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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Keeping the
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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
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The man \
content I
For custon
to find hi
Will find ii
when it's
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wait any
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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. ^
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