ARE YOU AFRAID
(con *t)
Lots of fellows get a good education
while in the service and fortify their
study with some real practical experi- |
ence. Others seem to think that anyone i
who shows any initiative in the Navy is I
foolish. But these are skeptics, the j
cynics who never see good in anything or
anyone. Fortunately, their relationship
to the Navy rarely extends beyond a first
enlistment.
Aim your sights high, shoot for the
stars, try to grow and you won’t regret
your Navy time. Some day we’ll have to
account for allotted time.... let’s have
something to show for it. The opportun
ity is your in the Navy.
I director""of “the
NAVY NURSE CORPS
| Captain Ruth A. Houghton, NC, USN,
I has been selected by Secretary of the
| Navy Thomas So Gates, Jr., as the next
| Director of the Navy Nurse Corps. She
i will succeed Captain W. Leona Jackson,
| NC, USN, Who is scheduled to retire on
I April 30, after a four-year term,
:Captain Houghton, now on duty at ,U.S.
i Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Nd,, will take
j over her new duties on May 1. She also
i at that time will become Director,Nurses
jDivision,Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,
"SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS"
Takes Lindy for Hop
Ft. Denning, G. (AFPS) - Charles A.
Lindberg flew to New York from here rec
ently in the "Spirit of St. Louis,"but
he was a passenger, not the pilot,
Lindberg, an Army corporal and no re
lation to the famous pioneer of aviation
was- going home on leave and chanced to
board a Delta Airlines plane named in
honor of the Ryan monoplane that crossed
the. Atlantic in 1927.
The Navy commissioned its first air
craft carrier, the USS Langley in 1922.
WHAT MAKES A MAN A MAN?
What makes a man a man? Instinctiv
ely, all of us have an idea as to what
it takes to be the ideal man, and when
certain qualities are missing in the
people we meet we seem to notice it at
once •
In speaking of these characteristics
which make a man, we should bear in mind
that we are speaking of a ’'person1' and
not just of an individual.
There is a definite difference in the
meaning and use of there two words. The
individual as such is a man considered
as a fragment of society, something cut
off from the rest; but a person is a man
considered in his wholeness,not separat
ed from but actively associated with hu
man society,
A person is a being endowed with body
and soul, and as a person he has respon
sibilities to:
1, God, because man is made by Him,
2, Society, because he is a part of
the group,
3* Himself,because eventually he must
answer for himself to his Creator,
Take whatever definition of a man you
wish; make up your own, but eventually
you will come to the conclusion that man
lives in a world with other men where
he must respect the rights of others in
order to get along, and that he owes to
himself the best this life can give.
Lucian C, Mattiello
Lt, CHC. USN
LANDS on LAND for 1st time in
ANTARCTICA.
Washington (AFPS) - The first solid
ground landing in the histroy of explor
ation on the Antarctic continent has
been made by a Navy Admiral,
The landing was made on a newly re
paired strip of beach at Marble Point,
Antarctica, in the Cape Bernacchi area.
Planes in Antarctica previously have
had to land and take off on skis or use j
the Navy's bay ice runway at McMurdo j
Sound, which is poerational only part of I
the year, j