CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES j
EDITORIALS TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1954
They Want ...
?
To Buy Prosperity with Blood
Kidd Brewer had an item in his
"Raleigh Roundup" on this page Friday
? it's an item similar to many others
that are going to hang the Democratic
party.
The item follows: "Bringing them
Home ... Yes, said the Old Democrat,
President Ike said he would bring home
my boy from Korea. Last week we got
back our two boys from Detroit"
Those are the words as they stand
in the column, with no comment from
the columnist. He probably knows
they're shot through with dynamite but
to the casual reader they might bring
a smile and generate repetition over a
cup of coffee ? which is what an un
thinking Democrat would want.
The "Old Democrat" is really saying,
"The President said he'd Bettle things
in Korea so our boys could come home,
but business has fallen off so much that
my two sons working in plants in De
troit have been fired." The statement
implies bitterness and chagrin on the
part of the "Old Democrat."
Anyone repeating Mr. Brewer's item
is leaving himself open to a retort like
this, "So you want to buy prosperity
with blood!"
Back in Roosevelt's days, to brighten
the economic picture in the thirties,
pigs were slaughtered. These days
we've graduated from that stage. Pros
perity in this country has been gen
erated during the past decade by
slaughtering men.
True, it probably hasn't been by de
sign but the end result is the same.
Pigs were killed and milk dumped in
the gutters in the thirties. Why? To
keep prices up. When an item is
"scarce" or is just sufficient to meet de
mand, prices are higher than when
there is a glut on the market.
In wartime, the "economy of scarci
ty" needn't be caused by administration
manipulating. Goods are produced but
they're destroyed in battle. The ma
terials that go into turning out guns,
bombs, tanks and airplanes are those
that formerly went into producing
washing machines and refrigerators.
Therefore there is scarcity of such
items on the home market. When war
ends, if a country's factories are still
intact, as they were in this country at
the close of the second world war and
at the close of the Korean war, those
factories can start turning out the wash
ing machines and refrigerators again.
Until all the people who want those
things are satisfied, the country is hum
ming. The "prosperity" that is a corol
lary to war exists.
Now that there is peace of sorts, the
country is attempting to adjust itself
to a peace economy, something that we
haven't known in this country since
Dec. 7, 1941, TWELVE YEARS AGO.
After 12 years of everybody having
jobs and a lot of moijey to spend, no
one can even remember what PEACE
ECONOMY is. All they can see is the
money in their pocket. And even though
there is MORE money there than in
1941, it isn't as much as they have been
having during the war years, therefore
they are in the proper frame of mind
to believe predictions that we're head
ing for depression.
They used to say that all's fair in
love and war. We believe that ought
to be revised to "All's fair in love, war
and politics," for the Democrats are
hitting some mighty low blows in try
ing to unhorse the Republican adminis
tration with their depression talk. Like
wise the Republicans are doing their
best to smear the Democratic party
with their Communist hunt
But that doesn't alter the fact that
Democrats' tales like the one set forth
by Breweri say in essence, "The heck
with peace. Find an excuse to have a
?
war, so that we can get more orders
and keep on making lota of money here
at home. Your son is just another guy
in uniform. Let him go somewhere and
fight WE GOTTA HAVE PROSPER
ITY. Keep the boys in the plants in
Detroit. The heck with bringing 'em
home from Korea."
Maybe some of you remember or
can recall from your history books that
World War I was claimed to be "a war
fought just to make the capitalists
rich ? " not only American capitalists
but German ones too. Communists like
to point out that our god is the dollar.
And if there is much more talk such as
that which the Democrats are spread
ing, we fear that those accusations may
not be far from wrong!
If we MUST go to war, we must. But
when there is war, people clamor for
peace and when there is peace ? as
now ? there are cries of "depression"
and suggestion that when another po
litical party (Democrats) was in of
fice there was prosperity. Yes, friends,
and there was war too.
