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PAGE mo THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor Dterad u aecond-ciaM matter April 29, 1628, at tea Pojit Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates ONI YEAR 11.50 EX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS .76 NATIONAUDITORIALiflAiJ&.ASSOCIATION IU ll y/limit Wednesday, October 15, 1941 Bay Scout Troop No. 35 We admire the quiet efficiency with which Scoutmaster Fred Ashbum has pone about organizing a Boy Scout troop in Southport and guiding it through the first stage of development. Without benefit of ballyhoo, the boys and their leader have stuck to business and have passed quickly through the stage of tenderfoot scouts to a higher station, second class scouts, an attainment made as a result of a recent Court of Honor in Wilmington. Meanwhile, they have given active cooperation to at least two phases of the National Defense program, have participated in one funeral and have assisted the town in emerutmiiig viMimg ov.?.v.o| on three occasions. Although the latter instances did have their mercenary angle, they nevertheless did represent a service rendered. Citizens of the community, and particularly those who have sons in the Boy Scout troop, should be deeply grateful to the young scoutmaster. It is a big responsibility that he has undertaken and his new job will make demands upon both his time and his means. There is no yardstick for measuring the good that he is doing. Right now he is directing the activities of a group of normal boys into channels of wholesome and worthwhile development; the greater dividend will be in a finer citizenship of the future. Matter Of Supplies It has long been believed in many circles that two factors would eventually defeat Hitler: First ,the scope of American material aid to Britain and her allies; second, a slowing down of production inside Germany due to lack of certain basic supplies which are vital to the existence of the civilian population as well as to Hitler's gigantic military effort. Now is a good time to examine just what effect i.1 U ~ muse lauiurs ciie iicivnig un tne war. You can find many and various reports on American shipments to England, ranging from the wildly optimistic to the darkly pessimistic. A first hand report recently appeared in Raymond Clapper's syndicated column. Mr. Clapper is a forthright and able journalist, and lately spent considerable time in England finding out for himself how matters stand. His report is far from being encouraging. When it comes to lend-lease deliveries, he wrote, "The figures, in terms of appropriations, allocations and transfers, are large. In terms of deliveries, they shrink like a pair of wool socks in the laundry." Food, for instance, is one of England's principal needs. Yet, he stated, only about 200,000 tons of lend-lease food? equal to two and a half days' English consumption?had arrived when he was there a little more than a month ago. We are far behind schedule on shippihg arms, he continued, notably the tanks and bombing planes which represent one of Britain's most important military lacks. To use his own words, "So far as the British are concerned, ours still is <x oiociiai. Not long back, Senator Byrd made similar statements, and declared that the defense effort has been a failure. He backed up that criticism with a mass of statistics. While the accuracy of some of these figures has been denied, the President himself admitted that the Senator's gloomy verbal picture of American plane production was "substantially correct." The fault for the lag in arms shipments can be laid at many doors. Some segments of labor have certainly been as non-cooperative as possible. Some industries also deserve that indictment. There ; has been too much delay and buck-passing and divided responsibility in Washington. It is becoming apparent that all groups in this country are going to have to undergo much change for the better if the arms drive is to even partially justfy the high hopes held for it. 1 Going on to the second factor. Newsweek recently made a survey of the extent to which the war has strained Nazi economic power. The German people are still living on rations which would seencompletely inadequate to heavy-eating Americans. This fall, for the first time even potatoes were rationed. The meal allowance is minuscular. This year's