North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE TWO THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. ' PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor nterad as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at Uto Post Office at Southport N. C? under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates DNE YEAR $1.50 KX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS ,75 NATIONAL DITORIALq4j w .association J li Wednesday, April 2f>, 19-11 Some people are able to collect most anything- but their thoughts. It's the riotous liver who often ends up with practically none. Penmanship is a lost art, it's been said. The way some people write, it may be lost but it's no art. m - 11.-4. One trouble witn pontics is mat mere is too little difference between a ward | lieeler and a ward heel. People who cannot work and talk at the same time seldom give up their conversation. mi Fire In The Forests Early last Wednesday morning we saw ,, in its early stages what turned out to be one of the most disasterous forest fires suffered in recent years by property owners of Brunswick county. A smoky haze heralded the approach 'of fire that was eating its way through the trees, and a thicker smoke over to (the left of the highway billowed high to Jfaiark the center of conflagration, it It was then that the thought came to us that fire in the forests is like war. The trees, the birds and the wild animals who b* fer most have no part in touching it I ?ff are hopelessly caught in its path and Are powerless to put it to an end. We know what we would do about war and the men who start them, if we had it in our power. Well, it is within our power to stop forest fires, and to deal with the men who start them. We > must do this, too, if we ever hope to see the full fruition of the forestry program in our county. Now Is The Time If you are one of the citizens of this community who plan to build or remodel a residence, take our advice and do it now. You are going to do this, you say, regardless of any defense development here; you just aren't ready to begin. It's worth an extra effort, we think, to go ahead. In the first place, if and when something does develop in this community, a shortage of housing facilities will be one of the major problems. Go ahead with your plans and be in position to make the most of any opportunity to rent. Go ahead and build, for delay may result not only in higher cost of building, but may bring about conditions that will make it virtually impossible to do any11 i/? - c i j._ .1 tmng: once a aeiense project is locatea nearby and actual work begins. Your final protection in following this advice is that, whether there is a defense development here or not, this will surely be -a big year for tourist traffic in this section and you will be in position to realize from your investments. About Strikes It fias become obvious to almost everyone that labor is the Number 1 problem in the defense drive. On April 5th, defense director Knudsen said that 90 per cent of strikes must be eliminated or the defense program will fail. Under the best of conditions our arms program is not coming up to original hopes, and when strikes occur precious days and weeks are irretrievably lost. The waste occasioned by strikes was computed in one of General Johnson's late columns. According to him, during Januaiy, February and the first three weeks of March, the strike toll was 1,129,000 man-days. And that, as he further observed, does not tell the whole story. Many of the strikes took place in key factories, the result being that other factories could not get needed materials, so hundreds of thousands of man-days were lost elsewhere. Labor's excuse for strikes is that it is liot now getting its fair share of profits? that the industries which have been given ;v 5 .. - war contracts are rolling up Unprecedented gross revenues, and that the worker should be paid substantially more, and be given other, non-monetary benefits in addition. This argument may be valid in some cases. But, so far as most industries are concerned, gross profits are a poor gauge of net profits. The tax burden alone is taking most of the increased earnings, and there can be no doubt that taxes will be still higher in the years to come. Furthermore, the very pace of the drive is adding heavily to industry's operating costs. You can carry on an operation in the most economical way when , you have plenty of time?you must often 1 taken the most expensive way when the 1 days are flying by and a deadline for de- , lively is at hand. The cost of most raw i