CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES I
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EDITORIALS FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1960
More Than Meets the Eye
The wave of so-called "anti-semitism"
which erupted Christmas eve is pene
tratingly disturbing. While police, gov
ernment officials, and newsmen grope
for the motives behind the painting of
swastikas on synagogues and homes of
Jews, the practice continues.
Periodically, throughout the cen
turies, at different places on the globe,
waves of feeling against the Jews
erupt. The sociologist and psychiatrist
can tell you why. There is evidence in
this most recent outburst, however, to
indicate that in Europe it is being UBed
as a lever to prevent the re-arming of
West Germany and to quench sentiment
for reunification of East and West Ger
many.
The Communist government may or
may not be behind the action. The sec
ond world war and the fear of Ger
many is still quite fresh in Europe. You
can't walk down a street and see three
walls of a former house standing, with
weeds growing where once the kitchen
was, and not remember the bombs.
Even a modern apartment house recalls
to mind that it is there because what
was there before was blasted out in the
blitz.
In this country a side road off a high
way may lead to a picturesque histori
cal spot. In Holland or Germany it is
pointed out as leading to a former Nazi
concentration camp. The hell of war is
still very close to the sruface and it
takes only a symbol, such as a swastika,
to make hate and fear bubble over.
The hate in this current outburst is
not so much against a minority as it is
against the nation which persecuted
that minority. As years pass, the mean
ings of symbols change with the atti
tudes of men. Some of the world hates
the symbol of the hammer and sickle.
Some abhor the cross. Some hate the
swastika. To achieve a goal, propagan
dists may make use of such symbols,
because they quickly generate a certain
feeling from a large mass of people.
The goal sought, however, may be far
removed from the conditions out of
which the mass feeling first grew.
The swastika is the symbol of a pow
erful German Reich. That power will
always be remembered for its butchery
of the Jews. You can't use the symbol
somewhere without dragging with it
the misery it caused. Some have inter
preted the so-called "anti-semitism" as
a revival of the Nazi movement. If that
is so, and certain German youths want
such a revival, they're certainly pro
moting it in the wrong way.
How to account for the spread of the
swastika - painting to this country?
Hoodlums, vandals, and others are al
ways ready to take part in a fear and
hate campaign. We have seen such in
the Ku Klux Klan. Sense of responsi
bility disappears in the cloak of night
or behind a white sheet. There need
be no sincere motivation for irresponsi
ble actions, just the thrill of causing
trouble is sufficient.
Anti-semitism? Perhaps. But this
present outburst is more than that.
Cheers for What?
The steel strike was settled two days
before congress reconvenes to
1. Avoid stringent laws the public
was demanding to end crippling strikes
in the future.
2. To bolster Republican hopes for
victory in 1960.
The current settlement is just a patch
in the dam. The country will be faced
with another major steel strike July 1,
1962 when the present contract expires.
The nation will suffer. We will relive
the six months just past. How many
times must the American economy be
raped by powerful labor unions before
laws are passed which will prevent
placement of the nation in jeopardy?
The steel strike settlement evokes
cheers only for the moment Not for
the future.
Reason Enough
If ever there were events to spur the
hunt for the cause of cancer, those
events have occurred in recent months.
The cigarette companies now have
some genuine sympathizers ? the poul
try industry, milk industry, cranberry,
cosmetics and candy industries.
All are under suspicion as using
drugs, pesticides or other ingredients
which may be cancer-breeding.
But nobody knows for sure. It re
minds us of the witch hunts. When man
doesn't know th# cause of his ill-for
tune, he lashes out, flails in all direc
tions, blaming this, blaming that. He
must find solace somewhere ? but the
solace lies only in himself, his willing
ness to pay the scientists to rip back
the shroud of ignorance or his inter
est in going into the laboratory him
self.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars are
being poured into cancer research. But
progress would be so much faster if
more money and more minds were
available to work on the problem.
We do not agree with those who say
the government should not have taken
off the market the allegedly tainted
cranberries. The Pure Food and Drug
agency was established to protect the
public and it is conscientiously trying
to do that.
But the witch hunt won't end with
chickens, milk, cranberries, lipstick,
black jelly beans, gum drops and lico
rice. Tomorrow it will be something
else and next week something else, un
til the public is so confused that, as
with the cigarettes, they just say what
the heck, and go on doing as they did
before everybody was screaming, "Can
cer!"
