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Wednesday, October 9, 1935
Every Week
Southport merchants are agreed that (.
business was good last week. Several of
them have told us that it was the best.
rtov Vinri seen in vears. The answer, |
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of course, is to be found in the fact that i
several hundred visitors were here to at- '
tend court. J
Now we wouldn't for a moment sug- *
gest that we hold court every week in
order to stimulate business here at the j
county seat. We should like to see the ^
time when there wouldn't be enough L
cases to take up the time for the two <c
regular terms. We were merely using the \
court crowd for an example. i
Last week's business was just a sample j
of what would happen every week if j
money should be made available for the ^
port terminal development at Southport. r
Plans approved by state officials of the t
Public Works Administration would pro- t
vide direct employment for more than A
850 men. Think of the boost that business ?
would get from the buying power of that
many men and their families! s
Southport citizens should do everything ?
in their power To aid the cause of the r
Brunswick County-Southport Port Com- (
mission. i
For Safety Sake i
The court room of the Brunswick
county courthouse was packed to overflowing
throughout the three days of the
Jenrette trial and a thoughtful observer j]
could not help wondering what would;
happen if fire should suddenly break out. L
The courthouse is not a fire proof j?
building, the court room is on the second t \
floor and the front stairs is the only exit. r
The court room should have a fire es-'j
cape. ! {
During the court week it also was ap- t
parent that a back stairs to the court \
room would have been a great conven- j
ience to the judge and the court officials. I
Each time they came into court or went ]
out they were forced to elbow their way < ?
through the crowd of spectators. L
We know that the erection of a set of i T
stairs within the courthouse probably jj
would entail a prohibitive cost. However,'j
we do believe that a iron stairway could ,
be erected at the rear of the courthouse j
on the outside at a nominal expense. This *
would do much to eliminate the fire haz- (
ard and also would afford a private en-|
trance to the court room for the use of!1
court officials and for bringing in prisoners.
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Remembering Names h
How do you like to have someone come ,
up to you and say "Good morning, Mr.
t ah, uh . . Oh I'm sorry, I've forgotten
your name. I'll declare, I just can't remember
names to save my life?"
That sort of thing used to embarrass
us. Somehow or other, we had the idea
that maybe it was our fault that the poor
man couldn't remember our name. We
have stopped that, though. We now leave
the responsibility of feeling embarrassed
entirely up to tne name-fumbler.
But there is another type of student of
this school of forgetfulness toward whom
we are not inclined to be so charitable.
He is the man who has had ample time
and opportunity to learn your name, yet
persists in either mispronouncing it or
addressing you by a wrong name altogether.
Every time this happens to us we feel
an involuntary iciness. Our friend is
either too dumb or too mentally lazy to
remember our name and every conversation
we have with him starts off under a
strain.
Don't be one of the thousands who
excuse this kind of carelessness by classifying
themselves as one who never could
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remember names. Special effort to overcome
a weakness of this kind will pay a
rich dividend in friendship and respect.
When The Death Angel Rides
The motor vehicle is no respector of
persons.
Hardly a week passes without newspaper
headlines telling1 of the sudden
death of some statesman, industrial leader
or other celebrity.
A few recent names on the roster of
those who died because of careiessly or
recklessly driven motor vehicles, comes
readily to mind. Not long ago, Colonel T.
E. Shaw, the famed "Lawrence of Arabia,"
was killed when he fell from his
motorcycle, which he was driving at 80
miles an hour. Only a week or two ago
the wife of the Secretary of Interior perished
when the car in which she was riding
at high speed skidded in loose gravel
and overturned. Just before, the beautiful
Queen Astrid of Belgium met her death,
ivhen her husband, driving the roadster
in which she was riding, looked away
from the highway at a road map, and
ran headlong into a tree.
These tragedies become known in a
nillion households because of the promi- '
lence of the victims. But they are no,
worse, no more tragic, than the thous-:
inds of similar deaths which occur anlally
and make, instead of headlines, a!
nere item on an inside page of the news-!
)apers. Recklessness, carelessness, incom-i
)etence?these are the scarlet three j
an mnoh needless grief, so!
> uilii vouov ww ? w
nuch unnecessary suffering, so great an
sconomic waste. When one of them takes
he wheel, death rides, too. The Death
^.ngel does not always strike, but there is
i limit to how long he can be withheld.
Care, caution, cempetence?these conititute
the three things which can prevent
lutomobile accidents, major and minor.
The issue must be put squarely up to each
Iriver. It is purely an individual problem
md will always remain so. Traffic laws
md enforcement can do nothing if the
jublic will not co-operate.
War Can Be Stopped
Fighting has begun between Italy and
Dthiopia.
After three days deliberation the Learue
of Nations finally announced that
'Ethiopia had been absolved from all
)lame for starting the war." Now that
nust have made the Ethiopians feel
nighty good, the only trouble is that
here were several thousand citizens of
hat country who were killed before they
bund out from the League that they were
n the right.
The chief cause for the war is that
taly is too small for Mussolini and his
imbitions. His decision to carve off a big
dice of Ethiopia for his country hasn't
nade him any more popular with his
leighbors in Europe, but he knows that
le will have plenty of time to take what
le wants before the statesmen can confer
;nough to decide what they are going to
lo about it.
