North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE TWO THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER. JR., Editor nUrad u aecond-clau matter April 20, 1628, a Ik* Poet Office at Southport N. C, under the act of March 3, 1878. Subscription Rate* ON* TEAR i-.Jl.ff DC MONTHS 1.0< THREE MONTHS .71 NATIONAL tDITORlAL. lOAMtJsmAim j lu II-S&fctefe Wednesday, December SI, 1911 . Self esteem, like most medicine, must be taken in measured doses. Too much flowery language always smells?But not sweet. I Then he who invents a yarn mustn't | be surprised if he gets tangled up in it. 1 J?-.? KrtwKrtno Kiif xxro W6 can t an oe uivt* wmucui, wuv can dive in and help the Cause of Freedom. Before the war is over, the Japs will have found out the sun sets as well as rises. Don't labor under the misapprehension that putting on your thinking cap every once in a while will make you baldheaded. What Is It For? While more than a hundred sailors and i coast guardsmen stationed here sought what pleasure and entertainment it was possible for them to enjoy in this community, the fine new $22,500.00 USO building, completed more than two weeks ago, stood idle and useless. What prevented the proper use of this building during the holidays, and when, if ever, will it be opened to perform its proper function in the entertainment of men of the service? It must not have been a matter of furniture, for the chairman of the Brunswick | County Defense Council told us last week *' * " " " -- ?l-~ 1 1 J mat tne iurniture is at me iuc<u uepuu Nor do we blame local representatives of the USO, since they cannot function until they have their duties properly outlined for them. Somebody bungled the job when he failed to see to it that a headquarters for entertainment was provided for the men during what probably was the first Christmas away from home for many of them.: Hospitality With responsibility for the proper entertainment during the holidays of visiting soldiers, sailors and coast guardsmen left up to the citizens of the community we are proud of the fine response. On Christmas night several homes of the cqmmunity were thrown open for the entertainment of these visiting boys, and on at jleast two occasions during the holiday sfeason impromptu dances were arrange^ for their entertainment. Southport people have long been famous fdr their hospitality, and it has been many ja long year since our citizens have had a? greater opportunity for service through kindness and consideration. For Solidarity We know that it is hard for those with loved ,ones in the service to understand what "we are driving at, but more good may ci>me from the present war than just our avowed aim of ridding the world of Hitlerjsm. The! people of the United States were in thei peculiar situation of having more of everything good than they either used or appreciated; and dangerous tendencies were cropping up to threaten the future of our nation. Political troubles may be largely discounted, of course, because we have always Aad them and we always shall have them, so long as we retain our two-party system of Democracy. But there was the ever-iricreasing discrepancy between supply arid demand that threatened out economic "System; our people were showing disregard for Christianity, and foi many Spf the other worthwhile things thai form fhe very foundation of this nation and organized labor, with the bit in its teeth, ^appeared set for a show down ol strength against all other agencies of oui nation! Now we do pot presume to present wai as a panacea for all these ills, but we dc K - -??j jm e* believe that until it is over partisian politics will be held in check in the interest - of national unity; that the farms and factories of this nation will be geared to practical production; that our people will "t seek comfort from the same sources that served their forefathers; and that labor and capital will pull together for the common cause. 9 j The unity and loyalty of a fine, free3 thinking people is what built this nation; 5 and it is these same qualities that will make it possible for it to weather this storm. A New Year A waifs The time when the people of the world must bid 1941 goodbye and welcome to 1942 is at hand. : So, with the New Year so close in the , offing, we cannot help but wonder what < fortune and fate awaits the people of the | 5 United States and the world in the year ( which lies ahead. i That, our mind, depends largely upon J the people of this country themselves. It t will be for them to work out their destiny t under the divine leadership of the all- 8 | seeing Father of Mankind. No longer can t I we trust to blind fate to deliver us from ? the evil thing which has befallen so much 4 of the world today. How far we are ? spared the ordeals to which other coun- c tries have been subjected will depend in " a large measure upon the amount of ef- J fn>+ which we nut into warding off this evil before it is too late. Let us stop now and take inventory of ? the America which we find at the thresh- o hold of 1942, compared with the one s which greeted the New Year twelve * months ago. First, an awakened, unified, and deter- v mined America greets the New Year. t j That was not the case at the arrival of h !1941. ( S Secondly, America finds at the begin- s ning of this new year that it has the most b stupendous task in its history ahead, but b it has already tackled the job with a ^ confidence and determination which has ti been inspiring to see. c Next, what may we expect in 1942? s As set out above, that depends largely ^ upon the people themselves?upon the a vigor and determination with which they t: tackle the job in this fight for our exist- g ence. Certainly, Ave may expect and will be prepared to make unending sacrifice in this Avar to the end. " a The efforts of those on the home front o in this war must be coordinated Avith ? those at the battle front for our war ef- 'tj fort to be most effective. r But Avhatever the task, the American ? people can rise to meet it. Our nation Avas e. 1 KIwli omia ji ctviio-o*lA for tlif* samp s *',V" " ""-O" - h principles which are paramount in this 1, war, pnd our country has been nurtured s amid struggle for the preservation of our " way of life. h Truly, the New Year finds us better 11 prepared to meet the challenge hurled at us by the tyrannical powers of Europe v and Asia than we would have been d twelve short months ago. Si We Americans will keep our chin up, e not out. n Suggested slogan for U. S.: Fortitude ? in fortv-two. n . ii I Shears And Paste . i ?? s "OVERREACHED MYSELF" J t (Charlotte Observer) t! LAURA INGALLS, the noted woman flyer, c arrested as a German agent on the technical * charge of operating in that capacity without t formaly registering as such, makes the sug- f: gestive, cryptic comment: "I overreached myself." r It is altogether possible that the supposedly 0 master-mind of the Nazis for whom she has p been serving in her own country as second only to Colonel Lindbergh in the America e First Committee in the role of lecturer and s harranguer against the nation's foreign policy, " understands exactly what she means when p she acknowledges that "I overreached myself." o Doubtless, he,, too, is intermittently moaning in his fitful, frothing reflections, as he thinks t back over the past five months of his hercu- o lean efforts to beat Russia to a pulp, that ^ this is precisely the mistake he made. * \ Because he overreached himself, he has ap- 1 parently brought rout, retreat, demoralization f and utter panic to his armies that are in flight before the hotly pursuing hordes of the r t Soviets whose own armies he announced to S ; his people weeks ago had been forever crush- j 5 ed. I LAURA INGALLS has unwittingly given j the world a slogan that may beoome prophet- i ic of the eventual disaster that is bound to < f come to Herr, and her, Hitler?"I overreached , myself." f THE STATE PORT g The FISHERMEN BT BILL KEZIAH This week we hod a letter, a really nice letter, from George H 3ray, a former Register of Dee-dor Brunswick county, now residng in Ingomar, Pa. Mr. Graj old us what we have been feeing for a long time?we nevei vlll be able to greatly develo|] he wonderful sport fishing wo lave here until we get better hoel and boat facilities. We must ilso have docking facilities. If we lad these things the work would e much easier. Mr. Gray's suggestions of the needs are along he line of hundreds of others we lave received and they encourage is to hope that with so many >utslde people seeing what we leed, our own folks will come to "" thino-u cnntn nf rr tlicr .-will*- viianBo "? "> ? hese days. * * * And while he was about the usiness of writing, Mr. Gray enlosed a clipping from an issue f last week's Pittsburgh Press, omeone at Sharon, Pa., had askd Johnnie Mock what kind of ishing we had at Southport. In eply in his outdoor column, the ersatile Johnnie ran a picture f what purperted to be me, humping an alligator over the ead with the butt of a shot gun we would use the -other end and tand further back.) We are not aying that the picture looked ad for us, only that it could not e worse than it was. Johnnie dvised the inquirer to drop me line and I could tell him about irpon, barracuda, blue marlin, hannel bass, mackerel, kingfish, ea trout, sea bass, bluefish, pomane, sheephead, black drum and host of other fish. And that I lso knew about deer, bear,ducks, jrkey, squirrel, coons, o'possums, ,'ildcats, quail, doves, and alliators to boot. * * * Charlie