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THE STATE PORT PILOT 1
Southport, N. G.
| PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY '
JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Edjfcpr
tt tared as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at
tbe Poet Office at Southport, N. C? under
B the act of March 3, 1879.
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I Wednesday, August 4, 1937
Any public undertaking will profit
more from co-operation than it will from
criticism.
When you go to tell someone about
your operation, take our advice and tell
him the short way.
There is as much difference between
hope and ambition as there is between
dreaming and hard work.
A know-it-all usually is so busy talking
that he doesn't have a chance to find out
the true facts in the case.
About the most Neighborly that some
people ever get is when they help their
friends tend to their business.
Don't be envious of the tobacco farmer
on the eve of his annual financial emancipation.
He earned every cent he will
I Better Prospects
Prospects get better and better for the
hardsurfacing of the Southport-Whiteville
highway.
Work, of course, is already underway
on the Shallotte end of the unpaved
stretch, a 3.45-mile link. But the completion
of that letting will leave more than
twenty miles of dirt road between there
and the end of the hardsurface in Columbus
county.
Two events of importance in connection
with this project occurred last week.
The Columbus County Board of Commissioners
in session in Whiteville, at the
request of the district commissioner, listed
their preferred roads for improvements.
At the head of the list was placed the
Whiteville-Southport highway.
Later in the week announcement came
I from Raleigh of the appointment of A. F.
Powell, Jr., to succeed Robert Grady
Johnson as member of the State Highway
Commission from this district. Mr. Powell
is familiar with the need of this highway,
and when the time comes to consider
projects for Columbus or for Brunswick
county his natural inclination will
be to favor the completion of this hardsurfacing.
I Correspondents
Names make news.
That is a newspaper axiom that has
been repeated a thousand times, but not
once too often. The events need not necessarily
be ones destined to alter the tide
of civilization, just so they are tied in
with local people and place of interest.
That is why regular news ietters from
country correspondents comprise one of
the most valuable features of any weekly
newspaper. The person who most insistantly
declares that he doesn't care about
having his name in the paper is the first
one to look to see if it is there.
From time to time during the past two
years we have had news representatives
in various parts of the country who could
be depended upon to send in fresh, crisp
news letters each week. But, for one reason
or another, we never have been able
to line up the full force at the same time.
The Pilot is now on the threshold of a
season that should be its best in history.
With two typesetting machines at the
plant there is greater capacity for news
copy. With the co-operation of local correspondents
throughout the county we
can bring the popularity of this newspaper
up to a new high level.
Splendid Work
We are proud to learn recently that
4-H Club work in Columbus county is
not confined to boys, but considerable
work is being done among the girls of
the county. Miss Lucy Tipton, of China ;
Grove, has a band of some 20 girls whom ;
she is giving beneficial training in canning,
sewing and many other projects.
This work among the boys will mean
much to the future of Columbus county, j
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Assistant County Agent W. II. Shearin is
doing a splendid work with the boys in
having corn projects, hog and poultry
projects, and engaging in many other
phases of farm activity.
We only wish that this work might be
expanded to the place where every farm
boy and girl in the county might be able
actively to participate in this splendid
program.
Worthy Cause
Frequently we receive news stories and
letters urging our co-operation in advertising
some program or campaign, and
usually we are forced to throw them
away.
This week we received from Louisburg
College an appeal that was impressive in
its sincerity. Unless that institution receives
donations of funds immediately
there is no chance for it to survive the
coming school year.
Louisburg has been in existence for
over one hundred-sixty years, and the
average number of students each year is
over three hundred. It is easy to see that
the educational influence of this institution
has left its mark upon the citizens of
this state.
Brunswick county has shared in the
service rendered by the college, for many
of her boys and girls have been educated
there. It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect
this county to give aid in the same
proportion during this time of financial
distress.
The Market Opens
The most important day of the year
for tobacco farmers of this section is almost
at hand, for on next Tuesday the
markets of the Border Belt will open.
This region has been richly blessed by
nature again this season, and one of the
finest tobacco crops in history has been
produced. Despite the fact that there has
been a large increase in acreage, early reports
from the Georgia market, which
opened last week, indicate that prices
will be about in line with those paid last
[year. A large acreage of good quality
tobacco that is selling for high prices?
what more could a farmer hope for?
Many months of the hardest kind of
labor have gone into the production of
this 1937 crop, and the farmer deserves
every cent his weed offerings bring in.
Other members of the farm family have
had their part in making the crop, for
the cultivation, curing and marketing of
tobacco is no one-man job.
