Verhovayak Lapja, 1937. július-december (20. évfolyam, 27-53. szám)
1937-11-25 / 48. szám
PAGE 4 November 25, 1937 Verhovay Journal Journal of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Ass’n Printed by STATE PRESS, 7 E. Buchtel Ave., Akron, Ohio PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE Verhovay Fraternal Insure— Association Editors: BENCZE JANOS és RÉVÉSZ KALMAN. Szerkesztők EDITOR’S OFFICE - SZERKESZTŐSÉG: 345 FOURTH AVENUE, ROOM 805, PITTSBURGH. PA. I All articles and changes of address should be sent to the VERHOVAY FRATERNAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, 345 FOURTH A VE. PITTSBURGH, PA. j MINDEN, A LAPOT ÉRDEKLŐ KÖZLEMÉNY ÉS CÍMVÁLTOZÁS A VERHOVAY FRATERNAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, 345 FOURTH AVE. PITTSBURGH PA. küldendő SUBSCRIPTION RATES: j United States and Canada $1.00 a year Foreign Countries $1.50 a year Advertising Department (Hirdetési iroda): P. 0. Box 7. — Woolsey Station — Long Island City, N. Y. Entered as second class matter January 2, 1937 at the Post Office at Akron, Ohio, under the act of March 3, 1879. WHY THANKSGIVING DAY? Thanksgiving Day is a national harvest festival now fixed by proclamation of the President and similarly by the Governors of the several states of the Union. Since 1863, the appointed day has been the last Thursday in November. The inception of this festal day in America dates back more than 300 years, when in 1621 the Harvest Thanksgiving was kept by the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth. It was a day of feasting, rejoicing, praise and prayer, and the giving of thanks because of the many mercies and blessings of the year. It was not until 1789 that the church formerly recognized the Civil Government’s authority to appoint such a feast day among the Colonists. While the festal day has long been nearly universally observed, nowhere is it honored with such sincerity as in the New England States. There it ranks as a great annual family festival, taking the place that in other parts of the nation is accorded to Christmas. During the revolution, a day of national Thanksgiving was annually proclaimed by Congress: and again in 1784 and in 1815, for the return of peace. President Washington appointed such a day in 1789, after the adoption of the Constitution and in 1795, he appointed another day of thanksgiving for the general benefits and welfare of the Nation. This brief review freshens our memory as to the origin, the purpose and the meaning of this 300-year-old festal day. As protected citizens of a country at peace, when many others are fleeing before the devasting horrors of war; and of a country of plenty, when others live in dire doubt of the future; we Americans have just reason to be thankful. EDITOR’S FORUM Thanksgiving, there’s a day for you! A real American holiday, an annual festival of thanksgiving for the mercies of the closing year. When Governor Bradford, in the first Massachusetts colony, sent out men to shoot some wild fowl in order that the people “might, after a special manner, rejoice together,” he began the institution that today is known as Thanksgiving Day. It was not immediately realized as an institution, something to be perpetuated and to be commemorated annually or upon occasions of unexpected prosperity or unexpected aid in adversity. Albeit there were celebrations upon such occasions, it was not for some years that it became an annual custom. It did not become a national custom until the Revolutionary War, being discontinued gradually so that after 1784 it was observed only occasionally in most of the states, except New England where it had become deeply rooted. It was the Civil War that brought a deeper sense of national unity than any other single historic occurence of three-quarters of a century, and since 1863, by presidential proclamation, Thanksgiving Day has been generally observed throughout the country and in every state of the nation. * * * Today, with the American flag and influence extended to all parts of the world, the presidential proclamation appeals to people not only upon the North American continent but to nationals who are scattered world-wide and, who, on this day almost as fondly as upon Christmas Day, turn their thoughts to the hearthstone that they call Home, Sweet Home. In addition, people of distant islands, who have been brought under American influence, are encouraged and prompted to observe the feast that is peculiar to what is now their mother country. It is a beautiful custom that appeals to the best in man’s religious and emotional nature. ... It is a tremendous force in the nationalizing of the spirit of our people, for there is always the conviction upon this day that great is the destiny of our people in the hand of Almighty God; that He has been the guiding force and power in our national growth and development; and that, as the Isralites believed themselves and continue to believe, “a chosen people” have grown upon the soil of the United States of American! * * * The rapid and fundamental changes now under way in our social order are of special importance to the farm youth of today as well as to those citizens and officials responsible for the kind