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FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK In this issue we are printing the program for the XXIII . SPJST Convention to be held in June of this year; the English version was sent in by Brother Dominic Netek and the Czech version sent in by Brother Jaroslav Kleprlik, both very loyal workers in Lodge No. 133, San Antonio, Texas. We should say that we hope to have enough room for both, because we would like to have them both in the same issue. We hope that our readers understand what we are faced with each week - it is this: we start putting the Vestnik together with page one and continue through to page 29 and, therefore, we have no idea what we can and cannot get into that issue; we try to get all that we can of what is Important in the issue we are working on. At certain times there are some items that have to be delayed and we ask your understanding and indulgence.
*** We have been asked to publish a list of the Polka and Waltz Radio programs and we have just received a list compiled by Brother Frank and Sister Pat Parma of Rosenberg and we will publish it as space permits.
*** In everyday living while traveling down the life's pathway toward the land of tomorrow, future income becomes of supreme importance. For many, the road is paved with misgivings and anxiety for they find that the completion of any plan for their future depends upon certainty
A SALUTETO ALLTHE SECRETARIES (Secretary Week-April 21-25) ··of fncome. ·Only through a well-planned savings program starteď early in life can there be assurance of adequate certainty of income in the SJJring years of life. While it is true that the majority of people now come under Social Security, it must be borne in mind, that this program was never designed to provide more than a minimum income to meet the necessities of life. It, alone, cannot take care of one's retirement needs, or of the family's needs in case of the breadwinner's premature death. To think so is just wishful thinking. These benefits simply provide the foundation upon which men and women can build a financial program for themselves and their loved ones to make their.future reasonably secure. Adequate iridepen dence can be accomplished only by
supplementing the Social Security benefits with other savings. In this day and age with prices soaring to all-time highs and nothing in the immediate future to change the course of this upward climb, life insurance is playing a major role in supplementing government . benefits. No man wishes to leave his family's fate to uncertain future conditions. He needs some investment which will provide his loved ones with maximum independence in the event of his death, or certainty of income if he lives. Today, he can achieve this goal through his own earning power for a life insurance policy is the key to greater security. The moderate sum paid each year in premiums constitutes a sure method of saving for his future needs. Life insurance is an investment that will pay his family many times more than he has invested in the program, if he dies prematurely. Few savings programs do this. Just the amount he had saved, plus interest, would be paid by most of them ... not the amount he planned to save. Life insurance will pay the face of the policy regardless of when death occurs. Every intelligent man, who is insurable, buys life insurance for it can be tailor-made to meet his particular need and assure him independence. Life insurance performs a two-fold function. If the policyholder lives, it will help to make the sunset years of his life happier for it will provide certainty of income, which is so important to independence. If he· doesn't Iíve, his family will have an income from his life insurance program at the most crucial time in their lives.