The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-25
SLAVONIC MUSIC, ART
 SCIENCE AND LITERATURE
 REPRESENTED AT BANQUET
Prof. N. l. Pupin, Noted Electrician and Inventor Speaks of Slovaks and Their Adopted Country==Or chestra Plays SIav Music-=Program Designed by Famous Slay Artist.

an American flag on their way to | Prague to take part in Athletics had been met on the boundary by large delegation of Bohemians. A woman, | a great writer, who was to speak to
 the visitors, saw the flag and said: | dom.' She took the flag in her arms
 and wept. '.Now we are here let us be worthy of that flag of freedom. Albert Mamatej, instructor at the | Carnegie Institute said: "I am glad to
 come to this wonderful little state of Connecticut. It is one of the original 13 and it cannot be beaten for the Won- l derful things that 1t is doing. The ma chinery that it builds makes music for | the ears of those who toll in machine shops the world over. This little state !, is building machines that cannot be beaten in the whole world. I mean machine tools that are used in the construction of all the other products of the machinery world. Can you inn | agine what the cities of this country l would look like if there were no l cry of any kind. It is because of all this machinery that I think this state wonderful. Through the pro duct of it's brains and skill it is doing | more than it's share to help the cause
 of hun1anity.''
 City Clerk Edward T. Buckingham i said that his only business in the city
 government was to record the doings
 
 ] and those who made the laws. He said he was much impressed with the ad-
 vancement that the Slovenian people had made in the 25 years or so they | that he had been greatly impressed at
 the recent dedication of Sofzol Hall in East Bridgeport to note the enterprise | and thrift of the rapidly growing or ganization which had built the build | ing and dedicated it to the moral, liter ary and physical development of the young people who were it's members.
 He was sure that the Slovaks in | they were a class of people that citi-
 zenship of any community would glad | ly welcome. The City clerk was
 warmly applauded. | Prof. Pupin said: What can I say | to men who are in touch with real thing while I am so much in touch.
 with theory. What can a man who | teaches say to men who practice" He said that he had met a lady who
 wore a peculiarly shaped hat and he
 had asked her if she knew the kind of | hat she was wearing. She said she did | not and he told her that it was | Slovak hat He also told her that if I she knew as much of the Slovaks as | he did she would also have a Slovak | dress.
 The great electrician said: CT have great admiration for the Slovak of America, greater perhaps than for an | other people. For a simile take the | American horse-the broncho. He is | strong and enduring because of the | many miles he has to travel for food | and the many more miles he has to | travel for water. It is the endurance that the Slovak is put to in his own country that makes him the peace low | ing man in this country that he is. His wandering and life in the open air has given the longing for the freedom | that he finds in this country. He has | been taught for centuries how to obey the law and he can easily obey just | laws when he has had to obey unjuS4 laws. Next to the love for the country | which protects him and gives him freedom there is his love for his na-
 tionality. For if a man is not good in | the things in which his race eXcelS he is not good in anything else.
 "I have met a great many men in | this country who tell me that their ancestry came here in the Mayf1ower
 or in sixteen hundred and something. I can only tell them that I came by | the Hamburg-American hne-steerage. You who have been here for years are millionaireS compared with the man who lands at Ellis Island even though he has much money and you have lit | tie. If the immigrant could only have | someone to greet him, someone to dl- rect him or someone to speak to him in the language that he knew at home I wandered for three months before met dear, old man whose face will never forget. l spoke to him in the mother tongue and he answered and
 that was one of the happiest moments of my life.
 ''This society has endeavored to do something to help out people when they come here, but we have only had one good man who worked for $15 a month as long as the money lasted and now he is working for nothing. They told us that our work among the immigrants not well enough erounded-that we ought to have a home or headquarters. Now we are going to have home. A lady whose name I cannot mention except to say that she lives in New York and pays
 taxes in Bridgeport is going to give s2O. 900 to this work
 Others who spoke were Attorney John Menossky of WilkesDarre, Pa., who came to this countrE when he
 was B years of age; Ven Svarc, dele gate from Ohio, and a most gifted
 talker spoke upon ''The Home of the
 President" he referring to the fact
 that Ohio was once the western re-
 serve of Connecticut; Judge E. P.
 Nobbs upon "The Flag and Horace
 H. Jackson, who said that the ideal
 American was worker and that the
 Slovaks would make true Americans
 because they were workers; Attorney
 Joseph F. Stricker Of Perth Amboy,
 N J gave a splendid talk and Attor-