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Wednesday, May 21, 1941
A real egoist is one who jumps at (
conclusion, then when, he misseg, claimi
that the cluclusion evidently moved.
The feeling of relief he felt after s
hard job well done doubtless has fooled
many a fellow into believing that he loves
work.
Worry is the sweat and .strain of tht
white collar man.
You needn't pay much attention when
you hear somebody shouting. The important
business of this world is disposed oi
in normal conversation
Seed Scout Troop
Every time we see David L. Liles, Scout
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Executive ior tne vape rear uuuiiku, um
conversation drifts around to the need for
a Boy Scout troop in Southport. He was
here Saturday morning, and we agreed
that the need is more acute than ever before.
Without mentioning the value that
comes to a group of boys who receive
Boy Scout training under a good man,
let's look at the tangible benefits that
come to a community.
Recently when it seemed that all Brunswick
was aflame with forest fires, an
emergency call was sent in to Wilmington
one night for a group of scouts to
help fight the blaze at Orton Plantation.
Scout Executive Liles gathered up some
boys and came rushing to the aid of the
I weary firefighters.
Last Saturday we were in Wilmington,
and there were the Boy Scouts on
duty at every street intersection, helping
the city policemen with traffic problems.
They were rendering valuable aid, too.
. It seems increasingly possible that
there may be some development down
here that will create emergencies into
which a troop of well trained Boy Scouts
might well be fitted. But unless some
group or organization takes the initiative
in sponsoring a troop we simply will not
nave tnem.
Drift Toward War
IOn the thiry of May, Joseph Alsop's
and Kintner's widely syndicated Washington
column said this: ''The Present
I has reached the moment when he must
make the most serious decision of his
long career. Within the last fortnight
the leading figures of the Administration
and the most influential military and naval
experts have all but unanimously
ceased to hope Britain can win this war
/ without active American intervention. The
President must therefore decide between
war and peace for his country."
It is extremely significant that a good
many other Washington writers, along
with men in high governmental circles,
are making similar statements. The recent
aggressive speech of Secretary Knox,
in which he said, in effect, that America
will fight if and when national interests
make war advisable, indicates the way
the official wind is blowing. And the
President went farther than he has usually
gone, in his speech dedicating Woodrow
Wilson's birthplace, made on May
4. He said, connecting up the presenl
crisis with that which confronted Wilsor
in 1917, that this country would fighl
again whenever its basic freedoms were
in danger from any quarter.
This does not mean that there is muct
likelihood of the President asking Cong
ress to declare war upon the Axis, it
official circles, it is believed that there i
no need for that?some think that w<
might become active participants in th
war without even completely severing re
lations between ourselves and Germany
What England wants now is our uniinul
ed naval support and the British govern
ment is making it clear to American re
I preservatives in London that without tha
support, Hitler will continue to hold
disastrous advantage.
Lately there were reports-that Amen
r~
Toorts, had reached Suez, though the Navy .
Department at once denied that our ships
were being used for convoy purposes any?
, where. To many observers, it is evident
that the President's extension of our so|
called neutrality patrol far into the Atlantic,
greatly increases our chances of
becoming involved in grave international
' "incidents." Theoretically, this patrol is
) simply supposed to spot German subs
t and raiders and to then inform British
> convoys and fighting ships of their lo
cation. Actually, it would not come as
any particular surprise if the Germans j
attacked our patrol vessels?and our ves- r
sels roared into action in reply. i:
Some influential circles are in favor of d
using the American Navy to convoy ships k
right into British harbors if need be? lj
they argue that it simply doesn't make *
I sense to permit our planes and tanks and j,
5 munitions and other implements of war t
to be sunk. The finest fighting equipment a
ever made is of no service to the demoi
cracies, on the bottom of the ocean.
' What opposition may be expected to
1 the steps that might lead us to war? At
the moment, it looks as if Congress will
back 6p the President in any course he
may decide upon. The leader of the official
opposition, Wendell Willkie, said on
May 8, that he is absolutely in favor of
delivering the goods to Britain, "whether
. it be by convoy, airplane accompaniment
or any other method deemed best." He is 11
authoritatively reported to have sent the ^
President word that he would support j,
him in any such move. The isolationist a
groups, of which the America First Com- v
mittee, with Colonel Lindbergh as its "
I best-known speaker is leader, will fight 0
any further aid-to-England steps, as they c
have fought all such steps i|i the past. ?
