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Page 2 The State Port Pilot Southport, N. G. Published Every Wednesday - JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor (On Leave of Absence, In U. S. N. R.) ? Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. _ SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR $1.50 * SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 Wednesday, November 15, 1914 Patrons And Postmasters In an interview last week the manager of the WB&S bus line, operating between Southport and Wilmington and Southport and Whiteville, stated that the transportation company was doing all it could to get mail contracts between Whiteville and Southport. Such a contract would result in better passenger service between Whiteville and Southport. This angle, however, should hardly be considered in view of the fact that there is a real ? ? J ??? /??<.{?/? una a fnv hotter mail ser aiiu pic5M"& xvx ? ? vice for the lower part of the county. Waccamaw, Shallotte and Lockwoods Folly townships have about the worst mail service of any townships in the state. To remedy this sorry condition the bus line is in fine shape to give real mail service. The bus line probably will not get the authority and a contract to carry the mail until mail patrons and postmasters at Supply, Shallotte, Longwood. Exum and Ash get together and ask the post office department for a mail route between Whiteville and | Southport. Plenty Of Power Available i With the end of the war Rural Electrification is slated to expand to the point where practically all sections, j that boast any population at all, will get service. Such expansion is not feasible until the end of the war for several reasons. There is not enough labor, and not ,i enough wiring, poles and equipment. At the present time there is not even enough current available for even a small part of the extensive expansion that is planned. A nr.m.nM + 1,, "D 11 1 L. nj/jjfiicnu.y di uiiswiciv uuuuiy win utJ one of the first to have current available to take care of expansion needs. During the past several months Southport has constructed a modern plant, i| capable of taking care of about three or more times the present demand. The R0A buys its current from whatever ! soifrce of supply is available. Recently Dr. E. D. Bishop, president of *the Brunswick REA, took note of | this ample power available at South1 port. He expressed the view that the i purchase by the REA of some of the unused available current at Southpoit | wcbld be to the mutual advantage of !both the REA and the Southport plant. It seems that if labor, poles and wiring becomes available, Brunswick people will not have to wait long for current. Now Let's Get To Work I |^APne of the wonderful things about j ^ out democracy is that we can take time out, when we're engaged in a death struggle, to have a national election. No less wonderful i? the ability of our people, regardless of party, to accept + J?? '* imw- uecjsion oi rne majority and get back to the real business of winning thet: war. We believe the election did us good and we believe it demonstrated to the other nations of the world that democracy works, even during a war. Ours is no peacetime idea of government which must be shelved at the sound of gunfire. All of us in the United States do not agree on the way things should be done and that is a good thing. When we all follow blindly, then is the time to worry about our democracy. We have indicated to the world that we are united on the fundamental issues. We're not Republicans and Democrats now?we're Americans! Cooperation Is Needed This year more than ever before cooperation is needed from post office patrons who desire that their gifts reach their destinations by Christmas. Transportation facilities are always taxed during the month of December. T This year the facilities have become completely overburdened. The Post Office Department says: "In view of the ^ congestion, the only way in which the wi delivery of parcels may be assured is hu to mail them before December 1st." er 611 This year gift sending is expected to ki top all previous years, and in addition, Tt due to the fact that people are widely 8,1 I scattered, parcels will have to travel two or three times the usual average w< distance. In notices to the post masters P? it is said that the only solution to the problem is the complete cooperation of ce the public in meeting the december 1 co deadline for mailing parcels that are ar j to arrive by Christmas. th ur er America Marches On dii tit Re At this time three years ago Ger- is [ many was over running Russia. At best, S experts in warfare were united in be| lieving that Russia could last but a few I weeks longer. It was a brilliant setting ini I for further world conquest by Ger- iai j many. Ai we Encouraged by the existing outlook th, j for world domination, the Japs were 3 1 ^arafiiiiv