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PAGE FOUR ~ THE STATE PORT PILOT i Southport, N. C. |< PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY !' JAMES M. HARPER. JR.. Editor , Sntered bm scmnd-cJ&ss natter April 20, 1028, at! ] tie Poa Office at Southport, N. C., under ( the act of March 3, 1879. 1 ( Subscription Rate* : ] eiNE TEAR 51.50 ( SIX MONTHS 1.00 . rHRKE MONTHS .75 I ! j s : I j Wednesday, December 2?>, 19:55) Some men believe in embracing every , opportunity, most especially if they're i blonde. , A. A pretty piece of music is like a hypodermic needle?it gets under your skin. Running round in circles is inclined to 1 makeone dizzy, if they're political circles, j A pretty girl is like a melody, and an ugly one like some of the more popular modern tunes. 11 Politicans are really artists. Don't they * sometimes get a job out of a little campaign mud ? "A man in politics generally gets wrap-1 ( ped up in his work?there are so many ' * l a !_ strings tie a to 11. Some people we know just couldn't be ' snakes in the grass?in the Arabian desi ert. ?? .?. ; s Christmas Gift 1 . | < There is one very excellent reason why 1 this should be the merriest Christmas ever)' for many of the rural residents of this i county, for electric power was made available this week to several hundred j farm homes. ^ The natural first thought is that folks j i in the country can have mighty pretty 1 Christmas trees this year, now that they 1 have electricity and can use tree lights. ( But we meant something deeper than this. ^ Man's ability to harness and use for ) his own good electric energy is what ( makes the greatest apparent difference between this and the last century. Those j of us who have become used to electric j lights and other conveniences that result \ from power have grown blase about! these blessings. But not your country folks who switched on their lights for the ;' first time this week. To them electricity ] is still a wonderful thing, and their's is 1 the right attitude. ' Nothing has ever happened to them be- ( fore that had as great influence upon j1 their home and its conveniences. The in- c duction of electric power into their dwel- * * ? * 1 J V j;_ ( jin^s nas placed residents 01 our lariu uistricts on par, so far as modern convenien- ' ces go, with anyone anywhere. And these ' blessings are added to those which cause ' many people to believe that the farm is the finest place in the world to live any- t way. Safety Patrol j We are glad to see the South port high x school students taking their work with the 1 Safety Patrol so seriously, and one result 1 of their interest has been to secure the full co-operation and support of the city . officials. Mayor John D. Eriksen was talking to s us last week about the safety work being . done by the high school students. "1 want f the public to know that the city is 100percent behind the Safety Patrol," he i said, and he sounded like he meant it. "I \ believe that it is a line thing for these older students to be willintr to do their part in seeing that smaller children are J able to get across some of our busier streets in safety. "The Safety Patrolmen have been ask- ; ed to report to the city policeman any I person who deliberately refuses to abide ' by the rules of safety which they are at- J tempting to enforce." Regular Sam Brown belts and caps 1 have been ordered for use by patrol '< members, but in the meantime, the Safety ' Patrol has become one of the finest extracirricula activities of Southport high school and each student may well be proud of his co-operation in it. t Postal Problem 2 It is too late to preach about doing your Christmas shopping and mailing ; early, but it isn't too late to call atten- i 0 ;ion of our readers to the importance of :o-operating with their respective postnasters during the rush season. Remember that your postmaster must landle every single piece of mail and j nust see to it that it is routed to its proper destination. Your impatience and indifference not only makes his job unpleasant, it makes it impossible for him o serve you with the friendly efficiency o which you are accustomed. Ilere in Southport a special Christmas schedule is in practice. This means extra i, ,vork for Postmaster L. T. Yaskell and his lei tiers. The W. B. & S. mail bus, is naicing extra trips, and that, of course, s special Christmas service. The least we can do is to show these 'oiks who serve us so faithfully all year hat we are willing to help make their ask of handling the holiday mail as easy is possible. Score One For Britain (From The Durham Herald) If reports are to be