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THE STATE PORT PILOT P
Southport, N. C. J
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Wednesday, March 1G, 1938 fj
A loser never feels so bad when he ^
I knows that he did his best.
We wonder how many politicians are
I sincere in their expressed desire to be- j..
I come public servants. ^
I Conditions must be perfect to pet a ~
I big crowd to church now days. j.
Loyalty is to be admired, even if it is
I to the cause of our enemy. ' f
I Instead of saving for a rainy day, most ,
I of us spend our time praying that it won't
I rain.
Dicipline is a pretty good foundation ^
for building an organization of any kind.
I ^
We never have an opportunity to ap- *
preciate some people until an emergency
I mmp? nlnno- (n brine- out their best uuali
? -- . ol.
tics. ti<
" til
Don't belittle your neighbor; practically
everyone can do at least one thing better
than you can.
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Sugar-Coated fu
pi
The other day we heard a local busi- tr<
ness man complain that "I just bought my
fourteenth ticket to some benefit since p
the first of February. "Did you ever see
such a place in your life for selling tickets
to something all of the time." he asked? m
"No," 1 said. "1 haven't; there seems to pi
be something going on all the time." Ai
But then we got to thinking" about the ca
things for which we have recently been di
requested to contribute. Most of them tr
were for the churches; one or two were
for the school; other civic organizations
claimed a few; and only a small percent- w
age were connected with private indivi- 'a
duals. kl
And it oocurrs to lis that benefit parties,
plays, suppers and other forms of ef
amusement offer about as good way as
any to furnish needed financial support
to worthwhile organizations. It is up to to
the better citizens of the community to 0f
see to it that they have funds upon which th
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exchange for these requests for money we w
ought to be thankful. It's easier to sell ar
tickets than it is to secure donations. a,
Tournament Notes lo
Smoking in uniform cost one of the jn
best players in the tournament here last
week a place on the first all-tournament
team. . . AVe hope there will be an en- m
forcible 'No Smoking' sign in every gym- 7?
nasium in the county next year. . . .There rjj
is a woeful need for better coaching in w
the county. . . . Furnishing players slivers \\
of citrus fruit during rest periods to remove
the dry taste in their mouths added
a big league frill that was nice for the ^
tournament. . . .Starting from scratch, the (
Rev. A. L. Brown has brought his band '
along nicely; he and the kids deserve a d(
lot of credit. . . .When Bolivia girls were gj
eliminated Monday night from the tour- ^
nament they lost their first game in four j
seasons to a Brunswick county team. . . .
Note to some college coach: Addison ec
Jenrette, Waccamaw flash, and Charlie f0
Taylor, of Bolivia, both graduate this ^
year . . . .The biggest difference bet- se
ween high school basketball and college ^
basketball is in the passing.
Plain Dirt
The whimsical charm of the late Will pj
Roger? was largely due to his natural,
unaffected manner. He was the idol of
a million men who detest "putting on n(
airs." in
But while we were one of Will Rogers'
staunchest admirers, we believe that
some of his deciples are carrying on too gi
far. Untidiness does not excuse unclean- g(
liness.
There are many of us who do not have
fine clothes to match those of our neigh- ai
bor; and some of us have grown philoso- er
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hical about it and have decided to do
he best we can with what we have,
'here are others, though, for whom a
epleted wardrobe becomes excuse for
jtting down the bars for personal saniation.
Ever since we studied hygiene in one
f the lower grades at school, we have
ad a great admiration for bodily cleanness.
It has always been our belief
tat soap and water were two of man's
est friends. We have seen men hold
ame mighty dirty jobs, yet after workig
hours show no trace of the nature of
teir employment. We have also seen
hite collar workers with an ever-dirty
eck band. Our conclusion is that per>nal
habit and not the job is responsible
>r healthful cleanliness.
It is possible to respect rags, but never
1th.
till Serious
There is nothing more than a tempory
let-up in the seriousness of the forest
re situation in Brunswick county and
lere is still plenty of reason for alarm. I
Were it not for the tireless efforts of
aunty Forest Warden Dawson Jones and
s district wardens during the crisis of
e past few days, the wholesale loss of
few ye ays ago might have been rented.
Striking to us have been repeated comaints
that landowners have shown an apirent
disregard for the sweeping conigrations
unless they endangered some
their own holdings. There seems to
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ive oeenno application ui mc m
iod neighborliness, nor of the Golden
lie.
