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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1950-07-20
CLEVELAND WEST
NEWS
Bv Hilda
BY Hilda

Well hurrav for Cleveland
Our baseball team beat Farrell
1876. That was excellent playing
fellows. After the game the kids
went to the East Sachsenheim
and ate, drank and sang. 1t sure
was a swell day.
Next Sunday we travel to 70.
We started to plan for the T..
s. !. A. Semi Formal. 1t will be
held at the West Side Sachsen-
helm on October 2lst.
Our next meeting is on the oath
We will then talk about a prob
able picnic to be held on July %.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1950-07-20
TEUTSCH CHURCH
Sunday School Picnic

That day is coming soon that
all the children of Teutsch Ev.
Luth. Sunday School look for
ward to with great anticipation,
namely. the Annual Sunday
school picnic. This is a day plan
ned for the whole family. so bring
your picnic lunches and be pre-
pared for wonderful day. The
date to remember is July 80. The
place is the Fairview Cabins,
where we all met last year.
Pop and ice cream will be sold
and children will receive some
free tickets. More later.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1950-07-20
Central Verband
Affairs
BY George Martini, Secretary of the Central Verband

We read another slanderous
article in the issue of the Nolks.
blatt dated July 18th, published
as a paid advertisement" bv the
honorable NJ. A. Schneider stat
ing, as he claims them to be.
number of actual facts. | will try
to answer in very short order.
Mr.. Schneider has certainly
started something and is really
working hard at trying to get him
self out OF the mess by publishing
untrue charges against Mr.. Bal
thes and me. Mr.. Schneider. as an
educated person, how can YOU
write such stories? That YOU as
real estate expert are trying to
convince people that YOU are writ
ing actual facts is ridiculous. I'm
Just trying to convince my fellow
members Of the Central Nerband
that your stories are not facts.
They are untrue.
The handling Of approval OF
real estate applications by the Of
fee, | have outlined in nv prev
ious article. | also have asked for
a written statement from George
Weber, Ex-President OF Branch
|. outlining his case. It's strange
that Mr., Weber has never spoken
to me about it. Is it because Mr..
Schneider instructed him not to?
How do we know Mr.. Weber re-
ceived from elsewhere the "a
mount in first mortgage he was
asking from the Central Nerband
- without being compelled to
take on a second mortgage:
The office has not been inform
ed Mr.. Schneider or Miss Zednick
that with SO interest they could
not meet the strong competition
of other money lenders who are
offering to lend money at 4H GO
interest or less. The TACT really is
that | have spoken to Mr. Schnei-
der only once over the telephone
in the last 1S months. This was at
the time when he olainm l hung
UP on him. .~ r. |
I'll tell you why: The conver-
sation at that time ended when |
was asked to play ball, that this
would give me smooth sailing if |
| went along. This | refused to do |
and hung up. No one can bribe
me.
| have never refused to take !
addresses over the telephone at
my home or in the office. Why |
should |: The interest OF the or
ganization has always been given
first consideration by me at home |
or in the Office and / have always |
been eager to make desirable
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1950-07-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Lindert,
IS Tacoma Ave, Youngstown.
Ohio, announce the engagement
of their daughter Pauline kathe-
rine to Arthur William Theis, son
of Mrs. Catherine Theis, 6O2
Clearmont Drive, Youngstown,
and the late Mr.. Fred Theis.
Mr.. Theis is an apprentices pat
tern maker at the 70. Sheet and
Tube Co. and Miss Lindert is
with the office of the Truscon
Steel Co. ..,s
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1950-07-20

