I PAGE TWQ f THE STATE PORT PILOT I Southport, N. G. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY I JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor I fcUrod u second-claw aittn April 20, 1020, at I Iks Poat Office at Southport; N. C , under I the act of March S, 1870; Subscription Rates I ONI TEAR 21*60 I IDC MONTHS 1.00 I THREE MONTHS .78 NATIONAL EDITORIAL-. ASSOCIATION I WEDNESDAY, MARCH fl|& 1340 He who is on a high-horse1 is riding for a fall. Words may be mere wind, but then so is a tornado. Laugh and the world laughs with you;; cry and the world laughs at youk The biggest fool is the one who beI Leves that he can fool others without t them knowing or resenting it. L We regard our own weaknesses as misf fortunes: the weaknesses of others we r consider crimes. The generally accepted idea that women of beauty are of necessity lacking in montai finalities nrobablv originated in the mind of some woman who possessed neither. In our own mind we are convinced that every man deserves what he gets; but judging from ourselves, not every one gets what he deserves. Name Your Project Several weeks ago there was formed by a group of public minded citizens an organization known as the Brunswick ; County Chamber of Commerce. One point : was stressed in the formation of this or ganization: That is the county-wide aspect of the movement. r But if the Chamber of Commerce through its secretary is to fulfill its duty to all members, it will be necessary for those members to say just what things they desire for their particular section L of the county. Right now chief advertising emphasis is ueniK piovcu un witun uai ucxioj wccause this is the big season for that Mecca for tourists. Later it will be the beach season, and chief advertising stress will be placed upon beach development. And that is the way it will go. Each new venture, regardless of where in the the county it may be located, will be given the full cooperation and support of the newly formed organization. It will not be one of its functions to think up promotion schemes to cram down the throats of citizens of local communities affected; but when these same citizens start any worthwhile movement they may expect the enthusiastic co-operation of the Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce. Astonishing Move Considerable agitation over the state has arisen from a recent regulation made by the State School Commission, provide ing in effect that a teacher absent from her classroom duties and failing to supply a substitute to carry on in her stead shall have her salary "docked" for the duration of her absence, whether it be one day or several weeks. "It is not unusual" comments the Roxboro Courier "for a laborer to have his pay reduced for being absent from work, but one would think that a person reaching the professional status a teacher in the public schools is supposed to have would enjoy freedom from such petty practice. We can understand that in some instances it might be necessary to resort , to such extreme measures, but it does not seem exactly fair to make it a blanket ruling. "School teacher pay, as practically everyone admits, is none too high as it is. To have it reduced still further through - circumstances that may be beyond the : individual's control only adds insult to ; injury. "If there is inefficiency in the school ; system, such as teachers staying away from school simply because they do not desire to go, other measures should be .taken to correct it. By placing a blanket penalty for violation of attendance rules, whatever the reason may be for such violation, appears to us to be penalizing III I efficiency for the sake of shielding the inefficient." Rats Destructive If the actual figures were available, Columbus people would be astonished at the annual damage from rats in this area. Unquestionably, the figure will run i almost in to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Rats are destroyers of property and menaces to health. Various cities and counties over the state have conducted intensive campaigns for rat extermination, j and it seems that something of the sort is sorely needed in Columbus county. Little can be accomplished toward ridding the county of rats without co-operai tive action of all the people of the county. If one farmer alone puts rat poison out at his place, it simply serves to drive the rodents to his