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- 5 - 51 administration representatives, all this forced to self-education. On the farms our people had to learn to master the questions of their unfamiliar management and this had to happen in Czech and Slovak language, since no other way was, It is not possible to do the educational work, which e.g. Rocický in this direction has done for our simple people to judge correctly. Not only that. In the new country, where every Slovak and Czech person had to learn to run without crutches, where there was no 'sickness:or accident insurance, where no assistance existed in need, no help in the case of death, seizing enigrants themselves and self-helpingly caring for their own and family security. For this reason, they founded death, support and construction associations. However, they often led to excessive austerity, especially where construction and savings banks associations were founded. There, life values were measured according to the amount of the weekly saved dollars, and a social illness arose somewhere. Only material interest and selfishness, impoverished and overstretched knauserei without any higher upswing, no compassion for forefathers of misery, underestimation of everything that could not be measured with monetary value, was in some places the unhealthy result of the creaking and touch of the double feeling, of two different beings. This was then the greatest pain of our revolution in the period of the revolutionary struggle. It was precisely the self-help associations that forced the Czech-Slovak people to organise on a broad basis and in large areas in order to obtain a broad economic base, thus the famous "Č" arose. S.P.S.", the "Western Brotherhood" (Západni Jednota Bratrska), the "Slovak Texas Association" (Slov: Jednota Texaská), the 'Association of Czech Ladies' (Jednotá Českých Dam), the ‘Association of Taborites', large associations founded the Slcwaks, their large aid associations also have Catholics, around which almost the genze Czechoslovak emigrant element in the United States was formed; they became the fugapfel of the eye of Czech and Slovak life. Since it was not possible then, only the economic ma-. ~ 6 -