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W SECTION TWO I THE STATE PORT PILOT^ J _ Southport, N. G. ' I PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY ! JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor ! I fctorod u second-class matter April 29, 1928, at ! I the Poet Office at South port, N. C., under j the act of March 3. 1879. < Subscription Rates J DNB TEAR 31.60 ' I BX MONTHS 1.00 I THREE MONTHS .76 1 I | I NATIONAL 6DITORIAL. ! I If^SSOGAI^ I |< 1 ] Wednesday, February 7, 1940 j A fool never reaches peak form until < ; he's forty. t Criticism is our most democratising inj fluence, for through this medium it is i " possible to pull anybody down to your ! own level. t It's going to take a lot of reading and ( listening to decide whose gubernatorial ? j band wagon is the best to hop aboard. s It's hard to tell which has the least I respect: A hen-pecked husband or his e pants-wearing wife. * Getting a grip on yourself certainly s does not mean trying to pull yourself up r : by your own boot straps. t Nowadays charity begins just outside ' the home. v Brush Bunting J There is going to be some misunderstanding and resentment of the brush r burning law which is now in effect, text t of which appeared in last week's issue of y this paper. The law says, in effect, that before any p < citizen engages in burning off any land jj | between February 1st and June 15th the c nearest district fire warden must be noti- a fied and a burning permit obtained. b Saturday we were out hunting and we e spoke to a farmer we passed about a smoke we saw off in a distance. "Looks like the whole woods is afire," he com- a mented. . "It surely does," we admitted. "I 11 wouldn't want to be responsible for set- 8 ing out a fire like that," we added, and a meant it. n " *' " " * i 1.- ii.. n "Me neitner, ne saia empnaucany. I "They've got it now so's you can't even p ] start a grass fire in your own field without getting permission from the game P warden." 18 "The forest .warden," we corrected b him, untactfully. Then we decided that e "maybe we'd better not try to explain all h | of the ramifications of the forest fire a regulations and their importance. "What they're doing is cutting down on the ^ fires," we stated. Hoping that he'd agree. s< He did. "Yes," he admitted, "We don't n have the fires like we used to." j] Soon we were on our way, knowing that here was a man who knew vaguely j that the forest fire protection program f was obtaining results, yet there was harjAtaced within him a small feeling of re- j( Hfctytment that was born of not under- ^ tending that the brush burning law and ? others like it are responsible for the im- -H prcvement. J Our Religious Freedom g t Thumb through the pages of history, o -?J ? ?n - ?: 3 J Ui x f anu yuu 11 ue suipn&eu nu uuuut <tt wic x 1 extent to which the founding of our na- h tion was affected by man's insistance that p he be allowed to worship God according a | to the dictates of his own conscience. We shall not attempt to recall the ij founding of each colony and give the o reason for the inhabitants being willing t I to carve for themselves a new home out t ' of the wilderness. But we do know that t had it not been for the fact that many of t our early settlements were populated by men and women who demanded the right S of religious freedom, our nation today s would be much like the nations of South t America and Central America. Our civili- p zation never could have advanced so far t beyond that of our neighbors had it not r been for the influence of the church and f the leadership of Godly men. Too bad, then, that in the hustle and bustle of our material development we s have allowed religious freedom to assume the stangnant status of a fine phrase. Too bad that we value the influence of the F church upon a community, but neglect d the fact that it is the church people, not the church building that radiates this influence. v At no time during the five years we F ' l . . h.ave held residence in Southport hav lie four churches of this community bee manned by an abler group of minister Judge them by any standard you wil ind the church services each week in ou lommunity are far better than you'll fin n many cities of ten times our popute ;ion. We have the best of all that ou forefathers dreamed of and fought foi ind we are as heedless as pagans. Suppose some week day morning you lewspaper headlines greeted you wit ;he startling announcement that all pei sons cayght attending church services i ;his municipality