A government can always prove to
its people that it's "necessary" to go
to war. Should we participate in the '
war in Indo-China? Most of us would,
without hesitation, shout "No!" But
who knows what we might think six
months hence, fed the proper kind and
amount of propagandizing?
If we want to get out of a so-called
recession the "easy" way, just go to
war again. Ignore the fact that dollars
are easier come by than men.
Adjustment to a peace economy is
not simple. The problems confronting
the Republican administration now are
the same that would be confronting the
administration if the Democrats were
in office and IF the fighting in Korea
had stopped.
For those reasons, we say the Demo
crats are slitting their own throats when
they make statements like Brewer
made. Buying prosperity wittj .blood
doesn't make sense to the average
American. The Democrats would do
better to hit at things like the dictator
tactics of McCarthy if they want to get
back in office."
Help Build a Fence
Another Junior Woman's Club project
that is most worthwhile is the building
of a fence along the east side of the
Beaufort School. The fence should
have been thought of and built a long
time ago.
Between the school yard and high
way 70 is a murky, dangerous ditch.
The highway is another hazard. Just
the other day a couple youngsters were
seen jumping the ditch and dashing
across the road. The fence won't guar
antee that some still won't run out on
the highway, but it will serve as a most
discouraging obstacle, especially to the
younger children.
If every family with a child starting
to school next fall or a youngster in
the primary grades would send a dollar
to Mrs. C. E. Paden, chairman of the
project, the $200 needed would be
raised in no time.
Mrs. Paden's address is Box 151,
Beaufort. How about it?
Lefs Lend a Hand
Every day there is distress or need
somewhere in the world. Sometimes
it is close at home and we can personal
ly lend a hand, but if a tornado strikes
in Texas, a flood in the Mississippi Val
ley or a hurricane to the south of us,
we can do nothing ? unless we lend a
hand through the American Red Cross.
Join the Red Cross in Carteret County -
and help yourself by helping others.
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University Minister Talks
About Typical Americans
wot long ago 1 heard an address
by Dr. James T. Cleland. It was
an excellent talk but I take issue
with one of the statements made by
this doughty Scotsman who is
preacher to Duke University.
He was listing the three charac
teristics of the typical American.
The second was the "general neigh
borliness" of Americans. The first
was their surface, blustery self
assurance and the third their un
derlying uneasiness of mind as to
exactly where they are going.
In describing the second trait,
general neighborliness, Dr. Cleland
said that he will r.ever be able to
understand why Americans like to
belong to so many organizations.
"They seem to think that out of
collective ignorance (here will arise
brilliance," he said.
His audience chuckled happily,
enjoying as usual a joke that was
made at the expense of each of
them.
Yet I believe that out of every
gathering of people ? where there
is an exchange of information (call
it gossip if you will), where there
is talk of projects and ideas ?
brilliance docs arise. The important
thing is this: is there someone
there who is intelligent enough to
recognize it?
J. W. York, Raleigh builder and
developer of Cameron Village, has
been announced as the co-builder
of a four and a half million dollar
.shopping center at Gary, Ind. Mr.
York, who has a home at 2005
Shepard St., Morehead City, has
business interests in this county
and has been instrumental in the
construction of several of the
county's newer buildings.
Mr. York is reported as saying
that his interest in the "Tri-City
Shopping Plaza" at Gary is a "small
one." But the shopping center is
certainly not small. Fifty to sixty
stores are planned. The overall
size will be 500,000 square feet on
a 55-acre plot of ground. All build
ings will be air-conditioned, single
story and plans call for a depart
ment store of 100,000 square feet
and a medical clinic.
If we were living back in Roman
times, this would be the ninth day
of the first month of the New
Year! Refer to your almanac for
the inside story on what to plant
and when. Many of the farmers
have already set out cabbage. The
little plants look so fragile it's hard
to believe that before long (if it
doesn't get TOO cold) they'll be
big fat cabbage heads. The plants,
this is, not the farmers.
The blustery politician was hold
ing forth. "You want to know what
my platform is? It's simply this:
I'm a self-made man!"
