THE STATE PORT PILOT
Southport, N. G. ;
PUBIiSHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 1
JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor !
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Wednesday, April 10, 1940 <
Politicians have about cut out this 1
baby-kissing business?except where the 1
babies are over 16 years of age. 1
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People in small towns are given to (
small talk. *
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A person who keeps quiet in order not (
to show how dumb he is really isn't so '
( very dumb. (
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The chest that swells with pride of victory
may also be deflated with defeat. j
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Love keeps you from seeing yourself ]
as others see you. i
Husbands keep their wives fooled by <
telling them only the revised version of j
their arguments. .
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Some people are too proud to stick j
I anybody except their friends. ,
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Last Chance
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If you are a siuneni m une ui mc
Brunswick county schools and have not '
yet completed an essay on "Why We :
Should Protect Our Forests From Fire,"
' we suggest that you sit right, down this
week-end and write one.
The contest doesn't require long hours
of painful pensmanship; the word limit
r is 500 to 1500 words. You will not have
to do a lot of tedious research; what the
sponsor wants is a collection of expres(
sions from Brunswick's young citizens regarding
the forestry protection program.
County Forest Warden Dawson Jones
has gone to considerable trouble and ex-1
pense to raise the prize money of $100.00 '
, that is being offered. His only hope of re- j
j ward lies in the educational effect these
papers will have on the public, so do
? your part to help keep interest alive in
the forestry program, and give yourself
an opportunity to win a big cash prize.
Mean Business
Two weeks ago we printed an article
f in which County Agent J. E. Dodson announced
a schedule for giving farmers
who intend to comply with the soil conservation
program during 1940 an opportunity
to sign a copy of their farm
plans.
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As we understand it, this is being done
I for the sole purpose of giving the county
j agent's office an index from which to
1 work. There will be no effort to govern
or control the farms beyond the provisions
of the soil conservation agreement.
1 At any rate, this much is clear: No
man who fails to submit his farm plans
will be eligible for a soil conservation
i payment check for this year. This word
I is being reiterated for what it is worth
i to the farmers.
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Horse Show
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For a small group of local horse lovI
ers, at least, the Cape Fear Horse Show
V in Wilmington was intensely interesting.
I High spot of the four-show performance,
so far as Southport people were concerned,
was the spectacular victory scored
Friday night by Cherry McDonald, the
i Fergus' mare, with Brother Christian in
| the saddle.
His voctory ride was all the more impressive
when you remember that a year
ago he had never ridden a horse; and
up until last Friday he had never seen
a horse show.
And talking about the show itself, this
^ year's event topped all previous perfori
mances. It was run in truly big league
i I style, and our neighbors up the river
! deserve a lot of appreciation from the
I ' sportsmen of Eastern Carolina.
| Five Problems Of
i The Rural South
ISome months ago the U. S. Department
of Agriculture employed J. W. Firor,
; Georgia agricultural economist, to travel
over the South and ask questions. As a
result of his investigation Prof. Firor,
writing in The Progressive Farmer, lists
the five leading problems of the rural
South as follows:
(1) The lack of farm income.
(2) The relation of farm population
to our farm resources.
(3) The lack of modern marketing
facilities.
(4) Tjie conservation of agricultural
resources.
(5) Price relationships between what
the farmers buy and sell.
With reference to the fifth problem
Prof. Firor has this to say:
"Some tell us that in the long run supsly
and demand will always make the
price. But prices are influenced by many
hings. Value of money?the purchasing
power of money?is not fixed. Some
prices are fixed by monopoly or governnental
regulations. Cotton and tobacco
srices are greatly influenced by the state
sf export trade and foreign commerce in
general. In the past, half of our principal
:ash crop?cotton?has gone to foreign
customers; the South also has about half
America's farm population. Hence the
egular job of one-fourth of the farmers
sf the United States has been to work
for foreign countries.
"Pay these workers get depends on the
?oods foreign people send us. To work
for foreign people and then put up barriers
that prevent their returning the
ivork does not make sense; yet this we
tiave been doing. Many people in the
South are opposed to efforts that would
increase international trade and yet are
asking for better foreign markets for
their cotton and tobacco. Some people
in the South preach 'national self-sufficiency'
and demand higher prices for cotton
and tobacco.
"In conclusion, I should like to call
especial attention to a firm conviction.
