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THE STATE PORT PILOT
Southport, N. C.
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Wednesday, February 2, 1938
Soup, like the proverbial saying about
children, should be seen and not heard.
Desire is a great motivating influence,
but denial is a wonderful stabilizer.
Don't believe everything you hear?the
primary is coming on.
Some people seem to think that being
frank means being unpleasant.
The same principles that run a small
job right will work in a larger situation
when the opporunity arises.
Some people have signatures which
could not be duplicated?except by a
scratching hen in a bottle of ink.
A great many men with no love for
horses are often found to have a definite
likinp for White Mule.
We'd like to attend a local forum at
which everyone told every other person
there?except us?just what he thought
of him.
After viewing bicycle acrobatics as
staged by kids on the streets and highways
we wonder the accident toil isn't
even greater.
Looks like Principal W. R. Lingle is going
to have a hard time finding an eligible
recipient for his good sportsmanship
trophy.
Just about the time we begin to believe
that we have winter weather as mild as
that in Florida, along comes a cold spell
like the one of last week.
A busybody lives a life of unselfish
sacrifice. He spends so much time tending
to other people's business he has no
time to look after his own.
Shaking Hands
Every two years old hand-shaking jokes
are revived for the benefit of politicians.
This isn't being written for the purpose
of kidding our office seekers; our aim is
to offer a little helpful criticism.
While hand-shaking is a universal expression
of friendship, it can be overdone.
Unless the greeting interrupts an extended
absence, a cheery greeting often suits
the occasion better, and leaves at least
one of the parties more at ease.
We like a man who takes our hand in
a firm, brief clasD and looks us sauarelv
in the face while he speaks. To us this
represents an honest, starightforward
approach; and we are always off to a
good start when we are greeted in this
manner.
Here are some rules to carefully avoid:
Don't be a "squeezer". (He is the
kind that tries to crack every bone in
your hand as he impresses you with his
physical strength, or with his unbounded
enthusiasm.)
Don't be a "linger-longer". (This is
the type that holds your hand on and on
after you've felt that the hand-shaking
ritual was long past it's normal stopping
point. P. S. Women are his favorite victims.)
Don't be a "fish-handler". (He touches
your hand as little as possible and just as
briefly, leaving the impression that you
are shaking hands with a dead fish.)
Don't be a "gazer". (Looking every*
where else except straight into the eyes of
the person with whom you are shaking
hands is being guilty of doing everything
in the world except what you should.)
There are the rules, Boys; up and at
'em.
i Brunswick's Camp
' Editorially The Star-News declares
! "The removal of the conservation camp
from Brunswick is a blow to New Hanover.
Much of the land there is owned in
Wilmington, the trade comes mostly to
Wilmington, and game privileges are monopolized
by its hunters.
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"More progress has been made- in conservation
in Brunswick county the past
five years than in the previous fifty. Five
years more and its resources would have
doubled. But for this Reigel Pulp company
would not have located in this region and
it is unlikely that we would have two
.great creosoting companies.
"The five southeastern counties have
not been treated fairly in the matter of
distribution of camps,
j "The northern counties, which are
'about as unfit for growing long leaf as a
bald head is for producing hair, have
eight conservation camps, to our two.
"It is up to the organizations in the
city of Wilmington, and the absentee land
lords who reside here, to cooperate and
bring pressure upon the authorities in
Raleigh and Washington.
"Conservation means that we are making
our region a better place to live in.
It means making it safer and less costly
to carry the burden of a depression. It
means the conservation and training of
youth, .and without conservation the basis
of all our claims for the tourist travel
fails."
We follow with the statement that it
is our sincere belief that if a systematic,
organized effort is made to secure a NeJ
gro unit of the Civilian Conservation
Corps for Brunswick county such action
will meet with success.
As a rule, wherever there is a proposal
to locate a Negro camp, immediate opposition
arises; as a result the number of
CCC units for this race is below the prescribed
quota. On the other hand, in
each of these communities where colored)
boys have been sent as CCC workers, prejudice
quickly has been torn down, and
much work of permanent benefit has
resunea.
What Brunswick county needs primarily
is a continuation of her forestry program.
