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PAGE TWO ? = " ssssa THE STATE PORT PILOT ? Southport, N. C. r PUBUSHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor d tared u aecond-claaa matter April 20, 1028, at UM Post Office at Southport, N. C., under 8 the act of March 3, 1870. ( Subscription Rates ONE TEAK ,81.80 I EX MONTHS , 1.00 ?i THREE MONTHS .76 { NATIONAL EDITORIAL. Q4j W ASSOCIATION lu n i . s Wednesday, May 7, 1941 v Enlarged Natural Resources 1 i From time to time, prophets of gloom promote the idea that we are nearing the 1 end of our natural resources. . Two decades ago, it was predicted that r the American petroleum reservoirs were c being exhausted and would soon disap- g pear. The American engineer put his p mind to work, invented new types of dril- s ling machinery, and today the known a petroleum reservoir is greater than ever, p Similarly, for years we have been told that the day will soon come when coal a will no longer be used and all the coal v mines will stand idle. It was said that oil p and water-power would take the place c of coal as the principal producer of heat tl and power; that great hydroelectric p schemes would destroy the usefulness of tl the mines. One of the reasons for the n Guffey Bill was to create an artificial u agency which in some mythical manner <? would save the coal mines and maintain p coal prices. Then came the European War II. The k supply of rubber and silk became imper- v, iled. American chemists had for years ri been working on formulas to supply these s1 products without resorting to imports. To- p day we are making synthetic rubber and ( silk in this country. Whatever it is called, e it is made of coal. And Nylon, the American made silk of which socks and stock- f. ings are made, has become a household word. It is made of coal. The day may come when the principal j use of coal will be its translation into S( chemicals?a great new industry, affording jobs to tens of thousands of American ti miners. No one thought of that fifteen ^ years ago. . ? p And so it is with oil and electricity, tl Under the guiding hand of American in- b itiative and enterprise-, these industries s] are constantly expanding and rendering 0 ever increasing service. jy Only the pessimist sees the dead end of r, every road, and he never reaches his Ie goal. (tl S] Internationalists h The medical man is the true interna- tl tionalist. His war against plague and di- s' sease knows no boundaries. He fights for ti all humanity. " The American doctor and scientist has 'tj always been at the forefront of that ^ fight?and he has won some of its great- n est victories. A new and notable example sof that is found in a recent Collier's ar- r tide describing the astonishing work done " by Dr. D. R. Collier, an American, in u seeking a cure for leprosy. > a Many years ago Dr. Collier went to v Thailand, formerly Siam, as medical mis- ^ sionary of the Presbyterian mission there. ^ Thailand has some 50,000 lepers. He be- ^ came interested in researches of a Ger- s< man doctor, who had found that leprosy n was most common in areas where the b people ate taro?a flowering plant known h in this country as elephant's ear or caladium. Taro is as staple a food in Thiland o as potatoes in America. s Then his long work started. Experi- a menis on animais proven tne taro-Jeprosy v connection. Serums were made, discarded, t made again. Finally the time arrived for n tests on human sufferers from leprosy, c Here, according to Collier's, are the re- t suits of the inoculations: "Blotched and I postulated skins had cleared up and i smoothed over; huge ulcers healed; use- s less, swollen nerves, corded like rope un- f der the skin, had subsided to normal size and functions; paralyzed muscles came f back into use." Since then, the Leprosy i Asylum where Doctor Collier .works has < returned to normal life more than half < the treated patients who were in the 1 early stages of the disease. Before that 1 the overall rate of discharged had been 1 slightly more than one patient per year t out