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ANW S'DEN profesor na Houstonske mame tak dobre poji gteni a takove druuniversite ma zalibu opakovati hy pojigteni, jake na gi lide pottebuji nevetu, ktera mne jaksi zarazila, bo poladuji. Nekdy se ve mne probudilo kdy jsem ji sly gel od neho poprve. Kdy- skoro ptani, kdyby bylo mono nektere z koliv ye svYch piedna gkach zaboeil na Zi- nagich dobrYch fitednikil a pracovnikt votni pojigteni v jeho kursu o poji gt'ova- ptivabiti na jednu nebo d ye prednagky ni, ptipomenul svYm posluchaetfin, ze 'i- onoho profesora, aby mohli vyslechnouti votni pojigteni bylo vyplanovano, aby jeho vYklady o starobnim pojigt'ovani, chranilo pied ztratou, ktera povstala nebo jak tomu profesor rikal, o pojigteni bud' ptedeasnou nebo opozdenou smrti. proti opozdene smrti. Nekdy jsem mel Tento vYrok obyeejne dopinil dal gi ve- chut' obetovati pet dolarn, koupit jednu tou: "PouZivati Zivotni pojigteni pro jinY z ueebnic o modernim Zivotnim poji gt'ofieel east° pkina gi klamny vYsledek, kte- vani, a poslati ji nekomu, kdo by si vzal rY neodpovida hospodatskYm potiebam eas knihu prostudovati. Ovladnul jsem svtij chvilkovy rozmar. eloveka." Zaeali jsme v gak probirati tuta vee, K Zivotnimu pojigt'ovani obyeejne se dostal ph svem rozboru, kde rozdelil l ge- jenZe z jineho hlediska. Zaeali jsme dischny druhy poji gteni do tti kategorii. fti- kutovati o domovu pro stare lidi. Neni to kaval, ze mame tti druhy risika: — risi- nic jineho neZ druh dobroeinne ochrany ko "jestli", risiko "jak" a risiko "kdy". proti nehodam vysokeho veku. °pet proRisiko "jestli" je v poji gt'ovani proti ohni, blem stall" a s nim spojene v gechny phblesku, vloupani, nebo sroIce. Risiko lehave otazky. Proto se dnes osmeluji vyvolati upo"jak" je v pojigteni proti kradeli. Risiko zorneni na onen druh poji g ten, ktery do"kdy" je v pojigteni na 'Zivot. Timto podobnYm fivodem, trvajicim sud nemame: na starobni poji gt'ovanekdy deset minut, nekdy pies pfil hodi- ni nebo na filevu ye vysokem stati. AC ny, dostal se profesor k Zivotnimu poji- nage SPJST vyplaci jiZ pies padesat rogt'ovani, a2 objasnil, ze poji gteni na Zivot la" tak zvanou "Umrtni podporu", dosud je vlastne ochranou proti risiku "kdy", a jsme nepodnikli Zadne kroky, abychom tim ptigel ku sve oblibene vete o ptedeas- vyplazeli "Zivotni podporu" nebo "podporu vysokeho veku." Toto poji gteni pro ne nebo opozdene smrti. vysokY vek mohlo bYti u na gi Jednoty zaPtiznava,m, ze tento vyrok zdal se mi vedeno jiz slugnou tadu let. z poeatku trochu neobalenYm a drsnym "Ale, kamarade", sly gim odnekud navYrazem. Av gak eim delle jsem chodil do mitku, "v&lyt' kdysi teZ" mel jsi trochu jeho ptedna gek, tim vice jsem se klonil k jeho nahledu, ze zivotni poji gteni je dvo- slovo pti vedeni Jednoty. Ba nekdy to byji: bud' proti ztrate, ktera povstane lo slyget dosti hlasite, tak prof jsi neptiptedeasnym skonem eloveka, kterou je gel davno se svYmi rozumy na svetlo?" Zde pisatel se musi ptiznati, ze tiebas zasaZeria jeho rodina nebo jeho spolubliIni; anebo je to, poji gteni proti vyso- byl Menem Hlavni fifa,dovny 24 let, jeho kernu veku, kdy jednotlivec dojde na vedomosti o Zivotnim poji gt'ovani daly stuperi neschopnosti pokraeovati Item- by se snadno napsati na 'gpendlikovou pem diivej gich let. hlavieku. Vedel, kolik druht/ certifikaty V techto ptedna gkach zaeal jsem po- nage SPJST vystavuje, znal jejich vYhozvolna a nenapadne ptemY gleti o praci, dy, snad by dovedl ten vysvetliti stupnici jakou provadeji bratrske spolky. Zailal poplatkfi, mohl by snad trochu mluviti o jsem mysleti teg na na gi SPJST a na v ge- thurtnosti nasich elent, ale ani ye snu chny druhy pojigteni, joke nabizime. mu nenapadlo, ze je dvoji druh smrti: Zat,a1 jsem uvaZovati o nasi ehloube, ze. jedna koneena a ptirozena; a druha vlek-

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ekonomicka smrt vysokeho staii, ptekroeilost veku. Nevim, zdali mne kdo z 6tenart ochopi. MoZna, ze dnes nevim toho vice neZ pied 25 roky. Avgak zda se mi, ze kdyZ mluvime o fitulne a domove pro stare eleny, mohli bychom teZ debatovati trochu o takovem druhu poji gteni, ktere by pkineslo trochu dobra elenu za hva, kdy toho potiebuje. Zde bylo by ov gem tieba vgimnouti si, jak v tomto smeru pokraeuji jine poji gt'ujici spoleenosti nebo nektere pokroeilej gi a proziravej gi bratrske organisace. A tak jsme kdysi zavedli det-ske pojigt'ovani, tak dnes meli bychom pomYgleti na poji gt'ovani star gich lidi. Mame pojigteni na piedeasny skon, ale schazi nam poji gteni na Zivotni podporu vysokeho Ve skuteenosti a podle pravdy, nemame "pojigteni na Zivot", nYbr2 jen pojigteni v padu smrti. Na ge nadaeni certifikaty jsou opatteni na ptedeasnou smrt a na vyplaceni fispor, kdy'2 Glen do ureite doby nezemiel. Dosud na ge SPJST vyplaci jedine "finirtni podporu" nebo fispory, kdyZ Glen pte'Zije jistY vek. Nemame vgak dosud takove pojigteni, aby starYm lidem poskytovalo stale piijmy v jejich Zde podavam jen velice strueny namet ku studovani dalgiho druhu pojigt'ovani, ktere nage SPJST dosud nema, ba dosud o nem nebylo v Ceske easti Vestniku ani zminky. Stale je vice a vice lidi — i nagich vlastnich elenfi — kteti ptichazeji do veku, kdy jsou nuceni vzdati se sve einnosti a jiti na odpoeinek. Lee vysoke dune zmen guji zaroven hromadku dolarfi v Usporach, ktere jednotlivec rad by si nasttadal. Investice ptina geji malY rok. Je gte nejlep gi vYchodisko v tomto je Zivotni pojigteni, kttre vyplaci misto ftmrtni podpory — podporu Zivotni. 3 ® sit 9 ( Kdo ma aspon zdani o tom, co v gecko lids nyni vedi, ten vi uz mnoho. — Hlupak se divil, ze mu nechce nic ozumneho napadnout.

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Nage hesla: Podpora —Lidskost Eratrstvi. Jsou to jen tfi slov y, ale maji ij"znain velikY. Heslo ma new spoleaneho s Oasto jedna kraka veta, malo slov, vyjadtuje kus 2ivotni filosofie, nebo ttemi slovy hlasa celY program. Ovg ern, neni dobre jiti slepe za heslem nebo aby se heslo prona gelo pouze Usty. Jo -ffeba, aby 6lovelt chapal beslo rozu-mem, aby ho citil srdcem, aby ho provaON a uplatnoval skutkem. Jen potom se clostavi alarm"! &Melt hesla. Jinak i sebe krasnejAi heslo zustane prazdnYm slo VeM. Na • odnY Slovensky Spoiok, bratrska organisace Slovak-a se sidlem v Pittsburgu, uvaSuje o zvY g eni einnosti ye syYch domacich kadech tint, ze chce spojiti sla-

be a neeinne domaci tady a sloueiti se se silnej girni. Jak doeitaine se ze zapiskti prvni schnze 111,)vnino telesa, komine tohoto roku, hlavni tajemnik podat seznaln vgech tadti, ktere maji mene na 25 elenri. Celkena Narodny Slovensky Spolok ma 866 mistnich tadll a blizko 45,000 elenn. Spolek ma vgak 160 malYch teat, ktere jsou pornerne necinne a povaSuji se spige za prite2 nezli za hybnou silu. Ptikladne, spolek ma deset mistnich tadil o osmi elenech, 7 tadfi a deviti elenech, 10 tadtl o deseti elenech, '7 tadti o patnacti neck, celkem 160 malyc ra u 8 mene nez 25 elenfl v kaSdem radu, neboli pouze neco rates dva tisice elentl ye 160 tadech. Tajernnik Narodniho Slovenskeho Spolku doporueil hlavnimu telesu, aby se podnikly kroky o vzrust techto malYch 'Ida, a kde by ve gkera snaha ukazala se marnou, aby takove tady byly vyzvany ku sloueeni s jinymi vet gitni a einnej gimi. Tajemnik Pallan vypoeital, jaka spora pro mistni tady i pro hlavin teleso by plynula z toho, kdyS by slabe tady byly zruseny. Ueenci nom vyklallaji, Se Ma ya dostane behem sedmi let vgechny balky ye svem tele nahrazeny burikami novYmi. Snad i ty nejtval gi louriky lidskeho organismu ,zubni sklovina, jsou nahraSenY novYmi soueastkami. Valor tomu, elovek se ye sire podstate mnoho nezmeni, alespori tak soudime. JenSe zmeny jsou tak pozvolne a nenapadne, Se je vubec nepozorujeme. Skupina lidi spolek nebo tad — je rovne2 SivYm organismem, kde zmeny jsou pozvolne. Spolek se ten meni; bud' roste nebo se ztraci. Organismus spolkovy musi miti ten spravnou vYSivu, jinak chtadne. 'Wadi generaee ma zajern. Nenatikejme stale, Se na ge deti nom nerozumi a Se nemaji zajmu o eeskou kulturu. Oirn vzdelanej gi a pokroeilej gi je takovy mladik neb takove (levee, tim vice touSi seznamiti se s rozmanitYmi ukaskami a parnatkami, na ktere eeska historie je tolik bohatou. Uvedu malt' ptiklad: minuleho tYdne telefonovala sledna Ann Horriakova, ktera je knihovnici detskeho oddeleni mestske knihovny v Houstonu, Se rada by mela vysta yku eeskYch malovanYch vajieek, zna.m3ch mezi na gim lidem jako "kraslice". Bude Velikonoc, vyzdobuji se polieky a sktine velikanoenirni ozdobami. Sleena Horriakova vzponmela si, co ji bylo od jejich radiefi, Sijicich v College Station, vykiadano a yypravoya no o malovanYch nebo jinak ozdobenYch vajiekach, con mezi ee,skYm. lidem bYval obvyklY velikonaeni dar. Napadlo ji, zdali by bylo moSno selmati zde v Houstonu ezi krajany nejake exemplate kraslic, by pro deti upravila malou ukazku s pfiptdaym slovesr." iu vys., et lenim. Pfali byHornak-ove, aby jeji snaha

Ve StIedu, dne 21. btezna 1951, se ji prigtestila. Stane-li se talc, ptinese2 me poclrobnej gi zpravu o jeji praci. Slovo "kraglice" zapsino je_v nejstarSick slovnicich eeskYch, kam tehclej gi pis maci a sberatele slov uloSili picirozene jen nejbeSnel gi a nejznamej gi nazvy. MuSeme tedy kraslice i pornlazku pokladati za zvyk mezi eeskym lidem v geobecne znamY ye XIV. veku, yzniklY davno, pfedtim. Na g. lid Azyklada o puvodu kraslie jinak neS ueenci. Je mezi eeskYrn den zalimava, povest, jak kraslice povstaly: Kdy2 Pan JeSi g se svatYm Petrem chodili po svete, pti gli do jednoho statku a prosili hospodyni o kousek chleba, ale to nernela prove v celem staveni chleba. JelikoS si oba stYskali na velikY hlad, nevedela selka, co by jim narychlo k jidlu podala. Vtom slygela kdakarif slepice, ktera sletla s hnizda. Selka Ifned Ala do kurniku, kde. na gla hnizdo vajec, sebrala je, dn1,3 do tepleho popela, kde je upekla a nal:Lmila jimi oba pocestne. Kdy2 tito gla pro metla nebo chvogte, aby skotapky na zemi pohozene smetla. Jake bylo jeji udiveni, kdyS urtela, Se skotapky byly prorneneny ye zlato. Selka potom kazdeho pocestneho, ktery se u 'rich zastavil, eastavala peeenYmi vejci, ale ze Sadne skotapky nestalo se ji2 zlato. Pak to einila jen ve vYroeni den onech dvou poce,stnYch. Ale zlatYch skotapek se jiz nedoekala. Odmeny doeka, se, aS na yeenosti. eeskSr lid ve stfedoveku mel zvlagtni nazev pro kaSdou postni nedeli. 0 pojrnenovani prvnich nedeli v postu byla zminka nedavno ve Vestniku. 6tvrtou /mall postni nazYvali nedele "druSeb no.", a koldee, pti slavnosti to nedele obvykle, nazYvali "druSbance". Pate, nedele postni — latinsky Judica nazYvala se nedele "eerne." nebo "smrtne.": PrastarY a pfivodni nazev "smrtna nedele" je ad davnovekeho obtaclu vyn.a geni smrti, kterySto obyeej je pokladan za nejstargi jarni obtad v eeskYch lidovYch zvycich. Na Valagsku, odkud pisatel pochazi, chodivali ten tYden s "maienou", kelyS ye smrtnY tYden nebo za, celY prist v decline nikdo neumtel. Pti tom byly obtadne popevky. Pope yky se opakovaly, aS se ptiglo na ureite misto: Smrtna nedela, kams kluge podela? Dala sem je, dala, kvetnemu pondelku, atd. Pak pti gla nedele kvetna a pagijovY tYden. 0 obyeejich, tikadlech a zvycich pa gijovelm tYdnu mezi CeskYin lidern dala, by se napsati dosti objenrad kniha. Zde v Americe sotva si kdo vice vzpomene na velikonoeni pernio, jakYm bylo Jidag, rriSieka, koleeko, nebo slepieka, a Upine se zapomnelo na (letskou pomlazku a rozrnanite zabavy detske. V kvitnu bude velika celostatni slavnost v Houstonu, kde zustoupeny buretell° cloti twine narodnostni slozky

Ve sttedu, dne 21. btezna 1951. Texasu. Bylo v Oechach a na Morave mnoho zvykri spadajicich na mesic kveten. Stavely se maje, potadaly se majove slavnosti, a lid citil probuzeni jara. Proto bylo toho zpevu vgude tolik, proto se pajak mladenci tak devuchy. Pri houstonske lidove slavnosti snad by stab() za pokus uspotadati takove staveni maje, kde by freastnici mohli ukazati Ceske dove kroje. A kdyt by nedotlo k tomu, navrhoval by pisatel aspori ukazku tenskYch krojt z okoli Kyjova, ktere se povatuji za nejkrasnejti a nejvYraznejti ze vtech eeskYch lidovych kroju. Zaletelo by vtak na dobre vrili tech, kdo podobne kroje maji nebo o nich vedi. K tomu bylo by tieba ten nektere lidove pope yky z okoli Kyjova, aby ukazka krojt byla doprovazena vhodnymi popevky nebo lidovYmi melodiemi. Kdo se ptihlasi? Bratei a sestry dopisovatele, vezmete laskave na vedomi, to redaktor Vestniku nebydli v miste, kde nag organ je tisknut. Zasilejte proto vetkere dopisy, referaty a rivahy na redaktora do Houstonu. PoVate dopisy pro uvetejneni v organu do West, tiskarna samortejme dopis otevte, aby se ptesvedeila, co pigete, pak musi dopis Vat vlotiti do nove obalky a poslati na redaktora. Adresa redaktora je nyni uvefejnovana tuenym pismem ve zvlattnim rameeku v katdem Diky za Vati pozornost a spolupraci. Nag organ je pojitkem vtech Vent' SPJST. Redaktor se bude vynasnatovat, aby Vestnik byl bezprosttedne spojen s katdYm Clenem. Neni na g list jette tim, dim spolkovy organ ma bYti, ale pozvolnym zleptovanim motna to se tornuto fikolu ptiblitime. Redaktor je vdeenYm za katdY ptispevek. Ne snad proto, ze by mu samotnemu ubylo prate, ale spite pro vybudovani sir§ino kruhu dopisovatelt, aby Vestnik nebyl tvorbou jednotlivce, nYbri opravdoveho redakeniho kruhu, kde katdY dopisovatel by ptinesl tpetku dobreho zrna, tetkeho a zdraveho semene k daltimu vzrristu. Pri zmince o narodnich krojich tteba poznamenati, to bylo by velice vhodnym, kdyt na programu lidove slavnosti v Houstonu mohli bychom miti ukazky pravych a nefal govanYch narodnich krojri ze stare vlasti. Neni katda kvetovana sukenka ani katda vytivana kordulka narOdnim krojern. Kroj musi miti svou Sveraznost, svou charakteristiku, kterou znaji jedine ti, kteti se otazkou narodnich krojri nekdy zabYvali. SkuteenYch krojit je zde v Texasu pomerne male. Kdyt pied dverna lety potadatel filmoval tanec "Besedy" v Seaton, vide' tam jeden importovanY kroj, aC nevi, z ktere east' Moravy onen kroj pochazel. Tet ina domnenku, Ee sestra Anna Hornakova z College Station a sestra Mendlova,

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bud' objednaly si nebo nechaly si ptivezti ye Vestniku posledni vuli jednoho zesnuprave narodni kroje od Kyjova. Kdyt by leho Clena. Stale se tak v domnence, bylo motno ziskati aspori etyti podobne Ctenim posledni vole nekoho jineho ukroje, a obleci do nick etyti dobre zpe- pozorneni budou druzi elenove na nutvaeky, aby 'ptednesly zaroveri nekolik nost nebo driletitost testamentu pro kalidovYch pisni, pfibylo by na statni Zdeho jednotlivce. Bratr Hanka vtak hledove slavnosti o dalti skvostne Cisbo. Pi- del na vec z docela jineho stanoviska. teme o techto vecech v nadeji, to ozvou Ona posledni vrile, uvetejnena ve Vestse hlasy dobrovolnikri, vlastne ochotnic, niku, nemrite nitkerak sloutiti natim etektere by chtely vypomoci s kroji, s pis- natrim za vzor. Katdy elovek ma jakesi nemi, nebo s obojim. ptani nebo jakousi ptedstavu, jak by Jeden dobq Clen a u yedomelS, krajan rad videl svrij majetek po smrti rozdelepsal pied Casem potadateli, zdali by bylo ny. Taktet ona uvefejnena, posledni yule mistne uvetejtiovati ve Vestniku stat' byla pouze vyslovenYm ptanim znesnuleo zdravovede a o vYtivnosti rriznYch po- ho. Nemela vaak legalni formy, a byla — krmri. Jeho podnet byl velice easovy a mime teeeno naprosto nepostaeiteltadouci, jenie je zde otazka, kdo by to nou a v nekolika bodech neproveditelmel vest!. KatdY z nas mame jiste libri- nou. Proto bratr Hanka 't axial redaktostky a konieky. Pro nynejtiho redakto- ra, kdyt ut redaktor se dopustil cyby, ra Vestniku otazka jidel nebyla nikdy aby Cleny a etenate upozornil, by'Anikdo zajimavou. AC nerad byl by poeitan mezi nepomytlel sesta-vovati si posledni svou rortrtite, dasto se stab(), ze jedl, anit by vrili die uvetejneneho vzoru. VYstrahu tusi jidla piilia vtimal, protote mytlenky to je tadoucno vziti na vedomi. Je to vtak jeho byly daleko od tab ire. Proto jidlo je novym upozornenim, jak driletitou listipro nej nutna zbyteenost. Vzdor tomu nou je posledni vrile. uznava, ze spravny jidelni listek, rozumPlanuje-li vas fad nejakou zabayu, ne rozdeleni potravy na bilkoviny, mast- nebo tfeba jen vYznamnejti schrizi, na noty a uhlohydraty je vec nanejvYte plate na listek, kdy a co to bude, a potleprospetna, lee potteboval by k tomu ne- te k umisteni do kalendate. Redaktor okoho, kdo ma o potraviny vetti zajem. statni upravi eesk'y i anglicky. ) • 41. • ( Vlastne mohlo by bYti v natem organu SVATEBNi JUBILEA. mnoho jinYch daltich veci, o nicht by nati elenove mohli byti poueovani, a co Je cosi podivne krasneho a poetickeho by jim sloutilo ku prospechu. Vytadova- v oslave svatebnich vYroei. Budi dlimajilo by to vice spolupracovnikri, vice za.- ci city a sladke, stare vzpominky v tivY pocit ttesti. V t. zv. lepti spoleenosti slajemcri v rriznYch oborech. Co nam rozhodne schazi ye Vestniku, vivaji se tato vYroei svatby: jsou zpravy a pokyny z hlavni Ustiedny, Papirova svatba prvni rok. kterYch rname nebo mohli bychom miti Dtevena. svatba — pat'y rok. daleko vice. V prosinci men jsme uspetCinova. svatba — desatY rok. nou naborovou kampari. Potadatel oeepatnacty rok. Ktitt'alova, svatba kaval, to zadneme nov-Sr rok 1951 novSrm dvacaty rok. Porcelanova svatba Stkibrna svatba — dvacaty patY rok. zajmem, abychom nemuseli vgechno dohanet at kdy bude pet minut do dvaSlonovinova svatba — tticaty rok. nacte. Pretel Jeden—eekali jsme. Pregel Vlnena svatba — etykicaty rok. Hedvabna svatba etyticatY paty rok. rinor—zase nic. Omlouvame Otedniky, bylo v risttedne pilno se zpravou a vYkaZlata svatba — padesatY rok. zy pro statni odbor pojitt'ovani, cot do Diamantova svatba sedmdesatY pakonce finora muselo byti hotovo. Nyni o- V rok. pet eekame za uvetejneni roeni zpravy o ACkoliv mnohe rodiny slavi vtecka tato stavu elenstva, o nati solvenci, o na- vYroei, je obyeejne modou opomijeti v gegem ptirristku ye fondech, o naaem 11- cka vYroei at do dvacateho pateho, takte mrti, o celkovem hospodateni. Tet by- jako prvni vyroei slavi se stfibrna svatchom radi podali olenrim pochvalnou ba. Nejobvyklejtim zprisobem oslavy je zpravu o nag ich dobrYch mistnichh or- potadani dinner nebo recepce. Nekdy, ganisatorech, o stavu a vzrastu Clen- zvlatte jsou-1i v rodiny mlade, svobodne stva u jednotlivYch tad(), o vaem torn, co dcery, pota.da, se tanec a pozdeji nasleduje vlastne naalm freelem a diem. Vime, je dinner. Potom se slavi obVe i,- ; iit jen to ritednici konaji vte v jejich motno- svatba zlata a — ovaem velmi ztidka. sti. Proto musime miti strpeni a dati jim diamantova. ) • ,161, • uznani, ze nejsou se svYmi povinnostmi pozadu. To pouze redaktor hartusl, aby ihadlo veely je dlouhe asi jeden millmel vice latky odjinud. metr — tech ostatnich deset centimetre, Bratr Ernest J. Hanka, glen tadu Po- to se nam jenom zda. • krok Houstonu a mladk krajan-pravnik, • upozornil redaktora na jistou nemilou 61ovek neni elovekem, miluje-li jen sevec. Pied nedavnem, redaktor uvetejnil be.