But, judging by the polls and the temper t
of Congress, these groups have relatively t
little public or official support. *
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Japan may cause trouble?if she threatens
Singapore, the Dutch East Indies,
French Indo-China, or the Phillippines,
it wi|l be necessary to keep a large part
of our Navy in the Pacific, where it cannot
be used for convoy duty. However,
we probably could spare the bulk of our ,
destroyers for Atlantic service, and it is
these speedy little craft which are most
needed for fighting the U-boat menace.
Both this country and Britain are also
remaking ships into improvised aircraft
carriers for use for convoy work. The airplane
is an effective weapon against the
submarine, both for spotting and attack, y
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Shears And Paste I
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WAKE UP, MISS PERKINS *
(Fayetteville Observer)
"There has never been a time in the history
of the country when there was more unity of
purpose, more unity of understanding than
there is tonight." ,
The speaker was Frances Perkins, secretary
of Labor in President Roosevelt's cabinet.
She was talking to a gathering of AFL electrical
workers.
And Miss Perkins did not mean a unity of
purpose to sabotage American's defense effort
and a unity of understanding to call cap- ^
tious strikes wherever there appeared a good 0
possibility of closing down an airplane fac- p
h
tory. u
It is unfortunate that she did not mean n
just that and say that because the inability c
of Miss Perlcina and her camp followers ip *
the high places of the United States govern- v
ment related to labor are endangering the e
freedom of this country as nothing else. b
Time magazine, commenting on Miss Perk- ,
ins' speech, says:
"Facts, as they often do, bore her out.
With the soft-coal strike ended, the number ,
of people on strike in defense industries had
1 dwindled to 7,500."
That i? 7,500 too many because it represents
exactly the same damage to American defense
as would be caused by the destruction in actual
combat of three or more fighting planes.
One gets the general idea that this is ex!
actjy the purpose for which the strikes are
. called.
- Nor can anybody be optimistic that this
sabotage of American defense effort will reX
main at the "low" level mentioned by the
magazine. Just as there are periods of pause
1 between the blitz military blows struck by the
5 Axis powers against the embattled democrae
cies of Europe there are periods of pause bee
tween the blitz strike blows struck by the
- same powers against America's efforts to
V build a military machine to preserve the freedam
of this continent.
iWe
have been in one of these periods for
? the past several days, but on every hand we
a can hear and see the saboteurs bringing up
their heavy artillery and mobilizing their sybi.
versive dive-homhers for another attack on
5_ the American production line.
THE STATE PORT Pit
Among
FISHERMEN
BY BILL KKZUH
Hammond prpwn of the
laltimore American' and Baltfaore
News writes us he is comng
to -South port about .the midlie
of June. He tells us that when
le was ill in the hospital recenty
a young lady here at Southlort
came darned near loosing a
ancing partner. Brownie is prescient
of the Outdoor Writers
association of America and is
, mighty good sort of a guy.
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And Bob Wilson, the "Up
The Stream" fellow of the
Washington Times-Herald. He
said to us, among a lot of
other things, "Bill, I can't go
back on my old haunts, but
Southport has them all beat.
I am coming back about the
middle of June." Bob, like all
guys who love hunting and
fishing and the great outdoors,
is a swell fellow.
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Among all those who were here
ist week was Don N. Carpenter,
unting and fishing editor of The
Washington Daijy News. He beieves
in the Southport fishing
nd preaches it by radio and
writing, as well as by word of
uouth. He can really be said
o be the first outdoor writer,
utside of North Carolina, to dis-1
over Prying Pan Shoals. We are
joking for Don to be back soon,
le and his party had bad weaher
this trip, but didn't faze
hem. They made a good catch,
nyhow, and they are coming
ack soon.
* * *
We never get a letter hearing
the return address of The
Charlotte News without knowing
in advance that there is
something good inside from our
friend, J. E. Dowd, the editor.
Two such letters last week and
we were not disappointed in
either. In one of his letters he
sort of implored us to cultivate
Managing Editor B. S.
Griffin of The News. This
means that both the boss and
"B. S." want fishing stuff from
Southport, especially pictures.
