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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. ?
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1940 s FIRST BIG LAFF PICTURE
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Wilmington. N. C.
ITHURS., FRI., SAT., MARCH 14-15-1611
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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/<isr/\/\/-l !V/fr?t*nK K
UUlIgWUUU, lTlttl Vll will
Hickman's Cross Roads, March 26tl
Thomasboro, March 26th,
Grissett Town?Parker's Store, Mai
Lockwoods Folly?Varnum's Store,
Lockwoods Folly?Roach's Store, Me
Boone's Neck?Robinson's Store, Me
Lockwoods Folly?Kirby's Store, Ma
North West?Lonnie McKoy's Store
North West?Mrs. A. M. Chinnis' 5
Winnabow?Henry's Store, March 2
Bolivia, March 28th
Shallotte Post Office Square, March
CHAS. E.
Tax Collector Of B
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 ^
BOOKMOBILE j Mrs. Hi-Sniith. who haT^
We are happy to know that ?ire.,'? '"alce easy money
he bookmobile will visit in our, , , . -Hl-Smith. iler
own and we plan to use this band' ->"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
!<Sth 2:30 to 3:15 P. M I
3:30 to 5:00 P. M. I
i 30th 2:00 to 5:00 P. M I
, GAUSE
runswick County Jl