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PAGE 4 THE STATE PCSRT PILOT Southport, N. G. , PUBUSHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor Altered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, e tfefr Poet Office at Souttaport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. {Subscription Rates jNE TEAR 11.8 UX MONTHS 1 1.0 | rHKKE MONTHS .7 (NATIONAL 6DITORIAI * |fl^l_W ASSOCIATION 131 Wednesday, August 5, 1942 We can forgive a poor loser, but an un gracious winner is an inexcusable charac ter. !; One result of this war has been th< development of some mighty fine arm |< chair military strategists. !, "nnnention of freedom of wor }iUV'UVI II ship is the right to stay away from which . ever church we wish on Sunday morn I ings. Hauling To Market WE are mighty sorry, but there is 's new and bigger headache than eve: for tobacco farmers this season, and tha [ is the problem of transporting their croj { to market. I The first trouble is gasoline; the sec on is tires. We know for f. fact that it is the policj of "ationing authorities in this county t< furnish every drop of gasoline necessary for pick-ups and trucks to market tin tobacco crop this season. In many cases requests made for gasoline have been ad justed downward, but in no instance was this done with the idea of making it im ; possible for one of these vehicles to r<ak< every necessary trip to market. Tires, though, are another matter. Her< it is not a matter of worrying about r whether those granted will be used fo: I the purpose intended; rather is it a ques l tion of having less than one - fourtl [ enough tires to make the needed repiace 1 ments on farm truck and pick-ups. If There isn't much that the rationing au r thorities can do about this matter. W< understand that every possible effort hai E been made to get an additional quota fo: i this county, and we know for a fact tha B farmer and farm needs have been care I fully considered on this, the eve of tin H fnhappp mnvlrpf nnprnno\ This leaves the matter squarely up t< the farmers who are fortunate enougl to still have tires and tubes that wil carry a load. It is their responsibility t< play the pr.rt of a good friend and i good neigh oor this season, and to helj see to it that others in their community have a chance to get their tobacco t< market. This is no time for playing th< role of 'dog in the manger' nor for pro tecting one's own interest against futun emergencies. If our war effort is reallj to be all-out, then we must all be read} and willing to do our part?whether i be little or much. Good Investments THERE are two types of investment that we'd like to recommend to ou farmer friends at this season of the yeai One is War Bonds, and we take it tha their value needs none of our explaining It is well to remember, though, that Unci j Sam needs our money now; and it also i 1 a fact that if War Bonds are not a soun i: investment, then neither is anything els in the United States. We all are consciou I of the bond buying campaigns that hav I been in progress for some time, and w I know that the greatest success has bee I with the people who have a regular ii I come. Now it's the farmers' turn; and b< K cause they get their money in a lurn I sum, and because there are fewer luxuri< ft available for purchase this fall, it seen I that there is good reason to hope ths a good part of the income from the 194 I tobacco crnr> will ho InanoH to tko I! 1- w viiv ernment to help prosecute our war effoi Knowing that not all of the surph cash will go for the purchase of Wj Bonds, the next best thing that we ca I think of to do with farm money this fa | is to fortify against an uncertain futui i by strengthening our ability to live ; t home. This means buying new and betti I breeding stock for poultry and hog pr ' jects and for beef cattle herds in th county. In this connection there is tl matter of providing an ample milk su; ply, and for the farm family that do> not now own a good cow, there'll new be a better time to buy one. - * Second Front - j' _ 'OOTH here and in England, millions of JD people seem to consider themselves completely qualified experts on military - tactics and strategy. They know precisely what is wrong with the United Nations' High Commands, and they are convinced 7 - that they could remedy matters in short 0 order if they were put in charge. That t 0 widespread attitude underlies the aggres- 6 sive demand that the British and" the 11 _ Americans immediately open a second " front in Europe. In theory, the second front would be of p immense benefit to the Allied cause. It a would divert men and machines and sup- n plies from Hitler's Russian and African * m offensives. It would give the conquered a - people of France their opportunity to rise J1 - up against their conqueror and