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THE STATE PORT PILOT !* Southport, N. C. ( PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY j J JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Edgjpr < Bntered as second-class matter April 20, 1628, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under ' the act of March 3, 1878. Subscription Rates ONE TEAR : 81.50 c BIX MONTHS 1.00 | THREE MONTHS .751, ! *" Wednesday, May 5, 1937 ( Progress makes 110 provision for re-i! trenchment. j; About as good plan as any is to tell j4 J the truth about a black eye. Nobody is going to believe you anyway. Painting a house is one of the easiest looking jobs in the world?when some- j I I' one else is doing it. ( Some pessimists actually are glad j when the worst does happen, so they can ; say, "I told you so." c j'j It's time for the tennis club to come to s life if the courts are to be used to as good 1 advantage this year as they were last c JI! summer. ( It's about time for kids to begin pester- i ing their parents to let them start going s I I barefoot, and it wouldn't surprise us c much to hear about some of them slip- I ping off to go swimming. o Veteran s Hospital f Commander R. C. St. George, of the,I Brunswick County Post No. ] 94, Ameri- o can Legion, is in receipt of a bulletin from 1 state department headquarters in regard i to the need for a new hospital for vet-; t erans in eastern North Carolina. It is un- a derstood that a conference between North a Carolina Congressmen and members of < the hospitilization board in Washington h lias resulted in encouragement for the f 1 project. e We have in mind two very desirable iv sites for the new hospital. The first is 011 5 government property at one of the most v 'f beautiful locations 011 the Atlantic Coast. * We refer to the garrison at Southport, n where Fort Johnson now stands. j f The second is over at Fort Caswell?a e place already familiar to hundreds of for- ? mer soldiers who have very pleasant me- '' | mories of the place. We are wholeheartedly in favor of the '' hospital project, and we do not believe that the two locations mentioned can be * M surpassed in eastern North Carolina. , ^ |1 Coming In Line ? -?? O We were discussing the 1937 tobacco J crop with County Agent J. E. Dodson the ? J' other day. "Will a shortage of plants cut 5 the cfop in Brunswick county to any great|extent?" we asked. "No. It won't," he told us. "A lot of | 1 our formers already have planted their ^ crop, and some of them succeeded in get-j ^ ting a good stand. I don't think that there i will be much curtailment of acreage.P j f down ihere because of a scarcity of plants. "I'll, tell you what is going to happen, p thougp," he continued. "We have had ? i about! the best response to our soil con- * 1 servatjon program you ever say anywhere > [ We haven't tried to frighten anybody, nor m force ithem to sign up. We have tried to ' convince them that the soil conservation! f' program included the best farming prin- 11 | ciples, iThe satisfaction of last year's sign-,vv ' ers hrp been our biggest help this year,j? for tl?re has been a fourteen per cent n r increaje in the sign-up." n We were glad to hear County Agent iDodso i say this, for it means that Bruns- ja wick i founty farmers are planning a nor-1 mal c vp that has not been cut short by nature: nor overdone by greedy planters . with i b thought of the penalty for over- J< produ :tion. j1 improvements " The je is no better evidence of improv- " | ed ecchomic conditions than is shown by ^ I new Ijjvildings, repairs and improvements I that afe being made on homes in SouthI port aid throughout the county. We jenow of nothing more prosperous ^ ,, lookin j than a new coat of paint on an ' I old lulise. We honestly believe that the ^ influei :e should be strong enough to ^ make je residents of the home feel better. Proc astination is the principal cause t< TH 'or allowing buildings to become run-; +? lown and unattractive. Painting and re- T jairing done in time is one of the best I possible investments for the property-1 I >wner. '< * Tourist Trade i+~ At the risk of becoming tiresome, we ontinue to dwell upon the possibilities 'or a greater tourist trade in Southport. 