A Christmas Wish
Dear Santa Claus:
We have some special requests for gifts this year. We
would like to ask your very special consideration of the things
we list.
We think we've been pretty good this year. Oh, there have
been bad moments, but a lot of good ones. All in all, we like
believe that we can ask for these gifts with a clear con
science.
The things we've listed should go into the stockings of all
the people in Carteret county. Not all must be slipped into
the stocking right now but you might leave a note pinned to
the side promising them for sometime during the year.
Right at the top of the list, Santa, we'd like to put "Peace
On Earth."
yfe know that such a request is a mighty big order, but
we want that more than anything else. We're so very tired
-tof spending human life in an attempt to settle quarrels among
men.
We'd like to see our sons come home, weary, tired and
broken though they may be. We'd like them to have an op
portunity to spend all the rest of their Christmas seasons in
their homes, rather than in a dirty, muddy, foreign field.
We'd like to know that we could live in peace with our
neighbors, whether they live next door or across the seas.
To accomplish this wish, Santa, maybe we had better have
a prescription for learning about understanding, a formula
to tell us how to learn to live with men and women whose
customs, languages, morals, and way of life differs from our
jwd.
Perhaps you should give us a book on how to learn to live
without greed, without pride in having the biggest and the
best of everything, without fear that we might have to sacri
fice something of our own that the common good might be
benefited.
Yes, those are the things we want most.
There are some other things, Santa, which we want very
much too.
We'd like an assurance that we will have a prosperous year.
iWe ask that we have enough to keep a decent home, enough
'to feed our children well, to clothe our people, and a little
left over for the luxuries we all need once in a while.
To accomplish this, we'll need several bottles of pills. There
hould be one to keep us healthy, so that we may do our jobs,
land do them well.
There should be another to assure us that there will be a
good crop for the farmers to harvest, a well-stocked ocean to
lupply our fisherman.
There should be another to insure that labor troubles will
be here to plague us. Maybe this will take a special pre
option for the men who manage our business firms, another
For the men whose labor they call necessary. The pills will
ontain an ingredient called fairness, understanding and the
ibility to sec both sides of a question*
We'd like to ask for better schools, for better clubs, for
itter churches, for better businesses.
To be able to supply these, Mr. Claus, perhaps you had
t leave some little packages designed to help bring them
ibout.
The packages should contain determination that each citi
in will support his schools by willingly paying higher taxes,
f showing an interest in his child's teacher, by taking an ac
tive part in the PTA, and by supporting academic freedom.
In the stocking also there should be a package filled with
etermination to actively support the church of the faith to
hich each person subscribes. There would be determination
ior each to attend church every week and to support that
Ihurch not only by his presence but py his gifts and knowledge.
Somewhere In the Mocking sfrtTuId be a package packed
fith determination that each person should support the civic
lubs of his community, helping to find betterment for the area
which he lives.
As another special request, St. Nick, we'd like to ask for a
t of the future. We'd like determination to begin working to
ird that gift now. It's a gift designed to help us go forward.
?~e call it progress. Give us strength and knowledge to
;inue to find ways of alleviating the misery of men in
'sical illness. Give us a book, or even a little pamphlet,
hich will enable us to make changes where they need be, re
lining still that of the old which is good.
jl Another of these special gifts shouldn't be so difficult. It
ould be just in the form of a reminder that we need to make
fe happy for those around us. Remind us, with just a note
srhaps, that while we may have little, each of us has much to
j*e . . . in generosity, kindness and sympathy for our fellow
len. The little note should indicate that we can't sit around
Biting for others to make the gestures ... we have to take;
M initiative.
We feel a little greedy about asking for other things, but
lere is one more gift we want to receive this year.
We'd like to ask for freedom from fear. Somehow, we've
len into the habit recently of being afraid . . afraid that
;re will be a depression, afraid that there will be a full-scale
r, afraid that the government has spent us into economic
?Klin from which we'll never recover. We've sort of gotten
Hie habit of fear. And a gift which would be of real value
Hould be some suggestions on just how to get rid of this habit
Hid go back to the old feeling of security and optimism.
