The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1982 (9. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1982-11-01 / 11. szám
November, 1982 THE EIGHTH HUNGARIAN TRIBE Page 13 Dear Mr. Chomos: I am sending you my poems in hopes that you may publish them. The Eighth Tribe was recommended as a perfect outlet for my enthusiastic ethnic pride. After having the pleasure of reading your magazine, I felt confident the Eighth Tribe was surely the best publication in which to express my feelings about my ancestry. I am a third generation Magyar-American who believes that your magazine is performing a most admirable service for the Hungarian community. Our ethnic heritage should never be forgotten and with magazines such as the Eighth Tribe, I feel it never will be. A touch of Petőfi lives in us all. Kevin Jon Tóth Westminster, Maryland Can ones’ sense of history be innate and ever there can one who has been so detached have reason ’nough to care. My pride I have no logic for its source I do not know I can not figure out this thing yet stronger does it grow. Perhaps its something handed down a trait to help survive an ancient family’s will to live a fierceness kept alive. Kevin Toth: MAGYAR VÉR So is this not Magyar blood that courses through this frame and am I not of Magyar stock in heart, as well as name? Through these vains flows magyar blood blood so old and strong and in my heart beats magyar pride to rythmic magyar song. In my mind lay thoughts of home of which I never knew a peasant hut and village church whose bells ring loud and true. Nor have I seen the great Alföld whose horizon never ends nor have I held the sheperd’s crook and watch the night descend. I never glimpsed lake Balaton its vineyards on the shore I never danced a csárdás upon a tavern floor. I can not speak the language my great granfather spoke I can not know the courage which placed him on that boat. His eyes had seen the pleasantry of which my own are blind his eyes had seen the poverty the injustice of his time. But care not the bad, I know the good his memory bestows archaic lays his Magyar thought how deep within my soul. Be a Representative of the Eighth Tribe and Earn Money! — Receive $2.50 for each $10.00 Subscription, or $5.00 for each $25.00 Membership in the Foundation. — — Give a Gift Subscription to your Children and Grandchildren — The Hungarian Eighth Tribe Foundation was officially established on August 22, 1981 at the Hungarian Heritage Conference in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., to preserve and transplant the values of our Hungarian Culture and Religious Heritage our forefathers brought with them to this new land. Join the membership of this Organization and help to achieve its goal! — CHECK OUR DISCOUNT BOOK SALE — Reserve your KOVATS MEMORIAL ALBUM NOW! For more information: look for it at on an other page.
