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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Ctrtmt County'* Wtwiptyw EDITORIALS FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1958 Mr. Irvin Starts Vacation The courthouse won't seem the same without "Mr. Irvin" there. For 28 years Irvin W. Davis has been register of deeds, an office to which he has been resoundingly elected in nine general elections and renominated again in this year's primary. When he first went in office in 1930, county of ficials were elected every two years. In the late 1930's the procedure was changed to an election every four years. Mr. Irvin has always boen returned to office with a walloping majority. Frequently he was top man on the Democratic ticket. The "champ" is now retiring, undefeated. Although he still looks robust and hearty, Mr. Irvin believes that at the age of 72, he's due some respite from the responsibilities of an exacting job. Not only is he register of deeds, but clerk to the board of county commis sioners. Anybody who has sat through county board meetings once a month for 28 years deserves a vacation ! Illness struck last winter and Mr. Irvin has been unable to be in the of fice as much as he would like. He feels, therefore, that he should resign rather than subject himself and the Democra tic party to criticism for "not being on the job". For 21 years he served as chairman of the county Democratic Executive Committee, a job he relinquished this past spring at the county convention. Mr. Irvin has served the people of the county and the Democratic party well. We hope his days of retirement will be healthy, happy ones, wherein he can sit on his porch at Davis, give highly valuable advice to the county officials still in harness, and go visit his grandchildren when the spirit moves him. : ' ? ? Other States and Oysters All states that value their oyster re sources have state-sponsored programs of oyster culture. Maryland this summer tried a full scale experiment of using slag on oyster beds as an attachment for baby oysters. Slag is a waste product from the pro cess of refining of steel. Between 20, 000 and 30,000 tons of the porous cin der material has been put in Chesa peake Bay, in addition to the regular shell plantings. In Florida a tremendous oyster shell planting program is under way at East point, six miles east of Apalachicola. When the job is finished, about 20 acres of state-owned bottom will be covered with oyster shell for a depth of 1 to 3 feet. In addition to that planting, Flori da's Department of Conservation plans spreading of 3,000 cubic yards of shell in Choctawatchee Bay. It is expected that in 18 months, the planted beds will produce marketable oysters. In Virginia, in another phase of oys ter culture, biologists are determining how long saltwater oysters can live in fresh water. These state-financed programs in states to the north and south of us in dicate that experts beyond the borders of North Carolina are aware of the fact that their oyster industry now, and per haps for many years to come, cannot be self-perpetuating. A fine supply of oysters in North Carolina waters, able to reproduce in abundance naturally, under reasonable limits on catches, would be ideal. It is a goal worth striving for. It is not a new goal ? any state now working to increase its oyster resources hopes some day to be able to see nature do all the work without help from man. With the constant increase in popu lation and likewise the increase in de mand for food, the hope for self-per petuating oyster resources seems dim at present. The North Carolina Fisheries Asso ciation recently took to task those con nected with the state oyster program, basing its criticism on the tenet that it wants the oyster program to be self perpetuating. Some day the man may be born who can do this. If North Carolina hasn't found him yet, neither has Virginia, Maryland or Florida. It would be well nigh disastrous to North Carolina oys termen if the NCFA in its well-intend ed, perhaps, but bungling "oyster study" has jeopardized the availability of North Carolina funds for oyster cul ture. States north and south of us are go ing full steam ahead in oyster pro grams. For the welfare of oystermen in those stotes, it is hoped that divisive elements have not threatened develop ment of their programs. He Can't Win (Baltimore Sun) Henry is a stubborn man. Else he would realize the utter f Mtility of be ginning each monthly check-writing session with blasts against his wife's ex travagance. He can't win! Take the time he accused his wife of buying new furs just to show off in church. What *did she reply? "Henry, dear," she sweetly retorted, "you are dead wrong ? as usual. I bought