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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TlMES Cartarwt Coanty'a Nawqwpw EDITORIALS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1958 Financing Alcoholism Carteret County, as well as the town units within it, suffers financially from alcoholism. If anyone thinks of the al coholic at all, he sympathizes usually with the immediate family who may be deprived of the necessities of life be , cause most of the income goes for li quor. But there are other cases. The coun ty jail is frequently occupied by the al coholics who have advanced so far on the drunkard's road that their families have left them. Some of these men do not work, they couldn't if they had to, but they get their money for liquor from the government ? the veteran's pension check comes in regularly. The federal government, in these in stances, finances drunkenness, putting the burden on the local governments to care for the drunk when he becomes a menace. What is the answer? C. L. Beam, county veterans' service officer, says that a guardian for the alcoholic vet eran can be appointed. This has been done in several cases. This may not cure alcoholism, but it may curb the amount of drinking done so that the alcoholic-prone veteran does not roam the streets day in and day out in a near stupor. Veterans' hospitals do not treat vet erans for alcoholism alone. If a vet eran is suffering from another malady, as well as alcoholism, Mr. Beam points out, a veterans' hospital can accept him. Not all the drunks who are well known boarders in the jail are pension supported veterans. The burden in the county and on the officers charge^ with the responsibility of caring for prison ers would be considerably lightened, however, if some of the drunks showed up less frequently than they do now. If appointing a guardian for the al coholic veteran is possible, efforts should be made to have that done. If the family does not know how to go ' about doing this, then county officials should suggest that such be done and help them go through the necessary procedures. If the family no longer cares what happens to the alcoholic, then county officials themselves should check into the matter. This comment on alcoholic veterans is not to be interpreted as a condemna tion of veterans. They have earned their pensions, but there is a twist of irony to the situation when one gov ernment will hand a man a check and then another government has to pay to care for that same man because he uses the federal money to turn himself into an alcoholic. Perhaps his desire for liquor is the result of the hours he spent in battle, but apparently the fed eral government is not willing to recog nize this, since it refuses to accept al coholic veterans at veterans' hospitals. Any jailer will tell you that drunks are their biggest headaches. An alco holic cut suddenly from his liquor sup ply can turn into a maniac. How would yo'u like to cope with a raging, shaking human being day and night? Jailers must. Taxpayers only have to foot the bills. Teeth Sharpened In case employers don't know it, federal tax collectors are armed with a new law to crack down on business men who pocket taxes withheld from their employees' pay. As of July 1 of this year any em ployer who ignores the withholding tax laws is liable to a sentence of up to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine. The law evidently came about due to an upswing in tax cheating in 1957. Of 4,400,000 businesses which with hold taxes for the government, 377,253 were delinquent to the extent of nearly $301 million in 1957. And that was an increase over 1956. If an employer pockets withheld taxes, his employees do not suffer. The Revenue Service credits them with the full amount whether the employer passes the money along to the Treasury or not. Before the new law went into effect, the Revenue Service was able only to attach business assets to satisfy claims for delinquent withholding taxes. A word to the wise is sufficient. All Business is Local Occasionally the remark is heard, "Don't buy at the chain stores and send your dollar to New York where the owners live, buy from your home busi nessmen." That is a concept widely held years ago when chain stores start ed rapidly to expand in number and variety. The thinking behind it is not even given attic space in the modern business world. Just what happens to the customer's dollar when it goes across the counter of A&P, Colonial Store, Belk's, West ern Auto or many of the other "chain" stores? The greater part of the price of an item goes to the manufacturer of the product sold. The piece of pork you buy at a chain food store may have been grown in this county and sold on the livestock market at New Bern. The hose you buy at Belk's was probably knit in a plant in the western part of the state. The bag you carry your pur chases home in may at one time have been a tree in a Tar Heel forest . . . The second largest part of the dollar goes for salaries, rent, light and heat for operation of the chain's store in this county. Most of that money stays in circulation here. Chain stores know it is a good policy to become a part of community life. They are willing contributors to the March of Dimes and similar drives. A certain portion of the dollar goes to the home office of the company for management, supervision and similar expenses. And as for the owners, where are they? Certainly all are not in one far-away place. They are in towns all over this country, even Morehead City and Beau fort For all anyone needs to do to be an owner of A&P and many of the other major chains is to go to his broker. Stock of most of the chains is listed on one of the major stock ex changes. As the Mount Vernon, Ohio, News points out: "It has long been a contention of the newspapers that in the last analysis, all business is local business. The Amer ican economic system has become so complex that it is no longer possible for even the smallest business to be en tirely self-sufficient. Even a boy pick ing blackberries and selling them from door to door would probably use a bas ket made in North Carolina or a metal pail made in Pittsburgh." ? ? 