CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES.
Carter* County**
EDITORIALS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1958
It's a Fire
Moo! Moo-ooo! Moo-ooo!
The fire alarm bellows like a giant
cow. FIRE!
What does the fire alarm mean to
you? 1
Do you hear the alarm and idly won
der where the fire is?
Do you carefully count the alarm
signal and refer to the chart to see
where the fire is?
Do you immediately become frantic,
jump in your car and follow the fire
trucks?
If you're a volunteer fireman, you're
honor-bound to follow the fire trucks.
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No matter who you are, the fire call
should send a little shudder of fear up
your 'spine. Fire is a terrible thing.
Many little fires are kept from being
big fires because of the alertness and
efficiency of our fire departments.
Even a little fire is costly. It may
destroy a car, a mattress, damage the
sill of a door. But it also costs money
to send the fire trucks to the scene. The
1 drivers are paid week in and week
out in Beaufort and Morehead City
whether they are called to a fire or not.
There is always the risk of an auto
mobile accident to and from a fire. And
sometimes, of course, the firemen are
called when there is no fire whatever.
This, in some people's minds, is labeled
"Fun".
Do you know that this is National
Fire Prevention Week? The observ
ance started Sunday and will continue
through Saturday.
This is a good time to check your at
titude toward fire. Lots of emphasis is
placed on checking your home, business
and other buildings to get rid of fire
hazards. That is important. But it is
also important to check your mental
attitude.
If you think fire is none of your bus
iness, if you think turning in false
alarms is fun, if you believe that it mat
ters only if your house burns, but not
the other fellow's, you need a "house
cleaning" of your mental attitude to
ward fire.
When the other fellow's house or
business bums, you pay. What you pay
is reflected in your fire insurance rate.
You suffer if you don't teach your chil
dren to be extremely cautious about
fire.
How seriously you take National
Fire Prevention Week, and how you
view fire prevention through the other
61 weeks of the year, depends first of
all on your mental attitude.
If you have a healthy fear of fire
and use all means at your disposal to
prevent it, you get an A plus on your
mental attitude. If you don't rate A
plus, the first fire prevention project
this week is to change your attitude.
Women Make a Difference
By membership in the Carteret Busi
ness and Professional Women's
Club, women of the county join
forces to improve their respective
towns and the county. The club is
sponsoring observance this week
of National Business Women's
Week.
Until the Carteret club was organized
in 1947, there was no organization
in this couaty demoted specifically
to the interests and abilities 8f Bus
iness women.
Since organization, the club has made
cash donations to school bands,
school lunchrooms, conducted
March of Dimes and cancer drives,
aided the Morehead City Hospital,
and urged individuals to apply for
Social Security benefits.
In the 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii, the
District of Columbia and Puerto
Rico there are 8,355 Business and
Professional Women's Clubs.
National headquarters of the organ
ization, Washington, D. C., were
dedicated Sept 22, 1957.
Every woman who receives a salary in
industry, business or who receives
compensation in her profession,
and is approved by the local
B&PW Club, is eligible for mem
bership.
St. Louis, Mo., is the city where the
Business and Professional Wo
men's Club was organized in 1919.
Since 1928, National Business Wo
men's Week has been observed na
tion-wide. The week spotlights
women who work, their responsi
bilities in their home towns, the
nation and the world.
r
NA^omen who^ are employed are a
basic part of the economic struc
ture of the nation. Almost 90 per
cent of the members of the Na
tional Federation are bread-win
ners for themselves and members
of their families.
Over one thousand laws today dis
criminate against women. The or
ganization maintains one woman,
employed full-time in Washington,
to screen legislative bills for such
discriminatory clauses.
AAembership In the National Federa
tion in June 1958 stood at 174,097.
Emphasis is placed in five fields: ca
reer advancement, health and
safety, international relations, na
tional security, and public affairs.
National Business Woman is the title
of the club's national publication.
