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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
Never An Uncertainty

. Another option will give
her, in lieu of any cash, a full
ly paid up certificate for the
amazing amount Of $3,498.
Here grandfather's generous
gift will have assumed fantas-
tic proportions for now it will
be almost six times it's origi-
nal size.
Yes truly, what better gift
for that grandchild than a
CFU certificate and especially
on the Single Premium basis
for then there is no uncer-
tainty about it's immediate
and long range value.
In a world of changing
modes and moods, where OBJ
solescence and diminishing
values rob almost everything
of permanency, your CF'U GER
tificate of insurance goes
snowballing in value, more
precious with each succeeding
day.
What better way to perpet-
tuate ones memory in the
minds and hearts of loved
ones? Give that cherub a gift
supreme-give him a CFU
certificate!
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
Items Of More Than Passing Us.A. Interest - II
Michigan; Straits Of Mackinac; Worlds Largest Bridge
The State of Michigan is di-

The State of Michigan is di-
vided into two parts, the
Lower and Upper Peninsula.
Many people in other states
regard only the lower part,
where Detroit and other large
cities are located, as the real
Michigan, knowing little a.
bout the other half which, in
area, is about three quarters
the size of the Lower PENN
sula.
AL IN most every native
Pittsburgher to whom l
have spoken is completely
at a loss when 1 mention
that 1 had previously lived
in Michigan's Copper Coun-
try, way up in the northern
part of the Upper Peninsu-
la. They shake their heads,
admitting that they never
heard of it.
In fact that part Of Michi-
gan seems as remote to them
as some place in Northern
Canada. Yet, for over half a
century, Northern Michigan
was the home of the richest
copper mine in the world.
Not only that but it has al
SO rich iron deposits, besides
containing thousands of acres
of priceless timber lands.
Although by this time the
best copper veins have been
depleted, the iron mines are
nearing their exhaustion and
the birds-eye maple and white
pine cut down, the country
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04

it makes one feel like being
on the high seas.
Twenty five or thirty years
ago, when auto traffic was
light, this mode of crossing
the straits was not particu-
larly tiresome, because one
could get on a ferry without
waiting too long.
But as autos became more
numerous, more people were
travelling from one part to
another and, at times, it be-
came a real headache.
Especially so during the
hunting season when thou
sands of hunters from Detroit
and other cities invade the
northern country. Then it
really becomes exasperating.
The Hunters Paradise
Until the advent Of copper
and iron mines and until lum-
ber companies began their de-
struction, Michigan's Upper
Peninsula was a pr'imeval for
est.
There countless wild ami
mails roamed in their natural
habitat and one had to walk
but a few steps to bag a deer
or bring down a fat partridge.
When the mines drew more
and more people to the north
ern tip of this peninsula, it
became the miners recreation
on Sundays to go out in the
woods and come home loaded
(Mackinac Bridge P. 10)
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04

Junior Kolo Groups of Cokeburg, Pa.
Coming as it did from Canadian news
paper, this praise for the two stateside
groups should serve as food for thought
for our members in America and Canada
X X X
Our personal visits to Canada in the
past taught us a great deal about our peo-
pie residing in that land
We can remember the time when they
felt that their brethren in the United States
were so many snobs - "Americki keksari'
hell bent for the almighty dollar.
They cannot know just how "bent" those
same brethren were in the 1905.
On the other hand, and sad to relate, all
too many of our people on this side of the
border looked down on their Canadian
counterparts as so many peasants.
Which only goes to show that people,
including Croats, can be funny.
For the only difference between our
people in the United States and Canada is
that they live in different countries
Aside from that and the damnable
old country politics which plague them on
both sides of the border our USA and
Canadian people have everything in COM
mon.
Everything to gain or lose!
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04

Kelly in America. Working in
dependently tn u a n d S of
miles apart, these two men
reported the discovery, al
most simultaneously, of a
pneumatic process VII i C h
could make steel in large
quantities, quickly and cheap
ly.
Most Lived On Farms
Although Kelly was de-
clared the winner of Ameri-
can patent rights by virtue
of priority of invention" the
rival patents were ultimately
merged. The revolutionary
process continued to bear the
name Bessemer because he
and his associates had the
better facilities to advance it
in the business world.
In such undramatic fashion
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
JOhnstOWn CD