"That," retorted, Horace Greeley,
famous editor, "relieves the Al
mighty of a terrible responsibility."
Captain Henry
Sou'easter
Some heads are going to be rol
ling, in the (cuppers on the U. S.
Coast Guard cutter Agassiz if the
boys don't quit muttering "Woof,
woof where the skipper, Lt Pe
ter S. Branson, can hear them.
Everybody aboard, from seaman
apprentice to Lt. Willie "Dubs"
Willis, the red-headed import from
Puerto Rico, took keen delight in
a sentence in THE NEWS-TfMES
story of the rescue of the $116,000
barge load of spuds.
"Navigating with the instinct of
a bird dog, Lt Peter 8. Branson
found the tug, etc., etc.," the sen
tence read.
Lieutenant Branson, captain of
the ship, is an amiable young man
with a well-developed sense
of humor. But how he's strong
ly against his men making noise*
like a bunch of canines.
"Hardcrab" Raymond Davis, who
graduated from our mutual alma
mater, the glorious U. 8. Coast
Guard, to become a tugboat ty
coon, made one of his social calls,
at midnight as usual, on the Gehr
mann Hollands recently.
The sheriff (1 can never think of
Gehrroann as any other than High
Sheriff, waa sound .asleep but
awoke when he heard heavy fool
steps on the stairs.
He thought faat but the thinking
didn't do him any good. He'd left
his pistol downstairs.
But "Hardcrab" quickly identi
fied himself and visited with the
Hollands nearly two hours when
suddenly ho said:
"My gosh, I forgot all about Er
nest Davis. I left him out in the
car. Said I'd only bo a minute."
Dan Taylor, the See Level Hoe
get tough, like for instance being
shot up far ? good-for-nothing mil
lionaire Gringo by a Puerto Rican
ie take Ms pleoe ea the
New York Central Railroad board
of directors if that fabuloua mil
lionaire friend of his, Robert
Young, wins his fight. Young
wants Dan on the board.
A day or two before the grand
opening of the hospital, Dan
phoned Tony from West Palm
Beach and asked him if he'd feed
his special trainload of guests.
Tony said:
"Why yes, be glad to. But I
don't want a bunch of drunks In
my place even if everyone of them
la the President of Cuba."
Tony met the train way down
Arendell St. early In the morn
ing and paced it In his car up to
the Jefferson Hotel. All the people
In the train waved at him and tried
to holler at him through the car
windows. Tony was sure they were
all feeling pretty good.
Tony hot-footed it to hia res
taurant. which doesn't ordinarily
serve breakfast, and alerted the
help to get ready.
When they came barging In,
they all started shaking hands with
Tony. They called him Dan. And
Tony waa sure they, affable aa they
were, were either crazy or "some
thing."
They weren't craxy or anything
else. Each one actually thought,
in the daze o t early Doming, that
Tony waa Dan.
Later Dan heard about the af
fair and had hia picture taken with
Tony. Anyone looking at that
Ccture would think they were
others and anyone aeeing them
separately in the flesh could easily
mistake one for the other.
So, If you hear that Dan's been
ahot In a revolution la Cuba, check
the rumor at Sanitary Fish Market
Restaurant tint
It'll probably be Teny.
At last I'm found out what aa
oyster bar la. It's a place ovatars
go to have a drink.
Washington
Washington? Wives of members
of Congress just don't plan on get
.luuvomrguvAiiicas V cttd"
tion even when Congress adjourns
and they go back home.
"In fact we look forward to re
turning to Washington to get a
rest," one wife remarked at a lun
cheon meeting of the 78th Congress
Club, made up of women whose
husbands first came here in 1942. It
was the club's first meeting of the
year, and members were invited to
exchange reminiscenses of last
summers' "vacation."
"1 became a built-in baby sitter
to my grandchildren while my
daughter and son-in-law looked for
a place to live, and father toured
with the Agriculture Committee,"
Mrs. Charles B. Hoeven, wife of
the Republican congressman from
Iowa, said.
