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| PAGE TWO ? ~ THE STATE PORT PILOT ISouthport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor aterad u aecond-clua MtttW April 30, 1028, at Ik* Fact Offic* at Sauthport, N. C, under the act of March 8, 1870. Subscription Rates OK* TEAR 11.80 HX MONTHS _______________ 1.00 CHREE MONTHS .76 NATIONAL EDITORIAL 141 W 4?nriATir)M lu J!hmlk t_ I Wednesday, September 24, 1941 ... 1 Friendly Economy Before you start for church Sunday? first make a phone call. Ask a friend or someone living nearby to drive with you. It has been suggested that you do this and turn the threatened gasoline emergency into an opportunity. Renew the habit of being a good neighbor . . . and bring friendliness back into fashion. As well, you'll be making one car do the work of two . . . and that saves gasoline. With tankers called into national defense service under the direction of the Maritime Commission it's every citizen's obligation to help relieve the restricted gasoline supply. Start to save now. T ? rirt.ii, 1/,i* ijuyijuvj i tir In the latest issue of North Carolina Wildlife Conservation there is a complete . list of laws covering the coming hunting season. We were somewhat surprised to discover that Columbus county will follow a plan of lay-days this year with regard to quail hunting, for last year when there ! was a bill up in the legislature proposing l to follow this plan in Brunswick and Cojjjkimbus counties sportsmen from both ft>lacea asked their representatives to have HMB>4wo counties exempted in order that hunting season might follow the same plan as in other years. The term lay-day means that hunting I will be allowed only every other day during the season. The open days for counties following this plan are Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I We were against the lay-day plan then, for there seemed to us to be no shortage of quail that would justify it. But if all the other counties about us arej going to have lay-days, then we are in favor of having them in Brunswick, too. Failure to do this is going to mean that Sunters from Columbus, Bladen, Robeson, nslow and Pender counties are going to unt h? #?eir own counties on the open ajrs of the week, then head for the wide open territory of Brunswick on the days j their season is closed at home. This will ! be particularly true of Whiteville, where " the hunters already do much of their . hunting in this county. It isn't hard to see the conseouences of I this. With the aid of their visiting friends from neighboring counties the sportsmen of Brunswick are going to go a long way toward wiping out their quail crop this season, and if the practice of lay-davs is continued elsewhere, this territory will be among the worst in the state for quail hunting within three years. As we said before, we are against both the principal and the practice of laydays, but for our own protection we be1 lieve that the hunters of this county should ask to be placed in the same group with Columbus, Bladen, Robeson, I Onslow and Pender counties this season. Oppose Move W. M. Stanaland, chairman of the Brunswick County Welfare Board, appeared before the board of county commissioners Monday and requested that the office of the superintendent of public welfare be moved to Supply. No official action was taken, and the matter was held open. We oppose this move. In the first place, since Southport is the county seat of Brunswick, it is natural tt> assume that the various agencies of county government should be , located (there. It is particularly important that the welfare office be convenient to the office of Register of Deeds and Clerk of Court, since frequently actions of the welfare workers are predicted upon records to be found in these two offices. Too, it is ; important that the offices be where there ; can be convenient consultation between 1 the superintendent of public welfare, the welfare board and the board of county commissioners. It is the duty of the board of county commissioners to provide suitable quarj ters for an office for the welfare depart> meat. This has been done in the Hood Building at no extra expense to the county, and unnecessary expense should be r| ^voided in the administration of county ii tb> , i ??a?BBgga ' " affairs. So, to sum it all up, our reasons for opposing this move are that it appears to us to be unnecessary, inconvenient and needlessly expensive. Pay And Pathos An undertaker friend of ours once told us very confidentially that the only safe time to collect for holding a funeral is "while they still have tears in their eyes." He meant no irreverence, nor do we. But we cannot help being impressed with the cold forgetfulness of some of ourl people for institutions and individuals who have befriended them in time of need. The Dosher Memorial Hospital is a case in point. Week after week patients are discharged from there with little oxnothing having been paid upon their bill. There are promises, of