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THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N, C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY ? ? t JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor ntsrsd MM aecond-cloiu MtUr April 20, 1028, at tfes Poat Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. 1 11 1 1 ? Subscription Rates ONI TEAR $1.60 HX MONTHS 1.00 THRJSE MONTHS .70 < NATIONAL DITORIAL|f|4|A/S50CIATIQN l Wednesday, October 27, 1943 German Front Morale Seems Failing Now i /tiIIERE appears to be little doubt that ] X the terrific Allied bombing to which j the German people have been subjected in hundreds of their greatest cities has ( caused disentergation of civilian morale. \ Not even the Goebbels propaganda has ( been able to keep up the German home front. The John Q. German public is not j paying as much attention to what Goeb- j bels says as he is to what is actually happening. < The Allies are gaining mastery of the J air and they have uninterrupted produc- j: tion to maintain that mastery and in- f crease it. The German people know this, t it is an open and shut fact that cannot be v kept from them. Many of them have in- a telligence enough to know that. the-tide nf ? ?! i? running- full tilt airainst them, p that nothing can stop it. Defeat is only a h matter of time. As a result, the home e front morale seems to be going to pieces. s We are winning, all the more reason a why we should surge foi*ward until Hit- j( lerism is given its complete knockout and 0 the full resources of the Allied nations q can then be directed against the Japan- ^ est. h ; h Boys Who Worked w Will Win .45 Men e li THIS fall is bringing out at least one interesting fact. Many a small boy o rallied to the aid of his dad and helped o him to overcome the shortage of regular a labor that is necessary to carry on farm T work. s] Not just one but many farmers have re- tl marked to us in recent weeks that their tl young sons have been a great help to b them. Some of these young helpers whom Is the fathers acclaimed have not yet reach- h ed their 'teens. Those youngsters, both boys and girls, o who labored on the farms or at other use- IV ful tasks during the summer, and who are ir still carrying on after school hours, are b representative of the spirit that created a: the American Nation. They will carry on " for a still greater America. ft ri Editorial Gems In w Today s Advertising IF you read advertising, as of course you n do, your attention has probably been struck with the fact that the great busi- 8 ness 'houses, with reputations and successr J es founded on advertising and square I deqrling, are carrying on. Some of them, L with little or nothing to sell now, are P (Voubling their advertising space. ^ Naturally some people, who usually / just glance over advertisements, wonder why these houses pay millions of dollars to keep their space. You can easily find the answer. It is that they are all out to win the war. This is the day when the government, and the government means the American people, needs informative advertising. Hundreds of houses that have always bought magazine and newspaper space for the purpose of selling you their goods now are selling something better?your government and mine. Some squared off advertising space is now carrying nothing but the greatest f literary gems ever written. National advertisers are now writing f editorials that back the war effort, that sell bonds, that make the public understand a little better how the war is effecting other people. They are paying for r space to help our government win the war. Keep The Record Clear THE people of the United States have become so used to enjoying railroad ' transportation that is practically free of & accidents to passengers, that they are | shocked when a train wreck does occur. It is true that the number of passenger e fatalities this year will exceed those of ' any year for the past twenty years, al v vwt - I - II though the fatalities per 100,000,000 pas- < senger-miles are very little more than they were in 1940, 1926 and 1925, and , less than they were in 1922 and some of < the earlier years. Figures show that the chances of the t average passenger being killed in a train l wreck are on a ratio of but one chance ' in four million. This means, even at the death rate this year, the average passen- , ger can look forward to traveling in t safety 870,000,000 miles ? a journey j which would require constant travel for t about 1200 years. r If one could be as safe from accidental death at home or in recreation as on the i train, untold grief and suffering would ? oe averted. r The New York Times points out edi- r ;orially that just to keep a sense of pro- J portion, it is well to remember that seven aad railroad crashes since 1940 have cost ? 