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TWO THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. G. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR $1.50 BIX MONTHS 1.00 (THREE MONTHS .75 * NATIONAL EDITORIAL Wednesday, July 31, 1935 Success comes in cans; failure comes in can'ts. % You don't have tc be so smart to be a second guesser. A new broom sweeps clean?unless the housewife can possibly get the use of a vacuum cleaner. Watch the length of a person's writing pencil and you can get an index to his "thrift." The reason some fellows will never learn to be good cooks is because they always spill the beans. With all the get-rich-quick schemes which are daily propounded, it's surprising there are still people working. Most of us car still remember when no trip was complete without getting a cinder in your eye. j Bald head men cultivate a genial disposition in order that they won't become sensitive when people kid them about their falling hair. We believe that more people have been | killed in North Carolina this summer by . lightning than have died from infantile paralysis. A recent weather bureau release credited the month of June with being the dryest in years. July should be well up in front in the list of the wettest. A southern evangelist says that the road hog is a sinner. There is this much about it, he won't have to wait for the hereafter to be pretty thoroughly damned. Dog Vaccinations No man who refuses to have his dog vaccinated against rabies ought to be permitted to own one. Not only is this a sensible safeguard for the dog, but it protects the humans with whom the dog comes in contact. Members of the board of county commissioners have gone to considerable expense to make it convenient for every dog owner in Brunswick county to have his dog vaccinated this week. Public) clinics are being held at different pointsi over the county, a complete schedule' having been established in the last two issues of The State Port Pilot. The small fee of fifty cents for each dog barely covers the actual expense of the vaccination, and even this amount is deducted from the annual county dog tax when certificate of vaccination is presented. Brunswick county citizens should cooperate one hundred per cent in this movement to stamp out rabies. Should Investigate In spite of the fact that the Federal Housing Administration has been operating for several months, not a single new home has been built in Southport from funds received from that organization. In other cities and towns the FHA program has resulted in scores of new homes, jobs for carpenters and tradesmen of all kinds and has created an active demand for building supplies and materials. It seems logical that this extremely liberal plan for the home owner would be of interest to the citizens of Soiithnnrf and Brunswick county. Provision is made for responsible people to own their homes as cheaply as renting them. Building supply firms are afforded a safe and convenient sale and city and county are guaranteed additional and sure tax receipts. These facts should cause business men and public officials to investigate the possibilities of building new homes through this unique Federal housing plan. THE STATE PORT R. 0. Johnson has recently been appointed to assist Southport and Brunswick county citizens in securing these loans. Elsewhere in today's State Port Pilot is an article which explains the fundamental principles of the plan. i I It seems that the government, through | the FHA, is offering citizens an opportunity to make permanent improvements. At any rate, the plan seems to be well worth investigating. Project Number 1 On the eve of the opening of the tobacco markets, residents of Brunswick county once more are impressed with the crying need for a hard surface road from State Highway Number 30 to the Columbus county line. In the minds of the majority of the citizens of this county, this project number one and all other plans and projects are dwarfed when the need for" this road is considered. In this modern day of mo[tor transportation, citizens of every section are entitled to be linked with the outside world by good roads. This right has been consistently denied citizens of the lower end of Brunswick county. This road project has been agitated for years. Delegation after delegation has gone to Raleigh to appeal in person to members of the State Highway Commission. Hundreds of letters have been written. And the sole result has been the pav_;i_ ??.?u 1I1& UJL all tJlgiit-iiiiic fccicic.ii in vuiuuiuua county, leading from Whiteville towards the Brunswick county line. It's true that members of the Highway j Commission cannot heed every request for ; a road project; it is true that improved highway facilities come slowly; but it > would be very difficult to find another road project that would be of greater benefit to a larger number of people than i to hard surface Highway Number 130. j In the past, there seems to have been ; some controversy as to which route the ; proposed hard surface road should follow. Recently there has been conducted a survey of the territory and scientific findings of the engineers in charge will indicate the best route. Citizens of Brunswick and Columbus counties should unite in asking for the route recommended by the engineers. Indian Giving Out of the veritable bigness of its elastic heart, the late General Assembly elevated the salaries of the North Carolina school teachers 20 per cent. If the school marms were at all elated over this apparent good fortune, they were soon to awaken to the fact that their joys were premature, and that the North Carolina School Commission rightfully has earned the title of champion Indiangiver. For, announcement has been made by Big Chief Leroy Martin that his state school commission will guarantee payment of the teachers for no more than seven months, although the 20 per cent raise itself will stick. In other words, the squaws in this Indian-giving jamboree, otherwise known as the educational instructors, will teach anj eighth month, and in all probability will get no pay for it. That such a development is not taking so well around the Indian village can readily be understood, because all the strong-hearted squaws and warriors know that Big Chief Martin got a thirty per cent raise and that he'll get that amount 12 months to the year, payment guaranteed. Teachers have been compensated in deferred payments and sometimes no payment, long enough. They have been the goats in more than one economy; measure when the state financial wizards i were endeavoring to work out some method of balancing the budget. In serving the ends of economy, the teachers appear now to have served their apprenticeship. The time has arrived when they should rise in a body and assert their rights. Other state employees are getting a 20 per cent raise and there are no ifs and ands. To expect the school teachers to live twelve months on seven months pay is nothing short of unreasonable, and no oher employee of the state