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Verhovay Journal

October 10, 1945

VERHOV AY’S 60TH ANNIVERSARY OCCASION FOR CONTEST

(Continued from Page 1) vili find cause enough to be proud of their Association. Therefore, there will be a doublecelebration: that of the 60th anniversary and the dedication of the Verhovay Building.

It was the desire of the Directors to have all managers and fellowmembers share the joy of these two days. But it would be impossible to bring everyone to Pittsburgh Ways, and means had to be found to make it possible for many to attend the celebrations. And that's where the future comes in.

SIX MONTHS GENERAL MEMBERSHIP CONTEST

The Board of Directors decided to launch a six months membership Contest, This contest, however, is not designed to enrich the Association but to favor all branch-managers, branch-officers and fellow-members who love their Association and are interested in its activities. The only aim of this contest is to make it possible for the Association to invite a great number of its loyal members to attend the celebrations as guests of the Verhovay.

, Conditions are so easy that actu,; ally thousands could attain this .. invitation. We know that there Won’t be thousands, but VVE HOPE that we will have HUNDREDS OF GUESTS who are invited to attend at the expense of the Association.

CONDITIONS OF THE CONTEST

The contest started on October 1st, 1945 and shall end *VIurch 31, 1946, at midnight. All applications already submitted for membership certificates to be Ls.xied with October dating, are automatically credited to thoSe Who secured the new members.

All membership certificates to be issued for October, November, December, 1945 and January, February and March, 1946, shall count • in the contest, provided '' that the applications for such certificates are mailed and post'■ marked not later than midnight,

,1 March 31st, 1946.

Applications that are still pend- I ing on March 31st, 1946, due to some error made by either the contestant or the examining physician, cannot be credited to " the contestant as far as the results are concerned. The applications submitted must he approved by the Home Office in order to participate in the Contest. However, pending applications will be accepted, provided the contestant's “ or the examining physician's reply to the inquiry by the Home Office * are mailed and postmarked before midnight, March 31st, 1946, and that they are subsequently approved by the Home Office.

Often slight and seemingly insignificant errors cause delay in issuing the certificate applied for. The case may seem altogether acceptable. However, it would be difficult to determine which error is and which isn’t important. It is the only practical solution, therefore, to stick to the rule: only such applications count, in the contest which will have been mailed before midnight, March • 31st, 1946, and subsequently approved by the Home Office. Some cases remain pending for months and we cannot subject the rest of the contestants to undue delay because of such circumstances.

THREE MONTHS' DUES MUST BE PAID ON ANY NEW CERTIFICATE BEFORE IT CAN BE ACCEPTED FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST.

This is a very important condition and must be observed religiously by all contestants.

CONTEST BASED ON

AMOUNTS OF INSURANCE

For the benefit of the com testants it has been decided that the contest will be based not on the number of new members secured but on the amounts of insurance written. It is much easier to write one thousand dollar of insurance than to secure two new members each for 500 dollars insurance.

This also simplifies the procedure of crediting the contestants with whatever results they will have attained.

Note, however, that JUVENILE TERM CERTIFICATES will not be counted according to the face value of these certificates. Since these certificates are not classed '‘Ordinary” life-insurance, TERM CERTIFICATES WILL BE CREDITED ACCORDING TO THE AMOUNT OF INSURANCE WHICH COULD BE PURCHASED ON THEIR RESP. RATES. The least expensive class of Ordinary Insurance is taken as the basis for the following figures: each 15 cent Term Certificate will be counted as S109, and each 25 cent Term Certificate will be counted as $200 insurance. All the rest of the membership certificates will be figured according to their face value.

PARTICIPANTS

All branch-managers and local organizers are ex officio participants in the contest. It is not necessary for any of them to inform the Home Office as to their desire to enter the competition.

However, in accordance to the Boards desire to make this anniversary a joyous occasion for all members, ANY BRANCH OFFICER AND ANY FELLOW-MEMBER MAY PARTICIPATE AND IS INVITED TO DO SO Nonmanager contestants must announce to the Home Office that they wish to enter the contest. No special form is needed. Simply write a note to: “Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association, Mr. John Bencze, Supreme President, 345 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh 22, Pa.”, indicating that you wish to enter the contest, and you will be supplied with the necessary forms and rate-books without delay.

