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PAGE TWO THE STATE PORT PILOT < Southport, N. G. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor a to red a* second-clan matter April 20, 1028, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1878. .i- . i Subscription Rates ONE TEAR J1.6C tlX MONTHS ! 1.0C THREE MONTHS .7f i Wednesday, July 19, 1939 There is no flattery in being asked your opinion when your only possible answer is 'yes.' Its the gal with the come hither look that gets to go places. The morals of individuals is what makes the morale of the group. For a reliable topic of conversation you can't beat the heat. A narrow, winding road is the shortest distance between two points?the scene of the accident and the hospital. Few people love publicity well enough to want to see their name in print?in the tax list. When something goes wrong, the little man is the one who is in a panic to pin - - i- ? J? _ 1 ~ ~ the blame upon someoouy eise. The modern child has a tough time living up to the press agentry given him . by his proud parents. In taking pictures on the beach there always is danger of over exposure. Family Reunions Up in Sampson county the people believe in holding family reunions, and sometime during each summer there is sure to be a conclave of the various relatives and inlaws of the several prominent families in that section. We don't know that this custom had its origin in Sampson, but we do know for a fact that that section by no means has a monopoly upon the reunion idea We do believe, however, that it is a plar that might well be copied more generally in our own county. - * There is no use to attempt to list the names of outstanding families of this county and to say that they are the ones who should start the reunion idea. As i matter-of-fact, a few already are being held and we believe that where this is true there is a close feeling of famil> unity. In this day of high-speed travel anc fast living there is a tendency to under estimate the value of the little things which formerly enriched our lives. On< of these was the influence of the familj /^i! /- 1 i\ Ta oama avf anf if motr 1-?a fV\ of a-ati V.1IV. IV.< XV/ O */111 V- VAlVlIt IV llia^ >7t IIUIL eral adoption of the idea of family re unions might replace something that hai been lost in the mad rush of progress. Looking At The Crops There is no use in talking, the crop ii made. A trip through rural Brunswick wil quickly convince you of this fact. An< another thing about the crop, its a fini jf one. We've been interested in farms an< farming for many years, but never hav< we seen better general crops than havi been produced in this county this season The corn stalks are towering, and well spaced showers have kept the color ; rich, dark green. Cotton farmers are wel pleased, peanuts look good and the ha; and bean crops seem to be keeping pac with the other agricultural developments Tobacco, of course, is the pay-off; am there is 110 let down there. We never hav seen a crop so widely seperated in it stages of development, for in one fiel will be a farmer and his helpers strippin off the tips and in the next will be fine stand of green tobacco with onl the first primings missing. But regardles of whether the tobacco is late or earlj the results are more than pleasing t the farmers. Granting that we and our farmer friend are a bit optimistic, we are glad that ou estimate of this year's crop is backed b the more experienced judgment of th i warehousemen, who state quite frankl: that the farmers of this section are th< . most fortunate this season of any in th( South. Lost Landmark We note with passing sorrow that tin uniting conference of the Methodis Church has put an end to the office o 1 Presiding Elder. i Henceforth, the man who discharge the duties formerly appended to that titl will be known as District Superintendent Actually there was no change in person nel, and practically speaking, there wil be little or no change in the function o the men who serve the church in thi capacity. But we shall miss the Presidinj Elder. He is a character famous in won and deed, and no fried chicken joke wil I ever retain the same savor with a Distric Superintendent cast in the leading role. Fishing We don't know how to account for it but nothing we know of has a stronge appeal for young and old, black ant white, rich and poor than fishing. Maybe it is because everybody has i 1 chance, for a fish, when he's in a bitinj notion, will as soon nibble an earthworn that squirms on the hook of a reed poll and cotton line rig as to be hauled ashon ! on a fancy fly and silk line outfit tha winds up on a ten