It matters little how this work is
completed?whether by white boys or by
colored. A Negro camp located at a central
point in the unworked area of the
county could do this work and leave
Brunswick county in fine shape with her
greatest asset?her timber lands.
The Road To The Cemetery
When the final and official figures are
tabulated, it will probably be found that
the automobile death toll in 1937 reached
a new all-time record, exceeding the 1936
slaughter with its 37,000 victims.
There is no reason for being surprised
at the continued increase. Each year cars
are made faster and more powerful?and)
a dangerous percentage of them become
the property of drivers who couldn't be
trusted to operate a bicycle safely. Roadways
and surfaces are improved, thus offering
a new temptation to excessive
speed. And the number of accidents in
which John Barle.vecorn is a factor tends
to rise steadily.
This doesn't mean that the automobile
accident toll cannot be reduced. It can
be?but it is going to take action, not
words. The individual responsibility of
each motorist when he slides behind the
wheel of a projectile weighing a ton or
two and capable of doing eighty miles an
hour, must be driven home. Law enforcement
must be strengthened. The "fixer"
of traffic violations must be eliminated.
It must be realized that driving a car on
the public highway is a privilege, not a
right to be abused?and license laws
must be more stringent. Finally, there
must be swift and sure punishment for!
the reckless or drunken driver.
There are several hundred thousand
graves in this country that constitute mute
testimony to our past laxity in controlling
the automobile. Unless public demand
forces a change, you may fill one of the
thousands of new graves that, figuratively
speaking, will be dug by motorists in
the years to come.
Death In The Desert
A recent issue of Life contained a pictorial
review of the fight against tuberculosis.
Probably the most startling revelation
to many people, is the fact that climate
has little or no bearing on modern
treatment of tuberculosis. Virtually every
state and county in the Union are equipped
to competently care for tuberculosis
patients. Yet, tragically, thousands of
people continue to flock to the locality
which public dogma has erroneously
taught them to believe is of greatest benefit.
Each year hundreds upon hundreds of
people forsakd home and family, or worse,
bring their families with them, and
spend their last cent reaching the deserts
of the Southwest. Upon arrival they are
ineligible for local aid and can do nothing
but wait in poverty?for death. > At
home they could in most cases have secured
prompt and effective aid from the
county or state, either of which is prepared
for just such cases. Don't let
such a horrible mistake wreck your family.
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THE STATE PORT PILOT,
Our Washington
Letter
It is certain that there is no
shortage in the idea market now
canvassed by the Roosevelt
Administration. Hundreds of representatives
of small business
enterprises and labor union chieftains
meeting here this week
under government auspices have
flooded the White House with
suggestions as to ways ana means
of staging a nation-wide recovery
from the recession. Unquestionably
' Federal officials have been
given a broader understanding of
the nation's needs. Outstanding is
the prevailing i mpression of those
who have talked directly with
President Roosevelt or his subordinates?that
the White House
has no definite plan of its own
choosing to submit for immediate
Congressional action.
An appraisal of the contemporaiy
scene here would be distorted
if it did not account for
the noteworthy spirit of cooperation
which has been manifested
in the series of chats. The select
list of visitors who have been
invited to the Executive Manison
have expressed only one criticism
?that the President talked more
than he listened. It was only a
few hardy souls who had the
courage to challenge some of
Mr. Roosevelt's comments. These
interruptions were the factors
which kept the conferences from
degenerating into one-sided meetings
in which the host monopolized
the conversation. While
custom decrees that conversations
at these gatherings should
not be repeated outside the walls
for publication, it appears that
several visitors were not exactly
tongue-tied when released from
what they termed "President lectures."
These outspoken industrial
and labor leaders claim that Mr.
Roosevelt is frankly experimenting
because he must have popular
support to put his program
through Congress.
Political observers contend that
Mr. Roosevelt cannot sell the na
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uonai legislature- a muic uvuo.
program for handling the problems
arising from the depression
unless he has unmistakably garnered
a favorable public reaction.
Hence, it is believed that the
Administration will corral and
revise many recommendations
advanced by these unofficial advisers
who came to Washington
from all sections of the country.
Whatever is evolved will necessarily
be a composite policy to
fit either the economic or political
measurements or a little of
each to make the prescription
more platable. Mr. Roosevelt is
obviously in a tough spot for he
must withstand the siren
j calls of his left-wing advisers who
stand out for measures savoring
of social than economic welfare.