them just to show everybody what a sweet, generous husband I have I" Again, he said, "Laura, we simply must economize. If I died, where would you be?" To which she cracked, "I'd be right here. The question is, where 1 would you be?" Still stubbornly persisting, he dourly observed on another occasion. "If I had known you were so extravagant I would never have married you." To which she coolly retorted, "If I hadn't been, father would never have let you 1" You would think that all this would have taught Henry to keep his big, fat mouth shut But no J The very next month he cracked, "Your extravagance is unbearable. When I die you'll prob ably have to beg." Without dropping a stitch in her knitting, Laura demolished him with, "Well, I should be better off than some poor women who have never had any practice." Cities of Millions At least sixty-two cities of the world count more than 1,000,000 persons in the city proper, the United Nations Demographic Yearbook of 1957 re ports. In this category the largest is New York. Then follow Tokyo, Lon don, and Greater Paris. If adjacent areas are counted, the yearbook notes, the number of "million" cities rises to eighty. By this count, the five largest are New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Mos cow, and Buenos Aires. Carteret County N?w*Tim?s WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of Tlx Beaufort New* (E?t 1812) tad The Twin Ctty Timet (Eat. JIM) Publiriied Tueadaya and Friday! by the Carter** Pubtiahimf Company, Inc. 504 Arendeil St, Merahead Ctty, N. C. LOCK WOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANOR! DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L PEELING - EDITOR 11 ail ha tea: In Carteret County and adjoining eountiea, $*.00 ?ae year, fcso di mookiie, $1.25 oat nootb; ?laewh?re $7.00 ana year. $400 all aontha, $1.50 on* month. Member ol AaaociaUd Preaa ? N. C Press Aaaodattot National Editorial AaaoeUUon - Audit Bureau af Oredatkaa National Ad*ertisinl Representative Moras * Fischer, Inc. 10 Eaat 40th Stmt. Now Yort U, N. T. The Aaaodated Pmm U entitled exclusively to we lor repubHeattoo at local aewa printed in this pewspsper. aa well ai all AP mn dtspatchea Entered a* Saoaad Oaaa Matter at Morehead Ctty, N. C., Under Act af Xttth I, UJt LEARNING THE ROPES vrouLte m&L Securify for You... By RAY HENRY All federal government workers who retired before Oct. 1, 1956, will find a 10 per cent in< . <!ase ir their Sept. 1 annuity checks. The raises will average about $13 a month and will be paid automati cally. They result from a cost-of-living raise Congress made in the annuity rates. It also: 1. Raises by 10 per cent the an nuities of survivors ? widows, wi dowers and children ? who are drawing annuities based on a gov ernment employee's work before Oct. 1, 1956. 2. Limits the increase which re tired workers may receive to $500 a year and which survivors may receive to $250 a year. 3. Provides annuities for the first time to certain widows of men who worked for the government and who died before Feb. 29, 1948. The raises will not go to any re tired workers or survivers who've gone on the Civil Service annuity rolls aince Oct. 1, 1966, Their pay ment* are based on a different and mere liberal annuity plan and Con gress felt they didn't deserve in creased annuities at this time. The increases will go to nearly a quarter million retired workers and 67,000 widows, widowers and children. And, the government figures that up to 40,000 widows will be entitled to annuities for the first time. To qualify for one, these conditions must be met: ? The widow's husband must have retired from or died in gov ernment service before Feb. 29, 1948. ? He must have worked a total of 10 yeara in a government job. ? He must have been covered by the Civil Service Retirement Pro gram. (A widow can be sure he was covered if she received or was entitled to receive a lump aum death payment from the Civil Ser vice Commission). ? The widow must have been married to her husband for at least five years before his death and not remarried. Widows who meet these condi tions and think they're now entitled to a government annuity should write to this address for an appli cation: Civil Service Commission, Retirement Division, Washington 25, D. C. Eligible widows who apply be fore Slept. 