CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Carteret County'* Newspaper
EDITORIALS
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1958
Why Give to Cancer?
The incidence of cancer in this coun
ty is high. It would seem, then, that the
activity here in preventing and curing
cancer would be proportionately great
1 This has not been the case with the
average citizen. A handful of dedi
cated people have in the past 10 years
attempted to keep alive a county unit
of the cancer society.
This year for the first time, an or
ganization, the Carteret Business and
Professional Women's Club, lias as
sumeyd responsibility for reorganizing
k the Carteret Cancer Society and con
ducting the Cancer Crusade which is
now in progress.
This weekend a concerted effort will
be made to collect funds. Tiny red*plas
tic swords, symbolic of the crusade
against cancer, will be sold in Beaufort
and Morehead City. Sunday will be ob
served as Cancer Sabbath.
What will be done with the money?
Forty per cent will remain in this coun
ty. The remainder goes to the state and
national societies. This is the same pro
cedure followed in other campaigns,
heart, polio, crippled children. The
more collected in the county, the more
that will remain here.
Some people say, "WelJ, I don't
, know why I should give to the cancer
society. I haven't seen anything they
have done in this county!"
Some people njust see before they
will believe. The newly-organized Can
cer Society is going to try to show peo
ple that the cancer society does help.
Already two cancer patients, whose fi
nancial resources are limited, are being
aided by the cancer society.
What Doubting Thomases do not see
is the increasing number of persons,
throughout the nation, who have been
cured of cancer ? because they learn
ed the symptoms, went to their doctor
immediately and were able to take ad
vantage of the new advances in science
? which have made cancer retreat.
For years, only one of every four per
sons who had outer was being savfcd.
i Because of the advancement in re
search, in discovery of new methods for
treating cancer, one in every three is
being saved today. This advancement
has been possible because of funds vol
untarily given each April to the cancer
society.
Some people ask, why doesn't the
cancer society take care of all cancer
patients the way the polio foundation
takes care of all polio patients? Here
is the answer: cancer strikes 250 out of
every 1,000; until the Salk vaccine,
polio attacked only 25 out of every
1,000! Think seriously about that. Can
cer is costly to treat. It is doubtful if
any voluntary campaign could raise
enough to treat every cancer patient.
The hope lies in the laboratory and in
early detection of cancer.
With the 40 per cent of the total
county cancer fund that will remain
here, needy cancer patients will be
helped. How much help they will get
depends on how much Carteret folks
give. To our way of thinking, no nobler
crusade can be undertaken than the
crusade against cancer. Won't you help
with both your moral and financial
support?
Reflecting on Life . . .
The tragic death of the 18-year-old
Coast Guardsman last week indicates
that the military services might well
consider issuing a reflectorized item of
clothing which men could wear while
walking along highways at night.
It is true that Gay Harold Rogers,
the boy struck by a pickup and fatally
injured, was walking on the wrong side
of the highway. One wonders, however,
whether a motorist, with lights on low
beam would have seen Rogers in his
blues, had he been walking facing traf
fic.
For military services to ignore a sim
ple safety precaution, such as an arm
band or belt which would reflect car
headlights at night, is to invite military
pfllestriafF ' tragedies similar tor the
Rogers death.
Worth of a Roof .
Lloyd A. Fry, head of one of the na
tion's outstanding roofing concerns,
keenly analyzed ills of the asphalt
roofing industry before a senate sub
* committee recently. A Fry plant, lo
cated at Morehead City, figures promi
nently in the county's economy.
Walter Edwards, manager of the
plant, commented last week on the
pitiably low investment most home
builders put in roofs. Less than 1 per
, , cent, and once in a while 1 per cent of
the total cost of a home goes into the
roof.
Yet, he continues, that roof is sup
posed to protect everything in the
house. It is the only partition between
humans, their valuable belongings ?
and hurricane, wind, hail, snow, sleet
and relentless heat.
A leaking roof can cause untold
damage to walls, furnishings, and in
ternal structure of a home. Yet the
average home builder seldom takes in
, to consideration the importance of a
roof. If corners are to be cut on cost,
the cut usually comes in the roofing.
