The State Port Pilot
Southport, N. G.
Published Every Wednesday
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JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor
... Entered as 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, August 25, 1948
Vacation Spot
We have an idea that hundreds of
anxious parents will be everlastingly
grateful to Brunswick county beach re
sorts for the haven they have offered
this summer to those who wished to
get away from the crowds and possible
contagion from polio.
Even for those parents who lived in
the areas where polio cases were most
?prevalent there was little incentive to
go from one crowded condition into
another, and thus it was that several of
the more congested beach resorts were
passed by.
Here is where Caswell Beach, Long
Beach and Holden Beach were at their
best, for the broad expanse of these
developments made crowding unneces
sary. It was possible to spend an entire
vacation at one of these resorts and
never be in a large gathering
This would give a person who does
not understand the situation grounds
for saying that these beaches are primi
tive and undeveloped and that the reas
on there were no crowds is because
there were not enough people to make
tip one. Actually, on any pretty after
noon it was possible to go out on the
beach and see small groups in bathing
for as far as the eye could see. True,
there was no central point for gather
ing, just as there was no crowd, but
in front of every cottage there was a
bathing party.
This was possible because of two
things. The first of these is that there
was a natural desire to keep children
to themselves. And secondly, it was
possible to do this because every foot
of these beach areas affords a shallow,
sandy bottom, ideal for bathing, elimi
nating completely any necessity for for
ming large crowds at one or two desig
nated points ?n the beach.
Pay Your Bills
The other day we received an issue
of a newspaper printed in another
county, and included in the advertising
section "#as a reminder from the tax
collector that tobacco is selling good,
antf that it might be a fine idea for
some of the growers to use some of
their high dollars to pay their taxes.
Weil, this is just a free advertise
ment for the tax collector, for the den
tists. the doctors, the merchants and
tire fertilizer dealers to urge those who
'owe them to pay up while money is
coming in. We are even going to add
the preachers to our list, because we
consider generous support of the
church of your choice to be just as
much an obligation as any other debt
you may incur.
Aside from the matter of honor in
volved, it is just plain good business to
keep your debts paid while you have
the money. The day may come when
you will sorely need credit, and your
prospects for obtaining it will be based
upon your reputation for meeting your
obligations.
Always remember that the best way
to keep your credit good is not to use
it unless it is absolutely necessary.
T he Bear Situation
It may be that there are two sides to
the bear situation but there is no ques
tion that Paul Kendall has made out
an able case in behalf of the bee-keep
ers and corn growers.
Even before these remarks reach
print we expect to hear from the
spokesmen for bear hunters.
Mr. Kendall's position is that corn
growing and honey-producing are tan
gible benefits to the public, while hunt
ing, purely a sport, has only intangible
benefits to offer. As spokesman for
apiarists, Mr. Kendall has made it clear
that the choice is much like a choice
between going fishing or working a
crop that is being devoured by weeds.
Naturally, a good farmer resists the
temptation to take out his rod and
tackle and hitches up Old Dobbin to
the plow.
The appeal of the bee-keepers is un
derstandable in view of their losses in
recent years. The question now arises:
"What shall we do with Mr. Bear?"
Developments will be interesting to
watch. We are not taking sides because
we night be unduly prejudiced. We
have never engaged in bear hunting but
we do have a real admiration for the
delectable qualities of honey.
Let's Help Out
The city administration is making an
other appeal for suitable garbage con
tainers. This request should result in
universal compliance, not because the
city wants it done but because we are
interested in the health and appear
ance of Whiteville.
Uncovered garbage containers are
perfect visiting places for flies and
these carriers of germs make some
mighty close contacts with all of us.
Let's do something about this situation.
Moral Wisdom Must Rule
"It should now be branded on our
consciousness that, unless science is
controlled by a greater moral force, it
will become the Antichrist prophesied
by early Christians." In that statement
Charles A. Lindbergh crystallizes the
message of his new book, "On Flight
and Life." The book, Lindbergh's first
since the publication of "We" in 1927,
is condensed as the leading article of
The Readers Digest for September.
The American people's sense of val
ues has been dangerously distorted,
Lindbergh believes, by the very scien
tific marvels which have made this
country the most powerful on earth.
Holding that man's survival depends,
in the last analysis, "fully as much on
the quality of life as on the power of
arms," the author urges a re-evaluation
of our standards, based on spiritual
truths. "We must measure education
less by the amount of knowledge it in
stills than by the wisdom of living it
creates. The amassing of knowledge is
of negative value when it places busi
ness above family, and makes women
consider careers ahead of children;
when it teaches us how to turn loose
modern weapons without teaching us
the human values to control them."
Three times in his life, the flyer says,
he has felt an overwhelming compul
sion to communicate a brief to his fel
low men. "The first was as a young pil
ot, when I became convinced that man
had a great destiny in the air." The
second was just prior to World War II,
"When I believed it best for America to
keep out of Europe's internal wars. The
third time is at this moment of 1948.
