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NATIONAL6DITORIAL.
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Wednesday, August 6, 1941
If truth is beauty, small wonder that
some people are so utterly homely.
Hokum is something Mr. Webster ignores,
grammarians frown upon, and
everybody falls for.
Hitler may not be a neck artist, but
he's surely giving Japan the old familiar
squeeze.
Some men become intoxicated with
success, while others are destined to remain
sober all their life.
May Benefit Southern
Cotton Farmer
The trouble between the United States
!>nrl .Tanan. which has apparently devel- *
oped into something serious, may have its
effect on the Southern cotton industry.
But this time the effect may be beneficial
rather than adverse.
It's a settled fact that the ladies have
still got to wear clothes. With Japanese
silk imports suddenly halted, and all the
silk.stock in the United States requisitioned
for government use, there just isn't
any silk left for milady's dresses?or
there won't be after a few months perhaps.
Cotton seems the most likely substitute
for the silk which we previously imported
from Japan. Of course there are some
synthetic substitutes for silk, from which
hose are being made even at this time,
but it stands to reason that cotton may [
supplant the bulk of the Japanese silk ,
which the United States will not get.
If this happens, then the Southern cotton
farmer stands to benefit by it. It will
open up a great new market for the product
of the southern plantation.
We shall have to wait and see, however,
just how the whole thing pans out.
Gasoline Conservation
Conservation of gasoline along the eastern
seaboard seems to be imperative at
the moment, not so much because of diminishing
supply, but rather because of
lack of transportation facilities.
The U. S. has recently transferred a
number of oil tankers formerly used for J
coastwise traffic from the oil fields of \
Texas to furnish the eastern seaboard, to
trans-ocean service carrying oil to Great
Britain. Thus, the shortage of gasoline in
this section of the country has resulted.
Federal Petroleum Co-ordinator Harold ]
L. Ickes, recently asked 100,000 service- (
stations in the east to observe a "gasoline
curfew" by closing their stations from 7
p. m. to 7 a. m.
The proposal seems to be meeting 100
per cent co-operation. Which indicates j
that the people of the United States are |
committed to the task of seeing Hitlerism
driven from its place of world domination
and are doing what they can to gain that
end.
Retaining The Selectees
For More Than One Year
A wide difference of opinion seems to
prevail here as to whether it is necessary
to keep selectees in the army more than
the originally prescribed one year period.
General George C. Marshall, chief of
staff of the United States army should be
in position to know better than anyone
else in this country whether or not retention
of the selectees further than the
original one year period is necessary.
Testifying before the Senate Military
Affairs Committee, General Marshall asserted
that release of the selectees at this
time would deplete the ranks of the U. S.
Army to such an extent it would be crippled?this,
at a time when the national
' emergency demands every resource at our
command to make ready our defense for
any eventuality.
It would seem that there is little choice
in the matter. The safety of the country
apparently depends upon it, and much as
it may inconvenience those affected by
it, the retention of selectees seems to be
the only safe course which the United
States can now pursue.
Shears And Paste
HAMESTRINGING DEFENSE
(Fayetteville Observer)
One of the things America needs in a hurry
is more ships. There is only one way to
get those ships and that is to build them. On
our ability to build them in a hurry depends
the security of this country.
The taxpayers want them built. The Government
wants them built. The survival of
democracy demands that they be built.
Who is hindering them ?
Shortsighted labor unions, the top ranks of
their leadership riddled with aliens and racketeers.
,
This morning we read that work in the allimportant
Brooklyn Navy Yard is threatened
with being stopped as the result of strikes
in key industries.
Now the right to strike, to quit work, is an
American right, the denial of which would be
the same thing as Hitlerism.
At the same time_ the American Government
has a right and a duty to its taxpayers to
take the power to call strikes out of the
hands of criminals and aliens.
That is just as important to the American
people at this time as the construction of
battleships and airplanes, because the construction
of the weapons of defense depends
upon this step.
CENSORSHIP
(New York Times)
In a democratic country still technically at
peace it is impossible to keep the lid on all
v.ii;?<n.v cecrets. Anv one can see ships com
ing and going in the harbor, and people have
a tendency to talk indiscretely in public
places. The air is full of information useful
to Great Britain's enemies and potential enemies
of ours, and there are plenty of "little
pitchers" all around. At present any one who
has the price of a cable can transmit vital
information to Berlin or Tokyo as simply as
sending birthday greetings to Aunt Emma.
That is why the Navy Department is seeking
legislation to permit the censoring of outgoing
cable and wireless messages.