State publication is the Tar Heel
Woman.
all ages.
Equal status with men in the medical
branches of the armed forces was
obtained for women by the efforts
of the B4PW federation.
Established in February 1956 was the
first world-wide foundation for
women who work. It is located in
BAPW headquarters at Washing
ton, provides a research center and
library devoted to the interests of
business and professional women.
abreast of changing times
and taking enlightened action to
ward solving political and social
problems are among the primary
aims of the Business and Profes
sional Women's Club.
in the elub are women of
Carteret County N?wi*Timts
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RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR
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Mullet Festival Had Unwelcome Guest
Whatever happened to the Mullet
Festival at Swansboro?
By the time you read this, maybe
Dews of its fate will have leaked
out. Anyhow, I'm sure Hclcne
caused its postponement. Will
Swansboro try again? I guess so.
Let's hope they can have the mul
let without the blow next time.
(P.S. Just got the word. It will
be Oct. 18).
For those who are wondering
anxiously about what the interest
rate may be on school bonds ? Ro
wan County on Sept. 23 sold $2
million in bonds at 3.3849 per cent
interest. Their maturity period,
however, averaged 10% years,
which is considerably less than the
period In which Carteret could
probably pay off.
At 1.878 per cent interest, Wa
chovia Bank of Winston-Salem
bought on the same day an Issue
0 1 $550,000 in Robeson County
school building anticipation notes.
The notes mature in six months.
Travel News, published by the
State Travel Bureau of the C&D
Department, comments on Tryon
Palace at New Bern:
"Tryon Palace, which will open
to visitors during the coming year
as one of America's major histori
cal restorations, is being furnished
witb one of the finest collections
of pre-1770 antiques ever assem
bled in this country."
Harry A. DcButts, president of
Southern Railway, will receive a
bronze "Oscar-of-Industry" award
at the Hotel Astor in New York
Oct. 27. The oscar goes to Sou
thern for having produced the best
1958 Stockholders Post-Meeting Re
port in the transportation indus
try.
David Lawrence, editor of US
News and World Report, may have
an eye to increasing circulation
of his weekly news magazine in
the South. Be that as it may, it is
one northern publication (if you
can call Washington, D. C.> "nor
thern") which most of the time
states well the South's view of in
Captain hUnry
Sou'easter
My buddy, Hardy Ray, lays that
everybody'a wrong when it cornea
to the wind direction during the
afternoon hours of Helene. Hardy
was "right on the beach" and he
says the wind didn't come from
the northeast at all. It came from
the southeast during the first sev
eral hour* of rain. Could be.
One e I the volunteer Red Croia
workers in the county is slightly
miffed. The parting shot of a paid
Red Cross worker after Helene waa
over was, "Well, everything would
have been all right here if it bad
been better organized."
Many local folks seem to think
that things were rather well or
ganized.
The volunteer worker, who Uvea
In Beaufort, wants to know why
the upstate Red Cross workers
come in here at the last minute
when a storm cornea up, then aak
why the local volunteer, non-paid
workers don't have everything all
set up ao that the paid Red Croaa
worker baa nothing to worry
about I
The volunteer Red Crasser would
also like to know why the paid Red
Croaaer who sat in the Morehead
City municipal building ail during
the storm was so upset because
"somebody" (strongly inferring it
should be a local volunteer Red
Cross worker) wasn't roaming
around east of North River during
the height of the storm.
As anybody knows, who has lived
here during numerous storms aa
I have, the height of the atorm ia
no time to be wandering around
to "see if everything ia all right".
The folks down east know better
how to ride out a storm than al
most anybody. They have two
choices: when the warnings come,
evacuate, or take all precautions
possible and hope to come through
okay.
A Red Croii worker, paid or un
paid, roaming in the storm can't
change things.
I have a lot of respect for the
Red Cross. It has been of help
here after many storms. I do,
however, sometimes wonder about
the attitude of paid Red Crosa
workers ? and I guess, on their
aide, they have a lot of gripes
about us. So it's probably even
ateven.
