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THE STATE PORT PILOT
Southport, N. G.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
JAKES M. HARPER, JR., Editor
BaUrad as aecond-daaa matter April 29, 1628, at
fee Poet Office at Southport, N. C, under
the act of March 3, 1879.
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MTIONAL DITORIAl_.
iiul^Tssociation
Wednesday. March 11, 1912
A hard boiled egg is hard enough to
digest, let alone if he's trying to discuss
world affairs.
In our . southern climate, how did the
kids here know so much about snowballing?
Some books you just can't put down?
providing they have an ample supply of
glue on their covers.
Something For Nothing
During the next ten days a campaign
will be in progress to collect scrap ironl
of all kinds and to deliver at central |
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points for collection py juhk aeaiers.
Usually there has been some reluctance
on the part of citizens to go all out on i
a program of conservation even for a j
vital phase of National Defense when it I
was realized that some junk dealer was
beir.g paid for the patriotism of civilians.
This was true of the aluminum and was
true of the iirst efforts to collect waste
paper.
But the scrap metal program has been
set upon a basis that is both patriotic
and practical from beginning to end. The
metal is to be sold, not given, to the dealers;
and the money is to go to the Brunswick
County Chapter of the American
lied Cross.
So here is your opportunity to cooperate
with a drive that deserves your very
best effort. There are few homes and
very few farms where there are not somej
old pieces of scrap lying around. The;
premises will be beautified, the defense i
program will be helped and the Red!
Cross will receive much needed funds
from this effort.
The Public Needs To Know
Occasionally you run into a man engaged
in public business who seeks to
hide his head in the sand like an ostrich
by with-holding information to which it
is entitled from the public.
This has not been the practice of the
Brunswick County Tire Rationing Board
who has made a practice of publishing a
complete list of persons who have receiv
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eel cercmcaies ior me purtnase ui nxcoj
> and tubes.
Last week we published the names of
those to whom certificates were granted
* during the month of February. By Monday
morning at least a half dozen per*
sons had reported that two certificates
had been granted a man whose residence
is in South Carolina, but whose address
is at Shallotte. No misrepresentations
were involved, and the matter was quick^
ly straightened out to the satisfaction cf
all concerned.
But the point is that it was possible to
act quickly in this matter only because
the public had been taken into the con
fidence of the board with regard to its
activities.
'I 77m? Wreckord
Last year, when the need of human
I energy and natural resources proved
more desperately urgent than ever before,
the American people proceeded to hquiv
date more of their number and to demolish
more of their mechanical facilities
than in any year since the introduction of
the motor car, according to a new booklet
entitled "The Wreckord" just issued
by a veil known insurance company.
The booklet is the twelfth in a series
issued annually and presents a comprehensive
analysis of the facts about accidents
in which 40,000 persons were killed
and almost a million and a half were injured
in 1941. Both totals, it is pointed
i out, are the highest in the history of the
automobile.
? There were more than a million acci4
dents during the year involving injury or
: death and several million others involving
property damage only. Probably 1,000
automobiles a week were demolished beyond
repair.
"The nation, if it is to succeed in its
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victory program, simply cannot afford a J
continuation of this waste of life, of manhows,
of hospital space, of machinery
and of morale," the foreword states. "The
record of death and injury is one that
should leave every American with a sense
of shame and should move every ohe of
us to resolve that it shall never happen
again."
Some of the increase in deaths and
: injuries can be laid at the door of drivers
j under 18 years of age and older drivers
(with less than a year's experience at the
I wheel, the analysis shows. Accidents also
increased somewhat out of proportion in
the 18 to 24 age group. Gasoline consumption
and motor vehicle registration increased
Last year, but not in as great pro'
portion as did accidents. Pedestrian
.deaths and injuries actually dropped
from the totals for 1940. Weighing all in
these factors, the company's statisticians ?f
find no explanation for the abnormal record
than that drivers were more careless
and reckless than ever before. to
Highlights from the annual report, ti(
based on official records from the 48
states, including the following facts:
Exceeding the speed limit was re&pon- he
sible for almost 42 per cent of the fatali- he
ties. In no other year since the record j?
nas been kept has speed loomed so large he
as a factor in accidents.
