Official Organ Of The SlaVonle Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897 HUMANITY
BENEVOLENCE
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501 VOLUME 64, NUMBER 3 JANUARY 21, 1976
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK In last week's issue there was the continuation of the writeup of the trip Brother and Sister Edwin ,Turica, of Corpus Christi, took through the Western United States and back to Texas (written by Sister Betty Judea). We cer tainly appreciate her taking the time and expending the effort to write such an interesting description of their travels. It was a nice tribute to our 200th anniversary of our USA and the thought, "See America, First!" is certainly a good one In our United States, especially the western states, there is much very interesting and natural scenery, unspoiled by man. * * The attention of those who are concerned with our 1976 Miss SPJST Contest Rules is directed to the first article in the Youth Sec tion, this issue of the Vestnik. Last week we published these rules for the first time, however this week, SYD Sister Dorothy Massey sent us another copy of the rules which had been changed slightly and we call your attention to the following changes. In the paragraphs dealing with TALENT, SPEECH, and INTERVIEW — changes in the points, and AUTOBIOGRAPHY, in bold face type: (at least 15 days prior) has been added. Please read these rules carefully and keep them for future reference. Disregard the value of the points
TO THE POINT . . . His egotism is a plain case of mistaken nonentity.
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The top of the ladder is a nice place .. . but very lonesome! * * "Influence" is what you think you have, until you try to use it. * * Pessimist: A person who takes life with a grain of sulk. * * It's inflation when you have to pay $5.00 for the $2.00 haircut you used to get for $1.00 when you had hair. * * Did you hear about the angry inchworm? He was told • to convert to the metric system. given in the January 14, 1976 issue of the Vestnik. * * Life can be educational if we try to study it and it's lessons as we travel down its meandering pathway. For instance, it can be observed from life's lesson that: The person who feels that people are not very important cannot have very much deep-down selfiespect and self-regard . . . for he himself is "people" and with what judgment he considers others, he himself is unwittingly judged in his own mind.
And no man or woman can lead a full, productive life hating himself, ridden with guilt and having feelings of inadequacy. An employer who treats the men and women who work for him as machines and cannot see that they are worthwhile individuals with hopes and fears and ambitions of their own, eventually comes to think of himself in the same way. It is as inevitable as night following day. If a professional man sees the clients sitting in his office not as people, but as so many twentydollar bills, then he eventually begins to think of himself in terms of money. He replaces his heart with a dollar sign. He becomes less of a huMan being and becomes more of a programmed money machine. A. husband who treats his wife as a ide-humanized housekeeper, soOn begins to treat himself as a dehumanized wage earner. A woman who sees her child only as something to get in her way and take up her time soon begins to doubt whether she is good for anything but to get in people's way and take up their time. We see, then, that feeling worthwhile ourselves starts with feeling that other people are worthwhile. We cannot believe in our own dignity unless we are able to believe in the dignity of other people. It's