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PAGE 2 THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. G. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Etjjfrr Entered u second-class matter April 20, 1028, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates DNB YEAR $1.60 WX MONTHS 100 THREE MONTHS .75 - Wednesday. May 19, 1937 A code of ethics loses its identity when stretched out of place. Too many cooks spoil the broth, someone said a long: time ago. Now it's hard enough to get one cook. Every man to his own opinion, but most of us brand him as a fool if it doesn't !|| coincide with ours. I Surely there must be a conflict between a woman's desire to be fashionable 1 and her desire to be comfortable. ?: ?T? I It doesn't take a spiritualist to una out that most big men have ghost writers on their payroll. Sarcasm is a form of adolescent impudence that high school boys and girls are want to try out on their parents. There is a natural inclination to regret to see an old landmark removed until you have a chance to see how much better things look without it. To the unpracticed eye there appears to be plenty of water in the bay as well I as in the channel, but it doesn't take an amateur boatman long to discover that it is spread mighty thin in some places. Road Repairs A crew from the State Highway Commission is now located in Southport and will remain here until repairs are made in the Caswell Beach road and the Southport-Supply highway. These improvements are greatly needed, and beach goers are especially glad that-'the former road is to be put in good , shape before the summer season moves into full swing. Canning Provident families of Brunswick county now are enjoying the full benefits of 11 early gardens. Just think how good vegetables will taste several months from now, long after the gardens are dried up and gone. Modern instruction in canning and preserving fruits and vegetables has made experts out of most of the farm women in this section, and it is likely that canSTiing will be an important duty of the iaverage Brunswick county housewife during the next few weeks. Street Flowers <9 Other cities and towns may have their Tulip Festivals, their Dogwood Festivals, tfheir Rhododendren Festivals, etc., but RrmtVinnrt snvelv ran lav rlaim to havinp* Stoiore uncultivated wild flowers growing along her streets than any other town this size in North Carolina. Home owners here should take notice pf the wonders which nature is accomplishing unassisted. There appears to be no limit to the floricultural possibilities i-| bf this section. 1 (Get A Boat I There are thousands of North Carolinians who would give a week's pay this summer just to be able to spend that long in a place with the recreational possibilities of South port. We hate to see local people allow these hpportunities for sports to go to waste and we wonder why more of them do not spend more time in and on the water. A good slogan for the early summer is fl ?Buy A Boat"?not necessarily an expensive outfit. Just a dory will do. The pjrjncipal idea is for our people to get to place they fully appreciate our natII ? ' advantages. 11 tyandicaps Occasionally we find someone who is persuing a natural, normal life despite a physical handicap that appears to us to be an unsurmountable barrier to happi ness. "That man is remarkable," we say. "Just what would he have done if it had not been for his affliction." The answer to that is that he would be just another average, common-place citizen with no distinguishing characteristic. A compelling desire to be normal has' caused the man to exert great willpower and effort in compensating for his handicap. Hard work and a determination not to allow some physical disability to make a life-long weakling out of him usually is what saves a man of this type. It is for these qualities that we admire him. There is a lesson in this for those of us who choose to call ourselves normal, for the application of these same principles will serve to lift us from mediocracy to the class of the unusual. Hum one Legislation One of the most humane articles of legislation ever to be adopted by any Commonwealth will go into effect in North Carolina on July 1 of this year. It will be the Aid to Dependent Children Act, which became a law through action of the 1937 General Assembly. No more will the spectre of Hardship and suffering face a bereaved widow and fatherless children, left to the mercies of the world without income sufficiently adequate to care for them in even the most modest manner. The various orphanages scattered throughout the state have done splendid work during the past, but there