"And I ? became a built-in sec
retary," Mrs. Clair Engle, wife
of the Democratic congressman
from California, put in, "We were
on the go constantly, touring our
district. Sundays we spent an
swering mail. It was interesting
though, and I love meeting constit
uents."
Mrs. Walter H. Judd, wife of the
Republican congressman from Min
nesota, who is a member of the
House Government Operations
Committee, went with her husband
and three teen-age daughters on a
tour of the west.
"While he looked at dams, I kept
a watch on the young men who
wanted to date the teen-agers,"
Mrs. Judd said. "It was a hectic
summer."
Mrs. Antonio M. Fernandez, wife
of the Democratic congressman
from New Mexico, spent her time
redecorating her house in Santa Fe,
working in her garden and welcom
ing a new daughter-in-law. The
wife of Chet Holifield. Democratic
congressman from California, was
overseeing the construction of a
new home at Montebello. "We got
finished in time to have 27 to
Christmas dinner and a reception
for 700 before returning to the
capital," she said.
Mrs. James Abernethy, wife of
the Democratic congressman from
Mississippi, got ready to entertain
members of her husband's Agricul
ture Committee and "show our
neighbors some real live Repub
licans."
"We put our best foot forward,
and I don't believe they think we
go without shoes any more down
in Mississippi," she added. Later
both Mrs. Abernethy and Mrs. Hoe
ven accompanied their husbands to
conferences in Cuba. The activities
scheduled for them there howey?OJ
left them so exhausted they were
ready to go to bed at 8:30 pjn. mart
Bights.
Today's Birthday
JOSE PACIANO LAUREL, bora
March ?, 1191 in Tanuan, Batan
gac. Philippines, son of a peas
ant farmer.
Philippine fen
ator, political
leader and edu
cator, he la re
tarded a? one of
the moat con
troversial fig
urea la the in
dependent re
public During
Japanese occu
patioo he offered hit services and
was made president of the puppet
regime. He Mid he acted on ord
er* from Pre*. Quezon (who died
in 1M4). Now aliened with new
Pretidemt Mafiayiay.
Too much celebrating ha* kept
many ? man from howling ette
Mllt
In the Good Old Days
THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO
The Davii House in Beaufort,
owned and operated by the late
Miss Sarah Davis, bad been (old
to its present proprietor, Mr. A.
J. Cooke.
A new restaurant, the Savoy, had
been opened in B?aufort in the
Chadwick building next door to the
Bank of Beaufort.
Beaufort town commissioners
had let the sewer and water eon
tract to the J. B. McCrary Engineer
ing Corp. of Atlanta, through their
agent, H. G. Loving. 1
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Herbert Hoover was inaugurated
as president of the United States.
Atlantic and North Carolina Rail
road directors were considering
constructing a deep water pier at
Morehead City.
The Waddell Lumber Co. of
Highland Park, Beaufort, was in
corporated. Sawmills and planing
mills were to begin work soon.
TEN YEARS AGO
County commiHionen approved
the relocation far the read (rw
route 101 to the Wert Beaut art
airport
Beaufort Girl Scouta presented
their leader, Mri. Jack Nem). with
a Scout uniform.
C. L. Beam, former cashier of
the Firit-Citixena Bank and Trust
Co., Beaufort, had accepted the
poaition as manager of Eastman 'i
Furniture Store, Morehead City.
FIVE YEARS AGO
Mrs. John G. Jones, Beaufort
florist, had invented a plastic
orchid tube, and production of liar
invention was started full scale thia
week.
State Highway crews were ex
tending Evans street in Morehead
City for two blocks toward the
State Fisheries offices.
Beaufort Jaycees were present
ing a minstrel show this week.
From the Bookshelf
OFF THE BOOK BEAT? A cou
ple of years ago two books came
out. one right after the other,
about Eleanor of AquHaine. The
first one was the better and more
successful; the second, if it could
have appeared alone, would have
done all right, but thanks largely
to coincidence its worthy author
got little recognition for long years
of study of the subject.
