrskeho spolku museji oznamiti do Austinu, cO dtive oznamovati nemuseli.

Nove otazky jsou asi v torn smyslu, hlavni Utednici jsou nuceni zjistiti, kolik mime v na'Si SPJST einnYch tadt, kolik z nich kona sve schnIze prayidelne nebo dle stanov, kolik kona, schtize nepravidelne nebo stichka, kolik z nich nee kona Sadne schtize, a prda schilze nejsou kcnany dle ptedpisth, a proe to nee bo ono. To vkchno by papir unesl, ale je tarn take otazka., jakym zptisobem nebo kterymi cestami chce fidici tees° napraviti stavajici nepotadek. Tato posledni otazka je jakoby nejakY tato, zahuboval: "HoAi, co Mate? A proe to tak trpite? .Jestli se nestane naprava, za rck si o tom promluvime vice."

Organisaeni podvYbor Hlavni iitadovny, kdyS konal svou poradu v ponder 26. dubna, uznal za nutne a sdrave, ab se proveclio to, co stoji v nagich stanovach, Se ptedseda Hlavni idadovny "navStevuje dle molnosti a potteby mistm tady." Provede se tedy vS"eobecna ptehlidka vkch mistnich tadfh, o kterYch je manic, ze sve schtize nekonaji pravidelne kaSchy mesic, nebo o kterYch se yi, by pottebovaly povzbuzeni, novY novo titedniky nebo jakoukoliv pomoc od distriktu nebo od hlavnich Utednikin

Pri vyktiovani mistnich pomerii mel by bYti '662 statni organisator, aby vedel, zda je incSno uvesti do tadu novou krev nebO mladSi 'achy. Nemame vSak dosud statnihO organisatora, proto redaktor organu uvolil se vykonati tyto pfehlidky s ptedsedou SPJST ,a s teditelem toho nebo onoho distriktu.

Mohu prakraditi, Se aS dosud vykonali predseda, redaktor a nekterY z teditedvanact zastavek, svolali na dvanacti mistech schtizky s mistnimi Utedniky a vysvetlili ptieinu sve navgtevy. Neni tteba jmenovati mista a tady. Pouze u jednoho tadu je situate mak) nadejna., povaSliva. U zbYvajicich jedenacti ktere byly navAtiveny, je dosti dobra nadeje- na zlepkni a na doditovani p•edpisfu

Bratr ptedseda ma seznam vSech siabYch, dtimajicich nebo neeinnych tadt• Tyto racly budou v kyetnu, v eervnu a v eervenci soustavne navSliveny, aby se domaci pomery vySettily a pokud moSno napravily, kde napravy je tteba. Utedniktmi techto tadd bude na.vAteva ptedem oznamena dopisem od ptedsedy.

Take mohu prozraditi, ze ittednici vSeeh az dosud naNStivenYch radu yy§li ptedsedovi Jednoty, tediteltim v distriktu a redaktorovi ochotne vstfic a vSude se do schOky dostavili. V jednom rniste to byla prvni schfize Utednikti. tchoto roku. Po naleSitem vysvetleni, co se od mistniho tadu oeekava a zakonite po.2aduje, urednici projevili nahled, Se mesieni schaze budou pravidelne ko-

Nove picedpisy od statniho departmentu poji.zht'ovani nas ptinutily, abychom prcvedli tyto ptehlidky u kaScleho du. Budou k prospechu domacich tadti a budou take ponatieenim pro vedouci. Je mnoho veci a problemin.ktere vyjdou na povrch aS v dtivernem rozhovoru, mesh etytma oilima, a ktere jsou prO teditele v distriktu nebo pro samotneho' ptedseduSadouci je math A teS ho otazek, ktere mohou bYti domachn Nedinktim vysvetleny, aby ittedni saleSitosti tadu byly spravne vytizovany.

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Pied dv,erna tYdny volani byli nagi hlavni fikednici v Temple telefonem aZ ze stdtu, New York. VelkY mesienik Iraternalistti, The Fraternal Monitor, 'deka' na valuadni zpravu od nacho aktuara, kterd byla zpoZdena, ne v'Sak vinou iliedntklz. Kvetnove eislo mesidniku pkind.S1 celkovy pkehled vkch bratrskYch a sesterskYch podpUrnych organisaci ye SpojenYch statech, a zprdva od nakho aktudra nebyla onomu mesieniku dodana. Je too na pohled vec bezyYznamnd, ale piece dOsvedeuje to, ze na§e SPJST path do velike rodiny fraternalistil, trebage jsrne a na miste edesatem nebo dvaakdesatem, Take redaktor restniku nedoekave 'celtd na vYroeni zpravu naS'eho aktudra, aby mohl elentim oznamiti nag vzrust predchazejiciho roku.

V anglieke easti dnegniho eisla je oznameno, joky pokrok v naboru elend byl udelan v dubnu. Na zadni strane tohzto eisla je oznameno, kolik novych elenti a jak vysoke obnosy noveho poji§teni byly ziskany, v kaldem distriktu od 1. 1edna do 30 dubna tohoto roku. ✓ dubnu nage agitatni einnost nebyla tak fispeSnd jako v lednu, imoru a breznu. Ziskali jsme jen 100 novYch 'dent. Do konce dubna ziskali jsme 575 elenil a za $724,000 dalgiho pcjigteni. Celkove jrneni SPJST obnagelo koncem dubna sedm a pal rnilionu dolaril. To znamend, ze od ledna, do dubna letos pfirtistalo nain patnact set dolarit kaMY den.

MnohY start glen si iekne, "Co z toho marn, ze Jednota roste, kdy stejne musim platit, jako jsem platival?" Lee kdy vgechno uvaiime a vzpcmeneme si, ja• byly zaedtky nagt SPJST, jak mak) se platilo, a jak se dries tern starMm odpougti etvrtina nebo polovina poplatkil, nemeli by si ani ti start eleni natikati, 2e plati mnoho nebo dlouho. Kdyl 'Oen vstupuje do Jednoty, uzavira, s jinymi eleny smlouvu: Budu-li ziti, budu platit, abych si jistou sumu nasttadal; nebudu-li ziti, zaplatite vy me rodine, co jsem si chtel nastkadat, ale co mne nebylo doprano. Pro jednotlivce je to sazka. Pro veliky poeet elenii je to aktuarsky vYpoeet, jake ty ztraty kadeho roku budou. Loriskeho roku na§e Umrtni ztraty byly jen 49% toho, co aktuarsky bylo .cdhadovano. Jenom polovina odekavaneho Umrti se uskuteenilo. Ti, kteki dle aktuarskYch yYpoetti melt umi'iti a neumkeli, budou platit o new &i.e. Pro jednotlivce je to ztrata, ze must platit do - spoleene pokladny, ale pro celek je to vYhodou.

Dokud jsme nemeli tyto aktuarske vjr-

stkeclu, dne 12. kvetna 1954: poety, spravne fimrtni tabulky, ceekavanou fimrtnost, iirokovou stupnici a piedbane odhady nakho vydani, byla na'de SPJST—a take jine bratroske podpurne spolky—na piskovYch zakladech. 'V-Yloiralo se, jen kdyZ se muselo, a odpouAtely se mesidni poplatky, kdy se zdalo, pokladne je dostated,na zdsoba. , Tim se stalk; ze v naSi SPJST se odpustily mesieni poplatky 49krat. To znamena10. jako kdyoy dnes se odpustilo elenOm pa cele etyki roky nebo jako kdybychom dnes novemu elenu kekli, 2e po zaplacern nekolika zaf.'dteenich poplatky ne-. must platit 49 mesicti. Zapomnelo se na fimluvu, ze jestli chce si elen naskladati urditY obnos, musi to bYti dle urdenYch vYpcotil., ktere se nemohou libovolne menit. Ureita nasobilka by meta platit, a mela by bYti dodrZovana.

My i dnes si menirne svou toti2 ony aktuarsky yYpoety. Nal aktudr poeita nal budoucnost a Oiva k tornu trt druhy eislic. Musi brati ohled; jak mnoho narn ka&leho roku unike. On vi, kolik marne deems 201etYch, 301etYch, 401etYch, 751etYch. ni, tirn menk' eislice turirtnosti. Ori poeita, jake itroky dostavame z na§ich investici. A on odhaduje, jake vklohY mime s naSimi idedniky, s naghn Vestnikem, s izasimi organisatory, s yYdaji na kaldeho elena, starehe i veho. A nag aktuar nam rekne,ze nemeli bychom meniti jeho vYpoety ani kdy manic shthijr piebytek v dobe pritomne. Proto na26 aktuar kaldeho roku, kdy podita valuaeni zpravu, od1c21 stranou east nUgeho majetku a nazve to "contingency reserve," nebo ye volnem deskern prekladu "za.loha pro nahodilosti," pro prifti mono potkebu. Krome toho odlo2i jinou 'east naleho majetku a nazve to prebytek, coZ je obnos nad 100% solvence, aktuarein vypoeitanou. Jenne solvence je poeitana tim, to aktuar zjisti, kolik rname alenn 201etYch, 301etYch, 50letYch, 75IetYch, a kolik dle umlaut pr nesou v budoucnosti jejich poplatky. Pied etinieti lety piistoupili jsme na neco, co 26,dny aktuar neschvaluje. Zmenili jsme aktuarsky vYpoety, abychom dali filevu starym clenum. Kdysi ddync odpoukeli jsme mesieni poplatky, nekdy dva i tri roene, az bylo jich prominuto 49. Dnes slevujeme na poplatcich, protoZ'd solvence nae je dnes takkka. 119%. Spolkove a bratrsky je to hezIce a chvalitebne, ale aktuarsky to neni spravne. Nate nasobilka budoucnosti neni presna. Ubirdme jednak z budoucich pkijmil, a take pracujeme sami proti sobe, proti iicelu, na jakem byla SPJST za,lokna. Mis;to alpychoin poskytovall syYm elenum nejvyti. moZnou Zivotni ochranu za pkedem stanovenY poplateli, my snitujeme poplatek, abychom dale

Ve stkedu, dne 12. kvettut 1954.

'elernim jen to, co jsme jinvslibili. My bychom jim men dati vetgi ochranu a nerreniti aktuarem yypoeitand budouci pijijrny. My bychom nemeli odpougteti hotovost, jako jsme nemeli kdysi odpougteti mesieni poplatky, ale men bychom dbati toho, aby eleni dostali vYhadnou givotni ochranu. A jestli je pre,bytek vetgi, mela by kaklemu elenubez rozdilu—bYti dana vyhodnekgi a vetsi s Zivotai ochrana. Dle toho, jak to dnes xname zavedeno, pokutujeme toho, kdo pristoupil do SPJST v mlacigich letech. On musi dekat, a• Z mu bude 70 let, ac je v Jednote treba o patnact let dole jeho soused.

PIM tuto fivahu jen proto, aby Kahlebylo mereno stejne. Nemarn to ze sve hlavy, ale studuji, jak to maji v jinych jednotach zavedene. Na sjezdu v Taylor v 1940, kdy tato fileva 701etYin a 751etYm ,byla zavedena, nevedel jsem o zivotnim pojigt'ovani tolik, kolik vim dnes. Za 14 mku se prinei nedemu kaAdy, kdo chce a ma zajem. U PnYch bratnskYch jednot se elenu na jeho poji gteni kaftlYm rokem z prebytku pridava, ale z p •ijmff a z poplatkil se neubira. V jinych bratrskYch spolcich se ridi dle pravidla, ze elen pi'istoupil do spolku, aby dastal co nejvice a co nej yYhodnejgi pajigteni za predem ufeenY poplatek. Potinake druhYm nebo tretim rokem, kakiY e'en je opravnen na dodateane pojigteni, ktere se hradi z prebytku. Jestli &len vstoupi do spolku ye 30 letech, ma ureity certifikat, jeho dodateene pojigteni je kagdYm rokem zvygovano. Kdo vstoupi do spolku ye 40 letech a ma nakladnejgi certifikat, jeho dodateene pojiSteni je pomerne vyggi ne2, elena ye 30 letech. Timto zpOsobem se nerugi aktu arske vYpoety, a kaklY Glen je opravnenY na dodatedne pcjigteni dle delky sveho elenstvi ye spolku a ne dle toho, jestli je mu jit gedesat nebo sedmdesat rokti. Prato opakuji, ze cilem nagi SPJST je "paskytovati vYhodnou kvotni ochranu", nejvyggi mokiou za predem stanovenY poplatek. A jestli /name pies milion prebytku, meli bychom kaklemu elenu, dle jeho delky elenstvi a certifikatove zalohy, poskytnouti vYhodnou a dodateenou Nvotni ochranu, ani2 bychorn ai mu bude sedmdesat.

Je tieba pkipomenouti, ie me poznamky nejsou narnikeny proti tern, kdo dries clostavaji ulevu na poplatcich. Zde upozoituji pouze na jakousi polovieatost a neprornyglenost, kde se poruguji zaklady bratrske svepomoci, aktuarske vYpoety, a kde delaji se Ulevy, ktere jsou proti zasadam pojigt'ovani. Kdy1 je elen v Jednote 35 mica, ma pram) na east prebytku. A kdYt' je elen stars' 70 .nebo

zaslotdi si, aby mu bylo oznamono, 2,c inCt v nagem inilionovem prebytku Wilk a Will:. Ale proa Jon ten, kdo

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je elenem 35 nebo komu je 70? Proe ne take ten, kdo je v Jednote 29 midi nebo 25 rokii? A budou eleni, kteti daji do Jednoty ye dvaceti letech vice nek" nekdo v padesati letech elenstvi. Proto pripominam, ze u jinych bratrskych jednot maji tyto vYhody pro dlouholete eleny lope vypoeitany, aby se v gem merilo stejne dle zasluhy. U jinych jednot maji prebytky petkrat, desetkrat vetgi, a rozdeleni mezi 'deny vYhodnel gi, a take vYbe • prebytku rozmanitekgi. lieneene mime neeo v Dallasu, elm se mhZeme vskutku pochlubiti a co dela nagi SPJST dfistojnou reklamu. Obrat'te nekolik listu a podivejte se na skupinu mladYch elenu z Dallas, kteri si utvorili mieovou eetu, anglicky SPJST Softball Team. Ktd byla schilze Hlavni firadovny 12. dubna, priglo z Dallasu uvedomeni, ze seta byla sestavena, ale ze potrebuje pro sve hrdee jests d ye uniformy. Hlavni firadovna zadany obnos na dve uniforms' pvolila. Iiosi 'budou nejen chloubou dvou SPJSTradu v Dallasu, ale take chloubou eels nagi SPJST. Preetete si v kalenclari oznameni, kde seta bude fieinkovati, a komu modno, zajed'te se podivati na jejich hry. Vet§ina naiieh eesitSreh etenakii. sla jiZ poledne svelte zivota. Minim tim, 2e jsme my, Ceti etenati, vetAinou ve zralem veku. Jeden anglickY basnik na.psal jednou, draha .eloveka je tozdelena na nekolik easovYch useku, ktere splYvaji do sebe jako duhove ba.rvy, tak'Ze neni mono rici, kde jeden. easovS, Usek konai a kde druhY zaeina. Progli jsme detstvirn, miadim, prostrednim yekem, a jsme vetginou zralYmi. U nekterYch z nas nastupuje jiz doba predposledni, totd stati, aby pomalu dostavila se tak zvand senilnost, kdy ubYva telesnYch i dugevnich schopnosti a elovek je uz nepeynou, vetchbu osobiekou, eekajici na posledni zablesk veeera. Kdyi nrluvime o stall eloyeka, mime obydejne na mysli, kolikrat jiz slavil sve narozeniny. Ale vek je relativni, totd jen die zevnejgich znaxnek nebo die nagich vlastnich pojmn Olovek gedesatiletY mute miti srdce, ktere pracuje jako u eloveka 401eteho, 2aludek jako u 701etelt°, jatra jako u 501eteho, zuby jako u 801eteho, ale mysl jako u 451eteho. Jedine kalenclar ukazuje osobu 601etou. Myglenkove mame 401ete starce a 701ete mladiky. Ani jecien z nas nejsme myglenkove a citove toho stati, jake nag kalendat ukazuje. Pamet pracuje u kaMello jinak, spoleeenske zajmy jsou jine, vnimani je rozdilne, a Zivotni energie se u kakieho jinak uplatfiuje. Lidem zraleho veku je treba jine dugevni stravy ne't' tern,,kdo jsou jests pini vota. Take lidem pokrooileho veku je, treba, aby si udidovali telesnou sveZest cpravnou potravou, totiz clietou pro ii-

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di zraleho veku. Nekdy si myslim, ‘& my, lids stargiho veku eteme kdejakY brak a take jime kdejakou smigeninu. U stargich lidi potrava ma bYti lekein a leky maji byti potravou.

Prvni, a nejteigi povinnost stargiho eloveka je priznati sam sobs, ze jiZ" neni osobou s redniho veku. Takove priznani je uz zaeatkem toho, ze elovek zaene vyrovnavat svaj myglenkovY pochod, znene chodit sam k sobs na besedu a zaene davati sve veci do poradku. Jeden spisovatel vyklada sam o sobs: "Kdyg jsem si uvedomil sve stari, zaealo u mne opravdove eigteni. Veci, ktere jsem rok od roku schovaval a opatroval, gtaly se pojednou bezvYznamne. jsem vice potreby pro stare gatstvo, pro stare easopisy. Uvedomil jsem si najednou, ze ty veci nebudu nikdy potrebovat. I takove 6eci, kterYm jsem kdysi prikladal velikou dfilektost, staly se pro mne bezvyznamne a zbyteene. 8el jsem pies svou osobni korespondenci, kde nagel jsem dopisy tricet, padesat rokfi stare. Thiel jsem, ze nebudou pro nikoha miti Mdnou cenu. Doglo i na dopisy me matky, pentliekou svazane. Opatraval jsem je desitky let. Vedel jsem, ze me vlastni deti je nebudou eisti, a i kdyby, nepridaly by '2,adne slavy me matce, jejich babiece. Tak nezbylo, neZ' naposledy preleteti zrakem jednotliqmi iisty, zastaviti se nekde u yyznamnekgi \rely, abych si ji vryl v pamet, a v tichu noeni doby spalil jsem je vgechny. Zbogne a v synovske fide kiadi jsem posledni hmotna svedectvi jeji matetske lasky v ceistne plameny ohne. Snad jsem spaloval jeji nejne2nej gi city, ale byl to posledni pasvatnY Ejin od syna matce, aby to nejlepgi, co mi data, nebylo zneucteno a zevgedneno zraky ncpovolanYch." Toto je v predmluve knihy o stall a starnuti od jednoho americkaho ueence.

Nekolikrate ehtel jsem zaeit ye Vestniku takove elanky, ktere byly by prospeS'ne nagim starehn'etenatinn. Nekomu takovSr pokyn pkijde vhod, jako byly uZiteene nvahy, co ma znati americk3;r obOan.. Mla.di lids maji vS'emoZne Skoloni, aby mohli se probijeti Zivotem, kdato stark lide jsou ponechani sami sobs, jakoby nepotrebovali vice klcinYch pokynd k udeZeni mySlenkove svolesti. A kdy'Z dostavi se stab., Cloy& stava, se uminenYm, hagterivYnt nebo urakivym, naladovYm, nebo kje pouze v minulosti, ale i to je mu nekdy nejasna a ma v ni mezery pameti. easto se elovek pohybuje jakoby bez elle, v noel §patne spi, a cela duSevni einnost je znaene oslabena. Toto vSe by stark lids meii znati, aby vedeli, Jake jsou ptiznaky skuteeneho stall. Ale zajimalo by to etenafe Vestniku? Pochybuji. Sam gel jsem kvfili temto predmettim v petapadesati

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letech na itudie, bych poznal pliznaky, poladavky a dugevni stavy pokroeileho veka, ale nev4m, zda podobne elanky nagly by ohlas a stargich 'otenaffi Vestniku.

Nedavno byla zminka, ie rad Nov' Tabor v Caldwell rna jegte nekolik zakladajicich elenti SPJST. Prave pri gla poznamka od tajemnika radu eisb 17, bratra J. H. Siptaka ,kde sdeluje: Citim, .Ze 1e to ma povinnost abych odpovedel na elanek o zakladajicich elenech v nagem radii eislo 17. Die radoveho seznamu manic jen tri zakladajici eleny a sice: Jan Kueera, Marie Dugkova a Marie Krajdova.. Sestry Dugkova a Krajeo• bydli zde v Caldwell, ale bratr Kueera bydli v Kalifornii." Reclaktor dekuje bratru Siptakovi za informace. • .t. L

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kid Jaromir eislo 54 West, Texas.

Mam psat, ale opravdu nevim co. Vite dobre, Ze na ten Mother's day jsou ty rhyLenky rozhazene.

Nage mesitini schtize byla eetne nav gtivena. Tak to ma bYt, ale ne jen oznamovat a pak uvidet stale ty same tvate iitednikd a nekolika clenti. KdyZ ptijde vice elenti, vgechno se lepgi vytidi.

toetni vYbor nam poda zpravu az ptigti mesic. Tentokrdte vSrbor oznamil jen to, co eleni dluZi. Prosim vas, bratti, neneehavejte to tak dlouho na se vyrovnate se syYmi povinnostmi. Dela to obtfte, kd371 fitednici musi psat a upominat. Ptece je to vase pojigteni, ktere zaplacene musi bit. Natal z vas jste se sv3inii povinnostmi hodne pozadu. Ono se to omrzi Potad upominat, a take je to prace nevdeend. Snadneji se plati, dokud je toho niene.

