Verhovayak Lapja, 1940. január-június (23. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1940-01-25 / 4. szám
Page 4 Verhovayak Lapja PUERILISM By: JUNG ANDRÁS KÁROLY Puerilism is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as: pertaining to children; boyish and trifling; juvenile. This seems to be a very common word in and about Chicago, Illinois. Three articles criticized my write-up, very appropriately titled “Whose I Any-Way,” which appeared in the November issue of the journal. These articles oddly enough came from the Windy City, Chicago (EDITOR’S CORRECTION: Only one of the said three articles came from Chicago. The other two were from McKeesport, Pa. and Wilmerding, Pa.), home town of the noble character assailed in my article. The three open columns directed at me each used the rare word “puerility.” This is quite a coincidence, or were these brothers of unity coached how to tell the readers of the journal their feelings toward Charles A. Young, because of the needless persecution of the noble, esteemed, hard working, self-sacrificing, stone throwing patriot? One of these offerings moved me to remorse, yea, the verge of a breakdown, but after reviewing the sarcastic “Reply to a Reply to a Reply” etc., I could but wonder where these proponents of fair play, defenders of the truth, the august critics of journalism where while maintaining their eloquent silence, BUT when my answer appeared in the following issue I aroused the animosity of those whom the truth hurt, or in other words to use the old adage, “If the shoes fit, wear ’em.” Strange that only from Chicago came the protests (EDITOR’S NOTE: It has already been stated that protests came from elsewhere too.), or is this city giving Philadelphia competition for the title of “City of Brotherly Love”? One of my pals, claim I, rambles and wanders from my original suggestion of “What’s in a Name?” I do change the trend of my course momentarily, but only to point out facts and try to lead my critics after me, Another writer is inquisitive what I am. Now to enlighten those who can not seem to understand what the name Young is doing on the Hungarian roster: I am American born of Hungarian parentage, of which I am proud, American educated, earn my living in America and do things the American way—the right way. I have never questioned those with whom acquainted of Hungarian descent with names such as Taylor, Smith, Wolf, Young, Fox, Brown, Wagner, etc. To do this would be an outright insult to their idea of progressiveness. Common sense will show that these names were Szabó, Kovács, Farkas, Jung, Róka, Barna, Kocsis, etc., still meaning in English what our ancestors meant them to be, even if our forefathers were Hungarian, German, Toth, Austrian, or to live up to our reputation of being outspoken, Mongolian. (EDITOR’S CORRECTION: For the benefit of the Verhovay youth, whom the Verhovay ever aims to cover from the darkness of misinformation and ignorance, let’s explode and expell for once and for all time the Mongolian myth concerning the racial origin of the PAST The Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association looks back upon more than a HALF OF A CENTURY of substantial well-rounded progress. “QUALITY, SERVICE AND SAFETY, FIRST” has characterized its growth. PRESENT With over $25,000,000.00 of insurance in force, Verhovay is the largest legal reserve society of Hungarian origin since 1886. The society enjoys a high place among the finest quality societies of the nation. FUTURE With a splendid past, a strong present position, complete life insurance service including sales plans, helpful home office cooperation, policies for all ages including children from birth and adults to age 60 the future for the society and the men who represent it is most promising. Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association 345 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA. Magyars or true Hungarians. Arminius Vámbéry, the renowned and distinguished Hungarian traveler and Orientalist, proved conclusively that the Magyars are not of Mongolian origin. Ethnologists who could not make a definite decision about the racial origin of the Hungarians would not admit defeat and cleverly found refuge in pinning “Mongolian” on the Magyars, simply because they wandered from a region between Europe and Asia. The enemies of the Hungarians, too, subtly broadcast this fabrication in order to make the Magyars unwelcome in White Europe; also ignorant Hungarians who take no pains to investigate the facts. The fact that the Magyars came from between Europe and Asia and that they can not be classified in the three principal divisions of the White Race, namely the Slav, German and Latin divisions, is no logical ground for cataloguing them as members of the Yellow Race. All White races originally came from Asia, only earlier than the Magyars. It stands to reason that even a thousand years of intermixture with so called “Aryans” would not have eradicated the Mongolian appearance of the Magyars, if they had been of Mongolian origin. Hungarians look no more Mongolian than many of the definite “Aryan” races, in fact often much less. But the enemies of the Hungarians and ill-informed Hungarians themselves continue to broadcast this myth of myths.) Some people, it will be noticed, tiy by omitting certain alphabets