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PAGE TWO THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBUSHEP EVERY WEDNESDAY i JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor ifeiterad m aeoond-clM* matter April 20, 1628, at tha Poet Office at Southport; N. C., under the act of March 8, 1'876. Subscription Rate* ON* TZAR 11.60 BX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS .76 NATIONAL EDITORIAL. IfM DISSOCIATION IU U yjurnbxm .? Wednesday, July 29, 1942 ? _ Some people claim that they are being tolerant when all they are doing is being indifferent. Almost all of our people believe in "" u" ...o,. nff/M-t?hv thp other! sacrince iur mc ~j ? fellow. i It's always a little hard for a child to know just when his parents have decided that he has reached the stage where children should be seen and not heard. From six to sixty it's mighty hard to 1 convince a man that something that isn't i good is good for him. Life must be wonderful for a man who i really has himself convinced that he's 1 right and that it's the world that's wrong. . ! Something We Can Do \ < THE other day we heard a man complaining about the increase in the j price of quinine. Well, unfortunately this j product comes from the war zone of the , Pacific, and there is little reason to pre- j sume that we can do anything about the ] rising price. What we can do, though, is something . about mosquito control in this commun- j ity, and in doing so reduce the probable ; need for this drug. ^ Most of the methods for mosquito con- ( trol are strictly elementary, and consist ( of emptying rain barrels, disposing of tin , cans and other containers in which these ( insects breed, and other simple practices , we^51 know about. ] r? At didn't take a war to make us know j that an ounce of prevention is worth a s pound of cure. j On Right Track t < WE have every confidence that our ( program for Civilian Defense is at t last on the right track, and if ovlr citizens j follow through with the plans of local s officers of this organization for proper ] training of all volunteers, then we are go- t ing to be a community hard to demoralize. About the only thing that can defeat .J the program now i3 indifference on the part of our people. Remember that this 1 is not training for service to be rendered j to somebody else; rather it is schooling ^ in the protection of yourself, your loved ones or your property. A little time spent now in learning the approved practices of Civilian Defense work may be a world of comfort to you much sooner than you 1 suspect. ' < Selfish Interests SOME of the most thoughtful Washing- ' ton observers have been much troubled lately by the power and aggressive- ^ ness displayed by certain pressure groups which are hard at work grinding their axes in the capital. Theoretically, the na- \ tion is now unified, with all citizens de- 1 ' A termined to do their utmost to help win the war. In actuality, a good many citizens seem more concerned with how they 1 can use the war to serve their own ends, and how they can avoid as much personal 1 sacrifice and inconvenience as possible. 1 Labor in a number of basic industries is demanding substantial wage increases, despite the obvious fact that higher pay for workers must result in higher costs ViiorVioi* oil olnnnr fho lina flino ??iu iiignvi two ct?i aiviig mc jiiiv nuuo putting into effect an inflationary spiral that in the long run would hit labor as hard and perhaps harder than any other group. The heads of some of the big farm organizations, desoite their patriotic speeches, are fighting tooth and nail for more and bigger subsides?and they are implacably resisting any and all attempts to place workable ceilings on farm prices. If these groups win out?and they have tremendous influence in a Congress which is largely made up of men from agricultural areas?still another inflationary spiral will be well underway. i THE STATE PORT P1LC ? I -- - quiri : THE HOME a ; FRONT I r ?~ ??? Pi f to r There probably aren't many goes people in the United States who ma k . are still naive enough to think ucti< ^ that this is going to be a war they easily won?, a war won without ord. 2 great sacrifice at home and on of I 3 the field of battle. If there are gie, , any so naive last week's news fron " must have gone a long way to- Man S ward making them realize the prod . sort of war we are really in. shor Last week brought news from a I the armed forces, from the field have ;onceivably lead to our defeat in war, \bout the only cure for this kind of polices is public opinion. Next November, the people will elect a Congress which, in all probability, will run the country until the ivar is over. This will be one of the most fateful elections in all our history. Quick Pace SOME United Nations disasters can be laid straight at the door of the high :ommands. Too many of the Generals seem to think in terms of "classic warfare." That was a relatively leisurely kind )f warfare, and it was developed and perfected in the days when tanks and planes ind similar machines were minor weapons. The