Verhovayak Lapja, 1947 (30. évfolyam, 1-24. szám)
1947 / Verhovay Journal
X PAGE 2 THE HOMESTEAD MERRY-GO-ROUND Branch 430 By: William C. Kohut 600,000 Shoes For Hunger: Much activity has been noted Sn recent days amongst the girls and young women members of Chapter 117, American-Hungarian Relief, Inc. All of this activity is directed towards the bake sale held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 13, 14th and 15th, between the hours of 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. in the spacious lobby of the Verhovay Building in downtown Pittsburgh. Dainty Hungarian pastry, the kind that just melts in your mouth, will be obtainable during this relief bake sale. Mrs. Irene Foley, Miss Yolanda Bencze and Mrs. Lewis Dicra are heading the affair, and receiving able assistance from members Betty Andre, Margaret Kérészi, Mrs. Mary Robertson, Sari Masztics, Olga Kepes, Irene Takacs, Mrs. Helen Fazekas, Mrs. M. Kostra, Mrs. A. Fiok, Mrs. Helen Banes, Mrs. Julius Lenart, Miss Helen Erdeky, Margaret Evans, Mrs. Wm. C. Kohut and Mrs. Mary Kurjack. As I mentioned’' in my last column, an active membership drive is presently under way to enroll as many young men and women as possible in our truly noble cause, that of helping the suffering unfortunate people of Hungary. If you have some extra time once in a while, why not stop at our next meeting, February 19th, Wednesday evening, at the Verhovay Building, at 8:30 P.M., and permit us to use this time for relief work. You will obtain great satisfaction from engaging in work such as this, and please remember it is such satisfaction and reward that money cannot purchase. Join with us today! As a climax to this membership drive, an old-fashioned Hungarian get-together has been arranged for Saturday evening, I February 22nd, at the rustic lodge of the South Hills Sportsmen’s Club near South Park. There wTill be plenty of good food on hand, the necessary beverages, good fellow-ship and fraternalism, as well as music to your taste, be is csárdás, waltz or hallgató! Yes, a grand evening is in store for j our young people, and I feel sure ! it w ill be one long remembered. Tag-Day In Pittsburgh! Our Chapter 117 composed of second-generationites has joined hands with Chapter No. 2 in the staging of an event that should help greatly the unhealthy condition of the large coffers of the American-Hungarian Relief . . . A TAG DAY FOR Pittsburgh, scheduled for a day with which A Promotional Hangover 1 (Continued from page 1.) CLASS If. Membership between 51 and 100.-10 units is the minimum requirement in this class consisting of S6 managers of whom, however, only 15 took part in the first month's drive. These 15 contestants arc credited with a total of 25 new members and $18,000,- insurance. None of the managers having met the minimum requirement (tho\ for instance, five $1,000,- juvenile applications would have done the trick), all three prizes are added to those available for February. Thus we have now two prizes of $30.-, two of $25.- and two of $20.waiting for ambitious claimants. We should mention, however, Miss Margaret Mervits, Manager of Branch 327, Paulsboro, N. J., as the leading contestant in this Class. She accumulated 6 units by writing four applications for $3,500.- insurance. Thank you, Miss Mervits, and better luck next time! CLASS III. — Membership between 101 and 250.The prizes are $45.-, $40.-, and $35,- and minimum requirement is 15 units in this class of whose 96 managers 35 joined the campaign producing a total of 63 applications for $45,000.- insurance. No contestant having met the minimum requirement, all three awards are added to those available for February when 6 contestants will be eligible for awards, provided the minimum requirement is met. Manager Joseph Duruttya, Manager of Branch 349, Hollidays Cove, W. Va., is mentioned as leading contestant in this class, in recognition of having written $4,500.- insurance for 5 members, the equivalent of 8 units. CLASS IV. Membership above 251.Minimum requirement is 25 units and prizes are $60.-, $55.- and $50.- in this class of whose 61 managers 43 took part in January’s drive, writing a total of $110,500- f«r 134 members. None of the managers in this class haying met the minimum requirement, the prizes are carried over to February at the end of which 6 contestants will be eligible for awards, provided the requirements are met. Leading honors go to John Korosfoy, Manager of Branch 369, Alliance, 0., who in spite of having secured 57 members in Hi'Gold Ring Contest, still managed to write up 7 new applicants for $12,- 500.