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EDITORIALS TUESDAY. MAY 18, 1954 Salute to the Senator One of the last personalities of ft past romantic era left us when Sen. Clyde Hoey died last week. Known as "the Duke" to his admiring colleagues in the Senate, he had that rare com bination of charm and political acumen that makes an outstanding statesman. A former editor and publisher, Sen ator Hoey has brought honor to his state and to the nation through his service in the United States Senate for the past nine years. He entered political life at <the age of 20 while still publishing The Cleve land Star at Shelby. He served two terms in the general assembly and in 1902 was elected to the State Senate. In 1919 he was elected to Congress and following his term there he decided to go back to law practice. In 1986 he returned to public life when he entered the gubernatorial pri maries. He defeated his opponent. Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, and following his term of governor stayed out of the po litical limelight until he went to the United States Senate in 1944. The tributes paid him by high gov eminent officials ring with sincerity. Of the distinguished North Carolinian with the frock coat and wing collar, Governor Umstead said: "His career in public service has been an inspira tion to all who admire and understand the value of leadership, integrity, abil ity and morality in government." Sen. Harry Byrd, Democratic Senator from Virginia : "I regard Senator Hoey as one of the ablest men with whom I have served." Vice-President Richard Nixon' "Sen ator Hoey followed procedures which were a model of fairness and which all committees and chairmen might well follow. It is particularly significant to no.te that under his leadership the Mc Carthy subcommittee over which Hoey presided as chairman prior to the 19K2 Republican victory went after facts rather than headlines." Senator Hoey reached heights in his political career that few North Caro linians can hope to equal. The finest tribute that we can pay him is to make his native state worthy of the wisdom and hard work that he devotedly ex pended in its behalf. How Should We View It? The American press, radio and TV have made reports on the Vietminh (Communist) general's allowing the French to evacuate their seriously wounded from the ill-fated fortress, Dienbeinphu. We have yet to see any editorial comment on the situation, favorable or otherwise. In our estimation, allowing the de feated army to remove its wounded from a fallen bastion is somewhat unique. Not being an authority on mil itary history, we're not prepared to say whether such has ever been done be fore, but in recent wars we cannot re call the Alljes allowing the Nazis to remove their wounded or the Japs al lowing us to remove our wounded. The usual procedure has been to take steps to prevent the wounded from recovering and re-joining their outfits. The Allies in recent wars have taken the wounded as prisoners. Our ene mies, we have been told, usually kill our wounded on the spot, trundle the able-bodied prisoners off to POW camps or ship them into the interior of Russia, never to be heard from again. Prisoners are a nuisance to a con quering army. The main advantage lies in their use as pawns in bargaining. Oc casionally they can be used as laborers if they can be transported back to the conquering army's homeland, but on the field they're a problem. Perhaps,J/ietminh General Vo Ngu yen Giap figured it was an easy out to let the French take care of their own wounded. Perhaps he was directed by his superiors to release the French pris oners because so doing 'might create a more favorable attitude toward the Reds at the Geneva conference. Per haps he figured that if the French were so stupid as to try to defend Dienbien phu, they wouldn't know how to use the rehabilitated men if they ever recover ed enough to be put back in the fight again . . . It's very difficult to believe that the French wounded were allowed to be evacuated on purely humanitarian prin ciples. Yet sometimes we have to give the devil his due. Maybe this is one of the times. Maybe not. Latest developments show that the arrangement for evacuation of wound ed was a screen to allow the Reds to move troops up to Hanoi without being observed by the French. The evacua tion of wounded from Dienbienphu has stopped. Again the Red mailed fist has been found beneath a velvet glove. * Monitor Wreck Tackled The weather has been no help re cently in efforts to raise the famed iron-clad, the Monitor, from the waters off Cape Hatteras. A retired mail car rier from Michigan