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PAGE TWO THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAKES M. HARPER, JR., Editor AaUrad m aecond-daM matter April 29. 1928, al Poet Office at Southport, N. C., under . the act of March S. 1870. - V.I ? I Subscription Rate* BUM TXAR Jl.BC EX MONTHS 1.0C HUBS MONTHS .7* NATIONAL EDITORIALI indlJ&LASSOCIATION lull Wednesday, October 29, 1941 Well, it seems that Joe Louis is still No. 1 on the hit parade. Moral: If you want to be an upstanding citizen in the community, don't get on skates. Just because he calls her honey that's no sign he's nectar. School Columns This year, without any solicitation on our part, Bolivia and Southport schools have been sending in material for a column in The State Port Pilot each week. We cannot help believing that publicity will be a healthy stimulus to extra-curricular activities of the boys and girls, and it is a pleasure for us to cooperate with Al f AQ/tll?kVG! in lpftijlff the' UltriU iiiiu uicii u^-uviivi ^ ... A o world hear of their worthwhile efforts. Neither our space nor our inclination will limit us to publicising the activities of these two schools. We'll be just as glad to have columns from Shallotte, Leland and Waccamaw. Our only request is that they be mailed so as not to reach us later than Monday, and it is preferred that material be typed. A Letter Elsewhere in today's paper we are printing an interesting letter from Hubert L. Holmes, Shfllotte boy who enlisted several months tgo in the U. S. Navy. Wei suggest that yo.i read it, for it strengthened our belief that life in the navy offers' unusual opportunities for young men who can pass the requirements for admission. We were so glad to receive this letter that we are going' to put Sailor Holmes on our mailing list and will send him The State Port Pilot for the next twelve months at no cost to him provided he is not transferred outside the United States. And, in this connection, we want to make this proposition: We will send the Pilot free for 12 months to any other Brunswick county boy who is enlisted in either the U. S. Army or the U. S. Navy if he will write us a nice, interesting letter that may be used either entirely or in part for publication. In order not to be unfair to boys who are now paying for The Pilot while they are away from home in Uncle Sam's armed force, we will extend their present subscription for 12 months upon receipt of a letter of the above specifications. You parents and friends might do the boys a good turn by calling this offer to their attention. Resisting Inflation Testifying before the House Banking and Currency Committee, Price Administrator Leon Henderson observed that price control is necessary to prevent inflation and runaway prices. However, he added, price control should principally be exercised as near the source of goods as nossihle. and should not he exercised over distribution except in acute situations. The retailers of this country are doing everything in their power to hold down prices without being subjected to ironhanded governmental regulation and domination. More than a year ago the chain stores took the lead in formulating a merchandising program to meet the exigencies of the emergency. Thousands of independent stores also voluntarily joined in. Under that program, America's retail stores in all fields pledged themselves to fight profiteering and speculation. They pledged themselves to ayoid "scare" advertising which promotes hysterical buying. They pledged themselves to educate consumers to use substitutes for materials and supplies which have been made scarce and costly by defense demands. They pledged themselves to take every step Sthat would further increase their operating efficiency, further reduce costs, and further improve their service to their customers. This program has been carried out in full. In many instances retailers ha\ even gone farther?and have reduce their own already modest margins < profit in order to maintain moderate pri es and encourage trade. That is why n t tail price increases have been far le; than wholesale price increases. American retailing is fighting an tfj ' gressive war against inflation. > The Enemy Within i . How many Americans could answe this question with any degree of accurac ?"How adequate are our local fire d< fenses?" The chances are that not one perso in a hundred could give anything resem bling an informed answer. Y<et that ques tion is one which directly