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V letu 193G se je vršila 15. redna konvencija J. S. K. Jednote. Konvenčno leto naj bi bilo leto največjega napredka.
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URADNO GLASILO JUGOSLOVANSKE KATOLIŠKE JEDNOTE — OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SOUTH SLAVONIC CATHOLIC UNION
Entered as Second Class Matter April 15th, 1926, at The Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, Under the Act of March 3rd, 1870. — Accepted tor Mailing at Special Rate of Postage, Provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3rd, 1917, Authorized March 15th, 1925.
CLEVELAND, 0., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23D — SREDA, 23. SEPTEMBRA, 1936
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VOL. XII. — LETNIK XII.
taajsfa redna konvencija J. S. K. Jednote je bila zaključena v sredo 16. septembra ob 11. uri zvečer
'fihodnja redna konvencija se bo vršila čez štiri leta v Waukeganu, 111.
NOVI GLAVNI ODBOR JE SLEDEČ:
BARTEL, Waukegan, III., glavni predsednik;
$Epj{ MANTEL, Ely, Minn., prvi glavni podpredsednik;
UL OBLOCK, Turtle Creek, Pa., drugi gl. podpredsednik; l^K OKOREN^ Denver, Colo., tretji glavni podpredsednik; HM p LUNKA, Cleveland, O., četrti glavni podpredsednik; "Ton ZBAŠNIK, Elg, Minn., glavni tajnik;
^V/t TOMS1CH, Elg, Minn., pomožni glavni tajnik;
VlS CHAMP A, Eg, Minn., glavni blagajnik;
• E. J. ARCH, Pittsburghf Pa., vrhovni zdravnik;
ON J. TERBOVEC, Cleveland, O., urednik-upravnik Nove Dobe;
tf/V KUM Se, Lorain, O., predsednik nadzornega odbora;
WKO N. ROGELJ, Cleveland, O., 1. nadzornik;
|4AJR E. VRANICHAR, Joliet, III., 2. nadzornik;
ANZELC, Aurora, Minn., 3. nadzornik;
"DREW MILA V EC, Meadow Lands, Pa., 4. nadzornik.
NOVI GLAVNI POROTNI ODBOR:
j) OKOLISH, Barberton, O., predsednik;
SCHUTTE, Denver, Colo., 1. porotnik;
MIKEC, Strabane, Pa., 2. porotnik;
Je SVETICH, Elg, Minn., 3. porotnica;
^ENTIN OREHEK, Brooklyn, N. Y., 4. porotnik.
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tednotinega pravnega svetovalca je izvoljen Joseph Kuhar, Rockdale, III.
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Za namestnike glavnim in porotnim odbornikom so bili iz-Jeni sledeči:
’"’U Kershisnik, Rock Springs, Wgo„ namestnica 4. glavnemu podpredsedniku; tara Matesha, Elg, Minn., namestnica pomožnemu glavnemu tajniku;
žigman, Strabane, Pa., namestnik 4. glavnemu nadzorniku;
Vogrich, La Salle, lil., namestnik 4. glavnemu porotniku.
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^ glavnem odboru in glavnem porotnem odboru za bodoči *in je ostala večina dosedanjih odbornikov, nekateri so po-premenili, šest je pa novih. Dosedanji glavni tajnik,
N blagajnik, vrhovni zdravnik, urednik-upravnik Nove e in predsednik porotnega odbora so bili ponovno, brez opo-C,ie in soglasno izvoljeni.
h vrsl tu rojene slovenske mladine so sledeči glavni in po-ini odborniki: Paul Oblock, 2. gl. podpredsednik; John P.
4. gl. podpredsednik; Frank Tomsich, pomožni glavni tyk; dr. F. J. Arch, vrhovni zdravnik; Andrew Milavec, 4. tadzornik, in Rose Svetich, 3. porotnica.
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Med važne sklepe, ki jih je sprejela konvencija, spada ne-prejem resolucije, ki nalaga glavnemu uradu oziroma ,neinu odboru, da s pomočjo aktuarja in raznih statistik fai načrt za sklad starostnih podpor, katerega naj da članka splošno glasovanje.	,	1
h'a konvenciji se je o tem mnogo debatiralo, toda na raz-"»o ni bilo nikakega točnega načrta, in delegacija ni Upala ^ovati za zvišanje rednega asesmenta? ki bi bil po izjavi tajnika neizogiben, če se tak sklad ustanovi. Zato faegacija smatrala za najbolj umestno, da poveri glavnemu Su sestavitev točnega načrta, glede katerega se bo članih splošnem glasovanju izrazilo,, da-li želi imeti sklad '^stnih podpor in da-li je v svrho vzdrževanja istega pri-y^eno plačevati višji redni asesment. Tako se ne bo mogel j en član pritoževati, da tii imel prilike izraziti svojega mne-Q i tej važni zadevi. Večina oddanih glasov pa bo odločala.
I športni sklad ostane kot je sedaj, z razumevanjem, da ne I*3 Vključno v športne svrhe, ampak, da je v slučajih nujnih ,.eb tudi na razpolago za izredno pomoč tu ali tam. Tako ‘jle Pred časom iz istega sklada vzelo več tisočakov v pomoč tkanja asesmentov potrebnih članov, letošnjo pomlad se \l* istega nakazalo $500.00 v podporo po poplavah prizadetih ,^ov, in 75. redna konvencija je zaključila, da se iz istega t>lese en tisoč dolarjev v splošni stroškovni sklad, ki bo vsled Lončnih stroškov precej trpel. Športni sklad torej služi le j10 v športne svrhe in je poleg tega nekaka rezerva za slu-e izrednih potreb.
• ^ova pravila bodo nekoliko razširila izplačevanje opera-Hkih odškodnin; v tej zadevi je posebno važna določba, da (,%e/ glavni odbor v sporazumu z vrhovnim zdravnikom do-nekaj podpore za nenavadne težke operacije, četudi iste
0 Navedene v pravilih. Dalje so se napravile neke izpremem-i* »žirom na suspendacije, in z ozirom na plačevanje bolni-^ Podpor članom, ki se ponesrečijo. Delegacija bi bila ne-i>>tlno v mnogih ozirih še bolj liberalna, če ne bi bila v strahu, ^evelika radodarnost dovede do izrednega asesmenta, ki je )l*čja zapreka napredku vsake organizacije.
1 Konvencija si je v začetku določila čas zborovanja na 7 ur %o, pozneje pa je dodajala polure, ure in še nočno zboro-
da je bilo mogoče konvenčne posle izvršiti v osmih dneh. Prečno vzeto je torej konvencija zborovala več kot osem ur *n°> in to v izredno hudi vročini in soparici.
I,. Člani, ki se zanimajo za podrobno konvenčno delo, naj či-J° zapisnike, ki so oziroma bodo priobčevani v Novi Dobi.
Zapisnik 15. redne konvencije J. S. K. Jednote
vršeče se v Clevelandu, O., od 8. do 16. septembra 1936
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(PETA SEJA. — POROČILO GL. BLAGAJNIKA. — NADALJEVANJE.)
AKTIVA
Vloga v Northern National Bank,	Duluth,	Minn. .$	2,460.60
Naloženo v raznih bondih	............I..	110,330.00
Zapadle in narasle obresti ..............................   3,479.71
Jednotino uradno poslopje...............................   22,530.77
Dolg društev ...............................................   16.75
SKUPAJ ............................................138,817.83
PASIVA
Nevnovčeni čeki ..............................................392.49
Druge razne obveznosti .............................i .	230.88
Imovina Mladinskega oddelka	30.	junija	1936	138,194.46
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SKUPAJ ......................................|.$ 138,817.83
Jednota ima denar investiran	v	obveznice	(ibonde) po državah kot sledi, skupno za	odrasli	in	mladinski	oddelek:
1. Texas ..............................$235,000.00
2. Ohio ............................... 223,000.00
3. Illinois ........................... 176,000.00
*4. New Jersey ........................ 145,000.00
5. New York ........................... 135,000.00
6. Michigan ........................... 105,p00.00
7. North Carolina ...................... 92,000.00
8. Florida ............................. 82,850.00
9. Arkansas ..........................   70,433.95
10. West Virginia ....................... 70,000.00
11. Pennsylvania ........................ 60,000.00
12. North Dakota ........................ 50,000.00
13. Colorado ........................... 50,0.00.00
14. Washington .......................... 50,000.00
15. Indiana ............................. 45,000.00
16. Arizona ............................. 39,000.00
17. Minnesota ........................... 33,000.00
18. Oklahoma ...........................  30,000.00
19. New Mexico .......................... 30,000.00
20. South Dakota ........................ 28,000.00
21. Louisiana ........................... 25,000.00
22. California .......................... 20,000.00
23. Wisconsin ........................... 18,000.00
24. Virginia .........................    15,000.00
25. Alabama	:t:	10,000.00
26. Kentucky ............................ 10,000.00
27. Tennessee ........................... 10,000.00
Skupaj ..........................$1,856,783.95
ODPOMOŽNI SKLAD ZA PO POVODNJI PRIZADETE ČLANE JSKJ
Dohodki:
Jednota darovala iz športnega sklada .....................$ 500.00
Društva in posamezni člani ............................... 623.92
SKUPAJ .............................................$1,123.92
Nakazane podpore:
Društvu št. 12, Pittsburgh, Pa............................$	86.00
Društvu št.	16,	Johnstown, Pa............................... 359.76
Društvu št.	26,	Pittsburgh, Pa.............................. 119.00
Društvu št.	35,	Lloydell, Pa. «.............................. 89.00
Društvu št.	36,	Conemaugh, Pa............................... 110.40	-
Društvu št. 175, Verona, Pa...............................$ 359.76 1
SKUPAJ ............................................$1,123.92
Louis Champa, gl. blagajnik.
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POROČILO VRHOVNEGA ZDRAVNIKA Konvenciji S. S. K. Jednote v Clevelandu, O.
Bratje in sestre delegati in delegatinje:-
V smislu določb naših'pravil predlagam tu moje poročilo 15. redni konvenciji JSKJ. Moja polletna poročila so bila predlagana sejam glavnega odbora in priobčena v zapisnikih odborovih sej. To moje poročilo bo splošnega pomena in se bo nanašalo v glavnem na delo in urad vrhovnega zdravnika.
Tekom zadnjih štirih let sem opravljal moje delo po zahtevah naših pravil in po svoji najboljši zmožnosti. Pri ta kem poslu se pojavijo od časa do časa situacije, v katerih odločbe vrhovnega zdravnika včasih spravijo gotove člane v ne-voljo.	Toda, tega	se ni mogoče	ogniti.	Pravila,	sprejeta na
zadnji	konvenciji,	vsebujejo točne določbe, katere	se je vedno
upoštevalo.
Zahteve za bolniško, poškodninsko in odškodninsko podporo prihajajo dnevno v urad vrhovnega zdravnika. Bolniški in poškodninski sklad se je počasi pa stalno višal, tako, da imamo	zdaj malo	rezervo v tem	fondu.	Pregled	stanja tega
fonda je zanimiv.	Dne 30. junija	1928 je	prebitek	v tem fondu
znašal $2,429.33. Dne 31. maja 1932 se je ta sklad dvignil na $16,171.72, in prebitek 1. januarja 1936 je znašal $27,475.44. To dokazuje, da je ta sklad naraščal, četudi počasi in stop-njema. To pa tudi kaže, da ni priporočljivo delati prevelikih izprememb v pravilih z ozirom na ta fond, kajti rezerva v tem fondu ni dovolj velika, da bi odgovarjala radikalnim iz-premembam. Pri tem je vredno pomniti, da nismo imeli ni-kakih izrednih asesmentov ali naklad za ta fond. Prepričan sem, da bo konvencija dala primerno priznanje glavnemu upravnemu odboru, ki je deloma odgovoren za izborno stanje tega sklada.
Določbe glede izplačil bolniških podpor naj bi v glavnem ostale kot so sedaj, kajti, ako se kaj nepričakovanega ne zgodi, bodo odgovarjale zahtevam. Mi smo v izplačevanju bolniških podpor bolj liberalni kot mnogi naši tekmeci na tem polju v tem, da nimamo določnih omejitev z ozirom na gotove vrste
bolezni. Jaz imam priporočila za nekatere male izpremembe v tem oziru, katere bom izročil odboru za pravila v upoštevanje. V dobi, odkar so v veljavi sedanja pravila, se je pokazalo, da so bile potrebne regulacije, katere je napravila zadnja konvencija, posebno z ozirom na člane, ki so nagnjeni k simulaciji. Krajevna društva in njihovi uradniki so vredni priznanja za njihovo pomoč pri izvajanju določb zadnje konvencije.
Opazil sem, da nekateri člani priporočajo zvišanje odškodnin. Drugi so priporočali v svojih dopisih v Novi Dobi, da naj bi se plačalo za vse operacije. Neki član je priporočal, da bi bilo boljše, da se v pravilih navedejo vse operacije, za katere se ne plača. Bilo je še več priporočil v tem oziru, toda večina istih je bila nepraktična. Jaz sem sestavil seznamek operacij in nezmožnosti, katerega bom predložil odboru za pravila v pretres. Seznamek vključuje vse operacije, za katere se plačuje operacijska podpora dosedaj, in dodano je več drugih, za katere se doslej ni plačevalo. Seznamek za onemoglost je tudi sestavljen bolj jasno. Vse to bo seveda predloženo konvenciji v razpravo.
Priporočila, da bi se plačevalo za vse operacije, so neizvedljiva pri sedanjem asesmentu vt ta sklad. Ako bi se jih hotelo izvesti, treba bi bilo zvišati sedanji prispevek v operacijski in onemoglostni fond najmanj 40 centov na mesec. Mislim, da se strinjate z menoj, da o takem zvišanju asesmentov ne more biti govora.
Priporočila za zvišanje operacijskih odškodnin so po mojem mnenju tudi nepraktična. Jaz sem nekoliko preštudiral kako se te odškodnine plačujejo v primeri s tozadevnimi ases-menti. Naj večja jugoslovanska bratska podporna organizacija v Zedinjenih državah plača največ $75.00 za operacijske odškodnine in največ $800.00 za izgubo udov. Največja slovenska podporna organizacija plača največ $75.00 za operacijske odškodnine, pod pogojem, da je član v organizaciji vsaj deset let, in največ $600.00 za izgubo udov. Tozadevni asesment pri naj večji jugoslovanski podporni organizaciji je 20 centov na mesec, pri največji slovenski podporni organizaciji pa 18 centov na mesec. Dve drugi slični organizaciji, pri katerih znaša tozadevni mesečni asesment 15 centov, plačata največ $75.00 za operacijo in za izgubo udov od $500.00 do $1000.00. Neka druga organizacija, katere mesečni asesment v tozadevni fond znaša 13 centov, plača operacijske podpore do najvišjega zneska $100.00 in za izgubo udov največ $500.00.
Pri JSKJ plačujemo le po 10c mesečno v ta sklad, kar je manj kot pri kateri drugi gori'omenjenih organizacij. Opera eijske odškodnine pri nas pa so $50.00 in $65.00, za izgube udov oziroma trajno onemoglost istih pa se plača do vsote $800.00. Kolikor je meni znano, ni nobene druge slične orga nizacije, ki plačuje te vrste odškodnine, za tako nizke ases-mente kakor jih imamo pri nas. In pri tem nismo imeli tekom zadnjih osmih let nikakih posebnih asesmentov ali naklad za ta fond.
To mora prepričati vas, kakor je prepričalo mene, da vpričo splošnega odpora proti zvišanju asesmenta ne moremc zvišati operacijskih in onemoglostnih odškodnin. Po mojem mnenju so nizki asesmenti v ta sklad in dejstvo, da so člani upravičeni do odškodnin že po šestem mesecu po pristopu dobra reklama za pridobivanje novih članov, če se prospektiv-nim novim članom to dobro in pravilno raztolmači. Taki pogoji bi morali biti dobra privlačnost za nove člane.
Kakor znano, se člani mlad. oddelka, ki prestopijo v odrasli oddelek, lahko zavarujejo za $500 smrtnine in $1 dnevne bolniške podpore, brez zdravniške preiskave ob času prestopa. To je običajna vaba, ki naj privabi dorasle člane mladinskega oddelka v odrasli oddelek. Tekom zadnjih let so bili slučaji, da so po tej določbi prišli v odrasli oddelek člani z resnimi boleznimi. Morda je primerno, da se sprejme člane mladinskega oddelka v odrasli oddelek brez zdravniške preiskave, če se zavarujejo za smrtnino. Toda, je-li primerno in pošteno za člane, ki so zavarovani za bolniško podporo in plačujejo tozadevne asesmente, da se priključijo temu skladu tuberkulozni člani iz mladinskega oddelka, brez zdravniške preiskave? Moje priporočilo je, da konvencija to vprašanje resno premisli. Jaz bi priporočaj, da se mora vsak prospektivni novi član za odrasli oddelek, ki se hoče zavarovati za bolniško, poškodninsko in onemoglostno podporo, zdravniško preiskati, predno je sprejet.
Mi vsi vemo, da naša bodočnost je v mladinskem oddelku. Vpričo mojega zadnje omenjenega priporočila boste morda vprašali, kako naj pridobimo mladino v našo organizacijo. Po mojem mnenju je za to več poti. Mladinska konvencija, ki se je vršila preteklo leto, je sama sprejela tri tozadevna priporočila. Ta priporočila so: organiziranje mladinskih klubov ali krožkov, podeljevanje šolnin, kot označeno v resoluciji, sprejeti na omenjeni konvenciji, in upostavitev mladinskih konvencij, ki naj bi se vršile na vsaki dve leti. Za izvršitev tega naj bi se pooblastil novi glavni odbor, ki naj bi izdelal načrt, katerega naj bi predložil v odobritev zavarovalnin-skemu komisarju države Minnesote. Druga ugodnost za pridobivanje novih članov v mladinski oddelek bi bilo plačevanje malih operacijskih odškodnin tistim mladinskim članom, ki bi bili tako nesrečni, da bi take operacije potrebovali. Jaz sem gotov, da če bi JSKJ nudila mladinskim članom take ugodnosti, lahko zviša število članov mladinskega oddelka do višine, kot je ni dosegla nobena druga slična organizacija.
Vse te točke sem navedel, ker smatram, da so važne za vaše razmišljevanje in razpravljanje. Seveda vam bom na razpolago tudi v vseh drugih zadevah, ki pridejo na program te konvencije.
K sklepu se želim zahvaliti vsem članom glavnega in porotnega odbora in vsem društvenim uradnikom in uradnicam za njihovo sodelovanje tekom zadnjih štirih let. Moja iskrena
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VSAK PO SVOJE
Petnajsta redna konvencija JSKJ je odšla k svojim častitljivim prednicam v zgodovino, slavna delegacija se je v malih skupinah razpršila na vse vetrove kot ptice selilke, in avtor te kolone, ki je tvoril polovični štab konvenčnega zapisnikar-stva, se je po dolgem času spet enkrat pošteno naspal. Ne, fant ni popival, veseljačil in krokal, ampak se je od 8. ali 9. ure zjutraj do poznih polnočnih ur in še čez zabaval s predlogi, protipredlogi in točkami.
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Kot dirigent jerperg za slavno delegacijo in pozneje kot konvenčni zapisnikar je avtor te kolone zamudil slavnostne govorance sprejemnega večera in poznejšega banketa in vse zabave, ki so bile prirejene delegaciji v čast. Ko se je ob jutrih ves krmežljav ogledoval v zrcalu, se mu je zdelo, da vidi okoli podjetne pleše glorijo svetnika-mučenika. Seveda je bila morda temu kriva jutranja krmežljavost.
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Debate na konvenciji so bile včasih precej burne, nominacije pa največkrat urnebesne (karkoli že to pomeni), in od zapisnikarja se je zahtevalo, da iz idiličnega trušča sliši vsako posamezno besedo in ime. Na ta način si je pridelal nekaj čisto nepotrebne in nezaslužene zamere, pa ni bilo za pomagati. Zapisnikarjeva ušesa so bila pač dovolj dolga, toda ne dovolj tanka.
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Konvencija si je najprej določila čas dnevnega zborovanja na sedem ur, potem na osem ur, nato so se začele dodajati še nadure in za nameček večerno zborovanje. Osemurni delavnik je bil tako prekoračen po stranskih potih. V tem oziru je torej vest delegacije čista.
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Ves čas konvencije je vladalo v Clevelandu nenavadno vroče in soparno vreme. Cez vreme so posebno “kikali” delegati iz severa in zapada, pa tudi mi drugi smo jim navdušeno sekundirali. Zadnje postave pa je delegacija sprejemala tekom hude nevihte z bliskom in gromom, nekako tako, kot pravijo, da je bilo takrat, ko je Jehova dajal Mojzesu postave za Izraelce. Nevihta pa je ozračje prijetno shladila in slavna delegacija se je oddahnila od vročine in od napornega zborovanja.
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Tekom konvencije so se zborovalci večkrat pisano gledali med seboj in tudi ostre besede so padale tu in tam, ko pa so se razh»jali, se je zdelo, da se imajo vsi radi in da jim je težko, ker se morajo ločiti. V demokratičnih državah in demo-kratičnih organizacijah se manjšina podvrže sklepom večine ter ni vzroka za kljubovanje in' osebno mržnjo.
Seveda, še po vsaki konvenciji naše ali drugih organizacij so bile kritike in bodo tudi po tej. Kritike bodo, ker so bili sprejeti taki sklepi, in kritike bi bile, če bi bili sprejeti drugačni. To končno ni nič slabega, ker je pač človeško. Saj bi bilo dolgočasno in žalostno na svetu, če bi bili vsi ljudje enakih misli in nazorov. Popolna enakost nazorov je tam, (Dalje na 4. strani)
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Dolenjske terice so znane vsled svoje delavnosti, snedenosti in zgovornosti. Ko tarejo lan, čepe še ponoči na tleh in delajo. Gospodinje jim pa ves čas pridno kuhajo štruklje in druge dobrote ter jim prinašajo cviček, saj so res pridne kakor mravlje in vedno lačne.
