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I PAGE TWO ' ' THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. G. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor u tecond'Clm fimttcr April 20, 1028, &t the Poet Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1878. Subscription Rates ONE TEAR 31.60 BIX MONTHS ? 1.00 THREE MONTHS .76 (Wednesday, November 16, 1938 Then again, it's generally a nut who bolts his own political party. It's true though, that often those who love to play checkers have had a rather j checkered career. People who won't eat apple peelings, in all probability will never have blisters ell on their hands and feet. |! The nearest some people will ever come to being an artist, will be when they draw on their imagination. j, The Turn-Table |l Several Southport motorists are develSf:l! rmincr fl habit that is becoming increasing |]y annoying to patients at the Brunswick County Hospital. They are using the driveway in front of the hospital for a turning around place for all short pleasure rides from town, and the flare of lights and the roar of racing motors is far from pleasant to the sick people who are in the hospital. Officials of the Brunswick County Hospital have shown no disposition to be difficult about making the public go to unIJ necessary measures to keep quiet as they I pursue their normal course along the highway. It is only when the drivers invade the hospital grounds to become a nuisance that an objection is raised. Red Cross Roll Call - The chances are that sometime during this week or next week someone will approach you in behalf of the American Red Cross, for the annual membership drive began on Armistice Day. Most of us feel that we are familiar with the work of the Red Cross. The popular conception is that it is a group that functions only in a time of disaster, that it is an agency through which those who have escaped storm and fire and flood may contribute to the relief of suffering in stricken areas. This is one of the many fields in which the Red Cross serves. Of almost equal importance, is the safety program that is being conducted with the idea of preventing major man-made catastrophes. 11 Xt- - ?>_ L ^ J 11 nen mere s me program or rirst aiu m which civilians are given valuable instruction in ways to care for injured brothers. P .Knottier phase of the work in which we fire particularly interested is the water mfety program. Under this head comes theflife saving classes and the swimming classes. When Miss Katrine Myers, field worker, was here Saturday, we asked her ~~about sending a Red Cross examiner here next summer for the purpose of conducting a life saving course. She promised to contact the proper authorities and gave assurance that this work will be made available here during the coming season. There you have some of the fields in which the Red Cross is serving. Your membership makes you a co-operating partner in a program that is world-wide in its scope, and one that does not have to await disaster before constructive work begins. It is your privilege, not a duty, to join the Red Cross. Training School Out here at the Brunswick County Training School they believe in stressing their program of vocational training. Last week we went out on other business, but during our vists we passed through the boy's workshop. There, to our undisguised amazement, was a miniature brick house under construction inside the room. A. C. Caviness, the principal, told us that this was the work of the boys in the bricklaying class. They had designed the house, he said, and wifcra receiving practical instruction from their teacher, A. R. Williams. "The girls are doing fine work, too," Caviness told us, and invited us to go over into the home economics laboratory. \ THE ST/ ?? Evidence proved that he was right, for j~~ the room was spotlessly clean and remarkably well ordered. "We are teaching these boys and girls how to work," their principal told us. "~ "That's how they will have to make their living, so when we graduate them from po our school we want to leave them equip- to ped to do good work." to Later we were talking to Miss Annie tic May Woodside about the two depart- on ments. "Caviness didn't tell you every- ab thing about them," she said. "Those two thi class rooms are the two wings from the ha old Southport high school building. We W? had them moved over there, but those yo boys did the masonry and carpenter work or. that has left them equipped for the two an vocational departments. "Not long ago," she continued, "the toi roof of one of the buildings began to th. leak. Caviness came in and told me about sir it and I told him I'd have it fixed as ecj soon as I possibly could. He told me to in just give them the material and that the g boys would do the work. I did, and the building was repaired