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Wednesday, April 9, 1941 m
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Debate At Home p,
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It's too late to do anything about it cj
this year, but before the schedule is map- p]
ped out for next year's triangular de- pi
bates we suggested that the sponsors arj ^
range to have a home team speak before P'
a local audience. ?
The present plan is to have each team
leave home and 'debate before a neutral f?
town audience. The assumption is that in
this is done to insure the contests against ^
partial judges.
Our reaction is that lack of confidence CI
in the grownups is robbing the youngstars
of one of their finest rewards for
forensic effort: The honor of appearing sc
before a home town audienee comprised
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of parents, teachers, classmates ana .
friends.
Clean-Up Campaign 0"
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One very important by-product of the gj
meeting held in the courthouse Thursday w
night was a suggestion made by Mr. H. a]
H. Thomas that a concerted effort be aj
made to clean up Southport this week in m
order that we may make the best possible n<
impression upon our Easter visitors. ^
"Clean up this town to the point where gj.
it will be as neat and well-kept as that Sll
area out by the Dosher Memorial Hospital
and the power plant," he said, "and
whether any defense project comes or g
not, we will be benefitted. th
That's right. And in addition to mak- ^
ing a very practical suggestion, he man- ju
aged to reflect some deserved credit upon se
the city employees who have made those ai
two places attractive,. jn
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. It's Your Fight? pi
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County Forest Warden Dawson Jones
was feeling pretty sore when he came in th
the office the other day. G<
"I've been fighting a forest fire," he sn
said, although his smut-blackened clothes I oj:
and boots made that information un-[ni
necessary, "and it always makes me mad in
to have growing trees killed right before sh
mv very eves. sh
}r'But that's not what's worrying me so fe
much right now. It's the way the people bl
in this county will sit right still and
watch a forest fire burn and never hit a S.
lick unless it gets on their own land, cc
Usually, they'll just start a back fire se
then, and let her burn. cc
"What got me started on this subject, th
though, was trying to get help today to rti
fight a fire. We had three men on one th
that covered 150-acres; there were sev- a<
ersl houses in danger; and every place H
I went to get help the men were gone, D
or were hiding from us. Finally I caught fc
one fellow, and asked him to help with Iil
the fire. a<
" 'Nope. Don't reckon I can,' he told
mo * T liolnorl Q 'Pivfl A?rt
??v?[/vvi vwv ? xuc uiic uaj ai/vut
a man's sawmill and I never got narry
cent for it.'
"Now, he can be prosecuted. And, believe
me, he's gonna be. Just as soon as
I get things straightened out again. But
>it's not so much this one man as it is the
way that many of the people of the county
feel the same way bout it.
"They ought to have sense enough to
know that when timber is destroyed,
property valuation decreases. And when
valuation is decreased, taxes on other
property rises in proportion. This business
of protecting the forests is everybody's
job, not just mine and the men who help
me; and we'll never have the successful
program we all want for Brunswick county
until our citizens are willing to help
get their neighbor's ox out of the ditch."
That's what he said. We pass it along
without comment, for it seems to us that
none is needed. w
IiShipping Losses
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The report that German warships?re- P
putedly the super-fast, 26,000-ton new
battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau?
are operating within 1,500 miles of New ^
[York, should not come as a surprise, fine w
.
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r Hitler's great military virtues is thorlghness.
He. like everyone else in the
orld in touch with affairs, knew long
?o that the lend-lease bill would pass.
was only the part of wisdom for the
erman Admiralty to have its raiders
ady and waiting for the merchantmen
i start the long voyage across the Atlanc
with the military supplies we are |
ansferring now to Britain. Hitler has
lid that the great bulk of our shipments
ill be destroyed, and he is now unquesonably
trying to make that boast good,
nd if the German claim \hat 221,00ft
ms of British shipping were sunk within
recent 48-hour period is true, Hitler is
aking ominous progress.
As Walter Lippman has said, "The
roblem of the Assis power is how to de?at
the United States now that the desion
has been taken to support the peoles
who resist aggression." The Nazis'
Ian, Mr. Lippman continued, probably
is three phases. First and most obvious
liase is to intensify the blockade of the
ritish Isles, to sink the supply ships, to j
jmb the docks and shipyards and then!
> attempt invasion. Second phase is to J
imobilize the bulk of our navy by in-1
icing Japan to keep on creating "inci-l
ints" in the Pacific. Third phase is toj
eate "alarm and diversions" in this i
jmisphere in order to distract our attenon
from Europe and present us with
1 1 * ? hftmn
ime tougn prooiems near uvwc.
