Věstník (West, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 27, 1979 Page: 1 of 32
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Offlelal Organ Oí The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Oí Texas, Founded 1897
BENEVOLENCE HUMANITY BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPBEME LODGE, SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501
VOLUME 67 NUMBER 26 USPS “ 658480 JUNE 27, 1979
FROM THE EDITOďS DESK
In the last issue we had mentioned
the June lOth trip to the District IV YAD
and wish to statě that it was enjoyable.
Even though these Saturday and
Sunday trips are tiring physically, they
are refreshing mentally and fraternally
because a person’s thoughts are turned
to interests and endeavors of other
fellow members and humans. We háve
waited for District IV DYC Mary
Haisler’s report to publish it and the
YAD pictures at the same time. It was a
well-enjoyed day and a nice group of
members attended. The youth there,
especially, are to be complimented for
their behavior.
* * *
Saturday, June 16th it was off to
District I YAD at Lodge No. 188,
Centerville and were we pleasantly
surprised when we arrived there! The
nicely-paved parking lot was almost
filled with parked cars and the spacious
halí was aiso rather well occupied by the
interested members of District No. I.
The audience was enthusiastic and so
were the youth, DYC Melinda Wilson
and the youth leaders of District I are to
be commended for their sincere
devotion to the duties at hand. Anotber
surprising factor was the amount of
arts, crafts, ctc. displayed by our youth.
Keep it up you young members, you
will never regret it!
We regret District I Director John
Kuběna was not present; he would háve
The Birth of the Pledge of Allegiance
The National School Week Public
School children first recited the pledge
as they saluted the flag during the
national School celebration in 1892.
President Benjamin Harrison at that
time called for patriotic exercises in
schools to mark the 4O0th anniversary of
the discovery of America. Bom in 1855
and died in 1931, Francis Bellamy of
Boston was an associate editor of the
Youth’s Companion who composed the
pledge. It was during the National Flag
Conference of the American Legion who
expanded the originál wording in
1923-24. Then in 1942 Congress made
the pledge a part of its code for the use
of the flag. In 1954 the words “under
God” were added to the pledge.
enjoyed it and Lodge No. 188,
Centerville certainly is something that
Leon County needed (as State
Representative Bro. Dan Kubiak stated
at the dedication of the building!)
* *
The next day Sunday, Junel7th was
a trip to Lodge No. 92, Fort Worth to the
Grand Re-opening of their halí. This
editor remembers the National Halí
from 1948 when he hrst attended a
convention of our SPJST after World
War II and it was held in Ft. Worth. The
improvements, after their Tire, are
commended and the Lodge No. 92 home
is certainly a credit to the memberships’
devotion and desire to keep up the
traditions of their predeeessors. We
stayed much longer than we had
intended to! Why? Because of the good
sincere fcllowship that true fraťernalists
possess! We wish you weit!
* *
NOTICE TO ALL
SPJST SALES REPRESENTATIVES!
This week we receivcd a letter from
SL Vice-President Gebala about the
newly-arrived ratebooks of our SPJST
Society.
We publish partial contents of the
letter following this statement; we háve
left out some of the dates mentioned in
the letter because all of them are, as of
now, in the past.
Brother Gebala requested that we
stress this one point: After July 1, 1979
all of our SPJST sales representatives
are required to use the NEW RATE
BOOK. If you write an application by
the OLD rate book, the application wiíí
be returned to you.
To: ALL SPJST SALES
REPRESENTATIVES IN SPJST
Dear Fellow Workers:
I would like to také this opportunity to
inform you that the new rate book is
ready for distribution.
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Sefcik, R. J. Věstník (West, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 27, 1979, newspaper, June 27, 1979; West, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth626893/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Slovanska Podporujici Jednota Statu Texas.