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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02
Life Protection
Hits Record High
American People
Go For Insurance

New York, n. Y. - The
Institute of Life Insurance
has announced that American
families bought more new life
insurance last year than m
any previous year.
Purchases of new life pro-
lection were SAT ,600,000,0O0
in 1854, and total life insur-
ancc in force with the more
than 800 life insurance COM
panies and organizations rose
to S339,OOO,OOO,OOO, an in
crease of S35,OOO,OOO,OOO in
a single year.
Billions In Payments
Payments in 1854 to Amer
ica's 93,OO0,0O0 life insurance
policyholders from life insur-
ance and annuities came near
the $5,OOO,00O,OOO ark,
about twice the total of ten
years earlier.
Death benefit payments for
the past year were $685.
100000 and paym ITS to liv-
ing policyholders amounted
to S2,8S0,OO0,OOO. Annual
premiums paid for life insur-
ance and annuities were esti-
mated at S9,450, 100000 for
the same twelve months.
In short, the Institute said
Mat at the close of 1854 new
life nsurance purchases
amounted to $47.6 billions,
life insurance in force to
$3.50 billions, funds held to
secure policies, assets of all
companies in America, to
SS4.2 billions.
Room For Improvement
The Institute also pointed
out that nearly 2,25O,0O0
families are now putting 1870
or more of their income into
life insurance protection.
If all American families
followed suit, said the Insti-
tute, the total life insurance
carried by people in the Unit
ed States would amount to
a trillion dollars which
proves that there is room for
tremendous growth of life in
surance in the years ahead.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02

of course, no little counting
and marriage.
Era OF The Split Atom
| doubt that there has ever
been a finer or more encour-
aging demonstration of the
ability of people to hurdle the
superficial barriers which di-
vide them, and get on to-
gether as h um an beings
should-and must, l suspect,
if very many of us are to
survive on this earth in this
era of the split atom.
In truth, in the United Ma
tions Secretariat, there is lit
tie of deliberate hurdling of
such barriers-the relations
among the members of the
staff are so natural and free
that there is very little con-
sciousness of the existence of
barriers.
After all, there is nothing
so important in this world as
people giving expression to
the good that is in all of us
by amity toward each other,
by respecting each other and
by acting generally like civil
lied beings.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02

SldN 1OfCI AlIlCllC lCduC1S dLC
talking of turning this city,
formerly Fiume and obtained
from Italy after World War
II, into an active rival to
Trieste.
An informal and rather
old-fashiOned race between
the two Adriatic ports ap-
pears to be developing in the
wake of the Yugoslav-Italian
settlement of the dispute over
Trieste. In the London agree
ments of Oct. 5, 1854, the
Free Territory of Trieste was
partitioned, with the Trieste
port city falling to Italy.
1t was Trieste that in the
years before World War l en-
joyed the status of Mediter-
ranean gateway to Central
Europe under the rule of the
Austro Hungarian Empire.
Frustrated in her efforts to
get Trieste, Yugoslavia is
concentrating on building up
the port of Rijeka.
a Long-Range Effort
This will obviously be a
long-range effort. In the
meantime Yugoslavia remains
interested in free port facili-
ties in Trieste and has been
invited along with Austria,
Hungary, Czec' oslovakia and
Switzerland, to the Italian
sponsored meeting scheduled
in Trieste.
Howe ver, Yugoslavia's
hopes for Rijeka have been
bolstered by her normaliza-
ton of relations with the So
viet-led East European coun-
tries, as we'll as indications
of interest in Rijeka by Aus
tria, which once depended
greatly on this ports facili-
ties.
Signs of energetic striving
to build up Rijeka are cvi-
dent, largely, it is felt, be-
cause of the efferyescence of
54-year-oId Edo Ardas, the
Mayor, a veteran Communist
who returned to Yugoslavia
in 1948, and has injected a
Western spirit of getting
things done to his admins
tration here.
Already, M. Ardas said in
an interview, this city has
doubled in population from
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02

