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I PAGE TWO ? _ THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. G. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. KARPER, JR., Editor j Altered aa second-clua matter April 20, 1928, at . tte Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. | Subscription Rates ONE TEAR 81.60 I BIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS .78 ! NATIONAUDITORIAL. MJ&^SSOCIATION Wednesday, June 17, 1942 Will cotton ever be so scarce that you I, can't veil a metropolitan murder in mystery ? No wonder people are more poised than ever before. With the FDIC, you can't lose vour balance now. (Yes sir, the Yanks are coming, which means that all those yellow jerks better take notice. - j I Hits Little Man IT is reported that Congress is being flooded with communications from retailers throughout the country, requesting that the general price freeze order be ret ojjened to public hearing to review the disastrous situation facing thousands of 1 stores. On top of that, it is reported further. manufacturers are tremendously concerned over the probable loss of disf tributive outlets. Ifone can sympathize with the point of view of government officials who believe , that the most stringent possible measures are necessary to prevent a ruinous price inflation. But it is becoming evident that the price freeze will literally dislocate J, and destroy a large part of the retail business of this country unless adjustments are made to take care of the very wide lag that has long existed between wholesale and retail prices. The merchants who are writing Con; gress and the OPA are not asking for big profits and a chance to profiteer. They are simply asking the chance to price their goods at a level which will return them sufficient profit to stay in business. If the current order stands as issued, merchants will have to replace stocks at I present wholesale price levels and sell them at the prevailing March retail levels. That means that the sale of many items would be made with no profit?and that the sale of some items would have to be made at an actual loss. The publicspirited merchant, who cooperated with the OPA and priced his wares on the basis of original cost, not replacement cost, would take the worst beating. It is difficult to exaggerate the potential effect of this on the country. The small store will be hit hardest and will H go to the wall first?large retail organizations, with capital behind them, can last B longer and can better adjust themselves B to changing conditions. The tens of thou-j B sands of little retail businesses which are B the backbone of the American private enterprise system ar-j in danger of extinction. That is the immensely grave situation which confronts Congress and B the OPA today. I Shaking Public Morale | ^-xNE cardinal principle of our kind of B government is that public officials I should treat the people with perfect | frankness. American citizens are entitled B to all the facts, except those which conI stitute actual military secrets. Are the B American people being accorded frank1 ness? The gasoline and automobile situ Iation raises this question. The American motorist is completely up ia the air as to the future of car transportation. lie has heard countless varying reports. He has read conflicting statement after conflicting statement from high Washington officials. He is told, on the one hand, that gasoline rationing is necessary because lack of various means of transportation makes it impossible to deliver normal supplies. He then hears that the storage tanks are running over with gasoline even in rationed areas, and that civilian consumption is really being reduced in order to conserve tires and cars. Next he reads an official statement that Hie government may soon have to i requisition his tires and his car. Before the ink is dry on that report, he hears over the radio that such drastic action is not contemplated. Then to top it off, the next news report from Washington says it is hoped that experiments now undei / 1 way will produce a tire that will keep the cars rolling', etc., etc. The citizen is lost in a welter of confusion. He doesn't know whether he is going to have gas or even a car next week or next month or next season. He doesn't know whether the synthetic Rubber and the rubber-reclaiming programs are going well or badly. And nothing is harder on public morale than this kind of indecision, because it undermines confidence in leadership and governmental management. The American people don't want to be pampered. They are sending their boys to war and financing its cost to preserve liberty at home. They don't want to be treated like children. They don't want to be kept in the dark concerning matters vital to their welfare. What they do want is for their government to tell them the truth, explain the facts, adopt only policies which are in accord with true conditions, and stick to those