^ACE FOUR '
THE STATE PORT PILOT
Southport, N. C.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor
Altered as second-claaa matter April 20, 1028, at
(to Poat Office at Southport, N. C., under
the act of March 3, 1870.
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NATIONAL 6DITORIAL_
10ASSOCIATION
Wednesday, August 7, 1940
Sometimes even a one-track mind has
room for some racy ideas.
In a dynamite explosion its a case of
better never than late.
A little authority makes such fools of
some people that nobody is ever willing
to try them with any more.
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An ostrich sticks her head in the sand i
and thinks she is hidden; a woman sticks 1
her head in a pan full of dye and thinks
she has hidden her age. '
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Its bad enough to have a man think
that you're a fool, but when he starts
trying to prove it to you, that's going too
far.
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At Long Last '
If nothing happens, most of the 1910 1
Brunswick County tobacco crop is going '
to be hauled to market over hardsurfaced (
roads.
That's a goal that has been a joint 1
project of Columbus and Brunswick coun- '
ty officials for many years, and it is fit- <
ting that the final work on the last link s
of highway No. 130 will be completed by 1
the time of the opening of the border 1
| markets. 1
There's no use recounting the history" 1
of the fight for this paving project. There
have been countless delegations, commit- *
tees and special meetings. A thousand *
promises have been made, and occasion- i
ally some of them were kept. Because of (
this the road came into being link by (
link until last fall, when the contract was 1
_ let for the final connection. s
The benefits to be derived from this '
paving are mutual for Brunswick and
Columbus. The former has the beaches <
and other undeveloped facilities that 1
needed opening up to the public. (Jolum
bus, on the other hand, has tobacco and 1
produce markets and shopping centers 1
that are sure to profit by being made ^
more readily accessible. '
So in the excitement and celebration (
over the opening of the tobacco market, 1
lets add a 'hurrah' for the highway com- A
mission and its latest completed project, '
the Whiteville-Southport highway.
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Turning To Livestock
We were talking to T. O. Goodman, J
veteran vocational agriculture teacher at
Chadbourn, last week about the problem
of diversified farming in this area.
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"Why don't the boys have more interest '
in purebred livestock?" Ave asked. j
"Well," he said, "there are two reasons.
The first is that this is a new thing
to them, and they just don't have a love ]
for livestock. That's necessary if they 1
are to make a success. And the second is 1
that most of them are too lazy." j
We talked on, chiefly along the lines ,
of a better balanced farm program. "As ,
long as tobacco brings good prices," he j
said, "none but the most progressive farmers
are going to turn to growing live- ]
stock. But with world conditions in their j
present state of unrest it may be that we j
are due to see more of our farmers go in j
for stock raising. When you do, I be- j
lieve you'll find that we can raise just j
as good stock in Southeastern North Caro- ,
lina as may be found anywhere in the
ciokA 4-X ? -C ii- j*
otatc* i^a jum. a jnitiiei" ox me iarmers
not being able to get around to trying
it out."
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Officer Training !
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To our desk this week has come the 1
announcement of one of the most practical
services for law enforcement officers 1
that we've heard of in many a day. It's 1
an officer's training school, to be con- 1
ducted by a F. R J, instructor, scheduled
by the Institute of Government for Chapel '
Hill.
These will be 7-day courses, to be giv- !
en one each month, beginning in Oc- 1
tober.
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The training will be open to town and
city police; county sheriffs, deputies and I
ABC officers, State patrolmen and SBI
agents, and representatives of Federal
agencies operating in North Carolina.
Each department is requested to divide
up its force and send a part of its officers
each month. However, the first of
October school is being limited to chiefs
and department heads in order to secure
their aid in shaping the training to the
needs of their men in the schools to follow.
Rooms will be provided for the officers
in the same building with a nominal
charge for linen and service. Good meals
will be available at the University Dining
Hall at as low as 25 cents each or
less than a dollar a day. In this way, the
entire expense of attendance will be less
than 10 dollars per man for a seven-day
school, bringing the cost within the reach
of every department and every officer
in the State.
Counting lectures, discussions, demonstrations,
and practice periods, the instruction
will last a minimum of 10 hours
per day. A regular examination will be
given at the conclusion, certificates will
be awarded to those successfully completing
the course, and these will be presented
at final exercises the last nigt.