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OKP DLENA'SLOVAr. Uvadime dalk serii oktidlenYch slov, jimiF se stala potekadla, piislovi, obrazy a ptirminani, znama z recke mythologie, bajek AesopovYch, z teckeho soudnictvi, ze Fivota vojenskeho, politickeho a spoleeenskeho, jakoF i z mudroslovi techto narodu, kteti ji2 pied dvema a2 ttemi tisici lety meli vysokou kulturu, ji2 se nam dostalo jako neocenitelneho dedictvi. Z AesopovYch bajek jsou znama oktidlena slova: "Hrozny jsou kysele", "OMvati hada na prsou". "Odva,Fit se do g lvi jeskyne", "Lvi dil" atd., jeF nepottebuji vYkladu. Merle znarnY je podklad reeni: "Taneit podle nedi Je vzato z bajky o rybati, jen2 marne lakal ryby piskanim na harm, nneeF je vylovil siti a kdyF hopkovaly na btehu, pravil: "6 vy nevdeeni tvorove, kdyF jsem yam piskal, nechteli jste taneit, a nyni, kdy2 jsern ptestal, einite tak!" Evangelista MatouS pouhl tohoto obrazu k vYroku; "Piskali jsme yam a vy jste nechteli tanOit." — "Jedna vlakovka leta nedeld", zvolal rovneF v Aesopove bajce mladik, jen2 prohysve jmeni a koneene take svuj NI kdy2 videl, Fe se prvni vlakovka vratila. Pone yad2 vsak bylo zima a mladik mrzl, vydrala se mu z fist tato slova zlobou nad zklamanim. Recker soudni praxe zanechala /lam nekolik oktidlenYch slov, east° uFivanYch. Tak na "nepsanY zakon". Prot pojmu "PsanY zakon" stab ye starem Recku pojem "nepsany zakon", jen2 byl fiektun ban*. Klasicky ptlklad mame v Sofokleove tragedii „Antigona", kde proti kralovu zalazu pohtbiva Antigona sveho bratea, odvolavajic se na "nepsane a nezmenitelne zakony 'oohn". Dnes ph propracovanem pravnim tadu se uhva 'lady tohoto vYrazu ve smyslu nejake ustalene obyeejove nebo z yykove normy. Take nekdy odpovida mravnimu nazirani. NepsanY zakon je take obsaFen ve reeni "0 mrtvYch jen dobre". SlavnY nemecky filosof Kant tomu tika: "Mravni zakon v eloveku". S touto moralkou setkavame se jiF ve starem Recku, a to i vnei padlYm neptatelftm, jak o tom s yklei verg z HonieroYy Iliady: "Jasati nad pobitYmi lidmi je htich". Take obrat "BudiF slykna take druha, ,trana", byl pkevzat timskYmi pravniky z tecke soudni praxe a slysime jej velmi easto. Uplatnuje se v nem zasada, aby stejnym zptisobern byl vyslechnut Fa.lobce i obFalovanY. drakonicka "Drakonicke zakony" ptisnost znamenaji ptisna opatteni. Pfivodce jejich DrakOn byl nejstark zakonodarce athensky a Flu v VII. stol. pied Kr. Vydal soubor zakonfi, zejmena prava trestniho, podle nehoF vetSina ptestupku,

byla stihana trestem smrti. Proto ji2 tehdy byly tyto zakony phslomeenYmi. Odstranil je teprve za.konodaTrce a mudrc Solon novou Upravou zakonft, ktere odpovidaly zasadam humanity. Solon take rozSitil prava athenske chudiny. Z tecke mythologie (bajeslovi) mame reeni o "Penelopine praci". To znamena praci, se kterou se stale zaeina, a ktera nemnFe bYt ukoneena. Penelope byla manFelkou Odysseovou a kdyF se jeji muF po cele desetileti newacel z valeoneho taFeni proti Troji, byla obletovana napadniky, ktetl na ni nalehali, aby se vdala. Aby jim. nemusila, vyhovet, vymlouvala se, Fe musi napted uplesti rubaS pro sveho tchana Laerta. Ale v noci valy rozparala to, co ye dne upletla. Mnohdy se pouFiva jejiho jmena jako charakteristiky verne manFelky. "Non plus ultra" znamena "do krajni meze" nebo "neni nad to" podle smyslu. Podle legendy byla tato slova napsana v teetine na sloupech v Cadizu Herculern, kdyF se tarn usadil, Oim2 chtel dat najevo, Fe tam konh suet, Heraklitovy (Herkulovy) sloupy je sta,roveke jmeno fiFiny Gibraltarske. "Nestor" byl nejstank Rek v Trojske valce, v niF vynikal nejen jako zdatnY vojin, ale slynul i svou moudrosti a vYmluvnosti. Po nem nazYvame letiteho, zku:Se neho mute a take nejstarkho elena nejakeho spolku nebo korporace "nestorem". Slovo "Mentor" a "rnentorovat" se dnes pouFiva vice ye smyslu karatele. U Homera je to vlastni jmeno radce a vychovatele Odysseova syna Telemacha. Take Rekove meli svtij Kocourkov. Jmenoval se Abolera a jeho obyvatele, povestni svYm Aosactvim, sluli Ablerite. Ale presto bylo to rodike slavnelm filosofa Demokrita, ptivodce atomo ye theorie, a zakladatele sofistiky Protagora. "Lakonicka, struonost" byl zpfisob, jak se vyjadtovali obyvatele starotecke Lakonie: kratce, vYstiFne a vtipne. kekne-li se, Fe nekomu chybi "aticka girl zname-rah to, Fe se mu nedostava, dfivtipu. Atika byla krajina ye starem keeku s hlavnim mestem Athenami, jejich2 obyvatele vynikali vzdelinaim, vyASim zptisobem Fivota a vtipem. Recka arimska historic nam zaznamenaly mnoho Fajimavycla okridlenych slov. "Sevee, zUstan ph svem kopytu!" se tika ya lidem kritisujicim veci, jim2 nerozumeji. SlavnY reeky malit Apelles, vystavoval sva dila vefejnosti, ale tak, aby nepozoroYane rnohl vyslechnouti fisudek kolemjdoucich, JistY obuvnik, pozoruje sttevic na mistro ye dile, poznamenal, Fe na nem chybi jedno poutko. Apelles o

pravil nedostatek, ale obuvnik, povzbuzeny syYm Uspechem, zneal kritisovat i stehno. A to rozhorienY malit pronesl vyS'e uvedenou vetu, ktera se stala potekadlem. "Heureka!" — "Na gel jsem to!" zvolal Archimedes, kdyF ph zkoumani obsahu zlata v korune krale Hierona II. objevil zakon specificke vahy. Od to doby volaji takto obyeejne Wastni vynalezci. Jiny vYrok Archimeddv: "UkaF tune bod, kde bych se mohl optit, a ja svou pakou vyvratim Zemi z jejich steFeji." Tteti znamy vYrok, easto'citovany, pronesl tento slavny ueenec po dobyti jeho rodneho rnesta Syrakus, kdyF trinskY Yojin vnikl do jeho dvora, na nem2 met v pisku nakreslene rfizne geometricke obrazce: "NeruS mYch kruhfir Nicmene neptatelskY vojin neuAettil nejen jeho kruhti, ale ani jeho Fivota. VYraz "Diogenova lucerna" pochazi od tohoto teckeho cynika, jen2 jednoho dne chodil s rozZatou svitilnou a tvrdil, Fe hleda, eloveka". Tohoto reeni se uhva, kdyF nekdo chce charakttrisovati potiFe ph zjik'ovani pravdy nebo ph snaze ziskat pro nejakou vec yhodneho Oloveka. Xantipa byla Sokratova Fena, je2 ho souhla syYm I/kw-7m peskovanim. Mluvili se dnes o "xantipe", je to oznaoeni pro zlou a svarlivou Fenu. "Non olet" "Penize nepachnou" jsou znarna slova sisate Vespasiana (panoval 99-79 po Kr.), kdyF jeho syn ho karat pro clan vybiranou ye vetejnYch zachodcich. Cisat mu dal ptiOichnout k penizi, jen2 byl bybran touto dani, a tazal se ho, zda pachne. Syn odpovedel, Fe nikoliv. Slovo "tusculum" znamena domaci zatiSi, hlavne venkovske, at' je to ji2 vita nebo chata. Pochazi od stejnojmenneho mistopisneho pojmu Tuscula, nyni Frascati, ye sttedni Italii, je2 bylo jednim z piednich vilovYch 'nest stareho ftima, kam se uchylovaly iimske velieiny. "Pyrrho yYm viterstvim" nazYvame draze vykoupeny fispech. Pyrrhus, epirskY kral, po vitezne bitve u Ascula (r. 279 pt. Kr.) zvolal: "Jeke jedno takove viterstvi nad Rimany a jsme ztraceni!" "Ptekraiti Rubicon" znamena ueinit rozhodujici krok pinY talYch jako byl ptechod timskeho vojevildce Gaja Julia Caesa,ra pres reku Rubicon, nebot' tim yypovedel timskemu senatu pcsluAnost a vyvolal obeanskou yalku. Ph tom pronesl pamatna slova, ktera se Cast() cituji: "Kostky jsou vrFeny!" Kdy2 Caesar zvitezil r. 47 ph Kr. nad pontskYin (bosporskYm) kralem Pharnakem, podal senatu do itima, zpravu ttemi slovy: "Veni, vidi, viol!" — jsern, mridel jsem, zvitezil, jsern!" (Dokoneeni na strane 18.)

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na pies rok, budu-li je gte zit, to vynahradim. Preji jim hodne zdravi, neb to je nejhlavnej gi. Co inam jegte psat? Prget nechce a zalevat nic nepomaha. Preji vgem bez rozdilu gt'astne a vesele velikonoeni svatky a aby dostal kaady hodne vajieek. SrdeenY pozdrav na v gecky etouci, Marko, Klausova. )* 4 •( Ennis, Texas. Predne pozdrav na v gecky Otouci Vestnik a tea br. redaktora a aadam o kousek mista ye Vestniku. Co tu Mame? Tak ted' po dva dny sedime u kamen neb mrzne ua druhy den, take ovocne stromy vezrnou za sve a,aenske se nebudou potit ph zavaeovani, ale za to my, kdya to bude muset byt a poglou nas to koupit. Ze ten SkaredY eas zaeal hned v nedeli, tak i nage schtze byla maid; no a k tomu meli v Dallas velkou schtzi od Rolnickeho spolku, a k tomu meli ohlageno, ae tam budou tea mit jaksi zazraene smaaend kurata a jakesi Lute kale, ae v Ennis ho nekoupi — toa to vite, ten na g Ueetni je na to podateny a slouai mu to. Nu, a odhadei, ae kdyby nekde neco bylo spadle neb spadlo, tak ua byli dva. Nu a k tonal chytraci sebrali si sebou pokladnika, no vite, kdyby neco pottebovali. Jenom atesti, ae jel s nimi i na g predseda a ten na to Mute kale neni, a jako predseda da trochu pozor, aby se Zadnemu nic nestalo. 1VInoho se jim v pondeli miuvit nechtelo. Moana ae to zima to udelala. Schtizi jsme odbyli pane u kamen. Nejvic mel prace predseda, neb ten na g organisator, Fr. J. Ha gkovec, vadycky ma pinou kapsu papirn a tak predseda to musk potvrdit, ei vlastne podepsat a vite co to je? Pokaade ma hodne certifikatli pro nove eleny, tak asi ma gtesti, Jen kdya nas pribYva, a zabiraji uprazdena mista. Prod' tolik jich ziskava je, ae nedostanete nikde lep gi vYhody a lacingi jak u nail Texaske Jednoty. A jestli je nekdo, kdo by se chtel pridat k nam, neb vite 0 nekom, tak mu porad'te, neb si promluvte s F. J. Haikovcem, on milerad yam vg e vysvetli jake mame vYhody u nail SPJST. Take zabavni v'bor vas zve na zabavu a to 8. dubna v nedeli, kteri nevite neb neznate zabavni vybor tak se prijd'te na ne podivat zblizka i zdaleka. Bude o vas jak se patti postarano, neb kuchyli mame dost velkou, vie pohodli a co hlavni ho, kucharky se o vas postaraji ae budete spokojeni. Tak nezapomelite na nedeli 8. dubna v narodni sini. Ted' vgak musim yam zclelit a to co bych radeji vicekrat nemusel psat. Jak je yam znamo, ae jsme ztratili jednoho spolubratra Edwina Gureckeho, kterY

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' ad Jaromir &sr° 54, West, Tex. Bratti a sestry a mili etenari Vestniku! Cas utika, ani se nenadame a mesic je skoro prye. V misrule scliuzi jsme prijali zase jednoho Mena, a pak br. Hugo dal navrh, abychom neco Maio, co by na g rad trochu vzpruailo, eili bysme neco Mali, abysme si zvolili nejakY mlad gi vybor, ktery by mel zajem na, neeem a aby nas vzbudil, neb ae mame pies 3 sta e'en& "Zadny nic nedela". Prod? My star gi se nejak do toho neaeneme, no a ti mladi, ti jen kdya maji svoji kart", tak jezdi z jedne zabavy na druhou a o ostatni se nestaraji. Potrebovali bychom nekoho, ko by nas aspon trochu "rozkolebal", ale nevim jestli se nam to podati. Veins ted' budou velikonoce, prod' nernome pro ty naSe male eleny i neeleny v na gem rozsahlem parku neja.kY ten "Easterhunt". Kaada, maminka by s radosti donesla need ku svaoine a velkonoeni vajieka by mohl poskytnout rad, vadyt' by to nebylo tak mnoho, a pak mit spoleenou svaeinu. Jsem jista, ae br. Hugo je ochotn' nam vypomoct, neb pomahal vady co mohl, ale nevim, u nas je gte t yrde spirne, no snad to ptijde. Letos jsou velikonoce velmi skoro a prigte budou v breznu, tu Ira nas hlava bolet nebude, neb breznove velikonoce prijdou jen asi jednou za 40-50 rokfr. A to podasi asi jde s nim, ae nektery den je krasne, az horko, pak zas je takova zima, ae my zde y e strednim Texasu se trepeme jako sulc. Posledni zima asi slizla vgecky kvety, neb bylo citelne zima a tak mame zase po naden, ze bude dost ovoce, a ani ty nage zahradky nevypadaji na jaro, neb co vzejde vetry spali, tak neni ani chuti co sadit. Minuly tYden prijel br. Henry Snapka z Corpus Christi a tekl, ae tam je to jegte horgi, COZ potvrdila i sestra Ben Vanaurova, ktera pkijela zpet z navAtevy z tam odtud. Pan a pi. Fred Grimmovi maji zarmutek, neb jim zemtela nove zrozena dvojeatka, oba ho gici, v kratkern Case za sebou a byli pohrbeni na katolickem hrbitove zde ye West. Vgichni s nimi citi, neb to byli jejich prvorozeni. At' prijmou uprimnou soustrast nas vgech. Asi peed 14 dny byla dopravena vgem znama pi. Anna Klinikova do nemocnice ye Waco a snad ua je ji lepe, coa ji v gichni prejeme. To divne poeasi ma na sve-i domi hodne nemoci, coa neni nic prijemneho. Josefkarn a Josellim uz je pozde prat,1 neb tato prijde do tisku, bude to pryd,1

byl pochovan a jak mi br. Alfons Gurecky zdelil v nedeli, ze kdya jia neni jin gi pomoci, ae budou mit posmrtni bohosluaby za syna Edwina a to ve Velikonoeni nedeli ye 4 hod. odpoiedne v presbyternim kostele v Ennis, kterY se naleza pies ulici od pogty. Proto kdo mutes, prijdi, bez rozdilu, neb nevime co nas take deka, a tim ukaaeme, ae soucitime s na gimi Gureckymi a obzvla gt' bratri a sestry tam ukaaete, jestli to bratrstvi minime doopra.vdy. Tea ukaaeme na gim Amerikg gi sini jak'si spo--nUm,ae/nmvtona lek, nejen tanec, a vette, nerad bych, aby jich byla vetgina. Vgak potom mi povite, kde byla vetgina. Tak nezapomerite na nedeli Velikonoeni ye 4 hod. odpoledne. Ne aukoneim posilam me reline pozdrav a to oeflallas as po Kingsville, Laatm a Mikesktm, nu i trochu Fr. Malinovi na Hochheim, no ja, i na zapad Roweny, take mojim spolubrattim od spolku Ennis Cis. 25 a preji v gem vesele Velikonoce, hodne vajieek malovanYch, a kdo si zaslouai i tatarkem. To tea patti br. redaktoru, ale jen tech vajidek rnalovanYch. S pozdravem, John W. Laaa. Dallas, Texas. Mill etenaki Vestniku! Zde zasilam kvitovani dalgich dartt pro Mouektv fond. Kvitovani darn budu vady zaeinat slovy z metro dopisu ze dne 28. Unora 1951: Sami sobe v teto dobe chceme dati zaklad bratrske shode — budoucimu domovu pro stare eleny. Je me lito, ae nemam dnes mnoho easu na delgi dopis. Na g bratrskY organ Vestnik je &ten no celem Texasu a i v jinYch statech velke nail Unie, tea v Novem Mexiku. Pi. 0. Svobodova pi ge: "Prijmete od nas deset dolarn jako dar na Mouektiv fond, jako vzpominku na na geho tatinka. (P. C. J. Svoboda zemrel v srpnu minuleho roku. Prestehovali se z Dallas do Noveho Mexika.) Je to krasna myglenka a prejeme Vam mnoho Stesti ye Vagem podniku. °be Olgy, maminka a dcera (zesnuleho vzacneho sokola-vlastence). Dcera p. F. Moueky, pi. Chas. J. Zaludek z. Ennis, zaslala za svoji rodinu eek

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na 25 dol., v upominku jejich dralieho tatinka, s ptipstmirri slov vdeenosti pisatelcc. Pan a pani John HernZalovi $5.00 ,na misto kvetin k ucteni pamatky pana Josefa Taborskeho ye Fort Worth, ktery zeIntel 13. btezna. Jeden dolar pi. Skotakova, co2 jsem opcmenula kvitovat v minulem dopisu. Jsme vgichni chybujici. Kdybych zaponiela nekoho jmenovat, prosim o upozornein. Rada chybu opravim. IVIohu yam s pote genim oznamit, Ze nedeli 18. btezna odevzdam svoji dosavadni sbirku na Mouektv fond, 150 dol., br. Ed. Markovi, ptedsedovi Hlavni irtacl 0 vny. IVIam ze slibneho poeatku radost a vZdy v kteroukoliv dobu ptispeyky vase Mut. 0 jedno vas, bratti a sestry, prosim: Pomahejte slovy i skutky stavet a dilo nage zdarne bude pokraeovat. A ne hned v poeatcich stavet pfekaZky. Nikdo nevi nucen na to ptispet, jsou to dary dobrovolne. Vice o torn pozdeji. Dosavadnim darc-am vzdavam uptimne cliky a take vgem za slova uznani platici me osobe. V gein varn: Zaplat' Pan Bah! S pozdravem vgem etenditim, Bogena Valeikova. )

V2STNiK— WEST, TEXA13

Ve stkedu, dne 21. bkezna 1951.

svem pasobigti, jak se ptemenuje to oko- vaneho elena pozbyl sve platnosti, jak li kde calve stavaly lesy, pastevniky aneb stanovy naznaeuji. ornice, ve vystavne obYvaci domky, vilky, Znal jsem osobrie tohoto elena a celou obchody a mrakodrapy. Za mojeho 401e- jeho rodinu od jeho detstvi, kde na farteho elenstvi v Jednote SPJST jsem east° me pH. Temple to Zivobytieko v potu tvetvial a znal tak etakove eleny zlYm osu- ti dobYvali. Tento ne gt'astnik tu byl dem zmitane, kterYm se nedostavalo tech Corpus Christi dojety minuly podzim v finanenich prosttedkir pohotove na eas zati neb tijnu, kde jsem jej nahodou posi ty mesieni popiatky u tadu zapravit. tkal, pti eemZ se mi svetil, Ze jest dlouho Take byli u takovYch tada eleni dobte uZ bez prate na,sledkem zneschopneni. situovani, starousedlici, kteti byli u ves- Mel nehodu, zlamal si nohu. Ptijel sem la a jak to asi v gude obyeejne bYva, Ze hledat domek, kterY chtel pronajat, aby kdy2 sami nepocit'ovali v tu chvili nedo- se tu s rodinou mohl nastehovat a pak si statek, tak nemeli cit aneb porozumeni nejakou praci obstarat. Nechci se vme govat do zalelitosti po pro ty co se jim hmotne — majetkove nedostavalo u tadu se yeas vyrovnat. kterYch by mi snad nic nebylo, ale take Pevne stall na vymaliani stanov, plat' a- nemohu v mysli pikes to jen takvtejit, bych na pravern miste nepoukazal na to neb budeC yylouden. Nynej gi elanek 99 opravenYch stanov jak velice podpory pottebni tito pozastali a ptijate XV. sjezdem 1948 ve Fort Worth po br. John Hrriovi by byli vdeeni nagim dava, jen do 30 dna easu, po 30ti dnech vYkonnYm irtednikam a cele Jednote za to, Ze je tato nalezla ye chvili neptiprajest samoeinne suspenclovan. Uznavam Ze stanovy nemohou vyhovo- vene, zlYm osudem stihane a kde jejich vat kaZdemu zvlaSt' a Ze se maji dodr2o- Zal a bol byl by easteene zmirnen. vat. Ale stava se tak v gude a IMy? Ony Odeptit pomoc v tomto ptipade, jenZ jsou sestavene tak jako ty na ge statni jest snad jedineanYm toho druhu, bylo by kony. velkym zklamanim pro ty uezaopattene Otevite zakonik, listujte, na prvni a trpici bez jejich viny, by nesli ve syYch strance zavede nas to dovnitt zakon.a. srdcich hotkost a odpor k tomu, k demu2 Kdy2 vgak listujeme na posledni strap.- jejich Zivitel po deli eas naleZel a byl hrce, tak nas to vyvede z toho zakona yen. dym nad spolkem, kde mei nejake aspoV ZEMI DOLARU. Prot toto uvadim jest jen maid ukaz- ry slolene pro sve mile v neoeekavanem ivotni certifikat nema friladnou hod- ka v torn easovem spolkateni, ktereho ti- neg testi. Byla by to gpatna, reklama pro notu? sice na geho lidu pracujiciho se stalo ele- ziskavani novYch elena, kdyZ by se zde ObyeejnY papirovY dolar, byt' by byl ny z jejich dobre yule. Z lasky k eeskYm nemela stall naprava. Tento ptipad jest ti'eba i zmaekan a u gpinen skoro k ne- spolkam, kde nalezli anebo naleznout velice ktiklavY. poznani, jeho hodnotu pozname dle jeho chteli to po dem jejich nitro prahlo a Take jen tak z nechapavosti mimochotouZilo, by v torn labyrintu sveta nagli dem zminku o dal gich dvou ptipadech nevYtisku. Za timto stoji na ge vlada neboli narod porozumeni, osve2eni a povzbuzeni mysli. mohu si srovnat, to jest: 2aclost od Dr. 2e chti delat dobte v neptedvidanYch Henry Maresh a Dr. Jan M. Sktivanek v teto zerne co zaruka platidla. Jestli vlada dobte hospodati, cena tech- ptipadech, nepti gli vetejnosti na obt12. zajmu podpoteni odboru slovanskYch jaAby ti jeho neb jeji mili pozastali ne- zyku na Houstonske universite pololena to ,papirkii stoupa. Naopak, promrha-li se sumy do neobmezenYch vY gi, na pti- octli se ye finananich nesna.zich, kdy2 na stul z drivodu Ze jen sjezd je °pra y jest Zivitel neb Zivitelka odvolan, tam kde klacl ptitonine, kde vydani piesahuje -nepovlitkmupoebnY s. jem, pak tyto papirky se stavaji mene- vg em jest vymeten stejny dil to pridy pro Koupit ale vstupenek na cirkus pro cennYmi a vezme to celou hrst' new tim v2dy bez rozdilu, jak jsme ji kdo a mot gkolni deti za $91.80 u2 nebylo tteba sjezuplatit nebo nakoupit. Ale v geci je mame za sveho Zivota vlastnili. doveho povoleni. ra-di neb jest to nase platidlo pottebne v Dosti east° ye schazich jsem se zastaVim, Ze jsme vgeci chybujici a moZna to nasi existence. U2 je to takovy pene2- val takovYch elenri, kterYm hrozilo su- Ze dnes zase chybim, Ze toto pi gi, ale ptinisystem a on to vyZaduje a my si nan spendovani a vyloneeni pro neplaceni znam se, Ze kdy2 jsem svoje chyby, ktere mesienich poplatka, a hajil ponejvice ta- jsem dela,1 sam, nevidel a nokdo me na na,Vykli a osvojili. Za, nagimi Zivotnimi certifikaty zase kovYch, kteti z raznYch ptiein nepti gli do ne poukazal, byl jsem mu za to vcleeny a stoji zvoleni ritednici, vYkonna mot a! schtze, v ktere se o jejich zalelitostech hledel naptigte se vyhnout opakovani elenstvo co zaruka. Vklady nasttadane I v jejich neptitomnosti jednalo. tech samYch chyb. temi, kteti by snad -jinak nebyli vstavu Je gte dnes jest mnoho tech, co za jeNage srdeeko nekdy sami dobte neznadat dohromady, jak stati gettilove to jich celoZivotniho elenstvi u Jednoty SP me, neb ono podleha, tomu venkovnimu JST nevystihli ten pravY smysl slov Pod- vlivu jak kdo nan umi zaatoeit. jirienovali, Uspory vdov a sirotkii. Nekteti cely Zivot jen Zivoti a tech jest pora, Lidskost a Bratrstvi, ktere na gi ZaUmele vyvodenYm lichocenim div by vagina v torn slzavem udoli, kde osudem kladatele uvedli do gtitu vedle zakladni- nam z prsou nevyskoeilo radosti. Vzplajsa zmitani se konec koncii vzdaji nade- ho kapitalu. ne a odmekei se. Vlivna, osoba vi na kteje na lengi postaveni — zbohatnuti. SnitPei Oteni zapiska. schaze HI. idadovny rou strunu uhodit. Ozvena mohia bYti se tim co maji okolo sebe, byt' jen tech nine trochu trkio nasledujici: kratka, ale za to vYnosna. radio nekolik sten a strop nad hlavou. Tajemnik oznamil, Ze jistY Glen kterY Vy vSlchni bratti a sestry, co znate sloTake jsou zde obyvatele, kteti snad mi- byl suspendovan, spachal za dva tYdny va a napev pishe "Hej Slovane", zopamo gatstva a nejakeho ustlani nemaji co po suspendaci sebevraZdu a dedici se hla- kujte si to slova, spivat nemusite, jen se bylim jineho ptebyvalo a tu nekdy s iio vyplaceni pojistky. Bylo usne geno ti- zamyslete co ta slova pro nas znamenaji, tosti, jindy ze zavistr rozhli21 se v tom chYm souhlasem, Ze certefikat suspendo- a kdy2 pochopime jejich yYznam, &me

