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OPERATIO 1{ G(|U ]ITD(|W]Ifor

Gharacter and Gitizenship

AuthorChaplain (Lt Col) Vernon F. Kullowatz, USAFEditorsChaplain (LtCol) GeorgeM. Hickey, USAFChaplain (Lt Col) Victor H. Schroeder, USAFLayout and DesignJames O. Johnson

First Edition,1962Second Edition, 1966

Published byNational Headquarters, Civil Air Patrol

Ellington Air Force Base, Texas

This document was prepared for limited publication by the United StatesAir Force for its auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol. It may not be reproduced inwhole or in part without permission from Headquarters, Civil Air Patrol-USAF, Ellington Air Force Base, Texas.

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ForewordThu ext is the result of an effort to bring into focus some of thoset*t ingedients of character and personality which are essential to*6: citizenship. A close study of the iives of those generatyrlrns,edged as representing the best among us will reveal thefcscae of at least these characteristics.

[rr lire in the midst of times which are most unforgiving of mediocrityml imbalance. Mankind has probably faced no pr"ulou, period in*f

: many depend upon thi able citizenship of ihe indiviiuar. our

mrid becomes smaller with each new day. It becomes increasinglydih;nlt for any local event to pass unnoticed or unfelt by ttre many.tfrdr is at once a wonderful and a sobering fact-wonderful in thatryq*r accomplished can well have its poritiu" effect upon all and$hrrin-s because one's mistakes in judgment and consequent actions:rrmn aLrc bring to bear such universal adverse results.

mi***r'ie we in the military establishment feel this awesome responsibilityi;eenl1', we are proud to associate ourserves with the presentation ofmin a rcxt. we are convinced that the individual must become a wholem'm' unless he possesses the essential ingredients of sacred honord integrity, emerging from a solid base of personal morality, noil"ncf,rnt of technical knowledge and excellen"" *ill provide us with therrilrL**n{ of national long-term survival.

h u for this reason that one will find the Air Force Academy cadetuJhering so unswervingly to his cadet Honol esds-..we will not lie,creat- steal, nor tolerate among us those who do.,' The cadet handbookmritled

..NTRAILS, especially prefared for the incoming iourth-;l'*isman, strikes the anvil of this ideai with sledgehammer foice, fromts possible angles. It summarizes the value of the Honor code bvc" jng:

-The narion which they have pledged themselves to defend may some-:41 call for the greatest of sacrifices; only the recognition uy o"ai"ut"a

men of the paramount value of ideals will guarantee such sellless readi-ness. Honor is one of those ideals. And it is in the development of thehabit of honor now that the cadets are being prepared to take theirplaces in the ranks of watchful men who have always been ready at theircountry's call-and ever shall be."

In further support of our firm reliance upon the highest ideals of ournation and our deep sense of personal responsibility to uphold thoseprinciples with honor, we proudly pledge ourselves to uphold what hascome to be known as The U. S. Fighting Man's Code. Two particularlyapropos Articles, I and VI, of the Code read as follows:

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard mycountry and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in theirdefense

"I will never forget that I am an American fighting man, responsiblefor rny actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my countryfree. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America."These specifically emphasize that which is most illustrative of the centraltheme of this text-personal dedication to the development and pres-ervation of our highest and most worthy national ideals.

These two brief illustrations, then, will perhaps suffice to indicate whythe United States Air Force can so wholeheartedly associate itself withthis treatment-it embodies the basic principles for which we stand andfor the protection of which we would gladly give our lives.

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AcknowledgmentsF*t" appreciation is hereby expressed for the assistance given totlr prolrt by Chaplain (Major) Franklin Gosser of the ermy Ctrap-lei's Board, Ft. Meade, Maryland. certain sections of this text werercrially benefitted by the use of Board materials.

Additionally, we thank the united States Air Force Academy for thee of some of its materials in the area of good manners and becorum.

spece will not permit naming the many members of the Headquarters,c,nl Air Patrol-USAF staff who have assisted in the preparation of" treatment. Outstanding among those are Mr. Charies W. Webb,Dr. Mattison L. Story, and Mrs. Betty Corbran of the AerospaceEducation section.

@iration and technical guidance have been freely given by numerousctrylains of civil Air patrol. Notable among ttri.. ur" chaplainsI-* o'connell and Albert plotkin of the cAp National chaplainOrnmittee.

special acknowledgment is also made to the following publishers, aswll as the individuals referenced in the text, for ttreir t

Good Will Publishers, Inc., Gastonia, N. C., publishers of flope ol theNation4ur American Heritage by Nelson B. Keyes and EdwardF. Gallager (1952).

Harper & Brothers, New York 16, N. Y., publishers of The Book olUnusual Quotations by Rudolf Flesch, editor (1957).

The Heritage Foundation, Inc., Chicago 45, Ill., publishers of. TheKe!,to Peace by Clarence Manion (1951).

J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia 5, Pa., publishers of The NewEsquire Etiquette by the editors of Esquire I|{agazne (1959).

National Education Association, Washington 6, D. C., publishers ofMoral and Spiritual Values in tlc Public Sctr@ls, 1951, by theEducational Policies Commission (1951).

National Republic Publishing Cr.,Inc., Washington 4, D. C., publishersof. National Republic, XLII, containing quotation by Dwight D. Eisen-hower. Permission for use extended in memory of the former editorand publisher of National Republic maginine; namely, \Malter S.Steele, who passed away quite suddenly on March 2,1960.

Random House, Inc., New York 22, N. Y., publishers of Space Hand-book: Astronautics and lts Applications by Robert W. Buchheim( 19s9).

D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Princeton, N. J., publishers of VanNostrand's Dictionary ol Guided Missiles and Space Flight by Gray-son Merrill, editor (1959) and How to Get Leadership and Influenceby R. W. Wetherill ( 1949).

TABTE OF C(II{TEI{TSI rnooucTrol{2 mmPAcE GRoul{D EQUTpMET{T-

0.rr \arionai Conceptslnsritutions Supporting National Concepts

The Home and the FamilyThe School .The Church and Synagogue . .. .Other Social Institutions

PNIMRY STAGE PROPUI.SIOI{Tbirst for Knowledge and Accomplishment ..Development of Vision-Total Awareness .. . . . .Formulation of Goals With a System of ValuesInit iat iveSense of Duty . . . . . . . . . . . .

STCOI{DARY STAGE PROPUTSI(IilPerseveranceCourageDependabil ityOptimistic EnthusiasmCharitySincerity

IIIE GUIDAI{CE SYSTEMPrudence or Common Sense . . . . . . . . . . .\ loderation or Balanced Living . .Recognition of AuthorityHonesty and Personal Integri tySense of Justice ,Convict ion and Devotion to Principle

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GLOSSARYAppendix-The NoseYour Appearance . . . . . . .Your Conversation ....Your CorrespondenceSpecial Subjects ... ....

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r1{TRoDUCTt0l{We experience an involuntary catch inour breath as the voice we hear call insover the launch complexx public addresisystem says, "Attention all personnel!Attention all personnel!" The momentwe have been waiting and preparingfor is here! "All personnel report toduty stirt ions immediately. Countdowncheckout procedures wil l begin in tenminutes," the voice continues. We hurryto our appointed positions and wait,tensely expectant. For the space vehicleon the launch pad, the countdown periodwhich wi l l conlmence in momenis wi l lbe among the most crit ical phases ofits l i fe. This is the final period of check_out before the order can be given tolaunch. As each countdown sequence isbrought into being and its functionfound to be proper, another green lightwil l appear on the master control panelunti l they are all "in the green.,' Then,and only then, wil l the order ..Launch!"be given, and the space vehicle wil l beon its way. The actual blastoff is spec_tacular, and each phase of the eventunlfl ight path wil l also be most importantto the achievement of the orbital missionwe seek, but here, on the countdownprocedure, wi l l depend much thatfollows.TWords pr inted in boldface type are l is ted

in Glossarv.

