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Al MEMBERS WILL ATTEND
MOUNTAIN SUMMER CAMP

/ Dare County Farm Agent, jim
Rea has announced that the Al
clubbers in the area will attend 3
new camp as part of their summer
program. The representatives from
the Is clubs in the county will be
spending July 9-13 at Camp Swan.
nanoa this year, Rea stated. Some
48 youths are expected to vacation
at the mountain resort site this
year.
Applications Will be sent interest
ed club members and acceptance
will be on a first-come, first-served
basic. The fee per week for the
instruction and recreation at Swan
nanoa has been set at $14, but
does not include costs Of trans
portation. The Manteo High School
Activity Bus is expected to trans
port the All students to their camp
site near Asheville. Two adult coun-
selors will be on hand to supervise
the group.
Ray stated that the camp has a
permanent summer staff which will
supervise the youngsters, who will
be divided into groups named for
the motto of the club: head, heart,
hands and health.
Morning classes in swimming,
electricity and home-making are
being offered to the 10-17 year old
campers. Handicrafts and recrea-
tion will also be given particular
attention. In the afternoon, the
club members will occupy their
times with sports and other rec
reations. Evenings will be devoted
/ to "Fun-time" and vesper serv-
ices will be a regular feature for
campers before they crawl into bed.
On Friday evening the young
sters will attend a going away ban
quet when awards will be presented
for various activities. The county
agent has stated that the local
clubs selected the Swannanoa site
themselves and hope to have lar
ger attendance than last year when
they enjoyed the camp week at
Ellerbe, s. C.
The county agent has also an
nounced that two $500 scholarships
to members of All Clubs in the
district will be offered in 1862. The
scholarships will be based upon
need, participation in All activi-
ties, fellowship and good citizenship
in the school and community. The
selection committee for local candi-
dates is composed of Mrs. Mary
Evans, Mrs. Joyce Gray, of Buxton
and Mrs. Bob Adams. Interested
students are requested to contact
the principal at their high school.
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EXPRESSION OF THANKS
FOR HIS. ACTIVITY BUS

The following letter, addressed
TO ALL CITIZENS WHO HELP
ED ACQUIRE THE ACTIVITY
BUS, has been sent to the Times
for publication:
sIt is the desire of the Manteo
High School student body to ex-
press sincere appreciation for the
new activity bus.
During the short period of
time that we have had the bus, il
has been Of immeasurable service
1t offers more opportunity fol
groups of students to.participate in
extra-curricular &C tivities ard
sports. Everyone agrees that the
bus has given tremendous boost
to our school spirit. Indeed, we are
very proud of it.
Realizing the time, effort and
contributions which you sacrificed
we will always be indebted to you
Not only will the bus be Of great
value to us, but it will also be
utilized by numerous young people
in the future" fSigned) THE
MANTEO HIGH SCHOOL STU
DENT BODY.
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MORE IMPRESSIONS OF
THE ALASKAN SCENE

