Verhovayak Lapja, 1940. július-december (23. évfolyam, 27-52. szám)
1940-07-25 / 30. szám
VERHOVAY SPORTSMEN BRANCH 164 ------------------ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS -----------------Page 8_____________________________V erhovayak Lapja Several weeks ago, an editorial written in Hungarian by our chairman, Mr, Darago, attracted my attention. In this brilliantly written editorial, our Mr. Darago approved Branch 96, one ot the oldest and biggest Chicago Branches, for publishing “The Verhovay Organiser.” This little paper published by our neighboring branch is a 100% Verhovay paper. it is published first and all iu the interest of Verhovay; It is published to inform Branch 96 of the local doings; and it is published to bring the Chicago branches closer together. In all, as I said before, it is published by Verhovay for Verhovays. Several years ago when I started to write my articles for the Verhovay Journal, I believed that this panér was published for the same reason as the little paper from Brauch 96. I’m sure, several years ago, we did have a Verhovay paper, a fraternal paper, but today, and it is a conclusion, our paper tends only to make unknown friends, unknown enemies. I believe, if not physically but mentally, I can take up the fight with Mr. Jozik, oi* with Betty Carol-Balega, who is an unknown, or even with Mr. Huzianyi. Vm not the fighting kind but it is my duty to fight for some 359 good Verhovay members who selected me as their publicity agent. 1 know I hare many excontributors on my side, so I am ready to give my last answer in this paper to the “unknown Betty” and company'. My only argument is that a fra ternal paper like the Verhovay Journal should contain nothing but fraternal matters I enjoyed your “Melancholia”, Betty, but I would much prefer a poem written about a membership org'anizer in our fraternal journal. Please come and tell us how many new members you have brought into our organization. I can proudly say I have done and am doing my share to help our bxanch grow bigger and better.—And if this is “chitchat” then our Mr. Darago is all wrong in his ideas. Write-ups about Hungary from our members are very interesting and I believe our members of other nationalities enjoyed them, but the time we read our frater nal Journal, we are not interested in any nation’s history, not even our owrn. Fifty and some years ago the Verhovay was organized by several good Hungarian coal miners. Now, I even knew that- the majority of them came from Abauj Megye. Today with nearly 45,000 members, the Verlwray organization has several thousand members who are not Hungarian but of other nationalities. The English Edition was published for them and the second generation who are not well acquainted writh the Hungarian language. For example, my husband is not a Hungarian. For three years he read the English Edition of our Verhovay paper with interest if articles, for instance, from Branch 464, Beaver Falls, Pa., appeared, out he has absolutely no interest in an article titled “The Hypocritical Czechs.” He, like the other non-Hungarian members, are good Americans, and jf we must publish articles other than fraternal life, let’s write about our own "Stars and Stripes.” There is no argument to this. I’m happy to announce that the management of Branch 164 has seriously taken up the matter to imitate our good neigbors, Branch 96. As I said, there is a movement to raise a neat sum of money for a real Verhovay paper (perhaps a Verhovay Flash) which will serve fraternity. The editors will do their share to make Verhovay history. It will go in new homes where Verhovay is not yet appreciated; It will go to old Verhovay homes in our big home town and other places where members are* eager to know- what other Verhovay members are doing. Doing so, I will give away our small place in the Journal to our modernistic contributors who have more interest in “The Humorous Vein” than articles written for the growth of our organization. In conclusion, I have to thank Mr. Jozik for making a headliner out of me, hut I’d gladly, to be sincere, turn these so-called honors over to the “unknown Betty Carol Balega.” No further comment on this subject will be made by me. * * * MEETINGS As previously arranged, there was no meeting for the Sportsmen in July, nor will there be any in August because of the warm weather. , However, on the first Friday of every month, accommodations have been made whereas dues wilt be payable at 333 W. North Avenue For your own sake, do not fall back in your dues. * * * SOCIAL