CAPT. WALTER F. HENRY
Commanding Officer
CDR. WESLEY E. SKILL
Executive Officer
A DAK
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CHAPLAINS CCPNER
"Back in *48 I ... "I see,
well, in '44 I . . . "That's not
bad, but just last year ..." These
are what the Saturday Evening Post
might call "the significant line pro
ceeding the big boast."
It's the "I'm a little better than
you are" idea left over from the child
hood, "My daddy can lick your daddy."
Almost nobody has the spirit to ask,
"But what are you doing now?"
IL 5~ ;opular to brag about what I
was—be it high school, college, aca
demy, or Navy.
It is popular like saying "I shook
the hand that shook the hand that shook
the hand." So what If I ! ad shaken
the hand of the President, or Willie
Mays, or John Philip Sousa, or even
had known them.
- Does this make me a politician or
ath’^.p r,> band leader?
So whr.c if I had once bowled a 300
game, run the 100 yard dash in 10 sec
onds, or scored a winning touchdown?
Does that make me today's hero?
What are you doing now for your fam
5ly5 your church, your Navy, your cou
nca/y Is it worth talking about?—The
dajly grind that adds up to no glamor,
just hone t effort. Or, is it import
ant enough for you to hold your head
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high and say, "This is my best now?"
"It is important to my home, my
church, my country."
What becomes of the great event,
the big show? They are newsworthy and
at the time they made good head lines.
They add spice to life. Talk about
them, sure, unless they are used to
radicule the less accomplished. Recog
nize that they live in the past. They
are good ego builders.
They are also an opiate preventing
seeing the mistakes of the present,
seeing the job now to be done. The
good job in the past required hard
work. So does present work where there
are no fans in the stands applauding
the effort.
"When I was a child, I spoke as a
child," St. Paul said. "Now I have
put off childish things."
"Lord teach me to number my days-,"
the Psalmist prayed, "That 1 may get
me a heart of wisdom."
Chaplain V. Stenberg
WASHINGTON — (NAVNEWS) — Prompt
ness still rates as the number one
factor in the treatment of the esti
mated 2000 to 3000 snake bites that
occur yearly in the U.S., according to
the July 22 issue of the Medical News
Letter. Of these, about 10 to 20
deaths result.
Experiments conducted on dogs indi
cate that, contrary to popular opinion^
incision of the bite followed by
suction leaves much to be desired. In
fact, it w=>s proven an animal' that if
serum could be obtained within four
hours, the incision and suction method
proved of no value. At best it results
in scars and there is always the poss
ibility of infection if performed by
inexperienced personnel, according te
the News Letter.
The best defense is to not be bit
ten by a snake. Che preventive accord
ing to authorities is to wear heavy
boots and to watch where one walks or
places his hands. Above all, get
medical attention as s< a as possible.
Altho we don’t have to worry about
snake bites on Adak this information
is nice to know in case you get duty
where there are a lot of snakes, -usn