Dear Editor:
We have been interested in read
ing the several letters you have
published from Alaska recently, es-
|pecially those from Mr.. Gavin of
Healy Forks, which, as he has told
you, is only about 10 miles from
Mckinley Park. With train sched-
ules as they are during the winter
it would be difficult for people
in the two places to get together
unless they planned to stay all
night. However, since Mr.. Gavin's
last letter in which he mentioned
his second hand contact with us,
/ have had a very brief meeting
with him, and a longer meetinf with
his wife. It all happened because
made a trip to Fairbanks ON the
Alaska railroad with several of my
Mckinley neighbors-left home be-
fore a am. and returned well after
midnight.
On the return trip from Fair
banks there was quite group Of
Healy people in our car, including
the Railbelt minister who visits
all the villages within a certain sec
tion of the area selviced by the
railroad. We talked to the minister
and got into conversation with two
attractive young Eskimo girls from
Healy (people are friendly up
here). / found out that the two
girls went to school in Healy, SO
asked them if Mr.. Gavin was their
teacher. They said he was, and
added that Mrs. Gavin was on the
train, too. The minister overheard
us, found Mrs. Gavin a few seats
away, and took me back to meet
her. found her most pleasant and
sociable and we had a most inter
esting conversation. Although Mrs
Gavin has never lived on the Outer
Banks, she has visited there with
her husband and remembered some
of the people and places there, SC
we had no trouble making conver-
sation. She is going to the Univer'
sity of Alaska this winter, prepar'
ing to be teacher, too, and was
coming home for a few days vaca'
ton between semesters. Needless *
say the rather tedious trip home
that night seemed very much short
er than usual.
When the train reached Healy
and Mrs. Gavin prepared to leave
/ put on my jacket and stepped out
side with her TO meet Mr.. Gavin
When she introduced me to him
believe it took a few seconds fol
him to realize who / was-afteI
all he was expecting just to NEE
his wife, not also some strange
|he had never seen before. AS sool
as he realized who was, he startct
lin to tell me that he had receives
"a letter from Isavene Midget ant
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THE DATES Important
dates for North Carolina office-hoi-
ders who plan to run for election
for another term that is, as Gov.
Gregg Cherry used to say, make
the sacrifice 'are March t16 and
April 13.
If you want to run for Congress,
you must file by March 16. This is
the date for State and District Of
fees. After that date, it is too late.
Now men and women wanting to
run for the other offices county
offices, the; Legislature-have until
Friday, April 13, to make up their
minds. Being an old black-cat and
underlladder-ayoider, we do hope
each and every one will file before
the final date.
Who and what determines final
filing date? It's by law and
lis based on date of the Primary, the
last Saturday in May . the 26th.
Friday before the 10th Saturday
before May 26 is the date for State
and District offices y. and Friday
before the sixth Saturday before
May 26th is the county date -. in
cluding the Legislature. So, beware,
everyone!
o-n W. La Aoa,,
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FAYE B. WHITE
Augsburg, Germany

EDITORS NOTE: The preceding
letter was sent to us by Mr.. and
Mrs. Wayland Baum, of Wanchese,
who received it from their daugh-
ter who was in Berlin recently. We
felt it would be of interest to read
ers.
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1862 TO BE FINEST
SAYS TOUR BUREAU
PROPHESYING YEAR

Aycock Brown, Manager-News
Director of the Dare County Tour
ist Bureau, has announced that he
expects the 1852 season to be the
finest tourist season in the history
of the Dare Coast Outer Banks Sec
ton.
The prediction is based on the
fact that last years top season
has resulted in much new word of
mouth advertising and promotion
by those who visited the coastal
region; that, completion of the new
Alligator River Bridge will start a
new flow of tourists from Piedmont
and Western North Carolina; that,
the Lost Colony has plans for an
intestified promotion this year dur
ing its Silver Anniversary Year
season, and the fact that it will
be the 375th anniversary Of the
birth of Virginia Dare; that our
new resort facilities, and our new
attractions win provide sources for
more publicity; and, that we should
begin to tap the European travel
market as never before.
According to Brown, efforts to
obtain publicity and to create good
public relations for the Dare Coast
Outer Banks area has been con-
sistent during the first quarter
of the Tourist Bureau year. "We
have regularly sent stories to all
mediums of the press, and have al
so provided many photos or news
pictures which have been published
widely.
We have placed many pictures
on such subjects as outstanding
fish catches, First Flight celebra-
ton, new Alligator River Bridge,
new Waterside Theatre construc-
tion, Old Christmas, wildfowl and
big game hunting kills, Snow geese,
harbor and Outer Banks scenes
and others with the Associated
Press and United Press Interna-
tional syi1dicates and subsidiaries.
aThese photos were transmitted
as wire foto subjects or news fea-
ture pictures. We have worked also
with travel film organizations in
the planning or preparation of ira
vel movies of the area We have
consistently worked to get stories
or pictures in nationally circulated
magazines, and national television
networks. While some of the latter
items are still in planning or
preparation stage, we feel that our
sector will receive as much or more
national publicity of the type to
attract travellers in 1862, as any
other resort area in this or near
by states"
The acquisition of stenorette
equipment has greatly facilitated
mail handling for the bureau, ac-
cording to Brown who has indica-
ted that inquiries from students
requesting area and historical in
firmation have reached a new high
during the period"
The news director also indicated
that the Mimeographed Sportsfish-
ing Information Data for off-seas-
ing fishing has been updated; and
that new advertising material re-
lative to the Alligator River Bridge
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Y.D.C. MEET SCHEDULED

