Official Organ Of The Slavomc Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897, HUMANITY
BENEVOLENCE
VOLUME 58 — NO. 21
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE SPJST, POB 100, TEMPLE, TEX '76501
MAY 27 1970
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
Saturday, May 30 YES'ERDAY — TODAY — Tomoratow There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is YESTERDAY with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. YESTERDAY has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back YESTERDAY. We cannot undo a single act we performed; we cannot ease a single word we say. YESTERDAY is gone. The other day we should not worry about is TOMORROW with its possible adversaries, its burdens, its larger promise and poor performance. TOMORROW is also beyond our immediate control. TOMORROW'S sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of
HAPPY IS THE MAN --Who has kept faith with his con;eiertee. —Who has no fears when an old neighbor moves to town. —Who keeps a strong guard over his tongue. —Who is not deceived by his one victory. —Who has learned to laugh his troubles away. —Who refuses to take his defeats as final. —Wlio can look his own child in the eye, unafraid. Who not gullible enough to believe all praises said to his face. clouds . . . but it will rise. Until it does, we have no stake in TOMORROW, for it is yet unborn. This leaves only one day. TODAY ... any man can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the burdens of those two awful SPJST DIRECTORY IN THIS ISSUE
eternities . . . YESTERDAY and TOMORROW . . . that we break down. It is not the experience of TODAY that drives men mad ... it is remorse of bitterness for something which happened YESTERDAY and the dread of what TOMORROW may bring. Let us therefore live but one day at a time. • • Americans owned an estimated 8L3 trillion of life insurance issued by legal reserve life insurance companies at the beginning of 1970, reports the Institute of Life Insurance. The net increase during the year was $117 billion. If this total of life insurance were divided equally among all U.S. families, each would have had $19,900 of protection, of $1,500 more than the average a year earlier. The average ownership for insured families was about $24,600, or $1,600 more than a year earlier. Despite those increases, protection for all families was equal to only slightly more than two years of total disposable personal income at the beginning of this year. Over 130 billion individual policyholders were insured with legal reserve life insurance companies at the end of 1969, or nearly two out of three people in the country.