mortgage loans. If this did occur,
there must have been a reason for
it. The application mentioned OF
a Sl3,5OO.m amount was on farm
land with house on it. The delay
was caused by the dissention "a
mong the Grand Officers in re-
gard to investing money in farms,
The remark about a certificate
loan mentioned by Mr.. Schneider
is really amusing. The fact is that
Mr.. Schneider never presented
his application for a certificate
loan to the Office as he claims to
have done. How can anyone bor-
row money anywhere without
his or'her signature And then
again, why should this Office
not make any payments the last
week of the month , That would
be very unbusinesslike. We invite
anyone to check our records as
to these charges. Mr.. Schneider
claims he wanted to give the
$1,000 90 loan business to the or
ganization. Why should he pay
go to the Central Nerband
when he can borrow the money
at 4HGc?
| would like to ask Mr.. Schnei.
der how he felt when the poor
old man with his hat in his hand
or the poor old lady with trembl-
ing voice walked into the Office
OF our equally illustrious Secre'
tarv of the then Transylvanian
Saxon Bank during the long try
ing wears after the bank failure
and asked for a few dollars to
procure bread for the hungry
family from their own money:
What did YOU tell them You
see. Mr.. SCHNEIDER, we have so
far paid money to anyone who
presented the proper required
presented the proper required
certain days, but any day during
the month.
To preserve the dignity of the
Central Nerband. it's officers and
and not because we ad-
nit any OF the untrue charges
made by the two Doctors, we
suggest this public mud sling.
ing" be discontinued. The charges
made are untrue. We hope we
have proved to our members our
side OF the charges. We have only
the best interests of the organiza-
ton at heart and will continue
to serve the Central Nerband and
it's members in the capacity we
were authorized by the conven.
ton until further orders or in
structions by the delegates to the
to whom we have
given Our oath.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1950-07-20
LORAIN JUNIORS
NEWS
BY Hilda Temple

The picnic and ball game were
a great success. The game was
Won by US after seven tense in
nings. Both teams played a good
game. Out at the picnic grounds
we had nice crowd. The barbe-
ques went over fine.
Our next game is with Farrell
in Lorain Sunday, July Is Game
time is 80 p. m, at Subway field
There will be the usual picnic af-
ter the game at the Saxon picnic
grounds.
Don Shuster is out of the Ho-
spital and Bog Temple is back at
work. Glad to see you boys are
recovering.
The Ladies Lodge is having a
picnic at the Picnic grounds Sun
day, July 50. Let's all turn out
in full force and give them the
support they deserve. .,..
,.,y.t.
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passbooks at an unnecessary loss
of thousands of dollars. Had they
waited a little longer, they would
have received all their money
without any loss, just like the Cen
trail Nerband did, and Branch 35
and all remaining depositors.
!. Speaking about the ladies
you say (and l quote): He
(meaning me) even hurled dirt at
the wives of three officers. Mesd.
Petri, Martini and Hallner". Now
let us take a good look at what |
actually wrote about the ladies. |
quote from my own article :"They
(meaning the mem even use their
wives to cast unfavorable reflec-
ton on the loans that have been
made" My dear Brother Balthes,
if this is hurting dirt at the ladies.
what is it what you have hureld
at me? ;,
The trouble with YOU is that
you depend too much on informa.
ton given to you by Messrs. Mar
TIM and Petri and you swallowed
it all without invetigating, as long
as it was against the Doctors. All
that Mr.. Martini has produced
against my charge of their oOoo
loan policy is that property own.
ers did not want to borrow more
and we could not force people to
take more money. Out of IS loans
made only for 65%t, all the 9TH
ers for less. | have no further
comment and let everybody use
his own judgment. You have re-
ferred me to a letter you wrote
me in 1916 approving i'll a gene
raj way a loan ratio of 65Fc of
appraisal. But | can have dozen
letters from you in my file to that
effect. If your office refuses to
give me checks for more than 90
per cent of the appraisal. there
is nothing / can do about it except
lose the loan or talk to the con-
vention. You know how far | got
with that.
In your opinion YOU and Mr..
Martini and Mr.. Petri are all
snow white. Doctor Foisel and l
are black Sheep that cannot be
trusted because they like gravy.
But what about your junior offic
ers and great number of the dele
gates? They don't even get a
smell of the gravy and they still
want mortgage loans.
Now about DR.. Foisel. I know,
| know In fact everybody knows
how you men feel about him. Re
how YOU men feel about him. You
made it very plain in your article.
He now has an honorary Office,
without pay, in our Company. He
is Secretary of our Company at a
3 times a month for about one half
hour. O my, 90 my. Isn't that
awful?
But let me tell you that Bishop
DR.. Teutsch, Bishop DR.. Glondys.
Stadtpiarrer DR.. .Schullerus, Stadt-
pfarrer DR.. Wolff of Schaessburg
my own father-in-law Heinrich
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1950-07-20
FROM DETROIT
Branch 81.

