page four THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor n tared aa second-class matter April 20, 1828, at the Poat Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1878. Subscription Rates ONE TEAR 81.60 IX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS .7# WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1939 Nations either must come to peace, or go to pieces. A small pack can lift a car, but it takes a lot of jack to keep it up. Statistics prove that locomotives are not afraid of automobiles. If at first you don't succeed, try playing second base. Until you try to borrow money you never realize what close friends you have Modern marriage is like a cafeteria. A man grabs what looks nice, and pays for it later. The bonds of matrimony now are listed under the heading of short term securities. When a man starts to drink to forget, about the only thing he forgets is when to stop. Make It General Just now tlie city of South port is in the middle of a clean-up campaign which is more far reaching than the mere removal of unsightly trash and debris. Unsightly buildings and fences are being pulled down and other far-reaching changes are taking place. On the waterfront in the upper part of town are two of the outstanding eyesores of the community?houses that have been allowed to remain in need of repair so long that now apparently they are beyond hope of redemption. Not only are they unattractive, they constitute a fire hazard that is inexcusable. There is no way to make the owner keep his buildings clean and attractive and in renting condition, but when he permits them to reach the point that they are a menace to public safety, then the city fathers can and should take a hand in correcting the situation. Good Farming ' J - i ?J- i_ In our round ol tne county iasi wee* k we passed a farm where a man was busy cutting tobacco stalks. Later that day we passed the place and he was discing. From past observation we know that - -he is preparing to plant a winter cover crop, and also from past observation, we know that this pays him well each year. We have noticed that his farm looks more cheerful and well kept during the winter; his livestock stay in better condition because of their winter pasture; and the crops that he produces each year wear witness to the success of his methods as a progressive farmer. Canning Time Fall is almost here, a season when there is enough and to spare. And it is now that the provident housewife may lay in a store of canned fruits and vegetables that will keep the family healthy during the winter and at the same time cut the cost of living. The greatest enemy to canning is putting off. Ripened fruit and vegetables simply will not wait; and the only time in the world to put up provisions of this type is when you have them. Canning may be hard work, but it usually is a job for which the housewife can enlist some aid from her family. And it surely is a job from which the entire family will benefit. Changed Attitude Recently at the annual banquet of the North Carolina Press Association, Dr Julian Miller, editor of The Charlotte Observer was principal speaker. During the course of his address which was one of the finest we have heard in a long time, he declared that "Nowadays we seem to gauge the success of a man by the amount of money he owes." "If a man owes $5,000.00," said Dr. Miller, he is considered a successful businessman. If he owes $50,000.00 then he is considered a business tycoon. Let him owe $5,000,000.00 and he is known as an economic royalist." Dr. Miller was using this comparison to pyove a contention of his that had to do with the trend of our national government. We use it to compare with it the growing apathy that the ordinary man has for debt. Formerly debt was considered a disgrace, and if a man found himself enmeshed in the toils of credit he desired, above all else, to keep secret that state of affairs. Today we not only borrow upon the slightest pretext, but even when we are debt-free we have adopted a whining attitude that frequently exaggerates our true condition. We wish we had more people proud enough to want to stay out of debt; and we wish that those who aren't able to do that would be proud enough not to brag about it. Warden s Report Brunswick county is a territory embracing a total area of 412,500 acres, with the largest percentage of woodland that may be found in North Carolina. In his report submitted Monday to members of the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners County Forest Warden Dawson Jones stated that 136 fires during the past year had burned over a total area of only 11,185 acres. We point out that this compares most favorably with 1L ?imov wlion 914 fires ine repuri m burned over 45,329 acres. Last year the average loss per fire was 211.82 acres; this year the average was cut below 100 acres to 82.24 acres per fire. In his report the fire warden paid tribute to the men associated with him as towermen and district wardens. He also thanked the citizens of the county for their interest and co-operation, and right there we think he touched upon the most important factor in the improvement. It will be difficult to ever bring the efficiency of the forest fire fighting forcjes past the point of public co-operation 'and it is a source of gratification to us to see evidence of this interest. Teachers