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P PAGE FOVS I THE STATE PORT PILOT j Southport, N. C. ! PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor fcUrwl m second-chus msffsr April 20, 1028, at tba Post Office at Southport N. C., under I the act of March 3, 1870. I Subscription Rates ON* YXAR $1.60 HX MONTHS 1.00 <naRSB MONTHS .76 B T1 ' *1" 8,"'1 Wednesday, April 26, 1939 The trouble with too many paid college athletes is that they are muscle- bound between the ears. It takes a few late-comers to give the I early arrivals something to talk about before the meeting begins. ? When the cat's away he usually does a: little playing on his own hook. If an ambulance sounds its siren while going only 30-miles per hour everybody M in hearing distance will swear it is going "over sixty." Ilj t "" " Bloody Highway Pause a moment and recall the fatal Hi accidents that have occurred during the HI past few months on Highway 7-1 between Whiteville and Leland; then find if you can a similar stretch of road anywhere in North Carolina where the Grim Reaper has enjoyed a better harvest. Four persons were fatally injured on I' the Brunswick county section of this road last month and one fatality has already resulted during April. Although her recent death rate has not kept pace with H that of her neighbor, the Columbus county death toll on this same thoroughfare H during the past year has exceeded even the bloody record of Brunswick. A contributing factor, of course, is the tremendous volume of truck and tanker traffic that is routed over this road twenty-four hours per day; and a survey of the wrecks during the past few months will show that these vehicles have figured prominently in this record that has been written in blood. B Since this highway is an important artery in the travel scheme for citizens of this section it behooves us, one and all, to give pause for consideration for ways and means to increase its safety. Following are a few "don'ts" that we might do well to observe: K Don't be too proud to come to a complete stop to avoid meeting a truck or tanker on a narrow cement bridge; Don't fail to dim your lights when driving at night, because it helps your H vision just as much as it does the driver of the on-coming car; tgg Don't fail to allow plenty of room on your left to take care of the emergency if the car you are meeting turns out to be a truck; Don't plan to make up any of your lost time by speeding on this stretch of road; Don't drive when you've been drinking ... Whether you think you are drunk or not. What Now? The 1939 crop of high school graduates is with us. Some of the boys and girls in this group will enter the colleges and universities of our state this fall in search of higher learning. Others for whom responsibility is heavy and opportunity is light will go right to work and make good, substantial citizens from the start. It is with the thought of the larger group of these graduates that will do neither that this editorial is written. Temperamentally unsuited or financially unable to persue their education further, these boys and girls are faced with a three or four year transition period that will find them groping about for a life's work for which they are best suited. It is a period during which they wait around while they grow out of boyhood and girlhood into young men and young women. Untrained and inexperienced, jobs are hard to get. Frequently they become discouraged and stop trying altogether. Then it is that the Devil puts these idle young hands to work. How much better to turn these boys and girls out of our schools trained in some vocation, skilled in the art of homemaking or equipped to hold down a resI | ponsible business position. Vocational training holds the answer. j Already we have several departments ( that are turning out young farmers and young housekeepers that are taking their ? place in the life , of their community without missing a stride. There is a grow- s, ing sentiment in favor of commercial de- wa> partments, and good has resulted from the this type of training. But a wider plan of vocational training, particularly for the unu boys, is needed. ?f 1 K. < Use Your Brains! far. o'ck The winner of a school prize wrote ?ferl this: "A match has a head but no brains. Wat When you use its head use your brains!" doct That's good advice for every person in CaP this broad land of ours?adult as well as J ihild. For matches and smoking cause three hou times as many fires as any other known! the cause. They are responsible for four times as as many fires as overheated chimneys troU and flues; and almost six times as many ing as lightning. P1W Putting it another way, matches and smoking cause 27 per cent of all fires of known cause?and fires of known cause f' comprise 83 per cent of the total. That hs means that misuse of matches is