FACE 2 THE STATE PORT PILOT 7; Southport, N. C. j PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY m JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor jm nterad as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at c'' tfca Post Office at Southport N. C., under I til the act of March 3, 1879. n. Subscription Rates j Ni DNE TEAR *1.150 t)'; BIX MONTHS 1.00 W( THREE MONTHS .76 CO SU NATIONAL tDITORIAU ijl-W ASSOCIATION ob ___________________Pi Wednesday, March 2.">, 1942 ^ ' f th It should be easy for most politicians re: to learn to ride a bicycle ,they've strad- of died the fence so long. toj There's the fellow who it's reported l on took his money out of his safe to fill it with sugar. j ^ Navy Relief Society . . 1SP' A county-wide campaign is 111 progress Nr(. in Brunswick to raise the sum of seven- ^ hundred fifty dollars for the Navy Re- yit Jief Society. AVe not only have contribut- sin ed to- the cause, we have given consider- wj able publicity to this movement: but we ]jsj confess that this was done without our an knowing too much what it is all about. te( Convinced that at least a portion of! pei this ignorance is shared with us by ajdit good many of our readers, we have avail- vol ed ourselves of the opportunity to brush ( up on the facts concerning this charitable organization, and we pass them along for j what they are worth. , The Navy Relief Society is the emer- ^ gencv fund which up to Pearl Harbor ^ was .supported in full by the officers and men In the Navy through voluntary an- ;tfi' nual jcontributions. The funds contributed is are iked to cover the emergency period 1110 between the death of Navy Personnel and ??' the ame the government funds become W1 available, usually six months. This money. ed is us^cl to keep the children in school and 'fo to asMst the widow to pay the emergency | , doctor's bill. The Red Cross organization usually investigates the case and reports' to the Navy Relief Society, thereby obviating any conflict between the two orga-i rp nizatjons. The Red Cross, as you remem- 1 ber, jp an organization which renders as-; Pi sistaifce in cases of disaster to communi-; ties, while the Navy Relief Society renders <4sistance to individual families. ^ a President Roosevelt is honorary presi-l"'1 dent If the Navy Relief Society, and Ad-.his miraf H. R. Stark, Chief of Naval Opera-, vio *' ?j. rri._ j..:? ?^ ....j be lions* is president, ine unve gut unuci-: way i New York recently with Secretary C01 Knox and other high Navy officials'aa speal ng on behalf of the drive. So rids to us like a worthy cause, and I crfi we 1 pe our people will be generous in wit their response. po< Am her Step Toward !th? Ult\ nate Victory iso the Th War Production Board has taken na an ii portant step in the conservation of1 mi our etal supplies by prohibiting the is- vei suaiufl of new metal plates except to go sai on lijfw automobiles or to replace lost ones.# thus saving approximately 20,000 tons 4j>f sheet metal stamped for use on , X 1 or motoj vehicles. Tli plan whereby a small metal date op tai) will be used on the old plates should an semjthe purpose, and at the same time * this inetal which has formerly been de- 11 ^ votevious, has sold somebody else a bill c iods. Or else somebody has bought g in a poke. For the S7i>,000 or $80 which is now in a fund to advertis is state's recreational advantages an sources is of statewide origin, made u taxpayers' money, without geographh pographic or hydrographic distinctio all sections contributing equally with s favor or discrimination. "IIow is it then" asks the Star "Thn r. Home and E. Gerry Eastman, pres nt of the Eastman-Scott Advertisin, encv, through which this tax money i ent, figure that the western section o irth Carolina, the mountain region, th eat Smokies and their surrounding tei ory are more entitled to the benefits o urner advertising than the coastal are; th its magnificent beaches and estab lied resorts annually visited by thous ds of vacationists? How can it be coun 1 reasonable by those responsible to th ople of North Carolina for the expen ure of their advertising1 funds to de ;e the whole fund to one section only "The inconsistency of the position tak by Mr. Home and Mr. Eastman, as re cted in the News & Observer's articf t Sunday, is to be found in the declare n that although it is not expected tha rth Carolina will benefit greatly fron vertisements in summer publications, i hoped that "when peace abides onci re, North Carolina will not be the for ;ten state for tourists and sportsmen iv should the mountains be remember and the coastal resorts become tin rgotten' spot? 