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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-04-08
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65th Anniversary
By Stephen F. Brkich
- English Editor -
By Stephen #. Brkicl
Sixth Convention

. The 9Th Convention of
the former National Croatian
Society, today the Croatian
Fraternal Union of America,
was held Aug. 27-Sept. 1,
1900, in Mozart Park Hall,
Wheeling, West Virginia.
No sooner had President
Ivan Ljubic opened the con-
clave than Josip Marohnic,
then Financial Secretary of
the Society, moved that the
Convention elect it's own
Chairman instead of having
the President preside.
This brought on bitter de-
bates and acrimonious words.
In the end, the motion was
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-04-08
1.-The Meeting At Corfu "A Declaration Is Born
YuoosIavia In World History

it was finally agreed that the
new state would be named
the Kingdom of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes." The
points upon which no agree
ment could be reached were
omitted and on July 20, 1917,
the following declaration was
signed:
cat the conference held by
the members of the former
Coalition Cabinet and the
present Cabinet of the King
dom of Serbia, as we'll as the
representatives Of the Yugo-
slav Committee in London,
both of whom having pursued
similar interests to this day,
and in the presence and with
the collaboration of the Pres
ident of the Serbian National
Assembly, the views cover
ing all the problems of the
future common national life
Of the Serbs, the Croats and
Slovenes had been exchanged.
One And The Same
"First of all, we the repre-
sentatives of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes declare
most firmly that our nation
known under three differen-
names, is one and the same
nation by blood, language
spoken or written, by a SEN
timent of unity, by its COM
mon interests vital to it's ma
tional existence and general
development Of it's moral and
material life.
"The idea of its national
unity has always been alive,
despite the moral and mater
ial efforts of the nations foes
directed to prevent it's unity,
freedom, and existence. 1t was
divided among several coun-
tries, and within Austro-Hun-
gary partitioned not only un-
der three different names,
but also among eleven pro-
vincial administrations and
thirteen legislations.
"The conscience of the
national unity and the spi-
rit of freedom and indie
pendence had been pre-
served through the centu-
ries in constant struggle, in
the East against Turks,
and in the West against
Germans and Magyars.
inferior in number to it's
Declaration p. 1D
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Mary BeIamarich
In Frat Day Race
She Would Rule
During CFU Fete

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - The
first lovely young lady to an
nounce her candidacy in the
Popularity Queen Con t e s t
which will be held in conjunc-
ton with the United Lodges
F~o+ornal Day, and the 65th
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-04-08
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1859
Canadian Big 4

r HE APPROACH OF the 18th Annual
J CFU Canadian Five Pin Tournament,
to be held April 17-18 in Hamilton, Ontario,
brings to mind the fact that four of the
Societys eight Membership Campaign
Grand Prize Award Winners to date are
Canadians.
All residents of the Province of Onta-
rio, they are Danica Markusic, Schumacher
Lodn0 &c August Herceg, Schumacher
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lo!1l, A. Ro7,;c Is
Serving In Alaska
Trojans Wish Him
Successful Career

S. S. PITTSBURGH, Pa. -
Pictured is John A. Bozic,
member Of "Trojans" CF'U
Lodge 76, who is now sta
toned at Fort Richardson.
Alaska, as S.P. 4 with the
536th Transportation Co., as
jeep driver. He arrived there
January 27, 1858.
Entering the army in Au-
gust of 1857, he completed
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IN APRIL Of 1917 Premier
] Paste invited Trumbic to
Corfu to discuss the problems
of the relationship between
the Serbian Government and
the Yugoslav Committee. He
suggested that Trumbic take
with him a Croat from Gro
alta (Trumbic was himself
from Dalmatia), a Serb from
Bosnia, and a Slovene.
The Committee decided
that Hinko Hinkovic, Dusan
Vasiljevic and Boguml Vos-
MAX would accompany Trum-
bic to Corfu. The delegation
reached Corfu at the begin
ming of June.
Dinko Trinajstic, the per-
!. manent delegate of the
Committee to the Serbian
Government, and Frankie
Potocnjak, a member of
the Committee, who hap
pened to be at Corfu, also
assisted at the talks.
The Serbian delegation,
composed of Premier Paste,
of Protic, Marko Gjuricic and
Momcilo Nincic, and compile
ted by the members of the
Serbian Opposition, Davido-
vic, Milorad Draskovic and
Voja Marinkovic, formed the
counterpart of the confer
ence. The conference started
June Is, and ended with a
declaration on July 20. All in
all, twenty plenary sessions
had been held.
Paste Followed Line
The attitude of the Serbi-
an Government simply ex-
pressed the well-known poll
tical program followed by
Premier Paste.
The latter insisted on Ser
bias right to liberate and to
unite all the branches of the
Southern Slavs still under the
Habsburg Empire, emphasiz-
ing that the Serbian Govern
ment was the only power to
possess the mandate for car
rying out this plan.
In his opinion all the South
ern Slavs had to be integra-
ted into a Greater Serbia
which would be organized as
a centralistic, democratic, and
parliamentary monarchy un-
der the dynasty of Karagjor-
gjevic.
He was most vigorously
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In Passing

