The Dickinson press., 1916-08-12
cakes, coffee, all kinds Of desserts
and fruit around, bidding everybody
to take as much as they pleased, and

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and fruit around, bidding everybody
to take as much as they pleased, and
there was a crowd 1eo and humorec
by good treatment that it was a real
accomplishment on the part of Mrs
Kaisershot and her help to have man.
aged service for everybody present,
After supper, several songs Were
sung by Mesdames .Vranna, Hurich
Fisher, Taraba, Miss Mary Burda and
. Miss Oukrop and Messrs. Wokal
Taraba, Burda, John Nadvornik and
Zidek which pleased the audience bet
ter than either music or speech MAX
ing.
Jerry Brabec spoke of the "Slovan-
ska Beseda" or "Slovansky DEM to
be built in Dickinson by the farmers
present for the purpose of having a
social and educational center here,
with a public market place attached,
where the farmers could come and
sell their produce.
Anton Burda followed with the
reading of a paper dealing with the
establishment Of a Farmers Union
here for the purpose Of hiring help
in the east, attracting new settlers,
making this country populous and
thereby prosperous. Mr.. Burda
pointed out the fact that in the big
cities of the east there are thousands
upon thousands of thrifty families
dreaming about going to settle NEAR
to nature" when they have saved
enough money , and that these fami-
lies are being left in ignorance about
the Dakotas, still in belief that here
the Indian roams over the prairie,
the "wild west" is fourishing, n
archy shown in the movies, here still
at home.
That, whereas, in other states, big
companies have come into the pos
session of land, and are doing their
utmost to get the settler there, here
in the Dakotas the homesteader still
is he owner and that if North Dakota
and the Missouri Slope especially,
wants mor settlers, better and
cheaper labor, industries, good roads,
the people of this territory, the farm
er, the city people themselves must
do something to inform the east, to
attract the settlers, to make the life
here more pleasant for him. If
they know Dakota as it is, if they
are called, if there is life and society
and things that please them, they will
come, will buy and settle the land,
will furnish better labor, will help
build roads and industries, and pros
to everyone, to old settlers
especially, is bound to come.
Almost Zidek, scheduled to speak
upon the war, concluded with a
spirited speech that made the audi
ence listen. He left out the war en-
tirely and jumped over to American
ism, telling his conpatriots that they
are parts of this big community Of
people, and as such, they must assert
as such by learning
doing things, for the COM
munity in which they live. Mr.. Zidek
scolded the German, the Latin, the
Slav who think that, by denying his
and trying to initiate the
English speaking part Of the Ameri-
ian people, he elevates himself in the
eyes of these people and is a better
He proved the direct re-
verse Of such conclusions by telling
the audience that this nation is
neither English, nor German, nor
Latin and Slavic, and that real
Americanism consists of the moulding
into one, of characters and accomp-
of all the people who set
lied here. And that no German, no
no Slav can mould himself
into an Highlander, by simply trying
70 brokenly and ungrammatically
parrot the language, by adopting
ways and manners which he thinks
are American, but are not.
Mr.. Zidek reviewed briefly what