J CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Cartarat County's N?wipap?r
EDITORIALS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1958
Making History
Which one would be the hundredth
commercial ship to dock this year at
the Morehead City port was not speci
fically predictable. There was an ele
ment of chance involved ? but we were
glad to see that it was a ship of the
Hamburg- American Line.
Hamburg-American is an old friend
to Morehead City port, as "old" a
' friend as a young port can have. When
more than a hundred commercial ships
a year was just a dream, Hamburg
American ships were already calling at
Morehead City.
The first to come in under the new
state ports program was the Hoechst on
Jan. 2, 1955. According to the More
iliead City Shipping Co., Hamburg
American ships have been calling in in
creasing numbers since then.
Hamburg-American works closely
with North German Lloyd, for which
the Morehead City Shipping Co. is also
agent. The ships have picked up tobac
co and fish oil cargoes here.
There is a possibility that with the
new grain facilities, Hamburg-Ameri
can may make Morehead City a sched
uled port of call. The line's Erlangen,
1958's hundredth ship for Morehead
City, will always have a special place
in port history because this is the first
year that more than a hundred com
mercial vessels have docked at the port.
We hope to welcome many, many
more Hamburg-American vessels, their
fine captains and crews.
The UN is Not a Failure
The Rev. William Jeffries, pastor of
Trinity Methodist Church, Marshall
berg, as guest editorial writer today,
comments on the United Nations:
Today, Oct. 24, is the thirteenth an
niversary of the founding of the United
Nations. How fitting it is to observe
United Nations Day by taking stock of
its great work, and rededicating our
selves to support it!
The most obvious stage of activity
of the UN to us Americans is either tha
Security Council or the General Assem
bly, for certainly these get the most
headlines in the newspapers. While
there have been many disappointments
to some people over a seeming lack of
ability to act on the part of these two
bodies, yet they have achieved some
very positive results in Iran, Indonesia,
Pakistan, Korea, and the Middle East.
Less heard-of, and at least as import
ant, are the four other main divisions
of the UN, the International Court of
Justice, the Trusteeship Council, the
Secretariat, and the Economic and So
cial Council, with its' specialized agen
cies. These have done an infinitely
great amount of good towards remov
ing the causes of war ? injustice, dis
ease, ignorance, hunger, poverty, and
backward standards of living.
The World Health Organization
(WHO) , Education, Scientific, and Cul
tural Organization (UNESCO), Chil
dren's Fund (UNICEF), International
Labor Organization (ILO) and Techni
cal and Economic Assistance Program
(UNITEP), are bringing the resources
of the world together in a mission of
mercy, and are doing, on a larger scale,
some of the same things our foreign
missionaries have endeavored to do for
years.
We certainly should all thank God
for this great peace-making union of
the peoples of the world.
The Key
In a little known part of our earth
there is a beautiful garden where love
raigns. Here men, women and children
live in perfect felloWahip and?ach per
forms the tasks suited to his ability.
None feels himself superior to another.
Many who do not live in the garden
gaze through the tall white gates with
longing. The wall is too high to climb
and one can enter only through the gate
called "Peace". No gatekeeper bars
i the way, but the gate has a strange and
.Wonderful lock.
A man whose skin was white once
brought a metal key of great beauty
and intricate design. He pushed others
aside to try the key, but being unsuc
cessful in opening the lock went sadly
away.
Then came one of yellow skin who
held secretively in his flowing sleeve a
key exquisitely carved of jade. He
hoped none might guess his errand, but
he too departed in sorrow.
Then a man of brown skin tried a
key of ebony. It was curiously shaped
and inlaid with pearl. He carried it
proudly and confidently, but the lock
J did not open.
A black-skinned man arrived stealth
ily, with a key shaped from an ivory
tusk. He had learned that all men were
not his friends. Although he worked
patiently, he was forced to leave the
gate unopened.
Lastly came a man of red skin, with
a key that was shaped like an arrow.
k In no way did it fit the lock of the gate.
At length one day all these men met
near the gate called "Peace".
Slowly and cautiously each man
crept toward the gate. As one would
almost reach it, another would trip him
or push him away. Each was afraid
the other would gain entrance to the
garden closing the door upon the rest.
On that day the king's son was walk
ing in the garden.
"Have you not learned, my brothers
of earth," he said, "that you must find
a way to come into this garden to
gether? None of you has the power to
come alone through the gate called
'Peace*. The garden is lovelier than
ever you have dreamed. Come now, my
brothers, together find the way. But I
will tell you this: the key which opens
this gate must be forged of service,
tolerance, trust, cooperation, and
faith."
As the king's son finished speaking
he gazed at them lovingly and hopeful
ly. Then he passed on.
