JUVENILE SECTION OF "NAPREDEK"

CLEVELAND, OHIO, NOVEMBER 18, 1936

WITH OUR JUNIORS

Thanksgiving Greetings

Wagonloads of pumpkins, as
yellow as gold,

Onions in silverg strings,
Shining red apples and clusters
of grapes,

Nuts and a host of good
things —

Chickens and turkeys and fat
little pigs,

These are v)hat Thanksgiving
brings.

Anon.

Soon another day of happi-
ness and good cheer wil! t>e with
us. Thanksgiving Day will he
celebrated on next Thursday,
Nov. 26 . . . This festival day is
given special significance in
homes throughout our country
because of its American origin
in 1621 by the Pilgrims who
came to America seeking reli-
gious freedom ... On their
first Thanksgiving Day they
gave thanks that their lives
had been spared and called up-
on the Lord to protect their

families from the dangers by
which they were surrounded.

Today, over three hundred
years after the landing of the
Pilgrims, we, too, have much to
be thankful for and many
dangers to guard ourselves
against ... As in the past so
now, there are many unfortu-
ttarte families who, stri ve as
they might, have never been
able to provide more than the
bare necessities of life for
themselves ... It is these un-
forturtate ones in our midst,
whom, it is our duty to help
make happy.

Vrtec Administrators (trices)
and members, you will have a
happier Thanksgiving if you
plan a happy day for some less
fortunate member in need of
sympathy and aid . . . May this
coming Thanksgiving Day be
abundant with joy, feasting and
thankfulness for each and every
one of you.

Like Good New$? - Read This

According to the decision of
the Supreme Executive Com-
mittee at its last regular quar-
terly session, ali assessment,
remitted by the Vrtec Admin¬
istrator (trix) or secretary for
the month of November, less
assessment paid for re-instated
members for months previous
to November, will be returned
in the following month . . . This
does not imply that the Ad¬
ministrator (trix) or secretary,
or both, need not collect No¬
vember^ assessment . . . Col¬
lect the assessment for the cur-
rent month from your mem¬
bers the same as if there \vere
to be no refund, then fill out
the monthly report and forward
same, accompanied by money
order, check or cash, to the Su¬
preme Office.

This refund, which is similar
to one made last year, may be
used towards payment of De¬

cember^ assessment or, if the
Administrator (trix) and mem¬
bers choose, towards the expen-
ses of a XMAS PARTY. Per-
sonally, I’d much rather see the
money spent for a party. The
youngsters will appreciate it
much more and remember it far
into the new year. The Society,
too, will benefit through its lo-
cal advertising possibilities and
through the good impression it
will naturally create in their
minds. So, wherever it can be
conveniently arranged, Vrtec
A d m i n i strators (trices) are
urged to give their Vrtec mem¬
bers a Xmas treat and a party.
Remember to invite Santa Claus
with his big bag of toys, one
for every good little boy and
girl, especially, those who have
attended their meetings regu-
larly, paid their dues on time,
and otherwise took a n active
part in Vrtec affairs.

Pennsylvcmia Vrtec Adds 50 Nev/ Members

Here is more good news for couraging news of the year
our Vrtec enthusiasts . . . How about our newest active Vrtec
many of you read the most en- at BRIDGEVILLE, PA.? . . .

Our Supreme President, brother
John Kvartich,  is its organizer
and it was almost entirely due
to his efforts that 50 new mem¬
bers were enrolled ... A month
ago, Vrtec No. 169 numbered
only 3 members—today, it tips
the scale at 53! Some jump,
eh? . . . Reports emanating
from that district state further
that the work is not yet done
and that in the near future
more new members will be add-
ed to the fold.

What better nevvs could any-
one wish for? It is inspiring
beyond words and should lead
many other inaetive Vrtec units
into the active column where
they rightfully belong. The way
to give youth a chance to pro-
gress on its own is to give it a
chance to belong to an active
Vrtec unit of the SSPZ.

cic are showing the way to
greater progress . . . Vrtec No.
160, Chicago, came through
with flying colors once more—
Not one step backward has been
taken by this Vrtec unit since
its organization, which speaks
mighty well of brother Victor
Zupančič, Administrator, and
little sister Wilma Gratchner.
secretary . . . Vrtec 'No. 122
(inaetive), Harwipk, Pa., gained
3 hew members in October . . .
Vrtec No. 170 (inaetive), Sco-
field, Utah, obtairted 2 new ad 1 -
ditions—Administrators for the
latter two units are, respective-
ly, brothers Frank Nosse and
John Bizjak.

Although, Bridgeville, Pa.,
as one would say in good every-
day slang, won the cake and
the marbles in a walk this
month, down Indiana Way, in a
little town named CLINTON,
which homes Vrtec No. 28, we
find brother JOHN SKOFF,
Administrator, a very busy or¬
ganizer ... In the past three
months, brother Skoff has add-
ed 15 new members to his Vr¬
tec unit—This unit is not, yet,
an active one, but we are sure
that, very shortly, brother
Skoff will bring it into the ac¬
tive fold and see, too, that it
gains a respective plače among
the top-nctchers.

