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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cwtml County* ? N?w?peper EDITORIALS 10 Rules . . . , Bruce E. Tarkington, principal of Beaufort School, believes the following ten rule* are good ones for parents to follow. We are inclined to agree and present them here in the hope that some of them may be followed, to help make smooth the year ahead: 1. Instruct your child before he starts to school and repeatedly after he is in school that he must obey his teachers, study the lessons given, and practice good behavior, because this is your wish and your command. 2. Take a personal and detailed in terest in your child's report cards, thus giving him to understand that his progress and behavior in school are matters over which you keep the clos est watch. 3. Never take sides openly with your child against the authorities at school. 4. Don't take your child's word alone for the fact that he is being treated unfairly, or punished unjustly or "being picked on" in school. 5. Don't let your pride in your chil dren blind you to the possibility that they could do wrong. 6. When you have a suspicion or some probable evidence that a teacher is unfair to your child, don't go to the school principal without first talking the matter over with the teacher. 7. If your child is given homework to do, put your own authority behind that of the school, and see to it that the homework is conscientiously done. 8. Keep a close supervision over your child's time and activities when he is not in school. 9. Make it a point to know personal ly the children whom your child has selected as his close friends and com panions. 10. In his association with other children, be on guard especially that your child does not become a "bully" over other children, nor one who can be led about by the nose by others. With a feeling of goodwill and close cooperation between teachers, parents, and other citizens, this school year can be one of growth, progress and happy memories. Unfit Water Keeps Flowing If the people in town in Beaufort think they have water problems, they ought to live in some of the outlying sections. One householder has made a collec tion of the foreign matter that has come ?out her faucet ? a piece of rock about an inch and a half long, two sodden kleenexes, mud, sand, and pieces of rust. At first she just stared, dumbfound ed, at such stuff, and then she put a glass by her sink and began to collect the debris. "My glassware and pitchers, the commode, the basins ? everything has turned a dirty brown. It looks as though I'm the world's worst house keeper, but I can't do a thing about it. "It's nauseating to wash our faces in the water and we have to close our eyes when we brush our teeth. I'd like "to have thtf"* water company manager come and live in our house just one day to see what we have to put up with," the housewife declared. The worst of it is that complaints bring no results. The water company has taken the attitude, apparently, of "So what?" The trouble suffered by families in the Glendale Park section, for exam ple, does not lie with the well. Water as it comes directly from the well is clear and uncluttered. What happens to the water between the well and a faucet in the home is another thing. But the water company is not willing "to admit that new lines laid beyond Beaufort to the outlying sections have been laid improperly. The people in town are still suffer ing from smelly, yellow water. W. C. Williams, water company manager, when asked Wednesday whether the new well and new system of purifying water would be ready soon, said, "I don't know. We're working on it." He would give no estimate as to when the new well water would start flowing through the system. "There arc too many things that could go wrong. That's why I can't give a date," he remarked. He added that the town would be assured of water, however, if power should fail or some other emergency occur. Great. It has now been three months and two weeks since the new well was drill ed and an announcement made that the flow of water was satisfactory at 381 feet. Fourteen weeks . . . and they still dofft VrfOW when Beaufbrt is going to get better water. Add to that the fact that the water company digs up streets around town and then leaves big pot-holes for cars to get damaged in, and you can readily understand why the water company is the one of the least-loved enterprises in (or out of) town. Mr. Williams has pointed out that he has had many problems this sum mer, including the breaking of mains by road ? grading equipment. But it seems as though nine-tenths of the water company problems are due to in efficiency, lack of knowledge of water business, and an attitude of the public be damned. Sounds? - Zounds! (Christian Science Monitor) As every baby who has ever cried tor its bottle knows, sound can do won ders. "The squeaky wheel gets the grease." This is a bit of folklore honor ed in business, family, professional, and even international affairs. Some times the squeak is taken care of in other ways ? and sometimes it goes on just the same in the form of "silent sound," which can be even more effec i tive than too much of the other sort. Multifarious, however, are the uses of inaudible sound. It can be used to gain a point in human relations or to sharpen a point on a precision tool. Its technical name is "ultrasonics," and it now bases an industry reportedly doing about $75,000,000 worth of business a year, two-thirds of which is military r but the other third of which is concern ed with food processing, fishing, drill ing, testing metal bars. It can clean a cash register (law fully) or ? watch. And some day it may be running the family washing machine or boiling the hearthside ket tle (which will, of course, sing inaudi bly). How long has this been going on? Just a few years. But in the fall the ultrasonics industry is scheduled to hold an exhibition in New York. Then you will