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PAGE FOUR THE COASTLAND TIMES Published Continuously at Manteo, N. C., Since July 4, 1935 Fhe Weekly Journal of the Walter Raleigh Coastland of North Carolina, Foremost Region of Recreation and Sport, Healthful Living and Historical Interest Cn The Atlantic Seaboard. Entered As Second Class Matter At The Postoffice At Manteo, N. C. Subscription Rates: 1 Year $2.50; 6 Months $1.50; 3 Months SI.OO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY TIMES PRINTING CO., INC., AT 505 LODGE STREET, MANTEO, NORTH CAROLINA VICTOR MEEKINS, Editor CATHERINE D. MEEKINS Secretary-Treasurer Vol. XVII Manteo, N. Friday, February 13, 1953 No. 33 AGRICULTURAL POWER. Few realize how deeply the roots of agriculture are embedded in our life. George Washington was acclaimed the “first farmer of the land.” Thomas Jefferson devoted much of his time to agricultural experiments, studying seeds, soils, fertilization and crop rotation, and was among the first to use contour plowing. That great early American statesman Daniel Webster operated a model farm at Marshfield, Mas sachusetts. Andrew Jacskon, seventh president of the U. S. was a plantation owner and took great pride in the fact that the reaping machine was invented during his adminis tration. And Lincoln, as every school child knows, experi enced in full measure hard work on the land. He signed the Homestead Law of 1862, that gave thousands of American families the chance to settle on public domain land. With this background and our great industrial develop ment it is small wonder that with only seven per cent of the world’s people and six per cent of its land, America is able to produce much more food per capita than other parts of the world. American industrial devolpment has meant high production per farm worker through the use of modern farm equipment. In fact the history of farm mechanization is the history of America’s brilliant victory over famine. If farm ers everywhere could be blessed with the knowledge, the freedom and the machines so typical of America, the hunger and famine which have stalked mankind since time began would be only a hazy memory. Our forefathers who loved the soil were wiser than they knew when they founded a system of government that inspired in the breast of the individual the will to attempt to achieve the impossible. END THE DOUBLE TALK. Since the people voted for fundamental changes in the federal government, there should also be some changes in the words and phrases used to discuss public issues. In an excellent editorial on the subject the Saturday Evening Post has pointed out that “Every public question is ticketed so that the attitude of anybody who raises his voice about anything can be written off immediately as ‘reactionary,’ ‘progressive’ or ‘liberal’ . . . For example, why is it ‘reac tionary’ to favor a free market, and ‘progressive’ to plump for price control ? What is ‘liberal’ about a bureaucratic op eration of the electric power companies, as opposed to the ‘Tory’ theory that private companies have done pretty well in that field.” It would be a healthy thing for the country if people would take time to look beneath the labels of the “liberals” who so blithely minimize achievements of private citizens while always finding some excuse for extending the author ity of government over our lives and afflicting us with ever heavier taxation. As the Post so amptly asks, what is liberal about price control, under which every merchant in the country, big and little, lives with a constant threat of pen alties—even jail—if he deviates from incomprehensible rules drawn up by political appointees wholly inexperienced in the business of retailing ? It is indeed a warped conception of liberalism which can accept with equanimity such intru sion of government into the basic rights of American citi zens. YOU CAN’T EAT TAXES, BUT— You can’t eat taxes. You can’t wear taxes. But you must pay more for taxes than you do for food and clothing combined! In 1951, total federal, state and local taxes, direct and hidden, came to $84,600,000,000. In the same year total food and clothing purchases added upto $81,000,000,000. We have reached the point where the tax burden is the largest single item of expense to millions of American fam ilies. Many of us haven’t yet realized this for the reason that a substantial part of all taxes are paid indirectly—that is, they are part of the price we pay for an automobile or a loaf of bread or a pair of shoes or a ticket to a show. But we pay the full bill just the same—whether the money is handed over directly to some tax-collecting agency, or whether it is concealed in the cost of goods and services. It is generally believed