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The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-05-14
Random Notes
BY DOROTHY SANFORD

One really needed to be an oc-
tuplet, at least, to attend and en-
joy the affairs scheduled for the
past weekend. Friday night local
DeltaS held their Fifth Annual
Debutante Cotillion in the cafe
terra of the beautiful Holmes Ele-
mentary School. Fifty-two senior
girls were honored from the four
high schools in our area-Book-
er t. Washington, George Wash
ington Carver, Dorsey and Mays
but more about that next week.
JayceeS held their annual install
lation Banquet and Dance on last
Friday night the banquet at
Douglas Elementary from which
place guests trekked to the Fla.
mingo Room for dancing. Some
energetic people made both Fri
day night parties.
Saturday evening, DeEaS had a
surprise shower for two Beta
Zeta Sigma Sorors - one Mrs.
Henry Clark, Jr., whose wedding
was an event of April 80; the
other, Miss Iona Elizabeth Brown
whose engagement was announc-
ed last week. The shower was at
the home of Mrs. Harold Sawyer
on 10th st.
Sunday being Mothers Day, all
churches held special services.
many with guest speakers and
special music. Daughter Elks did
themselves proud by presenting
Mrs. Ambry Davis, state preSi-
dent of the Federated Women's
Clubs and a speaker of note at
their annual 500 Mothers Day
Tea. Immediately following the
tea at the Mary Elizabeth Hotel,
the National Hotel Association
and their local co-SponSorS-the
Elks of AntlerS Temple and the
BeauticianS' League attracted
very large group to watch the
fashion show and to enjoy the
cabaret dance held at the Lord
Calvert Hotel.
Monday night GrahamiteS af-
ter 10 months of work held a eli
making Appreciation Dinner for
their pastor, Rev Edward T.
Graham. Over 125 guests. black
and white, and of many different
faiths and denominations joined
in this tribute, for Ed Graham
has touched the lives of many
people in this area. He has offer
ed spiritual guidance, prayers,
given the word of encouragement
and provided the listening ear to
all who have come to him with
various problems. In addition he
has also helped many to help
themselves economically for like
blessed Martin de PORES he knows
that the physical man must be in
good condition in order for him
to accept the gospel.
Mrs. GuSSie Gamble, state sup
ervisor for the Church of God in
Christ was presented with a
bronze plaque on last Sunday
during the last session of the
Women'S international Con-
vention in Boston. Mrs. Gamble
was honored for her work as 1853
hostess to the convention here in
Miami. New England churches
were hosts to the fifth annual
meeting. The Gospel on Wheels, a
two-bedroom trailer and Chrys-
Ter sedan was dedicated during
the Sunday Mass Meeting. The
entire program-meetings, work
shops and tours were well organ
lied and weil-attended. Each of
the $500 people in attendance
were provided with printed
itineraries which in addition to
the regular information included
the menus offered at the Ritz
Plaza, Hotel Lenox and the Star
dust Inn, Kittery, Maine. Mother
Lillian Coffey, well known in
Miami, was general chairman of
th'" With Annual Women'S Inter
national Convention. Mrs. Gamble
returned home Tuesday.
49, 1R M.
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Mrs. Georgia Mcmahon of the
faculty of the J. r. e. Lee Ele-
mentary School has accepted APP
pointment IS director for Girl
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The Murrell Branch of the
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Listen to VICES "Man on The Street" Daily at
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-02
Why Gary?

