Verhovayak Lapja, 1947 (30. évfolyam, 1-24. szám)
1947 / Verhovay Journal
JANUARY 8, 1947 Yerhovay Journal PAGE 5 NEWS From The Field (Continued from page 4.) Supreme President John Bencze. No admission fees will be charged as all expenses are to be borne by the branch. Members of the Verhovay in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area are cordially invited to attend. JOHN KUCIK, Mgr. r- ICAGO, ILL. Branch 342. Benefit Dance. A dance will be held by Branch 342 for the benefit of the Bowling Team on February 8, Saturday evening at 8 o’clock at the Machenry Hall, 4039 Madison Street. Music to be furnished by the Emery Suto union — orchestra. A cordial invitation is extended to all members and friends of the Verhovay in Chicago and vicinity! Members of Branch 342 are requested to attend thi card-party to be held by Chapter 9 of the American Hungarian Relief, Inc., for the benefit of the Hungarian relief movement. Branch 342 being affiliated with this chapter, it is expected that all members of our Branch will attend. Admission 50 cents. Please come and help us help our unfortunate folks in Hungary! ANTON LACHMAN, Mgr. BEAVER FALLS, PA. BRANCH 39. MEMORIAL CEREMONIES. Portraits x>f the two hero dead members of Branch 39, Beaver Falls, Pa., will be presented on February 9th, Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. All Verhovay ans in Beaver Falls and •vicinity are requested to reserve that evening for this occasion. ANDREW BÖLLER, Mgr. CHICAGO, ILL. Branch 90. A Few Timely Reminders — To The Officers Of The yerhovay Branches. — Greetings to the officers of the Verhovay Branches. Greetings to both the newly elected and the re-elected who have assumed the responsibility of carrying on the work of our Association in the nearly 400 active branches of our Association. To all of them, we extend our best wishes for a prosperous, fruitful and successful 1947! Because of the great turn-over in branch-officers at the beginning of the new year, it is necessary to remind all those in authority, both new and old, of a few rules pertaining to the managing of our affairs, the observance of which will be instrumental in the efficient handling of all official matters. These rules have been explained many times before, hut it is unavoidable that-their discussion be taken up at the beginning of each new year. Monthly reports. According to the By-laws, monthly reports and dues’ payments are to be sent to the Home Office not later than the 25th of each month. All members of the Association are requested to keep this rule in mind. Members tardy beyond that date with their dues, prevent the manager from closing the' month at the prescribed date. As a result, monthly ^reports are not received at the Home Office in time and both crediting and the issuing of new monthly reports is delayed! Please remember that insurance premiums are due at the beginning — and not the end —v of each périod and, therefore, the 25th of the month should be considered the very latest and not »earliest date for the paying of dues. The rule quoted above does not mean that monthly reports cannot be sent to the Home Office before the 25th of each month. Some managers have their fellow-members so well educated that they manage to close each month around the 15th. If more would do so, the Home Office would not be as swamped as it is at the end of each month, when monthly reports are received in such volume that, because of the urgency in crediting, proper attention cannot be paid to such matters as require «immediate attention. As a rule, the monthly reports consist of* several sheets, in some instances as many as 15—20. Branch-managers again are requested to put these sheets together in alphabetical order. The sheets then should be folded together (and not separately or individually) and thqs placed in the envelope. The mail arriving at the Home Office is opened by one employee who groups the material according to departments. Much time is lost because he has to fuss around with adjusting the monthly sheets in alphabetical order before they can be placed upon the proper pile. As a result, every department- receives its mail later and preceding is delayed. If you use a 'clipper, please do not clip the monthly sheets of the Senior Order together with those of the Junior Order. They have to be separated and re-clipped — and loss of time again I'esults. Please, send your checks and money orders together with the treasurers’ slips. Many managers have the bad habit of sending in their checks in one envelope and the treasurers’ slips in another. That, too, causes loss of time right at the opening of the mail. And please, please, do not clip your checks and treasurers’ slips to the monthly sheets. It is ticklish business to separate such checks without damaging them. The annual Valentine Dance of Branch 96 will be held on February 15th, Saturday evening at 7 o’clock at the Schlitz Hall, 119th and Morgan Streets. Admission (including tax) 75 cents. Music to be furnished by the popular Szepessy orchestra. Food and refreshments will be served. The Committee takes great pleasure in extending a cordial invitation to all members of Branch 96 as well as all Verhovayans i^ Chicago to this great event. FRANK TINJCH, 1'res. GEORGE SHAMEL, Mgr. NORTH A M I’TON, PA. BRANCH 216. VETERAN’S HOME-COMING PARTY. A highly successful home-coming party was given by Branch 216 for >the Verhovay Veterans from Northampton, on December 29, 1946. A great crowd attended the affair at which the Rev. Father Shorf served as Master of Ceremonies. Others at the speakers’ table were: Councilman Bennis, Dr. (Capt.) Moritz, Branchpresident J. Magyar, branchmanager John Szőke, comptroller J. Tóth and District Manager Victor, F. Austerlitz. The Rev. Father Shorf offered grace and the National Anthem was sung by the audience. Then Continued on page 6. Letters to the Home Office. Í Once and for all, please do not address various departments on the same sheet of paper. Such letters have to be cut into as many pieces as departments are involved. Don’t blame us if a half-inch slip of paper gets lost in distribution*Use a separate piece of paper for each matter and mark the number of your branch on each piece of paper. All this will not result in additional work,.if the writing of unnecessary letters is avoided. There is no need to accompany yóur monthly sheets or any other similar form with a