CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Carteret County's Newspaper
EDITORIAL 7 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1956
Time to Vote
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The News-Times casts its "vote" for
the Pearsall Plan.
The plan is a proposal which would
change the state constitution. The
change would allow certain communi
ties IF they wished, to vote at some fu
ture date on whether to close the school
in the community. The constitutional
change would allow such a vote only IF
race problems developed.
Recently a bit of sentiment has de
veloped against the plan. Voters are
told on one hand that it is the only way
"to save the schools." On the other
hand, they are told that the plan is ex
, tremely dangerous because it would
permit the people to close the ?chools.
The News-Times comes to its decision
only after extremely careful considera
tion of this plan, plans in other southern
states and appraisal of arguments of
fered against the Pearsall Plan.
The keystone in making a decision
lies in any voter's answer to this ques
tion: "How will people ? whether in
^tliis county or any other county ? react
if members of both races mingle in the
schools?"
There can be only one of two reac
tions. If whites want to start going to
the Negro schools and the Negroes dis
like it intensely enough, there may be
trouble. If Negroes start going to the
white schools, and the white people re
sent it to a high degree, there may be
, trouble. By trouble we mean protest
which may evidence itself in mass meet
ings, and perhaps eventual violence.
The other reaction is an acceptance
of the mingling of the two races. If that
is the reaction, then there will be no
"trouble."
People who are speaking against
the Pearsall Plan are saying, sim
ply, "Things in North Carolina have
changed. We {ire an enlightened peo
ple. Some Negroes may start going to
our schools, but we have to accept that.
We recognize that the present law giv
ing local school boards the authority to
'assign' Negroes to Negro schools and
whites to White schools may not alwfty*
work. But, in the hope that it will, we
, will vote against the Pearsall Plan be
cause we don't want any law 011 the
books which may allow people to close
one school."
That is a wonderful, Christian-like
attitude. Here in the calm of no crisis,
the voter must ask himself if that atti
tude will prevail if a large group of the
"other race" starts going to the public
school.
Under present conditions, the people
who may resent such a mixture have no
recourse to law. They do have recourse,
though, to normal human emotions: re
sentment which may flare into hate and
hate which may flare into violence.
The Pearsall Plan says, in essence,
? "You don't have to submit to mixture
of the races. If you want to, all well
and good. If you don't want to, you
needn't threaten the other race with
bodily harm, you can take action, with
in the law, to solve the situation peace
ably."
The Pearsall Plan is so arranged
that should a vote go in favor of clos
ing a school, or portion of a school in a
community, both the white and Negro
4 elements of that school would be closed.
Therein lies a check on both whites and
Negroes. Each race will suffer if race
problems develop to the point that
schools are closed.
Those in favor of the Pearsall Plan
are saying, "We recognize that this is
a serious situation. People in different
counties, people in different income
groups think differently about this
problem. Yet, this is a democracy. Our
? country has been founded on the prin
ciple that the people have a right to
voice their opinion and the majority
shall rule. Each community should be
given the power to say, should a crisis
develop, whether the schools should be
closed."
Persons who are against the Pearsall
Plan are, basically, afraid of putting
power in the hands of the people. They
fear that if the state constitution is
changed, people will vote to close the
schools.
Persons who fear giving the people
the power to decide for themselves are
betraying the faith placed in a free peo
ple by our founding fathers. Like the
monarchists, they are saying, "Give the
vote to the rabble, the man on the
street, and you will have nothing but
chaos." The democracy which is Amer
ica has disproved the monarchist's dire
prediction.
A man who has no recourse to law is
a dangerous man. Instead of using the
channels of justice spelled out for him,
he reaches for the torch, the hangman's
noose or the gun.
Persons against the Pearsall Plan
are saying, in essence, that there is no
possibility of violence anywhere if mix
tare of the races takes place. If this is
true, then there was never any need for
the school assignment law and North
Carolina can announce to the world,
"The Supreme Court decision is right.
We will abide by it. Integration is the
only step we can. rightfully take within
the law."
Whether the Pearsall Plan is consti
tutional only the United States Su
preme Court can decide. If it is ap
proved, it too may be challenged in the
courts. But the only issue before North
Carolina voters tomorrow is to vote for
or against it.
