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TWO THE STATE PORT PILOT e Southport, N. G. ? PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY v JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor * Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at 0 the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under v the act of March 3, 1879. 1 g Subscription Rates . ONE YEAR $1.50 1 SIX MONTHS 1.00 t: THREE MONTHS 75 tl ? f ^JL^NATIONAL EDITORIAL P ttO) J J ASSOCIATION tl / 93 5 I ' Wednesday, July 10, 1935 J Tolerance is a noble virtue wherever it is found. I] Beware of the man whose story sounds tl too good. You can live cheaper but not happier c' when your wife's reducing. If you have to "handle a man with C( gloves," it is usually best to use boxing ^ gloves. io The singing of one mosquito in your Cc bedroom will keep you awake longer than a radio running fuil blast in the next m room. ? re The other day Congress forgot to draw di its pay, and now alienists are scratching e\ their heads in wonder. ! hi This athlete's foot is a misnomer, be-jvs cause if everybody who has it were an1 vi athlete, this would be an athletic nation, th ce Steam heat wouldn't go so well in some homes. You couldn't spit tobacco til juice on a radiator very well. th th Funny, this human nature of modern PJ times. The fellow stingiest with his mon- 01 cy, usually is most liberal with his advice, th ly A short trip through the upper end of pi Brunswick county Sunday afternoon convinced us that recent rains have meant J\ thousands of dollars to farmers in this section. ti It won't be long before the tobacco ft markets open; it won't be long before the shrimping season begins. In other words, it won't be long before Brunswick county business will be booming. Re-Instate Office a el We commend the action of the board |s( * * * I of county commissioners last weex in reinstating the office of home demonstra- Yl tion agent in Brunswick county. tl A home demonstration agent and a p] county farm agent are almost indispen- <j( sable in every rural county in North Car- 71 olina and we are glad that the commis-1 e) sioners voted at this time to continue the j work. ;tc " | d< Constructive Measure es * e< In approving last week the plan for re- j financing the county debt, members of 5< the board of commissioners for Bruns- cl wick county effected huge savings for the a] tax payers. If citizens of the county will tl pay their taxes promptly, the plan makes sj it possible to retire the entire debt without increasing the tax rate. There is 0' every indication that the tax rate may be tl reduced during the coming years. Si Charles M. Johnson, state treasurer, tl chairman of the local government commission, declared that the arrangement tl with the board of commissioners for p Brunswick county was one of the most si satisfactory he has yet obtained in North t< Carolina. u In addition to members of the board of t, county commissioners, Register of Deeds R. I. Mintz and other local officials spent i, hours of hard work co-operating with the $ local government commission to make e this settlement possible. 0 Pedestrians Rights f 6 Somebody is going to be run over and 2 hilled on the road between SouthDort and the Sawdust Trail intersection unless r some of the people who walk along that j road at night begin to use more judg- r ment. r It is not at all uncommon to have ped- c estrians, walking three and four abreast, s pay no attention at all as a car approach- c THE STATE PORT PI s. Unless he happens to be meeting anther car, a careful driver can slow down, rive around and leave his friends on foot nth their rights and dignity preserved. Vhen two cars meet, a compromise is in] rder?and it is seldom the ones who are; talking who compromise. We well understand why a person'ea hould hate to walk in the sand beside gr he road, but it seems to us that pedesrians might be a bit more considerate of;ut hose who are driving. By walking single ile or by occasionally stepping off the an avement for a moment they could make he i tVi he local highway doubly safe for walk-|wl lg and riding. as tn nfantile Paralysis m od So far during the current epidemic of ^ va ifantile Paralysis which is sweeping ag irough North Carolina, Brunswick coun7 has been fortunate not to have a single A is? ase of this insidious disease. Members of the Brunswick County pr W( tedical Society and Mrs. Lou H. Smith, at aunty nurse, are on the alert to discover an les ip first annearance of the malady. Anx- ho us mothers and fathers pray that no ^ ise will appear. jce' While it is wise to take every possible fie ecaution against unnecessary exposure, jori lere is no need for hysteria, which