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PAGE FOUR THE STATE PORT PILOT p< Southport, N. G. q, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Y* JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor ^ Bntered u second-claws matter April 20, 1028, at tLe. Poet Office at Southport, N. C., under . the act of March 3, 1879. O Subscription Rate* UNE TEAR 81.60 BIX MONTHS 1.00 IHREE MONTHS .76 tV NATIONAL EDITORIAL. P) Ij? W ASSOCIATION \o lli W?lj77., jFLmlnA-- d< 01 Wednesday, September 18, 1940 Some people look harder for alibis than a they do for remedies. w A satisfactory trade is to stick a man who thipks he's sticking you. bi A lot of people who don't own a grind *e organ are engaged in monkey-business. al Its hard to get a man who'll pay you 'e to owe you, but its often harder to get Tl a man who owes you to pay. Sc ti< The top is usually a very narrow space, and he who gets there and stands still is ar likely to be nudged off by someone else M who is trying. O f-/?,.. 1 / t\\ riiuiiiuy fmn cj Nobody can ever say that* Southport ct' and Brunswick county failed to get their full share of the benefits from the state *1 advertising program, for few sections of North Carolina have been more thorough ly picturized and publicized. Bob Thompson, director of the advertising program, was here for the weekend and, among other interesting shots, ;i, made a complete picture story of a marsh hen hunt. Releave of these pictures up- a state may bring about the popularization cc of a sport that could bring many sportsmen here each fall. But the important thing about the co- |~" operation being given this section by the I department is that whenever a call goes _ out for Thompson, or for Bill Baker, the photographer, one or the other usually M shows up. Of course, considerable credit for this state of affairs is due W. B. Keziah, secretary of the Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce, for the state officials know they can depend upon his able assistance and co-operation in all things designed to popularize this section of Carolina. And Sudden Death? I-! " Five minutes after they had climbed into their automobile Saturday night and headed out toward the Sawdust Trail a wide-eyed herald was back down town to report that Bert Marlowe and Albert Rogers were dead. Two clean, sober citizens of this community snuffed out in the twinkling of an eye. Seldom before has death stabbed with such terrifying effect into the very heart of this community, and there is a sobering thought for all in the realization that it might just as well have been you, or us, or anyone else of our acquaintance. The first shock over, and with the realization of the full import of the tragedy, Southport people, as is their want, were quick to bring their sympathy and aid to the bereaved. Touching, indeed, were the wreaths from members of the crew of the menhaden vessels, John M. Morehead and W. P. Anderson that were sent' by the men as a final tribute of re4 A. 4-U aim tMtnnAA^iirn n-f-Pi/iov 5[)CCt IU llicii iw^ctuvc oilij/ o vinvci Marlowe was quartermaster on the Anderson and Rogers was engineer on the Morehead. Conservative Note There is evidence that your 1940 tobacco farmer is not the same lavish spender that his recent predecessors have been?the ones that helped to change the tobacco marketing towns into a carnival scene for a brief period each fall. Most of the money that has been spent from this crop has been used to pay off guano notes and store accounts. That part which belongs under the head of current spending has been done with established merchants and business men. Conservatism is definitely the trend of these men who find themselves gravely wondering what the immediate future holds in prospect. And we've no quarrel with conservatism so long as there remains a distinction between this and stinginess. There is nothing in prospect that justifies .our farmers revelling to a program of being i jnny wise and pound foolish. A good rule this fall is to provide adejately for your normal needs, but do )ur trading with men and business laces you know and in whom you have mfidence. L S.