THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor stared u second-clsss matter April 20, 1028, at the Poet Office at Southport, If. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates uND YEAR 81.60 HX MONTHS LOO ["HREE MONTHS .73 y_A cr1 V ' VfMBCcjT Wednesday, December 27, 1939 The alco-holidays are here again. Our digestive system deserves the 364day holiday it has between Christmases. When you begin to wonder why you cannot get along with anybody you are finally on the road to doing something about it. It is our problem to learn how to get along with folks, not how to get along without them. There's a difference between a man with a plan and a man with a scheme. They know how to conserve Christmas spirits, now we need to learn how to do the same thing with the Christmas spirit so we can use a little of it all along throughout the year. Some Thoughts About Christmas A trip to the central part of the state Christmas day failed to show us another town of equal size that could rival the beauty of the street and house decorations in Southport. * * * Many homes out in the county enjoyed Christmas tree lights for the first time this year. Cheerful Christmas trees were in evidence in many homes along U. S. Highway No. 17, peeping out at passersby. * * * The community tree in Southport was a beauty and, as in years gone by, Harry Aldridge did a fine job with the decoration. And speaking of Harry, he has more genuine Christmas spirit year in and year out than most anybody we know. There's no telling how many of the home decorations in town that he helped install on his own time. * * * The general opinion is that Southport was better decorated this Christmas than ever before. We believe that is true, and we give most of the credit to Harry Aldridge and the way he has helped encourage Christmas lighting season after season. * # The Christmas mid-night service at the Presbyterian Church was an innovation here, so far as we know, and those who waited up to attend were rewarded by a stirring sermon from Rev. J. R. Potts, who, incidentally, is doing a fine work with his congregation. * * * Mid-night Mass in honor of the Holy Family was celebrated by Father Frank J. Howard Christmas Eve and many protestants of the community joined with their Catholic neighbors in celebrating the first mid-night mass in the history of this community. * * * ( Few radio speakers or commentators began a talk during the holiday season without expressing thanks that our nation could celebrate the birth of Christ amidst an atmosphere of peace and good will. Yet in the absence of the death-dealing stacatto of machine guns and the booming of bombs too many of our people simulated these conditions with the incesant shooting of fire crackers a custom which we still are unable to associate in logic with the spirit of Christmas. # # * At no time during the year 'is a radio more of a boon than at Christmas, and never before have we heard finer programs of carols and plays. For us, the peak was reached when Fred Waring's glee club sang "Beautiful Savior" Christmas night. * * * It seems to us that we heard of more opportunities this year to help needy persons, to help make Christmas more cheerful for others, than in any recent year; and for that we are thankful. We believe that the relief agencies that have been 1 set up by our government have been over used by us to absolve our conscience for the normal relationship between the more fortunate toward the less fortunate during the Christmas season. It was never in, tended that these agencies should displace good neighborliness not charity that begins at home; merely that these should be supplemented by the government. It ! was a Merry Christmas indeed for those who know that the greatest joy is in giving. Sympathetic Public Dr. Roma S. Cheek, executive secretary of the North Carolina Commission for the Blind, commenting recently on the hoax which had students in colleges and other groups throughout the state saving match covers for a little blind boy at Rocky Mount, which proved to be a hoax, said that the incident showed both the fine sentiment of the general public and the advantage which may be taken of it. The official did not go into detail as to the nature of the hoax, but that seemed relatively unimportant in the light of 'the splendid spirit of helpfulness and sj-mpathy which this incident brought to light in the general public. Visitors at the institution for the blind in Raleigh are impressed with the splendid work which is being accomplished there, and how people whom misfortune has overtaken are being taught to rehabilitate themselves and adjust themselves to their new status in life, rather than becoming objects of charity, which is distasteful for every person with