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The State Port Pilot
Southport, N. G.
' Published Every Wednesday
JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor
j (On Leave of Absence, In U. S. N. R.)
Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at
the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the
j Act of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
< ONE YEAR $1.50
SIX MONTHS 1.00
THREE MONTHS 75
Wednesday, August 16, 1944
Spend It Wisely
Now is the time for The Pilot to issue
its annual caution to the citizens of
Brunswick county concerning tobacco
money. For the next few weeks farm- j
ers in Brunswick will collect for the
j work they have put out all during the
season and while the money may seem
to be very plentiful and easy to get at
the present time there is need for
thoughtful consideration of the months
to come.
It is even more important now that
money be spent wiselv because each
penny foolishly wasted in these times
prolongs the war just that much more.
The war has brought with it higher
prices and in many cases inferior marchandise.
It is very easy now for money
rmt nf nnr hands. Very often in
' bV Ox 1 p vuv v* ~ v..
| experienced people are handling the
family funds and their lack of knowledges
of prices or quality makes them
easy marks for every kind of swindling.
First on the list of ways to spend tobacco
money wisely should be paying
bills. If you have incurred bills, pay
)them up now. This will keep your
credit good for next year. It will also
i help those who have served you to
fkeep giving you their best service.
There are always household necessities.
These must be met, but keep them
down to a minimum. Now is not the
time to buy things you don't absolutely
have to have. You'll have to pay three
prices for your luxuries now. The best
thing to do is to put the rest of your
money in war bonds and when the war
is over you can buy the things you've
wanted at a reasonable price.
So, pay your bills, and with what you
have left from your actual needs buy
war bonds to hasten the time when you
can have the things you want and also
the boys home to enjoy them with you.
They Meet The Test
The railroads are probably the only
major industrial activity of our nation
that has less government interference
today than in World War I. They have
hauled twice as much as ever before
Ifor industry and the armed services
\yfth* fewer cars, fewer engines and
fewer men.
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commenting on mis remans, a. uic icc^rd,
the New York Times says:
"Transportation performance has been
j far more satisfactory under a regime
1 of' private operation and voluntary col9
J#iboration?among railroads and beL
y^Jween railroads on the one hand and
uSers of transportation on the other?
i daring this war than under authoritarian
centralization with Federally operated
railroads during the previous conflict.
There is a profound lesson in the
experience of the railroads, applicable
ii^ the relationship of gdvernment with
other industry. The railroads' experience
has shown that, given the incentive
and opportunity to organize its
own voluntary collaboration, industry
does not necessarily need to be regimented
to insure maximum output even
in times of war. The familiar statement
" that, in such crises, democracy and localized
voluntarism have to be superseded
by authoritarianism and centralization
turns out to be not ture.
The collaboration of the railroads
with shippers, the traveling public and
the armed services during this war, on
a voluntary basis, has so far exceeded
the results obtained under government
dictation and control in the previous
war, that there is no comparison. No
improvisation was necessary when the
present conflict arose. The railroads
simply intensified the operation of their
existing machinery. The Interstate
Commerce Commission and the Office
of Defense Transportation provided the
authority of governmental power where
in a few instances, it was needed.
The handling of the railroads provides
a pattern for the cooperation that
can and should be maintained between
private enterprise and government.
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Agriculture Depends
On Marketing Program
It has always been taken for granted
that the small farm?the ownership of
land by millions of individuals?was
the great safeguard of independence in
this nation.
Postwar prosperity of American industries
will depend largely on the
ability of small farmers to buy the products
of our factories.
With world markets made more accessible
for buying and selling than
ever before, success for the small farmer
will depend on his ability not only
to produce, but to market his crops in
competition with the world.
As farmers learn how to better utilize
marketing cooperatives to handle
their production and sales on a group
basis, a major economic handicap that
American agriculture has faced, will
be removed.
Be Sure And Remember?
Just to remind you what to expect in ,
the next few weeks frotn Germany we
quote directly from Hitler's "Mein
Kampf":
A defeated nation can even better than a
victorious nation be trained and prepared
for the day of final victory. It may happen
that I cannot win victory at once in this
coming; war; wd may be forced to interrupt
it. Then we all will be hack underground.
"We will smile, we will look, we will wait. ,
But after some years, when the weak and
inefficient democracies will have utterly
failed to solve the world's post-war pro- ,
blems, then we will suddenly break loose ]
front under ground and our stupefied enemies
will discover too late that millions of
their own youth, misguided by weak education,
disappointed by democracy's failure,
will be on our side. Victory in this third
World War will be (fuick and easy. It will
be in our pocket like a ripe apple we take
from the falling tree of democracy.?Adolf
Hitler, 1938.
