The State Port Pilot Southport, N. G. Published Every Wednesday JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor (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 Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 Wednesday, December 27, 1944 A Lone Patriot After tying up production of engines for B-29 Superfortresses for three days, striking workers at the Wright Aeronautical Corporation voted grudgingly 1,000 to 500 in favor of returning to work. In another case, a couple of dozen crane operators walked off the job, paralyzing work in one of the world's largest steel mills, regardless of the plea from General Eisenhower that American workers turn out ammunition at top speed. He said the reduction of the city of Aachen was delayed by a - p ? A t~k A 4-IT ah snorrage 01 aniniuiuuuu. xt.hu mvu came the coldly deliberate acts of the telephone workers threatening the war effort. These are but recent examples, by certain segments of labor, showing callous lack of concern for the men on the fighting fronts that is wholly beyond understanding. Upon contemplation one wonders what claim we on the home front have to being patriotic. The strikers alone are not to blame for what is happening. We are all to blame for permitting it to happen. The extent to which we have drifted away from true patriotism is brought home by the woman warworker of Pennsylvania who sent General Douglas MacArthur $525 saying that "it was simply partial payment from qiie American woman for letting the hoys on Bataan and Corregidor down." "Hie money is being spent on candy a$d other gifts for orphaned and homers Philippine children. This lone patriot, forced to quit her job because of illness, then added: ''^nd when I looked around me at vwrk and saw all the loafing on the job I knew that in spite of the wondlrful job we are doing, we are still letting the boys down." \here Is Still Time ? General Eisenhower at the beginning oj the Sixth War Bond Drive said: "On behalf of your sons, brothers, husbands iid friends in this great war theatre I rfiquest that you do your part to see tiat the Sixth War Loan is vastly over subscribed." The General was referring specifically to the E Bond series, since he safd on "behalf of your sons, husliinds, brothers, Although all reports are not in at press time today bpt it now appears that Columbus failSin their goal of E Bond sales during e drive. If we did, we have let our own flesh and blood down. However, \ye can still make amends. All E Bond sales during the month of December \yill count against the county's Sixth War Loan quota. Let's buy another $100 war bond for Christmas. jfheyll Come Through Realizing whot our fanners did in 1944 one cannot but feel assured that they'll come through again in 1945. In 1944 the county was blessed with a fine growing season, for which all thanks should be rendered. At the same tijfoe it is not to be forgotten how hard oar farm people worked. To the laborer comes the harvest and without the h$rd work attendant upon producing ljfet year's crop the crop would have b*en a failure. >This year, with increased shortage of man power and the uncertainty of wjiat the growing season may offer in the way of weather, it may be necessary to work even harder. This is something that only the future can reveal, l^e believe that if Brunswick county farming people are weighed in the balance they will not be found wanting. l\i Retrospect * Within, a few days, 1944 will have bfecome history. tin many ways the year has been imn^nsely historic, yet in other ways not s4 historic as was anticipated. Write down in the record the capture of liojne, the invasion of France, the re* election of President Roosevelt, the invasion of the Philippines as the great headline stories of the year and you have events which have set 1944 apart as a truly epic year. For sheer drama, no event has ever so captured the imagination as did the D-Day invasion of France. That, together with the subsequent breakthrough at St. Lo followed by the breath-taking liberation of France, kept the imagination on tiptoe for weeks on end. Because the re-election of President Roosevelt was generally expected, the fact itself, and not the glamor surrounding the fact, proved of prime historic import. There would have been far more drama in the defeat of the President than in his re-election. Yet the fact that he was able for the fourth