With a degree of financial independence
assured, it is interesting to watch
the use the farmers will make of their
hard-earned dollars. Much of the money
will, of course, be used to pay guano bills
and other obligations incurred for fall
payment. But this will take only a small
part of the cash that is paid out by warehousemen
during the next few weeks.
Today, in the special tobacco issue,
there appear the advertisements of many
merchants in this trading area who have
been in business year after year, rendering
service and satisfaction to their customers.
These are the men with whom
to spend your money. These men were
here last eyar, are ready for your trade
this season, and twelve months from now
will be in business at their same location.
The South's Opportunity
A generation ago farms were still largely
thought of as mines from which farmers
extracted the soil fertility and then
moved on to new areas. Now they are
rightly regarded as factories in which
plant food is manufactured into plant and
animal products. There is great hope for
the South in this new conception, as The
Progressive Farmer points out in the following
editorial:?
' "We have much labor not yet fully
utilized. We have the climate for a quick
turn-over of crops. We have soils that can;
be easily cultivated. We can grow legumes
easily and so stuff our land with
cheaply produced nitrogen and humus.
"Furthemrore, fertilizers have not advanced
in price nearly so much as prices
of farm products generally.
"For all these reasons it will pay us to
continue spending as much for fertilizers,
as now but double our acreages of soilimproving
crops. Our warm climate is an
asset but this warm climate makes moisture
disappear rapidly. Hence we need
more legumes (1) to get cheap nitrogen
and (2) to fill our soils with spongy humus
that will hold moisture in.the soil
and so enable us to keep right on converting
plant food into plants just as fast
as we can find profitable markets for
them. And we need to market them both
directly in the form of cotton, tobacco,
truck crops, etc., and indirectly in the
form of milk, butter, eggs, pork, beef,
etc.
"The farm is not a mine but a factory.
Let's treat it as such."
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(BY W. B. KK7.IAH)
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Doctor Summers Back
Dr. F. P. Summers of Charlotte,
who is just as regular in
his fishing trips to Southport
! as the full moon is in making ]
its appearance each month, was
here Saturday with three friends, !
A. Henry Eade, of Philadelphia, j
Pa., T. E. Stewart, of Belmont,
and T. H. McKoy, of Gastonia.
As usual, Dr. Summers took his :
i party out on the E. M. Lewis of
(Captain Hulan Watts.
The whole month of July
has been rather bad for the
fishing parties. Their coming j
to Southport and being able
to get outside has been just
a matter of luck. Half the
time the weather prevented
the trip being made, and this
was disheartening to parties
who had traveled many miles i
just to enjoy Southport's fine
fishing. But on the first day
of August several of the weather-wise
Southport fishermen,
and these boys know
their weather, told us that
things were promising from
now on through the summer
and fall. They think it will
be very rarely that a party
will come in and be prevented
by weather from going j
out.
Big Game Fishing
For a lonsr time the South- i
port Civic Club has been conten- j
ding that the area out near the j
Gulf Stream offered big game
fishing that was just as good as
1 is to be found in Florida. The
I difficulty is that no one here j
! knows how to fish for the big i
fellows that are certainly out 1
there. Now here comes our good
friend the Reverend A. H. Mar- j
shall with the information that
thirty or forty people in various
j parts of the state are very much
^ interested in the possibility for
big game fishing off Southport
and that an expedition will go
out in a short time and see what
can be done about it. The Reverend
Mr. Marshall sounds still
| another encouraging note with
the information that members of
the New Hanover Fishing Club
are deeply interested and say that
1 if the big fish arc found and i
taken they will advertise things
and make Southport the headj
quarters for big game fishing in j
North Carolina. This looks like '
another mighty good opportunity
for Wilmington and Southport
people to more strongly >vment
their mutally advantageous relations.
Liked Their Fishing
They did not make any
whale of a catch but they
did pretty well and are anxious
to try it again, so declared
a Robeson and Bladen
county fishing party here
Sunday. They went out on
the boat of Captain H. T.
Bowmer. Those in the party
were Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Love,
and Mi-, and Mrs. S. C. Love
and son of Red Springs; Mr.
and Mrs. D. L. Love and G.
VV. Love, of Garland, and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Love
of Clarkton.
Sea Duke Returns
The Sea Duke, big shrimp trawler
of Lewis J. Hardee, is back
from Florida to begin its summer
and fall fishing on the ]
Southport shrimping grounds. |
Many other boats belonging to j
various parties will soon be com-:
ing in. In addition to the Sea
Duke, Mr. Hardee has a sort of
royal family of big trawlers. |
Three other boats belonging to I
him are named Sea King, Sea I
Queen and Sea Prince. All are
of the same size and they are
the largest locally owned trawlers.