175 lives; whereas in the single year of j, 1941 automobile accidents killed 40,000 i aeople in the United States. t: It is miraculous that with the tremend- s his traffic that American railroads are f, landling, such an infinitesimal proportion >f persons have been injured or killed. n ? : rTrrrrr-Trr ti Economy Needed Even rw Wartime ? U ytOBODY can deny that there has been . i tremendous waste and extravagance c n building the world's biggest and most ormidable war machine here in America, g. "hat right at this moment is providing f< weapons for the sharpest criticism of the dministratiop. n The nefarious "cost-plus" policy used s< y the government in awarding contracts 9 as provided the most glaring example of " xtravasrance at its worst. Under this ti astern, a premium was put upon waste c< nd extravagance. A contractor given a f? ab to do, received a certain percentage bi f all that he managed to spend, conseuently, many a contractor devised in- ^ enius methods of spending money which n, eretofore had been unheard of. There ^ ave been some wild tales circulating ot rith regard to how this system was abus- & d, but lacking any proof, we have put UJ ttle credence in some of them. Washington is reverberating with cries fU f the people back home for more econ- is my in the operation of our government nd the building of our war machine. w he attitude of the folks at home is to pare no necessary expense to see that le tools of war are given to the boys at th le front, and get them there on time, ut let's see to it that such expense is NECESSARY, and that the taxpayer's ? ard-earned money"is not squandered. pi Thursday in Washington Rep. Doughtn, chairman of the House Ways and leans Committee, declared that the addnistration officials have promised to of end all efforts to economize. On that ssurance that expenditures will be m streamlined," the House Ways and yc leans Committee, which originates all avenue legislation, voted to continue w rork on a tax bill. Previously, the com- in littee had evinced a disposition to hold ^ l abeyance any action toward getting nc ew taxes until there was some assurance 33 lat there would be more economy in t0 overnment. ec ? "1 Shears And Paste , S AID WHILE TRAINING """ m h< (The Wilmington Morning Star) ^ fe It is possible that a number of women and y girls in this vicinity would have taken courses a; in nursing if it had not been for the necessity ^ of earning a living at the same time. After y a hard day's work, and women in business are 6 hard workers, physical weariness doubtless ej prevented many from taking night courses. j, There is no reason to question the patriotism se of willingness to serve of a large majority of hi in women workers and because of their natural ^ deftness they are peculiarly fitted for nursing. pt But that universal need for three meals a day VI th and a place to sleep must come first, for them ^ nn ipso than for men. The conseauence has at been under-par enrollment for training and " slim attendance. jn Now the situation is changed. There is no ec longer any need for recruits to work for their cg living while in training. They will be paid during their student period from funds made h' available by the government. Their salaries m will range from $15 to $30 a month in addi- ki tion to living expenses. Not so long ago gradD< uate physicians during their interneship were ^ paid no more. ca The James Walker Memorial Hospital is ^ among the group designated for training re- b< cruits in the Cadet Nurse Corps. The hospital's superintendent, Charles W. Mangum, will pass on applications for some time to come. al The initial course will be started in February. ^ All that is needed to be eligible is a high j1( school diploma and a willing heart b< ? v Com. Campbell Raises 1 Section Base To 4.0 Rating ' (Continued On Page Fewmd activities with the trained i >ye of a 44-year seaman he dub- I jed it a "combination of the 1 Chinese and Haitian navies with . i little of the Dominican Repub- c ic thrown in for additional offsolor." i Now after three months of rig- s irous discipline and unceasing c dgilgnce on his part, he declares 1 he officers and enlisted men to t >e the best he has ever had in a j lommand and adds that "any mis- f akes made here are my fault ? lot the crew's." ' Dynamic is the word for him. 1 [hough short of stature he throws c i long shadow, as any member of s lis crew will tell you. There is 1 io escaping this long shadow, the uen say, and the magical im- r irovement at the station is a di- 1 ect result of it. Hie Southport base is housed in i id Fort Caswell which was a de-1r ense outpost for Wilmington dur- ' ng the War Between the States, t also was in use at the time of v he Spanish-American War and it J oused a detachment of Uncle lam's