time to defeat a Republican candidate for the White House constituted an event which historians will term remendous. The capture of Rome, spectacular though it was, was almost immediately overshadowed by the invasion of France. The aspect of-the invasion of the Philippines which gave to it such breath-taking drama was fulfillment of a promise made by General MaqArthur that he would return. Otherwise the Philippine invasion was just another step in the long jump to Tokyo for which the Army, Navy and the Air Force in the Pacific have become famous. To the land operations in the Philippines must be allied the great naval victory which proved so disastrous to the Jap fleet and secured the Allied Philippine bridgehead to the Chinese and Japanese mainlands. Those are great 1944 events on the positive side. On the negative side lies the failure of Allied arms to wrest vict6ry in Europe as was generally expected and promised. When British, American and Canadian armies were steamrollering through France, Holland and Belgium, victory in Europe seemed only a matter of days. But as this is being written the enemy is on the offensive and Allied winter offensive plans apparently have been knocked into the the proverbial cocked hat. The end in Gennany does not yet appear in sight. On the basis of apparent circumstances, it seems likely that the spring and summer of 1945 will still see fierce fighting along the Western Front. The greatest apparent blunder of 1944 was the loose official talk of what the Allies .intended to do with Germany after victory, with the Monganthau proposal which would reduce industrial Germany to an agragrian winning first place among the 1944 boners. The fierce German resistance along the Seigfried line leading into the great and surprising German winter offensive should provide a neverto-be-forgotten lesson in the danger of "coiintinor the chickens before the eptrs are hatched." It should also provide an answer to the theory that the problem of Germany can be solved by placing the German people and their nation in shackles as a punishment for their crime against civilization. There's always an answer for shackles. Hitler provided an answer after World War I. Worse than Hitler will provide it after world War II if shackles are used. Judging by all past experience and by all that's observable for the future, 1945 will prove a hard road. To break the German will to fight is a bigger undertaking than was anticipated. And after victory in Europe has been won, nations standing among the debris of a wrecked civilization will discover that the greatest and most painstaking job of all will come when they try to adjust themselves to one another and to new type of world in a way as will preserve the peace won at such an enormous cost in money and human sacrifice. There are two kinds of bad citizens: Those who think everything the Government does is wrong, and those who think everything it does it right. Are you buying and using Christmas yet do so today. The quota for Columbus county is the largest in its history and no humanitarian cause is more worthy of its support. Seals? If you have not bought yours Then there's the story of the lawyer who sat up all night trying to break a widow's will.?Selected. ' If we are going to help finance Britain why not use their warships in the war against Japan? : CAPITAL By Thompsi DULL?Everything is pret dull a round Raleigh these day the lull before the storm whi will begin when the legislate gather here in January. The ca ital folks always dread the Le islature, for so much depends < the measures passed by it. Du ing January, February, ai March the situation In Raleij will be tense. After that, the will be more laxity and nonchf ance. So it's a good thing for tl Legislature to meet every tv years?even if it did nothingfor it reminds Raleigh office holi ers that they are responsible the people who live out in tl small towns, down the road fro the country store, and up tl hollow on Pine Level Branch. BOSS?It is important for tl people who live out of Raleigh, i out of the county seat, to r member that they are the bos es. They run this business calli North Carolina ? not the peop they elect. And it is good for tl j -hite-collared officials to keep tneir minds the ffcet that th( are the servants of the peopl not their rulers. When any pu lie official becomes so enwrapp< in himself as to