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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJ'ST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501 VOLUME 61 NO. 50 DECEMBER 12, 1973
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK TAKE NOTICE! Rush! Rush Up! Rush Up, Now!! Your mail is getting here TOO LAVE! NOTICE CORRESPONDENTS! Our mail is already slowing down and becoming irregular and will no doubt get worse as time goes on until after the first of the year Please send your contributions at least two (2) days earlier so that they will reach us in time for publication. Thank you. * * Remember the chartering ee Lodge No. 177, Academy on Sunday, December 16, 1973! See page 7 and Brother Jerry Tomastik's letter in "Letters" section. • * Echoes of the Past! In May, 1963, thls news item came out In the newspapers: New Speed Limit on Texas Super Highways — Governor John Connally has just signed into law a. bill raising the speed limit on some of the better and newer highways of Texas to 'TO miles an hour. The new law raising the speed limit from 60 to 70 m.p.h. will not become effective until 90 days aft er the end of the current legislative session, however. Mven then the new higher speed will apply only on those sections of highway determined to be safe, after a
JUST A LITTLE Give a little, live a little, Try a little mirth; Sing a little, bring a little Happiness to earth; Pray a little, play a little, Be a little glad; Rest a little, jest a little, If the heart is sad; Spend a little,• send a little To another's door; Give a little, live a little Love a little more. study by the Highway Department, and will be clearly marked. Now, ten years later, we will reverse the trend in speed, it seems. • * Benjamin Franklin, with his sagacity and wit, was a man whO thoroughly enjoyed trimming hecklers down to size. During the early days of the American Republic, he spoke many times on that great document, the Constitution of the United States. After one such stirring speech an uncouth fellow' rose and boldly walked a few paces toward the platform. "Aw, them words don't mean, , nothire a-tall!"he shouted at Franklin. "Where's all the happiness you say is guaranteed?" Franklin smiled benevolently at
the questioner, and quickly, blandly, replied, "My friend, the Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself!" "What your ancestors did is not what counts. It's not what they were, but 'what you are.' A snooty old lady onoe asked Will Rogers, who was part Indian, 'Did your parents come over on the Mayflower?' No /Warn', Will replied, 'they met the boat'?' * No portrait of Christopher Columbus is known to have been painted during his lifetime. The only authentic portrait of this pioneer voyager reveals him as a beardless, " elderly, gray-haired man. His hair originally was red, but biographers assert that it turned gray before he was 30. On his initial voyage to the New World, his ships staPPetd at the Canary Islands, where they took aboard some swine, which became the ancestors of pigs in America, as such animals were unknown in the Western Hemisphere before that time. He also Is credited with bringing watermelons, cantaloupes, oranges, and lemons from the Oanary Islands to the newly discovered shores. On his third voyage, he discovered the mouth of the