policies. Bonds Fight The Axis # ! ii The American people will decide whether or not the nation will be forced 1 i i- Art/iAwf /lAivmnlonmr IU <iuu[Ji anu attest. vwmpuiowij pw*v. ing of War Bonds. According to Secretary Morgenthau, it will be necessary for us to buy $1,000,000,000 worth of these bonds each month. If we do that voluntarily there will be no need for compulsion. If we don't, compulsion will be inevitable. Some may wonder why the government can't pay for the war simply by selling more bonds to banks. Secretary Morgenr thau recently pointed out that excessively heavy bank purchases are inflationary, "because when commercial banks buy Government Bonds they do not pay for them with actual cash taken from their vaults, but by placing on their books newly created deposits to the credit of the government. When the government draws upon these deposits to pay for the goods and sendees it buys, the purchasing power of those to whom these payments are made is increased without any decrease in the purchasing power of those from whom the money is borrowed." Increased purchasing power combined with a decreased supply of goods is the certain road to disastrous inflation. The government wants you to buy bonds with every nickel you can spare?and it wants you to deny yourselves luxuries so you can buy more. No' man can make a better purchase than the securities which buy weapons to fight the Axis. Civilian Defense / Civilian Defense is a phrase about which we have heard comparatively little since the first days of the present warr save in the newspapers as they tell of efforts that are moving ahead in other communities. Unfortunately, this does not mean that there is no longer a serious need for this type of training. On the contrary, our situation here in Southport and at other points in Brunswick county is more precarious than ever before. We do not know where the program ol civilians bogged down?whether it was caused by their indifference, or by fcheii loorlflvc' i\7ifv "Rllf flip JirP t.Vl ItUU^lO IHHvvl 1VJ VI1V auvvu there are a lot of things we need to know in time of trouble that we are a long way from knowing now. And the best remedy we can think oi is to get the Civilian Defense program back on the right track and keep it rol ling. 1 Shears And Paste BETWEEN CHINA AND PERU As to the matters, which President Prado discussed with President Roosevelt, a very shrewd forecast was made by Dr. Samuel Johnson two hundred years ago. "Let observation with extensive view survey mankind from Cliina to Peru." Between China and Peru lies the Pacific Ocean, an area rich in mankind and in problems for the United States and its Latin good neighbors to the South.?New York Times. SOME LITTLE KNOWN FACTS In contemplating rearrangements of trade routes that airliners might bring about transportation experts have become aware of such , things as that Chicago may prove closer to Europe than New York, that Seattle may be . the chief jumping-off place for Moscow, and I that the route from the United States to , China and India may lie over the Arctic rath. er than the Pacific or Atlantic oceans.?New . Orleans Times-Picayune. THE STATE PORT PI1 THE HOME I FRONT I iy su This is another one of those ^ times, and they will come increasingly as we get further into our ?F victory stride, when we might be oc tempted to relax. Looking back c> over the road we have traveled oe in the last six months, we have m proof of great accomplishment. P1 Today, with our civilian economy M " reorganized, our warships and Fl our soldiers poised for action in CJ every quarter of the globe and our war industries reaching out ^ toward the President's goals in ca tanks and planes and guns and P' ships, we can be forgiven pride P' ' in what we have done. ^ ifl But it would be the most dam- ^ aging sort of folly if this pride u) , in past achievement were to bring about any lessening in our combined effort?in our united fight. On the contrary, now is the time ^ when we must consecrate every . bit of energy to our task, now . when we near the top of the 1 divide, now when our newly fash- ? ioned machine of war approaches ( tiie point at which it can over- ^ - whelm our enemies?now is the , time for us to sacrifice as we have not sacrificed before. After a little more than six ef months of war we are turning out ships and weapons at a rate j that must give Hitlter and Hiro- m | hito nightmares. But if we are m I to win the war and win it quick- p( I 1?? rlA mArn than tnoro. ly, w t inii.lL uv/ liiviv utMit ihwiv nj ly keep up this rate. We must pi turn out ships and weapons even p; more rapidly. p] There is a cloud on the production horizon. There have been such clouds before that they will come again before we win, that is the way of war and it cannot be helped, but we can heed their warning, we can prepare against the downpour. This cloud is the growing Si shortage of metals and materials, tv The shortage of metals threatens r to close