He had thought of the possibility of
defeat. He was so sure of his final victory
that he even laid his plans open
for the world to see.
We Americans i.re a peace-loving
people. We didn't want the war in the
first place. Now that there is a possi- 1
bility that the European phase may
soon be over, it will be our tendency to
say, "We won, now let's leave them
alone and not be too hard on them."
Then it will be that the Nazi-trained ,
youth will prepare for the Third World
War?if we let them.
Eyes Turn Toward
The Pacific
President Roosevelt's meeting with
Pacific commanders in the Pacific war
theatre adds another name in the growing
list of conferences of Allied leaders
at which great strategic plans were
mapped out to spell the doom of the
Axis. Washington, Casablanca, Quebec,
Ciaro, Teheran, Honolulu ? these are
names packing dynamite for now defeated
Italy, crumbling Germany, and
quaking Japan.
The three-day Honolulu conference
bears a significant relationship to the
war in Europe as well as to the war in
the Pacific. It does not say so in so
many words but it does say in effect
that now that the plans of conferences
leading up to the climactic blows
against Europe are in full operation,
the next job is to carry forward with
previously arranged plans to bring the
same weight of power against the Japanese.
It is a lefthanded assertion that
things are in hand in Europe with victory
in sight, so much so that the Commander-in-Chief
may now focus his atattention
upon the Pacific.
The only striking contrast between
this and the original Washington conference,
so far as surface appearance is
concerned, is that at Honolulu, contrary
to Washington, the President and his
staff were not dealing with initial
plans but with plans already far along
toward fulfilment. While the Chief conferred
with his commanders, bombs
were falling on the Philippines and the
mainland of Japan, and Guam and
Saipan, now in American hands, pointed
like a dagger at the heart of Tokyo.
And the Chief could say with a confidence
born out of spectacular and
mounting Allied success, "We are going
back to the Philippines and MacArthur
is going to be a part of the
operation. You can't say whether the
general is going back directs or by
way of North Africa?but he is going
back and we are going to give the islands
their freedom."
Today's Simile: As useless as a race
track in a one-horse town.
THE STATE PC
COL. VICKERS
DIES IN YUMA
iContfnuerl rroih pag.- 1)
(Duke).. He returned to the United
States several months ago after
serving 18 months overseas.
Surviving are his widow, two
daughters, Mrs. Horace Barnes
and Mrs. Tom Phelps, both of
Lumberton; and two sons, John
Vickers, of Morehead City and
Lt. Lawrence Vickers with the
Ary in England.
NOAH J. MORSE
DIES AT LELAND
(Continued From Page One)
terday afternoon at two o'clock
from the residence at Leland. The
services were held by Rev. S. L.
Mintz and Rev. Jethrow Benton.
Burial was in the Nelson cemetery.
Surviving him are his widow,
Mrs. Gussie Morse, six daughters,
Mrse. S. T. Shepard, of Rockingham,
Mrs. T. S. Gainey, and Misses
Leona, Wanda, and Maxine
Morse of Leland, and Mrs. O. F.
Smith of Garland; two sons, T. H.
Morse of the U. S. Navy, and
James B. Morfse of Leland; and
three sisters. Mrs. L. Hodge of
FrFeeman, Mrs. L. Alford of Wilmington,
and Mrs. H. Watson of
Leland.
OUR ROVING
REPORTER
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case of E. Holden. All without
any luck. Both of us realize that
the other is goofy and neither
one of us pays any attention to
Hio rtthor'c inc-nlf {no- ramorlfQ Wo
remain good friends.
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The Longwood and Hickman's
Cross Roads communities had
quite a bit of wind, during one of
the storms early last week. Corn
and some other crops were damaged
somewhat by being blown
aver. It is understood that the
heavy wind was confined to a
rather small area in that section.
Ortoft Plantation on the Cape
Fear River has also been reported
as having had considerable
wind, although no damage has
been reported outside of limbs
being broken from trees.
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The whole of the costal area
from Myrtle Beach, S. C., to Wilmington,
had good rains last
week. In many spots, where this
rainfall was plentiful, there had
been little or no rain since the
latter part of April. Despite this
lack of rain in spots crops are reported
as being the best in years.
This applies to tobacco, corn,
peas, peanuts, potatoes, etc. A
thorough analysis of all that is
claimed by pleased farmers is
that the county is producing the
best crop that has been grown in
many years.
