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PAGE TWO ? THE STATE PORT PILOt Soutfaport, N. C. I PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY I JAMES M. HARPER, JR.. Editor Altered as second-class matter Apftl 20, 1B2>, at Ifcs Poet OttLoe at aouth^olt, JS. ?., under , the act of March 3, 1870. Subscription Urtei ONE TEAR ; |1.50 EX MONTHB li? THREE MONTHS , JJ/mOjIM EDITORIALB/in^ ASSOCIATaQH J lO^S^TktuStyHtJTl/kxWednesday, July 31, 1940 ? When something is too .good to be true you soon find out that it isn't. People who are always fearing the worst usually are no better prepared to: deal with it when it comes. i Even the people who do not want some-: thing for nothing usually are on'the alert for bargains. " , When a man tells ypu ,he wants your honest opinion he means thit he wants' it if it happens to agree perfectly with his own. ? - ' j V. 4 k" Looks like the boys and girls-most in-' debted to the custom of wearing clothes' A-u - ? .?4. 4-~ ^Hfvnina err Aim H .in. 8FC tllti iirsi iu avail i ??* vwmm ? j shorts. That We May Go On It is extremely unfortunate that the1 present emergency in our national defense should have occurred during a presidential election year. No thinking person can deny that we are face to face with a dangerous situation if our social, politi-j cal and economic pl^ce in world affairs is to be maintained, and still we are more i political minded than we are patriotic. If there were any way to do it under our democratic form of government, we should have been much better off to have declared a political moratorium for1 I 1940, and to have waited until world con-j ditions are more stabilized before we began to rock the boat. But the idea ofj perpetuating in office any group merely; because an emergency exists is to invite dictatorship, to make for totalitarian rule. So from the date of the first preparedness speech with which President Roosevelt literally jerked the nation from its apathy until after the eleotion everything that is done will, consciously or unconsciously, be weighed in the political balarvH niir />rvin<r nppH for sneed and efficiency must go unanswered. And if the Republicans are successful in November, as well they might be, then the period of indecision and unrest will be even longer as house-cleaning of appointees is' made. One way by which we can .go ahead with our election and at the same time keep the wheels of the preparedness pro-1 gram turning is to name a co-ordinator to serve as chairman of the National (Defense Council, to be responsible only to Congress, to serve straight through the! crisis of election and inauguration. There is nothing startlipgly new in t he suggestion, for during the last war Barnard Baruch occupied a similar post, and the work of the committee which .he headed was a model of unspectacular work well done. In naming his seven-man National Defense Council President Roosevelt made Ihis appointments impartially and with the idea of efficiency. That group has been going quietly about its business and has earned .praise from many sources. With this group at his back a national coordinator could keep us on the road to national safety while the partisian battle between Democrats and Republicans rages on. Pseudo-Christians Several weeks ago we wrote an editorial in which we said that never before has the church had a graver responsibility, nor a finer opportunity for service than it has today. There must needs be some institution around which .the good people of the world may rally, under whose guidance they may unite, if the organized forces of destruction are to he stopped short of their goal. But first, of course, must come a singleness of purposes and a thorough cleaning from within for the church and its people. Bishop Stewart of the Episcopal church in a recent Diooesan Convention Address put his finger on .the troujik, and we are quoting herewith 4in excerpt from his message: 1 THE STATE E "I am sure that I do not exaggerate * when I affirm that two-thirds of our no- * mini communicants are only marginal .churchmen with little to distinguish them * from their neighbors in paganry. Doubtless many of these are what would be * called good people,?moved by generous < impulses, feeling at times a faint mysti- * cal hanker after a higher life, and greatly frightened when sickness or death threatens them.; but scratch their beliefs and what do you find ? The faith of the church? No. Instead, a pathetic farrago df sentimentality, skepticism, and super- 01 sfition. Observe their conduct and what do you discover? A thorough going hi worldliness untouched apparently by the ^ spirit of the Crucified. Look for them in k( church: they are there only on state oc- hi casions or social occasions when it pleas es them to join in weddings or funerals I in or the Earster parade, and they are there jbi not as penitents but as patrons, not as i ? adoring worshipers but as critical audi-; tors. Test them by their missionary spirit j ir and they tell you, as unbelievers