Revež tisti, kdor gre po poti, kjer čepe terice in tarejo. V vsakega se vtaknejo in ga obirajo, da še kosti ne ostanejo več cele. Obrekujejo ga, opravljajo in se norčujejo iz njega, da je joj! Vse napake, ki jih ima človek, privlečejo na dan, oponašajo med delom njegove kretnje in se poredno reže.
V naši vasi smo imeli cigana Petra, ki so ga enkrat pustili cigani, ki so šli skozi selo. Peter je bil delaven fant, učil se je za krojača in gosli je rad sviral.
Ko so lani bile pri sosedovih terilje, jih je Peter gledal skozi okno, kjer je vlekel sukanec in šival hlače, dočim so terice čepele na tleh pri sosedovem skednju in pridno trle lan in se zabavale z zabeljenimi zbadljivkami.
Pa je Urša, ki je bila največja klepetulja med njimi, videla cigana, ki jih je radovedno opazoval. Kakor na povelje so se vse ozrle, ko jih je opozorila in so mu pokazale svoje dolge jezike.
Cigan je zardel kakor kuhan rak in jel hitreje šivati. O mraku pa, ko je nehal, se jim je mirno približal.
Takoj so ga napadle in jele obdelovati s ciganskim potepom in ga zasmehovati.
Cigan je kar molčal kot bi bil vse preslišal.
Pa se je Urša spomnila in rekla v šali:
“Ti, mladi Časar, zasviraj nam kaj, da nam pojde delo urneje izpod rok!
Kar začudila se je, ko je deček takoj skočil v hišo po svoje gosli in pričel igrati. Kako zapeljivo je zadonela njegova pesem, a vmes je odjekalo enakomerno tolčenje pridnih teric.
Ko je prenehal, je bila že tema, da se je videlo komaj za korak pred se.
Klepetulje je pesem kar nekam ge-nila in nič več se niso iz cigana norčevale.
Peter se je zamišljen spustil v travo in si položil gosli na kolena.
“Pa bi nam še eno zaigral!” je omenila stara Špela, ki je trla že nad štirideset let in so ji tovarišice rekale Torka.
Krojaček je vstal in jel hoditi med njimi. Spet je vzel vijolino in še eno zagodel. Nato je kar molče zginil. ^ “Saj ni tako napačen tale ciganček,” je rekla prva.
“Bodi! Bodi! Dovolj je že, da je cigan! Jabolko ne odleti daleč od jablane,” je oporekala druga.
“Kaj vendar mene drži?” se je vznejevoljila tretja in se jezno obrnila k sosedi.
“Zakaj me držiš za krilo?” se je oglasila soseda in sunila četrto.
“Ti pusti mene, ti!” je zarentačila
slednja.
Tedaj se je pričela jeziti druga, da Ji prva ne da miru.
Nekaj časa so se prepirale, nato so se jele obkladati z raznimi vzdevki, ki niso bili preveč prijazni, a naposled so si skočile kar v lase.
Ko so se vse skupaj spremenile v živ klopčič, ki se ie kotalil po travi, se je hipoma oglasila poskočna pesem iz sosedovega okna, neugnano so brnele gosli pele in se posmehovale.
Naposled se je oglasil cigan:
“Zdaj ste poplačane, da se ne boste več z mene norčevale! Kajne, da sem izboren krojač, saj sem vam dobro pri-Šil krila skupaj! Le pošteno se bun-kajte!”
Terilje so trenutno obstale, a potem završale in se pognale proti sosedovi hiši.
Cigan jih ni čakal, ko so prišle v vežo, je skočil skozi okno in se pognal na cesto. Terice so tekle za njim in mu žugale, čeprav ga že zdavnaj niso več videle, saj je izginil v temi.
Ko je drugi dan mojster klical svojega vajenca in nazadnje jezen skočil k njegovemu ležišču, da bi mu jih naložil, je našel postelj prazno. Cigan je pobegnil, menda se je prestrašil maščevanja teric, ki so mu žugale, saj bi se gotovo znosile nad njim.
“Bunny Tom’s getting awful greedy,’' i said Pinkie Cottontop, who was a dear, I little bunny, but rather critical. “He always takes the BIGGEST PIECE!” Pinkie’s eldest brother named Pete agreed.
“We ought to do something about it,” he said. “It’s awful! He’ll grow up to be a perfect PIG!”
“He’s one already,” piped up Bill, another brother. “It’s a shame! We ought to do something about it.”
Soon after this conversation, the three little bunnies were told by their mother that their rich Uncle Jim was coming to pay them all a visit.
“We must put our best foot forward,” said Mother Cottontop. “Uncle Tom, you know, lives with a very wealthy family and he’s most particular. I’ll bake a fine cake with icing, so clear out of the kitchen and don’t disturb me until it is done, then I may give y,ou the icing pot to lick.”
The three little bunnies ran and sat on the doorstep, while Bunny Tom, who didn’t know about the cake and the icing pot, ran off in the meadow to play with his other brothers and sisters (there were sixteen little Cot-tontops in all, so one always had somebody to play w'ith).
“When the cake is cut and passed around Bunny Tom will take the biggest piece, he always does,” said Pinkie.
“It isn’t fair,” said Pete. “Uncle Tom will be disgusted and not come any more and bring us hearts of let-tuce-heads and carrots.”
“Oh, I’ve thought of such a good trick to play on Bunny Tom!” cried Pinkie. “You know how he’s always playing jokes on people. Let’s play one on him and teach him a good lesson. We’ll make a mud cake and shape it just like a big slice. It will be the biggest piece. Then we’ll cover it with icing and when Bunny Tom grabs it
THE PET PONIES
an onion, which they quickly put in the mud cake—'first a dash of vinegar, a little onion juice, then salt and pepper, and last of all a thick coat of mustard. Then Penkie took a silver knife and spread on the icing, just as smooth and neat as you please.
“Now let’s hide it,” they all whispered, and, carrying the mud cake on a platter between theni, they hurried down to an unused spare room, where they hid it. Then they all came tiptoeing away with their paws on their lips.
Soon Uncle Tom came, puffing hard, for he was a fat, old fellow'. He kissed all the bunnylets and to Bunny Tom gave a fine, w'hite stalk of celery—for Bunny Tom was the youngest and was named for the old gentleman. Father Cottontop then came in and they all sat down to dinner.
All through the meal Pete, Bill and Pinkie kept nudging each other and giggling. You know why! Soon Pinkie, who was helping to wait on the table, brought in the cake. It was all sliced in neat pieces, except one great tremendous, big piece, lying on the edge of the plate. Pinkie passed the cake around, first to Mother Cottontop, who took a little piece; then to Uncle Bob, who took the piece nearest to him. Then to Father Cottontop, who took the piece nearest to him. Then she helped all the little bunnies and there were only three pieces left, two little ones and the big one. Then she passed the plate to Bunny Tom. Pete and Bill watched expectantly, their eyes dancing. Bunny Tom took the biggest piece!
But alas, and alack! Bunny Tom was not quite such a pig as they thought he was. Down he got off his chair and took the big piece along, right to Mother Cottontop he hopped.
“Please take this, Mammy dear,” he
Out near the edge of a great city, where the yards were big enough for boys to have a jolly time, there lived two brothers, Paul and Jack. These two boys, luckily, liked the same things, so they always had splendid times together. If Paul got enthusiastic about tennis, Jack was sure to think that tennis was the best game in the world. And when Jack had a dog given him, Paul became interested in the dog right
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Do Not Wait
When you read the lives of men and women who have accomplished great things many of you will sigh and say to yourselves:
“When I am grown up I, too, will do things that will startle the world and change the order of the day. I wish I could be a Columbus or a Penn or a West. It would be wonderful to be a Lind or a Bernhardt, or a Rosa Bon-heur. Think how I could entertain the world were I to become a Verdi or a Keats or a Coleridge!” And you will begin to dream rosy dreams of your far off future.
But do not wait until that future has become a past before you begin to accomplish things. Many of the world’s most famous men had achieved success during their early years. Did you know' that:
Napoleon had conducted one of the most brilliant campaigns the world ever
and bites it—Tee-hee!—won t he make a face!”
“Hee-hee!” laughed Pete and Bill.
“Let’s go down to the brook and get some nice thick mud and make the slice all ready, so when Mammy gives us the icing we can put it on at once,” said Pinkie.
“And let’s put salt and pepper and mustard and onion juice in it, so it’ll taste terrible!” cried Pete, jumping up.
“And when you pass the cake around, be sure he gets it,” said Bill.
Down to the brook ran the three little rabbits and there they got their mud and patted and slapped and shaped and smoothed until they had a thick wedge, shaped just like a slice of cake, a great big thick slice of cake. Then they ran w'ith it back home and were just in time, for Mother Cottontop’s head appeared in the doorway.
“There’s the pot,” she said, handing it out.
“Can’t we come in the kitchen and lick it?” asked Pete. “We won’t touch a thing.”
“All right,” said Mother Cottontop. “I’ve got to go to the store room and get some hazelnuts.”
In came the three bunnies, carrying the pot. Mother Cottontop had kindly left quite a nice lot of icing in the pot. Pinkie set it on the stove a minute to soften, while Pete and Bill got the pepper, salt, vinegar, mustard and saw before he was thirty years of age?
saw' before he was thirty years of age?
Benjamin Pierce, one of the most profound mathematicians of the United States was chosen professor of mathematics at Cambridge when he w'as but twenty-four years old.
Byron, Shelly and Keats, famous poets, died before the age of forty; Byron when thirty-six, Shelly when in his thirtieth year and Keats at the age of twenty-five.
Thomas Chatterton won world-wide fame with the poems written before his death at the age of seventeen.
William Cullen Bryant wrote his most famous poem, “Thanatopsis,” when in his nineteenth year.
The Boys Found the Care of the l'onies
Almost as Much Fun as Riding
away, so interested that his father got him a dog, too, and such fun those two boys did have w'ith the fine pair of Scotch collies they were lucky enough to own.
So it is not much wonder that when Jack thought of a pony, Paul agreed that owning one would be jolly fun. “Why didn’t we think of a pony before?” asked Jack, “ponies are even more fun than dogs!”
“Of course they are,” said Paul, “we could ride all over the country! Let’s ask father for one this very evening!”
“For one?” laughed Jack, “for two you mean! We are too big to ride on one—there will have to be two or none.”
“Ponies?” asked father, when at the dinner table that evening the boys told him of their wish, “ponies cost money. Can you earn money?”
The boys thought they could, so after some talk about the matter father agreed to buy one pony whenever the boys had earned enough to buy the other. How those boys did work! They ran errands; they cleaned yards; cut lawns and washed automobiles. All through the long winter they continued to work and when they counted up their money in the spring and found they had enough—maybe they were not happy.
So the ponies were purchased and then jolly days began. The boys found the care of the ponnies almost as much fun as riding and they kept Dickie and Flossy looking their very best all the time.
But in spite of good care one of the ponies w'as taken sick. So sick that a doctor had to be called. He prescribed medicine and a rest. So Paul could not take the ride he had planned for that day.
“Never mind about me,” said Paul to Jack when the doctor had gone, “you don’t need to stay at home just because my pony is sick. You take Flossy and go on.”
But would Flossy go without Dickie? Not a step! Jack put her bridle on and tried to get her out to harness her, but she laid right down on the floor of the barn and stayed there! The doctor was called again—this time to nee Flossy.
He examined her carefully, then he leaned back and laughed heartily. “Boys,” he said, when he could speak after his laugh, “you surely have spoiled these ponies! They think each must do exactly what the other does— just as you two do. Flossy is not sick. Just wait till Dickie can go out tomorrow and see if Flossy is not able to go, too.”
And, would you believe it, the next day when Dickie was well enough to go out Flossy looked out of her stall, saw her friend being harnessed and of her own accord she trotted out and put down her head for her bridle! Wasn’t playing sick a joke to play on her little master?
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Ina Slokanova:
KAKOR SOLNČEK
Kakor solnček naša mamica je zlata in ko kraljična iz sanj bogata.
Toda ne mislite,
da jo krase dragulji v zlato vkovani in da v kleteji cekinov vreče hrani. Ne, ne!
Njeno srce zaklad Je prebogat ljubezni najvišje in najčistejše, — njo zlati solnčno ognjen skr!at žrtvovanja in dobrote najsvetejše.
Le nam so posvečene njene misli, vse bridkosti so za nas storjene, vse, vse, karkoli hočemo nam ona da Če bi zaželeli njenega srca, — bi blago, blago nam se smejala , odprla grudi — in ga dala.
Da, naša mamica je zlata, zlata, še bolj ko solnček sam — in bolj lepa, bolj bogata ko kraljična iz lepih sanj.
WALKING OUT WITH PAPA
Vik:
Walking out with papa, that’s best fun 1 know,
And I’m always ready when he wants to go,
’Cause I know wherever we may walk there’ll be Curious sights a-plenty and new things to see.
Sometimes w'e go tramping down the river way,
Where the boats are sailing and the breezes play,
And the sails a-gleaming in the sunshine bright And the sparkling water make the finest sight.
Sometimes in the country we w'alk, oh, so far!
Through the woods and meadows where flowers are; Sometimes down the valley, sometimes up the hill, Sometimes ’round the long road by the old burnt mill.
And I think the last one is the best of all For the mill-pond reaches to the roadside wall,
And I throw stones in it, splash it up in foam,
Until papa calls me and we start for home.
KRATKE HLAČE
Dobro vem—saj sem to reč sa'11^ _e sil-—da vsi kratkohlačniki, ki s_nejj0 zamenjali mlečne zobe za trPe.z. jn robo, kratke hlače na moč sovra.Z1oreč-kar lepo priznajte, da je vaša najg za nejša želja zamenjati jih čimpf hiačo dopetače.
Jaz v vaših letih nisem bil n'^^,nji navdušen za	gola kolena in sem	^
marsikatero	krivično in nečas	^
račun osovraženih dokolenk, do> e ^ ni ob neki taki priliki vklenil oc K_ kolena in mi povedal to-le zgod 1
Živel je krojač, ki je neusmilj®110 J s0 klinjal. Kar iskre so se 'tresa -avali. se ljudje križjali, ko so ga sre .
In kakor je	že v navadi, je tu i
prišel nekoč	sam pravcati vra®' , pe-
ga je pozdravil: “Dragi prij’ate 1^, ^ volj si sešil suknjičev in hlac, 1	,	■
le končaj in z menoj pojdi; tv0^ f}. je zrela za nas kot septemberski	,
dižnik za juho. Pa lepo se opra ’	j.e
nam ne boš v sramoto doli!	^
Krojač pa se vraga ni prav n strašil a tudi z njim ga ni kaj v ^ Zato je zaklel, da je samega 1 je. streslo po životu, potem pa mu
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“Seveda pojdem s teboj m ^{o
rad! Le kar precej ne utegne111- ^ ge posedi, da mi spanja ne prežen ^ fa,j tole suknjo za gospoda P°nirka a in sešil, saj vidiš, da bo vsak čas i bi revež utegnil še zmrzniti	j’.
Vrag ni vedel kaj na to, Pa vS^ geje bil zgovorni krojač, pa je Prl ^osfl1^ seda je dala besedo-in tako je jetjti tinec povedal, da se je v mla 1 tudi on učil krojaštva, pa se je ^3 še pobahal, da je prav gotov° ,*eani;ahi večji mojster v Škarjah in s(' rj$el. kot pa krojač, po katerega je hl vragU Zviti krojač pa se neumne11111 p. ^ ni dal voditi za nos in vnel se.’ila stl tji prepir za mojstrstvo. Razgfa) ajjl» in preklinjala, da se je zemlja ^01 ^ slednjič pa sta sklenila te!c.n'°()jster '*ii prej sešije hlače, ta je večji ^
In sta še pristavila, da lahko vr* ^ zmaga—takoj vzame krojačevo ^ ^ če pa zmaga krojač, pa nima vr^ ji po njegovi smrti nobene P^a pi njega, pa če še sto let prek1 zemlji.	. jgl<
Dal je krojač vragu škar|^retjH sukanec, platno in kar je še P ^ za stvarjanje hlač, pa sta Prl delom.	. p
Poprej je vrag ogledoval kl?jej(r; i poslu, pa se mu je napak vl mora vsakih pet minut ig'° jiil' Ohjj vdeti, ker mu je kratka nit vse >|t< pošla! Pa se je posvetilo Pre ^ I mu peklenščku: “Zakaj Pa ^ dy , enkrat vdel, pa tokrat nit, ki b0 ll j vsaj za pol hlač?! S tem S1 .jSu! mnogo prihranim na trudu 111 a t Rečeno—storjeno! Še ma premaganemu krojaču prešal _ fj{( grešnega telesa ... Ko Pa 1-|Ve,5 . vleči neskončno nit skozi prye voz' *v( mu je zamedla na tleh v nešte 5pe in je bil ob pol ure, preden )° razvozljal.	,	Vi1*	11
Zelencu je postajalo VT0^e'h^cif da tako ne pojde, je pritrdil ni‘j° t mizo in tekel za vsak siv z * kraj delavnice. Toda nit je ^e11 daljša, pa je odprl okno 111 skakal za vsak vbod . . .	, ^
Krojač se je na ves glas reZ ’ je pa je skakal in se potil. Teda) ^ grozo zapazil, da je krojač s 0 ( 1 skoro pri kraju in debele oblile. V skrajni sili je pogra * in odstrigel hlačnice pri kol kodar jih je pravkar sešil.	f
Krojač pa takih hlač ni znati za prave, ker takih °dfeZ ^ H® tlej še nikjer po svetu niso n°s češ—nočeš, je vrag z dolgin1 1 . ^yli1 še' daljšim nosom klaverno ° 0pi)5' proti peklu, kratke hlače Pa pri krojaču. Ta pa jih je iz sa ležnosti, da so mu rešile	j(	P
in se napotil z njimi v svet, zav(j9riJ | je bil vrag pri njem, je tako ?-a po žveplu, da ni bilo več moči P v delavnici.	b\»^u
Povsod so se krojaču kratko ^tK smejali, a počasi so se privad1 '^jJ1 hlače pa so jim celo pričele jjvi In potem je krojač vse do sn1 ^|jl: same kratke hlače za male in ^ Kmalu so jih poznali in nosili P.g gf ^ svetu. Lepo je služil krojač 'nv(.sg|1 preklinjal, saj je vedel, da mu more do živega.
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COOK 
RICE PUDDING
Beat together—
'/< cupful sugar Vi teaspoonful vanilla
1 tablespoon butter 1/3 teaspoonful salt
1 square melted choco
1 cupful cooked rice
2 eggs
2 cupfuls milk	a|i
.isj,eS 2
Pour into buttered baking ® ^ bake till set, which will take minutes.
Serve with whipped creatfl'
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COMPANY COMING
There’s company cornin’, it’s easy to see,
They’re scrubbin’ an’ cleanin’ as hard as can'be;
They’ye straight’nen the rooms up above an’ below And puttin’ the best thing out where they can show.
There’s company cornin’, Ma’s brushin’ her clothes,
An’ Sister's a-washin’ an’ pressin’ her bows,
An’ Boby’s been polished an’ powdered an’ dressed,
An’ I heard ’em tell Pa he must put on his best.
There’s company cornin’, I ain’t got a doubt,
But I’ll have to fix up if they catch me about,
An’ go an’ get washed an’ put on my new suit An’ set on a chair like a dummy, to boot.
There’s company cornin’; I’ll hustle away Before anybody can tell me to stay.
An’ I’ll kee pout of sight so there won’t be no row— I guess they ain’t crazy to see me nohow.
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Manica:
TA JO JE POGODIL
Ribniški Jurek, hej, ta vam je bil ptič! Sicer se je njegovo možgansko kolesje baje vrtelo nekoliko počasneje k*>t pri navadnih ljudeh, toda—drugače pa vsa čast Jureku! Po svoje je bil razumen in pa zanimal se je za vse. Če je kje kaj videl ali slišal, kar se mu je zdelo pametno, je tisto takoj uporabil zase ter se skušal s tem okoristiti.
Pa se primeri, da stopi nekoč Jurek v gostilno na-polič vina. Takoj mu je za petami godec Brundež, tisti obče znani šaljivec.
“Hoho, Jurek, ti si tukaj,” kriči godec na vse grlo. “Pravijo, da si močan kakor Golijat, a jaz ne verjamem prej, dokler ne občutim tvoje moči. Če je res tako kakor pravijo in če boš dob/o počil po moji roki, ga izpijeva kozarček na moj račun!”
To rekši, položi Brundež dlan desne roke na mizo in pravi:
“Jurek, zdaj udari po moji roki, kar najbolj moreš!”
Jurek, hoteč pokazati svojo krepkost in še zaslužiti kozarec vina, visoko dvigne desnico, silovito zamahne, toda urni Brundež pravočasno odmakne roko, nakar Jurekova roka neusmiljeno trešči ob prazno mizo.
“Ha, ha, ha,” se škodoželjno krohoče Brundež. Jurek pa urno plača popito vino, popiha v vročo desnico in zapusti gostilno. Med potjo razmišlja o tem neljubem pripetljaju in kar naenkrat vzklikne:
“To je nekaj imenitnega, ki se bo dalo s pridom uporabiti!”
Pot ga zanese v gozd. Nasproti nul pride smolar, to je mož, ki nabira in kuha smolo.
“Kaj, ko bi poizkusil kar s temle,” si misli Jurek in že vpraša:
"Očka, ali ste kaj močni?”
“Močan—no, nisem še tako pod nič, ne,” se pomuza smolar.
na obrazu!”
“Prav rad,” se zasmeje smolar in že krepko zamahne s svojo osmoljeno desnico. Jurek med tem pravočasno odmakne roko od lica in smolar mu prismoli tako sijajno zaušnico, da se od glasnega ploska splašijo celo ptičke na bližnjem drevju.
“Ha, ha, ha, ali sem vas, ali sem vas,” se ves srečen reži oklofučeni Jurek. še bolj iz srca se pa seveda smeje smolar, ki nato spet nadaljuje svojo pot.