It is no secret that German agents, unsrcover
as well as diplomatic, are workg
overtime in the principal Latin Ameian
republics, and that we are now going
i work to combat their activities in variis
ways. Some experts firmly believe
tat as our aid-to-Britain reaches conderable
proportions, German agents
ithin this country will launch a great
id widespread sabotage campaign
?ainst our-rtvar material factories, priarily
the airplane plants. The bulk of
;utral military authorities are convinced
tat Germany cannot win this war unless
te is able to keep us from adequately
tpplying Britain with the instruments of
'fense and defense she so sorely needs.
It is too early yet to tell what success
ritain may expect in getting her ships
trough. At the moment, it is probable
at British shipping losses have been
st about equalized by replacements and
izures. But the sources of replacements
e growing fewer. This country is startg
a big ship-building program, but it
ill be a long time before vessels in ap eciable
quantity are sliding down the
ays.
This spring may supply the answer to
e shipping question. It is known tnat
ermany has been building dozens of
lall submarines of the 200-ton class for
>eration in British waters. The German
tval men are placing much of their faith
these little underwater craft. Britain's
ortage of destroyers?the only surface
ips which have so far been really efctive
in fighting subs?makes the proem
doubly difficult for her.
Hitler apparently believes that the U.
Navy, if necessary, will be willing to
mvoy ships abroad, and many an obrver
here agrees. That is where Japan
imes in. So long as she makes periodic
reats in the Southwestern Pacific, our
ival strength must be concentrated in
ose waters. It is believed that if Japan
:tually makes an attack on Singapore or
onkong or French Indo China or the
utch East Indies, we will resist with
>rce. In that case, England could expect
itle help from us in getting supplies
:ross the 3,000 miles of water.
He believed passionately in the moral worth
of the individual regardless of race or religion
or the accident of antecedents. He there
fore believed in the unfettered spirit without
which man cannot live a civilized life.?President
Roosevelt in tribute to the late Oliver
Wendell Homes.
The right to criticize, to commend, and to
condemn will always be upheld so long as
we have our American form of democratic
government. ? Representative Edith Nourse
Rogers, Massachusetts. , , ,,
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Without in any way trying to depreciate
the preparedness of the Japanese, I still maintain
that, owing to technical inferiority, she
is bound to be beaten in any war with the
United States.?Sir Victor Sessom, British
banker in the Far East
To save, your own hide, you don't alays
have to skin the other fellow.
Some people have the idea that a delocracy
guarantees life, liberty and the
ursuit of blondes.
There may be no such thing as the
and Man, but we know plenty of guys
ho can dish the dirt.
THE STATE PORT PII
Among jljjP^
FISHERMEN
n\' BJl.l, KKZTAIT
Some folks have us confused j
with another fellow, with whom
we ain't much related. W. B.
Keziah is Executive Secreta^
and Treasurer of the Brunswick
County Chamber of Commerce.
Bill Keziah is just me, and you'd
be surprised to know how well we
get along with all sorts of dumb
things. Especially other fishermen,
horses and girls.
J. Hammond Brown, outdoor
editor and sportsman extraordinary
on the Baltimore American,
is coming down to Southport
sometime this month. This
reminds us that several weeks
ago "Brownie" wrote and commissioned
us to kiss a very nice
and pretty young lady of this
community for him. We carried
out the assignment, almost too
literally. Anyway, somebody
wrote Brownie and told him we
had cheated. So Brownie got
mad and wrote and told us he
would never again assign us to
j- 1 u-? tv?nf fr>r him.
uo aiiyunug iinv u.?v
He said he would do his own
kissing hereafter.
Johnny Mock, sports editor of
the Pittsburgh Press came butting
in at along about that time.
Johnny is a right handsome fellow.
He had seen pictures in
the paper of the young lady that
Brownie had assigned us to kiss.
When we saw those pictures and
learned that Brownie had assigned
us to kiss the girl for him,
he wrote us and told us that
Brownie was as crazy as H .
When this copy of the paper
comes out, we aim to send
each of them a marked copy.
From us to them. So that they
can see what they think of each
other. Johnny is coming down
here this month, too. We should
get something interesting for
this column about their visit.
Provided we are not kept too
busy protecting our own rights
during their stay.