- insurance earning credit for 14j units. There are many interesting conclusions to be drawn from the production figures appearing in the records of the various classes, but we won’t go into that at this time. It should not escape the readers’ and, especially, our managers’ attention that of 360 eligible contestants only 104 entered the campaign as of the end of January . . . Hoping for a better February and sure of a very successful March, we urge our managers to make the most of the opportunities accumulating in their favor. we are very familiar, March 15th. Approximately one thousand girls and women are needed for this gigantic task, and church organizations and other Hungarian groups are being solicited for girls and women for this big Tag Day. Brother, or should I say Sister, if you want to help the sufferers in Hungary, the men, women and poor, innocent children, then this is your grand opportunity. Much must be made of this proffer of good-will by the City of Pittsburgh, because it has not been shown too freely in the past. Incidentally, Mr. I. Lengyel of Chapter 2, and Mr. Gay B. Banes, Chapter 117, are co-chairman of this Tag Day. Let us think of this day not only as TAG DAY but, also, as I) DAY, or DUTY DAY’ for all girls and young women who are in position to sell flowers on Pittsburgh’s busiest corners during the morning and early afternoon hours of Saturday February 22nd. But all of the above-mentioned activities being directed by Chapter 117, are as yet insufficient. There is an additional item being considered at ths time, which, without doubt, will be further developed by the members of Chapter 117. The item referred to is nothing less than a Grand Concert for a Spring performance in Pittsburgh, possibly at Carnegie j Musical Hall in Oakland, Pitts- j burgh, Pa. This affair, still in j the formative stage, will be a j must date on many calendars of j American-Hungarians as well as j American music lovers. But more of this later, HOMESTEAD MERRY-GO-ROUND: Branch 430 over the past few months enrolled quite a few new members, and mention of them should be made in this paragraph: Rev. Julius Paal, brilliant minister and scholar, pastor of the Hungarian Reformed Church of Homestead, Pa., was enrolled by yours truly in December. Rev. Paal possesses a hobby in which he really excells . . . and that is chess. I don’t think I’m “sticking my neck out” too far when 1 say that he is the best chess player in Western Pennsylvania, and has proven this statement during his chess encounters with the best in the field. Verhovay, especially Branch 430, is happy to enroll such a man amongst its members. I wras also pleased to enroll as one of our members in Branch 430, Mr. Gay B. Banes (Banaczky), young attorney of McKeesport, Pa. Mr. Banes has since his recent admission to the bar been an -active supporter of Hungarian matters. He was willing to join with the youth of the Pittsburgh District in extending aid to the suffering people of Hungary through Chapter No. 117. He sets a nice example for others to follow giving freely of his time, energy and finances in aiding Hungary’s distressed people. . . . Then we have our good friend, Bert Priam, who recently enrolled under a new policy . . . shucks, I can’t even consider him a new member because Bert’s been with us for quite sometime, and is a dandy fellow. Shortly I will give out with information regarding him that will be well received by his many friends. ... a grand welcome is also extended to an honest, industrious and very friendly young man Alex G. Soltez, and his new bride wife, Gladys J. Soltez, now living in the Homestead District. Branch 430 is mighty happy to have you Verhovay Journal FEBRUARY 12, 1947 “Sir, I Am Outraged!” •— Stephen Huzianyi’s Letter To The Editor Of The Americana Annual. — Since public opinion has begun to lean heavily on the opinions of scientists and experts, clever propagandists have made every effort to install their representatives in positions where, being considered authorities in a special field of knowledge, their utterances are accepted without questions. From labor relations to international politics the world is full, nowadays, with such politically inclined “scientists” and “experts” who are well trained in adapting facts to the particular purposes which they serve. Of course, as a result, the public is very much confused because of the contradictory interpretations given to the same facts by the “scientific” and “expert” exponents of opposing