The only way to end the epidemic of
cancer scares is to isolate the true
cause, or causes, of the disease. The
public has the opportunity to do just
that every April during the Cancer
Crusade.
Kindness Counts
A little old lady stood at the curb of
a city street, fearful to cross, recounts
Bert Barnes in The Pick-Up. One ve
hicle after another passed. The drivers
who noticed her were too intent on their
own affairs to care much about her
plight. Occasionally she made a hope
ful start, only to return to the safety
of the sidewalk.
Finally, along came one of those
enormous cement trucks. The driver, a
husky fellow, apparently touched by
the woman's show of despair, slowed
down, steered his machine into a posi
tion where all traffic was stopped, and
motioned to the lady to cross.
That evening at the dinner table in
her home, she related the incident to
her son, an executive in a large cor
poration. When she mentioned the
name of the cement company whose
driver had been so considerate, her
son's face brightened. "I am glad you
told me about this," he said. "Those
people are going to get an order for a
large quantity of cement I'll be need
ing." ? Sunshine Magazine
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BITING THE HAND
Security for You...
By RAY HENRY
From D. J. of Los Angeles: "I
reached 65 this year and retired
about Jan. 1. A friend told me
that the government allowed cer
tain tax privileges on the income
of people over 65. Will I be able
to claim the privileges this year
on my income or aren't they al
lowed to people in the year they
reach 65?"
There are a number of federal
income tax breaks allowed to peo
ple 65 or older. You're considered
65 and eligible for the breaks if
you reach that age anytime during
1959 or on Jan. 1, 1960. As tax
paying time draws closer, I'll ex
plain in a special series the privi
leges available to people 65 or old
er. Watch for it, late in January.
From Mrs. E. V. of Pontiac,
Mich.: "My husband died two
years ago, leaving me with three
small children. Because he was
in a job covered by Social Secur
ity when he died, the children
and I have been collecting
monthly payments. If I should go
to wrk next year ? I haven't
been working because the chil
dren were too small ? will the
Social Security payments stop
entirely?"
No. The check you receive is
partly for you and partly for the
children. If you go to work and
your earnings are beyond certain
limits, the portion of the check
which is paid to you will be stop
ped. But, the portion paid to the
children will continue to be paid
until they die, reach 18 or marry,
whichever event occurs earlier.
Also, a child who is seriously dis
abled before reaching 18 and con
tinues to be disabled after that
age, can continue to collect Social
Security as long as the disability
exists.
From A. O. P. of Cleveland,
Ohio: "My father retired last
March when he reached 65. He
was getting Social Security when
he died in September. My moth
er who is seriously and perma
nently disabled will be S2 next
February and entitled to pay
ments from Social Security as a
widow. I've been handling her
finances for her. May I have
her Social Security checks sent
in my name?"
Yes, if your mother is actually
incapablc of handling her money,
you can ask to have the checks
made out to you. When it's time
to ask for payments, explain the
situation to your Social Security
office. An investigation will be
conducted to establish the facts,
but this is routine and done mere
ly to protect Social Security money
from getting into the wrong hands.
From S. H. of Oklahoma City:
"I'm getting Social Security old
age payments. Recently, due to
a bequest, I came into a sub
stantial amount of money. I don't
want to get any Social Security
which isn't rightfully mine.
Should I tell the Social Security
people about this money, or do
they care?"
They don't care. Only money
you receive as earnings from work
will have any bearing on your
right to Social Security checks.
From O. R. of St. Petersburg
Fla.: "In a recent column you
described the help the federal
government will give people over
GO in buying a home. How can
I get official information about
the program?"
Get in touch with the nearest
Federal Housing Administration
office. You can get the address
by writing to Federal Housing Ad
ministration, Washington, 2S, D. C.
When you write, also ask for the
free brochure called "Housing for
the Elderly."
(Editor'! Note: You mar con
tact the social security repre
sentative at the courthouse an
nex, Beaufort, from (:M a.m. to
noon Moadayi. He will help you
with your own particular prob
lem).