The Detroit Juniors will hold
their picnic Sunday. July 23, at
Saxonia Park, II Mile Road and
Saratoga Everyone is welcome
to attend.
Lodge Business Meeting
The next business meeting Of
Branch 81 will be held Thursday,
August 3, 7::3O p. IN. at Carls
Taproom. This will be the final
Thursday evening meeting and
beginning with the September
meeting we will return to the
first Sunday afternoon.
Cleanup Detail
Sometime in August, the Board
of Directors will again call on the
members to come out to the Sax
onia Park and help in cleaning
the new property. Three Sundays
are open in August from which
the Board will pick, they are the
Is, 20. and y.
Notice to all members
All members who have chang
ed their addresses in the past two
years, please notify the Financial
Secretary and also the Record
ing Secretary of the change.
John NJ. Schemmel, Sec.
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Mueller and his father Bishop DR..
Mueller were all Ministers and at
the same time directors in various
Saxon financial institutions. These
darn Doctors. No matter which
way you turn, you stumble into
them. And another thing about
DR.. Foisel. It will be to his ever
lasting and undying credit that
he had the foresight and initiative
to gather ourSaxon boys and girls
in the T. S. ]. A and bring them
into the Central Nerband. What
would our Central Nerband be
without them: What would our
Sachsenheim be without their
laughter, their singing. their mis-
chief and all the trouble they are
causing us. like all kids cause
their parents. You could not see
it at that time. Mr. Balthes. You
had no foresight. You bucked him
everywhere you could, both you
and your friends.
You were wrong, Brother Bal<
thes, both you and your verW
estiwable associates. History hast
proven that. And history wilN
prove that all three of you were
wrong in your short-sighted attis
tude towards bringing to our po-
verify strick people in Europe. And
history will prove that you are
wrong in the matter Of our con-
troversy.
But don't think that | am kidd
ing myself that | have won this
debate. Don't think that | am prid.
ing myself of being a glorious
Knight in Shining Armour on a
white horse cruisading for the
welfare of the Nerband. The odds
against me are too strong. Hav.
ing a doctors degree. being pre-.
sident of a financial institution
and good for nothing real estate
agent at the same time is too much
of a handicap to overcome. { do
not have a real estate license. but
Just the same: Thanks for tho
nice dig, Brother Balthes'
wipe the mud off my face and
the sweat off my brow and in con-
clusion say this: hope OUR de-
bate will give people some food
for thought Now, a year from
DOW or , or 3 years from now. IL
it does, it will do some good.
And may be it will give YOU
some food for thought too. If il
does, it will not hurt you. And as
the presiding ovcers at the con.
ventions never forget what Vol.
taire once said to his opponent,
Il violently disagree with what
you say, but | shall fight to my
last drop of blood for your right
to say what you think
Fraternally yours,
DR.. NJ. A. Syhneider,
--0-
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WEDDING BELLS

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Meyer OF
66l3 Ackley rd., Parma, wish to
announce the wedding of their
daughter Ruth Dolores to Mr..
Rudolph H. Rehner, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Hans Rehner. The
wedding will take place July %
at FIVE o'clock at Bethany Evan
gelical Lutheran Church, corner
of Ridge Rd. and Brownheld Or,
Parma. Open church service will
be observed. -
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1950-07-20
ZElDNER
FLOWER FUND
PICNIC
ATT NCE q I,,1,, 16fh
This and That from WASHINGTON
ALLIANCE. o. July 10th.
BY congrsssmon Frances P. Bolton