The idea of censorship is abhorrent to
Americans, but so is war itself. If one comes,
the other follows logically. The question is
whether under present circumstances steps
shouldn't be taken at once to prevent Axis
agents from nullifying, to some extent, our
help to Britain by cabling precise information
about the movement of convoys and warships.
The British, who share our own feelings about
free speech and freedom of the press, have
managed through two years of war to prevent
leakages of military information without curbing
the rights of their press or their people.
Strictly limited to outgoing cable and wireless
messages, it is difficult to see how censorship
of military information would impinge
upon any one's rights of free speech, except
Possibly those of agents for totalitarion Powers
who have a very low regard for such manifestations
of democracy. In granting powers of
censorship to the Navy, however, Congress
should take care to define and limit them so
that they cannot be stretched to cover anything
more than is intended.
MAST-BASE COINS AND
CHRISTENINGS
(Newport News Press)
When the foremast of the battleship North
Carolina was stepped?hoisted into place?the
sum of $7.71 was collected from the naval
officers present and placed under the base of
the mast, it was an old custom with an ancient
and honorable tradition.
Some think it dates back to the old custom
of placing a coin on the face of a corpse before
burial to pay his fare across the Styx
to Hades but whatever its origin, it has been
followed for many centuries. The wreck of a
Spanish galleon found off Orkney Islands
about the middle of the nineteenth century
had at the base of its mast a. copper coin
dated 1618.
But as ancient and as honorable as is the
custom, the merchant marine does not hold
to it. Nor do the yachtsmen as a rule, although
some still do. Under the mast of the
America's cup defenders, the crew places a
single new penny. And on the Eastern Shore
a coin of some kind is still placed at the base
of the mast of sailing craft to make them
more yar.
So much for the placing of coins at the
base of a ship's mast. Now we have a question
to ask. Where did the custom of christening
a new ship with champagne originated ?
There are a number of explanations, some of
them conflicting.
Letters on this subject will be welcomed.
All that we ask is that the writer give the
authority for his or her statements and sign
name, and address as evidence of good faith.
Name of writer will be omitted if such be the
expressed wish of the writer.
THE STATE PORT PI
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FISHERMEN!:
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BY BILL KEZIAH P
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Dr. Jim Anderson, president of
the Tidewater Anglers Club of a
Norfolk, has developed a yen to c'
! come and try the Southport fish- jt(
I ing. He will be down early in j
j September. Dr. Jim writes us that j e'
j he fishes all that he can, but his i '
wife insists that he work part of 1)1
the time, so that the grocery bill e:
can be |?aid. ir
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W. H. (Slim) Kendall, associ- h
ate editor of The Greensboro Dai- ,
I g|
ly News, got sold on Duncan, the ,
negro guide at Orton, wtyen he;
and Mrs. Kendall were here fish-!
I 0]
ing, a few days ago. Slim writes , g
use that we can believe it that |
he is going to get back to South- j
port and Orton just as soon as he
can. i .
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Dill Garrison, owner of one of' g,
| the largest s]K>rting goods stores p
in Washington, is a very persistcut
fellow when it comes to fish-1
ing. We were out with Bill Sun-j
day and trying our luck for trout.! ^
Now and then a trout would bit,
es
but they were greatly hindered .
by the fact that swarms of angel j ^
fish would rob the hook of all
j bait before it could get to the j
! bottom. Never saw a fellow spend,
so much time baiting hooks as |
Bill had to without getting tired, i
I ir
Paul McCollum, owner of one i gi
j of the biggest barber shops in a
Greensboro, showed a lot of con-1 a|
sideration on his trip down here, I -p
Sunday. He was afraid we were \ ^
not having enough time for pft>-1 p.
per attention to oe given our
I tonsorial appearance. So, he
' brought along with him soap, ^
razors, clippers, shears and hair ntonic.
The main idea being that g^
he do some special work on us j
after he and I had caught our (
day's limit and were waiting on
Charley Farrell, Jack Stevens I d)
j and W. N. Ridenhour to try and j .
get theirs. I
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ite
Anyhow, our much admired I c(
j friend Bob Wilson of The Wash- I w
[ ington Times-Herald got at least p,
I a dozen big blue fish Sunday.! g(
When he came down the other q
day his record stood at only two hi
J of these fish for the season. We j
I were personally much disappoint- ^
ed at Bob not getting a hundred a]
blues, but it was an off day? -n
one of these days when they just j (j(
won't strike. They were out there (J(
| but were not hungry. b,
ei
For this week-end we could fr
| not find C. W. Oliver, Sr., of! n(
Mount Olive, a boat for the Gulf j jn
Stream or anywhere else. All the j er
I blamed things were engaged. Mr.! nl
Oliver will probably be coming o)
along this week and he will make j
another old timer whom we will I tbe
glad to meet. <)<
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Sort of unusual for Frank L. U|
Johnson, secretary-treasurer of Si
the North Carolina soft drink m
bottlers association, to let this , ts
much of a summer go by without
being down here at his dearly et
beloved fishing haunts. Frank p
| wrote us sometime ago that he jn
i was being sort of sick. This is p,
to remind him we hope he is ]a
getting along better now, and g
; that we have been missing him. y
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Vance Beard of Salisbury is (j.
