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Wednesday, February 5, 1936 c
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You can't throw mud without losing (
ground. a
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A good politician doesn't give cigars? s
he promises them. 11
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Divorces are increasing, but there is ja
one consolation: They cannot exceed the
marriages very easily. j
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The political pot is beginning to sim j
mer, but each prospective candidate,
seems afraid to be the first to make his !
announcement.
The couple who received the biggest ,c<
rush Friday night at the Roosevelt Ball;*
were the boys who brought in the hot j
coffee and cocoa.
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Throwing snowballs must be an in- .
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stinct, judging from the proficiency ofi
local children who had never seen any ^
snow before last week. I ,.e
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Commendable Action
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Prompt action on the part of school gg
authorities in closing the schools of the .
county last Thursday because of the snow, . *
and leaving them closed until the county j
roads were safe for school busses to travel,
showed good judgment.
Postponed days must, of course, be
made up during the spring and there isL
a possibility that some of the parents;^
will be inclined to complain because ofu
the late commencements. They should re- [ ,
member the days of the past week when m
ice and snow, and later the resulting mud
and slush, made it dangerous to attempt {.j
to transport children to and from school, b<
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Dangerous oi
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With all other sections of the South- b<
port-Wilmington highway swept clean of gi
snow and made safe for driving by last ji
Thursday night, we can not understand j
why a piled-up barricade of snow and ice S
was left to block half the road at Allen's
Creek bridge near the turpentine camp.
The quick work of the highway forces Jv<
in clearing the road was a big help to de
motorists and the road was safe for nor- ar
mal travel except in that one place. Leaving
that drift on the bridge to block half sa
the highway was a dangerous bit of care-ie*
lessness, and it is a thing for which to be ! ^
thankful that no accident resulted. P1
Brooks W. Benton N
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j_>i uuaw 1^a. tuuinkv iuai? <x vaiuauic v;in-|
zen and a competant official last week;as
when death came to Brooks W. Benton, ^
member of the board of county commissioners.
Three times this man was elected by
his fellow citizens to serve as a member ?(
of the body that guides the business policy
and financial affairs of the county. His w
sound judgment and wise counsel will be ^
missed by his fellow commissioners.
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No Shadow t]
Winter is over! At least it is if thej
Groundhog Day theory is to be trusted. ^
February 2, is the day when this oldest |
of weather prophets is supposed to come
out from his underground winter quar- F
ters to take a look around following his
weeks of hibernation. If the sun is shin- g
ing and the groundhog sees his shadow, .
superstition holds that he hurries back
into his hole, fearful of the six more
weeks of bad weather sure to follow. A t
cloudy day, though, and all is well. No y
shadow, and the groundhog is unfright- t
ened. He remains above the ground and
winter is over.
Sunday was a cloudy day, but shadow
or no shadow, the little animal must have ,
suspected that something was wrong j
when he came out of his hide-away andjt
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liscovered the ground covered with snow, j
}ur guess is that he didn't wait around
?or a peek at the sun before he scurried
jack into his hole and pulled it in after
"rim, to warm him up after his chilly exjosure.
Cheating
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An investigation conducted last week
imong the student body at the University
>f North Carolina resulted in the suspeniion
of more than forty students for
heating on examinations.
While the results of this action have
:aused nation-wide discussion,- it is not to |
>e presumed that the University of North
Carolina is any worse than other colleges!
.nd universities throughout the United j
Itates. The condition is even more wide-j
pread than that, and is to be discovered [
11 practically every one of our high \
chools. We hope that the example set by /
uthorities at our State University will j
e followed in other institutions.
Like war, cheating can not be stamped
ut through force. It is necessary that j
:udents understand just what a foolish
aste of time it really is, and this must:
jme through education against this indious
enemy of intellectual development. '
Since there are rules in all schools and!,
jlleges against cheating on examinations, ii
is up to the teachers in charge to see '
int none goes on. This is true except ]
here the honor system is in use. With a j
acher in charge, the first concern of a (
udent intent upon receiving unfair help 1
to avoid detection. This game of chance i
hich he has elected to play with his I *
acher immediately takes practically all J
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iought away from facts concerning meij
camination, and the good of months ofjj
udy is completely overshadowed. If he;,
caught, disgrace, with possible dismis-n
il from school, awaits him. If he "gets IJ
ir" he may have passed a grade, but has,,
arned nothing. 1
In school a boy or girl begins to form'<
ibits that will be followed all their life.!,
they take short cuts to get by teachers;,
1 examinations while they are students, i
ey are training themselves to become^
e kind of citizens that are always try- ,
g to "get by" someone in a business^
sal, or to "get by" the law in the com-;1
ission of some crime.
