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Carteret County News -Times "Carter*! Omtr1! Newifeper" ftDITORIAL PAGE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1952 What It Our Policy? Walter Lippmann in a recent column raised a point which Ibould make our diplomatic planners and formers of foreign policy take stock of current revolts and the possibility of these fe volts recurring or increasing in the future. The western hemisphere has expressed surprise and dismay over the recent violent uprisings in Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, and ?outheast Asia. Lippmann points out that our nation, and ?tate department, are beautifully geared to handle aggression but seem woefully unable to cope with situations where turmoil it caused not from an aggressor advancing over a border, but from revolt within. Those revolts may be in truth, communist inspired, or the Jlations may be asserting, on their own, new nationalistic fervor i did European nations in the 19th century. Regardless the Motive, the United States continues to gapo wonderingly at this j fold draught suddenly blowing open a back door in our foreign policy that, "according to plan," should not have been blown ?pen at all. Our state department has been confidently operating on the hypothesis that the world is unsafe from Red aggression. Therefore, if Iran, Egypt, Indno-China or Tunisia were at fscked, the answer simply would be to throw in troops and light. The plan: if A occurs, B "solution" is pulled out of the tiling cabinet. Somehow, since North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, tke state department has settled itself on a one-track hypothe cs, dangerously assuming that A is the only thing that will liappen. And here we are, faced with increasing troubles in 1 which Russia or Red China has not done at all what we ex pected. To Iran we have recently given 23 million dollars. If dol ing out millions is the answer and win settle the revolts, mil lions are cheaper than blood. Is 23 million a thumb thrust in tte dyke and will the state department effectively work out ttore than emergency methods to deal with future uprisings and revolts, or will there, merely be more tongue-clucking and iead -wagging accompanied by "What should we do?" Should the balance of power become adjusted and military aggression less imminent, the fear that binds small countries together will subside. As it becomes unnecessary for them is remain pawns in the hands of major powers, as it becomes as essential for them to kow-tow to the big boys for protec on, internal troubles may boil to the surface. How, then do We cope with that, for cope with it wc must ? contrary to fen. Robert Taft, a gun fired along the Suez canal has frighten ing repercussions thousands of miles away. Lippmann declares: "It is the duty of military and diplo matic planners to make more than one plan, and never to tie aemselves irrevocably and absolutely to any estimate of what eir opponent is going to do. For once the opponent knows What the planners believe he is going to do, he has the option lo do something else, and thus throw the planner off balance. "In our dealings with the Russians wc disclosc all our plana. This is a great disadvantage for us since they know not only #hat we intend to do but what we expect them to do. There b no way of abolishing this disadvantage. It is inherent in the ftlations between a democracy and a dictatorship. But there are ways of mitigating the disadvantage. ' This, however, re quires an open mind ? first in the planners of policy, then in .fli06e who declare and operate policy, and not least of all in ttosc who report and expound the policy." A Golden Opportunity ? One of the many excellent projects of the State College A tension service is the forthcoming tour of Florida for North Carolina farmers and specialists in agriculture. The purpose of the week-long venture is to observe Florida's highly success ful means of packaging and marketing fruit and vegetable jA'oduce. North Carolina has the climate and long growing season, the fertile soil, and the labor to produce superior lettuce, sweet corn, Irish potatoes, and other crops, but it has been proved time after time that the products that reach the market "look fcg pretty" are the ones that sell. Right next to them may be vegetables, equal if not superior in quality, but they are passed ?ver by the shopper who is attracted by package, colors, and Beat appearance. t The Feb. 17-23 tour, from, Orlando south to Homestead, then tforth again to Tampa, has been arranged by the state college txtension service and the North Carolina department of agri culture with the agriculture and livestock department of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad cooperating. The trip will take the North Carolina travelers through t*getable packing plants, vegetable fields, pre-packaging ?phots, and a vegetable research laboratory. Also scheduled tre visits to the famous citrus areas, cattle ranches and a sugar rjUich and mill. ' The cost to each person making the