Verhovayak Lapja, 1937. július-december (20. évfolyam, 27-53. szám)

1937-09-30 / 40. szám

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September 30, 1937

VERHOVAY BROADCAST FROM BUDAPEST

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BRANCH 477 — NILES, OHIO

Here is a picture of our ball team, reading from left right:

John Pirigyi, Assistant Manager; Anne Tenke, Julia Nyako, Kate Bako, Dot Pelton, Mary Collins, Mary Nyre, Esther Savo, Helen Bako, Sophie Nyako, Rose Corso, Margaret Pirigyi, Sally Soda, Mike Dunco, Manager., and Bily Pirigyi, batboy (in center).

Missing members of the team are: Sadie Corso, Coldie Nyre and Grace Bacos.

Branch 477 of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association of Niles, Ohio, wishes to announce that on October 16th it will hold a dance at the “Sons of Italy” Hall on Mason Street in Niles. Everyone is invited to the affair.

The Verhovay girl’s soft ball team of Branch 477 finished its season on September 19th. Their opponent for the season were:

JOHN PIRIGYI, Secretary Branch 477 41 Bond St.

Niles, Ohio

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For a few days now a very merrv group can be seen roaming the streets of Budapest. Though a number of the group make frequent excursions to the surrounding countryside, no matter where they are, their eyes seem to carress whatever they light on, for they have a share in everything Hungarian, even though this is the first occassion when they have come in actual and tangible contact with genuine Magyar life and not merely through hearsay.

The train brought this small group here. Their, presence here was made possible through the sacrifices and.the efforts of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association and the World Congress o f Hungarians, combined. They comprise a tiny portion of the second generation of those Hungarians who left Hungary for America.

Eight of them came into the radio studio on Monday nfglit. They wished to give some expression and voice to the innumerable and varied thrills and sensations which have been theirs on this trip.

Dr. Charles Nagy, Director of the World Congress of Hungarians conducted them to the Alexander Street studio. And very apprehensive they were, too. It is undeniable that it is no “easy job” to speak in Hungarian to an invisible audince of such magnitude. \

At first they were extremely happy when they were told that they would have to speak first for the short-wave program for only eight minutes. Especially that they could send messages home, and in English too. But this happines proved short-lived for it dissappeared immediately when the signal light of the studio indicated that the first “victim” could take his place before the microphone after a short introduction. All the pep and enthusiasm disappeared after a short seven word speech by Charlotte Mersky and when she turned sadly away from the microphone the mood of the moment had taken such a hold on the group thatWhen all the eight had spoken, the whole proceedings had taken only one and one-half, minutes of the allotted eight. Eh... what... this will never do. Let’s begin . all over again. They needed only a little encoragement. In stage whispers' we' gave them ideas of the myriad

things that can be mentioned on such an occassion. And Lo! and behold! the Rubicon was crossed, eyes began to shine with gratitude lor the oportune interference and there was a veritable deluge of messages for overseas .... to parents, sisters, brothers, friends. In the end we barely made it in the allotted time.

After a short pause Gitta Natter announced, in the midst of such quiet that you could have heard a pin drop, that “conversations follow”. The worst was yet to come.

Irene Sopronyi was the

first, with her surprisingly g'ood mastery of the Hungarian language. She told that she lives with her parents in Dayton, Ohio. They became acquainted during the great flood of 1913. She was also bbrn in that year but never in all the previous years of her life does she remember having such a thrill as fell to her lot when she could visit the hallowed land of her parents’ birth.

Mrs. Michael Buzogány,

nee Irene Fodor was second. She is a very pretty young woman with her brown hair and black eyes. Hers is the most, typical Hungarian face in the group. She recounts that her family is of the better classes and her husband also. With this her ready knowledge seems to end. Though one can readily discern the suppressed excitement and one can surely hear her heartbeats as completely in tears she turns and runs away from the microphone.

