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PAGE 2 ~ THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. G. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor to tared u second-claw matter April 20, 1928, at tfcs Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3. 1879. f 1 Subscription Rates ONE TEAR $1.60 BIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS .76 l NATIONAL EDITORIAL. Wednesday, May 19, 1943 Canning VOCATIONAL Agriculture teacher J. M. King, at Bolivia, was in town one day last week seeing about the establishment of a canning plant at some central ! i?j..-? ii,a fimimtv- He seemed partic-1 JOCcttlUIl in mv ularly optimistic that something good would come of his efforts to provide canning facilities for residents who wish to use them. Proceeding upon the assumption that he will be able to outfit a suitable building as a cannery, we want to start now in urging housewives from all sections to make their plans to use it to the best possible advantage. We do not want to be a calamity howler, but we do believe that our people may have to depend upon what they have' raised and saved for most of what they eat next winter. And if they don't, it still will have been a good thing to provide against the needs of the future. Gasoline Is Short WE have read with interest the adver- . tisements appearing in certain daily I papers recently, sponsored by a certain motor organization and attacking the al leged waste and double-dealing in the gasoline transfer situation. If these facts are true, then the parties i * responsible should be punished, for their acts surely are no less than treasonable. But the general motorist is not to get the idea from this that gasoline is plentiful, and that rationing is unnecessary. We know that these are not the true facts. Last week we learned of an army bom-? ber group in this area that has been held to one-half flying time recently because of gasoline shortage. In another place in this area trucks and other motorized equipment are given a weekly allotment of gasoline, and when it is burned up the vehicle rests where it is. When the army needs gasoline and , cannot get it, then you can bet there is still a shortage. Alt In Same Boat THE buyers of merchandise today have no conception of what the storekeeper has to comply with in order to supply their needs. Take the case of a typical country store. The people for miles around depend on that store for their daily necessities. The storekeeper works throughout the day, and then additional I hours into the night keeping track of ration stamps, and endless rules and regula, tions. Almost every move he makes is ' under threat of fine or jail sentence for a mistake. Thousands of stores are actu??4 4-? 4-a 4-1, ~ r * any guing uui ux uudiucaa tv tu tuc ictii hardship of many communities, simply because the operators cannot stand the strain involved. Chairman Patman of the House Committee on small business, has ordered an investigation into all phases of the issuance of orders and regulation by the OPA. He says: "Conditions are forced upon retailers and wholesalers which do not comply with the provisions of the I Emergency Price Control Act." It is to be sincerely hoped that every effort will be made to lighten or simplify I the present complications surrounding retailing?not for the retailers alone, but I for the consumer, who is the worst sufferI er as thousands of necessary stores are s forced out of business due to sheer physi cal inability to meet the complications of H operation. I Allied Invasion Near? I rj-iME cessation of hostilities in North JL Africa with a complete surrender of | Axis forces has prompted the Wilmington Morning Star to venture a prediction I as to the imminence of an Allied invanI ion of the continent of Europe. Said the I Star: "The Allied invasion of the European continent is about to begin. "For months the rumblings of impend ing assault on Hitler's European fortress have been growing louder but Wednesday a very significant note was sounded on the heels of the Allied victory in Tunisia. "The Netherlands government-in-exile called upon Dutch patriots in occupied i Holland to resist, with arms, their oppressors. "Immediately the men of Holland rallied to the tocsin and began a wave of revolt which is fast spreading to Belgium j and other lands under the Nazi yoke. German troops and military establishments have been attacked and reverberations from the African victory are said to be shaking the whole of Hitler's Europe. "It seems unlikely that the Dutch leaders in England would have issued such an order for revolt had the long awaited second front not been near. It is hard to see where the Dutch could long