on the following Sur Jay morning would be arrested and in prisoned? That would bring a reactioi wouldn't it? Then you'd say, just as th Pilgrims and others said: "I won't stan 'or it. I will go to church. What can w lo without our churches? What will be :ome of our nation? What will happe ;o our children if they arfe reared wher ve can't have churches?" And we wouldn't stand for it. The ai esting authorities, if there were anj irobab'ly would find a resolute band o )elievers in the Christian religion in a1 endance at the next worship service laring by their very act the effort o myone to deny them the right of woi ihiping where and how they chose. Well, thank God, there is no imminen >ossibility of this thing happening. Situ itions comparable to this have arisen i: Curopean countries, Out in tne unitei States, here in Southport, we can see n uch threat of danger. And we are right lobody is going to take away our righ o religious worship. But as sure as there is a God in heavei re are giving away that right by ou ery indifference. Wet Book-Keeping Bootleggers who are good bootlegger ely upon one of the fallacies of the lav o balance their books at the end of th< ear. We have been told that out of thi irofits which come from wholesale illici iquor traffic, they set aside a given per ent as a sort of "sinking fund" or insur ,nce against the day when they migh e caught in their wrong-doing and haul d into court. Further, we have been told that the: dd enough to the price of the stuf rhich they sell to take care of this "sink ng fund." With the average bootlegger :etting caught, being hauled into cour nd forced to pay a line is a simph ratter of business?something whicl lust be taken into consideration whei banning such a business. Therein lies one of the tragedies of t,h< rohibition era. The fining of a bootleg er has done little in previous years t< reak up the liquor traffic, because gen rally, if he is a successful bootlegger e has plenty salted away for just sucl n emergency. A mandatory jail sentence for convic ion of violating the liquor laws of th< hoto ttrmild Vinvo rlnne and would d< UUKV *T VU1U J?V? . v< v? v.. ? j .. ? lore now to break up the liquor traffic tian the present system can ever do. 7our-Y ear-T erms Happy over the supreme court's decis an that present sheriffs and coroner rill serve four year terms instead of two ear-terms, should be not only the sher ffs and coroners themselves but the peo ile at large It has long been a contention of Thi Itate Port Pilot that officers hardly hai ime to become accustomed to the dutie f their office in two year's time, an< hat sometime, just about time they ha< earned to discharge their duties in thi iroper manner they have to run all ove gain. The four year terms will contributi mmensely, we believe, to the efficienc; f the officers, in that they will not havi o be bothered with a campaign durinj he coming spring and summer, an< herefore can devote all their time t< heir duties. Furthermore, all the interests of thi State are better served. A good office hould be allowed to remain in office un il he has at least had an opportunity t< move that he,can be of some value t< heir constituents. A two year-term doe lot permit the greatest efficiency in of ice very often. The man who- has the key to everj lituation can most often turn the tide. When it comes to thrift, you can't ex lect some people to keep a secret or i lollar either. If your neighbor rubs you the wronj ray, you should give him lessons in chiro iractic- - . I f THE STATE PORT P I Just Among t The Fishermen T B'j w. B. KEZIAH d i r FOLLOWING FORM The little front-page story in ' last week's paper, regarding the commandant of the coast guard 11* in Washington writing personally " to explain the inaccuarcies in a map, recalls to mind that such n officials seldom ever stop to an1 swer a letter in person if it happens to be very sassy. They turn such letters over to 1> some assisting officer and he e dutifully writes a polite form letter of acknowledgement. We know this because we happened e to get good and mad at a - Washington official some years ago. It was one of the shortest letters we ever wrote. Only half e a dozen words, telling the party to whom it was addressed that he could "go to hell". In due time we received a polite form letter from the assistant to f the party to whom \Ve had written. The letter ran thusly: "Dear sir?Your favor of the 16th i, received. We note your suggesf tions and beg to advise that same will be followed in due