The State Port Pilot
Southport, N. G.
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Published Every Wednesday
JAMES M. HARPER, JR. Editor
Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1923, 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, October 27, 1948
Church Influence
There is no man who can truthfully
say to you that he owes no obligation
to any church, regardless of whether
he is a member of any particular faith
or religious organization.
The Christian religion is toe W
foundation of our law and without the
influence of the churches, no commun
ity long would be a fit place in which
to live snd do business.
10 Recently ?e heard 0? a
in a North Carolina town who each
year makes it a practice to g
check not only to the church where he
and his family worship, but to the
other churches of the commum y
well When someone asked why he di
7hf his reply was, ?I havecustomers
from every church congregation in this
town. If it were not for the churches,
would be afraid to lock my doors an
leave my store tonight. When I go
home, I would not be able to lie down
in my own bed, confident that I will
sleep unmolested until day. I consider
the money that I am able to donate to
the various churches as payments which
I am privileged to make in the interest
of a better Christian community."
Few of our people stop to consider
just how far-reaching is the influence
of the church, and we choose not to
speculate on just what our community
would be like were it not for the spirit
of peace and tolerance and good will
which has come through Christianity.
It Is Your Duty To Vote
Occasionally we hear someone say
"I don't fool with voting. Politics is a
game that is too dirty for me.
A statement like that makes us sick,
because most of the ills which beset the
administration of our government and
the system whereby we elect our offi
cials are born of indifference on the
part of the voters. If you do not agree
with the policies of the men who are
running the government, whether it be
county, state or nation, then it is your
duty as a good citizen to voice your
disapproval through the medium of the
ballot. On the otherhand, if you admire
and respect certain officials and do not
desire to see them ousted from office,
surely it is your duty to lend the full
strength of your support at the polls.
We may disagree most heartily with
our political opponents, but we do re
spect them because they stand for what
they believe to be the best interest of
the people. Not so the man who takes
this holier-than-thou attitude and re
fuses to take part in the free elections.
We think that there is a growing
apathy in the matter of voting, and we
look upon this trend with grave misgiv-'
ings. It places the welfare of our entire
nation at the mercy of minority groups,
however dangerous and irresponsible
they may be, for these groups have
marked objectives and the only type of
opposition with which they are not able
to cope is that offered by the voter who
insists upon doing his own thinking.
Next Tuesday is the last time in the
next four years you will have an op
portunity to express your preference
for the man who is to serve as Presi
dent of the United States, the highest
office in the world. It is your last
chance in the next four years to help
decide who shall be governor of North
Carolina, who shall hold certain impor
tant offices in our county and township
Government.
It is your obligation as a good citi
zen to get out and vote.
Juvenile Technique
Harold Ickes, the former Secretary
of the Interior, is right mad with the
press about the failure of the boys to
give him a good play on his speeches.
He must of thought there was some
thing smart about his "Thomas Elusive
Dewey" crack.
Personally, we hope the silent treat
ment will be given to speakers on either
side of the fence who can't think of
[anything better than "Harry Stumble
bum Truman" and "Thomas Elusive
Dewey."
Egotistic Harold does no good for
himself or his friends by his schoolboy
technique .
Education Today
If W. Kerr Scott is elected Governor
j of North Carolina as the traditional
I Democratic majority in the State would
I seem to indicate, we can foresee the
I dawn of a new era in education. For
tunately, for the State and for the
Democratic party, apathy in the State
capitol building will come to an end
and we shall hear no more of such
talk as "there's nothing hurting that
can't wait until January."
The same thing might be true if the
Republican nominee, George M. Pritch
ard, were elected .But here we are
thinking in terms of probabilities rather
than politics. i?nd this brings us back
to the thought that there is strong in
dication that there will be a new ap
j proach to the educational problem
come January.
There is something hurting that
can't wait until January and can't be
solved even when January comes. It
won't be solved by raising teacher pay,
though that, too, must come before
there is anything approaching a final
solution. There is something hurting
that shouldn't wait on salary increases,
larger buildings and more adequate
facilities.
The minds of children jdo not wait.