'Why does Mr. Home lift up his eye the hills and turn his back on thi ist?" his Foray Will -ore A Boomerang / ????? Hie shelling of an oil refinery on th< lifornia coastline Monday night evei ile President Roosevelt was makinj epochal address to the nation, ob iusly by a Japanese submarine, shouh obvious proof to the people of tin itinental United States that "it cai DDen here." There seems to be little doubt that th< ifty Nipponese synchronized the attacl th the address of the president pur sely. As has been pointed out, this will b< : indubitable signal for the die-hart lationist group of this country to raisi ;ir clamor again for the recall of ou: vy to home ports, the keeping of ou; litary forces at home, and like the pro rbial ostrich, bury our heads in th< id. But if we are any judge of the effec s will have, as far as the country a ge is concerned, it will be precisely th< posite from what the nasty Nipponesi ticipated. It will throw a bombshell in the complacency into which this coun has unhappily lapsed during the pas o months, after the first shock of Pear irbor had died away. This not only indicates that the Axi: tions want to attack the continenta iited States, but are apparently layinf ins actually to do it. Therefore, the little foray off the Cali rnia coastline may after all prove i omerang for the Japs. Shears And Paste EETS WITH APPROVAL (New York Times) The pledge not to resort to strikes during :he war made on behalf of organized labor oy William Green, president of the American federation of Labor, and Philip Murray, chairnan of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, following their conference with the President yesterday, will meet with approval throughout the nation. In time of war it beoomes necessary, in order to preserve the freedom of the nation, for men to relinquish or retain the exercise of some of their cheer ished rights. The right to strike is clearly one of these. 4. . . , THE STATE PORT P The i ? FISHERMEN f BY BILL 1TEZIAH ft x , !t p| The freshwater season closes.1 i next Wednesday to allow 40 days c for the fish to spawn. The season j ^ n will reopen on .May 10th. So far P L" there has apparently been no;' great amount of fishing, or any extraordinary luck: this has c .t been due to higher water in most 1 j_ of the fishing spots. | The reopening of the season in ! t ^ May should bring some good ' s fishing. Hgh water all during the f | winter and spring has been per- , e mitting the fish to get plenty of L food and grow fat. In marked | . *" contrast to tlie rather lean fish c I taken before the season closed !, a last year, sportsmen have been \ reporting this years catches as c being fat fish. Although he has little time for v i- it, Commander S. It. Haskell at h g Fort Caswell is a great devotee il of fishing. So far he has not h l" been able to leave his work this 1' -iyear, but he is hoping that he't > I can break away for a couple of 0 hours some afternoon this week .} and go with us. As a matter of I fact, we have tentative arrange- I I A.a._ 4Ul^ nftnennm. i ^ DlflHS HI I.IK- tin^ uiiciiiwii. j e Lieut. Commander Hasselton is ' - also greatly interested in fishing, j ' ^ without the time to gratify his interest. He is originally from1 i 11 Missouri, but he believes we have v t some good fishing around here t a and is hankering to try it. His v ambition to go fishing is shared 0 by his wife. p Ensign Rafth also has fishing v ambitions; as has Lieutenant Hinjfon. Lie?it. Rafth is married and v "(from the looks of his wife he v J was a darned good picker. If he 3 | and Lieut. Commander Hasselton b 5 j can't keep their fishing appoint-jd j ments with us, we shan't have jo the least objections to taking 3 their wives instead. j t Lieut. Hinton is a Greensboro ' h boy and he tells us that one of J the biggest bankers up there in ja Guilford county told him to look!s us ur and go fishing with us if 8 j he ever got the chance. He also c tells us that our Greensboro 1 1 friend, Charlie Farrell, is crazy f to come down for a few days of . fishing. Charlie had better grat- c j ify his craziness this week for the freshwater season ends next | - week and