The White Falcon - 01.05.1964, Blaðsíða 2

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WHITE l'ALCON
Friday, May 1, 1964
Editorial
What is Freedoms Foundation?
We discussed last week the purposes of Freedoms Fonuda-
tion to reward those who Speak Up For America. This
week we will describe just how the winners are located and
selected.
The functions of Freedoms Foundation are: first, to set
up machinery for the nomination of those individuals or
organization who through any media of communication,
over 39 in all from essays, editorials, public addresses,
sermons, school projects and school systems to TV and
radio programs explain and strengthen the American Sys-
tem ; second; to receive, by Oct. 31 of each year, and organ-
ize material nominated for recognition and evaluation by
an awards jury; third, to assemble annually on the first
Sunday of December, an absolutely independent Distin-
guished Awards Jury, composed of jurists, educators and
heads of national, patriotic and service societies and clubs,
who, without compensation, evaluate all nominated material
and select award winners in each media or category,
fourth, to announce award winners on Washington’s
Birthday; fifth, to provide the awards and arrange their
presentation to winners with due ceremony.
Freedoms Foundation is an organization with the sole
objective of developing an understanding and appreciation
of the American Way of Life by all of our citizens.
Nominations come from any citizen outside the Founda-
tion Staff. All nominated material considered must be re-
lated directly to the objective of patriotic education —
and, it must be current. That is, the material must be
created, originated or released during the current annual
period of Nov. 1 — Oct. 31 — for awards to be announced
the following Feb. 22.
When the Freedoms Foundation receives the nomination,
it is classified as to category and arranged for display to
the Distinguished Awards Jury when it assembles in the
first week of December.
No one on the Staff of Freedoms Foundation has anything
to do with the selection of winners — nor does any nomin-
ator or author of nominated material under consideration.
The designation of award winners is solely the function of
the Distinguished Awards Jury, a seperate, independent
body.
In December 1963, the Awards Jury consisted of 12
justices of supreme courts, 27 college presidents and heads
of national patriotic and service clubs and societies. For
example, the Commander in Chief of Veterans of Foreign
Wars, the National President of the American Legion Auxi-
liary, and the Chief of the President’s Staff of National
Sojourners Inc. The 1964 Jury will be composed of an en-
tirely different group.
Nominations received and considered in all categories
number in the tens of thousands. In the category of Letters
from Personnel in the Armed Forces, presently being ex-
plained over AFRTS radio and TV stations and posted in
detail in the station Library, over 12,000 letters were sub-
mitted in 1962-63 from which 102 cash and medal award
winners had to be selected.
As we indicated last week, every man and woman on the
Naval Station can participate in the Freedoms Foundation
program. For example, on April 10 we printed a Letter
to the Editor, written by A2C James B. Calfee Jr., a local
Air Force man; a few days later one of our local National
Sojourners stopped by to say that he was nominating Cal-
fee’s letter for a Freedoms Foundation Award in the cate-
gory of Letters to the Editor.
We have reason to suppose that calfee’s well written
letter will receive one of the awards that will be made
in this category next Washington’s Birthday.
That is Freedoms Foundation in Brief.
To make the program work, Freedoms Foundation needs
people to speak up for those who speak up for America.
So, why don’t you participate? It is easy and it is fun —
and it will strengthen your country.
To get started, just drop a line to Freedoms Foundation,
Valley Forge, Pa., and ask for a 1964 Nomination Form.
Why not stop by our office and ask to look at our Freedoms
Foundation File?
THE WHITE FALCON
U. S. Naval Station Keflavik
White Falcon’s mission — To in-
form and entertain all hands: to
serve as a positive factor in pro-
moting the efficiency, welfare and
contentment of personnel.
Capt. Stanley E. Ellison
Commanding Officer
Cdr. Robert O. Boe
Executive Officer
Lt. Claire E. Brou
Service Information Officer
Staff
Editor: J.H. Wilson, JOl.
Assoc. Ed.: G.L. Webb, J03.
Photographer: Lew Webb, PH2
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tion to personnel of Naval Station Keflavik
It Is printed commercially by the Isafoldar-
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proprlated funds.
Opinions and statements made In articles
published here are those of the authors and
are not to be construed as official views of
the U.S. Govt., Dept, of Defense or the Navy
Dept.
I tibrarij (Zetiieu?
New books being featured in
Station Library During National
Library Week April 12-18.
The Winds of Revolution,
by Tad Szulg.
A New York Times correspon-
dent writes compellingly of the
present unrest in Latin America.
The historical background; the ef-
fect of exploding population, the
feudal social setup, and one-time
economy on the revolutionary
temper; and the necessity of
strengthening the Alliance for
Progess with a democratic mysti-
que are all dealt with in this
informative work.
