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fte State Pert Pilot Southport, N. C. Published I very Wednesday JAMES M. HARPER. JR Editor Entered os second-class matter Apri! 20, 1928, at the Post Office at Southport, N. CM under the Act cf March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR ?150 SIX MONTHS 100 three months 75 Wo tint -day, March 16,1913 7>// The Merchants jLet us stait out by saying once again ? u.: t; , ; /. of a newspaper is bas c'J upon the revenue derived from ad vitising, not from money which comes ptions. V. e hasten to add ; , , ..icoiuo subscription dollars, aid we would be the last person on eSth t ' se the impcrtanee of our i Xal readers whose dollar-and-one 1 st! t payments keep coming in year aAer year. jj j piece is about advertising . . our readers can do to help US. ?I i I: one of our out-of-state sub f Jhbc-s who owns a lot at Long Beach stlpped by to see us about a house he v-|i to* build this spring. He wanted ? J . purchase of building ma t..r;: ; nd ? first thing he did was toftakc out : fe pocketbook and remove titrcf c ppings of recent lumber aid materials advertisements which {,v;*c ????.! i a Tiie Pilot. "I thought I d ?t me off to a good start/' 1 j sr.id. T ' ? ' . n was being" an intelligent ?, 1 ecq\?e he came pr^ared to dl" business v.-ith? r. firm which has enough pride i:i the service it renders : ? '.o -.L.'.c ::;ov ;: .out it. iIe.also iho : ?? of valu;i%' Jtrj.jad (, ?, pr.pei. ocause, he ^v. af^rc ' to li t c i advertisers know that he had read and had Been impressed by their message In our advertising col umns. There - - no cloir^t in our mind that advert^siag but sometimes?even v ?? n they v. e enjoying the results of S' ccesjlu' i' vitisiug?some oi odi r? g 4', nts estion the value of their direct reli rn.. from their money spent in ihis connection. And this is where our readers can help us more thm in any other respect. Tell the merchants tint you saw their , \ in The Pilot. When you d;:- >u e 'i.-h a common ground of ? which makes your business (' ?' s r:o-e pleasant, and you help ? t f. - ' r for us to get our next r,<?????",'' - copy. , habit to trade with mer 1 o advertise?and let them 1 o- ? ? on are doing it. Nezv Features ?n o ? ov/nien, the most important iTip? vent which has taken place in The SU ? Port Pilot since the first of Reporter are the school col ? i arc being written each 1 i ? rcsentatives from the stu . He fit' t start was made at South port. and we confess that we had mis o-ivJn-i-s that the first edition of "High Timcs" would not be followed by many ethers that were up to the first high l_ 7hi foi?r was based upon the fact t h: ? t it is easy enough to write your li ? t column, but it gets pretty tough to ; . ' ? " out week after week. Wei!', we are glad to confess that we v-;v.-, r-'-ong, and not only has "High " lived up to its first week's effort, brt t seems to us that it gets better as it goes along. One cf the best things this column did was to inspire students of Shallotte high to start "The Pirate Log." There again wo thought perhaps that the first week mi.cht be the best, and once again we were wrong. The column copy has come in on time each week, and has maintain ed a high degree of reader interest. The or 'v break which has occurred happen ed last week, and we can find nobody to blame but ourselves. Tht copy was in our hand. What happened to it after that we do not know. But the Bucaneers are !;ack this week. And then came "The. B-IIive" last week, a splendid column of events of interest in and about the Bolivia school. We hope it will take its place with the other school columns as regular featur es of The Pilot. They tcli us that the students have a much greater interest in then- cor.nt\ newspaper now that the school columns appear each week. Well, we suspect that the improvement in reader interest has extended beyond the boys and girls. In fact, we know it has. We like to reaa the stuff ourselves. Not Out Of Debt North Carolina is cul of debt to tne New Yorker bankers ami whoever else that purchased 1 onds in ! u?t yoa:?, out she is not out of-de' I to her children. Until she meets that obligation, the echoes of their cries v. ill be heard, piti ful and heart-rending. Clarence Toe said this: "To pay a school tax is to swap dollars- -for life, and God shrivels the soul and blignts the future of any community where the people think more of saving a little money than they do of providing 'life and life more abundantly' for the men and women of tomorrow.' If all this sounds over-dramatic, go to your school principal in any district in the county, or any district in North i Carolina, and ask him wh:'.t effect the present limitation- n ? having^ upon j your boy or your girl. Have a talk with him. He'll be glad to state the situation. He has nothing to sell. And the chances, are he'll express regret that he can't do , more for the men and men of tomorrow : who are now