Anyhow, I'm glad to see that
you came through all right
Bob Atkinson at the Blue Rib
bon Club cooked up 20 gallons of
soup and three gallons of coffee
after he sent a message over the
radio that refugees were welcome
there. Even though no refugees
showed up, I'd say that waa a real
nice thing to do.
JS.TSE GOODOIDDSTS
THIRTY TEARS AGO
County (chooli were adopting
the booor roll ijritem this year.
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Next Tuesday was to be Car
teret County Day' at the Craven
Fair which waa being held in New
Bern.
Phone service was opened for
all the communities in the eastern
part o I the county.
TWENTY-FIVE TEARS AGO
. Beaufort school opened its foot
ball aeaaop by defeating Kinston
T-0. The lone touchdown was mad*
by two passes, Ralph HasseD to
Ray Haaaell, George Brooks to
HasseD, and a run by Frank Rke.
The extra point was made by a
pass bom Ralph Ilassell to Leslie
Moor*.
Perquimans Plantation at South
River waa to have all Its buildings
TEN YEARS AGO
The county board of education
announced that it would enforce
the school attendance law.
Salaries at the county recorder
and county solicitor were raited
by the county commissioners.
Beaufort town commissioners
were hoping to solve the problem
of the ditch near the school which
was being used for open sewage.
riVF. TEAM AGO
Newport commissioners voted to
put up street signs and number
bouses and to have the state re
pair certain streets in the town.
Atlantic Beach officials voted
not to ask for 1,000 feet of the
old beach bridge. County realdenta
had hoped it could be converted
into a fishing pier.
Morehead City firemen voted to
ask for fire hydrants Id the Arvon
A vena* section.
tegration.
Editor Lawrcncc citcd President
Eisenhower's comment on the clos
ing of public schools in Arkansas
and Virginia. The President said,
"Most of us . . . believe that all
men are equal in the sight of
God . . ."
Mr. Lawrence replied editorially,
"The President has oversimplified
the issue. There is no question
about the equality of citizens be
fore the law. They must be treated
alike where 'civil or political
rights' are concerned. But social
rights are not civil or political
rights . , .
"Social discrimination may be
deplored in theory, but in every
big city in the United States,"
Editor Lawrence continues, "there
are 'exclusive clubs' and other
tax-exempt organizations which se
lect members on the basis of color
and religion . . ."
The editorial concludes:
"How far doea 'equality' really
go? Muat we enlarge the Supreme
Court to ten, to that there can be
five men and five women Justices?
Should at least five of these Jus
tices be Negroes?
"Must the initiative of the en
terprising individual be stifled and
the pace of his mind and physical
activity be reduced to that of ano
ther man less fortunate?
"Is it 'equality' for one man to
pay more taxes than another? Is
it 'equality' for one man to ac
cumulate more property than ano
ther? Will we be hearing soon that,
because all men are 'equal in the
sight of God,' it behooves ua now
to redistribute private wealth so
that everybody will have an equal
share?
"For if we are going to make
a fetish of 'equality' and apply it
to the relations of man to man,
then indeed we may soon be asking
ourselves: 'O Communism, where
is thy sting?' "
The question, "Are the schools
social, civil or political institu
tions?" is often asked, not often
conclusively answered.
The pro-integrationist comments:
"Every man is not created equal,
but he should be granted equal
OPPORTUNITY."
So round and round we go.
Why is It: I can keep dozens of
itty-bitty worn down pencils
around. The nice long ones always
disappear. Nobody ever knows
what happens to them. I have
come to the conclusion that they
pirouette on their points and dance
away.
Appreciation
By GRACE NIELSEN BABBITT
Have you ever seen the moon rise
over Atlantic? Or seen the sun
go down over Nelson's Bay?
Or seen the aea gulls circling In
the twilight? Or heard the bob
white's call in early May?
