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Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1941-05-15

szorgalmas munkat, hat felepitik vegleges
tanyajukat es ICY kibujhatnak fold al6l,
azokbol az egeszsegeseknek tenyleg mem
nondhat6 barlangokb6l
- Eek az vi gazdak, f0ldhozjuto y
tax, sokkal konnyebb helyzetben vannak
az vi berl6knel, hiszen bert sem kell fizet-
ni0k, fold egesz jovedelme tisztan meg
marad a zsebiikben. Meg vagyok r6la gy6-
zodve, hogy vermek helyen mar az els6
gazdasagi ev utan, tehat mar az 6sszel,
sok vi tanya epul fol- Kar lenne, de f0l0s-
leges is, ezt termeszetes folyamatot mes
terseges beavatkozassal megzavarni Ak
kor lesz bel6liik jo gazda, ha hagyjuk
6ket, ha sajat erejukb6l allhatnak talpra
Icy meger6s0dnek megbizhat6 elem lesz
bel6luk. A kiils6 segitseg, az illetekte1en
beavatkozas csak elkenyeztetne 6ket. Ezt
hosszu k0zigazgatasi palyamon szerzett
gyakorlati tapasztalataim alapjan merem
ilyen hatarozottan allitani.
A kepvisel6 ur ledobta szemer6l mo-
noklit es elgondolkozott kisse Lehet, hogy
a lelke melyen valami regi emlek ebredt
fel, sajat gyermekkori nyomorusaganak az
emleke es az szanakozasra inditotta ne
hezsorsu vermesek irant, inert altalanos
meglepetesre kijelentette, hogy szeretne
sajat szemevel megnezni azokat barlang-
lakokat, szeretne bekukkantani nehany We
remlakasba
Csak mem hagyja lit feketet
kedves kepvisel6 ur, = tiltakozott jegy-
zone es erosen hunyorgatott az ura fele,
hogy beszelje lie err6l felesleges kirandu-
lasrol vendeget.
Macy 0r0mmel latjuk, nagysagos
uram, mondta gyorsan jegyz6, =
hogy ilyen melegen melt6ztatol erdekl6dni
valasztoid helyzete irant EFT kirandulast
azonban meg sem mernem ajanlani. Az
utat terdig er6 sar boritja, meg ITALIAN ko-
csival sem lebetne eljutni Szekfenekig
Legkozelebb, ha ismet szerencsenk lesz
hozzad, nagyon szivesen elkalauzollak oda,
bar teljesen feleslegesnek tartom kes6bb is
ezt a kirandulast es vegtelenul csudalko-
zom doktor uron, hogy folvetette lit ezt
az egeszen komolytalan kerdest.
- Hiaba, az orvosok mar csak ilye-
mex, = mondta nevetve a kepviselo aki
mar orult is, hogy nem kell kimennie =
az mesterseguk, hogy tulozzanak min
dent, ami k0zegeszseget megitelesuk sze-
rint veszelyeztetheti =. Meg kell nekik
bocsajtani, uraim, inert ez hivatasukkal
jaro k0telesseguk =. A kirandulast ICY
megis csak kenytelen vagyok elhalasztani,
ha mar olyan jarhatatlanul saros az Ut
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1941-05-15

