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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P. 0. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501 USPS — 658480 VOLUME 66, NUMBER 45 NOVEMBER 8, 1978
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK In these days of Nov. 3rd and 4th, your editor's thoughts go back in time to remember that both of those dates are well remembered by him; they are the birth dates of our father and older brother, respectively, now both deceased. In connection with these reminiscing thoughts is the connection with the phrase: Fraternalism Is a Family Affair, and how fitting this is as far as our family was concerned. Whoever lived through those trying days of the stock market crash in 1929 and the days of the Great Depression, knows very well how much a family grouped together meant to meet the bare necessities of a livelihood and eeking out a living. In those days all our family bought (and could afford to buy) was 50pound sacks of flour, green coffee to be roasted in the oven at home, salt, sugar, etc. Meat, milk, eggs, syrup, honey, vegetables, fruit, cornmeal, etc., were all grown and processed at home. Actually, the farmers were probably a little better off than their counterpart city dweller friends. Our family, as well as other families made it by making "living a family affair!" It is regrettable that our family-type life style has deteriorated so much due to our fast way of living, which is the style and practice at the present time. One shudders to think what would happen if the early 1930s
HEART The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. —Benjamin Franklin When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say: "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away." —A. E. Houseman No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken. —Landor The heart has its reasons which reason does not know. —Pascal were thrust back upon us! Most certainly it would cause havoc. Of course, that's 45 years ago and, in that length of time a person has to expect change. 1978 is also 40 years away from 1938. A period of 40 years has passed — 1938 to 1978 — when Orson Wells put on the radio program, "The Invasion from Mars," on the Mercury Theater of the Air for CBS, which was, of course, only the product of the vivid imagination of Mr. H. G. Wells, and the public was told it was only a fantasy, but it sent thousands upon thousands of people along the Eastern seaboard fleeing for their
lives and leaving their homes. Of course, this was just after the depression and in the uneasy times prior to World War IL * * The Czechs In Texas (641 v Texasu) symposium held at Temple Oct. 27th-29th, was very well attended and, your editor feels that it was very beneficial. It was well organized and all are to be commended for their efforts, especially Dr. Clinton Machann, Dr. Henry D. Pope, Prof. Jim Mendl, Prof. C. S. (Woody) Smith and many others; there is no question that this took a large amount of work beforehand and much coordination. It is certainly hoped and desired that this effort bears fruit in the future. From all appearances, it will and all present seemed to be pleased with the program for the three days, especially Saturday and Sunday. It was very fitting that all present in the main auditorium Saturday afternoon stood in a minute of silence in honor of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence for Czechoslovakia, exactly 60 years ago — Oct. 28th, 1918; Saturday was the 28th of October. While at the symposium we met Mr. Pavel Pechffek of the ICA (International Communications Agency), from the U. S. State Department and taped an interview about the history of Czech publications in the U.S. and Texas for