Two out of every three persons killed e?
met death as the result of some reckless a?
or illegal action on the part of a driver. Ke
More than 90 per cent of all vehicles Jj"
involved in fatal and non-fatal accidents
were in apparently good mechanical con- sti
dition at the time of the crash. ini
More than 82 per cent of all fatal ac- m(
cidents occurred on dry roads and 87 per J,"
fPiit hannened in clear weather. th
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A feature of this year's booklet is a ^
quiz entitled "Off To Work You Go." It wi
proves the folly of dawdling at home and mi
then hurrying on the highway to make
up for lost time and shows the "quizee" vvJ
the exact hour he should get up in the
morning in order to get to work safely ini
and on time.
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THE LOS ANGELES MYSTERY J
ne
(New Yoik Times)
The more the whole incident of the early Th
morning of Feb. 25 in the Los Angeles dis- a
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trict is examined, the more incredible it becomes.
First reports were that "a big floating
object resembling a balloon" was seen in the on
col
sky and fired upon. Another report is that
one plane was seen ;still another that it was raj
"twenty-seven," planes; still another that it sti
wc
was "hundreds." The Secretary of the Navy fjg
later declared that the whole thing was "a
false alarm." The Secretary of War now de- be
clares that there were some fifteen aircraft ,hl
involved. He declares, however, that they, were .
unidentified, but that "they may have come (h:
from commercial services operated by enemy cai
agents." ve
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In any case, anti-aircraft guns opened fire ve:
cn these unidentified craft and fired "l,+30 |
rounds of ammunition." The ammunition it- th<
self did some damage in the city. But no
bombs were dropped and no planes were nei
brought down (though Secretary Stlmson says ar<
ele
that thty were flying at altitudes between m(
only 9,000 and 18,000 feet). More astonishing thi
still, not a single American plane took off to in
engage the unidentified aircraft, to pursue lor
them to their bases or even to try tp identify ^
them. yej
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1 Ills IIlLlUeilL IS <1 UUUSf iUi gliivc 1WJR?IY.~
arc
ings. The complete contradiction between the ^
statements of the Secretary of War and the tii<
Secretary of the Navy is evidence of a con- *ai
tinuance, at the top, of that lack of cooperation
and liaison between the War and Navy tra
departments that proved so fatal at Pearl wo
Harbor. But even this may be less important ^
than other aspects of the incident. Is it the ^
custom of anti-aircraft batteries to fire on bas
unidentified aircraft? Suppose they had been Pel
American military planes? If the batteries ^
were firing on nothing at all, as Secretary ma
Knox implies, it is a sign of expensive incom- mii
petence and jitters. If the batteries were firing
on real planes, some of them as low as feT
9,000 feet, as Secretary Stimson declares, why i
were they completely ineffective? Why did np fi*
ter
American planes go up to engage them, to ^
pursue them, or even to identify them? How go.
long does it take after such an alarm to get
our planes in the air? What would hsve happened
if this had been a real air said? Is it
possible that our whole system of supervision
is so lax that a group of "enemy aliens" can
casually take off from their own planes on ^
npar-by American airfields and fly over our ln<
cities at night? ***
An immediate investigation, a cigar* statement
for the public and a prompt rectifica- ?n
tion of the conditions which made this inctab|
dent possible are imperative. ^
THE STATE PORT 1
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The
FISHERMEN
bt bilt; xeziah
A matter which has been eausg
considerable speculation novi
ipears to be definitely settled,
far as present conditions are
ncerned. Parties making fisiig
trips this year will not have
have Custom House Identifica- i
>n In order to make the trip.
But the boatmen carrying
ese parties out will have to
,ve such identification, and
will be responsible for those
takes out. He will either have
know them ^personally or have
em vouched for by some one
does know.
With the average of persons
<U)g out on a fishing boat being
ur or five, it would have taken {
lot of red tape and delay to
t each party identified at the
stom house. At present there
es not seem to be any existing
millions warranting restrictions j
ronger than the beat crew can
ipose. As things are, the boatin
who have identification
pers from the custom house
ly arrange for a party and
en report to the Coast Guard i
phone or otherwise, reporting
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iftL HIT) iMC auu
tere they prepare to fish. Per- ,
ssion can be secured from the
ast guard in a few minutes, ,
ovided there are no reasons ,
ly the party should not go out.
