North Carolina Newspapers

I SECTIQN two I THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. I PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor I Be tared u second-cliui natter April 20, 1928, at t the FMt Office at Sou tiport, N. C.,' under I the act of March 3. 1879. Subscription Rates ONE TSAR 81.50 DC MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS .76 I NATIONAL EDITORIAL. (MO-frfeASSOCIATION I ID lU Wednesday, January 17, 1940 Being a good liver frequently caused a man to wind up with r. bad heart. I There is a large group who will never I believe that a dollar may be earned honestly without sweat. Most of the inhabited shacks in our I county could be made comfortable if the annual whiskey and gasoline fund for the head of the family were diverted to improvements. I Time you spend talking isn't wasted if I you are making friends. Ours would be a happier world if some substitute for people could be provided I for our conversations. I It strikes us as funny when we see a modern beast of prey have her victim stalk her. Co-operation Did It If W. B. Keziah, then secretary of the Southport Civic Club, hadn't been working hand-in-glove with Bill Sharpe and the State Advertising Department nobody in Southport ever would have known that the yacht Do-Ho was coming through the inland waterway with a Life Magazine! photographer aboard. If Allen Ewing hadn't got busy on the phone and established a contact up the canal that would let local citizens know the time of the arrival of the Do-Ho at Southport, the chances are that nobody would have' been down at Thompson's dock to meet her. If Will Sellers Davis hadn't been helping to call the boat by radiophone, he hardly would have been down at the dock to talk the skipper into spending the night here, because it was too far for him to continue to Georgetown, S. C. If Keziah and others hadn't helped plan a birthday party aboard the boat for the pretty Florida Miss who served as model for the picture series, there wouldn't have been any party to photograph. And if J. Lawrence Sprunt hadn't graciously consented to send down a bouquet of his finest camellias for the young lady there would have been no need for Churchill Bragaw to come along later to make the official presentation ana to bring a baby alligator to present to the honoree. If Bragaw hadn't come there is no likelihood that the party would have remained over until noon next day while their yacht continued to Myrtle Beach-so they could visit Orton Plantation and take pictures which probably will be used in a later edition. There are a lot of "if's" in this story, but not a trick was missed. Consequently, Southport came in for a major share of the picture of Life's trip to Florida thru the inland waterway. Three pictures, one of the Southport waterfront and two others snapped at the birthday party held here, plus repeated reference to the visit in the running text, gives as good example as we can recall off-hand of the value of co-operation. New Danger Since the oil transports recently were restricted to their 35-miles per hour speed limit it seems to us that there has been a significant slump in the number of news reports of their highway mishaps. It is well for the public that their type of conveyance is closely enough under control that an effective program could be instituted with no longer notice. Coming now for the next few weeks is a highway menace greater than that ever offered by the oil trucks. It is the fleet of fertilizer haulers who will speed up and down our highways day and night carrying plan food from the factories in Wilmington and vicinity to all parts of Eastern Carolina. When we class these trucks as a greater danger than the oil tankers, we do so % because there is no uniformity about their operation, hours or equipment. For the most part the trucks will be operated by boys and men who travel uninsured and as inexpensively as possible, hoping- to wring from the few week's work enough to "pay for 'their machine. That our state is aware of this danger is shown by the announcement that beginning today there is in session at Raleigh a course in highway safety for truck owners. This course is being given at State College through the co-operation of the North Carolina Truck Owners Association, the State Industrial Commission and the State Highway Safety Division. For the sake of our citizens who must travel our highways we hope this session is well attended by members of the "Fertilizer Fleet." Why Political Parties? I . With all the strife and mud-slinging which accompanies almost every political i campaign from that of President right on down to township constable, the average American citizen, tired to death of the fuss and the squabble which these campaigns impose upon the long-suffering public, may be prompted to wonder: "Why political parties, after all?" That is a natural reaction of the average voter. He is far more interested in whether the groceries, or the hardware or the drugs which he sells will continue Trioiri him n fair livine-. than he is in iiu J *** ?. ? ? ? 