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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 ns second-class matter April 20, 1928, at
the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
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Wednesday, February 7, 1945
Are Free Again
The brilliant reconquest of the Philippine;
by General MacArthur is a
matter for genuine rejoicing on the
part of the American people. From a
humanitarian standpoint the release of
several thousand internees and prisoners
of war, in the retaking of Manila,
; is especially pleasing.
The Japanese people have never lived
up to the code of civilized countries
which give and expect humane treatment
of prisoners of war. With the
liberation of prisoners during the past
week a small measure of the cruelties
that the Japanese practice on prisoners
of war is just becoming known.
At the moment there is no way for
the American people to mete out
punishment to those who are responsible
for cruelties to prisoners of war.
We are a civilized country; we cannot
turn around and take it out on the Japanese
whom we hold as prisoners of
war. We can only fight on, freeing the
men and women whom they hold prisoners
is fast as we can.
But when the Rising Sun has set we
will be untrue to the principles of a
great nation if we fail to see that just
and adequate punishment is given
those of the Japanese War Lords who
are responsible for the torture of helpless
prisoners of war.
Rescue
For sheer drama and heart-wanning
reaction, it would be hard to surpass
the story of the rescue of the 513 prisi
oners from the Nueva Ecija prison
camp in Luzon Men of Bataan,, Corre[
gidor, and Singapore, shut off from
their world for many seemingly endj
less months, but ever held closely in
the h?arts of their countrymen. Ex
hausted, ill-treated, undernourished,
but never quite without hope, for always
there was faith in their American
comrades' promise to return.
There is nothing one can add to the
throat catching picture of these men?
486 Americans, and the remainder
British, Netherlander, and Norweigan
?som? walking, some riding, and some
carried on the Rangers' backs, proceed- >
ing to safety down a highway flanked
with f.n honor guard of the newly arrived
G. I.'s. But we all can join in
prayer of thankfulness for the liberation
of those who proved such heroes
in the last days before the fall of the
Philippines. And we can supplement
the decorations which General MacArthur
has given to the rescuing American
a id Filipino Rangers, by our own
deep gratitude for their bravery.?The
Christian Science Monitor.
'I*he Crash Of Daom
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ii isernn iaiis to ian to tne Soviets,
it will be the Russian miracle before
Moscow, Stalingrad and Leningrad in
reverse. But there appears now no likelihood
that the Germans will be able
i to repeat the achievement of the Russians.
Before the imponderable power
drive of the big Red Army, Berlin appears
destined to fall in crashing crescendo.
The hopelessness of the situation
for Germany is obvious. There is simply
no safe direction in which the Germans
can retreat. If they retreat westward
they are retreating into the jaU-s of
powerful Allied armies preparing momentarily
to touch off a mighty offeni
sive ulong Germany's Westwall. If they
retreat southward, they are retreating
; into a. pocket where Allied troops from
the south and west and Russian troops
from the east and southeast are poised
to hem them in. If they retreat north,
they stand in danger of being driven
into the Baltic sea.
Never in history have any people
been so completely fenced in by mortal
enemies. In 1941 and 1942, Russia
could retreat into the endless reaches
of eastern Russia and Siberia. In 1940
and 1941, Britain could have abandoned
the British Isles and carried on the
fight from her dominions. But in what
? ' ^
THE ;
ever direction Gentians move, they
move nearer their enemies. And from
every direction come land and air armies,
endless streams of them manning
never - diminishing ammunition and
weapons intent upon crushing Germany j
and destroying every vestige of Nazi- i
ism.
For Germany, it's the crash of doom.
Now It's Telephones
Telephones have now joined the
ranks of the "necessities" which the
government should make available to
all people, according to proponents of
a bill which has been introduced in
Congress to set up a "Rural Telephone
Administration' with a preliminary appropriation
of $100,000,000. Under it,
loans could be made to individuals,
corporations, state agencies, municipalities,
and cooperatives, as well as to the
Rural Electrification Administration,
for the purpose of financing the construction,
acquisition, extension or
modernization of existing telephone
compalves, as well as to provide for the
creation, when necessary, of new organizations.
As usual, the introduction of this
latest proposed venture into business by
government was preceded by a lengthy
account of the failure of the private
telephone industry to adequately serve
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rural areas now reacneu uy muusauuo
of independent companies. It was not
pointed out that the United States
leads the world in percentage of farms
with telephone sendee, not to mention
city sendee. From data now available,
it appears that one-third of the total i
rural families have telephone service; ;
this means that roughly, one-half of the .
families along existing pole lines now ,
take service, while 80 per cent of all
rural families lie either along telephone
lines or close enough to them so that
they can obtain telephone service without
the necessity of a construction
charge or other initial contribution.
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The telephone industry is planning
extensive expansion as soon as it can '
secure materials and labor. It is not
asking for $100,000,000 of the taxpay- 1
ers' money to further such plans. Since !
1935, in spite of war handicaps, it has
succeeded in increasing farm telephones
some 35 per cent, or about
500,000 instruments.
The question for the people to decide
is where they want the government
to stop its socialization pi*ogram.
If the government is to operate power
companies and telephone companies at
the taxpayers' expense, on the ground
that everyone has a divine right to
telephones and electric lights, what
next? Of one thing they can be certain:
as the list of material "rights"
grows longer, the list of spiritual
rights, such as freedom of press and
speech will grow shorter.
