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PAOE TWO I THE STATE PORT PILOT I Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY I JAMES M, HARPER. JR., Editor I Bntared as second-class ?Um April 20, 1928, at I the Poet Office at Southport, N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates ONE YEAH |1 .SO I BIX MONTHS 1.00 I THREE MONTHS 74 I Wednesday, January 28, 1889 B Smart Alec and Dumb Dora are broth-! er and sister. I Don't fail out with a friend through,, I tlie efforts of a go-between. B History is a record of why men sue- , I ceeded, not of the reason why they failed. The trouble with our plan of living is! that we fail to realize the pleasure of ! simple things until we must class them as; luxuries. I ____________ You can be worried by a hundred mat-, I ters, but you can do only one thing- at j I the time. I n If you want to make friends and in! fluence people don't try to top your; ; neighbor's story about his operation. B One reason it is possible to get more I work done at the eleventh hour is that by that time your lingering guests have I gone. , The official life of the president of , | some of the foreign republics is in direct B ratio to his ability to please all of the [ people all of the time. I % 1 The Future ! |i I Hope springs eternal in the breast of! | every Southport resident and there ling-! I ers always the thought that one day the natural resources of this little commun I ity will gain their rightful recognition. Just now with business at its lowest I ebb there is encouragement to be had ifrom the fact that Senator Frink's bill for a Nautical School has received statewide endorsement. Although there was no clause in the bill providing for its establishment here, that hope is uppermost in the mind of every loyal resident of our community. There is reason, too, for hoping that one of the proposed naval stations may be located here; and in this possibility Southpoit people also are looking with some degree of encouragement to the future. Already listed as objectives gained is the deepening of the inland waterway to a depth of 12-feet from here south to Florida and the dredging of a yacht basnnfcere. Particularly does this latter ftroi^ise tend to dispell the clouds that Weil jthe future, for this will fulfill a long Rkfjovn need. electrification \\fe have a strange situation in Brunsf-vick county. Down here at SouthDort the citv has! I a power plant capable of producing more than twice the amount of electric power required for local consumers. Out in the three more populous districts of the county are residents who are eager for electricity in their homes. There is a Rural Electrification Administration in Raleigh whose duty it is to remedy a situation similar to this. Already steps have been taken to interest the men in charge in the Brunswick county case. They have promised to come down and make an investigation. We do not know whether they plan to look into the matter of securing electric power from Southport, but we suggest that it is surely worth investigating. Bad Situation The United States is very close to a complete severance of diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany. Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, has announced that he favors cutting off trade with the Reich, and many other influential congressmen agree with him. Legislation toward that end will probably be introduced this session. Our State Department has taken the strongest possible stand against German representations?and has gone to lengths that are rarely reached in dis ' (Missions with a "friendly" power. And in J Germany, the controlled press continues; its campaign of almost unrestrained abuse | directed at this government and the officials in charge. The belief grows that Gel-many will take steps this year toward acquiring the rich mineral and agricultural lands of the Soviet Ukraine?which, according to c almost all the foreign authorities, would r mean war with Russia and her allies. Trustworthy polls in England show the n British people's distrust of Hitler grow- a ing, along with the sad belief that they " will have to fight him one day. v Our relations with Mexico remain un- i settled, due to President Cardenas' ex- ? propriations of American-owned farming ( and petroleum properties. And going far- s ther South still, we find Nazi and Fascist f influences continuing their steady growth ^ in Pan and South America. t Next European crisis is likely to arise o out of Mussolini's demands for certain ? French possessions. Hitler