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?' PAGE TTTO THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor fc tared u second-els** matter April 20, 1028, at (to Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1870. Subscription Rates ONE TEAR J1.6( IX MONTHS 1.0C THREE MONTHS .7? NATIONAUDITORIALIfl4|* ASSOCIATION \WWktz7yiuu. Wednesday, March 4, 1912 Then there's the local guy who gets a mighty low rate on bathtub insurance I because you know why. - 1 1 " A family tree is something if you climb up far enough in. you're likely to find a rotten limb or two. Don't swallow what comes out of Bor| lin and Tokio. It's nothing but poison. ' It's pretty hard to face the music when one of these hot bands starts jivin'. j Time Out For Worship Lately we have heard a lot about the | slackening off of church attendance bei ..r cause of tfie war, or oecause ui nws. Well, that's a pretty lame excuse. We have as little patience as anyone with the time-killing that has gone on, with the delay with which many of our industries have assumed the responsibilities of the stern task which lies ahead. But when it comes to individuals, we cannot believe that the hour or the hours spent on the Sabbath in worshipful meditation is wasted. As we have said before, we do not expect to see our pulpits turned into platforms of propaganda for the purpose of arousing hatred among our people. We earnestly hope that this will not happen. What we do hope, however, is that oui people will turn more and more toward the church for the comfort of quie* strength that comes to us in time of trouble. Something To Remember We know for a fact that up-to-date the work of the Brunswick County Rationing Board has been marked by pleasant relations and understanding between its members and applicants for new tires and tubes, retreads and automobiles. As the work grows heavier there will be more and more opportunity for misunderstanding, and before this has a chance to develop we wish to remind oui fellow citizens that the rules being enforced by the rationing board were not made by them, but by officials in Washington. And secondly, members of the board do not receive one cent for the * time and trouble they are giving to this work. This certainly entitles them to every possible consideration that can be shown them by ihe persons who come to therr for cen.f.cates. Tournament Time The high school gymnasium at Wacca maw will be the center of interest foi the entire county, particularly for th< younger folks, this week-end, for it is t( be the scene of the annual Brunswicl County High School Basketball Tourna ment. [ Thefe will be those who will say thi: is no time for frivolities of this kind, tha: our titne and energies could be bettei spent elsewhere. But these are folks wh< I cannot see beyond the headlines. The1 truth of the matter is that ther< is no ^better foundation for morale thai that developed by the clean competitor of amateur sports; and facts are availabh to show that the athletes of this natior are now the leaders in our armed forces The^ playgrounds and gymnasium; throughout this land have been workinj hand in hand with the proper develop ment jof the morale of our nation for i longer period than they have realized and itf is with this thought in mind tha we commend to you the tournament thi >veek-tnd at Waccamaw. ?. Plan And, Plant t Barring some freak of nature or th devastation of this area by the invasioi of soi?e armed force, there is no reaso: on ea&h why any Brunswick county fam ily should be in want for healthy, whole some ?ood during the next year. 'We say that because we have plent; of fertile soil, a good climate and plent; of opportunity for making this a banne year in the production of vegetables an other food crops. It will be too late i I May to think about garden peas an other early garden products; in June i will be too late to think about potatoe and beans. j | The time to do your planning and plar i'ting is now. If you have difficulty buyin .! seed and necessary fertilizer, there ar at least two governmental agencies in thi i county ready to help you solve thes j problems. If you go hungry next winter, you ca blame it on your indolence. Coining Elections To Impose Grave Responsibilities j Tf ever in the long and turbulent his lory of our Nation an impending primar ' and election demanded some sane an 1 sober