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THE STATE PORT PILOT
Southport, N. G.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Edjfrr
Entered m second-class matter April 20, 1028, at
tho Post Office at Southport, N. C., under
the act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription Rates
ONE YKAK 81.60
SIX MONTHS 1.00
THREE MONTHS .76
Wednesday, September 22, 1937
A big business man is one who isn't
afraid that every telegram or long distance
telephone call is bad news.
Dignity is one thing that cannot be
preserved in alcohol.
When some men discharge an obligation
the report may be heard for miles
around.
We regard our own weaknesses as misfortunes
from which there is no escape.
The theory that a woman of beauty is
of necessity lacking in mental qualities)
must have originated in the mind of a
woman who possessed neither.
The time to do the job you are saving
ir?+il InmraTOU' is todflV.
Ulltlt tVIIiW**WTf -V ?
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Don't expect others to be any more interested
in the account of your operation
than you were in theirs.
Electric Power
Last year 21,000,000 American families
paid an electric bill averaging $33.72?
or nine cents per day. That is less than
families pay for tobacco, or amusements,
or reading matter. By comparison with
the amount these families pay for real
necessities?food, clothing, rent, fuel, etc..
?the cost of electric power, man's most
dependable and useful servant, is microscopic.
Compare the modern home to that of
the so-called "gay nineties." They might
have been gay for some?but they were
not for the housewife. She sweltered over
an old-fashioned stove. She rubbed her
hands to the bones on washboards. Her
only light was wasteful, eye-damaging
lamps and candles. Abundant, low-priced
electricity has literally freed the homemaker
and done more to revolutionize
domestic life in a generation, than was
done in hundreds of preceding years.
And although little has been reported
lately from the Rural Electrification Administration
project to extend the power
lines from Wilmington through Brunswick
county along U. S. Route 17, citizens
of several communities still are hoping
that this convenience will be theirs within
a year's time.
Showers Needed
There is serious need for several modern
showers, with hot and cold water,
for the use of young athletes who use
the Southport high school gymnasium this
season.
They who play most will profit most,
so it is obvious that members of the local
basketball teams will be the principal
benefactors. However, it is an important
item in the health of players from visiting
schools this year that they have an
opportunity to take a hot bath and change
into clean, dry clothing before riding
in an automobile back to their respective
homes.
Already a movement is on foot to have
these showers installed before the beginning
of the basketball season. That is
as it should be, for then they will be
ready for use when there is a real need
for them.
Southport merchants and businessmen
probably will, be called upon to donate
to this cause. We commend it as a worthy
project.
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The Woman s Club
The coordinated effort of a group of
women is a power in any community. The
good that may result from such a body
is limited only by the number of worthwhile
projects undertaken.
In today's paper is an announcement
of the officers and committee members of
the Southport Woman's Club for the coming
year. The organization begins active
work on the first Wednesday in October.
The Southport Public Library is the
step-child of the club, and many of its
. efforts this year doubtless will be directed
toward the improvement of that institu1
?
tlon. We have in mind a sister project,'
one that was suggested several months \
ago.
That is the beginning of a small museum
here where things of historical signi!
ficance may be collected and preserved
j for posterity. Southport happens to be
I located in the section that cradled North'
j Carolina in her infancy. There is no telling
what fine specimens for a small museum
collection might be secured right,
here in Southport.
Anyway, we'd like to see the ladies
try it. j
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Permanent Improvements
! Farmers who have labored long and
hard to produce a profitable crop will be
following a fpolish course unless they plan
to invest some part of their fall income in
permanent improvements to their farm
or home or livestock.
Coming first, of course, is the home.
A man and his family who work hard
throughout the day deserve the comforts
of home at its best when rest time comes.
One can go a long way in making repairs
and improvements in the home and home,
furnishings before becoming extravagant.
There are many opportunities, too, for
improving the farm and farm equipment..
Top production can come only when a j
Ifarmer is prepared to do the right thing!
[ for his crop at the right time.
| And livestock; there's a feature that |
is being continually overlooked by even
those who otherwise qualify as good
farmers. It just seems hard to drive over
the fact that it is cheaper to breed and
raise purebred livestock. The possible
nrnfits are so much greater that it is hard
r? ? ^
to understand the apparent reluctance of
farmers to switch to registered stock for
their farms.
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When John Barleycorn Drives
John Barleycorn causes a high percen-,
tage of our 38,000 annual traffic deaths.
A report from the California Department
of Motor Vehicles shows a condition
that exists in many states. California experienced
2,898 traffic deaths last year.
Of these, about 21 per cent involved driv- '
ers and pedestrians who were known to \
have been drinking. It is reasonable to <
assume that liquor was a factor in a
much greater proportion, as it is often
impossible to legally prove mild intoxica- i
tion.
