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PAGE 2 THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. ? PUBUSHED EVERY WEQNESDAV JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor nterad u second-class matter April 26, 1628, at tte Poet Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates ONE YEAK $1.60 DC MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS .78 Wednesday, November 25, 1912 An opportunist is a guy who uses stumbling blocks for stepping stones. A. brass nerve is a poor substitute for an iron will. Members of the rationing board and selective service board request that we remind our readers that they observe office hours; and they urge, that the public observe them, too. Most people are satisfied as long as they fare like others, but a few object most strenuously when this rule is followed for them. When a man gets too many chips on his shoulder he may soon find himself incapable of carrying much else. If you don't like the gasoline and tire restrictions, just remember that Uncle Sam is offering some swell opportunities for travel with his soldiers, sailors and marines. The llog Crop COUNTY Agent J. E. Dodson was telling us the other day that next to tobacco, the sale of hogs constitutes the largest cash crop for Brunswick county farmers. Never before has the production of pork been more vital to the welfare of our people. Already there is an acute shortage of lard and bacon, and pork is one of the meats to be rationed under the new program which becomes effective about the first of the year. All of which means that Brunswick county farmers must take the greatest possible care to see to it that their hogs do not fall victim of cholera. There are a few fellows, principally those engaged in agricultural extension activities, scattered over the county who can vaccinate hogs. The best time to have this done is before cholera strikes, for with hogs as well as men, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Hospitality LATELY we have been much concerned over the preservation of South port's reputation for hospitality. We have been thinking particularly about it's relation with the increase in population due to the arrival here of service men and their families. The answer, it seems to us, lies in the churches of the community and the contacts which are brought about by invitations, extended and accepted, to attend worship services. There are Various ways in which these beginnings may be carried forward. A second way is through the Southport Woman's Club, which could serve no higher cause during this period of war emergency than to be one of the media through which a closer understanding may be developed between the older citizens of Southport and the new. Sacrifice Necessary WE can see now the American and British trucks, tanks, and other machines of war rolling over the cedar-covered hills that lead from Algeria intc Tunisia. A hard fight is ahead for the men who man these machines, but they know their job, and they're ready. They're perhaps singing, joking and jolly, though they know that at their des tination many of them will undoubtedly be called upon to make a sacrifice. The kind of sacrifice which the?< young men ax-e called upon to make doe: not entail the giving up of one pound o coffee, nor yet the cutting down of theii sugar consumption. If the occasion de mands, these young men are going to giv< their very lives, their all for the freedon T*? 4 / * i THE STAT which you and I now enjoy. We can imagine them looking over the landscape through the peep holes of a tank, or from the lumbering jeeps as theyj roll along toward new objectives. We are1 told that the landscape which lies along the route now at this writing being tra- versed by the Allied troops is altogether beautiful. t The young Americans who are fighting'f on the far-flung battlefronts are young / men, on the threshold of life itself. TheyL do not want to give up all that the world p holds for them, but they are doing it|? without a complaint, without a whimper. t They see clearly their duty, and they are w doing their job magnificently. L By comparison, are not we little and J petty to complain about the sacrifices|P which are being asked of us, no matter ? how much more exacting they become as w time moves on. a a Dru% Store Admirals ti ? r THE United Nations offensive in North ? Africa has proved one thing. That ti our military leaders in Washington, Lon- " don and the other capitals have not been a idle during the months just past. n The magnificent feat of transporting ? thousands of troops over such an expanse t< of enemy infested waters, to catch the o enemy so completely unawares, and carry out operations according to plan, naturally necessitated months of systematic, j n careful, and exacting planning on the A part of the British and American leaders. |t, This is to have its effect on the home S front. It serves to give notice to the drug ^ store admirals and the street corner stra- t< j tegists that our military leaders, as some- c "? > bno wisplv Dut it. know just about asjj;1 VHg ??? %r ?