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' PAtiE 2 THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY ' JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Edkor Bterad w second-class matter April 29, 1928, at Ma Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the aet of March 8, 1879. m Subscription Rates ONB THAR 81.M DC MONTHS l.OO THREE MONTHS .71 NATIONAL6DITORIALM/ILWJSSOCIATION Wednesday, April 1, 1912 No wonder cotton is no longer King. Look at the number of petticoats the ladies have discarded during the past century. jfcfft When a man boasts that he rules the roost, you may be sure he's pretty well hen-pecked, Just because a man has a bay window, thpt's no sure sign you can see through him. Christian Burial Funeral rites were conducted Sunday afternoon at Han-ell's Mortuary for a man who lost his life in the service of his foster nation, and even had it been possible to return his body eight thousand miles to the place of his birth his burial could not have commanded a greater degree of consideration and respect. Catalino Tingzon, a Filipino, doed when a merchant ship was torpedoed off our coast about three weeks ago, and his was one of the bodies recovered from the ocean and brought here for preparation for burial. All efforts to have his body sent home for internment proved fruitless, and so it was decided to hold his funeral here. Members of Brunswick County Post No. 194 were in charge of arrangements, a guard of honor was present from Caswell Section Base, a member of the local Boy Scout Troop blew taps, and representative citizens of this community turned out to pay thteir Tespects as ministers ?I local churches officiated at the sen-ice. There is heart-warming gratification that our people made possible a Christian burial for this man who died so far from his native land; and before all this warring is through it may be a comfort to some mother in our own county to hope that our good deeds for other mother's sons are in a measure being reciprocated in distant lands. Situation Clarified We are extremely glad to have Congressman J. Bayard Clark clear up a misconception which had been prevalent here with regard to the sugar situation. According to a letter received from Mr. I Clark, there are no limitations on the production of sugar in this country at present. He further explains that the existing shortage of the sweet is occasioned by the fact that for a long time we re ceived considerable sugar 'irom Hawaii, and also from the Philippines. These came in free because they were our possessions, Mr. Clark explains, and wfr also received a considerable quantity os sugar from Cuba, but not duty free. |"It was when all this was coming in tlmt the quota system was resorted to" Clark goes on, and "It cannot come n$\v because of the shipping situation afjjd hence the quotas have been discontifued." fjWe are glad to see that the government has taken this important step towfrd relieving the sugar situation. I -i I ' Shears And Paste HALF AN EGG A WEEK (New York Times) , Though the war is beginning to pinch America, it has not yet pinched our essential foods. Raymond Daniell of this newspaper, returning to his London post after a year spent tn this country, cables his impressions of the quite different situation in Britain. Restaurant prices have risen. If a customer hopes for beef or chicken, at whatever price, he must order a week or two in advance. No amount of money can buy a steak. "There probably is not a piece of chocolate in aU London." Yourj goat, guinea pigs, salt fish, tod croquette ? "padded with potato flour or sawdust, or whatever else is used," appear on the menus. This is the fare of well-to-do j Fayetteville Observer. I I WAR AIM: TO WIN Lots of highbrows and double-domes are ^stewing around about what we shall do for the world after we gain the victory. The Old English recipe for cooking a hare starts out, "First, catch your hare."?Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal.) BUT DONT CROWD It might now be a good thing if all the neutral observers were asked to stand up so that he could be counted.?Punch. (London, England.) 