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Manica:
Kos in šoja
Pevec, črni kos 3epi v drevju na robu gnezda, iz katerega se iztegujejo in na široko odpirajo svoje kljunčke njegovi nikdar siti nebogljeni mladiči. Pri tem opazi nižje doli na neki veji pisano šojo in zamodruje:
“Tvoje perje, ljuba šoja, je prav lepo, dokaj lepše kot moje, ki je samo ene, črne barve. Ampak tvoj glas, ta pa je grd in zoprn do skrajnosti. Jej, koliko bi bila ti, prijateljica vredna, ko bi znala tako lepo žvrgoleti, kot žvrgolim na primer jaz!”
Komaj črni kos to izusti, že mu v silnem strahu zatrepeče vse telo. Tik, pod seboj namreč opazi malega, a tem bolj zlobnega dečka, ki je že večkrat poskušal njemu in njegovemu zarodu streči po življenju. V naslednjem trenutku se hudobnež požene na drevo. Razdalja med njim in gnezdecem se urno krči in kos, boječ se za svoje mladiče, obupno začivka.
Prav tedaj se pa ?oja tik za hrbtom paglavca s svojim zadirčnim glasom na vso moč zadere, vsled česar se mali nepridiprav tako prestraši, da bolj pade nego skoči z drevesa ter beži iz gozda, kakor bi gorelo za njim.
“Hej, tovariš, kos,” zakliče šoja, “ne tvoje lepo petje, nego moj grdi glas je rešil zdajle tvoj mladi rod!”
Kos se bridko pokesa svojih nespametnih besed in zažvrgoli dobri šoji v zahvalo prav lepo pesmico.
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RIDDLE
What nation produces the most marriages?
Fascination.
Kuna smoio.
“Kaj, ko bi poizkusil kar s temle,” si misli Jurek in že vpraša:
"Očka, ali ste kaj močni?”
“Močan—no, nisem še tako pod nič, ne,” se pomuza smolar.
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“Thank you, darling,” said Mother Cottontop, patting her little son on the head. “Now, I think it would be nice for Company to have the biggest, don’t you? Take it over to Uncle Tom.” Bunny Tom took the plate over to the rich Uncle.
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Alas! alack Just then Uncle Tom took a great big chew, and, oh, what a splutter! What a fuss!
1 "What does this mean?” cried Uncle Tom, angrily. “A joke is a joke! . Where’ss my hat and cane? I’m going home!”
“Oh, please don’t!” cried Mother ; Cottontop. “There’s been some mis-’ take. Bunny Tom must be up to his : tricks again. Don’t be angry. Don’t be angry. I’m going to switch that lit-: tie rascal!”
“I didn’t do anything,” cied Bunny Tom.
“I saw Pinkie, Pete and Bill down by the brook, making something,” said Father Cottontop, “and their actions have been very suspicious'at the table.” Pinkie began to try. “We meant the slice for Bunny Tom ’cause he’s so greedy and takes the biggest piece always!”
“1 think you'd better cure your own faults before you begin to work on other folks,” said Uncle Tom, crossly.
“I’d make you eat the cake, if 1 wasn’t afraid it would make you sick,” said Father Cottontop, “but as I don’t want to have you sick, Bill, go and nibble me a switch!”
And now let us draw the curtain over the painful scene!
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CIGAN IN TERICE
Another Juvenile Convention
^ Little Stan, Honorary Chairman of the National Juvenile Publicity Committee
Cleveland, O.—The oar of city traffic; car horns street car bells clanging, and your Little is seated in the office of the Nova Doba '* he is writing a really personal article for the . es> and to top off the whole thing, he is going 11 them of the most wonderful decision reached 6 '5th quadrennial convention of our organiza-at their sessions in the Slovene Auditorium,
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Convention days have been very eventful for p Little Stanley. It wasn’t like that little city p- Things were different He was always on meeting with many, many people. And every-8 appeared as if Little Stan was right at home,
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II f all the material he gathered at the sessions,
J.e Stan believes that he will have enough copy . the issues of the Nova Doba for months and r*>s. But foremost of the really great news is I the delegates at the convention unanimously 5 that a national juvenile convention will be held ■, two years! Now, isn’t that great news? You em:
The preliminary step has been taken. Soon, peril the earlier part of next year, the Ely committees ,e formed and plans begun to again royally enter-lUvenile delegates from all parts of the Union, meantime, juveniles can begin pneparations Begin lining up prospective members,
J’hen the contest opens, and rules are set, you ready to enroll a large number of new mem-a start. You perhaps remember that those enrolled the most members in each group became trenile delegates and won the all-expense trip “"inesota’s beautiful Arrowhead country. The rules are expected to stand this coming year. rePare early! ttle Stan doesn’t have his Austin anymore, but time the convention rolls around, you can be 'hat he will have something new, and it’s bound something very novel and exciting!
, tiring the recent sessions of the convention, Lit-an met some of the former juvenile delegates.
8'vas Vickie Kumse, Lorain; Joey Rudolf, Cleve-’Johnn-y Kapelj, Cleveland. He spent the week-.JtLorain, Ohio, where he had loads of fun.
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First, he had attended a dance sponsored by Betsy Rosa and George Washington lodges, Cleveland. He met Frank “Lefty” Jaklich, Betty Stucin (a sweet gal), and oodles and oodles of the nicest people—no foolin’! But Little Stan wants to save some of this excellent copy for the next week. But, anyway, the George Washington-Betsy Ross affair was swell, and Ed Guenther’s music was the works. Heh-heh!
Little Stan is now thinking about that week-end trip to Lorain. He is thinking that perhaps (to save his own neck) he shouldn’t tell all! Tsk, tok! Bui, anyway, when the group arrived at the Kumse home early Sunday morning, Little Stan learned that he had to curl up with Vickie’s dog, Smudgie. Now, Smudgie is one of those dachshund dogs, and she was (yes, it was she) a well behaved young lady. Anyway, they had a cardboard box in the basement, and Little Stan, tired and worn out, went down to curl up. He tucked his long legs into the box, and soon was snoozing comfortably! In a little while, Smudgie carne in. She sniffed, and sniffed again. Then she walked around the be* twice just to investigate. Seeing that Little Stan was there, she growled. Startled, Little Stan looked up. He dashed up the stairs just in time, and by the time he got to the top, Smudgie had a portion of this trousers in her mouth, and to top it off, she gave him the dog-laugh! Chagrined, Little Stan went to bed with Frank Jancar Jr., operator of Station W8LYX, Lorain. The next morning, however, Smudgie apologized and became Little Stan’s true friend!
Meanwhile, Little Stan learned that Dolly Bal-kovec, Pittsburgh, was in town. Too bad that Little Stan couldn’t get to see Dimples. And met Eddie Hudale’s dad from Wilmerding, Pa., who is a delegate to the convention. Cleveland is certainly a city for news, and to do everything justice,* J-ittle Stan will have to narrate his adventures in the big city in the following issues of the Nova Doba. Today is Monday, and the convention is expected to adjourn Wednesday. The delegates are really working so hard that they do not notice Little Stan slip back into his seat, but, anyway, he slips into his seat until next week!
STAN PECHAVER, No. 2, SSCU.
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■ter ij. st 'n high school, and I’m ](lnS to see what it is like. u§0 j,11' a very nice vacation. The oil ig Was pleasant and we didn’t ’ ,ji ^ rain to keep us in. But best ' pi H ^ dad, mother and I took a trip j rt*> Wis., where my uncle and . jo | ' I had never seen them be-'L j »Uo saw my cousins that live E ij arm. They have a nice apple 1 '°o. Some of the trees had so IpPles that the brandies broke ’j «^"’ays liked to stay in the
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j 'ch is about 360 miles from We visited my uncle, wt [“t seen foi4 nine years I saw / things that I would have to sil' th '3ef°re ' could tell you all 1 o le ertl- We rode on street cars o ' ?,Vat0rs every 'Jay- c visited 'M j f’ark and there we saw and j . Symphony orchestra broadcast. e^l ^ v>sited Buckingham Fountain 'sP‘	It	was very beautiful
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,.U ij"'*! take too much room to tell 'e ii 9ahout the trip. The time was j the week seemed to fly by.
S nice trip back and met the ,e[i jtj^ard members on theit vay 5	home office in Ely.
f«| ySTlNE KORENT (age 13),
No. 200, SSCU.
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,^IT0R1 and READERS: i 'V there has been some great lie0r,_ in our city. The first one iy v'sit of President Roosevelt to |(j0^ Johnstown. Since we were 'j. hy the flood the purpose of (. u’as to find out the necessity t^fd against future floods, and I, do to prevent such disasters luring.
i pCsident and his party arrived i ennsylvania Railroad Station ij, ' Thousands of persons lined ik,ets> while the whistles and i e'v- He rode in an open pas-ls Cari accompanied by Daniel l,’ f'ayor of Johnstown. A pilot t ^'n6 secret service men head-iJ^avan. A motorcycle escort t' 9fher machines followed and rr>ed the governor and senator j.^'vania. At one point of the i|°°d school children who wrote (J* him sometime ago asking for I, ntrol protection. I was in this ij s the President passed us he tl^d waved at us, while we in C^ed him on. At Roxbury j ^ Save a nice talk before some ih^er listeners.
i r®sident and his party talked w r°Posed flood reservoir, which ! . bltilt in the Stonycreek River V^stown. The dam will be 'II that it will cover four towns. i| |/e three full days of flood, like !in	h 17 last, to fill it. The
'hat district will be completely H atfir- Johnstown will then be-Ce of ereat interest, and then trj some of you members will (i( v‘sit it after the completion of fistic dam.
iij( e6ion parade held on Aug. 22 rested me. It was the longest lO f had ever seen. Starting at from Moxham, the parade the Point Stadium and j ®:30 p. m. Bands and legion-5 i^m all over the state partic-n this parade. Approximately
seventy-five musical organizations participated in this parade. The bands then marched to the Point Stadium and prizes were awarded to the best equipped group.
ANNA RITA GALL (age 16),
No. 30, SSCU.
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EXPORT, PA.
DEAR EDITOR:
I wish to thank all of those who made it possible for me to receive the dollar check for my last article. Also,
I wish to thank Little Stan for the wonderful souvenir.
Come on, juvenile members of Lodge No. 116, wake up and start writing.
As you hear of other juvenile members receiving checks for their efforts, 'remember that you, too, can receive them, if you only will wake up and write a good, short letter that is interesting to read. You can help yourself by paying ledge dues with it or use it in any way you wish.
It locks like a new member for Lodge No. 203, SSCU, of Cheswick, Pa. The stork arrived on Aug. 11 and brought a baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. Anton Sa-varn of Cheswick. Mrs. Savarn is my sister, and both she and her husband are members of Lodge No. 203.
I hope more new members will be added to our Union, so that we can increase the number within our ranks to exceed that of any similar organization within the United States.
DOROTHY SKERLY (age 17),
No. 116, SSCU.
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EXPORT, PA
DEAR EDITOR:
This is my first letter to the Nova Doba.
I am a little country girl 10 years old. I have been a member of the SSCU since I was one year old. I receive the Nova Doba once a week. I can hardly wait for the monthly juvenile section of Nova Doba. The letters I enjoy most are those relating to Europe. My mother often tells me the ways and customs of Europe. She told me it takes three men to do the plowing, as one has to drive the horses, one has to hold the “kulce,” and one has to hold the plow. Here on our farm it takes only one person to do the job.
I often have tc watch the cows, but I’m glad this is not Europe, for they have to chase the cows a few miles before they come to the pasture. If they only have a few cows, they put ropes on the horns to prevent them scattering too far. Others, more fortunate, have more cows and of course larger pastures. While tending the cows the people make a fire and roast corn and turnips. I love to listen to my mother’s tales of Europe, and I sure hope to cross the ocean when I grow up.
I hope more members of our lodge | will write to the juvenile section.
ROSE KUZNIK (age 10),
No. 138, SSCU.
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CASTLE GATE, UTAH. DEAR EDITOR AND READERS:
This is my first letter to the Nova Doba juvenile department. I am 11 years old and am in the seventh grade. Well, pretty soon our vacation will be over, and we will be back in school. I notice in the juvenile section that most of the boys and girls have enjoyed some nice vacations. On July 27, 19oG,
I underwent an operation for the removal of my appendix. I was confined in the hospital for six days, and now I feel fine. I have been firetty busy
lately practicing on the piano and horn.
I play an E flat alto horn. I play in the Castle Gate School Band. Here in this part of the country we are having nice weather. A coupic of times we incurred floods, but it didn’t do much damage. I was plenty scared. I am sending best regards to all the juvenii'-members.
ANGELINE YAKOPICH (age 11),
No. 108, SSCU.
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CENTER, PA.
DEAR EDITOR:
I wish to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks and appreciation for the two dollars awarded me for my letter which appeared in the July edition of the juvenile section of the Nova Doba. I was certainly surprised when I was handed the money and informed what it was for.
Congratulations, Rose Mary Patterson I. You certainly,deserved the dollar that Stan Progar offered for the best article. Anne Prosen’s description of the Great Lakes Exposition was also very interesting. Gee, I wish ! were there!
Well, Little Stan, if you’d really like to come to Center, we’ll let you know when we have another big affair, and we’ll send that plane out to Ely to pick you up. Okay?
The recent storms we’ve had in Center brought with them cooler weather and one feels like really doing things again.
Wo have had a few very severe storms here in our district. One of the worst occurred early last Thursday morning. We were awakened about 1:30 by a terrible downpour of rain. As always before, I was extremely frightened by the continuous flash of lightning. I was certainly relieved when this dreadful storm was ended, for I believe It was one of the worst I ever witnessed.
For five long weeks I had been waiting for a letter postmarked Ely, Minnesota. A few days ago, after I had almost given up all hope of receiving it, the mailman handed it to me. It was the souvenir from Little Stan.
Fie and Mr. Kolar seemed to have been put to a lot of trouble in getting the picture sent to the correct address. I am sorry to have caused you all this trouble and hope it will never occur again. I wish to thank you, L.t..c Stan, for this fine photograph.
As it is getting late, I must close. Before I do so, I wish to ask you juveniles to keep on writing those splendid articles—and don’t forget to gei that new member!
ISABELL ERZEN (age 16), No. 33, SSCU.
Heights and Mayfield Heights are on the high lands which are three hundred feet above the lake and the river, and contain the most attractive and handsome residences of the city.
The most important industry is the manufacturing of iron and steel, which constitutes one-fourth of the city’s products. There are many shops in which bridges, building steel, wire, machines and boilers are made. Vast quantities of nails, spikes, tacks, drills and bolts are made each day. Steel ships, engines and cars come from the Cleveland factories.
Cleveland has large factories in which knit goods, woolen cloth, clothing for men and women, hats, buttons and shoes are manufactured. The automobile industry ranks as the second industry of the city. The great telescopes for the Lick and the Yerkes astronomical observatories were built in Cleveland. Huge machines for hoisting, dredging and conveying arc manufactured in Cleveland and sent to all parts of the world. Cleveland makes many gas ranges, electric lights and sewing machines each year. Paints, varnishes, chemicals, drugs, millinery and chewing gum form an important grouc of products.
The Public Square is the center from which the main streets radiate, and it contains a statue of Moses Cleavelar.d and the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument. Buildings of the skyscraper type are clustered about the Square, which was formerly pasture land.. Cleveland has a great “Mall” or court, extending from near the Square to the lake, about which are located the important buildings, including City Hall, Post Office and Court House. Cleveland has important institutions of higher learning in Western Reserve University and Case School of Applied Science, besides law, medical and business colleges. Its many high schools are the highest type’ of academic, commercial and technical schools.
Good luck to all the juvenile members of the SSCU and the editor of our marvelous children’s page.
ANNE PROSEN (age 15),
No. 173, SSCU.
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CLEVELAND, O.
DEAR EDITOR:
I want to thank Little Stan for the souvenir he sent me. I am going to tel! you a true experience between my father and myself.
One’ day, while we were eating supper, I began to pick the onions out of the salad and placed them into the plate. My father said to me: “Florence, I will give you a penny if you will hold half of an onion in your mouth for five minutes.”
One minute passed, and tears began to roll down my cheeks. I had to spit the onion out of my mouth as quickly aa. possible. So I said; “Keep your penny.” Then my fa'ttie’f‘šaid, “I will hold the onion in my mouth for five minutes.” He did, and although the onion burned his mouth, he managed to eat it up. Well, I had to give him my penny/ But it was fun to see my i daddy cry and have tears roll down his chceks. This is something for Little Stan to try out. I would like to see him.
FLORENCE PROSEN (age 8),
No. 173, SSCU.
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IMPERIAL, PA.
DEAR EDITOR:
1 wish to thank you for the one-doilar check which I received for my contribution which appeared in the July edition of Nova Doba. I did not write sooner because I was busy and shall be busier because of the school term.
Our school opened its doors to its pupils on Aug. 31. Many juveniles are expected to be in school. I hope that this will not hinder them from writing often to the Nova Doba. I shall do my best to continue writing articles now and then.
To Little Stan: I received the souvenir. I certainly was surprised, for I did not expect any such souvenir. Thanks a lot for the photo. I shall keep it as I am sure all the others are doing. I shall close now', for I have a lot of home work to do.
MARY ZIDAR (age 15), No. 29, SSCU.
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JOLIET, ILL.
DEAR EDITOR:
This is my second letter to the Nova Doba. First I want to thank Little Stan for the cute souvenir. I surely will keep it as one. I am sending in a story which I hope will be interesting to the readers.
DISCONTENTED BLACKSMITH Many, many years ago in a distant land there lived a blacksmith who was never happy because he always wished and complained about something. Everyone was fired out with him; particularly his wife.
One day, as usual, he Wen to his shop and soon began to complain because it was very hot. I wish I could be a prince, he said. I could sit on he grass under an umbrella. How happy I would be then. A voice said, “Be a prince.” And sure enough, tl.ere he was, a prince. Servants stood about him as he lay on a rich rug under an umbrella. But the sun was so hot that it wearied him. He was very unhappy. Then he concluded that the sun was the root of the trouble. So he said, “I wish I were the sun.” And, would you believe it, he turned into the sun. Here again he complained because he was very high in the air, and hot, much hotter than at work.
“Oh, dear,” he said, “1 wish I were
CLEVELAND, O.
DEAR EDITOR:
I want to thank Little Stan for the beautiful souvenir he sent me. It was a big surprise indeed. This month I want to give the juveniles a version of the city in which I reside. I hope the juveniles will take enough interest to
CLEVELAND Cleveland, with a population of more than 900,000 people, is the largest city in Ohio and the sixth largest in United States. This city is at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River and near the center of the southern shore of Lake brie. Its commercial development began with the construction of the Ohio Canal, which connected the city with the Ohio River. Cleveland later became a railroad center, and today has seven of the trunk lines of this country. The business center and a considerable portion of the homes of Cleveland are on a smooth, sandy plain elevated nearly one hundred feet ab'ove the Cuyahoga River. Cleveland Heights, Shaker
a blacksmith.” His wish was granted, and after that he never complained again.
ROSE VIDMAR (age 14),
No. 66. SSCU.
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CANON CITY, COLO.
DEAR EDITOR:
Here I am again. The first thing I am going to write about is school. I will start high school this fall. I just completed Wilson Junior High, which has three grades: seventh, eighth and ninth. I carried five subjects: Civics, Manual Training, Spanish, Algebra and English. The most difficult subject was Civics, but I passed it anyway. 1 liked all the teachers, but I doirt know if they liked me. At the end of the school term we had promotion exercises, which means that one is promoted from one school to another. I I had a grand time and met a lot of nice girls. Also good-looking ones. They were from Roosevelt Junior High This school had more studetnts than ours.
Soon after the beginning ot my summer vacation I earned money by working on peas and picking beans. I bought a little bicycle with the money and had enough left over for a fishing trip with my friends. They caught a lot of trout, but I failed to catch any fish. My friend and I went hunting, and he killed si?: rabbits. I killed one. We were gone four days. On this trip I also saw lots of pretty country and went over high passes that I never knew before.
I wish to send my best regards to the editor, supreme officers and the members of the SSCU.
FRANK YAKOVICH JR. (age 14),
No. 147, SSCU.
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ASPEN, COLO.
DEAR EDITOR:
Summer vacation is almost over, and school will start on Sept. 7. My teacher this year will be Mrs. Leaver. 1 will start my sixth grade. I never had as much fun as I did on this vacation. Mamma said that I am old enough to go fishing alone. So I went up the Roaring Fork River. Then I began wondering just what was up on a hill ahead of me; so I decided to climb up and see. There, before me, was a beautiful lake, with the cool mountain breeze blowing across the lake. The sun was shining on the water, which gave the lake the appearance of so much silver. I forgot all about fishing and just sat and looked, and looked, at the pretty place. When the sun began to fade away I decided that I must hurry home, and when I reached the house my mother asked me what had happened to the fish. I told her that I left them in the lake. The lake which I admired so much is Linkin Lake. I wish that I have many more vacations like this one^
J.QSEPHJNE: OBLOCK,    No. 47, SSCU.
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LORAIN, O.
In this issue we come to the supreme judiciaries. The president of this board is Anton Okoiish. Fie lives with his family in Barberton, O. Being on the judiciary board, he came to Ely for the convention. Mr. Okoiish was the head of all the juveniles going to Ely. He saw that the juveniles had a place to sleep and kept the tickets. While talking to the juveniles he brought up the subject of writing to the Nova Doba and urged us to write each month.
Mr. Okoiish has dark eyes and brown hair set back from a high forehead. He is of average height and weight.
Now we come to John Schutte on the judiciary boar^ way from Denver, Colo. He also helped us to have a good time. Mr. Schutte asked me to come to Colorado with him after the convention, but that was too far away from home.
Mr. Schutte is tall and has dark streaked with gray hair and also dark brown eyes.
Mr. Valentin Orehek is next. When I see Mr. Orehek’s name or hear it or even think of him, I picture him as he was singing with us on the trip back from Ely. Especially the song “Ku-kavca.” When we would sing “Kuku” he would follow by singing “oj ku-ku,” which made the song all the nicer.
Mr. Orehek is short and wears a mustache, but hardly any hair on his head.