Eur opean harvest was 25 per cent below normal. Even so, Germany has big enough food reserves to last a long time. Germany's vital coal supplies have beer buttressed by seizure of the Polish, Bel gian and French mines. Coal is Hitler's most important asset, as it is the source of ersatz oil and rubber and is the back bone of his munitions industries. He ap parently will not lack an adequate amount although, according to newsweek, German production has lately de clined due to long hours, inexperiencec miners and the general wariness war produces in strictly rationed populations. The occupation of France has giver Germany enough steel with which to carry on. Also, she has taken over enough oil lands to fulfill her military requirements, though there is practically none left over for civilian use; Big German shortage is in the textile field. She has almost no cotton, and little wool. Hitler has so far made up for part of this lack by systematically looting the occupied countries of all the textiles his agents could find. Summing up, Gel-many is the possessor of sufficient basic supplies to last for two or three years at least. German technicians have performed wonders in in j.:? workable substi I veil ling auu pvi x^v-v?..0 tutes for scarce materials. Her most serious shortage is metals?she has little or no copper, tin, lead, nickel and chrome. But she has plenty of aluminum, now that the great bauxite deposits of France and the Balkans are hers to command. All in all, the hope that Hitler will collapse in the foreseeable future because of a material shortage, seems too tenuous to be worth holding. Fires Toll Of Life New figures released by the National Board of Fire Underwriters show conclusively that fire takes its greatest toll among children of tender age. This fact was produced in this course of a study of the latest vital statistics available. Under fire is the dangerous age by a ration of almost three to one over any other similar age period. Fire fatalities are lowest between the ages of 10 and 14, and are not greatly higher at any later age. In an average year, fire takes the lives of 1,673 children under five, which amounts to 25 per cent of all accidental fatalities in this age group. Continuing with its study of fire deaths, the National Board estimates that in an average week, 148 people will be fatally 1 ? J" J. Durneci, ana many mure wm uie ao a nsult of asphyxiation, electrical shock and lightning. The annual total of death from fire in one form or another is in excess of 10,000 lives. In the years since the World War, fire has killed more than 230,000 Americans. By comparison, only 50,000 American soldiers lost their lives in battle during that conflict. The National Board states that modernized build codes and adequate fire prevention ordinances in the cities, towns and villages of America would save a high proportion of the 10,000 lives that are needlessly sacrificed each year. Here is a job for every community?a job which should be done at once. Look At The Facts Those who urge socialized medicine seem to blind themselves to facts. For the plain truth is that our system of private, independent medicine has been responsible for practically all of the great medical discoveries and advances of mod em times. It was independent medicine that discovered vaccination, developed abdominal surgery, and has practically abolished | diphtheria and typhoid. It is independent medicine that has put tuberculosis, a disease which was once considered incurable and the harbinger of certain death, "on the run." It is independent medicine that has reduced Childhood deaths and illnesses to but a fraction of what they were twenty or thirty years ago. And it is independent medicine which is making great strides in combating other bacterial killers. Under a system of socialized medicine, the doctor is simply a creature of the state. The competitive urge ? which makes for progress in every field of life? no longer exists. There is little opportunity for advancement. The security of his position depends on pleasing the politicians in power?not on the success with which he handles his practice. That is not theory?the history of socialized medicine in the many countries in which it has been tried, tells the story. Americans have become the healthiest, longest-lived people on earth. I T^E STATE PORT P : g The i; ; FISHERMEN ! BY