Bulwarking Private Enterprise
The action taken by North Carolina
banks to assure ample credit for postwar
small business is admirable both
as to the encouragement it will lend
the Small businessman and as to the
contribution it will make toward meet-,
ing government competition in the
lending field.
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in me lace ui ?t iiaru-ueaueu uumrtess
policy once pursued by the banks,
many borrbwers have turned to government
agencies for their loans where
they could get money easier, for a
longer period of time and at a more
reasonable rate of interest. The overall
effect was to encourage government
usurpation of the national economy.
The policy now being pursued by
banks is aimed at curbing government
loans by providing a loan system to
meet the needs of all borrowers, for
small or large amounts. Because the
great majority of the people of this
country are still strongly in favor of
free enterprise, they will welcome the
opportunity to borrow money from a
privately-owned institution if it can fulfil
their requirements rather than from
agencies the patronization of which
tends to strengthen the stranglehold of
the government upon the national economy.
I can assure you, so far we haven't
seriously unjoined thejap war effort.?
Lt.-Gen. Millard F. Harmon, Strategic
Air Forces chief in Pacific. '
Men, like pins, are useless when they
lose their heads.
.TATE PORT PILOT, SPIT
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Otherwise
In my mail the other clay
found a newspaper, "The Hone
lulu Star - Bulletin" which wa
sent by Ralph F. Frink of the I
S. Navy, a son-in-law of J. .
Ludlum of Shallotte.
Whether by accident or desig
I do not know, but the paper wa
date'd December 7, 1944. Th
headline glaringly announced "E
29s Strike Again" which sound
quite different from the one whic
the Hawaiian paper was forced t
print on that fateful day vthre
years ago.
This Honolulu paper seemed t
me to be very much like our ow
papers. I found the same comic.'
the familiar Dorothy Dix columr
and the well known and inevitabl
political commentators, but the
I read a society item which list
ed as hostesses for a dance girl
with names such as Okano Fujita
Ayame Kamali, Hane Kavvanisli
and Chiyoko Miyasato and i
brought me up with a jerk. (Th
dance, by the way, was to in
crease sales in the 6th war loai
drive)
Thanks, fellow, for sending th
paper. I enjoyed it and I've en
joyed relaying some of it to th
folks here at home.
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A letter from Cpl. Winnie Wil
lis expresses the thoughts of ;
lot of Brunswick County boys am
earls in the service. Winnie say
that she enjoys the Pilot, tha
"there is no news like home news
no gossip like home gossip, am
no folks like home folks."
Winnie was commended awhil
back for a special project she am
several other WAC's complete*
at their air field near Washing
ton. Her main thought is gettinj
the war over so that she cai
come back to her home here
Meanwhile, she comes back ever;
time she gets leave.
CPL. AUDIE PHELPS
GERMAN PRISONER
(Continued from page One)
Mr. and Mrs. Phelps have threi
ether sons in service; Albert t
Phelps, S. K. 1-c, somewhere ii
the Atlantic, Sgt. B. D. Phelps
who is with a hospital unit ii
France, and Coolidge Phelps, S 1
c, in the Southwest Pacific. Om
of their nephews, Pfc. Aldretl
Phelps, is recovering in a hospit
al in England from wound
received in Germany on Decembe
2. Two other nephews are alsi
overseas and a niece is in th<
WAG Iff Nfcw Jersey.
County Over Quota In Polic
Drive; Reports Incomplete
(Continued from Paire I <
ing is not indicative of the fina
figure raised in that area.
Still unheard from the follow
ing areas: Orton, Winnabow, Lr
land and Bolivia.
In a statement last night Mi
Lingle gave full credit to the fin
workers in this drive and the co
operation he has received from th
start. He expressed the apprecia
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
rHPORT, N. C.
= j tion of the National Foundatio
for the splendid work done an
said that without the help of e\
| eryone the fine report could no
be made.
Mr. Lingle especially praise
the work of the students in hi
school. Though representing small
est school in the county, the stu
dents made a fine record fo
! themselves. The second grade lei
the Southport school with 563.0
I raised. The third grade and th
)-18th grade also did especially gooi
s work.
J. It is hope that a final repor
f.' can be made next week. In th
meantime it is gratifying, say
n Mr. Lingle, to know that th
s county responded so well to th
e approval that the quota was dou
j. bled before the reports reall;
s started coming in.
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o Co-Defendant In Noted
e Case Under Criminal In
Brunswick County Courts
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q crs Ward was located, alive an<
i, well in Florida. He was arrestei
i, and returned to Columbus count;
e where he faced charges of at
n1 tempting to defraud the insuranci
- company: W. C. Ward and th)
s third man on the fishing trij
t, were also arrested on warrant:
ii charging conspiracy. They weri
t held under bonds of $5,000 each,
e At the trial in Whiteville Willi!
- Flowers Ward was convicted ant
a given a prison term. W. C. Wan
and the third man was also con
e victed. W. C. Ward now reside:
- in Wilmington, where the preseni
e ciiminal charges against him ori
ginated with the forcing of th(
young woman into his car one
- the alleged criminal assault aftei
a he had driven her down intc
j Brunswick county.
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, fact, the tales were so much
alike that the O. P. A. got sus
e picious, the woman was refusec
the stamps she requested and t<
' make certain that they acted righi
in refusing, an investigation wai
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Babson, of Bolivia, Rt. 1, died lnr's "1f
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