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n Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897. HUMANITY
BENEVOLENCE VOLUME 59 — NO. 7
BROTHERHOOD
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FEBRUARY 17, 1971
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK In this issue are two photos taken at the dedication and held back one Week by your editor, for a more opportune time. Both were taken in a hurry in the crush of humanity, however, turned out fairly well. One is luckily taken. a moment when the vision was clear. It is of the "Lidice" symbolic cross with wraps of barbed wire around it. It is a symbol and, through a silent piece of matter, calls on all people and nations to rise to the struggle for "peace do this earth" and exert all their intellect and strength in the effort for that always continually sought and desired peace. It is 50 regrettable that mankind, so intellectual and learned as we are in this 20th century, has not yet found or does not really desire to find that so:easily-found and visible road to peace. Maybe your editor is a little too fraternally inclined and naive (let us say visionary or Utopian), however, it seems that if each individual person and each nation set aside their selfish and personal "me" and desires, the road to peace would be much more easily and quickly discovered and tread upon. We possess the ability and intellect; do we possess the desire? Let us hope that peace can be found just as President Nixon said and SOON! SOON ! Time is moving on!
GEORGE WASHINGTON Born February 22, 1732 ... First President of the United States . . . Known as 'The rather of His Country." Tuesday, February 9, just at the time your editor arrived at the house, about 6 p.m., the sun was setting and the moon, in exactly the opposite direction, was just rising. The radio announcer was at that moment saying, "Anyone who will be up at 1:41 a.m. tomorrow morning can look up and see a total eclipse of the moon." Sure enough, in a few hours, the earth would be directly in line between the sun and moon and would blot out all of the sun's rays from reaching and surface of the moon and thus it would
be dark except for a small glow where it was since the moon has no light of its own. A person's thoughts went back to a short time past and the thought entered one's mind that, just shortly before, our three astronauts, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa, had departed that earth-circling mass Of matter with what was probably going to be the best and clearest clue to the actual beginning of and age of the earth; some rocks which had remained as they had been formed, untouched by rain and erosion nearly five billion years ago. In a flash, the thought entered: how short our tenure on earth here really is, indeed! Do we utilize it wisely? Somewhere between that beautiful moon in the east and us are those three brave men on their way back — good luck to them! • • About seven years ago yours truly had read about the prediction of scientists and astronomers that the three planets would line up as if one in the east on Christmas Day in 1970 as they do every 600 plus years and very likely did so nearly 2000 years ago in Bethlehem. Time passed and so did our memory of that reading, however, our memory was revived in the week before Christmas by the newspaper items. We both mentioned the fact of hoW
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