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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. C. 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 OXE YEAR $1.50 SIX MOXTHS 1.00 THREE MOXTIIS 75 Wednesday, January 23, 1946 Election Year Although there has been remarkably I little talk about it thus far, this is elec- j tion year; and it is not too early for ( citizens of this county to give serious j consideration to the matter of choosing candidates who can and will serve them well if they are elected to public office. The average citizen takes full advan- i tage of his right to criticize, but too j often these efforts are forthcoming at a time when no good may be accom- | plished. If a man isn't fit to hold pub lic office, or is not qualified for the job to which he seeks election, these facts will be apparent to the intelli gent, discriminating voter before he gets past the primary or general elec tion. And these are the two days when it is possible for the voter to do some thing about good government. Regardless of your party affiliation, it is your duty as a citizen to see that the man whom you help to nominate is the very best one available for the job. This is a purpose that cannot be achieved by sitting back contentedly waiting to find out who will announce for this office or that. It is a cause that deserves your own personal interest and influence in an effort to get be fore the public strong and able men. We believe that too few of the peo ple in the county know just what are the duties, the responsibilities and the salaries paid the various officers. Every j taxpayer in the county deserves to know, and not until he has a true pic ture of these facts is he qualified to ^ help nominate and elect the men who fill our public offices. In this connection we wish to an nounce a new feature that will appear for the first time in The Pilot next week. We are planning a column each week describing as simply as possible the pertinent facts regarding these of fices. It is our purpose to present this information in a fair and straightfor ward manner, and we hope that it will serve the purpose of giving the voters a better acquaintance with their coun ty government. This Is Revolution The current strike situation is at last perfectly clear. It is nothing less than revolution. Traditional concepts of property rights, management right and profit rights are threatened. To see the way the revolution is proceeding, con sider the case of a single basic indus try. Management and labor disagreed, superficially, on the percentage of wage increase to be granted. Funda mentally, the disagreement was not over the adequacy of wages, measured by past standards. Real wages are at record levels. Labor leaders have frankly stated that they are out for a redistribution of profits. In the case of at least one industry, they have de manded a look at the "books" to decide for themselves how profits should be shared. When these companies rebelled at strong-arm division of profits, the next step in the revolution took place. The government took over the companies. The workers went back to work pend ing a decision on the demands of their leaders. Now the negotiations have gone completely beyond control of the industry. A three-man government "fact-finding" board has been appoint ed by the President. The question is how will it decide to divide the profits of the industry? The members of the industry, men who have worked all their lives to build up companies that serve the public well and have always endeavored to pay fair wages and a | fair return to those investors who tooK I the risks in the development of resour j ces with millions of hard-earned sav ! ings, must await the outcome of the 1 deliberations of three political appoint I ees. They are helpless. The prices paid for their products as weli as wages are at the mercy of political maneuvering in government. If this is not revolution, what is it? Whatever it is, it explains why recon version and post-war production are dangerously stalled. Many Shot On the day that the world war stall ed the British liner Athenia was tor pedoed and sunk with the loss of 113 lives of innocent non - combatants. Among those who died were 30 Ameri can citizens. The Gennan government promptly claimed that the British sank the Athe nia themselves in a deliberate move to turn this country against Germany. The claims made in Germany were ?echoed by thousands of isolationists here in the United States. Many a shot, some heard around the world, has been fired since the Athenia was sunk. Many people have probably forgotten the ship and the claims that the British sank it in an effort to get the United States on their side against Germany. But last week it was revealed that Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, of the German Navy had sworn that the Ath enia was sunk by the German submar ine U-30. The official German Naval diary substantiated the Admiral's affi davit. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Anyone who has had experience with construction work during the past few years knows that the grim statistics of building costs, shortages and pent-up demand are all too true. The plain fact is that it is nearly impossible to build anything. Those who are fortunate enough to own homes and other prop erty should be thankful indeed ? thank ful and doubly cautious to see that fire does not destroy them. However, what people should do and what they actually do are two very different things. Estimates of fire loss es in the United States in November were $37,393,000, an increase of nearly $3,000,000 over October, 1945, and 10 per cent higher than in November, 1944. This loss is the highest of any re-> ported for November in the last 15 years. The nation is as careless with its property now as in the most abundant days of peace. Far too many homes, stores and similar places of business are literally choked with hazards that could be removed easily and quickly. Thousands of structures will be des troyed because of failure to remove these hazards. Countless people will suffer needless hardship and an un told number will die. It will be months and perhaps years before reconstruction can begin. This is the story of the build ings that are here today and will be gone tomorrow. Most of them could be saved, along with the lives that will be lost and can never be replaced. Fire prevention authorities strive by every means at their command to reach the people with the message of fire pre vention. They believe that eventually they will be heard. Certainly, with pro perty values soaring to new highs and the difficulties of replacements reach ing the point of impossibility, they should be heard now if ever. Bringing It Home To Us How completely we have become geared to electric power was illustrat ed last week when the supply of elec tricity was disrupted for the better part of 24 hours on account of freezing weather conditions. The moment the current went off, that moment the en tire social, business and industrial life of Whiteville became disrupted. There was no power to operate ma chines, to furnish light, and in some cases heat. Where cooking was done by electricity, food for the family gecame a problem. Where heating plants were operated by electric power, there was added the very real problem of heat. Until something like that comes along, we do not realize how depen dent we are upon public utilities for the pursuance of our normal life, nor how important a place public utilities representatives occupy in any modern community. CAPITAL LETTERS By Thompson Greenwood I. O. Schaub, Director of the N. C. Extension Service, made the shortest speech heard in recent years at the State Grange meet ing held in High Point last week. Schaub was given a flowing in troduction by retiring Master Harry B. Caldwell, and everybody was sitting back, and possibly looking forward to the speech. j "An old friend of the farmer and of the Grange; one of the truly good men of agriculture," lauded Caldwell. "And now, Dean Schaub, we'd like to have a word from you." Schaub took Caldwell at his work, too, and said the word, just one, and that was, "Howdy!" The Grangers seemed to like it, and gave the speaker a big hand as he threw back at them that familiar whimsical smile and his peculiar little twist of the head. I Not eveiybody was pleased at the selection of Mrs. Caldwell to succeed her husband as Master of the State Grange. They felt that Harry's position with the Na tional Plant Food Council would certainly keep him too busy to attend to the Grange duties and their opinion was that Mrs. Cald well as Master would be the same thing as continuing her hubanda in this position. However, the thoughts expressed above were definitely from the minority, and the real old back-in-the-country, old-time Grangers just wanted a Caldwell to be head of the N. C. Grange, and if they couldn't get Harry, they would take Mrs. Harry. She will do a splendid jod ? m a way, better than her husband has done during- the past eight | years he has held the office. Un- j der him, the Grange leaned too j heavily on their Master, thus mak ing it too much of a One Man show. Since they haven't had a i lady before as Master, many of i the lazy duffers will now get in there and fight for the Grange. ! And the folks who think that Harry B. Caldwell will still be running the Grange just don't know his wife. Prediction: The Grange will gain more members