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PAGE 2 ? THE STATE PORT PILOT ?? Southport, N. Q j*a PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY tio JAMES M. HARPER. JP>? E<tttpr en Btered u a<-cond-claj* natter April 20. 1028. at 0i ma foat Office at Southport, N C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Bi Subscription Re tea ONE TEAK $180 IX MONTHS 100 wf - THREE MONTHS 73 aj? - Ca . pe Wednesday, October fj, I'JliT . by * of The trouble with a book worm is that f 3 n he doesn't recognize anything that he doesn't see in a book, rm Remember: Vour friends may be laugh- tei inj' at you, not with you. Pigskin is more popular than ermine during the fall season. ' err Optometrists are kept busy fitting Igla for eyes ruined by poor light. ^ Don't judge too hastily: What vou re< think i plain goofiness may be budding genius. e(| 1 lai If a good little man is as good as a [j0 good big man, then why do tackles weigh pU two hundred pounds? vi.? ' W( v-.m,. r.i.f.nlc think that other people wt I f? pre bore: because they won't let them do Pe all of the talking. 'a' Good health is gone before we appre-th date it; and when we have it back again S01 we usually are too busy to take time to 'ia be appreciative. ^P Then there's the fellow wlio nearly. died with hay-fever after he married thejan grass widow. i80; I No man is so ignorant that he doesn't j |'c know what he would do if he were m|'el , i ac your place. l Ml Some people make hay while the sun shines, but most sots in this cbnnty prefer "moonshine." _ \\ Our Visitors tj ye ' Tomorrow night a large delegation of 1( Wilmington Legionnaires and members of s]j )f the American Legion Auxiliary will come e? J' to South port to take part in a public cerejr mony which will be a joint installation of ?; )! newlv elected officers of the Brunswick, [ County and New Hanover County Legion! Ill Posts. L )( Interesting plans have Ifeen worked out jj for this occasion, and indications promise a vood time for all participants and specif tat ors. j1 ^ But more important in the long run is * the friendly, co-operative spirit which P' 1 makes this event possible. This is another J step in cementing the friendship between " -< ??,i ca I* lilt nilAUlin wi ouuui|iuii ?uiu vv inning- ^ jj i " ; ai j j Sand.spurs th it in )( A program in which we have been at j | keenly interested during recent weeks is'pi I < that designed to control the maturing, g< iland further spread of sandspurs. m j [ The sandspur is the mosquito of the | Fs it plant kingdom, and the difficulties of j | finally eradicating this pest present a fr j problem iilmost as perplexing. Lj, j( Off-hand, we'd say that this plan of ^ ) I cutting the grass before it matures, and jn jjburning the cutting, is about the best ap-'w )(proved method. st )K I )(Directed Program w ) j 1 \y ' At regular intervals there appear in | (Tlie State Port Pilot news releases an- e: 1 (nouncing vacancies in the U. S. Army, ti j 'Navy or Marine Corps. | % I, Some of our readers, no doubt, are in- b: ) tclined to wonder why so much space is to 1'devoted to these stories. Our purpose is cj '[to call the attention of young men to the $ ) {possibility of securing permanent, gainful; 1 ! 'employment with a future. jtl j J We know the condition that often finds ^ ) (boys of high school age drifting aimless- c ) fly about, with no definite idea of what o j lhey want to do, nor of how to do it. i (Given a friendly steer in the right direc-iti ) <tion, these boys can be developed into the j h 1 ifine type of manhood that is the back- 0 j Jione of our nation. o I ( Even though a career in the army, in p j ^he navy or in the marines may not be g i AH ractive as a life undertaking, it still true that unusual opportunities for irning a trade, or for advanced educan, is offered ambitious youngsters who list in one of the three major branches government service. ? Careful Hunters have a bad name with men lose duty it is to protect our forests ainst the annual ravages of forest fires, reless smoking on the part of members this fraternity, they say. are directly sponsible for tremendous losses. We hate to admit it, hut this charge is t altogether groundless. Despite repeatwarnings, there still are