respon- s< sible for the burning to death of thousands of people every year?to say noth- cc ing of property destruction running into th the tens of millions. J*1 DC The tragic phase of this is that every ( fire caused by a match or by smoking |0 material is a preventable fire. There is w no excuse for going to sleep in bed with ra a cigarette in your hand?but people do " it continually, and a great many of them th never again awaken in this world. Noth- is ing is easier than to stamp out a cigar ?' butt when you are finished with it, or to properly dispose of the ashes from a pipe hi ?but each year there are untold instan- ,h CI ces where this isn't done?and in some in thousands of those instances fires, great a* or small, result. It certainly doesn't call ln for any great effort to dispose of your a* matches and cigarettes in the ash tray in w your car, instead of throwing them out of the window?but millions of acres of ravaged land that once bore magnificent tim- was ber, offer mute testimony to how many Port times this simple smoking precaution is ^ forgotten. tlon! Smoke if you will?but don't forget weei the obligation every smoker owes to catc everyone else?and that is to be ever watchful of what happens to smoking men materials when he is done with them. two The most common cause of fire is the most inexcusable. audi 8'i A Historic Decision The historic Supreme Court decision of March 27, which held, in the words of sl' Justice Stone, that there is no constituti- in onal immunity "from income taxation of m officers or employes of the national or a {? state government or their instrumentali- at ties," apparently removes all legal ob- '? stacles in the way of a reform that has ^ long been advocated. ,ic It has been generally believed that it th would be unconstitutional for any branch w of government to tax the workers of an- y other, and it has been argued that an amendment to the constitution would be er necessary to make that possible. This de- ^ cision. in decidine- that the federal gnv- in ernment and the states would not hamper 1,1 or burden each other by extending their taxing power to government workers, ti now makes that argument completely in- Smi valid. and cons The President of the United States, rnPa other high government officials, business F?rt leaders, newspapers, and a large number ?,de of economists have all pointed to the un- flee1 fairness of tax freedom for government kno workers. In a great many cases these thc workers receive higher salaries than they would be paid for comparable work in private business. During recent years es- tr pecially, thousands upon thousands of ad- M ditional persons have been placed on the F public payrolls, and a good proportion of tr them receive salaries ranging from $5,- bl 000 to $12,000 a year. Certainly there is no justice or reason in permitting these is people to go tax free?while persons in c| private industry with incomes as low as ai $1,000 are taxed to maintain them. t There are about 3,800,000 persons now cult employed by government. A large num- ^ ber of them, of course, have salaries for which fall below the exemptions allowed mu< in the income tax laws. But many enjoy salaries above those limits and they should be taxed precisely as anyone else R in the same income bracket is taxed. This sel< will bring in substantial additional reve- f?g( nue to government?and at the same time surj it should have an excellent moral effect thr< on the government officials and employ- wi" es who control the spending. e to Reverie is just a highfaultin word for ??j( plain laziness. por V THE STATE PORT P!L( Just Among The Fishermen TROUT ARE FINE port fishing has gotten under' during the past week and rod and reel weilders around old wrecks on Frying Pan lis are finding the trout to be sually large for this season the year. F. P. Summers and 3inter, both of Charlotte, have nably made the best catch so Friday they got in at 3 >ek with 51 huge trout, many : hem bettering 3 pounds. They e out with Captain Hulan ;ts. A party of Goldsboro ;ors out the same day with tain Donnle Watts also made lice catch of trout. Catches ilues have been few thus far. .