children have been returned to
their homes-thirty-eight hundred
Of the $4,000!
There was ceremony in Ath-
ems which was attended by Queen
Frederika and Crown Prince Con-
stantine, and others Of the royal
family. Monsignor Spyridcn. ths
Archbishop Of Athens and Primate
Of Greece, led the assembled chill
dren in a very moving prayer for
the speedy return of the other alb
Quoted children.
EROM the Austrian Consulate
l. General in New York comes
the word that the United States
Forces in Austria notified the
Austrian Government on June 1st
that the exchange of displaced per-
sons in Austria for persons of
German ethnic origin (Volks-
deutsche) now living in Germany
had been approved by USFA.
T EST we lose sight Of the real
- significance of free enterprise
of the American system that We
have created, let US look at some
real news developments in the bus
mess world, stories that speak for
themselves:
In Atlanta. Illinois, a little COM
munity of 1900 in the central part
of that state, the Peoples Bank
has gone out Of business after 62
years due to excessive taxes, gov
ernment restriction and govern
ment competition" .
The Circuit Judge at Atlanta,
Frank S. Bevan, who is also Pres
ident of the bank, said it held only
"hat-full" of farm mortgage
loans because Of the competition
of government lending agencies.
The bank statement shows 81, $685.
GAG in assets and liabilities, a bal
anced statement, and, according to
the Judge, "a healthy condition"
NEWS from across the world
~ continues to be serious in the
extreme, and the outlook for the
future demands the utmost in
steadiness and courage. It would
be foolish to minimize the risk we
run in this effort to uphold the
principles of the United Nations,
but the anxious citizen can assure
himself with certainty that, what
ever may be the price of picking
up the challenge the Communists
have thrown down, it is smaller, By
far, than that of not doing 50.
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Affairs will be taking up the Sem
ate Military Aid bill, having wait
ed until final action by the Senate
with the hope of making better
time in the end.
DOY Scouts by the thousands in
ID vaded Washington d u ri &
their Jamboree Week at Valley
Forge. 1t was truly thrilling to see
them everywhere you turned. They
were hot and tired, but alert to the
many new experiences and keen to
know something about their gov
ernment.
Two eager youngsters turned up
in my office a little after Z pm,
just as I was clearing my desk for
the night. One lad was Ronald
Hadlock--you of Burton will know
him. His family has moved to Side
Lake, Minnesota. Wasn't it fun
that he couldn't resist the pull of
the 22nd District? With him was
a Minnesota lad named Ralph H.
johnson. They were certainly a
grand pair of Scouts!
THERE is available a new 16
L millimeter film in full color
that gives a sober account of "Pu-
erto Rico. U. S. A." In order that
the people of this country might
have a clearer understanding of
the problems and what is being
done to meet them the Insular Gov
ernment has made this objective
record. It can be borrowed from
the Office of Puerto Rico, 1925
Seventeenth Street, NV. Wash
ington, D. c., and Arthur D. Little
Company, Cambridge, Massachu-
setts.
YOU will be glad to know that
1 $500 Of the kidnapped Greek
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~ HuINUCT Vi
bills passed by
the House some
time ago are
not even in the
committee stage
in the Senate.
One of the most
important OF
these is the APP
propriations
Bill - another,
the E.C.A. ap-
preparation. The
House Commit
&no m FOroiON
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1950-07-20
CLEVELAND EAST
BY John

With nothing to bost or hide
since we did not play last Sum
tlav we turn our attention TO
this coming Sund,, July 10, when
Farrell will journey to Our city.
The game viii be played at Cor
don Park Diamond 3 at | 80 p. m
All OF these from Farrell should
meet at the East Side club where
someone will direct them to the
y ~
- Please patronize our ad.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1950-07-20
SAXON VETERANSl
By "Heinie"

The Veterans held their July
meeting on July 10th. The attend
ance was slightly better than
average. lot of room for i'm.
provement.
Our picnic will be held on
Sunday, August 9th. The place is
still a mystery, but we have high
hopes. The picnic this year will
be only for the members, their
wives or sweethearts, and their
children. The charge will be 500
per couple which will include all
the meals DINNER and supper
and refreshments. Reservations
Reservations must be made in
advance. Phone CL. 1928 for
yours today.
Attention East and West
and other Cities
Because OF the present condi-
tons as they exist in Korea (let
us hope it ends there y the Saxon
Veterans would appreciate being
informed of any Saxon boys or
girls that are drafted or volunteer
to serve in the armed forces please
send or phone the name and ad.
dress of anyone now serving
their country or who will be, to
Henry SCHNEIDER, lOoO5 Linnet
Ave-, Cleveland II, Ohio. Phone
CT. l-6203.
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THIS week has been a quiet one
L on Capitol Hill. The Senate, as
you know, is far behind schedule.
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you will be glad to know that
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Evening star., 1950-05-27
Drama Page Memo
On A. u. Comedy