hold out against the enemy if help were not in the offing. The gain from an internal revolt; without aid could hardly balance the Sacrifice involved, as Hitler will surely use every means to punish the instigators and perpetrators of the rebellion. "It is possible that the Allied plan of efvatoorv is ho strike the continent of Eu OVA M V V J - w rope at several points simultaneously. In this way, aided by the fires of internal rebellion, they would be in a position to give the Nazis much trouble in defending the shores of Europe. It is likely that the enemy would not be able to withstand the initial shock of the Allied invasion as his lines of communications are cut by guerilla troops. "As the fires of rebellion are fed, the people of Italy may decide that the time is ripe for them to shake off the Nazi hand, for they have also suffered from the Hitlerian protectorate which Mussolini created for them." Shears And Paste I AT LAST! (Roanoke (Va.) Times) A New York dog and cat hospital has replaced its male employes with women. So at last woman finds herself in the dog-house. HELPS LITTLE FARMER (The Washington Post.) Whatever its errors or excesses, the Farm Security Administration is needed to give the United States a balanced, comprehensive program of food production. More than any other agency of the Department of Agriculture, FSA has helped and befriended the small subsistence farmers, the family farms of America. It has sought to give a measure of independence and dignity to the otherwise disinherited little men of agriculture?the cotton choppers, tenant farmers, sharecroppers and migrant workers. The productive abilities of these people must be fully utilized if we are to achieve the mammoth harvests of food tn win the war and determine the character of the peace. It is a scandal that this year we face a decline in food production. MIGHT OF FREE SOULS (The Charlotte Observer), Thousands of arrogant German soldiers, some of whom had three years before trampled Frenchmen under foot, humbly presented a white flag to French troops in Tunisia and asked for terms of surrender. It was unconditional capitulation. It was a sight that many had never dared hope to see. It seemed, looking back to May, 1940, something impossible. The myth of German-Nazi invincibility has collapsed. HITLER with his gutteral "Werroacht" and crushing strength made a curious mistake as a basis for all his plans. He forgot about the greatest imponderable?the soul of man. The Nazi madman piled armor upon armor, power upon might; he combined the forces of frightfulness and curelty, of the gallows and the firing squad, of starvation and all the hideous forms of outlawry in individual and mass murder. Surely that was enough to conquer and hold decent peoples! In 1940, three years ago, when he stood at the height of all this, the decent nations faced him practically with bare hands but they had something that he didn't?the souls of free men. Having that, the rest would come?it did come. The supposedly invincible superman has had to ask Frenchmen to allow him to surrender. Where is the Wermacht, that world might that would take all and hold all? The greatest of all weapons?free souls. That is the power of the United Nations and. the conquered nations. t . The fishing season really re-opens the last of next week, but a lot of people are | always fishing for compliments. THE STATE PORT PILO WASHINGTON : LETTER r a: WASHINGTON, May 19. ? w International affairs?the Amer- g] ican participation in the global war strategy ? has temporarily s| displaced domestic policy squab- f1 bles as a major attraction here. * The presence of Prime Minister ^ Churchill and Allied military and ir naval chieftains somehow relegat- T ed the belligerent John L. Lewis p and his coal strike to a su- aj bordinate issue notwithstanding sj I the grave implications of labor a] | distrurbances. The successes of c( 1 Allied arms in Africa and the un- a] mistakable preparations for an y( invasion of Axis controlled lands V( gave a warlike coloring to conversations in officialdom. Even Con- q gress halted its dissensions to listen to world leaders discuss the significance of impending events jj. and weighed the tasks ahead for g the law-making bodies. If any- a) | thing was needed to awaken in- |,j terest in the significance of the |)( ! current war conferences between j p. President Roosevelt and Britain's j tl] noted leader, the occasional glimp-! ses of glittering foreign uniforms! cc with many stars and ribbons jal denoting high rank, .supplied the ^ dramatic touch as they rushed sa around town for vital meetings. Two speeches, Churchill's and a that of President Benes of Czech- m oslovakia, before