The time has come in the South when
many people must give long and serious
study to these five problems and long
and serious efforts to solve them, or only
luck will prevent us from experiencing
more difficult economic situations than
we had in 1932."
Some people can make more cracks
about their neighbors than a brick can
make in a plate glass window.
The reception we get in radio recently
is about the same a tramp would get at
a snooty party.
To preserve your self-respect, you must
be careful that you aren't canned, it's
been in our observation.
Too many people are willing to lay
down the law?and never pick it up
again.
Maybe the reason a lot of people have
such long necks is because they are always
sticking them out.
Now it looks like the soil or dirt conservation
program mighty be extended to
the political field.
If your ears begin burning either your
friends are talking about you or you're
being "given an elevated "hot-foot."
THE UNFRIENDLY tlNNS
(The Charlotte Observer)
The Soviet premier, Molotoff, seems to have
been sitting at the feet of the Gamaliel of intrigue
and deceit, one Hitler, for his learning.
Speaking to the Supreme command of Russia
affairs a few days ago, he was undertaking
to give an account of the war with Finland.
It was the "unfriendly attitude," he said,
of the representatives of Finland last Fall
which forced the "decision to the field of
war."
Thus, of course, seeking to justify the Russian
invasion by throwing the blame upon the
little country of the Finns and the unfriendliness
of their representatives when Russia demanded
that ports, possessions, fortifications
and whatever else Russia wanted be ceded
without the necessity of self-defense on the
part of the little country.
We suppose, after all, it would be called
"unfriendly" if either an individual or a nation
put up a fight when a big bully cdme
around and demanded this-and-that, else.
Unfriendly to stand guard at one's own
home and fireside when a ruthless plunderer
forces his way in.
Unfriendly to show a spirit of self-protection
when the rapist ard burglar and assassin
makes an attack.
Unfriendly to fight to the death for country
and conscience.
Yes, Finland was unfriendly to the Russians.
As everybody else is who has the faintest
trace of the principles of honor and courage
in their bones.
Just Among
The Fishermen
B'? vv* is. KEZIAH
FRIEND Yaskell informs us he
has a new trailer for the boat
and when the season reopens he
and I can go anywhere, except to
| the World's Fair.
SAM RAGAN Says in
his sports column that we can ,
turn out more tall fish stories ;
in a day than any one else can
in a year. ,
GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS
has been editorially impunging
upon our good character by claiming
we manufactured tall fishing
stories.
WE ARE looking for Frank L. ;
Johnson of Statesville to come
in on a fishing trip before long.
He always brings us a supply of
his advertising knives.
IT'S ABOUT time for Doc Summers
of Charlotte to inaugurate
his annual Gulf Stream fishing ;
pigri mages to South port. Doc has !
fished more on Frying Pan than
any other sportsman.
LAST SEASON the record 1
catch of dolphin in the Gulf
Stream off Beaufort was 52 in
a day. Southport's record was 72
in half a morning, the sportsmen
having to quit because of
exhaustion catching these and
other big fish.
WE BELIEVE that John R. .
Peacock of High Point holds the
record for the biggest barracuda
caught on Frying Pan. He usually
brings a bunch of Washington,
D. C. sportsmen with him.
Tins SEASON you will see
sportsmen from about half the
48 states in the union, making
pilgrimages to Southport for Gulf
Stream fishing on Frying Pan
ehnnls
NO FISH tale this. Miss Alice
Baldwin, Dean at Duke University,
sent us word last week she
was coming with her girls to see
us this summer. When she came
' last year we fell in love with all
the girls, especially Miss Baldwin.
FLORA McbONALD College
girls, don't believe the story we
told them about the ghost of
Theodosia Burr Alston on Bald
Head island. If they will send
us the most marvelously beautiful |
girl they have at Flora McDonald,
and if she will walk across
Bald Head island alone with us
at midnight, she will see the
ghost.
ONE DAY last week the sea
gulls ate up all the bread we
had to offer and we had to send
Mayor John Eriksen running an
errand to buy some more.
ASSERTING he was an old
man, that we ran him ragged,
Bob Thompson, State Publicity
Director, writes us, reproachfully,
to advise that he had to go home
from Southport last week and
take to his bed.
THANKS to Senator Bob Reynolds
for saying that President
Roosevelt could not find a more
enjoyable or more suitable place
for fishing than Wilmington and
Southport affords anywhere on
the Western Hemisphere.
