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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-04-29
The Zajednicar

uUMAN NATURE being what it is, the
Editors Of the Zajednicar seldom ex-
pect pat on the back for publicity services
rendered in behalf of major functions held
by our members and people.
And yet there are times when people
are actually grateful to them in writing for
publicizing their affairs and more or less
assuring them of advance success
For example: - The South Chicago
Junior Order Nest 242 Tamburitzans and
Kolo Dancers are grateful to the Editors
for the fact that their 3rd Annual Spring
Concert of April 10 last attracted a crowd
in excess of 800 patrons
So are the East Pittsburgh and Mon
essen, Pa, Kolo Groups for the publicity
which lured SR.O. houses to watch the
dancers in recent district performances
Ditto for the Duquesne University Tam
buritzans, whose Annual Greater Pitts
burgh Concert of April IL attracted near
capacity audience of $500 to Syria Mosque
and set a new attendance record for their
many shows in this area.
So, nothing succeeds like success and
breeds success in it's wake.
And yet there are many other highly
successful affairs which go unreported in
the Official Organ simply because someone
fails to understand the necessity of promot-
ing public relations after as well as before
major event.
1t is these correspondents who are fail
ing to keep alive the interest of the men,
bers in their Lodge and, therefore, prevent
ing the Croatian Fraternal Union from be-
coming public houseword.
MATTER OF GETTING EVEN
The only people you should want to get
even with are those who have helped you
- Salvation Army War Cry
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1859
For The Record

A PPEARING on page II of this issue is
~ an official resume of the team and in
dividual champions and all-time highs as
sociated with the Society's Annual Natl
Tenpin Journeys of the past "a years, or
from 1888 through 1858.
Compiled and prepared for publication
by Sports Educational Director bro. Frank
Braidic, this historic resume should serve as
a fitting prelude to the running May 14-17,
Anniversary edition Of this great annual
sports gathering.
The Official Tournament Schedule will
be published in the May issue to complete
the preliminaries and prepare the stage for
the main pin-bout, May IA through May II,
Lodge 109
. A breakdown of the Tenpin Tourna-
ment's All-Time Scratch and Handicap
Team and Individual High Scores should be
particularly pleasing to the Society's men,
bers and bowlers in Cleveland
Of the II All-Time Women's Division
Highs, Cleveland is credited with 6, Chicago
2, and st. Louis, Hammond, Ind, and
Youngstown, Ohio, with one each.
Of as many Mems Division Highs, Gle
veland owns 7, st. Louis 3, and Youngs-
town 1.
Three of the four All-Time Highs in the
Junior Division Boys record book are en-
tered in the names of Cleveland youngsters.
The other is held by Hammond, Ind
All four All-Time Highs in the Girls
Junior Division log are strictly Cleveland
from stem to stern
Beyond question: Cleveland is the Soci-
etys City of Tenpin Champions.
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The Meeting At Corfu - Declaration Is Born
Yuqos|avia In World History
came too late.

