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? THE STATE PORT PILOT
^ Southport, N. C.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
I . JAMES M. HARPER. JR., Editor
atered u second-cla?i matter April 20, 1028, at
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NATIONAL DITORIAL_
Wednesday, June 4, 1941
Dizzy dames didn't necessarily get that
8 way from being in the social whirl.
Then there's the Dumb Dora who
thought a sextet was wicked literature.
Few men can have an aspiration or an
inspiration without a little perspiration.
If you must insist upon playing with fire,
the very least you can do is have fire insurance.
To paint a rosy picture in this day
would take artistic talent, but boundless
imagination. j
Oh well, isn't it true that in this day
and time there's too mucn rug cutting
and too little rug beating?
A tight fellow is one who is unwilling
in cnond time to ficure out how to spend
W ct/v..? -- - ?_>
loss.
Dumb Dora thought an oversight was
anything which an overseer might do.
I Worthy Effort
This is an off-season for flowers, and
the months of April and May have made
matters even worse by being unseasonably
dry; yet despite these adverse conditions
-members of the Southport Woman's
Club staged what was perhaps
their finest Flower Show to date last
week.
In the absence of a profusion of flow1'
ers, the women?and the men, too?of
the community taxed their ingenuity for
original ideas and made the most of what
they had.
Starting with the Flower Show Ball on
Thursday night, which certainly was an
unquestionable success, and continuing
through Friday evening, this year's event
was the most ambitious undertaking of
the club, and one that will challenge the
best efforts of the members next year,
and the next.
Making Improvements
rT'1? " "* PaaIIoU Viumnc ie "f*i r> rl _
1 lit? SIUIN UI U1C ruvildll Y iifctiio 10 Iiuw
injr its modern interpretation right here
in South port.
About half the owners of rentable
houses, apartments and vacant rooms are
making repairs and improvements that
will cause their accommodations to be
more desirable. They know that, regardless
of whether there is a defense project
here, there will be need for housing
facilities; and they are getting ready.
Have no sympathy, then, for those deciples
of the Foolish Virgin who are waiting
around for the ceremony to begin before
they are willing to take a chance on
cleaning up and oiling their lamps.
I low Dry Who Is
Those rakish, devil-may-care newspapermen
who quench their thirst at the
bar?do it with soda pop!
A recent survey of reporters and newspaper
editors shows that they don't drink
as much hard liquor as they used to?
and furthermore, they never did!
The Hollywood fostered myth of tipsy
newshawks is debunked bv a snrvev
I which proves more drunken reporters exist
in the films than in real life. Out of
7,291 cases of alcoholism treated at one
North Carolina institution between 1930
and 1940, only 65 were newspaper editors
or reporters.
(Professional men head the list of all
groups applying for treatment. Architects,
advertising men, brokers, bankers,
and those engaged in management positions
throughout business and industry
are included in this classification.
Surprisingly enough, farmers, cattle
men and those dealing with agriculture
come second, leading the divisions o:
skilled labor, clerical people and mer
chants. The largest individual occupatioi
( is that of salesman.
While records prove that 17,000 phy
sicians have been treated for alcoholism
there were only 505 bartenders.
Barbers have taken to drinking more
since women first began to get their hair
cut; inebriety among barbers lias risen in
the past twenty years. Alcoholism among
radio actors is less than half of what it
was among old time vaudeville troupers.
Gas station attendants drink almost twice
as much as the old time liverymen ot
1900, and hotel men drink twenty-five
per cent more than the innkeepers of the
Mauve Decade.
The Strike Menace
Our nation is face to face with laboi
conditions which threaten its future.
Labor dictatorship which can force
men to leave their jobs regardless ol
their own wishes, the welfare of the nation,
and in defiance of government itself,
is inexcusable.
After all, it is the men, women and
children in the United States whose lives,
liberty and happiness are at stake in oui
preparedness drive. No labor dictator can
save them from an aggressor, if his acts
cause a breakdown in our defense ability,
Witness the fallen countries of Europe.
The public favors good wages, fail
hours, the best working conditions, and
everything within reason that labor has
stood for. But, it will finally turn on
corruption and arrogance in labor management
which threaten the life of a nation,
and the right to work for (he safety
of home and family.