clothed in adolescence. | Until the equipment and the instruc-: tional personnel of the hjgher type is; provided him, he stands by almost as helpless as the spectator who watches i a human fly lose his grip on the walls! of a skycraper. I RALEIGH ROUNDUP STILL, SHORT? . . ..About.a year ago rw. j armed only with vorl-ls' of deurar? and ?2,5O0 ? (a refund from his income t %?. Kerr S ott set out t-A become Governor cf ' urU ( ? Ho employed CKlir'.ie Pari: ??' asy-vV' per week and s t iip.o,' i-- v' ? C Hotel. The first few" wee1-: 3 wsc - m': -7, according to the Govsrn- r. Scott spent thousands of /ltflars of hi" own and relatives' cold cash duritiT the ca. lif.n. If ho seems a little bellicose at times, i- M-iy be due to the tardiness of the 'P -'vcr; in helping the man who carried t ha flog f" ' t'rm in last fall's political parade rcco" ;?> ?he 1 -r sonal financial losses .he and hi- T1 Ri'-er folks sustained in last ye: r's bitt' ?*. Nobody j knows how much the Scott family is in the hole, for no big money rollr-d to So "' head quarters. It came in driblets, most of the money boys being on tha other s;0c cr the fence. A short while after J. M. Diaughton was nominated for Governor al! debt \ personal and otherwise, had been cleared i thanks to Or,car Pitta, now living in Ashcville). Gregg Cherry's campaign never lacked funds. It is thought, also, that Clyde R. Hcey's campaign; debts were well provided. However, it took J. C. B. Ehringhaus right at ten years from the time he anr.o-inccd to pull his personal finances out of the red. If Scott had been of the tricky type, he could have made himself independently wyalthy fol lowing his nomination last June. The dollar boys wanted to get on his side, cost no object, but he didn't stay around to reccive them. Ke is a thoroughly honest man. RALEIGH VISITORS . . . The mectingrst people in North Carolina, other than farmers possibly, are the school folks. They will meet ct the drop of a pencil. The dry forces mass met in Raleigh to show their strength Result: Within a few days after the flexing of referen dum mueeles the Legislature gave the back of its hand to all bills calling for a Statewide rc feredum on liquor. Brushing the chalk dust from their clothes, school principals, teacbcs and their PTA friends and neighbors hurried into tV capital. They, like everybody else, want better schools. However, it is the opinion of leading members of the General Assembly that Ril igh mass meetings do little, if any, g~od for any cause. Usually, they result in a great waste of time and last week's get-tcgether met a gr. at waste of State money, for a large porcentage of those present were on the State payroll. Fewer than 20 of the 5,000 people present had anything to say at the meeting, the remainder merely sitting back there like knots on a log. LOVE THAT MAN . . . With retail trade dragging in most sections of the State and Nation, the Raleigh Merchants Bureau is in an enviable position, for it has Governor Scott sitting up there at the head of Fayetteville Street. His mass meetings here have brought crowds, and good business, to the city. Raleigh business men love that Kerr Scott. Lenoir Iligh School Band, ono of the most famous in the Stale and in the South, got that way because :t had the backing of the citizenry of Lenior. The small contributions of individuals made the band their band. And that was a even more vital in the development of the band than a $25,000 donation from one man. i 'he Kovin' Reporter (Continued from page one) ' tin g widespread publicity legard in?' t!ic Reigel Paper Company's! | Brahma cattle. Bill Sharpe of the !st ' Kews Bureau sent us a memo this week expressing ."i.iazement an the way the pub licity stories went. They seem to ?e been used throughout the entire country and there will be ty of foilov.--ups. This week \ had a full column clipping of a story in the Wall Street Journal. It takes something worthwhile to get four or five inches of space in that paper. The Raleigh Camera Club wiites us that 10 to 12 of its i st photopraphers are coming ?? n to spend three days with us thai is if we will show them pictorial spots?in the near-fu-| t'.jr.\ We will show them some ral beauty places and will ? ? en round up a bunch of attrac-| itiv" girls for use at such places j v here models will add to the ?.ral scenery. It will be good ?n b icily for Brunswick county v on those fellows come in with their cameras. A proud father from up-state idvi.-es us he has a very pretty ?rxteen year old daughter. In a idil ion to being pretty he gives ha further recommendation by ?'lying she is a whiz at handling iV fly fishing )od and that she can outfisn any man without j !?o.sir. her temper. Having seen the fly and casting rods and the | itac '-le box her old man has, we j ih'iv:? E.2:ecd without protest to j t: ::c the filly to our favorite fish-' ing hole when she comes down in a mouth or so. This week we had something very puzzling thrown into our lap ail of a sudden. The paper gol a letter from Dr. A. D.' L>, ?" i.