affects all ou lives, all our property?and which, at thi time, has a very direct bearing on the na tional defense program. Is the fire department up to snuff? I there an abundance of water for fightinj fire in all sections where it is needed ? I there a strictly enforced, modern buildinj code and fire prevention ordinance? Ar< periodic inspections made of iocal prop erty to ferret out and correct fire haz ards? Do schools and other public build ings have sufficient and properly design ed emergency exits? You are entitled to the answers to sue! questions as these, and it is your dutj to ask them. Today fire loss is running ahead of last year. It is taking more lives ; It as wasting more labor- and energy, n I is destroying materials which are important both to defense and normal activity It is destroying sources of taxation, and thus increasing the burden that must b? borne by all other taxpayers. It is breeding delay and waste of time. Even in very small communities, good fire protection is perfectly possible. The people can be educated. And many little towns have joined with others to create fire fighting organizations whose cost, when divided among the cooperating communities, is small. In short, wherever you live, whoever you are, there is no valid excuse for failure to do our part in preventing fire now. "Oil Shortage" Backfires The so-called "oil shortage" scare on the Eastern seaboard, promoted for reasons hard to understand, has vanished like a morning mist. According to a congressional committee investigation, there is no serious shortage in the foreseeable future. The productive capacity of the American oil industry is more than adequate to meet today's enormous military demand, as well as the normal civilian demand. A transportaition problem was created by the transfer of tankers to lireat Britain, mat prooiem is now oeing met by moving oil by rail, even though the cost to the industry- is higher; by the construction of additional pipelines, and, in many cases, by using copl instead of oil in industrial operations. This country produces more than 60 per cent of all the oil in the world. It produces oils of a quality unequaled elsewhere. Friendly cooperation with industry as dislocation problems arise, due to defense needs, will do more to solve them than autocratic, punitive action. If your business begins to bear fruit, you generally think it's a peach. Living costs are rising so rapidly wonder how long before the stratosphere will be reached? And some of the pictures which come in over radio look like they have right much static mixed in too. | Shears And Paste WHY WAIT? (Charlotte Observer) Seven communities in the United States have been certified by the Office of Production Management to the War and Navy departments as facing severe unemployment unless special consideration is given them in awarding defense work. Two of these communities are in Michigan, two in Iowa and one each in Georgia, Wisconsin and Iowa. Something presumably may be done about it. But that isn't all. Charlotte's hosiery industry, all North Carolina's hosiery communities, might be listed as needing something. The authorities warned months ago that the nation might see the gloomy spectacle of plants idle and people walking the streets for work, due to all-out defense necessities. That isn't the case in Charlotte and North Carolina but those responsible for spreading the work shouldn't wait until more communities are listed with the seven in other states, until the J list reaches 700. THE STATE PORT I l, ' .1 8 .v The [ I FISHERMEN 1- BT BILL KEZIAH r . This week end will see the (fathering of a very important - group of men at Southport. Coming from eight or ten states, s about thirty-five outdoor editors, radio commentators, representing ? newspapers and magazines with S circulations of many millions, will r be here for five days of hunting, s fishing and general relaxation. The occasion is one in which " Brunswick county people cannot - overdo thier traditional hospitality and friendliness towards vis-! itors. ? ; When the defense activities arc |' 1 over and the uniforms of the r soldiers and sailors are laid aside (we hope that time will be soon ' ? but fear that we are only in- 1 dulging in wishful thinking) ' t Southport will have great business, as one of the premier sport 1 fishing centers of the Atlantic ' coast, to fall back on. We have j1 I big game fish of all sorts out , on Frying Pan Shoals, and this _ fact is