Whether the people approve it or
not, North Carolinians should face the
fact that all Negro schools are not on a
par with white schools and every ef
fort should be made to give the Negro
equal educational opportunity.
Nobody wants the schools to close.
But nobody can control human emo
tion either. Dirtier tile Pearsall Rlan,
schools can continue to operate as they
are. Should a situation arise in future
years where a community wants to
bring into play provisions of the Pear
sall Plan, that is the time for people of
that community to campaign against
"closing the school."
In Danger Zone
Because we do not live in one of the
nation's recognized "critical target
areas" many local residents have as
sumed that we do not have a pressing
need for a strong civil defense organ
ization.
Actually this is a misconception
the Federal Civil Defense Administra
tion hopes will be cleared away with
the national observance of Civil De
fense Week, starting Sunday.
Proof that no locality in the United
States is outside a potential danger
zone came with the evaluation of the
U. S. hydrogen bomb test explosion at
Bikini, in March, 1954. That test show
ed that an area extending 220 miles
downwind and varying in width up to
40 miles was contaminated by rado
active fallout.
Civil defense officials see the prob
ability that an actual enemy nuclear at
tack could leave hundreds of thousands
of* square miles contaminated.
Will our civil defense be strong
enough, well-enough trained, and well
enough equipped to prevent wide
spread disaster in our community? The
answer is squarely up to us. Civil de
fense can only be as strong as individ
ual citizens arc ready to make it.
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AFTER YEARS IN THE BACKROOMI
Jerry Schumocher
And So the Holiday Weekend Passes
It is Saturday, the Saturday
night of Labor Day weekend, and I
am sitting at Capt. Bill's Water
front Restaurant waiting for the
Captain to join me for a steak.
Well it will never happen 'cause
the joint is jumping and everybody
is busy as a eat you know where
doing what.
Rachel Mundine is playing the
living heck out
of the Hammond
organ and you
can hardly hear
her from the
din. Customers
are stacked up
outside like
cordwood and
the Captain is
in his glory.
I have always
suspected both
he and Captain
Jerry
Tony of the Sanitary of deliberate
Jy formiug iHinc so that l)M* 4pn
brag "I had a line a bloek long."
Well boys, have your fun beeause
this is it, the last weekend of the
summer season. From now on if
you haven't got it made, just give
up gracefully 'til next summer.
Somehow the hustle and bustle
of a busy summer weekend on the
Morchead City waterfront is one of
the great thrills of my life, tourists
in all manner of dress from nobby
kneed hairychest men in swimming
shorts to the elegant ladies in their
fur pieccs and jewelry and every
thing in between from Bermuda
walkin' .shorts to pedal puahers.
The kitchen here is a madhouse
w ith the cooks snowed under. Tem
pers are short and everyone is rush
ing around, but after it is all over
and the last customer is gracefully
ushered out they will slap each
other on their sweating backs and
say, "Boy. we shoveled out the
food today!"
The expressions on customers'
faces who have been waiting in
line, when it finally comes their
turn, look like they just won a big
prize.
Tar Heels Afloat, a group of vis
iting yachtsmen, are here in full
force. Now you can't tell by look
ing at them who owns the big hun
dred footer or who came in the lit
tic outdoor powered house boat that
was high and dry on the mud fiat
this morning.
At any rate they all are having
a wonderful time, and they add to
the color and excitement of the
wonderful waterfront. To think in
a few short weeks you can shoot a
cannon right down the street and
never hit a soul.
Momentarily the organ stopped
and the din is terrific. Seems every
one is talking louder than the next
one, with people shouting from one
end of this long building to the
other when they recognizc some
friends.
Some gal slightly the worse for
wear came up and said, "Oh I know
you. You're the fellow that takes
pictures. What arc you doing?"
Well the easiest way out for me
was to tell her, so she said, "Let
me read what you have written."
Reluctantly I handed her this ef
fort. Weil, she shook her head, and
as she staggered off, she looked
over her shoulder, sort of Marilyn
Monroeish like and said, "Better
stick to pictures, Bub."
This is a story about Dec Gee's
Gift Shop. Now this unique estab
lishment is famous throughout the
state for its August Christmas sale.