Now we don't know much about this
ausiness of war. The last one was fought
before we were old enough to do much
about it except cut out war pictures and
paste them in a scrap book. We thought
;hat the terrible stories we heard about
the World War would be enough to keep
any nation from ever wanting to fight
again.
There used to be a man in France
named Napoleon. He was a pretty good
soldier, too. One time he said that an
army fights on its stomach; that's just as
true now as it was then. A man can't
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iigiit u ne aoesnt eat.
Now when the men of a nation are busy
fighting, they don't have much time for
raising food and making clothes and
other things they need. That is why nations
at war go into debt?borrowing
money with which to buy these things.
All their supplies, their guns and their
ammunition must be bought from nations
who are not in the war.
Maybe this sounds simple, but it seems
to us that if every other nation would refuse
to sell any food, clothing, guns or
ammunition to either Italy or Ethiopia
and refuse to lend them money while
they are fighting they sooon would have
to stop so they could go back home and
raise enough food and make enough
clothes to live on. If they had to go back
to work in order to make a living they
wouldn't have time to keep on killing
each other and the war would have to
stop.
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PORT PILOT, SOUTHPORT,
WASHINGTON
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Washington, Oct. 9.?Two matj
ters of interest to officialdom |
I this week are: the fall term of j
| the Supreme Court in its new'
building and the effect of buying J
| for African war needs on crop!
| restriction and other governmen- i
j tal policies. The policy of isola-1
j tion adopted by this country may j
j prevail for sometime, but the;
I commercial opportunities that j
come in selling farm products J
j and other commodities at high j
| prices to nations at war may upj
set the best intentions of the govI
ernment. Questions of vital im|
portance to our domestic affairs}
j will be brought to the highest |
i tribunal for final adjudication, j
These tests involve a flock of |
J new laws passed by the Congress
dealing wit heconomic and social j
| life. Until the court rules on the
| validity of these issues, the un- j
| certainty over administrative regulations
will prevail.
The contrast between this govI
ernment and other nations is no
j better illustrated than in President
Roosevelt's peaceful fishing
expedition while other world officials
are having sleepless nights.
The jingoists, who cry for war
on the slightest pretext, are stilled
by this situation. Incidentally,
there is a lot of private talk as
to what branch of the service
would fare best in appropriations
in event this nation was forced
to take an aggressive stand. The
Army makes no secret of its concern
that the Navy would have
the upper hand as the President
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the Navy during the World War
and knows the feuds between the
two service organizations. The
Munitions Board which controls
export licenses of war supplies is
keeping petitioners on the anxious
bench by an indifferent attitude.
The State Department which favors
diplomatic measures holds
the whip over this powerful new
agency.
Echoes from President Roosevelt's
"swing around the country"
show that people he addressed
felt the speeches were more a
defense of policies than a call to
[ change the Constitution. At the
| outset of his trip, observers believed
he would appeal for aid
in jumping the blockade laid down
by Supreme Court decisions. Repj
ublicans assume that the New
i Dealers are determined to win
j the West on the theory that the
| industrial East is on the verge
[ of rebellion against the party
jnow in power. A series of local
I elections next month will be watj
ched as a symptom of changiing |
'political sentiments.
The flood of statistical material
; now descending on political camps I
here illustrates the old adage that
statisticians seldom agree. Recent i
Presidential utterances about re-,
covery are subjected to close
scrutiny in Republican quarters
i while Democratic campaigners
rush "interpretations" of tables
and charts to re-enforce White
House claims. The incumbents
have a decided advantage as data
j emanating from governmental
sources carries a certain hallI
mark of authenticity sometimes
j lacking in private compilations.
Many officials of civic groups
are torn between political fac-1
' tors and community needs. It is'
said that local commercial groups
anxious to establish their towns
as definitely on the up-grade are
j not at all adverse to exaggera-1
1 TTvonnf fnr mnooiiromant nf
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postal receipts at only 50 post of-1
fices, and these are confined to
metropolitan cities,, the Federal
government itself possesses no ac;
curate index of economic recovery.
Returns from the limited
NRA survey in a few basic in-!
dustries are disappointing and
scattered. Business groups, suspicious
as to the ultimate use of
this data, are not co-operating
j with the skeletonized Blue Eagle
j seeking information on wage
rates and hours. The census of
business authorized as a relief
project will be speeded to get
what will probably be a fair picture
of actual conditions. Whether
the data will be analyzed in time
to provide political ammunition is
another problem.
Because of the influence exercised
by trade unions over legislative
matters during the last
two years, widespread interest is
attached to their meeting in Atlantic
City this week. The politi-1
cal importance of this gathering1
may be gleaned from, the orders
of the A. F. of L. Council to of-:
ficers of state federations of Labor
requesting them to interview
candidates for public office as to
their position regarding labor
legislation. The labor groups are
having their own troubles with
the development of factionalism
which seriously threatens solidarity
and co-operation, so essential
to the furtherance of trade
unionism. The executive reports
show that the labor unions are
not counting on the recovery
business to put all the unemployed
to work. Therefore, they are
endeavoring to lessen the work
week presumably to a standard
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time through collective Bargaining
lift the workers income. Reports
to the convention show that
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from the National Labor Relations
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