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Carteret County News -Times "Ortarat C?uV? Nmptjtr" EDITORIAL PAGE FBIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1M3 Where Is It? Several months ago the state highway commission an Bounced that it was going to build a new bridge from Atlantic to Cedar Island. The necessary permission was granted by the Army engineers and residents of the island began to look for ward to the new bridge. They are still looking. Everyone, including representatives of the highway com mission. admits that a new bridge is badly needed. The pres ent bridge is inadequate and actually dangerous. Although the population of Cedar Island is not great, the bridge does bear heavy traffic. Island children must use it to go to school in Atlantic. Fishermen send their catch to At lantic by trucks which must use the bridge. The condition of the bridge is such that loaded school buses ire not allowed to cross it. When the buses reach the bridge, they unload and the children walk across the bridge. The empty bus then proceeds across and picks up the children. This procedure is followed because authorities fear that the bridge will not beer the weight of the bus. The same condition applies to the fish trucks. Rather than risk losing a loaded truck on the bridge, many fishermen now send their fish to Atlantic by boat. Until a new bridge is erected, these inconveniences, and others, will continue to plague those who must travel between Cedar Island and the mainland. Residents of the island do not insist that the state build a completely new bridge. There have been proposals that a used bridge be moved to the scene and these proposals are satisfactory to the islanders. If the highway commissioners have any definite plans for the Cedar Island bridge, they are keeping them a secret. Not even local representatives of the commission know what is going to be done about the bridge. The people of Cedar Island would like to be let in on the secret if there is going to be a bridge. A definite date for work to begin on it will at least satisfy them that they have not been forgotten. The highway c&nmission should be willing to set a date for the beginning of construction. Something to be Proud of There's an old saying that the people who live in a place never know as much about it as the visitors. But there's no excuse for Carteret countians not knowing about their home ?tate. The county library in Beaufort has a fine collection of books on its "North Carolina shelf," which our rititens would do well to read. Just about every aspect of Carolina life and history is cov ered in the three shelves of books ? from poetry to the hard dry facts found in the North Carolina almanac. The collection includes both non-fiction ad fiction, the latter including all the works of Thomas Wolfe, as well as the historical novels of Inglis Fletcher. Mrs. Paul Woods rd, county librarian, keeps an eye open when she reads the book reviews, as she does regularly, for new book* on this region, audi as the recent Trenury at North Carolina Folklore. Anyone who reads the book* on these shelves can't help but have a greater appreciation of his home state, and he might learn a great deal that he didn't know before. Most of us know that the Wrights made their world changing flight at Kitty Hawk, but perhaps not so many are aware that North Carolina's was the first state university in the United States. And there is much else to learn about Carolina. The North Carolina shelf is only part of the library's service to the community. And we believe Carteret county can be proud of its library, and should support it, not only with money, but with appreciation of what it does. High Priced Power The New York Public Service commission has granted a rate increase for the Jamestown. N.Y., municipal power plant. This increase averaged more than 18 per cent, and the com mission said that it was the second highest ever granted to any utility. In its decision, the commission observed that the James town plant is exempt from the New York gross earnings tax. come real estate taxes, unemployment insurance and social security taxes ? and the federal income tax, which absorbs 52 per cent of the entire net income of private utilities. The commission then said, "All the benefits which flow from either partial or complete tax exemption have been dis sipated and the residents of Jamestown must pay higher elec tric rates in all classifications than the neighboring customers of a privately owned utility which bears its allotted share of the burden of supporting government." In still another section of the decision, the commission dis cussed the cost of electric power generally. Here it said, "No product or service so intimately affecting the lives of so many people and so directly Influencing the coat of so many products has been more resistant to the inflationary trend of our times than electricity. It is only recently, due mainly to (he impact of heavily increased corporate taxation, that the trend toward lower rates for electricity has been halted." This decision deserves the widest possible reading. It thoroughly blasts the idea that the way to get "cheap power" Is through socialisation ? very often socialized power is the most expensive of all. Study after study of the enormously ?ostly federal power systems has shown that alleged rate ad vantages are entirely due to tax subsidies and tax-freedom ? and that if these systems were taxed on the same basis as com parable private operations their rates would be as high or higher. Socialism, in the power businest or any other business, is a tremendously costly phony ? and, worst of all, it is a de stroyer of liberty at the same time. CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carteret County's Newspaper A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Eat. 