THE PRIZES

This contest is unusual in that the number of prizes is not limited. Thereby, the sting of disappointment is taken out of this campaign. As a rule, only a limited number of contestants are entitled to prizes and the others find themselves frustrated in their efforts since, even though they attained excellent results, they remain unrewarded because others surpassed their achievements. Undoubtedly, there are many who never entered a contest because they felt it would be useless to compete with the rather limited group of old-timers who continually appear on the winners’ list. In order to make this contest an occasion of joy for all who are willing to put some effort into promoting the cause of the Verhovay, provisions have been made to reward all contestants who achieve some measure of success. Thus this contest will end without disappointment for all participants.

THE MAIN PRIZE

As it is the desire of the Board of Directors to have as many

branch-managers, officers and members as possible, attend the celebrations on May 31st and June 1st, 1946, the main prize shall be an invitation by the Association to the Home Office in Pittsburgh for this occasion. Travelling, hotel and all other expenses will he paid by the Association. The winners will be our guests for the 60th anniversary and the dedication of the Home Office Building.

This invitation will be extended to all who wrote at least $15,000 worth of new Insurance during the six months’ period beginning October 1st, 1945. That is hut $2,500 per month, a very low requirement, the meeting of which should not be difficult to anyone.

DO YOU WANT TO COME TO PITTSBURGH?

Or course, you do. It will be a wonderful trip. An excellent and highly entertaining program will be provided. The slogan is: “Never a dull moment!”

No matter where you live, you are entitled to this prize, provided you secure $15.000 n°w insurance by March 31st, 1946. for which three months’ dues had been paid.

Don’t miss this chance of a life-time! /

TWO ADDITIONAL GROUPS OF PRIZES PROVIDED

If you write any amount of new insurance between $15,000 and $19,900, you will be the guest of the Association for the Verhovay holidays. Two additional groups of prizes have been provided. The first group of prizes will be awarded to those who succeed in securing more than $19,900 new insurance. The second group of prizes will go to those contestants who could not meet the requirement of writing at least $15,000 w’orth of insurance which is the sole condition of being the guest of the Association for the anniversary celebrations.

PRIZES FOR GO-GETTERS!

I. ALL CONTESTANTS who write at least $50,000 insurance shall be the guests of the Association and in addition receive a $50 portable typewriter or cash.

II. ALL CONTESTANTS writing new insurance in the amounts of $45,000 to $49,900 shall be the guest of the Association and receive an additional $45 in cash.

III. ALL CONTESTANTS securing $40,000 to $44,900 shall be the guests of the Association and receive $40.

IV. ALL CONTESTANTS securing $35,000 to $39,000 shall be our guests and receive $35.

V. ALL CONTESTANTS securing $30,000 to $34,900 shall be our guests and receive $30.

VI. ALL CONTESTANTS securing $25,000 to $29,900 shall be our guests and receive $25.

VII. ALL CONTESTANTS securing $20,000 to $24,900 shall be our guests and receive an additional $20.

The securing of $15,000 to $19,900 shall entitle the contestant to come to Pittsburgh for the anniversary celebration, as stated above.

CONSOLATORY PRIZES

We sincerely hope that there won’t be many who cannot meet the modest requirement which is the condition of securing the invitation of the Association for the celebration. Nevertheless, wc must realize that there will be contestants who, for some reason or other, will not be able to write $15,000 and who, therefore, cannot be invited to attend the celebrations at the expense of the Association.

Two groups of prizes have been provided for contestants whose results fall short of the minimum requirement. r

1. ) ALL CONTESTANTS securing $10,000 to $14,900 new insurance, shall receive $20.

2. ) ALL CONTESTANTS securing $3,000 to 89,900 new insurance, shall receive the framed photograph of the new; Home Office Building with a dedication by the Supreme President of the Association.

No prizes can be awarded tc contestants who do not write at least 83,000 during the next six months.

