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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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| 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
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laig^ai. ivw 0 x t
was less than 42 percent of the J
1936 presidential vote, and in
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Simmon's Store, Jan. 17th
JFFICE, Jan. 17th
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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
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7 Henry's Store, Jan. 26th
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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..
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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
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ts" of a disa- even goes so far as to awProtocol
is an the children of the dipioJ !
ic device, which Christmas plays and
mal social func- here. Yet the ptotocol
epresentatives of many a worried hostesj
nts are present, headaches which outside of
lich is calculated cia] circles would provide a
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