HERALD Official Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas. Founded 1897. BENEVOLENCE
VOLUME 55 — NO. 14
HUMANITY
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, FOB 100, TEMPLE, TEX. 76501
APRIL 5, 1967
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER Some say that two can live as cheaply as one but 15 million married couples in the United States evidently think that two paychecks are better than one. The proportion of wives who have jobs has more than doubled in the last 25 years. About 35 out of every 100 American women now bring home paychecks each week. The wife's paycheck often puts the family into the uppermiddle income bracket. In about half of the families where the wife works the joint income totals between $5,000 and $10,000. However, the proportion of working wives is greatest among families where the income totals from $12,000 to $15,000. About 52 per cent of all women work between the ages of 18 and 24; 40 per cent between 25 and 34; 47 per cent between 35 and 44; and about 52 per cent of all women work between the ages of 45 and 54. And the better the wife's education, the more likely she a is to be working. All of this constitutes a major portion of our economic picture. The fields offering job opportunities for: women are: health, social work, teaching, certain technical and professional fields, clerical, sales and services, and they will all continue to grow.
BLUEBONNETS The bluebonnet, official state flower of Texas, got its name when it shared the same blue color and shape with bonnets worn by Texas pioneer women. Legend tells that bluebonnets first bloomed when an Indian princess placed a beloved doll in a fire as a sacrifice, then took the ashes and threw them in the wind. The next morning, where the ashes had fallen, was a blanket of flowers — bluebonnets — the color of the doll's headdress.
In our recent appeal for lodge histories for our 70th anniversary issue, we asked especially for the lodge histories of the original 22 lodges that sent delegates to the First SPJST Convention in La Grange in June of 1897. Only 2P lodges were represented at that convention, Cat Springs being the last one. However, Supreme Lodge Secretary Brother Raymond Urbanovsky reminds me that three more lodges were organized between the time of the convention and the date of approval of our charter in August of 1897. Those lodges were Numbers 23, Moravia; 24,
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Cyclone; and 25, Ennis. Hence, 25 lodges are considered to be "Charter" lodges. At any rate, we stand corrected, and we want to emphasize that we will welcome histories and pictures from ANY of our lodges, not only from the charter lodges. If someone in your lodge has not commenced this task, please see what can be done about it. Do not concern yourselves too much with the proper literary style or composition. Your editor will take care of that. All we need are names, facts, dates, figures, etc. Please don't put this off. • • "Common Disaster" The problem of "common disaster" or "common accident" arises when the proceeds of a life insurance policy are payable to a named beneficiary in a lump sum, and where borth the insured and the beneficiary are killed in the same accident or die at about the same time. Accident statistics show more than 90,000 accidents a year in this country due to accidental causes. The death of an entire family is not uncommon. A glance at the daily paper will bear this out. Fires also cause whole families to be wiped out. With our increased mobility and mode of living, the possibility of a common accident increases. As far as life insurance is concerned, there are basically two prob-