USING THE North Carolina
Navy for the advancement of the
upper coast and to discredit the
lower is not in keeping with what
we think annual legislative appropriations
are made for.
REPORTS FROM officials of
the fisheries commission are indicative
that the shad season has
been poor all along the upper
coast. On the Cape Fear river it
is described as having been good.
IN ADDITION to the offshore
fishing boats, this season may
find some non-resident boats at
Southport catering to Gulf Stream
fishing parties. Four locally owned
boats are already equipped or
are being equipped for the Gulf
Stream work. These are the Sea
Girl of Southport, the E. M.
Lewis, the Maude and Mable and
Dr. Hyatt's boat.
HERE'S A BIT of appreciation
to Donny Watts and Alfred Newton
for standing by with their
sport fishing boat, E. M. Lewis,
to render every service in getting
the Flora McDonald girls to Bald
Head and back. All around cooperation
results in visitors going
home feeling they have been
' among friends and kindly treated.
SOUTHPORT
SCHOOL NEWS
HERE AND THERE
A drum, a drum, Macbeth
doth come". The Seniors agree
that Macbeth is here in all his
glory.
The girls are making the most
of leap year by asking the boys
to go to the banquet with them.
The freshmen seem to enjoy
their own little government.
The second year French class
likes very much to read French
stories. Why not? Especially when
they are love stories.
MACBETH
The Senior English class is now
studying Shakespeare's famous
tragedy, "Macbeth". We are enjoying
it very much and it is
becoming more interesting every
day.
FRENCH WORK
The senior French class is doing
some very interesting work.
They are reading a French story,
"L'Abb'e Constatin"?In English
it is, "Father Constatine". They
are also making posters and maps
and the writing is in French. It
YOUR HOME ~
AGENT SAYS _
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SCHEDL LE
Friday 12, Myrtle Head club
meets at 2:30 with Mrs. Murray Bu
Long. ... in
Monday 15, Town Creek club
meets at 3:00 with Mrs. VV. C.
Woodbury. bo'
Tuesday 16, Leland 4-H club 0i(j
meets at school at 1:30; Leland
Club meets at 2:30 at the Club ha
Room. thf
Wednesday 17, Southport 4-H
club meets at 2:30.
Thursday 18, Winnabow Club pu
meets at 2:30 at the old school
building.
ANNOUNCEMENT So
The County Council of Home m<
Demonstration clubs, at its Feb- ha
ruary meeting, voted to postpone Ki
the federation meeting and spring
flower show until May 20th. This 3
meeting was planned to be held W:
at Shallotte school featuring the
flower show, a picnic lunch and ar
an afternoon program with Miss Ur
Ruth Current, state home demonstration
agent, as guest speaker rn(
and director of recreation. Je
Members are asked to bear in th,
mind the change in date and to
plan to participate i.i this countywide
meeting. ki<
Beautifying mail boxes is a jai
way to make a home more attractive.
This may be an indivi itial
project for "Better Homes, ?
Week". m
The box should be 4 feet from
the ground and should have a
bracket to support the box. An
attractive way to beautify this
part of the premises is to paint
the post white and plant a vine,
climing rose, or shrub at the
base. If it is a climbing plant it
should be kept trimmed so that
the owners name is visible to the
postman.
Very often it is unsightly to see
five or six mail boxes stationed
at a cross roads and placed on
standard of different heights. It
would certainly improve the appearance
of these boxes if two
posts were used with a plank j
across the top to support all the 1
mail boxes. Vines or shrubs
around these boxes would greatly j
improve their apearance.
Names should be painted evenly
and clearly. A little varnish mixed
with the enamel will prevent
it running.
Look at your box! Doesn't it
need attention?
is being enjoyed very much.
CHAPEL PROGRAM
At our regular chapel program
last Thursday the second
grade students presented a play
entitled "Safety Hill". It definitly
showed how the use of some
of our health riles will help us
and it was enjoyed by everyone,
present.
SCHOOL EXHIBITS
The first grade is now making
farm exhibits for the contest at
Bolivia. They have also made
clocks and learned to tell the
time of day. They are holding a
contest among themselves. A
prize will be presented to the
pupil who reads the most books
from now until the end of the
school year.