Az ember is, allat is nagyon tiirelmet-
len mar olyenkor, terhere van a szobale-
vego Minduntalan kinez az udvara, te
kintget az eyre, szippantgatja huvos le-
veg0t es lesi, hogy mikor erzi vegre meg
benne f0ldszagot Mert ez foldszag len
ne az els6 jele tavasznak.
Aprilis masodik feleben vegre egeszen
varatlanul bekovetkezett az olvadas. A no
egy nap alatt eltiint, parolgo, piszkos leve
alaposan elontotte foldeket is, az arcakat
is es ugy zuhogott tetokr6l, mint "a
poreso Az asszonyok mem gy6ztek s0p0r-
getni a mindig osszeszalado wicket.
nap melegen tiiz0tt, az eg kitisztult,
nehany nap alatt kibujt fold alol a friss,
halvanyz0ld fiji is. Egyszerre kiz0ldiiltek
mez6k Az osszel vetett buza ritkasan nyuj
t6zkodott nap fele barazdak koziil. Az
6szi veteS hibatlanul attelelt az egesz ha-
tarban, szepen fejl6dott, keszul6dott no
alatt as most nagy buzgalommal igyeke-
zett, hogy helyrehozza AIT, amt a hosz-
szura nyult tel Matt elmulasztott. Szinte
latszott, ahogy n0vekedett.
tavaszi munkaval mem igen lehetett
varni, inert ugyis kes6re jart mar az lido.
A gazdak mem is vartak meg tOmentelen
hole folszivodasat rogton megszalltak a
foldeket Az ekek friss barazdakat haso-
gattak mindenfele es k0tenyekbol szele-
sen hullott mag.
A falu csak vasarnaponkint maradt
nepes inert az Ur pihen6napjat olyankor
is meg kell szentelni, amikor minden mum
katlanul eltoltott percert kar. Jo is az,
hogy hat hetkoznap utan vasarnap ko-
vetkezik, legalabb otthon marad nep es
meghallgatja Krucifix kepvisel6 ur sz6nok-
latat A kisbiro mar szerdai piacon XII
dobolta, hogy a nagysagos kepviselo ur
vasarnap ellatogat a faluba, beszedet tart
a gazdakorben Fontos mez6gazdasagi ker
desekrol lesz $40, ajanlatos tehat, ha min
den hazaiat szereto gazda, meg zseller oft
leSZ
A kepviselo ur mar szombaton meg
erkezett Auton j0tt varosbol es jegy-
z6nel szallt meg, jegyzo akacos tanya-
jan A fojegyzo ur vegre megis csak nyu-
galomba vonult telen, folvette kozseg
penztarabol vegkielegiteset - megtehet-
te, inert torveny volt rola, - de vi jegyzo-
ie csak tavasszal lesz falunak. Icy rem
delkezett a foszolgabiro. A segedjegyzo,
meg az vi irnok addig is hiba nelkul ellat-
jak kozseg dolgait
Nyugalomba vonult tehat a jegyzo, de
azert ur maradt ezutan is. falubeliek
eppen ugy megsuvegeltek, mint azelott.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1941-05-15
4 FOLD RABSZOLGAI =

Sokan AIT is hallottak, hogy legkozelebbi
valasztason igaz, hogy ez sokara lesz
meg es addig sok viz lefolyik Tiszan -
Observation-Disclosures is vallal. grof ma
gyon mellette van, hat k0nnyen -megva-~
Iaszthatjak Exert baratkozik a politiku
sokkal, exert kiild0tt ujevi nevkartyat
grofnak is es exert k0t0tte XII, hogy Kruci-
fix kepvisel6 ur az szereny hajlekanak
legyen vendege, ha ellatogat a faluba.
- FoltetlenJl szamitunk rad, nagysa-
gos uram, = mondta neki legutobb va
rosban amikor oszetalalkozott vele
A kepviselo ell is fogadta szives meg
hivast megirta jegyz6nek, hogy mikor
erkezik es ARA is megkerte, hogy hivja
ossze vasarnap delelott az ertelmesebb gaz-
dakat, szeretne elbeszelgetni veliik.
A jegyz6ek nagy ceremoniaval fogad-
tax Krucifix kepvisel6 urat. A kaput virag-
gal, meg orokzold gallyal diszitettek fol.
Kemeny papirra festett irast szogeztek a
kapu f0le. Mar messzir0l ell lehetett olvasni
vastag v0ros betiiket: listen Hozott.
Kora delutan erkezett meg a kepvi-
sel6 ur, ICY bizony karbaveszett a jo ebed
a jegyz0ek konyhajan, ahol hajnal 6ta
egett tiiz es kesziilt sokfele finom etel.
De hat mem j0hetett korabban, dolga volt
a varosban foispannal. Igen fontos Or
szagos ugyekben targyaltak es ICY bizony
hamar elszaladt az lido.
- De estere, ha megengedi nagysa-
gos asszonyom, hat vendegik leszek va
csorara. Legalabb megtudom, igaz-e, ami
r6l mindenutt beszelnek, aminek messze
foldon hire van mar, hogy a jegyzone nem-
csak a legszebb menyecske ezen k0rnye
ken, hanem neki van legjobb konyha-
ia is.
Mindenki kapott valami sep szot es
ICY mindenki szornyen megszerette az ele
gans kepvisel6 urat, aki szornyen nagy ur
lehet a kepvisel6hazban, visszategezi meg
a miniszterelnokot is, grofokkal, barokkal
baratkozik, monoklit is hord jobb SEE
men, de csak olyankor, ha valami sep
asszonnyal beszelget, kiil0nben fenyes
kerek iiveg hosszu zsinoron fityeg az olda-
Ian Milyen finom t6le, hogy most is fol-
tette szemere, amikor pirulo jegyz6ne-
mex mondta szepeket.
- Ha mem haragszol meg, nagysagos
uram, meghivtam delutani feketere az in
telligenciat, doktort, patikust, az inte-
zot, - mem ait a voroskeput, az mar mines
lit, kirugta grof, inert valami piszkos
dologba keveredett, a kegyelmes ur nem-
reg ujat hozatott helyette - az allatorvost,
az iskolaigazgatot, meg az ugyvedet. Con-
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1941-05-15