course, pledges of intent to pay that none but the most heartless would think of questioning. But there it ends. The resolution to pay grows weaker as the patient grows stronger. Business Manager J. D. Sutton told us that last week a colored man came in from Longwood and said that he had sold tobacco and wanted to pay $20.00 on his hospital bill. "This and seven more dollars that I had to go out and bag from men who owed us large accounts is all that the hospital has had from the tobacco crop this fall." Well, that's a shame. Not all of the tobacco farmers of this county are in good shape this fall, but many of them are. And a large number of these can dig down among their file of accounts payable and find where they owe the hospital. If they'll just think back for a moment to the relief they felt when they knew their loved one was being cared iui in cue tu iiicu j \j\ ?> ucn uic j patient finally was able to go home; if they'll recall these things and remember that it is only through their payments and from others like them that the county institution can continue to operate, they'll manage to do something about meeting this part of their outstanding obligations. ?????? Shears And Paste IDENTIFYING THE SPENDERS (New Orleans Times-Picayune) President Roosevelt expressed the opinion that nonessential, nondefense expenditures of the government can be reduced and says he has advocated the reduction for a long time. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau began last spring telling congressional committees that a billion or more should be lopped off the formal government expenses. The Senate finance committee now adds its weight to the curtailment proposal by endorsing Senator Byrd's recent demand for economy. With such an influential section of officialdom behind the economy side, it is not easy for taxpayers to understand why more has not been done to cut the normal outlay in order to lighten the burden of the defense program. Part of the answer is to be found in the attitude of some of the House appropriations committee members who have as much as told the treasury that appropriations are none of its business. Since the ways and means committee of the House and the finance committee of the Senate are charged only with raising the money, the control of expenditures is beyond their sphere. The House appropriations committee is the most potent factor in government expenditures and Chairman Taylor adopts a cynical attitude toward economy pleas, contending that congressmen do a lot of loud talking about economy, but won't perform when it comes down to specific cases. The nondefense budget for the present fiscal year is about $7,150,000,000. In none of the ten years prior to 1931 did federal appropriations, including army and navy, reach five billion dollars. Now Mr. Taylor points out that nearly four of the seven billion dollars in the budget for normal expenses goes for "fixed charges," such as debt service and retirement, pensions and veterans' services. To save a billion dollars out of the balance of the three million would require a very large percentage cut in the operating expenses of the government which, he explains Congress will not vote for on the showdown. Congress of course is responsible for the "fixed" charges and a weakness in the Taylor explanations is that these items are not altogether inelastic if Congress chooses to alter them. Anyhow, the treasury already has named the general categories in which economies might be effected. Expressions of the treasury, the administration, and now the Senate finance committee may help curious taxpayers to fix the blame for "congressional spending as usual" at a ' time when individuals are being called on to make sacrifices for the national security. The new tax rates will focus more light on these spenders. THE STATE PORT 1 g The FISHERMEN! BV BILL liEZIAH I The 1941 equinoxial storms and gales will probably all be over by the time this is read. The fact that the equinox came 011 time this year (it is due on September 21st) is said by the weathenvise to argue for a long period of fine Indian summer weather in its wake. The forecasts of the unofficial progniscators, who say that we will now have two months of good weather. may be all wrong. On the other hand the past records seem to justify them in their predictions. It seems cer- ] tain that when the equinox is delayed there is plenty of bad1 weather until it does come along and often thereafter for some time. * * * Still no reports of the runs 1 of September mullets. If they are being taken at any of the numerous fisheries along our coast the fact is not being reported and the conclusion drawn therefrom is that the catches, if they were made, must have been small. The past week of north and north-! east winds have created ideal conditions for the fish to leave the creeks and rivers in which they hibernate during the summer. They will shortly be moving down the coast in great numbers. We predict that the coming