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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501 VOLUME 63, NUMBER 15 APRIL 9, 1975
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK You will notice in the Youth Section in this Issue, the Third Quarterly Report of SYD Sister Dorothy Massey showing the amount of payment to each youth club in our Society that was entitled to such. All. DYCs, YLs, and youth should read it, including parents, just to see how our youth are progressing. Sister Massey calls our attention to the fact that the District YADs are fast approaching and very rightfully so, she cautions all our youth who plan to participate in any category or categories to start on their particular entry, whatever it may be — your YADs will be here before you know it! Look through your "Youth Activity Calendar" for the places, dates, and times. Also youth leaders and assistants, LITs, etc., -gernember the Statewide Youth Leaders' Training Seminar on May 2, 3, and 4, at Camp Val Verde! Let us make our 1975 YADs the best ever and let us ALL be good sports, OK? For those of our readers who are wondering about your editor's hospital confinement and health situation, here are the up-dated results: All tests proved to be good except for the fact that my left leg (victim of poor circulation) will have to be checked by a specialist about the end of April. I came home from the hospital on
SMILE It happens in a flash but the memory if it lasts forever. It cannot be begged, borroWed or stolen, but it is of no eartly good to anyone until it is given away. So if in your hurry you meet
someone who is too weary to smile, leave one of yours, for no one needs a smile quite as much as he who has none to give! It takes only 17 muscles to smile 43 muscles to frown. Try to conserve energy!
Monday, March 31st and have been at the editor's desk since. I enjoyed my hospital stay (13 dayS) and wish to thank all for their thoughts and cards, I did not and still cannot write anything definite, simply because one never knows just how long anything will take. * * While attending high school in Dayton, Liberty County, Texas, during the Great Depression of '29 and the early 30s — and even before that — yours truly had an almost complete file of the column "Will Rogers Says . . ." which were clipped from the Houston Chronicle, to which our father subscribed for many years, on the rural route. Some of the file I saved, some of it our mother pasted in a book which she saved for
me, and regrettably, a large part of it was lost during the five years I spent in the U.S. Army during WW II. Those who remember Will Rogers, his wit, picture shows, and writings, etc., surely must remember him for his great wit, and his ironic humor; his ability to spank and lampoon our presidents, senators, representatives, governor's, and other public figures (even his friends were not exempt from his caustic comments) during one of the most trying periods our nation has ever faced. It was a time when men were struggling for a gleam of hope on the economic horizon. Will's comments provided the humor and hope needed by the masses. Young people of today do not and cannot imagine the conditions as they existed for the poor and underpriviliged working class of people at that time. They cannot conceive of not having an automobile, not having a radio; of hearing via the "grapevine" that President Roosevelt was going to give one of his fireside chats, how the family would walk down the road to the nearest neighbor's home with a radio and there they and many other neighbors would cling to every word spoken. When it was over, maybe someone would predict that just possibly the price of cotton or corn might be up a