North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE IWO THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor I Bo tared ma aecond-claaa mm f far April 20, 1028, mt I Mm Po?t Office mt Southport, N. c., under I the met of Mmrch 8, 1870. I Subscription Rates | ON? TEAR 81.60 B UX MONTHS 1.00 I THREE MONTHS .76 I NATIONAL DITORIAL I IflAOfikLASSOCIATION I IU II yJIcrnfnA^. I Wednesday, June 24, 1942 | Then of course a man can embellish j| himself by putting up a good front. I Old men sometimes get second sight. 9 Young men always take it when a bath1 ing beauty goes by. I An average citizen is one who imagI ines himself a second Tyrone Power, but H whose passport photo flatters him. | Blackouts are the thing all rightJ I We're even being kept in the dark about I the alleged Bolton military project. | An educated man is one who won't I think you're cussing him if you call him erudite. Some men don't ask much in the way of a legacy. They just want to be left to themselves. Traffic Down 42 Per Cent 9 t^iINAL estimates derived from 19 "magI IT1 ic-eye" traffic counters placed at straI tegic points on important highways throuI ghout the State show that during a two I week period preceding rationing, from I April 26 to May 9, travel in North Caro9 lina declined 20 per cent over a similar 9 period in 1941. However, from May 17 to I 30, after rationing came into effect, travel I declined 42 percent below the 1941 figI ureB The survey, made under the supervision I of James S. Burch, Statistics Engineer for 9 the State Highway and Public Works 9 Commission, shows that on the week-end 9 of May 9-10 the public took one last fling 9 bringing the amount of driving almost to 9 the 1941 high travel level. However, by I the next week-end travel had taken a 9 huge drop. fi| Present indication of the traffic survey I is that the North Carolina motoring pub9 lie has recovered from the first shock of 9 gasoline rationing and travel all over the 9 State shows a definite trend toward slight 9 increase. Hardest hit are the main travel routes through North Carolina. U. S. 1, near Raleigh, and U. S. 19-23 near Asheville, 9 show a larger percentage travel drop than the 41 per cent average. H Travel will continue to decline as the pinch of lack of tires te felt more and 9 more, and as citizens become more and 9 more conscious of the emergency now facing us. WLong, Hard War 9if^ECIL Brown, the well known foreign Vj correspondent, recently made a speaking tour of this country. In a radio 9 broadcast from Los Angeles, he said that I I he had been enormously impressed by the incredible strides American industry is making in producing for war. At the same time, he added, he was disturbed by the excessive degree of optimism held by many of us. In short, too large a proportion of the American people are not yet convinced that this will be a long and hard war. That kind of optimism is not held in informed circles. Most of the experts still think that another New Year's day will come before the United Nations will be able to engage in major, continued offensive drives against the enemy. In 1943, they forecast, a gigantic effort to knock Hitler out of the war will be made. Then, in 1944, the United Nations will be able to turn their full and undivided attention to Japan. And so, by that year's end, the jwar may be over. Other experts consider that time-table too optimistic. They argue that both Germany and Japan have immense armies and resources, and that it will take another year or two to wear them down and bring them to their knees. In any event, no informed commentator subscribes to the current rumors that the war is likely to be ended before 1942 passes. And none of them make the popular mistake of thinking that minor United Nations' vie tories constitute major disasters for the enemy. In the meantime, this country has rea son to be immensely proud of the qualitj and character of its fighting forces. Aftei the debacle at Pearl Harbor, it took u: months to get organied. For a long tim< there was a lack of accurate coordinatior between the various branches of the mili tary services. Now, apparently, condition; have undergone a great change for th< better. The gigantic Japanese-Americar sea engagement around Midway island i; an example. The Japanese, after making their feint at Dutch Harbor with a fev bombers and pursuit planes, apparentlj expected that American commander; would hysterically disperse their forces In all probability, they definitely expec ted to take both Midway and Oahu. Bui the American commanders, working or extremely accurate information provided by the Intelligence services, were ready The Navy, the Army and the Marines worked in perfect harmony. The result was the most serious setback Japan has yet taken in the Pacific war. That battle, coming on top of the Coral Sea engagement, must be causing plenty of headaches among the moguls in Tokyo. They caught our forces asleep at Pearl Harbor. But our forces are 100 per cent awake and on their toes now. This latest Pacific battle is important for the beating handed Japanese military power. Its greatest importance lies in the fact that it may have tipped the scales of Pacific naval power in our favor. After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese fleet was supreme in the Pacific. Japan also had air supremacy. Now American war