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| CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES f Carteret County's Newspaper J EDITORIALS FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1958 Do Civil Laws Make a Sabbath? A special committee of the North Carolina Merchants Association is mak ing a study of business organizations' remaining open on Sundays. "Open on Sunday" seems to be a growing trend ' throughout the nation. Thompson Greenwood, executive vice-president of the merchants associ ation, says, "Information reaching our pffices from various sources seems to indicate the situation will worsen if it continues in the present direction . . ." This comment reveals that there is 'belief that Sunday retail business is a bad thing. Is it or isn't it? Opinions differ. We do not see why any business, if it can close on Sunday, would want to remain open, but neither do we see a need for passing laws or setting up rules as to whether busi nesses may operate on Sunday. | Lots of businesses are open on Sun day ? restaurants, drug stores, gro cery stores, delicatessens, theatres ? the list is endless. Only within the past several years have "hard goods*' stores taken to staying open. These are stores such as appliance outlets, wholesale houses, car dealers and other busi nesses which cater to leisurely shop ping involving the family. This trend is apparently viewed by 'some as "alarming". Alarmed are members of religious organizations, and some are the businessmen who see 'their competitors staying open on Sun day and feel they must do the same thing. To pass laws favoring a religious be lief gets one in dangerous territory. Some religious organizations observe Saturday as the Sabbath. Some observe Sunday. The Saturday observers have as much right as the Sunday observers to press for closing of business places on Saturday! If a person's belief puts his Sabbath day on a certain day of the week, that person may observe the day in the manner he sees fit. If he doesn't want to go shopping or see a baseball game, that's his business. If he wants to spend the day in worship at a church of his choice, that's his business too. Benjamin Franklin had a comment on religion. He said that a religion is probably a bad one if it has to call on civil law to support it. "Blue laws" are not new to this country. They were prominent in co lonial days. As years progressed they were not enforced. They remained on law books as a curiosity until re-codifi cation in recent years has removed most of them. Now the pendulum is swinging back again. We would certainly hate to be a member of any governing body or committee delegated to say which busi nesses shall remain open on Sunday and which shall not. The decision lies in action by the people ? not rules by the people. A man who does no business on Sunday will not stay open. Shed a Tear tor Progress In today's paper is a report on Caro lina Telephone and Telegraph opera tions for the year 1957. Originating in Carolina Telephone company offices, this report tends to make the reader believe that the phone company is mak ing fabulous progress. The facts it sets forth are an attempt (.o justify the phone company's request for an increase in rates. If s- nice to claim a lot of "first*1' such as microwave systems and direct distance dialing, but the telephone cus tomer ponders whether it's more neces sary tq be "first" in modern advance ments. or more necessary to give good solid (ervice. The telephone company will argue that modern innovations are necessary to keep pace with other phone com panies and to prepare to give "good solid service" in the future. If direct distance dialing from Washington, N. C., is the first of its type in the state and one of the first in the entire south east, as the phone company says, it i seems as though Carolina Telephone is way ahead of other telephone com panies. Other telephone companies, appar ently, feel that regular maintenance and service expenses are more import ant to a customer right now than being able to dial directly to California with out having to call the operator. We certainly feel sorry, too, for the stockholder who received a dividend of only $7.38 per share last year. Com < pared with dividends paid by other phone companies, this probably is low. Compared with dividends paid by non utility companies, this is sky high. And persons who bought Carolina Tel and Tel stock at prices lower than its pres ent quotation are making a killing. Another utility company in this area is growing too. It sells power. It needs money for expansion. This company, i however, has not asked for an increase in rates. Although it may be contem plating such, facts seem to indicate that the company is getting the money it needs by issuing stock and bonds. r The company has invested $204, 000,000 in new plants and equipment since World War II j Last week the company