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Show Tare BILL TOr TIMES 4 -- HILL TOP TIMES Conserving Communications I tie-lin- es CHAPLAIN'S CORNER By Chaplafn Joseph P. DeManinia ' Ferdinand Delacroix was a famous French an unusual knack of discovering the very best m(,J' , ss comments. Stick to business. Even though we do have several leased Wide Area Telethey cannot accommodate phone lines (WATS) and all the present demands. As a result, many calls never do get placed during a given day and too many priority calls have to go via commercial long distance lines, and this runs up our costs. If we reduce the length of the average long distance call from 7 minutes to 5 or 4 minutes our leased lines should be able to handle the traffic. Once again the Ogden team is challenged. Let's all work together to solve this relatively easy problem! ! Charity Pays Off Funds Ogden AMA is faced with a shortage in communications funds to cover this fiscal year's operations. While the shortage is serious it is still early enough in the new year to take steps to reduce costs without degrading the mission. If everyone will cooperate in reducing telephone and teletype costs we can get over the hump. Teamwork, which has always been Ogden's middle name, can do the trick. formula before making a longHere's a distance call, decide whether you can solve the problem by a letter or a TWX. Next, think over exactly what you intend to say before placing the call. Don't be impatient take your express your place in line. Speak clearly and rapidly avoid and as lengthy irrelevant possible thoughts as simply semi-painle- August lj( qpt&e tigs in WKr - . . SENSE OF DUTY General's Words: 'Duty, Honor, And Country' afternoon On a In early May, 1962, the Old Gen eral came back to his Alma Mater. Graduated 59 years besun-drench- ed fore and commissioned then as a second lieutenant, he had come back, clothed with years and Americans Awake, Stay glory, to take his last roll call. He had a message for 2,200 There is an old saying, "To be awake is to be alive." cadets in ranks before drawn Today hi the United States the tired, sleepy citizen takes his platform, aupmessage that was a big risk. The world in which we live is moving. Its citizens capsuled in three words: Duty, are moving too. Honor, Country- The man or woman who looks back may risk the fate of As General Douglas McArthur "Lot's wife" the danger of being frozen or locked in place. spoke, his voice strong and If you're not alert the world will pass you by. vibrant in spite of his advancing So, it behooves us to battle any form of stagnation. The years, his words poured out over man who carefully plans and picks his path and follows the the plains to be heard by the men before him. by vet road toward a definite goal, no matter how it winds or turns, young erans of numberless campaigns, is awake. And once awake he is better able to cope with life by lawmakers in the seats of and its complexities. and government, by the rank and "Wake up, America," is a common plea from the political file of American citizens across rostrum of all parties. It is the call of the church and the the nation. They heard and read the message of the Old General appeal of the educator. Duty, Honor, Country. Nowhere is the need for alertness more pronounced than The United States Senate in orbital-tourblast-ofs of our astroand in the preparation, f a resolution stated: nauts. Here attention at all times to the most minute details "Whereas General of the Armv insures success in a mission that may ultimately result in in MacArthur Douglas man's victory over space. the most distinguished graduates In the military, awareness of being and constant alert- of the United States Military ness, is a means of insuring rewarding individual and group Academy and one of the most life. For the sentry, the navigator or the IBM operator who honored and revered military misses the message from lack of awakeness, may deliver his leaders in our nation's history; and country, our country, into the hands of the enemy. Our slogan should be not only "Wake up, America," but Delivered Address Americans." a -- i "Stay Awake, "Whereas HpupmI QUESTIONS YOU MAY BE ASKED ! When You're Overseas" (Reprinted with permission from Americans Abroad, copby American Council for Nationalities Service.) QUESTION Doesn't U.S. economic aid benefit principally the rich people in countries you are helping, and make then richer? . Our aim is to narrow the gap between rich and poor, not to make the rich richer. While our Government has no intention of ty to help those countries in the attaching political strings to its developing regions of the world aid, it is asking some of the with which we reach an agrecountries receiving it to under take necessary economic and so ement on the number andbetypes uscial reforms, so that the help we of Americans who wouldthe U.S. by eful. It is supported give is effective, and meaning and many private Government to alike. rich ful and poor If these reforms are carried organizations. Americans who wish to serve out, the increasing wealth genare erated by our aid programs will live as the people they would benefit all the people of helping do and under conditions of rigid discipline. They the countries assisted. Question What is the pur- work as teachers, technicians, mechanics, and in other assip pose of the Peace Corps? The Peace Corps is the name ments. Such groups will serye used to describe a movement to at no cost to the country on May 12-- 1962. drfi VPuvnituui! a Viio- - offer our citizens an opportuni rod which they work. . Ji tunc- aaaress before the cadets of the United States Military Quotes of Note Acauemy at west Foint, upon his acceptance of the Sylvanus Thayespecw "Space technology is new and its implications, ores er Award ; and for the military mission, cannot be fully known or "Whereas thi JO Mi is these very uncertainties about the cnara this time. ..lvll, It eloquent expression of the concept of "duty, honor, and coun- - and importance of space undertakings for military PJj wn.cn motivates American that have led us to give such emphasis to space in the servicemen everywhere; Now, program." Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara for the mereiore, De It mony before Congress on military needs "RESOLVED, that it is the years, 1964-6sense of the Senate that the e t Secretary of Defense should "The best military course we can follow is oiv ' I cause this speech to be ctjng reprinted us of military superiority. By this w in an appropriate format and being meaningful aD. at all times that are so obviously capablere mat it should be distributed to unacceptable toll on any enemy that he must oUf units of the Armed Forces of risk major aggression. Under all circumstance s, con must united States throughout enemy must believe, and his intelligence detew pot capabilities in being, both offensive andca paWi l jft tivC. In a day when cynics superior. This task is within our cry out pletely e8Jtr -satisfactory see I us break and jio financially k".oi, me wnoie concept of duty -will ...vi u oungation of men. If we have this ultimate military bJ "oriv our ine message of General McAr- - things are possible. If we have clear of tpe thur could not have been better the capability to control any situation and to e at timed. overll Without this strategic superiority, we are ne and deterred, force v superior enemy power we are a NEXT WEEK: General McKee, William F. trol of the situation."-G- n. Arthur on Duty. Chief of Staf f. yright 1961 - Save Sick Leave for Emergencies The Civil Service Commission has this advice for Government employees on the use of sick leave: "The average Federal employee could not afford to sickness and accident insurance that would pay his full buy at age 50, for a year and a half, regardless of salary, say, sickness and disability. "But that is what your sick leave can offer, if you conserve it for use in a real emergency. The legitimate use of sick leave earned at the rate of 13 days a year is wise and is encouraged. If you are fortunate, however, and can save sick leave and permit it to accumulate, your benefits mount as follows: "Thirteen days sick leave accumulated for 10 years equal 130 days; for 15 years, days; for 20 years, 260 days; 25 years, 325 days; and 30 years, 390 days." The Commission added: "As you get older, extended sickness is more likely to strike. Used conservatively, your sick leave 'insurance' will give you benefits you otherwise would not have. "We are not all blessed with good health. But those of us who are should remember sickness often strikes suddenly and without warning. Recovery from lengthy illness is difficult enough having the additional worry of providing for your own expenses, or if married for those of your family. Your sick leave 'insurance will soften the financial blow and relieve you of worry that might otherwise feapede your recovery." 1 ?e characters he wished to represent. On one occasion how the searched in vain for someone to pose as a Roman beegflJVer' he While entertaining the great international Kai ... , Rothschild one evening, an idea suddenly entered hi Rothschild, ne saia nan in jest, i ieel as an excellent model for my Roman beggar." Not the least offended, the banker replied ' "Whv u M'1d be an honor, sir. When do I sit?" At nine the next morning Mr. Rothschild was at the painters' studio. Witn a stan m nis nana and a ragged tumV aL... his . Vimilripra he sat on th stens of a tpmnlo ti.i, K,ouna lor the at. was wm-ii As the earnest.lv artist olrofpli. uiic ui mo .,, entered. After a quick but observant glance at the model ti student remarked to Delacroix, "So you have at last found model for your beggar. I congratulate you, sir, he is Derfwt ' ' every respect." Delacroix worked on, too busy to explain who really was. As the pupil watched his heart went out in nta me pour uiuuw. t mic wc oiuai milieu away ior some materials, the student slipped a coin into the hands of the amazed and amused banker. Rothschild accepted the money with a glance of gratitude and dropped it into his pocket. After the young man left, Rothschild said to Delacroix, Tell me, who was the young fellow?" "He's nothing but a nJ student," replied Delacroix. "He's a fine young man, with great talent, too, but I fear his poverty will compel him to em im his art." The banker smiled. A few days later the student received t note: "Charity, my dear young man, bears interest. You cavei coin to a beggar, and now he repays you with interest. The sum of 10,000 francs has been placed at your disposal at the Rothschild offices, and Delacroix's beggar hopes that you become as great as you are good." We moderns are cynical about charity "paying off". But none other than Christ Himself once said that a glass of water offered in His name. would merit an eternity of interest ' 8. Pe"'e |