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Official Organ 11 The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, pounded 1897.
VOLUME 61 — NO. 16
1 ROTHEttHOOR
HUMAN T Y
BENEVOLENCE
Postmaster: Please Send Form 35'79 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501.
APRIL 18, 1973
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Sunday, April 8 we attended the the District I meeting in Brenham with Lodge No. 169, being the host. We thoroughly enjoyed the meeting and fellowship, and the membership of Lodge No. 169 certainly proved to be fraternal hosts. We will leave the district report to the district secretary. Brother Leon Nowak was elected as their new district president and we wish all of the officers success. • • In a long-distance telephone conversation with Prof. Jos. J. Skrivanek, Jr., of A&M University in College Station, your editor was informed by him that Mr. Jan Smely of the Czechoslovak Embassy in Washington, D.C., has confirmed the arrangement by the Czechoslovak government to have 15 students as guests of the Czechoslova,k government and that the most it could cost a student going on this trip would be approximately $300. (All personal trips, of course, would be at the student's expense). Prof. Skrivanek suggested that interested students please send in your applications NOW. Time is fleeting! We believe in boys and girls; not some of them but all of them. We believe in their right to an understanding of their own place in the nature community of which they are a part. We believe in their right to acquire skills
other, likewise an adventure in the outof-doors. We believe in their need of the healing found in the wild, wide open spaces. We believe in their unfolding response to warm earth, the friendly stars, the music of streams, the unknown life in the hidden places, great trees, sunsets and storms. We believe that all these are pathways for them, and for us, and that their language is universal.
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL! and the tools for living in the out-ofdoors as Dart of their heritage as descendants of pioneers, to swim, to fish, to manage a canoe, to climb, to build, to cock and to worship. We believe in their right of discovery and adventure in nature's world, their right to pit their strength against the barriers nature erects and the mysteries she pressents and in their right to a sense of achievement. We believe in their right to fun, and to a creative expression of themselves in handcrafts, in music and in drama. ' We believe in their right to friendly comradeship with someone
If we truly love — then we put up with the weaknesses and failings cf others. We will be patient with others. who may be different from ourselves. Having love, we will be glad to accommodate others, we will be olliging. With true love in our hearts we will not nurse a morbid or gnaWing place in life. Neither will we envy possessions, advancement, or success of others. On the contrary, we will be glad to share , our blessings with others and rejoice with one who is honored. Love manifests a spirit of generosity. True love does not seek after selfish interests to hurt others or disadvantage of others. This often is hard to do unless we realize that there is more happiness in giving than in receiving. Love is not easily provoked. There is such a thing as ri ghteous indignation, but we should try not to cause someone suffering or damage.