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>' ' " ' ????;?itt'? ?< . - ^ PAGE 2 THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Ecjjfrr ntered 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 31.50 tux MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS .75 I Wednesday, May 26, 1937 The weaker the leader, the greater the need for co-operation. Speed is what makes it possible for us to save a lot of time we use up bragging about how we made it. Responsibility for poor church attendance cannot be placed entirely upon f the shoulders of the people. The freshwater fisherman looks n down on saltwater fishing just as much as a bird hunter looks down upon rabbit hunting. Some people too conscientious to go fishing on Sunday have no compunction [I about spending the Sabbath telling exaggerated stories about their last week's ;| catches. , Bible School ijust about the time mat men- new leisure begins to weigh heavily upon their hands each summer, along comes news for the children that Daily Vacation Bible School is to be held. * We heartily favor these sessions, and see in them great possibilities for good. Just how much, of course, depends upon the attitude of the students and teachers toward their work. A capable faculty, open minded students plus a little encouragment from the parents can make the Bible School a lasting influence for good. ClMTC Training . We are surprised that'there has not been a more general response this year I to the announcement that appointments to the annual Citizen's Military Training Camp, at Fort Bragg, are now available. In the past two years Brunswick county has exceeded her quota because a boys from this section have so enthusiasV tically welcomed this opportunity for a month of valuable training and recreation. }B Applications still are being received, and there is time for Brunswick county ^ boys to enlist for this year's encampment, (Farming Section The best farming section in Brunswick county is in Waccamaw township, and many of the county's best families make their home there. Business around Freeland and Ash ! for the past few days has made necessary several trips to that section, so we are passing on first hand information when we say that farming activities are away to a head start in the lower end of the county. It is doubtful that a soil with greater natural fertility may be found in North Carolina. Truck crops, com and tobaccc crops thrive. Moreover, the land is easily Ji cultivated. Citizens in that section apparr ently realize the value of a well balanced farm program, for a cow and a garden are two conspicuous assets to be found near each farm house. I There are good prospects for a fine tobacco crop this year. Although it seemed for a time that there would be a shortage of plants, practically every farmei was able to set out his desired acreage Lack of available plants in other sections may favorably affect tobacco prices this fall, making Brunswick county farmers the gainers. About the only menace to industry and prosperity found in that section is the Waccamaw river. The men just na turally will quit their work occasionally to try their hand for a mess of fish. Mosl of the natives figure that the proximity of this river to their homes just aboul makes Waccamaw township the besl place in the world to live. Tenant Problem A major problem in connection with North Carolina agriculture is the tenant farmer. Here is a group who slave their lives away with few comforts or conveniences to speak of, and with no hope for the future. In fact, it is their very hopeless I ness that evokes most of the sympathy for their condition. Last year there was begun in this 'state a farm tenant security project that may point the way to satisfactory settlement of the tenant problem. Briefly, the plan calls for a five-year lease of small I farms located in eastern North Carolina jto tenant farmers whose records indicate that they have ability and a sense of responsibility above the average of their I class. At the end of the five year term, it l is believed that a fair idea of the tenant's ability may be obtained. Where it ap! pears to be justifiable, these people then will be offered an oportunity to purchase l their farm. Unless something is done to improve | the condition of the tenant farmer he is I a growing menace to the progress of agriculture in the South. ! , ' Electric Power Within the year an electric power line will be constructed from Wilmington ! to below Hickman's Crossroads. It is j therefore a matter of interest to note the i