Other notable inereases were
reported by Vrtec No. 12, Pali-
sade, Colo., where brothers
Frank Mautz and Louis Supan-

And so we find October lead-
ing ali other months of 1936 by
a comfortable margin. But the
year is not, yet, over. The books
are not closed. There is stili
much work to be done and a
possible chance that both No¬
vember and December will bear
even more successful tidings
than October. Certainly noth-
ing would be more pleasing or
inspiring to the Supreme offi-
cers, and to less active leaders
and members, than a record-
breaking advance in the clos-
ing months of the current year.

What finer XMAS GIFT
could the organization ask of
any of you than to gain one or
two members for your Vrtec
unit between now and the end
of the year . . . Again, I urge
you! Get into the thick of this
membership business and bring
into the Society at least one
new member before the books
of 1936 are closed and sealed
forever! I’m sure you can do
it! l

Our Vrtec Supplement

Vrtec Administrators (trices)
and members should not forget
that the Vrtec supplement is
issued EVERY THIRD WED-
NESDAY OF THE MONTH and
its success depends, almost en-
tirely, upon contributions writ-
ten and sent in by them . . .The
more articles submitted for
publication by our Juniors and
their supervisors the more at-
traetive will be the paper.

I cannot emphasize, too

strongly, that our first three
issues have been far below the
standard we had hoped to
reach . . . Our Administrators
(trices), particularly, have
failed to accept a fair share of
responsibility . . . With but one
exception (a single article by
“Uncle” Charlie Koman of the
Spartan Juniors), there have
been no others to brighten the
page. In many respects, it re-
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Health P e ril s

This week, on the strength of
reports from scientists meeting
m many sections of the coun-
try, the reading puhlic had a
number of new health perils to
think about. They ranged ali
the way from baby shoes to
maladjustment.

Baby Shoes—Dr. Max Cohen,
child specialist, told the Na¬
tional Association of Chiropo-
dists in New York that babies
should not wear shoes until
they have learned to walk. “Al-
low a child to move about bare-
foot when he is learning to
vvalk,” he warned. “Because a
baby’s bones are soft, shoes can
easily misform the feet.”

Cold Showers — Nobody
should take cold showers or
cold baths, Dr. Hans J. Behrend
announced. Reporting to the
American Congress of Physical
Therapy, Dr. Behrend, adjunct
physical therapist at New
York’s Hospital for Joint Dis-
eases, said a cold shower or
bath following a hot one sub-
jected the body to “two shocks
which are injurious to the cir-
culatory system.” He advised
a bath of about 98 degrees, to
be cooled slowly to about 85
degrees by the introduction of
cold water.

Maladjustment — Dr. N. H.
Palmer of Tulane University re-
ported that maladjustment of
workers to their jobs may
cause a serious men tal disease
knovvn as traumatic neurosis.
The neurosis, he explained, may
bring on paralysis or prolonged
disability of some part of the
body. He said the disease hits
many who are unhappy because
they are doing the wrong kind
of work. Paralysis caused by
it yields to electrical treatment,
he stated, or to a psychiatric
approach convincing the pa-
tient that his physical disabili-
ty exsists only in the mind.

Excessive Idleness — A bad
neurosis or harmful mental
condition is often suffered by
' convakscent patients if they

Inhibition

In ali  her 45 years of life,
Minnie Wall has never spoken
a word to her father, and no
one knows why—not even her-
self.

Minnie can’t explain it. Chas.
Wall, her 81-year-old father,
can’t explain it. Her brother
Sam can’t. Her neighbors
can’t. Nobody can.

At the Wall home in College
Springs, Iowa, last week, as
father and daughter were pho-
tographed together, it was ex-
plained that she talks freely
and easily with everybody else,
that she hears her father, but
that she just “chokes up” when
he tries to talk to him or when
she attempts to discuss why her
speech with him is so strangely
inhibited.

Said her father: “We’ve lived
together here ever since she
was born, without her saying a
word to me. She tries to talk
to me, and she tries hard. But
it’s just a funny sound in her
throat. Why, one time I laid
$500 on the table and her moth-
er told Monnie the money was
hers if she’d just ask me for it.
But she never did.”

Wall said he thought his
daughter was “birth-marked”
in some mysterious way before
she was born. What pyschia-
trists think is not knovvn, be¬
cause Minnie never has gone to
one for an explanation.

L E P E R S

Mrs. Wimpus—Oh, Mike, the
installment man’s here.

Wimpus—Pil be there in a
minute. Tell him to take a
chair.