The "glamour" surrounding the actual flight into space tends to drawone's attention from the awesome importance of the preparatory stagesleading to that event. No space flight can ever hope to succeed unlessthe necessary prior planning, engineering, and equipping procedureshave taken place. Then comes the final countdown to checkout ourbird so as to give the greatest possible assurance of a successful launchinto an effective orbit.

This manual, then, will have as its purpose that of providing you futureleaders what is earnestly hoped will be a helpful personal countdownprocedure with which to checkout your whole inner makeup. This isvital so that in the very near future you will be ready when the world'schallenges demand that the vehicle of your character and personalitybe launched to perform your mission in life.

In order to be able to enter into an intelligent and effectual checkoutof any space vehicle system, one must be aware of its several majorsubsystems. In what might be termed a typical space system, there wouldprobably be found at least four subsystems. These would consist of:

(1) aerospace ground equipment (hereafter referred to as AGE),(2) propulsion,(3) guidance, and(4) the payload-nose cone combination.

The AGE would include all items of ground equipment necessary tolaunch the vehicle. The propulsion subsystem would include thoseelements of the craft which are of primary concern in giving the thrustnecessary to lift it off the launch pad and continue it to the missionobjective. The guidance system would constitute the mechanism neces-sary to control its flight in such manner as to keep it on course. And themanned vehicle, with which we are primarily concerned in this study,would incorporate in its payload the passengers and their personalequipment necessary for the successful accomplishment of the mission,all housed in an efficiently designed, protective nose cone.

In carrying out this comparison, then, between our lives and a mannedspace system, we will consider those basic elements of the home andfamily, the school, the church and synagogue, and other social institu-

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rons: our constitutional rights and responsibilities in regard to life,tr-.tf . and the pursuit of happiness; and the undergiriing of oursp'iritual heritage as the AGE which each of us must nuue ai'a use inL\rder to begin our life's flight of service.

For our purposes we shall break down the propulsion subsystern intoI$'o stages:

( I ) the primary propulsion stage and(2) secondary stage propulsion.The former will consist of those elements of our character which mustbe present in order to give us the primary drives in life to reach ourgoal. The latter will constitute those secondary forces in our lives*'hich will sustain us in our journey through life. These forces we may.-haracterize, therefore, as those which give thrust to the vehicre ofour life.

In the next analogous phase of our treatment, we will deal with thosequalities which will take the forces of thrust we have just mentionedand bring them under usefur control so that the tremendous specificimpulse generated will be used at all times to push us in the directionof our objective.

{iOur final countdown checkout involves the manned capsule or payload,housed in the nose cone. Here is contained that for which everythingelse in the entire system was devised. The bestAGE, propulsion, andguidance systems in the world are of little value without a completepayload, ready to perform the central requirements of the mission.Taking one of our Strategic Air Command's intercontinental ballisticmissiles as an example, what folly it would be to spend the millions ofdollars and thousands of man-hours required to put that missile on itsstand, ready to defend our nation against armed aggression, if, when thetime comes to use it, the thermonuclear warhead, which is to be itspayload, is incapable of performing its proper function! So it is that wewill concern ourselves, in the chapter which includes treatment of thepayload, with the completely integrated personality, ready to serve.For the purposes of our study, we will deal separately with the nosecone itself in the appendix of the book. Just as a properly equipped pay-load would be of little value if it were not protected from the elements ofspace by the smooth and sturdily constructed ceramic-covered nose cone,so we, without certain "exterior" qualities of good manners and decorum,would lose much, if not all, of our real effectiveness in our life's work.

We have, then, briefly outlined the general areas which will be covered tin the balance of our study. You have been shown a glimpse of theaerospace framework upon which these ideas will be built. Let us nowdirect the balance of our attention in this introductory treatment toconsidering the importance of those elements of our character andmoral worth which lead to a completely successful life.

"Perfection is attained by slow degrees . , .

- 'f :--: :n lr 'hich we live can unqustionably be characterized as the-rS :::-;hnological progress.', Suppose we reduce the entire span of:rl; ;:: i : 's etistence, from the first moment of its creation unti l now,rrT r --.:3 chart depicting one calendar year. The first existence of earth-: : rli-r!ilizable mass would be shown as occupying the first portion:r *-:: irsr second of January 1st of that year. The time occupiedr ;

- -: :eading of this very line of this book would then occupy the last

n-q--:: trf the last second of December 3lst of this hypothetical year.r\: 'r ' \- i.nce tells us that the entire historical period from man,s inven-:r-,: :: the first wheel, many years before the birth of Christ, would:u-:-i-. less than the last 45 seconds of this ,,calendar year" of ther.Li--: > eristence! we have, indeed, made fantastic progress in theseL-i:: tif technological development. Most of our great scientists todayrE*.-'- there is no theoretical l imit to this growth. what many of ourr!:.:s

.rre genuinely concerned about is that we as men are not keepingt',:: \\' are learning to do but not to be! One individual reflects thisil- '--r'-is in saying, "I believe that this moral crisis in the world is a-:-lei ' :ron essentially of the fact that mankind has made tremendous:-

-i::.s in the physical sciences, but has failed to make comparablel-"'-r3:s in the human and social sciences. we know a great deil more'$'r{-: :nachines and materials than we know about how to work with

&: ::"r much said today concerning the need to survive-that we are:u -: dail' imperiled by forces of evil in men and nations. America' '- '- i .r 'd to by many of the smaller nations of this world as the onry-::--''ning hope for the survival of the principles of individual freedom

rcq!.ires the hqnd of time,"

-ancl l ibcrty, thc right to which wc bclicvc cvcry man has bcen divinclycndowecl . Yct , thcrc arc many who bcl ieve that, as esscnt ia l as ourmi l i tary, ccononr ic. and industr ia l potent ia l is to winning this conf l ic t ,

"vc l l rvc. in thc I inal analysis. l i t t lc hope for the survival o l ' thesc sacrecl

r ights unlcss we dcvelop nrcn rv i th the inncr strcngth ancl rvorth to uscthenr to win. Br ig lc l ier Gcncral Char lcs A. Lindbergh states at th ispoint , "Surviv l l h ls a t inrc c l i rncnsion which says that po' , r 'cr consists ofnrorc than strcngth cll ' l irrns. Short-ternr survival nlry clcpcnci on thcknowlcdgc of nuclear physic ists and the pcr l 'ornrancc of supcrsonieaircraf t , but long-tcrrn survival dcpcnds alone on t l rc chrrrac: ter o l ' nran.Our scient i f ic , ccononr ic, i rnd nr i l i tary accornpl ishnrcnts arc rocl tcd inthc l tunran cluul i ty which procluccs therrr . In tho last anl lvsis. a l l o l 'ourknorvlcclge, al l of our act ion. a l l o l our prosress succeccls or fa i lsaccording tc l i ts cf fcct on thc hunran bocly. nr incl . ancl spir i t . Whi lc weconccntrato our ut tcnt ion on thc tools of cconont ics and war. wc nl l ls tnot ncglcct thc basic nreirns ol sr-r l l ival . the busic rcason I 'or survival ,nrun hinrsel l . "

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AERosPAGEGRou*o IEQUIPIIENI I rOur ilational Heritage UWe remember from the "Introduction"that the first major subsystem to be con-sidered in our countdown checkout iscalled aerospace ground equipment orAGE. We must not allow ourselves tobecome so engrossed with the spacevehicle itself that we give little or noconsideration to the ground equipmentwhich provides the launch complex fromwhich it will take its leap ,,into the blue.,,Without AGE, the space vehicle is onlyan item of inventory-an object on astocklist, so to speak.