* * *
Come to think of it, Bill Baker,
rho is tops with a news camera
nd who spent much of last week
ere, should be sending us a layopt
or twp of extra good fishig
scenes taken on Frying Pan
hoals last week. He came down
o go out with Don Carpenter
nd Bob Wilson and both Bob
nd Don took a liking to pill.
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Frank O. Sherrill, the S. &
W. cafeteria man from Charlotte
and other parts, wrote us
the past week and kind of
swore he was going to be down
here more this year than he
was last. He said he knew the
fish were biting good now and
would keep pn. He wanted to
come down this last week, but
it seems he was sick or something,
and Just could not get
away.
last week a charming young
Washington matron, a bride of
nly a few days, came to Southort
with her husband on a fishyg
trip. In fact, they were mak\g
the fishing trip their honeyloon,
"despite the fact that they
ould have afforded to go to
lurope, if they had wanted to.
Ihe did not understand why we
?ere so glad to see her until we
xplained that husbands always
ehaved better on a fishing trip
rtien their wives were along.
?
Hie summer long visitation
of flying fish out on the gulf
and nearer inshore has not yet
arrived. At least none of the
boatmen have reported them.
In a week or two they will he
in these waters in swarms.
Their coming will mean that
the barracuda and dolphin are
also here, to remain untH late
fall. Predictions, also, are that
wider ranging of the boats will
result in blue martin and sail
fish bein? taken this year in
considerable numbers.
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Our good friend Charlie Farell
of Greensboro writes us he
ims to be down some time soon.
ie and Mrs. Ferrell have just
eturned from a picture making
ind fishing jaunt into other
haunts. In his letter he laid
slaim to having made a most
ixiraordinary catch of freshwater
ish and challenged L. T. Yaskell
o beat if- Bob Wilson carried
UiSiiie'a letter off to Washington
ind we don't remember just what
t was that Charlie caught.
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United States Marshall Jet
Young of Georgia was in town
ISSt .week, and one of his first
questions was regarding the
fishing. We never found him
any good at saltwater angling,
but he always did pretty well
With the freshwater specimens.
jQT. SOUTHPQRT, N. C.
This Week In ... .
DEFENSE
Maj. Gen. Hershey, Selective
Service Qeputy Director, speaking
in Lafayette, Ind., said that misguided
patriotism of employers
was allowing many men to be
drafted who are more useful- in
industry. Employers and registrants
should not hesitate to appeal
classifications, he said.
"All of us should carefully consider
where we are best fitted
to serve", Gen. Hershey said. "It
is certainly neither desirable 01
necessary that egch man dedicate
himself to a future in the
armed forces."
Selective Sendee Headquarters
directed immediate classification
of the 10,000.000 remaining registrants
in order to obtain complete
data on skilled workers
and potential soldiers, and amended
its regulations to permit induction
of some of the registrants
previoualy barred because of
comparatively minor criminal records.
Gen. Hershey proposed amendment
of the Selective Service Act
to Congress to allow deferment
by age groups so that those selected
are of an age that will
permit them to serye effectively
in the reserve forces for ten
years, as now required. He said
only 11 per cent of the men inducted
before March 1 were from
31 to 36 years and the greatest
number were from 18 to 27.
LABOR TRAINING
President Roosevelt asked Congress
for ?158,0OQ,OOO to train
3,000,000 additional defense workers,
of which 268,000 would be
trained in engineering, 10,000 in
chemistry, physics, and production
supervision, and 500,000 in
courses teaching rural youths inrliiafrrinl
skills
DEFENSE PLANTS
OPM announced the Government,
up to March 30, committed
itself to pay for 331 new
defense factories, costing: an average
of $5,750,000 each, and estimated
the number of new privately
financed defense plants
I reached 904, costing an average
'of $729,000 each.
SUB CONTRACTU?G
Francis J. Trecker of the Defese
Contract Service, speaking
in San Francisco, said that not
more than 50 per cent of the nation's
machines are being used
in defense production. He said
if contractors do not voluntarily
farm out their orders, sub-contracting
would be made mandatory
because there is so much
work to be done all machines
must be used.
LABOR DISPUTES
The Defense Mediation Board
announced settlement of 5 strikes,
including controversies involving
61 plants and 160,000 employees
of the General Motors Corporation
and 8,100 employees of the
Bendix Aviation Corporation. The
U. S. Conciliation Service reported
settlement of 33 strikes.