We hope that arrangements can be
made to send every officer in this county
to one of the training schools.
We Can't Help
On an average of once a week we have
i man come to us and ask very earnestly
and confidentially "Say, how about keeping
my name out of the Recorder's court
write-up this week. You see?" and from
;hat point his story will vary to suit the
jffense.
Many of the people who ask this of
is are friends who have run afoul of the
law for the first time. Most of the reluests
are made for social reasons, but
some are made in order to avoid emlarassment
in business. Most of the time
ve would be mighty happy to comply
vith the request, but we aren't permitted
;o do that.
In the unwritten code of newspapers
here is something about not persecuting
i person through malice, nor suppressng
news for fear or favor. Well, this
:omes under that head. To keep out of
>ur weekly write-up the name of one de'endant
in court would be laying ourselves
liable to all other defendants for
laving given them unpleasant publicity.
There are two ways we know to keep
>ut of the court news, and we give this
idvice free of cost to all who will heed,
rhe first is to ask for a trial before a
nagistrate or a justice of the peace in all
natters that are within their jurisdiction.
Are make 110 effort to cover the work of
ill their courts and so 80-percent of the
:ases written up in Recorder's court
vould never reach print at all if they
vere settled before they reach the courtlouse.
The second way?and the best way?
.0 keep out of the court write-ups is to
>tay out of trouble.
Heartening News
With reports from the Georgia tobacco
narkets that prices seem to be pretty well
stabilized around and 18 to 20 cent average,
Brunswick county farmers have
-eason to be heartened considerably.
The prospect of rock-bottom tobacco
prices for the current year was forstalled,
ve believe, only by the action of the
United States Government in stepping
n and allowing the Commodity Credit
Corporation to purchase the surplus nor
mally bought for export to England and
.he other warring countries.
This surplus is being stored, and Great
Britain will have the option of purchasing
the tobacco when the war is over if
it so desires. There seems to be no obligation
on the part of England to take the
tobacco, and the government may have
to dispose of the weed in some different
manner.
The present outlook for the tobacco
season in Brunswick county is far from the
picture which might have been facing the
tobacco farmers without government
intervention in this present crisis. The
sudden loss of foreign markets at war put
the tobacco farmer of this section in a
rather hazardous position.
Government action could not have been
accomplished without some co-operation
from the growers of tobacco, who at the
polls Jujy 20th contributed their share
toward solving their problem by voting
three year control.
When government and people get together,
and work together toward a common
end, there seem to be few problems
which cannot eventually be solved.
STATE PORT PILOT, SOUTHPORT, N.
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We recently spoke of Mr. Keziah's snake a;
~ Tiro rrffpr flnolOfiieS
rtOlien Joe uie namijaAc a\* v?w w.v. ?* ?
at his request. The name is Oscar . . . Deann;
Durbin, the modern Jenny Lind, puts in an ap
pearance here Monday night in another of hei
hit pictures, "Its A Date." This series gets bet
ter as it goes along and her cohorts this tim<
are Walter Pidgeon and Kay Francis. Pidgeoi
shows up with the suaveness of Gable and takes
most of the honors. The music as usual is th<
best . . . Those hot Cincy Reds seemed to hav<
cooled over the week-end but by press time wil
probably be hotter than ever . . .
