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^ THE STATE PORT PILOT
1 m Southport, N. G.
, PUBUSHED EVERY WEDNESDAY,...
JAMES M. HARPER, JR.. E(j|jr
Altered M Moond-clua matter April 20, 102% at
Ik* Mat Office at jl?ipillt, H. C., under
?- tha act of March a. M70.
i?wo. Subacription Rataa
ONB TBAR |1.?
Wtx MONTHS LM
tflSgj MONTHS .71
Wednesday, July 14, 1937
v.. It isn't unusual that heated rertoarkf
are made when the temperature is rtidetj
I degrees in the shade.
i
Fads may be foolish, but the peopk
"Who enter in on them have lfroTe for
'than those who sit on the side-lines ahri
criticize.
1 ?
It is a good idea to be able to sav
jj *'no"; but it is sometimes hard to deeidt
f when to start without making sfrmebodj
-angry.
w? It will be a shame if there is tto lee*
entry in the yachting regatta to be stag
!.gd here August 12-13-14.
JC ?
i There are property hoiders in South
' port whom we hope will take to heart th<
''advice of Governor Hoey when he sait
' I that the towns and cities of this statf
"'should engage in an intensive clean-ui
i ^campaign.
t '
* Curxn* Tnharm
|,p (1 W rrrft ? " "
It is tobacco coring time again in East
ern North Carolina, and take it from om
| who knows, the hardest part of tendinj
I a tobacco crop is at hand,
i Tending a tobacco barn is a job for ar
K I expert. The right color in a pile of tobac
L i :co on the warehouse floor is sure t<
teatch and hold the eye of the buyer, an<
the color depends upon the curing. Foi
.Tour days and four nights?if everything
IJ I goes along all right?a ceaseless vigi
must be kept. The entire process is base<
upon the proper use of heat, and then
can be no sudden changes.
When you realize that the heating ap
!paratus consists of a brick or clay fur
nace that burns logs you get an idea o
just how difficult is the job of keepi*)
the mercury on one spot on the therme
meter. And that is what must be don
from the time heat is first started in th
furnace until the time the last bit of sa]
has been killed out of the thickest tobac
co stem in the barn.
It is the night watch that causes th
worry. How would you like to stay awak'
ajl night with absolutely nothing to d
except try to keep from going to slee;
so you could check the thermomete
every fifteen minutes? Bad. But wait i
minute; how would you Mke an assign
fluent to tobacco barn duty on a night ai
ter you had spent from sun-up to sun-se
at back-breaking work in a hot fieM
I Well, that's what happens; and it's th
rule, not the exception.
Recently there have been experiment
directed toward perfecting patented cm
fj; era that will maintain proper tempera
ores without the constant care of som
ittendant. We hopefully look forward t
:Rd time when the tobacco industry wii
? sufficiently prosperous that every far
ner engaged in its cultivation can wor
day with the certain knowledge tha
when night comes he can go to bed an
^ft his rent.
i fcet Started
| One month from today the 1937 Yach
ag Regatta at Southpert, sponsored b
Jie Carolina Yacht Club, of Wrightsvifl
Beach, will be ended. If the event is t
j e the sueeess it should be, there mo
I s some smooth, co-operatrve work witl
i t the next fortnight.
) We do not believe that the petenti;
1 aloe of these races to Southport can t
^ ^er estimated. Hundreds of persons ai
?jcpected here for the entire three-day pr
mam; literally thousands should come i
I Br the daily events. A large percentaj
J ? the visitors will be persons who ?ev<
five visited Southport before. In positk
? profit most m the manner of introdu
ng the public to its new development
yje management of the Fort Caswc
?operty. Theirs will be the responsibiM
of providing accommodations for mar
b the visitors.
X Most important, though, as we see i
if the lasting good that can resnlt from
?onp from Southport and a group fro
Wilmington working in harmony for
j single cause. Out of the combined efforts'
of members of the Carolina Yacht Club
and Southport citizens to make a success
' of the 1937 Yachting Regatta may Witte
a bettef understanding bet-ween the two
1 toWhs.
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Piitp Wood *
?
? The coming of pulp mills" info this' s#e'
tion of the South has opened" a new market
for the sale of inferior timber. Used;
wisely, this market can mean a valuable;
source of income to the land owner who
plaiis to grow timber as a cash crop.