think he is tl whole show, it's time for him move on. WEDDING?By this time y( probably know that Mrs. Bess Phoenix and L. Y. Ballentine, yoi next Lieutenant Governor, a married. This is really a peach a pair. Both extremely personab and extrovertish, they really w make a first rate political cor bination. You know, a lot < folks will tell you right now th Mrs. Ballentine?then only a la< in wating?played no small pa I in Cfonr'a annaeaaco la 4ll uiag a j/v/inv?i wuvvvwvu it* spring and this fall. Here's wisl ing them the best, for they ce tainly deserve it. They deserve because they are so folksy ai friendly. And it makes little di ference who you are or what y< station in life may be, you ci always feel that you are amor friends when you are in the cor pany of Mr. and Mrs. L. Y. Ba lentine. LETTERS ?George Uzzell, i R iwan County, and Oscar Richardson, of Union, are doir plenty of letter-writing thei days in their race for the speal ership of the House in the ne: Legislature. Legislators are recei' ing and sending all kinds < letters along this same line. T1 whole business is in a squabbl Some of those legislators wl were for Richardson are no looking in the direction of Uzze for they see that John Umstea brother of Bill, party chairman, for the gentleman from Rowa They like Richardson, believe : him. but they want to get on tl band wagon for Uzzell, if thei is one. And they think they s< the shadow of one no larger tha one man's hand in the distance BOB?Bob-Reynolds (Remen ber him?) will become a prival citizen, at least as far as Norl Carolina is concerned, in Januar; He is now lame-ducking along i Washington. Weslev McDonal his secretary and right much yoi U. S. Senator from the We! since 1932, has found other gaii ful employment. By the way, Mi Donald, who is from Virginia, h? been secretary for several sens tors, once for the great Oarti Glass. He expressed the opinic one time that Glass is "cantanl eous as hell." But that was i other days?in days when Glai was probably at his best. No nearly dead, Senator Glass is rei dering little service in the Senat He will soon be gone, too, bi McDonald (no relation to D Ralph) will go glibly along wil his first-name calling. Sometimi it's better to be second man?lil assistant postmaster, for instanc VERSE ? Speaking of tl Senate reminds one of the nov and-then brilliance of the Coi gressional Record, which yc may receive free of charge if yc will write your Congressman. Tl person who has the patience ar stomach to read the issues lor enough will run into somethin mjghty funny. Of course, most ( it is comical, but some portioi more than others. The other day, Rep. Charles 1 Plumley, of Vermont, quoted a unnamed tombstone poet in one ( his speeches. The speech was r good at all, but the verse ws out of this world. Here it is ? he saw it on a New Englar tombstone: "Here under this sod and und( these trees, Is buried the body of Solomo Pease; But under this sod lies only h pod. * His soul is shelled out and gor up to God.!" Out of this world, brother. An where else could you find it bt in the Record? NOTES?The Agricultural R< view will go up to eight page in January?Your candidates fc President in 1948 may be Eri Johnston, President of U. i Chamber of Commerce, Republ can, and Scott Lucas, Illinoi Senator, Democrat; both were b< LETTERS ?n Greenwood ty ing talked at the Farm Bureau a: shindig in Chicago last week ? ch It looks now as if \y. P. Horton J rs: is as close to politics as he wish- j p-! es to get?George Coble will soon j g- J erect an ice cream plant capable,1 Dn | of manufacturing 68,000 gallons 1 ir-1 per week. ad' 1 , FORMER RESIDENT OF j ' i COUNTY DESCRIBES t,J TRIP TO MICHIGAN , le ! (Continued From Page One) ji TO and began to pull. The old Wi.lys stopped losing speed, struggled < ? for age-long seconds at stalling < d- speed, missed a fire, coughed,, to caught and labored on. The grade ie I broke ever so slightly. The car m shuddered and began to gain j le | speed. The Angels climbed back ', on and the crest rolled behind j \ The last bad grade of the trip ] le was encountered on the' other J j or edge of the same town. Willys had 11 e_! to try the second time to make! ] 1S_ j that one. Had to stop for a red , ^ j light at the foot of it the first ] " | time. Got a turn through a green j' ' i light the second time and made ] in it- i] m Afternoon brought the Tennes- ] ;y