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THE STATE PORT PILOT
^ South port, N. C.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor
Altered u aecond-claaa nutter April 20, 1028, a
the Peat Office at Southport, N. G, under
the act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription Rates
ONE TEAR 81.6
UX MONTHS 1.0
THREE MONTHS .7
Wednesday, July 27, 1938
' Mere words cannot induce the prope
| sympathy for illness.
There is good in our neighbor whicl
we never knew, because we have beei
so busy looking for the bad.
?
Frankness often is confused with the ab
sence of tact.
ft
Some people possess the uncanny abili
ty to say the wrong thing at the righ
time.
' The favorite sport of a pessimist i:
' killing joy.
The reason some people do not tn
j their best is that they wear even that wil
tfall short, and they dread the though!
f
gfr oi lauurc.
The real value of some people we knov
1 must fall somewhere between their owr
1 estimate of their ability and our esti
4- mate.
Time To Check Up
Most
of us have a habit of putting of:
-1 things until it is too late, so we are call
|t ing attention of parents to the important
| of a pre-school check-up of their childrei
I: several weeks before the fall term begins
No child can do his best school wort
when bad eyes are handicapping his effi
I ciencv, when bad tonsils are sapping hi;
I strength or when poor teeth are under
3 mining his health.
Don't be deceived by the outwarc
| healthy appearance of your child. Th<
* hard grind of school work, together witl
? the unhealthy winter weather will quick
* ly reveal weakness never before apparent
Fortunately it is easy and inexpensive
R to have your child checked over. The bes
u plan, of course, is to consult your famil;
physician. In some communities there i
conducted each year a pre-school clinic
At present there is a weekly tonsil clini
being conducted at the "Brunswick Count;
I Hospital.
All in all, it seems to be pure negli
I gence on the part of the parent if th
I necessary health precautions are not tak
I en before school begins this fall.
| The Market Opens
I . Next week the Border Belt Tobace
I Market will open, and farmers are anxi
I ously awaiting news of the season's pric
I es.
Tnlinwn mnnnc mnoVi tn fho nlontoro a
IA WMVVV 1IIVI4IIU '"VIVIl vv v??v {/IMllVVi H V/
| this section, for it is their principal casl
| crop. From its sale must be derived mor
I ey with which to pay the fertilizer bill
I payments on the farm, payments on th
I livestock and equipment account and fo
I the purchase of the actual store-bough
[necessities for the farm family.
Into its cultivation have gone week
| and months of hard work, not only on th
[part of the farmer himself but by ever
Imember of his family from the sixyeai
fold on up.
Small wonder, then, that farmers war
[to know the extent of the demand fc
[this year's crop.
They are not alone in their anxiety, fc
[closely linked with their fortunes are th
[prospects of the doctor, the merchan
[the automobile dealer and other busines
land professional leaders of the commur
On the eve of the market opening thei
jare two or three important matters th?
jfwe would call to the attention of our fai
Imer friends.
Don't be misled by the fair promise
|jand gaudy attractions dangled before yo
jj by "mushroom" businesses that hav
I sprung into being just to fleece you <
jyour spare funds. You can't get sorm
Ithing for nothing?even in tobacco sei
| son?so it is a pretty good idea to d
?your trading with the merchants whos
[reputations you know and respect; th
[men who furnish your necessities the ye?
ground, whether you have the money a
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the time or not.
Tobacco warehousemen sometimes ar
- pretty enthusiastic over the particula
, benefit to be derived by the grower wh
sells his crop with him. Listen politely t
t them, for there can be no harm in that
But before you go on the market lool
up a copy of your county newspaper am
" see what the warehouse advertisement
o say. A man can tell you anything, am
0 there is little you can do to prove il
6 Once a statement is made in print, thougl
it then becomes an obligation.
In fact, reading the ads in this news
paper is a pretty good plan to follow, es
pecially for the next few months. W
keep faith with our readers by refusinj
to represent business firms or merchan
dise of questionable reputation. Wher
there is any doubt, a proper investigate
is made.
r Through this" medium we are protectini
our subscribers, for it affords them i
guarantee that they will get one hundrei
1 percent value for every tobacco dolla
spent with our advertisers.
Open Letter *
From an exchange we borrow the fol
lowing "Open Letter To A Drunkei
. Driver:"
t "Sure, you can drive home a'right
Don't let 'em feed you any of that bunl
about letting somebody else take th<
5 wheel. Any time old Pete can stand on hi.*
two feet he can drive an automobile
, J drunk or sober. Whatsh a few drinks be
11 tween friends, anyway. You show'en
(. who's going to drive.