Even worse is the indication that many
the fires apparently were of incendiary
igin; but we find considerable satisfac>n
in the statement of Warden Jones
at he holds the proof on several ofnders,
who are to be prosecuted to the
11 extent of the law.
Timber is the greatest natural resource
Brunswick county, and much of our
ture prosperity depends upon the
oper protection and cultivation of muses.
lease, Mr. Motorist
"Please, Mr. Motorist, don't run over
y little girl," such was the appealing
ea recently printed in the Montgomery
dvertiser, from a citizen of the Alabama
ipital. Paul Bailiff wrote the letter, ad essed
to "every driver of automobile or
uck" and herewith we pass it on to you:
"Today my daughter, who is seven
sars old, started to school as usual. She
ore a dark blue dress with a white colr.
She had on black shoes and wore
lie gloves. Her cocker-spaniel whose
ime is 'Coot' sat on the front norch and!
hined his canine belief in the folly of
lucation as she waved 'goodbye' and
arted off to the halls of learning.
"Tonight we talked about school. She
Id me about the girl who sits in front
' her?the girl with yellow curls?and
e boy across the aisle who makes funr
faces. She told me about her teacher,
ho has eyes in the back of her head?
id about the tree in the school yard?
id about the big girl who doesn't be;ve
in Santa Claus. We talked about a
t of things?tremendously vital, unimirtant
things; and then we studied spellg,
reading, arithmetic?and then to
?d.
"She's back there now?back in the
irsery sound asleep, with 'Princess Eliibeth'
(that's a doll) cuddled in her
afht arm. You guys wouldn't hurt her,
ould you? You see, I'm her daddy.
rhen her doll is broken or her finger is
it, or her head gets bumped, I can fix
?but when she starts to school, when
e walks across the street, then she's in
>ur hands.
"She's a nice kid. She can run like a
>er and darts about like a chipmunk,
le likes to ride horses and swim-and
ke with me on Sunday afternoons. But
can't be with her all the time?I have
i work to pay for her clothes and her
lucation. So please help me look out
r her. Please drive carefully, please
"ive slowly past the schools and interctions?and
please remember that chil en
run from behind parked cars.
"Please don't run over my little girl."
Everybody doesn't want to be a postan
perhaps, but everybody loves to
ay "post-office."
Though a fellow may look seedy, it's
) sure sign that he'll some day be an
imense tree.
And why shouldn't swell-heads be dis untled?
They must have enough trouble
;tting a hat big enough.
One reason some people are so ignorit
is that they never stop talking long
lough to find out anything.
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THE STATE PORT PILOT
Soathport
School News
HONOR ROLL
Principal W. R. Lingle ann
ounces the Honor Rolls for sixtl
Month. First honor roll is for 93
100; Second honor from 90-93.
First grade: 1st honor roll
Jimmie Cox, Leila Nichols, Bar
bara Price, George Stanley, John
jie Hazelton; No second.
Second grade: 1st honor roll
Betsy Jane Galloway: Seeonc
Joyce Lancaster, DorothuT Gilli
ken and Sue Fredere.
Third grade: First hoTTbr roll
Margaret McGee, Louis Newton
Kenneth Stiller, Ann McRaekan
Bess Miller Plaxco, Dorothy Let
Ward and Dorothy Mae Price.
Fourth grade: First honor roll
Sally Ann McNeil, Annie Lee
Evans.
Fifth grade: First honor roll,
Dorothy Cox and Edward Newton.
Sixth grade: First nonor roll,
Joe Young Christian, Claude
Ford, Muriel Lee Jones, Glen
Lennon, Marie Moore, Mary
Florence Moore, Inez Phelps,
Rudolph Sellers, Eloise St. George,
Mae Swain, Lube Marie Swian,
Annie Jean Wells; Second
honor roll, Hubert Bellamy and
Doris Smith.
Seventh grade: Not any.
Eight grade: First honor roll,
Roderic Bellamy: Second honor
roll, S. V. Russ and Clarence
Lennon.
Ninth grade First None; Second
honor roll, William Sellers,
John D. St. George and Doris
Corlette.
Tenth grade: First honor roll,
W. T. Fullwood and John Hall.
Eleventh grade: First honor
roll, Edward Taylor, EHiot Moore,
Katie Cox, Louise Niernsie; Second
Norma Johnson.
