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PAGE 2 THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor aterad u second-cUjj natter April 20, 1028, at i the Poet Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of Kerch s, 1870. ?? ' ' *i - i- ii i- - > ? -nTITi "i TI?i Subscription Rates ONE TEAR 21.60 UX HONTHS 100 fSREE MONTHS .T6 NATIONAL EDITORIAL-. |fl>1|_w!&SSOCIATION Wednesday, April 7, 1043 The War is A Failure i THUS far the war is a failure, at least> in our country* It has failed to bring our people down to earth, and to rock them back upon the foundation that was the "Faith of Our Fathers." History records that during each period of conflict, when the days seemed darkest for civilization and all that was good in i it, the people have experienced a reawak-i ening of religion. There has been no Such ! m.-?.}e?an;tv where we could I reuirwi uj. observe it. Recently a preacher delivered a sermon the text of which was "The Harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few." He wasn't talking about agriculture and farm crops, but about Christianity and human beings. I There is more for the church to do ' today than ever before in our history, but ! our people have not responded to the j challenge of the times. Our minister dared to call a spade a spade: Declared that we are shirking our responsibilities as community leaders and Christian people right here in Southport; cited the lack of interest in Sunday School; noted the small congregations in attendance at church services. It might be well for us as a people to remember that God is not mocked, and that if by our actions we cry out for a reawakening, then that is what we may expect. Not that God is vengeful, nor that he is playing Calliban and is daring us to overstep His boundary. But the things that mock God are the things that t threaten our peace, our security and our * ideals. One result of this war could be to bring; * our people once more to their knees. Keep 'Em Eating THE food industry has warned government executives that thousands will go hungry in this country this year unless\ the government moves promptly to solve the Dressing manpower and distribution, problems of the food industry. Lack of. manpower, beginning on the farm and ending behind the counters of retail merchants, is assuming grave proportions. The position of retail distributors is critical at the moment. Officials have steadily failed to include the merchant in the war program as a war worker. They have so far failed to recognize the essential part he'plays in putting necessities into the hands of consumers. They fail to recognize that without his expert cooperation, price and rationing controls would be demoralized; that competent merchandisers are vital to efficient distribution. Collapse of efficient distribution would mean that food grown and processed could not reach the consumer. Waste and decay of precious food would assume tragic proportions to hungry people. It would promote inflation, and inevitable curtailment of war production. The food industry has asked officials to make clear that food production, processing, and distribution ranks with armaments in importance. Pirating and drafting of essential employes must cease if we are to eat. They also have asked for the proper allocation of food supplies to maintain civilian health and morale, and the simplification of rationing procedure. They have asked for these things repeatedly. Beyond vague generalities no action has been taken. Disaster will come if this policy continues. Either the appointed officials, or Congress must act. Facts At Last THE Secretary of Agriculture has frankly said before the Senate Appropriations Committee: "Since I appeared before you a month ago, I have become increasingly alarmed about our inability to get enough farm labor to reach the goals we have established for farm production. I am more alarmed today than I was yesterday." I "Economic planners" have largely tak en farm crops for granted like air an< water?something the Lord provides They have considered almost everythinj else an "essential" industry ahead of far ming. They have a farmer so tied up witl red tape restrictions that the time re quired in complying with them is actually cutting down farm production. We are not living in horse and buggj days. A minority of our people on farm: are feeding a majority of our people it cities. They can't do it without manpowe and machinery, nor can they do it on : price basis that ignores farm productioi costs as compared with industrial produc tion costs. "Are You Content?" "*F you are content with the presen X and with the present results in indus try, in agriculture, and in our civiliat life," said Secretary of War Stimson "then I suggest that you go to one of oir great Army camps and see our boys ii unifoim working. I suggest that you rea( the detailed dispatches from Tunisia am the Southwest Pacific about the fightinj efforts of our soldiers. I suggest that yoi compare your comforts in life with theirs and then ask yourself?Are you con tent ?" Few persons in civilian life can saj they have yet made any all-out war ef fori. Too many are still more intereste< in planning personal and "social gains,' first. Shears And Paste j PAPER SCARCITY (New Orleans States) You have undoubtedly