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Wednesday, February 26, 19-11
Mussolini lias bragged that he can dish
it out?Now it looks like he should have
had two or three other spoons.
When you go looking up your familj
tree, you're likely to find yourself out on
a limb.
You admire a person who can take it
on the chin?provided it doesn't happen
to be eggs..
Some fellows claim that to see eye to
' eye with their girl, they must first lip to
\ lip.
Good ^upppsfiovt
| J aymea Juifl charge 01 me mumma
\ service at Tr nily Methodist Church Sun1
day and gave a very creditable accoun:
of themselves. Tremendously impressive
was the talk made by Young Edmund
Newton, but most practical of all suggestions
contained in messages by the laymen
was the plan outlined by Steward
S. B. Frink for improved church attendance.
Briefly, his idea is to have every memt
ber of the board of stewards contact some
non-attending member and ask him to go
with him to church the following Sunday;
the next week these folks will do
; the same thing to other members not in
the habit of attending, etc., until every
person enrolled in the church would have
a special invitation to a service within a
very short time.
Mr. FrinPf spoke of the wonderful
stimulus this would have upon the church
as a whole, and earnestly hoped that
j some plan similar to this might be worked
out.
Well. Mr. Frink, there's a challenge in
I that for you; an opportunity for you to
i. iU?4. ...Ill
neaa a movemuu mat nm w
lasting benefit to you, your church and
your community. Be the organizing head
of this movement, Sir, and you may count
upon every possible co-operation from
your fellow stewards and upon the eternal
respect of the citizens of your community.
Will We Go To War?
Somewhere in the mind of every American
citizen lurks this grim and disquieting
question: "Will the United States enter
the war?"
P About every writer and speaker in the
comtry ha* been attempting to satisfactorily
answer that question for some time.
You can find irresistibly logical arguments
which make our entry into conflict
seem inevitable as death and taxes?and
you can find equally logical arguments
, which attempt to prove we are in small
danger of being drawn in. And, as the
debate rages on, a good many Americans
who make no pretense to being experts
find themselves sinking deeper into confusion.
The standard polls still indicate that
I the American people are opposed to war,
even as they favor aid to England with
I "all steps short of war." At the same
tir o, the American people, going by the
same polls, are convinced that if England
falls we may be next on Hitlei-'s list of
victims.
The arguments that support the theory
that we cannot long keep out of war are
obvious enough. We have dropped all
pretense of neutrality?we are simply
non-belligerents, committed to the hilt
on England's side. We have damned the
dictators in unequivocal terms. The leaders
of both the policital parties, the PresI
ident and Mr. Willkie, are aggressively
pro-British and anti-Nazi. And we are
about to embark on a new policy which
gswill give England and her allies our utmora)
and material support?a pol^^^HfijMHitler,
if he is seeking a fight
Wi "country, could logically construe
as a declaration of war in effect.
On the other side of the fence, the arguments
have been so well publicized. In
a recent issue, the United States News
I
summed up five principal reasons for believing:
that this country is not going to
war.
, j First, says the News the United States
can aid Britain more by not fighting than
t by fighting. Britain, in other words, needs i
supplies, not men. If we entered the war <
it would be impossible to send much J
abroad, as our own under-supplied mili- .
> taiy establishments would need all our I
?j factories could produce. ]
' Second, the U. S. can help her own de- (
' fense more by staying out of the war. ;
The arms we send England may be lost,
but we won't lose men so long as we re- i
main a non-belligerent. And we will find 1
out if our arms and planes are adequate ,
. for modern war. England, in other words, .
will be the proving ground for the pro- 1
ducts of our factories.