Have you ever seen the merry
whitecaps dancing? Or (elt the
salty spray of fair Core Sound?
Or seen a flock of wild geese over
the marshes? Or heard their
plaintive call when southward
bound?
If you've never seen the stars
come out by millions, and shed
their glory over tlv Milky Way,
Or felt the thrill and joy of all the
things I've mentioned ? then
you've missed the deeper mean
ing of a real Sea Level day.
(The author is the sister ot Mrs.
E. M. Lupton, Sea Level).
Just in Patting . . .
Wealthy people miss one of life's
greatest thrill*? paying the last
lout? Splvy
Words of Inspiration
A YOUTH'S PRAYER
To build a life that's clean, upright, aecure,
God's temple that will through the year* endure; ,
To walk courageously, atedfast, and sure;
This is my prayer.
To dedicate my life, my youth, my all,
To Christ, and then in answer to his call.
Be faithful to each taak ... the large, the imall;
This is my prayer.
? George W. Wiseman
The Rev. Purnell Bailey tells the story of a farmer who drove into
town one day, and along behind the horse and wagon trotted a vary
tired dog. Friends at the grocery store blamed the farmer for the poor
condition of the dog, and told him that he should not have allowed the
dog to follow him.
The farmer replied, "He is not tired out following me, but by hl^
zigzagging. Not an open gate or a hole in the fence that be didn't ran
in and explore. It was his zigzagging that tuckered him out."
And so it is with us. Convictions are costly, but they have the power
to keep us on a straight course. Many of us get all tuckered out be
cause our moral convictions have evaporated. Our zigzagging need*
some backbone.
Think of all the good things you know about people, and quit looking
for things they do which don't suit you.
Look upon every day as God's day, and not the Devil's. Then you will
serve God and not another. Get it out of your system that you are right,
and that everybody else is wrong. Because it is not so. Remember Um
prescription of Jesus. Lose your life if you want to find It. He whs
helps most finds most happiness.
Don't forget this: true riches belong to the heart, rather than to tba
bank vault. Store up wealth in your heart and you will be happy.
If you want to be happy, keep company with God. God wants yon
to be happy. Therefore do right, work hard, give generously, be friend
ly, have faith. ?Reprinted
TEN MOST WANTED MEN
1. The man who puts God's business above any other business.
2. The man who brings his children to church rather than send them.
3. The man who is willing to be the right example to every boy h*
meets.
4. The man who thinks more of his Sunday School class than be doea
of his Sunday sleep.
5. The man who measures his giving by what he has left rather thai)
by the amount he gives.
6. The man who goes to church for Christ's sake rather than (or him
self or someone else.
7. The man who has a passion to help rather than to be helped.
8. The man who has a willing mind rather than a "brilliant" mind.
9. The man who can see his own faults before he sees the faults of
others.
10. The man who is more concerned about winning aouls for Christ
than he is about winning worldly honor.
? The Church Vole*
I'HILISOPHY
Laugh a little . . . love a little ... as you go your way!
Work a little . . . play a little ... do this every day I
Give a little . . . take a little . . . never mind a frown.
Make your smile a welcomed thing all around the town!
Laugh a little . . . love a little . . . skies are always bluet
Every cloud has silver linings ... but it's up to you!
- Phillips
He that never changcs his opinions and never corrects his mistake*
will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Stamp News
Br 8TD EBON1SH
A scries of six new stamps hon
oring two United Nations agencies
with Swiss offices has been issued
by Switzerland. This new set will
replace the current series of 70
overprinted service stamps of the
International Bureau of Education
(BIE).
The S centimes, 10 c and 40 c
depict a world globe perched atop
160 M
IN I I V ? T i A In t L V t ? i A I
three textbooks. The 20 c, 60 c and
2 franc illustrate an 18th Century
teacher and two pupils.
Also issued by Switzerland Is a
set of six stamps honoring the
International Telecommunications
Union which has offices in that
country.