read of the advance in the price of white paper. This material on which your newspapers and magazines and other reading matter is printed has been advanced in price $4 a ton. ? -1? thnt vnnr favorite X uu iliau nave jiwuvi.u w.? ^ newspapers and magazines are having to reduce their size, because of the shortage in paper and because the government has ordered a cut in consumption. WPB says that another cut will be necessary in a few months. We hope you don't run short of reading matter, but if you do, the department of labor has a series of brochures just off the press telling about office work in various cities. This document for Richmond, Va., contains 61 pages; for Kansas City, Mo., 74 pages. In fact, tons of paper are used because practically all the cities in the country are covered on this one subject alone. The information contained in them is out of date, but that makes no difference to the government. The records were made for 1940, before war industries flooded many of the cities discussed, but, what the heck! There are tens of thousands of words in them and some complicated and intriguing tabulations. If you need reading matter, here is your chance. It might put you to sleep and fill your thoughts with useless information, which won't be a strain on your mind. This illustration of the publishing activities of the labor department is only a drop in the bucket if you understand the reams of paper, mountains of paper and tons of paper being consumed by the government. The hundreds with bureaus with their dictatorial heads and sometimes contributing half-baked experts are pouring out piinted words from presses all over the country. Senator Harry Flood Byrd, of Virginia, who is trying his best to curtail government expenditures not directly concerned with the winning of the war, has shown where millions of dollars of the taxpayers money has been and is being spent. He has tabulated long lists of publications, useless and inconsequential, emanating from bureaus with thousands of federal employees. Many of the latter could be saved if their misplaced energies and frequently cracked ideas could be diverted to other channels. The advance in cosc ot wmre-paper seemingly has had little or no effect on the size and number of government publications, despite the fact that this will cost the taxpayers millions of dollars. The almost countless list of publications gotten out by the government not only consume paper which could be used to better advantage, but also clog up the mails and the express and freight agencies which could be used for transporting war materials or printed matter pertaining to the prosecution of the war. But we suppose the people must know about office work in various cities in 1940 and about other equally useless things. The government found it necessary to devise a way to curtail the size of letters to our fighting men all over the world from their home folks, such as the V-letter, but it apparently hasn't found a way to cut down the size and number of circulars and pamphlets gotten out by the various and sundry bureaus in Washington and elsewhere. t - . THE STATE PORT riLi .WASHINGTON ; LETTER x WASHINGTON, April 7.?Volume of mail and telegrams from - the folks back home will have j more to do with the attitude of Congress toward taxation and farm legislation than all other 7 pressures. The military and na- j 5 val battles raging on all fronts 1 in which our forces are engaged j 1.1 take on a semblance of routine 1 compared with these domestic j * | matters having grave political1 1 i and economic implications which I _j give the solons cause for concern.j 1 Actual voting on a proposal to | I override the Presidential veto of j | the so-called Bankhead farm price I ' parity bill and reconsideration of i the Ruml and other tax .adjust-1 I mcnt plans will be stalled by par-. t! liamentary devices until tests of j sentiment among constituents can be correctly gauged. 1 j The return of the tax measure , i to the House Ways and Means j Committee for further study did not, as expected, effectively sub1 merge this red-hot economic issue i j with such heavy political trim, mings. The warring House fac-' ' tions are endeavoring to reach a r compromise while marking time j . and public reaction to the present; tax stalemate. Predictions are j ' that the Senate may decide to - ignore the President's unusually forceful language in his veto message on the farm price measure. ' Not so in the House where the - members boast that they are1 } closer to the people than their > colleagues in the Senate. The j White House disapproval has con- ] fronted Congress with a test of| organized blocs' strength. The , [Roosevelt veto that his action was, "impelled by the deep conviction j this measure is inflationary in j character" and "an unwarrantable J bonus at the expense of the consumer" was calculated to place! I the responsibilty for marked increases in foodstuffs squarely on the lawmakers. The other powerful lobby, the trade unions, has also added to < the woes of the farm bloc by sud-i : denly switching their position regarding wage increases. They have stated that the labor groups I were anxious to keep living costs dowVi to the September 1942 level and might forego their demands for wage increases if inflation couia