No lethal weapon ever invented by ,
man is more potentially deadly than a
mixture of alcohol and gasoline. Medical
tests have proven that as little as two or
three ounces of liquor will seriously impair
a driver's reflexes?even though he
may appear to be sober in all respects?
and at the same time give him an in-;
flux of Dutch courage that results in in-:;
excusable recklessness. By the same to-j,
ken, drinking pedestrians, their senses of i
causion dimmed, unknowingly take the
chances that breed death and injury.
There is no excuse for a driver taking '
the wheel of his car alter drinking. Here ,
is a case where the law must be damnant, i
and must be exerted ruthlessly, impartially
and immediately. It is a notorious
fact that in many communities, prosecuting
and police officials.are lax about the
drinker at the wheel, and are only too
willing to reduce a charge of drunken
driving to the less important charge ofj
recklessness, if a little "pull" is exerted.
The sole consequence of such a policy is
to make these drivers believe they can
get away with it?and they repeat the
offense at the first opportunity.
Drunken driving can be handled by
adequate laws, which impose fines, jail
terms and license revocation of offenders,
coupled with aggressive police and
prosecution work. When a fifth of the
traffic fatalities in a representative state
are known to be the result of liquor, it's
time to "crack" down.
Cotton Picking
We agree with the Charlotte Observer
in the following comment anent the business
of cotton picking in the South:
It's cotton picking time in Dixie.
There is work available for all the unemployed
in the fields of the farmers of
the South now white unto the harvest.
There may be no great amount of profit
in the pastime of picking cotton at
whatever is offered by-the-hundred, but
there is at least honorable and worthwhile
and essential employment in the|
fields flowing white with the staple for
those who are disposed to EARN THEIRi
LIVING instead of begging it at the expense
of the government. '
And it is up to the welfare agencies
or any other organizations identified
with the relief program to exercise themselves
to the end of seeing that those in
need of honest and self-supporting work
get it in the fields of the farmers who
want their cotton picked and who are
willing to give value received.
THE STATE PORT PILO
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Among]
The Fishermen
(BY W. B. KEZIAH)
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Shrimping
Comes darkness and every
foot of wharf and dockage on the
Southport waterfront is found to
be used by a shrimp trawler. A
few of the early arriving crews
have unloaded, gassed for the
next day, cooked and eaten their
supper and are getting a well
earned sleep' and rest.
But, more often than not,
darkness finds but fe>v of the
trawlers unloaded. All along the
wharf the crews are shoveling
shrimp into wash tubs or heavy
wire containers to be lifted to the
wharf and rolled along on the
little hand cars to the picking
houses. It may sometimes be
midnight before the turn of the
last boat comes and its cargo is
unloaded.
HEADERS
From the time when the first
boat arrives until long after the
last one is unloaded, the pine
buying, picking and packing
houses are thronged with the negro
shrimp pickers, working with!
a dexterity that astonishes the
visitor.
The water bucket equipment
that each picker has is filled
with headed shrimp as if by ma-1
gic. It is exchanged for a nickle,
or rather the contents are. The
process of 'filling buckets and
getting nickles therefor goes on
steadily, and when clean-up time
comes after a busy day some of |
the more industrious among the j
hundreds of laborers may have a i
double handful of five cent pieces
to show for their day's labor.
At the washing vats, where
the contents of the buckets are
dumped into ice water, other lahnrorc
tairo Tho ahrimrt ova
stirred about to thoroughly clean
them. From the vats they go to
the scales. A hundred pounds of
shrimp and a hundred pounds of
ice go into the box together. The
box has its lid nailed on, shipp- j
ing and tax tags affixed and is
shoved to one side in readiness J
for the huge truck that will j
shortly be loading up.
TO MARKET
By midnight, except in belated
cases, the last of the two hundred
pound boxes of shrimp and j
ice will have been shoved into j
a huge truck with the capacity
of a moving van, and the tfuck
will be hitting the pavement for
New York or Baltimore. The
picking houses and the waterfront
will be deserted, but only
for an hour or so.
By three o'clock crews of some
of the boats will be stirring. The j
resident fishermen who sleep at |;
their homes on shore may be seen j
on every street, all wending their 1
way to the waterfront. As fast
as they can untangle themselves;
from the snarl of other boats, I
gasoline engines are set to work.
BACK TO WORK
Some boats, fully prepared the
night before, head straight for
the fishing grounds as soon as
they receive their day's supply j
of ice. Others, who neglected mat-'
ters the night before, have to
take on gas, water and ice and1
then do some cussing as they!
wait for a tardy storekeeper to j
open up so that they can get |
something for their noonday
meal.