Germans and the Japs think in ;erms of dynamic warfare. They are daring. They take long chances. They use the weapon of surprise to the limit. Libya provides a tragic example of that. As Newsweek says, "British generals figured it would take Rommel a week tc ten days to thrust past the Egyptian frontier after the British withdrawal. It took him a matter of hours." Germany has also been superior in the science of logistics?which simply means the handling of supplies. They have mov ed more equipment, and moved it taster by far, than have the defenders. In short, the United Nations still have a lot of red tape to cut?and they have a lot to learn, As a boy he rings door-bells and runs, As a man he writes anonymous letters tc the newspapers. These arm-chair strategists should firsl devise a strategy which would get them out of the chair. About the only excuse the modern woman can have for wearing sleeves is tc wear her heart on. Incidents have been t unearthed wher< certain business interests put their owi wishes ahead of the needs of the nation However, it is generally true that the re cord of industry in this war has been ex cellent. Furthermore, industry of all kind: is regulated and controlled to the' hilt bj the government?which is not true o either labor or agriculture. Taxpayer groups are also extremely ac tive in Washington, and all of them, witl a few honorable exceptions, seem to b< trying to figure out ways and means t< make the other fellow pay for the war They are all for sacrifice?so long a: someone else does the bulk of the sacri ficing. The blackest picture of all, in the viev of many writers, is found on Capitol Hil itself. Next November, all of the mem bers of the House and a third of th< members of the Senate will be up for re election. There are, of course, congress men who are not swayed by political con siderations?who are doing their best and who refuse to play old-fashioned poli tics-as-usual in attempts to make certair of holding their jobs. Unfortunately foi the nation, there are a good many coft gressmen, in both parties, who seem t< be thinking almost exclusively irt terms oi votes. They don't want to step on th< toes of their constituents. They don't wanl to awaken them to the unpleasant realities that total war involves. They don'l want to vote for bills which will make their constituents have to go withoul things. They are, irt short, seeking tc please all groups and all interests?and that means that they are doing their best J' 1 "" . i'nnii/\n a? fr ro eitirer aoage auncuu i^uco, w tv. straddle the fence. Some of the election campaigns now :aking place are, in the view* of men whc arrasp the world situation, almost literallj sickening. Political job-seekers are flagrantly pandering to special interests?tc labor, agriculture, pension seekers, etc, They treat the war as a sort of side show ?in the face of the obvious fact that we and our Allies have as yet not taken back i single inch of conquered territory, and she Axis is making tremendous progress >n the most vital battlefronts. Every authority is convinced that if we lose this ?var, we will be subjetced to virtual slavsry. We'll get precisely the same treatnent the people of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and other beaten nations lave been given. That is the issue which some of the most active seekers after ligh office are busy dodging now*. It can be argued that such things as this will inevitably happen in a demoiratic country?in a country where any>ne has a right to speak his mind, no mater how empty and misguided that mind s, and where anyone can advance himself as a candidate for almost any office re chooses. It can also be argued that tmco "democratic weakenesses" could Y of transportation and the vital gle | field of materials and supply, tuck which served to underline the Roll! " grim, hard task before us all. mori } The Office of War Informationj ucti( . released the total casualties suf- and fered by our armed forces since com! hostitlities broke out. The fig- is tl - ure stood at 44,143 soldiers, sail- selvi ors, marines, coast guardsmen, pj ' ahd members of the Philippine ft " Scouts, killed or wounded or miss- but i ing?-many of these missing are jess f believed prisoners of the Japs ?'flow and their sacrifice emphasizes thejgIea - pettiness of those who complain I now ) of restrictions on our normal lives1 f0r - at home. mea; Here at home our one con- or i ! cern must be, as it has been since If V t Pearl Harbor, to see that every mus bit of material we can spare of goes to make weapons for our steel - troops and that there are trains WP1 ! enough and trucks enough and requ - ships enough to take these wea- car pons where they are needed our ' This great task may be sub- city | divided into three main jobs ? Ai the job of supplying materials mus ' for our factories, a job which in- poin > eludes the important work of sal- M. vage and saving?, the job of i local production, a job which enlists all j and the energies of a vast and con- mitt >' stantly growing army of Ameri- to tl r