Official' Organ Of the Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897. BENEVOLENCE
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HUMANITY
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE SPJST, POB 100, TEMPLE, TEX 76501
JULY 2, 1969
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK at the Centennial in Philadelphia. In 1915 its voice was 'carried to San Francisco, on the occasion of the first linking of the Atlantic Coast with the Pacific by long-distance telephone. In 1926 its note was broadcast for the first time at the opening of the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Is 1944 it announced the landing of the Allied armies on the beaches of Normandy — June 6 — "D-Day."
The Liberty Bell Its inscription reads — "Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land and to all the inhabitants thereof." In 1775 it was rung for the fit reading of the Declaration of Independence. In 1776 it celebrated the signing of the Declaration. In 1835 it cracked as it tolled for the death of John Marshall. In 1846 it was enshrined in the State House in Philadelphia (Independence Hall). In 1876 it sounded to commemorate 100 years of American independence,
to you or us members. Here is what we are attempting to call to your attention: These refunds will amount to a rather large sum. of expense to our Supreme Lodge. Bro. Ben Zabeik, our Financial Secretary, has asked your editor to help and we are doing our best to do do so. Now, this is what we urge all of our members to do: Attend your lodge meetings, and receive your refund checks. We owe that to our Society and ourselves.
Give this some thought: If the !SuALL MEMBERS PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING. This is a sincere, fra- preme Lodge forwarded all of the ternal and brotherly ,request to all of checks to each recipient member, let our members in behalf of our Supreme us assume there were 10,000 that would Lodge, our local lodges, their secreamount to $600 postage, plus envelopes. taries and, honestly, in behalf of all Tf your local lodge secretary has to Of our members. In the Vestnik yon Mail our checkS to us, it is 6 cents plus the cost of an envelope. Lodge 88 in see where the "Refund of a Part of Your Premiums" (sometimes referred Houston, where your editor is a memto as "dividends"), is being sent to all ber Would probably spend approximembers who have been in the SPJST mately $60 on postage alone! Do we five years or longer. They- are sent to not owe our lodge and ourselves the your local lodge secretaries. The XXth courtesy to attend our meetings and Convention allowed these "refunds" to pick up our refund? There is NO excuse unless we live too far, are bedbe paid to us. ridden, sick, or otherwise incapable of This is what we wish to emphasize: attending! You will find several letOur fraternal lodge system depends on ters from local lodge secretaries reour participation in our local lodges. questing your ,presence at the next In that way, we are a "fra.ternal", meeting of their local lodge in 'July, exempt from certain taxation.. We could send highly-paid lobbyists to and even listing the names of the Austin and Washington, D.C., to members who have checks that they have received. Will you please comply "lobby" for us and in °Ur favor, however, we prefer to return the money with their request and arrange to pick