vessels which were damaged at Pearl Ha,rboi " * ' ? * 1 1 are back in service, new snips nave ueeu sent to join the fleet, and our air power has been tremendously increased. Our production capacity is many times that of Japan in all fields. The Mikado, in brief, doesn't look as big and tough as he once did. When we finally take the offensive in the Pacific, we may expect hard going for a considerable time. It is obvious thai Japan has developed the mandated islands, as well as her own islands, to a very high degree so far as military power is concerned. She may have literally hundreds of air, naval and submarine bases and her plan has been to create a ring of steel about her own part of the Pacific, It will be a real job to destroy these positions?and we can't do it overnight. We must expect losses as well as victories, But no one with any knowledge of American war production and American fighting spirit can doubt that the job will be done. The United Nations' commanders will not be satisfied with a partial victory this time. They intend to take the war straight to Berlin and Tokyo, and give the Axis powers a full taste of the kind of treatment dealt out to the counries they have subjugated. | Shears And Paste DREADNOUGHTS OF THE AIR (Greensboro News) The decision of the Navy to defer work on on battleships and to concentrate on putting out new aircraft carriers is evidence that we are learning how to wage a modern war. Obviously a warship equipped with planes is a better weapon both for offense and defense than one equipped with big guns. It can see farther and shoot farther; it does not have to go to its target; its winged cannon brings the target to it. Nor does it have to await help lessly attack from the air; it sends out its fighter planes for its own protection. The shape of naval battles to come is seen in the Midway engagement to be a fight between carriers. Fortunately, with most or all of Japan's seaworthy carriers knocked out of commission, the United Nations now have a big preponderance of these newly recognized "backbones" of the fleets. But they are vulnerable to submarine attacks, to attacks from carrier-based planes which are resolutely pressed home without counting the cost, jpnd they are even more vulnerable to the neavier bomb loads of landbased planes. There is too much water under them, too much air over them. The Ark Royal, the Glorious, the Lexington are witnesses of that. The most potent weapon of the war is yet to come. It will be a bombing plane?a lineal descendant of the Mars?so heavily armored that it cannot be knocked down by fighter planes, so heavily loaded with bombs that it can demolish its objective, and so long-rangeing that it can return to its base or go on to another one almost anywhere in the world. Such bombers will make carrier obsolete. While we concentrate on the carrier, we should concentrate on the next step also. / labor has tried to use the plan to chisel something out of the other fellow. Seek Honest Answ|rs The committees tried honestly to find answers to these questions ?How can we get more production from our machines ? How can we improve quality of workmanship? How can we prevent waste of man-hours and material? The President's goals in ships and planes and tanks and guns hung upon the ability of these groups to find answers to these questions. And they have succeeded. That is why War Production Board Chairman, Donald M. Nelson, said last week that "there is a new spirit abroad in this land?or perhaps it is just a spirit that was always there." And Mr. Nelson added?"America today is really begining to work at full speed for the first time. We are just beginning to realize what our strength really NEWS BRIEFS BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Moore announce the birth of a son, James Boyd, at Doshfer Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, June 23. TONSILECTOMY Little Erlma Lee Drew, of Southport, underwent a tonsilar jperation Monday at Dosher Memorial Hospital. OPERATION Miss Addie Johnson, of South' ?* purposes. Response to these drives 1 once more emphasizes our united 1 effort against the common enemy. ' To. most of us this unity was J to be taken for granted but there were those, both before and after Pearl Harbor, who thought and ' spoke differently. These people ' said we were not alert to the < danger, they said we could not convert our industries to war in i time to help our allies, they said we could not give our sons freely to the fight for freedom, that t we were too soft to accept ra- ' tioning, price fixing, and those other measures which meant for i all of us an end to "living as usual." But almost every day that goes by disproves these lies, affords additional proof of our unity in endeavor, a unity to strike terror to the heart of our foe. Probably the most striking proof of unity on the home front has been the signal success of the War Production Drive, a drive which could not have succeeded without the whole-hearted collaboration of management, and the worker. Many thought, when the War Production Drive was first announced, that management and labor could not work together even to get more tanks and guns and planes and ships and get them faster, but today joint committees of management and labor are working together in more than 900 plants of war production and neither side?neither