came too late.
The Yugoslav Committee
ranked with the Czechoslovak
National Committee and the
Polish National Committee in
trying to obtain official rec
ognition as representative of
the Southern Slavs from Al
lied Powers.
Paste, in close cooperation
with the Italian Government,
prevented this.
Declaration Buried
While the Yugoslav Com
mittee expected the Corfu
Declaration to be a milestone
towards Yugoslav unity and
guaranty for equality between
the Serbs, Croats and Slo-
venes, Pasic considered it
merely a piece of propagan-
da.
Despite Pasic's reputation
as one who despised public
opinion, he did not deign to
refer to it for the purpose Of
burying the Declaration Of
Corfu, as he was doing when
he replied to Wickham Steed
that he: q. had signed the
Declaration of Corfu in order
to impress European public
opinion ="
END Of Series)
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THE FIRST meeting to or
| ganize a Croatian Singing
Society in Gary, Ind, was
held on May 6, 1914, in the
Croatian Church Hall, 23rd
and Adams st.
This meeting was attended
by ten men, called together
by z. l. Kerhin, who had al
ready organized Croa tt a n
Singing Societies in Chicago,
Pittsburgh, Pa, and Pueblo,
Colorado.
Other men attending this
first meeting were Matt
Oreskovic, Joseph Nejak,
Josip Keleminic, George
Radman, Louis Ladra, Ste
phan Stritoff, John Matko-
vic, Anton Matkovic and
Nicholas Campagnetto.
On May Is, 1914, at a meet
ing attended by twenty-four
men, the singing society was
formally organized and the
following committee elected:
President z. l. Kerhin, Vice
President Joseph Nejak, Sec
retary Janko Svaric, Treasu-
rer Frank Keleminic, Audit
ing committee, Nicholas Cam
pagnetto, Ivan Matkovic, jan
ko Spanic.
Others attending this meet
ing and enrolling as members
were: Louis Novak, Dominik
Kovacevic, Milan Oreskovic,
John Mitar, Janko Spanic, Mi
Ian Mesic, Blaz Lovrinic, Ivan
Rujevcan, Stjepan Dragas,
Janko Kovacevic, Karlo Nor
sic, Josip Keleminic and
Frank Vodopija.
Organized with S11
The name of "Preradovic"
was adopted upon the motion
of member Blaz Lovrinic.
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became life members of
"PreradOvic" besides the
many individual life and
sustaining members.
The following Croatian So
cieties became life members
of "Preradovic":
Croatian-American Citizens
Club; "Ban Jelacic," ITO
HBZ;; "Hrvatski Sinovi," 1856
HBZ; Croatian Independent
Benefit Society "Hrvatski
Radnik;;" Dalmatian Benefit
Society 'Dalmatinska Sloga;;"
'Presveto Srce Isuso vo;'
Lodge 1, G. G.. Union, Slove-
nian Benefit Society "Slove-
nee i Hrvat;;" Ban Petar
Zrinski," Lodge 251 HBZ.
Erected Own Home
For the first five years
''Preradovic's" activities con-
sisted of appearances at con-
certs, public entertainments
and festivities of the various
societies and groups. "Prera-
dovic" also gave successfully
several dramatic performan-
ces.
During this period the So
ciety took it's first steps to-
ward the acquisition of
ground for it's own home, and
working together with other
societies helped to bring a.
bout the building of the Cro-
attain Hall at 23rd and Wash
ington, which was up to a few
years ago the center of fra
ternal, political and social ac-
tivities of the Croatians in
Gary.
Originally, this Croatian
Home in Gary was the joint
property of "Preradovic"
and the two largest CFU
(Gary Glee p. 1O)
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THE PERSONAL, as well

HE PERSONAL, as well
] as political relationship
between Premier Nikola Paste
and DR.. Ante Trumbic had
never been friendly. The Cor
flu negotiations did nothing to
better it; on the contrary,
they rekindled the former
animosity. After the signing
July 20, 1917, of the Declara-
ton Trumbic insisted on it's
immediate application.
He urged the Serbian Gov
ernment to communicate the
text of the Declaration in a
special note to all Allied Gov
ernments and to explain it to
be it's ultimate aim of war and
to ask them for diplomatic
recognition of this document
as coming from the Kingdom
of the Serbs, Croats and Slo-
venes. Paste refused flatly.
The ink of the signatures
had scarcely dried on this
paper when the old antago-
nism between the Serbian
Government and the YugO-
slav Committee sprang up
again.
The Italian Minister at the
Serbian Government, Count
Carlo Sforza, had watched
anxiously the negotiations at,
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The Preradoufc Storv
BY SYLVIA NIKSIC
Member, Lodge ITO
1914 - 45th Anniversary - 1859
Croatian Glee Club "Preradovic," Gary, Ind.
By SYLVIA NIKSIC
Member, Lodge ITO

At this meeting first men,
bership dues were collected
and the Society's treasury
started with the sum of $11.
We must admire the spi-
rit of this original group of
"a men, who had i'm three
months time, under the
leadership of the first
teacher, MIR. Frank Brink,
prepared for their first
public appearance at a con-
cert held in the local Eagle
Hall on August 80, 1914.
The Croatian Singing Soci-
ETY. ''zora" from Chicago and
the Slovenian group "Slovan"
from South Chicago came to
take part in this first "Pre-
radovic" concert and to help
spread enthusiasm and en-
courage the support for the
young Society among the
Croatian people in Gary.
The work of "Preradovic,"
following this first concert,
continued with many sue
cessful appearances, the men,
bership was increasing and
the Croatians in Gary, indi-
vidually and through the sew
eral of their fraternal, politi-
cal and other organizations,
supported their singing group
and were proud of it.
Many Joined Group
There was not a celebration
or festivity among the Gro
atians in Gary, in those early
years of "Preradovic," that
this singing group was not
the first one on the list Of
those called to participate
Moreover, to show their
appreciation and love for
their singing society, all
CrOatian societies i'm Gary
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Good Question

