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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P. 0. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501 USPS — 658480 VOLUME 67, NUMBER 3 JANUARY 17, 1979
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK The new year is made for you — When you hang up your 1979 calendar this month, don't treat it lightly. Spend a moment affirming all the wonderful things the new year has in store for you. "What wonderful things?" you may ask. "My life is full, of problems!' Of course, you have problems — everyone does, at one time or another — but if you regard your problems as a challenge rather than a deterrent, the new year will be terrifically different for you. Here is something to do in 1979. Don't mull over the past. Extract what know-how it may have contained, then forget it. Look ahead, never back. And have a goal, not a fuzzy one, but a sharp, clearly-defined goal. Hold it in the conscious mind until it sinks into the unconscious, and when it gets into the unconscious, you have it, for it has you. Remember, what you think in the year ahead will determine precisely what you are and the kind of world you live in. How you think determines what you become. You can transform yourself and your life by renewing your thoughts. If you are pessimistic about the new year, don't be. Change your thoughts, begin thinking hopefully and look for opportunities in every difficulty instead of difficulty in every opportunity. How you look at a problem makes all the difference. Your editor is reminded of a line
THE DANCE OF THE MONTHS The New Year comes in with shouts and laughter, And see, twelve months are following after! First, January all in white, And February, short and bright: See breezy March go tearing round; But, tearful April makes no sound May brings a pole with flowers crowned, And June strews roses on the ground. A pop! A bang! July comes in: Say August, "What a dreadful dint" September brings her golden sheaves; October weaves her pretty leaves. While pale November waits to see. December brings the Christmas tree. They join their hands to make a ring. And as they dance they merrily sing, "Twelve months we are, you see us here. We make the circle of the year. We sing and dance, and children dear, We wish you all the glad New Year!" from a poem which goes like this: "Two men look out the same window; one sees mud and the other sees stars." It is an interesting phenomenon how two people view the same situation so dif-
feren tly, according to how they think. Many of our readers have, very likely, heard the story of the two men lost in a desert. After quite some time of walking the optomist stated, "I think we can make it; my canteen is still half full of water." The pessimistic fellowtraveler replied, "I don't think I can; my canteen is half empty!" Yes, the same situation viewed from two different aspects. Let's feel that 1979 will not let us down. * * The recent ice storm on New Year's Eve weekend broke many records in the Central Texas area and proved to be the coldest in 30 years in many places. Overall it seems that the northern hemisphere of our planet felt the icy chill everywhere; Moscow, Russia, reported 40 degrees below_zero, the coldest in over a hunderd years when they began keeping records. Our fellow citizens in Montana, Wisconsin, Chicago, etc., certainly have our sympathy, however, they are probably more accustomed to such than we are. Of course, we are known as a "sunbelt" state, yet, two or three weekends at the beginning of year 1979 belied that fact, temporarily, however, those 100 degree days are on the way! One good friend of ours observed, "I can't make up my mind which I dislike the most, the hot days of summer or the cold days of win-