tour, $125, is very rea sonable. Men actively engaged in farming may say they don't kave the time, others may not have the money at the moment. Jhit an opportunity like this does not come often. Any spe dialist in agriculture would rightfully say a farmer in the truck producing areas of North Carolina cannot afford NOT to take this trip. In the long-run, unless North Carolina changes its way of iarketing products, we will find ourselves crowded out of large metropolitan markets by Florida and California. That happening right at this moment and that is one of the major asons this toiy has been planned. Wide-awake agriculturists will scrape together the money, ly, beg, borrow, or steal the time, and then put into practice ic many valuable things they will learn. Question of Values Restoring an old palace, such as Tryon in New Bern, may ive merit But one sometimes wonders if the hundreds of lousands of dollars that are being spent in restoring a mere Lure of the past could not be put to better use in building luch-needed present-day schools, clearing slum areas, or bet tering in some other manner our existence today? ,1. / And we say this recognizing the value of the tourist dollar. Cut it requires a skilled logician or social scientist to prove to Ss the superior value of a museum as compared with a school ?r better housing. tt. CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carteret Couaty's Newspaper A Mercer of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Est. 1912) end THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Est. 1S3S) Published Tuesdays and Fridays By THE CARTERET PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. | Lockwood Phillips ? Publishers ? Eleanore Dear Phillips Ruth Leckejr Peelinf, Editor Publishing Office At 804 Aiendell ?t., Mortfeead City, N. C. Mall Rates: In Carteret county and adjolnlne eountles. 96 00 one year *,xt m nlwiths*1'?! fi** 17.00 one Member Of > Associated Preas ? Greater Weeklies ? N. C. Press Association Audit Bureau of Circulations Tbe Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to use for repub UottlM^of^Joca| news printed in this newspaper, aa well aa all a" N- c MAYBE ITS PSYCHOLOGY mo^adegh !??&**??... 1 23 CAH-kJfifjJ *?SS? Ul ?K In The Good Old Days V THIRTY-THREE YEARS AGO Frank K. Schmidt arrived from Illinois and had moved to Open Grounds with his family to start farming operations there. The Bank of Newport had been organized and would be open for business in March. County commissioners elected J. H. Wiley keeper of the county home. Mayor C. T. Chadwick of Beau fort had submitted his resignation from the office of mayor. TWENTY-TIVE YEARS AGO Davis Construction corp. of Beau fort had been awarded the contract for a bridge across Boguc sound. W. A. Mace, president of the Atlan tic Bridge corp., announced that it wotfld be a toll bridge. Rep. W. H. Bell introduced a bill to the General Assembly providing for a "Port Commission for Car teret County," for the purpose of developing the port facilities of the county. The grand jury reported that every building they had examined was in good shape, except the jail, which was not strong enough to hold prisoners. TEN YEARS AGO All men between the ages of 20 and 44 would be required to regis ter for the draft. Beaufort town commissioners an nounced that the two-story frame building on the cornerv of Front and Craven streets, which belonged to M. Leslie Davis, must be torn down within 10 days. Beaufort town commissioners granted a right of way to the Beau fort and Morehead railroad com pany to construct a spur across the golf course to the Van Sant proper ty and to the Beaufort Fisheries. Macon Snowden was nominated by Congressman G. A. Bard en to the United States Naval academy. FIVE YEARS AGO A fire in the Morehead City gym, which might have caused untold havoc, was put out before any dam age could be done, by the quick action of Roma Willis, James Law rence and Lawrence Brinson, mem bers of the Morehead City fire de partment who happened to be at tending the basketball game. Miss Arnecia Wiley was appoint ed assistant clerk of superior court to succeed Mrs. Eva Bravaldo. r Our United States By Floyd Cramer President of the National Asso ciation for the Preservation of Free Enterprise, Inc. In Russia the Communists teach the school children that all worth while inventions and discoveries were made by Russians. They also teach the Russian chil dren that communism is the ideal form of government, and that the plain people everywhere, including America, are eagerly waiting a chance to become part of the world-wide communist state ? just as soon as we can overthrow our masters! The Soviet children believe this nonsense because they have no way of knowing otherwise. These ideas were not planted in young minds overnight. The Reds have controlled the Russian schools for two generations, and have been busy rewriting all the school books to make history, science and even the arts fit their political purpose. Can you imagine such a thing occurring in this country? Do you say, of course