Verhovayak Lapja, 1941. január-június (24. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)

1941-02-13 / 7. szám

Contributors’ Standings From February, 1940 to February, 1941

(Following the Bi-Monthly Journal Which Began in February, 1940.)

(“Year” Means “Bi-Monthly Year,” February, 1940 to February, 1941.)

MOST FAITHFUL BRANCH CONTRIBUTOR

(Contributed Every Month for Full Year)

Branch 164, Chicago, Illinois. Margaret Stangret, Publicity Agent.

MOST FAITHFUL INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTOR

(Contributed Every Issue for Full Year,

Amelia Nyers.

BRANCHES WHICH CONTRIBUTED EVERY MONTH FOR PART YEAR

(Restricted to Branches Which Continued to Contribute to End of Year)

Branch 36, Detroit, Michigan. Frank A. Szopko, Publicity Agent. t

Branch 278, Omaha, Nebraska. Vera Fabian, Correspondent.

Branch 366, Cleveland, Ohio. Bill Torda, Publicity Agent.

INDIVIDUALS WHO CONTRIBUTED EVERY ISSUE OR EVERY MONTH FOR PART YEAR

(Restricted to Individuals Who Continued to Contribute to End of Year)

1. Every Issue: Joseph Szentkirályi; Joe Vargo; William B. Yuhase.

2. Every Month: Betty Carol Balega; Albert Steinmetz.

BRANCH HAVING MOST CONTRIBUTORS

Branch 430, Homestead Pennsylvania. Seven: Arpad Chontos, “Treb” Hagan, Carole King, William C. Kohut, Geza Kolozsvary, Stephen J. Rotz, Andrew C. Simcho.

SPECIAL EDITORS

Betty Carol Balega, Ladies’ Page; Amelia Nyers, Children’s Page.

SPECIAL COLUMNISTS

Albert Steinmetz, Sunkist Southern California; Joseph Szentkirályi, who writes on Hungarian personages; Joe Vargo, Topics in Music; William B. Yuhase, Stamp Notes.

NEW CONTRIBUTORS

Betty Carol Balega, Josephine Edvertoski, Vera Fabian, “Treb” Hagan, Elmer Hary, “By Heck,” Sylvia Horvath, Anna Kanyusik, Carole King, Gizella Knefely, The Reporter, Stephen J. Rotz, The Silhouette, Andrew C. Simcho, Albert Steinmetz, Ethel Szajkó, Joseph Szentkirályi, Bill Torda, Marguerite Varga, Irene Vargo, Joe Vargo, Margaret Vargo, William B. Yuhase (and possible omissions).

DIRECTORS WHO CONTRIBUTED

Albert B. Ari, Frank Brogley, Dr, Joseph H, Prince.

NOTE: Contributions that were delayed are given credit both for the time of delay and the time of appearance in the Journal.

LULLABY

Last Hungarian American

Rock-a-by, my Baby Hush-a-by. my dear “Cloud ship on an ocean blue”

Father sings when he comes to you.

Rock-a-by, my Baby Hush-a-by, my dear When the sun is in the sky Mother will take you, Baby-bye.

—Amelia Nyers (American First Serial Rights)--------------o-------------HARD WINTER MEANS FIRE HAZARD

This is a hard winter. This kind of a winter inevitably gravely increases fire hazards. Old Man Statistics, turning to past precedents, can show you how many more of us will die, how much more property will be laid waste. But Old Man Statistics with his grisly figures can be beaten. We can show him that he isn’t right this time.

To take a simple illustration, a severe winter puts great strains on heating plants, stoves, etc. We pile wood and coal in the furnace, and keep the fireplace roaring. That is safe enough if our heating equipment is in good order. But that is a very big “if” indeed. Most of us tend to put off until tomorrow what should be done today. If the furnace isn’t quite right, we figure that it may get by—or that there will be plenty of time to have it fixed in the future. Maybe the chimney is throwing off a brilliant display of sparks—but we guess that there is no immediate danger.

That’s the attitude fire likes. That’s what makes Old Man Statistics’ forecasts of

To Our Contributors

Contributions intended for the February 27th issue should be in before or on February 22nd.

• No assurance of publication in particular issue can be given for material received after that date.

Civil War Veteran

CHARLES BAROTHY

This issue of the Verhovay Journal marks the first anniversary of the bi-monthly English Section.

Many changes have been wrought in the short space of one year, but we shall not enumerate them here.

Instead, we affectionately and with deep respect dedicate the First Anniversary Bi-Monthly English Verhovay Journal to venerable Charles Barothy, only living Hungarian American Civil War Veteran, with the short story that follows.

Charles Barothy was born in 1846 in Nagyvárad, Hungary. At the age of 9 he and his elder brother Géza, 11 immigrated to America with their father. The father had been a colonel under Kossuth in the Hungarian War of Independence, 1848-1849. In 1858 young Charles and his father went to Nebraska, while Géza and the mother remained in Davenport,

destruction come true. That’s why fire costs us hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

Know that your heating equipment is right—don’t guess. And that’s a job for an expert. Know too that all other fire, hazards in your home are under control, and reduced to the minimum. If you do that, this winter won’t see the end of your home—and, perhaps, the end of lives in your family.

Iowa. Later the family was reunited in Omaha, Nebraska.

As am 18 year old boy Charles joined one of the Omaha regiments on February 18, 1864, and served two years and nine months as a private. When he enlisted the recruiting officer could not pronounce “Kálmán,” Barothy’s real name, and so he called him “Charles,” and by that name Barothy entered the War.

Barothy also holds the distinction of being one of the very few Hungarian “Indian fighters,” being on one occasion a member of a military party which was sent out against hostile Indians.

It is interesting to know how we have knowledge of Mr. Barothy, for it was due entirely to fortuitous circumstances.

In 1938. the seventy-fifth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg was commemorated by the reunion in Gettysburg of the Northern and Southern armies. The groups of veterans were liberally photographed, and on one of these pictures appeared Charles Barothy. The picture was seen by a Hungarian minister who deduced from the name that the old gentleman was a Hungarian, and thus was Barothy brought to the public eye.

Mr. Barothy is married and had three children, a daughter and two sons, who died at a very early age. Dr. Arpad M. Barothy of Chicago, Illinois is a younger brother.

Mr. and Mrs. Barothy live quietly in Omaha, Nebraska.

Civil War Veteran Barothy is now about 95 years of age.

Some months ago President Joseph Darago ordered that a free lifetime subscription to the Verhovay Journal be given to old Barothy.

(Information obtained from the book “Lincoln’s Hungarian Heroes,” by Edmund Vas vary, and from private letters written by Mr. Barothy to Albert Jozik.)