Just to list all the individual partsand pieces of AGE necessary for anysuccessful launch would require a vol-ume the size of a large city telephonedirectory. No attempt will be made toitemize them here. A simple definition,found in one of our newest aerospacepublications, Air Force Glossary olStandard Terms and Definitions, shouldsuffice to give the reader an idea of theimmensity of this one, all-important sub-system. This particular definition makesspecific reference to AGE for a missileweapon system, but it can apply almostdirectly to our manned space vehicle

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Just as those items of AGE included in the above-stated definition makeup a vast base from which to launch an actual space vehicle, so thereaie countless factors which must be brought into play to successfullythrust the vehicles of our lives "into the wild blue yonder." So manyare these items of AGE that give support to our lives that we can'tbegin to enumerate them all, let alone discuss them. However, there aresome which are so important to us that they witl be given individualconsideration in this chapter. These are the support elements arisingfrom our national heritage, culture, and environment which have con-tributed to the successful journey through life of literally millions ofAmericans, past and present. Among these are the spiritual, moral, andphilosophical principles from the possession of which our wonderfulcountry has gained its titles "The Land of the Free and the Homeof the Brave" and "The Cradle of Democracy." We hasten to assertat this point that we do not mean to imply that America either inventedthese sacred principles or is their sole owner. However, other greatnational experiments have been attempted along similar lines in manycountries of the world, but so far ours seems most successful. Therefore,we make this humble effort to discuss some of these ingredients ofnational heritage which have so ably launched other lives toward worthygoals. Perhaps in the doing, your life will receive its proper start as well.

The fact is that readiness for our "flight" of life must not be measuredsolely upon the qualities of the "craft" itself, but also upon how wellintegrated into the whole "space system" it may be. This means thatour.,rocket" must be completely tied into its'AGE" in order that the..blastoff,' might be as "programmed," and so that we will be put wellon the way to our "mission objective." These items which form the.,launch platform" of our lives are most important in fitting us forthe fullest measure of capability in that which lies ahead' There is

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Michelangelo's "Creation of Man" - Sistine Chapel _Vatican

orning wrong in always keeping before our minds the goals we seek,tm re must place great and continuing attention on our foundations,{GEt as well. It is as Henry David Thoreau counseled, ,,If you have

buLrt castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where theystuJ{rld be. Now, put the foundations under them." The foundations ofnur "{merican heritage, then, concern us in this phase of our study.

OUR NATIONAL CONCEPTS

crq firstAGE consideration is that of the philosophical base upon which,suu'national life was founded. So many genuine scholars of American.trrscrrl and government have said so much about these matters that wers;irte in attempting to say more. However, we believe the more-@rEronant beginning principles of our national heritage may be reducedm simple terms to the following six statements of national faith:

l- \\'e, as human beings, are common creations of the same God,$r,*de in His image, and under His will we live.l- The message of the first statement implies that the most precious

rrnel in the national treasure chest is the God-given basic dignity andry:r_r of the individusl-"1161 all men are created equal; that they aremdo*'ed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among**e are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.',

-: Each individual bears a personal responsibility to all other individ-rr&.: in the protection and development of these God-given rights.

4- Government and all duly constituted authority exists for the solemefit of the people.

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6. In order to maintain these interdependent relationships, man withman and man with government, a system of written rules and guaranteesis necessary.

First Statement of National Faith. The recognition by our FoundingFathers that we are all creations of the Heavenly Father has been thetrue source of our national strength. It is here that the five remainingstatements of national faith find their true meaning. It is in our accept-ance of the Fatherhood of God that we come to an understandingof the basic dignity of the individual with his severally created divinerights. It is because of our recognition of a joint birthright from Godthat we come to understand our responsibility to each other in workingtoward the common good.

In understanding our divine origin, it was only natural that we shouldframe our Constitution and principles of jurisprudence basically uponHis rules and guides. In fact, it can be rightfully maintained that ournation, from its beginning, has been built upon the fundamental conceptof the recognition of the Fatherhood of God and the consequent brother-hood of man. This is what makes us so entirely different from Marxiancommunistic Russia where God is nonexistent, making man just a highform of animal life.

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In accordance with this materialistic viewpoint expressed by the com-munist philosophy, man is possessed of no soul. He really bears noresponsibil i ty to others except in matters of pure expediency. Nothing isreally right or wrong insofar i ls man's relationship to man is concerned.Man is really nothing more than the end result of a series of evolutionarycircumstances-with no plirnned beginning or end. He is just anotherof thc freak evolvements of zr form of animal 1ile. cominc from nowhereand getting to nowherc.

What a tragically bleak and hopeless concept when compared with thedeli-ehtful "Family of God" idea upon which our l ives, as Americans,are historically foundcd.

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How understi indablc thcsc are whcn rcvicwcd in relationship to ourorigins and purposcl Why shouldn't thesc bc thc most natural consc-qucnces of being part of an ctcrnal fant i ly by rcason of being givcnlifc bv thc same Spiritual Father' l

Whi lc our nat ional bcginnings wcrc largcly Chr ist ian, th is is a conceptunder which men of a l l fu i ths can l ive and bui ld a sreir t nat ion "underGod, indiv is ib le, wi th l ibertv and iust ice I 'or a l l . "

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A current point of acute national concern should be that so many ofus, who are the successors of this magnificent beginning, have driftedsuch a long distance from faithful adherence to this concept. Instead ofbeginning the AGE countdown checkout of our lives with this point,we go past it to lesser things. This situation was so ably expressedby William H. Boddy who said, "It becomes ever plainer to me that theimpotence of our generation, the weakness of our religion as well as thesecularization of it, is born of an easy, vague, and undemanding theology'God has been an affiliate. He is a member emeritus of our society. Wehave had a God who is a convenient point of rhetorical reference. Wehave a God who gives celestial sanction to our own prejudices anddesires. The Glorious and Holy One, in whose hands the nations are asa drop in the bucket, we have forgotten. We have a hazy, humanizedGod whose activity is seen vaguely everywhere and clearly nowhere.The God for whose glory we exist and in the doing of whose will is theonly reason for life has been too largely lost' Macauley said of thePuritans, 'They feared nothing but God.' Of our generation somehistorians may yet write, 'They feared everything-but God!"'

Ours is a nation UNDER GOD. Many everyday facts of life attest toit. Perhaps the most familiar portrayal of this fact can be determinedby looking at one of our coins-any coin. Indelibly imprinted on itsface at our government mints will be the statement "In God we trust."Look at the reverse side of any dollar bill. A detailed inspection of the

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Great Seal wil l disclose the Latin inscription "Annuit coeptis." Thisphrase may be interpreted to mean, ..He has prospered our beginnings.,,The He, of course, refers to God.

The recognition of an overall relationship with God constitutcs, then,the first and most significant statement of our national faith. Remcmber,in your preparation for life's fright of scrvice, your real strcngth dependsnot only upon your physical or mental abil it ies but also upon yourrelationship to God. Keep first things first. Not long ago our presidentsummed it up well in saying, "without God thcre could be no Americanform of government, no American way of life . . thus our FoundinsFathers saw it, and thus with God,s help, it wil l continue to be."

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'1.Second Statement of National Faith. The second of our statementsof national faith, that the "most precious jewel in the national treasurechest is the God-given basic dignity and rights of the individual," is sowoven into the first that we will not require much further comment'However, the reader is urged against considering it any less importantas a result.

It is as President Eisenhower said in his first inaugural address, "Thisfaith is the abiding creed of our fathers. It is our faith in the deathlessdignity of man . . it establishes beyond debate those gifts of theCreator that are man's inalienable rights and makes all men equal inHis sisht."

As creations of God, each of us is of infinite worth. We are bornthis world possessed of a sacred dignity. We didn't have to buy it,are we caused to enter into a contract to earn it.

