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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 1 Carter* Cooaty'* Ntvtptp* EDITORIALS TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 2, 1 958 If It Does as It Should . . . 1 If the planning board appointed by ftte county functions as it should, it can Ipok into the future and see what groundwork has to be laid now to meet the demands 26 years hence. ! To meet those demands, which in our Estimation are sewage disposal facili ties, more miles of navigable waters, Acceptable residential and business sites, money will be required. Work toward planning those im provements must begin now. Money for "planning" may be looked upon as an unnecessary expense by the average person. ^It IS unnecessary if persons do not ke planning seriously. No attractive cale "just grows". Many people de plore the fact that years ago the county Went into debt to build roads. But could it be that some of the prosperity the county enjoys now was due to the Vision of our present senior citizens? , If the county is to enjoy its present rate of growth 25 years from now, what must we do to assure it? Prob ably one of the most important things is to preserve our pure waters and stop polluting those we already pollute, t Reports from Miami say that sports fishing just off Miami is not what it used to be. Persons in position to know Uttribute the drop in sportsfishing to the increased pollution of Miami waters. It can't happen here? Those who think not are foolish. We can wait for 26 years to pass, see the pollution, the halt in growth1 and then decide we need sewage disposal plants. But it will then take another 25 years to purge all the pollution and to convince the public once again that our waters are good for fishing, boat ing and swimming. An ounce of pre vention is worth a pound of cure. If we assure future building and growth, property values will increase and tax revenues will automatically be higher, thus providing more funds for better schools, government buildings, parks and the like. That means that some money must be put to work now. This may require higher taxes. But people should begin to realize a going concern requires in vestment of funds, if there is to be profit. Towns and counties are going con cerns. New projects ? schools, mos quito control, water development ? re quire investment. On those a profitable return can be expected. Taxes in themselves are not evil; evil enters in when tax money is used for purposes that will not assure a bet ter tomorrow for the taxpayer. No in dividual, alone, can build a fine school house for his child, or dig a deeper channel for fishing boats, but each in dividual joining others with his mite, can do big things. People wise enough to see this, progress and prosper. Those who don't, stand still ? or retreat. Another Step Forward Atlantic Beach is to be commended tor adopting a zoning ordinance. The town will profit if the ordinance ia fol lowed and, if adjustments are made, that they be made for the benefit of the majority and not for the personal Advantage of a few. Law requires that every town which rones shall also set up a board of ad justment That board has the power to tnake minor adjustments in regula tions. This has been done so that prop erty owners will not be subjected to un due hardship when a bit of common tense and compromise could be brought into play to work out a problem. The board of adjustment doea not have the power to change the zoning ordinance. Thia lies only within the jurisdiction of the town board and can be carried out only after '??'tain legal procedures are followed. ' Atlantic Beach has rapidly become One of the most desirable coastal re sorta. Congestion of buildings in cer tain areaa now is unfortunate, but the zoning laws will prevent future con gestion in both buainess and residen tial areas. Thus, the town can grow in orderly fashion and become a munici pality with the atmosphere of perma nence and prosperity. f Too many of North Carolina's Reaches have a shoddy, here today gone- tomorrow atmosphere simply be cause they have not been administered by an able government. Unless some action is taken on the county level in the near future to prevent haphazard growth of the areas immediately out side Atlantic Beach, those areas will be a product of topsy-turvy growth. When that happens, all property values will decrease. Each summer finds more investment being made in beach homes and busi nesses. There will, probably, be loud objection in the future from prospec tive builders who do not want to com ply with the zoning ordinance. But it will be found, in most cases, that the property owner who does not want to build in accordance with the law is one who, in the long run, would not be ? desirable citizen, one who would op erate a business to the detriment of the whole community ? and keeping such persons from building is the exact in tent of a zoning ordinance. It takes men of courage to stick to their guns when someone derides and ridicules them simply because he can not build as he pleases. It is hoped that the members of the Atlantic Beach board of adjustment are individuals of courage. A zoning ordinance, in itself, may be good, but the extent of its benefit is in direct proportion to the manner in which it is administered. 'Piscopalian' (Weimar Jones ir L Editor Isaac S. London, of the Rock ingham Post-Dispatch, recalls "the story of the personnel manager of a Jarre business firm who, in sorting through forms filled out by job appli cants, came across the usual number of ^Baptists, Methodists, Roman Catholics, EI so forth, listed under "church pref nce." But one neatly lettered card I been filled in by a young man who had studied architecture in college. His church preference was "Gothic." B That recalls a story told by Macon ^ative Don S. Elian, of Asheville : ' The young job applicant filled out all spaces on his application blank ex l Franklin Press) eept that asking his church preference. He left that blank. Looking over the application, the personnel manager asked the applicant didn't he have a church preference. "Oh, yes," he said, "I'm Presby terian." "Then why don't you say so?" "Well, just to tell you the truth, I wasn't sure how to spell 'Presby terian'.