We have capitalized the words “ALL CONTESTANTS” in order to call your attention to the fact that no limits had been set to the number of awards to be made. No contestant can be deprived of the prize due to him because someone else exceeds the results to be attained by him. By the end of March 1946, every contestant will know for sure to which prize he is entitled. Every contestant can win. No one shall be disappointed. Therefore, there is no reason for anyone to be doubtful as to his chances. Every contestant writing $15,000 insurance, for instance, will receive the Main Prize regardless of how many others would exceed the results attained by him.

Actually, this is not a contest. It is a concerted membership drive in which all participants will be rewarded according to the results attained by them. The prizes are really gifts of the Association to be awarded to all w'ho are willing to do something for the expansion of the Verhovay. These provisions are in keeping with the joyous spirit of the anniversary. They were made by Directors who were prompted by the desire to make this occasion a happy one for all who prove their belief in fraternalism by advancing its cause.

A TEST OF VITALITY

This contest will be the test of Verhovay vitality. It will prove that there is a great deal of enthusiasm and ambition dormant in the membership. It will serve notice to those who doubt the future of fraternalism, that the past was only the beginning, the process of laying a foundation for immense development which is still ahead of us.

Everyone will agree that the Verhovay has a marvelous and rarely paralleled record in the field of fraternal activities. No one can doubt that by increasing the membership, the scope of these activities of the Verhovay can be extended to the benefit of the membership as well as to that of all humanitarian and patriotic interests. Therein lies the greatest challenge of this anniversary drive: the more new members we secure the more good we can do.

President Truman is a fraternalist. Senator Burton, just recently appointed to the Supreme Court is a Verhovay member w’ho, iu many instances, spoke of his membership in our Association in terms of pride and satisfaction.

There can he no doubt about it: the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association has an appeal for men and women of virion. Members who consider the Verhovay .just another “insurance”, i have never caught the spirit 'iIw* j has made the Verhovay one of ! the foremost champions of Amer- I ican thinking.

I We count on those who caught

this spirit and have the vision of great and little men who had done everything in their pow'er to make the Verhovay a truly fraternal organization, a brotherhood of men and w omen in the real sense of the word. We count on them to share with us the ambition with which we work for the advancement of the great cause of fraternalism. We count on them to go out and convince others as to the importance of fraternalism in both, national and individual life.

Fellow-members, let’s make this drive the greatest success ever attained by the Verhovay. Let’s show the world that our Association has all the vitality and ambition of youth. Let’s raise the banner of fraternalism among Americans and all nationalities.

As great as the past of the Verhovay has been, it is the past. A man may fee old when he is sixty year old, but the vitality of an organization grows with its age. We are not living in the past, we are living for the future.

And one more thing. Every branch should make an effort to have at least one contestant represent it at the anniversary celebrations and the dedication of the Home Office. Take this matter up at your meeting. Be sure that your manager enters the contest. And if he can’t do so, prevail upon the membership to appoint one to do the job. Help him. Support him. Let there be no branch which does not participate, as a group, in the contest.

The contest is on. Now we don’t say: ‘ Let the best man win.” The anniversary wall he a day of real joy if there will be a great host of winners. We want to see the entire Verhovay family represented in Pittsburgh on May 31st and June 1st, 1946. We would feel only sorrow; for those branches which submitted to apathy denying the challenge of fraternalism.

We are waiting for your applications. We are certain of your cooperation. We are sure of success. We are sure because we count on you!

And we mean—YOU!-VWORD STUDY

AREN’T I.—Strange to say there are still some people who continue to say Aren’t I for “Am I not?’’ Some writer has hit off this fad in the following poem: “The question was a poser, for In truth the gal was his.

And there was nought that he could say

But ‘Yes, my dear, you is.’ Then mother put her two-bits in, As moms do frequently;

‘Of course she are your missus,’ She chanted, ‘Aren’t she?’

Ke hung his head, unhappy chap, They had him in a jam.

Then mournfully he nodded, ‘Yes, I must admit she am,’

His spouse went on, ‘Oh, ain’t you not

My hubby?’ From afar His low voice seemed to float to her;

‘Indeed, indeed I are,’

Now thus the authors make it clear, t

And all our doubts allay,

That she is hisn, he is hern— They’re wedlocked, isn’t they?”

Diner—Hey, waiter! This chicken is hard as a rock.

Waiter—Quite naturally, sir.. It’s a Plymouth Rock.