thinking on the part of all the pec : pie, it is at this crucial hour. The coming primary and the subsc quent election is going to impose doubl responsibility on those who enjoy th , franchise and those who seek public oi fice as well. For it is going to be the duty of ever person in the United States to search hi j heart and conscience and to see wha j kind of America it is we are fighting s desperately to preserve. Before there is any attempt on anybody's part to buy votes in these months to come, let us stop and ask ourselves: "Is this what the men at Pearl Harbor, the men on Bataan died for? Is this the kind of America which we are fighting to preserve?" Are places-of public trust to be put o the block and auctioned off to the highes bidder? Are votes to be dangled befor the hungry eyes of office seekers wit! dollar bills necessary for their purchase Me ttiis tbe America which we are fightin; so desperately to preserve. Can we say ih truth that this constitutes a worthy appraisal of our aims and objectives in this conflict? Or rather, have we not reason to hope that out of the ashes of this great conflagration wili come not only a liberated world, but a little better, a little more decent America as well? Bought elections, like the day of ganp sters and hoodlums in this country, toda in this America which men are sheddin ; their blood to preserve, must be and wil be relegated to the dark days of an un wholesome past. Let us firmly resolv that the America which we are fightin so desperately to preserve today shall b . the kind of America which we shall b . proud to hand down to our children an our children's children. , Some- people have chosen to call th , Japs rats. But why insult poor, helples . rats thusly? ; | Shears And Paste WHY NOT DO IT OPENLY? f Charlotte Observer) If the agitation for heavier increases in social security taxes as a means for helping j finance defense involves the use by tire gov' | eminent of these accumulated funds, and what 'I else could be meant?, then the view of some 1 Senators and economists that such a diversion of these funds is unsound and unethical Is valid. s What else, indeed, could such be but a virtual violation of trust or. the part of the government?taxing the people for one specific purpose ar.d then using the revenue derived from such taxation for quite another, even for another so utterly essential as that of national defense ? 1 The wise course would be the imposition of j straight war and defense taxes which involve no subterfuge and no deception. 5 The Social Security taxes were never der signed to produce revenue for all purposes. 3 They are, instead, special taxes, levied against ^ employer and employe, to give a measure of unemployment aid and old-age security to (- workers. In other words, they are a form of s insurance. The American people are fully aware of the need for higher taxes. But they don't want camouflaged levies. Congress' duty now is two-fold?first, the maximum possible reduction e in non-defense spending in all fields, no matn ter whose toes are stepped on; second, a war g tax bill which will raise directly and without deception the additional revenue the Treasury j. must have. A sound fiscal policy Is as much a part of war as great armies and navies. THE STATE PORT Li. i.i r.l [!'*" ? i ? The I FISHERMEN BY Bin; KE7.IAH Last week we had something I to say regarding fishing; at this | time of the year, citing; the fact t-jthat two years ago Charlie Fary Tell of Greensboro and the local ^ ! postmaster were out on February j 16th and get 46 fine freshwater fish of various sorts. This was not only true, we went with Charlie, ourself, next day and got !- 47 of them. Well, the two years e ago was left out of the story somewhere between here and the , printing of the paper. > * * * The paper went around to its subscribei-s. Charlie received his y in Greensboro and walked around g to the barber shop of Paul Mc, Collum, another Greensboro devotee of the Southport fishing. 