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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carter*! County's Newiptpw EDITORIALS TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1958 Reaping What is Sown . . . i . . whatsoever a man soweth, that * shall he also reap." Thirty-four thousand New York pub lic school pupils are reaping what has bcwn sowed by infatuation with tv and by an education program which until just lately has devalued reading. The pupils were informed that they didn't pass. They'll start next year in the same grade they were in this past year. Four thousand of them were in junior high school and 30,000 in grade schools. A school board-official, according to a story datelined New York, said the main reason for the failures was in ability of the children to read. "Board officials detected a falling off of reading achievement of chil dren," a spokesman said. "With some, it is a language problem and with aome it is television. A lot of children think they can learn to read by listening to people speak on tv." It is one thing to recognise that chil dren are losing ability to read; it ia an other thing to do something about it. New York school officials are to be commended for tajcing action to change the downward trend in reading ability. Action by schools, however, without cooperation from the home, is of little avail. After all, the tv set with the en tertainment programs, is in the home. If parents allow children to sit in front of the tv as much as the children wish, if parents make no attempt to put into children's hands something better than comic books, then the schools are fight ing an uphill battle to improve the nor mal child's reading ability. Sadness at Parting The Washington Daily News paid kind tribute on June 28 to the Rev. Jesse Staton, son of Mrs. Frank Staton of Morehead City. The editorial on the Rev. Mr. Staton, and his successor, the Rev. L. A. Lewis, formerly of More head City and Atlantic, is reprinted here : Another Good Man Leaving A Methodist pastoral change which we didn't expect has taken place in Aurora. The Rev. Jesse Staton, one of the finer young ministers of the con ference, is going to St. John's Church in Kinston. The Rev. L. A. Lewis comes to Aurora. We all realize that Mr. Staton was in line for a promotion to a larger church. It seemed sure that he would leave Aurora. But then the Rowe case came up in which two little girls were found to be suffering from cystic fi brosis. Mr. Staton worked as hard as any person on earth to help these two little girls even though he was not their minister. People of the Aurora church wanted him to stay more thun ever. He told the Bishop "whatever you and the Lord decide is all right with me." The Lord and the Bishop decided to send him to a larger field. So we lose another fine Christian man and dedicated servant. We are happy to welcome Mr. Lewis to Aurora. But we cannot help but feel a little lonely that a good friend, noble gentleman, and unselfish servant io leaving our midst. Jesse Staton is real ly a good man. In the years ahead he'll be heard from as a force for better living. He was a community minister in Au rora. His work knew no bounds and neither did it envisage creeds, social position, or wealth. He'll be missed, but he has the happy satisfaction of being able to look back and know that the great service and love he gave are appreciated and respected by those who know him and have felt his merci ful hand. Gulls and Handouts In this day, with characteristics of the welfare state closing; around us closer and closer, there is a lesson to be learned from the following "Para dise Lost", adapted from an article by the prize-winning journalist, Vermont Royster : It is said that the seagulls of St. Au gustine, Fla., are starving to death in the midst of plenty, because they have forgotten how to fish. For a good many generations, as gull generations go, these sea birds were fed by the waste from the shrimpers of the St. Augustine fishing fleet. About all the gulls had to do was to sit on the seawall and feast. So the birds never bothered to catch fish as their brothers do in the wider reaches of the sea. They never had to. Then the shrimp fleet moved down to Key West, ending paradise, and pretty nearly ending the gulls, too. A few of the birds had the intuition to follow the fleet. A few more were en terprising enough, or had enough in stinct left, to take to the sea once more. But many of them can be seen sitting sadly where they were left, starving to death because no one will bring them shrimp, while just a few wing-flaps away there is a sea of food for the taking. Women in Their Place (Portland Press Herald) Funny thing happened when a Yar mouth group was kicking around Aris totle's "Politics" at a Great Books dis cussion session recently. Aristotle, sage that he was, begins his description of the ideal state by putting women in their place ? subject to the male, by nature the inferior crea ture. The strange thing about the Yar mouth discussion was that nine out of 10 women present seemed to go along with Aristotle. For a time, the men present were quite puffed up about it. Then one young housewife explained: "It's this way. Men have their egos. My husband has to think he's superior to me in all things. So I let him think that. He thinks he makes all the de cisions. It's the only way to have peace in the family." Reminds us of the woman who was explaining to a friend why she and her husband got along so well together. "You see, we have agreed that I am to make all the minor decisions in our household, and he is to make all the major decisions, so we never quarrel," she said. "That's very interesting," her friend replied. "Can you tell me about some of the minor decisions that you make?" "Well," replied the happy wife, "I decide what college our children shall go to, when to buy a new car, whether to rent or buy a house." "Hmmm," hummd the friend, "if those are the minor decisions you make, what are the major decisions you allow your husband to make?" "Oh," said the wife, "I let him de cide how to solve the Suez crisis, what to do about the Russians and things like that." Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort Newt (Eft 1913) and The Twin City Times (Eat 1036) Published Tueadaya and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. 504 Arendell St.. Morebead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ELEANORE DEAR PHILUPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Mail Rates: la Carteret County and adjoining eountiee, $>.00 ooe year, $3.30 aix months, $1.25 ooe month; elsewhere <7.00 one year, $4.110 aix months, $1.50 one month. Member of Associated Press ? N. C. Press Aaaoclatioc National Editorial Association ? Audit Bureau of Circulation* National Advertiainf Representative Moran ft Fischer, Inc. 10 Eaat 40th Street, New York It, N. T. The Aaaociated Preaa is entitled exclusively to uae for republication of local new* printed in this newspaper, as well aa all AP news diapatchea as Second Class Matter at Morebead City, N. C., Under Act of March 3, ltn TWO PROPS FOR THE ONE PRICE Ruth Peeling Governor Pays Weekend Visit Gov. Luther Hodges and some of. his family were here the week end of June 28. The governor had made plans to attend a Civil De fense meeting at the Atlantic Beach Hotel. The meeting was postponed, but he came anyway. The Beaufort Jaycees threw a real wing-ding when they took a trip to Cape Lookout and crowned Miss Beaufort. Sheriff Hugh Salter did the bouquet presentation in the absence of Mayor Clifford Lewis. He said that after the boat docked at the cape, he figured it would take some time to get the fire going so that everyone could cat. So he went up to the Coast Guard station to visit with the boys. When he got back, all the food was gone? except four little hot dogs. That for a fellow who hadn't even eaten any supper! Woman's Club members in charge of the Old Homes Tour are mighty proud of Ma Taylor. At the age of 97, she opened her home to the public when lots of younger women offered excuses. TT?e Wo man's Club wants Ma to know they appreciate her being 97 years young. Talk about typographical errors. THE NEWS-TIMES, in a story on a wedding, reported that one of the musical numbers was "En treat Me Not to Love Thee". The avid reader is occasionally rewarded by gems of that kind. The Readers Write Morehead City, N. C. July 1, 1958 Dear Editor: Today in your Editorial "There's a Limit" there appears this state ment: "Add to this fact that some of the very persons who go about soliciting such contributions from local businessmen do much of their shopping in other cities? etc." When I was a young lad, my father ran a place of business here. He, too, was very conscious of local people spending their money in other towns. My mother and sisters were not allowed to even buy a pair of shoes or a dress anywhere but here. They could not even order from the catalogue. My father often said, "If you take your money to another city you are contributing to the failure of Morehead as a prosperous, grow ing town." For years, the local businessmen have sung this theme song. As a public consumer I am getting pretty sick of it! It would be all well and good if they practiced what they preach. Do the local grocers buy from our local wholesalers 100 per cent. No! A little perhaps. The things they run out of and cannot get any where else at short notice. From the number of wholesale trucks running into Morehead, I should say the majqrity of THEIR money was being passed on to "out of town" businesses. Do the local businessmen ask their wives to buy from our local independent grocers? No! The more successful the businessman the higher his wife piles her bas ket from the shelves of the chain stares. Of course, a small amount of this money goes to the em ployees who are local people, but the big margin of profit goes out of town. Even the JC's who yell loudest and longest are guilty of sending their money "out of town". Shortly after the JC sponsored Little League started playing this season, I was attending one of the ball games. At the refresh ment stand I saw potato chips from an out of town distributor and from our local distributor, too. Why don't the JC's buy 100 per cent from our LOCAL MAN? I think it would be wise if our businessmen would examine their own actions befere criticizing the public. A few good questions they might mentally ask before buying from a wholesaler are: Is this a LOCAL wholesaler? Does this man, or business, pay CITY TAXES? Does he have to buy a Morehead City PRIVILEGE LICENSE? Does he buy TOWN TAGS for his truck or car? If the local business men and JC's would stop crying about the amount of money our local con sumers spend "out of town" and take stock of their OWN purchases from out of town dealers and try correcting this so that THEIR money would stay at home I'm sure the consumer public would be more willing to shop locally. Let these men SET THE EX AMPLE instead of taking the at titude of the liquor-drinking, wo man-chasing preacher who said "Don't do like I do-do like I SAY do." A Morehead Native IS THE GOOD OLD D27S THIRTY YEARS AGO Beaufort town commissioners gave permission to the Texas Oil Company to erect a building on its waterfront property at the foot of Orange Street. Beaufort and Morehead City united in celebrating the opening of the highway bridge under the direction of Gaud Wheatley and Aycock Brown. A) Smith was named Democratic nominee for president at the Dem ocratic Convention, Houston, Tex as. Joseph T. Robinson was named vice-presidential nominee. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The county commiasioners and the board of education elected school superintendent, J. G. Allen, superintendent of the county wel fare board. The temperature during June ranged from ? low of it to a high of M. Two-cent stamps would insure first class mail delivery for local letters. TEN TEARS AGO Approximately 2,900 people at tended the Morehead City dbg track on its opening night. Two train accidents on the At lantic and East Carolina line de layed mail delivery here for four hours last Thursday and Friday. B. J. Way began his term of office as president of Beaufort Ro tary, succeeding R. M. Williams. FIVE YEARS AGO Morehead City Jaycees Issued $8,000 In athletic bonds for im provements of the school athletic field. Gene Smith was appointed Beau fort town attorney and solicitor of the municipal recorder's court. The county budget waa set at over $500,001 far the coming yw Things on the shrimping front aren't very good. The situation down east sharply contrasts with the hus'le and bustle and signs of good biisinesi in the west tourist-end of the county. Shrimpers, many of them, have exhausted both their savings and credit. This poor shrimping sea son follows a fair one last year, and a very poor one the year be fore. For those who depend on the whims of nature for a livelihood, new means of income must be found. The most logical means for down-easters is tourist business. But tourist business will be slow, unless there is some way for trav elers on the banks north of Ocra coke to get to this county wiUraut detouring 300 miles around Mantes and little Washington. That problem can be remedied only by a car ferry between Oc racoke and Cedar Island. The zinnias, marigolds and pe tunias barriering the main drive to the courthouse are a kaleido scope of color. Attractive flowers are growing, too, around the "Wel come to Newport" signs at either side of Newport on highway 70. Comment.. ? J. KcHum War's Causes "Seeds of Contemplation" is a collection of various thought* and observations. It's author, Thomas Merton, is blessed with an uncom mon clarity of perception. He la able to say things to us which we may carry around in our minds like can-openers to lift the lids of confusion from parts of our lives. One such useful intelligence therein is this: "At the root of all war is fear: not so much the fear men have of one another as the fear they have of everything. It is not mere ly that they do not trust one ano ther: they do not even trust them selves . . . "Will you end wars by asking men to trust men who evidently cannot betrusted? No. Teach them to love and truat God; then they will be able to love the men they cannot trust, and will dare to make peace with them, not trusting in them but in God. v "For only love ? which means humility? can cast out the fear which is the root of all war. "If men really wanted peace they would ask God and He would give it to them. But why should He give the world a peace which it does not really desire? For the peace the world seems to desire is really no peace at all. "To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to rob one another without interruption. To still others it means the leisure to devour the goods of the earth without being compelled to inter rupt their pleasures to feed those whom their greed is starving. And to practically everybody peace simply means the absence of any physical violence that might cast a shadow over lives devoted to the satisfaction of their animal appe tites for comfort and pleasure. "Many men (ike these have aaked God for what they thought waa 'peace' and wondered why their prayer was not answered. They could not understand that it actually was answered. God left them with what they desired, for their idea of peace was only ano ther form of war. "So instead of loving what you think is peace, love other men and love God above *11. And inatead of hating the people yon think are warmakert, hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul, r. which are the causes of war." toulf Sptvy Words of Inspiration A proiessor in Chicago U reported to hive given the following kit to hit pupils. He told them that they were not really educated aaleaa they could say Yea to all these questions: 1. Has your education given you sympathy with all good causes and made you espouse them? 2. Haa It made you public-spirited? 3. Haa it made you a brother to the weak? 4. Have you learned how to make friends and keep themT 5. Do you know what It is to be a friend yourself? 6. Can you look an honest man or a pure woman straight In the ey?T T. Do you see anything to love in a little child? I. Will a lonely dog follow you down the street? >. Can you be high-minded and happy in the meaner drudgeries of life? 10. Do you think washing dishes and hoeing corn Just as compatible with high thinking as piano playing or golf? II. Are you good for anything to yourself? 12. Can you be happy alone? 13. Can you look out on the world and see anything but dollars and cents? 14. Can you look into a mud puddle by the wayside and see anything in tlie puddle but mud? 15. Can you look into the sky st night snd see beyond the stars? 