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VOLUME 56 — NO. 28
BROTHERHOOD
HUMANITY
Bf NEVOLENCE
ter: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies E LODGE SPJST, POB 100, TEIV1PLE, TEX 76501
JULY 10, 1968
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Life Must Go On. Our Society has been shaken recently with the passing of two prominent individuals, men who gained considerable stature throughout the years. Both will be difficult to replace in their respective fields. Yet, as everyone knows, life and our struggle must and will go on. It can be no other way. There will be gaps left by those near and clear to us, gaps that will seem impossible to breach, but time will heal and all will be righted in the great Order of things. .A11 men are creatures capable of sorrows and desire, of hope and fear. We all long to recover some lost harmony with the order of things and to feel ourselves accepted and blessed by the Author of the universe. Most all of us know what suffering is, and we yearn for happiness. We have felt the pangs of all sorts of trangressions and hunger for pardon. This is the link that binds Man together. Success is the sum total of little obstacles that have been surmounted. It we are too conscious of the opposition, or if we wait too eagerly for cooperation, we will be licked before we start. We must not seek opposition but seek cooperation fijom others on our own initiative. If we put to work all those elements that resist us and use them to
THOUGHTS Water and words: easy to pour, but impossible to recover.
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The more a person says, the less people remember. No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and anotlicr to the multitude, without finally gT„tting- bewildered as to which may be the true. Hawthorne propel to greater achievements, there is nothing we can't accomplish. How Did You Celebrate? One of our major Texas dailies bemoaned the fact that July 4th just isn't what it used to be — that people just don't celebrate it like they used to and really don't fully appreciate the significance of the holiday. Not enough people reflect; upon the freedoms that are now ours and the blood with which they were won. They take them for granted as we head for the lakes, rev up our outboard motors, and continue the carnage on our highways and our lakes. You rarely witness patriotic rallies like you used to. One oldtimer puts it this way: "We just don't have time for each other any more. We're too busy
making a dollar. We don't love each other any more. We no longer have neighbors; we have 'people next door'. You see a few flags out here and there, but most people now go to other towns to see relatives and friends and local celebrations have been forgotten. During the horse and buggy clays, people would hitch them up and wouldn't go very far. Now they turn the key and go out of town. 'flings are just different." Are they? Are the hearts of man really that different? The automobile may have changed distances and travel convenience, but it shouldn't change the hearts of man and his relationship with one another. Anyway, they still have a humdinger at Round Top in Fayette County each year . Courageous men came long ago to this virgin land, and it blossomed under their hands. They contended with the greatest tasks of human society and government, and a great republic was reared. They cherished noble ideas, and their commonwealth reached out to lead and influence the world. They built upon supreme, universal, eternal principles. They saw in their small domain weakness, but they made it into goodness. They beheld enemies