PICNIC
The fourth and fifth grades
went on a delightful picnic Wednesday
and enjoyed it very much.
PLAN PLAY
The fourth grade will be in
charge of the chapel program
Thursday morning at 10:15
o'clock. They will present a oneact
play entitled "The Road To
Happiness.
ANNUAL CONTEST
Last Friday the annual high
school recitation and declamation
contest was held in the school
auditorium. Those taking part
were Doris Price, Annie Margar-1
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el walls, Lions annul, j^ara ivte
Drew, Lula Marie Swan, Helen
Evans, Theron Price, Henry
Smith, Clarence Lennon, and
Marcellos Cox. "Hie winners were
Lara Lee Drew and Marcellos
Cox taking first place and Doris
Price and Henry Smith taking
second places. Those winning 'first
places will compete against representatives
from the other
schools of the county at Bolivia
on April 12.
Winnabow News
Misses Mary Elkins and Esther
Shipp of Wilmington visited Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. Richaman Thursday
afternoon.
Lindsay Skipper of Rocky
Mount spent last week end with
his mother, Mrs. Lila Skipper.
Mr. and Mrs. Vonnie Hickman
of Wilmington visited Misses Satterfield
and Pope Tuesday.
Miss Judy Foulke returned
Tuesday to resume her studies at
the Cathedral school in Washington,
D. C., after Spending the
spring holidays with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. R. Foulke.
R. F. Lewis of Woodleaf was
a visitor here Wednesday.
Mrs. G. C. Edge of Wilmington
spent Wednesday with Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. Richman. I
Phil Bergman of U. S. Army
service, Fort Bragg, spent Wednesday
and Thursday with his
mother, Mrs. E. F. Bergman.
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Plaxco of
Southport and Mrs. Plaxco [s
mother, Mrs. Miller, of Richmond,
Va., were visitors here Wednesday
evening.
D. L. Hickman and family spent 1
Sunday in Tarboro. Mrs. Hick- '
man remained to spend awhile
with relatives.
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rhe Senior's annual play came off laSt night
th a smooth performance from the whole cast,
ster Northrop and Doris Corlete had the leads
the mystery of "The Haunted Schoolhouse"
. Our new col'm of the society page made its
iv last week and is a big improvement over the
I form of social reporting . . . The postoffice
3 become the dread of all light bulbs. It's said
it the slamming of doors, etc., burns out about
e perweek. Here's an opening for the OE to
t a factory site in town.
Cherry and Brother brought home the bacon for
uthport in the Horse Show. Any one needing
idical service the following morning couldn't
ve found a more genial Doctor this side of
idare . . . For tales on traffic incidents, L. T.
iskell exceeds his fish-story reputation ....
ith the Azaleas in bloom Orton stories and ads
e to be found in many periodicals . . . "The
ider-Pup" is offered for the week-end entertain:nt
at the Amuzu. In the starring role is Gloria
an, singing star being groomed to take over
e Durbin roles. From this first offering she fulls
her task very well . . The Katzenjammer
is lend a hand with their musical and slapstick
:tics.
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W1LM1NG
^^WEDNESDAY, APRTTTI^BP
rLY NEWS Enthusiasm
waxes hot in the effort
President here on one of his famous fishin ' B|
. . . The golf bug has bitten some of thT
er set, and makeshift greens are being
flourishing use. At present it's a two hm 1
with the game following back and forth bet B!
the two. A dozen or so are going thmu?h^^B?
qualifying stage and plan a tournament 0f '^1 1
sort for the week-end. Any one may em. MB
"wf t-j,
likes a round of this game . . . 'Hi
Now its a pickett fence on each side that 1
to the appearance of the Plaxen property Bl
Warren Wilson, nephew of Hook Moore ami ^Ri
known here, won the Southern Conference hey, BB
weight boxing title for Clemson College this yS ^B_
He's a mainstay of the pitching staff this ^ ^B
. . . Mac Moore has been making steady ^Bj
ments on his residence at Supply. ^Ht
Sounds like parents can get an idea of ^
their children do in school if they attend tk, He
school exhibit at Bolivia Friday and Saturdav
Fredere's hounds haven't hit the front page
often this season, but they're still plenty goo!*
a fox race . . . They say that Miss McMurrav
doing a lot of good with her social work
St.
Andrews, Episcopal Church at Calabash.
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