Official Organ Of the Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas. Founded 1897. BENEVOLENCE
VOLUME 56 — NO. 1
HUMANITY
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE SPJST, FOB 100, TEMPLE, TEX. 76501
JANUARY 3, 1968
NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE FROM THE
bility — that of good citizenship. Let's
PRESIDENT OF THE SPJST
revive, in our society and in ourselves, the faith of our forefathers; let's de-
We welcome the New Year 1968 fend our American principles and our and accept the challenges it brings to way of life.
us in the work of our Society.
I wish to thank our officers, directors, 1967 was a very successful year for
committees, organizers, youth leaders,
us. We wrote many new members,
the youth, lodge workers, and all
with a great amount of insurance; we
others for their loyalty and devotion
also created further interest in our
given our SPJST during the past year.
local lodge and district meetings, in In behalf of the members of the
the youth program, in fraternal work,
Supreme Lodge, I extend to all our
and we made good gains in our assets 2iVr.":2W
greetings and best wishes for a Happy
and reserves.
and Prosperous New Year. It is our The credit for our success in 1967 goes to all of us, for it was our cooperative efforts that enabled us to
Let's remember in these unsettled
blessed peace of heart and mind detimes that the spirit of fraternalism
scend upon you and yours and be
is one of the pillars of civic freedom;
with you throughout the year.
make those good gains, which will be evidenced in our annual report. These are our rewards for working in unison and in the spirit of brotherhood.
sincere wish, to all of you, that the
therefore, as workers in a fraternal society, we have a further
responsi-
Fraternally yours, Edward L. Marek, President Supreme Lodge, SPJST