PICTURED above l» tbCo-l^otonto Folfc Danoe^ft CJroujp — the group tbat drew oli's and Ok'B front the audtonoe. Left to il^t: June Balász. ÍM Kovács, Ann Jastnb, Joe Férenczl, )»fiB8&aflc, Heíen Köpi/ BUl
Kerekes, laito StelgeftC^B^tdlatlons!
A FINE GELEBRATION
— By Our Toutti Reporter
VERY BRIGHT and early on Sun-day moming, liíe was asUr in many a Hun£arian.C^nadian horae throughout Southern Ontario. Everyone was getting ready to ce-lebrate the 25th Anniveraary bf bur Munkás at the plcnic held in Palermo cn July llth. Cars and buses streamed to the picnic grounds from Toronto and Hamil-ton, Niagara PálLt and Welland, Oshawa and Windaor and- from many othef places. No one could
have wished £or a nicer summer day to crown our JnbÜee with.
They were üke buay, llttle becs — the men and woinen who were hürrying about preparing the beef stew, salad and "fánk" for dihnér. Somé went to chop branches for the.open-air atage. Others helped lay out the Uterature that aoqua--ints us with the life and culture of Hxingaxy today and in the past and also with other progresaive U-teratures.
Before we kaew it, it was noon &lready — which meant only oné
FORWARD TO GREATER YOUTH FESTIVAIS
By S. DOBROWÖLSKY
THE ONTARIO Touth Festival for a Greater Canada that was held on July 2^ 3 and 4th at the Ukrainian Camp in Palermo was an outstanding demonstration.The event was undoubtedly the great> est demonstration óf pTogpressive Canadlan youth ever held in Ontario, who gathered together for three áaya in friendly sports competitlons and in furesenting na-tlonal foIk culture in concerts.This great gathering brought together Canádiah youth of various nation-al origins, who under the banner "For a Greater.Canada" showed their love for Óanada; their rea-pect for one another and dealt a Sharp blow to those who strive to keep the Canadlan people dlsunit-ed. The Youth Festival was an hiatoric Canadlan event dedicated to peace and independence for our country.
Being the flrst such mass youth experience for most youth. there are many lessona to be leamt The aid of the adults in making thls a mass affair, whIch was attended by över 10.000 people showed a jgrowing aware^ess of the import-ance of the fight for youth of Canada, The FestiVal which mobil-iaed nearly 2000 youth in Ontario in HuirtlcipaUbn and attendance proved to be an Important meana of wlnning Canadlan youth for peace and progrees:
The Ontario Youth Festival was a challenge to the youth of Ontario. Being a great maas imder-taking. the Festiv^ preparaUons presented many piroblems to the ytmih but these. problems were in Uie main met with a confidence irhich flowed out of the love for Canada. Tüe youth rallled around the sk>gan Ttx a Greater Canada" and axerted their wUl and energles to adüeve a succestful Festival. Ttie pmMaraUona of the Mte of the Feattval In which hund-reds of youth partlcipated showed
that once an idea catches the ima-gination of the youth, there are no obstacles that they cannot hurdle. The spirlt of youth was channelled through the Festival and its preparaUons into the grow. ing stream of determination and confídence that Canada shall be-come a bastlon for peace and pro-gress.
Experience from thls Festival showed that preparationa ,for a Festival ahould.start early. and should flow out of the winter and spring activitiea In the various or-ganizations. Festival preparaUons can becom'e the médium through which youth organizaUons can be built and strength'ened through the year. The fírst FesUval that was held was unable jbs yet to acUvize youth of all naUonal oiganlzaUons but the organixaUons that were acUve parUcipants found that FesUval prex>araUons and acUviUea broiight into acUon young pei^Ie that had been inacUve.