little understood here, un-1 derstood even less among the mil-' lions of sportsmen abroad in the [ United States. The big fish strike I , this point on the coast a month j or two earlier than they appear j ! at other points above here, and i they remain a month or two later in the fall. When we have \ hotels, boats and other accommodations for the sportsmen ' thousands of them will flock here i during the spring, summer and fall. * In fact it has been the visiting sportsmen who has carried on, more than any other agency at Southport, during the past several years. They have given much em- j ployment to people who had none, they have brought money to town when It was badiy needed. They have helped to maintain a balance, and though it may surprise some of our people?we are hardly yet to the point where sportsmen are really beginning to recognize Southport and come here. In the light of the numbers that wlh be coming a few years from now, Southport people will be looking back to recalling that the sport fishing really' started to grow along about 1941 or 1942. * * * , The missionary work has about t been done. Hundreds of sports- 3 men now know from personal ex- s perience that Southport has the fish. Literally thousands of others have heard about what we have and are planning to come and take a go at It some day. We believe that the best assurance of alf lies in the fact that outdoor editors and snorts u/rifpro far o?ri near, recognize the possibilities of sport fishing development at Southport. For two or three years a lot of nationally known outdoor editors have gladly welcomed anything and everything about the Southport sport fishing. They have plugged it at their own typewriters and radio broadcasting stations. The number of such writers is increasing daily. For the size of our town, Southport is the most widely known of any place in the United States. It would now take some real hunt! ing over the United States to . find a place that has many sportsmen, with none of these sportsmen ever having heard of Southport, North Carolina. * * But we are only at the beginning. This work has been shared by the sportsmen who came and tried things. Backing them up have been our friends, the outdoor editors, who believed. We hope that the coming week will see dozens more of outdoor editors personally sold on the Southport fishing and on Southport and Brunswick county as a community of friendly, hospitable people. From our personal experience with them, the outdoor editors are much in a class by themselves. Some of them are firstclass liars about hunting and fishing?the only things in which anybody is justified in lying about. This doesn't spoil them. On the contrary, it rounds them out and makes them human. They are a class of fellows whom it is easy to meet and from whom it is hard to part. With all the British have been able to do toward increasing food production, they have been able to boost their pre-war total only about 10 percent, giving them to percent of what they need. PILOT^OUTHPOR^N^^ OPEN_F0RUM I A col DIM dedicated to opinions tot u># puoiic. A mouthpiece for the Tlewc end observation* of our friend* and reader* for wblch we ?MPt fu> oeapomlidUi/- Coatribune to tola column must not exceed three hundred word* 1 ...... Chaplain's Office United States Navy Yard Charleston. S. C. October 25, 1941 Mr. James M. Harper, Editor The State Port Pilot, Southport, North Carolina. Dear Mr. Harper: Just thought X would give you a brief sketch of my "ideas" about the Navy and it's advantages to young men about to be inducted into military service. I read in the paper a few weeks ago that you had been made "Navy Editor" for our county. Glad to learn that you have this i splendid opportunity to do your "bit" for national defense. I joined the Navy, I admit, "dodging the ' draft" and sincerely believe that ^ I have profited by it. I was work- ' ing in the Shallotte Post Office ' as Assistant Postmaster, and al- 1 though the nature of my work ' might have exempted me, I felt ' that I should get in the service ' and "pitch." I enlisted in the j' Naval Reserve in May of this, 1 year and was called to active dutyj' here in the Charleston, S. C. Navy ! Yard on July 15th. I worked in J1 the personnel office one month i' and was then assigned to the job 11 af Chaplain's Yeoman, which in- j{ eludes the duties of librarian, j t Along with this job comes the j J duties of assisting with the je church services, which are held |{ each Sunday