NNE OF the most
- effective things
the United States In
formation A g e nc y
does is the magazine
America" " published
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-04-08
Enter, Franjo Zotti

was to see Franjo zotti, who
died in 1858 at the age of u
years, make his first bold
move to become a powerful
figure in the National Gro
atian Society.
A highly speculative type
Of man, who was primarily
interested in a steamship a.
gency and banking business,
Zotti reported in 1900 that
Croat immigrants to the Uni
ted States were being abused
by petty port officials.
He suggested that the Con-
vention appoint someone to
look after the interests of
those newcomers to these
shores, but the Delegates re-
jected the proposal on the
grounds that it would amount
to agreeing on a permanently
located, salaried party who
could promise nothing in the
end.
Instead, the Delegates vo-
ted unanimously to send a
protest to then United States
President William Mckinley
and urge him to order all port
officials to treat immigrants
with kindness and under
standing.
| Zotti went on in 1906, to
(The Cr0atian : p. 10)
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Step Forward

IN THEIR ANALYSIS Of the 1888 opera
] tions of the Society, the actuarial firm
of Harley N. Bruce and Associates, Chicago,
had this to say about Conventions OF the
Croatian Fraternal Union:
"A concerted effort should be made to
limit the duration of the Convention The
Croatian Fraternal Unions Conventions are
excessive in length and serve no real useful
purpose except to provide some Delegates
with a paid vacation.
The Croatian Fraternal
RS8 Union has the longest
SZ% Conventions of any fra
ternal with which we
are associated. We are confident that they
can be shortened if a serious effort is made
in that direction"
Which is hardly complimentary to the
Society as a whole, for we are told in sc
many words and this by neutral obser
vers - that the Croat penchant for long
drawn out Conventions serves no usefu
purpose save that of providing some Dele
gates with we'll paid vacations, days and
nights on the town costing hundreds of
thousands Of dollars.
Steps in the direction suggested by
the Chicago actuarial experts were taken
in connection with the Society's Los An
geles Convention of 1851 and it's Philadel-
phia Convention of 1855.
Both were to consume no more than
eight (8) working days in spite of the fact
that they were held at the opposite sides of
the United States and, conceivably - but
not excusably might have been "held
over day or two, or three" to give the
more distant Delegates a chance to catch
their breaths and take in the sights.
Now another step has been taken in the
right direction with the announcement that
the Croatian Fraternal Unions 10th Natl
Quadrennial Convention will take place
Sept 21-26, in the City of Detroit, Michi-
gan to pare to six (6) the number of actual
paid working days.
1t is also expected that the Detroit Con-
vention will be less costly than were it's Los
Angeles ($175,056) and Philadelphia
($167 ,521) predecessors Of 1851 and 1855,
thanks to the cut from to in the num-
Der of day work cycles.
Who can possibly be in opposition to any
Convention which is designed to save time
and - more important - money?
We can only wonder.
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- MIGHT BECOME A HABIT
THE HARD PART Of making good
Is that you have to do it again every day.
- Survey Bulletin
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CFU Lodge 6.
To this brilliant youngster,
sincerest best wishes for sue
cess in the future; to her pa
rents, many more moments
Of happiness with their talen-
tend daughter.
Stephan Cubakovie
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1872 in Braddock and her
mother is an affiliate of Lodge
43.
Andrea will also perform
during the program which
will highlight the celebration
Sunday, April 26, of the 65th
Anniversary Of Rankin, Pa,
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showed under by the vote Of
the opposition and President
Ljubic went on to rule the
Convention roost - as he had
done so often in the past.
Interesting to note is that
during the CFU's 1851 Con-
vention in Los Angeles and
again at Philadelphia in 1855
the Chairman Of the Conven-
tion was the Supreme Pres
ident of the Society.
This procedure will be re-
versed at Detroit in Septem-
ber Of this year when the
Delegates to the CF'U's 10th
Natl Quadrennial Convention
choose their own Chairman,
Vice -Chairmen, and Record
ing Secretaries.
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Opened With Prayer