The white man looked at his key and
saw that it was service. He laid it in
the palm of the yellow man, whose key
was cooperation. Astonishingly, the
two keys became one. As the keys of
tolerance, trust, and faith were added
by the brown, black, and red man the
miracle of the master key shone with a
light not of this world.
"Who shall turn the key to open the
gate called 'Peace'?" the men asked,
together. None felt worthy and each
presented the privilege upon the other.
Then a strange thing happened. The
key itself moved from hand to hand,
joining their fingers tightly, and to
gether they went forward. The gate of
peace swung open as if by magic.
The brown, the white, the red, the
black, and the yellow ran laughing like
brothers into the garden to live forever.
The king of the garden counted the
key which opened the way as his most
precious possession, for it meant that
his earthly children had learned a les
son of life which he and his son had
known from the beginning of time.
? By Gladys C. Murrell
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INCREASINGLY HARD TO KEEP UP!
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Security for You...
By RAY UENRY
It's almost inevitable that many
retired people wind up in homes
far bigger than they need, can af
ford or take care of.
In fact, this is the dilemma many
of them face today. The govern
ment figures about one out of three
people 65 or older live in house
holds with six or more rooms ? ob
viously more space than most need
or even want.
What can you do if you're faced
with this problem?
Of course, you can sell your home
and buy a smaller one. The govern
ment has made this easier recently
by setting up some special financ
ing arrangements for people 60 or
older. You can get the details on
this from any Federal Housing Ad
ministration (FIIA) office.
Or, you may want to sell your
home and rent an apartment where
you'll have no upkeep costa or
maintenance responsibilities.
On the other hand, you may not
want to sell your home. The mem
ories aod attachments are too
strong. Being in familiar surround
ings mar mean loo much to you.
You may want to keep the home so
you'U have a place where your
children can come to visit.
If keeping your home is your
preference, you may have the al
ternative of dividing it and turning
the extra space into an apartment
you can rent.
But, before you go too far with
such plans, you should find out
from the city zoning authorities if
apartment dwellings arc okay in
your area. They may not be.
If they are, your next step should
be to check with a real estate agen
cy about your chances of renting
the apartment, how much rent you
can collect.
You could ? if you're not careful
? find yourself with a big building
expense and a vacant apartment
or one that's losing money for you.
If you decide (o go further, you
should next call im an architect or
building contractor to figure out
how ? and at what cost ? you can
build an apartment. You may even
want to call in several to try to
get the best deal.
The next move ? if you don't
have the cash to build the apart
ment?is to write or visit the near
est FHA office. This agency is per
mitted by law to stand back of a
"modernization" loan up to $3,600
you get from a private agency.
With this backing, a bank, build
ing and loan association or other
lending agency is more likely to
make you a loan because it doesn't
take any serious gamble on you de
faulting on the loan.
You don't have to use FHA help,
however. The financing is up to
you and your lending agency. If
you can get the financing, your
next step is to give a contractor
the job.
After the apartment Is built, you
may want to arrange with your
tenant to take care of tome or all
of the upkeep and maintenance du
ties. For this you could offer lower
rent.
Here's one caution: Don't expect
to get rich by renting an apartment
in your home. Chancea are you'll
get little more than enough to off
set the payments for building the
apartment and the beating and up
keep costs.
But, if you handle it right, you'll
be money ahead, have the advan
tage of living where you want to
and, perhaps have none of the bur
den of outside household chorea
and responsibilities.
(Editor's Note: You may con
tact the social aecurlty repre
sentative at the courthouse an
nex, Beaufort, from >:M a.m. to
noon Tuesdays. He will help you
with your own particular prob
lem).
New Lars , bame Drivers
(From Camp Lejeune Globe)
This month the 1959 editions of
the American automobile will
make their appearance.
Each year these vehicles are
built to look fancier and move
faster. Looks are fine, but just
bow fast is "fast?" It seems that
individuals aren't satisfied with
speedometers which only go as
hige as 110 or 120 miles an hour.
Passing gear, power steering,
power brakes, air conditioners . . .
everything to aid drivers. Now all
that is needed is the driver to
match the vehicle. Cars may be
improved through the years of re
search and experiments, but man
behind the wheel seems unable to
keep pace with modern mechanical
advancements.
Consider the average driver trav
eling a dual lane highway. The
average individual paces his ve
hicle with the speed limit; that's
fine. Traffic moves surely and
swiftly and the vehicle suffers
nothing from such driving.
Then there are the two drivers
not average; the first prefers the
left lane for driving and the other
prefers the right lane, but insists
on driving 10 to 20 miles below
the speed limit.
