Verhovayak Lapja, 1946 (29. évfolyam, 1-52. szám)

1946 / Verhovay Journal

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Verhovay Journal

Journal of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Ass’n OFFICE OF PUBLICATION

8502 West Jefferson Ave. Detroit 17, Mich.

PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY BY THE Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association

Managing Editor: JOHN BENCZE Editor: COLOMAN REVESZ Editor’s Office:

436—442 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 19, PA.

Telephone: COurt 3454 or 3455

All articles and changes of address should be sent to the VERHOVAY FRATERNAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION 436 —442 FOURTH AVENUE, PITTSBURGH 19, PA.

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Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Detroit, Michigan under the Act of March 3, 1879.

THEY SHALL BE REMEMBERED FOREVER

The 190 young men, sons of the Verhovay, sacrificed to the blood-thirsty Moloch of War . . . they shall be remembered forever. The fathers and mothers of these 190 so.ns, their heartbreak, their sorrow, their weeping, thir tragedy • . . shall be remembered forever. The long line of young war-widows and their fatherless little children, their loneliness, their struggles, their bitter losses . . . shall be remembered forever.

The world alreadv seems to forget ... In the mad scramble for advantages at home and for booty on the international scene, the sacrifices and losses of millions are pushed into the background. The survivors of the great holocaust, after a brief tribute to the unknown hero, dismiss the tragic memories of the terrific conflict even before the smoke of battle would have settled over the rums of devastated lives . . . The promises by which these heroes had been led to the slaughter, are forgotten ... the hopes which were held before the eyes of the enslaved nations, are forgotten ... the future for which more than 300,000 American men, among them 190 óf oiur own family, had given their lives, is forgotten . . • Unconditional surrender was demanded of the enemy, but now WE are slowly» step by step SURRENDERING our war-aims, our hopes, dreams and ambitions . . . This country, gloriously defended by

millions of heroic young men, is now the defenseless victim of expediency and compromise . . . BUT LET the peace-makers forget the horrible cost of victory • . . let them forget all that has been promised by those who survived only because others were willing

to die for them . . . let them forget the anguished cries of the

Wounded and dying ... let them forget the heartbreak and agony of

every father, mother, wife and child whose beloved died in the defense of liberty, equality, justice and all those freedoms and precious rights that had been promised, nay, guaranteed to their survivors .. « let them forget the ‘‘better world” for which our heroes were supposed to have died . • . WE OF THE VERHOVAY SHALL FORGET NOTHING!

These heroes shall be remembered forever! And their undying memory will make us remember with all the bitterness of disappointment and reproach everything they were supposed toi have died for) We shall remember the promises of post-war prosperity! We shall remember the promises of a nation united in the effort of building a happier post-war world! We shall remember the Four Freedoms, the Atlantic Charter, and all those promises for the breaking of

which our generation will be accused and condemned by all those

future generations which will have to pay for our folly like we had to pay for the folly of our predecessors. WE WILL NEVER FORGET! WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER! And unless our nation amends its ways by solemnly deciding to live up to all those promises by which our soldiers had been led, unless both the victorious and liberated nations awaken to their responsibilities and make good those treaties which had brought victory to the United Nations, our remembering will never cease to be a source of shame to all of us,

who trusted, believed, and witnessed the massacre of the flower of

the nation.

The Verhovay Building, dedicated to the memory of 190 Verhovay members who had died for the cause of human liberties, stands as a symbol of our protest against the repudiation of our war-aims and the impoverishing of the American nation by interests opposing post-war reconstruction and the free pursuit of happiness by ALL groups and classes of the people.

And from here we go out from city to city, from town to town, to raise the flag of Verhovay remembrance calling upon the spirit of our heroic dead to remind us and our fellow-citizens of the sacred obligations which cannot be denied because they had ben sealed by the lips of dying men all over the world.

