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I PAcr TW0 z? I THE STATE PORT PILOT I Southport, N. C. I PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY I ' JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor to tared u second-ciaaa matter April 20, 1028. t tto Poat Office at Southport, N. C., under I the act of March 3, 1879. I Subscription Rates ONE YEAR *1.B I HX MONTHS 1.0 I THREE MONTHS .7 I NATIONAL EDITORIALI MJBLASSOCIATION I Wednesday, January 11. 1942 The treacherous attack on Pearl Har I bor shows the Japs' character the sam< I color as tlieir skins. I Many a lawyer who thinks he has ai open and shut case, finds he opened hi: I mouth too often, shut it too little. Then who was it that correctly dubbe< I 11 Duce as Mouse-ilini? Whoever it was I was no lover of rats. I Basketball I Pursuance of the usual interscholasti< basketball schedule for Brunswick count} I surely comes among the less essentia I problems of our time, but we strongly fa I vor playing the games scheduled amonf I teams of the five-school league. We have been asked to make sacrifice: I in the interest of our national safety. The * lofnv tt*n e IT o 1 chances are inai sounci ui i?iu >. v. be called upon for actual suffering anc hardship. That will come soon enough at best, s( we see no need of practicing fortitude ir denying ourselves things that bring pleasure to many, the sacrifice of which wil do nobody any particular good. We recommend that this year's basketball activities for the high school teams be limited to games with other schools ir the county, and that no games outside the boundaries of Brunswick be authorized If this plan is followed the most interesting feature of the cage season will be retained with little economic loss for any body concerned. Mr. J. Berg Death came to Mr. J. Berg in the seventy-fourth year of his life, and that, according to any standard of longevity, is a ripe old age. Yet up until only a few days before his passing there was not s man in this community with a fresher more optimistic outlook. He was old ir 1 years and experience, but young in spirit A native of Denmark, Mr. Berg came to this country and to this community ir time to devote practically all of his manhood to public work. A pharmacist in the U. S. Public Health Service until his retirement three years ago, he was active ir every progressive civic enterprise under taken by his friends and neighbors. He was the kind of man you wanted to have on your side when there was work to be done. Our late fellow citizen left a patten that may well be followed by some ol the younger men of this community. 0 Grow A Garden The county is largely rural in its popu lation, so there should be no trouble a all in having most of the families of thi; nA/tt-i/vvt r /vnv/)an? tV*ic irao OCV/UUU gi un ^ai vicno bins v> ccvi. This is a movement that is being push jj ed by our government under the title o "Feed For Freedom," "Victory Gardens' and other popular phrases. There isn't a family in this county tha cannot find a spot for a garden. We sa; I that without fear of contradiction, an< if this is true, then there is no need fo our people to be caught napping, nor t< fail in producing most of their necessar. foodstuff this season. Two Fronts The United States must fight on tw fronts. First, there is the military front. Amer can soldiers, sailors and airmen are fighi ing and dying in the Pacific. They ar living up to the highest traditions of thi nation's military history. They must b given the finest battle equipment in th world, and they must be given it in lavis quantity. All the resources of this natioi human and material alike, must be use to that end. Second, there is the home front. W have said, time and again, that we ai fighting to defend and perpetuate fre< dom. Thjat is true. But the defense of fre< dom at home, as on the war front, de mands more than lip service. It demand; - straight thinking from all. It demands i people who will look squarely at th< ' j facts, no matter how unpleasant thej ' may be. It demands the kind of nations toughness that knows precisely what w< are fighting for, and that will permil " nothing to stand in the way of victory or 0 the home front no less than the militarj 0; front. 5 We will, of necessity, demand and ac I cept a large measure of economic dista j torship during the war. Whether that die'tatorship ends when the war ends, wil depend upon the resolution and the understanding o fthe American people. The - future of this country and this kind oi government is in the balance. The people - will decide which way the scales are tip; ped. The free enterprise system is at stake in this war. Anything which weakens and a emasculates free enterprise is the enemj , of the nation. We cannot have an everexpanding bureaucracy and have efficijency. We cannot allow non-defense spenj ding to go on unchecked and expect tc 1 avoid economic collapse. We cannot pun'iinsh industry and expect it to be able tc do its utmost. There is nothing dramatic about these statements. They are simply homely truths. The winning of this war?and the ' I winning of the peace that follows?will j depend on how well the American people 1 understand them. There has never been such unity as '! this country has at present. Every Ameri. i can stands solidly behind the President : in the pledge to wage war until internaj, tional gangsterism is destroyed. The spirit I of the nation is one of grim, uncompromi'sing