Houston Lawing, sports writer
of Greensboro, wrote us this week
that he and Ted Thompson, crack
sport columist on the Greensboro
Record, were coming down
shortly. Whatever in the world
are we to do with those boys
and the dozens of other sports
writers who are planning to come
down here, soon ? This reminds
us, two or three weeks ago we j
read a mighty good story in Carl j
Goerch's State. It was written by
his daughter, Miss Doris Goerch.
It so impressed us that we sat
down and wrote Carl that we
were getting d tired of being
written up by him and that the
next time he felt the urge to
publish something about us or
Brunswick county, he could stay
home and send Doris in his stead.
Instead of complying with our
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wisnes, ne wrote ua. n , ??w.
Doris can write about any other
county, or anybody else she
pleases. But, Im keeping you and
Brunswick county for myself."
"Grandpa" Bob Wilson, the
young fellow who writes the
widely circulated "Up The
Stream" column in the Washington
Times-Herald, is a little
bit dubious as to just what
time in this month he will get
down to Southport. We are calling
him grandpa just to be
on the safe side. He wrote us
yesterday and told us he was
expecting a new arrival in his
household about the middle of
April. He followed up this announcement
with the reservation:
"Now, don't get excited,
it is my daughter and son-inlaw
who are looking for the
stork". In addition to writing
one of the most widely read
columns in the United States,
Bob is a very handsome fellow
in his own right. There is a
thumb-nail picture of him and
a reproduction of one of his
columns elsewhere in this issue.
The other night some one told
that Churchill Bragaw, the presiding
genius at Orton Plantation
and president of the Brunswick
County Chamber of Commerce
(for which W. B. Keziah works)
was sick. The report had it that
he had a pain in the neck or
something. So when Bob Davis,
Enfield newspaper publisher,
came along in his jallopy and invited
us to go with him to Orton
we accepted, just to see how
Churchill was. It developed that
there was nothing the matter
with him, outside of the general
cussedness with which most of
us are afflicted.
Uncle Joe Stone of the North
Carolina Fisheries Commission
and recent visitor to Southport
on a fishing trip, has just
sent us a very handsome Morroco
pipe and tobacco pouch
with our name inscribed on it
in gold letters. Uncle Joe and
Charlie Farrell are coming down
again soon and we think Earl
Godbey of the Greensboro News
is coming with them. They
swore that Earl is a good fisherman.
But we somehow don't
believe them. He shows so much
j cleverness in his editorial columns
of The Greensboro News
that we just can't get around
to believing that that he is a
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JOT. SOUTHPORT, N. C
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What's In A Name? Well
Bill Krilah Gives Us An
Answer
You folks who have fished out
of Southport, N. C., surely Know,
or have heard of, that great personalitf
, BillKetiah. We
often won deredhow Bill came
by such an un-usual name. So
we ups and asksbim outright. "It
.vas this way", ays Bill. "Back
n the year lOSSEnghsh families
were lookingaround for
names. One suchgentleman was
looking through the Holy Bible
and He came to the Book of Job,
which he read with great care
and reverence. Job, as you khow,
had much trouble. He had Many
boils and three daughters, one
of whom was named Keaiah." And
that, friends, is how there happens
to be a Bill Keaiah.
From down the coast, from Bill
Keziah, himself, at Southport,
N. C., comes tidings that the
small fry have never before been
known to be so numerous as
they are in these early months of
1941, By small fry is meant nil
sorts of little fish. The reports
are that young drum, mullets,
Virginia mullets and all sorts of
very young fish are literally clogging
the inshore salt wafers.
Looking around to find out what
4UJ'* wiitfVif TbrAfprxl Rill
lino rioiiabivu nngt>?
was told by the time-hardened
commercial fishermen and sport
fishing guides at Southport that
the presence of the little fish argued
for great commercial and
sport fishing during the spring,
summer and fall of 1941. The
big fish will come where the
little ones now are. Bill does not
claim that his lower N. C.
coast has an exclusive monopoly
on the little fish, he's had reports
of the same conditions existing
all the way from Beaufort, S. C.,'
to Beaufort, N. C.
'OOONS SMART ANGLERS
Our lower North Carolina coast
fishing authority is not so optimistic
about his fresh-water fishing
prospects. It hasn't rained,
to speak of, in three years, and
has only snowed once in 19 years.
