English Translation

83a - 68 - whole shipload of gifts sent, which, despite being delayed by the fault of the sea, nevertheless made our boy much joy, Only the Cleveland "beasts", led by the concerned Mrs. M. Zeman, Karnoš and Kupec, sent our boys in France and to Siberia goods worth 19,855 dollars, likewise the women worked in Chicago, where the work was led by the Slovaks Čaják and Laurinec, the Czechs Mrs. Novotný; John and Červenka beside the sacrificing patriot A. Novak, and in New York, Mrs. Miček and other good women stood in other places. The Czech and Slovak women in America have their beautiful, honorable part in the liberation work there. Without their devoted and self-sacrificing help, the ame- would be. Rician liberation struggle could not be imagined, thousands of women and mothers sat down in the factories and shops in the evenings and at night after the day's work, they knit, sewed, they went to the shops and to the families, where they asked for help for the Czechoslovak army. Throughout their feverish activity, our women sent the armies in France and Siberia to 2,3o9 crates of merchandise worth 3oo.ooo dollars. "But from the very beginning, the Czechoslovak America thought of its prisoners and soldiers in the armies; although the aid was not material from the first moment, it was effective and kind. Already at the beginning of the year l915 the National Socialist Association "Beseda Fric" in Chicago organizes a sending of newspapers, stored Czech brochures and books to the Russian prison camps, and continues this beautiful activity with the participation of a number of settlements until the year I9l8, yes, it expands its circle of action on France and Italy, Frai Marie Fekl and her father-in-law go day after day through the streets of the Czech quarter "California" in the Chicago with a handcar to absolve newspapers, and her name still leads in grateful memory of some brother legions. - - 69 -