Often seen with him was Mr. Zig-man. Mr. Zigman is good-natured and likes to sing. He was singing most of the way to Ely with Mr. Orehek. Mr. Zigman is also short and fat and has black hair.
Rose Svetich was the only woman on the judiciary board, but lost this honor when Barbara Matesha was made assistant supreme secretary. Mrs. Svetich makes an excellent toastmistress as we found out at the banquet given us, and celebrating her lodge's anniversary. Not only a toastmistress but also a chaperon was Mrs. Svetich. Oftentimes chaperons are not liked by the girls, but in this case it was different. The girls all liked Mrs. Svetich.
Mrs. Svetich is young and beautiful. She is of average height and has dark hair. She will be seen at the convention in Cleveland this September.
Chief counsel is Mr. William Launch. He is as high as he is wide. His companion at the convention was a “Machek.” His trade mark was a cowbell. Being so funny he was most always the center of attraction at the convention. Ffis red necktie, I heard remarked, was mistaken for his tongue. The way he wrote his name in autograph was a topic for conversation. As big as he was, you would find a little “Bill Laurich” in some corner of an
autograph album. F!e looked especially well in Little Stan’s Austin.
Barbara Matesha, our new assistant supreme secretary, is the second woman on the board. When the juveniles visited the new home of our SSCU she had a smile, bright and cheery, for each person and was witling to show how’ anything worked or explain different things.
Barbara is tall, has dark hair and brown eyes and a head for work. She missed some of the excursions with us because she had to work. Now she has an office of her own and is more than just an office hand. Other times she had to work while her boss went to the convention, but now she will be able to go to the convention, too.
To see what Little Stanley looks like you must have seen his picture in the Nova Doba, but that was only his face. Add about two miles of legs to that picture and you’ll have Stan Pechaver.
Stan was seen a great deal with the juveniles in Ely last August. He will | also be seen at this convention at Cieveland. Those articles are very interesting, Stan—this is just what I heard people say. By the way, thanks for the picture 1 received. I will be glad to see you come with Barbara Matesha. I’ll see that my sisters are at home when you come. So be sure to tell us before you come so that they will be at home. My dog is O. K., although she has S. O. (stinky odor), but she will have S. O. (smelly odor or sweetheart odor) when you come to see her. I said “Hello” to my .mother and sisters, but you can say “Hello” to dad in Elv. I’ll be seein’ you, too.
VICTORIA KUMSE (age 14),
No. 6, SSCU.
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HOOVERSVILLE, PA. DEAR EDITOR:
I want to express my most sincere thanks to Little Stan for the picture souvenir which he sent me. I also want to send my deepest appreciation to Anna Prosen, 19716 Arrowhead Ave., Cleveland, O., for the lovely birthday gift she; sent me.
I still have a “tummy ache” from the corn roast that we girls enjoyed.
In spite of the fact that we were all sick the next day, we enjoyed ourselves. We hiked to the top of one of the hills surrounding Hooversville. We picked firewood and built a roaring fire. Then we got our corn, marshmallows, w'ien-ers, potatoes and apples ready to roast.
I ate plenty. So it is no wonder that I was sick. After we finished eating, we sang songs around the dying fire. We put the fire out and started home.
I know that everyone was reluctant to leave. I hope that we will go for another trip soon.
MARY MALNAR (age 14),
No. 36, SSCU.
P. S. Writers and readers, don’t get too tired wafting for school to start.
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ASPEN, COLO.
DEAR EDITOR:
This is my first letter to the Nova Doba, and I am going to describe our city of Aspen. You should be here to appreciate it, for Aspen is a great city for summer resorts. It is nice and cool here The scenery is very beautiful everywhere you look. People who like fishing and such sports should come to Aspen. There are many fish in the streams, and they bite. 1 went to Leadville on my vacation for two weeks. I spent most of the time with my aunt and uncle. They took me to Climax and other places. I enjoyed my visit:	Well,	school will soon b?
here, and I am glad.
LILLIAN POPISH,
Nc. 47, SSCU.
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LAFAYETTE, COLO.
DEAR EDITOR:
This is my	first	letter to	the	Nova
Doba. I am 8	years old and	will	be in
the third grade when school starts again. I like school very much. I have five brothers	and	they are	all	older
than I. Jack,	who	is the smallest of
ihe group, always writes to the fiova Doba. I also have a big dog and his name is Teddy. I like him very much because every time some of my brothers get rough with me he always helps me out.
ANNIE SLAVEC (age 8),
No. 21, SSCU.
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DENVER, COLO.
DEAR EDITOR:
I wish to thank you for the dollar check which I received for my article ihat appeared in last month’s issue of Nova Doba. I was surprised when Mr. Okoren, our secretary, brought the check to me. It sure came in handy, for school days will soon be here. Our school opened on Sept. 8.
1 am in the eighth grade. I wish to thank Little Stan for the nice picture he sent me as a souvenir. I also put it on my dresser as some of the other juveniles did.
MARY AMBROSIC (age 12), No. 21, SSCU.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IND. DEAR EDITOR AND MEMBERS:
Here I am again, but I did not write such a long letter. I am getting lazy. Although there was a Sugar Creek picnic down Riverside, no one in our family went. One Sugar Creek butter carton entitled the bearer to a free ride. Since school will begin soon I am saving money for school expenses. We will need plenty of books. That is all I have to say. Goodby, everyone.
MARY LAMBERT (age 11), No. 45, SSCU.
THIN!DAD, COLO.
DEAR EDITOR:
I wrote a letter last month, but as it would have been too late to be included in tiie August edition, I kept it for this month. Before going on I want to thank Little Stan sincerely for the souvenir. Yes, siree, I have his picture set on the piano where everyone can sec him.
We have been having blistering weather with the sun trying to dry us up, and now the wind is trying to blow us away. Well, school days are here and soon pencils and books will be busy. But I hope we will still see as many letters or even more in the Nova Coba. I’ll be going to high school since I passed into the ninth grade. I sure am tickled because I’ll be a freshman. And you know what that means.
Knock! Knock Who’s there? Little Stan. Little Stan who? Little Stan the weasel.
MARY KUVEC (age 14),
No. 84, SSCU.
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CLEVELAND, O.
Skoraj mesec dni sem bi! na farmi pri Mr. Prelcu v Painesville, O., in ves čas sem bil tako “busy,” da se nisem vtegnil zahvaliti za prejeto nagrado za zadnji moj dopis. Zato se sedaj prav lepo zahvalim. Denar mi bo sedaj prav prišel, ker šola je že tu. To se pravi redna šola in šola Moderne umetnosti, katero vodi Mr. H. G. Perušek.
Meseca junija sem nalovil nekaj novih članov za mlarlinski oddelek. (Lova članov za odrasli oddelek se nisem upal lotiti, ker je treba preveč govoriti, da se ga dobi. Ko sem šel z očetom okrog rojakov, sem videl, da še nisem zrel zaTagitatorja pri velikih ljudeh.)
Na farmi sem vjel dva živa #ajca; kdor ne veruje, naj ju pride pogledat na moj dom. Pa to še ni vse. Tudi jazbecem nisem prizanesel. Ves kredit za to lovsko srečo sicer ne gre meni, ker sta mi bili v pomoč Nellie in Betty (hov-hov na štirih nogah). Z združenimi močmi smo dosegli, da imam zdaj tri jazbečeva krzna.
Ne smem pozabiti omeniti, da sem dobil za souvenir od “Little Stana” njegovo sliko. Thanks very, very much, Little Stan! Ali hočeš v zameno eno jazbečevo krzno, katero sem zgoraj omenil? Čez par mesecev ti morda prav pride, ko bo toplomer kazal 50 pod ničlo. Eh?
Ob priliki bom spet pogledal, če bom mogel dobiti kakega malega v mladinski oddelek. Če bo kaj uspeha, bo en član več v društvu, če pa ne, pa ne morem pomagati. Dobro bi bilo, da poskusimo vsi pomagati po naših zmožnostih in prilikah za rast mladinskega oddelka.
JANKO KAPELJ (14 let), član društva št. 71 JSKJ.
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MILLVALE, PA. Spet se oglasim z malim dopisom v našem priljubljenem.glasilu Novi Dobi. Jaz vsako prilogo mladinskega oddelka z veseljem prečitam, pa v isti je le malo slovenskih dopisov; večinoma so angleški. Lepo bi bilo, če bi se člani mladinskega oddelka vadili slovensko pisati, saj angleščina nam tako ne uide, naš materni jezik pa hitro pozabljamo. Torej, bratci in sestrice, le poskušajte slovensko pisati!
Ko to pišem, se vrši v Clevelandu konvencija JSKJ. Jaz ji želim mnogo uspeha in da bi kaj koristnega ukrenila za mladinski oddelek.
Počitnice so končane. Jaz sem dovršila osnovno šolo in zdaj se je treba pripraviti za višjo šolo. Vročina je tudi pri kraju za letos. Tekom poletja smo imeli tu večkrat po 100 stopinj vročine. Vse eno pa smo bili veseli naših šolskih počitnic. Upam, da se je tudi g. urednik dobro počutil v tistih vročih dneh.
Zdaj pa končam moj mali dopis in pozdravljam vse sestrice in bratce v mladinskem oUdelku JSKJ, pa tudi g. urednika.
MARIJA KOVAČIČ, društvo št. 26 JSKJ.
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CONEMAUGH, PA.
DEAR EDITOR:
Two surprises awaited me during the last week of August. One was the dollar check for my contribution to the Nova Doba and the other a souvenir from Little Stan. I wish to express my appreciation for both these gifts: To the editor and to Little Stan.
Conemaugh High School began classes on Sept. 1. Although I liked the vacation just completed, I was eager to return to school and see what freshmen must learn. I dare say I found out in almost no time at all. There were not so many familiar subjects as in the eighth grade.
One of the subjects I am particularly interested in is Junior Business Training. This is very important in the commercial course which I have undertaken for this year. A business letter to me never had so many important details as it does now since I started the course. Every school must have some athletics in order to complete its training. Hence, I am required to take gym at least once a week. But I don’t see why it is compulsory since it consists mostly of fun. I may, provided 1 play well enough, get on the school team.
Now that the football season is opening I shall write what happened in Conemaugh. The first game scheduled called for a contest between Conemaugh and Nanty-Glo. I’m proud to say that our school beat them badly. The victory reflects the fine football ability of our new coach, Mr. Rooker. Standing about 6 feet and some inches (like Little Stan), he seems to have
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Zapisnik 15. redne konvencije J. S. K. Jednote
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želja je, da ta 15. redna konvencija ukrene vse, kar je mogoče, za dosego in zgraditev čim boljše in večje J. S. K. Jednote.
S spoštovanjem predloženo,
dr. J. F. Arch, vrhovni zdravnik.
Poročilo vrhovnega zdravnika se sprejme.
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POROČILO UREDNIKA-UPRAVNIKA NOVE DOBE
Delo urednika je bolj vidno kot katerega koli drugega glavnega odbornika. Vsak član, če prihaja na društvene seje ali ne, dobi glasilo vsak teden in se lahko prepriča, da urednik ni lenaril. O kakovosti vsebine lista seveda ne gre sodba meni, ampak članstvu in vam, ki to članstvo reprezentirate. Upam pa, da sem v tem oziru članstvo v splošnem zadovoljil, kolikor je v mejah razmer mogoče. Tako vsaj sklepam iz posameznih izjav članov in tudi nečlanov, ki čitajo naš list. To sklepam tudi iz dejstva, da uživa naš list v splošni slovenski javnosti dober ugled.
Glasilo pa je takorekoč vnanje lice organizacije, in dober ugled lista pomeni, da uživa dober ugled tudi organizacija, katero reprezentira, in to je najboljša reklama zanjo. Da je naša Jednota v primeroma kratki dobi, odkar ima lastno glasilo, narastla za okroglo tretjino članstva, najbrž ni gol slučaj.
V Novi Dobi sem skušal dati članstvu čtiva, deloma splošno informativnega, deloma poučnega, deloma zabavnega. To seveda poleg običajnih uradnih objav. Dela je zdaj tudi pri slovenskem delu lista znatno več kot ga je bilo od začetka, kar se vidi iz tega, da je treba list pogostoma izdati na osmih straneh. Je pač več društev in več članov. Oseba pa, ki to delo vrši, je vedno še samo ena, in plača je ista.
Dopisi vzamejo v listu mnogo prostora, toda to uredniku dela niti malo ne olajša, ampak gq, poveča. Vsaj 95% vseh dopisov je treba na novo spisati in to je težje delo kot če bi urednik pisal po svoji iniciativi. Seveda moram pripomniti, da so dopisi vedno dobrodošli, ker kažejo zanimanje članstva za probleme društev in skupne organizacije in deloma tudi za druge naše probleme.
Z dopisniki sem v splošnem prav dobro in bratsko izhajal in ni prišlo do nikakih večjih kontraverz. Par manjših nesporazumov, ki so se v teku let pojavili, je bilo mirnim potom rešenih. Priznati moram, da sem bil od dopisnikov v splošnem deležen naklonjenosti in bratskega razumevanja. Seveda sem skušal od svoje strani vsem in vsakemu po najboljši možnosti ugoditi.
Omenim naj tudi, da ni imel list v vseh letih svojega obstanka nikakih sitnosti s poštnimi oblastmi in da Jednoti ni povzročil niti centa sodnijskih in odvetniških stroškov. S takim rekordom se ne more ponašati vsak list.
Upravniško delo obstoja iz stoterih poslov, ki jih članstvo v splošnem ne vidi. Med glavne posle spadajo urejevanje naslovnika, ki vsebuje okrog 12,000 naslovov, knjigovodstvo z ozirom na oglase in naročnine in korespondenca. Posebno obširna je korespondenca, ki se ne tiče samo jednotinih zadev, in takih, ki res spadajo v področje urednika-upravnika, ampak odgovarjati je treba tudi v neštetih drugih zadevah. Člani se obračajo na uredništvo za najrazličnejše informacije, ker se dostikrat ne vedo kam drugam obrniti, in nobeno pismo ne ostane neodgovorjeno. Dasi me pravila k temu ne silijo, nimam srca, da bi odklonil odgovor članu, ki se je z zaupljivostjo obrnil name. Vse to pa seveda vzame čas.
K temu pridejo stoteri drobni posli, ki jih nihče ne vidi in ki morajo biti opravljeni. Še, če je treba nesti registrirano pismo na pošto ali zaviti malo pošiljko, ni nikogar, ki bi to mesto mene opravil. Ako vse navedeno upoštevate, boste lahko razumeli, da mi upravniško delo s svojimi pritiklinami vzame vsaj tri dni na teden in mi je za uredniško delo faktično na razpolago le polovico tedna. Vse to sem vam navedel, ne kot kakšno pritoževanje, ampak v vašo informacijo. Vi ste zastopniki članstva in ste upravičeni poznati delo svojih uradnikov.
Zadnja konvencija je določila, da je urednik-upravnik Nove Dobe član glavnega odbora in da se udeležuje vseh sej istega. To je po mojem mnenju in mojih izkušnjah absolutno pametno in logično. Urednik-upravnik je poleg glavnega tajnika edini član glavnega odbora, ki posveča ves svoj čas in vse svoje delo Jednoti, torej jo mora poznati do najmanjših podrobnosti. Od njega se pričakuje, da je neprestano najbolj izrazit glasnik in zagovornik organizacije napram članom in nečlanom. On je potom lista tedensko zvezan s članstvom, v mnogih ozirih bolj kot sam glavni tajnik. Sploh je ali bi moral biti eden najbolj vsestransko informiranih članov glavnega odbora, da more članstvu dajati prave informacije in voditi agitacijo za Jednoto.
Do tega prepričanja so prišle pred nami in tudi za nami druge slovenske podporne organizacije, ki, imajo svoja lastna glasila, ker so dale urednikom in upravnikom svojih glasil isti
status kot ga ima urednik-upravnik Nove Dobe. Od urednika se zahteva, da je v gotovih ozirih nekak voditelj članstva, to pa more biti le, če je kar največ poučen o vseh problemih Jednote, tako od strani osrednje uprave kot od društev in član-etva v splošnem.
K zaključku naj še omenim, da sem bil od strani glavnih in porotnih odbornikov, od društvenih uradnikov in uradnic in od strani članstva v splošnem deležen vsestranske kooperacije in bratske naklonjenosti. Razume se, da sem za vse to hvaležen. Za slično naklonjenost in sodelovanje se priporočam tudi za v bodoče, saj bo to v korist in ugled J. S. K. Jednote, glede katere je iskrena želja nas vseh, da je in ostane najboljša, najnaprednejša in najbolj popularna slovenska podporna organizacija v Ameriki.
Anton J. Terbovec, urednik-upravnik Nove Dobe.
Poročilo urednika-upravnika Nove Dobe se sprejme.
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POROČILO PREDSEDNIKA NADZORNEGA ODBORA Konvenčni predsednik, glavni uradniki, souradnica, delegati in delegatinje, cenjeni sobrat j e in sosestre:-
Kakor navadno za vsakega glavnega odbornika, tako je tudi moja dolžnost po pravilih točke 186, da Vam podam svoje poročilo. Pri zadnji konvenciji meni izročen urad sem prejel s 1. januarjem leta 1933, katerega sem vodil do danes, kot to zahtevajo pravila naše Jednote. Vedno sem skušal biti točen, tako, da so imeli naši izvrševalni odborniki dobro priliko za točno in vestno poslovanje v glavnem uradu. Udeležil sem se vseh revizij in sej glavnega odbora, izvzemši ene, to je meseca julija leta 1933, ko sem bil zadržan radi mojega vsakdanjega dela. To pot sem izročil vse potrebne stvari za revizijo prvemu nadzorniku sobratu Janko N. Rogelju, kateri je prevzel delo predsednika nadzornega odbora in istega izvršil dobro in pravilno, zakar mu izrekam zahvalo na tem mestu.
V soboto dne 22. avgusta smo se zbrali na The Northern National banki v Duluthu, Minnesota, kjer ima naša Jednota shranjene vse vrednostne listine (bonds), vsi nadzorniki ter glavni podpredsednik in glavni blagajnik JSKJ. Prešteli smo vse vrednostne listine, odrezali od njih vse kupone za nadalj-nih pet mesecev, da jih glavni blagajnik lahko vnovči, ko pride čas njih dozoritve.
V posebnem varnostnem predalu banke smo pustili, proti pobotnici, za svoto $160,500.00 obveznic, bondi bodo v prihodnjih petih mesecih dozoreli ter jih bodo dotični okraji izplačali ali podaljšali, kakor že nanesejo njih razmere. (Nekateri zmanjšajo samo obrestno mero.)
V ponedeljek dne 24. avgusta smo pričeli s pregledovanjem knjig v glavnem uradu. Pregledali smo račune glavnega tajnika, glavnega blagajnika in urednika-upravnika “Nove Dobe.” Pregledali smo tudi račune prispevkov in izdatkov za poplavi j ence v Pennsylvania in Ohio, katero je vodil glavni blagajnik Louis Champa. Vse knjige in računi so bili pronaj-deni v dobrem redu. Pregledana so bila tudi poročila računov glavnega tajnika in glavnega blagajnika od zadnje konvencije pa do 1. julija 1936. Vsi preje omenjeni glavni uradniki zaslužijo priznanje in pohvalo za njih knjigovodstvo in dobro urejene račune.
Od zadnje konvencije pa do danes je več društev pozabilo poslati svoja šestmesečna poročila, o dohodkih in izdatkih med društvom in Jednoto. Zatorej apeliram na cenjeno delegacijo, da zahtevajo doma pri svojih društvih, da v bodoče gotovo pošljejo svoja poročila vsakih šest mesecev na glavni urad, kajti prihrani se veliko dela glavnemu nadzornemu odseku.
Nekatera društva so bila jako površna pri obiskovanju bolnikov. Pravila moramo vsi upoštevati, taka kakršna konvencija sprejme. Zatorej toplo priporočam delegatom, da povedo pri svojih društvih oziroma svojim društvenim uradnikom, da je treba dobre kontrole v društvih nad izplačili. Društveni odbor mora dobro paziti na razne prošnje članstva, da so gotovo opravičene do izplačil, predno iste potrdi in pošlje na glavni urad za izplačitev ,da se tako prepreči morebitno izkoriščevanje jednotine blagajne. Pri tem moram pripomniti, da ne mislite, da sem jaz nasproti izplačilom bolniških in drugih podpor, ne, jaz sem, da vsaki pošteno dobi, za kar je zavarovan, v slučaju bolezni in nesreče, sem pa, da se strogo pazi na simulante, kateri se mislijo okoristiti z jednotino, našo blagajno.
Glavni urad ne more kontrolirati društev glede odobravanja bolniških in drugih podpor, pač pa morajo kontrolo društva vršiti sama in njihova dolžnost je, da preprečijo neopravičena izplačila. Napačno je mišljenje nekaterih, da jednota plača in jednota naj pazi. Kdo. pa je jednota? Mi vsi skupaj, članstvo in društva so jednota. Vi, kot zavedni delegati, upam, da bodete pazili ter skušali poučiti še ostale vsak v svoji naselbini (kjer je to potreba) tako, da se bo vse naše članstvo zavedalo, da moramo vse sami plačati iz svojih žepov. Napredek jednote zavisi od napredka društev, glavni urad ne-obhodno potrebuje kooperacije društev za dober red in napredek jednote.
Zadnja štiri leta sem prejel od več društev JSKJ razna vabila, da naj se udeležim njih veselice, piknika, banketov, in tako zvanih obhajanj obletnic društev. Udeležil sem se več takih obhajanj po možnosti. Seve, v nekaj slučajih mi ni bilo mogoče se odzvati vabilu zaradi važnih zadržkov in oddaljenosti. Zatorej upam in želim, da mi prizadeta društva o-proste. V slučaju, da prilika nanese, bom z veseljem ustregel želji prizadetih.