3 Freedom: being able to do what you please without considering anyone ex cept the wife, police, boss, life insur ance company, state, federal, county, town authorities, and neighbors. Carteret County News-Times WINNER or NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort Newt (E?t M12) tad The Twin City Time* (E?t 11M) Published Tuesdays and Friday! by the Carteret PabUahing Company, lac. SO* ArendeU St, Morebead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ELEANORE DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Hail Ratei: In Cartcrat Coaly and adJaWag eouoUat, H-M one year, 0JO ate $1.25 one month; alaewheie IT.00 one year, M OO six mentha. tl.S* one Member of Associated Preaa ? N. C. Preaa Atteelatioc National Edttorial Aasodaticn - Audit Bureau of < National AdvartUag Remwtatta Koran * Flacker, fie. 10 Eaat 40tb Street, New York !?, N. T. Ike Aaaodated Preaa la tattled exclusively la naa tor republication af local I la thia ntwapaper, at weO aa all AP City, N. C.. Uadar Act of Harek a, 1 I i UNDISPUTED CHAMPION Ruth P? ling Marja Begins Studies in America Last winter, under the leadership of the Morehead City Woman's Club and Mrs. Jack Roberts, rep resentatives of civic organizations met to consider raising $650 to permit a European or South Amer ican high school student to attend Morehead City High School for a year. At that time, the plan did not materialize, but many hope that with an earlier start this coming year, the money can be raised. My sister, Mrs. John L Hall and family of Hanover, N. J., consider them selves fortunate this year in that their family was chosen as the Marja one with which ?uch i high school student is liv ing. She is Marja Kosenen, XS, of Helsinki, Finland. Maria arrived in New York Aug. 9 with scores of other exchange students whose study in this coun try is sponsored by the American Field Service. An article in the September is sue of the Hanover Park Board of Education News tells about Marja ... part of the article follows : Marja Kosonen, a lovely, dark haired girl from Helsinki, Finland, arrived in Hanover where she will live for a year and attend Hanover Park High School under the terms of the International Scholarship awarded to her by the American Field Service. She will be enrolled in the senior class at Hanover Park and will graduate in June 1959. Marja (pro nounced Mar'-ya) is making her home with Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hall and their family, 79 Hanover Road, Hanover, N. J. Marja has adapted herself to her new home and American sur roundings with grace and alacrity. Her biggest thrill has been tele vision. When asked the usual question put to visitors to this country, "What impressed you most upon your arrival in America?" Marja commented. "The friendliness of the people, the skyscrapers of New York and the nearness of city and country atmosphere." She pointed out that she was surprised to leave the city of New York behind so quickly and within an hour or so to find herself in the quiet, peaceful town of Han over I In Finland, both Marja's parents art teachers of religion and his tory in Helsinki secondary schools. Marja hopes to bccome a teacher herself. The promotion of inter national friendship between the people of the world is one of Mar ja's fondest dreams. The idea of applying for a for eign student to attend Hanover I'ark took form in the mind of Dr. Lawrence Kenyon, Director of Guidance at the high school. Experiences with foreign stu dents in other schools led Dr. Ken yon to the realization that a sim ilar program would bear rich re wards for the students and citizens of the Hanover Park Regional District. The student body respond ed with enthusiasm and the pro gram was under way. Arrangements for the sponsor ship of a foreign exchange student have been the responsibility of the local American Field Service Com mittee . . . This committee supervised the raising of the $650 required to bring a student to the community. The bulk of the money is used to defray direct expenses for each student, such as ocean passage, travel in the United States (includ ing the bus trip at the end of the year), arrival and departure ex penses, personal allowances, med ical expenses, etc. The money required was raised mainly by the students of Hanover Park themselves. They conducted Operation Carwash and the Cam pus Festival; they turned over partial or entire receipts from special sports events, dramatic presentations, music festivals, etc. Local PTA groups and various student and civic clubs also made contributions. An American Field Service In ternational Scholarship is an open door which leads to understanding and friendship among the peoples of the world. Through this door pass the students from more than 30 foreign countries to attend American secondary schools for a school-year of study and first hand experience. During the summer American teen agers from practically every state are given the opportunity to live with families abroad in a two way exchange. Marja speaks several languages, and if she were in Finland would actually be starting ber first year of collcge. The living expenses of an ex change student are borne by the family with which she lives. The family selected ii carefully screened and the American Field mm coon old dsts THIRTY TEARS AGO A hurricane flooded the high ways, wirei were put out of com mission, and the county was iso lated from the rest of the state. S. G. Gould was elected presi dent, S. D. Edwards, vice-presi dent, Waddell Pridgen secretary and E. H. Oglesby treasure* of the Newport Republican Club. The fish boat Geo. D. Baltter, owned by the Beaufort Fish Strap and Oil Co., was seized by the Coast Guard under suspicion of being in the rum running business. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Eight Carteret countians lost their lives when a hurricane strtck the county Friday, Sept. 15. the wind had been clocked at 10S miles an hour at Cape Lookout, kod plop erty damage in the county exceed ed the million dollar mark. The American Red Crow, oilier the diraetko of Dr. and MrtlF. E. Hyde, was giving food, clatfa and shelter to the storm victims. TEN YEARS AGO County schools opened this week snice no new local cases of polio had been reported in the past two weeks. Morehead City high school offi cials said there would be no foot ball team this year because of lack of money. The State Highway and Public Works Commission was repairing the beach bridge which was dam aged when a barge swung against the span, and pulled away 123 feet at the south end of the draw. FIVE TEARS AGO Morehead City Board of Com missioners approved re-zoning po sitions of Areodell and Evana Streets from residential to boalneaa areas. Leslie D. Springle was heading a group U rural home owners seek ing to organise a Beaufort Rural Fire Asaociation. liarkera Islanders were troubled by spenders and hoped to cope with the problem themselves I k Scrvice makes every effort to fit the background of the student as closely as possible with back grounds of the American family members. Marja's American "brother and sisters" are Pat Ilall. a junior in high school. John llall. a fresh man, and Syear-oid Sally. Of the Lutheran faith, Marja's American family is also Lutheran. The Morchead City committee considering the AFS project felt that there may be some difficulty in locating a family with which the student could make his (or her) home. If anyone is interested in this phase of the project, I'm sure Mrs. Roberts, phone PArk 6-3358, would like to hear from you. An upstate daily heads its school lunch menus with "What Kids Will Eat". A more apt title might be "What Kids Will be Fed". Some time what youngsters are fed and what they'll eat are two entirely different things. O. J. Morrow, theatre manager, passes on the following from a theatre trade magazine: "We see by a Norfolk (Va.) newspaper that one of their local wits is of the opinion that the aver age American chooses his or her movie entertainment with the fol lowing reasoning: 'Condemning it for being naughty. Attending it to see if it is as naughty as adver tised. And then kicking to the man agement because the naughty por tions have been cut out.' Many a theatre manager, who has been forced to listen to patron complaints, Will agree." From Bill Crowell of the De partment of Motor Vehicles comet the following. The writer, of Dur ham prefers U> cloak his identity: Life's Road Along life's road we travel. With a choice to go either way; One to peace and happiness, The other to decay. We seldom take the straigUtest way, We like to take the curves; Driving like a madman, Who hasn't any nerves. We choose to ignore the danger signs. As we go flying by. Not time enough to stop and pray But plenty of time to die. Stamp News By 8TD KBONBH Spanish Sahara has issued four new stamps honoring the noted Spanish author, Miguel Cervantes. The 10 centavos plus 5 and the 15 c plus 5 bear a portrait of Cer vantes. The 20 c depicts the famous characters Don Quixote and San cho Panza on donkeys. The 70 e shows Quixote and Panza escaping lions. The additional values on these stamps goes to the children's welfare fund. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Pos tal Society will mark the Presi dent's 68th birthday and its own second aniversary on Oct. 14 with a cacheted cover to be serviced in Denison, Tex., his birthplace. George A. Patterson, stamp edi tor of the Paterson, N. J., Evening News and president of the Eisen hower Society, says covers will be 25 cents each and can be ordered directly from him at M Doherty Drive, Clifton, N. J. Austria has issued a new 1.50 acbilling red stamp in its regular postage series. The stamp shows the Rabenbof, a new housing de velopment in the old Erdberg dis trict o ( Vienna. The design is by Professor Hans Strobato. Louise Spivy Words of Inspiration DREAM ON 1 One broken dream it not the end of dreaming; One shattered hope i? not the end of hoping; Beyond the storm and tempest, atara are gleaming; Still build your castles, tho' your caatlea fall. r Though many dreams come tumbling in disaater. And pain and heartache meet you down the yeari. Still keep your faith, your hopes to master, And never cry that you have ceased to dream. ? Unknown Failure will hurt but not hinder ua. Disillusion will pain but not dia hearten us. Sorrows will shake us but not break ua. Hope will act the music ringing and quicken our lagging pace. We need hope for living far more than for dying. Dying is easy work compared with living. Dying is a moment's transition; living, a transaction of yeara. It li the length of the rope that puts the sag in it. Hope tightens the eorda and tunes up the heart-strings. Work well, then; suffer patiently, re joicing in hope. God knows all. and yet is the God of Hope. And when wc have hoped to the end here, He will give us something to look for ward to, for all eternity. For "hope abideth." ? Babcock Search thy own heart; what paineth thee in others in thyself may be. ? Whittier Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking glass will give a very fair likeness of his face. ? Whateley QUOTES Gossip always seems to travel [aster over