AGRICULTURE
The Department of Agriculture,
in a general crop report, said
conditions indicated: (1) a wintor.iirVinot
ovnn aP oV>/-viif CCO AAA
I bci-?ucav viwp vi avuuu uvv^wr
000 bushels, larger than 25 of the
last 30 years; (2) a good, but
not exceptional, rye crop, about
12 percent above last year; (3) a
hay crop, probably larger than
last year; (4) better pasture conditions
in 43 of the 48 States;
and (6) milk production and egg
production per animal at new
high records as a result of higher
prices, an early spring, new
grass an<t liberal feeding.
The Commodity Exchange Administration
requested exchanges
to study additional curbs on
speculation in all agricultural
commodities. Price Control Administrator
Henderson asked four
commodity exchanges to confer
with him regarding prevention
of undesirable speculation in cocoa,
pepper, rubber and coffee.
AIR PROGRESS
Maj. Gen. Arnold, Chief of the
Army Air Corps, speaking in
Washington, said the air force
"is well on its way and will be
ready when called on." The War
Department announced the first
21 of a large number of "flying
fortresses" had flown to Hawaii
to strengthen the Island defenses.
The Navy asked Congress to
enact legislation permitting training
of Reserve enlisted men as
pilots. The President asked Congress
for *61,800,000 to expand
the Civil Aeronautics Administration
landing field program from
260 to 300 projects.
He was pained to hear of the
three-year long dry spell that
has seriously affected some of
the choice freshwater ponds
and lakes.
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The North Carolina and South
Carolina fishing parties are beginning
to get numerous. Most
of these parties fiah just offshore.
but an increasing number
are calling for trips to the gulf
We hope to shortly bare enough
boats here, equipped to handle all
aorta of parties, whether they are
bound to the gulf or fishing just
offshore.
i
Iin - NOT EXflC
Uncle Jim Lewis, who has been absent for more i
than two weeks from his duties at the postoffice i
while a patient at Dosher Memorial Hospital, is j
considerably improved and has the best wishes j
of everybody in town, both white and colored, for '
a speedy recovery . . . Aunt Mary Ann Galloway,
' aged Southport colored woman who may be the
State's oldest living person, was reported ill the
, first of the week. . . . There's talk of moving a
i
couple of bowling alleys to town.
Here on a visit the first of the week, John P. j
[ Wonsavage, former member of the high school
; faculty, said that he planned to defer the visit
until next year at commencement, when his first j
class graduates. But, it seems that Uncle Sam,has j
other plans for Johnnie's future, and since he j
, fears that he will not be able to manage a fur- j
, lough at that particular time he decided to come j
ahead. In other words, the music that's ringing in
his ears is "Johnnie, Get Your Gun."
Big week at the Amuzu is being topped off with ;
. "Love Thy Neighbor" Friday and Saturday. This '
j is to the rest of the week's bill like cream on ,
strawberries. Carry your worries with you and j
leave them. Jack Benny and Fred Allen carry on
their famous feud amid gorgeous surroundings.
Rochester is on hand as usual ... It would be |
impossible for anyone to put his finger on an '
[ orchestra and declare it the best. We have insisted |
' on the merits of Inconsistent Artie Shaw for sometime
and while we still relish his music, we have
lately heard lots of the drummin' man, Gene
Krupa. He has recently acquired a no: ciarinenai
ARMY 1 shipping pool for
The War Department announc-1 and aid to Britai
ed that it has selected the loca- (sion also conferi
tion of camp sites needed for i Lakes shipbuilding
"possible expansion of the Army" ' garding the con
and is ready to start work on | of sea-going vess
the new camps immediately if be moved to the
necessary. The Army announced j Mississippi,
its anti-aircraft strength had' The Senate pan
been more than tripled in the ed to the House
past year and a large portion of I in amendments i
anti-aircraft regiments are equip- j ing the Presiden
ped to transport every gun and foreign ships in
every man in one movement. j FOREIGN' R
The Army announced it will President Roose
construct five new recreational voluntary Frenc
camps in the South Atlantic with Germany, ise
States. WPA announced nearly "it is inconceival
1,100 WPA library employees are people would coll
assisting in the operation of li- power seeking "i
braries serving the Army. of liberty, freedc
NAVY institutions every
The Navy commissioned the same time the P
35,000 ton battleship "Washing- 13 French ships
ton". The Navy announced it ac- taken into prote
quired 26 auxiliary vessels dur- including the "h
ing April at a total cost of $11,- The President t
750,000. j ference that Gem
The Department directed that j tion of a cambat
men enlisting in {he Naval Re- j Sea presents a c
serve be released from active duty | man ability to n
after the emergency regardless effective there. 1
of the length of their enlistments. U. S. has fought
SHIPS wars to maintain
Maritime Commission launched seas?against Bai
six new cargo' ships and asked the Mediterraneai
operators of American inter- British, French ai
coastal vessels for 40 of their ateers in the Wi
108 ships for the 2,000,000-ton HOtIS
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The sound of ro
They're getting louder and louder . .
