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THE STATE PORT PILOT I.
_ Southport, N. C. 1
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Wednesday, July 2, 1941
Maybe the reason Providence delays
delivery on so many of the things we
want is in order to give us time to learn (
what to do with them when they do j
come. <
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Most of the time when a man starts \
out looking for what's wrong with his j
friends he'd have better luck with a mir- j
ror than he would with a miscroscope. i
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One thing that Satan finds for an idle <
1 :4- fho fiiurer of)
hand to do is nave H, pvillb ..... n _
scorn. <
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Don't be too critical of your neighbor t
and his habits, the things he owns and i
the things he likes, because if all our ]
tastes were the same we'd live in a world j
so standardized that you would be un- t
able to tell your neighbor from yourself, i
If after taking a course of quinine you ?
gtill feel the same, you may as well ad- '
nut that you are just lazy. <
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Turbans are used by women to cover 1
many of their sins, one of them being a 1
too recent visit to the hair fixers. *
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Some people are so short sighted that 1
they really do not know that the hand is '
feeding them until after they bite it. '
Follow The Leader j
Testifying before a Senate committee, ((
J.eon Henderson, the Federal price ad- *
ftiinistrator, said that he will oppose fur- J
fher wage increases if they force unjustified
increases in commodity costs. He '
----?1 inHiiotrv for co
tnen praiseu mnuivnn ?? ? ?
Operating with his department in the '
Hital work of preventing inflation and 1
Holding down prices.
Labor is taking a mighty short-sighted '
point of view if it believes it can keep on
getting higher and higher wages without, 1
m the long run, producing price increas- 1
is which will have a ruinous effect on
She standard of living of the great masses
of the American people. What really
|ounts is a family's "real wages"?that 1
is, its income judged by the light of
j^jiat it will buy. Today labor's "real
jfcages" are the highest in its history. 1
trikes and lockouts which result from 1
njustified and unfair demands on the
art of labor must eventually force "real 1
rages" down by inflating prices.
American industry, as Mr. Henderson
aid, is doing a fine job on behalf of the
ublic. Retail industry is providing an esecially
noteworthy example of this,
'hese stores have publicly pledged themslves
to fight profiteering, to discourage
peculation, to keep the public informed
s to true conditions, to oppose "hyster al"
buying, and to do everything else in
leir power to prevent price rises. Retail
Industry, in other words, is not trying to
gash in on the emergency. And that is one
(!?*the main reasons why price increases
fcaye so far been moderate, despite the
lflationary tendencies that any such
xtraordinary efforts as the arms drive
roduce. ** i
Labor, if it is interested in its own welare,
to say nothing of the nation's welire
and security, would do well to take
page from industry's book. Some of laor's
best friends have said time and
gain that there is no legitimate excuse
or most of the recent strikes which have
elayed production of essential supplies.
; is to be hoped that Mr. Henderson's
ir-sighted point of view finds its reflecon
in other high government circles.
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A Good Job
We received last week a copy of the
1940 report of the Annual Report of the
Worth Carolina Extension Service, which
(Jepicts the progress made by farmers
ind rural homemakers of the state during
the past year.
s The fact that much progress is indicted
is proof enough that the extension
specialists are doing a good job, and we
ire particularly happy that so many
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agencies are working toward a fuller
life for the rural residents of North Carolina.
Personally, we believe that much of
the credit for the success of the program
belongs to Mr. F. H. Jeter, extension editor,
whose weekly news releases are a
refreshing stimulus to weekly newspaper
readers. In a time when there is an overwhelming
amount of publicity, free advertising
and propaganda coming into
this office it is refreshing to receive these
down-to-earth stories about fanners, farm J
women and their activities that come
from his office. It makes us glad to do
what we can to co-operate in spreading
:he news of better farm practices and of
better home-making.
Who Pays For Arson?
Who pays for arson ? the deliberate
destruction of property by fire to collect
Insurance benefits? Not the insurance
company alone, but the public through
;he medium of increased rates. Every
;ime the insurance company makes a
aayment, it is charged against the premums
collected in the territory involved
ind when the losses increase, the rates
ncrease. This should be of interest to
jvery law abiding citizen of the State.
Recently we learned that rates in this
:ounty are 368 per cent of the rates
jharged for the same protection in the
itates comprising the eastern section such
is Vermont, New York, New Jersey,
ihndp Island and Massachusetts, and 550
9er cent of some of the rates charged in
;he far west, both territories where there
s little arson.
In these territories where there is little
irson, the rates are low, as the percentile
of natural or accidental fires is small.
3ne answer to the high rates for automobile
fire insurance may be found by
jlancing at the numerous burned autonomies
stored in junk yards throughout
he State. The majority of those automobiles,
it has been said, were burned as
esult of arson, which is a crime just as
rreat as the deliberate stealing of money
jr property.
