Official Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897. HUMANITY
BENEVOLENCE VOLUME 59 — NO. 48
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Unc:eliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE SPJST, POB 100, TEMPLE, TEX 76501
DECEMBER 1, 1971
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Don't forget "Especially For You" at Lodge Pokrok Houston No. 88 in Houston, Wednesday, December 8th cornmencing at 8 p.m. It is sponsored by Lodge 88 and the Harris County Historical Society. Sunday, November 7, we attended the District VI meeting in Talton., and the weather was beautiful and the attendance was above expectation. Their meeting was interesting, especially when a person watched the expressions on the members' faces carefully listening to every word which was spoken. The youth also presented a nice program. DYD Elsie Brdecka presented six youth clubs consisting of sa participants. She and the District VI youth are to be congratulated, especially since Sister Brdecka has been a District Youth Director of District VI since the inception of the youth program. It was a pleasure to shake hands with sincere members and friends. In this district is where one faithful brother told me in 1956, when I was seeking a high position in our Society, quote: "You are young, however, I will not vote for you because I am not sure our Society is ready to accept all new ideas." Maybe he was right, because a younger member has to be able to use his position in a brotherly and fraternal spirit. To this date, both of us are the best of friends.
AUTUMN ASTERS These are the lovely sentences The autumn writes Across the noons and on the page Of dreaming nights. The hillsides glow with purple, Roadways wear A fringe of beauty that the bright Hill brooklets share. The autumn writes such sentences On every slope That men may know a faith serene With trust and hope! —Arthur Wallace Peach Representing the Supreme Lodge were SL Vice President Joe B. HeinY, SL Secretary R. A. Urbanovsky and wife, SL Financial Secretary Ben Zabcik and wife, SL Treasurer Leonard Mikeska, wife and children, District VI Director Ed Sralla and wife, and District VII Director Jos. Koliha, Jr. • • In this issue is a letter from Mrs. Henry C. Burge from Saudi Arabia. She writes about a quilt which your editor's mother had made for the Texas Centennial State Fair in 1936, which ;Miss Anezka Houdek mentioned in her letter in the July 28th issue of the Vestnik in the Czech section. It is a quilt with the map of Texas depicting the counties and county seats of our State. It is on display in the SPJST
Museum in Temple. At thewtime of Miss Houdek's letter, your editor promised to explain the details about the quilt, which is what Mrs. Burge has reference to, however, I have not done so thus far. I promise to do so soon. You will find her letter most interesting. • • Thanksgiving, November 25 Arriving at the office, you sit down to write at the typewriter, especially when the mail is light during a holiday, and a thought crosses the mind: What to write about? For what to give thanks? our thoughts pause — first, we must thank fate for being so kind and allowing us to awaken this day and that we are alive! And that we have enough to eat, a good family, many friends, and that we certainly enjoy many liberties, mainly the freedom of thought, press and expression, etc., etc. As far as your editor is concerned, he has to be thankful that he has been working for the past three years in perfect harmony among the 40,000 plus members and readers, with the exception of just a few. Mainly, I have to thank the fact that we have the freedom of press and that we have the privilege of using it in our fraternal herald, the Vestnik. If the membership ever allows this privilege and liberty to be taken away from them, then they