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TWO THE STATE PORT PILOT i Southport, N. G. v PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor ^ Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. t ?; . Subscription Rates DNE YEAR J1.50 r BIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS .75 ( NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION h 10? 6- (T ) -WVE?. v n s Wednesday, October 1 J, 1936 o If you drink, don't drive; if you drive, 0 don't drink. tl c One small political job sometimes ruins a ?ood man for life. rr I " The mechanical perfection of an auto- a mobile is wasted if there is a weak nut r at the wheel. n a The fellow who never takes anyone's ^ c< advice will have nobody but himself to i,0 lime nut tn he a failure. y ijiamc ix ii^ ? ? ^ If you dislike a person and don't know why, try to recall the unkind things you p; have said about him. That may account w for it. cl C Folks who don't get to bed until so tr late that they don't get up until 10:00 w o'clock in the morning do not know what l they are missing. There isn't anything happening after 10 o'clock that is worth C( I missing the morning hours for. b di Honest 11 This is the season of fairs and carni- w vals, and thousands of dollars will be ci spent by citizens of this state during the next few weeks for this type of enter- ' i in merit. j The colorful appeal of the carnival has a peculiar attraction for the average per- e son. He goes knowing that he will spend w money foolishly and unnecessarily; he t] plies his way through the jostling crowd tj half afraid that he will be cheated or g j robbed; but he comes away satisfied with the fun he has had, and with the satis- w faction of a joyous, care-free holiday. tl It is well enough to be careful in anyp large crowd of strangers, for there al- p ways is the possibility of being the victim % of a pick-pocket or a slick gambler. But j( tales of crowedness within a fair ground,z, have been over-drawn, in our opinion. At'r'( any rate, one of the finest examples of' j honesty we have ever known occurred at g an Eastern North Carolina fair two years ' a*?' m It was Thursday night and checks paid I n to free-act performers were being cashed Qj at the ticket office. One particularly good a attraction that year was the "Globe of n ? j J :i j/cai/ii, ill W IlIUll H UitltJ'UtJVll motoi C> c- |rj| le rider rode uside-down within a bronze [ cage 30-feet in diameter. To add to the . human interest of this performance, the rider's wife sat in a chair within the i death trap. . The wife brought the check for their 0 act to the box office. Receipts for the day had totaled in the neighborhood of 1 $5,000, and bills had been straightened out and stacked in piles. Dollar bills had been arranged in piles of fifty each, later to be tied in packs containing one hun, dred dollars. ,c When she presented her check for one . hundred dollars, two stacks of fifty one- 1 dollar bills were handed her. About a half hour later the manager } came in, apparently greatly disturbed 1 about something. "Did you cash the check P for the 'Gbole of Death' act," he wanted to know. We told him we had. "What de- r, . nomination did you pay with," he asked, b "Two stacks of fifty one-dollar bills for the hundred dollar check," we told him. sj "Those fifty dollar stacks each had ^ one hundred dollars in them,' he said. ^ "The lady you paid just came up to the b office and told me that she had been paid j? double for the check, and brought back one hundred dollars." f( I\Iore About Races a 0 Do not be surprised if during the next 1< few months you see repeated reference to b ?? It THE ST ATI >ort next summer. That is one project o vhich we are definitely sold. One of the first things that occurs t is in this connection is the desirability c laving one or more sailboats from her o enter the races. From Ens. K. R. Co on, junior officer at Camp Sapona, w tave learned that small boats suitable fc acing may be built at list cost. Ens. Col on, by the way, is from Charleston, i :., where interest in yacht racing is at it eight, and he knows about sailboats. He has offered to write for plans whic ;e believe may be used by local sports len in constructing local entries for nes ummer's races. Another important step would be th rganization of a yacht club here. A cc perative group of members can do mor lan any other