William Penn, 1956 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1956-12-05 / 12. szám
PAGE, -5 William Journal of the William Penn Fraternal Association OFFICE OF PUBLICATION 7907 West Jefferson Ave. Detroit 17, Michigan PUBLISHED SEMIMONTHLY BY THE William Penn Fraternal Association ’ Managing Editor: COLOM AN RE VESZ Editors: JOHN SABO and ALBERT J. STELKOVICS Editor’s Office: 436—142 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 19, PA. Telephone: COurt 1-3454 or 1-3455 All articles and changes of address should be sent to the WILLIAM PENN FR4TERNAL 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 3, 1879. Let William Penn Insurance Be Your Best Gift The Christmas season with all its hubbub of preparations, particularly gift shopping for loved ones, began in earnest very early this year and the day following Thanksgiving initiated a rush of shopping such as never experienced before. Stores were literally jammed in the search for something new, something different with which to thrill dear friends and loved relatives at yuletide. But were these things purchased really new and really different, or were they only modified in new idress? And how lasting their value? These questions do in NO wise question the spirit behind the gift giving. Let us consider a unique kind of gift that is good for man, woman or child — something quite unlike conventional gifts and much longer lasting. There is no better way to express your sentiments, be the occasion Christmas, Easter, a birthday, etc. thán by the presentation of a suitable William Penn certificate to a member of your family, in particular to a child. Is this an odd kind of gift? Not odd, rather different. The surprise element may be lacking, but that is not too important. The child may not appreciate it now, but he or she will in the future! And a William Penn policy need not deprive a child of his play thing gifts. A Juvenile Endowment Certificate is a child’s assurance of higher education and more security and well-being in his adult years. What a grand feeling parents have who take out extra insurance for their children, and what wisdom moves them to do this! This is also a suggestion to grandparents wTho relive their parenthood days in showering much love on their grandchildren. There is a suitable kind of Wil liam -Penn insurance to meet the many and varied requirements. There is no need for the delaying action of investigating the blandishments of the numerous insurance companies. Just call a representative of the William Penn Fraternal Associatiqn and he will acquaint you with the finest type of protection and investment at the most reasonable rates, to boot a fraternal program exclusive to our social-conscious society. Yes, William Penn offers you top insurance and the society of its membership. Our entire field force — branch managers, district managers, field supervisors.— know by their training that what they have to offer to their prospects is, so to speak, a bargain package of quality merchandise. They believe because they know, and they know because seventy years of existence and experience has produced a wonderful development and a capable leadership in our society. Keeping abreast of the times, our field force is emphasizing the gift value of William Penn insurance. Their holiday theme this month, December, has been to point out that buying William Penn certificates for Christmas is a laudable and smart thing to do .We wish our field men much success in their new slant. As you read the aforegoing paragraphs of this somewhat rhapsodical write-up of our William Penn Fraternal Association and its attributes, you read a positive approach most favorable to the welfare and progress of our Association. Yet it is a sad admission that the majority of our Hungarian Americans are insured at companies of non-Hungarian origin. The whys of this situation are many. Perennial lack of Hungarian unity an this country, poor organization and promotion in the early past, bombastic tactics employed by agents of other insuring firms, general indifference in regards to Hungarian brotherhood, etc. are some of the reasons why our society and the other Hungarian societies in The United States do not, even totaled together, number a Hungarian descent membership remotely equal to the so called Anglo-Saxon groups. Certainly we are not asking Hungarian Americans to drop their present insurance with those insurers, hut we strongly advise them to look into our program of benefits for future insurance needs for themselves and for their children. And we conclude this paragraph by pointing out to William Penn-insured parents that insuring their children in outside companies is both illogical and inconsistent. Our benefits for children are excellent indeed and deserve sincere consideration. It is known that our William Penn has done much in the line of humanitarian endeavors. Our latest such action has been the voting of December 19, 1956 TELEGRAM William Penn Fraternal Association