WYE ARE NO less happy to note that
w Johnstown's (Pa.) Annual "Croatian
Day will return to the public fold Sept 8,
1857, after lapse of many years standing.
For this we owe debt of gratitude to
the members of the Society's "St. Rochus"
Lodge 5, third largest Of all the American
and Canadian units under the banner of the
Croatian Fraternal Union. They get things
done there.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
BY Joseph Chesarek
Member, Home Office
Clerical Staff

still remains populated; farms
having taken place of timber
lands and tourists are invad-
ing the parks around Lake
Superior in ever increasing
numbers.
The Straits of Mackinac
If you will look at the map
you will see that the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan is real
ly a part of Wisconsin, which
it borders for almost two
hundred miles.
Why they decided to make
it a part of Michigan, since it
is not connected anywhere by
land with the Lower Peninsu-
la, is something that many
can't understand. Wisconsin
wanted it and even up to to-
day has not entirely surren-
dered it's claim to it.
The nearest M ing
point of the two peninsulas
is at the Straits of Macki-
nae, where Lake Superior
and Lake Huron meet. The
Straits are nearly five miles
wide and the only way to
get across them is by ferry.
It takes about three quar-
ters of an hour to make the
crossing and, since the winds
are always high at that point,
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04

publicans.
1t robs them of any prospect of reorgan-
izing the Senate at this session of Congress.
And it indicates hard struggle in the con-
gressional elections in 1858
Republicans can certainly find no COM
fort on that score. For Ike's candidate, for
mer Governor Walter ]. Kohler, Jr., suf-
fered a humiliating defeat at the hands of
William Proxmire, whom he had twice de-
feated for the governorship.
Mr.. Proxmire is an ambitious 41-year-
old businessman and graduate of Yale and
Harvard who figures to fit into the Doug
s-Humphrey pattern of Northern
Democratic liberals.
.------------ - Pittsburgh Post Gazette"
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04

occurred tn G chronological
break-through which was to
spur the greatest century of
progress in the history Of
man.
Up to that time, politi-
cally free Americans lived
in almost the same kind Of
iron age that had existed in
Egypt as early as 800 3.
c. In 1857 most Americans
lived on farms.
Mining and ironmaking
were laborious; small guam
titles of steel could be made
with great difficulty at high
cost. Coal was a new tangled
luxury. Factories were crude,
largely powered with water.
Heat in winter was scarce,
lighting was dim and bathing
was rare. Railroads were pri-
mitive and communications
moved slowly. Yet, compared
with other peoples, Ameri-
cans were growing prosper
Gus and income taxes were
unknown.
Those Good Old Days
Abundant, cheap st e e
quickly increased the tempo
of America and American
life.
Steel rails famed out, spin
ming a web across the nation,
providing Wit al man-made
links for commerce. Youth
full, burgeoning American in
dustry literally cut it's teeth
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
How Metal Helped Make United States Great World Power
Century Of Progress With Steel

T his country has grown
with steel, the basic ma
terial of our national prog
ress.
Steel crisscrosses the ma
ton as rails, climbs the hori-
zon as skyscrapers,. glides
along the highways an d
through the air. 1t takes us
where we want to go, discour-
ages would-be aggressors,
and saves lives in the skilled
hands of a surgeon.
Every product we use is
either made of steel or pro-
cessed by steel machines. 1t
is the cheapest and most ver-
satile metal used by man.
A world without steel? Un-
thinkable.
Yet the modern age of
steel began only 100 years
ago. Between April of 1856
and the end of 1857 some
thing happened that was to
change the face of the
globe.
Patent papers were issued
to two men - Henry Besse-
mer in England and William
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04

:. Sir Henry Bessemer -.
rican made steel for their
practical development and ap-
plication.
Steel rails, first rolled at
the North Chicago rolling
mill in 1865, would long
outwear those of iron.
These steel rails were the
forerunners of the structu-
raj steel shapes which
would furnish economy and
strength for modern facto-
ries, schools, skyscrapers
and bridges.
(SteeI Made : P. ~
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04

began back IN 1881 with
the issuance of patent
papers to England's Sir
Henry Bessemer a n q
Americas William Kelly
and resulted in the mir
acle that this Country of
ours stands for in the
eyes Of men all over the
face of the earth.
1t is a story of rails
crisscrossing from coast
to coast; of huge sky
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
Tempus Fugit

