Verhovayak Lapja, 1940. január-június (23. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)

1940-05-30 / 22. szám

America for Me

(The appropriateness of this poem at all times is quite obvious, and doubly so this very moment.)

‘Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down

Among the famous palaces and cities of renown,

To admire the crumbly castles and the statues of the kings,

But now I think I’ve had enough of antiquated things.

So it’s home again, and home again, America for me.

My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be,

In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars,

Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air;

And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;

And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and great to study in Rome;

But when it comes to living there is no place like home.

I like the German fir-woods, in green battalions drilled;

I like the gardens of Versailles with flashing fountains filled;

But, oh, to take your hand, my dear, and ramble for a day

In the friendly western woodland where Nature has her way;

I know that Europe's wonderful yet something seems to lack;

The past is too much with her, and the people looking back.

But the glory of the Present is to make the Future free, >

We love our land for what she is and what she is to be.

Oh, it's home again, and home again, America for me;

I want a ship that’s westward bound to plough the rolling sea,

To the blessed Land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars,

Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

—Henry Van Dyke.

OUR MEMBERSHIP CONTEST STILL OPEN

Our Team and Our Paper

By JOHN SABO, Jr.

Our team marched all the way from their own fiveyard line to their opponent’s two-inch line, but lost the important battle because the players thought it was an easy task to get the last two inches. The team fought a whale of a battle all the way, but handicapped itself at the end because they took matters very lightly when they were so close to victory.

How many times have you witnessed such a game? Not only on a football field but also on the field of life. When victory or success is within our grasp we sometimes become untrue and unfaithful to ourselves. We bog down and decide to let the other fellow carry us the rest of the way.

So ’tis with our Verhovay Journal. How we fought for that “team,” how we cheered for that “team,” how we boosted that “team,” and now where we are? I am afraid we have taken the attitude that the battle has been won, whereas we are just getting started.

When this “team” was organized the Board of Directors elected a truly qualified young man to take care of the coaching duties. When the coach took charge he knew he had a real job in front of him. With a lot of hard work and honest cooperation he made quite an improvement. His players — the contributors — at first gave him splendid support. But the coach wasn’t satisfied with just an average “team” because he knew that his superiors wanted a better than average squad. After considerable time and trouble, the entire membership of the “team” knew just what was wanted and what was not wanted. Apparently, a good number of the players must have had their feelings hurt, for alas! the coach now has only a few players to carry on the battle. Even substitutes are hard to find.

Now, are we going to lose everything we’ve fought for or are we going to be big enough to get behind our coach and give him our full cooperation? If in the past we contributors have had our differences, let us forget the past and begin anew. Send in as many articles as your time will permit. Do your best to get the best from yourself. Let not personal jealousies or indifferences enter into the path of a very good English Verhovay Journal.

Let us get behind our coach, Mr. Albert Jozik, and let him lead the way to the best Journal in the country. He has certainly done a splendid job thus far but he needs your help and my help to carry on the battle. If we do this I am certain his superior, Mr. Coloman Revesz, will do his utmost to convince the Board of Directors to grant us even more rights.

Several weeks have elapsed since the full page advertisement of Verhovay’s sensationally novel 1940 Membership Contest was removed from the Journal.

The announcement carried the names and number of the awards to be made at the end of the Contest and the rules to be observed for entry

thereto.

No doubt the fact that the advertisement no longer appears is construed by some of our members and readers that the Contest is no longer open to new comers — and late comers.

This is not the case.

Readers were given ample time, if they were con-To Our Contributors

Contributions intended for the June 13th issue should be in before or on June 8th.

No guarantee of publication in particular issue can be given for material received after that date.

templating joining, to learn completely the simple rules of the Contest and the prizes awaiting the winners.

After reasonable length of publication, the space occupied by the Contest announcements was again made available for contributions from our fellow members.

It is NOT too late to become a recruit and take up the pen to sign up new members into the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association, so different from the hundreds of other insuring companies, in that the word fraternal with us is more than just a dead term, but a living word expressing its significance by the social, literary and spiritual bond that exists among the branches and individuals of the Association, besides the purely insurance end.

Our Association is like a green tree which year after year grows bigger and better and produces richer foliage.

Our members “feel” Verhovay, for as part owners — which every member is — every movement and function of the Association is bound to affect us in a proportionate way. It stands to reason that in a fraternal organization in which all the members are owners, like the Verhovay, a deeper and more personal interest is exhibited by the members toward the well-being and progress of said organization than that shown by the members of an insurance company controlled by a handful of stockholders.

These ramblingly put facts should serve to encourage more contestants, new members, for the benefits are threefold.

The contestant has an excellent opportunity of winning one of the attractive prizes; the new member profits by joining a firmly established and solid organization offering various kinds of social advantages in addition to the insurance protection; and the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association benefits by waxing bigger and better.

Let every Verhovay think Verhovay, talk Verhovay and practise Verhovay.-----------o----------CHANGING NEEDS

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