Rovin' Reporter
(Continued from page one)
Theological seminary at Louis
ville, Ky. We were freshening up
.on our religious matters in or
der to be in good standing with
the numerous Baptists who are
expected to be at Fort Caswell
next year.
Saturday, the first cool day of !
this end of the year, we ran a- I
cross a very attractive jacket, i
worn by a still more attractive I
girl. The garment was unmistak- \
ably Japanese in its origin. Most
CATHOLIC INFORMATION
The Voice That Cannot Be Stilled
From a building surrounded by
the City of Rome is raised to the
?world time and again the voice of
a single man ? a man who is spir
itual ruler of almost 400,000,000
Catholics-civil ruler of a few
hundred subjects in a country of
some 160 acres? the Vatican
-State.
- Often his voice is raised in
benediction, in spiritual direction
? raised to fulfill the obligation I
imposed upon his predecessor, the
first pope, by the command of our
Lord to St. Peter: "Feed my
lambs! Feed my sheep!" ? raised
by authority of Him who said:
"Who heareth you, heareth me."
No army or navy or air-fleet or
submarines has the Holy Father.
No forts or entrenchments or '
weapons of defense. Yet time
and again his voice rings out,
rebuking warlords armed to the
teeth? deploring murder and per
secution and the robbing of man
of his innate rights ? censuring
those who deny God, who make a
god of the State, who make of
their own race the elect of man
kind.
Again and again without fear
or favor, the Voice of the Vatican
is raised against the enslavement
of the laboring man through ex
cessive capitalism, the slaughter
of the innocent through so-called
mercy-killing, the crime against
man's body through sterilization,
the sin against God and nature
1 through contraception, the threat
against civilization through God
less education, the ruin to family
and State through divorce.
No matter how popular the sin
or the error ? no matter how
threatening he who is rebuked,
the Voice of the Vicar of Christ
comes forth that he who has ears
may hear, that the evil may be
made manifest, that men of good
will may know and act and be
saved.
Peter, the first Pope, and many
other Popes, raised their voices
and were murdered. Our present
Holy Father and his successors
may suffer a lige fate; but the
Voice of the Papacy cannot be
stilled; for that voice is the echo
of another which 1900 years ago
guaranteed its own perpetuity by
the promise: "Heaven and earth
shall pass away, but my word
shall not pass away" (Mark
13:31).
If it's anything Catholic, ask a
Catholic !
For further information write
P. O. Box 351 Whiteville, N. C.
girls would have told us that
they got it from their sweetheart
but this one. Miss Polly Bennett,
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. H. B.
j Bennett, did not even wait for
) us to ask where she got it. She
said with pride that her brother,
who is in the Navy, sent it to her.
i Rev. and Mrs. B?nnett have two
fine sons in the Navy.
Almost as many women as men
i are now subscribing for this pap
er. This brings us around to re
marking that superior civil court
I will be in session next week. A
lot of good? for-nothing husbands
will just naturally be here. We
hope their wives will tell them |
not to go back home before they
have given us their subscription
or renewal to the State Port
j Pilot.
i
All of this hard football drill
ing of the Southport boys by
Coach Saunders is certain to
have one good result. It will
toughen up the boys physically.
1 Southport may not be able to
; put out a winning team this
first year. But the boys are get
! ting what it takes to make a
i good team, and they are swall
1 owing what they get and liking
it. according to what they tell
us.
^ Five of the young colored girls
i and boys who graduated from the
, Brunswick County Training
School last spring have left to
enter college where they will !
| continue their studies. They are,
Charlie Swain to Elizabeth City;
j Laurie Mimms, Shaw University;
I Lizzie Mae Gore, Hampton In
stitute; Ernestine Clemmons, St.
Augustine - College; Viola Han
klns, N. C. State at Durham.
W. F. Smith of Florida, State j
Fire Marshall, is spending this j
week here with his sister. Mrs. '
Ethel Fullwood. Calling at this i
office while we were out. he left :
a note saying that when he mis
sed getting an issue of The State j
Port Pilot the world seems up- ;
side down. He added that he ap- j
preciated The Pilot more than ?
he would the New York Herald
and that Brunswick county was 1
to be congratulated on having ,
"such an outstanding paper."
About the nicest field of croto
larin we have ever seen is being
grown by Thompson McRackan,
across Walden Creek on the river !
road. The stuff is as thick'as any- [
thing can grow and is shoulder I
high to a grown man. Although i
it has no feed value, this stuff is |
rated one of the best known soil |
builders. Some time before frost 1
Mr. McRackan will have many
tons of humus forming material
to turn under for next year's
crop.
Rice Gwynn of Longwood told
us this week that we could tell
gun crazy folks that there are
plenty of quail this year. The
Longwood man keeps posted on
birds more than any landowner we
know of. Proof of this knowledge
of his may be had in the numer
ous sportsmen who begin to culti
vate his friendship at about this
time of the year.
