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I 1 ?? PAGE TWO THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. G. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor Motored u second-class matter April 20, 1028, at tka Poet Office at Southport N. C., under i the act of March 3. 1879. Subscription Rates OMB TEAR BIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS .76 NATIONAL EDITORIAL Wednesday, November 13, 1940 We'd rather have somebody askmg us for a donation to something all the time than to be the kind of man they are afraid to ask. _ Even a man who is free of all responsibilities is never completely happy; he's usually worrying about something he doesn't have. A theorist is a man who keeps so busy thinking up ideas for somebody else to try out that he never nas an opportunity .i - i.i? ,?;n to learn for himself wnetner me.v win work. Red Cross Roll Call This is the week for the annual Red Cross Roll Call, and some time during the week you will be given an opportunity to enroll as a member. The work of covering Brunswick county has been delegated to a relatively small number of persons, and it will therefore be almost impossible for every person to be canvassed. It should be remembered that membership in the Red Cross is purely voluntary, so if you really wish to become a contributing member, it will be a good idea to look up your community chairman and give her your dollar. Do not feel that if you are missed by solicitors you have saved a dollar. If that's your attitude, the Brunswick County Chapter doesn't want you as a member. Let's make this a campaign of sponItaneous generosity towards those who are less fortunate than we. Those in charge of the roll call are doing a public service. Make their job easier by taking your l membership fee to your nearest roll call | representative. First Aid School Thirty-one persons passed the First Aid Instructor's examination given Thursday night at the close of the course given at Bolivia by Dr. Otis Matshall, Red Cross representative, under the sponsorship of the Brunswick County Chapter. Most of his students were members of school faculties in the consolidated schools of the county, and they will teach the principles of first aid to the school children. This is the second important contribution obtained for this county from Red Cross headquarters during the past two years. A year ago last summer a Life Saving and Water Safety course was taught at Southport, with 10 boys completing the final examination. iLong And Drawn Out To most Americans, the government at Vichy in so-called "free France" is a pa thetic spectacle. You can draw a parallel ' ' with it here, working on the supposition that we have been decisively defeated in a ruinous war, have seen our capital, practically all of our industrial areas, and close to half of our territory occupied by a ruthless enemy, and are faced on all sides by enemy troops against whom we have no military defense. That is the position France is in today. And, under those circumstances, Marshal Petain's anI ftonuncement that France would cooperate with the Axis powers to "restore peace i in Europe" should not have come as any great surprise. Whether or not this makes France a definite ally of the totalitarian states is not yet clear. But it does make clear the unpleasant fact that France will do ?officially at least?whatever Hitler and Mussolini want. Few observers think that Hitler's promise not to use the French Navy against England is worth a hoot? most of them think that before long what is left of that Navy may be at sea, fighting for the Axis. Every French resource will be placed at Hitler's disposal when he wants it. It is no doubt true that the average French citizen hates Germany and prays for British victory, but he is helpless. Every precaution has been taken to make organized resistance impossible, 'The action of France is simply om more of those many actions which havi been dividing- the entire world into tw< distinct and opposed groups. On one sid< are Germany, Italy, Japan and thos< other peoples the Axis is pble to control On the other is Britain and the Uniter States. Latin America remains the ques tion mark, and during the next few year, both sides are going to use every weapoi at their command?flattery, bribery, ant threats?to win her support. This war ii no ordinary war. It is a world