PAGE TWO - -- THE STATE PORT PILOT South port, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor as second-cluc April 20, 1928, at ' HM Post Office at Southport, N. C., under Ifra act. of March 3. 1879. Av -4c , Subscription Rates okrm rBar ji.oo act MONTHS 1.00 KBRKB MONTHS .78 NApOSAUOrrORIAU iniL5K_4S50CIATI0N WVdnesday, November 19, 1911 - 1 He may have a master mind, but that's no sign he won't lead a senile life. Tliere used to be something called primitive dance?now it's called the La Conga. Funny, but the guy who's always blowing his ovt'n horn is seldom in tune with , the rest of the world. , Just give some men enough rope, and . they'll hang themselves. Give a politician ehough string, and he'll own the country. , Languages interest us. In school, we studied Latin, French and Greek. Now 1 we're trying to learn jive talk. ' _ * Tlien who was it who said if would ( take a pound of starch for some people ' to keep a stiff upper lip. Blind Leadership ( The San Francisco News, a newspaper which has always been a strong supporter of organized labor, recently said this: ( "We wish to see organized labor endure and Continue to grow. But we know that organized labor cannot endure if the ' the things from which it derives its pros- j perity and security do not endure. If or- f 'ganized labor is to endure, the system of , free enterprise must endure. Organized labor cannot flourish if business sickens and dies. Economic peace and economic , security cannot be obtained by use of j force which makes their existence impossible. J "Organized labor never has had such . responsibility as it is charged with to- ( day .... What happens to the labor ( movement, what happens to business and ] industry, what happens to the thousands and thousands of small wage earners who have no interest in the politics of the la- ' b'or movement, will depend on whether labor leadership becomes statesman-like, whether it recognizes and assumes its . proper responsibilities, whether it wields ,j ?its poorer with wisdom, or with recklessness and stupidity." Organized labor should be solidly at ( the forefront of those who are today ^ fighting the trend toward socialism?a , trend, whiCh if it continues, will mean the , end of free enterprise, and the end of so- , cial and economic freedom for capital and labor alike. And organized labor, for its pwn selfish reasons alone, should take the lead in preventing strikes in this time of emergency and danger, and should, like industry', submit its grievances to arbi- , iration. The racketeers in the labor movement \yill destroy all gains made by labor. And the working man, not the fat-salaried labor leaders, will do the paying. Cannot labor see the writing on the wall? Thrtat To The Press The greatest threat to our vaunted freedom of the press is not the possibility of censorship. Rather it is the imposition of tfnnecesSary economic controls masquerading as steps in the nations defense interest. So far the threat has been directed at {he advertising department. The Attorney General sent a questionnaire to many advertisers to find out how much and in what ways they spend money, and for what ptirfpOse. It has been proposed in Washington that brand names be eliminated, and that articles be sold as soap, i^aWdjr, or what have you. This, of course, would virtually kill advertising. And without advertising support, the cost of a newspaper would be out of reach to most buyers. There is a very general impression that adtortiSliTg ddds considerably to the retail i>tite of goods. The fact is that when '" rt has.been intelligently usCd to increase i the 4&1& of articles in common use, it has fesdlted in improving the quality and lowering the price. Some interesting testi Linony on that phase of advertising was pfteti bCfoi-e the House Judiciary ComV' I mittee by W. .S. Farish, president of Standard Oil Compang which spends millions each year in afovmising. He told the Committed; "Although the sums expanded for advertising by some companies are large, it is easy to exaggerate the part of the customer's gasoline dollar Which is spent for advertising. If all the advertising expenditures of the industry were cha/gecf to' gasoline alone, it is probable that they would represent less than a quarter of h cent per gallon." As a matter of fact, a large proportion of the advertising money hhs been applied to other products and services. Even if it were all covered in the price of gashline, it would not mean much to a motorist who learned that on a purchase of ten gallons, he had contributed 2^c for advertising and 60c for Sta'te and Federal sales taxes. - - --- ~ " - ? PlH? To ut Efielltfy Fire destroys about $300,000,000 worth of property each year, on the average. That destruction represents complete, unqualified waste. The loss to the nation can be illustrated by a few examples. That $300,000,000 Would buy 6,000 fighting planes costing $50,000 each! It Would buy 600 big bombers costing 5500,000 each! It would bu>; enough rifles Costing $50 each for an army of 6,000,000 men; It would buy 150,000 aerial bombs of great size costing $2,000 each! It would buy 2 battleships Costing $150,000,006 each! . ' It would buy more than 70 destroyers | costing $4,000,000 each ! J It would pay the $ages of almost 15,- 1 [100,000 private soldiers for one month, !it the current rate of $21 each! That gives you an idea of what fire destroys each year in this country. And the $300,000,000 figure covers only the direct, measurable waste. According to authorities, the indirect waste caused by fire is several times as great. Loss of time, loss of taxes, loss of employment, loss 6f business?these are indirect tolls taken by ] fire, whose cost reaches a terrific figure. During the recent. Fire Prevention Week, the slogan "National Defense Through Fire Defense" was widely publicized. That slogan involves no exaggeration. In these days, the conservation of 1 resources, labor and time fs vital to defense. Fire is the enemy of that l >.' ' Among all of the good friends among the outdoor writers. Southport has had no more consistent and dependable one than Bob Wilson of .the Washington HeraldTimes. Week after week, this spring summer and fall, Bob filled his famous "Up the Stream" column in the Herald-Times with matter about Souf&pbrt. Last week whs no exception in his account of the gathering of the outdoor writers here the first of the month. * * * The lower Carolina coast got a masterpiece of good publicity last week when Don N. Carpenter, hunting and fishing editor of the Washington Daily News, filled two pages of the November issue of the American Motorists with a wonderful story of fishing and hunting. He used Southport, Frying Pan Shoals, Bald Head Island, Cjrton and Fort Caswell as his text. The American Motorist is an AAA publication and Don's s^ory is being read by many thousands. ? ? ? . I .> ?. ? . ... v The.Navy men who will shortly be quartered at Ft. Caswell will find themselves stationed at one of the best sport fishing centers on the roast. This is something that should contribute to their en tertolnment during the time wnen they are off duty. We venture the guests that the Navy has as large a percentage of men wno Like to hunt and fish as there are among men of other vocations. * * ? This past Sunday we took the day off from all sorts of work, first such day in half a dozen years. All we did was look after a horse and an assortment of dogs, walk about a little, sleep part of the time and write halfdoien letters. It was a very nice day for doing nothing and we tried to do as much of it as we could from before daylight till darkness. Then we went to sleep. ? * Fishing lines do not extend to boxing,' we have had an Inquiry Oils week from the sports editor of one of our dally papers. He is very anxious to find out how many possible contenders this area may have to offer for the Golden Gloves Tournament early in the spring. Accordingly, we would like to hear, with name and address, from any and afl good young boxers around here, eligible and anxious for com'petiflon at rile tournaments. # * Some times It fs impossible to |et back a word of appreciation to the various friends, throughout the state, who write us letters of Appreciation of some iittle thing said in this column. These comments are by no. means confined to this state. They come from readers of. The Pilot in a dozen states. >Yhile we cannot always mention the "Writers of these letters in the column, and sometimes cannot even write a letter of acknowledgement, we want all and sundry to know that their expressions of commendation are a spur to us to keep plugging along. , FOS,Treatment , ^ Fuller, M^adden, an inmate of the,county home, was admitted to Dosh^r Memorial Hospital Monday for treatment. I -w. JP *A->rttNT ... jjonp Ivey of Southport entered ! txtsfiir ^nunfJL Hospital Monday for treatment for influenze. !? l I - V v>. - I. , V OBSERVE HOLIDAY The sewing unit of the Red cWas v/Ill not meet on Thanks|ivln| day. ?ILOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C OPEN FORURl A column dedicated to o pin tone el the public. A mouthpiece tor the Tteew . and observations at our blends and readers, (or which we accept no responsibility. Contributions to this column must not exceed three hundred words. 