0 Paul was ready for Charlie and stopped work on a customer to say; "Charlie, you're the biggest liar in Greensboro. You were right hero in Greensboro on February 16th and 17th. And, as for that fellow, Keziah, when he gets that pipe in his mouth and gets started, he either does not know what he is writing or he is the biggest liar in Brunswick. Why didn't you ask me to go along?" n * * * It has since developed Ihnt it Charlie read the story to Paul q and that he purposely ommitted the "two years ago" our friend the ? barber thought he was being re galed with a story of a current g fishing exploit by Charlie. * # * Never a week goes by now without some of the Greensboro boys writing with regard to fishing. VVe can't tell 'em anything in regard to the weather and won't be able to do so for the duration of the war. To save gas and tires, it looks like a lot of sportsmen will have to make their plans for three or four day's fishing at a time, staying here and taking everything in its stride, instead of making repeated trips. * * * V Some of the sportsmen living at distant points are already 11 planning on procedures described 1_ above. In a way it should work out very satisfactory. We seldom have more than a day or two of & bad weather at a time and the e fishing party that comes to stay e two or three days will be bound , to get at least a day of good weather. * * * Last year many a party from | una auu ciicr aujuimii^; ouiic V* South Carolina came in to fish S only the one day, and they often came without any regard for the weather that might be prevailing when they left their homes, or J"* any inquiries as to conditions here. A result was that we saw a number of parties come in and go home, some having to make a round trip of as much as 500 or 600 miles, without wetting a fishing line. ? * * Last year it was the custom for parties of sportsmen living four and five hundred miles from here to make a three or four day expedition, some, of them coming several times during the spring, summer and fall. We do not recall a single such long distance party, staying three days, that did not make a nice catch. There is no reason why the folks living nftarer here should not come less often and stay longer when they do comc. * * * We haven't experimented on the freshwater fish yet, but we have an inner feeling that they are biting good. Sometime soon somebody or other will be coming around to show us a beautiful string of big-mouth bass, goggle-eye perch and what not. We kind of feel it in our bones. Orton Pond, Town Creek, McKenzie and Mercer Ponds and Goose Lake are right on the verge of becoming well patronized fishing holes. * * Getting around to our saltwater commercial fishing friends, last year saw a dearth of mullets ail through the year. There wer< just a few small ones. Last week however, the mullets began t< Show up again ill numbers unusual for this early In the year And they were all sizes. As a result of two day' fishing witi their small gill nets Willie Cooker and his son, Maxie, brought lr 14fM) pounds, and they were ol ail size. The smaller ones hrough flee and one-half cents and then were a lot of other sizes, run PILOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C. L ? _! I THE HOME FRONT | "You Can't Do Business With Hitler!" This has been driven home to | the American people as the fundamental economic lesson of the present world upheaval. That ! principle holds equally true for 1 the Rome and Tokyo members of the Axis . . . never let that fact jbe forgotten! Now that the Japanese have won control of Malaya and are [ threatening to establish themi selves completely in the Dutch ' East Indies, they are offering to sell the United States crude rub| ber at IS cents a pound. This offer was featured in a recent i Japanese broadcast aimed at America and heard by Richard F. Lewis, who heads Radio Station ; WINC, Winchester, Va? and Station WFVA, Fredericksburg, Va. When you recall that we were paying the Dutch and British an average of from 24 to 25 cents a pound for crude rubber before we entered the war, the question i arises: Why such generosity on | the part of the Japanese ? If we accept that Japanese promise and if we believe Tokyo's i implied promise to behave now that it has won a certain econI omic domination in the Far East, i what incentive is there for us to | fight a bitter war in order to I help the British and Dutch re! gain their lands so they may profiteer once more at our expense? | That's what the Japs want us to j believe. That's how they hope to J undermine our will to fight. But 1 remembering the Axis record of I broken pledges, we remain as imi nervious to fine Japanese words as we are to Japanese bombs. TIGHTEN GRIT ON PRICES With sugar rationing just around the