blast furnaces which p< work for war and every blast st furnace shut down means fewer n? steel plates for cargo vessels, th tanks for the front, and weapons p< for our fighting men. ju Here is a situation which con- ec cerns all of us. A part of the ans- si wer to the metals shortage?and p; to the shortage of rubber ? is oi scrap, and everyone can help col- ]ij ! lect scrap. America's industry, di both war industry and that essen- as tial civilian industry which re- sc mains in the midst of war, have pi l done and are doing their part to tr see that every bit of scrap .netal _ and materials finds its way back to the mills and furnaces and the { processing plants. Here are some of the things we tf. may expect in the coming months, ? some of the ways in which we will be asked to change our lives h, so that war industry may have materials and there may be the u means to transport them. We shall have to change our habits jr of eating and our habit of travel- cl( ing, we shall have to dress differ- ir ently and many of us must be- ( come accustomed to a different r sort of habitation for the duraHon. ? ; These things we must not do , ? we must not hoard food, we , VI must not buy too much food at ~ one time, we must not waste g( . fbod. Not only must we eat fresh h, fruits and vegetables to save tin w ' (there is enough tin in a sin- y gle tin can to provide the in- _ s dispensable tin required for two sj ' army compasses) but we must ^ > try to find locally grown vege- e] j tables and fruits in order to cut ^ h the load on our railways and on u ' our trucking system. And we gl ' must find substitutes for fish and u j pork. There are plenty to be a, had. gj We won't have to ration clothE ing this year?at least it doesn't t look that way now. But look for el further changes in style along the n " lines of those we have had al- ^ ready, in a further effort to save f( cloth for the Army and Navy. b The wool problem grows more v 1 serious in the face of military a need for wool and it is probable *' that we'll all wear a great deal more cotton than we did in time 0 of peace. Leather is a problem, 0 too, although civilian shoe stocks n are still adequate. There is one w sure thing about changes in cloth- u ing, however, and that is that a they will affect everybody. cl The transportation shortage is s going to hit the Eastern states In another way. The Eastern v states are going to be short of 11 ftjel oil for exactly the same rea- 1 son that they are short of gas?, P I because Axis subs hnvc rut ? tanker route from the Southwestern oil fields and the railroads n can haul no more tank cars than a they are hauling now. It will be " difficult to get enough fuel oil J into the East to heat homes and apartments next winter and at c the same time keep war factories ? and power plants going. Anyone ? in this region who is using fuel 11 oil now and can shift to coal * should do so right away. And buy a the coal now?we may not be able v to spare the cars to haul the v coal by Autumn. The needs of total war dredge a up some strange materials from t the, industrial seas . . . recent ? War Production Board orders, for 1 instance, have dealt with istles, b waste waste, osnaburg, and "dof- b bed women's footholds" . . . dot- b .OT, SOUTHPORT, N. C. d women's footholds are the' ittoms of women's rubber hes with rubber dbts in them r decorative purposes . . . tie is a Mexican fiber uSed aa a , ibstitute for jute and other fibs we used to import from the ^ ir East . . . osnaburg is- a loosewoven cloth . . . since the 0 irnther of 1940 We have spent A 10,615,000,000 on the Army and ^ avy and last montit we were lending at the rate of $148,000,- ? 10 a day . . . The "Victory" bi- n -cle has been put under a price d iling by the Office of Price Adinistration ? The highest retail ice in the East is $32.50, in the tt iddle Zone, $33.50 and in the Q \r West. $34.50 . . . These bi cles, as all other bicycles, will > rationed by OPA ... If you . ive pawned your typewriter you ^ in get it back if you pay the E iwn broker . . . OPA so inter- ^ eted Regulations recently ... se of tin for un lecessary civiln purposes will be cut another ^ n percent July 1, because of gent military and civilian needs ' . . And people in 36 of the jj rgest United States cities soon ill be saving fats and greases, 'jj o . . . Most of America's milk c ucks will be oft the streets in ss than two years, unless fUr- f ler steps are taken to save their ^ res . . . After September I, > mattresses or pads may oonlin iron or steel . . . There is f sing to be a lot of substitute * aterial in electric light bulbs a om now on, but WPB says their e ficiency won't be affected . . . 'DD Hint thn nrrlnr rp, " ' L U "?"V ? liring the use of substitutes in aking light bulbs will save a lillion pounds of bass, 40,000 n junds of copper and 30.00Q' h junds of nickel . . . WPB has 3 ohibited use of cellophane for ,5 icking animal food, rubber nip- 1 !es, candy and window cards. * WASHINGTON i LETTER ; C WASHINGTON, June 17. ? 