. With the opening of the
1900 Convention came a mo-
tion by Petar Pavlinac to
open the daily meetings with
a prayer. Agreed.
Next came a report on the
standing SO years ago of the
National Croatian Society,
8,276 members and 20,482.58
in assets. Also revealed at the
time was that the NCS and
it's predecessor, the Hrvatska
Zajednica, had paid out
$104,186.12 in benefits since
the birth of the organization
in 1894.
Following t h e S e reports
came a recommendation from
the Supreme Officers to es-
tablish a "Safety Fund" of
$3,828.53. Agreed.
Delegate Skrivanic next
moved that a Committee on
Bylaws be appointed to sug-
gest to this Convention neces-
sary changes and amend
ments and thus avoid reading
each section separately from
the floor. Again, agreed.
Here the Delegates took
time out to send Bishop Jo-
sip Juraj Strossmayer of Gro
alta cabled congratulations
on the occasion of the Golden
Anniversary of his elevation
to that station in the hier-
archy Of the Roman Catholic
Church.
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with a paid vacation.
The Croatian Fraternal
Union has the longest
Conventions of any fra
ternal with which we
Smyrna times., 1959-05-21
Navy Recruiting
June Graduates

Navy Recruiter Don Dobos
announced this week that all
young men who are graduating
from high school this June can
make application for the Navy
now and, if found qualified, can
be enlisted in the Navy with the
guarantee that, upon completion
of basic training, they will be
sent to a technical trade school.
For more information on this
program and many others the
Navy has to offer, Dobos can be
contacted at the American Leg
ion Bldg. in Dover every Tues
day, Friday, and Saturday.
Smyrna times., 1959-05-21

mer. During his travels he will
pause to attend the World
Shorthand Institute, July s, 9,
10, at the University of North
Dakato.
Girl State Nominees
The following members of the
Class of 1860 were nominated
by their classmates as represent
atives to the Annual Girls State
to be held in Dover late in
June: Mary Catherine Smith,
Susan Price, Carol Wolford, Pa
tricia King, Patricia Baker, and
Nancy Hall. Later in the year
the class will vote for two of the
above nominees to represent the
John Bassett Moore High School.
State Student Council Officers
Named
Charles V. Williams, execu-
tive secretary for the Delaware
Association of Student Councils,
has announced the following Of
ficers for the l959-60 school
year: James Mcdonald, Har-
rington, president; VILLA m
Moore, Rehoboth, vice president;
Theodosia Seeney, Howard High,
treasurer; Sandra Hates, Har-
rington, secretary.
Official Delegates Named For
National Student Council
Conference
The following students and
Smyrna times., 1959-05-21

advisors are the official dele
gates from the state of Della
ware to the 23rd Annual Confer
ence of Student Councils to be
held at Pittsburgh, Pa, June 81
to June 25: Robert Donaldson,
p. S. dupont; Velo j. Houle,
Newark; William Moore, Reho-
both; James Mcdonald, state
president, Harrington; Wayne
Cole, John Bassett Moore; ].
Raymond Derrick, advisor P. S.
dupont; and Charles v. Will
liams, executive secretary, Della
ware Association of Student
Councils.
Important Dates To Remember
Thursday, May PIP olio
Shots, 900 am. Best Foot For
word and Student Teacher Day.
Baseball Game at Rock Hall.
Friday, May 22-Senior Class
Day, assembly $40. Senior
Lunch, l2:40.
Monday, May 25-Kent Coun-
ty Student Council meets, l:30.
In-Service Training Class, ,Whea-
tley's Cannery. Baseball and
Track pictures will be taken,
$3.50. Home baseball game with
Milford, $3.50.
Friday, May 29-Chorus try
outs in auditorium all day.
Monday, June l-In-Service
Training Class. Mrs. GettY'S
Smyrna times., 1959-05-21

room.
Tuesday, June 2-Senior ex-
aminations during regular class
period.
Wednesday, June 3-Senior
examinations during regular
class period.
Thursday, June 4-Senior re-
examinations, 8:25. Baccalaur-
cate practice, 900.
Friday, June 5-Baccalaure-
ate practice, 8:25. Final exam
ination period v, 8:40-l0:20.
Smyrna times., 1959-05-21
SCHOOL
REPORTER
Shorthand l Elects Secretary
of the Week"