\A/E have been asked Why, of all the
w Society's centers, was Gary, Ind,
chosen as the site July 2-3-4, 1855, of the
Fourth National Junior Order Convention?
Why not Kansas City, Kansas, where
the first mention of organizing Junior
Order Department was made back in 1912?
Or Cleveland, Ohio, where in 1915 the
Delegates to the 18th Convention of the old
National Croatian Society voted to put the
organization Of those days in the business
of selling juvenile life insurance?
And why not Des PLANES, Ill., seat of
the Children's Home of the Croatan Fra
ternal Union, the national pride and joy Of
every member of the Society?
No reason at ALL except that both Des
PLANES and Kansas City have already host
ed Junior Convention. Cleveland, on the
other hand, has yet to be so honored.
X
But, why not Gary, the home as of jan
uary /, 1865 of the Croatian Fraternal
Unions largest Lodge and Junior Order
Nest = Lodge 10 with 1852 MEMBERS
Nest 10 with 9O4 members?
Who in view of this, would deny our
members in Gary the honor of hosting the
Fourth National Junior Convention? They
have certainly earned the accolade in their
own right and should be proud of the fact
that it came their way on the strength Of
their efforts through the years in behalf Of
the Croatian Fraternal Union!
n X
Gary may not be a Pittsburgh, Chicago,
Cleveland or Kansas City in size, but it is
still the biggest membership thing" in the
Society as whole and richly deserves to
host this Convention.
There will be other Junior Conventions
in the future; time enough for other CEN
ters to come up with the same good reason
used by Gary to lay claim to the 1855 ver
sion of these gatherings. To each his own
as he earns it in our fraternal way of life.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-02

been settled by treaty. Even though both
Chinese governments claim Formosa as
Chinese, even though we promised in 1943
at Cairo to restore it" to the Republic of
China, Formosa is not now, it is not yet,
Chinese territory. Because of that our pre-
sence in Formosa is not intervention in
the Chinese civil war
On these grounds we have obligations
and rights in the disposition of Formosa,
regardless of whether we think Chang or
Mao is the head of the legitimate govern
ment of China. Our position in Formosa
does not depend upon Chang. For Chang
has never acquired a legitimate title to
Formosa. Our position is the consequence
of an international war, and on that ground
we can make case before the opinion of
mankind to invoke their collaboration in
reaching an international solution.
Walter Lppman
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-02
Memories, Memories

X AUCH water has gone over the axlomauc
wi dam since the chartering January l9,
1880, of the Croatian Fraternal Unions
"Troians" English Speaking Lodge 76 of
South Side Pittsburgh, Pa.
For that matter, so has much OF the
present English Editors hair since those
good old days" which saw nineteen young
South Side District men and women organ
ize an ESL which for twenty-five years has
withstood depression, war and countless
other trials and tribulations to rank today
as one of the Society's finest units.
X
Well do we remember many of the Char
ter Members of "Trojans' Lodge 76
Particularly the likes of Larry Delost
Leo and Sam Bielich, Johanna Stanchic, nee
Mlinac, Nick Cindric, Pete and Mike DuJ-
mic, Mike Vucic and John Stajduhar
And we'll do we remember our OCCASION
al trips from good old New Brighton in
Beaver County to the South Side for the
"Troians" social affairs of more than two
decades ago, those days when ESL crowds
from near and far always managed some
how to scrape up depression buck or
two" and patronize another English Speak
ing Lodge affair.
In fact, we personally, were so smitten
bv the ESL virus of that era in the Gro
attain Fraternal Unions history that we up
and became Charter Member April 29,
1880, of "Beaverites" English Speaking
Lodge 73s, New Brighton, and have since
served the same Lodge in one official ca
pacity or another throughout the twenty
five wears of it's affiliation with the Society.
We have always been - always will be -
proud of this record.
There are great many things we could
say editorially in honor of the "Trojans" of
Lodge rs on this, the eve of their celeora-
/ ton Saturday, February 5, 1855, of their
Silver Anniversary Year
N But what greater honor can we pay
10 them than to say that the Croatian Fra
ternal Union has always been proud OF
them and grateful for their faith over the
years in the Society? No man or woman
can ask for greater fraternal credit.
Finally, we thank the "Trojans' for
having contributed generously over the
years to our personal storehouse of wonder
full memories = memories Of a past which
assured the Societys future.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-02
What A Man!

