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BROOKE BLUEBONNET BROADCAST VOLUME 2 18 JULY NO. 5 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION BROOKE HOSPITAL CENTER An Army Service Forces Installation FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS BROOKE BLUEBONNET BROADCAST BROOKE GENERAL HOSPITAL CHAPEL: BROOKE Catholic Mass, dally except Wed. 5:30 P. M. Catholic Mass, Wednesday . 8:30 A. M. BLUEBONNET Protestant Vesper Service Wed 7:00 P. M. RED CROSS AUDITORIUM, OLD HOSPITAL: BROADCAST Sunday Catholic Mass . 10:00 A. M. Protestant Worship 9:00 A. M. Official Publication Protestant Vespers 5:30 P. M. Brooke Hospital Center Protestant Vesper Service, Wed .5:30 P. M. BRIGADIER GENERAL GEO. C. BEACH BROOKE CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL: Sunday COMMANDING GENERAL CATHOLIC MASS BROOKE HOSPITAL CENTER Chapel No. 2 (900 area) 9:00 A.M. Chapel No. 3 (1200 area) 8:00 A.M. COLONEL JOHN C. WOODLAND Scott Road Chapel 10:00 A.M. COMMANDING OFFICER Tuesday and Friday BROOKE GENERAL HOSPITAL Chapel No. 3 5:30 P.M. PROTESTANT SERVICES COLONEL JOHN C. McCALLY Sunday COMMANDING OFFICER Chapel No. 2 (900 Area) 10:00 A.M. BROOKE CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL Chapel No. 3 (1200 Area) 9:00 A.M. EPISCOPAL SERVICES COLONEL WARREN C. FARGO Sunday COMMANDANT Chapel No. 2, Holy Communion 10:45 A.M. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT JEWISH SERVICES ENLISTED TECHNICIANS SCHOOL Friday Chapel No. 2, Sabbath Worship 8:00 P.M. Vol. 2, No. 5 APN-8-21-M • EDITOR SUCCESS OR FAILURE Helen McCoy Public Relations Representative In the course of a lifetime we hear much about success and failure. Men toil and Lt. Francis J. Murphy sweat and sometimes even sell their souls PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER for this thing called success. Of interest to PHOTOGRAPHY everyone of us is this question: When is a Tec Wingate man a success in life and when is he a 5 Robert S. By d. S. Army Signal Corps Photos failure? this we don’t mean a success for one year or for twenty-five years. Nor CIRCULATION AND MAILING do we mean a success in medicine or law Bobbye Nell Kohlenberg or politics, but a success with regard to his whole life? To answer this question, let’s CARTOONS ask another. When is any instrument a Pfc. Stan Louis success and when is it a failure? We have only The Brooke Bluebonnet Broadcast, compiled one means of judging a fountain pen, and edited in the Public Relations Office, is pub- a typewriter, an automobile or any other lished expressly for the patients, military and instrument. The means is this: Does the civilian personnel of Brooke Hospital Center. instrument we judge do well the thing that Printed material, photos and cartoons from it was made to do or does it not? If it does, this may publication be reproduced provided it’s a success—if it doesn’t, it’s a failure. proper credit is given and specific prior permis- sion has been granted. Now we can use that same means in judging whether a man is a success or a failure. An instrument is something made by another for a specific purpose, and man conforms to that definition precisely. Man THE did not make himself nor did he establish for himself the purpose of his existence. CHAPEL God did both of these things. And so man must discover two things: the purpose of his existence, and the means to accomplish that purpose. If man does not do the thing he was made to do, like any other instru- SCHEDULE OF RELIGIOUS SERVICES ment, he is a failure regardless of what BROOKE else he accomplishes in life. He may be AT HOSPITAL CENTER a great businessman or a renowned doc- BROOKE GENERAL HOSPITAL CHAPEL: tor, but essentially he was never made for Sunday any of these things. Essentially man was Catholic Mass 6:15 A. M. & 8:30 A. M. made to know, love, and serve God and, Protestant Worship 10:00 A. M. by so doing, to save his immortal soul. If Protestant Vespers 7.30 P. M. complete KED CROSS AUDITORIUM. NEW HOSPITAL: he does that he is a success. If Sunday School for Children 10:00 A. M. (Continued on page 4) BROOKE BLUEBONNET BROADCAST Introducing Jlieutestant Qenenal Walton cM-. Walken, COMMANDING GENERAL EIGHTH SERVICE COMMAND General Walker, former commander of the XX Corps of the Third Army in its drive across France and Germany into Austria, assumed command of the Eighth Service Command on June 23rd. In his honor, upon his arrival in Dallas, Mayor Woodall Rodgers proclaimed General Walker Day. BROOKE BLUEBONNET BROADCAST SURPLUS ARMY EQUIPMENT service command who had traveled the AVAILABLE TO WORLD WAR II greatest number of miles within their sec- tions “in performance of their duties in VETERANS THROUGH SMALLER safeguarding the welfare of millions of WAR PLANTS CORPORATION troops in wartime travel.” Representing the Eighth Service Com- More than 150 veterans of