naturally i?' would, that they don't believe in missions. _ Analyze your church pledges and you find these fringe-churchmen are a dead j weight being carried along by the faith- i ful few. They know little of the work of 1 their parish, less of the Diocese, and noth- s ing of the National Council, or of the < widespread work of the church. We are j not just idly condemning these pseudo- f churchmen, these marginal Christians. : We are realistically facing their plight 1 and urging that they should be our first j missionaiy concern. Many of them are hot far from the Kingdom if only a real 1 effort were made to win them to the joys ' of ge.nuine dicipleship. And than God , we have a faithful remnant, a consecrat- i ed devoted nucleus: they are the salt of ' the earth, but the sale of their lives is _ diluted in this great cauldron of indif- u> ference; and the light of their witness ^ must pass through the opacity of these churchmen who really are no churchmen at all." t? it ? g, T7i <r u/i/w hi -??? 0j Go to the courts of your county with a f keen eye, and a number of revelations sl will be forthcoming. One of the most tl notable of your observations undoubtedly f would be that the majority of the cul- 81 prits who are brought before the bar of ?i justice are the same ones who have been ir up before. , v ti There are, in this county, perhaps 500 a constant repeaters who if they were not t< in the county, the duty of the courts would Joe lessened 75 per cent. b; It is this vicious cycle of offenders that c' deserve the attention of crusaders. What pi makes them repeaters? Does not society Jiave to accept its share of the blame for f' this condition? Would not an attempt to rehabilitate these constant repeaters in < p: crime, most otf it petty crime, be worth cs while? The people of our county should ^ look at the situation squarely, and decide ir for themselves. ti At Long Last So, at long last, Uncle Sam has awak- P' ened to the fact that the scrap iron which America has been shipping to Japan and w Italy and the other nations of Europe 111 and Asia, might be some day returned to e; us in the form of shrapnel and shell. ir Thinking people have for many years fc questioned the wisdom of supplying these ir aggressive nations with the materials with si which they have been able to fashion 11 monstrous war machines. Some people t( have even ventured to wonder if these b; ; same guns which this scrap iron was go- s< ging -to make, might not be some day turned upon us. aj The sale of the scrap-iron to foreign hl countries should have been stopped years tgo. The United States, boasting that it is a peace loving nation which certainly ei lit is, nevertheless during the past few years has been furnishing'Japan a tre- U; mendous amount of the material which Cl went into its war machine for an offen' sive against defenseless, helpless China. n Truth of the real importance of this Cl isorap-iron to Japan is clearly indicated in ? . .the threatened reprisals of the Japanese c< government if an embargo is slapped w ' uppn Shipments of the metal to the Nip- ? ' ponese. b The measure whioh has already been w signed by President Roosevelt, does not * impose an embargo on the shipments of n scrap metals to foreign nations, but re- u quires that such shipments, along with 'those of oil, he licensed, which places it a i within the province of the government to 11 slap an -embargo on such shipments at * any time. b Of course, .the embargo idea was the b mam objective, and we think that there b should be no time lost by Uncle Sam in u .seeing to it that ell shipments of war * ;) to what appears to be an un- b : EmndiyJf^pan be stopped. r. flRT PILOT- SOUTHPq Why We Should Protect Our Forests From Fire (BY DORIS FRINK) a little fire la quick trodd. * which being suffered rive XI STL* ?1W the mo sipful friend man has ha is long struggle upward in tl velopment of civUization. It h "?Dt him from freezing, cooki sP food enabled him to sme ,etals given him power f asportation and manufactu lg, and destroyed diseasee gem Jt yet it has caused a gre y&\ * of disturbance among iirests. In a message to Congre a March 14, 1939. recommen lg a detailed study of the fore foblem of the United SUt. resident Roosevelt comment jhter of Mr. and Mrs. Ber Frink of Grissettown won firs ^v g a i n. In / ract. when she finishes schoo (he wants to be- a teacher On )f the youngest winners tugh school group, her pape ,vas one of the neatest an. in the county contest. ^ttsssst^ .rest and individual and nation elf are. He said in part. Forests are intimately tied i > our whole social and ^conorr fe. Wages from forest industri lpport five to six million pe le each year. Forests give wilding materials and thousan f other things in every day us orest lands' furnish food ai lelter for much of our remai ig game, and healthful recre on for millions of our peop orests help to prevent erosii rid floods. They conserve wat tid regulate its use for navig on, for electric power, for d lestic us?, and