The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1981-11-01 / 11. szám
Page 2 THE EIGHTH TRIBE November, 1981 DEDICATION This magazine is dedicated to the Eighth Tribe in America, descendants of the original Seven Magyar Tribes. Whatever their faith, their familiarity with their ancestral language, or their degree of Hungarian ancestry, we address ourselves to each of them. If this reading is your first acquaintance with “THE EIGHTH TRIBE’, we hope you find it informative and enjoyable and that in time you will become one of our regular subscribers. This magazine is and remains the “LIFE LINE’ that keeps us together, that makes us and shapes us into a national Family. THE EDITOR’S CORNER . . . Recently, a well-known American-Hungarian asked us where we got our figure of three million people of Hungarian Ancestry in this country and Canada, for the latest Census only listed 500,000 with Hungary as their birth place. Agreed, but if we take that philosophy the three million Hungarians living in Transylvania are Rumanians, not Hungarians. For centuries, the nationalities living in the Hungarian Kingdom kept their identity. Under the Hungarian Constitution they were allowed to have their own schools, churches, and local governing bodies. Now these rights are denied to the very people that used to grant them. Returning to America, whether we are living in the U.S. or in Canada, we might be born citizens of these countries, but one question: are we native Americans? NO! Except for the American Indians, the ancestors of the people of America came from different countries. An Irish-American is an Irish- American forever. So are the Poles, the Jews, the Germans, the Italians. Is it so abhorent for Hungarian-Americans to respect our ancestry? * * * * Last month we sent out 500 information flyers to the Pittsburgh area about the magazine and the Foundation to people with obvious Hungarian names. Only two (2) people responded. I can’t help but feel that if another ethnic group would do this, the response would be much greater. Maybe this is the answer to the Hungarian-American dilemma — their ‘DO NOT CARE’ attitude toward their roots. Perhaps their is an under lying hatred in some of the hearts of those who came to America in the last few decades against the Hungarian Nation. When there is a Hungarian affair you always see the same people attending. Does anybody else notice? THE EIGHTH TRIBE Editor .................................................... Sándor E. Chomos Editor: Transylvanian Quarterly ................... Albert Wass Associate Editor........................................István Zolcsák Polish-Hungarian World Federation.................Karol Ripa Contributing Editors ...... Joseph Széplaki, István S. Tuba, Elizabeth Tuba, Steven B. Várdy, Agnes Huszár Várdy, M. Takács Barboe, Endre Nánay, László Könnyű, Kálmán Bognár, Tibor Flórián, Victor Molnár, Andrew Haraszti. Public Relations ........................................ Joseph Szürcsik Assistant Editors: Editorial: Nancy J. Chomos Boeche, Raymond W. Boeche Features: Sándor Emery Chomos, Rhonda Ahl Chomos Art..............................................................Elias C. Chomos Circulation ..................................................... Julia Chomos Published and printed monthly by the Bethlen Press, Inc. P.0. Box 637, Ligonier, Pa. 15658, U.S.A. Second Class Postage paid at Ligonier, Pa. 15658, U.S.A. Subscription: $10.00 yearly. — Canada and Mexico $12.00. Other Foreign Countries $15.00 — Foreign Air Mail $30.00 We have been sending out renewal notices and as we said in the last issue, if anyone received one after they sent their remittance, our apologies. Regretfully the renewals are not coming in the way they should. If you do not want to receive the magazine, please underline ‘Cancel’ and send the card back, so we will pull it from our files. We have about 500 folks who consistently pay every year, some who pay every two years and are always a year behind. There are even those who expect to receive it free — oh well, what’s a man to do! We are getting more and more request to increase the size of the magazine and get it out earlier. Please realize that we are working on the Eighth Tribe in our spare time. If we would have enough subscribers so that it would pay to give up our work we would do it, but we cannot before. We would like to thank the Chicago and Vicinity Hungarian Weekly for their help in spreading the news about the Eighth Tribe and for carrying a report on the August Conference. We also wish to thank the Hungarian Reformed Federation for having information in its magazine the ‘Fraternity’ about our magazine. Regretfully though, we have only received one response from their 13,000 families. * * * Inquiries have been received as to the relationship between the Bethlen Press and the Bethlen Home. The Bethlen Home is owned by the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America. When the Press began its operation under the name of Bethlen Freedom Press in 1967, it was owned by the Bethlen Home and operated by its present owners. In 1974, the Press became a privately owned corporation as Bethlen Press, and moved to its present location. The Eighth Tribe magazine is owned by the Bethlen Press. Our hope is that the Eighth Tribe Foundation will take over the Bethlen Press and use it soley for