revolution And "woe to the vanquished" will be th< motto of the ultimate victor. There is little talk now of the wai ending soon. Rumors are again making the rounds concerning peace proposals and France was supposed to have beer drawn into the Axis for that purpose. Bu1 it is extremely difficult to see now how any agreement could be made that woulc be satisfactory to both Hitler and England?to say nothing of this country, which seems determined to have a say [ when it comes to redividing the world around a conference table. The chance for a negotiated peace, in other words, might be called an exceedingly improbable possibility. The only other alternative is peace through complete military victory, which is what both Hitler and Churchill have often said is their sole aim. Churchill has also said that England will have air superiority within another year and will +1,/* A^fonoiro fVipm "Rut the events Li: V JVC l<uc viivnonv w?.v... of the past year have certainly indicated that air warfare is far from decisive. In brief, as good a guess ?s any now is that this war may go on indefinitely. The theory used to be that neither side could command sufficient resources to keep the war going for four or eight 01 ten years. Time seems to have dissipated that theory. Germany's conquests have given her a wealth of raw materials. She lacks very little that is necessary to war, and what she does lack she has a good chance of getting?as, for example, tin from the East Indies, to be obtained for her by her ally, Japan. England, so long as she controls the seas, may have to go on short rations, but she is able to bring the necessities to her ports. Even if we accept German claims of sinkings of British owned or controlled shipping, it is obvious that hardly a dent has been made in the Empire's merchant marine. ^. The questions of plague and famine remain. But Germany and Italy can no doubt last a long time by gutting the food supplies of the conquered peoples. All reports indicate that the Reich is doing just that now. Plague is a more difficult factor to discuss. Rumors of it come from England, due to conditions in air-raid shelters, food rationing, and the deleterious physical effect of continued bombings, etc. But so far plague has not appeared and it may be that modern medicine may be able to prevent it on a great scale. Summing up, it looks like a very long war?a war of attrition. It may be that the final decisive factor will be a letdown in morale on one side or the other ?a widespread feeling of "what's the | use of going on?" At any rate, the best experts think that this country might as well get used to half a world continuously at war, whether we become belligerents or not. Even if we do keep out oi war, we will become an increasingly important factor in its progress, in our rok of armorer to Britain. No one can yet see the end of the Far Eastern situatior ?Japan has backed down a bit, but hei army and navy clique are still restive and they rattle their swords on every possible occasion. Forces such as the world has rarely known are unleashed now, and tc forecast the future has become the most hazardous of undertakings. Better License Plates It is to be hoped that the State will dc something to remedy the license plate situation this year. Never since automobiles came into being has there been such universal deterioration of the license plates as this year. Rust, evidently due to the fact thai the paint on the plates did not hold up ihas all but obscured the figures on the 1940 plates, so that they are hardly legi ble. One of the primary functions of the li cense plate system, it has been our opin ion, was to assist police and patrolmei in running down stolen cars and the like and the easy apprehension of any wh< might be using an automobile in the com mission of crime. The deterioration of th< 1940 licenses plates has largely defeatet this purpose. It will pay the state, we believe, t< spend a little more money and secure J little better material which go into thesi tags. / u ^ ~~ THE STATE PORT PI ; Why We Should ' ! Protect Our I Forests From Fire 3 ? 1 ?? ?? 