of each 100. < Here is a story that has been duplicat- ( ed in a hundred cases?one by one the 1 great killers are being conquered. This is * the priceless gift of medical men to the I people of all the world, and American i 11 loctors are now heading- the list of hunan benefactors. \ Mew Hazard The release of several hundred thouand active boys and girls upon North Carolina streets and highways as a remit of the closing of the public schools )oses a serious safety problem for parents md motorists, Ronald Hocutt, director of he Highway Safety .'Division, stated this veek."A good motto for motorists to adopt it this season of the year is 'School's >ut,' " the safety director said. "And a uggestion for parents is this: If you cant your children to play in a safe dace, you should provide an attractive dace where they can play at home." Hocutt pointed out that even in ordilarv times there are great potentialities or tragedy when throngs of carefree, enrgetic and often thoughtless children are eleased from school for the summer vaation period, but that these dangers are rreatly increased at a time such as the resent, when traffic fatalities in this tate are running nearly 50 per cent bove last year and the general tempo of ife and traffic is greatly stepped up. He suggested that parents can help vert child traffic fatalities by (1) proiding attractive places for children to lay away from traffic, (2) discouraging hildren from visiting playmates out of leir immediate neighborhood unless their arents or some older person can provide lem with a ride or walk with them, (3) ot sending children away from home on nnecessary errands, and (4) helping hildren develop safe habits of walking, laying, skating and cycling. Motorists can help, he added, by (1) eeping a sharp eye on cnnaren wno are ralking, running, playing ball, skating or iding bicycles in or adjacent to the ireet or roadway, (2) trying to anticiate sudden movements of children, and 3) being prepared to stop quickly in the vent of such movements. {o&pital Day Next Monday, May 12, is National lospital Day, and it will be fittingly obsrved locally. It is not widely known that at the me of the Crimean expedition Florence fightingale was already the greatest exert of her time in hospital management," lat she had spent years of study in the est institutions on the continent, that he had reorganized the nursing systems f several large hospitals in England, [either is it generally known that on her eturn from the Crimean War she foundd a great Home for training nurses, and lat the remaining years of her life were pent in the interests of nursing, public ealth, and sanitation. Thus it is entirely fitting that May 12, " * '' ' " \T' _i_ j_; i le birthday 01 norence mgntingaie, riould have become the occasion for naonal recognition of the hospital as an istitution of public service, for it is irough viAs to the hospital on National lospital Day that the people of the comlunity may become familiar with the less pectacular functions of the hospital. Its eadiness to give competent performance i times of public catastrophe or individal emergency is well known and fully ppreciated?these are the expeditionary rars of institutional life. Less widely unerstood are the manifold services which ; carries quietly forward from day to ay and from year to year, constantly eekiqg to improve its methods, its equiplent, and its personnel to provide the est possible protection of the community ealth. To the extent that is can give the visitr some knowledge of these continuing ervices, National Hospital Day becomes useful agency of public education. The isitor who passes the Ambulance Enrance can readily call to mind what nust be the swift activity of this scene luring an emergency, but the truly houghtful visitor may see in the planling of space, the availability of materals and equipment, and the presence of taff members the years of study and efort and training which have been devot:d to preparation for emergency. Only a ew will pause to reflect that each emergency is in itself a