^[>orts* acüViUes were one of the main ' mediums through which large numbers of youth were In-volved in the Festival. The deve-lopment of youth sports* acUviUes should be^continued as a way of strengthening the prt^^ressive youth movemmt
JThe FesUval had added through acUve youth organizaUonal lead-ership and responsibility, maturity and presUge to tíie progressive youth movement RegardlMS of this. it was found that it lg sUU necessary for the aduit organizaUons to financlally aid ouch events as the one Juat held.
The Ontario Youth FesUval should' become an annual affair and preparaUons for it should start with the beginning of the corolng aeason.
We can wln the youth of Ontario for peace, progress and Into becomlng^ a leadlng force in the flght for a grenter Canada.
Forward to greater yóuth Fes-Uvals!
thing let's eat 1 hardly think there was anyone without an ap-^ctite. We certainly didn!t need a glass of' tomato julce to stir up oiur appeUtes — the air did it.
The sün was more than kind to us th its contribution to our cele-braUon~-.it was a: litUe too eager to please vaS^o spend the scorch-ing early aitemoon hours, aome went swinuning down to the llttle river, our young athletes played ball and. others just sat and rcr laxed in the shade.
It was around three o'clock when the Toronto singing group bpehed and about bLx, when the joint group of Brantford and Ha-milton closed the three hours óf variety program.
From Oshawa we had a lovely ballet dancer. Norma Szűcs; from Wallacelnurg a very talented tap-dancer. Ellen Berta.
The Traonto Folk Dahcers scored another.big hit wiUi its audience again. Thanks, Walter Balay, for the excellent instruct-ion.*
LitUe Jinuny Kovács from Chatham, who has won several medals in musical competiUons, won the admiraUon of all with hls fine violin performance. "We had a prize-wlnning accord-ianist on the program too, Betty Bittó from Niagara Falís.
Johnny Koronyi and Eleanor Illés were very sweet in their Hungárián dance duet It was good to see we have such talent ámong the younger ones — among those who wlll form the future youth groups.
If it wasn't for the accompan-ist. many singing groups and dancers would have an extremely difficult time, That Is why Mike Nádas des^rves extra credit.
(It was good to see with us quite a few jroung couples who didn't fali away from the organis-aUon. They set an example for our other young coupl^.)
We heard a very inspiring i>eace talk by Bruce Iffickleburgh from the Canadlan Peace Congnress. In hls message he also told of somé of his experiences in Budapest and Szeged last year,
A new ^e of number was added to the program when our car-toonist   'Tinódi"   drew sketches (Contlnued on page 0)
Youfh Festival NoHfication
At the 8port,*s and Cultural Youth FesUval held at the Ukrainian Camp In Palermo on Sunday. July 4. 19G4, lh« follwolng were lucky In wlnning FesUval prizea: Flrst — Flo Keyeo. Toronto, No: 3S«71.
Second — Jack Kraicer. Toronto^ No. 21403.
Amémoroble occosíon:
SILVER ANNIVERSARY
By EI.ISABETH LÁNCSA
LAST SUNDAY, we celebrated a memorable occasion — tlie Silver Anniversaí-y of pur Canadian Hungárián Munkás*. Most bf US do not rémember, the hardships our pa« rents had to go through in bringing it aboüt/ in creating a paper that was to guide theni/ teach them in the strug-gles for a just and better life. We were merely infants theu' just as the Munkásr was. As we grew to b.e young men and women, the Munkás grew too, gőttíng stronger and stronger, gaining imore and more experience in its guiding role of class struggle. We were brought up in the spiritof the Munkás.   • í
Diiring- its first twenty-five years of existence, our fathers and mothers were its parents —- taking care of it, watching it grow and fighting foT it, as it was fight-ing for their intérests. But' ín the coming twenty-five years, itwill be up to us to f oUow in thé f oótsteps of our parents, to see to it that the Munkás, which gréw out of bittér struggle and hard times, ^ill notjjecoine a inere documental fact in the history of thé Cahadián-Hurigár--ián workirig people, but wiU grow evén stronger, This is the democratic heritage left to us by our párents. Are we going to thröw it aside ? Will all their yeárs bf building and strengthening the Munkás pass into ^blivipn? They strove to ensure a bright and prosperous future for us. Must we not do the samé f or our childreir?