First News & Observer. The State School Commission is scheduled to take somewhat belated action today on approtionment of approximately $250,000 voted by the General Assembly for increases in teachers' salaries. The Commission has before it a proposal to divert some of this money to increase salaries of county superintendents. That should not be done. Without regard to the merits of the claim of the superintendents, they should take their turn. Until the salaries of classroom teachers are restored to the pre-depression level no funds available for that purpose should be used for any other purpose. Even full restoration would leave those salaries very low. The sum at the disposal of the Commission is pitifully small. Nothing was said in the General Assembly about larger salaries for the superintendents. No provision was made for them. It is true the small increase voted was not allocated among the teachers. But all arguments which were advanced for the appropriation were in behalf of classroom 1 teachers. The only reason the fund was not allocated was that there was general recognition in the Legislature of the inadequacy of the amount voted. For that reason the disagreeable task of allocation was passed on to the School Commission. The Commission should not yield to such specious arguments as the one to the effect that an increase for the superintendents would mean very little to individual teachers because of their far greater number. The smaller the amount available for the teachers, the more rea1 son that they should receive all of that small amount. The teachers should come first. The most effective point to remember 1 in making a public address is knowing I when to stop. i Pipe smoking is a soothing habit?especially when the nations of the world are smoking the pipe of peace. > When a legislature gets through with . a normally good law, it's generally as snaggle-toothed as an old witch. , The government has a dirt conservation t program. It could be very well applied to THE STATE PORT PILO Just Among The Fishermen BY W. B. KEZIAH To Eat a Barracuda Our friend John R. Pea< of High Point writes that has become convinced that barracuda is a fine food fish, and other sportsmen have I catching plenty of these here this year and the gen custom is to bring them port, show them to the cur and then throw them overbo; Often a specimen is taken hi for exhibition purposes, but n has ever been eaten here, far as we know. Mr. Peac writes that the next time he ? es down and catches a barrac he intends to cook and eat by way of demonstrating I they are good for food. We h already invited ourself in on barracuda eating and will ma him bite for bite. If John eat a barracuda, so can we. A Note From Bill A note from Bill Sharp this past week informs u that he thought that th window display in the 01 Harvey Restaurant in Wast ington, featuring barracud and other fish caught a Southport, was of splendi advertising value. Julius Lu ley, owner of the Old Harvej sent us a beautiful picture c the window with the fis and placards stating tha they were caught at South port. This picture was passe on to Bill and it will appea this week in some newspaper or magazine interested in th unusual in pictures. Real Fishing Tackle. On board the Alva of Comi dore W. K. vanaerout last w we visited the gun room and so saw the Commodore's col tion of fishing tackle. As gards the guns, there was ev sort of a weapon that a spo: man could dream about and r er hope to own. Not being m of a hunter, it was the fish tackle in another room t startled us. In great glass ca were rods and reels and m rods and reels. The whole i lection must have been wo between fifteen and twe thousand dollars. Some sir rods and their attached ri probably cost six or seven hu red dollars. Yaskell Gets Another Bringing in a seven-poun and two-ounce big moutl bass one afternoon last wee! Postmaster L. T. Yaskell i again in the seventh heaver This makes about four of th big fish he has caught i; the past few months. Hi biggest one went to eigh pounds. Incidentaly an ol colored woman living out o the Orton Plantation ha beaten all of the local sport! She caught a ten-pounder re cently. We did not see he fish but her information cor cerning it was dependable. Huge Sawfish. One of the J. A. Arnold boi Captain Creech, brought in huee sawfish one dav the r week and kept it suspended the boats hoist for some time order that the interested mi view it. The creature was ab thirteen feet in length and e mates as to its weight ran t< thousand pounds. It practici demolished the shrimp net which it was taken. The tri lers often bring in many inl esting catches of fish such this one was. Often, too, r are completely lost through struggles of some huge and s age resident of the deep. Getting Nice Shrimp It is still too early an too hot for any regula catches of shrimp, but a cor siderable number of boats ar operating daily and sometirr es nice catches are brough in. The product is often rath er mixed, containing bot large, choice specimens an alongside of them plenty c smaller ones. The boatme are said to be receiving fai prices, but the buying hous complains that a rather lo\ northern market causes ther to sustain a loss of a dolla or more on each box pui chased and shipped. Prize For Barracuda Roy Clkshwell, Outdoor Ed of the Charlotte Observer, w es us