anacbcrl for their treacherous wc attack on Pearl Larbor. Germany was ha to soon finish off Russia and would 25 take care of the Atlantic side of things while the Japs overran the Pacific and ^ invaded from the west. ov The Japs struck, according to plan. Also according to plan, Germany declared war on the United States immediately thereafter. With Russia sure to esi fall, the Axis looked for an easy course inf in conquering and looting America. atl Two things they overlooked, and bu their oversight was fatal to them. These foi were the energy and resources of the an American people. These resources had crj to be developed and developed they an were. It took two years to get ready a for any major blows. Meanwhile both England and Russia received all the aid of they could reasonably ask for. We were hii holding things and training men so a there would be the smallest possible loss of life when the blows came. he For things not going as planned, botlr Germany and Japan have acquired a deep and lasting hatred of Presi- Al dent Roosevelt, whose administration ^01 has marshalled all the energy and re- a sources that we are now putting into wf the war. Germany and Japan have now a? been told that we are in the war to the 0w finish, and are united as Americans to thi win the war. a a ei? No Reconversion?But tn th Few people realize that agriculture th is one of Americas 'largest industries and employs approximately one-fifth of ha America's total workers. During war- 01 pe time, our farm families have performed ap their difficult task supplying food for tei our armed forces and Allies, only by a working long, hard hours, seven days ^ a week, 365 days a year?coping daily co with the shortages of farm machinery, ed Cc equipment and manpower. While this ln, industry will not need time for conver- wi sion of its processing plants at the end 1)6 of the war?it still faces a tremendous ^ responsibility of producing greater of quantities of food than ever before in th history ... so that the people in these ^ United States and throughout the world may have better food, better health, fo and a better life. j True Freedom Of Enterprise to Ever since the merchants broke the be back of the Middle Ages, the principle I* of freedom has been closely linked to th the concept of trade. In legislatures, v) in law courts, on battlefields, men have debated, contested and bled for the ce 3.1 privilege of working and trading er where, when and as they would. pe True freedom of enterprise is in- us separable from the idea of democracy. a< It must be remembered that enterprise sh is shared by all who participate in it or partake of it. Enterprise includes Cj, the man who makes something, the man who helps him make it, the man who buys it and all those who make fii or buy something like it. Hence enterprise is not entirely free unless the manufacturer, the worker, the consumer and the competitor share equally in the freedom. _ There is a simple method of assur ing this equality of freedom. That is, of course, the method of control: reasonable price control, reasonable labor laws, reasonable exercise of consumer rights. Somewhere between the freedom which the robber baron enjoyed (and which meant slavery for millions who worked for them and bought from ? them) and the total restrictions of a corporatized state lies true freedom of enterprise. . . .... HE STATE PORT PILOT, Roving Reporter (Continued from Page 1) inting. About the middle of the orning we ran across X. E. Chadck at Shallotte. He had been inting on I^ockwoods Folly Riv- j' with a companion. Without ev-1 a dog to assist them they had g lied 17 squirrels and 3 coons. t lat was far from being bad j rail game hunting. ] Politics and potato digging c >nt hand in hand last week and j j. tato digging received the most:t tention. Several light frosts had i out killed ail potato vines ex-1 pt at points immediately on the i ast and election week came s ouhd with a large portion of is year's crop still undug and.,' istored. As a result, about ev- j I ybody devoted his energies to jc fging and storing, only taking j1 ne out to vote on election day. 1 sports are that the potato crop 1 a fine one. J This Christmas will find hun- 3 eds of Brunswick men scattered ( . over the world, many in very s iccessable places. Elbert Kez- s i, son of the writer, is with the 1 r Corps at Galena, Alaska. Two J seks ago the temperature at at point had already dropped to ( degrees below zero and was irking steadily down toward . e 60 degrees below at which it I ngs all winter. The place is , 6 miles from the nearest town village and the only way to iVel is by plane or dog sledge. , le Yukon is long since frozen j er. Clarence Jenrette, defeated ( nclidate for the house of repre- a itatives, made one of the fair- a t, cleanest campaigns, accord-! c j to all who saw and heard i out it . He lost in the war-time c ongly running