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Wednesday, April 2, 1941
No Time For Strikes
We like the following straight-forward
statement that has been issued by Senator
J. W. Bailey regarding his stand on
strikes and their effect upon the National
Defense program:
"The question now is whether this
Government is strong enough to see to it '
that agitators, communists and German ?:
agents shall not obstruct the necessary
program of production. I believe that if!
is. We cannot delay in such a matter. If '
the President needs further legislation, .1
all he has to do is to ask for it. Order i
must be maintained. We need now the <
work of every worker, and the right of .1
any worker to work must be protected,
and that without paying for the privilege.: '
If there are grievances, let them be referred
to Government arbitration, but in
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the meantime the work must go on. in
all controversies between workers and
employers, the Government must now be
umpire; its decisions must be prompt and
effectual. I am confidently expecting adequate
action by the President upon Itia
return from a vacation which he needed.
I am for whatever measures may be necessary
to eliminate all possibility of
strikes or sit-downs against the security
of the people of the United States; and
1 am for prompt action. Delay is not only
dangerous, it amounts to defeat of all our
plans."
The Senator is right. This is no time
for foolishness. This must be. a united effort
on the part of labor as well as capital.
'.
In High Gear?
If a vestige of doubt remained in any
mind as to this country's position in the
current world struggle for power, the
President's speech at the White House
Coirespondents Association dinner should
have dissipated it. There was no humor
in the President's voice. There were no
light touches. He had grave words to say, 1
and he said them gravely.
That speech, coming hard on the heels
of Congress' approval of the lend-lease
bill, made our policy clear as crystal?
we are out to destroy dictatorship, and
the entire l'esources of this nation will
be spent freely to that end. He denounced
the Nazis by name. He accused them
of seeking the destruction of elective systems
of government on every continent,
including our own. He accused them of
seeking to stir up controversies and to
ci-eate disunion within all democracies,
including our own. And he said that they j
would fail?that the would-be conquer- I
ors will find that the forces of democracy, I
though they may move slowly, will in the j
end be supreme.
That speech was obviously designed for
more than American ears. Immediately
after it was made, it was broadcast to
the far corners of the world, in 14 different
languages. It went, by short wave,
to Germany, to the occupied nations, to
Africa, to South America. For this government
feels, as do the British, that the
moral effect of 100 per cent support of
the democracies' war is almost as important
in some ways as will be its material
effect. It is no secret that Britain expects
that revolts in the conquered nations will
eventually be a major factor contributing
to Hitler's collapse. The fact that the
United States has actually ipteryened in
the war, even though only as a non-belligerent,
is expected to give new hppe to
the millions of people who now live as
virtual prisoners of the Nazi-fascist system.
It is significant that the President had
little to say concerning the world after
the war. The whole emphasis, here and
in England, is now being placed upon
victory. That dominates all official thinking
and planning. There is little time for
discussion about the world order of the
future: That must wait.
Highly important were the President's
words to industry and labor. He 4efinitely
took the stand that many have wanted
him to take for months?he said that all
must Kork harder and longer, that all
must expect smaller profits. lie said, in
effect, that all must sacrifice, and that
nothipg will be permitted to stand in the
way of the swiftest possible consummation
of the aid-to-the-democracies pro-,
pram.
So the policy has been finally established.
The debate is over, and even the
opponents of the lend-lease plan admit
that public sentiment is overwhelmingly
behind it. Now the real job begins?to
make and supply the weapons Britain and
Greece and China must have. That calls
for greater industrial productivity than
we have so far obtained. It calls for a
ship-building drive of unprecedented proportions.
Further, it may very likely call
for use of the American navy to convoy
merchant ships to England?it is obvious
that our weapons will be of no use if the
ships bearing them are sunk by the dozen
in the Atlantic.
The President's request for a $7,000,000,000
appropriation to put the lendlease
plan into effect, was unquestionably
designed as a dramatic gesture. It is
knoyn that at least two years must pass
before it will be possible for our factories
to produce that value of goods for England?some
think the war will be over
before the appropriation is exhausted, i
The President apparently preferred to1
ask for a tremendous appropriation at
ance, rather than to request smaller sumsj
at intervals over a period of time, in1
order to show the dictators that we reaiiyi
mean business.
"W<we Of The Future'
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, whose father,
;he late Dwight Morrow, served his coun;ty
long and well in many varied capalities
during his career as a statesman,;
lias done little in recent years to shed''
my additional credit upon the great and j
proud name which she bears. L
Her newest book called "Wave of the;
Future" will not endear her to the hearts):
>f her fellow countrymen. The book, tak- i
;n in the abstract, can be called little else 1
nit a clever little piece of Nazi propaganda?or
Communist propaganda, or i
Fascist.