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Eat. 1936) Published Tuesdays and Friday* By THE CARTERET PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. Lockwood Phillips ? Publishers ? Eleanore Dear Phillips Publishing Office At 504 Arendell St, Morehead City, N. C. # Mall Rates: In Carteret county and adjoining counties. $6.00 one year. *3.50 six months. $1.25 one month; elsewhere $7.00 one year. $4. 0(X six months. $1.90 one month. Member Of Associated Preaa ? Greater Weeklies ? N. C. Preaa Association Audit Bureau of Circulations The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to use for republi cation of local news printed In this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. ? - TO,0- c*- H c lll'l II II - CLEAN SWEEP rrrmwnm Y ' /i/i QH OUT OF 46 RED LEADERS trieo HAVE. BEEN convicted Raleigh Roundup ( By K1DD BREWER MORE WASTE . . . Last week we mentioned the waste resulting from money being spent to con serve precious topsoil while at the same time this soil, heavy with plant food, is used to build our highways. This is only one way in which the taxpayers' money is be ing diverted from its intended pur pose. Our state highway department spends an enormous amount of money each year ? and a lot of it is wasted. The majority of our state em ployees are hard-working and hon est, but Washington has no monop oly on graft and corruption in gov ernment. It is high time for us to take a look in our own closets be fore more money is swept down the drift. INVESTIGATION NEEDED . . . The sooner the legislature provides machinery for a wholesale investi gation of the N.C. highway depart ment, the better it will be for the taxpayer. The member of this legislature who introduces such legislation will be doing his state a noble service. It should be done. It must be done. Once an investi gation committee is established to receive and check on information furnished it, the facts will be amaz ing! GIFTS . . . The public was shack ed to learn that employees and of ficial* of the Federal government had accepted expensive gifU'and entertainment from those desiring to do business with Uncle Sam. Do you think such activity is confined to the national capital? Then you should stand at the receiving door of our own state highway depart ment here in Raleigh the week pre ceding Christmas and watch the carts of hams and other more ex pensive looking gifts being deliver ed to the employees and officials. Imagine the same procedure be ing followed at the ten division headquarters throughout the state and you begin to get some idea of what we are talking about. Do you think for one minute all those gifts are from Aunt Emma? Or do you believe they come from people who expect to make the re cipient say "Uncle" when the chips are down? A CASE . . . Believe me, a case of whiskey to a two-hundred-dollar a-month highway inspector is a small amount when compared to the fact that the inspector has the full authority to approve. let us say. Material B instead of Material A as meeting the specifications on a road costing the state a million dollars to build. Said case of whiskey might well cost the state? taxpayers, that is, ? $90,000 and, my friends, that is expensive whiskey. FULL SCALE ... Let us repeat If and when a full scale investiga tion is made, hundreds and hun dreds of shady instances occurring throughout this fair state of ours will come to light In the mean while, any information furnished this column will be useful in bring ing about a thorough investigation. The source will, of course, be kept confidential. I am sure' the majority of our public aervants are above reproach and will, therefore, welcome the investigation the same as you and I. It is long overdue. TimNMKE . . . While on the subject of roads and investigations, it is time also for the legislature to find out what has happened since it pasaed the necessary legislation at its, last session to pernjit the construction of a 200-million dollar toil road stretching across the ' Piedmont from the Charlotte-Gas tonia area to Mount Airy. Any investigation should include a very close look at the manner of procedure followed so far in con nection with the proposed road. The public is entitled to know the facts. NEW DAY . . . Remember the good old days when a political cam paign, once finished, was wrapped up and ill feelings melted in the warm sunlight of party harmony? Remember 1936 when Dr. Ralph McDonald was finally knocked out in that famous long count? But came the fall of 1936 ? despite the fact that Dr. Ralph was confined to a Black Mountain sanitorium with TB ? the Democrats pulled to - gtithei behind FDR and Clyde R. Hoey? Used to be that, when the de cisions were in, the final whistle had blown, and the crowds had de parted, the game was over. Well, they were the good old days. Now we must go into extra in nings, overtimes, and what have you. Although the Olive-Umstead campaign was concluded eight months ago, it still proceeds