course." WOULDN'T HURT DUCKS j. The duck hunting season on this lower North Carolina coast is always over before any cold II weather comes. The birds have ^ hardly arrived here by the beginning of the season, they are still 0 shy and the shooting simply has ; the effect of frightening them fur1 ther south. So, a lot of people who like to hunt ducks are keenly anxH lous to get the federal and state hunting season amended to cm1 brace January, instead of November, for this part of the coast. It is likely that efforts to this end will be made this summer. The other night an advocate of a late season was g arguing with a lawyer, his argument running thusly: V "Hunting in November while it a is still not cold, we kill a few birds and scare a lot more of them to death. If the hunting 2 season was timed with cold weather on this part of the coast the birds would be so cold that it - would not hurt them a bit to u shoot them! " FISHING 1'IER, ETC. Manager H. H. Thomas of Fort Caswell is busy working out plans for the new dance pavillion, dres sing rooms, bowling alleys and f fishing pier at Caswell Beach. He also plans tennis courts at Caswell Lodge and shuffleboard > courts at the new Trailer Camp, t The fishing pier, we think, a will have a strong apix-al to a lot of visitors this summer. In 1 the past we have ran across a 1 great many men and women who wanted to fish, hesitating because of the fear of seasick2 ness if they went offshore in a boat. > ANOTHER PIER MENTIONED The Carolina Lands, Inc., developers of Long Beach, are also ' talking of building a fishing pier 1 out from the pavilion that was constructed last summer. Last summer and fall brought to light - the fact that Long Beach af; forded some remarkably good fishing. A pier will make a great added attraction to this beach, , which is also coming rapidly into favor. They have been pretty active at Long Beach all winter, one or two homes having been under construction at all times, despite bad weather. According to all indications, a break in g the weather will start a big building program out there. The arrival of the beach season will see many new homes completed and others underway. VISITORS LIKED SOUTHPORT B Adjutant and Mrs. Jim Caldwell j and Col. Edgar L. Bain, here the g past week for the big doings by , the Brunswick Post American Le* gion, all took a liking to Southi port and gave assurance they s were coming back in the spring or summer to go fishing. r It had been planned to take the visitors for a trip to Orton, g Long Bef ch, Fort Caswell and Bald Head island. They were 7 unable to get here in time on g the day scheduled for the trip. y As the next day brought ground-hog weather the matter 1 was called off with a determin0 at ion to make the rounds latter, under better weather conditions. e In a kindergarten class flags p were shown, and in answer to a question the little girl gave the response that was expected of her, 3 "This is the flag of my country." 0 "And what is the name of your country?" was the next question. s "'Tis of thee", was the prompt - reply. A semicolon is a period sitting on top of a comma. It may be T the result of a quarrel in the Punctuation family or it may not. Some think that the first time a semicolon was used was when " some man did not know whether j to use a comma or a period, so he used both of them together. Speaker (desirous of raising r money): "All who will give $10 stand up". To Musician: "Play the Star| Spangled Banner." I LOT. SOUTHPORT, N. C. Your Home ... JJQ 8CUt SflySt |0 wonder if there has been ~~~" ?""""~"" weather to kill all the flies ar SCHEDULE there will not be any next summ Thursday, February 8: Lock- , .. . ,. . . ? ' we know there hasn t been . . . ( woods Folly 4-H club meets at ! 10.45 A. M.; Mt. Pisgah club da" r6aChed a higH f0F h0t | meets at 2:00 P. M. with Mrs. the Amuzu Theatre fire recently R. W. Holden. ing- along siren-ly in 'Angles W Friday, February 9: The Home when the scorched reel flared u Agent will devote the day tc goers are impatiently awaiting Myrtle Head community, for home ..... . visits, conferences or any other w houseassistance members desire. This Bill Courtney, the handsome will take the place of the regular took Carl Gunnerson's place as 1 meeting. distributor while the latter was : Monday, February 12: Bolivia js a graduate of Duke Univers 4-H club meets at 11:40 A. M.; Bolivia H. D. club meets at 2:30 P,ayed in the colIe^e band' he Wi P- M- of a well-known campus orchesti J Tuesday, February 13: Shallotte of orchestras, John Boyd Find ! 