Verhovayak Lapja, 1940. július-december (23. évfolyam, 27-52. szám)
1940-10-31 / 44. szám
Page 4 CLASSIC CORNED s> ü.t n a DAT T? inwn Verhovayak Lapja October 31, 1940 Branch 430 By CAROLE KING Homestead, Pa. Foreword My many previous attempts at journalism seemed futile. But I have heard it often repeated: “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” and, being one ol those fortunate people who don’t very easily despair. I tried again with the following results. I humbly ask for your patience. If there be just one among you who by some chance will read this column— a lover of poetry and music—I shall then consider this last attempt at journalism a success and worthy of publication in the Journal. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry has for a numbei of years been a favorite of mine. Perhaps it is because I am sentimental, or is it because they were read to me by the firelight and by someone very dear to me? Please don’t misunderstand. They were read to me by my mother, and this is the story she told me: A great many years ago there lived in England a very beautiful young lady. Who was gifted with the power of being able to put into verse all the beautiful thoughts that entered her mind. Her happiness was, however, marred by one thing, a long illness had left her an invalid. But having a sunny disposition she patiently suffered in silence, and when pain seemed the greatest she composed her best poems. One day a young man chanced to read her poems. The beauty of their lines aroused his interest, so through a mutual friend Robert Browning met Elizabeth Barrett. Their strong admiration for each other grew into warm friendship, and that just as quickly developed into deep and lasting love. No sweeter or stronger love story has ever been written than that of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. They were married September 12, 1846. Mr. Barrett bitterly opposed his daughter’s marriage; the result was that the two lovers eloped. Their married life was ideal, so ideal in fact that Elizabeth Browning wrote a poem to her husband each day and secretly slipped it under his door. At length he discovered their origin, and after a great deal of persuasion, acquired consent for their publication. That is the story behind Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnets From The Portuguese.” But read and judge for yourself—they may be your favorites too. SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE XIV 7/ thou must love vie, let it be for nought Except for love’s sake only. Do not say “I love her for her smile—her look—her way Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought PAST The Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association looks back upon more than a HALF OF A CENTURY of substantial well-rounded progress. "QUALITY, SERVICE AND SAFETY, FIRST” has characterized its growth. PRESENT With over $25,000,000.00 of insurance in force, Verhovay is the largest legal reserve society of Hungarian origin since 1886. The society enjoys a high place among the finest quality societies of the nation. FUTURE With a splendid past, a strong present position, complete life insurance service including sales plans, helpful home office cooperation, policies for all ages including children from birth and adults to age 60 the future for the society and the men who represent it is most promising. Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association 345 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA. A sense of pleasant ease on such a day”— For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee,—and love, so wrought. May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry,— A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby! But love me for love’s sake, that evermore Thou may’st love on, through love's eternity. XLIII How do I love thee? Let me count the ivays. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight - For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. FRANZ LISZT Music is magic! Its soft strains soothe even the savage beast; its wild exciting melodies quicken your pulse, then just as easily sweep you away to another world with perhaps a few bars of Liszt’s “Liebestraum.” Franz Liszt, Hungary’s greatest pianist and composer, was born in Doborján, Hungary, October 2, 1811. Under the excellent tutorage of his father, Franz Liszt was able to give his first public concert at the remarkable age of nine. Liszt was a success in everything he undertook— everything except making his daydream materialize. While still in his early teens he dreamt of an ideal love, a love that would last a lifetime, and on that dream he based his immortal “Liebestraum.” His was no more than a dream of love. Oh, he found it—his love—in the person of a beautiful aristocrat. They met secretly at a gipsy camp, and were very happy for a few months. But fate is cruel, on the very night he completed “Liebestraum,” and while he played it to his love, his heart and soul pouring out in music, they were discovered, their rendezvous ended. Their punishment was cruel—separation-forever. Not easily discouraged, Franz Liszt continued his rapid climb up the ladder of success. All the world seemed his, but the world offered no comfort, no sympathy. So he took minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church, where “Abbé” Liszt found the solace, the refuge he sought. In 1875 he returned to Hungary, where he was made director of the Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest. He remained there until his death on July 3, 1886. The world will forever remember the turbulent melody of his Faust and Dante symphonies; the wild exotic, then strangely soft, soothing tones of his Hungarian Rhapsodies. As for me, give me the gentle, subdued strains of “Liebestraum,.” To me it’s more than just a song. It’s the dream of all, young and old alike. It’s Franz Liszt, the idol of young musical Hungary. BRANCH OFFICER GETS ARMY PROMOTION VERHOVAY SCOOPS THE PICTURES OF SCENES IN RESTORED TRANSYLVANIA In several issues of the Hungarian Section of the Verhovay Journal a few weeks back, members and readers were given the opportunity to see clear, large pictures of the scenes and activities which took place in the various larger towns reoccupied by Hungarian troops fulfilling the recent Vienna award of restoring about half of Transylvania to its historic and rightful owner, Hungary. The long awaited dream of reunion and the jubilance evidenced in the faces of the populace bestrewing the soldiers with flowers must have vividly impressed those who saw these pictures, and they must in a small measure have felt the joy and happiness of a people delivered at long last from an unwanted yoke of more than twenty seemingly endless years. We are proud to say that the Verhovay Journal was Elmer J. Halas (Halász), President of Branch 395, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, recently was promoted from first class private to sergeant in the Air Service of the Army. At the present time Mr. Halas is stationed at Al-; legheny County Airport, which is an Air Corps Detachment of the 3d Corps j Area. Present plans point to an | early appointment to the Air Corps Technical School i located at Chanute Field, Rantoul. Illinois. It is here j the Air Corps future technical men are trained. Mr. Halas’ present station enables him to live at home with his parents and sisterjust like an ordinary work-1 ing man—in McKeesport, less than five miles from i Allegheny County Airport. Previous service was at Langley Field, Virginia, from 1933 to 1937, at which air base the new sergeant was a- member of the 36th Pursuit Squadron and the 96th j Bombardment Squadron. In his capacity as president of Branch 395, Mr. Ha- i las injects some of the military in conducting the meetings and affairs of the Branch, very ably tempering sternness with wholesome humor. Elmer J. Halas is probably the only branch officer serving the United States Armed Forces and the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association at the same time.--------------------O-------------------AN INVENTORY of the Nation’s material wealth or economic strength always brings out the fact that life insurance institutes rank high among its assets, and is also one of the leading factors in social stability. the FIRST publication in The United States, Hungarian and English, to receive these pictures of the Transylvania restoration. The Verhovay Journal seems to be doing very well , in its own right.
