Fraternity-Testvériség, 1952 (30. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1952-07-01 / 7. szám
4 TESTVÉRISÉG KS ± This summer was undeniably the period of conventions. The nation — and the whole world for that matter — just witnessed the mighty gatherings of the two big American political parties. The results are already known to the world. The nominees for the highest offices of the land are able and patriotic men! May God give enough wisdom to the American people to select the ablest of them next November! There was a third event however, in the middle of June which interested us far more than the two great political conventions. It was our own quadrennial convention, held in our own Bethlen Home, in Ligonier, Pa. Naturally it would be out of place to draw comparison between our event and the other two. However, there are some characteristics common to each of them. The political conventions tried to chart the course of the parties and the nation for the next four years. So did our convention for our Federation. The president to be elected will start his term for four years early next year. So does our newly elected Supreme Council. All the events were conducted according to the tried democratic way so characteristic of Ame- ican life. Every participant had a chance to express his or her opinion and vote according to his or her conviction. After the decision, victor and vanquished clasped hands with the solemn promise that they will follow the freely elected standard bearers and work in harmony for the common aims. There was the real America present at the big political gatherings, — and this same verdict can be said about our own convention. Large or small, these events held high the flag of the United States, a nation indivisibe, where liberty and justice is the inalienable heritage of all! * ❖ * THE UNITED MINE WORKERS of America will build and maintain len hospitals for its members, with about 100 beds each, in the states of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. The new and entirely modern hospitals will be erected in places where the population sofar could not secure proper medical care, owing to the lack of physicians. The hcspitals will be built and financed out of the tonnage tax which is paid by the mine owners for every ton cf coal to the miner's welfare fund. “GERM WARFARE IN KOREA” — John Steinbeck, the famous writer (The Grapes of Wrath, etc.) sums up his observation about the alleged germ warfare thus: “The germs that the United Nations are dropping in Korea are little pamphlets. These papers contain the most dangerous communicable germ in the world: the truth. This is the germ that the Soviets fear mere than any single thing. They are right to fear the germ of truth, for it is these germs which will eventually destroy them. These truth germs we admit we are dropping in Korea. We are proud to drop them.” ❖ * * JESUS WAS A WORKER. — One of the glorious things about Jesus was that he was a worker. He was a man who did a job to the best of His ability, thus bestowing dignity to labor. The American laborer needs to renounce the vicious hold of communist leaders who victimize labor’s ranks and file by promising utopias t hat never can be realized... The challenge of Russian Communism to the economy of America cannot be met by cringing crooks and crackpots crying about their abused rights. No more can it be met by greedy industrialists without conscience or social vision. It can be met only by free, intelligent men with a high sense of responsibility and partnership in a great enterprise for the future of the nation. If we all work together, a civilization can be established such as few men have ever dreamed possible. (C. M. Crove) ife ❖ iji ABOUT CERTAIN CLERGYMEN. “If freedom of religion is going to survive in this world, it will survive only if the present flood-tide of communism begins to ebb. “For this reason, it is a paradox to me that there should still be a number of Christian clergymen who have been so gullible as to accept substantial portions of communist dogma and of communist propaganda in world affairs. “The very acceptance of communism is a denial of the existence of God; yet there are those giving their lives to the service of God who do not seem to have discovered that simple fact.” (Gov. Dewey of N. Y.)
