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THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY, JULY 21, 1927
The Beaufort News
Published every Thursday at Beaufort, Carteret County
North Carolina
Beaufort Newt Inc., Publisher
WILLIAM GILES MEBANE Pres. and Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(In Advance)
One Year - $2.00
Six Moi:ths - 1-00
Thre- Months --- - 50
Entered as second-class matter February 5, 1912 at the
postofiice in Beaufort, Noith Carolina, under the Act
of Mhrch 3, 1879.
MEMBER NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION
THURSDAY JULY 21, 1927 "
The summer resort folder gotten out by the
Norfolk Southern Railroad this season is quite
an attractive one. It is nicely illustrated and
printed and describes more or less in detail all
of the resort places which may be reached via
this road. Morehead Bluffs, Morehead City
and Beaufort all come in for a good share of
publicity and no doubt they will derive con
siderable benefit from it.
Our neighbor the Herald, of Morehead City,
recently came to the bat with a 36 page spec
ial edition. The paper is well printed and has
quite a number of good pictures, writeups and
display advertisements. The advertisers who
patronized it and made the edition possible
are from New Bern, Beaufort and Morehead
City. The special edition is very creditable
and it took a good deal of hard work to bring
it out.
AERIAL TRANSPORTATION.
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HEARTY WELCOME TO
NEWSPAPER FOLKS
The North Carolina Press Association in the
half century of its existence, has held more
meetings in Morehead City than in any other
town in the State. In the old days there were
not many summer resorts in North Carolina
and of these Morehead City at one time was
perhaps the chief. The newspaper folks camo
there with their conventions as did many other
professions and trades. This year the Press
Association is holding its convention at More
head Bluffs which is a sort of suburb of More
head City.
This newspaper is voicing the sentiments of
the people of Carteret county we believe when
Ave say that we are all glad to have the news
paper publishers and editors in our county
.again. Aside from the valuable publicity
which no doubt they will give this section,
the people here know, as the people every
where know, that the press is one of the best
friends that it has. Publishers as a class
realize keenly enough the obligations which
they owe their reader. There are so many
points of contact between the people and the
press that there should be, and is, a bond of
sympathy between them. The people expect
the newspapers to act as sentinels on the house
tops, to jealously guard their rights-and to ad
vocate those things that are for the public
: good as well as act as purveyors of news. Any
body that is fit to be called an editor will try
to live up to these requirements and the mem
bers of the North Carolina Press Association
art of that sort. There is no body of men
and .women in the State that is more zealous
for the upbuilding of the commonwealth and
the republic than this association. It is glad
ly received here in Carteret county as indeed
it would be anywhere in North Carolina.
The. history of tht human race is very inti
mately associated with the subject of transpor
tation. It is a long stretch of time from the
Jay that the first bold savage floated down
some stream straddle of a log to the day that
Charles Lindbergh travelling at a speed of
more than one hundred miles an hour crossed
the Atlantic ocean. In each case it took a
brave man to do the deed. Both were im
portant events in mankind's history.
It has not been many years, many of us rec
olect the time well, when the height of the am
bition of every town or city was to get a rail
road. The places that had no railroads at all
-.vere desperately anxious for such facilities
and those that already had a road wanted an
other. Companies were organized, meetings
held, bonds issued to build railroads. Com
munities without railroads were shut in stag
nant and hopeless. Those fortunate enough
io have good railway facilities grew rapidly as
a general thing.
The past ten years has been an era of pav
ed roads. This was due to the invention and
development of the automobile. The gasoline
engine made it possible for every man to trans
port himself and his freight wherever he wish
ed to go, provided he had good roads to travel
over. And so we have all been interested in
the question of roads. Vast bond issues by
towns, counties and the State have made a
great net work of highways over North Caroli
na over which millions of passengers and
thousands of tons of freight are carried. We
are now at the very height of the good road
and automobile period and lo just over the
horizon we can see the approach of a vast ar
my of aeroplanes.
Within ten years there will hardly be a city
of importance in the United States, perhaps
in the world, that will not have landing fields,
depots and all the necessary paraphanalia for
aerial transportation. Regular schedules will
be maintained, mail, passengers, express and
considerable freight will be transported
through the skies at a terrific speed which
then will be accepted as a matter of course.