for irrigatic Woodlands occupy more acrea, lan any other crop on Ame: in farms, and help support tv > one half farm families. O irest problem is essentially o: r land use. It is a part of tl road problem of modern agi ilture that is common to eve irt of the country. There are only two causes re. They are strokes of light ig and strokes of man. Fi lused by lightning cannot I revented, but fire caused by mi in and should be prevente areless logging, tree disease, i :cts, and grazing are the mo nportant sources of injury le forests. All powerful forces are dange us when their power gets b Mid control. When the gre nwer of fire is used in the rig irection, it creates wealth rapi but when it escapes in tl rong direction, it destroys evi lore rapidly than it creates. V lend months or even years in tl ection of a magnificent buil ig which can be destroyed in :w hours as the flames swei irough it. Fires are dangeroi i other ways. They kill tl nnll trpps nnH if thov Hnn ley stunt their growth in sui manner that they cause the > become diseased or destroyi y insect pests. They also destri :eds, grasses, surface mole nd the humus cover that pr :cts the leaves and twi, gainst droughts and summ eat, enriches the, soil by addii Itrogen, and conserves water f le springs and streams. Trees are used in vast amoun ich year for railroads, lumb< ilephone and telegraph pol< nd for fence posts; in fact, \ se about twenty-three billinbic feet of wood yearly, b irest fires and insects destri bout two-billion cubic feet moi i early days, when the settle ime to America, one-half of t 'hole land was covered in fc sts. Along the whole Atlant oast was a solid wall of tre ith no break except for rivei hey needed logs for homes, we y make beds, chairs, tools, t les, baskets, fences, spinnii 'heels,, wood to burn, and abo 11 to plant grain for food. Th eeded money, so they cut dov lillions of trees and sold ? imber, for all the purposes, aj bat is just what became of lany trees. Our civilkation is ependent upon forest produc bat we cannot do without the; low can we cooperate to redu be great destruction of fires a: uild our forests a3 they shou e. While we are sawing our til er, we should take great inters i seeing that the dead trees ai ops lie close to the ground ai ot quickly, and, if jxrasible, ui Ize them, because they are Ire menace. We could also ke RT. N. C. : SPORT STUFF BY J)AVID WATSON # The A's clubbed "Old Buck" . in the 11th frame Sunday to. snap his win streak at 13. We won't say unlucky 13. ... As before we didn't think that he would do it. . . . You can al* ways look for the Browns or the * A's to do those tricks . . . See where Vander Meer has won three straight for Indianapolis In his an comeback via the minors . . . rs He'll be back . . . Bobby Estalella is hitting .335 for Minneapolis, st a former Washington outfielder, in he played some mighty fine ball tie at Charlotte, one of Washingtons as farms . . . Dizzy Dean's record sd at Tulsa is 5-2 . . . The Dodgers lit have played before 520,098 fans or at Ebbers Field and over a half ir- million on the road . . . More is, than likely they will make more at money this year than any of the he' other clubs in the majors . . . ss Dutch Leonard will teach at the d- Joe Stripp Baseball School in st Florida this winter . . . Bill Mc s, Gowan has been umpiring in the ed A. L. for the past 16 years ? and has not missed a single " game . . . The Iron Man umpire * of baseball . . . Jim Tabor, Red * Sox hot corner man, got married J a week or so ago in Boston . . . iU Lefty Gomez has a new nickname for Hemsley, he call him "Billy Sunday" . . . The Yanks consider the present situation so seriously that they have cancelled all of their exhibition games . . . Boner of the week: Joe DiMaggio of the Yanks . . . With two out ih the ninth inning a fly was knocked him v. . The A. L. ruling is that an outfielder has to throw a fly ball back in before it is considered an out . . . He '' failed to do this and dropped the e can tne natter auvancing neariy e to third ... He picked up the r ball and threw to third base J which was not covered and the ball went into the White Sox dug out. Thus Joe got two errors on sn one play .... Leland is ceral tainly giving the teams in the Cape Fear League plenty of trouble . . . They have the best n" pitching staff in the league. Brew, ic Bullock and Workmon are the es big three. All have the stuff ?" on the ball . . . They have the us support of all of Brunswick as cis they are the only entry from this ,e- county . . . It looks as they will ^ play Pepsi-Cola for the privilege n" of seeing who meets Bert Kites a"! Pirates . . . Whoever wins will le- give the Pirates a fit . . . The m Pittsburg Pirates are now beer ginning to really play ball . . . a" They are no longer set-ups as ?" they were at the first of the ,n- season ; . . Duke's coaching ?e school, starring Wallace Wade, r'~ will open this week at Durham. vo . . . The Southern football fans ur will get to see two of the best ne teams