the salt water fishiner ? -* I 1 question is not yet satisfactorily f answered. i, It begins to look os if the mat- t 2 ter of parties of college girls a . coming for an outing on Bald a Head island is not going to be so o hot this year. Heretofore the girls a have been coming and giving us 3 our annual headaches during Feb- P ' ruary, March and April. So far v ' none of them have written lis a j;1 2 request to get out the frying pan,11 [. or to inquire if there was a ikjs- j: ,i sibilit.v of their seeing the four 1 ghosts on the island. Being a sort of voluntary help-1 (i 2 er to all sorts of visiting fishing J s parties in the past has made us j a rather resourceful, and able to J t meet almost any situation that j j. arises. It has been no uncommon | y thing for a lot of absent minded | ? - college professors to come down; o 2 and go fishing, leaving their J s . wives in our care for the day. b We have even had to look after P and change babies on occasion, h t This year we hope they will leave S ] the babies at home, but we can ' handle them if necessary. a s GRISSETT TOWN NEWS ' ,. Mrs. J. W. Somersett and son, 1 ' Odell were visitors in Wilmington c Sunday. Mrs. Agnes Hussey and daughI ter, Connie were visiting friends in Wilmington during the week- _ end. Mrs. Agnes Hussey is doing nicely with a cake sale each Saturday to collect money for the ? Navy Relief. a Mrs. Nick Mintz and Miss a Edith Mintz were visiting in Wil- ? mington for the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Parker were visitors in Whitevilie last week. r g Young White Girl 1 To Reformatory \ ' c Mabel Simmons, young white g girl of this county, was sent to the State Training School for g delinquent girls at Samarcand g Monday following a hearing be- ^ fore Clerk of Court Sam T. Ben- 0 nett. s t From the gossip page of a v western paper: "Miss Beulah, a c Batesville belle of 20 summers, is c visiting her twin brother, aged t 32" I I LOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C. : r THE HOME I FRONT I Just what did it mean to mo-1 .orists of the eastern states and, >f the Pacific Northwest when it J vas announced last week that > jasoline rationing would begin I soon ? Most of them accepted the I iituation realistically when gaso-1 ine deliveries to filing stations j vere curtailed 20 per cent and i vhen the Office of Price Adminstration froze retail gasoline pii-1 :es at their level of March 13. \nd there was little surprise vhen these moves were followed >y the disclosure that rationing vould begin in about six weeks. .Vliy this calmness on the part >f the average motorist when it: vas obvious that these moves | vould have a direct effect upon lis everyday life ? Well, the issuance of ration ' :ards to motorists will mean heir enrollment in a new conservation corps ... at a time when < anker sinkings have reduced the | tasoline supply in the areas af- j ected and when war needs are i< lemanding more and more of this! necious fuel. This new rationing1 novo drives home anew to many!; Vmericans the basic truth that ' cnservation and wise use of our escurces must go hand in hand vith production and fighting in mr country's victory program. Did you hear any motorist any- 1 there mumbling because he'll lave to get along with less gaso- j ine? If so, just ask him which j le had lather see: rationing for , lis own automobile or for the anks, planes and armored cars f America's armed forces. i TO ISSUE GAS COUPONS The rationing will be accom- j anied by a rigid coupon system, ccording to Petroleum Coordi- , lator Harold Ickes. He declined ist week to say just how much he gallonage of the average:: motorist might be cut, but he |j iade the point that individuals ; ,-ould be classified according to heir needs. The actual rationing ill begin as soon as the millions j f cards can be printed, which ircbably will be in about six |! reeks. Price ceilings fixed by the OP A j1 . ere for a 60-day period, after |' rhich there may be changes. 