18 MACARTHURS IN ONE (Charlotte Observer) Disclosure of immense salaries and bonuses paid by an Ohio firm making airplane parts to be used by the army and navy shows that a very valuable man has been keeping his light?and salary?under a bushel. Witnesses before the House Naval eommittee removed the bushel. This man, president of Jack and Heintz, Inc., is so valuable that he paid himself a salary of $100,000 and a bonus of $45,845 in 1941, although he had earned only $2,400 a year until August, 1940. He has already won a war?the Jack and Heintz, Inc., war. It's all government money that he is dishing out so liberally to himself He is paid more than 18 times as much as General Douglas MacArthur. The latter's pay is $8,000 yearly. This Mr. Jack is also paid more than 18 admirals make all together. He is paid nearly twice as much as President Roosevelt. He draws more than 14 senators, it would require the combined incomes of the Chief of Staff, General George Marshall and 24 brigadier generals to keep this Jack up for a year. And, finally, he makes out of the government as much as Uncle Sam pays 983 privates in the army. One so talented as that, so valuable, should surely be made generalissimo of all the Allied sea, air and land forces, and in addition be placed in line to become President of the World when the war ends. But it might be well to take all the world's money and lock it up under Fort Knox. This fellow is going to own everything in the world if this keeps up. NOT ON PARADE Lieutenant General William S. Knudsenwill not wear a uniform. It matters not to him how many stars are on the collar. Overalls are the uniform needed for producing the tools of war. The general is not on parade J? (Charleston, (S.C.) News and Courier.) I r-" diners-wit. "Hie rank and file cannot be living -in luxury. An examination of Britain's basic war ra, tions shows that the pre-war consumption of meats, fats and sugar has been nearly cut in > half. Milk consumption has not dropped so much, but with pre-war use at a little over 1 a quart a week per capita, it couldn't drop i _ far. Eggs are down to between two and five ' a .month per capita, in contrast with fifteen in ' the old days. America's peacetime consumption of these foods, which still prevails, runs from two to four times the British milk allowance, from five to twenty times the egg allowance, and so on. It appears that health can be sustained on the British wartime diet?at least for a while. There can't be much margin. But if there is scarcity in Britain, when its diet is compared with our own, Britain is a land of milk and honey in comparison with occupied Europe. If the tightened belt tells the story of war against the Nazis, the story of defeat in that war is told by cruel famine, purposely caused. Let Britain lose her fight I and she will be henceforth rationed by the I Berlin anthropoids?and not on so generous a scale as half an egg a week or a thing glass of milk a day. We are all more or less in that boat. This is a war for Ideas, but it Is also a war for bread and butter. WHO PAYS THE PIPERS? The deficit of the State's Prison has now I climbed to the staggering sum of $290,687. "Why" is a question we are not prepared I to answer right now other than to say that there has heen an undercurrent of sentiment in Raleigh that prison officials have been more than well treated by the State. What we are primarily interested in is the report that the prison deficit will be taken care of by the allocation of 1.100,000 from the unexpended maintenance fund of the highway department. Trimmed of its verbiage that merely means that the gasoline tax you pay at the filling station pump is not going to give you good roads to ride on but is going to keep up the State's Prison. Some people still think that the gas tax should go for good roads, not for purposes which have no connection with good roads.? we naa no scales handy and ' don't know how much it really 1 weighed. The others all had some | beautiful goggle-eyes. Oh,, yes, all 1 of the guys made their catches ' on the spillway at Orton Pond. It was dusk as she stopped at 1 the roadside filling station. 1 "I want a quart of red oil," she 1 said to the service man. The 1 man gasped and hesitated. 1 "Give me a quart of red oil," 1 She repeated. "A q-quart of r-r-red oil?" he j stuttered. "Certainly," she said. "That ' tail light on my car has gone THE STATE PORT P ; The i FISHERMEN : BY BILE KEZIAII This spring with so much rain ( and streams full of water, about ] the only place where freshwater , fishermen could depend on catch- f as has been the spillway at the bridge from Orton pond. That spot Is never failing and there t are a lot of local people who ap- , preciate the fact that .Mr. and , Mrs. Spnint and Jim Fergcr, the j Orton manager, leave the place open to all who cnfc to wet a ] line. t Bass, goggle-eyes and gray- < heads can be depended on to bite j at this place the year round, re- i gardless of high water. Many j c fish go over the spillway follow- j c ing each rain, once down there they can't get back to the pond, t The salty Cape Fear a mile be- i low stops them and, in a way of ? speaking, they are held prison- j ers, awaiting the anglers. s The spillway, for all of its t splendid fishing, docs not com- j pare with the pond just above. The 1300-aeres of this pond Is, t we believe, the best stocked i freshwater lake in North Caro-! i lina. With its Lilly ponds it con-'t tains more fish food, acre to acre, | than any body of water in the it state. It is a natural, if there' I ever was one, for all sorts of i game fish. i For the past two or three 1 years the fishing in Orton Pond has not always been so hot. The \ water got a bit low and this en-|t abled the fish to get plenty of I i iooa. ac lease iney aid not mte 11 as well during the low water per- < iod as they had in former years. 