Ve stiedu, dne 21, biezna 1951. pak vSechny spolueleny co radi zpivaji, ale pisen "Hej Slovane" se dosud nenanein proto, Ze jsme byli nedbali ueit se naporad. Portistale rodine timto vyslovuji uptimne citenou soustrast nad odchodem jejich mileho zesnuleho elena rodiny a mojeho spolkoveho bratra Jana Hrna. Po boji ktery jsi protlelaval mezi, nami, Ti pieji klidneho odpodinku a necht' Best' zustari Tvoji pamatce. S bratrskYm pozdravem na v gecky etenafe Vestniku zUstava vas John Sta a ) • 4, • ( Svaz Ceehoslovanil cis. 92. Fort Worth, Texas. iii bratti a sestry! 1VIam yam oznarnit, to nas tad potada velkou taneoni zabavu na Velikonoeni necieli, zadatek v 8 hodin veeer. Vgichni jste srdeene zvani a ptivedte vase ptatele a zname. Take timto zveme celou krajanskou osadu zdej gi 1 z okoli, ptijd'te se pobavit a zatodit si pfi vYborne eeske hudbe J. R. 13aeove. Vgichni jste nam radi vas uvidime. V nedeli ye schfizi jsem nebyla, jsem se dobie necitila a ani dnes mi neni do psani, ale povinnost vola, tak alespon paru iddlcu Tak nevim co melt ye schazi, ale vzdy je neco k vytizeni. Bylo mi sdeleno, Ze br. Rud. Chaloupka. upadl asi pied 14 dny a roz gtipil si kost' v noze, tak Ze ted' must leZet a nohu ma v sadte. Piejeme mu v gichni, by se noha brzy zahojila a byl zase zdravY jako citive. Pfeji vgem vesele svatky velikonoeni a hodne malovanYch vajieek. S.pozdravem, M. Juranova, dopisovatelka. ) 4, Guy, Texas Mill bratti a se.stfieky! Dnes je schfize SPJST, kdyz se ji nemohu sueastnit, tak se davam do psani a vzpominam na stare davne easy, s jakou radosti jsem oeekavala druhou nedeli v mesici, kdy se tehdy vzdy schtize konaly. Rano v nedeli jsem vstala oasne zade-' lat na buchty nebo kolaee, abych je upekla do ob6cla Ph tom se honem v ge uklidilo. abed byl zatim hotovY, a P o nem uZ zas honem hodit na sebe nejake kartounove gaty, tot' se vi parady moc nebylo, a jelo se do sclifize. Obyeejne neZ se v geci eleni segli, tak jsme zametali sifi; o plat za to jsme se nikdy nehlasili. Schtize byla vzdy cetne navAtIvena a veseld. Pied schfizi jsme si vzdy zazpivali: K dilu, bratfi, pro zdar tadu, bratrstvi rid' prace beh! Spojme pill, srdce, rozum svate veci na prospech! Vineseny na'g flee!, bratti, no dsentm nam naphi hrud',

V t S TNIK— WEST, TEXAS ye slibu si ststijme pevne, nagim seslem Lidskost bud'! Nota je k ni jako: Zasvit' mi ty slunko zlate! Po schtizi jsme si zase zazpivali pisen: Bratrstvi nas k sobe vine a nas pop v mocny kruh. Zleheena ne g testi tine, kdyZ pomaha, druhu druh. Pr Jednote verne stujme, navzajem se podporujme, Tot' SPJST duch, tot' SPJST duch. Tyto pisne i noty naspal Dr. J. A. Pazdral, ale tato pisefi je teZ na notu. "Nad Berounkou pod Tetinem". 12. a 13. melt jsme zde potadnou zimu, vAecko v zahradce zmrzlo, myslirn Ze i korn a bavina, ktera byla venku zmrzla. MinulY tyden byl operovan br. Jan H. Waleik Gaud na slepe sttevo v nemocnici ye Wharton, Tex. Slygela jsem, Ze bude brzo zdrav, cot jernu v gichni ptejem. 11. biezna mne nav gtivili i Mikesky maidele Mojmir Truksa s manzelkou Ellou z Alvin. Radi jsme je uvicleli a potegila jsem se s nimi. Take nas navgtivili manZele Eversalovi. Je to zet' Mikeskilv, a manZele Jos. E. Mikeska a ciceru gky Betty a Naomi, a manZele Ludvik Surovcovi, tez zet' MikeskovYch a tieetriik tadu Cis. 112. SPJST. -Vg em path nag dik za navgtevu. Take vzporninam, ze 18. biezna budou tomu dva roky co zemtel mfij mantel Fr. Truksa, tak vzpoininam. te2, Ze 22. brezna budou tomu dva roky, co jsem se pitstehovala z Alvin zpet na Guy k synovi J. H. Mikeskovi a jeho mile manZelce Pauline. Jegte main smutnou vzpominku, to 25. btezna zemtela moje cicera Rozi Vrlova r. 1944. Onehdy rano zde pies Guy letely divoke husy a zanechaly manZ'etarn Fr. Sweeny chlapeeka. Br. Josef Zeman ma radost, to je zase prastatiekem. Sestram Rozi Valkove z Need.ville a ses. Anne Svestkove z Houstonu mockrat dekuji, Ze mne potegily a daly zahrat na radiove stanici Ceske v Rosenberg, Tex. Rozi Mikeska-Truksa. Na zdar! ) • 4 (

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RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI. My, niZepsany resolueni vYbor Mau Ennis eislo 25 v Ennis, Texas, vyslovujeme jmenem radu uptimnou soustrast rodiearn nad ztratou jejich jedineho syria a nageho spolubratra Edwina GureckV, kterY poloZil jeho mlady tivot jako vojin armady SpojenYch state v boji v daleke cizine, Koreji, za nas a za svo'i vlast, dne 30. listopadu 1950. Vy powastali rocliee, budi- Varn daste nou atechou, Ze i my elenove tadu ye VA tem zarmutku s Vatni soucitime, a 'robe bratte piejeme tichY spanek. Resoluoni vYbor: F. B. Vila, F. J. Hag -kovec,L.JKudrna.

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RESOLUCE SOUSTRASTI. My, niZepsanY resolueni vYbor kadu Ennis 'Oslo 25 v Ennis, Texas, vyslovujeme flak upiimnou soustrast cele rodine nad ztratou jejich matky a na gi dlouholate spolusestry Rosie Lukga, ktera zemtela dne 13. btezna 1951 v Ennis, Texas, a byla pochovana na Myrtle hibitove dne 15. biezna za hojneho stenstvi pkittel a znamYch. Spolusestra byla jednou z tech nejstarAich elenkyri nageho tadu. Vy pozfistale ditky a dal gi rodino, pitjmete nagi uptimnou soustrast, a Tobe spolusestro budiZ zeme lehka. Resolueni vYbor: F. B. Vrla, F. J. Hag -kovec,L.JKudrna. ) 4, • (

Demokracie jest posud hrulaY, bpi velmi hrubY material, ph jeho tiprave k lepgimu melo by se muoho piemy glet o tom, zda neeemu bychom se piece nepiiueili u dob clavno minulYch a 'east° pauVydrel na galne dnes odsuzovanYch, nepochopenYch. Mne se zda, to jste jaldiv nepracoval. * To se mYlite. Ja jsem vydrZel patnact let na jednom imste. Jediny skutek dobrY vice moudrosti A prof jste z Who mista odchazel? kazuje na oloveku, net tisic slov krasnSrdi 13y1 jsem omilostnen. be skutkil. * 'Akar: Musite se v geho vystiihati, co by NeZnY otec k deeti: "Teti nine, ze ti me.? vas mohlo rozoiliti, alkoholu, tabaku, za- hu oznamiti, ze mladY Plechaeek potadal bavy za tvoji ruku." Pacient: Vy jste dobrY, doktore. Uz toDcera: "Ale tatinku, ja bych se jeae to vase natizeni mne rozoiluje tak, ie se nerada odlouCila od maminky." oba,vam nejliorgiho. Otec: "Neboj se.Tu si mutes vzit sebou. '

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ZE ZUKENOST/ WILADEHO KNEZE V AMERICE (Poznamka redakce: Zde otiAtenou povidku zaslala sestra Anna Svitakova, elenkyne tadu Fort Worth Oslo 154 s ptipisem.) CtenY bratte redaktore: Pteji Vam a vSem potadatelrim Vestniku mnoho zdaru ye vati praci. Myslim, bratte redaktore, Ze Vas budou miti etenaii tak ra,di jako bratra redaktora Mouaku. BudiZ' mu zeme lehka a svetlo y eene at' mu sviti, at' odpodiva, v pokoji. Oetla jsem ve Vestniku, Ze si piejete uvetejniti, jak 2ili lide v Arnerice pted lety. Tedy jsem yysttihla tuto povidku z kalenciate stareho asi 25 let, tolik se mi libi, a jestli uznate za dobre ji uveiejniti, doufani Ze se bude i etenaftm libit. MoZna ze bych jeSte neco na ga, kdybyste si Srdeene zdravim ctenou redakci a vSecliny etouci, Anna Svitakova. V lakeznu roku 192? byl jsem ustanoyen faratem v male eesko-irsko-nemecke osade v N. Doposud tam stalY knez nebydlel. Jsa po nemoci, byl jsem poslan ndp. biskupem do N. abych si odpodinul na malou tou venkovskou osadu, kde pry na eerstvem vzduchu moje nervy sesili. erstveho vzduchu site bylo dosti, ale krome . toho bylo vteho jineho poskrovnu. Bytam hodni lide a dosud vzpominam na clobre ony rodiny, ktere me mely rady. Skoda, Ze jich bylo tak mai°. Byli tam i takovi katolici, Ze se mne odvaZili do oei tici: "A co pak Vam to napadlo zde se usaditi. To bylo dost dobre, kdy2 jednou za 14 dni knez sem doji2del." A kdy2 jsem je prosil, aby mi dali v kratne jejich residenci jednu svetnieku do to doby bych se permanentne nekde usadil f ara, tam dosud nebyla — tu me odbyli. Vymlouvali se, Ze nemaji mista, ze otec neni zdrav atd. JednoduSe nechteli me. AZ koneene jedna nemecka rodina na farme — po 14 dennim shaneni se po byte, se nade mnou smilovala a ve sve krasne residenci mne poskytla pokoje, ye kterYch jsem faratoval vice ne2 rok. Byli ku mne velmi ptivetivi. Nebyl to site vyhodnY byt pro kneze. Byl jsem vice ne2 mill od kostela — a ty hrozne Ca sto cesty! Dale pak rodina byla eetna. Meli 6 nedospelYch cleti a aby dobra aria, pani nernela se mnou mnoho prace, jedl jsem s nimi u stolu. Misto pti stole bylo rime vykazano vedle eeledina, kterY mnoho na zevnejSek nedbal a casto r z chleva rovnou cestou zasedl ke stolu. Vyrostl jsem sice na farme, ye Skolach Vaal< jsem uz davno odvykl na to — farmatske zlato — a bylo nine to ko ptivykati, V residenci melt klavir a tak, kdy'2 mne bylo sr-nutria, zasedl jsem si k nemu, za-

Skuteend udalost. Napsal dp. V. Dostal.

Ja vSak jsem nikdy ono jmeno neslySel. enu onu neznam! bydli 7 mil od N. hral si a zazpival a smutek pteSel. Velmi u teky . . . krasna ieka protekajici od zapadu k vY8e1 jsem vzbuditi hospodate. Snad on chodu naSim statem vabila mne east° ke bude vedeti. svYm brehum. Venoval jsern se rybateni. "Je tam u teky stark K. Ale tomu neV romantickem ridoli east() sam a sam Ze by kneze potteboval. Tam vas na btehu ieky se kochaje krasnou ptiro- neznaji. A ostatne poekejte a rano. Podou vzpominal jsern na studijni doby, tom se intiZeme pteptati, co a jak." kdyZ" jsem se ptipravoval na sta y knei "Nikoliv Ja tam musim skY. Ani ye snu me nenapadlo, Ze za ta- Pakli ona Zena chce kneze, tak je s ni kovYch primitivnich okolnosti nastoupim velmi zle. Jinak by mne v noel nevolali." svoji prvni pastYtskou einnost. Jeliko2 "Ale jclete, velebnY pane, spat. Kdo by rnissionati v Africe maji horai okolnosti, tam nyni v noci, za tmy jel . .Ja . tomu uspokojil jsem se a nereptal jsem. nevetim, Ze by tam byl nekdo ngnocnY. Kolem. teky je rovina, ktere se v kraji- Kdosi vas tam chce tteba yylakati. Vite, ne to 1'110. "river bottom". Na teto rovine holinkati na River Bottom vas radi nemeli postavene chatree lide, kteti nemeli maji. Radim f-am, abyste se set vyspat. tu nejlepAi povest. Byli to "holinkali" a Rano dost easu. Vy tam cestu neznate a "masidkati", kterYrn bylo nejlepe se vy- nikdo s vami tam ted' nepojede. Ja aspoti hnouti i ye dne i v noci. JIZ pied prohibi- ne, ani za nic na svete. JeSte, aby mne ci bylo zde nekolik zahadnYch vraZed a tam nekde zabili a do teky vhodili. Ne ptichodem prohibice "river bottom" stalo bych nejel za nic." se kraloystvrin v kralovstvi, kde platil je"Ja ale musim a pojedu," tekl jsem nom zakon: Kdo z koho. ozhodne. Jednou na kazani nerozvabie jsem za8e1 jsem se ustrojiti, vzal !Sem si tatku, vadil o tyto zalesaky a nazval jsem je ye ktere warn vklycky vSe nutne ptiprahanbou celeho okoli. Byl jsem upozornen veno k zaopattovani. A vySel jsem yen. hned, abych vicekrate se o nich nezmino"Ale co2 kdyby to piece byla lest, aby val, Ze by mne "nedali pokoj". Co by v o- mne tam vvylakali?" pomyslil jsem si. becne mluve znamenalo, ze by si to se Vratil jsem se zpet do loZnice, otevtel mnou sami vypotadali mezi etykrna al- zasuyku u stolku, vyrial jsem revolver a ma. I oni ktovaci sami se nechali slytet, streil do kapsy. Moje sestra, ktera, byabych prY si hledel sveho Panbieka a o ne la navStevou u mne, chtela za kaklou cese nestaral, sic bude zle. Uznal jsem tedy nu pustiti se se mnounacestu. Jeji sesterza dobre ne ySimati si na kazatelne oby- ske srdce asi citilo, Ze mne bude o samovatelstva "River bottom". Snad nekomu te za podobnYch okolnosti pii nejrnenSim povolanejaimu podati se, Ze ptivede tyto smutno. Odmitl jsem jeji dobrou zloeince na cestu pravou. S lucernou v ruce Sel jsem do staje zaTolik jako iivod a vysvetleni ku poroz- pkahnout starou eernou kobylu. Bylo to umeni udalosti, kterou vam chci vypra dobre zvite. Zaptahl jsem a jel sem do kostela pro NejsvetejAi svatost. Yeti. — Bylo po pal noel, vSude tak ptiterne tiBylo to v bteznu r. 192? — Jaro cho a hluboka tma noeni. StarY zamek u • Z ztratil dose ji2 o sire pravo. Snih se ji cela, potoky byly pine vod, ledove kry dveti kostelnich zasktipal; i ten sktipot pluly po potocich a tekach. Robin, prvni pouhY u techto dveti na mne divne prisoptak jara, jiZ" hiedal Zilaly v mokre pride bil. A v kostelieku smutne ticho! Veena — a venkovske rozbtedle cesty byly v lampa blikala a matne ozato yala °Rat. V sakristii potme nahmatal jsem zapalku, nejhorSim stavu. Krie g i lekati vedi, tenkrate bude nekdo nemocen a jsou pti- po pa.meti natel jsem klie od svatostanku. Potom rozsvitil jsem d ye svice, otevtel praveni, aby jeden lecii du g a druhY Oast() se u nemocneho setkavaji a lekak, svatostanek a vzal Eucharistii. Jak vroucne jsem se modlil: "0 Sanepakli je gentleman, vady upozorriuje kne. " v teto noeni hoze, aby SO nap ped. Vi on dobte, ze easto rum Convivium .. . nemocnernu se ulehei odchodem sluhy dine Kostel zase uzameen a ja,•()pet v koearPane, kterY upokojil duSi nernocneho. Bylo po prilnoci, kdy2 nekdo me volal ku na blative ceste Ne! Jit ne dun! Mane vzpomol jsem si na Dvotakovu telefonem. lined jsem si pomyslil, 2e asi nine chteji k nemocnemu. Neznamy, so- biblickou pisen a tite jsem zapel: "Nebutva slySitelny hlas me Zadal, abych lined du se bati zleho, nebot' Ty se mnou jsi...." ptiSel zaopattit Mrs. K. "A kdo je Mrs. Byla tmava noc. Dosud jsem nepomYjak sam najdu chatre, ye ktere ma K.? Kde bydli?" "U teky na "River Bot tom". — Pak telefonicke spojeni bylo pte- byt umirajici Aena K. Snad a2 dojedu nekam dolkk tece, zastavim se a zeptam ruSeno a vice jsem se nic nedozvedel. Stara kobyla 'Oa valnYm krokem. BlaMrs. K. umira a chce kneze!

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to bylo mnoho a proto na rychlou jizdu Tenkrate jsem povatoval P. B. za sofistu. Iii totiz podobny brloh svetnici lze nazvanebylo ani porny gleni. PtijiZdel jsem zpet Dnes ale klonim se rozhodne k jeho na.- ti. Na stolku byla maid lampieka se zak farme, memu domovu, a kobyla se po- ZOT11. eazenym cylindrern. Trvalo to nekolik jednou zastavila. Mela lep gi, zrak neZ jd. Byli jsme ptipraveni na v ge. Tma byla minut, neZ jsem se v torn brlohu rozhledl. Neco uvidela a bala se. Nekdo gel pegky velika, suche vetve praskaly pod naSirn Vgak nastojte! Na zemi brlohu leZel zase proti nam. Tit i ja jsem videl jeho po- koearkem. Ujell jsme tak asi dve mile. nekdo. stavu. Cesta Sim dale tim vice byla neschildnej"To je syn toho v kuchyni! Te2 spitY," "Kdo to," ptam se. gi. Kfifi nekolikrate klopYtnul, az konee- vysvetloval mne neznamY. V koute stala "Father, to jsem ja.," uslyg el jsem zria- ne zastavil a nechtel dale. Co se stalo? stard, dtevend postel a tam leZela my hlas liospodate. "ena mne delala vy- Snad nekdo pled nami . . Mfij prilvodce rajici. eitky, ze jsem vas poslal sameho. A je to pudove pustil °Prate, vzal nabitou pugku "Vtahnete toho opilce do kuchyne," popravda. Kde pak v talcove tale midete do rukou a vystoupil z kooarku. Ptikreil rucil jsem. Vzali ho za nohy a vyvlekli osam. Pojedu s va,mi." se a popogel pled kone. Oekal jsem kat- pilce yen. Chtel jsem s nemocnou zUstati Oddechnul jsem si z hluboka a do smr- dou chvili, Ze nekdo vystleli. Trapne ti- sam. ti nezapomenu s jakou radosti jsem mu cho vgak pleru gil hlas meho pravodce: Zavtel jsem dvele. Stuchlinovy zapach ucielal misto vedle sebe v koearku. "Father, dale nemaeme. Pled nami je zkateneho vzduchu byl odporny. Rozrny"Co jste to s sebou ptinesl?" ptal jsern zde rozvodneny potok a ptes ten kiln glel jsem se, kam dati bursu se sv. Hostli. se kdy2 on klacll mezi pas jakYsi pted- narn nepajde!" Na Atesti mel jsem v male take klIlek, met. Slezl jsem, abych si prohledl situaci. svieku a svicen, pak eistY ubr4sek. Sta"Vzal jsem si dvojku. Snad ji budem Skuteene! Potok, ptes ktery se obyeejne re hadry jsem se stolu shodil na zem, roApottebovati." Potom, farmat chytil opra- pohodlne plejelo, byl rozvodnen a kone prostfel eisty ubrousek, svici rozsvitil, ktiZek postavil a s prsou sisal bursu. te do rukou a voila Ze z ficty k Velebne pobizeti by byvalo marnYm. Co ted'? "Musirne zpet, tam se nedostanem,' "Pane jeligi, odpust', Ze tak ubohy zde svatosti nema se na kneze mluviti, nemag stanek! VZclyt' snad v hor gim miste promluvil. Jedine pobizel stare zvite k rozhodne minil rntj prilvodce. Zdalo se jiZ, Sc cesta na ge byla marnou. jsi se narodil." Ptistoupil jsem k posteli. rychlej gimu cvalu. "Jak 'name je gte daleko?" ptam se. "Co vas boll? oslovil jsem nemocnou. Co to myglenek pleletelo mou hlavou! "Asi pal druhe mile, ale coZ je to plat- Chtel jsem ptisednouti k posteli. AZ teprCesta trvala diouho, skoro pal druhe hodiny neZ jsme odboeili z hlavni cesty k ne, ted' se tam nedostaneme," znela od- ve nyni jsem z‘pozoroval, Ze nemocna neni pii vedomi. Dal jsem rtiku na jeji eero. lesu. Zde jsem jiz docela byl neznaznY. A poveci'. "Ja, se tam dostanu. Poekejte na mne Mdla hroznou horeeku. Lekl jsem se, Se je coZ teprve kdyZ jsme zajeli do lesa! Jen ftzka cesta, huste kfovi s obou strait Ted' zde," pravil jsem a neZ maj prfivodce jiZ snad pozde. Piece ale po del gi chvili se jsem teprve poznal jak nezbytne jsem pa- mne mohl zaditeti, byl jsem po pas ve mne podatilo ptivesti nemocnou k sobe. voile. Nekolik krokil a acitl jsem se na Anglicky dobte neumela. Mluvila, nemetleboval sveho pravodce. druhe strane. Byla to studena lawn. Z cky a koneene me tekla, ze je Polka. Vza"Father, mate sebou revolver?" druhe strany maj spoleenik huboval. la si pled lety Nemce K., ptistehovali se "Mam," odpovedel jsem. "Toto je rozum. Indyt' to jde o Zivot." sem a zapadli zde. Ma se opijel a syn tk. "Vezmete si jej z kapsy, a bud'te na A1e ja jsem neposlouchal. Rychlou cht- Vge propili, tak Ze mail jen tu chatre. Levge ptipraven. Ja nemohu °prate v jedne &la j z pies tyden nemocna. Nikdo ji ne ruce drZeti, kdyby ale bylo zle, tak opra- zi snail jsem se zahtati. "Poekejtel" volal na me milj pravdce. ogettoval. Z postele nevstala 115 nekolik ti pustim a vezmu pugku. Dejte pozor, je Uvazal kone ke stromu a nasledoval me- dni. Mela zapal plic. U svatosti nebyla nabita." Naslouchal jsem. Nevim co bych bYval ho ptikladu. Mel ale del gi nohy, tak voila iota jiZ, do kostela nechodila. MuZ nebyl ueinil. Nikdy jsem nebyl plepaden a pro- mu nedogla, az po pas. Sli jsme pak vedle katolik. ta nevim, jak bych chladnokrevne si bY-- sebe bez keel. Vodka v botech gplouchala AS s namahou piece se skrou g ene vyval poeinal. Byli jsme v gak ptipraveni na a bylo mne zima. Z lesa vy gli jsme na mY- zpovidala: Upozornil jsem ji, Se je Sas, aobranu. Okolnost dela, hrdinu, kdyZ jde tirm a pled nami v loll kmitalo jakesi by se plipravovala na smrt' Bylo ji to elovekovi o Zivot anebo o zivot bliZniho, slabe svetelko. Za, nekolik minut rychle jedno. "Lep gi smrt', neZ takovy bidny Zitu 'east° elovek proveden ein hrdinnY, a chtze dogli jsme k chatroi. Pes tval na vot." Ptipravil jsem ji na svate pfijimanit by si si byl toho vedom. 61ovek, kdyZ pas z daleka. Dvele chatree se otevtely a ni. Uboha. Mela oci pine slz, cela se chvela. Probudila se v ni slovanska vetici dukona odvany skutek, nema easto mnoho kclosi vykl vstfic s lucernou. dasu k plemYgleni. Jsou to okolnosti, ve Neznamy s lucernou nas plivital a chtel Se. Vetila v pfitomnost Toho, jea ji akterYch se naleza, ktere jej pobadaji k se dati se mnou do teei, ja v gak gel hned pugtenou pligel posilniti na cestu do veapoeinani east° hrdinnemu. Je pravdou, do chatrde. Zde svetla nebylo, nebot' je- nosti. Ruka se mi chvela, kdyZ jsem ji poa zbabelec zhstane zbabelcem a nic nedo- dine svetlo chatrae, lucernu, mel onen daval Tel° Pane. kale. Avgak, kdyby nebylo okolnosti, ne- neznamY venku. Plilil jsem se pies ma"0 sacrum Convivium . . . o posvatna bylo by odvanych a hrdinnYch elm). a lou kuchyliku chteje jit dale, ale ve tme hostina, pti nit se paiva Kristus, obnonebylo by hrdint. klopytl jsem o neco na zemi. Lee potom vuje se pamatka jeho. umudeni, mysl Parnatuji si jak jsem za s yYch student- ihned za mnou pti gel onen neznamy s na,pinuje milosti a budouci slavy se "un. skYch let o tomto ptedmetu debatoval s lucernou a tu jsem videl, Ze klopYtnul ukazuje ptikla.d. mym farafern P. B., ktery mne dokazoval, jsem o lidske telo. Na zemi leZel stargi "Udelirn vam nyni posledni pomazani," ma jako mrtvY. Snad vraZda. lined mne pravil jsem k nemocne. Zapoeal jsem se Ze neni na svete velikant. svatYm obtadem, kdyZ tu usly girn v ku"Ssou to jen okolnosti do kterYch Pro- neco podolmeho napadlo . . Tazave pahledl jsem na neznameho. chyni hlasitY rozhovor. Dvefe se otevlely ztetelnost Bo'Mica zavedla jiste jednotlivce," minil farat. Ti pak jsou nuceni jed- Ten me pochopil a vysvetloval: "Toho a vousaty start' K., rint nernocne, kteri nati, kdyZ jednaji zbabele, tu jich odsu- nechte. Ten je mungajnem spit*. ena je se mezitim z opice probral, potacel se dovnitt. Ti druzi jej sice chteli zadrSeti, ale zujernc, kclyZ si odvane poeinaji, vynik- v druhe svetnici, ale je bez sebe." Pfekroeil jsern opilce a otevfeI jsem on piece chtel dovnitt, aby videl co se denou. JinS v[;ak na jejich mi,ste prave tak odvane si poeinal, tfeba i advaneji. dvete do male, nizouelce svetnieky pak- je. Vytte gtil na me blbe spite °di a chtel

