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THE STATE PORT PILOT
Southport, N. C.
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JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor
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Wednesday, October 2, 1935
One place you don't mind waiting is
in the dentit's office.
Those who are careful where they
place their confidence are not so likely to
lose it.
An expression of appreciation is more
satisfying than a sack of gold?if you
already have plenty of gold.
Rangwald Johnson is responsible for
the slogan: "Southport?The Seaway to
North Carolina."
The ceremony is the least important
thing about a wedding, but usually the
most fuss is made about it.
Some people object to following in the
footsteps of others because they want to
make bigger footsteps themselves.
School teachers will earn their 20 per
cent salary increase this year before they
get through handling this business of
renting text books.
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Rabbits must not run around at night
as much now as they do in the spring.
You don't see nearly as many of them
that have been run over by automobiles.
Voters of the state should be able to
pick a pretty good governor from the
list of five men who have already announced
their intention of entering the
gubernatorial race next year.
Court Week
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The big court is now in session. j
There are but two regular terms of
Superior Court each year in Brunswick,
county, in April and* October. In the
spring the farmers are busy with their
crops and it is a difficult matter for them
to get off to attend court. Not so in the
fall. Crops have been harvested or layed
by, tobacco has been sold and money is
more plentiful than at other seasons of
the year. And the realistic drama of the
court room draws its crowds.
Still Working
A good farmer's work is never finished.
Mnw that thp tnhappn rrnn in this cnun
ty has been harvested, cured and marketed
it is logical to presume that growers
can take things easy until time to prepare
their plant beds for next year.
However, this is not the case in many
instances. In riding around the county
during the past few weeks we have noticed
tobacco stalks being cut, the land
disked and plowed and in some fields the
first green shoots of a winter cover crop
are now beginning to appear.
Farmers who think enough of their
land to keep building it up will collect
for their efforts on the warehouse floor
next fall.
Cost Of Recklessness
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In the eighteen months that ended June
20, 1935, 51,200 persons met death in
motor crashes in this country. More than
1,300,000 were injured.
The bare statistics, though provoking
as they are, cannot give an adequate picture
of the honor of major automobile
accidents. Figures cannot express broker
bones?mangled bodies?crushed skullsobliterated
features?decapitated bodiesand
all the rest of the results of fatal motor
crashes. Nor can figures picture tht
tragedy of parentless children and- broken-hearted
dependents of the victims oJ
recklessly driven cars.
In a recent article in Readers' Digest
F. C. Furness wrote: "A first-class massa
ere is only a question of scale and num
foers?seven corpses are no deader thar
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one. Each shattered man, woman or child
who went to make up the 36,000 corpses
- checked up last year had to die a per_
sonal death."
That is worth thinking about next time
~ you take the wheel of your car. Driving
at excessive speeds may, if you get away
with it, save you ten minutes in a fifty"
mile run. If you don't get away with it,
o it may mean your death, or the death of
o an innocent party. Passing on hills and
5 curves, weaving through thick traffic and
" taking other chances may save you a
minute or two more?or it may mean a
crushed body on the pavement, its bones
twisted and broken, its eyes staring and
- sightless.
It's up to you?to everyone who drives
, a car. Is recklessness worth its horrible
cost?
Their Decision
Those who some times doubt the,serious
mindedness of modern youth should
find some reassurance in an incident that 1
occurred at the local CCC camp Saturday.
1
Forty-eight men remained in camp over j
the week-end. Saturday afternoon they 1
were given their choice between a truck i
trip to Caswell Beach that night where (
a dance was in progress and a trip Sun- i
day night to Mill Creek church for the J
evening service. There was some discus- *
sion, so a vote was taken. Eight of the f
men voted to go to Caswell Beach to the C
dance; forty of them voted to attend *
church Sunday night. It
Most of the men were reared as coun-lt
try boys. They enjoy an opportunity to J ^
visit a country church and mingle with 4
country people. Compared to these things, v
bright lights, music and dancing held no i
attraction. j
The Two Projects j
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It is a fine thing that the two out- l
standing projects for Brunswick county
should be closely linked. J
The most important development under ,
consideration at the present time is the i
construction of port terminals at South- J
port. The second most important develop- j
ment is the project to hard surface high- ]
way Number 130 from an intersection y
with Route 30 to the end of the pavement f
in Columbus county. <
With the development of adequate 1
port terminal facilities here, Southport
would quickly become the ocean gateway t
to North Carolina. The shortest truck 4
route to the most thickly populated sec- J
tion of the state would be over highway f
130 to Whiteville. j*
Final approval of the port terminal pro- s
ject proposed by the Brunswick County-jo
Southport Port Commission would do a
more than any other one thing to speed t
the hard surfacing of Route Number 130. r
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Do Your Part h
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Fire Prevention Week is to be obser- ?
ved next week from October 6 to 12.