** "In that case, why didn't you ab breviate it, just put a *P*T" "I started to do that, but I was afraid you might misunderstand; you might think I was 'Piscopalian." Carteret County Newt-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A N?r(er at The Beaufort N? t (Eat 1M1) tad The Tola CKy Time* (E>t ISM) Published Tueadayi end Friday* by the Certeret PubUahlng Company, toe. 504 Areodell St, Morebead Otjr, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Mail Rate*: to Certeret County end edjnWS cowttaa. M-0? one year, MM ate month*. ?LM one month; eUewbve *7.00 one year, *4.00 atx montha. ?LS0 one month. 76 TROMBONES Ruth P? ling Why the People Don't Win Among the letters received at the newspaper office several months ago, when persons were contributing 20 cents per phone to fight the telephone rate increase, was one which read something like this, "Here's a dollar to fight the rate increase, and I'll give you another dollar if you'll investigate the utilities commission." Those few words expressed suc cinctly the attitude of many North Carolinians toward the utilities commission. Jim Chaney, writer for a Raleigh newspaper, in a series of articles which ended Thursday surveyed operations of the utilities commission and point ed out why utilities commission decisions so seldom are in favor of the phone, light or water cus tomer. Mr. Chaney remarked that the "little people", you and I, never let the utilities commission know when we are pleased by a decision. The utilities companies do. The public doesn't work for reappoint ment to the commission of men who are favorable to the public. The utilities work for reappoint ment of men favorable to their side. If I recall correctly, a utilities commission member several years ago supported east Carolinians in a rate fight. Later he ran for pub lic office, a high state office. Was he elected? No. The public placed, apparently, little importance to the fact that he was their cham pion on the utilities commission. While the commission may, as Mr. Chaney points out, be operat ing under ancient procedures and their are many ways in which new statutes could remedy some of the current faults, the fact remains that the utilities "stick to their knittin' " when it comes to keep ing utilities commission members kindly inclined toward the utilities. This has continued to the point where it is almost utter futility to fight a utility. The utilities commission, by its recent decisions, has shown that it does not exist to protect the pub lic, but to protect the utilities com panies. If the commission rules in favor of Carolina Telephone in the most recent rate case, the decision will come as a surprise to no one in eastern North Carolina. Interesting new signs giving tou rists an idea of where they are and what lies ahead have been erectcd on highways in Carteret. One has been placed at the beach road and Arendcll Street intersec IS THE COOS OLD D?TS THIRTY YEARS AGO The state firemen were to hold their convention at New Bern next week. Following this there would be a beauty pageant at Atlantic Beach. Recorder's court would open next Tuesday with Alvah Hamil ton presiding as judge, M. Leslie Davis as solicitor and L. W. Has sell as clerk of court. R. A. Cherry was remodeling the former Palace theatre building in Morehead City as a new movie theatre. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Local merchants had sigqed up for the NRA (National Recovery Act) and were entitled to show the Blue Eagle in their stores. The Board of Education was in quiring into the possibility of the White Oak High School students' attending the Swansboro School. TEN YEARS AGO Dan L. Walker of Burlington had been selected as manager of the Beaufort chamber of commerce. Fort Macon surf boat crew won the lifeboat race at Hatteras. FIVE YEARS AGO Fire, caused when lightning struck, destroyed the main pro cessing building of Sperti Products, Inc., on Lennox ville Road, Beau fort By a margin of only sbc votes, the area just west of Morehead City was annexed. A total of 177 voters had registered, IX voted in favor of the annexation and 75 against. Captain Henry Sou'easter Looks ai though there is much news in real estate in the east ends of Front and Ann Streets. Three homes in the 1500 block of Ann are for sale at this writing, and one on the waterfront in the 1400 block of Front. Those at least, are the ones I know of. Lawrence Rudder and Dr. John Way are building new homes in that section. Charles Davis and family will move soon into their new bouse on Front Street extend ed and the Holden Ballous recent ly moved into their new home at 1M0 Ann. The R. M. Williams have bought the Alex Graham home on the road to Copelands and expect to move in aa soon at some renova tion work is done on the insido. The Grahams have bought the bouse next to their drive-in on Highway 101. Reminds me of a game we used to play at kids. Each one would get in a different corner at a room then somebody would shout "Upset the fruit basket" and everybody would rush like mad to find a new corner. Of course, there was al ways one less corner than there were kids, ?o ooa fellow was al . .? i . ? . j. ways left in the middle. But folks are playing it life on this bouse business, tbey don't get out of what tbey got until they have something to get into. V-e-r-y clever. Speaking of kids, David and Jerry Beveridge have two in their front yard?cute little black and white ones tied to a tree. Wouldn't have been nearly a* surprised had I seen David's trawler tied in the front yard aa I was when I saw those goats. Well, that'* one way to beat cutting the grata in this hot wea ther. Don't beat your golf ballf if you think ti?t will give them more tip. I read about a man wbo put three golf balls in boiling water on the kitchen stove and went out in hit yard to take some practice twinca. Suddenly there was ? Bang! Bang! Bang! He ruabed back into the kitchen and there waa con fronted by Ma wife wbo waa not happy about having to clean up pieces of golf ball aplattered all flw the stove and room. k&Uki*. >? ? ri i - ? 