materials is on the rise. Long ago, top 1 government officials said that no one is J going to get rich out of this war. That will be pretty largely true. Through taxation, j the government can control and limit in- i come just about as it pleases. i A number of thoughtful friends of la- i bor are of the opinion that the strikes ' are, in a sense, suicidal?that they may 1 alienate public good will to the extent J (that the immense gains made by labor ] during the past eight years may be lost. Every poll indicates that the public is "fed up" with what it regards as labor racketeering. They indicate an overwhelming majority of citizens favor some sort of forced mediation by government that will prevent strikes. As Raymond Clapper, a columnist who certainly has never been anti-labor, recently wrote, "Don't think that thousands of families, into whose homes conscription has reached, will not support the Roosevelt Administration if it is driven to take the hardboiled way. Mr. Roosevelt will have pubi;? oonfimont fiill-ir lioViiriH him " 11 V OViUtinvav x u t i j vvmiiu 111am 6Vo/> Drought f A situation which vitally concerns the j people of Columbus county at the present ? moment, gains the attention of the Char- ' lotte Observer for Friday: "Intensive cultivation of an unusual ' farm "cash crop," the first since 1917- t 18, has brought about a shortage of farm ? labor. C "Seeing a chance to make some real, 1 quick money, thousands of farmers left v their fields Jlnd went to defense camp t construction jobs. About the only ability 1 required in some cases was to know ' which end of a hammer to grab. Know- v ing how to drive a nail was worth money, c "But this cash crop will soon dry up with completion of the camps. The thusands who were attracted to the air base here will run into a drought. Maybe the farmer who stuck to his plowing was the wiser, sowing and reaping, with a cow in the pasture, a pig in the pen and chicken in the pot. "As for a labor shortage, that seems an easily solved problem. Development and distribution of farm machinery continues rapidly. The mule stands all day in the lot while the tractor cuts through the land. Restrictions on acreage and production are such that the farmer and his family often are able to do all their own work." Rise In Food Prices Entirely Unjustifiable ??? C Rise in food prices because of the pres- * ent world conditions is one of the most 1 nonsensical, absurd situations which this * country has yet had to face. t I President Roosevelt at the outset of the t present conflict and the inauguration of ? the gigantic national defense program, emphasized that there would be no profiteering this time, as was the case in the last war. But if the present situation doesn't smack of profiteering then we don't know the meaning of the word. With Europe locked up tighter than a bank vault at midnight, where thousands of people are on the verge of starvation because food cannot reach them through the blockade, and with tremendous surpluses of foods of all kinds in this country, there is simply not a leg to stand on when it comes to justifying the present rise in food prices. The fact is that exports of American food stuffs are perhaps smaller today than at any time in the last decade, and at the same time there is little reason to doubt that there has been any decrease in the food surplus. The government has ample reason now to come to the aid of the rank and file of American people to protect them against the unscrupulous profiteer, who would seize such a. situation as a world conflagration to line his own unworthy pockets. _ , 4 THE STATE PORT PIL Just "ML Among . IFISFE8MEN BY BILL KK7.IAH Bill Berry" Wilmington sports- : man with a pretty good record jf knowing when the drum will he running on the point at Bald Head Island, went over Sunday afternoon on one of his lone-wolf Pishing trips. The guy returned in five hours with a string of red drum numbering seven and with their individual weights ranging from 20 to 26 pounds. The fish were not taken by trolling. or through the use of a j xiat. Bill stood on the beach and jot 'em by virtue of surf cast- j ng with his good right arm. j iVe sort of took the liberty of' .viring northern newspaper con:acts that some of the best surf:asting on the Atlantic coast was low to be had on the point of Bald Head island. A couple of sport radio broadcasters, Jimmie Briggs in 1 Raleigh and Houston Lawing of Greensboro, are being mighty good to this part of the coast these days. In fact they are good to the Southport fishing all of the time. Jimmie Broadcasts from Raleigh