Before the senate subcommittee, Mr.
Fry pointed out that federal agencies
charged with regulating the type of
materials put in government-financed
buildings are sadly negligent when it
comes to roofing.
? The government guarantees pay
' ment of a mortgage on a house for up
to 30 years, yet allows a roof on that
house that can last no longer than 10
years I
Mr. Fry contends that the govern
ment is sadly at error when it allows
substitute roofing products to be used
in the government-controlled parts of
the building industry. This leads to
price cutting and to a general deteri
oration of the quality of asphalt roof
ing because manufacturers, large and
small, begin cutting on quality of ma
terial so that they can meet cost com
petition.
The senate investigation of the roof
ing industry came about as the result
of allegations that big companies are
monopolizing the industry, jeopardiz
ing small producers and cutting price
to keep the little fellow out of the com
petition picture.
Mr. Fry, who has built his business
on quality shingles and "proven-on-the
roof performance" has fought misrep
resentation in the asphalt roofing in
dustry all his business life. Substitute
ing inferior materials in shingles has
put lots of roofing concerns in the red.
In spite of the corner-cutting, many
still can't meet the prices of other pro
ducers. In the end, it's always the con
sumer who suffers.
The buyer thinks he's getting a bar
gain when he pays a pittance for a
roof. What he fails to see is the roof
failing and causing damage to every
thing in his house a few years hence.
Mr. Fry's for quality roofing at rea
sonable cost. But as long as the govern
ment encourages substitutes, he's light
ing a lonely battle.
Carteret County NewvTimes
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Security for You ...
By RAY HENRY
From B A. of New York City:
"I've been working for a company
for about seven months r.ow. Be
cause of something my boss said,
1 got the impression that he
wasn't sending in the Social Se
curity tax that he should be. Na
turally, I don't want my rights to
be put in danger. Is there some
way I can have a chcck made of
whether he's sending in the tax
money? I don't want him to know
that I asked to have a chcck
made."
You should get in touch with the
nearest Social Securty office im
mediately. Ask that office to make
the check. If it's found that your
boss is not making the proper
tax payment, the Social Security
people will take appropriate ac
tion.
From Mrs. W. R. 0. of Pitts
burgh: "My husband and I have
been collecting Social Security
payments for nearly a year. I've
been getting the payments on the
basis of my husband's record of
work under Social Security. If my
husband should go back ot work
and his payments stop because of
his earnings, will my payments
be stopped also?"
Yes.
From A. C. D. of Decatur, 111.:
"What is the present percentage
that an employer deducts from an
employee's wages for the Social
Security tax? How much does the
employer have to pay?"
The present tax is Z'4 per cent
of the first $4,200 a year in earn
ings. Thus, the most a person has
to pay in Social Security tax is
$94.50. An employer must pay an
equal amount.
From Mrs. J. A. of New Orleans:
"Several days ago, a friend
showed me one of your columns
F. C. Salisbury
in which you described the re
quirements for paying Social Se
curity tax for domestic help. I
didn't read it carefully because I
was sure that it didn't apply to
me because I don't have a full
time maid. She only works for me
one day a week. Since then, how
ever, I've been wondering if I
shouldn't be paying the tax for my
maid. Please let me know."
If you pay your maid $50 or
more in wages every three months,
you must pay Social Security tax.
You ?an get the proper forms and
complete details about how to pay
the tax from the nearest Social
Security or Internal Revenue of
fice.
From M. C. of San Bernardino,
Calif.: "When a person reaches
65 and becomes eligible for Social
Security payments, must he ac
tually file some sort of an apfAi
cation to collect the payments?
Or, does the Social Security office
keep track of such things and
automatically .start tfce pay
ments?"
A person must always apply.
From S.C.K. of Albany, N. Y.:
"A!y wife died nearly five years
ago. We had no children. If I
should die, would it be possible to
tell the Social Security office to
make monthly payments to my
sister? I support her and she'll
have very litlte to live on if I
should die."
Under the Social Security law,
it's net possible for your sister to
collect monthly payments based
on your Social Security record.