military forces during the 1 irst World War. The dust found on the walls and ? loors of the buildings by Com- j lander Campbell was in three dis-j inct strata?one stratum for each !a f the three wars. a Small wonder then that the men ? rho had to bed down in such an nwholesome atmosphere were areless about the cleanliness of leir uniforms; that they were areless also about the tilt of ? leir caps and were unable to atich any great importance to the fi llute and other signs of respect ir their officers. Commander Campbell recently ;ceived his 104th letter from a ? lother in which she quoted her in as baying he was happy. His 11 uarters now are clean. His food1 i good. Best of all, he is learn- j <( ig something and doing some-j ling of value to his country. His f5 immanding officer is hard but J ? lir. Tersely put: "He is like a stern ut just father." That is the Navy's idea of the 11 leal relationship between the 31 immanding officer and the en- ? sted man. One is equally ready i "go down the line" with the ?! :her. As the Captain moves around j" le Southport station he checks 3 not only on the activity and %,v :corum of his charges, but also J" l their domestic obligations. A izzy-cheeked seaman third class met upon the walk. He snaps n i attention, salutes. The Captain 81 turns it, starts ahead, then "" heels suddenly: P1 "Smith" "Yes, sir" " "Have you answered your fa- J1' ler's letter yet?" "No, sir, but I?" "Go answer it now and bring it 1S i my office. I'll mail it for you." Another enlisted man is spotted it of the corner of his eye. 3' "Walton!" he roars. The sailor comes forward on the 01 mble. ol "How many of those 56 hours " ' guard duty have you walked?" ? "Thirty-two, sir." "O. K. that's enough. You won't ake that mistake again, will >u?" " "No, sir! And thank you, sir." sl 00 it goes, ine small trungs as ? ell as the large. Training, traing, training. n Needless waste is one thing _ lat Commander Campbell will w >t tolerate. Recently when he g iw a pile of wood that had been led in construction work about b, 1 be made into a bonfire, he call- cj I a halt to this operation. bj Phere must be some people who ?ed that wood," he observed. ( Tien he learned that there was ^ :treme difficulty in obtaining jr lei in Southport, he gave this o] aterial to his men and it will dp solve the wood problem in t( is community during the next g w months. Moreover, fuel from b] lis source has also been made mailable to the Southport Public jr ibrary and to the Red Cross lrgical Dressings room through ie kindness of Commander impbell. 4 Not all of the important chang- Qj i that have taken place since b) lly have been confined to the h, iction base. Immediately upon s arrival Commander Campbell w ade it known that his officers id men would be given every op- ? irtunity to attend religious ser- . ces on Sunday. He followed up ' lis declaration of policy by | akinp- trOTienA^ta*.? ? 1 M UiblUll CX V (X1 m (J16) id the result has been a large in- ' ease in attendance" of service en at each of the five churches Southport. jr Commander Campbell was ask- ! 1 to put on a Third War Loan impaign at his station. He called together the wives of ? s officers and men. J: "I have been all over the world any times," he said. "I have se lown beauties in Hollywood, on 411 roadway and in many other >rts celebrated for their beau- ni es. If the beauties of Hollywood a in sell bonds to the big-wigs of fr Washington, why can't the wives ta ' my men, who are every bit as P! :autiful and as well dressed, sell F' inds to the men here? ?? His point was proved. When the 15 omen had ceased climbing CI joard boats to collar men a* lere was a 100 per cent partipation. In a little more than an B jur and a half, $32,000 worth of rs aids were sold. One boat out on patrol wirgd in that $580 ha leen subscribed aboard. To the wives of his men, Oom nander Campbell gives full credi 'or the following letter of com nendation from Rear Admira rules James, USN, Commandan >f the Sixth Naval District: "Considering the number of of 'icers and men attached to th lubject activity, the results of thi lrive are considered outstanding ("he Commandant congratulate he commanding officer and thi >ersonnel of his command on thei ine spirit." Compare this with the disgrunt ed spirit of the base before thi lew Skipper's arrival. It is bu me example the new interest in [tilled in the Inshore Patrol'i ame duck. There was practically no rec eation when the new skipper ar ived. He saw the unused boxinj ing. He pointed to it. "Unless wi lave a boxing program in tha ing next Friday night I will buri t to the ground." Commande: Campbell had been Fleet light ,'eight boxing champion for foui ears. Boxing shows have beer ield regularly at Southport Sec ion base. The Skipper is manager, coact nd trainer of