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Official Organ Of the Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897.
VOLUME 57 — NO. 37
BROTHER H OOD
HUMANITY
BENEVOLENCE
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to SUPREME LODGE SPJST, FOB 100, TEMPLE, TEX 76501
SEP'I'EMBEIt 10, 1969
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK We wish to call the attention of our contributors of written material to he published in the Vestnik to the new deadline on page 2, bottom of column 2. Our sincere thanks for your cooperation. • • STATE YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT DAY ROYALTY at Seaton Star Hall this next Sunday, Sept. 14! Yes, that is the day that the youth will have a day devoted to them, almost entirely. This is another day that the entire family can spend together and all enjoy themselves. What better recreation can you choose? This is the part that is so appealing and nice about fraternal work. You will find the pictures of all the contestants in this issue. It was in this time of the year that the father of your editor, Bro. Jos. Sefcik, Sr., passed away. He was a good father, a loyal citizen of his new native land, America, and the United States, who with our mother did their best to teach all of us children to be good citizens and appreciate our many freedoms. If they failed in their effort, it certainly is not their fault. I am certain that I speak for my moth-
THE WILLOW BY THE STREAM Under the weeping: willow tree, Where grows the meadow grass, Close by a languid brook, I watch the noontide pass. The cows meander down to drink Of waters cool and sweet, And whiled away the lazy day In covert from the heat. The willow whispered soft and low, The brook a silence kept; Into my childish heart and mind Seine vagrant fancies crept. In idle moments' memories Returning to that stream, Loll beneath the willow tree Again to hope and dream. er, Sis. Theresa Sefeik, in the S.P.J.S.T. Rest Home in Taylor, my two sisters, Agnes and Lydia, and myself. As a father for many of today's youth, he would not pass, for he was a firm man and let us children understand that we were not to have to be asked or told to do something but one time, hOwever, probably we should have more fathers like him. We honor his knowledge and what he taught us, and
will honor his memory as long as we live. • • It wars on September 13-14i, 1814 that "The Star Spangled Banner" was born. It was inspired and begun while the British bombarded Fort McHenry at Baltimore after burning Washington. Francis Scott Key, a Maryland lawyer and poet, witnessed the shelling for 25 hours, and at 8 a.m. Sept. 14 the shelling stopped with the star spangled banner still standing. Mr. Key wrote one part of it and finished it when he came back to shore. A friend suggested the tune for it "To Anacreon in Heaven" an old English song. We imagine it was not any easier to sing it than it is to sing "The Star Spangled Banner." • • Sept. 4,-1804 — 165 years ago. Thomas Ustiek Walter, American architect, was born in Philadelphia. In 18411 was commissioned by President Fillmore to superintend the enlargement of the Capitol in Washington. During the fourteen years he was engaged in this work, from 1851 to 1865, he also completed the Treasury Building and the Washington Post Office. Walter is
STATE YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT DAY - LODGE 47, SEATON ROYALTY COMPETITION & CORONATION SUNDAY, SEPT 14, 1969