IL Well, Santa, that just about completes the list. There are
?Other things we'd like to have but we know there will be
another Christmas. Perhaps next year we can add others to
^ list without feeling that we have imposed on you.
We know that you're mighty busy right now but there's
Abe more little suggestion we would like to make. The way we
nerve Christmas nowadays calls for wrapping all the gifts
flven in pretty paper, tied with pretty ribbon. Somehow
(feat seems to give them added luster. So. if you could steal
t minute, or maybe you'd better turn that job over to Mrs.
Glaus, why don't you sprinkle a little magic dust over these
fffts and tie them with hope and we can guarantee that the
{tcipients will be pleased.
And for all these gifts, Santa, we'll make a promise in re
Iturn. We promise, on our honor, to do our best to treasure
E|^ch and every gift throughout the year. They'll be kept
? fright and shining so that when it is time for you to return
|,Sext year, they won't have to be replaced.
Thanks for your generosity, Santa. We can say that now
)^?cause we know you'll be glad to stuff these gifts into our
Christmas stocking. We feel that way because we know that
with these gifts, you'll find a brighter county, a brighter world
v visit come next Christmas.
? il
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so welcome: but so fleetoffooh
Hollywood
Hollywood ? "Aboqt and Be
yond" purports to depict the head
aches, heartaches and enormous
preparation and responsibility of
the pilot who dropped the A
bomb on Hiroshima. It's another
of those in-between movies ? con
siderable to recommend it, several
things against it. with the advan
tages here slightly in the lead.
For one thing Robert Taylor,
as the pilot. Col. Paul Tibbets, is
as fine a figure of an airman as
ever donned a uniform and oxygen
mask. Further, he gives a strong,
convicing performance.
We see him handpicked from
routine European bombing mis
sions for *he super-secret assign
ment. He's placed in charge of
training a large number of other
cream-of-the-crop airmen at Wend
over Field, Utah. The thing builds
up to the foreseeable but still ex
alting climax ? the fateful mission
from Tinian to Hiroshima.
On the negative side are Tib
bets' personal crises, which M-G-M
has overstressed to stretch the film
into an uncomfortable 122 minutes.
These consist chiefly of agonizing
airport reunions and partings with
his beautiful wife (Eleanor Par
ker).
When he finally brings her to
Wendover Field, he seems un
necessarily stiffnecked and stuffy
in shushing her inquiries about his
work. Finally Eleanor blows her
top and demands of the security
officer to know. This crisis looks
like a story-conference phony.
Any guy in real life (in a couple
as lovey as this one) would have
simply taken his wife into his arms
and said, "Now, look, Honey. I'm
on a secret assignment for Uncle
Sam. I have orders not to discuss
it with anybody, not even you, and
please don't ask me." And that
would have been that. But then,
M-G-M wouldn't have had 122 min
utes of film.
"My Pal Ous" makes a promising
start. A surly, big-shot manufac
turer (Richard Widmark) has a
rebellious, destructive son (gravel
voiced 6-year-old George Winslow).
He puts the child in Joanne Dru's
progressive day-school. The boy
progresses, but the therapy is even
more helpful to his embittered old
man, who falls in love with the
teacher.
Having loon exhauated this cute
idea, the aeripters let It decline
into a dreary court battle between
Widmark and his wife (Audrey
Totter), who turns up after a long
absence. The acting is good,
though Miss Dru's noble smile gets
a little tiring. The Winalow boy
steals all his scenes.
Word* to Remember
Money may be the husk of many
things, but not the kernel. It brings
you food, but not appetite, medi
cine. but not health; acquaintance,
but not friends; servanta, but not
loyalty; days of joy, but not peace
or happiness. ? Henrik Ibsen.
