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THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY SEPT. 2, 1926.
"HE BEAUfORT NEWS
Published every Thursday
at Beaufort, Carteret County
North Carolina.
Beaufort Newt Inc., Publisher
WILLIAM GILES MEBANE
President and Editor
J. P. BETTS
Secretary and Treasurer
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(In Adance)
One Year 2.00
git konths I-00
Three Months ... --60
Entered as pecond-class matter
February 5, 1912 at the postoffice in
Beaufort, North Carolina, under the
act of March 3, 1879.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 2, 1926
SCHOOLS ARE OPENING.
In a few days now the
schools all over Carteret coun
ty will have opened for another
school' year. This is really an
important event. The future
of several thousand boys ana
girls is intimately associated
with the opening of school.
Those who go there with an
understanding of what it means
to get an education and who
buckle down to their work with
the determination to get all of
the good they can out of it will
be well rewarded in the years
to come. Those who begin
their school work in a careless
indifferent fashion will not get
much benefit from their school
ing either now or hereafter. It
is the duty of parents and
teachers to set the feet of these
young folks in the right paths
at the very outset. Advice giv
en kindly and sympathetically
will do good in many cases.
Even those who do not act upon
it will at least know what their
duty is.
North Carolina has spent
millions of dollars in recent
years in building school houses j
and providing tne equipment
for them. Much of that has
been done in Carteret county.
It cists a very large sum to op
erate the schools in the towns,
villages and rural districts of
this county. The sole object of
these large expenditures is to
develop the character, minds
and bodies of the children.
Failure to do this is a waste of
money, time and effort. Most
of our people are willing to
,bear the burden of consider
able expense ,in order to give
the children a chance for an
education. It is the duty of
these children, their parents
and their teachers to co-operate
in a great effort to take
full advantage of the opportu
nities that the public schools
afford. Every child of school
age should start at the begin
ning of the term and their par
er.ts should see that they do it.
X)nce the schools are opened
pupil, teachers and parents
should combine in a grand, big
effort to make them a success.
LAW ENFORCEMENT.
P.everend C. A. Upchurch,
superintendent of the1 Anti-Sa
loon League, agrees with Fed
eral Prohibition Director B. C.
Sharpe that there are not
enough officers to enforce the
prohibition laws. Mr. Sharpe
had complained to the depart
ment at Washington because
his force had been reduced and
said that liquor selling is on the
increase in his territory. This
statement did not please the
authorities in Washington who
have been claiming that condi
tions in the Sauth were very
jrood.
It is generally supposed that
conditions in the eastern states
like New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, are very bad as
concerns violating the Volstead
act. The reports are that sa
loons are run in the large cities
fibout as openly as they were
lefore the prohibition law was
enacted. About the only dif
difference is that the liquor is
meaner and higher in price. A
majority of the- people there
are openly hostile to prohibi
tion and make no bones of say
ing so. Where sentiment is so
strongly opposed to prohibition
it is naturally very hard to en-
forceit and it is an open ques
tion as to whether the law will
ever be a- success in certain lo
calities. ,
In the South conditions are
different from what they are in
eh eastern and northern sec
tions of the country. A large
maojrity of the people are sup
posed to favor absolute prohi
bition of the liquor traffic.
Here in North Carolina a ref
erendum was held on it in 1908
and prohibition won by a very
considerable majority. It is
true however that a good many
people did not vote on the ques
tion at all. Sentiment in the
Scuth then, being so favorable
to abolition of the liquor bus
iness it ought to be comparative
ly easy. At any rate this seems
to be the view that Washing
ton takes of tu situation. Gen
eral Andrews, the head of the
prohibition departmeut, thinks
that he had better put his men
in those states that are openly
opposed to the Volstead act
and leave it to the South very
largely to enforce its own laws.
North Carolina adopted prohi
bition some years before the
nation went dry and why
should North Carolina now rely
on the Federal government to
break un the illicit liquor bus
iness in her own borders?
A majority of the people of
North Carolina evidently want
the prohibition laws enforced.
The members of the General
Assembly are well aware of
this fact. It is their duty there
fore to provide the means for
the execution of the laws. We
have heard a good deal of talk
in the past about states' rights.
There ought to be some talk
about state duties. There are
one hundred sheriffs in North
Carolina, we do not know how
many iiw.ty sheriffs and po
iican-.S-. L'?t these officials ex
hibit a "little more zeal about
law enforcement and if they
::.:-not handle the job the Gen
eral Assembly might create an
other body of State constabu
lary to help . them out. Ut
course the best way of all to
enforce prohibition is for ev
erybody to quit drinking the
stuff. If this should happen
there would not be a whiskey
stil in the State in six months.
