Verhovayak Lapja, 1940. január-június (23. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1940-06-13 / 24. szám
Page 8 June 13, 1940. Verhovayak Lapja THE HUMOROUS VEIN His Mistake The owner of a cheap watch brought it into the jeweler’s shop to see what could be done for it. “The mistake I made, of course,” he admitted, “ was in dropping it.” “Well, I don’t suppose you could help that,” the jeweler remarked. “The mistake you made was picking it up.” # * * Grab-Bag “Marriage makes me think of a quick lunch restaurant at noon time.” “Why so?” “Well, one simply grabs something that looks good and pays for it later on.” * * * Haw! Nell: I hear that you and Elmer are engaged. I don’t suppose he told you that he was engaged to me last year? Belle: He did say something about there being things in his past he was ashamed of, but he didn’t go into details. * * * Cause For Wonder Husband: “Have you ever wondered what you would do 'ii you had Rockefeller’s income?” Wife: “No, but I have often wondered what he would do if he had mine.” * * * Her Way Mrs. Newed entered the dining room and proudly placed the turkey on the table. “There you are, dear, my first Thanksgiving turkey,” she exclaimed. Mr. Newed gazed with admiration. “Wonderful, darling,” he said. “How beautifully you have stuffed it!” “Stuffed!” she echoed. “But, my dear, this one wasn’t hollow!” * * * Absentminded Doctor (making out birth certificate): “This must be about the twentyninth, isn’t it?” Young mother: “Sir!”' * * * Brute State patrolman to sweet young thing: “You were speeding. I’ve got to pinch you.” Fair motorist: “Oh, please, if you must, do it where it won’t show.” That’s Saving “Darling, see this new dress I bought today. Isn’t it lovely? And just think, it cost only $200.” “Two hundred bucks! Why didn’t you ’phone me first?” “Oh, but honey, I just hated to spend the nickel!” * * * Lunch and Geography Waitress: “Hawaii, gentlemen? You must be Hungary” First Man: “Yes, Siam. And we can’t Rumania long, either. Venice lunch ready?” Waitress: “I’ll Russia to a table, will you Havana?” Second Man: “Nome, you can wait on us.” Waitress: “Good, Japan the menu yet. The Turkey is Nice.’’ First Man: “Anything will do. But can’t Jamaica little speed?” Waitress: “I don’t think we can Fiji that fast, but Alaska.” Second Man: “Never mind asking anyone. Just put a Cuba sugar in our Java.” Waitress: “Sweden it yourself. I’m only here to Servia.” First Man: “Denmark our bill and call the Bosphorus. He’ll probably Kenya. I don’t Bolivia know who I am.” Waitress: “No, and I don’t Carribbean. You guys sure Armenia.” Boss: “Samoa your wisecracks, huh? Don’t Genoa customer is always right? What got India? You think maybe arguing Alps business?” TO THE CONTRIBUTORS OF THE JOURNAL The time has come, I am afraid, when something drastic must be done about the two distinct factions which have been formed among the contributors of the Journal. It seems that the most important question in discussion lately is whether you are for the editors or against them, trying to write a Journal along your own standards and disregarding without the slightest bit of hesitation Mr. Albert Jozik’s plans for the publication. In my estimation it has already become just a little bit ridiculous for Mr. Jozik to have to plead for the continuity of cultural articles and the decrease of small adolescent gossip columns. To even mention these two phases of writing in the same breath is as bad as comparing a Rembrandt with a rough charcoal sketch by a rank amateur. If some of these would-be journalists and columnists would only forget about their small town imitations of Winchell’s column for a month, and dust the cobwebs from some long unused cranny of their intellect, I believe the result would be gratifying! After all, Joe’s dating Mary in Oshkosh is of absolutely no interest to anyone outside of their own small circle; whereas a good review of one of the excellent books of today, a review condensed yet touching upon all the highlights of plot and construction, would be welcomed by a great number of Journal readers. Résumés of concerts, art exhibits, and plays, written in such descriptive and colorful words that the readers can actually visualize the events, is good writing and worth striving for. However, I am not going to ask you to try it as Mr. Jozik did, because I’m afraid I’d be disappointed too, for it takes a little more time and thought to write columns of that sort; and every time I’ve read the Journal up to the present the same thought has entered