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PAGE TWO * THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBUSHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor aterad as second-class matter April 20, 1028, a the Poet Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1870. Subscription Rates OKU TEAR |1.B< DC MONTHS l.(X THREE MONTHS .71 NATIONAL EDITORIAL. M/t l_Sii^A5SOC IATIO N TX&^T ,. - T. : . * . . - i v Wednesday, May 20, 1942 1 *11 ^ .... ''' Buy War Bonds and Stamps. Have you contributed to Navy Reliei yet ? Strange, but the guy with a bee in his bonnet has no guarantee of a honeyed disposition. Successful men will save rubber heels ?because they're always on their toes. You don't have to be a toreador to be adept at slinging the bull around. Some rationing of this gas we'll heai twixt now and the primary might not be out of order. Many a budding romance has been nipped in the bud because papa rose too early. Gasoline Rationing It is safe to say that the public acceptance of gasoline rationing has been something less than gracious, and locally, at least, this latest rationing program has caused more controversy and probably more dissatisfaction than any other wartime measure that has gone into effect. ParnHnvirallv enouch. nersons who had given up their privilege for unrestricted purchase of sugar only a week before raised cain when any effort was made to restrict their non-essential driving. One contributing cause seems to have been that nobody wanted to accept an allowance less than that of his neighbor; and another is that there is widespread resentment that only the eastern seaboard has been affected by the gasoline rationing program. Repeatedly, too, we have heard the criticism that the program has no "teeth" in it, that the restrictions intended to be imposed will be easily evaded; that with no check on the filling station operators the whole plan is wide open for crooked dealing. Well, as we see it, this is a test not so much of the gasoline rationing regulations as it is of the disposition and ability of the American public to bow to one of the hardships that will attend our prosecution of this war. Certainly there are loopholes which will permit crooked dealing?if our people love luxury more than freedom; to be sure the purpose of the program may be underminded by filling station operators?if these men prefej personal profit to national security. But the integrity of our people and the power of public opinion are two of our most powerful weapons for good?and they are on the side of the gasoline rationing plan. Salvage Important Look about your premises! Scour out that old attic! Have you any old metal of any kind, any old discarded rubber articles, any old paper? , If you have, then remember! The local salvage committee wants these articles for the war effort. The drive last week received the wholehearted co-operation of the citizens of Whiteville. The way to win the war is for everybody to do his part. This is one way ir which we can help America along towarc the ultimate victory. Remember! No scrap of metal is toe small for salvage. The country need: these precious materials. ) i ' * r "jCramming" For The Primary Is you back sore from being slap pee by so many politicians? Is your hand blis tered from being shaken, most-timei against your will, by some vote-seekim candidate ? Are your entrails fit to tllh inside out by the effervescent sweetnesi of your candidate friends? We learned in high school and in col lege that cramming *or examination wil sometime get you through with a passinj / i ......... , inark, Jbiqt that jt's wuch suf$r to study your lessons each day, little Jby little to absorb the knowledge required for pas,! sing. Candidates might herewith take a lesj son. it would not only be considerably l^ss nerve-wracking on the hapless voter who is wholly at the mercy of the yote" seeking candidate, but to the politician ) himself if he were to string out his back) slapping, his hand-shaking, and his "good * will spirit" over the two year period in* stead of trying to "cram" it all in the one month preceding the primary. The yoters are deserving of this consideration. I Shears And Paste | - . r: : PEfTAX ?ND THE WORKING MAN i, I' (Christian Science Monitor) Discontented European workers who believed