Picture a crowded highway. The
two lanes of traffic moving in the
same direction. Those traveling in
the right lane are all moving at
approximately the same rate of
speed . . > until they all catch up
to a vehicle traveling 10 miles
slower than the limit.
Well, vehicles desire to pass, o f
course, but in the left lane is the
Just in Passing . . .
Science ha* provided so many
substitutes la recent times that it
Is hard to remember what Is waa
that w wM in the tint pUc*.
driver who won't budge, but tri
vets along paying no heed to horns,
lights or curses of otherwise safe,
courteous drivers.
Tempers mount until finally one
driver attempts to cut in front of
the left lane driver, endangering
the cars in back, the laggard in
the right lane, and the left lane
monopolizer. Who wins?
Who can say who wins or loces
in such a case? Surely, nothing is
accomplished in an accident; no
one gains anything by reaching
his destination a minute or two
earlier.
Yes, the 1959 cars are on the
market and they are fancier and
are built for speed . . . but how
about the drivers?
Comment.. ? J. Kellum
National Crisis
Each age, like a child, tends in
its ignorance to think that no one
else has ever had such terrible
troubles. And groups,. liky children,
fancy that their own troubles and
how they handle them arc their
own business? that what they do
docs not affect anyone outside
their immediate knowledge. And
as perpetually familiar and pre
dictable as these fallacies arc, we
continue to be tricked by the er
rors they engender. Perhaps that
is why James Russell Lowell, in
the Nineteenth Century, began his
poem, "The Present Crisis," with
this music:
When a deed is done for Freedom,
through the broad earth's aching
breast
Runs a thrill of joy prophetic,
trembling on from cast to west,
And the slave, where'er he cowers,
feels the soul within hyn climb
To the awful verge of maiUiood, as
the energy sublime
Of a century bursts full-blossomed
on the thorny stem of Time.
Through the walls of hut and
palace shoots the instantaneous
throe,
When the travail of the Ages
wrings earth's systems to and
fro; ? ?
At the birth of each new Era, with
a recognizing start.
Nation wildly looks at nation,
standing with mute lips apart.
And glad Truth's yet mightier
man-child leaps beneath the Fu
ture's heart.
So the Evil's triumph sendeth, with
a terror and a chill,
Under continent to continent the
sense of coming ill.
And the slave, where'er he cowers,
feels his sympathies with God
In hot tear-drops ebbing earthward,
to be drank up by the sod,
Till a corpse crawls round un
btiried, delving in the nobler clod.
For mankind are one in spirit, and
an instinct bears along,
Round the earth's electric circle,
the swift flash of right or wrong ;
Whether conscious or unconscious,
yet Humanity's vast frame
Through its ocean-sundcred fibres
feels the gush of Joy or shame;?
In the gain or loss of one race all
the rest have equal claim.
All the world watches Little Rock
while little is said about Charlotte.
But as it is true that a drop of ink
will spoil a whole basin of water,
It is also true that, "Not all the
darkness in all the world can put
out the light of one small candle."
It has been said that most girls
need beauty more than brains be
cause most men can see better
than they can think.
Their T BICK is to TREAT,
Words of Inspiration
UNITED NATIONS DAT
For thirteen years the United Nationa h?i been In existence . . . wrr
in* the world . . . making a desperate effort to establish peace among
men.
In 1964 I had the opportunity to visit this great organization to study
its work, and have followed its program since that time.
I believe this organisation to be "Our Gateway to Peace".
In Isaiah 1:11 we find these words, "Come now, and let us reason
together, saith the Lord . . That is what our UN is, a place where
nations can come and reason together.
Peace and security is a world need. The jet age has given us a small
world and it Is impossible for any nation to find security within her own
borders unless all nations can enjoy the same privilege.
The United Nations is the most useful tool that exists today for crest
ing a world of peace, freedom, justice, progress, plenty and security
for all mankind. In the Preamble to the United Nations Charter all mem
ber nstions declare their determination
To save our children from any new wars.
To assert our faith In basic human rights.
To work for social progress, higher living stsndsrds, better standards
of life in larger freedom.
To practice tolerance and live with other peoples In peace as good
neighbors.
To unite and to work with other peoples to build and preserve peace
and security.
To insure that armed force shsll not be used save in the common
interest.
To work with other nations to promote the social and economic ad
vancement of all peQples.
To create conditions in which justice and rcspect for treaty obliga
tions can be maintained.
It amounts to less thsn SO ccnts a year for every American for the
United States contribution to the operation of the United Nations, its
specialized agencies and special aid programs. The United States budget
(or arms and defense was nearly $440 per person a year, before we be
gan shooting rockets into space.