Free Wheeling
By BILL CKOWELL
Motor Vehicles Department
It's a wise practice to lock your
car every time you step out of it,
even though you may be in your
own driveway. Absurd? Not at
all, for while children are not sup
posed to play in the family car
there have been instances where
a small child has released the
brakes on a parked vehicle and
suddenly found himself moving
down the street.
You are not immune to this sug
gestion even though there may be
no small children in your family.
One of your precocious neighbor
children might suddenly develop
an adventurous mood and try to
take your car for a spin.
It pays to lock your car when
ever it's left unattended.
PASSING . . . You're at the
wheel now, traveling moderately
along a broad four-lane road.
You're in the outside, or extreme
right hand lane. A car ahead is in
the left lane, going slower than
you are. You speed up a little
and pass him on the right. He is
mildly startled and shakes his fist
at you passing by. Wat he justi
fied or merely showing bad man
ners?
Apparently some Tar Heel driv
ers are similarly puzzled about the
always ticklish business of passing
on the right. But the motor ve
hicle manual has some pretty en
lightening paragraphs. Most of the
rules are based on common sense,
like making sure the way is clear
before executing any move in traf
fic.
In the example cited, the pass
ing driver could rightfully, if in
elegantly, stick out his tongue at
the tut shaker and drivg on. For
the law, in certain instances,
makes it perfectly permissible to
pass on the right. The governing
rule says in effect that on high
ways of sufficient width, designed
for two or more lanes of traffic in
each direction, passing on the right
is okay.
Also when a vehicle being over
taken is in a lane marked for left
turns, a right hand pass is per
missible, too.
In any case adequate sight dis
tance ahead is a good factor to
keep uppermost in mind when un
dertaking any passing maneuver
right or left.
SUDDEN THAWT . . . If drivers
would put some of the blame where
it really belongs then the "other
fellow" would be less of a menace.
GO KARTS . . . Those cute little
motorized cars that children 7
years up? and down ? are driving
can be deadly toys. In fact a group
of authorities in one city called the
latest craze "mass infanticide."
Safety leaders across the country
are speaking out again&t the go
cart races, maintaining that the
miniature cars and the "speed" at
titudes they build can only add to
the nation's safety problem.
The Department of Motor Ve
hicles warns owners and prospec
tive buyers that the small vehiclei
cannot legally be driven on public
streets or highways.
SmiU a While
After installing a sprinkler sys
tem, a hotel warned its guests:
"Please do hot smoke in bed? you
may drown yourself."
?The Spotlight
Captain Henry
Sou'easter
I heard about some folks who
took menhaden roe to Florida over
Christmas. They introduced it to
their friends as Carolina Caviar.
The 8-year-old girl in the family
looked at it doubtfully, dabbed at
it with her fork and announced,
"It looks like fish eggs to me."
I guess by now Gray and Charles
llassell are fully recovered. Gray's
daughter, Rae Frances, who is also
Charles' niece, chose New Year's
Day to get married. THE day her
Uncle Charles always goes hunting
and THE day her dad always
watches football games.
That same night her brother.
Butch, and other members of her
family were due on the basketball
court. Well, they all made it
Gray, Charles and Mama Evelyn
included. But it was a struggle.
I was talking to one of our sen
ior citizens the other day. She
takes a dim view of all these mag
azine articles about active people
"over 80" and "over TO." I'm over
SO and about 20 years younger than
she It and I agree with what she
said.
People are still reckoning "old
age" in the terms of what was
"old" a quarter of a century ago.
Today, it's not unusual for a man
over 70 to be making wood cabi
nets, building boats, going fishing
and playing a good game of golf.
It's not unusual for a woman over
70 to be on the dance floor or wear
ing pedal pushers.
Yet articles by the score acclaim
these as outstanding achievements
. . . something all of us "can do
if we want to." Improvements in
health practices and advances in
medicine make this possible.
What would be interesting to
folks over 60 these days arc stories
about what the folks over 80 and
90 are doing. Arc THEY still ac
tive and enjoying life?
Maybe they're doing nothing, the
most of them, and that's why no
body writes about them!
Officers who blow up stills are
respectfully requested not to set
off dynamite when there are duck
hunters in the area. It scares the
ducks and puts the duck hunters
in a state of shock.
Incidentally, the duck season
ends today. Shed a tear.
Lovers' Lane
By WALTER WILUS
Harkers Island
Are you roaming the path of
lovers' lane.
