Official Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The Sta Of Texas, Founded 1897 BENEVOLENCE Postmaster: Please Send Forj VOLUME 63, NUMBER 12 "When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin' along." Thus begins a song composed about that wettl-known robin-redbreast arid, of course, when robins make their appearance, sometime in the latter part of February, spring is not far away. Yes, spring, 1975, is trying ever-so-slowly to follow the robins. Although a person would not have thought so judging by the frost that covered West this March 14th morn. But the robins have been around Central Texas for some time now and the sun is slowly trying to warm the atmosphere and rid it of its wintry chill. Spring, when all of Nature seems to reawaken to a new breath of renewed life and prepares for the vigorous action which awaits warm days, with intentions to go right on through summer until fall or autumn again appears and brings another change in the seasons. Farmers are busily preparing their fields for the coming planting season, and, in fact, some have planted their maize in this area. Of course, in the Robstown-Corpus Christi area, we hear that crops of 'maize and cotton are already up and striving to grow. Naturally, we always wish the best for all of our farmers and ranches, who are, after all, the backbone of our state, nation, and indeed, the world! We have great respect for the man who wrestles with all the perplexing problems that the modern-day farmer faces. In this World of shrinking food supply,
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3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501
MARCH 19, 1975
on't is a tramp, I Can't is a quitter, I Don't Know is lazy, I Wish I Could is a wisher, I Might is waking up, Try is on his feet, I Can is on his way, I Will is at work, I Did is now the boss
more mouths to feed, soaring prices and the complex management demands, the farmer must somehow' succeed if we are to survive. In keeping with the above thoughts, of course this s eeingtime of the year, sales of life insurance also take a lesson from growing things and are on an increase, which brings us to the thought which was on our mind when we began this editorial. We have just received the monthly report of insurance sales from Supreme Lodge Vice President Joe B. Hejny for February, 1975, and notice that this was another month when our SPJST Society gained one-million-plus in insurance sold by our hard-working sales representatives. Although the weather has been bad and the month of February only has 28 days, our sales representatives still managed to sell that great amount of SPJST fraternal life insurance. This fact
again proves that we have a good, sound, economical and well-received type of program of life insurance and, added to that, youth activities, lodge facilities, and interesting local lodge fraternal activities which appeal to all of our membership. True, not everyone is receptive to the thought of purchasing life insuranicei; however, once it is presented in the proper perspective and given sensible appeal and approach, many negative 'barriers disappear. 1975 looms as another record year for our SPJST. We are certain that our sales representatives will again reach their quotas, just as they did in 1974, in spite of the current national and world crisis, fears and unrest; they strive to move ever forward and we salute them! * We had a large number of letters to arrive this week, for which we are grateful; we feel the more correspondence we have in the Vestnik the better it is for the readers; however, we wish to again remind our correspondents to MAIL EARLY! There are a few letters that arrive late each week and we hate to disappoint you but if we receive your letter too late, it cannot be used. Another point we would like to stress is this: (Will Rogers once said, while being questioned about a matter, "All I know is what I