OPEN FOR DISCUSSION.
The discussion of the hotel
question started in Beaufort
recently seems to have aroused
considerable interest. A good
deal of talk pro and con is go
ing on, about the matter. This
probably i3 a good thing ber
cause open discussion of public
problems is the way they
should be handled. Matters
that will not stand the fierce
light of publicity are apt to be
either worthless or positively
harmful. So we say let every
body talk just as much as he
wants to about the proposal
that the community shall build
a hotel.
It is difficult in view of the
lack of definite information a
bout the matter to discuss the
hotel question intelligently.
Municipal ownership of .any
thing is a question that has two
sides to it and one that has
caused many a debate. Some
towns and cities do not even
own their electric plants and
water systems. Some contend
that they get better service
from a private corporation than
is afforded by municipal own
ership. As to hotel ownership
Warrenton in this State, .is the
only town that we ever heard
of that owned a hotel. War
renton owns its light and water
plants and a little railroad too.
The latter handles mo.-t of the
freight that comes to the town
and we have understood that
it is quite pdrofitable. The
hotel also has the reputation of
being successful.
Every one grants that .3eau
fort needs a hotel. There is a
considerable tourist business
here in Summer and Winter
and a good deal of commercial
business the year round. The
latter is probably mare depen
dable than the tourist trade.
So if any hotel at all is to be
built it would seem to be the
part of common sense to erect
a combination tourist and com
mercial hotel with some sort
of plan that would permit it to
be enlarged later on if desir
able to do so. Then too there
should be store rooms in it for
rental purposes. If , such a
structure can be erected at a
moderate cost that will make
it possible to lease it for a sat
isfactory price, that is a price
that would take care of the in
terest on the bonds, then it
might be well to go ahead and
build it. Even if there should
be a small deficit for the first
four or five years it would no.t
be a bad investment for the
town. It would simply be a
form of advertising and Beau
fort certainly needs advertis
ing. There is hardly any thing
that so impresses a stranger in
any town as the place where
he abides. The room he occu
pies, the food he eats, the con
veniences that are at hand, or
lacking as the case may be,
the service received all make
an indelible impression upon
the visitor. , He goes away
pleased or displeased, a knock
er or a booster. Beaufort needs
boosters not critics.
The bridge will befinished
some time next year. There
has hardly been, a visitor in
Beaufort this Summer that did
not predict great thing3 for
Beaufort as soon as the bridge
is finished.- They may be right.
Certainly the town will be far
more accessible than it has
been heretofore., A great many
j people will come here and look
I around if nothing more. A
j nice hotel would nold some of
I them over for a while and
! mijxiit cause soms to inve3t-and
locate here. It would certain
ly make a good impression on
those who were its guests and
would cause them to say pleas
ant thing3 about the town. The
advertising value of a hotel is
immense. If after careful in
vestigation it is found that a
municipal hotel can be erected
here at a reasonable price and
that its operation will not be
too heavy a burden then it
seems to us that it would be
money well spent. No action
should be taken though with
out thorough investigation of
the subject.
PRESS GLEANINGS
I some of them if possible. I would
! like to suggest that you have sorrie
! of the breeding; places near town
j abolished. There is a big pond north
I of Ocean View cemetery rear thi
j railroad which is a fine breeding
place for them and there is also an
I nther pond souLh of the cemetery in
i vvliL'h considerable water drains and f
I this is also a mosquito breeding
j ground. There is also a ditch on the
town line on the east side, known as'
'.Mason's ditch, which is partly stop-
pod up and a . good place to breed mos
quitoes. These mosquito hatcheries
are outside of the town limits but
near enough to be a nuisance. You
favored spending a large sum of i
money to develop private property!
and it seems to me that you might
use a little to protect the public
health. This might be a good way to
use some of the $100,000 that you
borrowed to improve Beaumonde
Shores and other private property.
Respectfully yours,
GEORGE WOOLARD,
September 1,' 192G.
BIRTHDAY PARTY.
Miss Julia Thomas gave her friends
a most enjoyable afternoon by asking
them to help her celebrate her eighth
birthday on Saturd y afternoon. Af.
ter many games delicious ice cream
and cake were served and the chil
dren reported a joliy good time.
EXPERT CHARLESTON DANCER.
Maik Washington who has figured
in police court several times for
various escapades has now turned his
attention to dancing. At least he
informs the News that he is an ex
pert dancer of the Charleston. He
says he took part in a contest in
Morehead City recently and also in
Beaufort and that he was the prize
winner in both cases. !
