Verhovayak Lapja, 1943. július-december (26. évfolyam, 26-53. szám)

1943-12-30 / 53. szám

THE HOMESTEAD MERRY-GO-ROUND I------------------------BRANCH 430 --------------------------! Page 2______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Verhovay Journal December 30, 1941 PITTSBURGH SCENES: O n Saturday j evening, Novem­ber 27, 1943, at 9:00 o’clock, The Hungarian Pro- I fessional Society .of Pitts burgh ! presented a high­ly i n t e resting program, one which will long be remembered. I know the wife and I will think back to it often. The program opened with the showing of Mr. A. Sipos’s movie on Hungary in technicolor. The film, “Colorful Hungary,” was of one hour’s duration and carried many of the audience to numer­ous of the picturesque places of Magyarorszqg. Mr. Sipos of Chi­cago, Illinois, has an excellent movie on Hungary, and the show­ing of it brought much pleasure and satisfaction to the large group in attendance at this No­vember meeting. The Society is appreciative of his generosity in making this movie available for a Pittsburgh showing. The second half of the program featured the violin playing of Mr. Theodore Zsamboky accom­panied by Miss Miriam Johnson, pianist. Mr. Zsamboky played with exquisite charm and fines­se several compositions from the Masters. His efforts as a mem­ber and an artist are deeply appreciated. The Hostess for the evening was Mrs. Lewis Diera. Refresh­ments were served in the late evening. JANUARY 7 th — ROUNDTABLE The newly elected Board of Directors will assemble in Pitts­burgh on January 7th for their first meeting. This meeting will ■ bring the Directors face to face with several important problems which require immediate solu­tion. One of the most important of these problems deals with the Supreme Auditor’s position and will really tax my good friends in their efforts to solve Even so, I am quite confident of their ability to overcome not only this obstacle but also others which have arisen. Good luck to you, Verhovay Directors! Much success in your endeavors! WAR BOND DRIVE At present a huge drive is un der way amongst all we Amer­ican Hungarians to raise $2,400,- 000 in bonds which will entitle us to name an American Hun garian Liberty Ship. Almost one half of the required amount has already been raised, and the re mainder must be subscribed to without further delay. I take this means to appeal to my friends and readers to underwrite the remainder of this required amount and really point the way to victory. Mr. John G. Toth is chairman of the American Hun­garian War Bond Committee. A bouquet should be presented to the Hungarian Reformed Fe­deration for the outstanding per formance credited to them in the purchasing of War Bonds. I believe I am safe in saying they have purchased more War Bonds BY P.F.C. WILLIAM C. KOHUT than any other Hungarian Frat­ernal organization. It was their overwhelming support in pur­chasing war bonds which made possible the recent sponsoring of a Liberty ship which bore the name of Louis Kossuth, Hunga­rian patriot. The “Louis Kossuth” was sponsored by Mrs. Morris Cukor of New York City, wife of the chairman of the War Finance Committee’s Hungarian- American section. This Liberty ship named for Kossuth was the second to be launched at the Bethlehem - Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Md. in November and was constructed in 21 days. MILITARY VIEWS A recent letter from my good friend, Lew Horton, tells me of his transfer to Camp Claiborne. He also states that “I am work­ing in the Battalion mail room and am a mail clerk helper, and like it a lot.” He also mentioned that at his new Camp they had a laundry and he’s all smiles over this ... at New Orleans Lew wrung the water out of his clothes and hung them up him­self . . . Alec Aleva, husband of Minnie Aleva, passed through this Reception Center several weeks ago and I can’t understand how I missed him. He is now at Camp Lee, with the Quartermas­ter Section . . . trust he’s doing well, too ... A recent note from Elmer Mathia, Camp Swift, dis­closes the fact that a furlough is in the offing for him and that it should fall around Christmas Holidays. I sure do hope Elmer receives it and enjoys the ten days freedom in his native De­troit . . . An interesting note ar­rived from S 2/C Bill Simon from the Advance Base Depot, Gulf­port. He certainly has been mov­ing around quite á bit lately; Camp Peary, Camp Endicott, Ad­vance Base Depot and ?? next He writes “did get to fire the carbine rifle on the range for a week and qualified as a marks­man with a score of 150 out of a possible 200.” * He has me by 4 points, he has! . . . Cpl. Jos. Repasi from Camp Bowie, Writes me, “I’ll possibly be leaving here shortly for an unknown destina­tion.” Much luck and success to my good friend, Joe . . . Sgt. Pete Kolan has been hospitalized as a result of injuring his hand dur­ing bayonet practice. He is sta­tioned at Camp Gruber . . . My friend Zoly A. Gyongyosy has recently been promoted to the grade of Corporal “somewhere in England.” This was announced by the commanding general of the Eighth Air Force Fighter com­mand. Zoly’s home is at 642 Doy­le Ave., W. Homestead . . . Sev­eral Sundays back while attend­ing services at St. Elias Gr. Cath Church in Homestead, I had the pleasure of meeting up with the Seech boys, sons of Mr. and Mrs John Seech of Terrace. Corporal William is stationed at Camp At­­terbury, and Pfc. Stephen is at Watertown, and this was their first meeting since entering the Service . . . Cousin Frank Simon from Warren, Ohio is at Sheeps­­head Bay, in training for the Merchant Marine. He enlisted ap­here or at least had their grade school education in this country! Is this not a successful advance­ment of our association ... a move to place our second genera­tion group on a higher level? Did you note the newest inser­tion to the By-laws whereby four directors must be chosen from the English-speaking group? This was not in the by-laws before. These are but the major changes brought about by the co-operation of the majority of English-speak­ing delegates to our Convention. They worked and worked hard and through this sustained effort obtained results a few of which have been mentioned in this paragraph. Let