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If there is a place in Brunswick
county that is filling a general
need, doing a real public service,
even when it is in the line
of business, it is the Reynolds
blacksmith shop at Shallotte. This
is not written to give free advertising,
it is simply giving a
measure of credit to a place that
is enabling- fishermen and farmers
to carry on. The shop, as we see
it, has been engaged in an all out,
but unrecognized, war work. During
the crop preparation, growing
and now harvesting season, literally
hundreds of farmers have
suffered mishaps to the old but
essential farming tools and machinery
that they were compelled
to use. Without repairs, or with
delay in repairs, such accidents in
many cases were simply ruinous.
There seems to have been but one
place in the county where such
damage could and would be repaired.
Isaac Reynolds and his
half a dozen helpers have always
been on the job. Anything that
was needed to help make a crop
has received priority at the
shop and these priorities have also
gone to saw milling and pulpwood
cutting tools. Osaac is not
forgetting that he has given one
of his sons and that three others
are in the service. Any tool or implement
that will help win the
war gets prompt service in his
shop. How, with the shrimping
and fishing season getting underway,
another class of producers
are finding Isaac and his helpers
real friends in need. During the
past few months the shop has
iurned out more than a hundred
pairs of drag board -runners for
sihimp nets. Literally scores of
shrimping boats have found their
way up the Shallotte River to the
Reynolds shop for all sorts of repairs
to engines and rigging and
many a piece of material has been
tarried to the shop for repairs by
car or truck. Isaac has never said
anything to us about his giving
priority to things that are needed
to aid jn the winning of the
war, but two of his friends, Mr.
and Mrs. Herman! Stanaland, did.1
Sitting on the porch of the fine 1
home of this couple, last week, Mr. j
and Mrs. Stanaland were genuine-1
ly appreciative of the fine all-out
effort that the shop is putting
forth towards helping to win the
war.
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The Mill Branch section of
Waccamaw township, especially
E.round the old Mintz and Mintz
store and farm, is credited with
having some especially fine farm
crops. O. R. Mintz now owns the
eld farm and is producing some
real stuff this year, along with
various neighbors. One of his
neighbors and relatives, Perry D.
Mintz, ignores cotton, tobacco and
truck crops. He depends on his
tees for a money crop and has!
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somewhere between 150 and 200' 1
colonies of the little workers. The (
bees are paying workers instead of ;
! being paid to work. This year the (i
honey crop being produced by i
j Mr. Mintz and other bee raisers i
is said to be especially good. An- t
other farmer in the Mintz and t
Mintz community who is making t
good by going outside the beaten' t
path is J. L. Mintz. He is speciliz- , c
ing in poultry, producing both i
| eggs and broilers. He raises about s
j 5,000 broilers each year and keeps
I between 800 and 1,000 laying
I hens. r
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J. J. Ramsauer of Winnabow f
has recently sold three fine hoi- f
: stein cows to M. C. Patton, of c
' Greenville, S. C. The animals
' were: Susie Pietertje Robes Ormsj
by 2255168, Gladys Pietertje Fo:
bes 2255167, and MCE Gladys
FFobes Ormsby 1937347. Transfer
of the registry certificates
have already been officially recv,,.
Mm Holstein-Friesian i
. Ul UtU UJ M*W ? ?
Association of America.
J Adding to an already considerable
number of white faced cat- ,
tie, which they owned. Mr. Ram- j
sauer, his son, Joe, Jr., and sonj
in-law, Gilbert Reid, bought two (
j full car loads of fine heifers a
| little over a year ago. Many of1
j these finely bred animals have
j already dropped calves, sired by!
| registered bulls before their pur- j
j chase by the Brunswick men. J
Practically all will have added
their young to the herd within i
the next few months. The stock
; raising plan is understood to be1
{ to sell the male calves as either
calves or mature bulls for breedj
ing stock and beef, keeping all
j heifer calves to add to the her. ;
! Now and then a cow will be sold.
Undoubtedly one of the great
opportunities in Brunswick, an opi
portunity that is believed to be
' due to receive much attention, j
will be the raising of pure-bred ;
beef and milk cows. The climate, j
long growing season between'
frosts, abundance of natural j
grasses and ability of the lands to [
supplement this with forage crops j
makes the county ideal for stock
raising. With winter or all year
[ round pasturage possible, very
j little feed is required at any period
of the year. The Ramsauers
and various other Brunswick
1 farmers are rapidly developing
1 these year-round pastures.
Relative to the stock raising;
possibilities in the county, it is!
recalled that only three or four l
vears ae-o Joel Moore. SouthDort!
i market man, kept an average of
' around 100 head of cows of all
sorts, ranging from a few good
; blooded animals down to any sort
of good scrub that was found
purchasable. These cows were c
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