There will be a meeting Of the
Young Democrats Club at the Dare
County Courthouse next Wednes.
day at 8 pm. Mrs. Doris Fry
chairman of the club, has urged all
members and interested Democrats
to attend the gathering which she
says will be devoted to the selection
of planning committees.
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MEETING
CONTINUED from Page One)

in the fields of community and
area development and urged to use
their own initiative in planning
similar projects of their own.
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There are some defeats more
triumphant than victories. Mon
taigne
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and us. 81, and the Pirates jam.
boree of 1862 is now being pre-
pared.
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A persons character is but half
formed till after wedlocik.
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EASIER We had beer
through it all before but just
for the fun of it we called last
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ABOUT BERWER The news
we get from Minnesota Mining and
Manufacturing Co. is that Kidd
Brewer had stumbled onto good
thing" by luck =. and was
making good money :. at least
from the 3M -. as a manufactur-
er's agent !. when he went too
far.
They apparently sincerely believe
that no crime was committed in
Brewers relationship with their
firm. About income tax, etc. OF
course, they have no knowledge
and no opinion. But, on q business
outlook, trouble for Brewer began
when he began making payments to
Burch and right there is where
the Governor found solid ground
in firing Burch, it is thought,
Sanford has not back-tracked one
inch in his action. Bold.
just a lot Of questions remain
unanswered.
The word directly from Brewers
room at Duke Hospital is that he
shows no Improvement It may
well be that the public viii never
| have from Kidd Brewer the when's,
where's, why's, and what's of the
riddle.
Friends said last week the B'rch
indictments "are not helping Kidd
any at all'. Asked how he knows
about them, they said: "He has
ways Of finding out !"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
THE KENNEDY'S CAPITAL
FROM A REPORTERS VIEW

THE GOOD NEW DAYS BY Merriman Smith Bobbs-
Merrill Co.. So
Mr.. Smith, who reports the White House for
United Press International the whole town in 1.-THE
Good New Days" It's engaging faster then-the
can-read view Of Mr. Kennedys Capital 1t gives lot Of
our customs and manners very light going lover.
The good Kennedy life as it's practiced in George
town seems to interest Mr.. Smith most. His bemused
attitude yields delightful figures of speech Che
refers to Georgetown garden closet with a brick
floor Our most easily identfiable nelectua are tar
gets for his scamperng shots Some times they get hit
ITO pattern ones accent President Kennedy's" Mr.
Smith writes sis not advised however because the result
would be to sound like Oxford don playing the part
OF New England lobSterman in amateur theatrical"
A lot of the odd facts land lot of odder hearsay
too, in The Good New Days will be known many in
Washington This book is obviously written for the out
of-towner fairly disturbing thought.-E. T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18

hard for his election and for
some of the important New
Deal legislation. He was a
recognized liberal" among
the liberals. Yet, when FDR
proposed to pack the ST.
preme Court to obtain more
liberal-minded judges, it was
the great liberal. Senator
Wheeler, who was selected by
his more conservative Senate
colleagues to organize and to
lead the opposition against
the court-packing bill.
Could Have Changed History
Thirteen years before,
when he had been indicted
as reprisal for his exposure
and custer of Daugherty, he
was befriended by the late
Justice Brandeis. And it was
Justice Brandeis who ar
ranged to put in Wheeler's
hands the devastating letter
from Chief Justice Hughes,
which did as much as any
thing to sink the court-pack-
ing bill. Defeat of the court
bill was FDR'S greatest de-
feat. But FDR's respect for
his successful antagonist
could have made Senator
Wheeler-if the evidence is
to be believed-FDR'S run
ming mate in two campaigns.
Had he taken the hint,
Wheeler, rather than Harry
Truman, might have been
President. But he refused,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
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the French Of Alfred Souvy BY
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WEDNESDAY-ScoIps and Tomo-
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lures Of lndion Coptives Who Lived
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FRIDAY-ordeoI by Fire, conodu
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costoin. doubleday & Co.. $685.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
SAMUEL BECKETT: THE

