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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cartan* County's Nawspapar EDITORIALS TUESDAY, MAY 6, 19S8 The Harvesters Are Coming The approach of summer brings with It responsibilities. One of the greater of these is the responsibility to our sum mer "guests", the farm laborers who come to us from the south and stay to help the farmer harvest his crops. Eventually, the harvesters will move on, but the time they are here can be beneficial to everyone, or it can be a time of neglect and distress. What kind it will be depends largely on the "host and hostess" ? the people of the county. Twelve hundred migrant workers will pass through here. They are a small army of persons who have taken up the wanderer's way of life as a means of earning food for themselves and their children. It is not a very hap py life but it can be brightened if the persons who live here the year around help to brighten it. Last summer was the first time a pro gram of ministry to the migrants was carried out here. The County Ministers Association, sponsor, in conjunction with the North Carolina Council of Churches, and supported by county churches, started this home mission work. The ministers and the migrant ministry committee, composed of lay men, hope to improve the program this summer.' To be distributed to all civic organ izations and church groups are leaflets which tell exactly how folks can help. Money, supplies and volunteers to teach Sunday School, conduct worship services and recreation, are needed. A Negro minister will supervise the program, but he alone cannot mold happier lives for hundreds of workers. The Rev. Oree Broomfield, from Geor gia, who was the minister last summer, is expected to return here the first of June. An efficient program of ministry to the migrants, in material gain, means that migrant crew leaders will be anx ious to bring the better workers in. This will be beneficial to the farmers. Work ers have been known to refuse to go into areas where housing is poor and their way of life miserable. After work hours, the laborers can drink, gamble, get into cutting scrapes, end up in court and cost county tax payers a lot of money ? or with a small investment in a migrant ministry program, lawbreaking can be pushed farther into the realm of improbability if there is baseball equipment for work ers to use, games to play or magazines to read. In* addition to material gain, there is spiritual gain ? lives of dreariness can become lives of hope. Christianity will be interpreted to the harvesters through action as well as words. Being our brother's keeper is not an easy task, nor is the way always clear to carry out directions of. the Master. Here, however, the way is clear. The remainder lies with those who would follow it. A Heritage Taken Lightly "American democracy and the Bill of Rights are in jeopardy if the teen agers of today do not change their thinking before they become the lead ers of tomorrow." That statement, by Dr. Merlin L. Neff, is frightening. In the current issue of Liberty, pub lished at Washington, D. C.. Dr. Neff cites facta revealed iq a surv ey of young people. The survey was conducted by Dr. H. H. Remmers of Purdue Univer sity. It showed that, of those surveyed: ? 60 per cent favor censorship of books and motion pictures (is this due to their exposure to books and movies loaded with sex details that they may not understand, profanity, and de moralizing scenes of life?) ? Nearly 60 per cent of them are ready to dispense with freedom of the press (is this due to the lazy minds created by "reading" of comic books, hynosis created by tv, and failure of parents to help a child understand the value of a newspaper and good books?) ?? 33 per cent are ready to deny free speech to certain people (is this due to failure to teach tolerance of others' ideas?) ? 25 per cent think that police should be free to search homes and individuals without a warrant (is this the result of youth admiring the "po lice state" and the "supreme authority" of a man with a badge and a gun?) ? 13 per cent would restrict, by law, religious belief and worship (is this due to all persons' taking for granted the hard-won right to attend the church of one's choice?) Dr. Remmers summarizes the atti tudes of youth toward citizenship as follows: "The typical teen-ager shows an alarming disposition to reject some democratic Reliefs, to throw away some of the basic freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, and to accept many authoritarian and totalitarian beliefs and values in their place." Surveys of college students show sim ilar trends. Perhaps much of this can be attrib uted to youth's long-recognized "urge to rebel". The teen-ager, the young adult, tends to take the attitude that what was respected by the older gen eration is now worthy of rejection. When the young man is no longer gov erned by the wishes of his parents, he tries to mold a new life ; he eagerly ab sorbs new ideas. A* maturity comes, many of these new ideas are discarded ; he returns to the tenets of his forefathers and the teaching given him as a child in school. At least, that is the hope . . . especially in this age when so many of tomorrow's citizens apparently have no regard for the basic rights guaranteed to Ameri cans. If young Americans should continue such disregard throughout their lives, this nation in the future may not be a credit to its colonial founders. It lies with parents and with the