possibilities for convenience that are in1 eluded in this new service. Since 1933, the farmer has shown I an increasing inclination for electric water systems. Where 57,000 rural homes were provided with them that year, 77,000 were installed in 1934. In 1935 and '1936, installations totaled 108,000 and 157,000 respectively, and it is anticipated that the present year will see at least 250,000 homes provided adequately with running water for the first time, by means of electric systems. The installation of a system obviously marks a long step forward in the improvement of living standards 011 the farm. But that is not the end of the system's usefulness. Usually a water plant is the first electric appliance a farmer purchases. This leads to a wider understanding of electricity's usefulness both in the farm home and on the farm itself?for operating cutters, grinders and other machinery; and for lighting, cooking, refrigeration and many other household tasks. The surveys show that almost three times as many electric ranges and more than twice as many electric refrigerators are in use in homes with electric water systems as in homes without them. And homes with these systems consume 61 per cent more current for household purpose than other electrified farm ' homes. Domestic Servants ! No measure enacted by the recent North Carolina General Assembly will meet with more wholehearted approval from the people of the state than the one I which provides that domestic servants | shall be required to furnish health certificates before obtaining employment. 'i The recent Charlotte case, where a lit\ , tie six-months-old baby girl contracted syphilis supposedly from an infected nur ise. so stirred the state to action that the law should be doubly welcome. North Carolina has, through its boarc i of health, made extreme measures to safe guard the children of the state againsl 'disease. Parents have been urged to have them inoculated at regular interval! I against such diseases as small-pox, diph theria, typhoid fever, whooping cough and other contagious and preventable dis ! eases. But this matter of servants up until re cently has been neglected. There isn't anj telling how many children have beei needlessly subjected to disease because o: infected nursemaids or other servants. There's no telling how much diseas* has been spread because of affected do 1 mestic servants in the house. Of course I the law applies to all the servants in i household, cook, nurse, houseboy, and al > the rest. For years cafes, hotels and all eatinj places in the state have been subjected tc * regular inspections, and all employee; * have been required to furnish health cer 5 tificates stipulating that they are fre< 5 from disease. > Now that matter has been broadenec to include the home servants. When * should we be more careful about thi 5 spread of disease than right in the home where the food we eat, the clothes w< wear, and the linen of all kinds are per 11 haps handled by domestic servants. The Legislature acted with wisdom ii t enacting the measure which requires re t gular examinations of domestic servants ,and bars any who are infected from ob Itaining employment in such a capacity. [ But does it necessarily follow that i - man whose nose is kept to the grindstom is any sharper than others? , History told us much about the danger; , of the Middle Ages. Now they tell ui . middle age is also dangerous. THE STATE PQRT PILOT, |. .* | Just Among I The Fishermen (BY W. B. KEZIAH) J 4 + Fishing honors so far this year, go to Earl Robinson, j R. E. Hendrix, W. McCleney, ! Jack Godfrey, W. J. Maroney and C. R. Erskine, of Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington. Fishing over two of the old wrecks out on Cape FeatSunday morning, they landed 250 fine trout, estimated to average two pounds each. Many of the specimens weighed over three pounds. They were aboard the boat of Cap,1 tain H. T. Bowmer, of Southj port, leaving here at 6:30 and returning at 2:30 o'clock. CHAMP Dillon Ganey, deputy sheriff of | North West township, tells us | that he once caught a nine pound J freshwater trout. This makes the . deputy have a rating equal to ' that of postmaster L. T. Yaskell of Southport. i WEATHERBOUND Devon and D. E. Clinard, I Theron Walsh and W. S. Millican came in from WinstonSalem to go fishing on the ; j windiest day we had last week. One look at the tumbling inside waters assured them that it was too rough to go outside, and they promptly classed things as fishermans luck. They did not go fishing but they assured the