any pride. Alec Templeton, one of the top-notch radio entertainers and musicians of the country, is just one of the many persons who has overcome physical handicap to j become successfully placed in life. There [are many other examples Thomas A. Edison was almost totally deaf from [young manhood. Be that as it may, a sympathetic public is without a doubt a tremendous comfort and definite asset to these people less fortunate than ourselves. Imagining A War A ubiquitous and natural tendency on the part of the American people is to envision in the news which is forthcoming from warring Europe the parallel of their ' own hopes and desires in this direction. More explicitly, people in America, almost to a man, want to see Finland hold off the bearded and grizzled Soviet invader. They want to hear of the Allies successfully engaging the Nazis, and ultimately winning the war. Therefore, for this reason, they are likely to distort the already distorted news which comes from abroad, and this makes it doubly imperative that the A MAnm'nnn riAArvla oVl/Mllrl Ko 1 C\ frin Q 1 1T ; AUlClltail ouuuiu wv tit their conclusions, and calm in their digest of the news. Americans are an imaginative lot, and it's easy enough to let our imagination supply the missing links which might be existent in the current reports from across the Atlantic, but we should exercise caution that our own imaginations do not run away with us in this matter. Maybe the reason they call them political circles is because there's a lot of running around, not getting anywhere. When some men begin trying to hoist a tune, we conclude they should have used a block and tackle in the first place. Aviation does not offer the only opportunity for the modern youth to become a rising young man. Beware of friends who eat you up. Pretty soon they'll be demanding salt and pepper. It generally takes a woman about the same length of time to make up her mind and ner lace. Experience was a great teacher before he became one of the more popular mod ern radio programs. It's bad when you run a person down, either with your automobile or with your tongue. We dislike to see people act like it's grand larceny for you to take their picture. It's better to be plain. Why shouldn't a rolling pin be called an implement of discipline and be done with it? Invent a dose that will help digest a bride's biscuits, and young husbands will beat a path to your door. V THE STATE PORT Just Among The Fishermen BY W. B. KEZIAH PICTURES Many people think that th straw vote and the ridiculous pre dictions made during the electioi seven years ago resulted in th passing of the Literary Digest It is admitted here that up unti those election predictions the Di gest held an unusual positioi among publications, and that i undoubtedly received a disaster ous blow as a result of its elec tion figures, predicting the re-elec tion of Mr. Hoover. While admitting the above, contend that the ridicule heaped on The Digest as a result of its guessing wrong had very little effect in bringing about its suspension as a publication.' It may have hurried the day by a short time, but The Digest did not go under from having guessed wrong, in the election. For several years before it! suspension it was gjiessing wronj in what the public wanted. Th< trend of public desire in litera ture was running towards pic tures, a thing which The Diges disdained in order to persue i staid and drab course, givin; plenty of solid reading and littli else, especially in xne way o pictures. So, we think, The Digest went under as a result of not catering more to the modern demand for pictures. At least the publications that have sprung into life during the past decade and which are devoting themselves almost entirely to pictures, seem to all be doing well, even if they started without the prestige that The Digest had when it first hit the tobbagon. Among the outstanding pictun magazines of today it LIFE. I is still an infant in years but it picture contents are internationa in their interests. With its pic tures it covers everything fron mansion to slums and it and othe: picture magazines are rapidly be coming a household word in sev eral countries. We are moved to write at this length about pictures and magazines as a result of one of LIFE'S best cameramen having spent some 24 hours in Brunswick county last week. With him was Miss Mary Joyce Walsh, accredited with being the queen of Florida beauties. They made many pictures, some of them will undoubtedly appear in LIFE they will be of great publicity value to Brunswick county. The visitors had hardly move< on from Southport before a lette streaked in from Bill Sharpe, No 1 publicity man for North Caro lina. Bill realized that the visi ol the party was a good thinj for North