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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501 VOLUME 65, NUMBER 25 JUNE 22, 1977
rnmi THE EDITOR'S DESK While at the District VI meeting in Mille, May 22, when asked to speak, this writer made statements to the effect that our Vestnik editor's work was a very tiring one in this respect: It is not physically demanding and tiring. One does not jog 2 miles a day, climb telephone poles or put out extra physical effort of any kind, etc., however, it is a very demanding position mentally in deciding the right course to take or the thing to do in many, cases each week and every day, so that a person is more tired at the end of the day than if one had driven a tractor all day. There were very many in the audience who nodded their heads in agreement. A person has to use diplomacy, tact, discretion, fraternal attitude, etc., and still try to do the job in a way responsibly for our MIST Society.
TO ALL WHO WRITE . . . OR EDIT . . . OR PRINT The typographical error is a slippery thing and sly. You can hunt it till you are dizzy, but it somehow will get by. Till the forms are off the presses, it is strange how still it sleeps; It shrinks down in a corner, and it never stirs or peeps, That typographical error, too small for human eye', Till the ink is on the paper, when it grows to mountain size. The boss just stares with horror, then he grabs his hair and groans; The copy reader drops his head upon his hands and moans. The remainder of the issue may be clean as clean can be, But that typographical error is the --Anon. only thing people see.
Our circulation has grown from about 9,000 in 1969 to 14,000 plus to date (in 8 years) and as the circulation grows so does the interest and correspondence, and we are grateful for that because any organization and especially any editor who would not appreciate increased interest and, or circulation/ would be of the wrong attitude, however, the reason these lines are written is the fact We are receiving more and more correspondence from other various organizations of various types: so-
cial, church, political, etc., when they find out that the circulation is so large and read by so many. Wherever and whenever we can, we try to help out, yet we all must realize that the SPJST Vestnik is mainly a paper of fraternal contents for the benefit of our Society. We hope these lines are read with understanding by our readers and taken in the same spirit as they are written. * * We try to answer all correspondence as quickly as time and correct information allow. Sometimes
information our writers ask for has to wait; the weekly deadline for publication of the Vestnik does not wait. We feel that we must he thankful that, for the last eight and one-half years, our Vestnik has been published on time and as scheduled and we have had no equipment breakdown in fb at time to keep us from doing so. Here are two quotes which are rather appropriate: "He who knows others is sma)1„ he who knows himself is enligi , tened." —Lae-Tse. "A man who trims himseli to suit everyone will soon w1,1 ;tic himself away." — Charles Sell ‘',ah.
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Here is an article we thought might interest some of our readers: The Giving-up Point — Some get so much because so many of us are satisfied with so little. There is a person whom we happen to know and who is a vice president of one of our largest American industries. During our childhood days he was regarded as a "stubborn" fellow. This same person's determination to finish what he started caused him to expend tremendous energy for an unimportant reward, but now he is an important man, and he still retains that habit of putting great effort into small accomplishments.