That seems a trite statement but
eternally true. The patriotic and ener
getic teachers who have served so faith
fully in this crisis are aware of existing
needs. And we believe they are giving
their best professional thinking to this
major obligation:
To utilize now the existing facilities
to the maximum in an effort to lift the
curriculum and morale to a level that
will more nearly tide the school sys
tem across the present chasm.
We have talked with numerous tea
chers and principals who want to do
something about this problem and do it
now. The time is ripe and the teachers
are interested. They can initiate their
own program and we believe they will.
It is a healthy sign when these un
derpaid employees manifest such en
thusiasm, and it offers the potential
that the educational program will have
easier sailing in the General Assembly
as the public observes improvement un
der the leadership of the teacher.
Raleigh Roundup
(By Eula Nixon Greenwood)
SLEPT HERE?And no doubt many years
from now one of those large aluminum-colored,
three-by-three tablets will be placed at some
point on Fayetteville Street near the Sir Walter
Hotel: "On October 18, 1948, Harry Truman,
President of the United States, slept here."
WHAT HAPPENED ??Tw^ months ago
one of the hottest things going in North Caro
lina. was the Dixie-crats. Nqw they seem to be
hardly creating a ripple. There may be a few
good Democrats who will vote the way of the
State Righters, but mum seems to be the word
right now, and reports from the rallies which
the No. 1 party leaders have been holding
throughout the State are to the effect that the
followers of Wright and Thurmond aren't creat
ing even a ripple. If there is strength out there
for this camp,- it is certainly very, very silent.
One thing is true, however: The strong
support which the 'Democrats THOUGHT the
Progressive and Dixie-crats and i Republicans
had has done more to solidfy and strengthen
the Democrats than anything that has occurred
in a long time.
ABSENT?State Treasurer Charles M.
Johnson has not participated in any of these
Democratic rallies you have heard so much
about in the past few weeks. Sour grapes?
Well, many are saying so?which is only to be
expected. Others who are perhaps closer to the
defeated gubernatorial candidate say that he
is very busy this fall getting everything in
shape in the Treasurer's office and just does
not have time to be gadding about. They say
further that Johnson knows he is through poli
tically and therefore is not interested in making
the arduous rounds.
Johnson has been in the forefront of the
party for 20 years or more. The party has
done a lot for him, but he has also done many
a good turn for the party. If he now wants to
call it even-Stephen, no criticism from this
corner, but he getting plenty of it from
elsewhere.
Rovin' Reporter
(Continued t from page one)
under the surface, makes a mix
ture just as bad as mud. In their
grading- operations out from
Southport on the river road they
are having to build a 10 foot fill
at Prices Creek and another 5
foot fill at Fiddler's Drain.
Working on top, the big machines
got along alright. The deeper they
got and the dryer the sand the
harer it is for the machines.
Operations have had to be shifted
from point to point, carrying on
and waiting the rains that will
harden the sand.
I Although very few of the pre
!sent day generation know about
lit, the old Dr. Potter residence
used to stand on the corner where
the W. B. & S. Bus Lines now
operate. This week Postmaster
Wilbur Dosner of Wilmington
was loafing at the station when
we happened along and asked
him what he was doing there ?
"I was born right here on htis
corner," said Wilbur, "it was my;
first bus stop and I'm waiting
for another one."
A letter from Raleigh this week I
from a party that had been on J
a bear hunt at Mount Mitchell I
said that they found out at Mount1
Mitchell that most of the good j
bear hunters weer down in your
Good Green Swamp and more will
be on their way after knocking
off the few old she's that re
main in the Mitchell country." j
Many a good story, valuable
for publicity of Brunswick county,
is lost simply because the folks
who know the details are indif
ferent in the matter of writing
and telling us what they know.
This is just repeating what has
already been said Several times:
We appreciate it when folks any
where in Brunswick take the
trouble to write us the interest
ing details of things that will
make a story. It i3 fairly safe to'
say that the things that interest
you will interest the general pub
lic. So write us a short letter
with the details of such matters
when they come to your attention..
We will try and fix it up.
