Verhovayak Lapja, 1947 (30. évfolyam, 1-24. szám)

1947 / Verhovay Journal

MARCH 26, 1947 THE FERRET SEZH By Mrs. Jolán Lucas PITTSBURGH'S RELIEF MOVEMENT Pittsburgh, Pa. The best way to write an hon­est opinion abcfut anything is to be Johnny-on-the-Spot. Taking someone else’s word or listening to hazy rumors doesn’t always give the true picture. The old saying of “seeing is believing” is still the best method of ex­periencing- impressions, and writ­ing about them. Tab:, for instance, the Hun­garian Relief Movement activi­ties which are going on. in va­rious localities. Other cities are TALKING Relief Aid, but the salty natives of the SMOKY Gity are DOING something about it, and doing it in a big way. Fortunately, on the current trip which was made by the Au­diting Committee members, we were given a first-hand glimpse of .what can be done by able and willing workers who are propei'ly inspired by capable and democra­tic leaders. TAG DAY IN PITTSBURGH... A city-wide Tag-Day, proclaimed “HUNGARIAN FREEDOM DAY” by the Mayor, the Honorable Da­vid L. Lawrence in commemora­tion of the 99th anniversary of Hungary’s fight for freedom, was a sight to see. Your Ferret didn’t believe it was possible to get so many people together to work oi. one of the foulest days I’ve ex­perienced on my many trips here. Those little blue forget-me-nots, which are dear to the heart of many a Hungarian (and many, many Americans) flourished through-out this former sylvan country-side. The Verhovay Home Office building was a buzzing bee-hive with women and girls coming and going to renew their supplies of flowers, getting warmed up and fed and back into the teeth of a typical March snow-storm. Nick­­les, dimes, quarters and even bills rolling in and counted by a slew of enthusiastic workers. As the bags of silver became heavier and heavier, a warm glow escaped from the hearts of the countless enthusiasts who felt they had performed a minor miracle against great obstacles. To get a more thorough account of who worked and the amounts collected, read Ye Ed’s article, headed by the picture of charming Vi Len­nart and Mr. Bencze. After a pre­liminary reading of Henry Rett­­man’s article, my two-bit efforts are pale in comparison. The only thing which I can add to the article on this Pittsburgh Tag Day sale is that if every community would dedicate a na­tion-wide HUNGARIAN DAY, the success of the American- Hungarian Relief Movement would show greater results and help would reach the unfortunates not when it’s finally executed after much deliberation, but would reach them AT A CRUCIAL PERIOD . . . WHEN IT IS ACTUALLY NEEDED! * * * ABOUT THE SECOND-GEN­ERATION RELIEF CHAPTER 117 . . . Again I was a lucky lass to be able to attend a meet­ing of Relief Chapter 117. As a typical old SMOKY CITY saying goes, “What have you seen of Pittsburgh at night?” And the revolting retort is always the same, “How do you expect to see anything of Pittsburgh at night when you can’t even see it in the daytime?” ... I have finally solved the proper place to go at night . . . attend one of these peppy meetings and enjoy second generation Hungarians having NEWS From The Field (Continued from page 5.) celebrated on May 25th, Sunday, at the Verhovay Home, 8637 Buckeye Road. A great BAN­QUET, to be served at 1 P.M., and an evening DANCE will be held on this occasion. Admission to both events $2.00 and to the dance only 75 cents (tax includ­ed). All members and friends of the Verhovay are urged to at­tend the 45th anniversary of our Branch. The Anniversary Committee. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Branch 76. ANNOUNCING A DANCE sponsored by the PhilacSelplVa Branch of the Verhovay F. I. Association, to be held at the Cultural Hall (Dalarda), 1144 N. 4th Street, Philadelphia, Pa., on the evening of April 26th, 1947. Music will be furnished by our ever popular maestro “Sándor”. BRING your friends for EVERY­ONE is cordially invited to at-, tend this dance, our first affair this year and the first social event since the merger of Philadelphia's Verhovay Branches in 76. Let’s make it a success- How about it? Is it a date? Fraternally;, JULIE MUDRY, Publicity Agent. FAIRPORT HARBOR, O. Branch 20. On Easter Monday, April 7, 1947, Branch 20 will hold a grand Dance at the Plum St., Hall, Fairport Harbor, O., from 8 P.M. to 12 P.M. Music will be furnish­ed by the Szikora and