Carolina. His noti speaks for itself. And here it is: "Just a little note right now t< congratulate you on the way yoi handled the LIFE party. Nice go ing, boy! Hope it gets sprea< all over the magazine. Best wishei for the holiday season and ma; fVin wnut nanr kr, fUn Viiivrrnn uic 11CAI. jrvai MC Uic uiggco Southport and Brunswick countj has ever had. Bill Sharpe." NEW YEAR While hoping that everybody had a Merry Christmas, we cai jump over to the future ten si and say that it is our most sin cere conviction that a real Nev Year is about to dawn for Bruns wick county. For months now things have been shaping up foi substantial things in the way o: industries. If work makes peopli happy, there should be plenty o happy people in Brunswick ii 1940. What helps one part of the country will help the whole of It. At the moment it ape pars that the location of some good things are already definitely placed. Opening for things in other sections of the county should begin to present themselves before the passage of many months. Brunswick is scheduled to have a great year and it can be made still greater if there is united work and cooperation on the part of the citizenship. FIGHT FIRES During the past decade eacl VPnr hn.q hopn Vwsttor tVion tVn preceding one in the matter o: forest fire prevention work. Colin ty Agent J. E. Dodson remarke( to us last week that it wai amazing how fire prevention con scious the Brunswick people nov were. We hope they will keep on being conscious of the value of timber. It is one of the greatest sources of wealth that Brunswick has. In addition the prevention of forest fires Insures streams being stocked with fish and woods with game. Every care should be taken to prevent forest fires getting started, and when they start from circumstances over which there is no control it Is up to everybody to turn out and fight them. "Get my kit ready quick" shouted the doctor. "Some fellov has phoned that he can't 11 vi without me". "Oh, that call is for me", sai( his daughter, as she seized thi phone and glued her ear to it. PILOT. SOUTHPORT. N. C. WASHINGTON LETTER Washington, Dec. 27. Within a week the gay., holiday spirit . here will have evaporated and been replaced by grim political warfare | e The struggle for place and power will undoubtedly leave its mark 11 on the affairs of the congressional e session, which will be ushered in' to the Presidential campaign year of 1940 early next week. There is a marked division of opinion ? among leaders of the two major political parties as to the need for a long or short term. Some lawmakers, who are candidates for re-election, favor a limited session to permit more time on the home grounds during the primaries. Others prefer prolonging the meeting until the eve of the party conventions in the summer as a means of riveting the public's mind of Capitol Hill doings. Foreign policies, national defense, the farm problem and deficits are likely features for early j debate. Among the early arrivals I are many leaders of the Demoe cratic party who call at the . White House in hopes of shaping the text of the President's two " [ messages one on the state of ' the nation in the form of an anII nual address with recommenda' tions and the other limited for 1 fiscal matters. Intimations that1 f Mr. Roosevelt will recommend dafnnen onfl I special IttACa iuI UVJ.C1WV wt.x ! other spending purposes is creat-1 ;ing a panicky feeling as anything affecting the voters' pocketbook in a campaign year makes the (political future of the incumbents j very uncertain. An avalanche of proposed measures calling for ex(penditure of the people's money is reported ready to descend on harassed committees as part of j the political fodder, j The public demand for frequent 1 reports on the weather is overtaxing government resources. The I Chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau in his annual report this week calls for more skilled aides 1 by "encouragement of meteorolor gical education and research in universities in various parts of the country." The day of guessing is gone for too much depends on accuracy of forects. Veterans are given re-fresher courses to keep abreast of the latest scientific developments in meteorology [and recruits are given in-service training. The government says: "There are few human activities which can boast complete indifference to weather, present or I future." Believe it or not, a government study of industrial accidents for 11938 and just completed shows I that workers in plants producing ytxxxxxitxsxxxxxxa I NOT . !! ill f 'Hi I ' % || I will be at I ; I! ||| the purpose :ll 1, 1940. PA1 I )! * ;|| EXUM Bent FREELAND ASH POST ( LONGWOOr HICKMAN'S THOMASBO GRISSETT T !( LOCK WOOD !