"Pile 'em into the car. That sweet little
wife of yours, who's such a swell kid ever
if she does nag you about driving wher
j j-ou're drunk. And that funny couple
with you who want to take a taxical
home. Imagine! Wanting to take a cab
Pile 'em in. Step on the gas. Whoopee
Go places ....
"Brother, you're not the big shot yoi
think you are. You're just a fuzzy-brain
ed, liquox*ed-up, obstinate ass with aboul
as much right to drive an automobile 01
? the public highway as a monkey frorr
1 the zoo would have.
"I won't appeal to your reason because
c it's obvious that you haven't any. I won'l
" appeal to your emotions because they're
5 pickled.
"I only hope you'll start to drive home
some night, alone, when you've one toe
many under your belt. Then I hope some
' little emergency will arise which youi
1 addled brain and fumbling hands won''
enable you to meet. I hope you'll have ai
" encounter with a tree or a telephone pole
? that will land you in a police cell ane
Y your car on a junk heap. As you sober ui
I hope the baseness of your continuee
" offenses against society will be borne ii
p' upon you with sickening clarity. I hope
the newspaper headline will scream ou
1 to all your relatives and friends and busi
ness acquaintances: PROMINENT LOCAI
~ MAN GETS DRUNK AND LANDS Ih
_ JAIL.
"Yes, I hope an All-Wise Providence
will arrange this little lesson for you
And soon, before you kill somebody, a;
von snrolv will if von ooritiniiP to dvivi
when you are drunk."
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" Tourist Traffic % - If rWI
f The usual reference to tourist traffic i
* one of friendly encouragement, for thi
influx of visitors is a fine economic influ
i- ence in any community. But while w
I, welcome the visit of our northern neigh
e bors we dread to meet them on th<
highway.
Invariably when we see a car beanni
t down on us from the opposite direction
and about two feet on our side of th
s white line in the middle of the highwaj
e we take a quick look to see if it is an out
of-state vehicle. If it is we know that ther
y is small chance that it will pull over 01
its side.
We don't suppose that the out-of-stat
it drivers are any worse bent upon destruc
ir tion than are our native motorists. Th
explanation probably lies in the fact tha
they are used to broader highways
,r Nevertheless, the warning is passed alon
e for what it is worth: Don't be too prou
t, to pull over when you meet an automc
!g bile bearing a foreign license plate.
At this season of the year the Wee
farmers should be on the look out fo
it bugs?Hum Bugs.
r" When you are buying something fo
nothing you are sure to get what yo
pay for?nothing. ,
u y
re The wise buyer will always buy froi
>f the man who gives him the best servic
3- for the money he spends with him.
i
10 Many times a frank talk will prevei
se a period of ill feeling.
ie
ir Progress is made by plugging; not b
11 spurts. ,
THE STATE PORT PILOT, S<
* Just Among
? The Fishermen
o
u Adding To Interest
The shrimping season is well on
u its way with a fair sized fleet
S working. These boats are adding
j much interest to the Southport
waterfront and are an incentive
' to business of all sorts in the
ft town. The production has been
running to three and one-half tons
per day. This is might good
for this season of the year,
I- because the heat scatters
e shrimp all over the ocean,
making it difficult to make large
^ catches. Added to the problem of
l- summer fishing is the fact that
g weather conditions and their own
heat when piled up on a boat
n will cause shrimp to spoil quickly.
The boats have been working
v little more than half of each day,
having to get back in quickly
3 after a sizeable catch is made. The
1 number of boats will increase alr
most daily and by September a
great fleet will be here. Since all
of the spring and summer has
been very windy it is hoped
that good fishing weather will
prevail through most of the
rest of the year.
Fishing Pictures
Two of the leading state
daily newspapers have recently
made requests of this....
columnist for unusual picC
tures, covering fishing and
other scenes. The State Ad
vertising Bureau is also an5
xious to have such pictures.
The interest of the Civic
> Club is through the fact that
publication will result in
valuable advertising to South1
port and Brunswick county.
Therefore the request is
j made of amateur photograp^
hers that they donate unusual
pictures that are clear cut
1 and glossy to us for advertising
purposes. When possible,
especially if the pictures are
small ones, the negatives are
also desired. The negatives
permit easy enlargement of
pictures from which the newspaper
printing plates or mats
can easily be made. Recently
a picture, made with a
; small box camera, was sent
out and was published in
newspapers over the United
States.
Sharks Around Docks
With refuse from the shrimp
trawlers being thrown overboard
when the boats come in, sharks
are finding docks around Southport
to be a fine supper table.
They are not the least dangerous
and have never known to attack
anyone. Most active at high
tide, they can and do furnish
some pretty thrilling sport to
; those who care to fish for ^hem.
