Verhovayak Lapja, 1945 (28. évfolyam, 1-52. szám)
1945 / Verhovay Journal
Page 4 Verhovay Journal January 10, 1945 Verhovay Journal Journal of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Ass’n OFFICE OF PUBLICATION 8502 West Jefferson Ave Detroit, Michigan PUBLISHED SEMY MONTHLY BY THE Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association Managing Editor: JOHN BENCZE Editor: COLOMAN REVESZ Editor’s Office 345 FOURTH AVENUE ROOM 805 PITTSBURGH, PA. All articles and cnanges ot address stiould be sent to tue VERHOVAY FRATERNAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 345 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH '-A. Un‘ted States and Canada Foreign Countries $1.00 a yea' $1.50 a yea. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT: P O. BOX 1. WOOLSEY STATION — LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Detroit, Michigan, under the Act of March 3 1879. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS! MERGER OF BRANCHES GARY, INDIANA All members of Branch 371, Gary, Ind., are notified herewith that this Branch merged with Branch 138 of Gary,*Ind. Due to the merger Branch 371 has ceased to exist and all members of the same branch are now members of Branch 138. All dues are to be paid to, and all other transactions pertaining to the Association are to be conducted with the Manager of Branch 138, Gary, Ind., Mr. Julius Danch, 1164 Pierce Street, Gary, Ind. CLEVELAND, OHIO All members of Branch 512 of Cleveland, Ohio, are notified herewith that the branch has dissolved. Members of this Branch have been transferred to Branches 50 and 54 resp., according to their preference. Members of the former Branch 512 are requested to deal in future with the manager of the Branch of their own selection. Manager of Branch 50, Mr. Alex Széchy, 382 East 123th Street, Cleveland, O., and Manager of Branch 54, Mrs. Emery Pálinkás, 2809 East 79th Street, Cleveland, O., welcome the new members of their branches and assure them of their whole-hearted cooperation. © O O MONTHLY REPORTS With the beginning of the New Year it seems advisable to re-state the rules pertaining to the handling of the monthly Reports and branch payments. Your attention is called to the rule that all reports and payments must be in by the 25th of each month. However that does not mean that monthly reports should not be sent in at an earlier date. If at all possible, please, mail your reports and payments earlier than the 25th of the month. As a rule, monthly reports arrive by the hundreds around the end of the month causing a serious jam. The sending out of the Supreme Treasurer’s receipts suffers much delay when that happens. • Managers are urged to observe the following requests: Monthly reports consisting of several pages should be put in alphabetical order and folded together, not separately page by page. The emlpoyee, handling the incoming mail, loses much time by putting the monthly report sheets in proper order. Monthly reports arriving by the hundreds cause serious delay in the distribution of the mail and, consequently, in the task of the auditing and bookkeeping department. When using a stapler, please don’t clip the juvenile and senior monthly reports together. They have to be separated in the receiving department as the juvenile monthly reports are sent to the Juvenile Department and the senior monthly reports to the Senior Department. Never use a stapler on checks. Some managers have the habit of fastening the checks, treasurer’s slips and monthly reports together with a stapler. Precious time is wasted and delay is caused by such procedure because the checks and slips have to be carefully separated. Please remember that the monthly reports are sent to the bookkeeping department, the treasurers’ slips to the auditing department and the checks and money orders to the treasurer. If you have a stapler, join with the instrument the monthly reports in the proper order — but keep the Juvenile Order Monthly reports seperate from the Senior Order Monthly Reports—and fasten the treasurer’s slips to the checks by using clips. When sending in branch-payments on several checks and money orders, please list them on the back of the treasurer’s slip to avoid mistakes. Do not send cash! Always use checks or money orders. CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE H.O. Many branch-managers have the habit of writing about various matters on the same sheet of paper. Sometimes a single letter contains subject-matter pertaining to five or more departments. In that case, the employee handling the incoming mail either uses scissors cutting the letter into so many small slips as there are departments to which the various matters belong, or if that cannot be done, sometimes because the letter is written on both sides of the paper, the letters must be circulated among the various departments. Naturally, the last department receives the letter much later than the first. Please use separate sheets of paper for each matter that is dealt with. Sick benefit and death benefit matters, questions relating to new members, monthly reports, reinstatement, branch-payments, organizational matters are I all handled by different departments. If you write your questions concerning such various matters on separate sheets, your letter will be attended to without delay and the information requested will be forthcoming immediately. There is no objection to your mailing the various sheets in the same envelope, only use separate sheets of paper for each subject. Your cooperation will assure you of a speedy and efficient handling of all your problems. Fraternally THE HOME OFFICE Fraternaiism-Fraternalist Followers of the Golden Rule An Address