That is not to say that all fire losses
ire dishonest however. But it is difficult
;o understand the number of automobiles
iestroyed by accidental blaze in our own
State. We cannot conceive the reason f clears
made in Michigan and shipped to
Vermont being better than the same cars
shipped to North Carolina.
We believe that the time has come for
every civic organization and public spirited
citizen to lend their support toward
irresting this practice in North Carolina.
It is beginning to mar the good reputation
we have enjoyed, besides taking
money from our pockets in the form of
premiums.
None Too Soon
Just what the North Carolina Department
of Conservation and Development
proposes to do to combat the forest fire
menace in the state, particularly in the
southeast, has not been definitely disclosed,
but indications from a meeting of
the group sometime ago pointed toward
some concrete action and some thoughtful
consideration of this situation.
Any action of the Department will be
taken none too soon.
This past winter and spring, thousands
upon thousands of acres of timber in the
Southeastern drought-stricken section of
North Carolina went up in flames. Virtually
millions of young trees were destroyed
by devastating fires.
No, the Department of Conservation
and Development is acting none too soon
in this situation, and let us hope that
these meetings and conferences will result
in some tangible solution to this ag#1^11
of! An
Shears And Paste
ACTUALLY PUZZLED
(The Charlotte Observer)
Ex-Colonel Lindbergh for once Is stumped,
baffled, without the ready answer to any international
or domestic problem. He's actually
puzzled.
Hitler's declaration of war on Russia is the
reason.
'It's a very, very unusual development," he
said in commenting on it. "It is something
that requires profound analysis," he concludes.
The Inference is that the Ex-Colonel is now
profoundinf with himself and will soon emerge
with the answer.
And whatever the answer, the world may
be assured the Ex-Colonel will find that it
wasn't poor, misunderstood, maligned Germany's
fault. That will probably be Section
1 or Article 1 of Lindbergh's solution of the
puzzle.
But there is something new under the moon
?Lindbergh admits he doesn't know the answer
offhand.
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FISMRMEN !:
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This columist has to hand out
a lot of publicity to the newsI
papers all over the state. We
frankly admit that it is publicity.
But we claim that it is a differ-' ^
| ent sort from that which is us- j f)
J ually handed out. For instance, j '
[ when a sport fishing: party comes
to Southport their home town ]
newspapers always get a good!
story, and it does not matter if a
I the home town paper happens to j j
I be a big daily or a little weekly, j
j The story goes anyhow, and it :'
is gratifying to know that they j
j are always printed. We probably
send more of these stories to the j ^
Columbia, S. C., State than to J ?
| any other paper. Many parties I"
from there and from the wide
area that The States covers come
to Southport. Invariably a new'
party, here for the first time, (''
tells us of a good story from |.
Southport that they read in the "
Columbia State. a
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Last week a Chapel Hill par- f
ty came in and made a good 11
catch. A story covering it was
promptly sent The Chapel Hill
Weekly. Now it happens that
it is very seldom, if ever, that 1
editors write reporters and 1
thank them for a story. Cir- a
cumstances do not call for n
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sucn acKnowieugiiiema. w, ??.
was pleasing to us this week f
when Joe Jones, assistant to ^
Louis Graves on the widely ^
read Chapel Hill Weekly, wrote
us as follows: "We appreciate
the news item about the Chapel
Hill party at Southport last
Sunday. It is just the kind of
thing we like to get and we
will use it in our paper this
week. We get so many trashy,
useless and uninteresting handouts
in the mail that it is a
real pleasure to get something
that we know our readers will
be interested in."
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Fishing parties who come in
and find the weather set against
their going outside can still get
plenty of sport, if they are of a
mind for such and the taking of
food fish is of secondary consideration.
It is seldom too rough I
to. get out in the harbor, or fish
from the docks for sharks or .
stingarees. Either of these pests
can give a sportsman a good deal
of thrill when they hang on a
good stout rod. As a general
thing it is comparatively easy to
get a strike from either a shark j
or stingaree at either high or!
low tide. In addition to a good
deal of fun to be had in the taking
of a shark, there is, or should
be, considerable satisfaction of
having rid the water of a pest'
that destroys much food fish.
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Sportsmen have been having
pretty good luck fishing for
blues anch mackerel, via the
casting route, in the surf on
the point of Bald Head Island.
If there was only a short pier
built over there the island point
would be one of the choicest
iismng spots on mis ooasi.
Without the fishing pier, fine
fishing can still be had at no
cost outside of getting to the
island and back. Long Beach
and Caswell Beach also afford
wonderful opportunities for a
good fishing pier. If there were
such facilities at either place
their popularity would more
than double in a single season.
