Verhovayak Lapja, 1940. július-december (23. évfolyam, 27-52. szám)

1940-11-14 / 46. szám

Verhovay Attends Fraternal Congress Banquet

As one of its members, the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association was represented at the recent annual meeting and banquet held by the Pennsylvania Fraternal Congress in Hotel William Penn, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thursday evening, October 31, 1940.

Assembling in the beautiful and spacious Urban Room, well known for being the setting of many elaborate affairs in Hotel William Penn, the representatives and guests of the various fraternal organizations sat down to begin the banquet at 7 o’clock, partaking of a delicious choice menu.

The festivities were begun by the singing of “America” by the entire attendant body, after which the invocation was read by the Reverend Lynn Huff.

During the repast music numbers were presented by the Star Junior Tamburitza Orchestra of the Croation Fraternal Union, under the direction of Professor Ivan Rozgaj, with Miss Elizabeth Chogich as the soloist.

The dinner was followed by the introduction of the president of the Pennsylvania Fraternal Congress, Mrs. H. Orma Chamberlain, President of the Royal Neighbors of America, by H. Bruce Meixel, Secretary-Treasurer of the Ben Hur Life Association.

Mr. Francis Taptich, of the United Societies of Greek Catholic Religion of U. S. A., acted as toastmaster.

Speakers for the evening were: Alex O. Benz, President, National Fraternal Congress; Mrs. Jessie L. Mitchell, Royal Neighbors of America; the Honorable W. Heber Dithrich, Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and the Honorable G. Malcolm McDonald, Judge, County Court, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Introduction of guests was made after the speeches.

The speech making was interspersed with the singing of selections by the Eintracht Singing Society, under the direction of Professor Lawrence Fitz.

Community singing was led by Mrs. Elizabeth Van Winkle.

The Duquesne University Tamburitza Orchestra, furnished by the Croation Fraternal Union of America, played both banquet and dance music. This was directed by Professor Matt L. Gouze, with Mary Verich, Amelia Pentek and Kathryn Japjec the soloists.

The Pennsylvania Fraternal Congress was founded for collaboration of common interests of the various fraternal bodies, and has been very active in endorsing and holding patriotic activities.

Attending the event in the name of the Verhovay were the Home Office officials and the employees.

THMKSfilVIIVÍÍ

Thanksgiving

By ELLEN ISABELLA TUPPER

For all that God in mercy sends:

For health and strength, for home and friends, For comfort in the time of need,

For every kindly word and deed,

For happy thoughts and pleasant talk,

For guidance in our daily walk,

For all these things give thanks.

For beauty in this world of ours,

For verdant grass and lovely flowers,

For song of birds, for hum of bees,

For the refreshing summer breeze,

For hill and plain, for streams and wood,

For the great ocean’s mighty flood,

For all these things give thanks.

For the sweet sleep that comes with night,

For the returning morning’s light,

For the bright sun which shines on high,

For stars that glitter in the sky—

For these and everything we see,

O Lord, our hearts we lift to thee,

And give thee hearty thanks.

READ YOUR

INSURANCE POLICY

Many a joke has been made concerning the long provisions, usually printed in small type, in life insurance policies.

Those provisions aren’t put there to bewilder you. They are, instead, put there to protect you, and most of them are specified by law. Their purpose is to make the life insurance contract

absolutely definite and specific. There’s no guess-work irvolved, no vagueness.

Read your policy, and understand exactly what it provides. If you have difficulty interpreting the legal phraseology, ask your Branch Secretary to explain it to you—that’s one of his jobs. . Only if you understand your policy perfectly, can you be sure you’re getting precisely what you want and need.

SAVINGS AND

INVESTMENT

“The life insurance which we. buy to protect our families often turns out to be the best investment we ever made for ourselves,” said an authority recently.

Life insurance is more than just a way of saving money. It is far and away the safest and siirest way, so far as the average man is concerned. It isn’t subject to the ups and downs of the business cycle. It comes through, right on schedule.

HARVEST MOON

Westward I look with wondering eyes;

Words cannot paint the flaming skies But lyric thought may understand

That glory over sea and land

Dusk—and the pale round moon is high

As from the forest comes a cry

Of something hunted in the dark

Where I have heard the foxes bark.

I wait under the willow tree Where you have always come to me;

There we shall lie the long night through Earth’s beauty all forgot for you!

—Amelia Nyers

(American First Serial Rights)--------------------o-------------------OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL

How many of us today have that old-fashioned passion for learning and service;

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The girl is Emilie Eisen hauer, whose ambition lec her to study law in nigh school. She is a member o the Oregon State and American Bar Associations.

This brief item is a recorc that contradicts the too öfter repeated claim that yomq people today lack the oppor tunities of the past. As í matter of fact, they have more opportunities, morr schools and a better chance of success than ever.

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