morning in the Yard j 1 Chapel. I I find that the majority of the ? x>ya are of the highest type both morally and spiritually. Most all! )f them are high schol graduates 1 ind a large number have had col- j ? lege training. The Navy offers unlimited op-' Dortunities to a young man about ;o be called into military service. c lie may enlist in the reserve for j he duration of the national em- j urgency with a good rating and j :hance to advance rapidly. The j ;hird class petty officer pay is: j ;he same as the base pay of an f irmy sergeant, and providing he ^ las suitable experience in some e jarticular line, such as storekeep- \ ;r, yeoman, cook, etc., he may enist as such. Wishing you best of luck with ] t rour work and with best regards. i v , am i Yours very truly, t Hubert L. Holmes, c Yeoman 3c. M-2, U. S. N. R.. SOUTHPORT !; SCHOOL NEWS : / a MATCH GAME There is talk of the high school 11 ;iii's basketball team playing the own girls in the very near fu- 0 ure. That should be worthy of 1 'our time, so watch for posters J innouncing the date. HALLOWE'EN CARNIVAL s On Monday evening, November 11 con ma: of i WHITEVILLE TABOR CITY d CHADBOURN SOUTHPORT U.ARKTON EACH - NOT EXflC One prominent land-owner In the county told us the other day that he had more birds on his place this year than he had seen in several seasons. He ascribes this to the fact -that a nuigHiUor *> of his moved from the community since last season, taking: with him several bird dogs who had formerly amused themselves during: the off-season by self-hunting: .... And, speaking: of birds and dogs, Monday's rain ought to make things much more pleasant for several local hunters who have been taking- their dogs out for a little pre-season work. Carolina dropped her fourth game of the season Saturday to Wake Forest, duplicating last year's upset score of 13-0. Duke roared on her unbeaten way at the expense of Pittsburgh 27-6, but faces what may be her sternest test of the season Saturday when she plays Ga. Tech in Atlanta. The men of W. W. Wade are all set for J, at 7:30 the Home Economics You". Hie cast Department will sponsor a Hal- as follows: Keatf mwe'en carnival in the gymnas- professor, Billie ,um. There will be all the things Randolph, the b i person looks for at a spook Martha Grey B ihow, plus a number of surprises. Perry, an oblij rhe costume parade and the Moore: Grandpa irowning of the rulers of popular- ent by-stander, B ty will climax the event. The fol- Appleby, a helpfi owing have been chosen as con-1 Christian: Prise ;estants for the above honors: sweet young tni Sixth grade, Barbara Weeks Swan; Tootsie 1 tnd Jimmie Smith: seventh grade, | spinister, Libby i Setty Todd Corlette and Billie j Boy Bean, her bi Veils: eighth grade, Betty Arn-jnie Simmons: Va >ld and John Carr Davis; ninth Southern charmi jrade. Libby O'Brien and Bobby. Weeks: Boggins. iones; tenth grade, Mary Flor-'ler, Rudolph SelU ?nce Moore and Brother Christian; | . (leventh grade, Martha Grey | Winnakn Jrown and Basil Watts. j WinnaDO On this same evening there will ... . T. .. . . , ... , i Mr. and Mrs. >e In the high school auditorium I , , , . . . .. and children of 1 i series of stunte put on by the riyed t( dementary grades^ the high cher,s y ichool and the Parent-Teacher ? _ i ... ~ ... . Mrs. Preston SJ Association. A prize will be . . .. .... . , ..a number of the iwarded the group giving the . )est stunt day even,n* 11 8th GRADE OFFICERS ^ter' Llttle S The eighth grade has elected r ayn (fficers for the ensuing year. w ? d ? Phese officers are as follows: |"a ? . . . : den Davis of Wi 'resident, Douglas Jones; vice- j w , M. (resident, Glenn Jones: secretary,! and ' J' ially Ann McNeill; treasurery, | ev?"ln&ohn Carr Davis. The news re- ] ^5' a rs', lorter is Eleanor Reese. They ?J Wilmington v,i lave chosen as their grade moth- i or "n^ay e] irs Mrs. J. A. McNeill and Mrs. i , Mr' and **rs' [ Vill Sellers Davis. j daughter. Miss F EUGCT CAPTAINS Masa" . sp*nt Sdt The girls basketball team has in ^elr ,ouse ^ leen practising for the past two Petersburg, F ? ?' -???j r~.. Pari Knox of veejuj. iiury nave caculcu ouy t~irnold as their captain and L?t- 3Pent the week ie Hickman as their alternate mother, Mrs. Min aptain. The young peo BASKETBALL BEGINS mington District Basketball practice is coming P^Wbytery held I long nicely. The boys are full raI1'r at New H< f zip and high hopes. They hope c^urc^ Sunday o order thejr suits soon. Some evening serving