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11 Page 2 ^ - I The State Port Pilot Southport, N. C. Published Every Wednesday jAMES VI. HARPER, JR Editor (On Leave of Absence, In U. S. N. R.) Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at I the Post Of ice at Southport, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. I SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 We Incsday, January 24, 1915 The more you hammer at some peo| pie's faults the more you drive them in. There's no difficulty in seeing [ through persons who make spectacles I of themselves. To a pessimist the gas tank is half j empty, while to an optimist it is half I Must Give Thought L i Farming has always been a big gam. ble for the folks who fail to mix a lot of thought with their labor. The days ! of crude unimaginative efforts at farming are gone for those who wish to ' achieve steady and consistent success 1 at farming. Now and then a farmer will hit the jackpot without either much thought or effort. The same thing sometimes i happens to those who engage in outright gambling. To be sure of things, ' especially during these war time years, farmers should form a mental analysis II of what they have to go by and what | they can do with it. Be sure of your E ground this year before you put a crop In other words, it may pay to know I jusi wh it your lands are suited to pro[ duce, what products are likely to pay | best this year and whether you have I enough labor to look after all of the I land yoj plan to cultivate. The old adage, "Be sure you are right and then go ahead," is applicable I to farming more than ever before in On Way To Berlin Following months of preparation for I their great winter drive, the Russians have launched a full scale offensive. I Their armies are now on the road to Berlin arid, judging by the drives they [have made in the past, no human I power, certainly not the Germans, can stop them. 1 Hitler guessed wrong when he declared in the summer of 1941 that the Russian armies had been destroyed and I that there remained but the tinal mopping up. It was this wrong guess that | gained l im an ally in Japan. With i Russia rut, the Japs thought it would be easy for them to come in from the Pacific. America, they thought, would be too busy defending itself in the Atlantic from the Germans who would [turn from Russia. Russia was not destroyed, but turned and became the destroyer. The allout [warfare to drive the Germans back [gave both the United States and England ample time to arm and train. Tj With the Russian armies now less fthan 200 miles freni Berlin, it will proFbably be terror of the armies that Hatller declared destroyed that causes the [German people to lay down their arms 11 accept the unconditional surrender it the Allies demand. nreasonably Long While relatives of men killed or in ed in action are notified within a isonably short. time, usually within out a month, the newspapers and the neral public seem to be left out of s iniormation. The only way to get information of :n ki led or injured, while the matter still news, seems to be for the newspers to dig it up from the relatives H) hive been notified by the War ipartment. To illustrate the general slowness th which matters are handled roug'i the casualty lists, a case in int may be cited. About the middle August, 1944, this paper was advisthat a citizen of this county had ien notified by the War Department at Ins son had been killed in action, story was obtained from the family id published. On January 17, 1945, ist five months later, the casualty its in the daily papers had their first enticn of this young man being killed. % m / Hope in Many Cases It is probable that during the next month or two relatives of a number of men in this county may receive news from the War Department that they are missing in action. Casualties were heavy during the German counter-attacks at Christmas, but it does not folj low that "casualties" means that all were killed. On the contrary, German claims are that no less than twenty thousand men were taken prisoner during one threeday period. When a soldier or sailor is killed the fact is usually ascertained quickly. When he is missing in action much more time is required to ascertain that he is not merely lost from his company. It may be either that or he may have been taken prisoner. A missing-in-action message should | not cause relatives to wear the worst. I There is still plenty of room for hope. A Lesson Learned ? Let us hope that Churchill's surrenj der demand is evidence that the Allies have learned their lesson. Surrender now and nothing that Germany will have to endure after the war will compare with the torture for Germany of a fight to the finish is the sum and substance of what the Prime Minister told the German people. That was an honorable request made in an honorable fashion and couched in no threats of destruction for Germany should Germany surrender. It made no boasts about what would be done with Germany. It said nothing about reducing industrial Germany to an agrarian state. It said nothing about partition of the Fatherland. It even made no threat of extinction to Nazi leaders. It was such a demand that