We go out to visit the towns where bereaved families weep for their sons who will never return and for those who did return but can never again recapture the joy and hope of living. And' in these cities and towns we present the survivors of our heroes with their portraits on which their youthful smile, their attractive feaVerhovay Journal

tures, their loving expression., captured by a great artist, are preserved for those who sorrow for them ...

This act is symbolic of the vividness of our remembrance. Time cannot touch, alter, age or dim the features of these men, because their memory has been rendered imperishable by the artist. Nor can time ever alter or dim our recollection of those noble purposes, hopes and assurances that had been printed, preached and broadcast at us, day and night, for fovur long years.

The memory of our heroes will preserve our remembrance of the causes for which they had given their lives. The memory of our heroes will preserve our determination to remain loyal to these causes never yielding our will for their attainments to expediency and compromise* By their untimely death responsibility for these causes has been laid upon the shoulders of those who survived. These men never stopped struggling, fighting, not even when all the chances were against their survival. Shall we stop? CAN WE STOP? CAN WE MEEKLY ACCEPT THE DEFEAT OF THE CAUSE FOR WHOSE

VICTORY THEY HAD RENOUNCED ALL THE JOY AND HAPPINESS OF LIFE AND EVEN LIFE ITSELF? No—we cannot be THAT LOW! We cannot and shall not permit our lives to become a shameful contrast to the glory of consecration to the noblest cause that ever moved human hearts, shining upon the faces of those who will forever be remembered as martyrs for the cause of human liberties . . .

Indeed, when presenting the portraits of our hero dead to their bereaved kin, we express our brotherly love and deep sympathy, too deep to be appropriately expressed by words. At the same time, however, we also DEMONSTRATE our protest against any and all of such tendencies that may lead to the yielding of our original aims, the promises we heard and uttered, the hopes we cherished and

nurtured, the purposes to which not only our soldiers, but all the

civilians, too, have dedicated four years, for many the best four years, of their lives . . .

All this should be clearly understood by all who plan to attend any of Verhovay’s Memorial Celebrations when portraits of Verhovay heroes are to be presented to those to whom they meant the most. Verhovay’s members will want to attend the Memorial Ceremonies conducted in honor of our heroes, because they are FRATERNAL1STS AND PATRIOTS. In a way, these are overlapping terms, but they are mentioned because we wish to make our readers conscious of their full meaning. A real patriot is a natural fraternalist, just as no

one can claim to be a fraternalist who is not a patriot, too. Yet__

the word “fraternalism” has a wider scope than the term ‘‘patriotism” The fraternalist, being a true, 100% patriot, still embraces

tho whole world, its nations, religions, races and classes. But_

even though ha loves them all, his love will never make him a traitor to his own nation.

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For these reasons, Verhovay’s members will attend these Memorial Ceremonies as both, brothers and sisters of the bereaved, and champions of the cause for which those remembered on these occasions died. They will appear ‘en masse' because they fell the urge to express their sympatky and also bcause they want to rededicate themselves to the cause for which our heroes had given their lives. Members of the Verhovay FEEL that way, but we felt it necessary to make them CONSCIOUS about these aspects of our Memorial

Ceremonies. Because if our fellow-members are conscious of the full significance of these occasions, they will not need urgent invitations, they will not need to be prodded to attend . . . THEY’LL BE

THERE, BECAUSE THEY CAN’T HELP IT!

And, therefore, you’ll be present in SHARON, PA., on September 15, Sunday, at 3 P. M., when Memorial Ceremonies will be conducted in the honor of CPL. CHARLES NAGY, and M. M- 3/C.

JAMES P. KIBASH, by the members of branches 26, Sharon, Pa., and 171, Sharpsville, Pa.