The ill-timed and ill-advised outbursts
if her husband, who happened to the
rood fortune to fly the Atlantic before
inybody else did it single-handed, have
iften been credited to the fertile ingenuty
of his no-less famous wife.
The Lindberghs, under the constitution
if the United States, have a perfect right t
o speak their views. That is the privilege
Which makes America the great seat of
lemocracy which it is today.
But at the same time, the Lindberghs
vill doubtless live in this country for a
ong time to come, and it does not seem
,hgt they are making many new friends
it the moment.
That is beside the point, however. Takng
Mrs. Lindbergh's book in the main,
t seeks, in rather vague generalities, to
mpress upon the American reading public
that woi'ld revolution is upon us?
Jiat Nazism and Fascism are integral
parts of the "wave of the future" and
;hat it is foolish for us to try to cling to
'the old."
The Nazis, and the Communists and
the Fascists c^ll it "the new world order."
Mrs. Ljndbergh calls it the "wave
sf the future."
IT. .
Shears And Paste
MUST GET AROUND TO IT
(Charlotte Observer)
The business of the President's speech in
explanation ?of the policy which the Administration
will follow now that the lend-lease
bill has been passed was to get the people of
this country in the proper ^rame of mind to
appreciate what's ahead of them.
That may have been as primary among the
purposes of his fireside chat as to bolster the
rnorale of the people pf the foreign democracies
to whom this abundant aid is to be de
qnuaiw.
And, similarly, to depress tpe courage of
the peoples of the Axis powers who are already
far from satisfied with the lack of
speed which their gigantic military machines
have displayed in making quick end of Great
Britain.
But of all of these several possible intentions,
that of the President to give his own
fellow countrymen a more profound picture
Of what this alliance with the distant democracies
is going to mean in their own experiences
and habits of living was timely and
important
It's a thought that the people are reluctant
to consider in its realistic perspective.
The simple fact of the matter is that our
whole economy will' all the more completely
change now from one of peace to one of preparedness
for any emergency of war, and that
pi violent and cataclysmic.
We will all be feeling the pinch of it soon..
er or later. .. _
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THE STATE PORT P1U
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Among J3Fi
FISMMEN
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m mi.i. keziaii
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We are not giving anybody any ,
assurance that we will go onl(
writing this column forever. ,
Started it six or seven years ago
and pegged it off without many J j
misses for about five years ran- j
ning. Then, we got tired and quit. ,
all of a sudden. While we wrote ,
we were cussed a great deal for ,
all we said; since we stopped we j
have been cussed a great more (
for not writing it. Things seem ,
to have been pretty equally bal- ,
anced both ways. We have about t
decided we might just as well get j
cussed out for doing it as for not ,
doing it. As a matter of fact, the j
cussing does not really bother us ]
much. t
Bob Wilson, the Up The (
Stream man on the Hearst k
Washington Times-Herald, had i t
quite a column on Bald Head !s
island, Orton and the writer, a (
week or so ago. Reading the !?
column, the State News Bureau L
was moved to write and ask: j
"What the h ? Did you give 1
Bob Wilson a mortgage on the ?
old home place or something? |
It was quite an article 011 the ,
history of the old sot from L
Southport. Anyway, it was very j t
nice and means a great deal (1
not only to Brunswick county |
Dublicitv but to the entire state |t
as well." ; t
We've been trying to interest
Charlie Parker and Bill Baker
of the State News Bureau to in- j
terest us in hitchhiking with them I
up Maryland the first of next
month. The Outdoor Writers of
America are to hold their annual
camp, under the auspices of the
Jungle Cock, at the time. Charlie j
and Bill, along with us, are mem- j
bers in good standing of the'
OWAa, but their standing is not
so good as ours and it might improve
their relations with President
Hammond Brown of the
OWAA if they took us along with
them.
This month of April should
see quite a number of writers,
some of them mislabeled sportsmen,
coming to Southport and
its environments. There's Ham- !
mond Brown of the Baltimore j
American, in Baltimore. He's
scheduled for a trip. Bob Wil- j.
son of the Washington TimesHerajd,
hints at the same thing; j
.Charlie Parker and Bill Baker
of the State News Bureau will !
be shoving in about the loth. !
W. C. Dowd of the Charlotte I
News has promised to send one
of his best cameramen and a
feature writer, to boot, when- I
ever we say the word. We also
have a suspicion that Johnny
Mock of The Pittsburgh Press
is ripe for a trip. There are
others.
