HERALD Official Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas. Founded 1897.
BENEVOLENCE VOLUME 53 — NO. 32
BROTHERHO0D BROTHERHOOD
HUMANITY Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P. 0. Box 100, TEMPLE, TEXAS
AUGUST 11. 1965
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER
WHEN YOU WANT A THING . . .
Our summer youth activities, on all levels, have reached and passed their climax for this year. A few lodges, perhaps a district or two, are still planning outings, camp-outs, or excursions to various places of interest. There has been some confusion about the exact procedure the districts and lodges were to follow this year. Some lodge youth clubs have gone as an individual unit, rather than with a district project, and report that this is more successful and easier to handle than a district project. In a couple of other instances, the district has sponsored a district-wide excursion and it was likewise successful. One thing should have been clear from the outset: whatever funds would be used for youth activities this year, were to have been handled by and through the District Youth Directors, regardless of whether the whole district went, or whether the individual lodge conducted their own pro j ect. This year's experiences prove that either one can be successful. It depends, in the final analysis, on how the matter is handled, how well organized it is, and how much cooperation there is. Anytime you embark on a new program, there is bound to be some confusion, some differences of opinion and some "groping in the dark."
When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object. When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentration; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power. —Grenville Kleiser How did all this come about? Stated broadly, it came about as the result of a general desire to do more for our youth. The Youth Committee at the last convention in Waco in 1964, among other things, recommended that " . . . a certain amount of money be set aside from the reimbursement of youth activities in each district to be prorated according to the active youth members in each lodge." (p. 39, Proceedings of the :XIX Convention). To implement this recommendation, it was finally suggested and approved by the delegates, that a sum of $250,000 be set aside and that the annual net dgain from the investment, after ad-
ministration costs, be used for youth activities throughout the districts. To put these funds to work for 1965, Supreme Lodge Vice President Hejny and his fellow-workers in the Supreme Lodge started to devise a formula that would be as equitable as possible. Using a factor of 95c for each member 15 years old and under, the following breakdown and allocation of funds was made: District I (1,585 juveniles) would receive $1,505.75; District II (1,865) would get $1,771.75; District III (2,017) would get $1,916.15; District IV (336) came to $319.20, but it was decided to ,grant that district a minimum of $500; District V (1,731) would get $1,644.45; District VI (2,030) would get $1,928.50; and District VII (732) would receive $695.40. This breakdown and allocation holds only for 1965. The total amount of the gain from the investment of $250,000 then amounted to $9,962.00, less administrative costs, for 1965. The Minutes of the last convention emphasize that the 1968 Convention will have full control over this $250,000 and how it is to be used from that date. One of the complaints so far this year from some of the districts has been that the money allocated is not enough. District Seven, for example, did not have enough to cover trans-
"CZECHOSLOVAK SPECTACULAR" AT LODGE 66, ELM MOTT - SEPT. 19th, 1965