North Carolina Newspapers

I PAGE 2 THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor Sutured u second-claw matter April 29, 1628, a Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates bNE TEAR 81.6C UX MONTHS itl THREE MONTHS .71 NATIONAL 6DITORIALIflAnW ASSOCIATION '' 1 1 Wednesday, May 29, 1940 If you know that sooner or later you'll f have to come face to face with him, there's no use beating the Devil around the bush until you wear yourself out. Some people who wouldn't think of telling you a lie will tell you the truth in such a rambling way that you can't at be sure what it is. I' f!t Some people tell everything they know, while some others do not know everyIf thing thev tell. tlf We don't want to help breed intoler$ ance, but we think the place for the fifth 4 columnists who are dissatisfied with conditions as they are here is right back in the countries where their allegiance lies. Live At Home Nations at war cause an abnormal de mand for food and supplies, and since | the greater part of Europe already is enf, gaged in conflict it appears more than !( likely that prices on these commodities will have made a tremendous advance by this fall. On the contrary, when all the resources of a country are thrown into battle, little attention will be paid to the manufacture and distribution of tobacco, which is : strictly a nonessential. This is just our round-about way of j. saying that the wise course for our farmH era this year is to make sure that plenty of food and feed crops are included in their operations. By this fall it may be they will find tobacco prices low because t of a curtailed market, and prices for jj: farm produce at an unprecedented high. To be forced to buy all the things neces[i sary for the farm family may be a tremendous economic burden, unless our j program has been readjusted to a live-at| home basis. ? What We Can Do The president's message on preparedness delivered last week to Congress jarT red this nation from its smug self-comij? placency into the realization that we must face the unpleasant realization that the war in Europe has made our position h extremely precarious. Ef The president asked for broad expendiUAnwvMnvMAn^ nv>/1 fll A "PiV?o+- V>1TS_ H tilled lUi I celliiKiiucm, cum me 11101 3" terical reaction to that on the part of many of our people was that our entry P into the war was both eminent and inevitH able. No such implication was intended by Ij the president. If we are to remain a free k. and independent nation, then we must be ? able to resist with force any effort to ; ;i take away these rights. What Mr. RooseI velt did was to outline a program of na? tional defense that will equip this nation to cope with any emergency that may be | brought on by bandit nations. But, to get back to the likelihood of I our immediate entry into the war. Noth| ing could be more impractical, nor more yn absurd, than that the United States go 1 jumping into the war that has engulfed H the greater part of Europe. Actually, oar B present standing army would be no more f I than sufficient for a home guard were we Hi at war with any major power. So then it | 5 would be a matter of starting from j- scratch with both men and equipment if f| we wanted to ship an army to France, n and events of the last war should have ? taught us that raw recruits aren't made i; into soldiers within a few weeks. The plight of the Allies affects us sorely, for many of us see in the fall of FranK ce and England the overthrowing of two ? of the monuments to the progress of civij lization, and we think with dread of the ! possibility of a Hitlerized Europe. But K warm though our sympathies be, they do if: not dictate a step toward national suicide. D And to go into this war half-cocked ||; would amount to just that. We are in I position to help the Allies, immediately and materially, by furnishing them with planes and armaments and munitions as fast as our speeded up production can turn them out. They have the men, but THE STATE P [lack the supplie^^uuM^^nir suggestion that we supply them until we have time to build up and properly train an , armed force capable of holding its own with any on earth. Legion Was Apostle . Of Adequate Defense tc ??? ' W > Back in the days of the late '20s and tf ) gi ( early '30s when it was considered almost oi . heresay to advocate a program of ade- ^ quate national defense, and all the talk ai was of disarmament rather than arma- fc, n( ment, the American Legion went about over the country preaching a doctrine of " adequate defense. st We can remember quite vividly about a decade ago, John J. Burney, then dis- w trict commander of tne legion, in a stir- g' ring Armistice day address here, came ai forth with a program of building up the armaments of this country which would be commensurate with the needs of a n great nation like ours. ti( That address did not fall upon such willing ears, as we remember it, but the f0 course of events of the past five years G; has emphasized the wisdom of the Leg- bl ion's program. pi After all, no organization should be Di able to speak with more authority on the subject of defense of our nation than the st Legion?the men who fought two decades th ago to "make the world safe for democracy." ag Today, the growing dangers threatening the security of our democracy have spurred the American people into adopt- Sp ing the program which so long was ad- Hl vocated by the Legion. It seems rather a pity that we did not pay more attention st to this great organization before, but per- P'i haps it is, in this case at least, better late to than never. no ; bi FINANCIAL WIZARDRY ^ IN TARHEEL1A wi Gi ((Jacksonville, (Fla.,) Times Union) ^ Jtsl Floridians who have been watching the tj, course of finances of their State government re; will find some interesting data in reports from ^ North Carolina with which to make compari- ^0 sons. The figures reflect credit both upon the W Tarheel citizenry and State officials. They reveal a ready response of the people to their ^u tax-paying responsibilities and a handling of mi the funds received from this source by their eo ge Chief Executive that stands out in the Amer ican Stat^ governmental scene. po Within the past few days Governor Clyde Hoey has been able, as a result of the climb- an ing tax receipts, to announce the allocation vil of $5,000,000 from current highway fund sur- Yc plus to use in improving primary and secon- pj dary roads. But at the same time he stated ed emphatically that "there will be no diversion th of highway funds to the general treasury tn this year." ne In addition to the skyrocketing tax receipts, Governor Hoey also reveals that returns from stj the State income tax will exceed all previous to records, and in the general fund there is ex- ^ pected to be a surplus in excess of $2,000,- ^ii 000 this year. po Let nobody get the idea, however, that North Carolina has all of her eggs in one 136 nil financial basket, to be spent for one pur- br pose. That State is spending $30,000,000 on its an road system this fiscal year, but at the same time is taking care of three of the South's ri\ great institutions of higher learning?North du Carolina State at Raleigh, the University at aJ. Chapel Hill, and the Woman's College at ! Greensboro. da ah These are parts of a superb public school pj, system that stands out among the Southern ms States, the North Carolinians having been an bo among the first in Dixie to launch a huge pu state-wide public school building program. nil This program has given the Tarheels schools worthy of the name in every section from S0 the Atlantic Ocean to beyond the scenic high- cli lands in the west. &? pa Another feature of the State's financial * po situation is embodied in the fact that during ar the four years of the administration of Gov- ca wc ernor Hoey, North Carolina will have expen- cll ded between $90,000,000 and $100,000,000 on tec the highways without any diversion of high. , an way funds. ke Not so bad for one unit of Uncle Sam's sp major economic problem! But there is nothing 151 at all mysterious about the showing, or rather T). about how it has been made possible. North rei Carolina has an unusually outstanding record ?r for the type of leadership the people has placed in charge of affairs at Raleigh. This tic record extends far back through the decades, fri and its good effects are manifested