Official Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897. HUMAN[ TY
BENEVOLENCE VOLUME 60 — NO. 48
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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501.
NOVEMBER 29, 1972
FROM ME EDITOR'S DESK Wednesday, October 20, 1972 your editor received the following telegram which is self-explanatory. R. J. Sefcik, Editor, Vestnik, P.O. Box 85, West, Texas The President and Mrs. Nixon have asked me to invite you to attend a special series of briefings and a White House reception for representative members of the American Ethnic Press on Friday, October 27, at the White House. These high level briefings will be given by members of the Cabinet and key administration officials and will deal with those issues which are of major importance to your readers. The briefings will begin at 10 a.m. in Room 45(1 of the Old Executive Office Building, next to the White House. Please arrive for clearance no later than 9:30 am. at the 17th Street entrance MF the Old EOB. Please advise Ed Blecksmith of my office by collect wire or telephone by 12 noon, October 25, whether or not you will attend. We plan to adjourn at 6:30 p.m. after the White House reception. .Herbert G. Klein Director of Communications for the Executive Branch. • The purposes of publishing the telegram are several and none of them are connected with any personal egotism. First, your editor realizes that the telegram was sent to him as the editor
NOW If you have work to do — do it now. If you have a witness to give — give it now If you have a soul to win — win him now. If you have an obligation to discharge — discharge it no-z. If you have a debt to pay — pay it now. If you have a wrong to right — right it now. If you have a confession to make — make it now. If you have a preparation to make make it now. If you have children to train — train them now. Time is passing and you are passing out of time. —Roy L. Laurin The West Post Office will discontinue distributing mail in our PO Boxes on Sundays, as of December 3, 1972. Therefore, your editor will not receive any more mail on Sundays. MAIL EARLY, especially since the Christmas holidays are approaching. Last-minute entries in the Vestnik will be almost impossible! of our SPJST Society, representing our entire SPJST membership and not as an individual; therefore, it should be shared by all of you, our members.
Your editor called, as requested, on October 25 and relayed the message that he could not attend. The reasons for not being able to attend are also several, ie, Friday, a very busy day of the week here at the printshop, cost and length of time involved, and being just before the general election (which could be misconstrued), etc. Second, your editor has, for some time now, been wanting to write about the importance of everyone's ethnic background and heritage. These ethnic values are becoming more and more important to each and everyone of us and are being recognized in all walks of American life. • ♦ In the November 8 issue, page 18, center column, we published a speech made by President Nixon, at the dedication of the American Museum of Immigration, Liberty Island, N.J. Today, we are printing the telegram and excerpts from a speech made by Senator George McGovern (under "Items of Interest"), to show how much value is being placed on the ethnic groups by our leaders in the United States. Under "Items of Interest.", we are also publishing a very recent release from the City College of New York (CCNY) which also reviews the importance to colleges of the ethnic groups, stressing the Slavic heritage groups — Czech, Polish, Russian, etc.