determination. But let all remember that the home front is as vital to war and ' to the perpetuation of our way of life as l,the battlefront. There will be subversive " | influences on both front. Only an awak, ened, aware people cart prevent their de! predations. it's A Nice Building - The USO hut on the garrison in South port is a nice building. We hear, too, that 'l there is a considerable quantity of nice "j furniture in it. But it isn't doing the visiting soldiers, 1 sailors and coast guardsmen one bit of 'good standing out there locked up. We know that with the war and its . added burden of responsibilities there has been less time for tending to the more . frivilous side of life; but here is a pro, ject that is all complete save for the final t impetus to get things underway. ,; The money is available, the building t is completed, the furniture is here and . i the men in service are constantly in and . out of the community. The only thing t lacking is interested effort of the powers . that be. > Take Care Of Your 1 Automobile Tires s i The tires which are on your automo? i bile right now will hfve to last a long time?That's the admonition which is forthcoming from Washington at the i present time. Rationing of automobile F tires has already begun; in Brunswick county 35 tires will be rationed out during the month of January to those vehicles which are considered essential to operate. Other cars are doomed to get along with their present tires as long as they ~ last?after that, they'll have to be parked in the garage perhaps. Therefore, it behooves every person who drives an automobile to do every+n; W11115 11c van iv pitovivc tiic n uivu , he has 011 his automobile at the present time, to the end that they may last as ^ I long as possible. .. There are many ways in which tires .] may be made to last longer. Nothing r wears out tires so rapidly as operating your car at high speed, taking curves or y two wheels, fast getaways and quicli stops. Negatively then, it follows that avoiding these common, though dangerous and reckless practices, will contribute to the life of your tires. 0 Moreover, defense officials have callec upon the motoring public to cut down or i- their joy riding, avoid trips which ar< t- not essential, and see to it that Sally en e tertain Johnny in the living room rathei is than riding on the highways, e Right now the seriousness of the situa e tion has not fully broken upon us, bu: h anyone with an eye for the future car r, easily forsee that six months hence wil d bring about an entirely different situa tion. The wise motorist will operate hi e car today with an eye toward the daj e when his present tires have to serve thei 2- purpose because new ones will not bi j- available. THE STATE PORT 8^ g The ! FISHERMEN BT BIT-L KEZIAH i Seems we were mistaken ir thinking" that the \vu.~ might take > the mind of sportsmen off ol | fishing. Despite the fact that il is not the best time of the yeai for such things, we are getting letters every day asking about . i fishing. .Some of these letter j come direct to us and others were j originally directed to nationally 1: known fishing editors, who passed | them on to us after writing theii ( ow n answers ? * i As an example of this passing ! on of matter, a China Grove mar ' wrote Bill Ackerman outdoor , editor of the Outdoorsman' and Editor of Ackerman's Hunting and fishing guide. The China Grove man wanted to know about fishing along the coast of North Carolina and in Florida. Bill promptly ' wrote giving full information, and playing up Southport as the North Carolina point. Concluding he said: ? ? ? "I am sending a copy of this letter to my friend, Bill licziah, boss of Southport. He will be glad to give you first-hand information, help you all he can on 1 arrival and put you in the liest ! fishing and hunting sections. You will hear direct from Bill in a few days." * * Of couqf, it is gratifying to have the big fellows among the outdoorsmen to take time out to write a glowing letter regarding this part of the state and to send us a copy of it in the assaurance that we would carry on with the contact. A few days ago this same Bill had an inquiry about duck and geese hunting at Southport. He sent us a copy of his reply and we promptly wrote the inquirer, telling him to go to Currituck county for duck and geese hunting; that we could not hold a candle to that section for such hunting, but we had the best fishing hole on the coast. A copy of this letter to the inquirer was, of course, sent Bill and he was so pleased at our recommending another section of the state, rather , than our own for this especial sport, he wrote us one of the nicest letters we have received in many months. * * * This past week must have been less cold at Greenboro than we had supposed it was. Anyway, we heard from McDauiel Lewis, investment broker and a good friend of ours, Saturday. He wanted to know if we could charter a boat I for him and Charley Farrell and other Greensboro boys to make a ' trip to the gulf stream right away. The temperature went down to 15-above-zero here that same night, a most unusual drop. We shivered about all night and wondered how the dickens Mack oould get his mind on a gulf . stream fishing trip with the wea, tiier like it was. ? ? ? John F. Potter and his son, ' John F. Potter. Jr., are credited with bringing in over 100 huge sea trout the other morning. Many of them went above five pounds in weight and the folks 1 who saw them acclaimed them as the prettiest lot of fish they have seen. They brought a premium 1 price, owing to their kind and ; size. * * * One day this |>ast week Captair Bark ley Tomlin of the Maude and ; Mable brought in 26-busheK n! . jumbo shrimp and at the same time he had 600 pounds of see > raulletts. The total is said to have 1 brought trim a good price for a ; day's run. It was the kind of a . catch that keeps many of out boots going in any sort of weath I A* ?