Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1955. január-június (4. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1955-02-03 / 5. szám
10 AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ ground was fully prepared for the rearming of the murderers of Malmadey and the butchers of Auschwitz, as a shield and a buckler igr what is so s$Trieaily described as ‘.‘the free world.”- Yet it is not too late. In this matter of a rearmed Nazi Germany, people of conscience, are called upon to speak and act—as if this iniquity were highlighted so that we might all the more clearly see the direction in which we are going. In the last resurgence of Fascist Germany, one third of all the Jews on earth perished. A Germany rearmed and led by much the same fascists, as is the case, may hold forth the same faith for all of humanity. The Nazis return The editors of Jewish Life have published a forceful and comprehensive Fact Sheet on West German Rearmament for which they have already received orders for 40,000. It decuments the return of~the Nazis in government, industry and the army and details world-wide opposition to a rearmed Germany. It is on letter-size paper and a handy guide for any argument. Copies are available at 5c each (100 for $2) from Jewish Life, 22 E. 17th St., Rm. 601, N. Y. 3, N. Y. ★ James P. Warburg, former banker and writer on international affairs, said this week that the U. S. will “come perilously close to ensuring civilization’s end” if it does not wake up the fact that any war will bring the end of everything for which we are willing to fight. Warburg, speaking before the convention at Women’s Organizations said the U. S. could not alone “save civilization.” But this nation’s failure to take tangible steps toward abolition of war, he said, could make it impossible to save. Warburg said this nation must abandon the threat of war and work instead toward the creation of universal disarmament if we are to avoid atomic extermination. “In the name of sanity . . The release of the 11 U. S. soldiers being held by the Chinese reds could be obtained within 24 hours through the following simple procedures: Let several hundred federal bureau of investigation men surround the Russian embassy in Washington, break down the doors in the middle of the night, and yank out 11 attaches in their pajamas, hurry them to a waiting fast plane, and rush them to Alcatraz prison. Then telegraph Malenkov: “Your agents will be released just as soon as -your Chinese pails return our boys in uniform.” —Reader’s letter in Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review, Dec. 16. ★ ... Cuyahoga and 50 other Ohio counties have been declared off limits to Russians. .. We think our State Dept, has hit on a dandy scheme to drive the Kremlin bureaucrats out of their wits and retard fulfillment of their current five-year plan or whatever plan they’re now working on... We think the Russians will have a hard time figuring it out, too. It may upset their whole diplomacy and throw a monkey wrench in their timetable of word revolution. —-Cleveland Plain Dealer A Nation without Musicians There are 250,000 professional musicians in the United States but only 72,000 of them make a living from music. The rest of them are plagued by unemployment and irregular work. Name bands and big orchestras are disappearing, and the 32 major symphony Orchestras now employ fewer than 2,270 musicians. Only a handful of top-name artists earn high salaries. These shocking facts were disclosed by Henry Kaiser, counsel for the AFL American Federation of Musicians in urging Congressional approval of a bill to give federal grants to the arts, the Howell Bill. The symphony musicians earn an average of only $1,814 a year from their music, and work an average of only 22.4 weeks a year. As in other trades, machines have been replacing men. Since radio stations and other commercial users of music are interested in profits rather than culture, only some kind of public aid can rescue musical culture in America. A young Hungarian fashion designer student International Fashion Show in Budapest The international fashion show of the People’s Democracies was held last fall for the third time. Following Leipzig and Prague, this time Budapest was the scene of this important fashion event. Two hundred and fifty models were shown ranging from averalls to classic tweed suits and swishing lace aud tulle models displayed the latest styles of the ready-to-wear clothing industries of the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic and Hungary. Considerable progress has been made by the five countries since the Prague fashion show last year. Simple lines, a tasteful application of folk designs and the skilful use of new textiles were typical of most of the models. Fifteen designers of the Hungarian Fashion Designing Studio worked on the preparation of the Hungarian collection. They aimed design models which would harmonize international fashion and Hungarian tastes. They scored a number of points by utilizing the minimum amount of material possible in the beautifully finished garments. A blue house-dress, trimmed with a band of white homespun on the hem was one of the hits of the Hungarian collection. A blue band of the same design is used as trimming for the white apron, which is worn over the dress. A travelling costume with a duffel jacket and divided green wool skirt was a popular model. Spectators were charmed by a dark evening gown with white lace collar, desighed in a style similar to that of the last century. The Hungarian afternoon frocks and two-piece dresses won praise for the colour harmony. A few models, however, were considered by the spectators to be unsuitable for mass production unless alterations were made. Following the successful shows of the Third International Fashion Contest in Budapest, the collections were displayed at some of the larger provincial towns. Representatives of the clothing industries of the five countries visited Mezőkövesd to study its folk-embroidery designs, whcih are among the most typical of Hungary. Almanac for Hungarian Americans February 4 ' • ' lMif).—Birthday of William D. Haywood, leader of Western Federation of Miners, early advocate of industrial unionism, founder and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, and socialist. * February 5 1788.—Birthday of great Hungarian poet and playwright, Károly Kisfaludy. February 7 1885.—Birthday of Sinclair Lewis, author of “Main Street,” “Babbitt,” “Arrowsmith,” “Kings- blood Royal,” and many other novels of American life. February 12 1809.— Birthday of Abraham Lincoln. “That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”—From Lincoln’s Gettj’sburg address, Nov. 19, 1863. Year unknown, probably about 1817, birthday in slavery of Frederick Douglass, greatest Negro leader of the 19th Century. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roan of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand.”—From an address by Douglass on West India emancipation, Aug. 4, 1857. 1898.—Birthday of RoyHarris, American composer. February 13 1945.—The Soviet Army liberates Budapest, capital of Hungary. • February 15 1820.—Birthday of Susan B. Anthony, lifelong advocate and organizer of woman suffrage movement and co-worker of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. February 19 , 1839.—Austrian authorities sentence Louis Kossuth to 5 years in prison for advocating independence for Hungary. February 20 , 1844.—Birthday of Mihály Munkácsy, world famous Hungarian painter. February 22 1732.—Birthday of George Washington, commander-in-chief of the armies of the Revolution; first President of the United States. “Born in a land of liberty; having early learned its value; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it; having devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my country; my anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited, whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.” — From a letter by George Washington to the Frehch Minister, Jan. 1, 1796. 1819.—Birthday of James Russell Lowell, liberal, writer and Abolitionist. ____ February 3, 1955 We hope Dr. Pauling is right I believe that this problem (of war and peace) has been solved by the hydrogen bomb — that there will never again be a world war. The knowledge that a world war would mean worldwide destruction, perhaps the end of civilization, will surely now lead to permanent peace. But it is your generation that will have the job of working out the means of preventing disaster ...of developing safeguards against paranoiac demagogues who might make nations rabid. Dr. Linus Pauling, Winner, Nobel Prize for Chemistry. February 23 1868.—Birthday of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois great and militant leader of the Negro people. “I believe in liberty for all men; the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the righ^ to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color, thinking, dreaming, working.”—From Credo, 1904. February 27 1897.—Birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet and liberal reformer.