apace. A stink bomb set to explode in Smithfield on the day of Gov. Bill Umstead's inauguration, and thus to take the news play away from same, is now sputtering merrily away. Now that the matter has been opened again, many a day may go by ere it is closed again. The home team must next have its turn at bat; and so marches in close har mony North Carolina's grand old Democratic party. THE SEARCH . . . Some time ago LI. Gov. Luther Hodges re ceived from 10-year-old Beamon Thomas a letter with reference to his being appointed a state senate page. However, Beamon didn't In clude his home address. The letter was postmarked Raleigh. Hodges is an exceedingly busy man, but Beamon will be proud to learn that Lieutenant Governor Hodges went to the trouble to check through several sources, in cluding the rolls of the city schools of Raleigh, to secure Beamon's ad dress in order that he might write the lad a personal letter. The little incident makes me feel proud, too ? proud of Lt. Gov. Luther Hodges. DEFENSE DIRECTOR . . . W. F. (Bill) Bailey, former mayor of High Point, was the first appoint ment made by Governor Umstead. This was a compliment to Bill Bailey. It was also a compliment to Governor Umstead; and for tunate for the state that Bill Bailey would serve in the capacity of di rector of our civil defense program. I was present recently when Bailey was offered an opportunity in private business which would have paid him double the salary he will receive in his new job. It just happens that Bailey is, and always has been, interested in public service. If we are not moving in th? di rection of war, then we are spend ing a lot of money foolishly for armaments. Bill Bailey sent up the civil defense program for High Point. He was a colonel in the last war. He realized that the next war will be fought by civilians as well as by the military. He thus knows the necessity for being alert and prepared for all emergencies. Bill Bailey is thinking of the protection of our children and his. If war comes, you and I will be glad Bill Bailey was more Inter ested in his children and ours than in the amount of salary he would make. If Governor Bill can gat a Bill TODAY'S BIRTHDAY MAX THEILER, born Jan. 30, 1899, in Pretoria, South Africa, son of a noted Swiss veterinary scien IUI. A Ills 1VJ1 Nobel Prize win ner in medicine was honored for his research which led to the development of two vaccines against yellow fever. Dr. Theil er started his work in 1922 in Harvard s Tropical Mcdicine de partment and continued it since 1930 at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. Miles or Leagues? The roadsign just west of More head City, where highway 70 turns off* says "Beaufort, 2 miles." But according to our speedometer, it's 4 Vt miles from that spot to the be ginning of Ann Street. What did they measure with? Washington By Carl Hartman (For Juc Kad?) Washington ? Politicians used to wax eloquent over the crimes and virtues of the tariff, but you can ask a good many politicians about "import quotas" without getting much of an answer. They are a means of protecting domestic products even more dras tic than the tariff. Economists, who like to give things the dullest possible names, are responsible for the term Sometimes they also use "quantitative restrictions," or "Q. R.s" for short. Tariffs are designed to protect the home market for domestic pro ducers by taxing imports. But for eign costs can sometimes be cut so low that the imported product is cheaper than the domestic even with the tariff. Then the protective tariff doesn't protect. A Q.R. just stops imports at any price when they reach a certain level. The idea is simpler and probably older than the tariff. Way back in the 17th and 18th centuries the British "navigation acts" sharply limited imports of goods from the colonies and were among the grie vances listed in the Declaration of Independence. The countries of continental Eu rope started using import quotas because they conserved foreign currency, which was often in short supply. In fact, nations whose ex ports furnish them with insuffic ient exchange to buy the goods they want abroad often impose quotas indirectly by limiting the dollars or other scarce monies that importers are permitted to use. The governments also can reap a profit on such transactions by de manding high prices in local cur rency for the foreign exchange that importers must have. This type of juggling was a favorite with Fi nance Minister Hjalmar Schacht, who helped stave off the bank ruptcy so often predicted for Hit ler's Germany. The U. S. did not need to con serve foreign currency, but it did want to increase the incomes of its farmers. Laws were enacted in the early 1930s to maintain the price of many farm products ? sugar, cotton, wheat and others. To make sure they could be sold at home for more than the world market prices, the amount permitted to enter the country was strictly limited. For example, during the 1950-51 season wheat quotas were set at 795,000 bushels for Canada and 2.000 for Argentina. After Korea a boom in raw ma terial prices resulted. Nations scrambled to stock up. They bought more than they could pay for, and their reserves of foreign currency melted away. Result: On went most of the quotas again. Here and There BY r. C. SALISBURY THE COASTER The Coaster Publishing Co. R. T. Wade, Editor and Publisher Mrs. Julia Bell and little grand daughter. Ola