Verhovayak Lapja, 1953 (36. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1953 / Verhovay Journal
VOL. XXXVI. MARCH 18, 1953 No. Transfer Your Membership If You Move Away For Local Membership Assures You Retter Service And Particioation In Verhovay Life For the past decade or so there has been a tremendous population shift in our country. Individuals and families by the millions have left their native homes to establish new residences in other parts of the land. Were it not for the individual character of these migrations they might be likened to the mass people movements in the pioneering days of the nation. The defense efforts prior to World War II, the great war itself and the preparedness program that has followed are responsible for this new era of moving. The newer industries and the expanded industrial programs have created more opportunities and increased pay checks for the people. The result has been an era of OPPORTUNITY and PROSPERITY never before witnessed in our history. OPPORTUNITY and PROSPERITY give substance to the old saying of the grass being greener elsewhere. And so the dynamic lure of these two words beckon workers and their families to move to the greener pastures of OPPORTUNITY and PROSPERITY. The population has been shifting. How do the preceding paragraphs tie in with the title of this article? The relationship is quite clear in the face of what is true of the nation's population is also true — proportionately — of the Verhovay membership which, although only a minute segment, nevertheless is a part of the population. There was a time when the older members, most of whom immigrated to The United States, settled in one part of the country and stayed there for life. Now the newer generations folic wingi the modern trend move from place to place seeking their goals. These residence shifts have caused Verhovay minor concern because of the effects they can have on our moving away members, and the explanation follows. Chapter V, “The Branches,” Section 19, “The Branch System and the Members,” Page 28 of the English Constitution and Bylaws of the Association, states: If a member moves from the territory of the Branch at which lie was admitted to membership, or to which he belongs, he shall apply within 60 days of such removal for his transfer to the Branch situated at his new residence or the neax-est to it. No Branch shall deny acceptance of the transfer of any member coming into the territory of the Branch. If a member moves permanently from the territory of The United States or Canada and desires to remain a member of the Association he may remain a member of the Branch to which he belonged at the time of his removal. This official ruling certainly requires neither explanation nor elaboration. We believe that some members have not been aware of this bylaw provision. It follows therefore that the branch managers give this information to any members contemplating residence away from the territory of their present branch. Lack of knowledge of this bylaw regulation on the part of the member and no information thereof made by the branch manager, false sentimental loyalty to the old branch, carelessness and indifference — these are the greatest number of reasons for violating this important direction from the Verhovay Constitution and Bylaws. A member who has moved from one Verhovay city or branch seat to another becomes a STATIC MEMBER if he fails to transfer to the branch of his new residence, for then he can not participate in the affairs of the branch he has left behind but to which he still belongs, and in like manner he is unable to fulfill the duties of an active member of the new branch unless he transfers to it. He UNNECESSARILY becomes a Verhovay member at large, as it were, by forfeiting his status as a branch member — yes, he becomes a kind of Verhovay nonentity in the membership ranks. BEHIND THE CURTAIN THE BALTIC STATES Thirty-five years ago this month, the Lithuanian and Estonian nations won their independence. Latvia observes its thirty-fifth anniversary in November. Deeply conscious of the suffering that the Baltic countries are now enduring as victims of ruthless Soviet imperialism, Secretary Dulles last week sent “warm greetings” to the peoples of the three states and predicted for the overrun countries “a new day of freedom”: In refusing to recognize the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union, the Government of the United States has expressed the conviction of the American people that justice and law must govern !the relations between the nations, great and small. It is not the number of people nor area and wealth which make nations great. Rather it is their spiritual and moral strength and their love of freedom and liberty. These qualities have carried your nations over many difficulties in the past. I am confident that they will also carry 'you, with the help of God, over the present period of oppression to a new day of freedom. REPLY TO POLAND A 19-page note was received from Poland last month charging “the brutal violation of Polish territory... by an aircraft belonging to the armed forces of the United States” and “the organizing of aggressive intelligence and subversion on Polish territory.” The State Department, in rejecting these allegations categorically, branded the note part of a stepped-uu propaganda campaign throughout the Soviet bloc “aimed at vilifying and discrediting the United States.” The Department added: The charges are very clear’y a part of a larger pattern of accusations made with increasing vehemence during- the past few months by a number of governments dominated by a single totalitarian political party. As the Polish Government is well aware, these recent charges have been leveled against Christians and Jews, Communists, and formen Communists, workers, peasants and intellectuals, and even against many once prominent and trusted officials occupying positions of great power in the very governments which are now making the charges. The free world, and no doubt many in that part of the word which is not free, has viewed these accusations with profound skepticism and deep disgust, seeing in them the characteristic excesses of men hysterically fearful that they wi'l lose the absolute power which has corrupted them. HUNGARIAN OFFER REJECTED Hungary’s offer to return, for $93,779, a US. Air Force transport plane forced down on its soil over a year ago was rejected this month. The Communist satellite for a second time denied U.S. claims for the plane but offered to surrender the C-47 on payment of this sum — the value the United States had placed on it. State Department Press Officer Michael J. McDermott commented: This latest Hungarian reply, like previous ones on the subject is not responsive. It is, therefore, unsatisfactory. Its weak concluding effort at sarcasm only betrays the present nervousness of the Hungarian officials in their purge-ridden country and their fears of facing the issues of the case. The latest Hungarian note does not dispose of these issues, which will be further dealt with by this Government in due course. DEPARTMENT OF STATE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA So there is only one sound and logical thing to do when you leave behind your old Verhovay branch — JOIN THE NEW BRANCH AND FOSTER NEW VERHOVAY TIES. Keep the happy memories of your old branch but unite with the branch in your new locale and GET VERHOV AY-ACTIVE! The member who is in the branch of his residence gains many advantages and enjoys the fullness of Verhovay branch life — the very core of Verhovay fraternalism. That member is assured of better service and quicker service; he does not have to resort to writing letters. Monthly dues payments can be made at the regular branch meetings or arrangements can be made to pay at one of the branch offices (some of our large cities have branch offices), or, in case of necessity, arrangements may be made for the branch manager to stop at the home. When disability occurs to a member holding a sick benefit (Continued on page 2)