0, who occupies the places of public trust in the community, state and nation. He lends half an ear to the campaign ballyhoo which accompanies every political campaign, while keeping the other peeled for anything which might improve his business or place in life. He has no political aspirations himself, and is consented with the lot which life has meted out to him. But it is just such a languid attitude on the part of Mr. American Public which threatens our democratic form of government. One of the principal functions of the two-party system is to keep the public alive to issues which confront the American public. The party system of government is one of the fundamental requisites for our American way of life. In the United States there are two outstanding political parties, each so well divided that each election in the nation is unpredictable. There are other minor parties as well, which add their bit to the campaign life. Germany offers a sad example of what the one-party system may yield?dictatorship, abrogation of the public liberty, and jthe abridgement of liberties of the individual. 1 So suffice it to say that the existence of two or more major political parties are absolutely essential to the American form i of government, and without their existence we might find our selves in the predicament of the hapless German people today. Every American citizen owes it to himself to take an active part in the affairs " * 1 J- ' - iL. ^ of this government, to exercise me prerogative which the constitution of the United States guarantees him?that of the franchise?at every opportunity, to the end that our American way may be perpetuated and never be dominated by a single clique or a single man. "Viewers With Alarm" President Roosevelt in his speech before the Jackson Day dinner group at the Mayflower hotel in Washington, where plates were sold for $100 each, coined s phrase which produced considerable laughter among those who heard him. He spoke of the "viewers with alarm" who are to be found throughout the nation, who had rather look on the pessimistic side of life than the optimistic. The President's remarks struck home so forcibly because everybody has witnessed this type of person. They pick u-; the newspaper, scan the headlines and invariably end up with the familiar refrair "I don't know what the world's coming to." But the peculiar thing about this prototype is that they are seldom doing anything which will help to remedy the situation. When politicians begin to play ball 1 it's a safe bet that somebody is going tc be struck out. When somebody looks daggers at you that's perhaps what is known as a cutting glance. We have adding machines, but unti we get a mechanical speller will the i country cease to have illiteracy. ^-the state port pi Just Among I The Fishermen Bi w. a. KEZIAH I CASTING DEVICE Freshwater bass fishing will soon be good and there are occasions when many of the fly rod I users prefer the use of live rnin1 nows, suspended a foot or two I below the surface of the water. This entails the use of a float j and it is rather difficult to cast any distance with a tightly adjusted float on the line some two feet above the bait and sinker. To overcome this casting trouble, use a float with an opening large enough for the line to flow through freely, take a small metal disc and punch a hole of the exact size of the line through it. The disc should be placed on the line above the float and a knot should be tied in the line above at the depth where it is desired to fish. The knot in the line will easily pass through the I eyelet of the rod, and the float and dies slides down to the sinker and hook when you are casting. The knot and dies prevents the float from rising further than the desired distance after the hook and sinker Is in the water. TO WORK ON Manager R. F. Plaxco of the Brunswick Navigation Company is understood to have said that he' hoped to be able to keep the menhaden boats at work fishing through the month of January. This for the sake of the men. For this decision commendation Is due to Mr. Plaxoo. Although fish taken at this sea? - * - ?-?n?rniiv have son ui tub ? ? little or none of the valuable oil that makes menhadden fishing profitable to the factories, fair catches will at least Insure good wages to the men. ALONG SAME LINES Although the State Advertising Bureau has never been called a chamber of commerce, it is hoped that the Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce ?can carry out a , program for Brunswick county that the bureau has been carrying out for the state. The state bureau has been spreading news of North Caroline throughout the Nation. The Chamber of Commerce hopes to spread news of Brunswick county throughout the state. Incidently, much of this matter regarding Bmnswick will go much further than the h<KdfUt;Pf North Carolina, it will graviate