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This week, with the 4 th of
July coming along, will undoubtedly
bring the most sportsmen
that have visited Southport in a
week this season. With good
weather a lot of fine catches
should be made. The presence of
great numbers of blue and mackerel
just offshore insures wonderful
sport just now without the
long trips to the Gulf Stream.
However, the Gulf Stream has
become so well established for its
dependability in producing big
fish it is a foregone conclusion
that few boats that can make
the gulf will be idle this week.
Wfe are repeating our belief that
more good boats for both offshore
and Gulf Stream fishing
will be badly needed, from right
now on for three or four months.
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The barracuda out on Frying
Pan Shoals at the lightship
are nothing new. They
haven't just appeared there in
recent years. In 1916 and' 17
James Walsh of Charleston
was serving as a sailor on the
lightship. At the end of that
time he was transferred to the
tender Mangrove, where he has
been for the past 23 years.
He is now the skipper of the
craft. While the Mangrove was
here this past week we talked
with Captain Walsh about
the time when he served on the
lightship and he said that the
barracuda were just as numerous
there then as they are now.
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This Week In ... .
DEFENSE
Civilian Defense Director Lauardia
announced plans for a
ation-wide Fourth of July celeration,
with a radio address by
resident Roosevelt at (4 p. m.
1ST) to be followed by the singig
of the national anthem- simltaneously
throughout the naon.
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Commenting on the arrangelents,
the President said, "...
; is altogether -fitting that* we
tiould rededicate ourselves to dejnd
and perpetuate those inlienable
rights which found true
xpression in the immortal Delaration.
Those words never had
deeper or more solemp meaning
3r America than they have in
his hour of anxiety and peril
FOREIGN* AFFAIRS
President Roosevelt told his
ress conference the U. S. would
ive all possible aid to Russia
l its war with Germany but
hat no list of Soviet needs had
een submitted yet. The Treasury
lepartment announced it had
censed Russia to use it $40,00,000
in frozen funds here. Actig
Secretary of State Welles
nnounced the Neutrality Act,
,-hich prohibits American vessels
rom combat areas, would not be
ivoked in connection with the
tussian conflict.
Mr. Welles said that while the
Vmtvmriict Hi/ttafnrg)iin is flft in
olerable as the Nazi dictatorship
he immediate issue is defense
gainst Hitlerism and the Gernan
plan for universal conquest
The State Department orderd
Italy to recall all Italian oficials
and cease all activities in
his country except those at the
Washington Embassy by July 15
ecause they "serve no desirable
mrpose".
He said that members of the
crew of the ship frequently
speared the 'cuda's, just as they
now frequently do. In an effort
to learn if the barracuda
ever go further north than Frying
Pan, we have recently questioned
a number of old timers,
like Captain Walsh. In all cases
we found them united in believing
that Frying Pan is the
most northern playground of
the "Wolves of the Sea". Only
one or two small straying
'cudas have ever been reported
as taken north of the Frying
Pan, where as many as 30 have
been caught in a day by one
boat.
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John' ODaniels and Buster Northrop, working- I
| at Wrightsville Beach with Dan Wells, send back (
enticing reports of entertainment. Lumina has a *
dance every night and sometime in the next month c
or so expects to have the Woody Herman herd
.... Recently seen here for the fishing were c
seven cars from different states. Moral: It's paying
to advertise. 3
Most anytime of the day or night that you c
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happen by the local pool room you will be. greeted
by a strong (phew:) Jam, session made up of *
"any kind of instruments that happen to be.han- c
dy, even to a stove used as a drum! . . * And if f
you linger a minute you will see a really swell t
exhibition of art. The art is ih the form of photo- I
graphs. They were taken by J. B. Finch and look ?
like the work of a professional, One of his pic- s
tures last week was published in four state news- '
papers. j
t MOVIES: Orrin Tucker and his orchestra are 1
featured here Friday and Saturday at the Amuzu | c
I in "You're The One." The cast includes Aioen j t
_ AID TO DEMOCRACIES .taken to obtain au
The President indorsed the j tinue the Nations
i British recruiting drive for 15,000 Reserve Officers c
i to 30,000 American technicians for more than one
1 to aid in air raid detection in NAV'
1 England. He also pointed out that Navy Secretary
American youth can join British ed the U. S. fleet
i or Chinese armed forces if they gram is "setting
do not take an oath of allegiance day." He also anni
1 to any other country than the of enlistment coni
U. S. Marine Corps Rese
' He told a press conference the service for the dl
possibility of sending rifles to national emerggnc
1 Eire is being considered if the Congress for autl
! Eire government gives assurance tnue all naval enfi
they would be used against Ger- nel in service for
many in the event of a German AIR
attack on Ireland. The War Depart
PRODUCTION PROGRESS ed unification of it
The President said the over-all in a new unit 1
nrndnptinn nicture is not "Army Air Force"
UV1V.4UV J" J
1 discouraging although there is present units in
1 a serious lag in munitions pro- mand under Major
duction because entire plants have old, Deputy CSiief
1 to be built before quantity pro- Air. Secretary of
duction begins. He said, how- said the air force
ever, production of some items is dependent within tl
already at peak. The Civil Aeron
ARMY ity announced a S
The War Department announc- gram to complete
ed total strength of the Army as airports now unde
i 1,441,500 officers and enlisted: construct or impr
men, including: Regular Army, tional airports.