Strama nine vyruSovati, ja ptisne jsern mu porueil, aby byl zticha a aby si kleknul. Uposlechl. VSichni si klekli. Stary ale piece nebyl spokojen. DoSoural se zpet do kuchyne a na, opileho syna volal nernecky a kopnul ho pti tom: "Vstari ty velkY vole, pojd' se mocllit." Byl jsem brzy hotov. Pomodlil jsem se modlitbu za tnirajici, ktera zase byla jiZ v. bezvedomi. Slibil jsem onomu neznanieniu, ze poSlu tam rano nektere nase osadnice, aby chuderu oeistily a pteylekly. Sli jsme zpet zase, jako Kristus Pan kdysi lakes Ceclron, pteSli jsme rozvodneny potok. Kdyt jsme se doma dostali bylo ji2 rano. SlouZil jsem ihned za ubohou ni;3i svatou a pak telefonoval jsem na dye milosrdne osadnice, aby Sly vykonat skutek milosrdenstvi. Byl jsem prornrzlY a na radu domacich jsem si lehl a brzy jsem usnul. Kdy2 jsem se probudil, bylo ji2 po poledni. Domaci nine yypravovali, ze trpitelka brzy po nasera odchodu zemiela. Veciel jsem, ze nikdo o politeb se starati nebude a proto za,volal jsem telefonem na pohrobnika, aby tam zavezl rakev. sadnice ony milosrdne nine potom vypravovaly, v jakern ubohem neeistem stavu mrtvola, se nalezala. Jen kdy2 due bysvata! Pohrobnik pak nine yypra.voyal, jak stars K. - opilY, samo sebou se rozumi -- viezl ci hued do to male postele, odvynal mrtvolu, aniZ by ltiud postel byvala oeistena. Pry brzy pohodlne clarapal, kde pied (Alvin byla mrtvola je ho zeny. Jakym zviietcnt se stave elovek alkoholik! Polifbili jsme mrtvou slavne. Stary K. neprisel. MladY piisel, ne sice do kostela, ale na htbitov. Mnoho si z toho nedelal, ze mu matka unitela. 6ekal u hrobu, kcly2 jsme s rakvi ptichazeli. "Je ti take zima?" ptal se mne lhostejne. "Modli se a ted' keei nech", napominal jsem jej. Bylot' mrazivo a posledni sniZek poletoval. Hrobat pak hrob zahazel. -OpuStenY onen hrob je dnes asi travou ripine zarostlY, a hlasa do sveta, jakYm hnusnYrn zpusobein trha pouta rodinne !risky ten d'abelsky alkohol. ) 4 Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ctena redakce a mill atenati: JiZ mnulY tYden jsem chtel napsati dopis do Oechoslovaka, ale nevedel jsem jak do toho. Jake obyeejne br. Vytopil mi vytrhl z paty trn jeho zpravou v Enniskem Vestniku v Oechoslovaku ze dne 16. btezna, Le etenai. Jos. M. Trojaeek dostal ad strYce Jos. Vrly pinY pajnt LuZkovicke slivovice. Jeho bratr Wesley uZ tak St'ast-

ESTNIK— WEST, TEXAS nYrn nebyl, ten dostal jen sklo od slivovice. Jo, kdyZ si slivovice sam mute navatit, to se mile lehko poslat. KdyZ ji musi koupit, one stoji hodne, ale jsou tam mista, kde se cid koupit lacino a sice 4/5 kvartu za $1.80 a pet let stare za $2.00. To je hodne lacineji ne2 v Ennis, karnZ ji musi nejaky bootleger dovezt. Prava "borovieka" stoji 4/5 $1.30, whisky $1.40 a rum $1.90. To je lace, co? OvSem ceny v obchodech jsou vyA gi, a toto jsou ceny pro Darkove Poukazy pHlauznYm v CSR. Jiste jste videli moji oznamku v tomto eisle, ze jsem piceyzal zastupitelstvi fy. Centex, Inc. v New Yorku, ktera zastupuje Darex v Praze. V Darex obchodech je mono koupiti vSe od morayskYch klobasfr, al do automobilti a radia, a mete zakoupiti syYm milYm ye stare vlasti cokoliv a intiZete jim bud' ureiti co chcete, nebo ponechati vYber jim co se jim libi a co pottebuji. Obchody Darex jsou po cele republice a sloe: Praha, Praha-Ruzyri (na Plzeri, Brno, Bratislava, KoSice, PreSo y a Ostrava. V sezone jsou obchody i v laznich Karlovy Vary a PieSt'any a sklady jsou skuteene bohate. Potrayiny, cukro yinky, likery, kava, ry2e, eaj, cigarety, bicycly, tyto opravdu lacine, od cletskYch za $22.00 a2 lo mu2skych i damskYch za $22.00 aZ do rnuZskYch i damry, hoclinky 15 a 17 rubinti od $24.00 do $37.00, rekordy, harmoniky od $18.00 do $145.00. Motocykly, auta, elektricke lednieky, praci stroje, elektricka karnna do kuchyrie i do pokoje, Zehlieky, ba i elektrickY inlynek na kavu, radia. Takte2 maji dobte zAsobenY sklad textilii, na Saty pro pally i damy, na postele sYpkovinu a 1&1111;..) UbrusY, ptikrY yky a pod., tak ze kr,:cli ntiizc neco najiti pro sve mile, kdyZ Jim chce odelat ra,clost. Price le s tim snadna. Odpacthe yarn nakupovaiii, baleni, jizda na poStu, paStoyne jakoz i clo, neb vSechny ptedmety Darex koupene jsou cla prosty. Pkirozene, ze tim se cely darek zlevni, nebo utrati-li se stejne penez, drazi ye vlasti dostanou toho vice. Proto krajane, kteti zarnYSlite poslati ptibuznYrn darek, obrat'te se na mne a vyZadejte si ceniky, pak mi sane obnos, kterY chcete s yYm drahYrn venovati, poSiete mi eek na, ten obnos, dostanete potvrzeni, adresat ye vlasti dostane certifikat, kterY ptedloZi v Darex obchode a sam si vybere, co mu vyho yuje. Ceny kem odpovidaji cenam za ktere se clotyena. vec prodava, v U. S., a jakmile ptijemce si nakoupi, obdrZi ode nine jeho potvr=1, a teZ sdeleni jak byl spokojen. S pozdravem vAem etenalrim, Josef Havlieek.

Ve sttedu, dne 21. biezna 1951. OPRAVA. Ve elanku: "Na venek k naAirn", ueirril jsern nevedoniky omyl ye zprave o funrti. Asi jsern dobte pies telefon nezaslechl spra yne jrneno zesnuleho, kdyZ me jej hlasil pan E .E. Chernosky a tak jsem udal ye zprave o zesnulem jmeno jeho bratra Adolfa, zesnulY jmenoval se Edward Lejsol. Pan Adolf Lejsol je Zi y a bude die stareho lidoveho reeni, jsa hlasen mrtyYm, dlouho Ziv. Doufam, ze me to bude prominuto, uoiniv to nevedomky. On volal na mne sice pan Chernosky hned ye etyrtek, ale byl jsem v praci a ptijda hodne pozde dornti a v patek yeeerta,nechtel jsem jej telefonicky obteZovati a teprve dnes v sobotu rano jsem jej zavolali dilny a to mne on na ten omyl upozornil. JelikoZ by jiZ bylo pozde tuto zpravu zaslat bratru S. raleikovi, zasilam ji ptimo Vestniku, aby, bylo-li by moZno, byla v ptiStim 4isle uvetejnena. P •edem jiZ srdeene diky a se srdeenYrn pozdravem a ptanim "VeselYch Velikonoc" vSemu personalu 6echoslovak Publishing Co., s bratrskYrn pozdravem, S. P. Studnien.Y. ) • 4 • ( -`" P0eASi. V pondeli bylo poea g pane, ritery trvalo jeAt6: Ve sttedu nahle pkihnal se vier, ye etvrtek boute a deSte. ✓ patek tak nejak nejiste bylo, ✓ sobotu cely den mraky: V nedeli vSude promoknul kde kdo — a ja aZ do IctiZe taky! 01„ Kdo miuvi mnoho o svYch pravech, zapomind snadno na sve po yinnosti.

KALENDAft Ve strelu v&ecir kaidST Odell tfihodinovy kurs destiny v sini fadu Pokrok Iloustonu. ✓ nedeli 25. biezna u tadu Stefanik Houstonu bride bingo, v 6:30 koSiekova veeeke, pak tanec zdarma pt hudbe Bob MazaCe. ✓ nedeli 25. biezna velikonooni zabava u tadu Svaz Oechoslovant ve Fort Worth. ✓ nedeli 8. dubna spoleena svaeina u radu Osveta C. 38 v sini na 15. dubna mistni odboeka Oeskeho Nar. SdruZeni v Boustone ptipravuje program v sini radu 8tefanik Cis. 142 SP,TST. Obed ✓ 1 hod. odpoledne, bingo a j. v. PoclrobnejAi udano bude v oznamce. VYteZek pi'ijde do fondu na leky v Oeskoslovensku. ✓ nedeli 6. kvetria: Mnjov.t Qa ,:nost v sini radu Pokrok Houstonu. DraniatickST KrouZek Hlahol sehraje peknou yeselohru "Bordynkati". Zaef:..tek Ye 4 hodiny odpoledne.

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mu snilo, ze vyhorela naCe stodola a za mesic vyhotela.' A naCe statenka. Ani nebyla churava. Jednoho rana tekla: "Deti, do tYclne umru. Dnes se mi zjevila naCe Palma Maria. A take do tYdrie Pilvodni Roman z kraje Bezruumrela." ecva o pet knihe.ch "A lc_ lik ji bylo let?" Dil prvni "Devadesat." Ani nepozorovali, ze viz vjel do vsi jede cestou kolem fary. Nahle se ozval (Pokraeovani.) hlas z farske zahrady: "Nic se nestalo, pane FajkoSi." "To y am to pekne sluCi." Pohledli tam a videli Betuaku, jak se "Myslim, Ze budeme srolu dobre vychazet. Zdate se na ueitele dcsti dob•Y re jim smeje, a pratelsky rukou kYva pozdra y . Meda zeervenala, jako by ji a poradnY 'elovek." Fajkofi nechapal rany, ktere rozdaval. pii zlem ptistihnul. Nemohla hned odrIluvil tak, jak to mel na stdci i no. ja- povedet. BdtuSica to pozorovala, ale nect'llaj•0' zyku. Loho na sobe znati, zvolala: "Pomabej "A nyni, devucho, dej Tni cprate. Tot vam Pan Bilh. Medo, cdpoledne prijdu vjo, vranko. Jen rychle domit. Zda se, 2e pkijde °pet boure. Je dusne parno. k y am. Panesu ti tu knihu od strYeka." "Ftijd', BetuCko." Dostaneme asi dent'." Vzal oprate a Meda "S Bohem, pane uoiteli." BetuCka odustoupila az vtlz prejel a Sla za vczern behla.. s ueitelem. Vdz vjel do dvora. "Nebudete se styclet jiti se mnou kdy2 XIII. nesu hrabe?" Ve vsi zvonili poledne. "Nikoliv, sleeno. Prace nehanobi, ale Odpcledne se podaly stahovati na zaSlechti. Za praci stydi se pouze ti, jet zbohatli z mczolne price druhYch J pale mraky. Vystupovely hrozive. debyl chvat i shon. 15 FajkoCti svaZely ktere pri tom bezcitne vydiraji." mandele o ptekot. I kravy zaptahli. "Prod, mi netikate Medo?" DivokY sta.' u okna a dival se dole do "Ach, talc Odpust'te, Medo." Zahledvora a do otevtene stodoly, jak tarn del se na ni. Meda mela pouze lehounke modre Ca- ukladaji snopy na patro a do penny. VCity na sobe, tak Ze formy jejiho tela pine chni pini chvatu. I statidek, pokud mohl, pomahal. Pot se z nich vynikaly. "Jen aby Pan Bah ten deCtieek alespon "Ani jste se nepochlubil, co se yarn podo vedera zadrZel," prohodil FajkoC, phprve u nas snilo." valeje °pet pinY, a.Z' do vrclau nalcZenY "Dnes se mi zdalo o vas. Medo." "0 mile?" zvolala zvedave. "A co se ZebtinovY viz snopt. y am snilo?" Ze stodoly vygel stank, Meda a Faj4kosova, aby mohl viz vjeti na mlat. '2e jsme spoilt jell na lodi." "Oh, to je zlY sen. Voda. To je zle znaMeda zahledla ueitcle. meni. A me se dnes rovna o vas sni- "Pomahej Pan Bah, pravil z okna, lo." aby nee° tekl. "DejZ to Pan Bah," zvolali spoleene a "Tak? A co, prosim vas —" FajkoCova pravila: "To mime dnes "Neteknu yam to." "NemaZ"ete? Je to nee° zleho?" chvatu. DeCt' je na spadnuti." "To je neni — jak ye Ckole," tekl "Smal byste se mi." FajkoC, vychazeje ze stodoly. "UjiAt'uji vas, Ze se nebudu smati." "A nikomu to neteknete? Ani farske "Kdybyste umel, mohl byste nom poBetake —?" moci." .smala se Meda. "A myslite, neumim?" zvolal uel"Prod prave to vzpominate?" "Je to moje pritelkyne, jsme stejnehc tel. star i." "Ale kaj. Mandele a pan z Prahy," minil stank posmeAne. "To neni cigarke —" "A co se yam, Medo, zdalc?" "Libal jste mne. Branila jsem se, ale naraZ"el na to, 'ze DivokY "Za raz byste mel ruce sam mozol a marne." : krabane," smala se hospcdyne. Rekla to tak proste a beze vsi afekta- hodne po A "A dokatu yam, 2e dovedu," pravil uce. Jenom v oblieeji jate vice zahorela. "A co to znamena?" tazal se ueitel. eitel. "Nu, zkuste to," zasmala se Meda a "To je nevera," tekla valne Meda. "Neverte snam. 1VIedo. Nikdo nevi, jak zahledela se mu do oei. "Beztoho je nas sny ptichazeji, jak vznikaji a prove pro- 'Indio" dodala. Za okamtk skuteene se objevil Divok to nemohou miti tivotniho vYznamu." "Vetim snam, poneva0 ve snu se nom dole. Mel bily lehkY ka,bat, prepasan zjevuje budoucnost. starieek uhad-}remenem. Obratne vySplhal se zadem na ne ze snu vgeeko. Mede dvema lety se vilz a zvolal: "Nut, ukaIu varn, to to •

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Straws it take dovedu" a novou eerstvou snail hazel snopy na patro do vY'Se a kdyZ jich ubYvalo a nemohl vice dosahnouti, vzal podavky, nabodnul snap, yyzvedl do vYAni, cdbirati nestadily dve divky na patte. FajkoC tu sta.l v adivu a hledel bury no Zenu, brzy na otce sveho a na Moc;u. Statik jako by rozurnel, jen tak r,a znameni souhlasu hlavou potakal. "Pozor, pane ueiteli vykrikla nahle Meda. "Spadnete!" Jeji hlas vyznel tak ilekane. Tjeitel uklouzl po snopech proye kdy2 zvedal podavkami do vYCe snap. Fustil nodal/1<y a razern lehl mezi gm-y, aby nepadl na Cpidate vYbeZky btin a vySplhal se znovu do vYCe. Jako by se nieeho nebylo stab, podaval snopy dale. Tato eptodka, zachrana eiNte venkbvskeho zonsobu, udivila FajkiAe. "Ten IVeitel je rcdern z mista. Jinak to neni mozv ne," tekl presveddive. V mole chvili byl vivz vyprazdnen ,a. Fajkos jel znovu na pole. "To jSte se zah •al, pane uditeli," pravila Meda. "Ale umite to, jako byste ze statku byl," tekla matka. "Jsem ze statku," del uditel. "To bylo k poznani na prvni raz," dodal statik. V tom vjiZdel druhy vaz taZenY kra= vami do dvora. A ueitel opet vylezl navrch a °pet s takovcu lehkosti skladal mandele. Sotva byl v polovici, kdy.0 prisla Betu g -kazfary. esu ti knihu, Medo, str)ieek ti ji po"Dekuji." "To mate dnes do spechu." "Deft' je na spadnuti." "I pro pana kraje —" zvolala BettICka, vidouc uditele na ooze. "To yarn ptibyl pomocnik. To vetim," smala: se a zvolala: "Pcmahej Pan Bah, pane . uditeli. To yam to jde, jako byste byl ze statku. Ci v Frame maji take Lae?" "VCecko znati, sleeno, kite apoCtol Pavel," volal s vozu uditel. "Vidite, ten varn odpovedel," smal' se stank. "Ptijdete nom, pane ueiteli, take pamoci?" "Budete-li pottebovat, ptijdu." "Piijdu pro vas, Betu vas za slcvo." Medin oblfeej jako by se zasmuCil. "Nikdo by nouvetil, ze pan uditel, jent dovede tak pane hrat na varhany, tomi samYmi prsty dovede udrZet podavky," rekla BetuSka. Hovorila jeCte chvili, ale vidouc, ze vAichni maji na spech, pocit' • vala povinnost nepteka,Zet. "Mate pilno, odejdu. Nezapomeii, Medo, na nedeli na pout' a prijd' zitra k

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nam, uradime se je gte o pouti. S 13ohem, pane ueiteli. Na shledanou." Odbehla anit by vyekala odpc>vecii. XIV. Je gte dva tii vczy ptijely a, posledni viz s nekolika snopy a ouhrabkami jit zmoknuL Oerna mraena jako by se rozevtela a proudy vody razem chrlily se k zemi. Cely kraj se podobal tmave jeskyni. Bez bouke, bete v geho vetru, klidne se lily spousty vody k zemi. Oeled' rychle je gte v de gti odstrojovala kcne i kravy a uvedla do staje. Ileitel a Meda znstali ye atodole. Matka, otec i stank stali ye avetnici a otevtenYm oknem se srnali rozpakfun ueitele, hlediciho do degte. "Jen s kurati, pane ueiteli. Jen do toho, smal se Fajkog. "Meda nerozmokne," volal statieek. "Jen se nebojte. Drobet vody neu gkodi," dodaval odvahy otec Ueitel sy lekl kabat, ptehodil ho Mode jako plachtu pies hlavu a uchopiv ji jako dite za ruku, pkebehl s ni dvtr, kde srately se, jit velike kalute vody. At tak zastNklo, jak se kaluti ptebrodili. ITeitel promoklY a spocenY vybehl nahoru, aby se pkevlekl. Rovnet Meda gla do sve komfirky. Fajkog se smal, takovYm zdravYrn smichem. "ZpropadenY chlapik, ale pomohl nano. Dva vozy nejmene nam zachranil." "Musig ho pozvati k yeeeti," pravila tena. "To se rozumi." "Ale kdo vi, bude-h s nami jist," namital statik, "snad abyste mu udelali neco extra." "Udelam mu vajeeinu." "Eh, moo by nejedl s nami. Dojdu pro nej," kekl Fajkog. "Vidig , veera jsi ho chtel vylonat," pravila tena. "Dnes jseni mu to vymluvil. Pctkai jsem ho zpod "Ziamanou," tekl jsem mu, to jsem rnyslel, ze je ta,kovY lata jako byl ten — Hanak. Ale tenhle je jinY. Docela jinY, Za, chvili ve gel po schodech nahoru. "Pane ueiteli, pti gel jsem pro vas. Stehle jste s nami pracoval, to pojd'te s nami k yeaeti." "Ale vtclyt' to nestalo ani za tee." "Haden jest delnik mzdy a proto prichazim pro vas, nebudete-li se stydet secleti mezi nami. Scdime totit v gichni u jednoho stolu. Co mam ja, to ma eeled', ale pro vas neco uz tena udela, jineho. Kyaka, by yam negla. . ." "S radosti pcsedlin mezi vdmi — dovolite-li." "Vile, pane ueiteli, my jsme tak bez okolkit zvykli, co na srdci, to na jazyku. ale tadna fo.le g, tacinY podvod, tadn, advokatskY figel nebo.ueitelska, vyniluva. Kdybyste byl jako t:en Hanak, ani , pies

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prall byste mi nesinel. Ale vy jste docola 014 net ten chiap neverecka. . . Boha se ani nebal a v gecko chtel na rub obratit. CelY svet. A potom — eh fuj!" DivoltY dote' se ptati, proe tak nenavidi onoho ueitele, co jim udelal, ale myslil, ze to easem sam tekne. Segli Veeer se skionil nad krajem. Zasedli k veeeti. Hospodyne postavila misu ky gky na s,tfil a velkY hrnec bramborn vysypala vedle. "Na kom je tada tento tYden k modlitbe," tazal se hospodat. "Meda," zvolali catatni, deveeka, ee ledin, pasak, husaeka a druzi. Meda se pokkitovala a stojic hlasite se modlila "Otae na g" a "Zdravas". 0statni stojice pouze potichu s ni. K zaveru se modlili "Bote, otee, potehnej nam techto dart" atd. Po to zasedli ke stolu. Hospodat v eele, po prave strane statieek a po leve tena, vedle ni Meda a vedie statieka proti Mode bylo misto pro ueitele. "Vy nebudete, pane ueiteli, a nami jisti. Meda varn udela vajeeinu. Medo skoe -" matka nedopoyedela. Meda jiz byla u dveti. "Prosim vas. sleeno Medo, ne. Dekuji. Nebudu jisti vajeeinu. Dekuji," pravil uaitel. "Jenom jdi, Medo —." "De'kuji, prosim vas, sleeno, ne clekuji 77 "Snad pan ueitel ani va,jeeinu neji," minil stank. "Jim, pane Fajko gi, jim, ale dnes ne. Dovolite-li. tot budu jisti s vdmi, co vy jite. Raete si sednout, sleeno." "Nut clobte. Sednete si tedy a jezte a nami," tekl Fajkog. "Jim rad kysele noleko jit z toho dti.vodu,ze je velice zdrave," pravil ueitel. "Tot alespon, Medo, dones panu ueitelovi kySky do galku, pfece nebude jist z 'rnisky ltici." Meda odbehla a za chvili ptinesla vetgi bilk galek kySky a talitek na brambory, ktere lcupala, kladouc je na talit pled treitele. "Pravil jste. pane ueiteli, to je kygka zdrava a jak to, prosim vas?" tazal se stank, pohliteje na ueitele. "Je. Velice zdrava. Leta tivota "maze prodloutit." jak to?" "A jak to prosim vas dychtive vyzvidal statik. "V kyselem mlece je jist druh kyseliny, ktera v gecky badly vniknuv gi jakyinkoliv zplisobem do tela, usmrcuje a tim eisti krev a zabrariaje miaohYm nemeeem. JistY lekat v Americe vyzkougel, potivani kyseleho mleka ttikrat denne mfite 'eloveka udrtet pri tivote at dye ate let."

