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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Cartarat County'* Newspaper
EDITORIALS TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 19S8
Dean Luxon Likes to Travel
Dean Norval Neil Luxon of the Uni
versity of North Carolina School of
Journalism has made himself a most
unpopular fellow among his journal
ism colleagues. He has attained this
unenviable state by advocating that
two-thirds of the schools of journalism
throughout the country be dissolved
and that only 40 to 50 schools be main
tained.
If this grand theory would remain
merely a theory, journalism educators
could hold their own against Dean
Luxon's attack. But when the good
dean trots off to other states, as he did
to Florida, and recommends that the
Florida State University School of
Journalism be dissolved, he is taking
unto himself a mantle of superiority to
which he is not entitled.
Dean Luxon and two other consult
ants were invited, and evidently paid,
to go to. Florida to study journalism
education in that state. The dean jolted
the journalism education realm last
summer at a national meeting with
his pronouncement advocating fewer
schools of journalism. Thus, it is not
strange that as a result of his "objec
tive" analysis in Florida, he would
recommend dissolving one or more
journalism schools or departments.
Dwight Bentel, writing in the April
19 issue of the national magazine. Edi
tor and Publisher, says, "A danger of
the Luxon proposal is that superficially
it sounds great . . . But this writer is
among those who believe that the em
phasis on 'bigness' inherent in the
Luxon proposal (which he denies,
though it is conspicuously present) . . .
would eliminate some of the best jour
nalism programs in the country."
One of the obvious faults of the
Luxon program is that it would move
schools and departments of journalism
out of geographical reach of many
prospective college students. In this
day when newspaper publishers see ex
cellent journalism talent being siphon
ed off into other fields, the dean at
Chapel Hill would put journalism even
farther out of reach of the average
student.
Most students enter college not
knowing what their major course of
study will be. Many decide on the
basis of what they are exposed to. Take
journalism, which is potentially the
greatest motivating force in a modern
democracy, isolate it on the college
training level to a few ivory towers,
and a pattern will be molded that can
do irreparable damage to the future of
all communications media.
No one can argue with persons who
want to see the improvement of jour
nalism education programs. But to
scuttle excellent, accredited programs,
as Dean Luxon has helped to do at
Florida State is not going to raise jour
nalism education levels.
In our estimation, Dean Luxon has
helped to do away with a School of
Journalism which, in several respects,
is superior to the School of Journalism
at Chapel Hill.
If his theories prevail, the future of
every school or department of journal
ism in this state and the 47 others is
in jeopardy. Perhaps Dean Luxon
would do better to stay at UNC and
take care of his own homework, than
to sit is judgment of his journalism
contemporaries elsewhere.
And May Shall be Queen
Thursday is May Day. _
In spite of the American love of holi
days, th? colorful celebration of May
Day has never really gained a foothold
here. Occasionally children can be seen
dancing around a May Pole in city
parks and playgrounds, and youngsters
in some rural communities still gather
May flowers on the first day of May,
and leave gay little baskets of blossoms
and bonbons on the doorsteps of friends
and neighbors. But as a general holi
day for adults, May Day means- little.
The fact that the Puritans frowned
on May Day festivities is given by the
World Book Encyclopedia as the rea
son the day has never been celebrated
with much national enthusiasm in the
United States.
As is the case with most holidays, the
origin of May Day is more a matter of
theory than of historical fact. Credit
sometimes goes to the ancient Druids,
probably because of their worship of
the tree. The May Pole, or May Tree,
has long been the symbolic center of
May Day festivities. But students of
folk customs feel it's more likely that
the tradition goes back to the "Flo
ralia," spring festival of the ancient
Romans.
Floralia was celebrated each year
from April 28 to May 3, in honqr of
Flora, goddess of flowers and spring.
A very gala affair it was, with games
and street dancing, and floral offer
ings to the goddess. The first boy or
girl to adorn Flora's altar with a gar
land of flowers was assured of good
luck throughout the coining year.
During the Roman oocupation of
Great Britain, the festival was prob
ably introduced to the English, and
evolved into their May Day. Whatever
its origin, the English May Day festi
val of the Middle Ages was the jolliest
of the entire year. The ?festival has re
mained close to the hearts of the Eng
lish people, and is mentioned often in
literature of the land.
We are fold that even King Henry
VIII and Queen Catherine "rose on
May Day very early, and with the lords
and ladies of the court went to fetch i
May or green boughs."
Very strange things take place on
May Eve in Ireland. If one is brave
enough to listen, the fairy pipes of the 1
"wee people" can easily be heard. En
chanted cities spring up from the sea,
and even O'Donoghue of Killarney
leaves his castle under the waters and
parades on a dazzling white steed, fol- j
lowed by his lords and ladies.