[At this juncture, he has the unenviable
task of making a policy
pattern from a variety of designs
submitted by business, labor,
agriculture and New Deal
planners known as the "Brainstrust".
And still the wonder
grows that he hesitates to meet
the challenge of the times.
The Senate has been stalemated
for some time with a filibuster
over the anti-lynching bill.
The removal of this troublesome
measure from the arena of debate
will permit this august dej
liberative body to devote more
| time to vital legislation which
was sidetracked by the exigencies
of the parliamentary situation.
The House has kept busy
with routine matters and dumped
many measures into the Senate
hopper for consideration and
j concurrence. If the Senate buck!
les down to regular chores the
[ public may expect early settlement
of controversies for the
[ Upper Chamber, when in the
mood, has displayed its ability to
grind out laws and money without
effort. In a campaign year
it is not unusual to expect the
incumbents seeking re-nomination
to play politics to a finish. They
go through a series of futile gestures
merely for the sake of
publicity. It requires plenty of
naive thinking to take the noisy
demonstrations in Congress as an
earmark of their real sentiment.
With income taxes due next
month attention switches occasionally
to government costs. The
claim has been advanced in many
informed quarters that a reduction
of from two to three billion
dollars is possible if state and
local expenditures for government
were reduced in proportion to
national income. The recommendation
of the President last week
for an expenditure of a billion for
armanent has knocked the hopes
of the budget balancers into a
cocked hat. Relief costs are
mounting at an alarming rate so
that hope for keeping Federal
expenditures on even keel with
revenues fly out the window. The
pacificists who created a stir
over the Ludlow war referendum
will have much to say about the
latest proposal to build a large
Navy.
The prompotion of Robert H.
Jackson to the post vacated by
Mr. Justice Stanley Reed as Solicitor-General
has provoked widesperad
interest. It is considered
a step in a national build-up for
Jackson as the White House
favorite for the Presidential nomination.
The identity of Jackson's
successor is likewise a subject
of political talk because of
the drive against large business
groups from within the Depart- j
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SCHOOL NEWS
P.-T. A7 MEETING
The Southport higa school P
T. A. will meet Thursday evenin
at 7:30 o'clock in the auditoriun
A short musical program has bee
arranged by the high school girl
glee club to be presented at thi
meeting.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
The girls basketball team $
Southport high school is improv
ing. They have not won a gam
yet. but they are practicing har
and expect to win some bofor
long. They played the Tndepend
ent girl's team of Southport in i
practice game Monday nigh!
Their next game is with Wacca
maw at Waccatnaw, Friday nigh!
February 4.
IMPROVEMENT
Recent improvement has bee
made in the principal's office a
school, such as sand-papering am
varnishing both desks and paint
ing the bookcase. This was don
last week by Rivers Wescott am
Leonard Davis, two very ambiti
ous junior stpdents.
Gives Rules For
Incubating Eggi
Says Handling Does Mori
Damage To Hatchini
Eggs For etaoin L crete
Eggs Between Fourtl
And Fifteenth Day Ol
Incubation
Handling does more damage t<
hatching eggs between the fourtl
and fifteenth day of incubatioi
than at any other time, warm
Roy S. Dearstyne, head of thi
State College Poultry Depart
ment.
After the first fifteen days ii
the incubator, eggs can take <
great deal of punishment ani
still hatch. Tests have showi
that eggs with live embryos fol
lowing this period may be shakei
violently, whirled rapidly, am
jarred sharply with a minimun
of damage. Only three per cen
failed to hatch.
When the same rough handling
was given eggs incubated betweei
four and fifteen days 34 pel
cent of the eggs showed deac
embryos, Dearstyne declared.
Incubating eggs damaged bj
rough treatment which was noi
severe enough to break the shell.1
usually showed broken yolk sacs
or ruptured blood vessels in th<
growing embryos. Sometimi
treipulous air cells developed, bui
if the embryo lived, the air celli
became fixed, the State Collegi
poultryman explained.
For a long time there has beei
a popular belief that such dis
turbances as thunder, rumbling
trains, dynamite explosions, am
earthquakes are likely to preven'
eggs from hatching. One of lh<
experiments was to determine th<
validity of this belief.