'man Are still insist that it is the most promis-jknov ng future business for the town. Reporting a tremendous increase in the. r ;olume of tourist traffic through Wil-'has nington, the Morning Star last Friday at- som' ributed the increase to two years of or-j janized effort to attract visitors. j so Important steps already have been tak- ?p m locally to spread the news of South- j|r jort abroad; other plans are in the mak- so ng. The full co-operation of private citi- de '.ens and business people will speed up e(] his program. j ni| an Whose Leisure Is It? to Jll (News & Observer) , gj Great minds are still worrying over the r; ittle extra leisure the people are suppos- Mi ?d to have gotten or to be getting. In big- gv jer words sociologists, psychologists and ed list plain head shakers over the masses ts ire repeating the old phrase about the ^ levil finding work for idle hands to do. in rhat phrase was probably invented by; iomebody who was determined to drive w lis workers as far and as hard as lie M , ould and wanted them to think that 30 i lod was on his side in the process. Leis-!P?ur ire, of course, can degenerate into loaf- noth ng and loafing into crime and other anti- big ocial activities. But while here is a pro- 'An?' ess destructive of human values, some- H ', hing might be lost also if the time off Burl if the folks were made the material for he Ims.v hands and minds of college pro-1 they essors and other experts. betti Already the children in the cities have1 ieen saved from the dangerous business if nlnvincr tlipv will and a wlinlp nrn- S ession of play directors has sprung up eri 11 the land. This may be excellent. Cer-! ow ainly there is no doubt that these recre-1 Pu Fa tionalists can point to achievements. But . man remembering a boyhood which in- j (,a, luded crawling up storm sewers, lit only chi iy lightwood torches of the crawlers, vil rom about Shaw University to the pres- (la. nt site of the Sir Walter Hotel, doubts wa whether such an expedition would have Da teen approved by a recreationalist or whether a recreationalist could have iy bought up anything that was quite as tui luch fun to take its place. And apart *?f rom memory it is sometimes to be doubt- pic d whether all play of the young and the j a' Id can be forever directed without creat-j Ca ig something almost approximating that nice regimentation" about which the Repub- B?ye cans talked so much. "Our greatest need today," may be as day >r. David Rennie Hardman of Cambridge t,ivni Iniversity says it is, "in knowing how to se our leisure." But it is of the very naure of leisure that it is not ours unless 1 Ox re can use it as we please. It is the realm cor f true freedom in a world in which few mil f us can afford much waking freedom. in Liid to the extent that the experts in ^ ther peoples' living invade that realm drii nth their undoubtedly intelligent direc- an< on, freedom is so much lost. In a mass ?"e roduction age, free, independent play is le need of health. Certainly an assem- We ly line of leisure is a threat and not a ga^jj romise to a people who have a little c. l lore time off in which to do as they Ward ter I lease* umnii clay ( nhe Economic Tfieme ^tc! opinit This is the season of the year when seaso outh is plied with noble thoughts in ?pre^( haste English about the better things jus, " l life. Much more to the point now|what rould be some such revelation as George * ^ ookman, one of last .year's graduates, sons.' takes in the current Ladies' Home JourThe world, writes Mr. Bookman, had sab lways been pictured to him as big and fisf llr "My first taste of ordinary citizen- rou lip," he writes, "came as I hunted for a ma )b. And during the entire length of this ^ unt, I found that the world was neither bet ig nor bad. Its bigness turned out to be dur o more frightening than the size of the yea rowd at the State Fair, and its badness Sat o more wicked than 'The Old Lady Who fishin ived in a Shoe, and Had So Many Chil- Hngtc ren She Didn't Know What to Do." Sheib Certainly this apt recognition of the sent conomic source of much wickedness, this ?hesC rompt spotting of the pressure of pover- retun r, unemployment and ignorance should ome handily to youth among the other dow'n eginnings of workaday wisdom.?The Sec lews & Observer. mitig Jud Synonym: As welcome as a bill-collecir when you're flat broke. ^ c \ E STATE PORT PILOT, list Among The Fishermen (BY W. B. KK/.IAH) Future ij'be it was just one fisherspeaking to another. All we I v is that Horace Persall, of j nington, stopped on the j t here the other day to tell1 columnist that Soutliport j a great development forj ! time in the near future. j Pessimist Most fishermen come to iuthport briming over with itimism and full of scorn any suggestion that they e going to get seasick. Not with VV. A. Blue, presint of the Pinehurst and serdeen railroad. Interviewat the hotel Saturday ght, he was very mournful