preparation for the >nes to follow, in a profession seeking :onstantly to improve and protect its iractices. The visitor to the surgical floor nay visualize the hushed tenseness of a najor operation, but he has missed its rue significance if he does not also re:ognize that such a moment brings to his >wn community the best achievements of ill the doctors and nurses of the past, ind of all those who have designed surgical instruments and built surgical equipnent. THE STATE PORT PIU Among FlSflMENj by bill keziah j ________????J 5 i Colonel Bill Chantland of the I Federal Trade Commission in Washington is scheduled to head j a Washington party of sports- , men here this week. They will j fish on the Gulf Stream. Colonel < Bill is not a newcomer at Southport. He has been out on Frying j Pan twice and says that South- , port has the fish. He ought to ( know fish; he has fished the j Virgin islands, Cuba, Florida and ( the whole of the Atlantic Coast. ] Still another party from ( Washington this week will be \ headed by Don N. Carpenter ^ hunting and fishing editor of j the Washington Daily News, f Carpenter and four o.ther j sportsmen are due to reach s port tonight for the balance of . j the week. He has tried things j here twice and claims Frying Pan is an Eldorado for. sports- v men. He is about the fishing- ? estguy we know of. . j The sportsmen seem to be hav- t ing trouble in getting the big red c drum through the sprf on the v point of. Bald Head Island. Much r tackle has been busted and much t swearing has been sworn when i uncommonly large ones, aided by the surf, have broken lose. Big- s gest one taken so far this sea- \ son was landed Thursday by a v Wilmington sportsman. It weighed 35-pounds. If you can believe the tales that the sportsmen tell, j they have hoonea onto nsn mat weighed 75 pounds. The freshwater fishing season opens again tomorrow, to remain open until the first of next April. We have our Shakespeare Wonderreel and its 100 yards of non-baokleash line, all a present from the Shakespeare Company, all nicely fixed for business. Hunting and fishing and outdoor editors who failed to apply to the State News Bureau at Raleigh for a layout of the pictures showing Dave Roberts of the Cincinnatti, Ohio, Enquirer taking a big drum on Bald Head Island, missed a good thing in the way of a picture story. The pictures in question were made by Bill Baker and were top-notchers. Charles Farrell of the Art Shop in Greensboro got a wonderful movie film of the taking of the same fish. With no place of business open that owned a pair of scales large enough to weigh it on, we just have to guess that the big drum that Bill Berry brought in from Bald Head Island Sunday afternoon weighed at least 42 pounds. We sort of figure that Bill will keep on tinkering around on the point at Bald Head until he catches a drum that will win the $100.00 prize offered through the New Hanover Fishing Club by George Huttaff. For a year now we have been maintaining that the fish that wins the prize will be caught on Bald Head. Thus far this year the fishing just offshore has been very poor. It has resulted in a tew blues, a few bonilo and a few trout being taken. Sea bass have been plentiful, but they are not J i 1-1- II A UJ4 ?-C U ? A au ueaiittuic. a. lml vi nou ww ( ther will send all sorts of fish i coming offshore from the deep t water," said Captain John Erik- ) sen a few days ago. Right now j the best sport fishing beta are j on the Gulf Stream. One party . has gone there and made a good ( catch, despite the fact that a ( strong northeast wind was blow- t ing. Horseback riding one day ( this week, we came to what , our companion, Miss Lois Jane < Bussells, described as having been a pond only a few years ( ago. Naturally, it is not the i dryest, but it is dry in keeping ( with any other areas in Bruns- , wick county. With the remov- , al of two small trees, it would ( make an extra good emergency ; landing field for planes. In . fact, we doubt if there are many a:eas in the whole county that would require less work, t