may isult in unnatural confinement of chil- uti en. Statistics show that in some cases, tic ^en the most carefully guarded children'110 ive been stricken. !on Dr. Lloyd Abbott, director of the Har-jtiv ird Infantile Paralysis commission, a'?? sitor in the state last week, has issued icia e following reassuring statement con-!pu !i*ning the disease: !co! "During the worst epidemics of infanle paralysis, only one person out of a ho] Lousand contracts the disease; and of do; lose who contract it, only one-half get ki( iralysis. Of those who are paralyzed, oui le-half will be cured completely; and of 0,4 te one-half who are not cured complete, only one-half will be seriously crip- it led." c*1 opi sid lural Electrification ec< fe\ Rural North Carolina wants electrmca- d? on and the stage would seem to be set ag >r it to get what it wants in this respect. ^ David S. Weaver, projects engineer, in- vi< >rms that over 22,600 prospective cus- P? imers in 686 North Carolina rural com(unities have expressed their desire to th< ?cure electric power as soon as possible. w In addition, there are 2,685 prospective jstomers who may become interested in th< lectrification a little later when they cu :e their way clear to obtain it. ^ Figures tabulated from the recent ruil electrification survey show that in co: le communities surveyed the immediate,?" rospective customers include 19,776 resi-|0ti ents, 1,022 filling stations, 283 schools,'ha 54 churches, and 801 customers classifi- Te 1 as miscellaneous. So On the farms of the prospective cus- an >mers listed above, electric lighting was j esired for 5,905 bams, 915 poultry hous-jon >, 1,808 garages, and 2,U6? misceiian- ios jus buildings and outhouses. Among the appliances wanted are 6,- m( 10 refrigerators, 3,281 washing ma- qu lines, 977 ranges, 8,027 other heating!^ ppliances, 2,190 motor appliances other on lan washing machines, and 6,589 water a :stems with electrically operated pumps. Mr. Weaver has an idea that the $4,- pi? 00,000 of Federal funds available forji lis type of development in the United jof tates will make it possible for much of i lis demand to be supplied. jmi The State Planning Board estimates w< lat $25,000,000 could profitably be ex- f* ended in North Carolina in this expan- Pr on and hopes that the State will be able "S( ) get its share of the Federal funds to ;n ndertake extensive projects of this na- bii are. ^ 16' The cost of constructing rural power dii nes has been estimated at a little over ve 1,000 per mile, and five or six custom- H< C0 rs are needed for each mile of line in pr rder to make it self-supporting. se In North Carolina there are 9,627!13 es ?"? vrv? o eiawT/irl fv/irvi non+i'ol riAXirnv ofofiAno I nxiuo ovi v V/U xx vin vviiuai pu n vx ovunuuo, ^yj ,022 farms with home light plants, and de 164,014 farms without electricity. The State Rural electrification com- er nittee has completed tabulations on 75 tii >er cent of the surveys made recently in ge nore than 700 North Carolina rural com- pi nunities. The surveys were made to as- w: :ertain which communities are in a pe- su ition to obtain rural power on an econ- pt >mical basis.?Charlotte Observer. to TH CAROLINA trf/r~ ? I jnl^r [LOT, SOUTHPORT> NOR Washington Letter Washington, July 10. It is an sy bet that the current Conessional investigations into lob influences relating to public ility legislation will be nothing ore than "the pot calling the ttle black" With the Senate id House conducting separate arings on the same subject, er" is bound to be confusion lich will leave the public dazed to the true situation. The mo;es which inspired this unusual able-barreled probe of the Adinistration lobby and the met 9 of private opposition to reilation of public utilities are ried. Politicians are in complete reement, however, that out of e welter of charges and counr-charges of lobbying will come clear-cut Presidential campaign jue for 1936. An unbiased observer of the esent series of investigations juld be required to report an mosphere charged with doubt d suspicion. Cagey Republican iders whisper among their corts that the President should ve been permitted to put across s controversial "death senten1 or compulsory dissolution of lding companies in the power Id. Then, they argue, the minty party could have gone to > country with a direct appeal the millions of investors in lity stocks and bonds. The tacs adopted by a Democratic ,use of Representatives in runig counter to the White House iers in this matter has effecely minimized partisanship, lata, a Democratic Congress 3 authorized a quiz of its offi.1 family largely because a Reblican solon voiced a public nplaint. These two steps sursed and somewhat