We may certainly grow up to become so slovenly a character that wedo, in fact, make this priceless heritage a mockery. But each childenters this world the most precious jewel of God's creative processes.This we believe, and it is a cardinal statement of our national faith.

It is this which has been the basic element of our national greatness-that no matter the color of the skin, the amount of our family fortunes,the ethnic ancestry of our forefathers, nor the particular formalizedreligious faith we espouse, we are each, as His children, possessed ofmagnificent personal dignity and worth.

We are, therefore, privileged to take this birthright and, with the freeenvironment which surrounds us, shape our individual destinies.

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Third Statement of National Faith. The obvious implication of whatwe have just said is that each of us bears a responsibility to all otherindividuals in the protection and development of these God-given rights.

When we come to the realization that, under God, we all stand on anequal footing with respect to our sacred privileges, reason forces us tothe acknowledgment of mutual responsibilities in insuring them. It mightbe illustrated by a brief but simple lesson in geometrics, which we expressin the following drawing:

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If you are made in the image and likeness of God as His child. and I ammade in the same image, we are, by virtue of that common relationship,equal with each other. Please don't try carrying this crude illustrationtoo far, but it will help you to understand that it is in our very natureas common creations of the same God that we are also brothers. weneither seek this relationship, nor have we the right of choice in accept-ing it-it is inherent in our makeup. This being true, we are .'ourbrother's keeper," and one of the joyful responsibilities of our life is toso live as to benefit that mutual and interdependent association. To gointo detail in dealing with all the implications of this relationship wouldbe a book in itself. suffice it to say that in this statement of our nationalfaith almost all of life is encompassed.

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Fourth Statement of National Faith. It follows as night the day thatjust and lawful government must then ensue in order to effect theseiights and mutual responsibilities. As Jefferson said in the Declarationoi Independence, ,,To secure these rights, governments are institutedamong men, deriving their just powers from the consent ol the gov-erned." (The italics are mine.) This is "that government of the people,by the people, for the people" of which Abraham Lincoln spoke. It wasdlvised from the beginning not as an end but as a means to serve thebest interests of the people. This fact is pointed up in the followingquotation by clarence Manion, "American government was designedto function ihrough representatives chosen either directly or indirectlyby the people, and responsible to the people on regularly recurringeiection days . This Representative System is the essence of the Republi-can Form of government to which all the Founding Fathers wereenthusiastically devoted." No government otherwise designed can longendure.

Fifth Statement of National Faith. In order for government to assumeits proper role as the tool "for the people," we as individuals must eachassume our own responsibilities toward that government. Here is whereour moral obligations enter. we must thoroughly acquaint ourselveswith those seeking office - their political philosophies, moral andspiritual attitudes, past records of accomplishment, sts'-59 that, by ourintelligent vote, the men who are placed in government will, in fact,be our true representatives and so that when congress acts, we act!

Perhaps you passed over lightly a serious implication stated above inthe words, "by our intelligent vote." The implication of those words isthat, having ihoroughly acquainted yourself with the one running foroffice, youlook the all-important initiative by voting! All the result ofany election means is that the men who won represent the majority voteof those who participated in the election. This may seem such a self-evident truth that it requires little comment. The fact is that in orderfor our government to be truly representative "of the people" the menwho are elected must be in office because the vast majority of the nationwent to the polls to put them there. This simply is not historically whathas followed.

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For years our total vote in any average national election has come fromjust about one-half of our total voting-age citizenry. This is a shamefuldereliction of our responsibility to our government. The record in local,state, and city elections is even poorer-much poorer! Thousands ofcommunities scattered across the length and breadth of our land are"lucky" to get 10 percent of their eligible voters to the polls. This hasmany national implications, not the least of which is the fact that manyof these local offices are stepping-stones to strong candidacy for futureservice in national government. If the wrong men are elected to places ofresponsibility in local government, a percentage of them may eventuallybe placed much higher.

There is another facet of this responsibility which we owe to ourselvesin regard to our government. Having placed those in office who will trulyrepresent us, we must willingly submit ourselves to the judgments ofthat government. The current attitude in regard to abiding by the lawsof our country is that we will comply with just enough to keep us "outof the clutches of the law," as we put it. This involves everything fromtax responsibilities to customs regulations. This basic attitude is immoral,and it is symptomatic of a basic sickness among us! This is OURnation-this is OUR government-it merits OUR unqualified support!If it is not representative of our best national and individual interest.we have the necessary tools to make it so. In the meantime, we beara personal responsibility to it.

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Keyes and Gallagher said, "Many think that the Constitution gives us ourrights and liberties. This is not true. Our forefathers and we of todayhave them as our national right, Its purpose is to secure them to usand to our children after us. That is why this Constitution of ours isone of our great heritages, and one which we must guard if we wishto keep our freedorns. lt is the protective instrument of 'we the people';and it says, and must continue to say to Congress, the President, and tothe states, 'This far can you go, but not one step beyond."'

In order for government to be truly an extension of the will of thepeople, the Constitution provides for a division of power betweenthree separate branches, as pointed out by Keyes, "with balancesbetween them to prevent the concentration of too much power in onegroup, or even among all three branches. There was the Congress tothink things out, express the hopes of those it represented, and todecide upon the course to be taken. Next, there was the chief executiveofficer-the President-whose duty was to get things done. Then, therewas the judiciary, topped by a Supreme Court, with the task of acting asreferee and of judging whether actions taken were in accordance with'we the people.'"

Then came the first amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, whichincluded, according to the above-quoted authors, "Not the rightsgranted, for those rights were a part of the freedom which belonged toevery American. Rather, they were prohibitions, preventing the govern-ment from carelessly or callously interfering with an individual's life,liberty, and property rights."

This. then, forms the ideological and working base upon which our livesas Americans operate. This constitutes our primaryAGE.

INSTITUTIONS SUPPORTINGNATIONAL CONCEPTS

Before concluding this aspect of our study, letus take a brief look at some of the principleinstitutions for fostering these basic items of

AGE. These might be grouped under four head-ings:

(1) the home and the family,(2) the school.(3) the church, and(4) other social institutions.

The Home and the Family. Allow me to takeyou to a lonely advanced fighter base. It is 13Vzair miles from the enemy-just 1 minute 20seconds away. A ground crew is standins bv.always tense at the moment of takeott. -Evennow, on their bodies, they bear the sweat of theirtoil to prepare their pilot's plane for this mo_ment. His superiors, who have led and trainedhjm for this experience, stand about in the readyshack out on the edge of the runway, alwaysacutely aware of the importance of this event.Just as he completes his engine runup and fin_ishes with his final preflight checklist, he givesthe word, "Ready to roll!" As a man in ttretower turns on the runway lights, the plane roarsdown the brilliantly lit ribbon of concrete andsteel. Each in his place watches in breathlesssilence in that last split second of the pilot beingyet earth-bound; then he and his craft leap intothe blackness of the night. The lights go out onthe runway. These many people now relax, justa little, in the knowledge that they have done allin their power to put him on his way, preparedin the best manner possible for what awaits trimin the battle ahead.

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This is a fair picture of the mission of the home for the youth of today'

Thehomeischargedwiththechal lengingresponsibi l i tyofhelpingyouoff to a good start-ready to face the demands of life'

The tragedy is that too many homes of today simply do not provide this

all-important environment and training launch platform for you young

people.

Each of you come into this world a blessed message from God that he

does not yet completely despair of man' You are one of our real hopes'

You deserve the best iraining and support the home has to offer'

One of today's basic weaknesses in the American home is that it has

lost the common touch. Like so many centers of human activity' it has

largely become a focal point of specialization' Here is the place where'

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child, who may roam the streets. Junior can't help mow the lawn, nor canJanie wash the dishes, because each is so much in a hurry to get out withthe gang, who may be in trouble before the night is over because, afterthey get together, they will find they didn't really have anything in mindin the first place!

