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"THE STATE PORT PILOT
J_ Southport, N. G.
I PUBLISHED [-VEKY WEDNESDAY
___JAMES M. HARPER. JR., Edjtpr
BiitnrroJ a* aeoond-rtaM matter ApTll 20. 1928, at
the Pout Of/Ice at Southport, N. C., under
o the act of March 3. 1870.
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Wednesday, November 21, 1987
j. The only thing to match the optimism
'of a fisherman is the optimism of ft hunt7
Stories are funnier when they are told
lihe short way.
People who always are about five minB
utes late are the ones who rush the worst.
You'll have to dig back in the record
I 1>ook to find a fall with milder weather
I .up to Thanksgiving.
i . We often wonder why some people
don't use a little of the advice they are
giving.
1. 1 <?n fl,ot fha cohnol columns
IlwUitUtJIft ten uo vnuv u.v
jire among our most readable features
each week. (Thank you. We'd like to
have five for every issue.)
Christmas comes on the same date?
December 25?this year, but the Christmas
shopping season has been moved
fan-ward one week.
Don't envy someone who is doing well.
If he had spent his time standing around
Worrying about someone else he'd never
been able to reach his position.
CIiristmas Seals
The annual sale of Christmas Seals begins
this week and will extend through
the Christmas shopping season. We have
run across the following interesting expression
from Dr. Ralph W. Soekman,
fcastor of Christ church, New York City:
"It is eminently fitting that Christmas,
t;he Birthday of the Great Physician,
Should be used as the occasion for a health
crusade. The Xazarene healer came
that men might have life and have it
niore abundantly. He restored their bod"o
oA/lonmorl tliaiv orxnlo
til CIO 1 CllCViliVVt bliv.ll OVICIO. ?->w
primary was his concern for men's physical
welfare that good health has now become
a fundamental plank in the Christian
gospel.
The Great Physician was especially interested
in anything affecting the life of
youth. In flaming words he declared that
for anyone who misled the young, it was
fetter that a millstone be hanged about
his neck and that he be dropped into the
depths of the sea. We can well imagine,
h therefore, how the Nazarene healer
tvould have been out to fight the dreaded
disease of tuberculosis, which is in
(Jfeed the most deadly foe of young people.
Cancer and heart disease harvest
their victims in maturity and old age, but
ijtiberculosis cuts off the young in the
freshness of life's morning. The latter
scourge still merits the sinister title of the
'White Plague.' It is the largest single
cause of death between the ages of fif
teen and forty-five."
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Your Accident Bill
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Accidents account for about 30 per
q0nt of America's total motoring costs!
This is the estimate of National Safety
Council statisticians. They figure that the
expense of an average 100-mile driving
trip is $2.60, divided as follows: GasoItpe,
$1.50; oil, 20 cents; tires, 19 cents;
accidents, 71 cents.
The direct cost of last year's accidents,
according to the same authorities, was
$1';640,000,000. That is enough money to
ljuild or pave 550,000 miles of road, at a
c#st of $3,000 a mile?or to buy 1,640,<l|?0
automobiles worth $1,000 each.
' It is statistically impossible to accurately
determine the indirect costs of autorffipbile
accidents. But all experts agree
thjat they are substantially greater thar
ejjjfn the vast direct costs.
- Here is a gigantic, totally unnecessary
d$iin on the nation's economic resources
And, bad as that is, it is nothing compared
to the human waste that the reckless
afld incompetent driver causes. In 1936,
traffic accidents killed almost 38,000 human
beings. They injured 1,300,000 more
?1*Jdf whom a large number will eventual*
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ly die as a result of the nccidents. Blasted
careers, parentless children, ruined homes
?these are but three of the consequences
of a heavy foot on the throttle, a
drunk at the wheel, an incompetent in
control of .a lethal machine weighing
thousands of pounds.
We are now entering the winter season,
in which the accident rate has always
risen in the past. The most dangerous
driving days are just ahead, with
rain, ice, snow and early darkness to add
to the always-present hazards. Yet it is
within our power to revoke precedent,
and make winter a safe season. All that
is needed is the co-operation of each motorist
and pedestrian. Do your part!
improvements
There are complaints that money is
tight, that times are hard.
Locally, though, there is every evidence
that progress is on the march. As our
guage we use the definite tendency for
making repairs and improvements in local
property.
There is a progressive spirit in any
I town that has building projects going on
and repainting being done.
Gymnasiums
As soon as present work projects are!
completed, four of the five consolidated
schools of Brunswick county will have indoor
gymnasiums for the use of their
students.
