Fraternity-Testvériség, 1951 (29. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1951-09-01 / 9. szám
TESTVÉRISÉG 5 DID YOU EVER CONSIDER the question of life insurance in connection with the terrifyingly rising prices of everything together with the correspondingly fast diminishing value of the dollar? 50 or 60 years ago when our Hungarian fraternals were organized, $300.00 was considered a nice sum of money, enough not only for a decent burial but for giving some help to the bereaved family also. Later the standard amount was raised to $1,000.00 and the vast majority of the members of the fraternals (our Federation included) is still having this protection, — and in many cases nothing else. In comparison consider the example of some of the American fraternals. For instance, the Modern Woodmen of America 50 years ago did not accept a member for less than $3,000.00 of insurance. Even then when our fraternals were still in swaddling clothes and hardly dared to offer $300.00 for “family protection”, in the opinion of this progressive fraternal at least $3,000.00 was necessary to give some semblance of real protection to the family. In inflationary times, such as we are having now, the only possible answer to this troublesome problem is the LARGER INSURANCE AMOUNT! So: see your branch secretary or District Manager and raise the amount of your insurance. There is danger in delay! * ACCORDING to one of the leading financial publications the very first necessity for every person is an ADEQUATE life insurance program. Life insurance takes first priority, fol- ' lowed by money in the bank and ownership of a home. * MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN-HUNGARIAN FEDERATION, mostly from the very active Eastern District (New York) conducted a successful picketing of the Soviet embassy in Washington, thus voicing their bitter protest against the inhuman and bestial deportations of those Hungarians in their own country whom the present tormentors of the nation consider “politically unreliable”. The remarkable practical results of this picketing (and others that followed several times against the Soviet representatives) are these: 1. ) Every large newspaper and news magazin (and many of the smaller ones) described the picketings, many of them at a considerable length, quoting the inscriptions of the boards carried by the pickets. 2. ) Many important papers published large pictures of the picketings with the inscriptions of the boards clearly legible, so uncounted millions of Americans all over the world took notice of the happenings in Hungary and the anti-communist activities of the Hungarian-Americans. From Maine to California and from the State of Washington to the southernmost tip of Florida these pictures appeared prominently displayed, many times on the first page. (I have a copy of the Los Angeles, Cal. “Times”, the Aug. 22, 1951 issue which published a 6x8 inches large picture on its front page, showing not less than eight boards, each with clearly legible big letters, and there is no other picture on that page. This daily alone is published in many hundreds of thousands of copies.) Some years ago the same American-Hun- garian Federation published one SINGLE advertisement in the New York Times, and paid for it more then 1400 dollars. The size of this advertisement was about the size of the pictures the same big newspaper (and hundreds of others) published free, with plenty of texts besides. I am firmly convinced that if the Ameri- can-Hungarian F ederation would have wanted to buy the space for all this newspaper publicity in hundreds of the leading newspapers of the country, a half million dollars would have been far from enough! So-more power to the indefatigable good Hungarian people of New York! It is proven now that, this is the njost effective weapon and the best propaganda method in behalf of our suffering brethren. PÁLYÁZATI HIRDETÉS A Református Egyesület Bethlen Otthonának Igazgató Tanácsa AZ AGGMENHÁZI FELÜGYELŐI ÁLLÁSRA pályázatot hirdet. Pályázhatnak: nős, református, egyesületi tagok. Az aggmenházi felügyelő munkakörét és kötelességét az Igazgató Tanács által előirt szabályzat határozza meg. Fizetés: évi 2400 dollár és orvosi kezelésen kivül, teljes ellátás a Bethlen Otthonban. A teljes ellátásban a felügyelő felesége és 18 éven aluli gyermeke is részesül. Az állást 1952 január elsején kell elfoglalni. PÁLYÁZATI HATÁRIDŐ: 1951 OKTÓBER 15. A munkakör és állás iránt érdeklődőknek szívesen adunk felvilágositást. A beadandó pályázat borítékján jelezni kell: "pályázat." Érdeklődések és pályázatok az alábbi cimre küldendők: Dr. FRANCIS ÚJLAKI 1801 P Street, N. W. WASHINGTON 6, D. C.