SAMUEL BECKETT: THE
COMIC GAMUT. BY Ruby
Cohn. (Rutgers Univer-
sity Press; $6)
Il make haste to laugh at
everything" says Figaro in
The Barber of SeUille, for
fear of being obliged to
weep" One may suspect
Samuel Beckett, the Irish
man turned French author,
of holding the same philoso-
ply. In poems and stories,
novels and plays-of which
waiting for Godot" is most
famous-Beckett exploits the
full range of comic devices
and methods, yet paradoxic-
ally the final effect of his
works belongs as much to
the realm of pathos as of
comedy.
The comic is not always
langhable, as Mrs. Ruby
Cohn points out at the be-
ginning of her study Of the
comic in Beckett'S works,
but the expansion of the
idea of comedy to include all
that today goes by the name
of the absurd forces the
reader to question the value
Of such generic labels in re-
cent literature.
How Funny?
Mrs. Cohn anticipates the
objection, but her method
diSregards it. Item by item
she works through Beckett's
writings, employing first the
classifications of the comic
which Henri BergSon's essay
on laughter provides, and
then shifting her methods
and finally even her goals.
The result might have been
more satisfactory If she had
first illustrated the full
range of Beckett's methods
and then discussed their rel
alive Importance at various
stages of Beckett's career; or
if she had written interpre-
tative essays on the individ-
ual works, relating the
comedy and comic devices to
the overall effect of each
work.
Som e t m e S, particularly
with the later work, this is
just what she achieves; at
other times she has ground
out a catalog that turns
dreary despite the wit, the
puns, the ironies, and the sit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
An Irishmon AnoIyzes
The Ideas of Comedy

uations which make up her
list.
When Mrs. Cohn reminds
us that the individual ex-
ampleS must be read in their
context, she is pointing out
the weakness of her own
treatment of them. At the
same time her book makes
clear that she has the back
ground in French, English,
and Beckett to have written
brilliant explications of the
plays and novels if she
had looked at the forest
rather than the trees.
The Comic Devices
For most readers, the first
two chapters and the final
one will prove helpful in
grasping Beckett's purpose
full adaptation of comic de-
vices. Mrs. Cohn apparently
accepts as abSoluteS Beck
ett's own views and values,
but this is no drawback in
a book that aims at elucida-
ton rather than evaluation.
Her most interesting chap
ter Zone that does not seem
to fit within the scheme of
the book discusses Beckett's
translationS of his own work
from French into English;
"Godot," for example became
"bleaker" and less coloquial
in English than in French.
In an appendix, Mrs. Cohn
provides the text of Whore
scope" Beckett's poem on
Descartes, for which her sec
ond chapter provides an al
most exhaustive analysis.
Her learning and her COM
mand of French are evident
throughout her book, but the
general reader will find other
recent studies more valuable
as an introduction to Beck
EFT. Scholars will vail once
more at the failure to provide
an index.
ARTHUR COLLINS.
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and then as professor of
philosophy. Late in life he
went back to Harvard to give
courses in philosophy, and
ended his career at the Uni
Versity of Chicago.
AS philosopher he was a
realist-an amalgam of Soc
rates, Voltaire, and Hume. AS
undogmatic as the first, an
satiric as the second and as
Skeptical as the third, he at
tackled religion and religioSity
as the most vicious kind of
SupernaturaliSm in which it
was easy to make anything
equal to anything else and
which, in his view, were the
prime enemies of the ethical
life of reason. He was OPP
posed to making philosophy
a practical tool to ease the
burden of the man in the
street. Philosophy was for
him more than a workable
theology. AS his daughter
says:
The philosopher must re-
member that he is neither
statesman nor social worker,
economist nor preacher"
There is evidence through
out the book that he was
loved by all his pupils, and
respected by everyone, even
Cor perhaps most of alb by
those of his colleagues like
Dewey, who were in dis
agreement. I myself remem-
Der wildly that when Prof.
F. S. C. Northrop used "An
Introduction to Logic and
Seize tific Method" as
textbook in his 1885 college
course of Logic, he found lee
turing on the text exhilarat-
ing, but talking about Cohen
the man a heavenly delight.
DR.. Rosenfield lives in
Chevy Chase and is on the
faculty of the University of
Maryland. Her father, think,
would approve of her biog-
raphy. 1t is a work of love
but not of adulation, of rev.
elation but not of propagan-
da, the life of a man, not of
a mentor. Cohen wanted to
teach method, not instill con-
victionS. Like Nietzche, I am
certain, he despised disciples.
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should never hesitate to re-
port such suspicious.
4 \
The beauty of the book,
its extraordinary artistry,
lies in the fact that the read
er, like the character Nickel
way, never is sure whether
the kidnap plot is wholly a
fabric of the imagination. Mr..
McKelway fights himself
throughout the entire cpl
Sode, knowing the charac-
teristics of hallucination but
never being certain whether
he can recognize them in
himself. He keeps a good
grip on himself, and except
for rare moments of explo-
sion, bottles his neuroses
within his head. The reader,
on the other hand, is treated
to the great delight of de-
layed comprehension. Half
of the book seems a bewilder-
ing mass of trivial and un-
interesting detail - a cross
between a travelogue and a
whimsical mystery. All of a
sudden the reader becomes
aware that this is no sight
seeing and no whimSey, and
the mind goes back to APP
preciate the minuteness of
the picture of a person be-
set with delusion or horrible
fear of delusion. From then
on he goes forward and back
ward, and becomes as adept
at imagining things as Mr..
McKelway himself.
y y
Involved in the kidnap
fantasy is a second preoccu-
patton of Mr.. McKelway fam
iliar to all his fans. His fam
lily tree, whose branches are
heavy with Presbyterian min
listers or wives of ministers,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18