comer, home front trends indicate more and more j regulation of prices by the Office I of Price Administration in a efI fort to keep living costs stable [ and equitable. It is inevitable that consumers' goods will become increasingly scarce as more and more factories are converted to war production, but the OPA is on guard to see that no profiteering from the situation. Acting to see whether prices are remaining in line with values, Paul V. Betters, executive Director of the United State Conference of Mayors, is inquiring of 1 officials of 33 cities as to whether savings in milk delivery services are being passed along to the consumers. This inquiry was undertaken at the request of Donald E. Montgomery, consumers' counsel of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Curtailment in deliveries, Mr. Montgomery pointed out, should enable one milk truck to do the work of two, with a reduction in total truck mileage of perhaps 40 per cent and a similiar or, even ; greater, saving in labor cost. WAR COST MOUNTS I Our authorizied expenditures j for war, plus funds pending bej fore Congress, now total an estimated $145,400,000,000. Its obvious we're getting into our stride, but it's also obvious that we shall need every bit of trained manpower we can get to translate these appropriations into finished weapons . . . This gives added significance to the announcement by WPB's Labor Division that the Army and Naftf liovfl o nnrnunrl the hirincr r>f ? J Mil. V. 99 per cent of the aliens who ' have applied for jobs on secret | war production. SAVE, SALVAGE, SUBSTITUTE j The nation is scouring its scrap heaps for old metals, rub1 ber and pape-, and the truth is ! that we probably shall have barely enough on many essentials ? j even though we conserve to the utmost. There's a clue to the sort j of thrift we must practice in the j OPA's advice to auto U9ers to save this year's anti-freeze j against next winter's cold . . . j We'd do well to leam to take care of our clothes, too, with new restrictions on civilian use of wool. Also, nylon will be needed largely for military purposes. As an instance of how all-out production for war works, consider the fact that by the middle of this year manfacturers of machinery used in the textile industry will be devoting half of their capacity to war work. This I means that the only textile mills which will get new machinery will be those engaged in essential ' war work. SUGAR SHARING URGED i nhig to large, roe mullets that . brought ten cents i>er pound. H * * , John Potter, engaged in the . same kind of fishing, reported f getting 1200 pounds in two days, ) or rather two nights. Last year . the salt mullets evidently reached . the lowest cycle of production . and now the cycle again has an i upward trend. ? ? ? i The run of these and other fish F is something like the tides, with t the exception that the rise and [> fall of production takes several - years to run in and out. ~ " - NOT They say that they made Dan 1 out the whistling' when he reportec [ the Coast Guard. That rule <ioesn*i week-ends, though, because he was l and Sunday and was blowing in j. . . . We'll take a chance on this ! ball tournament at Waccamnw and i dark-horse candidates to win. Di that Leland boys and Waccamaw whelming favorites in their resp< we'll string along with the chance port boys and the Shallotte girls. Up at Raleigh at the same til teams of the Southern Conference to dethrone championship Duke, season of only one loss in the coi lend too much hope to the chall Canners have been urged by A. E. Bowman, chief of the WPB sugar section, not to accept de- 1 livery of their sugar supply more than 45 days before they begin canning their 11142 pack. This arrangement will give the canner ample time, he sa'd, to ah- , range for canning operations. "Sugar," he explained, "is needed in certain areas forhousehold cosumers and Should nbt be tied up in canners' warehouses or plants unnercessarily hong." Already completed cans for nonessential uses ? cans to contain shoe polish among them ? are being released. But no more thereafter . . . More important, there'll be cans available for the home canner when the season starts . . . OPA last week asked manufacturers in the flashn.?v.f Miratm, r\nt ta raise their i prices above the level of February 1, fixed a temporary ceiling over used egg cases, froze fertilizer