Official Organ Of the Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897. HUMANITY
BENEVOLENCE
VOLUME 57 — NO. 47
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE SPJST, POB 100, TEMPLE, TEX 76501
NOVEMBER 19, 1969
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Today, Friday, November 14, at p.m., with a very clear Central Texas sky overhead, driving from the pub lishin,g company, I glanced at the sky, and lo and behold, there was the moon, resembling a sickle, shining from up above. I imagine that I am getting sentimental with age, because I stopped the car and got out and stood there looking at the ball of matter up in the expanse of space, and thought these thoughts: At this moment, there are three brave men on their way to explore more of the mysteries of our universe and land on its surface to bring back some more information about the actual beginning of, our solar system. A picture of them is in the center column to the right. Technology, computers, training, and intellect; where would we be without them today? • We call your . attention to the fact that we are republishing the statement from the Supreme Lodge which was on pages 16 and 17 of the last issue of the Vestnik. Here is one of the hazards of the trade. In this report, in this issue, you will note in bold face type: District Meetings — — which was left out of the report in the November 12 issue, inadvertantly. The figures were correct, except that the one line was missing, thus throwing the remaining lines out of place. We hope that this explains the mistake. It gust slipped
Apollo 12 Crew. Astronauts who were launched Nov. 14 and are flying the Apollo 12 mission are (L to R): Charles Conrad, Jr., commander; Richard F. Gordon, command module pilot, and Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot. out and we failed to notice it. We regret the error. ! rdoeation Pays! As today's better educated young adults enter the nation's work force, they are replacing many older, less-educated workers who have retired or died. The result is a dramatic upgrading of the educational level of the entire work force, according to the Institute of Life Insurance. Among workers Hi years of age or older, the number with high school
diplomas showed a new increase of 1.4 million last year and the number with one or more years of college went up 1.1 million. At the same time, the number with less than four years of high school declined 600,000 — about 92 per cent of whom were men who had never gone beyond elementary school. As a result the median educations of men in the work force rose to 12.3 years (compared with 12.2 years in 1967 and 11.1 years a decade earlier). The median educational level of women workers rose to 12.4 years (compared with 12.3 years in 1967 and 12.1 years a decade earlier). The overall number of workers with no education beyond elementary school has been cut in half (to 15 million) during the past one and a half decades. Nearly two out of every three workers now in this category are at least 45 years old. Besides the influx of young people, more and more married women are returning to the work force. This also has an upgrading effect on the educational level of workers as a whole — since the better a woman's education, the more likely she is to work. Another factor is the growing tendency of employers to consider a high school diploma the minimum qualification for a job. Even when completion of high school may not be essential to job performance, 40111(1 employers be-