Bratr ptedseda oznamoval, ze na listku nemocn rch je sestra Melnarova a k je v nemocnici v Hillsboro. Navgteva neni dovolena. Ja Vain pteji, sestro Melnarova, abyste zase byla mezi nami co nejdfive a hodne veseld. Tobe, bratke Girard ve Wa• pteji tea zdravi, a aby ses ptigel mezi taCts podivat.

Kuchyni ua mame postavenou. Vy, kteH jste nebyli v nedeli ye schfizi, ptijd'te do ptigti schtize, abyste si novou kuchyni pfehledli. Aspori uvidite, co sestry chtely, a budete s tim take spokojeni. Vim, 2e se varn kuchyne bude libit. To melo bSrti ddvno, aspoid budou sestry ptipravovat yAkusky jako v kuchyni a v eistote. Tak • na to nenatikejte a nesteZujte si, a pochvalte.Ze je to dobre. Ten nag tesat to postavil dosti spravne a slugne a svedomite. Byl jsem se tam podivat tenkrat, ic..Co-%, to stavil. Pravil mi, Ze to stavi pro rad, a hy byli eleni spokojeni a aby kacharky nemely vice dtivodu si narikat.

VAS TNIK — WEST, TEXAS

Nage distriktni sehtize uZ" je odbyta. Ale vgak byla navgteva nad oeekavani. Poslouchal jsem jednani a bylo to pouene, kaZdY si to pochvaloval. Jidla bylo dost a dobre. Ty nage sestry se prieinily. Take nag predseda se nem najezdil. Z Fort Worth ziskal navatevu, co taneily Hesedu, a take z Ennis, kteri meli Cislo programa. Ani sam nevim, kdo vaechno tam byl. Jenom to chci podotknout, Ze ten, kdo neprigel do distriktni schfize, tak sam sebe pripravil o hodne. Navgteva od vaech radii a zastoupeni bylo stoprocentni. My yam vgem dekujeme a ja doufam, ze jste vgichni gt'astne dojeli domfi.

Nu a vite c6 jeate? Pork' jsem objednaval dat', a tak 1.12 mame asi tri coule. To hned vypada lepgi 'nadeje. JenZe co toto pig!, fuel severak, je zima, a ja topim. Neni to hanba? Mesic maj a topit!

Mejte se vSichni dobre. Ja, budu vzpominat. Vgem maminkam preji spokojenost a zdravi. Pozdrav do Corpus Snap-

Za rad Jaromir Emil Klaus. ) • • Taft, Texas. Mill etenaki:

Dnes, 2. kvetna meli jsme svou sokolskou schtizi, ptedposledni pripravne jednani, protae slet se nam blili. Slet bude poradan 12, a 13. eervna.

Zvolil jsme vStory pro tento sjezd. Bratr VeselY' je predsedou uvitaciho bora, a bratr Hala je predsedou ubytovaciho vYboru. Na neho so obratte stran sveho pobytu po eas sletu. Jeho adresa je V. Hala, Box 54H, Lexington Blvd, Corpus Christi. A kdo byste chteli na nej telefonovat, 'Oslo jeho telefonit je 5-1055. Poznaete si to pro budouci potebu.

Toto bude aupni slet. V sobotu budou za.vody 'Zen a mugfi, a v nedeli budou zavodit Mkyne a Mei.

Budeme miti jegte jednu sokolskou schazi pted sletem, ktera ptipada na nedeli 6. eel-ma.

S pozdravein Agnes Elznerova ) El Campo, Texas. Bratte redaktore, sestry a bratti:

Posledne jserri psala, ze mame valne nemocnou sestru Zofii Rubegovou, manklku nageho dlouholeteho ptedsedy.

Nenadala jsem se, Ze za dva tYdny ji prijdeme na pohteb. Zerntela 20. dubna v mistni nemocnici. Pohteb se konal z Thiskova iistavu 23. dubna za -W.ke fieasti phatel a znan-iStch. Pohtebni obkady vykonal Rev. Vilt z Needville, kterY mel dojemnY proslov v Ceske i anglicke reel Za Hlavni fitadovnu ptitomen byl br. J. F. Chupick z Temple. Mel velice krasnY proslov anglicky r kapli a pak u hrobu rozloueeni eeskes.

7csnal'a spolusestra byla oblibena kdo ji snail. Mne byla milou'prite14-

Ve stredu, dne 12, kvetna 1954. ni, s kterou jsem se tegce loueila. Odstonala jsem jeji smrt.

Bade nam v iadu velice schazet, neb ona vkly byla ochotna k praci. Jegte v loni pled vclikonocemi ye schuzi jsme spolu praskaly popcorn pro deli, zatim co druhe sestry roznesly a poschovavaly vajieka pro to drobotinu. Jeji malt' vnuk, 8letY. Jackie, mel peknou deklarnanku "Ja jsem malt' zajieek". Ona a dedeeek ueili ho eesky. Ted' jeate tak pomerne colada to mi.f= sela vge opustit. Mela nem Indio pies 55 let. Oest pamatce jeji.

Tak nam ti dobri pracovnici odchetzeji pomalu jeden za druhYm, a to nahrady tak malo.

Muslin take napsat nee° veselergiho. Nag fad Oslo 40, spoleene s KJT a KJZT, z El Campo, Hillje a Ganado, budeme poradat "battle dance" 27. kvetna ve prospech Ceskeho Katolickeho Domova. Zabava bude starodavna; sestry vgech jsou zadane, aby prigly v starodavriSrch gatech, jake se nosily pled 50 neb i vice lety. Obe kapely budou hrat zdarma. 0 zaba.ve bade darovaria starodavni Model A fordka„ ktera je skoro tak pekna, jako kdyZ" vygla z tovarny. Patrila stariekftm FaltSisktim. Oni ji mivali piikrytou plachtou v gara'Zi. Ma nove rafy a celkem je ye velice dobrem 'stavu. (Redaktor lituje, Ze cela, jedna feta, popisujici jakYin zpasobem nekdo dostane onu fordku, musela bYti vynechana. Pogtovni za.kony to nedovoluji. Trebas je to psano eesky, jsou na svote, lide, kteri by to dokazali prelait, jen aby videli, jaka z toho muse b'ti neprijemnost. Promiri, sestro Hradecka. — Reda.ktor.)

Posledne prispely na Ceskr KatolickSr Domov: Hlavni firadovna SPJST v Temple $100.00, bad cis. 25. v Ennis $25.00, tad Cis. 84 v Dallas 525.00. Sestra B. Valeikova zaslala od sestry Hen&alove z Dallas $2.00; celkem jsem ug od sestry Valeikoye obdrZ'ela $19.00. Bratr Chupick poslal za sebe a man'Zelku $25.00. Vgem yam zaplat' Bah. Ka by vice tacit\ nasledovald vageho prikladu.

Dekuji vgem za listky a prani. Uz opet rnohu trochu alespon, jak se tibia "bosovat". S pozdravem Hradecka. e 4.3

ZE '7. DISTRIKTU S. P. J. S. T. Dovoluji si oznamit vgem nagim dfim, Ze schilze 7. distriktu bude konana dne 16. kvetna 1954 v San Antonio, Texas, v Mission County Park. Schilze bude Zahajena v 11 hodin rano a v 1 hodinu po poledni bade chard/ °bed pripraven. Po schrizi ma prograitiovY vYtor zajimavS, program ptipraven.

Zverne vgechny tady 7. distriktu, by se do to schfize dostavily, anebo svoje za stupce poslaly. Zvemevgechny iiteclnikY z Hlavni iitadovny a reda.ktora, Vestnikut a Ygechny navgtevniky druhYch iadu, ko

Ve sttedu, dne 12. kvetna 1954. VISTNt X WEST, Tana mu bude motno, do naLi distriktni schri- sla a mnozi byli dojati az k slzam. Byla to ze ptijeti. Buclou vgichni vitani. A pak si muteme promluvit o ledadem, jak by(horn mohli nagt Jednotu udelat vetsi a lepgi. Tak jiste vsichni ptijedte do to schrize. 0 zabavu a vge ostatni se postaraji nage sestry a bratti v San Antonio od adu eislo 133.

Koneim s bratrskYm pozdravem na vgechny. flk10-11

Jacob Shortne tajemnik 7. distriktu SPJST.

1'AMATKA SKLADATELE DVOitAKA UCTENA

"Jsme radi, ze jste na Dvotaka, nezapomneli. Rakli jsme se videli. Bylo to skuteene krasne!" Tak se loudili rieastnici slavnosti Majales na Texaske statni uni versite s potadateli slavnosti. Byli to odbor slovanskYch jazyku, Universitni oeskSr klub a Spolek deskYch ex-studentri. Mistnost byla, krasne vyzdobena, Slavnost zahajil Dr. Ed. Micek uvitanim ptitomnYch, z nicht mnozi prijeli zdaleka.... Byl zde krajan LigockY s rodinou z Uvalde, pani Pichova, az z Chicaga. Potom mluvil Dr. Jaroslav 2ivnSr, profesor slovanskYch jazykri, jent poukaza/, ze nam glo o to, aby pamatka Dvotakova byla uctena. Na sobotu 1. kvetna ptipadlo padesate vYroei jeho rimrti. Kdyt roku 1891 bylo Dvotakovi padesat let, slavna anglicka, universita v Cambridge uctila jej udelenim doktorske hodnosti. I v Americe mel jit hodne- ctiteltir a ptigtiho roku slay v ku fidil Narodni hudebni konservatot. V zati 1892 Dvotak ptijel do Ameriky a stal se razem mildekem lidu, jemut zde napsal velikou skladbu "Z noveho sveta", v nit vylicil americke dojmy hudbou. Styskalo se mu podechach a roku 1895 vratil se domfr, ackoliv mu nabizeli velike honora.te.

Dr. ' Z 'ivny pkekvapil ucastniky salenim, ze 7. efrvna tomu bude tiicet let, kdy nag profesor Midek obdrtel hodnost doktora filosofie na slavna universita Karlove v Praze a kdy odebral se do Ameriky, aby venoval tivot slovanskYm jazykrim valve a eeskemu zvlagte. Soudce ChernoskY z Houstonu, jeden ze zakladatelt Universitniho Ceskeho Klubu z roku 1909, vylieil usili zakladateltt pro eesky jazyk a jeho rozvoj na universita a pomoc nagich eeskYch spolkri nagi keel matetske. 0 I*

Potom sleena Mary Clayton z Waco krasne zahrala etyti Dvotakovy skladby na piano Byly to: Largo, Silhouetta, Valgraciesni a Hurnoreska. Velice se libil ipev James Chernoskeho z Houstonu, jent procitene zazpival anglicky Dvokaktiv Going Home. Oznameno bylo, sleena Kathleen Haden ucti pritomne maminky ieste pied Dnem Matek hrou na hada, Zahrala, velmi dovedne d ye ei-

umelecka hra. — Umelec na varhany, Ralph Kies z Austinu zahral dye Ceske Aisne Sa.teeek a Barugku a byl odmenen boullivYrn potleskem. Student z odboru slovanskYch jazyka s jeho doprovodem zazpivali ruskou piseri Veeerni zvon a nase pisne Tancuj, tancuj, vykrucaj a Ptijde jaro a obecenstvo s chuti zazpivalo pisne Louka zelena a Pod nagima okny. Pani: Edgar Tobin, C. H. Chernoska, Rud. 8vadleriakova, Rajmund Prasatikova a M. I.-Smith zasedly na porote, aby rozhodly a plisoudily ceny za nejlepgi kroje, jet byly verrovany v penezich pani Leonou Hoferovou a John Chupickem z Temple. Ceny ziskaly: sleena Maryann Hejlova„ z Austinu a Evelyn Kalfusova ze San Antonia.

Pani John Hejlova z Austinu s pomocnicemi se postarala o poh.osteni ridastnikri, Nastalo seznamovani se a ptatelskY rozhovor. Hodne byvalych studentek a studenta ptijelo na slavnost. Mezi jinYmi jsme videli Calvina 6ervenku z Rogers, bYvalou sleenu Zarubovou, nyni pani Markovou z East Bernard, Sam Vacka z Houstonu, Bernarda Mikuleneaka z Granger, Jaroslava Kopedka s rodiei z Ennis. Vyslovili ptani, aby se slavnost Majales konala katdorodne, aby dospeb i mladi se segli a pohovotili si . . . VelikY dik patti nagim ceskym easopistan. Videli jsme za,stupce tisku: senatora Sulaka a redaktora Jos. Marege. VYznam nageho tisku je skuteene veliky. Bez jeho pomoci nasim kulturnim snaham, mnoho bychom nedokazali.

S pozdravem Ed. Mieek.

SOKOLSKE SLETOVt PitiPRAVY

ZUPY JIZNi A. O. S. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Ve schrizi Telocviene Jednoty Sokol v Corpus Christi, ktera se potadala 2. kvetna 1954, byly ustanovene potiebne vYbory. Byl jsem poveten ukolem vzit si na starost einnost propaga,W. To jest obeznamovat nag deskou vetejnost prostiednictvim tisku s postupern a'piipravami k nagenva vetejnemu sokolskemu sletu, kterY se vtdy tegil pro svoji pestrost a narodni prociteni mezi nagim lidem velke oblibe. 1.1-,

Chci bYti vernY v tomto ulotenem poveteni, pokud moje sila a schopnost bude dovolovat, a na vYpomoc marn nagi znamou a pilnou dopisovatelku, sestru Agnes Elznerovou, Taft, Texas. Odekavame, nagi pain redaktoki a vydavatele nam vyjdou vstiic a budou nam napomocni v oznamovani jim zaslanYch gkrabopisri pro apravu do tisku. At bude ripinY sletovY program vypracovan, pak dame placenou oznamku vgem dasopistun, ktere budou nam napomocny oznamovat a otiskovat nm'se elanky zaslane pro tisk.

NaLe sokolika iodine musela uuti va4-

Strana

ne obavy o mne, aby maj mozek nezakrnel, neb ta operace, kterou jsem podstoupil 9. biezna, n-rohla by zanechat aneb utvokit rez na mozkovYch blanach. Jinak tuto pismackou funkci mohl delat nekdo jinY. Jest zde mnoho psani schopnYch di, ale jest to snad ta pohodlnost a nezvyklost psat do nagich novin, a proto tak Indio zprav z nagich osad a take z 'LeocvienYch jednot sokolskYch.

Dosud jsme byli velice Indio obeznameni, ze tyto telocviene jednoty sokolske, sdrutene v Gupe Jitni, se usnesly ve sve pravidelne vYroeni schrizi, ktera, byla potadana jak obydejne v sidle, v dallaske Sokolovne v lednu tohoto roku.

Usnegeni one tupni schrize bylo paddat zavody a slet v Corpus Christi, Texas.

Nage Telocviena Jednota Sokol plevzala na sebe tento vatnY krok a bude chtit dostat vgern povinnostem, za pomoci vgech dobrovolnYch ochotnYch sil.

Vtdy pied tim, kdy se zde potadala jakakoliv slavnost neb vefejne sokolske vystoupeni, se snatilt ptiznivci a elenstvo udrtet primat (prvenstvi) co do poho stinnosti spada. Oeekava, se, ze i tentokrat nag dobre povesti lid se tesici neerstone pozadu. 1V1usime se postarat o dobre pohosteni vgech, kteki se sjedou z blizka i ze vzdalenYch mist, po eas sletoveho pobytu mezi nami ye dnech v sobotu 12. a v nedeli 13. dervna 1954. ye vlastni budove a nadvoki, ktere se naleza, na poledni strane a okraji mesta Corpus Christi. Jest to na ceste zvane Kostohryz Road a lze se dostati k teto sini pod jrnenem "Sokol Hall", na, budove jest vgak napis "Sokol Club".

Vgechny ptespolni cvieici drutstva, co se rieastni zavodti a vetejnebn evideni, obdrti zdarma ubytovani: v sokolskYch rodinach po eas jejich zde pobytu, a zaroveri v nedeli obdrti zdarma abed i veeeti. na

Pistrilitnischfize

Nasledujici je potad distriktnich scht3i, ktere jsou na programu v ptigtich me-

16. kvetna, distrikt sedinY, San Antonio

30. kvetna, distrikt pity, Danbury

27. eervna, distrikt etvrtY, Rowena

25. eervence, distrikt tteti, Ennis

17. tijna, distrikt druhY, Cyclone

24. I:ijna, distrikt gesty, Elmaton Sestry a bratli, hled'te se zridastnit techto diStriktnich schrizi, aby v katde 3chrizi byly vgechny lady onoho distriktu zastoupeny. Vezmete s sebou sve deti, aby se mohly podilet na programu, nebo aby uvidely, jak v jinSTch tadech omladina pracuje. Pamatujte, ze distrikty jsou nejen pro lepgi praci v Jednote, ale pro lepgi p •a,telotvi mezi deny a domfiximi adY. Sdz)

Strana

iniste sletovern.

Kuchyri i nalevna jsou v Sokolovne. Kdo mate radi kutata pedena na rogti, tak si nedejte ujit ptilektost a okusit umeni nagich kuchafft a kuchatinek. Tyto yam nalo21 velky tanr sarnYch dobrot, a k zapijeni bude dost kafieka pridano. No a ti vybiravej gi si mohou poslouZit a v naievne si mohou ptikoupit, co radi, sodovku anebo piveeko.

Hoste navgtevnici budou vgak Zadani si ten talit tech kuchatskYch dobrot odkoupit za mirnou obvyklou cenu. teastniky ze vzdalenYch mist mam upozornit v pkipade, ze by se po eas sletu chteli nekteki zde ubytovat aneb ptenocovat a maji zde zname neb ptibuzne, aby se obratili pkimo na ne. Avgak vgichni ti, kteki by si chteli udelat vYlet a pianovali se zueastnit sletu; jsou Zadani, aby si reservovali mista v hotelich, aneb v Tourist Courts a po ptipade zaslali nejakou mengi peneZni zalohu, ktera by jim byla vytietovana jak by dojeli na misto, aneb vracena v padu, ze by sem nedojel z nejakYch pkiein, a v cas vYbor uvedomili.

V teto za,lelitosti se laskave a spolehliye muZete obratit na nageho bratra starostu a ptedSedu ubytovaciho vYboru. Jeho adresa jest: V. Hala, Box 54 H, Lexington Blvd. (Telefon 5-1055), Corpus Christi, Texas. Take vgichni cvidici, kteti se zileastni zavodfi i sletu, maji se hlasit na tou samou adresu.

Vgichni jste uctive Zadani, abyste neodkladne dopsali, jak mnoho vas pkijede, kde chcete bYti ubytovani a jak dlouho chcete pobYt mezi nami. Ubytovaci vYbor se chce o vgechny navgtevniky postarat, kteti se na nej obrati.

Byli jsme uvedomeni z Usttedi, ze mimo nageho Zupniho bratra starosty Ben Pkevratila z Dallas k nam zavita vzacnY feenik br. starosta Americke Obce Sokolske, K. M. Prchal z Chicaga, Ill. Oba tito bratki starostove budou miti uvitaci proslov ke evidicimu druZstvu a ptitomnYrn eastnikitm sletu v nedeli 13. eervna 1954. Vgichni nom budete srdeene vitanil Na zdar! Vag

John Staga, sletovY oznamovatel.

ZPRAVA Z iitETiHO DISTRIKTU S. P. J. S. T.

Grapevine, Texas. 'Lapis jednani nagi posledni schilze westske dosud neni sepsan, ale bude uvetejnen v ptigtim eisle nageho Vestniku.

Rad ten bych Ceti nektere usudky vgtevnikii, a byla jich tam vela diouha kada, kteri dovedou se nejen pane rosepsati, ale i jejich zdrava soudnost je uznavana. 'l!t

Bylo by pro nas ztratou a ovgem, ze je to asi jen "chyba tisku", kdy redaktor /161 poznamenal, ze by sve nahlcdy ci -rozumy" si mel podriet pro sebc. -- 13a

V2STNiK WEST, TEXAS

naopak je to jeho rozjimani prave to, co jsme jiz davno postradali. Redaktor, ja vetim, ma udavati a naznaeovati nam smernici, kterou cestou se mame male brat. — Mini-li, co nam pile, poctive, sezname z jeho vlastniho jednani. Kandy asi se mnou bude souhlasiti, ze jegte se nenagel ten, kterY by dovedl uspokojiti kde koho. Vagina ptatel vgak vZdy bude vydatnou i iteinnou podporou'-a jsem jist, ze east° jen zvolna ale vytrvale ziskame pracovniky pro lepgi vgeobecnY pokrok naSi Jednoty. Slugne jednani a ptilelitost, kaZdernu se vyjadtiti, kady nage posilni a nage distrikty jsou nam tim "forem", kde jedenkaZdY bude vyslygen.

