- PACE FOUR * THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. G. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor fetarad u second-clam matter April 20, 1028, a' the Poet Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1870. m Subscription Rates ONE TEAR *1.5< EX MONTHS 1W THREE MONTHS .71 J* " .1 Wednesday, July 26, 1939 ^ Most folks when they are in trouble would rather be heard than helped. ???????? It isn't company that Misery wants, its an audience. An alarmist is a person who frightens people with stuff he doesn't believe himself. We have always believed that mar was at his most ridiculous disadvantage when lie had his shirt tail dangling; but now they've made a fad of it. The same kids wh,o go into a so The fall is the harvest season and it isj' ) only natural to presume that the season 1 1 of plenty should also be a time for hap- j piness. It is because we want this tobac- i co marketing season to be just that for < all our farmers that we are writing this 1 editorial. It may not be exactly flattering, but it ( is a fact that confidence men rate the | farmer as their No. 1 prospect for a sucker game. That is why each fall you , will discover so many of them practicing ij ' their deceptions about a tobacco marketJ] ! All money to them is easy money and it 1 never occurs to their hardened conscience i that the dollars which they filch from ' ' tobacco growers are ones which must re- ' pay and replace and repair if the farm- ? er's operations are to continue for an- , 1 other year. Their fly-by-night set-up is ' based upon quick transactions and a hasty get-away. There is no need to become unduly 1 j alarmed over the fact that there are these : I men whose aim it is to make their living ' from the sweat from someone else's brow, it is a fact, and no tobacco market is) completely free of them. ' Therefore, about your best policy for ' honest dealings and fair business transac tions is to go to the stores and business places that you know by reputation? places that remain in operation year after r year and who place some value upon the . reputation which they bear. A mighty . good plan is to use the advertising columns of your newspaper as your business directory. A responsible editor will not knowingly permit misrepresentations to be made to his readers through his col! umns. J Another good thing to remember is . that a drunk man with some money on I him is a perfect kill for one of these slickers. Our advice to you is to do your ' . drinking somewhere besides in a tobacco j , market town. If you simply must go on a j bender, let somebody else whom you can ' trust take care of your money until you 1 I are sober. f There is nothing more pathetic than ^ > the picture of a man with a large family < i dependent upon him when he suddenly i ' realizes that some smooth talking Strang- ' : er has clipped him for money, the loss of i which will deprive his family of actual necessities. All this sounds like a sermon to the I farmers, and we reckon that is about as ' good name as any for what we have been r trying to write. But as a parang remmuI er on the eve of the opening of the to> bacco market we ask them to always remember that the making of their crop ( was a job that required every member . I of the farm family; it is only right that ( every member of the family have an , opportunity to share its benefits. ! Fire In The Home Adequate home fire-fighting equip[ ment is simple and cheap?in fact, you probably have most of what you need on < hand now. Many a potentially destructive . ' fire has been quickly extinguished with ] a garden hose. Short pieces of hose kept ' inside the house near faucets may come , in mighty hand. And that simplest of all i protective devices, a pail of water, may i 1 be a lifesaver in an emergency. 1 r Water is obviously the agent to use 1 for moat fivps?hut it shouldn't bp fnr. . - ? ? , 1 gotten that in some cases water will 1 ' spread, not quench a fire. In the instance < > of kitchen fires involving grease, for in- 1 r stance, the application of water is likely to result in a sudden burst of flame that , I will send the fire to all corners of the \ ; room. A fire of this kind should be fought i ; by covering the burning receptacle in or- ( (. der to shut off the air supply, after turning off all heat. 1 j You judge a mule by its teeth. You (. can judge a law by the same method, s The day will come! When the No. 1 3 popular tune has neither baby talk nor t pig Latin. ^ ? Many boys are still burning the midr night oil, all right, but in their father's * " flivver. t i There's a rule to be applied to everything?including a small boy's back reg3 ions if he misbehaves. i ? It's a good husband who can carry his 3 bride over the thresh-hold?of her fath er's house. > ... . ^ THE STATE PORT PILOT, Just Among The Fishermen BY W. B. KEZIAH PICTURES GOING FAR Thanks to C. Elbert Hill of the 1 Wilmington Camera Club for ma- ' ting it, a picture of Mrs. W. G. ' Kemper of Washington, D. C.,is ' low going afar. Mr. Hill was in ' :own with his very efficient ca- ' nera a couple of weeks ago 1 .vhen one of the Gulf Stream ' x>ats brought in a fine catch of if fish, including eight or ten big larracuda. One of these weighed 1 36 1-2 pounds; we rounded up Mr. ' Hill, and Mrs. Kemper being an 1 )ut-of-state visitor, was selected io hold the fish for the camera I nan. The Wilmington Star gave die picture its first run and Bill 3harpe of the State publicity de- ] lartment immediately called for : he negative in order that he could : iyndicate the picture. It is now ippearing in newspapers all ov- ' >r the country and gives South- 1 oort some valuable publicity. (It s on the front page of this 1 lewspaper.) 