YOU are about to read an announcement
which appeared in recent issue of the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin"
Il am responsible for all debts and obli-
cations of my wife, Selma, both present
and future, and am more than happy to be
the provider for a woman who has borne
me two lovely children, and with an over
abundance of love and care has made the
past eight years of married life the incest
Of my life. On this, our eighth anniversary,
l wish to publicly express my gratitude.
- Henry Burns
No, Mr. Burns isn't Croat. Nor did he
marry woman of that descent.
So, why editorialize him?
Well, men who thank their wives for
anything in public print are so few that you
can count them on the fingers of your one
hand and probably never get to five.
Now, having given Mr.. Burns his just
dues, we can only go on to hope that not
too many of the Little Women" will bother
reading this editorial. 1t might cause the
"Old Man" trouble
Come to think of it, our own Little
Woman" may start with us first.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-02
Gods Children

A LII of u.s. regardless Of race, creed or
\ color, whether we are man enough to
admit to it or not, are Gods children That
none of us can honestly deny.
By the same token - ipso facto - we
are our brothers keeper and most assur-
edlv responsible, morally and materially to
help those who cannot help themselves,
particularly children who were born to suf-
fer untold misery on this sorry earth
Forty-three of these helpless youngsters
are wards of the Home for Crippled Chill
dren in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
Ranging in age from to Is years, more
than half of these ill fated boys and girls
are suffering from the ravages of polio,
while others lost leg or an arm, or both,
when they tripped over old land mines
planted by the Germans during their World
War II invasion of Yugoslavia.
John Crockett, United States Public
Affairs Officer in Zagreb points out the
plight of these youngsters in an article ap-
pearing elsewhere on this editorial page.
Coming from man of his standing, we can
not but believe his report in toto.
X X
What Mr.. Crockett would have you do
for these luckless children is simple: - He
would have you help make them bit more
happier in life, not with money, but with
common, ordinary bed sheet.
Surely bed sheet is within the finan-
cial means of every member of the Croatian
Fraternal Union who sincerely believes that
we are indeed our brothers keeper; that
the unfortunate children Of another country
are our concern as Christians.
But for the grace of God, one of these
boys or girls could have been yours.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-02
(To Be Continued)
Tito's us Visit
Wishfu| Thinking
No Comment From
State Department

Washington, d. c. - No one
in authority here will lend any
credence to the rumor that
Yugoslavia's President Marshal
Tito will visit" Washington
this Spring.
The most persistent rumor
making the cocktail hour
rounds is that the Yugoslav
dictator will make a state visit
to Washington in late March
and discuss the political facts
of life with President Dwight
D. Eisenhower.
Recent Guest Of Nehru
Tito recently made a state
visit to India and discussed the
world situation with Prime
Minister Nehru.
The outcome of those dis
cussions has not, as yet, been
made public. Tito, however, is
reported to have found Nehru
a brilliant man and a great
exponent of peace" No doubt
the Prime Minister of India
repaid Tito the compliment in
peace loving" spades.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-02
Let's Be Honest!

DR.. Arnold Toynbee, of
Britain, is one of the greatest
historians GA Study of His
tory" 10 volumes and "a
years of work., and some
times a controversial one.
We don't go whole hog for
some of his ideas, but we do
believe the good doctor was
h is o rically, philosophically,
and practically 1000 right in
his criticism of the Vests
conduct of the "cold war" dur
ing an interview in the Colum-
bia University Club in New
York November 3, 1854.
His thesis was that we are
placing too much emphasis on
our material wealth and not
enough on our spiritual ideas
of individual freedom.
Sure, it's very smug and
self-satisfying to be able to
brag about our high incidence
of bathtubs, indoor plumbing,
automobiles and the thou
sands of gadgets and work.
savers that give us the high
est living standard in the
world.
But as Communism strug-
giles with the free world for
the domination of mankind's
mind, it is not our material
we'll being that is of the
essence.
We cannot impress many
Of the areas of the world with
our material wealth, because
such wealth is not immedi-
ately attainable by their peo-
piles. But freedom? All men
understand freedom; the con-
cepts of mans government as
his servant, not his master.
Let's fight it out on that
line!
-Pgh. "Sun.Telegraph"
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-02
j. 5. A. Official
Seeks Bed Sheets
Home In Zagreb
Needs Your Help