Tedy jen dal tak, bratte redaktore; yeZe jsme na dobre testa!Kniha navgtevnik0, po dopliikach sepsanYch, vykazuje pies 300 jmen a to jegte mnozi se nam ye West neptihlasili. Byla tato distriktni schtize vYznamna tim, ze kaZdY ten nag sdruZenY tad byl ptitomen a bylo mono pozorovati, ze nage porady se i v jakosti stale lepgi.

Mali jsme ptedem vypracovanY potad, kterY byl ptesne dodden a Ueast tacit') ptespolnich a ovgem i domacich byla ptikladna.

Nekolik eisel pokadu bylo vskutku dojemnYch a budou dlouho vgemi vzpominany Vystoupeni "EnniskYch", pocta zakladajicim dlenkam a stargim nagim harcovnikiim, udileni cen teem viteznYm sestrain a odhaleni praporu distriktniho, byly mimo peknYch proslovir a jinYch eisel, nnage steZejne body.

0 to bratrske-sesterske nalade ye svem zapisu se nemohu rozepisovati a to tedy chci vgem tern, kteti s nami ye West nebyli, timto dopisem dati o torn vedomost, ze tak srdeene chvile ptatelske skuteene jsou /lam pobidkou k dalgimu snaZeni se. Budeme nadale tak pokradovati tak tegim se, ze v Ennis v eervenci dne 25. budeme mod ptikroeiti k tomu, bychom v distriktu nagem poeali formulovati navrhy k zlepgeni einnosti v Jednoty nogi.

Zajem a soudinnost radii nagich jest 0ligem nutnosti.

S pozdravem a ptanim zdaru vgem jsem zase vas

Ludva 0. Hogek, t. C. tajemnik.

• a, •

"TiDEN DOPISit Z AMERIKY"

Akce "TYden dopisu z Aberiky", konana pod zagtitou organisace Common Council for American Unity a schvalovand vetejnYmi diniteli po celYch SpojenYch Statech, bude letos uspotadana ye dnech od 17. do 23. kvetria. ZminenY den ma nam nejen pkipamatovati, jak dtildite jsou dopisy pkateltim a ptibuznYm do zamoti, ale ma nas jegte dodatedne upozorniti na dulelitY fakt, ze je na rids, abychom nptestavali vytvateti lepgi ovzduei porozumeni mezi SpojenYmi sta-

Ve sffedu, dne 12. kvetna 1954. ty a ostatnimi zememi sveta.

"Nesvornost je ptepych, kterY si svobodnY svet jen sta): dovoliti," konstatoval nedavno vynikajici britskY historik, Arnold Toynbee, kdy nabadal k vypeti usili, smetujiciho k za,chovani jednoty mezi narody svobodneho sveta.

Aekoli nebezpeei ozbrojeneho iitoku zda se bYti mengi neZli pied rokem, zakladni hrozba komunismu zilstavo, nezmenend. Nesvornost svobodneho sveta by kornunistickou Utoenost jen podpotila. Ma-li svobodnY svet tomuto spoleenemu nebezpeei zdarne eeliti, stava se svornost naprostou nezbytnosti.

Jednim z cinitelfi, kterY napomaha, k nesvornosti, je vzmahajici se protiamericke citeni v zahraniei. Tato situace prameni z mnoha ptiein, nesporne i z nagich vlastnich omy10.

Je vYsledkem mylneho vykiadani americke zahranieni politiky.

Je vYsledkem toho, co jeden z pozorovatelu vetejneho mineni oznaeuje za "nevyhnutelnou zavist, vzbuzovanou nagim bohatstvim a mod".

Je vYsledkem komunisticke propagandy.

Je vYsledkem nespravneho chapani Ameriky a americkeho zpfisobu givota. President Eisenhower vyjadtil to nedayno temito slovy: "Americana jako jednotlivci jsou easto znazorfrovani zahranielm jako lido bohati, pfehliZejici vgechny hodnoty s vYjimkou penez, nedbajici pray jinYch lidi a neznali ptispevn, ptinagenYch zapadni civilisaci ostatnimi narody."

Proti tomuto antiamerikanismu musi se postaviti nejen vlada, ale i kaZdY z nas. My, kteti mame spojeni se zahranidm, mame v torn ohledu jedineene postaveni, nebot' milteme nejlepe gititi znalosti o Americe. Nage dopisy ptatelam ptibuznYm mohou vyvraceti mylne ptedstavy o teto zemi a tim potirati neptatelskou propagandu. Osobni dopisy jsou ptesvedeivejgi ne2li kterYkoliv jinY prosttedek komunikaeni.

VYznam dopisti pki vytvateni ptizniveho mineni v zahraniei neni mono pkeceniti. "TYden dopisu z Ameriky" je proto vhodnou dobou, kdy si mame ptipomenouti, ze prostY popis nageho kaZdodenniho Zivota, opakovanY milionkrat, bYti mocnou zbrani i proti tomu nejrozgitenejgimu mylnemu nazoru.

Oslavme letogni "TYden dopisir z Ameriky" napsanim dodateeneho dopisu, navazanim zanedbane korespondence, obnovenim slibu, ze i my se aktivne iteastnime teto duldite agita.Cni akce.

President Eisenhower nedavno pravil toto: "Narody za nagimi biehy musi jednou dospeti k pochopeni americkeho naroda zvlagte nagich nadeji a zamerd. KaZdY prostredek lidsko komunikace musi ptispeti k zisk,ani pervektivy vzhledem.

Ve sttedu, dne 12. kvetna 1954. k faktilm. Neznalost yzajemnYch schopnostl, nadeji, ptedsudka, ptesvedeeni a zamerti mute znieiti kooperaci a podnititi vaiku."

V rukou kaZdelto z nas spoeiva zbraft k yybojovani porozumeni. -Mine ji -- inteligentne Ueinne pravdive!

-- Common Council.

POZNAMKA K ZAPISU 0 SCHUZI

IILAVNI UEADOVNY

Sestry a bratti:

Prvni mem piednirni

kursd eeskeho jazyka a tim podporoYali nak vec naa ft eel.

Grapevine, Texas.

Rad bych opravil myln3i dojem, Ze doZadoval jsem "milovneho" do naSich disstriktnich schOzi.

Tak to nebylo.

adal jsem pouze, naby naSe Hlavni Utadovna uznala, Ze taemnici distriktu nagich, kc/y2 mail obcas niavgtevovati schtize Zadove v distriktu k zen! einnosti toho ktereho tadu a z to prate ma cela, jednota naSe prospech, meli by bYti opravneni k nahrade cestovneho, tak jako kaZdY jink Utednik, kterY cestuje pro zajern Jednoty.

Oast() se stava, ae rtmolV z domacich Menu ani do schtize se nedostavi, a neni tedy dfisledne oeekavat, by jednotlivec se mimo snaaeni sveho tea finanene vyeerpaval.

VYsledky naafi prate jasne k yam mlu trochu toho uznani by nam v dalSim pokroku jen prospelo. — Budeme se die toho kiditi.

S pozdravern

Ludva 0. Hoaek.

Z frRADOVNY PATEHO DISTRIKTU

S. P. J. S. T. Houston, Texas, 6. kvetna 1954. CI oni bratti a sestry:

Priporninam yam vaem v patem distriktu, Ze mate parnatovati na nedeli 30. t. m. (kvetna). Ten den bude se konati na2se distriktni schuze v Danbury, Texas, na renei bratra keditele J. M. 8krabanka. Bude to pod stromy na venkove; aZ kdyby prZelo, pak schfize bucle pod stkechou.

Ale SCHUZE BUDE! Pliny jsou takto: Schtize zapoene v 10:30 rano.

Barbecue obed zapoone ye 12:30.

Kontesty a hry zapoenou ye 2:00 hodiny odpoledne, volleyball a baseball, atd.

O zabavu vam vaem rueime. Pkijd'te se podivati na ten eistY vzduch!

Pokete vaaeho tadu eislo a v eem bude fteinkoyati na sestru Amelia Sturm, 5508 Nolda St., Houston, Texas, anebo na mne. Telefon sestry Sturmove po 2. hodine odpoledne je VA-0079. My musime miti tyto inforrnace pted poleclnem 30. kvetna. Prosime vaechny tatty, aby toto hledeli udelati yeas. Doposud mime registrovane: na "softball": rid Danbury eislo 139, ftad Pokrok Houstonu eislo 88 a tad tefanik 61slo 142. Budeme miti cony pro vi-

J. R. BARTEK ptedseda taciu eislo 92

Na prvnlm miste mezi desiti nejlepkmi, kteti se vyznamenali V organisaeni , cinnosti v mesici dubnu je bratr J. R. Bartek, predseda a organisator kadu Svaz Oechoslovanti Oslo 92 ye Fort Worth. Bratr Bartek ptivedl do sveho tadu v minulern mesici 9 novYch Cleat. Gratulujeme a mnoho zdaru v dalk praci.

tezici.

Zveme nayStevniky z druh3ich distriktu a z Hlavni fitadovny OOEKAVAME VAS. A hled'me miti zastoupeni od nakch kadfl v 5. distriktu 100 procentni, S bratrskYm pozdravem

Rudy J. Sefeik, 2301 Airline Drive, Houston, Texas. TW-1451.

DAR TEXAS A&M tESKEMU KLUBU

A&M '6eskS, Klub kona.1 svou pravidelnou schfizi v frteY veeer dne 27. dubna v budove Memorial Student Center. Schfizi zahajil Melvin Holubec, pkedseda kluhu. lenove klubu byli ptijemne ptekvapeni penektYm darem v obnosu 35 dolarii od spolku KJT 'Oslo 40 v East Bernad, Texas. Velice nas teal, jsou jate lide mezi namd, ktefi podporuji jak finadene tak i moraine nag Ceskou tee a vithec nas eeskS7 aivel v Texasu.

Krajane z East Bernard nejen podporuji naa OeskY Klub zde pki A&M Koleji, ale take se staraji o to, aby studenti, kte-ft pi ij don seen 611.1d0Vati, zapsali se do

Studenti z East Bernard, kteti se zapsali do eeskYch kursa, jsou nftsledujici: Karel Hlavinka, Josef Hlavinka, Donald Keprta, Theodore Keprta a Steve Novosad. KeZ by bylo vice takovYch mesteeek v Texasu a vice lidi mezi flan* kteki slovy i skutky podporuji dobrou vec! KeZ by bylo vice paint Waakft (pan WaSek z Seymour). Kea by bylo vice hajitelft i hajitelek CeStiny a merle hrobakfi!

Josef Janeeka, za A&M eeskST Klub.

Vern organ'rurra

: S. P J. T.

S

Sestry a bran:

Po distriktni schfizi ve West dne 25, dubna, a po spoleene parade zastupcii tketiho a pateho distriktu, bylo usneseno, aby organiSatoti ye vaech sedmi distriktech SPJST byli pozyani do bratr-, skeho zavodu v ziskani noveho elenstva do flak SPJST.

Tento zavod Ttetiho a Pateho dlstrikta proti vaem ostatnim distriktiim by na,s: mei najiti vaechny pohotove vypomoci na, aim organisatorilm kde se jen ptilektostn naskytne.

Podminky zavodu byly, by docela jednoduche. OrganisatoR v kaZdem distriktu snaaili by se, aby ptirfistek novSrch Menu a novYch certifikatil byl metenSr v procentech podle stavu Mena v distriktu, KaIdSr distrikt by se snaZil zvYgiti ci svSrch Melia a ptirfistek by se vypoeital v procentech.

Dfilditost a prospegnost takove nove naboroye kampane jiste uzna, kaalY or-, ganisator. souhlas od nadpo7, lovieni vetainy vaech organisatorfl, vod by zapoeal na 1. eervna a ukoneil by na 31. srpna 1954.

Jestli schvalujete takovou bratrskott, soutea, con jiste poteSi celou Jednotu naai, poglete svuj souhlas co nejcitive na' tajemnika ttetiho distriktu: L. 0. Haek. Grapevine, Route 1, Texas.

S bratrskYm pozdravem

Cyril Pokladnik, pkedsccia

L. 0. Hoaek, tajemnik

Ttetiho distriktu

J. M. Skrabanek, ptedseda

Rudy J. 8efeik, tajemnik

Pateho distriktu

-) 9 4, • (

Na nej Si nepiijdou

gestilet3i Jenik musel do nemocnice, aby mu vyndali mandle, a matka mu ddvala ponaue'eni, jak se ma chovat.

"Ja se budu drZet, jak mi radii," sliboval Jenik, "ale vsadim se s tebou, Ze nedaji aadneho plaeiciho kluka, jako 11ci6lali Lobe, kdy2 tys tam byla."

Strana

Rad Svaz eechosiovana eislo 92. Fort Worth, Texas. Mill etenari, bratfi a sestry: Opet piSi smutnou zpravu.

Pana Franka Kubana jik neni vice. Churavel ji2 dlouho, az koneene smrt sklatila valeneho krajana a starousedlIka zdejgiho. Tie skonal v frterY 27. dubna ye staff 67 let. Pohteb byl v patek rano z kostela Vgech SvatStch na hfbitov Mt. Olivet. Zpivanou zadugni mgi sv. slou2i1 a pohfebni obfady v kostele i na htbitove vykonal dp. Charles Redfern; a mel krasnSr proslov nad rakvi zesnuleho. Tek po dva vedery se modlil rigenec u Shannon. Jake oblibe se zesnulY tesil, dokazovala to spousta kvetin a toast lidu a Pfatel na, rakenci a polftbu.

Pan Fr. Kuban pfijel do tato nove vlasti s rodiei a sourozenci roku 1893 od Frengtatu na Morave a usadili se nejprve v jiknim Texasu; pak v Prague, Okla., jek tehdy byla jegte indianskYm fizemim. Po dtyfech letech pfigel do Fort Worth a pozdeji i jeho rodide s rodinou se sem picistehovali. Zde vychodil obchodni Skolu a pak s bratrem Josefem zavedli si gTocerni a masovY obchod na 22. a Main uNa to pracoval u drahy Southern Pacific a2 do roku 1933, kdy si zavedl Kuban Cafe, na 22. a N. Main a pozdeji na 210 W. Central. — Patfil k osade Vgech SvatYch, Ryt. KolumbovYch, KJT., jako i Kat. Delniku.

Jeho smrti zeli jedinSt syn Josef, zde; dcera, ctih. Sestra Mary Reginalda v Lawton, Okla.; pet sester, si. Frances Kuban a pi. W. J. Stangel, zde; pi. J. F. Young v Arlington, Michael Obgivaeova v Prague, Okla., a Vernor Dwyre v Los Angeles, Cal. a tfi bratfi, Josef ye Ft. Worth, Paul v Prague, Okla. a Charles Kuban v Bryan a 4 vnuci. Jeho dobra, druha manklka ho pfedegla na vednost asi pled dvema roky. Vgem pozfistalYm patfi nage upkinma soustrast a zesnulemu dej Bah lehke odpoeinuti.

Ten samY tYden, ye etvrtek 29. dubna, jsme zase ztratili nakho Mena a spolubratra , Tom Lapko. Zemfel v chudobinci, po dlouho trvajici nemoci, ve staff 63 let. Narozen byl v Rusku a do Veto zeme svobody pfije/ roku 1914 a zde po mnoho rokfr pracoval pro mesto Fort Worth. — Pohfeb se konal v sobotu ye 2 hod. odp. z kaple od Shannon's a pohfben byl na Rose Hill hibitove za slugne tdasti elent a pfatel. Rev. S. N. Lozuk, z ruskeho baptistskeho kostela, vykonal pohfebni obkady v kapli i na, hfbitove a pfedseda bratr Joe Bartek pfeeet1 obfady za fad. ZesnulY zde nemel iadnou rodinu. K nagemu fadu patfil od roku 1942 a fad mu vypQmohl uddet jeho $500 pojistku v jeho telke nemoci, take mohl bSIti slug v for tenern boji 2ivotnim.

MinulY tYclen v patek, asi v 6 hodin ra-

V 2STN K — WEST, TEXAS

no nam pekne x a p rAe 1 o, ale na jani strane mesta, v meste a na Riverside fadilo tornado a na tisice dolart gkody nadelalo. Tfi dny pked tim fadilo na zapadni strane, take my na severni strane jsme St'astni, ke nas to v2dy obejde. V nedeli do rana se pfihnal several, take jsme museli i zatapet a kabaty a pfikrYvky byly nutne; a je chladno doposud.

S pozdravem

M. Juranova, dopisovatelka. ) • 4, Jaro eislo 130. Dallas, Texas.

Za ptieinou oslavy kadu ye Fort Worth dne 6. dervna t. r. nage Padova schtze je odlokna na aterY dne 8. dervna v 8 hodin veder, jako vidy v Sokolovne. Tim je usnadneno nagim tfednikum a elenstvu se podileti na jejich radosti. Na ge pkitomnost potegi, a oni nam to jiste zas oplati.

Minula schaZe byla, pine zastoupena, talde pfedseda mohl schuzi dle stanov zahajit. Br. Hogek, vzdor tornu *ie je zatiken svoji okrskovou praci, nagel si chvili a Valli cestu 30 mil, aby mohl bYti mezi nami, a neni to poprve; a kdy neintte, aspori pole listek omluvnt Tomu ji fikarn vedomi povinnosti a ohledupinost. A my skorem na, dosah ruky a co??? No, pfichazi letni sezona, a ono se to na podzim zas zlepgi.

Br. piedseda usmevavST, shovivavSr, povoInSr, dovoli mezi schazi tern mluvicim vecnS= rozhovor tYkajici se zlep geni nagich veci. Nevyzniva to parlamentarne, spige kertovne a to vlastne zpestkuje ten suchopar tech schtzi. A2 mluvicim dojde dech, to schtize se posune o krteek dale. 6asu dost. Bratfi nredseda a Hoek podali zpravu z okrskove schtze ye West. Vge bylo hezke, eislo Ennis Naroclni sin bylo libive.

Mluveno k poznamce br. redaktora z minuleho eisla o fileve starYm elentm. Ne vek, ale elenstvi budou rozhodujici.

Piipadne: Po 40 letech elenstvi tleva procentni. Po 50 sprogteni vgech atd., ak do vyplaceni pojistky za S podobnYm navrhem pfijdou fadovi neb okrskovi vyslanci do pfigtiho sjezdu.

Dale, zdali by bylo prakticke, misto ildovYch okrskove delegaty vysilat do sjezdu, asi tak 50-75, z tech dobrYch ty nejlepgi, a ti by udelali za 3 dny to samou a snad lepgi praci ne2 tech 250 za, celY tyden. Ugetfene penize na sjezdu roadelte do okrskovYch pokladen. PO at' prgi neb se leje, ty jsou vysugeny stale. Bez pen& se neuskuteenilo a rozbilo uz mnoho naclejnYch veci.

Okrsky podinaji konat platnou praci a ty si musime uddet a je zlepgovat.

A ted' nem co zde jegte nebylo. Br. teetni nam podal nasledujici: Jista, nage dlenka si udelala Rajau proti svoji pojistce a mane malt' obnos,

Ve stkedu, dne 12. kvetna 1954. na cok asi 112 davno zapomela. Po 12 letech , prave ted' dostala z Hlavni tfadovny upominku k zaplaceni i s troky, demuk ona nerozumela a kadala teetniho za vysvetleni. Te2 zas latka k uvaient. Br. Hoek projevil nahled, ke takova upozorneni proti pohledavka,m se maji zasilat kaZdYm rokem, dokud neni dluh vyrovnan. Neni pry to ptipad ojedinelY. Nediktujeme, ale doporudujeme Hlavni idadovne k uvakeni.

A ted' br. redaktoru. Pfejeme si, abys dale pokraeoval v to buditelske praci jak jsi einil dosud, a jeate lepe. Je potkebi mnohe z nas vyvest z jakehos polospanku a vzbudit zajem k to jimi opugtene praci spolkove. A ted' se pfiznej! Mimo tvodnika, kde bereg inspirace k tern vecne psanYm dalgim odstaveektm? Jestli pfijimag vnuknuti ye sna.ch, to dobrou noc a spi. dvanact hodin denne.

Dostala jsem do ruky pfesnY seznam elenstva ,Detskeho odboru a vYkaz majetku. 0 tom snad az prigte. To bude pro ty, kterSrm pro Tame pfieiny se neni mokno nikdy do schtze dostp,vit, by jak nekolik jednotlivet, jimi nekon trolovanYch, s jejich spolkovYrn majetkem hospodafi.

A naposled tern faclam, ktere pro malichernosti bezteelne se mezi sebou gkorpi, snad se tak jen domnivam, ale neugkodi. Zde to mate: Odhod'te ten kalich kluei z jeho more dech se chvi, necht' at' kolem jasne zvuei zlata paska bratrstvi.

Tak to nejak napsal v basni Sv. tech, snad VrchlickY (Frida), uk nepamatuji.

Pro vlastni zabavu nepigi nikdy, vgdy jen z popudu. Co je ye schazi ujednano, je zanegeno v protokolu a moje per° to uZ nepkijima. V tomto dopisu jsou zachyceny avahy mistni i pfespolni, a byt' by uz byly snad jednou v tisku, opakovat neugkodi, a 2ertu rozumime take, te ano?