Ve sttedu, dne 21. bkezna 1951. "Ale jclete! I safra, tohle by byla trefa. Paneeku! Dye ste let!" vyratel ze sebe stank. -- "To bych byl je gte tiv sto dvacet dva roky. I safra, to bych pamatoval neco," pochvaloval sobe staIlk, klepaje ltici do misy na stole. Oelacika se divaia, fikosem na, ueitele, netrcpi-li sobe ze statika tert. Ale ueitel vatne vykla,dal: "Je to ovgem pouha domnenka. S naprostou ureitosti se to tvrdit nemilte. Pravim pouze, co jsem eetl." "A to je v gecko v knillach?" tazal se stank, "Ceti jste to kdesi v easopise." "Podivejme se. Tedy v novinach jsou pcdobne veci a potorn paterek kale — pry •otravnY tisk. A zatim --. Dve she let —" jako by pro sebe vykladal statik. Po \Teal eeled-' tekla: "Pan Bth zaplat'." Hospodat dodal: "Pan Bith potehnej." oeled' ode gla a ueitel je gte dlouho zilstab v rodine. Seal a vypravel jim o Praze, o pamatkach historickych a o minulosti, a slavne dcbe kralti eeskYch a jinYch vecech, ktere neznali. Koneene bylo na Case jiti spat. Tak mu tekli ardeene: "Dej Pan Btilh dobrou noc." Vgichni mu ruku podali. Po jeho odchodu tekl hospodat: "Jak se mate elovek mylit. I mezi ueiteli jsou dobtl Ede. Ale tenhie zda se, je z nich nejlepgi." "A jaky rozumnY. Vgecka vi," dodal stank. "A vgecko dovede. Mandele mu sly hraelcou," pravila Fajkogova. "Jako by byl ze statku," tekl otec. "Vtdyt' je. Sam to pravil," prohodila Meda. "Ale rad bych vedel, zdali je to p'avda — jako tech d ye ste let. Tak mi to, stafra, v hlave leti —. Dve ste let —" rozumoval stakik, "Otevki okno, Medo," pravil otec. Je zde dusno a potom, pr gi jegte?" Meda otevfela okno a pravila: "Neprgi." Vice nedot-ekla. DO svetnice, nalezajiel se pod jizbou ueitelovou, zalehla melodic. Kdosi hral na housle. Tak jasave, sladce, radostne. Zrcvna to vYskalo ye vysokYch polohach a Avitotilo, mluvilo, zpivalo. . Vaichni ztichli. Hudba je uchvatila. Naslouchali teto hie s citem prave zbotnosti. Ani v "kostele tak mysl nepovznesli. "Jako by se modlil," za geptala matka. Meda, Na do ave kornfirk3 r, tam otevtela okno. Rychle se s ylekla a ulehla, ale poslouchala ten tklivy napev housli. Bylo ji tak bl p .,,e, jako by velike alusti v srdci .„ , j . rozezvucelo. vsechnu tottliu tam vyse ji pinilo; ;jako by se Lisle skii\ anil za jarnih0 iitra v nit iu jejim 10:1,1salo yellkou, \ zne g enou pisni lasky.

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pa,neeku. Ty Zenske jsou u2 po LeZela s otevtenYina oeima, a nevede- kra la, ani prod mysli zaleta nahoru k uei- vas cele prye. BetuSka z foxy stale: "Vitelovi a prod citi ten polibek yeerefSka del jste, Kotasku, pana ueitele? Co dena sve ruce. A jako by chtela ten poli- la? Prod. k nam nejde?" Inu tak, tak. bek tam udrZeti, pflloi1a si ruku no, U- KdyZ je elovek to todle mla,dy, to ty sta v tom miste, kde palil ji polibek devtichy, kakra, jako vosy na, shrine javeerejSka. A zdalo se ji. Ze vraci tento blko. — A mate ptijit na faru." polibek tomu muZi tam, jenZ ji &Anil Ueitel poslouchal pkival slov s fismetak gt'astnou. A byla S- Vastna.. Nev-edela vem. ZylaStni zptsob vyjadtovani techani proe, ale zdalo se ji, Ze je velice to lidi ho zajimal. Jejich obhroblost ho Wastna blizkosti onoho mu2e, jeho, ptestavala uraZet. Jejich bezohleclna ujakoby znala ji Z dlouhou tadu let. ptimnost, v ni Z bylo videt cele jejich Naslouchala pisni beze slov ji 2 tarn nitro, proste a nehledane pfirovnami bez hral ten, na, nehoZ celY den myslila. A pkikras, v ge svecleilo, Ze tito lido, nada:poprve snad od maliekosti pkihodilo se oeni kulturou, Ziji Zivotem viastnirn, rozji Ze se zapornnela pied spanim po- dilnym od Zivota lidi most nebo velkYch sttedisk prinyslovYch. Jejich obrazy v modlit. . . Usnula skolebana sladkou melodii la- Peel opiraly se o nejbliZ gi ptedmety, je2 byly v dozoru oka, ale za, to byly pra ysky. dive, bez fale, bez hledáni, jakYm zptiXV. sobem kid kiam, aby mel zdani pravdy. PrSelo. Cesty blative. Nikdo nechodil ani po Vzpominal na Prahu a porovnaval. Skovsi. Fajko'Sovi pracovali doma, co bylo ro se mu zdalo, e tito Tide zde byli tak pottebi. trochu podobni tarn tern rodakilm jeho DrulaY den tekl hospodat ueitelovi, Ze na Sumave. Tyrde to budou povahy. zfistane u nich na stravu, ne Z se poene Nezlomi je vide cizi, ale oni sami sebe vyueovat. "Beztoho byste v hospode ni- zlomi. Takove jsou ty povahy chodskYch eeho nedostal. U nas chvala Bohu neni horalt a tyto budou jim podobny. o kousek jidla nouze. Budou se divit, Ze Illavou mu proletelo cele obdobi jeho Fajko ivi ueitele. FajkoS jenZ byl ptiei- eirmosti tam v kralovstvi. Dries je mu nou, Ze ten — fuj nemrava nernravna, dvacet osrn mkt). — a co prolil ji, ba Hanak, ptiSel odtud. Ale at' vedi, Ze jsou mono tici vytrpel. i jini ueitele ne Z -- Ale hrajete rukou mavnul, jako by zahnat chtel na housle. Oloveee, tak nehraje ani na",'S vSecko co tam z dalky minulosti dere se star Y Koevara a ten hraje s kapelou ji2 na povrch pameti. Ne, nic nechce videt. etyficet let a na housle yam o posviceni Nic! Co bylo, neni. S touto vetou Caldezahraje solo vzadu na zadech. Ale jako ronovou zapla gil doternou minulost, r youvy, tak nehraje. Ani jsem usnout ne- ci se vztekem hladoveho vlka z ptitomnomohl. Tak jsern poslouchal." sti a zapaliv si doutnik, el na faru. A Meda mu v poledne ptinesla obed. "Pro pana Boha, teknete mi eloyeee, Sama. Tak se na neho zadivala. &elate zazro,ky?" Tak ho vital farat. "Veera jste krasne hral. Tak krasne, "Nerozumim, co se stab?" jako by tisic slavikt zpivalo. Vite, e mi "Jdu rano do kostela, — "Vite, dristojnY bylo do pia:de?" pane, novinu?" "Nu?" "Mame tu muzi"Nechtel jsern vas rozplakat. Budu hra- kanta lepSiho ne Koevara, —" Tak mne ti podruhe veselejSi." zdravi Kotasek. Jdu z kostela, tot& Do"Ne, prosirn vas, ne. Takove vZdycky poledne ptijde 13etuSka, tota. Byly kftihrajte. Je to tak krasne, tak dojemne, Ze ny — Babka tota. A co je nejlepSiho: pH tom elovek tolik citi a piece nic ne- proto jsem vas zaprosil. Zitra mame odmtiZe povedet." davky. Vda,va se Hedvika Gkivonova za Jegte jednou na, neho pohledla, aZ Josefa, S'lapetu. Dnes tu byli, dopoledne , hluboko do oei se mu zadivala a potom a za u nedaji ne pr, aby ten nov Y jako by pri zlern skutku dopadena, odpanueitlvkoszhr.Pima, behla. neinte mi to k vuli. Pet zlatYch yam Ze"Dite, dite," pravil k sobe ueitel. nich za to nabizi. Cela dedina se na to Odpoledne ptiSel Kotasek. ji Z teSi. Jsou to hodni lide, doloti. Tro"To, to bude to, todle, pout'. Kakra! chu pfiliC pCiri, ale za to pravdivi. NuZ .. beharn od nedele a kaZdemu vypravu- slibujete?" ji, jakeho mame pana uditele. Jak hraje "Ptijdu pane farari. mistrne a Ze s nanai pajde na pout' do "0 desate. A co vá 'S domaci?" Hra,byne. VSecko se chysta. UZ o vas sly"Zda se trochu drsnY." Seli. Star' Koevora,, kapelnik mi vypra“Je hodne drsnY. Je. Ale necha, se yevel, Ze pr Y nrajete na housle skoro jako sti .Je to nejbohat gi elovek ze vsi. Potaclon. Vypravel mu to pacholek FajkoAtiv. nYa naboZnY. Cela rodina. A maji pouze Slyeli vas To se tesim nn - to todle -- dye deli. Magda,lenu ji Z maji doma a pout'. A potoin pan lan,lt /11-azuie aby- Josef, ten uduje v Olomouci. Bude z bte tarn prisel a sledna Betuska. Ale ka- neho knez. Prave pted nedeli odjel do

Strana 13 seininate. Mate asi po nem pokoj. Hod-. nY synek. Nechtel, ale otec. Matka je z rodu evangelickeho. Dnes katolieka ovSem, Ale otec — dobry katolik. "Josef je starSi ne 2 sieena Meda?" "StarSi. Letos vstoupil do seminate. Magda je ve stejnem stati s naM. BetuS"kou, sedmnact. Josefovi je devatenact. Studoval velice dobte — s yyznamenanim." "Ale to je Skoda." "Jaka., Skoda?" "Ze jde do seminale. Jediny syn." "KdyZ Bella zavold sluZebnika, sveho ku sve sluZbe svate, tu musi kaZdy uposlechnouti," tekl farm ptisne. "Minil jsem, jedinY syn a takov' ma jetek." "Je tu dcera. Usoudil tak Bith 4ve svate sve moudrostr a proto bez reptani poslechnemeZ hlasu Jeho," pravil farat hlasem poyzneSenYin. Vella BetuSka. "Nepolarnal jste se pane uCiteli?" "Odpust'te strYeku, ale pan uditel lidera podaval mandele u FajkoSti a mohu Ze ptimo virtuosne," smala se, aZ ji byly videt dye kady drobnYch, tilYch zubt. "Oloyeee, vy jste ye vSem virtuos. JeSte abyste umel orat a ohanet se pH seeeni hrabici a dovedl kosu naklepat a, potorn —" "To vSecko umim. Jsem ze statku, pane farati", smal se ueitel. "Potom jste zazraenYm ditetem," pravil farat a dodal: "a jak se to stalo, Ze jste Sel na toitelstvi?" "To je trpka, historic. Nerad ji vzpominana." "Tragedie rodinna," pravil farat. "SkOro tragedie", del ueitel teskne. BetuSka uptela na neho oei a dlouhYrn pchledem na, nem spoeinula. Toto tajemstvi ho einilo tak zajimavYm. Po chvili pravil farat: "A kde, prosim vas, studoval jste hudbu?" "Na pra2ske konservatoti. Nauku o skladhe u Dvotaka. Varhany u Klieky a housle u profesora Seveika." Farad-- aZ Udivem oei vytteStit "Vy — vy — mlady muZi — vy jste byl u techto mistru? A prod jste se nevenoval hudbe. Byl by z vas virtuos." "NebYl, pane farati. Nebyl. Nevetim sam sobe, Ze bych neco vice urnel ne 2 do2, vede kaZdY druhY, kdo se uea. Hraji, ale vim, Ze to neni virtuosita. ondkidkove se nerodi kaZdYm rokern, jako se viibec geniove nerodi na komando. FaleSnYch vir-. tuosti mame ji Z dosti. Nechtel jsem kady jejich rozmnait. Snad ye skladbe bych byl zdatnejSim, ale nevim. Snad i to co jsem napsal je pouha price diletanta nad niZ se skuteenY mistr pousmeje, nebo rameny pokret. Snad —" rnluvil vaZne. Trpce znel jeho hlas. Jakoby by Zaloval, jako by sve ni-

Strana 14 tro byl nechal slovy ubehnouti, pohnu. ti chte zahnat, sizy potiaeit. "A neni vas gkoda sem do tohoto zapadleho kraje, kde Sijeme bez kultury a vgeho co velkY podava svet?" "NetouSim po svete. Rad bych prospel ze svych sil tomuto zanedbanemu kraji nejen tim, aby se povznesl du gevne, ale aby sobe hmotne prospel. A co nine sem hnalo? Touha poznati hory a konati zde studia ethnograficka a folkloristicka," lravil ueitel vaSne. Kdy2 odchasel, tak mu stars' farat rukou pot • asl: "Jste znamenity mu2. Tak si pfedstavuji ueitele. Ve shode knez s ueitelem, dobre veci mohou vykonat. A my je vykoname! Tento lid mane. pottebuje podobnYch pracovnikt. Jenom Sadne Hanaky. SpojenYmi silami zazraky dovedeme. Jenom Sadne novoty. Lid piin g tomu v dem Sije a v torn je nutno ho udrSOvat. Viru mu nebrat. To je hlavni. Bohu bude dekovat lid za vas i za, vie co pro jeho dobro a pro slavu jmeria boSiho v tomto kraji vykonate." Ucitel vychazel od farate. Betugka g la za nim a na chodbe mu pravila tak srdeene. "S Bohem pane ueiteli a pfijde zas brzo a vezmete s sebou housle, nebo ptijdu poslouchat k yam pod okno Odbehla. Ueitel kraeel dedinou. Sel rychle doma. Zdalo se mu, Se tarn u farate mel neco neco jako odpor, jako protest proti tomu k eeinu ho navadel... On Se by —? Ne! Ne! Ne! Jako by se branil, jako by videl pied sebou neco tmay eho, z eehoS vystupoval neznamY obraz budouci jeho einnosti. Ptig el doma a vysedel v myglenkach do veeera. Byl peknY, tepl' veeer. Soumrak pozdniho zatioveho dne snesl se k zemi. Dival se na hru barev vrchollat hor, pti zapadu slunce a2 do pineho soumraku, kdy sting mizely v objeti temna. Nikdo nevedel Se je doma. Veder scaly se druSky Mediny a vedly na dvote dilleSitou rozpravu o svatbe Hedviky Gfivonovy, o tom jake bude mit gaty. mnoholi druSieek a jaka to bude slavna svatba a hostina. Bylo jich s Medou asi pet. Ueitel maje otevi•ene okno, bezdeky vgecko Nable prohodila, jedna: "US jsme da yno nezpivaly, ptezpivejme si neco, abychom o svatbe neuvazly." uoitel neni doma?" pravila jedna. "Vysmal by se nim," fekla tteti. "Cele odpoledne kdesi je. Snad na fah", pravila teskne Meda. "Je hezkY, vid' Medo?" "Ale radeji zpivejme, nea pfijde," zaktikla Meda.

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Ucitel zbytfil sluch a mane sada po notovem papiru a tuSce a sedl aS k oknu, ale sehnul hlavu, aby ho nebylo videt. A devuchy zapely slerske pisne tak proste, ale s takovYm porozumenim a procitemm, ze ucitel zavidel jim ten prosty a pfirozenY piednes, jenauS nelze se ani nejvetgim umelkynim naueit. Dovedou zpivat narodni pisne umele, ale ne ptirozene. A v tom je veliky rozda Ueitel psal — pti svitu mesice jako kdysi Mozart — a napsal sobe tak pet napevh pisni slerskYch, o nichS dosud niceho nevedel, ba ani tuaeni o jejich krase nemel. Zpivaly d ye svatebni a tti obyeejne narodni, z nichS mu nejvice utkvela v mysh "Zal, Sal, Sal Ira bude a2 mi ju vezmu hide! Potegeni moje! Ona ide do kostela ako leluja (lllie) vgeci lude sa divajh jaka je gumna. '2' al, Sal, Sal, Sal ha bude Se mi jir vzali lucre Potegeni moje — —!" Ta bolestne doznela to melodie. Tak jenom vetrem, jako kdyS ji nejjemnejgi vanek pohiti, jako by v nitru nekde zapadla. A jak cit v torn slave: "Sal ha bude." Jako by z cele Buse, tarn z hluboka, z nitra vychazel dugenY, bolestne stlaeenY zvuk hlasu. A zdalo se mu, Se nejbolestneji zni hlas Medin. Devuchy se rozbehly. Ueitel rozsvitil a vzal housle a potichu si ptehral co napsal. Za chvili bez klepani veala Meda — a ye dvefich zustala stat jako udivena: "Pro pana Boha — pane Often vy jste doma? — Vy jste nas slygel? —" volala polo v bazni, ale polo v radosti, Se je doma: "Myslela jsem, Se jste na fate — -- a vy jste zatim v gecko slygel." "Ano, slygel, ale take napsal. Kdysi vas poprosim, byste mi to ptezpivala ,jegte jednou, abych nemel chyb. Ueinite tak Medo?" "S radosti, pane &Reit, ale veil yam donesu yeeefi." XVI. Kostelnik Kotasek pine ruce prace. A neni divu. Pout, HrabYnska pout. Na vsi potkal ueitele. I kakra — to todle je tencilenc, St:esti. Jako na zavolanou." "Co se stalo Kotasku?" "Byl jsem u vas. US je eas. Pan lard? prosi, byste nezapomel. US je nejvyggi eas. To je div. Obyeejne ptijde svatba o pill hodiny pozdeji. Tahle pti'Sla o pia hodiny &are. Inu nevesta jako tendlenc, med k naliznuti. Vetim, Se se doekat ne mute. A zenith jako to, todle, jedle. Ueitel Kotaska ani neposlouchal.

Ve stfeclu, dne 21. bfezna 1951, Mezi tim co gli ke kostelu, Kotasek rozumoval: "Vgak jsme uS kakra davit° nemeli to, todle takovou svatbu. To uvidite slavu. No. at' zaplati. V gak ma z echo. Chudy si toho nemtiSe dopfati. Inu, tak je to na torn boSim svete. Nekdo ma to todle mnoho a druhy nic. Eh, v gak to Pan Bina dobte midi. ,On vi co komu -- A host! bude. AS z To gonovic a '2ermanie pfijdou. To bylo zvani. Nomy si mohli ubehat. Sam 8kobrtak z Domaslovic, nejlepgi odpornik v-kraji je pozvan Gtivonem. To bude to, todle, slavna svatba. Inu kdo ma at' plati. A hosti kakra, sam pan farat ptijde. Je pozvan. Musi jit. To vite. Urazili by se, Sc pan farat se stydi. Kdo vi nepozvou-li vas take. No, jiste to neni, ale bude-li se libit I kakra, tamhle ministrant 112 na n4'14va.." Statik odbehl a ueitel ve ged do kostela. Sotva sahl do klaves ji g se divali na kruchtu. Obtady svatebni byly neobyeejne slayne. Divoky dosud podobnYch neBylo znati, Se i zdej gi lid v naboSenskem obtadu vidi a uznava viru. Zevni efekt hluenY a okazalY je mu znamenim viry, cim okazalej gi, tim u neho vira silnej gi. Chce timto vykkiknoiiti: vefim. A knez je v tom udrSuje. Koneene bylo vge skoneeno. Svatebeane ode gli — a Divokeho si nikdo nevgimnul. Vykonal povinnost. Svatebeane zaplatili na fate. DivokY odegel z kostela, aby videl zvyky svatebni na na ys', ale zklarnan. Krome zataSeni testy provazem a nejake pitvorne obleeene baby, vtirajici se Senichovi — nebylo tu nieeho ze zvykh svatebnich, starch goralu pod Bezkydem. Ba ani kroju narodnich, a2 na yyjimky starYch lidi tu nevidel. Velice ho to ptekvapilo, ba zamrzelo. XVII.

Nekolik Indio dni do soboty ubehlo jako horsicY vitr. Vgude byla snaha, co moral° vie upravit, aby nejen Panna Maria Hrabyfiska mela radost, ale aby netekli ti druzi, z jinYch krajU tam pti ged gi, Se ti zahlubeeti jsou nejposlednejgi. Kotasek byl na svem rniste a v gude radii. a pomahal, jen aby vsecko dopadio — jak tikal ke cti a clivale BoSi. Tentokrat leSela v gecka prace na nem. ValenY rolnik, kostelni ptedzpevak Mikugek, stizen nemoci, nemohl se sheastniti. Devcatka pletia vence myrtove a sveSich kvett, jimiS ozdobi Pannu Mardi. Vdovy pletly °pet vence z pouhe zelene bez kveth veselYch barev, jimiS ozdobi svatou Annu. Hudebnici cidili svoje piechove nastroje, aby se leskly. Ueitel Divoky sedel v patek odpoledne ye site svetnici, kdyS cele klubko deveat s Medou v eele ptil3ehlo do statku a za chvili se vehrnuly k nemu s veselym smlchem a Stebotein berstarostneho mladi.

Ve stredu, dne 21. btezna 1951.