One day this past week while a
boat was being unloaded more
than a dozen sharks could be
seen swimming all around it,
picking up fish as they were
thrown overboard. Their weights
would have ranged from 200 to
500 pounds. As can easily be immagined,
these fellows can give
quiet a pull on a hook and line
and they are not a bit slow about
getting on a hook when it is
baited with a fish or a piece of
J beef.
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Shrimp Pickers Happy
a Shrimp picking at the fish
houses means a lot of extra
nickles to the scores of
5 Southport's negro men and
B women who are not actively
engaged in fishing of some
sort. Shrimping days are
therefore happy days for
them and they begin to assemble
on the waterfront in
numbers at any and all times
s in the afternoon when the
g fleet is expected. These pickers
seem to know just when
boats belonging to houses for
e which they work will arrive.
They are always on hand to
e note the size of the catch, especially
that of the firsts.
? If the first boats bring a
I good catch there is general
e rejoicing, for it may be taken
, for granted that those which
come later will bring still bigger
loads. If the work of
e picking lasts into the night,
^ as it usually does later in
the year, there Is much singe
ing, real molody floating up
I- from the picking houses
e where the work of preparing
,t for the market is in progress.
^ Moonlight Fishing
j The next full moon period will
bring some fine moonlight fishing
in the river and its bays.
September and October moons
will be even better. About all
<J that is needed for this sport is
lT, a rowboat, but larger' craft are
1 often used. The speckled trout
and channel bass afford the most
sport. Sometimes a hundred trout
ir are taken by a single boatload of
men and women intent on the
u sport. While moonlight fishing is
said to be practically unknown
up-state it is a fact that the
trout at Southport will bite better
on the high tides during moon:e
light nights than at any other
time. With the tides being one
hour later each night and not al,
ways occuring during the early
1J part of the night, Southport has
plenty of sportsmen who are such
strong devotees of moonlight fish J
ing that they will get up at any
V hour to take advantage of a
moonlight high tide.
3UTHPQRT, N. C.
EBB AND FLOW
(Human Interest Items
Gleaned 'Round And About)
BARGAIN"
Lynchburg', Va.?When a box
contributed to a church rummage
sale yielded only one shoe,
the women jokingly remarked
they would have to sell it to a
one-legged man.
A short time later a one-legged
man appeared, found the
shoe fit his foot and bought it.
GAVE HIM A TICKET
Davenport, la.?When a motorist
returned to his car here he
found it tagged with a parking
violation ticket. He could not understand
what offensee he had
committed.
When he turned the card over
he saw written on the back,
"You have flat tire on rear."
RASPBERRIES
Kansas City.?"Send an ambulance.
Three children are bleeding
to death in a wreck here."
An interne and a half-dozen
police summoned by the frantic
telephone call, soon were removing
the children from a smashed
car.
Patrolman Benton Tibbs touched
an apparently bleeding arm,
then smiled.
A jar of raspberry jam had
been broken. No one was hurt.
FISH STORY
Irvington, N. J.?John Acocella
jumped when he heard a solid
"Kerplunkk" in the street in front
of his home late Saturday night, j
He looked out and saw a body, i
Up the street the rear light of (
an auto disappeared into the <
darkness.
Acocella thought he smelled something
fishy. He did?400 j
pounas or snarK?eignr reel long.
"Policee woke up street department
employe to have the carcass '
removed.
FAT MAN PASSES ,
Washington. ? Johnny Webb,
747-pound professional fat man,
died recently In his quarters at
a carnival here.
Physicians said death was due ,
to disorders arising from his ex- i
cessive weight.
Webb, who was 32, had travel- J
ed with circuses and carnivals |
since the age of three when he
weigheed 150 pounds. He was a ,
native of Altoona, Pa.
His great girth necessitated
construction of a special coffin,
five feet wide.
I
HOLE SAVES LIFE ,
Denver.?William H. Pile, 15, 1
was saved by a hole in a tax I
token recently*
He was holding the token un- I
der his lip to curb a nosebleed I
when it slipped and lodged in his I
throat. Physicians said it blocked I
the passageway but he could I
breathe through the hole.
MAL SELL TOWN
Hollywood.?The once booming I
mining town of Tombstone, Ariz., I
is willing to sell itself, lock, stock I
and barrel to the movie industry I
for $75,000. I
Producer Harry Sherman, who 1
has been on location there, refer- 1
red the offer to Paramount studios.
TTa nn l/l WToltov TJ PaIa fill jf An I
IJC oaiu naaw ** vw?v, wi .
of Tombstone's famous newspaper,
"Epitah," canvassed the town and
found the people willing to sell.
