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Official Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897. HUMANITY
BENEVOLENCE
VOLUME 58 NO. 6
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE SPJST, POB 100, TEMPLE, TEX 76501
FEBRUARY 11, 1970
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Monday, January 26 ®- Dr. Vaclav Hunacek accompanied by Miss Lois Garver, Program Director of the Social Studies Department of The Texas Educational Agency visited the West High School where Dr. Hunacek gave four lectures accompanied by slides on the cultures and language of Czechoslovakia. At 3 p.m. they both were guests at a reception at the school hosted by We West High School Student Council under the supervision of Mrs. Doris Henderson, Mrs. Henrietta Harris and Miss Mary Dvoracek. Later they were guests at the home of West's mayor, Brother Jos. F. Holasek and Mrs. Holasek. We were glad to meet him again and make the acquaintance of Miss Garver. We wish them much success in their efforts, however, a lot depends on us, the people in general, who are interested in doing OUR part. We learned that teaching or beginning to teach the Czech language in our smaller schools creates somewhat of a problem. The large city school systems could accomplish this much more rapidly. We will write more about this at a later datc. • In the Thursday morning mail we received the letter from Bro. John Pokladnik and the one about Bro. Robert Urban, our SPJST State King. Indeed,
GREAT MEN SLEEP — BUT NEVER DIE! On February 12 our nation will celebrate the birthday of one of the outstanding figures in the history of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. All of us are more or less acquainted with his biography, but it seems that, as we grow older and develop with that maturity which comes with the deepening of the years, everything associated and identified with Abraham Lincoln becomes more deeply significant.
LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG "Four score and twenty years ago . . ."
we know both so well, that it seemed like letters about our own sons. We wish them both great success while in the service. It, somehow,. brought our thoughts back to our Army days. Good Luck!
It was a cheerless room in a rude cabin in Kentucky where Abraham Lincoln first saw the light; and a cheerless path seemed to stretch out before him — straight from his rough cradle hewn from a log. But his pereveranee, hard work and constant hunger for knowledge and its practical application made him the dominant figure in all our history. It may be quite true that even at this clay, we have a great many dynamic and virile personalities. No one will dispute the fact that before and since Lincoln civilization has produced a number of men and women who have written their names high in the esteem of mankind; but as we live with a continual thought of the finality of it all, what life means, where civili7,ation is going, Lincoln becomes greater and greater as the years pass. And we