BII.T, KEZIAH ? j ( With a lot more to introduce i j later in this column or elsewhere, we feel that this week we can | l properly fill some space with a ' ( . word or two regarding some of the visitors who will be here on j' the lower North Carolina coast j the first of November?friends of | : Brunswick county and of North[, Carolina. * * * 1 J. Hammond Brown. He Is out-1 j [door editor of the Baltimore , [ News-Post and is also President1 j of tlie Outdoor Writers Associa- j I tion of America, an organization j ? ttiat covers the United States and j' . also Canada and Mexico. Brownie t I has been here before and we will j vouch for him. He is a mighty ^ good fellow. * * * 1 Joe E. Brooks. This Maryland f guy is an especial good personal ? friend of ours. He won't touch any ] j sort of a drink stronger than j r pop. Is crazy about hunting and fishing, sometimes even neglecting his wife for such diversification. Joe is keeper of the famous Mary-) land Camp of the Jungle Cock. 0 * * * a .Morris Ackerman. If you want 1 to know anything about hunting ' and fishing, "ask Ack". He Is with the Cleveland (Ohio) Press ' and Is publisher of the famous Ackerman's Guide, which tells J1 thousands and thousands of 1 sportsmen where to go and how to get there each year. Several a j times this past year sportsmen !' j have written to "Ask Ack", about I fishing on this coast and he has | written to tell them to ask me. ? * * h Dr. Gilbert T. Pearson. This ^ famous old New Yorker, former v president of the Audbon Society, c is a good personal friend of mine * and also of Churchill Bragaw at 0 Orton. We don't expect him to 1 either hunt or fish while he is b here. He will just go around v catching snakes. birds, insects h and, if you are curious, he will e be able to explain anything in ' Nature's creative kingdom, ^ * * * y Johnny Mock. This fellow thinks his paper, the Pittsburgh Press, d Is the greatest ever gotten out, f | and that his o\vn page is also I outstanding. We are willing to s concede both points. We have J never met Johnny, but Ids picture ti in the paper Shows him to be just as handsome, as big, big-hearted n Bob Wilson, outdoor editor on the ^ Washington Times-Herald. It was r not necessary that Johnny be F highly recommended to Us. Wc ' could take him on the strength of c the looks of his picture in the 1 paper. # * ? n Jimmie Stuber. Now, here's a v fellow whom I will be delighted V to meet again, two weeks from '' now. You will, too, if you have tVint trrrnri fnrtnnp T.ilcp me .Tim B? ...~, ? mie always carries an extra pipe along with him. One of them is 1 always doing duty. This sawed-off e outdoor editor for the Internation- ^ al News Service is a darned good ^ fellow. h ? ? . n Don N. Carpenter. He's hunt- d and fishing editor of the Wash- s ington Daily News and when It e comes to fishing, he has it on the brain. If left to himself he would not stop fishing to eat, so long J1 as the fish themselves are hun- j) gry. We know Don well from his several trips here. During the 'j* coming event we expect Don to keep careful record of every fish ^ that everybody catches. a * * * a Bill Ackerr.ian. Outdoor editor ^ On the Washington Post and is n therefore related in some way by 0 marriage to Senator Robert R. g Reynolds of North Ca'lina. We a only know Bill by reputation, and j t( it appears to be good. He's mak- v ing a fine and welcome addition j to the galaxy of writers that will 0 gather with us on November first, j, * * * t Bill Wolfe. We have never met r this versatile outdoor editor Of I lj the Philadelphia Record. But, he's ti alright. Never knew a fellow a named Bill whom I could not slap o on the back al the first meeting. J Come to think of it, there's a lot a of Bill's, Bob's, etc., on our list f: of the members of the Outdoor o Writers Association of America, n "Mister" won't be heard often A when we all get together to "Ask tl Aek", at Long Beach on the first I of November. a * * * g Winston Montague. So far as o we know, this outdoor editor of li the Richmond News-Leader has S OPEN FORUM ! i A column dedicated to opinions of the public. A mouthpiece for the views and observations of our Irlenda and readers, for which we 1 accept no responsibility. Contrlbu- J , tlons to this column must not ; * exceed three hundred words. , y zimz |' BAPTIST HOSPITAL j t Editor, i ) State Port Pilot, , Southport, N. C. Dear