- much about running the war as do the Ij, "Armchair strategists." c f< THANKSGIVING g (The Wilmington Star) e We don't have much coffee or tea or cocoa s I f< for this year's Thanksgiving dinner. Many ; n meats now are rationed. Assuming that our j v tires still are usable, there isn't gasoline for j ^ a very long trip back to the old home town, | n and the railroads can't carry us all. |b The house or apartment isn't so warm as s; p we would like. There's less wool in our new ? garments. it Wages are good, there is work for all, but 11 prices are high, taxes are heavy, and we feel j, impelled to spend more for war bonds than a we reallv can afford to have, so we can't buy S ? a the things we would like. f( In many ways already we are worse off ! fi than in the depth of the great depression, ih g New privations are in sight. Yet now comes ? Thanksgiving Day and again we are supposed t] to put on a cheerful face and try to think up 11 some blessings. ^ Well, misery loves company, so let's resur- v rect one of the Massachusetts Bay Puritans of 0 f; 1621, in the autumn of which year the first g Thanksgiving Day was observed. C We can't take Governor Carver, because he c' was among the half of'the colonists wt\o died in the preceding winter from physical priva- s tions, including malnutrition. He never lived P to give thanks in America. ? William Bradford, second governor, will do. Presumably he had as many comforts as there ^ were in the village of Plymouth. ? Bring back the spirit of William Bradford, h invite him to Thanksgiving dinner in the home 11 of the poorest family in town, and watch his C spiritual eyes pop at what he sets and what he has to eat! ^ Sure, we are short of coffee and tea, spices f and beef, gasoline and fuel Oil and- virgin wool v in our store clothes. And how much of any of ^ these do you suppose the Pilgrim Fathers had h when in gratitude for their first matured har- j; ^ vest, which for the tfirtet time enabled them to ; s eat a satisfying full meal of any sort, they ? established -the institution of Thanksgiving ? f- e They felt themselves fortunate to have some , grain (we have a surplus) which they could . make successively into flour and bread; some turkeys (fowls are not rationed) which they 5 went into the Indian-infested forests and shot; V; crude houses in which 65-degrees of heat anywhere except in front of the fireplace would have seemed miraculous. Our sons, our husbands, our brothers and our friends are away from home, a few dead | and more facing death. Their sons, husbands, brothers and friends already were dead? one out of two of them?dead for lack of the food, clothing, shelter- which the most under, privileged family in America possesses. T Yet the Pilgrims thought up the idea of giving thanks all by themselves, without beneI fit of presidential proclamation. We should have no difficulty, once a year, j in drumming up a little considered gratitude toward God, toward our forefathers, toward j the rich land they won for us and the free3 doms they established for us. p We should find it easy, even in such a year r as this, to be genuinely thankful that we have inherited blessings of democracy that are a worth preserving at far greater price than t any that we may have to pay in this war. j E PORT PILOT. SOUTHPO THE HOME FRONT ! The recent triphammer blows at | he Axis ? by the United States' leet in the Solomons and by the j Lilies in North Africa ? agaim| nderline the immense value of] nbroken lines of supply and sup-1 ort extending from the war! lants clear to the fighting fronts. I n both these large - scale opera-J ions there were lines of support . hich played a vital part in the utcome. Tn the Pacific area, Genral MaeArthur's lanes damaged ap naval concentrations in suport of the Solomons action. In lorth Africa, invaluable support ame from French sympathizers! ho helped pave the way for the; .merlcan landing. These (lines of support) to our] ctive battle - fronts involve more j tan military actions. Tn one sense j aey include the sustaining morale) f 'the entire civilian population atj ome. And civilian morale is more ran war enthusiasm ? with, rhich it is often indentified ?r tore than satisfaction in victories! nd praise of military heroes, | tore even than buying war bonds | r engaging in scrap drives. These nd other war activities contribute | > morale, they do not include all f it by any -means. j i "CONQUERED" PEOPLE'S MORAI-E HIGH In many parts of occupied Eujpo the morale of the people is j till high, according to reports, in pite of concentration camps, tortre, starvation and firing squads.1 Tot the least of the Axis terror i i its oppression of education. The | 'azis have shot and inprisoned ?achers and students alike. The zech higher educational instituons have ceased to exist, some 0 ercent of all elementary schools' ave been closed. Thousands of reek teachers have been sent to rrced labor camps. Polish higher ducation has been destroyed, the real University of Warsaw closd, Poles are not admitted to intitutions of learning re-opened i Jr the use of translanted Ger-1 Ictus. MI11IUU *1 lll.l LIUJ J. Willi arying degrees of severity, is jund in every occupied country 'et the siprit of the people in lost of these lands remains unroken, and their undersigned reistance, which has seriously hamered the Nazis war plans, will e an increasing menace to the lvaders as Allied advances prolise future victory. On th? Home Front our morale s put to the test by discomforts j nd restrictions we must under-; o for the sake of our single warj im? the destruction ot those i arces that threaten tiie very i aundations of civilization, our j omes and' schools. Nation-wide' asoline rationing to save our j recious rubber supply is one of i hese minor inconveniences. Standig in crowded vehicles may be nother. By cutting down all arms of travel?by auto, bus railray?we will not do away