English Translation

64a 32 IV. SNeR The financing of the revolutionary movement by the Latin American. In the year l9l5 Prof. Masaryk described to us the necessary sum, which however was not reached at the time. But already the year I9l6 brought an improvement in this situation; yes, in that year, after the old commitments had been settled, we achieved more than was required. The revolutionary funds were collected primarily from membership contributions to the branches of the National Association. But there were some people among us who had not learned to sacrifice something for the collective goals even in the serious moments, which were not clear to him enough and for whose methods he could not have a proper understanding, He gave a dollar to the revolutionary struggle, but filled them with knowledge; where his dollar would come from. So he had learned from his associations, where everything was publicly and anxiously clothed and where the most economical was managed. He feared that no one would indulge him in unfaithfulness, not drink him out, not in vain. That was the follow-up of all the living conditions with which he lived and with which it was hard to get through life and especially the life of the Enig- nant. Yes, even then, when Prof Masaryk visited Chicago at the end of the revolutionary session, he had to explain to some that the revolution cannot be made with a sparrow drum and that one simply cannot be miscalculated. The revolution is a matter of trust and without such trust no struggle is won. We also won our funds through festivals. When the contributions of the members were far from sufficient, it was necessary to think of other ways in which one could win the aid funds. The Czech man does not like to give unmitigable. This is already a matter of his old upbringing. That is why we had to organize festivals, attractions and sometimes 'entertainments', so that everyone could get something for his dollar. In the rich town of Nebrasska, Humboldt, the Czech people held a lecture with a dance entertainment, to which the strangers come to dance a bit on the Czechoslovak independence, And the result is in this rich - 33 -