democratic tide, ; t he has probably less reason j post-campaign regrets than i y other man. So far as could t seen Mr. Jenrette neither t tieized nor was criticized by y rabid party partisan. He got j( big vote and his failing to win j es not mean that he is short 2 having the respect and liking e hundreds who did not vote for t n. He closed his campaign with i; letter of sincere congratulations g his successful opponent, writl just as soon as he learned had lost. r 0 London Lewis, who ran against fc nos Walton and lost in the race n r Register of Deeds, also made I good clean campaign. He has t lot of friends among the people! t 10 voted against him, as well f among those who voted for j \ n. He appeared to take his1 m defeat in a far better spirit^ an many of his friends did. As r regular thi?g <yje would expect' s candidate who lost out by only 11 jht votes to raise a cry of [" lud. Mr. Lewis did no such | ing, he accepted the decision of e ballot boxes. Herbert Rogers of Southport s always hact a fondness for >ossum and coon hunting, escially for coons. This year he pears to be in luck in the matr of having coon dogs. He has brace of them and they are id to be fine. Two or three :nts this past week netted 91 ons, the largest of which weighfourteen and a half pounds. >on hides are said to be bring% a good price and the folks 10 love coo'n hunting can sort of credited with getting their ke and eating it. Folks in the untrv with a love of sn? kinrl hunting- are urged to report eir exploits to this column. It a time of the year when folks joy little hunting stories. >ig Increase Allowed n Cigarette Tobacco RALEIGH. ? The amount of bacco to be allotted for the anufacture of cigarettes has len increased from 578 million funds to 624 million pounds, e State Department of Agriculre has been informed by the af Food Administration. The new allocation is 96 per nt of the quantity used by cigette manufacturers in the year ided June 30 and is only two tr cent less than the quantity led from the 1939 record crop, icording to the report. September irop estimates which owed a much larger flue-cured bacco crop than was originally dicated led to the increased garette allocation, said WFA. Black walnuts planted in idle aces produce profits in nuts and Tiber. Growing pines provide a sure, fe old-age insurance. Red cedar for Christmas trees a profitable crop for idle land. LET US HAVE YOUR FALL WOOLENS TO CLEAN Promptly AND Efficiently OUTHPORT CLEANERS SOUTHPORT, N. C. SOUTHPOKT. N. C. CAPITAL I By Thompson < SPEAKERS ? Among those jt scheduled to speak at the Na- j t ional Grange convention being J leld in Winston-Salem November t .5-24 are Donald Nelson; Eric < fohnston, of the U. S. Chamber t if Commerce; Chester Bowles, 1 lead of OPA; and Ed O'Neill, of 1 he National Farm Bureau. BEAR?How fast can a bear I un? Well, Jim Rea, resident ' mperintendent of the Tidewater g Test Farm in Washington Coun- 1 y, found out last week. He was i foing from Plymouth out to the {i >ld farm at Wenona when he saw j < i bear weighing around 1501 f >ounds' sauntering leisurely down i he old swamp road which is! e mown as Pungo Turnpike. It was s :ut out of the deep swamp many c rears ago, and there is a deep ( ;anf?l on either side of it. ' Rea i ipeeded up his car and the bear t itruck a trot straight down the s niddle of the road. He didn't J vant to hit that cold water so lurriedly and he didn't want the 1 :ar to strike him. Jim' said he ' hascd him about three-quarters 1 >f a mile, getting up to 18 miles j? tn hour before Bruin decided he vould prefer the water to the sar. ;i i OATS?If you have ever done s nuch farming, you know Fred ( ^atham, breeder of fine com and e i long time member of the State ' ioard of Agriculture. e Mr. Latham is now 73 years of c ige. but he still keeps his 2,000- ? icre Hyde County farm top flight ! mndition despite labor troubles, "his year he has a 20-aere field C if oats, but these oats are not do- , \ ng well at all. Someone called ( Jr. Latham's attention to this, ] ast week. "Well," said Conservaionist Latham, "I really planted hem for my wild geese." : \ The back of the Latham farm s bounded by the Pungo River. )own there last Friday afternoon !,000 beautiful wild geese lazed ;bout in the water, a flock of hem now and then flopping over nto the Latham oat fieitl for a ] ;ood feed. MEMBER?Fred Latham is not iow a member of the State Board f Agriculture. He probably would ie, but Lindsay Warren, who is iow U. S. Comptroller liked Ivan lissette, of Giifton, a little beter, stronger recommended him to he appointers. Bissette, a big armer and fertilizer salesman and Varren stalwart, is a good man.; Latham will be recommended o Governor Cherry as a fine nan for his State Board of Conervation and Development. Roy lampton, of Plymouth, is now fBlack's FAST, Let us show you an independent d< tire or battery ser long-mileage PEb