Mrs. Wimpus—I did, but he
said he’d start with the radio
and piano.

are kept excessively comfort-
able or idle. This was reported
by Dr. Robert H. Kennedy, as-
sociate professor of clinical
surgery at Columbia Universi-
ty’s medical school. He vvarned
against prolonged treatments
as being sometimes more harm¬
ful than the original malady.

Leprosy, a scourage as old as
history, has again entered the
news. Within the past fort-
night, 235 lepers escaped from
and later returned to San La-
zaro Hospital in Manila, P. I.
Their action reminded the world
once more that the ancient dis¬
ease stili constitutes a great
problem and that there are
agencies constantly seeking to
solve it.

The trouble in Manilla start-
ed when a group of lepers
marched from the hospital to
demand that, they be allovved to
return to their homes. The
pleadings of health authorities
finally convinced the marchers
that they should go back and
that they could not expect to
live freely in the outside world
until regional leprosaria were
established. Later, Dr. Eugenio
Hernando, acting director of
health in Manila, explained to
newspaper men that the .gov-
ernment did not intend to relax
its policy of segregating the af-
flicted until Science could offer
full assurance that the disease
was no longer contagious.

Commenting on the Manila
escape, Dr. Victor G. Heiser,
president of the Inernational
Leprosy Association, told New
York reporters that he could
understand the outbreak be¬
cause “lepers soldom realize the
gravity of their own condition.”
He said leprosy in the Philip-
pines was one of the most dan-
gerous of contagious diseases,
with five out of every 1,000 per-
sons suffering from it. He
pointed out, hovvever, that lep-
rosy in some places was not at
ali contagious. As an illustra-
tion, he said 200 lepers could
parade thru a densely crovvded
Manhattan Street vvithout en-
dangering New Yorkers. Al-
tho the reason is not knovvn,
the same vvould hold true for
London, he said, but not for
California and other parts of
the vvorld.

WITH OUR

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minds me of a deliberate boy-

cott.

Several complaints have
found their way to my desk
stating that too much Slovene
is used in our Junior supple-
ment. This fell to our atten-
tion some time ago . . . My
suggestion is that not more
than one-fourth of the space
should be be allotted to Slovene
articles and instead of giving it
the front page, the third page
should be utilized for this pur-
pose ... I believe, also, that
fewer of our Vrtec articles
(some are excepted) should be
printed on the E. S. L. Page,
but should be reserved for the
month!y Vrtec  supplement.
These suggestions, I’m sure,
will help remove some of the
dullness vvhich has been char-
acteristic of the introductory
copies.

JUNIORS

December marks the close of
the year and with it comes the
last edition of our Vrtec sup¬
plement for 1936 ... It will be
the XMAS ISSUE . . . Does
that mean anything to you or
doesn’t it? . . . Won’t you ali
try to cooperate with the edi-
tor by adding your bit of news
to his and thus make it more
enjoyable for ali of us to read?
FREE yourselves of vvriters’
cramp . . . PROVE to your
elders that the Vrtec Supple¬
ment is here to stay; that you
don’t intend to give it up; that
soon it will be composed of six
pages instead of four!! That’s
the špirit you must display in
order to prove you do want to
continue having your own me-
dium of expression and that
you appreciate it! You asked
for it; it is up to you to give it
life or let it die. Which shall
it be? Now is the time to make
your choice.

Meanvvhile, as the Manila
story appeared in the press, the
public heard a plea for coopera-
tion with the Leonard Wood
Memorial (American Leprosy
Foundation). In its appeal for
a more complete recognition of
the problem, the leprosy foun-
dation made it clear that medi¬
cal Science was the leper’s sole
hope and that funds vvould be
helpful in pushing the scienti-
fic drive against the disease.

Ajmong the facts made public
by the Leonard Wood organiza-
tion were these:

The estimated number of
lepers in the vvorld today is 3,-
.000,000, with approximately
15,000 in the Philippine Islands
alone.

The world’s largest leper col-
ony is under the American flag,
at Culion, an island 200 miles
south of Manila, vvhere 7,000
lepers live.

The only organization carry-
mg on scientific research to

Wciter Safeguards

Health authorities last week
had before them a suggestion
that the Federal government
nndertake a public vvorks pro-
ject to eliminate vvater pollu-
tion throughout the nation.

The suggestion was made by
Kenneth A. Reid, national di¬
rector of the Izaak Walton
League, in an address not
many days ago at the annual
convention of the Association
of Audubon Societies. Wa.ter
pollution in the United States,
he said, causes an annual Capi¬
tal loss of $6,250,000,000.

“Streams,” Reid asserted,
“have been used by both muni-
cipalities and industry as an
easy and convenient method
for getting rid of vvastes vvith¬
out any thought for destroyed
biological values or for the dire
effects in dovvnstream commu-
nities.”