1 will receive the annui ty effective Aug. 1. For an eligi ble widow who applies after Sept. 1, the annuity will be effective the month she applies. The annuities for most eligible widows will be *50 a month or less. They can be in addition to any So cial Security, private pension, wi dow's payment or outside income a widow might be receiving. The actual amount of the annui ty will be equal to one-half of what ber husband would have drawn bad he lived to collect an annuity based on his work. But, there's a flSO a year maximum. (Editor's Note: Yoa may cm lact the social security repre sentative at the courthouse aa ?ex, Beaufort, from t:M a.sa. to soon Mondays. Be will help yoa with year own particular prob lem). Stamps in the News By SYD KRONLSII The Territory of Papua, New Guinea, his issued a new set of stamps illustrating local industries, reports the Australian News Bu reau. This will be the second issue of stamps for the territory. The first occurred in 1952 and consisted of 15 denominations. The 4 pence red will depict ca cao, 7 pence fray green? Klinkii Plymill, 1 shilling 7 pence red brown ? cattle, 3 shillings green coffee. The current issue of the red 3V4 pence stamp portraying Chimbu Head Dress will be repro duced ia black. Guatemala issued a set of four values honoring the Red Cross. The 1 centavo pictures a Quetzal bird pcrcbcd on a map of Guatemala. The 2 c shows a woman holding a child. The 3 c depicts a padre aiding an ill man. The 4c illus trates a portrait of Raphael Ayau and the Red Cross symbol. A new stamp honoring the eity of Rostock and "Baltic Week 1958" has been issued by Eastern Ger many. The 20-pfennig red stamp depicts the seven towers of Ros tock, a landmark of the harbor city, and ocean vessels. The 4-ccnt Journalism and Free dom of the Press commemorative will feature a hand holding an old fashioned quill pen, a stylization of a band printing preaa plus hori zontal and vertical bars suggesting type bearers. It will be placed od first day sale at Columbia, Mo., the home of the world's first School of Jour nalism founded ia 1*08 as part of the University of Missouri. The dedication of the new stamp win be ana of Um events of ? year FREEDOM OP THE PRESS long program marking the golden anniversary of the University's School of Journalism. Collectors desiring first day can cellations may send their ad dressed envelopes to the Postmas ter at Columbia, Mo., with money order to cover the cost of the stamp* to be affixed. The outside envelopes to the Postmaster should be endorsed "First Day Covers Freedom of the Press Stamp." Also remember that this is a vertical stamp and all envelopes should be addressed in the lower left corner. Comment.. ? J. Kellum BRITISH FORTITUDE Courage has been defined as go ing ahead in spite of fear, and fortitude as patjent courage in spite of danger and discomfort. England was fortunate during World War II in her share of peo ple possessed of this virtue. Hitler hoped, by destroying London, to seriously weaken England. But the English endured. In "The Londoner" (Collins, I.on don, 1946) which is a brief? and interesting? history of the city, au thor Dorothy Nicholson reminds us of the life led by those who stayed with the city: "Shelter life began, rather con fusedly at first; later with mira cles of organization, sanitary and alimentary, by authority, and the joys of communal life, >o much appreciated that many were loth to relinquish them when the need of shelter passed. "Two-thirds of the tandoncrs of the central areas made use of no shelter of any kind, public or pri vate, but slept *t borne, under tables, under stairs, or Just in bed. "Those who had responsibilities, to the whine of bombs and spatter of spent shell, carried on a diver sity of tasks, men and women alike 'taking not a blind bit of no tice of what was falling all round them,' driving ambulances, driv ing and manning fire appliances, repairing gasometers sixty feet in the air with millions of cubic feet of gas beneath them, wading breast-high in flooded basements to damp fires under bombed boilers, performing surgical operations by hand-torch In buildings shaken by blast, rescuing people from shat tered houses, or from a collapsed shop, sliding down a slippery clay crater to a gas main alight at the bottom. "Once when a volunteer 'of slcn< der build' was asked for, a London Home Guard, a tiny man, taking a saw with him crawled through a tunnel burrowed through debris and extricated * number of im prisoned prxpie by sawing through a beam n^n which the superstruc ture appeared to, but miraculously did not, rest. "Such acts became common place at each new phase of air attack. Those who had no definite duties, surprised each morning to be still alive (if indeed they were), reached their daily work some time, somehow, if it took them three hours, and in the evening often stayed at work to 'finish' even if the homeward journey had to be performed to the accompani ment of the next night's sirens or bombs." SmiU a WhiU A poll taker asked an old Texan if he thought the recession would have major political influence in the Looe Star State. "Son, we don't have a recession