Hundreds of thousands of boys from
homes throughout the land are training
for the army. Ask them if they have
enough rifles, machine guns, airplanes,
tanks, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns,
enough ammunition for practice?enough
of anything?
The boys in training are offering their
lives for the nation. Strikers who are deferred
from military service at high pay,
who shut off coal supplies and manufactured
products which are indispensable,
actually imperial the lives of the boys
who are serving their country for $30.00
a month.
Pommentiner on methods for remedying
this intolerable situation, the New York
Times says editorially that the President
should permit the National defense Mediation
Board to intervene in any existing
or threatened labor dispute on its own
motion without having to wait for the
Secretary of Labor to "certify" a dispute
to it.
Second, Congress should enact a law
for defense industries paralleling the
Railway Labor Act which requires employers
or representatives of workers to
give "at least thirty days' written notice
of an intended change in agreements affecting
rates of pay, rules or working
J conditions," during which time collective
bargaining conferences should be held 01
the services of the Mediation Board utilized.
While no positive legal penalty is
suggested for striking in defiance of such
provision, it is pointed out that a negative
legal penalty seems essential, namely,
that workers striking in defiance ot
such provisions should lose the right under
the Wagner Act to still be considered
employes of the company against which
they struck.
Concluding its suggestions, the Times
said: "While strikes should not be outlawed,
neither should they be encourageo
by governmental policy. State and Federal
labor laws should be revised where
necessary to embody the principle thai
while men are free to qui,t their jobs ai
will, they are not free to forcibly prevenl
other men from taking those jobs. Or
the same principle employers should no!
be prevented from offering those jobs tc
men willing to take them. This mean:
that mass picketing and violence to work
ers who attempt to enter a plant musi
not be tolerated by local authorities or b.\
local law. It means also that Federal lav
should not in effect condone or encourag*
such violence."
These are moderate suggestions tha
I our lawmakers must heed if they honest
ly want to curb the strike evil and reduci
the danger of irreparable loss to ou
country.
No ^vonder you see many speaker:
drinking so much waters?with such dr
subjects, they need it.
Shears And Paste
IN WHICH A HELPER
GETS THE ACCOLADE.
f (Mrs. Theo B. Davis, Zebulon Record)
. It may sound a bit peculiar, but I believe
\ my son's young wife has had no more sincere
compliment paid her than when Sarah, our
colored helper, said to Ferd last week: "You
; ought to got married long time ago. I've
sho' got good help now Selma's here."
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THE STATE PORT P1L
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Among
FISHERMEN
1?Y HIM. KF.ZIAH
We have just added Managing
Editor James F. Reynolds of the
Greensboro Daily News to the list
of fellows whom we rate at j
i 100G-. Our private opinion of I
- him. after reading the nice letter
i he wrote us this week, is that
': he is "O. K." Our rate book in-1
, eludes a lot of Jim's. Bob's.
Charlies. Harry's. John's, Don's,!
and other Bid's than ourself. Now
we include James. It may be
. timely to state here that there
I ain't a single "Mister" listed in
i the book.
' * # *
' Managing Editor B. S. Grif
fin of The Charlotte News has '
been recommended to us for |
. earnest cultivation. The recom- j
mendation came from no less a I
person than our good friend. |
Editor J. E. Dowd. of the same I
paper. J. E. wrote us and told I
us he wanted us to especially
cultivate Brodie, which is short
for Managing Editor Griffin.
Between "J. E.", Brodie, Burke
Davis, and a dozen others The
News comes out as tops among
North Carolina afternoon dailies?so
, we aim to cultivate
Brodie, as much as possible.
# * *
Skipper Fred Burris, a pioneer
in the shrimp fishing industry at!
Southport, tells us that there are
a good deal of shrimp offshore j
, and moving in. He expects to
start fishing in a couple weeks, j
The coming of the shrimp is of;
a great deal of interest to the j
sportsmen. They are a mighty |
good thing to have on the table, j
and no less important is the fact
I that they are one of the chief
foods of game fish. With plenty !
of shrimp out on the grounds |
tu""A ???*" Ka frimo trmvlorfn) ;
LIICIC Win lie ov/iue
fishing on Frying Pan Shoals.