On Friday, May 18th, the
Shorthand / Class elected Lois
VanderPlasse to reign as "Sec-
retary of the Week." beginning
Monday, May l8. A small in
sigma was presented to Lois
which was designed and made
by Ann Rogers and Mary Ann
Starkey. A committee composed
of Judy Slaughter, Charlotte
Sharp, and Betty Alexander de-
corated the bulletinboard in the
typing room with black silhou-
cites of pencils, erasers, and a
Smyrna times., 1959-05-21

shorthand tablet. The words
Secretary of the Week-Lois
VanderPlasse" were cut out in
large black letters and placed on
"a white background. Lois pic
ture was the main attraction of
this bulletin board. Each Friday
"a new secretary will be elected
to reign the following week. To
qualify for secretary one must
be neat in appearance, and par
ticipate in class discussion reg
|ularly.
Smyrna times., 1959-05-21
Smyrna Teacher Travels
Through West and South

DR.. Lewis F. Galloway, chair
man of the Business Education
Department of the John Bassett
Moore High School, plans to
travel extensively through the
West and Southwest this sum-
Smyrna times., 1959-05-21
FARMERS BANK
STATE OF DELAWARE

Deposits up to $4,000 insured by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Evening star., 1959-12-15
DORIS FLEEsoN
Rockefeller Tests Hustinqs

retary Ezra Benson was
about to resign. His aides
rather bitterly feel that 1t
was planned that way by
sources in Washington not
favorable to his presidential
ambitions. No names men,
toned, Of course.
In New York State, Ben
son is at least not unpopular,
instead of the universal
scapegoat for farm ills that
he is in this area. His policies
do not have the same impact
on New York agriculture as
on the bread, grains, corn,
hogs and like commodities
produced here. In all cities
the Republican argument
that he is trying to help con-
sumers is widely accepted.
This is proved by the revolt
Of city Congressman against
high farm price supports.
Rockefeller said calmly he
would not fire Benson, that
he was "one of the most
dedicated men I know" He
did not defend the Benson
Eisenhower policies.
The Governors reception
so far has been warm but
not overpowering. Again and
again the question is put to
him: Are you a candidate?
Will you run?" Under such
pressure he has been inching
his announcement closer and
Evening star., 1959-12-15
POTOMAC FEVER
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

Take it from Dick Nixon. something ought to be done
about teevision. Every time he looks at It, they're either
cheering Eisenhower in the Near Ea-or Rockefeller in
the Midwest.
Democrats accuse the Eisenhower team of conditioning
Americans to the idea Of coming in second And the
Gratis may be mighty grateful for it too next November
The planned parenthood people should be proud of
most presidential candidates When to planning
parents they did good job of picking the rich
Consultant: kind of efficient committee He can put
of Just much-using a lot fewer ash trays.
Agriculture Secretary Benson refuses quit In these
days Of trial with Russia Khrushchev bigger
farm problem?
House probers check payola practices rs cities The
chief beef against payoa be that all the wrong
people getting it.
Evening star., 1959-12-15
Birth Control Views Clarified

ticed should be possessed by
people who are seeking re-
sponsibility in their use Of
marriage and their reproduc-
tive faculty. And I think this
effort should be made, on the
part Of research scientists
and medical people and 9TH
ers. to acquire better means
Of making this an effective
method.
@. BY accepting the
rhythm method Of regu-
lating family size. has the
church to some extent ac-
cepted the principle Of birth
control?
"a. This brings up the
question Of terminology. Un-
fortunately, in the Western
world the words birth con-
troll have become associated
in the minds Of many people
with particular m eth o d S
usually referred to in Cath
olic circles as artificial con-
traception.' If we mean birth
control in this sense, the
church has not come to
terms with it, and cannot.
If we mean birth control in
the sense Of responsible
parenthood and the spacing
Of children when there are
reasons for that, then the
church, I think, has always
accepted this in principle
and. in modern times, has
also come to terms with it
in practice"
The Fordham University
professor declares also that
the underdeveloped nations of
the world will have to seek
the best possible economic
and social development" and
cooperate with the more de-
veloped nations and the
United Nations in pursuing
this objective, and that they
may reasonably look to pro-
grams of family education
which will make their people
aware Of the problem"
Actually. the differences
between the opposing views
on this controversial question
Of birth control relate largely
TO method rather than to the
principles involved. Yet the
impression has been created
that the population problem
has been ignored by some re-
ligionists as an untouchable
subject, when. in truth, 1t
has received the earnest at
tention Of demographers ir-
respective Of religious back
grounds.
Copyright, 1887
Evening star., 1959-12-15
Farm Area Speech Suggesting Need
Of 'StobiIizotion Supports Analysed