Bell Headen spent Monday in Beaufort William Howerton of Norfolk, Va., is visiting relatives and friends in the city. J. B. Blades of New Bern is hav ing a new cottage erected near the Atlantic hotel. J. W. Alford returned to this city from Kenly, where he visited his father. The U.S.S. Endeavor stopped in port a short while Tuesday on its way to Charleston. S. C. Mrs. M. N. Hales returned to Goldsboro after a few days visit at the home of Mrs. A. C. Davis. Misses Bertha Morton, Kathleen Herbert and Mildred Wallace (pent Friday in New Bern. Mrs. Graham Duncan of Beau fort was in the city Thursday the guest of Mrs. Henry Ormond. General Lawrence W. Young of Raleigh and Captain Don E. Scott of Graham, were in the city Mon day. Frank Corey is very ill at the home of Frank Harker, where he has been confined for several days. Theodore R. Webb left Monday for Goldsboro where he will spend several days before returning home. M. S. Lee and daughter Esther left Tuesday for New Bern where they will spend several days visit ing friends. J. E. Woodland of Crisfield, Md? was in the city last week looking Bailey to fill all of his appoint ments, then the people of North Carolina should feel fortunate in deed. NEW OUTLETS ... We appre ciate the fine reception the column is receiving. Among the fine papers which have started running Round up since we took over are the fol lowing: Cherokee Scout in Mur phy: McDowell News, Marion; Cleveland Times. Shelby; Farmville Enterprise, Farmville; Courier Times, Roxboro; Smithfietd Herald, Smithfield: News-Journal, Raeford; The Enterprise, Williaiafton; Franklin Times, Louisburg; and Mocksvillc Enterprise, Mocksvllle. This brings to S3 the total num ber of papers getting this col umn. Their combined circulation: 161,000. Hop* to see you right here next wmL . .... . , .*? . after his interests here preparatory to opening up the crab season. U. S. G. Bell, drawkeeper for the Norfolk Southern railroad at Pier No. 1 returned from New Bern on Wednesday after having been summoned to appear there on ac count of the suit pending in the U. S. court against the railroad company. The revival meetings being held at the Methodist Episcopal church will continue through this week. These meetings have proved very intcreshing and many professions have been made. Rev. R. L. Maness, the pastor, extends a cordial invi tation to all who may come. The "Y.P." club met last Friday night with Miss Alice Edwards. The evening was an enjoyable one. Many interesting games were play ed. Those present were: Misses Janice and Lucile Leary, Marjorie and Fannie Wade, Ruby and Ruth Davis, Marie Jackson, and Messrs. Milton Jackson, George Walter, Foy Edwards and Ralph Hauser. Lodge Note* Corce Tribe No. 113 Imp'd O.R.M., meets every Thursday night in Red Men's Hall at 7 o'clock. Willie M. Willis, Sachem; Eugene Wade. C of R. Fidelity Lodge No. 10, C.B.H., meets every Wednesday night at 7 o'clock in Red Men's Hall. O. B. Willis, president; B. W. Wells, sec retary. Atlantic Camp No. 188 Woodmen of the World, meets every Friday night at 7 o'clock in Odd Fellows Hall. Neal Davis, C.C., D. H. Mans field, clerk. Ocean Lodge No. 405 A.F.tA.M. Regular communication second and fourth Tuesday nights at 7 o'clock in Odd Fellows Hall. Benj. F. Royal, W.M., Geo. W. Dill, secre tary. Unity Lodge No. 1S? I.O.O.F., meets every Monday night at 6 o'clock in Odd Fellows Hall. J. E. Mears, N.G.G., C. S. Piner, secre tary. . The man who gets mad at what the paper says about him should re turn thanks three times a day for what the newspaper knows about him but suppresses. T. S. Smith died at his home near Newport Wednesday night follow ing several weeks sickness and burial was Thursday in the New port cemetery. The funeral aervices were conducted by Rev. Walter Roberta. CAMERA NEWS BY IRVING DB8FOS THE LATEST REPORT on "Speedlight," the modem electronic light source, is contained in a 10-page review by L. Jules Levitan in the Feb ruary issue of U. S. Camera magazine. Photographers everywhere need reminders, every so often, as to what electronic flash is, its capabilities and its dangers. The report also includes a picture gallery of all present ly available outfits and a directory of manufacturers. Basically, speedlight it the production of an electric spark in a gas filled tube causing an instantaneous, brilliant light. The tubes can be used again and again, for thousands of flashes, unlike flashbulbs which are used once then thrown away. The duration of the speedlight is usual ly somewhere between 1/1, 000th to 1/ 10,000th of a second depending on the type unit. This action-stopping characteristic of electronic flash is its most familiar trademark. Fundamentally, a speedlight unit consists of two sections: the gas filled tube in which the flash is produced and a power pack which fur nishes the electrical energy. The power pack must take available electric current, build it up to a high voltage, store it in a capacitor until it's needed then discharge it in an instantaneous flash. It may take from 2 to 20 seconds to build up a sufficient charge in the capacitor but it takes only the duration of the flash ? from 1/1, 000th to 1/10, 000th of a second? to unload it PHOTOGRAPHERS have a choice of units depending on the avail ability of A.C. (alternating current). Where it is always handy, as in a home or studio, then the electric plug-in type is most desirable. When you