CAPT. WALTER F. HENRY
Commanding Officer
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CDR. CHARLES V. AUGUSTUS
Executive Officer
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FRED J. EGGLESTON CHARLES NICKS
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EDITORIAL
Exactly a cehtury ago Americans elec
ted a President W(h6s£ career was checks
ered with tragedy and failures. Looking
over his . record^, you * ’wonder 1 what the
‘ voters ever ^awl ^n^hiri^ .V ^::,; ^.' > * *
, ‘' Everything- in' hi-s tllfe seemed td have
gone badly. He’d failed in.,.,business'as
early as 1831. That-same year Jje tf&n for -
the Illinois legislature. He. lost.- ’ ;'#*
•' Two years later* •failed .in business
again.,The\hext ypa?‘ his sWeetheart^died
" 'and' h^iad a•'nervous bl^eakdown^
■ fou’d',-think, *d hav^r*1 had enough v of,
«public life. But. in 184© fie-was a cAndi-.
v- date for .PreSicbptial. elactcfr* He was de
feated..^ Three years lab$r■ Hje* s ought ’'pi?,
party*s npimratibn for Oofigtess• He lost.
He finally wasA elected'to, Congress in
',11846. B.ut» ttfo yea?s, later- he lost out oh
anotbefta^i-1^1855 he sought a seat in
the Senate.* He didi’t get it^^L yQar lathi
he aimed, at thej^iee ^^si^icyi He did-’
n’t get■ th'aC.eith^:^-Tw'6'years later bp
was again-^efet»ted,for^ tbd^enate.
You ^^dyytliis * record ', of political;
s etbackhjand ' yorrask yourself: Why is the
world didn’t Lincroln stop ~ t;cying? What
made Abraham run? Most , . m$n would have
wearied after so,manyvrepudiations and
faded into obscurity. ,/y-T
But of course, the man wh^/was born
- ii . "S' W’-rry, 1
151 years ago was hot most men, al
though he understood his fellow men
better than most. Politics gave pur
pose and meaning to his life. He
persevered until the people gave him
the Presidency., Threat- is history.
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A HOUSE OR A HOME? ‘
"Which house do you live in?n a
mailman once aaid to a young lad.
"Donft live in a house,” the lad
quickly repl4j^i^gb toe in a home.”
The mailman looked surprised# "Whatte
the difference?”
The youngster lobked out and pointed
to the sun# ”1 reckon- that there sun
will shine ON a house, but it shines
IN a home..” v 4 ^ ,fi
, Four walls and a roof do not.make
a happy home. It is by far the spirit
inside isfhich makes the difference be
tween a home and a house# A house is
v something material; a home is some
thing spiritual# * A house'is storte, >
. brick,’ mprtar, shingles; a home is a
family wnore love,1 obedience^ and re
aspect pbrvade;'*'
•What has.happened to the- American
,home and famfly? According- ^statis
ticians and soCidl wofrkei*s, present
day juvenile crimes in quality and
quantity have exceeded anything this
country has seen thus .far# The situ
ation hasvbecome ajarmingda'nd' recog
nized as such from all quarters# *
* v Vandalism is rampany; .pornpgraphers
are* 'reporting a' thriving ‘.business;
’sex :has ’become! the -Twentieth ‘Century
false^god; 'today authority is an old
, fashiohed 'word;: only "squares.” obey
‘ and reSpect laf %and b^d&ir . God
forbid ** that someone b.a. thought ia
"square.” because the "square” is ,.
^ust, not' thep.*»V.
,**' Perhaps’, what, we - need desperately
in these ohr times are ..a few- more
squares" to make up the famUy "cir
cles," the type which made our coun
try strong and. indomitable,, >■*' %
It is an established fact that every
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