Civic Club that they would be back soon all loaded for fish. COMING BACK It was only 15 or so big blues for Ivan Utt, T. T. and Bill ' Hylton, of High Point, Sunday I mnenirtn- "Ds?f thnir orn Qnlrl on r|UIUllUllg. IJU k MIVJ UtV UV.M V.. the fishing at Southport and the fact that there is plenty of fish ;in the ocean. They'll be back , I soon. FROM SHELBY Four Shelby citizens, F. H. Lee, Troy Green, J. W. Powell and V. B. Harmon, spent part of the past week here i in the tourist camp that Southport hasn't finished yet. They fished around and en, | joyed themselves. Several other big parties have been here recently from Governor Hoey's home town. There will . j be plenty more of them bei fore the summer is over. The western part of North Caroj lina always sends many fish. ermen to Southport, so does j the central part of the State. 11 Rowan county probably takes ; the cake in the number of fishing parties sent here. EVEN AT NIGHT Last week Postmaster Yaskel] got his line aboard the granddaddy of all the freshwater troul ' in Brunswick and the fact was I duly narrated in this column. The | story goes on to say that the l following night Mrs. Yaskell was ' awakened by a loud voice say> ing: "Gosh, they weighed twen. ty-one pounds apiece." Awakening Mr. Yaskell she demandec the meaning of his ambigious re marks while in the depths of pro | found slumber. He explained thai all he knew was that he re membered something of dream ! ing that he had caught twir trouts and that a radio statior had asked him to broadcast abou 1 it SHEEPHEAD t Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sherill of Charlotte and Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lineburger of 3 Shelby have been spending a few days here, residing in their own high class "Tin ? r*on'? noiii WpptI island was - j chief interest to them Sunday and they returned from over there with several nice sheephead. r WRITER VISITOR j j Big and genial Boyden Sparki -[and one of his cronies, Willian H. Green, of New York, were ii a happy frame of mind whei 11 they landed from the boat o '; Capt. Hulen Watts here Sunda; " | afternoon. They had 25 or 31 , | very large blues that they tool j trolling. Mr. Sparks is one of thi , most widely recognized featuri '(writers in the United States. Mr Sparks advised us he would b< r fishing at Southport plenty thi ' summer. > SOME CATCH 3 Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Lyon, of Durham, made a fair sized catch of blues trolling - off the cape Sunday. Aftc: they had docked, and while j Capt. W. G. Caswell was cleaning some of the catch - for supper on the boat, Mr, 5 Lyon baited a hook and set out to see what was around ' the dock. He got a bite from - something which calmly set out harborward with his hook line and sinker. He yelled for help and Capt. Cas1 well sought to serve as an additional anchor to windward. It was no use, the line ' finally snapped, leaving Mr. Lyon firmly believing he had fastened onto a submarine. Whatever it was. It certainly did not act like a fish. I NEAR ARREST ; Our good friend Eustace Russ the game warden, came ven near arresting us Sunday after noon and was only deterred fron 5 his purpose by a hurried explan , ation that two of the nine trou 5 we had caught the previous daj were jacks. This left us a saf< - SOUTHPORT, N. C ! NEWS i BRIEFS ? i MOVES FAMILY ! Coastguardsman John Willii has moved his family from Bali ' Head Island to Morehead City. OX CHINOOK Gilbert Creech, of Southport left last week to accept a job it the engine room of the U. S dredged Chinook. He formerb was at the local CCC Camp. CLEANING CP Latest improvement on th Southport waterfront is the de |molishing this week of the oh : machinery building across th | street from the residence of Cap j tain and Mrs. I. B. Bussels. CONTENTED The squirrels recently liberat | ed in Franklin Square appear t be perfectly contented in thei ! i new home and have made no ef i fort to return to the woods. RETURN HOME j David Watson and Dan Walk er, students for the past year a I Louisburg College, returned homi j Tuesday for the summer vaca tion MARRIAGE LICENSES One white couple obtained thei ! marriage licenses during the pas week from the local office of Re I gister of Deeds. The contractinj | couple was: Miss Julia Ann Smi I th, of Ash, to Woodrow Simmon jalso of Ash. ATTENDS GRADUATION Mrs. Edna Bell will leave 01 ;| Thursday for High Point when | she will attend the graduatioi exercises at High Point College Her daughter, Miss Dorothy Boll is a member of the graduatinj class there