1 igntng of a grand alliance be- 1 veen this country, Britain and f ussia may have world-wide re- t ;rcussions, but it cannot over- s ladow the concerns of our law- F akers and policy-drafters as to t ie effect of war edicts on the 0 ;ople's thinking. The glorified s ink collecting campaign launch- ^ 1 this week apparently has more t gnificance than the latest com- c ict with Russia for coordination v ' armed forces and post-war ob- a Rations. The current salvage c ive has economic and political c spects. The returns from this t :rap gathering will influence the t ittern of other rationing con- t ols, * , Legislators from states where > gasoline rationing has been dt are praying that the collec- on of rubber scrap will warrant ie indefinite postponement of isoline restrictions in these -eas. No amount of explanation is yet convinced motor car own-s in non-rationed states that mitations of use of this fuel ir transportation purposes is nportant as a tire conservation ;vice. Sectional feeling is spring- i ig up as evidenced in Congressnal debate. Spokesmen for the 1 Eastern states contend that insmuch as tire-saving is the prilary motive for gasoline restricons, the sacrifices and burdens lould be distributed equally ithout regard to proximity to jurces of supply. On the other and, the agents from states here gasoline is plentiful argue rnt it is wasteful to restrict the reduction of this motor fuel mply because transportation Dttle-necks interfere with dellvries to Eastern oonsi'.mers. They take the point that unlimited se of gas in areas where the i lpply is adequate will be met 1th voluntary reductions in milege UBed by motoriBts as a means f saving rubber. rinH WO uhl r? nntlmeinn nne *n . x/j/w iiiiiaviv catwiiaico 010 lU UIC rfect that the salvage campaign ow underway will uncover beveen one and two million tons ir the scrap pile. Calculations as ) what percentage can be conerted are not reliable. The avenge person overlooks that this libber-saving program has a catch" clause. Under Secretary t War Patterson reported that ur own military needs supplelented by aid to United Nations dll provide a heavy drain upon le rubber resources. With theBe gendes having first call it seems oubtful that the reclaimed and ynthetic rubber will be sufficient sr civilian needs. Army and NKy crude rubber requirements durig the 21 months after April , 1942, will be 800,000 tons, cornered with the U. S. reserve of 00,000 tons. Patterson is hopeil that synthetic output will lake up the difference. There is wide gap between liberal estilates of civilians and the miliary offidais. Army estimates of tie amount of scrap rubber that an be collected by a salvage tunpaign vary from 500,000 to rvn nAA a. uu.uuu wns. conscious of public ldlgnation soions seeking- re-elecion fully anticipate they will rise nd fail on the condition of priately operated motor vehicles 'hen voting is held next fall. The House Committee on Ways nd Means is about to report a ax' bill which hits the pocketbook f nearly all wage earners. The Yeasury Department will then e faced with a dilemma as the ill now drafted is not expected o raise more than six billions -NOT - - ? W. B. Ke2iah, who was bit by efore last, and by an alligator las ff this Week by being kicked -bj ind speaking of horse stories; t ide furnished by Smoky went Ihrrelson, who went the whole lount as he blazed his way throu, istrict and wound up in his stall. Doris Stevens has a fine Ches riever out at the Magnolia dairy ther Interesting addition to this hilfc government fiscal experts isist another two billions must e provided from taxes; The louse will attempt to force the idministration to decidfe whether general sales tax is necessary d make up the difference. So far he Treasury has opposed this orm of revenue. This is camaign. year and many House nembers are preparing speeches n the revenue bill more for pub,c consumption in their districts han with any expectation of hanging the draft * as reported rom the Ways and Means Comhittee. In order to still the protests rom small plant operators and mployees, the Congress has encted a law setting up a new Fed1ral agency to encourage the disrlbution of war contracts, Now he officials are wondering whetler it will provide the answer to ;n urgent problem of little busiless. It is designed, to assist the ineaking down of large contracts o that smaller companies may larticipate. Philip D. Reed, of W. K B.'s Bureau of Industry Sranches, and president of Gener,1 Electric stated this week that fficial estimates "indicate of 94,000 manufacturing establish rtents approximately ^4,uuo, i fhoae sales In 1939 amounted to | our billion dollars, will be for-1 ed to shut down before October st. If these figures are correct 2 percent of the country's manuacturers, who is 1939 did 8% of he volume of business, will be hut down in the fall." The imilication of these business casualies is disclosed in this official's ibservation: "The future of thouands of small communities is delendent upon the existence of he3e private plants, and if they annot be preserved during the var and revived when it is over, [ tremendous and imponderable ihange will occur in the structure if the social and economic life of imerica." It is small wonder hat officialdom is pulling hard" he new law to aid small plants itave off bankruptcy. Watch the label on your paper. ! s I , 0NED( i K t \ Tur IU IllLi III :!. !