lit sir N Official Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897 BENEVOLENCE
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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501 VOLUME 62 — NO. 3 JANUARY 16, 1971
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Faith in yourself — Most men go SUCCESS to pieces when they have a few In anguish we uplift good beatings. They wilt. They A new unhallowed song; fade away. They crawl in a safe lit The race is to the swift; tle corner and hide while the great The battle to the strong. rough tile • of glorious life rushes —John Davidson, "War-Song" past them, The fact is that defeat is the normal thing in this hap- If you can dream and not make dreams your master, hazard little world and victory comes but seldom. Every victory, If you can fill the unforgiving minute usually, is the result of a long seWith sixty seconds' worth of ries of defeat. A man must have distance run, faith in himself, and in what he is trying to do. He must say, "I can." Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, He must back himself to win. He And which is more you'll be a must bet on himself. He must have Man, my son! faith in the people he works with. He must believe in his team. He —Kipling, "If.... must see the better side of his coworkers and not think that his tested by a multitude of experienown point of view is the only right ces common to everyday life. one. He must halve faith in those Two farmers live side by side on great principles that make us su- adjoining farm. One succeeds, edperior to the animals of the fo- ucates his children and retires rest... truth, honesty, sympathy' with a competency in due time. justice and progress. The other fails, his children are poorly educated. He and they reSuccess and failure — Common solve hopelessly on the wheel of sense and intellectual ability are life. the outstanding factors governing Two merchants have stores on success in every phase of human ex opposite corners of the same streistence, especially in these present et. One prospers and the other goes times when conditions are chang- bankrupt. The former pays prompt ing so rapidly. They are absolutely ly for whatever he buys and the essential to success in business. latter is always in debt. Two manufacturers making idThe truth of this statement is atIN
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entical products under equally favor able conditions, commence business at the same time. One grows greater with the years and the other flounders and fails after exhausting his working capital. Why? The successful ones were known by their neighbors to possess sound judgement, to study their affairs intently, to take action only after ascertaining all' the facts in the case, in short to be thoughtful, forward-looking, hard-working men. They possessed the 90 per cent of common horsesense to use their knowledge wisely which is so necessary to succeed in ALL ways. The unsuccessful ones were known to be undecisive, impulsive, tradition -ridden, careless speculative men, men who preferred every form of human endeavor to that of cultivat ing and training their minds. Then again indolent men, mentally alert, are known to succeed many times where hard-working, uneducated men fail. — They possessed common sense! Undoubtedly, knowledge is the fundamental principle of success in business and knowledge can only be acquired by studious application to the solution of the problems of life, spiritual, social, financial and commercial.