believed, German lewspapers advertised the naval battle iff the Uruguan coast as a German vic;ory and British newspapers assured Brittheir three cruisers carried off the lonors. Berlin, radio and newspaper reports say, holds that the Admiral Spee ,vas hot on the heels of two merchant i ;hips when Ki itish men-of-war loomed in- 1 0 view and put up a fight that makes ; Germans proud before running to shelter. . .ondon, on the other hand, assui'es Brit- 1 >ns of the sea service that they can walk j 1 bit prouder and lift their chins higher \ xecause smalled British craft put the |! leavier pocket battleship to i-out, thereby xerpetuating British supremacy on the ieas. i i Neutral observers, if observers on this side can be so labeled, seem to think the British cairied the fight to the enemy md were ready for more when the cripxled Admiral Graf Spee steamed to the safety of Montevideo harbor. And in the ;yes of the ordinary cnlookei*, that adds ip to victoiy for the British. The admirals, of course, will be ai'gung some months, perhaps yeai-s, over vhat the battle proved about the relative nerits of cruisers, pocket battleships andi leavier ci'aft. And it is pi-obable that so ong as present battle lines remain intact, Germans will go on saying they won A'ednesday's engagement and the British vill go on saying that they showed the Germans Britain still rules the waves. IIow Germans and Britons i*eact is im-| lortant, of course, and what they believe ibout naval battles has something to do vith how they react. But for practical purposes and immeliate effect, the advantage came to the British in the navel scrap. For the clearng of the smoke left the German ship >adl.v damaged, and virtually out of cirulation so far as preying on British stapling is concerned. And since the Germans lo not have many ships of the Admiral Braff Spee type to use or to lose, the loss(i >f the Spee must be entered as a major |i ilow. The British, on the other hand, J lave many more cruisers to use and to ( ose. i Lumberton's Daily > The first issue of The Lumberton Daily j "Jews which commenced publication in < lie Robeson capital last Tuesday, was ! veil gotten up and clearly showed signs , >f a tremendous expenditure of effort ] md forethought. 3 In giving Lumberton a daily newspa- ? icr, the publishers are answering a long'elt need in this entire section of the date. This paper will serve a fertile field, ind everything points to its continued growth and success. 1 Lumberton and Robeson county should < >e proud of this outstanding addition to ,hc North Carolina publishing field. Football And Furriners (The News & Observer) David Clark has made an interesting proposals in his suggestion for a football name between the Northern boys playing on North Carolina's Big Five football teams and the native boys on the same teams. Perhaps the result would not prove anything. It would probably not settle the "well-known argument" over native and foreign football players in North Carolina colleges to which Mr. Clark refers. But it would be an amusing enterprise. Maybe even also a first-class football game. Maybe the reason they call them poliical circles is because there's a lot of unning around, not getting anywhere. When some men begin trying to hoist i tune, we conclude they should have jsed a block and tackle in the first place. THE STATE PORT Just Among The Fishermen BY W. B. KEZIAH ?? . I Monkey Puzzle Tree To be perfectly frank about it, we had never heard that there ( was such a thing as a Monkey j' Puzzle Tree until quite recently. 1 Hearing that there was such a | j thing, the logical and natural de-1 duction was that it was to be I found somewhere in Brunswick j, county. Our guess was right, the Is flora and launa of Brunswick j1 county includes monkey quzzle trees. ' s ( The way the matter was call- i ed to our attention was thus: ] A Mr. Bray, of Newbern, re- ] cently wrote to the J. B. Clark i Nursery Company in San Jose, f California, and advised them to t he wished to purchase some 1 monkey puzzle trees, which he c understood were only grown on < the warm west coast. The Clark Company promptly wrote : and advised Mr. Bray that i they did not have the monkey \ puzzle trees, but they were be- I ing grown and were for sale 1 by Churchill Bragaw, of the ( Orton Plantation Nursery, at i Southport, North Carolina. i ( 1 In this period of dry weather ? that Brunswick county is passing through ample proof is being shown that there is alertness and ] a. determination to prevent or j subdue forest fires throughout s the county. There has been care- J fulness on all sides. Some few j fires have broken out. None