Hitler's promises that establishment of s' his "new order" \YWid represent merely a victory over their capitalist overlords now ^know better. Or if there are some who do not, ! they need only study the new Nazi decree increasing working hours in French factories. Of course, an increase in working hours dues not necessarUy represent a setback for labor, in France or elsewhere. If the national economy can absorb increased production, labor can get a return for increased hours ...kinh mow mair. them verv attractive. But i business is not that good in France these \ days, in fact, Frenchmen have been working on a forty-hour week as under the Popular Front, but not because Hitler favors Leon Blum's theories; only because there has not been work enough to go round. Many plants have operated on a twenty-hour basis so as to spread employment. To this extent the French employer has been co-operating with French labor. But these advantages for the French workman do not interest the Nazis. They seem to consider he is being too well looked after. What the Nazis want is not less but more unemployment in I, France. Hence the decree to increase working 1 hours. 1 The order is expected to result in the ais! missal of large numbers of French workers, i who will then be economically as well as politically at the mercy of the Herrenvolk. These dismissed Frenchmen are expected to constitute a reservoir of unemployed labor more suspectible to Nazi offers of jobs necessary to the Nazi wpr effort. One need not exnlain to anv French worker I'll today that this is only a refined form of forced labor. The skilled machinist, out of long enough, with hungry mouths at home, becomes an unskilled agricultural laborer. The > bookkeeper, stronger mentally than physically, may yet find himself digging ditches where the Nazis want them dug. % I / i ' S' ,cp?s IN WA? The death of Capablance, writes our London correspondent, has raised discussion whether chess is as popular in the armies as it wa9 last century." It seems that the game is offl1 cially approved for officers in the German and Japanese armies. The view is held that chess provides training in looking out for the unexpected and teaches the importance of concentration of force on a given point. In I ' .. . . * Russia, where so many play, a small masters' tournament has just taken place in Moscow, the second to be held there in spite of the strain of the ,war. . . . . t . " r? . V ? t Today in Jthe British army there are more players than .there are boards and chessmen. ?Manchester (Eng.) Guardian. ; WHAT WAS IT? "No sabotage, only carelessness," Reports I the house committee investigating the disaster to the Normandle. What is carelessness but ; ' ? -f .1 . ' sabotage? The effect is the same. The damage to ,t,he Normandie is as great whether it was caused by carelessness, or neglect, which is carelessness, or was caused by a deliberate act. Carelessness is sabotage. That principle . needs to be hammered home. Treatment of 1 ... fw.' | carelessness on .the same basis a3 sabotage will help to drive that .truth home. The care, les3 man is a saboteur. Treat him as such. 3 It sounds hard, .but this is a time when soft iicoo lose every.uiuig we nave.?san J? ranCisco Chronicle. Beware of a friend who starts trying [ to eat you up, lest he put jtfce bite on . you?for a lpan. j - - _ f Odd as it may seem, a man may s?ap I on t)ie Ipyel pnd still .climb the ladder 3 of success. Ratipning won't bother some people till 1 it gpis to the place they start rationing \ words. I " " THE STATE PORT PII THE HOME i me FRONT 1 ~~""""~ ?~~~" " thi of Nearly 10,000,000 motorists on w? the Atlantic Seaboard had their ; js first taste of gasoline rationing. wi last week, and many were the tw complications which followed. For one thing, there was an astonish- dr ingiy large demand for "X" cards ed which are intended for persons a us;ng cars for purposes essential an to the public welfare and which ur entitle the holder to make unlimit- to ed purchases of gasoline. So w( large was this demand that there bo was talk of investigations and bo possible prosecutions. Then, even cb before the registration period had p, ended, some motorists returned I f0 their "X" cards and asked for j en cards authorizing them to make 1 in only limited gasoline purchases. I m. Mr. Motorist, if you've" made! sb an honest mistake and gotten an i w< "X" card when vou should have! to had a "B" care, go see your jav local rationing board and make [w! the proper exchange right now.! 