SIPSZ Prraiti Official Organ Of the Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897. HUMANITY
BENEVOLENCE
VOLUME 57 — NO. 49
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE SPJST, POB 100, TEMPLE, TEX 76501
DECEMBER 3, 1969
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK The annual meetings for many lodges are still in the future. Plan now to attend them. It is not only your privilege but, also, your responsibility. Do not stay away and sometime in the coming year 1970 !find things wrong and make unfraternal state ments that the wrong members were elected to be officers if you were not among those present to nominate and votc. Let's all be builders not demolishers or wreckers, even though the latter is much easier. It is also very unfraternal! It will serve every member well to read Bro. Zabcik's and Bro. Urbanovsky's reports on the National Fraternal Congress (NFC) under the heading "From the Supreme Lodge." The fraternals are being subjected to much pressure for taxation and, in fact, some legislation is already in the mill, figuratively speaking. It is not only the TF'C's and your supreme Lodge's duty to do all they can to voice their opposition to this unfair pressure. It is your local lodge's duty, as well as our's, individually. If our Congressmen and Senators, National or State, receive enough letters from enough of us pointing to the amount of fraternal work we do and our Rest 'Homes, do not think for one minute that they will not take immediate notice. They need votes, and, in that way, you are letting them know that
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