CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Carter* Cooaty't
EDITORIALS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1958
What About Port Day?
Has further thought been given to a
North Carolina Port Day?
A day earmarked to recognize and
promote the state ports was recom
mended here last May. It was suggest
ed then that a North Carolina port day
coincide with National Maritime Day,
May 22. Maritime Day commemorates
the sailing on May 22, 1819 of the
American ship, Savannah, the first
steam-propelled vessel to cross the At
lantic.
What would be the value of a North
Carolina Port Day?
1. It could show the "home folks"
what the port is and how it op
crates.
2. School children, especially, could
be invited. Perhaps in this way
the port could clear all its "tour"
duties in one day rather than hav
ing little groups visiting through
out the year.
3. The major value would be the
publicity ? newspaper, radio and
tv ? that could attend a well
planned port day observance at
both Morehead City and Wilming
ton.
Such a day would tend to show the
public that both Morehead City and
Wilmington are interested in operating
ports for the good of the state as a
whole. Each city would, of course, be
responsible for its own observance and
planning required for it.
If however, Wilmington may not care
to observe a port day, Morehead City
could do so. An observance by both
cities, however, would be of more sig
nificance.
In our estimation, this is a project
that falls within the province of the
port development committee of the
Chamber of Commerce.
On numerous occasions improve
ments and progress have been made in
certain areas and then long-standing
committees that have never lifted a
finger, pounce on the improvement and
claim it as due solely to their hard
work.
It would be refreshing to see a pro
ject initiated within a local committee
and carried to conclusion largely
through the efforts of that committee.
Not that this has not been done in the
past ? but the instances wherein
projects were unjustly claimed by either
Finer Carolina or chamber committees
? outnumber the projects rightfully
claimed.
A North Carolina Port Day could be
coordinated with Armed Forces Day.
Wherever or however such a day comes
into being, it would show ? with fan
fare ? that the port cities are inter
ested in bearing their share of ports
promotion and not always running to
the state with pleas of "Do this" or "Do
that!" for the ports.
North Carolina Leads! Hurrah?
The most crushing indictment of
North Carolina's efforts to be a "dry
state" are found in 1957 statistics.
North Carolina leads the nation in
the number of stills destroyed, 3,350,
or 28 V? per cent of the nation's total.
It has long been said that North Caro
lina is the wettest of the dry states. Al
coholic beverages are outlawed in most
of the state. Only a few counties have
state-controlled liquor stores.
Most North Carolinians, with their
on-the-surface die-hard attitude toward
legal liquor, are not preventing the con
sumption of alcoholic beverages, they
are encouraging it ? as well as illegal
manufacture.
Man rebels when he is not permitted
to indulge in natural outlets, such as
eating what he wishes and drinking
what he wishes. When a law defines
what a man may put in his stomach,
whether it be salt or wine, man will
take steps to satisfy those desires ?
and the law can go hang.
That is what is happening in North
Carolina. How do the "drys" explain
North Carolina's position at the top of
the list in the manufacture of illegal
liquor and in the number of liquor law
violations in 1957?
Do they say that the people of North
Carolina are morally weak? If they do,
they are then indicting the churches,
for surely the churches have little influ
ence if so many citizens are morally
weak.
The truth of the matter is that most
North Carolinians give lip-service to
prohibition and in their daily lives sanc
tion and condone the consumption of
liquor. It might even be called two
faced. On Sunday they swear to leave
liquor alone and fight for prohibition.
In courts during the week they half
heartedly prosecute the bootlegger,
get a big kick out of tales about white
lightnin', get a bigger kick out of tak
ing a sip or two, and shake their heads
piously over statistics revealing how
much bootleg whisky is manufactured
in the Tar Heel state.
In states where liquor is available
through legal outlets, there is little il
licit manufacture; there is practically
no danger of poisoning from bad li
quor; there is no lure of the fat profits
to be gained by running booze into dry
counties.
We do not condone, encourage or
sanction the consumption of alcoholic
beverages. We do think it is every adult
individual's right and privilege to de
cide whether or not he will consume
none, a little or a lot. We believe the
church, the school and the home should
do all in their power to mold well-ad
justed individuals who do not want to
turn to tobacco or liquor.
But we do believe that a tremendous
error is being made (and in the long
run more persons are encouraged to
drink liquor to show how "smart" they
are) when liquor is put beyond their
reach by law. They then break two
laws, a moral law and a legal law, to
possess it.
Are You Courting Polio?
One of the most effective ways to
fight polio is to be immunized with the
Salk vaccine. Even with vaccine being
administered free, through the health
department, figures show that only
about a third of the county population
has received one shot.
