Verhovayak Lapja, 1943. július-december (26. évfolyam, 26-53. szám)
1943-08-12 / 33. szám
SECTION TWO ENGLISH EDITION VOL. XXVI. AUGUST 12, 1943 NO. 33. FORGOTTEN AND NEGLECTED “Every two minutes someone’s home is attacked by fire”, W. E. Mallalieu, General Manager of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, said recently. Twothirds of our fire deaths occur in homes and 30 per cent of these fatalities are children under ten years of age. What a tragic commentary on American carelessness! Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property and thousands of innocent lives go up in smoke every year, and the best excuse is usually, “I forgot”. “I forgot” to close the damper; “I forgot” to turn off the heater, or “I forgot” to put up the fireplace screen. Next to the “I forgot” excuse is the “I neglected” one. This excuse applies to hundreds of fire hazards; accumulated scrap, dirty or cracked flues, poor insulation, faulty wiring. Other fire hazards are due to improper construction. »' t adherence to building codes are the best guards against these. \ Practically all fires could be prevented. The fire insurance industry spends much time and money annually trying to educate the citizen to be fire conscious. If these efforts are to be measurably successful, the citizen must exhibit a wilThf Supreme President of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Ass’n Announcement I, the undersigned, President of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association, in accordance with Section 6, and the second paragraph of Section 7 of our By-laws do hereby announce that the TWENTIETH It EC, LEA II CONVENTION of the VERHOVAY FRATERNAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION will be held at the Fort Pitt Hotel (Corner of Penn and 10th Avenues) PITTSBURGH, PA. Beginning Monday, September 13, 1943 AT 9:00 A. M., EASTERN WAR TIME and I hereby request that the elected delegates appear at the above mentioned place and time and bring with them their certificates of election. JOHN BENCZE Supreme Secretary JOSEPH DARAGO Supreme President lingness to learn. Communities without effective fire departments and efficient fire marshals are living on borrowed time. Even with such protection, fire prevention is meaningless unless the individual realizes the horror of fire, and neither “forgets” nor “neglects” to take every possible step to protect himself and his loved ones. Stars At night when in my bed I lay, — I like to watch the stars at play, Then run and hop and ship and prance, O’er the (heavens in a dance. They talk and gossip all day long; I think they don’t know right from wrong: They blink their eyes and laugh and Sjhout, I think they don’t know how to pout. I think, that I should like to be A star in the heavens, wild and free, But than I'd miss my parents dear; So I guess I’d better stay right here. TWO-LEGGED STOOL IDA LEBER, age 12, * Peoria, ML Public statements have been issued by the War Manpower Commission and the Department of Agriculture appealing to employes in various phases of production a<nd processing of food to remain on the job. They were informed that they were contributing as much, if not more to the war effort than they would be working at other war activities. No one questions the essentiality of food production and processing. But what of the food after it has been processed? It is utterly inconsistent as well as useless, to encourage food production and processing, and then ignore distribu-. tion. Thousands of retail merchants are going out of business. With each merchaint that retires from the field, the problem of how to get food and other necessities to consumers becomes more critical. We don’t hear a great deal about those other necessities, but they are as important as food. The retail distribution industry must feed and clothe 130,000.000 Americans. The scope and complexity of its task is tremendous. It is a task that must be carried out smoothly or the war effort will topple like a twolegged stool. ANOTHER WARNING Persons familiar with the farm situation have long pointed out the danger the nation faced by stripping the farms of manpower, machinery and needed fertilizer. Time has shown their fears were justified. The situation as to our milk supply is grave. At a recent hearing in the East, after testifying on details of milk marketing orders that can make or break the farmer, Fred H. Saxauer, president of the Dairymen’s League Cooperative Association, again sounded a warning as to our future milk supply. He pointed out, for example, that milk must be priced at figures that will enable dairymen to compete with hog raisers for corn. “There are numerous indications,” he said, “that dairy farmers will be confronted with a severe feed shortage late this year or early in 1944. If and when they have no feed, farmers will be forced to slaughter their cows. Then the public will be faced not only with rationing of milk, but with a health endangering shortage, which may even reduce the supply of dairy foods for the armed forces as well as for children and industrial workers.” A Wonderful Day By IRENE SAMPIAS Oh! it is a wonderful day; The flowers in bloom for it is May; The birds are singing in the trees; Winds are blowing their summer breeze; I sat by the water and looked at the sky. Which is a thousand miles up high; And said to myself in this beautiful May: “Oh! it is a wonderful day!” The day Is growing to its end, And home again I must descend; The sun is setting behind the tree* — Soon it will be far over the seas; This hill I’m climbing is getting steep. While rocks and stones are hurting my feet; To myself again I say: . “It has been a wonderful dayP