S pozdravem

Hernkalova, dopisovatelka. • •

MATE" SPOLKU RACIONALISTU

Pravidelna schtze VYboru Svazu eskoslovenskYch Racionalista konati se bude v nedeli odpoledne dne 16. kvetna v sini "u 8tefanikii" na Cottage Grove. Jednani zapoene v jednu hodinu k van elenfn, ktefi se dostavuji do kakde schuze a, k tato navgteve musi pou2ivati mezimestskYch bust, ktere v tomto ptipade jezdi nevhodnou dobu.

tleni Svazu jsou do schuze zvani a vitani a pkitomnost tech, kdo mohou se dostaviti, 25.douci.

Nezapomerite tedy datum a hodinu schuze. M. P. K. Valova, tajemnice Statniho VYboru.

Rad ROovY Dvu'r eislo 89. Rosebud, Texas. Bratfi a sestry:

NaSe schtize tento mesic .bude konana dne 16. 'neje. Prosim, dostavte se do schuze a pomoZte nam planovat piknik, ktery budeme mit druhou nedeli v mesici eervnu.

S bratrskS'rm pozdravem John J. Plakk. ) • 4, • ( BARBECUE U POKROK HOUSTONU 88. necieli, 16. kvetna, fad Pokrok Houstonu potada sve jarni "barbecue". Obsluha zaene ye 12 hodin v poledne. 0bed bude dolar talit, deiti 50 centil.

Po obede budou hry a zabavy vkho druhu, a bude take zda.rma taneeni zabava.

Jakekoliv dary peeiva, kolde0, doltu a cukrovinek budou vdeene prijaty.

TeSime se, Ze ptijdete a s nami se pobavite tuto nedeli, 16. kvetna..

Za spravni vybor

Annette Rezek.

) • 4, 4.• Pokrok Houstonu eislo Spravni vYbor fadu Pokrok Houstonu oznamuje, ze kaZdou prvni ndeli v mesici bude tanecni zabava, na kterou cleni budou ptipuSteni zdarma. Od neelenii bude vybirano vstupne.

VSichni jsou uctive zvani. 61eni jsou Zadani, aby pozvali sve ptatele a zname a ukaza.li jim pohostinstvi v tadove mistnosti.

Hra bingo je opet pfelaena no, kaZdou sobotu weer.

Za spravni vSrbor

Annette Rezek.

) • ( Odhalena nevedomost

Synek: "Tatinku, od eeho zemfelo Mrtve mote?"

Tatik: "To \Tem nevim."

Synek: "Kam se podejou sny, kdyt' se probudiS?"

Tatik: "Nevim."

Synek: "Prod maji ryby tolik kosti?"

Tatik: "To take nevim."

Synek: "Ted' bych ale rad vedel, kdo t udelal redaktorem."

RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI

tlenove tadu Stefanik Os. 142 v Houstonu, Texas, projevuji timto uplimnou soustrast pozustale rodine nad Umrtim lejich manZela, otce, dedeeka a naSeho spolubratra

Williama Ungrada, kterST zemicel dne 1. kvetna 1954 a k poslednimu odpoeinku ulo2en byl dne 3. kvetna.

ZesnulSt bratr at' ma klidnSr spanek a test budi2 jehb pamatce.

Za tad 8tefanik Oslo 142:

Vera Vaja, Amanda Vojtek, Bohumila Sulda.

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RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI

ftad Slovan Oslo 9 opet ze sveho kruhu ztratil Umrtim nak milou spolusestru Frantigku gebestoveu.

Mild nase spolusestra zemtela v paehnanYch 78 letech po degi nemoci v nemocnici v Bryan, Tex. Byla vzornou zenou a milou radovou sestrou ryziho charakteru v kaZdem ohledu. Oplakavaji 4 zarmoucene dcery, jeden syn a dva truchlici bratti a VSichni, kteti milou a fadnou Zenu znali.

Odpoe'ivej v pokoji a cestnou vzpominku na ,Tebe zachova tad Slovan a cela girgi yetejnost.

Resolueni vYbor: J. T. Skrabanek, Jos. Jakubik, Jo 8um§al

Vet kdo 'gene.

Kaidou nedeli tad Pokrok Houstonu Oslo 88 porada piltelskou zabavu. Kava aaj a zaku.sky jsou v.ftly zdarma. Veeet0 dle pkani. Navgtevnici jsou vgdy vitani. pozvete sve zname.

Ve stiedu, dne 12. kvetna hraje dallaska. SPJST mieova seta v Samuell Parku, htiSte Cis. 2, nalezajici se hned u Samuell ulice, Dallas, proti State Farm eete. Zaaatek v 8:15 veeer.

✓ nedeli 13. eervna fad Karel Havlieek Oslo 4 v Hallettsville bude miti vekejnou schtizi spojenou s programem na poctu matek a otctit. Bratr Mieek z Austinu oslovi shromaZdene.

✓ nedeli 13, eervna potada Zupa, Jigni Americke Obce Sokolske Zupni slet a zdvody v Sokolovne na Kostohryz Road v Corpus Christi.

V nedeli 16. kvetna tad Pokrok Houstonu potada svuj piknik 'barbecue' pfi sini. °bed zaene ye 12:30 v poledne. Volna taneeni zabava odpoledne a ruzne hry yeder. Podrobnosti budou oznameny v dopisech.

Ve stiedu, dne 19. kvetna hraje dallaska mieova deta zase na tom samem Samuell Park Diamond No. 2, proti Southland Life Zadatek v 8:15 veeer.

✓ sobotu, dne 29. kvetna pada, mitova, eeta radu Pokrok Dallas Oslo 84 veilkou taneeni zabavu ye prospech vybaveni teto eety. Hudba bude Starlighters. Pomorte nagim hochfun k dobremu zdaru vaSi tieasti. 2625 Floyd Street.

V nedeli 6. eervna tad Fort Worth eislo 154 oslavuje 201ete trvani sveho fadu. Podrobnosti programu budou uvetejneny ve zprave dopisova.telky.

Na to je guma na konci kaldSrho plavajzu, aby elovek vymazal sy ST chyby. EnomZe nekerej elovek i to nedovede vypooitat, aby mu guma vydrZela aspon tak dlouho iako plavajz.

Stalo se to v daleke Indii, co yam zde budeme yypriveti, ale stejne dobfe se to rnT2e stati take u nas. Poslygte: 1Thenec sekty Tsan Tse, t. j. doktortl rozumu, vygel si k veaeru, v smutne pohtigen jsa rozjimani. Tu vidi u aerstve nasypaneho hrobu mladou pani, jeg potoky slz cedic, stale ovivala velikYm vejitern eerstvY hrob. Mudrc, pohnut jeji galosti, ptistoupil bliZe a tazal se ii, prod tak "Ach!" odpovedela mlada Zena, slzic, "ve mne spatfujeg negt'astnou vdovu, pohfigenou v hlubokY smutek po smrti milovaneho mangela. Muj drahY mug, gehnaje se se mnou na smrtelnem 1ozi, pravil ke mile tato posledni slova: no, kdybys mela Urnysl pc) me smrti opet se vdati, pro vgecko na svete to prosim, poekej aspoli az hlina na mem hrobe uschne." A tak," dodala zarmoucena gena, "musim hrob vejifem osugovati, neb viz, jak velmi jegte mokrY jest."

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Sedlakovi pogla jeho nejlepgi krava. dalost na statku zajiste tragicke, a neni proto divu, ge si ji selka 'nab tak velice k srdci, ge za tYden potom se odebrala rovne do rise veenosti.

Sedlak byl, chudak, znieen z dvojiho zdrcujiciho negtesti a to rodiee jeho zemtele mangelky mu nabizeli jeji sestra za germ, jini jeji sestienici a dokonce i netet. Tohle sedlaka nakonec dolltalo a proto si jednou na soucitne biigni vyjel:

"Se vi, kdyg mi pogla kralta, tak se nenagel ani jeden, aby mi pfivedl jinou, ale kdyZ mi zemtela 'gena, tak mi nabizite hned tfi!"

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PSTcha nechce byti dlugnikem, a sebelaska nechce platiti.

Vzpomigsk a old iciho elena

Pted necelSm rokem dostal redaktor rzacnY ptispevek od jednoho ze zakladajicich Clem SPJST. Je tomu prave mesic, kdy pisatel onohO elanku bratr Jan Husak, usnul nav2dy. V upominku na zesnuleho bratra je zde znovu otigten jeho 2ivotopis. Redaktor.

Jsme easto vybizeni, abychorn my, kteti jsme jeate na 2ivu a pattime mezi ty zakladajici eleny, napsali nejakY 2ivotopis. Pokusim se o to a chci trochu popsati, jak jsme zakladali to nagi SPJST. Bylo hodne nagincti, kteki jsme byli v iadu decho-Moravan na Effinger. Zaealy bYti vysolte rnesieni poplatky a iirody byly male nasledkein pilousu, tak nekteti zaoali shanet eleny do noveho spolku SPJ ST. Nejvice pracovali Kubena, Gallia, Haidngek a jini, na ktere se vice nepamatuji.

Kdy2 se Kubena o2enil, tak se pfistehoval na Fayetteville a zavedl si tam obchod, ale piitom pracoval pro zalo2eni SPJST. Toho easu byl jsem elenem tadu C.S.P.S. na Ellinger, kde jsme mivali schtze v sobotu veeer, ponevad2 bylo nekolik bratrit, kteti meli obchody. Tenkrate se jezdilo z farem do obchodu v nedeli. Zvedeli jsme, 2e na Fayetteville budou zakladat prvni fad toho noveho spoiku. Tak nekolik nas bratril od eSPS ph Ellinger jsme se usnesli, to pojedeme v nedeli do Fayetteville a pomideme jim ten prvni fad zalo2it. To mel Kubena uz nekolik elentl ziskanSrch.

Tak se stalo, 2e jsme ten prvni tad zalo2iii. Kdo vgechno se pkihlasili, to si u2 dnes nepamatuji, ale vsak kdesi z toho budou jeste zaznamy. Jen to vim, 2e jureno prvniho fadu v to SPJST navrhnul bratr Jan Chupik, otec nynej giho tajemnika J. F. Chupicka, a 2e my jsme ten jeho navrh jednomyslne prijali. Pojmenovali jsme ten prvni kad Pokrok Texasu.

Nekde jsem Ceti, ze Gallia byl toho prvniho tadu piedsedou, ale ja, jsem Galliu ve Fayetteville nikdy nevidel. On asi byl pfedsedou Hlavniho ildu, al se cela SPJST sorganisovala. Na Fayetteville byl ptedsedou Kubena, po nem Knesek, a take Slavik byl nekolik rokil tajemnikem. Na ty druhe uredniky si ji2 nevzpomenu, ale stejne je to poznatene v knihach, ktere jsme tenkrate vedli. Take moje man2elka piistoupila k tadu ye Fayetteville, kde jsme byli eleny, az jsme se pfestehovali do Ross, kde jsme pomohli zalo2iti fad DubovY Haj eislo 126, u ktereho j-me dosud eleny.

A trochu take napigi ze sveho 2ivota. Do Ameriky jsem pfijel roku 1883 s otcern, nevlastni matkou a dvema nevlastnimi bratry. Narodil jsem se v Jablunce na. Moray& Tenkrat jegte vlaky pies Jablunku na Vsetin nejezdily, take jsme

jsou Jan, Frank, Frantitka Mrkog Joe a Albina jsou v Houstone, Albinu ma Tony Koval. Anna je az ye Virginii, to se provdala za Jana Lattovicu. Tak deti vyrostou, a potom jsou po celem svete. Ka2dk jde za sv3"rm tivobytim, vtichni mail za.lotene sve domacnosti, ale vaichni se o nas staraji s upi'imnou laskou.

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museli delat dalekou cestu, nez jsme se dostali na stanici, kde jsine sedali na vlak. Bylo nine tenkrat 17 rokti. Z naseho kraje toho tasu kaZdY jet na Ellinger k rodine starch Hruglal. My vlastne pfijeli k Tornagi Novosadovi, kterY byl u Hrug gkova byla Novosadova nejstargi sestra. Oni pfijeli do Ameriky jegte peed obeanskou valkou. Cestu tnne vyplatil otec, ale musel jsem to odslouZit. Sloutil jsem u Avakra Tomo.ge Novosada,. Otec mtj jmenoval se Josef Husak. Matka moje, ktera se za svobodna jmenovala Frantigka Kadlec, pochazela z Valdorfu, nekde od eesko-nemeckYch hranic. Nevim, jakou nahodou se ona se syYmi rodiei dostala do Jablunky na Valagsko.

Nepamatuji se, kterY rok to bylo, ale Tomag Novosad koupil si farmu pki Fayetteville a ja jsem tenkrat slouZil u neho. Nedaleko bYvala rodina Trampotova, kteii tate pochazell z Jablunky. Pani Trampotova byla z rodiny PalackYch, kteti pochazeli z Hodsiavic na Moray& Jeji strYtek byl Frantigek PalackY, ten co napsal "Dejiny narodu eeskeho." Meli dceru Annu, ktera byla o osm rokil rnlad gi nez ja, s kterou jsem se v roku 1892 o2enil. Asi patnact rokii byli jsme na rente ph Fayetteville, at v roku 1907 jsme se nastehovali na West, kde jsme zase byli etyti roky na rente u Ignace Hutyry. Pak jsme si koupili farmieku tfi mile zapadne od West. V roku 1943 jsme prodali farmu synovi, ponevad2 jsme u2 nemohli pracovat a stale 2ijeme v Malem domku ph synovi na farm&

Musim se jeate trochu zminit o sve mantelce. Take se narodila V Jablunce. Rodina Trampotova jela do Ameriky o dva roky drive net my, Husakovi. Pfijel tenkrate do Jablunky Jan Havlik z Ameriky. Trampotovi mu byli strSreek a tetieka. Kdyt Jan Havlik pfijel do Jablunky, musel se trochu skrSrvat, aby ho nezavreli, ze pfemlouva, lidi, by jeli do Ameriky. Trampotovi museli napfed ku svemu strYekovi do Frenatatu, a odtud po vote do Studenky, kde sedali na vlak. Bylo to tenkrat hodne take vypravit se do Ameriky. Ale pfhela cela, Trampotova rodina, s nimi jeate Josef Mikolal, stafenky HruAkave S'vakr. Tak vAichni k HruSkovS7m o dva, roky pied nami.

Poeatky naSe zde v Americe byly jake. Kukutice, kdy se sela, to se muselo zrno pohazova.t rukama, baylna rovne2 tak. Na °rani byl jen pluh, na obdelavani jen motyky. Dnes je jina, prate na farma.ch, same stroje, same vymo2enosti. Dnes Zeny mak) jdou do pole. Tenkrat musel kaldY, kdo byl zdravSr.

Tak jestli, bratie redaktore, z toho nem vyberete, tak to sestavte, aby se etendti neco o tech zakladajicich elenech dozvedeli. Jsme na svete u2 jenom jako na besede. Mne minulo 20. biezna 87 rokii a man2elce na 3. Unora 79. To u2 je dosti vysokY vek, ale jegte sami sebe obsloutime, a jsme spokojeni. Nebylo za tech 61 rokil, co jsme spolu, jen same slasti, ale bylo take dosti strasti. Ale to u'2 je osud aloveka. Matka, mi zemfela, kdy mi bylo tfi roky, ale dostal jsem vernou dru2ku 21vota, s ni2 ziii pies 61 roku.

Doufam, ze jsem napsal kousek 2ivota jednoho z tech, kdo zalo2ili SPJST. Jan Husak, Clen fadu DubovY Haj eislo 126.

Co si neustale ptedstavujeme, o eem nejvice premYglime, vetka,va, se do tkane nageho 2ivota, stava se soutasti naaeho vlastniho ja a zvetguje silu nageho dugevniho magnetu, aby ptitahoval k sobe, echo si pfejeme. -- 0. S. Marden.

Dobro, jet od nekoho jsme pfijali, Lida, bychom trpelive meli zietel na zlo, ktere nam pUsobi.

Vychovali jsme lest dobrYch deti, je- Dopougti se den zemiel po na,rozeni, a zde ph West li kdo, 2e sarn

velkeho blaznovstvi, mini jest vrcholem moudrosti.

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF SLAVONIC BENEVOLENT ORDER OF THE STATE OF 'TEXAS

etc., intended for publication, must be in the hands of the Editor a week before the date of issue. Address all editorial matters to: Editor, 6402 Prague, Houston?, Tex.

Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 With Undeliverable Copies to SUPREME LOJOGE SPJST, TEMPLE, TEXAS

MUSINGS OF THE EDITOR

THIS WEEK, I SHOULD LIKE TO discuss the new benefits given in the J.-T class. This information is valuable for anyone who is interested in the terms insurance for a child. The old schedule with scaled or graduated benefits was replaced with a very favorable new schedule. This new schedule affects every one of the 800 odd certificates already in force. It will not be necessary to have the J-T certificates changed, but the SPJST members should know that there are increased benefits in effect.

LET US GET A COMPLETE PICTURE of the former and the present setup. Back in 1928, the SPJST convention held in Temple established the Juvenile Department. Slowly and gradually, the ofricers of the Supreme Lodge realized that it would take some individual to carry out the instructions of the Temple convention. They advertised to employ some capable insurance man to work out the details. We had three applicants: the late August Morris, J. M. Skrabanek and J. F. Chupick. Brother Chupick had the best plan and received the assignment. The original plan was to insure the children of the members for $500. The rate was 20 cents a month for those between the ages of 2 and 10, and 30 cents for those from 10 to 15. We did not offer insurance for children under two.

THE DEATH BENEFITS WERE scaled, starting with $34 at the age of two, and reaching the full protection of $500 at the age of 13. If a child died at the age of 8, the death benefit was $200. This original plan was in force for 12 years. Then the maximum amount of protection was raised to $1,000, and the monthly fates were also doubled, that is 40 cents up to the age of 10, and 60 cents up to the age of 15. But the same gradual scale was retained, with the full protection at the age of 13. The scale is still in our rate books. Now, a new scale of benefits is in force.

JUVENILE CERTIFICATES ARE ISsued at age of one day and up to 9 years 6 moths for a monthly premium of 40 cents; and for the higher ages be-

tween 9 years 6 months and 15 years for a monthly premium of 60 cents. Hereafter, the full amount of death benefits shall be payable on present juvenile certificates, J-T class, at age of 9 years and 6 months. The new benefits, also graduated but much more favorable, go up $100 every year. The lowest death benefit is for a child who dies under the age of 6 months, and is only $50. If a child dies between the age of 6 months and 1 year 6 months, the death benefit is $100; 2 years, $200; 3 years, $300; 4 years, $400; etc. *

WHEN DISCUSSING THE J-T CERTIficate, many of our field workers admit that they do not like the term insurance (J-T) certificate, and that they did not sell a single J-T protection. That is not the right attitude. There are many families who cannot afford the more expensive type of protectien, and they should obtain some insurance at the lowast cost. We should be offering it even though it is a term insurance. Not everybody can afford to wear a $25 Stetson hat, but everybody tries to buy the head cover to suit his pocketbook. The J-T certificate is a temporary protection. Probably that is the reason we have only 816 J-T certificates. But it is a good protection for the amount, of premiums it takes to carry it. * 0

ONE OF THE ORGANIZERS REported two, cases where he sold the J-T certificates in addition to the higher type of insurance. The writer of these lines had done the same. Father of a boy wanted to have $2,000 protection. He did not feel that he could carry the more expensive insurance, but he wished to have something better than a term insurance. He followed the suggestion to have $1,000 of the higher type and $1,000 of the term insurance. His boy is now fully protected for $2,000. By the time the boy gets to be 15 or 16, the father thinks that the financial conditions of the family will improve so that the boy may take out more insurance of the permanent type.

OUR ACTUARY STRESSED THE point that we should pay more attention to the J-T class as a matter of long-

range campaign work. Only four out of 100 children who have the J-T certificate fail to apply for the permanent type of insurance before or when they reach the age required to convert the temporary protection into a permanent one. It the opinion of our actuary, we should have not 816 J-T certificates but twice or three times that number. It means ar:L'omatically 'more young members in the future.

AS MUCH AS THE NEW SCALED benefits may be far better than what we used to have, it is not a complete satisfaction to the writer who have been pleading for higher benefits in the J-T class. It is my honest belief that the scaled benefits in the J-T class should be intirely eliminated, and that full amount of death benefits should be payable on the juvenile certificates J-T, except in the first six months when the certificate is issued at age under six months. With' the exception of the first six months of an infant, when the death rate among the infants is much higher, the death benefits should be paid in full regardless of the age of the member at death. It is my honest opinion that our actuary would give his approval to eliminate the scaling of the death benefits. The J-T class is being handled separately, and the solvency is so high that. the supreme officers are almost embarrassed to mention it. If it can be done, why do we have to wait again twelve and fourteen years to make additional improvements? Are we so set in our thinking that it takes another generation to remove the cobwebs?

THERE IS ANOTHER BENEFIT IMprovement which the writer would like to see in the SPJST. We have a remission of premiums to those who have beea members 35 years or more and have attained the age of 70. That provision is, actuarially taken, against the principles of life insurance. We do have surplus, and we should have surplus. But the surplus belongs to all the members, in proportion to the length of their membership in the SPJST, not according to their actual age. Other fraternal societis have it worked out more satisfactorily where everybody gets his share, of the undivided surplus, but not in cash arid not in remissions.