by J. JOSEPH ROSSBOTTOM Before the New Jersey Fraternal Congress (We re-print this lecture from the December issue of “The Fraternal Monitor” because we believe that it will help create a better understanding of the fraternal principles which are the foundation of our organization. It would be well if all our members would take it to heart resolving on this New. Year’s Day to help realize the high purposes of fraternalism.) A real fraternal society is based on the realities of the Golden Rule to “do unto others as you would that they should do unto you” and membership therein is supposedly predicated on the character and integrity of the applicant but sometimes membership is sought and often gained by some who desire to use such membership lor their personal gain. Such a member is rut a credit to the Society but, on the contrary becomes a liability—and his actions becoming known to non-members are apt to deter good material from joining. 1 have had numerous instances, as perhaps you have, where members of some of the Societies of which I am a member have sought to get me to use my influence for further some scheme of theirs or to do something to them which, to me, didn’t seem proper. On my refusal to entertain such a proposition I later heard that I was criticized as a non-frater,nalist. I believe we sh uld do what we can for our fellow members, as we are then living up to the teachings of fraternalism but, in no way, can a just interpretation of the word require you tó do things that are unethical of illegal. As respects cur duties—-attend as many meetings of your society as' possible. You not only lend moral support to the officers, but you may be in a position to enlighten the members on a subject that is before them for discussion. To visit the sick or distressed is another paramount duty; always bearing in mind that a kind word, as well as an evident interest in the ill or distressed person serves a far better purpcse than flowers around the deceased member’s bier. It is our duty to so live and act in our home life as well 3s in business as to justify our calling ourselves iratemalists, thereby demonstrating to the outside w. rid that fraternalism is an asset and not a liability to the nation. We are all prone to make mistakes and perhaps commit a grievous error but it isn’t meet and proper for us to immediately condemn the individual, on the contrary, we should look into all aspects of the matter and endeavor to be of assistance. There are two sides to every question and we should get all the facts before making decision. It may be, that without condoning the alleged error, we may learn that certain ciijpumstances were the eause of the individual’s misstep (perhaps his first) imd we may be the ultimate result of his getting back to normalcy and be a good and Valued citizen as well as fraternalist. It is sn undeniable fact, that Fraternal Societies are continually aiding their members [n many ways, but it is done so quietly that even neighbors are not aware where the assistance comes from. Some call this charity but I don’t, as I reconcile that word as synonymous with dole—I call it duty—It is our duty, to help, aid and assist our fellow members to the best of our ability and to do it in a gracious manner. Fraternalism must continue its beneficent purposes and strive to further the education of the uneducated, as well as promulgating the difference between right and wrong. Thus may we all be living examples cf that wonderful motto—“The Fatherhood of God and the Broterhood of Man.” We should all thank GOD that we are living in a country where fraternalists are permitted to freely assemble in meetings, a privilege leng denied to many in foreign lands. Therefore, let us rededicate our lives to the teachings and tenets of fraternalism and one and all solemnly vow to be a better fraternalist than in the past.---------------v---------------THE SAD QUEEN OF THE DANUBE- (Continued from Page 1) trophe. The farming people of Hungary have clamored for land reform throughout the last century, ever since Kossuth took definite steps in that direction. Had Kossuth won the war for independence, the landrefarrn would have taken place a century ago and would hqve developed democratic thinking to an extent that would have placed the Hungarian nation amongst the most advanced in the world. Hungary is a traditionally advanced country as far as the arts and sciences are concerned. Budapest is the symbol of that advancement. And now, with the tragedy of Budapest, ' the will of survival of the Hungarian people takes another direction which it should have taken long ago. Undoubtedly the provisional government means business. lj the Allied powers grant the people of Hungary sufficient living space and support the provisional government in its endeavours then Hungary may arise from its grave as a new nation in the realization of a democratic system. The glamorous buildings along the banks of the Danube may be in ruins. But the program of the provisional government seems to indicate that re-building will begin elsewhere. It will and should begin in the slums and the villages where medieval conditions still prevail. If that happens, Budapest may never regain its beauty but the people of Hungary will attain greater happiness than ever was their lot. Arts and sciences are great things. But they should not belong only to a selected class but to the entire nation. The Queen of the Danube may lose her crown but if her people attain a better living within a truly democratic system then her present tragedy may be the beginning of a new life, akin to the American way of life, which we would be so happy to see realized for the long suffering people of Hungary.