1 Hi i lltfirf Jin'i t -? ?? * tion and another on the eauseway between Beaufort and Morehead City. There probably are others. The signs are in natural-finish wood, with letters cut into them and sil vered. Most attractive. And as far as I have been able to determine, the words are spelled correctly. The highway depart ment's sign-maker goofed again on the signs posted at either side of the Coral Bay property on the Salter Path Road: "Pedestrain Crossing." A bunch of people walk ing along are a train of pedes trians, the sign-maker probably reasoned, so he spelled the word accordingly. Boat people say it's silly to put, right at a draw bridge, a calibrat ed sign saying how high the bridge is above the water. By the time a boatman gets that close to a bridge, he has already blown for the bridge to open and the bridge il Well on its way to being open. Where such signs should be placed, boatmen say, is about a quarter of a mile from the bridge. True. Two native sons have been men tioned as possible successors to ailing Judge Don Gilliam of Tar boro. Should the federal judge de cide to retire, they say that Julian Gaskill, Goldsboro (native of Sea Level), Claud R. Wheatly Jr., Beaufort, or Algernon Butler, Clin ton, may be offered the job. Don't ever fire an "obsolete" cannon. Some English soldiers loaded a cannon of the 1700's with croquet balls the other day, and fired. The croquet balls sailed three blocks and broke windows in two homes. Comment . . . j. K?iium Ego and Deceit Blaise Pascal, in "Pensees," re marks upon the weakness of want ing to present onesself to the world as faultless. He shows how we can proceed from simple embarrass ment at our imperfections to ? complete refusal to face our faults. Logically, we then proceed from deceiving ourselves about our faults to deceiving ourselves ? quite automatically ? about the world around us. We have th^n graduated (?) from egotism to un reality. It is worth thiaking about. He says: "The nature of self love and of this human ego is to love self only and consider self only. But what will man do? He cannot prevent this object that be loves from be ing full of faults and wants. "Hit wants to be great, and h? sees himself small. He wants to be perfect, and be sees himself full at imperfections. He wants to be an object of love and esteem among men, and be sees that his faults merit only their hatred and contempt This embarrassment in which be finds himself produces in him the most unrighteous and criminal passion that can be im agined; for he conceives a mortal enmity against that truth which reproves him ahd which convinces hitn of his faults. "He would annihilate it, but, un able to destroy it in its essence, he destroys it as far as poasible in bis own knowledge and in that at others; that is to say, be de votes all his attention to hiding his faults both from others and from himself, and be cannot en dure either that the otbera should point them out to him, or that he should see them." The saddest word tongue or pen: "We said the baby buggy, then"? ?The Arcadian Lout? Splvty Words of Inspiration , DELINQUENCY . . . WHOSE? It 1* alarming to many of ui to read about the multiple Crimea la our nation committed by young people. They are often called "teenage gangs," "juvenile delinquents," etc. The wiae onea of our timea are meeting all over our land to try to find the anawer, "Why would these children rebel in thia great land of opportunity, why? why? why?" Thoee of ua who are parenta and have just paaaed through tbeae teen-age yean, with our children, and have come out with good, clean, average' Americana, cannot read tbeae accounta without thanking God on our kneei for Hia very apecial love and guidance for our own. When a child ia small, it la not unuaual for young parenta to read and atudy the books written by our auppoaedly wiae onea. I, too, read these books and to aome extent they certainly did affect my own life aa well aa my family'a. The schools were alao catering to thia new plan of self eipreaaion, progreaaive education; my neighbors went along with the idea too. Many times during the growing-up years of the children we heard, "Well Suaie'a mother lets her do thus and ao, or Johnny's parenta under atand and truat him, and ao on." Through these yeara there's one safe port where all of ua can go when life becomes a little rough. There was no question, no argument about whether or not they would attend Sunday School and church. I had always gone with them. On Sunday morning, it was juat the thing to do and no one thought of not going. The literature that I read seemed to conflict with the teachinga of my Bible. I made many miatakea during those years, but I can truthfully say that I did the best I knew, uaing my Bible aa my guide. I believe that if the wiae ones will search far enough, they will find a new name for the delinquents. They will find that instead of calling them juvenile delinquents, that the correct name should be, parental delinquents. It warms our hearts when we read I Samuel chaptera 1-3 of Hannah who went into the temple and prayed for a