PAC-E FOu&
THE STATE PORT PILOT
Southport, N. G.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor
Mastered a* aecond-claM natter April 20, 1028,
the Poet Office at Southport N. C., under
the act of March 3, 1870.
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MIX MONTHS : 1.
THREE MONTHS .'
Wednesday, April 12, 1930
Too many funny jokes are funny onl
to those who are playing them.
A nuisance is the last person in th
world to suspect what lie is.
Personality is what permits a person t
make you feel like you are doing him
favor to allow him to do a favor for yoi
Boys having a way of wanting to exce
?even if its in being recognized as th
toughest kid in town.
Proceeding on the theory that silenc
is golden, it's amazing what spendthrift
some people are.
One reason why modern kids are so i
behaved is .that parents place too muc
emphasis upon display and too little eir
phasis upon dicipline.
Two is company but three is 110 crow
when ghost stories are being told.
Faster Music
The annual observance of Easter her
Sunday was marked by beautiful pre
grams of special music presented at eac
church, white and colored, in Southporl
Days and weeks went into the specia
preparation of these sen-ices and the lai
ge congregations apparently were deepl
impressed with the solemnity of the cele
bration.
Beginning with the anthems of the col
ored choristers who traveled about th
city before the dawn and continuing t
the last amen' at the evening sendee
the anniversary of the resurrection of th
Christ was celebrated with beauty an
reverence.
It seems to us that in our country a
j least religious worship at Easter time ha
remained purer in its concept than an
j' other of our special celebrations.
I One Hundred Percent
We finally accomplished an ambitio
of three years standing last week whe
we had a column of news from each c
the five consolidated schools of Brum
wick county.
Several times we have had four co
I umns in one issue, and frequently w
have as many as three schools represei
ted; but a grand slam is what we'v
wanted.
It has been our contention all alon
that a school column is good for the reai
er interest of our newspaper, but is sti
better for the interest of the schools. !
anything worthwhile is being accon
plished, the parents and patrons shoul
know it.
A review of the columns of last wee
will afford a fair idea of just what
good school report should be, for eac
presented a running resume of the week
activities.
Our readers can help keep these fei
tures in the paper by commenting to th
principals, the teachers and the student
?But This Is Not The Case ..
I At the risk of being branded callous t
beauty and indifferent to nature we di
agree with our friend, The Star-New
that the river road be improved, but r
main forever unpaved.
If narrow, winding roads were sal
and there were no such thing as dust;
there existed in the mind of the averag
motorist no prejudice against travel c
dirt road?no matter "how good that pa
ticular road might be; if improvement <
the river road were contemplated on
for local convenience and not with tl
idea of drawing into this section thou
ands of persons who are oblivious to i
historical significance:
If all this were true, we'd be the fir
to plead the cause of the shaded drh
where beauty lurks at every bend; we
resent the decree of highway enginee
that trees too close beside the road mu
~
go; we'd defend to the last retention of
the picturesque crossing over Orton dam
- and we'd fig-tit forever to protect the
romantic beauty of the river road.
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Bt Conflict Remote
? Europe's guns are poised?the stage is
50 set for war. Yet it is a war which now
bo ; seems less likely than in September at
78 Munich.
-I England has reversed her policy. Con!
ciliatory policies having failed of their
purpose in preventing open agression,
Britain has taken a sterner hand in world
affairs.
Had that policy been adopted earlierj
in the game, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and
' Memel would doubtless today have been
places on the maps rather than something
to read about in history.
V Dictators know no conciliation?diplomacy
is something about which they have
heard little or nothing. Their policy is one
0 of scare and fright; the old theory might,
| makes right.
Yet they will perhaps think twice now
ibefore they buck a determined and belli-!
?;gerent Britain and France, who won't
a back down.
' The democracies have made it clear
that there will be no more sacrifices.
Hitler and Mussolini must lie stopped.
e Yet war today seems more far removed
than if has any time within the past six
months.
e
1 ilil One Detail
II (News & Observer)
hi "Today, within the land under Japan
? .. T>1, TI Tnrlrl
I'SL UCl'lll'UUUIl, Wl.v.i XJI . n ttitvi II. W mm?m
surgeon, returned from China, "there is
not a single college or high school left of
I the splendid institutions which had been
d j developed."
