The State Port Pilot
Southport, N. G.
Published Every Wednesday
JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor
Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at
the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
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Wednesday, June .10, 1918
Uncle Jim Lewis
About a month ago we wrote an edi
torial about I'ncle Jim Lewis, faithful
employee of the postoffice department
for many years and loyal friend of
hundreds of Southport people; and in
the first paragraph we hastened to as
sure our readers that we were writing
no eulogy marking his death, but that
he was making a game fight for his life
as a patient at Dosher Memorial Hos
pital.
Uncle Jim lost that fight, and last
week he passed from this world into a
better land.
Even now we plan to write no idle
words of praise for this fine old colored
gentleman. His good deeds will con
tinue to speak for him. and white and
colored citizens alike will miss him as
one who enjoyed their mutual respect
and affection.
Reliable Service
There is much building going on in
Brunswick county, and general repairs
and improvements are being made to
homes and buildings every week. Much
of this work is being carried on by peo
ple who live away from here.
We offer this word of advice: Make
use of the services of persons who live
in this section, who have gained a repu
tation for honesty and dependability
and who plan to continue in business.
Often there is a temptation to deal with
some new arrival, particularly where
there is the matter of monetary sav
ings involved. But there always is the
danger of getting hooked by a fly-by
night operator, a man who will have
your money and be done before you
discover that the work he did didn't
hold up.
For building, for plumbing, electrical
wiring, painting and many other jobs
of this nature, we believe that it is bet
ter to deal with a man or a firm who
will he here if you need help lated.
Build More Cottages
"One of the biggest troubles with
our beaches along the coast of Bruns
wick county is that building of new
homes is liot keeping pace with the
summer-time demand. Folks wait until
hot weather comes and then decend on
us wanting to rent cottages. They care
little or nothing about how much rent
they have to pay. They want a beach
home when they want it and at times
when there are not half enough to go
around.
The above, insubstance, were some
of the remarks made this week by R.
W. Powell of Goldsboro. one of the
owners of the beautiful Caswell Beach
strand. Caswell Beach has a number of
fine homes, most of them private, with
a few that can be rented for a week
or month if the would-be renter speaks
for them several months in advance.
A vacant beach lot brings no income,
while a good cottage rents for $75.00
per week in the summer time. Cases
can be shown where beach home own
ers occupy their hemes for a week or
two at vacation periods then rent the
place for the rest of the year at rates
that have more than paid the cost of
both lot and building.
The solution to the beach problem
would seem to lie in the owners of
beach lots building homes this sum
mer. this fall or this winter. Certainly
the time is here when building should
be given serious and immediate con
sideration both by those already own
ing beach lots and those who are plan
ning to buy.
H,
Its Baseball
Southport wasn't supposed to have a
chance Sunday, not with the local nine
facing Spofford, one of the leaders in
Cape Fear League play. But the local
boys threw the dope book out the win
dow and proceeded to humble a better
ball club by a score of 8 to 7.
That's basebaJl for you, and that's
what makes every player on even the
weakest teams go into each new name
filled with the thought that here is
where the story changes, here is a
game he is sure to win.
Worthwhile J 'orations
Now that we will have a' breathing
spell from politics we can get on with
other important matters such as barn
ing tobacco, laying by the cotton crop
and generally preparing for the coming
tobacco season and answering the ques
tion of vacation for some of us.
All work and no recreation does not
pay and for some there is no recrea
tion or rest possible unless he can get
away from his job completely.
Naturally we are partial to vacation
spots in our section of the state, which
lias some of the finest sea and lake re
sorts in the country and we recommend
that our people see their home section
of the state first. However, after our
section of the state, we feel that our
people should not fail to "discover" the
many senic wonders of North Carolina,
especially Western Tar lleelia.
We hope many of our people will be
able to see the many wonders and
scenic beauties of north Carolina from
Murphey to Manteo and Wilmington
to Ashaville this summer. There is much
to behold and the change and recrea
tion thus gained will pay off in gieatei
health and happiness.
The Draft Laze
Like most subjects of the kind, selec
tive service is the object of both carp
in?" criticism and enthusiastic praise.