Truck Tires and E TO?H!rFin?frin!n!i T&CKH&uCfAChtitl ARE FAMOUS LONG^WEAR IJjl jWm j|& PENNSYLVANIA ItPW ua show you f f J its this tough, longL I f f J wearing tire. It it Hi fill) rolling up mileage records on every I Bllac I CROWELL BL WEDNESDAY ~~~~"""""" wl" move out of the mansion and' I ' T7> I ? in .TIT I back-to his old home across town. J. X ' ' ' !In wi" c?me Governor and Mrs. | Ire en wood Cherry. They will have a merry J old time of it rattling around in ?? that house of umpteen gables on si :he~rnember from this section of B1?unt a'e a nd * :he State. He will be in the State :thref fIo? ?f !t ^h they tl Senate, and will resign before he J 11 Particularly need Mrs. vi roes in. Hampton knows North Cheny will have to spend purt- H Carolina conservationism as it now a11 hofr^T ,asweePin& and >xists, but if there is a new man adustinS of that Place- 01 Vom the Roanoke area, Latham ^ nay be the one. ; Che,rry wi" u J go license plate No. 1; and where- p GARDNER ? O. Max Gardner iff !} goef' 010 folks wi" d )layed a behind-the-scenes role in i^?kie;, J11?1* Joes ? Govern?r a :he Wake Forest-Meredith mer- Ghfrry' At least one state off>cial refuses to get a low license. c< rer controversy at Charlotte ear- Ag commissioner of Agriculture S y m the week. He-.t is said -Keh. Scott could have m u mlled some strong strings for the But he won>t have jt ti nerger last week-end. If he did.'silIy> and his Iate hag ' ag _ ihanoes are he was for the mer- large number as yours, maybe"; rer for two reasons. One, he was larger. ..j don,t jn fQr y l merger man when he was Gov- things/. says commissioner Scott rnor, bringing State, the Univer-' lity, and Woman's College under! i p . me head; two, the Gardner-Webb tv"ilStlttCIS & (li loliege, old Boiling Springs school,) Sale P()<<thnnr,l s still under Baptist control, and _____ ' nf ^redith from the rat.ftch. _ The opening of tcene would eventually add to the the 38th annual Christmas Seal itrength and prestige of Gardner ga]e ha^ been postponed from, -Webb. This may seem a long- November 20 to November 27. ange idea. Weill it is. But Max This change was made to avoid Gardner is nothing, if not a long- conflict, with the opening of the un man. Smart as a horse trad- gixth War Loan Drive which ir's whip, too. was recently set for November 20. "? North Carolina's local tuber-' STRIKE ? Wake Forest folks culosis associations and seal sale laid after the Duke-Wake game committees are now concerntrat;hat the Blue Devils made a lucky ing their efforts on putting this itrike when they halted the Dea- state over the top in its drive to ions on their five-yard line in the sell $215,000 in seals, depsite the iarly minutes of the football bat- fact that the drive will last one ;le. If, they say, Wake had scor- week less than originally planned. id, the game would have been : lifferent. Well, mebbe so, mebble Micorshlp With A io, but the difference was a good "IHBIflUIC 1*1111 M ittle school team agninst a good . * M Vfe #4 M )ig school team. A losing team liHIS I 119 H1 M :an do nothing right, while the || llMUP'V W HiU vinning outfit can do nothing vrong. That's football. It's hard Just tp' a-purpon Va-tro-nol up each :o beat a lucky strike, or a fit i2Ah"n-kATn '75K uckv streak FT65' 2) fntation, and (3) ucxy streak. helps clear cold-clogged xjwX nasal passages. Fol- virvc CS BACK?Well, in about six; low the complete di- * ?*? iv veeks now Governor Broughton i rections in fofder. VA-TRO-NOL ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE ... . j We are here to serve your j Constant Needs! R. GALJLOWAY General Merchandise \ ~ _ _ _ Supply, JN. C. COMETO^^^^sM ; Service Station] EXPERT TIRE SERVICE'J what the friendly, personal interest of, JI ialer can mean to you when you need, Jft 'fcg vice. We have a factory-fresh stock ofj INSYLVANIA Passenger Car-Tires,; % latteries. Come in to see us soon. 7tcOuf'l BEST BUY J You buy guaranteed " performance _ /St/jLi when: you buy Pennsylvania JyrfjT f* nrm. bert bat< s ' i I * a^s^s flRHtv&v PHMWHlUMIMMHial " fc -8 i m -^tv^'l' | Have your work aBB S A done by experts? n_* J /I mileage recapping WS^ESSI' and repair ma- Ijlj) p/a'Jw/ jfaflwflftit j<6w)8WL)^<.''-'jafI Ik's Service Static PHONE 110-J WHIl r. novemrpd i r ,y. RALEIGH.~T~?" Is owned by (he st 10951 tci^H ive now be 0111e so.^l ian rathe. liu!| isitors. aecoiding ' "* any Davis. He said that these . H f which coiii^ orth Carolina - a etrolcum < ,. ? rea. """ C03lal iTand00'aP '' ?: Xa,U!al Sr>| ociety. Philadelphia ith the Mil, ... on of tin \&IZ2yl I Havj B Jj Xs I No fires lo build on cold H mornings. Remove nshes S tim?' H monthly on average , H ? Over 3.CS0 sold in' <?, H locality. WE ALSO HAVE I COOK STOVES I (Any Type) I HEATERsI (Any Type I RUGS I (Any Type) I CITY CUT RATE I STORE I SOUTHPORT, N. C. fl . - ) 'pi ' f t m EVILLF
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