see River (above Muscle Shoals) < e> and then the Christmas reds and ] 1 green of alternate fields of fresh-, i ; ly tilled red earth and velvety 1 alfalfa. . |< to | , Friday took the travelers well j1 up in the blue grass country andj1 >u left them at evening at a tourist j1 lie cabin a few miles from Cave City, j1 ur Kentucky. * |. re Saturday was spent there and j j of Saturday evening the Hills went j ile through Diamond Cave. ! j ill The guide made one brave try' j n- at her memorized recital, gave it of up, and lapsed into friendly con at versation for the remainder of the ly trip through the cave. When she rt showed the world's largest stalac- 1 st tite Mr. Hill did not ask "Is is ' h- he dead?" (Note to Mr. Tucker: ( r- Any ninth grade English student 1 it in Bolivia high school who doesn't x id know what that joke is should be 1 f- flunked.) :>ur Sunday gave no trouble and'5 an three AM Monday morning found; lg a tired light blue Willys, a tired 1 n- trailer, a tired Mrs. Hill, a tired [( il- Mr. Hill, a very tired Beverly, |' Nels and Melvin and a tired cat i? ' drawn to a stop in front of their c of new home in their old home town. 1 L. The old Willys has run its last 1 lg mile and without its tires muses 8 se beneath its mantle of snow and |x k- thinks of the good old days in;1 nn s v I Rudolph, Horace, Foster R. (for . c_ [ Republican as well as Robbins) | _ ls|James, Elmore, Watts, Wendell,) j_ j Minnie, Arthur, Helen, and the | f ;rjrest of the gang drop in some ' ,n Saturday night or Sunday. Mrs. ? <. Hill would even make a hamIn burger around. Also Jeanne and j; 3g some of her boy friends might g w come if she can decide which one j 1. j to bring. e 1 The letters and cards that !(; have been received have been apr preciated and Misses Susie and j! Janie are still on the job and 5S would be glad to start letters on [e their way to Glenwood, Michigan. e. It is hoped that Ardell Walton hasn't allowed his radio to comle pete wit Roy Acufe on the pictr_ j colo. v | The other friends and visitors ,u i haven't been forgotten either, ,u|the Bells, the Campbells, the Jenle j kins, the Leaks, the Hanks and lcj the others, and of course Aunt ,g Susan. Are the Campbells: and ig- Jenkins in their new homes yet? 5f The icicles hang half way to ls the ground from the eaves, the , snow is deep and the wind is cold. J ^ Still colder wealher will be comin ing as winter deepens. The: Hills )f remember the warmth of climate 10 they once sought and found in | ' I R. GALL Supply, % Brunswick County but warmth of the hearts they found there will be remembered when the climate has been forgotten. COMPILES LIST OF QUESTIONS (Continued from page One) cent increase in sugar prices in World War II ? There was a 199 per cent increase in Overall (garment) prices in World War 11 There has been only a 63 per cent in Overal (garment) prices in World War II? There was a 125 per cent increase in the price of men's work shoes in World War I ? There has been only a 58 per cent increase in the price of men's work shoes in World War II? METHODISTS PLAN GREAT CAMPAIGN Continued rrom Pa11 I. F. Herbert, Publicity, Wilmington; Mrs. N. P. Edens, Maysville; Mrs. Fannie Faison; Ben. F. Southerland, Wilmington; J. C. Willis, Elizabeth town; C. L. Moore, Burgaw; J. C. Thompson, lacksonville; Miss Luda Mae Jentins, Or am; L. S. Thompson, Whitevilie; Abel Warren, Garland; E. C. Sanders, Tabor City; Mrs. Lena B. White, Clinton; J. E. Carpenter, Lumberton; R. C. 3t. George, Southport; H. A. Ftagadale, Richlands; J. H. Brision, St. Pauls; Rev. J. W. Linecerger, Chadbourn; Dr. F. W. Paschall, Wilmington; Mrs. Lucy Motte, Wilmington; Mrs. M. W. Warren, Garland;. Rev. A. S. Pareen in the western part of this itate, wrote asking about Bruns-! vick county. Replying, we mailed lim a copy of the paper at the tame time and he promptly subicribed for it. On a recent cold night night, he ground being frozen and ice sverywhere where water was not unning swiftly, we left our type-J vriter at about 3:00 a. m., to go md partake "of the delights of soon hunting with Hubert Rogers, ie had told us of having bagged t of the animals a couple of lights before. Their combined veight was 35 pounds. We drove north for about five niles and then mindful of gas laving, the jalopy was parked and ve set off on foot down the louth side of Beaverdam swamp, j soon learned how they