The principle of growing tail, straight!
trees that are suitable for poles and for j
sawmills is proper thinning and the elimi- i
nation of bad growth. Sale as pulp woodj
,, offers the highest price for thmned-out
( trees.
r The farmer, though, who sells a tract
of fend, or timber rights on a tract of
land, in gniltv of killing the goose that
wiH fay gttlde* eggs just as long as he
" will keep her on hw farm. Not a think i
ing person in Brunswick county wants to
1 see the forests slaughtered for pulp wood
as they were years ago by timber companies.
* The pulp mills themselves will profit
* by a program of cultivation and tfiserir
mnatorv cutting, for in that manner their
supply of raw materials for years to come
Will be protected. Brunswick county has
1 one of the best forest fire control organ i
zations in the state, one that offers protection
to the land owner who chooses to
market his timber products wisely over a
- long period of years.
1 Driving A Privilege
t
' It is high time we realized that the operation
of a motor car on the public highways
is a privilege?not a right.
Every automobile is a potentially lethal
weapon. Properly used, it is one of man's
" * ' ' ???-? 1??
-1 most aesiraoie meciiamcai romu.
J properly used, it is a terrible menace to
r the lives, health and property of everyone
in the area it travels.
1 Rigid training is necessary to obtain a
- license to pilot an airplane?yet the plane
? travels empty airways where, generally
1 speaking, it cannot endanger others. Lof
comotive engineers must likewise underl
go years of arduous experience, and Must
1 prove their physical and mental eompet1
ence and responsibility before being en!
trusted with a tram?yet a train operates
on tracks, and has no traffic eonges
fion problems. Still, in most states, We al
low anyone?whether he be competent or
f incompetent, careless or reckless, of good
? habits of bad?to drive a car on crowded
" arteries of travel, where the slightest
e error of judgment May cause a death!
e ft is an undeniable fact that a considP
erable percentage of the people now
" driving should either be denied that privilege
or foreed to undergo a period of
e training to make them abler, safer car
6 operators. Some of these people are phy0
sieally incapable of driving properly.
P Many More are mentally incapable, conr
genitally incompetent, or reckless. And
a the toll is 35,000 lives a year,
i- We will never solve the accident prob
lem until We adopt drivers' licensing ret
that will keen the incompetent
? and reckless driver off the public reads,
e No man Has a "right" to drive until he
can shew definitely that he is worth of
18 the "privilege" bestowed upon Mm.
" Doomed To Disappointment
e .
* Hundreds and peritaps even thousands
of Brunswick county citizens seem defi"J
niteiy doomed to disappointment over
k their expectations for old-age pensions in
lt Brunswick county.
d This law was effective July 1st, and
hundreds of able people who are not financially
dependant upon the county for
their support have made application to
the welfare department here for assist
tance.
y Under the interpretation given the law
le by North Carolina Administrators of the
,o Social Security Act, the pensions and
st benefits to dependant children will be
v based upon actual need, and not upon
the basis of just being 65 years of age,
a! or, in the case of dependant children,
* just dependant on somebody.
re In order that they may not be disapo
pointed, peopic of the coWfty should hear
these facts in mind,
re ^
n To be a social lion, some people think
m that they must sit around and growl all
the time.
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ty A teacher's salary has to be elastic?
jy in order to make eight months stretch to
twelve.
it,
a If all the political baloney were laid
m end to end, there would still be semea
body listening. __ _ . ...
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THE STATE PORT PILOT, I
ONE-MINUTE
INTERVIEWS
(<r W. B. Kezlsfc)
POSTMAN
Rural Delivery riiailman W. J.
Purvis, of Ash, must have left
,his substitute in chaise f-hursday.
Anyway, was in towii,
greeting his friends with the
sitofc that He is wont to bestow
upon them. In answer to an inquiry
as to bow crops were in i
Waccafhaw, He smiled all over j
his face and said, "They are Just
fine:"
C#VIf SPIRIT
Chan Hewett of South port has
undoubtedly caught the civic
(spirit that is rapidly prevading
the air of his home town. Up
(street early Friday morning, he
[said' "I have been up since five
Jo'cloek, cutting grass. The Missus
[and I have the prettiest plate in
I town. "
fElfTfe*
"The future of Brunswick
county will center around Route
WO. IT. I aiii advised that there
is continued correspondence bejtweeh
the Tidewater Power Comj
pany and the Rural Electrification
Board in Washington. We
I are hoping to get the power line
(soon." Such was ,the optimistic
utterances of friend Neil Thomas,
| of Thomasbbro, when he Was
seen at Bolivia Thursday.