Roy Grissett, young Grisset
town man, served about six years
during the war, most of this time
overseas. He came home with a
honorable record and got a job
as a policemen in Wilmington.
There, apparently in a case in
which there were higher ups, he
was convicted of a crime and
sent to State prison. He has now
served about two years and has
made a model prisoner, according
to all that can be learned. It
would seem that his case in now
one in which the American Leg
ion can afford to take a look,
with the object of aiding him to
get a parole, if they find such to
be deserving.
Seventeen violent deaths on the
highways in Brunswick during
the first eight months of 1949 is
a very bad record. Things will be
lucky if the remaining four mon
ths of the year go by without
more highway deaths being added
to the roll. Even at the risk of
their being charged with persecut
ing the motorists, there seems to
be nothing the highway patrol
can do except to bear down on all
who violate the speed laws. So
far as can be learned nearly all j
of this year's 17 deaths resulted |
from fast and reckless driving, j
If one may believe the fisher- j
men, ocean waters off the Bruns
wick coast have never had so j
many fish as they now hold. At |
least not in the memory of sport
and commercial fishing. Operat- j
ions have revealed unprecedent- :
ed number of menhaden as having |
apparently taken up permanent '
residence in this area. To feast 1
on the dense schools of menhaden
have come great numbers of food I
and game fishv At other points 1
on the coast the menhaden in- 1
dustries appear to have to depend I
on seasonal migratory menhaden, j
Here they can be found the year- j
round.
Very few large watermelons :
have been seen in Brunswick
county this year. Practically all j
that have been offered for sal?j
have been medium in size, or even ,
smaller. So far as can be learn
ed the preparation of the land,
fertilization and cultivation has
been just the same as in previ
ous years. The melons just did
not grow large and nobody seems
to know just why.
Last week some mention was
made in this column about R. D.
White of Shallotte admiring the
fine construction work of the old
Hood building, now the tax col
lectors office. Mr. White said that
the bricks and brickwork was the
best he ever saw and he always
stopped to admire it. It may in
terest Mr. White to know that j
since the paper appeared with the
story dozens of people have stop
ped at the corner of the building
to take a look. At one time Fri
day about 20 men were squinting
at the bricks and mortor.
Just when we were beginning j
to think that he was breaking j
his record of never missing at- 1
tendance on a term of court, Har
vey Milliken of Waccamaw town
ship showed up Friday. Without
in the least intending to reflect
on Harvey we are foced to admit
that every time we see him we
catch ourself wondering if he can
get a full meal anyplace, when
he Is away from home.
L. C. Brown of Longwood, a
county commissioner away back
and a good one while he was,
stopped us on the street the oth
er day to ask who was going to
run for sheriff next year. We will
have to be diplomatic about it
and tell the truth. We don't know
who is going to run for that of
fice. If we started out to list the
names of all who have said they
were going to' run, we would
have this column filled with noth
ing but names. Time may shorten
the list and it may increase it.
One thing is certain, there will
be a lot of candidates for sheriff
next year.
One group of workmen that
have never been out of employ
ment in Brunswick county this
year have been carpenters. If
any of them have been out of
work, it was not long enough for
you to notice it. All sections of
the county have witnessed the
building of new homes and the
remodeling of old ones. The per
son who has not been over the
county in the last five years
would hardly recognize things if
he went over it .now. So far as
we can see there is no indication
of a let up in building.
If A. L. McKeithan, fbie Long
wood citizen, does not get to
Southport during criminal court
week each September, we know
from past experience that we will
see him at Shallotte the very
first time we go there. Court
week seems to be his regular
period for his getting ahead with
a years subscription to The Pilot.
He did not get to Southport last
week but we found him waiting
at Shallotte Saturday.
Speaking of subscriptions re
minds us that while we were
tramping around Shallotte Satur
day getting news matter and ad
vertising and keeping two jumps
ahead of the police, we picked up
23 new and renewal subscriptions
to The State Port Pilot. That
helps with the expenses of getting
around. At the same time it may
help others. Samuel- Kravitz of
New York subscribed saying,
"The Pilot will help me to keep
up with what is going on at Shal
lotte".
Except for a period of about
a year during which he was in
business at Wilmington, we do
not remember a term of criminal
court over a period of 25 years,
that was not graced by the pre
sence of S. F. Wftlletts of the
Mill Creek community. But he
failed to show up last week.
During the fall term of crimi
nal court it is something rare
if we fail to see our good friend
W. M. Carter of the Hickman's
Cross Roads community. That is
one period of the year when he
nearly always comes to town. The
fact that court is in session real
ly has little or nothing to do with
it. Mr. Carter just comes to see
old friends.
Summer visitors for three years
spending their vacations at Cas
well Beach and Long Beach, Rev.
and Mrs. B. H. Johnson of Mount
Airy and Winston-Salem and Dr.
