Page 8 "ZAJEDNIČAR" June 11, 1958 She Would Be ... He Left His Mark On Old Nat'l Croatian Society — I Queen For A Day — ENGLISH SECTION — t Established November 6. 1929. Published weekly Vlaho Bukovac - Artist Supreme By The PITTSBURGH — This is Croatian Fraternal Union Of America the fifth of a series of eight STEPHEN F. BRKICH, English Editor articles dealing with the can­ Dubrovnik Great didates vieing for the right to Kditorial Offices. 3441 Korbet, Street, Pittsburgh 13, Pa. Horsing rule as Queen of the Annual f/ Telephones: Ml'senni v-4470 — "J-4471 United CFU Lodges of West­ in Ancient Times I nsolicited articles, manuscripts, letters, pictures, etc. Around National Home Offices submitted to T UK ZAJKDMCAK are forwarded at the ern Pennsylvania "Fraternal owner's risk and THE ZAJEDNIČAR expressly denies Still Proud City CROATIAN FRATERNAL I'NION any responsibility for their safekeeping or return. THE Day" which is to be staged With The Editor —• ZAJEDNIČAR reserves the right to edit, revise or reject Sunday, July 27, 1958, at the Republic Of Yore Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania any article or other matter submitted for poblication. Croatian Center, off Babcock By Adam Sudetic, Pres. • Saturday, which accounts Blvd., Mill vale. — Detroit Lodge 519 — for more than 19% of such WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1958 The fifth to enter the accidents, is the most dan­ contest was Miss Carol LANCE, IF YOU wui. at gerous day of the week for Ann Haider, charming the map of Europe and driving. Sunday, with 16% G plus, is the next in line. Flag Day, 1958 young member of Etna note the Mediterranean Sea, Father's I)av CFU Lodge 4. Tuesday, with less than which starts at the Strait of f f O MY DAD, Andrew Brkich, and to all HE NAT'L observance on Saturday. June 12 r against it, is the safest Carol was born August 30, Gibraltar and extends to the CFU Dads everywhere on this, the eve T 14, 1958, of "Flag Day" should take on 1937, and is the daughter of in this respect. T a new meaning this year for Americans in­ Anthony and Frances Haider. turbulent Middle-East. • of their moment in the national sun. Fa­ Saved The Nation ther's Day. Sunday. June 15, 1958: terested in the future of their land. She also has a sister in Lodge Following the map east­ • June 14 next may very well mark the 4, and a sister and brother ward we come to the great is­ • This year marks the 25th who are still affiliated with land of Sicily, and northeast Anniversary of the late Pres­ It matters not what be thy lot, last "Flag Day" which saw 48 Stars on Old Nest 21. ident Franklin D. Roosevelt's So love doth guide; Glo^y. admittance of Alaska as the A graduate of St. Mary's from here we reach the Ioni­ For storm or shine, pure peace is thine. Union's 49th State is High School in Sharpsburg, an Sea and the Strait of Ot- Whate'er betide. now in the making in 1955, she is now employed at ranto — the beginning of the — Mary Baker Eddy Washington and should Adriatic Sea (Jadransko Mo­ become a matter of his­ re). tory in short order. The Adriatic Sea divides Scholarships If so — we are not three countries: Italy in the E TAKE great pleasure in announcing unmindful of political West, Albania and Dalma­ W editorially that the Home Office of the chicanery in the Nation's tia in the East, the latter a Society will shortly clarion the chartering Capital — then the hap­ part of Yugoslavia proper. under the laws of the Commonwealth of piest man in all of Alas­ Along the eastern shores of Pennsylvania of "The Croatian Fraternal ka will be its youthful, the fabled Adriatic there are Union Scholarship Fund, IncJ' 3'et-things-d one Gover­ 54 large islands -and 510 small Many of the outstanding men and wom­ nor Michael A. Stepo- ones. A number of these pic­ <iov. Stepo\ich famous "New Deal", which, In en of our descent in the United States, Can- vich, whose late father turesque islands are a part of our estimation, pulled Amer­ a^d Alaska have already been asked to was of Serb descent and mother of Croat Dalmatia. ica from the brink of a revo­ serve on the Fund's Hon­ lineage (Island of Brač, Dalmatia). Courtesy, Yugoslav Academy Science and Art, Zagreb lution back in the Depression Iilyrians In History Days of the 1930's. orary Board of Directors A man to watch. Gov. Stepovich. if and History tells us that the . Vlaho Bukovac, An Autoportrait.. • and help spur the Soci­ when Alaska becomes the 49th Star in the oldest people found in the his­ Triumph For USA ety's continental drive ment started in 1830 by Lju Flag of the United