backs Italy in f this?Daladier says the French will fight, o li S Resolution To Keep J: h Bv this time, most of your New Year's ^ resolutions have probably been broken, n That's only human. But there's one reso- a lution every one of us should make and keep for the twelve months ahead. Here it is: "I resolve to do my part, as a motorist and pedestrian, to help reduce America's ghastly death and accident toll." During a large part of 1938, the accident rate declined. But we haven't yet earned the right to compliment ourselves and sit back on our laurels. Tens of thousands of people died unnecessarily last year?the victims of recklessness and ignorance. Tens of thousands more will die unnecessarily this year ? unless all of us do something about it. There are three basic approaches to the accident problem. First, comes education. And that doesn't mean just teaching the rudiments of safety to school children. It also means reaching the | adult?continuously and pointedly?with those simple instructions and suggestions ]v that, if followed, will reduce the hazards|c of motoring 90 per cent. |c Second, comes law enforcement. In-1J competent police?wholesale ticket-fixing jr ?slothful prosecutors?inefficient traffic j d courts?these are among the best friendsA the Grim Reaper has. A number of Amer- ? ican cities have materially reduced their H accident rates by revising their traffic * codes, training their traffic police, and ^ doing away with fixing. p Third, comes better street and highway 1 design, to eliminate "accident prone" lo- " cations. Many an intersection which was a virtual death trap has been made safe it through competent engineering. Every k community should start on a long-time A program that will gradually do away|n with this cause of deaths and injuries. li We can have safety?if we want it, r s and are willing to earn it. This is a uni- h versal problem, and its solution depends J on the co-operation of us all. We made 11 progress toward that end last year? let's do a great deal more this year. Capital Punishment With no attempt to whitewash an ugly situation, we still reiterate our stand that North Carolina needs capital punishment, despite all the controversy raging in the halls of the General Assembly at the present moment. We still believe that the lives of innocent persons should be spared rather than those who have committed capital felony, and we bplieve that capital punishment offers the protection to innocent J people required for safety and security, s Right now the State of North Carolina's lawmaking body is engaged in a bitter controversy over the most humane method of taking the lives of capital felons?electrocution or asphyxiation. Neither. Hanging in the 'county where the crime is committed will do more to deter crimes punishable by death than all the electric chairs and gas chambers. After all, one of the primary purposes and objectives of having capital punishment is so that others may know the penalty they have to pay for similar crimes. Clothing executions in secrecy, and locking out the public, defeats one of'the original purposes of capital punishment. 1 We know a good many people who never took music who still are pretty good at fiddling around. Those idle, chronic grouches wear out shoes too- They don't walk much, but they do a lot of kicking. THE StATE PORT P Just Among The Fishermen BELIEVES OUR STORtES .Tuilge Henry Danneh), the sago if Fredericksburg. Va., which hints to be the most historic ity in the United States, writes ids department that he believes ill of our fishing tales. He is n old fisherman of experience :nd the only fish stories he loubts are those in relation to rhales. He tells us of the experence of one of his friends who ,-as out fishing alone in a rowioat. This fellow got sleepy. Fishermen often do except at louthport. where the fish bite so ast that they keep everybody wake). He tied his line to his iig toe and lay down in the lont and went to sleep with his ar across his chest. Pretty soon ie got a tremendous bite and efore he could untie the line rom his big toes he was perked verboard, carrying the oar with Im. By some chance he landed quarely astride the tail of a ,-hale. Being a very resourceful ellow, a trait which fishermen lave to possess in order to catch ish almost anywhere except louthport). he used the oar as rudder and steered the whale shore. COMING TO SOUTHPORT Judge Dannehl and a couple of his crannies in New York and one in Baltimore have fished together in the waters ail of the way from Northern Neck, Va., to