d ventured dire predictions what was going to happen his middle on the morrow, ist a few minutes before e interview took place Mr. ue, George R. Powell, of ileigh, and Major Larry cHale, of Fort Bragg, were stily engaged in singing eeet Adeline, as they wnitfor their supper. Remnanof a Charlotte party that d already been out and got eir fish were joining feebly the chorus. Good I.uck . W. Kanoy, C. H. Steele, ;s Vanderlip, J. R. Goley and j 3. Hunter, of Charlotte, took | trout, all weighing about 3 j ids a piece, Sunday. The j her was bad and they got i ing but trout, taking the 30 j fellows In about one hour.! her nice catch reported to I columnist was made by H. j Dixon and J. B. Neely, of ington, and W. H. Curlee, of nasville. They took 41 large ; nnrl 13 hio- trout". Thpvsnitl , -- ? 1 would have made a much I r catch if one of the party | not got hooked in the hand, ng a return to port. Sportsman peaking of consistent fishnen, H. M. Tyler, of Dunn, ner of the little yacht, nch, which he bases at yetteville, has folks beat a le. For the last five Saturys in a row Mr. Tyler has jgged down from Fayette- I le with a party and has nained over through Sun- j y. On his trip this week he ,s accompanied by George rden, Henry West and ymond Wood, all of Dunn. ey made a nice catch earSunday morning and re- , ned to Southport in time join a party of ladies who >ve down from Dunn for a j; nic and fish fry with them ; noon. 11 Returning j; tching around 150 pounds ofji fish, W. M. Presnell, B. W. 1 tte, E. C. Lindley, H. E. I; erburk and Wilson A. Good-1 ] of Charlotte, declared Sun-1 afternoon that they were re-1 ng to Southport soon for more of the fishing that 1 iport affords. < Expected < t is about time for B. F. t mont, foreman of the j nposlng room of the Wil- i igton Star-News, to put his appearance at South t tor a nsning irip. mis amnist never knew how to |; nk beer until Mr. Ozmont 1 1 his party inveigled him t a fishining trip last sum- \ r. i No Story 1 had thought we would have 11 od story for this week re- [ ng how State Forester W. | vtcCormick, County Forest! en Dawson Jones, Postmas-11 j. T. Yaskell and your col- J1 st came through on the first I r if the open season for fresh | \ fish. The fact of the mat-1J s that some difference of | J >n arose whether the open! z n began on the 10th or 11 5 ay. As a result of this dif-; j ce Mr. McCormick said to If you say one word about [ happens today there will be j irn good newspaper man I g the list of missing per- 1 J Biting \ "he trout, blue fish and t ckerel season may now be ( 3 to be in full blast and t ling parties have assuran- 11 of good catches at South- ( t if they ' do not pick gh weather in which to ke the visit. Fishermen of the opinion that the ( ut fishing will be much c ter this year than it was f ing the fine season of last 3 ir. 1 Well Pleased c urday and Sunday brought ( g parties from Wilmington, r tteville, Dunn, Raleigh, Bur- ii in, Thomasville, Pinehurst, li y and Charlotte. Charlotte in two large parties. Withsxception, all made nice catand voiced an intention to t a early and often. i C st Lawyer: "You're a low-1 s cheat!" a ond Lawyer: "You're an un- b ated liar!" j: Ige (rapping): "Now that r attorneys have identified tl other we shall proceed with c :ase" h SOUTHPORT, N. C. NEWS 1 BRIEFS j I TOWN TEAM WIN'S The Southport baseball team defeated Camp Sapona Saturday afternoon 17 to 11. MARRIAGE LICENSES Marriage license was granted this week to Miss Mary Lou Rivenbark and George W. Rob-1 bins, of Wilmington. AUXILIARY BENEFIT Members of the Auxiliary of the St. Phillips Episcopal church will conduct a cake and pie sale Saturday at Joe Loughlin's place. MISS DOZIER ILL Friends of Miss Gladys Dozier will regret to learn that she was confined to her home here the first part of the week because of: illness. GOOD CATCH Captain Bonner Bussels went out alone on a freshwater fishing1 expedition Monday afternoon and caught a string of seven pretty trout. FLAG POLE A new flag pole recently has been erected on the garrison grounds in front of Fort Johnson and a United States flag has been flying for the past few days. DINNER GUESTS Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Cranmer, | Miss Alice Meade Cranmer and Dr. and Mrs. James Sprunt Hall were the dinner guests of Judge and Mrs. E. H. Cranmer Wednes-! day evening. JUDGE AT HOME Judge E. H. Cranmer is spending this week at home and has been spending much of his time going crabbing or working in his flowers. RETURN HOME Mrs. Ralph Merkle and daughter, Sally Ann, and Mrs. Ralph