have been thousands of instances where children were not eligible for entrance into these havens of refuge for the underprivileged. The Aid to Dependent Children Act not only will take care of children left without a father?it also will embrace those who, for any good reason, are not receiving the proper care and training because of a lack of money. ciiii/imn nn^or ifi vpjtrs of a^e. livinc VJ1IIV4IV.11 MiiMV* J , ?0 - , ^ with either their father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, or other relatives, will be cared for if it is shown that those charged with their keeping are not situated so as to give them the advantages to which they are entitled. The Act provides that children eligible for benefits shall either have been born or resided within North Carolina for at least one year prior to the filing of an application for assistance, or that the mother of the applicant also has been a resident of the state for a similar period, iand that she has not the means for a decent livelihood for herself and her children. Applications for aid are to be made to agencies which will be established in each of the 100 counties of the j state. The maximum amount any one child J may receive under provisions of the Act lis $18 per month, with each additional child of the same family being allowed $12, provided the total does not exceed $65 per month. One-third of the cost of administering the Aid to Dependent Children Act will be borne by the counties, with the state and federal governments also absorbing one-third each. "As Maine Goes?" rvAinfinrr fO \\roV fni iUtXUlC Id V/CII/OIIIIJ pui 11VI11?) KI1V ?f XV. traffic accident control, in at least one respect. That is, curtailing the activities ' of the drunken driver. A survey recently completed by the Maine Highway Safety Campaign revealed that one-fifth of motor vehicle fatalities in Maine in 1936 had liquor associated with them. Even in 1936 Maine had effectively reduced traffic fatalities as compared with the preceding year. However, not satisfied with partial success, she is now setting out to better her own record with special emphasis placed or drunken driving. The motor vehicle division urged better co-operation by the courts in handling cases involving drunkenness, and held certain "legal loopholes" and technicalities to be inimical to effective law enforcement. Public officials, as well as the citizens of Maine, realize that the drunken driving is a criminal to be handled the same as any other criminal. Both menace society. There is absolutely no excuse foi driving while under the influence of liqulor. Every person doing so is a potential murderer. In some respects the drunker driver is even worse than the average i murderer because the murderer usually committs his crime in the heat of passion, The drunken driver blunders along with callous indifference toward all who are unfortunate enough to be in his path of death. Maine is to be congratulated, as are all other states that take a determined j stand to "wipe out" the drunken driver. THE STATE PORT PILOT, ! ?Omo???1 lj f | Just Among ! The Fishermen (BY W. B. KEZIAH) Tenderfoot So far as anyone on this mun-' dane sphere knows, unless we are j prepared to take his Indignant j denials to the contrary, R. M I i Wolfe caught his first trout onj Thursday. It happened this way, j he kindly offered to aid this col- [ jumnlst at the task of catching; the bait (minnows.) In conside-j ration of this service Postmaster; Yaskell gave him a ride out to; | the pond and loaned him a pole j j and hook. He appeared more sur-j j prised than anyone else when a j j 15-inch red-fin swallowed the j I hook. Theft This is to advise Forest Warden Dawson Jones that some of his friends in SouthI port suffered a great loss j the past week?some onery skin-flint stole our bait trap | ?just when it was full of minnows, . and the theft was not discovered until the last moment. The fact is, Captain Bonner Bussells, the j postmaster and a gentleman from Wilson, whom they neglected to introduce in the excitement of the moment, I were with us and we were on our way to the pond and ) stopped for the trap and found it gone. Prepared j Every time W. C. McCormick, 'of Raleigh, comes to Southport i to go fishing it may be observed that he has a fishing calendar and other odds and ends in his luggage. We never could see how he expected the fish to read the calendar. He never fails to make use of the odds and ends. Catfish I Out at somebody elses fav| orite trout pool one day the past week a couple of huge catfish were among the spoils of war. Each would have weighed between three and four pounds. They looked too good to