doltam, holnap sok paraszt niatt eek
az urak ugy sem juthatnanak kozeledbe.
Nagyon kedves vagy, batyam, en-
is eppen kerni akartalak, hogy teremts
maid alkalmat ere baratkozasra.
Szepen tudott tarsalogni Krucifix KEEP
vselo ur, mintha csak mindig nagy urak
k0zt cit volna. Pedig hat - EFT azonban
csak nagyon kevesen tudtak rola SEE
geny, szepl6s delvideki svabgyerek volt,
potrohos svab gazdanak legkisebb fla.
Eleget vergodott, koplalt, streberkedett,
talpalt, amig felverg6d0tt oda, ahol most
van, mem is beszelve arr6l, hogy milyen
kinos harcot kellett vegigverekedni az
ugyvedi diplomaert. De ugyesen csinalta,
az .bizonyos. Minden dolga sikeriilt, hat
tagadhatatlan, hogy derek ember
Senki mem mondana rola, hogy svab
parasztivadek, hogy apja meg eppen ugy
turta j6 torontali foldet mint f0ljebb-
valo osei. Annyira kiurasodott, hogy valo-
sagos grofnak is beillene Szepl6it tudos
professzorok tiintettek el az arcarol, vo-
r0s hajat, bajuszat feketere festettek, $50
val egeszen vi embert csinaltak bel6le.
De mar jonnek is a vendegek. unnepi
feketebe oltozott mindegyik ur, mintha
csak lakodalomba MEME. ovatosan keriil-
getik tocsakat, de hiaba vigyaznak,
hig sar csak bepiszkolja fenyesre kefelt ci-
p6juket, SGT meg nadragjuk szarara is
f0lcsap.
Senki sem maradt el azok k0ziil, akik-
mex jegyz6 irasos meghivot kuldott SEE
retett kepviselonk, DIR. Krallenmayer Ne
pomuk Jozsef 0nagysaga tiszteletere adam
do delutani feketere
Macy baratkozas volt jegyzoeknel.
A forro feketen Xviii persze mas finomsa-
gok is kerJltek az asztalra konyak, lik6r,
apro sutemeny, finom szivarok es cigaret-
tax. A beszelgetes nehezen indult, mem
igen ismertek meg a falusi urak kepvi-
selo ur termeszetet, de aztan csak belle
melegedtek es kilon-kiil0n orvendeztek, ha
az elokel6 vendeg tegezve szolt hozzajuk.
Mintha mar regi baratok lettek volna.
Kerlek, kepvisel6 uram, szolt
kesobb a doktor = nagyon szeretnem fol-
hivni valamire szives figyelmedet.
Parancsolj velem, udvariasko-
dott Krucifix kepvisel0 ur es ttistent fel-
tette csillogo monoklijat.
= Semmiseg az egesz, menteget0
zott az orvos, - de ugy gondoltam, hogy
eppen exert ITALIAN lehetne segiteni dol
gon Tudod, kerlek, foldbirtokreform ke-
reteben kiosztottak lit nehany szaz hold
foldet az igenyjogosultalnak A megvaltott
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1941-05-15