This is our state representative,
Mr. D. G. Bell, the owner's way
of disposing of both good merchan
dise and some that has been on the
shelf a little longer than it should
have been.
When I first heard about the Au
gust Christmas sale, it tickled me
and everybody else I guess because
this sale is by now an institution.
Last August my gorgeous tomato,
Penny, goes to the sale along with
all the other women and comes
homes with several hundred dollars
worth of useless though attractive
and reasonable merchandise.
My Penny will buy anything
iffen it's a bargain. If you will re
member just a few short weeks
ago she brought home several
dozen snowshocs. In North Caro
lina in July that is some kind of a
record I believe Well anyway I
asked what we were expected to do
with all this assorted gear, Penny
said, "Christmas presents you big
dope," and so it was, our friends up
F. C. Salisbury
Here and There
The following Information it ta
ken from the files of the Nonhead
City C outer:
FRIDAY, SEPT. 7, 1917
Miss Bertha Tolson returned to
her home in New Bern Saturday
after spending several days here
and at Atlantic View Bearh.
Mrs. Kufus Cherry and little
daughter, Elodic. of Wilson, have
returned home after spending sev
eral days in the city.
Miss Bessie Penny has returned
to her home in Wilmington after
?pending a few days here as the
guest al Miss Capitola Wade.
Louis Hancock of Florida is in
the city visiting his mother, Mrs.
Mary F. llancock. Mr. Hancock
left here 16 years ago.
Mrs. Martha J. Wade returned
Thursday from New Bern where
she spent some time with her son,
Abram Wade and family.
Miss Alice Edwards has returned
from Oriental where she spent sev
eral weeks with her sister, Mrs,
Henry Stevens.
Miss Marie Jackson left Tuesday
morning for Greensboro to enter
Greensboro College for Women.
Miss Lucile Leary left Tuesday
for Oxford where she will attend
Oxford College.
Carle filler of the U. S. Navy
left Sunday afternoon for Norfolk
after spending a few days here.
The Misses Mary Whitehurst and
Aleezc Letters of Gloucester at
tended the Sunday School confcr
enee here this week.
The Rev. C. H. Caviness and
daughter Miss Ada of Newport re
turned home Wednesday after
spending a few days here attend
ing the M. E. Sunday School con
ference.
Miss Agnes P. Webb of Kinslon
and Lucius Stacy of North Wilkcs
boro were married here Wednes
day at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
John T. Willis.
Joe Hooker, one of the alleged
largest blockadcri in this gcction,
was arrested at his home on the
banks of the Inland Waterway and
taken to New Bern.
The first drafted men from thia
county will leave Saturday for
Camp Jackson. They are Willie
Davis. Davis; Fred If. Trott, Stella;
Michael H. Sorovich, Sea Level;
John Antoniak and Wade H. La
tham of this city.
Mr. and Mrs. 1. E. Kornegay
celebrated their 50th wedding an
niversary at their home on Monday
evening. They have six living chil
dren. The Confederate Veterans
and Daughters of the Confederacy
wtrt gttCU* of honor.
North got all this stuff duly
wrapped in bright cellophane.
Have often wondered what Ida
belle Bauer up in Indiana ever did
with that old corroded ship's bell.
Well when this was all over so was
the season and all the tourists were
gone home and us natives pulled
in our belts and knucklcd down
for the winter.
Now Dee Gee told his girls in
the shop, "Don't send Jerry a bill
'cause he won't have any money till
NEXT August so 1 have owed my
friend these several hundred dol
lars for one year.
Well, business being kinda on the
pood side this year, being no hur
ricanes so far, I finally on Aug. 27
sent my long-suffering friend a
check in full for my last year's
bill. Feeling kinda smug about this,
I sneaks off and plays me about
nine holes of golf.
When I came home later that
afternoon 1 noticed Penny had that
gleam in her eye that usually pre
cedes some momentous occasion.
Guess what she greeted me with,
"I had the most fun. I spent the
afternoon at Dee Gee's and Daddy,
I bought ALL of our Christmas
presents, ain't you proud of me?"
Oh Lord give me strength, and
save a little for Dee Gee too.