(Editor's Note: You may con*
tact the social security repre
sentative at the courthouse an
nex, Beaufort, from 9:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. Wednesdays. He will
help you with your own particu
lar problem).
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Here and I here
The following information li
taken from the files of the More
bead City Coaster:
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1*11
Horace Mizell left Sunday for
Philadelphia to spend a few days
on business.
Gordon Webb and James Lewis
returned to St. Paul's School Sun
day night, after spending the week
in the ctiy.
R. E. Hcidt of New Bern ar
rived in the city Monday to finish
the civil engineering work.
K. G. Hawkins returned to the
city Tuesday after spending a few
days with relatives in Burlington.
Theodore R. Webb has returned
home after several months' ser
vice in the Army at Camp Sevier.
The Misses Sara and Ruth Willis
left Friday afternoon for a short
visit with their mother, Mrs. B.
W. Willis, who is confined in a
hospital since an operation.
' A basket supper and festival
will be given Saturday evening
by the Church Working Society
of the M. E. Church in the build
ing formerly occupied by the D.
B. Willis and Co.
The death of Mrs. William Daily
Happiness
Martha Washington, in a letter
written while she was first lady:
"I have learned too miich of the
vanity of human affairs to expect
any felicity from public life. But
1 am determined to be cheerful and
happy in whatever situation I may
be. For I have alas learned from
experience that the greater part of
our happiness or misery depends
on our dispositions and not on our
circumstances."
? New Yort Time*
Wide occurred at the family home
on Evans Street April 7. Mrs. Wade
was a native of the city, born
Sept. 9. 1866. the daughter of Bart
N. and Louvinia S. Willis.
A new wholesale grocery will
be opened in the city within the
next few weeks by the name of
the Cherry Wholesale Grocery, the
owners being E. H. Gorham and
Cecil Cherry, both of this city. Thy
building formerly occupied by D.
B. Wade and Sons, in the whole
sale fish business, has been pur
chased, will be remodeled and put
in good repairs at oncc. Cherry
was formerly connectcd with the
Catreret Supply Co.
Stamp News
By 8YD KKONISH
The united nations official seal,
which originally was prepared by
the Presentation Branch of the U.
S. Office of Strategic Services in
April, 1945, will be the third United
Nations stamp of 1958.
The 8 cent blue adhesive will be
placed on sale June 2.
The seal was devised in re
sponse to a request for a button
design for the San Francisco Con
ference at which the U.N. Charter
was drafted and approved.
The design for this new stamp
was prepared by Herbert Sanborn
of the United States. He is a mem
ber of the U.N. Graphic Presenta
tion Section.
Further details about the stamp
will be given in this column soon.
Loulf Spivy
Words of Inspiration
Since I hive been writing this column, I hive piued en to you a
few timet whit I thought to be very interesting comments. The follow
ing wn written by John Fischer in Hirper'i msgazine list August. I
hid filed it, then couldn't find it until todiy.
Mr. Fischer siys "Worship of Common Man" is the greit threat to
the United States. There ire i lot of us who will igree with him, after
reading his irtide.
Mr. Fischer reviews in interesting book, "Un-common People," by
Piul Dioomfield. In this country, pirticulirly in recent yeirs, a per
vasive, excessive and unfruitful worship of the common man has grown
up. Mr. Fischer points out that the moral of this historicil book is thst
"A nition depends for most of its culture, for its government, lad for
its survivil on i relatively few uncommon people ? ind they come from
i still smsller number of blood striins.
"As in other species, from the influents virus to thoroughbred horses,
ind Sinti Gertrudis civile, these strsins start with a mutation. Sud
denly and unpredictably, an exceptional individual crops up in a family
of no previous distinction. One of his unususl qualities is purely genetic;
he is whit the biologists cill ? pre potent sire ? the founder of a line
which breeds true ? thus producing exceptional offspring for uncounted
generstions. Such an event is as rare as it is precious. It would seem
to follow then, thit i nition would do well to cherish ind foster tbeM
uncommon people; for on them rests Its hope of grestness."