neighbor's place, so County Farm Agent S. G. Oliver stated Friday. But if all the people of Columbus county would co-operate in a campaign, putting out the poison at the same time, something really could be accomplished. Last year Columbus county had a tragic example of the menace which rats are to the health of any community when there was a typhus epidemic in the Wananish area of the county. Columbus county could, save thousands of dollars in property, and reduce a haz ard to health if a rodent extermination campaign were started here. Rat poison is available from the county farm agent's office at cost prices at all times. At the same time, there are always a lot of flat tires at any big blow-out. Some movie stars couldn't be wearing those dark glasses because the spotlight hurts their eyes. Many people are willing to rest on their laurels or anything else, just so long as they are resting. If you've got a one-track mind, it's in all probability because you haven't had the proper training. You're dumb if when an idea ever strikes you, you bite the dust for the count of ten. All things come to those who wait? including a turn in the dentist's chaii*. NOT EXACTLY NEWS Thanks to Harriet Doar for the mentioning of this col'm in one of her daily Charlotte News articles. She is at present Society Editor of her paper and popular with all subscribers. Having lived next door to her for most of the last decade (the blonde headed O'Brien kid) we readily un derstand her high position .... r raser rsoai Works is due to open this week after a short rest of a few weeks. A power launch (modern, streamline job) will be the first scheduled. Two other's are in the blue-print stage at this writing. One, a sailboat will be the largest ever built in the new quarters. The Amuzu continues with its run of hits Monday when the MGM picture "Fast And Furious" opens. The stars are Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern. This deals with the strange happenings 'of Tone and Sothern as honeymooners at the beach. They run into murder, (and you'll run into mirthfu' comedy) and proceed to solve the crime. The solution and ending have a new twist as well as surprise . . . These schoolboy patrolmen are craoking down on the violators of speed laws and driving cklessly. Don't fail to stop when they hail y. :ither! These boys have the rights of regular traffic cops. The American Legion- has a birthday Friday and this chapter celebrates with a dance here that night. As yet there is no certainty as to 1 AS T-.. ,,,111 fko MiiaU WUClllCI OtXj DCC O UUJfa Will iUlltUHi MIC IliUOlC I or whether it will- be presented 'canned.' . . . The basketball team seemed ill-fated this term, what with accidents, etc. . . . Still can't understand why a school with ae many brawny youngsters as ours couldn't put out some kind of football team. If nob a full sized, how would a six man team suit? It's our belief that a six man team could be formed successfully in the county. Mt. Zion Methodist church at Town Creek is the only church building in Brunswick county heated by furnace . . . This swamp garden land around town will grow the earliest vegetables i available in North Carolina. Warren Hood is the former champion swamp gardener, but lately that title has been taken over by Mr. Harry Dosher .... There's talk of making Softball the summer sport for the men of the community. 'Taint a bad idea. Preacher Potts made a fine impression during his recent revival held in* the Presbyterian churoh in Whitevllle. He formerly engaged in evangelistic work altogether for his church organization . . . Claud MeCall is taking up where he left off as the boys' leader of the community. The lads go for the rough stuff, and, Claud's their man. THE STATE PORT P Just Among The Fishermen B'i w. is. KEZIAH HELPFUL COOPERATION While nothing can be done to bring the boys back, it is with thanks to Bill Wells for some J helpful cooperation that we express our belief that Frying Pan shoals will be less dangerous to fishermen this summer and hereafter. The change is coming as a result of the unfortunate drowning of the Creech boys three weeks ago. Insistent demand on the part of the public thai the Coast Guard afford better protection to the fishermen working on the shoals, which' haw been practically out of sight of the Coast Guard, led to requests from the Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce for an official inquiry into the deaths of the two boys. This inquiry paved the way for a request for a full Coast Guard crew at Cape Fear. Mr. Wells, as a boat owner, backed up this request vigorously and the officials in charge of the inquiry apeared to be heartily in sympathy. PREPOSTEROUS ALIBI'S Postmaster Yaskeil's alibi for throwing stumps and sticks to prevent us from catching more fish than he is based on the claim that he was not trying to frighten our fish away at all. He alleges he was only trying to scare a water snake away and keep it from biting us. This is preposterous, and under any other circumstances it would be a marvelously beautiful sentiment To begin with, there was no water snake there. And furthermore, unless it was a water moccasin, its bite would not have hurt if it had bit. As we alleged last week and repeat now, when he found he could not sing or whistle the fish away from our hole and into his, he began throwing sticks and stumps to scare 'em and prevent us from catching more thnn he could. Phooey! FREE OPTICAL'AIDS Between them Dr. Oscar White of Greensboro, manager of the American Optical Company, and Dr. J. D. Freeman of Wilmington are preparing to outfit us with a fine new pair of glasses, free gratis for nothing, except that we take them freshwater fishing with us sometime. These optics are guaranteed to show how small the fish are when they are caught by Dawson Jones, Charlie Farrell or L. T. Yaskell, and how big our own really look. We shall be able to tell the truth about fishing?once in awhile. TALKING FSHING PIERS Mr. Middleton of Long Beach is still talking the fishing pier that he expects to build this spring. He is also promising us something interesting in other news before long. H. H. Thomas of Fort Caswell is also talking fishing piers and other improvements. To our mind there is no gainsaying that this lower Brunswick coast is on its way to develop rapidly this, spring and summer. With special reference to the beaches, we believer that fishing piers at the fine locations that Long Beach and Fort Caswell have, will be very popular from the start. FISHING CRONIES Among our fishing cronies during several days last week were Wiley Sholar, vice-president of the Southern Football Conference, and outstanding referee; Dr. Oscar White, manager of.. the American Optical Company, and Henry Wooten, general manager of the Yadkin Valley Railroad, all of Greensboro. Although the weather resulted in off-days for the fish while the party was here, the manner in which Doc White and Wiley handled their fly rous convinceo us mar we win have some real pood freshwater work with those boys at some time in the near future. UNUSUAL CATCHES Until Mrs. Frank Mollycheck brought in four real shad, two herrings and nine hick shad, all actually biting and being taken on a small red plug, no one that we know of had ever found a bait or lure that would provoke these fish to strike. Herring will strike sometimes at some places and under certain conditions. The hick shad, while a food fish, it not rated very high locally. No one that we know has ever seriously fished for them; they have too many bones. The real shad simply do not bite a hook, here, there or anywhere else. Or they did not until the Southporter caught her four. FISHING NOTES In running streams large mouth bass will rise easily to angle worms now. Use very small minnows when fishing for goggle-eye and other perch. Minnows for bass should be I LOT. SOUTHPORT. N. CL - YOUR HQMF and ,La Marsemaise"-Tnese were ;sung by the juniors And seniors. A CI7WT C A VC The second part was "Some In- t AvjCiil J iI 0 teresting Things About France", t given by members of the senior SCHEDULE class .The third part was a play, i Friday, March 15. Boon's Neck "Le Petit FhaPe,ron Rou?e" e 1 Club will be postponed until Fri- ?arta of 016 Play were sPoken J !day, March 29th, at which time in Fre"clll . lit will meet with Mrs. W. E. Bel-; P"T; A; PR^? B Jlamy at 2:30 p. m. At P.