Some things have been
around so long that people
take them for granted.
Like the Childrcn's
Home, Des PLANES, ILL.,, of
the CrOatian Fraternal Un-
ion of America, which in
September of this year will
observe it's 3Oth Anniver-
sary of humane service to
the American and Canadian
membership of the Society.
Tempus fugit!
- Stephen F. Brkich
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04

scrapers splitting the clouds; of schools,
colleges, hospitals and churches; of atomic
research and guided missiles; of $4,000
stockholders representing an industrial in
vestment of over $40 billion; of modern con-
veniences without end.
Steel is also the story of thousands
of American and Canadian members of the
Croatian Fraternal Union who have found
such hard work to their muscle liking.
This is particularly true in the cases of
our members residing in Gary Ind, South
Chicago, ILL.,, Fontana, Calf, and, of course,
Pittsburgh, for years the Steel Capital of
The World
1t is equally as true in the case Of our
members domcied in Aliquippa, Pa, the
great ma jority of whom are employed by
the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
= the independent giant of the industry
which only last week opened new electric
weld pipe mill said to have cost the COM
pany million dollars
And it is the story of such individual
members of our Society as bro. Anthony ].
Vladovich, Aliquippa Lodge 423 Board of
Trustees member and President of the
United Steeworkers of America Jones and
Laughlin Local 1911.
All in all, it is a great story.
One which countless Croat, Slovene and
Serb members of the Croatian Fraternal
Union helped write with blood sweat and
tears before the steel industry was union
lied - for it's own good
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
SEPTEMBER 4, 1857
w ell Done!

JUDGING FROM the Welland Ont, Eve
> ming Tribune" coverage of Aug. 10 last,
the text of which appears on page 10 of this
issue, there should be more - much more
stretching of American and Canadian
Croat hands across the border
The staid Evening Tribune" came to
covered the Aug. II cultural invasion of
Welland's "Croatian Sons CFU Lodge GIT
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04

Home by the celebrated
"Jadran" Croatian
Singing Society Of Ali
quippa, Pa, and the
"St. George C.F.U.
Lodge 354 Senior and
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
Saga of Steel

BECAUSE THE industry has long since
ID grown on the Nation, very few Amer
leans realize the tremendous role that steel
has played this past century in the history
of the United States
Hence our publication today of "A Cen
tury of Progress With Steel" story which
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
Poetic Lament

WHAT TO DO about constantly ebbins
w interest in attending monthly Lodge
meetings has long been one Of the Croatian
Fraternal Unions major problems.
But the problem is in no sense peculiar
to our Society alone No!
In fact Time Magazine in it's issue Of
Aug. 26. 1857, pointed out that this same
plague seems to have settled on the houses
Of Americas 248 major fraternal orders
Q25,S6l local lodges, in spite of efforts of
all sorts to mstill interest in attending reg
ular meetings.
X X
But, said "Time,' in Grand junction,
Colo. the newsletter Of the Masons Local
Mesa Lodge So dealt with the problem head
on in q poignant little verse:
Say, son, let's go to lodge tonight We
haven't been for years.
Let's don our little aprons white and
sit among the peers.
II want to hear the gavel ring, to hear
the organ play -.
Pass up bridge or picture show, your
wrestling bout or fight,
"SWitch off that darned old radio: let's
go to lodge tonight
Very good = even if it doesn't smack of
the poetic genius which made immortals of
the LongfelloWs, Whitmans, ct al
. Where to put the finger of blame for
disnterest in regular meetings?
Where but on the member himself.
No amount of prodding on our part will
turn the trick CFU-wise. Never
But there's nothing like trying!
- LO, THE POOR FALLS
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
In Passing

r he De m era t s.
] smashing ups e t
victory in Wisconsin's s
special senatorial elec-
ton is a double bar
relied blow to the Re-
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
; 10, THE POOR FALLS

THERE l stood, and humbly scanned
The miracle that sense appals,
Splitting in Niagara Falls.
,-.. - M9Eris Bishop
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
/. With The Editor

