Verhovayak Lapja, 1941. január-június (24. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1941-05-08 / 19. szám
Page 14 May 8, 1941 Verhovayak Lapja DON T GET OLD SPORT PAGE Continued COMMON TEAM ORGANIZED BY BRANCHES 432 AND 288 Crescent, Ohio A common baseball team has been organized by Branches 432 and 288. Since the team will be financed by the branches themselves, all contributions towards the new sports outfit will be very appreciated. Paul Nagy, President of Branch '432, and member John Höbe were the first to contribute and gave $1.00 each. We are requesting the other members of the two branches to give the team their moral and financial support. Fraternally, The Sport Committee.--------------O-------------“CLOSE COVER BEFORE STRIKING” When those four words of warning, printed on every paper packet of matches are ignored, the user may expect bad results. Millions of these paper matches are used many times every day of the week. Every day some people get their fingers burned. Usually, it happens but once to an individual. The reason these people get hurt is because they ‘don’t believe in signs.” These same people have got to touch a fresh coat of paint to see if it is wet, despite the sign in large letters saying “Wet Paint.” Another species will “shoot” lighted cigarettes out of an upper office window, indifferent to the possibility of its falling on and setting an awning, hat or dress afire. They will, also, park a lighted cigarette on the edge of a mahogany desk, even though an ash-tray may be within a foot of it. Some of this same tribe smoke in bed, with disastrous results to the bedding and themselves. There seems to be no “cure” for this unconscious type of fire-bug except selfextermination. This is unsatisfactory because, like the moronic, motor maniac, their innocent associates suffer the most. There is the solace of protection against the hazards caused by these undesirables through health, accident and, yes, fire, insurance. On second thought, it might be well to add riot, smudge and explosion indemnity.--------------o-------------There are more than 14,000,000 household electric refrigerators in use in the United States and only about 1,500,000 in other countries. RED CROSS CONVENES IN WASHINGTON By Betty Carol Balega During the week of April 21-24, the American National Red Cross held its annual convention in Washington, D. C. The theme of the convention was “Preparedness for National Defense,” and the keynote was followed through at all the sessions. Registration of the delegates began on Monday morning in Constitution Hall where the First Plenary Session was held later in the morning. The Presiding Officer of the opening was Honorable Norman H. Davis, with a preceding concert played by the United States Marine Band. At this session a cablegram was read that had arrived from Elizabet, Regina at Buckingham Palace, also from Geneva, Switzerland, and the head of Defense of Great Britain. All conveyed best wishes for a most successful convention. The Junior Red Cross delegates met in the Auditorium of the-new Department of Interior Building, and the -theme for the Juniors was “Citizenship Training for Internal Defense.” High lights of the convention on Monday were the procession of color guard, volunteers, nurses and Juniors at the opening, the General Session for both Juniors and Seniors when Honorable Paul V. McNutt, Administrator, Federal Security Agency, addressed the delegation. The premiere of the new motion picture, “Marching with Old Glory,” preceded this speech. The all-star presentation, “Pledge to America,” for which Franchot Tone flew into Washingtoh from Hollywood, was also part of this General Session. Other stars in the cast included Lucille Manners and Conrad Thibault. The Tuesday high lights were the Junior Tea Dance which was held in the Hall of the Americas, Pan American Union, and the Convention Dinner held in the Grand Ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel. The dinner guests were addressed by His Excellency The Right Honorable The Viscount Halifax, K. G., who is the British Ambassador. The Wednesday high light was the Junior Red Cross Dinner and Entertainment at the Mayflower Hotel, at which James T. Nicholson, National Director of the Juniors, presided. Thursday’s high lights were the graduation exercises and tea for the Gray Ladies of the Red Cross at Age is of comparatively little importance in life insurance field work, but here and there is a Field Man who grows a little bit “old” —without relation to his years of existence on this mortal sphere. There is an “aging process” that does affect life insurance field work, and now and then it creeps in—-like an unseen, disintegrating rot—upon a “good” man—a man who ought to be well up the ladder of success and happy in his work by virtue of his real ability. This “aging process” is an insidious thing. An unnamed writer in an insurance bulletin points out the marks of it, and says an agent is getting “old” (in this business) if— 1. He is too smart to study the matter his firm sends him. 2. He says upon getting lead to a new prospect: “Oh, he probably isn’t any good.” 3. He resents new ideas, new methods, new plans for securing and increasing sales. 4. He reaches a point where he never wants to change anything, even if the change will increase his sales. 5. He decides that a wornout suit or a worn-out winter overcoat is “good enough.” You don’t get handicapped in this business because of actual age in years. The hampering “old age” in this business is thought allowed to eat away courage and ambition and optimism. You’re young in field work —in almost any kind of work—as long as you hold to faith in what you are doing and to a real desire to push on and on and achieve.—Points.--------------O-------------WHICH DIRECTION I find the greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail and not drift or lie at anchor.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. the Walter Reed General Hospital, at which Mrs. Albert N. Baggs officiated, the Final Plenary Session in Memorial Continental Hall, and the Convention luncheon. After the Invocation by Right Reverend Monsignor Michael J. Ready, and addresses by Mabel T. Boardman, David K. E. Bruce, and Reverend C. Leslie Glenn, D. D. the convention was adjourned. FIRE VS. BOMBS It isn’t likely that our cities will suffer from bombing raids in the immediate future, but it is a good thing to prepare for such emergencies before they happen. Officers of the New York Fire Department have arrived home after an extended trip to London where they studied the methods the English use in combating fire under actual air raid conditions. They took their job so seriously that they fought side by side with the firemen of London helping put out one conflagration after another. They found that Britain’s method of combating incendiary bombs is based on the use of thousands of pieces of small, mobile fire-fighting apparatus, most, of it hand drawn. These New York firemen, who risked their lives in order to bring home a vivid account of how to handle fire under actual war conflagration conditions, have done a tremendous service to their country. From all indications the Germans have found that they can cause as much damage with incendiary bombs as with the 2,000-pound explosive bombs. Remember that here at home a fire started through carelessness can wreak as much havoc in a defense industry as could 2,000-pound bombs with direct hits. A bomb’s destruction is centralized, where fire many times spreads and destroys ' much surrounding property. A tremendous drain on the nation’s wealth could be practically stopped if all Americans would help prevent fire with only a small fraction of the vigor that the New York firemen saw demonstrated in London. .--------------O-------------A company has been formed In Austria for the construction and operation of large hydroelectric plants on the Inn river and its tributaries. When turned on one side and held on a person’s lap a new magazine rack becomes a desk with the upper side at the correct angle for writing. 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