HERALD Official Organ Of The Sfavonie Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas. Founded 1897. HUMANITY
BENEVOLENCE
VOLUME 53 — NO. 10
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P. 0. Box 100, TEMPLE, TEXAS
MARCH 10, 1965
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK ABOUT CRITICISM Criticism should be of the constructive variety. It should strive to improve, to strengthen. If criticism really has merit, it will find sympathetic listeners and attract adherents, especially if it is based on thorough research and investigation. • • We must be on guard and distinguish between CON structive and DEstructive proposals. There's a big difference. Criticism for the sake of criticism is worthless; confusion begets confusion. It's like the fellow who was full of bitting criticism about the way the premises looked around his own lodge hall. When the lodge president however, requested that he show up on Saturday morning with the other members to spruce up the place, he was full of flimsy excuses. You'll find them in many places: full of criticism but short on enthusiasm when it comes to improving something. • • There are also those who simply come apart at the seams when someone else is on the receiving end of a little bit of publicity or notoriety. They just cant stand it! Such a person is the source of constant grief and consternation among those who try to work together and get things done. Such a person is to be pitied, because he is suffering from an advanced inferiority complex. Sometimes they reason that the y have a monopoly on all the brains
LOST GAMES It would be a great misfortune If a champion ever came Who was so very skillful As to never lose a game. 'Twould ruin one forever If he were not to meet, 'Mid his success and prowess, An occasional defeat. On life's great course we struggle. The trophy is the same — Success. But he who enters Will sometimes lose a game. When, lo! the meet is over We reckon gain and cost, Our greatest values may be The games that we have lost. —Clarence Edwin Flynn • • FAME OR GLORY There is a difference between fame and glory: the latter depends upon the opinions and judgment of the many; the former upon the opinion and judgment of good men. Seneca — Letters to Lucilius and when someone else comes up with a workable proposition, they are blind to it, blinded by their own arrogance and selfishness. If THEY are in the limelight, however, that's a different story, of course. Life is enough Of a chore without having to put up with such malcontents. Another of this annoying breed
is the "oh-so-touchy" one. He for she) is offended by the slightest raising of the eyebrow, turn of the head, a casual glance, and a lot of other things that usually don't amount to a hill of beans. Their first act is to go crying to someone with a sympathetic ear, and tell them all their complaints. They almost never approach the person at whom they're directing all their invective. Heaven forbid! They then proceed to go around and infect and contaminate the otherwise fraternal minds of those around them, and the ;first thing you know, you've got real trouble on your hands. The damage has been done, and it is often hard to undo. Some persons are always ready to level those above them down to• themselves, while they are never willing to level those below them up to their own position. But he that is under the influence of true humility will avoid both these extremes. On the one hand, he will be willing that all should rise just so far as their diligence and worth of character entitle them; and on the other hand, he will be willing that his superiors should be known and acknowledged in their place, and have rendered to them all the honors that are their due. • • He who is unable to work for an organization, for his community, for his nation, without a lot of fanfare and glory, is a weak person and a weak