TODAY'S
BIRTHDAY
ALBERT ARNOLD GORE, born
Dec. 26, 1907, on a firm near
Granville, Tenn. New U. S. senator
from Tennessee
for the 8 3rd
Congress, Gore
defeated t h e
veteran Ken
neth McKelltr
in the p r i
maries. He had
served in the
house of repre
sentatives since
1938, when he
was elected at 31. He has been on
the house banking and appropria
tions committees. Formerly he
taught school and practiced law.
Smile a While
Said the litle girl: "What is the
mortar board 1 hear mentioned so
often?"
"I'll try to explain," said the
teacher, "although it is a slightly
complicated matter. A mortar
board carried by a builder often
has cement on top, and worn by
a college professor often has con
crete underneath."
The patient in the waiting room
of the doctor's office had passed
a weary half-hour. Finally he mov
ed over to another forlorn waiter.
"How do you do?" the first one
asked.
"So-so." was the pessimistic an
swer "I'm achin' from neuritis."
"Glad to meet you," rejoined
the first, extending a hand; "I'm
Mendelbaum from Chicago."
Raleigh Roundup
i BV JAMES POU BAILEY
TOLERANCE, ETC. . . . While
the drys are driving hard for an
opportunity to leave to a statewide
vote the decision as to whether
North Carolina will have legal sale
of alcohol, the Temperance and
Tolerance association is working
hard against prohibition. This
group recently set up an organiza
tion for this state.
At the meeting held to set up the
North Carolina chapter, two min
isters were listed as being present :
the Rev. R. P. Sieving, pastor of
the Holy Cross Lutheran church of
Newton and the Rev. A. P. Cham
bliss, rector of Grace Episcopal
church in Morganton.
Mrs. Ida M. Thurber, 80-year-old
(more or less) Nebraska lady and
a former W.C.T.U. official, seem*
to be the moving spirit in the Tem
perance and Tolerance association.
She was the moving spirit at the
North Carolina meeting, which at
tracted folks from Iredell, Burke,
Caldwell and Catawba counties. It
was held in Hickory, and among
the laymen present were H. L. Rid
dle, jr., Roy Waycaster, Mrs. Neva
Smith, and Hunter Martin.
IN THE FIGHT ... The story
goes that Mrs. Ida M. Thurber at
one time was a ranking member of
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union. After the war, in 1946, her
friends wanted to get WCTU going
again. She said nothing doing as
Landmark in History
fj 1775. TKe OLD NORTH CHURCH, Bo?ton,Mkg?acKu8ett? tl'
Barton's historic Old North Church, built In 1723, is the oldest existing church building in the city. The
church, actually Christ church, gets its more common name (torn its location in the heart of Boston's North
End. Many of the great names in New England history worshipped at this church. In its tower were
hung the lanterns which sent Paul Revere on his ride to warn Concord and Lexington of the approach of
British troops on the night of April 16, 177$. Protestant Episcopal church services are still held occasion
ally in the church. AP Newsfeaturea
far as she was concerned as prohi
bition is "contrary to the laws and
God. and man's nature."
So she established the T and T
assn National dues are $2 per
member.
If an attempt is made to Ret a
statewide liquor referendum
through the legislature, you may
see Mrs. fhurber's Temperance
and Tolerance association in the
thick of the fight.
Maybe it was organized just in
time.
PAUSE . . . Have you noticed
any awkward pause in negotiations
for a successor to Carolina Coach
Carl Snavely?
This could mean that Assistant
Coach George Barclay, the universi
ty's first All-American is no longer
in the running for the first place
job.
Our information is that the head
man at the university will come
from Virginia or Mississippi. Defi
nitely not from Maryland.
MOVING . . . Tom Bost, ion of
the Raleigh news veteran who died
last year, is scheduled to move from
Wake Forest to Carolina pretty
soon now. We hear that Tom and
Mrs. Bost will both be employed
at the university.