in such wj ways as that herein related. ru North Carolina is no richer than other R: Southern States. It is a State that has many pc cotton mills and a large percentage of textileworking population. Another of its major in- * dustrial developments is the tobacco manu- j facture. Utilities had another large place in a the industrial set-up which is varied to quite a a considerable extent. ? ORT PILOT. SOUTHPORT ' I Just Among The Fishermen B* iv. Jts. KEZIAH JACK HORNER, Sports Ediir of the Greensboro Record, rites us he will be down with le gang' this week-end. The ing, in this case, is a number 1 the members of the Greens>ro Racing Pigeon Association, ho will bring their birds down id liberate them on the gulf >r a flight to Greensboro with . iWS. DAVID STICK, Capitol Beat iporter for the Raleigh Times, ho has a strong flare for fishing ories and other features, may iow up here Friday night and i ) out on the gulf next day. He rites he intends coming the 1 ;xt time Bob Thompson and i ill Baker come. Those two birds e expected this week. i WILL REHDER, Florist, of I 'ilmington, is planning big do- 1 gs of this year's meet for the i orth Carolina Florist's Associa- 1 m. This week he querried us i garding the facilities for taking I 'er a hundred of the flower ! Iks from Southport out to the nlf Stream for a day with the 1 g fellows on Frying Pan. i DERMID Mac LEAN, moving I cture camera artist for the i ick Reynolds pictures, writes us ey are opening the new Reyilds Park in Winston-Salem this " iturday. He just has to be ' ere. But he likes the Gulf ' ream-homing-pigeon idea so 1 sll that he asked us to try it < ;ain soon and he will come. > MAYOR RALPH LEWIS, of ? -eensboro is a good sport in his ? ,'n right and likes all sorts of I orts. It is possible that His 1 inor will be at Southport this 1 ;ek-end to try his luck in the ilf Stream and see the Gulf ' ream Team of racing homer 1 geons off on their way back ' Greensboro with a news story. GEORGE E. PEXN, Ike Free- < ir. Max Parker and H. P. idge, all of Kingsport, Tenn., ent most of last week on Bald c jad Island, having a set-to ( th the chanel bass. Captain ' - I is moist;, ui wuiiiiugtuu, auvas guide for the expedition. c isy with something else when ? ey returned, we did not get a 1 port. PIGEONS are accumulating. 1 ;orge L. Stearns of the Out- s or Advertising Company, of rightsville, sent us three pairs beautiful young racing homers c st week. Three more pairs are I e to come in this week from 1 jmbers of the Greensboro Pig- * n Racing Association. We are 1 tting some birds on the coast. s GOLDFISH have all been dis- * sed of. Recently Judge Henry innehl, of Fredericksburg, Va., A. Soret, of the same place, d George H. and T. G. Melle, of Sykesville, Va., and New >rk, brought down 200 to be ing craft have passed through fty were left over and inheritby us, to be presented among e wimmen. FLAGS painted on the sides of insatlantic ships are nothing w here. Hundreds of such seaing craft have sapped through recent months. But for a ictly local sport fishing boat adopt that custom is someing new. The Ray Stubbs, of .ptain James Arnold, is sort of itinctive with a big flag on rt starboard. BAiu rxc.ii. anu w. c. ill went down to the Waccaiw river one day last week and ought in a nice catch of perch d trout. Various and sundry ntacts down in Waccamaw ivship have been reporting the rer fishing as being very poor ring recent weeks. This is the posite of freshwater fishing ound Southport just now. MENHADEN showed up Thursy, just off the bar. Boats have so been finding a few above ying Pan Shoals. Blue fish and ickerel prey upon these fish, d their appearance argues for th mackerel and blue fish to t in their appearance in large imbers in a very short time. iort fishing will be good very on now. WOMEN FOLKS have been inided in the composition of a odly percentage of the fishing rties that have come to Southrt this year. Some of the girls e right good when it comes to tching fish. At least it is notesrthy that parties which inlde them can usually be counx 3 on to bring in a good catch. BOTH T. H. Briggs & Sons d David Stick of Raleigh have en very nice to Southport with ort