1 The rains and rising waters seen I to have awakened them from their lethargy. This spring they 1 are reported to be taking any i Sort of bait or lure that is offered, and they are large and fat. \ With the valuable woods sur- i rounding Orton Pond it is ah-; 1 solutely necessary to restrict 1 fishing operations in some way. 11 If the place were wide-open it < would soon be a scene of devata- t tion and an eyesore in place of i the thing of beauty and the joy 1 forver that it now is. Fishing Is 1 permitted, but with the saving I restriction that a boat and guide must be engaged from the plantation. These guides are respon- 1 slble people and the boats they > use are safe. Last year the boats, 1 guides and permission to fish 1 were obtainable at little or no i more cost than what the time of ' the guide was worth. ' This year the cost may be a ? little more. We understand that s no definite rate has been fixed i yet. At the same time we know 1 and we feel that the public can i depend on the rates being very 1 reasonable. The other day Mrs. 1 Jim Ferger, wife of the planta- ' tion manager, told us she was 1 going to turn guide herself. She 1 claimed she liked to fish and 1 that she could row a boat with 1 the best of them. That being the ! case, if we get to fish any on 1 Orton Pond this year we already 1 know who we are going to try to ' get to be our own particular '< guide. 1 This time last year we had plenty of salt water fishermen and they were making good ! catches. Thfet year they are seem- ' ingly staying at home for the ! duration. We think it only seems < so, It won't be long now until 1 they begin to come In to start ' things. It is going to be a case ! of somebody starting it and ev- ' erybody else reading of the fish- ' ing and following suit. 1 This nicest strings of fish that ] has been brought round for our ' inspection this year were caught 1 by Patrolman Robert Richards of ' the State Highway Patrol, Post- ' master L. T. Yaskell, Butler Thompson and F. Mollycheck, all 1 fishing at different times, but all * at the same place. In addition to ' half a dozen or more sizable bass ! and big goggle-eye perch, Patrol man Richards had one bass that ' looked like it could be depended 1 on to weigh fully three pounds. ' t*r. i? ? 1L0T, SOUTHPORT, N. C. THE HOME FRONT Control of prices in Virginia ind the Carolinas has moved torn to the retailer's shelves and he dealer's showrooms as war jroduction has forced a slackenng in the manufacture of goods or American households. Ob-1 iously, the appearance of the tousehold is slated for change. Nothing is surer than that hese things must happen to us is we play our individual roles n the great common effort: we nust work differently and play lifferently, eat differently and Iress differently, travel differenty and build differently, do busiless differently and live differently. Basic Changes Loom Work differently? Millions of is already are doing that. Staggered hours, longer hours, new nethods, new machines, readustment in a hundred ways. Play differently? Of course: Sven the 'tennis balls won't jounce the way they used to be:ause they'll contain reclaimed ubber . . . And there may not >e a juke box in the restaurant iown the road where we've been lancing. , Eat differently ? We'll have all he food necessary to maintain lealth, and we'll have them in ibundance. But there'll be less lugar and probably less tea and ipices . . . and we haven't tin :o waste on nonessential luxury terns. Dress differently? Cuffless trousers that save wool, simpler Iress patterns and fewer comjinations . . . Certainly we'll Iress differently. Travel differently? Obviously. ,Ve're going to travel more slowy in our autos to save tires, on ailways whose major obligation s to war traffic, on foot and on >icycles. Build differently? Yes. Everyvhere substitutes and simplifica;ions to save metals and materals needed for war. No more netal frames for windows, differ:nt plumbing and heating instalations, iron and plastics in the jathroom. Do business differently? We all tnow we can't do "business as isual" and