and a couple re tired Army men have come to our windy coast to see if they can't raise the ship that tangled 'in 1862 with the Confederacy's Merrimac. The Monitor is believed to be in about 30 feet of water a thousand yards offshore from the Cape Hatteras light house. While she and the Merrimac proved in their historic battle that the era of wooden ships had passed, the Monitor which was built for the Union, succumbed to storms off Hatteras in December 1862. Many times there has been talk of raising the hulk and restoring it Sev eral years ago it was estimated that it would cost $135,000 to raise the ship. If that is just the cost of raising it, the cost of restoring it would make the total expenditure staggering. Some Elizabeth City folks believe that the State ought to appropriate funds for restoring the ship and putting it on the Cape as a tourist attraction. Others fear that Virginia or some other I state may try to get the Monitor from us. We have little sympathy with folks who want to spend state money, hun dreds of thousands of dollars of it, to restore historical relics. While the Mon itor is here and we're not in favor of its going: elsewhere if Tar Heels want to keep a Federal warship, that's all right. But another thing comes to mind too. Are we sure the wreck that is claimed to be the Monitor really IS the Mon itor? Not long ago on one of the Great Lakes citizens of a town spent a lot of time and money raiding a wooden hulk thought to be a famed Revolutionary war ship. They finally got it up and discovered it wasn't, after all, the ship they were after. Ninety-two years have passed since the Monitor tank. Much sand can shift and many a wind can blow in 92 years. And many a tale handed down from father to son can be distorted, unin tentionally, in the telling. Maybe the ship is the Monitor and maybe it isn't Maybe it will be raised and maybe it won't. Whatever might be done about the Monitor, w'e hope no tax money goea into the deal. Carteret County N?ws-Tim?s WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Muter of Tlx Bwufart Nm (bt 1SU) aad Tfce Twin Cttr Tlmae (Eat ISM) Pnbliabad Tuaadaya and Friday* by tbe Carteret Publ tohiau Company, toe. MM Arendell St, Monfceed City, N. C. i/vTrwnnrf wm.ij? _ wnu.mmi ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS ? ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L PEELING ? EDITOR Mail Rata: In Carteret County and adjoiiinc eountiM, (SAO aaa year, t>M tlx ?oatha, S1JS one month; otaanlii* *700 *ae year, K00 aU raontha, SMO aoa aoatb. * CtaS Matter at Morabead City, N. C, Uadar AM of Mirth I, ISIS. trance B&rtAJN 1 In the Good Old Days THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO The Norfolk Southern Railroad was advertising round trip week end (area to Beaufort and More head City. Tickets were good from Friday to Tuesday of each week. Miss Aletha Felton, who was graduating from Meredith College, was chosen class poet. The Elisabeth, . menhaden boat belonging to C. P. Dey, sank short ly after coming into Beaufort har bor. TWENTY -FIVE YEARS AGO Beaufort's new board, C. T. Chad wick, mayor, John Chaplain, C. S. Maxwell, Holloway Mason, Bayard Taylor and Wilbur Willis, commis sioners, held their first meeting. Atlantic Beach opened for the season. Darters Island students were un able to attend the county Educa tional Dky exercises becauae the weather was so bad and the sound so rough it was deemed unwise to attempt to make the trip. TEN YEARS AGO Robert Lee Humber would de liver the commencement address at the Beaufort High School gradua tion exercises. The Civil Air Patrol, which had been stationed in Beaufort from August of 1942 to the fall of 1843, had been disbanded. Miss Florence Douglas Smith was married to Jack Marquand Larrick, Lt? USMC, in the First Bautist Church, Beaufort. FIVE YEARS AGO A 62-acre tract of land on Bogue Banks was given to the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina by Mrs. Alice Hoffman. ? Quick action by I he Beaufort fire department sated a house owned by Earl Taylor and occupied by Earl Jarman on route 101. Morehead City commissioners announced that police were to warn anyone seen in bathing suits on Arendell street, between 7th and 10th streets, who were not properly attired. From the Bookshelf The Rum Why. By Cecil Wood ham-Smith, llcGr?w-Hill. In working on her last book, the admirable "Florence Nightingale," Mri. Woodham-Smith got a (tart on thii one, (or >he unearthed some phenomenal personalities who were principals in the charge of the Light Brijgade. Tennyson's words serve as her title. In that historic charge, less than 200 