us. give credit to those deserving English-speaking members responsible for some of I the important changes enacted at our last Convention. Those who contributed little to the efforts of the English - speaking members cannot hide the fact. A HEAVENLY PRAYER A letter from John Sabo, Su­preme Auditor, brought out a very touching scene. It is about his dear ones back home, his wife, Helen, and daughter, Nan­cy. He writes that each night, Nancy tacks onto the end of her prayer, “God Bless My Daddy and Bring Him Home Safely to Me.” Well, folks, this just about floored me and brought a few tears into my eyes. I am sure that God will listen to Nancy’s prayer and bring John back sa­fely sometime in the future. “YOU MADE THE PANTS TOO TIGHT” Yes, this war has brought abou; an epidemic of tight pants anc the War Department has already taken steps to alleviate this un­comfortable condition. A1J. pant: will be altered without charge thus leaving additional room fo: bay-window expansion. It’s quit: uncomfortable when your pant are too tight . . . but those days are over, thanks to .the War De partment. MY FRIENDS I feel quite honored and pri­vileged when I can call a young nan or woman a friend of mine. iVhen this condition comes about I feel that I have gained some­thing; yes, something that can­not be taken away from mel Friendship to me are dear and extremely valued. That is why I like to make friends everywhere and retain them for life. I have always said nothing is too good for my friends, and nothing too difficult for me to do for my friends and this is so. Yet, some people fail and fail miserably when the test comes, and another friendship falls by the wayside. This is regrettable and an inex­cusable sin. But there is one thing we must always keep in mind, the world is made up of many different people. Some think seriously before acting, while others plunge themselves without any thought or foresight into a sad, deplorable state. U. S ARMY-SURPRISES! Yes, the Army is full of sur­prises and we can expect them daily. If they do not come in one form they will make their ap­pearance in other ways. There is nothing as uncertain today as one’s position in the Army. Today you are at this Camp and pos­sibly tomorrow you might find yourself writing a new return address on your letters. This has happened and happened quite often. One of these days I, too, might find myself in the same position. However, come what may, I’m prepared to follow the dictates of my Commanding Of­ficers and do everything in my power towards helping win the current war. Whatever orders is­sued me will be followed out like a soldier by a soldier! JOY TO THE WORLD . . . J I would like to sing out loud and clear the tune “Joy To The World . . .” so that all my friends and readers could receive this message of mine at this time of Christmas spirit and cheer. How­ever, I must return to my column to wish all of my good friends, Verhovay officials, Home office employees, organizers and many others, Verhovay member friends, others of my friends and relativ­es, A VERY, VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A SMASH­ING, HAPPY AND PROSPER­OUS NEW YEAR! SEASONS QREETINQS and A VICTORIOUS 1944 Standard Office Supply Co. STATIONERS PRINTERS RENSHAW BLDG.PITTSBURGH, PA. CALL: ATlantic 6718 for PROMPT AND CHEERFUL SERVICE proximately five weeks ago and a card from him claims it to be a good life . . . Lou Pastor, for­merly of Munhall, Pa., is now stationed at Camp Grant, in a medical unit—he will commence his basic training at this Camp. Lots of luck . . . Pvt. Julius Kon­dás with whom I talked several months back here at Meade has finally turned up—in North Af­rica—had the good fortune to meet Benny Toboz while home the last time. Benny has been given an honorable discharge be­cause of an injury received dur­ing manuevers—not long ago a Military Police private was alert- I Q ed for overseas duty and just c had to call his girl friend in Ala- ^ bama. From Fort Meade to Ala- c barna is quite a distance and the call is costly but even so he called her and talked with her for a while and then told her j very gently of leaving for over- \ seas duty. She collapsed when she 1 heard the news and didn’t come a to for quite sometime. Her boy c friend held the wire not knowing I what had happened until he got ] tired and hung up the receiver, e His total bill came to $33.00. The ] climax came a short time later J when a telegram arrived from his 1 girl telling him she was sorry 1 she had fainted but that didn’t ] redeem the $33.00 . . . Bert Kon- ; dis is now somewhere in the South—not far from his brother, Eugene, Air Student ... A greet­ing came to me from 1st Lt. Wm. A. Suto from the neighborhood of the Fiji Islands—it depicts na­tives climbing the graceful, sleek cocoanut palm . . . Watch for my next column for additional views from the military. Up to now my mail has been coming in good from my good friends in all branches of the service. 2nd GENERATION FORGES AHEAD I was most pleased with the re­sults obtained for we second-gen­eration American Hungarians by those young men and women who represented us at the Convention held in September at Pittsburgh. The younger generation, in my estimation, contributed an out­standing performance to the Con­vention and really gave concrete evidence of their success. Yes, the majority of delegates representing English-speaking Branches ful­filled their responsibilities well. Our younger generation was definitely recognized through the election of my good friend and worker, John Sabo, to the office of Supreme Auditor. This was an outstanding event ... a colossal happening ... an opening of a new era but only at Verhovay. Note the other Hungarian Frater­­nals! Have they in their midst a young man holding office from second generation as we have in John Sabo. This is very easily answered by a polite, “No.” Yet, some will have you believing that little or nothing was accomplish­ed by our second generation American Hungarians at our last Convention. How about the vic­torious battle resulting in a de­claration to the effect that only those can be elected delegates to P!r»n\7ivn+i<-vn wirr» ur&ra hnrn

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