SILER CITY FOLKS
Captain Hulan Watts had
pretty good luck Monday
when out with a party of
young fellows from Siler City.
They went for blues and
mackerel and made a nice
catch. Those in the party
were Jack Banks, Bill Vestal,
Ed Dark and Bill Wall.
Fresh Water Fishing
M. S. Clifton, Jr., and E. B.
Ward, both of Raleigh, spent
part of the past week here trying
their luck at freshwater fishing.
Having missed them at the
end of their trip, this columist is
not prepared to say what their
luck was.
PATROLMAN HURT
IN ROAD MISHAP
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parked his motorcycle, he stepped
out into the road to flag
down an oil truck, eoming out of
Wilmington in the opposite direction,
in order to check its headlights.
As the highway patrolman
started across the road, Gross'
motorcycle approached from the
same direction, knocked him into
the road. The rider was also I
thrown by the impact, it was
said.
Patrolman Sloan rode his j
motorcycle back to Wilmington
and went to a hospital there for
treatment of bruises and abrasions.
Gross also suffered bruises
aOUTHPORT, N. C.
Fair Sailing
By W. B. KEZIAH
It is good an dpossible that
some Virginia or Maryland boat
may show up before the regetta,
coming down for the express
purpose of trying to lick the sex
off of F. W. Scheper's "Syndicate"
from Beaufort, S. C. The
Syndicate has won nine races
this season and advices are that
she will be going strong in Class
A here next week.
Folks are also looking around
to see what boat is the best hope
to go against the High-Tide of
Beaufort. Like the Syndicate in
Class A the High Tide, a Class
B boat, has been taking in about
everything that it entered this
year. She may face some stiff
opposition in Tar Heel waters.
Every rag in Wilmington 3eems
to be set to sail in the regatta
at Southport next week. Skippers
and crews comprise some mighty
well known citizens. Skipper William
Emerson of the Mischief has
no less a distinguished personage
than Peter Brown Ruffin, chairman
of the Wilmington Port
Commission, listed as a member
of his crew.
The Charleston Yacht Club exhibited
Class A sportsmanship
when it deferred a regatta scheduled
for next week, this action
being taken purely because our
good Charleston friends did not
wish to conflict with anything
here. The Charleston Yacht Club
pennant wil lprobably wave over
many fine little boats here next
week.
Commodore W. W. Storm of
the Carolina Yacht Club is feeling
very good about the regatta
which his club is sponsoring. To
witness which, he has a very
nice letter that is being published
in the Pilot this week. He does
not say so but we tars down here
know that it was really the Carolina
Yacht Club that made this
year regatta possible at Southport.
There are signs of interest further
up in the more eastern part
of North Carolina. Still, we are
wondering if eastern North Carolina
will be represented as
strongly as it should be when
the starting gun is fired here
Thursday of next week.
Here's our compliments to our
co workers, especially Chairman
H. M. Shannon and his associates
on the finance comittee. They
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must not r>e forgotten that Souihoort
people are very much sold (
on the matter for which the finance
committee and others are
working.
I And more compliments to the
i Coast Guard headquarters at NorI
folk. For them to arrange to!
I send two cutters here and have
| their small boats to patrol the
race course is more than we had
| counted on. The Coast Guard will
contribute much to tiie interest
i that attends next week's events.
The wind has been blowing
I steadily for four months, the fin|
est possible yachting weather. If
a change comes along about next
| Thursday and there is not. enough
: air to fill a sail, yours truly
aims to go as far away from
Soutliport as possible on a fishing
trip.
It begins to look more and
more as if the prizes that are to '
I be awarded at. the first annual
j regatta next week will be very
j valuable. Their awarding will 1
imark the start of a great annual |'
i event on the Cape Fear Rive*
and here's our advance congratulations
to the winner.1?, whoever
they may be.
It may not be amiss to remind
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THEATRE
Southport
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Friday-Saturday, August fi-7
"UNDER THE RED ROBE"
(Drama)
Conrad Vedit, Annabella
Romney Brent
Short?"SCHOOL BIRDS"
Monday-Tuesday, Aug. 9-10
THAT MAN'S HERE AGAIN
(Romantic Comedy)
Mary Maguire, Tom Brown
and Hugh Herbert
Short?''REEL VAUDEVILLE'
Wednesday-Thurs., Aug. 11-12 .
"DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND"
(Drama) ;
Richard Dix, Dolores Del Rio
and Chester Morris
Short?
"Scrappv's Band Concert"
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