throw away, and at . the same time recollections of the scorn in which catfish are held by the home folks caused us to hesitate about bringing them home. Providentally, an old negro came along and when they were presented to him he thought more of those catfish than Albert Edward thought of the Crown of England. Lucky A medium sized but pretty1 catch of trout, blues and Sailor's ! Choice was made by a party | aboard the Josephine Marshall I Saturday. The craft was piloted j ! by Capt. H. T. Bowmer and those J enjoying the fishing were: Frank Somers, of Atlanta, W. D. Clevej land, of Charlotte, Joe J. Gluty, I of Rocky Mount, James Hood and Rev. and Mrs. A. H. Marsh-1 i all. Twenty fine trout were included in the catch. Inventor Captain I. B. Bussells has I fallen a victim to the freshwater fishing craze and under some sort of delusions of ] grandeur he has invented a strange and wonderful craft that resembles the raft of a South Sea islander. While its seaworthiness is not vouched for, it has an advantage of being wonderfully light and can easily be loaded on a ; trailer for transportation hither and yon. Shrimping f Many Southport shrimp boats are making expenses and a little money on the side, trawling at Rockwell, S. C. Among the folks down mere are u. n. messicK, L. J. Hardee, William, Wiley and 1 Charles Wells. Merritt Moore, I W. F. Scott and others. About a dozen of the local boats are down there. They expect to stay ! until about June 15th. Visitors Skipper Irvin J. Corbett,* ! of Wilmington, 'came down '! Saturday night with a large I party of male and female .' fishermen aboard his yacht, Loafalong. They went out on '! Sunday morning for trout , | fishing and blhefish trolling. ! I Failing to contact them on their return to port in the II late afternoon, we are unable to say what luck they had. Champ Postmaster Yaskell claims that '! Mrs. John M. Sample is positive j ly the best woman fisherman, or [ I fisherwoman he has ever seen. Lieutenant and Mrs. Sample and i the postmaster went out for a ! [ short while Saturday evening and caught 38 fine greyheads, redjfins and goggle eyes. Menhaden . The John M. Morehead and Storm King are beginning the quest of menhaden in earnest this week. Captain J. B. | Church is in charge of the Morehead and Captain Rheu1 ben Gutherie is the ruler of < the Storm King, i No Lack Jno. W. Clapp, of Burlington, and Harry Hyers, Lee Rierson, K. R. Ramsey and Owen Hill, of i Greensboro, had their first try at f the Souttiport fishing Monday. It Was a bad day for fishing and a good one for seasickness. They i caught all they wanted to cook and eat at sea and only one of the party is reported to have gotten just a touch of seasick- > 1 50UTHPQRT, W. C, NEWS BRIEFS I GIANT HOLI.VHOCK A giant hollyhock with spires seven feet high is blooming in the yard of Mary Davis, colored, in Southport. BEE TALK County Agent J. E. Dodson will begin a series of classes in bee culture Friday at Camp Sapona for the benefit of the CCC enrollees. SUNDAY SCHOOL The Bible Class of the Rev. A. L. Brown will meet again Sunday morning at 8:45 at Camp Sapona. The first meeting was held Sunday, and was well attended. CAPTURES STILL Deputy Sheriff Charles Skipper captured a large whiskey still and a considerable amount of beer in the Northwest section last Friday. The plant was not in operation at the time and no arrests have been made. MADE BIG CATCH One of the best catches of fresh water fish reported this year was made Monday by Roscoe and Albert Rogers. Fishing in a creek near Southport they landed 42 large fish, consisting of trout, pike and goggle-eyed perch. HAD FISH FRY Deputy Sheriffs Dillon Ganey and Charles Skipper engineered a big fish-fry on Alligator Creek near Leland one night last week. A little industry with rod and reel yielded some 175 fine fish, about ten times as much as the party of 25 could eat. FINE LUMBER Tearing down the old Curtis house this past week has revealed some of the finest lumber that folKS or me presem generation have ever seen. It is mostly heart pine. The framework was also in perfect condition, fastened together with wooden pegs. The building is said to have been over a hundred years old. SQUIRRELS CONTENTED The eight young squirrels placed in Franklin park several weeks ago are all living happily and contented. They have built several nests in the oaks and are so tame that they pay very little attention to the people passing through the park and stopping to watch them at play. Donations of other young squirrels to this park would be appreciated. C.I7ESTS OF MR. HOOD Frank Somers, of Atlanta, southeastern manager for the Willard Storage Battery