with ver-crowding, but we lessen a ar greater danger to our nation's ecurity. of which the Baruch Committee warned ? a breakown of our transportation system. >ur combined freight and pasenger transportation has thousand's of tentacles, each a part f the system. Delivery trucks of II Kinds, from fuel oil to flowers, | rom laundry to ice, make up the j web of services to which we ave been accustomed. We'll get hese services only once a day rom the same source, and we'll ave to do a great deal more undle carrying, especially of Christmas parcels. FUEL OIL SITUATION WORSENS With fuel oil going overseas in irger quantities, the Eastern uel oil situation continues to rorsen. New restrictions have ieen placed on consumption of uel oil and kerosene by space leaters other than furnaces, hose who use oil or kerosene itoves must apply for fuel rations In a basis of not more than 550 quare feet of floor area per heatr unless it can be proved that he equipment must actually heat i larger total area. And all those lersons, except private homeownirs, who apply for fuel oil rations or heating apartments, office luildings, institutions and the ike, must prove that the furnaces lannot be converted to coal burnng before they receive further uel oil/ More and More, the countrys vholesalers and retailers are becoming a vital part of the war program of price control and comnodity distribution under Governnent regulations. The fundamentils of coffee rationing will be sim)ly and graphically explained in vords and pictures in hundreds if thousands of food stores hroughout the country. Storeteepers will be expected to see hat their customers adhere to the ationing program, and count all loffee on, hand November 28, as jart of their ration. Restaurants, 1 : iii?ii tuLcia, aiiu institutions will oe | mtitled to as much coffee, less stocks on hand, from November 22 through January 31, as they lsed in September and October. Joffee inventories of retailers and wholesalers at the start of rationng may be obtained from supplies through "purchase warrants" issued by the purchasers, instead >f using purchase certificates is t HOI Clarence trirey, who is Well kno a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army Kelly Singletary, the fellow who i of this newspaper last spring from rs register his protest of the referer as a "Little Fishing Village," war iS. rp and among other things subscribe y- paper. T~ Billie Bragaw fought on the pj, week at the shipyard and won hi; ,,j ally, Billie got a swell send-off in >p naval cadet several weeks ago w to Atlanta, to be sworn in. on th K] which Betty Grable and her troupi a from Camp Davis to Camp Jacksc to ?s solve the problem of increased; ij. costs under a rigid control sys1 tern. in >e Fiuntin' 'N Fishin' it i ls By .10EL VQORE, Jr. le Squirrel hunting is getting bet" ter; in fact some of the hunters) have even killed the limit on a few occasions. 3- ... ' The coon hunters gave good rejo ports last week. One fur hunter reports having six coons in one jn tree. One of these coons vt-eigh,e ed twenty-five pounds. le * * jt Rockfish are being taken in a le number of the creeks and the rlv3 er. Last week there were a few i)l small drum and trout caught in a YValden creek. n The ducks are getting here j. pretty good now. We have seen j. them in the canals, rivers, and Hi ponds. We "have a restricted area :o in which to hunt ducks, but we le still have enough room. a- * * * 10 Quail hunters will be glad to |(l know that there seem to be quite RT, N. C. f supd by local boards as was del under sugar rationing. WASHINGTON LETTER WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.?Tn portant public service suffe these days because of politic? personal and other consideration Legislative and administratis officials are at odds over polio; making in connection with wa time regulations. High Adm nistration officials and lawmake are. at the same time, important to use their influence to ke< government employees intact their jobs. Cancellation of dra deferments of several thousar Federal workers has provoked scramble for political help ' establish the prospective seleetei as necessary govermnent "e: ports." The fact that these civi ian employees can onty obta deferment by establishing to tl satisfaction of the President thi they are actually irreplaceable h: produced Chaos among Unc Sam's nephews not in uniforr Their sponsors among the soloi are petitioned to help hold the positions in the civilian agencie Meanwhile, the quality and quai tity of their work is lowered l the uncertainty of their rating i the manpower picture. Personal feuds developihg i the Senate are likely to exercii a far reaching influence on tl trend of legislation. The impai will probably be felt more in tl njew term beginning January The filibuster on the proposed bi prohibiting the imposition of poll tax bids fair to break dow the high-touted "gentlemen's clul as the United States Senate coi sidered itself in building a trad tion of superiority. The technici "arrests" of several members 1 secure a quorum brought tl wrath of the truant Senators u] on Majority Leader Barkley. Tl ensuing bitterness, publicly ar privately., expressed, undermine the Barkley leadership to such s extent that it may seriously in pair the Administration's legisl; tive programs. If the Democrat Senators refuse to re-elect tl Kentucky solon to the majoril post at the next session, the r centlv augmented Republics gains in the upper chamber ma provide a practical