Criticizing Secretary of In-
terior Ickes for not making
more use of public vvorks funds
to fight pollution, Reid said ali
conservationists vvere agreed
that a broad program should be
launched to keep steams and
rivers clean. Adequate sevvage
aisposal facilities, he intimated,
should be a health requirement
in ali tovvns.

An important pollution detail
not touched upon by Reid was
that having to do not with
streams but vvith cross-connec-
tion plumbing in city vvater
supply systems. This type of
plumbing, long a health prob¬
lem, is used in almost every
city vvhere industrial plants
mix their own private well or
spring vvater vvith the public
supply.

This connection of two dif-
ferent supplies is generally
regulated by a double-valve ar-
rangement designed to prevent
any backflovv of private and
possibly polluted water into
public mains. Though much
better than a; direct connection,
double-valve plumbing is not re-
garded as absolutely safe be¬
cause danger exists when the
cross-connections are not prop-
erly regulated. Acocrding to
the Journal of the American
Waterwork Society, “unprotect-
ed cross-connections may well
be classed as the outstanding
public health danger in vvater-
vvorks operation.” (Cross-con¬
nections lead ali other causes
of vvater-borne typhoid and
they rank high among the
'causes of dysentery).

Thus, from the standpoint of
public health, the problem of
vvater polluation is vievved by
experts as involving tvvo major
factors: (1) vvidespread con-

struction of sevvage disposal
plants to eliminate danger in
the streams themselves; and
(2) eareful regulation of the
vvater mains supplying homes.

deal vvith the problem is the
Leonard Wood Memorial.

The children of lepers are
born clean; the disease is not
hereditary.

Lukec je rastel in hodil v šo¬
lo. Nagajal je materi in učite¬
ljici. Nikogar se ni bal. Po
očetovem odhodu je bil gospo¬
dar v koči. Mati je bila predo¬
bra. Ni vpila nad njim. Če ga
je tepla, je bolelo bolj njo nego
Lukca.

Kadar je ni hotel ubogati, mu
je včasih rekla: “Umrla bom,

če boš tak.” To je Lukca pre¬
treslo. Če umre mati, bo o-
stal sam. Postal je zamišljen,
težko mu je bilo. Pa je kmalu
pozabil na to. Jedel je z oče¬
tovo žlico, nosil očetov klobuk
in stare očetove čevlje.

Kadar je bila mati obupana
nad njim, mu je zagrozila: “Po¬
vedala bom očetu.”

To je Lukca res skrbelo. ti¬
četa je imel rad, vendar se ga
je bal. Po taki grožnji je bil
nekaj dni dober. Pa si je mi¬
slil: “Kako mu bo povedala?
Saj ne gremo v Ameriko.” Po¬
stal je znova poreden.

Marjeta se je bala trenutka,
ko bo treba zapustiti domači¬
jo. A se ga je tudi veselila.
Bala se je, kaj bo iz sina, če bo
ostal pri nji. Oče ga bo že trdo
prijel.

Še nekaj drugega jo je sililo
od doma . . . Kovačija je že več
let počivala. Neki fant iz vasi
se je bil izučil za kovača. Rad
bi bil najel kočo s kovačnico in
vrtom. Gospodar koče, vaški
krčmar, je izpraševal Marjeto,
kadar jo -je srečal:

“Kdaj se boste izselili?”
“Potrpite,” je prosila Marje¬
ta, “Morda pojdemo za vedno
od tu.”

Dan odhoda je prišel, preden
ga je pričakovala.

5.

Lukec je postal priden in u-
bogljiv. Včasih se je spozabil,
a se je takoj spomnil na oče¬
ta. Kaj, če mu mati vse pove?
Moral je misliti in skrbeti. S
škorcem se ni toliko igral kot
prej.

Tovarišem v šoli je bil po¬
vedal: “Z materjo pojdeva v
Ameriko.”

Med poukom ga je dregnil
Tone: “Boš dal meni škorca?”
“Ne,” mu je odgovoril.

“Liro ti dam zanj,” mu je po¬
nujal Peter.

“Ne dam ga.”

“Saj ga ne boš smel vzeti s
seboj. Poginil ti bo. Na poti
ti bo ušel.”

Učiteljica je opazila šepet.
Povedali so ji, da gre Lukec v
Ameriko. Spomnila se je, da
Lukčeve matere še ni bilo k nji.

Ali ji ni povedal? Lukec je bil
v zadregi. Stisnil je glavo in
molčal. Strmel je na zemlje¬
vid.

Čez nekaj časa je dvignil ro¬
ko: “Prosim, ali so v Argentini-
ji velika mesta?”

Imeli so računstvo. Učitelji¬
ca se je začudena ozrla po Luk-
cu. Njegove oči so gledale od¬
krito. Nič porednega bleska ni
bilo v njih. Bilo je prvič, da
se je Lukec zanimal za kako
stvar. Gospodična je zaprla
računico in stopila k zemljevi¬
du. Lukec nikoli ni tako pazno

poslušal kot tisto uro. Od vse¬
ga, kar mu je pripovedovala
gospodična, je razumel le malo,
skoraj nič. Vendar so mu zve¬
nele besede ko prijetna godba
na uho.

