EDITORIAL PAGE TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1M>
? A Step Up the Ladder
By recent action of the itite board of education, the aver
age number of pupils per teacher in North Carolina next school
?> term will be 30. The average teacher load last year was 32.
this does not mean that every teacher in North Carolina's pub
lic school system will have no more than 30 pupils, but it does
mean that, proportionately throughout the state, there will be
fewer pupils for each teacher and thereby each pupil will be
enabled to have more of the teacher's busy classroom time.
Reduction of the teacher load, one of the proposals in the
United Forces for Education legislative program for 1953,
was made possible by putting a surplus of $1,721,000 in the
school budget this fiscal year into the 1952-33 budget.
. D. Hiden Ramsey, Asheville, vice-chairman of the state
education board, termed the action "the biggest accomplish
ment of the board this year." A look at statistics will show
bow necessary it was to provide more teachers for our cjul
dren. North Carolina ranks 47th among the states in averJge
teacher load. Only Mississippi, with an average of 35.6 pupils
tier teacher is higher. The average in the entire United States
IS 26.5 pupils per teacher. Although the state board of edu
cation's action is momentous, it is predicted that it will raise
Us but a few notches in the nation-wide picture, perhaps to
42nd place.
Be that as it may, we're climbing. The reduction of the
Uacher load will bring 1,100 new teachers into North Carolina's
classrooms next fall. The headache now is to find them. The
teacher shortage is one of the reasons principals grow grey;
it's up to them to staff their schools.
The budget adopted by the state board for operation of
Schools during 1952-53 shows the tremendous expenditure re
quired. The toUl budget is $102,733,645 with $80,291,098 of
that amount going as salaries to 28,300 teachers. Salaries for
1,549 principals amount to $7,061,431, investment in school
plants $5,505,000, operation of school busses $5,215,348, and
tchool libraries and health programs $992,961.
Although the state removes a major portion of the burden
fjom the counties, each county is still expected to maintain its
Qwn buildings (including all major or minor repairs and im
? provements) and finance their own janitorial and maid service,
Mid clerical help. Carteret county's proposed school budget
Ct $65,500 for 1952-53 is woefully inadequate.
It is the opinion of capital observers that the 1953 general
assembly will approve appropriations for sustaining the 30
ptpil teacher load. The United Forces for Education can now
concentrate on their other four proposals for bettering North
Carolina's public education program: increased salaries for
tjtachers, funds for employing attendance enforcement per
' sonnel, increased appropriations to meet current expenses.
Improve janitor, maid services and to buy additional supplies,
?hd another bond issue to complete the school building pro
gtam.
Dn Court Reform
The occasions we agree with Mr. Victor Meekins, editor
0 f The Coastland Times, Manteo, N. C., are tew and far be
tween, but in an editorial appearing in his paper May 16 he hit
the nail on the bud. With tig editorial, in which $4r. Me^kim,
comments on oar court system and the low state to which It
I has fallen, we wholeheartedly agree and herewith reprint his
I comment entitled "Where Help Must Be Found:"
There is much criticism of our civil courts these days.
The high and. mighty people of the land are distressed about
the lack of respect our people have for our courts. They are
eksting wildly about for scapegoats upon which to pin the
Itilure of the courts. The lawyers are shifting the burden
to our "best citizens" who evade jury "duty. Panicky politi
cal leaders and public officials make impassioned pleas for
? revival of faith and confidence in our courts. They plead
.tkat when respect for law is lost, our civilization is lost.
To our way of thinking, the respect that is essential must
come from reforms in the courts themselves. Reforms will not
OOme from the blundering masses of people who have per
mitted the present evils to be brought upon them. They must
he initiated and encouraged by people able and intelligent, and
versed in the ways of the law. They must come from the men
Whose methods have done most to bring about present condi
tions ? the lawyers themselves. With the superior training
and intellect of the lawyers ? bought and paid for ? the
< Uwless hordes of people who have evaded justice, might never
have destroyed public confidence in our courts.
It is being said every day that the courthouse is the last
?bee to look for justice. All of our people know that justice
ttn be evaded or deferred in most cases by the endless num
ker of delays made possible by legal loopholes any smart law
yer can invoke for his client, if a client has sufficient money
l|t> finance the continued defense of his case.
' It is going to be up to the sterling minority of men in the
fcgal profession to initiate and set up the machinery to re
form our courts in hope of rebuilding confidence of the people.
