CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Cartarat County'i Nawapapar
EDITORIALS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1958
Happy War Anniversary?
The centennial of the War Between
the States is to be celebrated from
1961-65.
A federal commission has already
been established to engineer the ob
servance. Federal funds have been
earmarked and all the states that were
engaged in the conflict ? and probably
the others ? have been invited to ap
propriate funds to finance a four-year
celebration. (Pennsylvania is giving
$25,000) .
There is, perhaps, merit in com
memorating an event which welded
this nation into one republic, indivisi
ble. At the same time, we fear, there is
a lot of unpleasantness that will be re
called. A hundred years isn't awfully
long ago. There still live in the North
and South persons who got first-hand
information from their fathers of the
agony these soldier-fathers endured
during the Civil War.
Then, too, the Northern states have
a different attitude toward the war
than do the Southern. They were the
victors. While the North paid heavily
for its victory, it was not subject to the
years of privation and the economic
Bet-back suffered by the South.
Southern legislatures, most likely the
North Carolina legislature which meets
in February, will be asked to appro
priate funds to observe the Civil War
Centennial. And there will be persons
lobbying and pleading for those funds
in a biennium when, Governor Hodges
says, the state will be hard pushed to
meet expenses for essential operation#.
It has taken the South almost a hun
dred years to recoup what was lost in
1861-65. Putting hundreds of thousand?
of dollars in a celebration commem
orating a war ? when we're still being
taxed for wars fought since then ? is
almost ludicrous.
This thing smacks very much of some
clever, high - pressured tourist - promo
tion scheme. Illinois, the Land of Lin
coln, would benefit; Pennsylvania, site
of the famous Gettysburg battlefield
would be even more of a mecca in
1961-65 than it has been in the past;
and southern battlefields, too, would
benefit from visitors.
Civic organizations, schools, and
many other groups could well observe
the Centennial in ways that would not
require expenditure of public funds.
To our way of thinking, one of the
nicer ways to observe the Civil War
Centennial would be the North's con
tributing to Southern states millions of
dollars, sort of a belated-Marshall-plan
idea.
In wars since the Civil War, United
States has poured forth millions to bol
ster the ec6nomy of defeated nations.
But after the Civil War, the South was
handed little more than grief.
While the belated - Marshall - plan
proposal is mentioned with tongue in
cheek, we can't help but think how
much good those Northern "celebra
tion" dollars would do in these parts
in building bridges, roads, improving
public school educational facilities and
housing for Negroes, and otherwise
bettering the South.
The South has always hoed its own
row and will continue to do so. But
this region, North Carolina included,
doesn't have extra thousands of dollars
of tax money to throw around on Civil
War celebrations.
What Our Competitors Say
Two men employed by the Imperial
Tobacco Co. of Southern Rhodesia and
Nyasaland, South Africa, were guests
at the Morehead Biltmore Hotel over
the weekend (see feature story else
where in today's paper).
While favorably impressed with the
methods of tobacco growing in North
Carolina, they were somewhat stunned
by the sloppy method American tobac
co growers use in packing the tobacco
and putting it on the warehouse floor.
The visitors were reluctant to com
ment too much in detail on this phase
of American tobacco production, fear
ful of insulting their hosts ? the to
bacco firms and farmers. The most
they would say was that our method of
grading and marketing was "untidy".
Alonzo C. Edwards, executive vice
president of the North Carolina Farm
Bureau, hammered at the same point
? upon his return recently from a tour of
European countries where he studied
fine-cured marketing conditions.
"Either the farmer is going to hand
grade his leaf more strictly on the farm
or face the strong probability that we
lose most of the export market within
two or three years," Mr. Edwards said.
US tobacco grading runs a poor third
, place when compared with the grad
ing job done in Rhodesia and Canada.
The Tar Heel Farm Bureau executive
added that European buyers of Ameri
can leaf are also weary of the light,
neutral tobacco produced here in quan
tity within the past few years.
Mr. Edwards warns, "We as tobacco
growers must produce varieties that
possess the qualities demanded by the
trade. Otherwise Rhodesian tobacco
will replace ours in the foreign mar
kets. True it is a mild, light tobacco
but it is also cheaper than US leaf and
free of the $8 per pound duty which
must be paid in many countries on im
ported US leaf."