Oregon Inlet in this state. This year the Judge, who acts as master of ceremonies in arranging the annual trips, has decided on Southport. In that he shows just as much, if not more, wisdom as Solomon showed. Should a gale happen to chase them down here and it be too rough for outside fishing the plans are to go for the freshwater big mouth bass and goggle eyed Thn nnnik nnil InkfH; I" '' ?1 I ? - arounil Southport offer something pretty good in that line. PROSPECTIVE CITIZEN'S Charlie Farrell of Greensboro, rho is by way of being tops in onimercial photography in North Carolina, except for "Miss Anna", lis wife, has just concluded a reeks trip at Southport. He made nany wonderful pictures, hunIreds of them: so did Miss Anna. Ve have an idea that when those tictures are developed they will how something of Southport and Irunswick county. Mr. and Mrs. 'ano 11 like Southport and it is tossible they will buy a place rith the plan of coming to Southiort in a few years. They love he coast and the coastal people nd Mr. Farrell is intrigued by he fishing here. One whole day ,fas given over to making picures on Bald Head island. Inidently, something interesting bout the island is scheduled to reak in the spring. Mr. Farrell lso did well at fishing on his ist trip. He got a whole barel of fish and, to prove it, the iouthport Civic Club secretary as a picture showing Mayor ohn Eriksen helping him load t in his car. FISHING CLCB MEETING The New Hanover Fishing Cluh, said to be the largest fishing club in the United State, is to hold its annual meeting at the court house in Wilmington Monday night. A. A. Keels is president of the chili; A. D. Caswvll is vice-president and George B. Canady is secretary-treasurer. At the Monday night meeting it may be decided to offer a prize for the member u-liA telle f ho l\irrrrovit fluhincr '" V vv?m ?W *"6l?vo* -n lip during 1989. This would give this columist a chance to win something. FISHING STORIES As the season for good fishing tories draws near we are reninded of that prolonged dry ipell of several years ago. Several >f the more shallow ponds dried ip completely and no one knew vhat became of the fish until >ne day when Melvin Smith, who ives near Bolivia, and his brokers were hauling top soil from he bed of a pond for the purpose >f using it as fertilizer. At first hey loaded their trucks with shovels. Finally one of them deeded that it would speed up oading matters if they loosened he soil with plows, accordingly, hey hitched a big tractor and a fang plow up and Melvin drove t across the bed of the pond. Stopping to make the turn, he ooked back and was astonished :o see a great row of floundering Jig mouth bass and goggle eyed Jerch that had crawled down in he ground to wait for the next ain to fill the pond. FISHING PICTURES A fishing picture that had its initial distribution through the Southport Civic Club started going thei rounds of big Sunday papers from coast to coast this past week. The Philadelphia Inquirer came here with the picture prominently displayed. Bill Wells 1L0T. SOUTHPORT, N. C. OPEN FORUM" , A column dedicated to opinions of : I the public. A mouthpiece for the I view* and observations of our I friends and readers, ior which we I accept no responsibility. Contributions to this column must not exceed three hundred words I ABOUT NAUTICAL SCHOOL Southport, N. C., January 10, 19J0. | Editor, State Port Pilot, [ Southport, N. C. jDear Sir:? j The Nautical School Bill, as | introduced by Senator S. B. | Prink, is now known as the Joglephus Daniels' Nautical Academy Bill of the Greater University of North Carolina, which is now resting in the hands of the Senate Educational Committee. | VVe urge you to support this J bill by favorable comments to jyour friends and by contacting I the members of the General Assembly personally or by mail. At j this time we suggest writing the Chairman of the Senate Educational Committee. Senator Fol[ ger, and other members of the committee and the General Assembly. | Other members of the commit| tee are as follows: Senators Umj stead, Boyette, Rodman, Corey, [Eagles, Lnpkin, Lnrkins, Sutton, Blythe, Ballantine, Gibbs, Price, Taylor, Gray, Separk. Gardner, Austin, Hughes and I Bellamy. Remember, the nautically-mindj ed young men of North Carolina [can only obtain this excellent [ training through your consistent ! aid and co-operation by impres-1 I sing the General Assembly of the j importance of this project. Sincerely yours, R. O. JOHNSON, Post Commander. BASKETBALL REFEREES Bolivia, N. C. Jan. 