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Wednesday, July 24, 1935
Never put off until tomorrow what you
can get somebody to do for you today.
Middle class: Those who are too poor
to pay their hospital bills and too rich to
get it for nothing.
To say a man has checked out does
not necessarily mean he has died; it
may mean he has a son in college.
Our opinion is that the kind of match
which parents make is never intended
to set the world on fire.
Man has peculiar ways for showing his
masterfulness. Usually, when he has had
trouble starting his automobile, he races
the motor with a loud roar as evidence
of his conquest of his mechanical slave.
The County's Loss I
The resignation of Reginald Turner as
principal of the Lockwoods Folly-Shallotte
schools removes from Brunswick county i
one of her most valuable school men. 1
During his term as principal, the Shal- '
lotte consolidated school has become generally
recognized as one of the better ^
schools in this section of the state. )
A promotion which carries with it :
more money caused Mr. Turner to decide ]
to resign his principalship at Shallotte in 1
order to accept the position as superin- \
tendent of the Asheboro public schools
in Randolph county.
We join with his many friends in this
county in wishing for him every success
in his new undertaking.
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our readers that communications intended
for publication in The State Port Pilot
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not enough that the signature be that of
"A Friend" or "A Reader."
Correspondence received with these
signatures and unsigned letters are
thrown into the wastepaper basket. We
must do that in order to protect ourselves
and our readers.
We welcome well written news from
the various communities of the county,
but we wish to urge those who write in
not to be petty or "gossipy" in their news
items. The news you send in helps advertise
your community in other sections
of the county. Let's see that this advertising
makes a favorable impression.
If Your Job Was At Stake
The private automobile driver has
much to learn, so far as safety is concerned,
from the operator of commercial
vehicles.
T? rnm 1 097 f a 1 QO A 4-1-,,-. ? ?
iium w xx/ui, tuc iiuuiuer ui passenger
cars registered increased seven
and one-half per cent? while the number
of such cars involved in fatal accidents
rose fifty-five per cent.
By contrast, during the same period
the number of trucks in use increased 11
per cent?while the number involved in
fatal accidents rose only five per cent.
Similar favorable records were made by
buses and taxicabs.
The private driver i6 his own boss. He
can take chances, get in accidents, and
be as reckless and incompetent as he
pleases without losing his "job"?unless
the authorities step in. The commercial
operator has to drive safely?or look for
another calling. The reckless and incapable
driver lasts about as long with a
commercial vehicle concern as does a
snowball in Hades?and the accident figures
reflect that situation accurately.
If every driver adopted the attitude
that his job and his livelihood depended
unon his beiner safe and comDetent tho
accident toll would go into a tail spin at
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once. As a matter of fact, he has some
thing even more vital at stake whenever
he takes the wheel?his life, and the lives
of others. Thirty-five thousand people
died unnecessarily last year because of
recklessly or incompetently driven automobiles.
Will that happen again?
Destruction Of Property
There are a number of boys and girls
in Southport who meet at the post office
each evening. They amuse themselves by
tearing up blotters, tearing down notices
and signs from the bulletin board and
by writing names on every available
space. When these mild forms of indoor
sport grow too dull, members of the party
assembled play a game of throwing
the dagger?using the post office pens
for weapons and the wall as a target.
The pen points are dipped in ink in order
that they will make their mark.
On certain special occasions, contents
of the ink wells are poured out on the
floor and the wastepaper basket is likewise
emptied. A musical note was injected
into the meetings last week when a
large tin sign, announcing the opening of
a Navy Recruiting Station, was drafted
for service as a drum.
It is a disgraceful state of affairs when
a public building cannot be left open after
dark for fear that government property
will be damaged. Nevertheless, Postmaster
L. T. Yaskell says that he will be
forced to close the post office lobby each
evening unless the boys and girls of
Southport stop using it for a recreation
hall.
It is to be hoped that such a step will
not become necessary. Patrons of the
post office who have rented boxes have
done so in order that they might call for
their mail at their own convenience.
Sometimes it is impossible for them to go
to the post office until late at night.
Postmaster Yaskell says that he hopes
that it will not be necessary for him to
begin closing the local post office each
night, but, first of all, it is his duty to
protect the government property entrusted
to his keeping, and he must see that
the post office equipment is not misused.
As a last resort, the postmaster is appealing
to the patrons of the local office
to see to it that their children have no
part in the nightly merrymaking in the'
post office lobby. The co-operation of
parents in this matter will make it unnecessary
to lock the doors of the building.
Power Prospects
While the proposed establishment of a
gigantic power plant along the banks of
the Waccamaw river to furnish electricity
to the outlying rural districts and any
urban centers which may desire. it remains
in the speculative stage, it is not
too early to say that such a project
would mean much to Brunswick county.
It seems that enough power could be
generated from the waters of the beautiful
Waccamaw to furnish the motive
power for such a plant, with a resultant
low power rate for this entire section.
Any power rate which would be intended
for the rural districts would necessarily
have to be low, and water-turned dynamoes,
it stands to reason, could generate
electricity much cheaper than those
which required steam for their motive
power.
