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THE STATE PORT PILOT
Southport, N. C.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
JAMES M. HARPER. JR.. Editor
(toured u second-claw matter Apul 20. 1928. at
the Poet Office at South port N. C., under
(he act of March 3, 18TB
Subscription Rate*
ONE YEAR 11.50
MX MONTHS l .OO
(THREE MONTHS _ 76
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Wednesday, February 9, 19.18
Time is the best cure for embarrassment.
It usually pays to listen a while before
you do much talking.
Local anglers are learning that you
can't rush the fishing season.
There is a time in the career of almost
every genius when the world suspects
that he is a fool.
You'll find most people good listeners
?as long as yon are saying something
nice about them.
After February 16 your best bird dog
will be nothing more than an over-grown
pet for the next ten months.
ci i g i ti r-i if t.r.a.
We'll bet that no wife ever had to listen
to her husband's story of an argument i
that he lost.
High pressure salesmen would have a
harder time if their victims could catch
a glimpse of their banker just before
they succumbed.
Human nature: buying numerous packages
of flower seeds and letting the
weeds take the flowers a few months
later.
These filibustering Senators are setting
a bad example to children who are advised
not to talk until they have something
to say.
Friends who borrow books may not be
good mathematicians but they are often
excellent bookkeepers.
School Kids
You will find us on the side of the
school children every time we think there
is a possible chance that they are in the
right, but recently we have seen flagrant
evidence that some of them are using
the school busses as a means for imposing
upon the public.
On a trip through the county one cold
morning two weeks ago we came to a
halt behind a school bus that was parked
in the road. We stopped a safe distance
behind the vehicle, and after a
wait of three or four minutes the driver
pulled off the road and waved for us to
come on by. It was then that we glanced
down a side road to our left and say a
sulky, sullen school boy sauntering along
at his leisure toward the bus.
The inconvenience to us was negligible
so that may be thrown out. But what
about the twenty or thirty school children
huddled together in that cold school bus?
What about the children up the road that
were out at their appointed places waiting
for the bus to come? And what
about the entire school bus load if every
child took that much time to come out to
the road? The kids wouldn't get to
school in time to start back home.
That, and a couple of similar cases that
we've seen recently, is a condition that
should be remedied by the parents. It will
be if they have any consideration for the
school, or for their neighbor's children.
Publicity
Recently Wade Ison, sports editor of
The Charlotte News, resigned to go to
State College as publicity director. At
Duke University is Ted Mann, a veteran
newspaperman with experience in the
larger dailies. Bob Madry, formerly a
successful newspaperman in this state
directs the publicity program at the University
of North Carolina.
All of these men draw 'good salaries
hut the institutions which they serve be
lieve they are worth what they get. Mer
in charge of these schools know the valut
of keeping the parents of their studentj
informed about their activities. Old students
and alumni, too, are more interest
ed in their college when they have an opportunity
to keep up with what's going
on.
All of which makes it more than ever
a puzzle to us why school principals of
Brunswick county have not taken advahItage
of our repeated offer of a free
school column. We have pointed out the
value of keeping the parents and patrons
of the schools in touch with the activities
of the school children, their honor roll,
I their clubs, organizations and athletics, i
But on the whole the offer has a cold
I reception from the school principals.
A notable exception is W. R. I.ingle, I
principal of the Southport school, who
has kept his school column active except
upon one or two occasions. There have
been two columns turned in from Bolivia;
two from Waccamaw. There were two
from Leland, but both were written by
someone outside the school. From Shallotle,
the largest school in the county,
there hasn't been a school column this
year.
Lack of time is 110 excuse on the part
of the school principals for not keeping
the affairs of the school before the public.Col.
llarrellson, Dr. Few and Dr. Graham
didn't assume the duties of the publicity
program at their respective schools. All
they do is direct the policy, and pass upon
matter of important details.
Principals of schools in this county can
do the same thing in a smaller way, and
they can use students or teachers instead
of high-salaried writers to accomplish a
purpose that will do their institutions. a
world of good.
Suggested Site
We do not know the government's policy
in the matter of acquiring land for
the erection of a hospital, nor do we know
nHM-iuin of iho owners of the Cas
IHC abvii.u\iv v..
well-Carolina Corporation toward the disposition
of a part of their property.
