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THE STATE PORT PILOT
Southport, N. G.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor
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Wednesday, October 23, 1935
Anyone who drives fast at night along
a strange country road is a fool.
When a man loses his ambition he is
like a car without a starter?he can'1
get any place because he can't start.
When you see a man driving a team
of horses with their tails matted with
cuckleburs you can bet you are looking
at a poor farmer.
cnmo npnnlp never tret
unc rcaaun maw ovmv ^v.?r-- w
anywhere is that they continue to make
the same mistakes day after day and year
after year.
About the time that we begin to believe
that people are smarter than they
used to be we go to a fair and see the
fortune tellers and gambling joints doing
a thriving business.
This is the week that a lot of Brunswick
county school children wish that report
cards would get to be old fashioned
so they would not have to take them
home to their parents.
Birthday Celebration
The celebration held Saturday at Camp
Sapona on the first anniversary of the
establishment of Camp 427 of the Citizens
Conservation Corps in Southport was one
of the outstanding occasions of the year.
General Manus McCloskey, commandei
of Fort Bragg, was the honored guest
and principal speaker. Before dinner the
general inspected the camp and during
the course of his after dinner speech he
paid tribute to the work being accomplished
here.
General McCloskey discovered Saturday
what Southport citizens have known
for sometime: That Camp Sapona is being
conducted along those lines which
President Franklin D. Roosevelt had in
mind when the first CCC camps were
established in 1933.
Need More Cows
Last week there appeared in The Pilot
an article giving the unofficial figures of
the 1935 farm census. We were particularly
impressed with the fact that during
the past five years the number of
milch cows in Brunswick county has increased
from 642 to 1,285?more than
doubled.
A good cow is one of the foundation
stones of a live-at-home program and no
family in which there are growing children
should be without plenty of milk
and butter.
Two good years in succession for tobacco
growers in this section have done much
toward improving the financial condition
of many farmers. The purchase with some
of these profits of a good cow would be
an investment that pays a daily dividend
which every member of the family may
enjoy.
Table Manners
There is no excuse for had table manners.
No matter what may have been his
early environment, any man who has
enough intelligence to meet the world or
equal footing can by observation discovei
what are the accepted customs of polite
society at the dinner table.
Rules of etiquette are not to rob yoi
of the pleasure of eating. On the con
trary we have discovered that the righ
thing to do usually is the easiest.
For example, you may feel that yot
have been robbed of a measure of youi
personal liberty when informed that i
is improper to eat with your knife. Actual
ly, though, a fork not only has greate:
surface area but also eliminates the pos
sibility of being cut. Or when cuttinj
meat, it is possible to get results whei
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your knife and fork are clenched in your
hands like twin daggers, but the same
- meat may be cut with half the effort
. when the knife and fork are properly i
held.
There are, of course, those who chew i
I with their mouth open?a most disgusting
habit. Invariably these people are un- j
" conscious of the fact for, if they were'
0 not, they would stop it. The next time!
a J you hear someone inhaling his soup or
5 smacking aloud as he chews his food
"(while his mouth is open take the "see
i yourself as others see you" test.
1 Good table manners may be acquired
i without help or suggestion and nothing
-'is a bigger asset to a man who comes in
i contact with the public.
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Real Fireworks
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Last week it was our pleasure to visit ,
the North Carolina State Fair. After a
'jbusy afternoon spent in looking through !
the exhibit hall and the livestock barns
j we went down to the grandstand for the '
1 free-act performance for the evening. j
The climax of the fine two-hour pro- ]
rrfom wat a hrilliant disnlav of fireworks. ?
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Maybe it is just a hangover from the
time when, as. a kid, we looked forward
: every Christmas to a box of fireworks
'and a handful of sparklers, but we get a
big kick out of a fireworks program.
We never saw a more brilliant display.!
Friday was children's day and it may be [
; that the management was putting on an
I extra show for their benefit. The spinning I
Wheels of vari-colored sparks, the bub-!
bling fountains of colored fire and the
storming of a toy fort by firework tanks
! shooting Roman candle bullets covered
a large area within the infield of race:
track and their beauty held the crowd
i spellbound. !
Then the aerial display began. Rockets;
boomed and whined their way upward
into the heavens, where they burst with)
a bang that re-echoed between the earth
and the sky and showered brilliant stars'
which set the upper regions aglow until!
they were absorbed by the inky darkness.'
; But while we were standing there we!
! 'suddenly remembered the death-dealing,
fireworks which at that very moment'
were being staged in far away Ethiopia
; not to thrill, but to kill, helpless women
! and children just like those who throng-1
' ed the North Carolina State Fairgrounds.'
1 What a fine thing it would be if all j
' j wars were mock wars and all explosives
jwere used to make fireworks. I
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Real Horrors '
A few weeks ago readers of an important
New York daily received a gruesome1
I surprise. In an account of a serious automobile
accident, the paper no longer confined
itself to a bare and colorless statement
of facts. Instead, it presented all the
1 gruesome details, chronicling the mashed,
oozing skulls, the compond bone fraci
tures, and bleeding wounds of the victims, j
And it announced that it would continue
;this policy, in the belief that it would
help bring public realization of the horror!
, of automobile accidents, and assist in
creating real public co-operation in mak-:
i ing our streets and highways safer.
