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THE STATE PORT PILOT
p Southpprt, N. C.
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JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor
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Wednesday, November 20, 1935
Be critical?of yourself.
Don't complain about keeping up
poor kin. Think of Uncle Sam.
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This theory of early to Dea, eariy lu
rise is all right provided you really did
go to bed early. j
The latest case of shell-shock that we
have heard of came from being hit over
the head with a conch shell.
We agree with the judge who ruled
that a wooden leg does not bar a man
from operating an automobile. It's wooden
heads that cause most of the trouble.
Men in the United States have
bought on the average four-tenths of a
suits of clothes a year since 1929. Let us
hope it was the pants fraction.
Seventy-one per cent of a selected
group of the largest general automobile
newspaper advertisers will increase ad-j
vertising apropriations in 1936 over 1935. j
Explanation: You see we spent all the
money for the radio broadcast, so we
have to get the newspapers to print it
free.
And does it necessarily follow that
homely wit is that which the old man
tries out on his wife and kids before telling
it to the Kiwanis. '
We recently found a man who admitted
he's not trying to leave footprints
on the sands of time, being more interested
in covering up a lot of those already
made.
Pipe smokers are said to have better
dispositions than other men. Perhaps it
seems that way because a man with a
pipe in his mouth finds it dificult to argue
himself into a fighting frame of mind.
Is there anything more disgusting to!
hear than the fellow without any real
complaint eternaly howling? But how re-1
freshing, when you hear the person you j
thing has every reason to be downhearted
always presenting the brightest side of j
life. Which do you think gets the most
out of life?
The Christmas Rush
Thanksgiving is just ahead and it
won't be long now before you will be
receiving warnings to do your Christmas
shopping early.
Toyland displays already are open
in leading stores in this trading area;
others will open within the next few
days. Surely it will be to your advantage
to make out your gift list and fill it before
stocks are picked over and depleated.
One visit to a store where Christmas
goods are on display will be sufficient to
fill you with the Christmas spirit, so don't
wait until the week of December 25th to
do your Christmas shopping.
Advertise Your Town
It is no accident that some towns are
thrifty and prosperous while others waste
away in shiftless inactivity year after
year.
Boosters are the biggest asset to a
growing community. When you hear a
man going out of his way to say something
nice to a stranger about his home
town, you can bet that he wants to see
his town grow, and is willing to do his
part.
One small thing that every local
automobile owner can do at a small cost
is to purchase a Southport license tag
and see that it is properly displayed on
the front of his car. If this is done, it
HA A AAO VHIA OUVAVt
In recent years, patients requiring
major surgical operations were referred
to the Brunswick county hospital at
Southport. There was a time, though,
when Dr. Goley and his friend and colleague,
Dr. J. Arthur Dosher, performed
major surgical operations in the humbl- ,
est farm homes in Brunswick county with i
almost unbelievable success.
Failure to mention other fields in \
which Dr. Goley served his community i
would be an injustice to the all-round 1
ability of the man. |
When municipal government was i
abandoned by residents of the Shallotte 1
community in 1917, he was mayor of the ,
town. Eighteen years later when citizens i
decided to resume operations under their 1
charter of incorporation, he was unani- j
mously elected mayor. He had held his i
place that long in the esteem of his j
fellow-citizens. i
Add to these things his influence as 1
an active member of leading fraternal 1
organizations; credit him with being one ,
of the most liberal supporters of the
Shallotete Camp Methodist church; and 1
you get some idea of Dr. Goley's life. <
It is impossible to overestimate the i
good which he accomplished in ?Bruns- j
wick county. c
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won't be long before some one will say
"Well, sir. I didn't know that Southport
was a city. Why there's a car with a
city license tag from down there."
Then it won't be long before he will
find some excuse to come down here to
see just what kind of city we do have.
We have confidence enough in Southport
jto allow a visitor to judge her on her
jown merits.
It Doesn't Take Brains
It doesn't take brains to push the
throttle of your car to the floorboard.
I1 It doesn't take cleverness to weave'
/in and out of traffic at sixty miles an
(hour to the consternation of the slower
j moving highway-users.
It doesn't take any intellectual capaI
city to hang onto the steering wheel, give
jher the gun, and see if you can make
i the speedometer touch ninety-odd.
In other words, you don't have to
know anything to drive fast.
Drivers who regard streets and highways
as the Indianapolis bowl, might be
divided into two classes: First, those who
are weary of living and don't mind if
they take innocent parties along with
them into enternity. Second, those who :
are so stupid as to not realize that sev- 1
eral thousand pounds of metal moving at ,
terrific speeds is as lethal a weapon as a '
machine gun?both for the occupant and J
for anyone else who happens to be in the 1
locality. i
Speed?and speed alone?is respon- i
sible for the great majority of automobile j
acicdents. All other causes pale into in- ,
significance beside it. As even the most 1
mentally deficient driver should be able ;
to realize, an accident occurring at sixty
miles per hour is almost invariably more
serious than one occurring at 20.
The roads of America are strewn i
with corpses because a relatively small <
number of drivers are doing their best to
out do Malcolm Campbell.
Dr. W. R. Goley
The death of Dr. W. R. Goley last
Tuesday night in the Brunswick county
hospital marks the passing of a stalwart
member of the fast-thinning ranks of the
country doctor.
Here was a man who gave his life
jfor Brunswick county just as surely as
though it had been exacted from him
through some man-made plan. If he had
practiced only for those who paid their
; doctor bills, if he had limited his practice
to daylight hours, the chances are that
jhe would be alive today.