-ever, they are out there and specimens are unusually large, vidence by those taken in nets the few that have fallen for ling. All sorts of sport fishwill be good from now on, 'ided the parties do not pick iriod of bad weather for maktheir trips. IN COME WHEN READY The sport fishermen who ive been planning trips, to mthport and holding their itience in reserve until they ere advised that they could inie are now advised that e lid is off. Trout and ues are assured and it is lieved that there are also enty of the big game felws hovering around out toards the gulf stream. Barcuda are usually in evidice by the first of April, arirding to information from e Frying Pan lightship. It believed that these wolves the sea are ready to put > some strenuous fighting >w, although no expeditions ive gone out to investigate ius far. This last week the vie riiih has received many quiries by letter and wire, iking if the fish were bitg. These inquirers are now ing advised that the fish e biting. They can come hen they are ready. nd A Little Child Led Them" nder the above caption, which borrowed from the State : Pilot the State Bureau of ertising sent out hundreds of ies to newspapers in all sec3 of the United States last St. The matter referred to hing of the 8% pound bass Cdward Harrelson and the fact he led all veteran sportswith his catches during the days open season at Easter, ng Harrelson got 3 prize winduring those two days. In tion to the one that weighed he got two others that bald the scales at 7 and 7%. (iOOD PUBLICITY Girls in hip boots, showing eir dextrioty in casting a ; jg and bit of mullet bait to the surf, are vicing with en, likewise arrayed, on the lint at Bald Head Island is week. It is real fishing; the same time there is a t of valuable publicity atched to the performance, tree good cameramen are ling their stuff along with e sportsmen and sportsomen. Among the picture akers is Bill Sharpe, State Irector of Publicity. He Ings a tolerable mean cama himself. By and by newsiper and magazine readers ill see pictures of real fishg on the point that leads Frying Pan. BIG BUSINESS AID he purchase of lands by the th Meal Company last week the announced intention to struct a huge menhaden plant ns a big pay roll for South. The company is one of the st and best established now operation. They have a huge t of big boats and are not wn to have ever suffered from lack of financial backing. IIARDIE BOATS BACK Two of the big shrimp awlers of Lewis .1. Hardle turned to Southport last eek from Louisiana and Iorida and are now at work uwling here. The Wells rothers have also purchased id brought In the Adventur from Florida. This boat a large one. It will be in rnrge of Homer McKeithan id his brother, Leon. he U. S. Department of Agriure has announced that deiment of the early lamb crop ing March was below average the country as a whole and ih below the exceptionally favble development in March of year. .ochester, New York, has been cted as th efirst of a halfen cities in which the new 3 stamp plan for distributing pluses to relief families Dugh normal channels of trade . be started. PLEASED iarnett County growers appear be pleased with their checks participation in the 1938 agriural conservation program, rets C. R. Ammons, farm agent. yr. southport. n. c. ~ OPEN FORUM" A column dedicated to opinion! of the public. A mouthpiece for the Tlewi and observation! of our friends and readers, for which we aecept no responsibility. Contributions to this column must not exceed three hundred words. Southport, N. C., April 24, 1939. Editor, State Port Pilot, Southport, N. C., Dear Sir:? Through your column the trustees of the Southport Public Library wish to announce a change of librarians. Miss Susie Sellers has assumed charge and we wish the public to continue to use the library. We also wish to thank Mrs. Vera Swain Willis for her years of faithful service. She has been always prompt, courteous, and ready to serve. MRS. A. K. VITOU, MRS. I. B. BUSSELLS, MRS. C. ED TAYLOR, JOHN ERICKSON, J. BERG. Shallotte Village Relatives and friends of Longwood and Whiteville attended an oyster roast given by Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Piggott at Cotton Patch Landing last Sunday. After the roast guests took a boat ride to Winday Point. , Miss Marjorie Leonard was a , guest of Miss Effie Jane Piggott Saturday night. Miss Marjorie Leonard, Miss Effie Jane Piggott, Victor Gurganous and Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Milliken were callers at Longwood Saturday night. BIRTHDAY SUPPER Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dixon of Supply were entertained at a birthday supper at their home last Sunday, both being 69 years of age. Mrs. John Dawson arranged the supper and served the following: Rev. C. N. Philips, Mr. and Mrs. Bun Frink, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Moore, Mr. and Mrs. George Swain, Mr. and Mrs. John Nance, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Varnam, Mrs. Jesse Robinson, Miss Irene Robinson, Miss Olinda Robinson, Mrs. Bessie Chadwick, Martin Chadwick, A. L. Dixon, Mrs. Wesley Varnam, Durbin Varnam, Miss Gracie Varnam, Cafl Galoway and John Dawson. The honored couple received many gifts. ""Southport : School News Seniors of Southport high school were honored last week at a lovely party given in their honor by their mascots, Joy Lynn | Bell and Roy Daniel, Jr., at the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Daniel with Mesdames Bell and Daniel joint hostesses. The home was beautifully