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PAGE ^0 THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. G. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, jfe., Editor Soteml u aecond-clAM matter April 20, 1028, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C, under the act of March S, 1870. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR 41X0 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS .78 Wednesday, May 17, 19.19 The only thing athletic about some people is their feet. The first swing tune we heard about was "Hang John Brown To A Sour Apple Tree." With a Tommy Dorse.v dance going on in Durham last week-end we'd say .that the group of Duke students who visited Bald Head Island really were in quest of knowledge. Greatest drawback in holding public office as we see it is the necessity for keeping most of the people fooled most of the time. We're in the printing business, but we've never been able to figure out how to make as much profit from a roll of pano Aiiv hnfphtftv It is easy to understand where the word 'bully' got its first syllable. You can't beat the heat with your best clothes on. Freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to say things you should know better than to say. Love and admiration are to be more highly respected when not cheaply displayed Memorial Hospital , t There was never a thing more fitting than that the name of the Brunswick County Hospital should have its name changed to the J. Arthur Dosher Memorial Hospital, and the simplicity and dignity with which the change was made Friday afternoon would, we believe, appeal to the good taste of the man in whose honor the ceremony was planned. There was no large crowd of the curious, but only a gathering of his true friends, and friends of his family; and not one word was uttered but was spoken with earnest meaning. No tribute was read to express the high regard in which Dr. Dosher was held by fellow-members of his profession, for none was needed They .were there in rvovorm of fho 11 nvoi 1 ir?or r\f n foWlot orontoH pviovil (IV VI1V Vltl > Villi! g Vi H V?V1VV V4 VVVVU in his memory, paying silent homage to a fellow physician whom they loved and respected. The Bible In these days when democracy is being forced to take stock of her resources, ' lovers of human freedom will read" with encouragement the releases from the annual report of the American Bible Society. Even in the face of the dictator's edict the Bible out-sold Mein Kampf in Germany last year by 200,000 copies. Latin America for whose trade and friendship dictators are strenuously bidding has a hunger for the Scriptures that is apparently insatiable. China with all her appalling needs bought more complete Bibles from the Society than ever in her history. Japan likewise increased her purchases by about 10 per cent over the year before. Meanwhile the Scriptures moved into a dozen new languages in 1938, bringing the total number of tongues in which some part of the Scriptures have been translated to 1021. It is now conservatively estimated that nine-tenths of the people of the world might hear some substantial part of the Scriptures read in their native tongue. No book in the world even faintly approaches this record. As long as this continues human freedom has a great ally. Help Your Forest Warden County Forest Warden Dawson Jones was in to see us last week with a grave concern weighing heavily upon his mind. "I know it is a busy season," he said, "but we've had two or three fires lately that did considerable damage simply because we couldn't get help in putting them out. The citizens of the county have taken the attitude that me and my helpers are getting paid to fight fires and that they are going to leave it strictly up to us." We see the side of the farmer who is up to his neck in work and we know that at this season of the year there seems to be an endless number of jobs of day-before-yesterday importance. But we believe that in the long run the dividends from a few hours fire fighting will be greater for the farmer than from any other source. Here's the reason: At this time of year it takes a good, strong fire about 10 minutes to kill a growth of young pine trees that it required 10 years to develop. Ask some of your neighbors who have been selling cord wood, pulp wood, poles and timber about their returns and you'll see that in killing off a stand of 10-yearold trees you have destroyed one-fourth of the value of one of your best paying crops. Nor does the fire necessarily have to be on your own premises for it to be your moral obligation to help bring it under control. There is the selfish angle that any uncontrolled fire might conceiveably spread to your place; but there is the> more commendable attitude of being a ! good neighbor in helping your fellow get his ox out of the ditch. Use Our Cotton If the well-timed advent of tobacco had not saved the Brunswick county farmer from the unseemly plight of the average American cotton farmer, we shudder to think of the difference in our economic status as it might have been and as it J really exists today. j There can be little doubt that during | the hectic days which followed