horsemen out of 700 survived, and 900 horses were slaughtered. The action was ordered by Lord Raglan; the order was delivered by his aide. Capt Nolan to Lord Lu can; Lucan communicated it to his brother-in-law, Lord Cardigan, who with matchless courage led his ill-fated men into Tennyson's "val ley of death." Lucan and Cardigan are the her oes, or villains, or pawns, of this extraordinary tale. Lucan had had some wartime experience, but Car digan was a barracks-room mar tinet Both men bad supreme and unshakable confidence in their own Judgment, sovereign scorn far the common man, and Utter contempt the one lor the other. If they had Just been on ordinary speaking terms, this author suggests, they would have discussed Raglan's un clear order and must have realised that the charge was aimed, feaaibly, at iaolatod redoubts and not, fatally, at the main Russian force standing safely behind its batteries. Beginning with family back grounds, the story shows the growth of the Imperious natures of this precious pair of nobles and tells of the courage without intelli gence, the promotions without mer it, the blatant favoritism. There are absorbing pages en the Cri mean venture ? the bloody scream ing horse*. the corpses bobbing la the wstre around the convoy, the hardship due to supidity, the mad charge itself when British soldiery wss at Its bravest. It's all fascin ating. A Feast for the Forgiven. By Vurrell Yentzen, Appleton-Century Crofts. ' In Louisiana ? on Bayou du Sang one morning within the mem ory of the living, Odon Landry lay in his coffin, a rosary in hit lingers, a bullet in his heart . . So begins this novel, symboli cally laid on the shore of Bloody Bayou, about the child Clotillia. She has a mother cat, Eva Lily, who has kittens; a horse, Slowpoke; Tante Cecile and Tante Annette, who between them never whip her but oblige her to say enough to> saries for a world full of sin; a ? playmate Andre; a nurse, cook, servant and loving friend Pearl; and neighbors like Elphege and Therese. She had an uncle, Odon, now murdered; a mother, her neck bro ken when a horse threw her; a father whom the aunts and Pearl try never to mention. No child could be sweeter or more innocent Clotillia can be bribed with cookies; she befriends a baby polecat; she steals a bite of crawfish before Comntunion. Then she turns. This tense and dramatic novel tells how she If wrenched and forced out of inno cence into knowledge. The steps of her progress are awful and some times violent: The shooting of the hawk and the horse; the savage charge of bastardy; the vengeance exacted by Elphege In his fury; the foaling, with block and tackle; the stubby male hands and the horrible hairy chest; and the aear ing flashes of recognition and un derstanding. All life gangs up and beata on the child at once in this brilliant and often touching story. Search ing revelations of the nature of a child alternate with gripping in cidents in a fast-paced plot. This is an abaolutely fresh and orig inal talent; don't you dare miss It tWaOOO UCOWAnvtoMctAv Public ytrnwlstanco Jan* Eadt Washington Washington ? While leading la dies of the Republican administra tion were basking in the limelight at a spectacular luncheon showing of California fashions, leading Dem ocratic ladies were staging an All States Bazaar to raise funds for their party. Headed by Mrs. Richard Nixon, wife of the vice-president, wives of Cabinet members viewed glam orous sequinned bathing auits, col orful sports costumes and fabu lous evening gowns at a luncheon attended by some 700 fashion-con scious women. Meanwhile, there was brisk busi ness going on at the Women's National Democratic Club. Some 4,000 loyal party members trooped into the clubhouse to pluck clean the various booths during the day long sale, highlighted with an auction conducted by Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas. This event brought the club $525. Among other Interesting Items sold was a still lif< by Mrs. Dean Ach eson, wife of the former secretary of state, which was purchaaed for 1100 by Mrs. Russell Long,' vife of the Louisiana senator, and a mod ern chest of drawers, contributed by the late Mrs. Cordell Hull, the wife of another former secretary of state, the chest waa sold to Mrs. Estes Kefauver, wife of the Ten nessee senator. Mrs. Oscar Chapman, attractive and energetic wife of the former interior secretary and president of the club, presided over the aale of items from her own state, Col orado ? copper ware, pottery, tooled leather, alabaster and a plant food invented by her sister, Mrs. Mary K. Heller of Colorado Springs. Mrs. Aime J. Forand, wife