Verhovayak Lapja, 1944 (27. évfolyam, 1-52. szám)
1944 / Verhovay Journal
TJerhovayJournal VOL. XXVII. FEBRUARY 24, 1944 NO. 8 THE FREEDOM OF MANKIND • The Allied Nations are engaged in a war for the freedom of mankind. They want a state or condition being free and unoppressed by tyrant rulers. The Allies do not want the whole world to be bound by the restrictions which the dictators have imposed upon their own subjects, helpless human beings whom they have enslaved to their dictatorial power. For man was born a free agent with the right to choose his own way of living, as long as that way of living does not hurt his neighbor in any way, or cause him unhappiness. Down through the ages has come the teachings of ancient wise men—men who have tried to liberate their fellow-creatures in the past—the teaching that man was born free and his is the right to choose whether or not he will rise to the heights or sink in the mire. It is the individual’s will to walk among the stars dreaming his visions of happiness, or to walk the earth as a lowly creature of dust. But it is a good thing that the majority desire to scale the heights and the ones who do not wish to advance along cultural lines are in the minority. No man has the right to interfere in another’s life, either to make or mar it; for each has the divine right to live according to the dictates of his own conscience. All we can do is give suggestions to our fellowmen, if they are not living according to the dictates of society; but we have not the right to order him to change his fixed habits and live his life the way we think he ought to live it- It would be against his nature to change his life to suit our plans. And if he is not a criminal, we should follow the old adage: “Live and let live.” IP THOMAS J. VARGA RECEIVES PROMOTION Aviation Student Thomas J. Varga, son of late Supreme Treasurer Michael J. Varga, has receptly bden promoted from Flight Lieutenant to Second in Command of Squadron B. Tom is stationed at Fenn College in Cleveland and is now completing his training there, will be sent to pre-flight school shortly. He recently made his trial flight and writes that flying is the thing — for now and “after”. Tom went into service after a year at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind. But today it is impossible for men to live in freedom—to enjoy their right to happiness and to build for the future. For dictators have ruled otherwise. These perverted powers are engaged in a battle of destruction and are sweeping the whole world with their evilness. For a while they want them to be. These unscrupulous men have taken the lives of other men into their hands and taken away all their human rights—their right to live in peace and laugh in a free world. There are daily tragedies taking place all over the world. The cries of bleeding men on the battlefields, the sobs of abused women and the wailings of hungry children in occupied countries must end sometime in the near future. It would not be right if this condition were to continue much longer. For there are still men left in this w'orld who de-, sire the freedom of mankind and j are devoting their lives to this j good cause—to see that all men \ will be liberated from tyranny j and will be permitted to live their own life and make their own happiness after this conflict is over. It is so strange that dictators have not learned from the mis-IN A QUIET PLACE In a quiet place I gaze and admire The rising sun like a big ball of fire; It’s a sight to be seen and loved by all— Those rose-tinted clouds and that big orange ball; It’s a flaming model no artist can hire. It’s lovelier than a tune on a lyre, And I wish I could buy that big ball of fire; But to see it each day costs nothing at all In a quiet place. I am not wrong about the ball of fire, For as it rises high and higher It’s beauty is not decreased at all, Up there in the sky where it seems to grow smaV; Then late in the day the sun does retire In a quiet place. —GENE GERGELY, Newark, N. J. CORRECTION In the February 10th issue appeared a write-up in which it was stated that Lieutenant Doroihy Valent, Wac, and her brother Joseph Valent are members of Branch 114, Cleveland. We wish to correct ah error-Branch 114 is located in Cincinnati, Ohio and not in Cleveland. The “Flying Ambulance” Pfc. John Nagy, United States Marine Corps, of Prudence, West Virginia, made the supreme sacrifice at St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, December 21, 1942. Pfc. Nagy was a member of Branch 25, Mt. Hope, W. Va. Since January 1st, 1944, the miners have increased their War Bond purchases and have made a request to the United States Treasury Department that the purchases they have made since January 1st, and the buying of Bonds during the Fourth War Loan Drive, g o toward the naming of a ‘Flying Ambulance’ named in honor of the first American- Hung arian Verhovay hero from the ranks of the miners. The Branch Managers of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association are recording the number of War Bonds the miners are purchasing and hope they reach the amount of $110,000 needed to purchase an ambulance to name in honor of Pfc. Nagy by the end of the Fourth Loan Drive. takes of their predecessors. For history is full of the tyrannts who lived long ago and who enslaved the human race. History also relates their complete downfall_ their utter destruction. Yet modern dictators think they are infallible—indestructible and that they will live forever, this in spite of the fact that they are but weak human beings, subjects to all the laws of nature’s evolutionary processes. For they are given just so many years of life, the same as other human beings, yet they have made plans for a tyrannized world as though they were to live forever. What a blessing that they will live only a certain number of years; but what a misfortune that the few years they are allotted are spent in making miserable the lives of so many millions of human beings. The evils they are inflicting upon the human race will pass away in time, together with the tyrannts, but the good created by God in the beginning will survive forever. When the dictators have been vanquished the human race will rise once more out of the savage state in which they have been plunged and they will walk the earth as free men—men who can work out their destiny in their own way, unhampered by the dictates of a few men maddened by the desire for power. For no man has the right to be master of another human being no matter how much wealth and worldly power he may possess. The day is not too far distant when the world will again be peopled with free men. VERHOVAY SERVICE MAN VISITS HOME OFFICE On Tuesday, February 15th, John R. Kuknyo, MOMM 3/C P. O., U. S. Navy, visited the Home Office of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association, Pittsburgh, Penna. 3/C Petty Officer Kuknyo was on his way to his ship when he stopped in to say “Hello!” to the Home Office Staff. He is a member of Branch 96, Chicago, 111., and before joining the U.S. Navy, made his home in Chicago. John .expressed his surprise at the fog in Pittsburgh and stated that' if he ever visits London he will know what to expect. “I’m wondering”, he went on to say, “if I should just cut an opening in the fog to get through, or should I swim through it or just take it easy and float ” Then he said, “I’ve always made my home in Chicago before joining the U. S. Navy, and I think it is a wonderful town!” Wherever your destination may be, 3/C Petty Officer John R. Kuknyo, the Officers and employees of the Home Office Staff wish you the best of luck and health and thank you for your visit.