beat the Axis. Live differently? Already the var has altered our way of life n countless ways, and there is norc to come. Wartime need for lower may mean that there will ie less electricity and gas for Jivilian uses. Wood will come into its own again in the furnishngs in our homes, and we may 'ind ourselves doing a variety of lousehold tasks by hand as our gadgets and appliances wear out. Public To Be Protected Behind the Office of Price Adninistration order fixing maxinum retail prices for seven lousehold applicances?as well as 'or new typewriters?lies a deternination that the "public shall tot be compelled to submit to inreasonable and inflated prices limply because supplies are short." Previously OPA, although t had placed price ceilings over nany products at the manufacturer's or wholesaler's level, had estricted regulation of retail irices to autos, tires and -in 19 states- e-asoline. The new orders :ix maximum retail prices for lew mechanical refrigerators, new vacuum cleaners and attachnents, new heating and cooking stoves and ranges, new radio sets i n d phonographs, new., typewriters. As a restult, price con:rol for the first time becomes of lirect and personal interest to millions of us. Production Marches On Our great Home Front offensive, the War Production Drive, s getting away to a splendid start. Regional meetings of labor md management representatives aid the groundwork for organized effort in about 2,000 plants, md many of these factories have ilready launched their campaign :o push production to the peak which will bring victory. Virginia representatives attended a meetng in Baltimore March 20, while representatives from North and South Carolina attended a meetmg in Atlanta March 23. The vast production drive is linked with the "Salvage-for-Victory" campaign which has been in progress for some time. By riding this salvage drive, Ameri:ans everywhere are helping to turn scrap rubber and metal into tanks, planes, and ships. The Bureau of Industrial Conservation is concentrating its efforts low on America's 6,500,000 farms, and the WPA is assisting in the collection of waste materials from these farms. Negroes Get Jobs Thousands of Negro workers are being hired for skilled jobs in shipyards and other defense plants- at tasks and in industries formerly closed to them. Negroes at Newport News are performing complicated machining operations involved in the production of rtiips for our two ocean navy. Of 7,000 .employes a North Carolina shipbuilding yard, 2,000 are Negroes. Similar reports are ret --NQ1 Pending1 further investigation tremely likely that Dock Robinsoi ited by his wife from further atte ling shows. The trouble arises frc the other night Mrs. Robinson aw from deep slumber because of a s ing up from her little toe. With h< ing every moment, she got her bed and sent him for the doctor, that her little toe was broken. know what happened, \>r how, 1 asleep at the time. But she has h in wrestling and she has reason she was made victim of a triaJ Mr. Dock'll have to stay home u him of blame. Date of the annual Cape Fear Wilmington has been announced this month, but Cherry McD Brunswick county's only entry, i; with family matters and will 1 missing . . . We notice that the horse class this year, and we beli< Daniels' Rex can train down to ceiving from all over the country, and in some cases Negroes have been named foremen and lead-men. Recapped Tires Available Limited lots of recapped tires have been made available to War workers and other passenger car owners for the first time since rationing was begun. April quotas on recapped tires include: South Carolina, 6,068; North Carolina, 12,088, and Virginia 8,434 . . . OPA has decided to continue its price ceilings over cigarettes but manufacturers may adjust their prices if the Federal tax is incrppspfi . . . OPA's consumer divl r sion urges families to see what can be done with needle and thread before buying clothes. WPB has suggested that the baking industry reduce operating costs to prevent a rise in prices . . . And WPB is going to cut civilian use of shellac- which is important in a wide range of military and naval equipment ... An immediate cut has been ordered - - - * A. in tne manuraciure ui punauic electric lamps and shades, and the order also restricts the amount of metal which may go into such lamps . . . OPA has reduced price maximums on meat scraps and digester tankage, ingredients used in blending feeds for poultry and hogs ... No change, though, in the maximum price for fish meal . . . Egg case emptiers and used egg case dealers are discussing price maximum with OPA. Much of the iron and steel that has been going into beds, bedsprings and mattresses