Bost has been handling sports
publicity for Wake Forest college
since right after the end of World
War II.
Before the war. Tom did publi
city work at Carolina.
TRAILER OFFICE? ... If Sen.
Willis Smith follows one or two
suggestions being made here and
there, he will bccomc a new kind
of senator.
In an effoh to bring Sen.
Smith's office closer to the people
? particularly to those people who
can never get to Washington ? it
is being suggested that the senator
purchase and equip as an office a
trailer which would move out into
the rural areas of the state.
While Sen. Willis Smith is at
tending to his business in Wash
ington. his administrative assist
ant. Jesse Helms, would be moving
about the state, spending two days
at Oxford, a day or two at Elkin,
two dayi at North Wilkesboro,
three days in the Mooresville
Statesville area, and so on about
the state. At each stop, he would
receive callers who would bring
their troubles, requests, etc., and
these would be recorded and sent
each evening to Washington.
Now you might regard such a
plan as quite unusual; and so it is.
But it would come closest to the
ideal of senatorial representation:
a man at home to see the folks and
another in Washington to attend to
their wishes.
CAPITOL TREE ... The ro
tunda of the state capitol here for
two weeks now has smelted like a
pint forest after a summer shower.
That balsam, turpentine odor stems
from the Christmas tree resting
squarely in the middle of the
foyer ? "first one I ever sec there
and I been working here 32 years,"
said a janitor last, week.
Base of the tree is nearly as big
around as your body The huge
washtub they set it in is crumpled
like a bursted bag by the low-hang
ing limbs. As usual, there is a
beautiful tree out on the lawn, put
there by the city, but this time
there had to be a "rabbit tree."
And why a rabbit tree? Becauce
the tree came from Kerr Scott'a
farm and "the Governor says he's
shot many a rabbit under that very
tree," said the janitor.
No possums?
CAMERA NEWS
B? IRVING DESFOR
SO SANTA BROUGHT you a new camera! Or was it a new flashgun
for the camera you have? Or maybe a home developing and printing
outfit? Naturally, there are thrills io store for you and you can't wait
to get started.
Before you start burning up film, popping off bulbs and sloshing
solutions . . . relax . . . take time to read the instructions and know
what you're supposed to do. Study your camera, find out what it can
do and, equally important, what it can not do. And to conserve your
enthusiasm as well as your film, let's go over a few of the basic pointers.
NO MATTER what camera is used, make a conscious effort to hold
it steady at the instant of pressing the button. Camera wobble seems to
be the commonest fault of the average picture taker everywhere. To
overcome it, brace your elbows tightly against your sides and pull the
camera solidly against your chest, or against your cheek if held at eye
level. At the moment of shooting, squeeze the one linger against the
release ? don't jerk the whole hand.
Don't cut people's heads off on close-ups. Remember the view-finder
is higher than the lens, in most cases, so leave breathing space above
AdUi
Concession
Defeat
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Front page baby requires, in this case, sharp focus on background
for effect. This is a Rood way to dale baby's picture in terms of a na
tional event. Shot with one peanut flashbulb at 1/100 second at flti.
when shooting at six feet or closer. Inexpensive, fixed focus cameras
are not geared to shoot closer than that anyway. So if you want a
nice, big head of the baby get a special close-up portrait lens attachment.
Don't tip the camera to get all of a person, a building or a scenic
view in. Unintentional distorted perspective, generally, is unsatisfactory.
It is better to hold the camera level and perhaps step back further to
include all of a wanted building or tree.
WATCH THE BACKGROUND. In normal vision our eyes see a per*
son and focus on that plane selectively, sometimes without being aware
of the background. Our camera lens, in reducing stereo vision to the
flat dimensions of a picture, sees the same person, and also everything
behind him. with equal clarity. That accounts for the lamp posts and
tree branches sprouting from people's heads or just a general back
ground disorder that interferes with the main theme of our picture.