not? Well, I myself am not too sjire. It won't happen here overnight. But it didn't happen overnight in Russia, either. It was done bit by bit. How many American ?parents of today know what is being taught in the schools that their money pays for? Eve? more important, do parents know what is not being taught? A recent survey of the high schools in one of our biggest cities recently turned up some startling facts. I'll mention only two of them: One, 16 per cent of the stu dents hadn't the foggiest idea why we celebrate the Fourth of July! Two, an even bigger number had never even heard of the Bill of Rights! Obviously we cannot expect the youth o f America to preserve our freedoms if they have never been soundly taught the history and tra ditions of our country. And unless our youth are edu cated in the functions and work ings of govern mait at e*ry level, cannot expect them to become abla citizens. A nation which doesn't know these things is in grave danger of becoming an easy prey. Just recently, the New York Board of Regents, the top educa tional authority in that state, ap proved a short prayer to be said by school children at the start of every school day. Many organizations objected vio lently. Now this is the prayer: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our coun try." No one should object to a sim ple acknowledgment of Almighty God and His power, particularly to day when so many sinister influ ences arc at work campaigning against all religions. TODAY'S BIRTHDAY REAR ADM. HERBERT LA MONT PUGH, born Feb. 5, 1885, on a farm near Batesville. Va. Surgeon O c n eral U. S. Navy, Pugh served the Navy medical corps for 28 years. He in terrupted h i s education at the University o f Virginia to join the Marines in world war I, then became an M.t). in 1623, immediately joining the Nivy medics. He served on ship and on shore throughout the world. Smile a WhiU When the Creator gave out brains, 1 thought he said trains ? and I missed mine. When he gave out good looks, I thought he said books ? and I didn't want any. When he said noses. I thought he said roses ? and I ordered a big red one. Boy, am I a mess. ?The, Uplift. AUTHOR OF THE WEEK By W. G. ROGERS DAPHNE ROOKE was born in 1914 in the Transvaal, the scene of her new novel, "Mittee." The au thor, youngest of six children, went to the Durban Girls' high school, and worked for some years as a clerk in Johannesburg. Her first novel, "A Grove of Fever Trees." published here in 1950, shared first prize in an Afrikander Press contest with Elizabeth Web ster's "Ceremony of Innocence" . . . which is the stiffest kind of competition.? Married in 1937, Mrs. Rooke has one daughter; since 1947 she and her family have been liv ing in a fishing village in Australia. Hollywood Hollywood. ? Fred Allen, the pickle - pusscd, scratchy ? voiced comedian, has been here from New York of late, making a movie. How did he like the work? "It's a headache," groaned Fred. "We've been six days making just one episode in the picture. In the same period God made the world ? and without retakes." He plays the husband of glam orous Ginger Rogers in "We're Not Married." Did he think he was the proper romantic type for such a pleasant assignment? "1 sure {fon t," Allen croaked. "This is a character part for me. I play a young man, which is very difficult with my physical handi caps." Then how did the baggy-cyed, 57 year-old funnyman think he got cast in such a role? "Hollywood," he answered, "is always doing strange things." The radio veteran has been ap pearing on TV in New York once a month. He spoke of the difficul ties: lighting . . scenery limitations ? in contrast with radio, where lis teners build their own settings, in their imagination. Did he think television would kill movies? "No. There's been a great up heaval in the beginning. You can't competc with anything that's free. But eventually radio, tele vision, and pictures will Jiave a place." I asked Allen if he ever thought of moving to Southern California's warmer climate. "No. A place should have more to offer than cli mate. I said years ago .that Cali fornia is a great place to be il you're an orange." A truck was pushing Miss Rog ers' movable dressing room onto the sound stage at this point. Notr ing that it had no penthouse, Allen cracked, "This must be a B pic ture." All through our conversation, Allen was solemn-faced. I asked if he ever laughs in the picture. "Yes, as directed," he said. "By appoint ment?not for any spontaneous reason. There's not much to laugh about if you look it the state of Um world." ON THE HOUSE BY DAVID G. BAJLEUTHER THIS IS THE SEASON when heating plant troubles in northern states and the lack of adequate heat during cold periods in the south prompt householders to look around lor new system*. There are so many to choose from and so little is known about some of them that selecting a type of plant almost calls for a course of study. It used to be that you could pick one of three general types? steam, hot water or warm air ? and let it go at that. Now you're faced with radiant baseboard*, radiant glass panels, radiant walls, floors, ceilings, winter or year-round air conditioning, heat lamps and heat pumps ? among various others. ONE OF THE MOST interesting and least known of the newer de vices is the heat pump. There are about 2,000 now in operation in vari ous parts of North America. The principle originated by pumping heat from the ground below the frost line, where the temperature remains fairly constant in the 50s the year round. Underground water also was used for a source of heat. Now the heat pump has been adapted to use the air? taking heat out of the air even in sub-zero weather! That may sound like a hot one, but it works. Scientists say there's heat in all substances at all temperatures down to *50. 