Velika, velika mesta. Večja
nego Trst. V Argentiniji pre¬
bivajo Španci. Tudi drugi na¬
rodi so tam. Celo Indijanci.
Levov, tigrov in slonov tam ni,
a so druge čudovite živali . . .

Lukec je prišel domov in po¬
vedal materi: “Gospodična uči¬
teljica pravi, da pridite v šolo.”

Mati je sklenila roke: “Toliko
skrbi imam, zdaj pride še to n;
mojo glavo. Si ji že zopet na
gajal?”

“Da. Toda že predvčerajš
njim,” je povedal po resnici.

Mati je bila ko zmešana. V
enem mesecu je bilo treba vse
urediti in iti . . . Učiteljica jo
je prijazno sprejela. Lukca
skoraj ni omenila. Dala ji je
roko, želela ji je srečno pot.
Marjeti je bilo lažje pri srcu.

V mestu je vprašala: “Ali bo
vse nared v enem mesecu?”

Gospodje so skomizgnili z ra¬
meni.

Kovaško orodje je prodala
novemu kovaču. Tudi ostale
reči v hiši so dobile vsaka svo¬
jega gospodarja. Pod njenim
vzglavjem je ležala lepa vsota
denarja. Ni ji dala spati. Gle¬
dala je v strop in mislila:
“Kakšno bo novo življenje?”

Gospodje v mestu so ji kon¬
čno povedali: “Manjka še to in
ono. Odpeljati se morate dva
tedna pozneje ...”  Marjeta je
sklenila roke. Pisala je možu
pismo in mij to povedala.

Lukec je imel druge skrbi.
Pomeril si je novo obleko. Ta¬
ko gosposki še ni bil nikdar.
Bilo ga je skoraj sram, iti z njo
v cerkev. Mati je bila prinesla
dva kovčega. Lukec je naložil
svojega in ga zaprl.

■ “Da ne boš vlačil neumnosti
s seboj,” mu je dejala mati.

“Ne,” je odgovoril. Dolgo je
odlašal, tedaj jo je poprosil:
“Mati, dajte mi pet lir. 'Nekaj
si bom kupil.”

Ni hotel povedati, kaj. V
vaški krčmi je visel ob uri tič-
nik. Nekoč so imeli kanarčka,
a jim je bil poginil. To je bilo
pred leti. Od tedaj je bila klet¬
ka prazna. Lukec je poželjivo
gledal vanjo. Ali mu jo proda¬
jo ? Dejali so mu, da je vredna
pet lir.

Mati se je dolga obotavljala,
preden je dala Lukcu denar. Z
njim je tekel Lukec naravnost
v vas. Stopil je v krčmo in vr¬
gel srebrnik pred krčmarja.

“Dajte mi tičnik!”

Dobil ga je. Premajhen je
bil za škorca. Vratca bo treba
razširiti. A bil je lep, ves iz
rumene žice. Na vrhu je imel
ročaj. Tako previdno kot de¬
ček v bajki, ki je našel zlato
vodo za bolnega kralja, je pri¬
nesel Lukec kletko domov. Po¬
stavil jo je na mizo.

“Kaj pa je to?” ga je vpraša¬
la mati.

“Kletko sem kupil.”

“Za pet lir?” se je zavzela
Marjeta. “Zakaj ti bo?”

“Za škorca.”

“Škorca poneseš s seboj? Ali
nimava dovolj drugih reči? In
Bog ve, če pustijo žival vzeti na
ladjo?”

Lukcu je vzelo sapo. Da bi
škorec ne smel v Ameriko ? Na
to Lukec ni bil pomislil. Skrb
in žalost sta mu zadrgnila grlo.

Škorčev oče je bil tudi ško¬
rec in njegova mati škorica.
Vsi njegovi sorodniki so bili
škorci. Škorčev oče ni imel i-
mena kot Klepec. Ta svojega
očeta, ki se je rad družil z vra-
- nami in kavkami, še poznal ni.

To je pa najbrže res, da je
stari škorec vsake jeseni odletel
v laške dežele. Mraza ni maral
m snega. Po volji mu je bilo
lolnce, črvi in polži.

Nekoč se je bil zaletel lovcu
v mrežo. To mu ni bilo nič po
volji. Človeškega jezika ni
znal, kot pozneje njegov sin.

Od jeze in žalosti je zamijavkal
ko mačka, zavreščal ko sraka
in še druge grde glasove je dal
od sebe.

Lah je to slišal in se je pre¬
strašil. Mislil je; morda, da je
vraga ujel v past. Od strahu
je spustil mrežo, škorec pa je
odletel in odnesel zdravo perie.