be hearing all about the things you can't hear. Or if you can't wait till then, you might ask your dog, who has had an ear cocked to this wave-length ever since it was used in inaudible dog whistles in World War II, and more importantly for detecting submarines. i I Carteret County Newt-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A lienor of The Beaufort News (Ed 1*13) and The Twin City Timet (Est ISM) Published Tuesdays aid Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. SO* ArendeU St., Horehead City, N- C. LOCK WOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIP8 - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER ROTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Mail Rates: In Carteret Couaty and adjoining counties, ft. 00 ooe year, $S.M six months, tLS one moath; olsewhsrs pM eoa year, U-K ft* norths. fun one Member at Aaaedated Preas - N. C. Press Associate* National Utaid Asaoflattan ? Audit Bureau 41 Ctrsulatioos Moran A Fischer, Inc. 10 Eaat 4Mb Street, New York U. N. T. The AsaocUlsd Press to Slatted ctdestrely thuas k^KpubBeatloii o I local ?ews . ?? W ???a?a<ir. aa ?o0 ?e ' N. C.. UBdtr Art *M?wll i W - * ?? - SERIOUS TROUBLE! Washington Report By SEN. B. EVERETT JORDAN Washington ? For the first time in the history of the United States, Congress has approved an ambi tious program of financial assist ance to education. There has been a great deal of controversy about such a pro gram for quite a number of years because education tradi tionally has been financed and operated privately at the local level. There is no doubt that the program is an almost direct re sult of Russia forging ahead of the United States in the race for outer space last Fall with the successful launching of satellites. I supported and voted for the legislation which authorizes action by the Federal government in stepping up educational activity in the fields of science, mathematics, and languages. I did so because I feel very deeply that the threat world com munism now presents for free dom and democracy goes far be yond^ Intercontinental missiles and H bombs. The threat of com munism in the fields of econom ics and education is just as great as in military might. It is well and good for us to be proud of our educational system in the United States. There is no doubt about it, we have performed miracles. But we have to take the bitter with the sweet. While we have the modern school buildings, the very best physicial facilities that men and machines can make, we have been lagging behind in the sciences, mathematics, and the languages. For many school children, science and math and the Ian guages are the tough courses. These are the precision courses that demand study and hard work if they are mastered. Too often, I feel that all of us have been guilty in letting our school children get by, so to speak, without sufficient training and knowledge in these fields. Too often, we have taken the easy way out. A pronounced deficiency in the number of scientists and engi neers has been the result. I would have never supported the bill if there had been any provisions in it permitting fed eral control. The bill, as ap proved by the Senate, specific ally says that there will in no way be any federal control over the local school authorities in ad ministering the program. Instead of having a direct line from Washington to the local level, the program specifies that all fed eral funds under the program shall be turned over to the individual states for expenditure or transfer to the individuals. It is a program that offers specific and effective incentives for more high school graduates to enter scientific fields and do graduate and special work in these fields. Because of the nature of the pro gram approved by Congress, I sin cerely feel it will bring about tre mendously favorable reaction. By offering fellowships, grants, and loans for the purpose of pro viding more teachers and inter est among students in the sciences, mathematics, and the languages a new surge of activ ity in these fields of education will certainly take place. This will be accomplished, I believe, with a minimum of expen ditures and without federal inter ference in local school affairs. I feel very strongly that the ap proach used in the program is a sound approach that affords an economical way to meet a subtle but fast-growing and grave prob lem for education. Security for You. By RAY HENRY From P.G. of Washington, D. C.: "I was born on July 14, 18*4. Yon can set it won't bf long and I'll be able to collect Social Se curity. The trouble is I don't have a birth certificate and don't know where in the United State* I waa born. I served in the Army daring World War I. Will Social Security accept my Army dis charge as proof of my birth date?" If you don't have a birth certifi cate and can't get one, chancea are your discharge papers will be accepted as proof of your age. From D.H.A. of Council Bluffs, Iowa: "About four years ago I started collecting a disability an nuity as a disabled government worker. At the time. It appeared that I would never be able to wort again because of a serious leg injury. Now, It appears that I'll be able to go back to work. I'M U. If I go back to wort, will I automatically lose my disabil ity unity;" No. You'U lose your annuity only if your working income for two consecutive calendar years is at least 80 per ccnt of the current salary of the position you left when you were disabled. If you do, your working capacity is considered re stored. Fran R.L. of Brooklya, N. T.: "I have been liviaf ia the Vailed States since lt? snd working regularly la ? job covered by So cial Security. I've sever become a citizen. If I should retire aext year at m and retire to Italy, eaa I collect Social Security there?" Yea, an alien with at least 10 year* total residence in the United Stitti cio anywhere in the world, except be hind the Iron Curtain. From B.B. of Bartlesville, Okla.: "What is the eaaieit