English Translation

5.3a + lo - had intervened, prefiguring the path of the future. Masaryk came several times, he walked through the cities and farms and looked to the bottom of the soul of the Czechoslovak emigrant. He pointed out the necessity of Czechoslowak schools, the need for the affirmative sense of life, and here too the meaning of his humanitarian views. His auto-rity was already very great before the war under our emigration. A great importance always had the magazines. On a hundred daily pages, monthly and weekly pages still go to the whole vast area today. It is read here much more than at home in the homeland. It is often the only way of social transport in general, the dew in the loneliness of time and space of the settlements, farms and forests, which are thousands of miles away from each other. The economic, educational, literary and political magazines were not missing here either. The publishing houses of Kleiner in Chicago, Rosický and Bures in Omaha, the socialist publishing house in Cleveland and Chicago, the Catholics in Chicago and the Slo-Wakian publishing houses in Pittsburgh and in New York, completed their great search under emigration in Canada and the United States. Despite all this, the life of our Czechoslovak people gave no promising prospects for the future, Hamlet's "being or not being" had its tragic sense in all phases of the development of this emigration and only the "green wave", as the influx of emigration was called, was the single hope of the future of both branches. The great assimilation force of the American environment constantly weakened the returns of the emigrants, although among the brothers Slovaks in small measure. However, the greatest support for assimilation was the general lack of goals and the meaning of the Czechism and Slovakism that lived here. If perhaps the faith preached in the mother tongue was a certain protection against assimilation in religious people, this would not be enough for everyone and for all questions of life. Since the decline of nationalism also caused the support-self-help associations of our emigrants to fall, this veri- ty and its preservation would also have a reason for the salvation and preservation of Tsclechtum or'the - 11 -