States of America. toric Balkan Peninsula are ­ known as Panonia, in which • The Government of Yu­ for voluntary contribu­ • • • Iilyrians, who are a part of devit Gaj, which, in turn, was lived various Illyrian tribes. goslavia will shortly estab­ tions to assure its de­ .. Carol Ann Haider ... • So burning is the question nationally the Indo-European race. They responsible for the creation Their capitol was Segestica, lish a nationwide chain of 60 serving younger mem­ of admitting Alaska to the Union that the super-markets as the result the Mellon National Bank and were found there as early as of Yugoslavia as a nation. presently known as Sisak, lo­ bers of college educa­ weekly news-magazine "Time" devoted four of the tremendous impression Trust Co., Mellon Square, 400 B.C. Let us, then, learn at least cated where the River Kupa tions in the future. pages of its June 9. 1958, issue to spotlight Pittsburgh. ­ made by a similar American At times their country is something about these Illy flows into the River Sava. exhibit during the Zagreb In­ The first to accept di- the people of this fabulous Territory in their Carol has been a mem­ rian original inhabitants of Fearful of perishing, the ber of the "Javor" Singing referred to as Illyria, at ternational Trade Fair of rectorships on the true greatness. * Illyrian tribes, retreating Society for 3 years and is other times Illyrieum. the Balkan Peninsula. 1957. • Fund's Nat'l Honorary And so intense is our interest in Gov. before the powerful inva­ Ah, Zagreb, Croatia's fab­ presently serving as its sec­ The very name Illyria is im­ From Whence Dalmatia? Board are Ivan Mestro- Stepovich, whose wife Matilda (nee Bari- retary. ders south and southwest, ulous "Little Paris of The >ir. Braidech portant to bear in mind for at When in the beginning of Balkans" which we visited vic, South Bend. Ind., in­ cevich) has been a life-long member of the In addition, she assists in united and adopted the least two reasons: 1) because the 4th Century B.C. the Celts back in 1956. ternationally renowned sculptor, and Mat- Croatian Fraternal Union, that we asked teaching the Etna Junior Kolo common n?rae, presumably Group and is an active worker of its revival as late as 1809 — or Kelts — started to move • hew M. Braidech, Wyckoff, New Jersey. Re­ "Time" for permission to reprint its cover­ from the largest tribe, of Life's Like That for the teen-age dances and by the great plebian conquer­ eastward and southwest from search Director, Engineering Standards age of the Alaskan statehood issue as a Delmati, or Dalmati, from junior bowlers. or Napoleon and 2) because their land Gaul (France) they • Two cats were about to Dep't, National Board of Fire Underwriters, special salute to our people there and in rec­ The members of Lodge 4 engage in a duel in order to of the mighty Illyrian move- New York. ognition of "Flag Day." will be showing their appre­ v invaded the northern part (Vlaho Bukovac - P. 10) settle a grudge. We are most grateful to these disting­ The Editors of "Time" most graciously ciation for her interest and "Let's have an understand­ efforts by selling tickets and uished men for becoming members of this ing before we start," said the complied with our request and we bring doing all they can to help her With Son of Immigrants At Helm of Ter. itory first cat. J Board and assure them that their future their outlook on Alaska where it rightfully become Fraternal Day Queen. "About what?" asked the associations with the cause will not have belongs — on the Editorial Page of the Za- >ther. been of "hp service" in nature. jednicar's English Section. "Is it to be a duel to the • • • Los Angeles 177 Must - Statehood for Alaska! death, or shall we make it the • While the careers of Messrs. Mestro- best three out of five lives?" Schumacher Story — Ohio State Sundial vic and Braidech are poles apart, each man Nembers To Hark Land of Beaitfy and Swat • is a recognized great in his field — one BATTLE royal is shaping up north of When you took me young and Doesn't WTorry Us world-wide, the other nationally. A us for the Canadian leadership of the Sixty-Fifth Year trusting • The last time there were Mr. Mestrovic, currently associated with Croatian Fraternal Union's two-year (1958- From the growling Russian two full moons a month in the staff of the University of Notre Dame, 59) Membership Campaign Drive. Special Program Bear, two months was in January Loud you swore before the nation South Bend, Ind., and formerly with that Particularly in Schumacher, Ontario, Among Highlights and March of 1866.