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Carteret County News-Times A Merger of I The Beaufort News (est. 1912) A The Twin City Times (eat. 1936) EDITORIAL PAGE FRIDAY. FFIIRIARY 24, 195* la the Realm ol Better Music \ ^ Anyone who heard The North Carolina Little Symphony last week could not fail to be impressed. If they were displeased with the type of music presented, saying it was too high brow or .too low brow, they could not, in fairness, say that Dr. Benjamin Swatin and his musicians are not doing a unique task in attempting to bring good music to the people. Rait of the average person are tuned day after day to juke box numbers, tho catching tune, the easily-remembered rhythm. . No effort is put forth to see melody, rhythm or beauty in musical classics. And it cannot be denied, classical music must be under stood before it can be appreciated. A person who speaks only English can listen to the words of a man spe:king French. The Englishman may stand in awe of the numerous sounds coining from the Frenchman's mouth, but he doesn't know whether the Frenchman is reciting a poem of rare beauty or recounting the antics of his great aunt's pet cat. And thus it is with music. A person whose ears are not tuned to know when the woodwinds are playing, whether the solo part is being taken by a clarinet or violin, or where the melody is, cannot possibly be entertained by a symphony orchestra. Dr. Swalin introduced the audience to many of the instru ments during the concert here last week. And we miss our guess if we say he was "talking down" to very few. His background talks on the various numbers gnve the compositions more meaning and we believe that no person with average intelligence coulc nave spent less than an enjoyable evening if he was in Beaufort school auditorium the night of the concert. It is our sincere hope that the Little Symphony will return here next year. It will, if we make it possible. There has been talk of obtaining another type of musical entertainment, such as a series of concerts, but we owe allegiance first to our state orches tra. Mrs. Bayard Taylor, Mrs. T. T. Potter, Mrs. B. F. Royal and the others who worked to make the Little Symphony appearance possible, deserve many thanks from all of us. When we say * "worked" we mean just that. Convincing many parents (who want their children to hear the free afternoon concert) that they should buy tickets to the evening concert and thereby support the Little Symphony, is indeed a problem. The planning, promotion and other details, added to the membership selling job. amounts to a big task. The free concerts for school children given by the North Carolina Symphony throughout the state are unique. According to Dr. Swalin this is done nowhere else in the world. In a recent address at Campbell college, the conductor said ' he is committed to a life long crusade to raise the standards of public taste in music. He declared that "vulgar and banal music is too often supported by the poor taste of our leaders," and the musical education of the youth of America is being affected ad versely by the juke-box. ? 'II the pubic U?#te needs elevatiilg," said Dr. Swalin, "then we i should do that* fcfe is rfst a t|ue?t for higher fralues, and Kopd music is one way It Ret closer to God." Raleigh oundup By Eula Nixon Greenwood RIGHT ALONG NOW . . . WilUs Smith, Raleigh attorney, former Speaker of the House in the Legis laturc, and president of the board or trustees of Duke University should become a candidate for the U. S. Senate right along now. The talk around Raleigh last week was that the powers that be were tossing ill varieties of jobs at him from justice of the peace on up to ambassador if he would bsck up a little, settle down to a quiet old age, ind let the rest of the world roll by. RUN! . . . List Sunday light os a week igo over the Dixie FM Net work IS North Carolina radio sta tions Bouncing lloh Thompson, editor of the High Point Enter prise, having given up on Agricul ture Commissioner L. Y. Ballon tine's miking the rice, moved on Smith with barrels of bouquets and then asked people wanting Mm to run to write Smith, phone Smith, see Smith, and wire Smith. Since then they have been doing ill four. It was just more than i normal man could stand .... maybe. 