even Dr. Goebbels might consider its advantages, though there was nothing about it to lend encouragement to the official German prevaricator that he would survive the Allied plan for post-war Germany. The point is that there was within it none of the rancorous threats which stiffened German (pposition along the Seigfried line. Doubtless Mr. Churchill himself, as is probably true also of other Allied leaders, has reasoned that ' the war might have ended in 1914 had the Allies approached surrender demands a trifle more tactfully. Back And Forth The pendulum of this war has swung back and forth. First a wave of optimism, then a wave of pessimism, back and forth, back and forth. And with each swing of the pendulum has come joyous expectation or gloomy forebod~ * ... . T\ T\ f? ing. Look at it since ij-uay, ior instance. The success of the invasion brought universal Allied optimism. Then came the stalemate of the beachheads and the peninsula which dampened the ardor of the optimists. With the break through and the subsequent liberation of France came unbridled optimism. Then came the German resistance along the Seigfried line and the surprising German counter-offensive. With it gloom settled in again. Now comes the flattening of the Belgian bulge and the powerful Russian offensive to cause optimism to go all-out again. Back and forth, back and forth, so has swung the pendulum. The moral of the whole thing should be drawn from a homely adage, "Don't count your chickens until the eggs are hatched." Fu?m henceforth, we'd prefer that policy, fince optimism has backfired so j many times. ! Irving S. Cobb once said: "If I ever have the misfortune to go insane, I want to go live in Washington where I will not be noticed." Revenge is sweetest when it can be, but isn't taken. The grower who plants inferior seed needs no sermon on gambling: he is ] sure to leam his lesson. A man seldom makes his money last if his father made it first. Nothing makes more noise than a false report. Many a woman loses her head while buying a hat for it. Many men who wouldn't trust a woman in the driver's seat feel perfectly confident with a pint of whiskey at the wheel. fHE STATE PORT PILOT, S V-C Acid Plant Operating Again The acid plant of the VirginiaCarolina Chemical Company, at ' Navassa, which was destroyed by fire two years ago, has been rebuilt. The plant has been operating for the past six months in connection with the rest of the factory. Curtis Cox, Bolivia boy j who has been with the company for the past ten or twelve years, is labor foreman at the acid plant. Took Parents By Surprise Palmer Bellamy, SC 2-c, who has been serving on ships in the j war zones for the past year, sur| prised his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I R. E. Bellamy of Supply, by walking in on them Saturday night. He has a 30 days leave and instead of advising the folks that he was coming he just came and walked in. Ran Into Strike At St. Augustine Capt. Herman Stanaland, who went from Shallotte to St. Augustine, Fla., two weeks ago for three of four months of shrimping in those more southern watters, is having a vacation. He found a strike going on among the shrimpers at St. Augustine when he arrived there and it is still going on. The boatmen down there are organized and it is understood that they are refusing to work for the price offered by the St. Augustine dealers. LT. JEXRETTE IX INDIA I Lt. Addison Jenrette, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Jenrette of Ash, is now serving with the Infantry in India. He is a graduate of the Waccamaw school and also of State College in Raleigh. WORK IS HEAVY Register of Deeds Amos J. Walton reports an almost unprecedented rush of work for his office during the past two weekg. i Real estate transfers, land deeds jand almost all kinds of legal papers have been coming in at a fast clip. RETURNS FROM OVERSEAS After nearly a year in overseas service with the Navy. Neils Jorgensen, Mo. M. M. 2-c, has returned to the States and is now spending a 30 days furlough here with his mother, Mrs. Cassie Jorgensen. HONORABLY DISCHARGED Pvt. Bennie Clemmons, son of Mrs. Leonia Clemmons of Bolivia and Southport, has returned home with an honorable discharge after two years and four months overseas with the Army. He was wounded in France on the 22nd of July and also suffered shell shock. After several months in the hospitals he was returned home and mustered out. MEDICAL DISCHARGE O. W. McLellan, who has been serving in the Navy for the past eight or nine months, has been given a medical discharge and has returned to his family at Bolivia. CIRCULATING OIL HEATERS ' BH ' Operation of these heaters is simplicity itself. Burners contain no moving parts, no wicks, no lighting rings. Burn No. 1 Furnace Oil, Range Oil or Kerosene. ALSO HOT WATER HEATERS COAL RANGES OIL RANGES WOOD COOKSTOVES Wood or Coal HEATERS FOR 1945 City Cut-Rate Store SOUTHPORT, N. C. I i .1 - \ tOUTHPORT, N. C. (Idling Prices On jj Cattle And Calves|3 j |i Effective January 29, the OPA < and the War Food Administration a have been directed to establish i j an "Over-Riding" ceiling price on j cattle and calves of ?18 per hundred weight, Chicago basis, ac- ^ cording to information received1 j by the County AAA Office. 