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12/VĚSTNÍK—Wednesday, March 21, 1990
economy, the better it will be not just
for Czechs and Slovaks but for the
whole world.
And the sooner yon yonrselves will
be able to reduce the burden of the
military budget borne by the
American people. To put it
metaphorically, the millions you give
to the East today will soon return to
you in the form of billions in savings.
American soldiers shouldn’t háve to
be separated from their mothers just
because Europe is incapable of being a
guarantor of world peace, which it
ought to be in order to make some
amends, as least, for having given the
world two world wars.
The Legacy Of Oppression
As long as people are people,
democracy, in the full sense of the
word, will always be no more than an
ideál. In this sense, you too are merely
approaching democracy. But you háve
one great advantage: you háve been
approaching democracy
uninterruptedly for more than 200
years, and your journey toward the
horizon has never been disrupted by a
totalitarian systém.
The communist type of totalitarian
systém has left both our nations,
Czechs and Slovaks, as it has all the na-
tions of the Soviet Union and the other
countries of the Soviet Union sub-
jugated in its time, a legacy of
countless dead, an infinite spectrum of
human suffering, profound economic
decline and, above all, enormous
human humiliation. It has brought us
horros that fortunately you háve not
known.
It has given us something positive, a
speciál capacity to look from time to
time somewhat further than someone
who has not undergone this bitter
experience. A person who cannot
move and lead a somewhat normál life
because he is pinned under a boulder
has more time to think about his hopes
than someone who is not trapped that
way.
What Fm trying to say is this: we
must all learn many things from you,
from how to educate our offspring,
how to elect our representatives, all the
way to how to organize our economic
life so that it will lead to prosperity and
not to poverty. But it doesn’t háve to
be merely assistance from the well
educated, powerful and wealthy to
someone who has nothing and
therefore has nothing to offer in
return.
We, too, can offer something to you:
our experience and the knowledge that
has come from it. The specific
experience I’m talking about has given
me one certainty: consciousness
precedes being, and not the other way
around, as the Marxists claim. For this
reason, the salvation of this human
world lies nowhere else than in the
human heart, in the human power to
reflect, in human meekness and in
human responsibility.
A New Way Of Thinking
Without a globál revolution in the
sphere of human consciousness,
nothing will change for the better in
the sphere of our being as humans,
and the catastrophe toward which this
world is headed -- be it ecological,
sociál, demographic or a generál
breakdown of civilization — will be
unavoidable. If we are no longer
threatened by world war or by the
danger that the absurd mountains of
accumulated nuclear weapons might
blow up the world, this does not mean
that we háve definitely won. We are
still incapable of understanding that
the only genuine backbone of all our
actions, if they are to be moral, is .
responsibility. Responsibility tc
something higher than my family, my
country, my company, my success —
responsibility to the order of being
where all our actions are indelibly
recorded and where and only where
they will be properly judged.
I think that you Americans should
understand this way of thinking.
When Thomas Jefferson wrote that
“governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed,” it was a
simple and important act of the human
spirit. What gave meaning to that act,
however, was the fact that the author
backed it up with his life. It was not
just his words, it was his deeds a',
well.”
—SPJST—
SPJST Memfoers Attend Reorganizaíion Of The Sokol
Orgaeization le Prague* Czechoslovakia, January 7,1990
Pactured, Elo R: Brother Jerry Milan,
wfth a Czech Sokol member in his
official Czech Sokol uniform, and
Brother larry Laznovsky.
Brother Larry Laznovsky, fraternal
activities coordinator of Lodge No.
135, Ennis and SPJST District ffl
Finance Oommittee representative,
and Brother Jerry Milan, president of
Lodge No. 154, Fort Worth and
District Úl representative ofthe SPJST
By - Laws Committee, háve retumed
from attending the reorganizating of
the Sokol Organization in
Czechoslovakia on January 7, 1990.
Brother Larry is also president of
Sokol Karel Havlicek Borovsky in
Ennis and president of the Southern
District of the American Sokol
Organization. Brother Milan, a
member of Sokol Fort Worth, is the
Southern Dstrict Public Relations
chairman of the American Sokol By -
Laws Committee.
The Sokol organization was
reorganized on Sunday, January 7th,
after being dis bandě d by the previous
govemment in 1948. The quickness in
which the organization was refounded,
after only a few weeks of the country’s
new freedom, is testimony to the
strength of the Sokol idea and the fact
that the desire for freedom remained
in so many of the countrymen’s hearts
eventhought it was surpressed for 41
years.
Two days of activities celebrated
this momentous occasion; together
with a group of Sokols from the new
organization and Sokols representing
the countries of Canada, Austria,
Switzerland and France. Brothers
Laznovsky and Milan laid memoriál
wreaths in Lany, the burial sites of
T.G. Masaryk, and son, Jan, and in
Olšany Cemetery in Prague at the
graves óf Miroslav Tyrš and Jindřich
Fuegner, the founder and first
president of the Sokol Organization at
the time of its founding in 1862.