1T IS WITH pleasure that we endorse the
Essay Contest being sponsored by the
Greater Pittsburgh Croatian Day Commit
tee in conjunction with the celebration this
year Of the 65th Anniversary of the Gro
attain Fraternal Union.
Interested contestants, Junior Order
members between the ages Of 10 and 18
years in the Tri-State Area of Pennsylva-
MIA, Ohio and West Virginia, are being
asked to write an essay on What The Gro
attain Fraternal Union Means To Me" in 500
or less words and vie for three prizes, all
United States Savings Bonds.
Now, what does the Croatian Frater-
nal Union mean to it's Junior Order men,
bers ranging between the ages of 10 and 1S
years?
The question is both good and leading
one, for it is being put to the Society's
young Of today who must of necessity be-
come the administrative leaders of the
Croatian F'raternal Union of tomorrow
True, hundreds of Junior Order mem
bers are now learning how to play tam
buritza instrument or pursuing the kolo
arts. We can have no quarrel with such
activity.
However, there is by far great deal
more to the Croatian Fraternal Union than
juvenile tamburitza orchestras and kolo
dancing groups; by far more to the Society
han the payment of monthly dues, be they
% Senior Lodge or Junior Nest.
1t will be most interesting to see how
much more our youngsters know about their
Society when the Greater Pittsburgh Gro
attain Day Committee Essay Contest ends.
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Croatian Day Committee In Salute To Society
7r.State Juniors Invited To Enter CFU Essay Contest

of the Greater Pittsburgh
Croatian Day Committee.
The winners will be an
nounced during the Annual
Croatian Day Program at
Kennywood Park, Pittsburgh,
and receive their awards on
the occasion.
Eligible to compete in this
Essay Contest are all CFU
Junior Order members resid-
ing in Pennsylvania, Ohio and
West Virginia.
The judging will be done by
a committee of five prominent
personages.
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hanv Answering Call
To Send Articles To
New Tamouritza Hall

PITTSBURGH - In an
swer to the Duquesne Univer-
sity Tamburitzan's public ap-
peal for old articles to help
build up the Tammie Hall mu-
seums, many replies have
been received.
Most of the calls have been
answered by people in the
Pennsylvania area, but we
still need YOUR help. Two of
the many donations that were
important contributions were
both large collections of old
Yugoslav records that proved
to be very invaluable to us.
One of the replies re-
ceived was: THAT article
didn't appear any too soon.
After getting in my way
for 20 years, I was about
ready to break those rec
ords one by one!"
We only hope that we've
caught the rest of the people
before they take these dras-
tic moves. Something that
might now be laying broken
in a refuse heap has helped
the Tamburitzans move up
one more notch in obtaining
cultural material.
Even though many items
have been received, we feel
that there is a great distance
yet to go before the goal is
finally a reality.
Your help is still needed.
Preserve your h e rita g e
through the Duquesne Uni
versity Tamburitzans. Send
us your old records, litera-
ture, costumes, books, and
other articles Of interest.
Kenny Petrack, Pub.
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overseas service with the
United States Army, bro. WI
kovich is at present a men,
ber of the Society's Campbell,
Ohio, Lodge 185.
He was enrolled in Junior
Order Nest 333 at birth.
Married to the former
Helen Bogovich, and the
father of one child, bro. W.
kovich is active in civic,
fraternal, and other affairs
and is trained in the leader
ship required of a City of
Youngstown Councilman.
He is deeply interested in a
Capital improvements Pro
gram" which would place
Youngstown among the Ma
tons most progressive cities
and safeguard it's future as
one Of the greatest industrial
centers in the United States.
Although young in years,
bro. Vukovich is unquestion-
ably qualified for the post he
seeks and deserves the con-
sideration of all voters in his
councilmanic district.
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PIT SB u R G H - The
Greater Pittsburgh Croatian
Day Committee, in coopera-
ton with the Junior Order
Department of the Society, is
sponsoring an Essay Contest
in conjunction with the 65th
Anniversary of the Croatian
Fraternal Union.
Open to all CFU Junior Or
der members between the
ages Of 10 and Is years, con-
testants will take as their
subject what The Croatian
Fraternal Union Means To
Me-"
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-04-29
BY Stjepan Gazi
Member, Lodge 20