just as far, in some cases, as state matter has been doing. The state bureau expected and received cooperation in its efforts, from nearly all sections of the state. The Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce will need cooperation from every section of Brunswick county. NO "DOG" AT ORTON Usually they call such places estates. Speaking that language, Orton Plantation, near Southport, , is undoubtedly the most widely , known estate in North Carolina. To the owners and the general public, it is just the Orton Plan i tation. No one puts on any "dog" at Orton. It is just the. plantation | ' of a man who, with his wife, i has the community spirit just as strongly as the best among regular citizens of Brunswick. ' Mr. and Mrs. J. Lawrence ! Sprunt, the owners, are legal , residents of New Hanover county. They only reside in Brunswich about half the year. DurI, ing that time they are good citizens of Brnnswlek in every sense of the word. A great deal of valuable advertising has come to both Brunswick county and the State of North Carolina as a result of the magnlflclent Sprunt estate. But , to Mr. and Mrs. Sprunt and everybody in Brunswick it is ! just the Orton Plantation. t fi ?? . LOYAL TO HOME TOWN Our good friend Jas. A. Pearce of Camden, N. J., continues to! ' clip and mall us news articles . relative to Southport and Brunswick county, articles which he notes when they appear in the big papers in the north and east. , This last week he sent us a whole envelope of such clippings. The action speaks loudly for I the fact that Mr. Pearce is still strongly interested in his old home county. He looks for and 1 reads exerything pertaining to I the home folks. And having read them he clips the articles and sends them hack to the Brunswick county Chamber of Commerce. We wish that other , distant readers of this paper would also clip and mall in the stories that they read in their home papers about Southport and Brunswick county. ' PROMOTED Dr. M. M. Rosenbaum of Shallotte recently received notice of his promotion to rank of captain ? in the U. S. Medical Reserve r Corps. CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ' Workmen are busy laying the 1 foundation for the home Mr. and , Mrs. W. S. Wells are building on their 1 lot next to the Brunswick Inn. LOT. SOUTHPORT. N. C. ' Your Home ! Agent Says! I SCHEDULE Friday 19, 2:30 P. M. Boon's ! Neck Club meets with Mrs. W. E. Bellamy. Saturday 20, 7:30 P. M. Recreational Meeting for Public at Le- j land Gymnasium directed by Miss | Hattie Pearl Mallard of Duplin | County. Songs and Folk Games I for men and women. Monday 22, 3:30 P. M. Shallotte club will meet with Mrs. Charles Russ, Jr. Tuesday 23, Lockwood's Folly club will meet at 2:30 with Mrs. Talmage Varnam. Wednesday 24, 2:30 Longwood club meets with Mrs. Nelson Bennett. Thursday 25, 2:30 Bethal club meets. 8:00 P. M. Southport club meets with Mrs. C. Ed Taylor. SOUTHPORT SCHOOL NEWS Pep Meetings The high school students met in the auditorium one afternoon recently for the purpose of electing cheer leaders. The chief cheer ! leader, Josephine Moore, was elected by ballots. Since then pep meetings have been held, old cheers 'hive been brushed up and 1 new ones have been learned. At 5 the games there have been large ( numbers of students in the South- < port cheering section doing all t they can to cheer the teams on i to a victory. ^ New Editors The girls club has decided to s be responsible for the newspaper f work. Up till this time the club i has been studying nature, but < has now decided to write articles t for our newspaper column. There ' are six members in the club, be- ' sides the president and the ad- 1 viser. Each member is to write ' at least one article for the paper i each week. < Debate Society ' The debaters have formed their ' debating society. Several meetings have been held and talks were given about how to debate. There are now eighteen members interested and we are planning on giving a debate in chapel soon. It will be on some topic other than the one on the railroad question. As yet the debate subject had not been definitely decided upon. _ ( Senior Superlatives i A few days ago the" seniors held a class meeting to select class superlatives. In selecting these superlatives much fun was had. We are unable to say that these people were given the proper places but we hope each one will be able to live up to the name given them, if it is a good name. In some cases they are given the place as dopies, etc., and we hope they can soon outgrow the name. The superlatives are as follows: Prettiest girl: Doris Lewis. Handsomest boy: Ted Lewis. Most popultr girl: Doris Corlette. Most popular boy: William Sellers. Class Okl Maid: Marjorie Potter. Class bachelor: Harry Weeks. Most athletic girl: Annie Margaret Watts. Most athletic boy: Ted Lewis. Wittiest: Paul Dosher. Dopiest: Arvil Cottrell. Most studious: Margaret Potter. Best all-round girl: Josephine Moore. Best all-round boy: Harold Aldridge. Class baby: Bdmond Newton. Most bashful girl: Marjorie Potter. Most bashful boy: Marcellus Cox. Most marriagable boy: William Sellers. Most marriagable girl! Josephine Moore. [ Most conceited girl: Doris Corlette. Most conceited boy: Irvin Lewis. New Students Several new faces have been seen around our school lately. Just before and since the Chrismas holidays quite a few new pupils have come to complete this school year with us. We want them to know that we are glad to have them and expect them to be at home among us. Visitor Last week Miss Annie Mae Woodside brought a visitor over to inspect our rooms. With the aid of Mr. Lingle, Miss Woodside showed the visitor about. Favorable comments about our rooms were made by the visitor and Miss Woodside. Chapel Last week two chapel programs were held for the purpose of learning some new songs. We sang some songs that most of us were familiar with and learned the words to a few new songs. The pupils' singing has improved a great deal lately. The singing was used in connection with the pep meetings and was used to a good advantage. We hope, in the near future to have some good group singing. 1 ' i ' . _____ - NOT EXflT The keeper of this column has fared forth once g more to seek his fortune, and if .we are, to keep ,' it going we'll need some help and suggestions . . . . Some of the boys of Southport received new ' guns for Christmas, so hunting has been their I favorite sport. Story has it thjft recently three of 1 them returned from a bird hunting expedition ^ with one of the better bird dogs of the city only ' to report to the owner that the dog wasn't much ' good. "We found some birds, all right," reported the young nimrod, "but we had to walk them up. ( Every time the dog got around where they were he just sat down and we couldn't get him to move ..." They say that the late Mr. Alex Swain was a master cook. Frui' cake was one of his specialties. Two years ago Johnie Simmons fought in the 115-pound class in the Star-News Golden Gloves tournament: last year he moved up in the 135pound division;; and this year he must fight in the 1 145-pound welterweight division. Sounds like boxing is a healthy sport, all right . . . The Finch ' Bandwagon plays for a private dance Thursday ' night, and rumor has it that the boys have an ' offer for their first out-of-town engagement. Julius, general handyman for Churchill Bragaw at Orton, probably holds undisputed title to " the | alligator hatching championship. Using the kitchen | stove for an incubator, he turned out 11 tiny I Drug Store Quarterbacks [since before the i It seems that there is an old j days 'This was du egend of 1 the Southport high I coughs and colds < ichool that the basketball teams'Miss Eva Kn0* Pr< :ouldn't win any games, but 11 ontl grade pupils ii lon't see anyone trying to help program. The effoi he teams. The school itself has ments ?' these s mproved in its cheering when j appreciated by^ al ve have games. However, when. 8 inyone goes down to the drug | ?otfJ ^ itore in the morning following a!ketba" teams hav< fame and says anything about ne*[. su ' Tf)ese vinning the next game, a groupytv, y 1 ,f people that gather around in 0} th?sch??1, c he place have a lot to say about lwhlte' belP . . , . ,, .. i arouse the interest :he teams losing all the games; p T A ' lecause thev haven't the stuff. ' ' ' ,, , 1 ne P.-l. A. It [f these people would encourage i ? .. n . . .. , . . . . < .'30 P. m. in tr Pla-V"3' w'e ^ win some.torium Qne th( fames. They are just drug store Qf ^ m wg juarterbacks who have never jUustrative art lec seen a real basketball game in some bird ca?s ? h e. ?rt/vmra SOngS. All Of this A STUDENT ROOTER. enjoyed by the ? The P.-T. A. is pu 1 Uf A Mn j test in the schoo LLLaIII/ pose of soliciting SCHOOL NEWS ~ ?? ! The fifth grade CHAPEL PROGRAM that the P.-T. A. The student body and faculty of for the grade hai 3ur school assembled in the audi-j est number of rep torium Tuesday for the first timejent at its meetin Cooperation I I "Clean Up or Close Up" C, 1} Is Ridding State of Illegal, j !j|, with cc l * been "kayoe< 11 Colonel Edgar H. Bain 11 State Director For the I | "Courageous support from the pub- most gr A 11c, press, officials and law-abiding nitf the { beer retailers accounts for our Com- oul u ralttee's heartening success," de- tiucdv t I clares Colonel Bain. "My apprecla- . 1 1 tlon Is hereby extended to all, to- the beei I I gether with my appeal for oontlnu- j || anco of this intelligent cooperation." driving || Editorial Comment on I | Rockingham Post Dispatch: Statesvllle Dally A "The Industry does not want age citizen is at .. beer sold In joints where blind unbelief J tigers operate. ... That's why 7 ~ g the industry has a 'clean up" becoming convi II committee." sees beer dealei I I licenses after I I Oxford Ledger: "An alertness questionable I I I to Insure distribution of their that has bap; I I product only through reputa- Tr?a.ii II ble outlets Is keeping the Brewers and North Carolina A Beer Distributors Committee Durham Sun: " V active In many sections of beer have outla I I North Carolina." legger . . . Such I I oertaln to have j | Greensboro Record: "... the fccts. 