of { them have done serious damage, t 30 tar as we nave learnea. in an ? :ases where a fire has started a swarm of volunteer citizens and f .vardens have descended on it t ind made short shift of putting t in end to it. ' ? A small fire broke out in x some woods about a mile north of town one day recently and s in a short while it was attract- t ing as much attention in South- t port as if it was a house in t town. In a comparatively short s time there were more firefight- f ers than fire. In fact, the fire j was out and no damage. An- t other instance occured last ? week and was reported to us. r Someone had probably thrown ? a lighted cigarette from a car \ at Bell Swamp. In a short while a lively little blaze had i started; and in an equally short e time car after car had drawn c up beside the road and men, c and even some women were en- j gaged in whaling the life out j of that fire. t ? ? We note that the Wilmington f Star, while happy over the j coast guard air base at Elizabeth City, is clinging stead- j fastiy to its heretofore expres- f sed opinion that the coast of f North Carolina is undefended. s While the base at Elizabeth ? City is ail right, as far as it ^ goes. The Star seems to think s there should be an army or ^ navy base on the coast of Carolina. 0 ? We agree, most heartily. From ., letters we have received we are c ?iven to understand that the s government is depending on mo- v bilized army units that can i quickly reach any threatened por- p tions of the coast. One trouble ivith this, so far as we see it, is e that there are little or no roads a ilong vulnerable points of the j North Carolina coast. A heavily t mobilized army would have more t difficulty in reaching some points c }{ the North Carolina coast than c in enemy from abroad would in a landing upon it. This is especial- e ly true with regards to the Cape s Fear river area, and the Cape p Fear is the most logical area on i the North Carolina coast for an r snemy to land. I c S out hp ort Home j! Demonstration Club Members of Southport Home 1 Demonstration Club met Thurs Jay at the home of Mrs. H. T. St. George for a Christmas party. A program of contests and 1 games was directed by Mrs. Har- i old St. George, recreational lead- i er. Gifts from the Christmas tree 1 were exchanged by club mem- < bers. t Refreshments of hot chocolntc and cake were served by the hos- f tess to the following club mem- ' bers: Mrs. Marion Dosher, Mrs. I R. S. Harrison, Mrs. John Cain- ' on, Mrs. Harry Weeks, Mrs. R. L. \ Thompson, Mrs. Elsket St. George, Misses Annie M. Newton, Su- t sie Newton, Mary Weeks, Lottie Mae Newton, Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert and Mrs. H. T. St. George. Where they mopped their cot- J ton with molasses and calcium c arsenate to control boll weevils, ' Ernest, Otis, and F .C. Best, of the Snow Hill 4-H Club, harvested one-third more cotton. I An elderly lady, afraid of pas- ' sing her destination, poked Ilia ' street car conductor with her um< ' brella. "Is that the First National Bank?" she asked. "No, mum", replied the with ductor, "them's my ribs," ' PILOT. SOUTHPORT, N. Your Home Agent Says! CARE OF POIN'SETTIAS It wouldn't be Christmas with)ut our cheerful poinsettias! But ion't you often wish you could iceep your beautiful gift plants in jood condition for a longer time? And would you like to know vhat to do to carry your poinlettias over for growth another ^ear? First of all, it is well to know lie poinsettia is native to the lemi-tropics, having been discov:red in Mexico by an American ninister to that country, Joel R. Poinsett, for whom it was named. 3eing of a semi-tropical nature, t consequently requires warmth ind humidity if we are to prevent :he dropping of leaves caused by ;he transfer from the humid air >f the greenhouse to the dry air >f the average dwelling. The poinsettia needs sun; it leeds a warm moist atmosphere, is stated above; and plenty of vater when blooming. It thrives jest in a temperature ranging 'rom 70 to 80 degrees. It is sensi:ive to sudden changes in temperiture and must never be placed in i direct draft. If the temperature Irops much below 60 at night, the eaves will begin to turn yellow ind drop prematurely. When you receive your plant, jlace it in a sunny window jromptly. To maintain the neces lary humidity in the atmosphere lurrounding the plant, place the >ot in a saucer of damp sphagnum moss. Water regularly, ;wice a day if necessary. If the lir is dry sprinkle the top daily. Remember that the leaves will all if the plant gets too dry or ;o cold; also it will lose its foliige if drainage is not good and he soil