agency to insure the sue ess of the proposed regatta. Forgive us for repetition while we re lind you that the races here next sum ler can easily be made the major sport ttraction of the entire summer for Nortl arolina. It seems impossible to over-esti late the drawing power of the event nd the manner in which the races an ut over will depend entirely upon th< ^-operation of Southport citizens. Comparatively Speaking Brunswick county citizens should b< roud of the fact that only four day: ere required last week to complete^ ear the criminal docket in Superioi ourt. No case of major importance wa: ied, and the maximum sentence passec as from three to five years. Compare this record with that of som< I our neighboring counties, where sev ral weeks of special terms of crimina >urt are required annually. In one near y county this year there were an ever ozen murder cases on the docket at on< me. The scarcity of criminal cases in Bruns ick speaks well for the conduct of th< itizens of this county. "v // I tv rrt i jjjtctais tiave i rtea Residents of the lower end of Bruns rick county are pretty much disappoint d over the road situation just now, an< re do not blame them. However, we di link that they should be fair in placinj le blame for the delay in paving th> outhport-Whiteville highway. It is our honest conviction that Bruns rick county officials have done every ling in their power to secure the im rovement of that road. We are just a ositive that not one of them ever sug ested that the Caswell Beach road pro set be given preference. Southport citi ens are convinced that the paving of th< )ad from here to Whiteville is the nex nportant step in the development o runswick county. Moreover, the fight for this road ha: at been dropped; it has just begun. Th< >ad will be paved, and when the smok< F battle has cleared, citizens of Shallott< id Waccamaw townships will look aboui lem and find that Southport people hav< jen fighting with them, side by side. ndustrial Warfare The darkest cloud in the industrial out iok is impending labor troubles. If these troubles disrupt industry at i me when it is making signal progresi at of depression, every citizen will b< te loser?laborer and capitalist alike. Labor representatives and industria :aders should have intelligence enougl ) understand that calm arbitration ii etter than conflict. Neither side is justi ed in taking a stubborn stand. The cau J of the working man will not be serve* y long strikes that destroy the source rom which employment and purchasinj ower flow. The average working man is not j adical. Nor is the average employer j itter reactionary. It is a safe bet that i le average worker and employer coul< it down calmly together and discuss thei ifferences, a great deal more would bi one to solve their difficulties than wil e accomplished by politics or by extrem its on either side. The American people want a fair dea ar labor. They also want a fair deal fo apital which is nothing more than thi ccumulated savings of individuals, lab rers included. It is high time we heart ;ss talk of strikes and saw more effor eing made toward reasonable and equit ble arbitration of disputed issues. i PORT PILOT, SOUTHPORT, " | OPEN FORUM :o f A column dedicated to opinions of '1 the public. A mouthpiece for the views and observations of our 'e friends and readers, for which we accept no responsibility. Contribut tions to this column must not exceed three hundred words. e MORE ABOUT ROAD Freeland, X. C., October 8th. 1936. 3- Editor State Port Pilot, ;s Southport. X. C. It seems that my letter occurring in your paper of last week h has kicked up right much of a storm. In fact it is the first time in my life time that I have ever ' known the board of commissioners in a body by their chairmans e hand to rally to the help of any community, no matter how ever persecuted, e And I further notice certain "interested citizens" and "my in-, formation is" occurs very often in the get-back-of-both Mr. Keziah and the board of county com_ missioners by Mr. H. O. Peterson, chairman. s I have in my possession a let1 ter dated July 29th, 1936, and _ signed by Mr. Capus M. Waynick which reads quote "your letter of > July 24th, inquiring about pros2 pects for Xo. 130 has been re-, i ceived. We are hoping to set up a construction project on Xo. 130 during the current year. Funds have not been set up for