'i:i Or if you've gotten a "B" card I sa when you should have gotten an j ot "A" card, the same applies. The ln' pressure of public opinion isn't' going to let you keep a card I") you're not entitled to have. IU In cases where there is evidence | of falsehood, the rationing board j mav mil in a motorist for a ro- ! view of his case. Or in a flagrant I case, the board may refer it to I the legal staff of the Office of' Price Administration for investigation and possible criminal ac- ? 1 tion. And the penalty, remember, for obtaining a card through falsification can be a fine of $10,000, imprisonment up to 10 years, or both. D1 MaY Ration Bus, Train Space Unable to get tires and restricted as to the gasoline they can j\j( buy, more and more motorists j are leaving their cars at home and riding buses and trains. But we must save our transportation | systems for essential uses, just; as we must save our materials, j machinery and manpower. With- j 1 out transportation the whole war 1 ret effort would fail. Railroads these Ied days are highways along which ! tll! men and munitions stream toward ; Oil embarkation points while the raw 1 materials of munitions stream to- inS ward the factories. thc That's why it may yet be neces- tw sary to ration train and bus his space, to hold civilian travel to as a minimum. That's why the taxi- "1( cab industry has been placed on *o trial, as far as its continued opera- ^'Sl tion is concerned. That's why East- Pa] ern motorists are scraping along 28; on very little gas. With a sec- 291 tional shortage of gasoline and To fuel oil, a National shortage of ani rubber and an overall lack of un transportation, the ti .nr. has come co; for all Americans to give "Motor- ' ing as Usual" up for the dura- sai tion. dui Another phase of the transpor- poi tation problem came up last week "O when the Office of Defense Tran- fin sportation appealed to eight major doi railroads serving the Southwest On to stagger maintenance work so ma they would not be competing with tin agriculture for labor. Instead of wh making most roadbed and track aft repairs in the late summer and Mc fall months when demand for wi1 harvest workers is high, they 1 were urged to make these repairs he] during the spring and early sum- cai mer. Stagger the work, in other the words, and multiDlv the man- are power. lef Copper Quits Home Also no Copper follows steel out of the 15 home and into the arsenal. The Ma War Production Board has added Ca more than a hundred consumer cai products to those which may no in? longer be made out of copper and the its alloys, including brass and C?1 bronze. One of the casualties will 1 be the common household pin, a tin third of which were made of brass esc last year. Other articles on the Co' way out are Christmas tree bulbs "B and cords, dog collars, fountain ma pens and musical instruments. edTo give an idea of what that means to our fighting forces, the D| copper that went into building 1 J materials for American homes last year will provide all the brass and copper fittings for twentythree 10,000 ten cruisers, and the copper that was used in costume pj, jewelry, gifts and novelties will do the same for forty 1,500 ton destroyers. Flow Of Spices Cut WPB has cut the flow of cocoa products, green coffee and spices ?black and white pepper?allspice, cinnamon, cloves, ginger J mutmeg and mace?to our dinner taDies. Lack of transportation and " enemy action make it necessary . to conserve supplies . . . WPB Vl(j has set up 13 regional offices and r Is appointing regional directors . with broad authority to act on ?ia the spot. Price Administrator, ? Leon A. Henderson, has thanked 0 the Nation's school teachers for S?1 the "splendid job" they did on sugar registration, and has ap- ( pealed to Eastern gasoline deal- bre ers to "make a success" of gaso- De; line rationing. As spring cleaning Wc draws to a close now is the time grs to "Get in the scrap against Hit- at ler"?collect your old iron, paper, 1 rags and rubber and call the sal junk-man. Drugs, food, liquor and fal beer will come In thinner and (1) plainer glass