dollar reel. Democracy may be the secret, for fish 1 ing is neither the sport of kings, nor thi pastime of the poor. The businessmai who fishes for relaxation may have tin lead when it comes to being equippet 1 with fine tackle, but the small boy, tin 1 indigent, and surely the indolent, are abli to put in many more hours. And that after all, is the secret of success. Tin more time you spend fishing, the mon ! likely you are to be there when the fisl are biting; and that's the pay-off. Or maybe its chance. It is a sure thinj that fishing carries with it no guaranty of success, and the man who has madi fnvtimo hookine- suckers on Wal IllO AVI vvt?v w Street gets a bigger thrill when he is ai Isaac Walton in fact. True, there is m . finer food than fish; but improvident i I the average man who depends upon th . success of his fishing trip to feed hi . family. : Ask your best friend why he likes t< go fishing and the chances are that he'l I stumble around for an answer, then com up without one. But the next time he ha i as much as a half holiday watch and se . if he doesn't take off for the nearest fish i ing place, whether it be a narrow creel r with sluggish swamp water, or whethe it is the restless, rolling ocean. i ' Can It Be Sabotage? 5 I As Naval officials seek the cause of th 1 mysterious explosion and spectacular fir r which swept the huge aircraft carrie , Ranger in Norfolk harbor Wednesday I the question of whether or not there i sabotage involved repeatedly bobs up There is much to indicate that sabol 5 age might have been responsible. Nava ' officials will have to be very believin folks if they don't think it strange tha within the past three months, three sufc " marines belonging to the greatest r? maining democracies of the world hav met a tragic fate on the ocean's floor. They will have to be doubly believin ? i? _ i fthey do not see sometmng peculiar in mysterious explosion inside one the larp s est of the U. S. Navy's airplane carrier; Frankly, this matter no doubt will ge ] a thorough investigation by naval autli 1 orities, and we wouldn't be surprised i a when the whole thing comes to lighl " there isn't some sabotage mixed up in i< ] e Unconvincing Bogey (Wilmington Star.) An anonymous writer who callS liimse' a "Comrade X," and who claims to hav j been a part of the Moscow-controlle communist organization in the Unite ^ States, is regaling readers of Liberty wit e alleged plans of Stalin to add the Unite , States to the Soviet dominions. If Comrade X did not write in such d serious vein, we would cheerfully nom e nate him for contributing the best bit c satire of the year. s To talk of Russia annexing anything d highly ridiculous. For all its vaunted mai power, it is still, from a military stan< ^ point, a low rate nation, a Notwithstanding the great sums spei y in building its army, it has failed in tw ,s vital points. It has barely improved ii communication and transportation sys ' ems since 1914, hence is helpless in an o war of aggression, and quite probably s in a defensive struggle. s Good Comrade X tells a fluent stor; r but he will have to conjure a better boge man before he causes us to loose oi y beauty sleep over the possibilities of tli e future. ? THE STATE PORT PI ! Just Among | The Fishermen (By W. B. Keziah) GOT SOMETHING HERE Bill Sharpe, state publicity di rector, wrote in this week that t he believes Southport really had f something in the barracuda fishing. He is impressed with the apparent number of these fish s out on the Frying Pan shoals e and he readily admittes that the fighting fools did not appear to _ j be at any other point on the . ; North Carolina coast. No reports j of catches at other points have f reached him this year or last. S ? * * ? s ANOTHER BLUE MARLIN Mention was made last week of a small blue marlin being left on the typewriter 11 of your columnist while he was absent guiding a party around. No information was left with this fish, concerning where and by whom it was taken. It was small, only about two feet in length, but was fresh from the water. 