than this former pond, in order ( to become an airfield. A good j solid top soil is already there, j all leveled off. ( The full moon period now com- / ing on should bring with it very ] much better commercial and sport j fishing. There are probably a lot . of people who will deny that the s moon is in anyway conected with j either good or bad fishing. Such . people will not be found among } the fellows who regularly engage in the industry or sport. When the high tides crime along with the full moon, salt water fishing gets very rruch better. Commercial fishermen also find it j much easier to find fish. There ! are no high tides at freshwater ^ fishing places, all the same the 1 freshwater fish also bite better at along the time of the full ' moon. ' yr. SOUTHPORT. N. c OPENfORUM A column dedicated to opinions ot " the public. A mouthpiece for the views and observatloni of our frlenda and readers, for which we c accept no responsibility. Contributions to this column must not n exceed three hundred words. n Winnabow, N. C. 0 April 29. 1941 Mitor, State Port Pilot, - c Southport, N. C. c 3ear Sir:? Will you please run tills appeal ? n one issue of your paper. It n s a copy of a letter which I am y ;oday addressing to Judge John r. Burney of Wilmington: 'Dear Judge Burney, " "It appearing according to the o iresent set-up that there is a p tacancy in the board of our coun;y .welfare committee; and it ap- g learing that our township (Town li Jreek) is represented by Mr. A. ?. Henry, the lower part of the lounty is represented by the Hon. d Valter M. Stanaland and South- b tort is represented by Mr. C. C. luss, director of the county welare department; -Southport has ? he only distributing point for a lurplus comodities; and South- tl >ort has the only, WPA sewing w jroject in the county. "I am asking you, as Lock- s voods Folly is the ; poorest town- a ihip in the county, that you h >lease favor this township with he appointment of some good a :ompetent representative, man or n raman, to fill the vacancy that s, low exists in the trio of represenatives of our county welfare s' ward. n "I fell quite sure that you will b idminister the service requested vithout any partial favors tovard any sect or section. Sl "Your very truly, "J. B. Atkinson." YOUR HOME AGENT SAYS , rr PLANT STARTER Setting tomato plants with a|p] [quid fertilizer known as A 3lant Starter was tried out last rear bv a few of our tomato I growers. They reported the plants 01 lecame established sooner than w vhere just water was used; fruit dusters were formed earlier and z; he yield was increased. It may S >e used also in setti ng of cab- n >age, collards, peppers, eggplant C ind sweet potato slips. The Plant starter is used in addition to the T egular fertilizer applications in V growing these crops. Commercially prepared Plant tl Starters are now being put on fi he market and sold under different trade names. If you are w inable to purchase this material, a' suggest that you use a 4-12-4 ci lommercial mixed fertilizer or a M i-7-5 mixture according to the ollowing procedure. F 1. Weigh out 8 ounces and put t into a pail of water. Stir thorlughly until the fertilizer is dislolved. Let set for 10 or 15 minites until the insoluble materials :ollect at bottom of the pail. 2. Add the dissolved material o 10 or 12 gallops of water. 3. When setting plants use one sint of this liquid fertilizer to ;ach plant. VEGETABLES TO PLANT Eastern Carolina; Sow seed of :owpeas, Swiss chard, snapbeans, >ush and pole lima beans, sweet :orn (Golden Cross Bantam and fenana varieties) okra. Try the :atable soybeans of the Roktsam and Charme varieties. Set 3lants of tomato, sweet potato, ;ggplant, pepper and collard. Vestern Carolina: Sow seed for ? letting out plants for late cab jage, collards, and tomatoes. ' Plant seed of Lima beans, snap jeans, squash, okra, carrots, field jeas, summer spinach, Swiss :hard, butabagas, sweet corn [Golden Cross Bantam and Ionma varieties) and cucumber. Set plants of tomatoes, peppers, (ggplant and sweet potato slips ;he last