A result is that the water Has
gotten rather low. in many of the
lakes and ponds. For ithe most
part these lakes are great meteoric
holes, without outlets or inlets
and with not much in the
way of watersheds. They abound
in big-mouth bass and goggle-eye
perch. During this dry weather
the coons have fished so much
and in such a way that the bass
won't come' near a plug or a
bunch of feathers, unless there
is a deep hole nearby for them to
dive into if something unexpected
happens. Bill says that the
coons gets out on top of a half,
submerged log and hangs its tail
into the water on one side of
the log.
Well, sir, when a big-mouth
bass makes a dive for that coon's
waving tail, the coon dives into
uie water, irom uie ouier sick;
of the log, and catches him while
his attention is distracted by the
disappearing tail which. Of course,
follows the coon when he dives.
LAND WITHOtT FROST
Bill tells us that on the very
day when Washington was digging
itself out of 11 inches of
snow, he was over on Bakl Head
(Smith) Island, only four miles
from Southport. The temperature
there was 60 degrees, and he
had his coat off and was piloting
a bunch of visiting gazooks
through a six-acre field of garden
peas. The six acres were surrounded
by acres and aeres of
other green and growing truck
stuff. The peas, themselves, were
18 to 20 inches tail and were
beginning to be loaded with
blooms and small peas. They, the
peas, were planted on the thirtenth
of December, and there
hasn't been any frost or cold to
hurt them.
Incidentally, this same Bald
Head belongs to Frank O, Sherrill,
who owns the S. & W. Cafeteria
here in Washington. Some
of you readers have doubtless
seen Frank's Bald Head. He
takes great pride in it. It is composed
of 17,000 acres wtth many
miles of ocean beach and many
square miles of palmetto bedecked
woodland. It is often called
"North Carolina's only little bit
of the tropics." At other times
you have heard of it as "the
one place in North Carolina where
no frost has even fallen."
The Gulf Stream flows to one
side of it and Southport is on
the other. Warm air from both
places is given credit for the unusual
temperature.
The next time Frank Sherrill,
at the S. & W., passes you that
extra cup of coffee ask him about
his Bald Head.
The island is remarkable in
many ways. There is said to be
good fisherman to boot.
It is a little early yet. But fhsy
tell us that the drum are beginning
to bite on the beach at
Bald Head Island. Can you beat
it?. 1
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- NOT EX/I
Let nofcody tefl you that Southport Isn't a plac
for trotting out Spring styles on Easter Sundai
Bnt this year there was a fine pre-vue of Pali
j Sunday. The weather was so pretty that the lad
folks just didh't dare to take a chance on Easte
being as pretty, so much new finery was out fo
an airing . . . And speaking of Easter remind
us that each year, one of the greatest joys of tt
day is the opportunity to hear the colored singei
who go about town singing before day.
And that brings to mind several comment
we've heard on the program of sacred musi
rendered at the high school auditorium Frida
night by students of Brunswick County Trainin
School. Those who heard them say that thei
performance was Grade A, and there is talk c
a return engagement in order that many mor
people may hear them . . . Last week at the loci
theatre they had one of these community sin
shorts, and when, "I Am An American" began t
unreel beneath the bouncing ball, you should hav
heard the school kids sing. They've been practi<
ing that one in chapel. Those singing shorts ar
mighty good for the audience.
Davkl Watson and Malcom Frink were at horn
week-end before last, so they were not expecte
for their visit of the past week-end. Espeeiall
were their folks surprised to see them disembark
ing from a truck load of Holly Ridge laborer!
The explanation was that the driver had seen ttt
collegians bumming this way the other side c
Wilmington and picked them up for that las
long mile . . . Southport and Brunswick count;
really supported the Fourth Annual Cape Fea
Horse Show, and well they might, for there wa
nothing skimpy about that program. We wouldn'
want to be speaking out of turn, .but looks ftto
it might be a good idea to place one Southpor
person?Mrs. Fergus, for instance?on the hors<
show committee for next year.