way to find out if there are any fed eral Civil Service Jobs opea? If I should write to Washington, please five me the address." Your post office should have in formation about federal job open ings. But, if you wish further in formation, you may write: Civil Servicc Commission. Examining Division, Washington 25, D.C. From Mrs. P.E. of Albany, N.Y.: "My husband died in 1*50 while working in a Job covered by Social Security. He'd worked on the same Job for 14 years. Wbea he died, I didn't know about the Social Security lump sum death payment. May I col lect the payment now?" No. under most circumstances, an application must be filed within two years after death. The max imum delay in applying in all cases is four years. Prom Mrs. D.T.M. of Mitchell, S.D.: "My husband died two years ago leaving me with three small children. I've been col lecting Social Security for my self and the children. I'm con sidering patting the two young est children np for adoption. What will happen to Uielr pay ments if I do?" The monthly payments will be stopped upon adoption unless they're adopted by a step-parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle. (Editor's Note: Tea may con tact the social aeenrity repre sentative at the conttwe an nex, Beaufort, from t:M a.m. to noon Mondays. He will help yon with yew own particular prob tafc Comment... j. Keiium GARDEN GIFTS Isabelle tiryans Longfellow, in her poem "Garden Gifts," gives us a picture of charity. Would that we all were gardeners, such as she speaks of here, but of our human relations! Gardeners are always giving gifts to one another? something their own earth Has given to them. They bear from yard to yard Small bits of green uprooted for rebirth? A dangling root, a clipping from a vine, Given and taken eagerly al though Another may not see the rareness of it. But gardeners see more than most; they know What leaves lie curled within a single root; They sight the purple plume, the fringing gold. The long pod, silver beaded in the dew. So, year to year and friendly mold to mold Bearing frern gifts within a hand's caress They multiply their bloom through kindliness. Stamp News By SYD KRONISH The French Colonies have issued 9 new stamps depicting various local flowers. The colonics are New Caledonia (4 fr and 15 fr), Wallis et Futura (5 fr), French Equitorial Africa (10 fr and 25 fr), French West Africa (10 fr, 30 fr and 65 fr), and the Somali Coast (10 fr.) At the same time the Somali Coast issued four new stamps showing animals. The 20 centimes illustrated a boar, 40 c leopard, the SO c a gazelle chamois and a 100 franc gazelles. The highest de nomination was airmail. Each year Switzerland issues a special series of semi-postals for "Pro Patria" (National Day). A different national welfare agency receives the additional funds from the sale of the stamps. The 1958 Pro Patria set consists of five stamps and will support the needy mothers of Switzerland. The theme appears on the 5 cen time atamp which ahowa a mother aheltering a child. The additional four are the be ginning of a aeries entitled "min erals, r o c k i, fossils." These stamps are designed to publicize the mineral and rock formationa of Switzerland. The 10 centime depicts fluorite found in the Jura mountaina. The 20 c shows coiled ammonite, a fossil found in the sedimentary formationa of the Swiss plateau. The 30 c illuatratea a rare atone called almandine. The 40c shows the popular rock crystal which ia found in great quantities in Switz erland. A popular song la one that ha* the happy virtue of making aJ o I W think ?n cu ting. Loulw Sphwy | Words of Inspiration I think that human life is much like road life. You stand on a hill, and look down across the valley, and another prodigious hill lifts itself upon the other tide. The day is hot, your horse is weary, and yoa are tired; snd it seems to you that you cannot climb that long hill. But you hsd better trot down the hill you are on, and not trouble yourself about the other one. You find the valley pleasant and inspiring. When you get across it, you meet only a slight ascent, and begin to wonder where the steep hill is which you saw. You drive along briskly, and when you reach the highest point, yeu find that there has not been an inch of the hill over which you have not trotted. You see that it was illusory. The slight ascent looked almost like a perpendicular steep; but when you come to pass over it, step by step, you find it to be a good travelling road. So it is with your troubles. Just in that way your anticipations of mischief hang before you; and when you come to where they are, you find them to be all smooth turnpikes. Men ought to be ashamed, after they have done that two or three times, not to take the hint, and profit by it; yet they will not. They will suffer from anticipated troubles just as much as though they had no experience. They have not wit enough to make use of the lesson which their life is continually teaching them ; namely, that a large majority of the troubles which they worry themselves about beforehand either never come or are easily borne. They form a habit of fretting about future troubles. It is not the old monks alone who wore sackcloth and hair skirts; you wear them as much as they did; only you wear them inside, while they wore them outside ? you wear them in your heart, they wore them on their skins. They were wiser than you are. ? Beechcr Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week. ? Longfellow Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourishers of each other. ? John Bunyan Many men build as cathedrals were built ? the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. A kitchen, a cellar, a bar and a bedroom, these are the whole of some men, the only apartments in their soul house. Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise, the head, the heart stuffed with goods. Like those houses in the lower streets of the city which were once family dwellings, but are now used for commercial purposes, there are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste and love and joy and worship; but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthly material things. ? Bcecher When a man stood before one of Turner's unrivaled paintings and said, "1 can see nothing in it," the great artist replied, "Don't you wish you could?" A tourist upon his return home was asked what he thought of Notre Dame, and the Sistine Madonna, and some other of the world's remarkable productions. He said he did not see them and went on to say that while his wife did the cathedrals and his daughter did the art gallerries, he did the cafes. There are some things that must be spiritually discerned and appre ciated, and if eyes are blind, and heart is dull, and the soul desensitized, no wonder it is difficult to appreciate the higher things of God. ? Swift From fhe Bookshelf September Rosea. By Andre Maurois. Harper. $3. An aging French literary lion, Guillaume Fontane, meets an en chanting Peruvian actress on a South American lecture tour and has a brief, blazing love affair. By circuitous emotional routes, how ever, this strange encounter with the much younger, beautiful and wayward Dolores Garcia helps him rediscover his love for his wife, Pauline. This, baldly stated, is the plot of Maourois' new novel, written with urbanity, wit, and the familiar French zest for dissecting tangled affairs of the heart. It has a surprising finale. Pau line, who has remained in Paris during Fontanc's tour, finds out about his extra-curricular activi ties. Soon after his return he wilts under her psychological attack. And by the time Dolores comes to Paris on a visit, his mind is sufficiently made up to avoid see ing her again, lie flees to Switzer land; but in his absence Pauline and Dolores establish a warm friendship, which, in its own pe culiar way, heightens Pauline's own understanding of her errant husband. The upshot of it all is Fontanc's rueful realization that he's been a fool. But he also decides that the Peruvian interlude "may have saved us from a melancholy old age" by proving the more abiding nature of his relations with Pau line. Maurois' literary reputation rests, in the main, on his biogra phies. This novel, entertaining and sophisticated as it is, is unlikely to affect the balance. ?Rene Cappon The Road to Wigin Pi" By George Orwell. Harcourt, Brace. *4 50. Written for England's Left Book Club 20 years ago in the midst of the depression, this Is Orwell's report on his investigation into the poverty-stricken slums of the North of England. He lived with wretchedly paid miners and went underground to their dangerous jobs with them, and he renders a savage, searing account of their miserable exis tences. i That's the first part of the book. In the second, while he professes the conviction that socialism is the proper panacea for our industrial world, he la as critical of the so cialism he sees operating and the Socialists operating it as he will be 19 years later of communism and Communists in "Nineteen Eighty-Four." _W. G. Rogers The Big Change In Earepe. By Blair Bolles. Norton. $5.95. A title rarely covers the ground so excellently or offers to many invitations to significant amplifi cation as the five words, com monplace enough In themselves, on the Bolles jacket. They nay be read Id Mveral UaUotu: Tb* tig cbtgi ?w brought about by America; while Europe changed, nevertheless, America marked time or even pulled in its horns; what America started America has to date ne glected to finish. Drastic Dilemmas Bolles' book, his third and easily most relevant in this disturbed time, begins with Eisenhower's first term? unless he prefers to call it Dulles'? and comes as close up to date as last fall. As this Toledo Blade writer sees it, Eisenhower and his secretary of state launched originally into a campaign to end the Truman-Ken nan policy of containment. But eventually they changed their minds, or had their minds changed for them, by inescapable events, and currently they have been hung up on several drastic dilemmas: Eisenhower not sure what Dulles wants, and whether what he wants should precede the goals of Humphrey and Wilson; Dulles trying the monstrous strad dle of defending Western Europe while he tilts against Western Eu rope's colonialism abroad. This country wakened Europe to a new world, and then, Bolles charges, failed to take advantage of the new vigor and enthusiasm it had whipped up. Perhaps the nature of the basic change in Europe is indicated best in a sentence from the admirable chapters on France; "Every grandmother who is con sent to cool the family food in the window has a granddaughter who wants an electric refrigerator." Timely, Distinguished Bolles takes up the countries one by one, as far away as Turkey, and considers not only the leaders but others a notch down the lad der: Niemoeller, Ollenhauer, Deh ler, Count Henri the French Pre tender, Poujade, Gaitskell, Beven. His conclusions show little sym pathy for the course of our present administration; but wherever your loyalty lies, you have to acknowl edge here a consistent, detailed and wonderfully informed survey of Europe's political pies, in which, as you discover, the American finger has been messing much more than you imagined. Bolles also deserves credit for writing out of just that cultured background which insures for the newspaperman the stature of journalist and historian. He not only tells how the beaten Churchill shuffled out of the his toric Downing Street office for the last time, but he also can summon up aa illustrations Francoiae Sagan and Lola Montez, prove a point with tv star Van Doren, and even quote Wagner (Richard), John Os borne and Sinclair Lewis. A book so inordinately timely U not often so distinguished. -W. G. Rogers Just in Passing . . . "Any foal can critic in, condemn, and_ complain? and ^moat at then>
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