ed carefully to the sonorous
profundities of the pundits
on radio and television.
How Things Look Today
If there is a better in
formed American than I, let
him step forth. Till he does,
I am ready to tell the world
that this is how things look:
Malenkov got booted out
of the job of prime minister
because he didn't solve the
farm problem.
Our Secretary of Agricul-
ture Benson may have a
sneaking sympathy for him
on that score, though Ben
sons headache arises from
too much farm production
while Malenkov was troubled
by too little.
Experts Knew All Along
The experts knew all along
that Malenkov was going to
get it in the neck.
His downfall was inevitable
as soon as Khrushchev be-
came secretary of the Com
munist Party. Just why they
didn't warn us at that time l
can't say. If they'd told me
that Malenkov was just an
interim prime minister 1
wouldn't have been so sur
prised when he got the ak.
But never mind about the
past. What of the future?
The key to the future lies
in the personalities of two
men, Bulganin and Khrush-
chey.
Bulganin is a military man
but not really a military man.
He is a general but not a
military general. He is a po-
litical general. He has been
a banker and he has been
mayor of Moscow, but is not
now either. This makes it
clear that he is not the boss
man though he has the title.
He wears a little tuft Of
Whiskers on his chin. He does
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02
Good Reading

DAGE 10 of today's Zajednicar should
! command the attention of every Amer
lean and Canadian Junior Nest Manager
interested in his or her 1854 Conservation
Award Bonus Standing.
For many, the majority in this case,
the page will make for good reading, for
those listed are entitled to a Conservation
Award Bonus Check. Others checking the
page will not find their names listed for the
simple reason that they failed to qualify
for Bonus Award.
Interesting to note is the fact that 276
American and Canadian Nests will share, in
due time, in 1854 Conservation Bonus
Award melon amounting to S593500.
A tidy sum- to be sure, but nowhere
near what the Home Office would like to
have announced in this respect had every
Nest qualified for Bonus Award. In this
case, the savings are not to the liking
of the Croatian Fraternal Union.
Be that as it may, the S5,935.00 repre-
sent an investment in good will which will
repay the Society many times over during
the course of it's 1855 Membership Cam
paign, which ends May 81
Good will for two reasons: y Those who
qualified for 1854 Bonus Check won't
want to miss out repeating in 1866, and
p those who 'flunked' last year won't
want to come cropper twice if they can
help it. Which are reasons enough.
Finally, our Lodge Secretaries will be
advised next week as to their 1854 Conser-
vation Bonus Award Standings.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02
Without Relish

\h/E predicted on these pages last week
w that between IS and 100 Junior and
Honorary Delegates will attend the Gro
attain Fraternal Unions 4th National Jun
ior Convention, which is destined to take
place July 2-3-4 1855, at Gary, Indiana.
At first glance, this may seem like
brash stab in the dark - one which could
conceivably find us forced to "eat crow"
when all the returns are tabulated.
That's the trouble with making predc-
tons on the pages of fratcrnal newspaper,
yet it's necessity on occasions.
X X
Our prediction is not without basis. In
fact, we arrived at it after studying the
attendance statistics pertaining to the So
cietys previous Junior conclaves.
More than 200 youngsters from coast
to coast in the United States and Canada
attended the 1st National Junior COnven-
ton, held in 1889 at our Children's Home
in Des Plaines Illinois.
The second such gathering was staged
at Kansas City Kansas, in 1941 and at
tracted 131 Delegates, 70 some less than
turned out for the first confab Of 1889.
Nine years were to elapse before the
3rd National Junior Convention was called
to order at Washington, D. c., in 1850.
Only Al Junior and Honorary Delegates
managed to qualify for that rally, drop
of almost 100 from the 1889 high of 200
plus recorded at Des PLANES
Not exactly becoming the Society, but
a matter of record nevertheless.
Now, what to expect this year.
Frankly we don't believe the 1889 Des
PLANES Junior Convention attendance re-
cord will fall July 2-3-4, 1855, at Gary. That
is remote possibility at best.
Nor does the 1941 Kansas City mark
of 131 Delegates appear in danger
But we definitely foresee a betterment
this year of the Washington turnout of
1850, handful of A Delegates.
This we base on the fact that 48 Can
didates are currently endeavoring to
qualify as either Junior or Honorary
Delegates by participating in the Soci-
ety's Membership Campaign honOring the
10th Anniversary of its Junior Order
Inasmuch as the Campaign will not end
until May 81, 1855, some three months in
the offing, it is within reason to assume
that many many more Candidates will en-
ter into the spirit of the season and strive
to become Junior Convention Delegates.
This could only lead to one thing - better
ing by far the Washington "low" of A.
And it could become contagious to the
point where our prediction of between IS
and 100 Delegates at Gary would pan out
and spare us from ''eating crow"
But if eat it we must, then eat it we will
in the end = but not with relish!
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02

