English Translation

52 - 7 - did the old homeland give me? Misery and humiliation. I owe her nothing", expressed, But nevertheless the new environment created a strong national feeling, which was often felt painful when the Czech 'chöslovak man here and there recognized the disrespectful position of the Anglo-Saxon race against his person. At this glance national longings awoke to face the same, 'to boast with gifts and culture of one's own mind, - and this led - very soon to the Socoltum. Tyrs' idea surrounded the Czechoslovak idea with all its strength and the American socoltum began its beautiful history. In order to paralyze the power of these 'ideas', the "Catholic Socol" for Catholics was founded long before the foundation of the "OREL" in the Czech-Slovak countries. All this gave the American Czechoslovak a great school of life, it often became the only beautiful content of life whose emptiness he felt too painful. There was also a lack of leaders of the Slovak and Czech camps, and'this is perhaps the most painful chapter of the life of American emigration at all. Besides distinguished men, journalists, simple workers leading spirit, . besides such men as V.F. Kuták, J.R.P.Šenka, St.Šerpán, Karl Bernreiter, J Martinek and Tony Novotny, Milan Getting and Paul Jamarik, Stefan Bosák, "A. Ambros, Klement: Ihrický, V.B.Tuma and Rejsek Warph and are, the Czechoslovak America also found its Iscariots, its seducers and dishonorable character at the head of 'national life in greater numbers than could be acceptable to him. The relationship with Austria-Hungary was given by the conditions described here briefly.The struggle against Vienna and its centralism, which suppressed social, national and political, has taken deep roots in the soul of the aroused emigration. In new circumstances and under the new democratic leadership of the people and for the people living, they felt anecdotal hatred for the whole bureaucracy of the Viennese apparatus, which, even though it was Czech or Slovak blood, they booked at the expense of Vienna and Budapest. At the moment when they raised their bent necks, - 8 -