6 degrees below zero. They know that heat always tends to flow from a higher tempera ture to a lower one. So with the heat pump ? like a refrigerator? these wizards absorb heat by evaporating a refrigerant. When this refrigerant is compressed its temperature increases, permitting it to give off heat. YOU CAN FEEL the heat that is removed from the inside of a re frigerator by putting your hand behind that machine. You'll notice that it's warm. If you built a refrigerator in the wall of a house with the open stor age compartment facing outdoors, the refrigerator would pump heat out of the outside air and deliver it into the house. In the summer time, if the refrigerator were turned around, heat would be removed from inside the house and dumped outside. That's the way the heat pump works. On? of its key parts is a long coil filled with a refrigerant. In the winter, the refrigerant is evap orated to extract heat from the outer air, from the ground or from water in a well or cistern. The refrigerant is then compressed to a high tem perature, thereby heating up the air, which in turn is circulated through the house. In the summer the cycle is reversed, heat is removed from the air in the house and exhausted outdoors, or into the ground or well water. Adding air filters, blowers, humidifiers, dehumidifiers, thermostats, and other devices completes the heat pump. It uses no fuel oil, gas or coal, working entirely by electric motive power. SO FAR the heat pump is economically limited pretty much to the luxury house. Average installation cost in new construction runs around $3,400. But the industry is trying hard to Ret that cost down and widen the market. General Electric engineers, who have l?een working on the heat pump since 1934, say the way is now cleared toward a goal where the cost will be no more than that for a conventional air conditioning system. , Operating costs, however, are already within range. Two three-horse power heat pumps were installed in the New World demonstration house constructed recently in St. Louis. The Union Electric co. of that city found they could be operated the year round for $225.60, or $18 80 a month. The Federal Power commission considers Missouri electric lulls about average, neither high or low. The St. Louis house uses both a ground coil pump and an air coil for test purposes. But GE is now concentrating on the air-to-air system be cause ground conditions ? rock, etc.? vary widely and well water and ground water arc not available everywhere. THE HEAT PUMP, however, possibly could bring big changes in architecture. One of the General Electric engineers predicts the day will come soon when "windows will be designed only to sec through, and not as transparent openings with contrivances added to reduce in filtration of air, dirt and insects. There will be little need for screened porches and bulky chimneys. Houses will be more correctly oriented to reduce the effect of winter wind and to obtain the maximum benefit from solar radiation in winter and its exclusion in hot weather." Sou'easter BY CAPTAIN HENRY The Episcopal church looked real nice Friday night with its front floodlighted for the service of in stallation of the Rev. James Dees. Not only Episcopalians, but Bap tists and Methodists paid their re spccts. For those who take stock in Cap'n Groundhog's predictions, he stuck his head out of a hole Satur day in a field on highway 101 and didn't see his shadow, therefore spring is right around the corner. I don't hold with this groundhog stuff. If he sees his shadow, the only thing it proves Is that the sun is out. Beaufort's Thursday fire will provide food for speculation and conversation for many a month to come. Most folks are in a strut over an AP story in an upstate daily which said, "Firemen from Cherry Point, Newport, New Bern and Morehead City helped the Morehead City department control the blaze this afternoon after a three-hour fight." . . . And here Beaufort sits with a fire department better equipped than any other town its size in east ern Carolina. Yikes. What makes feeaufort sort of warm under the collar (and this is not in connection with the fire) is the fact that Morehead City re corder's court has jurisdiction within a five-mile radius. Nobody's ever decided whether that's a five mile radius of Moreheid's town limits or a