Parrel! of the Art Shop t Greensboro has just sent us Christmas present in the shape f the book: "Fishing in the Carlina's," by Phillip A. Murray, r. We haven't caught up with he holiday daze long enough to ead it yet, but we aim to get ome choice information to relenish our present store, at an - ?1un ..mntn nnrl ill it> uaic. v name ai.w ??i?n unu aid that Santa Claus brought Jni a new Ashing pole, and that e was planning to try it out oon. Charlie's wife recently wrote s and told us that every time hat Charlie came down here she ad a pain for weeks from listenlg to him talk about fishing. * * * Among our Christmas cards . as one from a bunch of girls own at Nassau, Bahamas. They re wives of engineers and were own here on solo fishing trips, o far as husbands were concernd, several times during the summer. They wrote us that they . ent to the Bahamas by plane, ut they neglected to state what hey were doing there, outside of lentioning that they were teachig the natives how to fish. * * # Bob Wilson, outdoor editor of he Washington Times-Herald, ent us a Christmas card in the hape of a picture of himself rith an insert showing an amber ack he caught on one of his rips here the past year. At least he fish looked like one that Bob aught here. Bob knows we ,'ouUI resent getting a picture of , fLsh caught any other place, so his must have been a Southport ish. * * * We haven't seen them since the ains came last week, but it is ur hunch that the freshwater londs and lakes in Brunswick ounty are filled to overflowing gain for the first time in about ight years. As good fishing pots, many of these lakes are iow numbered among the things f the past. They had dried comiletely up. Quite a number of there still had deep holes in rtiich there was enough water o maintain plenty of fish for ireeding. In a couple of years >r so these lakes that did not Iry up will again have an abunlant supply of large mouth bass. Ve don't see how the dried up akes will again have a stock of ish unless someone stocks them. * * * Since the big rains the big nouth bass In Orton Pond and ilso the grayheads and crapie ihould be biting good. We have lot had any reports of any one telling at Orton during the last ew days, but it is our hunch hat If you tried It you would ind them biting good. Many nice latches were made last January. * * * Come tomorrow we will be itarting out on a new callendar. PILOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C. WASHINGTON LETTER ! WASHINGTON, Dec. 29?Constant reminders that this country it at war may be found in the | sudden changes in social and pol! itical behavior. The gayety which 'usually marked official and diplo. matic society at the beginning of i the New Year is either greatly subdued or entirely missing. Neither diplomats nor government officials are accepting invitations to social functions as their time is fully occupied with their professional duties. The legislators are apparently trying to make good their public promises to subordinate partisan matters to the national welfare. Life in the nation's capital is gradually taking , on a sombre hue as casualty lists and military reverses in the Far i East take some of the native . cocksurness out of many citizens. r The stay of Prime Minister Winston Churchill has been an ef' fective stimulant to public morale. ? It has disclosed that the unity 1 which the leaders of the two great democracies are devising for the successful prosecution of the ' war is found on the recognition 1 that many sacrifices are ro?oe expected before peace can be considered. Churchill's speech to the American Congress had a sober1 ing effect in many quarters. His grim prediction that at least two I years must be devoted to a de! fcnsive war agaist the Axis took | th cwind out of the sails of many I less experienced officials here who | have been proceeding on the the1 ory that victory is just around the I corner. It is believed that the note | of realism injected by the British I leader will eventually contribute | more to sustaining the American j public's morale than a series of short and undecisive military or I naval victories for our arms. I The new session of Congress, j which comes into existence automatically this Saturday, means that pending legislation must again go through the legislative mill. Efforts to pass the antistrike bills before thi session adjourned were stymied by the establishment of a War Labor Board. It is unlikely that the legislation will be enacted unless trade unions persist in impeding the armament program by strikes. The price control bill, which will be debated in the Senate shortly, will have drastic controls not included in the version voted by the House.' The talk is growing that the lawmakers will insist