The State Port Pilot
Southport, N. C.
Published Every Wednesday
JAMES M. HARPER, JR ... Editor
? I
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 j
SIX MONTHS 1.00 J
THREE MONTHS 75 i
Wednesday, January 21, 1948
Expensive Drama
A term of Brunswick county super
ior court for trial of criminal cases
convened here on Monday, and the cus
tomary court week crowd was on hand
for the occasion.
Comprising the large number of vis
itors were defendants in various trials,
witnesses in the cases and men and
women summonsed here for jury duty.
As many more persons were here out
of curiosity, attracted by the drama of
the court room.
Many strange and interesting things
take place before the bar of justice,
and for many citizens of the county
these terms of court represent the high
point in curious interest. They sit and
they listen to the revelations of the tes
timony, and their attitude changes
from scorn to pity, from intense preju
dice to compassion, back and forth
again.
And well may they derive what
pleasure they can from these sessions,
for the capture, the care and the trial
of those who break the laws of our
land are among the most expensive
costs which must be born by our county
treasury.
The School Situation
We think that the situation regard
ing our schools is critical enough to jus
tify calling a special session of the
North Carolina General Assembly. So
far as we are concerned, it is unthink
able that our State officials in Raleigh
can publicly gloat over the surplus
which has accumulated during these
days of inflation and still have knowl
edge of the pay scale being paid oui
teachers.
Not only should the matter of teacher
pay be adjusted, but some arrange
ments should be made for making
necessary repairs and additions to our
school buildings. Counties like our own
are in no position to shoulder this re
sponsibility alone, and there is no bet
ter place to use some of the surplus
which has been built up as a result of
a policy of "make it do or do without."
Every dollar of that surplus came
from taxes, and taxes were paid by or
dinary citizens like you and your neigh
bor. Your children and your neighbor's
children should not be required to wait
until next year to start receiving some
of the benefit from Ihis money.
Time and tide waits for no man, nor
do the educational needs of boys and
girls whose minds are in the formative
stage.
Time To Take Inventory
During the last days of December
and early in the new year it was not
unusual to. find a sign at the front door
of your favorite store announcing
"Closed Today and Tomorrow. Taking
Inventory." This is a necessary task for
a good merchant, who must check up
to discover just where he stands in the
matter of his business for the year.
The first result of this work, of
course, is to discover the value of his
current stock of goods and to find out
the principle items which go to make
it up. By using his findings as a basis
of comparison, the merchant will be
able to check back over his year's busi
ness and find out which departments
were profitable, which were operated
at a loss. He learns what items are
dead on the market, which ones move
fast and are of greatest demand.
Taking inventory is time well spent
for a good merchant.
Sometimes we think that it is just as
important for the individual to stop and
take his bearings, and just as in the
case of the merchant, the first of the
new year is a good time for this job.
An honest appraisal of our social, civic
and religious habits may be good for
us, because if we are fair with our
selves, we may come to realize that we
are placing too much stress upon things
that are relatively unimportant, too lit
tle upon some precious things which we
have come to take for granted.
There is no set plan for this matter
of personal inventoiy-taking. Each life
is in a different pattern and problems
and blessings are likely to be peculiar
to the individual and his environment.
We do believe in all seriousness that
each one of us may profit by taking
stock of the influences which affect our
life, and to shape our course in the
future months in a manner that will
cause us to make the most of our op
portunities to bring happiness to our-'
selves and to others.
Sort Of Confusing
The Franklin Free Press concerns
itself in an editorial with some of the
confusing angles in the State educa
tion system. One of the important dis
coveries had to do with enforcement of
attendance laws.
The situation in Macon County is
not unique and perhaps it is better just
to let the Free Press editorial speak for
itself. Here is what that paper has to
say.* .
"To the layman who gives thought
to it, the school set-up appears more
and more confusing, and less and less
intelligent. ,
"Two illustrations arose at Monday s
meeting of the county board of educa
tion. One had to do with enforcement
of the compulsory school attendance
law, and the other with school lighting.
"It developed at that meeting that
enforcement of the state law requiring
children to attend school is not a func
tion of the education system, but is the
duty of the welfare department. The
wisdom of that provision might be
questioned by the layman, but much
more important than that question is
the fact that another law stands in the
way of the welfare department's doing
the work assigned to it by the General
Assembly; for the welfare department
may employ to enforce the school at
tendance law only persons who meet
certain fixed qualifications, and nobody
meeting those qualifications is, or re
cently has been, available on the rolls
of the state merit system.
"The lighting situation was brought
out by a delegation from Nantahala.
The people of that community have
wired their school and gymnasium for
electricity, and the delegation appear
ed to petition the board to pay the light
bill.