Od strani glavnega predsednika, glavnega tajnika, glavnega blagajnika, urednika-upravnika “Nove Dobe” in predsednika porotnega odbora, s katerimi sem imel največ dopisovanje, sem bil deležen kooperacije in prijaznosti; seve naklonjenosti sem bil deležen tudi od ostalih glavnih odbornikov (ce), kar jaz visoko cenim in spoštujem.
Član finančnega odbora.
Kot član finančnega odbora sporočam, da, smo jednotin rezervni kapital nalagali vedno v najboljše bonde, ki se jih je zamoglo dobiti. Delo finančnega odbora je težavno; vedno je treba misliti, kako naložiti denar članstva, da bo varno investiran, s primernimi obrestmi. Naša jednota je imela precejšno srečo pri kupovanju bondov. Iz poročila glavnega tajnika je razvidno, da imamo vse dobre bonde, z majhno izjemo. Upam, da tudi ta izjema v*kratkem času pride do visokosti svoje cene.
Priporočam, da delegacija tudi v bodoče ohrani sistem kupovanje bondov, kakor do sedaj, to je, da jednota kupuje
(Dalje na 8. tsuani;
Važno naznanilo
Dopisniki in drugi člani J. S. K. J. so obveščeni tem potom, da Nova Doba prihodnji teden ne bo izšla. Kakor je članstvu znano, je 14. redna konvencija določila, da je urednik upravičen do enega tedna počitnic na leto, in kadar si iste vzame, sme eno izdajo lista suspendirati ali opustiti. Zaradi silnega predkonvenčne-ga dela je bilo letos treba počitnice odložiti na zadnji teden v septembru. Številka Nove Dobe,. ki bi imela iziti 30. septembra, bo torej izostala. Člani naj izvolijo to obvestilo upoštevati, da ne bo nepotrebnega povpraševanja, zakaj lista niso prejeli. Prihodnja številka Nove Dobe izide dne 7. oktobra.
VSAK PO SVOJE
Jugoslovanska Katoliška Jednota v Ameriki
ELY, MINNESOTA
GLAVNI ODBOR
a) Izvrševalni odsek:
n-edsednlk: PAUL BARTEL, 225 N. Lewis Ave., Waukegan, IU. Prvi podpredsednik: MATT ANZELC, Box 12, Aurora, Minn.
Drugi podpredsednik: LOUIS M. KOLAR, 6117 St. Clair Ave., clf land, Ohio.
Tajnik: ANTON ZBAŠNIK, Ely, Minn.
Pomožna tajnica: BARBARA MATESHA, Ely, Minn.
Blagajnik: LOUIS CHAMPA, Ely, Minn.	P,
Vrhovni zdravnik: DR. P. J. ARCH, 618 Chestnut	St.,	Pittsburgh'
Urednik-upravnik glasila: ANTON J. TERBOVEC, 6117 St. Clair * Cleveland, Ohio.
b) Nadzorni odsek:
Predhednik: JOHN KUMSE, 1735 E 33rd St., Lorain,	Ohio.	Q
1. nadzornik: JANKO N. ROGELJ, 6401 Superior Ave., CleveW®-
2. nadzornik: JOHN BALKOVEC, 5400 Butler St., Pittsburgh,
3. nadzornik: FRANK E. VRANICHAR, 1812 N. Center St.,
4. nadzornik: JOSEPH MANTEL, Ely, Minn.	^
GLAVNI POROTNI ODBOR:
Predsednik:	ANTON OKOLISH, 1078 Liberty Ave., Barberton, O.
1. porotnik: JOHN SCHUTTE,, 4751 Baldwin Ct„ Denver, Colo.
2. porotnik: VALENTIN OREHEK, 70 Union Ave., Brooklyn, N *'
3. porotnica: ROSE 8VETICH, Ely, Minn.
4. porotnik: JOHN 2IGMAN, Box 221, Strabane, Pa.
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kjer ni muh, oziroma v krtovi deželi.
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Delegati so avtorju te kolone prinesli mnogo lepih pozdravov iz različnih krajev te obširne dežele: iz sončne Cali-f orni j e, iz zelenega Washing-tona, iz romantične Montane, iz vetrovnega Wyominga, iz dežele desettisočerih jezer, Minnesote, iz države sončnih rož, Kansasaf izpod newyorških nebotičnikov, izmed prijaznih gričev Pennsylvanije, iz srebrne Colorade, iz prerijskih držav našega srednjega zapada, Illinoisa, Indiane, Wisconsina itd. Žal, stokrat žal mu je, da se vsled zapisnikarske zaposlenosti ni vtegnil z njimi kaj več pogovoriti o ljubih osebah in znanih krajih, ki so zapisani v naj gorke j šem kotičku njegovega srca. Vsekakor naj lepša hvala vsem, ki se ga prijazno spominjajo!
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Delegatinja Jutranje zvezde št. 37, sosestra Bradač je tekom konvencije dobila zalo punčko. Pa je ni prinesla štorklja, ampak nagajive sodelega-tinje< torej ne bo nič s porodniško nagrado in punčka tudi ne bo nikoli kvalificirana za vpis v mladinski oddelek.
Meni pa je delegat Živetz iz Jolieta prinesel v dar orjaško cigaro, katero pa bom po-pušil šele, ko nekoliko k sebi pridem in ko me pusti pokon-venčni mjav-mjav. Vsekakor, Joliet, kjer obrodijo tako debele cigare, ne more biti slabo mesto.
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Včasih sem mislil, da ne bi mogel niti en dan živeti, če ne bi čital par velikih ameriških dnevnikov in vsaj par slovenskih listov. Tekom konvencije pa sem se prepričal, da temu ni tako. Več ko teden dni sem živel samo od predlogov, proti-predlogov, točk, podtočk, nominacij in drugih zapisnikar-skih sladkostit pa sem shujšal samo za tri funte. Seveda s tem še ni rečeno, da ne bi mogel še par nadaljnih funtov dol vzeti, ker se mi še vsako noč sanja o predlogih, točkah in podtočkah in slični zapisrii-karski dijeti.
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Slavna delegacija 15. redne konvencije je bila vsak dan “v rožcah.” Predno pa se oglasijo kritiki, moram pojasniti, da so bile tisto čisto poštene rožice, in sicer sveže duhteče vrtnice, ki jih je slovenski cvetličar James Slapnik Sr. pošiljal delegaciji v dar. Vsaki dan ob dopoldanskem odmoru se je delegacija zgrnila okoli cvetlične košare in se okinčala kot za svatbo. Ohceti kljub temu ni bilo nobene. Da ne bo kakšnih jezikov, naj še enkrat poudarim, da je delegacija res bila vsak dan “v rožcah,” toda na nedolžen_ pošten in pravilen način.
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Jednotino uradno glasilo:
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2. odbornik: MATT ANZELC, Box 12, Aurora. Minn.
Vb« stvari, tikajoče se uradnih zadev, naj se pjfiiljajo na irlavn«** . 'f denarne pošlijatve pa na glavnega blagajnika. Vse pritožbe in priliv« n>Jorol®^ slovi na predsednica porotnega odbora. ProSnje za sprejem novih za zvišanje zavarovalnine in bolniška spričevala naj a« pošiljajo na vrn zdravnika.	a
Dopisi, društvena naznanila, oglasi, naročnina nečlanov in •lovov naj se pošiljajo na	naslov: Nova	Doba, 6117	St. Clair Ave., Cl've
JuKor.lovanska Katoliška Jednota v	Ameriki je	najboljša jujroslovan®^® 0&. m.
varovalnica v Zedinjenih drtavah in plačuje najlibernlnejše podpore svojim	lnl<
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Za novopridobljene člane odraslega oddelka pa s° lagatelji deležni sledečih nagrad: ^
za člana, ki	se	zavaruje	za	$ 250.00	smrtnine,	$1.00 ^ i,j
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prepričanja, da mi je naša slavna konvencija tako zlezla v kri in možgane, da sploh ne znam pisati o čem drugem.
Logična medicina za to bodo enotedenske počitnice, ki so bile dosedaj še na polici. Predlagano, podpirano in sprejeto, da gresta Nova Doba in njen urednik za en teden na počitnice. Debata je bila že prej zaključena. Sedem dni odmora! S© vidimo 7. oktobra!
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Desetletnico ustanovitve bo v soboto 26. septembra zvečer proslavilo društvo št. 175 JSKJ v Veroni, Pa., z veselico, katero priredi v Narodnem domu na 312 Arch St.
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^hey came, they gathered every morning and afternoon, they ScUssed the many problems, made change?, additions—in ^evenings they attended the entertainment provided in their l,l0r. and having completed their work, adjourned the conation and left for their homes.
®Uch was the panorama of the 15th regular convention of 6SSCU held in Cleveland.
Months of preparation by the local Cleveland convention !,rnmittee on arrangement, months of toil on the part of the ■Ufi office in Ely, Minn., reflected a sound organization of and plans put into actual practice during the daily conation sessions and the program of entertainment held during e evenings.
Cleveland SSCU members had a good reason for discing such marked interest in the convention, for the last held in this metropolis dates back to 1905, when the SSCU 48 but a boy in knee pants.
like the growing boy who had much to learn, so did !rUnion profit from each experience. And the many changes ■ ji» ^ave taken place in the Slovene fraternals since the in-'”ka#i Ption of our Union in 1898 would make interesting reading all Yugoslavs and their descendants.
The gradual change in our Union’s policy can be traced to lch succeeding convention following the first one held in ’ Minn., 38 years ago. These changes were made by men Women who made a study of lodge insurance as applied actual practice. Not mere theories, but sound principles .bodied by the majority of insurance groups, whether frater-'* °r otherwise, served as guiding stars.
“cnee, the importance attached to our Union’s quadrennial Mentions. It is here that the by-laws governing the SSCU each four years are changed, amended and new ones incor-irated. It is here that our Union can gain much through the , ance set forth by the delegation; it is also possible for a Vernal organization to lose much ground by means of lim-tf» *°ns imposed upon it by well-meaning but short-visioned ^’iduals.
^'he 15th assembly of delegates, supreme and judiciary lcers made a creditable showing with its. deliberations and jf delusions made on the convention floor. The English-speak-* delegates voiced their opinions time and again, indicating 6lr willingness to participate in the policy to be adopted for !fi ensuing four years.
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*Jhile any financial assistance, be it great or small, hardly *• pensates the survivors for the sorrow and want suffered the trying days, fraternal protection does loom as ‘‘ant star in the night of darkness. For here are benefits lch have been carried by members to meet the unexpected. ---------------------------------o-----
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FIRST SESSION
Promptly at 9 a.m. supreme president Paul Bartel opened the first session of the 15th quadrennial convention of the South Slavonic Catholic Union in the Slovene Auditorium of the Slovene National Home in Cleveland. Delegates submitted their credentials to the supreme judiciary committee for verification.
SECOND SESSION
The second session began at 11 a.m. when the committee reported on the credentials.
Only two delegates were challenged to their right of representation. The one representing Arrowhead Lodge, No. 184, of Ely, Minn., was sanctioned after a secret vote was taken by the delegation, who acted as a jury passing upon the evidence submitted. The other delegate representing lodges 104, 170, 211 and 220 was also accepted.
THIRD SESSION
Matt Anzelc, first vice president of the SSCU, was elected convention president. The two vice presidents elected received an equal number of votes: 5ti Valentine Orehek, Jr., of Brooklyn, N. Y., representing the English-speaking delegation, volunteered to accept the second vice chairmanship, leaving the. first vice chairmanship to Frank Mikec, of Strabane, Pa.
Stanley Pechaver, member of Lodge No. 2^ SSCU, and better known to the readers as Little Stan, was given a warm reception by the delegates who voted to reimburse him for the transportation and pet-diem expenses. Little Stan was accepted by the convention as a representative of the juvenile department, in the ca-
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bridge, Pa.—The time has when it behooves a mem-'j!	from Lodge No. 40, SSCU,
ake a pen in hand and write1 °Ur official organ, in order )0H u Worm the readers of the ft,1d time awaiting them cn Urday, Oct. 17. The place , ^be Slovene National Home, j^ted in the best little town Westmoreland County.
^hat is the nature of this ■ jp - time? A big dance, of ! And it is to be called a Dance. Something new, sure, and all guests can {°k for a real surprise that 6tiing. Music will be hotter atl the famous Chicago fire ‘ *889. Melodious tunes will * emitted from the popular Tregasser’s orchestra of lunette, which is well known kr°Ughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, j est Virginia and New York.
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Our lodge is sponsoring this dance, and tickets are being disposed of by the members. Get yours before it is too late. Come to this grand and glorious time. Everything in the form of entertainment eagerly awaits the guests. All members and friends of SSCU lodges and other units of Greensburg, Yukon, Export, Delmont, White Valley, Center Ramblers of Center, Pa., and Pittsburgh are cordially invited to attend. I hope to meet a lot of members at this gala affair.
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A mutual protective Organization is our SSCU. No profits or dividends accrue to any one or certain small group of individuals. A]l members are joint owners.
Gowanda, N. Y.—It’s not a very pleasant task, this ushering summer so unceremoniously out of the way, but October is just around the proverbial corner. Which simply means that our fall dance is just a stone’s throw away.
To be exact, Oct. 3 is the date set. Music,! Dimmed lights! Refreshments! Gaiety! What a perfect setting for an enjoyable evening.
Johnny Orian and his orchestra, general favorites throughout Buffalo, have been engaged. They promise to please even the most cynical critic in existence. “Looch” Klancer has consented to play in the lower hall, so that polka lovers may have their fling, I mean swing. Everybody knows “Locch,” so need I say more? '
And beer, pop, hot-dogs galore! No need to try to retain that girlsh figure with such a tempting variety (not a mention of the morning-after, mind you!).
All that for a mere pittance —35 cents at the door, 25 cents in advance. Only a limited number will be sold before the dance, so be thrifty and shop early.
Out-of-town friends are cordially invited. We’d love to see a good representation from Buffalo, Cleveland, and from all points, far and near. We guarantee a pleasant evening to all, so don’t be hesitant or backward.
Until Oct. 3 then!
Jenny Anderson, No. 222, SSCU.
pacity of honorary chairman of the national publicity committee of the junior division.
In order to facilitate matters for the convention president and the two vice presidents, who could not be expected to remember names of delegates as they asked for the floor, it was decided to provide cards bearing lodge num bers to each delegate. By raising their numbers, the convention officials were given to understand that they wished to address the convention.
FOURTH SESSION
By-law committee elected consisted of the following: Janko N. Rogelj, Joseph Bovitz, George Previc, Joe Kovach, Frank Potočnik, Pauline Vog-rich, John Lunka, Frank Okorn Martin Hudale, Joe Zore, Ignac Benkse and John Zivetz.
R esolutions committee elected consisted of: Andrew Milavec, Jr., Frances Murphy, Frank Tomsich, Peter Mihelich, Frank Virant and Ernest C. Palcic.
Committee on applications, grievances and appeals composed of: John C. Virant, Joseph Kern, Joseph Rudolf, John Dreshar, Anton Lunka, Frank Masle, Rudolph Perdan, Frank Kramar John Zalar,
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Followed the reports of the supreme officers, supreme judiciaries, merger committee, legal adviser, and the honorary chairman of the national juvenile publicity committee.
FIFTH AND SIXTH SESSIONS
At this point an unusual procedure was adopted. Each delegate was called upon to report to the convention such matter as did not properly belong to the convention committees, namely, the by-law, resolutions, and applications, grievances and appeals. Proposals and reports were as various as the states they represented. Interesting in the light that many reported excellent progress maintained by their locals.
Several speakers addressed the convention during the first seven sessions, including: Anton Grdina, president of the Yugoslav Cultural Garden, John Gornik, secretary of the Slovene Mutual Benefit Association (SI)Z), Ivan Tavzelj, member of the school board of Ely, Minn., and Vatro J. Grill, editor-manager of Napredek, official organ of the Slovene Progressive Benefit Society.
The most important report submitted by the resolutions committee and accepted by the cohvention was the resolution favoring the repetition of national juvenile conventions every two years. This resolution was prepared and presented by the juvenile convention held in August 1935. It was accepted by unanimous vote. Which means that juvenile conventions shall be held every two years.
SEVENTH SESSION
At the close of the seventh session, held on Sept. 10, convention was ready to hear the report of the by-law committee, and. the most important func lion of the convention got un der way. It was decided t< have the entire by-laws read section for section, with neu proposed changes inserted o the reading proceded.
Several sections were ap proved as they appear in tht
Our New Supreme Board
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President: Paul Bartelt Waukegan, III.
1st Vice President: Joseph Mantel, Ely, Minn.
2nd Vice President: Paul Oblak, Center, Pa.
3rd Vice President: Frank Okoren, Denver, Colo.
4th Vice President: John Lunka, Cleveland, O.
Secretary: Anton Zbasnik, Ely, Minn.
Assistant Secretary: Frank Tomsich, Ely, Minn. Treasurer: Louis Champa, Elyt Minn.
Medical Examiner: Dr. F. J. Arch, Pittsburgh, Pa. Editor-Manager, Nova Doba: Anton J. Terbovec, Cleveland, O.
Chairman, Board of Trustees: John Kumse, Lorain, O. 1st Trustee: Janko N. Rogelj, Cleveland, O.
2nd Trustee: Frank E. Vranichar, Joliet, III.
3rd Trustee: Matt Anzelct Aurora, Minn.
4th Trustee: Andrew Milavec, Jr., Meadowlands, Pa. Chairman, Board of Judiciaries:Anton Okolish, Barberton, Ohio.
1st Judiciary: John Schutte, Denver, Colo.
2nd Judiciary: Frank Mikec, Strabane, Pa.
3rd Judiciary: Rose Svelich, Ely, Minn.
4th Judiciary: Valentine Orehek Brooklyn, N. Y.
Legal Adviser: Joseph Kuliar, Rockdale, III.
Nova Doba on Vacation
Publication of Nova Doba shall be suspended next week in order to give the editorial staff a one week’s vacation. This practice of eliminating one weekly issue of the Union’s official organ every year has been in effect for the past four years. Members are kindly requested to keep this in mind when the mailman fails to deliver the expected Sept. 30 issue of Nova Doba. All contributing material shall ap-l>ear in the next edition, which will be dated Oct. 7.
Adult Classes
Cleveland, O. — Cleveland
Board of Education announces the opening of fall term adult classes, scheduled to open on Sept. 14 and Oct. 5. Classes in English will be held during the day and evening for people who wish to improve their present knowledge of the English language. In addition, the board offers evening commercial, technical and college preparatory courses on the high school level. Last year there was an enrollment of 14,139 adults.
Day classes are free, while the evening elementary classes carry a fee of $3 per term of ( 15 weeks. The high school academic, commercial and technical courses carry a fee of $5 per term.
teams split the prize money.
Three Out of Five With Boosters
The first game of a series between the Pathfinders and the Boosters started Sunday, Aug. 30, with victory going to the Boosters by a score of 1 to 0. Batteries for the Paths were Stitzel and Brodigan, while Boker and Grossman formed the artillery for the Boosters. Strong rivalry between the two teams made the game very interesting. Stitzel allowed only seven hits and was credited with two strikeouts, while Boker permitted ten hits with six strikeouts. It was a scoreless game up to the fifth inning when Roman got on base for the opponents on an error by the Paths’ third baseman. This accounted for the only score of the game.
We need a larger rooting section at the next three gamet ' at Highland Park. Game starts ■ at 3:30 D. S. T.
Doris Sternisha,
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old by-laws, notably\ the first, which approved retaining the name: South Slavonic Catholic Union of America.
The following are some of the more important changes:
Member who fails to attend the last six lodge meetings cannot be a candidate for delegate to the convention. And lodges who fail to report re suits of their elections by the end of July of the convention year, shall be considered as non-representative at the convention.
Supreme officers must carri sick and death benefits.
EIGHTH SESSION
Revision of the by-laws um continued.
One year after the regular convention, and one year be fore the regular convention lodges have the right to propose changes in the by-laws Motions must be made in writing at the lodge meetings, where the matter may be de bated. At the following meeting members may vote upon the change after the lodge sec retary has extended a written invitation to all members I attend. Three-fourths of th members present must be it favor of the change before can be accepted and forward*' to the home office. Should such a motion conflict With state statutes, the supreme secretary must return it to the lodge and inform the secretary of its shortcoming. The lodge may correct the motion and resubmit it to the supreme board. If the supreme board approves the motion, the supreme secretary must publish it twice in the official organ, so lliat the members may debate the proposal.
Each member has but one vote in the proposal, and he cannot vote on the motion if j he does not carry benefits af-, fected by it.
Eligibility age of candidates for supreme offices was low-1 cred to 21 years.
Assistant supreme secretary shall assist the selected recording secretary of the supreme board sessions and he shall translate the minutes into English for publication in the official organ.
(To be continued.)
With the Pathfinders
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The second game was played at Gowanda. Pathfinders took this game by a score of 10 to 2. Tingue was the winning pitcher, allowing but six hits, get-,] ting eight strikeouts. Hurlers i for Sheridan were Skinner and Dominick, the latter allowing , ten hits and receiving credit for ; three strikeouts, while Skinner allowed but four hits and get-- ting two strikeouts. The third game was not played as the
One Happy Family
Lorain, O.—It all came as a surprise to meet our “Little” Stan Pechaver, Miss Barbara Matesha, assistant supreme secretary; Mrs. Angela Grahek— all from Ely, Minn.; Frank Virant of Imperial, Pa.; Mrs. Ker-shisnik of Rock Springs, Wyo., and Drs. F. J. Arch and Fabian of Pittsburgh, Pa. I also had the'pleasure of renewing the friendship of Ernest Palcic of Kings Park, N. Y.; Miss Lucille Jevitz of Joliet, 111.; Mr. and Mrs. Vranichar, and Matthew Molk of Cleveland. It seemed as though we were all one happy family, and I believe we all felt perfectly at home together.
On Saturday, Sept. 12, Tony Evanish and yours truly traveled to Cleveland to attend the Convention Dance held in the Slovene Auditorium on St. Clair Ave., scene of the SSCU quadrennial convention. It really was a surprise and a pleasure to make so many acquaintances.