The stiff wind that prevailed here during Sat
urday and Sunday merely bears out the lonf
standing belief that this is the best protectee
port in any storm. While Charleston and Beau
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Gaither Crutchfield
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SALES FOR(
One reason for the stea
in popularity of CRU1CT
WAREHOUSE is the fact I
year we line up the finest sale;
tion available. They have th
terest of the farmer at heart,
year we are proud to presen
approval our sales force:
Auctioneer Jimmi
Floor Manager W. M
Bookkeeper Raym
Asst. Bookkeeper, Miss Inez
Bookman Tom
Clipman J
Ticket Marker Eve
Weighman Charles \
Weighman La
Weighman Frank 1
Night Floorman Boss
Traffic Manager Ed
Crutch
RAYMOND CRUTCH
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1TLY NEWS - ~T
3 fort \vere being reduced to a shambles and other fc
i, ports were being seriously threatened the local d
i edition of the storm never reached the forty-mile a
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mark . . . The Charlotte Observer and other pa,
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pers over the country that normally carry the
famed Winchell column are finding a great re- c
: action to the guest columnists he's using this ri
1 year. Stars in all fieldls of entertainment have I ^
5 contributed to make up the thirty editions to be L
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' printed while he vacations ... In spite of the I h
' blows over the week-end, we don't remember see- e
1 ing the Comstock roll or toss a single time but IB
the passenger liner Allgaheny and others that put I
in here were taking it on the chin ... L
The Hitler blitz still persists in the no longer
' Merry England. With the equinoxial gales sche- IS
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POLICY OF SERVICE AND S
HE FARMERS' FAVORITE 1
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FRANK A. BROWN
' Sale Ooen
lay, Augi
^ FIRST SALES
J . Through Sept. 20
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IFIELD'S FIRST SALE
that every Tuesday, aug. 20th
? orifaniza- Thursday, aug. 22nd
ulf ;? monday, aug. 26th
ie nest in- Wednesday, aug. 28th
Again this Friday, aug. 30th
t fnr vnnr TUESDAY, SEPT. 3rd
1 iui yuui THURSDAY, SEPT. 5th
MONDAY, SEPT. 9th
, _ WEDNESDAY, SEPT. Uth
ie Morgan friday, sept. 13th
Williams TUESDAY, SEPT. 17th
. Williams THURSDAY, SEPT. 19th
ond Beale
Harrelson SECOND SALE
Pettigrew AUG. 2i?t
, __ r kiua t i auu. 23rd
ohn Dunn Tuesday, aug. 27th
rpftp T nvp THURSDAY, AUG. 29th
rciic LiUvc MonDAY, SEPT. 2nd
Villiamson Wednesday, sept. 4th
lcv Brame Friday, sept. 6th
)Ln T,- TUESDAY, SEPT. 10th
3rown, jr. Thursday, sept. 12th
5 Coleman Monday, sept. 16th
Minltshv WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18th
lvitiuiisuy FRiDAY, SEPT. 20th
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WEDNESDAY. M.r^^ I
'Iold Negroes For |leave
Superior Court Their trial p^babiy Jj*
up at the term of C1 " M
Five Southport negroes were that convenes here
ound over to Superior court un- day in September 6 la^:
er bond of $500 each following * . H
hearing Thursday before Judge ' ^eru 1,38 made votin- I
Valter M. Stanaland. The state 'SOry for al1 "'-ales
sked for jury trial 0,6 ages of 21 and ?o.
Those being held for high Dairv nr i ?" H
ourt are Nelson Hankins, whose ' p 0 ucta brought s H
esistance to Chief of Police Mel ' 0 Kansas far
ewis and Officer Charles Eas- ' H
:y started the free-for-all in ... Bp}
I Ohio leads all other |
rhich both orricers were BCl il/uuij i
urt; Tippy Hankins, his young- e Production of hollow
r brother; James Green, Cocky i 'nf? "'e an<J roof tile. J^K
Owen, and Snook Clemmons. H
Robert Hewett is also being The more a man rlenies hj-^H
eld for trial, but his bond has 80 much the more will he
een reduced to $100. from the gods - Horace
James Joyner and Douglas [ From 1850 to i860 over ? B
wain were allowed to go free 1000 immigrants came (.tH
hen an action of nol pross with United States " I
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Raymond Crutchficld jflg
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?st 20th J
I APPRECIATION II
As we approach another selling sca-BB
son it is with grateful appreciation tha|BB
we acknowledge the prominent part that E|
our friends have played in the gro^BB
of GRUTGHFIELD'S WAREHOUSE
. We have always endeavored to IBs
fairly and squarely with the farnieftBB
and to give them the service and sati$jK|
faction which they deserve. Not onl}|K|
ias this aided us in our business relation-BB
t has caused our customers to go ont|B9
nd tell others about us ;and this M^B
;ontributed mightily to our success. |9|
It has been a physical impossibilityI^B
or us to get out to see each one of you "j^B
erson. 7 hat is what we should MB
iked to do. But rest assured that', KB
ame cordial welcome awaits you
^ason^at our warehouse. ^J^B
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gaither crutchfield B