Verhovayak Lapja, 1947 (30. évfolyam, 1-24. szám)
1947 / Verhovay Journal
PAGE 4 Verhovay Journal Journal of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Ass’n. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION 7907 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—422 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 19, PA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States and Canada .......................................... $1.00 a year Foreign Countries ........................................................... $1.50 a year ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT: P. 0. BOX 7, WOOLSEY STATION — LONG ISLAND CITY 5, N. Y. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Detroit, Michigan under the Act of March 3, 1879. MEMORIAL DAY The mothers and fathers, widows and children, sisters and bro- j thers of those hundreds of thousands who had made the supreme sacrifice in World War II., do not need Memorial Day to remind j them of the loss of their loved ones. For them, every day is Memorial Day filled to the last hour with the sorrow of poignant memories, shattered hopes and dreams of happiness dissolved in the bit- | ter disappointment of awakening to tragedy. What these unsung heroes of World War II., the mourning kin of the fallen, heroes, really need, is a season of blissful oblivion that would bury their sorrows and give the peace of a hopeful outlook in life to their tortured hearts. That, however, is impossible, for man can be commanded to remember but not to forget. And the world can only j cause sorrow, but it cannot take away the pain it inflicted. Since those whose hearts will never be relieved of the burden of sorrow do not need the reminder of a Memorial day, it is ! obviously the fortunate ones, the millioyis who had escaped the most ] heartbreaking tragedy of war, for whose benefit Memorial Day has been designated. It is the day reminding those spared the agonies of war of the losses suffered in their stead and in their behalf by the j less fortunate. It is fitting that we remember, and pay tribute to the heroes whom we have never met in person, yet, to whom we are indebted and shall remain indebted as long as we enjoy any of the fruits J of their sacrifices. Such remembrance, of course, will benefit us rather than the dead who are not with us any more. With the exception of very few personally known to us, these dead. 380,425 Americans, all are “unknown soldiers” to us, but the tragic fact of their death establishes a very real relationship between us and them, which cannot be denied by any person sensitive to the obligations of gratitude. We take a great deal for granted, believeing that liberty, opportu- j nity and security are the birthright of every American, but what happened in Europe and Asia and threatened our very shores re- . minds us that these things cannot be taken for granted, because they are for ever in danger and they have to be earned, deserved and defended by every generation. While we are altogether too soon beady to,complain about the shortcomings of our democracy and the lack of things to which we feel entitled to, Memorial Day makes us remember how we would feel if we wouldn’t have even those things the shortcomings of which we are so often and so bitterly beery. Indeed, Memorial Day is a day of thanksgiving for what America and American life is today, j for that is what 380,425 Americans, among them 192 Verhovayans, died for in the prime of their lives. They died for America, the American Home, the American Way of Life. They died for these not as they could be, but as they were. Due to their heroism we have retained and inherited our liberties, our opportunities and our way of living. Naturally, this inheritance was not faultless. Still, they died to save it for us and, therefore, it is worth to live for it. The terrible cost in human life of our victory ought to remind us of what could be our lot had we lost the war. None of the starving people of the world could receive even a morsel from the richly laden table of America, on the contrary! We would be the ones to share in their misery, enslavement, starvation and destitution. The victorious hordes of inhuman tyranny would drive us into “involuntary servitude” to spend the rest of our lives in bottomless misery, hunger and fear and endless toil, without any hope for deliverance, prosperity, home, food or clothing, and without any rights for doing things without which Americans could never consider life worth living. * Sc A special Verhovay Memorial Day will be observed in Throop, Pa., by branches 11, McAdoo, 42, Throop, 158; Kingston; and 174; Scranton, Pa., when the portraits of seven hero dead members of the Verhovay will be presented to the next of kin by Supreme Secretary Coloman Revesz. Holy Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 Ä.M. at St. Mary’s Roman Verhovay Journal May 28, 1947 DISTRICT ASSIGNMENTS o£ the English Speaking Branches o£ the Association Based on April SO, 1947, Membership Totals In accordance with the instructions of the Board of Directors, the pre-Convention District Sessions shall be held in June, 1947. The secretaries of the districts will inform the branch-managers as to the place and date of the District Sessions. The managers are requested to immediately notify the district representatives of their branches. Branches are entitled to representation at the District Sessions according to the following rules (By-laws, Part II., Chapter II., §8): “Each branch having at least 15 members, shall have the right tc send one delegate to the District Sessions. Branches which on the last day of April prior to the District Meeting have more than 100 members shall have the right to send one additional delegate for every additional 100 members or fraction thereof. Branches which shall constitute a District by themselves, shall exercise all rights of the Districts at their own Branch meetings.” Branches having less than 15 (adult) members, may communicate their remarks or motions in writing to the District Sessions to which they belong. The rules pertaining