weeks, will see a busy season with the shore fisheries. # # * A lull in the sport fishing, caused bv the bad weather, may have given rise to the wrong idea that the sport fishing season is over at Southport. As a matter of fact, the best fishing tune of | the year is yet to come. The Gulf I Stream can be counted upon for big catches from now until late j In December, and it won't be hit and miss out there. The boats will gpt the fish whenever they go out, provided the party knows j anything at all about fishing, j Nearer than the gulf, the trout at the wrecks off Bald Head island and here in the river at full inoon time will afford plenty of sport, as will the blues and mackerel. Surf casting for red drum on Bald Head should be at its best from now until late November, and there will be puppy j drum in the creeks and bays, black drum, sheephead, etc. The fishing season is really only just beginning. * * * Rowboats of a lot of fishermen were pressed into service Monday and Tuesday, as were the boatmen, who were needed as guides. ! The tide was just right for marsh j hens, but the winds were a little , too strong for good shooting. We J noticed one party comprised of the high sheriff and three de- i puties going on a raid for the birds. Inquiry on their return brought forth the information that they got 30 hens. This was a good bag when one allows for the weather conditions, but dis- j appointing to this party, all crack shots. They had expected to get their limit. * * * By mail, telegraph and telephone, inquiries regarding fishing conditions have been reaching us at the rate of more than three each day. tinder ordinary conditiORS these inquiries would he j welcomed. With the weather as | it has been, it sort of gave us a pain to have to write or wire J the disappointing news that the weather was entirely too bad for J them to make the trip. At the time of writing this, it does not look to us that then' will be fishing conditions before Saturday, If then. The debris kicked up by the seas will have to have time to settle down before trolling will he good again, and it will take at least two days after the winds before things begin to settle good. * * * When Dave Roberts, at that time president of the Outdoor Writers Association of America, caught a big drum on Bald Head Island last fall, we ventured the bet that the picture made by Bill Baker, State News Cameraman,, was a top notcher. This bet or guess was made before the picture had been developed, it was based on the scene at the time the picture was made. The guess must have been right. The picture has been the rounds of the press and in sporting journals. Its most recent appearance is in Variety Vacationland, the booklet that is published by the state and distributed among the many thousand people from other states who inquire about North Carolina. PILOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C. Cole Circus To Be In Wilmington Only Railroad Circus To (s Show In This Section j { This Season; Jack Demp- j, sey To Appear In Person ,' , < The huge Cole Brothers Com- r bined Circus, "America's Favorite Show", arrives in Wilmington early tomorrow (Thursday) morn- ' ing after a fast run on the At- i lantic Coast Line from Goldsboro ^ where it exhibited today, and a short time later the brand new ' bespangled blue and gold "Big c Top" will be raised in all its glory I s on the circus grounds at Bellamy { Park ready for the performance at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon and ' 8 o'clock tonight with Jack Demp- f sey, Dorothy Herbert and Senor v Juan Lobo. g Of particular interest will be the appearance of Jack Dempsey, c former world heavyweight champion, at both the afternoon and t evening performance. Still the biggest idol of boxing fans every c where, hundreds of friends will s flock to see the Manassa Mauler v in person. From the "front door" to the "back door", the Cole Brothers Combined Circus is brand new, 1 including the mammoth Horse d Show, which is an outstanding addition to the 1941 edition of the f circus. The Horse Show, presenting F nearly 100 thoroughbred saddle 8 horses and performing circus e equine stars, was gathered by General Manager Zack Terrel. na- tl tive Kentuckian and lover of fine 0 horse flesh, at a cost running into ' the hundreds of thousnds of dol- 8 lars. Mr. Terrell some years ago 8 was general manager of the John Robinson and Sello-Flato circuses. 