FAITH
"I have unlimited faith in the
J future of Brunswick county. And
I believe if those of us who
have faith will show it by our
(words and actions we will soon j
1 convince outside people and bring
I them here to help develop the
many wonderful opportunities that
are now only awaiting a little
mortey or attention." So said (
Cashier G. W. Bunker of the
People's United BaRk, just after
waiting on a new depositor, Friday.
WANT SAT SO
"T nauar hnfnt'o onw mich fine
fishing; as you have here. I never ;
believed it existed anywhere,
j Your town will see a lot of me
and other Kannapolis people this
summer and fall." So remarked
P. R. Thompson, of KannapoHs,
las he prepared to leave with his
party at the conclusion of a twoday
fishing trip last Thursday.
' Incidently, It may be remarked
that Kannapolis is the largest
unincorporated town In the
world.
I TOOK A LOOK
"Went over to Fort Caswell
i Seturday, just to have a look at
i things. I am Wonderfully impi&ssed
with the potential value
of that place in Brunswick county."
So remarked B. SI. Morn shy,
Southport real eBtate and insori
anc* man. Mr. Mornsby thought
that Brunswick county should ex|
ercise every effort to get the
j short stretch of dirt road taken
over and hard surfaced by the
state. And there are various other
matters in which the developers
should have the coopera|
tion of both the town and
county.
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THE RACEK
I One of the things uppermost
j in the minds of Southport peoj
pie at this time is the big three
days sailing races that are to be
held here next month. This event,
liln&ke other things that we have
had here, wW last three full
[days with something different
, eacn aay. ?an*raiiy, several
[ thousand people wHI eome and
stay tike three days If they
cm* gist accommodations.
The steering committee for the
evert is composed of Jimmie
Harper, I. B. BuswMb and Allen
Earing. Ensign Cotton at Camp
Sapona and this cohntoBt are associated
with the committee. In
Sm effort to get over some idea
of the event to the general public
the three mainsprings were
interviewed as to what they
thought constituted the most important
things about K. Here's
what they said:
Captain Buesels?"This years '
regatta will be the start of an
event that will become known the
full length of the South Atlantic
Coeet. There will be another and
bigger one next year. But, just
because we are going to have a
bigger one next year, no one
should think that we will have a
small affair this time. There is
going to be a lot of swift sail- |
mg boots here in August Mid a
groat crowd of people to see them
in action."
Jhnnr.ie Harper?"ThiB is really
1 the start of big yearly races held
on the Southport harbor by the
, Carolina Yacht Club of Wflminton.
Already, tor next year, they
fteve secured the great South Atlantic
Racps, I am glad that
, sue* an old well known organiza,
tien as the Carolina Yacht Club
liftes our harbor and Wants it for
its sailing events. K wW mean
much to Southport and wiH be
, productive of a much finer spirit
' between Wilmington and South[
pert."
A Dsn Ewing?"I don't think
anything oeutd be thought of that
will- become ef mare real value to
, Southport then the regattas. They
wW attract thousands of people
i to Southport each year and those
people wiH spend much money
here. I sum glad our people are
so Interested and pleased in let[
Ung the Carolina Yacht Club
have our harbor for this and fa'
tare events. 1Mb Is something
that ah Southport can afford to
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50UTHP0RT, N. C.
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Tust Among
The Fisher men i
(BY W. B. KEZIAH) |
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While their catch was far |
from the largest that has
been brought in, one of the
best pleased parties that has
been here this year came in
Thursday on the Mary Frances
of Captain George Floyd.
They had 375 pounds of nice
fish. Those in the party were
P. R. artd S. D. Thompson,
Marvin Adcock, Mrs. Lillian
Thompson and Misses Vera
and Alice Thompson, all of
Kannapolis.
GOOD LUCK
Another party consisting of
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Powles and
J. A. M. Peeler of Salisbury was
out on the Mary Frances Friday.
THey returned early with 175
pounds and were very much pleased.
Mr. Powles remarked to this |
columist that the fishing was the
best he ever saw anywhere.
GOOD CATCHES
The commercial blue fish
boats of S. W. Watts and S.
I. Burris made fine catches
of blues on the Cape Fear
shoals Thursday and Friday.
One of the craft brought in
2,200 pounds during the two
days.
ANOTHER BIG ONE
It weighed four pounds on the
scales. There is no guess work
or taking his word about it.
Casting from the pump pond near
the Menhaden Products plant, '
Postmaster L. T. Yaskell got a i
strike and landed a trout of the j
above specifications Friday. His
companion, Charles Greer, was so i
moved by the occurence that'
he ordered himself a new $6.19
casting rod the next morning.