ACTIVITIES Branch 164 attended the Chicago Rákóczi Picnic held as usual in Riverview Park on July 4th. A large representation attended the Hungarian Catholic Church picnic and enjoyed themselves. Unfortunately, I wasn’t present at the Hungarian Reformed Church Picnic, but I am informed that many senior and junior members were present. * * * VACATIONS Vacation time is here. Our president, Louis Fodor, his wife Marge and Baby Snookie are spending a few weeks in the Wisconsin Woods with Louis Molnár, his wife Mary . and Baby Corky. I hope Mary has joined our organization, if for no other reason than to make their camp 100% Verhovay. Our new member, Mrs. Carponyi (Charlie’s wife), and her baby are spending their vacation in southern Illinois. Of course, Charlie is there, too. Sister Blondie Balog will join them later. A1 and Erv Tury have just returned from touring the Western Hemisphere in their new Chevrolet. Chuck “Big Stoop” Dobra has just returned from visiting somewhere in Ohio. Vacation time was no fun for Ann Chizmadia. Doctors kept her away from having a good time. Elsie Ujlacky and Andy Risko are using our big lake front for vacation grounds. Johnny Koyacs and the young Mrs., Barbara Palla to you, are in Joliet, Illinois, visiting her parents. Barbara’s sickness has kept her away from us for a couple of weeks and we hope she will get well soon. * * * SPORT Unfortunately the All-Star game I announced in our last issue was postponed for reasons known only by our senior secretary. I'm positive that our baseball team will play the M. Y. 0. at their picnic August 18th in Nomak’s Grove, and if we can take South-side Johnny’s word, the team will play the H. A. S. A. C.’s on August 11th somewhere out south. To date our team has played twelve games, winning seven and loosing five. The main trouble on the field is the lack of interest shown by some players in their failure to show up at all games. The captain, Frank Kantor, can not guarantee placing all ball players in every game, but he is trying his best to be fair to all you fellows. Let’s give him all the cooperation we can and show the world we are good sports if we win or loose, and when we play or just warm the bench. Bob Zubor’s fielding should be remarked upon. Any ball hit out in his direction is as good as out because of his wonderful fielding ability. True, he did miss one ball in center field during the last game that caused a run to come home for the other team, but he got right back in the game by hitting a beautiful double, scoring two runs for our side. Marv Kunstadt may be laughed at, at times, because of his silly antics, but in the last game he had three hits in three times at bat. Any one that missed the i game played on July 16th did not get a chance to see some remarkable base running. After hitting a double Marv tried to make third base. Sliding in at third he knocked the third baseman out of line for the ball. As the baseman ran to get the ball, Marv picked himself up and ran for home as if a band of bees were chasing him. The final scene at home plate found Marv laying on the plate with the catcher from the other team right on top of him. Believe me, that was a run well earned. * * * FLASH NO. 1 Congratulations to Albert Tury. He did it again. It’s another new member, which makes about five he brought in during the last two years. How about your kid brother, Al, what does it take to get him started ? FLASH NO. 2 Congratulations to our Mary LeBan. Her diamond engagement ring looks right at home on her finger, and I do hope the telephone service will improve now. FLASH NO. 3 Congratulations to Mrs. Carl Szabó, the former Mary Kantor (Frankie’s big sister). She now holds the responsible position of Keypunch operator in the Auditing Department of the Bell Telephone Company. July 25, 1940 DEARBORN HIGHLIGHTS By THE FERRET It’s amazing what a storm of criticism a few personal opinions can raise! At that, I’d rather be criticized than entirely ignored. However, I still stand by my original opinions that the change in the Journal was done much too rapidly and without warning. I agree with the Editors and some of the critics who have raised a voice against me, that the Journal was becoming too heated in the dirt that was being thrown at one another, but you must admit, with some honesty, that there were several good columns of the gossip variety that had a bit of wit and satire mixed in that kept the readers looking forward to the next issue. Honesty impels me to recall my original statements in saying that the Editors failed in their