fishing broadcasts over the dio each week. The T. H. iggs & Sons broadcast is each lursday night at 10 o'clock, dictly after the Bing Crosby proam on WPTF. Again on Satday mornings at about 10:30 ey broadcast weather condi>ns for Saturday and Sunday om Southport. Mr. Stick fills on the air at most any time th a report on fishing. He also g ns an angling column in The 1 Ueigh Times twice each week t id never fails to give a nice re- i irt on things at Southport. Dear Bill:" writes Jimmie trlggs of the T. H. Briggs and f ions. Inc., in Raleigh, "just a t ine to tell you how much I f .ppreciate your good reports .nd encouraging letters. I have tad lots of lnquries about i: Southport and since I have been f , N. C YOUR HOME ' AGENT SAYS HEALTH WINNER The 4-H County Health win- d ner was Delphia Lennon of Supply for the senior girl and Lucy tj Mayo Northrop of Southport for ^ the junior girls. Delphia represented Brunswick county at Lumberton Monday at d the district elimination contest P where she lost to a Hoke county 4-H'er. However, we are glad 't< that Delphia scored fifth place t( for the district. hi DISTRICT MEETING w 4-H and home demonstration members are reminded that June 12 is close at hand and prepara- a' tions for the district meeting at ri Burgaw are under way. ^ The meetings will be held simultaneously at the court house c ind at the school. A joint picnic lunch will be spread. During the o: ifternoon while Miss Hattie Pearl , Mallard leads the 4-H boys and . girls in a recreational program the adults will enjoy a Fashion m show at the Burgaw theatre. \\ All persons are urged to regis:er at the Brunswick county registration table upon arrival and P' :o work Khrd for the attendance ravel. DLDER YOUTH CONFERENCE le North Carolina's Fourth Older fs ifouth Conference will be held at st State College, Raleigh June 4-8. _ 'Rural Youth Faces Life Situa ions" will be the theme for five cc lays of inspiring information, tii vholesome recreation, friendship ind fellowship. Group discussions ~ ind lectures will be given by >eople of National reputation on IVC UiailCilglllg OUUJCV/kO. avuiu* fouth Faces Income Earnings" 'Rural Youth Faces the Establ- ds shment of a Home" "Rural Youth Li "aces the Need for Participation t0 n Community, County, State and g, National Affairs", "Strengthening ne )ur Spiritual Value". GENERAL INFORMATION w Each day's program will consist jj if a discussion period, a conference summary, and a lecture per- af od. Yi Recreation features will include ea ine and one half hours of organized recreation each evening, 0f ours of the capitol city, a picnic yj irogram, a pipe organ recital, he annual banquet and other Sc ipecial features. Tj COST Five dollars and twenty-five W( :ents will caver all necessary ex- si: lenses for board, room rent and p, egistration fee. Delegates will Jo ie expected to carry bedding and oilet articles. Interested persons yj ihould contact the home agent, p, mentioning your name in each broadcast I have had quite a = lot of calls about you. As a _ boost for you would say that you sure do have lots of friends and I believe that a good portion of them have spoken to me about you. George Mordeoai came in the other day and told me he thought a lot of you and asked me to ask if you have smoked up the tobacco he sent f you last Christmas. Said he sent you some by mail. Looking forward to more of your swell reports and hoping that I'll be able to come down and have you greet me sometime soon.?Jimmie Briggs." Thanks, a lot for the above Jimmie. tobacco has all gone up in smoke. Sometime when you are putting the Thursday ? ??-a- -4?M iV. ? 