1 Third, through the lend-lease policy,11
! the U. S. can exert its major effort in the | *
war. Actually taking up arms against the ,
Axis would not permit us to do more. i
Fourth, the fact that all-aid-for-Eng1
land policy apparently has the support of j
a nation which is also committed to main- i
taining peace, is construed in Adminis-I1
tration circles as proof of the fact that J
1 its plans and actions are sound. i
Fifth, according to his intimates, the:5
President really hates war, meant what (
he said during the campaign, and will do c
everything possible to prevent war. He '
believes that his policy offers the surest t
road to peace, and in that he is backed c
by large numbers of his political oppon- (
cuts. I
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All of this does not take into consiuer-1 r
ation the fact that the Axis might make r
war on us, thus plunging us into the con- f
flict w hether we want to fight or not. |
Military and political experts, for the "
most part, don't think that likely at this h
| time. They point out that Hitler doesn't ii
make a particular point of "saving face." *
As he has said himself, he will not be j
badgered into taking steps he believes r
dangerous. The experts argue that Hitler a
will not wage war against us until and g
unless it suits his time-table. And it is ii
obvious that he has enough troubles on Jhis
hands now without asking for more. p
Time, which heals all wounds and sol- e
ves all arguments, will prove the sound- ?
ness or weakness of these various conten- f
tions. In the meantime, there are many ii
thoughtful observers who feel that we d
will be in war before the year ends?per- a
haps within six months. Joe Martin the c
Republican leader in the House, is said 11
to fee! that. All the people can do now e
is wait and see. v
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Shears And Paste j
| LONG TERM INVESTMENT j
(Fayetteville Observer) g
Frank P. Graham, president of the Univer- s
sity of North Carolina, in his message to the s
members of the joint committee on appro- c
priations of the General Assembly of North r
Carolina told them that never before had the
near-term outlook for the State of North
Carolina been brighter or the long term more
obscure.
Dr. Graham, of course, was speaking specifically
of the income of North Carolina in
relation to education. Here in Fayetteville we
find the same condition exists and we can
appreciate what Dr. Graham means. The average
income from work and rentals in Fayetteville
has been advanced materially by the
war boom but there is so much uncertainty
as to the duration of this boom that private
interests fear to make long term investments,
which investments would prove highly profitable
should the boom continue over the long
term.
There will be those citizens who will make
the long term investment. It may prove highly
nrofitable. It mav break them. But it will
be a gamble.
The long term investment which Dr. Graham
is asking the State of North Carolina to
make in the matter of education, however, is
not a gamble. The substance which is purchased
with the investment Dr. Graham de,
sires the State to make is something which
will be ingrained in the minds and lives of
hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians,
and which will help them make a better State
in good times or in bad.
The General Assembly doesn't have to gamble
on this proposition. Its course is charted
for it by such leaders as Charles B. Aycock
and the generation of educational spirits which
he launched on the program of scholastic
achievement which this century has made
North Carolina stand head and shoulders
above the other States in this section of the
1 country.
Obscure conjecture on short term and long
term is not what the people of North Carolina
; need from the Legislature as regards their
institutions of higher education. They need
all the appropriation the traffic will bear and
then some. Even deficits acquired in the cause
[ of education are better than assets piled up
. in the cause of ignorance.
THE STATE PORT PI
WASHINGTON
LETTER
WASHINGTON, Fob. 26?While
the Lenten season has cast a
shadow over social functions
:here is little or no abstaining
Tom political and international
iffairs. Pinal voting of the lendlease
bill is expected shortly. II
vill clear the way for other vital
legislation now blocked on Senate
ind House calendars. With emphasis
suddenly switched to the
lapanese situation tne prevailing
questions around the cloakrooms
it Capitol Hill center upon which
:loor will be used to enter the
war?the Atlantic or Pacific. The
jittery condition of the people's
spokesmen is illustrated by thei:
frank display of curiosity rather
than the ordinary mood of attempting
to provide information
rhe President's signature on the
lid to Britain bill will probably
release their pent-up emotions
igain.
Typical of the current attitudes
s the Congressional investigation
nto the personalities at the Defense
Commission. Unfortunately
'or the development of defense,
in odor of politics permeates
his probe. The reputations of
loted industrial leaders, who were
lummoned into special service for
iefen8e, will be smirched because
Congressional committees seldom
indeavor to conduct their hearngs
in a judicial atmosphere. The
ecent addition of Harry Hopkins
o the commission also provokes
:oncern as to his exact duties.
Ostensibly he will function as a
lirect representative of the Presilent
and will utilize the data
le obtained in his recent study of
English war experiences. The quiz
,nd Mr. Hopkins have the deense
boys in a whirl.