containers from now for oh. WPB has standardized sizes Su: and weights, simplified design, in ble order to sa"e soda-ash and other bu; materials. At the same time, str -fiv < ' ' 'J m ,0T, SOUTHPORT, N. C. oduction will be raised 30 per st to help make up for the ortage of tin cans and other :tal containers. The Consumer vision of OPA offers women a ree-point guide to buying warne clothes?"Buy practical outs'"?"Mix them up"?"Make ; sm last." There will be plenty f< attractive clothes but none to iste. OPA's Consumer Division aiming at a recapped tire that r( 11 travel 10,000 miles and give h o years' limited service?but | f 3 no answer to the ordinary l iver's tire problem. If you fail-1 to receive a War Ration Book w few weeks ago because you had excess supply of sugar you are p ged to cut your consumption half-a-pound a person each V :ek so you'll be eligible for a ( ok when you've used it up. Lar - management committees ti arged with conducting the War n oduction Drive now have been j tl rmed in 700 plants and have a listed more than 1,000,000 men a stepping up the flow of war iterials. Tailors and clothing e 3res are asked to turn their old >ol samples and wool clips over b the Red Cross. We spent an a eragc of $131,600,000 a day on v lr purposes in April as com- n red with $114,900,000 in March, c ys Donald M. Nelson, Chairman 5 WPB. That means we're mak- u ? progress towards victory. Erector Says ' Many Prisoners ' Taken In Year 1 tts Avows That More Prisoners Are Recaptured Each Year And Returned To Camp Than Escape I P rDINC! APDII AO |C RE-CAPTURES MADE J ?:?: _ ei ;w Fingerprinting System u s Credited With Playing Large Part In Early Recapture Of Escapees ? FtALEIGH.?More prisoners are aptured each year and returnto North Carolina prison car ips, in escape, according to Prison rector Oscar Pitts. Pitts reported 40 escapes dur; April and 42 recaptures for ? same month. So far he is 0 behind on his recaptures for ; yearly total but if things go usual, he expects to make up : deficit. For proof, Pitts points past records. At the end of the cal year 1941, the prison dertment reported 258 escapes and 1 recaptures. In 1940, it was i escapes and 317 recaptures. date in 1942, it is 218 escapes 1 216 recaptures which gives til June SO to make the re- ~ ,'erics. ' 'Of course, it isn't always the K tie prisoner reported recaptured ring the rftonth that is also rented escaped," Pitts points out. n the average, with the new gerprinting systeiji, prisoners 1't stay out very long nowadays, ce in a while we will get a ,n who has been gone for some le, such as this John Johnson 0 gave himself up this week er having been gone since 1931. ist prisoners are recaptured thin a few hours," Pitts said, lonor grade prison camps are j ping lower the number of es-1 >es, according to Pitts. Despite ! 1 fact prisoners in these camps | : on their honor and gates are t unguarded during the day, escapes were reported from the honor grade camps during .rch and three men left Carteret mp during April. All other nps will receive stars signify; no escapes. The camps with i best records will receive repiition at the end of the year. Prisoners aren't alone in getg out of bounds. Long after aped prisoners from McDowell unty had been recaptured, ill," a sad-eyed bloodhound reined gone. He is still unreportlans Underway For Calf Sales re Sales Will Be Held During The Coming Autumn Season By Department Of Agriculture RALEIGH.?Five sales of feedcalves will be held this fall by ! State Department of Agricule in a concerted effort to >st the livestock population in rth Carolina in the food-fortory program. 3aul L. Fletcher and T. Lenoir yn. livestock marketing spelists of the Department, will in charge of the sales, three which will be held in eastern inties and two in western rth Carolina. Dwners of several hundred :eding cattle sold under the partment-Highway ana Public irks Commission livestock proim last fall will offer calves auction at one of the five sales, rietcher said that the livestock es program planned for this 1 offers several advantages: i A market will be provided 1 owners of small herds; (2) fficient animals will be assemd so as to attract quantity fers; (3) Sales will be held at ategic points so as to keep k -NOT We hear that the vegetable garc ited by young