The needs for the meal are not
slaborate. Often a loaf of bread
s all that's required, the larder
of the boat usually having the
few small extra iteems that are
lceaeu. unief of these is lard.
With lard or bacon grease for
looking, the shrimper can fry all
he fish and shrimp that he cares
.o have whenever he feels the
Jrge of hunger.
Somehow the boats all get out
)f the nightly jam, overcome
.'arious small difficulties that untxpectedly
arise?like a balky
mgine or a cussed helper who
las overslept himself.
Daylight finds them all gone
ind the docks where they spent
he preceding night look even
nore deserted than a circus lot
>n the morning after the night
lefore.
WAITING
All through the morning it is
i sleepy waterfront. No trawlers,
ind few boats or few people are
n sight anywhere. Noon finds
hings still dull. Residents may
>e noted casting more or less
inxious eyes out toward Caswell |
)oint, around which the first of
he returning craft will be seen
vhcn the boats come in.
Back of the anxious eyes is
he hope that no boats will be
leen coming in that early, for !
in early return of boats of the 1
ieet indicates a poor catch or
itormy weather. Reassurance
jrows, and preparations for ,
landling a big catch are made ,
f no boats are sighted coming ,
n until late afternoon ... .
SIGNAL (
Eleven years in Southport and
i close observer of all things on
.he waterfront, the writer still |
ioes not understand the working
if the grapevine telegraph that ,
jets Into play when, "the boats
ire coming in." There is someihing
Intriguing about it. The ne-'j
gro pickers live far back and out
it sight of the waterfront. There j
is no signal, nor are they called
to work in any manner. When
the boats round Caswell 'point the
workers simply appear from newhere
and are ready and waiting
to handle the very first baskets
that reach thelr plcking tables. ,
T, SOUTHPORT, N. C
'EAGLES ISLANP
IS OBJECT OF
GpEAT INTEREST
(Continued from page one)
) Money island, in Masonbori
soujid, is where Captain Kidd i
said to have buried his treasure
| Until last year this island wa;
a Jack Daw rookery, but thought
f less boys have driven the bird
! away. In the Neuse river then
are many picturesque islands.
But pf all the islands in an<
about North Carolina, Eagle,'
island is the most intriguing
Historic Cape Fear river course!
I along one side of this island
I while Brunswick river flanks th<
other side, and, as the shore fish
, would swim or encircle it, the is
J land is perhaps 20 miles around
The Causeway that penetrate.'
Eagles island is only a continua
tion of Wilmington's Market
street. Cornwallis could have
anchored, the "Otter" in the middle
of Cape Fear river, raked the
sand of Market street hill with
his starboard guns and the muc
of the Causeway with his howitzers.
The State of North Caroline
should convert Eagles island
into a bird sanctuary, for the 13,000
acres would be ideal indeed
as a site for the birds of the air
and its streams would be splendid
hatcheries for fish.
Richard Eagles (for whom the
island is named) came from Bristol,
England, and about 1725 he
obtained a grant. He was one
of the first arid the most prominent
planters of the Lower Cape
Fear region. His home was located
at the Forks Plantation
just at the tip of the island and
on the south shore of Brunswick
river, west of Orton Plantation,
He also had a morgantic farm or
Lockwood's folly river, about 2C
miles southward.
Eagles is the forefather of
more Colonial Dames or near
Dames than any other early settler
of the Cape Fear aron. The
Honorable George Davis, Attorney
General of the Confederacy,
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Banboo Rakes
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Rural Mail Box
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was hjs most distinguished grand* 1
1 son. Eagles himself was a Com- j i
r missioner of North (Wilmington), j
a Vestryman of old St. Phillip's I
church, a petty judge, and collec- ; I
3, tor of Custans, and he was all of | j
s this before he was 50 years old. j ]
s Eagles island is today partly
.Jmade up of the top dressing that 1
3 j has come down from the up state :
.'farms of North Carolina's "Key i
~1 men," through the steady process 1
] of erosion. Some of its soil came i
31 as ballast from distant shores, l
and some of it came from up J
j around Raleigh. 1
When Eagles first came into <
I ] possession of the island it was a i
j.1 hopeless bog, but at that it was t
Ja better town site than Venice,
[Shanghai or Washington; and {
J; better still, it has always had a (
climate that has approached the t
*1 ideal, I and it has been claimed c
that frost has never stroked this )
i isle with its feathery brush. But t
woodcock hunters know that I
about every decade it is tough 7
' terrain in which to stick a bill, a
Two years ago a thousand or c
' more doves came to the mainland t
| searching for alive branches or a I
1j pea patch. Several wild turkeys : c
' descended upon the island, and t
the gobblers and the cooing of t
' the doves enlivened the old place, ii
The Atlantic ocean, with its(J
Gulf Stream air, is only ten miles 11
eastward, while just ten minutes c
1 up Nigger Head road, in Pender I
county, one will come upon vir- t
' gin pine forest, with the turpen- f
' tine smell and an ozone that c
would pep up a population living I
1 on the snowy white sand. v
The giant cypress and juniper c
.1 i io'onH o h.,f r,.(
' i umoets mauc uici ioiujiu u Mvki.v>
I, building site than that upon which c
: Washington is located, and there' v
was straw and brick clay nearby v
i in sufficient quantities to build a f
> Venice and mud enough for 1
Shanghai. c
Tuckahoe was one of the is- i
land's early food products, this e
being something like tara root, t
!, from which poi is made. Or per- |
i haps tuckahoe is a water lily with t
a potato" root and succulent leaves 'e
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WEDNESDAY. SFpt ..
