HERALD ficial Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The Sta e Of Texas. Founded 1897.
VOLUME 55 — NO, 39
BROTHERHOOD
HUMANITY
BENEVOLENCE
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, POI1 100, TEMPLE, TEX. 76501
SEPTEMBER 27, 1967
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK QUOTES . Privilege, Right, and Duty The privilege, right, and duty of every American is that of voting in free elections. When we do so, we join ethers with similar opinions in expressing a. preference for candidates for office and help in deciding the issues that confront us. When we fail to exercise this precious right, whether it be in a city, statewide, national, or yes, even our local lodge elections, then we strengthen the position of those with whom we might disagree and jeopardize our own beliefs and convictions. In short, if you weren't there to cast a vote for your convictions you forfeited that right. Your vote is your voice in building the kind of SPJST, or government, you would like to see for yourself — and your children. We all have an obligation to ourselves, our families, our communities, our state, and our nation, to be well informed on all important issues. Only through active participation in the life around us can we be satisfied that we are doing our best to fulfill these obligations. Our rights can be preserved and enjoyed only if we exercise the responsibilities that go with them. We have shaped our past, and we must contribute, each of us, to shaping the future.
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." —Bernard Shaw • • "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." —Illienry Ford "Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulations and men decay." —Oliver Goldsmith Here's a. lesson to he garnered from an old sea captain's log: the horn that's tooting loudest is the one that's in the fog. Success
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As soon as the young adult embarks upon the pathway of life, he is confronted with two possible courses: either try to make our lives conform to our confirmed beliefs, or we can modify and dilute our beliefs to fit our lives.
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Many people, in search of success, force themselves to pursue the latter. The first—shaping our lives to fit our beliefs — is infinitely harder and few succeed completely in this. The unhappy man is constantly striving for the approval of others, but the more applause he getS, the more he requires to quench that persistent voice within him. The happy and satisfied man is concerned with his own approval, knowing that what he did or does squares with what he truly believes to be right. Success is a blessing when it comes without sacrificing our moral values, but the greatest of curses when it is achieved at the expense of forfeiting our innermost beliefs and values. It then becomes like a ghost, stalking our lives,' because we abandoned the most important part of ourselves to gain other things.
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Foreign Language Press The foreign language press in Texas has been losing ground rapidly during the past 10 years or so. Even since 1960 several foreign language papers (including those printed in Spanish) have faded from the scene. There are less than. 80 foreign language publications in the United States today. In Texas today, as far as the Czech press is concerned, we have our own Vestnik, published with a gradually