23, 1939 Editor State Port Pilot Southport, N. C. In your issue of Jan 11 you! had an editorial in which you had some things to say regarding basketball in Brunswick county. I wish to endorse most of what you say. However, there was one thing you did not mention that I feel is very important and that is competent referees for the games. I have witnessed a good many basketball games in Brunswick \ county in the past six or seven I years and very few of them had j competent referees. I believe this i [ one thing has caused more dis] satisfaction than anything else. One practice that has prevailed in this county for several years is that in lots of games the coaches have had to act as referees and umpires. This is a practice that I feel should be stopped. Not that any of the coaches would deliberately do anything that would be unfair; but I believe any person who is coaching and training a group of boys or girls is so interested in the outcome of the contest that they are participating in that they should not be put in the position of having to act as a referee in a contest that their teams are taking part in. All of the schools in the county now have gyms except one and that is under construction. I feel that since the public is paying to see the games, that those in charge of our schools ' " tl-t SflOUlU see Ulab wiu^ticnv auu impartial referees be secured to handle these games. This is not written in a spirit | of criticism but only with the jhope that we might have better sports in all of our schools and regardless of who wins or losses they may all feel that it was done fairly. Yours truly G. H. Cannon Gives 8 Causes For Home Fires State College Engineer Says Use Of Defective Equipment And Carelessness Cause Most Fires In Homes Use of defective equipment or carelessness causes most of the fires which destory hundreds of farm homes in North Carolina every year, says David S. Weaver, agricultural engineer of the State College Extension Service. He lists eight specific causes for the majority of fires in homes: (1) poorly constructed or defective flues and chimneys; (2) inflammable roofing material which ignites when sparks settle on it; (3) lightning; (4) spontaneous combustion; (5) careless use of smoking materials; (6) improper handling of kerosene and gasoline; (7) defective stoves and furnaces; and (8) lack of safe and adepuate wiring for electricity, or the wrong use of was In St. Augustine, Fla., Friday and saw It in the St. Augustine newspaper. The picture was of a catch of fish made a short time ago by Captain Berkley Tonilin on the Maude and Mabie and Mr. Wells bought the fish at his house here In Southport. The Folks Who O ?AND POR BEING THE ONE WHO?IN THE LAST TWO VI i.talr| NOT INOULQEO IN SMOKING Filll I NOR IMBIBEO THE INTOXlC ^ lii WAS OAJJLV A DQ&AM/) , u/t/& (C^yHgfcf. W. N. V.) ^ Wfuffctt electricial appliances. ] instilled into Weaver suggested that the bers the , . ?f! discussion ol homeowner make an analysis of, the fire hazard by going from | room to room with a paper and; pencil and check over the aboveI( 0>tkol u mentioned items. The kitchen, the j W basement, storerooms, attics, clos- j Fusarium ets and stairmays offer the great- j 0f the most est problems, for it is there that growers in most of the fires start. j area, can b< A number of questions are methods, acc asked by the agriculture engineer i Shaw, plant to stress fire prevention: "Do j State Collegi the members of your family j These methoi have habits which are conducive wilt resistar to good fire control ? Do they j ton and by a use kerosene or gasoline in start- j ization. ing fires? Are they careless about J jn an ex smoking conditions? Are the oily the subject, and greasy rags used about the ghaw points garage put into metal containers annually or immediately burned, or are proximately they allowed to accumulate as t0n in North a possible hazard? "Are the chil- jn the Coast dren allowed to play with mat- 175,000 acres ches ? Is the electric iron discon-; infested by t nected immediately when the Research ironer leaves the ironing board? studying Fuj "Many simple habits conducive number of y< to correcting fire hazards may be oped several SCATT] The Erroneous A dvertisemenl Advertisemer Business Tl Spreading an adverti and kinds of mediums is for a business firm to sp in practice and upsetting other hand there is Con IT IS MUCH M( PONCF Your advertising dolk that fully and effectivel that goes into 1100 hom< 6000 people each week . PILOT .... 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