of May. SHOWING SWEET POTATOES Do not use stable manure or (weepings from the poultry house. tVhen these manures are used, >ver-grown, cracked and diseased (weet potatoes are produced. Do lot use rich ground in growing his crop. Grow them with a , 1-8-8 fertilizer at rate of 2 and J 1 pounds per 100 foot row. j SMALL FRUITS 1 Why not pick blackberries from | l planting in your garden instead jf a briar patch away from | lome. Here is what Mrs. R. F. , Seeding of Quaker Gap in Stokes I bounty did. In 1939 she bought !5 blackberry plants. Nineteen 4 ived. In 1940 she picked enough jerries to have two blackberry ' jies per day thru the harvest / leason and canned a surplus. She p las enlarged her plantings to 75 j plants, securing the extra plants :rom the original planting. BOLIVIA NEWS Mrs. C. C. Russ, of Southport, s spending sometime with her lister, Mrs. Frank Mintz, while Wr. Russ is in Veterans Hospital, Fayetteville. Friends of Miss Myrtle Lesh vill be glad to learn that she is letter after having been critically - NOT EMC Looking back through the files we find that the olumn recently passed the second anniversary lark. Not a single edition has been missed alhough your original reporter has been saved lany a time and oft by the editor .... Most all f Southport people are ardent radio fans even hough reception is poor along the coast. The reent changing of dial locations hasn't seemed to ut out the Mexican stations as expected . . . One. f the most popular radio programs is the fifteen linute broadcast on Sunday night by Walter i'inchell. Winchell also has more than 500 newsapers carrying his daily colm. His popularity lies l his determination to expose criminals and traitrs even though his subjects usually are very rominent people. His enemies call him war-moner and flag-waver, but most of his readers and steners call him America's No. 1 patriot. People who saw "Second Chorus" and arc wonering who played the mitsic behind the trumpetig of Astaire and Meredith can toss their bouuets to Bobby Hackett. To prove just how really ood he is; he was selected to play the music in film of Bix Beaiderbecke's life. Bix is considered tie greatest jazz musician of all times. The film as shelved because the story of his life was too 1 ordid . . . Lois Jane is speedily getting together great collection of phonograph records and often olds jam sessions for friends ... J. B. Finch is gain taking photographs around town and has ow turned his- talent to tinting them, with some well results . . . The May Day program at the chool last week attracted many cameras, even lovie cameras . . . Those kid boxing cards put on y Johnnie Simmons are a real treat. The boys ever really hurt each other and they put up ome grand fights, making a good show. We had such a beautiful spurt of summer feather after Easter that the weather man was ble to fire his bodyguard; he still carries his nife, though . . . .Rime of the week:? If you want a garden, 1 at Bullock's Hospital, Wil- Southport; Rev. lington. bins, Miss Man Miss Creola Cox spent the week arul Billie F. Jo id in Wilmington with relatives. ~ ' Mrs. Marshal! Willetts and ?> HHiaDC imily of Whiteville were guests _ , .?" B Graham Littk f Mr. and Mrs. Kendall Cox last Qra(]y 0f Kenan; r66K. Mrs. T. M. Sumner, Misses Eli- day ovening her ibeth Cannon and Mary Jane Mr- an(' Mrs. umner of Wilmington were din- Wilmington wei er guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. j Wednesday morr annon on Sunday. | Mrs. Hale of ' Mrs. Tom Henry, Elizabeth and i Wednesday with roy Henry visited Mrs. W. H. Satterfield and 1 falker in Southport on Friday. Mr. and Mrs, Mrs. Frank Mintz entertained and little daugh le B. Y. P. U. with a delight- boro spent the il party on Friday evening. ; Mr. and Mrs. M Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson j Mrs. ueo. vv ere hosts on Wednesday evening j daughter and b t a lovely dinner party the oc- j were visitors her rsion being Mrs. Johnson's and; noon, irs. Frank Mintz's birthdays. j Thomas Henrj Guests were: Mr. and Mrs. spent Saturday 'rank Mintz, Mrs. C. C. Russ.day with Mr. a OuTT/zeyeo/irMM-t /HERE'S WHY WE D ?? Sales of the big 1941 Ford are booming; Wi particularly choice lot of good used cars in tr we want to carry through the big selling jea going to do a job of wholesale housedeani your gain: Every car in this sale is priced at i iL ..LI.. ? ... _ . every car inerwwy my ywire ?