another old timer frequenter of (j
Southport who has been conspici- (C
ous by his absence this year. We fr
hardly think that the war could tt
have put a scare into him as he : ja
saw plenty of the first world e,
war. Anyhow, something or other C(
j has been holding him up from sj
making his regular trips to South- tt
port this summer. hi
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And we might mention the fact p]
I that we liave not seen our good a|
; friend, Wiley Sholar, of Greens- a,
horo or "One Fish" Wooten of a]
the same place. There are about
a dozen old timers at Greensboro al
who have ben neglecting ?s this Sl
year, and we haven't an Idea cj
what is ailing them. It is not
that Greensboro is loosing Inter- y
est in Southport. About five times
as many Greensboro people have
been here this year as ever be- jr
j fore. This may be largely due jv
i to the pushing we get from CharI
ley Farrell, MacDonald Lewis and c,
' several others. The fact is that ^
we are just missing some of the js
old timers. >p
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Col. Bill Chantland of the Federal
Trade Commission in Wash- a
ington should be writing us at )a
about this time that he will be e]
along next week with a party of _
his Washington sportsmen for a
week on the Gulf Stream. Like- 01
wise Colonel John Peacock of J.
High Point and his three Wash- ti
ington cronies should be showing t<
VP soon for four days on the 01
Gulf. It is a sort of ritual for a|
those boys to come here for four al
days each August. in
LOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WASHINGTON
LETTER I
WASHINGTON, August 6?Vis- ,
ors to the National capital find
tfficulty in making heads or
lils of the cross-currents in pol-j I
:y-making. Their confusion is j j
lared in some respects by vet- (
ran observers accustomed to
eeking behind the scenes. While '
ffairs are not exactly chaotic, '
le topsy-turvey situation is baf- j
ing many of the active particip- (
nts. Responsible government
lieftains are rushing helter-skelsr
from brief White House chats | <
) intensive hearings before sev-1 (
ral Congressional committees.!
he demands on their time from
egging authority and money to 1
tplaining what they are doing (
i the emergency leaves these ex- (
eutives few opportunities to
andle their regular chores. Army '
nd Navy "brass-hats" for in- <
tance, must burn the midnight ]
11 to prepare themselves for ^
lese required conferences at each
id of Pennsylvania Avenue?the '
xecutive Mansion and the Cap- i
ol. Meanwhile, the subordinates
re frantic seeking a spare min- (
te to obtain necessary approv- '
I for vital projects which seqmigiy
are more important than jestions
of legislators or the j
resident. ^
This week finds Congress
restling with the extension of
raftees' service, a highly con oversial
tax bill, a measure to
stablish price control and curb
iflation, huge appropriations for j
Bfense and the like. The amendlent
to price control througfi
irtailing installment buying and
raiding a ceiling on wages has!
1...J Ds|?nt,nnl |
UUgl COO pu<./jiuu, 1VC1UVMUIV\. >.u
npose limitations on wage delands
when labor is the largest _
ngle item in costs of goods is
palpable weakness brought I
aout by political considerations,
rade unions will be on a spot in '
le debate on this emergency
rice regulation issue.
With the House action on the
ix bill leaving affected groups
! taxpayers in a frustrated
lood. attention is turned to the
enate Finance Committee heargs.
It is expected that
ormy sessions will be witnesses- 0
id as protests about the House F
raft are heard. The mandatory g
lint return for husband and j,
ife is the main source of conintion.