1? A.ll nigni miii i uii Liu- air icu George I will take half a day off and no nigger fishing with him and Mr. Williams this sum- ( mer. Also tell Frank L. Johnson in Statesville that I am i having to use the bottle opener on my last Coca-Cola knife to c clean the hoofs of my favorite saddle horse every morning. He had better bring me a new one on his next fishing trip down here. Frank Link Johnson, or to be more specific, "Ole" man Frank Link Johnson, "Missing Link" between the cuspidor and Reynolds Natural Leaf chewing tobacco? only guy who ever dared to take a cuspidor into the Rose Bowl, when D-UK-E scared hell out of South- ,, ern California for 59 minutes and 20 second, writes us an 1 affectionate letter from Statesville where he dominates things in the art of manufacturing and drinking Coca-Cola in bottles. Frank Says: "Damn It, I ? really have missed the old gang of tobacco chewers and chair choppers at Southport, and I am about ready to cut three legs off a four poster bed. Had ( a letter from Bryce Beard, ( Salisbury, Past Commander of the American Legion of North f, Carolina. The guy asked me if it would suit me and the CocaCola king of Salisbury and another friend to go with him to Southport Friday of this week, if "Colonel Bill Keziah says it is alright for as to come" It looTcs alright, but don't for;et I need a new pocket knife. Phe wallet you sent me didn't 1 iave nothin' in it but the lin- . ng? Bill. o "Here we have a wonderfuly ine Queen Anne. Mirror," cried ' he auctioneer. "What am I ofered for it?" Old Lady: "Is it cracked?" Auctioneer: "No Madam, it sn't but we can easily crack it or you." ' - WOT E jg Saturday was Poppy Day. That's one charity. t rive to which we always are glad to lend our,' o-operation. The Salvation Army and the Nalonal Red Cross are other organizations on our j > onor roll of benevolences . . . Don't be surprised considerable interest in racing homer pigeons : J evelopes locally. Three pair already are well- j * I j laced, and others are coming. If the white boys had ever shown as much in- ! srest in baseball as the colored youth of the 1' )wn is showing now, this would be a diamond 1 otbed. The colored boys' team already is worth atching .... Now it is possible to go "Bowl- 1 ig Along With The Breeze" on the front porch 1 t Long Beach pavilion . . . Interest in horseback ^ ding seems to wilt with warm weather . . . Too | r ad that Mrs. Ed Taylor's lilies weren't readyiS >r the flower show. j We've grown used to the monotonous squeak c f our hinged sign, but few of our callers have j v . . A reader suggested the other day that we t ive Henry Mitchell credit for being one of the e lost courteous colored residents of Southport. v te're glad to, because that's what we think, c ugene Gore is our personal nomination for the j f alitest young darkie in town. 11 ~ f tho oraintv will regret to J r nenus uuuugiwui. ?-*??- j ? ? arn of the decision of Rev. B. R. Page and o imily to move to Boone. He is a former county , s iperintendent of school and is ex-principal at j t olivia and Leland. Mrs. Page has scoured the J lunty in search of new and renewal subscrip- j s ons for us, and we'll miss her work . . . Since ib Winnabow News w,lm,n?Bnevemng with Mr Mrs. T. M. Sumner and little C. Savage. LUghter, Mary Jane and Miss mi7JLb zzie Frink Cannon, of Wilming- Council, were vis n, and Miss Jane Cannon, of day. )livia, were visitors here Wed- Rev. J. R. Pott isday afternoon. was a visitor hi Miss Marion Ross Leiner, of turning from at ilmington, is visiting her aunt, assembly at Chat rs. Joe Ramsuer and family. Friends of Mrs. Miss Emma Lou Harrelson is be glad to knov tending the World's Fair in New better after b? Drk and other points of inter- Walker Hospital t. last week. Miss Letitia Hogan and brother, Mrs. S. O. Cr Wilmington, are visiting Rev. daughter, Nell, a '. J. Freeman and family. Walker were vis Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Sutton, of port Friday, mthport, were visitors here John Boyd Fine lursday afternoon. was a visitor here Mrs. M. A. Sullivan spent last j noon. ;ek end in Nashville with her j Miss Alice J. ? ster, Mrs. G. W. Sullivan and in t York arrived Sa scky Mount with her niece, Mrs. j her aunts, Miss ihn Smith. land Mrs. E. W. 1 John Van and C. E. Blair, of i ily. ilmington, were visitors here I Mr. and Mrs. J iday evening. j daughter, Miss Jt Clint Daniels and family, of J wood Lewis spe Efird': WILMINGTON, N. G ??? MEN Summer Pants . ? , r. White C Men's better grade Dress . .. Men's white bu ?ants for summer in a wide smooth elk lea -ange of new patterns and *>lors. Well tailored. Special? ^ 106 ?r SPECIAL VALE FA IK $1.94 $1: MEN'S BETTE WASH PANTS White C Men's Summer Wash Pants Men's better n all new patterns and colors. Sport Oxfords, olkls, stripes, and checks. . . wing tip or stra Suy now! . . . PAIR? $2. 