-Brttish Relations The Jackson News has some timely >mment on the friendly relations bereen U. S. and Britain: "In 1832 Thomas Jefferson wrote to resident Monroe: "Great Britain is the nation which can ) us the most harm of any one, or all, , 1 earth; and with her on our side we ;ed not fear the whole world. With her, en, we should most sedulously cherish cordial friendship." "Former President James Madison, to horn President Monroe referred Mr. Jefrson's letter, wrote: "With the British power and navy comned with our own, we have nothing to ar from the rest of the world. Then, as today, Britain was standing one against all Continental Europe, agued in the so-called Holy Alliance, le threat of European domination of mth America and ultimately of this na oc- nnw There >n was as imminent uicu no ,.o... re, with Britain's complete acceptance id assurance of co-operation, President onroe promulgated the doctrine which ill bears his name. "Today, as then, the co-operation be;een the United States and Britain is ose. Americans realize that if Britain's ivy falls into enemy hands, nothing will and between us and the dictatorships of e Continent. "So the President has made an agreeent with Canada for mutual defense, itain has agreed to lease to our nation r and naval bases 011 this side of the tlantic, perhaps as repayment of our orld War loans; the plan for selling itain 50 of our destroyers, as we have ready sold Government airplanes, has ime to a head. "History is being made before our es." Shears And Paste ORE TRUTH THAN COINCIDENCE (Christian Science Monitor) A shortwave news broadcast from London was bringing reports of disaster and casualty. After a few minutes of this, another program evidently American, consisting of popular musical numbers, became clearly audible above the commentator's voice. A turn in the score of tne musical prugmm brought about one of those rare, unexpected occurrences which often make us pause and think. The commentator's unhappy report was now coming into the United States, unknown to him, of course, with a strange obligato? a woman's voice singing George Gershwin's familiar tune. "It Aain't Necessarily So." Back and forth those two tossed their voices out upon the ether. "German raids on Britain were claimed to have done considerable damage today" . . . "It Ain't Necessarily So" . . "Three ships were reported sunk today by the Nazis" . . . "It Ain't Necessarily So." . . . Starvation faces millions of Europeans unless the United States can send food" . . . "It Ain't Necessarily So." Amazing battledore and shuttercock! Was it a coincidence? Certainly it wasn't planned. But v lat volumes of truth were in the incident! No evil report is "necessarily so," however authoritative it may seem or sound. Readers and listeners in America and elsewhere now know well that threats and exaggerated reports of damage done or intended constitute one of the weapons of this present warfare in the world, and that this weapon gains effectiveness only from the credence given to blatant lies or fear-filled whisperings. But beyond this there is an area to be dealt with in which the accounts of destruction are accurate to the human, material sense. This blight and its accompanying mental anguish are not healed by merely turning away but rather by rising above and overcoming the physical-sense testimony. This is done by conscious, active rememberance and faith that God, good, reigns over all the earth and is mightier than the thunderings of hate and violence. The disciple John, who lived closest in the affections of Jesus and understood most clearly the Master's teachings, wrote many years later, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God, for many false prophets are gone out into the world." Goodspeed translates that word "spirit" as "utterance." Surely the writer meant to advise men to check the veracity of reports, assertions, and suggestions not alone by human standards of reliability but also by whether the reputed circumstances would be true of the universe in which God, good, is the only real and eternal power. ? ???? T THE STATE PORT PI1 Why We Should ' Protect Our Forests From " Fire * # By James Prosper Mintz ? What other gift of nature is of more use to man than the great forests which she has so lavishly flung throughout our land and country? What other one thing has played the part the forests have in man's progress down through the ages ? And what is more beautiful, more godly, and more dear to man, and closer to Mother Nature than the forests are ? There can be only one answer, and that answer is simply; "nothing". When nature gave us the forests she gave us a great. combination of gifts. For not only did she give us the beautiful trees and vegetation, but also James Prosper Mintz, Waccamaw high school senior, wrote today's prize winning essay. He is the son of Mrs. Rudy Mintz o? the Exum comT k munity. He V., -"says that he ' ''really believes , in forest fire - c; ; :' prevention, be'< < v> W I cause he's had an opportunity , - s;*. to observe the ^ ^ good that it ; does. His pet hobby Is draw4, ing and he has developed quite a reputation as a cartoonist. the great out-door family, which we call wildlife. This includes the birds, the fish and the fourlegged creatures of the forests. And all are so essential! Long before the coming of iron into the life of man, he fashioned practically all his tools and ( weapons from wood. Too, on down through the ages of his advance- , ment wood has been an essential need. To-day