English Translation

81 - 63: - Dr. Štefanik published his brilliant appeal to the Czechoslovak men and in November he returned to France, in America the work seized the revolutionary organizations, which formed a special military committee. The whole territory of the United States was divided into four military districts, where advertising began under the leadership of advertising companies. And from place to place the advertising commissioners moved again, then specially for this purpose from France-hipped officers and soldiers of the army in France, who demanded the tax of blood. The brothers Klir, Wimmer and the Slovak Honza addressed to the youth spoken and printed appeals. The greatest success was the advertisement between the Pennsylvania Slovaks, well-grown young' boys, and as Dr. Fischer, who later became a doctor of our army himself, noted the most physically capable soldiers Amerikn gave. In Cleveland many socialists joined the army, from Chi-cago many Sokoln and also the West sent us his young farmers. After great efforts it succeeded to send to France to 2,5oo volunteers. Many of them were married men. At Ter- ron sleep the eternal sight of Legionir Kadlec, father of four children from Chicago, Among the Cleveland volunteers is also Franta Tupý, an almost sixty-year-old proletarian, blind in one eye, severely tested by life, who as a worker of ironworks in Hammond, Indiana sends his message to the army and begins with the following words: "I will not die on the straw, I will die in the field ... " Among the volunteers - but in vain - our expensive Adalbert Preissig, one of the noblest and bravest appearances of the American revolution, is tolerant. In his beautiful drawings, full of heroism and gestures, he has shown the ideal spirit of our freedom struggle to the whole world. From the gart United States these young volunteers come, they are not many, but their hands are worked off, threads full of calluses, it is phenomena that have often been embroiled under the hard touch of working-class life, but they are full of pure love and full of enthusiasm for the revolution.