Present market requirements here in
the US may not be placing importance
on the grading and handling of tobacco
that they have in the past, but neverthe
less, if tobacco farmers are to continue
to hold their foreign sales, they must
return to a program of close hand
grading their leaf, Mr. Edwards con
cludes.
Years of Trying
One of America's outstanding play
wrights, S. N. Behrman, turned out
manuscripts for eleven years before he
finally sold his first play. Fannie Hurst
wrote more than a hundred stories be
fore one was accepted. Somerset Maug
ham was an obscure writer for ten
years. Then, a producer needing a play
to fill in while he was looking around,
dug Maugham's forgotten Lady Fred
erick out of his desk. Maugham there
after became the toast of London.
When Walt Disney applied at a Kan
sas City newspaper for a job as an
artist, the editor told him he didn't
have any talent, and sent him away,
urging him to give up art. Even his first
series of animated cartoons, Oswald
the Rabbit, failed. Then along came
Mickey Mouse.
Robert L. Ripley was fired from the
first newspaper on which he worked.
Zane Grey did not sell a story during
his first five years as a writer.
When O. O. Mclntyre was a copy
reader on the old New York Evening
Mail he was fired. H. G. Wells was dis
charged from his first job ? after sev
eral month* as a draper's apprentice.
Penniless Carrie Jacobs Bond, semi
invalid, tried hand-painting china ?
even sang songs in vaudeville. Bitter
failure was her lot She tried song writ
ing, but publishers would not buy. Then
she , wrote the song the whole world
loves, The End of a Perfect Day.
? Gluey Gleanings
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The Readers Write
Beaufort Fire Department
Rescue Squad
To the Editor:
During our recent visit from
Helene, I am glad to inform the
world we camc through alive. Wc
did not enjoy it, nor did wc ask
for it? the storm camc to us. The
area I am speaking of is the
amount of land mass, and the
property, and the people, east of
Morehead City.
Friday night when experienced
seamen cocked a weather eye up
ward, and folks with common
sense thought back over the storms
as far as Hazel, there was no prep
aration being taken here by the
powers that be. No one was sure
of the path it would follow. But,
from Cape Fear southward to
Charleston, S. C? there were high
way patrolmen. Civil Defense
units, Red Cross, evacuations and
the works.
Conferring with the highest au
thority I could find, Sheriff Hugh
Salter. I found he was among ua
in knowledge standpoint. To b? ion
the Bale aide, the sheriff author
ized a call to the state commander
of the North Carolina association
of Rescue Squads, of which the
Beaufort Fire Department Rescue
Squad is a member, asking that
several units be alerted. This was
done.
As reports came over the radio
of the path of Helene Saturday
morning, but no word of any or
ganization in this area, the deci
sion was reached to call the N.C.
Association of Rescue Squads
again. The commander decided to
send units ahead. Helene was then
off Wilmington, N. C. Civil Defense
headquarters was set up in More
head City hall. Red Cross was
there. All meetings were held at
Morehead and Atlantic Beach. Ra
dio stations advised the public.
National Guard was called out,
to report to Morehead City, Boys
from Beaufort and down east went
to their unit in Morehead City.
Disaster workers reported in More
head City Irom other states. Power
crews were held in readiness at
Morehead City. Helene came to
brush us off.
Power went out, phone line*
were dead, teletype wasn't work
ing, Fort Macon Coast Guard sta
tion phone dead, no news. Cara
could go to Morehead City. Also
cars came from outlying sections,
bringing people Sheriff's depart
ment received them at the court
house, and fed them from the jail
kitchen. There was a report to the
sheriff from local Red Cross that
the only evacuees were in the
courthouse and had their own food.
Beaufort police reported approx
imately 200 people at Queen Street
School. A Red Cross man waa
finally obtained from Morehead
City, and after evaluating the
situation, procured food for the
school.
Graham Rescue Squad with nine
men, one utility truck, one station
wagon unit, portable generator
flood lights, first aid equipment,
radio* and transmitters, reported
in after their way through the
wind and rain and high water at
New Bern. ?
Sheriff's department called More
bead City by radio requesting con
ditions east of Beaufort, and es
pecially North River bridge. No
bne knew, but not to let the squad
go until the Governor camc over
to shake hands.