f the boys are ordering new! Sr0Un^8hoes, but the majority are going i Mrs. Jesse Pj o use the ones they succeeded 'was a visitor her ri breaking h. last year. j ing. We noticed a player from one | Miss Laura Ak f our stronger rural schools in Delco schol facult; he gym on Tuesday. We wonder end with the fie ust what his motives were. Miss J^ttia Ta The play which the athletic as- faculty at Gra ociation has chosen to give is en- week end here w itled "Professor, How Oould Mrs. E. W. Taylo J mm )mm THE j? Ami The greatness of tl small part to the progi and industry operaunj prise. The tremendous vol I vices flowing to our p \ dard of living far aboi ?was possible becaus demanded and were w qunnity and superior <) We know our cusb standard of financial s fident they are willin, charge for it. That is t When you pay bank charges you do moi venience in handling money, or purchase 1 ke it possible for the bank, through ample maintaining the same high type of service i DEPOSIT INJWED UP TO $8,000.09 BY wednesday', OCTORfd TLYNEWS^I Tech's good old Southern hospitality trampled Newberry College in a I week, goes over to Chapel Hill .,vilh ^ cfiance to w'ttip the Tarlfeels " Maxie Cooker, who with his father, ... E Cooker, spends most of his nights fishing .* river and bays near town, says that ts fluently is able to see the searchlights of rjB Davis during their noctournal meandering /B the sky. And that must he all of /I as a light bean flies ... If you've bees eettJB thrill out of these high-flying planes thabeen hearing during the past few days H ' for an even greater thrill on Wednes^, ?E Thursday of next week when "I Wanted ij plays at the Amuzu. This is easily the m.T.K ing airplane picture we have seen, and it,TB cational as well as entertaining. JK ShallotteNetnl Willis; Vicky! ane of his life, J SHALLOTTK Oct 2" r K :rown: Grandma | Gore of N-orfolk Va fing soul, ane j week em) here ,v H Perry, an mnoc-l L Gore h* asil Watts. John | GaUoway H il fnend, Brother , ' ??* ilia Morlev a!'0*"' S' C' 18 "siting huTB ? ' - i ents. Mr and Mrs. Henry HeiwB ng. Luia Mane | j^r and Mrs Warm f.2B 3ean, a plump I Rpent Saturday in Wilr.ur.gtaB O'Brien; Butcher j Mrs Q,as R,.ss relun.^ g brother, John-; ^ week from Philadelphia hfl lerie Whitman, a wj,ere ghe visited relatives ?r. Annls Jean was acc0mpanied home k yfl the sporting but- Miss Margarette Bru^B !** The many friends of p2l ? Clemmons will regret to kM W News that she is a patient a; u^l Memorial hospital fl Rudolph Fulcher , Miss Eloise Buffkin spent J Norfolk. Va? ar-, week end with relatives at j visit Mrs. Ful- Sea, S. C. S rs. Minnie Knox. Sam Fowler of JackstrarpB ivage entertained was a business visitor here Msl little folk Fri-jday. I i honor of her] Preston Paiker of CharlesaB iylvia Ann's fifth < S. C? visited his family here fcH week end H i. W, Colwell of i MiSS Agnes Russ of WrimirpsM and Mrs. Mars- vjgjted her parents. Mr ar.l tfl ilmington visited j a. Russ. Sunday I Henry Sunday Mr and Mrs Robt sul'.iw.kB Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Gore of W. S. Campbell nad0Vl- were visitors here : sited Mrs. E. W. day fl uiay night'ero m Wilminglv I iler enroute ] spent Thursday in Florence I rfl Atlanta. Ga.. | ^ Beatrice Bennett sal tfl end with hi . Gene Alle: were ?./.? me Knox. j |MW| )ast wfcei( ,ple erf the Wi -, M gtaniev will leave Twfl of Wilmington | ^ vj8it nlatives ta Ti J heir annual land Plant CKv Florida 'jre n^av/ ici <au ? afternoon and, B R and Emory Stinky i supper on the Wilmington spent the week a here with re'atives idgett Of Ashe Mr. and Mrs. L B Russ m e Monday morn- Wilmington visitors Monday Miss Evyiene Bellamy, win I erman of Acme- attending Motts Business CoQea y spent the week in Wilmington, visited her tat ids. j Mrs. Wilbur Hoklen. thru It ylor of school week end ham, spent the: Cajot. W. E Bellamy of G* rith her mother, leston, S. C? spent last week kit r and family. iwith his family. a, RICAN /AY I lis nation is due in no I ess made by agriculture I r as free private enter- I ume of goods and ser- I V> 1C?? mum oton. U UWJK 1 atMUR UUI 3U?u re the rest of the world e the American people illing to pay for greater [Uality. omers demand a high ervice and we are cong to pay a reasonable he American Way. re than buy safety and the use of money?you i capital, to be certain n good times or bad. fafrmont ROSEHILL K?NANSV1LL? holly ridge THE F. D. L C. i i
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