With Keziah again gracing the editorial pagi
the rag seems to get the old feeling back. Am
since he's sporting that pic of himself he car
deem himself the Great Profile . . . Most every'
body loves some kind of music: Sweet, swing
traditional or classic. Orchestra leader Artie Shaw
.proves himself the smartest of the lot by writing
the gho3t of a famed and marvel- < pi%LartnPi
ously beautiful woman wandering J p '
the woods and valleys at night. M'ui
Also the ghosts of three head- ?
less Spanish pirates who are look- Ab?ut ' > c(
irig for her. Our friend Bill will fishermen left
solemnly telt you that no man day on boats o
WK.k aZ?JiS thC island at from Moreheac
midnight with a marvelously
beautiful woman without the three work in F]oridi
headless ghosts apeparing to See or three month
if the woman is the one they with the boats
Seek. the upper Nor
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CITY EI
Ihe voters 01 tne v>.ii)
hereby called to meet in c
on the 18th day of April,
for the purpose of nominat
of Mayor of the City of Sc
next general municipal elc
Tuesday after the first Mc
Meeting for the nomi
the first ward will be held
ing of April 21st.
Meeting for nominatii
second ward will be held a
of April 22nd.
Meeting for nominatic
third ward will be held at
of April 24th.
The registration book
19th. April 26th is challei
Ward; Mrs. Will Davis;
Watson; 3rd Ward: Mrs. i
?POLLING
1st Ward
2nd Ward
3rd Ward
lTtT
Chairman Citi
WEDNESDAY, APPli ? jH
tewv|
:e and recording a tune he rail,
. I inet.. The record H
n I fatter and has everything. ,,,, a nUle
V1 piano. He's made many masterpiece, v....
r| them aU, even "Begin The Ilruume" ^
r playing strong I
The menhaden boat Morohead
3 Monday for fish. The opening -
6 be mighty welcome right now. The local
* men need a good year to offset the p-.e .' jH
If the defense program doesn't H
3 southport, the next best ti.:-._ ... H
l? be to make every day a . T-f
y looks alive and thriving wh. t B
ff oVer the county come in to might,*
^ problems.
>f aermany has finally dor', t. -. H
* v/ ftnd Greece. Pressed f" an alibi, Hitler
11 that Germany had long suf, '.
g Q{ their citizens by the Slavs and that i,
o marching into Greece also 1 H
e ri<1 them of British tyranny H
-*'Boy he oan dream it up! The donj^H
e countries he HaS 'liberated' bear testimo^to|H
Fortunately, the Yugoslavs and Greeks
e not 'taking his word, and in spit .1
d supptk? are VOTinB hlm n? eml " " I
| week in and week oul f'"' ' '*
'they've been Rowing more top-notch picture,<
| the local theatre than they hav, at all*
e | Wilmington show houses combined. Don't tikH
if j our word; investigate. For instance, this v-eg^H
it | local bill started with "Flight Command, S|
y ! followed by "Chad Hanna" and ends Friday
r Saturday with "Christmas in July," No weak i^Bj
s there ... If you want to do something erstH
t special in the way of Easter flowers this
e give a ticket to Orton instead of a corsage. < >
t gardens bid fair to be at their best Easter Sz^K
We hear that the Richfield people may baft
. new service station here for one of their oli
1 ers .... Lindsey Clemmons Is preparing jj
r ticle of interest to all lovers of bird dogs r|H
training puppies. That's a mighty timely ttpicH
for Southport ... If you're figuring on hvjgHj
r yotir car washed this yeek, ask Mr. Charlie GnaH
. where's a good place NOT to park it. ^9
n Tpnve attend dinner B
r?, C 1 Among the Brunswick cnrtfl
1" Tll6 South representatives at the ar.id^B
___ Jackson Day dinner held FriiiqHj
alored commercial in Raleigh were Attorney R lH
satnr- Mintz, Judge Walter M r'nH
Southport Satu i jand> \V. P. Jorgensen and
f one of the fleetsllm
wens. __
I City. They will1 H
i for the next two j Lespedeza is North Carcj-Vi^B
is and then return | most important hay crop.
for operation on the State Department of Atf^B
th Carolina coast. I culture.
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JECTION I
I of Southport, N. C., are 9
:onvention at the courthouse 9
1941, at 7:30 o'clock P. M. 9
ing a candidate for the office 9
luthprt to be voted on at the H
t* f SB
ction to be held on tne him m
>nday in May, 1941. 9
nation of two aldermen for a
at 7:30 o'clock on the even- I
on of two aldermen for the H
t 7:30 o'clock on the evening I
>n of two aldermen from the a
7:30 o'clock on the evening I
s will be open April 12th to M
lge day. Registrars are: 1st a
2nd Ward: Mrs. George Y. M
Annie K. Vitou. I
G PLACES? I
R. Will Davis' Store I
Court House a
Newspaper Office 9
* M
Yaskell I
zens Committee I