decorated with spring flowers and individual card tables where attractive place cards and baskets of mints were arranged. Bingo was played throughout the evening, with numerous attractive prizes going to faculty members and members of the senior class. Delicious refreshments of chicken salad, open sandwiches, saltines and coffee were served to the following guests: Jack Livingston, Misses Martha Pittman and Dorothy Craven, members of the high school faculty: and Mary Hood, Josephine Wolfe, Margaret Watts, Letha Arnold, Lulu Brown, Delphia Lennon Carrie Hewett, Irene Clemmons, Rivers Wescott, John Hall, William Holden, George Lewis, John Lancaster, Leonard Davis, W. R. Fulwood and Oscar Sellers. COMPLETE EXAMS Members of the senior class of Southport high school completed their examinations Thursday and Friday of last week so that the list of graduates for commencement might be completed this week. Examinations for other students began yesterday. Exports of American wheat and flour since last July have totaled 101,300,000 bushels. GIFTS J. C. Eagles of Wilson has donated one registered Holstein bull calf, one registered Guernsey heifer calf, an done registered Guernsey bull calf to 4-H Club boys of Wilson County. Delmon Williamson of the Rock Ridge 4-H Club received the Holstein bull calf. The other two animals will be placed later. GOOD RESULTS Ernest Lewis of Webster reports excellent results from the use of one ton of lime which he applied on grass and clover that was seeded to small grain last spring, reports G. R. Lackey, Jackson County farm agent. INCREASING The number of Buncombe Coun ty farmers participating in the Agricultural Conservation program has jumped from 540 in 1936 to 3,400 in 193B, reports C. Y. Tilson, farm agent. I Keeping the ^. *-' ^ <Copyr!-ht. W. N U.? _ NOT EXACTLY^ The weekly at Fairmont has put in a ne' and modern press and dropped one of their col'r writers ... A well Known Broadway coi'mis panned Kay Kyser's presentation of "3 Littl Fishes in an Itty Bitty Brook" and praised on of his latest recordings. Ironically, the record ha yet to break on the public, while the 'Fish' son, has received literally thousands of requests. Yes thousands. A recent survey by a leading ma| showed Kyser Kollege as the largest recipient o fan mail on the air witn Chase and Sanbor second, Kraft Music Hall third . . . Too bad abou the might makes right rule. School kids hav labored daily on the tennis courts to get them i shape. It took real work too, considering thel condition. Yet they have no say when the olde aspirants to fame in the tennis world decide t take over .... "Nancy Drew, Detective" wasn' like the book it was taken from, as was to b expected. "Ping" Bussells and "Pong" Hubbard ar Southport's edition of the Outdoor Girls ... On local jokester after having two consecutive prank backfire is wiser if not sadder . . . What will ou local bandsmen name the organization? Possibt Finch's Band Wagon? . . . When Shannon, of th aforementioned group tickles the ivories, it re quires a second look to prove that it's not Lymai He Waitec i <r\l T The man \ content I For custon to find hi Will find ii when it's That he ne wait any TELL i ADVERTISE f The State "Your Coum READ TWICE A WE AUDITED, PAID-IN-A I.:. 'itA-'ji . . jlm . WEDNESDAY, APRIL ? W4 JEWS . By GenT^BrieH n Ghandi, and I don't mean Mahatma . . . The -I n thing Amerii fears is that Adolph ilitl-H it assassin wil not be of this nationality . . . H j ie hard to rJill whether the birthday of Jeflt e James was Celebrated by officers giving him s tra amniuiion . . . Maybe the guilibles S just old fAiioned . . . The picture made of ' outlaw's lie is erroneous in places. They poitifl ? his lawlesAess wholly as revenge on a raili.,<fl f At that fl:ie there was no railroad in Liben^ n , Mo. As (A as can be learned there Is none it at pros em unless built in the last few \ e However, Jhe pic broke box office records. ,j| n I The two-day camping trip taken r the ScoJi was a great success and has : ir them a lorld of encouragement to improve 0 troop. TJ crosley yacht was hardly noticed tj the forAr schooner of 'Babs' was in town . H e Two dam horse candidates in election races envelop* in their own darkness . . . One of e sturdier and speediest sloops in this section H e under lonstruction at Fraser Boat Works. Notli^H s I has I*: slighted in the preparation of the l< r] Built I' the finest wood it is a wonder of |r I try . f. The expression "so long" was shorteii^H e from l.e Hutisli farewell line. "It will be so - j 'til \* meet again." Same here. ^ 1 Too Long! "| 1 8 vlo is I to wait I nmifc | IK.1 O y is store, I istead, I * too late I ed not I more I :phone For An Adman I HAT YOU HAVE | TO SELL! I (EGULARLY IN I Port Pilot I ty Newspaper" 1 ,EK BY 15,000 PEOPLE. ? 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