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. 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