will be cut off April 1, and after May 31 there will be no more production of metal furniture . . . Shoe manufacturers have been urged to use less leather in making civilian shoes . . . Farmers are protected by OPA price margins over fertilizers which became effective last week. GRILLETT TOWN NEWS George Somersett, of Staten Island, N. Y? was the guest of Advei Expect Accep Believ W1 ' EXACTLY Nf it appears ex- he can place in i j will be probih- *Tis Spring:, ar ndance at wrest- complaint of ma >m the fact that heard yet was t akened suddenly that not once du iharp pain shoot- he troubled by I ?r gony increas- certain brand of husband out of tained Just enol,f , who discovered ^ he , . . Ge Now she doesn't engage ^ a batt jecause she was Massey ^ ..Inte eard of toe-holds j ,, tion Monday and to suspect that m Tommy Hentat I bout. Anyway, ntil she absolves State made a b appeared here Sa Horse Show in Society dance. C for the last of ^y. these boys onald, formerly wi" trom our p< 3 busy just now absence were the be among those who did not even ire is a walking his respects to ;ve that Dr. Roy community as it the point where with this phase his parents this week-end, Mr. and J Mrs. J. W. Somersett. j Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Plott were visitors here for the week-end from Charleston, S. C. s Mrs. Oscar Mintz has returned 1 to Fort Bragg after spending t several days here as the guest of ] Mr. and Mrs. Lester Mintz. David Stanaland of U. S. Coast Guard, stationed at Norfolk, Va., ( was a visitor here during the * week-end. ' Lieut. Col. J. C. Butner, of Fort Bragg was guest of friends ! at the Gause Landing and seaside ' the week-end. BOLIVIA | | SCHOOL NEWS i i 1 1 The eighth grade will present its annual class play in the Bo-.' livia school auditorium Friday c evening, April 3, at eight fortyfive o'clock. The name of this play is "THE CORNER CUP- I BOARD." Excitement, thrills, and laughs characterize this three-act comedy. The setting of the play is in' the mountain home of an old maid school teacher. ' The players include Inez i Mitchell, Virginia Collum, Lillian jRabon, Juliet Johnson, Wilma Galloway. Bethea Danford, Ernest McCall, Travis Danford, Billy j Stone, and Horace .Lewis. Mi3s 1 ! Claire Brooks is directing the ' ! play. ' j Music Recital 1 On Tuesday evening, April 7, < 'at eight-thirty o'clock, the music 1 I students of the Bolivia school will ' i give their annual music recital. Miss Mary Bright has charge of i the program. The public is cor- 1 dially invited to attend. ' Chapel Program < The senior class of Bolivia 1 school is preparing a health proIgram for chapel on April 10. 1 iThey will give two short plays: 1 j "A REVIEW" and "A GIFT FIT ' I FOR A KING." All parents and ! 'friends are invited to attend this ' thing: E&NEStHY^B 1^1 that event. id already we have k? H lari3' Eut bes, CM oW by ? local man ...J B ** the *?> Of < this malnuy. H hair tonic at that y^B rh quinine to watd 0... B orge Brent and B^CB le of wi-s and iMtisue, B ( national Lady ,^'B Tuesday at the Amur,, B feand his Statesmen ?,| if hit at Southport .?h_, turday night for the Xj^'B .'oming here for their - / have a heaping helpui.T? :ople . . . Conspicuous by !fl officers of Caswell y...B send one of their number B the civilian population of jfl made another effort to corpB of the Navy progra- | rrogram. Ih^^TT-B pn at eleven-thirty o'cloci Making Plan, ' The senior class of b,:B ichool has made plans fonencement. They have he title of valedictorta Mildred Cilbert, who has -B (d the highest scholastic avrB >f the class during the ichool course. The title of sifl hi ian goes to Miss p.uth p^H They have chosen j: tB heir mascots. H The seniors hav- .. H >lay, "FREEDOM FOP.EtH 'or presentation 0:1 graiatM light, May 4. This play rn*H he history of America is 1 nteresting manner and :he American attitude t? the present war. Rev. Wow bobbins has been invite! jreach the baccalaureate sa >n Sunday evening, May 3rt New Demand Fo Milk Supplii Revenger Says That Thi Is A Demand For App ximately 10,000 Gallo More Milk Daily Army camps and increased ,Milan population in North (1 ina nave accounted mr j iemand of approximately :fl gallons of fluid milk iaiiv fl lording to W. L Clevenger.'cfl nanufacturing specialist of xfl State College. fl The requirement is still a fl ncrease, since new cup fl tow being established in H State. In addition, the fl lemand is increasing as afl ltoney is placed m H This situation. Clevenger fl tteans that .Vorth Carolina H tow doing its biggest dairy fl tess and will be expected tafl in even bigger job before var is over. I ted tan ivu ed
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