Spomladi se je vrnil domo/.
Srečala sta se z lepo, mlado ško-
rieo. Ker sta se imela rada,
sta si izbrala za dom duplo bli¬
zu kovačije. Spletla sta gnez¬
do. Škorica je bila znesla vanj
modrikasta jajčeka. Valila je,
Škorec ji je pel in ji prinašal
polžev in črvov. Tu in tam tu¬
di sladkih vipavskih češenj, ki
sta jih, posebno rada zobala.

To zgodbo o škorcu je bil
zvedel Lukec od očeta. Ta mu
je bil prinesel nekega jutra mla¬
dega Klepca domov. Klepec je
bil najbrž prezgodaj skočil iz
gnezda, padel v grmovje in tam
obležal. Oče je slišal njegovo
tožbo in ga je pobral.

Mladi škorec je bil nekaj dni
žalosten in klavern. Privadil se
je koče in ljudi, postal je zaba¬
ven in vesel.

“Ali bo moj?” je vprašal Lu¬
kec očeta.

“Pa naj bo,” je dejal ta, “če ’
boš skrbel zanj.”

To se je bilo zgodilo tistega
leta, preden je bil odšel oče v
Ameriko.

Lukec je skrbel za škorca.'

Še sanjal je o njem. Ptič je po¬
stal domač in zvest ko pes.
Stopical je po izbi, hodil okoli
koče. Mačke ali psa se je bal.

Če ju je zagledal, je letel v
skrivališče in strašno vpil. Vse
leto je plesal, uganjal norčije. •

Le v jeseni, ko so odleteli nje¬
govi bratci na jug, je postal ža¬
losten in nemiren.

Škorec je dobro poznal svo¬
jega gospodarja. Rad ga je
imel. Zamijavkal mu je kot
mačka, zacvilil kot psiček, za¬
krulil kot prašiček. Izgovoril
je besedo, zažvižgal kot kos,
kar si je Lukec želel. Če se ta
ni zmenil zanj, mu je sedel n&
ramo, ga pocuknil za uho: “Lu¬
ka! Luka!”

Deček je živali bolj stregel
nego sebi. Pritrgal si je, da je
dal škorcu. Postala sta si ne¬
ločljiva prijatelja. Če bi mu ga
kdo vzel, bi postal njegov naj¬
večji sovražnik. * Tovarišem je
bilo ti znano, zato so ga veno¬
mer dražaili: “Vzamemo ti

škorca!”

“Poizkusite!”

Lukec je vedel,  da je to Je za
šalo. Vendar se mu je že ob
sami misli, da bi izgubil škorca,
skrčilo srce. Stisnil je pesti.

6 .

Mati je bila  dejala Lukcu od¬
ločno: “Škorca ne vzameš s se¬
boj!” Lukec bi bil najrajši za¬
jokal. Kaj bo  njemu Argenti¬
ni ja  brez škorca? Pretekla sta
dva dneva. Odločil  se je,  da
bo še enkrat govoril z materjo.
Roko je držal na. kletki, obraz
se mu je čudno nategoval.

(Dalje sledi)

Bead $wallower

In Washington, D. C., last
April, one-year-old Robert Fow-
ler swallowed the contents of a
can of lye: His esophagus se-
verely bruned, he was rushed to
a hospital where he received
treatment for several days.

Not long after his discharge
from the hospital, however,
Baby Bobby began to refuss
food and soon dropped in weight.
from 32 to 15 pouhds. It \vas
discovered that the lye’s effect
was closing up his throat and
making it impossible for him to
take even a drop of water. Dr.
James A. Flynn, a noše and
throat specialist, was called
and, as a result, Bobby is today
undergoing the first treatment
of its kind ever recorded in this
country.

In treating B o b b y, Dr.
Flynn’s first step was to run an
Irish linen thread down the
boy’s throat, through the eso¬
phagus and stomach and out
through a rubber tube inserted
in the abdominal wa!l. Then
beads were strung on the thread
the ends of which \vere knotted
together to form a loop, and
Bobby was instructed to swal-
low. Dr. Flynn varied the size
of the beads as the condition of
the esophagus improved.

Each day now, Bobby swal-
lo\vs a bead at least once, and
gradually his esophagus is re-
turning to its normal state. It
is expected that Dr. Flynn \vill
be able to pronounce him well
within the next six months.
Today the bav is back to his
normal vveight and can eat and
drink almost everything he de-
sires.

The technique of the bead
treatment was learncd by Dr.
Flynn at the University of Bor-
deaux in France. It was ori-
ginated by Prof. George Port-
mann, the French specialist.
who not long ago took part in
a consultation over the severe
throat ailment troubling Realni
ieader Adolf Hitler of Ger-
many.

Stran 4

Juvenile Section of “Napredek”

18. novembra, 1936.