. Purchases of life insur-
ance in the United States for
the first seven months of 1857
totaled $37,948,00O,0O0, or
28fo above the record total Of
one year ago.
Wild, Woody Era
. Can you remember when
folks smoked Melachrinos;
danced the Charleston in
their stocking feet; swooned
to the songster likes of Rudy
Valee and Marion Harris;
paid a cool $185 for a super
heterodyne radio; guzzled
bath-tub gin; etc., etc.?
Then you were around in
1929, the year which saw the
birth of the English Section
of the Zajednicar.
X
Eat, Drink, Be Merry
. The saddest words of
tongue or pen - we let our
insurance lapse, and then ).
- A Widow
X
The Size OF 1t
Q The difference between
a prejudice and a conviction
is that you can explain a con-
viction without getting mad.
- Milan Vascov
Superb Engravers
X
Fraternalism
. Art thou lonely, o my
brother?
Share thy little with n
mother!
Stretch a hand to one un-
friended,
And thy loneliness is
ended!
William A. Dunkerley
X
Sky's The Limit!
. InflatiOn's bite out of the
IUSA economy last wear was
a flattening SO billion dollars
when compared with prices
on the national 1947 level.
And we're not horsing 4
round when we say that this
is the road to ruin.
X
Available At $4,000
. For the first time In .
quarter of a century, Cleve-
land industrialists will manu-
facture a passenger car =
The Argonaut - a powerful
roadster hardening back to
the famed Duesenberg Of yes
teryear.
Engine: vs. with displace-
ment of 1872 cubic inches and
a driveshaft stressed for 5000
rpm.
The price: $4,000.
X
Noel, Noel, Noel
. Have you received your
box of CFU Christmas Cards
through the mails?
X,:zap
-
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
Junior
.JOttings
Michael Grasha
Junior Order Director

. A package of gold
reached our desk the other
day. 1t arrived from the Gold
EN- West and was intended for
a lucky youngster who will
have ample reason to cherish
the memory of the donor.
And, the giver couldn't pos
sibly have made a better nor
more lasting selection of a
monument to his own men,
ory. 1t was a gift of princely
proportions-destined by ac-
cretion, and without further
sacrifice on the 3iver's part,
to manifold increases. v
1t was indeed the ideal gift;
rendered in ideal fashion;
consummate in every aspect!
The gold was in the form of
a check for $665.30 and was
to be used to purchase a Sim
gle Premium $1,000 20 Year
Endowment certificate for a
lucky lass born last Christmas
day. The purchaser, a grand
father and loyal CFU men,
Der Of many decades, wanted
to make certain that his
granddaughter also became
an affiliate of the worlds
greatest fraternal order.
X
Truly Surprise Gift
Q He had written from Fon-
tana a few weeks earlier in
forming us that an applica-
tion for the child would ar
rive from Los Angeles.
The parents were to insure
the child on the standard
monthly basis. He, however,
wanted to purchase the certi-
ficate outright via Single Pre-
MUM and surprise them with
the gift. Would we inform
him of the cost, and when
the money did arrive-would
we please send the certificate
to him directly SO that he
could make the presentation ?
We, of course, were. happy
to oblige and the deal was
completed post haste.
X
Here's What He Bought
. Now let us analyze this
present and it's value, even
tual maturity and choice OF
attractive options which make
of it such a grand gesture.
The certificate will pay 19
annual dividends to maturity
at So each for a total of $57
Since the original cost is q
gift from grandfather in the
amount of $665.30 this will be
a sizeable addition.
Then, when the certificate
has been in force 20 years il
will be worth $1,000. However
the member will have 2, ever
better options in lieu of that
full $1,000 and loss of further
protection.
The young lady will have
her choice of $714.1O in cash
and, in addition, a fully paic
up certificate for $1,000. And
let us remember that ever
that paid up certificate will
draw annual dividends from
then on. Thus, grandfather!
original gift will be increased
by about 3OOec.
Nox,nr A. TTuoorko:,,<,,
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04

ON bessenler steel.
Many basic discoveries and
inventions were awaiting only
the wide availability of Ame-
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04
Sky's The Limit!