of the congressman from Rhode Is land, and Mrs. Clifford Davis, wife of the Tennessee congressman were co-chairmen of the bazaar, which featured articles from every state in the union and Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico. Coptain Henry Sou'easter Went to Cherry Point Saturday ind took in the magnificent air ihow put on by the Marines. While the moat spectacular exhi bition was the low paiaes over the grandstand by a sleek TOF-6 at probably more than 900 miles per hour, I was particularly Interested In the antics of the helicopters. About the only thing those fly ing machines won't do. Is talk. I was told it takea a good deal of experience to be an expert pilot of one of them. Another thing I Was told la that ? huge flying box car coata about 1230,000 while a relatively tiny F9F-4 swept back wing Jet coats i round a million dollars. It would take more than a million dollars to get me Into one of them even though I don't have much longer to go. At tfye Methodist Men's Club Itnner recently everyone was aak ?d to stand up and tell the name t>y which he la moat commonly known. Mr. William Muse revealed that he is best known as "Amy's >r other" SmiU a WhiU A couple of ScoUmen were inlklng along a road and on waa tingling something in hia pocket. Hit pal aaked, "Jock, you muat have plenty o I money In there." "Oh, no," aaid Jock, "that'a my nrUe'i (alae teeth. Thortl too nuch eating between meati in our This is the Law I; CBAKLES W. DANIEL F*r tfce N. C. Bar Association Divan* ud Alimony Did you know that if a husband or wife goes to another state from North Carolina for the purpose of getting a quick divorce, and doea not establish permanent residence or 'domicile" in the other state, the divorce ia not valid in North Carolina? Such ia our law. And if the person obtaining auch di vorce under the circumstances de scribed. remarrie* and returns to live in thia state, he or she. ia sub ject to prosecution for bigamous cohabitation. North Carolina has two kinds of divorce. One, "from bed and board." or partial divorce. Two, absolute divorce, after which the marriage status is completely dis solved as to the husband and wife and neither can later inherit prop erty from the other except by will. The first type of divorce is sim ply a "legal separation" entered upon the records of our Superior Court Under It the husband is still charged with the responsibility of supporting his wife, as well as the other obligation* imposed by the law upon a married man. Graunda for Divorce The North Carolina law lists sev eral grounds for allowing each type of divorce, upon petition to the Superior Court by the offended party. They are: For legal separation ? 1. If either party abandons the other; 2. "Maliciously turns the other out of doors;" 3. By cruel treatment endangers the life of the other; 4. Offers "such indignities to the person" of the other as to "make life burdensome;" 5. Becomes an habitual drunkard. For absolute divorce ? 1. Adul tery; 2. Natural impotency. which must have existed at the time of marriage; 3. If at the time of mar riage the wife is pregnant, but not by the husband, and such is un known to him; 4. Two-year separa tion; S. Crime against nature; 6. By special process after five years separation because of the insanity of the other party. Formerly the waiting period for divorce from an insane spouse was 10 years. The 1953 legislature reduced it to five years. Void Without Divorce North Carolina treats only two kinds of unions as absolutely void: "marriages" between white and Ne gro and certain Indiana, and, biga mous unions. In the eyes of the law these "marriages" never took place and have no binding effect upon either participant. Thus, court ac tion for divorce would not be necessary to "dissolve" such alli ances. They were void from the start. Our state will NOT permit ali mony in a petition for absolute di vorce. Alimony may be granted for proper cause, however, in an action for divorce from "bed and board." And, if a person receives a grant of alimony in a partial divorce suit, such alimony payments would not be automatically cut off upon a later petition for absolute divorce. Of course, any private arrange ments made between separated or divorced couples and which are not made parts of the divorce court record, would not be affected by our laws relating to alimony. What Price Alimony? The court in allowing alimony may grant up to ? but no more than ? one-third of the annual income from the estate, occupation or labor of the person from whom the divorce is allowed. If the con ditions of the parties, or either of them, later change, the