CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Cufartt County's Nnriptpw
EDITORIALS FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1958
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Good Reason to Rejoice
Sunday will be a joyous occasion for
the members of St. James Methodist
Church, Newport. On that day the con
gregation will worship for the first
time in its new, modern sanctuary.
Every citizen should take pride in the
completion of a new building dedicated
? to the perpetuation of Christian princi
i pies and the worship of God. For there
in is evidence that men are aware that
any good fortune they enjoy comes not
from their hands alone, but from a
Greater Being.
The building of a new church re
quires sacrifice, and sacrifice in turn
4 generates pride in the achievement.
Congregations are like some of the
shellfish that swim in our waters. If
they grow, they reach the point from
time to time when the old shell must
be shed and a new one taken on.
Thus, new churches are a healthy
sign. Some folks leave an older church
edifice reluctantly, but not so with the
creatures of nature who shed their
outer shells in growth. They're happy
? to have "new living space".
New churches are also an indication
of prosperity. Just as a lively community
dislikes run-down homes, a lively com
munity dislikes a church building that
does not appear worthy of the high pur
pose to which it is dedicated. Thus,
worldly goods are willingly channeled
into the spiritual realm.
The county has been blessed with
several new sanctuaries in recent years.
May the trend continue. May this trend
carry with it a building of more-dedi
cated Christian men and women, as
well as the building of the tangible
church structure.
A beautiful church is built not by
money alone. Without a warm heart ?
a congregation that works in love and
fellowship ? a new church can become
a cold heap of mortar and brick. Car
teret is fortunate that its churches are
beautiful from the heart outward
rather than in edifice only ? as are
some churches in metropolitan areas.
Our wishes for abundant blessing
and good fortune go today to the mem
bers of St. James Church, who, in the
words of St. James, have been not only
hearers of the word, but doers . . . "But
whoso looketh into the perfect law of
liberty, and continueth therein, he be
ing not a forgetful hearer, but a doer
of the work, this man shall be blessed
in his deed."
Russia Shows Its True Colors
Russia, again, has ripped off its smil
! ing mask and bared the ugliness be
neath in its condemnation of the Nobel
prize winner, Boris Pasternak.
After Russia's brilliant strategy in
putting a satellite into orbit, we were
willing to admit that propaganda-wise,
Russia was probably without equal
among the nations. Today we have
1 doubts.
Who could have foreseen how a man
made satellite would affect the world?
Russia foresaw ? and for a while every
one was "paying her homage".
Now comes a writer, Pasternak, who
lives just 15 miles from Moscow. His
novel, Doctor Zhivago, has words in it
such as these ... "I do not know of any
movement which is more self-centered
and further removed from the facts
than Marxism . . . The government
hierarchy, in order to promote the myth
of their own infallibility, do everything
to'turn their backs on truth . .
In the Communist world, that is
heresy. Doctor Zhivago was not pub
lished in Russia, nor will Russia allow
it to be. It was first published in Italy
and is now hailed throughout the free
world as a courageous literary master
piece.
Pasternak notified the Swedish
Academy, which bestows Nobel prizes,
that he would accept the $41,420 prize
for literature. Then the fire of invective
from mouths of Communists licked
around him, and he rejected the award.
They demanded that he be banished
from Russia.
This caused such a furor throughout
the free world that Khrushchev, upon
receiving a personal appeal from Pas
ternak, decided that the author could
' accept the award. But the information
that he could go to Stockholm to re
ceive the honor, had its barbs.
The top Communist committee, ac
cording to the Soviet news agency, said,
"If Pasternak wants to leave altogether
. . . the official authorities will not
hinder him ... He will be given the
chance of departing beyond the fron
tiers of the USSR and of experiencing
personally all the 'delights of the capi
talist paradise'."
Whether Pasternak goes remains to
be seen. Russia, in spite of what is said
in Doctor Zhivago, is very dear to him,
and once he leaves it, he may not be
permitted to return.
i In this incident, Russia has again
showed the world the disaster inherent
in tyranny. She has shown that her
major concern is to take chains from
the bodies of those who believe in Com
munism and put chains on all men's
minds.
Russia need not chide America to
cast out its mote, race prejudice, when
the beam in Russia's eye, censorship
and dictatorship, is equally reprehensi
ble.
It is our hope that Pasternak can ac
cept his award and continue to live and
write in peace. Or will headlines some
months from now announce that Pas
ternak has "mysteriously disappeared",
another victim of Russia's villainy?
Men at Play
(Fortune)
In 1915 a lady named Sarah Nor
cliffe Cleghorn published a poem of
protest that clutched at the heart of
every right-thinking American. It ran:
"The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And watch the men at play."