Back in 1902 Tombstone was
a teeming town of 7,000 persons; j
the population today is approxi- j
mately 500.
NAB CRIMINAL
New York?Carmello Malpas- !
pina, 33, mistakenly thought he !
would need a passport to go to !
Cuba.
He walked Into police head- !
quarters and asked that his !
fingerprints be taken so he j
could show them in applying for i
the passport.
Police, suspicious because his i
fingertips had been burned with j
acid, checked his prints and found
he was wanted in the fatal beating
of Hans Bloom in front of
a Brooklyn bar and grill in July,
1935. They had sought him for
three years.
Malaspina went to Jail, instead
of to Cuba.
FINDS GRENADE
OKLAHOFA CITY. ? "Look
what I found," said Jack Becker,
15.
Papa George Becker, a fire department
inspector, took one
look and yelped: "Give me that
thing!"
"That thing" was a hand grenade
Jack found at the city dump.
Police Capt. Lloyd White said
the grenade, the type used in the
World War, was in good condition
and capable of blowing up a
man.
Report The Unusual
Sportsmen and regular
fishermen operating anywhere
on the coast of Brunswick
are urged to make reports of
unusual catches to the State
Port Pilot. A large general
catch, the taking of an unusually
large or unusual fish
should be repotted, and with
it the names of all concerned
in making the capture.
Such matter is always interesting
and affords good
publicity for this county.
Future Air Ser
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WITH REGULAR TRANSATLANTIC AIR St
BE LONG BEFORE THE AIR LANES \R
GOOD SUGGESTION highway patrol
Boston.?As a means of catch- and Patrolman
ing the passers of worthless teamed up to
:hecks Judge Paul G. Kirb sug- on traffic law ol
jests that all persons unable to ?Thats right.
establish their identity be thumb- fic tickets on thi
printed when they cash checks, lecture. Acting 1
(Vs most passers of bad checks ver said they \
rave been arrested and their properly.
fingerprints are on file, this
suggestion if carried out, should HOT I
Drove effective. , GERI^ Neb
lars worth of Si
MORE FIREWORKS iy *nd Gerlng
TULSA.? Just after a popping went up In smo)
fourth of July, the city council occasion for ch
, , , were paid off.
canned fireworks. 9everaf boxes of
Dick Langworthy and John als resorted to
EI. Brown, youthful editors, pre- do the job.
sented Mayor T. A. Penny a copy
if their mimeographed weekly FORG
vhich said: CHICAGO. ?J
"We demand representation and McGarry forgive
challenge our mayor and council gets,
to meet with a committee of kids Twenety-four 3
:o hear our side." knocked out bj
Said the mayor: "Of course I while at bat in
vill give the kids a hearing." When John O
brought' before
?BUT, MR. MAYOR minor charge, tl
PAONIA, Colo.?Sam Neely, ed: "Well, well.
ADVE1i
How do you 1
friends"?the one:
you just when th<
can do them some
Well, merchant
advertising durinj
are like that, too. '
trade during mon
plenty of money i
they do not troubl
good will when tli
it for them.
I TAKE OUR AC
i merchants who
think enough of y
ness to pay us to c
| to the people.
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safety director, that beaned me." ^Hr
Tom Singletom And John remembered. Hj
deliver a lecture charge was dismissed. i
bservance. J
They found traf- SEVEN JTUI.Y ^Hru
eir cars after the In gypsy circles, the seventh ^Bnt
ilayor E. M. Oli- daughter of the seventh daugt- ^B,c
vere parked im- ter holds an enviable position Hii
Time is yet to prove what life ^Hra
holds for a little colored boy borr. ^B"
BONDS to Allen and Maggie Pollock tl* ^Br
?A million dol- other day in a modest little ca- ^H1!
cotts Bluff coun- bin near Jacksonville.
municipal bonds as reported to a doctor's wife, ^B"
te, but It was an the stork delivered this little bey BK
eers. ine bonds at exactly seven o'clock on the BS
After wasting seventh day of the sevents B!
' matches, offici- month and he weighed exactly '
a blow torch to seven pounds. MoreoVeer he wu Bh
the seventh son born to hut par
ents. So they, carrying on the
IVING numerical motif, named him H|
udge Joseph E. "Seven July." BR
s, but never for- Incidentally, "Seven," as his HB
mother says he will be called, u
fears ago he was the youngest of twelve children, H?|
r a pitched ball the oldest of which is seventeen. He
a baseball game. Sfij
'Connor, 47, was There were more than 5,000,- KK
the bench on a 000 head of cattle shipped out g( Ha
te judge remark- Texas last year, an increase oI EH
here's the fellow 778,000 over 1936.
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