that he has the offer a nice reel as a prize for Charlotte Sportsman who ta the biggest barracuda from i on. While this reel will go some one in or around Charli it is equally certain that the v ner will have to come to Sot port to win. Southport's Frj Pan shoals are the only p on the coast where they can found. We look for The Ob ver's prize to stimulate inte on the part of Charlotte pe< in the Southport fishing. Cash well and several Chart justness houses are very m T, SOUTHPORT, NORTH CAR Striped Town News Jim Lambrie, Grover Holden and Rudie Lehire went to Wilmington on a business trip Fri!day. i The farmers of this neighbor ock' ^ood are l?ePt busy working in jje tobacco getting it ready for maryje! ket, and they are pleased with He | the price of it so far. >een i We are looking forward for fish I ^ev- Teachy to fill his regular eral; appointment next Sunday at 11 t0 I o'clock and 7:30 p. m. ious Funeral services were held lr(j Sunday at 3:00 p. m. at Silent ame Grove cemetery for D. O. Hewett. 10ne They were conducted by Rev. so Carter, of South Carolina. The ock deceased is survived by his wife om_ and fourteen children, three brouda thers, two sisters and several it grandchildren. Jiat ave FOR SURGERY the Mrs. Floyd Hewett of Shallotte itch I is a patient at Dosher Memorial can I Hospital for surgical attention. Shallotte Village ie 18 Farmers in this community are e almost through curing their tod bacco. Mrs. Horace Frink and son, a Harold, and Mrs. Delia Auger, L' were Wilmington visitors Friday, d Friends and relatives are very sorry that Mrs. Waldo Register f? is ill at the present, we all hope lf her a speedy recovery, b S. F. Robinson and daughter, 'b Gertrude, of Wilmington, visited Mrs. Albert Williams Sunday, d Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Williams r and daughter, Betty Lou, visited 3 her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse e Robinson, of Boone's Neck. Mrs. Delia Auger of Clinton is spending a few days with her (n0" j sister, Mrs. H. C. Frink. eek Mrs. W. A. Branner has rea1' turned to Charlotte, after spend!ec jng a few days with her sister, re" Mrs. Albert Williams, ery Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Williams rts- amj children, Billy and Marion, iev" visited in Southport Friday. uch Sam Joe Frink visited Mr. and in? Mrs. H. C. Frink Sunday afterhat noon. ses Bert Williams left Wednesday ore to go to Raleigh where he will co'" work for awhile, rth Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Register nty and Mrs. Geneveria Register and ;&le children were Wilmington visitors ;eIs Saturday. nd- Floria Ray Williams has returned home from Southport where she has been visiting her d aunt, Mrs. A. L. Williams, h | Jessie Long Williams has been ct I visiting friends in Lumberton for s 1 the past four weeks. ' ! Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Register e ! of Elizabethtown visited her parn ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Mil8 likan, Sunday. Jeanette and Oscar Rhodes, d of Wilmington have returne home n after spending a few days with 3 their cousins, Vivian and Ida Lu ' Williams. Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Rhodes r and children and Mr. Edwin MilL" lican all of Wilmington and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams and daughter, Vivian and Ida Lu, and a'Si Mrs. Bert Williams spent an ena joyable picnic at the Lenanords iast | fishing Wednesday afternoon. by j * ? I /HoeonAinf'nH in tVin failnno on HI | uiaoa^/vuitbu ui miiuic, "v | ght far, to get a few barracuda for 1 out | display in the window's of Char-j sti-; lotte. 3 a j Good Barmometers lUy' Game fish are always good | in! barmometers. Let the preslw" ( ure be falling as the result ter" j of a storm forming, even as several hundred miles away, lets the fish will retire to the ( depths and sulk like Achillav" | les in his tent. They just will not bite well when the pressure is falling or way down. d Let it start to rising, great r excitement will ensue; the l" fish will take advantage of j e anything and everything that j a sportsman has to offer. ' Sportsmen should always take l" a tip from the weather reh ports. Hurricanes always d strike far above or far belf low Southport, but if one is n shifting about anywhere withr in a thousand miles the fish e at Southport will be more or " less inactive. " Shore Fishermen. 'r Shore fishermen with commercial inclinations are now lined up all alc^g the coast of Brunswick. They have their camps esitor tablished and are daily patrolling Tit" the beaches with eager eyes of searching for schools of mullgts 0,6 and spots. Several fair sized kea catches of mullets have already ,ow been reported but interest is centered on what is known as 3tte the September runs. Somewhere vin-1 along in September, maybe earliith er or later, great schools of mulring lets move down the coast. Durlace ing this time dilligence in watchbe ing for the fish is doubled. A ser- visitor at one of the camps may rest find a Icene of lazy loafing and ople just a Ifew minutes later the Mr. suppose! loafers will be straining Dtte at theif net with thousands of uch poinds of fish. OLINA 'But It's True X. Biac UAR> I Er 2 IS 7Ht TWC HAMS y| of A MM WHO uves M BATH. HnHn < DAHAMAMM MID BOARS < *H SHOT At THIV SIT BPWWPK I <5 Mun/ue.wsawtfiAs /,: ^5 fi?V TAU6HT TO BAW