Corfu. Pasic had informed
him daily of their progress
and of his own dissatisfaction
with the Yugoslav Committee.
Shortly after, on September
10, 1917, Pasic met Sonwino,
Italian Minister, of Foreign
Affairs, and one of the ia
theirs Of the London Treaty,
in Rome, where they came to
a complete agreement as to
the common Italian and Ser
bian war policies.
Pasic Sounds Knen
Coming from the confer
ence, Pasic declared to jour-
nalists: I'm Yugoslavia's case
sharply drawn demographical
boundaries are unthinkable;
geographic and strategic fac
tors must be taken into ac-
count !. :"
With this statement Paste
actually deprived the Decla-
ration of all meaning.
After this blow Trumbic
tried to take up the tactics
of Supilo, who had died in
the meantime. Yet his ef-
forts were too weak and
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Essays must be held to
500 or less words and all
entries are to be forwarded
the Executive Secretary of
the Greater Pittsburgh
Croatian Day Committee,
Anthony j. Brajdic, 3O12
Willet Road, Pittsburgh ~,
Pa. The deadline for entries
is July 81, 1859.
The winner will receive
$50 u. S. Bond with the com.
pliments Of the Croatiar
Fraternal Union and the two
runnersup will merit $25 u
S. Bonds through the courtesy
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a possible enemy, where non-conformity
with the accepted creed, political as well as
religious, is mark of disaffection; where
denunciation, without specification or back
ing, takes the place of evidence; where
faith in the eventual supremacy of reason
has become so tinid that we dare not enter
our convictions in the open lists, to win or
lose. - Judge Learned Hand
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George Vukovich
Council Candidate
Campbell Member
In May 5th Race

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -
George Vukovich, 80, a life
long member of the Croatian
Fraternal Union of America,
is a candidate in the Tues
day, May 5, 1859, Democratic
primaries for the office of the
7th Ward Councilman of the
City of Youngstown.
A graduate of Woodrow
Wilson High School and a
veteran with 13 months of
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Next, Detroit

AVIITH THE publication last week OF Iile
w necessary Proclamation, Sections OF
the BYLAWS, and Alignment of Lodges per-
tanning to the next such gathering, the die
has been cast for the Society's 10th Natl
Ouadrennial Convention.
Emerging from the mold IN due time
will be the names of the 800 American and
Canadian men and women members who
are destined to be Delegates to that Con-
vention, which is to be held Sept. 21-26,
1859. in the City of Detroit, Michigan, and
90 down as one of the many highlights of
the national celebration
5g~1- this year of the Goth
81 ssSssE Anniversary of the Gro
attain Fraternal Union.
In the meantime, we
can only hope that the May nominations of
Candidates and June elections of Delegates
will be conducted with dignity and result in
a quiet and truly constructive Convention
constantly aware of the all-important fact
that the Society is today engaged in the
most competitive business on earth - the
insurance industry.
q
For us to say that the Detroit Con-
vention will be free of power blocs' would
amount to the same thing as arguing that
the sun will not rise as usual on the morrow.
Blocs - or sides are part and parcel
of every national Convention, be it Gro
attain Fraternal Union concave or that of,
say, the American Legion, the United Steel
workers of America, the Democratic and
Republican Parties, and so forth. In so
manv words, if not in desired fact these
blocs are necessary evils.
So it follows that blocs will be doing
business as usual during the 1859 GU Con-
vention in Detroit and endeavoring to put
across their various candidates for office
However, not all Delegates are bloc
minded and many Convention election of
the recent past was decided by the indepen-
dent voters, those who learned long ago
that straight-ticket voting is for the poll
tcal and = ipso facto - fraternal birds.
Certainly the independent Delegates who
attended the Society's Philadelphia Con-
vention of 1855 proved as much when they
upset all pre-Convention predictions of
wholesale changes by returning to power
every single official then stationed at the
Home Office in Pittsburgh.
Now - four years later = hope con-
tinues to spring eternal in the bloc breast
and we hear talk of this, that, and every
thing before even single Delegate has been
elected to the 10th Convention.
Verify, the right to differ in demo-
cracy is indeed great privilege.
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In Passinq

