The White Falcon - 22.01.1965, Blaðsíða 2

WHITE FALCON
2
Friday, January 22, 1965
EDITORIAL
Holidays Are Over
How Are The Bills
Inevitably, after the holiday many of us fall vic-
tim to a midwinter letdown — a sort of January jaun-
dice of spirit that in most cases isn’t alleviated a bit by
the weather. The funmaking’s over; Santa and his jingle
bells, bringing cards and gifts, have been replaced by the
postman bringing anemic bank statements and bills.
The natural human tendency is to recoil from these-me-
mentos of December’s open-heartedness. Actually there’s no
better time to look our financial condition in the face and,
if it’s ailing, to make sensible plans to get it out of the
red. If we’ve committed ourself to time payments on loans
or installment buying, now is the time to determine to
honor them. For, as a wise man once said, if you want the
time to pass quickly, just give someone your promissory
note for 90 days.
Let’s not gloss over the truth that some people just won’t
admit that when they incur a debt they are involving them-
selves in a contract which includes their promise to pay
within a stipulated time. “Let them chase me to get it.”—
that’s their muddled thinking. And, brother, chased they
are.
True, in this character defect service people are no dif-
ferent from many civilians. But men who wear their
country’s uniform are expected by the services to dis-
charge faithfully the moral obligations and standards it
symbolizes. A man who fails to live up to his contract with
a civilian bank, loan agency or business establishment is
giving the military a black eye. He is inviting disciplinary
action, he has no grounds for camplaint when it is taken.
So this—in the wake of Christmas spendings—is the
ideal time for an inventory of our personal finances. If it
has a sobering effect on our plans for making new commit-
ments in the weeks and months ahead, that’s good. If we
need to retrench, a hard, unsparing look at the amounts of
those bills, the depleted state of that bank balance may
electrify us into getting our feet on the road to solvency.
THE WHITE FALCON
UNITED STATES NAVAL STATION KEFLAVIK
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CAPTAIN ROBERT R. SPARKS, USN
Commanding Officer, Naval Station Keflavik
COMMANDER ROBERT O. BOE, USN
Executive Officer, Naval Station Keflavik
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER ALICE V. BRADFORD, USN
Service Information Officer
STAFF
J.S. Stromberg J03, Editor
T.D Streeter, SN, Reporter
J.P. Schmieg, JOSA, Reporter
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1BOOKS iiil
By Lucia E. Rigsby, Librarian
m review™
THE COMMUNISM OF MAO
TSE-TUNG
By Cohen
This book is an objective, close-
ly documented evaluation of Mao
Tse-Tung’s contribution to Com-
munist thought and practice. It
portrays a new kind of emperor
worship in China, where Mao has
been projected as a “genius-phi-
losopher” on the level of Marx,
Engels, and Lenin.
A LITTLE LEARNING
By Evelyn Waugh
An autobiography which opens
his history of the traditional fam-
ily tree, from which are suspended
the respectively solid lawyers,
clerics and doctors, and incon-
gruously, one itinerant painter.
The book leaves the author starting
up that rocky road to fame, a
road the reader is invited to trav-
el with him in the final two vol-
umes of his three-volume auto-
biography.
A MOTHER’S KISSES
by Friedman
The same man who wrote
“Stern”, was greeted with an ava-
lanche of praise. Friedman is con-
sidered in the front rank of con-
temporary writers. “A Mother’s
Kisses” is a roaring comedy with
a strongly emotional and physical
sense of life. The mother is a type
of Wife of Bath, Medea, Fanny
Brice, Little Lord Fauntleroy’s
Dearest, A1 Jolson’s Mammy and
Hamlet’s Ditto.
THE HORSE KNOWS THE WAY
By John O’Hara
A new collection of 28 short
stories, this volume extends the
pattern established by its prede-
cessors : the critical acclaim and
reader acceptance were greater
for the second than for the first
and were even greater for this
new volume.
THE LORD JESUS
By Robert Payne
A novel in which the author
describes the life of Jesus from
the time of the calling of His
first disciples to the reunion and
final parting from them after
His crucifixion. In the beautiful
prose of which Payne’s a master,
he re-enacts the events of Jesus’s
life with a wealth of convincing
detail.