? * *
' One of the very best fishing
pictures we have seen was carried
in the big predated issue
of the Washington Times-Herald
this past week. The picture
showed Ralph Murchdock, Lester
Smithson, Bill Garrison and
Bob Wilson and John Stanford
of The Times-Herald staff with
a catch of amberjack that they
recently made while fishing at
Southport. Along with the pfcture
Bob Wilson devoted about
half of his famous "Up The
Stream" column to fishing at
Southport. He also told rather
famous tale of Postmaster Yaskell's
20-pound bass which turned
out to be an alligator.
! * * *
In his "Hunting and Fishing"
, column in the Greensboro News
this past week, John Derr cent'
ered on the bass fishing at
Brunswick's famous Orton Pond,
. which is now open to the public
when Orton guide are employed.
. He also featured the Southport
Gulf Stream fishing and the
i boats that are waiting here to
| serve sportsmen. We sort of
count on having John down here
1 on the lower North Carolina coast
some time in the near future. We
; believe he is beginning to find
out the fact of our having the
best sport fishing on the North
I Carolina coast.
# * *
, There are a lot of folks
in this and other states who
' have our thanks for their
t thoughtfulness in frequently
sending us clippings of stories
and pictures relative to Southport
and Brunswick county,
t which appear in newspapers
) that we do not see. Seldom,
, if ever, have time to write and
-1,^1, f rinn.lo A 11 thn
uiaiiA suui IIICIIUO. uiv
' same we appreciate such act
tions greatly and these clippins
j are going a long ways in aiding
us to create a valuable collection.
; * * *
Two trips out for A. W. Col.
well of Clinton, A. J. and Bill
I Boyd of Erwin and G. V. Boyd
- J of WarrenLon netted 11 big bar2
racuda th's week. They also got
six of the big amberjack for
which Frying Pan is famed.
These are the most mentionable
fish brought in by the party, but
s I it may also be added that they
also brought in a lot of bonito.
1 sailors choice, blues, mackerel,
etc. These fellows are fine sportsmen
who never think a year is
complete without a trip or two
to Southport.
* '
Each season brings a number
~ of fine sportsmen to Southport
from Lenoir. This week end
was no exception to that rule.
A fine bunch of six came in
from the western North Carolina
city over the week end
and they knew enough of real
fishing to not want to crowd
a boat. While six people do
not actually make a large party,
these sportsmen split their
six members' up among two
boats. One result was that they
brought in big catches of blues
OT. SOUTHPORT. N. C.
!
This Week In ... .
DEFENSE!
President Roosevelt, stating the
European War is "coming very j
close to home" proclaimed an |
unlimited national emergency, j
The President called upon "all;
loyal citizens to place the na- j
tion's need first in mind and in
action" and said "the nation will
expect all individuals and all
groups to play their full parts,
without stint and without selfishness."
Speaking over the radio, the
President said it is the U. S. I
policy to give "every possible assistance"
to Britain and her allies
by whatever measures are
necessary. He also said U. S. will
not accept a Nazi-dominated
world and will resist any German
attempt to gain control of the
seas or bases which could be
used for an attack on the West-'
ern Hemisphere.
PRODUCTION
OPM Director of Purchase Nelson,
speaking at Baltimore, said
Germany is producing war ma- j
j terials at a rate of $50,000,000,000
a year, British production is
at the rate of $15,000,000,000 a1
year "and the least we can do
is see to it that British and,
American production together will'
top $50,000,000,000 . . ."
Mr. Nelson said "by throwing
himself and his business into'
the defense program a business
man risks something: by staying I
out he risks everything?not
merely his business but the
framework in which it is con-1
ducted, the set of economic anil
political arrangements which1
make the very existence of his
business possible."
LABOR DISPUTES
Labor Secretary Perkins ap-1
pointed a three-man committee,
including the Chairman of the!
Mediation Board and the Chief of i
the U. S. Conciliation Service, to
select disputes to be referred to
the Board. The U. S. Conciliation
Service reported settlement of 23
additional strikes.
SELECTIVE SERVICE
President Roosevelt proclaimed
July 1 as Selective Service registration
day for all men who
have become 21 since the first
registration on October 16. 1940.