hunters who rsist in being their own worst enemy being responsible for the destruction game, and setting fire to game food d cover. When you go hunting this year, rerm'ber that your gun is not the only poitial danger which you carry with you o the woods. ill It Work? Idaho is meeting an emergency with lergency treatment. During the first six months of the .year, iho's traffic deaths increased alarmingIdaho officials didn't attempt to cor:t the situation with talk and vague Ingestions. Instead, the governor orderthe departments of public works and k enforcement to utilize their joint man wer, finances and equipment for the rpo.se of properly policing and superling roads. Vacations of all patrolmen 11 j ?j ire cancelled, ana seven new uuiteio ire added. Additional patrol cars equipd with radios, loud speakers and speclighting devices, were purchased. It is too early to know the result of Is emergency action, but Idaho is doing mething. Traffic deaths and accidents ve increased lately in most all states, mradic safety campaigns are started in irsts of enthusiasm thrit soon die. Brief tv enforcement drives are instigated d then forgotten. And the accident toll ars. Dismissing all humanitarian considerains, and looking at the accident probrn from the economic standpoint alone, cident reduction is a burning necessity, ist year the direct cost of highway accints was more than a billion and a half liars?and the indirect costs were seval times as great. Today we actually end half as much money, directly, to iy for accidents, as we pay for gasoline, le average cost is $43.00 per family per ar. Will Idaho make a dent in highway mghter? Other states should watch the :periment. arm Outlook Good Even as agriculture is dependent on inistry to absorb the products of the farm, is the urban United States vitally deindent on rural, farming America to ovide a gigantic market foV the prolcts of its factories?everything from ns to motor cars. As a result, it is as important to indus y and finance as to agricultural Amerii itself to have some reasonably accuse idea of what farm income in the lmediate future will be; what change, if ly, has occurred in farm operating costf at would affect net income; what farmg states will be the most prosperous id so constitute the largest and most ofitable market for manufactured iods, etc. Business Week has recently ade a highly inclusive report on "The irm Market Today?and Tomorrow." This will be the best agricultural year, om the point of view of gross income nee booming 1929. This does not mean iat the agricultural situation is vastly iproved in every phase?some crops ill command lower prices and in some ates improvement has been relatively ight. But, looking at agriculture as a hole, 1937 should produce the first real good farm market of eight years. Other factors beside higher income will *ert a beneficial influence on agriculiral purchasing power. The farm mortage debt is about one and three-quartei illions less than it was in 1929. Interest ites have registered a decline and th( arrying charge of this debt is now ahoul 400,000,000, as against $700,000,000 ir 929. The 1937 farm tax bill will be more lan $150,000,000 under 1929 and farm rages, though they have shown a 20 pei ent rise in the past year and a half, an ne-third less than in 1929. Taking all advantages into considera ion, the amount of cash the farmers wil ave to spend this year may total $6,600, 00,000, as compared with 1929 spendinj f $6,260,000,000. Lastly, the purchasing ower of the dollar is still material^ reater than it was. . .Mb. . - . THE STATE PORT PILOT, S ONE-MINUTE j INTERVIEWS I fBy W. B. KezJafc) I "I want to congratulate the . Southport Civic Club on its vigorous follow-up of matter re leasled from this office."?Bill Sharpe of the State Advertising-News Bureau, Raleigh. "One of the salesmen from Wilmington was telling me that every time he came to South port he noticed how friendly the Civic Club secretary was to all strangers and visitors to Southport." ?Mrs. D. M. Davis. "We have certainly enjoyed our fishing trips to Southport."?Mr. Barrier, of the Pilot Life Insurance Company, Greensboro. I "Don't you think that a hun, dred and eleven thousand dollars in resources for a Building and I>oan Association In a place the size of Southport is pretty 5 good?"