Verhovayak Lapja, 1953 (36. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1953 / Verhovay Journal
PAGE 4 Verhovay Journal April 15, 1953 Verhovay Journal Journal of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Ass’n. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION 7907 West Jefferson Ave. Detroit 17, Mich. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association Managing Editor: JOHN BENCZE Editor: JOHN SABO Editor’« Office: 436—442 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 19, PA. Telephone: COurt 1-3454 or 1-3455 All articles and changes of address should be sent to the VERHOVAY FRATERNAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION 436—442 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 19, PA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States and Canada ....................................... $1.00 a year Foreign Countries ..................................................... $1.50 a year Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Detroit, Michigan under the Act of March 8, 1879. Fraternal Societies to Cooperate With Red Cross Blood Program Following the very successful project to purchase Bloodmobiles for the American Red Cross, the President of the National Fraternal Congress, Mr. Ernest R. Deming, Sr., has requested the. Fraternal Week Committee to undertake as its work for 1953 the .securing of blood donors among the member societies of the National Fraternal Congress. Instead of the usual Fraternal Week activities, which included the sponsoring of union meetings of the various societies and the signing of proclamations by governors of States and mayors of cities, the Fraternal Week Committee at its meeting on January 23rd approved the plan suggested, and the American National Red Cross headquarters and National Blood Program officials have agreed to cooperate with the committee to an unusual degree. The plan of using the vast membership of the 108 legal reserve fraternal benefit societies to pledge blood donors was outlined to officials of the American National Red Cross, the Federal Civil Defense, the Office of Defense Mobilization, and the National Blood Donor Program in Washington on January 28th by the Chairman, F B Mallett, Vice-President of the Protected. Home Circle, Sharon, Pa., and Ernest R. Deming, Jr., Assistant, Secretary of the Unity Life and Accident Insurance Association of Syracuse, New York. The thirty-three State Congresses, subsidiary to the National Fraternal Congress, will be asked to cooperate through their officers and member societies with the plan to secure the contacts between the local lodges of the various societies and the local Red Cross Chapters. The Committee hopes that all societies in the National: Fraternal Congress will help in this most important pr'oject- Blood is needed for civilian defense stockpiling against the possibility of an atomic attack, and for civilian purposes both of which are ordinary demands, but blood for military purposes in Korea and the development of gamma globulin makes the need extraordinary. The blood donor plan presupposes the interest of all National Fraternal Congress societies, first, through the Home Office organization, and by their cooperation to get the operation of the plan down to the local lodges. The actual participation will be the securing during the months of May and June, of signed pledges by members of the lodges to give blood through the local Red Cross Chapters. Therefore, the chief problem is 'to secure the cooperation between the representatives of the local lodges of all societies in a community and tlje Red Cross Chap ters. The National Blood Donor Program of the American Red, Cross in Washington will furnish the preliminary literature, explain the need and the details. All pledges for donations of blood from the members of the societies forming the National Fraternal Congress are to be counted for 1953 and as part of the: plan the local lodges of participating societies are asked to reporti not later than July 1, 1953 the number of members pledging to give blood. Joseph Stearns Named Judge by Governor Frank J. Lausche % Balogh Photo, Cleveland Above center is Joseph Stearns, Verhovay member, who was recently appointed Cleveland judge by Governor Frank J. Lausche, Ohio’s very popular Governor and, we are quite proud to say, another good Verhovay member. Judge Stearns is flanked, left, by our amiable Director Coloman Kolozsvary, and, right, by Field Supervisor Leslie Dus. The picture was taken on the occasion of a celebration held to honor the new judge on his elevation to the high post to which he was named. Branch 14, Cleveland, Ohio, officially took part in the ceremonies honoring one of its favorite members. Judge Stearns came from Hungary in 1921. As a lawyer and as a civic-minded Clevelander he has been very prominent and active in civic and political affairs. Judge Joseph Stearns is the fourth Hungarian judge in Cleveland. The others are Judges Julius M. Kovaehy, Andrew Kovachy and Louis Petrash. It is noteworthy that they are all Verhovay members. Congratulations and best wishes, JUDGE STEARNS! PITTSBURGH HUNGARIANS OBSERVE HUNGARIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY Hungarian Independence Day, commemorating the great Magyar leader Louis Kossuth’s struggle against foreign tyranny in the fateful year 1848, was observed by Pittsburgh 'and area Hungarians the evening of March 14, this year, at the Haze1- wood Hungarian Home, Pittsburgh, Pa. The occasion is similar to our own Independence Day observed July 4. While the American fight for freedom did not take too long, the Magyars were defeated because of foreign intervention and did not win their independence until years later. However, 1848 was the sowing of the seed of eventual political independence for the Hungarians. Outstanding speakers at the Pittsburgh affair were Coloman Revesz, National Secretary and Editor of the Verhcvayak Lapja. Hungarian half of our official publication, and the Rev. Ladislaus Harangi, pastor of the Hazelwood Hungarian Reformed Church. Adding to the interest of the prog'ram were the choristers of the Roman Cathode Church and the dancing group sponsored by the Reformed Church. It is hoped that some day — soon — the Hungarians the wor’d over may celebrate a new Hungarian In dependence Day and rejoin the brotherhood of the democratic nations. Until that time the faith and spirit of Louis Kossuth, greatest. Hungarian freedom crusader, must guide and inspire the Magyars to their eventual new day of freedom and society among men devoid of po itical and ideological fears.