For even the best of the lawyers have been lax, and never
^lert to prevent the shysters and other scurrilous members
pf the profession from degrading themselves and the courts,
\ and splashing mud upon the profession.
{ No one can blame any citizen for evading jury duty under
fresent conditions. Every juryman called to court is obliged
to waste four-fifths of his time. He knows too, that the possi
ble delays and continuances that will be invoked may waste
It all. He also knows that likely as not, the moat guilty
criminal for whose conviction he may stand, may by appeal or
new trial, walk out of court a bigger man than the officials
working for the commonwealth of the citizens who wish to
tee justice done.
The citizen who evades jury duty is not to blame under
.pur present management of the courts. Clearly, the entire
!< responsibility of cleaning up our courts rests with the legal
.profession, the only people qualified, and whose members
? liave been the prevailing factor in creating today's low estate
occupied by the courts of the land.
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
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Published Tuesdays snd Fridays Br
THE CARTERET PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC.
Lock wood Phillips ? Publishers ? Eleanore Dear Phillip*
Ruth Lackey Peeling, Editor
Publishing Office At
804 Areadeil St. Horehead City, N. C
WHO. THEY EVER GET TO ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION?
Sou'easter
BY CAPTAIN HENKY
The George Taylors h?ve hid
three lady houseguests for the past
couple weeks. George said they
went to the race track the other
night and put $2 on Silly Chatter
and the hound came in four lengths
ahead of all the rest. Asks George,
"How could 1 miss?"
A major roareds at one of our
Carteret soldiers the other day who
had passed him without raising his
hand. Both the soldier and officer
were outside the base.
"Don't they teach you to salute
in your outfit?" roared the officer.
"Yes sir," the private replied.
"Then why didn't you salute?"
"Well, sir," came the reply, "I
didn't want to attract more atten
tion than 1 had to, cause I ain't sup
posed to be out here without a
pass."
During one of the American ad
vances in Germany in the last
months of the second world war, a
sergeant ordered one of the colored
men of his outfit to go into a pill
box and rout out any Germans that
may still be alive in it after an in
tense shelling.
The private bit his tongue, swal
lowed hard and they said huskily,
"Sah'gent, ef you sees three or to'
In The Good Old Days
THIRTY THREE YEARS AGO
Beaufort town commissioners in
creased the tax rate from 90 to 75
cents and added 75 cents to the
poll Uxes, making the general tax
rate $1.95 and the poll tax $5.50.
Graham W. Duncan was appoint
ed town attorney by the Beaufort
town commissioners.
Beaufort's stock of automobiles
had been increased since Dr. C. S.
Maxwell and Mr. W. P. Smith had
purchased two handsome seven
passenger cars.
TWENTY ? FIVE YEARS AGO
John L: Livers of Charlottesville,
Va? offered to buy Beaufort's elec
tric light and water plant for J100
000. He had also offered to buy
Morehead City's plant, and planned
on connecting both plants with a
high power tranmjjssion line if the
sale went through.
The Beaufort - Harkers Island
ferry was opened July I. Capt. Lu
men come runnin' out of dat hole,
don't shoot de fust one."
And now on a more serious note:
vacant lots and vacant minds us
usally become dumping grounds
for rubbish.
ther Yeomans was operating a bus
line on the island in connection
with the ferry.
A union picnic of Beaufort Sun
day schools was held at Harkers
Island. More than 800 attended.
TEN YEARS AGO
Tommy Potter was named best
camper at the 4-H camp at White
Lake.
The First Citizens' Bank of Beau
fort would be open July 4 to any
one wishing to buy war bonds. It
would be closed for all other busi
ness.
Delfido Cordova of Morehead City
was appointed to assist the Cart
eret county health department in
malaria control.
FIVE YEARS AGO
G. T. Windell of Union county
was apointed principal of the More
head City school.
The North Carolina Press assoc
iation was holding its annual con
vention at Atlantic Beach.
Morehead City had adopted a
zoning law, dividing the town into
three sections, residential, busi
ness and industrial.
Hard Work Brought Political
Spotlight on Estes Kefauver
By John A. Harris
Nashville, Tenn. (AP) ?Estes
Kefauver, a lanky Tennessee farm
boy with a knack for handshaking,
is making a determined effort to
trade his Senate teat for a bigger
chair? the one in the White House.
Kefauver has a record of going
after things be wants with ser
iousness and energy.