505,700; National Guard, 288,800; ALUMINUM C<
Selectees, 594,000; Reserve Of- Civilian Defense
ficers, 53,000. Army Chief of Guardia announced
Staff Marshall announced that the date when gov
Congress will be asked for funds and otivr officials
to add 100,000 more men to the councils and such
Regular Army to replace those j as the American
sent to outlying bases. The Army Scouts, women's
also announced it has recommend- farm and religiou*
ed to the President that steps be will cooperate in
grants liberty only to those wl
re always ready to guard and c
Liberty is something that Ame
e give too little thought to. ians
/e're apt to take Liberty for those
ranted. We often forget that for tl
le privilege of reading and camp
riting and saying and think- try.
ig and doing as we please is a
God-given right?one that nQrifi
ineffably valuable?one jv f* rnt
we should love aifd be DeoJ
Iways ready to guard and AtJo.
efend. ? er
The State Port Pilot and ty?i;
le Free Press of a Free and <
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WEDNESDAY, JU|y 2 H
P NEWS I
Jekker, Lillian Cornell, and the j
:olonna. . . . , Currently popular nn the ]
>o.xea everywhere are the Jimmy Dtt,ey 1 i
if Latin tunes and the Swedish doub: -:a;t. j j '
The Hut-Sut Song." Vaughn Moni
oming fast by this same route. j
We were outsmarted last week bv the ..
md proof reader (honest, we do have one, .
hanged our talking crows into talking , I
Several not-so-gentle readers reminded ns !
ial Thurston, who has one of the most I
irchestras to play .at leading beach re< y, . |
estivals in this state in recent yea
looked for the July 3rd dance at Long ^ 'I I
'avilion. The management really had t? ' j
;et these boys in the face of holiday
itinn, and local dance fans are looking I 1
o their appearance here . . . And ^ ^ I i
irised if one of the developments at the Tin J I
light party is an announcement of ,,t |(,.s; J <
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riiici uanv-c iuc Ul*teSS3|y
fotiations are underway.
thority to con- needed aluminum from
rl Guard and j home in the land. Mr. LaGua.4
in active duty i estimated that 20.000.00ft ^
year. of aluminum?enough for
? lighter planes -would be cofe-.
Knox announc- ed.
expansion pro- j . Nl'RSEs
records every! Medical officials of the Am
junced revision j Navy and Public Health Son,,
tracts for the stated that a shortage of ,, ,
irve to provide is beginning to be apparent i
irallon of the appealed for a larger number;
y, and asked I women to seek nursing trair rr
lority to con- PRICES
stment person- j Price Administrator Her j.-?,
the duration, announced he will set cefa
prices on new automobiles ament
announc- j "in all probability." used u-.
s air activities j because certain manufacture,
tnown as the have refused to cooperate ;
consolidating' avoiding inflation by keepaj
a single com- j prices at their present level, fc
General Am- j Henderson also froze prices <
of Staff for1 tires, inner tubes and rubbers
War Stimson price levels of June 16 to pre, ;
s are now in- price skyrocketing in connect
le Department., with diversion to defense of o
Iautics Author- proximately 25 percJntofiiv^B
195,000,000 pro-1 consumption. j >
I work in 250! The Price Administrator uli
Ir way and to set maximum prices on pi*
love 149 addi- major raw material used install
and asked furniture and lu?H<
I )LLECTION hold refrigerator manufacture*
I Director La-jnot to raise prices I j
I July 21 as PRIORITIES | (
lernors, mayors! The OPM announced prior-ill
I. local defense ; action on crude rubber, zir.c ul 1
organizations j tungsten compounds. Rubber r l
I Legion, Boy!sumption is to be reduced frtc I;
I clubs, labor, 817,000 to 600.000 tons a yi' I
I organizations 18 ooo tons of metallic zinc .H'
I collecting un-1 (Continued on page 4) | :
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lefend it" 1
rica are as much guard- II
of our Liberty as are II
s boys who are training il
be guardianship of It in 13
s throughout our coun- |1
long as America's news- >1
rs print the words and ||
?hts of America's free II
le, just so long will II
rica's people be free. II
newspaper loves Liber- Ifl
t is prepared to guard II
defend it. B
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