"We are old enough now to Jrealize what itinéans to e&i'B. a living. We all have beautifül plans for our family life, for our home and for our children. Büt in this great Canada of ours, so rich in'its resources,,mány of us are confrontéd with unemployment, with unc^ainty about tomoiTow. Whether we reálisé it or not, we are méeting with the same problems of maintaining a livelihood our parents met with when they startéd out ás young couples. The Munkás became their guide in establishing the life we were brought up in. The Munkás is our guide npvrl
HUNGARY'S FIELDING STAMP
A SPECIAL staihp in honour of the 200th anniversary. of the death óf Fielding, the English novelist, is now being printed In Hungary.
It WiU be one of a series of four marking big anhiversaries this year. The others are to commemorate the JSOth anniversary of Che-kov's death, the 2,400th of Aristophanes* birth and the 50th'öf JDvo-rak's death.
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HÁRY JÁNOS CENTENARY PERFORMANCE
Zoltán Kodály's opera Háry János recélved its hundredth performance at the Budapest Opera House on June 25. The titie role was taken by Imre Palló, Who sang the part 28 years ago when the opera was first performed.
Kodály, >5rho attended, received many bouquets and was presented with á miniatűré of the musical clock which appeárs in one of the scenes.
This opera is now being madé into a film. ' '
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NEW TIMBECt DRIVE IN HUNGARY -
The Hungárián Government has issued a decree calling for de-velopment of afforestation to the ievel of "a mass movement".
"A greater quanUty of better quality and cheaper timber and other forest products must be ensured," the decree says.
Areas not sultable for agricultiural producUon must be planted, and trees must be put along the sides of roads, canals and streams. Fast-growing acacia, "noble" poplar, walnut and Spanish chestnut are recommended varieUes. Acacia is parUcularly advised. in vine-growing areas to provide stakes and near coalfields for plt-props.
Increased meichanisaüon of forest farms Is urged to rcduce.heavy labour and increaae productivity.
Hungary, very poor in Umber owing toheavy éxploitatíon of re-sources In the pre-war yeajrs, has for somé years been workíng to a big reafforestaUon programme — which included the planting of 41 millión sapUngs last Spring — to make Industry less dependent upon imports. The new decree Is Intended to spced up the plan.
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BIG ENTRY FOR WORLD PENTATHLON
F^fteen coimtries are expected to isend teams to the world modem pentathlon championship tó be held üi Hungary bn Octobér 9.
This WiU be almost double last year's entry, when seven count-ries sent teams and two sent indivldual contestants to the champion-ships In Chile. •'       . '
"Eiu^an countries are expected to send more competitors this year and several South American countries have Indlcated their de-sire to take part," said Pál Lendvai, one of the leaders of the sport in Hungary.
Last year Hungaiys Gábor Benedek won the individual cham-•pionship. with his team male István Szondy second. In the team event Hungary lost to, Sweden through one of her horsemen nils-smg an.obaUcle, though forfeiting only 116 points agalnst Sweden's
The swimming events thls year wUl be In the Budapest Spörta pool. where there Is a choice of indc:>r ot outdoor baths. Feíjcing wiU take place in the Budapest Sports Palace. «
For the platol ahooUng one of the city'a ahooüng ranges wiH be remodelled and brought up to date to meet the standards demanded by pentathlon rulea.
Cross-cotmtiy rumüng la llkely to be in the Buda hiUs. The choice of a placc for the horaemanahip centest has yet io be mado, with the Kerepes racecourse a possiUlity.
One hundred thoroughbred honies are being aelected and tralned from the atock of the SUte h6ra«-breeding diréctorate. Under the rules íhe organWng commlttee haa to provide the horses and It ü Intended that there ahall be the miútut pooaible choice for the gueat compeUtors.