Sir:? j( Once more the messengers of | < 3ur churches in the Brunswick , Baptist Association will make :heir way to Town Creek Baptist church. There we will con- j > ?ider the needs of our Associa-1 t tion and the work of our denomin-1, ition. Thus we go to be informed ind inspired concerning our work ' 'or Christ?that of reaching the 1 ost for Him. Therefore, we hope that our j brethren will put on their list of ' :hings to be done the part they: < ire going to have to support by i jifts and prayers our Baptist j Hospital, Winston-Salem, N. C. Brethren of the Brunswick As- ' ;ociation, we should do this: Here c s why:? j 1. Because of what our Baptist Hospital stands for. It stands as a memorial to the i jlory of Christ in healing Human-1 ty's hurt, physically and spiritu- j' illy. It is for Him we do it. j F The hospital stands as a me- jc norial to the obedience of our F I r s'orth Carolina Baptist brethren, jv Ibedience to that clear, ringing 1 lommand of our Lord. ! s It stands for true 'Christ-like aith and practice. Faith without p forks is dead. By our hospital we t iaptist manifest a living faith in h lur living Lord. n II. Because of what our hos- j, lital is doing. t Since May, 1923, the opening j o if the hospital, up to May. 1941. I il,395 patients have bene admit- a ed. "Of this number, 15,300 were | s nothers who were almost all 0 lessed to return to their 45,600 ' s hildren. During this time about .285 preachers, missionaries, and )( ninisterial students were patients a the hospital. Within these 17U ears about 20.350 patients, who e re usually referred to as serv- u ce or charity patients, were reated at an estimate cost of 1,956,000." The building program is fin- jt shed. This gives the hospital a J ed capacity of 300 whereas it .'as 108. This will mean 10,000 j f an be treated each year. "Of his number we may expect 3,300 f them will be service patients: hat is, not able to pay a hospital t iill. And 3,300 will be mothers I -j i'ho have waiting for their return orae, 10,000 children. If the pres- t( nt rate is maintained. 200 will e preachers for whom no charge as been made for the last two ears or more." Then there is the staff of 100 octors, all specialists in many ields of medicine and surgery. There is the well equipped tandard Training School for furses. A class of fifty will be iken each year, making a school ever previously visited Southport.: !ut his outdoor page has caried gobs of stuff about the Irunswick county hunting and ishing. We are glad that he is oming down to see for himself hat we are not as big a liar as ome of our friends sometimes j lake us out to be. Wonder if nc /ears a monocle. The name Monigue has an English sound to t. * * * Bill McCormlck. Just another (ill, is coming in again this year, till gives out information and dncates the public through the imeriean Wild Life Lnstitute in Vashington. While on the deer unt at Orton last year he did I ot seem to be able to hit a bani oor with his new device in shotuns that had been hand decorati by Ding Darling. * ? ? Other guys who have already laced themselves on record as goin' to come down here on the irst of November, have never yet ighted us, or we them. We got o wait and get a bit more acuainted with their dispositions efore we go banging them round. Some of these fellows re: Arnold Stewart, outdoor edior of the News-Journal of Willington, Delaware: Joe Byrne, utdoor commentator of Radio Itation KYW Fishing Club: Stewrt Kennard, special events direcor and outdoor commentator of ^FBR, Baltimore; Jack Bell and ack Nelson, these guys being utdoor editors on different Washigton papers; Bob McCormick, his Bob is on the Washington, >. C., staff of our favorite Color's Magazine and has a reputaion for also being danged good s a writer for newspapers on utdoor subjects; then there is one McGrath, (Sounds like he's Scotchman) editor of the Crisield (Md.) Post and a member f the Maryland Publicity Comlission?Then there's Shannon Lllen and Walton Onslow, with he Division of Wild Life and lepartment of the Interior. They tfc good fellows whom we will be lad to see, along with many thers whom this week will see sted as * planning to come to iouthport on November 1st. r - NOT EXM Football fans who want to see a double-header | :an go up to the Duke-Colgate game in Durham I ind come back by Raleigh Saturday night for the | , iVake