We believe, however, that there is no
better site in North Carolina for the erection
of the new government hospital than
over at Ft. Caswell.
The place has everything. Good climate
?cool breezes in summer, warm Gulf
stream in winter. Appeal?the everinteresting
ocean at the mouth of North
Carolina's busiest river. Recreation?
bathing and fishing for the convalescent
and visitors who may come to see patients.
And, to top it all, a hot-water well
with possibilities of development that
j defy exaggeration. A smart corps of
government doctors can use the real and
imagined curative properties of that
ever-flowing mineral well to cure more
j patients than ever will come out of the
operating room alive.
Of all the improvements suggested for
Southport since we have been here, this
; one is the most greatly to be desired. We
j have the natural advantages, and if Dame
j Fortune (and the powers-that-be) will
just be on our side this once, we'll forgive
the loss of the fort, the loss of the
Naugatuck, discontinuation of the quarantine
station, consolidation of the coast
: guard stations, and the removal of Camp
Sapona.
Fire Trap Schools
Again the North American continent
has been the scene of a ghastly school
fire?a small college in Montreal, in
which the death list was more than a
score. The hundred-odd pupils and students
who were saved owe their lives to
miraculously good fortune.
As manv authorities have pointed out,
the condition in thousands of American
schools present a constant hazard to their
occupants. And this is true not only of
old wooden buildings which were erected
before much was known of fire-resistive
construction. Many a relatively new
school, though handsome and massive in
appearance, is honeycombed with unnecessary
hazard. Inadequate starwavs,
doors that open inward, noorlv situated
fire escapes?these are but a few of the
dangers that can be found in schools
built at great cost in recent years, as well
as in the ramshackle buildings of yesteryear.
The school boards which have juvisdi1
ction over these dangerous buildings did
not consciously approve hazardous design
and construction. They simply did
1 not know any better. But here is a case
where ignorance is no excuse?where, ih
deed, it is in the nature of a crime. No
school should be built until qualified experts
have examined and approved the
> blueprints. And every existing school?
no matter how safe it may seem to the
i layman? should be inspected by experts
in order to unearth and correct possible
s d angei-s.
Thousands of children have died in
- school fires that would not have occurred
- had the buildings been properly construct:
ed. Every parent should demand firesafe
schools.
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Waccamaw
School News
The following pupils made 90
and above for the first month of
the second semester:
First grade: Jean Bennett. Josephine
Runs, James A. McKeithan,
Hazel Smith, Marshall Rentoh, ,
Wilbur Carlisle, Woodrow Long, 1
Clem Russ, R. C. Smith, Kenneth '
Ward, Magalene Long, Itis Smith,
Carrelee, Doris Smith and Clara j
Mae Smith. j
Second grade: Joe Levy Evans, ]
Guy Hughes, Raymond Ludlum, ]
Talmadge Little, George Ellis ,
Long, Edward Duncan, Marvin
Ward, Madelene Evans, Lena Mae <
Gore, Janis Gore, Geraldine Formyduval,
Ruby Avis Formyduval, 1
Mildred Long, Retha McKeithan,
Katie Ruth Stuart, Willie Mae ,
Smith, Glenn Williamson, Doris j
Bland, Norma Jean Jenrette, Hel- (
en King, Marie Leonard, A. V. ]
Russ, . Lucille. Sellers, Ina Mae .
Simmons, Lina Mae Stahaland, (
and Dovie White.
Third grade: Faxion Bennett, 1
Ralph Gore, Cecil Jones, 'L. D.
Jones, Earlee Smith, Jr., Wilbert 1
Albert Stanaland, Delta Mae Babson,
Hazel Mae Babson, Jacqne- '
line Bennett, Doreen Inman, Annl?
Bell Hewett, Carol Deah Jen- i
rette, LoiTaine Jones, Hazel 1
Mintz, Elean Russ, and Ella Mae
Smith. |
Fourth grade: Benhie Brooks
Ward, William Ward, Annie Edwards,
Florrie Mintz, Hilda Mintz,
Bobbie Russ, Marie Parker, Mary
Alice Hewette, Thomas King,
Myrtle Coleman, Led Simmons,
Robbie Purvis, Joseph Piver, Madison
Gore, Edna Mae Ludlum,
Donald Allen, Roscoe Inman, Bvelvn
Lee Smith, Lloyd Edwards,
Giilene Ludlum, Sarah Lee Smith,
Fifth gi'.ade: Hyton Babson.