Jimmle Sutton is t art being made by the youth of o follow live-at-home practices e asides in Southport . . . Dave Roi as a fine pair of girl babies? vins?that have been named for t lothers. They are about the fines' ?e've seen in a long time. Southport furnished its share of 'riday night's Wrestling Royal al Wilmington. This event was so suci ither has been arranged for this ransportation costs at a minimum; (4) Stock needed for furrier feeding will not have to be acrificed as "vealers" because of n inadequite market, which has xisted in the past. Calves, before being sold, will e graded "into uniform lots," in ccordance with quality and weight. Special selections will be j lade in the cases where 4-H flub and Future Farmers memers desire "fancy, select individal calves for livestock projects." ifilk Emphasized n Wo, Prnrrmmc ii TV m * ivgiMiuo ntensive Campaign Furth-j ering Interest Of Milk And Other Dairy Pro- j ducts To Be Launched In June RALEIGH?An intensive camaign to further promote the onsumption of milk and other airy products as a contribution ) the war effort will be launchI throughout the State in June I nder the direction of a com-1 i ELE Alton A. District, His Record Merits Your S' Living, Experience and Fe Br H ~r.r (Clip Enclosed please : scription to The State paper to the followinj R City or Town - _J lliCTLY N len being culti- f following bulliei mother fine ef-; Lutrell, Bibber this community Stanley Pinto . ven though he that was deliver 3s, of Freeland, is one of the pr four month-old "I Wake Up heir two grand- and Victor Mati t looking twins and Tuesday tc scarce commodi the crowd at If you ever get t Thalian Hall, of Orton Planta sessful that an- next best thing week, with the season. mittee of 20 well-known agricul tural leaders, Miss Gladys Strawn marketing specialist of the Stati Department of Agriculture am chairman of the June Dair; Month campaign for North Caro lina, announced today. "Milk is ammunition essentia to the protection of health," Mis Strawn emphasized. "Its use a; a vital food should be promote! throughout the State in healtl programs. North Carolina's con '' ? ? aui triDUUon tu uie wai cxw? *. \,?*i only be as valuable as tin strength of its manpower." The State committeemen wh< will direct the June-Dairy Monti program are: J. A. Arey, Raleigh: V. J. Ash craft, Charlotte; L. Y. Ballentine Varina; R. R. Boseman, Rock; Mount: T. F. Cooley, Elkln; W W. Fitzpatrick, Rougemont. F. L. Holcombe, Fayetteville Mose Kiser, Greensboro; Jacl McCarley, Wilmington; James G K. McClure; A. M. Massich, Win ston-Salem; E. L. Moose, Conover L. O. Moseley, Kinston; L. I Moore, Jr., Wilson; C. L. Neal Salisbury; Fred Rhyne, Gastonia Ralph Scott, Burlington; J. T Thome, Farmville and J. B. Webb Greenville. :ct Lennon Solicitor upport Because of Clean arless Devotion to Duty. M This Coupon and Mail Toe find one dollar ($1.00) in Port Pilot to January 1, 1 j address: * .F.D. No Bo ? _____ WEDNESDAY, MAY EWS - | 3 billed for the eventif^^B McCoy, Sailor Earto H:;; . . That black-and-white , 'Hg ed Saturday to young Bud p ettiest we have ever seen. Screaming," with Betty C,.,.^B ire, is the feature coming in. i the Amuzu . . . Seafood ty in Southport these days *^B a chance to see the colored tion, don't miss them Thev>.. to a visit at the h-ight of ,T^B , | Two friends were on .. 7^B I: which was held up. As thP ] 'up men came through tl,P f taking cash and . ;the passengers, on , became more and I j,Finally, with the robl.,-is ,.^H s few seats away, he put his r.JB g ; in his picket and drew out a tfl| j and held it out to his friend ^B hi "Here, Sam." . ' that ten dollars I owe you 9a H si Housewife: "Look here, ^B man, why do you always .,'rJ^B 3 my house to beg?" ^B lj Tramp: "Doctor's ord>^H madam." |H "j Housewife: "Doctor's ordenf^H Tramp: "He tohl me that ''I found food that agreed v.'l-.'-^B I should stick to it." Recruit Instructor i to a so^^H 1 of new boots at the naval ing station): "Halt:' IH But one of them marched 7.H| Recruit Instructor: See Jones, what did you uo lei-^H , i loinine the navy?' 91 ; Jones: "I was a teamster sirH| I Recruit Instructor mext ,jhe gave the command': |halt: Jones, whoa!" |H Hir m m l*y) payment for a sub943. Please mail my X B B ?
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