English Translation

54 - TT- Slovak language. But it became too clear that only for them to maintain language and rational race life was a much too lifeless and artificial will. It was therefore sought deeper and it sought the best people, America formed a new American people. It was said that every people who co-edited the neve America "has a certain mission according to its culture and its Moorish level: to educate the new American people and to contribute to their creation with the best national and moral values. It was therefore necessary to prove them to develop in front of the face of this new world. And here is an important reason why emigration was trying to live strong and beautiful national life, on a higher moral and mental level, that was already a positive goal, but it was not understood by the whole em- eration. To keep the Father's longing in the child the eternity of his own person and of his sex, this was eine incentive of the effort to bridge that deep abyss by means of a höharè cultural level of i life, which digs America between - the fathers born in Europe and the sons born in the New World. It is the difference between two cultures, the culture of American democracy and of the cultures of the often profoundly neglected, socially depressed European classes. Fathers and mothers; who came from Europe's need and humiliation, tried to find the way to their children born under the other sun in the New World through cultured life, often in vain. The immeasurable distances from Canada to Texas, from New York to Oregon; the economic: dependence on the milieu, the smashed people's soul, which had no common center neither in economic life nor in a uniting idea, the hard life that chased the emigraites especially in the first years of their stay after the dollar, the relatively weak bonds of club life, which limited themselves only to this or that support organization, all this had its bad consequences in the absolute lack of national organization of the Czech Velke. - 12 -