PROGRAM

1. Welcome .................. Joseph Turner, Director of the V. F. I. A.

2. National Anthem . ............................................ Helen Mészáros

3. Remembrance .............. The Rev. Stephen Fazekas, ref* pastor

4. Recitation .............................................................. Louise Darko

5. Address ...................................... Hon. Senator J. Fred Thomas

6. Guitar Solo ................................................................. Helen Griz

7. Address ......................-...................... Hon. Mayor Myron Jones

8. Hungarian songs ...................................................... Ilona Majoros

9. Tribute ...................................... Commander, American Legion

10* Accordion solo ................................................. Margaret Trojan

11. Folksongs .................................................Helen Mészáros

12. Introductions .............................. Joseph Nemes, District Manager

13. Ave Maria .............................................................. Ilona Majoros

14. Hungarian address .................. The Rev. Father Andrew Jeromos

15. Recitation ..................................................-.... Ursula Kaibash

16. Presentation of Portraits .......... Supreme President, John Bencze

17. Closing address .................................................. Stephen Dobozi

18. Hungarian National Anthem .................................. the Audience

Piano accompaniment by Cecilia Piisztinger Master of Ceremonies—Joseph Nemes, District Mgr.

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Then, too, you will attend the Memorial Ceremonies to; be conducted in GARY, IND., ON OCTOBER, 27, SUNDAY, when the members of Branch 138 will honor the memory of JOHN FARKAS, JR., FAUL A. KISH, JOHN A. KISH and WILLIAM BABINSKY, former

members of this branch who had lost their lives in the service of their country* The program of Gary's Verhovay Memorial Day will be published later. Many more will follow ... all occasions for the members of the Verhovay to express brotherly sympathy to the bereaved and to dmonstrate their loyalty to tho.se noble principles and purposes that had led us through four years of warfare to Victory.

LIBERTY, DEMOCRACY, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY—BY THESE PRINCIPLES VICTORY WAS ATTAINED.

ONLY BE ADHERING TO THESE PRINCIPLES—CAN WE WIN THE PEACE!

Hungary’s

Calvary

A Doctor’s Letter from Budapest

The average person when writing of national affairs, usually is influenced by events personally affecting him. Selecting from the great mass of facts those incidents that are suitable to support his point of view, he is apt to overlook others that would weaken his case. Hence the bias that characterizes most of the letters received by our people from folks in Hungary. Those disappointed in the turn of events, talk only in terms of hopelessness about present conditions while others, favorably affected by the changes, write in glowing terms of high hopes for steady improvements and advancement. Natur ally, such contradictions are apt to confuse the reader of both types of letters making it almost impossible for him to accept either presentation, as both contain generalisations based on a biased selection of facts and incidents.

Fortunately, there are also exceptional people, highly intelligent, observant and educated individuals, able to study and present with detachment the conditions and affairs of their land. Mentally disciplined, they do not generalize on what may be only exceptional incidents, just because they were victims of, or gainers by, similar incidents—as the case may be—but considering all the details of the entire situation judge conditions by impersonally evaluating their causes and posible effects on the general public rather than a certain individual, especially the writer.

Fellow member Stephen Huzianyi of Branch 503, Chicago, III., corresponding with several outstanding representatives of the Hungarian intelligentsia, received quite a number of letters giving unbiased accounts of what happened during the last few years in Hungary. Two of these we reprinted in the Journal believing that their content would prove interesting to Americans of Hungarian descent. The correctness of this assumption was proven when several American- Hungarian newspapers reprinted both the letter of Prof. Csenki, published in the April 24th, and the one of Prof. Dévai, appearing in the July 10th issue of our Journal.

Tqday we have before us another remarkable letter written to Stephen Huzianyi by Julius Emszt, M. D., a specialist in internal medicine. Dated in Budapest, on April 28th, 1946, this

letter, written in Hungarian, is both a literary gem of rare beauty and an impersonal presentation of Hungary’s tragic story, its causes and effects, as analyzed with the perfect detachment of a superior mind. ’Dr. Emszt, director in chief of the Hungarian Experimental Institute, brother of Michael Emszt, member of the Hungarian Geographic society, 40 years old, reveals in his letter the way of thinking of the edu cated Hungarian “middle-class’’ which has suffered and still suffers more than any other group of the Hungarian nation. ’Yet, perhaps because he is a physician, used to the analyzing of

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