BELIEVE that the
! community is al
ready in process Of
dissolution w h ere
each man begins to
eve his neiphhor aS
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:1894-1959=
=1S94-1959--
& T. u
65th Anniversary
By Stephen f. Brkicb
- English Editor

- LHSllSn EQlLOr -
Ninth Convention
. The 9th Convention of
the National Croatian Society
(NCS), today the Croatian
Fraternal Union of America,
was held Sept. 24-Oct. 6, 1905,
in the Amsterdam Opera
House, New York City.
Petar Pavlinac, former
Chief Executive of the So
ciety, served as the Chairman
during that 13-day conclave.
In his message to the Con-
vention, President Ivan Ljubic
suggested drastic changes in
the bylaws and demanded
employment of Organizers.
His suggestion that the NCS
abolish the practice of insur-
ing wives as associate mem
bers if they resided in Europe
was greeted with cheers and
later adopted by the Dele
gates.
The JankOvic Case
. President Ljubic also had
something to say about those
who were doing everything
possible in 1906 to bring the
NCS to ruin by smearing it's
officials and lying about con-
ditions in the ranks of the
organization.
He explained at length to
the Delegates why then Su-
preme Treasurer A. C. Janko-
vic was removed from office
and Tomo Lackovic elevated
to the position.
The dismissal of bro. Jan
kovic was good for a thousand
rumors in those days and the
enemies of the Society had a
field day planting suspicion
against other NCS officials.
Man of Foresight
. In the end, it was Finan-
cial Secretary Josip Marohnic
who stole the 1906 Conven-
ton show with his lengthy re-
port demanding the adoption
of an adequate NCS Table of
Rates.
Said bro. Marohnic: "Our
(NCS) present method of do
ing business is in reality a
collection for beneficiaries of
dead members, whereas the
living have no guarantee that
they or their beneficiaries will
ever receive a cent"
Bro. Marohnic told the Del
egates that he had discussed
this matter with Abb Lands,
the Society's Actuary, and
that the latter strongly rec
commended the immediate a.
doption of a Table of Rates
which would save the NCS
from ruination.
It appears from the Min
utes Of this 1906 Convention
that every Delegate had
something to say about the
proposed Table of Rates,
some of it salty" in content.
1t was finally decided to
publish the entire text of bro.
Marohnic's controversial re-
port in the Official Organ and
let the chips fall where they
may among the membership
at large.
Bro. Marohnic had one
more suggestion = to estab-
lish a $4,000 Reserve Fund.
Approved by unanimous vote.
Members at Large
. The 1906 Convention
Committee on Bylaws sug-
gested to the Delegates the
abolishment of the Official
Organ of the NCS. The sug-
gestion died aborning and the
paper continued publishing
on a monthly basis.
Another suggestion called
for a change in the bylaws
to up to 100 the number of
members necessary to elect
one Convention Delegate. Ap-
proved.
Also approved was a Sec
tion requiring Lodges to have
their own Lodge Physicians
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the national celebration
this year of the 65th
Anniversary Of the Gro
attain Fraternal Union.
In the meantime, we
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Ninth Convention

. Prior to electing the next
NCS administration, the Dele
gates argued long and loud
over the question of electing
Alternate Supreme and High
Trial Board Members.
In the end they decided to
do SO beginning with this Con-
vention of 1906.
(The CrOatian p. 1O)
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Glass Strike
'InSecond Duy

PITTSBURGH. Sept. Il
(AP).-The nationwide strike
of some 1000 moldmakers
against 26 companies and
seven subsidiary firms Of the
glass container manufacturing
industry went into its second
day today. with no further
negotiations in sight.
The strike got under way at
noon yesterday. The mold
makers are members Of the
American Flint Glass Workers
Union. Picket activity was re-
ported at most Of the industry's
plants.
Federal mediator William
Rose said negotiations were
discontinued indefinitely" and
added:
However, I shall remain in
close communication with both
sides separately"
The moldmakers had been
working on a day-to-day con-
tract extension Of an old agree
ment which expired last Sep
TENDER /.
Mr.. Rose said the main bone
of contention in the negotia-
tions was over an industry de-
mand that grievances not
settled at the local level should
be submitted to binding arbi-
tration.
Another stumbling block was
the industry's rejection Of a
union proposal for an 1874
cents an hour wage increase.
Under the old contract, mold
makers averaged $3.50 an hour.