Official Organ Of the Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897. BENEVOLENCE
VOLUME 56 — No. 46
HUMANITY
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE SPJST, FOB 100, TEMPLE, TEX 76501
NOVEMBER 13, 1968
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Save $$$. How you pay for your life insurance can raise or lower its cost. Premiums are calculated on an annual basis. Simply by paying each year's premium all at once, instead of monthly, quarterly or semi- annually, You can reduce the cost of your policy without affecting your coverage. Splitting your annual premium into several segments adds to the cost of administering your policy. Besides the additional cost of sending out extra premium notices and colletting extra payments, there is a reduction in the investment income the company would receive if your entire premium were available for investment over the full year. And investment income helps to keep down the cost of insurance. Since bookkeeping costs do not vary Much with the size of a policy, the extra cost often runs relatively higher on small policies or smaller premiums. • • Cancer Signs. Cancer is a terrible disease. But cancer is not hopeless. It can be cured — if caught in time. Look for these seven danger signs. If you find one and it persists for more that two weeks, see a doctor right away. I. Unusual bleeding or discharge. 2. A lump or ,thiCkening in the breast or elsewhere.
QUOTES . . . "My beloved Czech nation will not die; It will gloriously overcome the terrors of hell — It will overcome." —From Bedrich Smetana's Opera, "Libuse" • • "We have nurtured our sovereignty with the blood of our people, and no one is going to take it away from us." --Marshal Josip Broz Tito 3. A sore that does not heal. 4. Change in bowel or bladder habits. 5. Persistent hoarseness or coughing. 6. Indigestion or difficulty in swallowing. '7. Change in any warts or moles. Better still, is the practice of having periodic physical check-ups, especially of the intestinal tract, where so many cancers have their start. • • Down On The Farm. Labor is fast losing out on the American farm. The American farmer used the smallest labor force in history last year to produce another record in crops and livestock. With labor almost impossible to get, farmers are turning to machinery to do more and more of the work.
There are automatic feeders for livestock, mechanical harvesters for just about every crop, power lifts for stacking hay, etc. There are still some jobs that require ordinary manpower, but you hear constantly about farmers being unable to get anyone to work these days. The welfare lines are long and getting longer, unemployment lists are long, but there seems to be plenty of work, if the classified sections of our newspapers are any indication. There we see hundreds of jobs going begging. There are few takers. You hear the complaint: "They just don't want to work!" In the meantime, prices for farm machinery went up 5 per cent during the past year, building materials, and just about , everything else went up, while farm prices have remained about the same. The fanner is caught in a price sqaeeze. Speaking of work, an item from the Bloomfield, Missouri "Vindicator" has this to say: "During the depression years a man was hired if a job was available. Today, he accepts a position. Thirty years ago a man was fired from his job. Today, he tenders his resignation, is replaced, or succeeded by somebody else. Nobody works today; he is associated with or becomes a member