* The third, Helen Bokor,

came from South Bend, Indiana. She learned three months ago that she would be one of the winners. She gave a great leap in her happiness and excitement and till the minute of her starting on the trip, there was no end to the conjectures, longings and her fever-pitch excitement. Now at home here, she cannot get her fill of thrills and sensations.

When the three feminine members of the group had had their say, the most facetious and humorous member of the group came forward, Willie Kohut of Homestead, Pennsylvania. W hen he laughed into the microphone, everyone caught the infection of it and faces became more animated and merry. His eyes shone, he talks a “hlue streak”. Though brokenly in Hungarian, nevertheless it is understood that intangible

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Hungarian something had stolen into his heart already too. And that when they reached Hegyeshalom, the first Hungarian station over the border, in his bursting exciment he threw his hat out of the train and didn’t even bother to retrieve it but let it go, saying “let my Magyar brothers and sisters keep it as a souvenir.

Y o 1 a n d a Mészáros of

South Milwaukee is next. She asks our aid in her unaccustomed role, that is, that we should put questions to her, because she cannot find words as readily as. Willie. We comply very gladly and happily. The girls of the group also, when they sighted Hegyeshalom, all ran together and at the sight of the first Hungarian banner floating in the caressing breeze, all burst into tears. Budapest is beautiful past anything and all description. Who knows, it may even be possible to remain here “for there are really some very good-looking boys here”....

Charlotte Mersky says a few very serious words regarding the earnest effort expended in Detroit in the cause of anything Magyar. Stephen Szabó of Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania, 23 years of age, recounts the numbers of members secured by him for the largest Hungarian insurance Assciation, during the past two years. It is as a reward for his efforts that he was brought to the land of his fathers. \

To top the performance off, little .fifteen year old Georgie MacNeal of Detroit, Mich, takes his courage in both hands and comes before the microphone. In a very effected and barely audible voice relates that only “grandma” was born on Hungarian soil. Hé and his mother were both born in America already, though they both speak Hungarian very well indeed. He also tells of the great sacrifices which his mother made in order to enable him to come to Hungary. She undertook to Work at night extra for this purpose.

Our conversations ended with Georgiens words.

Let us greet once more our brethren “home” from America, for they brought in their.hearts from the land of “Liberty” the Hungarian brotherly love of those compelled by fate to leave their motherland, to those L*' behind in Hungary.

Alexander Dudinszky.

(Rádió-elet, Budapest)

Warren Voina A.C. Bolindale A.C. Hyde Street Lincoln McDonald Youngstwon

Totals

Schools and Pupils

This fall will show about

33,000,000 children and adults registering for school work. Other facts of national importance issued by the department are:

Elementary schools are enrolling about 22,300,000 pupils, high schols aproximately 6,500,000 students, and universities and colleges about 1,250,000 persons. All other schools will enroll 2,-750.000 persons.

State reports to the Office of Education reveal a slight but steady decrease each year since 1930-31 in public elementary school enrollments, a reflection of our country’s falling birth rate. This year again a decrease in number of elementary school pupils may be expected. There has been a decrease of 1,000,000 elementary schools pupils since 1929-30.

High school enrollments in the United States have virtually doubled every 10 years since 1890. The 1890 high school enrollment of

203.000 pupils has climbed to more than 6,500,000, an all-time high for the secondary school population. Nevertheless, the percentage of increase in public high School registration has begun to decline, although the total number of students in secondary schools is still on the upward trend. There are about 1,735,000 more students in high school today than there were in 1929-30.

Higher education institutions today register nearly 1000 students per 100,000 population, or about one in every 100 persons. The percentage of high school graduates entering college has been decreasing since 1900.

A staff of 1,020,000 public and private schools teachers instructs America’s school population. For the nation as a whole there is one man teacher to every five women teachers. From 1930 to 19- 34, however, the number of men teachers in the public schools increased in all but two or three states.

IN PENNSYLVANIA more than a quater of million children are faced with the obligation of returning to school when the new state law goes into affect next year raising the age of required attendance from 16 to 18.

Educators throughout the state are worrying over what they are going to do with this influx of thousands of children who have dropped out of school, but soon must return to the classroom.