Fraternal Week i-rociamation

By Lendon A. Knight, Frcsident National Fraternal Congress of 9merica

WHEREAS, for many years each President of the National Fraternal Congress of America has designated one \Jeek of the year as "Fraternal Week", ba be observed and celebrated as such by all State Fraternal Congresses, fraternal benefit societies, and the more than eighty thousand local lodges cf such societies, in order that the public at large and the more than ten million inernbers of such societies thereby may be appraised more fully of the ideals and objectives of the fraternal benefit system and its contributions to the welfare of the state and nation.

NOW THEREFORE, as President of 1 lin National Fraternal Congress of America. I hereby proclaim the week of June 13-19, 1954 as Fraternal Week and request:

1.That all State Fraternal Congresses, fraternal benefit societies and local ledges cooperate and make every possible effort to carry out the Fraternal Week program in accordance with the nifxgestions and recommendations made by the Committee on Fraternal Week of t National Fraternal Congress of America.

2. That, since patriotism is one of the tenets upon which the fraternal benefit system is founded, National Flag Day, e 14, be particularly observed in conjunction with Fraternal Week, and That this Proclamation be published in the oficial publication of each fraternal benefit society. • 4 (

Leading in April ,

The following ten lodges placed themselves in the lead during the month of April, as report from the home office indicates: I : 14tAlt

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Official Memorandum

by ALLAN SHIVERS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS Austin, Texas

GREETINGS:

Truth is cur greatest defense against the forces which are challenging freedom throughout the world and distorting, through the use of false propaganda, the character of American citizens and their, way of life.

It is the avowed purpose of Communism to create disunity and incite hatred by propagating these falsehoods.

Letters From America Week, which will celebrate its fifth anniversary this year, is a project which utilizes the millions of letters that go abroad as a weapon for democracy in the fight against Communist tyranny. More than 1,500,000,000 letters have been sent overseas since this campaign got underway in 1950, the bulk of them written by first and second generation Americans to their friends and relatives.

The Letters From America campaign suggests methods these letter-writers can use in their persona,1 letters to tell the true story of America. It also secures special columns and articles from leading Americans; these have been translated into twenty-five languages and have appeared in 406 foreign language newspapers.

THEREFORE I, as Governor of Texas do hereby designate the Week of May 17-23, 1954, as

LETTERS FROM AMERICA WEEK and urge our citizens writing to relatives and griends abroad to participa.te in this truth campaign by giving the true facts about our American way of life.

(SEAL) .

In official recognition whereof, I hereby affix my signature this 31st day of March, 1954

(signed)

A Fortune in Social Security

Brother Miroslav Bily, a member of Pokrok Houston Lodge, handed the editor a clipping: "You had several articles about social security. Here is an article which may interest the SPJST members."

The editor agrees with Brother Mireslay Bily. It is a g:iod article. It reads:

SOCIAL SECURITY CARD CAN GET YOU $46,000

Your social security card is an insurance policy worth many thousands of iollars. Sylvia Porter, financial columnist for the New York Post, pointed out that few people know of the benefits they can get with their social security card. She listed some little-known facts about social security. Read what Miss Porter wrote and then clip and save this valuable column for future ref :Tence:

Here are some facts that will astound ?ven most experts; Social security is much more that retirement benefits. It is also life insurance to protect young children and their mothers.

It is also a lump-sum death benefit o soften the financial shock of death. It is also a pension for aged widows and dependent children.

Assume a father of two infants — ages me and two — dies in 1953. He has been earning a salary of $3,600 a year, and gas, therefore fully insured at the top oeial security level.

On application, his widow gets a lump sum death benefit equal to three times ier husband's $85 monthly retirement pension.

This equals $255.

His two children and their mother get a pension of $170 a month until the two-year-old reaches 18.

Over a 16-year period this works out to $32,640.

ALLAN SHIVERS Governor of Texas

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A wife went to court to ask for a divorce. She was seventy-eight and her husband was eighty-two.

The 'judge said, "How long have you been married?"

"Sixty years," answered the wife.

The judge expressed surprise and said, "Why do you want a divirce after being together for so many years?"

She answered emphatically, "Enough is enough,'

His youngest child and the mother get a pension of $127.50 a month until the youngest reaches 18, one year later.

This amounts to $1,530.

The widow's pension ceases when both children reach 18, but she gets old-age benefits when she is 65.

The total hits a whopping $46,346— and all this income, under the- law, is free of all tax!

Overheard in government building coffee bar: "Gee, I'd better get back to the office or I'll be late for quitting time." —Pathfinder.

Sponsored by Lodge Pokrok Dallas No. 84, the above team is competing in the Dallas Insurance League. Games a r e played every Wednesday night. Members of the team, from left to right:

FRONT ROW: Joe Jarolik, Raymond

C RACAS CUTS COLLISIONS

1 ,cas, Venezuela, is a city much r in size than Havana, Cuba. Yet Ca] aras has more automobiles than Haymil. And the cars in Caracas go fairly L1 A, too, even whizzing along narrow -sets on precariously steep hills. But , te of the many autos, the rapid u, vin and narrow streets the accident 1«.e is comparatively low. How is this paradox explained? Because the city's 1.2 affic laws are strict and are applied \\ Ithcut a moment's hesitation. These

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laws, responsible for cutting auto collisions. appeared in the August, 1953, issue of the Americas magazine:

"First, the car on the right has the right of way at any intersection. As a result, you never go before a judge because of a collision at a crossing. The one one the left simply pays for all damage, and also pays the fine." There are no arguments and no time lost in court.

Second, whoever hits another car from behind is always responsible. It makes no difference if the leading driver ne-

glected to signal for a turn. Every car must keep at least ten yards behind the next. Finally, no one may drive after drinking alcoholic beverages. On Sundays, when the dangerous roads to the beaches are jammed with cars, the traffic prosecutors stop each vehicle and put a special glass device in front of the driver's mouth. If the indicator turns red, he has consumed alcohol and cannot go on driving. He must leave the car and come back another day. A terrible nuisance, but many lives are saved."

Vrana, Albin Frank Vrana, Bill Gaiser, J. D. Griser and Bob Wright.

ROW: Louis Pekar, Wilber Munger Jr., Frank Steiner, Billy Vita, Marvin Marek and Joe Rejcek.

ROW: Ben Jarma, manager, Ed

Kolenovsky, Jerry Houpe Jr., John Sebetka, Cyril Zinimerhanzel, Frank Jezek and Ben 0. David, manager.

Not in the picture is Jerry Maca. Picture taken by Ed Kolenovsky.

LETTERS

Dear SPJST Family:

Grapevine, Texas

Those of you who weren't at our Third District meeting in West surely missed a fine time. It seems that every meeting

VAS TN TEXAS

the audience were happy for them. (Br. Valcik, could we have a picture of them together in the Vestnik?) (OK, here they are.--Editor.)

The old officere are on for another year. They hoped to turn the second year over to "New Blood," so that our District would some day have plenty of trained leaders to guide our District to greater goals, but we did get a very talented assistant elected to help us, namely : Br. Alvin Nesuda, of Ennis, as custodian of our lovely new Third District Flag. It's truly beautiful and Bro. Nesuda will see that it's in its place at each meeting. We're all happy that Bro. Nesuda accepted the nomination, for he will be invaluable to us in our further work. That brings me to the part I wanted to write about most—PODPORA, LIDSKOST, BRATRSTVI—those words have been going over and over in my mind — catch words — like the slogan "For Texans By Texans." Our

Wednesday, 193=i ing this lovely song to the accompaniment of Miss Nesuda on the piano, Podpora, Lidskost a Bratrstvi — as though they were telling these youngsters what it all meant to us in our lives. The children joined hands, embracing our emblem to their bosoms and joined their elders to finish the song. Podpora, Lidskost a Bratrstvi. Dear Family — you should have been there! It was inspiring.

Another reason why our meeting was different this time We had our Charter members of the SPJST, those living within our district with us: Sisters Bilek and Prikryl were introduced and presented with a lovely yellow corsage. Sister Hnsak, also a charter member was not present, being ill. Three Sisters, our Charter Members. We honor these ladies for the stout-hearted courage in pioneering and contributing through the years to our SPJST growth. We honor these old people, they are dear to us.

I've yet to see white haired Bro. Snapka MISS one of our meetings. Gladness radiates from his face when he comes amongst his own.

SYLVIA LAZNOVSKY

we have is just a little better than the List. Certainly this one was differentia that our District had 100 per cent representation by its lodges. A L L LODGES PRESENT—shows you that our Meetings ARE interesting and that they DO draw crowds. Our farthest Lodge north, Gainsville, was represented by members from the Oklahoma side of the Red River, namely: Bro. and Sis. Sykora, Bro. Paclik, also of Gainsville was present, smiling all the while. You could tell he was enjoying the meeting. Wonder why Cordy Paclik didn't come? tow about that? — Miss Information!

Our essay contest winners, Misses Sylvia Laznovsky, Emogene Hanus and Lucille Harius, were there to receive their prizes. Three lovely ladies, gentlemen, Lentlement, — they were the center of attraction. Miss Sylvia wore a turquoise blue silk dress and her pink carnation corsage was really attractive, Miss EmsP:ene in her white dress with pink corage, and Miss Lucille was dressed in lavender with a pink corsage of carnations. They were terrific. They all looked as though they had just stepped out of a bandbox. They were photographed a number to times, singly, together and with the members of the Third Districts Officers (the Kocouil.). Anyway, we,

EIVIOGENE JIANUS

Sister Wilma Nesuda Ennis wrote a little song with this slogan, Podpora, Lidskost a Bratrstvi to the beautiful dedication number of the SPJST STAR to the Third District. There stood a big five-point red-and-white star on the Stage—little children in our national (Kroj) costumes, each dedicated a section with a letter on it to the Red and White star, placing it in its appropriate place, until it formed our round SPJST emblem. But the touching part of it all was the Fathers and Mother sing-

Another reason why our meeting was different this time was the membership. When it was proposed in the afternoon meeting that our next meeting be held in October, since hot weather and harvest season would be on hand in three months, the membership protested "No, no, no, three months," they cried. Where, but in our Third District would find such an audience. From the enthusiasm manifested it is evident that the Fosummal,,,,g

LUCILLE HANUS

Wednesday, May 12, 1951

membership is interested and will come to such meetings.

The West Lodge had a lovely singing number with an accordion accompaniment. Those Czech songs truly give a person a lift. (Od podlahy.) We didn't stay for all of the program after the 'meeting, because we wanted to beat the darkness home — we're not used to driving at night too much anymore, but it's your loss dear readers, when you miss those meetings. Our next one is in Ennis, in July, and remember Pcdpora, Lidskost a Bratistvi.

Fraternally yours, Anna Hosek

TO THE LODGES AND MEMBERS . OF THE 7th DISTRICT SPJST

The biannual meeting of the 7th District SPJST will be called to order Sunday, May 16, 1954, at 11:00 a. rn. Lunch will be served on the grounds at 1:00 p.m. at the Mission Park, San Antonio, Texas.

Directions to the park: coming in on South Presa, Street follow it to the 5000 block, turn to White Ave. which will lead you to the park. The committees are preparing interesting as well as educational programs and the Supreme Lodge Officers will be with us to bring us their messages, for your benefit and everyone concerned. You are cordially invited to be with us.

E. Miculka, President

Jacob Shortner, Secretary • 4• • (

LODGE ANTON J. CERMAK, NO. 56

Corpus Christi, Texas

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

The regular meeting of Lodge No. 56 Anton J. Cermak was held April 11th. After the meeting . adjourned the Sokol meeting was called, to order. While this meeting was going on I went to town for the ice cream which was donated to the youth by the lodge. Then, few of us collected all the Easter Eggs the children brought and • we hid thein on the grounds. Little Kathryn Cabla found the most eggs. Jerry Manasek found the least (one). Margaret Majek found the second largest number. After the Easter Egg hunt, drinks, ice cream and supper was served to all present. Everyone had an enjoyable time.

Brother Jan Stasa attended our last meeting. We were all glad to see him. He is looking fine, as you all remember in illy last letter I mentioned that he was seriously ill.

Naeces County second graders' stepped up to silver needles yesterday (April 28th) to receive injections of the new polio vac' nine and by the day's end 3372 had been inoculated. I was one of the volunteer workers and went to Robstown with

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other mothers of the Clarkwood School with 31 second graders. Our youngest girl is in the second grade, so as one of the lucky pupils to be vaccinated. There were no ill effects felt by the children. On our way home froin the clinic, we had the bus driver to stop by an Ice Cream Parlor and we bought all of them a treat. This gave them a lift and happier ideas and next week they won't mind going for their second shot. Hope this new vaccine solves the problem.

Our oldest daughter, Frances was elected queen of Clarkwood School. She received 5.650 votes. Each vote was sold for a penny. The runner-up had 1800 votes. The coronation of the king and queen will be May 7th at the Clarkwood School auditorium. Frances is a member of Lodge 56. Many thanks to Brother Felix Pavlas, Sr. for helping her get votes in his place of business. The money collected will be used for an 8th grade trip to Austin, May 18th. The 8th grade pupils have plans to visit the governor. Representative Ford of Nueces County will accompany the pupils on this trip and will show them the points of interest in Austin.

Members of District 7 don't forget to attend the, district meeting which will be held in San Antonio. May 16th. My family will be represented 100 q. This includes my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Holasek, my sister, and her family and yours truly (my husband, and 3 children). There are eleven of us, and all insured with the S. P. J. S. T. That makes us 100%. We are all looking forward to attend this meeting and at the same time are the relatives that live in the wonderful city of San Antonio.

At last we are receiving those most welcomed rains. Prospects for a good crop are very promissing. The cotton is being chopped and the feed is growing rapidly. It won't be long till those good roasting ears will be in the field. Our garden is fair and we are already bringing fresh vegetables for our use. I also have enough strawberries for my use and am making jam out of them. I like to make jam out of any kind of fruit at all times.

It's about time I end this letter or the editor will discard it.

Betty Jurica, reporter • sir, • ( LODGE POKROK HOUSTON NO. 88

Houston, Texas Lodge Pokrok No. 88 will have a BarB-Q on Sunday, May 16. Serving will begin at 12:00 noon. The price of the dinner for adults will be one dollar ($1.00) and children fifty cents (50c). There will be entertainment day and night including a free dance.

All donations of cakes, kolaches, can-

To Every Organizer of the S. P. J. S. T.

Sisters and Brothers:

A conference was held by the representatives of District Three and District Five, after the meeting in West, Sunday, April 25, for the purpose to invite every SPJST organizer in all the seven districts to a friendly contest to see what district would secure the highest percentage of new members.

This contest of third and fifth districts against all other districts should find all of us ready to assist and help our organizers wherever opportunity arises.

The rules of the contest would be simple. The organizers in each district would try to increase the number of new members and new certificates on the basis of the present number of members in their respective districts. The increase would be stated in percentages. Each districts would be raising its own number and figure its own percentage.

Every organizer should feel the imeortance and advantage of this, type of contest. If a majority of organizers approves this plan, the contest will start on June 1 and will end on August 31, 1954.

Kindly send your approval—to the delight of the entire membership of the SPJST tot the Secretary of District Three: L. 0. Hosek, Route 1, Grapevine, Texas.

Sincerely and fraternally, Cyrill Pokladnik, president, L. 0. Hosek, secretary District Three

J. M. Skrabanek, president Rudy J. Sefcik, lcretary District Five.

dy, or any other pastry or articles for raffles will be gretaly appreciated.

We'll be looking for YOU at the BarB-Q on May 16. Fraternally, Anette Rezek, for board of di rectors. ) 4,

A realist is a. man who knows his bank balance won't be as much as he had hoped for.—Elizabethtown News. )

Golf is a lot like taxes.--you drive hard to get to the green and then wind up in the hole.—Fifth Wheel.

STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL 1954

l - Hotovost . Bonds - U. S. Bondy

nty and municipal bonds - Okresni a mestske bondy tgage

;ificate loans - Certifikatove Vijay

1.; -- Akcie

J. S. T. Building - S. P. J. S. T. budova

: Estate - Majetek

ateral Loan - Collateral ptijeka

0 - Mineralni a Olejovy majetek

.ty - Podily

nture

LETTERS

JUNIOR CLUB OF POKROK HOUSTON No. 88

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Last meeting of the Junior Club was held Thursday, April 29.

New membership and stationery were ready Saturday, May 1.

Our committee went through the boOks and found approximately eighty prospects whom we shall visit or contact in the near future.

Annette Rezek, Barbara Osterhouse and Judy Hoesel are new members of the Junior Club.

Mrs. Hilsher, Mrs. Hanka, and Mrs. Della Kadlecek were three distinguished visitors.

The door prize was a box of stationery, won by Marvin Schiller.

We are cordially inviting anyone over thirteen and unmarried to attend any of our meetings. For further information concerning the Junior Club contact president at VA-4551, vice president at MU-3164, or secretary at VA-5291.

Next meeting will be held on Thursday, May 13 at eight o'clock.

Fraternally yours, Louise Warchesik

STEFANIK NO 142

Cood Morning, All!

After rain •omes', sunshine! What beautiful weather we're having this week! I just know all of you are taking advantage of it, one way or another. I think that's just grand! Why! I even got the courage to go berry picking for the first time in years. My old bones creaked and groaned, but I just kept on anyway and picked so many, that for three days everything in sight looked like a berry; and my muscles were stiff a s a board. The fresh air and sunshine did wonders to me though.

Now,a just listen to me go, will you! Trn supposed to give you a report on our Planning Committee meeting of District Five for May 30 at Danbury and I start in on this berry business.

Anyway, the Planning Committee held its meeting last night May 5 at 8 p. m.. Present at the meeting were: Bro. and Sister Skrabanek, Bro. Rudy Sefcik, F:ro. Blinka of Needville, Bro. Frank 0lexa, Bro. Ed. Kadlecek Sr. and yours truly. As the meeting adjourned Bro. Alfred Hilsher arrived; late due to a previous engagement which he could not leave earlier.

We missed Bro. Vaja who is still convalescing and we hope he gets as strong as Hercules so he can attend the Danbury meeting with us. Bro. Lostak was also missed, but was excused for Bro.

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Joe Skrabanek brought an excuse for him. We hope to see you at the District 5 meeting, too, sir.

Now, here is the schedule of the May 30th Danbury Meeting:

I. Business Meeting-10:30 a. in.

II. Dinner-12:30 Noon.

III. Ball games and contests-2 p. m.

1. Girl's Volley ball—ages 9 to 1313 to 19.

2. Baseball (Soft Ball)—ages 9-13— 13 to 19.

3 Various contests for all children under 9.

It was unamiously agreed that all Volley Ball and Baseball contestants register with me—Amelia Sturm, 5430 Larkin St. or 5508 Nolda St. Houston 7, Texas, or phbne at the Stefanik Lodge VA-0079 after 2 p. m., any day except Monday—so we can arrange a definite schedule for the games and announce your lodge in the Vestnik. So PLEASE all of the youth directors who have ball games in your lodge; and belong to District 5 notify me immediately.

Thus far we have:

I. Boy's Baseball—Danbury No. 139. Softball—,-Pokrok No. 88 and Stefanik No. 142—ages 9 to 13

II. Stefanik—Girl's Volleyball Team ages 13 to 18.

II Stefanik—Boy's Baseball (Sof t)— ages 14 to 20.

So come on folks, we need some challengers and I know you have them. Please all of you lodges of District 5 enter at least one group of Contestants so we can have a perfect attendance. It just takes 6 girls and 2 substitutes for girl's professional Volleyball and nine boys and a couple of substitutes for a god baseball team: Let's all work hard to make this an unforgettable outing as well as meeting. You can wear anything practical to play in. That's up to you only be sure to have the number of your lodge on your arm sleeve or the back of your shirt so you can be distinguished from other lodges contest entrants. Deadline will be noon May 30th.

Our honored guest of the Planning Committee meeting was Bro. Edward Kadlecek Jr., president of the Teenage Club of Pokrok No. 88. This .fine young man has a brilliant mind and very good ideas concerning the combined co-operation of youth and adult members of SPJST. In my estimation all officers of SPJST Teenage Clubs of our organization should be invited often to preside with the officer of each local lodge at the monthly meetings and to give them voice to let them know that they are being recognized.

All youth of District Five will be asked to participate in various things that have to be done on May 30th on the

Wednesday, M'ay 12, 1959

Danbury Ground. This particular work will be under the supervision of Bro. Edward Kadlecek Jr. to whom all Teenage presidents will report before noon on May 30th and work out the daily routine which will include registration of guests, identification tags, parking cars, etc. We think this is a grand gesture on the part of the youth and certainly lots of help to the adult Members.

Certain members of all of District 5 Lodge will be asked to help serve 'the barbecue dinner and refreshments, as we want all Lodges of District 5 participate.

To you, dear Fraternal Sisters, who are so talented in your baking we wish to ask you to please contribute any kind cf pastries that you wish to go with a good hot cup of coffee at this special function.

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Hoping we have a:hundred percent attendance at Danbury, May 30th, District Five Meeting, I wish for all Of 'you the best of everything.

