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JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor
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| Wednesday, December 28, 10:18
? Only :l(!2 more days before Christmas,
When you start out to show somebody
I up you usually do?yourself.
One thing we have never learned to do
| is look a man straight in the black eye.
I Bracing atmosphere is when it is so
B cold you are frozen stiff.
I To qualify as a man of means it is
necessary to do more than merely mean
I It is difficult to tell which is harder:
A Getting ready to go visiting or preparing
; for company.
Thpro seemed to be some confusion in
I! the minds of some people regarding
I Christmas spirit and Christmas spirits.
The way some boys and girls fatten
I up while they are off at school makes it
J look like they do not get enough to eat
at home.
; Christmas Decorations
Citizens of our town who spent a part
of the holiday season in other sections of
the state came home bursting with pride
over the beautiful Christmas decorations
: that were eveiywhere in evidence in this
community.
The consensus of opinion is that Southport
was the best decorated town of its
size in North Carolina.
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iLaw Enforcement
If you have any doubts concerning the
fact that Brunswick county law enforcement
officers mean bhsiness, turn to page
1 and look over the list of Recorder's
Court cases tried here last Wednesday.
Seventeen cases were disposed of before
Judge Walter M. Stanaland?the
most for any one day since we have been
a resident of Southport. Ten others were
continued for some good reason, a total
of more than $600.00 was paid in costs
and fines and at least that much more
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, must come 111 ueiure w cuncaua,) iv ooviofy
the judgment in cases where a continuation
was had.
We wouldn't like to see each officer
come to he like Javert in Victor Hugo's
Les Miserables, but there must be maintained
a respect for law and order. Nothing
will do this so well as fearless, conscientious
guardians of the peace.
Nautical School
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The more we study the possibility of
establishing a nautical school at Southport
the more encouraged we feel over
the prospects.
Where similar schools have been established
in other eastern Seaboard states
the government has furnished a training
ship, to be used as quarters and class
room for the enrollees, trained naval officers
to head the faculty, and has furnished
funds to match similar appropriations
from the states up to $25,000.00 per year.
Just now there is a strong emphasis being
placed upon national defense, and
while there would be no direct connection
between a nautical school for the training
of officers for the merchant marine
and the United States navy it is easy to
see that is is desirable to have as many
trained civilians as possible ready to step
into the breach at any time our nation
might find itself at war.
Recently the people of this country
have awakened to the fact that America
must place greater stress upon the education
and training of the men in charge of
her foreign commerce. The government
already has taken other measures to cooperate
in this matter.
Thus it appears that with the proper
men backing the request in Washington
there is no reason to doubt that government
aid in this project will be forthcoming.
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Our Country
One hundred and thirty million Americans
receive more wages each year than
the 550 million people who live in Europe.
With 18 minutes of work, an American
steel worker can earn food that an English
steel worker must work 76 minutes
to earn, and that a Belgian must work
236 minutes to earn.
The United States owns 178 radios for
every 1,000 people, Germany has 108,
Russia 17 and Italy has only 2 radios for
every 1,000 people.
America has enough automobiles to
cany the entire 130 million population at
one time. Actually, America has one automobile
for every 4 1-2 people, England
has one automobile for every 49 people,
and Russia has one automobile for every
479 people.
The average American wage is twice
the average British wages, three times
the German wage, and five times the Italian
wage. And a dollar of the American
wage will buy more and better conveniences
than a dollar will buy in Europe.
It doesn't look like we live in such a
bad country after all.
Your War
"Keep the fifth man alive!"
That is the slogan which is now being
employed in a drive to reduce the normally
heavy winter automobile accident
toll by at least 20 per cent.
If the United States can keep up the pace
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SGI 111 II1G llI'Sl ten muuuio v/a wiv/ v? ,
the i938 death toll will be 8,000 less
than 1937's. We are in the midst of the
crucial period now. December is always
a bad month. And, looking into next year,
January, February and March, with
snow, ice and short days, constitute a
period of maximum hazard.
The organized safety movement has
reached a high point of efficiency. The
technique of accident reduction has been
amazingly perfected. Sporadic, desultory,
localized safety campaigns have proven
almost worthless. Instead, the safety education
movement, supported by the casualty
insurance industry through its National
Conservation Bureau, state governments
and numerous commercial and noncommercial
groups, is attempting, with
a high degree of success to reach every
motorist every day.
Thus, the safety experts are doing all
they can?and they are doing the biggest
and best job in their history. The rest?
and this is something you can't repeat too
often?is up to the motorist and the
pedestrian. The safety workers can offer
you advice?but they can't open your
ears and eyes if you insist on being deaf
and blind. They can show you the road
to safety?but they can't make you take
it.
This war is your war. It is being fought
to save your life, the lives of your
friends and families, your property. Enlist
in it now.
Mass Production
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mere is no question as to me necessity
and merit of mass production of goods.
It would be ridiculous to suggest that we
go back to the handicraft age in the production
of motor cars, electrical devices,
building materials, furniture or almost
anything else in common used and
demand.