Letters From Our Vrtec Members

Big Boys

Spartan Jrs. Vrtec No. 5

Hello,  Spartan  Juniors!
Who’s interested in a good
time? Everyone of course!
Well, get an eyeful of this
thenl!

To start off with, on Decem¬
ber 4th there is going to be a
joint party with the Outlook -
ers, held in the Workmen’s
Home on Waterloo road. We
are to meet at 7 o’clock sharp
in front of our Nat’l Home on
St. Clair and E. 65th. We
planned to go by means of
Street car so please have your
fares along. Parents are also
invited.

By the way, don’t let the
name “Outlookers” scare you
away. If you haven’t met any
of that bunch yet you have
passed up some fine chances of
meeting some of the friendli-
est, brighest and most talented
yoilrig people.

The next big affair will be
our annual Christmas party to
be held on Dec. 18. There will
be refreshments, dancing, and
games.

Can. we count on you ? Here's
hoping foF a big crdvd and
dotPt forget, the more, the
mertier.

What is the matter with
Frank Lujbe, Sophie Ponikvar,
Marie Ruparcic, Louis Sadder
and about seventy-five other
members? Have you forgotten
that a 'meeting iš held every
secbnd Saturday of the month
at 7:00? Hov' about giving us
tventy-five faithful members a
surprise and come to our next
meeting on Dec. 12. Elections
vili be held also so we need
your full cooperation. Guess
I’ve done enough scribbling so
bye, bye till we meet again.

Helen Poklickp

Vrtec No. 11

COLLINWOOD, O. — Our
next meeting will be held on
December 4th at 7:30 sharp.
We would like to have most of
the members present, as we
have many things to discuss.

There are very fe\v who have
brought their pictures, so
bring them at our next meet¬
ing.

Margaret and Otelia Stefanic

COLLINWOOD, O. — SSPZ
Vrtec No. 11 of Cleveland, O.,
is planning to have a basketball
team, which consists of 10 bali
players. As you knov a bas¬
ketball game is a fast game,
and in which two teams com-
pete with each other with five
men on each team—center, left
guard, right guard, left for-
ward, right fonvard, are the
positions which these boys
play. The boys who we now
are going out for the team are:
Edward, Joseph, Mathew Stefa¬
nic, Elmer Jacob, Frank Pintar,
and the others are as follows:
Ernest Pintar, Joe Miheli, Ed¬
vard AJiheli, John Jaman, Stan-
ley Petrič, Frank Gačnik, Ed¬
vard Selako, Stanley Selako and
Frank Pucel. If you vant to
knov about this basketball
team come to our next meeting
on December 4, 1936 vhich
starts at 7:30 p. m. sharp.

By the

Handsome Grasshoppers

CLEVELAND, O. — Stand
by for Junior Spartans red hot
flash! As a token of thanks
for making the program a suc-
cess the United Lodges of SS¬
PZ have arranged a joint party
vith the “Outlookers” on Fri-
day, Dec. 4 at the Slovene
Home in Collinvood. It vas
planned that ve meet in front
of our National Home at 7:00
p. m. sharp. I also extend a
cordial invitation to ali parents
and friends vho vish to accom-
pany us. Here is a splendid
chance to meet up vith the
“Outlookers” for they really
are a vonderful bunch. Poilte,
ambitious, jolly, and kind at ali
times. So come on members,
come one and come ali, the
hfore the merrler'.

To further the activities of
the Jr. Spartans I have to add
this. On Dec. 18 the Junior
Spartans vili hold a short
meeting after vhich they vili
enjoy themselves vith a Christ¬
mas party. At our last meeting
I vas certainly disappointed at
the small attendance. You
have vonderful opportunities
before you but you fail to ob-
serve them.

For our vinter activities it
vas arranged that ping-pong
vili be played after the meet-
ings. So come on Marie, So¬
phie, Gladys and ali other mem¬
bers—come and partake in a
game of ping-pong.

Daniella Homovec,
Sec’y of Vrtec No. 5

OAKLAND, Cal. — I’m a
girl eleven years of age and
vish to become better acquaint-
ed vith some other Vrtec mem¬
bers. I have been in it since
1930. I belonged to lodge No.
115 in Helper, Utah but trans-
ferred to lodge No. 46 at San
Francisco. My tvo brothers
are also members. My other
three brothers and a sister be-
long to the senior lodge.

May one send stories to the
Juvenile Section and have them
printed?

Yours truly,

Lillian Nemanich,  1416 17th
St., Oakland, California.

Editor’s Note: Articles and
stories of ali kinds vili be glad-
ly published in the Vrtec Sec¬
tion. That’s vhy SSPZ is pub-
lishing this little paper. Just
vrite vhatever is on your mind,
and send it in. This also goes
for Vrtec members in ali parts
of the country.