teacher in the elementary and gram mar grades to explain and interpret, to the best of their ability, the meaning of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. The documents are not difficult to un derstand. They will be the supreme law of a good land only as long as the people who live under them know their meaning. They Were Great Two events of note occurred simul taneously over the weekend. In Beau fore School Friday and Saturday nights another outstanding musical produc tion was staged under the direction of Mrs. Charles Hassell. In Morehead City the Lions Club scored another "first" with their boat and auto show. The persons who work ed hard in producing both events de serve praise and the utmost encourage ment to make the affairs annual occur rences. If the effort and energy put into these shows were measurable, we bet even the atom bomb would have to take a back seat 1 Carteret County Newt-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRE88 ASSOCIATION AWARDS A M trier of TW Beaufort Nm (Eft 1113) and The Twin City Time* (Eit. ISM) Published Tueadaya and Fridays by the Carteret PubUahinf Company, Inc. 504 AreodeD St., Morehead City. N. C. LOCEWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L PEELING - EDITOR Mafl Ratea: la Carteret County and adjafcilna ountiea, tea* one year. t?J0 ate month*, tlJS mm month; abowhero 17.00 eoe year. MOO ato montha, ?1.50 one month. Member at Associated Preaa ? N. C. Preaa Aaeodatioa National Editorial AaaoeUUon - Audit Bureau o < Orcnlatfona Nation al Adrertialng Representative Moran * fiacher, Inc. 10 Eaat 10th Street, New York !?. N. V. The ? wail alert Preaa ia entitled exclusively to uae for republication at ioeai newa printed In tUa newspaper, aa well aa an AP newt diapatchea riDiliJ M Second CUaa Matter at Morehead City, N. C., Under Act af March *, U? HOW OBVIOUS CAN YOU OCT? Ruth P? ling It's Worth More in Fun Than Money! The young lady who has sur passed the brainy Mr. Van Doren on the quiz program. Twenty-One, is Elfrida Von Nardroff. As an underclassman at Duke University, she was known as Vonnie. I'm not sure, but I believe she has won at least $146,000. On last night's program, however, things might have gone against her. A friend of mine in New York met Vonnie on the street the other day and asked her if she didn't think she ought to quit while she could still have a large chunk of money, even after Uncle Sam gets his. Vonnie replied no, that at this point, just the fun of winning meant more to her than Uie money. Well, Old Cavemouth is back, the whippoorwill that is. Heard him for the first time one evening lilt week. He sounds though he'i been In bed with pneumonia all wtatar. Weak. Softly calls out "Whippoorwill" about 10 times in stead of 110, gasps out a few more calls later, and that's it. A pair of very large red-headed woodpeckers were making sawdust of the top of the light pole back of my house Friday morning. One would screech in between his peck ing. The other finally took off, probably to find a pole of his own. On a ride down to Atlantic the other day, we saw some lovely new homes along highway TO. The azalea bushes down east seem to have a special tinge of glory ? the' colors so vivid and flowers so large that each looks like one giant blossom. Everyone should take a spin down east once in a while. I am still somewhat amazed when I hear folks who have lived in this county all their lives, say, "I've never been to Atlantic" or "to Cedar Island". I should think they would be dying of curiosity. They're missing a fascinating part of the world by staying west of North River. County commissioners were en tertained yesterday noon at the lunch given annually for them by county Home Demonstration Club women. The luncheon tradition ia a very nice one? and muck ai some of the women may like to choke a commissioner, on occa sion, such has never happened. The commissioners put money in the budget last year for an aa sistant home agent, but one hai never been found. Since Morehead City hai started enforcing its dog law, people are taking dogs they don't want and dumping them out along the high ways leading from town, especially highway 24. The people along Captain Henry Sou'easter The way things are going, you'd think the May 31 primary waa on the moon. Nobody has stirred his stumps. Those who are running (or office are doing so rather silenUy, on padded moccasins as it were. Frankly, I like a litUe bit of rip-snorting myself. If a fellew's going to run for office and has competition, be ought to get out and make a good stab at it. Filing and then running for cover is no way to get nominated in the Dem ocratic primary. Speaking of new houses . . , have you seen Dr. Johnny Way'i at Sea View and Front Street . . . Holden BalloU's on East Ann Street . . . and Dr. Lawrence Rud der's, East Front Street on the water? The ladiea are going to conduct a tour of Beaufort's old homes next month. I wouldn't mind see ing the inside of iom? 01 me new ones! Tom Potter ii as proud of the new light blue Cadillac as ail body could be. He couldn't be prouder if he'd built it himself. Wonder when the young'uns are going to stop having measles? Anyone who hasn't bad them "Just doesn't belong". Well, the first of May has come and gone. Guess it's all right now for you to turn your furnace off. But if you do, and a three-day nor'easter sets in, don't blame me. Anybody crazy enough to predict the kind of weather we've been having, ought to be the first man to ride that rocket to the moon. Just in case you've run out of worldshakers to keep you awake nights: SO per cent of the wooden Indians which used to stud in front of cigar stores were squaws. IS THE GOOD OLD DSTS THIRTY YEARS AGO Beaufort police captured three men who were in the procesa of robbing Davis Brothers' store. D. M. Jones, D. M. Denoyer of Beaufort, Stanley Woodland, Dr. B. F. Royal and 0. B. Willia of Morehead City were appointed a committee to plan a bridge cele bration in June for the Beaufort Morehead City bridge. Property at Cape Lookout was under diapute because of various torrena acta. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Three-point-two beer waa legal ised on May 1. All Beaufort officiala ware re elected to office. Bayard Taylor waa mayor, Dr. C. S. Maxwell, Seth Gibba, Jamea Rumley, D. W. Glover aad Frank L. King, com missioners Morehead City swept a new ticket. into office. H. S. Gibba waa mayor. P. H. Gibbs, Walter Huf ham, E. W. Guthrie, S. C. Hollo way and E. C. Willis were com missioners. TEN YEARS AGO Bobby Morria, planiat at Atlan tic. won a scholarship given by the State Federation of Muaic Clubs. Beaufort town commissioners were asking residents of the out lying districts to attend the next commissioners' meeting to discuss their being taken inaide the town limit*. FIVE YEARS AGO Paul H. (Sonny) Goer Jr. wu installed as president at the More head City Jsycees. Clifford T. Lewis and George W. Dill were reelected mayors ot Beaufort and liorehead City. Edgar Hibba wu elected mayor of Newport. U highway 24 don't like it. The only way to stop practices like that is with a county-wide dog program, like Dr. Paden says. Dogs, turned loose to (end for themselves, kill game and can be come vicious. I don't know which is worse, to try to lose a dog or let the policemen pick it up. The latter, however, could prove to be quite expensive to the town. The other night while getting ready to leave the Rex Restaurant, 1 slam-banged the back of my car into a black telephone pole. I fussed at George Stovall the next day, thinking it might have been a light pole. He was hurt. It wasn't a light pole; it was a telephone pole. The pole sits at the edge of the restaurant parking lot and appar ently 1 have been only one of half a doien or more who backed into it. Whether cost of repairs to the cart amounted to {81 in each case, as In mine, I don't know. I phoned Mr. Daniels of the tele phone company. In spite of the fact that the newspaper is raising aand with his company for the rate increase, Mr. Daniels said he would look at the pole and see what could be done to make it visible at night. He did just that. Now there are reflector strips on the pole and maybe they will help backing-up folks to see the pole at night. A* for me, I won't ever forget that it's there. But there's no sense other folks' wrecking their cars. Thank you, Mr. Daniels. lout? Sptvy Words of Inspiration ( Editor's Nat*: Mr*. 0. T. Splvey, Beaafost, wh* wfHc* H* I *<Wi h lakiaf a vacatloa. la place o f her calaaia May, w* ara tafcattfai iag Ik* following). DON'T LIKE TO SPADE! Most every Spring I vow, by gum, I'll plant a garden plot, and *very year, when May rolls round, no garden bav* I got. I'd Ilk* to rait* th* tasty truck ? some beans and peas and auch, soma turnip greens '? lettuce leaf ? I'd like to, very much. But there's a little circiunrtaoca, which makes my ardor fade ? before you plant, you have to dig, and 1 don't like to spade! It's mighty nice to plan and dream of bow I'd plant each r*w; wber* I'd put this, where I'd put that, then sit and watch it grow. Imagination I have much, and aften, like as not, I darn near smell the savory stuff, acookin' in the pot. But this, of court*, is long before the gardda't *v*r made, 'cause you cin't plant until you dig and I don't like to tpade! I guess the world is full of folks who want most everything, who feel they should be given ? free ? the best the world ctn bring Their hearts are filled with envy of th* other fellow's lot, and they demand to have their share of what they haven't got. But yet I fear theso "gimme" boys will never make the grade ? to get ahead, you gott? dig, and they don't like to spade! CARBAGE BUTTERFLY "How beautiful your fragile golden win^s Would look beneath a glass and silver tray," I told myself, and tossed my silly net To trap your scrap of sunshine in this way. 1 held you prisoner, felt your throbbing heart Against my fingers, but you challenged me; How could I murder life and sky and dreams When something in me had to turn you free? You flow away to the peace I'd given you, I almost wished that I might follow, too. ? Mary O'Connor OUR MASTER'S TOUCH It's tiny things that mean so much: The way a baby's fingers clutch; And impish saucy turned up nose; A cricket's chirp ? a dew-kissed rose; A soft spring rain, a pansy's face Are really not so commonplace. These tiny things, they mean so much For each on* proves Our Master's Touch. It's tiny things that mean so much: A gentle word ? a loving touch; A warm handclasp ? a bit of praise Transforms like magic dreary days. A kindly deed ? a smile ? a song Can often right a human wrong. It's tiny things that mean so much, Each thought and deed ? Our Master's Touch. ? Gertrude Cramer Williams From the Bookshelf Escape from Fear. By Martin A. Bursten. Syracuse University, $3.50. Bursten has written a well-docu mented story of the flight from Hungary in November and Decem ber, 1956, of 200,000 refugees from communism? and