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an both of which pigs fatten. (It market of sever
Is claimed that half a million Why. the read-.
pounds of the sweetest pork could this store uouse iH
3e produced on the marshes of corncupia, this ll
the lower Cape Fear, if the Wilm-; been turned up
ington moonshiners wquld only overlooked " "
live at home, r i? H
Rice birds, coots, and marsh ... . ,,"it -V.;;:. CotaH
lens abound here about and these . 0J , mc"' l!le ''ti..-;.-cB
ippeal to the innermen of the
iristocrats. 'Coons, 'possum, tur- = ' 10 , .,
toy, and'duck at one time were f 1se' :io'' ' . jny'/jH
ilso abundant. More than a 0 , !ltri!'!^ ' '
urndred alligators were yanked "u _ . ?
'rom the streams of Eagles Is- ; 5 t! -''ar?n ft,M
and and the last pair of golden Xless ?, 1
ragles was shot, these latter be- p? . ., 'n"v' .
ng large enough to rip a rabbit
>r transport a pig in their talons. ?'a. ua c's 1,1 N"'v "an./..-r fjH
During the Revolutionary J.s mu,tl ' "U ;.us
reriod Eagles island was the ',li~ L "A ' !-w|
frainery of the Commonwealth ,u!jf !
ind it helped make rice so fam-! ?n 3,' ' .jH
ius that the Carolina brand of .ue 0 lact no hllSJj
ice'is still a world standard, al-1eu>l iepor'i. i!i,.- kujZ'B
hough no rice has been grown \vu'S a : : Wv
isre since about 1900. A group of . ' 1: 1
Northern capitalists, constituting I ,? u." e .'sto!-v' i'sort
of Planning Board, con- , agility n... "J
luded that Eagles Island could (d,ul" Ba
le diked and turned over to a few 'I1!1 "'bb. 1 ' iV*fl
Dutchmen or Chinese, who, the . leS? W",,I' uid^B
aoitalists claimed, would be able ?, e,, ,s! ,
o produce in quantity and quali- , 'le Colo"'al hav^00,B
y, as well as variety, focal suffh - 5" l',V'ry , ' X
ent for a great city. Governor Mlt tlley have
ames Smith, Governor Daniel .. . -agios l.dar.j.
tussell. and Justice Alfred Moore L , ' 1' "iiut.ulv :.r j
if the Supreme Court of they"10'";:1 .'T'"
Jnited States owned homes on ,' ? a "?aiols and
he Brunswick banks and rice e"?"^ .!rjl u ;l'wt >,US
arms on Eagles Island. The tomb ' it fa er hlsl""-n f
JusUce Moore still stands at ? 0n!y ,one : ;i'
* ?-ui??u the interior or the island. I
jeauc.o.x, amiuug.. um ic.ua.us Wn was on st;u, h;ti vere
removed to St. Phillip's t0 the ro,?, a;)i|
hurch about five years ago (Continued on Page Tj
Without considering the lilies 6 J|
if the marshes and the pork they 15 \PT!ST (ill Itt h
vould provide, Eagles Island Scrvi(.,.s Sundilv
rould be able to produce the food 10:00 A M Blbk,' ^ *
or the sustenance of a metropo- n a m p,
is, these Northern capitalists de- . ...
, ' _, i.i . ,, , Sermon by the pastor,
dared. They pointed out that _,00 p M B'y
inder any sort of stream engine- L' ?
. _ . , ... . 8 P. M? Preaching vrrfci
ring and seasonal protection oi _ , 1
he breeding grounds for the stur- Se on b? 11,0 .',as,":
;con, shad, herring, and striped Mid-week serv.ce .arh W^
lass, enough fish could be nett- ua- n!f ,a . S 01""''
id annually to supply the Friday co -' inJ' 11 wtl?
Come and bring a friend.
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