Carey Estes Kefauver, who was
born in Madison ville July 26, 1903,
comes from pioneer Tennessee
stock. His father? Robert Cook Ke
fauver? ia a retired farmer and
hardware merchant. His mother,
who died four years ago, was a
member of the Estes family of
West Tenneaaee.
The Kefauvera for generations
had been ministers, physicians and
farmers. Estes is the first lawyer.
Kefauver worked in the Ken
tucky coal fields the summer after
he finished high school and that
fall ke entered the University of
1)ie muscular youth ? who stood
6 feet 3 and weighed more than
200 ? earned the nickname of "Old
Ironsides" aa a member of the
football team. He also edited the
student newspaper, won four let
ters In track, and waa president of
the sty dent body in his senior
year.
After . graduation, Kefauver
taught mathematics and coached
at Hot Springs, Ark., high school
for one yew- The young Tennea
ieean then entered Yale Law
School, waiting tables and tiring
furnaces to help defray his Ex
penses. He waa graduated cum
In 1827, Kefauver returned to hia
native Tennessee to bang out hia
ahingle in Chattanooga where be
ohufced desk space in the libttry
of a law firm, and earned his rent
by running errands.
The young attorney entered hia
first political race.Ja 1MB. He ran
for the state *
tested by a
He
tar
T*
SamD.
position He was subsequently re
elected four times.
Being elected to Congress "was
my greatest thrill," Kefauver said
later. "It was my first chance to
get the levels where world affairs
are decided."
In- the 1948 Senate race, Kefau
ver stepped into the national spot
light when he defeated a candidate
supported by E. H. Crump, Mem
phis political leader. Kefauver won
the Democratic senatorial nomina
tion? tantamount to election in
Tennessee by a 40,000-vote mar
gin. It was in that race that Kefau
ver first adopted the coonskin cap
as his campaign symbol.
Kefauver became familiar
throughout the nation in 1950 when
bearings of the Senate crime inves
tigating committee, of which he
was chairman, were televiaed.
In Congress, Ketauver promoted
strengthening amendments to the
Clayton Anti-Trust Act and sup
ported part of the civil rights pro
gram, although he was opposed to
FEPC.
He was joint author of a book on
modernizing Congressional opera
tions, "A Twentieth Century Con
gress." His second book, "Crime in
America," was published after the
crime investigating committee end
ed its work.
In 193S, Kefauver was married to
Nancy Piggott, the daughter of a
Scottish shipbuilder. The Kefau
vcrs have four children: Linda, 10;
David, 6; Diane Cary, 4, and Gail
Ester, the baby.
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ON THE HOUSE
W DAVID a BAUUTHEK
TO THE LADIES the interior appearance o{ a bouse is very im
portant.
Flowers or vine* may conceal an exterior wall crack that worries a
man. A closed cellar door can bide many household sins of omission.
And curtains and drapes so far toward making ill-fitting windows a
forgotten chore for father.
But plaster cracks, creaking floors, blistered paint or wallpaper,
sticking doors and rusty hardware are social handicap* that ought to be
corrected before the next meeting of the Ladies Aid.
So it's up to you as a happy home owner to take an outsider's view
of the inside of your house if you want to retain your happy title.
A good time to make this inspection is when you get home from
an extended vacation, or a visit to the bright new house of a friend.
Sure it seems good to be home again. There's no place like home. It
feels like an old shoe ? but does it look like one, too?
Only you can make this inspection. So further hints may be out of
order. We'll pass the wisecracks for the plaster cracks.
THESE ARE one of the most common occurences in any well regu
lated household. They are usually
caused by movement. All houses
move with expansion and contrac
tion, vibration and settlement.
Yours is no different from your
neighbors'. ,
Cracks from movement are classi
fied as structural cracks. They are
large, well defined and extend all
the way through to the lath. Minor
cracks are map cracks, fine hair
lines known as fire-cracks and craz
ing. These ordinarily result from
poor workmanship and Inferior qual
ity of plaster.
You'll find structural cracks in
corners, over doorways and win
dows, or running diagonally down a C
wall. They re usually nothing to worry about. In a new house, it's a
good idea to let them go for several months until settlement is com
pleted ? a year, perhaps.
But of course such things torture your wife. When she notices one
and tells you the builder was a fox, it's a good idea to make a small
pencil mark at the end of the crack. Continue this until the crack has
stopped spreading.