the throbbing, pulsing, beating roars
of America in the air. They're heard
around the world. They speak louder
than a dictator can shout, for
they're the voice of free men. Sure,
there have been delays, misunderstandings,
bottlenecks?but the job
is being done! . . . HPSl
Life isn't smooth
or simple either, Da
but it marches
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TLY NEWS -
and the A11-American negro trui
ridge. Biggest surprise is his small s r, 1 ?|
breaks. Formerly a drum playing
background, he now is probably i
swing band lp existence. Section ,
band is tops, even down to the
chick with a 'get with* voice . . Ben
records aret Teddy Powells and IIi:,,- p
versions of "Blue Danube, Spi\ d, "Int.
and Louis Armstrong on "Peanut
Accordint to the prophet Nostra.
will win the current war. She will i . ^^^Bt
daughter of her empire.' His pi : ? .
past four hundred years have b .
der how Lindbergh feels about t
local library, while very good f. i
community, needs fiesh contribui
it abreast of the times. Paymen
be a big help . . Glad
around town. We saw a newsreel h .,
running and would have beer, i , .
our shirt on Porter's Cap. who v ,..
away's dust. Cap is easily the most 1
of horseflesh since Seabiscuit. Ar ^^B1
is King Cole, who ran second ii p
and won the Wither's stake tl ];. ^^Br
be the greatest threat to Whirlv i ;.
at Belmont . . . Taft Wright of th. Sox,
formerly of Lumberton. has .
tion most Ot me seaauii. ne ivuii
two weeks ago, however, anil at ti.: I a
battled in runs in every game. ?
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national defense Defense Housing ' ""]] I
n. The Commis- Palmer announced <.;.tr.: .
red with Great awarded for 2.800 n
% companies re- dwelling units, bra
struction inland 163.200 the number ^
lels which couldlaiso reported comply :
Atlantic via the unUg makjng g t0Ul f. ..V
10,000 now availabi
ed ana return- ("This Week In i f i:
for concurrence marizes information . ft J
a. bill authoriz- portant developmer.i.i i the
t to take over made available by offie.nl :
U. S. ports. through and including F .' Hi H
JELATIONS 1
hvelt ?f To Be Here To Hi
h collaboration, o n
med a statement! S tg H AfO'llitHa
>le" the French
laborate with a Lieut. Commander B a G-jH ?
itter destruction ball of the Chariest": X
im and popular trict has advised he ? E
where." At the Southport Saturday. May ti "I ?
resident ordered the purpose of enlisting - sM 3
in U. S. parts the offshore patrol * n-;?
ictive custody? is especially interested
formandie". ienced boatmen who w .
old a press con- to be in a branch of servic
lany's proclama- their homes, in prefer "ire
area in the Red waiting on the selective ."i-.r^^K
[uestion of Ger-|and being drafted :
lake a blockade, the army camps.
He recalled the. Men who enlist in tb. jH J
two undeclared patrol will be in service <
freedom of the I coast of North ami South
bary pirates in lina and Georgia
i and against I 8 f
id Spanish priv- [ Damascus, the famou? city iH i
est Indies. the Holy Land, is shaped ?IING
I tennis racket.
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aring motors . I
right along with births, deaths, tn* HI
umphs and defeats. See that tin) in
silver "V" way up there? . . {hats Ifl
America and the blue sky all around I 9
is time. America is going places . I 3
in a hurry as usual . . . going ahead li
with that slap-dash energy and drbe
that has made this country what it 1S j IJ
I ? . that will keep "5 ||
ahead, and going- IS
rt Pilot 1Vs good to be II
an American. 1,3