upon real economies in government expenditures not connected with de1 fense. In fact, they may exact this promise as a condition of passing a revised tax law which the Administration will present shortly to raise revenue for the conduct of the war. The fact that the war effort is centralized at Washington makes it difficult for several state groups to find their true place in the national picture. The rush of affairs since bombing in Hawaii has been such that only passing interest has been given to the role of states. It is known that various Federal agencies are at work on plans which will utilize state and local agencies, both pfficial and volunteer. There is a distinct trend decentralization in order to spread out our war energies. Planning, however, requires time. In the last World War the Council of National Defense had an effective working arrangement with state bodies. The Office of Civilian Defense, more than any other Federal agency, has given attention to cooperation with the forty-eight commonwealths. The uncertainty as to the role which will be assigned to various state organizations has provoked considerable confusion and dissatisfaction at the apparent unwillingness of the central government to accept prooffers of service. Tire rationing will be a test of regional and local operation under Washington supervision. Some state governments may nr*t talra Irinrlhr tho nrnnnaa 1 a iivb Mtnv HI1IU1J iw hHV |ii vj'uuui? by the Interdepartmental Committee on Interstate Trade Barriers to remove obstacles which now impair movement of goods across state lines. It is likely that this activity will take the form of asking state legislators to repeal laws aimed at business crossing state lines and other retaliatory measures. One of the most fertile sources of conflict between neighboring states is the prohibition against motor trucks using state highways without a special license from states whose roads are utilized. Another item which the state lawmakers must consider at the sessions, which begin early in 1942, is the budget situation. A slight decrease which reverts the upward trend has been reported in the state and 'local govermnet debts on figures obtained as of June 30, 1941. Federal defense spending and national defense requirements have affected State and local government debt behavior in several ways. Expansion of the national It is our hope that it will bring many happy days to our hunting and fishing friends, and to everybody in general. Here's wishing everybody a Happy New Year. I -NOT EMT We thought it was fine when the sailors came | to the Christmas program at the Methodist church Thursday night. We thought it was a nice gesture when Rev. Mr. Harrison asked them to come over j to his house to the party for members of the I choir afterward. But those things were as nothing j when compared to our reaction of seeing some of the boys out in the kitchen at the Harrison home helping wash dishes after refreshments ... On the back of a clipping from a newspaper published in Southport, England, that we had the other day was a short reference to the fact that during the past 24 hours the coroner had had four calls, all of them for minors. Presumably these were bombing victims, for the paper spoke of the added j sorrow that was felt when youthful lives are ! snuffed out. - ir? u m Qf n.nrw won I A. Jl?. MUUliey anu IUIOI x*. x. o - ? ? the turkeys offered for high scorers in the men's and women's divisions during the pre-Christmas season. Huntley had 276 for his top score, while Mrs. St. George had 191 .. . Huntley wants to lead a coast guard team in a four team bowling league. Captain Eriksen has accepted the chalFarms Require Tobacco ( More Workstock Boos) Demand For Steel By War Producers Hat Industries Cuts Metal Request For Supply To Manufacturers Cent Increa Of Tractors *1 Flue Cured ments Metal is scarce. This means a ___ possible shortage of new farm RALEIGH A g machinery. bacco producers s F. M. Haig, professor of animal adopted resolution husbandry at N. C. State Col- for a 10 per c< lege, says workstock will take an flue-cured tobacco added importance as sources of asking that the lc farm power during the war em-: leaf be raised fr ergency. He urges that horses and 85 per cent to 1 mules be well fed and cared for, parity, and that every mare be bred in James Thigpen, *942. bacco marketing "We hear that the agriculture AAA east centra in the United States has become the meeting becau mechanized", Prof. Haig declared, upward adjustnu "but the 1940 census showed that would be made less than 25 percent of the farms ? ?? in the Nation own a tractor. The more ? ' census found 1,567,405 tractors on 1,409,685 farms. Prof. Haig sail "On the other hand, there were Part of the