But first of all, Dr. Goley was a
humanitarian. The fact that a patient i
needed him was all that counted; mone- (
tary matters were left to take care of J
themselves, and his personal comfort was i
subordinate to the suffering of the sick.
The natural boundaries for his prac- '
tice extended from Supply to the South
Carolina line, and from Columbus county '
to the ocean. It seems inconceivable that j
one man could serve so may people scat- j
tered over such a wide territory. 1
If there was anything that made his J
work easier, it was his drug store at {
Shollotete where his patients came to him. 1
It was there that he examined them and j
prescribed for their illness?then filled i
the prescriptions himself from the stock (
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Washington, Nov. 20.?Methods
which will effectively dispel current
suspicions as to the professed
and the real objectives will
be welcomed by the Roosevelt
Administration. Efforts to reconcile
the New Deal legislative program
and its acceptance by business
have been unavailing despite
excellent evangelical work conducted
publicly and privately. It
seems well nigh impossible to
bridge the doubt which lies between
unitive action by the government
and positive recovery
measures by private enterprise.
Hard-boiled industrial and financial
leaders oDenlv Question the I
motives underlying the suddenly
developed spirit of concession
about a "breathing-spell."
Secretary of Commerce Roper
has endeavored to give adequate
assurances that reforms are at
an end but his utterances are
taken with a grain of salt. Roper
and other conservative chieftains
have told the President that
grave apprehension exists as one
branch of the government extends
a cordial handclasp while a
belligerent Federal agent stands
near with a bludgeon loaded with
repressive measures. It is definitely
known that Secretary Roper
has little influence in shaping
White House policies which affect
business practice. His per- s
sistent prayers for fair play for
industry and commerce have fal' b
len on deaf ears for more than ^
two years. The "Brains-Trust" a
hoys turned their backs on Uncle jj
Dan's suggestion which they con- u
ridered old-fashioned and obso- h
lete. a
The fair-haired official who ?
rules the roost at present is Ma- ^
jor George Berry, Coordinator for
industrial Cooperation. He took !
over the hair-shirted mantle of r
Gen. Johnson and Donald Rich-1 [
berg at NRA. Roper and his! 1
conservative followers actively i I
opposed the selection of Berry
and fought his idea of breathing j
new life into the skeletonized!
Blue Eagle. The major played his j i
cards well and won presidential |
support. His pow-wow scheduled |
for Dec. 9, will be watched with I
great interest for this meeting I
is viewed as a set-up to give
labor the upper hand in governmental
affairs. Business and in-1 i
dustrial leaders consider the Ber- |
ry gathering as a snare and a |
delusion. Mr. Roper's peace mak- I
er troubles have been multiplied, I
by the irrepresible Mr. Wallace j
of the Department of Agriculture.
This Cabineteer now blames j
all of the depression on industry. J |
He insists that industrial meth- j |
ods have been responsible for I
unemployment. Observers believe ! I
that Secretary Wallace is talk- J
ing along these lines to side-;
track public criticism from his
farm policies which have increas- J |
ed the costs of food stuffs. There' [
are so many smoke-screens laid J I
down around the Capitol that it I
Is difficult to obtain a true pic- I
ture of the forces at work. |
Cordell Hull, Secretary of the j f
State, has a placid disposition r
vhich bears up under fire. His [
'good neighbor" policies of deal- [
ng with foreigners has stirred [
i hornets nest. The latest recip- E
ocal trade agreement with Can- j J
Ida has agitated the organized E
armers who fear a heavy influx r
>f farm products. American busi- j [
less interests do not share the! [
ilarm as Canadian factories do [
lot manufacture any large C
imount of goods for the export j jj
narkets. Trading with Canada j jj
las always excited bitter politi- q
:al debates in the rural commun- [
ties because of the effect on the [
>rice of farm products. The Ad- E
ninistration has won the sup- D
)ort of many farm groups i J
hrough lavish distribution of | E
jounties but old-time tariff in- D
mes may crop out at the next j jj
lession of Congress. jj
Politicians, anxious to place |j
goodly numbers of loyal party | p
workers on the government pay- j [
oil before the next election, now [
rave the jitters at the sudden E
wave of economy which threatens j
their plans. The recent order j jj
from the White House to pare | j
the expenditures for the next fis- j
cal year by a half-billion spells [
drastic curtailment of emergency [
agencies and a reduction in per- [
3onnel. As a consequence, the I
temporary employes are rushing j
around town demanding transfers :
to permanent departments. It is [
a blow to their pride when such [
a transfer involves demotion and [
a cut in pay as the price of job [
security. The morale of govern- E
ment employes is not improved J
by the feelings engendered in J jj
these moves. The newcomers had j
high salaries and rode high and [
landsome while veteran govern- [
ment workers handled routine E
matters at a fixed pay scale.
The scandals which blighted E
the Harding regime may find a [j
:ounterpart in the current con- [j
troversy about fees to Democrat- q
c lawyers. Republican strategists G
ire awaiting the outcome of Ex- j G
rational Committeeman Mullen's D
lemand for a $175,000 fee for G
c.
I On the R
rranging Federal loans for Neraska
projects. G.O.P. propaganIsts
scent excellent campaign i i
mmunition in this case and simar
situations which have plag- ]
ed the Roosevelt camp. The
ouse-cleaning of lawyer-fixers
t the beginning of the New
>eal was not as thorough as an- i
icipated. It is a profitable poli- ;
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