Jack Blown, Lathah Formyduval, 1
Eunice Allen, Allison Bennette, '
Alberta Duncan, Elnora Jacobs, '
"" " ' *?- n?!!_? ,
victoria jenrene, v/unuic muiui,
Lorraine Mintz, Mai-y Lee Rush, '
Margaret Smith, Pauline Wilson,
Lena Inman. Otray Mae Lohg, j
Lucille Hewette, Ernestine McCunibee,
Bernice Evans, Wilma '
Phelps.
Sixth grade: Bob Milligan, Em- 1
ma Echvards, Virginia Williams, 1
Glendola Bennette, Mary R. Har- j
relson, Annie Gola Ray, Florene
Evans, Verda Mae Edwards, Esther
Formyduval, Beatress Hill, Etta
Mae Jones, Mary Emma Smith,
J. B. Gray, Jr., Bervie Hewette,
Dalton Phelps, and Byard Sellars.
Eight It grade: 'Mary Francis
Dodson, Opal Norris.
Ninth grade: Leslie Inman,
Myrtle Beck, Mavis Brady, Teva
Formyduval, Eula Mae Phelps,
Muriel Ross, and Marjorie Jenrette.
Tenth grade: Willis Sellars.
Eleventh grade: Cleo Stnnaland
and Addison Jenrette.
BASKET BALL
Southport high school boys and
girls basketball teams came down
to our gymnasium Friday evening
to engage our teams in a
game of basketball. The girls
played the first game which was
won by the Waccamavv team by
the score of 30-3. The good guarding
and entire team work of the
home team kept the lassies from
the other end of the county from
scoring a single field goal. Both
teams showed good sportsmanship
during the whole game.
The boys' game was more
spirited and the Waccamaw boys
soon demonstrated that they had
gone into the game to keep the
visitors from marring their season's
record in the county. The
score was sixty-four to eighteen
in favor of thp hnmp tanm Thp
good shooting of Jenrette, Evans,
and Smith ran the score up very
rapidly; ami the work of the entire
team kept the visltore from
piling up a very large score.
Freeland News
Freoland, Feb. 7?Misses Paulihe
and Cleo Stanaland of Wampee
spent Sunday afternoon with
Misses Vera and Dorothy Simmons.
Miss Martha Mills Harrelson
3pent the week-end with Miss Lucille
King.
Miss Dorothy Grey, who has
been In training at James Walker
Memorial, is visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Grey.
Nick, Edwin, "Billy" and Inez
Harrelson Soles were visitors in
this vicinity Sunday.
Miss Ora Mae Watts spent the
week-end with Miss Ora Ahn
Milllgan.
Miss Katy Lee Watts ahd Tom
Jones were in this vicinity Sunday.
L. C. Stewart of Longwood Visited
Miss De Lena F. Duval Sunday
"Fess" Evans of Ash was in
thi3 vicinity visiting Curtis F.
Duvai recently.
Gordon Batten and "Billy"
Pierce of Hallsboro were visitors
here Sunday.
Little Betty Formy Duval is ill
with symptoms of "flU" and ear
confusion.
-In Polk Couhty, farmers are
preparing to make one of their
heaviest seedings of lespedeza.
Seed are being purchased cooperatively
for broadcasting over
small grain.
mremtg. w. c.
SOUTHPORp
SCHOOL NEWS
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Following- is the honor roll for
the fifth month for the Southport
school. Students with an average
grade of between 93 ahd 100 are
on the first honor roll; between j
00 ahd 90 oh the secohd honor
roll.
First grade; First honor roll, |
Dot Watts, Jimmie Cox, Joseph
Cox, Mary Sue Wallace, Barbara
Prince, Jenrette Hickman, Jack I
Swan.
Second grade: First honor roll '
Joyce Lancaster, Betsy Jane Galloway;
second honor roll, Barbara
Wee**, It. B. Seller*.
third grade: First honor roil.
Margaret McGee, Evelyn Muhcv
Dorothy WaM, Lou Newt oh, Bess
Milter Plaxco, Dorothy Prince
Billy Bowling; second honor roll
Ahhe Mcftackan.
Fourth grade: First honor roll
Bally Ahh McNfel.
Fifth grade: First honor roll
Dorothy Cox.