Recitations and Declamations
On Friday evening the annual
recitation and declamations were
presented. There were a great
many people present. The
speeches were delivered very nicely
First prize in the girls contest
was won by Virginia McKeithan;
second pribe, Annie Margaret
Watts and third prize was won
by Leatha Arnold. The winning
boys: first prize, Clarence Lennon,
and second prize, Henry
Smith.
The judges were: the Rev.
Walter B. Freed and Robert Foster,
of Wilmington, and the Rev.
A. L. Brown, of Southport. The
decision of the judges was unanimous
in all cases.
The stage was decorated in a
most original way. The contestants
entered a beautiful garden
through a vine covered arch. The
yellow jonquils and green vines
were suggestive of the coming
season.
Miss Lelia Hubbard furnished
introductory music for each declamation.
This added much to
the atmosphere of the program.
Mr. Brown and the school
band added variety to the oratorical
program.
CLASS PROGRAM
The Sophomore English class
is engaged this week in working
out a class program project.
The students are divided into
committees to prepare and present
the programs.
These programs include: A magic
carpet travelog; current
events radio broadcast; motion
picture reviews; experience day
of unusual events; and a oneact
play, "The Advice Doctor,"
stressing better English.
One program, prepared by the
special committee appointed, is
given during the English period
each day this week.
The Sixth Grade gave a very
attractive chapel program Thursday,
with sketches from the
operetta, "Aunt Drusilla's Garden."
The program was under the
direction of the teacher, Miss
Olivia Miller, and was supervised
by a committee from the sixth
grade. Miss Lela Hubbard accompanied
at the piano.
Mrs. C. E. Taylor, ParentTeachers
Association president,
talked on "Education."
Henry Mai pass Dies
At Home At Bolivia
Henry Malpass, 47, died suddenly
at his home in Bolivia Sunday
morning. Mr. Malpass
had been a section master
of the Wilmington, Brunswick
and (Southport railroad for a
number of years.
Surviving are his wife and
nine children, Wendell, Bernice,
Catherine, Helen, Fred, Amelia,
Howard, Franklin, and David
Dosher Malpass, all of Bolivia;
four sisters, Mrs. Ethel Simmons,
Mrs. Maude Aycock, Mrs Mabel
Hufham, Mrs. Lorina Hunt; two
brothers, Owen and Grady Malpass,
all of Pender county.
Funeral services were held
Monday morning at 10 o'clock
from the resident by the Rev.
Page, Baptist minister. Interment
was in Chapel Hill cemetery,
near Shallotte.
Mr. Malpass was a member of
the Baptist church.
Little Emily had been to
school for the first time.
"Well, darling, and what did
you learn?" asked her mother
on Emily's return.
"Nothing." sighted Emily hopelessly.
"I've got to go back again
tomorrw."
. 'L. j+k.' % .' . -.jJVvV v_
. SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WASHINGTON
LETTER
Government agencies, particul
arly those engaged in spending
i lavishly, are in a mental condi|
tion something like the anxious
prospective parent pacing outside
; I the maternity ward of a hospital.
- j They are in a flurry of harassing
- expectancy as millions of taxj
payers relax from the arithme:
! tical gymnastics of the final days
1; of filing income tax returns for
- j Federal inspection. Collectors of
[internal revenue scattered thr,
j oughout the country are under
i [ orders to flash by telegraph a
[ summary of reported taxes for
.' hasty analysis by Treasury ex'
perts here. The feverish activity
; in collectors offices reflects the
i uncertainty in official circles as
the Senate takes over the badly
patched House revenue bill for
a series of public hearings.
The Administration revenue
policy-makers are literally twit!
ching at the outlook in the Senate.
Sentiment has developed
there for marked alternations to
I the White House draft which
weathered a stormy House session
in a damaged condition. The
Congress his appropriated vast
sums for relief and for the ordinary
Federal expenses in the fiscal
yetfr beginning July 1, and
tax collections have a vital bearing
on these policies. The returns
will also mirror the true economic
condition of that segment of
I the population which earns enou[gh
to pay tribute to the state.