during the next 12 months than it has in the past two years. Tere is the principal reason ? j other than the fact that tobacco stocks are low ? that Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson raised the allotment 10 per cent last week: Secretary Anderson must issue a proclamation this summer (around July usually) ] calling for a vote on the control program ? since this is the last ] year under the present program, j With a big crop having been pro- j duced in 1945 and tobacco manu facturers paying the ceiling, there would be little reason for keeping down th production of tobacco j next year. But now that the 10 j per cent increase has been grant- | ed, Secretary Anderson can look at the production estimates this sum and declare that control will be necessary, for with the big ! 1946 crop, there may be less j demand in 1947, and a consequent reduction in price. So control will be necessary. There will be vigorous objections to control from various groups (you can guess without half trying if you grow tobacco), but the objections will be much less now that the crop is going to be around 10 per cent larger. You might ask why Secretary! Anderson didn't make this an nouncement when he spoke in North Carolina two weeks ago. Well, chances are he didn't know it was coming. J. B. Hutson, Un dersecretary of Agriculture and j former head of the Commodity Credit Corporation, handles the tobacco program for his boss, and the matter likely had not been cleared between the two at the time of the Raleigh talk. Anderson came into Raleigh wearing a dirty shirt. He was aw fully worried and didn't know what to do about it. Don't ask why he didn't have a suitcase or a clean shirt. And you can't buy a shirt in Raleigh ? especially a white one. Anderson appealed to his host, Agriculture Commission er Kerr Scott, but Scott didn't have a clean one with him either ? except the one on his back ? for he had just come down from his home on Back Creek in Alamance County. ?? . To make a long story short, Scott jumped around and borrow ed a nice shirt that fitted Ander son to a tee-y-ty. If the lender's name were mentioned you would know him, for he's rather prom inent. But since this story came neither from Scott nor from the lender, the name will not be giver. Anyway, big shot's shirts get dirty, just like yours and mine. The counties are raising the dickins about the country roads, and Highway Commissioner Sandy Graham is sweating more than at any time since 1936 when he was in that three-cornered race wrtth Hoey and McDonald. Some of the delegations, although good Democrats, are getting really rough. Now the weather folks say that January is going to be an unus ually wet month, so we may have ' a minor revolution any time. Since Graham went into office th? middle of last summer, he's been moving along rather swiftly: on the rural roads program ? ! especially <fnce those blasts from Governor Cherry and Kerr Scott, j But Cherry and Graham have only been in office a few months, Cherry 12 and Graham about six, so you can't expect too much in that short time. Broughton had a good oppor- j tunity to bring the rural roads up to par ? or to start them in that direction ? during the first two years of his administration. However, he did very little. Your popular U. S. Senator Clyde R. Hoey is the man on whom to place the blame, for in the years from 1936 to 1940 there was plen ty of money and plenty of labor. But he did nothing.* So he smiles and is pleasant and you love him. Any time you want to know something about the National (or State) tobacco program, get in touch with E. Y. Floyd, executive secretary of the Virginia-Carolina Plant Food Institute. They say that J. B. Hutson 1 slips into Raleigh now and then, confers with Floyd and moves back to Washington again, with nothing said in the press about the visit ? in fact nothing known about it. Headed by N. C. State Agricul ture Dean, the Agriculture Com mittee of the Grange passed a resolution last week using the , State Highway and Public Works Commission to "devote as much attention to the soupy highways as to the super-duper highways." Attaboy; Baver, they will under stand wh^t you mean. Rumors were flying thick and fast last week that Smith Douglas, the fertilizer company, was planning to go into court with the Associated Press over recent statements allegedly made by this news organization. The company also toyed with the idea of bringing the Agriculture De partment into court. But the story is that Ralph Douglas went to an attorney (J. M. Broughton) for advice, and he told them to pull their punches, that advertise ments in newspapers over the re cent fertilizer argument, law suits, and court actions, would do them much more