Sixth grade: First honor roll, I
Anhts Jean Week*, Lula Marie
Bwaih, Mae Swain. FJofse St
3eorge, Rudolph Seller*, Inez
Phelps, Glenn Lehnon, Muriel Lee
Jones, Joe Young Christian: Secind
honor rail, Marie Moore.
Eighth grade: First hohor roll
Boderic Bellamy.
Nlhth grade: First hohor roll,
DoNr Lewis.
hoho'- roll,
w. t. Fulwood, John Hall
F>venin grade: First honor
rail. Edward Taylor. Katie Cox
tioufse Nle rnsee.
Bee Specialist
Writes Article
Of Foiit-Bra>0(t In Beehivea
On Their Farms
The aplariat of the State Department
of Agriculture says that
me or the moat Important thing*
wekeepera cah do tc control
American foulbraod in sections
>vhera It Is known or suspected
o be present Is to check over
fmlr bees early In the spring
?re there are any days warm
ncugh for the bees to fly rreey
and examine any dead colon^,i^'
w,mther they died from
oulbraod or not. It Is easy to
pick out the dead colonies in a
rard oh a day that (s too cold
* - ,u_
or IIP ores 10 ny oy giving urc
ikle of the hive a sharp jar and
then listening for the buzzing of
the bees Inside. If no buzzing is
leard after the hive has been
(aired two or three times the
colony is apt to be dead and
ihould be examined closely.
In order to tell whether the;
:olony had foulbrood or not the j
orood combs should be removed
one at a time and examined
closely. American foulbrood is
caused by a bacteria which attacks
the larvae about the time
they are ready to be capped over
In the cells. A few of the larvae
die before they are Capped over
but most of them die after the
cell has been capped. The diseased
lal-vae first takes on a
slight brownish color and sinks
down in the cell losing the well
rounded shape and pearly white
color of healthy larvae. As decay
continues the larvae mass becomes
Park brown or coffee colored
and often has a strong gluelike
odor. The cappings are sunken,
dark colored, and perforated
with small pin holes. At this
stage the dead larvae has a sticky,
ropy consistency and will often
rope out in thin threads two
or three inches long if a toothpick
or some similar object is
twisted around in the cell a little
and then withdrawn. The dead
larvae continue to disintegrate In
to a sucKy gme-?Ke mass wntcn
finally dries down to a dark
brown or almost black acale which
sticks to floor of the cell so
tightly that it cannot be removed
without tearing up the cell. These
dried down scales are often the
only form of the disease found
in dead colonies early in the
spring because the brood has been
dead so long it has all dried down
Into scales. Tliese scales can easily
be seen if the comb is held
in such a way that the light
shines oh the floor of the cells.
If there Is doubt about whether
disease Is present or not assistance
may be secured by writing
the State Inspector, Raleigh.
Dead colonies Which are found
to obtain foulbrood should be removed
from the yard at once and
destroyed, Great care should be
taken to nee that aH the honey
and comb Is thoroughly disposed
of In such a way that the bees
can not get to any of it, because
the main way foulbrood is
spread is in the hbhey. Burning
Is usually the best way to destroy
them. If the bees are allowed
to rob the honey out of a
colony or two that have died
from foulbrood all the colonies in
the yard are apt to take the disease.
Another way In which much
foulbrood is spread is In moving
bees that haVe the disease from
one location to another. Jh an
effort to check the spreading of
loulbrobd into sections that are
now. free from it the Department
of Agriculture has adpoted regulations
which state that no bees
or used apiary equipment shall
be sold or moved from ofte location
to another until after it has
f
If ~ He"
Mortality Rate
In N. C. Declines
Infant Mortality Rate As
The General Death Rate
In The State On Decline,
Report Shows
Raleigh?North Carolina's infant
mortality rate dropped from
88.4 per 1,000 live births in 1937,
the provisional report of the Division
of Vital Statistics of the
State Boa id of Health, of which
Dr. R. T. Stimpson is the director,
shows.
Hie maternal mortality rate
dropped from 7.0 to 5.4. or, numerically,
from 532 to 432.
been inspected and found free
from American foulbrood. Any
person who is intending to buy
bees should for his own protection
insist that they be inspected
before he buys them.
Inspection service is free to all
beekeepers who want it and can
be had by applying to the State
Department of Agriculture, Raleigh.