-, of Atlanta, C a. The doctor! prtfixdl his letter to The Pilot by ? lie wis trying to locate' W. B. Keaiah, and old friend of| his of nearly 50 yeai's ago. The (iocti said he had heard we lived, in Southport ar.d he would appre-1 ciate it if the paper would help; him to get in touch with us. Tr. ubl? will: us is that we do not j remember having an old friend; named Dr. A. D. Lewis, about j 50, years ago. But about 29 years ago we did have a nice young friend named A. D. Lewis. For ail we know he may be this Dr.| A. I). Lewis and has not counted | the years H3 accurately as we Tihve. 1 .Tu.-t a d- y or so ago a friend ,j\- c us ; tolcT us of his I (i idt "ho d<0 sume years! n11 7th I v. d would bs a hundred '? o!d i if he was still! . W know of several case?1 j". l":e that. Our own grand-1 : on our mother's side would V around about 110 years old md about now if he hadn't; ben ' i'led in tile battle of Oettys- i r v rinrr the Civil War. ' . ! Thov te'l us that our good f :nd, Dompscy Atkinson of ' Makotoka, is having his hands full. Dempsey, if you don't know it, is a sort of foreman on the (Reigel Paper coippany ranch. At this time his duties consist large ly in playing nursemaid to about 175 Brahma calves. The old Brah j ma cows are said to be entirely i lacking in appreciation of his ef ! forts in behalf of their young. The Longwood negro school, : teaching through the Ilth high | school grade, has the only basket ball team among the colored schools of the county, outside of i Southport. Tuesday night of last I week the teams from the Long I wood school came to Southport 'expecting to i?lay the Brunswick j Training school. Through some I misunderstanding the local school aid not know of the planned game and its team was too scattered j to be rounded up after the Long Jwood folks arrived. A nice illus i tration of sportsmanship happen ! cd, however. The visitors were asked to come again this week and the local school will pay their expenses. Once in a while someone asks why the public is not allowed to fish in some privately owned waters. Others ask why we are allowed to fish where we almost danged please, while they are not. In answer to this we can only say that we consider the owners extremely fair and con siderate. They have told us we could go when we like and take a friend or friends with us. In giving this privilege they were kind enough to say that they knew we appreciated the small ccurtsey and would do nothing to abuse it. It happens that a few years ago these folks permitted | fishing, although they were not J obligated to do so. As a result | the public more or less moved in, carrying booze and guns, as well j as fishing tackle. It was a delight ) for these folks to shoot birds, set j fire to dead trees in which they i had their nests and endanger thousands of acres of valuable timber lands. They seemed to get more fun cut of that than in the fishing that was allowed them by courtsey. As a result the own ers had to clamp down on the privilege of fishing. Until the pub lic, and that means a lot of peo ple, is educated to the point of not abusing courtsey and that will take a long time?the own ers of some of the finest fishing waters in Brunswick cannot throw these facilities open to the public. We haven't seen Captain John Woortman personally. The inform ation regarding our fellow towns Vnen comcs to us from Steve Wall of the Wilmington News. Steve asked us to get a story on Cap tain Woortman having a sore hand from being bitten by a shark. While fishing and wishing to favor his sore hand Captain Woortman was taking a fish from the net with his teeth. The teeth got stuck in the fish and the fish got away with them. Now, if anybody catches a fish wearing an S85.00 set of false teeth they Mr. Farmer TO BETTER SERVE B rinswick County & Vicinity WITH Roysters Field Tested Fertilizer V'c Have A Fertilizer Warehouse In Shal lotle. COME TO SEE US Columbus Trading Co. AGENTS SCHEDULE W. B & B- BUS LINE Southport, N. C. EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20,1948 WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE LEAVES SOETHPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON ** 7:00 A.M. 7:00 A.M. *9:30 A. M. 9:30 A.M. 1:35 P.M. *1:30 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 4 :00 P. M. 6:10 P. M. 6:00 P. M. 10:20 P. M. *?These Trips on Saturday Only. ?This Bus Leaves Winnabow at 6:10 Daily. - SUNDAY ONLY - LEAVES SOCTIIPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:30 A. M. 9:00 A. M. 10:50 A.M. 1;35 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 6;10 P. M. 6:00 P.M. 10:20 P.M. Not Exactly News Movie Actor Edward Arnold played the role of a judge In "Big City" which we saw last week at the Amuzu and reminded us very much of Judge John J. Burney . . . Work con tinues on the landing field near the Brunswick Navigation