immediately." < This gives you a fair idea of the prac- 1 tical work being done at the Training | School. The Fred ere Hounds Some of our gentle readers outside the sporting fraternity may believe that we are giving too much attention to the doings of the Valle Fredere fox hounds, but we are much impressed with the good +Jiuf hunrVi of docs is doiner. Fredere keeps them for the sport of hearing them in mad pursuit of a new fox each morning. The fact that seldom does one of these crafty little animals survive a chase means that a major menace to other forms of wild game is steadily being removed. Lately there appears another possibility: That of attracting more up-state fox 1 hunters than ever before to Brunswick county. There's no mistaking the fact that there are plenty of foxes to go around, and it would take many invasions of visiting hounds to cut the crop of foxes to any considerable extent. So, being in favor of each of these three results of the hounds, we take our place unashamed at the head of the booster's column for these phenomenal pups. Preparedness Every Armistice speaker in the country seemed to be sounding a note of preparedness Friday, and in Southport and Brunswick county, the picture was no different. And all for a good and sufficient reason. With nations of the world engaged ye in the greatest armanent race of all time, ^ America can ill afford to sit idly by and ar allow herself to become the easy target an of some agressor nation. ha America's rich natural resources, and her wealth of industrial facilities have jnj already engaged the lustful attention of ?n ? n,.' n bmJ A mnM/tn ,1ft ^ i>UIIie IlclLlUlld, anu nuicxi^a vou UV Iivvn ing else but protect her people and her ail resources. tr) It would be an entirely different picture if disarmament were the order of ea the day, but with just the opposite taking an place, there's little argument against the aJ' enlistment of America in the armaments race. be Now, it appears that there will be a further income tax on the people to take care of the armament program, but the people of America will bear this burden a little more willingly when they realize that America is chinking the walls of her defense program, in order that she may be prepared for any eventuality. Man's Seven Mistakes Some sage has undertaken to condense the mistakes of man into seven major ones. Certainly the seven greatest mistakes he has chosen will furnish us all food for thought. They are: 1. The delusion that individual advances are made by crushing others down. 2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected. 3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we ourselves cannot accomplish it. 4. Refusing to set aside trivial pre- st ferences in order that important things ^ may be accomplished. ^ 5. Neglecting development and refine- b, ment of the mind by not acquiring the habit of reading. 81 6. Attempting to compel other persons to believe and live as we do. ta 7. The failure to establish the habit al of saving money. This appears to be a pretty fair diag- ta nosis of what is the matter with us, and ? everyone might profitably check up on ^ himself in the light of these suggestions. u i I?I? ITE PORT PILOT. 5QUT1 Just Among The Fishermen NEVER MISS THE WATER Among the fishermen at Southrt, as among all who go down the sea, it is a cardinal crime go outside without the tradinal cask of water, even when ly a short trip is planned. The ree Southporters who drifted out in their small boat for ree days and nights last week d not missed theirs. Their boat is beatten and buffeted around d they were carried hither and n, as it was too rough to anchStiU, they had a bite to eat d plenty of water in the cask last them. They arrived home the end of the Coast Guard v line in as good shape as if ey had only been out for a igle days fishing. They owe ich of that to not having missthe water when they departed the morning. LEFT TO AWAKEN ADRIFT It is recalled that some dozen years ago a hardy Jeisey Fisherman spent five days and nights in an open dory off Southport. He had neither water or food aboard, unless you can call raw fish food. To make matters worse, his fish spoiled on him. He was landed here, little the worse. Glad to get back, but stolid and undemonstrative, he passed over his adventure as being aU in the days work. He and his companions had not missed the water cask when they went out. They were well provided for with both food and water, but it all, naturally, happened to be on the power boat on which they made their trip. They had good luck and were returning to port heavily laden. Quarters on the power boat were limited and the Jersey boy got aboard the dory, which was being towed astern. There were some fish in the dory but nothing else. As the power boat plowed through the night, the man