Fraternity-Testvériség, 1972 (50. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1972-07-01 / 7-9. szám
5. Disciplinary Matters During the past four years there was no need for any disciplinary action. 6. Fraternity Our Official Paper was edited by Dr. Zoltán Beky, President, and published at the Bethlen Freedom Press, Inc., Ligo- nier, Pennsylvania. During the past four years I cooperated with the President by writing promotional and fraternal articles in English and Hungarian. 7. 1972 Convention The Controller gave the Secretary a list of the number of branch members eligible to vote with the cutoff date of November 30, 1971. The Secretary presented the list of self-representa- tive branches and the list of the smaller branches grouped into units with due consideration to geographical locations to the Executive Committee. The grouping was submitted to the Board of Directors for final approval. At the 1972 Spring Board of Directors meeting the “irregularities” and “complaints” received from six groups were peacefully settled. The date and place of our 1972 Convention was published in our official paper, The Fraternity. Credential certificates were mailed to the elected delegates and notices were sent to the alternates by the President and Secretary. 8. Branch Recommendations Recommendations received from the branches, reviewed by the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors will be presented to the proper committees of the Convention. 9. By-Laws Amendments and Revisions The Executive Committee prepared the recommendations for By-Laws amendments and revisions and submitted same for approval to our Board of Directors. The recommendations will be presented to the proper committee of the Convention. II. ORGANIZATION AND PROMOTION 1. Our Tax Exempt Status The 91st Congress passed H.R. 13270 — an Act to reform the income tax laws. The 1969 Revenue Act made all tax exempt organizations subject to the unrelated business income tax. My department is particularly concerned in complying with H.R. 13270 as a fraternal benefit society. According to the Internal Revenue Act, the Federation must operate and carry on its activities for the sole benefit of its members and their beneficiaries and not for profit. It must have a lodge system; a representative form of government; the lodges must meet regularly, have annual election of officers and the officers should be installed by a ritualistic type of ceremony. Compliance in our case means that the Convention should make it mandatory to our branches to hold regular monthly meetings and send a copy of their minutes to my office. They must also elect officers annually and mail their names and addresses to my department. The small branches with zero production or of small membership should either merge with the geographically nearest branch, or to the Home Office branch 300, or have a status as a “Collecting agent.” The English part of the Fraternity should be more intensively used in the future to illustrate through pictures and to document by writings the activities of our branches. Our annual charitable contributions to the Bethlen Home and camp subsidy should be channeled through our branches. Naturally, our branches will need money to hold meetings and carry on their activities. Ways and means should be found by the Convention to financially subsidize our branches. 2. Our Branches In 1968 the number of our branches was 182; in 1969 -— 188; in 1970 — 184; and in 1971 — 189. 3. Quota — Production a) The success of our promotional work depends upon the volume and the quality of production. Both must be equally emphasized and strictly maintained by the Secretary, the Field Force members and Branch Managers alike. Among other considerations, volume and quality and the control or limitation of cash surrenders and extended policies are the chief factors in the growth of our insurance in force. b) Overproduction. It gives me great pleasure to present the list of the District and Section Managers whose annual net production surpassed their yearly quota requirements: T. Koss 4, J. Molnár, Jr. 4, E. Oris 4, T. Halo 3, A. Ludwig 3, T. Dolinszky 2, L. Kernes 2, C. Modory 2, A. Viczian 2, T. Dömötör 1, D. Garanyi 1, B. Negyessy 1, Wm. Puskas 1. c) New Field Force appointments in 1968: F. Dance, L. Dékány, T. Halo, A. Komjáthy and Wm. Puskás. In 1969: J. Benedek, J. Fekete, P. Ferenczy, D. Laskay, A. Ludwig, H. Modory, P. J. Nagy, M. Szabó. In 1970: T. Dömötör, L. Ekker, L. Lakos, M. Saltzer, B. Szathmary and A. S. Tatár. In 1971: A. Hody and Mrs. E. Oris. 4. New Rale Book Since we were out of many parts of our old rate book, we published a new rate book. We were unable to give complete copies of the old rate books to our new branch managers and agents. A summarized type of new rate book was planned by my department and printed by the Bethlen Freedom Press. It contains a brief description of our juvenile, adult, family security and hospitalization plans and presents the premium rates according to age beginning with “0” and ending with “65.” It was not our plan to duplicate the old rate book in every section but rather to replace the old with a concise summarized new rate book which may be used immediately by our new branch managers and agents with the least difficulty or complications. 5. New Insurance Plans The New York State legislature made it mandatory for the fraternal organizations to have their actuaries work out their plans according to one of the latest Commissioner Mortality Tables. The Secretary, the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors must work out modern selling insurance plans with our actuary on the basis of one of the newest Mortality Tables, submit same to the states of our operation and publish a new rate book which will make our plans and rates competitive in the insurance field. Respectfully submitted, ARPAD GEORGE Secretary 20