it is just as essential as it was when man was young. Without it we would not enjoy the luxuries that we do. Thousands of useful articles, and our homes as well, would be taken away from us without wood; and we would be set back to the starting line again. But the loss of these would not be the greatest calamity; yet, it would be the awful significance of the loss. For then we would know that our magnificent forests were no more, and man had reached the finish. James Oliver , Curwood has said: "Human life is absolutely dependent upon wildlife and forests. Without these things we would become extinct as a race. If all vegetation, all wildlife and all forests should disappear to-morrow, the human race would become extinct upon the face of the earth within one year." With all probability of this being true, it is our divine duty to safeguard our wildlife and our forests; protecting them from their natural enemies as far as possible, and preventing such a horrible thing from even hinting at becoming a reality. We have but to look around us to see the usefulness of wood. Our homes are perhaps the best example of this. They are essential for life, for they fill our need for shelter. The household articles and furniture are of wood. They fill our needs for comfort. There are thousands of other things too numerous to mention which affect our lives greatly, and they in turn are affected either directly or indirectly by our forests. For this reason we should protect our forests from fire. Wildlife, the great out-door family of the wild, is a great asset to the wellfare of man. The birds alone do a world of untold good. Each year they aid the farmer in ridding his fields of insects and other pests that would destroy his crops. Each year the birds are marked prey for the guns of sportsmen and hunters. And always they are man's little co-workers in his battle for the forests. For food they hunt worms and insects that blight and kill the trees and vegetation. In this way alone their value is unestimatable; for without them our forests would die out in a very snort time, indeed. And surely we will not let the homes, the breeding places, and the eggs and young of such valuable creatures go up in smoke! And like the birds, the fish and animals are also of great service to man. They too, provide excellent food and a great sport for him. With the wellfare of men dependent upon the wellfare of the forests, we must see that they are protected from fire. The forests are of the best of all nature's soil binders. The fine net work of roots beneath the ground covers and binds the soil and helps hold it in place, thus preventing erosin. The fallen leaves on the trees acts as a canopy and prevent the rain from beating down upon the soil. The decayed leaves and twigs and needless, easily absorb the rain -OT. SOUTHPORT. N. C YOUR HOME f AGENT SAYS . SCHEDULE v Friday, September 20, Boons Neck Club will meet at 3:00 p. m. * Monday, September 23, Shal- p lotte Club will meet at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday, September 24, L. Fol- r ly Club will meet at 2:00 p. m. I Wednesday, September 25, c Longwood Club will meet at 3:00 p. m. with Mrs. Emest StanaIand. t Thursday, September 26, Bethel | j Club will meet at 2:00 p. m. I Southport Club will meet at 8:00 p. m. t ANNOUNCEMENTS t Annual reports are due in Oct- j ober. Individuals may secure blanks from the club president. t Individual home demonstration s note books will be due in the t agent's office November 1st. Members will please bring these to the October meeting. < and feed the water down to ' the mineral soil, where it joins c the great underground water that keeps the earth watered and ( moist. f Now what would happen if the i forests were burned and the i ground uncovered, and the soil . left for the beating rains. The 1 soil would wash down to the 1 streams because there would be > nothing to hold it. There it would ( clog reservoirs or be carried away to the sea and lost. Surely we do 1 not want such a thing to happen; we want our soil instead. But if ( we are to have it we must conserve our forests; and therefore we must protect them from fire i to save our soil. Now lets us look on the brighter side of things! We know that ' recreation was once considered i by some people as a 'uxury, but that today it is a necessity. We know that we should partake of some form of amusement anu recreation each day. For not only , does it provide rest and relaxation but it renews the vigor of 1 our mental well-being. For the moment we abandon all thoughts of our business and worries. We forget our troubles and find that ^ there is joy in living, that there Is beauty in everything, and that the old world of ours is really something wonderful after all. And always in these little spare moments in which we revel, we