radius with the city hall as center, or what. Whatever it ii, it'i bound to include outaklrta of Beaufort. (Incorporated munici palities within the five-mile radius are exempt). But to get back to what I started to say, some of our townsfolk have pointed out that Morehead City police could go out Front street extended and make an arrest if they wanted to. It just so happens that Morehead City police have enough to do to keep themselves busy west o( New port river, and furthermore, I have heard from a reliable source that Morehead City police aren't going to worry themselves too much about happenings eaat of Beaufort or on the no-man'a land in between the two town*. But Beaulort believe* a record er's court, in sell-defense, may be a good idea. An airplane crashed in Europe the other day. Aboard ?ere the crew and quite a few cows that were being flown to Italy. Those killed were not to be listed until next of kin had been notified, and the way the story read one was not sure who wa? being referred to ? kin of the crew or kin of the cows. Now if the story had said, "next of kine" everything would have been perfectly clear. O. T. Mundy of A&P has left the meat department and is going to open his own wholesale meat and poultry business in Beaufort. The man who goes through life looking for something soft can often find it right under his hat. ; THEY CAN'T DO IT LONE I I ' 1 HELP PREVEN FOREST FIRES I ? THEY HAKE NEWS . | STAMPS j By 8yd Knatob TO HONOR the third Bolivarian Games held recently at Caracas, Venezuela has issued three new stamps Six Latin American na tions (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama. Peru and Venezuela) par ticipated in these games which in cluded major and minor sporting events? from fencing to chess. De picted on each stamp is a view of the National stadium in Caractt where the major events were held. The 10 centimos is pink, brown and 30-c blue. All three arc for airmail. ? A NEW and unique stamp album has comc to our attention. It is Denhof's Monthly Pictorial New Issue Report. The official name is "Keep Your Album Up to Dale." Each month this booklet, contain ing photographs of all the foreign stamps issued the previous month, will be placed on the market. In this way stamp collectors can ?K out the pictures from this report and paste them in their own albums until they can obtain the . new stamps. The subscription rtttr were announced as $1.50 a year for the album on ungummed paper and $2 a year for the gummed paper. A 12-VALUE set of stamps has been issued by Uruguay to ctfi} memoiafe the centenary of tko noain 01 <ffn Jose Gervasio Artigas, some times called tke "father of tits country." Arti gas led the Oab chos in a Suc cessful revolt against Spanilh rule in Mil. The stamps depict Artigas in vari ous phases of his life. Artigas' fltg and coat of arms plus two profile views of the famed general. Since the centenary date is 1950 it i? evi dent that this set Is quite late hi arriving on the philatelic scene. SPANISH GUINEA has issufd two new stamps to commemorate the International Conference of West Africans. The 50-centavoa orange and the 5-peseta red show a native surveyor at work. An out line map of the West African cout line appears in the background. PORTUGAL has isued a new set of stamps showing various histori cal vehicles in the Carriage Mu seum. There are cigh# stamps of four designs. The values ranfe from the 1-centavo to the 2-escudos 30-c. TO HONOR the Mediterranean Area section of the U. N. Recon struction and Social Services diVi? sion. Turkey has issued four now stamps, reports the New Yock SUmp co. The 15-kurus light green shows a symbol of food production and agriculture. The 20-k light blue depicts a symbol of the Inter national Bank for Reconstruction. The 30-k azure illustrates the Unit ed Nations Building. The 60-k orange pictures the univeriity building in Ankara. REPRESENTATIVES of the American Bible Society hope that a new U. S. commemorative stamp will be issued next year to honor the 100th anniversary of the open ing of Bible House in New York City. Currently, the Bible Society is selling gummed seals similar to Christmas seals issued by the anti tuberculosis campaign. A donor pays whatever he can afford for these poster stamps and the con tributions go to the Bible Society for the printing and distribution of the Bible throughout the world TO HELP the Eva Peron Foun dation fund, Argentina has issued a new BVfni-|iw Ul airmail. De picted on the stamp is a copy of the lam o u s Michelan gelo sculpture of Christ being carried from the cross. The orig inal is in M. Peter s cathedral. The large atanp is 2.45 pesos plus 7.5S peso* deep olive green The additional val ues. naturally, go to the Sv? Peron fund. AUSTRALIA haa issued a new 34 pence red brown stamp show ing a sculptured profile of King George VI. This new adhesive is similar to other Australian iaauea showing the King's profile and re places the 3 Mi pence ultramafMe issued in 1S42. It is clearly notice able. however, in the new stamp that the King appears deflaltfly elder.