has been asked to live under such circumstances. Every day we are paying sales tax on the very necessities nf li-fo an<t and cry has been that it must be done to pay the teachers. In that event, there should be no diversion of these funds, and school people should not be asked to live in practical poverty.?N.R. PILOT, SOUTHPORT, NOl | 7 1 Washington Letter ??????? | Washington, July 31.?Smal ! groups of men, working behind j closed doors, are doing more t< 'actually shape the course of leg jislation than all the fanfare ant | oratory in the Senate and Hous< j arenas. j The committee on conference ap pointed by the Vice President an< [the Speaker, as presiding officer.' iof Congress, is doing or some rtimes undoing legislative draft over which the public and thi politicians wrangled for months Under our parliamentary systen the two Houses practically trans | fer their entire legislative powei | to three agents designated at "conferees" on the part of th< Senate and House of Representa tives. Their work has an atmosphere of trading and finality This is due to the fact that conference reports must be accepted without amendment or entirely rejected. It is small wonder that the I Administration, seeking victory for its ideas, brings pressure to bear on presiding officers to have the "right" men designated to these conferences. So many squabbles ensue that many conferences are now deadlocked. Unless the differences between the bills, as passed by each legislative body, are soon reconciled much of the President's program will be side-tracked. An extended battle for principles is anticipated * " i. i- ii. wnen conierees gei togeuier 10 harmonize the pending banking control bill, the regulation of motor carriers, the tax scheme, and other issues which are now considered irreconcilable. On the other hand, the sound of an adjournment bell would probably signal patching-up differences in the spirit of indifference to principles and policies. Drastic action by state relief administrators in the Middle West wheat producing area forcing people to give up profitable loafing at the government's expense is expected to have a salutary effect on other commonwealths. One of the major problems has been to force men and women on relief rolls to accept positions paying a reasonable wage. Vigorous protests of farmers against the competition of relief agencies reached sufficient volume to overcome the politician's dread of offending those on relief rolls by November. It is a dream which will not be realized because there has been too much stalling among relief administrators. The last published analysis of the Federal Relief Administration, dated July 18, is based upon a statistical study of nation-wide relief during March, when 4,585,000 families were receiving emergency relief and 879,000 single persons were also listed. This means that 20,538,000 persons or 17 per cent of the population were on relief in March, and there has been little reduction since that date. The 17 percent is the national average, but the ratio in individual states varies from 8 percent in Delaware, 31 percent in New Mexico and North Dakota, and 38 percent in South Dakota. The average relief family received a benefit of $28.08 during February, 1935. The highest benefits were paid in New York, Massachusetts, and Nevada, families in these states receiving an average of $43.67, $42.66, and $42.01, respectively, in February. Connecticut and Pennsylvania also paid more than $40 per family for the month. At the other end of the scale were Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Kentucky with relief per family averaging $8.45, $8.72, and $9.89, respectively. Conversations with political leaders, after office hours, reveal that the President is annoyed at publication of his speeches as governor and presidential candidate and his subsequent 'reversal of sentiment since assuming the office of chief magistrate. These comparisons have the usual embarrassing effect of the deadly parallel. Writing around to trusted friends in their districts, legislators say that reports are coming in to the effect that the prolonged sesion of Congress is retarding recovery. The claim is advanced that manufacturers and distributors cannot plan their fall programs with the uncertainty over government policies on taxes and regulation hanging over their heads. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration legal department is working night and day to stem the tide of court decisions enjoining the government from colelcting processing taxes. If the AAA Amendments, now in conference between the Senate and House, are modified it will erect some obstacles to the legal challenge. It is believed that the Hoosac textile case handed down against the New Deal in New England will be the key test before the Supreme Court this fall regarding the Agricultural AdI 11 ITH CAROLINA f The" / i : pP^ ^ justment program. Ordinary citizens, far-removed from the political sphere, are asking pertinent questions about Congressional investigations into this and that subject. In Con- ; gressional circles, the solons submit the same query about the usefulness of probes by Federal t agencies. A study of expense accounts, running into large sums, 1 shows the chief financial bene- i ficiaries of any governmental i hearing are the official steno- ' graphers, who are paid so much I II I! II !! II )[ ! I lis III IS It 1! IS 1! 1! |ll , Toba 15 IS ){ w 1! IS IS || You ha^ ! produce a ii important I est possib ill V | deep up \ I of the tobi | tobacco n | house ad\ I !( !! IE 1E ) E )! !! I! ): 1 i !i Tl fi i ne o It It i; k 1! )( ! I I! It I Lhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - - - - V Thresher's Har a page for endless reams of testimony. Senator Tydings, Maryland Democrat, protested that i the longwinded milk investiga- ] tions Dy uie feaerai irauc v-vm- j mission brought no reduction to the consumer and no greater return to the producer. Legislators ; occasionally tour the world on ( "official investigations" at the taxpayers expense. Their reports are quickly forgotten. A cynic- 1 al observer of things political 1 was asked what the myriad of ; Inquiries accomplished and re- ] JUCJIMJtJCJIJtJIXMJtJtJtXKl cco Farn re worked long an< t fine crop of tobac : that you receive t le price for your vith the latest devel icco markets by re; # ews and the tobao rertisements each v ??? tate Port 50UTHPORT, N. G. - /EDNESDAY, July }, Wt vest ft : W. ''ft o^Jfyri/r *9<sx*- $. m0 ^ fef plied succintly, "Today's heal lines for chairmen of probir^H committees and a charge accourl payable from government revel Government agent?Why ul you running that great roller ovl er that field? Farmer?It's a little scheme ol my own. Last year potato prlal were so unsatisfactory that thil year I decided to raise mashefl potatoes. hhhhhbhhhhhhhhJ tiers I 1 hard to co. It is |l :he high- || product. 11 lopments 9 iding the 9 r? /\ VlTAtfA * lu waic- m reek in? j| f 9 Pilot I i
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