Stragidlo Kdy2 marninka odchkela do prace, tekla male Kaeence: "Umyj pekne nadobi, zamet' kuchyri a k veeeru rozdelei ohen, abych mohla uvaeit veee •i, hned jak ptibehnu! To vi g, tatinek bude vymrz1Y a .bude pottebovat neco tepleho. " Kaeenka byla zvykld takhle sama hospolatit a hned se do toho dala. Week° by bylo dobte, jen kdyby ji byl neziobil „. „ jeste mensi Mirko. 1VIerrnomoci chtel yen, ac tam preelo a bylo blato. Kdy2 nesmel, ta.hal koeku za ocas, a ho pogkrabala. Potom ,pla,kal a byl chvili pokoj. Jen hodiny tikaly: "Tik-tak, co-pak? co-pak? Utlu'e ten mak! " Zatim se setmelo, zimni den je kratkY jako pid'. Kadenka, rozdelala oheri v karn riech a zaspivala mu: "Hot, ohnieku, hot, jen kamna nezbot! " Ohnieek se na ni z kamen za,smal, hodil na podlahu a na stenu kmitava prasdtka a hned bylo v kuchyni veseleji. Mirko se za temi poly honil a chtel je chytit, ale ony se nedaly. Tu nastala bida. V truhliku nebylo uhii na ptiloleni. "Pojd' se mnou, Mirko, do sklepa pro uhli! " Ale Mirko nechtel ani slyget. "Je tarn tma a ja se bojim. "Kadenka gla sama, ale taky se bala,. Na schodech i y e sklepe byla psi tma jako eerne testo, se musila hrnatat po steMach. Dviika u sklepa tak podivne zakriourala, Kaeence ptebelal rardz po zadech. V koute se nem belalo. Kaaenka nechala vgeh3 a utekla "Nemoliu ti pomoci, ohnieku, musig to nojak yydrZet. Ve sklepe je stra gidlo a neda mi uhli. Oheri odpovedel: "Jak mi nedag uhli, hned' ti umin. A co ty se bojig stra gidla, takova velka holka? No, nepla,e! Zes mi zazaivala pisniaku, ja za to piljdu s tebou. " "Jak piljdeg se mnou? VZdyt' jsi v kamnech a nemdZe g yen! " Ale obeli tekl: "Tak? lined ti ukaZi, Ze mohu yen! Ves;mi suchou load, ptistre ji blizko ke none! Ja si na ni pteskoeirn jako vrabec no balY1ko rr piljdu s tebou do sklepa. " Kaeenha to Lidelala. Ted' dostal kura2 i knit() a Ali vgichni tti. Stra gidlo uZ ani nernek10, jen se skreilo v koutku, ale nit mu to nanomohlo. "Popadni je, Kadenko, za krk a vezmi je do kuchyne. Tatinek se s nine veeer vypotada! " navedl ji Kacenka nabrala uhli, Mirko ji pomahal ohnieek svitil. Stra gidlo chtic nechtic musno s nimi. Byla to tatinkova stara 1:nzajka. cold rortrhana; '` slouzila za hadr k my ti a ted' se tu na diivi su gila. °hen o crailii do kainan, dostal jist eerstveln, uhli a zase vesele Lancoval pastenach d na podlaze. Mirk° lei zase honil. A kd y tatinek pti gel, Zalovinl na str a-

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"Mk?" tekl tatinek. "To se patli, tak- ye ekole vyjasnilo a Milka pcstavila na hle strait male deti? lined rano to na- stul sklenici s kytkou pomnenek. Za chvili ptibehla ueitelka cela udY:vliknu na kolik a posta,vim to do zeli, aby na ne zajici nechodili. KclyZ se ti chce chana a ustarand, jak to asi ye gkole beZ ni yypadd. Byla ptekvapena, kciYZ strait bude strait. " Lida sl=olu sporadanou a deti tak eiste. °( ° Pochval i 'a jc, ale deft. povidaly: "To to byla jecina babi • ka a ta urnela, kouzla. To aria dala tiled do petadku, my jsme Dvacet gkolakd a gkolaeek seal() v ,jen pomdhaly. Jiste to byla, nejaka, dobjedne ttide vesnicke gkoly a eekalo rd vita, protole ptiela i zmizela tak treitelku, ale ona neptichazela. Bylo jim j ednou. " to divne, protole se jejich ueitelka doUeitelka tekla: "Ta babieka je nae sod nikdy neopozdila. Chvili deli hadaly. sousedka a tem kouzlfn, co ona umi, se co s ni asi je, ale pot ora si na gly ramie intiZete taky na,ueit. Polont kadou Yee zabavy, Divky si maid valy na papiry na jeji misto, zachovat potadek a udrZopanenky, kadou nepoda •enou zmakaly vat eistotu doma ye gkole i na tlici. " a hodily pod lavici. Chlapci hlueeli, psa- I "I na ulici? " divily se deti. % "To LILY li na tabuli a zase houbou stirali, co nedokaZeme.:. Ifeitelka odpovedela: "Ne'namarali. Pioitom umazali nejen tabuli,1 ni to tak teZke. Neodhazujte nikdy papiale i sve ruce. ZvitenY prach napinil tti- ry ani pecky a jine odpa;dky, a brzO du a dradil ke kagli. budou ulice tak eiste, jako je ted' nage Do toho zmatku najednou vstoupila! gkola. jakasi babieka. Cervena jako jablieko, "A co kdy velci Ede je tam nandeist'ounka jako z cukru, a meta takove zeji? " ptaly se deti. "Mate pravdu," tekusmevave modre oci. Dati se uti gily a ee- la, ueitelka. "Nekteti velci by take pottekaly, co bude. bovali, aby je babioka kouzelnice "Detieky, " povidala ta babieka. "Stir- la poradku. Ale doufam, ac as vy vyrosne maminka yak ueitclky a tak musila tete, bude to veecko lepsi. Jun jestli nevgeho nochat a beZet pro doktora. Ja zapornenete! " vam jdu yytidit, ze tady bude za malou "Nezapomeneme! " volaly deti a rayshodinku. " Detem bylo lito ueitelky a jeji lily to doopravdy. maminky, ale nemely kdy dlouho o torn pternYglet, protole to. babieko zaeala sbirat se zeme pahazene papirk y a povidala: Museum KoluuabovS,ch dopLal a map. "Ale, ale, cole tu mate tolika smeti? To Vevoda de Verague, potomek slavneho ja mam svetnieku jinaL. nklhanou. " motepla,vce Cristobala Colona (Krigtofa Zastydely se deti a hued taky zaealy Kolumba), sebral cenne pamatky, vztauklizet. Rozeytene a ptehazene knihy hujici se na objeveni Ameriky. Tento zmizely s lavic do zasuvek, a na zemi sevillsky obsahuje minebylo za chvili ani smitka. Bahieka jeg drahocenny archl y mo map, plann a nakresil takta mno2te neodchaz.ela. Vyprala v urnYvadle houbu a eiste urnYvala ta.buli. lined ptisko stvi dopisy soukromYch i dvornich. V eili dva vetgi chlapci a pomahali utirat. jednom liste epanelsky kral Ferdinand Babieka se na, ne usmala a tekla: "Radgi natizuje PaloskYm, aby kapitanu Cristosi umyjie ruce, tohle ja uz sama ude- bola Colonovi byly dany potfebne lodi na lam!" Chlapci se podivali na sebe a zvo- cestu do Indie. Na jinern starem pergamenu s velikou peeeti je blahoptani kralali: "Poid'me se umYt k potoku! "Pojd'me, pojd'me!" piidaly se k to- lovskYch rnanzelu admirdlovi po et'astmu vgechny deti a vyhrnuly se ven. nem navratu z jeho prvni testy. Sbirka, Pied ekolou tekl bystrY potileek a za chvi- obsahuje i eetne dopisy, je2 psal Kolumbus svYm pfatelrirn, papeZskou bullu it li byly deti eiste urnyte. yzacne listiny, jeZ necho ya ani MuVracely se do gkoly a yidely, Ze babieka jine seum v Madridu a v Lisabone. Tento arLaird prach s lavic. "Poicl' sem. chlapeenachazi se v sevillskem Indickem ku! " zavolala na Va gika, kdy71, byla hoto- chly dome a pte gel asi 'cited 15 lety do vlastniva. "Tuhle ti schazi knoflik, ja ti jej ctvi epanelskeho statu. ptigiju. Deveatka, nen:Late nektera v ka• ota • belce jehlu a nit?" lined se naelo pino jehel i niti, a take Plno utrZenYch knotMogna se hell v gatne pied zrcadlem likU a natrZenYch loktd. Vet:el deveata je prisivala s babiekou o zavod a najednou, do 8amberkova "Jedenacteho ptikazani". bylo ve Skala ticlao a pino prace. Ba.bieka lVfladY herec Karbus hred v kuse malou jeg te narovnavala obraz, kterY visel gik- lohu sluhy Vojtecha a nemohi se dosto.t mo„ia1, sc ehla,pei honii i., uttela okonni k zrcadlu. Koncene si dodal odvahy, getrp rkenka, usinala na deli a zmizels, ne sla,vneho komika 0d g-trail a podotkl tak tile, jako pti g la Ani nemusila deti nesmele: "Promint: , , pare : Mogna, ja take naponainat.. aby ten poraclek zachovaly, hraji divadlo." ivIosna na neho am nejim samym so to libilo,"jak sc, od cistiity vzhledl a •ekl suss: "Jd vim, ale epatne!"

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Zeptali jste se u'Z' nekdy nacho, jak dycha? Zkuste to! Snad sklidite jen udiveny polzled. Snad se tazany u§klibne: "Dekuji za zeptani." Snad ptijme vAak otazku tak vakie, jak byla minena, a fekne: "Docela jednoduSe. Otevtu asta, nassaji do sebe vzduch plicemi a zase ho vydechnu. Vklyt' je to docela jednoduche." Ale neni to tak jednoduche a proste. Ptedsta.vte si, jak by to vypadalo, kdyby vSlchni lide dychani vzdy otevrenymi ftsty: straZnik na kti2ovatce, pravodei v elektrice, zlatovlasa filmova hereeka na platne s unrelSrm chrupem nahote i dole. Neni pravda, ze dychame otevtenymi asty jako ryba. Zdravi lide dYchaji pfi normalni telesne einnosti nosem. Teprve pti zvYgene svalove einnosti, podle veku na ptiklad pti stoupani do schodt, ph rychle chuzi nebo v behu nestaei uz nosni dicky propobgtet dostateene vzduchu pro zvYggne dYchani. Potom dychame take usty. Ph zvloAt' velke namaze zda se, ze nekdy nestaci an' nos a asta. Aikame, ze lapame po dechu. Ale ze ssajeme do sebe vzduch plicemi, to pfece je pravda, ne? Ano a ne. Sa,rnoztejme, plice vzduch ptijimaji. Plice samy by vSak nikdy nebyly s to nassat vzduch, protole nemaji schopnosti, aby se rortahovaly. Podobne jako mech tahaci harmoniky, kterST nutno rortannout, aby nabral do sebe vzduch, nutno rortahflout i plIce. To obstarava hrudni koA. RozAituje se ph vdechovani a zuZuje ph vYdechu. Plice nasleduji jeho pohyby zcela pasivne. Tak vdechneme za minutu v klidu etyti az sedm kvarta vzduchu. Ph svalove einnosti stoupa spotteba kysliku a tim i chani. Vdechujerne pak aZ. Aedesat kvartt za minutu. Na kratkou dobu bylo nameteno jako nej yyMi vYkon dokonce sto padesat kvarttl za minutu. Poeet vdecha za minutu je podle stati velmi raznY. DospelY elovek vdechne a vydechne za minutu prumerne osmnactkrat. Toho jste si je'Ste nevMmli? Ptedstavte si, ze bychom si museli osmnactkrat za'minutu priporninat, ze musime vdechnout a vyclechnout. Za hodinu 1080 krat, za den ... A co bychom delali v noci, kdyZ chceme spat? K nagemu stesti se rozhodly skupiny gangliovSrch bunek a nervovych vlaken v prodlouZene mik a v mozku, ze pievezmou tuto starost. Tyto nervove buriky a vlakna oznaeujeme jako centra clYchani. Odtud se tahnou svazky nervovS7ch vlaken ke gangliim v mige, kde vznikaji ty nervy, ktere zpasobuji pohyby prislu'dnYch svalri. Centrum dYchani funguje zcela automaticky, autonomne. Nepottebujeme se o

nic starat. Spoleha se zcela na krev. Stoupa-li v krvi obsah CO2 (mriodstvi kyslieniku) nad ur6i.tou hodnotu, ell klesa-li obsah kysliku pod ureitou hodnotu, reaguji bunky dYchaciho centra tim, de daji gangliovYm burikam dYchaci muskulatury impuls ke vdechnuti. TYmd zpitsobem po prve vdechne novorozene. Nyni uz vime o dYchani vAelicos. Virne, jak dychame, ale nevime jate, prod vubee dychame . Nebot' tim, ze se dostane vzduch do plic, nestalo by se jate nic, protode kadda bunk y v tele potfebuje pro svoje divotni funkce kyslik. Kyslik tedy nutno do bun& dopravit. Obstaravaji to dervene krvinky. NaAe plice jsou podobne jako houba na myti — slodeny z detnYch sklipkti, do kterych se dostava vzduch ze vzduchovYch rour, prildukk, stale jemnejgimi prriduAkami. Mezi temiti plicnimi sklipky, alveolami, probihaji jemne cevy, oddelene od nich velmi jemnou stenou. Tak se dostava, kyslik z alveol do krve a obracene kyslienik uhlieitY z krve do alveol k vydechnuti. Aby se tak stalo, nutno ovSem ptekonat odpor onech jemnSrch sten. K tomu, je zapottebi sily el lepe diference tlaku mezi krvi a vzdtfAntm prostorem. sklenici sodovkou, mMeme pozorovat, jak kyslienik uhlieitY stoupa ve forme malSrch bublinek plynu. To znamena, ze kyslienik uhlieity vystupuje z vody do vzduchu, protode tlak CO2 V sodovce, je vetAi fled ye vzduchu. Podle tehoZ fysikalniho principu provadi se take vymena kyslidniku uhlieiteho a kysliku mezi krvi a plicnimi alveolami. Zatim co se vydechuje 002, dopravuji dervene krvinky kyslik do vgech cash tela. Jestlide jste si na konci tohoto elanku poradne vdechli a vydechli a myslite, jste tim yyderpali schopnosti na. eho dYchaciho aparatu, pak vas musime zklamat. Vdedite mu za mnohem vice. Vdedite mu za to, de kahete, chrchlate, kYcho.te, funite, smrkate, chrapete, foukate, brudite, plaftte, vzlykate, vzdychate, ziv nevate, mluvite, zpivate, piskate a posledni tade se smejete. Na, hudebnim veeirku. ZnamST anglickY spisovatel Bernard Shaw byl pozvan na hudebni veeirek, na nemZ neinkoval houslista bez vakereho nadani. "Co o nem soudite?" tazala se hostitelka Shawa. "Ptipomina mi Paderewskiho," odvetil splsovatel. "Paderevskiho?" divila se hostitelka. "Vklyt' ten piece neni houslistou!" "Tenble take ne," odvetil Shaw.

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OKMDLENA SLOVA (Dokoneeni se strany 4.) MivetSi podet oktidlenych slov pochazi z mudrosiovi starchnarodtin z dejin metal a literatury. Poteka.dlo "Prate nehanobi eloveka" je Stare mnoho tisic let. Setkavame se s nim jiz v 7. stoleti pt. Kr. u nejstar giho epickeho basnika po Homerovi Hesioda v dile "Prate a dnove". Chat "Vox poplin, vox der "Hlas du, hlas bold" nachazime v jine stylisaci iiz u zmineneho Hesioda a take u timskeho stoickeho filosofa Senecy, jen jit pied Kristem hlasal lasku k Puvodni zneni Senecova citatu je toto: "Vet ml, svata je tee lidu." "In vino veritas" "Ve vine je pra y da". Thatto thernatem se zalaYvali jak tak i rimsti spisovatele a jit tehdy se stab poiekadlem. Take potekadlo "Ruka ruku myje" je FtarovOkeho pfrvodu. Cterne je ye forme "Manus manum lavat" u timskeho spisovatele Petronia, jen slul v Rime jako "rozhodei ye vecech vkusu". "Koh() Vila znieiti chce, rani ho slepojo citat z nezna,meho teckeho tragika. Jine popularni potekalo: "Netijeme, abychom iedli, nYbrt jime, abychom till", je v .zato z moudrosti Sokratovy. • "Vita brevis, ars longe" "2ivot.• je kratky, tuneni je vedrie" je aforismus nejslavnejSilio teckeho lekate Hippokra ta (til asi v dobe 460-370 pt. Kr.), Jim zadina, sve proslule aforismy. "Hippokratova, tvat" je charakteristika vzata z jeho spisu "Prognostikon", jit stanovi znaky blitici se smrti: gpidatY nos, za.padle oei a zsinala barva oblideje. Purekadlo: "Rekni mite, s kYm obcujeg, a ti teknu, kdo jsi" pochazi z feetiny a svedei o pronikavern Usudku tehdejgiho lidu. "Platonicka laska" se nazYva laska vyvoland ne tak srnyslnosti, jako spi ge krasou du:e a charakteru. Platonickou se nazYva proto, te slavity spisovatel teckY Plato ji takto vyklada ve svern spise "Symposion" ("Hostina"). A nyni jeg te nekolik citatti z dejin umeni a literatury. Ze spisfr slavneho basnika stare komedie aticke Aristofana (450-330 pt. Kr.) ,pochaz1 potekadio: "Nositi sovy do Atnen", cot znamend konati zbyteenou praci. V Athenach bylo mnoho so y a byly tam chovany a cteny jako symbol ostra,titosti, nebot' vidi i v noel, a jako takove byly ye znaku bohyne Atheny, ochrdnkyno My kikarne: "Nositi dtivi do lesa". "Vypravuji, jak jsem slygel" je obyeejnY obrat keel, jinit se dmezuje hodnover-

no,t. Setkavame se s ni east° u otce tedejepisu Herodota z Halikarnasu. V Wane mltive pomahame si situ/kern "pry". "Ale kdo east() tika "pry", ten Ito". A proto je dobte pamatovati si i jine 0ktidlene slovo starYch, ktere zni: "Cum grano salis" -- "Se zrnkem soli", t. j. nema se katde tvrzeni brati bezpodmineene, nYbrt je pedlive uvatiti. "Labuti pisni" nazYvame posledni tvorbu basnika nebo nmelce. Tohoto obratu poutil prvne timsky spi ,nvatel Plinius, kdyt zeintel Licinius Crassus, slaynY teenik timskY a tribuit kratce pote, kdyt pronesl svou pravil: "To byla labuti piseri boisk(sho mute." Ptirovnazi je aerpano z tcoke povesti, to labutd, tijici na latezich Enclanu, velke teky v severni Evrope, ohlasun svou mart krasnym, tesklivYm zpevent. VYrazu "Alter ego" "Dru pe j e poutivali Rekove a Rimand k oznadeni dobreho ptitele, kter'tto ()brat vesel v vani do vgech evropskYch ja4yku. Latinsky obrat "Post festum" znamend "po slavnosti", t. j. pozde, kdyt v ge, prod jsme ptiSli, je jit pryd. eesky kikame: "Ptijit s ktitkem po funuse". Konenne tuto stat' krasnYrn oktidlenYm slovem: "Klidne a nestranne", jet bylo heslem slavneho timskeho dejepisce Tacita. Vyrazu toho poutivame, chceme11 zdeirarnit, nezaujatost. ) • ere • ( gTOVNI ZNAMKA ROZHODLA PO PANAMSKEM Jen proste po gtovni znamce nutno pisovat, to prupla y, kterY spojuje TichY a AtlantickY ocean, vede Panamou a nikoliv nicaraguajskou oblasti. Jak k tomu doglo, je znarno mato liclern. V rote 1902 se v a.merickem kongresu rozhoteene bojovalo o to, ma-1 projektovany pruplav mezi obema oceany vest Nicaraguou nebo Panamou. Za obema projekty staly vlivne skupiny velkokapiVlady Nicaraguy a Panamy, ktera, se teprve nedavno stala samostatnYm statem, byly koupeny clifema nayzajem spolu bojujicirni spoleenostrni a.rnerickeho velkokapitalu. Pro stavbu prilpla yu si dala katcla skupina, ptitkuout vgechny motile konccse. Zapas Inez' °barna spoleenostmi byl, v arnerickein kongresu yeden s rozhoteenim, s jakym se ye SpojenYch statech bojuje o milionove zisky. Katcla, z obou spolednosti mela v kongresu svoje clobte placene idstupce. Mnoho dni trvalo zapoleni obou stran. Testae peed hlasovanim vystoupil na rocnickou tribunu poslanec Fellerwy, jeden z nejhorlivel gich obhajcid nicaraguajskeho projektu. S dtverou ye vitktstvi /naval v ruce dokumentem a tikal "Jako hlavni dtivod proti stavbe kanalu Nicaraguou I

Ve stkedu, dhe 21. btezna 1951. bylo netistale uvadeno ohroteni staveb zemettesenim.. NicaraguajskY president prohlaguje v tomto dokumentu slavnostne, to jeho zeme bylo_po desetileti u gettena sopeenYch vYbuchn a zemetteseni." Boute nad geni na lavicich ptivrtencti Nicaraguy kvitovala" tento vYrok. Ptivrtenci Panamskeho prilplavu citili, ztraceji pfidu pod nohama. Jen s hou docilili, to konedne hlasovani bylo odloteno na pti g ti den. Jejich zaletitost byla na, torn Spatne, nebot' bylo nepopiratelnYrn faktem, trat' Panarriskeho prtiplavu povede jednou z nejnezdravejgich krajin Sttedni Anieriky.DeInici na tomto ka.nalu byli ustavicitne v nebezpedi tivota. Proti toinuto padnemu • ‘citivodu svych neptatel-uvacleli zase oni caste soPeCne vYbuchy•-t Nicaragui. 1Viluvei poslancii,tteti byli pro Panam, sky' prtiplav, Winburn, seciel po zasedani Ve sVem pokoji a mei velke starosti. se u neho" Ohlasil mlady muk ktery s nim chtel velrni nalehave lioVotit. Winburn mu vzkatal, to nemA eas. Sekretat se vratil jate jednou a tekl, to mladY Mut prohlasil, to by naohl jc..,gtazachranit PanamskY 'Ian:inla y . To probudilo Winburnily zajem. "eini jste?" pozdra yil necItivetive rriladello mute. Piel Y apujici ocipbved' znela: "Sberatel znamek. Prosim vas jen o to, abyste ,se gel se ninou projit." Winburn rozhotdene vybucial, 2e jeho drahocennY7 das nemdte oltraclat poloidiot. Winburn vrtel hlayou a gel za syym hostem,kterY ho vedl jen nekolik set Metal. Zasiavil se pted vYkladni sktini velkeho filatelistickeho zavodu a ukazal mu mieky na, malpu fialovou znainku. Win= burn stale joke nevedel, co to ma,znamenat. Tu ho vtahl mlacly mut do obchodu, dal si ptedlotit to znUmku a vtiskl Winburnovi do ruky zvet govaei sklo. Obrazek na znanace ptedstavoval 'Sopku Momotomb°, stojici v bezprosttedni blizkosti planoVanebo Prtiplavu v Nicaragui. Sopka byla v vYbuchu. "Tidy vySlo tato znamka?" zeptal se Winburn vtruSene. "Ptecl necelymi dyema roky." ocipo yedel obchodnik. Nyni sc. take ptedstavil sbera:tel xrinek: 'Jmenuji se BunaU-Varilla," reki, jsem intenYrem planovaneho Panamskeho prtplavu. Mel jsem proto jisty zajem na tomto .projektu." Drulaelio dne, , prod hl,asovanirn o projektu, mei katdy e'en kongresti pted sebou malY bily karton s fialovou nicaraguaujskou znarn. kou s napisem: "Tim= to malYm ittednim dokumentem, roz gitenym ye statisieich, usvedeuje Nicaragua sanut • sebe Ye lzi. At' 2ije PananiskY prtinlav!" • Za, mesic se zai;alo pracovat na Palia,nrskem prUplavu.

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MUSINGS OF THE EDITOR OUR FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION YOUR EDITOR MAKES another cor)i-. with its local lodges can be compared to fession, because he made another bluna building with many rooms. Just as der. In reporting about the appointment a building is erected by placing one of Brother Marek to one of the combrick upon another and the quality of mittees of the National Fraternal Conthe building is known by the quality of , gress, your editor made the statement the bricks, so cur organization consists that this was the first time our SPJST of you, and you, and you, as individuals received such recognition. Not only that and the strength—the moral texture— the statement was incorrect, but it apof our SPJST is the sum of the strength, peared as if your editor purposely overthe interest, and the performance of the looked former appointments. Permit me individual member. When we, as mem- to make the correction. Immediately bers of the local lodge, are working after we joined the National Fraternal hard to dedicate our local lodge and Congress, Brother Chernosky and Chuits functioning to high ideals, that is a pick served on some committees and sound organization. Our comparatively I wound up in 1950 as a member of the small society is again a brick in a investment section of the National Framuch larger society, called the American ternal Congress for serval years and Nation. Again, the strength of our own he still holds membership in that comsociety makes for the strength of the mittee. My erroneous statement must whole nation. Estimated the caliber of have looked downright foolish to all the the individual bricks and you know the SPJST members who in the past four strength of the entire structure. Many or five years had read about these apempires the world have known has de- pointments in the Vestnik while your cayed, crumbled, and fallen. The classic editor had his face buried in books and example is that of the Roman Empire. research material. It proves again that The empire crumbled, not because it a man may have two or three university lacked men with brains and ability at degrees and still be dumb in some rethe top. It fell apart because the great spect. My apology for this oversight, and mass of citizens, the bricks of society, thanks for correcting me. ) • 41, became soft, indifferent, unprincipled. The human-bricks did not have the right SOMETIMES YOUR EDITOR THINKS quality. that our supreme officers should take • * • t the list cf all the local lodges, go down DURING THE FIRST TWO MONTHS the list, and grade every one of the of the year the home office of every lodges as to its activity, growth, usefraternal benefit society is a very busy fulness—even to the right to operate place. The annual reports are being pre- and exist. There may be some lodges pared. Information must be assembled i which are to be complimented for beon insurance in force, benefits paid, ing fairly active and progressive. There new business secured, investments made are others which could do more by beand a multitude of other items. Each ing encouraged and prompted from time society rushes with its reports, trying to time. And there are many lodges Which to publish its statements as soon as pos- have already forfeited their charters sible. by their inactivity. • 4, • Your editor hopes that the report for the year 1950 will be available to THE FRATERNAL SYS'i'EM brought our memiaers in a very short time protection to the homes of America. All ) • 41 • that followed, commercial life insurIS IT POSSIBLE to get something for ance, industrial, group and the governnothing? ment schemes had the way cleared for Evidently man is destined to earn them. So it is that most of the life what he receives. He will have to pay. insurance in the world is carried on If he does not, what he gets is net the people of the North American Conworth having, tinent..