Thor Johnson of Cincinatti will
be regular residents of Bruns
wick in another year. They tell
us they will build their summer
home at Caswell Beach this win
ter. > ,
GOVERNMENT HELPS
(Continued From page One) i
pasture program this supplemen- j
tal grazing should get considera- j
tion. The AAA will aid farmers in i
seed and fertilizers but they |
should get prior approval and
purchase orders from the AAA
office.
VISITOR FIGURED
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consciousness.
The New York newspapers stat- J
ed that a total of 28 shots were |
fired by the negro, Kravitz and
other officers. The remarkable
thing being that no one was kil
led.
The brother of the Shallotte
man has six citations for bravery
and meritorious service during his j
twelve years as a detective in i
Brooklyn.
VISITOR SUGGESTS
. odntlnued rrom page Onei
wide distribution of this picture,
Mr. Hemmer said:
"I hope that when you folks
catch another big tarpon you will
take up a collection through your
newspaper, have the fish mount
ed and hung in a prominent place i
in Southport. It would be an at
traction for visitors and you
could also display it in other
towns and cities. It would be well
worth what you would have to
spend to have the fish stuffed.
It is a nice thing to tell folks of '
the big fish, but it is even more j
convincing to be able to show j
them the fish."
COVER CROPS WILL
ty Committee before seeding. ]
Seeding must be completed and a j
report of acreage filed in the '
office of the county comnjittee |
by Nevember 1. Interested grow- 1
ers should make immediate re- J
quests for prior approval so funds ,
may be set up for 1950 payment. |
County Agent A. S. Knowles I
points out that those crops or
combinations of them are parti
cularly good for wint,er grazing,
and he reminds growers that ar
rangements tor seeding these
grains should be made during the
latter part of September.
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WHY THE
MISSOURI PACIFIC
RAILROAD STRIKE?
Over twenty years ago, the Congress of the
United States passed the Railway Labor Act.
It was hailed by union leaders as a model
for the settlement of labor disputes.
The leasers of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,
Order of Railway Conductors, and the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen on the
Missouri Pacific Railroad have refused to
avail themselves of the peaceful means
provided by this Act for settling their dis
putes. They insist that they be the sole
umpire of their own disputes over the
meaning of contracts.
There is no Need for Strikes
With all of the available methods for the
interpretation of contracts, there is no
need for a strike or even a threat of a
strike, but the leaders of these railroad
unions have ignored the ordinary pro
cedures established by law and insist upon
imposing their own interpretations of their
contracts by means of a strike.
The wheels have stopped rolling on the
Missouri Pacific. They may stop rolling
on other railroads at any time. Recently
the Wabash Railroad was forced to dis
continue operation for several days under
similar circumstances.
What are These Strikes About?
These strikes and strike threats are not
about wage rates or hours. They result
from disputes over the meaning of exist
ing contracts. They cover claims for a full
day's pay for less than a day's work, or for
payments for services performed by others
who were fully paid for the work done.
President Truman's Board
Condemns Strike
There is an established legal method for
handling disputes involving existing writ
ten contracts? just as there is such a
method of settling any contract dispute
which you may have in your daily life.
The President of the United States ap
pointed a Fact Finding Board to investi
gate and adjust the Missouri Pacific dis
pute. This Board reported, in part, as
follows:
"... it is with a deep sense of regret that we
are obliged to report the failure of our mis
sion. It seems inconceivable to as that a
coercive strike should occur on one of the
nation's major transportation systems, with
all of the losses and hardships that would
follow, in view of the fact that the Railway
Labor Act provides an orderly, efficient and
complete remedy for the fair and just set
tlement of the matters in dispute. Griev
ances ?f the character here under discussion
are so numerous and of such frequent occur
rence on all railroads that the general adop
tion of the policy pursued by the organiza
tions in this case would soon result In the
complete nullification of the Hallway Labor
Act . .
Obviously the railroads cannot be run
efficiently or economically if the leaders of
the unions ignore agreements or laws.
Provisions of the Law which
are Disregarded
There are five ways under the Railway
Labor Act to settle disputes over the mean*
ing of contracts:
1? Decision by National Kailroad Ad
justment Board.
2? Decision by System Adjustment
Board for the specific railroad.
3? Decision by arbitration.
4 ? Decision by neutral referee.
5 ? Decision by courts.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad has been
and is entirely willing to have these dis
putes settled in accordance with the re
quirements of the Railway Labor Act.
Regardless of this fact, the union leaders
have shut ^Jown that railroad
Innocent Bystanders Suffer
Losses and Hardships
There are about 5,000 engineers, firemen,
conductors and trainmen on the Missouri
Pacific. They are known as "operating"
employes, and are the most highly paid of
all employes on the nation's railroads, but
their strike action has resulted in the loss
of work to 22,500 other employes t the
Missouri Pacific. In addition, they have
imposed great inconvenience and hard
ship upon the public and the communities
served by that railroad.
The Railway Labor Act was designed
to protect the pubUc against iust such in
terruptions of commerce. .
If these men will not comply with the provisions
of the law for the settlement of such disputes,
then all thinking Americans most face the ques
tion, "What is the next step 7"
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