On Sunday, January 7th, a
conveníion was held, and the Czech
Sokol elected officers, an Executive
Board, and formulated by - laws by
which its organization would abide.
The president elected was Mr. Peťrok.
Věra Caslavska, former olympic
gymnast, was elected as a member of
the Executive Board.
During their short stay in
Czechoslovakia, Brothers Laznovsky
and Milan were able to observe and
experience with the people a joy for
their new freedom. With the election
of Vaclav Havel as the new Czech
President only a week before the
reorganization of Sokol, tremendous
excitement among the Czechs was
evident. Havel posters were in the
businesses, in the homes and
everywhere. Posters of feelings for the
former government were also being
freely exhibited. Czech flags and
replaced Russian flags were displayed
in number. Grafiti derogatory to the
former leadership was freely
exhibited. Businesses had not yet
seemed to háve an opportunity to
evidence much change.
Brothers Laznovsky and Milan had
an opportunity i o stay in the homes of
relatives during the stay. Brother
Milan has been to Czechoslovakia
numerous times while this was
Brother Laznovsky’s first trip. They
visited Brother Laznovsky’s relatives
in Praha and in Hnidousy, near
Kladno, where his father, Brother
Frank A. Laznovsky, was bornin 1908.
They visited the home where his
father was born and the home where
the family was living at the time they
came to America in 1911. They, then,
visited Brother Milan’s cousins and
family in Uherske Hradiště. Brother
Milan’s mother was born in Kunovice.
Submitted by,
Sylvia Laznosky
Secretary, Lodge No. 135
—SPJST—
Sociál Security
It is very important to háve a Sociál
Security number. Its use is required
for different purposes, and it is not an
exaggeration to say that without a
Sociál Security number, you wouldn’t
be able to comply with the legal
requirements you háve tolive with.
Under the Sociál Security program,
the number is the key that opens the
doors to financial aid when people
retire or become disabled. It makes
possible the payments of monthly
benefits to certain family members or
survivors of insured workers. Sociál
Security is a package of protection that
covers everybody who meets the
requirements for eligibility.
The payment of benefits is made
possible only because workers’
covered earnings during their working
years are recorded under their names
and Sociál Security numbers. Without
a Sociál Security number, you
woukfrťt be able to apply for Sociál
Security or supplemental security
income'benefits or for Medicare. You
wouldn’t be able to apply for State -
run programs either, such as
unemployment Insurance, public
a >sistance and sociál Services, medical
r^sistance, aid to families with
dependent children, food stamps, and
other public aid programs.
But, even if your work is not covered
by Sociál Security and neither you nor
your family need to apply for
assistance from statě programs, you
still need the Sociál Security number
to report income to the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS). In many
States, you need a Sociál Security
number for a driver’s license and
motor vehicle registration, and if you
are an immigrant, by law you must
obtain a Sociál Security number.
Children and even newborns should
háve a Sociál Security number if their
parents want to open a bank account,
or buy savings bonds, or apply for
some type of government Services for
them. Amy children who are age 2 or
older must háve a Sociál Security
number if their parents want to claim
them as dependents on their Federal
Income Tax Return.
To get a Sociál Security number,
you háve to get Form SS - 5 from any
Sociál Security Office and fill it out.
Together with the SS - 5, you háve to
submit evidence of age, identity, and
U.S. citizenship or lawful alien status.
It is a good idea to call the Sociál
Security office first and ask which
documents are required. The office
personnel will help you get or replace
the documents you are missing.
In many States, including Texas,
parents of newborn children can apply
for a Sociál Security number at the
time they provide information for birth
registration.
Two weeks after your application
and documents are submitted, you will
receive your “unique” Sociál Security
number. This speciál personál number
is the only one you will ever háve.
Your name can be changed but the
number will remain the same. No one
should háve more than one Sociál
Security number. Otherwise, part of
his or her earnings may go to one
record or another and the person could
lose some rights to benefits. If you
háve more than one number, you
should contact a Sociál Security office
to háve your earnings properly
credited.
The Sociál Security Administration
makes every effort to record earnings
to the right person; and that is why
every number must be different. More
than 300 million Sociál Security
numbers háve been issued, and
thousands of names are exactly alike.
The only way you can háve your
earnings properly recorded is through
your personál Sociál Security number.
If you are under 18 and don’t háve a
Sociál Security number, you can apply
by phone by calling 800 - 234 - 5772. If
you are older than 18, you háve to
apply in person. But, one way or
another, do not delay your application.
It is extremely important to háve a
Sociál Security number.
—SPJST—
Food For Thought
The most important hábit for
children to form today is the hábit of
being able to form an appropriate new
babit quickly. Parents must
understand that today’s children are
not the same youngsters their parents
were, nor will they grow into the
adults their parents are. Boys and
girls who will live in tomorrow’s
“unknown world” must have> as early
as possihle5 as wide a range of
experience as their parents can
provide. They must learn early that
when things are “different” they are
not necessarily “bad.”
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Sefcik, R. J. Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 21, 1990, newspaper, March 21, 1990; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth632664/m1/12/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Slovanska Podporujici Jednota Statu Texas.