the side of management nor the side of ] I THE HOME i FRONT [ 1 We have taken in our belts, - we have tightened our economy j 5 so that almost nothing which j a might be useful in war is wasted on the non-essentials of ordinary | 1 living. Now we are fighting an-1 5 other sort of waste wlfich we can I afford as little as we can afford; > waste of materials. We are fightr ing the waste of what we call r "Manpower" but which actually embraces almost everyone?man 5 or woman or adolescent child in . the U. S. A. The Manpower Mobilization Prol gram, with its aim of seeing that everyone has a job and that each 1 is doing the job for which he or | she is best fitted, is one attack! on the problem of manpower ' waste. Another line of attack has i been stressed recently in mess; ages from the President himself, , and from Paul V. McNutt, Direc' tor of The Office of Defense , Health and Welfare Services and , chairman of The War Manpower Commission. This line of attack hits at the waste of industrial manpower caused by ill health. Ill health is an enemy on the pro- i ductlon front fully as much as on ] the field of battle. The Japanese ] on Bataan were aided by malarial fevers, which fought for them against our troops in the steaming jungles of that Peninsula. The I Japs and the Nazis are aided by < the disease and illness which J fights on their side in the war production centers of America. ' Good Health Compulsory But the compulsion to remain 1 fit extends beyond the factory ' front?it is a compulsion laid up- 1 ' on all of us. Indifferent health i means indifferent morale, and in, different morale is an invitation to defeat. The weapons with ' ' which ill health is fought on i the home front are weapons 1 known to eveiy housewife?proper 1 food, proper exercise, and proper i rest. On the industrial front the problem is complicated by other 1 factors. Several weeks before Mr. 1 i McNutt transmitted the Presi dent's message on health and ' morale to some 8,500 key execu' tives in war production plants, the six Government officials most di_ rectly concerned with increasing 1 our output for war appealed to War Production Drive Committees in more than 900 plants to fight sickness and accidents. Their joint statement pointed out, that j sickness and injury lost 6,000,000 work days every month ? work days which might otherwise have brought victory over the Axis that much nearer. And it pointed out the need for active public health departments in every community, with enough doctors, nurses, and hospital beds to care for workers and their families. The President, commending ' Government and community ef- ' forts to improve health and morale, emphasized the need for eliminating from war industry centers, that "major source of in- ' fection" the Red-Light District, _ just as such districts have been ' eliminated from the neighborhood of Army camps and Naval sta. tions. And the Warpower Commission chairman, addressing "war ' industry executives" called vene- 1 real diseases "one of the most J 1 menacing" of the hazards to the 1 health of workers, added that 'many millions of lost work days could be saved and . . . Needless accidents and spoilage of materials . . . prevented, with improvement to workers' health." Drives Seek Rubber, Tin We are in the midst of a brief and concentrated drive to get all the scrap rubber we can back to ' the reclaiming plants. We are launching another drive to collect tin cans so that we may have tin for bushings which reduce friction in the engines of our military aircraft and for other vital military port, underwent an upciacu/u ivi removal of her appendix Friday at Dosher Memorial Hospital. APPENDECTOMY Mrs. C. E. Lamb, of Southport, underwent an operation for removal of her appendix Wednesjay at Dosher Memorial Hospital. SURGICAL PATIENT Mrs. Edna Willis, of Southport, entered Dosher Memorial Hospital as a surgical patient Tuesday. APPENDIX REMOVED Mrs. M. C. Sawyer, of Southport, underwent an operation for removal of her appendix Monday at Dosher Memorial Hospital. MEDICAL PATIENT Raymond Earl Holdcraft stationed at Oak Island Coast Guard Station entered Dosher Memorial Hospital Friday as a medical patient. PATIENT Tom Morgan, of Oak Island Coast Guard Stataion, entered Dosher Memorial Hospital Monday for medical attention. HOSPITAL PATIENT Ralph Dosher, of Southport, is a. medical patient at Dosher Memarial Hospital. IN HOSPITAL Carl Eriksen, Jr., of Oak Island Coast Guard Station, entered Dosher Memorial Hospital Sunday is a medical patient. RESIGNS POSITION Marion Gatlin, for the past sevsral years a popular member of the Shallotte high school faculty, noes vooi rmorl tn trrt intn hnainoQs loa vw t, it his home in Raeford. Personal ?f . Richard St. George and Orvil Cottrell, of Penns Grove, N. J., returned home Monday after spending several days here with relatives. Mrs. St. George remained for a visit of a fews before joining them in Penns Grove. A. J. RobBins and his daughter, Mrs. Alvin Starling and two children, Alvin, Jr., and Bettie Joe, of Orlando, Fla., are visiting at the home of Mrs. J. N. Daniels. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Dye and children, of Wilmington, spent the iveek-end here with Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Robinson. Mrs. A. D. Ruark, Sr., of Wilmington, visited relatives here last week. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. St. George. Df Pennsgrove, N. J., spent last week here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Dosher and son, Dicky, of Wilmington, visited relatives here Saturday. Alex Manson, of Jacksonville, Fla., is visiting at the home of Mrs. Geo. Watson. Mrs. Ashley Toler has returned home from Washington, where she has been spending the past two weeks with relatives. Miss Dolores Hewett left Sunday for Staten Island, N. Y., where she will spend two weeks as the guest of Misses Lois and Aileen Watts. Dan and William Walker, of Jacksonville, spent the week-end here with their mother, Mrs. W. H. Walker. A. T. McKeithan, of Camp Davis, spent the week-end here with his mother, Mrs. A. T. McKeithan, Sr. Miss Myrtle Sue Brown, who has been visiting Miss Martha Gray Brown for the past two weeks, has returned to her home I - NOT The Victory Gardener in town drought makes the least differei Autry, who has installed a pump in his garden plot and" waters his strain on the city supply ... Ed who has been studying commercii cinatti, has learned plenty in one yi don't believe it you ought to see samples of his work. "That Hamilton Woman," starrini and Laurence Olivier, is coming Moi day to the Amuzu and promises to best dramas of the season . . . . Fii in > Benson. S Mr. and Mrs. John Fullwood [ and children, of Wilmington, ? spent Saturday here with Mrs. ? Ethel Fullwood. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Savage, of Wilmington, are visiting at the 1 home of Mrs. Eva Wolfe. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Howard, of s Wilmington, spent Sunday here s with Mrs. Neils Jorgensen. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. McCall, of e Wilmington, visited friends and \ relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Aldridge j and son, of Wilmington, and Miss ^ Lois Dean Coleman and Santa i j Charles Coleman, of Raleigh, spent Sunday here with friends and relatives. Mrs. Oscar Coleman, of Raleigh, entered Dosher Memorial hos- i pital last week for surgical treatment. A. B. Weeks, of Charleston, S. C., spent the week-end here with his family. John Dai', of Smithfield, spent the week-end here with Mrs. Dail, who is visiting her parents, Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Willetts, of Winnabow, spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Potter. Mrs. George P. Howey and Meade Darst have returned from Rowland where they visited Mrs. Parker Howey for several days. Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Swain, of Pennsacola, Fla., are visiting his mother, Mrs. J. D. Swain. Mrs. Dora McDowell returned Saturday from Camp Blanding, Fla., where she visited her son, [ We Wa I WHEA We will pay 9 Barley at Our We If we pick grain cover cost of hauling. WE WILL EXCHANGE WEEVIL FREE CORN AJ | R.B.M ytxxxxxxx*x*???*? i r l; Sa1 I ; i; || DISCOS 1 l: ) ! 1 1 I 1 i We can of | your 1942 tax < I i |! Pre-payments ]: || substantial dis II. -co 1! I I I I II ! Cha: j 1 XwxitMKitiitmtKititmt) ?t??in??????? WiCTLY Nf to whoci a I som of the yeai ice is George | Brown, who is i i the middle of j season. Interests crop?without ' the first to repoi Imund Newton, , We can't help il art at Cin- ' spectable place f< ?ar, and if you 1 do well in Soutl ) some of the , Christian, back f . ; ents in Savannal g Vivian L ugh long talk with t iday and Tues- j and his band?on be one of the gang he had hen rst cotton bios- j DeSoto Hotel for 3gt. Lonnie McDowell, during the last week. On her trip she wasf iceompanied by her daughter and ion-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. ' lardwick and Miss Rachel Best, I ill of Wilmington. Miss Edna Robertson, R. N? is J ipending her vacation at Kerihaw, S. C. Miss Annie M. Newton returnid Monday after spending several veeks in Washington, D. C. Miss Dianne Page, of Greens- [ >oro, and Miss Mary Anne rhomas, of High Point, are visit-j ng Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Cox. C. C. Cannon was in Atlanta md Asheville on business during, he past week-end. ij I WE CATER TO I Our business has t j trade of folks who li I trading territory. W( I in to see us for the I your family need. R GALL ^ 1 1V/T U YUUK1V4 fer you an importa iccount due BrunsT are now being a< i icount. 'ME IN TO SEE I s. E. Gc rAX COLLECTOR I VjCIICIUl l?i SUPPL1 . C 11 mr omau T ... OATS ... BAR] 5c on Wheat; 40c on C irehouse and Furnish 1 up at your farm we will de< FEED, WHEAT, POUND FOR >D CLEAN, BRIGHT OATS. cRoy & C ire Mon 1 ^ TT*\ ^ A nt savings in { vick County. J i ccepted at a J * i ! f 1 1 rc * 10 i uise ! i | PNESDAY, ifS- Jl has been sent in by I cultivating the Ward Farm thw I igly enough, this samp I t a blossom last year. 1 believing that a cool, , I >r the youngsters to dance Q iport this summet I rom a visit with his grand , 8 ft, saw Joe Leighton I he popular orchesti I ,ly the drummer la 1 I s last summer?have I several months. | Eddie Jelks. of \V . I C., is visiting his mothei y.. I Martin MePall. I SAVE TIME ... I SAVE TRAVF.l, . . I . . . SAVF. MONEY I Roland Simmons | Service Station I ASH, N. C. j THE FARMER I >een built up by the I ive on farms in our I i want you to come I things that you and I ,OWAY erchandise I {, N. C. I I Grain LEY I >ats and 60c on Sags. | iuct an amount to POUND FOR GOOD OvJnaJ ? 1 * * ey ! I 2 TAXES I i