Best bait for freshwater fishI
right now, and the easiest to :
tain, is live minnows. This ear- ,
in the year the minnows may ,
t be so readily obtainable in
ahwater, but they are plenti- 1
I in shallow tidal streams. i
We have always found that the 1
slest way to get these minnows 1
is to take au iron hoop, about 1
? size of the head of a flour 1
rrel. Over the hoop mosquito
tting or other netting with a (
tail mesh may he stretched,
e bait, preferably fresh beef or
carb, should be plaeed in the ,
liter of the netting.
A string or wire arrangement ]
DUld be made to lift the trap ,
t whenever the minnows are
llectihg around the bait. It is
st to have th? trap-lifting arngement
on the end of a
oog pole and work it as you
>uld work a fishing pole when
hing.
If possible the minnows should :
transferred from the trap to ;
s minnow pail without hand- 1
g. The pail should have a
ntiful supply of water like l
it in which the minnows are .
light. In other words, you can't i
ry well keep salt water min- t
ws in freshwater or vice l
rsa. 1
Some sportsmen prefer to run '
;ir hooks through the back of I
5 minnow. This often kills it (
mediately and probably entails i
sdless suffering. So far as we '
; concerned, we have always 5
cted to run the hook into the 1
mth of the bait, and out '
ough the lower lip. Attached 1
this way it will live much 1
le'pr and hp mnrp livplv ^
Probably only second to live
nnows at this season of the
lr, provided also you are not
cting to use artificial baits,
s the common earth worms,
n't run your hook through
sse worms from end to end; a
better way is simply to pierce
through the middle, . leaving
th ends free to wriggle and atCt
the prospective victim. Two
mas may be attached in the
we way, when desired, but one
ge and fat one is sufficient.
3oth large and small mouth
as and the many varieties of
ch prefer the small live miniv
and large angle worms at
8 season of the year. Don't
ike the mistake of having your
nnows too large. A inch and
half in length is amply large
mgh for the bass. Perch prethem
even smaller than that.
iVe have noticed that many
hermen consider a vigorous
k on their rod or pole as
ng essential when they get a
od bite. For tender and thin
lUtfa fish, such as bass and
Pch. only a jentle jerk should
made to set the hook. The
b should then be lifted out as
atty as possible. A heavy jerk,
lowed by the attempt to swing
i fish to the bank too rapidly
iiaily results in the hook tear
j way through the mouth of
t fish, and Its being lost.
Industrial activity rose further
Janu&ty and the first half of
ibsuary. reflecting continued
arp advances in the outfit of
Jitany products.
PILOT, SQUTHPORT, N. C.
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THE HOME j
FRONT
"Now is the time for all good
men . .
Rugged, independent, but free,
MucArthur's men stand on
Bataan, a daily living sacrifice to
democracy. There, on the wild
mountainous battlefront with the j
impregnable rock of Corregidor
at their backs, in what military
experts almost unanimously regard
as a hopeless situation,
these indomitable Americans and
Filipinos refuse to recognize defeat.
MacArthur's men fight on,
Filipino and American alike, because
they are willing to sacrifice
their lives?not just face a
little discomfort ? to remain as
free and rugged in their thoughts
as the rocky jungle-grown peninsula
where they make their
stand.
And because they are freemen,
born of American democracy, it
is not in them to accept their
situation as hopeless. Not when
they can lash out against
the treacherous overwhelmingly
powerful foe as they did last'
week and with a few , tiny
planes blast to the bottom of the
sea 30,000 tons of shipping and
hundreds of laps.
These freemen cannot see the
"hopelessness" of their plight so
long as they believe the people
on the Home Front willingly will
Step forward to shoulder their
share of the sacrifice. They know
it is work and sacrifice on the
Home Front that will bring us
victory. And, so long as it is
humanly possible, they will fight
on, for they intend to be present
when the Axis armies lay down
their arms to end the war.
PRESIDENT SOUNDS TOCSIN
President Roosevelt, it was,
who reminded the country that
"now is the time . . who
sounded the tocsin for the all-out
work upon which this final surrender
hinges. "Now," he said, in
this "crucial spring," our plants
must hum 24 hours a day, seven
days a week, producing the materials
and machines being so
rapidly absorbed in the war effort.
Sacrifice, and more sacrifice,
and more sacrifice, he told
the people will be the daily portion
of the Home Front as the
effect of that absorption seeps
down to the retail stores.