*wl mitt. 1 VI WLU mill vail 111K ?uwr?. ! * * * And while one is speaking about good catches, there are ' still plenty of devotees of rod anc L reel (or pole and line) who aon'l > mind what sort of weather we have. One of these guys, George C. Swain of Supply, was in towr f this week and was telling us thai during one of last week's coldest days he went fishing with pole t and line. He brought in 20 puppj " drum and topped them off with t V striped bass, or rockfish, thai ] weighed eighteen-and-a-quarter pounds. Just at Christmas Mr Swain, who is a member of the * board at welfare, was out wit! f that same favorite fishing pole and he got 28 drum that rat up the total weight of ISO pounds B He had to use salt mullet for ball and said that if ha could have How to Distinguish Ni UNITED STATES ARMY UNITED STA Win* meS FuieUr*?Riot di.k -ltk Wln* FmMa* whit* ?Ur s?4 red noUr ,J5u . ^ Kdddtr?HorlunUn ni aa4 ?Mt* Rudlif IIm, whih tripv; blot field ltnl B RUSSIA Was ind Fuh|i?*?d lUr K*id?r? No idwUiflCltioa GERMANY f ITS Will?nUdk crwi Wis*?R*?a f Mkt>lbA dwutlkm cireM is whit. ?i UU KaUer-Crn*. wW itria*. with nr> Civilian air raid spotters will have no difficulty dis Nations if they memorize the markings illustrated at red, white and blue, and Bussia has a red star may see the red triangle of Mexico. Axis raic mm and swastika of Germany, the round red r PILOT, SOUTHPORT. N. C. T 1 This Week In I DEFENSE Today there probably isn't anybody in this country?farmer, villager or city man?who doesn't ] know we're all of us in this war. | Of course, everybody knew right after Pearl Harbor that we were in for a fight. But not everyone knew what that fight was going to mean to the civilian; what he could do, what was expected of him . . . Well, we know now. We know that in addition to producing as it never has before?on the farm and in mine and mill and factory and office?civilian America is i going to have to sacrifice, con serve materials needed for the r tanks and guns and planes and ( ships and uniforms and all the hundreds of things needed to ; create a victorious army and f navy. i This war already is in the mail ? order catalogues, you might say. And pretty soon it is going to I show up in the clothing stores and in the five and tens and almost everywhere else. We know now that we're going to have to , make the old car do and the did | tires do and perhaps the old suit . or dress as well. We're going to I get along with less of a lot of ,, things before we lick the Japs , J (who have shut us off from rub, ber and other -'ital supplies) and ,1 whip Hitler. . | We know these things now, II but there is something else we . should realize, too. And that is , that the government, short of depriving our armed forces of the materials these forces need to beat the Axis, is doing everything it can to see that no one lacks I tooIs with which to produce, food to eat and clothes to wear, fuel to burn and a stout roof over his head. I The government is controlling prices to guard us against ruinous inflation. The government is trying to assure tires and autos to fulfill essential services in every community. The government is seeing tc it that 4here will be . enough farm machinery in good repair to take care of the all important 1942 crops. Here's the way the 1942 proi gram for farm equipment has been handled by the Office for Production Management's priorities division . . . The basic problem was to mesh this program with the Department of Agriculture's program for i food; to provide more machinery where it will be needed and to curtail production where?as with wheat?the agricultural plan calls for smaller crops. It's obvious that since farm equipment is manufactured entireI "N' /\f mnto^inlo intel i ij wi uiuiv.1 iaio tuai tu liic ai iucu {forces?the kinship between tank and tractor is apparent?the problem had to be considered cautiously. There was a second factor, too?the certainty that many more civilian plants must be converted to war work. What the OPM has done is to hold down on materials for new machinery (to about 83 per cent I of the 1940 level) while raising ! the quantity earmarked for rej pair parts manufacture to approximately 150 per cent of the 11940 output. Repair, wherever pos| sible, is the thing, and the OPM has asked that farmers begin these repairs as quickly as possible. 1 Here's the way it works out: The agricultural program, for example, calls for increased production of pork and lard, milk and eggs, in 1942. And so new machinery used to produce these foodstuffs will be available in greater quantity than machinery for rais1 ing and harvesting wheat, because the agricultural plan calls for a : 16 per cent reduction in wheat 1 acreage. 