1 5 (Buth Elizabeth Mercer) We have many uses of wood. ' I will name a few of them: Furi niture, firewood, buildings, boats, pencils, telegraph and telephone poles, rayon cloth, tar, pitch, turpentine and paper. > If we let fire destroy our beau> tiful and useful forest we cannot 1 have the wooden things that we t now have. You may as* now can r you save the forest from fires? , You can help by nat smoking 1 while you are in the woods, and - by never emptying your pipe or throwing your cigarette away ' carelessly on the dry grass or leaves. When you are camping in [ the woods, if you have a camp , fire, be sure that the fire is completely out before you leave, Ruth Mercer, the little lady on the left, wrote this week's prize winning essay, having won second prize in the grammar grade contest at Bolivia last year. She was 10 years old then, and in the fifth grade. J Her father and mother are .Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Mercer. It is our mistake, but this is the second time that Ruth has had her picture in the paper as an essay winner. Not long ago we ran a column written by Jacqueline Bennett of Ash and used Ruth Mercer's picture. Today we are running both their pictures (Jacqueline's on the right). They are botii mighty pretty little girls, and were the youngest winners in the Forestry Essay Contest. . or the coals may become a small fire and stay a few days underneath some trash smoking. Soon er or later the small fire will be, come a large fire that will spread very rapidly through the forest 1 and destroy many hundreds and thousands of very valuahje tre^s that someday might have been made into something very useful. 1 Another way is to plant trees, i [ The government is doing much | along this line. The "Pestigo" fire of Oct. 1817, ' was very serious and is an ex; ample of what might occur in ( our State. It covered an area of over two thousand square miles ' in Wis.; it caused the loss of . many millions dollars worth of timber, and was probably caused by some careless smoker, or ' other carelessness. Among the fires of about this . time, together were about forty ' miles wide and one hundred and eighty miles long, extending r across the central part of Mich\ igan to Lake Huron. The loss of timber amounted to more than ten million dollars. We don't ' want this to happen in North , Carolina and especially not in ' Brunswick county. Congress has passed some laws 1 turning the forest on the govern. ment lands into National parks. People cannot cut down trees in these parks without permission ' from the Forest Officer. Forest . guaiua put cut JLIICS careless people leave after camping in the ! parks. ; The object of such laws is to L save the national beauties and riches of the country, and turn the forest into the enjoyment of I the people. We owe a great debt , of thanks to President Theodore Roosevelt for saving our forest. ' People always like to rest unl der the large shade trees on a - hot summer day. When people are traveling, they do not like to travel over land that has been bo burned over that the trees are killed, and forest fires especially destroy so many of our young trees, wild flowers and shrubbery. ) We enjoy so much to see a picture of a lovely green forest ! with its trees, flowers and vines. It reminds us of how beautiful Eden was when Adam and Eve lived there. Just think how important our 5 forests are! They produce milY lions of dollars each year, and give work to thousands of men. > Trees hold water in the soil so > it does not run off or dry up, then the water seeps down into the ground and feeds the springs and rivers that carry the water . to the towns and cities. When the trees are all cut off, there is nothing to hold the water. Then 1 if there is a heavy rain, it floods the rivers and it is wasted. You may see whole road sides stripped of trees, and unless we - are very, very careful, the day ; is coming when we shall have , more floods at sometime and not enough water at other times. The only good thing about it, is that j trees grow very fast in Brunswick county. Much faster than 1 in Northern counties, and if peoB pie are careful to plant trees to take the place of those they cut [LOT. SOUTHPORT. N. C, SOUTHPORT SCHOOL NEWS TOM-THUMB WEDDING The wedding of Miss Mary Elizabeth Lupton and Mr. George Ewing will take place in the high school auditorium Friday 1 night, November 15, 1940, at 8 o'clock. The Reverend Jack Swan will officiate. During the ceremony, Miss Gloria Lee Hewett, Miss Wilma Singletary and Mr. Wilton Singletary, as a trio, will sing *"1 Love You Truly". Miss Gloria Lee Hewett will sing "The Sweetest Story .Ever Told". 