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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501 VOLUME 62 — NO. 16 APRIL 17, 1974
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Why does a man buy life insurance? Following are some reasons (very logical) readers of these lines will do well to give serious thought to and why choose SPJST Fraternal Life Insurance? The reason is clear and simple. It is the most beneficial insurance obtainable when we consider ALL of the benefits included with it. WHY? * * WHY DOPE A MAN BUY LIFE INSURANCE? Because on a morning during the days of his youth he overheard just enough of a discussion between his mother and father together that they had borrowed money to pay his tuition at the university, and he determined forthwith that they would be repaid. Because one soft summer evening the most wonderful girl in the world sh yly promised herself to him and him alone so long as they both should live, and he vowed to himself that no matter what might come, she would never regret placing her future in his hands. Because one bright morning a building contractor handed him two shiny keys on a thin loop of wire and pronounced the exciting words, "She's finished and all yours," and he swore that no quirk of fate would ever drive his bride from this, her home. Because in the predawn hush of
ECOLOGY STILL NEEDS YOUR //ELF Conserve water -- don't let it run unnecessarily. Catch rain water for your plants. This saves our drinking water. Join a car pool — it is economical ly and ecologically sound. Ride a hike when possible, it's good exercise and doesn't foul the air. Use litter bags in your car and boat. Consider wooden toys over plastic. They last and have heirloom possibilities. Kick the cigarette habit — it's ad for your air and ours. Returnable betties are still the best buy. Glass can be sterilized and refilled or crushed and reform ed. Showers use less water than bath and are cleaner. There are many others — all good. a wintry day the first thin wail of a newborn babe calmed his nervous pacing with the solemn realization that he and that wonderful girl had created a new life,
and he pledged himself right then that no child of theirs would lack all the training and all the preparation the world of tomorrow might demand. Because one never-to-be-forgotten midnight his next door neighbor died and he spent the endless hours until morning trying to comfort and reassure a widow wholly incapable of comprehending or coping with the economic facts of life and he resolved that should he be the first to go in his household, his widow would be as free from money worries, and the necessity for money-management, as humanly possible to arrange. Because on his fortieth birthday, when he and two other men pooled their resources and established their own business, he insisted that prudent arrangements be made for the protection both of the three families involved, and of the business, in the event one of the partners might die. Because as he grew older and gained knowledge he realized more and more that the day would come when he would have to step aside for a younger man, and he promised himself that when that fateful day arrived 'he would be prepared to retire with dignity. It is for reasons such as these that life insurance is purchased