Frank O. Sherrill, owner of the
S. & W. chain of cafeterias, which
are hereabouts and thereabouts, I
writes us that he is coming down !
to his Bald Head island in a week
or two and stay a week or two.
It leaves us kind of wondering if
someone stole a march on us and ]
wrote Frank that the drum might
be running off the point of Bald
Head island about the middle of
April. Frank is a doggoned good
sport, and the folks down here
are always glad to sec him.
From Don N. Carpenter,
hunting and fishing editor of
the Washington Daily News,
there comes a copy of Don Carpenter's
complete Fishing Handbook.
It is autographed: "To
my friend, the one and only Bill
Keziah." Don has done right
smart by the lower North Car- ,
olina coastal section in his
handbook, which is available to
the rank and file of fishermen
for 35-cents. We had this rascal
down here three times last
fall on fishing trips, and hope
to have him many more times ,
than that before the 1941 season
is over.
With several dozen competent
outdoor writers and sportsmen
especially bent on teaching us
how to fish, we should learn
something of the sport this year.
We are keeping in mind the instructions
we have received from
all of them during the past year
and, so far, haven't suffered
much thereby. It gratifies U3 that
Uncle Joe Stone of Greensboro
should feel occasion to write us
this week and say: "It is not
often that anybody beats me fishing,
and it always makes me
about half sore, but there will
be another day, as every fisherman
has his day. Uncle Joe tells
us that Earl Godbey, the No. 1
editorial writer of the Greensboro
News, is another pretty
good sportsman who is aiming to
try these parts.
The 4 pound 9-ounce and the
4 pound 6-ounce big mouth
bass that Postmaster Yaskell
caught (and weighed) during
an hour-and-a-half absence from
town one afternoon last week,
were pretty good. This winter
and spring the freshwater fishing
has not been what it should
have been, due to much dryness
for two or three years.
Recent rains have improved
conditions somewhat. The season
on freshwater fish closed
OT. SOUTHPORT. N. C.
WASHINGTON
LETTER
Washington, April 2.?Interest
is sharply divided here this week j
between labor dusturbanees and |
the Balkan war front. Tides of j
sentiment in Congressional quar- j
ters are running strong against j
the spread of strikes in defense
industries. With public opinion
polls showing an overwhelming
majority of the people wanting the
government to call a halt to the
lisputes which are endangering
lefense, the issue has gone beyond
ordinary political boundaries.
The fact that Congress has voted
itself a series of short vacations
in these critical times may not
set so well with ttieir constituents.
The impression grows that
.vith the President and many of
lis Cabinet away, nothing much
an be expected from the efforts
>f minor government officials
row muddling along in an at;empt
to bring about labor peace.
The agreement reached by lealers
on Capitol Hill for a recess
s ostensibly proposed to give the
awmakers a respite from what
hey consider strenuous duties of
heir office. Only routine business
will be transacted for at least
wo weeks. The House, for initance,
is confining its attention
o a cotton net weight bill and
mother relating to coffee despite
irgent appeals to enact more imrortant
legislation. The Senate is
ikewise making time sedulously
ivoiding controversial measures
vhich require their time. The soons
are inclined to pass off their
esponsibilities on the theory that j
hese matters can await the reurn
of the President to the j
.Vhite House.
The Congressional branch feels j
u~ tin.nnc opa QOmP
-Hell cue lawui Liv-u^/u U. v
hing for the Chief Executive to j
landle under his existing powers,
frequent interruptions in the
low of defense materials attri-1
nitable to strikes is rubbing the
lerves of officialdom. Even promion
lawmakers are becoming
estive and indignant with the
inion leaders. The belief prevails
hat the newly created Mediation
3oard must be implemented with
lefinite powers. Under present
luthority they can do little more
ban shake an admonitory finger I
it the embattled strikers and j
imployers. It is known that j
nany disputes are not questions i
>f wages and working conditions J
n which the quarrel is with the j
imployer. Instead it is recognized I
;hat the turmoil in many cases I
s due to friction between rival |
inions over control in their j
ilants.
Consideration of the alien de- j
jortation bill by the House gives I
he legislators an opportunity to j
. entilate their opinions about i
Communists and foreign influen-j
;es. That there is a distinction
retween aliens with destructive
ntentions anit others simply
seeking a livelihood was revealed
n the testimony of the Governor
if the Panama Canal Zone relently.