interests. Even the well informed often find it difficult to distinguish between true and biased scientific opinion and, as a result, publicity is given to theories that have more in common with prejudiced interests than ivith the facts pertaining to the case. Such is the case with the article on Hungary appearing in the Americana Annual of 1946 to which Stephen Huzianyi refers in his letter. He is to be commended for his alertness in detecting this insidious piece of hostile propaganda appearing in the cloak of factual science and his indignation over its being included in a reputedly scientific encyclopedia is shared by all Americans of Hungarian descent. January 3, 1947 Mr. H. H. McDannald, Editor THE AMERICANA CORPORATION New York City, New York Dear Mr. McDannald: Recently I have had the opportunity to read the AMERICANA ANNUAL for 1946 at the Chicago Public Library. Naturally, being of Hungarian descent, I was anxious to see what your encyclopedia published concerning Hungary. It is rather peculiar that on the subject of Aungary you do not have an impartial writer, but rather one Joseph S. Roucek, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Hofstra College. Prof. Roucek, a Czech, also wrote on his native Czechoslovakia and on Rumania— apparently he being one of those self-proclaimed “experts” on Central Europe and the Balkans. I am not disputing or refuting what Roucek wrote on Hungary for he, being a Czech, could certainly not be expected to give an impartial presentation of events on Hungary, much less on Hungarian history, if one notes his previous writings on these subjects. However, I question the reason for selecting Roucek when there are hundreds of professors and experts in our universities who are more qualified to write on Hungary, because they are neither Czech, nor Hungarian, and are not sioayed by the careful, clever, insidious propaganda that furthers Slavic ambitions in Europe. I noticed that in the partial list of contributors you have Watson Kirkconnell and others, who certainly know and understand the history and Culture of Hungary, and can better evaluate the recent history and tragedy of Hungary. Why couldn’t you have selected one of such men who could write on Hungary, rather than a man who is soberly recognized as a fervent and zealous worker for the Czech cause, and inevitably a propagandist. Prof. Roucek should confine himself to writing on Czechoslovakia, because no matter how much he might try to be impartial in discussing Hungary he will never be able to do so, no more than he has been, at any rate, than when writing on the same theme in the Slavonic Monthly, by no stretch of the imagination an impartial periodical. Sir, I am outraged. Sincerely, STEPHEN HUZIANYI as members and joins me in extending congratulations and best wishes for a long and happy married life. . . . This man Jim Husar from out on Main Street and Bassett’s Flower Store is also one of our new members, and the welcome mat is rolled out for him, too. Mighty happy to have you join our fraternal family at Branch 430. But wait a minute, let’s not forget the Evan’s Twins, Mary and Catherine from over on Marth Street in Munhall. I hear they intend to become actively engaged in branch affairs, or at least I hope so! How about it Mary and Catherine? Our Juvenile Department has also expanded because of recent additions made to this section. They include, Joanne Eliz. Beseroek, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Beserock; Sandra Gay Banes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gay B. Banes; Cheyrl Ann Zahorchak daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Zahorehab; Geraldine Elizabeth, Barbara Ann and Mary Louise Beserock, daughters, and nice girls, too, of Mr. and Mrs. George Beserock who had their original policies renewed; Richard James Marshall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Marshall; young Steve Andrew Black, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Black, N. Braddock; and last but not least, Donna L. Fazekas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Fazekas of yonder McKeesport, Pa. Glad to have you kiddies! We trust you all grow up to be boosters of the Verhovay and the fraternal way of life. And I almost forgot to mention another new member, Miss Ann Hriczo, a charming young lady, who I trust will become active in our branch affairs as soon as we get the ball rolling . . . whieh shouldn’t be long now. Ann joined her brother in becoming a member of Branch 430. Joe has been a member the past six years!
