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PAGE TWO ? THE STATE PORT PILOT j Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor . u Hntared as se-jond-class matter April 20, 1928. at the Poet Office at Southport, N. C., under ^' . II.. the act of March 3, 1879. ?* ?? ? ii. i ii mmmmmm?, " ' Subscription Rates > i.i ON* YEAR 51.60 . OX MONTHS 1.00 ! f THREE MONTHS - .76 Ii I ' vy, NATIONAL EDITORIAL. -v,; M association .11 OA . ?>.' -vl'/ I Wednesday, April 22. 1912 *, March windbags and April flowery "Speeches bring forth May primaries. t'Mi.D ______. If haste makes waste, then a good v<noi*? many folks we know, will never be any " - thing but thrifty. s .1 r,o> Then there's the young college gradu?.*;-;';?ate with hives who had to start froni; :io? -.scratch. .lit bn ;*i> n He hasn'i goc io-'tv '."oughts ' '-'it .cause lie takes them to xhe -op of the i h.^or .Empire State building:. JiS ? ( // J. . 'D Dutch Heroes .1i.1i "When the historv of War II is writj.J ., * st. iten, that page belonging: to the indomit, able Dutch should be illuminated with i,?j: the blood of heroes. For a thousand years, ",\",free men should stand and uncover whenever the Battle of Java is mentioned. ;r/They never had a chance, those Dutch?^pien, but they freely gave their lives in ' the hope that others might have a - toiiir*. / -chance. ? m These were the opening lines of a re'.'.'..iicent dispatch from Melbourne filed by >' ' -i"Time" correspondent Robert Sherod. io'AVhat the Dutch did in Java, other United - ;r Nations troops?English, Australian, - Chinese?have done in manv theatres of : * i f; - war. Tliey fought against impossible odds ?but they never gave up fighting. They -i faced an enemy who possessed sickening in men. cuns. r>lanes, ships? OlipVi ?W? 1 VtT *11 - - - ? 7 , s 7 'and they faced him without flinching:. | * ' Even today, Dutch guerillas are harrying! - the Japs in Java, precisely as in the -us Balkans guerilla bands who have disavowed their puppet governments are ...... harrying the legions of Hitler. The.se are the kind of troops of which [ [great victorious amies are made. These; ; troops lost their battles simply because they did not have the incredible amount /(of equipment ihat modern war demands, ' 'inhere were never enough planes, never ''Enough anti-aircraft guns, never enough ships-of-war. Courage couid not do the impossible. The terrible series of disasters in the ?'.:iPacific would have dismayed peoples! ; who were less grimly determined on eventual victory. But correspondents ! .^"" universally report the highest of morale; i*n the international army which has been '.'unplaced under General MacArthur's com;;J/Jnand. The dramatic appearance of Macl" 'Arthur in Australia brought new hope 1 to all the United Nations. And great dw-^ause for hope, and certainly of victory i'J i$ found in American war production. ? The precise statistics cannot, of course, ;M|be printed. What can be told is that the ^ "instruments of war are really rolling out ef the factories now?and that signal pro"-gress is being made in the production of ^hips to carry them to the battlefronts. In the meantime, our strategy in the "."Pacific is clear. MacArthur's job is tc \ 'i hold Australia until?manv months from' ;';'now?he will have the trained troops and " the planes which will make a great t counter-offensive possible. Today, Australia is the seat of destiny. It must not ^be lost. ?jThe AEF in Australia has found it populated by a people very much like Amowrtims Tn atrrc* it i c o n'inrQntin nniin. ^lllCI ILtUlO. ill OiiiC, 11 10 CI ^lguiibiv VVU11 I ' /"try, with great extremes of topography wild climate. In population, it is small? -i<7,000,000. It is bisected by a vast desert, - which forms a natural defensive barrier, "'ifei Anzac troops are among the finest in :i,',the world. Today many thousands of ^Australians undoubtedly feel a closer -J jrtpship with America than with England. "It is a significant commentary on the ^nstralian outlook, that its government .'flaked President Roosevelt to send Mac;;(Apthur, an American General, to take u?||preme command. "f^MacArthur's first words on reaching ;JiAystralia indicate the temper of his ^thinking. "I came through. I will return." Those who know him say he will not j$)nain on the defensive an hour longer , tjian is necessary. He is a brilliant advoof offensive war. His plan is to strike hard and mercilessly at the enemy. .A' V?n? Those generals who placed their faitli in defensive strategy have disappeared into the limbo of defeat. It took us a long time to learn what Hitler's commanders understood so well?victory belongs to the daring. ! In the interim before the major coun-j' ter-offensive is launched, we may be certain that the American Navy and Air i I Force, working with other United Na- ' tions forces, will give a good account of 1 themselves. The submarine fleet has taken a heavy toll of Jap warships and supply i ships. Some important blows have been ? struck by American bombers. The enemy J is being bled. Whenever we have had anything approaching equality in num- , bers and equipment, we have won the i j engagements. ' A short time ago, Chiang Kai Click ! told a group of American officers that ' lie would entertain them one day in To-!' jkyo. The United Nations mean to take!,' i this war straight home to the enemy? < | with a vengeance. Both Would Benefit ? An interesting commentary on salaries Ji of teachers is found in the fact that the i1 ! j "'sragc elementary school teacher makes , more money than his higli school colleag-i lie in North Carolina. 