THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY. APRIL 26, 1934
The Beaufort News
Published every Thursday at Beaufort, Carteret County
North Carolina
Beaufort New lac, Publisher
WILLIAM GILES MEBANE Pres. and Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
(In Advance) '
Dn Year 1M
Six Months 76
Three Months - -50
The above prices are for the first, secsnd and third
penes. In the fourth zone the rate is $2.00 a year.
Entered as second-class matter February 6, 1912 at the
postofflce in Beaufort, North Carolina, under the Act
f March 3, 1879.
MEMBER NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1934
Hogging the Parking Space
LITTLE do the business people of Beaufort
realize it, but they are unknowingly dis
couraging the patronage of their trade. Ev
ery business person in town who owns a car
rides to and from his or her work, and most
of the time leave the cars parked in the bus
iness section on Front Street.
This makes it very inconvenient for a per
son wishing to make a purchase to find park
ing space for his vehicle, and especially is this
true on Saturday and Saturday night. The
parking space in the business section of Front
Street is very limited, and it looks as if the
business folks would realize that this should
be reserved for the use of their patrons, par
ticularly the out-of-town ones.
Remove Those Banners !
ANN STREET, particularly in the springtime
and summer months, is one of the most
beautiful streets in any town in eastern Caro
lina. But a homespun banner strung across
this street and advertising the coming attrac
tion at some Carteret theatre by no means
adds anyhing to the attractiveness of Ann
Street. It is a shame that the local officials
permit Ann, with it stately and age-old elms,
to be desecrated by commercial theatrical ad
vertisements. Many up-State visitors have told the writer
that the first impression motorists get of Beau
fort as they come in over the highway bridge,
is that of pleasing southern tranquility, set of
and accentuated by the stately old elms of
Ann Street. What do you suppose motorists
will think now when they come into this com
munity and find a white banner shouting the
coming attraction of some Garbo, Dietrich,
or Barrymore?
Yes, it is high time to remove these banner
advertisements from Ann Street, and it is up
to the Town Commissioners and the Police to
see that this is done as early as possible.
Whitewash the Tree Trunks
NOTHING improves the looks of the streets,
especially after the trees leaf out, like hav
ing the trunks of the trees whitewashed- It
was the custom for many years, until economy
ruled it out, for the Town Commissioners to
have the tree trunks whitewashed early each
spring.
Since the Federal Government has been do
ing much to relieve the unemployment condi
tion throughout the country, it may be well to
utilize a part of this labor by whitewashing
the tree trunks within the next two or three
weeks. In case the Federal Government will
not furnish the lime and other necessary ma
terials, the Town Commissioners might be
able to muster enough cash at their regular
meeting in May to pay for these.
A person feels much better when well
dressed. Certainly it will make the folks liv
ing here in this community feel better to have
the streets "well-dressed" in the way of white
washed tree trunks, etc. Beaufort has for
decades been known as a beautiful communi-ty-by-the-sea,
and we know of no better way
of improving the looks of our town than by
whitewashing the tree trunks. This makes
them look like cadets standing in fromation
and dressed in green coats and white trousers.
(nvmVinhiv vnnnincr over vour bov. when you
4 nave failed to teach this all-important rule,
and in addition have knowingly permitted him
daily to play ball in the streets, despite the
prevalence of motor vehicles.
Suspend The Suspended Sentences!
OCCASIONALLY it may be just for a court
to give a suspended sentence, but this should
be the exception, rather than the rule. Sus
pended sentences handed out promiscuously
breeds contempt for the court, and tends to
ward the repitition of the unlawful acts which
first brought the defendants into court.
During the past half dozen years the writ
er has attended the courts of the county rath
er regularly in the capacity of a reporter. He
has seen an untold number of suspended sen
tences given, especially in Recorder's Court
and the local Police Court. Many of these de
fendants were brought into court again with
in a period of a few weeks or months, and
tried for new crimes against society, but in
NOT ONE INSTANCE has the writer seen the
old suspended sentence put into effect.
What is the need of giving suspended sen
tences, if no reference is ever made to them,
despite the fact that these same defndants
ar shortly arrested and tried for other offen
ses? Why not turn the defendant loose
without the sham of the suspended sentence?
Sometimes a person of good repute is
brought into court for knowingly or unknow
ingly transgressing the law. It would be un
wise in many cases of this kind for stiff sen
tences to be given and enforced. Set the man
aright and let him go with as little publicity
as possible. But when the inveterate crimi
nal the old-time "repeater" is brought be
fore the bench for breaking the law, give him
a just trial, and if found guilty, mete out the
proper sentence, AND MAKE HIM SERVE
IT. As long sis judges continue to give out
suspended sentances on every hand, just so
long will there be a general disregard for the
law in general and the judges in particular.
Carteret County needs law enforcement,
and needs it urgently. And the bench is the
proper place to begin, for how can an honest
officer have the heart to arrest even a confirm
ed criminal when he has sufficient reason to
suspect that a suspended sentence will be the
only "punishment" given out by the court?
The sooner the courts suspend the suspended
sentences, the sooner the proper respect will
be given the courts and the judges who pre
side over them.
I MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE
! COSTLY FARM PEST
By F. H. Jeter
Rakig'i, April 23 Again this seas
on, growers of snap beans, butter or
lima beans will be faced with the
problem of controlling the Mexican
Bean beetle, said to be one of the
most troublesome of North Carolina's
insect pests.
"This bee-tie feeds on the under
side of the bean leaves and usually
the larvae as well as the adult insect
ttiii ho found feedintr on a plant,"
r U Rrannon. extension ento-
nWist At State College. "When the
infestation is severe, all parts of the
bean plant above the ground are fed
upon and .the plant may be complete
ly destroyed. Injury to cowpeas and
soybeans is also bad but the beetles
rarely feed upon the stems and pods
of these plants."
In controlling the bean beetle, Mr.
Brannon warns growers to keep in
mind that the bean plant is very ten
der and can be easily injured by
strong poisons. He says the right pois
on must be used and it must be ap
plied in exact amounts. The poison
must also reach the under-side of the
leaves.
Where the beans are grown in
small areas as in a garden, five level
tablespoonsful of magnesium arse
nate to three gallons of water makes
a good spray for beetle control. A
mixture for large areas may be pre
pared by using one puond of the
magnesium arsenate to 50 gallons of
water applied at the rate of about
90 to 100 gallons of the mixture to
an acre of beans.
Mr. Brannon recommends that
.treatment begin as soon as thebeet
les appear in the field and if the
insects are numerous, .the treatments
should be repeated every week or
ten days. Often three or four appli
cations are necessary, but, usually,
two careful sprayings are sufficient
for snap beans.
Parents Are Responsible-Usually
ALL TOO OFTEN during the springtime,
summer and early autumn the motorists
finds much to his disgust that the youth of
this community use the streets of Beaufort in
stead of the vacant lots for their baseball
p'aying. It is very difficult at times for one
to drive an automobile through the streets, for
here and there groups of boys numbering
from three to half a hundred are devoting
their entire attention to their favorite sum
mertime game, with little thought of the dan
ger of the approaching cars.
If an automobile accidently runs down and
injures or kills one of these youthful base
ball players, the driver of the vehicle has to
bear the brunt of public opinion and more of
toi that of the court also. While there are
cases where the driver IS really responsible,
this is not usually true. In the majortiy of
these accidents, the blame lies, not upon the
driver of the vehicle or the police of the com
munity, but upon the PARENTS of the injured
youth.
At first thought, this appears to be untrue.
But let us consider: The first instruction of
the child should begin at home. Every par
ent should instill in his child the necessity of
SAFETY while using a public thoroughfare.
Surely you cannot blame a motorist for un-
Pictures in Contrast
THE PROGRESS of the Morehead City port
terminal and the Cape Lookout highhway
project presents two pictures in sharp con
trast. For a specific instance, take the recent esti
mates of the Washington engineers concern
ing the proposed port terminal at Morehead
City. They have estimated that it will take
approximately $3,000,000 to build the proper
jetties out at the Beaufort bar, 300,000 for
the first dredging, and $450,000 for the ter
minal at Morehead City, without giving any
figures concerning how much the constant
dredging will cost to keep the proper depth
I in the channel. The first cost of all of this
will be about $4,000,000.
On the other hand, take the proposed high
i way to Cape Lookout and the development of
j the" Harbor of Refuge. Six hundred thousand
i dollars will be all that is required for the con
j struction of the bridges and causeways from
! Lenoxville to Lookout. For less than half of
what the Morehead City project would cost,
the highway could be constructed to Lookout
p.nd parallel this with a railroad trestle, and
in addition to this build the terminal at the
Harbor of Refuge. And the greatest thing of
all is that the Harbor of Refuge has aminimum
depth of thirty-five feet, and has maintained
this since time immemorial without the bene
fit of a man-made dredge. Moreover, the en
tire merchant marine of the United States
may be comfortably manuevered at one time
in the harbor of Refuge.
We have the Morehead City project on the
one hand, with its first cost of approximately
$4,000,000 and a CONSTANT maintenance
running into big figures; while on the other
hand we have the Cape Lookout Highway,
which will cost in round numbers six hun
dred thousand dollars, and will open up one
of North Carolina's greatest undelevoped re
sources, the Natural Harbor at Cape Lookout.
As to the project that will bring greater
benefit to the people of Carteret County and
Eastern Notrh Carolina, we will leave to the
determination of our readers, whose judgment
we have no reason to question. ,'e have
merely presented here tho facts in t 2 case.
Press Gleaninqs
AMONG THE ODDS AND ENDS
Prance, going in for a housecleaning may discover
tucked away somewhere a forgotten bill from Uncle
Sam. Oakland Tribune.
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1934
STRANGE LANGUAGE
A traffic cop tells us that the reason the campaigns
for police courtesy never last very long is because a
courteous policeman is using a language which the
motorist doesn't understand1. Kansas City Star.
LOVE AND LAUGHTER
The new theory is that we laugh ourselves into love.
Being pretty won't get you anywhere and neithpr will
I being smart. You have to leave them laughing. The
J next trick is ta find a way to laugh yourself out of
love. Chios.ro D;:!y Nev;s.
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