vagy 0t0dik nemzedek, amely-
re 0r0kiil marad a hatalmas
intezmeny.
Evening star., 1941-01-12

The woman's mhappiness sent chill up
Ellen's spine If 1890 was like this, it meant
she wasn't at all sure her letter would bring
her Dicky back. Ellen had hard time keeping
this fresh fear out of her voice as she inquired,
would there be any special time you'd like
me to make up your suite, MADAME"
1T doesn't matter" 1890 might just as
well have said, Nothing matters" for that
was clearly what she felt. Then her voice
lifted. ''Oh, except on Saturday. Come in the
morning Saturday because" 1890 said with
perfect positiveness, Tim expecting some
one in the afternoon
Ellen answered, Certainly, Madam" and
when she got out in the hall she was hanging
onto her carpet sweeper as if it was Dicks
hand. How sure 1880 had been! She hadn't
said ''if' or perhaps" She d just been certain
her letter was going to bring her man. Ellen
couldn't wait till her noon hour to get a
stamp and mail her copy. She got an envelope
(Castisssd o. Psss 12)
Evening star., 1941-01-12

to do about that? She started to write, "Yom
sincere friend" but that somehow didn't 60
with the rest. Neither did, Hoping this finds
you as it leaves me-" Finally, she just put
down, Ellen
She heard the hall door open and just had
time to slide her letter into her apron pocket
and get over to the windowsill to dust when
1890 came in.
0ooD morning, Madam
Good morning."
Yes, 1890 was about thirty, very pretty
and of course expensive looking. Shed make
one of handsome couple with the man of the
picture Ellen tried to see if she wore
wedding ring. but 1890 kept on her soft, white
gloves. But even if Ellen had not seen that
letter, she have known there was something
wrong; 1880 had been crying - anyone could
tell that, and Ellen wondered what you did in
hotel rooms if you were unhappy and just
waiting for Saturday.
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Il Short Story Complete in This Issue

Il Short Story Complete in This Issue
-LLEN knocked at the door of suite 1880.
Getting no answer, she opened it with
IL her passkey She hung the little sign,
Maid" on the knob, closed the door, put
down her heap of towels and her broom and
dustpan, and Just stood there. Even after
three years in the hotel she was curious when
going into rooms where new, unseen tenants
had fitted in during the night.
Il kind of get kick out of imagining what
they're like by only seeing their things, Ellen
told Dick
But this morning there was no kick. She
dragged about, doing things mechanically.
first emptying ash trays, plumping up the
pillows in the rose satin salon; then going into
the bedroom and tearing the sheets off the
bed, throwing unhappy looks at the scatter of
crystal and gold-stoppered bottles and opened
powder boxes and silver backed brushes there
on the dresser She was realizing with the top
of her mind that it wasn't couple In this
suite. but a woman alone. Ellen was not
interested in what sort the woman was She
and Dick had quarTeled last night.
| don't know what to do, Ellen thought.
What if Dick stops loving me? His voice as
it had been when he left her. angry and as If
it were the end, came to her as she auto
matically tidied the dresser How had the
quarrel started? She couldn't think One thing
had Just seemed to lead to another. In quick
panic it came to her that maybe she would
never know how to keep wonderful fellow
like Dick; maybe he would find smarter girl.
But none who loved him as much, Ellen told
herself. and began to cry.
She tried to stop, because weeping maid
might be reported if discovered. She was
pretty thankful 1890 was out. Must be
woman about thirty. she decided DULY; they
usually had jar of neck cream like this at
that age; several jars if they were older.
Ellen folded froth of handmade lingerie
ON top of the opened wardrobe trunk; 1890
was one of the careless kind She had left her
trunk and bag open, and little heap of COS
tune bracelets on the dresser. On the night
table was large, silver framed picture of
man.
liz WASN'T as good looking as Dick - who
was? But he was all right He looked as if he
might be big like Dick, and Dicks bigness and
huskiness you had to be strong to drive
powerful truck - thrilled Ellen all over again.
It seemed as if she could feel his iron arms
holding her, her head hardly coming to his
wide shoulders; she could almost feel the
crispness of his black hair.
Sometimes her hands practically ached
wanting to reach up and touch that black,
wayward head But she'd never let them. You
take a great husky like Dick and grl can't
baby him. A girl has about all she can do to
sort of hang onto her dignity, loving all the
time to be bossed and taken care of. Dick was
awfully masterful; came from driving that
truck, probably, and he wouldn't take nothing
from nobody.
"You got to talk up to the fellas," Alma,
on the ninth floor, always said. Ellen had tried
that. 1t came to her sickly, as she hung up
1O3Os fral nightgown, that talking up" had
begun l1st nights quarrel At the noon hour
Evening star., 1941-06-05
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