Congress within ^ a week brought the .war sharply t0 in focus The erowina aDDreciation ... of war needs was evident in the f0 action of the House this week in h? connection with the huge naval appropriation bill which carries jn contractual authority of more e(] than 29 billion dollars. The pro- pc gress of naval aviation as a war arm is reflected in authorizations fii for two billions for aircraft and th carriers. Of public interest is the cl] House Appropriation Committee's st effort to the effect that present Sp indications do not point to much p. contraction in Navy building, if tr any, prior to the fiscal year of th 1946. This major Congressional m group frankly states, "Whether sp or not the peak of appropriations Sp has been reached is purely conjectural." This means that no tb naval official is brash enough to to predict the end of the present k< war. Widespread discussion follow- c> ed the testimony of Vice Chief of pC Naval Operations Home that the naval battle as such ? battle- th ship against battleship, big fleet er against big fleet ? is out of the o\ picture for the future. Instead, the th task force built around the air- sh craft carrier and f?st cruisers has si< resulted in an revolution of naval th tactics since Pearl Harbor days, di The developments in the coal strike crisis may have a broad | si influence in shaping the antistrike legislation. The House has materially altered the Senate ver- al sion so that lengthy conferences Ci will be required to reach a com- fa promise. The same is true for the m equally controversial tax bill, Oj which emerged from the Senate th with marked alterations in the to House draft. Quick settlements ne are not in order these days as the fa embattled conferees frequently re- th port disagreements and ask for at instructions from their respective w; assemblies before returning to the huddle. The differences over a few pc items has delayed the approval to of the Treasury-Post Office ap- W propriation bill for several weeks, fo The feeling about internal revenue fii measures is so intense and heav- ly ily partisan that some time may be elapse before taxpayers know ca where they stand in the matter of hi income taxes. si< A Congressional debating topic, which in other years would pro- fa vide food for homespun political co philospphies, has been complete- til ly overshadowed by world affairs th and domestic squabbles. Oddly, the ar proposed extension of the Re- gi ciprocal Trade Agreements Act th beyond its expiration date has al attracted little attention or in- w< terest outside legislative halls, th Yet, the subject ? tariff-making tr ?long supplied one of the lines of se demarcation between the Repub- Ja lican and Democratic parties. It th is true that the advocates of high 'tariffs reviewed all the well- of known arguments. They made sv telling points about the need of as oroteetine rlnmeafin morboto owri le: m O u,lu workmen against an influx of tr cheaply made foreign trade goods c< in the post - war era. Even the proponents of the measure were careful to explain they did not SF favor free trade. The kernel of 33 the controversy about renewal of de the trade treaty power was an c" attempt on the part of Congress w to retain the veto power as against the dealings of the ad- ot ministrative branch. Apparently, this school of thought was con- ^ cerned over the "deals" the government might make after the war as it related to foreign trade. P* They wanted safeguards of Con- to gressional review. Meanwhile, the Sl debate continues along partisan e> lines without exciting the public. With graduation day less than s" a month away, local shopkeepers at and factory owners will find Uncle Sam competing with them s' for the youngsters with the new diploma. In more than 1,000 cities c< and towns enrollment of women s? high school graduates in summer ^ courses for engineering, science, P* management, and war training ?a has been underway. They want & to recruit 100,000 trained workers ? from this source to fill the ranks P' of the approximately two million ?I additional women we it is esti- Io mated will be needed for war T, SOUTHPORT, N. C. ork this year. The government' ~ as already registered 30,000 worna for the 10-16 weeks tuition ee training courses. Not all oung high school girl graduates re adpatabie to this specialized ork which involves learning si igineering drawing, precision in- >j jecton, the chemstry of explo- b ves, map-making, and similar ,'Chniques. These Federal courses ll i a particular locality are related s irectly to the college-level train- c ig needs of local industries, hus, in promimity to an aircraft lant, one may expect courses in 1) rcraft stress analysis: near