becomes waterlogged. Apply a pinch of complete balinced food every two weeks, and vater it well. If cared for promptly, the plant ihould remain presentable all hrough January. By that time he leaves will begin to fall, and he plant is entering its dormant itate. Allow the soil to dry off gradually, then place the plant, rot and all, on its side on the >asement floor, and just forget ibout it for the following three nonths. The plant will dry up tnd to all appearance seem to be vithout life. In late April or early Hay, epot, using a good potting soil, mriched with teaspoon of a :omplete balanced plant food per luart of soil; thoroughly mix the dant food with the soil. Also dace a piece of charcoal in the rottom of the pot, to keep the toil sweet. Before repotting, wash ill the old dirt off of the roots >f the plant, and cut the stems rock to a height of 4 to 8 inches -one or two joints above the soil, 'lace the newly potted plant in a lunny window and give water fradually. When new growth itarts, water regularly, also feed ivery six weeks with a compete balanced plant food, using ibout a level teaspoonful for a i to 10-inch pot. When all danger of frost is iver, sink pot and all in a semihady situation in the garden vhere plenty of light and good iirculation of air, but not too trong sunlight, is available. Keep veil watered during the summer, iut keep the plant stocky by iruning. Bring in the house about Septmber 1, as the Poinsettia is very ensitive to cool nights. By bringng indoors early, the plant also tas a chance to acclimat itself o the indoors atmosphere gralually. Keep in a sunny window iut of drafts, and water well, ipray the leaves with clear water very 4 or 5 days. If the pot is unk in a larger pot filled with teat moss, and this peat moss is cept moist, it will provide the noist atmosphere needed. Late in November, the "flowers" or colorid bracts should begin to show, ind by Christmas the plant should le in bloom. Funeral Services f .V ? ,f 71 /f ! I - r or ivirs. mtuigan Funeral services for Mrs. Lillie viillipan, 79, who died at her lome in Shallotte Thursday mornng after a short illness, were leld at the graveside in Brooks icmctcry Friday at 3 p. m. by he Rev. C. N. Phillips. She is survived by two sons ind two daughters, A. V. Milligan, >f Akron, Ohio; and Mazon Millican, of Marion, S. C.; Mrs. E. -tolden, Jr., and Mrs. W. H. Redvine, of Shallotte. Pallbearers were grandsons of he deceased. HOME IIHKNM Fire destroyed (he limits slid nost of the bslmiglMgs or Duels lim Lewis, |rsi?erl?d Hniillt|lni I ;olorcd rrsldeld, last Tllilt?d?y nornlng. NEW PMMIiMVM A new 1'Hllnli '-IM|I InMll llltl' rrsm for twfl'i wltlell sn)?9ll?lisif or His flisl llltlf. ? (ioIIi-v of lues Ion dlffMMillitK loin loom it||? Mmot.sd l<v Ills M a |o.|nttlimml if AgflHlilllfffcsy kynsi iihfr-rl Iwml Under, ? * hiiflrs nt ftn-U* Mmitil c. Hatye ?tnrg a of .flajatctf), in is calleb iBetfjUfjer.i; (because h* toas ol Zo be taxeb toith iHarp h& espouse] gnb So it toas, tfjat, tofjile the? toei sfje sboulb be belibereb. fsscsas &nb sfje brought forth h*r firstbo clothes, anb laib him in a manger; becau: &nb there toere in the same countrj toatch ober their flocfe bp night.ess I i <a?ih fn tht artorcl of tfie Horb cam gfjone rounb about tfjem: anb tfjep lucre j 3nb tfjc angel $aib unto tfjem, Jfear of great jop, tofjicb afjall be to all peopli Y fov unto pou ii born tfjfe bap In " 6 - NOT m] A duck hunt Saturday morn by a number, a large number, of townspeople turned out to be more of a crusade than hunt with almost every field of business represented . . . The usual influx of college students has been in order this last week with prodigals from all corners .... The usual Christmas Eve dance will be held on the 23rd, Saturday of this week. An orchestra made up of local talent will furnish the music. Only a cmnll cath^rincr nf ?iv or Aip-hf" hnvs AS frhev hope to increase their ranks. A small charge will be levied to help buy music. Credit for the organizing goe3 to J. B. "Hoagy" Finch and John Shannon ... You can't go wrong on either of the five Paramount pix from which the Amuzu will select their Friday showing. Frederic March and Janet Gaynor do some bright shining in "A Star is Born," tonite. Their Christmas gift to the public will be M-G-M's female riot, "The Women." Some say its 1939's best picture . . . The Cornstock is scheduled to "come out" around the first of the year and it seems she will be thickly populated with Southport citizens . . . The January issue of Your Life, small magazine with a big mesp jjjg; A Warn .<?. ? 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