Moreover there will be thousands of private
flying vehicles in operation. Already small
machines costing around $2000 are being
manufactured and sold in considerable quan
tities. Large passenger planes carrying fifty
'.o one hundred people will be in daily use.
It may be too that large dirigible airships will
be used. Owing to their unwieldiness though
this seems doubtful, although such ships may
be used for long flights over the land or the
reas. Much capital and brains are being
used now to make improvements in the heav
ier than air machines. Already wonderful
improvements have been made since the
Wright brothers made their first successful
flight at Kitty Hawk. Twenty five years ago1
the automobile was still regarded as a toy.
Today the motor car is as recognized a neces
sity as the street car or locomotive, far more
so than horse drawn vehicles. Tomorrow the
Fame will be true of the aeroplane. We shall
all be transported to the skies yet, even if not
"on flowery beds of ease."
Press Gleanings
NEWSPAPERS DID IT.
HOTEL BUSINESS IS CHANGING.
From such information as this newspaper
has been able to gather the resort hotels are
not doing much this summer. It has been a
rather poor season so far, according to reports,
for both mountain and coastal resorts. Of
course great resort places like Atlantic City
and Coney Island always do business and per
haps the small ones that are near great cities
may be doing very well but unless business
picks up mighty fast North Carolina resorts
are gong to have a ratner nara time oi it.
Some say that the reason for th'e poor ho
tel business is that there has been a great deal
of cool weather this summer and this probably
has had a good deal to do with it. But there
must be a deeper cause than that and we be-
' iieve that the paved roads and the automo
bile are largely responsible. It seems strange
to say that good roads could hurt the hotel
business but they have certainly affected it.
Summer tourists now are mostly weekenders.
They are here today and gone tomorrow. They
visit a dozen different places in one season
instead of staying two weeks at one place as
they used to do.
This newspaper for more, than ten years has
advocated, with but little success, a modern
hotel for Beaufort. We have thought that a
f.ne tourist hotel here might pay, but we have
reached the point where we doubt it. It cer
tainly would not pay unless it had a great
deal of capital back of it, so that it could keep
running for several years until it got its bus
iness established. As we see it the only prac
tical hotel for Beaufort at this rime is a com
bined resort and commercial business hotel.
It ought to be located in the business section
of the town and ought to have. enough stores
and offices under it to pjy a large part of the
interest on the investment. It ouh: to be well
1 built, with all modern conveniences and well
conducted. ' Such a hotel buildmp, not too
large, ought to be a good paying inestment
here in Beaufort.
Slighting remarks about newspapers and the rvswa
they print are often heard, and "You can't believe
what you see in the papers."- fa a common reman.
Those who carelessly make this statement would know
that they are alive and but Tittle else if it were not for
the newspapers.
Take the case of Colonel Lindbergh. A month ago
he had no existence so far a3 the public knew. Com
paratively few saw him on Ms fE'giit from Los Angelw
to St. Louis and thewee to Nw York. Only a hand
ful saw him hop off for Ms- flight to Paris. A bare
dozen or so Americans saw Mm land in the French
capital.
Does anyone doubt that he made the flight? The
millions who suffered inconvenience to welcome him in
Washington and to yell themselves hoarse when he
reached Nw York had no doubts. And yet their
knowledge of him mod Ms. exploit had been gained
solely through the newspapers. But for the newspa
pers Lindbergh would today be but little better known
-,han he was while he was superintending the building
of his airship in California. (Miami Herald.)
BIBLE BEST SELLER.
said, rest to such an extent upon the
teaching of the Bible, that 'it would
be difficult to support them if faith
in these teachings should cease to be
practically universal in our country."
(New York Times.)
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Letters From Our
- Readers
HOSPITAL QUESTION AGAIN.
J
Songs of Plain Folks
Editor Beaufort News:
I want to say a little more a'vut
the bond issue. I understand that
this bond issue was planned out by
three men in the court house and I
was told by a friend that sheriff
Wade said it was the most damnable
shame that a set of men like these
were in Carteret county to allow any
such a thing to be done. Now my
dear readers you know they didn't
do it for the love they had for the
noor of this county for you know
that there is but few on the charitable
board of this county and I want
you to know that if the public char
itable work is run like all other pub
lic work is run, and you must know
that if you have to go there for
treatment you know from the way all
public work has been done in the
past that they would fare but com
mon Now, that is the way I look
at it. You may see different.