Forest-N. C. State tussle. And if their in- ' ; ;erest runs to other amusements, they can go to I , he State Fair Saturday morning . . . Duke was :he only Big Five eleven to do much for football J i irestige in this section Saturday. The 50-0 romp )f the Blue Dukes over Maryland was strictly acjording to form. Rufus Dosher and D. I. Watson, vho saw the game, say that the 27-14 score Fordlam rolled up over Carolina fails to show the elative strength of the teams. Twice Carolina had :he highlj' touted Yankees ready to holler "uncle." State and Wake Forest were lucky to get a tie ,vith Furman and South Carolina respectively and | Davidson bowed to Sewanee. Gene Autrey is "Back In The Saddle" Friday ; tnd Saturday at the Amuzu ,in a western melo- J : irama that should please the cowboy trubador's ' followers. . . . Men in charge of the district meet- ' ng of the American Legion here on November i Tth aren't fooling about having a dance and are lickering for one of the best bands that has ever Jlayed here. There should be something definite ThAmncnn hnavri )n tms oy nexi ween . . . ?* avwo x uU1..rv.. ran Garber at Lumina last Thursday night and i if 150. The pastor of the hos- [ PAITT1! T1 lital. Rev. Chas. E. Parker, tea-1 J fXl hes Bible to the nurses. The pur- j >ose of these classes is to honor| V| i-|| || || Ihrist by winning the lost and to j rain these Christian nurses to erve Christ in a greater way. j CHAPEL PI Through this consecrated j The sixth grade lastor (as well as other Chris-; chapel program on ian leaders in the hospital) the 10:10 a. m. It wi ospital ministers to the spiritual the auditorium of eeds of the patients and their high school. The >ved ones. Thus many lives are . con sis ? ? 1 ' ouched for Christ that would not the Poem- Columl thenvise be reached. numbers. OFFIC'I III. Because we are Baptists. ^ Senjor das, nd should be willing to stand sch00[ has , hculder to shoulder w.th our|fjcers for the comj ther Baptist Brethern in the lowg. President C( tate in reaching souls Tor Christ. president Basil w Because of these three reasons Frances Cox; and 1 it each Church determine to nje price, lake our contribution and pray-1 BASKET rs worthy of Him who loved j The high school s and gave Himself for us. j teams met in thi WOODROW VV. ROBBINS j room last Wednes j uniforms, equipmer MEDICAL PATIENT getting them. It w Mrs. D. E. Arthur of Southport the girls make th ! a medical patient at Dosher j will use white as , femorial Hospital, having enter-' hoys will get the d that institution as a patient made. The money 'riday. these suits will bi play which will be GO TO FLORIDA students. A comrr Mrs. R. L. Garrett and daugh- pointed by the cha er, Miss Anna Katherine, left a play and consul uesday for Crescent City, Fla., %vho will coach th, here thev will spend the win- _ .. , . r Season tickets tc school games will the Princ'P?l's offi' 71,6 girls seem ve ^!T ed with their Ak AV -IIIW ^ Rnltnn Mr Tin, It i ?/ J?* \^i\ al coach the boys. ? ;I[ frj=?'fc \*\ -t CHAPEL IA1 g V 1 j On October 9. , 'S Malone, Rector 01 m Episcopal church, | S3&i(^^fe(0NE %^//^ '?.! chapel on "The Foi S^K ^ of Living". The "" MH taken from St. Lu "*" -*fl ^ -4^. had us repeat the I Jesus increased i * ' I statue, and in favoi ONE LINE mHista.konwisdc , portance of an OF DEFENSE THAT r.TSS mm / things would neve n/Ijj lj DCMAIH ished. Then he told if Intmitin as compared t0 tha cause of His love IMPREGNABLE ner of the square v Of vital importance to the edge of Christ and South's security is the depend- jg ability of its far-reaching telephone lines. On their constantly main- A fiF' tained efficiency depends t\ Dfa continuity and flexibility of _ communication between mili- SPEN tary, industrial, and civilian forces necessary to the nation's defense. IVlVn In this crisis, Southern Bell is faced with the three-fold task of giving "all-out" service to defense, industry, and the public? a task requiring every ounce of its resources. In most cities and towns in the nine southern states we serve, the demand upon our services is without precedent. In many of these places, mass troop and civilian concentrations, in addition to increased j industrial demands, have made the continuation of normal Mapas&wj telephone service difficult. wfL'Tj-llyf In these critical times, telephone workers ask your cooperation and appreciative "?VyvrGTl iVuuu?" understandingoftheproblems _ *~pwhich confront them,knowing . that you, too, are "all-out" for defense?thatitisourcommon ' problem to keep telephone lines of defense impregnable. WEDNESDAY, OCTORtd ^ Fly news says that he plays plenty^ tumors that the next 'name |: gram up there will be Glenn Mill,., ',"">B anything to it, there'll be a ^ "B dance fans from Southport on that .. "B I'to ^KE A quartet of tennis ilie-hai,K A'ej . ^K' Caswell Sunday for what may b,. t'.. it * JB on the cement court. That moves Us . ^B that H. H. Thomas has been n "B in the courtesies extended u, '1B bums' during his tenure as na-,. . .