'J . . _.,!? Last year, for instance, tne siaie paia s the average elementary teacher ?20 more salary than it paid the average high school teacher. This salary differential was revealed in an analysis of state-paid salaries re? cently printed in "State School Facts," a monthly publication of the state department of public instruction. The difference is explained by the fact that high school teachers do not stick to their jobs as long as elementary teachers, and therefore do not gain the salary increments that come with experience. It would seem from this analysis of the situation, that both schools and teachers alike would benefit if high teachers delayed the final leap into the sea of matrimony for just a little longer. LAWN-MOWER SEASON Elimination of lawn mower manufacture as a of June 30 will not particularly disturb the mower nave nots who have been accustomed J to borrow from the haves. No order is expected f from the WPB eliminating the borrowing of \ lawn mowers.?Charleston (S.C.) Evening s Post. * t t WORLDLY INDUCEMENT , i One pastor solved the problem of increas- J ing attendance at services. "Watchmen will be J stationed," he announced: "to protect your tires."?Frederick New Citizen. 1 v a My spelling teacher used to mark my t words all right?with a cross mark. 0 Then there's Dumb Dora who thought d a trade school was a place you learned to swap horses. * ?- ?; r 1 Shears And Paste l 18 MACARTHURS IN ONE a (Charlotte Observer) ^ Disclosure of immense salaries and bonuses s paid by an Ohio firm making airplane parts 1 to be used by the army and navy shows that ? a vexy valuable man has been keeping his t light?and salary?under a bushel. Witnesses t before the House Naval committee removed o the bushel. c ilie combined incomes of the Chief of Staff, a draws more than 14 Senators. It would require t General George Marshall and 24 brigadier t generals to keep this Jack up 'or a year. f This man, president of Jack and Heintz, Inc., is so valuable that he paid himself a t salary of $100,000 and a bonus of $45,845 in 1941, although he had earned only $2,400 a year until August, 1940. r 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 0 He is paid more than 18 times as much as General Douglas MacArthur. The latter's pay ( is $8,000 yearly. _ r This Mr. Jack is also paid more than 18 r admirals make all together. He is paid nearly ^ twice as much as President Roosevelt. He a And, finally, he makes out of the govern- v ment as much as Uncle Sam pays 983 pri- * vates in the army. . i One so talented as that, so valuable, should F surely be made generalissimo of all the Allied, * sea, air and land forces, and in addition be 0 placed in line to become President of the v World when the war ends. But it might be well to take all the world's a money and lock it up under Fort Knox. This v fellow is going to own everything in the world cl Q if this keeps up. j * V THE 5TATE PORT 1 THE HOME FRONT __????? Ofteg enough it is the little things which remind us that we ire engaged in a total war, which nust enlist every man and every voman and every material if we ire to win. We have just had such a reminder in the War Production M'der cutting the use of shellac n the manufacture of phonograph records. This order means that from now >n we'll have only 30 per cent as many new phonograph records as formerly, and the same situation ipplies to those big black platters known to radio as transcriptions. Unless, of cou'rse, the ree>rd manufacturers find an adojuatc substitute for shellac, or ,vork out a method for reclaiming )ld records. Why? Because every time an officer fires a signal flare into the Fa:iflc night from his very pistol he s using up shellac. Because our big shells, nested igainst the day when they will vhistle into the lines of our cronies, are covered with a motective coating of shellac. Because shellac cements' the jeweled bearing in the navigationtl instruments which keep our swift cruisers 011 their course. Because shellac binds the ab aisives used on the grinding J' V1ICCIO ui uui ?ai ni'uniity, mu r ac goes into the making of our nilitary explosives and pyroteehncs, shellac coats the wooden jatterns for the medal castings vliich become weapons, shellac? lecause of growing shortages in ither raw materials ? may be teeded to preserve the hulls of launtless torpedo craft and other var vessels. And because the Japanese advance toward India, the Japanese tosition athwart Indian sea lanes, nakes it unlikely that we shall >e able to import shellac as n the days of peace. Imported Front India We used to get practically all >ur shellac from India, and the thonograpli record industry used ip about one-third of our annual mports. There's about two ounces of ihellac in a ten-inch phonograph ecord, a 12-inch record contains