Company; W. D. Cleveland, of Charlotte, District salesman, and Joe J. Gluty, of Rocky Mount, distributor, spent part of the past week here with James R. Hood, who is distributor for the Wilj lard Batteries in this part of eastern Carolina. HIJACKER HERE The Hijacker, one of the most famous of the New York big game fishing boats, was here or Sunday night on her way north from Florida. Jos. H. Remy, the owner, was aboard and both he and his captain believed in the possibility of there being plenty of big game fish out on Frying I Pan Shoals. The Hijacker may i try and locate them at some I future date. MANY NEW YORKERS A total of 71 New York yach ts have signed the letter to the Treasury elepartment asking foi the basing of a medium sizec Coast Guard cutter at Southport Some of them are incensed because they cannot come south ol Morehead City before Novenlbei 15th without paying- hurricane insurance premiums. Boats frorr 18 states and from Canada have signed the letter. Visiting here George M. Rappleyea, of Baltimore. is spending today anci Thursday here with his mother Mrs. E. M. Rappleyea. Mrs. Rappleyea will accompany him tc Baltimore Thursday afternoon foi a visit. Mr. Rappleyea is the Baltimore representative of the Wheeler Shipyards. He is very much interested in yaclits and yachting and is impressed with the need of a sheltered basin here. Field Meet At Camp Thursday There will be a track meet on Thursday afternoon between the boys of Camp Sapona. Prizes will be donated for the event by Southport and Wilmington merchants. Southport people are invited to attend this athletic event. ness. They are all returning for some real fishing a little later on No Sportsman The Waccamaw township fresh water fisherman who shot the game warden, and on Sunday to boot, must have had the fishing fever in a very acute stage. But his act did not betray much I sportsmanship. HHHBmr 11 mm i Harden Atkinson Dies In Hospital Bardeh Atkinson, respected citizen of the Supply community, died Wednesday in the hospital here following a one-week's 'illness. He was 35 years of age. ) Mr. Atkinson was a member of ; the Sabbath Home Baptist chur; ch where he was an active worker. Surviving in addition to his wife, Mrs. Annie Fulford Atkinson, are his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Atkinson; two sisters, Mrs. Hoover Sellers and Mrs. J. J. Arnold, and two brothers. Funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock by the pastor at Sabbath Home church. Interment was made in the church cemetery. Amuzu i THEATRE Southport Friday-Saturday, May 21-22 "DR. BULL" with an All-Star Cast Short?"Natures Songsters" Monday-Tuesday, May 24-25 "THE GREAT O'MALLEY" (Melodrama) Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan Short?"Vaudeville Is Bark" $ Wednesda.v-Thurs., May 26-27 "NORTH OF NOME" Jaek Holt, Evelyn Venerble ! Short?"Birds In Love" ^ ! <ii?itit'it irtiw iiS'J i 1 N< Schedul The Com ted me to col Art. II, Revei The folio ; hi will be due Ji REAL ESTATE AU< DEALER, HORSES PAWNBROKER .... SEWING MACHINI PEDDLER GYPSIE OR FORT! LIGHTNING ROD VENDING MACHH SLOT MACHINES . ' PRESSING CLUB . DEALERS, PISTOL* PIANOS, RADIOS, ; \ LAUNDRIES MOTOR ADVERTI! AUTO SERVICE ST AUTO EQUIPMEN' AUTO DEALERS .. AUTO DEALERS? I ! I : If you ar Cure your lie me or at my < S. A ! : WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, J v rioM- "You want a raise? Why] Employee: "I do. sir. Z >, \ . . ' live within your,don't realize how 1 am cr .. i means?" M, * l/ffe''" Steel-nerved Lou Mevcr ha- a soeci, # f word to say about Camel's in.I j,r( ^ IN TO 19 RACING GAME^ 1 NEED A ^ <' ^ f Insecticides j j I ... Makes your summer free from j | the worry of flies and mosquitoes. 1 See us for spray-guns and effective in- | 1 ! sect killers. j j ! When the time comes to protect i j your crop from damaging insects, we j I will have the materials to use for best i i i results. |[ Shallotte Trading Co. j | Hobson Kirby, Prop. t | SHALLOTTE, N. C. J m ivl; le"B"LicenseTaxes ity Commissioners have instruclect the license taxes imposed in nue Act of 1937. wing taxes under this schedule une 1st, CTION SALES $ 25.00 and . MULES 25.00 100.00 ? AGENTS j 5.00 25.00 JNE TELLER 500.00 AGENTS 25.00 JES $5.00 to $40.00 i, $25.00 to $150.00 $12.50 | J and CARTRIDGES $10.00 B ACCESSORIES $ 5.00 | $12.50 3ERS $25.00 ATION (per pump) $1.25 to $2.50 r and SUPPLIES $10.00 ; $20.00 (Seasonal) $300.00 e liable for this tax, please pro- 1 ense on or before Jane 1st, from I office in Sauthport. I :. M1LLIKEN I Tax Collector 1 H I >*i jjmfc iVurn r?ij r>r.j rgj igi?rjai i'wm r. r*' i n
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