court /nay order a change in the amount of alimony allotted, according to the circumstances then existing. From the language of our stat utes it seems that a man, as well as a woman, could ask for alimony. The writer knows of no case of record in North Carolina, however, in which the husband sought ali mony from his wife. The practice is fairly common in some western states. A married woman, upon affida vit and a finding by the judge of Superior Court that her conten tions are true, may be granted alimony pending her suit for EITHER TYPE of divorce. The legislature passed this law original ly in 1871, apparently on the the ory that a wife frequently might be unable financially to prosecute her suit and that, if she had a recognized cause for divorce, she ought not to be deprived of it for lack of necessary funds. If there are children in a home being broken by divorce, the court must decide the custody question in handling the case. No divorce case in our state can be tried without a jury. RuHi P? ling Editorial Writers Talk Politics at Chapel Hill I attended the Editorial Writers Conference at Chapel Hill over the weekend. But I didn't know much sooner than you did about the shooting in a fraternity house there. First thing I saw about it were the headlines in Saturday night papers In the lobby of the Carolina Inn. While one of the bell hops was helping me to the car with luggage Sunday morning, we were talking about the incident and he said that the boy who did the shooting "must have gone berkshire." "I said, "What?" He repeated it. And I said, "Oh." Berkshire or berserk, he was right. Aside from tearing each other's editorial* apart (not even the best editorial writers in the state escaped the critical eye of fellow editors) talk was mostly about (1) who will replace Senator Hoey and (2) the danger of McCarthyism. Nobody was willing to venture a gueas as to who Senator's Hoey's successor will be. The Sunday Charlotte Observer spelled out the qualification for the ideal senator when It said editorially: "North Carolina and the United States desperately need a -senator with International vision and do mestic soundness. It needs a man who has championed the cause of the man of business, and of the man with the shovel. It needs ? man who knows thst politics shouldn't be controlled by any clique but by the pure wishes of the electorate. This msn should be one who has proved by deeds in both public and private life that his mission is not one of selfish ness but one of assistance. He can not have shown any opposition to progress or improvement in the so cial or educational order." The Observer further reminds Today's Birthday rniT COMO. born Majr It, 1(U u Pierino Como, In Canons burg, Pa. One of the nation's most popular vocalists, be has gained wide fame not only Tla hla re cordings, but on radio and TV. At IS be waa a barber but gave It up to aing with dance btnda. He waa acclaimed drat popular linger to reach two million rword releases it same time. Now stars on CBS network's Perry Cono Show." Especially noted for his easy-gohif style and ' relaxed dalhwry. the Democratic factions of the state that there are men in the western part of North Carolina who meet those qualifications! Much to the surprise of Herbert Brucker, editor of the Hartford Daily Courant (oldest daily of con tinuous publication in the country), the majority of editorial writers at tending the Saturday night ban quet said their papers have spoken out against McCarthy. (Mr. Brucker delivered the banquet ad dress). He said their attitude is "en couraging" for up his way it seems as though the majority are ready to brand as Communist anyone who speaks or writes a word against McCarthy. Talked to Jonathan Daniels at the Saturday luncheon. He said he hasn't been to Carteret County for seven years. I warned him that he should pay us a visit soon or he'd need a map to get around 'cause we've changed so much since '47. Author of the Week mvemrMi;. to -v.ti Mary Noel, who work* In a li brary, found the material for her first book practically under her now ? on library shelves. The book Is ' "Villains Galore: The Heyday of the Popular Story Weekly," about some 40 weeklies which from 1840 to 1880 printed what looked theh like senaational fiction for what looked then like * mass audi ence. Born in Upper Montclair. N. J, graduated from Radcllffe and with M.A. and Ph.D from Coltunbia, aha has been employed at the New York Public Library, generally part-time, for the last decade. Ba ton then she waa connected with the New York City Housing Au thority.
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