"The answer was that the state will
not permit use of its funds" to light a
gymnasium, and that the state electric
budget for this county's schools al
ready is seriously stretched. After some
discussion, the county school board
voted to pay the bill, not to exceed $5
per month, for the remainder of this
school year, out of local school funds.
"That situation raises some ques
tions :
"Does the state approve of school
gymnasiums? If so, why is there no
provision for lighting them?
"Why was it necessary, in the first
place, for the people of Nantahala to
pay for wiring in order to light the
rooms in their school, as well as their
gymnasium? It wasn't necessary, cer
tainly, because North Carolina is a poor
state, for North Carolina is rich. Nor
was it necessary because the county
board of education is without funds,
for it has some $50,000 on hand.
"And, if the state and county are
going to operate the schools, why is it
necessary for citizens of a community
to have to petition for the payment of
an electric light bill? Somebody, either
in the county or the state, should see
that schools are properly wired and
that sufficient electricity is provided,
without local citizens being forced to
drive 35 miles to petition for it."
Eight Naval Air Transport enlisted
orderlies have traveled a total of 1,
400,280 miles in an average of 11
months with NATS, according to a re
cent survey. This total corresponds to
64 trips around the world. In this much
flying, the orderlies have served to pas
sengers 22,650 inflight meals and 2,250
gallons of coffee.
The average American used an esti
mated 18 quarts of ice cream in 1947
which was lower than the record 20.5
quarts in 1946.
One quart of milk weighs 2.15 lbs.
REVISION MADE
(Continued from page one)
that because of limited funds most
counties will be able to approve
1 for Federal assistance only a
(part of the 17 practices.
Under the .plan in effect this
'year, each county will be allocat
ed a share of the funds available
: to the State. It will then be the
I responsibility of each county ACP
| committee to select?from the list
i of 17?such practices as are most
| needed in the county. The num
iber of practices selected by each
j county and the rate of payment
j on each will depend on the funds
i available.
! The list of approved practices
j for the 1948 program Includes:
'Spreading lime on farmland;
| spreading phosphate on legumes,
[grasses and pastures; applying
potash to legumes, grasses, and
pastures; establishing winter cov
er crops; oats and barley for
green manure; red, alsike or sweet
clover for green manure; estab
lishing or improving permanent
pasture, perennial cover in or
chards farm ponds for livestock
water; establishing a stand of
kudzu or sericea; establishing sod
waterways; constructing standard
terraces; establishing contour
stripcropping; digging drainage
ditches; installing tile for drain
age; constructing firebreaks; and
planting forest trees,
Though complete data is not
yet available on the 1947 ACP
which closed December 31, 1947,
Scott said reports indicate that
more lime was spread in 1947
than in 1946. Use of phosphate in
1947 was approximately the same
as in 1946, he state, though more
probably would have been used
but for the shortage of phosphate
early last year and more pas
tures were established or improv
ed than in any previous year.
In the 1946 Agricultural Con
servation Program in North Car
olina, farmers (1) spread 586,259
tons of liming materials on 585,
384 acres, (2) spread the equiva
lent of 71,672 tons of 20 percent
phosphate on 402,825 acres, (3)
spread the equivalent of 3,227
tons of 50 percent muriate of
potash on 33,308 acres, (4) estab
lished 943.908 acres of winter
cover crops, (5) improved or
established 352,471 acres of pas-|
ture, (6) dug 4,496,811 linear feet'
of drainage ditches, (7) construct
ed terraces on 57,205 acres, (8)
planted 315 acres of forest trees, i
and (9) established 647,896 acres
of summer legumes for cover or j
green manure.
I Among these major practices,
Scott said that perhaps the best
showing was made on the use of
lime on farmland. Yet, he added,
after a basic application of 12
million tons to 8 million acres
has been made, North Carolina
soils still will need an annual ap
plication of 1,500,000 tons of lim
ing materials for proper main
tenance of fertility.
Good Year Reflected In
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pleted, giving the local bank a
banking room and equipment com
parable to that of any bank in
a similar size town of the State.
New and larger quarters were
provided at Chadbourn and a new
building was started in Fairmont.
In appraising the 1948 projects
for local agriculture and business,
Executive Vice President Coburn
commented on "the almost cer
tain continued decline in farm
income, especially from flue-cur
ed tobacco." He said the policy
of the bank to make loans and
investments cautiously and con
servatively had Resulted In the
bank continuing in excellent con
dition to adequately take care of
the needs of its depositors.
President Council stated that
it would continue to be the policy
of the bank to retain the greater
portion of its earnings in its
capital structure, giving greater
protection to its ability to ade
quately serve agriculture and in
dustry in this area.
The former board of directors
W?S reelected. This board consists
of Mr. Council, Mr. Coburn, Dr.
