Fraternity-Testvériség, 1964 (42. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1964-07-01 / 7. szám
FRATERNITY 3 votes in the NATO Council have shown that most of our NATO allies are willing to join in banning long-term credits — if the United States will give a vigorous lead. No contest, hot or cold, was ever won by a totally defensive attitude. The disasters in Laos and Vietnam show that we cannot successfully defend freedom unless we seek to extend it. Therefore, we must reaffirm our unalterable purpose to restore liberty to the captive peoples of Eastern Europe, Cuba and Southeast Asia. C. E. I F FOR BETH If you can dress and make yourself attractive, Yet not make puffs and curls your chief delight; If you can swim and row; be strong and active, But of the gentler graces lose not sight; If you can dance without a craze for dancing, Play without giving play too strong a hold, Enjoy the lovefriends without romancing, Care for the weak, the friendless and the old; If you can master French and Greek and Latin And not acquire as well a priggish mien; If you can feel the touch of silk and satin Without despising calico and jean; If you can ply a saw and use a hammer, And do a man’s work when the need occurs, Can sing when asked without excuse or stammer, Can rise above unfriendly snubs and slurs; Can sew with skill and have an eye for dust; If you can be a friend and hold no grudges, A girl whom all will love because they must; If sometime you should meet and love another, And make a home with faith and peace enshrined, And you its soul — a loyal wife and mother, You’ll work out pretty nearly to my mind The plan that’s been developed through the ages, And win the best that life can have in store; You’ll be, my girl, a model for the sages, A woman whom the world will bow before. VILMA SZÁSZY SZABÓ