To commemorate the Golden An
niversary of the Guayaquil It Ohio
Railroad (1S08-1958), a series of
special stamps has been issued by
Ecuador.
The 30 centavos dark brown
shows the first locomotive ever to
reach Quito. The SO e red depicts
the diesel engines now in use on
the railroad. The diamond-shaped
5.00 tucrcs brown bears the like
nesses of Ecuadorian presidents in
strumental in the railroad's early
progress.
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Australia has issued a new 4
pence brown stamp commemorat
ing the 75th anniversary of the
famed Broken Hill mining camp.
It shows a? typical mining scene,
a sketch-illustrated left border and
the inscription "Broken Hill 11B3
1958." The new issue will be the
same size as the current 5tt pence
Australian War Memorial stamp.
Smile a While
A dyed-in the wool baseball f an
was persuaded by friends to go to
the horse races. Being a begin
ner, he picked a 50-to-l long-shot
and put t2 on the nose.
Coming Into the stretch, the
longshot horse was neck and neck
with the favorite. As they neared
the wire for a phbto finish, the
baseball man hollered, "Slide, you
bum! Slide 1'
? Spirit of Levity
Mrs. Smythe was making final
arrangement* for an elaborate re
ception. "Nora," she said to her
veteran servant, "for the first half
hour I want you to stand at the
drawing-room door and call tb?
guests' names as they arrive.
Nora's face lit up. "Thank you.
ma'am," she replied. "I've been
wanting to do that to some at your
friend* for the last twenty years."
Comment . . . j. k*Uu?
Oa Timlmg
Perennially. writer! expound on
the orderly sequence of event!, on
that order which we occasionally
percicve but do not comprehend
any further than our awareness of
its existence. "A time for living
and a time for dying." etc. The
order of nature is indifferent; tt
proceeds without regard to bus*
iness other than Its own. The or
der of God U sensitive to man'a
struggles.
There are orders of which wa
know so little that we only suspect
their presence. In the world of the
spirit we know only that some day*
seem to find most of us in a chari
table humor while on other daya
our majority Is found to be ceo*
trarily inclined? and so on. This
little we can see.
We fortunately can accustom
ourselves to Nature's visible pro
gression as it moves faithfolly la
its ordained path. We can take ad.
vantage of it to plant and feed
and reap in the right times.
On the other side, the spiritual,
we are most commonly in a state
of disorder since we are less sen
sitive to the pathways of intangi
ble creation. Yet what we cannot
see is certainly as orderly aa that
which we can see ? indeed, tt
should be more so (with the ex
ception of man with his free will)
as it is not subject to the corrup
tions of the mortal world. We may
find, perhaps to our surprise, that
it Is not only more orderly but
that it is the only order? the phy
sical world being but the result of
the spiritual, even of our spiritual
world, as action is the result o(
thought.
Could it not be that if we serioes
ly applied ourselves to the order
and life of the spirit that we could
affect the physical? Now, this ia
a vaster and simpler concept than
we are customed to associate with
auch ideaa. As simple as bringing
about true world peace through
individuals' application of them
selves to prayer and perfecting
their relationahips with their Crea
tor.
And how to read a clock we can
not see and whose tick we seldom
bear and only faintly at thatT Ah.
Here la the meaning of those Una
words, vague phrases such aa.
Finding One's Stride, Living at
One's Own Pace, etc. They am
vague becauae they are 111 under
stood.
Michel de Montaigne, in the "Xa
says," struggles bravely to speak
clearly of this. Although he can
not explain the invisible natural
order of which he speaks or, oven
how we must find it to follow it,
he exhorts:
"The same order of nature that
provides for Oeaa and for nMlea
will provide also for men who heva
aa much patience aa Seas and
moles to put themselves under lt?
governance . . .
"It will lead who follows; aad
those who will Mt. ft wil drag
along anyway, and thatr tempera
aad tfcsir Midlrton with them.- ,
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