had come i o put the dam in Beaverdam.! lUDert was wearing rubber boots, | ' had only a pair of high boots. Ne had not gone? two miles beore they were full of water from loshing through swamps. Incidintly, there was about as much1 ce as water in these swamps ind as the night advanced the voods were wrapped in a heavy nantle of frost. We did some 12 miles (Hubert'sJ istimate) down the side of that iwamp, across the middle and I lack again, arriving' at the car' ome six hours after quitting it. lubert wds carefully carrying the JOUTHPORT GLEANERS SOUTHPORT, N. C | HdPPV^ f/ HOLIDflV OWAY N-c- i I game, which consisted of one very filed performance ,.,,, strong smelling skunk. We had a signed applications , great time anyway, even if our are urged to do so feet did freeze half off. , declared. 1-: I There was a lot of hog killing MEDICAL DISCH\Rcr H 1_ I PAn P/-.-T r* \ rS~l * during the pasc wee*., u.c ???.- ruiv BAKKFOfYr K ther was plenty cold for killing fContinued From r r,r", B and curing for home consumption. Edgar Barefoot. ?, ui The result was that in addition Navy somewhere in the to many being placed on the Pacific. ' ' ' ! market on the hoof they were H butchered right and left. WORK IN JANUARY B D. C. Smith, of Ash, reports SEEN BY ACFNT ' B that he killed a 300 pound hog 'Continued F---. r-n~e nP B that seemed to be tip-top for per- that has much )ulnlu " fection. However, on cutting it up necessary for such i .'u, , vB he found it to be a bit freakish. . , , I Instead of the two inches or so ' i,s rotting B of flesh usually found on top of "3e'ore Q cop is plante.l the backbone of a hog of this Pruning fruit tree s pieparing size there was hardly any. j and planting tobacco seed bets And under the backbone and an. H stomach was the two Inches of inp. f(lrr,,ot, fh ,, B flesh that is usually found on passing laboratory at RoWghTre B top of the backbone. In a way about 10 per cent higher than-^B of speaking, a good part of the last year. side meat was inside. I B NEW PLANS MADE Bouds B FOR NOTIFYING f\ . f NEXT OF KIN UVet AlMI'lCQ H (Continued From Page One) _____ BP General Uhi explained "this newj B procedure in both instances will: I ~i J_J[ HTJl B naturally be cf great comfort to B emergency addressees as well of |B vnlno fn thia War npnqrfmpnt Tt i *~ KitJit - y eliminates the 'middle man'?so \ -? _ I to speak?by having the reports |nD H BR ]j * made out at the hosiptal and , Kpj B Hp] r-"S" mailed immediately to the person j J3J bRrlT B concerned, instead of being first. | bkM&i & "ji B transmitted to the Adjutant Gen- IjEji, 'Pi ' '*.}? B eral and thence to the emergency! [Kl MM j&l B addressee." j , !?5| III -? B General Uhl emphasized that ^'pTi [pl'lL V I.L ''\ ,)P< B this new plan will in no way eli-; jlyWjjAi minate the "message of cheer" ? B which each emergency addressee P B is encouraged to send at Govern- lL??-?B ment expense to a wounded sol- Ij?fl dier once a month, nor will it at- B feCt the present policy whereby tp p":??. fl a special report is submitted to TjMrjjjffi* " " '* fl the Adjutant General in the case fl of any patient who has been lios- PORTSMOUTH PORCH fl pitalized either for wounds, in- . a , < t'-eir ar- B . . , ' Americans are proud ui . - j. b juries or illness and who takes chitecture. The fine old Southern a dangerous turn for the worse. coionial, Dutch colonial ai d Cope (In line with the above, it is; Cod houses across the land reveal hoped that relatives in this coun- i American ingenuity in Pr0?]:cH ty, receiving such messages, will; dividualistic evolutions i t;. . B immediately send this paper a conceptions. Portsmouth. B copy, together with other infor- ed for its three-story h ? dj B mation necessary for the writing fall chimneys, ta"LSP- house, B of a short story concerning the in I j lais^ Noto t1' - -racefully fl wounded or kiHed-Ed. Notl i %%*$?? Z SSffi fl LOCAL AAA SAYS homcT'of Spanish fl FEB. 1 LAST DATE nial influences in the West. Saw? (Continued from page One) west and Southern seaboard -t... ^ M within the specified time ,1) be- ^^nSion o7 cause he was a member of the Lhtin? t0 preserve T ** S armed forces, or (2) because of transport, and supply these ir.en prolonged illness. "All eligible buy more War Bonds. d B farmers who have not already) . .''ill''---- fl W7b:& STBUS LINES, Inc. I Southport, N. G. 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