take pictures and can't depend on having convenient A.C. electric outlets at hand, then it is necessary to operate from a portable battery ? I? iiimiiiiii i' Baby's quick movements can be caught by high speed electronic flash. Josef Schneider of New York was arpong the first of the well known professionals to switch to studio speedlights. Here he used three speedlights to get this appealing picture. unit. Thirdly, there are combination outfits which can be used inter changeably on battery or A.C. If you take pictures in an area whose power supply is only D.C. (direct current) then you have no choice. You must use a battery outfit. There are many advantages in speedlight portraiture. Naturally there's no question of discomfort due to hot, glaring floodlights. The instantaneous flash is particularly valuable in photographing children and In catching fleeting, spontaneous expressions. The light has a softer quality that gives better rendition to facial tones. In color, too, it has advantages. The soft quality is ideal for that medium. Electronic flash is also consistent in intensity, duration and color temperature for each flash tube so acceptable results can be de pended on after preliminary tests have been made. BESIDES THE ADVANTAGES, we mustn't overlook the disadvan tages. The initial cost of a speedlight unit is quite high but it may be more economical in the long run for anyone who uses a great number of flash bulbs. Its bulk and weight are at a disadvantage when compared to a flashgun. The principal criticism has to do with its danger potential and the greater possibility of something going wrong because it is a more complicated piece of equipment. If one part fails, the entire unit may not function. In such a case, it is more difficult to diagnose the trou ble and make a repair on replacement than with a flashbulb battery case. If something does go wrong, it is not advisable to go poking around for the source of trouble unless you're experienced in electronics or know exactly what you are doing. Some units incorporate a safety switch to discharge the high voltage when the cover of the power pack is opened. But it's better left for a qualified repairman to tinker with. The point is that all the units on the market arc safe to handle if used normally and with common sense, like the common electric switches around the house. In everyday living, we are aware it would be dangerous to remove the switch cover and handle the wires with the current on. A speedlight power pack deserves equal respect, at the least. Time to Think By O. C. Cooke, M. D. I'm not sure about this business of retirement. I say business, because it is a business. A business which more and more men are looking forward to. A business which more and more determines men's choice of life's work. Now as never before people are asking the question be fore deciding on a career or posi tion, When and under what condi tions may I retire? It is one of the factors employers are becoming aware of as a necessity in the in ducement of good personnel in their businesses. The government has became conscious of the im portance of such a provision in the remunerative measures for em ployment. Yet there are many fac tors which should be weighed and properly arranged for in any plan of retirement. In the first place, does every man know that he will want to retire at any given age, or term of service? Does he know that he will be hap pier doing nothing after a certain predetermined age than to be gain fully employed for many more wears? Should it be compulsory regardless of a mans' wishes or capacity to perform a competent service? What per cent of the retired people provide an avocation with which they can keep occupied and happy In their retirement? What per cent of retirements provide am ple funds for the minimum stand ard of living plus funds for possible sickness and other unexpected emergencies? How much will the retirement badget shrink 11 the present trend of inflation contin ues? \ Of course there are questions arising on the other side ot the fence. For instance, how does the employer .determine how much a man earns over and above his wages which should be applied to retirement pension? Not knowing how long a man will live, how do or should employers determine the length of time they should provide pensions. It stands to reason that a business of any kind should know what its future obligations will be. Then there are so many types of occupations and professions in which the pensions must be self provided. In these cases the indi vidual must answer all these ques tions and he should begin early in his earning years to give the matter serious attention. Too few people give the subject any attention while others never have the oppor tunity. Not having experienced a retire ment by choice, I cannot answer these questions, but what worries me is what to do when one is forced to retire because of his health, be fore he has adequately prepared for it and before his desire to work has subsided. In the first place, let no one de pend on social security. That is one thing whose sole function is to reduce one's self respect to nothing. It seems to me that social and economic patterns should be es tablished whereby a man could con tinue his worth to the world in a subdued tempo according to his capacity to serve himself and his fellow man and thereby earn his way all the way to the end. w*- m