Little ones are sent to ballet to gain poise. Teen-agers will be foistedoff on charm classes to learn manners. All the time. the best lessons inpoise in all the world are those indelible impressions left in little mindswho grow up watching a mother meet, with the patience of Job and thewisdom of Solomon, all of the chaos of a household of happy, scramblingkiddies. She bestows a ready kiss for the scratched elbow and therequired "love pat" on the back side when the .,sin" has been too great!As to manners, these are best taught, and perhaps only, as they areconstantly observed by the children in the good example of their parents.

This is indeed an age of "go out." The members of the average Americanhome find every excuse possible to go out-to eat, to play, to learn, andto worship. Not that there isn't much good to be found in such com-munity relationships, but each of these felt needs should receive its firstand most satisfying fulfillment in the warm circle of the home.

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The American home has historicallybeen one of our nation's greatest in-stitutional strengths. In recent yearswe have in some cases tragically re-duced its effectiveness. This is notexclusively either a parental or achild responsibility-it is one whichmust be shared. If our lives are toget off to their proper start, thisaspect of our AGE will have to beat its best!

The School. We feel that the Placeand importance of the school indeveloping a deep sense of moraland spiritual values can best be ex-pressed by educators themselves.

A curriculum bulletin of the Hous-ton Public School System states,"The development of moral andspiritual values is one of the basicobjectives of public education; infact, the first objective listed in the'Children's Charter' issued bY the1930 White House Conference pro-poses 'For every child spiritual andmoral training to help him to standfirm under the pressure of life."'

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thou sowest,also reap."Galatians

The Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Asso-ciation of the united states has prepared a booklet entitled Moral andSpiritual Values in the Public Schools, in which is stated:

"A GREAT and continuing purpose of education has been the develop-ment of moral and spiritual values. To fulfill this purpose, society callsupon all its institutions. special claims are made on the home and schoolbecause of the central role of these two institutions in the nurture of theyoung . . . . The schools have accepted these responsibilities. The menand women who teach in these schools, as responsible members ofsociety, share its system of values. As educators, they are engaged ina vocation that gives a central place to values as guides to conduct.

"No society can survive without a moral order. A system of moraland spiritual values is indispensable to group living . . . . The develop-ment of moral and spiritual values is basic to all other educationobjectives."

This, then, is the role of the school in the general area of moral andspiritual values which make up your AGE preparation for yourapproaching launch hour.

It is important to note that our educators feel a deep sense of the teamconcept in achieving this objective. This idea is expressed in the Educa-tional Policies committee's statement, "The teaching of moral andspiritual values in the public schools of the United States must be donewithout endangering religious freedom and without circumventing thepolicy of separation of church and state. our society leaves to the homeand the church the responsibility for instruction designed to secure theacceptance of a religious faith. Thus, the home, the church, and theschool each share in moral and spiritual development, while each maymake the contribution to that development for which it is peculiartyfitted."

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The Church and Synagogue. So many are the implications of thefunctions of organized religion in American life that the natural inclina-tion is to go into extensive detail. However, such an approach is not inconsonance with our purposes here. We are concerned in this text onlythat you understand that the church or synagogue is one of the institu-tions making a significant contribution to your society and that itserves, in a partnership, to provide you with a solid launch platform forlife.

You undoubtedly recognize the familiar quotation from the BiblicalPsalms shown on page 27. Perhaps it best declares the unique contribu-tion of organized religion. The primary implication of the passage seemsto be that you, as God's own child, find the source of all your strengthsin a very personal relationship with God. This psalm embodies the mostbasic key to successful living-that in a personal relationship with God,man can find himself. This is the one contribution of organized religionthat it alone can provide-to help man know God, whom to know isto love, and to love is to serve. There are, indeed, many facets of thisspiritually oriented function, but this we believe to be its chiefcontribution.

our Founding Fathers recognized the two essential philosophical reali-ties upon which all else must rest: (1) God is our Father, and (2) weare, therefore, His created children and consequently bear to Him andeach other a mutual, family responsibility. Organized religion, then,exists primarily to give continuing impetus to this relationship. If thespiritual institution will concern itself chiefly with this extremely signifi-cant function, it most certainly will produce as a natural byproduct astalwart base for the development of moral and spiritual values whichwill eventuate in the continuance of a great nation, UNDER GOD.

Two imperatives exist in relationship to what has just been said. In thefirst instance, the church or synagogue must continue to recognize thissingularity of its function. With all its many additional contributions, itmust keep ever before itself this divine imperative of the establishmentof this deeply personal relationship between you and your God. Secondly,

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you will want to constantly keep active your formal religious relation-ships. In the matter of the home and the school you will, by the verynature of these institutions, be kept in continuing connection with them.The church or synagogue, however, with all its importance, is an institu-tion which must depend largely on your own initiative to maintain con-tact. It will publicize its activities, and certainly quite forcefully, but inthe ultimate analysis your actual participation will result from a matterof your own choice. Recognize this responsibility, and act upon it, toyour growth. It is an all-important aspect of your national heritage andstrength.

Other Social Institutions. There are, of course, many other Americansocial institutions which, in one way or another, contribute to thedevelopment of your character and the deepening of your sense of moralvalues. To list them would be a substantial project. This we will notattempt in this text, nor will we make any effort to discuss them. Amongthem would certainly stand out such organizations as the Boy and GirlScouts of America, Police Athletic League, the many religious-sponsoredyouth organizations, etc. Of course, our own Civil Air Patrol with itscadet program would take its rightful place among such institutions.

Each of these efforts is to be commended for its chosen objective ofassisting in providing you with, among other things, a better apprecia-tion of this vastly important launch complex of AGE in preparation forthat exciting moment of actual blastoff into your orbit of service.

The content of the following chapters of this study is of utmost impor-tance to your eventually arriving on target. However, you will want tofully appreciate that without this AGE, the spacecraft of your life willbe of little or no real value. You are encouraged to read and rereadthis part of our study, because opportunity lost here means everything.

Someimes we don't realize what priceless treasures we have for thetaking until too late. A tale told by Dr. L. H. Adolfson of the Univer-sity of Wisconsin points up this fact quite well. It seems that "one nightin ancient times. three horsemen were riding across the desert. As thev

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crossed the dry bed of the river, out of the darkness a voice called,'Halt!' They obeyed. The voice then told them to dismount, pick up ahandful of pebbles, put the pebbles in their pockets, and remount. Thenthe voice said, 'You have done as I commanded. Tomorrow at sunupyou will be both glad and sorry.'Mystified, the horsemen rode on. whenthe sun rose, they reached into their pockets and found that a miraclehad happened. The pebbles had been transformed into diamonds, rubies,and other precious stones! They remembered the warning. They wereboth glad and sorry-glad they had taken some and ,orry1h"y had nottakenmore.. . . "

so it will be with you if, now, in this preparatory phase you do not giveevery possible attention to all the necessary items of basic equipmentwhich go into your life'sAGE.

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PROPUtSl0l{ I (Some of Our Basic Drives ilJWe hear a lot about the ICBM thesedays. Have you ever heard of theIPBM? As a matter of fact, you haveheard almost as much about the latteras the former, but probably it wasn'texpressed in just that way. You see,IPBM is a slang expression used by ourmissile experts down at Cape Kennedyto describe one of their launch failures.The letters stand for inter-pad ballisticmissile-one that just barely gets off itslaunching pad! Well, you certainly don'twant a similar terminology assigned toyou. This space rocket of yours just hasto "go-man-go!" The only way you willever make it off the pad is to have allthe necessary thrust to do the job. Thiscomes from your propulsion system, andin your case you are a two-stage vehicle.This chapter will deal with those ingre-dients of character and personality thatwill give you your primary push towardyour mission objective. You must havesufficient power driving through the en-gines of your life to gain escape velocity.The second stage propulsion or sustainerengine can keep you moving on into theorbit of life. This first propulsion unitis called, in aerospace terminology, the

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booster stage. we will spend the balance of this chapter giving attentionto a countdown checkout of those propulsion ingredients which will giveyou successful blastoff capability.