Catawba VaUey Rescue Squad
reported in with six men, one am
bulance, one station wagon unit,
portable generators, flood light*,
radio equipment, first aid equip
ment. After over an hour's wait
with no contact with the highway
nattoi in Atlantic or in Smyrna,
no phone contact, no nothing, the
decision waa reached to aend three
unit* east? all under the Patrol
men, to be at Smyrna. AUanUc^
and where ever ?*ded_ There
being bo piaceto fjd food, the
unit* war* taken to tba <*????
Street School, to set up a power
plani and eat.
As they were in the process of
rating, the Red Cross man entered
and wanted to know from the prin
cipal why the squads were eating.
He was assured there was enough,
and they had to eat too.
The Red Cross representative
marched to a table where one unit
was. He informed them that this
was Red Cross food? "and that's
the way it is." The units politely
left. I was not informed of this
until late at night, for I was with
several of the men installing flood
lights at the other end.
The units left for the down east
section. They cleared the highway
on into Atlantic and contacted the
highway patrol there. On the way
back after the storm, they cruised
all roads down cast on the off
chance of finding trouble.
When they reported in to the
sheriff's office, they were taken to
a Morehead City cafe to eat. From
there, we tried to find a place to
sleep IS men. At 1 o'clock Sunday
morning, ill the touts decided to
drive on back to Hickory and
Graham.
Approximately midnight Satur
day. some National Guardsmen
drove by the sheriff's office, in
quiring about the eastern section
of the county.
I want the people of Beaufort
and "Down East" to know that
Sheriff Hugh Salter and Deputy
Bruce Edwards, and the men of
the Beaufort Fire Department, and
the Beaufort Police Department
did not forget the area east of
Morehead City. Nor did these men
use the hurricane as a basis for
a political rally. Where was every
body else?
We could have had a much worse
storm, and we have humans in
this area too. After we're cut off
from Morehead City and Cherry
Point, who will be able to help
then? A little preparedness will
work wonders in a case oi this
sort. We owe a thanks to the Res
cue Squads that responded on their
own ? and left wondering the same
as we here were. Where was
everybody?
Thomas V. Woolard
Comment .. .j. Keiium
Patriotic Writing
Not so fashionable these days is
the type of stirring verbiage which
flowed so freely in the younger
days of our country. Let us review,
for a few Fridays, some of the
poetry we so richly enjoyed re
citing as children and which is so
full of love for and pride in our
United States. Here is a piece by
Henry Van Dyke:
America for Me
'Tis fine to see the Old World,
and travel up and down
Among the famous palaces and
cities of renown.
To admire the crumbly castles and
the statues of the kings, ?
But now I think I've had enough
of antequated things.
So it's home again, and home
again, America for me!
My heart is turning home again,
and there 1 long to be,
In the land of youth and freedom
beyond the ocean bars.
Where the air is full of sunlight
and the flag is full of stars.
Oh, London is a man's town,
there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with
flowers in the hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice,
and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living there
is no place like home.
I like the German fir-woods, in
green battalions drilled;
I like the gardens of Versailles
with flashing fountains filled;
But, oh, to take your hand, my
dear, and ramble for a day
In the friendly western woodland
where Nature has her way!
I know that Europe's wonderful,
yet something seems to lack:
The Past is too much with her,
and the people looking back.
But the glory of the Present is to
make the Future free,?
We love our land for what she is
and what she is to be.
Oh, it's home again, and home
again, America for me!
I want a ship that's westward,
bound to plough the rolling sea,
To the blessed Land of Room
Enough beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunlight
and the flag is full of stars.
Security for You...
By RAY HENRY
From Mr*. C. N. of Clifton. N.
J.: "My husband tad I are try
tag to plan for retirement. We
are saviag about *12 a week for
this purpose. We know there'* a
limit on what you can earn while
drawing Social Security. Can you
toll at what the limit is. and will
oar savings be counted against
It?"
There'a no limit on your earn
ings if you're over 72. If you're
under 72, you must not earn over
$1,200 a year to get all 12 monthly
Social Security checks. Savings are
not counted againat this limit.
From Mrs. C. H. 8. of Em
maus, Pa.: "My husband gets
IN a month Social Security. We
got married two years ago when
he was 71 and I was M. How loaf
do I hare to wait till I caa apply
and how much will I get?"
A woman must be married to
her husbaud three years to draw
Social Security retirement pay
ments from his work. You can ap
ply up to 30 days before your third
anniversary. Since you'll be over
65 when you apply, you'll be en
titled to one-half the amount your
husband get*.