Connoisseurs Of political
speeches began promptly to
quarrel over who wrote the
classic which sprang in
stantly TO their minds. 1t
was: When people are out
Of work. unemployment re-
suits" The author: Calvin
Coolidge.
Such stuff cannot be sue
cesSful in the huStings. II the
New York Governor wants to
convince people that he
ought to be their President,
he will have to find some
better way to tell them what
is on his mind - and heart.
For a politician, it is prob
ably always a mistake to ap-
proach any group strange
to him with ready-made Solu-
ton for problems they live
and die with. What they
want is assurances that they
as people will not be for
gotten in any solution ar
rived at - after, Of course,
they have had the wit and
wisdom to elect the man ad-
dressing them.
The Governor also was put
on the spot here in the Farm
Belt by the new flood of
rumors that Agriculture Sec
Evening star., 1959-12-15
Reheuring Denied
Connolly, CoudIe

ST. LOUIS. Dec. is (AP).-
Two Truman administration
officials yesterday were denied a
rehearing by the United States
Eighth Circuit Court of Ap-
peals in their effort to escape
going to prison.
Unless the two, Matthew j.
Connolly and T. Lamar Caudle,
file petitions for a stay. the
court will issue a mandate
December "a. They then would
have 80 days in which to sur
render and begin serving prison
terms for conspiring to de-
fraud the Government.
Connolly. who was Mr.. Tru-
mans appointments secretary.
and Caudle, former head of
the Justice Departments Tax
Division, were convicted by a
Evening star., 1959-12-15
DAVID LAWRENCE
Conflict Centers on Method, Not Principle;
Catholics Want Responsible Porenthood

Much has been said and
written recently about the So
called Roman Catholic view
toward birth control, and the
issue has even gotten into
American politics.
Many people have derived
the erroneous impression that
the Catholic Church is
against birth control in any
form and that the Protestant
clergy favor it. For this rea-
son, the clarifying expressions
by a population expert who
happens also to be a prom
inent educator in a Catholic
university become pertinent.
The Rev. William j. Glib
bonS, who lectures in Sociol-
ogy at Fordham University,
has taken part in many
United States and interna-
tional conferences dealing
with problems of population
and economic development.
He draws a distinction be-
tween planned parenthood"
and responsible parenthood."
He has just answered num-
ber of significant questions
in a copyrighted interview in
U. S. News & World Report:
@. What does the Cath
olic Church feel should be
done about the excessive rate
of growth of population in
such (underdeveloped) areas?
"a. The Catholic Church,
as such. has no doctrinal
judgment on the economic
Topographic implications of
the growth rates in question.
I would say definitely, how
ever, that the church from
time immemorial has stood
for responsibility in the use
of all Gods creations. This
includes obviously the mate
rial universe. the land, the
forests, the mines, the other
resources that we have at our
disposal and were put there
for mans use and enjoyment.
1T also includeS-and this
is sometimes overlooked-very
responsible use of the repro
ductive faculty. If man does
not use sex responsibly in
marriage and If he enters into
marriage without due con-
cern for the future. he is not
acting in a rational manner.
@. Does this mean you
favor planned parenthood'?
"A. I think that most
Catholics object to the term
planned parenthood' because
Evening star., 1959-12-15

MINNEAPOLIS. - GOV.
Nelson Rockefeller has made
a doggedly earnest and some
times sensible speech on farm
policy, its disasters and COM
plexities. in a statistical
report style which rendered
the effort politically arid.
At worst it was banal-and
how. At best it showed a
disposition not to look back
at past errors but to get going
on solutions for the present
anarchy in so important a
segment Of the economy.
Being the work of too many
political hands-and 1t Is ad-
mitted that a committee put
it into final form-it has a
gimmick. This is "stabiliza-
ton supports" - which a
hasty reading suggests are a
form of disaster insurance or
social security for farm fami-
lies such as the city wage
earners now enjoy.
The Governor will find this
kind of prose almost as ir-
resistible to the wits as the
Eisenhower rhetoric. For ex-
ample, he actually was given
this line to deliver: "The
chief problem of the low-in-
come farmers is poverty"