Almost -too soon the dance came to an end, the foregoing mentioned persons proceeded to Lorain to spend Sunday with us and to look the town over. The Kumse family proved themselves amiable and congenial hosts to the guests; even their little doggie Smudgie, main attraction for Little Stan, made the guests feel at home.
I didn’t realize how big Little Stan really was until I commenced to press his trousers, which were in about as commendable condition as mine. The cause of it all was the ride in the rumble seat in the rain on the way to Lorain.
Miss Barbara Matesha can well be nicknamed “Smiles,” for she always was smiling. I hope she doesn’t forget the agreement concerning that beautiful sister of hers. Frank Virant well deserved the name “Sleepy,” but let us excuse him, for he really looked tired. Mrs. Angela Grahek, the “aw” lady, named so because she indicated such surprise when sighting grape vineyards for the first time, liked the shores of Lake Erie.
Miss Lucille Jevitz, “winsome Lucy,” added color to the party of guests, not forgetting to mention “Miha Popiha” Mattie Molk minus his Clark Gable cookie duster. Ernie Palcic, debonair scribe, seemed to make a hit with someone here (Continued on Pa«e 6)
With the Pathfinders
The SSCU
Gowanda, N. Y.—On Sunday, Sept. 6, the Pathfinders were defeated, 10 to 2, by the Boosters in the second game of a five-game series for the championship of Gowanda. Johnny Batchen pitched a beautiful game for the Boosters, allowing the Paths but three hits, while our boys practically gave the game to the opponents as they fielded miserably, committing eight errors. Final results gave the Boosters 10 run on 13 hits, while the Paths scored two runs on three hits.
On Labor Day the Boosters ended the series by defeating the Paths again, by a score of 8 to 4, in what proved to be an exciting game. The Pathfinders had many beautiful chances to score runs, but inability to hit in the pinches proved to be their downfall. Both teams collected 13 hits each, and both committed two errors each. The Pathfinders wish to take this opportunity to congratulate the Boosters on their victories. We know that many of our Boosters read the Nova Doba.
Although defeated in their last • game, the Pathfinders closed the most successful baseball season in their history, winning 22 games and losing 9. They won the Lake Shore Minor League pennant, taking 13 out of 14 games played in league competition. The players showed wonderful spirit this year to make up a team that never gave up till the last man was out. They played for the team, and not for any certain individual; and that is the reason why they were so successful. May this spirit prevail in the forthcoming season. We also have nothing but praise for Manager Stitzel. He did a fine job of keeping the boys on their toes and his judgment kept the team in the winning column. The team did much to advertise our SSCU and our lodge in this section of the country.
As our minds turn from baseball, we look forward to winter sports, such as bowling and basketball. The Pathfinder girls’ bowling team already has been organized and entered in a league. Helene Strauss has charge of the team, and from present indications the Paths are to have a real good girls' bowling team. The boys’ team is being organized and also will be entered in a league. The captain as yet has not been selected. Although the team wasn’t very successful last year, they intend to go places this year. So just watch them. Better be on your toes, SSCU bowlers. The Paths are going places this season, especially around the latter part of April, 1937. Being rather early for basketball, no teams have been organized yet. Jennie Anderson is working on the girls’ team, and any girls wishing to play please consult Jennie. Any of the boys who wish to play, should consult this writer.
Don’t forget the Pathfinder-St. Joseph Annual Fall Dance which will take place Oct. 3. Tickets are now on sale, so better get yours now as they cost less in advance. St. Joseph’s Lodge will have charge of the lower hall and the Pathfinders the upper hall. Music upstairs will be furnished by Johnny Orian and his orchestra, and in the lower hall polkas and the like will be provided by “Looch” Klancer and his trusty accordion.
All members are asked to cooperate, and this dance is sure to be a success. In many previous affairs the two lodges of Gowanda have combined to
East Palestine, O.—The SSCU is the fastest growing Slovene fraternal benefit organization of its type in the United States of America. There must be a reason for this great increase in membership.
There is no insurance policy which can offer as equally an ideal protection to the Slovene as this organization. Membership in the SSCU is easily accessible to those whose incomes are in the lower brackets. It is suitable to the workingman’s pocketbook both from an economic and social standpoint. This fraternal is a safe and sound one in which to invest money. Its past history is proof that it pays big dividends—dividends not to one person or small group of such, but to each and every individual member.
Looking at the SSCU from whatever point one may choose, it cannot be denied that it offers an abode of security to any who may seek its protection. We have yet to hear a man or woman say that he or she regretted becoming a member of it.
Joe Golicic,
No. 41, SSCU.
With the Fifteenth Regular Convention
Zapisnik 15. redne konvencije J. S. K.
"B-RIEFS
Waukegan, 111., is the site of the next SSCU convention which will take place in 1940. Milwaukee, Wis.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Chisholm, Minn., and Denver, Colo., were some of the other cities proposed by the delegates to the 15th quadrennial convention which adjourned Sept. 16, 1936.
Four regular contributors to
the English section of Nova Doba were present as delegates to the 15th regular convention held in Cleveland. Included were: Stan Pecthaver, better known as “Little Stan,’' of Ely, Minn., who represented the juvenile department’s publicity committee in the capacity of national honorary chairman; Ernest C. Palcic of Gowanda, N. Y., Pathfinders’ star reporter, who was elected secretary of the convention’s resolutions committee; Valentine Orehek Jr. of Brooklyn, N. Y., translator of Ivan Maticic’s weekly installment of “Blood and Battlefield,” who was elected convention’s second vice chairman; John P. Lunka of Cleveland, O., elected to the convention’s by-laws committee and also elected fourth vice president of the SSCU.
By Little Stan
(Continued From Last Week) Little Stan had been very hungry Wednesday. He was urged to come alqng with Samson Drobnič, Ernie Palcic and Dr. Arch to meet the wife of Dr. Arch at the depot. The outfit figured on eating upon their return, before the convention was called to order. But the train was 30 minutes late from Pittsburgh. In the meantime, while waiting, the group felt like playing a prank. Dr. Arch pointed to his wife coming out of the coach, and immediately ducked out of sight. Three stalwart young men walked swiftly toward Mrs. Arch and chimed, “Hello, sweetheart.” Mrs. Arch appeared very frightened for a moment and evidently thought, “What nerve.” Samson explained that the doctor was stepping out and that the three were the delegation. Apparently satisfied for the moment, but very skeptical, Mrs. Arch obligingly followed. Dr. Arch followed without anyone noticing him, trying hard to stifle a laugh. The three men reached the car and argued as to who would drive, when Dr. Arch thought it about time to disclose the joke'.
Judge Frank Lausche, Cleveland, was one of the principal speakers at the banquet. Everyone ate hearty. After a spell the orchestra, a dandy, began to play the dance music, and so we danced until far, far into the night. Although several still kiddingly don’t believe it, Little Stan was in bed at 12 :30 a. m Of course! Tsk, tsk!
But the next morning things appeared differently. Evidently Little Stan forgot that he was a real delegate because he was 15 minutes late; a lot of razzing followed, but everything went along beautifully. Things are still in a whirl as Little Stan winds up. No, he didn’t run out of words, but times a-wastin’, and there is still so much more to tell that Little Stan will save some.
Stan Pechaver, No. 2, SSCU
P. S. The Minnesota delegation says, “Pozdrav to everyone!”
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(Continued from pai^e 5) in town, as he was dubbed “lušten fantiček.” Mom and Dad, also sister Albina, through the medium of this column wish to express their pleasure in meeting all the guests.
After reading the most recent issue of Nova Doba, I think that Frank Drobnič should show us how tough he really is. First, it was “Samson” and most recently it was “Tarzan,” as Stan dubbed him.
I had vouched to “Lil” Stan that I would put him to shame at the first opportunity. But I am afraid that he could not take it. However, I could not resist telling the people of that incident in Cleveland when the gals took him into a woman’s lingerie department store. At any rate, he enjoyed it very much. Heh, heh, the cream-puff!
In conclusion, I wish to say that I hope all the guests enjoyed their brief stay in Lorain, and may we all meet again like one big, happy family.
Frank J. Jancar Jr., Rec. Sec’y, No. 6, SSCU.
cliani Nove Dobe z dne 12. avgusta 1936, so bile nakazane nagrade po en dolar ($1.00) vsaki sledečim mladiij-'_'kim dopisovalkam:
Dorrthy Brezovec, društvo št. 3G, Conemaugh, Pa.; Dorothy Tomsic, društvo št. 21, Denver, Colo.; Agnes Meze, društvo št. 159, Cornwall, Pa,; Dorothy Skerly, društvo št. 116, Del-mont Pa.; Victoria Kumse, društvo št. 6, Lcrain, O.; Mary Ambrožič, društvo št. 21, Denver, Colo.; Ann R. Gali, društvo št. 36, Conemaugh, Pa.
(Nadaljevanje s 4 strani.) samo mestne, občinske, državne in federalne bonde. Kajti take obveznice so najbolj varne za našo jednoto.
S spoštovanjem predloženo,
John Kumse, predsednik nadzornega odboi'a Poročilo predsednika nadzornega odbora se sprejme.
lepšem redu, zaradi tega je res delo vredno pohvale. JaZ »M Hm, da zbornica 15. redne konvencije da zaupnico glavnemu izvrševalnemu odboru za njegovo točno in zvesto delo za kor et,
J. S. K. Jednote in njenega članstva.	..	0	1
Želim, da delegatje in delegatinje 15. redne konvencij elan, spoštujejo pošteno delo sedanjega glavnega odbora zato, ^ j Ugi zadnja 4 leta je sedanji odbor delal v slogi in za korist «• ^ tei K. Jednote. To je razvidno iz napredka v novem članstvu le vr v finančnem skladu. Pregovor pravi, da v slogi je moč, in Jsko pregovora se je sedanji glavni odbor poslužil. Temu o ■ |) da je naša Jednota napredovala v teh slabih časih, katere s Zal imeli zadnjih šest let. Zato se zahvalim vsem krajevnim ur^. nilcom in uradnicam za njihovo dobro delo, katerega so stol ^ prj za dobrobit J. S. K. Jednote, in posameznim članom, ki P” sP°š padamo k najboljši podporni Jednoti, kar jih je v Ameriki, to je Jugoslovanska Katoliška Jednota v Ameriki.	,	.
Naznanjam* delegatom in delegatinjam, da sem bil lZ (Poi ljen leta 1931 meseca januarja v finančni odbor. Od tega cač j |lBt sem vedno priporočal v nakup take bonde, o katerih sem s° j,jj,VleA da so najboljši za našo Jednoto. Nisem glasoval za boiid®’ of prinašajo velike obresti, kajti v takih bondih je denar več r *?e, slabo naložen. V takih slučajih sem bil previden in raj še g*®	«es
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vanju kot člana glavnega nadzornega odbora za dobo od J*	.	“J
arja 1933, ko je nastopil sedanji glavni odbor. Ker je veCl e odbornikov že pred menoj	poročala,	sem	svoje	poročilo	‘	**
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Odkar sem nastopil urad 3. glavnega nadzornika, sel*1 ^ tti točno dvakrat na leto udeležil pregledovanja knjig in racUL glavnega tajnika, glavnega blagajnika in urednika-upravn1 ’ y, kakor tudi zborovanj	glavnega	odbora.	Delo,	katero	mi Je f
kazal predsednik nadzornega odseka, sem pravilno izvršil.	^	gr
vam bo on lahko potrdil. Z ostalimi glavnimi nadzorniki s	^	^
natančno pregledal vse dohodke in izdatke Jednote tekom z . <jti njih štirih let. Ravno tako je nadzorni odsek vsakih šest ^ cev pregledal vrednostne listine shranjene na Northern 't tional banki v Duluthu, Minn., ter o stanju istih poročal 18 nemu odboru.	j,,
Vse poslovanje glavnega tajnika, glavnega blagajnik^ c.v izvrševalnega odseka smo vselej našli v lepem in P0*1 ‘ ^bl vrednem redu.	-	*
Vsako odgovornost in vprašanja, ki so nastala, sem s ,0. „ rešiti pravično in na način, ki bi koristil večini članstva, in s' Ce je moči sem vselej porabljal za dobrobit in napredek Je'“n<	-
Udeležil sem se vseh sej glavnega odbora, in konštati	i
moram, da skozi cela štiri leta se je izkazala največja za nost in sloga. Resnično lahko rečem, da vsak posamezni ^jX^' nik se je. izkazal, da po svojih zmožnostih deluje z najv	.T	r
vnemo za napredek Jednote. Nesporazumi so res včasih	I	t
stali, ampak bili so le vsled različnega mišljenja, kako se delati, in vsi ti so se končno mirnim potom rešili med n® I e brez da bi zanašali prepir med članstvo.	.^jk	’
Pri prvem rednem zasedanju glavnega odbora po 2» .1 konvenciji sem bil izvoljen v finančni odsek, kojega nalo£a bila, da investira ves jednotin prebitek v smislu pravil in vodil glavnega odbora. Omeniti moram, da najtežje del° °' glavnem odboru je bilo investiranje jednotinega denarja-, J paziti je treba, da se kupuje le take bonde, ki so najbo^jl ■-gurni za Jednoto, obenem pa, da nosijo dovolj visoke	i
da odgovarja lestvici, po kateri so računani mesečni asesme 1 1 da pri tem ne trpi jednotina solventnost.	du	VKt
Izpolnjeval sem vse dolžnosti predpisane mojemu urac ‘ jednotinih pravilih, in točno odgovarjal na številna pisma’ so prihajala iz glavnega urada, tikajoča se vprašanj, kateril I moral rešiti glavni odbor med sejami.	cjjeI ^
Vselej sem delal za napredek in ugled naše organih j ( in se večkrat udeležil prireditev raznih društev, kjer sem L stopil in govoril za korist Jednote.
Večkrat sem glavnemu uradu priporočal gotove izPreItlJ1jlo«n( v sistemih, s katerimi se je čas prihranil, kar je pome L lažje in točne j še poslovanje.	sol\V(
Takoj, ko sem nastopil svoj urad, sem se potrudih * J.K se pomirili razni duhovi, in povdarjal sem, da je najveČJ3 treba, da sedanji glavni odbor dobi zaupanje in podpo*'0 vsega članstva. Izredno vesel sem bil, ko sem videl,	Is |
to doseglo, in, da je članstvo začelo .slediti priporočilom 111 ^1 vodilom, kako pospešiti napredek pri organizaciji, naI?e se I^ da bi zasledovalo kakim sporom med glavnimi uradniki 1,1 potegovalo za enega ali drugega. Vladala je lepa slc*^3, j, i^ sodelovanje med glavnimi uradniki, kar je dajalo lep jepe J t katerega je posnemalo vse članstvo, zato smo dosegli take 1 uspehe.	jo,	ftj
Skupno smo gledali na vseh straneh, da se je varče'^ k kolikor največ mogoče, in najboljši dokaz, da smo to rei ^ |\j segli, je, da so stroški zadnjih štirih let $5,520.96 manjši, | j so bili v prejšnih štirih letih, akoravno smo morali kupit' j r nove opreme za nov glavni urad, ki je bil sezidan pred ^ r°t leti, in tudi večje število novih tiskovin, kot certifikatov,	|\
gih potrebščin v zvezi s posojili članom, knjižice tabel ih	K
mentov in neizgubljivih vrednosti certifikatov, itd.	J •
Jednota lepo napreduje v vseh ozirih in delo v 8^.-p' p uradu tudi narašča, posebno radi posojil na članske cer ,gje'11 te, in uradniki in pomočniki res zaslužijo plačo, katero P1 ^ majo. Koliko skrbi in odgovornega dela jev glavnem lJl£Vjj) j ] vedo le oni, ki so ga imeli priliko opazovati. Seveda najvC ij I odgovornost pade na glavnega tajnika in hvaležni bi ^ 1 biti, da ta urad zaseda mož, ki se izkazuje, da je več kot k njegovim odgovornostim.	^	p
Kar se je izkazalo za najbolj pomemben in koristen^ j rak za našo jednoto, je bil sprejem na zadnji konvenciji	i"
reda A A, potom katerega se je omogočilo napraviti p°s jjj, | našim članom na njih certifikate in jih obdržati v organi23^ namesto, da bi bili vsled delavskih razmer primorani i njih zavarovalnino, za katero so plačevali mogoče že
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present a joint affair, and always it has proved to be a very wise move. Both lodges benefited greatly by it, besides enhancing the brotherly and sisterly feeling between the lodge members. Just to be up to date I must close with a—Knock, knock. Who’s there? Tom! Tom, who? Tom up and see me sometime!
Thomas Sternisha, Athl. Supvr., No. 222, SSCU.
mladinskTdopisi
Contributions From Our Junior Member*
(Nadaljevanje s 3. strani)
trained some competent material. He also teaches Civics.
We had a firemen’s convention in Conemaugh. Our firemen in newly bought blue and gray uniforms marched in the parade, which was a feature of the convention.
I want Little Stan to know that I said hello to Fred, as requested. DOROTHY BREZOVEC (age 13), No. 36, SSCU. -----------------o--------
NAGRADE
Za dopise, priobčene na mladinski
POROČILO PRVEGA GLAVNEGA NADZORNIKA Spoštovano zastopstvo 15. redne konvencije:
V smislu točke 186 naših sedanjih pravil je moja uradna dolžnost, da podajam zastopstvu 15. redne konvencije JSKJ svoje poročilo kot član glavnega nadzornega odbora.
Dolžnost glavnih nadzornikov je tudi, da vsakih šest mesecev podajajo svoja poročila glavnemu odboru, katera so priobčena v našem glasilu, da jih čita lahko vsak posamezni član naše Jednote. Zato ne smatram potrebnim, da bi se podajal
v detajlirano poročilo in opisoval ter ponavljal številke, ki spadajo v področje glavnega tajnika in glavnega blagajnika. Moj namen je, da podam celotno sliko vsega pregledovanja in nadzorovanja, in ne to v dolgoveznih stavkih, ki so zvezani z mnogobrojnimi številkami, ampak z živo besedo, ki naj vam bo porok za moje trditve in mnenje.
Moje lastno prepričanje je, da so bile in da so, knjige, zapiski in merodajna korespondenca glavnega tajnika, glavnega blagajnika in urednika-upravnika naše Jednote v odgovarjajočem redu, v harmoniji s poročili naših društvenih tajnikov, ki so takorekoč tudi precejšen kos našega glavnega urada.
O tem sem vam poročal vsakih šest mesecev, o tem vam v skupnosti poročam danes, ko ste se zbrali v konvenčno zborovanje,
vi gospodarji, vaše in moje Jugoslovanske katoliške jednote.
Naša gotovina, naložena v bondih, predpisanih v naših pravilih, je bila prešteta vsakih šest mesecev po glavnih nadzornikih ob navzočnosti bančnega zastopnika, zakar nam tudi banka daje podpisano potrdilo. Vse to ste čitali v šestmesečnih poročilih, vse to ste ponovno poslušali, ko vam je glavni tajnik podajal poročilo naše poslovne dobe. Vsa ta poročila nosijo podpise nadzornikov ter merodajnih faktorjev, ki nosijo odgovornost za svoja poročila.
Številke, katere ste slišali v primeri s poročili zadnje konvencije vam tolmačijo delo in napredek naše Jednote. Toda same številke so suhe, ako ob tem trenutku ne pomislite, da je tem delu in napredku tudi polno žrtovanja našega članstva, ki so bili odvisni od svoje lastne samopomoči ter od principa, da je v naših podpornih organizacijah duh pravega samaritanstva. V dolgoletni depresiji je šla naša Jednota skozi ognjeno preizkušnjo lastne samostalnosti, katero kaže danes tako kristalno čisto, da je prva med prvimi, da smo vzor vsem drugim.
Nadzornik naše organizacije ne gleda samo številke, ampak je pozvan tudi, da določuje smernice predloženim načrtom. To je najtežje delo, ker človeško je, da se včasih vsi motimo. Posebno težko je takrat, ako mora glavni nadzornik čistiti tako-zvane podedovane zablode in napake. Rešili smo se tudi tega ter spravili voz našega gospodarstva na tir pravega gospodarskega udejstvovanja, kjer je malenkostni osebnosti zaprta vsaka pot na škodo naše Jednote. Kadar se to zgodi, potem je mir v Jednoti, in mir moramo obdržati za vsako ceno.
In kadar imamo mir, takrat lahko mislimo tudi na nove smernice in nove načrte. O tem bi morali govoriti danes. Delegatje in delegatinje, dajte nam nove načrte, pokažite nam nova pota in začrtajte nam nove smernice.
Odnosno vam moram poročati, da sem radevolje vršil uradne posle, pomagal posameznim članom ali društvom, strogo držal nepristransko zapoved naših pravil, kjerkoli in kadarkoli sem bil poklican ali pozvan. Odzval sem se delu naših federacij, pomagal pri koregiranju starih pravil, kjer sem našel dosti naših dobrih in aktivnih članov, in katerim sem prav iz srca hvaležen za vsako sodelovanje.
Menda ob tem poročilu lahko poročam tudi kot član finančnega odbora. Reči moram, da sem priporočal nakup takih obveznic, kjer je prvi pogoj — varna investicija, potem šele obresti, ki pa ne smejo biti previsoke. Tudi o tem ste bili obveščeni v glasilu naše Jednote, ko ste čitali tajnikova poročila.
Končno je moja iskrena želja, da bi naša sedanja konvencija pozabila na pretekle dogodke v naši Jednoti, od katerih ne moremo skovati nobenega kapitala, obratno le odpiramo rane na telesu naše organizacije, ki nam niso štete v ponos, ampak le v pogubo. Vzbudimo v naših srcih in naših mislih nov duh in novo energijo do bratskega in sesterskega dela v imenu pravega samaritanstva in samopomoči, v kateri je edina rešitev nas, naseljencev. Kadar dobimo zopet ta nov duh, in kadar premostimo našo novo energijo do naše mladine, takrat se bomo še le zavedali, da smo ustvarjali, krepostno in plemenito delo, kakršno more narekovati zvesto in čisto srce jugoslovansko, daleč od svoje rodne zemlje, ampak še vedno zvesto sinovom in hčeram jugoslovanske krvi.