Co. The current problem Is what kind of grass will be best to plant for the runways. Prospects are good that the calibre of play among the boys basketball teams of the coun ty will be the best ever next year. Southport loses only Richard Brendle from this year's squad while Johnnie Wooten is the only Leland player who will graduate . . . "Criss Cross", with Burt Lancaster, should be a good week end attraction at Shallotte theatre. "Even when he was a little fellow he was apt as a briar" said Uncle Jim Jones, 70-year old darkie of the old school from the Winna bow community, Monday as he discussed with us the boyhood of a young man who has since become a college professor. This was the first time we ever have heard this expression^ but it was not all we learned in our talk with this intelligent and respected colored citizen . . . One Sunday morning scene in Southport featur ed a local young storekeeper down on his knees shooting marbles with the kids. A boat-launching still draws about as well aa any other waterfront attraction and a good crowd was on hand Saturday afternoon as the Sea Girl of the L. J. Hardee fleet went down the ways . ... We'd say that ?The Cliffs beautiful promontory overlooking the V * Fear just this side of tlic Robins Nest, ranks as the favorite picnic and wciner roast site ' this part of the ccunty, being more popuJ^ than even the beach in these respects TWee or four years ago the windmill for pumping water at the county home was bandoned and an electric pump installed in ^ place. With the coming of REA current down the River Road two other wind-driven val(.r system may be superseded by the more modem devices. The one in use at Magnolia Dairy surely will, but the windmill which provide, water for the salt marsh herd on the Claud. Moore farm may keep up its good work for a few more years. . . Since Bobby Varnum mov. ed to Morgan City the S&ndfiddlers, Southport'a kid baseball team, has been without a southpaw player. Now the boys can't wait for time t0 start throwing the ball around. Bob ggJn Northrop is going to school here and they hear that he is a southpaw. Watch for an announcement of an Old Time | Negro Minstrel to be presented soon by mem bers of the Southport Lions Club. Books have I been ordered and the show has been cast. Don't be surprised for the next few days if you get some plantation talk along with your banking or your other business transactions in South port. . . Thirty. are notified that the teeth are the property of Captain John Woortman of Southport. T. A. Dodge of the Jersey City, N. J., school board and a sub scriber to this paper since Hector was a pup, has sent Mrs. F. Mollycheck one of the regular Navy fishing kits made and packed for men lost from their ships by torpedoing or or other wise during the war. By using these kits, many a man is said to have been able to catch the fish that saved him from starva tion until he was picked up. We are rather fond of picking on Mrs. R. H. Holden of Holden Beach and Shallotte. She is pretty good company and recently told us we were getting better, ' if possible. But we don't want the Holden Beach and Shallotte Dutchess confused with Mrs. R. H. Holden, of Wilmington, Chair man of the Camp Development Committee at Pretty Pond, where they are going to have one of the most attractive girl camps in North Carolina. Both of these women are friends of ours, but we don't want to get caught in an argument as to which is which. All we know is that we are very much interested in the Holden Beach development of Mrs. R. H. Holden of Holden Beach and Shallotte. At the same time we are very much interested in that Girl Scouts Camp develop ment of R. H. Holden and others of Wilmington. Yes, sir, when the Girls Scouts come around with cookies we are going to buy all we can eat to help those young sters in building their camp at the beautiful lake own in Bruns wick county. Over at Long Beach the other day with a newspaper friend from up-state, we ran into E. F. Mid dleton, of Charleston, who was carrying a lot of blue prints under1 his arm. That was not all. Every where v/s went we ran into somebody or or other from up state. "Hiey were looking about their property and in such a way we feel safe in believing they plan to start something really worthwhile in bilding in the near future. Take it from us, if you want j to see the peak of blooming at any garden in Brunswick county you will have to visit them by March 27th. There may be con siderable bloom thereafter, but the crowing period of bloom will be between now and March 27th. You can lose nothing by visiting them now. BIRTH ANXOVNCT.MF.NT Mr. and Mrs. John F. HoMen of Holdcn Beach announce the bith of a son, John Alan, Feb ruary 3. LESPEDEZA HAY $30.00 & $35.00 Per Ton DUPONT DYNAMITE Fuzes & Caps SEED - FEED - FERTILIZER Farm Equipment THE COUNTRY STORE Rice Gwyn, Jr., Proprietor Longvvood, N. C. 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