The debate has disclosed that
lany legislators were convinced
he enactment of the lend-lease
iill would hasten our entrance
ato actual warfare. Another facor
was the unwillingness to auhorize
unlimited loans to the
Inglish in view of their apparent
eluctance to utilize hidden finncial
resources.
Secretary of the Treasury Morenthau's
estimate of four bilions
of British investments in
-atin America which will evenually
be used in post-war cometition
with Americans for this
xport market provided another
ore spot. Reports of Army and
Javy officials that Britishers
orced additional expenditures for
ands leased in exchange for the
lestroyers irked Congressional
ommentators. Eight bases were
.uthorized, but work has begun
inly. on four owing to dilatory
actios of the islanders.
Another angle which rankled
von tho nrnrinriDntB c\ f thf hill
vas the secrecy as to how the
Administration intended to proved
when the authority was
franted. Indication of the resentnent
of Congress in being kept
n the dark on vital matters of
lolicy is the ironic comment of
Senator Bone, Democrat of Washngton,
"Possibly Congress is beaming
more useless every day
is an appendage to our tripartite
ystem of government; but, even
10, we might properly insist upon
l little more knowledge".
Surveys of manpower in conlection
with national defense are
(ecoming increasingly important.
A population analysis by the
Bureau of the Census a day or
wo ago reveals that there is a
>reponderance of males in rural
ullages as against those in towns
ind cities having a population of
!,500 or more where the female
wpulation is higher. Of parti:ular
interest at a time when
Itongress is about to extend the
lenefits of the Social Security
Act is the government tabulaion
showing a marked increase
n the number of persons 65 years
>f age or over in all regions and
l sharp decline in persons under
>0 years of age. Tracing the pat;ern
of population changes the
>nsus Bureau shows that the
lumber of persons living in small
immunities adjacent to farm
ireas increased by 14.5 percent
n the 10 years preceding April
L, 1940. During this same period
:he population of folks living on
'arms remained practically stationary.
The increase in the population
>f small villages distant from
netropolitan areas is explained
>y the theory that many farmers
noved into villages and many
lity dwellers established homes
n the suburbs. The proportion of
aged persons grew more rapidly
luring the decade in urban areas
>r in towns having over 2,500
copulation. As in 1930, however,
he urban population in 1940 was
predominantly made up of persons
in this age group in 1940
comprised 62.9 percent of the
total in urban areas.
Census officials believe the progressive
aging of the population
n each of the three area relects
a decline in birt! andleath
rates and, to some extent,
although' the influence is most
narked in urban areas, the virtaal
cessation of foreign immigration
during the past decade. It
s predicted that the population
pf towns and cities will decline
about 24 percent per generation
f present birth and death rates
continue and if there is no migration
in from rural areas. The
government also looks for an increase
in the farm regions of
about 36 per cent per generation
f present fertility and mortality
conditions continue. Likewise1 they
lot, southport. w. c.
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DALE
CARNEGIE
' I Author of "How to Win
' Friends and Influence ! f
People." 11
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11 If you will go to 89-10 Thirty- j t
. i Fifth Avenue, Jackson Heights, j j
Long Island, New York, you will j (
find an apartment house. Ring the j
1 bell marked "Superintendent" and
standing success, and he is on j
i the way to becoming a rich man.
! And all because he got a single 1
idea and followed it through. I
Rene Vandenborre is a Frenchman
and when the World War began
in 1914, he joined the French 1
army, was taken prisoner later (
and sent to a concentration camp.
Time hung heavy on his hands;
he began to play games; finally '
he invented them. These games i
amused other prisoners; he in- j
vented more. Next he took old
games and tried to make improvements
on them.
At . last he escaped from prison r
and got back to France. In the
meantime, he thought nothing '
more about his skill at originat- c
| ing games. t
In 1920, he came to this coun- s
i try, settled in Providence, Rhode '
I Island, and opened a delicatessen "
j store. Business was poor so he f
I played games while waiting for c
customers. The delicatessen failed.
He got a job in a hotel in Providence
as chef; here he showed the
other employes how to play
games and to put now twists to
old games. He got a job in a
country club in Rumford Rhode
Island, where he soon had all the
help breathless over games.
At last he found a job with the
old Knickerbocker Whist Club in
New York City, as a steward.