the station's soft all team. It plays without regu ition uniforms. Yet it is unbeater gainst such championship team; s the Wilmington Coast Guard lie Laurinburg-Maxton Army Ail lase. the Army Combat team, the laleigh city champs and the Charleston Coast Guard. The Skipper occupies the rightand corner of the player's bench fe gives bating, base-running anc ielding instructions. He watches lie men for signs of poor condiion or lack of interest. He baits the umpires, rides the pposing batters and fielders and as a regular picnic with the basene coaches. Most of all he rides is own players. "Keeps 'em on edge," he says Most baseball lapses are caused y lack of concentration. Keep m scared and you keep 'em linking." In his youth. Commander Campell was captain and second baselan on the Fleet baseball team s well as quarterback and field eneral on the football team. He applies his baseball manorial tactics to station routine, [e keeps his officers and men lared to keep them thinking, hey retire wondering worriedly hat they did or did not do that ay that will cause the captain to aul them on the carpet. They reet reveille with the same wored wonderment, fearful of doing >mething that day which will lake them subject to the Skiper's sarcastic censure. But, as he points, this keeps lem concentrating. He is a firm iliever in the Old Navy doctrine lat the "first 24 hours belongs I. the Navy, the rest of the time i yours." Sure, the Southport Skipper is ard-boiled. Sure, he is autocratic ad fault-finding, constantly on le lookout for mistakes and nissions. The boys say he is nnisient and omnipresent, only leir words are "The Skipper nows everything and seems to s everywhere at once." But after the station received le first 4.0 (excellent) rating in le Sixth district they got up a lrprise "4.0 Party" in the Skipsr's honor and the Commander P tVi o TnoViAfn i? ? w.v uioiiuic x atiui, 11/ WIlUIll outhport Section base had forlerly been a headache, drove 165 tiles with his wife to pay tribute ith the boys to the Southport kipper. The amazing memory possessed f their skipper enables him to ill every man on the station by is first name. When he sees an llisted man with his cap tilted t an unmilitary angle or tossing ash upon the grounds, or smokig when the smoking lamp is it, he makes a mental note. Next morning he tells his aide i have Tom Jenkins, Harry mith etc., to report to the ridge. There they get a dressing down i idiomatic Irish they never forit. Commander George T. Campbell, SN, an old line Navy man for I years, is having the best time his life. He has the biggest inch of 'ikds' to father he ever id. He is making Navy men on ? holesale scale. ol. Kenneth H. Kinder Is Killed In Action In Pacific t* -** wuawiiucu *??:?? ra^e UI16j iss Katherine Thompson, daughr of the late J. W. and Mrs. nna Thompson of Southport. To this union one son, Kenneth, \ was born. Since September he is been attending Porter Miliiry Academy at Charleston. Following his marriage, Lt. Kiner served at many posts in the nited States and in Hawaii and le Canal Zone. As a Major, he irved at Fort Benning, Ga., and lere organized the first regiment ' paratroopers. From Fort Benng he was sent to Panama for brief period and was recalled om that post to organize and ike command of the regiment of iratroopers which trained at ort Bragg during the latter part ' 1941 and the eat'ly part of 142. With this regiment he ossed the Pacific for combat gainst the Japanese in Septem:r of last year. While at Fort ragg he was promoted to the ink of full Colonel. In addition to the wife and son ! - NOT c .... ? .1 The cold weather last week ga 1 Deeds Amos Walton the urge to _ kill a hog or two . . . We've often e we so seldom see our old friend, , e Winnabow, in town. Last time he v s his health had not been so good . . e ty Commissioner, H. O. Peterson, r good as always when in town last ' . we've heard all the reports of boys e the farms, don't tell us they are 1 part to help win the war Tht of share-the-ride spirit. Every time country, to visit farmer friends, sor idea we have run away from home ~ to bring us back. ? "Yes, sir, we are giving first a t fense jobs and are doing our best * rolling,'" said L. Lewis, manage . department of Willetts Motor Co. i" Thompson McRackan, from Walde 1 been marketing some unusually ni< J. D. Johnson, of Bolivia, lumber ' years, is like a printer, He can't . the smell of sawdust. We found hir i other day .... County Agent I refer to the Danford boys of near ! farmers .... Traffic gets heavy day out on Route 17, as shipyard and go. The W. B. & S. Bus Lines, In< round trips daily, between Southpor J ton. To give an idea of the amount . were 41 passengers on one of thes< relatively short distance between I at Southport Colonel Kinsler is. 1 survived by his