Bratje in sestre, le v znamenju miru bomo napredovali, in tak mir se najbolj vidno kaže na knjigah organizacije, kjer govore mrtve številke. To mi bodo priznali tudi ostali nadzorniki.
S tem zaključujem moje poročilo z iskrenim pozdravom na vso delegacijo.
Janko N. Rogelj, prvi glavni nadzornik JSKJ.
Poročilo 1. nadzornika se sprejme.
POROČILO DRUGEGA GLAVNEGA NADZORNIKA Cenjeni mi gl. uradniki in uradnica, delegati in delegatinje 15. redne konvencije Jugoslovanske Katoliške Jednote
Kar se tiče mojega poročila, ne bo obširno, zaradi tega, ker vsi važni zaključki, kar se tiče dohodkov in stroškov in jednotinega premoženja je bilo priobčeno v Novi Dobi, katera je bila tiskana 2. septembra 1936, in v dotični številki je bilo objavljeno stališče J. S. K. Jednote.
Jaz vem, da vsaki dober delegat in delegatinja je sporočilo prebral natančno, in, če to ne zadostuje, je vam glavni tajnik in glavni blagajnik sporočil ustmeno. Kar se tiče mojega urada pri JSKJ za zadnja 4 leta, vam naznanjam, da sem se udeležil vseh glavnih sej, katere zahtevajo pravila J. S. K. Jednote. Vsakih 6 mesecev sem se udeležil revizije, da smo pregledali jednotino premoženje, kar se tiče obveznic ali bondov v Duluthu, na banki, in vsakikrat smo našli vse na dobrem stališču.
Kar se tiče pregledovanja knjig glavnega tajnika, glav-! nega blagajnika in urednika Nove Dobe, smo našli vse v naj-
be
Mik 15. redne konvencije J. S. K. Jednote
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“ Iz poročila glavnega tajnika razvidite, koliko poso-o napravljenih potrebnim članom, in sprevidite lahko, članov smo s tem pridržali v Jednoti.
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jboljši korak, za kojega je odgovoren vaš se-PVni odbor, pa je bila naša prva mladinska konvencija,
?e vršila lansko leto, kajti v zVezi s kampanjo pred to Pko konvencijo smo pridobili okrog 1,600 novih članov, in večje zanimanje za našo Jednoto med mladino. zaključku tega poročila želim, da ta konvencija na-*ke napredne sklepe, ki bodo dobri za članstvo in Jed-Prihodnja štiri leta. gostovanjem predloženo,
Frank E. Vranichar, 3. glavni nadzornik.
ePort 0f Frank E. Vranichar, 3rd Supreme Trustee 15th regular convention of the SSCU ®view of the fact that the other members of the Supreme Trustees are making their reports in the Slovenian a^e, I will also make mine in English for the benefit of Resent who may not be thoroughly conversant with the Jian.
Illce I have taken office as a member of the Board of of the SSCU I have been present twice each year in ^Preme Office and assisted in examining the books and ^ of the Supreme Secretary, Supreme Treasurer and Manager of the Official Organ. All the work assigned y the Chairman of the Board of Trustees was diligently Whfully done, as he can vouch. With the other Supreme *esall the incomes and expenditures of the Union during four years have been carefully examined and checked dually. The valuable papers kept in the Northern Na-&ank in Duluth, Minn., comprising the Union’s invest-Portfolio also were examined every six months and re-of our findings made to the Supreme Board, as required Sy-Laws.
Ie records of the Supreme Secretary, Supreme Treas-^ Editor-Manager were always found to be absolutely and kept in a neat and praiseworthy manner.
^tended all the sessions of the Supreme Board and allied to decide the questions and problems that arose fairly and in a manner that would benefit the majorje members, also at all times directing my efforts for °gress of the Union. The other members of the Supreme also performed their individual duties well. Together lllctioned peaceably and managed to lead the organization ^ the trying conditions we have all experienced during *®t four years. Today we can proudly look back on the eftients of our Union, which has truly become a leader all Yugoslav fraternal organizations in America as to y rating, interest return on investments and net gain ^bership during the year 1935.
the first regular session of the Supreme Board held % the last Convention 1 was elected a member of the ;e Committee, whose duty it is to invest all the surplus Union in accordance with the By-Laws and directions Supreme Board. I must say that the most difficult task “^vesting of the Unjon’s funds, because extreme care must ^ted that only such bonds are purchased that are the and at the same time that they yield a sufficient interest to sustain the requirements on which our assessments sed.
'ta investment results for the past four years were very ^ctory, in fact a compilation of statistics shows that our during 1935 received the highest percentage in interest . atnong all the Yugoslav fraternal organizations. The tftent holdings of our Union are considered generally to 0tig the best among all fraternal organizations in Amer-11,(1 at the present time we have proportionately the small-J^entage of bonds in default either as to principal or
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is a privilege to report to you an increase in the as-5 the SSCU, which are now the highest in its 38-year 'Hory. Increases in surplus balances in every fund were and maintained with the result that in each of the funds e able to report new highs. A comparison with the pre-^ 4 years shows
C°mbined Assets of Adult & Juvenile Departments .	$2,152,693.00; a Gain of $574,502.23.
South Slavonic Catholic Union is a purely mutual <fnal benefit organization. The commitment of the founded early members to the policy of providing safe protec-'° widows and orphans at an economical cost has been Vt rigidly through the years.
1 the 38 years of operation our Union has paid in benefits ! than $5,200,000.00. The insurance in force exceeds $12,-^.00. Its net cash reserve of. $2,092,613.42, which beto the members is held for their future protection.
Juvenile Convention Uriiig 1935 we conducted a First National Juvenile Con-'0tl and campaign for new juvenile members. The con-^‘Ze, a free trip to Ely, Minnesota, stimulated such in-that an increase of approximately 1600 new members ^Corded. Of greatest value, too, was the opportunity ^ the juvenile delegates and the Supreme Board of getting j °r for a better understanding of the work and aims of Non.
the “SSCU” is not the best fraternal insurance carrier -fica, certainly it can be conservatively said that there
k a better organization.
. nth your continued interest and support, as well as that officers and members of our local branch societies, we shall continue to provide the best protection and be v8 in the fraternal field. esPectfully submitted,
Frank E. Vranichar, 3rd Supreme Trustee. °ročilo 3. glavnega nadzornika se sprejme.
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odbora in bil sem tudi vsakokrat navzoč, ko smo na banki v Du-luthu pregledali naše bonde in odrezali od njih obrestne kupone.
Pri vsaki reviziji smo našli račune in knjige glavnega tajnika, glavnega blagajnika in upravnika Nove Dobe v najlepšem redu in vsaki izmed njih zasluži priznanje za njegovo vestno in marljivo delo. Zanimal sem se tudi za kakovost bondov, ki jih je od časa do časa kupoval naš finančni odsek, in reči moram, da so bili sobratje Zbašnik, Kumše, Rogelj, Vranichar in Balkovec zelo previdni in prevdarni pri nakupovanju istih.
Tekom mojega uradovanja sem bil tudi velikokrat pozvan, da izrazim svoje mnenje o stvareh, katere je glavni tajnik dal na glasovanje glavnemu odboru. To so bila pismena vprašanja, na katera sem odgovarjal točno in po svojem najboljšem prepričanju ter zmožnosti. Poklican sem bil tudi večkrat v glavni urad, da dam nasvet glavnemu tajniku, kar isem seveda vedno rad storil.
Bil sem tudi v odseku glavnega odbora, ki je nadzoroval gradnjo jednotine hiše. Ta odsek je imel izredno mnogo sej in sestankov, za kar pa nismo pričakovali niti zahtevali nobene odškodnine. Kot eden izmed ustanoviteljev naše Jednote in njen prvi glavni nadzornik, sem z veseljem sodeloval v tem odseku, kajti v ponos sem si štel, da sem dosegel to, po čemur isem tako dolgo hrepenel, namreč lastno jednoti no hišo. Naša lastna hiša, dasi nas stane komaj nekaj nad 20 tisoč dolarjev, je pravi biser mesta Ely, in vsaj za minnesotske člane vem in sem prepričan, da so jako ponosni na njo. V tej lepo urejeni in prostorni hiši, ki stoji na najlepšem mestu elijške slovenske naselbine, je dovolj prostora za upravo trikrat tolikega števila članstva kot ga imamo sedaj, in če bi prostora kedaj zmanjkalo, se eno nadstropje lahko dozida z malenkostnimi izdatki.
O splošnem stanju in napredku naše Jednote je poročal že naš glavni tajnik. Dodam naj samo to-le, da smo s stanjem naše Jednote lahko vsi zadovoljni, kajti ne vem za jednoto ali zvezo, ki bi bila vsled depresije trpela manj izgub od naše. Pred par leti smo bili v članstvu precej padli, a danes šteje naša Jednota več članov kot pred štirimi leti. Brezdvomno je to zasluga zadnje konvencije, ki je marsikakemu članu omogočila dobiti posojilo pri Jednoti in si s tem ohraniti svoje članstvo. Nekaj zaslug pa gre tudi glavnemu odboru in glavnemu porotnemu odboru, posebno še glavnemu tajniku, sobratu Zbašniku, ki je prvi sprožil ide'jo za mladinsko konvencijo, katera nam je prinesla okrog 1600 novih članov.
Moji odnosa ji z ostalimi glavnimi odborniki so bili vedno prijateljski in bratski. Včasih smo se po nazorih razlikovali, toda bili smo popustljivi in smo radi pristali v kak boljši predlog. Zahvaljujem se vsem skupaj za naklonjenost in zagotavljam vsakega, da ne bom na to nikdar pozabil.
V upanju, da bo tudi delo te konvencije plodonosno in koristno za našo organizacijo, beležim
z jednotinim pozdravom,
Joseph Mantel, 4. glavni nadzornik.
Poročilo 4. glavnega nadzornika se sprejme.
POROČILO PREDSEDNIKA POROTNEGA ODBORA
Cenjena delegacija:-
Od zadnje konvencije pa do danes, je imel glavni porotni odbor pred seboj skupno 244 zadev. Prizivov glede odklonjene bolniške podpore in odškodnin je bilo 151. V, dobro pri-zivniku je bilo razsojeno ali mirno poravnano 62krat in v dobro Jednoti pa 78krat. Par prizivov je še v preiskavi, nekaj pa jih je bilo opuščenih ali zavrženih. Par prizivov je bilo tudi glede smrtnin. Spornih zadev pri društvih smo prejeli 18, in s posredovanjem glavnega porotnega odbora se je naredila mirna poravnana 14krat. Parkrat smo bili primorani kaznovati društva in ravno tako tudi člana(ico). Z mojim posredovanjem se je naredila mirna poravnava v-iraznih zadevah 74krat. Parkrat,in kadar se ni mogla rešiti zadeva potom korespondence, je šel eden ali drugi izmed nas porotnikov ali porotnice osebno do društva, in enkrat na prošnjo porotnega odbora tudi glavni nadzornik, brat Vranichar. Največ korespondence je imel glavni porotni odbor z glavnim tajnikom, bratom Zbašnikom. Njegova postrežljivost in točnost v poslovanju z glavnim porotnim odborom je bila vse hvale vredna. Istotako ona vrhovnega zdravnika dr. Archa, kateri je vedno podal v kratkem času zahtevane bolj podrobne podatke, glede poškodbe ali bolezni. Kot že v našem glasilu, tako poudarjam tudi sedaj, da se ima naše članstvo zahvaliti, da nismo imeli naklad v bolniški in poškodninski sklad, radi natančnosti glavnega tajnika in vrhovnega zdravnika, pri pregledovanju bolniških in odškodninskih listin in pri izplačilih podpore. Taka natančnost pa je seveda nam prinesla veliko več dela in prizivov. Tudi društva so bila v splošnem natančna v nadzorovanju bolnikov in pri priporočanju podpor in le malo je bilo slučajev, ko smo pronašli za Jednoto škodljivo popustljivost pri društvih. Kot na zadnji konvenciji, tako tudi danes apeliram na vas tukaj zbrane, da gledamo, da se podpore in odškodnine ne zvišajo v toliki meri, da bi morali ob enem povišati asesment, ali pa imeti pozneje naklade.
Naklada v onemogli sklad naj se prekliče, kakor hitro mogoče, in, ako drugače ne gre, naj se zniža doba podpore iz onemoglega sklada od dveh let na eno leto in pol, ali pa še na manjšo dobo. Vse raje, samo ne zvišanja asesmenta ali naklad. V pravilih naj bi bila tudi posebna določba, da se za-more člana, kateremu je bila dokazana simulacija ali na goljufiv način dobljena bolniška ali odškodninska podpora, črtati iz bolniškega in odškodninskega sklada in da ostane nadalje zavarovan samo za smrtnino. Priporočam, da se ka.j ukrene glede certifikatov oziroma zavarovalnine v mladinskem oddelku. Našim otrokom bi se morala dati prilika, da bi si s pomočjo zavarovalnine prihranili kaj denarja, katerega potrebujejo, ko odrastejo, bodisi za nadaljevanje šolanja ali za drugo. Nekatere podporne bratske organizacije imajo žc podobno vpeljano. Sodelovanje med nami porotniki .ie bilo skozi dobro in vršilo se je kar najbolj mogoče točno. Kar se tiče mojega zapisnika, sem istega držal v redu, in uredil sem tudi prejšne zapisnike od leta 1925 naprej, tako, da je sedaj vse skupaj. Sklepu seje glavnega odbora, da naj. pošljem listine zaključenih zadev na glavni urad, nisem mogel ugoditi, ker bil sem mnenja, da mora glavni porotni odbor imeti pri sebi v arhivu vse tako sprejeto, na podlagi katerega je bila narejena razsodba, in da vse tako čaka konvencije, kjer se naj naredi končna dispozicija in rešitev odgovornosti za posamezne zaključke zadev. Popolnoma pravilno pa je, da se takoj po konvenciji pošljejo vse listine v shrambo na glavni urad.
Delo predsednika glavnega porotnega odbora, od zadnje konvencije sem, zahteva povprečno vsak dan po več ur dem.
DOPISI
East Palestine, O.
Nekaj spomniov s 15. redne konvencije JSKJ. — Najboljše bo, če pričnem po dnevnem redu, ia nc bo sobrat Anzelc rekel, da ■cm iz dnevnega reda. Ko sem v ponedeljek 7. septembra prišel v Cleveland, sem se takoj podal v uredništvo Nove Dobe, kjer je olj konvenčni glavni stan. Tam je prihajajoče delegate pričakovali sobrat A. J. Terbovec, član sprejemnega odbora, čakajoči šoferji pa so vsakega odpeljali v določeno stanovanje. Vsak je bil prijazno sprejet in točno od-premljen na svoj “začasni dom.”
S preskrbitvijo stanovanj za toliko število delegatov ter njihovih sorodnikov in prijateljev je imel sprejemni odbor nedvomno silno mnogo dela. Istotako ni bilo majhno delo odpremiti nas vse došle “tujce” na stanovanja. Sprejemni odbor po mojim mnenju zasluži prvo veliko priznanje. Jaz se mu moram še posebej zahvaliti, ker mi je preskrbel tako izborno stanovanje.
Zvečer 7. septembra smo imeli prav lep sprejem delegacije v Slovenskem Narodnem Domu. Nastopili so razni govorniki, med njimi tudi župan milijontega mesta Clevelanda. Potem smo se delegati začeli spoznavati med seboj. Nekateri smo se videli že na prejšnjih konvencijah, nekateri smo se poznali iz starega kraja, nekateri smo se poznali iz raznih ameriških naselbin. Seveda je bilo dosti izpraševanja in pogovarjanja.
Drugi dan, to je v torek 8. septembra smo pričeli s konvencijo ob 9. uri zjutraj. Pregledane so bile naše poverilnice in “potrjeni” smo bili vsi. Potem smo začeli z dnevnim redom.
O sklepih in zaključkih konvencije ne bom poročal, ker to bodo člani lahko čitali v kon-venčnem zapisniku. Poročati pa hočem nekoliko, kako je bilo izven konvenčnih sej.
Pi;iznati je. treba, da so nas clevelandski Slovenci prav lepo podvorili. Vsak večer je bilo pripravljeno kaj zanimivega za nas. Videli smo marsikaj, kar se ne vidi v vsaki naselbini, posebno ne v taki mali, kot je ta, iz katere sem bil jaz prišel. V torek so nastopili pevski zbori in so se imenitno odrezali_ čeprav se je Jože Grdina nekaj pritoževal, da se mu je neko kolo strlo.
V sredo zvečer so nam priredili banket, na katerem so nastopili različni govorniki. Med njimi je bil tudi slovenski sodnik Frank J. Lausche, ki nam je prav humoristično opisal njegovo kandidaturo in nas vse spravil v dobro voljo. Prav lep govor v smislu naprednega delavstva nam je napravil tudi Vatro J. Grili, bivši urednik “Enakopravnosti” ter sedanji urednik-upravnik lista “Napredek,” ki je novo lastno glasilo SSPZ. Potem nam je pa Mr. Grbec zaigral nekaj okroglih na harmoniko; isto je storil tudi ob raznih prilikah poznejših večerov.
V četrtek so nam zapeli “Slavčki” in “Kanarčki” in videli smo narodni ples, ki ga je izvajala tu rojena mladina. V petek je bila vprizorjena štiri-dejanka “Stari in mladi,” ki je prav poučna, posebno za mladino. Diletanti so izborno igrali in po igri so nam še nekaj lepih pesmi zapeli. Kar čudno se mi je zdelo slišati mlade fante in dekleta tako lepo slovensko peti. Spominjal sem se nehote večernega fantovskega popevanja v starem kraju, namreč, ki sem ga slišal v svojih mladih letih. Večerne programe je izpopolnil še pogrebnik Mr. Anton Grdina s svojimi premičnimi slikami iz starega kraja, pa tudi iz clevelandske razstave in raznih krajev Amerike. On je poskrbel tudi za avtomobile, ki so nas v soboto popoldne peljali po raz-(Dalje na 8. strani)
Isto sem vršil strogo v smislu pravil in pa prisege, dane n: sadnji konvenciji, brez ozira na mogočo kritiko ali zamero od katerekoli strani. Moje poročilo zaključujem z željo in upanjem, da bode konvencija gledala v prvi vrsti le za bodoči napredek Jednote in ne pustila priti na dnevni red kaj takega kar ne bi koristilo Jednoti.
Anton Okolish, predsednik glavnega porotnega odbora.
Poročilo predsednika porotnega odbora se sprejme.
POROČILO 1. GLAVNEGA POROTNIKA Cenjeni mi glavni odborniki, glavni porotniki in porotnica in delegacija, zbrani tukaj na 15. redni konvenciji JSKJ
Poročati vam imam, da kar se tiče mojega dela, kot prvega glavnega porotnika, sem istega imel precej. Opravljal sem ga vedno vestno in po moji najboljši zmožnosti. Največ dela je imel glavni porotni odbor s prizivi glede odklonjene bolniške podpore in odškodnin. Parkrat sem šel po navodilu predsednika glavnega porotnega odbora in sporazumno z glavnim uradom tudi do društev v moji bližini, z nalogo, da skušam narediti mir, potem, ko so nastale sitnosti, katere se ni moglo povoljno rešiti potoni korespondence, in vselej se mi je posrečilo narediti mir. Vedno sem tudi gledal v drugih sličnih zadevah, da se naredi mirna poravnava, in za kazen sem glasoval le, kadar ni bilo drugega izhoda. Moje poslovanje z ostalimi glavnimi porotniki in porotnico je bilo v vsakem oziru prijetno, složno in sporazumno v korist članstva in Jednote. V upanju, da bode ta konvencija naredila mnogo za splošni napredek naše Jednote in da se bode ista izvršila v kolikor mogoče kratkem času, da bode manj stroškov, ostajam z bratskim pozdravom,
John Schutte, prvi glavni porotnik.
Poročilo 1. glavnega porotnika se sprejme.
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POROČILO 2. GLAVNEGA POROTNIKA Cenjeni glavni uradniki, delegatje in delegatinje XV. redne konvencije JSKJ:-
Tukaj vam podajam svoje skromno poročilo mojega delovanja kot drugi porotnik JSKJ.
Kar se tiče dela, katero je spadalo v moj,e področje od začetka leta 1933 do danes, je bilo precej obilno, ako primerjamo poslovanje gl. porotnega odbora preteklih let. Imeli smo približno 250 zadev za rešiti med našim članstvom.
Zagotavljam cenjeno delegacijo, da sem ravnal po svojem najboljšem prepričanju in z namenom, da delam v splošno korist naše Jednote in v zaščito pravic posameznih članov.
Sodil sem na podlagi predloženih dokazov in po narekovanju svoje vesti, ako pa sem mogoče napravil kak napačen zaključek, bi prosil, da mi konvencija oprosti.
Z veseljem moram potrditi, da je bilo moje poslovanje z ostalimi glavnimi porotniki v vsakem oziru prijetno.
Delovali smo složno in sporazumno in skoro vsi naši zaključki so bili narejeni soglasno.
Ker poznam dobro voljo in bratsko razpoloženje med našim članstvom, sem prepričan, da bo delegacija kos svoji nalogi in da bo napravila vse potrebne zaključke, ki bodo še bolj utrdili temelj naše organizacije in ji zajamčili dobro in trajno bodočnost.
Vas iskreno in bratsko pozdravljam,
Valentin Orehek, drugi glavni porotnik.
Poročilo^,..glavnega porotnika se sprejme.
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POROČILO 3. GLAVNE POROTNICE Cenjeni mi glavni odborniki, delegati in delegatinje 15. redne konvencije:
Moje poročilo kot tretje porotnice bo čisto kratko. Porotni odbor je imel v teh treh letih in pol veliko dela, kar vem, da vam je znano, saj so bile vse rešene zadeve priobčene v Novi Dobi.
Zahvaliti se moram glavnemu tajniku za prijaznost in pomoč, pojasnila in informacije, katere sem vedno dobila, kadar sem jih rabila.