coalition whit would make hard sledding ft White House proposals on a pur ly partisan basis. A few Senators resented beir placed in a category of school bt absentees brought to roll cal by warrants. Senate filibuste are not unusual as a means i wasting time and blocking voti on pending measures. It is parliamentary and dilatory devit whicjj only invoking .Jllf clotu: rule by a two-thirds vote ci overcome. Somehow the forct attendance of men who ride ther selves on dignity struck a ra spot. The controversy for a tin has overshadowed the legislatio Advocates claim the measure intended to offset alleged di criminations and disenfranchis ment of large segments of tl population in 8 Southern state Opponents assert the fundamen al issues, such as the right of tl Federal government to dictate tl qualifications of a state's vote and the constitutional question a overlooked in the flurry of arg ment. As people look forward to tl payment of heavy Federal incor taxes next March on their 19' revenue, few realize where tl government money is spent in tl urar offnrf T a toot ronorto uVin IIU. V.11V1 UU VVOV 1 cpvi kO OIIVJ monthly war expenditures are no hovering around $6 billion. At tl present rate Government war e penditures are nearly equal the total consumer outlay f goods and services, and all Go ernment expenditures account f roughly one-half of the value the entire finished output of tl country's economy. It is also r vealed that income from inves ments which supplement the ear ings of many persons fell off shar ly. Cash dividened payments du ihg the first 10 months of 10 were 8.6 percent lower than du ing the same period of last yes Most of this decline was due the drop in dividends paid by tl manufacturing and heat, light ai power groups. Recent Gallup pi found only one out of four ta payers were saving to meet tl first installment due March 15. Though a powerful House bl representing oil-producing stat is waging a campaign gainst ga oline rationing, the Federal e forcement agencies are proceedli with their plans. O. P. A. A ministrator Henderson stated sp cifically this week that a gener pvtonoinn r*f ?? Ui lauuiniig cuvcril many commodities is in the boo' for next year. The simplificatii and standardization program w probably wipe out distinct! brands and trade-marks of n tionally-known articles of ever day use. Meat rationing will speeded as Lend-lease shipmen drain the food supply for civilifk in this country. A major hea ache is the price control ov scarce articles. Henderson predic prices will rise in many insta ces despite the fact that both m terials and labor have been stal lized. He figures that with le labor available, the new crop workers will add to productii costs because they are green and less efficient. This offici hints that the government may forced to resort to subsidies id rnammmmmmmmmmmmmamm in a eHP V- ' or of he e; MERF I E> ? -47-f ^ It's going to b? make your gift a su :1i, to friends and relati serving their country oc than the home towi es know and love . . . n- Only $1.50 a ye d. your own) for 5 eal S * : THE s: on er ial be to |iMa|Haia|taa|iMM||iai|i|M / , WEDNl ' EXACTLY I ????? ???i wn here, Is now jus that "Butch I Air Corps - , .! surprise hits of t jailed the editorj Friday and Satur i Philadelphia to| Pauline (Mrs. ] ice to Southport an uncanny ahilit i here Saturday, license number in d to this news- so the other day j know something boxing bill last in another state, 3 bout. Incident- necessary informs his career as a a temporary halt hen he traveled | . ; kid football plavi e same train in! ? were traveling jarm one atornooi n . . . They tell j instead of the toi la few quail this season. There i (are a good many smart pointers' and setters in town this year. If the ammination holds out there should be right" good hunting. | Tires and gas will no doubt slow up hunting, but there is plentyj rof game near by. * * * Go easy with your shells. f NEWS 1 BRIEFS CHURCH NOTICE Attend the services at the Way-! side Gospel Mission, Winnabow, N. C. Thanksigiving Day at 10:00 A. M and 7:30 P. M. Also Friday and Sunday night at 7:30 _P. M. Rev. Paul Merritts, of Holly1 Ridge, will be the speaker at alii services. I 1 BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT i Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Gore, of tY CHRIS! /ERY WEE 10 ME AND OVERS I t a jolly 1943 for everyone bscription to THE STATE P< ves?and especially to men t ' far from home ! There's no. n paper to greet them with ar?or three subscrip 53.00 ! ^ State "ori i ipSSS rATE PORT Southport, N. C. r. ? I -5DAY, NOV if . iwsr^ .linds The Rahv , . r't|,. M . he mm yenr, and . ' <* day at the Amua, Pb% Mangus, Tripp of s y to remember eve,v .... b* use by citir.enr ar,-,unJ w'he" Mr" * ? White nJ^ about his son , rar 0 < he looked her up ition . . . Bobbie .fonps ^ in his eareer 3S nnp of ?rs * town- having brokf_ i last week while playIn? b(V ich variety. Shallotte, announce thTTT^ a son at Dosher Memor^t' pital on Wednesday y0v^ FOR TRRATMBVx Alfred Anderson, of &|iv, tered Dosher Memorial Friday for treatment HOSPITAL PATIENT Mrs. Louis Creech, of <s, port, entered Dosher Uee Hospital Friday for treats^5 Iraq will regulatTitTiT. ? ers. 1 It Always Pays To Look Neat! SOUTH PORT CLEANERS SOUTHPORT, N. C. , fc.. v ps I ^ V^Ti I TMAS !K iAS !on your list?if you 3RT PILOT. Send it ind women who are more thoughtful gift news of folks they tions (including ~i I PHOT J
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