down here," replied the oldster, "though our boom is wors'n it's been in a good while." An efficiency expert is a man who is smart enough to tell you how to run your business, and too smart to (tart one of hij own. Are Editorials Necessary? Charlottesville, Va. ? I* the edi torial page necessary? More than 200 dailie* ill the United States don't think s? and have stopped carrying editorials completely, the editor of the Rich mond News Leader told delegate! to the Virginia Press Association's annual seminar on writing here. James Jackson Kilpa trick (aid two o f the original reasons (or the existence of the editorial page? serving aa a political party organ ud furthering pctiticsl mMtfoni of the publisher ? bad largely dis appeared. But, Mr. Kiipa trick declared, tbe editorial page "can be tke soul and personality of the newspaper. Here tb? editor meets bis reader. He becomes an eagerly awaited friend, or a bitterly bated antagonist" The newspaper "baa a holy and essential obligation" to present in telligent and stimulating editorials, Mr. Kilpa trick said. ? Publisher's Auxiliary AugMft, IMS lo?U> Sptyy Words of Inspiration Today I am tor* that all of you would Ilka to Join me in lending our bait withes to Mr. Grayden Paul, Carteret County'! goodwill ambassa dor, who ii now recovering from an operation at the McPheraoo Hos pital in Durham, N. C. By the time this column is printed, we pray that Mr. Paul will b? fully recovered and back home again. Some time ago there waa an article in one of our popular magazines on Insomnia, and the staggering amounts of drugs used by the American people. A few months ago, Mr. Paul sent me the following poem which I would like to share with you. A Substitute far Sleeping Pills As the whlppoorwill cooa in the evening breeie. And the wind murmurs softly throughly the dunes and trees. Comes a soothing respite from the heat of the day. And a nearness to God, as we kneel to pray. Let your heart forget the turmoil and strife Which is man's common lot in this earth-bound life. And give thanks unto Him, for his Infinite Love, llis blessing on earth . . . and Heaven above. Throw away that bottle of sleeping pills ? And your dreadful fear of imaginary ills. O'er you will come the comforting mantel of sleep When your soul is at rest, and you kneel at His feet. ? Grayden Paul THE IMMORTALITY OF SERVICE It matters little whether men tomorrow will remember or forget the mere combinations of consonants and vowels which make our names. It matters little whether men tomorrow will treasure in painting or sculpture or utterly forget the form of our bodies and the mould of our features. But what docs matter mightily is that in the hearts and hopes and spirits of men there shall live on and gleam on some flame that we have kindled. To live on in some consolidated school which insures a larger opportunity for childhood; in the lightened labors of some house wife lo whom home demonstration work has brought more leisure and recrcation; in the happy smile of some boy or girl to whom health fa cilities have meant Joy and strength; in some public library which im measurably widens the intellectual horizon of the community; in some new and larger appreciation of the beauty In art or nature, or in some passion for justice which sweetens law and life ? this is our high privilege. It is better to win such a simple but genuine immortality than to have the empty glory of any career, however dazzling, which burnt itself out in serving the ends of self. May every one of us get this vision of his possibilities for service and strive for their fulfillment, finding while be lives the happiness of constructive activity, and dying ? ". . . Join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence . . . Whose music is the gladness of the world." ? Clarence Poe Prayer pulls tbe rope below and the bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly; others give an occasional pluck at the rope; but he who wins with Heaven ii the man who grabs the rope boldly and pulls continuously with all his ?night. ? Spurgeon From the Bookshelf The Secret of Lata. By Ignazio Harper L Brothers. $3.50. Silone is a master at the simple, straightforward narrative, shorn of all frills, that illuminate* tha mean ing of life. "The Secret of Luci" is another triumph for the great Italian storyteller. The plot of this novelette is stark and original. Luca Sabatini, a sim ple Italian peasant, has been re leased from prison after serving 40 years for a murder that, it is now established, he did not commit. He returns to the poor village where onee he lived. The old people are terrified. They knew he was inno cent, yet never came forward to save him when he went on trial. It would seem