In past years it has been necessary to
schedule basketball games for South port
or Waccamaw, for these were the only
places where an indoor court was available.
That situation will be remedied be1
fore the end of the present season.
The truck storage garage at Shallottej
is arranged so the center section will pro-J
vide ample room for a basketball court.)
I Before the end of eight weeks Shallotte
teams may practice and play their home!
games 011 their home court.
Leland keeps pace with plans to convert
the old school house, lately used as
ja teac-herage, into a gymnasium. This |
project, too, probably will be completed!
I before the end of the basketball season.
This-leaves only Bolivia, a school that'
has been distinguished in the past by j
consistently fine teams. We offer the suggestion
that a project for a school gymnasium
there be started, and that the |
teacherage building be used for material,
for construction.
Would Not Help
The Black-Connery wage and hour bill,
which will get consideration by the present
special session of Congress, will contribute
materially to the unemployment;
dilemma, and will further problemize the j
situation of machine supplanting man.
Surely that can be successfuly predicted
in the Southern lumber industry, and
its associated crafts. When one machine
, can do the work of ten men, and more
economically even at the present wage
scale, then when the scale is elevated to
provide $4.00 per day for all kind of
labor, then there's going to be a drastic
about-face in the use of man-power in
the industrial world.
The situation as it will be can escape
nobody with any amount of reason. The
lists of the unemployed will be elevated
steadily, more people will be walking the
streets out of work, and the relief problem
will be bigger than ever.
Another aspect of the situation arises
to befuddle the minds of the American
public. How, with wages inflated without
the basis of sound economic principles,
will America comDete with the foreicn
nations in the cultivation and manufacture
of tobacco and cotton and the other
commodities which other nations have of
j recent years begun to compete with us
on?
If the measure passes, it will mean
that much of the tobacco manufacture
and cultivation will go to Canada, which
already has gained a foothold in this
{field, and that Japan, and China and the
other cotton raising nations will sell
j America short, so to speak, simply because
their labor can be obtained on a
; much lower scale of wages.
, We in the South think as much as
anybody that labor should be paid a liv.
ing wage, but to boost them without foundation,
would amount to little more than
. j inflation of the currency.
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, | If Digonese were searching today for
i an honest man, he'd possibly use 50 cents
instead of a lantern.
Currently, there perhaps aren't over
two million people claiming to be memi
jbers of the Four Hundred.
The weather, in view of coming poli:
tical campaigns, will perhaps have variable
winds.
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THE STAlE PftRf Plt-Qt,
Just Among
The Fishermen \
(BT W. B. PMAHl '
COLD BATH
Dr. Rufus Dosher and n
friend from Wilmington took
a cold bath in the Cape Fear
one afternoon the past week.
It was not intentional. The
fact of the matter is .that
the rowboat, from which they
were fishing, took a notion
to capsize and will them out. ,
The worst of it was that
they were four miles from
home and dry clothes.
BOATS FLOOK BACK
About 20 upstate shrimp trawl-'
j ors came - back to Southport
Tuesday night of last week. AH
1 of them were here previously in
i the season, but went to MoreJ
head City ten or twelve days ago
[ when a big strike of shrimp
showed up there for a few days.
Some of the returned , boats say
they did not make any money by
! going upstate.
LEAVING FOR FLORIDA
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis >1.
Hardee and little son ate
leaving this week for Fenian- j
dina, Fla., where Mr. Hardee
will be engaged in the shirniping
industry during the
winter. His boats have been
in Florida for the past three
weeks, but reports do not indicate
any big patches have
heen m.nftp down there vet.
WANTS FISH STORIES
J. C. Baskervill, one of the star
publicity men with the Department
of Conservation and Development,
at Raleigh, advised the
Southport Civis Club during the
past week that they wanted all
the fishing stories from down
here that they could get. Mr.
Baskervill is interested in helping
put over Southport's fishing
rodeo next spring, and takes the
viewpoint that publicity right
along through the winter will
help matters.
DRUM STILL BITING
Drum are still biting well.
Postmaster Yaskell, Seargeant
Lanier, Captain Myers
ami this department all made
some pretty catches the past
week. Folks who are acquainted
with these fish say that
they will be affording fine
sport for sometime to come.
Most of the catches are being
made with ordinary cane
poles and cork lines.