this to make him look inn
pressive.
A Cagey Old Boy
He is a cagey old boy,
though, and you shouldn't cell
him short. He might fool
you and become top man in
fact as we'll as n. he. Better
keep your eye on him.
Now Khrushchev. There's
a smart one. Started as a
poor miners son. Worked up
his way through the political
ant heap. Ran purges and
was a friend of Stains, like
Malenkov and Bulganin. Ran
agriculture and had trouble
in the job, like Malenkov.
Makes you sorrier than ever
for Secretary Benson.
Khrushchev drinks. Gets
pie-eyed at parties and talks
loud and big like some peo-
pie 1 could name who don't
live in the Kremlin. Other
members of the POlitburo
bawl him out for this and
correct him in public.
This shows Khrushchev is
the top man and that Bull
ganin is just in the for the
ride. When Khrushchev gets
ready to do it, out goes Bull
ganin. Of course, there's al
ways a chance that Bulganin
may fool him and it wouldn't
work out that way. But you'd
better keep your eye on
Khrushchev just the same.
And then there's Molotov.
But there's always Molotov.
Better keep your eye on him.
Are these changes good or
bad for us here in the United
States? Well, it's this way:
Maybe yes, maybe no.
You understand now?
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02
This IS GARY!
Host, July 2-3-4, 1855
Fourth Junior Convention

Gary, Indiana, host city
elect July 2-3-4, 1855, to the
Croatian Fraternal Unions 4th
National .ior Convention, Is
a remarkable community in
many ways.
Seen from the air, Gary is
a most pleasant surprise to
ground dwellers.
Lake Michigan to the North
is sapphire blue, sparkling
with reflected light from the
sun. The smoke from the
gigantic steel mills, largest in
the world, forms an even pat
tern of parallel streaks across
the sky, and the parks are
large green marks as from an
artists brush.
And all over the city, point
ing heavenward, are the spires,
towers, and the exotic for
eign-flavored domes of Gary's
135 churches.
Home OF Many Churches
The first churches in Gary,
which will celebrate it's Golden
Anniversary in 1856, were
Methodist Episcopal Church
and the Holy Angeles Church,
begun with the city itself In
1906.
Now all Protestant denomi-
nations are represented, in
Guiding the Orthodox churches
of many different nations. The
Roman Catholic Church has
grown, too, and phenomenally
so. And those of the Jewish
faith have erected temples of
worship.
Yes, Delegates to the Croa-
tian Fraternal Unions 4th Ma
tional Junior Convention will
naturally be encouraged to at
tend the church of their choice
during their July 2-3-4 stay
in Gary.
A Great And Safe City
Those who decide to drive to
Gary for the coming Junior
Convention will find it to be
one of Americas safest cities,
thanks to Gary's youthful
Mayor Peter Mandich.
A member of Gary's Croa-
tian Fraternal Union Lodge
ITO, Mayor Mandich several
years ago recommended that
the city institute Radar Con-
troll of Traffic Speed. 1t did in
time to become the first city
in the State of Indiana to en-
ter into this field.
AS a result of Mayor Man
dich's foresight, the number
of traffic fatalities in Gary
were reduced from 43 in 1852
to 18 in 1854 most appre-
ciable drop.
incidentally, the National
Safety Council estimates that
it costs a community $21, ,000.-
90 for every traffic fatality.
Which will explain why Gary
is so determined to make its
midst, the safest in America.
Gary Easily Reached
Getting Gin and out" Of
Gary should pose no problem
in the minds of those who will
eventually come to take in the
Society's 4th National Junior
Convention.
Those driving to Gary will
find three cross-country high
ways serving the area, Nos.
IL, 20 and 6. Going by train?
Then be advised that six main
railroads cut directly through
the city.
Air service to Gary is just
as convenient, should you de-
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02

. We must review our faith
in liberty and equality and JUS
tice under law. If we car bring
this battle out into the open,
on the basis of history and
logic, our faith must, and will,
preyail.-Robert A. Taft
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02