PLEASED PARTY
William Wagner of Charlotte
and T. H. Piatt, Neal
Beaten and Charles Smith of
Mooresville were much pleased
Friday with a catch of
150 pounds of nice fish, all
taken in the morning'. The
party was back at the dock
and ready to start home by
noon. They went out on the
boat of Captain Cratie Arnold.
BLUES STRIKING
Fishing from the boat of Captain
H. T. Bowmer Sunday, Sigmund
Solomon, Harris Abelvitz,
Adolph Solomon, of Wilmington,
and Col. Manny Lane and Howard
Grad, of Newark, N. J.,
brought in 96 big blue fish. The
bieeze got things a little too
choppy about noon and they returned
to port. But for their
early return they would made a
huge catch.
OTHER CATCHES
A party from Concord on
the boat of Captain Cartie
Arnold made a good catch
Sunday, as did' another party
from Raleigh on one of
the Watts boats.
LIVELY AGAIN
With sport fishing more or less
hampered by bad weather the
'past ten days, things are getting
j lively again and parties are eom'
ing in from all points in the
state. This week-end is expected
to be pretty active and some of
the boaftmen say they look for a
long period of good fishing weather.
CASWELL DOCK
The Fort Caswell dock, rebuilt
this past spring, is affording
a nice spot for shore
fishing and some fine catches
are being reported from over
there.
RIVER FISHING
Boatmen say that fishing on
the river will soon become good.
This will be welcomed, as it will
afford them a place to take fishing
parties when it is too rough
to venture outside. Even during
fine weather some parties prefer
the river fishing.
POOR LUCK
So far as an observer on
the outside can judge the
commercial, menhaden boats
have had very desultory fishing
and poor luck this year.
Some of the boats have been
able to put in only a fewdays
time and the top boats
are way behind the catches
that they had made at this
time last year.
enter into wholeheartedly."
Of the two associates to the
[steering committee, Ensign Cotton
is a former naval man and
has participated in several regattas
at Charleston and elsewhere.
Out of what he has been through,
he is overflowing with what is
to come when the Southport harbor
becomes dotted with sail
on the morning of the 12th of
August.
Farm Questions
Q. When should lespedeza be
cut for hay?
A. The Crop should be cut
when the plants attain a height
of 15 inches, or when it is in
full bloom, whichever occurs
first. The wait later will injure
the quality of the hay and also
occasion the loss of the lower
leases. If cut early, lespedeza will
make enough second growth to
reseed the land well, but it is
seldom possible to get a good
bay crop and a seed crop the
same year. The usual dates for
eattthg the Korean variety is
afroct August 1 with the other
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But It s True_
-7?e rev. henqs re iter
of loudon, england,
has ho mouth,
preaches sermoms
in sign lahguag&^t ^
Mr Reiler's face is a blank from fhc nose down to the ch
jpcopic, net mutes. They have learned the sign language ;
He is fed through a tube which enters his stomach.
Vtiieiies maturing 15 days later. ' A.
Q. Is barley a satisfactory feed j Q. How car. I contro
for poultry? nose in my dewberry fi
A. While not as palatable as A. The cutting: off ?
corn or wheat, barley is an ex- below the ground lev
cellent poultry feed. However, if ing season has closed li
used as a substitute for yellow growth just as soon as
corn in the scratch or if barley effective in not only <
meal is to replace yellow corn anthracnose but ,seve
meal in the mash, a supplement diseases that attack th<
must be made to supply the de- the dewberry plants
ficieney in vitamin A which is above the ground. The
brought about by this usage. The should be removed from
use of 5 percent alfalfa lea# meal and destroyed as the ar
in the mash would compensate fungus will live on
for this shortage of the vitamin canes and pnss to the 1
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OF BROOKLVN, NEW YORK.
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WILKINSON,GR^Y
mnd COMPANY FOR j^E
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AFTER FKSHTING ~ ACTUALLY J5?
r /ass /?A/o /ware L/P / a?
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in. His congregations are made up of normi W~tjust
to be able to "ifear" what he has to ?rfl ^
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!which grow up soon after tj^M
1 anthrac- cutting. If new plantings are
'eld ? I), made the old stubs should
el ?of "''all ca, eful|y Pruned off before ft I 1
fas proven new st?* is set"
the pick- ;c,
'ontrolling X H' Stlnes of Mara Hill ,? "j
ral other Madison county, says it does a
parts of pay to attempt to crop landj^H
that areivhich a grain drill cannot
old canes operated In other words
i the field Steep land is planted to ror.^ 3
tthracno.se or tobacco on his farm. H
the dead H
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