Or arc you groping in the dark?
Are you beating the bush, just
standing around
And breaking someone's heart?
Lovers' lane is a very wide road
With trees sighing in the breeze.
As you walk along, please sing one
song
And someone's heart you may
ease.
Sometimes this lane has a winding
curve i
So watch your step, my dear.
The slower you go, the better it ii,
And then you have no (ear.
This lane is sometimes far too
short?
The end, it comes too quick.
Careful walking should be done
Or else you'll be sitting in the
ditch.
Lovers' lane has two ways to go,
One is good and one is bad.
So take the one that leadi to good
And make no one blue or lad.
This poem is ending and has great
meaning.
So stand up straight, and don't be
leaning.
Watch your step as you roam the
lane,
And keep your sweetheart one
?wcet dame.
Education is what a man get*
when be sits in hit living room
with a group of tccn-agcrs.
A ? 1? ? ?
Words of Inspiration
MOM'S APRON
How dear to my heart was Mom's old-fashiooed apron;
Its uses were myraid and ample its size;
For the drying at tears and the wiping of noses,
For lifting hot pans from the oven, hot pies;
Convenient for bribing in eggs from the henhouses
For carrying kindling or corncobs as well.
Waved at Dad in the field, It said, "Come to dinner,"
Just as plainly as did our old dinner bell.
It kept her hands warm when departing guests lingered,
And the child standing by could hide 'neath its folds;
There's something nostalgic about an old apron
With the memories of Mom and our home that it holds.
How I pity the children whose new fashioned mothers
Wear practical aprons of plastic so neat . . ,
Though they serve the same purpose . . . protection from soil
With Mother's old aprons they'll never compete.
? Ida M. Yoder
SHE LEADS THE BAND
"I'm just a housewife," the mother said.
And you know, she sort of hung her head.
"Oh, I wash and iron and cook and sew,
And do all the wifely chores, you know.
We do things together, my family and I . . .
Together we work and play and laugh and cry.
I know we're happy as can be . . .
For our house is really a home, you sec."
Again she slowly hung her head.
"Still I do nothing important," she said.
Oh dear little mother, dear little wife,
You're living a most important life.
These things you're doing are special, you know,
It's these little things that make us grow.
It's these little things that do the most,
Toward spreading success from coast to coast.
You're truly the greatest one of all,
You're the belle of every ball.
So lift up your head, and put up your hand .
Three cheers to the housewife who leads "her" band.
? Mrs. Hugh Blackburn
F. C. Salisbury
Here and There
The following information is
taken from the files of the More
bead City Coaster:
Friday, Ian. 6, 1922
The death of Mrs. Nellie Bell
Bonner, wife of Dr. K. P. B. Bon
ner, occurred early this Friday
morning. Funeral services will be
held from the Baptist Church Sat
urday afternoon for Mrs. Bonner,
as well as her aunt, Mrs. Lucy
Webb McLean whose death occur
red Thursday night. Mrs. Bonner
was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William P. Bell. Mrs. McLean was
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Silas
Webb.
The Stewardship Institute of the
Neuse-Atlantic Association will be
held in the Baptist Church on Mon
day and Tuesday.
Marriage licenses issued last
week: James G. Murdoch, Wild
wood, to Lillian G. Tcasley, More
head City. Troy Willis to Eva Mae
Piner, both of Williston. Harold
V. Taylor ty> Grace Fulcher, both
of Williston. James Cox to Min
nie Simmons, both of Beaufort.
Deputy J. W. Odom was shot and
painfully wounded Friday night by
a gang on N. 11th Street. Ike Dud
ley was arrested in conneetion
with the shooting. Odom is re
covering from a charge of No. 6
shot.
Mrs. Ben Royal and little son,
B. F. Jr., left this week for Four
Oaks where they will visit rela
tives for a few days.
The Misses Ruth Reed, Lucy
Goodwin and Lillian Paul left Wed
nesday for ECTTS, Greenville.
Mrs. Ernest Odom and little son
of Dunn arrived in the city this
wetfk to visit her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. E. Webb.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Taylor Jr.
returned this week to Raleigh after
a visit to relatives in the city.
Gordon Webb returned to Por
ter's Military Institute, Charleston,
S. C., after spending Christmas
with his parents.
