Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1962-11-01 / 11. szám
2 FRATERNITY to play my part in setting up the home in the hour when it is broken, and in the days that follow I see the difference between the widowed mother who is left penniless and the mother who is helped through the hardest years by the proceeds of an insurance policy; between the home where the mother can take care of her children and the home where they must be left alone or entrusted to the care of others while she goes out to earn a living; between the children who have her guiding care and the children who grow up as best they can, and the juvenile courts know the difference, too. “The Lord may provide, but it may be a washtub for your wife to sweat over, or a room in a dingy tenement for your children to live in, or public charity to support your family. God does not put a premium on your thoughtlessness or neglect. If you could not provide for them and did your best, you may trust them to the God who said, ‘Leave my fatherless children and I will preserve them’, but if you could provide for them and did not, you may slip out, but your children will pay the price. If I could not be a minister, then I would want to be a life insurance agent, from the standpoint of the good that I could do. The minister cannot always save the fatherless and the widow from loneliness and sorrow, but the life insurance man can rescue them from poverty and need, and lift the fear from within their hearts.” FLORIDA FRATERNAL MEETING The Florida State Fraternal Congress, an association of insurance societies, held its annual meeting in Winter Haven on October 29, highlighted by election and installation of officers for the coming year. Thomas Whalen of Orlando (Fla.), vice president, presided and was elected the new president. Other officers voted in were: Marvin Rohlfs of Orlando, first vice president; Mrs. F. K. Littman of Orlando, second vice president, and Elsie McPherson of Kissimmee, re-elected secretary- treasurer. Named directors were: Rev. L. G. Novak of Eagle Lake, chairman; George Billy of Orlando, Ron Wood of Tampa and R. W. Wiley of Winter Haven. The Rev. Mr. Novak gave the invocation. Next year’s meeting will be held on October 28 at the Cherry Plaza Hotel in Orlando, it was announced. The next national meeting will be held in Chicago next September 23-25. The Rev. Mr. Novak was named alternate delegate. Among those in attendance at the meeting was Mrs. Novak, branch manager of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of Central Florida.
