Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1985. január-június (39. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1985-02-21 / 8. szám
10. AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ Thursday, Feb. 21. 1985. CHILDREN Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all of the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. And look at your body - what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is , like you, a marvel? You must cherish one another. You must work - we all must work - to make this world worthy of its children. Pablo Casals MAGDALENA APATHY The Hungarian-American community lost a devoted member when Magdalena Apathy passed away on January 7,1 985. Our newspaper was a very important part of her life because of her great devotion and love for her Hungarian heritage. Even when her eyesight had almost completely failed her, she still kept up her subscription and never lost her concern or interest in the Hungarian newspaper. It was her greatest desire and request that when she passed away, an article be published so that all of her Hungarian friends across the country could have a remembrance of her and her husband. She was born November 27, 1897 in Bod- vaszilas, Hungary and came to the US in 1921 at the age of 23. She married Joseph Apathy July 1 9, 1924 and had two sons, Richard and Eugene. Richard and Joan presented her with 3 grandchildren: Larry, Laura, and Linda, Eugene and Doria with 2 grandchildren: Corey and Kirby. She also had 5 great grandchildren: Melissa, Carolyn, Cynthia, Christina and Kassandra, all beautiful girls. She was very proud of her Hungarian heritage and for many years was an active member of the American Hungarian Culture Club in Miami, Florida. She brought much joy and pleasure to everyone reciting poems of her native land on the Miami Hungarian radio station each Sunday afternoon. With her husband she was involved in many stage plays and activities while member of the club. She resided with her son Richard and daughter^n-law, Joan for the past year in Ormond Beach. According to her wishes her son Richard sent $ 100.- donation to our newspaper. We shall cherish the memory of our devoted friend and reader. Reagan's Budgetary Maginot Line President Reagan's budget will in effect erect another Maginot Line. The President is sending a signal that the human component of America's defense comes after the hardware - and that the human component of the American social fabric is no longer considered to be of prime importance. How otherwise can one explain the deep and painful cuts in social spending that the President proposes? How otherwise can one interpret his disregard for those in our society who need the most? The President is thus inviting our future soldiers, many of them recruited from the lower economic strata, to lose faith in America. Poor youth who had hoped for job training and a chance to work, watch as the President tries to diminish educational opportunities and eliminate the Job Corps. Young people who need Government help in starting new businesses watch in dismay as he tries to eliminate the Small Business Administration. Poor whites in the Appalachian region see him trying to scuttle badly needed rural development programs. They will also watch - along with their black counterparts - as he tries to gut the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program and eliminate free milk for children of poor families. How can they not feel that their stake in our society has been diminished by these cuts? The future soldier, whether black or white, Chicano or Hispanic, is being asked to make sacrifice after sacrifice for the sake of the balanced .budget - a concept t-hat he may not even understand. .Meanwhile, his notion of an egalitarian America cannot help but be eroded, and his willingness to serve his country can only suffer. The patriotic slogans that Ronald Reagan uses so frequently begin to sound emptier and emptier; even his professions of Christian brotherhood seem open to question. If he had his way, the President would have each of us spend 29 cents of every tax dollar on defense. He proposes to cut $210.8 billion from the budget over the next three years - 87 percent of it from nonmilitary programs - while Pentagon spending rises by $102.3 billion. This is the President's new Maginot Line. A future American soldier may be proud that he was called upon to man the most sophisticated weapons on earth, but it may be hard for him to summon much pride in his country's sense of justice or its humanitarian values. v Timed BATHING IN BUDAPEST Could shedding one's clothes lead to shelving political opinion? Evidently, judging from the attitudes of people from all walks of life whom' the February issue of GEO has caught off guard among the swimming pools, thermal facilities, massage tables and solariums of the world's most attractive public baths. Workers, artists, professionals, journalists and even party leaders and government administrators sweat side by side with no thought for the ideas which may divide them on the outside in what amounts to an ancient tradition. "In landlocked Hungary, Budapest literally floats over hot springs: 31 mineral wells fed by 123 thermal springs surface within the city's boundaries, with a yield of somewhat more than 14 million gallons a day," notes the magazine. "At least half of these springs emerge hottér than 86 degrees, while some surface at a scalding 169." The oldest establishments were erected by the Turks, who conquered the region in 1541 and dominated it for 150 years. "These structures, with their copper cupolas, tiled octagonal pools, intricate stonework and Moorish archways, are remarkably well preserved, functioning as smoothly today as they did more than 400 years ago," states GEO. The 18th and 19th centuries contributed equally impressive, baroque and neo-clasGELLÉRT sical baths, such as the Lukács, with its elaborate columns, turets and balconies, and the highly popular Gellert, a fanciful art nouveau building graced by dolphin-and lion-headed fountains and brilliant tile work. The latest addition, the ultramodern Thermal Hotel on Margaret island, offers facilities comparable to those of the grand spas of Europe. Ten baths are in full swing all year, and ten more are open in summer. English is spoken in most thermal establishments, and prices are minimal: .a massage costs from 30 to 40 forints - 60 to 80 cents. The baths are open daily, usually from 6.30 A.M. to 7.00 P.M., but only until noon on Sunday. Emil Lengyel, a Retired Professor And Authority on Rise űf Nazism Dr. Emil Lengyel, a widely published authority on the European theater of World War II and the rise of Nazism, died of a heart attack. He was 89 years old and lived in Manhattan. Dr. Lengyel, a former professor of social sciences at New York University, wrote extensively in The New York Times and other publications during the 1940's about Germany and many of the countries from Northern Africa to the Soviet Union that were touched by the war. Dr. Lengyel, who wrote 20 history books during his career, was best known for "Siberia", published in 1943 by Random House. Dr. Lengyel was born in Budapest and was a graduate of Budapest University, where he earned his doctorate. He came to the United States in 1922 and in the years that followed, wrote, lectured and taught history and world affairs.