Haiser, of Dayton, Ohio, return-! ed Thursday after spending two weeks with Mrs, Frank St. George and Mi s. John G. Swann, sisters of Mrs. Merkle. TOOK MUCH FUEL Minco, the huge 110 foot triple deck yacht of the Mills Novelty Company, of Chicago, spent last Monday night here. The vessel was in command of Captain S. Solheim and had a crew of ten men. She took on two thousand gallons of fuel, and 55 gallons of lubricating oil at the Burris dock. WILL VISIT HKRfe George W. Rappleyea, representative of the Wheeler Shipyards in Baltimore, writes friends here that he expects to be in Southport Thursday and Friday, jnless detained by business. Mr. Rappleyea formerly resided here md is well known to Southport leople. His mother resides here. TIDES RUNNING HIGH Tides in the Cape Fear have oeen running abnormally high luring the present week. Some >f the waterfront folks say that die height is a bit unusual for a period that is not marked by ough weather. MOVED Representative and Mrs. R. E. Sentelle moved their furniture to dickory last week and stored it! .here until Mr. Sentelle decides j vhere he will locate for the prac;ice of law. It is understood that le has two partnership proposiions that he is considering. t ATI in A Ton A large alligator, measuring I nore than 8-feet in length, was tilled Sunday afternoon on the! oad between the inland watervay and Caswell Beach by Lois lane Bussels, Evelyn Loughlin, rohnie Stiller and Frank Woodird. The 'gator was brought to Southport, where it was the obect of considerable interest. ATTEND MAY DAY Mr. and Mrs. C. Ed Taylor, diss Elizabeth Taylor, Edward Taylor, Mrs. E. M. Hall and Miss darion Watson spent the past veek-end in Greensboro where hey attended the Greensboro College May Day Festival Saturlay afternoon. Miss Margaret Taylor, of Southport, was May Jueen. IMPROVEMENT The Fort Johnson grounds and Harrison building have been reviving considerable attention rom Captain F. Mollycheck, the ceeper of the Cape Fear River ights, who has the property in barge for the Army Engineers. Tivic Club members have comnented on the fact that the place s now much better kept than it las been in a number of years. GOOD CARE Calling unexpectedly at the jail o see one of the prisoners who' s awaiting trial, the Southport livic Club secretary was greatly urprised at the variety and bundance of the food that was leing taken the prisoners by the ailer J. H. Russ, just as he ar-1 ived. While they may not like heir confinement the Brunswick ounty prisoners can certainly ave no kick at the food. ( ! OPEN FORUM < A column dedicated to opinions of the public. A mouthpiece for the views and observations of our . friends and readers, for which we A accept no responsibility. Contributions to this column must not exceed three hundred words. May 10, 1937. Editor, Ra State Port Pilot: ,lu| Dear Editor:?Until we get a thi road to Whiteville, and other no roads that will be of benefit to tai the people of Brunswick county thi improved, we are unalterably op- en posed to any movement or sug- Se gestion of building a road from <ju and for New Hanover county So down into Bald Head Island. 14' Even when we do get the roads ta which we need and have a right to have we will still be opposed no to making Brunswick's famous nu old island a peninsula of New bei Hanover county. It was created Sc as an island, let it remain as an Ar island. j P<>i W. B. KEZIAH. fic an Harry S. New Dies lint Harry S. New, former post- jj? master general, died Sun. night C0| at the Johns Hopkins hospital, tio The former member of Presi- ga dent Harding's cabinet died about,rm 10:30 p. m. He was 79. | thi TORN DOWN tec The old Curtis home on Moore j foi Street, which was recently pur-' trs chased by R. F. Plaxco, is being foi torn down. nu va CROP OUTLOOK arc Farmers in town during the mi past few days appeared satisfied of at the condition of crops. Even inj the tobacco growers, who were arc manifesting much concern a bol short time ago, now seem satisfied that all is well. Considering rT that the weather has not been everything that it might have been there is every reason to expect a change and a fine crop ' growing spell shortly. When this fur comes there will be smiles on we every hand. jjli l^O, A recent Civil Service exam- hoi ination question was this: "If it; 1 takes 20 men to mow a field in Tui eight hours, how long will it the take 15 men to mow the same me field ?" nes One candidate was too smart the for the inquisitors. He wrote, "As the field has already been I mowed by the 20 men, the 15 wei men could not mow it in any