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* TWO THE STATE PORT PILOT ? Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 1 JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor l ( Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at . the Post Office at Southport, N. C? under the act of March 3, 1879. ( Subscription Rates ONE YEAR $1.50 ? MX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS .75 vJL^national editorial i ((o) /4 ASSOCIATION ij <^yyijunJxj?A. 1935 " Wednesday, February 26, 1936 ji Snobbery sometimes hides behind a 1 cloak of shyness. I( . a I ' I Courtship consists of a man chasing j* < a woman until she catches him. L . < Whiskey and salt water do not mix It any better than whiskey and gasoline. i i Despite repeated postponements, the j school schedule apparently is as well J along as farm work. (< Some folks like beans better than;^ they do peas because they aren't so badj( about rolling off their knife. L i Funny, but the only kind of business'] some people seem willing to indulge in remains monkey business. L j \ The weather in Southport this win-ig ter surely has been nothing to brag about, | unless we content ourselves with saying ;c that it has been better here than in otherL sections of North Carolina. No Excuse j c t There is no excuse for the unenviable ^ record of Brunswick county in making it necessary for Mrs. Lou H. Smith, county nurse, to report two cases of diphtheria r to the State Board of Health since the(* first of January. I This disease is one of the most danger-X ous menaces to the health of children be-c tween the ages of 6 months and 6 years, h Innoculations against this disease may I1 be obtained from your family physician,1 or from the county nurse. Through per- i sonal contacts and newspaper articles, c Mrs. Smith has sought to impress parents ( with the importance of having their ba- j bies immunized against diphtheria. Act : now before it is too late. I' ,1 Short Epidemic News that the influenza epidemic, J which led to the quarantining of Camp Sapona, has about died out will be welcomed by residents of this section. No person ^ feels very safe when flu is prevalent in the community. The fact that no cases of pneumonia developed during the epidemic at the i local CCC camp is a tribute to the fine t work of Dr. William Dosher, camp physi- j cian. At the first appearance of symptoms 1 of this disease, the men were put to bed,1 and placed under medical care. The effi- < cient manner in which the situation was i handled accounts for the speedy end to I j the epidemic. ' Spring Gardens I The beautiful spring weather during!' the first part of this week caused many 1 residents of this county to begin thinking < of planting their gardens. Small plots in < the back yards of those who live in town . are being broken, lined off in rows and early garden seed planted. A good garden is a valuable ally to ! the food budget of the average family, < so farmers are pausing in their field work j long enough to break up a garden and ( plant it in time for early vegetables. Whether gardening is a hobby, or whether it is a matter of supplementing ; the family food supply, rich dividends in pleasure and profit await the gardener. Correspondents The State Port Pilot is very fortunjv, \ j J._ ?_i__ in iictvmg acvcitti tuiicspuiiuciitb vvnu faithfully report the news from their community each week. i Miss Blanche Phelps, of Exum; Mrs.,1 J. L. Henry, of Winnabow; Mrs. J. A. Russ, of Shallotte; Miss Lucille Sellers, of i Supply; Jesse Lewis, of Bolivia; F. H.|< Williard, at the county home; and Norwood Brooks, at Seaside, have been our 1 standbys. Others have sent in news at 1 irregular intervals, and their contributions j are always welcomed. \ T^hose of you who live in the same j community ^yith any of these correspondents can help make their weekly news ( THE STATE 1 'scape them. If your community is not represented n our news columns, select someone to lo the reporting and send in items of in;erest. It is the purpose of The State Port Pilot to serve every section of Brunswick rnunty. Short Passes The editorial page may seem a ;trange place for second-guessing by a pasketball fan, but this sport is the chief nterest of Brunswick county boys and ?irls at the present time. The regular playing season is drawng to a close, and players on every team n the county are looking forward to the Brunswick county tournament and the Star-News tournament, the latter to be clayed in Wilmington. Already, favorites ire being picked to win the county championship; and observers say that there is i good chance that Brunswick county earns will have a lot to do toward decidng the winner of the Wilmington tournanent. We have had several games between he high school teams this season, the nost recent being the boys' game between Southport and Bolivia Saturday night. For ;heer fight, that game has few equals vithin our