Now comes a report from the Na
tional Golf Foundation, called "Golf
in Industry." One learns from it that
the golf links do indeed lie close to the
mills. Some 87, in fact, were built by
United States corporations for the use
of their employees at nominal fees
(rarely exceeding $1.50 a month).
All together, the NGF reports, there
are some 228,500 business organiza
tions that include golf on their com
pany-supported recreation programs,
and industrial golfers outnumber pri
vate country club players by a good
margin.
Often in the cool of the evening, no
doubt, late working executives can look
out the window and watch the men
play.
Then darkness enveloped the whole
American armada. Not a pinpoint of
light showed from those hundreds of
ships as they surged on through the
the night toward their destiny, carry
ing across the ageless and indifferent
sea tens of thousands of young men,
fighting for ... for . . . well, at least
for each other.
? Ernie Pyle
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The Readers Write
Morehead City, N. C.
November 4, 1958
To the Editor:
I am somewhat disappointed in
the apparent lack of concern by
responsible citizens regarding the
partial collapse of one of the
bleacher sections during the More
head City-Beaufort football game
last Friday evening.
My family and I were seated in
the area which gave way and even
though my wife suffered a severely
bruised leg, we feel that we as
well as other persons seated near
by were extremely fortunate, es
pecially when we consider the dis
aster which could possibly have
occurred.
Bleacher collapse has been
known to maim persons horribly,
and deaths have occurred among
persons who were pinned beneath
the weight of groups occupying
the stands as they collapsed. Such
thoughts raced through my mind
as I tried to extricate my feet
from the fallen benches and reach
my four year old son whom I be
lieved to be pinned under a bench
(luckily he wasn't but I still shud
der when I recall the incident).
I assure you that I am not angry
with any of the persons responsi
ble for maintenance of the stands
but since learning that these peo
ple would prefer to shroud the in
cident in secrecy with the hope
that it will be forgotten as quickly
as possible, I feel it to be some
one's duty, perhaps mine, to re
quest the help of fellow citizcns
in seeing that there is never a
similar recurrence in Morehead
City.
I feel that we should either pro
vide safe viewing stands for those
who are interested in our sporting
events or not to provide such facil
ities or events at all.
In closing, I repeat that my un
happiness is primarily because of
the indifferent attitude concerning
the incident and corrective mea
sures which should be taken, and
I suggest that if the JC's aren't
interested that they attempt to
interest someone or some other
citizens in correcting this hazard.
If funds are needed to build sub
stantial viewing stands I shall be
eager to donate my part.
Game Spectator
F. C. Salisbury
Here and There
The (allowing information Is
taken from the filei of the More
head City Coaster:
FRIDAY, NOV. 7, 1?1S
Bud Fisher and party, after
spending a few days here fishing,
left the city Monday for New York.
C. L. Walker of San Diego, Calif.,
arrived in the city Friday to spend
some time here.
Dr. B. F. Royal, a member of
the County Board of Education at
tended the regular meeting of the
board in Beaufort Monday.
Mrs. William B. Wade, daugh
ter, Elsket and son, Stacey W.
Wade, left Friday morning for
Pensacola, Fla., where they will
make their future home.
Dr. Leedom Sharp, in a paid
notice states: "No, I'm not going
to leave town, but stay right here.
I am not practicing medicine. I
am deprived of my license, if you
want to know the true reason, ask
me; don't believe what the gossip
mongers are pleased to tell about
me."
Charles S. Wallace. William M.
Webb and R. T. Willis, directors
of the Shepard Point Land com
pany have given notice for the
dissolving of this company which
has been in cxistcncc sincc the
opening of Morebead City in 1857.
The County Board of Commis
sioners at their monthly meeting
voted to bond the county for the
sum of $200,000 for the construc
tion of better roads and bridges
in the county.
The township of Portsmouth, the
first to take action regarding the
stock law, at an election held Oct.
18, 1919 carried the election by a
vote of 13 for and 12 against.
The marriage of Miss Etta Lewis
to Mart Lewis took place at the
home of the bride's parents Wed
nesday evening at 8 o'clock. Miss
Clell A. Watson of Swansboro and
David B. Wade Jr., of this city
were united in marriage at the
home of the bride Sunday at high
noon. Recent marriage licenses
were issued to George Whcalton
and Lillian Boycc, and Will Bccton
and A. Floe Fisher, all of this
city.
William H. Jones, i highly re
spected colored citiiea, died last
Friday, lie was postmaster here
for four years under the Harrison
administration.
From the Bookshelf
Once Upon A City: New York
from 1890 to 1910 as photographed
by Byron and described by Grace
M. Mayer. MacmiUan. $15.
Led by Joseph Byron, the Byron
family came to this country from
England in 1888, and over the
years father, son Peter and other
members took 10,000 picture! of
New York City.