that the danger point to a na tion’s strength and vigor is reached when taxes account for 2, per cent of the national income. Our taxes have left that figure far behind—about 33 per cent of the national income goes for taxes. And no one should be foolish enough to still believe that we can pay the tax bill by soaking the rich. If we took 100 per cent of the incomes of the rich it would pay the cost of government for only a few weeks out of the year. You—the average man and ‘woman —pay the tax bill. You will be the gainers if and when the cost of government is cut. “DEAR MAMA MIA” Every television addict is familiar with the weekly show “Life with Luigi” starring J. Carroll Naish. In one epi sode Luigi, the Italian immigrant lad who now runs an an tique shop in his adopted country, reached the conclusion that he should buy “a little piece of America” in the form of a share of common stock. His description of the purchase in a mythical letter to his mother is a gem of homely eco nomics, telling in a few simple words about all there is to tell of the principle of American corporate enterprise. “Dear Mama Mia,” says Luigi, “I’m got twenty dol lars free and clear, tax free. And I’m going to use this mon ey to buy a little piece of America. I’m going to invest in the stock market. In case you don’t know what means the stock market . . . I’ll explains “It’s like you and everybody in the village own the same chicken. You can’t eat it—you just own it. “Now if the chicken lays an egg, that’s a small divi dend. If it lays six eggs, that’s a big dividend. If it don’t lay any eggs at all, you better take a good look at the chicken . . . maybe it’s a rooster.” There are millions of “Luigies” in this country. They count on the chicken continuing to lay eggs. If it doesn’t— well, pretty soon there is no chicken. And that is the way it is with industries that keep this country going. They either earn some dividends for Luigi and his thrifty brethren who have invested hard earned savings in them or pretty soon there will be no production—and no sources of tax revenue. This is why the soap boxers who decry profits and the profit motive, whether they realize it or not, are calling for an end to the entire American system of enterprise and rep government. FOR COURTESY GO TO THE BARN Go to the barn to find good man ners, It is the shortest way, these days When men are all so busy living, To learn the bronze and gentle ways Horses eat with a decorum, They make no move of awkward ness, Their velvet muscles move like music, They eat their hay with a caresp. There is no sound but has its meaning, And most of the barn sounds are low, Even the youngest, hungriest calf Goes to his supper grave and slow. Cows have a dignity, a deport ment; They make you sure, they wish you well, Watch their eyes grow large and tender When you come, and you can tell. Quiet, quiet all around you, Though hunger is here, every where, Tenderer than the hay’s fragrance, Gentleness fills all the air. I have been called a barn poet, And I am proud to be, For courtesy and gentle behavior Have always been good poems to me. —ROBERT P. TRISTAM COFFIN VALENTINE'S DAY O, human love! thou spirit given, On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven! —Poe If the motives of human affec tion are right, the affections are enduring and achieving. —Mary Baker Eddy My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee The more I have, for both are infinite. —Shakespeare I love thee, as the good love heaven. —Longfellow. If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love’s sake only. —Elizabeth B. Browning My heart shall o’ertake you Wherever you are. —Clinton Scollard STUMPY POINT NEWS Mrs. Edith Payne and daugh ter Dail were in Durham last week. Mr. and Mrs. Dvyight Hooper and daughter Betty Jo of Norfolk spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Wise. Mrs. Wilma Midgett and son John Calvin returned to their home Friday night after spending sever al days in Norfolk. Elbert Hooper and daughter, Myrna Loy of Norfolk spent the week end here. Janice M. Butler of E.C.C. spent the week end here with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Meekins. Mrs. Josie Hooper and children, Stanley and Tony, have returned home after spending several days in Norfolk. Mrs. Sarah Snow and Mrs. Dia tha Swain of Elizabeth City spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. George Payne. Lonnie Hooper of Elizabeth City spent the week end with his mother, Mrs. Frances Hooper. Major Hooper of E.C.C. spent the week end with his mother, Mrs. Florine Hooper. Elizabeth Tolson and Boyd Jen nette of Norfolk spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Riley Payne. Mrs. U. G. Wise has returned home after spending a few days in Elizabeth City with her son, O. L. Wise. Mrs. Geo. M. Wise spent the week end in Norfolk and was ac companied home Monday by her sister, Mrs. Bertie Wise, who will spend a few days with her. Mrs. Melba Hooper was in Man teo on business Monday. Billy Hooper of A.C.C. spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hooper. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson of Stokes dale spent the week end here and attended funeral services for Al bert Best Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Payne and children of Norfolk and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Best, Jr., were called home last week by the illness and death of W. A. Best. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Best visited her father, Mr. Credle, at his home near Swan Quarter Sunday . Roger Best of Edenton was call ed home last Tuesday by the ill ness and death of his grandfather, W. A. Best. ' TANK (Continued from Page One) mits to install septic tank sewage disposal systems. This will avoid the inconvenience and expenses of uncovering such systems for in spection. Permits may be secured from the health department sanitarian or the health department at Man teo, Phone 91, THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. THE AMERICAN WAY .#7 111 huff ano ill \ PUFF ANO I’LL BLOW 1 ' YOUR house in/ J / Jf/ USA. That Big, Bad Wolf AVON PERSONALS Study Course Concluded The Mary Circle of the Wo man’s Society of Christian Serv ice of Avon met at the home of Mrs. Venice Williams Sunday night for the final session of the study course “Toward Understand ing the Bible”. The session opened with the group singing Like a Shepherd Lead Us”; fol lowed by presentation of the study by Mrs. Enna Scarborough and benediction by Mrs. Lucy Miller. Personals Mr. and Mrs. Martin Pritchard and Reginald Meekins of Elizabeth City and Moody' Meekins of Bal timore are here visiting their par ents. Mrs. Kate Scarborough is spend ing some time in Norfolk. Mrs. Collins Gray and son, Col ins, Jr., are in Portsmouth visit ing Mrs. Gray’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Watson Gray. Mrs. Daily Hooper and daugh ter Imogene and Mrs. Isaac Hooper of Elizabeth City have re turned home after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ebbie Hooper. Mrs. Charlie Gray and son, Char lie, Jr., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Gray in Nrfolk. Dameron and Ottis Meekins of Norfolk are here visiting their par ents. Sumner Scarborough of Norfolk is spending some time with his family here. Rev. P. M. Porter attended the district conference in Elizabeth City. Ben Price of Elizabeth City Air Base spent the week end with his family. MANNS HARBOR NEWS Mr., and Mrs. Marvin Rabon and Mrs. Bessie Cahoon from Colum bia spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Gard. Mr. and Mrs. George Midgett and children spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson. Geraldine Johnson was here this week end. Mrs. Lula Burrus was in Man teo Saturday. Mrs. Nina Roe and son Richard motored to Elizabeth City Satur day. x Rev .and Mrs. Enoch Nelson and daughter Sheran from Wheatley, Ontario, Canada, and Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Griner from Norfolk spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Thelbert Tillett. Mrs. Pearl Daniels, C. L. Mid gett and Elroy Gard went to Nor folk shopping this week. Alvah Gard went to Elizabeth City Thursday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Payne and Shelby Twiford from Stumpy Point were here visiting Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Twiford, Jr., and daughter, Donna, of Norfolk, visited Mr. and Mrs. Preston Twi ford and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Twi ford of Mashoes. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Spenecr, Jr., and children of Norfolk were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Spencer. Moncie Lee Daniels, 111, of N. C. State College, Raleigh, spent the week end here with his mother, Mrs. A. L. Ward. Bobbie Burrus spent Wednesday in Raleigh at the limb clinic where he was fitted for an artifi cial leg. He was accompanied by Jaccie Burrus and Thelbert Tillett. Friends of Mrs. Huff Mann will be interested to know that her con dition is much improved. Mrs. Mann has been very ill with the influents. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin White and children of Norfolk visited here last week end. They were accom panied home Sunday by Jennings Twiford. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE 1953 EASTER SEAL CHILD *** * / J B tat ROY EDWARD PINER, JR., of Wilmington, who has been select ed as North Carolina’s 1953 Eas ter Seal Child. He will symbolize all of the state’s crippled children during the annual sale of Easter Seals from March 5-April 5. MANNS (Continued from Page One) He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Mann of Manns Harbor. His brother Carl J. liked Army life, so Earl Ray Mann enlisted August 3, 1951 and took training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He was transfer red to Fort Bragg for eight weeks in the third army cook school, went to Hamilton Field, Calif, and then to Point Arena, Calif. He went to baking school in Santa Maria, Calif., and then volunteered for overseas duty as a cook. His rating is A-lc. HUNT (Continued from Page One) with national circulation. Additional hunters and more hounds are expected before the hunt ends if weather becomes more favorable. Most of the hunt ers are stopping at motor courts on the beach or at Catco Lodge, Kitty Hawk. Social headquarters for the hunt is the Carolinian’s Pine Room which was opened during the three-day event. Among the Tuaregs, a tribe of the Sahara Desert, upper-class men go veiled day and night but the women are not veiled. Fowl Worth ss*a Pound ' ‘A' * X Fowl at $5.33 a pound, eggs at 35 cents each. Those are prices Carl Lowrance, of Joplin, Mo., gets from the 30,000 quail on his farm. When Lowrance took up quail-raising two years ago, experts said he couldn’t raise commercial-size flocks; brooder losses from disease would run at least 20 per cent. They did until Lowrance cut this to 3.5 per cent by adding the wonder drug aureomycin to the chicks’ drinkingl vyater. Now he finds it impossible to fill all s he gets. j f’ I COLINGTON PERSONALS Mrs. Mary F. Haywood and grandchildren, Lois and Cecil Mid gett, of Corolla visited the form er’s daughter, Mrs. Jep Gaimel, over the week end. They were ac companied home by Zelda Gaimel, who will visit her grandmother. When Eunice Midgette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Midgette, had to be out of school Wednesday because of influenza, that was the first day she has missed being at her desk since she started to school. She is now in the fourth grade. Carol and Eddie Midgette also were ill and out of school. Their mother took them to Jarvis burg Tuesday to consult a doctor. Mr. and Mrs. Durward Carraway and children of Cherry Point visit ed her mother, Mrs. Lewis Meekins, over the week end. They were ac companied home by their son, Jun ior, who had been visiting his grandmother. Pamela Carraway remained for a longer visit. Wilbur Rogers of Norfolk, Va., was here Monday and Tuesday. He spent most of the time working on the house he is building. Mrs. Henry Haywood has re turned from Norfolk, Va., where she underwent treatment for a nasal condition. Mrs. Sarah Hill of Colington spent a few days last week with her granddaughter, Mrs. Ralph Johnson, and her grandson, Byron E. McPhee, at Nags Head. Allen Beasley was a week end visitor in Portsmouth, Va. ROTARY QUARTET DELIGHTS DISTRICT CONVENTION The Manteo Rotary Quartet, composed of Lawrence Swain, Ralph Swain, John H. Long, and Dick Jordan, drew round after round of applause last Monday night when they sang several nov elty numbers at the district Ro tary convention in Elizabeth City. Dick Jordan, who directs the group, doubled as accompanist and as pinch-hitter for Julian Oneto, ten or, who was ill. Among Manteo Rotarians and their Rotary Anne’s attending the Monday night banquet were Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Meekins, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Pearce, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Sawyer, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Long, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Swain, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Swain, Dr. W. W. Johnston, C. S. Meekins, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mc- Cown, Mr. and Mrs .Dick Jordan, and Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Meekins. IMPORTANT TO GIVE THE RIGHT DRIVING SIGNALS Raleigh, Feb. s.—The North Carolina Motor Carriers Associa tion launched its February Cour tesy and Safety campaign today with an appeal to motorists to know and use proper signals for turning and stopping. Driving Signals, the campaign title, is the February theme be cause increased stopping distances on slick surfaces and reduced vis ibility make quick stops for an un expected maneuver by another ve hicle either impossible or very dangerous, said M. Webster Hen ry, NCMCA President. “Give the other fellow a chance,” he asked. “It’s hard enough to see well in winter time without en countering somebody who, never lets you know what he is going to do next. He swerves or stops wher ever he happens to be, without signalling or even moving into a safe position.” The truckling official explained that on making turns, plenty of time should be taken to move into the lane nearest the right or left direction of turn, and begin signal ling well before the turn. Gradual movement prevents collisions with other vehicles. “Turn signals may be given by hand or by the use of approved electrical or mechanical signals,” he said. “Ample time should be allowed for signalling. The profes sional truck driver begins his sig nalling well before the point of maneuver,” he concluded. ANGLERS, (Continued from Page One) eously in Hatteras and Oregon in lets and in the surf between Kitty Hawk and Hatteras each year. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1953 SARAH’ Q ALLIED SARAH F. HALLIBURTON SLIGHT ERROR Your old beachcomber has been at it again and having fun, too, in spite of the tolerant am usem en t her enthusiasm evokes in more experienced shell collectors. For instance, what looked to the rank amateur like the rare shell of some crea ture, maybe a little turtle, turn ed out to be the skull of a bird. Oh, well, everybody gets a little confused now and then. LUCKY! A second Florida cask shell, a delicate, graceful spiral, was a nice find, especially when an old timer at shell collecting said it was rare enough to be worthy of anybody’s collection. SCOTCH BONNET Picked up at Hatteras is a shell less than two inches long, but thick and heavy. We are told it is a Scotch Bonnet, though it doesn’t look much like a bonnet and is too generous with mater ial to be Scotch. The shell, of the spiral type, is a milky dark ivory color, with thick ridges and a heavy rim around the opening. SEAT FOR BOATRIDE Those small shells that provide a little seat in one end and which people call boat shells, slipper shells, canoe shells and several other names are even more fas inating since Mrs. Nellie Myrtle Pridgen showed me three attach ed tightly to a broken conch. It seems they fasten themselves to such lodgings and take on the shape of the surface they have adopted. The creature appears to live in the shelter of the little shelf, with a sort of skin thrown up over the shelf, which hold the creature firmly in place. BLOB That was interesting, but the live creature that uses a lady's ear shell for its habitation was disappointing. It’s just a big blob of white substance that looks like fat, but when it is pulled out of the shell it retains the shape of the coil in which it has lived. HINT TO COLLECTORS v Incidentally, a kindly instruct or said that real collectors don’t wash, scrape and scour to re move every tiny sign of the crea ture which lived in the shell. For some reason, they like that proof that the shell was “alive” when it was found. FATAL Even the dogs in Dare county are politically minded, but not many, fortunately, take elections as hard as a dog which belonged to Mrs. Mattie Richley in Kitty Hawk. Os course, he was old and hadn’t been well in a long time, but the facts remains that when the announcement came, election night, that Eisenhower was run ning far ahead, the dog lay down and died. SURPRISE When Mr. and Mrs. Hunting ton Cairns of Washington, D. C., came down to spend a few days at their cottage in Southern Shores, recently, they brought their cat, Elpis, with them. Now the original Elpis was the wife of Boethius, who was a Christ tian martyr. This Elpis, however, surprised her humans and turned out to be a tomcat, but still keeps his feminine name. WONDERING The new administration, has some new beach cottage opera tors as confused as some of the employees in Washington, D. C. What with all this talk of reduc ing federal payrolls, Washington workers don’t know whose neck will get the axe next and they are a little hesitant about mak ing vacation plans. At least that’s the view of that cottage owner, who wonders if all his Washing ton, Arlington and Alexandria customers will be back this sum mer. NEWS IN MANTEO Among the Colored, A musical program will be giv en at Free Grace Disciple Church Feb. 15, the third Sunday night at 7:30 p.m. Eleven soloist parts will be sung. The public is cordially invited. Elwood Wise spent the week end with his parent, Mrs. Edno Wise. Frank Collins spent the week edn with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Collins. John H. Moore spent the week end with hisparents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Moore. <■ The building club met at Mrs. Ida M. Golden’s Monday night. Rev. J. E. Gordon, pastor ofl A.M.E. Zion Church, was in Man teo 12 o’clock Sunday for the regu lar morning worship. Miss Mattie Simmons, Mrs. Mary H. Whidbee, Mrs. Mary S, Daniels, were guests of Chief and \Mr». L. C. Gray Friday night. The even in* Wttg g rea tly enjoyed.