1 Interested in Barracuda ] Rod and gun editors on the < staff of the big metropoli- < tan dailies are taking very i kindly to stuff about the big i barracuda catches at South- . port. Some of them are de- i voting from half a column to a full column to these fish I in the Sunday issues. The fish ) are especially valuable to at- 1 tract attention to Southport < by reason of the fact that I this appears to be the only < place on the North Carolina c coast where they are to be j found. As a rule the rod and i gun men are laying stress on the fact that the barracuda are only found here. Bob Wilson, outdoor man on the Washington Times said last week that a few barracuda had been seen at Hatteras but that none had ever been caught there or anywhere else on this coast except at Southport. Likes Fishing Charlie Farrell, of Greensboro, jne of the very best friends that vour columnist has, likes South sort, likes to fish and likes peojle who like to fish. He spent ihree days here last week, making pictures and fishing. He and Mrs. farrell are joint owners in the irt Shop at Greensboro, Mr. and Mrs .Farrell are also joint own:rs in three fine boys, the oldest |ust entering college and the two >thers to enter shortly. Bigger, Faster Boats. Bigger and faster boats are a crying need at Southport for the development of the Gulf Steream fishing. Morehead City and Beaufort are now drawing a great deal of attention by the fine catches that are being made by sportsmen. These catches are no better than those made at Southport, the whole difference lies in the fact that there are plenty of good swift boats at Morehead, all capable of trips to the gulf stream. Here we have but few and these all lacking in the comfort that a sportsman would like to have when making a long trip outside. Enjoyed Trolling Going out on the Eva Mac, :ommercial blue fish boat of Skipper Donnie Watts and Alfred Anderson, one day last week Mrs. E. R. Weeks and Mrs. Wilder Kemper, the latter of Washngton, D. C.. had a great time [.roiling for blue fish while the < boat was meandering around in ] search of schools around which 1 he net could be cast. The la- < lies caught some sixteen very 1 large blues. Their pegrinations I took them all the way around to ; the wreck of the Mount Dyrfus. ] Dn their return they reported 1 laving seen more than 50 large i larracuda swimming around this 1 .vreck. They were not equipped i vith either tackle?or nerve?for i these savages, so they let them ?o and had plenty of fun with : the blues. 1 Long Time Column This week rounds out ] something like four years I during which time this column has never failed to appear with something about ] the fishermen and and fisher I folks. Only once was it late I in getting in. It could not very well be late. If it is not the first thing around to 1 start a weeks work with, we ' usually get a prompt and vigorous inquiry regarding its whereabouts. We never imagined that anybody read the thing but only this past week a twelve-year-old lady from the country stopped us on the 1 street and asked us of we 1 wrote the Fisherman's Col- i umn. Vitamin-containing preparations represent 100 million dollars worth of business a year. SOUTHPORT, NORTH CA WASHINGTON I LETTER WASHINGTON ? Though the Congress has not yet stopped ivork, the various political parties are all set for the "claiming" race. The professional propagandists from both major political parties are in constant conference vith the legislators in preparing their versions of broad partisan 'victories" over the opposition, rhe bulk of these claims will be printed in copies of the Congressional Record which appears somewhat posthumously?after the curtain is down and when they cannot be easily contradicted. Great excitment prevails here this week as deals are made behind the scenes in an effort to rescue sick or ailing legislative measures from ' the scrapheap. Night sessions apparently have a had effect on the jaded nerves of the solons. Acriminious words ivhich ordinarily would be curbed by good manners, fly thick and fast to leave scars which will be long in healing. There is stark Jrama in the final sessions of a Congress which has proceeded at i leisurely gate for many months jnly to speed up in a helteriUoitcr rush for a long vacation it the taxpayers expense. As this is written, the fate of he Hatch bill for purifying politics is uncertain. The President las until midnight Friday to sign >r veto this measure. The