cotton's ' hay-day twenty years ago, only tobacco saved the Brunswick county farmer from virtual ruin. As it happened, about the time that cotton struck the bottom, tobacco was gaining yearly as a money crop among the farmers of this county, thus giving them a means of escape from ruin. Yet other sections of the country and ! other sections of North Carolina were I not nearly so fortunate. Many parts of the country have known little but depression since cotton ceased to reign supreme in the agricultural realm. Observers tell us that the world demand for cotton has slumped which explains the present low prices of eight or nine cents. Many of the world markets which previously patronized the United States have, so we are told, ceased to use American cotton. In America itself, where cotton once furnished one of the principal requisites for milady's wardrobe, today a great deal of it comes from the silk imported from Japan and China. America itself cannot shirk the lesponsibility for part of the present dilemma of the cotton fanner, because its domestic use of the staple has proportionately decreased in the past quarter of a century. We see a great need for a national : "live-at-home" movement. The idea of "American isolation" is growing. Let us use more of the products which we grow at home, let the fashion experts bear that in mind when decreeing what next year's styles shall be. Shrewdness (The Richmond County Journal) Many members of the local Rotary Club, attending the District meet at Pinehurst last week, no doubt heard the address by John Temple Graves. Birmingham, Ala., newspaper eritor, in which he said: "We (the South) may or may not like being called a number one economic problem, but shrewdness suggests that we let ourselves be. For such a problem is entitled to number one consideration from tariff makers, number one fairness from makers of freight rates, number one freedom from discriminary taxes on cotton seed oil, and number one caution in administration of the wage and hours laws less they destroy wages rather than increase them. "The South can contribute to the nation by demanding its rights in these respects by undertaking all and accepting all that will make it prosper, and giving a great new market to America, represented by its potential purchasing power." Shrewdness probably does suggest that we let ourselves be the economic problem number one, but Southern pride suggests that we tell those Yankees that Dixieland is the best land of all. The way some people handle the English language, you'd think they were afraid of leaving fingerprints. ~ THE STATE PORT PILC Just Among The Fishermen BIO BLACK DRUM se Mrs. Frank Mollyeheck hooked SI and landed a 10-pound black drum at the Quarentine Station here Saturday. This was pretty!^' large for this variety of fish. It j tri was entered by Mrs. Mollyeheck j ea to compete for one of the New ja Hanover Fishing Club prizes. She I and several other Southport ladies 11() are members of this oi'ganization. j ti( MANY INQUIRIES ! Seven inquiries regarding ! J fishing were received In one es mail Monday morning by ; your eoliunnist. Half of these . were from out-of-state peol>le. One of the interested ^ parties Inquired further with relation to being able to pur- ?0 rhase a home here. CO DOING WELL IN S. C. A number of Southport shrimp g.( trawlers are now operating at Rockville, S. C., below Charles- ^ ton. Reports from these boats indicate that some of them did ^ very well last week. The highest individual retai n for the I weeks work, so far as is known,'. was SllO.OO. ??? ' NO RESIDENT LICENSE Two different local citizens Ilc i 00 have inquired this week If they had to have a license ^ to go freshwater fishing. It may therefore serve as a i measure of information to state that no license is necessnrv for citizens of Bruns- ' wick desiring to fish in the ^ 1 waters of Brunswick. In some ^ few eases lands are posted ^ and in such instances the per- gr mission of the land owner Isf must lie obtained before one gj ran fish on his land. For saltwater fishing there is no s(' closed season at nnv time and both residents of the state and non-residents may fish without a license. mi FISHING PRIZES j In addition to the long: list of stj prizes offered bv the New Hanover Fishing Club, most of which gr are open to competition for any e() of the several hundred club mem- t].. bers, the Charlotte Observer in cooperation with several Charlotte sh fivms is offering many valuable prizes for unusual fish and i ta, catches made here and at other /[v points in the state. It is pro- pa bable that a weighing station will w be established here this week.. m< Entry blanks may be obtained j re, from such stations or by writing j th| the Observer. |mj HE'S COMING BACK |0? Haiden Asham Sahin. interesting young Turk who is |s a student at Duke University. ! pj,, intends to come back to 0fj South port this summer and jj,a< go fishing. Young Sahin is 0f sent to nuke hy the Turkish US( government to study agrieul- ?a ture, more especially tobacco q0 culture and marketing. Dur- pu ing the |>ast year he has been a the subject of many news- 0f paper and magazine articles j,le and pictures. Here with