The cost of these necessities would be
inflated many times. Where almost all
the population can purchase them now,
only a small per cent could enjoy them
at anywhere near the extent they do now,
if they were produced by the slow, hand
methods that preceded the industrial age.
Yet there are some theorists who suggest
just such a thing claiming that the
machine age has reduced the laboring
classes to the depths of poverty, and has
contributed to unemployment by robbing
men of their jobs.
In such argument, we have no part.
Such ridiculous chatter belongs in the
realm of the fanatical rather than sane
and sober thought, and should not be
given serious consideration.
There is no denying that the industrial
age has replaced many laborers with
machines, but it's folly to suggest that
we return to the primitive industrial
methods employed before the turn of the
last century.
Rather, we believe, a better plan would
be to try to open up some new fields of
endeavor to absorb the jobless thousands.
Turning back the calendar and harking
back to the dead and distant past would
not solve our present day problems.
Christmas vacations are just about
long enough to make the boys and girls
who couldn't go off to school glad of it.
THE STATE PORT
Just Among
The Fishermen
AT ROSE BOWL
Frank Link Johnson of Statesville,
secretary-treasurer of the
N. C. soft drink bottlers accosiation
and a strong advocate of
Southport fishing, is now on his
way to the Rose Bowl game between
Duke and Southern California.
At least, such is inferred
from a letter received by this
department from Frank last week.
It may be mentionable here that
Frank is often known as "Two
Quid Frank", by reason of his
love of chewing tobacco. He is
also a great practical joker and i
mixer with the folks.
FRANK WRITES j
"Dear Booster: As you |
mention in the last issue of
the State Port Pilot, TwoQuid
Johnson is again holding
the purse strings of the
North Carolina Bottlers association.
I have been an officer
in the association since
1919. Too long for a fisherman
to serve anybody?ex- 1
cept the fish,and chewing tobacco
manufacturers? and
Coca Cola in Bottles. I see
you need a new knife. You
will receive a pair by mail
soon with my compliments.
Don't carve up the 'Brain
Trust' with them, as good
men are scarce?and . lazy.
Best regards to all the boys.
Am leaving on the night of
December 26th on a special
pullman train for the Rose
Bowl. If., the radio announcer
says he sees a little country
boy trotting around chewing
tobacco and carrying his spit
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IOOII Urt'UIUiru H1II1 IIIC
of Southern California players
that the Duke Blue
Devils have tommaliawked, it
will be me sure as h
MAYBE NOT SO BAD
Maybe the Miss Perkins?International
Labor-Act requiring
crews of four licensed men on all
boat 40 feet in length and longer,
will not turn out so bad against
the fishing interests as it first
sounded like it would. Then, again
maybe it will. All we know at
the moment is that Congressman
J. Bayard Clark does not thiTik
the Act so bad as the first reports
made it appear. The Congressman
is having a complete
copy of the Act sent to this department
from Washington. The
facts about it will be published
when it shows up. Meanwhile
there is no use in anybody worrying
about it.
SYNDICATING TAUTOG PIX
The blackflsh?Tautogs to
folks in the New England
states, will be coming in for
a bit of publicity in a few
days. Bill Sharpe of the State
Publicity Bureau last week
sent a hurry up call down
here for a picture of a catch
of the above fish made by
Captain Barkley Tomlin. Bill
said he aimed to syndicate
the picture. Some months ago
Kip Farrington, internationally
known sport fishing writer,
had a story on the blackfish
or "Tautogs". He said they
were not very numerous south
of New York. The picture
sent Mr. Sharpe last week
showed nearly 600 pounds of
these fish taken by Captain
Tomlin in one morning recently.
ANOTHER REMINDER
Fishermen., and., hunters., who
make an unusual catch or kill
are again reminded that if they
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will get a good picture mane or
their performance they can get a
lot of publicity for themselves
and for Brunswick county by
sending the picture to this department.
The pictures must be
clear and sharpe or they cannot
be made into newspaper mats.
The size does not matter so much
but the picture must be clear.
When possible, the negative of the
picture is also desired for the
purpose of making enlargements.
GOOD SUBSTITUTE
The very best substitute
for a Christmas card that
we have ever seen was sent
this department from Wilson
last week. The sender was
Lester Rose, secretary of the
Wilson Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Rose used an ordinary
government post card
to send this plaintive message:
"Why the h... should
I s|iend 25 cents to buy and
send you a Christmas Card
when you won't even have
time to open the envelope
and see who It Is from?"
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Here's wishing a happy New
year to everybody in Brunswick
and to the numerous up-state
fishermen and sportsmen of other
sorts who take this paper.
The port of New Orleans has
a water frontage of 133 miles and
each year handles exports valued
at approximately $300,000,000 and
imports valued at $150,000,000.
U. S. imports of agricultural
products, except forest products
and distilled liquors, have averaged
$1,582,000,000 annually for
the past 16 years.
PILOT. SOUTHPORT, N. C
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APPRECIATION*
Wilmington, N. C.