to the compensation of District Delegates, read as follows: “Without regard to the duration of the meeting, the delegates shall be entitled only to one per diem fee. Those delegates, however, who have to travel six (6) hours or more to the meeting place, shall be entitled to one additional per diem fee, that is altogether two per diem fees. Their actual transportation costs shall also be paid. Branches which constitute Districts by themselves shall only bf entitled to receive their material expenditures, such as hall rent and postage, but shall not be entitled to per diem fees or travelling expenses.” The proceedings of the District Sessions as recorded in the Minutes, are published in the official organ of the Association. Due to the acute paper shortage, the secretaries of the Districts are urgently requested to compose excerpts of the Minutes to be published, in the shortest possible form The delegates to the National Convention will be elected at the District Sessions according to the following key (By-laws Part II., Chapter I., §3): “For 300 members one representative, foi 150” (up to 750) “members two representatives, from 751 to 1050 members three representatives from 1051 to 1350 members four representatives’’ etc. The number of Delegates to the National Convention to be elected by each District, is indicated in capital letters in the listings below. The merger of the Workingmen’s Sick Benefit Society in the Verhovay F. I. Associatior having been approved byr the Insurance Department of the State of Pennsylvania, the lodges of the Workingmen’s Sick Benefit Society belonging to the English speaking Districts are included in these listings and the Secretaries of the Districts are instructed, herewith, to send invitations to the District Sessiohs, also to the managers of the lodges of the Workingmen’s Sick Benefit Society in their territory. A “W’’ preceding the number of the Branch indicates that the branch thus market is a branch of the Workingmen’s Sick Benefit Society. DISTRICT ASSIGNMENTS 506 Donora, Pa. 20 District 31. 519 McVeigh, Ky. 22 District Secretary: 520 Jerome, Pa. 15 W.138 Jerome, Pa. 32 Michael Batar 8 Emory Avenue Membership total: 983 Trenton, N. J. ELECTS 3 (THREE) Branch Location Membership DELEGATES. 368 Allentown, Pa. 40 404 Ha zeit on, Pa. 32 District 33. 417 Trenton, N. J. 285 District Secretary: 425 Wyoming, Del. 21 George Gregosits 444 Wallingford, Conn.53 65. E. Delason Ave. 480 Caldwell, N. J. 43 \ oungstown, Ohio — 555 Akron, O. 69 Membership total 474360 Massilon, O. 21 ELECTS 2 (TWO) DELEGATES.364 Youngstown, O. 274 366 Cleveland, O. 155 District 32. 367 Cleveland, O. 36 District Secretary 369 Alliance, O. 295 William Kohut 372 Lorain, O. 89 116—21st Street 383 Buffalo, N. Y. 271 Munhall, Pa-391 Canton, O. 33 370 Lynch, Ky. 23405 Erie, Pa. 31 376 Pittsburgh, Pa. 159416 Warren, O. 76 395 McKeesport, Pa. 109432 Crescent, O. 68 396 Jacobs Creek, Pa. 77477 Niles, O. 93 409 Windber, Pa. 104488 Castalia, O. 24 423 Pocahontas, Va. 42 430 Homestead, Pa. 143Membership total: 1541 433 United, Pa. 25ELECTS 5 (FIVE) DELEGATES. 439 Johnstown, Pa. 114 District 34. 441 Duquesne, Pa. 16 District Secretary: 442 California, Pa. 43 Mrs. Jolán Lucas 481 Bellevue, Pa. 20 2522 Carson Street 495 Wilkinsburg, PJh. 19 Detroit 9, Mich. Catholic Church, to be followed late afternoon by a Memorial Day program at the American Legion Hall of Throop. When paying tribute to Elmer Kopachy, Martin Mészáros, Stephen J. Kobar, Charles Zipay, Edward T. Lloyd, George Lukach, Jr. and Pfc. Stephen Nagy, Verhovayans will remember to honor also their survivors carrying on under the unreleavable burden of their tragic losses. Our tribute cannot add to the honor of these dead, but our sustained sympathy and brotherly fellowship may help the survivors retain their faith in a goodness of life which is worth making sacrifices for. Our flowers will not add anything to the glory of these men, but we may add something more precious to our own self-respect if we build a warm castle of fellowship around their sorrowing kin whom they left in the firm belief that they will be sustained and comforted by the great family of Americans. When paying tribute to the hero dead of our Association, Verhovayans will remember also to give thanks for America and the democratic principles for which it stands. And thankfully they will rededicate themselves to the task which these heroes had left us to complete: to defend America against all un-American “isms” and to keep on building America in the American way. That is the way in which both the known and unknown soldier of America would- expect us to observe Memorial Day. Branch Location Membership 356Detroit, Mich. 273 362Dayton, <). 133 403Port Huron, Mich. 21 412Flint, Mich. 283 414Toledo, O. 44 429Dearborn, Mich. 106 435Wyandotte, Mich. 4C 496Cass City, Mich. 23 Membership total 933 ELECTS 3 (THREE) DELEGATES. District 35. District Secretary: Frank Balogh 5504 N. Kimball Ave. Chicago 25, 111. 351 East St. Louis, 111.27 363 Granite City, 111. 41 375 Chicago, 111. 40 428 Mihvaukee, Wis. 93 461 Racine, Wis. 38 479 Madison, 111. 51 490 Elkhart, Ind. 75 503 Chicago, 111. 155 Membership total: 52(1 ELECTS 2 (TWO) DELEGATES. The rules governing the elections of delegates to the National Conventions read as follows: (By-laws, Part II., Chapter I., §4): “Only American born members, or those who have received their education in American schools, and who are in good standing, are eligible to be representatives in the English speaking Districts”. General qualifications are (same paragraph): “Every member of the Association who is in good standing and is an American citizen, has attained the age of 21 and has been a member of the existing death and sick benefit departments of the Association for two years on the day ot election, holds at least a Five Hundred Dollar certificate in the death benefit class and is duly elected delegate of a branch of the Association, is eligible to be representative, or alternate representative, but only in the District, to w'hich the Branch, of which he is a member, belongs.”