This club represented the very
'Himalayas of New York clubmen.
After dinner, the members
played backgammon, an intricate
game which only two can play 1
at a time.
He saw the players go off into
corners, two by two, and play. He
devised a way by which three or !
four could play. Still keeping his
place as steward, he explained
| how more than two could play at
once. It was not long until every
backgammon board had three or
four players around it.
One evening as he was watch- '
ing a game, the idea came to him I
that maybe he could cash in on K
his knowledge of games, especial- X
ly on the improvement of back- X
gammon. So he invented an im- jj
provement in backgammon?the jj
first since Cleopatra played it X
with Mark Antony. It is called jj
"circle gammon". It has become X
fashionable in several smart New jj
York restaurants. It is now mak- J
ing him rich. But he intends to J
remain a building superintendent J
until he is secure for life.
What did Rene Vandenborre jj
do ? He took his specialized S
knowledge of games and market- J
ed it and made it a commercial 5
asset. Maybe you have some spec- J
ialized interest which you can J
develop to the point where it will S
pay you big returns. Think about j
it. Discover your hidden assets. 3
Courtesy Braxton Auto Service 3
Sunday School j
Lesson I
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(By Grover C. Phillips,)
Bennett, N. C.
By Grover C. Phillips X
Bennett, N. C. X
(Lesson for Sunday March 2, X
1941. Text: Luke 19: 41-48; 20: J
1 1-8)- jj
Present-day human beings are X
in quest of authority that is de- K
pendable and permanent. Some X
serious minds have looked to X
science for the authoritative mes- X
sage, but the masters have told X
1 them that science destroys tradi- X
tion, under-mines authority and, X
1 at best, speaks only with tern- X
porary authority, awaiting revi- X
sion or the discard in the light of X
1 tomorrow's discovery.
We must have something that
will give insight into life's meaning.
Something that will restore
confidence, release energy and as1
sure fulness of life. Some of us
have found that "something". In
the person of Jesus of Nazareth,
we have come to know a Master
we can trust and follow, who
teaches "as one having authority,
and not as the scribes" (Matt.
7: 29). "Never man spake like
this Man" (John 7: 46). We are
thankful that He is able to speak
healing to our bodies find our
souls. He has spoken peace to
multitudes who will one day hear
His "Well-done, good and faithful
servant". He is able to heal
' and cleanse to the uttermost. He
has never lost a case, and yours
1 is not too hard for Him, brother,
no matter what your condition
feel that the population of the
stroller villages will increase 1
about 16 percent. ;
- NOT EMC
Best story we've heard lately had to do with
i prominent Southport business man, who, having
jrown tired of a barbershop tirade by a young
Wilmington up-start against Southport and her
dtizens, arose from his chair and walked over
:o that still occupied by the speech-maker. "Lis:on,
young fellow," he said very quietly. "I'm
'rom Southport. I've lived there all my life. Every
rant I have in the world I made in Southport.
low, I'll tell you what I'll do. When you get out
>f that chair we'll go down to the bank (in Wilnington)
and every time you put down ten cents
['11 cover it with ten dollars." . . . P.S.: He didn't
fO.
Get out your guns, saddle your horses, get set
"or a song. Gene Autry, favorite of millions of
novie goers, is here this week at the Amuzu in
Melody Ranch," latest and best of' his song seies
.... And speaking of movies, take a look
it the folders pasted in the window of Bremen
Furpless' office. They're the best that have been
nade lately, and all of them are coming attrac:ions.
Next week comes the Brunswick county basketrail
tournament at Shallotte, and we're sticking
)ur neck out by predicting that Southport boys
vill be the surprise entry in that tourney. They'll
lave at least 10 busy lessons under Coach Lingle,
vho has brought them a long way this season,
rafore they play their first tournament game . .