We can think of nothing more humilia- ',
ng for a boy and his parents, than to |'
? sent home for an indefinite period for '
ieating. Forty boys from the University |
! North Carolina now know what this i
eans. Their humiliation will not have I1
5en entirely wasted, though, if boys and ]
rls throughout the state and nation will ,
ist consider the high cost of cribbing. ]
1
chool Sanitation :
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Dr. W. H. Booker, writing in the Uni- j
irsity of North Carolina News Letter,
jplores the lack of proper sanitation t
nong the schools of the state.
Says he: "The condition of our school
nitation in North Carolina is at a low {
>b. School sanitation in North Carolina, I1
, in my opinion, far worse than our ,
'ison sanitation." ' \
"Approximately 20 per cent of our i
orth Caraolina schools have no sewage J!
icilities at all?not even privies, onlyii
5 per cent have what might be classed J1
5 fair to good sewage facilities, and|J
?er 50 per cent have distinctly bad or h
angerous sewage facilities.
"As for school water supplies, about ]
3 per cent have no water supply on the .
:hool grounds at all, about 30 per cent :
ave what might be termed good or safe !
ater supplies, and over 36 per cent have
ad or dangerous school water supplies.";
These facts, based on unlimited reaarch
in the schools of our state, should
ring some cause for contemplation in
tie minds of our people. The daily sub-i
ection of a large portion of the school- j
hildren of this state to a dangerous con-i
lition, should be enough to bring some
^ell-founded action on the part of the
eople at large.
Dr. Booker, summing up the situation,!
:ives the reason for such conditions. He
ays: "Our laws on school sanitation are
ndirect JlTlfl PlimVirnno Trv? nyfurnrw ^.-^.4-,-.
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chool sanitation usually have to be taken
ip first through the school principal, then
he county superintendent, the county
)oard of education, and finally through
he board of county commissioners.
"It is my understanding that many of
>ur North Carolina teachers teach hygirne
and sanitation in the class room. I
vould like immensely to see our state's
jractice in the school plant square with
he teachings in the classroom."
PORT PILOT, SOUTHPORT
CAPITAL
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I Washington, Feb. 5.?Our national
lawmakers are now at the
hair-pulling stage over the methods
of taxation to pay for bounties
bestowed with utter disregard
of those who must eventually
pay the piper. Turning their
back on the Presidential veto of
the veterans' bonus brought a
new crisis to their door. The politicians
insist that a tax program
in a campaign year is nothing
short of suicide for office-holders
seeking votes from the tax-paying
class. At present, the legislators
want to procastinate with a
"borrow and pay later policy" or
anything to postpone a revenue
bill before the November elections.
If there is any doubt about
political expediency governing
this problem it may be dissipated
when consideration is given to
the fact that radical and conservations
in both parties are in accord
as to t'ie wisdom of stalling
off a day of reckoning. They
know full well that political scalps
will be lifted at the polls if
higher taxes are imposed either
directly or indirectly.
The political bows and arrows
ire flying thick and fast in all
sections to signal the beginning
of a partisanship struggle for
popular support. The factions are
low on the warpath as a preliminary
to the battles to be stag;d
at the national conventions in
Philadelphia and Cleveland in
fune. The cross-fire from bitter
'euds is so confusing that it is
iifficult to discern the true state
>f affairs. Despite the feeling
hat the President should suggest
tax plans and relieve a harissed
Congress of this responsibility
to their constituents it is
lot likely that an open rupture
vill develop between the execu'
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:ive ana legislative oranunea. me
Patman idea of inflation and issuance
of "green backs" to pay
nonus costs may call for a show
if hands and force Congress to
ackle the tax problem with all
ts implications of a voter's reprisal
next fall.