memory. There were ten boys >n the floor that night scrapping every " * / J i i n i. i lecond for possession 01 tne Dan, to maae loints that would place their team in the ead. The spirit was there, and the game vas close; but either team could have von by a 20-point margin had it boasted i smooth working passing attack. The two indoor courts in Brunswick :ounty are comparatively small, and eviry time a long, looping pass is attempted here is immediate danger of losing pos;ession of the ball. On several occasions Saturday night the ball changed hands hree or four times during mad scrambles vhich included no skill in ball-handling. Since every team in the county is nore or less guilty of poor passing, this actor may not change the result of the Brunswick county tournament. It is when >ur players face strong opposition in the Star-News tournament that the real diference will be shown. You don't need an indoor court to practice passing, handling the ball with>ut fumbling, working the ball down the :ourt until it is within easy scoring range, t does take patience and hard work, but here's a county championship, and may)e greater laurels, in it for the team that vill master the art of passing. Household Dangers Your kitchen contains everyday maerials potentially as dangerous as dynanite! This was demonstrated recently in an ipartment house, when a tenant decided o bake a cake. In gathering together the ngredients, she discovered that the flour, vhich she had poured out into a dish, contained bugs. She stepped over to the ncinerator, the shaft of which ran up past all of the apartments, opened the door and emptied the dish. As she closed the door, a volcano seemed to erupt. A terrific explosion shook the place and a sheet of flame swept from the shaft into the kitchen, disfiguring the girl for life. The doors 3f the incinerator shaft were torn off in all apartments and great damage was done on each floor. Several persons were sent to the hospital. And yet, only a small quantity of floor was emptied into that incinerator?perhaps a pound and a quarter! What happened to cause this great and unexpected explosion? As the powdery substance was thrown into the incinerator, it separated and many minute particles floated in the air, causing a dust cloud that exploded as soon as it came in contact with the fire at the bottom of the incinerator shaft. Corn starch acts similarly under certain conditions AcetimnlQUnnc nf w <*wumuiuviUiiO V A UUOt^ such as are removed from vacuum cleaners or carpet sweepers, unless compressed into a matted mass, are also devastating explosion and will, in any event, cause a dangerous flash-back. The way to avoid dust explosions is to keep the material in a compact mass. When disposing of dust, it should be put n a bag or wrapped up securely. Then there will be no possibility of its separatng and forming a dust cloud. As the majority of the thousands of leaths annually caused by fire occur in PORT PILOT, SOUTHPORT, ' CAPITAL! i NEWS | ? Washington, Feb. 26.?Making [ forced collections from consum-1 ers of foodstuffs to pay for the, Apolitical music rendered in the | farm relief bill is a chore which I ; the national legislative body can- j not shirk. There is much lament- ( I ing over taxation at this season i [when 33 Senators and 435 Rep| resentatives are seeking renomi-' nation and re-election. The House |is willing to keep the tax prob- j I lem down to bare essentials as J 'contemplated in financing the! (latest agricultural bounty plan, I jbut a militant group of Senators I want to open the door wide to an upward revision of income tax j levies. TWELVE BILLIONS Conscious of the fact that j 'sometime within the next year or 1 jso fiscal policies must be revised j (to dig up about twelve billion, dollars to maintain government! credit, the Treasury Department j is ready to submit suggestions to | ; Capitol Hill. However, the rank | j and file of lawmakers are dis- j | posed to restrict taxes to imme;diate needs in order to play down I the effect on the individual vot-1 j er's purse. Nearly 48 millions I ' were expended last year in adj ministering tax laws. It cost $1.54 to collect each $100. ' LEFT TO CONGRESS | A general message on this sub- j jject is expected shortly. The j i President will presumably leave | ithe entire matter in the hands of i 'Congress. The House Committee ( ! on Ways and Means will call, i upon the Treasury Department'] jfor recommendations. This agency j] I will submit a series of estimates ] las to revenue yields from which j I the committee may make a |] 'choice. Affected groups must be J; iciven a nublic hearing: as to the i j consequences of special taxes. : [About five or six weeks will be j consumed by the discussion in the '; Senate and House. At all times i the music of the political pipers i will go "round and round" as the j executive and legislative branch- i es of the Federal government 11 dodge