Time was when they said "Put a fence about
nay be, nor how great your need.. a message poss
What is the authority of Jesus ? reality and coi
rhe religious leaders of His day J those who heart
ihallenged that authority. Did vinced that He
hey have justifiable grounds for speak. His authc
io doing? The Master, Himself, His personality,
n His last conversation with His of which John b
lisciples said: "All power is 1:7). None othei
riven unto me in heaven and in of men has spol
larth" (Matt. 28: 18) In his Pen- thority. His very
ecost sermon Simon Peter said: authority and tl
'Therefore let all the house of authority. The
srael know assuredly, that God disease an^ heal
" demons, all obey
lath made that same .Tcsus, .
one who reads
vhom ye have crucified, both . ?. . . _
? . . ... , . . ? met Him is mv
x>rd and Christ (Acts 2: 36)
rhe literal meaning is that God, a cllance t0 SF
he Father, anointed Jesus to j salvation here
ule, clothing Him with all au-1 after. He will p
hority to rule both in heaven and j your life that n
n earth. take away. Wil
The members of the Sanhedrin
vere within their rights in chal- "He speaks, am
enging the right of Jesus to His voice
each in the temple. Therefore Is so sweet thi
(esus simply called attention to singing;
lis relationship with John the And the melody
laptist, who proclaimed Him as j me,
'the Lamb of God, which taketh I Within my hei
iwav the sin of the world" (John |
29). When He asked their "And He walks
ipinion of John (Matt. 21: 23-27) talks with
hey were silent. And He tells r
Without official credentials, And the joy we
vithout prestige, having no poli- there,
deal or religious "pull", but with None other ha
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I Southport and you'll havo the
kennel;" then the canine population ' Bf
! Once again its growing, and it looks i,w. HP
saying might come into new usage, j 'Bfe;
vatte. with two beautiful snow white wU .
is the latest addition to tie '
fanciers. R. F. Plaxco has a pretty B|
that has received no previous ieeosnil|.
our New Dog Dept.
Cherry McDonald, suffering several K
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a shoulder lameness, is being i.
condition again by Brother christian, wip,.
on this year's horse show in Wilmington ?
Although it Ls a questionable yardstick of! 'HP
perity, we doubt if there is another town - ' * H
in the state with more ears in the i .p.,,.,,
and-dollar class. During the past week thete" * Hie
been two new Buicks (free adv.i, a
mobile, a new Pontiac and a ne-, pj^j,;
livered. 9K
Warren Wilson, Clemson College j*
who was last year's Southern Conference
weight boxing champ, will have a lot 0f ~
| support from Southport friends this v:ee>. HK
' when he defends his title. So good this seas - ,. Wi
| opponents have forfeited all bouts in v.uv- >, ?
was scheduled to appear, Wilson's chief threat t R
be Gates Kimball, North Carolina's finalist # ^ Hj
year. Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E Wii*. H
formerly lived in Southport and is the grjr.a.^B
of Mrs. Miriam Fisher, of this city. B?
easing a note of (Pastors and othe H
ivincing wisdom, the services of the author of m
i Him were con- series as help in revival mwtiie K
had a right to or for a series of inspirits* Eg
irity shone out in addresses please ewrcjtiottR
He is the ''ght. with him ealjy and niakc an-B]
ore witness (John of ^js j10ip A
r among the sons Grover c phill:. ||
ten with such au- neU N C) El
words speak His
ie origin of that s0i:xHP0RT SCHOOL NE\1>.I
forces of nature, CHAPEL PBOGBAM H
th, life and death, tenth grai .H
His voice. Every- Qf tho chapei program lastWtd-K
tliis who has not j nesciay. The program began w? iB
ited to give Him a Biblical recitital H
leak healing and' Marvin Floyd. Mr. Brown tbaH
. .led the devotionals. The remit.
and E'ojy der of the prog c<H
ixt a me 0 ^ i recitations by Helen Ems Mil
lOthing iLibby O'Brien, and piano kIn-H
1 you ry | ^on3 jjy uttlc Gloria I H
.. . f ! Mary Ann Molly-check. May La- H
1 the sound of | ^ potter and Gilda Aro L Bj
n a nimmn * r o ",p
e birds hush their _ mbbgiuiu uuh ?
We lost a second cor,feia#^B
that He gave to Same last Tues ght t.
both the boys . H
art is ringing. were beaten by the Letand
school teams. Tlie girls' senH
with me, and He was 48-9.' the hoys' score ;
me. 20-12. HI
ne I am His own: H
share as we tarry William Sellers and Egr. Hi:-Ha
I bard, of Fort i
s ever known". week end here with relatives H
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