help de- a " stroy him. It would mark the start of a " real effort to break Axis power at home d ?where Axis power must eventually be ^ e broken. si So much for theory. In actual fact,in opening the second front now would be1 one of the most hazardous operations in T all military history. According to all reports, the Germans have done wonders in G fortifying their continental positions. In a * -l 4. OAA ArtAim France alone, tney nave auuui ovu.vyv r seasoned troops which have been ligoi- ^ ously trained in preparation for an Allied {( invasion. These troops have abundant ^ i equipment of the first quality, and they C( r have plenty of air support. Their supply si t lines are secure, and they lie across land, ) not across water. The Germans have mas- ^ sed a gigantic amount of heavy artilleiy, much of it taken from the MaginOt Line, e] " along the French Coast, and every pos- ti sible invasion point is a fortress. ni As military history proves again and again, an over-water invasion of enemy- |0 held territory is the- most difficult of all ^ martial operations?even after their com-jm plete victory at Dunkirk, when British al military power was all but destroyed, the Nazi generals didn't feel confident s} enough of success to make the attempt. m The enemy positions must be "softened" first by days and perhaps weeks of artil- p> lery fire?and guns do not exist which ^ can adequately shell the German positi- |)( ons from the British side of the Channel. p; As a substitute for artillery, dive bombers ti. would have to be used?and their losses al n J would be enormous. ? The losses in men which would follow J when the stage of landing operations was reached, is also staggering. Without artillery support, the landing troops would ?f have to advance against completely shiel- ^ ded defenders with a vast superiority in jn firepower. Writing in Collier's, Quentin y( Reynolds, one of the best informed of th war correspondents, draws a vivid and aI probably accurate picture .when he says: m "Let those who shout loudest for the im- {|i mediate establishment of a second front a, iin France . . . visualize for a moment the w I cost, in equipment and life. Let them visu- w jalize the waters of the Channel running fc blood red under a white moon, and let |y< them visualize the bodies of thousands of of British and American soldiers floating in a " those waters. If the persuasive eloquence d< of the second-front brigade is followed, sV I no other result is possible." !|! ^ This does not mean that a second front is impossible. To the contrary, every really informed military man is convinced tt that one will be opened in time. But itjtE cannot be opened until everything is ^ ready. That means that, first, there must ? s be many more bombings of Germany and a r the Continent on the Cologne scale. It w " means that Allied troops must be given p t more and better equipment than they ' I now possess. And it means that ways e e must be found of causing distracting d IS trouble for Germany at home. y d Some experts believe that airpower ll e alone may create a second front. They n 1S look forward to a time when thee, four, e five thousand major bombers will be used e nightly in raids against the Axis. Major d II de Seversky is the most eloquent exponent n of this doctrine and his recent best seller, ^ ~~ "Victory Through Air Power," is a con- i: P vincing work. The problems involved s >S l. it ,. ... ? ucic are mose oi production, supply and r 1S coordination?and the last two are even ? ^ more important than the first. We are , '2 producing planes on an ever-increasing s v~ scale. We have not yet solved the diffi- t t- culties that lie in taking them, their fuel, f 1S their crews and their parts to the battle- a lr fronts and keeping them flying. in In any event, many of those who de- , N mand a second front at once are terribly t re uninformed. The High Command has not ! opened a second front simply because it 1 sr knows that the time is not yet ripe?and ( o- because it also knows that the United 1 is | Nations must not be subjected to another ' defeat of the Dunkirk, Singapore, Philip- 1 pines, and East Indies variety. A great 1 P" amount of ground-work lies ahead before es we can really start a sustained offensive 1 ir drive of any kind against either Germany or Japan. THE STATE PORT THE HOME FRONT HE HOME FRONT 4 In June, almost a million Americans?men, women, youths -joined the army of production i factories, shipyards, offices nd on the farm. In June, the far Production Board said, oui utput of ships and tanks and lanes and guns, of ammunition nd campaign equipment was allost three times that of last fovember. These reports are good news nd we have need of good news ast now when Nazi tanks pitch nd lumber through the ripe heat field of the Ukraine in a rive which