What Dr. Judd says may be entirely
[ true. The best propaganda on both sides
of a quarrel always is. But it is also true
j that the Japanese have a better record in
the elimination of illiteracy than the
e Americans have. That may not be perfec(
tion but it is something.
t National Marriage
j Law Sorely Needed
y While the marriage law which the
' General Assembly enacted in the dying
moments of the 1939 session last week,
embodies an excellent theory, in the last
e analysis we doubt that it will work to the
0 best advantage of people of Brunswick
county as a whole.
e Requiring couples applying for marri^
age licenses to submit to a physical examination
to determine whether or not
t they are free from venereaf disease, on
s the surface seems highly commendable
y action on the part of the Assembly, and
certainly there can be no denial that
such a law should be in force.
But at the same time there is nothing
to prevent a couple denied licenses in
n North Carolina from slipping across the
n border into South Carolina and being
if married. No, a marriage law of this kind
5. should, as C. C. Russ, Brunswick
i/? . i _ .Ti. ^.. ? i_ i i. i
wenare omcer nas onen puimeu uui, nu
|. national in scope and application.
e South Carolina has never had as styict
marriage laws as we have in this state.
e Most of the child marriages which furnish
the problems for welfare workers in
Brunswick county originate in our sister
, Palmetto state.
lj Therefore, we forsee greater injury to
.. our own peculiar situation than there will
be good accomplished. Because, driving
the couples from North Carolina, where
heretofore they were at least required to
j. swear that they were free from venereal
disease, to South Carolina where unscrupulous
magistrates often marry 12 and 13,
year-old girls to doddering old men, cers
tainly does not seem like a progressive
step.
If, on the other hand, the law was natie
ional in scope then some real good could
S- be accomplished.
After all, you'd rather somebody put a
bug in your ear than in your head.
;o .
s- Persons who haven't got any grit in
s, their craw now are those who didn't vene
ture out Thursday afternoon.
fe Just because some people are highhat
is certainly no sign that they've had
'e the proper raising,
in
r" A ruler is a measuring stick, but at the
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ly same time it can be a man holding a big
ie stick,
sAny
old soak is the most promising
citizen of his community when the bill
st collector comes around.
re
'd Our idea of an ignorant Amei'ican is
rs one who thinks a farfetched story is one
st which came from Europe.
THE STATE PORT PILC
Just Among
j The Fishermen ;
SALVAGE A STURGEON
Thursday afternoon brought
considerable high winds and rough
water. A four hundred-pound sturgeon
with no pilot on board ran
aground, or was beaten ashore,
in Southport just as the Bell
Telephone construction crew freni j
Raleigh were coming in from
their day's work. Three of the
boys. D. D. Kit-ley, Cotton Lackey
and Robert Pitchford, got a haw- i
ser around the critically injured
fish and got him ashore. All of I
the above boys are from the Piedmont
part of the state. To them ,
this 100 pounder was some fish. |
ITCHING FINGERS, SAYS HE j
A great many Norfolk
sportsmen have their fingers
itching hadly to make a strike
In the Soutliport waters, so
writes E. K. Glennan of Norfolk
to the Southport Civic
Club. Since Christmas Mr. j
Glennan has written the club
three times to ask what hope
was being held out for fishing.
Each time the club has
put him off, as the (mats
were busy with shrimping
and few were Inclined to
sport fishing just yet. To the
latest inquiry, however, Mr.
Glennan and the other Norfolk
sportsmen and sportsmen
in general are being told
to come on. The blue fish and
trout are here and there are
plenty of huge red drum running
on the point of Bald
Head Island.
BFYS NEW BOATS
Skipper Bill Wells of the Wells
Brothers has bought a couple of
large new boats in Florida and
he left Sunday with crews to
bring them home. The craft will
be used for commercial fishing
and pleasure parties. They are
large enough to be termed seagoing
craft and will probably be
heard from in operations on the
Gulf Stream out from Southport. |
TIME FOR SPORT FISHING
The time is here for sport
fishing parties to begin flock
in# to Southport in great
numbers, and to make catches
that will please them and
create a resolve that they return
many, many more times.