Now my readers this 13 the las
week that you can register so let me
beg you all that have not registered
yet to please not neglect it and then
on the first Saturday in August go
to the polls and cast yours and her
vote solid against any more bonds
on this county for Sheriff Wade says
that they have already more tax than
he can collect now. You must know
that they have something else in
view beside a hospital. You know
that if Dr. Royal cant make any mon
ey running a hospital for himself that
the county board of commissioners
cant save the county board any mon
ey running one.
Now I want you all to think over
this matter before you cast your
vote and if you can't think this mat
ter over within yourself go to God
and ask him to direct you right and
I am sure if you go to Him with a
right spirit He will lead you right and
your conscience will lead you t
vote against any more bonds on this
county for nothing. You know my
dear readers that we haven't got ov
er fifty cents value for the dollar we
pay out. Remember atnrday is the
last day for registering and dont for
get it for you cant vote if you do
not register. If I have told anything
that is not true in this letter I hope
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Rag-weeds drooping, corn leaves curled,
- Cattle panting in the shade,
Seems the day was surely made -,
Just for fishing. Good old World!
When the green "snake doctors"
In the lazy August sir
Tall m uhit. liu ran eomnare
Fishing poles and bait and lunch
Then to try the pasture lake.
If those finny boys don't take
Hook and all, I miss a hunch!
Sun's too hot to work the teams;
Let's go down where bubbles float
By the old flat-bottomed boat
Fish, and dream forgotten dreams.
9 Wmu NniHI" uto-
the Lord will forgive me.
From your friend for protection,
E. L. McCAIN.
Newport, N. C
OCEAN
The farmers are all busy getting
off their watermelons. Capt. Tolson
schooner Charmer took quite a lot
of them to New Bern Monday.
SWALLOWS POISON.
Quite a number of our people are
attending the protracted meeting at
Bethlehem M. E. church. There seems
to be much interest in the meeting.
A fishing party consisting of Mr.
Ferney George and family of Com
fort left here Sunday after spending
several days here last week.
Messrs. A. M. Weeks and J. H.
Parker made a business trip to New
Bern today.
Fayetteville, July 19 Mrs. F. E.
Smith Jr. of thic city, is ill in a local
hospital from the effects of a poison
tablet taken by mistake for Aspirin.
It was said at the hospital tonight thai
it was thought she would reciver.
Mrs. Smith, suffering with a severe
headache, according; to members of
her family, sought a bottle of Aspirin
tablets in a medicine closet without
making a light and procured bichlo
ride of mercury instead. She is the
daughter of "Mr. and Mrs. C. W.1 Sex
Thrift Campaign.
"I hear you give your little boy at
quarter every week, for good behav
ior, Ignatz."
"Sure, but I fool him. I told him
the gas meter was a little bank I
bought him." (The Open Road.)
A News Item!
The Bible still holds the first place in circulation m
nong books in America. At the eleventh annual meet
ing of the American Bible Society last week it was
announced that the circulation in 1926 approached 10,
000,000 copies (the exact figure being 9,917,361 wol
jmes), an increase of more than a half-million over
the preceding year, making a total circulation under
the auspices of this venerable society of 184,028,860
volumes. This doubtless includes copies sent to oth
'.r parts of the world, but even so it does not include
an enormous circulation through other agencies. Last
month the British and Foreign Bible Society at its one
hundred twenty-third meeting over whL-h the lord may
or of London president, celebrated the purchase in
China alone for last year of "well over 4,000,000 vol
umes," and its own publication in all of 10,128,087
copies of the Bible in no fewer than 592 languages.
When a million members of a single denomination in
America are asked to read a chapter a day in one of
he books of the Bible, it is easy to understand why
the circulation mounts; for what is true of one is in a
measure true of all. It is to be noted also that in
Ihis state credit may now be given through regents'
counts for the study of the Bible outside of the schools,
nnd that under a decision of the court of appeals all
public school pupils may be excused for attendance up
on religious instruction, also outside of the schools.
Phis is permitted in several other states. The Bible
is likely to keep its place i" a nation the foundations
of whose society and government as President has
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