prrath Official Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897. HUMANITY
BENEVOLENCE VOLUME 58 — NO. 39
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable copies to: SUPREME LODGE MIST, POB 100, TEMPLE, TEX 76501
SEPTEMBER 30, 1970
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Monday a.m.—NOTICE; TO Supreme Lodge SPJST, District V DYD Wanda Elzner, and Youth Leader Willie Mae Schuetz: The photos sent in by you had been processed and engraved and mailed Friday, p.m., September 25 in Waco. As of this Monday morning they had not arrived in West. • • Check the Bulletin Board for the date, time and place of your district's meeting and make every effort to attend. It id not only your privilege, but also your obligation. 4
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Autumn has arrived and calls for new work and activity in our Society, lodges, and meetings. It arrived here in West exactly as predicted by the calendar on September 23 with a cool front and rain. Let us make this fall season productive, happy and rewarding. Slowly we are beginning to feel the chill in the air and notice the autumn colors appearing all around us in resemblance to the autumn painter's canvas and brush. Soon the "blue" norther will be felt instead of the 100degree heat of summer. In Autumn we see the changes, year after year, and yet somehow each year, it gives us a little lift to move onward. Mother nature uses autumn for preparation for winter's sleep and rest and thus gains new strength for the coming of spring and a new year. In our lodge and fraternal life the
OCTOBER . . . Blessings on thee, old October, with your crisp and bracing air; And your trees of brownish color, with a green one here and there. Mystic haze that o'er the meadow and the woodland seems to dwell— Parting incense to the songsters, who will soon bid us farewell. Nature comes to join October, comes to claim again her own; Comes to ream the golden harvest of things which she has grown. But it brings a touch of sadness when the summer starts to wane, And we hug her closely to us, hoping that she might remain. In each life comes old October, when the grain is gathered in; Lucky is the man who's owner of an overflowing bin. Read the lesson left by others whom the olden past' has known— When October comes, my brother, "Ye shall reap as ye have sown." exact opposite is true. In the summer months, filled with days of heat and vacations calling for relaxation, lodge work slows down considerably. The membership is absent, being in all four corners of the vacation field and no one feels like working, especially in lodge work. Of course, where there are lodges with halls, especially airconditioned, there are no vacations
and activities continue throughout the year. They continue their schedule day after day and week after week, which fact can be seen by the calendar and ads. However, at ALL lodges, autumn offers an opportunity for all lodge officers to try to increase the attendance at lodge meetings by making them attractive and entertaining to attract the membership in greater numbers. Unplanned meetings do not bring large numbers of „members. Naturally, planning takes effort which includes organizational, recreational, fraternal and educational work ,and plans. Everyone knows that to implement these takes„ extra energy and is not easy to do, however, on these things depends our growth and brotherhood. Older members and those who love our Society do not have to be reminded of the above. It is the younger membership, whom we have given a start, that needs a helping hand, our patience and understanding and education to further their enthusiaarn in our lodge and youth club work. In most of our lodges we have English for the language used in the order of business. We have gained our younger generation back because so many did not remember their Czech well enough. This was a breakthrottgh of great help because it proved, to a generation which had felt isolated and forgotten, that we really cared for them and