“ In Chicago, the great center of Czechoslovak population, they stopped for three days. The first night the big Pilsen Park pavillion with its spacious grounds was jammed with a multitude numbering tens of thousands. Everyone wanted to take an invalid home with him. The men were treated, feted, given auto rides and showers of money gifts. The same scenes were repeated at Pittsburgh and New York; in short the boys, one -legged, one-armed and one-yed, got the time of their lives. ”