Certain eggs were handlet
carefully during the incubatioi
period. Others were subjectei
to rough treatment, such as be
ing placed near blasting opera
tions which produced a shock s(
severe as to break the shells o:
as many as one-third of the eggs
Dearstyne said that of thos<
eggs that escaped shell damag<
from the explosion, 67 per cen1
naicnea, comparea wiui an o.
per cent hatch from the careful
ly incubated eggs.
Case Says Sheep
Pay Big Profits
Statesville Farmers Made
Gross Income Of $17.52
Per Ewe; Eastern Farm
ers Can Keep Flock;
Cheaper
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"There is profit in sheep."
L. I. Case, extension specialisl
in animal husbandry at State College,
made this statement aftei
looking over records which sheef
growers from all parts of North
Carolina kept during 1937.
Sixty-one complete records were
submitted to State College which
show an average gross income
per ewe of $9.36. These incomes
range from as low as $3.54 tc
as high as $17.53, Case said.
The records indicated that Piedmont
and mountain farmers were
able to secure a larger gross income
from sheep than were farmers
in the Eastern part of the
ment of Justice. Jackson's sensational
speeches recently may
provide a thorny path to his confirmation
by the Senate. The oldline
politicos in the Democratic
camp have their won ideas on
Mr. Roosevelt's heir and nowhere
[does the name of the youthful
barrister appear. Other items of
more than passing interest include
the effect of the proposed
deportation of Harry Bridges,
West Coast labor leader and a
lieutenant of the C. I. O.; the
plans for curbing the National
Labor Relations Board in face of
Administration resistance of a
Senate probe and the impasse in
efforts of a Senate committee to
strengthen the maritime laws to
have discipline among crews operating
American merchant marine
which is not popular on the
House1 side.
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! "However," Case declared, "I
f believe that if we had accurate
cost records, the East would show
an equal or greater net income
than our mountain farmers because
eastern farmers are able to
keep their flocks during the winter
at a much lower cost."
Of the 61 records turned in,
*10 . .. .1 ? m.nee i?r'Alvi? not* mt'P 1
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of more than $10. With one
1 exception, all of those 23 flocks
1 produced better than a 100 per
' cent lamb crop, or in other words,
i more than one lamb was raised
- to market age and weight fori
i each ewe.
1 Top honors among the records
1 went to the King brothers, Route
t 2, Statesville, who made a gross
income of $17.53 per ewe. They
1 raised 15 lambs from 10 ewes,
i controlled stomach worms by
f treatment and the rotation of
1 pastures, and docked their lambs.
The wool clip averaged over eight
f pounds per head in 1937 and
t brought an average of 42 cents
i per pound.
L. C. Hampton, Stratford, Alles
ghany County, made the next
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Finn Tells Farmers Curtail- marul wi" not increase more
ment Of Tobacco Acrea- five per cent in 1938. and the^B
ge Necessary To Offset; foreign demand may even di?j>^B
This Year's Bumper Cropi0ff because of unsettled eondi-9
| tions in the Orient and because
?on.. uu ,?a many countries now impomnM
ers will have to take a sizeable United State flue-cured leaf ,i,H
gouge from their 1938 acreage beginning to grow more of
to offset the bumper crop pro- own tobacco.
duced in 1937, W. G. Finn, of "The high prices received f<>:
the AAA. told farmers attending the large 1937 crop may cuur.fll
the second annual tobacco short growers everywhere to plant mow^B
course at State College last week, tobacco this year unless suil.ibl.'^B
In producing a $200,000,000 control measures are put inl.'^V
crop, flue-cured growers of the effect," Finn said.
Nation piled up a 100.000,000 "Pending legislation in Congress^B
pound carry-over which may af- will aid in equalizing the supphflH
feet prices this year, Finn, who and demand of tobacco." the AAA
is assistant administrator of the representative told the fanners.
East Central region, declared. "If passed, growers will have
Although marketing the largest Chance to accept or reject tlm^H
flue-cured crop on record, North legislation through a referendum
Carolina producers averaged A two-thirds majority will I.
about 23 cents a pound for their needed for the act to becnmc^B
offerings. This spectacle of a law."
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a store? Then pick out something?a
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lore business!
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