harm than good? even if they won. At thi3 writing, all is quiet on the East em Front. The State Grange, which led the fight to have school princi pals paid on a 10-months basis, is now beginning a move to have them paid the year-around. The Grange also wants heat on school busses, and more experienced drivers. It ' now looks as if three or four N. C. Congressmen will have opposition this fall. More on this as it develops. BRUNSWICK DRAFT BOARD MEMBERS GIVEN AWARDS (Continued from page 1) non died after serving one year. He was replaced by James Carr, local insurance man. Mr. Carr has served four years. The other two members of the board, J. J. Loughlin and Price Furpless, formed the original body with Mr. Shannon. Both of them have i served a full five years. It can be seen from this- that Mr. Carr with his four years and Messrs. Loughlin and Furpless with their five years each all were eligible for receiving the medals and certificates. The health of both Messrs. Loughlin and Furpless and busi ness pressure on Mr. Carr pre vented any of the three Bruns wick men from going to Raleigh yesterday to receive their awards. The medals and certificates will be sent them. Steelworkers Strike Is Greatest In U. S. History (Continued From Page One) conquest were seized and placed under guard today by Gen. Mac Arthur, who indicated that many of factories would go to allied nations as reparations. CHICAGO ? Possibility of im minent government seizure con fronted the strike-boind meat in dustry today. As a fact-finding board appointed by President Tru man prepared to open public hearings here tomorrow in a six-' day old walk-out, high a< native quarters in WuhinpJ said that n. . : ? ? I might be siizi 1 in PARIS? H? a U ? Ftt nch ~j:, political parties v.cio . ;.r.nior.i to meet io c ticn Gen. !>.? ? ; down last r.^lil . , dent of France /.v; . ... . crisis over the size of the army] Show Down Regarding USO Building Is Due (Continued lrum lu-e l) one year-lease, renewable ttl year for a peiio.i t n\\- yeai City officials m<i:< thai n local governing: bo iy is in position to purc-1:..- ? . . . nor is it in position to :.s its continued us.- ar.-i ?y.iv. unless some for financing the project is veloped. ARRIVE HERE Mr. and Mrs. K H. ;| and children, Pat ar.J Stu. have arrived here OM ed visit with Mis. 1". H. Crann W. B. & S. BUS LINES, Inc. SCHEDULES Leave Arrive Leave Arrive Southport Wilmington Wilmington Southport 7:00 A. M. 8:30 A. M. 7:00 A. M. 8:30 A. M. 9:00 A. M. 10:30 A. M. ^:30 A. M. 11:00 A. M. 1 on T> nr o oa t> Tvf 1:35 P. M. 3:00 P. M. 1:30 P. M. 2:30 P. M. 4;00 p M 5.30 p M> 4:00 P. M. 5:30 P. M. 6:20 P. M. 7:45 P. M. 6:00 P. M. 7:30 P. M. 10:00 P. M. 11:20 P. M. Daily? Except Sunday SUNDAY SCHEDULE 7:30 A. M. 8:50 A. M. 9:00 A. M. 10:20 A. M. 10:45 A. M. 12:15 P. M. 1:35 P. M. 3:00 P. M. 4:00 P. M. 5:30 P. M. 6.20 P. M. 7:45 P. ]ML_ 6:00 P. M. 7:30 P. M. 10:00 P. M. 11:20 P. M. ? SEE US FOR ? CHRYSLER MARINE ENGINES WISCONSIN AIR COOLED ENGINES Gasoline & Diesel Parts and Service Michigan Machined Pitch Propellers Bronze Shafting MARINE, MILL & AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIES Machine Shop and Motor Rebuilding Service MACHINE & SUPPLY CO. On Causeway Foot Beaufort Bridge Beaufort, N. G. We Are Always Glad To Serve You ! COME TO SEE US OFTEN R. GALLOWAY SUPPLY, N. G. NOTICE NOTICE SECOND CALL FOR TAXES I will be at the places cited below at the time designated for the pur pose of collecting taxes. No penalty on 1945 taxes if paid on or before February 2nd. PAY NOW AND SAVE COST Exum ? Vereen's Store, Jan. 29th 10:30 to 11:30 A. ? ? Freeland ? Simmons' Store, Jan 29th - 11:45 to 12:15 ? ? * ? L. G. Babson's Store, Jan 29th 12:20 to 12:50 . ? Ash ? Post Office, Jan. 29th 1:15 to 1:45 I . ? ? Longwood, ? January 29th 2:00 to. 2:o0 I . ? ? Hickman's Cross Roads, Jan. 29th 2:45 to 3:15 i . > ? Thomasboro, Jan. 29th 3:20 to 3:50 I . ? ? Grissett Town, Jan. 29th 4:00 to 4:^0 I . ? ? North West-L. G. McKoy's Store, Jan. 31st 10:45 to 11:30 V M North West ? Mrs. A. M. Ghinnis' Store, Jan. 31st 12-:00 to 12:45 I . - ? Leland Post Office, Jan. 31st 1:00 to 1:30 ? ? ? Navassa ? Lewis' Store, Jan. 31st 1:45 to 2:30 I ? Winnabow ? Henry's Store, Jan. 31st 3:00 to 3:45 I ? ? ? Bolivia ? Leonard's Store, Jan. 31st 4:00 to 4:30 I ? * ? Lockwoods Folly ? Kirby's Store, Feb. 2nd 10:00 to 10:45 A. ? Lockwoods Folly ? Varnum's Store, Feb. 2nd 11:15 to 11:45 A. ? ? Lockwoods Folly ? Roach's Store, Feb. 2nd 12:00 to 12:30 1. * ? Boone's Neck ? Capt. Jesse D. Robinson's Store, Feb. 2nd 12:45 to 1:15 I ? ? ? Shallotte ? Post Office Square, Feb. 2nd 2:00 to 4:00 I ? * W. P. JORGENSEN TAX COLLECTOR FOR BRUNSWICK COUNTY
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