oc neia aown. inis siraiegy added to the predicament of the farm price advocates and who would bear the burden of blame for inflation. Another bitter pill , was the official report of the De-1 partment of Agriculture: "Price i ' rises in recent months have been 1 greater for agricultural than for ' nonagricultural commodities." Officials of states, cities, coun! ties, towns and villages will prob-1 I ably resent the findings of the | Federal Committee on Intergov-! I ernmental Fiscal Relations after j j a two-year study. They reported, j "Local governments, particularly i I city governments, are in a "bad way" from the fiscal standpoint, j and to extricate them calls for reorganization of the sources of local revenue." Desperately in need of revenues, these governmental sub-divisions may find themselves obliged to accept the recommendations which this comj mittee sent to the Secretary of i the Treasury, especially if they I want to find a market for their i | securities. One outstanding recom j mendation called for reorganiza-: tion of local revenue sources ' should be effected "in such man- j ! ner as to preserve and restore | local autonomy, and to enable local governments to tax their own resources, according to their own discretion, without the development of more overlapping in taxation." These findings will figure prominently in political campaigns for public office where taxation is an issue. War is changing the complexion of Uncle Sam's prison population. New types of offenders are listed as inil inhohitonfo Ooinnt;.? Service violations are reported j currently to Federal attorneys at | the rate of 12,000 per month and j usually net about two to three per cent of this total as inmates; of Uncle Sam's prisons. A large number of these violations are ad- j justed in the field without prosecution, in court and committal to jail. About one-half of the violators of the Draft Act are those who refuse to fight because of so-called religiou" or philosophical reasons. Some of the other draft dodgers are considered mental cases or "queer." ?Others are just "ducking the draft" through false information to local boards, but the percentage which are in prison through this device is relatively small. Some inmates are the result of military court-martials. Another sources of prison registrations are young girls committed for prostitution in the vicinity of Army camps. Most of these girls have never been previously sentenced, although some have minor arrest records. The Federal government's present population is increasing at the rate of 3,000 to 5,000 a year. I There is a small army of volun- j teers who make an important j contribution to the home and war fronts without any expectation of publicity. About five thousand individuals serve as observers of rainfall, and hings like that, throughout the .country. They are the cooperative observers of the United States Weather Bureau 3T. SOUTHPORT, N. C. climatological service who usually I " serve during: the growing season' without pay. Congress was in-, formed recently that these people [ take much pride in their service j _ and even resent any attempt to place a valuation on their work a by compensation from the goveminent. t< DK'K REYNOLDS DICES FARM fl MOVIES TO STATE COLLEGE . i ? A gift of a series of motion d pictures on agriculture to the J y recently organized State College: Foundation, Inc., by Richard J. js' Reynolds, of Winston-Salem, has a been announced by Col. J. W. Harrelson, dean of administration of the college and president of the Foundation. The moving pic- si tures, to be made in sound and color, will be produced to aid North Carolina farmers in in- a creasing the value and output of ]j their farms, particularly during y the war emergency. When completed, the pictures will be given to the State College Agricultural Extension Ser- o vice, for use of this and the other College Agricultural agencies in their rural educational activi- ' ties. Mr. Reynolds, now a lieutenant hi in the U. S. Naval Reserve on ff active sea duty, completed ar- ej rangements to make the movies f( during a recent leave. 01 "I am doing this," he said, w "because I think that nothing is more important to the war effort 31 than the production of food. The c) farmer has a big job, and needs j tl such aid as I believe these educa-1 v, tional movies can give." Mr. j Reynolds' interest in agriculture ? has been stimulated by the operation of his own large farm on " which he raises the typical crops S) of the Piedmont section. cl Col. Harrelson expressed' ap- ti preciation to'Mr. Reynolds for 'r the gift. ' h Dermid Maclean, of WinstonSalem, is making the movies, with the co-operation of the of-1 ? fice of F. H. Jeter, agricultural | ^ editor of State College, and the I technical assistance of Extension I specialists and county farm and I , ? i di home agents, mr, mauran niau photographed "North Carolina, ^ Variety Vacationland," the film _ which Lt. Reynolds produced and gave to the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development, and "Winston-Salem ?A Balanced Community," a picture recently completed and presented to the City of WinstonSalem. Lt. Reynolds received a leave of absence as mayor to serve in the Navy. Present plans call for the pro-; duction of five pictures, all to