APPOINTMENT of the standing cormmittees of the ational NationalFraternal Congress of America by President John P. Stock shows that representation is Well distributed. It is confronting and refreshing to consider that such .tia. diVerse representation of societies are called to work for the good of all. It really is a representation: of brotherhood, a representation of national fraternal feeling. No doubt some who accepted , committee appointments do not expect to do much work themselves, but, anyway, they are available fcr service. Some ; of the chairmen of various committees will be more energetic and will try to push through some good plans. Our president, Brother Edward L. Marek, is serving . op the Public Relations Committee under Farrar Newberry, who is, president of Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society. All the activity of the National Fraternal Congress is solely for the good of every society affiliated with the Congress. Even' if Brother Marek may not he expected to do much work -himself, he has a wonderful opportimitY' to gain immensely by this ,assignment• and pass his experiences and informations gained down the line to his follow. officers and through the Vestnik to the entire membership. ) • 4 • OUR READERS SHOULD KNOW about another professor of the Czech descent. It was again by a happy coincidence that your editor found out this new professor. One day he called the offie of Dr. Henry R. Maresh regarding some report about the All-Texas Folk Festival. His secretary stated that Dr. Maiesh was doing some work in the C011ege' of Medicine, Baylor University. It did not register in full. This week the news, leaked out: Dr. Henry R. Maresh. phy isician and .surgeon, has been appbinted to the Faculty of the College of Medicine as Professor of Clinical Medicine. Our sincere congratulations, Dr. 1Vlaresh. • 4 • ( SYMPATHY may not cost anything in dollars and cents, but at times it is a valuable thing.

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IT IS SPJST STORY EVERY DAY One of cur common faults is to undervalue life insurance because we are So familiar with it. For the next few minutes let's assume there never had been such a thing as life insurance. Then let's consider the family, and. business situation of John a young man who has a good job with a good future, but has not accumulated an estate for himself and his family. One day John is stopped by his banker, who asks how things are going. John says everything is fine—but he , is ,bothered about what is going to happen if he dies. Other people leave estates. to their widows. If he should die today; there wouldn't be anything for his wife. So the banker says, "Well, we'll take care of that for you. You know we sometimes make commercial loans to business houses. with the understanding that a certain, minimum balance will always be ,kept on deposit in this bank. A line of credit, so to speak. "What you're concerned about is not money while you're alive; it's money for four family if you don't live. Isn't that true?" "Yes, that's exactly it." `Mow much of an estate would you like ta leave to your family?" "Oh, about $10,000." • "-All right, we'll loan you $10,000 with the.understanding that you will keep at leaA that much on deposit in the bank as long as you live." "That's wonderful. I suppose you'll charge 6% interest?" No ;we'll only charge 3%." that usual?" "Well, under certain circumstances we don't charge quite as much. Well charoe,,you only 3% interest." So John goes home to tell his wife the g ood news. Now, he too will leave an estate for his family. But a few months later he stops by the banker's desk. "You know, I've been thinking a little about this loan you, arranged for my estate. Don't get me wrong.. I think it's a good deal to be able borrow money at 3%. But. I'm very much concerned about whether my wife will be able to pay the 3% after I'm gone. I know she'll go to work and I realiz,c: it's a small rate of interest..." The banker interrupts. "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't tell you about that. In case of your death we will cancel all further interest payments." So John goes on his way with an even greater appreciation of the fine services this bank has 'to offer. He had never known a bank could do so much.

.A few years later we look in on John. chatting with the banker again as he says, "You know, I like this estate loan you made me at 3%. I don't have any trouble meeting that $300 each year, and I do appreciate that my wife will not have to pay any interest after my death. But I do have this problem. She may have trouble in repaying the principal. I don't know just how she is going to repay it Would she have much time in which to repay the principal on that loan?" The banker immediately replies: "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't tell you. We will cancel the obligation when we cancel the interest at your death. Neither you nor your wife will ever have to pay any part of the principal." "Well, wait a minute! You mean to say that after my death my wife can draw on that $10,000 account any time she wants to? I've just been paying 3% interest, but she will never have to pay any interest or principal, and she won't owe the bank anything when she dies?" "Yes that's true. We think you're going to live quite a while. We're going to take our chances on getting enough money just in interest alone." So John has an even more enthusiastic idea about the services of this bank. One day the banker sees Jol n's wife making a deposit and calls her over. "John has been sick for about nine months," she says. "The doctors think they may get him back on his feet in another year or two, but it's going to be a long-drawn-out affair." , "How are you getting along?" "Well, I've got a job. I'm making enough to meet the bills fairly well. The only thing is this $300 interest item that I have to pay." "Oh, " says the banker, "as long as John is sick, we'll give you back that $300. And we'll cancel future interest payments until he gets back to work." Later, John is in the bank again, and the banker tells him it's fine to see him looking so well. "Yes, I'm back at work and feeling fine. I've been working for six months now, and I've made enough money so I can meet my $300 interest item due now, and two of the $300 payments we skipped while I was sick." "Oh, by the way," says the banker, "don't make up any of those payments. You can use that money for something else. Well just cancel out those interest payments entirely." A few years later John conics into the

bank and says, "I'm going to have to give up my deal with you on that estate program. I've been out of work for six months, and I don't know where I'm going to get another job and I can't meet the $300." So the banker says, "That's nothing, skip it! Pay me when you go back to work. You just skip every $300 payment from now on until you get organized, and when you do get work, you can pay back, as far as you care to, those amounts you've missed, with 5%per year added. "And besides, if you need any cash, go ahead and withdraw it too, ox* the same basis." So John draws,..a few hundred dollars, and after awhile, back at work he makes enough to repay those amounts. John is entirely sold on this bank. The next time we see John he is saying to the banker, "I have another interest payment on my estate account.' "By the way," says the banker, "when did we make that loan to Tv?" They look up the records and find that it was 20 yeras ago. "Tell N'ou what I'll do," says Mr. Banker. "You've been a very good customer at this bank, and we're going to cancel all future interest payments." "You mean I don't have to pay the $300 here anymore?" "Correct." "Not at all during my lifetime?" "No more payments." "My wife will never have to pay it after I'm gone?" "No." "Neither of us will ever have to pay a ay part of the principal or the interest?" "That's right." No wonder John thinks this the best bank in the world! Next we see John going over to tell the banker he's 65 now and won't be working any more. He's going to get a little Social Security, about $75 between Mary and himself, and if anything happens to him, Mary will have that $10,000 estate. Meanwhile, they have a few hundred dollars here and there, and they'll make out all right. But the banker isn't so sure. After looking up the records', he conies up with this offer: "You've paid us 3% per year for 20 years. You missed two or three years while you were sick, but we got enough to make that up. So let's assume that you've paid in 60% on 10,000— or $6,000. "We've had the use of that money all these years so we've made sonic interest on that. What we'll do for you now is (Continued on page 22.)

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DON'T ENVY BROTHER SVADLENAL: This is not a plug, nor a commercial. It really should be entitled "What Every Citizen" Should Know About Legislature." Such a title, however, may not be catchy enough to get you started reading this article. We use the name of the vicepresident of the SPJST, Brother Svadlenak, who is also serving in the State Legislature, to get you started reading about his work. "Too few citizens of our state and nation are heeding a Very real warning today: Take a good, long look at our government before it gets too big to understand and too costly to support." These words are from a speech delivered by John Ben Shepperd, secretary of the state, and secretary of the Texas Economy Commission. He was one of the principal speakers before the state convention of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs last November in Fort Worth. "Texas government is a mighty big business today," Shepperd declared during the address. "It is spending tax money at the rate of $1,370,000 a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Yet Texas government operates within a framework designed in 1876." A boiler blows out in a canning plant of the Texas Prison System. A president wants to open a new department in the state college he manages. An Indian carelessly knocks out a window pane in a hut .on the AlabamaCoushatti Indian Reservation maintained by the state, near Livingston. Two state agencies come up with quite different ideas on enforcing laws regulating motor trucks on Texas highways. — All such events affect the work of state government and what it costs. Large or small, they affect also the wsrk of the Legislative Budget staff, a group of six men and women who are continually concerned with the what, why, and how, of our state government. What is the State Approval Agency trying to do for Texas citizens? Why does the Cotton Research Committee wish to spend tax dollars to find better ways of spinning Texas cotton fibres? How can the . state more quickly and ecenomically cure mental diseases that a f flict some of our neighbors? These are the kinds of questions for which the Legislative Budget staff must .find solid answers. The facts and information it finds must be made available to the citizens of the state who pay the bill, and to their representatives in the Texas legislature who make the final decisions. In democratic government, judgment, like justice, can be blind without the facts.

The questions of what, why, and how with which the budget staff is continually plaguing state 'officials and employees might well be turned on the Legislative Budget staff itself. It, too, costs the taxpayer money. What does it do? Why? How? The rest of this article undertakes to answer those questions for you, the person who pays the bill. The budget examiners who work for the Legislature have three main things to do. One is to inspect state work to see if it's necessary and valuable, whether it duplicates the work some ether government agency is doing, and whether it can be done better and cheaper. The second main job is to build a budget, an operating plan, for the entire state government. A real budget must be a lot more than just a bunch of figures. The plans of work behind those dollar marks, the problems that must be solved, the concrete results for you, your community, and for all the state, must be known • and spelled out. Otherwise. the dollar figures do not mean much. This budgeted program of work is one you and your neighbors should discuss and develop an informed opinion about. If you do, not, to that very extent democracy fails — at the very time some people in the world would like to see it fail completely. The last part of the Legislative Budget staff's job is drafting the appropriation bills. These, after being examined by appropriation committees and decided by the Legislature, finally become the laws that govern state spending far a twb-year period. The budget examiners, then, are hired hands of the Legislature. In a budget Sense, they are the bird dogs the Legislature uses for hunting down useless expense. The bird dogs are now on their first run. But why? Now come the Legislature thought it needs this help? It never had it before. The answer lies in the job of a legislator--the kind of work he must do and the pressures and deadlines he works under. Imagine for a few minutes that you are a member of the Texas Legislature. You want to be a good one. You don't want Texas to become a semi-socialistic state like California. You don't want Texas to take the road of high taxes and deficit spending. You are leery of "handouts." You want citizens to get their money's worth. You set out for Au tin with determination and a high! sense of purpose. You have just spent some of your Own

hard-earned cash to get elected by your friends and neighbors. The job of legislator pays you only about $600 a year, plus $5 for each day in excess of 120 days the Legislature is in regulas session. You have to spend at least four months attending a regular session of the Legislature. And if the governor calls a special session on some problem, you are duty-bound to answer that call too. In between. you have to hold your personal business together somehow, to continue to make a living. At Austin you find the new Legislature in the throes of organization: electing a Speaker of the House, setting ip committees of the House and Senate, struggling through 'a flood of proposed bills and resolutions. Your desk is piled high with letters from the folks back home. There are constituents in the reception room waiting to see you. A fellow-;legislator. wants your help en one of his bills. The long distance operator is holding a call for you. A pending subjecVis about to reach a record vote. And here's a pageboy with a telegram from a good friend of your mother begging you to find a job for her cousin. All of this at the same time The Legislature adjourns about surf down. The visitors in the galleries home. But you don't. There are tWO committee meetings tonight. And in be tureen you've got to make up your mind how you're going to vote on that big tax bill tomorrow. You fight off your weariness, and go to the first committee room. The ante-:. room is crowded with government officials. Each one needs to take you aside for a few personal remarks. Inside the committee room, the chairman is in the same tough situation. He is asking a department head, who is appearing befue your committee to explain his need for more tax money, to restrict his remarks to 15 minutes. There Simply isn't any more time to give. This is no exaggerated picture. Ask any member of the Legislature who has served one term. Nearly every department head is concerned with getting the largest poss'..ble apropriation for his agency. You, the legislator, get only one point of view: the critical need for more and more tax money to spend. Appropriation bills and revenue usually come up for consideration with little attention to the relationship of one to the other, of outgo to in-. come. (Continued on Page 22)

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SENATOR STRAUSS' COLUMN

Wednesday, March 21, 1951

Don't Envy Brother Svadlenak

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE 15th SENA- passes it would leave enough time be,TORAL DISTRICT: tween the primary and the general elecWe have reached the half way point tion to decide an'election contest in (Continued from page 21:) of the session. This' is the last week for the courts. We have also had a constiAfter several weeks of this, you the introduction of bills. According to tutional amendment introduced pro- strongly wish yoti had the time to d our State Constitution, all bills are to be viding for a four year term of office cut mere facts for intelligent judgment introduced during the first 60 days of for precinct. county, district and State and decision. If the job of legislator paid the session. In order to introduce a bill officials. This amendment provides that a little more, you might be financially after the first 60 days the Constitutional one-half of these officials would run for able to do the fact-finding yourself. But provision must be suspended, which re- office every two years for a four year you learn that several years ago there quires a four-fifths vote of the mem- term. We would still have elections was a proposed constitutional amendbership of either house. It will be almost every two years but the ballot would be , ment to pay legislators more money. It impossible to introduce any controver- only one-half as long. was defeated, perhaps because the citNow that the session has passed the izens didn't quite understand. sial . legislation from now on because of half way mark there are more and more this ;prevision in the Constitution. So late one night, about to reach the Many of you will remember that two bills going to be brought up for passage. breaking point, you discuss thelproblem I want to remind the people again that years ago the legislature submitted a with your colleagues. You knoVo that dercOnstitutional admendment authoriz- we appreciate hearing from them con- mocratic government is a system of cerning legislation which they are for or ing the creation of rural fire prevention checks and balances between the exedistricts. This amendment was defeated against. cutive; judicial, and legislative branches. Sincerely, by the people. Now with the prolonged But you begin to wander about the Gus J. Strauss drought and the increase in grass and "checks and balances" for the spending forest fires we have had many requests tide. The Legislature has so few facts, to submit this amendment to the people HOW TheTHEY hero BEGAN of this piece started out so little time, with which to chart a again. The Senate has passed this aHis name was Victor safe course through the complexities of mendinent. It provides that a rural fire being a villain ; public financing. prevention district can be created by an Orille, a young Canadian who journeyed - Someone remembers the State Audiact of the legislature and by a vote of to Australia, ran down and killed a tor's suggestion that it would be a good the people living within the district. It woman while driving a car, was sent- idea for the Legislature to hire a fact'also provides that the people within the enced to the Australian pokey for quite finding staff to help. The longer you district can vote a tax upon themselves a spell, and amused himself during his think about it ; the more convincing befor the purpose of buying fire fighting incarceration by inventing a hobby which comes the idea. It might offer a solution `equipment and raising the necessary, has since become almost a national in- to a problem of vital concern to you and l'Unds to operate the district fire preven- stitution with us. to every citizen. And to sum it up, Brotin set up. This is purely permissive for Young Orille whiled away the tire- ther Svadlenak's job as a State Repre-themselves whether or not they want some hours behind the bars by tearing sentative is far from being a bed of this'fire protection. If a group of people up magazine illustrations and puting roses. ) • lib in- a' particular area decide that they them back together again. On his rounds one day the warden Want to create a fire prevention district they will be required to first approve asked his prisoner about the little heaps it by vote and to pay the bill for its of brightly colored paper. Later he told an editor friend about the charge's pasoperation. A constitutional amendement calling time, suggesting that it might make a for a state wire prohibition election has feature for his newspaper. The editor )Continued from page 20) been introduced in the House of Rep- talked to Orille and commissioned him pay you $11,600—the original loan plus resentatives by Rep. Wilkinson of Shelby to construct a puzzle a week for his $1,600—and let you draw on that at any County. Before this amendment can be paper. time, or take it all out in cash. submitted to a vote of the people it When he had served his term, Victor "Or if want, we'll let you draw 3% must receive 100 votes in the House and Orille came to America and started a per year, and we'll hold the full amount 21 votes in the Senate. From discussion business manufacturing jigsaw puzzles. and give it to your wife at your death. which we have heard it is very doubtful The idea caught on, spread around the "If you prefer, we will work out an if this amendment can get these votes. globe, and made him a tidy fortune. agreement in which we will take a With the depleted condition of the State General Revenue Fund it seems A salesman stopped at the house and chance on how long you're going to live, that most 'members would not like to see tried to sell Grandpa one of the new and we'll pay you $70 a month (about the State lose the large sums of tax hearing aid devices. "Don't need it," $840 a year) and guarantee to continue moiey which are collected now from Grandpa said, "I hear mere now than paying as long as you live. How's that?" If this little cross-section of John't life the sale of beer, wine and whiskey. I can understand." sounds like a fantasy compare a 20-pay )• • f-w We now have 357 bills in the Senate. Many of these are purely local dealing They call it cold cash because you life contract at age 20 or 25 with the with game laws in specific counties, etc. can't keep it long enough to warm' it results produced by the friendly banker. With our SPJST acting the part of There are several of general interest, up. such as the one to hold the primary ) • es^ • the bank, with us playing the role of the election in May and the run off in June, The ultimate test of a sense of hum- banker, and with John as our client,' a instead of in July and August as is or is that a man should always be able drama of great consequence can be enacted every day, ,done at the present time. If this bill to laugh at himself. 111

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Wednesday, March 21, 1951

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MOST POLITE MAN There are eighty tollgate collectors on the San Francisco-Okland bay bridge. They are the most polite men. But more than courtesy is involved. Take any one of them and let us call him, for instance, Frank Moore. Mrs. Frank Moore will tell you that her husband is the politest man in the world. Since 1940 he has stood at the eastern end of the San Francisco-Oakland bay bridge and said "thank you" more than 4,000,000 times. On a busy day he may say it as often as 4,200 times and during rush hours—morning and evening, Monday through Friday —will repeat the courteous expression once every three seconds. Between times he collects quarters —and pickles, and dimes, halves and dollars and $20 bills. He has collected more than $1,200,000 in the past ten years; has made change more than 2,000,000 times with an error average , of considerably less than one in 10,000. He has helped to apprehend autordobile thieves, bandits, counterfeiters and dope peddlers. But all these feats and achievements pale into insignificance for Frank against thank you's said 4,000 times a day to 4,000 hands stuck out of 4,000 automobiles. The thank you is an inviolable rule imposed on him and the 9 other collectors by Toll Captain M. L. Silvey, who 0 administers the gates. "We are proud of lots of things about the bridge," Silvey says. "We are proud that it is the biggest bridge in the world, that more traffic move across it than across any comparable structure in the world and at a nigher rate per lane than through any other tollgate in the world. And we are proud to say that with 80,000 thank you's said here every dat4 this is probably the politest place in the World." There is more behind the thank you than simple courtesy, however. Originally the rule was impossed partly because Califcrnians are not accustomed to tollgates. The authorities hoped that a little extra courtesy might help to soothe the savage public breast. The toll captain soon found, however, that the thank you did more than that: it made better collectors of the men at the gate. It reduced errors in the cash turn-in and helped to speed the flow of traffic to a record rate per lane. I p gine six lanes of cars jammed elinost bumper to bumper across the va q arch of a man-made. sodium-lighted rainbow in the sky. Bumper to bumper and fender to fender-5,000 automobiles hurrying eastward or westward: Women hurrying back from work to get their

husbands dinners; husbands hurrying from work to eat their dinners; women hurrying to hospitals to have babies. It is a vast assembly line that can move only as Frank and his fellow-collectors move it, standing outside their little sentry-boxes, their left hands palming a quarter and a half dollar. The motorist slides to a stop, waving a dollar bill. Like a mechanical man, Frank takes the dollar in his left hand and drops it into the till of the cash register; automatically his right hand presses the quarter and a half into the hands of the motorist (closing his fingers about them so he cannot possibly scatter them on the pavement). Automatically, too, his right hand punches the 25 cent key on the register; says "Thank you." It is a simple operation: a second for the motorist to come to a stop; a second to make change and ring up the toll; a half second to get the motorist on his way. It is an operation so simple that, by sheer monotony the collector would probably gum up the works if the thank you were not added to complete the pattern of automatic actions. There seems to be a tendency for the human mechanism to short-cut to leave out one phase of the operation where that phase is not essential to the successful completion of the pattern. The pattern starts with the toll taker reaching out his left hand to take the money; it ends with him pressing the change into the motorist's hand and seeing him drive away. Between is the essential action of dropping the toll into the box. No one of these simple actions can be omitted without interrupting the pattern. But punching the key — ringing up the toll — that is another matter. The collector can forget; after you have rung up 499 fares in 30 or 40 minutes you can never be sure that you have rung up the five-hundredth. And so, when you say 'thank you' to a motorist, you are saying more than 'thank you'. You are saying 'I rang up that fare!' And if you say it, you do it. You won't omit the key-punching if you don't omit the thank you. And you are only one tenth as likely to omit a double operation as a single one. Thus courtesy pays off, in a different sense than that expressed in the copybo oks. After he's been on the gates a while, a collector begins to get the illusion that it is he and not the public that is moving the assembly line along the bridge. He begins to feel that he stands there and whips the cars acios He begins to feel personally responsible for

each and every car approaching. He knows he shouldn't but he does. It is reach ... make change ... say thank you ... reach ... make change ... whip them through. And then a motorist pulls up, offers his quarter, leans out the window and says, "Say, buddy, how do you get ftom here to Hayward?" The assembly line comes to a stop. In ten seconds cars are piled up in Frank's lane for 100 yards. There is nothing Frank can do about it. It would take longer to tell the driver where to go than to tell him how • to get to Hayward. He waves an arrfi says, "Keep right on the way and follow the sign through Oakland," The driver says, "But do I have to go through San Leandro?" Frank says,. "No," and the driver's wife leans over and says, wouldn't it be quicker to go through Walnut Creek to get to Modesto?" Frank tells her and the driver says, "Thanks" and Frank says, "Thank you and the driver probably says to hir,aself, "Gosh. that's a pleasant kind of a guy.", What he doesn't know is that Frank has been standing there watching the traffic jam up and feeling his ulcers tighten up at every question. Not until he ha g said "thank you" can he toss the quarter in the cash box and punch tile 25 cent key. "And the funny part of it is," Frank says, "that it makes you feel better when you've said it. You'd rather cuss the guy out but to say 'thank you' as though you meant it is the next best thing. It makes you remember that all you have to do is to take the quarters and let the drivers get through the best they caTnorl' l-collecting, all the collectors agree, would be a fine occupation if it weren't for the public. The worst drivers, they say, are Sunday drivers; it takes almost 40 Per cent longer to get 1,000 cars through the gate on Sunday than on Friday. But even the regular commuters have their crackpot fringe... It i g as though they were under some compul sion to see if they can't outsmart hto) One stunt is to hand the collet' oir three dimes for a 25 cent toll. Si ice the cia moo, system is set up on a cent basis—a quarter for the toll three quarters always ready in change toi the motorist—the collector then has to fish around in his sentry box to try to find a lone nickel. Another driver will hold out his toll in a tightly closed fist so that the c e llector cannot see in advance whether he is getting a quarter, a half. a dollar or a five. And still another will Continued on Page 24