1 The Horse Show occupies a I huge tent by itself with arched individual stalls stretching completely around the walls and extending in a double line down the center of the tent. Each stall I bears the names of the occupant and the latter's sire. "Lee Rose p McAdams", Rollin Rose", "Silver King", "Silver Stamp", and "Amberking", highly bred five-gaited saddle horses direct from the Kentucky blue grass region, are among the prized horses on display. The Horse Show "top" is adjacent to the menagerie tent, 11 which itself is considerably larger J than most circus "Big Tops". The j menagerie contains an unrivalled j collection of wild beasts, exotic birds, and clowning monkeys, in- ^ eluding "Joe Daniels III", the not- " ed chimpanzee of near-human in- 1 telligence, ferocious jungle temperament, and tremendous brute ? strength backed by 320 pounds of simian arrogance. A "monkey island" housing dozens of smaller monkeys; a herd of pongurs, tiny Asiatic donkey-like pack animals; three herds of ponderous elephants; lions, tigers, leopards, hyenas, water buffaloes, yaks, elks, murderous gnus, and other beasts gathered from the remotest corners of the world are in the men- ^ agerie tent. ( Both the Horse Show and the travelling zoo may be visited without extra charge by those attending either the afternoon or night performance. The circus gates are open one hour before each performance to allow leisure-! | ly inspection of the two added features. , Under the "Big Top" itself, nearly 400 arenic stars present the greatest circus program in history. The Cole Brothers Combined Circus this year boasts of presenting the greatest assemblage of clowns ever gathered together under one circus tent. Bo-Bo Barnett and "Trixie", his i:~ -J ...1.l-u .... 11.. ! unit: UUg wiiu.li woiiviJ v,wiuj?re?y around the hippodrome track on | her hind legs. Otto Greibling, the famed Emmett Kelly, Horace j Laird, Freddie Freeman, the Arthur Borella Trio, and Toby Tyler are only a few of the funnymen whose antics and didoes inspire gales of laughter between the presentations. The melange of presentations j run the gamut of thrills and beauty from the astounding "Six Flying Thrillers", who perform in the very peak of the "Big Top", and Betty Rich, who daily defies death with her breath-taking toe and heel catches high above the ground, to the graceful convolutions of three herds of performing elephants, the thrill-packed riding of Miss Herbert, the ReifCharlie Farrel made a movie of the same thing and both his pictures and those of Baker are alive with action. * * * Full moon is next Wednesday, between now and then and for a few days afterwards trout fishing in the river and at the old wrecks will be the best of the year. The drum should be biting well on Bald Head Island, and with the water settling down from the recent gales, blue fish and mackerel should also be striking in a manner that gladdens the hearts of the trollers. It is also about time for black drum to af- I ford a good deal of sport. The docks at Fort Caswell, Long Beach and docks at Southport will see many fLshing visitors during the next ten days. a - NOT EXflC A lot of Brunswick county kids?from three to lixty-three?are eagerly looking forward to the Hole Bros. Circus tomorrow in Wilmington . . . Host of the dancing enthusiasts who attended the 3uy Lombardo dance at Lumina last Thursday light are still talking about their first-hand imjression of one of the all-time great dance orchestras. And some of the local sports are anticipatng as far ahead as the week-end of the DukeTennessee football game in Durham. But to Harry Udridge and other followers of the gentle art if grunt and groan these dates are merely whistle itops in the passage of time til Friday night when lay Vilmer makes his third attempt to unmask he Red Shadow, chief hate of the ringside faithul in recent weeks. Yep. Harry still makes his veekly pilgrimages to the Friday night wrestling ihows in Thalian Hall, and usually there is a good rowd of other Brunswick county fans on hand. Gene O'Brien not only is still with The Wilmingon Star, but last week drew favorable commenlation for a piece he did on one of the English ailors who was here for several days . . . Folks vho saw the Camp Davis soldiers run their two mti-aircraft guns into place on the garrison Tuestay afternoon were glad that the show was simuated, not real . . . Incidentally, the visiting solliers say that they are treated more cordially in enach Family, and Miss Lucy. both services by While the circus is brand new Mr. Billy Morgan ihysically, its spirit is unchanged accompanied by ,nd the circus is still the circus? gan. Their s ver old, ever new! "Though Your S: Special tickets for children for let", "The Old ( tie matinee performance will be "For You I Am n sale at White Ice Cream Co. At the close c or 30-cents upon presentation of service Mrs. Haz< coupon from their newspaper i ed Mr. and Mrs. dvertisement. ; ly gift from th. preciation of thei [\* rv* community and I ICniC Umner Mr. and Mrs. I A I their home in thi Honors Ash - S Church Pastor 2ZE5Z friends. lev. And Mrs. Z. G. Ray Presented Gift And Hon- 1 OWtt ored With Picnic Dinner Women , On Soldier Bay Church __ Grounds Members of Home Demonstr. ASH, Sept. 24.?The Soldier' ? . .. , Sept. 15, at the iay Baptist Church served a pic- w w Knox j ic dinner in honor of Mr. and September meetii trs. Z. G. Ray, Sunday Sept. 14. The meeting w Ir. Ray a former pastor filled his by Mrs. Odell Ei 1st appointment with his church 'nt> busines reaching at eleven o'clock in the Genevieve Eakes lorning, apd 8 o'clock in the even- tke ,esson f?r ig. His morning text, "Sin", in | topic of the les he evening he preached from the I portance of F ubject, "Prayers and Love of! 