^^B well property. By the way. lb,- ilS, ; in Breman Furpless' boat. , nttinv fl fine season . . . According i '"!?rts (.!," young nimrods Joel Moore's i B| S veloping into a squirrel and passim; , ,B here in his old age. , Price Furpless has a clippir- ^ J friend in New Bern last w.- i; , r rB in that city. Under the hen, in. Thir;? pB Ago," it mentions that "Price F,upit.ss , , 4'"B nnrt u-ns a husinpss visitor > ... . ? ? ' tally, the late Charles L. Stevens v u ,v the New Bern paper at that tin.. time every year we begin to vmher v.t be the sport fad for the community ,j?. fall and winter, and again we s u_ ,4 1 PHDt Jhe last an,l7^7ir^? rUfV I friendship. H,- Kilv,- us S(m, , *m?rn P?inters 0,1 to b, , t:M . Nh WS and how to hav. fri,.?;, ULiTTU ELECT OIKKKRs I _ The junior class met or. uA tOC.RAM day morning for the is to have the electing its officers for p-,.? October 15 at i"g year. The class te,A. ill be given in ther Christian as piesi,;,-; the Southport vice-president they chos, program will Moore: secretaiv. Mm- .... amatization of treasurer. Rudolph s., , ;~Brjus", and other new member of the lss the class has deei.l.'.i ; , ^H1" BBS publicity chairman Annis 5 of Southport Weeks was chum ;tS elected its of- with Eloise St. George ar ii^^B" ng year as fol- Marie Swan as th oth. irl Ward; vice- on the committee. Mis I. r f?AI atts; secretary, gus and Mis Elsket st t; treasurer, Glen- were chosen as gim..it,.,. Hi OFFICERS H BALL On Monday morning at ar-i^K basket ball period the sophomore ii i.->.: ; senior home I Southport high day to discussf class officers : i 1941-1!;:! it and ways of j Newton who v as cieciaeu mai j'cai a^ai aa v 11.511 :'^KT eir suits. They lowing were el?-c>.| iv. :heir color. The : Bobby Jones: viee-pi, ir suits ready Newton: secretary l ..... for securing caster: ami treasurer I. ; earned by a Hewett. This e!n.## .. s given by the their grade mother- Mrlittee was ap- O'Brien and Mrs. .1 IV Suit JE irman to select > piroducMon'.6' Shallot NcWS i all local high _ ; ^H.. ?? ?t Dr. J. \\. Haves return r-M> go on sale at _ ce soon. I Sunday alter spending th. rS i two weeks in New Voik C:tv ^He :ry much pleas-, Mrg GraCt, ... v coach, Miss [eft Friday for th,.ir hl,r..,. - .^ft, ' wil1 a8ain I adelphia after sp.: i,r. t H ! mer here with her pater:!# Xr^Ha TALK and Mrs. Geo. F. Goley. Rev. J. Leon I Mr. and Mrs. Laylr B f St. Phillip's ; and Mr. and Mrs Ho: ' gave a talk in j mons were in Wilmirgtr- vvH ir Square Way > day. scripture was Harry Chadwick a navn ke 2:41-52. He1 ist stationed in Charleston .verse "And j spent the week end bete w.'Ji n wisdom and , atives. with God and i Mrs. Beatrice Ber r tt att oh j the football game in Durham - Hjj im was the im-1 urday. |n education and , Miss Agnes Ru.#.- fd ; |?l us. He said'visited her parents. Mr. an '' H for education, J- A. Russ last week. Hi r be accompl- sigmonn swam ui I of our statue spent the week end here with VI t of Jesus. Be- parents. BH for His statue. Mr. and Mrs Jennings ?. Ufl If from being were visitors here Sunday HH The third cor- Mr. and Mrs. M. L. I.utc KB ' 'as our know]- children of Wilmingte: ffij His teachings. Mrs. YV. L. Russ, Sunday jSfg TTER WAY TO I ^ I You have to spend money to live?f<* jH| food, clothes, rent, etc. But cash siips 98 like sanid through the fingers. It leaves BS no trace. Unless you keep books and save every receipt, it is hard to keep H track of expenses. M When you pay by check you have an SB automatic record of every importan. H payment. Your check stubs tell you the jfl whole story and your cancelled checks Ml give proof of payment. H A checking account with this bank H would benefit you in many ways- M I
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