At least eight states have
immunity property laws which ^
ill be vitally affected if the ^
resent plan prevails. The State .
jvernments are pressuring their a
ongressional delegations to c
ock the proposal. a
The revision of the tax struc- c
ire is obviously of a tempor- r
-y nature for high officials have ?
dicated a new tax measure is 1
le each year or sooner as the t
:fense situation warrants. De- 1
ite has revealed a trend for low- c
ing the personal exemptions I
om $800 to catch millions not r
>w tax conscious. The broaden- ?
g of the base at the last rev- {
lue revision brought additional 1
illions of citizens into the role "
' a Federal taxpayer and re- i
lired 3,500 extra tax inspectors, r
alk of a poll tax of five or ten j
>llars is not taken seriously be- ~
luse of doubts it would stand
3 under a legal test. ' Uncle
im's tapping for contributions
ay assume the form of a sales
iv of Hia nnvf urfnfino<
LA at uic iiCAh miwugi
One thing is certain. The em gency
is producing a flock of
ederal agencies without abolishig
the numerous alphabetical
roups created since 1933. The
test to make its advent is the
conomic Defense Board with
ice President Wallace as chair?
ian and includes 7 members of
le Cabinet. Just where its funcons
begin and end in relation
i existing agencies is not clear
om the executive order creating
le Board. Apparently, the Walce
committee's scope cover*
,'erything. Whether this super>uncil
will clean up the confuon
on defense policies is someling
not easily forecast. They
ive broad powers to "develop
tegrated economic defense
lans and programs for coordinled
action by the departments
id agencies concerned and use
11 appropriate means to assure
lat such plans and programs
re carried into effect by
tch departments and agenes".
Noteworthy is a function
) advise on post-war reconstrucon?
a subject which absorbed
[r. Wallace's attention as Secreiry
of Agriculture. The Board's
litial steps will be watched closeFew
realize that American ocipation
of British isles off the
tlantic Coast as strategic bases
slowed down by "red tape",
he naval operating base at Bermda
is costing large sums. Uner
the 99 years lease, millions
re spent for the acquisition of
inds from private property-ownrs
though Crown lands are donWe
are still slapping ourself
n the back because President
. Hammond Brown, of The Balmore
News-Post, is getting set
) bring the officers and directors
r the O. W. A .A. to Southport
gain this year. We look to be
ble to give those fellows a real
iteresting time this year.
- NOT EXACT
Joe Leightop will have to move over and make |
"oom in the heart of Southport dance fans for Van
Keys and his fine young orchestra. Not only is
:he band plenty good, but It makes a swell ap- j
jearance. And the friendly, cooperative manner of j
:he leader doesn't do it any harm. Still ringing
m our musical mind is their arrangement of
'Green Eyes." In closing, that's one outfit we'd
ike to see back to play for one of our really good
;urn-outs.
David Liles, scout executive who had a bunch |
it Boy Scouts over at Bald Head Island on a
camping trip last week, says that they tricked
:he mosquitoes. The boys pitched their tents close
:ogether, then took their bed clothes and moved
an up the beach a little way and slept "in the
ipen, leaving the marauding mosquitoes guarding
:he tents, awaiting their return . . . The shrimp- ;
;rs don't mind small catches so long as the price !
lolds up. One fellow told us Monday that he'd a
ot rather sell 100-lbs. of headed shrimp for $15.00 j
-han to have to catch and handle 12 or 15 bushels
'or that price.
Wrestling is developing a big following in
3outhport, and each week several local men are
attending bouts in Wilmington. Bell-Weather of i
Sizes Of Lots Of Toba
Is Important In Mar
i jjj
7lpyd Says That Very ?^er,hand' very
??II I nf Tnharro objectionable ^ .to
" "*?ana ouyers ?uiu LiAre
Objectionable To able to the geiier.
Warehousemen And Buy- A sma? basket
ers And May Be Unprof- cupies as much fJ
itable
| large basket; wa
ject to very small
TOO SMALL LOTS reduce the pounds
PROVES COSTLY placed on a wi
Small lots may 1
Definite Rule Can Be to buyers, as eaci
Given As To The Mini- must be checked
ipum Size Lot To Be Identified with
Offered For Sale counts
? The sale and b<
BY E. Y. FLOYD small lot requires
Extension Tobacco Specialist as for a lot of r
N. C. State College therefore excessix
increase the hai
The size of or weight of lots buyers as well as
f tobacco offered for sale is im- men.
lortant. Very large lots are on flue-cured
ometimes regarded with suspic- are usually minim
an- lot for weighing a
Flue-cured tobacco usually va- in addition to t
ies so much in quality and color charged on all sa
hat very large lots of uniform exceptionally sma
uality are exceptional. On the bacco is of poor
sell at a price tha
ited. The Navy wants fleet an- warehouse charge:
ihorages in Bermuda. Trinidad es and there a|
ind Newfoundland and harbors i tobacco prices ar
if adequate size are scare. Tre- cessively small lot
nendous sums are required to'carded with profit
iquip these new outposts with | as any lot that b
Iving quarters, shops, power sta- the charges bnngj
ions, munition depots and the ] is deducted from
Ike. Large amounts are expended j other lots,
m outlying stations along our | No definite ruU
as to the minimun
Vest coast, particularly in Alaska, jgize Iot ttat aho
low a vital area. The Naval Air|for gaje The size
station at Kedi&k will be com-, depend upon the r
ileted in a year while other Alas-; coiori an(j iengtl
can defense projects are under | single curing if ]
'rush " orders. The Navy is pour- Although correct s
ng money into these improve- advantage of ti
nents at the rate of 55 million would bo :i mist;
>er month. single barn c n.! i
WAR
All persons now living i
Brunswick County hold
possessed on October 1
factory agreement has
members of the Board
sioners,
BOARD OF CO!
