English Translation

65 - 33 Orts' 6.85 Dollars. But after not too long time one of the citizens of this town alone gives 5eo Dollars on the revolutionary struggle. In one of his neighbour's settlements, a lecture about the liberation kamjif is held on the occasion of a dinner with rich food and drink, it is also danced, and the result of 14 Dollars is also handed over to the revolution. This is still in March l9l6. In Luke we get 3 dollars and a little laugh at this time, but the poor, self-help needy Libuše in Lousiana, a settlement of defrauded poor people, collects Heller to Heller, so that at least 25 dollars of his hardship for the people is devoted to us. With the small people, with the miners in Pennsylvania, with workers in the city, with poor, simple mothers and not rich craftsmen, with reindeers and beginners on the poor farms, who have a lot of children and little money, there was the most understanding of our cause. All of them still had too much hatred in their hearts for their hardship against Austria-Hungary and they had a single longing: to help after his destruction. The rich came then and gave nothing, Yes, it went so far that the question of whether the rich would come or not became the winged word of our leaves and meetings. Such Štěpins and Dušeks from Chicago, Vlčeks of Cleveland, Wagners from Tabor and Filips and Severs from Cedar, there were not many Rapids at the time. When we were dissatisfied with the results of the collection, in 1916 we turned to Prof, Masaryk, to ask the Chicager compatriots to help with a special letter, Masarik said the beautiful words, which are a manifestation of his democratic respect for the little man, should it be also often a person who has made mistakes: "I have not written to the miners of Fennsylvania, I will not write to the rich of Chicago either." It was thought of different ways and methods of winning money, so-called New Year's Day were collected, national church fairs were celebrated and finally, according to the New Yorker model, the notorious bazaars were organized. This has already happened with the cooperation of our Slovak compatriots and also our Catholics from all social circles, with whom since the beginning of 1917 - 34 -