The collection has been com
pared to the irreplaceable Atget
photographic rccord of Paris, and
that Is as high as praise can go.
The 10,000 photos were presented
by Peter Byron in 1942 to the Mu
seum of the City of New York,
which has got from them three
major exhibitions and now thii
book, on which an immense
amount of most knowledgeable and
loving care has been spent by Miss
Mayer, the museum's curator of
prints.
Over 200 photographs are re
printed here, and with each one
Miss Mayer writes an article de
scribing they scene, the time, the
characters, the relationship to the
larger metropolitan setting.
There are the square, street,
parade, theater, restaurant, hotel,
private home, tool tardea, bora*
car, auto, bicycle, sweat shop, im
migrant?this is an incredibly rich
and varied collection.
Miss Mayer works in an odd
word every now and then? cyno
suric, synonymical, recountal. mol
lificatory; but they are no odder
than the sights themselves.
And I would think it would be
impossible to find anyone alive so
informed about turn-of-the century
New York as the encyclopedic Miss
Mayer.
? W. G. Roger*
Un-American?
The civic club'* discussion had
hit a snarl on the queation of de
voting funds to a project which
might be operated at a loss.
"Gentlemen, no matter how
much good it may do, the plan i*
unbusinesslike," aaid one member.
"Let me warn you that I never
remain identified with any organi
zation that operate* with a defi
cit
There wa* a long hush? until
another member asked, "You're
?till an American citizen, aren't i
jrouT" i
?TikX Myers Nawa-Prea* (
Littlest Angels' School
By Linda Kay Salter
Beaufort, N. C.
Little Angels all in school
Learn by day the golden rule
And on blackboards made of night
Write their sums with rays of light.
Tiny hands held in their laps
Wing tips folded on their backs
ilalos combed so neat in place
Stardust washed from off their
face.
In their books their heads arc hid
den
Minds on all the things forbidden
Like swimming in the moonbeam
hole
And catching starfish on a pole.
Comment... j. KeUum
Talking of a Chore
Vermont poet Robert Frost
treats us, in his best poems, with
moments of perception affording
us recurring pleasure for as long
as we care to remember them.
"Mending Wall" is such a work.
He speaks only of the chore and
his relationship with the neighbor
involved. In part:
Something there is that doesn't
love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground
swell under it.
And spills the upper boulders in
the sun;
And makes gaps even two can
pass abreast . . .
No one has seen them made or
heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we
find them there.
1 let my neighbor know beyond
the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk
the line
And set the wall between us once
again.
We keep the wall between us as
we go.
To each the boulders that have
fallen to each . . .
There where it is we do not need
the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple
orchard.
My apple trees will never get
across
And eat the cones under bis
pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fcnces
make good neighbours."
Spring is the mischief in me,
and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his
head:
"Why do they make good neigh
bours? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here
there arc no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to
know
What I was walling in or walling
out,
And to whom I was like to give
offense.
Something there is that doesn't
love a wall,
That wants it down." I could
say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and
I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him
there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly
by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone
savage armed.
He moves in darkness aa it
seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade
of trees.
He will not gs behind his father's
saying.
And he likes having thought of
it so well
He says again, "Oapd fences
make good neighbours."
A small town is one in which you
can't walk to work. Sooner or later
?omeooc will (top and offer you
i rid*.
louif Splvy
Words of Inspiration
BE YOU* OWN MA8TEB
The one person you can't dodge U yourself. The one criUcUm you
can't dismiss 1? that of your own aelf knowledge. The one charge you
cannot argue against li that before the bar of your own conscience. The
one person you have to live with ia yourself.
Know yourself and your capabilities. If you spent as much time and
energy trying to live up to what you want to be, as you do putting on a
front for the benefit of others, you'd really get somewhere.
In an organization to which I belong, there is one man who knows
himself. Everyone looks up to him, for, no matter what the circum
stances, they know he will decide according to what he thinks ia right
for him to do, with the result that he ia always fair to others.
There is a great deal of difference between being egotiatical and be
ing self-contained , . . just as great a difference as that between isola
tionism, which is the etgotism o i a nation, and self-sufficiency. One ia
the front, the other a future. Know yourself and live up to yourself. Be
yourself. You will feel fear vanishing because you are sure.
Be your own master. It Isn't easy, but its rewards are great. There
in lies the only real freedom from fear, because the solution to any and
all problems lies within one's self.
Find out what you believe and why. Then you won't be swayed by
momentary emotion or by unreasoning prejudice. You will be sure and
secure, able to go ahead because you know where you are going.
To be self-contained, independent and self-reliant is to belong to one's
self. It means that you will not need to lean on others or to depend on
what they can do for you, or to feel that to get ahead you must push
others sside.