j, lipyards, courses in ship lofting . id near steel mills, metallurgical 11 >urses. Farm labor recruiters are s .so bidding for the services of iungsters to help plant and har;st. 1 f HECK COMBINE TO GIVE t GOOD HARVESTING JOB With the approach of the grain irvesting season, J. D. Bickle, ? xtension Engineering Specialist pl : N. C. State College, urges com- ' ne operators to thoroughly check p< sarings, bolts, and every other c( irt of their machines including pi le tires. C After the inspection, give the tt imbine a thorough lubrication jj id change the oil in the gear j >x. Don't forget to keep the cc ifety chields in place. The power unit, whether it be tractor or a mounted motor, ust be in good mechanical con- p tion and adjustment, to be able operate the combine at the ^ Qnnfontiiror'a wrnmmAnded uni rm speed for the crop being L invested. i sc According to Bickle, overload- cc g the combine should be avoid- gr 1 by cutting the crop as high as cc >ssible without losing too many ;ads and by operating the out- ^ t at a ground speed and with ^ le reel adjusted to insure the n( it grain flowing in an even ream to the cylinder. Ground leeds should be changed on the T. O. combines by shifting actor gears and not by throttling e tractor down, in order to aintain a uniform threshing leed in the combine at all ground ? leed. U? Without sacrificing thorough ^ reshing, adjust the cylinder run as slow as possible and ' ;ep the distance between the jQ dinder and concave as great as ^ tssible. Adjust the chaffer so as to let le grain or seed fall to the lowscreen before it has passed 'er two-thirds of the length of ;e chaffer. The grain or seed lould fall through the lower eve or screen before it travels e length of the screen and imps into th tailings return. iVAP-WORK PLAN ROUTS LABOR SHORTAGE ENEHV Farm labor battalions captured 1 their objectives at Newport, irteret County. Twenty farm milies of the Crab Point cornunity, led by General R. P. glesby, pooled their machinery, ieir work stock, their labor, their bacco plants and other things icessary to the success of local rming enterprises and routed e farm labor shortage which tacked their section without arning some weeks ago. General Oglesby produces Irish itatoes, cabbage, sweet potaes, tobacco, cotton and hogs, 'hen the enemy attacked, he und himself with two tractors, re head of mules, and practicalno labor. He called in Neigh ir Bill Williams and made him I .ptain of one tractor outfit. He I mself led the other tractor divi- I Mi. I Down the road they went from rm to farm bedding up tobac- I i land and putting out the fer- I iizer that was brought up from e rear by sergeants, corporals id plain buck privates in fatile uniforms. In three days time ey were ready to set tobacco on 1 20 farms. The tobacco plants sre pooled and down the road ey went again with the only ansplanter in the community tting the crops of Bob and ok and Joe, aa they came to em. No money was involved in all this work. Neighbors simply rapped labor and equipment so i to^ get the jobs done with the ist man-power possible. One uck hauled all the fertilizer. (operation wnipped the labor lortage enemy. J. Y. Lassiter, horticultural lecialist at N. C. State College .ys the Crab Point group is so lighted with what it has acmplished that the neighborhood ill apply the same program to s tomatoes, sweet potatoes and her crops. EW COTTON PLAN GIVES GROWERS EXTRA DOLLARS The new one-variety cotton im ovement program and the cotn classing service under the nith - Doxey Act are putting :tra dollars in the grower's pocit, says Dan F. Holler, Extensa Cotton Marketing Specialist ; N. C. State College. He cites the experience of Yates surling of Cleveland County, who longs to the Waco One-Variety Jtton Improvement Association, (urling produced 76 bales of cotn last year and sold it as he eked it until he came to the st seventeen bales. He took his ?een classification cards on iese bales and decided to empire the prices offered him in the >en market with, the government an values. Spoiling reported that the best 1 k I -NO' One of the best schemes we noeshine parlor is at Bell's "here are a couple of shine boy er's son, and young Bill McDov jmer sits down for a shine, e hoe, and there follows a contest an get his shoe the cleanest t 'he hens are still all-out in thei itest example being a quarter-p 1 by Rev. W. G. Lowe, of Sha nches in diameter and was la; hire Red hen. The inability to purchase the i lackstops is all that is holding u iroject now . , . W. B. Kezial he care and training of the Fet Looks like Softball interest w rice offered him on the seventeer lies was $19.50 per hundrec >unds, or $1,657.50 for the lot