and scope of educational facilities available to them. In the past three decades especially, public high school enrollment in the United States has increased in a manner unprecedented in our history or that of any civilized country in the world. The American heritage on which we pride ourselves most is that all boys and girls reared on our soil are thereby entitled to at least an elementary and secondary education at public expense, regardless of the location in which they live, or social and economic status of the families from which they come. The majority of the Magyars are farmers and farm hands, and in our old country in Hungary, 55.8% of the population are occupied with the cultivation of the soil. Our rural youth should be proud that they are farmers — as is our President Roosevelt. . . . A year ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was re-elected President of the United States by the biggest vote in United States history. On the second of this month, while local elections popped and fizzled through the land, the President drove to the town hall of Hyde Park to cast his vote on a ballot headed by the candidate for town supervisor. Inquired Miss Alma Van Curan, Democratic chairman of the election board: “What is your occupation?” Chuckled the President: “Farmer!” So don’t forget: for the youth of our rural areas the doors of opportunity always are — and will be — kept open! * * * “Right you are!” a reader of our paper agrees, “when you say that you are the better born!” We wish to tell a story of how “very true” that is . . . A fox and a monkey were on the road together, and fell into a dispute as to which of the two was “the better born.” They kept it up for some time, till they came to a place where the road passed thru a cemetery full of monuments, when the monkey stopped and looked about him and gave a great sigh. “Why do you sigh?” asked the fox. The monkey pointed to the tombs and replied: “All the monuments that you see here were put up in honor of my forefathers, who in their day were eminent men!” The fox was speechless for a moment, but quickly recovering, he said: “Oh! don’t stop at any lie, sir; you’re quite safe. I’m sure none of your ancestors will rise up and expose you!” “LADDER TO THE HADITOR” By—EDWARD S. HORVATH Branch 429 Deer Additor: Pleeze to pay attenshnn to wot i em gonna rite to yu so da odder payshents will not be wictims uv da same ting i wuz. i went home kwite a while ago for kupla daz bot i käme bek to Istlawn Sanitary wary gladly. After i tal yu dis story yu will agree wit me. Wen i got in da city i hev vary big hedake becuz i see so many autos. Dey make lotsa noize end i kant even tink what i em doing, i wuz glad to get to mine house so i can lay down and take rest — maybe. i slep for a little while and den i beer a terrible noise, i say my prayers and get ready for da end of da world to come, i wait and wait but everything is o.k. so i look out da window and i see wots dis noize and all i see iz a strit car. i gess i just forget what iz it strit car. i lay down to slip some more but i wake up fast again beeuz i heer nodder lowd noize and i see wary bright light in mine room, dis time i tink for shure da end hear, but oefore i say my prayers again i look out side and make shure. Gude ting i look bekuz i wuz rong again. All i see is a big lite in da strit. it wuz shining in my room. Da udder noize wuz a whistle from a train. By Goly i get purty sick from dis noize den i heer da auto horn, da telefone bell, da door bell, strit car bell, fire engine, police wistle, and lotsa udder noize. First i wanna go home bekuz i em homesik end den wen i get home i get sik from all dis noize. i tink dare is only one gud place for me end dat iz bek in Istlawn Sanitary ware all i hear is da birds, crickers, and hay-hoppers, i gat purry used to Istlawn since i wuz heer end az long az i belong heer i will gladly stay heer. End dat is da story i want to tal all da udder payshents — if yu kant stand da noize, stay at Istlawn Sanitary ware it iz kwiet. * * *V.ÍV.Í S Dear Fellow Members: As you note, this epistle has not been finished by the author, due to his sudden death. However, the moral of the story is there and I’m sure Ed would like to have had you read the last work he ever did. THE FERRET WHY USE NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING? 1. ) Newspaper reading is a universal habit. Newspaper advertising, therefore, reaches virtually all who read and buy. 2. ) A newspaper advertisemnt can always be seen by the reader. 3. ) The newspaper advertisement, as part of the complete paper goes into the home as a welcome guest. 4. ) The newspaper advertisement can have as much various legends connected with bis name. But for thos« who do not know of him, or who have not had the opportnews value and reader interest as the news item. 5. ) The amount ot text used in newspaper advertisements is dependent only upon the size of the space. 6. ) Newspaper advertising is quickly controlled. 7. ) Newspaper advertising is a buyer’s guide. 8. ) Newspaper advertisement may be adjusted to different conditions. 9. ) Newspaper advertising enables manufacturers and dealers to state where their products may be bought.