uncer:ainty is keeping the camps at :ach end of Pennsylvania Avenue >n tether-hooks. If vetoed, Congress is not likely to adjourn vithout a strong effort to over ide the Presidential disapproval. When you consider that a twohirds vote of the Senate and louse is necessary to override a reto, it is small wonder that the egislators are puzzled and wor ied. The enactment of the measure :o curtail political scandals hrough use of Federal money in :he election has obtained such videspread popular support, if the volume of correspondence reading here is a true index, that Congress could not very well shut ip shop and ignor the issue raisid by a possible Presidential 'thumbs down" attitude. A current article by Raymond Moley, he original Roosevelt "Brainsrruster" pointing out that an at:orney-general usually gives an >pinion on the constitutionality of i matter the way the boss at the White House wants, adds to the 3hief Executive's dilemma in inding an "out" with the Hatch >ill. The lot of the Senate and -louse conferees handling the So:ial Security amendments has >een far from happy. The meature has many vital political anflcs which figure prominently in he discussion behind closed doors, [he main stumbling-block to igreement has been the Connaly amendment by which the n o ? n, I UAd3 OUIIdlUI wauia Uiv r i government to contribute two- j hirds and the states one-third of :he funds for old age pensions. A iowerful Southern bloc has held >pt for this plan against the vishes of the Administration vhich is opposed to the idea of laddling the central government vith such a large share of the jurden. The Federal agencies are afraid )f the precedent it would estabish by encouraging the states to shift their costs to Uncle Sam >n other matters. Employers and jthers contributing to old age pensions would like to see the present rate of contribution "frozen" instead of automatically boosted next year. It is unlikely that Congress will leave this subject unfinished because of the present deadlock between the Senate and House. The Townsend movement which has been sidetracked would probably have a new lease on life if Congress sidestepped the pension controversy. With debate waxing warm over the effects on the new spending program on the state of the nation, small attention has been paid to the frank admission of Senator King, old-line Democrat from Utah as to the real motives backing of appropriating the taxpayer's funds. Naturally legislators prefer to ignor the veteran Senator's comments which are in conflict with their pretensions. King contends that lawmakers no longer work on the theory of service to the nation as a whole but, says the Utah solon "has given way to a new philosophy of dependence upon contributions, subsidies, and, in common language, 'handouts' from the Federal Treasury". King complains frequently of the encrouchment of the Federal government into the rights of the states and individuals which now meet with apathy instead of strong resistance. Echoes from talk around town: thm John L. Lewis unwittingly, perhaps, made a tremendous conI ROL1NA ' 11 _ ^1 e\f fVio ! rwy /^T tribution to me apreou ~ . Garner boom by his tirade against 1 UWr n the Vice President and automatic- ( ally heightened the picture drawn by anti-Lewis critics showing that The town i dictatorial labor leaders are to be stration Club watched by all classes; also that Mrs. Odell meeting. Lewis has weakened his hold over rp,, ,nPf,Hr his own C. I. O. followers by raising the norality question in- der by the volved in drinking and card-play- our Fathers" by the repo ing without making any corre- and secretar, sponding gains among the "drys" d mGmbers" who do not take kindly to the Lewis methods; rumor that Mr.! door sport Roosevelt will withhold numerous; Plans for and important appointments untilj tional meetir Congress leaves ana thus keep j meeting will many legislators wanting this j berry's lawn patronage in line at least until cake will be next winter. Games and rected by Mi Sales of 160,719 new and used er, Mrs. Fui motor vehicles in Canada during Mrs. Odell : 1938 were made. Mrs. Dan 7 ~ \ H , ^^B||| Bl Low Prices On Gome on and get these cai hauling tobacco to more tl PICK-UPS 1936.. CHEVROLET... IN., gooc condition and has ?*9CH good tires 1935 CHEVROLET. Only 20,00C miles. Good tires, good as new 1936 DODGE. A good buy foi a thrifty farmer. This ?i?|C pick-up cheap at 1935 DODGE?In good condition. Perfect for haul- ffc ing tobacco to market 1934 DODGE?With new tires. Amazingly low C4 priced at 1931 FORD MODEL A?In good condition. A real buy ?4 at only )X2U R.D. . SHALL ^ *-4-- - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST ? H ?ll^g )" e k ^ esting reports on canning Ht ""?! L 1,1 . _ stressed the importance of e^B jiUO i\l(?6tin&' ;ng. jars ant| not leaving Creek Home Demon- jamounts ofr foos H | new and is in fair ? condition 3*"^ Eg 1934 FORD?New ClflS 1 motor. Priced to sell .... B 1935 DODGE COUPE. i Reconditioned motor .. 3** p 1927 CHEVROLET COUPE g running Cf C Afl K condition 3X^*"V |? WHITE I OTTE, N. C. m ... m