their subsequent resettlement in the free world. Bursten was on the Austrian Hungarian border to watch this flight. He himself participated In the efforts at resettlement. He knows the story? and he tells it well. His book is a tribute not only to the Hungarian refugeea them selves, but to the governmental, intergovernmental and private or ganizations which participated in the programs for relief and re aettlement of the Hungariana who managed to escape in the after math of the Soviet -crushed Hun garian rebellion. Though Bursten is moderate In deed in his criticism of U.S. immi gration procedures and practice, This is the Law By ROBERT E. LEE For the N.C. Bar Association CLOTHING STORES Brown goei to a clothing store for the purpose of buying a suit of clothes. He removes the old suit he is wearing in a dressing booth, provided for that purpose. While he is in the process of admiring himself in the new suit before a mirror elsewhere in the store, hi* old suit disappears. May he re cover the value of his old suit from the owner of the clothing store? Although there have been no cases of this type in North Caro lina, the courts generally in other states have held the clothing store liable on the theory that it has assumed responsibility for the old suit. A clothing store invites custo mers to come in and trade. Since the customer must necessarily lay aside temporarily the garment which be is wearing to try on ? new one, there is said to be an implied invitation by the store proprietor to remove the one being worn and to lay it aside. There have been cases where a bailment was deemed created when the old garment was laid on a counter. A clothing store impliedly rep resents to a patron that a private dressing booth is ? place of se curity, and when clothes are left therein a bailment is created. The consideration ii the profits of Uie clothing trade of which the bail ment is an incident. A woman drops her hand bag or other article on the floor of a ?tore. Another customer In the store discovers the hand bag or other article and turaa it over to the proprietor of the store. If the true owner of the handbag or other article la never found, may the customer who discovered it on the floor and first acquired possession reclaim it from the proprietor of the store? Yea. The facts in this case indi cate that the article was loat. By dropping it on the floor, the woman unintentionally parted with pos session. The customer who picked it up became the finder of loat property. The customer waa not a trespasser, but rather a business invitee of the proprietor in his public place of business. Property found on the floor ol a place where the public ia ad mitted la in most cases said to b? loat, but property found on a coun ter, table, br seat ia said to be mislaid. In the former instance, the finder ia the keeper; in the latter inatence, the proprietor of the place la the legal keeper for the true owner. HOtSI POWER Kl PRODUCTION WORKER IN MANUFACTURING . ?r <dl _/R r.M ?< ** MAM <?? Ovl Stotfrftc. as shown (luring the Hungarian refugee crisis, his story is eno*g| to make almost any American ashamed of the difficulUei which U.S. immigration laws caused thf U.S. government and the American people in the effort to meet that criaia. The story leads to the conclusion that there must be provided soma quick and efficient legal means under which any similar crisis in the future can be met with expedi tion. The book also follow* through with tha story of Hungarian ref ugees in America, who still face an uncertain future because of their dubious legal status under American immigration lawa ? a status which Congress hai not yet seen fit to change. ?Thomas P. Whitney The Mountain Road. By Theodora H. White. William Sloane. $3.95. Back in 1M4, according ta> White's novel? his first though it is his third work to be chosen Book of the Month? a band of eight Americans led by Major Baldwin get* a tough mission: Retreat along a Chinese moun tain road, stay out of reach at pursuing Japanese, destroy bridge* and dumps to Mock the enemy yet not get into trouble with their sup poaod friends, the Chinese, whose land they must lay wa*te. The major is a credit to Ameri can manhood; two soldiers ably demonstrate contrary attitude* ?bout the natives: Collins, for fraternization, and Michaelson, for kicking them in the teeth; one man i* ill; a pretty Chineae widow goea along for the ride; and the whole ia capped with the moral that power corrupta. If it ia a familiar moral; It if alio, however much you approve, a familiar tale. I've gone up into those mountains, or flown them, or slogged across Normandy hedgerows with those same eight men so many times 1 can do it in my aleep? which is about where 1 ended up thi* time, too. Th? Readers Writ* Morehead City, N. C. May 2, 1958 To the Editor: Here ia my little 25 cents far the "phone fund" but with this I would like to add a few words all caution to the top brass of the telephone company. It is thi*: if eventually the Stata steps in and take* you over lock, stock and barrel, don't aquawk "socialism". You will have brought it on yourselves. And I will pre dict that it will happen in the next ten years if you continue to carry on in tha high-handed manner a* you arc now doing. The manage ment ia stupid to lay the least. ( W. 8. DM Smik a WhiU We were quisling oar favorite bachelor about * new girl friend. "Well, ahe I* pretty ..." he ad mitted. "Only it'a a g come equipped with buttona that let you sound and still enjoy * ?