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NOTII
3rd <
I will be at
nated for the p
penalty of 2 pei
Pay befor that
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LOCKWOODS FOL
ROACHES STORE,
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VILLAGE POINT, ?
GRISSETT TOWN,
ITHOMASBORO, FE
HICKMAN'S X RO>
LONGWOOD, Bro*
ASH, POST OFFIC!
FREELAND, Simmo
EXUM, Bennetts St
WET ASH, Mrs. M.
ICELAND, Holmes S
NAVASSA, Lewis 5
PINES SERVICE SI
J! WINNABOW, Henr
BOLIVIA, Willetts :
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Considerable progress was made in 19.'i6, while the . - ^B
during 1M7 in the work aecom-> deaths was 1.4H0 less. SB
plished at maternity ami infant Numerous declines in
centers conducted by the State from certain causes were rcH
Rnnrd of Health, of which there ..., ...un, ????
I were 124 under way on Decern-1l"' """l """"
bee 31. These centers are under numbor am' fates incre^H
the supervision of and a part of Deaths from cancer 0011111111111
the important work being done i climb, the rate inetva
by the Division of Preventive 516 in 1936 to 54,1 last
Medicine, of which i>r. <i. M. numerically, from 1.785
Oooper is the director. j There was a drop in d^B
The declines reported above are from pulmonary tubercutai^H
thought to be due, in a nteasure, 1937 total being 1.732, as
at least, to this work, according pared with 1,905 in 1956, thi-H
j to Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State decreasing front 55.1 to 4'.i i^R
Health Officer. There were only 79 deaths ^B
During the year of 1937. the! typhoid and paratyphoid in
provisional report shows, births j as compared with hundreds H|
in North Carolina exceeded used to occur before the
deaths by 544, more than two to inoculation against that dis^B
one. The number of births re- The previous year the i><t:^B
ported during the year was 80,- 72. H|
644, as compared with 76,321 the INFLUENZA DEATHS I)|B
previous year, while the number There was
of deaths was 34,100, as com- in the number of deaths fror^^
pared with 35.580 In 1936. fluenza, the 1957 total
Birth Rate Higher as compared with 1.165 in Hj
In other words, the birth rate the decrease in rate being
jumped from 22.1 to 23.1, while 33.6 to 25.1.
the death rate declined from H
10.3 to 9.8. the report shows. Among the evergreens tha^H
The number of births in 1937, grown from seed are the I^B
therefore, was 4,323 greater than hemlock, fir, spruce, and iflB
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I! NOTICE I
Call For Taxes I
the places cited below at the time desig- 9
urpose of collecting 1937 Taxes. The 9
cent will he effective after March 1st. 9
day and save costs! 9
tUARY 19th and 26th 2:00 to 4:30 P. M. 9
LY, Kirby Store, FEB. 17, 9:30 to 10:30 a. m. 9
,LY, Varmints Store, FEB. 17, 11:00 to 12:00 9
FEB. 17th 12-30 to 2:00 P. M. 9
I. Robinson's Store, FEB. 17th 2:00 to 3:00 P. M. 9
ihallotte, Tripps Store, FEB. 18, 10 to 10:30 a. m- 9
Parkers Store, FEB. 18th .... 11:00 to 11:45 a. m. 9
B. 18th 12:00 to 12:30 p. m. 9
VDS, Bennetts Store, FEB. 18, 12:45 to 2 p.m. B
fns Store, FEB. 18th 2:30 to 3-30 p. m. 9
E, FEB. 18th 3:45 to 5:00 p. m. 9
? e. rrn '"-i in.no Il.fm a. m. HI
ins Jiorc, rcn. aain iv.w iv * * flR
ore, FEB. 19th 11:15 to 12:15 p. m M
E. Gore's Store, FEB. 19th ... 12:30 to 1:30 p. m. H
tore, FEB. 22nd 10:00 to 11:00 a. m- Qj
>tofe, FEB. 22nd 11:15 to 12:30 p. m N
TATION, FEB. 22nd 12:45 to 2:00 p. m
y'? Store., FEB. 24th 10:00 a. m. to 12 Noon flj
Store, and Elmore Motor Co., FEB. 24th 9B
12:30 to 3:00 p. m.
tas. E. Gause I
TAX COLLECTOR I
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