*cr every tar I span:::buy now and jump the buying t today and take home one of these BIG BAI It's tough to have ( AND LOOK to price em j 1935 CH?> 50 low! C YOURS FOP Tudor Sedan. Looks I 1935 CHEV and runs like new . . 1 A REA Just broken in good. I BARGAIN! I 1935 PLYM( AT AT SJ ?.r: R. D- WHI1 5 SHALLOTTE, N. C. : WEDNESDAY, vuy TLY NEWS 1 And you've got th^ d.,i^"**>M M Call a landscape) ? 9 And Meet John Hoe. f 9 Keziah successfully squelched son-l0 ff . | I who scoff at local weather at a i,.C(.nt ' ? He picked up handfuls of rice ih .. ? thrown and went around proclaiming 'fl a doesn't melt." ? m Dunbar Davis, formerly of Southpor ... 1 1 practicing law in Plymouth, Midi , ,0c^,.' * elected by his fellow townsmen lo ;|l(? , 9 cil . . . They were cleaning up 1 ground to plant watermellons out ?? t)]f fl J Moore farm last week when workns g a skunk nest. The parent skunks regimen,. I M objection, and the hands were p.q 'I 9 a day. " ? a We hear that the "wild" turkev , > I Ja a Shallotte last year by a reprc^rmti , . 1 J game division of the Board of 0. nsonvit . I a development remain quite tame ,m V j future rests largely upon the sp. tt-rr I the sportsmen. The three hens, bv the , j 1 setting now . . . .We are sorry f,,: ,r>1 ft 1 who faded to hear the program of ,,, , jl 1 i and readings presented Thursday r.,gvr , B ? high school auditorium by the glc, ,.|l:i '1 f | hers of the faculty of the Bru I ! Training School. It was the best picei f I kind we ever heard. | 9 Lawyer C. Ed Taylor says that th n f "| ^ ton estate which he is now winding un u ,?|H ample of what a man can accumulate hy r:M I to his business and exercising thrift. A:: 1 J papers is a tax receipt showing that in the J 1888, the late Mr. Newton paid J2.17 in t the county of Brunswick Of this aw.-.tint, el f was poll tax. When he died in 1929. he W;| estate valued at more than $20,000.00. Inciie-B ly, that 1888 tax receipt was signed hv M -1 ' lor's father, who was sheriff of the R ? that time. B . Woodrow Rob- Henry. |R t Johnson, Gary Mr. and Mrs. H..mer L&l hnson. and 2 children of Winter Ft I j and Lawrence Bennett of G>il | >\v News | boro, N. C. were visitors ?l 1 Sunday afternoon. A ' -ton and L H. Lewis left s jville spent Tuej- j Lincolnton on business M i Mr. and Mrs. Dave Legrafl i F. J. DulS of Wilmington were visiters ' 1 -e visitors here gurujay morning. S i lin?- Mr." and Mrs. F.. E. P.'ttH Wilmington spent am| j. r. whisnant of \v . > Misses Ethel ton were visitors her ifirginia Pope. evening. 1 Rufus Robbins Mrs. Hattie Galloway <:l ter from Greens- daughter, Miss Frances a 111 week end with Leon Galloway and 2 chillreiH artin B. Robbins. Supply visited Mr. ami alker and little p. Henry Sunday afterr.c : E rother of Currie ? e Saturday after- Farmers of North an all-time record of l.ltuB r of. Wilmington acres harvested for hay ir. night and Sun- the State Department of AcK nd Mrs. J. L. culture reports. B ?a//?rr I n .Tl TWO HONEYS FOR I II ll> vrkiiD MONEY | J've takan in ? 1941 FORD TUDOR * A - m l dan. Low Mileage. Tire I ode. More than Upholstery, Paint Goot son;So?we're as New, I, ng. Our loss is B rock-bottom...' 1938 CHEV COUPEM node spick and Reconditioned motor, m ush ' " iion in good buy for somebw: K itGAiMCi W^? wants econoiw" H RGA,NSI transportation. K AT THESE! smart buys i f. coach. ? in trucks.- k ' BARGAIN. t J941 FORn pick-tp rhb truck ha? Hsw H been used, anil ?*'' I : . SEDAN? taking a big I"*" jp L BUY. dodge i""'1 k truck. A gmnl ,ri:"| V i-w.. . ttwt has been 11 , ti JUTH Coach right At a Sacril"*' 6 kCRIFICE! L__. 1' Wa'll talk pricts and forms to suit your pockstbook. t ' rms arrangad l> you want thsm. WADES ACCEPTED | fin