Poročati morem, da sem vedno delala nepristransko in po moji najboljši zmožnosti. Zadev smo imeli za rešiti čez 250. Koliko jih je pa rešil predsednik porotnega odbora, vam bo gotovo sam poročal. Delali smo složno za korist celokupnega
članstva Jednote.
Petnajsti redni konvenciji pa želim, da bi naredila veliko dobrega za vse članstvo J. S. K. Jednote. Vas pozdravljam,
Rose Svetich, tretja glavna porotnica.
Poročilo 3. glavne porotnice se sprejme.
POROČILO 4. GLAVNEGA POROTNIKA Cenjena delegacija
Kar se tiče mojega dela, kot četrtega porotnika Jednote, je bilo prilično tako, kot ostalih porotnikov izvzemši predsednika glavnega porotnega odbora, kateri je imel dosti več dela kot ostali porotniki.
V tem skromnem in kratkem poročilu, katerega vam tukaj podajam, poudarjam, da sem vsem zadevam odnosno prizivom, katere sem prejel v rešitev, posvetil naj večjo pazljivost. V vseh slučajih sem razsojal in glasoval strogo nepristransko.
Leta 1935 sem se po sklepu glavnega odbora, kot spremljevalec mladinskih delegatov, udeležil prve mladinske konvencije mladinskega oddelka naše Jednote. Moje mnenje je, da je gl. odbor s tem, da je aranžiral kampanjo ^a nove člane mladinskega oddelka, da je tistim, kateri so se udeležili te kampanje, dal priliko, da so se udeležili prve mladinske konvencije, napravil jako dobro in uspešno potezo za porast mladinskega oddelka naše Jednote. Priporočam, da se kaj sličnega napravi tudi v bodoče. Potrudimo se, da pridobimo čim več mladine v naše vrste, kajti bodočnost Jednote je v mladini. Kar se tiče drugih priporočil ali nasvetov se bom oglasil, ko pridejo stvari na dnevni red.
Želeč, da bi delegacija, zbrana na XV. redni konvenciji JSKJ, napravila najboljše zaključke, v dobrobit in procvit JSKJ, vas bratsko pozdravljam,
John Zigman, četrti glavni porotnik.
Poročilo 4. glavnega porotnika se sprejme.
POROČILO TAJNIKA ZDRUŽEVALNEGA ODBORA Štirinajsta redna konvencija JSKJ, ki je zborovala v Indianapolisu, Ind., je sprejela rezolucijo, ki je naročala sedanjemu glavnemu odboru, “da v bodoče gleda na to, in išče prilike in ugodnosti, kako bi bilo mogoče družiti raztresene ude' slovenskega podpornega in društvenega življenja v trdnejše zveze ali Jednote.”
(Dalje na 8. strani)
Zapisnik 15. redne konvencije J. S. K, Jednoie
(Nadaljevanje s 7. strani)
Sedanji glavni odbor je pri prvem zasedanju v mesecu januarju 1933 izvolil v združevalni odbor sledeče glavne odbornike: Janko N. Rogelj, tajnik, Frank E. Vraničar in Matt An-zelc, odbornika.
Meseca junija, 1933, sem prejel od glavnega tajnika, sobrata Anton Zbašnika kopijo pisma, katero je bilo naslovljeno na sobrata George Kotze-ta, kateri je • povpraševal glavnega tajnika za morebitne pogoje, kako bi se moglo združiti ali spojiti našo Jednoto s Slovensko hrvatsko zvezo v Calumetu, ki je štela ob istem času 1053 članov v odrastlem oddelku, in 389 članov v mladinskem oddelku. Premoženje odrastlega oddelka je znašalo takrat $249,167.50, mladinskega pa $9,323.60. Solventnost je znašala 114.93%.
Polletna seja našega glavnega odbora, ki se je vršila dober mesec pozneje, je vzela v pretres prejeomenjeni pogoj. Sprejet je bil predlog, da se pošlje tajnika združevalnega odbora kot odposlanca dobre volje in jednotinega opazovalca na konvencijo Slovensko hrvatske zveze, ki se je pričela na Calumet, Mich., dne 21. avgusta.
Konvencija SHZ je 22. avgusta, 1933 odglasovala s 17 glasovi, da se prične pogajati z našo organizacijo. Pri istem glasovanju je dobila Hrvatska bratska zajednica 11 glasov, in Slovenska narodna podporna jednota tri glasove. Konvencija je izvolila tudi svoj združevalni odbor, kakor sledi: Steve Di-ljak, predsednik, Jos. Chesarek, tajnik, Mike Kump, Joseph Spreitzer in Peter Mourin, odborniki.
Zaključke njih konvencije sem razumel tako, da novoizvoljeni združevalni odbor SHZ lahko prične takoj s provizoričnimi pogajanji z našo organizacijo. Zato sem 21. septembra pisal pismo glavnemu tajniku, ako je SHZ že uradno naznanila svoj konvenčni sklep. Odgovoril mi je, da še nima nobenega obvestila. Enak odgovor mi je poslal še v mesecu decembra istega leta. V kolikor mi je znano, naš urad še do danes ni dobil uradnega naznanila, ki bi sporočal njih konvenčni sklep.
Toda pričetna in provizorična pogajanja so se vseeno pričela. Bilo je precej korespondence, nakar je naš združevalni odbor povabil združevalni odbor SHZ, da se sestane z našim odborom na Ely-u, Minn., po 31. januarju, 1934. V pismu z dne 24. decembra 1933 mi tajnik Jos. Chesarek tudi piše to: “Nisem osebno za to, da bi se delalo nepotrebne stroške, vendar tudi meni se vidi, da bomo lažje prišli do sporazuma in začrtali pot za nadaljno delovanje, ako se sestanemo”
Pričakoval sem, da se bo to tudi zgodilo, toda zgodilo se je drugače. Seja glavnega odbora SHZ je na dan 10. januarja, 1934 sklenila, da ne pošlje svojega združevalnega odbora na naš sestanek, ampak da naj naša organizacija sestavi ponudbo ali pogodbo, po kateri bi bila pripravljena sprejeti Zvezo pod svoje okrilje.
Pisal sem glavnemu tajniku naše organizacije, kaj zahtevajo pri SHZ. Brat Zbašnik je takoj spisal okrožnico na vse glavne odbornike, kjer je temeljito obrazložil svoje mnenje glede zahtevanega načrta. Kopije njegovega mnenja sem poslal tudi uradnikom združevalnega odbora SHZ. Mnenje na naši strani je obstajalo, da načrtov ne moremo delati, dokler ne pridemo do skupnosti v principu. Le skupni sestanek bi nam mogel dati gradivo za končno spojitev. V ta princip ni hotel pristati odbor SHZ.
Meseca julija 1934 sem zopet povabil njih odbor na skupni sestanek. Zopet jih ni bilo.
Rad bi vam še nadalje opisoval naša provizorična pogajanja, toda vzelo bi preveč časa. Kdor je čital moja poročila, katera sem podajal sejam glavnega odbora, pač dobro ve, da smo mi glavni odborniki JSKJ, odnosno združevalni odbor, vsi držali odprte roke, da sprejmemo to ali ono organizacijo pod svoje okrilje, ako so pripravljeni z nami se pogajati. Nobenemu glavnemu odborniku naše organizacije se ne more očitati, da se je bal združenja ali da je oviral isto.
Končno moram povedati, da je koncem leta 1934 zaspalo vsako pogajanje med obema organizacijama. Toda to ni naša krivda; prisiliti se ne more nikogar. O tem govori obširna korespondenca, ki je na razpolago sedanji delegaciji.
Na razpolago vam je tudi protest društva “Bratstvo” št. 30 SHZ, ki je bil priobčen v “Jugoslovanskem Glasniku” v mesecu avgustu, 1935. Na razpolago je tudi rezolucija društva št. 22 SHZ, ki pravi o naši organizaciji: “jednu malu organizacij u.” Na razpolago sem vam delegatom in delegatinjam, da odgovarjam in predložim uradno korespondenco, da so naše roke čiste, in da smo šs danes pripravljeni družiti se ž njimi, če imajo dobro voljo.
V letošnjem letu sem pisal pismo tajniku SSPZ, če bi njih Zveza hotela stopiti v pogajanja. Dne 15. januarja 1936 sem dobil odgovor na moje pismo, kakor tudi prijazno povabilo, da naj se udeležim seje glavnega odbora SSPZ. Predložil sem to pismo seji glavnega odbora naše organizacije. Ci-tali ste v zadnjem zapisniku glavnega odbora, da je bilo naročeno odbornikom JSKJ, ki potujejo skozi Chicago, da naj se ustavijo na seji glavnega odbora SSPZ. To se je tudi zgodilo. Pokazali smo, da smo pripravljeni na spojitev obeh organizacij.
V letošnjem letu, meseca maja, se je vršila v Milwaukee, Wis., konvencija Slovenske svobodomiselne podp. zveze. Gl. odboru naše organizacije se je zdelo potrebno, da pošlje na to konvencijo svojega odposlanca dobre volje, da pozdravi konvencijo bratske organizacije in da proži roko v znak morebitnega združenja. Ni dolgo, kar se je to zgodilo. Podal sem svoje poročilo v Novz Dobi. Zal mi je le to, da je konvencija pred mojim prihodom razpravljala o zdruzenju, zakar sem mogel podati le formalno poslanico naše organizacije. Na konvenciji SSPZ je bil sprejet sklep, da ima njih novo izvoljeni odbor nalogo voditi pogajanja morebitne spojitve ali združenja. Od tega odbora nisem prejel do danes še nobenega odgovora, le v zapisniku glavnega odbora sem čital sklep, da pride na našo 15. redno konvencijo odposlanec SSPZ, kateri nam sporoči njih želje in namene.
Delegat j e in delegatinje, to je moje poročilo o našem združevalnem odboru. Vodil sem ta urad brezplačno, vedno v zavesti in veri, da je združenje ali spojitev naših organizacij potrebna, če že ni malo prepozna. Vodil sem ta urad po želji našega glavnega odbora in po želji članstva kot se mi je suge-gtiralo. Sedanjost nam ni prinesla plodonosnih zaključkov, kaj nam prinese bodočnost, vse to je odvisno od sile in želje
našega članstva, in članstva tiste organizacije, ki se hoče združiti z našo organizacijo.
Janko N. Rogelj, tajnik združevalnega odbora JSKJ.
Poročilo tajnika združevalnega odbora se sprejme.
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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL JUVENILE PUBLICITY COMMITTEE OF THE SOUTH SLAVONIC CATHOLIC UNION BY STANLEY PECHAVER (LITTLE STAN)
Mr. Chairman, Members of the Supreme Board, and Delegates to the loth Quadrennial Convention of the South Slavonic Catholic Union :-
When the First National Juvenile Convention was held in Ely, Minnesota last year, the delegates created a National Juvenile Publicity Committee and named me Honorary Chairman.
At that time, the duties of my new office, insofar as I know, were not very clear to me or anyone else. As a result, I have tried, through the means of our official organ, the Nova Doba, to create and promote a greater and lasting interest among the juvenile membei's of our wonderful organization, and have encouraged them in every possible manner to express their thoughts through contributions in our official organ.
When the Supreme board met at the Home office in Ely, Minnesota to transact semi-annual business in January, 1935, one of the foremost ideas ever taken and developed by any other fraternal organization, was born. That idea, was the First National Juvenile Convention. It was something new; never tried by any other fraternal order in the country.
As soon as plans were completed, and the proper publicity given, the venture, a noticeable and excited response was indicated. As time elapsed, a decided increase in the Juvenile department of our organization was realized. Our Supreme Secretary, Anton Zbasnik, reported at the end of the Convention that approximately 1600 new members were enrolled. The beauty part of the entire campaign was that practically all newly enrolled juveniles are still active members of our organization, in good standing with the subordinate lodges, and today are contributing regularly in the Juvenile section of our official organ, Nova Doba. Noted also in the monthly news columns of news stories, and narratives submitted by these youngsters is a decided increase of Juvenile activity throughout the lodges in most of the cities, towns and villages of the twenty-two states in which our Union has subordinate units. The young delegates were thrilled at the thought of being able to see the Home office of our organization at Ely, Minnesota. They were royally entertained. Local committees cooperated in every possible manner to insure the delegates a pleasant time. When they saw Little Stan and his Austin, they were really tickled to death. Every juvenile delegate was taken for at least a ride in the big automobile. Heh, heh!
But seriously, the convention turned out to be the most successful enterprise ever promoted by any Supreme Board of any fraternal organization in the Nation—both financially and fraternally.
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Gowanda, N. Y.
Vročina letošnjega poletja je bila huda in vztrajna, toda končno se je le podala in se je umaknila nekam za babilonske stolpe. Tihih korakov se nam je približala jesen in nas je opozorila na prireditve v raznih “Domovih’' in dvoranah.
Pri nas v Gowandi bo prva taka prireditev v tej sezoni na večer 3. oktobra. In sicer priredita skupno veselico društvo sv. Jožefa, št. 89 JSKJ in društvo Pathfinders, št. 222 JSKJ.
V imenu obeh omenjenih društev vabim tukajšno članstvo drugih organizacij, da našo veselico kar mogoče številno po-seti; ob prilikah sličnih prireditev njihovih društev bomo skušali naklonjenost od naše strani povrniti. Posebno pa apeliram n,a članstvo društev št. 89 in 222 JSKJ, da stori vse, kar je mogoče, da bo prireditev uspešna, saj se gre za korist vseh. Vsak naj stori nekaj, pa se bo v skupnosti mnogo poznalo.
V spodnjih prostorih, kjer se bomo zabavali starejši, bo skrbel za godbo L. Klančar, zgoraj pa bodo na vrsti bolj ameriški plesi, za katere bo preskrbel godbo ened najboljših orkestrov te okolice. Vstopnice so že v predprodaji in kdor si hoče prihraniti 10 centov, naj kupi vstopnico zdaj, ko jo dobi za kvoder.
Pripravljalni odbor za veselico je pridno na delu in upa, da bo veselica 3. oktobra vse po-setnike zadovoljila v vseh ozirih. Udeležite se je torej v kar največjem številu! Na svidenje na večer 3. oktobra v Slovenskem domu na Palmer St., v Gowandi, N. Y.!
M. Matekovich.
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nih zanimivih krajih Clevelanda in nato še na razstavo. Jaz sem se vozil skupaj z Mrs. Mary Bernick iz Detroita in sem imel prav dobro družbo.
K sklepu se želim zahvaliti še Mrs. Hočevar in družini na Addison Rd., kjer sem bil na stanovanju_ za vso pozornost in postrežbo. Zahvaljujem se za prijazno družbo tovarišem, s katerimi sem skupaj stanoval, posebno še mojemu sostanovalcu Mattu Vogriču iz La Salle. Priznanje zaslužijo tudi izborne kuharice in strežnice. Mislim, da so vsi delegati odnesli iz Clevelanda lepe vtise in spomine.
Pozdrav vsem delegatom in gl. odbornikom!
Valentin Dagarin.
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Verona, Pa.
Društvo “Gorska vila,” št. 175 JSKJ priredi veselico v soboto 26. septembra. Veselica bo prirejena v proslavo ustanovitve našega društva in se bo vršila v Narodnem domu na 312 Arch St., Verona, Pa. Prične se ob 8. uri zvečer. Ta veselica bi se imela vršiti že pred meseci, toda smo jo morali odložiti zaradi velikih poplav, ki so bile prizadele našo naselbino. Vsi člani našega društva so vabljeni, da se veselice gotovo udeležijo. Vabljeni so pa tudi člani drugih društev te naselbine in bližnje okolice in sploh vsi rojaki in rojakinje tega okrožja, da posetijo to našo prireditev. Imeli bomo dobro godbo in preskrbljeni bomo z vsakovrstnimi okrepčili, da bomo vsakega lahko zadovoljili. Torej, na svidenje v soboto 26. septembra zvečer v Narodnem domu na 312 Arch St. v Veroni! — Za društvo “Gorska vila,” št. 175 JSKJ : Anton Tratar, tajnik.
bila videti moje stare prijatelje,
3 katerimi smo skupaj trgali hlače na šolskih klopeh v starem kraju. Prijatelj Frank Stekla-sa je bil tako prijazen, da me je na moje tozadevno vprašanje takoj popeljal k mojemu naj večjemu prijatelju Tomu Bucharju, s katerim se nisva videla dolgih 31 let. Ni me poznal, a ko sem mu povedal, kdo da sem, mi je krepko stisnil roko in zdelo se mi je, da so se mu posvetile solze v očeh. Prijazna Mrs. Buchar je seveda takoj obložila mizo z vsemi mogočimi dobrotami. V nedeljo 13. septembra je Mr. Buchar napregel svoj Lincoln in obiskali smo še druge sosede in znance iz starega kraja, s katerimi smo nekdaj skupaj krave pasli in iskali ptičja gnezda. Na povabilo Mrs. Buchar smo se sešli tam pri kosilu in pri čašah rajnega ohij-čana so se razvili razni pogovori. čez nekaj časa je prišel na dnevni red predlog, da gremo vsi skupaj obiskat mojega sošolca Franka Steklasa, predlog je bil seveda sprejet in izvršen. Tudi tam je bila za nas pripravljena cela gostija, in ni čudno, da je končno prišla na vrsto še slovenska pesem. Hvala vam, dragi moji sošolci, France, Tone, Tom, Janez in drugi, za vso vašo naklonjenost. Prav lepa hvala tudi Mr. in Mrs. Erazem Gorshe za sijajno postrežbo. — Naj omenim, da smo tam po dolgih letih rujno vince točili iz pravega “Štefana,” katerega je prijatelj Gorshe dobil iz starega kraja.
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Torej, prijatelji petja in dobre zabave, pridite v soboto 3. oktobra za gotovo v Slovenski dom, da skupno veselo in dostojno proslavimo 25-letnico našega pevskega društv<a “Prešerna.” Srebrni jubilej je lep jubilej, posebno za pevsko društvo, ki je sestavljeno s preprostih delavcev in ki je imelo tekom svojega 25 letnega delovanja prehoditi mnogo trnjevih poti. Naj bo torej koncert 3. oktobra srebrna krona pevskega društva “Prešerna” in lepe slovenske pesmi, to pa bo, če se vsi, ki bivate v Pittsburghu in okolici, ki slovensko in slovansko čutite in ki ljubite našo pesem, udeležite te prireditve. Torej, na svidenje v soboto 3. oktobra ob štirih popoldne v Slovenskem domu na 57. & Butler St. Pevski pozdrav!
Louis Skerlong.
Barberton, O.
članicam Gospodinjskega kluba društva “Domovina” naznanjam, da se bo vršila veselica s plesom v soboto 26. septembra zvečer. Za ples bo igrala slovenska godba. Vse člane in članice in vse prijatelje samostojnega društva “Domovina” val-•bim, Ca se prireditve udeležijo — Za Gospodinjski klub:
Mary Vidergar.
Denver, Colo.
Nekaj spominov na 15. redno konvencijo JSKJ. — Prišel je čas, da je bilo treba zapustiti znance in prijatelje in se odpraviti na dolgo pot v Cleveland. Kupili smo si vozne listke za naj hitrejši brzovlak, da nas kar najhitreje prestavi v Chicago, kjer se bomo sestali z drugimi delegati. Union postajo v Den-verju smo zapustili s tako naglico in vlak je odhitel s tako br-zino, da se nismo vtegnili niti posloviti od coloradskih snežni-kov, ki so se ozirali za nami, kakor bi nam hoteli izročiti pozdrave in nekaj kapljic mrzle studenčnice, da bi z njimi hladili vroče debate na konvenciji. Toda naš “zephyr” je hitel dalje in dalje; še en pogled in snežni velikani so nam izginili izpred oči.
Dospevše v Chicago na Union postajo nas je že čakal naš glavni tajnik Anton Zbašnik in nas je odvedel na La Lalle po stajo, kjer so nas čakali delega ti in delegatinje iz različnih krajev. Po kratkih pozdravih smo se odpeljali po New York Central železnici proti Clevelandu. Da nismo bili lačni in žejni po poti, za to je skrbela delegacija iz Elya. Jestvine in pijače so servirali “Little Stan,” Joe Kovach in drugi. Razume se, da smo jim bili za to pozornost hvaležni. Ko smo dospeli v Cleveland, so nas tam že čakali Clevelandčani s svojimi “maši-nami,” kakor tam naziva j o avtomobile, in so nas odpeljali na bivališča, ki so nam bila pripravljena za čas konvencije. Mene so peljali k mojemu prijatelju Jos. Ponikvarju, kjer sem bil nad vse prijazno sprejet, zakar naj mu bo izrečena iskrena hvala. Po kratkem oddihu sem se podal v S. N. Dom, kjer se je tisti večer vršil sprejem delegacije.
Pri tisti priliki sem se srečal z Mr. in Mrs. E. Gorše, ki sta pred leti bivala v Denver ju. Razume se, da smo si imeli mnogo povedati, pa ni bilo dosti časa omenjeni večer. Kaj vse nam je pripravljalni odbor pripravil, ne bom opisoval, to naj storijo drugi. Moja največja želja je
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TRETJE OBLETNICE SMRTI NEPOZABNEGA SOPROGA IN
JOHNA SMOLTZ
ki nas je tako nenadoma zapustil dne 20. septembra 1933.
A:
Tvoja nenadna smrt, nenadomestljivi soprog iji skrbni oče, nam 3? čila izgubo, ki ne more biti nikdar popravljena, zato s srci polnimi bolesti vsak dan mislimo ra Tebe.
Mesec september je zopet v deželi, zgodnje jeseni razsiplje nam kras, mi pa ne moremo biti veseli, ker je najtužnejfii mesec za nas.
Dragi soprog in preljubi jem zgodaj, prezgodaj odšel si oa ^ srce nam poka, duša nam 3° ker je za vedno utihnil Tvoj #
Hladna Te zemlja tri leta že krije, v tihi gomili pdkojno zdaj spiS, sonce jesensko na grob Ti res sije, v duhu pa večno med nami živiš.
Za Teboj žalujemo Tvoji: Mary Smoltz, soproga; sina in hčer^ bratje in sestre, sorodniki in prijatelji.
Chishom. Minn., 19. septembra 1936.
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