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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, MST, P.O. VOLUME 65, NUMBER 6
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FROM THE EDITOR'? DESK At our recent Publication Committee meeting, discussion came up about the publication of a certain lodge's or district's affairs in the Vestnik. The discussion came up about what our Vdstnik was really for. If a member of the lodge or district wants to call attention about something to the rest of the members of that lodge or district, is not the Vestnik the place to do so or should that member or members have to write to all the members by letter because only a small percentage of the membership attend lodge meetings, however, do read the Vestnik. These are hard decisions your editor has to try to reconcile. A good example of this is the letter to all members of Lodge No 25, Ennis, in the last issue. This is a lodge affair yet, the' Vestnik is the most sensible medium by which to reach those members who do not attend meetings and call something to their attention. * * One day not long ago, a commentator on the radio made this statement: "Freedom of the press is the bulwork of liberty." The commentator continued: "Each individual has the right to criticize and/or comment in the paper or on the air; when the government starts telling you what you can criticize and what you cannot in the press or when the Federal Communications Commission tells you what you can criticize or
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SILENT LOVE By Jarosla.v Vrchlicky Ne'er by a word do I surrender What'mid the heart in slumber lies; Sufficient in the hour of rapture Is speech of countenance and eyes. The, empty shells with savage tumult Upon the shore the billow hurls; But in the heart, as in the ocean, Rest in the depths the flawless pearls. (Translated by Paul Selver) * * All the water in the world, however, hard it tried Could never sink a ship, unless it got inside. All the evil in the world, the blackest kind of sin, Could never hurt you one least bit unless you let it in. rn^ rit on _over the radio or TV, thm you have lost that freedom am you no longer have freedom of we press or radio. I am a reporter and/or commentator. I wear both hats. I try to report newsworthy reports correctly and comment on what I think should be commented on, and I try to do both factually depending on which hat I'm wearing." Those are the words hel spoke, almost verbatim and they do bear thinking about. Your editor and our Publication Committee members all understand that among our approximately 50,000 members, there' are
probably as .tit opinions and. idc • 30 or so lodges th;,. C011tinue to be (lib 'i and discrepancies. Just bui;u ,1:%; one member expresses an does not necessarily me:,.-.c the remainder of t1u 1.9,S to accept it as so, •t d, honest, sincere and cc.o:,t ideas or criticisms a the welfare of any A large manufaci:,f-, : iii, oiant had continuous trouble oelp until the manager decl.,1: put a suggestion box f,ot help to drop suggestions i wto better the conditiJi..:,.. e, operation. One sugsti! received was he thought, foolish it stated: "Once hi a Lake your coat off and cc. ;:le, your office, and la,nt and realize that yoo, another human like the us and only have a diffc..,k W.: 1 1.1 .. We may understand ea little better." He decid, iL and did. He would stop t a moment here and th•.; listen to sanall ag some about himself a-od , ,21ethods and found that condi-M.:kJ:6 ;t.id production immediate. showing improvement, incluf p ik,, idle morale of the help. What really counts the most is what we ar like as a perdon't son. The old saylin; Make the man. Bea.04 . iu 00.1.y skin deep. Education b: • of