Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1933-04-06
A Letter TO PAUL kOREN
AND TO OTHER YOUNG MEN
So. you have decided to desert, Paul!

So, you have decided to desert, Paul!
You have decided to chuck everything,
to leave your home Of poverty, to put an
end to handing over your thin pay-envelope
to Mother, and left your Family high and
dry.
It was hard, know. to work side by
side with your aging father, to share your
meager earnings with your parents, and with
your younger brothers and sisters and it
was hard, it must have been hard to deny
yourself the small luxuries to which you felt
you were entitled to-
! understand, my Son. (You remember,
used to call you Hundreds Of Himlerville
boys my Boys" in those happy by-gone
days7)
Don't I know the pangs Of poverty,
don't know the humiliation and the bitter
ness Of being young and pennyless?
too, was raised by poverty-stricken
Mother, in poor home, too felt the stings
Of being poor, being impoverished; and my
heart goes out to you my son, and to those
others, in thousands of Hungarian American
homes, whom I love as much as love you,
and for whom twenty years ago have pub
lished the Hungarian A-B-C.
I know only too well the trials and tri-
bulations of poverty stricken youth of de-
preston days.
You would need a new suit every now
and then, you would go to the movies, you
would take your girl to party, perhaps you
even dream of new car; all in vain.
Your pay must be given over to Mother,
to buy the most essential necessities for the
family, to provide food. shelter, medicine, in
surance and what not, while you desperately
long to spend some of your own hard-earned
money. know 49,.
Some times you must have felt, as others
must feel that youth is fading, that you will
grow old before you taste the rightful plea
sures Of youth, that life is not worth living,
that you have 10 escape. you have to 60.
understand.
And yet, / am disappointed in you, Paul.
And you, yourself, must be disappointed.
You may have new suit of clothes
every now and then, since you have left your
family, since you are ION your own, and
you may 60 now to the movies, since you do
not have to "chip in" to the family pot.
But wonder whether you are happier
now?
wonder if you enjoy your new suit,
wonder if the independence and money is
giving you quite the satisfaction and happi-
ness you have longed for?
wonder If the show is thrilling you
when YOU must know that your small brothers
and sisters are going without sufficient food.
perhaps hungry, since you have deserted
them.
wonder if you know that your Mother
is sick in bed, that your sister is out Of job,
taking the place Of your mother, taking care
Of the family.
. Yes, you have more money now, Paul,
my Son, but wonder if you enjoy having
the money, since deep down you know.
yes, you know that you are - yellow.
You have deserted your Mother, your
Father. and your small brothers and sisters
when they needed you worst.
Did you forget, can one forget the self
sacrifice, the sufferings. the privations Of
your parents 50 that you may grow to be =
mane
You wish to live your own life Paul, -
and do not deny your right to do so, mo-
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