Pittsburgh, Pa. November 21, 1936 John L. Lewis, President United Mine Workers’ Building Washington, D. C. Miners in Hungary fighting for freedom and against Soviet brutality. Prime Minister Kadar, the Budapest puppet of the Kremlin, withholding food from the miners and trying to force them into the pits at gun point and through starvation. I am asking you, in the name of my Association, founded by thirteen Hungarian coal miners seventy years ago in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, for the sake of humanity and for the unfortunate miners'ÖT Hungary, to make it known publicly that the United Mine Workers will not stand idle and permit the breaking of miners fighting for freedom. Please announce publicly that the United Mine Workers is willing to feed them through Red Cross Aid as long as they continue theiv strike for freedom. The freedom loving Hungarian miners will continue their strike as long as Red Cross Aid pours in to sustain them. Your statement will help the Hungarian miners and will bolster their will to fight on for liberty. WILLIAM PTNN FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION COLOM AN REVESZ National President REPLY BY LETTER United Mine Workers of America Office of the President United Mine Workers’ Building Washington 5, D. C. November 23, 1956 Mr. Coloman Revesz, President William Penn Fraternal Association Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Dear Sir: In reference to your message I advise that the LTnited Mine Workers of America are members of the Miner’s International Federation, and are in intimate touch with the situation in Hungary and other coal producing nations of Europe as affecting coal mining conditions. We are doing what we can to be helpful in this problem through the medium of the aforesaid instrumentality. Sincerely yours, (Signed) JOHN L. LEWIS Hungarians Fly New Flag of Freedom For a few all too brief moments Sunday afternoon, November 18, the flag of free Hungary flew from the torch of the Statue of Liberty. Patriots — freedom-loving ^people — everywhere must have felt their pulses race and their faith rise at the story of the flag and what it means. For nearly three generations the Statue of Liberty has been a unique symbol and beacon to countless hosts, fleeing from oppression in foreign lands, a symbol of the real meaning of freedom and opportunity. The meaning of the Statue of Liberty still lives. The flag flying Sunday forenoon shows that in a world not yet free of political darkness, slavery and the threat of war, the Lady With the Torch serves as mightly as ever as the rallying point for those who still seek liberty and light. It would be significant if that Hungarian flag might he preserved in The American Museum of Immigration which will be built at the base of the Statue to commemorate the thousands of dollars for relief to the Avar-torn and oppressed people of Hungary, who in the weeks just passed made a heroic try — to be recorded in history as one of its great events — to regain their democratic freedom from the Gommunist tentacles of the Soviet Union. Our strength is based largely on our size. Were all or the majority of the Hungarian Americans within our membership, then aid that we give, now in the case of Hungary, could be substantially augmented. Join the William Penn membership for its rich benefits and fine fraternal life, and to add force to its charitable and humanitarian activities. contribution of the foreign-born who have come to this country to make their homes. It is the aim of The Museum to provide a living memorial not only to the individuals and ethnic groups which have added their separate racial gifts to our American heritage but more especially to the vast wealth of brain, brawn and spirit which have been poured into the making and developing of our great country. The unquenchable spirit of Liberty is by no means the least of these gifts, as our Hungarian friends showed us by daring to unfurl Liberty renewed from the Statue’s torch. That flag belongs with other flags famous in our history. All Americans have reason to be mindful that the spirit of Liberty, symbolized by our own Stars and Stripes and tested and proved on countless battlefields over the world, from Lexington and Concord on, still burns bright. Old Fort Wood, from which the Statue of Liberty rises, never fired a shot, but the free Hungarian flag that flew from the Statue’s torch demonstrated once again that the faith and beliefs of this country are in no way static or in danger of dying. Let those who can enjoy such freedom cherish it as deeply äs the oppressed yearn for it. The flag that flew for but a few minutes Sunday, almost all that is left of free Hungary, should be preserved ,to remind us not only of what we have but of what we must struggle to maintain. It is our flag now. What better place to preserve it and at the same time commemorate the courage of those who dared hang it, than in The American Museum of Immigration at the foot of the Statue of Liberty?
