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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76561 VOLUME 62 -- NO. 8 FEBRUARY 20, 1974
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK REMEMBER! — All contributions QUOTES to our Vestnik have to be at the If everybody remembered the editor's office no later than Thurspast, nobody would ever forgive day of each week! anybody. * * —Robert Lynd As a result of late-arriving maThe art of being wise is the art terial, some of the articles your of knowing what to overlook. editor would have liked to included —William James in this issue had to be held over until next week. When we do not find peace of mind in ourselves it is useless to Please mail your copy early! * took for it elsewhere. * —La Rochefougauld For quite sometime the spring meetings of most districts were One half of the troubles of this announced in the Vestnik Bulletin life can be traced to saying YES Board column for your information too quickly, and not saying NO concerning your respective district. soon enough. The time has approached rapidly —Josh Billings for District VI members when they will hold their district meeting at by the officers is time-consuming Elmaton National Hall on March and they would appreciate your attendance at least once-a-year by 3 at 1:30 p.m. promptly. District VI President Sister Lot- knowing that their leadership is satisfactory to its entire district tie Krutilek extends a cordial in vitation to the SPJST members membership. Attend your meeting and, as a member of your district, and hear about the progress of it is your obligation to attend and District VI! * * hear the ' reports of each district Just plain talk ...Nearly all cf officer, the operational business status on the district and state us honor the pioneers who suflevel, election of officers will take fered great hardships to open up place, plus a youth program will and develop this country. We all be in store for you for your en- admire their fine qualities, and it is often said that people today oyment. Do not disappoint the district of- need more of their virtues. That is not entirely true. Some ficers by not attending your meeting because the effort put forth of the very quaiities that were
most valuable to the pioneer would make it difficult for him to fit into our modern world. For example, he was an out-and-out independent. He fought his own battles, relied always on himself alone. stood for no interference from anybody, and went his own according to his own wishes. Now, can you imagine a person insisting on such independence when driving an automobile in the traffic of a modern city? This independent spirit would get the pioneer badly bumped, or arrested. before he went a single block. Modem conditions call for cooperation, respect for the Tights of others, and the knack of conforming to necessary rules and regulations. We can all admire the qualities of the pioneer, but we must not forget the other virtues that our modern living requires. * Star-Spangled Banner — the national anthem of the United States, by act of CongTess, approved March 3, 1931, was written by Francis Scott Key an board the British frigate Surprise during the bombardment of Fort MellenrY, Maryland, by the British, in 1814. Key, under a flag at truce, held boarded the Surprise to request the release of a friend held prison-