?J. E. Carr. "Everywhere that I go I get s Inquiries about fishing at South- ' port from people who have never been here. At the same time I ' get unstinted words of praise 1 | from the people who have been f : here."- M. B. Watklns, Assistant Clerk of Court. "Although there were minor problems attendant on the first month school work, we are ! greatly pleased at the results accomplished in September."?Miss Annie Mae Woodside, Supt. of J Schools. "I am glad to see so many farmers mopping up on the good tobacco prices this year."?Attorney Robert W. Davis. "The Carolina Yacht Club, the New Hanover Fishing Club, the Wilmington Chamber of Com-1 merce have all been co-operating handsomely with Southport this i ' year. Now comes the Wilmington ( Post of the American Legion, all , i prepared to do the same thing. ! ( We will gladly welcome the boys 1 f here Thursday night."?R. C. St. j : George, retiring commander of ] I Brunswick Post American Leg- ( j ion. i< !' "Except for a small section ) j that was hit by a severe drought. | jWaccamaw township made the ' ' usual fine crop of tobacco this 11 year and other crops were also . I good."?J. R. Simmons, postmas- j , I ter at Ash. I I1 J "I don't think it is to the '<< ] beauty and civic interest of; t Southport that so piany circulars). 1 should be placed in the windows ji of business houses."?J. J. Dough-1' tin, Sr. i I "It looks now like we will be f able to work out the Brunswick i i county debt service problem. I j ' hope so." R. I. Mlntz, Register ] of Deeds. ' ; "Eventually the welfare prob-1' lem in this county will be work-!' cd out in a well planned system, i' The folks who need assistance will be taken care of and those who are not entitled to help need ; not expect to continue to be a i burden to the tax payers of the ( county."?C. C. Russ, County ! Welfare officer. "The Civic Club has certainly . brought a lot of people to Southport this year and has paved the way for many more to come in 1938."?G. H. Hubbard. "Those weather reports are important to the fishing industry." s ?Charles Hewett. got one fine deer the day I ' the hunting season opened."? Sasa Fodale. r "There are so many fishing j boats here now that they are ' making the water in the harbor rise."?Capt. Hulan Watts. ' "Let's keep on going after ' folks to conle to Southport and i show them we are glad to have , them here when they come."?J A. McNeil. 1 ! "If there is anything in town . that deserves support for what i it has done, It is the Southport | 1 Civic Club." ? John Ericksen, J Mayor of Southport. "The old Quarantine Station might make a good place to hold - the summer camp of the Nauti-1 . cal School."?J. Berg. The main cave at Mammoth ' Cave, Ky. is three miles long ' and varies in width from 4 to . 125 feet. 1 Franz Schubert began compos! ing at the age of 16, and had j written 600 pieces by the time he was 25. r ; Rufus Johnson, of the Governor's Island community in Swain County, has dug four trench si" los this fall and says nothing 1 beats silage as a winter feed for all cattle. ? Randolph County farmers rer port the best lespedeza crop in years and say they will have much seed in addition to a fine crop of hay. \ V OUTHPORT, W. C T . Just Among j The Fishermeni (BY W. B. KEZIAH) | - -? ?? ? 4 ' FISHING NOT OVER Up-state, where this time of the year finds the temperature a good deal lower than it is at South port, there is a mistaken idea ex- i isting to the effect that the best of the coastal season is over. This idea is all wet. October, with good weather conditions, should offer the best trout fishing of the year. With the same weather conditions the sport extends through all of November and it may be kept in mind that Southport offers some sort of good fishing the year round. ON RETURN CALL Officials of the Pilot Life Inlurance Company at Greensboro (pent the 25th and 26th of September here fishing and were lo pleased with their visit t'lat he first of October found them lack for a return call. This time hey remained over until the 4th. ,'t will not be surprising if they ihow up again this week-end. SOLD ON FISHING Attorney T. K. Carlton and other citizens of