As Mr. Fischer points out, "No ides could be more subversive to mid
century Americi, dedicated as it is to The Common Mm. Our whole
way of life is now biscd on the theory thit only the mediocre ind in
effectual deserve to be cspcciilly cherished by society. The notion thit
exreptionil people ought to get exceptionil consideration ? ind thit
their abilities might be trinsmittcd by heredity ? is felt to be shock
ingly undemocratic and un-American.
"So if i man is stupid, lizy ind feckless enough, there is nothing our
society won't do for him ? pirticulirly if he comes from i long lino
of stupid, lazy, feckless incestors. When he his i job, the union sees
to it that he is never fired, for snything short of the most outngeous
sloppiness and shirking. When he doesn't work, i relief check is ilwiys
wailing. If he absent-mindedly begets more children thin he cin sup
port, the slate tikes cire of them. For good measure, we ply him with
subsidized housing, free medical care, and the tender ministrations of
social workers; and we entertain him lavishly with free television pro
grams carefully tailored to his sluggish wit."
There are times when most of us have uneasy forebodings about tna
future ? for our children ? for our country.
The following quotations show us that generations of the past had
troubles too. These sound quite a bit like our own.
1. Nearly twenty-four hundred years ago Socrates said: "If I could
get to the highest place in Athens, I would life my voice and say, 'What
mean ye, fellow citizens, that ye turn every stone to scrape wealth to
gether and take so little care of your children to whom ye must one
day relinquish all?' "
2. "It is a gloomy moment in history. Not for many years has there
been so much grave apprehension.
"In France, the political cauldron seethes with uncertainty, Russia
hangs like a cloud, dark and silent, upon the horizon of Europe. All
the energies and resources of the British Empire are sorely tried and
yet to be tried more.
"It is a solemn moment, and no man can fee) an indifference in the
issue of events.
"Of our own troubles in the United States, no man can see the end;
they are fortunately as yet mainly commercial, and if we are only to
lose money, and by painful poverty to be taught wisdom ? the wisdom
of honor, of faith and of charity ? no can need despair."
? Harper's Weekly, Oct. 10, 1857
The Atlantic Hotel
By RUTH ROWLAND DEYO
About the year 1915, a few guest*
at the hotel atarted bringing down
their own boats? motor boats) The
local fishermen, tied at the hotels
docks awaiting passengers, resent
ed this turn of events. Whenever
the fool landlubbers became
grounded on one of the many
shoals, they grinned gleefully
among themselves, especially to
see the men trying to pole off and
straw hats flying in the stiff
sou'westers.
The very religious or supersti
tious fishermen who Had refused
Sunday fares, began showing up
on Sunday, along with their back
sliding brothers.
Citizens of Horehead City were
proud of the Atlantic Hotel. The
boardwalk, starting at what is 7th
and Arendcll Street now, some
times with the waves of Bogue
Sound breaking over it, and run
ning to the Atlantic Hotel was the
gateway to glamour, sophistication
and bright entertainment.
Even the haughty, pouter-pigeon
dowagers who, well cushioned, sat
all day on the porches and in the
lobby, flashing their many dia
mAned hands, heaving their be
Jewelcd bosoms and exclaiming
about the "natives", was part of
a glittering summer play ? that
played all summer long.
War Comes
During World War I, Atlantic
Hotel was used as apartments for
war workers. It was deplorably
abused. Then the year 1920 found
people from all over, once again,
trekking to this famous hostelry.
The mad twenties! Short evening
dresses? beaded, bangled, spang
led and fringed, atockings rolled
below the knees. Jazz and the
Charleston, the shimmy (put off
the dance floor every time) the Tin
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of death.
Jziie, "the Ileal cyeorows,
bee'i knees", "snake hipa",
'Jazz baby"? 111 showed up at the
lotel. A daredevil young man
Irove his dashing, red roadster
ight up the hotel's steps, across
he porch and into the lobby!
The bar? for gentlemen only?
vas gone, but there were boot
eggers and plenty of CCC (C'ar
eret County Corn), white light
ling, white mule, hootch. One of
:he Cottage Rows, an annex of the
lotel, was used to stow away
guests who had lost their dignity.