it yet and there will be some delay between the time of the action of the commission and the actual ? construction. This matter is before the commission at the pres5 ent time and the public will be J advised of the action that is takC en. ^ (Letter from Mr. Waynick to 5 Mr. J. D. Babson and copied by I his permission.) This with a long delay in i which nothing has been said and I ! then the headline announcement I - that the road to Caswell was to | be hard surfaced is in itself the ! main reasons that I have for " feeling as I do in regard to the 1 road and the statement that the 4 state was spending money on which no one had sufficient in terest in to even ask that the [ - work be done and leading to a 3 beach which will not pay operating expenses while, there are so many necessary roads needing,' work is almost unthinkable. To Mr. Keziah's bickerings I pay no attention as I never for | an instant intended to inject a j _ political aspect into the scene. > The sole interest that I have! is the pitiable aspect of the poor 1 farmer who has worked both day 3 and night to produce his crops of J tobacco and other farm crops and j ? to create a surplus of any or all; e things grown so as to raise mon-1 ey to pay debts, build homes, J send his children to school, etc., i " have to labor over dusty and dir ty roads to get their stuff to j market; yes over roads over, which the average beach patron, s would not even drive if it was I - possible to avoid it. I may have been mistaken in | some of my statements to to who - passed the road bill, but even if [ 2 I am, I am very glad for that is j ^ the only statement that has as | yet brought out a concrete cor-1 i rection from anyone. Mr. Peterson in his small ef- j , fort to raid Waccamaw township 5 does not mention the fact that i when bond issues were put on i other townships to build central ^ roads through townships that ' Waccamaw did not vote bonds,: t but later under a law to allow i Brunswick county to participate! in the bonded indebtedness of certain townships in said county, | was forced to bear the burden of ! ? ~ ? +U* nUA.?l/lMMn I paying lur iua.ua un liic anuuiucio | of all townships alike, causing [ Waccamaw to have to pay for i . roads that she did not have. Perhaps Mr. Peterson did not j know that, and I seriously doubt I if any county officer now serving 3 does either when the consolidation of schools came about that ' there were buildings allocated in Leland, Bolivia and Shallotte, ] with a like amount to be applied to the bonded indebtedness of 1 Southport school with no allotS ment made for Waccamaw and when I inquired the reason that Mr. Charlie Wood berry, then " chairman of the board of county J commissioners referring to the same "network of dirt roads," referred to in paragraph 5 of his ? (Mr. Peterson's) letter to your open forum "That I think Waccamaw has had her share." I further know that the city of 1 Southport had long been doing f everything possible to shift the j burden of her high school bonds on to Brunswick county and failr ing in everything else, the cong solidation program was put on , for that purpose. .And perhaps Mr. Peterson does - not know that I happen to be the man who came home and ( mini.* J I Mi 1.1 1 _ 1 ovugin euiu iuuiiu imanciai oacning to take injunction against r the whole program and by that 2 means secured the school for Waccamaw. This I can verify by any or all of the surviving memi bers of both the school board and t the board of county commissioners. This, along with the circumstances related in my first letter j N. C. Back O'the Flats 4K^&"' . 4. a my reason for feeling as I c awards Southport's fairness i jo the rest of the county. We Al I : ?Your. ?Your j ?Your I ?Your! T1 ? 1I1( I "YOUF i i : EK w w i'iiii M mi i'l'iMM 111 i',i la i j i'<> "ii hi iVi oil' WED1S f i -I % : 5 tr * lo Why don't some of those interis ested citizens in South port answer my letter instead of waiting :e A Candid Job Printing.. Advertising... Office Supplies ... Subscription -TO} State Port 1 I COUNTY NEWS! Southport, N. C. If *ii i Ifcl ?- A. ^ 'ESPAY. OCTnpcr. I LENDlrrAOOvT-K /ILL VA , JOE.? -yonJIK _AJN^^ ^ j - _ Ha< for Mr. Peterson and Mr, Ker^B the one of which is not eve^B^ Continued on page 3 ate For 1 H * Pilot? I >APER" I ~~*!M IUIHOI1UIH1H<II1U<I1H<I"? I "H -? ? - ...
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