Stamp News
By SYD KRON1SU
This is the year of gigantic cele
bration in India as the government
observes the 2,500th anniversary
of the death of Buddha, founder
of the Buddhist religion.
His disciples carried Buddha's
teachings throughout India and in
to Tibet, Ceylon, Burma and Siam,
and later into Japan and China.
At one time one third of the hu
man race were the Buddha's stu
dents and followers.
To help celebrate the occasion,
India has Issued two special
stamps. The main design of each
is an allegorical drawing of the
pipul tree under which Buddha
meditated. The 2 annas is dark
brown and the 14 annas scarlet.
Stamp Notes . . . Spain has issued
a new 3 pesos blue stamp showing
the ship "Ciudad dc Toledo."
Western Germany has issued two
new stamps for the convention of
the Evangelic Church In Frank
furt while Eastern Germany has
issued a souvenir sheet sold for
double the face value (40 pfen
nigs) with the surtax scheduled
for the relief of the victims of
Buchrnwald, Ravensbruck and Saa
chenhauscn concentration camps.
Two stamps have ben issued by
Colombia depicting cattle. The
stamps were issued in connection
with the Second International Cat
tic Fair.
A valuable collection of early
Mauritius stamps has been pre
sented to the Smithsonian Institu
tion by New York collector Ernst
Lowenstein.
The collection, valued at 116,000,
contains Issues between 1848 and
1850, according to Dr. Remington
Kellogg, director of the U.S. Mu
seum.
Even though the famed "post
office" issues of 1847 are not in
cluded. the 2 pence "penoe" error
of 1848 it represented together
with a fine cover bearing the 3
pence wed far Inland nail (ISM).
Loul? Sptvy
Words of Inspiration
GROWING UP ?,#
W as it yesterday I laced his shoes, *
Wiped hit note and bemoaned his bruise; '
Fastened the buttons he couldn't reach
And built sand castles on the beach? '
Taught him to count on his little pink toes;
Listened with care to his little-boy woes; .. "j
Plied him with spinach as part of a game;
Guided his hand as he printed his name;
Spanked his bottom and dried his tears;
Scolded and cuddled and calmed his (ears;
Tried to explain why the stars twinkled?
(No wonder my brow is perpetually wrinkled).
Was that yesterday? Why, how time flics!
Today he's a scholar and worldly-wise;
He's not much amused at the jokes we make
And scorns Santa Claus as a silly old fake;
Scoffs at the once-loved Easter rabbit
And terms good-night kisses a boyish habit.
For now he's grown up and so utterly cool . . .
Today, you see, he started to school.
? Betty Heiser
The only real use of books is to make man think for himself. If a
book will not set one thinking, it is not worth shelf room.
<-F. Tennyson Needy
The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours
of life which comc to everyone for hours of delight. ? Montesquieu
Education begins with life. Before we are aware the foundations of
character are laid, and subsequent teaching avail but little to remove or
alter them.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away
from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
? Franklin
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself.
Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which
they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool
of every faculty ? how to open it. how to make it sharp, and how to
apply it to all practical purposes. ? 11. W. Bcecher
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
in the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of charac
ter. Let parents always bear this in mind. ? H. Bullou
Education does not commence with the alphabet; it begins with a
mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or a sign of reproof;
with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of
forbearance; with handfuls of flowers in green dells, on hills, and daisy
meadows; with birds' nests admired, but not touched; with creeping
ants, and almost imperceptible emmets, with humming-bees and glass
beehives; with pleasant walks in shady lanes, and with thoughts directed
in sweet and kindly tones and words to nature, to beauty, to acts of
bcncvolcnce, to deeds of virtue, and to the sourcc of all good ? to God
Himself! ? Anonymous
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day. If you gain but 15
minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
? Horaoc Mann
Bill Whitley
Washington Report
(Editor's Note: This column is
written by a member vt Sen. Kerr
Scott's Washington staff).
ELECTION. The stakes arc un
usually high this year for North
Carolina and the South in the Con
gressional elections. If the Repub
licans gain control of Congress, it
will mean that the South will lose
a majority of the major committee
chairmanships in both the House
and Senate.