THINGS LOOKING UP
Two things are responsible for
the fact that things are looking j
tip on the Work Front. First, and
most important, is the enthusiastic
response of labor and management
to W a r Production
Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson's
call for a terrific production
drive. Second, is WPB's ruling
that all war contracts must
be let without competitive bidding,
and that the governing factor
must be the rapidity with
which the finished product can
be delivered, not cost. This
should spread the work among
smaller firms, speed the war effort.
Labor, management and the
men and women of working
America poured in the greatest
flood of telegraphed congratulations
and pledges of support ever
eceived at the War Production
3oard's headquarters on Nelson's
:all for an all-out unremitting
production drive. Many suggested
the speech be rebroadcast repeatedly
"to drive its message
lome." Then, in line with Nelson's
directive for negotiated
:ontracts, J. S. Knowlson, dtrec:or
of the Division of Industry
Operations, blocked the sale at
luction of machinery valuable to
var production so that it might
lot be dispersed and its value to
;he all-out effort dissipated. On
:op of this, George C. Brainard,
:hief of the WPB's Tools, called
lpon owners of idle machine
;ools to offer them for sale to be
placed in plants engaged in war
production.
PROVE NEED OF SACRIFICE
The increasing necessity for
Some Front sacrifice is apparent
!rom scores of WPB and Office
pf Price Administration orders
iow and old, orders which add 1
lp to less for everybody. WPB !
ind OPA are filled with "less nen"
because we must have i
nore and more for our armed
orces and our allies.
For a long while shortages,
ixcept in tires and automobiles, ;
vere just something to talk J
ibout. The output of one product
ifter another might be curtailed
pr cut off at the sources, at the
'actory, but there was still plen,y
of stock on the retailer's <
ihelves and in the dealer's sales- .
ooms. Now these shortages are '
vorking their way down.
Men's clothing, for instance. 8
rhe Army and the Navy need I
nore and more of the new wool.
3o under the new plan worked i
put with the texile manufactur
ng industry, after March 30
:rousers will be cuffless, suit- :
:oats will be an inch shorter,
here'll be no patch pockets,
pleats, tucks, bellows, gussets.
\Jid no vests for double-breated
puits. It might have been worse. ;
3ut to the war production si.de,
t means a credit of some 4.0,- (
100,000 pounds of wool saved.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. Elwood Cox, II
via Wilmington have moved into
home overlooking the yaeht basir
sible that their residence here r
confusion, however, because he i
and her name is Louise; and the
his wife are supposed to have a
these names . . . The wrestling
this week off, because on Friday
Bert Causey will stage a boxing
ures Tiny Taylor and Wild Bill I
weights, in the main bout.
The 41-points that Bennett sc
maw's 57-37 victory over Leland
On the up-side of production,
labor organizations in the copper
mining industry have offered full
cooperation, according to Sidney
Hillman, WPB's Labor Director,,
to increase the output of highly
necessary metal from these
mines by going on a continuousoperation,
seven-day week and
by establishing joint labor-management
production committees.
PROTECTS THE SPORTSMEN'
"Sporting goods are needed for
civilian reoieauuii ojiu aic important
in the maintenance of civilian
morale," said Price Administrator
Henderson in calling
upon manufacturers of all sporting
goods and fishing equipment
to prevent prices jumping above
those in effect on January 10,
last. And he made it plain that,
while his letter was directed to
manufacturers aJone, he meant
to control prices as well.
This "request" followed close
upon the heels of an order freezing
the supply of shotguns, pistols
and other firearms at the
manufacturer's door. Many of
these weapons may find their
way into the hands of the military
and law enforcement agencies
before the "freeze" is lifted.
HOMJES ON THE HOME FRONT
'
Homes on the Home Front
came in for attention with an order
from Henderson for landlords
in the Hampton Roads, Va., and
Wilmington, N. C., areas to reduce
rents to the level obtaining
of April 1, 1941. This is only a
beginning, he served notice, for
he intends to move swiftly and
to strike hard to correct the rent
situations in more than 100 additional
defense areas.
Because a lot has happened on
the motor vehicle front, little of
it especially cherring to the average
citizen, it is pleasant to record
that we've a new medium
tank in mass production in the
Midwest. The M-4's armament
will be more useful because of
new wrinkles in design.