in Dixie play when Duke he meets Tennessee. . . It's the Blue Devils second game of the season. T Tennessee will be plenty hard to beat in Knoxville, but we will I take Wade's outfit . . . We think of this is Duke's year . . . Caron lina will be in there fighting all re of the way, too. Don't count those he Deacons of Wake Forest out in either with Polanski doing the d. heavy work . . . N. C. State n- and Davidson will bring up the st rear in the Big Five . . . Reto calling a long time age?Connie Mack asked his rookie catcher r- what he would do if TV rvihh umo e- on second base and he knew that at he was going to steal third? ht the catcher merely stated: "Fake d- a throw to third and tag him be when he comes home". Connie ;n said, "Right". Boy that's fast /e baseball . . . Here it is Jim. . . tie ? cj_ laws pertaining to the forest. To a import our lumber and building material, we could keep within "JS our forest budget. ae Fires destroy many acres of >t beautiful and valuable timber throughout a single year. With ^ all these manufacturers destroye(1 ed, this makes it possible for jy floods to destroy not only lives, ls but livestock, poultry, crops, and ,0'_ domestic animals; Whereas, if the gs trees were still growing, their er' roots might have controlled the 1g flood to some extent as the foror ests are the beat of nature's water and soil holders. They act like tg a big sponge in which thick mats !r of leaves and moss at the base ja' of trees are able to absorb many vg hundred times their weight in on water, so that the rain falling In ut some sudden storm over a forest oy is quickly soaked up, and later re comes to the surface again in the rs form of springs and streams, he The power of the forest to hold ir. back the soil is even more lm'.ic portent than its powers to hold es back water. By saving the soil, ra forests help tremendously in tamed ing the power of floods. For, after all, It is not the water that ng always does the damage; it is ve often the untold quantities of ey earth it carries along with it. vn Sometimes a flood will carry as he much soil as it does water, and nd that means multiplying its volso ume by two. The loss of earth is so a great waste. Each year mil:ts ions of tons of America's best m. and most fertile soil is washed ce away and forever lost. If we nd could Just prevent floods from rid carrying earth along, we could decrease the flood's power to do n- harm. That is exactly what the at forests are doing. Like billions of nd tiny fipgers, the rootlets of trees nd cling about the particles of soil ti- and hold them against the tugga ing rivulets of rain. Besides the ep holding action of the roots, .the, * li 1 ' -1. '1 I -NOT EM: One man we miss seeing1 about is B. M. Horns- . by, a genial fellow whom everybody liked. He I and his family live at Victor, Colorado, now . . .J Cutting out the barricade back of the left show [ window at Watson's did as much to improve ap- ; pea ranees inside as did anything else . , . ,Dr. Roy "Daniel, popular Southport dentist, keeps his vie-! tims' extracted teeth in a gallon jug, Which Is j nearing the two-quart level now ... He buried j two jugsful the first of the year, an accumulation I of a couple of years. Barber Bell once served for several months as [ as ambulance driver at a large Lakeland, Fla., 1 hospital. He was an undertaker's understudy, but | a few embalming sessions convinced him that was j not the life for him . . . Mr. Clyde Council, presi- | ' dent of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust Co., is a bowling enthusiast now and has four alleys at his Lake Waccamaw Anchorage. Mr. Clyde probably will give cashier Prince O'Brien a raise the first time he sees him bowl, because he's an expert. James Prosper Mintz, student at Waccamaw! high school, has earned quite a fine local reputa- j tion as an amateur cartoonist. William Holmes, | Jr., of Shallotte and Edmond Newton, of Southw nfh?rs who mav be drawing the j puib a*v ?nv w % r funnies for the next generation . . . When Dr. Roy Daniel swapped Nellie for Rex last week he came into possession of about as much of a fivegaited pleasure mount as you generally find bound up in one horsehide. Mirth and melody are perfectly blended in the < trees protect the soil in another the wind and way. For storms bursting over a feet the land in forest waste their force against also. The wind, the thick, leafy crowns, and bran- man 1,88 0 . , ? been busy alter ches and cannot beat upon the on the earth's unprotected soil as they do in un- fte soi, m of forested places. So instead of j lt down ln striking against the earth,loosen- d t h ing the grains of soil, and carry- 1^ ^ ing them away, the water falls u wjth their gently and harmlessly to the pra,rle atates th ground. dust storms, and The shade that trees give is; building windbre still another reason why forests xtmately one.hal: help to control floods. When preventi( spring comes and the sun grows ourselveg. It ^ h hotter, snow in the open places its ^ rea