from their names, try to improve on the pronunciation, Americanize them, as it were. Some of the writers of the journal use the American and Magyar versions of their names to identify their work, yet it is these same ones who are against , an Americanized name for the association. Our pet subject was brought to my mind very forcibly only the other night when a group of which I was one, had previously filled out permission blanks to inspect a local airplane concern. Different nmmes were called and assigned to a guide, who had difficulty calling oft some of the foreign names, embarrassing the owners of these names, by calling off their address number and names of the streets. Imagine being identified by a street and its number, and people continue to use names which will embarrass them thru life, yet they wonder why some insist on calling them foreigners. When I innocently offered this suggestion for consideration to the fair minded—Americanizing the name of the association, I was not advocating a wholesale change of Hungarian names, altho using instances as examples, my narrow minded critics have made mountains of mole hills. I have gone into this suggestion, explaining the advantages of a name change, pointed out repeatedly the possibilities of expansion, yet when these self appointed humanitarians oppose this suggestion, they fail miserably to refer to logic and fact. To balance their charges of puerility, I offer the old adage handed down the ages, “That even a child speaks words of wisdom”, and what the h—1 we can’t all be perfect. The best we can do is to feel that our wrongs are right, because our cause is so righteous. Now to show my readers just how interested the present American-Hungarian is of the home country, there appeared in this very Journal a copy of an article “Stalin Over Europe,” taken from the Saturday Evening Post and asking all who read this article to protest to the editor of this nationally known magazine at the unfairness of this article. I also wrote to the editor, not in protest, but in curiosity, as to how many would heed this pitiful plea, I received this answer. EDITORIAL ROOMS THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Curtis Publishing Company Wesley Winans Stout Editor PHILADELPHIA Dear Mr. Young: December 14, 1939 Unfortunately we cannot give you accurate figures on the number of letters we received in protest to the article, STALIN OVER EUROPE. After the article had been published more than a week we began to receive a steady trickle of obviously inspired letters reviewing January 25, 1940. OVER Another year and another editor comes over the horizon, trying to fill the footsteps of those illustrious past editors of this column, Jay- Gee and Ernie. I will endeavor with all my ability to make this column a noteworthy success. Beginning with, this article, I will try to present one personality each month from our social and athletic club. The person honored this month is Mr. Zoltán Vincent, age .27 (girls, he is still single!), a very good athlete devoting his athletics to baseball (when he doesn’t consider himself too old). He also bowls on the Verhovay No. 1 team with a 154 average, and plays a mean game of pingpong and pinochle. Active socially, he was past-president of the social club, and now devotes his time as treasurer of the Verhovay Inter-Club Bowling League. He desires to be a Diesel Engineer, and with his initiative he is bound to succeed. The passing of the old year saw most of the members celebrating New Year’s Eve at the Verhovay Home where the Verhovay Club held their big affair with everyone enjoying themselves tremendously. Present at this celebration were, Andy Gallovich, Mike Szopo, Frank Deak, Frank Kish, Steve “Smitty" Kovach, Steve “Porky” Petho, Charles Papp, Oscar Petosky, Zoltán Vincent, and yours truly. The start of the new year will see Br. 36 again become dominant, socially and athletically, over all Verhovay branches in this vicinity. We have bigger and better plans for 1940, such as: a new club room, a stronger baseball team, which has gained some needed experience, and with its youth should go places, and more parties, bacon frys and kolbász picnics. The suggestion to organize a Mid-Western Verhovay Baseball League, does not seem to entice the managers of the Verhovay teams in the nearby states and also here in Detroit, Br. 356, or Dearborn Br. 429. Come on, let’s really have a national Verhovay champion. Bowling is occupying the attention of our members. Two teams are in Verhovay Inter-Club League. The No. 1 team still leads the league with No. 2 still hanging on. The No. 1 team has accepted the challenge of the South Bend Verhovay team and will roll off their games on February 'll at South Bend. Members of the No. 2 team will accompany them on the journey to provide some inspiration. P. S. South Bend girls: watch out for those handsome bachelors, remember it’s leap year. Better late than never, this humble correspondent wishes each and every Verhovay member a healthy and prospeorus 1940. Until my next issue when I will surprise every one with my next personality of the month— so watch out, boys, it may be you? I will close with a suggestion that all who want to comment on this article may do so by dropping a line to: FRANK A. SZOPKO, 8556 Vanderbilt Avenue Detroit, Michigan. (Continued On Pag« 11)