three time a week and seldom if ever fails to put In a good plug for us. Lawing writes the script for a number of stations and is always edging in something ' about the Southport fishing. He i is coming down soon for a go at it himself and bringing other sports writers with him. Jimmie is also coming down soon. 1 And while we are on the subject of broadcasting, we are not i 'orgetting Don N. Carpenter, ; lunting and fishing editor of the 1 rVashington Daily News. He is i >lugging Southport in his column ilmost daily. On top of that, last i Phursday night he went to bat i 'or Southport for fifteen minutes ' >ver a radio station in New fork. He writes us that he is eally worried as to whether or ( lot Southport will have enough : iport fishing boats this season, j ie is being swamped with in- i luiries about the fishing condiions here. We can well believe i his claim. During the past week i re have had letters from more i han 200 different groups of i Vashington and Maryland sports- : nen who are planning trips here, c Several of them will come this 1 veek-end for Gulf Stream and 1 ither fishing. i This year the Chamber of 1 Commerce is going about the work of publicizing the local 1 sport fishing in a way that is < full of system. There are half a I dozen or more northern and eastern sports writers who are 1 strong personal friends and 1 calling for stuff to be sent i them daily. The same can be i said of three radio stations, i and some of the North Carolina ] dailies want all the fishing : news they can get. Added to J these steady standbys are i newspapers everywhere in the ] United States that always like l a special story about people i from their territory making a [ good catch of fish. Parties fish- < ing at Southport are always asked the name of their home town newspaper and a special story covering the party is always sent that newspaper, whether it is just a little weekly or a big town daily. A tip-off to local boatmen who :ater to sport fishing parties and vho carry parties to Bald Head j sland for the surf fishing or i ileasure, is that they should ] lave all their boats ready to ake care of a big and steady i ush of business beginning with j his week-end. The real rush of 1 >arties will begin this week and j f the boatmen make the pro- ( >er efforts to see that their par- | ies make good catches, this year , vill see the greatest rush of ' iportsmen to Southport that the . ?wn has ever known. This is lot guess work. The claim is jased on a working knowledge >f the publicity contacts that are ivailable this year, contacts that ire already threatening to swamp die Chamber of Commerce in its :fforts to keep up with all inluiries and to make reservations tor the parties already booked to ' lome. ] Captain Victor Lance with his sport fishing cruiser, Torobil, should be here from Palm .Beach the last of this week in readiness to begin ,Gulf Stream fishing. The Sea Girl, crack Southport boat, is already pretty well fitted out for the gulf and is working. The Sea Girl of Dr. Hyatt is being worked over and may not be ready for ten days or two weeks. Monroe Barnhill has fitted up the E. M. Lewis and is ready for either Gulf Stream or offshore fishing. In addition to his small and dependable boat for offshore fishing, Captain H. T. Bowmer now has the Buddy all ready for parties. This craft is large enough for the gulf and may make an occassional OT. SOUTHPORT. N. C YOUR HOME AGENT SAYS Do you know that the family's supply of vegetables for the year grown in a good home garden will cost less than any other food supply produced on the farm. For example, 43 farm women from two counties in North Carolina sent in records of their 1940 home gardens. The average number in the family were five. The average size of the home gallon was 1.1 acres. The average total cash outlay for seed, fertilizer, dusting and spraying material for controlling garden pests was $10.20. VEGETABLES TO PLANT APRIL 13 to MAY 1 Tidewater and Coastal Plain Areas: Snap beans, Lima beans, cucumbers, tomato, sweet potato plants, sweet corn, beets, carrots, summer spinach, squash, okra, pepper and field peas. Piedmont Area: Tendergreen, rape, kale, garden peas, tomato and pepper plant, sweet corn, beets, carrots, snapbeans, squash and cucumbers. May 1st, okra, field peas, and broccoli. Bed sweet potato seed after May 1st. Mountain Area: Cabbage plants, broccoli, garden peas, beets, turnips and carrots. Plant May 1st, snap beans, lima beans, cucumbers. squash, okra, sweet corn (lower altitudes, tomato and pepper plants, summer spinach, Swiss chard, field peas. TOMATOES