The one rather universal observance
of May Day in our country are the gay
spring festivals held everywhere on col
lege campuses. The outdoor celebra- i
tions include May Pole dancing, and a <
bevy of ladies-in-waiting to attend the <
modern "Queen of the May." i
Thank You ,
Carteret is gratified that the Gov- j
ernor and Council of State have seen fit
to appropriate $50,000 to halt the dan
gerous erosion at Fort Macon.
The money will be used to reinforce i
concrete jetties, repair ocean ends of
groins and extend the land end of 1
groins to the dunes.
The ocean has been making extreme
ly dangerous advances toward the
highway and the State Highway Com- ,
mission is working now to prevent un- ?
dermining of the road.
Almost anything done to rebuild
Fort Macon Point will be of inestimable
value. Nature is -working every minute
at taking away the county's most his
toric landmark. Man must work fast
and well to preserve it
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Spring Brings Mosquitoes Too
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iiuwcis air uiuuiiiiiik biiu su iic
mosquitoes. Down east they have
already had a good smattering of
the beasts and I swatted my first
of the season last week.
From the looks of things, the
most effective work on killing mos
quitoes, before they take to the
air, lies with individuals. This
means getting rid of pools of wa
ter, draining property wherever
possible and, where you can't,
throwing oil-soaked sawdust bags
or old oil filters into the water.
The oil creates a slick which
makes it impossible for mosquitoes
to hatch.
Even with this and the spraying
programs which the town and
county will undertake, there will
be mosquitoes. But there will be
a lot fewer than if we did nothing.
The grass on either aide of the
railTMd track along Arendell
Street in Morehead City looks good.
It even looks ready for cutting. Aa
any lawn keeper will tell you, fre
quent cutting is necessary to keep
down the weeds.
If the grass isn't cut frequently,
the weeds will take over and every
thing will be right back where it
was before the new seeding was
undertaken.
Any place that looks unkempt
invites persons to throw trash on
it. It might be a good idea, too, to
(vccp me " nut iiiamii a mc
grass plots, even though the grass
has come up. "Keep off the Grass"
signs would help too.
All motorists have to do is tear
their cars up on those markers or
signs once or twice and they'll
stay on the hard surface. No signs
and no markers also invite per
sons to park in that center area.
Parking thare is a good way, too,
to undo all the work that has been
done.
Now that the boating season is
here, Popular Boating has made
some suggestions on how boat
owners can keep gulls from clut
tering the deck:
1. Rig your boat with a phono
graph and apeaker system. Loud
and unfriendly recorded voices can
then be used to scare off the birds.
The voices can shout rude epithets
like, "Take off!" "Scram! and
"Your father is a chicken!"
2. Put your laundry to work.
Cover your boat with flapping
laundry and streamers. Not only
you but jour boat may end up
cleaner.
3. Stuffed owls sometimes work
on buildings in driving off unwant
ed birds. Why not try them on your
boat. However, a word of warn
ing. A Massachusetts boatman re
cently tried this ploy, only to re
turn the next morning and find 35
Captain H?nry
Sou'easter
A young lady wearing one of
those new dresses with no shape
wai taking a grand kidding from
the husband of one of Beaufort'i
{iris. Jack Roberts, no less.
The young lady said to Mr. Rob
erts, "Well, you bought your wife.
Hiss Tibbie, one of those dresses."
"That'rf different," he said. "I
know what's under that. It's these
girls I don't know that I don't want
wearing those sack dresses."
Everything that they get at the
newspaper office and don't know
exactly what to do with, they give
to me.
Comes this message from New
port:
"I looked over Jordan and what
did I see?
A seat in the Senate waiting for
me I"
They say that's Governor Scott's
theme song.
.1 was down on Front Street the
other day and saw L. G. Dunn.
Any of you folks who don't know
that butterball ought to know him
by this time. I talk about him
enough.
Anyhow, I'd like to know what
the "L" in his name atands for.
Piggie Potter aaya that since L.
G got mad because he couldn't
sink any putta out at the golf
course and wrote a letter of com
plaint, that the "L" stands for
Letter.
His friends say that the "G"
stands for Juice. I'm still trying
to figure that one out.
And speaking of golf, Claud
Wheatly tells me that Billy Mace
is beginning to wield a mean
club out there on those cow pas
tures, I mean golf links.
Claud says he chews tobacco
because it keeps his teeth In good
shspe, keeps his hormones in pro
per proportion and keeps him from
getting any more gray hairs than
be already has.
Someone said that if Claud has
convinced himself o< all that, he's
a good lawyer, sure enough.
m THE COOS OLD DSTS
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The Beaufort News, now THE
NEWS-TIMES, ran an article on,
the battle of Fort Macon, which
bad been fought M yeara ago.