Here's hoping that each and
every boatman who carries
out a party from Southport
this year will do his utmost
to please and satisfy his
guests. Treating the parties
right is a great way to build
up friends for the Southport
fishing.
WILL HELP BOATMEN
Although he will have a yacht
and a few boats of his own, the
development of Bald Head Island}
! will be a great help to Southport
fishermen. At least Prank
Sherrill believes that it will. He
plans to employ Southport's men
for his boats and to see that
Southport boats are called for by
guests on the island who are
bent on going on fishing expeditions.
It is not time yet to apply
for jobs with Mr. Sherrill, but
our boatmen may rest assured
that they will be called on when
the time does come.
AWAITS ADJOURNMENT
Clark Awaiting Adjournment
Congressman J. Bayard
Clark wrote us the past week
that just as sobn as Congress
adjourned he Is coming
down and going fishing with
us on Bald Head Island. The
Congressman likes things
over there. Likewise, we are
of nv nn/it Jr? rr \f O inr I
.NIF| I IN I A|NVI..lh I'Wgi"
George W. Gillette to come
down from the U. S, Engineers
office in Wilmington
with his family for a weekend
on the island in the near
future. Major Gillette is looked
upon by Southporters as
the most congenial and considerate
army engineer that
has ever been in charge of
the Wilmington office.
GHOSTS VERY FRIENDLY
The ghosts of the three headless
pirates who roam Bald Head
Island are very friendly to this
department and the Southport
fishermen need not have any fear .
of fishing around the island at
night as usual. The ghosts have
never hurt anyone. They are only
seeking for Theodesia Burr and
she is very elusive, as elusive as
she Is beautiful. It can be depended
upon that she will not bother
any of the Southport fishermen,
no more than will the three headless
pirates.
BOTANY~BUG HUNTERS
Our big bunch of Ohio hug
hunters will arrive in another
ten days. They will he wearing
pants, slacks, skirts and,
what have you on? They will
spend a week on Bald Head,
looking for bugs and chasing
plants. It Is Just possible that
they may accldently dig up
some of the gold that the pirates
buried over there. If they
do, we hope they will div<with
us in consideration of
our having kept the ghosts
from bothering them.
QUESTION ANSWERED
There is an old question, some- '
thing like: When is an oyster not
an oyster? We found the answer
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>T, SOUTHPORT, N. C. '
OPEN FORUM
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the public. A mouthpiece for the
views and observations of our
friends and readers, for which we
accept no responsibility. Contributions
to this column must not
exceed three hundred words.
Editor,
State Port Pilot,
Southport, N. C.
Dear Mr. Editor:?
We wish to nominate one of j
your last week's headlines for the J
prize boner of this year. Imagine
"Triangular Debates Held Be-1
tween Three Schools"! Tsh tsh. j
Yours for more concentration
on headlines,
A loyal reader.
DEFENDS ACTION
Shallotte, N. C? April 11, 1999.
Editor,
State Port Pilot. i
Southport. N. O.,
Dear Sir:
The 1999 Legislature has adjourned.
One year ago T was n
candidate for representative. My
only promise was to introduce local
legislation only that was approved
by local authorities. I
have kept that promise. In local
matters that were not contested I
accepted the decision of the county
commissioners as sufficient.
When it came to that much
discussed matter of extending to
terms of the county officers, I
held that the Democratic Executive
Committee should decide
that: matter.
There was a meeting of a few
citizens at Southport: Those present
voted in favor of the extension.
I told them that I did not
feel iustified to act upon the
decision of that group as they j
had no more authority than some j
other group of citizens.
Sometime later nine and one
proxy of the Democratic Executive
Committee met and voted
against the extensions. The next
week five of the committee wired
me that they were not present
at that meeting and were in fa-,
vor of the extensions. I asked
for another meeting of the committee
and was not granted my
request. The following week ten
of the Democratic Executive
Committee together with the
vice chairman petitioned me to
make the extensions. I believe in
majority rule regardless of where
the chips fall.