1 The bride will have as her maid-of-honor, Miss Stuart Arrington. Mr. Phillip Fulcher will act as best man. TTie bridesmaids will be the Misses Ganella Doshj er. Mary Ann Loughlin,' Joy Lynn | Belle, Doris Bogey, Karn Swan, Jo Ann Sutton, Patricia Saddler and Harriette Corlettc. The bridal party and special guests will be from the first and second grades. The public is cordially invited to attend this impojtant social function of the season. Admission cards are being sold for ten and [ twenty cents. CHAPEL PROGRAM The senior class was in charge ; of the chapel program on Wed jnesday morning:. Devotional exerj cises were in charge of Jack Christian. A short skit entitled "Do You Believe in Sings?" was given with the following charac[ ters: Edmond Newton, proprietor | of a fish store, Jack Christian, I Henry Smith, S. V. Russ, and Reese Swan were passers-by. A J one act play, "The Advice Doctor", was presented. The following characters took part: Doctor, Dan Smith: nurse, Pearl Mae Lewis; news reporter, Edmond Newton; patients, Othelia Outlaw, Victoria Lancaster, and Donald St. George. The theme of the play impressed upon the audience the need and importance of speaking correct English. During the program recitations were given by two members of the first grade. P.-T. A. SUPPER A chicken salad supper was J given by the Parent-Teachers ^ down, we may not reach the) sad condition of counties that have used up all their trees. Forest fires kill thousands of our trees every year, and since our forests are one of the richest treasures we possess, we, the youth of Brunswick County, j should do all in our power to co-| operate with our Fire Wardens by help preventing fires and by planting trees to take the place in must.' Liiau aie uocu. Not only do the fires destroy our forest, but they destroy thej home of our wild life. If it were not for our birds our crops would! suffer terribbly, and the trees are their nesting places. The j game which ranges in our forests! furnishes food for our poor and] sport for our hunters. I hop( j j everyone will protect our God-i given, beautiful forest. fi in HI I TE H I - NOT EX/11 Don't let anybody kid you by de-bunking; the r American Red Cross. The President of the United States couldn't afford to head any organization that* didn't have the very highest ideals, and the national radio networks and nationally circulated publications wouldn't denate their time and space to the perpetration of a farce on the American public. As a red-blooded, free American citizen you should be proud to voluntarily join the Red Cross this week . . . Don't get the idea that you'll be unpatriotic if you go hear a discussion of Adolph Hitler's "Mien Kampf." On the contrary, we cannot fully appreciate the dangers of his doctrine unless we know what he has planned, and events of the past few months have been pretty well blue-printed in the Nazi Bible. There's a junior horse show in Wilmington Sunday afternoon, and several local horse owners have been asked to enter their nags. Whether there are any entries from here or not, there will surely be spectators from this horse-conscious community . . . Radio time that was fairly evenly divided between political speeches and war news for the past month must now make way for * - * H music, and "uur L,ove Anau, ia * n,c-iU,6,u.s tune that caught our ear as Richard Himber guestarred for Fitch on the Bandwagon Sunday night. Mr. Price Furpless received this past week one j of the most unique invitations it has ever been our privilege to see. The invitation came frpm J Governor R. T. (Bob) Jones, of Arizona, and was i Association in the high school The meeting wi library on Tuesday evening. The the president success of the supper meant much to the school children as the WinnoKn' aif for this year is to buy a motion picture machine and microprojector. Styron Willetb ARMISTICE DAY Va- Navy Yard> On Monday morning, Nov. 11, ents> Mr. and Mrs the entire school assembled in the 'ast week, auditorium to observe Armistice Mr. and Mrs- c Day. The program was opened ?f Wilmington, w, with the singing of "The Star %7ed Hus?ev c Spangled Banner". Mr. Lingle ?red ^^he read the scripture and led the was a vlsttor nel audience in prayer. After the no?nsinging of "God Bless America", doS?P^. Victoria Lancaster, senior class if" e f president, led the school in the j on' .w ere vls s flag salute. Mr. Lingle explained ev?mnSthe significance of Armistice Day, . ,Jones, of and the reason for its importance visiting j1 ? in our country to-day. The pro- ? an . ' gram was closed with a song, ~r* a rS"There Are Many Flags In Many Webster aid I To?.0? Caroline and Wet Lands . _ . p ^lEFT Sunday at Fort 1 The second meeting of the Par- M""' and Mrs', ent-Teachers Association was held sPent Sunday in last Thursday evening: at 8.Mrs. Tharp's aunt " ? 