One of the prime objectives of
the ''property-seizu bill is to
make it possible for the Govern
ment to deal summarily with
strikes or l0ck0uts in defense In.
dustries. 1t looks as though the
administration had come to the
conclusion that the only sure way
of settling a labor dispute is for
the Government to take over a
plant-and defy labor or man
agement to strike "agin the Gov
ernment."
Up to date the strikes in ma
tional defense plants have been
conducted by labor-and they
have taken a terrible toll in the
shape of delayed defenses. Man
agement has not shut down it's
plants. 1t has been willing to
continue operations, while labor
disputes, claims for additional
pay, disputes over unionization
and collective bargaining, were
settled through conference and
mediation. The actual stoppage
of work has been on the initia-
tive taken by labor-whether its
demands were justified or not.
The administration, however,
has not been willing to crack the
whip. 1t has set up a National
Evening star., 1941-06-05
War Now Is Urged
We Have No Choice as to Fighting, Eliot Says,
Only Whether We Will Act Now or Be Too Late

OF rdUner TO urle DaCJle OF the north
Atlantic, the present crucial area
of this war, this principle has an
immediate and ominous implica-
ton for the Government and people
of the United States.
Our Only Choice.
The situation has now passed be-
yond all question of measures short
of war; of vague watching pa
trolls" and other palliatives of that
sort.
Already we note that the earliest
lease-lend shipments to arrive in
England are shipments of food
clear indication that priorities are
being given to food shipments at
time when munitions and industrial
raw materials are vitally needed.
This is an ominous signboard
pointing to a developing tonnage
shortage which may quickly become
desperate. The United States AM
bdoodOoL W ICOQlllo dlUCl
but brief period at his post; this
is so unusual as almost to carry
the certainty that he has found
conditions such as to make neces-
sary personal conference with the
President without delay.
No Action Is Taken.
Yet in the face of the conditions
as they are known, conditions which
have inspired the Secretaries of
State, War, Treasury, Navy, Interior
and Agriculture to make separate
and vigorous public statements CALL
ing for action, conditions which the
President himself set forth in most
forceful language to the country a
week ago, no action is forthcoming.
German pressure on Frar:e in
creases; German inflltration into
French imperial outposts vital to
our defense goes on; day by day
German submarines and aircraft
take their toll in the Atlantic; the
Germans use time, we waste it.
The tragic fact is that no one
seems to know why. The public,
reused and inspired by the Presi-
dents words of May 81, quickly
found its enthusiasm dampened by
his press conference of May % and
by the subsequent inaction, stalling
and delay.
War, as Clausewitz once said, is a
political act, the implementation by
force of a national policy otherwise
unattainable. We have now reached
the point where our policy, indeed
our very security, must be main
tanned by the use of force
No Chance as to Fighting.
The time has passed, if it ever ex-
listed. when we have any choice as
to whether we shall fight or not.
We have had demonstrated to us
again and again what happens to
those who put their faith in static
defense; what happens to those who
sit idly by and allow the German
war machine full time and undis-
turbed leisure to contrive the means
Evening star., 1941-06-05