The county health department still
has a small supply of the vaccine on
hand but this vaccine will soon be out
of date. It should be administered prior
to the expiration date.
Children and adults who have not yet
had their Salk shots are urged to get
them without delay. They may see their
family doctor or go to the health de
partment clinics (see calendar of events
for hour and date).
This month the March of Dimes is in
progress. County March of Dimes funds
have made the vaccine available free
to persons 20 to 40 years of age. The
funds have helped finance polio vac
cine clinics.
A good motto to follow this month is
"Give to the March of Dimes and get a
polio shot NOW."
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Security for You...
By RAY HENRY
This is a true story of one man's
struggle with retirement. It only
has a beginning and a moral.
The struggle began about a year
ago. Here's how the man tells it:
"One day the boss called me
into his office. He said I'd just
about reached 65 and that it was
company policy to retire its peo
ple at that age.
"I told him I wasn't in shape
financially to stop working. I had
planned to work one more year
as I had gone to the expense of
fixing up an apartment in the
basement to rent. I knew I couldn't
live very well on my pension and
Social Security alone.
"He put the pressure on me. I
had no choice. So, I retired.
"Then, I discovered that my
pension wouldn't be as large as I
figured. As soon as I got over this
shock, I started looking for a
light job to help pay for the gro
ceries. I still haven't found one.
"I've advertised the apartment,
but nobody seems to want it.
"I tell you this not becdusc I'm
feeling sorry for myself. I've had
a lot of time to think about my
mistakes in planning. I'm telling
you in the hope that you might,
through my experience, help other
people prepare themselves better
for retirement and escape the
shocks I've had."
Maybe his story will help some
people. It certainly does illustrate
the wrong way to go into retire
ment and how important planning
retirement can be.
The amazing thing, perhaps,
about the man's story is that his
problems seem to be quite com
mon among people retiring these
days. At least my letters show
that they are.
Yet, in almost every case just
a little planning years earlier
would have made retirement so
much easier for them. Take the
man's case as an example:
First, he should have found out
what the company policy was on
retirement age much sooner. Al
most every company has one. The
bulk of the companies fix a retire
ment age between 65 and 70 and
rigidly enforce it.
Second, he should have found out
much earlier about how much the
company pension plan would pay
him at 65. Then, if he felt it wasn't
going to be enough, he could have
started saving for retirement.
Third, before he started spend
ing money on an apartment in his
basement, he should have talked
to a real estate dealer or some
one else about the chances of
renting it. He probably would have
found out that he'd have trouble,
saved his money and, perhaps, de
cided to get a smaller house which
wouldn't have cost him so much
money to keep up.
Of course, he can still sell his
present house and probably find
one which meets his needs better.
But, chances arc he'll never re
cover the money he put out in
building the basement apartment.
Fourth, if he figured he'd need
a light job to make enough to live
on after retirement he should have
started looking for one long be
fore he retired. Since he'd made
the mistake of not finding out
when he'd have to retire, he fore
closed this possibility. But, it's
still the best advice for people
who want to work some after they
retire.
(Editor's Note: You may con
tact the social security repre
sentative at the courthouse an
nex, Beaufort, from 9:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. Wednesdays. He will
help you with your own particu
lar problem).
Stamp News
By SYD KROMSII
Regular U.S. postal issues arc
not to be ignored in the 1958 pro
gram. even though commemora
tives (honoring persons, places
and events) make all the head
lines. This, however, is a natural
phenomenon due to the purpose of
the issues.
Two additional values in the cur
rent regular postage issue have
been announced by Postmaster
General Summcrfield. One will be
of the 15 cent denomination por
traying John Jay. first chief jus
tice of the Supreme Court. The
other will be a 25 center depicting
the patriot Paul Revere.
The 15 cent stamp will be placed
on sale in Washington, D. C. and
the 25 cent in Boston. Issuance
dates and other information con
cerning design and color will be
announced soon.
Liberia has issued four new reg
ulars and two airmails honoring
the Antoinette Tubman Child Wel
fare Foundation.
The two airmails are a 15 cent
brown and blue showing a nurse
inoculating a child. The 35 cent
maroon and grey depict the Ka
mara triplets.
The regulars are 4 cent green
and red?playground, 5 cent brown
and green?a child in school, 6
cent violet?children singing the
national anthem, 10 eent blue and
red?a view of children looking
at the foundation building.
The Belgian Congo has an
nounced that three new stamps
have been issued for Ruando
Urundi.