If the folks back home were i
tuned in with a concealed micro- i
phone at each table in the din- j
ing rooms of the Senate and ]
j House, they would pick up tidbits
of conversation on: the un- i
certainty as to whether the House i
will vote again on a wage and t
hour bill despite assurance of j
I Chairman Norton that the House ]
j Labor Committee will trot out an |
] acceptable measure by April or
earlier; wonder if organized lab- ;
jor, particularly the C. I. O., will ,
[slow down its open participations
jin local elections as the Seattle
mayoralty returns turned thumbs !
down on their candidates as did (
Detroit last fall: the Pennsylvania
Democratic gubernatorial primar- 1
ies assume national importance
as Senator Guffey jumps aboard
the John L. Lewis band-wagon
for Lieut-Gov. Kennedy, who is
secretary and treasurer of the
Lewis-dominated United Mine
Workers: speculation is rampant '
as to what the Administration
will do as railroads retrench bv
lay-offs of employes after the
Interstate Commerce Commission
rate decision gave them only a
j limited increase in freight rates,
J and whether Mr. Roosevelt will
(take advantage of his ten-day so[
journ at Warm Springs (Ga.l to
| cultivate local Southern political
| leaders in an effort to regain his
hold over the rebellious Southern
delegation in Congress.
Whatever investigation into the
merry T. V. A. mix-up is undertaken,
it will probably disclose a
clash of personalities and policies
rather than anything smacking
heavily of big-time "graft". Insiders
see in the current maneuvers
the culmination of a series
of petty intrigues involving 3 T.
V. A. Commissioners whose jobs
were bigger than their abilities.
Anything short of a thorough
public probe by a Congressional
committee will undoubtedly provoke
more suspicion than actual
conditions warrant. White House
censure of the feudist has little
more effect than cold water on
a cat-fight. Resignations and
other remedies will not sidetrack
the need, for full publicity thr
ough a public inquiry. The practicability
of a study of the Tennessee
Valley Authority by another
Federal agency, the Federal
Trade Commission, is openly
scouted as both groups are directly
responsible to the Administration.
The peevishness of the T.
V. A.'s two Morgan's and Lillen!
thai covers the politicians with
dark fog. Each official wants a
; clean bill of health to justify his
policies at T. V. A. without regard
to where the mud hits.
The Senate Civil Liberties Committee,
under the guidance of
Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin,
finds itself in a paradoxical situation.
Authorized by a Senate
resolution to investigate conditions
affecting "civil liberties" or
rights, the committee has sought
to establish facts relating to terrorism
or methods of employers
in blocking the growth of unionism.
Their inquisitors have ransacked
offices and files of employers
to obtain evidence on
which to build a case and in- !
fluence public opinion. Now comes
a challenge which the committee
cannot well dodge on the basis
of their own admissions . . . that j
scores of business men are under i
subpoena even though their testimony
has been given. Somehow
Mr. LaFollette refuses to release !
these industrialists from the cov- !
ert threat of being called to the !
stand at the whim of the two- 1
man committee or actually to 1
suit the fancy of the corps of !
left-wing probers employed by the \
Senate group. No union leaders |
are singled out for the intimida- j
tions of a Senate subpoena which j
raises a question in political cir- j
cles as to when civil liberties are j
Infringed and by what fictions j
the committee justifies its descrip- j
tive title. j
Demand for a boycott of Jap- j
anese goods and what it means \
in dollars and cents is revealed j
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in the latest study of 1937 busi- j [JKt>f,,l (lift
ness made public today. The di- _
jest shows higher commodity 1,000
prices and increased demand for
American products raised the val- Members of tli
ue of our exports to Japan, in- of the Kings Da
eluding re-exports, to 5288.378,000, donated a dozen ;
the highest figure since 1920 and ]ow casos to
ln adv'ance of 584.030,000, or 41.1 county Hospital,
percent, compared with 1936. Im- _ .
, . . ... This was jus
ports into the United States of ?, . ?
Japanese goods, valued at 5204,- scnes of use'"l f
202,000, registered a gain of 532,- j tors of this orgi
158,000 or 18.8 percent over 1936. 'oca' hospital.
Japan continued to be the third
principal market for our products ! (.omimttee
in 1937, accounting for 8.6 per- llpffpr f I
cent of our total export trade,
against 8.3 percent in 1936. It is Mrs) Marion S.'
small wonder that boycott hulla- nanletj county ci
baloo is hushed in official circles .. , _ ..
where employment is still a t,0',au Better Ho.
haunting problem. wl? 150 obsen'ed
state during the
It is estimated that farmers, 23-30. The objec
of Gaston County, will plant be-' North Carolina
tween 125,000 and 150,000 seedl- state in the natic
ing trees this season. More than Mrs. F. B. Bo.
12,000 pounds of lespedeza seed pointed chairman
were saved by 800 farmers. Southport.
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