Tomato is one of the most important crop to be grown in the home garden. It can be substituted for oranges and contains Vitamin C. Vitamin C is that something which builds up body resistance against attacks or certain diseases. Our nutrition specialists advise that every farmer should produce enough tomatoes so that each member of the family should be supplied with 100 pounds for the year. Around to pounds snouid be consumed as ripe tomatoes and the balance consisting of total of 12 quarts of canned tomatoes and juice with an extra 8 quarts to be used in soup mixtures. SWEET POTATOES Treat seed potatoes before bedding with commmercial SemesanBell. Dissolve one pound in T'/i gallons of water. Submerge seed in the solution for one minute. Remove, drain and spread out to dry before bedding. Bed potatoes on clean sand or light sandy loam 3oil taken from areas where sweet potatoes have not been grown. Cover with several indies of similar kind of soil One bushel of seed will give around 1,000 plants for the first drawing. This should be enough plants to produce the amount of matured sweet potatoes sufficient for a year's supply of a family j Df five. FERTILIZING SMALL FRUITS Newly set grapevines, raspberry and dewberry plants should be fertilized with one tablespoonful of nitrate of soda per plant, ipplying it in a ring at a distince of a foot from the plant. Mature vines or hills of plants should receive one to two lbs. of 5-7-5 fertilizer. Stable or poultry Manure mixea wim superpnosphate is as good as commercial fertilizer. Ten pounds of stable manure or around 2V? pounds of joultry manure equals one pound )f 5-7-5 fertilizer. BOLIVIA SCHOOL NEWS ART EXHIBIT The Bolivia high school held ts art exhibit April 20th. Each room displayed the art work that lad been done during the year, rhe exhibit began at 1:30 o'clock when all the school children visited the various rooms to see the work. That night beginning it 7 o'clock the building was opened again, and at 8 o'clock the glee club and some piano students gave a musical program. We were very happy to have all trip out there, but she is destined to cater mostly to offshore parties. There will be several other good fishing boats in readiness for both the Gulf and offshore fishing, just as soon as the business picks up. That will be soon. The absence of shrimp for bait thus far has been worrying the party boatmen, especially those ivho go in for trout. Some of them say they will be getting plenty of bait in a short time. Captain H. T'. Bowmer plans to keep both shrimp and cut fish bait for the other boatmen at all times. He stated Monday that he planned to get shrimp from somewhere this week. Old wrecks off Bald Head Island are being re-marked this week so that the boatmen with parties will have no trouble in finding them when they go out after trout. In addition to aiding in quickly locating the fish, the markers serve the dual purpose of lessening the possibility of some boat snagging itself on the rutsy irons of the wrecks while they are cruising around at low tide. I -NOTE Ml FARM and GARDEN DEPT: Dr. Roy Daniel t was up at the State Test Farm at Willard Sunj day and estimates that he'll be picking straw- [ ' berries on his place near Southport two full weeks before they ripen at the government station . . . That lettuce being shipped from Bald Head Island is at least 10 days ahead of other sections of North Carolina. Garden peas, too, are ready over I there; but dry weather has resulted in that crop being cut short hundreds of dollars. J. M. Roach, inspector for the State Board of Health, left headaches in his wake following a visit here last week. Hotels, meat markets, dairies, cafes, drug stores, etc., were checked and graded. The one note of cheer regarding his visit is that the government will not consider commencing a project here until certain facts contained in his report are made available. This doesn't necessarily indicate anything definite, just removes one other obstacle that might block the path of a defense project. While you're regretting the timber loss in that burned over area that was swept clean about i Southport last week, don't forget that game and I the friends and parents who vis- Braves", ited the school. f LIBRA PIANO RECITAL The circulation The piano students will give a of March was 4 recital on Friday, April 25th, be- 642 non-fiction ma ginning at 8 o'clock. This is their 1070 volumes. Th last recital for the year and all have come and rei friends and parents are invited. iced' | (Crowded out last week) SPOR WH'IAP cpvino nivnr i'T The Bolivia basi i; v i?vi? ?? The