1' That is all we know about it. ] j Now comes Captain Thomas St. George, skipper of the W. P. Anderson, with the inform1 ation that his boat crew took ? a five foot blue marlin in 1 their net a few days ago. a * * * ? ' RATHER BE FISHERMEN j The party here from WashingI ton, D. C., for three days of | gulf stream fishing are really - pretty good sportsmen. They say j they'd rather be called just fisherman in perference to the more 1 elaborate title of sportsmen. Col onel Wm. T. Chantlend, who en1 gineered the party down here, j has fished for the big fellows in ^ all kinds of waters. The same can be said of his companions, Sen' ator Stanlev nmi \fpssrs T.nllv 2 and Ostraw. With a fisherman's e intuition regarding where fish are 1 to be found, they believe they will find plenty out on Frying Pan and that they will be able to t carry home some interesting tales e to fellow fishermen in Washinge ton. . * * # "FCNNY FISHING" During u good part of last 2 week travelers at bridges S spanning streams in Brunse wiek county ran across what some of them must have reS garded as a very funny sort of fishing on the part of a 0 man arrayed in a rubbed suit 1 and sometimes standing in g water up to his armpits. He was standing very quiet and 5 holding a good sized line, as 6 if waiting for a bite. Those who observed him closely not^ ed he was wearing a telej, phone receiver on his head and over his ear. If there are any curious folks who wonder what he was doing, it will do on harm to tell them that he was measuring the water that was running down the p creek where he stood. * * ANY KIND OF FISH 1 A person visiting Southport and in search of a seafood dinner or S supper can obtain almost any ! | kind of fish that his palate may _ | crave. There are plenty of blues, , | mackerel, trout and flounders ' | Other varities can also easily be ft | obtained. Shrimp are plentiful and ,t! of good quality. Clam chowder is .. I still in order. In fact, the folks I who are in search of sea fooci j meals can obtain almost anything e | they want and have it prepared j in any way they desire. Touristi g have recently been heard lavisha ing much praise on the sea food meals they got at Southport. ? * * * 3- WONDERFUL FRESHWATER About every time we venI ture forlh we become more f and more impressed with the [ j wonderful freshwater fishing ^ that Brunswick county offers. This last week duties took over a goodly section of the county, along and across streams and ponds. We had 110 time to fish, so we could not put our ideas and beIf liefs into practice. All we can re say is that we saw what we d thought to be many wonderd ful spots for freshwater fishIt ing, places we had never d heard of before or dreamed of as existing. Some day we a j aim to go bark over the i- same route and see how they )f will hite. * * * * IS NOT A FISH STORY 1- Three weeks or so ago th< i- Navy destroyer Gridley went t( Wilmington on a courtsey visit it Naturally it passed Southport 0 Three hours after it had proceed ts ed up the river our friend, Jo< t- Ruark, hailed us from his com iy- fortably parked car on the water 10 front and inquired if she had gon< by yet. He was advised he wai ^ too late. Saturday Joe's car wai y parked in almost the same spoi lr at four in the afternoon, th< e destroyer Anderson had gone u[ the river at one o'clock. Joe LOT. SOUTHPORT, N. C. ~ "OPENTORUM A column dedicated to opinions of the public. A mouthpiece for the views and observations of our friends and readers, for which we accept no responsibility. Contrlbui tlons to this column must not exceed three hundred words. I ABOUT WPA Shallotte, N. C. July 17, 1939 Editor, State Port Pilot Southport, N. C. Dear Editor:? In response to Mr. Gore's let| ter in last week's paper, I am | afraid he does not quite understand the employment situation in our community if he thinks we do not need any WPA work. While it is true that somewhat of an emergency has arisen in the tobacco harvesting due to the heavy rains and hot weather, it [ is then not enough labor to keep | the men who are employed by | the WPA in work. What can a man with a family promise himi self to quit his job for one or two days work out of the week | for about three or four more weeks? I wonder if Mr. Gore ' could give them employment on his small farm the year round? j I happen to know of one case J where he appealed to the County ! Welfare Department for aid for 1 one of his tenants whose wife I was in the hospital. If his ten-1 , ants fare that way what would the "pinch Hitters" fate be. Mr. Gore is generally consider- m ' ed a man of average intelligence, j " but he must have forgotten to j I renew his subscription to his daily I | paper if he hasn't yet found oui j | that the "Dole System" has been I " abandoned long ago. That hap- ( " pened shortly after his wife held | e a job in the Emergency Relief Office at Shallotte. She, of course j a was laid off when Mr. Gore was t put on a government job as "light a tender", a job for which the sal- 0 ary came from Federal taxes, . just as the WPA salaries, the " fund to which Mr. Gore, in his J "burning indignation" contributes. e After all when you sift it out the poor laboring man who works ^ for around