The year, 1930, came in bleakly
?nough. This was the beginning
>f depression years. The Atlantic
Hotel was the brightest spot in an
jtherwise drab time. That year it
was under the management of Mr.
Dan Bell, genial and popular host
ind his charming wife, "Miss"
Madie.
DCWUCninK r uwiir
On the cciling of the ballroom
was a huge, revolving, cryatal
ball. The orchestra stand was a
corner of the dance floor. Moon
light waltzes were the feature of
the evening. Ballroom lights were
turned off, the crystal ball, lighted
and revolving, threw bewitching
rainbow colors over the dancers,
on the spectators and the walls.
Attractions, such as big name
bands: Ben Bernic, Cab Calloway
and others; pajama danccra and
spectacular military balls and
folks from far upstate coming for
the dances.
Now, there was only one dow
ager left, she still sat on the porch,
held court in the lobby and looked
down her nose at the natives. She
had been a hotel fixture for many
summers.
Easter Saturday, 1933, and the
fire whistle was blowing like mad.
Word flew all over town, "It'i the
Atlantic Hotel!
In just a little while an old land
mark, a way of life ? elegance,
sparkle, fcativity? an old friend,
was gone.
Do you remember the Atlantic
Hotel?
Smil? a While
A rookie on guard duty was try
ing to do his conscientious best
when a car without a pass drove
up to hfs station. Before he could
halt it, he heard the officer in the
back aeat order the driver to pro
ceed.
"Just a minute, sir," stammered
the rookie, "I'm kinda new at this.
Tell me, do I shoot you or the
driver?" ? The Moroccan
"Hey, Boas, I'm taking ? month
off," aaid the clerk aa he tore
another sheet off the calendar.
Safety slogan: "Watch out for
acbool children? especially if thejr
are driving cm."
From the Bookshelf
IV Rise of Khrushchev. By My
ron Rush. Public Affairs Press
$3.25.
This slim volume, little mors
thin sn overshted cmy, argues
that Nikita S. Khrushchev is at
tempting to succeed to Stalin's des
potic powers over the Soviet Un- '
ion's 200 million people.
Dr. Rush, a member of the So
cial Science Division of the Raod
Corp., cites bits and scraps of evi
dence to support a contention that
Khrushchev, now the first secre
tary of the Soviet Communist
party, seeks to legitimize his suc
cession to the mantle of Lenin
and Stalin.
Wants to be Boss
There is little question now but
that Khrushchev intends to be the
boss of the Soviet Union. The big
question? one on which Dr. Rush
lamentably fails to elaborate? li
whether Khrushchcv wants or even
dares try to wield the autocratic
power held by Stalin from 183*
until his death in 1953.
Dr. Rush's studies led him to
the conclusion that the Soviet Com
munist boss has been trying to
foster a "cult of Khrushchcv," sim
ilar to the previous "cult of Sta
lin."
It is true, as Dr. Rush points
out, that the Party Central Com
mittee no longer can rely upon
Khrushchev's support of its au
thority over the presidium. But in
effect, the ruling party presidium
is the central committee, aince
Khrushchev has peopled it with
his own party secretaries. It is
equally true that Khrushchcv, like
Stalin, first used the collective
"core" of the party to help his
rise, and then turned on it and
destroyed It.
Another Stalin?
But the basic question remains:
Can there be another Stalin in to
day's Soviet Union? Dr. Rush
claims to have found evidence that
the political police already may
have had some of their former
Stalin era powers restored to them,
and "may be more securely in
Khrushchev's hands than has com
monly been supposed." He is right
in this, too.
But Khrushchev faces problems
Stalin did not have to face. To
invoke the power of a Stalin,
Khrushchcv would have to use the
methods of a Stalin. He grew up
under SUlin and knows no other
way.
A discussion by a scholar of Dr.
Rush's caliber of Khrushchev's
chances to be the new Stalin, in
the light of recent Soviet social
development! , would have been a
valuable supplement to his thesis
on Khrushchev's maneuvers.
?William L. Ryan
Just in Passing . . .
A married man should be ? good
salesman because be la used to
taking order*.
The fellow who Uvea M a bluff
d* serves a good above. _ ?