R. C. Sadler, of Whiteville; J. S.
i Bovvers of Whiteville and Ra
leigh; C. L. Tate and Glenn F.
jstrole of Chadbourn; B. L. Ne
I smith of Tabor; and Wayland
jLennon of Fairmont.
| Officers elected by the board
| of directors in a meeting follow
ing the stock holders meeting in
j elude Prince O'Brien p.s Cashier
of the Southport bank. Rachel
Corlette was elected assistant
! Cashier for Southport. J. E.
Cooke was elected cashief of the
'Shallotte unit of the bank. Other
officers include Mr. Council, presi
dent; J. N. Coburn, executive vice
president; Glenn F. Strole and ,C.
iL. Tate, Vice Presidents. Officers
for the Whiteville unit include L.
R. Bowers, Trust Officer and
Cashier, Henry B. Wyche, As
sistant Vice President, and H. C.
Woolard, Edna Dyer, and Helen
K. Lewis, Assistant Cashiers.
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CATHOLIC INFORMATION
Is the Golden Rule Sufficient?
"Creeds and dog'mas mean noth-,
ing to me. The Golden Rule is
my religion." A common state
ment. A growing sentiment. A
dangerous tendency' which bodes
ill for the human soul and for
the good of our country.
With the Golden Rule, no real
Christian has any quarrel. It is
Christ's own command to "love
thy neighbor as thyself." But is
that all that God commands? Is
that all that Christ taught in His
three years of missionary life?
No Bible student?no true
Christian?will concede this, nor
can he help but deplore a condi
tion today which enables mere
man, with his vaunted freedom of
conscious shrdluuoRuliqesshrdluuu
conscience, to cast, aside one by
one God's eternal truths, finding
himself at last with only the
Golden Rule?which he too often
follows merely from an innote
sense of decency and from a de
sire to maintain the respect of
his fellow-men.
The Catholic Church with its
positive creed, its absolute dog
ence to eternal truths, has not
only ^ existed basically unchanged
throughout the ages, but has
flourished in all parts of the
world, under all sorts of condi
tions and persecutions. To the
unbiased thinker, all this must
cause a wonderment and a desire
to know the Catholic secret of j
success.
There is no Catholic secret.
Everything Catholic is open to
the world to inspect, dissect, to
ask questions about, with a de
mand for the authority and rea
sonableness of the answers.
If it's anything Catholic, ask a
Catholic! P. O. Box 351, White
ville, N. C.?Pd. Adv.
SCHEDULE
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9:30 A.M. 1:35 P.M.
*1:30 P.M. 4:00 P.M.
4:00 P. M. 6:10 P. M.
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MURDER SUSPECT
Continued From Page Onel
being bound over to Superior
Court.
Other cases included:
John Cox, assault, guilty of
raising disturbance, fined ten dol
lars and costs, fine remitted.
John Lewis Hall, reckless op
eration, possession, continued to
Jan. 28.
Lonnie Marlowe, drunk on high
way and indecent exposure of
person, fined $25.00 and costs.
Calvin Bozeman, possession,
fined $25.00 and costs.
CUfton William Lewis, speed
ing and failure to stop when
signaled to by officer, $200.00
fine and costs.
William Alexander Sneed, reck
less operation, fined $25.00 and
costs.
Charlie Frink, operating truck
with improper equipment, costs.
Clarence Colon Willoughby, no
registration plate on trailer, costs.
Albert A. Zimmerman, speed
ing, called and failed.
James Wyatt Covil, possession,
$10.00 and costs.
Thomas W. Perminter, driving
drunk, $100.00 fine and costs, no
tice of appeal to Superior court.
Taft Sullivan, simple assault,
jail sentence suspended on condi
tion that he pay $75.00 today to
the benefit of John Ballard and
$70.50 to the Clerk of Court with
!in forty days for doctor and hos
pital bills, and pay costs of
| case.
R. B. Smith, public drunken
ness, $10.00 and costs.
Leland Smith, drunk driving,
$100.00 and costs.
BIG FINE IMPOSED
Continued From Page One
Carolina. '
| At Shallotte, which has a speed
limit of 20 miles per hour, Lewis
(Whisked through at 75, according
| to State Patrolman J. C. Pierce,
[Jr., who is stationed in the neigh
j boring town.
The fine of $200.00 and costs
is believed to have been the heav
iest ever imposed on a defendant;
charged with speeding in Bruns
wick county. With the highway
filled with traffic only a miracle
stood in the way of some one be-1
lng killed during the more than
50 mile flash across the county. :
Commenting on the above flag- j
rant violation of the law and of |
all rules of highway safety, Pa
| trolman Pierce called attention J
to the fact that the average fine i
for speeding is 0?iy ten I
dollars. 1
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A few Coats and Suits are also included
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