English Translation

-67 - 83 VII. Czechoslovak women, So we sent our boys on the battlefield, All the fighting peoples had armies in the hinterland for their armies on the front. Armies of the Red Cross provided for the wounded and sick, armies of merciful women and mothers, who came to caress the bloody wounds of their sons, in order to facilitate in the difficult days the sending of a gift and a memory, which also so pleased the soldiers on the front. Therefore, in the United States too, the idea of a Czechoslovak Red Cross arose, and since it was not possible, this official tit. To use for an army of an unexisting state, and also in a country where the American Red Cross existed, our women called their aid groups "Bees" (Včelky) and "Pria- den" to form a joint aid committee, which was affiliated with the "Czechoslovak National Council". At that time, an officer of our army in Russia, Captain Ferd. Písekky, was already eager to take part in the work in America, and he also worked very hard for this idea. At the head of the committee was Mrs. L.buše Moták, a native Czech American, and Etelka Cablek, a Slovak patriot aug "Pittsburgh. We had an army in France and our Jungens in Siberen. Three hundred sections of the "bees" and "priadies" began to worry about our boys all over America: they began to sew underwear, shirts, towels and tash towels, they were knitted sweaters, knee warmers and caps, they bought cigarettes, chocolate, small mirrors - and razors, notebooks and postcards, hundreds and hun-. the boxes of small and large gifts were loaded day after day from our magazines in New York and San Francisco, where the goods were expedited, in his report of Sept. 19l8 the auxiliary committee listed a list of goods and evaluated only the goods sent to France by the end of June the year with about 3o.oo dollars. And the main endings at that time actually only started, after Siberia became anë - 68 -