7 state committee of the brewI 1 era and beer distributors Is In Hickory Dally ft (I a position to render a very Beer Committee II definite service In ridding duty, and all p A communities of places which sincerely In teres A belong in the category of the Illegal sale 'divas and low class hang- will welcome tl V outs.'" to join In the < i Brewers and North Carolina I jj 813?817 Commercial Building ^DO?B&BODQ3oe?BOOaCOPOfl WEDNESDAY, JANUARvT^H M9B? LY NEWS I ;ators, one of which was pr.\<s,.Rt,. i r"*^ Magazine's Miss Florida on her " i^H . . Maxie Cooker says that in , Ishermen find mullets in the bntt?m f{ . >00is by feeling for them with oars. Onre , i gill net is draped about the spot . B tlollycheck found a flight of redhead ducfe lied together Saturday afternoon close ^"^B or him to have got two-day s bag i?m. ihot, but he had to let them be. To.,[: , *^B ;heck until next November. B "Here I Am A Stranger," probably v.-j|i ? K many friends with movie goers hoio toni^'B! tomorrow night and the irrepressible [>... ^^B Kids are sure to be welcomed for n .. feature at the Amuzu. Add theatre notes. tell us that "Gone With The Wind" win of its first North Carolina showing- at the e, ^B ina in Wilmington. Top prices for us been unofficially mci.ti, u ^B Remember: Wet feet cause colds: colds le^^B flu: flu frequently develops into pneumonia K pneumonia has a high mortality rate. ^B ble . . . Latest development on the equine v^^B is the purchase by Dr. R. C. Daniel 0f a ' "^B sulky for his fine little filly, Nellie. But th; BB time anyone has seen Doc riding in his nev BB he was driving a trotting mule. SB Come home, Gene, all is forgiven. BB Christmas holi- MUSK TEACHEK e~to the many Mr. Garrett has succeed |H )f the students, obtaining a ir.uisen ted her sec- our school?Mrs. Roper fro- ft i an interesting mington. She has na.i r.ianv t^^B ts and achieve- of experience as a u-aehrl^B mall folks are music, and she is now orgiv^^B I. a music class. urrs COMPLETE PROJECT B and girls' bas- Senior class students have ; received their completed their French suits are very which was a bookiet. are in keeping help of Miss Burnett their -.Hj olors?blue and structor, they were able to very much to elude many descript., of the players. France and its people. 9H MEET We are very happy to lt?B jet Tuesday at that the Xoitlv.v ie school audi- having a new engine put jr -H[ ; main features ? Mrs. Lesson's APPENDIX REMOVED B iture. She gave cari s. Ward, Jr.. son of xB ind sang some and Mrs. Carl S. \V;>. H was thoroughly Bolivia, underwent an cpmta|R sntire audience., f0r removal of his appendix tting on a con- Dosher Memorial Hospital 1 for the pur- jay. B new members. ie will be re- |B PURCHASE HOME H 1PEECH Dr. M. M. Rosenbaum has pcn^B won the party chased the Peter Rourk hore it^B gives monthly Shallotte. Extensive remodeling ^B zing the great- now underway preparatory to resentives pres- moving his home and office g. his new house. JB n i? .ill s succeeding!! impaign, with Public's Aid, B Disreputable Beer "Joints" iths ago, the Brewers and North Caro- B er Distributors Committee began its B to eliminate those relatively few beer B that sought to hide liquor selling and B legal activities behind the respectability IB beer licenses. j B Up or Close Up" was the ultimatum, j B iults are gratifying. Public sentiment H n awakened. Newspapers all over the ^ H ve reenforced us with editorial support. H iforcement agencies have responded H instructive aid. And 37 licenses have H wolced ? 37, "dives," so to speak. B 1." ' fl generous cooperation received, we are B ateful. Accept our pledge that through* H New Year we shall continue unremit- H he job of driving law violators out of B r retailing business in North Carolina? them out, and keeping them out. B "Clean Up99 Campaign I "1*^- ?a1lshttiv T?nst! "The ^ Ill rubbing hU h?v? taken tle !? B hut aimviv 4? thty want beer dispensed I * slowly Is in jgtabllshments of gcad gfneed when he ml reputation. To that ?3 K ? losing their they ... are filing formal lep; H engaging In petitions for the eW[tf ? H uarMrfs Ard establishments as ?*" iractlces. And but fa)1 )n some jneasJT ?n?d here in to ?ustaln a gocxi came. The SUte (Ralelghl: "Col. H The dealers in gar Bain ... 15 rePTv,l sort wed the boot- cellent progress ... Tn .et'r H a campaign la has been progressing wholesome ef- but excellent results hat accomplished." H| , . 1 cord: "... the Lexington Dispatch: ... s. | has done Its persons are found tf j""? u ! ereons who are out licenses the vioia ^ ted In curbing promptly reported of hard liquor work in a good man,,. le opportunity may result In a dec.oen rrueade." on bootlegging." leer Distributors Commits jl Raleigh, N-C-lM ooeewoooosogooo^ H Jl