Here is a thought worth considering in 41
the meantime: p
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Friendly fire?fire under control?is ii
one of man's greatest boons. It keeps us a
warm, cooks our foods, motivates our in- 8
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Hnsfrips nnH sptvps ns in rmintlpss nfVipr i,
ways. j1
Unfriendly fire?fire out of control? ?
is one of man's greatest enemies. It des- c
troys property, causing irreparable econ- c
omic loss, it menaces life, it hampers pro- i
gress, it threatens community develop- ,
ment and industrial activity and employ- t
ment. J
A buildings for example, represents ,
something beside money. It represents <
energy, achievement, labor. If it is a fac- '
tory building, it represents productive ,
wealth. When fire destroys that building, i
insurance will give back part of the mon- ;
ey it cost, but nothing can give back the
energy that was wasted. Nothing can
make up for the work lost, the jobs destroyed,
the diminished purchasing power
! the fire caused. The indirect costs of fire
' ?costs which cannot be put into a bal
ance sheet?are the real measure of our
national fire waste. Those indirect costs
are many times the direct costs.
Somewhere, as you read this, a home
is being burned to the ground. A factory
f building is a smoldering ruin. A man is
screaming in pain from a burn that will
, prove fatal. All this is the result of some
one's oversight, someone's carelessness,
- someone's stupidity. Do your part to
1 minimize such happenings in the future.
PORT PILOT, SOUTHPORT,
WASHINGTON
LETTER
Washington, Oct. 2.?Though a
broad system of munitions control
will be effective in this country
by November, reports are
reading, the Capital City shows
a growing optimism that Euro- j
peans' wars will help lift this j
country from the six year economic
depression. Anticipation for
quick recovery is based on our
experiences during the early years
of the World War. The Democrats
are hopeful that a sudden
upward turn will rescue them
from explaining enormous expenditures
without making an appreciable
dent in unemployment.
President Roosevelt's trial balloon
sent out to test sentiment
about continuance of the NRA is
taken in some quarters as a
symptom of a moderated policy [
of government supervision of industry.
The inference that rigidity
of Federal control and interference
hinges on business cleaning
oouse of "chislers" is taken with
a grain of salt. The Blue Eagle
in its palmiest days with all
government power to support a
oroom could not eliminate the
mwholesome minority. It was a
:onceded fact that "chiselers" injreased
under codes. The wonder
n industrial circles is what derices
private groups can utilize
o bring about ideal conditions
vhen government backed by
riendly public opinion could not
:orrect evils of business dealing. I
With the coal strike taking
iOO.OOO miners from a gainful
mployment, the cost of placing |
V.Ac>a man anri their families Oil
11VUV Utvtt Uovt ?? ?
he same relief standards as those
vho want to work brings a pol- t
cy question to the door of the ,
ederal Administration. In other
vays, it was the custom to build
ip a "strike chest" or preserve
und for the boycott of employ:rs
through refusal to work. The
elief officials in mining communties
are inclined to place strikes
on the same footing with the
nvoluntary unemployed and thus
lave stirred a hornet's nest
No matter what issues are involved
in the strike, the implicadons
of having the Federal govirnment
subsidize a refusal to
vork makes officials shudder
vith apprehension. Fear is felt
Jiat an epidemic of labor trou)les
will follow such a precedent,
[t is reported that the miners
valked out as part of their leadsrs
dramatic play to assure early
tnforcement of the new Guffey
:oal bill, which gave the unions
in upper-hand in dealing for
vages and working conditions.
The aftermath of the bitter
ight in the House of Representaives
over the Passamaquoddy
lower project involving harness- '
ng the ocean tides is to the ef- J
ect that the enormous sums apiropriated
will never be spent.
Jovernment engineers are not
anguine as to the practicability
f erecting hydro-electric plants
long this section of the Maine
oast. The politicians are willing
o forget if they are permitted to
etreat from broad promises. The
opesters, back from Maine,, say
ho cniT^irotra will orvriHmio that a
ousing project will be carried
ut, but many moons will pass
efore power flows from the
juoddy waters.
Conservations are turning to
he probable reaction toward the
renouncement of a committee of
rominent lawyers branding many
iws passed by the last Congress
s unconstitutional. The Congresional
Record was stuffed with
imilar charges which were cataogued
as "political." While imlartial
observers believe the motves
of the Liberty League law
ommittee were above reproach,
:oncern is expressed as to the
:onsequences which may flow
rem their opinions. The League
s essentially non-partisan and
vould have undoubtedly leveled
he same criticisms if the Reiublicans
controlled the national
egislature. The rub for the strict
lonstitutionalists comes in the
:hance that these legal luminares
may undo what the League
vants?increased respect for the
Supreme Court. If, perchance, the
highest tribunal eventually sustains
the contentions of the barristers
group, it may unwittingly
lend plausibility to those factions
wanting to subordinante the functions
of the supreme judicial
branch of the Federal government.
At present the controversy
is confined to the "legal ethics"
attributed to premature comment
CHURCH NOTICE
St. Phillips Episcopal Church,
Sunday, October 6, 1935.
There will be a change in the
hours of service on the 1st Simday
morning of the month until
further notice. The new schedule I
will be: Holy Communion at 8:00
o'clock in the morning; Sunday
School at 10:00 o'clock; and evening
prayer and sermon at 7:30
o'clock.
Everyone is cordially invited to
attend these services.
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