( BOONE'S NI i I LOGKWOOD \ ! ( LOGKWOOD f|( SHALLOTTI ;1! NORTH WE! ; !! NORTH WE! ! | NORTH WE! 1! LELAND PC ! I WINNABOW !! BOLIVIA Ji I! SHALLOTTI )[ i . I I ! I ! I ! I ! ,1 1 ' I 6 I i! WKKKmKmtitKMKIltlt J I -HOT EM | The unsung- hero of Christmas was Mark Far-1 J guson, who furnished ivey. for about half the j porch decorations in town . . . And Harry Aldridge is our authority for the statement that Southport has more Christmas lights than ever j this season . , . Top listening during the past week were the Fred Waring radio quarter-hours, | each ending with the glee club singing a familiar I Christmas carol . . . The accent is on youth at [ the Amuzu for the next week. Tonight it is "The Young In Heart." The New Year feature is "Tarzan Finds A Son." You pay your money and you take your choice, j but we'll stick by the southern teams on New Year's Day. We choose Tennessee over Southern Cal.; Tulane over Texas Tech; Georgia Tech over Missouri; and Clemson over Boston but don't bet more than a dope on the Tulane-Texas Tech game .... The odds are that All-American Banks Mc- | Fadden will shed his moleskins in time to lead his I explosives had fewer accidents than those in trades popularly each f fiJ of 11 considered far less hazardous. less 1 an ^ perce Loggers and sawmill workers had Even during the highest frequency rate. The holidays the Sta official data has an encouraging finds it necessar trend for it discloses that fatali- protocol as a pre1 ties and disabling injuries fell off national "inclden in 1938 as compared with the greeabie nature, previous years. Those employed essential diplomat in the construction industry "ac- is adopted at for counted for more disabling injur- ''ons w'lere the r ies than any other industrial I forei n governmei group, with a total of 292,200, of j11 is a gyfte wh which 2,600 resulted in death and to Prevent mlshaj 14,600 in permanent injuries. Ag- 'n "ne and in riculture accounted for 267,400 injuries, and also for the largest number of fatalities, 4,400." Campaign managers and publicists for various candidates and jrdT~~] parties are giving close study to an analysis of public interest as represented in votes on state pro- jff* posals in 1939. The Bureau of the j Census report reveals that the /k year now expiring was an "off -gfS season." Only 12 of the 48 States fll submitted proposals to their respective electorates in 1939, in con- TjelvPjT trast to 36 States submitting pro- *0 posals in 1938. A total of 61 HjKufPL State-wide measures was submitted to voters in 1939, but 33 were Ql submitted by one State Georgia. Three-quarters of the measures were approved. The striking feature of the study which worries n/\i IrT1T T the professional vote-getters is Nl 111 I H relatively light balloting this year with the exception of Ohio and California where the pension issue held the attention of the citizens. In the 9 other States, the nn n single nrODOSal laig^ai. ivw 0 x t was less than 42 percent of the J 1936 presidential vote, and in tKKXIKKKKXtXMXKMXIKUKKKKXX: ice! n :all for v he places cited below at the of collecting taxes. PENAL {NOW AND SAVE COST. iett's Store, Jan. 17th Simmon's Store, Jan. 17th JFFICE, Jan. 17th ), Jan. 17th CROSS ROADS, Jan. 17th RO, January 18th 'OWN Parker's Store, Jan. 18th . >S FOLLY Roach's Store, Jan. iCK Robinson's Store, Jan. 18th . >S FOLLY Varnum's Store, Jan. >S FOLLY Kirby's Store, Jan. 1 I Post Office Square, Jan. 20th ... ST Lonnie McKoy's Store, Jan. 2 ST H. O. Peterson's Store, Jan. \ ST Mrs. A. M. Chinnis' Store, Ja >ST OFFICE, Jan. 24th 7 Henry's Store, Jan. 26th inuary 26th ............. i Post Office Square, Jan. 27th ... / CHAS. E. GAI TAX COLLECTOR f v WEDNESDAY. if NEWS - ^ Clemson College Conference basketball to a repeat < performance in rtaiejoi, " Dock, one of the town's best young |M owned by Captain Fred Willing, ,jjPC: ^ while at his favorite sport, victim of '^1 ^ hurt; accident. . . . And that reminds us thste as many good bird dogs in town nn as has been in previous years. Hunters tell dry w'eather is making it mighty hard t birds ... If you have any duck hunting 0 driving to do you'll have to wind it up t(l C*^F January 1st is the deadline. ' I.. B No master of ethics of the sea. we conf^ we're puzzled at the German's choice nf , the Graff Spee instead of accepting intenner.^Bf the duration of the war. And we still wonder l^Ei the liner Columbus wasn't carried into a n. port, her right under international law was a non-belligerent. nese States was! :nt of that vote.,dinners because foreign the Christmas are handled according to v ite Department ranking adopted by ihe * tn o nfn tu *cqwv iitcnc ui iaic 4th ..12:30 to 1:30P.M. jjj in. 24th 2 to 3 P. M. jH 3:15 to 4:30 P. M. I \ 11 to 1 P. M. B it 30 to 4 P. M. m 1. 2 to 5 P. M- jl USE \ I J