The additional values on the
semi-postals will go to the Congo
Red Cross. The values are 3.50
franc plus 50 centimes, 4.50 fr plus
50 c and 6.50 fr plus 50 c.
F. C. Salisbury
Here and There
The following Information it ta
ken from the files of the Iforebead
City Coaater:
FRIDAY, JAN. 17, 1919
John D. Webb of Farmvillc spent
Sunday in the city with relatives.
J. E. Jenkins has moved to Beau
fort where he is serving as one
of the two policemen of the town.
Mrs. Gladding of St. Louis, Mo.,
Author cf the Week
Wright Morris, author of "The
Field of Vision," is author alto
of a notable list of books in
which he sometimes has com
bined his talent for photography
with his talent for prose ? a pho
to of a bullfight used on the
jacket of this novel was taken
by Morris in Mexico.
Native of Central City, Nab.,
he is married and lives In Wayne,
Pa. He has had three Guggen
heim Fellowships, in 1M2, '46 and
'44, and has traveled a lot
abroad.
is in the city visiting her sister,
Mrs. W. J. Moore.
Miss Lillian Paul returned home
Tuesday from Washington where
she visited relatives.
Miss Henrietta Moore arrived in
the city Wednesday from St. Louis,
Mo., where she spent several
months attending school.
G. W. Stancil and granddaughter,
Gladys Lewis, spent a few days in
New Bern visiting his daughter,
Mrs. Jacob Chadwick.
1 The Misses Fannie Wade and
Alice Edwards and Josh Piver at
tended the play, Every Woman, in
New Bern Thursday night.
Mrs. Walter Freeman and chil
dren have returned from Richlands
where they spent a few weeks vis
iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. E. Hatch.
The Rev. J. B. Willis, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of this
city, is in Greensboro Ihis week
attending the Baptist State Con
vention.
J. B. Arcndcll, formerly con
nected with the shipyard, has ac
cepted a position with A. H. Webb,
local agent of the Norfolk-Southern.
Miss Bessie Lowe, expert milli
ner for the Paragon Company the
past season left this week for New
York to spend a few days before
returning to Baltimore.
The front of the store being oc
cupied by D. B. Willis & Company
is this week being treated to a
new coat of paint. Willis says this
is not being done because of the
"Sanitary Committee from Camp
Glenn."
A television entertainer was dis
cussing hia humble beginning and
recalled that he played one town
so small the street lights dimmed
when be plugged in hia electric
razor.
-Journal-World
THE HIGH COST OF SURVIVAL
How March of Dimes Funds Were Spent
for Folio Patients in 1957
90% FOR OLD PATIENTS
NEW
Lest we forget ? Thousands of Americans have survived paralytic
polio ? but with heartbreaking disabilities. To help them in their
fight for something better than mere survival is the aim of the If arch
of Dimes.
Loui? Sptvy
Words of Inspiration
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE
Each Sunday when I go to Sunday School I tee to many parents drive
up with their children, the children enter the house of God, alone, the
parents drive on.
1 just wish there were some way I could make these parents realize
the happiness they are missing, the example they are failing to set for
the little ones that 1 am sure they love more than life itself.
Our children are taught by our example. Sometimes it takes us a
long time to learn this; however, life is a very thorough teacher, and
we learn, oftimes too late and with deep regret.
During the growing up years of my children, I attended Sunday
School and church with them, but 1 was not a teacher. 1 missed a won
derful opportunity.
My reason ... I just didn't feci that I was good enough or that my
education was sufficient. 1 wanted for my children a better teacher
than I felt that 1 could possibly be.
Those of you who do not have family altars in your homes are miss
ing a wonderful part of life. It has always been difficult for me to pray
in public and to express my thoughts to others. In Sunday School as I
have begun these last few years with a new class and started off with
sentence players by each member, it has become a little less difficult.
If it were possible for me to have a recording machine and I could
record the Sunday morning prayers of many of the children, many par
ents would be quite surprised to hear these little ones express their love
and concern for their families, their communities and their world, as
they talk to their God.
As 1 sit in the sanctuary on Sunday night and see and listen to our
young people In our church choir, 1 just wonder how their parents could
possibly be absent.
The child whose parents get up on Sunday morning, get ready for
worship service, and go together as a family, will never have any trou
ble getting the children to go. This becomes a part of their lives, as
they follow the example set by their parents.
If the parents arc teachers or leaders in the church, life somehow
selects their children as leaders of tomorrow's world.
Our home life, our church life shows very clearly in the lives of our
children, wherever they may be.
