FQirB THE STATE PORT PILOT ? Southport, N. C. s< 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. rr q] Subscription Rates ONE YEAR 11.50 ? BIX MONTHS 1.00 cl THREE MONTHS .75 S< NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION si 19 3 6- Wm -MCWBCB- !n M s< a Wednesday, August 12, 1936 i?1 in Love may be blind, as Shakespeare said, but it is not short-sighted, di Nervous breakdown is just a stylish name for temporary insanity. A It is easier to say something hateful than it is to successfully retract it. ca It takes a fat person to have a double to chin, but a lean person can be two-faced. Pi The mountains are beautiful if you ]a aren't too scared to enjoy them. to w Human vultures who prey upon the w "easy money" of tobacco fanners each gi fall soon will descend upon the tobacco at market towns of the Border belt. ea gc Brunswick County school kids will ap- tii preciate being reminded of the fact that it is less than a month before school bl opens. | ui i j es Post cards are things which you send w to one person but usually are read by m the neighborhood. or Diversified Farming in es Brunswick county rapidly is becoming a more progressive agricultural sec- m tion as the farmers get away from the one cash crop idea and go in for diversi- jn fied farming. p, Raising hogs for market has come to be aj a profitable business for many farmers in this county, and last week Couhty Agent ti J. E. Dodson told of new experiments C( being made in harvesting the corn crop je in the field with hogs. Money from this cj source promises to swell the income of ai Brunswick county farmers this fall. Another idea which is almost entirely p undeveloped in this section is raising and1 fattening cattle. County Agent Dodson is trying out this matter himself, and is ^ optimistic over its possibilities for devel- y( opment. j Information Center ; 10 It is next to impossible for a stranger U( in Southport to find a place to get rooms w and meals for a party of four or five per- cr sons. ]y The people of Southport are friendly, ca they will go out of their way to do you gl a favor and they will" gladly answer most ca any question a stranger asks. But when dc someone desires information regarding board and lodging, our people become le. uncertain and evasive. ar This is not caused by the fact that co Southport residents are inhospitable and hi dislike the idea of having visitors. It is ar merely that facilities for taking care of ch out-of-town people are so uncertain that th they are at a loss what to tell them. sp Outside of town there should be erec- cc ted a large sign telling motorists where m they can call for aftd receive information st in Southport. With a local office to place w them in touch with the available places tl in town, strangers would get a more fav- r? !orable impression of our hospitality. There also is the possibility that the u demand created by this service might ei soon encourage more Southport people to s< make arrangements to serve meals andifi I rent rooms to visitors and vacationists, j lii Health Check-Up " d While it may not be pleasant for the C( school children to be reminded of the tl fact that it is less than a month before b the consolidated schools of the county n will open for their fall term, it is nothing amiss to call the parents' attention to the a importance of seeing that his or her child is in the best of physical condition on the d opening day. f< Long summer days spent out of doors in the sunshine have done much to stren-|s< J / THE STATE P< J?j, then youngsters of school age, and there! jems to be little to worry about regard-: lg their health. However, there are certin important check-ups to be made. For the beginners it may not be a bad : lea to find out if they have been im- < lunized against diphtheria. Although hildren of this age are almost out of the f roup in greatest danger, a six-year-old hild is susceptible. i It is well, too, to be sure that the c :hool child has been vaccinated against i nail pox and typhoid fever. If this has: ot been done, it is better to do it before < :hool begins. Sometimes the reaction to t lese treatments causes illness for a day I r two that will handicap a boy or girl 1 i school work. d These things and a general examination . f the family doctor during the next few j ays will help insure your child for the jar's work. |i t V Ippreciation t ____ s Letters and expressions which we oc- 0 isionally receive from readers are a help g us in trying to make The State Port J lot a better newspaper. ing to make us try harder to keep them v nely and interesting. Another subscriber writes that he is ? ind, but derives a great deal of pleas- p e from having The Pilot read to him f; ich week. We appreciate his letter, and v e are glad that we are able to make life p ore pleasant for him. Another reader writes that of the ten v more publications received each week a his home, The Pilot is read with great- s t interest. c Frequently we receive letters from for- j er Southport and Brunswick county resi- t ;nts who keep up with what is going on d Brunswick county by reading The State c Drt Pilot each week. They are our most * jpreciative group of readers. Maybe we are being immodest to men- i on these comments; but we would be 1 mcealing the true facts if we failed to 1 t these people know that we do appre- g ate the nice things they say and write v )Out our county newspaper. a ire Loss Rising |r F The national fire loss is again on the t se. During the first five months of this 1 >ar, it was some $20,000,000 in excess ], 1 the loss experienced in the same per-i^ d of 1935. je It is possible that part of the increased d ss is due to the fact that property val- a :s are somewhat