Verhovayak Lapja, 1940. július-december (23. évfolyam, 27-52. szám)
1940-09-26 / 39. szám
SECTION TWO ENGLISH EDITION U fr h o v a y J o u r n a l XXIII. VOLUME SEPTEMBER 26, 1940 NO. 39. The Fraternal System Juvenile Movement By Norton J. Williams, Supreme President Equitable Reserve Association, Neenah, Wisconsin ' i v■; “I can hardly wait, John, till I see your name among the Verhovay Contest winners. Fraternal Societies Qive U♦ S* Stability The Junior Insurance as written on the lives of children by Fraternal societies today, became a reality because of a demand for life insurance for children at a fair price. This form of insurance mlakes it possible for parents to carry protection on their children in such a form that they can receive the maximum amount of protection at a minimum cost. The Fraternal Life Insurance societies have blazed a new trail for the working men, the business men ánd the professional men, so thiat they may secure protection for their children that is safe, sound and adequate, without paying for anything excepting the actual cost of providing the protection, plus a small expense loading to cover necessary administrative costs. This is one of the most important features found in the junior insurance as provided by our societies. In our junior lodge meetings we are rendering a great service to boys and girls by assisting them to acquire many of the higher ideals of citizenship, while growing into manhood and womanhood. We know that when a boy or girl is received into an organization and hears messages that teach the higher ideals of life, from the lips of ' his own playmates and friends, that that boy or girl is going to be favorably impressed with tSe value of the lodge system. In our junior rituals we teach the lessons of obedience, loyalty, (patriotism, love and service as applied to their friends, their country, their parents and their schools. These fine lessons are exemplified in practically all of our junior rituals. We are helping to send these young folks out into the world so that they will make a more determined effort to keep their hearts pure, their minds clean and live a life that will miake them develop into citizens of tomorrow who will be able to look at problems and analyze them with a broader and more significant viewpoint. The field worker who actively participates in promoting sales in the Junior Department finds To Our Contributors Contributions intended for the October 10th issue, should be In before or on October 5th. No guarantee of publication in particular issue can be given for material received after that date. that it becomes a great asset in developing sales in the adult department. Selling junior certificates is always a good door-opener for the field worker. The parents will not only talk abo ut protection for their children, but after they have purchased this protection, oftentimes they will show an interest in buying insurance for themselves. After the applications for the junior certificates have been written it is not unusual for a field worker to hear a father or mother say, “What would be the cost of some insurance for me?" The door is then open for the field representative to make an analysis of the needs of adult insurance in that family and oftentimes develop some fine sales. Many of the junior certificates sold by the fraternal life insurance societies today are based on the Term to Age 16 or 18 plan, at which time they convert into other forms of permanent protection. Other societies are writing forms of protection that do not require a change at any sub sequent age, in addition to the term certificate. The Twenty Pay Life, the Twenty Year Endowment, Endowment at Age 60 or 65, Ordinary Life and Educational Endowments at age 18 policies are being written. These certificates make it possible to sell to the parents the form of protec tion for the child that best suits their needs, as well . as their ability to pay. In the Junior Department of our fraternal societies there are today more than 1,000,000 members, with protection in force of approximately One-half Billion Dollars. This rapid growth of the junior department has taken place in the past T5 or 20 years and is proof that there was a field for protection on the lives of children and that fraternal societies recognized that field and are today rendering a service that is satisfactory. The growth and future progress of our fraternal life insurance system depends upon the youth of America. As we teach them the value of fraternal life insurance, we will also teach them the value of the entire fraternal system and the great service that is being constantly rendered to humanity through our lodges and our many benevolent and philanthropical projects. —-----------o------------Invention of a full flavored but odorless garlic extract for use in cooking is claimed by a scientist. Fraternal societies have been a powerful factor in the war against depression and economic chaos in this country, A. O. Benz, president Aid Association for Lutherans and vice-president National Fraternal Congress, declared in a statement released this week through the N. F. C. “The great power exerted by fraternal societies has always, especially in times of emergency and depression, been used to improve human conditions,” he said “Without the bond of human brotherhood, and the steady influence of millions banded together, our country today would be much worse off than it is. Training Grounds for Leaders “They also have been instrumental in training great leaders for our economic and national life. Today there will be found men actively engaged in directing the affairs of thousands of communities, a large part of whose training and experience was gained in the local meetings of their respective fraternal societies. Leaders in fraternal societies also prove themselves able leaders whenever the responsibilities of the community the state or the nation are entrusted to their care. Fraternal experience has stood them in good stead during the past trying years when, leadership was of greatest import to prevent a breakdown of our entire social system. “Then there is the still broader sense of fraternity, the stabilizing influence exerted by the membership of the fraternal societies upon our people as a whole. Of the various influences which are shaping the future of America, none outside of the church is more vital than this very form of altruistic influence. Fraterna lism embodies this influence. Acting as a stabilizing and steadying influence upon the cultural, social and physical or political life of the community, the state and the nation, it plays a most important part in building a more law abiding citizenship and advocates loyalty to the country and government, which assures safety and perpetuation of our democratic institutions of government. Support Government Institutions “The fraternal societies are a veritable Gibraltar upon which these institutions of government rest securely. in a troubled nation and world. They keep hope alive in the breasts of countless men and women in days of want and distress when otherwise it might die. When hope is dead in the hearts of a people, they are ripe for communism and other AUTUMN RAINS Autumn rains—a sad and mournful soúnd to hear, The whispering sighs of a dying year, The steady fall of tears— that’s rain, A dying year would live again. A year would live once as before Through Spring and Summer, just once more, But no, the late Fall tolled her knell, The last leaf fluttered— then it fell. A year too young to die as yet, i And gently tears her features w.et, With sobbing cries she bows her head, Then Winter storms—the year is dead. —Betty Carol Balega--------------O—---------A THOUGHTFUL WARNING “Destructive forces now operating throughout the world may invoke the name of liberty, but their object is not to make men free, but to oppress; not to establish the self-government of a people but the dictatorship of a class; not to promote the cooperative endeavor of a free community engaged in a common cause, but to secure an arbitrary control over the lives and liberties of others, albeit through new forms. “Against these latest and most insidious assaults we must build our redoubts and man them with patriots of peace, equipped with common sense and the teachings of past struggles and fired with as unquenchable a zeal as that of heroes in arms.” ‘isms’ which afflict the country during times of great distress. Were it not for the stabilizing influence of fraternal societies, these ‘isms’ would surge forward with a voice that might engulf the nation, as it has engulfed other nations. They are a mighty bulwark against the inroads of communism and all that it implies.”