11 This ceiling price will remain! \ in effect until July 2, at which I j time the ceiling price becomes t j ?17.50 per hundred weight, Chi- 8 cago basis. .AIR. AIINT IAIPROVTNG J Wrent Mintz, well known resident of the Freeland community, was in town Monday for the first t time in several months. Some I j, months ago he suffered a facial jj stroke. Recovery has been slow j a but he is now about normal. 11 TX j S The Rovin' Reporter i (Continued from page one) j* could run over everything else in j ^ j the same manner and has not yet 8 I become disillusioned. Being a stal- ; j lie n did not help matters. He still I ha s to learn a lot and this spring j should bring him out as a beau; tii'ul horse. Star Garner and Rebel may become more or less acquainted this spring. Mr. Garner is plan] ning to send Star to Southport this week or next for a month or sc of gentling under the saddle. We have an idea this beautiful horse will be pleasing to the Southport horse lovers who see him. Talking about horses, Rex, Dr. Roy Daniel's beautiful white horse still leads it over anything we have seen in the county that will wear a saddle. Rex is pretty large and heavy for a saddle horse, but he has the gaits and grace that draws attention to him whenever Dr. Daniel gets him out. Come to think of it, we go to Shallotte every Saturday and each Sataurday the weather man selects that day to dish out the; toughes weaher ha he carries in ] his weeks bag of ricks. In spite of what we find in the weather at Shallotte on Saturdays we havei never found Gene Russ wearing { a coat. It is not that he hasn't got1 j one, it just seems that he is so red-blooded and fa that he does rot need one. To our mind he is the heftiest person for his age in Ikunswick county. When he laughs he shakes all over. Naturally, he laughs right much, fat people usually do. Gene, when not busy on his farm, may usually be found;: ' nil* wii mt i iny my ? | Callini | LOOK AT Y( You buy guaranteed performance wh you buy a PENNSYLVANIA Battfa You can pay more but you can't bi better batteries. EL/ PHONl iround the Coast Road Station at him. ihallotte. His brother, Charlie, is i me of the moving spirits there OTTO McKEIT md Gene helps him to move. Oth- DIED WEDNE! ;r Coast Road spirits are Thorn-i Continued on is Russ, who can usually be found Creek and Bolivia n animated conservation with R. ducted the services 3. White; Herbert Russ, who is ed by Rev. W. E. ilmost a3 fat as Gene, and Frank lottelolden, who usually finds time Active pallbearei o be busy. We should also men- "e Knox. Venton ion that Everet Holden can also Hawes, Lee Clem )e found there early each morn- Mercer and Foster ng. He goes there to wait until: Honorary pallbea he refreshment stand opens son Kirby> Floyd icross the street. FREDERICK ARLINE I SETS DECORATION I L (Continued From Page One) s -2it the Section Base here about I wo and a half years ago. While I GF lere he met and married Miss I r eanette Tindall. Nineteen months | VTJLC ANIZl go he was assigned to active du- SHEET R0C1 y and sent bverseas. His little on, Joseph Frederick Arline, is 3 months old and has never seen o ] lis father. Mrs. Arline heard from " ler husband a few days ago and it that time all was well with Be sure to see our mules bef< CUli I UKJiii U. Ulii WHITF^ I All Cars h )UR TIRES?DO THEY ' y?* EBB3BEI HEW TIRES 1 BATTERIES I ' 1 with PENNSYL-1 DtPA PPIbJfl I VANXA longer vij # ? / ?f Cr mileage recapping ^ H and repair mawf 1 teriaL , i 1 'M fl| ?i lyzpiE We Have Your New pc^ 4NSYLVANIA TIRES KM 1 the tires that give you more | free miles?PENNSYLVANIA SB& ( fJJ wear i, the only tires with super-test flE f. I)J carcass, dual purpose tread, WSuitlMk Mk , - type r pressure curing. We have new BfejfcWiKS NSYLVANIA Tires available WMUtKy You may be eligible now for > tires^let us help you check. J <fcuvtAMteect[ WE SYLVANIA BATTERIES Pigf \CK'S SERVICE ST : 110-J w. c. BLACK ? * * WEDNESDAY, JANUARY Bf J Kirby, Ed Mercer. \)( 19 .Frank Mintz. Osr.,, M "HAN tis Cox. Agnew Moore, 5DAY jletts, J. J. J.fcKov am \vn, ' 19 page two ;Kopp U|"'am M churches con He was assist- WALXER GRISSElf Lowe of Shal- DI?D QN SUNDAY 9 (Continued from page On.i 9 s were Char- of Fort Jackson, Hobe -t p Galloway, J. J. Mississippi, and P.oy A nf f ?f mons, Herman Bragg: and three' sisters m 9 Mintz. Laura Gore, Mrs. J. s. !^0., A rers were Hob- Miss Ilene Grissett ni ?< ' H Kirby. Elbert lotte. f Sha! ERTILIZERS I IOCERIES ? FRESH FISH 9 [NG, AUTO PARTS AND REPAIRS I K, DOORS, WINDOWS, ROCFING B E L L 15 L A N T O N | asBKMBMHMHMnnnn J I Received Today E Another Carload Of Gcod Young Mules, B As Fine As You've B Ever Seen. Don't V Miss Them! I ore trading or purchasing I ith & Co. I flLLE | z Trucks j I ?in *-< r-v ir\n/-i a nnitin n NtLU KfcCAiTlNb ; ?BBl! AR^FAMO^JS j 1<umu4 mMrfPvTVl'm mnnm -> us show you We are set up I to gi ve you fast \ 1 >g up mileage service with the 1 I rds on every very latest Aj/Jt ! H ofroad. PENNSYL-| | HAVE ON HANI) j I ity Material I And Good RAINED HELP j I ive You Good Service ATION I WHITEVILLE I 3S I i I f
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