From U O. C. af Giraee, m.:
"My Railroad Betterment pen
sion started last September. I
haven't worked siace then, hot
recently I was offered ? little
)ob. I've been thinking of taking
it jast to keep me bay. If I take
the Job, what effect woaid it have
oa sty lalraad Retirement pew
ttm V
You'U lose one chcck for each
month in which you work (or a
railroad, or (or the person or firm
by whom you were employed when
you retired. You can work (or any
body else or in self-employment
with no loai of benefits.
From R. J. C. of Crossville,
Tenn.: "I retired from US Civil
Service about 1* years ago on
disability. I wasn't sllowtd to
make any provision for survivors
benefits because I didn't have
enough service. Has there been
any change In the law since then
which would give my widow a
small pension if I should die?
We've been married It yean."
Yes. If you retired before April
1, 1948, your widow will get a
monthly annuity for life. If you
retired on or after April 1, 1948,
your widow will get a monthly an
nuity only if she is both caring for
? child under 18 and is under 50.
From E. V. of Pomona, Calif.:
"When a working man reaches
K, must he retire before his
wife can draw Social Security
from his work?"
Yes. A wife cannot draw pay
ments from her husband's Social
Security account until her husband
haa first retired and applied for
Social Security.
(Edltar'a Note: You may eon
tact the social security repre
sentative at the t? ithanuii an
nex, Beaufort, from t:M a.m. la
noon Tuesday*. He will help yon
wltt your hi puticaUr profc
km>. .
Lou}? Splvy
Words of Inspiration
A new Church Year if beginning in many of our ehurehei.
There ii an opportunity for every member to serve in the church at
his (her) choice.
Statistics (how that there are more people attending church now
than ever before in history, yet it ii difficult for the nominating com
mittee to find willing hearta and handa to aerve our God.
Perhaps some of you are a bit like I was for many years. I wanted
to serve, but I didn't feel that 1 was "good enough" to fill theae im
portant offices, so, 1 too let many opportunities paaa.
Finally one day I asked for a class in the Junior Department and
was assigned one. Nothing has given me more satisfaction. Even if
I am not the best teacher in the church, I know that I am doing my
best, and believe me, this thought is comforting.
I feel truly sorry for a person who aays, "1 don't make enough to
tithe, but we always give a dollar when we can."
I have tithed for many years and 1 can assure anyone, that more
can be purchased with the nine-tenths, than with the whole. I challenge
you to prove me wrong.
In each church there are always those "faithful few" who serve.
Each year takes its toll among these servants of God. Some are called
Home, breakdowns from overwork or disease claim others.
There is a job for you in your church. You need that job. Ask for
it before next Sunday. You will always be glad that you did.
A DOLLAR I GAVE TO GOD
"Three thousand for my brand new car.
Five thousand for a piece of sod
Ten thousand I paid to begin my house
A dollar I gave to God.
A tidy sum to entertain
My friends in pointless chatter
And when the world goes crazy mad,
1 ask, 'Lord what's the matter?'
Yet, there is one big question,
For the answer I must search;
With things so bad in this old world,
What's holding back my church?"
A PRAYER
I'll go where You want me to go, dear Lord, real service is what I
desire.
I'll say what You want me to say dear Lord, but don't ask me to sing
in the choir.
I'll say what You want me to say dear Lord, I like to see things come
to pass,
But don't ask me to teach girls and boys, dear Lord ... I'd rather just
stay in my class.
I'll do what You want me to do, dear Lord, I yearn for the kingdom to
thrive,
I'll give You my nickels and dimes, dear Lord ... but please don't ask
me to tithe.
I'll go where You want me to go dear Lord, I'll say what You want
me to say,
I'm busy now with myself dear Lord , . . I'll help You some other day.
Semper Fidelis
(The following, by Judd Arnrtl, Is reprinted from The Savannah
News, Savannah, Ga., July 17, 1958).
And now the United States Ma
rines have landed on still another
distant shore. Lebanon, they call
It, and the word has a strange
and brooding sound, as though it
might be the harbinger of harsh
and bitter things to come.
Many of the old ones arc gone
now, those of the mud, and jungles,
and festers, and coarse hardships
and incrcdiblc braveries of World
War II, but despite the mewing of
the phony liberals and the breast
beatings of the politicians bent on
the "democratization" of the
armed forces, the feeling clings
that the lads we have dispatched
to the Middle East are represen
tative of the best of the Corps?
which means that they arc the
best anywhere, anytime.