go to Mother Nature. We find ? that when closer to her, life is e sweeter; that we tingle with an i inner-fire which makes us all optimists, and we dream of higher and nobler things. No grander place can be found for these 0 moments of revery and recrea- 0 tion than the forests. For there a we find nature all around us in g everything; and we are a part of it. Therefore we should protect / our forests and prevent them J from becoming a smoldering waste of charred and smoking ashes. In the foregoing I have tried to show how wildlife, the forests and man are related. They are like a great chain, each being a link and each link dependent 1 upon the other. By this I mean: without wildlife forests could not exist, because insects would destroy them; without the forests wildlife could not be, for there is where it gets it food and finds a its shelter and protection. Man e too, is dependent upon them for j, life, for he, without the forests c and wildlife, could not have the v ocQonti:, lq of life. His food (] would be gone; shelter, almost s none; and raiment Impossible. r Thus we see we must protect our forests from fire in order to t preserve life and promote prosper- t ity. ( NEWS " BRIEFS SURGICAL PATIENT Isham Hewett of Shallotte entered Dosher Memorial Hospital as a surgical patient last Wednesday. IN HOSPITAL J. Walton of Bolivia was a medical patient Wednesday and Thursday at Dosher Memorial Hospital. BUILDING HOME Work has begun on the new C. M. Crapon home on the waterfront next door to Mrs. Annie K. Vitou. OFF TO SCHOOL Edward Taylor left Sunday for Davidson College, where he is a member of the junior class this year. NEW ARRIVAL Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Potter of Bolivia announce the birth of a son at Dosher Memorial Hospital on September 15. TONSILECTOMY Richard Griffis, son of Patrolman and Mrs. Griffis of Southport, underwent a tonsilar operation at Dosher Memorial Hospital Tuesday. - NOT mi A lot of folks knew Monday that they did wong to trade in their bathing trunks for a suit f red flannels during the cool spell last week . . 'ree want ad dept.: Churchill Bragaw lost a locketbook containing over $100.00 and valuable lapers last week in Wilmington. Finder please eturn to us?and we'll split the reward .... Sob Thompson, director of the state advertising lepartment, was only 18-years-old?well almost .8, then?when he joined the Marine Corps during he last war. Bob looks younger than the 40-years le admits to. Southport furnished no debs for this year's de? mtante ball in Raleigh, but Brunswick had the >oys. Two; count 'em. David Watson and Church- I 11 Bragaw had their coming-out. A Life photo-, jrapher was on hand and blasted away 483 times, o sometime soon we may have local representaion in the famous pic mag . . . Sheriff Ganey | iays they're going to try to have a real baseball :eam at Leland next season. Well, Mister, that )ne you trotted out this year wasn't so bad in >ur book. You never appreciate a friend until you need >ne, and George Floyd was our benefactor Saturiay afternoon with a tow back from Bald Head sland after a busted halyard had left us with a )oat that wouldn't sail . . . And speaking of sailng, that little overnight cruise that Johnnie SimM/ilminfrfAn lucf nons ana ?5ime wiins tuun up cu i.iuuui6w.? veek didn't really get exciting?for them?until ;hey got home. It seems that their elders had )een more or less upset all night. SPORT:?In the hectic American baseball leagle the wise boys are wondering about the Chicago White Sox. At this writing the Hose have just .von 8 straight and look hotter than a 29 Ford md sharper than jailhouao coffee. The guidance if Jimmy Dykes is the main factor. The pennant may go any of four ways right now. Charlie VVilkins, former resident, wrote last week that the Yanks were out of it?and at the time they Aere at their hottest. Any one with his long experience might be able to guess as near, but his info never seems to fail. Alf Anderson, a North BURNS TREATED ated in county j B. L. Bowen of Shallotte was months from iven treatment for burns at through Februa tosher Memorial Hospital Sun- thirds were ag< ay. He is still a patient. older. "These figures BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT bv the U S Cen< Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hawes of ^ that 17.? upply announce the birth of a . t , t ? u Jail arrests in 1 on, James Jackson, Jr., at Dosh- T,i years old ii r Memorial Hospital September 23.4 percent in : 4. "State prison support the cont ANNOUNCE BIRTH not the younger Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Williamson the heaviest conti f Shallotte announce the birth One-half the adi f a daughter, Frances Victoria, fiscal year ende t Dosher Memorial Hospital on were 25 years eptember 15. From then on tl older persons