annual junior-senior ban- J a 4 to 3 game fri quet took place Friday night, Tuesday afternooi April 11, in the Bolivia high | game. The locals school gym. fast s*rt' 9C?rin The gym was turned into a 111 the st: a 01 deck of a ship and the program The vislt0's we followed the theme of "The *wo sa?e hlt cruise of The Merry Gang. handed slants of When everyone had gathered ham. Roy Ra on for the cruise. G. C. Hickman. in| took charge as captain. He an- v Twenty-nine chi nounced the program, which was ^ pre.school c] as follows: Introduction of guests, A_rU lltll and v Ardell Parker'; toast to the fa- fQr diphthe'ria. AU culty, Mildred Gilbert; tribute to fee reminded of an Old Boat, Billy Robbins: that |rcg a?c "Sea Fever". Mr. Rosser; "The t0 schoo, t0 pregc Capitol Ship", waitresses and Qf immunization waitors; "Our Ship of Rio". Juanita Lewis; "Old Sailor's Story", f\C'T'ITY EN" Mr. Tucker; "Good Ship Lolly- Mra F;.ank Mll Pop." Waitresses and Waiters; Ule Boljvja faclllt "Cablegram", Roy Rabon, presi- Thursdav Al)ri] den, or Senior class. TOo crew joined in singing Row, Row Your Boat" and the juniors and nHmMH seniors sang "Sailing", while the meal was being served, Harlee nr fj Mills gave, "I saw a ship a-sail- rr.Kil ing", and "The Song of Sea" was ! given by Betty Flo Reid. Jennies Pnnnnri mini Wnnrv nilhert. 1 * it* o FISH FRY j " Linvvood Danford, Rov Sellers! nf .....nj and Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Dan- j niUii it I ford gave the faculty a fish fry,! . . j Saturday night. The fish seemed! " * to be abundant, for they were i caught much faster than they' W' CUStOlh could be eaten. After eating, all ? went boat riding. CLASS PROGRAM Seniors are beginning practice this week on their program for class night exercises which will be on May 7. The program will be in the form of a playlet entitled "The Parting of the WHEREVER II TODAY'S Ni The Charlc TOD it ti n 1.11. \T__ nave I ne ^narioue nei Door Every Weel FOR ONLY 15 ? Color Comics E1 ? WEDNESDAY, APRH 2j 'LY NEWS I wildlife suffered just as heavily . woods burning and Orton Gardens .,f]&. ;ffl sion also threatened, Owner J. L.iv.ionr? B IS took his place in the fire-fightine i night and fought like a CCC boy "Gone With The Wind," the movi rthis decade, plays Monday and T, , lV Amuzu. Nothing's been cut but the you haven't seen it, don't miss it . . , g^ trotted out the first straw hat of the urday night. ^^^Kf IT'S A SMALL WORLD DEPT: v: :-,n..^^Boi 10 minutes at Shallotte Trading C, .. noon, and during that time two . from Southport came in?and hot: .at .^^^Bvi . ... Up at the Pleasant Oaks Flnr.t.iu,,,, ,^^B i are a half-dozen little donkeys sai. imported from Switzerland . . . p... ,, f ^^B>u warns not to be too much concent i '2 young people going to the dogs. H i f , ^^B|t ed, says he, that several who we n . U?? *Ual?i filrlavc Hl'Pntv VP.H'C n on ti iift ' uy men ^"v"v J wpv u j j the most respected matrons of the t< n. g j and games were pi,v, ,RV refreshments were - :v for the month 28 fiction and \Ash Demonstration ^|th 'king a total of /,, , ... ., le new books C.lUO rr (Ullt'll ady to be serv- I Mrs. James Pun is was XS ess to the Ash Club for the i^^Kn ?ball team won ular meeting 011 April 9. am Leland here meeting was presided cv:-r i^Hth n in a short the president. Mrs. Zolma Kt^Hon got off to a ette. After the business , ,g^Hon g three times Mrs. Dosher, home i,_ t ;:-^^K>f ice in the third, to the club women ,h nt t^^Htii re able to get part in the defense pmgiai l^Btli s off the left- The lesson was on "Whole Oi^Hin William Huf- eals in the Diet", and an irs^Hor did the catch- esting and helpful d : -.iistisaH { was given by the agei t <.. Sal LIXIC HELD povers" and "Health Mui't'ir.s ildren attended At the close of th, inic held here tion Miss Adams aa-j^Bar vere vaccinated leader, with three other chit. Hit' parents should ies put on an inter ima the state law "Garden Sass . ^Hth hildren starting Mrs. Purvis served pea; sjMai nt a certificate and coffee to the fulImi^^Hst against diph- . ladies: I Mesdamcs: Zelma II. v. -IHw TKKTAINKD Dave McKeithan. a -;Hr! ntz entertained J- W. Purvis, Z. G. Ray, i.< r with a party Formy Duval( Mary (' V :^Hki 10th, at her Dosher, Misses Lo'i:>.> AiiaH i ?sts were held and Eisie Mae Sink, ONAL ATTENTION! B tore is big enough to take curt r your farm needs, but we are H" I to see to it that every individ H' ler is pleased. |* J-HA WES I 11' Supply, N. G. I, I I ' HAPPENED 1 EWS IS IN 1 ..IT B )tte news I AY! I NS Delivered To Your I day Afternoon I ?C PER WEEK I very Saturday ? I JH = a 1 ?B