Bob Ashworth, " the resident
State Highway Engineer, dropp
ed in to see us this week, accom
panied by the editors of the Good
Roads Magazine. The immediate
purpose was to get pictures and
story material relative to tourist
and other development in Bruns
wick as the result of road build
ing:. Mr. Ashworth at the moment
was serving- as guide: "You've
had me in a dither for the past
j two months with that story you j
(wrote about the Oak trees and,
what the Southport women did,
I to the folks who cut them down,'\
said Mr. Ashworth. "I built the!
Brunswick River bridge and it j
did not worry me as much as
I was worried when we started!
on the River Road and we had'
o cut down some of the trees", j
Did our women folks get after:
you?" he asked. "No," said Ash
worth, "they couldn't catch up
with me."
Among the unusual drags by
shrimp boats this past week were
some fresh eggs reported by Wil
liam Warnett skipper of one of
the Bill Wells boats. He was I
shrimping off the bar and his!
deep-running trawl found a hensi
nest of some sort. At any rate j
it brought up some loose eggs. I
A stale egg will not sink in salt!
water. These were fresh and upon I
breaking them the skipper found
them alright. So he fried and ate j
them. They were in water 30
feet deep and that's deeper than
any hen ever built her nest.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cromer,
Long Beach residents most of the
year, write from New York that
they have been enjoying a visit
up there. Still and all they are
anxious to get back to Long
Beach.
The big shrimp trawl of the
Penny, Captain Meritt Moore's
boat, picked up a size 2 ladles
bathing slipper several miles off
Southport, while shrimping Sat'
urday. The lady who lost the slip
per was either some swimmer or
the slipper was able to do con
siderable traveling on its own to
reach the spot where it was
found.
Among the many reports com
ing in of good shooting that bro
ught down deer meat, G. W.
Mintz of Freeland is credited with
the opposite. One day this week
Mr. Mintz is said by Irksene to
have gotton in six close shots at
a 10 point buck with a Winches
ter shotgun, missing him entirely
each time. In another hunt Mr.
Mintz got an 8 point buck, but he
is accused of having run him down i
Homer and Wood row Russ also I
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got an 8 point buck at Freeland1
Friday.
It has happened several times?
people coming a long: distance to
South port, meeting up with us
and asking if we knew where
they could find Bill Kezlah. It
happened again Saturday after
noon when the mobile photogra
phic laboratory of the Catipillar
Tractor Company rolled into
Southport. We had just gotten
home from chasing around over
Brunswick county when a couple
of hard working fellows from
Ieroria, 111., stopped us to ask if
we knew where we were.
By way of Irkaene Vereen we
learn that bear hunter John Fem
side of Freeland is getting a k>t
of mail. Folks are writing from
all around, asking about the bears
in the Green Swamp and the
Fernside dogs. The most of this
mail for John is yet to come.
Newspapers and magazines are
just beginning to ask for pictures
of Fernside and his dogs to go
with stories they already have.
This week Bill Sharpe, of the
North Carolina State News Bur
eau in Raleigh, forwarded us let-J
ters he received from Hunting
and Fishing and also from Grit,
widely circulated Pennsylvania
weekly.
Ted Robinson, one of the As
sociate editors of Time Magazine,
now on leave from his work be
cause of his health, is a reader of
this little paper. Hiis week Ted
was telling us of having spent
part of a summer in a Connecti
cut town with a ten thousand
population. They had only a week
ly, too, he said and it was not
half as good as the State Port
Pilot.
"We were at Long Beach to
day. It is quite a project over
there." This was from John Mar
shall , formerly a reporter on the
C. W. Davis Co.
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went to war early, staying in
Europe for four years and re
maining in service for several
years. While in the Army he was
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Here Sunday afternoon with Miss
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Bili Kopp, jr
son of Mr. ar. l Mrs^. ^
of Bolivia. fc-u ?d .
bones-in his right
ankle while at plaj. or
via school grounds Frity
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SPEAKING SCHEDUL
The following speaking engageme
have been arranged for Republi
Candidates as they carry the ca
paign before the voters in everyco
munity of Brunswick County bef
the election.
ALL SPEAKINGS START at I
October 27, Jesse Clemmons' Store.
Grissettc
October 28, Long wood
October 29, Vereen's Store, Exum
October 30, Lester Babson Store, Freelai
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