Dear j. c.: That grotto theater
out at American U. is a happy
place to see a play. At the bottom
of a slope and surrounded by trees,
it is almost intimate and there is
something about acting in a
natural setting that puts life in a
play. You ought to get out there if
you can find time. In these par
ticular surroundings THE Merry
Wives of Windsor" seems to be a
lot of fun. even though the student
performances range from average
for amateurs to moderately good
for amateurs and even though
"The Merry Wives of Windsor
would not win any Drama Critics
Circle Award for w. Shakespeare,
or that Bacon fellow, or even
George Abbott If it were written
today.
The A. U. students have done a
handsome production job in rig
ging up a pair of houses and a
tavern along Windsor Way and
Director Severino Montana has
turned out a smoothly moving
comedy. Walter James Falstaf is
quite a reasonable facsimile
look. I said something nice about
an actor-and Anne Seigal, Flor
ence Pettepitt and Viola Farber
are tolerable or better as the
Mistresses Ford, Page and Quickly
The others are tolerable or worse,
but this is still a fine place to
watch Shakespeare of a spring
evening. Beats television, even.
H. M.
Evening star., 1950-05-27

some scope with action in outdoor
settings. but this is more often
physical rather than dramatic
movement. Opera is still the
place where man sings at length
about what terrible thing this
is and what he's going to do about
it before he gets around to doing
it. The singing, of course. is what
everybody came for in the first
place and in IN Trovatore" it is
fine. as Gianna Pederzini sings
herself up q lusty gypsy and Wit
torina Colonello, as Lenora: EMO
MaScherini. as the count, and
Gino Sinimberghi. as Manrico. are
right in there with her. They are
supported by the orchestra and
chorus of the Rome Opera House
and music lovers shouldn't have
any complaints about the sound
Of the PlaZa's film.
Evening star., 1950-05-27
By Harry Macarthur

There is one thing to be said of
italian grand operas-there sell
dom are a lot of live actors clut-
tering up the premises when all
the singing and hollering is done
IN Trovatore," which has now
turned up at the Plaza in a new
film version is one of them. It
has its share of ill-starred love
and general all-around dismal
woe. The Giuseppe Verdi music is
rousing stuff. though, and it is
sung forthrightly by some people
who are well-knoWn in opera cir
cles and obviously have a talent
for this sort Of thing. This II
Trovatore" is a highly pictorial
one. too.
There is not much, Of course,
that Director Carmine Gallone or
anyone else can do about the plot
Verdi decided was just the thing
to set to passionate music. 1t is
descended of an ancient legend
and tells how a gypsy finally,
many arias later, avenges the
death of her mother, who was
burned at the stake one evening
for having put the evil eye on
one of the sons of the Conte di
Luna.
She would have done this much
sooner except that. making an
unfortunate mistake in the gloom,
she tossed her own child into a
flaming pyre instead of the son of
the count she had snatched and
intended to despatch. In no time
at all-20 years maybe-the boys
grew up and without knowing
they were brothers were fighting
pitched battles over tasty native
dish named Lenora.
The director has taken the
opera off the stage and given it
Evening star., 1950-05-27

and the social signif1cance-of
1.-THE Big Hangover"
1t has been downright extrava-
CANT in casting Norman Krasnas
script with Van johnson as the
hero, Elizabeth Taylor in over her
pretty head as the heorine, and
such others as Percy Waram, Fay
and Gene Lockhart in solid char
acter roles.
No script should trifle with the
talents of such as these. "The Big
Hangover" does.
The normally artful, versatile
Krasna is triple threat per-
former in the Palaces comedy.
being listed as it author. director
and producer.
His basic comedy idea is not bad
If it could avert being stretched
out of shape. His hero is an
agreeable chap, a war veteran with
a psychosis which leaves him hi
lariously drunk at the very
thought of taking a drink. He got
this way, Interestingly enough. by
standing neck-deep for IA hours
in cellar full of brandy after a
bomb explosion.
1t is Krasna's theory that IA
such hours in any mans life would
leave him drunk the rest of his
days. You can see for yourself
that it is quite a funny notion.
Unfortunately, Krasna injected
too many serious overtones by
making his hero a young lawyer
who joins a big firm only to dis
cover that it is full of ruthless
tools of big business.
**
A deal of clever invention goes
into "The Big Hangover" but in
serting Miss Taylor as the girl is
not part of it. She is asked to
play something akin to an adoles-
cent Florence Nightingale, a
beautiful debutante with know
ledge of psychiatry and a pen
chant for diagnosing and curing
the war nerve cases of eligible
young men.
Whatever else she can do with
her impressive natural gifts, this
is one assignment beyond Miss
Taylor's powers.
y X y
Krasna and the members of his
cast work with admirable re-
Sourcefulness on the series of gags
which carry the picture over its
course. johnson is the center of
most Of these, the best of which
is law school old grads dinner
at which a drop of champagne
turns him loose on a wild BARI