When committee chairmanships
arc considered in light of civil
rights and other legislation in
which the South has a deep inter
est, this year's election becomes
even more important.
SENATE. In the Senate, for ex
ample, if the Republicans gain con
trol of Congress, it will mean that
Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi
will be replaced as chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee by
Sen. Alexander Wiley of Wiscon
sin. This is the committee that
handles all civil rights legislation.
Just as important is the Senate
Labor and Public Welfare Com
mittee, which handles most of the
social legislation other than civil
rights. If the Democrats lose con
trol of Congress, Sen. Lister Hill
of Alabama will be replaced as
chairman of this committee by
Sen. Alexander Smith of New Jer
sey.
Other Senate committee chair
manships that would be taken away
from southerners if the Republi
cans win Congress are:
Agriculture, how held by Sen.
Allen Ellendcr of Louisiana would
go to Sen. George Aiken of Ver
mont; Armed Services, now held
by Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia
would go to Sen. Styles Bridges of
New Hampshire; Banking and Cur
rency. now held by Sen. J. W. Ful
bright of Arkansas would go to
Sen. Homer Capehart of Indiana.
Finance, now held by Sen. Harry
Byrd of Virginia would go to Sen.
Edward Martin of Pennsylvania:
Government Operations now held
by Sen. John McClcllan of Arkan
sas would go to Sen. Joseph Mc
Carthy of Wisconsin; and Post Of
fice and Civil Service, now held
by Sen. Olin Johnston of South
Caorlina would go to Sen. Frank
Carlson of Kansas.
HOUSE. In the House, North
Carolina would feci more of an
immediate effect if the Dcmocrala
lose control of Congress.
Rep. Harold Cooley would be re
placed as chairman of the House
Agriculture Committee, Rep. Gra
ham Bardcn would lose the chair
manship of the House Labor and
Education Committee, and Rep.
Herbert Bonner would be replaced
as chairman of the House Merchant
Marine and Fisheries Committee.
Rep. Carl Durham would also
lose his up-coming post as chair
man of the powerful Joint Com
mittee on Atomic Energy.
In addition to these nine, other
southerner* would be replaced as
chairmen of Houic committees.
From the Bookshelf
The Color of Green. By Lcnard
Kaufman. Holt.
Tom Bluden, once i bank guard
but now retired with a bad heart,
doe* what he can with his $180 a
month insurance to foot bills in
his little house. His wife Mary
tends to him carefully, his beau
tiful daughter Stella brings home
a little money to help out.
When this novel opens Stella
is engaged to un romantic, plodding
but likeable used-car salesman,
Harry. A slowpoke as a suitor, h?
is being rapidly displaced by hand
some Leon, idle, rich, ? flashier
boy furiously impatient and de
manding.
His parents give him the idea
he doesn't amount to much, which
is correct; Stella gives him the
Idea he does, so he must marry
her to have the constant comfort
of her assurance and to spite his
parents.
But Mary and Tom warn her to
atlek to Harry, to drop Leon whom
they call unstable and dangerous.
This too la correct. Leon, a pay
copath, sayi again and again to
himaelf, I must not let go, I must
keep control, but does let go every
?ow and then with a vengeance.
These people are pictured In
tfe* round, though not quite enough
in depth; Kaufman has used this
sort of one-track, symbolic char
acter before. Here, instead of
Stella, we have, say. Terror; we
have the blunderer, the good man,
the evil.
But they are not empty stock
figures, they have a reality which
suits the author's purpose. And
he succeeds: his people are worked
diabolically into a desperate cor
ner and their fate is revealed only
in the last five lines. It's a tingler,
tense and fast-paccd.
A Nan's World. By Douglas Fair
bairn. Simon k Schuster.
George Fox has been earning a
living and having a sort of good
time as mess boy on a yacht. The
rich American owner has tied up
on the Riviera, and George goes
ashore on errands, meats Chris
tiane, discovers he haa really been
lonely.
The girl, made to work by an
ogre of an aunt, welcomes thia
youngster who satisfies her own
longing for company. He plans to
rescue her and then la forced to
realise he's only a teen-ager la a
man's world.
This la a clearly, simply told
first novelette, though In spots it
la too artful