We must use a conscious second sight to overcome this fault. After
a first look at what we're shooting, take a second look at what's behind
it. If the baskground is likely to interest, shift the shooting angle or
move the subject. In almost all cases, a simple background is best.
WITH SOME CAMERAS it is possible to shoot so that the back
ground can be made deliberately out of focus. This is done by focussing
sharply on the subject in the foreground and shooting with the lens
wide open.
For instance, in taking a picture of a girl outdoors with an f4.5
camera, the subject would be placed about 8 feet away. The background
of trees is about 25 or 30 feet behind her. In normal sunshiny shooting,
the exposure might be 1/50 second with the lens at f 11. Everything
would be nice and sharp including the disturbing elements of the foliage.
It would make a less distracting picture of the girl if the lens were
left wide open at f4.5 or closed down only one stop to f5.6. To prevent
over-exposure there would have to be a compensation in the time.
Shoot at l/500th or l/250th second under the same light conditions.
In this case the girl would be sharp but the background would be soft,
a unified mass that said "foliage" pleasantly, without competing for eye
attention.
Sometimes unfavorable light conditions force us to shoot with the
lens opened wide and we arc pleasantly suprised when the result is a
superior picture. In the case cited above, if the day were hazy instead of
sunny, or if the picture were shot in deep shade, the exposure would be
l/50th or l/25th at f4.5. Because the background is subdued, since it's
out of focus, the portrait gains in impact.
Sour camera deserves a minimum amount of care to continue its
serviceable career. It should be in a ease when not in use to avoid col
lecting dust. The lens shouldn't be fingered and shou>d be clcaned with
a lens tissue, not your hanky. It shouldn't be kept in a damp place for
moisture will spoil the leather trim and gum up the workinu parts. Use
a soft brush to dust off the camera, inside and out, at intervals.
Washington
By Frank Carey
(For lane Eads)
Washington? Taxi drivers, truck
drivers and traveling salesmen may
be endangering their ability to be
come fathers by long hours spent
in hot. .gassy automobiles, a Bos
ton doctor says.
Prolonged driving under such
conditions may affect their ability
to produce normal sperm. Dr. Fred
A. Simmons said in a report to the
Southern Medical pssociation. But
Simmons had this good news for
any men so affected and for child
less couples in general:
Appartnt infertility in husbands
or wives ? whether due to an oc
cupational or some other reason
is corrective In more cases than
is commonly believed, even by
some doctors.
Dr. Simmons estimates that 25
to 30 per cent of childless couples
may possibly become happy buyers
of baasinets as a result of available
treatments for infertility in one
partner or the other. And he says
he believes "common sense" avoid
ance of occupational hazards and
habits, such aa excessive use of al
cohol and tobacco, can sometimes
accomplish the trick without re
course to drugs or surgical treat
ments.
Declaiing that various jobs en
tailing exposure to excessive heat
and to metallic and other fumes
may be hazardous with respect to
lowering a man's ability to produce
sperm, the doctor said that taxi
drivers, truck drivers and traveling
salesmen spend long hours behind
the wheel in a hot car with the
heat of the motor rising toward
them, and they breathe fumes con
taining ethyl gas and sometimes
l*ad or carbon monoxide.
Simmons added that foundry-men,
plumbers, printers and workers in
the painting and other industries
where contact with metallic fumes
is common might also be candidates
for lowered fertility.
He said even a complete lack
of sperm is sometimes correctible
by chemical or operative treat
ments known to doctors ? and oc
casionally by attention to the gen
eral health of the patient without
recourse to any jpecific medicine.
Women who are apparently unable
to have children can often be pre
pared for motherhood by non-sur
gical correction of some defect in
the reproductive system, he added.
Simmons urged family doctors
not to consider the situation hope
less for childless couples until
every available test and procedure
is carried out. He suggested that
physicians, before giving up such
a case, seek the advice and coun
sel of experts on sterility.