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

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.

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,