issued $20 million in bonds at a rate of 4 per cent interest. Maybe the power company can do that because it has a better status in financial circles than Carolina Tele phone. The telephone company main tains that it can't (at money cheaply by borrowing nor is it economical to istue more stock! Carolina Telephone has announced that it is going to improve the tele phone equipment in Beaufort. We' don't know whether this is a case of the squeaky wheel getting the grease or whether the phone company would have made with this move had people in Beaufort not protested the rate raise ! The telephone company moves in strange and wondrous ways. And it's always the customer who pays. Many a Slip . . . Ancaeus, king of the Leleges in Sa mos, planted a vineyard ; and so heavi ly did he oppress his slaves that one of them, it is said, prophesied to him that he would never live to taste the wine from the grapes. When the wine was made, the king sent for his slave, and said, "What do you think of your prophecy now?" The slave made answer, "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip." The words were scarcely uttered when Ancaeus was informed that a wild boar had broken into his vineyard and was destroying it. Ancaeus, setting down the cup un tasted, hastened to the attack to drive out the boar; but he was killed in the encounter. ? Sunshine Magazine Worry is like a rocking horse ? it keeps you going, but it never gets you anywhere. Carteret County Newt-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort News (E?t. 1912) and The Twin* City Timet (Eft. 1936) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. 504 Areodeil St, Morehead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Mail Raws: In Carteret County and adjotnlnc Coaottoo, *00 one year, HJO six months, I1.2J one month; ?U?where <7.00 one year, M00 ala months, $1.30 aoe month. Member at Associated Press ? N. C. Press Associatioc National Editorial Association ? Audit Bureau o I Circulations Nation si Advertising Representative Moran A Flacber, Inc. 10 East ?0th Street, New York 10, N. T. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to Me lor republication of local am printed in this newspaper, as well aa all AP news < Entered as Second Claao Matter at Morehead City, N. C? Under Act at March 1, 1*79 THEY HAVE TO BE ASSEMBLED TO WORK Security for You... Nearly three million people last year paid more Social Security tax than they had to. If you're one of them and you haven't claimed a refund, there's still plenty of time to do so. How could you overpay your Social Security tax? By working for two or more em ployers and earning more than a total of $4,200 last year. For example: Suppose you worked last year for the ABC Wid git Co. which paid you wages of $3,800 and for the DEF Widgit Co. which paid you $3,600. Under the Social Security law, both compan ies were required to deduct a two per cent tax for Social Security from the money you earned. Each company had to do so without re gard to the deductions being made by the other. This means that you paid So cial Security tax on $7,400 in wages or a total of $148. The ABC Widgit Co. deducted $76 (two per cent of $3,800) and the DEF Widgit Co. de ducted $72 (two per cent of $3,800). And, U means that you paid too much tax. Under the Social Se curity law, you only needed to pay the two per cent tax on $4,200 of what you rarned last year? or $84. So, now you're due a refund of $64. That's the difference between the $84 you needed to pay to meet the requirements of the Social Se curity law and the $148 you ac tually paid. How do you know for sure whe ther you overpaid your Social Se curity tax? Get out your federal withhold ing tax statements for last year. On each statement, you'll notice a small square with these words printed in it: F.I.C.A. employee tax withheld, if any. Now, total the amounts of money you find entered in the square on each of the withholding state ments. If the total is more than $84, you're eligible for a refund. How do you claim the refund? Since the Internal Revenue Ser vice collects the taxes for Social Security, it's to the IBS that you apply for the refund. The claim should be filed at the office of the District Director of Internal Revenue where you filed your income tax return. It should be made either on a Form 843 which you may get from your Dis trict Director or on an amended tax return. If you need help in claiming the refund, you can get it from the internal revenue people. Incidentally, if you fail to claim the Social Security tax overpay ment during the year in which you made it, you may claim it within the following two years. After that, no refund is possible. For example: Suppose you over paid your Social Security tax for 1956. You have until Jan. 1, 1938, to make your claim. Although an employee may claim a refund if he prid too much tax because he worked for two or