Because the Panama Catal
is vital to the successful defense
of this country by naval
mits, Federal agencies and Congressional
committees have worried
about aliens employed around
his waterway. Employment of
certain aliens was prohibited in
1939, but Governor Edgerton, of
Panama Canal Zone, has asked
i partial lifting of the restrictions
so that native tronical em
ployees may obtain employment.
The Governor claims that most
3f the workers are of West Indian
descent and many are British
subjects. It is asserted that
they are not readily susceptible
to foreign influence and that
their attitude toward the Canal I
is much like that of the Americans.
Canal officials contend that J
American employees are all right
in positions they now occupy,
but it would be another matter
if they were exposed to heavy
manual labor in a tropical climate
where they would deteriorate
physically at a rapid rate.
Melting snows and heavy rains
which accompany the advent of
spring are giving government agencies
more than the usual seasonal
headache. This year vital
defense plants are operating along
rivers where floodwaters have in
the past collected a heavy toll
and damage to public and private
properties. The Army engineers
have been working for many
years on a remedial program designed
to reduce the effects of
floods in the areas adjacent to
watersheds. Neighboring farms
have been disrupted by soil erosion
and debris movement caused
by flood conditions. Sometimes
the factories, which are now enMonday
to remain closed for 40
days, while the fish are spawning.
Some of the boys are bewailing
the fact that this closed
season should come along just
when the fish began to bite. We
don't regard the situation as
so bad as that. The bass have
suffered heavily as a result of
low water, and a little peace
now may result in better fishing
next year.
Of all the rotten luck, our
story to The Greensboro News
about Charles Parrell and Uncle
Joe Stone of the Fisheries Commission
and their fishing trip
down here was to have been embelished
with a picture of Uncle
Joe holding up the string of fish.
Instead of turning over the right
picture, those bums rang in a
picture of myself holding up the
string of minnows that were being
used for bait! j
(ttk.
- NOT im
A card this week from Captain M. M. Rosen- t
baum from San Antonio, Texas, informs us that ..
"Uncle Sam keeps us buy from morn til night." ,
The former Shallottc physician says that he ^
likes army life . . . They say that there's no
fooling about there being a shortage of tobacco
plants in Brunswick this year. Part of the trouble
is not planting, another part of the trouble is 3
that those which were planted haven't done so C
well. v
Several local ladies have been participating in c
the seed and bulb chain letter that is the current u
rage, and, strangely enough, several of them have a
received rewards for their faith. But what stumps o
us is why intelligent peiple will lend their time g
and trouble to keeping unbroken this 13-postal t
card prayer that is purported to bring good luck I
within 13 days if forwarded, and to bring disaster S
swift and sure to those who dare- ignore the b
warning to keep it going 'round the world' ... c
P At TTI IIWMVr befh" Davis and fl
MJUlHftMtl The prizes will be
_ _ T___T_ the commencement
SCHOOL NEWS
ished plenty of tiu
DECLAMATIONS ninth of April w
The declamation contest for the pugilists hold tlje
grammar grades was held last meet in the high a
Wednesday morning in the high him. All bouts are
school auditorium. The contest- the junior class an<
ants were from the fourth, fifth wi? toward ^
and sixth grades. The girls who
gave recitations were Betty Drew, Already
Joyce Lancaster, Betty Todd Cor- are in training. 1
j .. , ~ welter-weight boui
lette and Elizabeth Davis. The bouts fQr
boys who gave orations were: weights. Previous
Johnnie Hazel, Herbert Swain, proven extremely
Lewis Newton and Wallace Moore. 'oca' tight fans. So
Between the girls' and boys' on your
speeches the seventh grade pre- .
sented a musical number. After jj
the boys' speeches, they presented J. ,,
a skiL "The Crime of Wasting l"' '
Time". The judges decided to give debated against ea
first places in fhe contest to Bet- ?)adej??ro f,fflrma
ty Todd Corlette and Lewis New- ^
ton. Second places went to Eliza- "niieviiies a.a
the judges decisi
gaged in producting of defense Southport negativi
ha?? heen nut out of Southport affirmati
commission for. several weeks by their debate over t
floodwaters. In 1938 Congress ap- negative team. The
propriated $321,555,000 for con- firmative team wai
struction and maintenance of Martha Grey Brow
flood control projects. Fifty-eight Carr. The negatii
projects have been completed at Jack Christian and
a cost to the Government of $30,- The query was B
083,000. Construction has been | United States Shot
initiated and lias progressed rap- | Policy of Requiring
idly cn 144 projects. Nine others j Military Training
will be started during the re- | Bodie.d Men Before
mainder of the current fiscal 'he Age of Twenty
year. The works now under way
and those expected to be started NOW AT
this spring have a total estimat- Captain C. N. Sv
ed Federal cost of $474,159,000. been >" for sevei
An additional amount estimated returned to his i
at 5206,847,000 is now required j being a patient at 1
to complete those projects. j >al Hospital.