Salis- _ bury are sold on the Southport fishing. This past week- A end was the first in some hou time that failed to find them ,j0? at Southport. To do the subject justice. Attorney Carlton called up Captain y,.Bowmer Friday night and announced he was coming 4$ down to be in readiness to jp> be the first party out Satur day morning. The skipper j-Sj advised him to stay at home Tjy until the weather looked a little more promising. V'i HAS TO KEEP I P Frank L. Johnson, of Coca- i|3 Jola and other fame in Iredell Jjg rounty, claims to have discover;d a super efficient brain trust Tbj it Southport this past summer. le claims that Captain Bonner lussells, Captain Ike Davis, Captain H. T. Bowmer and one i )r two others constitute this iW .rust. And he would not be set r-T) ight in his opinion by the in'ormation that R. I. Mintz, L. rb; T. Yaskell and Bunn Frink are :he real things. Anyhow, Mr. |j?S Tohnson has to come to Southiort every two weeks to see low the fishing and the brainj ija rust is getting along. Being: me of the high thingumajigs of he bottlers association, Mr. ijjjjj iohnson has to attend the meet- ~yi ng at Asheville on the 14 th and j-'! 15th in order to tell his fellow [ nembers about the Southport 'ishlng. Right after that he is iy} fathering up a bunch of cronies Wt ind coming down. Meanwhile, his & State Port Pilot reached him ate last week and without wait-1 Jfcl ing for it to arrive he wrote :his department and asked: "How :he hell do you expect me to keep -j$ ip with the brain trust if you io not send me my paper?" POOR POGIE FISHING -|| The menhaden, or pogie, boats just have not had any !v?) luck what they were last V'i season and with little of Stjj this season remaining to go. Poor luck seems to have at- ! jjp) tended efforts elsewhere on j ?3 the coast and it looks like up-state farmers who prefer fertilizers in which fish are an ingredient may feel the j result of the poor fishing by '4jjSj increased demands on their pocket books next year. J? WORTH A LONG TRIP || To a person who has never -2K teen the shrimp fishing, it is J? vorth a long trip to Southport to lee the trawlers come in with "K& heir catches during the late af- ^ :ernoon. From the time they J? JUit trawling until they reach :heir docks it is a top-speed race wSj :o beat other boats in and take the first turn at unloading. The oio tnloading and picking operations ire not at all lacking in interest t>!; :o spectators. i THANKS TO THE G. For their daily efficent itlj service to the shrimp trawl- j ers our compliments are j Jgj forthcoming for Captain W. i ?9 H. Barnett and his men at jr? the Oak Island Coast Guard is Station. With its one life- J? boat this station Is the most inadequately equiped on the , Atlantic Coast, taking into account that it has to answer calls for 40 miles above anil ; below Southport and out at sea in addition to protecting 1 it?] the vast number of local J? craft and these that are at- I $5 traded here from other ife points by the shrimping in- I ^ dustry. j 3? TIME FOR A CHANGE !|| July, August and Septem- i? her all brought continuous Aji soupy weather, interspersed with gales. Conditions for1 ~M fishing have not heen at all itS propitious. Remembering what they have been through r'j the fishermen are hoping for "bright, blue October wea- iij ther" from now on. Manchurian breed of hen lays ial quarter-pound eggs. \'m WEDNESDAY, QfTnn^^B If Columbus Should Come Back jSOE f HM-M ? THIS PLACE ( HAS CHANGED SINCE THF I LAST TIME T WAS Wppc f ? V 1 WONDER WHATEVER fcc^V* U I ?'"* \ OP THOSE PEACEFUL I j^Sj / .n airplane can cover in six: Because they secured increased of crimson <: .r rs the distance it requires i yields of com this season from Orange team 35 days to travel. the growing and plowing under, large cr . fail. 'i - . ? -1 DURING I COURT WEEKl Subscribe To The I State Port Pilot I THE PILOT offers you a dependable, in- I expensive medium for keeping up with what I is going on in your county. I The courthouse, the schools, your club, I your community news, political news-an H these are things with which you need to be I intelligently conversant! I The Only Sure Way I Is Through I Your County Newspaper I
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