11 _ j I Crtlotr on/1 WhlQ o'clock. The meeung was raueu i to order by the president, Mrs. j Mr. and Mrs. J. Carr. Minutes were read by the J day evening, secretary, Mrs. Price. Mrs. New- Rufus Hodges ton explained about the chicken Wilmington, spen salad supper and invited all j Mr. and Mrs. W. members to come. Mrs. J. L. Allei The program chairman, Mrs. Miss Halay and Styron, introduced Mr. Waters of Wilmington, vi Thompson who lectured on "The Freeman Sunday Use of Art in the Home". He also Rev. Water Pai displayed drawing which the pu- ton, was a visitc pils had done in school. afternoon. He wl P RENTING . . . the best place to look for i home, or store is in the Classifies find just the place you want adv Location, facilities, and rent a them. Save time and shoe leathei Z"1! Aria frtrl a U V/iaooii i^u I-?MO $ LOOKING <X ... for a pet, a companionab! !* W tional puppy or kitten, for your S ^ ad in the Classified Ad columns the year, pedigreed and "just pi dogs and cats are offered for sal ed Ad will find one. ? SEEKING. . . . employment, use the CI Use them to find' a job whose match your (qualifications. Save ti traveling. Special low rates 1 Wanted" ads. Excellent results. [E STATE POR' S0UTHP0RT.N. C WEDNESDAY, Nnv ,, ] H 1Y NEWS- | an official pass to the world's piemcire^f H picture, "Arizona." The invitation fl large sheet of beaten copper, the pure metai ' jjS on a white invitation card. Th- H place tomorrow nlte in Tucson H at midnite. It is interesting to H Furpless has been in his business : 1913, a period of more than 27 years. jjj ' Iffl received a medal from Adolph Zukor. BB ago, for being one of the few exhibitors to -C H the first five-reel movie ever pro,hi..His H re, the Amuzu, has "Pride And Prejudice" slio."|M ing next Monday, starring Greer Garson ami Li'.'iS rence Olivier. PIGSKIN REVIEW: State H last week,only to lose to her arch-rival, W. M Forest. The Demon Deacons were on again folic j<9 ing their usual line of off-and-on-gamrs. Theglfc^B in which Duke beat Davidson piow a contest than many expected, and the spunky . H tie Wildcats had the powei house from DurhacBl i .i iu. i pitiycu tw a. ottuiuatin di tut* nan. iS ipcrior ^ |HjE serves wore down the smaller boys, however, ar/HI the second half was a Duke run-a-way . .. BS public spirit was evidenced H ironically enough the little flags on sale were r>:. Bj ducts of Japan. This is a fine way to lxiycott our B Pacific enemy! ... All our purchases help tb?B yellow scourge back up the Axis partners. UjH| nice to see the way the Greek's are shaming tfc B puppet-like Italians. Apparently the word thtB Greek's had for it was 'NO'! gfl as adjourned by Methodist pastor at T.nvn Creek D. R. Johnson and daughter, ~~ Miss Rebecca, left Tuesday r.ots. B W NeWS ing for Waycross, Ga., to visit ^B Miss Katherine Johnson, who is Iff i?fi a Patient 111 thl' A. C L. H .. B visited his par- H . A. L. Willettfl, pital. Mrs. E. F. Bergman, of WiiJeorge Rlchmon, rnington, was a visitor hero Ttes- H[ ;re dinner gues- SB Henry Friday. *' H >f New Bern, SmaU B ..Ge(l Da(, e Friday after- ^B an auto accident ^B of New Jersey it." n, of Wilming- "Dad: "Oh come on. I'll let yo:H| here Saturday see one in the next block." jg| Wilmington, is Opera Star: "Yes. twenty ! iters, Mesdames years I have sung in ze tenry, this week, politan." C. H. Zibclin, Admirer: "Gee. you mu&^H lisses Rebecca, known Madame Butterfly ona Tharp spent she was only a caterpillar." 3B 3ragg. H John L. Tharp A Vilmington with H M8 , Miss Christine V H Hufham visited ^ family, or E. W. Sandlin, |pBBi^V I $$? sited Mrs. W.J. y g ef evening. 4?T" * EB ,-y, of Wilming- a|A||| >r here Monday I M M ill be the new I in apartment, f^l d Ads. You'll | H ertised there. 9jB| s you desire |[H r, look in the e and educa- ?H? child, put an HH . Throughout IBfl lain friendly" S^L le. 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