Medve or­chestra. Refreshments served. Ad­mission 75 cents, including tax. All members and friends of the Verhovay are cordially invited. STEPHEN SZUCH JR., Mgr. CLEVELAND, O. Women’s Branch 361. Due to the Easter holiday, Wo­men’s Branch 361 will hold their regular monthly meeting on Ap­ril 13th, Sunday. A card-party will be held on March 29th, Saturday evening in the Ladies’ Hall. All members of Women’s Branch 361, and their friends are cordially invited. MRS. ANDREW KOCSIS, President MRS. EMERY GAL, Manager Verhovay Journal THE376HERALD Prop. & Ed. John “Dirk” Fulop heated debates about their next activity. As a rule, these young­sters do not rush off home to more exciting occupations because they find that their braines get a good working out on how to do something different and yet pro­fitable. Perhaps if more English speaking branches of the Relief movement were started elsewhere, the movement would become more wide-spread and through the scope of their activities they would focus attention on the acute need for help in Hungary. At the same time these groups could exert pressure on our State Department that they should con­tinue the fine work as being evi­denced in the newspapers daily in the direct method in which they are presenting protests to the Allied Control Commission in Hungary on the Russian interfer­ence in preventing the Hungar­ians from working out their in­ternal problem. LATEST REPORTS ON THE BOWLING TOURNAMENT . . . Hot off the fire ! ! ! Before the bowling enthusiasts who are planning unattached teams to be entered in the Na­tional Bowling Tournament at South Bend go ahead with final plans, please, take time to read Rule 5, part B. Take note that these unattached teams MUST BOWL AT LEAST 20 GAMES PER SEASON IN INDEPEND­ENT COMPITITION AND SCORES OF SUCH GAMES MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE VERHOVAY JOURNAL ! ! ! If your teams have not bowled these required 20 games this sea­son, please write to Supreme Au­ditor John Sabo for further de­tails. The idea behind these Verhovay Tournaments is to form more and more VERHOVAY teams, and not merely a Tournament for any Verhovay bowler who doesn’t take sufficient interest in Verhovay activities to form a team to ad­vertise his association. This year, unattached teams were permitted due to the fact that so many of our young men and women who were in service returned home too late to form Verhovay teams and, therefore, joined others requiring their team-work. As for doubles and singles bowlers, only those members of a team can participate in these events who will also take part in the TEAM EVENTS. In other words, individuals not bowling either on VERHOVAY TEAMS or participating in TEAM EVENTS with unattached teams, will not be able to take part in the South Bend Tournament. PREPARED The book salesman knocked at the door of Mr. Jones’ house. “Nothing today,” said Mrs. Jones, firmly. “But, madam, he insisted, “1 have something here that is bound to interest you. ‘The Hus­­b«nd’s Friend, or Five Hundred Reasons for Staying out Late.” “What makes you think that book would interest me?” asked Mrs. Jones, angrily. “Well, said the salesman, “I sold a copy to your husband on his way to the station this morn­ing.” Patient: “Why stick me in the ward with that crazy guy?” Doctor: “Hospital’s crowded— is he troublesome?” Patient: “He’s nuts! Keeps looking around, saying ‘No lions, no tigers, no elephants’— and all the time the room’s full oi ’em.” A recent piece of writing that fell under our not-very-perceptive and somewhat neurotic perusal aroused an old frustration. A frus­tration probably left over from the immediate post-bellum period when we were still unable to get used to the rich civilian diet and the myriad complexities of life as lived by a private citizen. Anyway this piece of writing has been a constant source of annoy­ance and we don’t expect to find surcease from its annoyance un­til we have found outw'ard ex­pression thru the same medium. The printed word. The annoying piece cropped up several Sabbaths ago in the sen­­sation-mongering Sunday supple­ment of the local Hearstian rag. On a page conducted by a psy­chologist who asks his own ques­tions and then comes up with glib answers we found our irker. The writer of this piece asks leading and interest-drawing questions of himself and then soars the psychological heights in answering. He would have you think by this that he has in a few words psychoanalized the en­tire human race, or as in this particular case, ONLY the entire army of the United States. But to get to the question which caused our annoyance; “Was the GI’s feeling about ‘Brass’ neurotic?” The answer begins; “On the whole he thinks so.”