The greatest things in the world that we can give them is love, faith,
appreciation, hope, security, responsibility, respect, pride, peace, and
unity. These things money cannot buy, nor are they taught with words
of the world's best teachers. We teach these most important lessons
around our own firesides.
To those of you who feel that I'm not quite right about this, let me
challenge you to try for just one year. Take your children to church
on Sunday and take an active part in the opportunities offered there.
Establish a family altar in your home, reading together at least once a
day a few verses from the Bible. Give your little ones the opportunity
to ask God's blessings upon you and your home.
This will bring to your heart, as a parent, the greatest peace and
joy you've ever known, and you will sec a great difference in the lives
of your family.
It is difficult for a husband or wife to fail each other in any way, if
each has heard the other ask for God's blessings and guidance. It will
be difficult for a child to fail in school, if that child has prayed at break
fast for God's guidance and help in her work. It would be difficult for a
teen-ager to associate with bad company and break the laws of God and
man, if he had heard his parents pray with him in the morning, that
God be with him and guide him through each hour.
Our own good example is the best gift that we can ever bestow upon
them. It will lay the foundation of their lives, the most important part
of all they will ever come to know.
Your church needs your family, but I can assure you that your family
needs the church much more.
From the Bookshelf
Strange Evil. By Jane Gaskcll.
Dutton $3.50.
Add this Jane to that growing
list of authors still not full grown
?Berthe, Minou, Edwin, Christine,
Krancoise, Anne and others?so
young that we don't say Miss or
Mr. but use the first name, so
young that we are less inclined to
criticize their little opuses than
to pat their little heads, chuck
their chins and paste gold stars
on their report cards.
Jane is a 14-year-old English
girl, a juvenile author but by no
means author of a juvenile. Her
heroine in the first chapter is
speeding to a painter's to pose
nude for him; and she gets there.
Soon after, a second girl, too,
"whips off her clothes," though
again it is all for art's sake.
It is in truth innocent enough,
but there has been a tendency in
some of our junior authors to get
the clothes off their characters
without wasting a minute. Perhaps
that is their idea of how book
people act, or their idea of how
grown-ups act. Or is it wishful
thinking?
No matter how old you arc, there
arc not many things to write
about: Birth, death, love, hate,
fate?what else? If grownups can't
think of other things, why should
we expect children to?
But whatever the subject, we
should be resigned by now to the
fact that children write?unless we
should rejoice. Talent has blos
somed early in many geniuses as
well as in would-be geniuses.
Thousands of youngsters every
year exhibit their own paintings.
Mozart composed two operas be
fore he was 15, and Bizet wrote
his Symphony in C at 17.
Now that we have turned from
adult novelists to high-school prod
igies and grade-school pupils, we
have only to drop on back to kin
dergarten. Of course, writers have
almost always written from kin
dergarten on, making up letters,
keeping diaries and so on. But
they didn't have such obliging pub
lishers.
A couple out of the dozen who
have appeared in the last two
years?Berthe Grimault who wrote
"Beau Clown" at 14 is one and
so unfortunately is our young
friend Jane?are not really inter
esting enough for the average
reader or important enough for the
busy critic. Jane has her moments.
She has a lively way with the pen,
and once in a while there is a
genuinely poetic passage. She is
irresistible when, with her heroine
falling in love, she betrays her
own juvenility before the great
mystery by writing this sentence
with its concluding adverb:
" 'It's love all right,' she thought
grimly."
But Jane runs out of talent, and
her story deteriorates into a kind
of science fiction, which adults do
badly enough anyway without help
from their offspring.
That is a reminder of the fun
damental fault to be found with
all these young people. They
merely do as authors what their
elders do as authors. They arc
not experimental writers, they are
just experimenting with writing
as their teen-age peers experiment
with football, sewing, nursing or
scouting. They arc not covering
new ground, they merely cover
ground new to them.
But we must not be unfair.
Though they copy their elders,
they often have a unique youthful
verve, and sometimes a charming
ly fresh point of view. Francoise
Sagan's "Bonjour Tristesse" was
the work of a fine, skilled and
subtle 18-year-old hand?Miss Sa
gan by now of course has graduat
ed and is all of 22. Edwin Daly,
who began "Some Must Watch"
at 16; Ruskin Bond, who began
"The Room on the Roof" at 17;
Minou Drouet, whose poems at 8
are no less remarkable than Miss
Sagan's prose at 18?all these are
worthy, deserving, exciting au
thors, and often more than ? match
for their seniors.
-W. G. Rogers
Why Is it the rainy days for
which we save our money usually
coma during our vacation?