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STANDING FOR PRINCIPLE
The recent assassination of Don
Mellett, the Canton Ohio, editor has
occasioned a great deal of 'editorial
comment throughout the country!
and has brought up again the ques
tion of whether or not it is worth
while to be a "fighting editor." Un
der the head of "Of Cpurse, They're
Fools for Not Letting George Do It,
but What Would Happan If Nobody
Cared"? John Starzl of the Le Mars
(Ohio) Globe-Post comments on the
question as follows:
The daily papers just now are car
rying headlines on the murder of a
young editor, who incidentally leaves
a widow and four children. The edi.
tor has been making thing3 hot for
the gangsters, political and otherwise
at Canton, Ohio. Despite the usual
public and official indifference, this
newspaper had broken up vice, dope
and booze rings and sent several
criminals to jail. A few nights ago,
coming home from some social affair
he was ambushed near his home and
killed instantly by two bullets in his
brain. The crime will probably go un
punished. In New Mexico a former lowan,
Carl Magee, broke up one of the most
vicious political gangs in the history
of the United States. Magee has been
assualted, shot at, beaten up and tried
for murder. He is still on the job and
is still fighting. Some day an assas
sin's bullet will get him, but he isn't
leaving for safer clime3. Foolish, per
haps, but somehow editors of this
stamp cannot be frightened away.
Down in Alabama an editor has.
been imprisoned for contempt, per
secuted in many ' ways because he
would not tuckle to an arrogant
judge of a minor court. It would be
a lot easier to give in to the- judge's
silly whims, but the editor fought
from start to finish, finally establish
ing the rights of the p.-ess. It cost
him a lot of money, the loss of time
an endless hunjj'isasanesa, but it
earned for him the rignt to be- called
a real newspaper man.
In none of the three instances men.
tioned have the fighting editors re
ceived any reward or appreciation
for their work Often they were de
nounced by the very public for whose
benefit they were struggling. They
were called trouble-makers, destroy
ers of harmony. They were blamed
for their failures. They received little
credit for their- successes. The finan
cial rewards, were, and will always
be, less than the same effort wiM
bring in almost any other line of en
deavor. Yet they, and hundreds
more like them, continue i.i their
thorny path because they are' so
constituted that they cannot bear to
see justice defeated. They cannot
bear to see the weak oppressed by
the strong. They cannot stand, idly
by and see the rich advantaged to
the detriment of the poor. Then,
when the smoke of batttle has, clear
ed away tfcey do not expect, amd do
not receive any reward for their
work. The friends they moke are
not as valuable to them financially
as the friends they could have made
by keeping still. Perhaps, in a
momentary accession of bitterness,
they resolve thatt henceforth they
will look out for themselves first.
They may resolve to throw in their
lot with the intelligent, cynical minor
ity. that always tends to batten off
tne torpid mass of the people. A
week passes. A new abuse shows
its head. Forgotten are the sensible
resolutions. The fighting editor is
at it again. .
Hail to the fighting editor! He
may be a fool, but he is the surest
bulwark of liberty, of honesty, of
justice that this country has. He is
the only kniarht errant Uft in th.
world. He is ready at any momemt
. Da"ie tor the right, without re
ward, without thanks. There is
nothing Quixotic ' about him. The
evils he firhtg are rant avil II.
does not charge wildly, but plans his
campaigns, shrewdly., Single-handed
he is a match for enemies a hun
dred times as great as he in numbers
and money. This would be a sad
world if it were not for its fighting
editors (Publishers Auxiliary)
AN OPEN LETTER TO
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Dear Sirs:
For several days now the . main
subject of discussion in Beaufort, has
Deen mosquitoes. Most of the talk Sfl
is "cussin" without much practical
value. What we need is to do some-
thing that will help to get rid
PieaJaaegDesfcy
SA I hear a certain lady say, "" jfcr'
mm.
When Jane goes by,
"Another stunning dress today!"
When Jane goes by.
. It matters not what time of year.
What time of day, or who is here.
The folks downstairs begin to cheer
When Jane goes. by.
Somehow some junior Hawthorne knows
When Jane goes by,
And calls, "Oh, Mother, there she goesr
un t. i
wnen jane goes Dy.
And now' I must confess to you t&Jj
That I oft miirp PYfitPfl t(W . . vyi
o 1 - --j
uiu i enjoy a secret view
When Jane goes by.
mi- i
US
HU AM
It surely is a pleasant treat
When Jane goes by;
Refreshing breezes find our street
When Jane goes by.
She looks so sweet "an everything
She always makes it seem like Spring.
And saucy birds begin to sing
When Jane goes by!
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