Selective Service Deputy Director
Hershey asked local boards
to give serious consideration to
individual claims for deferment
of men engaged in agriculture.
Gen. Hershey notified local
boards that Agriculture Secretary
wickard reported the defense
program has drawn heavily
upon the supply of farm labor
and an adequate supply is be- j
coming a serious problem particularly
along the Atlantic Seaboard,
in Ohio and Michigan, and
parts of Indiana. Illinois, Wiscon-1
sin, Minnesota and Arizona.
ARMY
Army Chief of Staff Marshalli
announced that training maneuvers
this summer and fall are designed
to create an "all-purpose"
force capable of operating in the
Arctic, the tropics, in deserts or
mountains. He said every man
must be given basic infantry
training before he can "pull his
J weight" as a specialist.
Undersecretary of War Patterson,
speaking in New York, denied
charges the Army is devoting
too much time to basic train:
ing. He said "ours is not a mass
A rmv ctnlfincr its Slirv?ASA on
sheer weight of men and machines".
He said the ratio of infantry
to air service?nine to
one in 1917-18?is almost one to
; .
I and mackerel. The Lenoir men
were Foy Powell. W. A. Strickland,
J. M. Holliman, C. D.
Frye, George T. Crowell and
David B. Frye. They went out
on the boats of Captain H. T.
Bowmer and Fred Fulford.
? *
Durham folks brought in three
large amberjack and other fish
Sunday. They were fishing from
; the Torbil. Captain Victor Lan .-e.
| Miss Lucile Couch took the largi
est amberjack, a 27 pounder,
j Other members of the party were
| Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Sparrow. Mr.
I and Mrs. Paul Edwards, ^George
j Addison and Harold Bright.
* * *
With three Wilmington boats
also going out from here, but
not reporting on their return,
j Southport sent out 11 boat
loads of sportsmen Sunday. All
the boats carrying small parties
made fine catches.
* * *
Sunday morning at about ten
o'clock Paul McCollum of Greensboro
called around at the home
I of our friend Charles Farrell, ace
1 photographer. He had not been
there long before he asked Charles,
"Did you see what I saw in
Bill Keziah's column about the
fishing at Southport in The State
Port Pilot?" "Yes", said Charlie,
"I just read it yesterday". -There
was a pause of a minute and
then Paul inquired again, "Charlie,
do you know what I am
thinking?" "Yes", said Charley,
"I am going right into the house
and ask Miss Ann if she will let
us use the car. I haven't seen
1 Bill in almost three months."
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r -NOTEXC
Jesse H. Robinson may not be the biggest truck
grower in the county, but he certainly is one of
the most persistant. For seventeen straight years
he has been raising snap beans for market. This
year, like other farmers of the section, he is
pleased with the price and discouraged by the
drought ... A lot of people will be glad to know 1
that Uncle Jim Lewis, venerable Southport darkic,
is up and about and is looking hale and |
hearty following his recent illness. 'Twon't be.!,
many. more mornings before he'll be yelling to !
the W. E. & S. bus driver to back her in the j
alley. . ,
Another hospital note of interest is that Elmo, j
the highly "trained orderly at Dosher Memorial j
Hospital, has gone north to brouse in greener I
pastures. He's being missed worse than the hos- I
pital roof leaks . . . And right next door to the 1
hospital is additional seasonal proof that the men
i.noih, are cood ground-keep- ,
til lilt; {WWCi |Sia*lv O w
ers. Flowers and everything now . . . And that
recalls the floricultural efforts of Gus McNeill
in his plot next to the hydraulic lift at his sendee
station.
A personable young man, who once was made
to stay in at night and practice his violin lessons, |
and his band of talented young musicians, pro- j
one and "our plans call for a | examinations of
higher proportion of armored and ! flying cadet ap]
motorized units than Germany i have not had tw
has today." lege have been
NAVY ' elude instead o
President Roosevelt approved with two of the i
legislation authorizing the pur- j PILOTS FOI
chase or construction of 58 au-j War Secretary
ditional naval auxiliary ships, nounced arrange]
The Maritime Commission began j S.000 RAF pilot
immediate acquisition of the ves-! and navigators ii
sels, including the 27.000 ton j and Army schools
"America," largest liner ever defray some of
buflt in the United States. The lease-lend funds.