16. Can your soul claim relationship with the Creator? Now, believe me. God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. There is a time when we are not content to be such merchants or doctors or lswyers as we see on the dead level or below it. The woman longs to glorify her womanhood as sister, wife, or mo ther. Here is God,? God standing silently at the door all day loag. ?Robert Collyer Dreams come true, if we only wish hard enough. You can have any thing in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. "What will you have?" ssys God. "Pay for it and take it." ?James Barrie If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where -th?y should be. Now put the foundations under them. ? Thoreau We see things not as they are but as we are. We can be thankful in a topsy-turvy world if our own lives are top side up. SMILE It costs nothing, but crestes much. It eariehes those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rick they can get along without It, and none so poor but are richer for its beneflta. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in business and is the countersign of friends. It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and nature's best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, borrowed or stolen, for it is something that is no earthly good to anyone till it is given away. And If in the last minute rush of buying, some of us should be too tired to give you a smile, may we ask you leave one of yours. For nobody needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give. ?Unknown Captain H>nry Sou'easter w ? , Thry say that wreck on Ana Street a week or so ago was caused by two motorist* after the same pedestrian. One of my friends went away for the Fourth of July holiday on the plane that leaves the airport every evening. It waa his first plane trip. He waa sort of worried about flying. One of hia friends, who has flown lots of times, said, "You haven't anything to worry about. If your time has come, you can't do anything about it." "That may be true," aaid my buddy, scratching his head, "but what happena if the pilot's time has come, and mine hasn't?" Years ago, a circuit rider just starting out. went to a small coun try church to preach. Only one farmer showed up. They sat there waiting, both rather embarrassed. Finally the young preacher put It to the farmer, "My friend, if you took a load of hay to the pas ture for your cows and only one cow showed up, would you feed her?" The farmer considered, "Yeah, preacher," he finally replied, "I believe I would." The preacher took the challenge, got up, sang a few songs, passed the collection plate, preached an hour, pronounced the benediction and walked out with the farmer. At the door they shook hands and the farmer said, "You know, preacher, I been thinkin'. If I took a load of hay down to the pasture and only one cow came up? yeah, I'd feed her all right, but danged if I'd give her the whole load!" Coming next week: two sea res cue stories which 1 don't expect will make the papers prior to then. From the Bookshelf Traveling with the Innocents Abroad: "Mark Twain's Original Reports from Europe and The Holy Land. Edited by Daniel Morley McKeithan. University of Okla homa. U. Late in 1866 Mark Twain, 31 years old, a bushy-haired fellow with a droopy mustache, persuad ed a San Francisco newspaper, the Daily Alt* California, to buy him a European tour aboard the Qua ker City and to print his travel letters. Not many papers have struck such a historic bargain; out of the trip came Mark Twain's second book, "The Innocents Abroad." It was baaed very directly on the SO letters, which are collected here for the first time within hard cov ers. A superb book came out of them; by themselves they make a superb book. The question is, bow much did Mark Twain polish, and did he do it well? He felt that for book publication he needed to tone down his exuberance and be more tender toward raligioua suscepti bilities; he believed eastern read ers more effete than western; and a new wife, Olivia? whose brother be met aboard ship? breathed down his neck while he revised. Opinion* are divided on the com parative merits, but my own is, that his second try made no ma jor improvement on his source, that be often weakened instead of polishing, and that be omitted some really hilarious passages like the one about aeeing the "Bar ber of Seville" in Spain and hoping to meat "Two Gentlemen of Ve rona," or about the beautiful wo men of Genoa with 1M at whom he said he fell in lor* on one eve ning in the park. Una after tin* b* eliminate* * colorful word because someone may think It tn offensive one, he gnaws away at his own genius, be chips it off bit by bit. There's something deadly about having readers in mind, or a shapeless unidentifiable public, or editors, or even a sweet young wife. This book, helpfully edited, is invaluable testimony to the na ture of the man and his creative powers. -W. G. Rogers A Friend In Power. By Carlos H. Baker. Scribners. $3.95. The chsirmao of the modern languages department in ? uni versity not too far from New York City serves on a committee to choose ? new president for his in stitution, sccording to this first novel by the chairman of the Eng lish depsrtment at Princeton, a university not too far from New York City with a new president chosen not two years ago. This is not the university life seen through the cynical or caustic eyes of a Stringfellow Ban- or a Mary McCarthy, but a picture, if not almost a vision, of a well meaning and able board of direc tors working through a loyal facul ty group to find the on* uniquely qualified individual. You'll be intereated not only for the main theme but also for the background of a busy teacher's yearly round? committee meetings, boys in trouble, colleague plagued by a tint wife and other legitimate concern* Interfering with class room work and with the longing to write a book. This, I like to imagine, is the way it really it; here if a welcome good word, and aa enjoyable one, for at least one corner of our often criticized educational system. -W. 0. Sogers
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