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1. The first driving force of which we become aware in our matur-ing processes in life is an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a desireto do and to be something'

2. Following this hunger for knowledge and accomplishment willcome the development of a vision of what can be known and accom-plished. A driving force will enter our lives which will cause us toithink big',-to look at self and all that surrounds us and developan ability to see the tremendous challenge life offers us, with all itsexciting possibilities.

:. *fren we combine this inborn thirst for truth and accomplishmentwith that exhilarating appreciation of all there is that can be learned andused, we will naturally begin to sift through this vast reservoir of oppor-tunity, developing our own goals and system of values'

4. We will then understand that, to insure that these life objectivesare someday rcalized, we will have to really work at the job' We willcome to know that the best goals in the world are useless if we don'tput out old-fashioned "sweat" to achieve them'

5. Finally, we need to understand that throughout each of these pro-pulsion ingredients in the vehicle of our life is the most important one;namely, that continuous awareness of our sense of duty to the God whomade us, to our fellow men who share this common spiritual heritage,and. of course, to ourselves.

Thirst for Knowledge and Accornplishment' One of your unique gloriesas man is that unquenchable thirst you possess for knowledge, aboutall things. This has been so well expressed in an event which took placeduring i recent instructional period at the Air University. The class hadjust b--een rather completely briefed on the many problems which willLave to be overcome before we can successfully launch man into deepand outer sPace'

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The van Allen belts with their dense layers of lethal high intensityradiation were discussed. The menace of ultra-high-velocity meteoriteswas given consideration. The blinding light of the sun in the vacuumof space was studied. The fantastic cold in shadow areas was covered.we studied the many and perplexing problems associated with the con-dition of weightlessness in space travel. It was shown, as an example,that a man could drown in the weightless water of a cup from whichhe might try to drink. we talked of the G forces which *ould be broughtto bear on man's body in the blastoff acceleration process. The problemof having sufficient thrust to escape the earth's gravitational puil, whileat the same time keeping that power under control so as not to be castout into an eternal galactic orbit, came into focus. All these were pre-sented as n'oblems facing us in our struggle to achieve space flightcapability. Then the question was raised, "If these many gigantic bar-riers face us, why must we continue to try to reach the r""irtr of ourgalactic system?" The instructor answered this legitimate question mostadequately, when he quoted sir Edmond Hillary's famoui reply as towhy he felL he h;rd to climb Mount Everest, by saying, ,.Bicause itis there!"

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There is that spark of the Infinite in us that drives us to seek theanswer to life, with all it offers. We might well ask the above question.Though there are many reasons why such knowledge might proveuseful to us, in the final analysis we don't initially seek this truthfor useful purposes. We seek to know all things, first of all, simply"because they are there!" This is that propulsive force which provesus to be God's greatest form of creation. We, of all created beings,are possessed of the adventuring spirit of the pioneer. We must know!

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The point for immediate concern is that we not suppress this sparkof the divine. we must never reach that point where we become satisfiedwith what we know. Use our gained knowledge, yes. But grant thatwe may be, in the finest sense, a student of all the good things of life,to the moment of our last breath on earth. So many fail right here atthe crucial point of development. They remind us of the followine event.

one day a touring educator visited the expanding campus of a largewestern university. one of the deans accompanied him. He watchedconstruction work on half a dozen new buildings, inspected new lab-oratories, and attended classes in modern study rooms; he walked acrossmiles of tree-lined lawns and athletic fields. He was impressed. .,My!,'he exclaimed. "Just about how many students do you have here?"

"Let me see," the dean answered thoughtfully. ,,I'd say about one ina hundred."

Some have feared that faith and long-held concepts might be endan-gered by the discovery of new knowledge. This is a false fear. Truthis truth in any place, under all circumstances. only truth will standcomparison with all facts. If it is truth we now have, newly discoveredfacts will only support it. If it is not, then by our continued seekingwe serve God, man, and self in discoverv.

Inseparable from this thirst for knowledge and truth is man's deeplyfelt drive to accomplish-to take the knowledge which he seeks anddo something with it. This was penetratingly expressed in an eventwhich was observed in one of our state institutions for the feeble-minded. Here were gathered, under kindly, sympathetic care, peopleof that state whose minds were so damaged or undeveloped that theywere not able to care for themselves in normal life. In spite of thislow-mentality level, it was found that most of these patients had aconsuming urge to do something they could consider useful.

Even they were driven by a tremendous inner force which would allowthem to be content only if their energies were given an outlet in

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Some would have us limit this inner force to gain knowledge and to seekaccomplishment by simply being content with what we kriow and have.If such an attitude on life were accepted by mankind, it wourd only causestagnation of the whole human race.

Development of Vision-Total Awareness. Oncegive completely over to the urge to know and dotransition to the next step a simple and natural one.

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r-ogically, you will eagerly seek out all that is available to know anddo' You will want to exprore a[ known and suspected areas for theacquiring of knowledge and ability. you wilr, as a wayfarer searchingf91-wa-tgrin a dry land, seek learning experiences in books, p.opi", unOall legitimate life situations-constantly acquiring a growing knowledgeof what life offers in opportunities for lncreased tno*teoge and accom-plishment. Each new day will be met with excitement b-ecause, to theinquiring mind, every such day will bring new and intensely meaningfulexperiences in learning. This will lead to vision-the ,;big picture,,will gradually develop. you will discover an awareness of what is avail-able. to you, and you will at the same time develop, by this pro""rr,an increasing comprehension of your own potential in usin! theseopportunities.

iHere is a crucial point in determining your futuredevelopment. Now-early in your growth to maturity,think BIG! Use this adventurous spirit to learr,r all youcan about everything! You will be successful in achiev-ing your maximum capability only if you spend theseyears hungrily devouring all possible knowledge ofgood things, so that when the time comes for you tobegin concentrating on your specific mission in life,you will have made your choice from a vast reservoirof discovered possibilities. If you don't develop abreadth of vision of what life offers, you can very wellend life some day having fallen far short of your truepotential.

At this second stage in the development of your primarydrives, you must not allow yourself to become too fixedat any one point. If you do, the natural tendency willbe to stop searching out the bigness of life's opportuni-ties, and you will fall prey to a trap illustrated in anexperience that took place among a carful of youngcollege students one summer day. They were on a tripthrough the Pacific Northwest. The general conversa-tion being made at the moment was in reference tovarious vistas of natural beauty observed in the sur-rounding countryside; i.e., this beautiful mountain peak,that shimmering waterfall, the doe and her fawn in theforest glade, etc.

All at once one of the young men seated beside thedriver pointed, seemingly somewhere ahead of them,and said excitedly, "Look! Look there! Boy, look atthem, would you!"

The rest, not seeing anything of particular note in thatdirection, asked, "Where? What?"

"Right there," he said exasperatedly. "Right where I'mpointing!"

"The lowest man on any totem pole usually possessesthe biggest load and the smallest thoughts."

They looked and looked and still saw nothing of particular beauty orimportance. Well, after considerable questioning and answering backand forth, the others found that our bright, young lad in the front seathad not been concerned with the "big picture" at all. They were travel-ing through swarms of small gnats, and what had been focusing all hisattention were these gnats piling up on the windshieldl His focus ofattention barely reached beyond the point of his nose. while others werethrilling to the glories of nature at large, he had narrowed his view to afew inches of glass directly in front of him. Don't duplicate his expe-rience. There will be plenty of time for specialization when you have firstlearned as much as possible about the total challenge of l i fe's scene.

