CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TlMES I Carteret County'* N?w*pap?r EDITORIAL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1956 Books at Your Door The proposal of the County Public Library, !o establish book stations in communities throughout the county, is splendid. To become an actual fact, the co operation of folks in those communities is necessary. At present, the bookmo bile makes regular calls, but as Miss Dorothy Avery, library director, points out, it is not always convenient for peo ple to get to the bookmobile during the short time it stops. Therefore, the book stations are pro posed. These would be located in a home or perhaps a store. The bookmo bile would bring the books to the sta tion. Readers could go to the station, borrow a book and return it when they're finished reading it. In that way they will have access to books at all times, not just the few mo ments when the bookmobile comes through. The bookmobile would bring supplies of new books as needed. Unsung heroines everywhere are the women who drive bookmobiles. Rural America has access to the latest and best of books only because a corps of dedicated women ? and sometimes men ? valiantly carry loads of books on highways and byways, through fair weather and foul, to the people beyond the cities. Mrs. Monroe Willis, Carteret's book mobile librarian, has served faithfully through the years. Mrs. Willis, Mrs. Paul Woodard, librarian, or Miss Avery are eagerly awaiting word from the communities as to where book stations can be set up. Cooperation of Home Demonstration Clubs is being sought. The library couldn't find better partners for their project than the Home Demonstration Club. Of all the entertainment for folks in this day, none has yet equaled the thrill of reading. The library, its board and staff are to be commended for their worthy never-ceasing mission, that of taking good books to all corners of Carteret. i Lesson in Citizenship The Boy Scouts of America, now num bering 4,175,000 members and adult leaders will have a realistic experience in citizenship this year. Together with the Freedoms Foun dation Inc., of Valley Forge, they will conduct a nonpartisan Get-Out-the-Votc campaign. First they will promote the registra tion of all persons eligible to vote. A principal reason for not voting is fail ure to register. It has been aptly said that bad candidates are elected by good people who do not vote. Throughout the nation before regis tration days, Scouts will put in public places one and a quarter million pos ters bearing the slogan, "Vote as you think ? but vote November 6." The Scouts will encourage registered persons to vote on Klection Day. On Saturday, Nov. 3, Scouts will call at 35,(100,000 homes across the nation. They will hang on doorknobs a Liberty Cell placard bearing the message, "Heed youth's call. Vote as you think, but vote November 6, 1956. Use your freedom to vote." Scouting has long had participating citizenship based on good character as one of its principal goals. In its current project it will roll up another mighty Good Turn to the nation. The job needs to be done. Should the time ever come when Americans lose their interest in the right to vote, and neglect to make the small effort voting requires, the right to vote would gradually disappear. Self-government endures only when the people support it vigorously. The act of voting is in itself an expression of good citizenship and appreciation of democratic privilege. Epitaph for an Emu (Greensboro Daily News) (Jut in hvansville, Intl., a lanious father emu is dead, cut down in thfc prime of life by a power lawn mower. Even before his sad encounter with the mower, this intrepid bird had made headlines by hatching out the eggs his wife had laid. Evidently he had a mind Of his own. But the other day he suddenly charged the lawn mower that invaded his enclosure at the zoo, caught his feet in the whirling blades and was so seriously injured that he had to be put to death. What moved the emu to attack the mower? Did he think it was some strange new bird come to rob him of his emu-wife? Did he resent the mow er's cutting in on his private grass? Was he trying to protect his father hatched children? Or was it a sudden human fury at the encroachment of the modern machine age into the natural habitat of the zoo? IIow many enraged workers have de stroyed the machines that displaced them? When a man's car won't run and he can't fix it, how many times has he wanted to strike it in frustrated an ger? When a woman's vacuum cleaner refuses to purr in its machine-like stub bornness, how many times has she wanted to throw it out the window? And how many small children have hurled their mechanical toys on the floor in anger because they wouldn't work? Maybe the emu just didn't like ma chines, including the power lawn mower. If his death was a mute pro test against the machine age, his epi taph should read: Here lies a courageous, furious emu. You'd do what he did if you knew what he knew. Along the Way The English essayist and divine of the 19th century, Sydney Smith, had this to say about initiative and courage: "A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort; who, if they could have been induced to begin, would, in all probability, have gone great lengths in the career of fame. "The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold danger, but we must jump in and scramble through as well as we can. "It will not do to be perpetually cal culating risks and adjusting nice chances. A man waits, and doubts, and consults his brother, and his particular friends, till one day he finds that he is sixty years old, and that he has lost so much time in consulting relatives that he has no time to follow their advice." ? Sunshine Magazine Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort New? (EiL 1812) and The Twin City Time*