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LETTERS CZECH COURSE Perhaps some of you have wondered just how the course in Czech has been responded to, and if it is not too late to enroll. This is an extension course offered by the University of Houston and is open to any high school graduate. - Aside, from the fact that we have all learned something even after the first lesson, we have all more or less come to the conclusion that this is a means to social fellowship and closer understanding. By this I mean that while it is understood that we are primarily attending this class for the purpose of improving and. learning how to speak "eesky" and the understanding of its composition, we are also learning something cf the customs of the land of its origin. This is surprising even to those that have been reared by parents of Cvgich origin. We have learned and 'heard of customs that I am sure we were' not aware of before. The teaching of the language and customs of the country tie in so naturally that comprehending one is almost impossible without the comprehension of, the other. Our class consists of busy people; about twenty-one of theni. This includes housewives, business and professional people. Several are holding positions and offices in the local Lodge Pokrok, and I venture to add that they appr ,._, ciate taking advantage of this opportunity. I merely point this out if you hf-sitate joining the class because of other connections which keep you occupied. Remember, it is the busy person that somehow finds time to become interested in several projects, appreciating the fact that there is a limit, of course. In this particular class, most everybody knows everybody else and the class seems to function and cooperate so wholeheartedly that we have all partically agreed that "this is going to be fun." (Wonder how the instructor would under itand this?) Dr., Skrivanek our "pan ueitel," is known throughout the state. He is a gentleman with democratic views about a classroom, obviously inclined to unclerst,and that in this country we have fallen from grace to careless Czech and English as well; and the fact that he is confronted with careless dialects in both languages on the part of the students only gives us all a wider field from which to work and study. In addition to his experience in teaching in this co luitry, Dr. Skilvanek has experienced several years in Prague, and this, of course, is and will be a never-ending

VEST NI K -®- WEST, TEXAS source of interest with which he is most liberal. We feel quite fortunate having Dr. Skrivanek as our instructor. His method of teaching helps you to recall your earlier training in English rhetoric and composition so, that you rebuild your English as well as your CeAtinu. So if you have contemplated joining this class I am sure you would find it worth your time. The class meets on Wednesday from 7:30 to 10:30 P. M., at the Lodge Pokrok on Studewood and Robbie Streets. May I say "na, shledanOu", and expect you next week? Sincerely, Naomi Kostomlatsky CECHOSLOVAN LODGE NO. 40 Dear Friends, Well . It's me once again to write some news about our Lodge. Yesterday, March 11, the Lodge held its monthly meeting at which the attendance was very large. I had the pleasure of meeting M Stephen Valcik of Houston, the Editor of the Vestnik, come see us real soon again, Mr. Valcik. Also, at this meeting it was voted and donated fifty dollars to the Moucka Home for the aged fund. But I must not forget that we had the pleasure and honor of having the Sheriff of Wharton County, Buckshot Lane at the meeting. He demonstrated his lie dector to us. It was very interesting and educational to all of us present in seeing how it works. After the , meeting closed, a delicious lunch was served to everyone present by the good ladies of the Lodge. Well, I believe this just about covers our meeting. Will be looking forward to writing again. So till next time I remain Sincerely, Miss Josephine Hajovsky --,A 4, • (

Wednesday, March 21, 1951

Most Polite Man (Continued from page 23.) hold out his quarter and then drop it on the pavement instead of into the collector's hands. To all these customst•s (and even to the man who instists on proffering a quarter held between bare toes) the collector is supposed to say `thank you.' The surest way to hold up the assembly line, however, is to offer the collector a counterfeit coin. Many otherwise innocent motorists, stuck with a lead half-dollar or a wallpaper ten, suppose that a tollgate would be a gcod place to get rid of the stuff without loss to themselves. They quielcly learn their mistake. • C 4 They've improved the automobile, radio and pen... so why not now improve men? _ ) A logician is a person who says he doesn't care what side his bread is buttered on because he eats both sides anyway. ) ♦ eon •

Print the Proper Names

If you write your report in longhand, please PRINT all proper names. It is unpleasant, and sometimes embarrassing, to see your perfect report all spoiled by the carelessness of the editor to allow mistakes like misspelled names to be printed. But sometimes the editor is not sure what some of the names are. Then, too, what looks perfectly legible to him, may be puzzling to the linotype operator who, naturally, cannot be acquainted with every name, especially the Czech names. When your report is written in longhand, and when you leave enough space between the lines and with wide margins on both sides, the editor usually plays safe and he PRINTS the names SUNDAY MARCH 25 for the guidance of the operator. Stefanik Lodge Nc. 142, in Houston, And, too, do not write on both sides will have a Box Supper at 6:30 p. m. of the paper, but use another sheet. Bingo in the afternoon. Free dance at That's the first rule for everything night. Music by Bob Mazac. which is placed in the hands of a SUNDAY MARCH 25 printer. Easter Festival will be held at the hall of Svaz Cechoslovanu Lodge in Fort Worth NOTICE! SUNDAY APRIL 8: All News for the English Section A luncheon will be served to all memshould be sent directly to: bers and guests after the regular meeting of Osveta Lodge No. 38, at Kovar. Associate Editor, SUNDAY, MAY 6: 6402 Prague Street, Annual celebration at Pokrok Houston Houston 7, Texas. Lodge with a bazaar, a stage play in •sw■■•••■ .....■ Czech, a real festival.

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"Tomorrow" May be to Late Last Thanksgiving Eve, 78 persons were two luxuries, the $250 premium could be "See me next week, or next month, or killed in a disastrous commuter train continued. Once again my arguments fell I after the end of the year, etc." I will wreck on the Long Island railroad, one of on deaf ears. say, "Whom should I speak to if you the worst accidents in the history of "This is only a temporary condition, are no longer around?" We must face American transportaaan. The poignant, for business is picking up and in a realityl—Union Central Agency Bulletin. e moving, human stories that resulted short time, I will not only replace the from this tragedy are well illustrated by cancelled insurance but will bring my INSURANCE? NO NEED! this story from Mr. Weiss, who represents, insurance estate up to what I feel I He didn't need life insurance. So he Union Central in New York City. should be carrying," argued my friend. he said A good job, a fancy apartment, Realizing that I couldn't swerve him, attended all the new shows, Florida for Bill and I had met about 15 years ago, and not too long after our meeting, I pressed him for the mortgage policy a month in the winter, Maine for a he became a client of mine. We have and a quarterly premium of approxi- month during the heat of summer, perbeen good friends these many years. I mately $35, only to be told to see him fect health, no money worries. What did he want with insurance? His subwas with him when he met the girl after the turn of the year. he eventually married — congratulated Shortly after Bill received the sur- stantial company pension would provide him on the birth of his daughter eight render value of the $10,000 of insurance all his needs, and then some when years ago, and was the first to receive he had a patio built on the back of he and his wife reached age a cigar when he fathered a son less than his new home that cost him a good part He was right. Very right. He didn't five years ago. of the proceeds—enough to pay the need life insurance. He took sick SunThings were working out well for premium for almost two years. day night, and before dawn he was Bill, and just three years ago, he, conAnd now we come to Thanksgiving dead. The pitiful sum in his bank actracted for a home that was to cost him Eve. Although quite busy with the usual count didn't even cover the cost of his in the neighborhood of $35,000. He had routines of an insurance office. Bill's last few hours in the hospital, where only $15,000 of life insurance which was actions had been thorn in my side. high priced specialists tried in vain to to protect his partially dependent par- I couldn't rest easy. He was a swell prolong his life. ents, in addition to his immediate family guy, a good and thoughtful husband, a group. His widow still doesn't know where loving Dad,. and so I called to tell him I tried to get him to complete a that we should do something about that she will get the money to pay the fuproper program, but all my pleas and darn mortgage. I explained that if any- neral expenses, to say nothing of a few sales arguments fell on deaf ears. He thing happened to him, it would be standing debts he was paying off when did, however, increase his insurance es- back to the city for those kids of his his heart decided it was tired. tate to a little over $25,000, far short and to an apartment, if they were able to Several room's in their beautiful apadof the total I know he needed and find one they could afford. He consented merit are now sub-let in the hope that it should have and could afford. to see me on Friday to talk it over, alJust before the time to take title on though he said "Chances are, you're will bring her enough money to pay the rent and buy the groceries. She's, GO his new home, business reverses com- wasting your time.' years old... and an inexperienced and pelled him to change his plans, and his That was just before 5 o'clock as I lifelong desire for a home in the sub- was leaving to make an early train untrained widow at that age just doesn't urbs had to be deferred until the fu- home for the holiday. Bill made the go out to compete successfully for ernture. The family continued to reside in 6:13, and just 13 minutes out of Penn ployment, no matter what her name IS, or what her husband was a rather cramped apartment. station — a client became a claim — a The moral? Her husband was right Bill couldn't get over his urge to take double indemnity claim! ... as he usually was in making many his family out of the city. So, a few I kept my Friday appointment with of his business decisions. He didn't need months ago, he bought a small house in the next town to ours for just about Bill. But instead of meeting Bill at any life insurance for himself.. but his half the cost of his dream house, and his office we met at the funeral chapel widow certainly does—Penn Mutual. instead! This time there were no ob) • 4 • (moved in on Sept. 22nd. After leaving the funeral services of Shortly thereafter, I made an appoint- jections—the conversation was entirely an acquaintance, a businessman was ment to see Bill and go over his insur- one-sided. Fortunately for Bill's widow and his making his way out of the cemetery ance. I prepared a reducing term proposal to take care of his $15,000 mort- kids, most of the remaining insurance when he caught sight of a very degage so that, come what may, at least his had double indemnity. But, they will spondent young man, dropped over a family could afford to continue to live still have to sell Bill's pride and joy, large tombstone, repeating. between sobs, . Why did you die?" in their house for less than the cost his house, along with the patio that cost "Why did 3711 Feeling his heart rise to his throat, of a very modest apartment. Bill, how-- his family more than the value of the he approached the young man with the ever, had different ideas. Because his entire house. When I saw the widow shortly after thought of comfort in mind and asked: cost of living had risen, he wanted to "Poor boy, have you lost your mother'?" drop $10,000 of life insurance, leaving the tragedy, I was spared the difficult No only $15,000 in force to take care of task of telling her about the surrendered was the reply. insurance, for I knew she was aware of "Was it your father, or your brother?" five people. No was the sad reply. I explained that he needn't surrender the matter when she sadly stated, "Bill Who then, died'?" his policies if the lack of funds was of had to have the patio." There is a motto or a solution someThis question brought another flow a temporary nature. It was possible that a loan could tide him over until the where in the story, but its effect on of tears as he looked up with forlorn next premium (due in May of 1951, or me is a resolution I have made for the eyes and answered... "My wife's first better yet, if he could give up one or future, When I ,hear the objection, I husband." —Gulf Stre:ini.

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YOUR PLEASING EXPRESSION. The most important thing you wear A s I was reading a certain magazine of your own families now on your books is your expression. Your clothes may recommend your for life insurance agents, I found an will usually, disclose an immense numtaste, but your expression recommends ber of needs for additional coverage. An artlele which should be read by every agent who, dolefully asks, "Where can Yoh. local solicitor. It should also bring out I find prospects?" is stone blind. ProsGood-looking clothes never made a the thought that our local financial pects are all about you They are all over friend. A genial expression has opened Secretaries should be cur best and the town, you stumble over them whenever the way to countless friendships. It is highest producing organizers. The article you may turn. In spite of social security the only fine thing you can wear without was written for the life insurance agents and the activities of private companies rousing a feeling of envy in anyone. who go from door to door, collect the over the years the field for needed proSome cf us make the mistake of thinkdues every month, and are in constant tection has hardly been scratched. Your ing that a pleasant, smiling expression is touch with the people. job is cut out for you. The need is there a Pollyanna attitude unsuited to serious, If,, in reading the following article, you and you have the policies to sell. If you sophisticated, adult men and women. substitute the word "organizer" for the fail, it is not becatise of lack of opportu- That would be true of a perpetual grin, word "agent", an_d change "policy" to nity. it is because you have not caught but not of an interested, kindly smile. There are enough dull, drab, iheerless "certificate", you have the full value of ithe vision, or having caught it you have the article as applied to our SPJST C r03- '. done nothing about it. things in the world, without our adding tection. We have plenty of members who I i • elca • ( to them. An face is as need far more insurance than what they I ' uninteresting as a blank sheet cf paper. PSYCHIC INCOME have. And cur • financial seceretaries A cheerful, interested expression, on are the ones who have a complete record Have you ever performed a service for . . the other hand; is inviting and magnetic. an insured, such as chan oin ea benefici.of protection owned en each SPJST ' arranged a different plan for the It is a stimulant and a tonic which member. If he has only $1,000, it should ary, proceeds, and cheers and encourages those who see it. 1-:(llicY JUL discussed. with the tae_mber tactfully clis frP-1-14-icycl of The human mind associates the mood b and intelligently, pointing out to him im then witnessed the wisdom cf your sugthat $1,000 is not enough protection. gestion when the policy became a claim? and the expression so closely that the you probably derived a great deal o f appearance of either one automatically Read the article which is as follows: ,satisfaction from the work you did in encourages the appearance of the other. Not only are there new people to be facilitating the prompt payment of the This often-observed fact is based upon found in these homes where you visit proceeds in the manner in which the the sound, scientific principle known as weekly, but there are many there al-d insured desired, even though you actu- the "Conditioned Reflex." Put that prinready insured who are not adequately I ally received no momentary remuneration ciple to work in your life today. You protected. A survey should disclose all! for your time and effort. This "psychic will find that a pleasant, creative force who live there and should reveal the income, a:, a rewarci, is recognized and from which everyone draws strength kind and amount of their insurance. approchited by greet teachers, phllos- and stimulation. The person who smiles This applies to the next door families pher c', :,cientists, religious pleaders, doe- not only spreads the glow of good will as well as to the families where you now tors, and government executives as pay- over those around him, but he also finds call weekly to make collections. Parti ment for their services beyond the mone- a reflection of his facial good humor cularly, in your own insured families you tary consideration involved. forming within him; as Joseph Addison should have a complete record of the expressed it—"keeping up a kind of dayinsurance owned cn each member of the The lives of all mankind down light in his mind." • * family. Not too much judgment is used through the years have been enriched in placing insurance. Some children may and improved because some men labored KEEP THE CHANGE have much less than others in the same 'without thought of the personal gain The bride was shy about asking her family, for no particular reason. Your involved, finding their reward beyond husband for more money. "Jack, dearest," job is to put some sense and system into mere monetary return. she said at breakfast," will you please The life' insurance man who is worthy the family insurance holdings. Build up lend me $5 but only give me half of of his profession understands the conthe weak spots, make equitable adjustit?" ments. If the policies on the children are cept of psychic income. His work may "Yes. darling," said her husband, not bring immediate results in dollars endowments, see that they also have whole life policies so that when the en and cents. His clients may not immedi- Puzzled, "but why only half of it?"' "Why then you'll owe me $2.50 and dowments mature they will not be left ately appreciate the nature and extent without protection. If the policies are of his labors. His reward comes from I'll owe you $2.50; and we'll be, square whole life try to put in some endow- knowing that he has done a good job. won't we?" •( )* merits. If the mother is underinsured. But in time they will. His reward will build her protection up to a fair stand- be material and satisfying if he con Be not simply good; be good for seine, ard. If the father is under-insured, do tinues on rendering the highest type of thing.—Thoreau. something about it. If there is a mold- service he can and discharging the figage on the home, try to cover it with nancial return of the moment. • DO NOT mail the change of adterm Or mortgage insurance. If it is planned to send one or more of the You will never "find" time for anyress to the editor or the pubchildren to trade school or college, help thing. If you want time, you must make lisher. State your old and your make plans through insurance to nou- it.—Charles Buxton. new address and mail to n-) lilate the money for that purpose. ) elb • SUPREME LODGE SPJST Explain the provisions of the new Each generation thinks the world is Fayetteville, Texas social security plan and add the neces- progressing because it is always moving. sary insurance to meet the need. A survey But a pendulum moves.—Bernard Shaw I

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ZIMIZELY HORY Ktivka citliveho fysikalniho pkistro j e I vYpravy se pokusily take zjistit podet 0zaznamenala pfesne zaea.tek obrovske beti. VYsledek byl znaene ne.spolehlivy v katastrofy: bylo 7 hodin 40 minut veeer kraji, kde se zticlka kdy provadelo seitadne 15. srpna roku 1950. V tu chvili po- ni lidi. Oislo, ktere se zjistilo, bylo asi volila pilda domorodctim severniho Assa- 1000 osob. Cislo nejiste a velmi male v pomu pod nohama a rozvinila se jako mo- meru ke katastrofe, ale vysvetlitelne nete .v boufi. S hboei himalajskYch velehor patrnou hustotou sidlfSt' v neplodnem uzavirajicich obzor na severu se ozvalo horskem kraji. Iffmeni, jako by se cele skaly fitly do Postupem easu zhodnotili geofysikove propasti. Vzduch v pkimem okoli byl pke- zaznamy syYch seismografh, ptistrojt, pinen nejrfanejaimi zvuky: brzy to znelo ktere zaznamenaji i velmi nepatrne ottejako dupani stada divokYch slonh prodi- sy zeme, zphsobene zemettesenim mnoho rajicich se daungli, bray zase jako htme- set mil vzdalenYm. Usoudili, 2e co do enni nejprud'Si boute, jaka, se kdy nad In- ergie, ktera se tu projevila, jde o nejvetdii rozpoutala. Zalesnene strane se daly Si zemetfeseni dvacateho stoleti. 0 jeho do pohybu, mohutne stromy praskaly ja- phvodu nebyli na rozpacich. Kamenna ko sirky a sjiadely po svahu do hdoli a slupka naai zemekoule se je gte neuklidnikoryt tek, ktere v nekolika minutach la a sotva kdy se uklidni. Vrasni se pornazmenily smer, jima tekly po generate. Po lu a postupem dlouhych fidobi a kdysi, cele dlouhe minuty se lide tetelili hrtizou kdy tuhla, pied miliony let, vznikly v ni a vzYvali sve bohy o pomoc. Potom nastal i dlouhe a hluboke zlomy. Zlomy v zemna okamaik klid a hned zase novy pohyb ske lade znstaly trvale misty neklidu. zeme, v jinem smeru. NovY des, aekoliv Rozsahle zernske kry se eas od easu podle ted' uz k nemu nebylo ptieiny. Byl to bla- nich posunou ye vodorovne i svisle rovihodarnY pohyb rozruSene zeme, ukladaji- ne a tak vznikne velke zemetfeseni. Vaha ci se zase k svemu obvyklemu klidu. pohybujicich se zernskych ker je ohromTo bylo zemetfeseni, ktere postihlo se- na a tak se vysvetluje, ze i pfi pomerne verni Assam, indickou provincii leaici me- nepatrnem jejich l nsunu tu vznika, mezi Tibetem a BengalskYm zalivem. Citli- chanicka energie rd mnoha miliard kiye ptistroje geofysikalnich stanic asij- lowatovych hodin. Kuyby bylo moano rozskYch, japonskYch i americkYch je sice umne ji vyuait, stadila by zasobovat mipfesne zaznamenaly, ale pokud nedoalo lionove meat° elektrickou energii po mnohlageni z rtznYch stanic ostatnich, moh- ho mesict. Tao moanosti vaak neni a mili jednolivYch stanic jen ha- sto uaitku ptina gi zemeti-esna energie jen dat, kde se asi odehralo. Teprve potom zkazu. urdili pfesne jeho polohu i hloubku, ze Assamske zemetteseni ptedeilo i do doktere vy:Slo. To u2 zatim doala i ptima sud nejsilnejai zemetfeseni naSeho stolehlaaeni o katastrofe. Poslove z posti2e- ti, kalifornske, ktere se odehralo 18. dubnYch mist pkinesli ustni zpravy do vet- na r. 1906. Tahlo se podle zlomu, ktery Sich stkedisk. Myslilo se, 2e ptehaneji, bylo nam moano sledovat do vzdalenosti kdy mluvili o celem horskern ketezu, od- 400 mil. Poeet °heti byl ku podivu maIY noli nebetydnYch Himalaji, ktery pojed- na tehdejSi San Francisco, meat° s phi nou zmizel, a o vesnicich, je2 se propadly milionem obyvatelti, jen asi 500 osob, ale do zeme se vsemi syymi obyvateli. zkaza ohromna. Zphsobila ji merle mePiloti letadel vyslanYch nad postiaenou chanicka, sila ottesti., jako poadr, ktery oba,lst tyto zpravy potvrdili. Leteli nad trval pine tti dny a znidil na 500 blokil ozcela novYm krajem, kde chybelo cele bytnYch domii. Menai vinu na nem melo jedno pasmo hor, zakreslene od nepa,me- elektricke vedeni ne2 plyn, ktery unikal ti na mapach. I eky, vetainou pfitoky mo- a ptelamaneho potrubi a vznecoval se od hutne Brahmaputry, zmenily smer a je- ohniat'. jich koryta, podivne zklikatela. Siroky veMnoh e m vetSi Skody zphsobilo japonletok se zmenil v linou baainu, jak byl ske zemetteseni z roku 1923, i kdy bylo pfepinen skacenYrni stromy, ktere do ne- energeticky snad slabsi. Vypuklo tesne ho naplavily jeho pkitoky. Horska, Woodi pted phlnoci 1. zati 1923 a projevilo se nebyla poseta vyvracenYmi kmeny. S velke kolikavtetinovYmi ottesy pfidy, ktere se vYaky, ve, ktere se letci moudfe draeli, to opakovaly vady po 'eti minutach. Stadily vypadalo jako klasky rortrousene na str- znidit Tokio a Jokohamu a zahubit 99,331 rii§ti. Mt. Everest, riejvyaai Nora sveta, se osob, ktere vetairiou uhotely. Japonsko pozvedla o dalSich 200 stfevic. je neSt'astnou zemi, letici nad sta mil Byla organisovena pomoc postiaenym dlouhYm zlomem pevninske, kry. Za rok k.ra,jtim. Setkala se s velkYmi potiaemi, se na jeho ostrovech zaznamena a2 na kraj byl divoky a neschudny I pled zeme- I 4000 ottest. pudy. V Evrope jsou mista netfesenim a MOCr1 S7p os unr ozsa hly ch Vr- klidu v prve 'fade na APeninskem polostev zeme pomery jen. zhor gil. Pomocne ostrove, menai oblasti v Alpach a v Kar-

patech. Italske ohnisko zavinilo posledni velkou evropskou katastrofu zemettesnou z r. 1908. Mesta Messina na sicilskem ostrove a protilehle Reggio na pevnine ji padly za °bet': 80,000 osob pkialo tehtly o aivot a ' trosky domt dlouha leta hyzdily obe mesta. • & • Masaryk na Slovensku. U Topoldianek je ,vesnice SkYcov. Jsou tarn vapenice a domorodci se aivi palenim vapna, President Masaryk poznal zblizka jejich chudobu i primitivni za,kizeni peci. Pozval si tedy inaenYra, aby mu udelal plan, 2e skYcovskYm postati velkou moderni pec, ye ktere by mokili.palit vSichni najedntu, racionalne, a vydelali by si tak mnohem vice penez. Kdy2 plany byly nakresleny, 'High aky covati oznamit, 2e aadnou novou pec nee-' chteji. "Prod to?" ptal se pan president., "My bysme se hadali, jak se rozdelit o penize." • • 0 iivot a smrt: Kdya bylo u fitadovny obchodnikovy zaklepano, chlapec otevfel dvete a spa, neznameho Oloveka, oznamll mu hned jak mel natizeno: "Na'S boss jest ptilis zamestnan a nemilae v tett) chvili nikoho pkijmouti." "Ja s nim ale mluvit musim," nelehal neznamY, "tekni mu, 2e se zde jedna o vit a smrt." Chiapec sel vytidit a za chvili se vratil s oznamenim, 2e nezna,my muae vstoupit. Neznam:y k bossovi veael a kdy2 po chvili vychazel, byl pan boss pojia'ten na deset tisic dolarfi. • • • Piipad pro zverolekaie. Pfi autoniobilovem neatesti koneene z vraku vyprostili zraneneho mu2e. Ve shromaadeni nalezal se averolekat a nabizel svYch sluaeb. "Jsem sice zverolekatern," pravil, "ale mohl bych poskytnouti prvni pomoc." "To je v potadku," pravil zranenSr, "vadyt' ja jsem osel, kdy jsem myslel, 2e a tem', apatnYmi rafy udelam 50 mil za hodinu." * • V Nebrasce je mesteeko jmenem Bruno. Jeho zakladatele pkiali sem z Moravy a phvodne dali sve osade jmeno Brno. Americke poatovni fitady protestovaly pro ti takovemu jmenu, ktere v prvni slabice nemelo aadnou sa,mohlasku. Tak se z ph vodniho Brna stab Bruno, kterym se slavi pamatka, italskeho kazatele Giordana Bruna a nikoli hlavniho mesta mora y -skeho.NazvBrnbYlyudaeko blizsi neali italske Bruno,

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