There is a point, ofcourse, at which you must begin to crystall ize your knowledge into somesemblance of purpose. To go on cndlessly seeking knowledge withoutbeginning to shape it into a definite directional pattern is an evengreater folly than stopping too soon. In a rather negative way ThomasCarlyle makes this point by saying, "A man without a purpose is soondown to zero. Bettcr to have a bad purpose than no purpose at all."Another has expressed this in i l more graphic way in the statement,"A good archcr is not known by his arrows but by his aim." Using thismediunt of expression, thcn, we may very well say that l i fe's successfulhunter must certainly have a full quiver of arrows of knowledge, butunless he concentrates upon a worthy target his arrows are worthless.Therc are a good many owners of collegc degrees to be found onskid rows in the slum areas of our large cit ies. They answered thc firstof our drives and possess much knowlcdge. Thc tragedy l ies largely inthc fact that they never rcally translatcd that knowledge into a drivingpurpose. You wil l want to continue throughout l i fe's journey seekingnew facts and understanding, but the cventual establishment of good,solid goals is extren-rcly essential to gcnuinely effective l iving.

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In company with the formulation ofgoals and objectives, the rocket ofyour life will be given further thrustby means of a firm system of values.For a more complete appreciationof this aid to effective living, youare referred to much that was in-cluded in the preceding chapter.Additional assistance will be foundin an ensuing chapter dealing withyour guidance system.

The process of forming both goalsand a virile system of values willbe made easier by your taking full

advantage of those national institutions-the home and family, theschool, the church, g1g.-1sfe11sd to previously. It is not weakness toseek help in your preparation for the good life. This is one of thejoys of our American heritage. Although there are some weaknessesin all of our national institutions for growth, they are each basicallyestablished to furnish not only AGE support but also thrust itself.

Every successful person will gladly assent to the fact that his life,now rich with ability and productivity, is the direct result of a marriagebetween his own honest effort and the guidance afforded by our grearinstitutions. Only the fool or the man become blind with his ownconceit will believe that he is truly a "self-made man." This is the raretype of whom an old philosophy professor once said, "He is a self-mademan, and he worships his maker."

At the risk of being misunderstood, we might say that the well-integrated personality is like a magnificently efficient machine-theresult of superior craftsmanship on the part of many workmen, eachcontributing his own particular skills in the manufacturing process.

Initiatire. It must be most obvious to you by this time that, in orderto eventually arrive at your full potential, there must always be present a

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full measure of plain, old-fashioned, hard work. One of the lessons ofl ife you have probably already learned is that the achievement of almostanything of

-qenuine value comes only at the expense of much effort. Ifi t is really worthwhile, you wil l htrve to work to get it. If you are builtl ike the average person, this wil l come as a rather agonizing fact, butthe sooner one learns it the better! Most of us might hope that it wasotherwise-as has been said, "A man wil l sometimes devote all his l i feto the development of one part of his body-the wishbone."

Perhaps a real l i fe experience wil l help point up the importance ofeffort in successful accomplishment. A young lad from the city wentto the country for a visit with his grandparents. On all previous occasionswhen it was timc to eat, his grandmother had ii pan of nice clean waterwaiting for him at thc washstand out on thc back porch. This time shewas busy with her meal preparations whcn our l i tt le hero came up fromthe barn to wash for dinner. He had to get his own water from thepump. Well, hc was just big enough to be able to work thc pumphandle, so he put thc pan under the mouth of the pump iind startedto push the handle up and down as he had scen others do. He pumpedand pumpcd, but no watcr ciime. About this time, grandfathcr came upto gct ready for the ntcal. He saw what was happening and stood therefor ir while, wirtching. I 'he l itt lc lad's irrm became more and moreweary as he tried to punrp harderand harder to get watcr. Just wheni t seemed he couldn' t pump anotherstroke, the old nran steppcd besidehis l i t t le grandson, and. taking arusty, old water-fi l lcd can front be-side the pump, he pourcd a l i t t leinto thc top of it. Lo and behold,it wasn't more than two or threevery weary strokes later that gallonsof sparkl ing, cool water camesplashing into the pirn! Then thewise old man said to a boy who hasncver forgottcn it, "Son, in order toget something out of it. you mustf i rst put something into i t . "

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Need we say a great deal more? Life and the development of excellenceof character is quite like the pump-you must put something into itto get out of it what it has to offer.

Thomas Edison is irllegcd to have said, when asked for his definition ofgenius, "It 's composed of 99 percent pcrspiration and I percentinspiration."

So much of the popular feeling of our day seems to be that you makeprogress in direct proportion to the amount of work you can take outof life.

As an illustration of this philosophy, the story is told that in some partsof Mexico hot springs and cold springs are found side by side. Thewomen often boil their clothes in the hot springs and rinse them in thecold springs. A tourist remarked to his Mexican friend, "I guess theythink Mother Nature is pretty generous."

"No, Seffor," the other replied. "There is much grumbling because shesupplies no soap."

what we need to realize is that work has a dignity all its own. Effortalone, of course, is meaningless, but industry has long been acknowl-edged as a true virtue.

we say to you who face the full challenge of life, heed the words of Bis-marck who exclaimed, "To youth I have but three words of counsel-Work, Work, Work." In the words of your modern jargon, it will .,sendyou," right up there toward your mission objective! It is a key fuelingredient to give thrust to your life.

Sense of Duty. "Duty then is the sublimest word in our language. Doyour duty in all things. You can not do more. you should never wishto do less." These words, inscribed beneath the bust of Robert E. Lee inthe Hall of Fame not only well characterize him; they set the stage forour consideration of that one driving force which works through all therest to give them strength.

Duty has been labeled a stern taskmaster. But all great men have heldit in highest esteem. Technically, duty is doing what you ought todo, when you ought to do it, as you ought to do it. In this senseit is a moral term. It fixes your responsibilities. But, to many of us,duty has a much more vibrant, personal quality.

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A proper sense of it stems from the recognition of a deeply sublimerelationship to which we have previously alluded. This is the recognitionof that relationship we enjoy between God, others, and self, in theFamily of God. Duty, when understood in this light, will present youwith many difficult tasks in life-the most difficult, in fact. However,with all the "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" that might well be demandedof you because of the driving force of duty, you will be possessed of awarm glow of understanding that this which you ought to do is goodand worthy. "I will be content, therefore, in my labor and sacrifice,"you will be able to say.

When you grasp duty in this proper, positive sense you will acceptlife's most demanding challenges in the spirit of the little urchin whosepicture Father Flanagan placed on his Boys Town Christmas Seals.Here was a slightly built, ragged, and bedraggled-looking little waif,pallid of complexion, hollow-eyed with hunger and exposure, who stoodcarrying a younger child not too much smaller than himself. The storysays that the younger boy was crippled, and both of them were home-less. The older lad walked into Boys Town, in its early days, carryingthe little fellow on his back. When asked if this wasn't a burden reallyfar too much for him to bear, his reply was, "No, he ain't too heavy-he's my brother!"

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This is the spirit of loving duty you will want to develop, knowing thatnone of its stern requirements are hardships, because God is yourFather and loves you with a tender father's care, and all men are trulyyour brethren-only serving to complete your family circle.

Duty, in this light, is like an old harness on a good team. It may havechafed a little when you first broke it in, but with years of setting your-self to work against its loads, you made its leathers soft and almostcomfortable, and now you really feel most at home with its familiarweight resting upon your shoulders.

The most important reason for a driving sense of duty is that you oweit to your Father God in this mutual relationship. Your God, who madeyou, demands that you make the best possible use of your life. Heexpects you to use all of your talents to the limit of your abilities.Regardless of the demands this may place upon you, you wil l want todo no less because, with this concept of duty, it all makes sense andbecomes a sacred privilege rather than a burdensome responsibility.