-T. A. meeting c I Monddy, March 18, Town Creek tbp sec?nd ?raf students ^ve a : ! Club will meet with Mrs. Odell Play sowing how we get good 5 ! Evans at 2:30 p. m. j citizenship through play. | Tuesday, March 19, Leland 4-H Devotional: u 12\r Psal and 1 ! Club meets at 1:30 p. m. Leland by, J?bn Newton, Frank , H. D. Club at 2:30 p. m. Placo' and BlIlle Barber- ( Wednesday. March 20. South- form of recess' < port 4-H Club meets at 2:30 p. ^ characters were: < !m Ins Newton, Catherine Mc- < Thursday, March 21. Winnabow Racken'TI. ,Rebecca McRacken,< Club meets with Mrs. E. W., ,V"de!" Hickman, Barbara Tharp, 1 Taylor at 2:30 p. m. .Winnifred Gunnerson, Aletta Glover, Bobby Spencer, Joseph s P AITTIfnAnT [Salter, Robin Hood, G. W. Fisher, < it III I 111 I lit I iKenneth Kinsler, Billie Dosher. i WW 1*1* Vlt 1 ! ThiS program was given by the I, ? * ? ' ?.." -1 ^ ?,! t V, n,,f f J,,, V,al r, rtf 1 Cr'Linni IVIL'11/W i^""" ? ..~.r ?r iJUIlvy V/Lt llEi YY tj (anyone. There was no one behind i j the stage besides the characters. ] It was enjoyed by everyone and i CHAPEL PROGRAM also the dance which was present- 1 ] The junior and senior classes ed by Winnifred Gunnerson. (presented a French program The ninth grade students took 1 i Wednesday morning in Chapel, the banner for perfect attend- j The scripture was read by Don- ance. This banner has been cir- j { aid St. George. The program was culating among the high school': divided into three parts. The first classes all year and the ninth, t part was a group of French grade has taken it a number of songs: "Fiere Jacque," "Aloutte" : times. ? ' i ~~ I 1940 s FIRST BIG LAFF PICTURE and back in trouble."Brother Rat' " ly Brother flat O PRISCILLA LANE undo r^Sf WAYNE MORRIS f| 1 . " faef JANE BRYAN c? W/' EDDIE ALBERT * 0 JANEWYMAN ||t^x J RONALD REAGAN (i||il CVLLillfiW) 2 7T < Wilmington. N. C. ITHURS., FRI., SAT., MARCH 14-15-1611 I ^ NOTICE THIRD CALL I will be at the places cited b< for the purpose of collecting ti gins on 1939 Taxes April 1,19' Exutn?Bennett's Store, March 26th, Freeland?Simmon's Store, March 2 Ash Post Office, March 26th, T /vrv/"st Plai" ?W P.u :v S ,'isit to an advantage. The book- a ' ' ? eo^fe' Pam- their nobile will visit here on the fol. attractive and ntirw." ow dates: March 13, 20. 27; Jones, T, wn ?. '? ? "= ' |2- T *"* B>" ?S JUNIOR PLAY i? 10 , / chatl>1'n2 Srl On Thursday, March 21, at 8 . dau8hu>1 Pearl ^ >'clock the junior class will pre- ' ' un 0 ' ' 'ho ' lent its annual play. The play ... !l"'OS0Phv ,J relected for this performance is: ' ! . la v; ''aira'a Easy Money", a comedy-drama, j' '?'?ni Mlto"a (J n. 1 * *. . . . caster; Prof. PelUn?1vit> :t .8 a fast moving play charged '.. a ^ vith laughter and sprinkled with . Lncle :huckles from the time the cur- T IIUmit>" Clajw :ain rises on Rudy Smith (Donald, nn0n' .... arcus ' '' ''bill . St. deorge) falling down the ZZl m! ' . ?ar ?W* itairway, until the curtain falls ... ? ' n**1' ^'ivant 0i ?n the cry of "All Aboard for 'hef H,-Snf1,th ? ,A-' ?W -ulatown"! fete' a fo"rflu.f""S" negro 2 The Smiths of Lulatown inherit ' ^ . .. v iome money and Mrs. Smith con- ? ' , , , ()NTEST :eives the idea of making easy:.. . = ul, q"' So*ithport - t... u._ t?.u.l!hlgh school dramatics elm. ,;a .???* uj oc .u.g ? u?. sented their contest plav 'rC' Funs invention without his , . 1 '> beae , . . .... . or Alive at Tabor Citv he r mowledge to a millionaire manu-| . nieht las'Fri'acturer who is vacationing at { IU Breezy Beach The Smiths 'fir- Whit" nle won dwis?rive at Breezy Beach and im- second ai m ^df^..ChaT their.name..t0 points to the'fact tha'tur h ' TH.-Sm.th" with accent on the ^.a3 due t0 our se^ct.on - vl^ Hi. Things begin to happen There | Hanks Bondwoman? p V ire many humorous situationsi.? . . Ilr-S?te, ind plenty of mystery lurking I ^ ?'?? iround the corner as well as tn- t H ? T ' e*en Pfgn" :eresting love affairs. presented by Tabor City mf( Following is the cast of char- their reauirements with better re. icters: suits than our presentation o( DISTRIBUTORS It is false economy to try to "get by" with a guano distributor that will not work. Save more than the price of a new distributor by starting your year's work with the best. Shailotte Trading Co. HOBSON KIRBY, Proprietor SHALLOTTE, N. C. NOTICE I FOR TAXES ilow at the time designated ixes. 3 Per Cent Penalty Be10. Pay Now and Save Costs! 10:30 to 11:30 A. M. >6th 11:45 to 12:30 A. M. 12:45 to 1:30 P. M. a. a -? * aim *-* * 1 2:0U to 2:4S Y. ivi. i, 3:00 to 3:30 P. M. I 3:45 to 4:30 P. M. 81 ch 26th 4:40 to 5:30 P. M. II March 27th .... 10:00 to 11:00 A. M. I trch 27th, 11:30 to 12:30 A. M. I irch 27th 12:45 to 2:00 P. M. I irch 27th 2:3CT to 4:00 P. M. I March 28th .11:30 to 12:30 A. M. I Store, March 28, ..1:00 to 2:00 P. M I !