When you and/or your wife are ready to have it fixed, tap the sur
rounding plaster lightly to see that it is not loose. Loose plaster has to
be removed. Use a knife to cut out the edges of the crack, but make
the cut wider close to the lath than at the surface. A wedge shaped
opening like that will let the patch lock itself into place.
GET A GOOD GRADE of patching plaster at your hardware store.
This is better than using pure plaster-of paris, because it hardens more
slowly. If you use plaster-of-paris without a hardening retarder, you'll
find your time limited to about 10 minutes. Glue dissolved in the mix
ing water will slow it and so will a half-and-half mixture of water and
vinegar. But commercial patching plaster is simpler.
Mix it with clean watsr in a clean container. Dampen the old plaster
along the crack to prevent it from absorbing too much of the moisture
in your patching mix.
Using a small diamond-shaped trowel or putty knife, fill the crack
to about an eighth of an inch of the surface. As the patch dries it will
shrink a little. Then apply more patching plaster to fill and smooth
it off even with the surface. For a professional job, keep the whole thing
damp for about 24 hours. This will prevent chalkiness.
Map or fire cracks do not penetrate as deeply as structural cracks.
When they are fine, you can fill them by brushing on a mixture of three
parts boiled linseed oil and one part turpentine. When they are slightly
wider, yoil Mn fill them with white lead thinned with turps to a thin
paste. Force this paste in with a cloth, wipe off the surplus and when
It is dry sand it very lightly.
BULGING PLASTER means it is loose. After removing the loose
part, check the lath to see that it has not pulled away from the studs or
joists. If it has, fasten it To patch such places, use the same pro
cedure as in patching structural cracks. Large patches, however, may
call for the work of an expert plasterer if you want a neat job.
Sandpapering plaster to make it smooth is not a good idea. It may
remove the natural glaze and leave a porous surface that will absorb
more paint than the rest of the wall and consequently show the patch. If
you trowel it smooth and do a> careful job, the patch will never be notice
able after paint or paper are applied.
Our United States
By Floyd Cramer
President of the National Asso
ciation for the PieaerTaflon of
Free Enterprise, Inc.
In their anxiety to keep the
country from going socialist, an
alarming number of well-meaning
people are undermining free enter
prise from within. The tragic thing
is that these people aren't aware
of what they are doing. They are
acting, many of them, from good
motives; yet all the while they are
weakening the system they are
trying to defend.
So today I'd like to take three
minutes of your time to point out
three kinds of thinking which, to
my mind, are doing free enterprise
more harm than good.
First, there are the people who
are insisting that we take "all out"
measues of one kind or another.
These are the kind who argue that
if you won't do one thing, you will
have to do its exact opposite.
Nothing could be farther from
the truth. There is always a sen
sible middle way between ex
tremes. In Germany, Italy and Ja
pan before the outbreak of World
War II, there was a swing to the
extreme Right, known aa Fascism.
TODAY'S
BIRTHDAY ?
WILLIAM WYLER, bora J?ly 1
1M2, at Mulhouse, Alsace, son of a
dry goods dealer. Motion pictare
producer, Wy- ?
ler won "Os- <
cut" for his
work with "Mr*. ,
Miniver" ? n d J
"The Best Years
of Our
In IS yean, he
directed 12
films that won
Academy a
wards nr nom
1 nations for actor*. Hit mother's
cousin, Carl T^emmlf, broufbt
Wylar.to the U. S. and fave htm
his first Job as a $15* week office
hOjr.
These nation! set out to conquer
the world. And where are they to
day? All are third or fourth rate
powers.
And the nations which swung all
the other way to the left, and em
braced Communism, are not a bit
better off than their Fascist cous
ins are. They find themselves cut
off from the free world and doom
ed to regimentation, thought con
trol, and the terrorism of secret po
lice.
All of these nations are striking
examples of what h* penes to peo
ples who fly to extremes. Amercia
doesn't have to go "one way or the
other". There's a wonderful, mid
dle ground which we can find with
patience and courage and faith.
Free Enterprise Is also under
minded by people who place too
much emphaaii on materialism.
Freedom of thought and action, the
dignity of mankind, the security of
life and property do not depend on
materialism.
This fact is one that the British
nation forgot or overlooked. For a
hundred years its Empire grew and
grew on a basis of sheer material
ism. Today, that Empire is crumbl
ing.
In their haste to achieve material
gains, the Empire Builders lost
sight of the freedom of the individ
ual man. So today, Britain is losing
its material gains, boging down to
its own brand of socialism and feel
ing the cruel pinch of continuing
shortages.