more employers, hia employers who had to match the employee'! deductions may not claim ? re fund. The Social Security law views such employer payments as part of the cost of running t business. In 1955, more than 60 million dollars was paid out in refunds to 2,900,000 workers. The average refund was about $19. (Editor's Note: You may con tact the social security repre sentative at the courthouse an nex, Beaufort, from l:M a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday*. He will help you with your awn particu lar problem). American Genius Red Star, the Soviet Army news paper, enlightened its readers the other day on the state of mental health in America. "It is well known," said the paper, "that there are several million lunatics in the United States." True enough, we suppose, but the genius of the American system is that it has divided its lunatics into two parties thus keeping half of them out of office half the time. We would feel safer if they were so divided in Russia. ? The Charlotte News Loulw Spivey Words of Inspiration WITHOUT A CAI.ENDAK We know, without a calendar . . . it's March, The curtaini hang in grimy (olds ... no starch . . . The walls have turned a sickly shade of gray, The cobwebs in the corner lightly sway . . . The windows all need washing . . . there's no doubt, The neighbors can't see in ... we can't see out . . . And mud tracks in on carpets, and on floors, Reveal that spring like rain prevails outdoors. A bird with red breast soars in sudden flight, Above a lad who flies a windswept kite . . . The breeie jerks off a cap ... the raucous tease . . . From head of boy, who sits on bended knees . . . Shooting marbles into a lopside ring . . , What better signs could so forecast that Spring Is just around the comer . . . within call. The winter's grime collected on the wall . . . The rains that wash the earth 'til stones shine pearly Say old Dame Nature starts spring cleaning early. The robin, minus time-table to pursue, Arrives on schedule, chirping out, "Good news!" And little lads, can sense exactly when . . . It's time for spring . . . kite, marble time again. It's March, without a calendar, we'd know . . . For robins . . . winds . . . and small boys tell us so. ? Betty Stuart SOME FOLKS SEE IT It was Emerson who wrote, "When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying." Within the grounds of every parsonage we occupied, my husband and I were hosts to more than our share of God's beautiful creatures. Our email daughter grew up looking for the first blue bird and waiting for his lofty whispered song. And the speckled-throated thrush was her favorite singer. At 6 years she made this wise observation, "Wherever we go, Mother, God has been there before us, making it beautiful. He knows we love the bluebirds and the thrushes and He never fails us!" Unforgettable was our colored caretaker's favorite theory, "It all de pends on what you is lookin' fa. De good Lord puts lots of beauty in dia world. Some folks see it ? some don't." God knows our need of nature and beauty, "lie hath made every thing beautiful in His time ? " And, lie filled the world brimful! ? Mrs. Tom Carter The very first song that I heard my daughter sing in church was "Our Heavenly Father made the birds and showed them what t j do. If God so loved the little birds, I know He loves me too." Since that day, birds have seemed a little dearer to me. I have thought of these lines often. It is a beautiful sight to me to see a farmer plowing the soil and our seagulls surrounding him. Another nice thought that I would like to pass on to you is the one about "March Winda". Sometimes they are very strong, and many of us complain. I always felt this way too until 1 read aomewhere that it was "God's way of pruning the trees." Let us carry these two thoughts of God's care in our hearts when we think of March. Library, Free World's Brain , Heart By MRS. J. 0. BARBOUR JR. Chairman, County library Board Words are powerful. And it is when they are written down, to be passed on, that they attain their greatest, most enduring ?fleet. William Saroyan, the author and playwright, ih fact, thinks that the real life of a language depends on this writing down. As he puts it, "Talk is OK for ssying hello and good bye, but after that everything must still be written." He points out, "We achieved written lan guage in the first place because we couldn't keep very much in Our heads." And after all, maybe this is the printed word's greatest magic. It saves for us much more than men could ever keep in their heads to pass along. Books bring us more experiences than we could ever Washington Report By SEN. W. KERR SCOTT WASHINGTON ? Last week, at the annual Congressional banquet of the North Carolina Democratic Club of Washington, I had the F. C. Salisbury Here and There The following information i> taken from the flics of the More head City Coaster: FRIDAY, MARCH 28, ltlt Earl Piner of the US Navy if spending several days in the city with relatives. Mn. Velna Fulcher, after spend ing several months here, returned to Atlantic Monday. Friends of Willie B. Guthrie of Harkers Island will be glad to learn that he is improving since an op eration. W. A. Gales, superintendent of the Virginia-Carolina Farms, Beau fort, who has been receiving treat ment at the hospital, is improving. W. W. Smith and A. H. Webb Sr., left Thursday for Newport where they will spend a few days fishing and hunting. Among those who are building and repairing are Dr. Frank Sta ton, Capt. Leslie A. Moore, C. W. Styron and Roy Lincoln. A. T. Webb Jr. has installed a large Western Union clock in the passenger station. Work on a new garage will be gin next week, the building to be 60 by 33 feet and located near the corner of Sth and Evans Streets. I. C. Stallings will be the proprietor. Little Olena Anderson, daughter of Mrs. Armicie Anderson, died last Friday at the age of one year and nine months. Her father died when she was an infant. Mrs. Hattie Fulcher, age 47, died at the family home In the Holly wood section (Camp Glenn) on last Friday. Webb-Nelson and Company this week installed a large National cash register in their establish ment. W. Holt Bell and Charles Nelaon have purchased Uw machine shop owned by T. C. Willis and will con duct the business under the name of Nelson & Bell. Twelve-year-old Joseph Salter of Bettie had three of his fingers blown off as a result of a gun shell explosion. Joe put the shell in the kitchen stove. Trying to remove theihell it exploded in his hand. The Bank of Newport, the coun ty's newest institution in the bank ing circles, opened its doori this week to the people of the western part of the county. C. W. Rhodes, the cashier, is one of Carteret County's prominent young men, a former school teacher of Atlantic. Officers of this new bank are C. R. Wheatly, president, and L. C. Carroll, vice-president. Directors are W. L. Oglcsby, C. A. Bell, E. H. Hill, Leon Mann and A. L. Wil son. Honor roll for the Morehead City Graded Schools for the month end ing March 21: 1-A, John Theodore Willis; 3-B, Leroy Guthrie; 2nd, Leslie Hancock, Elizabeth Bell, William ldleburg, Rachel Gillikin, Ruth Long; 3-A, Herman Guthrie, Jack Daniels. 5- A, Catherine Wallace, Keta Gl?nn Willis, Neta Mac Lewis, Alice Bennett, Blanche Lee; 5-B, Corrall Becton, Tamar Guthrie, Rudolph Lewis, Beulah Lewis, Mary Lewis, Edna Earl Willis. James Newman Willis; <-B, Chris tine Nichols, Edwin Lewis, Brad ley Mcintosh, Ola Bell Hcaden, Vila Mae Styron, Ruby Willis, Eloise Alford. ?-A, Beraice Dobson, Alma Jack son, Doris Nelson; 7th, Ruth Leary, Y. Z. Newberry, Addle Philips, George R. Wallace; Mh, Kathleen Piner, Joseph Harrell,. Leroy Guth rie, Hoaa Willis; 8th, Evelyn Beed. honor of awarding certificates of appreciation ? in behalf of the club ? to the four Congressmen from our state who serve as com mittee chairmen in the House. I think it was fitting that the N. C. Democratic Club of Wash ington decided to make such awards of appreciation for the fine public service that has been ren dered by these outstanding men, Reps. Harold Cooley, Graham Bar den, Carl T. Durham and Herbert Bonner. No one in the history of our state has done more for the advance ment and betterment of North Carolina than these representatives in Congress. In the almost four years I have been In Washington, I have found each one of /them most coopera tive in working on projects and problems that affect the people of North Carolina and the natioa. Congressman Cooley is recog nized as one of the nation's most informed experts in the field of agriculture. As chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Con gressman Cooley haa been instru mental in the passage of all bene ficial farm legislation that has gone into effect during the past 2S years. Nowhere is there a stronger advo cate of the importance of a sound farm economy. Congressman Harden is one of the most powerful men in the House as chairman of the Commit tee on Education and Labor. First and foremost, he ia a strong be liever in the rights of the individ ual. A rugged individualist him self, he has done a great 0eal to bring into being many valuable programs and projects that have been important in the growth and development of North Carolina and the nation. As chairmsn of the Joint Senate House Committee on Atomic Ener gy, Congressman Durham occupies one of the moat important positions in the nation. Military and scien tific leaders alike have daep re spect for Us knowledge of the atomic energy program and his de votion to duty. Congreaaman Bonner la recog nized as the natioo'a outstanding expert in the fields of water trans gain first-hand. And a library of them ia the collective brain of the whole human race ? and the vital heart of any free society. Dictators