at the Wheel intent on steering his course and all the rest of the crew sleeping, the tow line of the dory chaffed in two. The power boat came on and on for miles. The Jersey boy awoke in his dory the next morning, bobbing around, many miles at sea. When he was rescued after hope had been given up, he was rather sorry looking, much in need of food. His first call was for water. We happened to see him land and were sort of impressed as he, seaman-Uke, cooly made his boat fast and saw that everything was shipshape before climbing ashore. SOUTHPORT GULLS Along about this season of the ar there is one thing that nevfails to impress the visitor to lUthport, especially those who e here in the late afternoons, ,d still more especially if they ppen to be out on one of the rimp "rawlers or be at a posi>n where they can note the comg in of these boats. All day long the trawling grounds the gulls ver around the boats, almost the thousands. As the small d discarded products of the iwlers are thrown overboard e gulls find a very sumptuous eakfast, luncheon and supper sy to get. They form a dense id tireless escort of the boats I day and follow them in at ght. Comes sundown and darkss, you will find sandbars and aches all the way to the Cape ;ar River bar covered with gulls, liting to go out with the first iats in the morning. REPORTED CHANGE From Raleigh last week came reports to your columnist that it was understood that the local plant of the Fisherman's Self Help Corporation, alias the North Carolina Fisheries, Inc., had been sold to some concern that would greatly modernize it and use It for some purpose or another. So far, no confirmation of this report has been obtained. If the report proves to be true it can safely be said that the change in administration, there never having been any local administration, will not be regretted at Southport. The whole thing has been a sorry deal for SoUthport and fishermen on this part of the coast. ROCK FISH BITING Rock Fish, often known as ripped bass, are biting. Ed rells, one of the keet>ers of the aw bridge to Oak Island, was le first to report a catch. He ought in a nine-pound beauty rednesday morning for the Injection of this newspaper. Spemens of the fish running between 20 and 25 pounds are often iken on a cane pole and they 'ford a lot of excitement. Local redictions are that Charley osher, Sergeant Leinert and Capiln Myers will be very much in >mpany with these fish during le next month or so. We are ittlng on the Sergeant to prove le most versatile In taking them. -IPORT, N. C. . Southport School News The requirements for the honor roll for Southport high school have been made more rigid this year and students now are required to make an average grade of ninety-three or better before their names are placed on that list. Conduct must fall into the same bracket with scholarship. Following is the honor list for the second school month: First grade: John Newton, HI, Aletta Glover, Anne Pleasant Dosher, Peggy Arnold and Frank Plaxco; second: Mary Frances Floyd, Barbara Anne Price and Jimmie Cox; third grade: Sue Fredere, Betsy Jane Galloway and Elizabeth Willis; Fourth grade: Bess Miller Plaxco, Margaret McGee and Lewis Newton: fifth grade: Sally Anne McNeil, Barbara Myers and Betty Lee Oliver; sixth grade: Dorothy Cox. In the high school France? Cox, of the eighth gra,de, and John Hall, member of the senior class, were the only students on the honor roll. CHAPEL PjfyhGBASJ On Wednesday. November 3, j the seniors gave a programs on good book? which was uititled "When the Good and Bad Meet". During American Education Week, several programs were given featuring ' the different phases of education. On Tuesday the fourth, fifth and sixth grades gave one on "Good Citizenship". On Wednesday, several members of the high school group gave one on ' Courtesy" and on Thursday the primary department gave one on "Good Literature". These were all interesting. Armistice Day was celebrated Friday. The Reverend E. M. Hall took charge of the Devotional after which John Hall, president of the senior class, led the group in the pledge of alligance to the flag. The Reverend A. H. Marshall brought a message on peaceThis concluded the programs. BOLIVIA SCHOOL NEWS The French club met Friday afternoon. This club was formed so that students might leam more about France. After topics for next meeting were selected, two interesting reports were given. The first talk was "The Schools of France", by Bertha Gore. The second one was "The University of Paris", by Margaret Mills. The third grade has been working on an Indian and Pilgram project. We are all looking forward to Thanksgiving holidays next week. Some of the teachers plan to spend the vacation at their homes. Miss Hewitt's second grade will give a Thanksgiving program for chapel next Friday