Sportsmen Passing Through
Thus far upwards of 100 sport
fishing craft have stopped at
Southport on their way to Florida
waters for the winter. About
half of them are Florida boats
that have been in the north during
the summer. While a lot of
them are privately owned and
operated excusively for the sport
of the owners and his friends,
many are commercial craft and
are for charter at all times by
any parties that wish to engage
them. These commercial craft follow
the fish south in the winter
and north in the spring. To be
a little more exact, they follow
the sportsmen. And. it happens
that the sportsmen have not yet
learned of the wonderful sport
fishing that is to be had at Southport.
the midway between the
; north and south. They are learning
it now and will learn more
! when the > Fishermen's Rodeo is
held here in the spring of 1938.
REPORT CATCHES
A sunfish caught in Onslow
county last week attracted
nationwide attention and
its picture was published in
thousands of newspapers. The
advertising value of the catch
was enormous. Although
the fish was described as a
very rare one, the fact remains
that the same specie
has frequently been taken in
shrimp trawls at Southport
and the general public heard
nothing about it. One suoh
monster was exhibited at the
Southport high school four or
five years ago, and fishermen
frequently dump them out of
their nets and do not think
enough of their catch to
mention it. This is written in
the hope that all Southport
and Brunswick fishermen
will make reports of their
unusual catches of fish to
the Southport Civic Club.
Whenever possible a photograph
should be taken. In
any case please report your
unusual catches.
HUNTING STORIES
Unusual hunting stories are
also in order at this season of
the year. The Civic Club will appreciate
stories and photographs
of good hunting, trapping and remarkable
hunting dogs in Brunswick
county. Just write the
Southport Civic Club.
Aaron approached a market
stand on which some questionable
looking fowl were offered for
sale "What do you sell these
for?" he asked the buyers.
"I sell them for profits," answered
that individual sarcastically.
"Is that so?" answered Aaron
in feigned surprise. "I am
glad to know they are prophets.
I took them for patriarchs."
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OPEN fORUM
A column dedicated to opinion ot '
the public. A mouthpiece for the
view* end obeefvetlone of out .
. friend* end leader*, for which We
accept -no rertofielblllt*. Cotitrlbu- | |
Hon* to ttiw column mmt not
taead (Mm hundred wotdt. i
Editor, State Part Pilot:? ' j
Southport, W. C.
Dear Sir:
Needed?someone to build anil
operate a first-class oyster roast j
in on -near Southport. The desire
for such an establishment has
been 'so much discussed that the h
Southport Civic Club believes it I
will be a paying business if est- :
ablished and operated by some- |
one who has experience in such
a venture.
Communities in Brunswick and
all along the coast, with no population
backgrounds to guarantee
business for aufih an .undertaking.
have paying oyster roasts.
Southport with a good ,popu!a-'
tion background and with plenty
of choice oysters easily available,
lias .no business of this nature
and Southport peqpte cheerfully
,go 30 or 40 miles to patronize
establishments of this sort. Perhaps
they dp not do it so cheer- '
fully; they do it because they I
have to go .that far if they are
to get what they want.
A good oyster rqast at Southport,
in addition to being in a
field _ where there .is no cothpetion,'would
draw partonage .from
a long distance. In addition to
oysters roasted'and. epten on the
spo^, dt would find a big demand
for oysters shutfked. and unshuked,
to be canried ;hqme iby patr
ons. "" <
There are various sanitary requirements,
.governing the opera- '
tions of oyster roasts. The State '
Board of Health is very exacting
in such matters. If such an est- ,
ablishment is built and operated
at Southport. the general public c
can depend on its being first- 1
class in all respects. Our or- *
ganization would like to see f
somebody build one, and offers I
all possible aid in finding a suit- 1
able location for the right per- c
sons. i
W. B. Keziah, Executive Sec- a
retary Southport Civic Club. ^
Winnabow News I
Mr. and Mrs. Orvis Miller, of t
Geryman, Pa., visited Miss Ethel t
Satterfield last week.
J. E. TTmstead, or wrs, Raleigh,
was a caller here Thurs- s
day morning. y.
Mrs. Preston Savage spent the t
week with her parents at Sup- j
PlyMr.
and Mrs. J. D. Bender and !
Miss Bertha DeVam attended the
Baptist convention in Wilmington
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kye, Sr..
left Friday to spend the weekend
in Pittsboro.
Miss Ethel Satterfield spent
Saturday afternoon in Wilmington
visiting the parents of Dan Bennett,
who was accidentally killed
this week.
Miss Katherine Johnson left
Saturday evening for Montreat to
spend Thanksgiving with her
sister, May, who is attending
Montreat College.