December 20. 1938
Mr. James M. Harper. Jr.
Editor
State Port Pilot
Southport, N. C.
Dear Mr .Harper:
This office appreciated the edi|
torial appearing in the State Port
I Pilot dated December 14. 1938,
in which favorable comment was
made concerning a WPA project
which is in progress at Southport.
This office welcomes helpful
criticism, but many remarks generally
made about WPA workers
tend toward sarcasm rather than
special benefit. We are glad to
know that one editor has seeny/it
to observe the work in such a
manner that he may be able to
pass a just comment on what is
being done.
Yours very truly,
L. J. Jordan, Area Chief
Engineer
NAUTICAL SCHOOL
Southport, N. C.
December 14, 1938
Dear Editor:
A plan has originated in the
Brunswick County, American Legion
Post whereby we in North
Carolina may duplicate and establish
a Technical school of Navigation
similar to the Mass. Nautical
school for young men between the
ages of 17 and 21 years.
This phase of training furnishes
capable officers for the Merchant
Marine of this country, large ship
owners demand this type of training.
Do not confuse this training
with the Maritine sendee school
for seamen recently provided for
by the Department of Commerce
in conjunction with the U. S.
Coast Guard service.
Within a few weeks the 19391
North Carolina General Assembly j
meets and during this session
Senator S. Bunn Frinkand Representative
Neil Thomas will present
a bill favoring the creation
of a nautical school in North
Carolina.
The Federal Government supplies
a training ship and maintainance
thereof also a portion
of funds necessary to carry on
Instructions. The state appropriation
is comparatively small.
The Massachusetts Nautical
school is over 40 years old and in
this institution annual report for
1938 it emphasises the fact that
the demand for nautical trained
men can not be supplied rapidly
enough at said school.
Will you become interested and
lend your efforts towards a worthy
project?
Rangwald O. Johnson, Post
Commander
BOLIVIA NEWS
The Christmas pageant given
by the Young People of Bolivia
Baptist church Saturday night
was well attended. Characters
were: Maybelle Hillburn, Mary;
Milton Murrell, Joseph; Rosalind
Page, Herald Angel; Edward Murrel,
Jimmy Johnson, B. R. Page
(in absence of Kemp Holden)
were kings; Randall Page, Iredell
Walton and Frankie Johnson were
shepherds. Bertha Hillburn, Geneva
Potter. Mvrtie Hillbum. Marv
Emma Rabon, Annie Lou and
Louise Johnson, Guilford Hillburn,
Lindsey Walton, Sue Page and
Marjorie Phelps were candle bearers.
Miss Winnie Johnson, accompanied
at the piano by her mother,
Mrs. Dallas Johnson, played
the violin while the Christmas
choruses were sung by the following:
Mr. and Mrs. Foster
Mintz, Rev. and Mrs. Tom Johnson,
Miss Bessie Willets and Marshall
Willets. Santa Potter, Mrs.
B. R. Page. Miss Elizabeth Page
was director.
Miss Bertha Hillburn and Mrs.
Evie Walton gave pictures of
Christmas using the small children
who were in the pageant except
for the last picture in which
Miss Omage Johnson and Elwood
Sullivan represented an old couple
left at home at Christmas when
all the children had grown up
and left home.
Mrs. Cornelius Thomas, June
and Neal Dickinson Thomas spent
the day with B. R. Page family
Monday. Neal Dickinson is a
freshman at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Little Peggy Slalllngs, who has
been sick with chicken pox, is
able to be out again.
Miss Ruth Taylor, who is attending
school in the Western
part of the state, is spending
the holidays here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Taylor.
Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Clemmons
of Myrtle Beach are visiting
friends and relatives here,
having recently sold their home
near Antioch church and bought
valuable property at Myrtle Beach
where they like it very much.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Johnson and
children, Winnie and Jlmmie, are
spending the holidays with relatives
in Raleigh this week.
Frankie Johnson visited Randall
Page Monday afternoon. ]
Rosa Gilbert is spending a few j
days with Sue Page. Holden Saturda;
At the close of the Christmas Mr. and Mrs.
program at Baptist church Sat- ed preaching a
urday night everyone whose name urday night and
was on the Sunday school roll Hollis Ward 1
books was presented a nice pres-' g0 to Florida i
ent. Fruit was distributed to all i trip,
present. | The Sunday
Friendship Bap
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Sunday night D
The old and
Rev. H. B. Bennett of Shallotte through xthis se
filled his first appointment at having a nice ti
Friendship Baptist church Sun- Qn Wedn
day, December 25, at 11 o'clock njghts. People f
in the morning and 7 o'clock in near come out
the evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ward have Thomasfc
moved to their new brick home
which was completed last week. Neal Thomas,
Mr. and Mrs. Rent Jenrette from school Si
visited their daughters, Mesdames Christmas with
Hollis and Tom Ward, Sunday and Mrs. Corne
afternoon. leave for Char
John Jenrette visited Mr. W. G. spend the rest
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