threatens the great ity of Stalingrad on the Volga, city which means to the Rusians about what Kansas City leans to us. The Nazis advance in Russia, he Nazys and their Italian ac:>mplices are held in Egypt but tand only sixty miles from the reat British naval base at Alexndria. In the Far East, Japanese atrols draw steadily closer to le United Nations' air base on few Guinea which is an outpost )r the defense of Australia. In le Atlantic. Axis submarines intinue to sink our merchant lips. None of us, at such a time, ould be foolish enough to unerestimate the strength and the rcciay and determination of our lemies. And none would deny "i' n i] for whatever easure of sacrifice may be ne?ssary to defeat these enemies, nd yet today the outlook in the mg view is more encouraging lan ever before. Our enemies lay gain victory after victory id yet we are building the inruments of their destruction, e shall overwhelm them by leer weight of weapons and of anpower in the end. That statement about our outit of war material in June was awn from a report on war proiction made to the American ;ople last week by the War roduction Board. It was a callous report. WPB chairman, Dond M. Nelson said "boasting" lout our progress would be nemature" and that there was > excuses for "undue optimism." Ship Production Mounts It is true that the biggest part our job is still ahead of us and >t it is heartening to realize at we made more war planes tile first six months of this ;ar than during all of 1941 and iree and a half times as many iti-aircraft guns. That we built ore thanks in that period than the whole of last year and lat our output of machine tools id other types of machinery hich makes the machine* of ar 98 percent above tile figure ir the first six months of last >ar Even mol-e encouraging, in view ' our loss^i in the battle of the tlantic, is the fact that ourprojction of merchant ships?the lips which must carry our wea5ns to the fighting front?was i5 percent greater than for the hole of 1941. Still we have to do better than lat. We have not only to mainlin production on this scale, we iust increase it to yet greater eights. This means that we iust continue to funnel every vailtble bit of manpower and 'omanpower into essential war roduction work that is not needil for the armed services. The umber of jobs filled by public mployment offices in June was ouble that of two years ago and et it must go higher if we are 5 have the production army we eed. Flowback Of Scrap Metal Slows Up? Most definitely, we must reouble our efforts to get scrap letals back into the furnaces tie Office of Price Administraion says that the flow of scrap 3 not increasing enough and hipments lately have been ol iocrer quality and both OPA nd WPB attacked rumors thai here was to be a rise in the Jaximum Price for iron anc iteel scrap. WPB further saic hat these rumors caused grounds or concern lest they bring aboui i slackening in the nation-wide lalvage dnve. This we cannot af ord, this we cannot tolerate. A1 eady, in some factories, produc Jon has slackened because of i shortage of materials. Anyone ,vho contributes to this shortage >f scrap, anyone who knows o :he existance of a scrap pile ane loes not act to see that it get back to the furnaces, i3 helpinj sur enemies. One by one the metals and ma terials were drafted for war. On by one their use has been pro hibited except in the most neces PILOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C. sary civilian production. Until, as 'scarcities grew, oniy gold and [silver?ironically ? remained as j metals worthless for tiat job (which is today our only job. Last week gold stood alone in the strong box reserved for useless metal. Silver took its place in the war effort with the issu' ance by WPB of an order re1 striding civilian use of foreign silver and directing supplies of 1 that metal into essential produc1 tion. Domestic silver, purchased by the treasury as monetary metal, wasn't affected by the order ' j except that silver produced be' fore July 1, 1939, and secondary metal produced since and sold by ' the processor were included in the category of foreign silver. But the order did not forbid the ' purchase of silver by private ' users. Anglo-American Pact For PRODUCTION The unity of purpose of the United Nations is matched by unity in action. Last week Great Britain's deputy to the newly combined Production and Resources Board, Sir Robert Sinclair, arrived in Washington with full authority to cooperate toward welding a single industrial war machine out of the joint resources of the U. S. A. and Britain. Canada's war production already has been linked to ours and Can'adian boats on the Great Lakes will carry ore between U. S. ports this season so that we both may have more steel. Nazis Fear Food Shortage None of the United