Verhovayak Lapja, 1941. július-december (24. évfolyam, 27-52. szám)

1941-09-25 / 39. szám

Page 4 Verhovayali Lapja 1941 Szeptember 25 TWO-WAY PASSAGE By LOUIS ADAMIC By virtue of their composite' international background, the American people have it, within their power to break Hitler in a short time. They can end the war and initiate a new era in the U. S., in Europe, in the world. They can do this if they decide upon an essentially simple action requiring but a few months to put into operation and costing only a fraction of the 51 billion dollars now laid out for “De­­fehse” and “Lend-Lease.” This is the point of an idea which occurred to Louis Adamic in July in connection with his “Plymouth Rock and Ellis Island”' project, familiar to those receiv­ing this announcement. The idea caused him to drop everything and write almost day and nighl for three weeks, till he produced this 300-page book of startling in­formation and conclusions about Europe and America ... and also some of his best writing. When Mr. Adamic delivered the script to his publishers, Harper & Brothers, on August 18th, he said, “I hope you can control your suspicions about my sanity till you have read it.” It instantly struck them as being of such extraordinary and far-reaching importance that, although not on their regular Fall List, the book is being rushed through the press at top speed. This is very irregu­lar publishing procedure; but time is of the essence, and copies will be in bookstores early in October. Please order your copy now. Later you will want one for everybody you know. Since it is not a scheduled publication, the book will not be in many public libraries till later in the autumn . . . but it definitely ought to be read by as many people as P9ssible, as soon as possible. It turns on a light in a darkening world. As a piece of writing, TWO­­WAY PASSAGE will give you a great “lift.’' It reads like a novel; it is a tremendous story. In parts it is at once poetry and penetrat­ing fairy-tale on the verge of becoming reality. It is no mere book. 1 It is an IDEA so unique, so packed with insight into the cur­rent American confusion relative to the war and the future of the U. S., the “old country” and the world, that it if impossible to describe briefly. Also, lest it be misunderstood, Mr. Adamic is op­posed to having it stated except in the fully developed form it assumed in his script. He refused an offer from one of the largest magazines" in America which, having heard a rumor of it, want­ed to publish extensive excerpts. The idea is so logical, so new and bold that, in a world halt mad or afraid and half apathetic, it will probably seem fantastic for a moment; as fantastic as was Mr. Adamic’s suggestion early in 1938 (in the last chapter of “My Amex-ica”) that the U. S. appro­priate immediately, that is in ’38, forty billion dollars to prepare itself against the “next war.” TWO-WAY PASSAGE is mueh more than a book. It is apt to become an EVENT on publishing date. The American people can turn the idea it contains into history. Whether they wil^ or not is another matter. Certain it is that our future depends on the emergence of an idea bigger and better than Hitler’s. Mr. Adamic offers such an idea. He says it is, not particularly his. Pieces of it exist all over the country. They merely happened to converge in his head. And, employing a unique literary form, he outlines a concrete procedure to put the idea into operation. The idea will appeal alike to sincere “isolationists” and “in­terventionists” who, as Mr. Ada­mic shows, are but two sides of the same coin. He resolves the issue between them—old-stock American and latest refugee; to Gentiles and Jews; to German and Italian Americans; to Polish. Czech, Yugoslav, Lithuanian, Dutch, Hungarian, Rumanian, Uki-ainian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Armenian, Japanese, Danish and French Americans. Mr. Adamic’s idea, if carried out, will dissolve the present sharp antagonisms between peo­ple who stem from the Axis countries and those who derive from the Hitler-held states. It will reduce to irrelevancy the question of our going into a “shooting war,” along with the present urgent calls for national unity.--------------O-------------­Radio listeners in Norway increased by 17,000 in the first six weeks this year, a record in the history of Nor­wegian broadcasting. STABILITY _ PROGRESS Careful, conservative and sound investments assure the STABILITY of Verhovay’s furds and securities, thereby giving full confidence to members and prospective members. With its assets making sizable gains year after year and its membership increasing by leap3 and bounds. Verhovay sees before itself a definite future which spells PROGRESS SOCIABILITY rather than frowned upon is regarded as essential to the well-being of Ver hovay life and activities. Verhovay’s encouragement and promotion oi sofial movements within, and among its branches is in keeping with the spirit of true FRATERNAL ISM. SOCIABILITY FRATERNALISM VERHOVAY FRATERNAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION 345 FOURTH AYE. PITTSBURGH, PA. Our South Land _______ By William. B. Yuhase —------------­Richmond, Virginia In 1927 the old Mississippi! all records, and it appeared behaved like a maddened tyrant, and the population of New Orleans realized that at last the river meant to push over or through the protection levees. After a weighty conference, it was