That's one of the ways our
steel and i ubber goes?to make
45,000 tanks this year. It's easy
COME <
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week v
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becausi
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wig pre
necessg
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for slof
is have
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FBHCILY Nf
I, of High Point, f may have been ;
the Allen Ewing although we rem
l. It is just pos- | scoring centet a1
nay create some garne in the Star
s known as Ike ^ &
postmaster and date t0 succ^j
couple-corner on seriously consider
fans wit! have ,
night Promoter forR""'J* ??
show that feat- Co,emai
Uinhardit, heavy- *liai Monday it 0
oline." Anna Lee
:ered in Wocca- red ... It isn't
Saturday night having the tennis
to understand why WPB prohi- .1
bits manufacture of medium
truck* after delayed February t
quotas are completed, why a rs- j r
tioning program has been inali-;
tuted for all new trucks, truck- J 4
tractors ami tsailers. Incidental- j t
ly, OPA stresses that a civilian 2
consumer who applies to WPB
for a priority rating to purchase 1
a new tire or tube is just wast- p
ing his time?the decision is up e
to his local rationing hoard. a
Among the developments last'
week which affect most of us, in
one way or another: OPA's action
in placing temporary price
ceilings over eleven canned I
fruits, 15 canned vegetables . . . n
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puweu UCUUUJ^ BjuiywtMi ^
under temporary price control...
The Office of Defease Health and
Welfare Services has begun a a
drive to see that we eat proper ?
food, adopted the sloga?: "U. S. n
Needs Us Strong ..." L
YOURHOME :
AGENT SAYS 5
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Following is the schedule of !
the Brunswick county home agent 1
for the coming week:
Thursday, March ?2th ? Mt. i
Pisgah Cluh will meet at 2 p. m. |
with Mrs. Dora Holden.
Friday, March 13th ? W'acea- j
maw 4-H Club will meet at 12:30 .
p. m. Freeland Club will meet at ,
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SPOT
. . . For your Car ? See us
prices paid for art models?
BRAXTON AU
WHlTEVtU
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DN BACK-.
LL IS FOR(
lien we corrected our n
ve didn't cut off a single
ve wanted to; the names
e our records showed t
ars. The paper shortage
ssure for conservation m
try.
i aren't naad with the foA
> now tixey ought oat to t
>ping their paper. What1
them come back in an<
eaders again of
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sOUTHPORT, N. C.
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SsTf
i record for county
_ember that Soweli ,.!?
Bolivia. made Xn, Mews
Tour nament
*?*? - dr:ifui;;*
biBiself as clerk J 'HE
in* the purchase of
ming political camp.,,;*
a fans will have a ,?
le Amu211 in My Life tB
. a movie newcnmer. "*'
too early to start *?? #
; eouns Put into ?*??
!:30 p. m witlT^77~B~H[
Monday, March 16..'H
..reek Club will meet v'i^l
n. with Mrs. f. l si', ."Hi
Tuesday. March Kth'^fll
a Club will meet a, 7JHI
B. Woodbuni Club will ^H
::0C p. UL with Mrs.
V/ednesLiay. Match JH
Ivia 4-H club will m^tTH
' m- County Att'iciUtuni H
rs Council will meet ,, ^B
It 330 p. m. H
BOLIVIA SCHOOL
The sophomore class 0'
tigh School will pie.sen' St
ual play on Friday
larch 13. at eight o'cbcj, |9
cbool auditorium, the BB
Aaron Slick F.-orr A
hick," Is a rural comely 'B?
?ts. Characters in the 'p'rH
lohby Robbins, Lindsay 'H
ions. Jr., Lowell Mercer
jou Eaap, Rosa Gilbert ;,H|
da Hat t. The play is Hn
ected by Miss Pauline
There will be a small
ion charge. The public J^B
rally invited to attend H
HELPS PREVI
pfli n^-i
VVlllMw ...Atthefcts^B
sniffle or sign of nasal irritant* MB
lew drops of Vicks Va-tro-nol upH
nostril. Its quick action
lids nature's defenses U|M( ^B
gainst colds. Follow *ITO H|
iirections in folder. M'TKO^^H
CASH I
now . . . Highest nvr-^B
-1937 throught 1942. M
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