A Winter’s Tale,
by Nathaniel Benchley.
Entertaining from first page to
last, a novel starring play director
Dennis Pastor whose first job in-
troduces him to a winterbound
Nantucket and to a group of is-
landers suspicious of community
theater and each other. By the
time You Can’t Take It With You
opens the cast and director have
learned to live with one another’s
foibles, a variety of personal and
theatrical problems have been re-
solved, and Dennis has decided
to become the island’s permanent
director.
The Peregrine Falcon,
by Robert W. Murphy.
A writer who numbers falconry
among his hobbies follows in ima-
gination the life of a peregrine fal-
con from her birth in the Barrens
to the north of Hudson’s Bay,
along the pathway of her first
migratory flight south, through
her brief captivity after being
caught by a kindly and skillful
falconer, to the completion of her
journey on the Florida Keys.
Varda’s Story, narrated with a
sympathetic understanding of fal-
cons and other wildlife, has a
fresh, evocative outdoor quality
that will appeal to readers of such
writers as Rachel Carson and
Sally Garrighar.
Empress Josephine,
by Ernest J. Knapton.
A history professor, threading
through French archives, the cor-
respondence between Napoleon and
his wife, and the memoirs of some
of their contemporaries, has writ-
ten a dandid biography of the
woman who was once empress of
France. The result of this
straightforward scholarship, with
no attempts at psychological ex-
planations for Josephine’s often
inexplicable conduct, is an enjoy-
able excursion into French history.
The Navy Cares For Its Own
by M/Sgt. Donald White
Sixty years of service, to its own people, is the proud
record of the Navy Relief Society.
That record has been made possible by the generous
donations of naval men and women, and civilian friends
of the Navy, during the past 60 years.
Every navy man and marine on this station will be
asked to contribute during this year’s campaign which gets
under way here Monday and ends June 6. The period of
the drive commemorates the great sea and air battles of
World War II in the Pacific where Navy and Marine ser-
vicemen wrote the names of Coral Sea and Midway on the
pages of history.
“What does it do for me?”, is the usual question asked
by the person solicited for a charitable donation. In the
case of this drive its the other way around. It’s what you
can do for the other man’s welfare that should motivate
your giving. Navy Relief should be like insurance. Won-
derful to have but not collected every time a small problem
arises.
You are giving to the Navy’s own organization for the
relief of distress among its own people. Your people.
Let’s look at the record for 1963. More than $3 million
was made available in loans without interest to our ser-
vicemen and women. More than $800,000 was made in out-
right grants. The society paid more than $440,000 to visit-
ing nurses and social workers in assisting service families.
And here is a clincher — more than 5,000 unpaid — re-
peat unpaid — volunteers gave of their time last year in
the program.
The Chaplain A Co-net
By Chaplain W. C. Hitchens; Lt. Cdr., USN
Whose Life Are You Spending?
In C. S. Lewis “The Screwtape Letters,” represented as
messages written by an elderly devil in hell to his junior
on earth, telling him how to trap the souls of the careless
for the lower kingdom, occurs this word: “The sense of
ownership in general is always to be encouraged. The hu-
mans are always putting up claims of ownership which
sound equally funny in heaven and hell. They ill find out
in the end to whom their time, their souls and their bodies
really belong — certainly not to them, whatever happens.”
Whose life am I spending? My own? Did I create it? Did
I buy it? Have I earned the right to spend it as I please?
Soon or late, we must answer these questions.
When the Apostle Paul stood before King Agrippa, there
was no doubt in his own mind as to whose life he was
spending. He was a bond servant of God. Through Him
he was an apostle, as “one under orders!” Paul was glad to
proclaim that it was not his own but God’s life that he was
spending. Whatever he possessed was not in his own name.
He had signed everything over, and his possessions in time
and talents were not for profit but for use.
He had a “story to tell the nations.” And before night
fell on his day of life, he must accomplish something, for
he had a reason for living. He was spending God’s life.
He was doing big business for God. He chafed at delay.
He wanted to be up and away to claim more territory for
his Lord. His heart was restless for he was working under
the urge of a life-changing vision.
Doubtless such language sounded strange to King Ag-
rippa. Eeven Festus said, “Paul, you are mad.” Perhaps
such language is foreign to our own day. But its haunting
power pursues us. We have tried living for ourselves — too
long! Is not this the chief cause of the world’s sickness to-
day? We have been making our decisions apart from God.
We have been treating our lives as if they belonged to us
instead of to God.
Will you who read these lines, recall the picture of the
apostle in chains before the King, crying, “Wherefore O
King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
To this day I have had the help that comes from God.” In
his obedience he was victorious. His victory and joy we too
may share, as we spend our life properly for God.