obvious that he would seek revenge. But Luca has no such idea In mind. Instead he wants to see the familiar hills and a few friends. A noted politician, Andrea Cipriani, comes home at the same time. When Andrea was a boy he wrote from dictation the letters that Lu ca's illerate mother sent to the prisoner. To Andrea, Luca is a Symbol of profound importance and he sets out to unravel the mys tery of why he did not defend him self at his trial. Andrea gets no help from Luca until the very end when only a few key pieces remain to be placed in the puzzle. In a strange way this is a de tective story, but because of Si lone's genius it is a great deal more than that. There is mount ing suspense, dogged investiga tive work, keen intuition ? but in stead of a slick explanation in the end, there is insight into the basic human qualitits of loyalty and in tegrity. Silone's style is as shorn of adornment as the narrative. The village in all its squalor and pover ty comes alive through the brief est flashes of description, and the characters are keenly defined and realized. "The Secret of Luca" belong on the list of important modern fic tion and It is not the least of its virtues to say that it is as read able and engroesing as it is signifi cant ? Ted Smits King Mofc. By Christopher Hlb bert. The World Publiihiog Co. 94.99. The English are ? proper tod well-behaved people, who scarcely raiae their voice*, let alone their fists, In anger. But It waa not ever thua. Author Hibbert with great skill and a keen dramatic aense haa illuminated a tiny, almoat for gotten, moment in hiatory when for a little lest than a week In 17(0 London waa controlled by a drunken, brutal mob. It all began in 1779 when with the tide of war running poorly for Great Britain in the struggle with the American Colonies, Parlia ment decided more army recruits might be gained by tempering, al beit rather slightly, the harah mea sures enacted againat Soman Ca tholics during the reign at William III. Ultra-Protestant groups react ed itnagly. Tba ProUaUol tm , npearhead of the objectors, enlist ed Us president a strange noble man, Lord George Gordon, mem ber of a Scottish ducal house blessed with more than the nsual ?hire of eccentrics. A failure up to then, the youth ful lord now was in his clement in the role of knight in shining .armor. Foresightedness wis not among hia qualities. On June 2 his adherents by the thousands assembled in St. George's Fields, sang hymns, and marched solemnly to Parliament bearing an enormous petition call ing for the repeal of the Catholic Relief Act. As could be expected, rowdies Joined the parade. There was rioting outside Parliament, and ita members were manhan dled. Lord George had unleashed the hurricane. He was baffled. The next day the trouble began In earnest. The Protestant Assn. and its leaders faded into the background. The dregs of London took over. Newgate Prison was stormed, and its inmates turned loose. Great sections of London were put to the torch. There were no police In the mod ern sense, and there was much hesitation before troops were fi nally summoned into the heart of London and the riots put down. To the blood that had flown so freely in the streets was then added that of a motley batch of prisoners caught in the legal net. In 12 days, 44 were sentenced to death at Old Bailey, and 24 were condemned in the Southwark sessions. Lord George was tried, but acquitted. His last appearance on the stage of his times was as a convert to Judiasm. He died in prison serv ing a sentence for criminal libel against the Queen of France. It was a strange times and a strange man. If history could be said to teach a lesson, this one saya plainly that when a mob takes command, no matter what the original intentions of its lead er* might be, the end is fearsome and horrible. -Ted Smita Portrait of ? Nu Unknown. By Nathalie Surraute. Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated from French by Maria Join. Braziller. $3.50. A man and his daughter and ? third peraon who observes them sort ot sight unseen, from around corners, or as if in mirrors? these are the characters in this impor tation from Puis. Sartre says it reads like a de tective story, though fans of such fiction will certainly much prefer it to this. I don't Mmc. Sarraute will strike yon, at times, as being a bit incoherent, but after all co herence is a minor literary virtue, and this novel, whether or not aa ? whole it baffles you, has some superb isolated passages. A Kafka-Uke probing not of man to society but of man's irreducible anonymous con, this is particular ly welcome as the first freak ex perimental novel to too kmg a tine. -W. G. Sogers
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