Amelia (Vaja) Sturm, P. S. I will write a report 'on our open meeting and anniversary' program of May 2nd next week. My time is liniited today and I must get this to Bro. Val!ik within the hour. Stefanik Lodge sincerely thanks all of you fine finks who attended our program and the 'children who played on the stage, to the mothers who so patiently helped to make the -iostumes and dress the children for their parts. To Sister Ann Ward for teaching the Tulip Dance, sincere appreciation go to Bro. Steve Valcik, his charming wife and to Sister Birdie Hilsher, we were delighted by your presence.

Thanks a million Amelia ) • (

TO OUR REPORTERS

When you write the report about your meeting, observe some of the rules Used by all good reporters:

1. If you don't have a typewriter, use ben and ink.

2. Print all proper names to avoid embarrasment.

3. Use white paper, and all your sheets should be of the same size. -

4. Write on one side only. Sometimes the editor may wish to paste up your report on copy paper.

5. Don't crowd your writing. Leave plenty of margin at the top, to the left, to the right, at the bottom.

6. Keep sentences short. Your report will be easy to read. The Reader's Digest averages 15 words per sentence.

7. Mail your reports soon as you can.

Mrs. Frances Sonia Passed Away

Picking up the Fort Bend Reporter, the issue of Thursday, April 29, 1954, your editor learned that one of our old SPJST members died in the Sugar Land hospital and was buried in the W. 0. W. Cemetery in Rosenberg recently.

Sister Frances Sontag became a member of the SPJST in 1904 and would have received her 50-year-membership emblem this year. Most of her children and grandchildren are members of the SPJST, some of them belonging to the local lodges at Orchard, Rosenberg, Sugar Land, and Houston.

For the information of many of the friends of the Sontag family, I reprint the article from the Fort Bend Reporter, as follows:

FUNERAL SERVICES

MRS. F. SONTAG IN SUGAR LAND

Funeral services for Mrs. Frances Sontag, age 78 years, were held from the family residence in Sugar Land, Texas, on April 21, at 2 p. m. with Rev. Don. Davidson and Rev. Henry Beseda, Sr. of fciating.

Mrs. Sontag was born in Wesley, Austin County, Texas, on May 1, 1875, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kcvar. On June 18, 1895 she married Mr. Frank Sontag in Caldwell, Texas, and they then made their home in Snook, Texas. In 1906 they moved to College Station, Texas and in 1908 they moved to Fort Bend County, settling near Wallis. It was in 1923 that they moved to Sugar Land where she resided until the time of her death which came on April 20, in the Sugar Land hospital. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church in Wallis and a member of the SPJST Lodge since 1904.

Survivors are her husband, Br. Frank Sontag of Sugar Land; four daughters, Mrs. Julia Hand of Houston, Mrs. Fannie Brock, Mrs. Lottie Pausewang and Mrs. Stacy Myska of Sugar Land; five sons, John, Willie and Louis of Houston, Adolph of Stafford, Frank of Sugar Land; 15 grandchildren; and 6 greatgrandchildren.

Pallbearers were her sons and sonin-law, John, Willie, Adolph, Frank, Jr. and Louis Sontag and John Pausewang. Interment was made in the W. 0. W. Cemetery with the Triska Funeral Home directing.

To Brother Frank Sontag, Sr., a member of Rosenberg Lodge No. 108, for the loss of his wife after almost 60 years

of happy marriage, and to the entire Sontag family, we extend cur deepest sympathies.

MOTHER'S DAY PROGRAM LODGE 73 Seymour, Texas

Do you know what day is May 9?

David Hajek, yes, of course, "Mother's Day." The youth of SPJST presented the following program to the members and few visitors. Franklin Coufal was the narrator.

GIFT TO MOTHER

Characters:

Ann — Patsy Prikryl

Leslie -- Edward Hairier

Betty -- Evelyn Hejl

Ruth — Geraldine Hajek

Bobbie — Robert Hejl

Mother — Betty Coufal

Poems were given by Joan Hejl, Eddie Joe Pavliska, Arlene Hajek, Peggy Simaichl, and Evelyn Heil.

Helen Macha played and sang 3 piano solos.

"You, You, You," was sung by Coufal, Evelyn Hejl, and Patsy Prikryl. Horn Solos — Ernest Orsag, Wesley Ermis, Frankie Simaichl and James Hairier.

The whole group sang "So Long." A lovely corsage was given as a door prize. Mrs. Joe Kocurek was the lucky mother. Imediately after the , program the business meeting was held. At 5 o'clock, barbecue supper was served, which included potato salad, red beans, pickles, apricots and tea, which was enjoyed by all. The members wish to thank Ernest Orsag who did such a splendid job preparing the barbecue.

Mrs. Mary Iiaisler, Chairman of Youth Program • *To •

SPJST LODGE POKROK NO. 84

Dear Members,

Dallas, Texas

I may be late with this bit of news, but better late than never.

At cur last metting, it was ruled to donate $25.00 to the KJZT Old Age 11.: me.

June 6, we are going to celebrate the 13th anniversary of our building. Like every year, we are having dinner starting at 12:30 and after dinner, a program. As you all know, Lodge Pokrok 84 is noted for its good food with generous helpings that no one can resist So husbands, plan on this day to relieve your wife of cooking and bring the whole family. The full dinner is $1.00 for adults and 50c for children.

No admission will be charged for the program following the dinner. At night

there will be a dance. The Sisters in charge of the kitchen kindly ask you other members to please bring some of that gcod pastry.

On Saturday, May 29, we will have a softball benefit dance. This dance, which is the first of its kind in our lodge, is sponsored by some of the younger members. We would like all of you to come and suport this project. To tempt you, there will be a door prize of a ham.

Notice to you baseball fans: Now is your opportunity to see our boys play ball. At the last game, they had quite a turnout so why not plan to come and see these games and support our team. The games are played every Wednesday on Diamond 2 at Samuels Park. It is located across the street from the Major Theatre, and the .,time is 8:45 p. m.

The District 3 meeting was very well attended. All the lodges of the District were represented. There were even visitors from as far as Oklahoma. The oldest member present was 88 years young and the youngest, 16 months old.

When it came time to elect new officials, we members voted unanimously for the same officers. By the way, we wish to thank our officers of District 3 for their hard work. We do believe that they really accomplished a lot the first year of these District meetings and we know they will do so in the future.

The 'subject was brought up as to which is the best: Selling smaller policies for more members or having fewer members and larger policies. If any of you have opinions concerning this, let us hear from you. As you all may know, District 3 gained more members, while District 5 had fewer Members but more insurance.

It was also announced that District 3 had more letters in the Vestnik, these numbering 83.

The next District meeting will be held at Sokol Hall in Ennis on July 25. We hope the attendance will be ever better than the last time. At thismeeting, the Youth Movement will also get together, so all you young members come and present your (pinions at this time.

I am sure we all wish to express our thanks and gratitude for the hospitality shown us by Jaromir Lodge No. 54, at the recent meeting. We all certainly enjoyed it.

Fraternally yours, Frances Baleja

4803 Parry Avenue

Dallas, Texas • ot* • (

V protivenstvich, ktera stihaji na.ge nejlep'Si prateie, bYva easto leccos, o eem tici nelze, Ze by se nom nelibilo.

Temple, Texas Dear Brothers and Sisters:

You are hereby advised that during the month of April, 1954, the Supreme Lodge, SPJST, has paid death benefits due by virtue- of certificates issued to the following deceased, brothers and sisters,

Death Claim No. 5592. issued to brother Ig. Vita, retired butcher, member of Lodge Pokrok Dallas, No. 84, died March 26, 1954, at age 67. Admitted Feb. 11, 1906. Cer. A-10978 for $500.00.

Death Claim No. 5593. Brother John Horelica, retired farmer, member of lodge Svojan, No. 11, died March 28, 1954, at age 75. Admitted Feb. 10, 1901. Cert. A925 for $1000.00.

Death Claim No. 5594. Sister Rosie Schinder; housewife, member of Lodge Bratri Svobody, No. 67, died. March 27, 1954, at age 55. Admitted Dec. 16, 1935. Cert. B-1470 for $500.00.

Death Claim No. 5595. Brother John See, retired, member of Lodge Slovan, No. 9, died March 31, 1954, at age 84. Admitted Aug. 9. 1903. Cert. A -3771, for $1000.00.

Death Claim No. 5596. Sister Anna Belle Bunker, housewife, member of Lodge Svaz Cechoslovanu, No. '92, died died March 27, 1954; at age 54. Admitted Oct '7, 1936. Cert. B-1669 and B-3239 for $1000.00.

Death Claim No. 5597. Sister Anna Kocurek, retired housewife, member of Lodge Vernost, No. 51, died March 19, 1954, at age 81. Admitted Oct. 5, 1913. Cert. Paid-up 514, for $147.00.

Death Claim No. 5598. Brother Frank Freytag, retired farmer, member of Lodge Osveta, No. 38, died Aug. 6, 1953, at age -90. Admitted Jan. 8, 1903. Cert. A-4234 for $1000.00.

Death Claim No. 5599. Brother Josef Wasicek, farmer, member of Lodge Karel JonaS, No. 28, died April 6, 1954, at age 85. Admitted March 20, 1898. Cert. A-2018 for $1000.00.

Death Claim No. 5600. Brother Charles Slovak, retired farmer, member of Lodge Ennis, No. 25, died March 27, 1954, at age 74. Admitted Nov. 2, 1902. Cert. A-1653 for, $1000.00.

Death Claim No. 5601. Brother J. J. ifurta, farmer, member of Lodge livezda Texasu, No. 47, died April 5, 1954, at age 72. Admitted Nov. 11, 1906. Cert. A-2869 for 1000.00.

Death Claim No. 5602. Brother John Foltyn, retired, member of Lodge Ceehoslovan, No 40, died April 9, 1954, at age 78. Admitted Nov. 5, 1904. Cert. A-3308 for $1000.00.

Death Claim No. 5603. Sister Anna Higgerson, retired, member of Lodge Slovan.iti No. 34, died March 25, 1954, at age 87. Admitted June 3, 1906. Cert. A10358 for, $500.00.

Death Claim No. 5604. Brother Joe H. Schiller, farmer, member of Lodge Cesky Prapor, No. 24, died April 13, 1954, at age 40. Admitted Dec. 14, 1945. Cert. C10772 and C-8262 for $4000.00.

Death Claim No. 5605. Brother John Husak, retired farmer, member of Lodge Dubovy Haj, No. 126, died April 12, 1954, at age 88. Admitted July 1, 1897. Cert. A-6780 for, $1000.00. -

Death Claim No. 5606. Sister Justina Lanca, housewife, member of Lodge San Antonio, No. 133, died April 9, 1954, at age 69.. Admitted April 16, 1922. Cert. At 3415 for, $1000.00.

Death Claim No. 5607. Sister Lydia Dan3-y, housewife, member of Lodge Osveta, A°. 38, died April 9, 1954, at age 39. Admit.ed Jan. 1938. Cert. C-4293 and Paid-up 469, for $1089.00.

Death Claim No. 5608. Brother Joseph Zuclaa, farmer, member of Lodge 6esky Prapor, No. 24, died April 18, 1954, at age 80. Admitted June 11, 1905. Cert. A-2080 or $1000.00.

Death Claim No. 5609. Brother Lukas S. Prihoda, farmer, member of Lodge El Campo, No. 50, died April 19, 1954, at age 67. Admitted Nov. 5, 1922. Cert. Paid-up No. 224, and B-4272 for $650.00.

Death Claim No. 5610. Sister Marie Kubitza., retired,- member of Lodge Nove Kvety, No. 35, died April 20, 1954, at age 81. Admitted Feb. 10. 1907. Cert. A-3457 for $1000.00.

Death Claim No. 5611. Sister Frances Sontag, housewife, member of Lodge Rosenberg, No. 108, died April 21, 1954, at age 78. Admitted Sept. 11, 1904. Cert. A6170 for, $1000.00.

Death Claim No. 5612. Sister Sophie Rubesh, housewife, member of Lodge techoslovan, No. 40, died April 20, 1954, at age 55. Admitted Dec. 7, 1938. Cert. B2239 for $500.00.

Death Claim No. 5613. Brother J. W. Dolejsi, barber, member of Lodge Texasky Mir, No. 10, died April 20, 1954, at age 74. Admitted Aug. 5, 1900. Cert. A-2183 for, 1000.00.

To the bereaved relatives of our deceased brothers and sisters, the Supreme Lodge, SPJST, expresses its heartfelt sympathy.

J. F. Chupick, Secretary Supreme Lodge, SPJST

en. l Tian R. Stefanikb

Last week, on May 4, 1954, was the 35th anniversary of the tragic death if General Milan R. Stefanik, after whom )rie of cur SPJST Lodges, No. 142 in Houston, was named.

General Stefanik was the first minister if war in the early Czechoslovak state Ind helped to form and organize the inlependent Czechoslovak Army in World War I. Along with Benes and Masaryk, le was one of the outstanding leaders, in the Czechoelovak movement for inde3endence.

Stefanik came to. the United States in Tune 1917 to gain Czech and Slovak reItruits in this country for the Czecholoyak Legion which was then being ':ormed in France. His success in these -Jfforts was not marked but he did a tre.nendous amount Of good in securing the cooperation of the Czechs and Slovaks in h e Czechoelcarak movement. T h e American Slovaks agreed to cooperate .n this movement on the basis of a program of the Slovak League of America. rids was Stefanik's greatest success in the United States.

Milan Stefanik, a true Slovak patriot, was killed in an airplane crash on May 1, 1919. This day is celebrated everywhere by Czechoslovaks as Stefanik Day in honor of their beloved war here-. His death is especially tragic in view of the fact that he was so able to achieve Czechoslovak cooperation, 'while never losing sight of the true interests of his own Slovakia.

Let us hope that the example of General Stefanik will inspire all of the Slovak people, both in this country and abroad, 'to continue the fight for liberation of their homeland. I am confident that, when this liberation is finally achieved, the Czechoslovak people will then be given the opportunity freely to choose the type of government under which they wish to live in accordance with the policy of self-determination which this country advocates for all peoples throughout the world.

) • 4, LODGE POKROK HOUSTON 88 Houston, Texas Lodge Pokrok No. 88 will hold a dance the first Sunday of each month. All members will be admitted free. Nonmembers will pay an admission. Everyone is cordially invited so all you members bring your friends to your Lodge and show them a good time.

Fraternally,

Anette Rezek, Secretary of Board of Directors

Leading Workers In April

The membership campaign in the month of April did not measure up to the average of the three preceding months. The average in January, February, and March was $206,000 new insurance every month. In April, we gained only $107,000. In the first three months of 1954, we secured 475 new members. To keep up with the average, we should have seured 160 new members in April. We fell short because we secured only 100 new members.

Here are the ten leaders for the month of April:

Name of New members New Lodge worker secured insurance

Bartek 9 $8,500

Srubar (138) 6 7,500

Steiner 5 3,500

Milan 4 4,000

Kadlecek 4 3,500

Slovak 4 3,500

Navratil 3 4,000

Barina 3 3,000

Senkyrik 3 3,000

Holy 3 2,000

Five cf the ten field workers who were leading in March still remained in the lead during April. They were Sisters Milan and Kadlecek, Brothers Bartek, Navratil and Slovak. A new , name appeared among the leaders in April. He is Brother C. M. Srubar, of Ganado, who secured six new members.

Congratulations and better luck to all of you in May. We are $200.000 behind our voluntary quota. Revise your list" of prospects. Let's see who will lead in May.

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THIS WEEK IN AMERICAN HISTORY

On May 11, 1854, just one hundred years ago, Ottmar Mergenthaler, German American inventor, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany. A watchmaker by trade, he immigrated to the United States at the age of 18 and entered the employ of the United States evernment at Washington. His job was to keep in order clocks and bells in the government buildings. He also improved apparatus used in the signal service. In 1876, he moved to Baltimore where he devoted himself to perfecting a type-setting machine. This machine, in its final form, was the linotype, and it revolutionized printing. Worked by a keyboard similar to that of a typewriter and capable of setting whole lines of type automatically, the linotype became the mainstay of newspaper printing and printing in general. Mergenthaler's invention also helped reduce printing costs and thus

WHERE TO GO

SUNDAY EVERY WEEK*

Family night at Pokrok HoustOn Lodge No. 88. Dome and enjoy yourself. Coffee, tea, and doughnuts free. Bring your friends.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT EVERY WEEK: Youth night is held at Pokrok Houston Lodge No. 88 every Wednesday night from 7:30 to 9:30. Everybody invited.

SATURDAY MORNING EVERY WEEK: 9:30 to 11:30 Youth Baseball and Volleyball practice games are being held with adult coaches for our SPJST Lodge 88 ball teams. All youth invited—members or non-members.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT, MAY 12: Dallas SPJST Softball Team plays the State Farm team on diamond No. 2, Samuell Park, close to Samuell Boulevard, Dallas. Come and support your team. Game starts at 8:15 P. M.

SUNDAY MAY 16:

Pokrok Houston Lodge No. 88 will have a barbecue starting at 12:30. Big free dance in the afternoon, bingo and other games at night. Everybody welcome.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT, MAY 19: Dallas SPJST Softball Team plays against the Southland Life team, diamond No. 2 at Samuell Park, Dallas. Come and root for our boys Game starts at 8:15 P. M.

SATURDAY, MAY 29: Special dance at Lodge Pokrok Dallas No. 84, 2625 Floyd Street, benefit of baseball team. Door prize, a big, juicy ham from Columbia Packing Company, also known as Ondruseks Packing Company.

SUNDAY JUNE 6: Fort Worth Lodge No. 154 will observe its 29th anniversary. Watch for the announcement of the program.

the cost to the public of all kinds of printed matter.

On May 13, 1607, the first permanent English colony on American soil was founded at Jamestown, in the present state of Virginia. The first settlers were sent by the London Company, a colonizing organization that had been given the right to explore "Southern Virginia," an area from Maryland to the Carolinas. Since the settlers of Jamestown were mostly city people, they knew nothing about farming or making homes in the wilderness and probably would not have survived if they hand not had help from two sources—Captain John Smith, who gave them able leadership,

POLKA DANCE

CALENDAR (Calvin C. Chervenma)

Wednesday, May 12

Rudy Kurtz orchestra — Plainvicw Community Center near El Campo.

Saturday, May 15

Sil Krenek orchestra -- Coshatte Hall. Rudy Kurtz orchestra — Echo Hall in New Braunfels.

Joe Patek orchestra Boedeckers Place near Shiner.

Sunday, May 16

J. Dlabaj orchestra — SPJST Pokrok Hall in Dallas.

Sil Krenek orchestra — Fish fry and dance — Bleiblerville Hall.

Rudy Kurtz orchestra — Legion community (Red Hill) Hall near El Campo. Majek orchestra KJZT dance Moravian Hall in Corpus Christi.

Adolph Migl orchestra — Mayfete and dance — SPJST Hall in Taylor.

Joe Patek orchestra — Legion dance —Riverside Hall in East Bernard.

Polka Boys orchestra — Plainview community center near El Campo.

Wednesday, May 19

Joe Patek orchestra -- Plainview coinalunity Center near El Campo.

All the above dances are at night unmess otherwise specified. This is a free service but applies only to those dances it which mainly polka and waltz music is played by a live orchestra. The Vestnik or writer will assume no responsibility resulting from any dance announcements which are listed in this cotilmn. Listings from orchestras and dance halls should be received at least one week before pubiication. Send all listings to Calvin Cherienka, Route 2, Rogers. Texas.

and new colonists who came in 1608 and were able to work with their hands. Among these new colonists were some people from Poland. Immediately upon their arrival, the "Polonians" started to build a glass furnace and to cut down trees in order to make "pitch, tar, and soap ashes." Though fever, Indian wars and bad crops almost destroyed the settlement in its first years, in time it took root and grew. From 1618 to 1698, Jamestown was the capital of Virginia Colony. ) 4(

Diplomacy is the same as saying "nice doggie" until you have a chance to pick up a rock — Frances Rodman.

Gentleman's Agreement: a deal Which neither party cares to put in writing. -Pipe Dreams.

You naturally wish to know about the old vandals.

History tells us that the vandals were one of the Germanic people of the fourth and fifth centuries dwelling south of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and the Oder. It may be said that the Vandals were barbarians whose innumerable hosts, driven by an insatiable greed for plunder, devastated Gaul, Italy, and. Spain in brutal and destructive raids They occupied Andalusia (old division of South Spain), whence they captured Carthage, which became for centuries thereafter the Empire of the Vandals. They swept the seas, ravaged the coasts of Italy and Sicily, and sacked Rome, destroying many monuments of art and carrying away the greatest plunder in the world. Vandalism, therefore indicates willful destruction or defacement of, things of beauty, as works of art, historical monuments or objects which should be preserved and protected.

Now we will talk about the new vandals.

We will talk ahout our kids and what makes them so vindicative that they feel a need to destroy.

The new vandals caused millions of dollars in damage to public and private property in this country last year. Police and school officials report that the damage caused by the children is constantly ,clitaing.

Particularly alarming is the age of offenders. Most of the malicious destruction if property is done by boys under the age of fourteen. Most of the obscene writing which covers the walls of women's public washrooms is done by girls eleven to fifteen.