can craftsmen?, and the job of som< transportation. Let us see what with progress we have made as of to- sera; i day with each of these jobs. H( Materials And Salvage ? Produc- Ame tion Reaches New Record peop The War Production Board last the !' week moved once more to assist Nazi the flow of critical war materials than to those points in our industrial goin 1 system where they are most need- brua ; ed. Because of changes in the fronl Priority System WPB from now unus on will know the supply and re- and Dlvlliu IUUIX 11 i ? OF TOB A( ? TO CHADBC . . . and we'll guarantee that you l / if you're not, we'll never ask you to < You're wasting your time, gasol shop around with your tobacco. Brinp "Grade-For-Grade?You'll the strongest mar south carolin. Chadbourn Toba LEM WINESETT, Supe ' 1 ' r? America ha! ' 1 America enjoi superiority ovi have the best I the world to he i I use of our gr< l ! The more t the United St; and credit fac productive eff< ' i American i power felt in survival. ! iV^TTM ; I HHMWIWHHfH ) 11 1 j - NOT i --1 jfrost apt nick-name we've heard chat given the little Coast Guard the harbor. She's been christened t . . The men who grow 'em tell the best demand for watermelons have ever known. And we might seen some of the biggest and be summer we have ever seen. That pair of lunatics are back tonight as the Amuzu in "Ride Everybody who saw "Keep 'Em that we refer to Abbot and Cos even funnier on the ground than the air . . . There was a moderr the "Yes, My Darling Daughter," monition last week when a couple rowed Robert Thompson's sailboat noon's outing. The craft was tie' the yacht basin, and the would-b the entire afternoon trying to sail the total action will be brought ibout by the uniformed police." In other words, by Himmler and the Gestapo. 1 iVPB Issues Drastic Restrictions , Salvage is one way of saving t materials for war and another is ] restricting the unnecessary use , >f war materials in civilian prod- , acts. We already have gone a , ong way toward ending such un- , necessary uses but we can always ) tighten up the belt another notch, i Last week brought these tighten- ' ngs?(1) WPB ordered all hand j tools simplified to save iron and 1 iteel and other materials and de- . :reed that after the end of Aug- ( ist alloy steel may not be used i n any shovels except those used j n mining. (2) WPB decreed that| < sole leather of military quality' ( ind weight may now be used on-11 y in shoe or repair leather sought for military purposes (3) iVPB issued more drastic restricions in the use of rubber fori! i long list of civilian products, I < ncluding rubber footwear and a! i /ariety of farming and industrialj 1 quipment. (4) WPB announced!, hat a way had been found to c nake powder bags and other [< nilitary articles out of used silk J ( iosiery, stopped sale of used silklf losiery in the hands of dealers, j : Plants Participate In j1 Slogan Contest j: If production were our only |' iroblem we might feel that we! [ lad pretty well "solve!! it. The | nore than 1,000 factories with|j Var Production Drive Labor Management Committees continue; o reach new highs. The story ofj he American Rolling Mill Com-1 >any plant cited above, is typical ?f reports from workers ana from nanagement in most of the great >lants in America's converted inlustry. The Production Drive Sloran Contest is a concrete guide o the way America's producion soldiers feel about their vork. Some of the plants send n more than a thousand slogans! the nation 3 fight tor z/^/Ue^u/ \ ?a )T, SOUTIiPORT, W. C. ement situation so well that most important needs of our ting men may be met as they lop. This is tremehdously imant, because we no longer ! enough to go around, we t put the weight of our prod- , jn where it is most needed, oduction itself booms along 1 ecord heights. Scarcely a day . by but what the men who ) e steel report to War Prod- j >n Drive Headquarters that have smashed another rec- : From the great steel centers < :he Eastern industrial trian? from the Middle West, and 1 the Pacific Coast, Labor- 1 agement Committees send in j uction reports which a few j, t months ago ? seven and! half rilonths ago ? would:1 seemed unbelievable. A sin-1' plant, The Ashland, Ken-1 y, Division of the American: ing Mill Company, has set 11 ? than a thousand new prod- ' >n records since Pearl Harbor its workers and management mented last week that "this le pace we have set for our;s until the war is over, ants Call For Scrap Metals ' lis pace will win the war, too, ' it cannot be maintained un- j we keep scrap iron and steel 1 ing back to the mills. The 1 t new salvage drive is on ? ? and there is no excuse ' half - heartedness or half - ' sures on the part of any city < iny town or any individual. ' re want to win the war we 1 t scrap metal. An indication 1 how much scrap iron and 1 I we need was a statement by 1 3 last week that it would 5 ire more than 750,000 freight < loads of this scrap to keep ' steel furnaces going at capa- ? this year. ' id that much of this load > t be moved by tracks to rail ' CS. WfB ^nairmun, L/ouaiu | Nelson, has asked state and I; ! governments to lend trucks ' manpower to salvage com- 1 ees to help get this scrap 1 le railroads. Steel mills today, t ; of them, are operating t less than a week's supply of i p metal in reserve. ^ ;re's another chance for free < ricans to prove that a free I le can do a better job than i slaves of a dictatorship. The j 1 s need scrap even worse 11 we do. And the Nazis are 11 g after it. A recent Berlin I dcast for the German home t said Hitler had ordered all ied iron and steel confiscated , added? "active support of | y j\ [RST LOAD j C :co | t )URN j ivill be absolutely satisfied. 