son. There she made ? vow to God that if this son waa given to her. she would give him back to God all of bis life. Many of ua have made vows to God relative to our children. When Samuel was just a small boy, Hannah took him into the temple and left him there, and the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest. Samuel was like a son of Eli, and he must have loved him as if he were his own. Our Bible tells us that Eli also had two sons who knew not the Lord. As the story goes, one night, after Samuel and Eli had gone to bed, the voice of God called Samuel three times. Each time Samuel had gone to Eli's bed, thinking it was he who had called. On the third time, Eli told Samuel to say, "Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth." Samuel did this, and God gave him His message: "In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house; when I begin I will also make an end. For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not. I Samuel 3:12-13. I believe that if all parents would again take over the rearing of their children, with the help of God, juveuile delinquency would soon be stamped out. It is good for us to remember this story of Eli. I am sure that he loved hia two sona very much. Perhaps like many of us in today's world, he loved them too much to deny them many things. Eli waa a man of God and knew God's laws concerning his children. He broke these laws. The price was high. From the Bookshelf Three's Company. By Alfred Duggan. Coward - McCain, Inc. $3.95. This is the story of ? lata. late George Apley ? a stuffy, proper Roman by the name of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus who, through a magnificent capacity for indecision and inaction, became the third member of the Triumverate set up after the assassination of Julius Caesar. The other two left their names in history, Mark Anthony and Octavius Caesar. But not Lepidus. The task to which Duggan set himself in this book is a most dif ficult one: to explain the compli cated political maneuvering of Im perial Rome and to make credible the personality and career of a man who was little more than a stooge. He does not succeed entirely, but the book makes good reading. Too much of the background is given in conversations that might almost begin: "And now, my dear, let me explain the intricacies of Senate subcommittees . . And if Lepi dus was as obsessed with doing the right thing as he is painted, and as incapable of decisive action, it is difficult to believe that in the end he could have come to com mand 22 mighty Roman legions and hold the world in his grasp ? only to have his soldiers desert to Octavius. Making history credible, and particularly ancient history, is the rarest and most difficult of arts. Even if Duggan does not achieve the heights, he nevertheless paints a fascinating picture of ancient Rome, and there is a ring of au Author of the Week Richard Chase, author o t "The Democratic Viata," was born In New Hampshire in 1914, studied at Mosea Brown School in Providence, and at Dartmouth, and got his PhD at Columbia, where be la a pro feasor. He baa had a Guggenheim and ? National Inatitute at Art* and Letters award. Married, and la ther of four children, be baa writ ten five otber books in the laat nine years, about Melville, Dickin son, aad Whitman, among other thenticity that atones (or the lack of literary fire. Poor Lepidus. He was proper and he was brave. And yet when his life crumbled he grovelled at the feet of Octavius and begged for mercy, instead of falling on his sword which would have been the eminently correct thing to do. - Ted Smits The Splendid Little War. By Frank Freidel. Little, Brown. $7.50. To Americans 60 years ago, the Spanish-American conflict was a romantic experience epitomized by John Hay's remark about a "splen did little war." It lasted only four months and left the impression that one clean living young Yankee could, with his right hand tied behind his back, lick his weight in Spaniards. Afterwards, twinges of con science dulled national tendencies towards braggadocio. Now this notable work by Professor Freidel makes it pretty plain that Span iards as well as Americans were brave men, that war is a terrible business of squalor, wounds and disease ? even if lighted by mo ments of high heroism ? no mat ter who fights it or where. Also that this one might have happened a bit differently had not the Span ish high command out-bungled the 1 American, which took some doing. Not a straight narrative but one compounded largely of excerpU from articles, letters and reports by men who taw it happen, Frei del's is an unusual book and a fas cinating one. It haa about 300 il lustrations and the author enlusts not only the pens of such reporters as Stephen Crane, Richard Hard ing Davis and Theodore Roosevelt, but the pencils d artists like Frederic Remington and Howard Chandler Christy. ? J.W. The Readers Write Morebead City, N. C. August 5, IMS To the Editor: Cheers to Mr. James Smith of Salter Path for his attempts to get telephone service to the residents of Salter Path and Emerald Isle (NEWS-TIMES, Aug. 5, 1?M). This $100,000 required to put telephones farther west on Bogue Banks? un officially, if not officially, REA has okayed the use of REA poles for putting up telephone lines, as they have doae in many other communities. II Carolina Telephone h Tele- I graph Co. is to have the franchise for giving telephone service in this county, then let them give sendee. We are repeatedly reminded that with privileges go responsibilities; if the telephone company has the exclusive right to furnish tele phone service to our community, likewise it should have the respon sibility of granting legitimate re quests for service by home owners sad businessmen
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