The instinctive dislike of boys for schools prompts them to wreck what they can in school buildings, especially when no one is around to catch them.

Vandals smashed more than 22,000 windows in Baltimore schools last year. School officials estimated the damage to school buildings from vandalism at $100,000.

A group of boys broke into a Los Angeles school, turned on all of the fire hoses and then ran away. Water flooded the building, causing $10,000 damage.

Here are some of the examples of vandalism commonly reported by school leaders around the country: Desk drawers upset and contents scattered around the room; fire escape doors broken: flag ropes cut; roof shingles pried loose and scattered to the wind; outside walls of buildings whitewashed; classroom walls splashed with ink; window screens slashed; electric wiring ripped out; doors

THE NEW VANDALS

removed and water bubblers knocked over.

Parks, because their broad areas are unprotected much of the night, are the scenes of widespread vandalism. Youngsters throw park benches into lagoons; smash toilets; tear down fences; break picnic tables; knock down flag poles; rip branches from trees; knock over concrete flower basins; smash bottles and toss the broken pieces into swimming pools; break sprinklers; slice rubber hoses; smash furniture in shelter buildings;wreck the fireplaces, and tear up grass and flowers.

Theater owners constantly are discovering cut up cushions, broken seats, and other damage. Youngsters with sharp knives slice up seat cushions in public. transpOrtation vehicles.

Even cemeteries are not safe from the desecration of vandals, who stroll across graves tipping over tombstones.

What is causing this national upsurge in vandalism? Many law officers blame it on lack of discipline in the home and upon a serious breakdown in the respect of adults, as well as children, for the property of others. This moral degeneration has been noted especially since the end of the second World War.

Police discover growing indifference among many parents toward the conduct of their children.

An explanation from the vandalS' viewpoint was given recently in an interesting round table discussion among a group of public school teachers in New York and a number of youngsters who have been caught in vandalism. Some of the boys were on probation for their delinquencies.

These youngsters, after being apprehended, had been brought into a wise program laid out by the Park Association of New York City and the City Gardens club. The lads were taken on tours of parks where they learned for the first time the fundamentals of plant and animal life. Impressed upon them were the beauties a natural life and the importance ' of protecting plants and animals.

At the .round table discussion, which followed the period of rehabilitation, the boys were asked why they had committed vandalism. They gave these reasons:

1. They got pleasure out of it and thought it was a joke.

2. They feared the rest of their gang would call them "chicken" if they didn't join in the mischief.

3. General thoughtleSsness, cruelty, or

stupidity.

The boys agreed that they had not realized the gravity of their acts.

And what did the boys suggest as a solution to the problem?

They thought parents should be fined if, aware of what the children had done, they took not steps to prevent such conduct. They had other suggestions, too, such as punishing boys by making them work in parks; memorizing do's and don'ts about parks and tress and grass; educating parents and children to their obligations as good citizens.

But the proposal to fine the parents was one which probably would find the widest support from police. The police chief in a major midwestern city said:

"We can't stop vandalism until adequate laws are passed which will make parents financially responsible for the vandalism of their children."

Michigan has just put into effect such a law. Under it, parents are financially responsible for damage caused by their 'children. In California, courts may charge the costs of vandalism against older children and may order a child to get part or full time work to make good the losses.

Police generally believe stiffer laws are necessary. One chief said:

"The laws are too lenient. Police pick up vandals and take them to the juvenile authorities who lecture the kids and turn them loose. On the way out of the detention home, the kids pick up a rock or two and throw them through the closest window."

A veteran juvenile court judge, commenting on the upsurge of vandalism around the country, offered this explanation of the problem:

"Parents used to assume the legal and recognize the moral responsibilities of their children's acts. Now they no longer do."

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Once upon a time when you saw anything wrong you'd call a cop. Now you yell for a grand jury. — Detroiter. * *

The younger generation will learn the value of money when it begins paying off our debts. — Saturday Evening Post.

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YOU ENOUGH PROTECTION?

We must not lose sight of the fact that with the increase in the cost of living comes an increase in the cost of burial. None of us likes to dwell on this subject, yet it is one each of us should consider.

Temple, Texas, 1. kvetna 1954. Cteni broth a sestry: Tirnto se yam oznamuje, ze behem mesice dubna 1954 Hlavni tfadovna SPJST vyplatila pojiSteni po nasich zemrelych bratfich a sestrach, jak naslecluje:

Umrti Cislo 5592. Br. lg. Vita, keznik na odpoeinku, od fadu Pokrok Dallas eislo 84, zemfel 26. bfezna 1954 ye stafi 67 let.

Do Jednoty ptistoupil 11. Unora 1906. Cert. A-10978 na $500.00.

Umrti Oslo 5593. Br. John Hokeilea, rolnik na odpoeinku, od fadu Svojan Cislo 11, zemfel 28. bfezna 1951 ye stall 75 let. Do Jednoty piistoupil 10. Unora 1901. Cert. A-925 na. $1000.00.

tmrti 'Oslo 5594. Ses. Rosie Schindler, hospodyne, od kadu Bratfi Svobody eislo 67, zemtela. 27. bfezna 1954 ye stall 55 let. Do Jednoty pkistoupila 16. prosince 1935: Cert. B-1470 na, $500.00.

Umrti Cislo 5595. Br. John See, na ocipoeinku, od fadu Slovan Cislo 9, zemfel 31. bfezna 1954 ye stafi 84 let. Do Jednoty piistoupil 9. srpna 1903. Cert. A-3771 na $1000.00.

Umrti eislo 5596. Ses. Anna Belle Bun-, ker, hospodyne, od radu Svaz techoslovanii Oslo 92, zemkela 27. bfezna 1954 ye stati 54 let. Do Jednoty pfistoupila, 7. na 1936. Cert. B-1669 a B-3239 na $1000.00.

Umrti eislo 5597. Ses. Anna Kocurek, hospodyne na odpoeinku, od fadu Vernost eislo 51, zemfela 19. bfezna 1954 ve stall 81 let. Do Jednoty pfistoupila 5. fijna 1913. Cert. paid-up 514 na $147.00.

Umrti Oslo 5598. Br. Frank Freytag, rolnik na odpoeinku, od fadu Osveta 'Oslo 38, zemfel 6. srpna 1953 ve stafi 90 let. Do Jednoty piistoupil 8. ledna 1903. Cert. A-4234 na $1000.00.

Umrti eislo 5599. Br. Josef WaSieek, rolnik od fadu Karel JonaS Oslo 28, zemfel 6. dubna 1954 ye stafi 85 let. Do Jednoty pfistoupil 20. bfezna 1898. Cert. A2018 na $1000.00.

Umrti' eisio 5600. Br. Charles Slovak, rolnik na odpoeinku, od fadu Ennis Cislo 25, zemfel 27. bfezna 1954 ye stall 74 let. Do Jednoty piistoupil 2. listopadu 1902. Cert. A-1653 na $1000.00.

Umrti Cislo 5601. Br. J. J. Hurta, rolnik, od fadu Hvezda Texasu eislo 47, zemfel 5. dubna 1954 ye staff. 72 let. Do Jednoty pfistoupil 11. listopadu 1906. Celt. A-2869 na $1000.00.

Umrti Oslo 5602. Br. John EoltYn, na odpoeinku, od ka.du eechoslovan Oslo 40,

zeinrci. 9. dubna 1934 Ye 6tai . 73 let. Do Jednoty pkistoupil 5. listopadu 1904. Cert. A-3308 na $1000.00.

Umrti 'Oslo 5603. Ses. Anna Higgerson, na odpoeinku, od fklu Slovaneti Bratfi Oslo 34, zemfela 25. biezna 1954 ye stall 87 let. Do Jednoty plistoupila 3. eeryna 1906. Cert. A•10358 na $500.00.

Umrti ask, 5604. Br. Joe H. Schiller, rolnik, od fadu Cesky Prapor Oslo 24, zenifel 13. dubna 1954 ye stall 40 let. Do Jednoty pfistoupil 14. prosince 1945. Cert. 010772 a C-8262 na $4000.00.

Umrti Oslo 5605. Br. John Husak, rolnik na odpoeinku, od faclu DubovY Haj eislo 126, zernfel 12. dubna 1954 ye stall 88 let. Do Jednoty pfistoupil 1 .Cervence 1897. Cert. A-6780 na $1000.00.

Umrti Cislo 5606. Ses. Justina Lanea, hospodyne, od tadu San Antonio eislo 133, zeinfela 9. dubna 1954 ye staff 69 let. Do Jednoty pfistoupila 16. dubna 1922. Cert. A-8415 na $1000.00.

Umrti Oslo 5607. Ses. Lydia Danby, hospodyne, od iadu Osveta eislo 38, zemfela 9. dubna 1954 ye staff. 39 let. Do Jednoty pfistoupila 20. ledna 1938. Cert. C-4293 a paid-up Cis. 469 na $1089.00.

Umrti Oslo 5608. Br. Joseph 2ucha, rolnik, od kadu 6eskSr Prapor Cislo 24, zemkel 18, dubna 1954 ye staff 80 let. Do Jednoty piistoupil 11. Cervna 1905. Cert. A -2080 no, $1000.00.

Umrti eislo 5609. Br. Lukar S. Pfihoda, rolnik, od kadu `El Campo eislo 50, zemfel 19. dubna 1954 ye stall 67 let. Do Jednoty piistoupil 5. listopadu 1922. Cert. paid-up Cis. 224 a B-4272 na $650.00.

Umrti Cislo 5610. Ses. Marie Kubitza, na odpoeinku, od fadu Dove Kvety Cislo 35, zem •ela 20. dubna 1954 ye stall 81 let. Do Jednoty pkistoupila 10. Unora 1907. Cert.

A -3457 na $1000.00.

trtirti eisth 5611. Ses. Frances Sontag, hospodyne, od fadu Rosenberg eislo 108, zemfela 21, dubna 1954 ye staff 78. let. Do JednOty pkistoupila 11. zail 1904. Cert.

A-6170 na $1000.00.

Umrti eislo 5612. Ses. Sophie Rubesh, hospodyne, od faclu Oechoslovan Cislo 40, zeinfela, 20. dubna 1954 ye sta.'''. 55 let. Do Jednoty pfistoupila 7. prosince 1938. Cert.

B-2239 na $500.00.

thrift' Cislo 5613. Br. J. W. Dolef6i, od fadu TexaskY Mir Oslo 10, zemfel 20. dubna 1954 ve stall 74 let. Do Jednoty piistoupil 5. srpna 1900. Cert. A-2183 na $1000.00.

Hlavni fikadovna SPJST Unit° vyslovuje, pozustalYm po techto zemfelYch bratfich a sestrach, jeji nejhlubSi soustrast.

J. F. Chupick, tajemnik Hlavni itradovny SPJST. ) • „s, Bychom i cokoli pfedstirali za pfieinu syYch strasti, pilvodem jejich nebYva leC ziStnost a marnivost.

SPATNA UDE ja'OU ZitiDliA gETRNtlVli

Setrnost nejen otvire, dvefe ku gtesti, ale jest zaroveri ochranou proti naeim vlastnim slabostem, proti lehkovernosti a obzylaSte proti nachylnosti k pngetilemn rozhazdvani penez. Kdo zachrani pro sebe neco penez, east° zachrani, v sobe elo veka, nebot' getrnosti vystfihame se Cast° zlych navykil. 8etrnosti east() zachranime zdravi pled • prostopagnosti. Kdo spoki, zachova si pruZnou a bystrou mysl. U Setrneho eloyeka mtiZeine bezpeone oeekasati proziravost a rozumna opatfeni k zajigteni budoucnosti. Skuteene eetrnosti a spofivosti polaime zakladni kamen nejen k svemu jmeni, ale i sve povaze.

Theodore Roosevelt pronesl kdysi tato rozumna slova: "Kdo chce bYti jist, zahajuje einnost sveho Mvota sprasne, necht' pane spofiti. Spofivost sill rah a yzpruZuje energii."

Tim okainZikem, kdy ,poeneS" davati si systematicky east svYch penez stranou a rozumna je ukladati, stone se z tebe veal eloyek! Tvilj Zivotni obzor se rozgifi, tva davera v sebe sama a ye tve schopnosti poroste, nabudeg sily, vytvofiti si syftj vlastni program a nezalekneS se 'Zadne zodpovednosti. Osvojiv si v mladi navyk spofiyosti, ucinil jsi prvni krok k vytvofeni pevneho karakteru, kterSim se vyznaeuje typ eloveka, jema Amerieane kaji self made man.

Nic nezajisti rnlademu muZI takoveho nic mu tak jiste nezabezpeei pomoci zdatnYch lidi jako povest, 2e jest eetrnYm a hospodarnYrn,'te ma neco ulaeno, at' na hotovosti nebo v cennYch papirech nebo v pojistkach nebo kdekoli jinde. Spofivost zabezpeeuje mu postaveni v spoleenosti. - 0. S. Marden. ) 4 o

Stejne laka stejne, nezdar "aka nezdar, chudoba laka, chudobu. Nenavist vabi zase nenavist, zavist zase zavist, 'Zarlivost zase 2arlivost a zloba zase zlobu. Pocit Zarlivosti nebo nenavisti jest semenem zasetYm kolem nes v kosmicke pude a podle veenYch zakonft vzchazi nam z tohoto semene sklizen stejneho druhu. Co zasejeme, to sklidime, prave tak jako orna. pada vraci narn to, co jsme do ni vloZili. Ze vSeho rodi se jen tent tentyz druh. Tento zakon nezna vYjiinky. Zakon nemilZe vam pomoci, jestliZe si zlomite kost nebo se poranite, prave tak jako zakon o elektfine nemilZe vain pomoci, jestliZe ho zneuZijete. - 0. S Marden.

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2enur3ka: A prof mi nechceg rici, jak mi slusi ten novY klobouk?

Mu leek: Ponevaa jsme men mrzutost v pondeli k vuli tomu jidlu a ja, mam jedne mrzutosti v tYclnu az po krk!

Snaze klademe meze uznalosti sve, neA svYin nadejim.

geZ" i hornici se popudili, ze proti nim, na jejich zkazu. bylo tak miuveno a jednano. Slag-1li se pti dolech mezi svYrni boudami a chatami. Ja,lco ye vosim popuzenern hnizde tam bylo, kdyt posel ohlagOttal, jak vladykove na Vygehrade jednail, co radili, zvlaSte pak Horymir Neumetelskjr.

Boutin, kfieeli, pornstou hrozili, a nejhork Horymirovi. Krev jeho chteli, a hned, bez odkiadu. Jini v divokem posmechu kficeli, Ae kdyt ma strach o chleb, at' se ho naji dosyta, at' mu ho nacpou do iist, at se jim uclavi

To se zalibilo. Jako divoka smeeka za jelenem hnali se k &dine Neumetelhm.

Podziznnim gerem hrnul se houf kovkoptit polern i ladami, jet se eernala v kvapnem soumraku.

Noe byla, kdyt zhledli Neumetely, slamerle sttechy chat, dernajici se mezi stromy, vysoke stohy u stodol, hradek dediny v kulatern naspu. Tu ztigili krok, a znanuvAe, plizili se jako lstiva, iikladna 'Selma k ohrade. Ale drive, pied nimi, vbehl tam dobry Moir& oznamit, co se deie a chysta. Jen vzbudil vladyku, a jit zaboutil ze tmy divokjr ktik. Na obranu nebylo dam. Houf kovkoph hnal se jit k hradkit, a pustY ryk jeho blitil se letem. NezbYvalo nic net prchnouti.

Skokem byl Horymir v staji, kdestal jeho nejmiIejgi kuii gemik. Okamtikem ho vyvedl, osedlal, a jit, promluviv nazi tiche slovo, vyrazil branou yen do poll. Shledli ho; ktieeli, hnali se za nim. Slygeli i dusot koni. Pobidi Semika, a vernY kith pustil se v divejgi cval, az htiva mu vlala, az zpod kopyt stkikala hlina a pisek, a jiskry jen srgely do tmy.

Za jezdcem vlala belava halena jako khdlo a chvili vedla pronasledovniky. Ale jen chvili. Nestadilit' 8emikovi, jent mocnjrmi skoky, zanikl ve tmach podzimni noci.'At na pokraji lesa, v eernem vteSovigti, ho zastavil jeho vybornY jezdec. liyli zachraneni. Ale jak viadyka zpet chytla ho zlost i litost. Potar videl; jeho dedina hotela. Ruda zaplava rozlevala se po temnem nebi, rdela se vic a vice a Saila se valem.

"Vgechno tam hoti!" pomjrglel rortrpeenY Horymir. "Staveni, humna pina obill, stohy, vgechna ouroda, vgechna nase price."

A zahroziv v ty strany i potaru zat'atou pravici, ptisahal:

"At' zdernam jako irhel, at' mne rozsekaji mYm vlastnim meeem, jestlite to nepomstim, jestlite jim vgechno nesplatim! A vic a hitt!" --

Neumetelska dedina byla znidena.

Co neshltil ohen, to _hornici odvedli a odvezli. S bohatou kotisti se vratili: do-

bytek vzali, na uloupenYch vozich s uloupenYmi konmi odvezli z Horymirovych stohii a v dive radosti cestou i doma po, ktikovall:

"Kdyt se bal hladu, at' jej ma!" —

Tak jasave hludeli. Ticho vgak a pusto bylo ye vytehnute decline. Spalenigte dlouho dYmajic doutnalo, a podzimni vitr roznagel jeho epavY zapach....

Netli minuly dva dni, shromatclil HOrymir decliny mute sveho rodu, k nim se ptidali mnozi jini, sami dobti sousede, rozhoteeni nasilim horniktit.

Kdyt se stmivalo, vytrhli vgichni dobte ozbrojeni a v dele vgech Horymir na vernem, bilem Semiku.

U Btezovjrch doltir netugil nikdo nic zleho. Hornici najisto myslili, ze uprchlY Horymir bloudi krajem, a ze jsa bez pomoci, nideho se jit neodvati. Spokojeni, bezpeene ulehli, ani o straae se nestarali. Az pozde v noci vzbudil je dusivY Om a nahla, oslepujici zat, rude vzplantrdi. Sttechy jim hotely nad hlavou. Jako zma.teni vyrazili yen, nebo vynageli majetek a na,eini, shaneli deti.

Vtom se na ne obotili Horymirovi lido a sekali do nich meei a bodali ogtepy. Viadyka sam na 'Semiku se mihal s medem v ruce mezi boudami, a jit opet na dolech u jam ktieel na sve, aby kazili, hubili vge.

Ja,ko noeni ptigery kmitala se tam rozzukena jeho deled', boutila boudy a stroje, zavalovala jamy hrubYmi balvany, manic vae, co vykonala to lopotna prace

Netli se rozednilo, byl neptitel ten tam. Zanikl v rannim mlhavem geru. U Neumetel se Horymirtiv houf rozegel. Vladyka sam vgak pospichal dale. Semik, Carovnou silou sveti, nesl ho bystte zrovna vetrnYm letem k vojvodovu sidlu, a kdyt slunce vzeglo, dojel Horymir sam neunaven na neunavenem belou gi pied `Vygehradskou branu.

Druheho dne 4clogly na kniteci hrad zpravy o tom, co se u Btezove hory stain. Ptichvatalot' mnoho hornikit na Vygehrad; vgichni jednim hlasem vypovidali o hrazach one straglive noci a vgichni rozhotoene vinili Horymira z tohoto zloeinu.

Ten vgak zaptel a dovolaval se toho, jit na itsvite po to noci byl na Vygehrade. Nei Kiesomysl, talostiv jsa pro sttibrne doly ,dal Horymira uvrhnouti do vezeni. Odtud ho vyvedli teprve, az kdyt se shromatdili kmeti a vladykove, jet svolal vojvoda k soudu.

I stal Horymir sam jedinjr pied soudem a proti nemu houf rozlicenYch kovkopii, tadajicich usilne, aby byl za tiva upalen. Jim knite prat, jemu vladykove. Prosili za nej, aby pri hrdle byl zilstaven. Hlas hornikit vgak vice vakl, proto odsoudil •

knite Horymira hrdla.

Net tolik piece udinil vladykilm po vuli, ze zmirnil trest mart; nemelt' Horymir za tiva sejiti ohnem, nYbrt mel bYti popraven vlastnim medem.

Kdyt tak ustanoveno, promluvil Horymir ke kniteti•

"CtnY knite, tvjrm soudem jsem odsouzen; a ponevadt mne tivu bYti nelze, toliko Za, to prosim, pop •ej mi toho &iv net umru, at' na svirj mil' kin vsednu a maliekou chvili se na nem projedu. Po tom uein se mnou cotkoliv chce!"

"Jed' si," povolil knite, "ale Semik bez ,Ictidel ti neponrate I" Zasmal se a porueil, aby zavteli brany.

Horymir vaak nedbaje Ktesomyslova Posmegku, chvatal potegen do staje ke svemu Semiku. Skoeil k nemu, objal jeho giji, ptitiskl svou tvat k jeho hlave, hladil ho, mluvil k nemu tichYm hlasem, a 8emik zatehta,v, radostne hrabal ptedni nohou, at dlahy dunely.