LlOll' Liz luO VI tliC hld =
relations is, of course, our al
the high principles most of |
we pay easy lip-service.
This being so, it is espc-
cially important to document
by living example the faith
we must have in people and
the conviction that mere diff
ferences among people need
present no insurmountable
barriers to friendly relation
ship, once they are brought
together under circumstances
which really permit them to
know each other and to en-
brace common human pur-
poses and values in place of
narrow racial, religious or
national ends and attitudes.
All Races And COlOrS
l may cite, for instance,
the very encouraging demon
stration afforded by the Sec
retariat-the working staff
of the United Nations of
the ability of perhaps the
most diversified assemblage
of people to be found under
one roof anywhere in the
world to understand each
other we'll and to work to-
gether amicably.
Altogether, there are some
1000 members of the United
Nations staff. They represent
a majority of the nationali-
ties in the world. They are
of all races, colours, re-
ligions, languages, cultures
and ideologies. Their habits
of dress, eating, worship,
marriage and work are vari-
able. Many come from highly
developed and industrialized
societies and many others
from underdeveloped, agricul-
tural countries. Some are
from the colonies.
Gamut OF Competence
There are Africans, Indo-
Chinese, and West Indians
working side by side with
their British, French, Rus
sian, Greek, Yugoslav, Sean
dinavian and Latin American
colleagues. There are Arabs
and Jews, Hindus and Mos
lens, Buddhists, Rom a n
Catholics, Anglicans, Greek
Orthodox, and shades of
Protestants from primitive
Baptists like myself to prim
Presbyterians.
They come from capitalist
and communist countries and
from all shades in between;
from thoroughly democratic
societies and from some
which have never held any
kind of an election; from re-
publics, monarchies and every
brand Of dictatorship.
They represent the whole
gamut Of competence, skills
and professions and are en-
gagged in work from the
menial level to the exalted
executive.
Towering Slab Of Glass
In short, just about all the
barriers known to human re-
lationships are to be found
in the Secretariat housed in
that towering slab of glass,
marble and metal at 42nd and
First Avenue in New York
City.
But we find that these bar
riers are remarkably fragile.
All Of these people, so widely
diversified in origin and back
ground, work and play to-
gether in impressive har-
mony. Genuine friendships
cut across all lines; social
and athletic clubs are formed
on the sole basis of common
interests; there is an easy
informality and camaraderie
IN relationships: and there is.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02
United Nations Most Diversified Set
0fPeopIe To Be Found Under One Roof
Staff Of 1000 Represent Majority Of
All NatiOnalities On Face Of The Earth
By RALPH j. BUNCHE, Director
Department OF Trusteeshp, United Nations

United Nations, New York - The concept of "brother-
hood among another of saying good human
tons about which there is often talk than applca-
ton The nub of the matter with regard to good human
relations of course, ability individuals up to
high principles readily embrace to which
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02

. Shakespeare said it is
often a trick of people if they
have a good thing, to make
it too common.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02
In Passing

"As for me, as long as
| have a voice or a vote in
the Senate of the United
States, | shall never con-
sent to permitting the
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02
So, Moscow Goings-0n Confuse You?
Perhaps This Will Help Clarity Things
Khrushchev Began AS Poor Miners Son
And Worked Way Up Political Ant Heap
By ANDREW BERNHARD
Editor, Pittsburgh "Post-Gazette'-

Along with, suppose, most of my fellow citizens have
thinking lot the last few days about the latest
heaval in the Kremln.
have read the reports have listened to the
read the analyses by the experts Russia
have read the experts Communism have listen
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-03-02
YugosIavia Striving To Make Rijeka
Great New Gateway To Central Europe
Government Leaders Are Determined To
Give Free Territory Of Trieste Headache
Reprinted Courtesy New York Times
: Reprinted Courtesy New York Time.

Reka Yugoslavia Under the leadership of e-time
British citizen who spent years in Canada this
city seeking to establish itself gateway to Central
Europe.
While Italy preparing sixnaton conference later this
month district in nearby Trieste the Yugo
Evening star., 1955-01-12
President Says He Is Striving
To Improve Security Program
Hopes for Help in New Justice Unit;
Defends Aides in Lodeiinsky Cuse

news conference was taken UP
with discussion of the case Of
Mr.. Ladejinsky. former agricul-
tural attache in the American
Embassy at Tokyo who was
cleared by the State Depart
ment, then ruled a security risk
by the Agricultural Department,
then finally given full clearance
and a new job by the Foreign
Operations Administration.
While he indicated some
doubts about the way the I.sde-
jinsky case was handled, the
President emphasized that he
upholds the right Of each agency
head involved to make his own
decisions.
He said he never formed q
judgment on the Ladejinsky
case himself and holds FOA Di-
rector Harold Stassen fully re-
sponsible for the decision to give
him another job after Agricul-
ture wouldn't have him.
A special Unit has been set
up in the Justice Department to
study how to avoid anomalies
(see EISENHOWER. Page A-49
Evening star., 1955-01-12
Cobbie's Lone Fare
Becomes Two as
Stork Catches Up