Nations which have been overrun by the Axis has really been conquered. * * 4. i.! I Last week nrougni new testimony to the unconquerable spirit j of our Allies in the form of a commique from the Jugoslav army under the command of General Draja Mikhailovitch. In this communiiqu \ confirmeo by the ;Axis admissions, the Jugoslays 'said they'd retake a lost territory in "occupied" Jugoslavia and had captured 1,200 prisoners. Badered and harassed by the continued {resistance of the people of occupied Europe, the Nazis now are afraid of a food shortage, according to an enemy broadcast from Germany. Apparently the Nazis are having difficulty in taking all ! the bread from the mouths of the | enslaved countries and Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Gestapo | has moved in on the German food Jficnt?presumably to silence complaints in the manner the Gestapcs know so well. Fairmont Mart Awaits Opening Stafford Says That Expectations Are That This Will Be The Banner Season In The History Of The Market By C. B. STAFFORD, | Sales Supervisor for Fairmont Tobacco .Market The Fairmont tobacco market, I which annually handles the larg' est volume of any market in the South Carolina and North Carolina border belt, is all set for the opening of the 1942 season Thursday, with expectations of making this | the banner season in the history of the market. Eight vast and modern warehouses are ready to accomodate a | record amount of the weed while farmers, warehousemen and the public in general radiate optimism when prospective prices are mentioned. Buyers are perfecting their j plans and the four sets of buyers' | system will be in effect when the ' season gets underway. As early as March 12 of this year it was predicted that the Fairmont tobacco market would reach a goal this season of 35 millions of j pounds of tobacco, -which would sell for 35 cents per pound or better. Now that we are on the eve of opening the 1942 season, it is even safer to prophesy this tremendous ] turn-over due to the fine crops . that are reported by the farmers. ( Furthermore Fairmont market has never failed to attain a goal which was set. We do not publish any 'estimates,', or 'abouts' or beat ' around the bush, either in regard 1 to pounds sold, money paid out or 1 averages. Farmers of Virginia, North - Carolina and South Carolina all ! know that any information re1 leased or published by the FairI mont Tobacco Warehousemen's } association is always official U. t S. Government figures, carefully checked and double checked before being released to the public. For 43 consecutive tobacco seasons Fairmont has sold tobacco higher than any other to1 bacco market in North Carolina - or South Carolina. Official U. S. s Department of Agriculture f statistics prove this statement to i be true. Furthermore, Fairmont M warehouses remain open longer T than those on any market in the ' North Carolina Border Belt. Eight huge warehouses on the Fairmont market provide 12 acres e of floor space. There are also ' three re-drying plants with a -1 daily capacity of one and one-half 1 - N OT Claude Moore came in the oth-: er day and wanted to know if web wanted to buy a 60-pound'j 'August ham.' When he got thruji laughing at what we called him for claiming to have .a 60-pound, j ham this time of year, lie ex-,, plained that an 'August ham' is | a watermelon. First time we'd ever heard the term . . . "Cap-b tain Fury," the story of Australia's Robin Hood, is the feature ' Monday and Tuesday at the'1 Amuzu theatre. WHILE RIDING ALONG:?One1j result of the rationing program 1 is slow driving, and a result of slow driving is more time forb noting interesting details as you' ride along at thirty or, forty miles per hour ... A kid1' starts across the road a hundred yards oz''so away, but there's no'i need for screeching of brakes or ; careening of car. We're conserv-ji ing tires and rubber. And anyway. 1 the mother comes rushing up to'i grab the youngster back to afl place of safety. The brat pays off by leaning over and biting her hand ... A black snake wrig- I " i.i 1 , gles onto tne narasunace, uieaj frantically twists and squirms his i million pounds. These fhree plants are the Imperial Tobacco Co., Ltd.; International Planters, Inc.p and the Person - Garrett Tobacco Co. July Hottest In 67 Years i Taking One Last Fling Fori1 The Month, Old Sol Sent Thermometer Soaring Friday To 100 Degree Mark The mercury stood at an even , 100 degrees in the shade at 4 p. m. Friday afternoon, when Old, i Sol, already having outdone him-| self in his efforts to shatter, practically all previous heat rec-1 ords for the month of July, de-! cided to take one iast, final, and fire-bitten fling at a sweltering and helpless populace. Doubtless you'd already guessed that Friday was getting on towards shattering