Zagreb, Yugoslavia - In
the eight years since l left
the Connecticut Valley in
America and lived in Europe,
l have seen a lot of human
misery, but nothing has
touched me as much as a
visit I made recently to the
Home for Crippled Children,
in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
There were 43 children,
ranging in age from 4 to 16,
about evenly divide between
girls and boys. More than
half were victims OF infantile
paralysis, others lost their
limbs when they stumbled
over old German land mines
that their parents had not
discovered.
Several are orphans, and
others were abandoned by
parents ashamed of their
sons or daughters deformi-
ties.
Utilize Muslin Scraps
Needless to say, in a coun-
try where drought and other
factors have ruined three sue
cessive harvests, there are no
orthopedic apparatuses to
tighten the gray life of these
lame little children.
But the thing that i'm
pressed me most was the lack
of bed sheets. All of the bed
linen had been made from
muslin scraps purchased by
the kilogram from a local
factory and then sewed to-
gether into sheets by those
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-02
Chicago, Illinois
January !, 1855

Dear bro. Brkich:
After reading the last
(January 81 issue of the En-
glish Section, it seemed to me
that you, too, have been bit
ten by that venomous mos
quito that leaves his victims
mumbling a bout healthy
mentality" democratic right
to know" reasonable, sensi-
BILE, patient -" while the
victim displays phyrical quail
ties of things just the op-
posite.
One of the peculiarities of
this malady is that the victim
has an urge to prove he is
more American than anybody;
to speak lengthily against
Communism to prove he is
not for Communism.
/ am sure that the cause OF
fraternalism and the Croatian
Fraternal Union ' III not be
strengthened by a wave OF
anti-Communism.
History teaches us many
things, among them that: -
The majority of today was
the minority of yesterday.
The most laughed at theo-
ries of yesterday are the posi-
tive sciences of today.
The healthy growtl of 'ast
summer is the fertilizer for
the new plant that will come
in the spring.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-02
Sincerely yours,
DIR. Ignatius Gavran
President, Readers Club
MATTED NJ 0DIkI0N Letters To
80 ---E -. - .-.-G-s The Editor

When I was a boy my
father said to me: "Trazi is
thu, sine! Uvijek trazi isti-
nu!"
I believe that the growth
of the Croatian Fraternal I'm
ion, which will der md upon
the English speaking men,
bers of the future, will rise
or fall in proportion to how
earnestly the present leader
ship shall search for the
truth.
Fraternally yours,
Joseph Grachen
Lodge 80, Chicago
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-02

they converted to their re-
ligious faith in SaXony, their.
first stepping stone on the
way to America. In 1749 they
had founded the city of Beth
lehem in Pennsylvania and
established the first inter
denominational College for
Women in this country.
They were famous for their
church music and last, but
not least, they strongly in
fluenced the doctrine of John
Wesley, the founder of the
Methodist Church. His broth
er Charles became a member
of the Moravian church which
in 1857 will celebrate the
500th anniversary of it's
founding in Bohemia as the
oldest duly organized Prot
estant denomination of the
world.
Famed "Forty-Eighters"
The last and by far the
largest wave of immigration
from the Czechoslovakian
lands started at the begin
ming of the last century.
Until 1S4S it was sporadic.
The first newcomer of this
group was Antonin Flip
Heinrich, who became known
as one of the first American
composers of note. He intro
duced lay music in this coun-
try and was the president of
the first meeting of the New
York Philharmonic Society.
Heinrich, who first visited
America in 1905 and had set
tied here permanently in
1910, was followed by several
compatriots, teachers, adven-
turers, exiles and Czech de-
serters from the hated Aus
trian army.
The short-lived and brutal
ly crushed Czech rebellion
against Austria in 1848 sent
the first larger group of new
political exiles to the Ameri-
can shores.
Vaclav Pohl and Hynek
Vodicka, two of the founders
of the Czechoslovak Society
of America, belonged to this
group of famous forty
Fighters"
Last Census Interesting
The mass immigration of
Czechs in the early fifties of
the last century was caused
by the failing of crops in Bo-
hemia, by high and oppressive
taxation and political perse-
cution in Austria.
The steady stream of the
Czech, and since 1880 also
the Slovak, immigration
reached it's height immedi-
ately before the First World
War.
The highest number Of
Czechoslovakian immigrants
and their descendants ever
recorded was in 1880, when
the official census of the
United States enumerated
1,3S9,OOO persons of Czecho-
slovakian origin equally di-
vided, one half of Czech and
the other half of Slovak eX-
traction.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-02
inevitable kind women who
run such hospitals.
Appeal To CFU Members

