William Penn, 1956 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1956-12-05 / 12. szám

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December 19, 1956

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WE HAVE NOT TURNED A DEAF EAR

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$31.50. Branch 186-V, Congo, Ohio.

$5.00 from Elizabeth and Daniel Toth.

$2.00 each from Frank Toki, Stephen Toth, John Raskey, Alex Ciber Sr., Steve Toth, Alex Toth, John Toth, William Gecsei.

$1.00 each from John Moore, Joe Butsko, Zoli Toki, Alex Búza, Alex Reho, John Reho, Andy Lukacs, Peter Kantor, Zoli Kopcho, John Toki.

$0.50 from William Jenkins.

$30.00. Branch 548-V, Rivesville, W. Va.

$29.00. Branch 39-R, Republic, Pa. Collected by Stephen Orsog, branch manager, as follows:

$10.00 each from Stephen Orsog family, Charles 'Russell family.

$5.00 from Simon family.

$1.00 each from Joseph Ivoscso, Stephen Lakosa, Mrs. Alexander Spis. Note: one dollar extra sent in.

$25.50 Branch 483-V, Colver,. Pa. Collected by Joseph Bolgár, branch manager, as follows:

$3.00 from Margaret (Victor) Bolgár.

$2.00 each from Joseph Bolgár Sr., Joseph Bolgár Jr., Mr. and Mrs. George Mutter, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Poudan, Joseph Publick, Stephen Bolgár, Stephen Riba, Gabriel Petro, Mrs. Frank Kovács, Mrs. Julius Soltész, Joe Mutter.

$0.50 from Dominic Balles.

(Note: Two dollars extra sent in.)

$25.00. Branch 28-R, Buffalo, N. Y.

Branch 31-V, Barnesboro, Pa. .

Branch 46-V, Benwood, W. Va.

Branch 63-V, Barberton, Ohio.

Branch 88-R, Sratford, Conn.

Branch 145-R, Beacon, N. J.

Branch 142-R, New York, N. Y.

Branch 177-V, Wyano, Pa.

Branch 262-V, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Branch 166-R, New Brunswick, N. J.

$10.00. Frank Földi, Miami, Florida, Branch 38-V, Ronkonkoma, N. Y. Mrs. Joseph Farkas, Peyton, W. Va., Branch 111-V, Steelton, Pa.

$9.00. Branch 541-V, Cherry Valley, Pa. Collected by Joseph Szabó, branch manager, as follows: ,

$5.00 from Adam Stanish.

$2.00 from Joseph Toth.

$1.00 each from Mrs. Stephen Stanish, Joseph Szabó.

$5.00. R. Charles Davis, Landsdown, Pa. Martin Zsifko, Bethesda, Ohio. Joseph Puskas, Bethesda, Ohio.

$3.00. Branch 200-V, South Norwalk, Conn.

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WILLIAM PENN WATCHT0WER

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A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to EACH and EVERY William Penn member, and may 1957 bring you Health, Happiness and Prosperity.

The Branch 14-V meeting voted $100- for Hungarian Relief. Julius Cincsar contributed $25 to the same cause. In addition, Mr. Cincsar donated a case of wine as a door prize to the meeting.

PLEASE, PLEASE do what you can, especially financially, to help the Hungarians impoverished because of their history-making stand against the Soviet savages. If you ignore this plea, THEN YOU ARE WITHOUT A HEART AND AS DEVOID OF FEELING AS A ZOMBIE (a zombie is a being without will and without sentiment, having machinelike response and function). No one who values the God-given rights of all men, which we in our great United States possess in full measure, can afford to be indifferent to the struggle of the wonderful Magyars to regain their freedom and national dignity. GOD BLESS AND SPEED THEIR JUST CAUSE!!!

I am happy to announce that I was reelected to the House of Representatives of Ohio for my second term. Again, I want to thank our members, their friends, families and neighbors, for the work they did in my behalf. I thank the WILLIAM PENN journal, the Home Office and our National Officers for their moral support by way of publicity and expressed sentiments. I will try to

do an HONORABLE, HONEST and CONSCIENTIOUS job.

Branch 14-V member Governor Frank J. Lausche was elected United States senator.

Judge Julius Kovachy was reelected to the Court of Appeals.

With the election over, candidates for council are cropping up. In the 29th ward of Cleveland, we have heard that potential candidates are the following: Andy Dono, John Granite, Joseph Leso, Julius J. Petrash, Francis J. Picklow, Frank R. Pokorny, Jr. With so many in the field, Mary will again have “easy pickin’s.” Councilman Jack P. Russell in the 16th ward may go unopposed.

We have had a newspaper strike in Cleveland and at this writing it is three weeks old. The termination of the strike will be welcome. One is left pretty much in the dark without a newspaper, particularly in these days of big events in the world.