many. Our vast industrial plant is
able to work without interruption,
while every part of German industry
becomes, with the delivery of long
range bombers in larger quantities,
more and more vulnerable.
With all this in our favor, we sit
back and waste the one absolutely
essential commodity which must be
conserved in order to make these
overwhelming potential superiorities
effective instruments-time.
We have the means of gaining the
time we require. 1t is not yet too
late. But it will be too late sooner
than We think unless we act. All
the hopes of free men everywhere,
and of slaves who would be free,
rests now on our decision, on our
use Of the little time margin left
us before too little and too late
becomes not a reproach but an
epitaph.
tcopyriEht, 1e41, New York Tribune. Incl
Evening star., 1941-06-05

period" before strikes can take
place in the defense industries.
1t is on the House calendar. 1t
could be called up and passed in
a hurry II the President would
give the word. No such word
mas come-and now this remark
able bill from the War Depart
ment has been proposed.
There are signs OF revolt in
both houses against the proper
ty-seizure bill. The President
himself has indicated he will ac-
cept amendments-but how far
he is willing to 60 in that respect
has not been disclosed. One thing
is certain, no President in any
other emergency, including war,
had any such bill passed.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
The Political Mill
Revolt Shaping Against Bill Granting President
Unprecedented Power to Seize Property
to give arly such blanket power.

to give any such blanket power.
There is a provision in the bill
that payment shall be made by
the Government for what is
taken. The compensation, how
ever, is to be fixed by the Presi'
dent. He is to say what is fair
and just" If he took a lot of
things, it would keep the Chief
Executive pretty busy saying
what the payment should be.
The person or corporation from
whom anything is taken may go
to court, II he or she doesn't like
the compensation awarded, but
that is tedious and sometimes
costly method Of procedure.
No Time Limit Set.
The powers given under the
bill are not only dictatorial but
they could be used to transfer
any or all industry from private
ownership and operation to Gov
ernment ownership and opera
ton. No time limit for the oper-
alton of these powers is fixed.
They are to operate during ANY
period of national emergency
proclaimed by the President"
Any period of national emergency
might run on for a long time
and presumably would only be
ended when the President de-
clared it ended.
In the Selective Draft Act Of
September Is, 1910, the President
is authorized to take over any
plant which refuses to manufac-
ture any supplies or arms which
shall be considered necessary by
the Secretary of War or the Sec
retary of the Navy, after the
order for these supplies or arms
is given. This goes a long way,
and gives the President authority
to take drastic action where plant
owners, individuals or corpora
tons decline to be cooperative.
Politics Needed.
That act, taken in conjunc-
ton with a measurement yet
considered in Congress nor passed
by either house-which would
provide a cooling-off period be-
fore strikes in defense industry
can be called and work stopped,
should be adequate to take care
of any situation that might arise.
But the administration does not
wish. apparently, any legisla-
ton aimed at strikes directly.
The labor leaders of the c. I. o.
and the A. F. of L. have uttered
their potent protests. Politically
minded persons have given heed.
The House Naval Affairs Com
mittee has reported favorably a
bill to provide for a cooling of
Evening star., 1941-06-05

for their destruction; what happens
to those who abandon all initiative
to the enemy and act only when
compelled to act by the incidence of
actual assault.
And yet We debate. we hesitate,
We hide from the ugly truth, we
salve our conSciences with those
half measures which in every other
case have proven the wretched pre-
cursors of defeat.
We Have All But Time.
Our steel production capacity is
twice that of all Nazi-held Europe.
We have six times the Nazis' oil
production and an aircraft produc-
ton potential already, with Brit
aims, greater than that of Germany
Complete command of these is
available to us If we wish to exer-
else it, and air superiority is def
nitely within reach. All the re-
sources of the European world
are open to us and denied to Ger