Official Organ Of The Sla vonic Benevolent Order Of The State Ot Texas. Founded 189 4IENEVOLENC,E
VOLUME 54 — NO 30
HUMANITY
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fit. IF WE ONLY KNEW.. . Someone once said, not so long ago, "If you and I knew what the future held for us, we wouldn't dare let our insurance slip oift of our hands. We would work, to save it in whatever way we could. We would set such store by it that we'd tell all our friends about it." Isn't it strange though, that we do know what the future holds. When you get right down to it, there is only one end to the road for all of us. Some arrive at their destination sooner or later than others. But we all arrive, eventually. • • This is why life insurance protection is the most important of our few earthly possessions. It represents to us the teachings of our parents, our own personal efforts, and our future estates. The above words were spoken by a man who came to this country from a small Eastern European country. He came to America as a young man and joined a fraternal benefit society. In his ancestral country, he could not provide himself or his family with insurance benefits. We should look upon his message as a reminder that we here in North America should not count life insurance as less of a blessing merely because it is in plentiful supply.
JULY 27, 1966
I THOUGHTS .. .
The things I say and do today . . . in memory's book I'll keep . . . and when I'm old and read them . . . will I laugh or will I weep? 0 If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you probably couldn't sit down for six inor,4ths. • To be capable of reepi as rare as being worthy o "And The Livin' Is Easy . . . " Many doctors today place a major blame for heart attacks, our leading cause of death, on simple lack of exercise. The suspicion arises that the machines we have created to make our existence easier actually are robbing us of the greatest boon of all — life itself. Two generations have changed the pattern of our ways more than did all the hundreds of centuries before. A generation is usually reckoned at 30 years. Back in 1906 — just two generations ago — people lived in a manner modern children find it hard to believe. When grandpa yammers about it, his grandsons think the old man is spinning fables.
But anyone who remembers those times knows there was no problem then in keeping the blood circulating. There was always, at home or at work, at least one more chore that needed to be done than there was time to do You didn't need calisthenics or rowing machines to keep fit. Everyday living was in itself an exercise, and kept the heart from rusting. Just how has life changed for the average person since 1906? Well, way back then you had to harness a horse before going for a buggy ride. If you were rich enough to own a new-fangled automobile, you cranked it by hand to start the engine. If you punctured a tire, you fixed it yourself. Large . families often kept a cow. It was milked by hand, too. Mother got enough exercise bending over a washboard on Monday to last her all week. Millions of families still churned their own butter, raised their own chickens. Bid junior want some ice cream? Okay, but he had to turn the handle on the home freezer. You didn't push a button or pull out a plug to thaw out a refrigerator. But every morning or night someone had to empty the pail of water under the icebox. Someone had to chop kindling for the kitchen stove and fetch it in.