1 The tire rationing program is 1 another example of the govern1 ment's effort to keep essential ' services functioning under conditions of an all-out war. The Japanese took away the tires from our 1 pleasure cars when they blocked ' our Pacific import lanes. But that isn't going to hamper farm work. ! You can still get tires for farm 1 vehicles?if you really need them. ' The physician can still get tires 1 and the veterinarian. And the 1 folks who decide whether or not these tires are needed will be, in , most cases, neighbors?the local garageman, and a local rationing board probably no further distant i than the County Seat. As for that car you use for 1 trips to town, Price Administrator > gotten shrimp he would have . caught twice as much. i * * * ; Well folks, If yon make any t extra good catches of fish, or > catch an nnusual fish of any sort, r how about seeing or writing us L about It. The story about your t fishing is not a fishing story If . It does not get published. TVe can't say anything about the good > catches of fish that we do not ( see or which you forget to ten > us about. A penny poet raid or i a three cent stamp to not too much to spend to let us know I about It, If you are unable to j see its. insignia borne by Italian planes. I - MOT EXflC Then there's the Southport mother who found out only recently the the buoy tender which comes here once each month is named the Mangrove and not the Man-Boat. The excitement of her young daughter was responsible for the misconception. . . . Bill Styron killed two birds with each barrel on a covey rise the other day. the first time we ever heard of double doubles on quail. When North Carolina was snow-bound last week the managing editor of The News and Observer sought to pull Keziah's leg by wiring to query if there was snow on Bald Head Island. The return message, sent collect, didn't cost him much. It read: "Hell, no." . . . Work on the new theatre building in Southport is progressing now. We nev. i have seen gulls come inland as much as they o at Shallotte. One peanut patch near ) that place is blanketed down every day ... On one of the coldest days of last week Capt. H. T. Bowmer had to make a trip to Bald Head Island with a' load of corn for the hogs. Lum and Abner, radio favorites of long standLeon Henderson makes several iped or retreaded suggestions about that. He sug-1 as long as new gests you drive slowly, because1 lot less, fast driving burns up rubber; he Anyone who cs i suggests you double up with a! the last war ai i friend when you .An, thus making which came of i one set of tires do the work realize that it is ordinarily done by two; he sug- i control farm prio gests you'be careful not to scrapej it is to control p against curbs and take it easy j In 1918 the U. S over the bumps. Remember, too, income 24 per < j that tires which have been recap- buying power in PAY YOUR i NOW and SA^ j This is the last moi 11941 Taxes may be p worthwhile saving for KtMbMCLK Southport needs a I equipment. Southport needs ac Southport must m< of it in defense efforts. I YOIJ can do voi emergency if you will and pay your taxes at o ! ??? ? R. \ I CITY TAX C WEDNESDAY, JANUARV g? itionality of Aircraft TKS NAVT CHEAT BRITAIN. R A r e?Blue diU with Wtaf?Blue cirri., whit. . " d red center red rent,, "**' * t end red eertieel Redder?\. identi6c.t, ? "hit. end blue ? "1 MEXICO Wuiff?KM inancie. wane triangle witfc saall rrt?n trianrU ?n fv-nier Bidder?(Jreen. white and red vertual tripee I# L* JAPAN KKW, fdtov, ia Winf?Red dlik diak R?d4er?Ne ideatiacatiei U u< n4 Ttflieml i trai ia cader itinguishing Axis planes from those of the United above. American and British planes hive desipy . Watchers on the southern border occasionally lers are easily spotted through the familiar black ising sun emblem of Japan and the Roman fasces TLY NEWS - j | ing, are the stars of the Friday and Saturday i show at the Amuzu, "Dreaming Out Lou.: An: | as an idded attraction for the bird hunters, of whom there are many in these parts, the short is "Quest For Quail." . . . We have heard 9evera! prominent men, and some ladies, discussing in all seriousness the purchase of a bicycle for tnvei about town. The tire rationing done it. 1.1.. 1 t_ - 1 ' ! - i east jOKe we ve neuru mu ween is t: , of several Biitish prisoners in Lybin . their German guard a time of it by repeatedly fanning out. Finally a couple of the more restless fellows ran. and a maehtnegun volley -. .? | fired over their head to stop them. When the happened a gang of Italian soldiers popp-- ; a nearby trench with hands upraise-: in surer1 The result was that the Germans released the j Italians and caught the English: then the En;li='. captured both the Germans and the Italians Dr. J. V. Davis has sold his foxhounds and is :. j planning to get him a pack of beagles for rabbi: j hunting. often list almost | ing for the high price of goo-is ones, and cost a. Put by 1922 the slump which followed the inflation had carrier in think back to farm income way below the 1913 nd the inflation i level. The Price Administrator t can't help but-whose job is t.- see that everyas necessaty to body gets a fair deal an: also es in wartime as to stand guard against such evils rices in industry, as another inflation, has it. i.cat1. farmer had an - ed that there may be upward rerent above their vision of prices or. certain as::1913. even allow- j (Continued On Page Four) CITY TAXES VE MONEY nth during which your aid at par. Here is a vou. I j dditional fire-fighting Ided police protection. | iet the demands made j ur part to relieve this call by the City Hal! nee. i/rri/r OLLECTOR.
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