'ather and Mother for Sons and laughters." NEWS Special music was rendered at ?????? | their place GGdfGCv m m a Encourage by law enl to Serve the South our Comn proceeds ^ CYMBOLIC of Southern uJ 1!'"! OUCCI IIIUU Bell'.s tremendous im- You can h portance to the vital com- ; conduct tl munication system of the t'le 'awSouth is its Seal?an emblem of proven service to industry BR EWE and the public and now to BEER I defense. The national emer- _ . , . EdMrKBam gency is making unprece- | * dented demands upon every pbsusned IN cool resource at our disposal in men, women, materials and money. Recruits are daily swelling the ranks of our _ . trained army of workers. i H /\ Our reserves of basic ! equipment are being taxed to the utmost to keep pace The with the ever growing demands for more and more tire Mere, telephone service. The more time to W than 51,000,000 dollars required thisyearfor construct- We h ing, reconstructing and a- children dapting telephone facilities to meet government and e\er\-da) other telephone needs is be- | buy, brin. ing willingly invested to in- i every me sure the expansion and pro- j reason< tection of telephone service throughout the nine southeastern states we serve ? Southern Bell is geared to serve V l-l A I the South. J Soiithebu BeilTeeephoue bad telegraph company SHAL IMGORPQ RATIO WEDNESDAY, SF.PT 2.! J|| TLY NEWS - | Southport than in any othet ~ "1 When Cherry McDonald - J this week she may be smpii.and calf in her erstwhile pri\ r I"] maybe it's better that way Ti> hvts,,s " ?' ^ ! has been spending the summer in Hi, ' j Magnolia Dairy, and the l< - ^ to sorta break the shock nf is to be avoided by one in Che ; ... ?f5'Jj We learn that for several f. ^ wronged A. T. MeKeithan in ... | tBj a visitor from Fort Bragg. H .. fc ? Camp Davis, and has been foi - 1'. although he has recently b< |1 Fisher. He is a civil service | atThe Amuzu has a r< id jg "5 ture Friday night. Billed as Dm - \y s Show, it goes on at 11 o'clock IV S'1 diately following the sec.,;. in the spirit of the occasion, ti, g ^ 1 for this show will be Rogue's T Kfrj j I es to be a chiller-diller . . . S H apologized Tuesday night becau- E ^ their work clothes in which r .. W y, dance. Their trip here was KH I vers, and the social development j ted surprise. The town people | diers on their clothes, but on ti; v R 1 there was nothing wrong wit! Bf.1 " Mrs. Ray and Diet", which wa i of Red Springs. | Home Demons': A. Mrs. Billy Mor-; The recreation i fci ; elections were:|in charge of ins Be As Scar- I whjCh refreshments I.v 31ive Tree . and sanc|WjCj10S Praying . . ved by the li-.-i K"lin >1 Purvis present- 6 ? Ray with a love- Knox, hostess: Mis. K V . | ? church in ap- Mrs. Furman Callow ,i \;... | r services in the Evans. Mrs c. L s j H church. C. H. Zibelin Mi> n R I Ray have made! *>" M?- Ca" c:' ' ' v R , community for Sallie B. K: x M H rs. They are now j evieve Eakes e county. They; Visitors were Mrs P. . M issed in the com-; kenson and two bnln B ;h by their many i riren Df Mrs. t; L sk v B | Odell Evans, in,I Mi - u . E Knox. <k Club The next regular i.e. j B Hold Meet * w'th Mrs- ' 1 K I ; 3rd Monday jw; the Town Creek ?'clock ation Club met ? V , ? F.AMIIA KM Mo\ M i home of Mrs. Mr am| Mrg Th E n their regular ,or(| of Newark ?. | n*' weeks with his fathei. E. .1 , B as presided over ford. of Bolivia. A n.uilv R rans. and follow- j was held at Mi D.-r.i B s session. Miss Sunday. Sept. 21. Tlioui t- \v It- B had charge of|fon| alui virife w K the month. The for Wilmington and K - H ison was "Im- J visit relatives befoii ^B 'otatoes in Our' Ohio. R and FACTS ... of Statewide Interest B IOM MANTEO I rO MURPHY I olina law enforcement officials, accepting Bj >f the Brewers and North Carolina IWr B rs Committee, have established a note- B :ord of eliminating the scattered few beer B rho commit or permit law violations in B is of business. ^B d by the recent endorsement of our work K forcement officials and county authoritie littee's program of industrial cooperation H without let-up. Your support is needed B and keeping North Carolina's legalized B stry free from objectionable elements. B elp by patronizing only those dealers who ieir businesses in strict compliance with H :RS AND NORTH CAROLINA XSTRIBUTORS COMMITTEE , Stoic Director, Suite 813*817 Commercial BUg Raleigh B tRATION WITH THE LfHITED BREWERS IHPUSTRIAL -v- H LL WEATHER I first crisp, cool days of autumn I B warning you that there's noI aste in buying your fall clothe^ I I lave them?for men, women and I for school . , . Sundax aiul I H ' wear. When you conic in to I K g the family and let us outfit I Bj mber with quality mercluuulisl'I B able prices. I B LOTTE TRADING CO. I Hob son Kir by, Prop. I I -LOTTE, I
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