All the resources at hand should be
thrown behind this project, with the aim
that it should be secured for Brunswick
county. And, with the establishment of
iiKe plants in all other sections ot the
country, there seems to remain little
reason to believe that this section should
be slighted.
Rural electrification has long been one
of President Roosevelt's pet projects, and
his intention in asking for the expenditure
of $4,800,000,00 for public works to be
spent in the next year was to include rural
electrification for every part of the
country.
Waccamaw river seems the logical
place for the establishment of a plant
for this area. Electricity could be generated
economically, and it would be advantageously
located so that all the outlying
rural districts and small towns and hamlets
could be furnished electricity at the
minimum cost.
We certainly hope that before many
weeks have passed, that this paper may
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De aoie to convey some iavorable information
to the people of this section regarding
the establishment of such a
power plant under government supervision
and at government expense.
1LOT, SOUTHPORT, NORT
Washington
Letter
Washington, July 24.?It is now
generally conceded that a crazy
quilt instead of an orderly pattern
of legislation will be the
ultimate result of the Congress'
seven months labor. Court decisions
probably more than politics
have caused sudden changes in
policies resulting in laws of weird
I design. Many believe that the
I President's forthcoming trip across
the country means the
opening gun in a campaign to
secure a constitutional amendment
giving the executive branch
of the government authority
to weave economic and social policies
into the national fabric,
which are now denied by virtue
of Supreme Court decisions. The
legislative situation is becoming
more topsyturvy as the Federal
district courts throughout the
land turn thumbs down on New
Deal projects, which have been
challenged by effective parties.
Complaints have been reported
by legislators against rising pric|
es and uncertain government policies.
It remained for the astute
Senator Copeland, Democrat of
New York, to summarize the
wholesale criticisms, which are
flooding Congress, in the declaration,
"We cannot make people
good or prosperous by legislation."
Protests are also coming
from state authorities against the
seizure of powers reserved to the
state under the provision of the J
Constitution that all powers not
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graruea w uie reaerai government
were reserved to the states
or to the people. These commonwealths
will continue to fight additions
to the highly centralized
authorities of the Federal government.
Even labor leaders, who
have been elated at the enactment
of laws they favored at this
Congress, are becoming suspicious
of new trends. They want to
know what forces are motivating
the centralization of control of
labor by the government. It is reported
that a series of bills similar
to the Guffey coal bill will
be forthcoming on other basic
commodities within the next week
or two. The Guffey bill which is
essentially a code for the coal industry
is considered unconstitutional
even by certain proponents
in Congress. However, at the
insistence of the President the
Guffey bill will be passed before
Congress is permitted to adjourn.
It is reported that Attorney- i
General Cummings is endeavor- j
ing to work out a plan which I
will make this controversial measure
coincide with constitutional
requirements.
Oddly enough a cynical view
has developed among labor
groups that the Wagner labor
disputes bill was passed for political
purposes and that insofar
as material gains for unions were
concerned the rank and file are
whispering that, "They were sold
down the river by their leaders."
All the bitterness of family quarrels
are now developing within
the ranks of the American Federation
of Labor. The controversy
centers for the moment around
vertical and craft unions. A
stormy petrel is John L. Lewis,
head of the miners' unions, who
is himself under fire from certain
elements in the membership
for delaying three strikes. The
Administration juggernaut will
be operating again this week to
secure the passage of the new
tax bill. The Congress would like
to drop it over board, but the
President is committed so far
that he cannot withdraw his demand
for immediate action.
The discussion of the Walsh
bill in the Senate is expected to
revive criticisms of the Blue Eagle,
which were silenced after
the Supreme Court put the finishing
touch to the NRA last
May. The Walsh bill, introduced
at the request of the Administration,
virtually requires re-establishment
of NRA conditions for
all manufacturers and distributors
bidding for government contracts.
The government is one of
industry's chief customers and
takes advantage of the situation.
Government control is also extended
through purchases for
government-financed relief projects.
The implications of the
i pending Walsh bill are rightfully
alarming industry. Those bidding
for government contracts will be
obliged to pledge the maintenance
of hours, working conditions,
and wages, which were, imposed
under the NRA codes. Rather
than subscribe to this policy
many industries, which have heretofore
obtained lucrative contracts
from the government, have indicated
that they will turn to
private industry for their business
in the future. If this policy
is pursued by a large number of
suppliers it is obvious that the
government may be obliged to
manufacture its own equipment
and supplies.
By the way, the NRA personnel
has been pruned down considerably.
More than 12 hundred
employees have been dropped
from the payrolls, although at
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transferred to other governmer
agencies temporarily. It is repor
ted that James O'Neil, NR>
chieftain, expects to eliminate 2
hundred additional employees a
a saving; of 7 million dollars ii
salary before he leaves the gov
ernment service on September 1
In 1924, one acre of lespedea
was planted in Alexander coun
ty; in 1935, there are 5,366 acre
planted. This is 14.2 per cent o
the cultivated land in the county
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