Friends of J. W. Collins will be
sorry to learn he is very ill at
the home of I. D. Harrelson.
mr. ana Mrs. h. j. Rabon an- I
nounce the birth of a son. Tho- I
mas Mebane, on November 18.
B. R. Kinkead, who has been
quite ill, is improving'.
Mr. and Mrs. Knox, of Greens- |
boro, spent the week-end with
his mother, Mrs. J. J. Knox.
Friends will be glad to note
that B. R. Kinkead, of Town .
Creek, is considerably better
after a months serious illness.
Farmers Looking
Out For Timber
More Provident Farmers
Realize importance That j
The Income From Tim- j
ber And Timher Products |
Will Play
About one-third of the remaining
timberlands of the country
is in the hands of farm owners
and these farmers are turning
their attention toward securing
greater incomes form this forest
crop. Better methods In selecting
the trees to be cut. proper
thinning, and pruning will make
these timberlands more profitable j
to the owners according to the |
Forest Products laboratory. Mad- |
ison, Wisconsin.
The principle of selective cutt- j
ing is to remove only mature
and defective trees and to .reserve
and protect the younger j
growth for future crops. Studies |
of the rate of growth of trees |
have determined tHe amount of j I
wood produced by the woodlands I
in one year or in a number of ]
years. The amount of timber cut
each year should not be greater
than produced each -year or, If
cutting is done -every 5 or 10
years, the amount cut should not
exceed that produced during that
time. The amount of growth, of
course, is distributed among all
-the trees but for practical purposes
only the larger and mature
trees are the ones -to be taken
out, except where deformed or
broken ones are cut or smaller
ones removed to hasten the
growth of those remaining.
Tables have been prepared
showing the diameter of -trees
that can be profitably cut. These
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CAPITAL OF A WORLD Mfi
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The United States government,
carrying disease, dyed many thousai
It is estimated that the fly which rei
300 miles of space in 34 hours.
Harvey, large for bis age, ran
United States entered the war he \
|700 in pension money.
liameter-cutting limits vary with
he species and the purpose for
vhich they are to be used. Spruce
or puipwood, for instance, may
>e profitably cut to a diameter
fmit of 8 inches, but for stanlard
lumber the limit may be 14
nches. The cutting size is not
ihvays strictly followed because
veed trees may be removed to j
nake room for more rapid growth
i'r improvement of the species.
As opposed to clear cutting,
hat is, the removing of all the
rees regardless of size, selective
utting has many advantages,
n this type of cutting, the trees
eft automatically protect the
oil from erosion. The trees are
larvested as they mature, and
he younger ones are allowed to
ncrease in value. In the renioTheEi
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in connection with an attempt to determine just how effective flies are ii
ids of tliem a bright red. had agents looking for them for miles aroued.
mains active in one room throughout the day actually covers as much 11
away from home and enlisted in the Canadian army in 1914. Wiieolh
vas transferred to the American forces. He recently received more thu
val of mature trees, space is Seven pure bred Holsleins rc
opened up for natural reseeding four pure bred Guernseys wen
and the establishment of young sold by Forsyth farmers to visit,
trees is stimulated. ing farmers from Northampte
Good forest practice should and Pitt Counties last week
provide for a quality yield as
well as for continuous quantity ^ Tweed hold an old fas
yield, according to foresters at hioned corn shucking on his fare
the Forest Products Laboratory, on route 3 from Marshall h
so that the farm woodlands will Madison County last week ttlia
produce an added future income 2s neighbors helped him to shuck
for the farmer' 185 bushels of corn in thw
.whikirDH K,r i.w hours. The group enioyed an;::!
rat v.uMto i.aiiii/>wvu wj * * ?
club members at the recent Ashe- and candy as rerresnments
ville Fat Cattle Show won $130
in prize money and sold for Magistrate: "You broke tin
$735.41 at public auction. The the same store three nights rum.
Watauga exhibits won many ing?"
first places among them being Prisoner: "Yes. sir: I
the Grand Champion of the only one dress for my wife as:
Show. she made me change it twice."
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xrly Bird I
3ts the Worm j
(riows |
rhere to Look! j
a robin on the lawn some
ly morning. A few hops, then
e. A few more hops, and he
again. Then, triumphant, he
ut a fat, wriggling worm! [ |
bird, you would say, if he
necked here and there linn- i a
trike it lucky. j I
g the advertisements is for jjl
lat cocking his head is for the
Advertisers tell you just B
are the juiciest buys. 8
our eye on the adyertisemnts n
newspaper. They may save fl
| on barren ground! B
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