97c 1 WO MI New Sport Shirts White Nov gaberdine Twill Sport Shirts; Women's whit olors, green, blue, tan, etc. Cuban heel novc 11.00 VALUE? PAI 68C WOME STRAW HATS BETTER Q The new Straw Hats for sum- Noveltj ner are here In a big variety Women's white if styles in soft and hard Cuban or high I traws? plain styles. . . 97c $2.< t ? WEDNESDAY, MAY J rLY NEWS - I ;his column cracked wise about the ''f-serr.l^T^B jf Preacher Adams and his umbrella t0 & E Prime Minister Chamberlain the former has K lp his parasol for a raincoat. 8 MOVIES: Mickey Rooney makes another B aearanc here as Andy Hardy in Judge Hardy J IK 3on on Monday. Judy Garland and June p,,,^ ire the girls after his heart in this episode of tte Kf* amous film family. Lewis Stone as the judge ar4 D* >cilia Parker as Andy's sister have import^ Bh oies , , . . An all time high in lonesonicnes^ ; let by the dogs of Thomas St. George. While he, jeen in the hospital they've worn the saddest RI ongest faces to be found anywhere ... The dw ft' re Margate has taken on a number of Souths nen in the crew and will probably remain in thj, 1 lection for another month. B. r.n am V?o?'r? vorlin cr-hrtrli11 as ? . BEv Wltn summci nv^ ,,n. aj; ^ lefinite as the weather. Most of the top.fiite Str,. 5 vill be taking three months vacations giving Bf o hopeful newcomers. Time changes ate still . R ffect and will continue to befuddle us for a glV K? vhile . . . Kay Kyser has moved his schooling Hj if Musical Knowledge to Cataline Island and Caij. Pf ornia during the filming of his second pictUtf iut will continue to broadcast every week V ay Bee, featuring the Solid Sax Senders, turn RL ut a successful dance last week. The new ten - p ax man is a veteran of twelve yean in ? ra work, but Courtney is still high man. B tore and more fishermen are turning south ttfc ummer but, so far, the Southpoit season his K." een slim. Kj nt Wednesday Lancaster with Mr. Sow, . and Mrs. W. mother, who is very ill fit, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Goodtnst ^B msley and chil- and daughter, Min Carrol, of Wj. H eth and Bill, of mington, visited Mrs. E. tv I litors here Fri- Taylor and family Sun ly aft . H noon. Up s, of Southport, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Thar: H ere Friday, re- attended the Wilmington 1. H tending general school baccalaureate sermor. ?. H tanooga, Tenn. day evening. K G. E. Earp will Sheriff David Jones. Petri, H T she is much Mckeithan. Harry Manua jr. H ring in James Dave Farmer, of Wilmingt - ^B in Wilmington were visitors here Tuesday H route to Fort Caswell. Kr aven and little Miss Pauline Lewis and JugaH ,nd Mrs. Nellie ita Sowell accompanied Xonrtoj itors in South- Lewis to Boone Tuesday to m * H j Rev. B. R. Page and family fa* H h, of Southport,! Bolivia. We are sorry to Me Mr H Saturday after-1 Page and family leave our CO* H munity. Sawyer, of New John William Savage returns! turday to visit home from James Walker K ? H K. M. Johnson pital Tuesday where he under- V Taylor and fam- went an appendix operation ar! Hi is doing nicely. H . N. Sowell and Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Henry uer; H1 lanita and Nor- visitors in Southpoi t Tuesday nt Sunday in Morning. H - SUMMER I W S~*% T>T-1 T 1 T n K ^ Srt,UlAL5 I* :'S SENIOR CLASS )xfords Stockings Reduced ck or white senior class, very sheer, all ther, straight 1>ure thread SMk stocking h ' fip' EXTRA all the new summer shades 'E. PAIR? _ , t reduced to? 98 79c R QUALITY 2 PAIRS $,!5? )xfords quality white Ladies' 2-pc. Suits new styles, Creations for fun in the sun ight cap toe. Print percales, stripes, chert* ftp polka dots. Shorts anil shirt" to match, vat dye. Sizes ll--# R SPECIAL I 97c I relty Ties 1 I 8 punch trim I SPRING-INTO-^I >lMKR I r I DRESSES I ?8 I $1.9$ I I We expect every sire fr"n J I to 52 in town to I UALTTY I ... wfvlt"** * I these. They're hit st> f TICS I They're made of rayon* ' K v; ? novelty ties. j? ?3.00 dresses. Crepe*- - K \eel, fancy or I by spun Rayons'. Ben'1"'' & . PAIR^- I Flnc prints and solid r I ?| Ml to I I 56 to 53.