Something of the sort happens
all the time, as if to prove that
there's nothing new under the sun,
or that great minds run in the
same channel. Here for instance,
among this week's publications, re
gardless of comparative merits, are
some more coincidences:
"Treasure of the Sun," by Ade
line Attwood (Houghton Mifflin) is
a historical novel about the treas
ure left by Atahualpa, last of the
great Incas, hidden somewhere in
the Andes. "The Last Princess,"
by Charles O. Locke (Norton), is
a historical novel about Princess
Tacara-mi whose lover was a min
ister of Atahualpa's.
Then there is always the medi
cal profession. "Know Your Doc
Author of the Week
Van Wyck (you say Wike, not
Wick) Brooks adds (o hit long and
distinguished ' list of publications
"Scenes and Portraits: Memories
of Childhood and Youth." Born
in Plainfield, N. J., in 1886 and a
graduate of Harvard, he was fa
miliar even as a boy with Eng
land and the Continent He al
ways intended to write and did
a variety of jobs before settling
down to the books for which be
would eventually win a Pulitier;
he worked on magazines, did hack
research for an encyclopedia, was
David Starr Jordan's secretary. Be
fore he was established as a writer
he had crossed the paths of many
leaders in many walks of life: Koe
suth, Hawthorne, Irving, Thom
as Moran, Veblen, Shaw, Batrie,
Thoreau and countless other
> names. His principle work li the
five-volume "Makers and Fitters:
A History o( the Writer la Amer
ica, 1800-1919."
tor," by Leo Smoller, M.D. (Little,
Brown), is nonfiction. With it
comes a novel by Humphrey Plb
ington. Called "Willoughby Car
ter" (Norton), it has for hero ?
boy who wants to become a doc
tor. His father would prefer to
have him enter business; and to in
terfere still more with his ambition
there are some love affairs ? in
these respects resembling at least
superficially "Not as a Stranger,"
Morton Thompson's story of a doc
tor published last week.
The authors got their ideas
months or years ago, in widely
separated places, out of entirely
different biographical backgrounds.
THE CIVIL WAR, as told by
James Street' (Dial)
The publishers say "This is the
kind of history you never read in
text books." No argument. And
that's no criticism of text books.
Street has written some pretty
good books, but it's doubtful wheth
er he will enhance his reputation
with this one. It's too slick, too
opinionated.
The basic idea is good ? to
poke into odd corners of Civil War
History, and explore "some of the
weirdest myths since King Arthur*
that have become Civil War legend.
But his approach was not that
of a student. He more resembles
s small boy with a pocket full
of rocks. He can't resist heaving
them at anything in sight
It's rather obvious that Street
enjoyed himself hugely in writing*
"The Civil War." He writes with
gusto and zest. His pace is breath
taking. But someone should tell
him that history does not em
brace dismissing of controversial
points with a "balderdash" or a
"hot ziggety." Glib generalities
do not substitute for objective snal
ysis.
And, so far as exploding myths
is concerned, Street falls for a
couple of lively ones. For instsnce,
he mentions Abner Doubleday as
the msn who "gsve us baseball,"
and he says Mrs. Lincoln was "a
shrew " a conclusion that's pret
ty shaky in the light of recent re
search.
This one is an animal story from
Knopf, this time about a cocker
spaniel:
A couple of weeks sgo a reader
sent in a desperate appeal for help.
He had to have, he said, a first edi
tion of Ronsld Dahl's "Someone
Like You," snd it hsd to be inscrib
ed with certsin phrases and no
others. The first edition ran to
4,000 copies, but unlike mof* -hort
story collections, this one sold fast.
However, the obliging publisher
managed to find the necessary
copy, and the suthor kindly pro
vided verbstim the inscription.
The msn who made the strange
request had borrowed a copy from
a friend, and his spaniel had
chewed up the page bearing the
original inscription. He has now
returned the book, snd It's a deep
secret to everybody except the
suthor, the publisher, the resders
of ompty hundred newspapers, snd
me.
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