I believe that, if we do not control our
science by a higher moral force, it will
destroy us with its materialistic values,
its rocket aircraft and atom bombs."
Envisioning this country poised for a
future war, Lindbergh sees the "intol
erable concept" of our civilization ex
isting from hour to hour, at the mercy
of an enemy whose atomic rockets and
other weapons wait only for some fana
tic's fingers to close an electric switch.
"It is a picture of the future toward
which we are now heading," the author
warns, "technically possible with bombs
already tested, with known methods of
biological warfare and with rockets
soon to be designed."
To turn this trend we must resort to
more than material power, he declares.
"We must strive to achieve a civiliza
tion so satisfactory to to men that its
force can remain unused in the back-'
ground ... If we succeed it will be less
by forcing our democracy on others
than by setting an example others will
wish to follow; less by pointing out the
mote in another's eye than by removing
the beam in our own; less by using
arms than by avoiding them."
Texas is the only state of the Union
that may divide itself into five separate
states. /
Remember tvay back when it was
possible to know the price of a new
car by reading the ads?
One way to get a good, lasting finish'
on your car is to try and beat the train
to the crossing.
The game of chess originated more
than 5000 years ago in Hindustan.
Rovin' Reporter
(Continued From Face One)
the room. Ttiey put him back to
bed and made him settle for sit
ting up.
Saturday he apologized to Carl
Andrews for not being able to
keep hi^ usual Saturday date at
Shallotte, and he promised that
this week he will be there. His
doctor may have something to
say about that, but he will be
there if he can. Sunday he want
ed a typewriter to hold across his
stomach so he could write his
column for this week, but that,
to, seemed to be rushing thlilgs
a little fast.
The thing he misses most of
all in the hospital is his pipe. His
doctor's, perhaps with other pa
tients also in mind, turned thumbs
down on this form of indoor
amusement, and he has been forc
ed to content himself with num
erous cigars.
During the first few days of
his confinement to the hospital he
was given penecilin and numerous
hyprodermics. When he received
news that these would stop he
made no bones about being glad
of it "I'm as full of holes now
as a roll of biddie wire," he said.
"They stuck me all over, too," he
added, "but it was all very pro
fessional." ,
Even whea he felt the worst,1
and that was a week ago Sunday
when he was first taken to the
hospital, he never was without his
'sense of humor. His doctor was
having someone ask questions in
attempting to diagnose his
trouble, and among the informa
tion sought was whether the pa
tient had been having any ring
ing in his ears. "Not in a good
many years," he reported with a
twinkle, referring to his total
deafness dating from the time he
was 7 years of age.
All things turning out for the
best, he should be ready to come
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Here is a cracker-jack
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home from the hospital on Hiurs
day or Friday of this week, must
take it easy for another week or
ten days, then will be back at
most of his normal rambling
about his favorite county.
His stay in the hospital and his
operation has been expensive, and
one of the things his friends can
do to lighten his financial load is
to give him their renewal to
their subscription. Commissions
on subscriptions provide one im
portant source of income for him.
and every one that is given to
him or mailed in direct to him
will help on his hospital bill. As
a matter of fact, we can think
of no finer way his friends can
show thfir appreciation of his
column than by sending him in
a spontarrfous flood of renewals.
And here are two or three
paragraphs he wrote for last week
but which we had left over.
We met up with W. Levi Swain
at Shallotte Saturday. Mr. Swain,
a former resident of Brunswick
county and former county com
missioner, is now living at Fay
etteville, but we sort of think he
would like to be back in Bruns
wick county. Anyway, he told us
Saturday that Brunswick county
was becoming widely known for
Its splendid beaches, fishing,
farming and other things. He was
kind enough to credit some of
this to The State Port Pilot.
At Shallotte Saturday Bill
Holmes remarked that there had
been three fogs already this Aug
ust. He reminded us of the old
saying that for every fog in Aug
ust there will b? a snow in Dec
ember. Well, there has been no
fog at Southport this August. Go
ing by the Holmes predictions.
Shallotte is already booked for
three snows next December and
Southport has not yet made any
reservations with the" snowman.
Holden Beach folks, at least
the several keymen interviewed
this week, view the extension of
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the Long Beach road with ap
proval. A fine cooperative spirit
is being manifest between the
residents of two beaches. It is
realized that as one developes the
other will likewise profit. Ex
tending the Long Beach road |
means more miles pn what will
some day be a road all the way
througli Long Beach, across Lock
woods Folly inlet m ,1
through Holden Btach.
RETURNS FROM OVKRskvs
William H. Bernard, 01 Eq\.
technician fifth 1? s-.de mu, j
Army, has retui ? cd to the Vr?
States for leave and teutig^
after 21 months 1 the Far ^
He has been .?? . ^ V:ith
Army Transportation Ccr^
Headquartcis on Okinawa. Ht (
listed in May 13;'i. H;s V|
Rosie. and two ch-.l en, Miry,
James, live ?n Route 1. Dot
He Is a son of Frank Beraarl
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