82 . . . Smith was a Scott man. He is partner in an enterprise with State Democratic Chairman Ever ett Jordan. A Supreme Court va cancy may occur here during Gov , ernor Scott's administrate >, and Smith would like to get the ap pointment. If he hasn't innounc ed, or. doesn't announce, put that down as. one of the reasons. An other: He has a nice cottage on I ho ocean at Morehcad, goes down ev ery weekend or* so summer or win ter Willis Smith is a young 62, a native of Pasquotank County, for mer president of the American | Bar associatibn, and wss an offic ial observer at the Nuremberg war crimes trials in 194A. He looks terrible these days, having plowed a furrow in Atlantic Beach sands with beak and cheek while scam pering around his cottage three wteks ago. Put him down as a conservative liberal. JACKHAMMER . Don't be too much surprised if North Caroliia drys bring one of their own back home to appear before the Gen eral Assembly here a year from now. Dr. Billy Graham, Charlotte born evangelist, aet them afire ? the liquor boys, that i?? In the Georgia Legislature last week. This 31-year old giant, who has already preached to more people than the average minister does in a lifetime, galloped through those Georgians like a dog in high rye. In reporting on the incident, Time Magazine says in its current issue: "Admirers . . . swear his voire can penetrate a csse-harden ed conscience like a jackhammer going through a pile of rock." DRAM . He appeared before a joint session of the Legislature Euid asked for an old-fashioned revival among the state's sinners, and within two hours the Senate cutebet cemrrr iews-toos Carteret County*? Newspaper A Merger Of I HE BEAUFORT NEWS (Eat. 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Eat. 1936T Published Tuesdays and Fridays By THE CARTERET PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC lxx-kwood PhllUp. ? Publishers ? Eleanor* Dear Phillips Auth Leckey Peeling, Executive Editor s Publishing Offices At 904 Arendell St.. Morehead City. N. C 120 Craven Street, Beaufort. N. C. Mall Rates: In Carteret. Craven, Pamlico, Hyde, and Onslow Counties $5.00 ?w year; 93 00 six months; fl.Ys three m oaths ; $100 one month Outside tna above named counties $9.00 one year; $3.90 six months; $800 three months; 11.00 one month. Member Of AMoetoUd Pra ? GroUr M<*kM?a ? N. C Pr<M AjaocUUon \ Audit Bur??u u( ClrcMl?tk?n Entered u SmoM Otm Matter at MonkMd City. N. C ? JJadar Art ot uitSi i. llrn. . . , * T? iOmliM P nm U witnlwl nOuilvd/ to uae for republication of ""WSxSl ".??'j'A'iTgyy.h ? w?" *p ??"? ??????-? atignia ot repu di ica aon otwrwiN i easi mu. _ COOLING OFF PERIOD had passed a bill to make the State bone-dry. The North Carolina boy turned down an invitation to speak to the House members. They pigeonholed the dry bill, and a few days later the Legislature closed its session. Says Time: "Had the bill reached the floor, and had Dr Billy Graham put in an appear ance. legislators thought it might well have passed. Many a Georgia wet lifted his thanksgiving dram shakily at so close a call." SHELBY AGAIN . . . Selieve it or not, Gov. Scott is looking longingly in the direction of Shelby, from which be hopes will cometh some strength. Yes, it, is O. Max Gard ner, jr., he has in mind. It is re garded as a foregone conclusion that he will be in the State Senate and that he will go along with the more liberal element, with which he seems to be casting his immedi ate future. Jle Wi|| be failed on very soon to do a speech or two in ?behalf of Dr. Frank Graham; and his mother may also be found on the Grtham platform. Mean time. Ki ^folks Sen. Clyde R. Hoey will keep the even tenor of hit conservative way. That's N. C. at its best. Versatility, thy name ik Shelby. NOTES . . . The Young Democrats group in this State is rapidly be ing transformed into a Dr. Frank Graham organization ... At the recent rally held in Greensborc Graham buttons in University of North Carolina colors were a^l over the place . . . and two othei* simi lar rallies are planned before the Primary . . . which is all right it the Young Demo's want it that way, but heretofore they did their big rallying for the Democratic Party after the Primary. A lot of people who hear Com mentator Bob Thompson have been asking why he refers to National Committeeman Jonathan Daniels as "Dice" Daniels. Well, Thomp son and Daniels, along with Thom as Wolfe and some other wheels, it STITCI n TIME Do it now! Insurance pro tects you against losses from fire, theft and acci dent, yet costs you but a few pennies a day. Call us today . . . PHONE M 3821 FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE JokaLCnuap Insurance 4k Raal Estate Ul Areadell Street WORE HEAD CITY ~ were in school together, or sep arately, at Carolina where Daniels became very adept with the fly ing dominoes. The classmates named his "Dice," but the name never stuck except in the mind of Bob Thompson; and he rolls dem bones now virtually every Synday night on his broadcast. Robert R. Reynolds of Asheville, now running for the U. S. Senate against Dr. Frank Graham, spoke to the Spanish-American war vets meeting in that land of the sky a | few days ago. After the speech j was over Hob strode into the lobby j of the Vanderbilt Hotel, old folks crowding around him, shaking his ! hand. Said one old lady, tears I rolling down her wrinkled face: j "Thank God for a man like you. Senator." . . . Get it? Again, J that's wlut Kerr Scott had in I mind wbe/i he advised Sen. Gra i ham to run like he was being shot I at . One of Eastern North I Carolina's largest papers last week ran. on Monday, a