have always known about this. Whenever they have wanted to kill ideal, tbey have banned newspapers, burned books, even killed their authors. Today w* are envied by people all over the world, for the free expression we take for granted in our books, magazines and newspapers. Of course, there is a battle for the mind in America, too. Psycho logical selling methods surround us today. Reading is one of the most important declarations of mental independence left to us. The act of reading must still be conscious ly performed. The reader mast still make up his own mind about the words he takes in. And this act of communion be tween writer and reader has never been more timely. It is an adven ture of the mind, in an age when more people than ever before are looking for a challenge beyond that of commercial success. The time is right; Americans have not found the fulfillment they need in material things. In this year of prosperity we. as a nation, take ? million aspirin tablets a day. We gulp 20 million sleeping pills each night, and 20 million more pills to jog us awake in the morning. This year 40 million tranquilizer pills will be sold, to cushion the frustrations and dissatisfactions of daily life. Does this sound as if prosperity has made us happier? One trend emerging from Ameri ca's search (or fulfillment is the accent on family living. Social life has returned to the home as its center. The time is right to bring reading back there, oto. Reading aloud at home can make family life constructive mentally as well as emotionally. The redis covery of the intellect can be a shared experience, with those we care about most. Standing ready to guide and stimulate this reading revival are our school and public libraries. Their professional standards are higher, their programs more va ried, than ever before. If America can be started on its way back as a nation of readers, every community will feel the im pact in years ahead. More discern ing readers of newspapers and magazines will give us more well informed voters. Youngsters who discover the mental challenge of reading will have a better chance to get into over-crowded colleges. Industry will find its job-holders better able to grasp the masses of information needed today. Libra ries will have more readers for their books, and will provide even more books for their readers. All of you can be part of this upsurge of reading ... by encour aging those around you ... by fostering reading in your own home ... by visiting your library . . . and by rediscovering for yourself the excitement, the pleasure and the challenge of the printed word. From the Bookshelf Maggle-Now. By Betty Smith. Harper. $4. In her direct unsubtle way, fa miliar to aeveral million readers of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Betty Smith again takes us back over the East River to the Irish Catholics, their family problems, their money troubles, their getting jobs, falling sick, being buried, and carrying on the same ever lasting pattern? once a tree grows in Brooklyn, always a tree grows there. portstion and commercial fish eries. As chairman of the Commit tee on Merchant Marine and Fish eries, Congressman Bonner haa been a key figure in the develop ment and success of the nation's merchant marine and fisheries in dustries. It has taken a great deal of hard work, and a long time, for these four North Carolinians to reach the podOoos of leadership they bold to day. Aa North Caroliaiana we should remember that these men make op the largest gimp of committee chairmen of any atate delegation in the House. Together, they have M years of service in the House. All of us, regardless of political party affiliation, ought to be proud of these men. They art doing a great deal for tbelr state aad their This time Pit, * boy-o in Ire land, lovci a 17-year-old black haired sweetheart but hi* mother hates to have him marry her, her mother and brother hate to have him not, and he escape* to Amer ica. Instead, he marriea a ward poli tician's daughter, Mary. They have two children, one of them Maggie-Now, and we're launched In this new, or sort of new, novel. Impudent young fellow* want to kia* the pretty girl, and more, but she puts them off, or her father does It with a poke in the nose to unwdome suitors. Then she meets Claude. Maybe he should have poked Claude, too, but there'* a dependable rosy ro mance before it ends. For page after page, over 400 of them, it's the wedding, the clowning, the birth and death, the brogue, the Irish temper, the clay pipe, the pail of beer, the rent, the taxes, the cousins, uncles, Mi ters and brothers. ? W. R. Sogers Just in Passing . . . "When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know it, to admit that yon do not? this is true knowledge." ?Confucius Moat folks eaa keep a secret, but the folks (bey toll it to cut.
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