melts very rapidly and often burne(J match to causes spring floods. Beneath he on but the lm heavy shade trees, however, the tQ k the min( snow-banks melt much more ta ^ ^ ,w.Brt slowly and the water, instead of ? instead rushing- down the stream, flows ieayes. To prevei quietly and gently. That is why, come a human t long after the streams from the we are ^ ^,ave unforested hills are dry and use- ug less, streams from the forest are The possibility filled with clear, cold water. the mighty help So there can be no question progress toward that one way to decrease the pends on our ab danger of floods is to protect and fore^ts full. We plant trees about the watersheds that new trees e of streams. Trees will do their ^ of oU on? U share and more too in holding and that no you back the angry flood waters and spend lts ;trengt in keeping the soil in place. Best gt di8ea8e 0r ins of all, while they are doing this, they are growing and adding to A total of 2g the wealth of the nations, and as ense8 had been the years pass, if they are used North Carolina carefully and wisely, they will divlslon through pay back every cent they cost, besides protecting our streams The Italian air and hillsides free of charge. Tf 30 types of plan the Nation saves the trees, the the Fiat, Maccji trees will save the Nation. Marchetti, Capro To Ad Land fo I I I Advertisement of I ment of taxes due Bror I will begin in tins news] 1 August. I PAY UP BEFORE I AVOID THE EMBA I ADDED EXPENSE OF I Chas, E I TAX COL - WEDNESDAY, JUiv^ H M NEWS - | year's best comedy, "The Road To siT^NlBs which comes Friday and Saturday to the Blng Crosby and Bob Hope are the gUyr^B' thy Lamour is the gal. (Editor's note: VVe-J "B| it; -and you'll like it.) . , . We hear tell tha-^BP Brew, Iceland's classy lefthander, may get ^Bff ce to Show his wares in a W. Va. semi.pro J^Bg Also that David Watson and D. I. Watson ^Bl signed with Leland for the second-half cair-J^^gl There Is one cow at Magnolia dairy with ernment records showing that she once pr-,/"fc just a fraction under 10-gallons of milk f: B5 Ask Mr. George Galloway who is his , for president. He has exclusive rights fcr j>. Br wick county on one man . . . In one ^ Ki you can go marsh hen hunting?if the tj^^B There is a 6-inch reproduction of the x K'i Carolina state seal on each of the hi^B* highway markers?and we never saw the os^BH the Fort Johnson marker until this , H most out-of-season sport we've seen this y;r>B' was Billie Willis and Johnie Simmons shoo By goals on the outdoor basketball court in th. ..Bfi Httl rison Friday. K Grass in the garrison was mowed and last week, and this should cut this fair, ^B? of sand spurs considerably . . . Add Horace t liamson, who is spending the summer her- - Br' your list of bird hunting enthusiasts . . . he joined about twelve or fifteen years ago, Ai.Bj Ewing is still a member of the very excU,H Carolina Yacht Club. Once a member, al?an .B" member, etc. Hf. dust storms af- GDiKERS SEE NEED ""B* unforested places F0K NEW DEVkjB? for longer than Ginners of North CamliejB? n the earth, has other Southeastern states hKi ing the contour I been quick to recognize the surface, picking-j^or_ more _ elaborate le place and lay-(equipment to rranuio me inc?^B another. Grasses At amount of ever, began to I rieties of cotton, says j ind and hold the guson, extension sinning ggH roots. In the ^t jj State College. ' ere are frequent Probably the spark which their project is ?" the increased growing akers at appro- longer lint was f mile intervals. co^1?n community plan. In n^^B >n begins with years, more and more lard to alter hab- have turned toward the lly nothing in a standardization of varieties allure and charm alizing that such a plan tn^H perative need is work for their general i on it, break it "Ten years ago," iv.tsH charred end in sald' "fewer than 5 per of a pile of dry "'c gins in the Southt.j.g^H it fires must be- states were equipped with ?Hj labit, however, if tractor-feeders for cleaning forests to serve c?tton before it wen' H stands. Today more than 25 tH ' of our having every 100 are employing '>Hj of trees in our tractor-feeders to improve civilization de- g^e of lint turned outfnx^H ility to keep our varieties farmers now grc> sfli must see to it to improve the efficiency ofSeHj row in the plac- &*"> " H lat we take out, ~ B| " Vino SHIP POTATOES ' 6 wi.?ow itua VV , h fighting again- Much improvement was oH ecta or fire. tWs year in the handling. :dH ' lng, and shipping to marks ,467 drivers' lie- Pamlico County's Irish p.'sH revoked by the croP- rePorts Farm Agent A? highway safety Jackson- g| June 30, 1940. ? BR TTiree suits of armor wor.l^H force uses about Henry VIII of England, or. es, leaders being play in the Tower of LoottH| i, Breda, Savoia- show waistlines measuring 31. ni, and Cant. and 54 inches. S?j !'vertise I r Taxes I I b8 bad for sale for pay- H tswick county for 1939, II aaper the first week in II THAT TIME AND I RRASSMENT AND 1 ADVERTISING. I . Cause I .LECTOR I