Less than one cent a week from each of ua is our investment to meet
the challenge of the times . . . that nation do not have to turn to war
and mankind will not insist on destroying Itself. The United Nations has
not been able automatically to bring peace to the world. It has only
made a little dent in the fight against hunger, disease, oppression and
poverty.
But the United Nations is our attempt to do exactly these things . . .
to bring about a world of peace . . . plenty . . . progress . . . justice
. . . freedom.
llow can anyone ever want to see it fail?
The atom bomb, the hydrogen bomb, a satellite equipped with a war
head are great forces of destruction we know. However, there is another
greater force that can control all of these. It is called Brotherly Love.
World peace and security is a matter of making friends of all nations.
In 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "We have learned that we can
not live alone, at peace our well-being is dependent upon the well-being
of other nations far away ... We have learned the simple truth as
Emerson said . . . 'that the only way to have a friend is to be one.' "
The United Nations may not prove to be a success, for its existence
depends upon you and me, our attitude, our love for our fellowman.
The United Nations with the support of her people can make It possi
ble to fight the third world war across a conference table. Without this
great organization of peace, our next battlefield will perhaps cover our
world.
TEACH US, MASTER
Great Master, teach us bow to live
And share our brother's need;
Help us to understand and giva
And sow a friendly seed.
Help us to see within each heart
A flower that's planted there.
Help us to have a little part
WofM Bi DlKHnuil Iff Share.
Help us td reach our hands across.
The lines that separate.
Refind our lives, remove the dross
Let Thy love permeate.
As hands across the border-line
Touch and (eel akin
May our lives to Thee define:
"Peace on earth, good will to men."
? Unknown
This is the Law
By ROBERT E. LEE
For the N.C. Bit Association
Ii an employer criminally liable
for the thefts of hla employee?
The general rule is that unless
liability bas been imposed by sta
tute, an employer is not criminally
ifable (or the acts or misdeeds of
his employee ii he has not pre
viously authorized or assented to
them.
The mere fact that the crime
was committed in the course of
his employment, as in civil cases,
doea not render the employer re
sponsible for it. The employee
alone must answer to the sovereign
state for hi* criminal act. Criminal
responsibility must rest, except in
exceptional cases, upon the ground
of aaaeiit, for otherwise the mental
element necessary to make the
act a crime ia lacking.
An employer cannot be punished
for the theft of an employee he haa
not previously authorised. The doc
trine applied in civil caaes, that
ratification is equivalent to author
ity prtvioualy given, has no appli
cation in the criminal law.
One who employs or procures
another to commit a crime is, of
course, responsible along with the
actual wrongdoer for the offense
committed.
Are there any occasions where
as employer can be held criminal
ly liable for the acts of Ms em
ployee notwithstanding that they
have been done without his au
thority and coatrary to his Instruc
tion?
Yea. There are a few exceptional
instances where statutes have im
posed puniahment upon employers
notwithstanding that the acts done
by their employees are without au
thority or contrary to inatructions.
The intoxicating liquor statutes
and pure food laws sre examples.
In such caaea it la the act Itself,
not the intent, that determinea the
guilt; the actual harm to the pub
lic being the tame in one caae aa
the other.
It ia often said that it is the
duty a t the employer to see to it
that such atatutes are not violated
by his employees In the course of
their employment.
May an employee be ylslfl
lar a uiaiaal act If ha prom that
It wai done by the command of
his employer?
Yes. It Is no excuse for the com
mission of ? crime that it was
done under the mere command of
another. Both the person who ac
tually committed the crime and
the one who commanded it may
be punished.
It has been said that a man is
excused U he commits a crime
uppn the command of other under
reasonable apprehension on his
part of instant death in case com
pliance with the command is re
fused.
Stamp News
?rimnoHH
France has issued a set of three
new stamp* dedicated to the Coun
cil of Europe. Each stamp is of
the same design showing a flag
with 12 (tart. A bright sun shines
in the upper left corner. The value*
are 8 franc, 20 fr and 35 fr. Also
issued by France was a IS franc
depicting a view of the beautiful
Chateau De Foix.
Turkey will issue two new
stamps the first week in October.
One stamp, a 40-kuru olive green
and grey, will mark the opening
of the National Industrial Exposi
tion in Istanbul. The other stamp,
a 20-kuni orange overprinted in
black, will honor International Let
ter Writing Weak.
Haiti haa Issued seven new
stamp* dedicated to the Interna
tional Geophysical Year. There win
be only four designs, however,
since three are repeated for air
mail. Depicted will be the head
of a US satellite, an Antarctic
scene showing penguins, a modern
observatory and an ocean exptora
tfeoMMa. .