Allow me to say to my good
Republican friends that if you
condem these extensions, you will
be condemning the thing that
practically all of your representation
did or tried to do for their
respective counties. Yours truly,
Cornelius Thomas.
PAVE THE ROAD
Editor,
State Port Pilot:
Southport, N. C.
Dear Editor,
We have noted with interest
and approval your advocacy of
an improved hard surface road
from Southport to the Brunswick
River Bridge .along what is now
known as the River Road.
Also with interest, but for from
being received with approval, was
an editorial suggestion in the Wilmington
Star of Friday, April
7th.
The Star thinks the River Road
should be improved, but that it
should remain a dirt road for the
benefit of horses and mules.
Churchill Bragaw, horticulturist
at Orton .tells me that more
than 7,000 tourists have visited
Orton this spring. Filling station
operators all the way from
Shallotte to Wilmington also tell
me innumerable cars bound for
Orton had asked directions and
then turned back when they find
they have to travel 8 or 10 miles
rtf Hirl rnnrl.
We grant that the road from i
Southport through Orton to Wil-'
mington is in fine condition. Still i
it is a dirt road. The average j
motorist has a none-too-good acquaintance
with dirt roads. We
know that hundreds of cars bound
for Orton have turned back. We
do not know how many never
started just because they learned
in advance of the 8 or 10 miles
of dirt roads.
Orton is distinctly a meca for
tourists. The average saddle horse
has a range of five or six miles
and return. There may be four
or five saddle horses on the River
Road between here and Wilmington
and it is a little too much
that this beautiful tourist attraction
should be neglected for the
express benefit of half a dozen
saddle nags.
Another thing, we will wager
every cent we have that if Orton
were in New Hanover county,
instead of Brunswick, The Star
would be wailing like a banshee
at the injustice New Hanover was
being subjected to at the hands
of the State Highway Commission.
The Star, which speaks for
New Hanover, would be calling
upon high-Heaven for a 40-foot
paved road, if Orton were in
New Hanover.
W. B. Keziah,
Executive Secretary Souths
port Civic Club.
last week when L. W. Clemmons
of Southport brought us an oyster
that was a clam. A perfect clam
and a perfect oyster, joined together
so perfectly that even a
magnifying glass could not reveal
where the shell of one of the
bivalves | ended and the other began.
It Was a perfect union.
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VVEDNE 5D ^V,APp^
EWS_^
! Watts and others swear rePeiousiy "^Hsp
that they have lieen chased t.y water.*,'
are the seasons for salt wui.-t ilSt, >?w
I fresh water. They often v?i. up a v.!
I water and when it is dropp, Ul|ar _
i rains bull-frogs! . . . "Hold Tl.ut r0 r
held at the A mum for a two day
amusement, starring toh, M
Weaver. W
SL rue
And if you look closely y.ut will sl.Vl Hft'
ft*1
| self in the movies the latter part ?r [)y^K^
It's James Johnon, not CMy.i. M,c?y B^pol
j at Lake Waccamaw this suinm.r
will he looking for a new an ml muster ...
I Claude McCall. present leader retip. ,
10 foU
tin value
whip in sales m
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NOT EXACTLY N
Good evening:, Mr. and Mrs. Brunswick and all
shrimp boats at sea. Let's go to press. FLASH:
Doris' fancy fandango of swinging on the shining
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slivers of mahogany was a jam-up 'jam session.'
. . . FLASH: The New York Giants' baseball club
Will wear the insignia of the World's Fair on the
sleeves of their new uniforms . . . The Friday
nite, boxing card was a fare-you-wel! in more
ways than one . . SEEING THTNGS: .1. ('. Wilkins,
linguist extraordinary and gentleman-atleisure,
is a whiz at cross-words . . . Since college
boys are eating goldfish and phoiiograph records
for iniation, they will probably lie eating oysters
in the shell . . . The 'ghosts' of Bald Head are
said to have -sometimes walked the beach with
the Coast Guard Patrol, although the company of
these visitors wasn't at all desirable . . . Dunnie
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