I NOT
CITY EU
The voters of the City o
hereby called to meet in con
I on the 18th day of April, 19
I for the purpose of nominating
of Mayor of the City of Soutl
next general municipal electi
Tuesday after the first Mond
Meeting for the nomina
the first ward will be held at
ing of April 21st.
Meeting for nomination
second ward will be held at 7
of April 22nd.
Meeting for nomination <
third ward will be held at 7:
of April 24th.
The registration books y
19th. April 26th is challenge
Ward; Mrs. Will Davis; 2n<
Watson; 3rd Ward: Mrs. An
-POLLING ]
1st Ward
2nd Ward
3rd Ward
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Chairman Citizei
WCt.NMDAY^^?
LY NEWS -^f
is timely as tomorrows ffL T^vB
Page , NH
Flight Command," the .may
^ips VK|
hat stars Robert Taylor. It piays ^
"uesday at the Amiizu.
Now is a good time to invite fr^
o come to see you. that is, if you '"^B'
"aM tf, AJ
omething special for them to do. \vithi _
)rto* Gardens should be at their ^
isit is worth a trip from any piace .
larolina . Southport people will hj...
iterest in the events in which Cherry y,nd
Brother Christian participate than T^B
ther feature of the Cape Fear Horse Sfc-~ !^B?
:oes on Friday and Saturday in Wiim^
md, speaking of Wilmington, there's "a
pundary for you. If you want any new
Iputhport and her defense program, spend
ours in our neighboring city. You're
ante home full of fresh ideas.
fcrbert" Swain. | A TRmrn;
presented at j On Sunday March 16. ^ ^Blt
exercises. i evening drew to a close ou;
Q Laura Church, was called t-k^B
! will be turn- reward in the g,cat ^ *^K
ills about the was a life-long member hen
the local Methodist church and
third annual of its Missionary Society
o~..?v.?
ujwi gjwuw "vuMipvj t ?a maue to
sponsored by ^or lhe an"e! "f the ]&
1 the proceeds | wl>om we harshly call ,iia!h?^?
carried to her eternal hnn^^^K
Junior-Senior i heavens the soul
eighteen boys | loved member BBS
[Here will be In the home anJ
Ls and also I
m and feather n,ty where she sper.t the
fights have JOr paKrt ? her llft- tie
popular with ne3S' bnghtness and
put this date of he1" nature enueared
list. those with whom she caneBS
ES contact. One of the oitstaij^B
debates which characteristics of her
riday, Bladen- was her eagernesss to
ind Southport lowship with the children o( Gg^^H
ch other. The Her gracious and kind
tive team l.ost won her rich friendships,
rgative team. The Gardenei' of Heave:
tive team won plucked a precious flower.
on over the If1"3"1 an(! beautiful. niemory^B
5 team. The su<-h souls can never uie i:
ive team won hearts and minds of those a^B
:he Bladenboro '?ve them.
Southport af- She was born tenderly to
3 composed of resting place. The giaa^B
m and Peggy and flowers and swaying
re team was of evergreen trees, mingled
Henry Smith. *he murmering of the nearby
tesolved, ' "The will sing a requim over her Ic^B
mi. Ck\fov With tho ancrals r>f 'aei^H
lid Aaopc me
: One Year of whom she glorified. sheihlii^H
of All Able come us over the river when d^M|
i They Reach Nils ring rest. IB!
-Three." Methodist Circles
HOJIE LEAVES HOSPITAL 9
iSJin, who has Mi s. J. K. Ludlum of AS
ral days, has discharged from Doshe: Meotd^H
esidence after Hospital Tuesday after
kosher Memor- patient in the hospital for
oral days. BH
ICE I
iCTION I
f Sputhport, N. C., are
vention at the courthouse 9
41, at 7:30 o'clock P. M. 9
, a candidate for the office 9
hprt to be voted on at the 9
on to be held on the first 9
ay in May, 1941. 9
tion of twp aldermen for 9
7:30 o'clock on the even- 9
qf tvyo a^ermen for the
:30 o'clock pn the evening I
sf two aldermen from the
30 o'clock qn the evening H
rill be open April 12th to H
day. Registrars are: 1st
3 Ward: Mrs. George Y. H
nie K. Vitou. I
PLAGES? I
R. Will Davis' Store I
Coqrt House I
.... Newspaper Office 9
askell I
ps Committee I