. Right off he has established the fact that he thinks. Of course his answer could not be NO, be­cause he still has about a quar­ter of a page to fill, and no mat­ter how he tries to say no he can’t make it sound deeply psy­chological.- So an affirmative answer is indicated. In this case it is also the wrong answer. He goes on; “And not only was it bad for morale — it was the precipitating cause of needless mental illness.” Right here is where I start feeling an illness too. Mine was far from mental. Closer to my stomach I would say. After a glib paragraph, he comes up with the first chestnut, I quote; “It is normal to be mildly irritated if you have to wait for dinner, but to get into a rage and swear and throw things is another story. And the way some veterans talk about “Brass Hats” seems almost as extreme.” In my four years in the service I never saw one GI get TO THE CONTRIBUTORS The next issue of the Journal will be published on Wednes­day, April 9th. Contributions for that issue should be in not later than April 2nd, Wednes­day. Contributions should be type­written, on one side of the paper only, double-spaced, and not exceed 1,200 words, or 6,000 letters. Address contribu­tions to VERHOVAY JOUR­NAL, ENGLISH SECTION, 436 Fourth Ave.. Pittsburgh 19, Pa. into a blind rage and throw things. Not even at the most stupid commands, actions or con­duct of Officers. And believe me there were SOME stupidities. There is documentary evidence in the WAR Department files con­cerning the field officer who while in bis cups shot and killed a soldier on guard whose only of­fense was shouting; “Halt, who goes there?” I think rages and cursing, and throwing things were justified at such atrocities. I also think that * whoever raged or cursed at that was NOT NEURO­TIC. It is not our purpose to bring to light wartime scandals (which were inevitable in such a tre­mendous army) or publish an ex­pose on the officers. We would like to point out there were many acts by the GI that outraged the officers. Sent them into a blind­­“thing-throwing” cursing rage. Perhaps a justifiable act, but cer­tainly not one that has aroused the psycho-field to come forth with an avalanche of analysis and treaties on how neurotic Of­ficers were. And our psychologist friend calls GI’s neurotic for com­mitting acts that in officers seem to be justified. This piece ends with; “And so the recruit develops a blind fury of resentment against anybody who outranks him, which lasts until he is once more a civilian and sometimes years later.” Now just why does that writer single out GI’s' as developing a blind fury of resentment against .any­one who outranks him. GI’s are human. They are civilians, were born that way and most die that way. Civilians are always out­ranked by someone; by their em­ployer, by traffic-cops, by judges, by the atom bomb, by ushers in theatres by their wife, by their husband and lastly by the good Lord. And being out­ranked by these does not send them into a blind fury of resent­ment. Only society’s misfits get into, a blind fury against authori­ty. I defy the psychologist to label the 10 million men who answered the call to arms, mis­fits of society. It is ridiculous to attempt the psychoanalysis of any large group. It is preposterous to try it with only a few strokes of the pen. Would that we could liken our own feeble pen to a scalpel and lay bare the foibles of these psychologists, psychoanalysts, and psychiatrists. Or the type that are constantly bursting into print with glib, halfthruthed, mercenary mouthings. Prostituting their du­bious talents for a few pieces of silver and a little publicity.. All I have to say to these gentlemen is that the psyche of the return­ed civilian-soldier is a worn out toy by now, after so much mal­treatment at your hands. Why don’t you find a new toy? Why don’t you go play with the phy­­ehoses of the atom, a much newer toy? Maybe you can set off a chain reaction or whatever it takes to cause an atomic distur­bance in your immediate vicinity. «

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