the sour-grape vine. There is nothing so costly as ignorance. Sin may come upon thee by surprise but don't let it dwell as a guest. No man is entitled to an opinion that is based on rumor instead ot on facts. Afflictions are blessings to us when we bless Cod for the afflictiona. Treasures in Heaven are laid up only as treasures on earth are laid down. God is never kind at the expense of justice. You may whitewash yourself but only CiJd can wash you white. If a thing is not forgotten it is not forgiven. lie who kicks continuously soon loses hi* balance. A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. TRUE RELIGION I remember that in the time of childhood I was very religious; I rose in the night, was punctual in the performance of my devotions, and ab stinent. One night I had been sitting in the presence of my father, not having closed my eyes during the whole time, and with the holy Koran in my embrace, whilst numbers around us were asleep. I said to my father: "Not one of these lifteth up his head to perform his genuflexions, but they arc all so fast asleep you would say they are dead." He replied: "Life of your father, it were better if thou also wera asleep than to be searching out the faults of mankind. The boaster aee* nothing but himself, having a veil of conceit before his eyes. If he were endowed with an eye capable of discerning God, he would not discern any person weaker than himself." ? Saadi Captain Henry Sou'easter Everybody rcccntly was ? and perhaps still is? ligog over the big hullabaloo that tv quiz programs are "fixed". William Feather, edi tor of Imperial Magazine rips the veil off another of America's favo rite pastimes. He writes: "Today's broken-heart specialists who write daily columns of syn dicated trash have developed a new line which may best be de scribed as flippant. They invent Comment . . . j. K.iium An Aw?r*nrss Two poets have well expressed that almost secret sensitivity man has to eternity. Neither of the fol lowing poems reproduced here only in part reveals answers, but they are interesting essays on that common instinct of ours. Too Anxious for River* Look down the long valley and there stands a mountain That someone has said ii the end of the world. Then what of the river that having arisen Must find where to pour itself into and empty? I never saw so much swift water run cloudless. Oh I have often been too anxious for rivers To leave it to them to get out of their valleys, The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of ceasing to question what doesn't concern us, And sooner or later we have to cease somewhere. No place to get lost like too far in the distance. It may be a mercy the dark closes round us So broodingly soon in every direc tion. What set us on fire and what set us revolving Lucretius the Epicurean might tell us Twas something we knew all about to begin with And needn't have fared into space like his master To find 'twas the effort, the essay of love. ? Robt. Frost in "Steeple Bush" (Henry Holt & Co.) Nostalgia The wasp circling the honey Or the lamp soft on the snow? These are the times at which The will is vulnerable. The trigger-finger slow, The spirit lonely. These are the times at which Aloneness is too ripe When homesickness for the hollow Heart of the Milky Way The soundless clapper calls And we would follow But earth and will are stronger And nearer? and we stay. ?Louis MacNeice, in "Sprinf board" (Random Boom) their own preposterous questions and problems and then tell the fic titious fish to drop dead. "If you don't glance at these de partments occasionally, you are missing a glimpse into the minds and hearts of both Juvenile and adult morons. "Years ago we wondered where the silly questions came from, and an obliging reader gave us a clue. He said the city firemen in one station house kept a columnist in business for four solid years. To kill monotonous hours, the men imagined romantic headaches, which were typed by a lad with a literary flair. "The columnist to the love-lorn knew all about the fraud, but the weary sister went along with it because she was desperate for ma terial." One of the well-known squires of Beaufort invited a visiting squire to go fishing with him one day a couple summers ago. They were about to set out from the house when the Beaufort host looked out the back door and be hold, he saw his fuel tank busting up right out of the ground. Now this Beaufort gentleman la a great one to get other fellows to do his work for him, so he set about putting his tank back in the ground. The visitor who was to go fishing got no fishing but was In vited to help re-settle the tank. The visitor, who was accustomed to no such back-breaking task, wai set to digging. For three days afterwards he was walking around with his hands swathed in bandages because o ( the blisteri. Someone later asked the squire whose tank had popped up, "Well, Just how did it happen?" The squire replied, "Fuel oil prices are cheaper in the summer than they are in the winter, so I wai waiting to get the tank filled when the price went down. Well, the price Just didn't go down soon enough." SmiU a WhiU Obviously upset, s young wife called up a friend and told her that she and her husband had quar reled and that he'd left her. "Now don't worry too much about it," the friend told her sooth ingly. "He's done that before, you know." "I know," said the wife, her voice breaking, "but this time 1m took his bowling ball." A man of Scottish descent was at tracting much attention in the hotel lobby with his tale* of ac complishments. "Well, bow," said an English man at last, "suppose you ton as something you cannot do and I will undertake to do it" "Thank ye," railed the feat. "I csana pay my bill hers." , V Iff
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