Pak vgichni, knite s kmety a vladykami na vYstupku, i kovkopove, stratci i lid dole nadvoilm podivili se, kdyt ze staje vyrazil na prostoru Semik, jejt Horymir u huby vedl. Vgichni obdivovali se krasnemu, bujnemu koni. Beloug byl grogovaty, girokeho krku, dlouhe hi-ivy a husteho ohonu, na gtihljrch nohach malYch kopyt, jako jelen. Oei mu svitily, a pohazuje bujnou hlavou, Mtn zardele nozdrY• Nohy se mu jen kmitaly v hravjrch, taneivYch krocich, a jak se na nej Horymir vyavihl, poeal se toeiti, obraceti. Horymir v rozkogi, ae ma zase mileho kone, zavYskl, a 8 emik se vzepjal na zadni,-zatehtal, at se Sirjrm nadvorim rozlehalo. A jit dlouhYmi, lehIcYmi skoky pustil se do kola prostranstvim; Horymir zavYskl po druhjr a Semik skoeil od jedne brany ke drub& Poblite valu zavYskl Horymir pa tteti

"Nute, Semiku, Ptitisknuv kolena, nahnul se k vlajici htive, a vtom promluvil

"Pane, drt se!" A jit skokem po naspu vzhilru, a druhjrm, ohromnYm skokem pies roubenou hradbu.

Vgecko kol idasem ztuhlo.

Beloug s jezdcem se mihli nad obrubou, kmitli se povettim jako ptak, htiva koni i vlasy jezdcovi zavlaly, a jit sttelhbite, vraz zapadli, zmizeli. —

Na hrade vyktikli utasem i hrizzou. Kde kdo se hnal na valy podivat se, kam sletel zoufalk jezdec, kde rortti gten, zalitY krvi lezi i jeho

Hledell s hradeb i srubh a tasli, zas a vice, a ktidell vztekem i radosti, jak kde stall hornici nebo zemane, a, ukazovali do hdoli, k Radotinu, kde rovinou uhane mel dlouhkrni skoky 8einik s Horymirem.

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Hrobnik jen pokreil rameny. Prilvod zatim se zastavil u hrobu, kostelnik slezl s vozu a podal ruku knezi.

"To je pekne nadeleni," opakoval si Fauchelevent, neveda sam, co mluvi.

Jean Valjean byl mezi etyfmi prkny divne klidnY, jakoby se na nej pieneslo nem klidu nebottikii. Zdalo se mu, to yte dobte se dafi, a ze to dobfe dopadne. Z hlubin rakve slytel vte, co se kolem neho delo Citil, ze jej nesou, pak zase, jede na voze. Kdyt se vaz zastavil poprve, pomyslil si, ze ptijeli na hititov, po druhe si tekl•

"Zde jiz je hrob!"

Citil, ze vyzdvihli rakev a omotali provaz. Potom byl trochu omamen, patrne ho spoutteli hlavou dolu. Zachvili nabyl zase twine vedomi, protote rakev stala vodorovne na dne hrobu, jedine jej mrazilo.

Nad sebou uslytel jakysi hlas a jakoby kapky date dopadaly na viko rakve—to knez ji kropil svecenou vodou

Potom uslytel vzdalujici se kroky a Irkcko zase utichlo. Nahle se mu zdalo, ze do rakve udeiil hrom. Byla to prvni lopata prsti, kterou hazeli na rakev, potom drudopadla s hlukem na rakev.

Jsou veci, jichtto ani nejsilnejti elovek sliest" nemide. Jean Valjean pozbyl veclomi. Zatim Fauchelevent jiz nevedel, co podti. Jakmile pohfebni vat odjel a knez s kostelnikem vsedli do koearu, stark zahradnik se postavil mezi hrob a hrobnika, skiizil ruce a zvolal jakYmsi divnYm hlasem:

"Zaplatim sam, pojd'me rychleji."

Dfive platival objeejne stars' Mestienne„ Fauchelevent jej ten zval, nyni se Pt k tomu vydani odhodlal. Gribier na nej udivene pohledl.

Platim sam," opakoval Fauchelevent.

"Ale co?"

"Vino."

"Jake vino?"

"Dobre vino z Argenteuilu."

"Ech, jdi mi k d'asu," zabrueel hrobnik a yhodil prvni lopatu prsti na rakev.

Fa.uchelevent zavravoral a myslil, sam do hrobu padne.

"Pojd'me rychleji, pfiteli, site nam je 'Ste zavrou vinarnu."

Hrobnik jit vilbec neodpovidal a vhodil druhou lopatu zeme do hrobu. Fauchele--t jej popadl za rame.

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a pfiSel jsem, abych vam pomohl. Muteme to praci skoneiti take pozdeji, ale napfed sobe zavdame."

Mluve takto a takkka kkeeovite se pHdrtuje teto zoufale zachrany, pomfglel sobe smutne: "Bude-li piti, zda-li pak se tet tak snadno opije?"

"6Ioveee," odpovedel Gribier, "jestlite jit mermomoci chcete, svoluji, ale po praci."

Fauchelevent jiz ztracel nadeji. Vtom okamtiku se hrobnik shYbl, kapsa jeho hrobakske haleny se rozeviela, bloudici zrak Faucheleventiiv nahodou padl na onu kapsu a utkvel na ni. Bleskurychle proletla j'eho hlavou mytlenka, sahl nepozorovane hrobnikovi do kapsy a vytahl z ni hrobnickY listek.

Kdyt se Gribier °brat'', aby na lopatu prst' po pate nabral, pohlecil nan Fauchelevent docela klidne a aka' se:

"Nute, novaeku, jestli pak jste vzal svaj listek ssebou?"

"JakY listek?" tazal se hrobnik, zaraziv se.

"Vttlyt' piece vidite, ze slunce jiz zapada a hfbitov za pet minut se zavfe."

"Nu, a co pak?"

"Mate svuj listek?"

"Ach, ovtern, listek," odpovedel Gribier a zadal po vtech kapsach hledati.

"Ne, nemam, zapomnel jsem jej asi doma."

"Pak zaplatite patnact franku pokuty," kekl Fauchelevent.

Hrobnik zezelenal.

Bose! Patnact frankii pokuty!" zvolal a odhodil lopatu.

"Nezoufejte piilis, vtdyt' patnact frankii neni tak velke jmeni," pokraeoval klidne, "a jette jich neplatite. Jsem start a vy novaeek, byl jsem zde jig nejednou a znam vtelijake spady, darn vain ptatelskou radu. Slunce asi za pet minut zapadne a hfbitov potom se zavie."

"Ovtem, mate pravdu," zaapel hrobnik.

"Za pet minut nematete hrob zasypati, .ale mohl byste jette dobehnouti clonal pro listek, jestli daleko nebydlite."

"Nedaleko, ale etvrt hodiny to piece bude."

"Ale na vtechen zpasob si pospette ze htbitoVa, pak s listkem matete pfijiti i po zavfeni, je„ zde na vas poekam."

"Vy mi zachrariujete tivot, eloveee," zvolal hrobnik.

"Nude utikejte rychle!" odpovedel Fauchelevent.

Hrobnik mu vdeene stiskl ruku a horempadem utikal. Jakmile mu zmizel s oei, Fauchelevent jette chvilku poekal, potom se shYbl nad hrobern a polohlasem zvolal:

"Pane Madeleine!"

Nikdo neodpovidal. Fauchelevent se zachvel hridou, spadl spite, net slezl do

hrobu a polotiv lista na rakev, zvolal: "Co se s vami deje?"

Ticho.

Fauchelevent se chvel hridou a vzav sve dlato i kladivo, odrazil horeene viko rakve. Tvat Jeana Valjeana objevila se v teru blecla a se zavfenYma oeima. Vlasy se staremu zahradnikovi jetily na hlave hrazou, klesl zoufale na rakev a. hledel na mrtveho.

"On zemtel," zateptal.

Vstal, zalomil rukama, at mu kiouby praskaly a zvolal:

"Hle, jak jsem jej zachranil!" zvolal ubohY staiec s natkem. "Co si nyni podnu! Ten yzacnY &ova zemfel, a co se stane s maliekou? Otee Madeleine! Otde Madeleine!"

"Neslyti mne," map& a rval sobe vlasy s hlavy.

Ze vzdali mezi stromy zavznelo vrznuti; mkitove dvefe hfbitova prave se zaviraly.

Fauchelevent se zase sklonil nad Jeanem Valjeanem a nahle uskoeil, jak dalece to v hrobe bylo moan.

Jean Valjean mel oei otevfene. Stall/ zahradnik byl bled a hied& nail celY zmamen, jetto nevedel, peed sebou tiveho nebo mrtveho.

"Usnul jsem patrne," kekl Jean Valjean a sedl si. Fauchelevent ,padl na kolena.

"O, matko boti! Co strachu jste mi nahnal! Vy tedy tijete!" zvolal znova, zbYvaje nyni radosti temet smyslii, "mysill jsem jit, ze jste se zadusil a malern jsem se nezblaznil."

"Je mi zima," 'fel(' Jean Valjean. "Pojd'me co nejrychleji odtud," zvolal zahradnik, "ale napfed vypijte kapku na posilnenou, to vas rozehfeje," dodal, vytahuje rnalou lahev z kapsy.

Jean Valjean vypil doutek kotalky a a zotavil se Upine. Nyni se hned dali do prate, zatloukli ralrev, zasypali hrob. Nemuseli spechati, jetto Fauchelevent del, ze hrobnik bez listku piijiti nemute. 1 .4

Kdyt hrob byl zasypan, sebrall lopaty a U zavtenYch vrat vhodil Fauchelevent listek hrobnikfrv, jej v ruce drtel, do skfinky; vratnY zatahl tinfirou, vrata se oteviela a vytli ze htbitova.

"Hle, jak 'deck° dobie se dal," fekl Fauchelevent, "mel jste znamenitou mySlenku, pane Madeleine!"

ulici vaugirardskou, 'dude bylo ticho a prazdno.

"Ukatte mi eislo 86." fekl zahradnik "vy mate lepti edi net ja."

"Stojime prase pied nim," odpovedel Jean Valjean.

"Dejte mi lopatu a chvilku na mne poekejte," fekl Fauchelevent.

Vete' do domu Cis. 87., je2to veda chudaci obyeejne bydlivaji v podkrovi a tam potme zaklepal na jakesi dveke.

"Vejdete," ozval se jakYsi hlas. Poznal hlas hrobattly. Byt byl velice chudY a nyni bylo jegte vgecko zptevraceno.

Gribier vypadal mrzute a rozezlene, .gena i deti byly uplakany, hledali patrne Usilovne listek a nenagli ho.

Fauchelevent tekl na prahu:

"Prinagim yam lopatu." Gribier nan udivene pohledl.

"Ach, to jste vy!"

"Zitra rano najdete u, vratneho svial listek."

"Co to znamena?" zvolal hrobnik.

"Nalezl jsem vas listek na zemi, vykonal za vas praci a pokuty platiti nebudete, to to znamena."

"Dekuji yam srdeene," zvolal Gribier s nadgenint, "ptigte zaplatimevino ja."

Za hodinu na to objevili se dva =Nave u briny klagterni a zaklepali na ni.

Cosetka stravila dvacetetyti hodiny u ovocnatky, chvela se chudinka strachem, jegto nemohla pochopiti, co se to s ni deje. Proto take, kdy g Jean Valjean pro ni vrhla se mu s radostnYm vYktikem do naruee.

Klagterni vratnY oteftel postranni branku ureenou pro slugebnictvo a vedl je zahradou do hovorny..

Ptedstavena s rtigencem v rukou, ye spoleenosti jine teholnice, se spugtenYm zavojem je neekavala.

•Prohligeli si zpod ptivtenYch vieek noveil° ptichoziho i jeho vnukeku ci dceru g aotazala

"Jste vy bratr nageho zahradnika?"

"Ano, velebna matko," odpovedel Fauchelevent.

"Jak se jmenujtete?"

"Ultim Fauchelevent," odpovedel zahradnik.

Mel opravdu bratra Ultlma, kterY jig (Jayne) zemiel.

"Odkud pochazite?"

"Z Picquigny u Amiensu."

"Kolik je yam let?"

"Padesat."

" ' dim se zabSivate?"

"Zahradnictvim."

"Jste dobrSr kiest'an?"

"Vgichni v rodine jsme dobti ktest'ane."

"Ta holeieka je vase?"

"Ano, velebna, matko."

"Jste jejim otcem?"

"Ne, dedeekem."

"Dobte odpovida," tekla teholnice ptitlumene matce ptedstavene.

Jean Valjean-nepromluvil ani slova,, na vaecky otazky odpovidal Fauchelevent, ale teholnice se na ne nedivaly.

Pfedstavena si nyni pozorneji prohledla Cosetku a pogeptala sve drugce:

"Bude ogkliv'a."

Obe mluvily spolu chvili velmi tile, potorn matka ptedstavenA5e obratila k nim a tekla:

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A skuteene, druheho dne zvonily po zahrade dva zvonky. Jean Valjean byl od toho okamgiku trvale pkijat a od to doby se jmenoval Ultim Fauchelevent. Cosetka stala se klagterni chovankou.

Cosetka si velmi brzy na klagter zvykla, pkedstavena, pak si ji za to velmi zamilovala, Deveatko pokladalo Jeana Valjeana opravdu za sveho otce a byla jig spokojena; mohia-li ho jen uhlidati. Jedine po panne se ji stYskalo, ale netroufala sobe to Mei. Jednou vgak piece tekla Jeanu Vaijeanovi:

"Tatinku, kdybych byla vedela, ge se tarn jig nevratim, byla bych si ji vzala s sebo a."

Nyni byla nucena nositi gat klagternim chovankam ptedepsa,nY, jeji pfedeAle gatieky odevzdali otci. Byly to tyteg eerne gatieky, ktere ji dal v Montfermeillu. Jean Valjean slogil vge peelive, zabezpeen pied moly a schoval do ma,leho kuf kiku, kterY od to doby stale stal jeho postele. Klieek od telaog nosil stale u sebe.

Stall/ Fauchelevent byl velice at'asten, ge vykonal dobrY skutek, a to tim vice, ze nyni mel mnohem mene prate.

V klagtete rikali Jeanu Valjeanovi druhY Fauyent. Kdyby si byly pobogne jep• tigky jen trochu vice obou muga byly by snad zpozorovaly, ge ten druh Fauvent nikdy z klagtera nevychazi, a ge vegkere zalegitosii oly,tarAva. Fauchelevent stargi. Opqtrposti to bylo skuteene velmi tteba, jegto Javert vice neg celY mesic sttegil- etvrt' kolern klagtera. Klagter byl Vaijeanovi taltita ostrovem, obklopenyrn kolkolem propastmi. zdi byly mu nyni celYm sveterh. Byl vgak piece St'asten, vial tam dosti nebe a mei blizko sebe Cosetku, to mu tpine staeilo. Bydlil s Faucheleventem dohromady a pracoval celY den v zahrade. Cosetce bylo dovoleno, straviti kagdodenne hodinu s otcem a v dobach zabavy ji take vide' z daleka, kdyg si hiala a behala. Rozeznal pokagde jeji smith od ostatnich deveatek

Tak jim uplynulo nekolik let spokojene a klidne. XXV. Ulienik.

Patig me deti jako les ptaky. Ptaeek se jmenuje vrabec, dite ulienik.

Maki tato bytost je stale vesela,, a aekoliv neji kagdY- den, chodi piece, jestli libo, kagdY den do divadla.

Obyeejne nema kogile, ani sttevict, ani stiechy nad hlavou, gije jako musky nebeske, ktere vgeho toho nemaji. Ulienik chodi od sedmi do ttinacti let v tlupach, Pobiha, ulicemi, spava pod girYm nebem, nosi gaty po svem otci, ktere se za nim tahnou, magi eas, kine, a v srdci nerna nteeho zleho, jegto v dugi je nevinnYm cleckem.

Kdybychom se optali velkeho mesta: "JakY to tvor?" odpovedelo by. "Milj maliekY."

Avgak neptehanejme, nekdy takove dite mive koMli, ale v takovena ptipade jen jedinou, ma -li st evice, pak jsou bez podegvi. Miva teZ byt u svYch rodietii, ale volnV poulieni givot je mu milejgi, protoge ulice mu poskytuje mnoho ruznYch kratochvili. MC tarn celY zvetinec, kterf pilne zpytuje, ba bYvaji tam i obludy bajeene, jichgto nikdo nikdy opra,vdu nevial, ale jeZ jsou prave tak stragne.. A pod kamenem vytrgenYm z dlagdeni, kolik tarn je zajimavYch stvotenieek: stonogky, rtiznY jinY hmyz, v ptikopech pak Marsova pole nalezaji se teg pulci.

Pti tom bVva jeste tolik zajimavych \reel na 'stall:le-1i se Wade pracka nebo garvatkai je, hned, zabayy dosti. Ty deti maji teg pro kagdou vec sve vlastni vYrazy, a jejich ostrovtip a dfimysl jsou east° 'obdivuhodny. Prfivod pohkebni na piikiad ubira, se kolem, v prfivode kraei teg lekat.

"Hej," vyktikne ulienik, "od ktere doby odnageji lekati nsve dl10 sami?"

Stane -11 se ulienikovi nejala vagneigi nehoda, hledi na to 'svet ulicniku velmi ptiznive, a pak dosahne mezi sykrni soudruhy velke ficty, ku pflkladu: tizne-li se velice hluboko "ag do kosti". Telesna la vzlauzuje u jeho soudruh5 fictu, takovY capart chvali se easto:

"Jsem velmi silny, vidig, jak mocnou mama pest'. "Ulienik zna vgecky polieejni stragniky jrnenem a dovede vgdycky vyjmenovati jejich vlastnosti, fekne teg hned, ge ten je zlY, onen smegnY, ten yelikY ,ten zase si mysli, ge mu path "NoVV most" a brani "lidem" choditi po zabradli, jinY zase ma ogklivST zvyk, tahati "lidi" za ugi.

Asi osm nebo devet let po vylieenYch v teto knize udalostech, toulaval se po boulevardu du Temple a v okoli Chateau-d' Eau malt' hoch, pravY typ paIi gskeho uNosil kalhoty po dospelem Cloveku, ale ne po svem otci, mel genskou kazajku, ne vgak po sve matce, nejaci cizi lide oblekli jej ze soucitu do tech Nader. Mel piece otce i matku, ale otec se on nestaral a matka ho nemilovala. Bylo to jedno z onech negt'satnYch deti, ktere maji otce a piece jsou sirotky. Takove deti budi nejvyggi soucit.

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"Siuna to v;c7mena; dej Panbith zdaru!" prisvedella AnCe. ((l'olcradoVail.)

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Poslal jsem kdysi k Marshall Fieldovi zpravodaje s dotazem, co podle jeho soudu .zptisobilo nejdrilelitejAi obrat v jeho Zivote, a odpoved' znela: "aspora prvnich peti,tisic dolarri v dobe, kdy jsem mel tak skromnY plat, ze bych jej byl byval mohi smele utratiti. Kdy2 jsem jednou tento obnos met met jsem te2 mo2nost, vyu2iti ptiznivYch okolnosti. To byl obrat v mem 2ivote." John Jacob Astor, tviirce ohromnth° astorskeho jmeni, vyjadtil se kdysi, .2e kdyby si nebyl uspotil prvnich tisic dolart, byl by snad zemtel v chudobinci. Jake., jest to smutna podivana na ony tisice. dobte -vychovanYch, vzdelanych a nadanych muzu a 'Zen, postradajice jakehokoliv smyslupro penani veci, jdou 2ivotem utracejice pos edni halet svych nemajice' niceho, k eernu by sahli v ptipade nouie::Ja,kou smutnou hisprii mohly by vypravettnage dobrainne qrganisace o lidech, kteti 2ili kdysi v lep,§"jch pomerech, pozbyli toho, co meli, lidech, kteti si neclOVedli nieehO ti pro "strjrce ptihddu". --- 0. S. Marden.

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cich v sobe tak mnoho! Bylo z nich zfejmo, 2e i Tide rilznYch ptesvedeeni mohou se navzajem ctiti."

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Piejeme si vysloviti nag upkimnY dik Bohu a Dokrotorvi Albert H. Braden za jejich pomoc ktero.0 jsme nalezli skrze jeho leeeni. Po eteni v easopise NovY Domov o rtiznYch lidech ktere uzdravil bez operate, rozhodli jsme se jej navgtiviti. Nage cela rodina byla nemocni a my jsme se citili desperatni.

Nage dcera Lillian trpi stilYmi bolestrai hlavy a byte ji feeeno, ie musi byti operovana. Nig syn Frank mei prtitri a bylo mu reeeno, tie musi byti operovin, moje iena trpela nisledkem spadle matky a ialudku a bylo ji reeeno, ie musi miti nekolik operaci. Ja jsem trpel na zavrate tak, ze jsem nemohl stati. Krome toho trpel jsem od zraneni ktere se mi stale pied 30ti lety a nemohl jsem dostati ulevu.

Neni divu, ie jsme meli o co se starati. Dr. Braden nos vgechny uzdravil, tak ze se citime, ze ram byl po slin nebesy za coi jsme jemu velure vdeeni.

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