twenty-five dollars a i month on the WPA is entitled e as much to his earnings as any t other government employee. j I truly hope Mr. Gore's "burn- f ing indignation" has cooled off j and his mind has become sane | enough for him to realize he can-' v not listen to all he hears through c the "darkies" or across the hedge- f rows about the administration. However, I'll admit the WPA has ; its flaws, and is not as near perfection as we would like. The severest criticism comes from those who know least about the work, and I feel that Mr. Gore owes Mr. Brindle an apology, for I feel that his letter was a direct "slap in the face" to a man who is doing his best for a cause. I, myself, am employed on a WPA project as foreman, I know all the other foremen in the county, and I am sure none of them gave any such information as Mr. Gore claims he heard. I want all the people in the county to know I resent such. Instead of hurting us he has put himself "on the spot" as the ; usual "complains". I Signed i Henry D. Williams, i Shallotte, N. C. I _ I FOR WPA i Shallotte, N. C. July 13, 1939 I To the Editor, State Port Pilot Dear Editor: I am not burning with indignation at the WPA Administration, but I am more than proud to know we have some feelinghearted men that make an administration to help a poverty stricken nation, and to put food and clothing to the ill clad and hungry. My opinion is that three or four weeks work in tobacco, and two or three ground saw mills will not take care of all the unemployed men in Brunswick county. Lazarus lay at the rich man's gate and begged the crumbs that fell from his table, but he did not get them. His heart burned with indignation against poor Lazarus. And it came to pass the begger died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's 5 bosom and the rich man died also > and in hell he lifted up his eyes being in torment. May God bless people and create within them a new heart and the right spirit. Yours truly, W. F. Milliken. 3 3 again, called us over to ask if the t Anderson had come in yet. He ; had been waiting two hours to see j her'and she was already in Wil, mington. Vt I _J But iFs True The authentic survivors of the Russian nobiiity an Seine. Virtually all of them are employed in one was Mrs. Halstead has been married four times. Her townc and John liaistcad. NOT EXACTLY N Thovo'c nA nlnr?A iikp homp. 'Snedflllv one in louthport . . . Like as not this town will soon be . city . . . More activities here than in a long ime. This work on the streets will be a big help lso . . . Two weeks away has caused us to miss ut on a number of news bits and to get behind a snooping . . . John D. O'Daniel in Charlotte and ack and Brother Christian in Georgia are having xtended vacations. It seems Dan Wells also missed the Prep school, t was his eyes that kept him out ... An unxpected extra day in New York turned out to pc the crowning point of the trip. The Green Jountains of Vermont were left with great sorow. Probably Mr. Crapon, formerly of Black (fountain and Mt. Mitchell, would find this place rery much to his liking. The first great experience in returning to the city was to accompany Billie tomaine, who is visiting here, to the Stork Club. POUNE in llMiril WAIT 11 YYflLN IUU V RESI Know What You Want, ' Advertising The State For Best Results Let Us P Advertising Catnpaig Regul ~ The State "Your Count ? ? t WEDNESDAY, JULY lg Mp WmM " ~. OF BOSTON. few <S WNU Service l ; all congregated in apartments on the left usk r or another. :3& sons are John Martens, John Greene, JcLa 2^1 iWmi????????**? EWS . By Gene O'Bri J i (And what's more I've got souvenir- t<7~pF '|x The Club located in the Elite section : M is the shrine of many notables. Too early t B the Debs we were also too late to see \V;,/B who was on vacation. This is one of Ins :;<B snooping grounds. ... A good two hours B spent at the Central Park Zoo observing and relations . . . One of the Chimpanzee; B a profile like Barrymore, almost . . . Tile so to speak, came in the afternoon when uv,^B lucky enuff to meet Harold M. Sherman v.i B written over half hundred books. Our local l.r^H carries a number of his sport, adventuie ar.:^E loving books. "40 Million Telephones been published. His first book, condemned : school teacher, sold 4 million copies! H<been a movie scenarist and producer. YYmaz^Hj ing independent pictures he discovered a (Continued on page 4) . don't TAP I ^ANT TO GET I T I TO I JL13 I Then Say It Through The i Columns Of 1 Port Pilot I lan A Continuous, Vigorous & n For You To Appear I arly In | Port Pilot h I y Newspaper" I
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