Thirdly, Free Enterprise is not
helped in any way by placing too
much emphasis on political group
ings and re-groupings. Let the ad
vocates of political factionalism
learn a lesson from the French.
That unfortunate nation is now so
split by its dozens of political par
ties, that the difficulty of estab
lishing and maintaining a govern
ment is simply staggering. Con
stant splintering and re-grouping
have brought the French almost to
the point ct actual paralysis.
U^WjMtogJNteatre to preserve^
I" STAMPS |
By 8yd Krwfak
THE NEXT STAMP on Um U. 8.
agenda will be a ipecial 3-cent
adhesive to commemorate the 25th
anniverury of the ML Ruahnwre
National Memorial. It will be plac
ed on first day sale at Keystone, 8.
D., Aug 11.
The main design of the stamps
shows a scene of Mt. Rushmore,
featuring the sculptured heads of
ueorge wasn- t
ington, Thom
a s Jefferson,
Theodore Roose
velt and Abra
h a m Lincoln.
The figures of a
woman and a
child viewing
the scene are in
the lower right
corner. The wo
man is pointing
tnu/irflc tho li
sculptures. A signboard in the low
er right corner directly in front
of the views reads "Mount Rush
more National Memorial, 1927 -
1952 " The wording "Black Hills
South Dakota" is at the lower left.
Stamp collectors desiring first
day cancellations of this stamp
may send not more than 10 address
ed envelopes to the Postmaster,
Rapid City, S. D., where the pre
liminary work will be done. Tie
covers will be forwarded to Key
stone, S. D? (or cancellation. All
money orders should be made pay
able to the Postmaster, Rapid City,
S. D.
An enclosure of medium weight
should be placed in each envelope
and the flap either sealed or turn
ed in. The outside envelope should
be endorsed "First Day Covert."
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SPAIN has issued a set of two
new stamps commemorating tke
35th Internationl Eucharistte Con
gress held recently in Barcelona.
The 90-centimos red brown shows
a nun. The 1-peseta blue green de
picts a religious scene. More than
15,000 pilgrims from the U. S.,
headed by Cardinal Spellman, ' at
tended this religious meeting.
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SWITZERLAND has issued a
set of five "Pro Patria" stamps, re
ports the New York Stamp Co.
Four of the stamps are the ihitial
issue of a series showing varioua
lakes and water courses in Switzer
land. The fifth stamp, a large-siied
one, honors the flOOth an
of Glarus and Zug coming into the
Swiss Confederation. The 10<en
times-plus-10 green depicts the
Doubes River, 20 c-plui-10 magenta
.shows the Lake of SL Gotthard, 30
cplus-10 brown shows the Moesa
River, 40x-plus-10 blue, the Lake
of Marjelen.
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TO COMMEMORATE the cen
tenary of the first postage stamp
of Modena and Parma, former
duchies in northern Italy, two new
stamps have been issued by Italy.
Both stamps bear reproductions of
the first adbesives. The 25-lire it
black and red-brown? The 60-lire is
dark and light blue. At the left
border is the Bell Tower of Modena
Cathedral. In the right border ia
the Bell Tower of Parma CathedraL
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SIX NEW and beautifully colored
stamps have been issued by the
Belgian Con to.
Each stamp de
picts a different
flower found in
that area plus
the Latin name
of the species.
The 25-centimes
illustrates the
Littonia, SO - e
Angraecum, 1
franc Hibiscus, 1.50-fr Schiroglos
sum, 3 fr Coitus and 6.50-fr Thon
ingla.
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IN HONOR ol Marshal Tito's
birthday, Yugoslavia has issued
thre new stamps. The 28-dinar red
brown shows a profile portrait of
Tito. The 15-d and 904 green de
pict him in full-length Napoleonic
poses.
A NEW eight value set has been
issued by Syria. The BO eenttaes
brown, 9 piastre green, 2.90 p blue
and 10 p red shows a view of
Hama. The 12.90 p grey, 19 p
violet-red, 29 p blue and 100 p
olive depict a scene of Datnas Pal
ace of Justice.
STAMP NOTES . Iran hai to
sued its first set of semi-poataia
commemorating Saadi, the andMt
poet of Persia . . . Iceland has
issued two new airmails showing
planes in flight over mounttteoos
areas . . . Famed stamp collector
Hans Lagerloeff of We?ba*ku, N.
J., died recently. His collection
was insured for the fabulous
amount of *1,900,000.