4-H club meets at 11:50 A. M.; Exum H. D. club meets at 2:30 should be able t0 Pick UP aome P. M. with Mrs. Bert Edwards. summer if they continue their i 1 c.snf;y'c,sb:s,s ?-?' ; A. M.; Ash H. D. club meets at toP of a Pine tree about seven 3:30 with Mrs. Rufus Phelps. road to Supply must have been : ~ _ . product . . . We were shocked a Oswald?Pop, I need an encyclopedia for school. at the Community Center Build: I Pon?Nothing doing: you can our friends of well-known sobei walk like I did. I the door and in angvver to our Iski?What's blowfish bragging y?u ??'n?' he 38^: 'Out to get a about? must have spread tell-tale lines Bibble?Something somebody he hagti, ad(Jed ..j mean 1>m else has just done which he could have done much better. park pump for a drink of wat< thirst." Skjold?Why do you think this _ country has been having so many ^""" earthquake shocks lately? A tired English traveler in Bjones?Oh, they're nothing se- France was thankful to see a safe rious. Just nature's way of get- whose sign bore the words: ting the people all set for the "Herein is spoken French, Eng1940 political landslides. lish, Spanish and German." Upon entering he asked for the Jack: "What is the noblest kind interpreter, of dog?" The waiter answered, "We have Jiff: "I give up." no interpreter, M'sieur." Jack: "The hotdog. It not only' "Then who speaks the Iandoes not bite the hand that feeds ,'guages?" he inquired, it: it feeds the hand that bites | The travelers, M'sieur", answerit." ed the waiter, ? gj}' % I ' ? I YOUR ADVERTISE PORT PILOT REA( WHO ARE ABLE THINGS YOU AD> CAUSE PEOPLE W] II AND ABLE TO PA^ PORT PILOT ARE CHANDISE. Use Newspaper Adver t. ?? WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY ? ,J frpezing ' Local hunters hope that all the ra-itaT^ I enoug state for a shortened bird season doesn't go id mosquitoes, so ^ complaint u that the quail have been st,r,. er. But even now ^ weakened because of the snow and ic ^ I Uuess Ann Sheri- afe therefore too weak to fly away ,, , when she caused no such trouble down here, and ?, t? ^ (Ann was mov- we can learn the birds can more than take ** aah Their Faces'" of themselves. p) Local movie- Ducks seem to know that the season has elosei I the re-opening of for 0ne day last week mallards and black dUcks I were swimming about as unconcernedly as ^ young man who pleaae within easy gunshot of the highway fc ocal Standard Oil tween Brunswick river and the Cape Fear . in Duke Hospital, And that reminds us that last week Watte, M ity. He not only Thompson caught a flight-weary hai.yhead ,, is also a member the causeway going over to Caswell Beach. TV ra . . Speaking t,jrd appeared to be only hungiy and tired. ac. I la and his band cording to Watters, who gave him a little ft* I nice changes this aidt then turned him aloose. M improvement. We like the looks of the new paraphernalia for r sign up in the the high school safety patrol members, and one miles out on the 0f these days we're going to take a picture of I sampling his own ^ group. For the next three or four wwk, t a recent dance though, our attention will go toward trying t, ing when one of get pictures of basketball squads before the co?. riety started out ty tournament . . . Race for the county champs. H auestion where're 9hin now has been reduced to the i drink." Surprise question: "Who can stop the Bolivia teams" b fl on our face, for ianti boys believe they hold the answer to c*. B going out to the half that question 'if one of their ineligible B jr. I'm dying of catches up with a little scholastic deficiency. B Along about this time every winter we btp. B ??H Cabarrus County poultrymen J Smith: "And yours from peopj I are fast realizing the value of who worked as iron and copper, fl blood-testing as a means of reduc- , smiths." ing baby chick losses, reports W.' Customer: "I'veTmT"bacii B H. Williams, assistant farm agent, buy that car you showed me vs. I terday." H The teacher was explaining the Salesman: "That's fine, [ I origins of her pupils' names. To thought you'd be back, Nov, y I Johnny Baker she said: "Tour me what was the dominant'% I nam^ was derived from people ture that made you buy tu I who made their living baking car?" H bread, cakes, etc." To Bobby Customer: "My wife, sir." S H (DOUBLE THE j I RESULTS I NG In THE STATE HI :HES The PEOPLE I I TO BUY THE 11 /ERTISE .... BE-* HI HO ARE WILLING 11 Y For THE STATE I BUYERS OF MER- || | tising To Build Sales I jm ?
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