World War mand was Acting Corporal Michael J. II try to buy surplus Army equipment Howey, 1831st SCU, San Antonio, Texas. every month from the Eighth Service Com- He has travelled 300,000 miles throughout mand to help set themselves up in small the Southwest. businesses. General Lerch reminded the men that But, although practically everything sur- their job “will become increasingly import- plus except real estate and aircraft equip- ant in the coming months when thousands ment is being sold to veterans on priority, of troops return from the battlefields and they must do business with the Smaller travel throughout the country.” War Plants Corporation instead of with • the Army. EXPERT AND COMBAT Lieutenant Colonel Edward F. Wilson, director of the service command property INFANTRYMAN BADGES disposal division, calls attention to the fact If you believe that you are entitled to an that the Army does not sell its surplus infantryman badge but haven’t received an goods direct, but transfers it to other gov- order announcing the award, you may make ernment agencies for disposition. application by letter to The Adjutant Gen- “New regulations have been published eral, through your present organization which extend to a veteran preference commander. through the Smaller War Plants Corpora- To make application for the infantryman tion, to buy $2500 worth of surplus govern- badge, either or expert, you should Col. Wilson said. combat ment property,” state detail the company, regiment, and veteran in “The decides what he wants to division in which you were serving when buy Smaller Plants and applies to the War you believe you earned the badge. In case office in the locality where he intends to you are applying for the combat badge, up his business. This agency makes the set state that you satisfactorily performed purchase him from the proper disposal for duty in ground combat against the enemy charging plus agency, no more than cost duty. In all delivery. and the dates of such cases, state the specific why you believe “Smaller War Plants, in effect, loans the reasons you earned the badge and such in- veteran its priority and makes the trans- other formation as you may believe will be help- action for him. bought under the preference ful in determining your right to such an “Property award. Don’t include present must be used to establish or forget to your regulations organization maintain a small business or professional and address. Upon receipt application by The enterprise, and used for re-sale of the is not to be the information Col. Wilson said. Veterans who Adjutant General, if sup- purposes,” contains all the elements wish to purchase surplus and second-hand plied necessary to right the an government property for re-sale may do so, establish your to award, order be and a of but bid for it without preference and will issued, copy the must order and in competition with other dealers. the badge will be forwarded for Veterans whose small businesses are ag- presentation. ricultural in nature need certification from Additional information is contained in the War Foods Administration before deal- Circular No. 134, WD, 1945. If you think ing with the Smaller War Plants Corpora- you have earned one of these badges, ask tion. your Personal Affairs Officer to help you • complete your letter of application. • EIGHTH SERVICE COMMAND SUCCESS OR FAILURE MILITARY POLICE WIN PLAQUE (Continued from Page 2) OF APPRECIATION he fails in that, nothing else matters; he Military police of the Eighth Service is a failure forever. Command shared honors with those of other The question proposed above is a great service commands in a recent recognition leveler and is no respecter of persons. When of “outstanding performance of duties a man comes to the end of his days on aboard the nation’s railroads.” A plaque of earth he must stand before God and answer appreciation was presented the MPs by just one question: “Did you do the thing David A. Crawford, president of the Pull- I made you to do or not?” On the answer man Company, in a colorful ceremony at to that question hangs the fate of the man the Union Station Plaza, Washington, D. C. for eternity. Present for the ceremony were Major Think it over. No man likes to be known General Archer L. Lerch, Provost Marshal as a failure. Don’t YOU be an exception!! General, and the enlisted men from each —Chaplain Thomas A. Hiznay BROOKE BLUEBONNET BROADCAST Inspection Tour Made At Brooke Hospital Center The group shown above which included staff members of the Brooke Hospital Center made a recent inspection tour of the old and new hospital sections and the Convalescent area which is now under construction. With Major General Howard Snyder, chief of the Medical Branch, Inspector General's Office, Washington, and Brigadier General Geo.

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