sev case." yea I rarHreiaaB^ Tele ( I I WE ARE PLEA! TELEPHO IN The Si News items of phone by calling tl in by Monday nooi week. HELP MAKE T ING. TELEPHOr The St "YOUR ( Telephone 68-R LaiifaiHiHiaaiBJHrafajafgjaraigjBiaajHii WEDNE !.M.T.C. Begins On August 3rd pp?jcations N<jw Being Received From' Boys Who, Are Interested In Going To Fort Bragg Camp Colonel J. W. Harrelson, of ileigh, and David Horton of Co-1 nbia, S. C., Civilian Aides to e Secretary of War, have anunced that the Citizen's Miliry Training Camp to be held is year at Fort Bragg will opon August 3rd and close on ptember 1st. North Carolina's ota is 801 enrollees, while' uth Carolina has a quota ofj 3. The Brunswick county quo-1 is three. The Procurement Campaign is> w in full swing and a great; iny applications have already' en received at the Post. Major humburg McGehee, 13th Field tillery Brigade, has been apinted C.M.T.C. Procurement Of-j er with office at Fort Bragg, j d it is suggested that the boysi crested in going to camp write I ijor McGehee or apply to their j imty representative for applicain blanks or information re- j rding the camp. No procure-' >nt officer has been named for. is county. While these camps are suppor-l 1 by the Federal Government the purpose of giving military ! lining to those who volunteer1 " it, every effort is made to ike the camp attractive as aj cation proposition. Afternoons j ; devoted to athletics, swimng and games. Entertainments i various kinds are ottered aur-; f the evening period. Sundays : devoted to religious services, th mornings and evenings. i raining Schools Held In County Two training schools in house nishing were conducted this ek in Brunswick county by ss Mamie Whisnant, of State liege, assistant specialist in jse furnishing. rhe first meeting was held on esday afternoon at Phoenix at 1 home of Mrs. Dan Brew. A eting is being held this (Wed-! iday) afternoon at Exum in home of Mrs. Burris Russ. n Person county, poultry grors have co-operated to hold en sales of culled chickens this i imgjBjatafafgf?fHmreiaiaaHfaa phone Nw M /\ 1^ mm }ED TO ANNOUIS IE HAS BEEN IISS' THE OFFICE OF tate Port 1 interest may be givei le above number. All n in order to get in 1 HE PICOT MORE SJE OR WHITE IN 1 ate Port lOUNTY NEWSPA fcOUTE jgiaraigjaraiaiaa^g|BjeiHjaiEfaji [SPAY, MAY 12, 1937 Lump-Sum Pay For Security Social Security Board F.sti, mates That 5,945 lump. Sum, Qr Death Ben .-i d Payments Will Be M:,H? This Year The Social Security Boar - est. mates that the number of el;, .. bles for lump-sum or death bene, fits for North Carolina duiine 1937 will be 5,943. It is antic., pated that the field offins the Social Security Board iNorth Carolina will handle the?,-, claims as follows: Raleigh |- i Office, 560; Charlotte. 1260 IVir.. ston-Salem, 720; Asheville. Greensboro. 650; and Salisbury 460. The balance of prospective claims in North Carolina fm tins year will be filed thiough lUicr field offices which will be op,-.,., in the future. Up to April only 11 claims had been tp j with the Social Security Board from North Carolina. Additional claims are in the process of be. ing filed, and it is probable that the number will increase rapidly as the year progresses. To qualify for a monthly benefit a wage earner must be at least 65 years old, his total wages from covered employment after 1936 and before age fir. must be $2,000 or more, and l?c H'UOL iiu?v Jtvvucu ?aj^cs ;uter 1936 in covered employment for work on at least 1 day in each of 5 calendar years before reaching age 65. Only wages u:> to $3,000 a year from any one employer are counted as total wages. Monthly benefits are not payable until 1942. Meantime, the Social Security Board's regional and field offices are now prepared to assist workers who have reached age 6"> to file their claims for lump-sum payments, which are payable now to those who qualify. These payments amount to 3U percent of the total wages received in cov;red employment after 1936. Hundreds of such claims, rangng from a few dollars to $105, rave already been filed with the Board. The Bureau of Federal Dld-Age Benefits estimates that approximately 323.684 persons or their estates will be eligible in 1937 for lump-sum or death payments. Claims will be filed <lur? ng this year either by worker* vho have reached age 65 or by he families of workers who di? luring the year. BrajHiamjaj5jajafanuafaM5J?jr oj k I reS [CE THAT A | TALLED | Pilot I n qver the telenews must be :he paper that ! INTEREST- I 1TOUR NEWS Pilot | PER'' [PORT, N. C. i
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