Verhovayak Lapja, 1943. július-december (26. évfolyam, 26-53. szám)
1943-08-12 / 33. szám
August 12, 1943 ehould be inserted, “All business1 at board of Directors meeting ehould be by roll call vote”. Reason: — All business our directors transact are important to the Verhovay Organization. S.) It was unanimously decided to hold the next meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 9.) An election of delegates to the National Convention in Pittsburgh took place and the following were elected: Mrs. Mary Pilarski, 1027 W. Fisher St., South Bend, Indiana, Branch 434. Mr. Matthew Horvath, Jr. 356 Lasalle Street, Elkhart, Indiana. Branch 490. Mr. Frank Balough, 2047 W. 13th St. Chicago, Illinois. Branch 503. Alternates: Mr. Joseph Nagy, Jr., 1531 S. Kemble Ave., South Bend, Ind. Branch 434. Mr. James Stark, 700 E. Russell Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Branch 428. Mr. Dan Dull, 3710 Try Street, East Chicago, Ind. Branch 353. In view of the fact that there was no other business to be discussed, President Nagy adjourned the meeting at 1:30 o’clock. Respectfully submitted: JOSEPH NAGY Jr. President, MARY PULASKI, Secretary.------------------V------------------A RECORD TO TALK ABOUT Activities in this country, commonly referred to as natural resource industries, such as oil, mining, and water power development, have made an outstanding record in war production. While costs have been skyrocketing, oil and coal prices have remained practically stationary since the war began, and rates for electric power have shown a steady decline. Failure of citizens to get all the oil or coal they may have desired has not been due to inability of industries involved to produce those products, but to causes wholly beyond their control. There has been no shortage of electric power.---------------v--------------ANTHONY BABIK Anthony Babik, member of Branch 170, Medina, Ohio is in the U. S. Army. _______:________Verhovayak Lapja A Lesson In T earn work As late as 1941, oil shipments to the East Coast by rail amounted to less than one per cent of the petroleum needs of that area. Ship and barge supplied the bulk of East’s oil requirments. Almost overnight oil shipments by sea ceased.The story of how the Eastern Seabord has been kept supplied with oil since then is an epic of American enterprise. It is a story of cooperation, efficiency, and effective planning on a scale that staggers the imagination. For many years not more than 5,000 barrels of oil a day were delivered to the Eastern Seaboard by railroad tank car. Within a space of month and with practically no additional equipment, the railroads raised those 5,000 barrels daily to a million barrels. No small share of the credit for the success of the undertaking is due to the oil companies. They had to provide loading and unlaoding facilities which could handle the oil quickly HORIZONS UNLIMITED In paving the way for the extension of this country’s postwar civil aviation expansion, the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives has consistantly shown foresight. It has wisely incorporated in pending legislation provisions wich extend Federal regulation of air commerce throughout the air space. No air lines of consequence operate within a single state. Most of them cross many states. So their operation comes clearly within the interstate classification rather than interstate. In 1938, during the hearings on the Civil Aeronautics bill, Senator McCarren of Nevada said before the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce: “I believe very shortly in this industry we will come to a point where we must forget state lines. I would not say this ordinarily. I believe in autonomy. I believe in home rule. I believe in the sovereignty to keep 70,000 tank cars and 1,500 locomotives in constant service. Representatives of government, the oil industry and the railroads have worked night and day to prevent a calamitous oil shortage in the vital industrial east. As the magazine, “World Petroleum”, observes: “It is this sort of teamwork on the part of the railroad industry and the oil industry and the government agencies that is responsible for meeting and mastering a serious crisis of the war. It is the sort of teamwork that will bring about the stepping up of the oil movement by rail to the Atlantic Seaboard and the improvement of a situation which has grown more critical with the events of war. That accomplishment in itself will be a major contribution to victory.” This magnificent example of cooperation carries a lesson. If the lesson is well learned we can solve any post-war problems in our stride. of the state. But in this matter we are dealing with a great national problem. It is not so much a home rule proposition.” The ability of our civilian air lines to maintain America’s air supremacy after the war will depend largely on the wisdom of Congress in providing legislation to protect America’s future security and commerce by utilizing properly America’s great air industry.-----------V----------KICKERS IN HEAVEN According to figures released by the National Resources Planning Board, the national ratio of physicians to population in this country, before the war, was about 1 to 800, ranging in individual states from 1 to 500, to 1 to 1,400. Similar variations exist in the distribution of dentists and nurses. In Northwest China there is one physician for every 25,000 persons. Walking thirty miles to treat a patient is not uncommon. ALL IN SAME BOAT TODAY The buyers of merchandise today have no conception of what the storekeeper has to comply with to supply their needs. Take the case of a typical country store. The people for miles around depend on that store for their daily necessities. The storekeeper works the whole day, and then additional hours into the night keeping track of ration stamps, and endless rules and regulations. Almost every move he makes is under threat of fine or jail sentence for a mistake. Thous ands of stores are actually going out of business to the real hardship of many communities, simply because the operators cannot stand the strain involved. Chairman Patman of the House committee on small business, has ordered an investigation into all phases of the issuance of orders and regulations by the OPA. He says: “Conditions are forced upon retailers and wholesalers which do not comply with the provisions of the Emergency Price Control Act.” It is to be sincerely hoped that every effort will be made to lighten or simplify the present complications surrounding retailing — not for the retailers alone, but I for the consumer, who is the worst sufferer as thousands of necessary stores are forced out of business due to sheer physical inability to meet the complications of operation.-----------V--------— LIVING UP TO TRADITION American doctors have long been leaders in alleviation of human suffering. True to tradition, they are now giving unparalleled medical service to our soldiers at the front. Brig. Gen. George F. Lull, personnel officer in the Surgeon General’s office, estimates that 3,000 American doctors will be disabled every year in service, and be returned to civilan life. The doctors are right with the fighting men getting the wounded off the battlefield and from there to base hospitals. It is the remarkable rapidity with which men are cared after their injuries that has caused the miraculously low mortality rate in American casualties. Based on the initiative American medicine has shown in bringing the benefits of medical science to all the people, the record it is making in this war is but logical progress tov/ard the INSURANCE is a crop which will not fail when the time comes for the harvest to be garnered. Page 1L ERNEST MAJOR AS Ernest Majoras, son of Mrs. John Majoras, 1747 E. 36 th Street, Lorain, Ohio, lost his life in Africa while in the service of the U. S. Armed Forces, on April 1st, 1943. He was a member of Br. 372, Lorain, Ohio. Calendar of Verhovay Socials AUGUST 29th, SUNDAY. - Branch 479, Madison Illinois. — To hold picnic at Poontoon Beach. Proceeds to go to local USO and soldiers’ recreation at Granite City Army Depot. TO THE CONTRIBUTORS The English Section is published the SECOND and LAST Thursday of every month, except when holidays intervene, and the Fridays IMMEDIATELY preceding them are the final dates. Contributions intended for the August 26th issue should be in before or on August 20th Address contribution to ENGLISH SECTION, VERHOVAY JOURNAL, 345 FOURTH AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA. Contributions should be typewritten, if possible; but handwritten contributions are also acceptable. Typewritten Articles: Use one side of paper only, and double space. Contributors please confine articles to 1000 to 1200 words. Handwritten Articles: Make handwriting as legible as possible. goal it is constantly seeking to reach—the maximum saving of life and elimination of suffering.-----------V----------“Instead of trying to get Hitler’s results by imitating Hitler’s methods, we must surpass his results by avoiding his methods.” — Paul G„ Hoffman, Studebaker president.