Chaplain J
Corner
THE WISE MEN
by Lt. T. F. Lehr, USNR
We are all familiar with the Gospel story of the visit
of the Wise men to the birthplace of the Christ Child. They
came from a far off land to see the newborn Child an-
nounced to them by the angels. With them they brought
gifts to lay at his feet.
Let us compare their wisdom with the wisdom of the
world. We have heard of many men considered to be wise
men. Their wisdom is attributed to their keen business
sense, their knowledge of the stock market, their intelli-
gence in dealing with their fellow men. But as in the day
of the Christ Child true wisdom finds its origin with God.
The Creator in all His Divine Wisdom fashioned the earth
and all its wonders. He then created the creatures that
were to roam the earth and made man the nobles of them all.
To man God granted many gifts and talents and en-
trusted to him the care of his eternal soul. The true wis-
dom of man will be manifested in the use and productivity
of the gifts and talents entrusted to his care by his Creator.
To be considered truly wise, man must always have be-
fore his eyes the will of his God without whom nothing
can be accomplished. To be truly wise necessarily means
Godliness in thought word and action.
The best way to be ever vigilant in our quest for salva-
tion is to keep before our eyes these words of Scripture.
“What profiteth a man to gain the whole world if he suffer
the loss of his soul.”
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Protestant
SUNDAY: Morning Worship Service.....................
Adult Bible Class.............................
Evening Vesper Service........................
Fellowship Hour...............................
Sunday School.................................
Episcopal Lay Service.........................
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Christian Science Lay Service ................
Church of Christ Lay Service..................«
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MONDAY: Adult Bible Study Group.....................
WEDNESDAY: Chapel Choir Rehearsal...................
THURSDAY: Baptist Lay Service.......................
FRIDAY: Cherub Choir..................................
Youth Choir...................................
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Protestcmt Chaplains
. .. Main Chapel 11:00
. .. High School 9:30
. .. Main Chapel 7:00 p.m.
.. Chapel Annex 8:00 p.m.
. .. High School 9:30
. .. Main Chapel 9:00
. .. Main Chapel 9:30
.. Chapel Annex 10:30
.. Chapel Annex 12:00
. .. Chapel Annex 3:00 p.m.
.. Main Chapel 11:00
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. .. Main Chapel 7:00 p.m.
.. Chapel Annex 7:00 p.m.
.. Main Chapel 3:15 p.m.
, .. Main Chapel 4:15 p.m.
. .. Main Chapel 7:30 p.m.
Chaplain A. R. Saeger, Jr., Cdr, USN
Chaplain R. E. Blade, Lt Cdr. USN
Chaplain R. G. Brown, Lt, USN
Catholic
SUNDAY:
SUNDAY MASSES: Main Chapel 8:00
Main Chapel 11:15
Religious Education for Children....................High School 11:00
Ladies Sodality Communion (1st Sundays).............Main Chapel 8:00
Holy Name Society Communion (2nd Sundays)...........Main Chapel 12:15
DAILY MASSES
Monday through Friday....................Blessed Sacrament Chapel 5:10
Saturday.................................Blessed Sacrament Chapel 11:45
First Friday of the Month........Blessed Sacrament Chapel 11:45 and 5:10
CONFESSIONS:
Saturday.............................Blessed Sacrament Chapel 4:00—6:00 p.m.
CHOIR REHEARSAL
Tuesday...................................................Main Chapel 7:00
Saturday..................................................Main Chapel 1:00
Catholic Chaplains .
Chaplain T. F. Lehr, Lt, USNR
Chaplain N. A. Rlcard, Lt Cdr, USN
Appointments can be made for Baptisms, Weddings by calling the chaplain’s office at 4111.
Jewish
FRIDAY: Sabbath Eve Lay Service.........................Chapel Annex 7:30 p.m.
Hid “To @etnefttber
“We don’t have much to give you, Son"
They said at the train that day.
(A piece of money, a watch, a bag
and the clothes he would wear away)
Then the whistle blew and the tear-drops grew,
But he smiled, this gallant lad:
As he bent for a goodbye kiss from his Mom.
Now the money is spent, and the watch was lost,
and the bag is as worn as can be,
And the clothes, he exchanged for the Navy’s blue
for he sails with her ships at sea.
But still there’s a glow-like a candle at dusk
In the heart of the Sailor Lad
For he dreams of the goodby kiss from his Mom,
and the handclasp from his dad.
H. Covington, RM1