experiment for a better Journal. It IS becoming much better, with short stories etc., but I still feel that several of our columnists who wrote gossip columns are sadly missed by the majority of readers. I’d rather not mention names here, but I miss a certain old friend who helped me start the ball rolling and who must be deeply hurt at having his articles cut. I, too, had articles cut to the point where I’d rather not have had any printed at all, but come on, let’s give Ye Ed a chance to prove the experiment for all it's worth. I would like to add in closing, that to date we have never had another old Hungarian tale. Ye Ed clamors for constructive criticism, and when such criticism is given it is entirely ignored. I love stories—don’t we all? The satires written by John ‘Dirk” Fulop is exactly the type of article I dote on writing. With Ye Ed’s permission, I'll burrow into a hole and see if I can’t write a satire worthy of the Verhovay Journal. I am sending along an article by one of my members, George E Kuritar, which was good enough to be published in the Detroit Free Press in the “Letters to the Editor" column. I hope you all like it: June 12, 1940 To the Editor: I vigorously agree with this nations’ defense program in preparation for a possible invasion of this continent by the so-called “Brute Force” element in the FLASH NO. 4 Congratulations to Paul Kantor for bringing his kid brother into our organization. How about the kid sister, Paul? FLASH NO. 5 Summer is here and I'm out for fish stories. Fishing being a major sport with my husband Tony, I have taken it up too, but the only bites I get are mosquito bites. FLASH NO. 6 Frank, Marv, and Steve (Kantor, Kunstadt, and Risko) spent 36 hours at the lake front, and the only thing they caught was a bawling out from their respective parents. * * * I’m off now for a dip in the lake, so until next month I close. Just me, MARGARET STANGRET 1427 S. Sawyer Avenue Chicago, Illinois Publieitiy Agent. world. It is a certainty that we must be prepared/ and also that we must give every possible aid to those nations fighting for freedom and democracy. We have been so busy at thinking of defense that we are overlooking the best solution to the horrible state the world is in today. We realize that democratic forms of government would be best for the world at large. If the allies lose this war to the dictatorships, this continent will he faced with grave danger. Our efforts at self defense would not be adequate against the combined strength of the victorious dictators who have set out to conquer the world. We must then, assume that the world is not large enough to hold both democracies and dictatorships. It seems that there can not he a lasting peace among the nations until one or the other is in complete control. Because we are a peace loving nation, it has not occurred to us to prepare an offensive move in the direction of an ultimate democratic world. The time is here when America can play a very important part in aiding the world to rid itself of the hatemonger dictators. Within another year and a half, due to the lack of cultivation in the lands throughout Europe, there will be a great famine. It matters not who wins the war, the people of those nations will be without enough foods for their needs. Now, along with our defense preparations, why don’t we set to work on every available acre of ground, raising a great surplus of food? This will prove to be the strongest weapon possible for bringing about a world condition to suit our ideas. ,It may seem to many, that taking advantage of a famine would be a heartless course of action, but that could not be as brutal as the modern “Blitzkrieg” of today. For our safety and for the salvation of the w-orld, America finds herself in a position to prepare and produce a “Wheatskrieg” that will put the German “Blitzkrieg” to shame. —G. K. VERHOVAY CHILDREN’S DAY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS A Family Basket Picnic, featuring CHILDREN’S DAY will be held by Branch 96. Chicago, Illinois, at Jurgensen’s Woods in Thornton, Illinois, Sunday, August 25, beginning at 10 a. m. Games and contests of various kinds have been planned for the entertainment of the children as well as their parents, and there will be free refreshments for the children. For the convenience of those not coming in cars, buses will leave West Pullman at intervals. Information about time and place to board buses will appear in a later issue of this paper. Admission is FREE. FOLLOW THE ARROW TO THE VERHOVAY CHILDREN’S DAY PICNIC.