the responsibility for ad- j | verse public resentment. PENSIONS AGAIN Beleaguered by insistent proipaganda of a threatening nature, harrassed legislators are hopeful | that the current investigation by !a bi-partisan House committee ! will make the Tovvnsend plan [agitators run for cover. A series [of surveys show that few if any :of the handful of legislators favjoring the McGroarty bill believe |it will automatically assure piosIperity or security by paying penI sions to all citizens over 60 years | [of age at the rate of $200 per; month. The idea is to disburse j 20 billions annually and raise part j of the funds by a sweeping two [ i percent tax on all gross business | transactions and levies on incomes. POLITICAL ISSUE The solons fully expect to de-1 I velop racketeering of funds col- j j lected from prospective benefici'aries by the professional Townisendite organizers. They also an-! ticipate that the expose will | weaken the carefully built-up j confidence of the contributors in j - their leaders through a misuse of | funds and other questionable methods. A speech by Represen[tative Blanton, of Texas, based ion the alleged confessions of for- ] !mer Townsendite campaigners I has been re-printed and distributed by office-holders not possessing sufficient courage to personally condemn the lobbying. The plan has no chance of enactment | at this session, but it is bound to figure as an important local political issue this fall. SUPREME COURT It is noteworthy that the hubbub over restricting the powers of the Supreme Court has subsided since the recent TVA decision. A caustic observer of things political compared the situation to wherein silence follows throwing the howling dogs a bone. Of course, no fair-minded citizen would consider that the hipr.est tribunal lowered itself to sucn unaigTiiriea tacucs to sutve | off congressional war-parties on 1 a hunt for judicial scalps. The TV A decision was actually narrowed down to the sale and dis- ' tribution of electrical energy from one war-time project. What really worries the New Dealers and the industrial groups interested in the hydro-electric projects of the government is the things that the court left unsaid. However, both sides have taken occasion to blow up the issue out of all proportion to its real value as a political kite. ,ife ROBINSON BILL N. C. ZZZZZ ?(WfWjOMAS, i -/[i cant you Jll if ik tell The (Coj>rrtfhl, W. X. D.)\^' _ k?_ . name attached to a law which is national in scope. It is a fine bit of publicity especially valuable in a campaign year because adroit partisans find it possible to juggle the achievement before the Dublic and increase the Stan ding of the candidate. This political device accounts in no small measure for the success which has attended the Robinson bill to prevent price discrimination in favor of chain stores. Senator Robinson is the majority leader and not sure of re-election. His colleagues in the Senate are doing a neat job of "back scratching," as Uncle Joe in his capacity as leader helps them out with similar gestures. It is in the cards that the Robinson bill, regardless of its merits, will pass the Senate. Congressional leaders are applying pressure brakes pS I'lWM'lWIiVwM'IWPlVw"M?>WI'l?VIMIWWWWMW*1 Subsci JOSI Bru] several days securing sub: If it is mo subscription i Port Pilot, ai Keep up | wick county TheS "Your SOUTH : H SPAY, FEBRUARY oc I iK *"** WEDNE Lion or Lamb? } I MAKE OF IT, tlJK. JBSL I fHANlt <0M& HEPt, MAV0E ?-4*? i against serious consideration of ! i 'other controversial subjects. ' 1 There is a "gentleman's agree-, j i ment" between the Capitol and | the White House to keep such i dangerous items out of the shore !, book for the session. jf Dates For Farm |j Week At College 1 The annual 4-H club short! course, a week of fun, fellowship, and instruction for rural ( , boys and girls, will be held at j( N. C. State College from July 22 ' 3 to 27. ! As the short course is brought ! to a close, Farm and Home i1 Week, an educational vacation 3 for farm men and women, will ( open and continue through July ? 31, according to an announce- 1 ription So EPH S. HUFH Of Delco, Will Be In iswick Coi each week for the m ? scriptions to this nc re convenient, mail direct to the office < id receipt will be mi with what is going i by reading Itate Port County Newsp PORT, NORTH CAR' I !*. , nent by Dean I. 0 Scha^H State College. Last year the short cuur^H Farm and Home Week wefl lelled on account of the ou^H >f paralysis over the Statfl /ear it is hoped that 'rams will make up for tl^B ippointment expressed by^H people who had planned I and these events last suH he dean said. The beginning of the inH >f crushing soybeans fori >il was begun at Elizabeth! <orth Carolina, DecembeH 1915. Starting with 30b baby H ast April, Askew StneklaH Middlesex, route 1, Jotfl :ounty, made a labor incoi! 1154.30. 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