This is partly the result of tlie famed
Reader's Digest article, "?And Sudden
| Death", by J. C. Furnas, which has re-;:
ceived national attention. Mr. Furnas
pointed out that an effective picture of
motor accidents "would have to include
motion picture and sound effects, too?!
the flopping, pointless efforts of the injured
to stand up; the queer, grunting
noises, the steady, panting groaning of a
human being with pain creeping upon!
him as the shock wears off. It would por- J
tray the slack expression on the face of
a man, drugged with shock, staring at the
Z-twist in his broken leg, the insane
crumpled effect of a child's body after its
bones are crushed inward, a realistic portrait
of a hysterical woman with her
5 screaming mouth opening a hole in the
3 bloody drip that fills her eyes and runs
i off her chin. Minoi1 details would include
r the raw ends of bones protruding through
; flesh in compound fractures, and the
dark red, oozing surfaces where clothes
1 and skin are flayed off at once."
Horrible?nauseous?disgusting? Yes?
t but these details are not one iota too
much so. They are part and parcel of
i thousands of accidents each year. Somer
where, at this moment, the gruesome
t; scene is being enacted again. The New
. | York newspaper, which is to do its best
r'to give a true picture of major automo.
bile crashes, has set an example that
r should be emulated throughout the couni
try.
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?ORT PILOT, SOUTHPORT,
WASHINGTON
LETTER
Washington, Oct. 23.?Vacationists
returning to find the doorstep
cluttered up with dog and
cat fights for broken milk bottles
have an idea of President Roosevelt's
home-coming. His desk has
been piled high with problems
ranging from settlement of feuds
within the official family to vital
matters of national and internat- j
ional policy. Mr. Roosevelt is ex-1
pected to linger at the White
House long enough to get a firm
grip on public affairs before leav-1
ing for Hyde Park, N. Y., and
subsequently to Warm Springs,
Ga. The "spats" within government
circles as to jurisdiction,
power and appropriations are the
natural outgrowth of divergent
opinion. Patching these differences
and directing the ship of
state are just part of the official
chores of the Chief Executive.
It seems certain that the Administration
will take another
fling at NRA under a new guise.
Major George Berry, recently appointed
Co-ordinator, has the un- (
;nviable task of attempting to re- |
concile business antagonism to- j
vard new legislative controls, i
teeping ambitious labor unions
'rom upsetting peace overtures
ind at the same time tone down |
hp antihnainpQcj rnmnlpy pvifltinc )
n various Federal regulatory
igencies. Though only a very
imall percentage of acceptances
lave been received Co-ordinator
Jerry intends to sound assembly 1
all for a two-day confab beginling
next month.
Because of the growing hostilty
to processing taxes, the Secetary
of Agriculture has made a ,
:lever play to offset possible Remblican
gains from this sentinent
In his public talks, Mr. |
Vallace has likened the processng
tax to the high tariff, a car-1
linal tenet in the Republican ar- j
deles of faith. Increased prices
'or bread has added another item
o the living costs which tend to
nflame consumers against gov-1
:rnment bounties. Mr. Wallace
las warned farmer beneficiaries |
that Federal gift bags may be
viuiarawn jusi as lamis are reiuced
to lower prices.
Candidates for Senate and Assembly
posts in all states will
soon face direct questions as to
their attitude on-relief problems.
From 27 million to 30 million persons
will be affected by the new
Social Security Act when all the
machinery is in operation. Vari-;
bus government agencies are now
it work perfecting Federal polices
in this new experiment for
vhich great hopes are held out
is to its ultimate effect of les- j
sening the influence of the deiression
and relieving human |
leeds. The Federal Social Secur-'
ty Board is handicapped in its'
brganization work due to the filibuster
of the late Senator Long, j
vhich presented authorization for I
ixpenditures. However, they have
jeen able to function with a
skeleton organization to such an
:xtent that the first of an im-1
bortant series of regulations will
be issued within a week or ten
lays. The bothersome task of colecting
taxes necessary to meet
he provisions of the new law are
mtrusted to the Bureau of Inter-1
lal Revenue, which is entirely
leparate from the Security Board.
Actually three government agen:ies
are required to administer
he act, as the maternal health
ind child welfare sections are ad-:
ninistered by the Children's Bueau
of the Department of Labor,
["he tax on employers for the un- j
imployment fund begins January
., while the taxes for the natonal
old age annuity system do
lot become effective until 1937.
Tf i o nvrvrt/bf rtrl Un t Ktnnmnn' tVin '
xc ao ca|/cv/(.cu uiai 0111151115 wit I
itates into line is one of the ma-1
or problems of the Federal gov-1
jrnment. The new law specifically
provides for Federal standards to i
vhich states must conform in or- j
ier to receive Federal payments, j
vhich will amount to fifty percent
of the state group levy. That,
jolitics will play an important
role is due to the realization that I
eventually higher taxes will be
:nacted by various states in orier
to provide revenue to meet
the commonwealths' share. Only |
four states have unemployment ]
insurance, while 32 states have I
enacted old age pensions. In four
af the states having unemployment
insurance the employee is
required to contribute a share,
ivhile in other states the worker
Is exempt and the burder falls
exclusively on the employer. Both
the state and the Federal government
will have difficulty in keeping
tabs on the transitory and
seasonal worker, who works part
time in one state and floats
across the border to another
creating confusion in registration.
Tho nror?orn^?aoo ?
?MW |/4V{/atwiicaa ptuglcuil
adopted by the national labor unions
against the day when major
legislation may be declared unconstitutional
places a damper on
Federal agencies, wkhen one of
the principal promoters of class
legislation gets ready to throw in
the towel as a token of defeat in
judicial tests, the administrative
N. C.
groups are looking around for
new avenues to their objectives.
The Department of Justice is
trying to speed high court arguments
and rulings on AAA
amendments in particular. The
cost of running this agency is
about a million dollars per day
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