We were at the 50th anniversary banquet of the American Hungarian Federation. About 350 guests attended this affair at Hotel Cleveland November 17. The program was nice but long. Toastmaster was Stephen Gobozy. Governor Frank J. Lausche greeted the Federation on its anniversary and spoke with deep sympathy on the conditions in Hungary. The greetings of the City of Cleveland were expressed in person by the city’s Mayor, Anthony J. Celebrezze. We sat with- Mr. Szabó of Youngstown, Ohio, who interviewed Andy Farkas, famous football star of the Detroit Lions. Mr. Farkas is in business in Detroit. Among those we saw at this banquet were Leslie J. Dus and his charming wife, Branch 14-V Manager Louis F. Kostley and Mrs. Kostley, James Kovach, Joseph Szhlay, Mr. and Mrs. John Bosway, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Yuhasz, John Boda, Joseph M. Toth, Mr. and Mrs. A. Balazsik, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Semetko, Joseph Kovach, Judge Louis Petrash, Louis Bodnar the Funeral Director, Mr. and Mrs. Coloman Kolozsvary, Joseph Drotos of Branch 45-V, Branch 45-V Manager Coloman Bertalan, Branch 45-V President Paul Magyary, Branch 45-V Controller Joseph Barry, Director Aloysius C. Falussy of New York. Attending this anniversary were National President Coloman Revesz and National Auditor John Sabo. Both National Officers were very much occupied and there was little opportunity to engage them in conversation. We were glad to see Field Manager Elmer Charles. He is straightening out an item for me. THANKS, Mr. Charles,

Joseph Semetko is working hard to get the National Tournament to Cleveland, Ohio for 1958 . . . John Beres is now a member of the Sports Club. WELCOME . . . Helen O’Ravis has her daughter enrolled in a dancing school. The youngster is five years old and cute . . . Steve (Susie) Piscalko will do income tax work next year . . . Jimmy Bodnar and his family have moved to Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland . . . We saw the bowling average of Carl Pertz posted on the board at the Home and we were surprised — bet he’s holding it down to get a better spot at the tournament next year . . . Ted Szalay has been on a diet for two years. He now weighs 210 pounds, a shadow of his former self . . .

Penn ---------------------------------------------------------------Louis Városi stopped an apartment house developer from building next door to him. He said a sixteen story building was in mind ... At the Sports Club meeting we learned that Kalman Fuzy, manager of the William Penn Home, would leave to go to Columbus, Ohio to become manager of the William Penn Home there. WE WISH HIM WELL . . . John Gaspar will be the new manager of the Cleveland William Penn Home . . . Frank O’Ravis may back a team to go to the Dayton, Ohio tourney . . . Steve Vache is happy over the gift the Sports Club sent him at Veteran Hospital ... A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ted Beres. The Sunshine Committee presented them -with a gift, compliments of the Sports Club... $25 was donated by the Sports Club to the Hungarian Freedom Relief Fund . . . A CHICKEN DINNER WILL BE SPONSORED BY THE SPORTS CLUB THE SECOND SUNDAY IN FEBRUARY, THE ADMISSION TO BE $1.50 A PERSON.

To Our Members in Steubenville, Ohio: Earl Applegate, former Mayor of Steubenville, is thinking of trying again for that honor. His record — mayor twice, safety director four years, member of Council four years, state representative two terms. He did these johs well. In our opinion he is a fine person and would make an excellent mayor.

THE GOOD: Joseph Szalma, barber next to Colony Alleys, gave a free hair cut to Yours Truly . . . he’s willing to forget his feud with the doctor across the street.

THE BAD: District Manager Louis F. Kostley was held up November 1 as he was entering his car.

Ex animo,

JOSEPH J. HORVATH c. o. William Penn Home 8637 Buckeye Road Cleveland 4, Ohi«

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The New York Times Monday, November 26, 1956

(William Penn Editorial Note: The writer of the following letter, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi von Nagyrapolt, was a former professor in Hungary. This Hungarian scientist was awarded the Nobel prize in medicine in 1937.)

To the Editor of The New York Times:

Is it credible that in the twentieth century there should still exist a Government which butchers people by the ten thousands because they want free elections, while the rest of the world watches without intervention ?

Is it not incredible that while the civilized world comes with all its generosity to the help of the refugees leaving Hungary on its western border people are deported in equal numbers through its eastern borders in “sealed wagons”?

Human imagination is inadequate to picture the suffering in such deportations in sealed wagons. The technique was introduced by Hitler. It does away with the inconvenience of establishing camps at the destination, since most people arrive dead or dying.

We Hungarians had a slight taste of Russian methods along this line when the Soviet Army took Budapest during the second World War. Most Nazis had fled and the population was friendly to the Russians. At that time Russia needed slave labor for rebuilding her devastated areas.

Slave Laborers

The method for securing labor was to suddenly close off a street and catch all young people, who were then herded into a camp at Czegled. Soon it turned out that there was-no food or sanitation for

50,000 immates and they die by the thousands. Their howling could be

heard for a great distance outside the camp. The survivors were then sent to Russia as slave laborers.

Russia now needs no manpower, but only wants to exterminate Hungarians. The probable fate of the deported will be .similar to that of the five millions Soviet farmers who resisted collectivization and were put into labor camps, with an average life expectancy of six weeks.

Is it credible that after so many years of bitter experience the U. N. still does not understand that civilized methods, based on an unwritten moral code, are ineffective toward an opponent like the Soviets, who understand nothing but force, whose apparent willingness for discussion is but a maneuver to gain time for crimes creating accomplished facts? Their representation in the U. N. had from the beginning no other aim than to paralyze or ruin that body, an organization of the highest accomplishments of human idealism.

As a minor point: I wish that radios and the newspapers would use more accurate language: I read headlines like “Hungary Refuses

U.N. Delegates.” Hungary has nothing to do with that. Not even the Hungarian Government has anything to do with it, for there is no Hungarian government. Nobody has elected Mr. Kadar, who is simply a Soviet agent representing the Soviet Army.

Why soil the good name of a country ? Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.

Woods Hole, Mass., Nov. 17, 1956.