| G SUI ; , ? The S :( n FORMATION YOU / \ N V M " P ' ?T FOR A YEAR'S BSCRIPTION ...T / itate Port ? outhport, N. C. f : ' ; / ?? , - J*. , : - and in which God was almost for- -1 gotten, their lives of beauty, cou- 01 rage and power became a chal- cc lenge to the noblest in manhood ni and womanhood. The flames of nl their faith kindled rapidly and soon ran across the Roman em- t] pire, sinners were converted, and le Christian communities sprang up bi almost everywhere. Paul mention- oi ed the saints "in Caesar's house- tt held" (Phillppians S: 22). ai Tre task Jesus committed to J< the early disciples has not been w ftntohoH Fnr ninpfppn PPTlturiPS 6^ individuals have caught the spirit hi of the Master and, being respon- R sive to the challenge of His mes- ai sage, have ordered their lives by ni )LLAR AND ONE 5 MIGHTY LITTLE / TO PAY FOR 0 Pilot | 11 .... " WEl EXACTLY NE a snake week- mistered Toggenbu it week, started jjred that Dr. Roy ' a horse ... . , . . -r into the goat bush; he latest thrift . _ ... "Pans Calling ' to Emma Lou . . .. ing, up-to-the-mini way with her . , Wednesday and ' gh the business Randolph Scott, v apeak Bay re- well during World farm . . . An They aren' farm is a re- iere now for bait, Sunday School ? Lesson 5 _____ ci BV GROVER G. PHILLIPS w BENNETT, N. C. * (Lesson for Sunday, June 28, L< 1942. Text: Matt. 28: 16-20; Mark *u 16: 14-20; Luke 24: 49-53). tr After His resurrection Jesus ca gave His disciples a great com- m mission. Instructing them to "go be into all the world and preach the 31 gospel to every creature" (Mark ce 16: 15), He promised His continu- 91 ing presenoe to the end of ages (Matt. 28: 20), and assured them ^ that certain signs should follow a* them that believed (Mark 16: 17? 18,) They were to carry the ar Jesus message to men and worn- se en everywhere. They were to be co-workers with God to secure r5 4? D( the transformation 01 mui>iuua<g and the enrichment of human so- 3 ciety. In the Master's name they ' should "cast out devils; they 3 should speak with new tongues; ^ they should take up serpents; | they should lay hands on the sick ' and they should recover." The disciples made a gallant response to the command of their Lord. They were to "tarry in the 1 city of Jerusalem until they were m endued with power from on high" ? (Luke 24: 49). This they did, and, at Pentecost they became instruments of God's energy and wisdom. Going out into a world I in which human life was cheap | P' PNESDAY, JUnfi. M rg buck kid, the has purchased since less in a mild way. is another of these bre . ite war pictures It rhursday to the Amuzu ,-ho was stationed at ? War No. 1, in the starrute s^K t even catching enough -i./^B is teachings and" giverT^^B Ives to His service jtsu. alive and at work in the ->!^B day, invites us to contirj.jJ^B ork He commissioned His pies to do long ago 0r,? .shes to help carry ork must first of all knc* ord. Disciples of the f!ts, ,'^B iry knew Him and. beir? om His presence, their" ~*^B iused the Christian ake more progress than .^B en made in several te%|/^B ncd then, and its propeife, : is still felt in the lives of?th^B iccessors. Those who would carry or. v^| aster's work must avcVnt l the Lord of life, strip- Bi lernselves of pride and prej^^H id releasing . rvation, they must put actice in their liv.s lat He taught. If the tasks i done, there must be ;r lip and cooperation amongu^B rvers. Our f?-:i.,w rong enough to bridge ~>.^B ilf that may divide us. Probita^R le most attractive thing irtj^R 'es of the early Christians leir fellowship. me when the human fanaiv M trhaps divided as never bin-iB) here are racial. nat:..\, H ic end cultural differences B^B tr relationship with Christ siinu^R ! deep enough to ... H id thus give us "the heather heritage" (Psalm 2:8?. H Friends of Jesus are oneering on the frontiers of hey are putting the pnuop^H ' Jesus into the developmer.l inservetion of human z;-^M itural resources, the advaroe^B ent of medical science, the -IB rment of economic and t-iurv^B onal opportunities and the i-^B viation of human suffering. Th-y^H lild a better world and ir. ' ignorance, greed and corfiat^B ley will not be defeated Fr.ni^B re you among the frteedi >sus, supporting His cause ord and conduct ami en'.biacaj^B rery opportunity to advance Hj^B ingdom in the lives of emember. He is counting on id me! We must not. we it fail Him! H HALF | WILL
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