some kind of record, and perhaps you surveyed your wringing wet shirt and surmised that the mercury was 120 instead of 100 in the shade. But the truth was that Friday, topping off the hottest July which Columbus county has experienced since 1875, was a killerdiller as far as heat goes. The minimum temperature for the day was 82 degrees, and Friday night, It Isn't Too Hot TO EAT . . . When Somebody Else Is Doing The Cooking ! VV. RUSS STATION SHALLOTTE, N. C. MM??? . SAVE This weeL 1941 taxes dui to avoid havh sale for taxes PAY BEFORE NOT ONLY Y MENT, Bl E. i \ WEPNJ WtlyI ivay back to the shoulder, probably prompted more by the burning his belly was getting than by any fear of a slow-moving car ... A couple of quail take off from beside the road. No little ones are in sight, and this looks bad for hunting prospects this fall... A colored man who wants a ride, not only for himself but for a rolled up mattress, a battered suit case anl! a paper poke. In normal times he'd be out of luck, but there'3 no hurry and we let him load up. We learn that he 'got a hearing from home to come ata once' because his mother was sick. He literally gathered up his bed and began to walk, and had covered fifteen miles afoot when fancy prompted us to give him a lift. The last we see of him he is.loaded up again and walking barefoot down the j highway on the last 25-mile lap of his journey . . . Artesian wells! flowing in front of homes along the highway look mighty inviting, particularly so when two stops at filling stations reveal the fact j that no corn annus 01 any nmuj ire available. 'Twould be funny j thousands of Columbus people, spent the night tossing and tum-| bling because of the intense heat, j Records show that last month, was the hottest July Whiteville and Columbus county has experienced since 1875. Mean temperature for July was 84 degrees, making it the third hottest July on record here. Not ror t> i years has the mercury held an average! above this past month's record. | It isn't necessary to tell any body that it was hot, but another item for the record that it has been 22 days since the temperature was normal here. On July 9th it was two degrees below norINVESTIGATE Th At PRESBYTEI GOLI COLLEGE OPENS SI *?Christian Character. *?High Academic Standards. A *?Well-rounded Development. *?Two years of work for A. I lege Diploma. Commercial a ministration?One-year Busir ses. Music. *?Two years of Preparation fo ing, Agriculture .Engineering *?Civilian Pilot Training: Coi Forces. Glider Pilots, Liaiso structors. Eight to sixteen v *?Pre-Induction Officers Traini U. S. Air Forces. *?Aviation Mechanics. *?All *?Extra-Curricular Activities. "?High Standards. Low Costs. "?Modern Facilities. *?Prepai VISIT OR PRESBYTERIAN MAXTON, NOR' EMBARASSI : is your last chanci e the City of Soutl ig your property a in the newspaper. : IT IS TOO LATE, Aim xirrni roc t UUI\ HLLULLDO I UT ADVERTISINC AS WELL. j. R. WEEK! City Tax Collector / ESDAY, AUGUST s 1(v _ J m- n if a by-product of the rat"^ program would be a return the old fashioned hospitalitv getting out to stretch a 01 get a cool drink of water A 10-wheel lumber truck \rujs' bles past with its load, but we do is wonder how the ownwill ever get enough new t?r' for it when the ones he's Us'f are gone . . . There's a haw hovering over the road ahead and we hear the birds jn -"i trees near us screaming their alarm. Maybe its far fetched hut it reminds us of an enemy PlJ' cruising lazily over an unprotect" ed village, just toying with tin* before it makes its attack lot of folks are getting tobacco ready for market, and most of then are out in the yard, or on them front porch, trying to get Whe? there's a slight breeze. There's ntUin/c An nta nkAiit f tiling auuui '.urjarco?ffQj^ beginning to end . . . Antl we reach where we are goint The trip takes longer than it us:, to, but then you see more; are we can't seem to remember wha" we did with the time w.- used to save. mal, and since that time thTifc. cury has t been above normal up to 11 degrees over the week-end of July 19th. Clyde: "My shaving brush is very stiff. X wonder what's wrong with it." Bride: "I don't know, it was nice and soft when I painted the bird cage yesterday " Don't throw lighted matches, cigarettes or cigars from your car ? Chaperone your cigarette ?Don't let it go out alone North Carolina values her forests-Help her preserve them. ie ADVANTAGES UAN JUNIOR .EGE EPTEMBER 8, 1942 .ccredited. !. or B. S. Degree, Junior Colnd Associate in Business Adless, Two-year Business Cour' r Professions: Ministry Ti-r.L, Law and others, iducted for U. S. Army Air n, Ferry Transport Pilots. Int-eeks courses. ng: Army, Navy V-l. Marines, Major Sports. Work Opportunities. I atory Department. I : WRITE I J JR. 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