The Eighth Tribe, 1978 (5. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1978-09-01 / 9. szám

September, 1978

THE EIGHTH TRIBE

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have bingo games or other social activities—a few nights income would amount to a nice donation.

This is a joint effort. A few cannot do it. It needs the support of every American Hungarian.

Dear Mr. Chomos:

Thank you for your letter. You certainly have my permission to use my name under the “Appeal” for the Bethlen Cultural Institute. Also you will have my financial support. But I will go further: I promise, that I will deed all my books, all my manuscripts and all my correspondence to the Institute upon my death.

Albert Wass Astor Park, Fla.

Dear Mr. Chomos:

As president of the Colonel-Commandant Michael de Kováts Historical Society and President the Bicentennial Committee I greet wholeheartedly the idea of the Cultural Institute for preservation of our Hungarian Heritage.

I will donate to the Institute all the Bicentennial Documents starting with 1976 year, and this will follow the Kováts Bicentennial Documents, medals, proofs and essays. I will also donate the many library materials. Please notify me as soon as you are able to place these materials.

with friendship, yours truly

Dr. Andrew T. Udvardy, pres.

Elmhurst, N. Y.

Dear Sirs:

Enclosed find a check for twenty-five dollars ($25.00) toward the establishment of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Ligonier.

We should be proud of the fact that someone had the foresight of acquiring this beautiful site, and it is our privilege to maintain it for the future generations.

We should build on our foundations rather than tear them down.

Sincerely yours,

Susan Wargo

Duquesne, Pa. 15110

Dears Sirs,

I wish to receive the “The Eighth Tribe” monthly. Enclosing eight dollars for one year.

I was very interested in the article “The Magyars in History” by S. B. Várdy, I just read the Oct. 1977 issue here at my mother’s home — do you per chance have all the issues of that series?

Please let me know as I would love to buy them for my library (personal of course and for my children’s heritage).

Thank you,

Margit Szakács Leemon

Foster City, California

SIR JOHN BOWRING, (1792-1872)

THE HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE

The English philologist, Sir John Bowring, spoke many languages. Hungarian was one of them. He translated many Hungarian poems into English and issued a literary chrestomathy. In its foreword he wrote the following:

The Hungarian language goes far back. It developed in a very peculiar manner and its structure reaches back to times, when most of the now spoken European languages did not even exist. It is a language which developed steadily and firmly in itself, and in which there are logic and mathematics with the adaptability and malleability of strength and chords. The Englishman should be proud that his language indicates an epic of human history. One can show forth its origin: and alien layers can be distinguished in it, which gathered together during the contacts wth different nations. Whereas the Hungarian language is like a rubble-stone, consiting of only one piece, on which the storms of time left not a scratch. It’s not a calendar that adjusts to the changes of the ages. It needs no one, it doesn’t borrow, does no huckstering, and doesn’t give or take from anyone. This language is the oldest and most glorious monument of national sovereignty and mental independence. What scholars cannot solve, they ignore. In philogy it’s the same way as in archeology. The floors of the old Egyptian temples, which were made out of only one rock, can’t be explained. No one knows where they came from, or from which mountain the wondrous mass was taken. How they were transported and lifted to the top of the temples. The genuineness of the Hungarian language is a phenomenon much more wondrous than this. He who solves it shall be analyzing the Divine secret; in fact the first thesis of this secret:

‘In the beginning there was Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God’.

COL. COMMANDENT MICHAEL DE KOVATS MEMORIAL CELEBRATION IN TRENTON, N. J.

September 30, 1978

The American Hungarian Bicentennial Committee requests the presence of Hungarians living in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania to attend their fund raising activities at the Grand Room of the Old Barack Museum in Trenton, N. J. on Saturday, September 30, 1978 at five o’clock in the afternon, to honor Colonel-Commandant Michael Kovats, founding father of the U. S. Cavalry. — Donation $25.00

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