two-column pho-.? ' to and long article on Reynolds ! . and Wednesday followed with i a three-column picture of Reyn I olds and his geven?year-old daugb | tfcr and another long article . . . md the feature editorial of the! ; week ... as long as your arm and wide as a handsaw . . . was devoted to Our Bob . . . But two weeks .ago Walter Winchell roasted Rob ert ... It is estimated that two more blasts from Winchell will j assure his nomination ... Ho hum. INTENTIONS . . . Although they were woefully, -underpaid, cussed and discussed, and frequently rid ?Jei hard and put up wet, it does | begin to look as if most of these gentlemen who were here repre senting their counties and their districts during the 1949 Legisla ture will attempt to come again ? as time draws nearer the Primary. ! So far, the only woman who has ; signified her intentions to be a [ candidate is Mrs. Josie R. Carr of I Chowan county. J. II. McMullan, ! i brother of Attorney General Hair- ; ry McMullan, says he isn't inter ested in returning now that plans ! are moving along to put the bridge i i across the Chowan River between j Windsor and Edenton in good cdn- i dition. That was his main idea in | running the last time. Mecklen ! burg had the feminine side of the ! ledger cornered in 1949. but will not have that honor this session. ] Jim Vogler, who ran for State I Treasurer in 1948. will be a can- 1 didate as iilso will be Robert I. as- I siter, jr., also of Chajiotte. The j Governor may have a hard time j with both men. 1 AND OTHERS . . Some of the j others expected to be candidates are Harry Vahder Linden of Ca tawba; Clifton Blue of Moore: Roy Taylor of Buncombe: B. T. Falls, jr., of Cleveland; J. V. Whitfield a Scott champion last time, of Pen ! <ler; L. A. Martin, friend of the j drys, in Davidson; Gordon Maddrey | of Hertford; John B. Regan and ! Wayland Floyd of Robeson; Scott j Foe Kerr Craig Ramsey, of Row i an; C. S. Bunn of Nash; Scott ! Friend John Umstead of Orunge; ! Scott Friend Fred Royster of | Vance; Scott Foe Frank Taylor of Wayne; Scott Fo(* R. L.( Harris of I | Person; Scott Foe Arch Allen and I ! Scott Friend J. C. Little of. Wake. ! j SENATE . . . There will be some ?sharp changes in the State Senate, I r "? Letter to the Ediler Rotary Club Presided} Comments on Editorial To the Editor: Your comment in your issue of February J7 on the neglected ap pearance of the Kotary sign on highway 70 just west of the Beau fort draw-bridge was much to the point. That you should take note of this is just another evidence of your civic-mindedness. Several months ago the Rotary but indications are that Gov. Scott will have just as hard time on the north side of the Capitol as be fore. The problem facing the 1951 General Asserybly Raise taxes or i cut appropriations, the House | < favoring the former, the Senate , i the latter* Thus you have a four months' session already Jn the making. ? I Club dqpded to have thin .sign cor- j rected arid re-painted. It is sint ply a case of procrastination. Something will bo done shortly Than* you for the "reminder." Sincerely yours, N. Thus. Ennett, M. D. President Beaufort Rotary Club. Smile Awhile HABITUAL MISSES Grandpa: "1 miss the old cus pidor since it's gone." Grandma: "You missed it before that's why it's gone." CARIO? (AP) ? The Egyptian government is winning more and more farmers to its campaign to cut production of totton. which often has been in surplus, and raise more rice to hold Egypt's new-won position as a big rice ex porter. WORLD TELEPHONE SERVICE TELLS A LOT ONE TELEPHONE TO EVERY 188 PEOPLE ^ ONE TELEPHONE TO EVERY 10.8 PEOPLE ONE TELEPHONE TO EVERY 4.5 PEOPLE CAROLINA TELEPHONE and TELEGRAPH GO. It's a BUICK - it s. a RIVIERA? AND IT'S SEDAN PRICED ! mwmmmmmmmmmmmrnmm No, there's no mistake. This is the Riviera, that super-smart new body type introduced last year by Buick that combines the swift racy look of a convertible with steel-top permanence. And it's Riviera on a Super chassis-; which means not only all the good solid Buick features like soft coil springs, torque-tube drive, and Dynaflow Drive* as optional equipment, but the lift and life of Buick's very newest power plant, the F-263. But the climax is spelled out oh the price tags. For this stellar.beauty actually lists at ?Standard on Roadmaut**. optional at m*m coot on Santa and Smcial model*. a dollar less than our regular Super 4-door Sedan with the same equipment. For sedan prices you can step out in the very last word in automotive styling. For sedan prices you can have long, sleek, convertible lines? plus a stout steel top and all-weather snugness. You'll drive a car that opens wide for its full length, without even a doorpost to interfere? a car that gives a horizon sweeping view to die rear through Buick developed wrap-around rear windows. Naturally, these beauties are going to move fast. Production is not without its limits. YOU* PWC? 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