decided to blow artificially a hole through the levee at Caernarvon, some 15 miles below New Orleans. The peo­ple of the surrounding parish were advised, promised full indemnity for their flood damages, and asked to trek into the city until normalcy returned. And then an artificial break in the levee was cre­ated and the river turned loose to flood at will. This saved New Orleans. However, one can not always go ahead and flood lands of other peo­ple, so Uncle Sam stepped in. A spot about 33 miles up river, known as Bonnet Car­re, was picked for a spill­way, because at this point the north bank of the Mis­sissippi is only about 5)4 miles from the south shore of Lake" Ponchartrain. Here the river is about 85 feet deep at low water and the levees about 33 feet high, and at this spot Uncle -Sam built an artificial spillway over 1 Vz miles long (you readers think you have a river in Pennsylvania and West Virginia). The ole time rivermen grumbled. / About half of them claimed the river would scour out the spillway and carry it along, while the other half main­tained that the river would fill up Lake Ponchartrain and be converted into a dis­mal floating prairie. We all would argue pro and con over many a pitcher of claret, and eagerly awaited to see what really would happen when the spillway was put to a test. In 1937, January, the new year was ushered in with daily continuous and heavy rains. The Ohio, fed by its tributaries, poured into the Mississippi, in fact rivermen claimed the flood above the mouth of the Arkansas broke Getting Up Nights MakesH any Feel Old Do you feel older than you are or suffer from Getting Up Nights, Backache, Nervous­ness, Leg Fains, Dizziness, Swollen Ankles, Rheumatic Pains, Burning, scanty or fre­quent passages? If so, remember that your Kidneys are vital to your health and that these symptoms may be due to non-organic and non-systemlc Kidney and Bladder trou­bles—in such cases CYSTEX (a physician's poisonous _ ___ everything to gain and nothing to lose in trying Cystex. An Iron-clad guarantee wrapped around each package assures a re­fund of your money on return of empty package unless fully satisfied. Don’t take chances on any Kidney medicine that is not guaranteed. Don’t delay. Get Cystex (Siss-tex) from your druggist today. Only 35c. The guarantee protects you. that the safe mark of 20 feet on the Carrollton gage at New Orleans would be exceeded by several feet. In the meantime all of us were itching to see our $13,-500,000 spillway spill. On January 30, 1937, about 4500 feet of the dam was opened and the river began to roll. It is amusing to see the huge river flush out about 10,000 acres of a heavy growth of water hyacinths. Prepara­tions were made to handle expected debris jams under the - railroad • and highway trestles. The spillway re­mained open until March 7th, and by the 16th the river was back to normalcy. In the meantime the ole timers were wondering what happened to Lake Ponchar­train. The river left a de­posit of 8,000.000 tons of sand. There was a little scour which caused a deep channel into lake for 500*0 feet, and thence a fill on 1 feet for 3000 feet. And the old lake was considerably muddied for 3 montTis, and its salinity reduced by the fresh water. The level of the lake was not disturbed any more than on occasions caus­ed by wind and storm. Whenever any of you read­ers are in the vicinity of New Orleans, be sure to look this huge spillway over. It is on Route 61 into the city. The vastness will amaze you. However, the idea is fairly new since Hungary tried the same method bn the Danube and Tisza about 1830.--------------o-------------­BRANCH 395 NOTICE McKeesport, Pennsylvania A special meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 30, 1941, at the regular meeting hall. Final plans for several major affairs will be discus­sed. Beginning Wednesday at 9:00 P.M., October 1, 1941, Branch 395 will inaugurate its bowling season. Palm Bowling Alleys, 607 5th Avenue, McKeesport, have been reserved for our games. Fraternally, JOHN SABO, President. Lovable Love Lyrics By JOE VARGO Middlefield, Ohio Member of Branch 248, Monaville, West Virginia pot guaranteed. Don’t Cystex tri«l9i Mill IMlip OH GEE, OH GOSH! Real love is happiness, That’s a love story’s sweet ending, And I’m lucky to possess, A prelude to a happy endinr Oh gee, oh gosh, oh gee, I’m the one who laughed at love, And now the joke’s on me! Oh gee, oh gosh, oh gee! I gave romance a lucky chance, you see, And I confess its happiness for me, As heavenly sweet as a dream complete could be: Deep infatuation is real fascination to me. Oh gee, oh gosh, oh gee, It thrills me so, ’till I don’t know, Just what will come of me, Oh gee, oh gosh, oh gee! A I’m so delighted, I’m excited. I can’t control this heart of mine. I’m waiting for the end-up, So cupid, please send up, that ending divine! JUST WE TWO Please listen to my little plea, It will just take a minute. ’Tis short as it can be, But there’s lots of love within it! Let me be your Romeo, Because you are my Juliet. That is one thing I do know, And you would never regret. We could be so happy, just we two, Caring for each other, like we do. We could dine and then we’d dance Dream and pine of romance, just we two. We could visit here and then there, We could see a World’s Fair. I’m so in love, and thinking of, just we two. What a heaven I could have with you!

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