the 0t| Explorers Club of the Uni - ^ versify the past week he be- tio came much interested in po Sonthport. He struck up a sei warm friendship with several coi local people Art Miller of sa| Bloomfieid, N. J.. and II. B. ha Hadde of Detroit, Mich., are on also coming hack to go fish- as Inc. ari an "SLIM" SEEMS TO LEAD m? Since the freshwater fishing ' season reopened last Wednesday wo there have been plenty of South- Ur port sportsmen going out to try wh their luck. Judging by the slow- 20< ness with which these fellows Tv\ have been giving an account of of themselves, nobody has had any ca] great luck. C. W. (Slim) Osborn na lays Claim to several 3-pounders th( among the big mouth bass. For er a wonder, the Southport post- (D master has not been fishing since an the season opened. At least not of up until the time this is written, coi Dawson .Tones also denies he has mc been fishing. na' exl ALLIGATOR FISHING sis While the Explorers Club So of Duke University was here avi a party of the young men ha and women were taken to pr< Orton Plantation one night rel hy your scribe for an alligat- sta or fishing trip. Churchill Bra- leg gaw was master of eeremon- ize ies with Mr. Wallace as as- inc sistant. They fished or hunt- , ed for alligators until 2 bui o'clock in the morning. They soi saw and got close to dozens pul of the reptiles but the wind slo was blowing a little and they ta) (the gators) were nervous. in each time when a wire nose adi was about to be slipped over ed the head of one of the saur- tre ains he would quietly dive ma in the water out of sight. mo The trip was exciting bnt in was a failure, so far as in catching alligators was con- ing cerned. The day when the hr young people were to return ed to Duke they went hack to er Orton and got about a dozen lab baby alligators, which they sha took home with them. me IT. SOUTHPORT, N. C. WASHINGTON j LETTER WASHRINOTON, May 17?It j ems doubtful that Secretary of tate Hull's views on neutrality fore the Senate Foreign Relaons Committee will change the dure much. The Administra>n would like to have this conoversial Issue washed up at an rly date to pave the way for quick Congressional adjournent. Just now it is clear that e Senate itself is confused as the proper course in internamal policy-making matters. The ift is toward making neutralt the last order of the day here quitting for the season. No ;isting plan could muster enough >tes to put it across?a situation hich suggests that a compromise rmula must be devised to run I e Senate blockade. While taxation is admittedly a mplex matter requiring careful nsideration, the legislative and ecutive departments are handlg it like a "hot potato". Both ; ies are doing so much talking r public consumption that it is i fficult to determine what they ally have in mind. The fact at political factors impinge on x questions makes the White ause and Capitol Hill reluctant settle down to the business of aming a program. Oddly as it ay seem the main agitation for vision of the tax structure mes from Congressional quarts, as business men long ago andoned hope for legislative tion. The word has been passed that ? militant House group is pre- I red to take the ball away from 11 e Administration in an effort ! speed industrial expansion, re- | ce unemployment and increase j e standard of living, it is gen ally recognized that the revenue lue must be settled at this ses- sl in as veteran politicians are li posed to tinkering with this r bject in an election year. t] Mr. Roosevelt is holding fast the idea that nothing should " done which will reduce governsnt income from taxes. He does t subscribe to the view that jc ting the tax burden would so " mulate trade that the revenue iuld eventually be higher. The ooklngs Institute just complet- j w an impartial study, which in- j igues many solons. This report I ints out that "even if there \ sj ould be, immediately speaking. I p, considerable net reduction in x revenues, the gains resulting n im the stimulus to the ex- t< nsion of private enterprise tl iuld, in the near future, much rj ire than offset any probable /enue losses'.. A majority of P } House Ways and Means Comttee is apparently determined ? sit all summer if necessary to tain essential alterations. With a strong Congressional itiment developing for marked anges in relief set-ups, the first 'icial estimates of income that ve ever been prepared for each the 48 states will probably be ;d in the oratorical barrage at pitol Hill. The Department of j mmerce analysis was made j blic Monday, May 15 providing reliable measure for the flow wages, salaries, interest, div nds, net rents, royalties and ler income to individuals resenting the closest approximans there are of the purchasing wer of the residents of the I leral states. The data will be isidered a boon to enterprising les managers who have been rassed for years by contradictf figures. The working class represented by wages and sal es accounted for between 50 d 65 per cent of income pay- 1 ints in 1937 in most states, rhe average income per man, man and child resident in the lited States was $547 in 1937, lich equals approximately $2,) per family of four persons. 