. Inflation's bite out of the
USA economy last year was
a flattening 83 billion dollars
when compared with prices
on the national 1947 level.
And we're not horsing 4
round when we say that this
is the road to ruin.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-09-04

When you do, please buy
them on the spot and sit back
satisfied that you've done
your good deed for the day.,
For the beneficiary of it ali
is the worthy CFU's Scholar
ship Fund.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-01-31
Southern Wins Over
Terra Alta s. to 43

Southern High school broke its
11-game losing string on the local
court Tuesday night by turning
back Terra Alta High SO to AZ, for
the second time this season.
Terra Alta was the victim of
Southern's only other win in the
Highlander's opening game, 54-45.
Coach Schoonover used two
complete teams in an attempt to
find a smooth working aggregation.
Terra Alta scored first but Colaw
tied it up at %. The score was tied
at 6-6, 8-S, and Terra Alta was
leading at II to II at the quarter.
COlaw tied it up again at 17-all and
again at 1919. Shiffy put South
ern ahead at 1922 but Garlitz put
Terra Alta back in the lead for the
final time Shiffy again put South
ern ahead at 1924 and the High
landers led the balance of the
way. They led at the half 20 to &c
on a field goal by Roth.
The third period ended with
Southern on the long end of 40
SO count out outscored the visitors
IS to 7 in the final quarter to wind
up with ten-point leeway.
Southern was way ahead on field
goals, with % compared to Ia, but
their foul shooting was off The
Highlanders made 9 out of q while
Terra Alta got Is out of 26 at
tempts.
ColaW scored 10 points TO lead
the Southern scoring. Tom Bit
niger had 6, Shiffy 7, Roth 6, G..
Bittinger 4, Right 2, Deckman 8
and Dintaman l. Paugh and Muir
ply were non-scoring. Deckman,
never a candidate for the varsity
until this year, played heads-up
ball and scored four field goals
when they were most needed.
Jones led the Terra Alta scor-
ing with Is points while Brown
had 10. Wicklow 5, Brittner 3, Gar
litz 7, Lewis l and Harr 2. Mcrsing
was nOn-Scoring.
Wicklow went out on fouls in the
fourth quarter.
In the preliminary game South
crn's Jayvces beat the Terra Alta
Junior varsity 80 to "a
The Higlanders travel to Bayard
this evening for the first of two
game series Two home games are
scheduled next week, one on Tues
day with Elk Garden, and the re-
turn engagement with Bayard on
Friday. The only other home game
will be on February % with North
ern High HuskieS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-01-31
MARRIED

/ Graham-BuckeI-The marriage of
Miss 10 Ellen Bucket, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Bucket, of
Bittinger, and Donald Graham, of
St Adams, w. Va, took place Fri
day evening, December %, 1856,
at st. Johns Lutheran church in
Cumberland.
The double ring ceremony was
solcmnizcd by Rev Russell E.
Fink, pastor. The couple was at
tended by Janet Fullum, of Rock
wood, Pa, and William Lawson.
Baskets of white NUNS and
candclabra of lighted tapcrs deco
rated the church.
Preceding the ceremony pro-
gram of nuptial music was played
by Miss Bender, of LaValc I'm
mcdiately following the ceremony
reception was held at the home
of Mrs. Minnie Bagnar, Camden
avenue. Cumberland
The bride is a graduate of North
ern High school class of 1853, and
of Memorial Hospital School of
Nursing: Cumberland.
Mr. Graham was graduated from
St. Adams High school and served
four years in the army. The couple
is residing in Charleston, w. Va.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-01-31
Senate Cloakroom
BY J. GLENN BEALL
United States Senator from
Maryland

From Paris a Maryland service
man has written to me saying:
"My wife and | are the proud par
ents Of an adopted child-a little
girl who is now five months old.
We adopted her in Germany when
she was II days old, and naturally,
we want to bring her home with
JUS"
But the letter pointed out, it is
sometimes as difficult for baby
to gain admission to the United
States as il is for an adult
Adopted Children Wait for Turn
The problem arises from the fact
that since the end of last year there
has been no Legislation providing
specifically for the admission of
orphans or adopted children. Con-
sequently, the babies and young
sters fall into the regular system
of immigration quotas, where many
countries are already heavily over
subscribed.
No Lobbyists for Babies
Accompanying the Maryland
servicemans letter was a news
paper item in which the writer has
expressed his regrets that adopted
children have no lobbyists in
Washington" to promote their
cause.
Well, now, if they want one. this