o. >tton. The Farm Storage Loar rogram was made available ir leveland County at this time ant ie grower obtained a loan oi 1,866.60 on his cotton, it being ft. in storage on his equity in the >tton, the buyer assumed the terest charge. In the one-variety cotton im-ovement work, Spurling gets ire seed, better ginning (the nner being vitally interested ir ie program), better yields ol nnrl a fhOO ol Q cai n O* QPl'V ?t IV"1 ?iiw u ?tvv e. He and his neighbors are ali encouraged to handle theii itton better and to produce long staple of superior grade. Acirding to Holler, all of these im ovements in growing and handig cotton put extra dollars ir le grower's pocket at practicallj >i extra expense. TATE COLLEGE HINTS TO FARM HOMEMAKERS By RUTH CURRENT N. C. STATE COLLEGE If shoes are "treed" or stuffec ith paper wads at night to prerve their shape, polished regilrly to save the leather, anc .ken to the shoemaker for rerir before they are "too fai >ne", they will not only lasl nger but also look far better. Loo JLn 4 if y date, make p Governm mailing list I subscribers, off some nar renewals are The J "Y? SOUTHPQR wedne: r EXICTLY N! have seen for a from the garrison Barbershop here, has been prepare< s, Rudy, the bar- works. The soldier cell. When a cus- and use that for t ach boy takes a best of a good r to see which one week at the Amui he quickest . . . Wednesday and T1 ir war effort, the Many of the w ound number sent here have succuml llotte. It was 7'L. and are working yed by a Hamp- that transfers mi tain . . . Maxie C vire for necessary new located at F p the tennis court the mainstays in 1 has taken over Scuthport housewi gus colt, Rebel. has began the anr 'ill be transferred for the Brunswick i ? ? * v 1 [ Summer brings a word of! f F warning on moth protection for v i winter woolen,s coats, sweaters, i suits, dresses, blankets, rugs, and I upholstery. This task should be ' E carefully done before the moth ^ r | begins to lay her eggs. c ' Good Care for Wool: Keep it c : j clean. When wool gathers much i soil, it is harder to bring back | that spick-and-span look. Per- j t s; spiration weakens wool. Grit cuts j ! j it. Spots are moth bait. II Give it the air. A gentle air- js ' ing blows stale odors aivay and!8 lifts matted nap. Sun baths rout j' moths from wool but take care | lest colors fade. Mend it in time. Tiny holes de- j' serve careful mending and are i" easier to hide than big holes. If : a thin place is reinforced it may [c i never break through. I ' Don't shock it. Wool can't stand j sharp temperature changes. A1 plunge into hot water shrinks the i fibers and mats them. Drying in 1 cold blasts of air or by a hot stove shrinks and hardens the fabric. Once the comforting softI ness is gone, it's gone. Protect it from pests. There t are likely to be some clothes! II moths or carpet beetles in almost any home, at any time of the j year. Keep them down and out. : | When you take good care of j 1 wool things, you benefit three' ( k At \ ABE our subscription is n Jans to renew imme< lent regulations reqi )e restricted to paic Hence, it will be nec< nes from our mailin received at once. itate Port ur County Newspap r, . . .....I 5DAY, MAY 19, 1943 1 ;ws - H1 grounds to a new diamond that laB i down near the Praser Boat- r^B s have scraped the old diamond \ uU heir playground . . . One of the 9 un of pictures for the coming lifl zu will be "Tortilla Flats" next mrsday. ives of naval officers stationed 9 aed to the Victory Garden urge g industriously despite the fact ]B ike continued residence uneer- M3B ooker, a private in the army, js 9 ort Ord, Calif. He was one of jfl providing fish for the table;: nf JH ves . . . Captain Jas. B. Chitreh mal spring search for menhaden 31 : Navigation company. vays. The wool keeps its . 9 luffy look. It holds its fii, > ; v I M varmth. It gives longer wear. 'B The "wilting" method of ma];. U ng grass silage, without the use 19 if molasses or acid preservativ. JS equires that the moisture cort." H| if the chopped material be re- l$B liipprl hnlnw (\A npvppnt flH The Wheat Export Prop ram. : inder which payments have lie,->i riade for wheat exported to delignated foreign countries, w luspended by the War Food Ad- It's ninistration on May 14. .. The Bureau of Agricultural economics has advised hog i.... lucers not to increase breedin: or the 1943 fall pig crop m, i han 15 percent over the min i >f fall pigs raised in 1942. Facts About 1 17 1 \ muu ruuu Are Demonstrated : Daily At Our GRADE "A" CAFI W. R U S S STATION 1 SHALLOTTE, N. C. 5 rour j L ot paid up to Jiately. lire that our I-in-advance essary to cut g list unless I I Pilot er" - N.C. \
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