'enty states and the District Columbia recorded higher per pita incomes in 1937 than the tional average per person and ! other 28 states showed a lowfigure There were 4 states elaware, Nevada, New York, d California) and the District Columbia in which the innes per person in 1937 were ire than 50 per cent above the tional per capita. At the other treme, there were 4 states (Missippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and uth Carolina) in which the erage incomes were less than If the national level. If the ;sent plans for transferring the ief cost burden back to the ites succeeds, the various state islatures will presumably utilthis latest Federal study of omes. 4.n official study on residential tiding by the National Reirces Committee just made Pile expresses concern over the. wness of house builders to ce advantage of the technipue fabrication of houses. It is mitted that this delay has caus"a moderately rising long-time nd in the prices of building terials, accompanied by a ich steeper trend in wage rates the building trades, resulting a substantial increase in buildcosta during the past two or ee decades." What they neglectto state was that every buildhas met resistance from union or whenevere he attempted to ire any technological developnts by cutting down the labor ^ UifeSk MBGwiial But It's True abraham im/coltf kH& M'xVL /5 theohlhprtsidfht of ths un 17(0 statss ^ K I vixomtrndcwm whiichcmsih *; ^2fcnr/*pJ office-.although 3?r,; hcmsthfohly wm' fil^y^rj\ ppesipinrwho jp^ msnotachukch '; u \ i ^ vuf?/h6 7hetmsf \l \ t $L mary ofs<otu 'l&sfrii. \ 5 ? jfe oa/ly omf aibal i;; j AtfyS". ^ofaulbooxtie,aosthfua, mf.mfa is thf /tth cohsecume hisdfam!l1 who has wbbnfw jt been a physical, I y_ |9EZ^g| ? WNU S?rvi? |>nH9P The canary has the same power of speech that is Bon pet is the only canary that has ever been taught tc NOT EXACTLY M Even a good col'm will come in for criticism. s Soda Joker" Jorgensen complains about a recent :atement that the town's worst drunks have 1 ved on Dry street since his family is the only : ' esident. After looking up the statement we find 1 hat it read, " . . and some of the worst drunks i ave been SEEN on Dry Street." | Some of these radio comedians pull 'repeat' ikes so often they might well be nicknamed, Little Sir Echo." . . . A line used after the Derby talk in last j eek's issue stated that none had won the Derby i st. In this case we meant the plug hat . . And leaking of the Derby, the real Kentuckians and I i eople in the 'know' pronounce it as spelled and . ot as the English-Darby ... In the article writ- | \ :n by Carl Goerch on this county he mentioned {i ie folly of Lockwood. The March 9th col'm car- I ed this same oddity! . . . Question: What im- v ortant event transpired on April 28th, 1889? An- jr is % How Donkeys I ONCE upon a time a great of donkeys: "What won 1 livoo_/-lov lnnviifltr I.IIIV'V.-UUJ' JVUIUVJ . "Six bundles of hay and replied. "That soundeth like a 1 only one of you a three-day . six bundles of hay and thre< go for less?" Behold, all stood forth. ( dies of hay and two bags o bundles and one bag. One es agreed to go for one bundle Spake the prophet: "T1 herd, and an ass. Thou canst one bundle of hay, much It and profit thereby." "True," replied the ass, shame "but I wanted to get i And from that day to th known as asses. We believe that vvholeso blood of Progressive Busines We believe that Busines Reasonable Profit. We believe that vou gel REASONABLY Low Pri. Workmanship or Materials. The State . "Your County I mm mmmmb ?? > mmmmm ammm . oKX^SoH^S^tt -Jl 5 ^ tJfr- IMffaBiatcf ri$r mm >K|^Blj^_ - TP^Mm SB V t**cn* * -..^ ^f to be found in many crows. As far as is i.r^B'" i talk. It was trained by a United States navj^^H twer: Modern civilization received its w back since the Civil War a son was bor:: man peasants. After his seventh arrest in he was made Captain in the army of Kj ?H helm. After the World War he wormed 'H " nto the German leadership where he term^^H day while a partner in crime, II Duee, : iron hand over the Mediterranean anal n Italy While he and his fellow fugitive :H phsycopathic brag and bluster over iority, the western world of America wornS about how to preserve their people : destroy them. Only u person completely the good things of life will brag rii'.v/'H cover up and build up a false feeling . . . The local troop of Boy Scouts veek on a camping trip that will last atli| lays. Their enthusiasm grows continually H ricCall has made a neat job out <>l vhich now assumes the proportion ol.a * ather than a task. t-e <ri iecame Asses fl prophet addressed a herd Id a donkey require for a flH three haps of dates," they fair price. But I have for journey, and I cannot give ^ ; bags of dates. Who will \ One would go for six bunf dates, another for three pecially long-eared donkey of hay. iou art a disgrace to the not live for three days on tss undertake the journey hanging his long ears in ; the order." is, price cutters have been : ?The Illinois Editor. me competition is the life- t is expcects and deserves a ? . t what you pay for?UNces Mean Inferiority in H Port Pilot I Newspaper"
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