as Anaconda Copper, which
pretty much ruled the roost
in Montana. His political de-
feats, rather than his early
victories, got him on the
high road.
In 1911 he ran FOR State
attorney general. He got
licked. This defeat led to
his appointment, by an ad-
miring patron, the great
Senator Walsh of Montana,
as United States district at
torney, Wheeler was a good
prosecutor and his five years
OF service enhanced his repu-
tation.
Then he resigned, in order
to help Senator Walsh get
reelected. Had he not re-
signed, he would never have
made an angry speech be-
lore the Non P Partisan
League that made him the
Leagues candidate for Gov
ernor in 1920. He was licked
again. Had he been elected,
the depression of 1920 would
have ruined him politically
as the incumbent Governor.
AS it was, he became the
logical Democratic candidate
for the Senate in 1922 and
was elected.
Sudden NOtOriety
Within minutes after the
freshman Senator from
Montana entered the Senate
chamber for the first time
in December, 1928, he vio-
lated a Senate rule and was
Administration smoking
by the presiding officer. A
day or so later his loud II
OBJ ject,' when Majority
Leader Henry Cabot Lodge
asked for approval of new
SEN a tie committee assign
mentS by unanimous consent
shocked the Senate, brought
frowns of disapproval from
the elder statesmen, tied up
the Senate for the next three
weeks and gained sudden
notoriety for the unknown
junior Senator from Mon
tana who. as a matter of
principle, prevented a nom
progressive Senator from be-
coming chairman of an i'm
portant committee.
First Year HighIights
In his first year in the
Senate, Senator Wheeler:
Cd Successfully led the fight
to GUST Henry M. Daugherty
as Attorney General; 90
added to headline currency
from coast to coast such
places and names as 1.-THE
Little Green House on K
street." Jess Smith, Roxie
StinSon, Ned Mclean, Gas
ton B. Means and William j.
Burns; 90 was framed by
the Department of Justice
and indicted by two grand
juries and completely vindi-
Gated by the courts and a
Senate investigating COM
mittee; "a jumped the
traces as a Democrat to run
with LaFollette on the Pro-
greSsive ticket in an unsuc-
cessful campaign that made
him better known through
out the country.
Any reader of political his
tory will find Senator Vince
ler's narrative ard the inside
details which tighten it the
source of a new understand
ing of the authors character.
He was an original hacker of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, fought