morning. On November 11th the school was entertained at chapel by the third grade with a nice Armistice program. After this M. B. Watkins, who is Commander of 7th District of American Legion, Department of North Carolina, spoke. me nign scnooi leacners aitenued the football game in Wilmington Friday. The boys and girls basketball teams have ordered new suits for this year. They are gold trimmed in maroon. The team-line ups have chosen. Everyone is greatly interested since the series games will begin next .month. We are glad to know that work will start on the completion of our gymnasium this week. Mr. Belamy said that a force of workers would *be here Monday morning. The ninth, tenth, and eleventh grades are making posters on books, to celebrate National Book Week. The P.-T. A. Membership Committee last month ofered a cake to the room who could get the most memberships. Mr. Chadwick's room, the eleventh grade, won the cake, having four or five memberships. This month the committee has planned a social, to be held in the lunch room, for the grades having the most memberships. Each grade in school is intereested in winning the prize and is working to win it. The Parent-Teachers Association hopes to sponsor a dental clinic in the near future. An old-fashioned pie supper will be given at the Bolivia high school on Friday night, December 2. This will be in charge of the P.-T. A. Everyone is urged to attend as the funds will be used for the needs of the association. Each of the high school grades is scheduled to give a play sometime this year. The 9th grade is planning to give a comedy on December 16. The funds will be used for the school. THANKSGIVING SERVICE Thanksgiving services will be conducted at the Southport Presbyterian church next Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock with a special sermon by the pastor, the Reverend J. R. Potts. His topic will be "perpetual Thanksgiving". The public is cordially invited to attend. a 1 II ! The Envy < 1 | ruumn SHERIFF-EDITOR We may be wrong but we believe Victor Meekins, editor of the Dare County Times, occupies an unusual position through also being Sheriff of Dare County. So far as our knowledge of cpunty government in North Carolina goes, there is no other Sheriff-Editor in the state. Meekins was sheriff of Dare county when, about two years ago, he saw the great need of a newspaper. Since there appeared to be no one else to undertake the venture, he went forward on his own account, created The Times and has edited it ably and well without the task interferring with his official duties. His paper is a great influence for good in Dare county. SLACK TIMES FOR LUCAS Since there will be very little interest in North Carolina politics for at least a year, Wade Lucas, versatile political prognostigator, of Raleigh, will have to look around right smart if he holds the same bunch of readers that have been f )i i | Give Your I ! A CI )! I ); i ! if You expect your 1 you all the news ic You expect your 1 - _ J !? _ 1 - . . J ; ieaa in aavocai ment? v , + You expect your good roads, good j community celeb + You expect your r people to Brunsi in this county? ? Your newspaper helps you. The salesman calls o going to give the [ ^ We offer you the ; at as low or LOV I ( teed better and ( i can get from out i I " " I THE STATE I | YOUR COUNT ! t WEDNESDAY, NOVFMno | J S of Them All |H y 9 I [ ESTATE E following him for the past few months But , Epolitics is now a cut-and-dried subject, Wade i Khave plenty of folks to hold forth to. He out good and interesting stuff and there plenty who rank him high, regardless of ?t? H. ] may be his subject. BEASLEY A GOOD SPORT St 1 Somehow or other the average M'-ny man ha? poor luck playing the game of tin MF' Maybe the most of them who are so accustomed to telling their : ai-:? r. BH truth that they lack the tact to secure v*s Bl ^ That must have been Use case with Roland Be* ley, of the Monroe Journal. He ran for Ooapti B* and made a fine and dignified contest in H| primary. He lost out in the first primary ? Messrs. Dean, Burgwin, et als. Did it make I: Ht' sore ? Not Beasley. He went right on editing h Mt paper and during the subsequent bitter Burgwin run-off and court proceedings, Mr Ben Hp ley was hands off and fair and friendly to Ml Hp; his former opponents. ) iorne Printer il rp 1 LlAil^C ? tome newspaper to give 3B newspaper to take the IS' ;ing community betternewspaper to boost for schools, and to support rations? Klewspaper to help bring BP vick?to interest them H does these things and gL ! neyt time a printing m you, tell him you're ^ home printer a chance. @| same or better Quality W; 7ER prices, and guaran- ar1 luicker service than you !& -of-town printing houses ST; ????>J! PORT PILOT I T NEWSPAPER I
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