embarrassthe G.O.P. as the gains they ped to make are now in the ibtful column. The action of the House in iking over traces has beenvari3ly interpreted. Some contend it it marked the emancipation Democratic law-makers from ; patronage yoke. Others insist is an uprising against the soiled "Brains-Trust" which has enly belittled Congress and conlered the legislative body as a bber-stamp for their ideas in jnomics and law-making. A v consider the rebellion as a ect outgrowth for badly maned distribution of partisan unties and patronage. Another planation is the increasing conition that Mr. Roosevelt is sliplg with the masses of voters lich gave the boys on Capitol ill a splendid cue to throw off ? shackles of domination, hatever prompted the cutting the Gordian knot, it is a forene conclusion about town that s President will be obliged to rb the fair-haired young lawars and economists hereafter in iting new legislation. While the Senate and House nference committees are busily gaged in threshing out differces in the two utility bills, anler electric power controversy s gripped the House. The Tenssee Valley Authority, operatr huge power projects in the uth, is demanding more money d broader powers from the pslative branch. Announcement it the President wanted action the Bankhead bill to authorize ins to tenant farmers and snare jppers provokes speculation as the implications of this latest >ve. It is asserted in some arters that this legislation luld allow the thousands of this lss to purchase lands and homes government credit with almost life-time to pay it back. It has i ear-marks of a sapping opetion against Huey Long's Utoin schemes which attracted so iny share-croppers and other this farm group to his banrs. Hearing before the House Comttee on Ways and Means this :ek showed the intention of ornized minorities to force genii tax revisions at this time, oponents of the Roosevelt oak-the-rich" plan are obviousmore optimistic than sincere their claims that a new tax II will be ready for a vote in e House within ten days. Atmpts to confine witnesses to a scussion of the three-point renue plan proposed by the White 3use are futile. It is known that rtain groups of processors and obably farmers will endeavor to 11 the Congress on changes in riff laws on the theory it is sentially a matter of revenue tiich foreshadows a protracted ibate. Members of the House eking re-election naturally shy vay from suggestions for a genal revision of taxes at this me especially if proposed chan;s will call for higher rates on oderate and smaller incomes. A ogram of this sort is loaded 1th political dynamite. The presire for early adjournment is innsified as candidates become micky over the voters reaction taxes. I ; Weekly Quiz 1. What is a kersey? j 2. Who was the first ruler oi j Scotland? 3. When was the Monroe Doc trine dec'ared? 4. How much was the ancienl Roman lira? 5. What are facual? 6. What are fagots? 7. Name the capital of Mis ill i,{ II )( i! A Mai )( II Jt ______ f III | Would yoi I from your best |j t | j Would you ] [ him? j j i: You are si |1S I! you write busii )! Ilk ); out your Dins o it j | velopes of poor I! )( 11 Money sav< !! 11 stationery is an j!( j| You will be su || stationary. We !! show you samp i i it )t 1! It It It It S t i * II II il The J II II II IE ii H ii \ WE Calling souri? ? . ^ ^ t S. Mow many cudic ieei m a q cord of wood? * tr 9. What is the largest body cc of fresh water on the American Continent ? , 10. Where is the rock of Gib- fa ralter? J11 11. How much is a quintal in avoirdupois weight? 12. Who is Lily Pons? le< t (Answers on page 6) h8 Lowered quality and quantity co of flue cured tobacco is reported er throughout eastern North Caro- di lina due to lack of rain. of tter Of Bu i send your janitor to s customer? send your delivery boy 1 lowing the same lack of less letters on cheap lett< n cheap bill forms and nu quality. ed by using an inferior gn example of false econom rprised at the reasonable ; will be glad to quote voi M 0 les of our work. State Port SOUTHPORT, N. G. I i iH DNESDAY, JULY la S.'I "' V i a /mJwSraL M Corn growers of Hayn^^V aunty report more than :A ouble from the bud wormjA >rn borer this season. Farmers planning to seed A lfa this fall should kee?A ind that preparation of A nd should begin in July. A [tension workers at State (A Over 500 acres of farm tve been designated by lh^H mbe County farmers for i^H osion control work under rection of the county ages^H ihhhbhhhhhhhhhbjH isiness I olicit business :o collect from respect when erheads, make lil them in enide of business y at its worse, price of good 1 prices and to Pilot |
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