parents, Mr. and i i Mrs. A. E. Kinsler, of Davenport, 1 Iowa; by two brothers and one ] half sister, Keith and Evert Kin- i I sler and Mrs. J. L. Doty, all of i Davenport. < 1 RESIGNS JOB AS ' CLUB HOSTESS 1 (Continued Prom Page One) < were not able to help themselves. ( Mrs. Marshall said in her own j words that these last two years \ with the USO have been the hap- ] piest of her life. Her position with I the USO came just after the 1 death of her husband, Rev. Ar- 1 thur H. Marshall, former rector < of St. Phillips Episcopal church, l [ and afforded her an outlet for oovmmoo that oho harl hifrnmP sn I used to rendering. "It is with deepest regret that I I tender my resignation," she said | = last night to members of the Copi- j 1 mittee of Management, "but I , < 1 have reached a decision to accept t work nearer my only daughter and \ : THIS W aj News abo Brunswick C primarily for terested in Bri Send ii) y you will not m THE P THE SI "YOUR -V. "EXACTLYNEWS VP Register of j Southport during a mid-week ~ go home and j. . . . With the details off the wondered why get everything in order, it ran be sajj A. M. Beck, of Brunswick County Post of the America,,' as here he said will observe Armistice Day on November . Former Coun- J. J. Loughlin, Jr., business manager for looked just as Arthur Dosher Memorial Hospital, neaiiv ^ IS week . , . Sinco serious accident one night last week \\ " helping out on orderly on duty he offered to substitute fljg not doing their , midnight he went into one of the wards >re's still plenty: to bed. Shortly after he fell peacefully 3s|. fll we go to the j tendants rolled a lady with a baby ;nt0 ' fll n# one gets the j where he was, and rolled him into the waij i m 1 and he offer3 the lady had been. Another nurse j been taking care of the baby, and not hejng TO ttention to de- i ed of the shift in occupants of the room '^Bj to keep things j the baby back where its mother had been i J r of the repair it in f^e bed with Joe. j at Bolivia ... A j,en belonging to Mrs. J. P. Hand, of g J I n's Creek, has went 0n a vacation one day last week, ir ]j 3 :e turnips t0 not slow down in war-time production. s>( VI man for many a six-ounce egg the day before and another 11 get away from clmcer the day after the holiday . . t n at a mill the number of hogs in Brunswick has doubled' VI lodson likes to have a further idea that the slaughtering v-J 1 Bolivia as good of each hog will also show a big increase. r ? three times a Even with so many men in service, Bru-t-J 3 workers come county men and women are probably doing jug J ] much work now as they do during the bt&^U makes five j farm season. There are still some crops to h? B i t and Wilming- vested, small grain to be planted, fa; ins. i of traffic, there and poultry to be looked after, repairs do?^H > buses for the buildings and a hundred different things in, 1 1 Bolivia and tion to defense work. j a ter family in Norfolk. It has been, Surviving her are fivTi I 8 i real pleasure to work with the|ters, four sons and quite USO in this fine community and j ber of grandchildren The V3 [ shall carry with me many pleas- j and daughters are, Mrs. int memories." jSkeritt. Montgomery a;, One of the fondest memories [ Owen W. Massey, Zebulor V9 >f her work here at the club was Reddin J. Lamm. Wilson ast Christmas when she received j Roy C. Daniel ami Mrs r^V rver three hundred-fifty cards Weeks, Southpoit: Ife fl jl from men in the service. On top Finch, Wilmington: Johr.'j^B )f that, members of the Coast F'"clL Ponnsgrove. X, j Juard stationed in this vicinity a ^ F"ich, SouthportM j| jresented her a beautiful gold vef'hee'n 'rrmrm"^' !1''tS vrist watch. But perhaps the high ' 1 ln? joint of generosity as expressed va the ,)0,:v fro,r' k^V :oward Mrs. Marshall was on last gomery. It was stated this /alen tine's Day when she was ing, however, that the ;he recipient of thirteen boxes of would be at the Southport randy from the boys in service? tist church wun net- paster. tH ?nd sh,e doesn't eat candy! a. L. Brown, in charge l:H ment will be in tlie old So^H MRS. FINCH DIES port cemetery, beside the SUDDENLY MONDAY her husband. J J f Continued from page 1) I f spending much of the time with .MEDICAL ( 1 ler children, who reside elsewhere. Cleaford Caison. of 5he was a very active member of a medical patient at Dosherlj^| he Southport Baptist church and orial Hospital, liaving esf^f vas interested in all civil matters, there on Thursday. i a * > -1.. EEK I id EVERY WEEK I ut people, places and events in I ounty gathered and written I the information of persons in- I unswick County. I our subscription this week, so I iss another issue for a full year, il RICE IS $1.50 A YEAR I ATE PORT PILOT I COUNTY NEWSPAPER" I Southport, N. C. I
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