The family scraps within the
American Federation of Labor
ire a source of genuine concern
for legislators. The current
controversy as to the effectiveness
of craft and industrial unions
threatens the hold that organized
labor exercised over Congress
during the last three years,
rhe ambitious legislative program
will probably never get beyond
the talking stage with such dissension
rampant in labor circles,
rhe Walsh government contract
bill, which in effect carries out
basic NRA ideas of maintenance
nf wages and hours, is stalemated
in the House. The issue of
wage differentials between the
North and South is effectively
blocking action on the measure,
[f the Southerners persist in demanding
favors in lower wage
rates because of race questions
then the North and west are not
greatly enthusiastic, as such differentials
militate against areas
where these concessions are not
vanted.
There is some talk in labor organizations
of imposing a Federal
tax on machinery as a means of
restricting the use of labor-savng
devices. It is an old idea
ised in early England when the
power-loom and spinning-jenney
Jisplaced hand labor. The proposal
is considered a plain threat
with little chance of getting anywhere
at this time. A Congressional
committee is, however, making
a study of this technical problem
of machines versus workers.
The farm relief program has
pushed these matters into the
background. The debate on agricultural
policies will disclose differences
between the Democratic
and Republican solutions for this
vital issue.
Despite the flow of substantial
checks to large groups of farmers
under the AAA crop restriction
program during the last two
or three years, the Agriculture
j^cpai uucia auu v^ungicoo ai t
pestered by demands for free
seeds. This expensive government
gratuity was stopped about thirteen
years ago in the interest of
economy. However, there are large
segments of the population demanding
packets of free seeds as
a price for their friendship at the
polls. Secretraies to legislators
are constantly explaining that the
law prohibits the distribution of
government seeds. The solons are
still distributing government publications
to the registered 'oters
in their districts, but the demand
for this printed matter has diminished.
The Department of Agriculture
allocated 20,000 copies a
year to each member of Congress
for farm bulletins, but this has
been cut to five thousand a year.
Many legislators from rural districts
take over the allotments of
their city colleagues in order to
make the voters conscious of
their work in Washington. The
lawmakers are protesting the restriction
of maps which are prin
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ted for the Department of the
Interior, the distribution of which
j is restricted to ten or twelve to j
each member of Congress.
The printed hearings of the [
House Appropriation Committee, |
available this week, reveal many j
of the inside plans of the Admin-!
istrative agencies for the next I
fiscal year. In making their de- J
mands for money the bureau of- j i
ficials have been obliged to re-1
veal details which seldom receive
publicity. Members of the House :
were astounded that the annual j
loss each year from fires on!'
farms is estimated to be $100,- 1
000,000 and another $160,000,000 j
in addition to that in rural com- J l
munities with the loss of several I'
thousand lives. The spontaneous '
combustion of hay, one of the;'
j principal sources of farm fires, j 1
has resulted in boosting insurance |
rates. Government officials are j!
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attempting to lower tftis loss by
using salt as a fire preventive.
COUNTY HOME NOTES
B. C. Williams made a trip to j
Shallotte on Monday evening of j
the past week, taking Miss Ruby |
Ludlum to her home for a visit, j
from which she returned on Sun-,
day afternoon.
Henry Williams called to see
B. C. Williams on Tuesday after-'
noon.
James Long was a caller on J
Tuesday to see Miss Delphian
Long.
B. C. Williams attended the :
funeral of Brooks W. Benton on I
Thursday afternoon. ]
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Arnold called j
Friday afternoon to see G. W. ij
Kirby, Jr. Ji
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Arnold and j]
Mrs. G. W. Kirby, Jr., called to 1
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ever see a man carr
lis arm? No.
vou ever see a picture
nt come into the home
vou ever see a live net
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a/'s ze^:v advertising
llot brings results.
hate Port
JORT, NORTH CAR
SPAY, FEBRMa^I
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see G. \V. Kirby, Sr., SgJ
morning.
Mrs. Mary Drew and Mr. J
Mrs. Jack Drew visited Mrs S
da Greer Sunday afternoon. 1
Mrs. R. L. Johnson was a ql
er at the home on Sunday t|
ternoon.
Mr. Let Jordan, of Rwij,
and Mr. Garvin Mercer were r|
tors on Sunday.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank membera
the Southport volunteer fire (
partment for their splendid (
forts in putting out the fire A
threatened our home and boa
hold goods last Friday. We a
also greateful to friends
Southport and Brunswick coa
for their sympathetic assis'ia
MR. AND MRS. J. D SUTPO
2-5* And Family
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ying a billboard
of the new hat
via radio? No.
vspaper thrown
*)eing read? No.
in the State
Pilot I
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