1 tell another pound with as. | 1 c line and rubber when you 1 ; it to Chadboura and ... e Be Better Paid" KET IX THE f i|3 V BELT. j cco Market > rvisor of Sales r TUE DECT \ J I lift. Vh* I Jj jftsM I 1 TOO rs enormous material ) sr its foes. Also, we Danking machinery in j lp us to make the most j sat strength, quickly. I han 15,000 banks of i ites have ample cash N rilities to sustain any art however great. JJ tanking will make its |j ind most of the slogans stress hose things which are most im-l lortant to the work of war ? the] leed for speed, the danger in beng absent from work, the perils if inefficiency, the duty to work lard, buy bonds, and keep a siiint tongue. Save By paying come due it is worthwhile sa Come in tl matter. We m and other prol - 1 !i _ ami 11 urns n matters. Chai | BR1 1 L critical fuel shortage and hard ;oal will be necessary to replace lost oil or many war plants may lave to shut down this winter. Very little hard coal is used for manufacturing munitions but is ,0 tally necessary to keep plants vaym and to heat the barracks ind cantonments of our constanty expanding army. New England s an especially critical area belause of the difficulty in getting >il there and the bleak New England winter. ODT Tightens Up On Transportation TRANSPORTATION ? the East now is under a permanent :oupon system of gasoline rationng, a system which should realy eliminate unnecessary driving. \nd in- a buffer zone on the borler of the rationing area gasoline leliveries have been cut 25 per:ent. This comes at a time when l new record has been set in the imount of petroleum products moved by rail to the East Coast, ind when the world's largest oil larrying pipe line ? a 24-inch, S50 miles emergency line from Texas to Illinois ? is under conSUMMER Ml There are dozens yoii need now. Don't trying to get along w up implements an them now while you R. GAL1 General IV SUPPL xxx i me *xit mxxxx iOnYL your 1942 Taxes ; possible for yoi vings on your sta his week and see 4ir ko nklfl f A 1 CO I ay ut auK iu aooi blems about your < othing to find out $. E. G< JNSWICK COUN' AX COLLECTOR :K?KKlCIC?KK3ClC)C)CmCl V WCTLYN about lately Is [ entrance?to nc patrol boat in Breman Fur] ;he "Busy Bee" pup, really are us that there's hig Great Dane this year they ship of the to add that we've crowd Saturda st melons this again3t the Co! the service mer in the business ent tQ a moral 'Em Cowboy." who are aceust Flying" knows adding machine itello, who are Some of the they were in i adaptation of Civilian DefenSl swimming ad- made by Rev' ] of novices bor- church in Soutl for an after- hers the ai d up down in purpose . . . II e sailors spent couple of new her out of the mington run b Coal Replaces Oil In War Plants The War Production Drive leadquarters this week begins a :ampaign to bring the 300 andiracite coal mines in Eastern Pennsylvania into the War Production Drive. The sinking of imorira tankers has created a lerchandise { Y, N. C. II HMMaranM*! sixes J before they j| i to make a a tement. I us about this 9 st you in this 9 county taxes 1 : about these 9 uise rY ? Vt.Urct.3UAY, JULY 25 , Iws^l r avail. ple35 and Jerry going after Harold Aldr.de. Ceasar, for the b... H wa freJ Aahbuin ?<-, y afternoon for 1 H ist Guard and v.-err H l to a 4 - 2 victi-iy. Tiv11 t victory over the Oik i ; - ,. H ;omed to count the best points that -.v.- H t mass meeting Fri Howell, pastor of St H rport. He certainly nr.j. udience with the sir. ;;iv t, : they are to be had. theres * buses making: the S efore long. [ struction. But our rertTfoPI roleum products is .,t r II to gasoline, with all the t we can bring in by wRat--.. means we shall have . ; need to keep out jt . and power plants to7.'! Eastern homes which cannr t> vert to coal. We cannot put great qm-,. of war materials into new portation facilities wheth r are for the movement of1 and finished goods or tlj. 1 ment ofwar worker-, The o;h of Defense Transpot tation. ;i ducting a drive to have tn* companies reduce the nut- . J stops in order that they - maintain the same frequent? y service with less equipment, p. rubber situation is as critical a ever and from now on only tr. j (Continued on Page : Convenient. Practical Economical PLACE to TRADE Roland Simmons Service Station ASH, N. C. ummmmmmmaammBBmm ERCHANDISE of summer items llut make the mistake of ith worn out, patcM d utensils. Replace can. LOWAY
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