in additional ounce. That two ounces of shellac in i ten-inch recording would provide he amount necessary to manuacture of one signal flare, or erey ? and a lot can hang on ;uch a flare when darkness comes lown along the fighting tfront/ ami he signal light hanging against he sky is a call to the guns. Consider this, also: The shelac in 800 ten-inch records, or 533 .2-inch records, would cement the 'ewel bearings in an entire year's lutput of navigational and scienific instruments. Jute Becomes Scarce There's another trifle this week ehich we may add to our score igainst the ? Japs ?.it looks as hough there isn't going to be my more jute yarn available for naking rugs and carpets. Jute, coven into burlap, is another proluct which we used to get largcy from India. WPB has expiaind the situation to the people in he industrv. so no one would he ;in production on rugs or carets that might remain unfinishd because of the lack of jute. Phe end result may be to divert nore carpet wool into the manuacture of more essential things rom floor coverings, such things is blankets, and clothing. Buy Coal Now It's only a little while since the )ffice of Price Administration isued its warning that you'd beter buy your coal this spring beause maybe by next autumn we ouldn't spare cars and engines o haul it to you from the mines, tnd now WPB is urging cvery;ody along the Eastern Seaboard t in the Pacific Northwest who an do so to convert his oil furice oi- heater to coal. This request, too, stems from he growing burden on American transportation. It's complicated so ar as oil is concerned by the act that many of our tankers are n war service and others have teen sunk by Axis submarines. But it emphasizes once more he growing seriousness of the iroblem, what with America's ailroads faced with a shortage if manpower and materials and America's motor transport lines ind American war workers riding in thinner and thinner tires. New Bus Displayed nere again we must count up>n our collective readiness to sacifice for victory and upon our lative ingenuity to see us through. )ne attack on the problem of ransporting the war worker to ind from his job was the big bus irhich rambled into Washington he other day from Indiana for nspection by Office of Defense transportation. It will hold lfl lassengers, this bus, it's three imes as large as the average city j ius and almost twice the size if the largest street car. And vhat's more, except for its frame, here's scarcely an ounce of miliary material in it, just plywood .nd masonite . . . WPB, for ob ious reasons, has forbidden proluction of blowout shoes and has :ut the output of tire reliners . . . iwhile ago Far Eastern deve PILOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C. lopments forced a cut in the amount of tea which may be put into an individual package and now all receivers "and packers of tea jhave been ordered to file a complete report 011 the amount of tea they have on hand . . . The drive to save iron and steel has caught up with the game of golf, after May 31 iron or steel may not be used to make golf clubs | . . . Golfers will feel the effect i of this next year ? this year's i production is almost completed j j. . . Lots of things are going to j jbe different next year . . . And j I must be, if we are to win this' I war . . . More machines and ! i more skilled labor are being rej leased for vjr work out in the ! industrialized Mid-West . . . They are the men and machines which) 1 have been busy turning out our | final quota of trucks . . . WPB! I issued an order which will end j all production soon . . . WPB will j permit a modest amount of re-; modelling in war production areas, i so that war workers may find liv-: ing quarters. Ration Forms Distributed j Twenty-four distilleries are I I sending part of their output ofj ! beverage alcohol to industrial' J alcohol plants, where it's stepped | up into the sort of alcohol useu , in making smokeless powder fori I our guns . . . Sugar registration j | forms have been distributed for the registration, April 2S and 29. mcr" than 1,0C0,00 v2t8iU-.3 rue 'wholesalers ... A Boonev'lle. Tnd., man has pleaded guilty to j i violating OPA tire rationing reg-1 illations . . . WPB's Bureau of' ! Industrial Conservation announceces that the drive to salvage old ; paper has been so succesful that I 'paper mills now are able to meet | most current orders . . . Proving ] I that when the Home Front knows j what is expected of it. the Home j Front gets busy . . . The rubber shortage hit the fire houses when WPB prohibited use of rubber tires on auxiliary trailers for fire apparatus delivered after April 14 ... A Chicago amusement machine maker has been put under a suspension violating WPB priorities . . . OPA is going to conduct a survey of the scrap material situation in New Eng-1 land . . . OPA has refused to al- j low linoleum manufacturers to ] raise prices . . . "We must re- [ cognize price stability as the most important sector of the war- on the Home Front." said David Ginsburg, OPA's General Counsel, recently . . . That's because unstable prices are one aspect of inflation and inflation fights Ion the side of the Axis. Shallotte Village Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Register | of Wilmington were week-end vis] itors of their parents. Mr. and Mrs." w! R. Register. Mrs. Crean Parker is visiting her daughter. Mrs. James Chadiwick for a few days. Mrs. Clyde Piatt and children, of ureen See, S. C? were visitors j of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Albert Phelps during the sickness and death of her brother's child, j Mr. and Mrs. Fred Worthington, of Wilmington, were visitors | of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don | Leonard. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hawes were visitors of her parents, Mr. | i and Mrs. Harry Williams over the | ] week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Zandy! spent Monday in Wilmington. j Mr. and Mrs. John Nance and [ children left Thursday for their \ home in Swanboro after spending a few days with relatives. Winnabow S. P. Smith, who 1 stationed on U. S. S., Wyoming, spent part of the week here with his sister, Mrs. C. H. Wallace and family. Mrs. George Mcllvaine spent the week in New York with her WE HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED . .7 Soon it will be necessary to turn in old phonograph records in order to get new ones? I You can buy records NOW from BRAXTON'S without any rcj strictions. We carry all well known records ?Victor, Bluebird, Columbia, . . j Okeh and Decca. We have In stock most all popular albums, including records and albums for the children. Each week we receive new records that come out?while they are new. We have the "Hit Parade" tunes?Patriotic, Popular, Classical, Race, Hill-Billy, Sacred and old favorites. Drop around any time and ask to hear any record you like? BRAXTON'S ^ | Opposite A.C.L. Depot % "V "S ' ' / ' *-J - - - , - not m There are four vegetable gardens within fi yards of the courthouse in Southport, about best one being the Victory effort of Mrs. Mas Fulcher in the vacant lot next to the Episco rectory .... Most unusual vegetable product in this town, though, is the bed of asparagus t grows beneath the eaves of the Episcopal chut The wrestling fans had a chance to see champ Friday night when they went to Wilmi ton to see Jim Londos take on Barto Hill. ^ week's bill features Ray Vilmer vs Bibber McC On Monday night Promoter Bert Causey is st ing another boxing program at Thalian Hall . Althotigh local attendance at the Cape F Horse Show was off this year, those who saw S tit-day night's performance thought it was plei good. Missing, however, was a single attract that held the customers appeal that was furni ed last year by Miss Helen James and lier fi husband who was in port there Mr. and Mi for the week. Mr. and Mi Mrs. V. T. Sullivan and two two daughter ~ ' * ' ??* of fterro Gor* small sons, or Wilmington, spent ? ? . , Mr. and Mrs the week-end here with her fa ther. G. C. Earp and brother, BENE Earl Earp and family. Members c Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Vines and of Daughte E. C. Dobscn, of Wilmington. | serve a chicl we. v itors here with the Hen- morrow (Thi rys Saturday afternoon. Dr. F. L. Gooding and family, of Kenansville. were visitors here Sunday. ' _ Mrs. Dan Walker and children, Miss Charlotte, and Mr. and Mrs. JLj . Highsmith visited Mrs. A. P. Henry Sunday afternoon. You c SPRING TONIC leto -I No m That's what a good greasing job will do for yout [ J car. j Tot W. R U S S STATION SHALLOTTE, N. C. tj IMBm Elmore Mo Bolivia, N< WEDNESDAY, A?j?i. iCTLY NEWS - I ifty gaited stallion. Guiding Light. the Lady Be Good", a light nn.i 1^3| :ine comedy, is the feature attraction at pal Wednesday and Thursday of next ... BaH ion lot of folks who remember tlie j.# ,* ?| hat dance of last year wUl be sorry t II -ch. dance is not included in plans i< BIK the Woman's Club Flower Show. Th , . I I ng- like to see this added ought 10 , 1 "his while there's time to make arrntr i,I I :oy. There's been some talk of pv.-ir, .1 M a?~ tennis courts back of the city !.. I I ' * adsence of anything being done I W 031! for doing a little work to get them it ,.l j2 'play on them as Is? . . . From all Mi nty, i aE ion I able to learn, there are a lot of ...v 9 sh-j row-boats ,that are destined to speiw [: . 11 ve-' on the beach. 9. John B. Smith and o'clock in their i; 1 -s. Otto Nance and on sale and the !?t.: 1 j s, aKtherine and Sue, to patronize this , a 1", spent Sunday with I C. H. Wallace. , * FOR Sl'Ri.El] ? Ennie Robinson FIT Sl'PPER Vj]]e Beach, is a s-jrao F 1 if the local chapter' 1 , . . at Doshei Mei ? is of America will J ken salad supper to- having entered tint 1 irsday) evening at 6 Tuesday. i. J ATEST NEWsl an get the latest news on a modern Motor,;-. ne now while our present stock lasts. BE ore Radios will be made?our stocks are li |BR PRICES AS LOW AS $9.45 R a complete all-electric Radio ready to operat. vsicitf crmn s rc ?CiASl I EifVillw-*? hh ^XTON'S NEAK -1 ?bI ELECT I ILTON A. LENNONI District Solicitor I is Record Merits Your Support Be- N| tuse of Clean Living, Experience and H earless Devotion to Duty. H J | i i r ? _ P Ififiiifil buys Good pritfl tor Company orth Carolina
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