be' made on North Carolina farms. Subjects to be treated are: home gardening, swine, dairying, poultry, and repair and maintenance of farm machinery. Other pictures on subjects of vital interest to North Carolina farm families will follow as rapidly-as time and the seasonal activities to be photographed will allow. FARMERS MUST CONTINUE DRIVE TO REACH GOALS With the campaign to enlist every farmer in the State in the 1943 agricultural production program virtually completed, farmers were warned that efforts to meet goals must be continued throughout the growing and harvesting seasons. This warning came from G. T. Scott, chairman of the State USDA War Board, who declared that "no pledge to grow war food crops will do any American fighter any good until that food is harvested, processed, and deli- I vered to him wherever he may I be." The sign-up campaign is being I conducted throughout the State II by county and community committeemen of the AAA who are visiting each individual farm to explain production needs to the operator and assist him in mapping a 1943 farm plan for maximum war production. "The fact that the sign-up is nearly completed is more reason why we must continue our efforts," Scott declared. "This is [ no time to quit. The farmers' most important work begins where the sign-up leaves off. If every farmer in the nation carries out his pledges to produce, the persons who are charged with the responsibility of feeding this | nation and our allies will have a catalog of farm production almost a year in advance." In addition to visiting farms in the sign-up, he said, AAA committeemen have been directed by Secretary of Agriculture Wickard to find unused land in their communities and, on their own initiative, see that these "idle acres" are brought into active production this year. STATE COLLEGE HINTS TO FARM HOMEMAKERS By RUTH CURRENT N. C. STATE COLLEGE Quick, stinging statements made to children are remembered far longer than grown-ups realize and may be responsible for some of the inferiority complexes of later years. A thoughtful consideration and a sympathetic understanding of children, on the other hand, pay big dividends in family happiness, joy, and contentment. * * * Making friends feel welcome, is one of the chief achievements that makes a house a home. "gert' Causey, promoter of ?w t Thalian Hall, Wilmington hursday, ??* th0S6 * Harry Aldridge, one > him was Har y _d ( rt patrons. Bert says that E to appear on his show in Will ay April 13. Also coming are [aurlcc Tillett, the French An r that there will he another Mail next Sunday at t Thalian Hall ne. le Tobacco Tags. We've had a lot to say in t iddle horses, hut little about tt reed. Well. Layton Swam out ?via t*pq that weigh pair of roan mares ma ,s each and they make a mi nan ?? W rnth . . We had a look at L ??? ? ?,c o,"er pinion Mr. ??> """on ?. ? a home in all Brunswick cou ?men. who grew up on am ad know how to raise poultry in be of the greatest help le country's food situation th. Par, if they will turn to raismi 'Sunt'on 10 chicks for eacl S* rke^r5tgpre^ ons for housing, feeding, water and keeping them in g ealth. # , , A bulletin board Pl?*? * itchen wall and used for inter imily reminders and messages elpful in many ^households. If you arc having a busy Sun ay morning and are P? reduce a warm syrupy appl ie for Sunday dinner in recor. ! received at once. I State Port Pilot I iur County Newspaper" I T, - - - - N.C. I WEDNESDAY, f EXACTLY NEWS^b wrestling shows They're talking tennis an.niij i-as in Southport this time the added impetus of r I met and talked put over the project. Doc Morrisoy c of his most faith- who is stationed here with the hi?h ''1 ^i^B fStrangler) Lewis ment, is interested enotigh in setti-. mington on Tues- local courts in shape to do somo ^ tv,|^B Jim Londos and ought to be some local help foithcont,, T'lfr^B gel . . . Causey tionlng board officials who find ha".' ',Rs^B Victory Jamboree down service men on leave when r. >Un^H _ ask ternoon featuring J special gasoline will welcome more boys j ' IBS j Watson, who borrowed a couple of bikes <T ^S,i^B his column about I so he and his girl could go sight-seem - ;'i^H n ie workers of the The cnly government installation mi ? "lauo ifl it Mill Crock has section thus far during the war and nv f more than 1700-j resident of the county is the libcrtv . 'KICK fi* ?hty fancy team., yacht basin. It bears a paint sign to foal within a Dock"?in honor of hizzonr.et the , mayor ckwoods Folly in- leckcn . . . Russell Johnson, of Winnabov r ^B day, and in our near-record calf born at his da in- h.. week, the prettiest site j was a Kolstein bull, weighing 11 S-lbs a. , nty. i The world's record is 120-Ih<. for , ,,'time, try this idea. Prepare the. Applications for gasol-f. Jpie completely the day before and'use,| in tract , 1 store unbaked in the refrigerator \ machinery should be , H i overnight. Then, after church and war Price and RationinI while the dinner is cooking, place Jor turned ow, t-, -:fl| g it in tlie oven for baking. iWar Boards for certifica^^M Ij " WE BUY YOUR I ; I POULTRY and EGGS I J iS 6 DAYS A WEEK -if ; jj FRYERS, l'/z to 3-lbs. II EGGS, dozen 30^1 || HEAVY HENS, lb. . llFLOYD-BARKLEY Agency Steel pi) I S. MADISON ST. 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