The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1984 (11. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1984-10-01 / 10-11. szám
FROM A FEW WORDS FROM THE EDITOR Before this New Jersey Section was introduced, the understanding between us and the publisher of this magazine was that it would also serve as a model for regionalization and that Managing Editors for other areas than New Jersey and the East Coast would be recruited to provide similar input. This plan proved much easier to formulate than to bring into actual realization. In spite of our best efforts, we have not been able to find people interested in or qualified to do the job. The result of this failure is that our New Jersey Section has become to dominant within what is supposed to be a national magazine, or a publication readable and acceptable nationwide. For the reasons given, we have decided, after an agonizing reappraisal that, effective with this combined October/November issue, we will no longer continue publishing the “New Jersey American-Hungarian” as a separate section within the Eighth Hungarian Tribe magazine. This does not mean, however, that we intend to sever our working relationship with it. On the contrary, we will continue to do whatever we can to help Sándor E. Chomos, its Editor, redesign this publication's format and to improve the quality of its contents so that it will be much more acceptable to readers and potential subscribers everywhere, regardless of the state or region in which they may live. Our research and development endeavors have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Hungarian community in America includes a sector that can rightfully be described as a “Great Silent Majority’’. Those, who belong to this grouping, are Hungarian immigrants, who have become thoroughly assimilated, and American-born Hungarians, who consider themselves to be Americans first and Hungarians only second and who do not subscribe to or cannot read newspapers or periodicals published in the Hungarian language. Consequently, they remain, for the most part, outside the mainstream of Hungarian life in the United States. Yet, despite this isolation, they remain interested in learning more about their “roots" and, if encouraged to do so, would no doubt participate actively in local, regional, and national activities sponsored by various Hungarian organizations. Unfortunately, however, these future custodians of the Hungarian heritage in America have been almost completely ignored by the older generation of Hungarians who dominate the Hungarian “scene” today. It is this “Lost Generation" that this magazine has targeted for its readership. With your ongoing interest in and support for the Eighth Hungarian Tribe magazine - which is the only one of its kind in America - we can attain this worthwhile goal together. We need only 1000 more subscribers nationwide to put this endeavor over the top. So, if you have yet to order a gift subscription for your children, family, friends, or associates, please do so right now. Our subscription rate is only $15.00 a year. Make your check or money order payable to the Bethlen Press and mail to P.O. Box 2203, Union, New Jersey 07083. If you are in business or provide professional services, your advertisement in our magazine would be of great assistance, too. Paul Pulitzer Managing Editor This section is produced for "The Eighth Hungarian Tribe” magazine by PULITZER-GOODMAN ASSOCIATES, INC., P.O. Box 2203, Union, New Jersey 07083 (Tel: 201/964-8464). Managing Editor: Paul Pulitzer Co-Managing Editor: Roger B. Goodman Associate Editor & Advertising/Circulation Manager: Joseph Horvath Associate Editor (Research): Harry G. Ladanye Advertising Production Director: Gayle A. Horvath Correspondent: Frank Hidi (EDITOR’S NOTE: An anonymous reader sent us the following clipping and, because it hits the target dead-center in more ways than one, we want to share it with you.) This is for all the lazy people in the world who don’t want to accept any responsibility: Once upon a time, there were four people named Everybody, Somebody, Nobody and Anybody. When there was an important job to be done, Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. When Nobody did it, Everybody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought that Somebody would do it, but Nobody realized that Nobody would do it. So it ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done in the first place. LIKE A TOSSED UP STONE Like a tossed up stone that fails on the land, My Little country! Your son conies to spend His time with you again. While he goes away on trips outward-bound, He becomes dizzy and falls on that ground From which he was taken. He wants to depart, but how can he drown That native longing which hardly dies down When it starts up again. I belong to you In my great fury, In disloyalty, in love, in worry, In Hungarian gloom. Like a tossed up stone that falls helplessly, 1 fall back to you my little country, And sadly slap your face. Oh! What's the use of my resolution? My departure brings but one solution: I will always return. ENDRE ADY Page 8 Eighth Hungarian Tribe