Morris L. Heath. so. has
carried q lot Of passengers in
his 80 years-plus OF taxi driving
but today marked the first time
he ever started out with one and
ended up with two.
His early-morning passenger,
Mrs. Richona johnson. ~.
colored, of the 400 block Of
Ninth street NV. gave birth
to 9 daughter in the taxi. Mr..
Heath had stopped at Second
street and Florida avenue NV.
to ask Patrolmen George s.
Raymond and Raymond J. Re
mick to get an ambulance. The
child was born during the con-
versatior.
The policemen wrapped
mother and child as warmly as
they could, then helped get her
into q District General Hospital
ambulance.
AL i've participants were re-
ported doing nicely.
Evening star., 1955-01-12
Boy, ;, Critically Injured
As Clothing Catches Fire

A 3-year-old boy was critically
burned over nine-tenths Of his
body today when his pajamas
and bathrobe caught fire as he
brushed against an electric
heater in his home near Alex
andria, the Penn Daw Rescue
Squad reported.
The boy was identified by the
rescue squad as Gregory Mum
day, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Munday Of 81 Monticello road.
In the jefferson Manor subdi-
vision of Route /. two miles
south Of Alexandria.
The accident occurred shortly
before $50 am. and the boy
was taken to Alexandria Hos
pital..
The rescue squad said the
child's robe and pajamss were
burned from him. They said his
mother put him in the bathtub
and turned on the water.
The mother, Mrs. Barbara
Munday, 80. suffered burns Of
the left hand in her attempts
to aid her son.
She said the accident took
place in q bedroom, where the
boy had gone to remove some
breakfast dishes used by his
grandfather, Charles Ewald. 73.
who is an invalid.
A squad spokesman said the
remains Of the robe and pajamas
would be tested by the Fairfax
County fire marshal to determine
the type Of material and how
inflammable it is.
Evening star., 1955-01-12
Army Holds Sergeant
As Collaboration
By The Assosis,sd Press

FORT BRAGG, N. c., Jan. IL.
"A Pennsylvania master SER
geant stationed here has been
charged with collaborating with
Chinese Communists and : in
forming on his fellow soldiers
while a prisoner Of war in Korea.
The Army said today that
Sergt. william H. Olson, 40, Of
TOWNSVILLE, Pa, was given pa
pers this morning informing him
that he will be brought to trial
on charge of violating Article
104 Of the uniform code Of mill
tary justice on eight alleged
acts.
Article 104 makes 1t unlawful
to communicate or have any in
tercourse with the enemy with
out proper authority.
If found guilty on any one Of
the eight charges, the Public IN
formation Office here said, the
maximum penalty could be
death. u
Sergt. Olson. who was also a
prisoner of the Germans during
World War /, was charged
earlier with perjury for allegedly
falsely swearing that he had not
collaborated with the enemy
while a prisoner in Korea.
A general court-marital at TT.
Bragg will try him on both
counts. No date has been set for
the trial.
Sergt. Olson is married and
has two children.
The Public Information ONCE
said the sergeant completed 90
years of service In the Army
January 3 and was due for re-
tirement shortly.
Evening star., 1955-01-12
BY Gornett D. Homer

President Eisenhower said to-
day there is continuing effort
within his administration to i'm
prove the loyalty security pro-
gram.
He said at a news conference
that he hopes new special
unit in the Justice Department
will help avoid in the future the
inter-agency confusion over Sc
curity risk cases such as de-
veloped in the Wolf Ladejinsky
case.
But he said he sees no way
right now in which proposed
study of the security program
by a special commission of pri-
vate citizens could be helpful.
The President said he would
be the last to say that the
present program to keep security
risks out of Government jobs
is perfect. He added that he
knows of no subject that con-
Germs the administration more.
and emphasized that improve
ment is going on all the time.
Much Of Mr.. Eisenhower's