I tn ough t of January
White Sales and the oceans
of sheets, of all kinds and
colors, that are F ,rhaps in
every department store win
dow on Main Street in Hart
ford.
Aren't there SO persons in
Hartford County who would
donate a sheet to this cause?
I'm sure there are. Would
anybody, any CFU member,
who has an extra sheet, or
has the money to buy a new
one, mail a package to me at
the address below? If inter-
national postage is applied,
the packages will get to me
within one month.
Please forward to John
Crockett, Public Affairs OFF,
GER, Zagreb, clio Dept. of
State, Washington Is, D. G.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-02
This IS GARY!
Host, July 2-3-4, 1855
Fourth Junior Convention

NdlJ y, 1Auldlld, 1LSluOSS hOAO
than 1000 retail and 120 whole
sale establishments.
The several banks and finan-
cial institutions have continued
to increase their services to
meet the needs of this rapidly
growing city. The largest Of
these is the Gary National
Bank, operating 8 branches in
several outlying communities.
The business district of Gary
serves surrounding towns to
the east and south, making up
a trading area of about 10000
people.
Several good hotels make
Gary a popular convention
town and the modern Gary
Hotel - headquarters July
2-3-4, 1855, of the Croatian
Fraternal Unions 4th National
Junior Convention is the
hub of many of the city's So
cial and civic activities.
City OF Young People
A city of young people, only
259o are over As years of age,
Gary is also the home of many
citizens of so-called foreign
descent"
Many of these people made
their way to Gary early in the
century. BY 1910 people from
40 nations, speaking as many
languages, comprised 500 Of
Gary's population.
At first these new Ameri-
cans settled in their own ma
tional groups, but the second
generation have largely broken
away from national grouping.
In Gary's nationally famous
progressive schools, they have
learned American customs and
language and have learned to
cherish the freedom their par
ents won for them.
According to U. S. Census
figures, Gary in 1910 housed
500 foreign born, 47.8% ma
tive white, 2.2%o Negro; in
1910 the figures shifted to
1850 foreign born, 66.1%
native white, 1S.4%o Negro;
and in 1850 to 11.396 foreign
born, 59.4%o native white, and
1880 Negro.
No Steel - No Gary!
There is no doubt about it:
Without the steel industry,
there would have been no
Gary.
The United States Steel Cor
poration, in establishing sThe
Largest Steel - Mill iii the
World" created jobs for thou
sands of people. These people
in turn required many con-
sumer goods and services
which naturally created more
thousands of good Jobs.
Steel was" Gary for a long
time and even today, some
$4,000 of the city's working
people are employed by u. S.
Steel or one of it's many, varied
subsidiaries.
However, many people felt
that to be an economically
healthy city, more diversified
industry was necessary to
Gary's future. Among those to
do something about it were a
group of businessmen and peo-
pie from the steel company
who formed the 'Gary lnduS-
trial Foundation"
Group Does Fine Job
Since the organization of the
Foundation in 1915, this group
has invested great deal o1
time and money interesting
outside companies in locating
in Gary and encouraging new
talent within the city.
Today there are we'll ovel
a hundred industries Other
than the steel plants, large
and small companies produc
ing 125 products. Gary is nj
longer a so-called zone indus
try town."