BRUNSWICl
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8 f 9
fLY NEWS f
the local faithful is Harry Aldiiu^*^T>H Jg
quite figure out how all the antics of fl im
and groan artisfs can be faked He ," 'B J?
much trouble getting somebody to gu , ,f
his most faithful desciples being Kd w...
Larsen, Joe Lewis and G. E. Hubbard t,
hate now is Cowboy Luttrell, who is
good living from being hated. ! Iff
"Ziegfield girl," glorifying Hedy i?Mar
Garland and a bevy of other beautie, L.B ?
feature attraction Monday and Tuesday - 1|
Amuzu . . . Woodrow Russ is our favorite !^^B
of advertiser. He not only thinks that
is helping his business, he doesn't mind sav."^^^B
. . . Add Vital Statistics: Ed Weeks' smart t^^B
pup was run over and killed one night last . J S
And George Whatley lost his neat little
bitch from distemper. g a
It's a funny thing, but "Apple Blossom Tir l jE
nostalgic hit of the early twenties, is thc.B J[
ing favorite with the soldier boys, a iwent
of juke-box receipts reveals. Following
order is "Daddy," "Everything Happens T? fl f
"Whatcha Know, Joe," "Intermetzu -star Dal X
. . . "Mane Elena," "A Romantic Guy. r s,^^?
Eyes" and "My Sister And I." 1 I
lions too close, for that^?
Cm mean a "umber of Vm.
VV-VJ |
I i Sometimes if the sorting J
k-pfinCT been very close Uv" lots'
be so nearly alike that theyu tt 5
; be combined. In other w,^ %
small lots are ;very sma11 lot c?uld be p.:"? ^
warehousemen i an<Jtber one which conespi^^^H
lay be unprofit-,closely in Quality and col i
i if the lots are small and <i;y-^^?
? . . in quality or color, they .
of tobacco oc-, not be mjxe(j together ft ft
loor space as a B
rehousemen ob-! Sometimes high quality ft.-H *?
lots since they : 'Qfbt weight can be marketeii^^H
ige that can be a Pr?m- In othel Ms?s- it ? '
irehouse floor, better to thiou away a ..B
oe objectionable sma" lot of infelio1' <iU4l'ty '4? ?
h lot purchased!10 mix u with a lot uf
, weighed, and |<Ufferent tobacco. |
warehouse ac- There is no good reason ';l ^
| thinking that a lot front ihr&fl t
jok work for a,field and croPPin?' if P?f*| t
n? much time and uniformly classed, oar. * V
lormaT size and to? la^ However, such lets? .
ely small lots,'not ordinarily exceed 200 or s? *
idling cost to |Pounds' and la,?er lots nf 2
, to warehouse-lcause suspicion as to the utL'ifl *
imity of the whole or even
I Hon as to nesting bv some
markets there J scnlpu|ous manipulator. Genodfl
u* charges per;s k, lt 1)0 f(,linil
nd auction fees, ;ab,- tQ djvjde a )ot ^ j[ * ?
he commission over 250 ds |
les. If lots are H,-jI
11 and the to-1 Milk production per cow :H jj
quality, it may July 1 was about Kfl
t will not cover j jn 1940, whereas 011 June 1 (H J
t. In such cas- was 3 pen-- lai. H9
-e many when 1940 report.s the U. S
e low, the ex- 0f Agricultural Economics.
s could be dls- _
to the farmer, Haiti is expected in the tBu
irings less than ture to supp H9
s a deficit that 1 rubber requirements of the
the sale ofj states as plans hav.
for the eventual planting cl iH -t
! can be given 000 acres of rubber trees Eg
1 and maximum! W
iuld be offered The number of patents for n-K|-g
of the lots will ventions granted throughout H
ange of quality, world amounted to ltT.HWi
1 found in a ing 1939, the latest year ;
properly sorted.1 which statistics are available
lot ting is to the .,
re farmer, it Peru is considering the ;
ake to take a Ishment of a commercial
Iraw the divis- industry. Bj
NING
on property for which I
s the deed will be dis- I
1941, unless a satis- I
been reached with I
of County Commis- I
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