letter telling us that “enclosed you find this and that”. We find it anyhow and shall attend to the matter in due order. On the other hand, please, write a letter when it is necessary to do so. It happens, for instance, that the Home Office receives a letter to the effect that fellow-member So-and-so wishes to change the beneficiary on his certificate. The proper form, completed and signed, is enclosed to the letter. Now this is a superfluous letter, as the form speaks for itself. However, no certificate is enclosed. The Home Office, then writes the manage to please send the certificate in so that the change may be entered. A few days, or weeks, later we receive an envelope containing'nothing but the cqjtificate. How is the employee opening the mail supposed to know what the certificate was sentjn for? Is it a matter of death-claim, change of certificate, cash-surrender-, change of beneficiary, correction of name or age or what ? Not knowing what to do with it, he places the certificate on the desk of the Supreme Auditor who has to hunt through the files of every department until it is found out what it is all about. That may take half an hour or more depending on how much pending matter has accumulated in the various departments. While the search is on, time that could be profitably employed, is lost for the Supreme Auditor as well as the employees engaged in the investigation. Would it not have been simpler, had the manager attached the letter of the Home Office asking for the certificate, or just a little note with no mote writing on it than “change of beneficiary” or “change of certificate” or whatever the case may be? Little delays add up to the slowing down of the entire Home Office! And then, some of our more efficient branch-managers complain because they get slow service. They do not realize that the THE VERHOVAY ALBUM OF BRANCH MANAGERS ANDREW WARGA — BRANCH 186 — CONGO, O. A member of the Verhovay since 1913, Andrew Warga has irraneged the affairs of Branch 186, Congo, O., for more than thirty years. During this period the branch has had many ups and downs. Due to the uncertainty of'local economic conditions, many of the original immigrants from Hungary left for other parts of the country and there were times, when the few remaining charter-members of Branch 186 saw little hope for the continuance of Verhovay activities in thencommunity. Andrew Warga, however, kept the diminishing group, numbering at one time only ten members, together. Certain in the future of the Verhovay in Congo, he went after prospects and the success of his persistent efforts is attested by the fact that today Branch lv86 has 120 members on its rolls. Andrew Warga, born in Zemplen county, Hungary, on January 25, 1880, entered the United States on May 1, 1899. Settling in Congo, O., he worked for 25 years as a machinist and afterwards as a coal-loader. As an active member of the Hungarian colony, he filled the office of lay-president of his church for two decades. He married the former Barbara Bodnar in the year of his arrival and their first daughter, Helen, was born in 1900. She was followed by Andrew in 1903, John in 1905 and Elizabeth in 1907. Except John, all are married and, including seven grand children and one great-grand child, all are members of the yerhovay. Serious illness overtook Manager Warga in 1944 when he underwent two operations spending 8 weeks at a Columbus hospital. That marked the end of his working days, though not as far as the Verhovay is concerned.. Judging from the results, he still is one of the foremost exponents of Verhovay fraternalism. — Home Office does not get ■all the cooperation it should be given. Much valuable time is frittered away because of the accumulation of such seemingly minor matters, especially if they require the writing and mailing of inquiries. The result? -More overtime, higher overhead, increasing mailing expenses and slower service! Who is to be blamed? Certainly, not the Home Office. — And please, do not- consider these minor matters. Some of our branch officers don’t seem to realize that we are not anymore a small organization with 5-6,000 members. This Association has 55,000 members. Aproximately 12-15,000 pieces of mail are received every month and the rate is increasing as the membership grows. In an organization of such dimensions one cannot leave matters to the memory of an officer or an employee. So please, cooperate . . . Speaking of letters to the home office: how about putting sufficient postage on your letters? Uncle Sam refuses to handle a 10 oz. letter for a mere 6 cents. We have to pay the difference, not speaking of the fact that letters on which postage has to be paid, are delivered somewhat later than properly paid for letters. Month by month the amounts paid by the Home Office for postage due stamps increase at such alarming rate that we are getting to the point where serious losses are involved. l’lease,. remember, that you can help keeping down the expenses of running the Home Office by properly handling all official matters. If you help the Home Office by saving unnecessary and avoidable work, often involving over-time, and properly taking care of your end of tfie business, higher profits will result which, in turn, may be reflected in higher dividends and other benefits. Reporting of Illness. A great deal of misunderstanding results from the non-compliance with the provisions of the By-laws pertaining to sick-benefit claims. All members of the Sick Benefit Department are reminded that illness must be reported on the first day of disability to the branch-manager who, in turn, notifies the Home Office. Sickbenefit claims must be compelted by an M.l). physician. Many of our members prefer physicians 6f some other order, but they should keep in mind that the Home Office cannot honor claims unless they are filled out by M.D. physiciafis. Weekly treatments must be verified by the physician on the certificate. If the condition of the patient does not warrant weekly treatments though he is totally disabled, notation to that effect must be entered upon the certificate by the doctor. In order to avoid misunderstandings, it is suggested that the branch-managers call the attention of claimants to all these provisions at the time the illness is reported. Unnecessary correspondence will be avoided, thereby, with the physicians involved who, in many Continued on page 6. ,