g V a 1 V 11 I UP 10 60 5 P* * nate s Y outn In f ^res f?y 'atei made available. Declining Prison has increased ste n I n p II period. Prisoners Role, Says Ezzell - ? there were 7,285 'he High Percentage Of in comparison Minors among Arrests By 1938. Raleigh Police Twice As "These figures High As For State in defense of > ?? other statistics The high percentage of minors indicate that tb mong recent arrests by Ral- present not a gr igh police is almost twice as serious problem, igh as it is for the county jail "The number i ommitments for the state as a 16 confined in rtiole, according to W. C. Ezell, declined from 1 irector Of the institutions divi- 7g4 in 1939. Or ion of the state welfare depart- tion quarters dr< fient. in 1937 to 1,040 "State department records show state training s he criminal of today is older has been lowere han he was a few years ago. July, 1933 to 85 )f the 28,000 persons "incarcer- month of 1940." $ FOR THE SCT Don't bother ab letters when the away to -jsrw Send The St; "Your Count IHHHBHfHi WEDNESDAY. SFPr? J fLY NEWS --^R Carolina boy he's been boosting, Pittsburgh Pirates next year for a it big time . . . Six man football talk is s. up again and something should be ir. 0J^J^R Lingle, father of local education, says that I^R any progress can be made in that line Ue first introduce it in other schools near by ^^R stands the nearest competitor would be,^R away to merit the formation of a team J^B MOVIES and MUSIC:?Ginny Simms by the Kay Kyser band, puts a couple this week that are her usual stand out be"!^E a nose, we take "Tonight" as the better two . . . Glen Gray's "Jimtown Blues" is - j^R oldie but can't compare with the same corded two months ago by Frank Tnjmbauer Rf Vivien "Scarlett You-Know-Who" Leigh and h^R ert Taylor star Monday nite at the cin^^Hr "Waterloo Bridge," a well done little veb^R about the cruelties of war and the love. The war isn't unusual but the vooitjj^R win you . . . AM MISCELLANEOUS:?The candid camera s^R a rage for so long, has at last secured a here. More photographers to be seen any noon than in a Turkish harem just opeu<.^R the British press. Some good boxes in the too. ... A friend was kind enough to cany t^R pigeons to Whiteville last week to have Sals ^R pervisor M. S. Smith and Mayor Jack Gr?> jRb messages to the Brunswick farmers. . , r^H Hyatt, skipper of the Sea Gull, carried a pa. ^R to sea last week-end and a record of the was sent in. Now here is a little commercial eBi of you party boatmen who would like to. inform your parties that these birds can be ed, cheaply, for just such a purpose. T? should make a hit with the parties, it's tr hoped ... To get back in the sport news: Dat^E Watson, who slugs sodas for Watson's, ba&fl| for Leland and bits of news for the paper. out of all this next week and returns to ECl^K for more education. There's lots of football at^H coming along in the next few weeks, so nfl| stop here for a breather. jails in the fourii^I T) November, 1939 l^fclSSGS DCPM ry, 1940, two- ? ;d 25 years or fa Wake ForesB i are confirmed Be ius Bureau which Dr. Clyde Erwin, Sli^E I percent of the Supt. Of Education, Fo^R .936 were under mally Opens 107th i contrast with ion Of College With 1927. spiring Address jH admissions also jSS ention that it is WAKE FOREST. Sep!. li^H people who are 1116 107th session of Wake ributors to crime. College was tormulr missions for the I Thursday with an address b<! d in June 1933 Clyde A. Erwin. state scpt^H of age or over. tendent of education. Mont He percentage of thousand students and seve^H radually climbed int in 1938 with five members of the lacuiipi^H . present at the convocation e liVI> jvv . Baptist church auditorium BK rison population Declaring his respect aid adily over a long preciation for Wake Forest under 25 years calling attention to the fact mbcred 7,269 as the College and the Su^^B i 1938. In 1933 public school system were ) over 25 years I at about the same time. Dr. Er^H with 11,421 in told the assembled students their educational opport^^B can be offered comes at a time when the c^^B routh today and try and the world face the are available to est crisis in history. The ft^^B le young people berations of battle abroad cai^H eater, but a less most be heard by us ', he "and yet we live here of persons under midst of peace, under the county jails has dows of those great beir.oc^M ,231 in 1936 to institutions for which th:s lildren in deten- try was founded." -JK ipped from 1,221 Through education, Dr. in 1939, and the concluded, the youth of ichool population Carolina and the nation d from 1,061 in opportunity to raise its 14 in the same and achive high ideals a? H| sires. 'Ki 1 IOOL YEAR? I out writing long I boy or girl goes I > school I ite Port Pilot I v Newspaper" 9
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