From the Bookshelf
Invitation to a Beheading. By
Vladimir Nabokov. Translated
from Russian by Dmitri Nabokov.
Putnam. $3.95. The Real Life of
Sebastian Knight. By Vladimir
Nabokov. New Directions. $3.50.
These two novels antedate by 20
or 25 years the Lolita which roused
up the great Nabokov audience.
More European, and in fact writ
ten abroad, they are nevertheless
by the same intriguing artist in
every character on every page.
If you complain that you didn't
hear of them before, partly it is
not your fault, partly it is Behead
ing haa just been translated, and
by the novelist's son; Sebastian,
however, was there to read in 1941
when New Directions first brought
out what it now reprints.
Sebastian'a half brother tells the
story of Sebastian, born in Russia,
studied and lived in England and
France (Nabokov was born in Rus
sia, studied and lived in England
and France).
Sebastian, author of several
books, has achieved enough renown
so that at his death the narrator
"V" feels he owes him a biog
raphy, and sets out to probe to the
bottom through his writing, his ex
periences and his mistresses.
What he uncovers may be his
own self, for identities fade in and
out and overlap mystifyingly? the
revelatory letter written by some
one not Sebastian who yet might
have been Sebastian, the vigil
mounted beside the dying man sup
posedly Sebastian though he proves
to be Mr. Kegan, and *'V'i" final
suspicion that he himself is Sebas
tian, so that we arrive astonishing
ly at a kind of Steinian reiteration:
Sebastian it Sebastian is "V" is
Nabokov.
In Beheading, Cincinnatus C. in
a Russian prison cell awaits ex
ecution for the monstrous crime of
"gnostical turpitude." or the most
ancient of sins. He is resigned
psychically to his death, which he
anticipates, in one of those grue
some figures in which Nabokov re
veals, as a sort of crunching den
tal operation, the head in the role
of the aching tooth, and the body,
the Inflamed gum.
Luckily he can escape momen
tarily from reality in a release,
allied to Sebastian's, into another
identity; but it is only to return to
the mother who bore him to an un
known father, or the promiscuous
wife, who explains apologetically
that it's such a comfort to a man.
So he atays where he can see his
prison director Rod rig, his lawyer
Rodlon's little daughter the age of
Lolita, and his dear friend who
will bccomc his executioner.
Beheading is not quite so accom
plished and subtle as Sebastian,
but both are black and white sur
realistic creations.
Here Nabokov, letting his weird
fancy run, focuses his entire at
tention on the ineffable adventure
of words.
The Stones of Florence. By Mary
McCarthy. Harcourt, Brace. SIS.
Florence means a lot of things
to a lot of people ? Tuscany, the
Arno, sculpture and architecture
and Brunelleschi and Michelangelo,
Savonarola, Medici, Dante, Uffizi,
Ponte Vecchio, leather goods, bam
bino, hot weather, Maggio musi
cale.
This almost limitless diversity
provides a sharp contrast with the
encompassable substance of Ven
ice, the waterside museum and re
sort city about which this author
wrote excitingly a couple of years
ago in "Venice Observed." Twen
tieth Century Florentines are able
very handily to do without the his
toric and artistic past that inter
feres with their present desire to
live positively and worthily.
Their treasures use up more
money than they can afford, the
tourists bring in a little but not
enough to make up for being a
nuisance or to pay for the upkeep
of monuments.
So Florence is a contradiction,
to most strangers a dead and even
dull past despite its Athenian qual
ity, to most residents as much a
home here and now as your city or
mine. It's the residents who win
out, says Miss McCarthy who ad
mires what they have done and
what they now do. The city which
had a magnificent rise and a fall
has become a city on its own, in
habited as other Italians say by
"the most civilized people in
Italy."
Miss McCarthy associates social
and artistic achievements reveal
ingly, and matches past and pres
ent to get at secrets no one else
had discovered. Florence in a large
sense is a man's city; at least in
its greatness it never was really
a woman's. That makes this book
all the more remarkable. It is
superbly illustrated with 128 black
and-white photos and 12 in color;
they are mostly by Evelyn Hofer.
Just in Passing . . .
0
Some foreign countries are con
sidering levying a tax on American
tourists. Probably another way of
trying to make tham foal at ham.