And don't be afraid to change your mind. It doesn't make any dif
ference what your opinion has been ... get right. No longer is our
world bounded by where we can drive, nor are our lives bounded by our
recreations. We are citizens of a world and that world will be not only
what we make it but what we ourselves are.
Know yourselfl
? Ruth Taylor
QUOTFS
There's not much sense keeping your nose to the grindstone just to
turn it up at the neighbors.
The church needs less advice on "how to do it" and more members
who arc "willing to do it."
The man fired with enthusiasm for his job is seldom fired.
Heads, hearts and hands well directed could settle the world's dif
ferences much better than arms.
People look at you six days of the week to see what you mean on
your seventh.
No one has ever cleaned up this world with soft soap ... it takes grit.
Because the longest life is brief I must be swift in keeping
The little trysts with kindness, before the time of sleeping.
Before a sudden summons comes, I surely must be saying
The words that 1 have failed to say ... the prayers I should be
praying.
? Grace Nowel Crowell
OPPORTUNITY
They do me wrong who say I come no more
When once I knock and fail to find you in;
For every day 1 stand outside your door,
And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win.
Wail not for precious chances passed away!
Weep not for golden ages on the wane.
Each night I burn the records of the day.
At sunrise every soul is born again.
Though deep In mire, wring not your hands and weep;
I lend my arm to all who say, "1 can!"
No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep.
But yet might rise and be again a manl
? Waiter Halone
Security for You...
By W. W. THOMAS
Manager, New Bern Social
Security Diitrict Office
Ever since the enactment of the
original social security law, mar
riage or remarriage has often
been a reason for ending social
security benefit payments to de
pendents or survivors of insured
workers. In many cases, it is still
a cause for the termination of
benefits. The law, as recently
amended, however, removes some
of the restrictions.
For example, Mrs. Florence
Jackson, (4, was widowed two
yean ago. She has continued to
live in the home she and her
husband bought soon after their
marriage, and has been receiv
ing $81.40 a month as a social
security widow's benefit. Natur
ally, she's been lonely and has
welcomed the friendship of
Frank Brown, a lifelong neigh
bor.
Frank, 72, and a widower for
many, many years, lives in a small
furnished room, on the income
from the monthly social security
checks paid to him because he
was dependent upon his son. Bill,
when Bill died a number of years
ago.
Recently, it has occurred to Mrs.
Jackson and Mr. Brown that it
would be both pleasant and sensi
ble for them to marry and spend
their remaining years together.
Until just a month or so ago, how
Smile a While
A marriage had gone on the
rocks and the couple were in court
seeking a divorce. The judge tried
a reconciliation, but both were
adamant.
"Weil," said the jurist, "if you
are determined to break up the
marriage, everything you possess
will have to be divided equally."
"What about our three chil
dren?" asked the wife.
This stumped the judge momen
tarily. "We'll have to work some
thing out," he parried, "but I re
peat, everything you have will
have to be divided equally."
The wife looked at her husband
reflectively ? and came to a de
cision. "C'mon home, Henry," she
said. Then, turning to the judge
she snapped: "But we'll be back
next year, judge? with four chil
dren!"
])fl| || QUO
ever, their marriage would have
meant financial disaster because
it would end social security pay
ment# for both of them.
Under the provisions of the so
cial security law, benefits paid to
the dependents of a worker?to his
child, to his widow (or widower),
or to an aged dependent parent
stop when that dependent marries.
A change In the social security
law will make It possible for
them to go ahead with their mar
riage plans. Under this change,
n dependent's social security
benefit payments will not stop
If he or she marries another per
son who la also receiving social
security payments as a depen
dent
A woman receiving widow's
benefits can therefore marry a
person who, like Mr. Brown, is
getting dependent parent's bene
fits, or she can marry someone
who is eligible for benefits as a
dependent widower or as the dis
abled son or daughter of a retired
or deceased worker.
Marriage to a person who la
not receiving social security ben
efits will still end the benefit
rights (present and future) of a
dependent-beneficiary. But ano
ther change la the law will help
dependent - beneficiaries who
marry perms who are now or
who may soon be getting old-age
Insurance or disability insurance
benefits.
Until now, such a marriage
would have ended the dependent's
benefits and be or she would have
had to wait at least three years to
get benefits as the dependent of
the new spouse, or in the event of
bis death, she would not have been
able to qualify for benefits as his
widow unless the marriage had
been in effect for at least one
year.
The IMS amendments to the
law remove these periods. Some
one like Mrs. Jackson could
therefore marry a man who b
getting old-age Insurance bene
fits ami qualify Immediately for
wife's benefits based on his so
cial security account.
If you would like social security
information, you are invited to
visit, telephone, or write the local
office, sot Pollock Street, New
Bern.
A social security representative
if la the courthouse annex, Beau
fart evory Tuesday from *:30 to