11 rleanwhile. filling stations are ' eing required by the War Pro- 1 uction Board to confine their i perations to 72 hours a week, lany stations are complying with |1 he order by remaining open 12 j1 lours a day. six days a week, j1 oel Dean, industrial engineer j' ml assistant professor at the;' chool of business of the Univer- 1 ity of Chicago will serve as 1 hief of gasoline rationing for he OPA. Urges Pooling Deliveries Films seeking to adjust local elivery services as a means of ' onserving tracks, tires and other : quipment and materials will be ssisted by the umce ot ueiense transportation. Proposed plans or pooling deliveries and curtailng services may be submitted to he ODT for consideration and pproval. The ODT will submit 11 such plans to the Department j f Justice for clearance under the nti-trust laws. Mounting demands upon all assenger transportation facilities . ill make "travel as usual" more nd more difficult during the nonths to come, predicts Joseph 5. Eastman, director of Defense 'transportation. Although he ex- j tressed sympathy with the need | or vacations and recreation, he i eclared that non-essential travel i hottld be limited by voluntary! ction. Parleys Boost Production Labor and management repreentatives, meeting last week in lew York and Boston in the first f 31 regional parleys, gave full upport to the production drive egun recently by the WPB. Reresentatives from Virginia plants lolding prime contracts for war' oods attended a conference in ialtimore March 20, while those j rom North and South Carolina ; ttended (or will attend) a conerence in Atlanta March 23. Sounding again tne keynote of he drive, Donald M. Nelson, hairman of the War Production Soard, declared in a radio adIress to the nation last week j hat although plane production as mounted 50 per cent since 'earl Harbor there is no ground or "false complacency." "We are nowhere near our oals," he said. "We need more nd forever more . . . weapons, nd we need them now. We have ;ot to realize the value of time." Voted For War In the three months after the 'earl Harbor attack, the United itates made available for the war ffort more money than in the 8 preceding months. From June, 940, until the Jap attack, funds otaled $64,329,000,000. From Deember 7 through March 5, $72,03,000,000. Production of communication quipment needed by the military ervices is expected to exceed 1125,000,000 a month by the end if the year. Meanwhile, WPB is eeking to hasten conversion of he typewriter industry to war vork . . . and has ordered the liscontinuance, effective April 30. if the manufacture of popular ype vending machines which dis>ense beverages, cigarettes, food. . -NO1 The concensus of opinion folic ball game Thursday night 6et Coast Guard team and Southport the boys just waited too long Local fans would have gotten a seeing those teams play several season . . . And that leads to tl four-team softball league ought 1 fun and recreation for Southp< With a team from the Section B Coast Guard, a high school team things ought to hum at a merr months. The school boys have c more than willing. Southport fight fans want to nothing. For the past two weeks we know of have gone begging 1 sey was staging boxing bouts ins matches in Thalian Hall, Will never any trouble of that kind and groan boys put on their act candy, nuts and chewing gum. Jalopies Pequisitioned For the first time putting inti effect its previously announce! plan for dealing with "recalcitr ant" operators of automobili graveyards, the Bureau of Indus trial Conservation requisitione< the entire stock of wrecked jalo pies on a lot near Valparasio, In diana. The owner, Frank Schu mak, had twice rejected offer described as fair. Is the washerwoman cominj back into her own? At any rate the WPB has ordered productioi of domestic laundiy equipmen discontinued soon so the entiri capacity 01 me inuus?.*y may u< devoted to war production. Thi Includes washing: machines an< ironers. In Florida, they're even moving trick dogs and clowns out o winter quarters of a circus t< make room for an arms plant Machines from several factorie: have been moved into the quart ?rs, and the community is all se for war work. Gets Huge Stock Of Tools President Roosevelt has signei i bill authorizing acquisition bj the Navy of .