my miind—“What a shameful waste of good space.” No, I am not forgetting the humorous side, but let’s subdue it a bit so that it doesn’t reek of some ancient vintage. Be a bit more subtle in your remarks about friends and acquaintances, if you must drag the personal aspect into your columns. Build up the summer sports, tennis, horse back riding, golf and swimming —it can be done, you know. Mr. Jozik’s admirable dream of the Journal should be the pet dream of each and every one of its contributors, if they are its wellwishers of course; and their degree of cooperation can be truthfully gauged by their reciprocity to his requests for good material. I suppose all “Pep-Articles” should end with the plea of, “Please, won’t you try to do better?”—but to me, that is quite beside the point, as I feel it is your DUTY, if you intend to write for the Journal, to do your BEST in a whole-hearted and not just a haphazard manner! —Betty Carol Balega. Calendar of ( Verhovay Socials (1 JUNE 15TH, SATURDAY. — Canton, Ohio. — Branch 64 to hold a Night Picnic at Transylvania Garden, South Massilon Rd. JUNE 16TH, SUNDAY. — Springdale, Pennsylvania. — Picnic of Branch 296 at the Fabian farm. JUNE 16TH, SUNDAY. — Detroit, Michigan. — Branch 36 to hold picnic at Molnár Place, near Trenton. JUNE 23RD, SUNDAY. — Cleveland, Ohio. — Picnic of Branch 45 at Gyapjas farm. JUNE 23RD, SUNDAY. — Youngstown, Ohio. — Grand Verhovay Day to be held by Branches 21, 108 and 364. JUNE 23 RD, SUNDAY. — McKeesport, Pennsylvania. — Picnic and dance to be held at Kossuth Park by Branch 226. JUNE 29TH, SATURDAY. — So. Bend, Indiana. — Wiener Roast of Branch 434 at Scout Reservation. JUNE 30TH, SUNDAY. — South Bend, Indiana. — Children’s picnic to be held by Branch 132 at Studebaker Forest (Rum Village Park). JULY 4TH, THURSDAY. — Coraopolis, Pensylvania. — Picnic of Branch 352 at Koval Park in Groveton, JULY 7TH, SUNDAY. — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. — Branch 34 to hold picnic with the music of Aroad Naav. NATIONAL VERHOVAY DAY TO BE HELD BY YOUNGSTOWN BRANCHES A National Verhovay Day, sponsored by the combined efforts of Branches 21, 108 and 364, will be held in Youngstown at the popular Bartha’s Picnic Grounds, on Sunday June 23rd. (The date of the event was originally scheduled for July 21st but was changed to June 23rd.) The banquet will be FREE and the program varied and interesting in every detail, so that everyone attending may have an enjoyable time. The three aforementioned branches are to have their own membership contest, and the one having signed up the most new members will be awarded a beautiful silk Verhovay flag, the dedication of which will take place with the other ceremonies on this gala Verhovay Day event. The newly organized Verhovay Overseas Club has been invited to attend the affair and has graciously accepted the kind invitation. Provisions for FREE overnight lodging for all those coming from a distance will be made. The National Verhovay Day program to be held shortly by the Youngstown branches is another telling example that the word fraternalism exists not only emptily in letter, but in spirit and practice as well, among the progressive branches of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association. WHEN SECRETARIES RECEIVE LATE PAYMENTS Those who have followed the reports of court decisions must know that the courts are more and more holding societies to their contracts when local lodge secretaries receive late payments from the members. It is evident in the decisions that the courts believe if a secretary establishes a custom of taking delinquent rates that custom shall prevail. In legal parlance it is known as waiver. The practice, as is known by every fraternalist, is for the lodge collector to accept late payments from a few of the members and deliver receipts dated as of the last day the money was due. The secretaries dislike to do this, but most of them are kindly souls who have sympathetic regard for human frailties. Trouble comes when a member dies and the family rushes the money to the secretary. The home office discovers that the payment was tendered late and sets up defense that the member was suspended. A rule is a rule, and a law is a law. But the courts are holding that if it is the habit of the secretary to receive money in the month following the month in which it was due, then the secretary has waived the necessity of a member’s paying on time. The decisions are playinghob with suspension laws. Local secretaries may be instructed and cautioned.