cen3U more than 10 million horses on WOI"kstock breedi nii-xx miiiinn fovmo in iQin ivjnar. neglected because ly two million farmers reported j imPression that ownership of 3,844,560 mules. This I mule are on the'' indicates that workstock are still assertec* t*13* the principal source of power on 1 doomed, and there _1 ket for workstoct economy has resulted in substan- stimulate this nil tially heavier tax collections and mers with good b in reduced relief loads. Priority serve National De requirements have necessitated their mares bred curtailment of nonessential public stallions or jacks construction. Effects of these fac- The animal hi tors on nonfederal public bor- the census indica rowing during the past year were 1 was a shortage of reflected in a decrease of 4 per-1 the United States cent in State debt, as contrasted j tain the present h with an increase amounting to 22 [ An additional 327 percent for the eight-year period | are needed to mai 1932-1940. Among local govern-1 lation of this typ ments generally, similar down- "See your cour ward movement in debt was re- and enlist his s ported. Shutting of Federal con- sistance in giving tributions in relief and other pro- and mules better jects will give states some trou- j the right kind i ble for a time. IHaig suggested. J Urgent TO ALL CITIZENS I OF CITY OF S< Southport needs ai equipment. Southport needs ad Southport must me of it in defense efforts. YOU can do you emergency if you will and pay your taxes at or ER. V CITY TAX C( I . i* 1 11 ?ill i ' - ? I WEDNESDAY. DECEMRFD ^ K rLY NEWS | nK lenge for the town and will <>ig;,ni^ presentative. Now it is suggested that ''HI team be formed to represent the Section"p, "*BI possibly a fourth team of unmarried ]8| Southport. Some good entertainment eotij 'B from a bowling league. M If you like westerns then the hill 0f far,, p H and Saturday at the Amuzu ought to h? , liking. The feature is "The DeR.mge Kio |9B ring Charles'Starrett . . . We let the h<v son slip by without a dance, and h. .;, ? H Grimes and Joel Palmer were offered f,v ^Bj engagements. ffl Two widely known citizens of the county 6g suffered indignities during the holidays ?%>?! T>?trleO?.W ^ ucutictv ivuuwipu 5>am went p.q hunting Christmas day and was lost in the JH until 9:30 that night. Rudolph parked his r, !H his driveway upon his ret . H one night last week, and when he came out H he discovered that it had rolled aei..,<s th-.-...l down the embankment and into the ,>,|ge l( river in front of his home. IB Juota Kudzu Imports I is Asked Cut By Jap W J re Issued A Importation Of Kudzu StciB A Ten Per From Japan Cut Off g,H| ise In The War; Millions Of P|a:.jH Leaf Allot-; Grown By State |L| Year ;roup of 150 to-1 One of the first effects of frH ind businessmen I war with Japan on fatmers ,s today calling | the cutting off of the sourer zB ?nt increase in'kudzu seed, from which th* t>>B allotments, and i million kudzu plants disiributtiB ian value of the North Carolina farmers a^B om its present i year by the Soil Cons.T.um^| 00 per cent of gerVice were grown in the SC.-B nursery at Chapel Hill. w chief of the to- E B Garrett. State coorf.atrB section of the 0f ^e Soil Conseivation S>m>B 1 region, called witb headquarters at N C. Su:>B se, he explained, Coj|ege sava otbor source. B >nt of quo as jtuojjru crowns aie already beqB possible by in- rteve]0pef| He announce: that <B rereent of our 1 series of field demor.stratwiB | were held throughout the $t?B i the alarming! last week to show SCS ' a report is thatlCians how to die k I ng has been|from old established kudzu; of the general! jn?s a| 'the horse and j I way out." He Brazil's census shows that I e horse is not j state capitals populations tar.;-;! i is still a mar- from 16.264 to 1.751.567 E :. The war will H irket, and far-; Although a mammal, the hipp-B rood mares will j potamus is able to walk os thfl fense by having i bottom of rivers ami ; fl to registered j graze on the aquatic vegetate. B in 1942." j says Collier's. 9 tsbandman said H ited that there creased domestic consumption ivH 541,939 colts in ??POTt demand. I to barely main- John B. Hutson. pi? H orse population. Commodity Credit corporate H ,493 mule colts pointed out that tobacco profa-H ntain the popu- ers could follow one of thmH e of workstock. courses?eliminate quotas aitoplH ity farm agent, er; ration tobacco to mantifaftr-H tdvice and as-1 ers: or increase quotas a speofcB your horses amount. S care, including Representatives were here af feed," Prof, the Carolinas. Georgia. FloridlH and Virginia. fl Appeal I \ND TAXPAYERS I 3UTHP0RT! I rMitinnai fire-fierhtin^ 1 ded police protection. I et the demands made I ir part to relieve this I call by the City Hall I ice. I VEEKS I 1LLECT0R. I