$100,000,000 wortl af tools, equipment and facilities needed in the production of or :lnance material, munitions an< armor . . . Plans for the military highway to Alaska are being speeded. . . . There has been es tablished under Coast Guarc Commandant Waesche a systen of special precautions for pro Lection of harbor installation; throughout the United States . The WPB approved constructioi of an additional 350,000 dwelling units for workers in war indus tries . . . House Speaker Raybun told a press conference that 01 March 17 there were betweei 7,000,000 and 7,500,000 men a work in war industries and fewe than 100 persons on strike. Bolivia W. M. U. Plans Progran The W. M. U. of Bolivia Bap tist church will close its week o prayer Sunday, March 29th, at 1 P. M. by giving a program. The public is invited. Advei jesday, March % .1 EV.'S 1 trend of this orts thus fat i ve any tennis H r civilians it wil ind that the til nt" has , many years, and J . . S irity that is ( ... wo get tv.j H - lesday . . night with Dock were there M vd of curious y-..,^H 5 his apparent joy in or a moment we though.-. so wrapi e spent in the ing to ask ' Wards Farm Neil Rev. H . regular morning and evte^H pointments .^B day, pleaching bp. Accompanied ' membership, he held a ' service at the home o:' A.ki^B '.during the aftei oob y: H |is still sufiV:. H of a strokm Mr. imons. who have :-s?s.^B .Myrtle Beach foi tone Oh jl led into the neighMmi S 'week. A daushter WEDfi r EXACTLY N iwingr the basket- we change the ween the Navy- been strictly sp ; All-Stars is that if there's to 1: to get together, this summer b\ big kick out of home courts; s I times during a shape is now. le thought that a "Charlie's Au to afford a lot of stage for many jrt this summer, enjoys a popul; ase, one from the duration. The t and a town team ious feature at yr clip for several ! Monday and Ti irganized and are jail the other and while we see wrestling or up with a crov free tickets that pressed us waj jecause Bert Cau- jailer again. F> stead of wrestling might become Tiington. There's about his time when the grunt | that he was go ; . . . And before j night there. ; ' OPEN FORUM A column dedicated to opinion! ot the public. A mouthpiece for the views and observations of our friend! and readers. for which we 1 , tccept no responsibility. Contributions to thle column must not exceed three hundred words. 5 To The Editor. State Port Pilot, ? Southport, N. C. . * Dear Sir: J j This writer is more interested I in good men holding office than ^ j in politics, as the word is com* j monly interpreted. However, it j I seems that business is picking I up, politically speaking, if the j announcements in that direction '! are any guide. | I have no acquaintance with 5 Mr. McLamb, who announced his " candidacy for the House of Representative in the Pilot for t March 11th, but he doesn't hesitate to come out in the open ! with his statements. His referj j ences regarding location of the (Welfare Department will doubt^ j less remind many of the heated s controversy and election in years _ j gone by in regard to changing j } the county sedt to some other f ! location. Someone suggested put, | ting the court house on wheels, I I presumably so that it could be 1! rolled about from place to place, i This might be a solution to any - argument concerning the location s of the Welfare Department?put . it on wheels and give it a reguII lar schedule throughout the X' county?a day here and a day -1 there. 11 After the county seat con1 troversy referred to was settled, * ,a prominent citizen of Southport . mflHo a rpmarlr thp pffprf that : if a change had been voted in. | Smithville Township was intending to become a county of itself. A general impression seems to 11 exist at Southport that it is overshadowed by Wilmington. - Some portions of Brunswick apf parently feel that they are over8' shadowed by Southport. This j brings to mind an expression read somewhere or other to the iising: Expec Accef Belie\ i j " -- S.'-; ; , ,*? * ? ' 1 j- 3 j cox. of Wilmington | during: the week. L M - J- E- Gilbert daughter, Annie u > jdith College. Rr.>i?h o-' J land Saturday. 1 M,s- fannie Spencer has bB seriously ill. but at last sccafl was a little better to hear 'S Mr. and Mrs. Alva Wa:i^| young son. of Wiinnngtor. aaJH panied Mr. War j Dorothy .H day. H Mi', and Mrs \v h N'afl and small daughters. hiiH Jane, of Favvttevhy, JB week-en. w:th Mrs rents. Mr. Miss Mary McLellar. rjfl Mr. and Mrs. 0. during the week. I Mr. and Mrs Duncar. recently heard f.orr. therr Lassiter. much to their n'A H jit was th months. He is in the U S val Service, and before biH transferred, was at or.f trrH the ill-fated Houston. H Farm wages as of iast lH were 160 per cer.t of tire rttsH H effect that a hawk might down and pick up a chick 'V minute or- two before hat I'M lowed a helpless anglewora^H j Bolivia. X. C I March 21. 3942 H :ted I >ted I ed I