3rd LETTER Editor, State Port Pilot, Dear Sir:? Let me please your readers, a the very beginning: of these r< marks, by (saying that ihey wi concluded the series. That fact wi not be so pleasing to me, for th reason that I was sufficientl pjeased with those whom I njet i your uniqUe^ town, together wit the town itself, to desire to sa a lot more to them about "Ship and shores find sealing wax' quoting the walrus, or on jUs any subject. And now lets consider what yo can have down there, to ipix wit what you already have, thus pre ducing a much unusual and satis fying community. You have climate that is most acceptabl ducing a most unusual an'r Good Cleaning 5 SOUtHPGRT * DRY CLEANERS y SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, NOV null -rr la?? and I ^ ^ of uNC's sixth defeat of gt^foA. She 1 ^ Foregt travelled to Clemson and f some Hind 1 i ^ ^ too mUch to handle in would ItlB her I ge , grate, too, had a bad trip to pretty PUP' 1?'*. ' t0 this outfit is coming bach band. ?* ** ?g pUy for a Thanksgiving sLb week fa on 1 te~ . ? ?* l'""* the Incidentally. Center dueling, the time is in o'clock. Kyser band pfc- 0f fti'e dance faithful are expected to he .Vs ajr and liewfey .... California Congressman John here for ? few days two weeks ago. t!ce t0 hotel rteir jfe fa" 4oW6tg back during the hunting ven throSfr && & hot oAty enjoys bird hunting himself Vs^K. feut the pite'r j tfA *m? with him and she will tplayed, but the j tfoto Southport sometime next 17 bridge"" and received al Fayetteville. Inefe As priie. Mrs.. J. D. Sut- Mr. and Mrs. John " ? received the trivehng prize, ch.ldren. of W ilmir.guin ash ttS. Mrt. j, M harper Sunday here with Mta received St wood. V, Miss. Helen Ceihe Sutton, an- Migg Martha Cray other bride-elect, received a silver gpendingr the Thanksgiv.^ pie server. days in Smithfield with High scwe in checker? was held ter Mrs. John Dale m bv Mrs Bremen Furpless who Bobby Brown ,s sper^MB received'hand lotion. Low score Thanksgiving holidays in was held by Mrs. J..J. Loughlin. with his brother, AUtoM] who received a candy dish. Brown. Jr. who recei were ' Mr. and Mrs. T J. Ttbiav^fli Others, whp ? Robert, gQn of Wilmington spent lb,^Bl Mesdames \ y .. H B 'end here with K. Tohiaser ?Th Tex Jotes Szabeth Gil-1 Mr. and Mrs. L D. Sr,* Smith, Lex Jone, Wilmington, spent Sunday SB 1 bert. Fred Willing. Prince ^ ^ ^ W BrrrreBe,b G E- Hubbard. Preston Bryant, who han^Hj ,g|' |Ss Elizabeth Wat&n. | spending seve.al weeks her,Mil 'Emma Lou Harrelson, Robbie Mrs. Bryant has returned! j yVoodside, Annie Moore Harker, idad. 9|? Miss 6uthrie and Carrie Harker. A. B. Weeks of Chariest. RM C., spent the week end h? i ^ his family. HI ? t, Earl Hancock. Chief ; f 1C Mate on the government ; JL w^/cl(Alv Walnut, at San Francisco^^^B arrived Monday to spend r^^B Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jenkins, of ] days with his fami'-v ,nd >n^H New Castle. Del., are visiting Mr. a"y them to San Francisco ant? Mrs. R. T. vfoodsid'e. they w.ll resule SK , itr? and Jyirs'. E. H. Real and I Rnl*r' C Ruark- * daughter, Mary Anne, have re-1 'on' D;; 1 .spent ,he turned to their home hi Westf^ld. here w,th h,s fam'?' gg N. J., after visiting Mr. and Mrs. PATIENT BK R. ,T. Wqodside. ? Jesse Brown of Supply Mrj.._ Rdbert W-. Davis and D0Sher Memorial Hospital daughter, Miss Bobbie Davis, are (or treatment. BH visiting ^relatives., in Danville, Va. yB,a,r,,_ - ??:r-^H . Mr. and Mrs. Thorns^ /ones and Mrs. Alex Turner, of Philadelphia, * * A rh C 1 T^B Pa., spent last week at vthe^ home jVl A U I [] BB of Mr. and ,Mr^. WillieJQnes. * AA VjllH Victor Bartells. JuJian Soutjier- , MB laird and. Elton McKeitbah have RltCnCll (xflbwetS ..HE returned to New Castel, Del,, after BS| speeding a week here with rela- (jphol^tCrCtl RockeW Mr. and btrs. E._E. Dye and ^ . . pr B i children, of Wllmingtpn, spent.jhe vJCCSSIOIlfll tjlluIrS week end here with Mr. and Mrs. HB G. D. Robinson. fflSf Mrs. Leon. Swain and little B| daughter, of "Reaufo'rt, aire vtsiting O I T C Q R Mrs. Amelia Swatii. Jv W 3 0 En Harvey Brown, of Wilmington, ' H A'i'Stic. JlLi * I n 9R spent auriuay nvre wiui ma p?i- -. . ents, Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Brown. I UrnltUfC VUi BB Miss GlSdys Ddzier, whp jMls jBy called here Jaist week on account -..ii.nTTC N f Hi of the deapi of her sister, Mrs. SHALLOTi-^^^B A. J. Dozier, has returned to Printed in brightly colors! Onpop- of rich vS dh??i Xr/l-lltll I Dclic.te ivory L ^ AfcTS* J,fe3SS^ftg r.~-| ii< p??Uu^ ^uuW ""^j ^E?bo"^ THE SPECIALTY SHOP I ?v* (U*v<* / v^?*< V '* SRH SOUTHPOfcT, N. C.