A Bit of Campaign Talk

Nov that the recent election
excitement has calmed dov.n
ve, of the Vrtec No. 5 are going
to have an election of our ex-
ecutive officers. The officers,
Ed Stokel, president; Billy Vav¬
potič, vice-president; Gladys
Mohorič, secretary; Daniella
Homovec, treasurer, I think did
their part to speed up the prog-
ress of the lodge.

If you vant to express any
ideas for the betterment of the
lodge, come and express them
at the next meeting, December
18th.

At the next meeting ve are
also going to have a social and
ve’re ali going to have a good
time. Therefore it is a double
important occasion to vhich
parents are invited, also bring
as many nev members as pos-
sible.

The purpose of the lodge
meeting is to express your
opinions, debate upon them and
to teach fratemalism—hov to
conduct meetings properly, hov
to bring discussions to a head
and hov to elect officers prop-
erly and thoughtfully. These
thirigs cannot be done vithout
the assistatfce of the members
and I urge the members to
come to meetings and other
lodge affairs.

Anthong Elersieh

CLEVELAND, O. — At the
last meeting Vrtec No. 5 had
decided to have a joint party
vith Vrtec No. 11 on Dec. 4 in
the Workingmen’s Home on
Waterloo road. Ali members
of Vrtec No. 5 are to meet in
front of the Slovene National
Home at 7 o’clock sharp. We
vant as many members as pos-
sible and don’t forget to bring
your parents vith you. Ad-
mission is free.

The next meeting of Vrtec
No. 5 vili be held on Friday,
Dec. 18 at 7 o’clock sharp.
After the meeting there vili be
a Christmas party. Vrtec mem-

In Gloucester, Mass., there is
a boy named Joseph Randazza,
Ja. Joseph vili not be four
years old until Christmas Eve.
He veighs 146 pounds and is
four and one-half feet tali.

In Great Yarmouth, England,
there is another boy quite as
physieally astonishing as young
Joseph. His name is Leslie
Bovles. Four years old, he
veighs 154 pounds.

Together, Joseph and Leslie
probably are the biggest chil-
dren for their age in the entire
vorld. Both apparently are
healthy, lead fairly normal
lives, and continue to grov.

The Randazza child, accord-
ing to reports last veek, puts
on veight steadily, although
his sister Grace, tvo years his
senior, has a normal veight of
49 pounds. As active as his
playmates, he takes part in
neighborhood games and enjoys
them to the full, except that
his heaviness makes him tire
more easily than most children.
The Bovles boy, son of an un-
employed fish vorker, also is
active and has a special talent
for singing.

Excessive glandular activity
accounts in ali likelihood for
the remaFkable size of the two.
Hov much heavier they vili
grov is an unepredictable mat-
teA

CLEVELAND, O. — The
regular meeting of the Spartan
Juniors vas called to order No¬
vember 14, 1936. About tven-
ty members vere present.
Among the things that vere
discussed vas about the mem-
bership. OnIy one nev mem-
ber vas brought in this month.
We have 174 members in Vrtec
No. 5. Some of these ought to
be able to get nev members. We
should have ten nev members
a month and not only one.

It vas decided at the meet¬
ing to have a party vith Vrtec
No. 11 in Collinvood, Decem¬
ber 4, 1936. Everyone is in¬
vited including parents. Meet
in front of National Home 7:00
o’clock sharp. That’s not ali
ve decided at the meeting. Vr¬
tec No. 5 vili have a Christmas
party, December 18, 1936. If
you don’t come you vili miss a
good time.

Thomas A. Tavčar,  P. C.

Slavo Štinc:

PUNČKA SPI
Petelinček kikerika  —
tiho!; moja punčka spi.”

Muc mijavka, se dobrika  —
"tiho!, moja punčka spi.”
Kužek laja, bevska, vika  —
"tiho!, moja punčka spi.

"Kak bi spala  sredi krika?”
mala Milka govori.

Ziblje punčko in ji poje
pesmi, kolikor jih zna;
veter v oknih pa ji svoje
bajke tiho šepeta.

Mati v sobo je stopila  —
"tiho!, moja punčka spi;
glej, da je ne boš zbudila”  —
Milka materi veli.

Mati pa se ji nasmeje
in po prstih odhiti  —
čuje: Milka več ne poje,
gleda: Milka tudi spi . . .

bers don’t forget Friday, Dec.

18, is your lodge meeting.

Frank Drobnik,  P. C.

Here I am calling you on in¬
vitation. The Spartan Jrs., are
doing very poor for coming to
the meetings. At the last
meeting there vere only 16 or
17 members. I am telling the
members to come to every
meeting. And nov I am call¬
ing the attention of the mem¬
bers. On Dec. 4, 1936 ve vili
have a Christmas Party vith
Vrtec No. 11, SSPZ. I vish
you vili ali come. Nov on
December 18, 1936 ve vili have
a meeting and at the meeting
ve vili choose nev officers. I
do vish that the officers that
vere for 1936 vili be for 1937.

Please come and elect the
new officers.

Ann Malich