These, then, comprise the primary-thrust factors in l i fe. In the nextchapter we shall deal with a few more which we call second-stagepropulsion ingredients. They are really inseparable from those we havegiven attention to here, but they can be considered as part of yourthrust-sustaining equipment. Some of them have been glamorized morethan these we have just considered. While giving them due considera-tion, you are urged to keep ever in mind that they depend upon thisbooster or init ial-thrust stage for the primary push toward your mis-sion objective.

In all i t would be well to heed the word from our Holy Writ, "Whatso-ever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might." (Ecclesiastes9:10.)

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To illustrate the above point a legendary story is recalled which wastold in many homes and cafes of Paris during the dark days of WorldWar IL

After France had been overrun by the German armies in the summerof 1940, the chances of breaking the Nazi stranglehold on Europelooked slim indeed. England's "tight little isle" still stood, to be sure,but her troops had been pushed off the Continent from the beachesof Dunkirk.

In the gloomy month that followed, this little story passed from mouthto mouth, serving to support a faint ray of hope in the hearts of French-men that Hitler would somehow and at some time be defeated by thosewho remained yet free in England.

The story relates that Hitler invited Churchill to Paris for a secretconference in the fall of 1940. Churchill came by plane and wasescorted to a lovely chateau, where Hitler and Mussolini awaited hirirat atea table situated beside a lovely pool which was graced by severalswimming carp.

Hitler at once got down to "brass tacks." Said he, "Here's what I haveto say to you, Herr Churchill! England is kaput! Kaput, you understand!She hasn't a chance. Sign this document admitting that England haslost the war, and all of Europe will have peace tomorrow."

"I can't sign such a statement," replied Churchill, "because I don'tagree we have lost the war."

"Ridiculous!" shouted Hitler, pounding the table with both fists. "Lookat the evidence!"

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The Duce dived in, but, try as he would, the carp kept slipping throughhis fingcrs. At last, completery exh.usted from chasing^ .". i aroundthe pool, he climbed out empty handed, and in g."ot i irg.rrt.

"It 's your turn now, Herr churchil l," barked Hitler. .,Let,s see whatyou can do!"

"You see those big carp in the pool?,' askedwager that the first man to catch one withoutequipment will be declared winner of the war.,,"It 's a bet!" snapped Hitler. He whipped outit at the nearest carp. But the water a-.1..t"0swam on, hardly batting a fishy eye." I t 's up to you now, Musso! ' , growled Hit ler .good swimmcr. In you go!, '

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This corny little story aptly portrays that bulldog determination thathas historically characterized the British people. It has been their main-stay through many centuries of hardship, against great odds. Those ofus who saw the terrible carnage wrought upon these allies during thatawful conflict wondered how they could ever again rise to any semblanceof former strength. For many years after World War II it was "touchand go" with England. Her people were poorly fed, housed, and clothed.She was a mere shadow of her former glory. Today, after a heroicstruggle, she has, through the same spirit of stick-to-it-ive-ness, againtaken her right place among world powers.

If you want to achieve the position of worth of which you are capable,you will need to learn now the ability to persevere, against all odds.

Possession of this virtue can spell the difference between life and death.Korea proved this point. Some American prisoners of war refused tohold on. They crawled into corners to die. Like the youngster who threwhis mealy food down-he didn't like the way it smelled. In the cornerhe pulled his blanket over his head and told the rest of the soldiers toleave him alone. He died. He didn't starve to death. He did not have aphysical disease. He was not a psychotic. Yet he died. The young mandied because he lacked the will and the drive to hold on. He failed thebis test.

Perseverance is no less a necessity in your moral and spiritual life.lt takes effort, striving, struggle, and sacrifice to say "No" to tempta-tion and "Yes" to good.

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You are seated on the concrete floor in the cellar of one of the forti-fied houses which comprise a part of the great Siegfried Line defenses.The battle has held all the horrors of which war at its worst is capable.With you are all that are left of what was once your crack, frontlineinfantry company. Men closer than flesh and blood have died allaround you on the field of battle today, and yesterday, and the daybefore that. Several of those in this very room are gravely wounded'and some are dying, even now. You are here because orders camethrough from your commander to take cover for a while' This is nota new experience. It has repeated itself time and time again over thelast several months of combat. The stark terror of real infantry combatis keenly fresh in your consciousness. That tight ball of controlledfear, which every true combat soldier learns to live with, is just nowbeginning to loosen up a little around the edges as you slouch backagainst the three feet of reinforced concrete wall' Hell, personified, isstill cracking and blasting away all around you outside, as the battlecontinues. But in the protection of this temporary haven you are ableto take the first full and relaxed breath for hours-days. You take outof your inner pocket the last letter from home and you read and rereadit, hungrily devouring every shred of meaning and comfort it brings'You sit back and allow yourself to be transported for this moment to afair land, with green trees and towering mountains. You can almosthear the splash of your favorite trout stream, as it courses its wayto the sea. You feel the warmth of the friendly sun, as it plays hide-and-seek with the shadows on the mountainside. Her hand is clasped inyours, as you talk over the prospects of a wonderful life together! Theball of fear is almost gone. Then, just as it has before, you hear themessenger come thundering toward you through the frantic clatter ofheavy boots on the cobble streets outside the cellar way. The door burstsopen, and before the white-faced kid from the command post can saya word of his message, you know what it will be. He has literally takenhis life in his hands to bring it from topside, and no matter how hephrases it, it will end up just two words, "Move out!" The old ballinstantly begins to form again. The trees and the stream and the girlfade back to that place where all fond memories dwell, and you getto your feet. You work the action on your gun. You check the roundin the chamber. You adjust your bandolier of ammunition to thepoint of best availability, and you start toward the door. Each footweighs a thousand pounds, at least, and the cellar might as well befilled with sticky, sucking mud, but you move-out!

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Courage is the word which runs through that whole incident. It's allthere. You know the danger. You feel the fear. You have been givenyour orders. You do-move out! This is courage. And because kidsin cellars and foxholes all over the world in those days moved out, thevictory was ultimately won, and you are able to read this text in anatmosphere of freedom.

While it is relatively simple to portray courage on the field of battle,there are lessons of courage to be viewed far from the sound of shotand shell. It is almost too easy to relate courage to the world ofviolence. The policeman in his struggle against crime, the scatback onthe football field as he faces the thundering opposition, the fireman ashe walks into the inferno of flame, the jet pilot as he challenges thesound barrier, the hunter as he stands before the charge of the lion-all these are classics in the characterization of courage. But there areother areas of bravery than these; far less spectacular perhaps, butnone the less filled with braverY.

Physically, there are great sagas of courage to be found in much lessromantic surroundings. As a child Glenn Cunningham, the great milerof another year, was burned about the legs so badly the doctor saidhe would never walk. He spent literally years willing, one by one, hismuscles into activity. He massaged his legs hours each day to makesupple his horribly scarred tissues. He fought ceaselessly, first to evenmoue, then to stand, then to walk, next to jog painfully for a fewstrides, finally 16 1un-1un as no man before him had ever run!Courage in action!

Margaret Bourke white, world-famed photographer, whose picturestaken of combat in Korea were standouts among a field of gleat pic-tures, is numbered among the truly brave. This young woman, strickenin her prime with the dread Parkinson's disease, before which manyhad simply lain down to await death, is even now beginning to comeonce more into her own because she refused to quit. She bravely facedthe struggle and terrible pain of forcing herself back to usefulness.She has had to completely re-educate her body to respond to her will.

There is another realm of courage, less unsung than these, which holdsa noble list of courageous men and women. These are those who haveproven their morar courage. Among them are the poo