Navy asked Congress to grant said the progran
naval commanders authority to | terfere with U. f
"take whatever steps they deem . SHI
necessary . . . for proper protec- The Maritim
tion of the naval forces" in the! awartled contract
U. S. territorial waters. : tionaI merchant ,
Navy Secretary Knox announc- j the Commission
cd the Navy will open 23 schools have been ordei
for training regular and reserve i ency vessels, 85
enlisted men .as petty officers, private concerns,
Mr. Knox estimated 114,500 of 60 ships on Britis
the Navy's 256.000. enlisted men Commission said
will be petty officers by July 1. 'emergency ships
The Navy also announced a three- ed by November,
months course at Harvard to of schedule,
train 400 college graduates as j Congress voter.
supply officers. I authority to ret
AIR ships in U. S. po
The President asked Congress! MATEI
for an additional 52.790,000,000 a sample camj
for planes for the Army and fectiveness of scr
S529.000.000 for planes for the' lection by the
Navy. The War Department an- conducted in Rid
nounced that construction of new Madison, Wise., i
Air Corps schools is "proceeding | tion of local defi
much faster than expected," with ; the campaign is
eight of 100 stations already com-1 OPM said, it m?
pleted and 50 partially occupied., tion-wide. In the
Some of the fields, the Depart- j izens in other ai
ment said, were completed in1 to refrain from
three months. ' paigns.
The Air Corps announced that XI'TRl
It must be the "best buy" becaus
I it's the "best seller."... First agaii
last eleven years!
Elmore Mob
Bolivia, Noi
WEDNESDAY. jn?.tf H|
riY NEWS - ?
vided Southport people with
evening's entertainment at tin r ?
Thursday night. Tlie perst 9
Joe Leighton, who decide ! ! Jsj
trumpet so he could be a
in the school band. During rSH
it was hard to tell whether ! ,9
fiddle or on the horn. Versatili
and whether it wanted mm vH
fast and hot, the crowd g< 9
The folks liked the hoys a' _i?j
did the music, and everyl 9
to the next time we'll bo able J8
for another engagement. J|
There's good entertainment IS
day and Saturday of this we Ji
The Navy," starting 9
O'Brien plays . . . The sh M
county Friday and Mon 9
now than a weekly payroll, f 'S
fet ing . . . Why doesn't s<3|
torch for the location of an '?1
Southport. That's the latest W
coasts .... To a person v r?
nothing is more amazing ti. g
of a ventts flytrap snap 9
or an artificial victim. 1 W
applicants tor Agriculture ... m
pointments who!told the JC:*.tio' ?
o years of col- j ference for I 9
changed to in-1 three-fourtl V
f nine subjects, satisfactory 2
subjects elective, need to J
t Britain* green 1
' Stimson an- Percent more 1
nent to train fruits. 35 perc j
is, bombardiers percent moi, r 2
t U. S. civilian 1 "tore milk." 5
i. The U. S. will Surgeon 9
the cost from : Public Health S
Mr. Stimson j ed the folh 5
l would not in- diet: one pint 9
3. pilot training.' adult and 3
PS least one soiv 2
e Commission e88 nr substiin. ja
s for 123 addi-,etablcs' tvv" H
ressels. To date, m'n bread
said, 850 ships'01" eleomat J
ed?312 emerg- . focds to sati v rj
cargo ships for I PRI! I 9
72 tankers and Leon Hend'; n
;h contracts. The Administrator ifl
the first of the though H
will be complet- now almost I?
a month ahead than in 19:;" tfl
I the President; and wholesale fl
lUisition foreign : seven percent I |
rts. | considerably ! -.< . Il
IIALS j comparable p jj
>aign to test ef-j^ar- f J
ap material col-1 He sal I J
public is being in New Enghi: ^
timond. Va., and lantic a:
jnder the direc-j increase gasoline H j
?nse councils. If tially" unless i i jj
successful, the tions cl
ijr be made na- ceiling will sop: [ i
meantime, cit- cow hide prii r I HI
reas were asked producers
similar cam- used as f. rti:
i prices at the j.: I
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