prices. War Production Board officials discussed with the soap and glycerine industry measures which would save wore glycerine for war explosives . . . The end result of this will probably be lots of soap, but soap less slippery because of a lower | glycerine content. AUTO POOLS RUUOMMENDRO Workers who use private automobiles to get to and from wori< have been urged by Sidney Hillman, . labor director of the W!PB, to establish "informal transportation clubs" to prolong the serv- ice of their tires. "In traveling to and from war plants," said Hillman, "the average automobile in many cases ' carries only one or two persona I when, it could be carrying more, j If we pool resources now with our neighbors and fellow workers j we can make our cars last long 1111111 COME ( . . A Wi week v cause v because in arre ing pre necessa \V< hind, s( for stof is have guiar r The ' "Yom i i L [ 1 WEftNfcS EXACTLY NE 3arly Wells cut Brunswick county i for duty with of the strangest pi t hold good for Comes Mr. Jordan, i here Saturday at the Amuzu. We his best, style 0f the funniest sh( week's basket- Scverfll bKlt.OTVr pick n pair of (,ay watchinj ;spite the fact storm. jfs a good girls aYe overlocal fire departrm ?ctive divisions. for a blaze once s of the South- j spread all over tc tie seven other wm be trying fa of this secti Whose regular Friday night at Tl rtferehee doesn't -Abe Yoiirist meets lehgers. Several Carter meets Jack er and avoid additional strain on i M buses ami Streetcars which are already being taxed to capacity j in many war production areas." Hi Hillman did not HmJt bis hp- m peal to workers hi waY indos-1 tries. Instead, he emphasized fhat|W such cooperative transportation [ hi should become practice in Chilian j industry aa well. WNK tSWTOBS tXtOM iRi The Bureau Of Industrial Oon- 1 servaticn, WPB, has announced St that definite offers will be made within 90 days for the purchase W Of all old cars in automobile j graveyards located within rea-! sonable distance of metal con-1p suhiers. The Bureau, with the aid H Of the WPA and the Department G of Agriculture, now preparing a " iVnuo omoifAtMit'fli! uireuiurjr vi uivoc gia.vjw.u-. ^ YOll HOME A AGENT_SAYS ? Friday, March 6. ? L e 1a nd Senior 4-H Club, 11 a. m. at Le- at land school; Leland Junior 4-H Ohrh, Uc45 a, m. at Lielahd ( school, Northwest Home Demon-ibi stratlon Club, 2 p. m. at home, fa > SPOT( . . . For your Car ? See us prices paid for all models? BRAXTON AIT WHITE VILL 3N BACK-. LL IS FORI len we corrected oar it ve didn't cut off a single ve wanted to; the names ; our records showed t ars. The paper shortage ssure for conservation m iry. ; aren't mad with the foi ) now they ought not to b >ping their paper. What ; them come back in an< eaders again of State Port! 1 COUNTY NEWSPA SOUTHPORT, N. C. PAVi Ma.Fuji .t IP| fans plan lo attend ctures of recent years jn t; playing Monday >n?t TVw^H f 've seen it, and it is easily >ws we have evei enjoyed, lers hail to spemi most r,f y .^^B ( ? out for their craft .airing thing that the two calls for ;nt were only for chimney firt^M started probably would v:,v^^K iwn despite the best efforts r firemen . . The wtes-.hj^M^ on are in for a toiigl aalian Hall in Wilmington i Chief Little Beaver and M/fl^B LaRue. 3# TiT'E-it. Skipper ~~^Hl Saturday. Mareh 7 Office Monday. March !V Ar.tr orne Demonstration Club. ; at home of Mrs Alvic Lxk^^B Tuesday. Mareh 10 ome Demonstration Club, 2 at home of Mrs. J. H. F Wednesday. Match 11 Con^H an Home Demonstration Clut^H p. m. at home of Mrs. Fmir^H anley; Ash Home Demor.stra^H on Club. 4 p. nt at home rs. H. V. Britt. Thursday. March 12 ?Mt r.^H ih Home Demonstration Club m. at home of Mis H RISSETT "TOWNINEWS ? ana. iv. o. ?ircn.\ ui OHIO!!, has been guest of kfr^H gnes Hussey for two weeks. I fflS Mrs. L. L. Hewett and Mi^H gnes Hussey were visitors i 'hiteville Sunday JW The friends of Mr George rooks will be glad to learn tha^H > is still improving at his ; Seaside. IB The Prairie dog is not a it belongs to the ground-squlrre^H mily. :ash | now . . . Highest market -1937 throught 1942. ro SERVICE I E, N c. |[ i H 3iven I tailing list last 13 subscriber bewere dropped \M hat they were plus increas- [Js iade this action ja ks who fell be- jjfl >e mad with us fa we'd like to do I j get to he re- |g t 198 Pilot \ PER" I
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