higher now than they^ ere a year ago, and another part to ineased industrial activity, which natural- s increases fire hazards. Even so, Ameri- ? .'s fire loss is nothing- short of a dis ace ,and is a black monument to human * relessness, human ignorance, human in- 1 ilence. it( It cannot be too often repeated that at a ast eiffhtv ner cent of all fires, minor F o \J *id great, are preventable. The fire that j msumed a splendid home could have o sen prevented had wiring been checked g id repaired?the fire that destroyed a lurch could have been prevented had e heating plant been periodically in>ected?the fire that destroyed a factory >uld have been prevented had inflam- v able liquids or sqlids been properly j ored and handled. So it goes, down the hole gamut of fire. The inevitable fire, lat nothing could have prevented, is as ire as hen's teeth. This summer, as usual, the country has ndergone a number of serious forest fir3. More will occur before the fall rains it in. The great human causes of such res are sparks from faulty smokestacks, onkey engines, careless disposal of smoklg materials, and ignorance as to buildig and extinguishing camp fires. Hunreds of thousands of acres of magnified timber, the growth of centuries, have ius been burned to ashes. Wild life has een cremated as forest fires roar across < liles of territory. ( Fire is a calamity?and it is likewise a crime. And the fact that most persons 1 ho start fires do not realize their guilt j oes not mitigate the results of their of- i mse. No American is so far beyond 1 school age" that he shouldn't take les- ^ )ns in fire prevention. j DRT PILOT. SOUTHPORT, N Personal1 Miss Elsie Snipes, of Rocky Vfount, visited Miss Blanche New:on here Sunday. Miss Frances Garrett and Derrick Giles, of Danville, Va., visi-1 :ed relatives here Sunday. Misses Bobbie Davis and Clyde! rield Swain returned home Sun-; lay from a visit with relatives n Danville, Va. Misses Catherine Cox, Isabella tox and Marion Jordan and Nahan Cox were visitors in South-1 >ort Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. Berg and Miss ] tnnie May Woodside spent Sunlay at Seven Springs. Dr. D. I. Watson and Miss Louse Watson are spending some j ime at Seven Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hardee, of j i'ernandina, Fla., have returned { o Southport, where Mr. Hardee i rill be engaged in the shrimp lusiness during the coming seaon. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Edwards, f Washington, are the house uests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert! ones. William Keel, of New London, j tonn., visited friends here last reek-end. Mrs. Margaret Hawkins will jave this week to visit her lother - in - law in Birmingham, ilabama. Mrs. George Whatley is visit-' ig her sister, Mrs. Earl Dye, of Wilmington, for a few days. Arthur Huntley is spending his acation leave from Oak Island toast Guard Station in Southport rith his family. Charles Parker, of the mainenance department of the State lighway Commission, spent the ast week-end here with his amily. E. G. Griffin, of Woodland, = isited his daughter, Mrs. Carey teece, here over the week-end. (f. J. G. Christian spent the past \ reek-end here with his family. ' Mrs. Ruth Gray and children re spending this week with her ister, Mrs. Mills, at Leland. Mrs. Grace Ford and son, llaude. were called to Wvandott, Jich., last week on account of he death of Mrs. Ford's grandlaughter. Mrs. L. J. Mills and daughter, lertrude, of Leland, visited Mrs. tuth Gray last week. Bryant M. Potter of New Bern s visiting his sisters, Mrs. H. A. Jvingston and Mrs. Lou Ella luark, and his brother, John F. 'otter. Mrs. E. H. Cranmer and daughter, Jeanette, and son, Morris, yho have been spending the past ew months in Shreveport, La., rrived home last week. Mrs. W. F. Jones is visiting elatives in Wilmington this week. Mrs. C. R. Livingston spent lart of this week in Wilmingon with her daughter, Mrs. A. 5. Weeks. Rev. T. H. Biles, who is Chaplin in a Government camp near Atlanta, Ga., spent the past weeknd here with his family. Mrs. Virgil Harris and little aughter, of Virginia Beach, Va? ,re visiting Capt. and Mrs. Chas. I. Swann. Phillip McKeithan, of New fork, N. Y., arrived last week to pend his vacation with his parnts, Mr. and Mrs. John W. McKeithan. The Rev. Eugene G. Mintz, of lew York, a former resident of his town, arrived here this week o visit friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Manson, of fiami, Fla., are visiting Mrs. Ida 'otter Watson. Johnnie Fullwood, little son of tr. and Mrs. John W. Fullwood, f Wilmington, is visiting his rand-mother, Mrs. Ethel Fulltood. Shallotte News Mr. and Mrs. Colon Mintz, of Joldsboro, spent the week-end vith Mr. Mintz's parents, Mr. and Ats. H. L. Mintz. Wingate Swain, who has been ittendihg summer school at Pineand Junior College, in Salemmrg, has arrived to spend the emainder of the summer with lis parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Swain. Miss Ruby Hewett has return-; ;d home after spending sometime vith her sister, Mrs. Haywood. 3oley, of Durham. Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Mintz, of j Southport, spent the week-end in Shallotte. The Methodist Sunday School lere gave a very delightful picnic Friday afternoon at Holden's Beach in honor of the children if the Sunday School. Those enjoying the occasion were: Meslames George Goley, of Mount Solly, N. J; Sadie Sellers, Lillian Dliver, Margaret Russ, Katherine Vhite, Martin Gore, and Livie Suss; Misses Gladys Frye, Bet-j ;y Ann Johnston, Johnnie Mae Suss and Vera Belle Long; W. j. Swain, D. T. Long, Byron Go cj, vjeoige uoiey, R. D. 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