this year. BOTTLE NOTE A bottle picked up on the bea ! ch at Bald Head Island recentli by J. A. Piner, father of Light ! keeper J. E. Piner, contained i j note from a man in New Jersey ! The note was answered by Mi Piner, who gave a description o the North Carolina tropical is land. SHEEPHEAD BITING Sheephead are biting at th docks at Southport and For Caswell and many pretty fisl have been taken during recen days. Fish weighing several lbs are often taken, the usual meth iod being with pole and line, am jsandfiddlers for bait. FIGHTING FELLOWS Boyden Sparks, fishing out o: Cape Fear shoals Sunday in com pany with William H. Green, o New York, found the blues botl big and gamey. A large numbe were hooked, but more than hal got away after a vigorous figh and before they could be brough to the boat. MAGISTRATE BUSY Magistrates in various parts o the county are being kept rathe busy trying cases growing ou of infractions of the fishing law: Game Warden Eustace Russ ha made several arrests in the pas few days. The public should bea in mind that while the law pel margin of one within the law The game warden is a great d? votee of freshwater fishing, an if anybody in the country eve sees him with more than th eight, which the law allows, w will be greatly obliged if the will promptly report the fact t us. nxTrKTvr. Ul V I1I.1M Judging by the way the occurrence appealed to the sense of humor of the one 5! spectator, Capt. I. B. Bussell, 1j the whole town of Southport 1 will be very much tickled to i know that we fell in Goverf nor's Creek one day last f week. We lost our glasses 5 but came up with our pipe < still in our mouth. We also s lost the fish that was re sponsible for the mishap. VISITORS e J.F. Fisher of Gold Hill, s L. L. Fisher, of Rockwell, R, A. Hilton, of Kannapolis, and S. B. Rinehardt, of Rockwell, got a few trout Saturday and would have had better luck but for enr gine trouble on a new boat. Anyway, they were pleased and will be back soon for another try. Pretty much the same thing happened to C. L. Durham, Fred Lane, Walter Cox, H. C. Bray and E. T. Trogden, all of Asheboro. They are also slated for a return call in the near future. FISHING GROUNDS By the way passing on ir formation, our friends, the vai ious boat captains, are telling u that there are plenty of blue swimming around the old wreck out on the Cape now. Fishin is getting good. Even the Moun Dirfus, Greek freighter whic went down the day after Chris , mas, will be a great fishin r ground for trout, blues an -jmackeral this season. The othe i ! and older wrecks around whic - the fish cluster are providin t plentiful sport now in the way o r i trout and will be dependable al !j through the year. I It Makes Ail the Dfrrerence in i R Through ihe aroma of a for He Sought an inir* pf HeAveW' dome 'W/yfy//''' ! And then they mafri i ?????? ?? mits fishing, it also makes cer-[ Shallotte Ri' r tain reservations and if you are be furnishing in doubt about what is right the for residents township or county srame warden; Shallotte coi will be glad to acivise you. wrecks on ( Southport tl _ ATTRACTIVE FISHING a fine gatht A couple of old wrecks off blues and m 1 i f P'**"" * ***** SMHWWSlrtSiSp l What a A Sit-Dowr f ti r ^ i TKaf ivac fKp pvplnn * lllll ?? 1*0 VltV t : tiled customer in one of r urday. t 3. S ft "No," replied the r r. a getting up from her half t : * position over the count* y : A dvertise!" ; Now, A tomers why no if !: They at V advertis in . . . ?jom I I ??The Stat' a . >! I "Your Corn h jj SOUTHPORT, ] r h ? if >1 t ? WEDNESDAY. MAY the World. By PERCY ckosby I ( f~oN carthT7 j?r^ ~~~ I" ouars A ) m&z | FOR THAvJ In * h I'er Inlet are said toj Boring young man (to pretty + ? 801116 f'ne fishing gjrig): "You know. I'm funny and visitors to the ... .. . T . like that?I always throw mvself mmunity. Like the . . , . . ' . , .. ' into any job I undestake. ^ape Fear Shoate at1 ... ? t.u ii ?? i Pretty gir sweetly : "How lese at Shallotte are | . ?ring place for trout,1 splendid* Why don't you dig a ackerel. ^well!" ' i Strike Here? " \ation made by a rather befud- J the local stores here last Satested-looking sales girl, slowly slumped, comfortable reclining > 2r, "the boss merely forgot tit ; tr. Merchant, if you don't want cus- j to think the imaginary example above it try running a few advertisements? ) .tract attention, and buyers. Doubly do j I sements sell for you when they appear * ) I I I I I I :wm I e Port Pilot?? nty Newspaper" I NORTH CAROLINA > I I j
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