There were still livinj in Beau
fort several people who remem
bered the occaaion.
The Beaufort school board hoped
to work out a compromise for
rural students who had only an
eight-month school term, as com
pared to the town students who
bad ? nine-month school term.
TWENTY-FIVE TEAKS AGO
The seventh grade of Beaufort
School was sponsoring a May pay
Festival. Julia Whitehurst would
be queen; Lucille Thomas, maid
of honor; Maude
spring; Helen O'Bryan, queen of
fairies; Borden Mace and Tommy
Ruaacll, pagea; Herbert Lewis,
herald; Ed Hancock, Robin Hood,
lad David Beveridge, buglar.
TEN YEARS AGO
Beaufort town commissioners
voted to build ? dog pound in the
rear of tbe town hall, and to im
pound all doga running loose in
tbe town (tracts.
Beaufort PTA would sponsor all
borne game* of the Tidewater
baseball league.
Morebead City Jsycees cancelled
their Coastal Festival because o <
financial difficulties.
FIVE TEAM AGO
Morebead City tows commission
ers extended by a week the tiae
for voters to register.
Mrs. D. F. Merrill of Beaufort
was named woman of the year for
Carteret County.
Twelve forest fires had struck
tbe eastern put a t the county.
11 IV. ll it i J vmo patuig lire uvvn .
4. Give them the electric chair
treatment. Cover your boat with
electric wiring. The first gull who
lands will get a painful shock. As
he squawks and hops about on one
foot, stick your head through the
cabin door and shout, "Last one
in the water is a rotten egg!" No
seagull wants to be a rotten egg.
5. Use dynamite, acid, poison
gas! The boat may be completely
worthless after this treatment, but
at least you will have shown those
gulls who is boss.
8. Put up a "For Sale" sign.
This will solve the problem for
the owner if not for the boat. The
skipper might then consider mak
ing a down payment on a surplus
submarine.
Don't forget that Friday and Sat
urday are the nights for tbe Beau
fort PTA's Musical Variety Show
at the school. You're in for a fine
evening of entertainment, so plan
now to be among those present
when the curtain parts at 81
SmiU a While
A little girl of five was enter
taining while her mother was get
ting ready. One of the ladies re
marked to the other with a signifi
cant look. "Not very p-r-e-t-t-y,"
spelling the last word.
"No," said the child quickly,
"but awful s-m-a-r-t."
The teacher was examining the
class on the moral law, and asked
for a definition of "sins of omis
sion."
A bright boy was quick with the
answer ? "Sins we should have
committed and didn't."
Loulf Spivy
Words of Inspiration
(Editor's Nate: Mrs. G. T. Splvey, Beaafert, wha wrliM this colama,
U taking a victUoa. Ia place of her colama today, we are aabatttat
lag Ike followto|>.
SUCCESSFUL MEN REJECT DEFEAT
11 fate has dealt a body blow at the beginning of your career in any
field, thank your lucky stars for it, because it probably has kept you
humble, down-to-earth, and minus an exaggerated value of yourself.
Someone once said, "You will succeed if you capitalize on defeat."
It is so easy to feel sorry for ourselves when we have setbacks. Some
of us may even give up and say that we have reached the end ot our
rope, and fate is against us.
A better way is to triumph over disappointment by admitting that
we are only temporarily licked. At the same time we should look at our
defeat as only a preliminary setback, enabling us to analyze the aituation
better, catch our breath, buckle down, and find some other way to get
what we want out of life.
Setbacks, if they coma early enough, may prove to be blessings in
disguise. Alfred C. Fuller would never have founded the Fuller Brush
Company if he had not been fired from the streetcar company where
he worked as a conductor for $12 a week. Loss of his job resulted from
his surrender to an overpowering urge to run one of the cars.
His search for a new job took him to a brush firm, and a year later
he struck out for himself on the path to one of America's great success
stories.
B. C. Forbes wanted to become a newspaper man. He had to work
for nothing because he couldn't land a paying job in New York. The
only place that would even let him work "for free" was a financial
paper. From that start he became a business and financial authority.
John Robert Powers, whose school has long trained some of the lead
ing models In the country, met success because he was a poor actor.
Fredric March took him aside one day and pointed out that he could
not act, but that he had a real knack for accumulating names, addresses,
and abilities of contemporaries also seeking stsge roles. It was true. So,
because a young man proved a "flop" at his chosen profession, he be
came one of the well-known successful figures of our day.
Successful people have had innumerable setbacks in their careers.
But they kept plugging, shrugging off defeat, finally reaching the end
of their rainbow.
? Carl Holmes in The Sunshine Magazine
From the Bookshelf
The Un?itoa Hughes Reader.
Brazillcr. $5.95.