Already, perhaps, you can tell
that I love the Marines.
I remember Saipan and Tinian
in the early months of that long,
hot desperate summer of 1944,
when the war with Japan was in
the balance and life was chcap in
the South Pacific.
We bad carried a regiment of
Marines to those sultry, lovely is
lands, and after the battles were
finished and the dirty, filthy, soul
searing mopping up, a form of or
ganized murder, really, was over,
we got the remnants of them back.
Lean and haggard, weary to the
bone and sick with slaughter, they
came aboard in the early evening,
and as the ship stood out from
the harbor you could look from the
fantail into the darkening sky and
see tracers cutting through the ad
vance of night, flickering like
lightning bugs back home in In
diana.
There were still some Japs there,
some live ones, and there were
Marines there, hundreds and hun
dreds of dead ones. And there
were tears: the tears of sailors
who had stood by the radios in
helpless agony during those cruel
days when the calls had come in
for more tanks, more fire power,
more of everything, and the tears
of Marines, who had won a great
victory with raw courage and self
less sacrifice, God knows how.
The moment clings ? even now it
is poignant, the hurt will never go.
Siapan and Tinian: it is good per
haps, that the people back home
never knew the full, true story.
But all things pass, poignancy
among them, and an hour later,
when the (cw remaining musicians
were gathered for a concert, spirits
lightened, there was laughter, and
when the first strains of the Ma
rine Hymn were sounded, those
left? that pitiful handful? sprang to
attention. And looking aft they
were motionless, bold, defiant,
proud, arrogant, tearless, heartless
? the best of them all.
Up on the boat deck, a sailor
said it all: "Those Marines!"
he murmured, and there was noth-,
ing to add. ,
It has been said that the Marines
are the legalized arms of Murder,
Incorporated, and this is true. It
has been said that the Marines,
are trained but for one thing, to
kill, and this, too, is true. Many
other things have also been said
about the Marines, and most of
them are true, also.
There is no big, fat, hush-hush
secret about the Corps. It exists
for just one thing? to fight and to
win. And what is wrong with this?
In recent years, it seems to me
that too many of our leaders have
tended to play down the purpose
of military service, which is to pro
tect the nation come any emer
gency, and not worry about being
pretty in doing it. As Frank Ros
siter pointed out in an editorial a
few days ago, we have emphasized
the retirement benefits of duty
under the flag, but have said too
little about the obligations of the
uniform.
In this spirit, Marine sergeants
have been busted for "cruelty" to
recruits, and there has been a gen
eral attempt to "humanize" the
Corps, to make a cushy billet out
of what has always been a rib
busting, root hog or die outfit.
But once again the nation has
come to a crucial moment when
what counts is the foot-slogger, the
guy with an M-l, his hip pocket
full of hardtack and well -controlled
homicide in his heart. The do
gooders didn't change the Marines
too much. That's why they are in
Lebanon this morning.
F. C. Salisbury
Here and There
Tnc following information la
taken from the filei of the More
bead City Coaster:
FRIDAY, OCT. 3, ltll
Miss Lola Piner left Saturday
for Littleton where she has accept
ed a position as teacher.
The Misses Varina Bell and
Florence Jones spent the weekend
in New Bern visiting friends.
Clyde Goodwin, having accepted
a position with the Fashion Shop,
New Bern, left Monday to aasume
his new duties.
Mrs. Sam Adler and little daugh
ter Llla have returned home from
a visit wiUi friends in Norfolk.
Misa Audrey Phillips left this
week for Raleigh where she will
attend King's Business College.
Master Charles Nwtb Bennett
returned Saturday irom Atlantic
where his father, Capt. Charles H.
Bennett bought two small ponies
at the penning held there last Sat
urday.
N. A. Porter, a well known resi
dent of Newport, died at the hos
pital in New Bern Wednesday
morning. Burial took place in New
port.
More than 50,000 pounds of blue
fish were caught Thursday by
Capt. Tom Lewis's crew. The price
received for this splendid catch
waa ? centa a pound. The catch
waa made off Diamond Shoals.
Ten thousand poundi of mullets
were brought to the local market
Wednesday by the crew of the
Leader and sold to the Morris Fiah
Company, the price obtained be
ing Jtt centa.