This is a fine rich dish of Hughes
?500 pages from his voluminous
writings, poems dated as early as
1926. short stories, some transla
tions from French, some of the
"Simple" pieces, some plays,
speeches and autobiography.
There are many explanations for
Hughes' popularity, such as his
sure knack for telling a story, his
ability to get five-syllable thoughts
into one-syllable words. But best
of all. 1 think, is the wonderful
light touch; who is more serious
among our writers, and who makes
us enjoy it so much?
? W. G. Rogers
Al Smith and His America. By
Oscar Handlin. Library of Ameri
can Biography. Little, Brown. $3.50.
Editor Handlin becoming hap
pily author -Handlin for Uila bio
graphy series he directs now does
the llth book in it, and easily one
of the best.
Smith's rise on New York's East
Side, his practical direct educa
tion at rallies, party meetings and
legislative sessions, the develop
ment and growth of his liberalism,
his willingness to compromise on
little things but his admirable de
votion to principle, hia popular
governorship, his campaign for
the presidency and the fierce de
bate on the Catholic issue, his de
clining years with the rival Roose
velt the leader of party and na
tion?all this, short though the
book is, comes through these pages
with a fresh and forceful signifi
cance.
-W. G. Rogers
Park Row. By Allen Churchill.
Rinehart. $3.95.
From 1883, when Joesph Pulitzer
entered P?rk Row and the New
York newspaper world? indeed the
World itself? on through the first
decades of this century and the
"end of the World," according to
a chapter head, this tells stories
of some spectacular figures in and
around newspaper officcs.
Pulitzer hypersensitive to noise
and going blind, Hearst turning
pages with the flip of his foot.
Bennett drinking himself into ?
fury ? these men certainly assisted
in founding the modern press, and
with the help of name writers like
Richard Harding Davis, Irvin Cobb
and Stephen Crane, among others,
made their lurid most of the Slo
cum disaster, the shooting of Stan
ford White, the murder of a souple
of their own colleagues, such ai
David Graham Phillips.
This is no history of the press,
however, or of yellow Journalism,
but rather of a few yellow-Journ
alists; and the open-sesame to
these pages was not necessarily
to own or run a paper but to shoot
your wife, whip up a war, live on
a palatial yacht, or act like an
idot ? not, you understand, that
that doesn't make very spicy read
ing.
? W. G. Rogers
Just in Passing . . .
The surest way to get a job done
is to give it to a busy man; he'll
have his secretary do it.
Some people do not seem to
grasp why they were given two
ears and only one tongue.
One way to avoid losing your
shirt is to keep the sleeves rolled
up.
Building Town is Slow Process
By BOB CUMMINGS
Cannelton, lad., News
To many people building a town
is done by a grand flourish or two.
They only think of working for
progress when something big ia
afoot or when they have been giv
en a jolt by loss of something they
have felt was secure.
How wrong they are.
Building a community ia a con
stant, steady Job. It is done by
many mue minus as wen as inc
big ones. For only through atten
tion to the small details can those
who would produce the big ones
be drawn into the town.
Cleanliness and order are the
most apparent marks of a pro
gressive community. Energy of its
citizens and pride in their town
are watched with care. These
things go together. A clean, or
derly city is alwaya filled with
prideful, hard working inhabitants.
.FIGHT CANCER WITH A
CHECKUP AND A CHECK
Buuaing ? luwn can ue aci-uin
pliihed only if every individual if
ready to plunge wholeheartedly
Into the work. This can mean keep
ing sidewalks and gutter! clean,
houses and other buildings painted
and in good repair, maintaining
good morale, being ready to aay
good things about "the old home
town." People interested in ad
vancing their community should
alwayi be ready to take part In
functions where other communi
ties are represented.
City officials should be supported
and encouraged to improve streets,
sanitation, and the many other
facilities that can only be provided
through public agencies.
Alert clubs, well attended
churches, good schools are other
marks of a growing town. So it tl
up to the citizens who want to
progress to supp9rt and help build
those agencies.
Yes, building a town is a con
stant job. It is one that cannot be
shirked, leaving it to chance U
anything happens. Good planning
and ardent carrying out of the
things outlined is necessary.
Every citizen of a thriving city
must mike himself a part of the
work to keep the constant build
ing going. There cannot be any
weak links In the chain of endea
vor.
If a community wants to grow.
It must have citizens who will work
to make its expansion sure. That
is why every citizen must alwaya
be alert to better his efforts. Far
to building a bigger, better town,
every citizen is indeed helping
himself, as well as others. For a
growing community alwaya haa
more opportunities than on* going
the other way.
No community stands still. II
either goes forward, or backward.
And the actions of ita citizens, J
their actions alone, govern the di
rection.