The ConflKss, however, has passed the
law and W? machinery is being oiled
for inductions to follow.
Public opinion and the world situa
tion seemed to demand that the draft
be used again. It appeared to be the
general belief that the country was in
the position of the automobile owner
who carries along a spare tire, lie
hopes he won't have to use it. but it's
better to be prepared.
That, in essence, is the position of
those who have advocated a full
stlength military personnel. And de
spite regrets that the young men of the
nation must be snatched away from
their normal pursuits, it seems reason
able to believe that the best way to
guard against being stranded on the
lonely road of international relations is
to have this spare tire heady.
On this basis, America accepts the
draft.
The best information now available
points to the following developments:
Men between 18 and 25 must regis
ter, probably on August 16.
Inductions are likely to start on or
about Sept. 22.
18-year-olds will not be inducted but
can escape the 21-month draft by vol
unteering for one year and enlisting for
six years in an active reserve.
Shame Of The
Absentee Ballot
The following is an excerpt from Ral
eigh Roundup, our State capital com
mentator. speaking of the second pri
mary election last Saturday:
"There was no absentee ballot in the
primary. That's virtually the whole
story. This column agrees with thous
ands and thousands of good Democrats
throughout the State who firmly be
lieve that Dick Fountain really won in
19o2 and Dr. Ralph W. McDonald real
ly won in 1936 . . . but they lost. J. M.
Broughton became Governor in 1940,
and the 1911 Legislature gave the
hatchet to the absentee ballot in the
primary."
\Y e are in full agreement with the
action of the 1941 Legislature. There
was one sin of omission. It didn't go
far enough. If the uses to which the
absentee ballot are put are questionable
in primaries, they are also questionable
in regular elections. There are no es
sential differences.
The shame of the absentee ballot is
one that should be removed from the
State scene. Never again should it be
used to wrong either party candidates
or election nominees. The 1949 legisla
ture has an opportunity it should not
ignore- - :2L . f mm
Rovin' Reporter
.continued rrom page one)
they have a bit of luck the folks
who now write in for a cottage
have to be advised that there are
no vacancies. The answer to all
'of this is that the hundreds of
'people who own vacant lots at
lour various beaches should start
building. And they should start
up this year. The demand will m
' crease twice as fast^as cottages
can be built.
The nicest fish taken without
a boat reported to us thus far
this season was caught at Hol
den Beach the past week by R.
S. Lennon. cashier of the Davis
National Bank of Mullins. S. C.
Mr. Lennon was vacationing at
the beach with his family and
[ made a number of nice catches
by wading out to the wreck of
the old Confederate Blockade
Runner Ranger. His best fish was
a sheephead that weighed eight i
and a half pounds. This fish was
caught on a cane pole and was
landed despite the fact that it
broke the pole.
Writing us from Fair Bluff, an
I old friend. Dr. Maurice A. Wad
| dell, expressed a great deal of
pleasure over a recent visit made
to Southport and the Brunswick
county beaches. He said it would
not be his last visit to Brunswick
county. Both he and his family
were very much surprised and
pleased at the fine Brunswick
county beaches.
For some hours Saturday af
i ternoon our companions on a
jeep ride along the strand of
Holden Beach. Robinson Beach
j and Bellamy Beach, were Dr. R.
]h. Holden of Shallotte and R. S.
! Lennon. cashier of the Davis Na
tional Bank at Mullins, S. C.
The doctor had his hands full
with the jeep but Mr. Lennon
talked our own lingo and made a
wonderful companion as he was
as much interested in the beach
es as we were. Between us we
decided that some day there is
bound to be a real coastal high
way from Caswell Beach, through
Long' Beach, crossing Lockwoods
Folly Inlet and going down
through Long Beach, crossing
Lockwoods Folly Inlet and going
down through Holden Beach.
Robinson and Robinson and Bel
lamy Beaches and crossing Shal
lotte River Inlet below Shallotte
Village Point, then on through
the Ocean Isle property. When
that road does come there will
be the biggest jump in beach pro
perty value that any part of the
North Carolina coast has ever
seen. The day. and this road can
be speeded up by owners of lots
starting to build at an even fast
er pace than they are building
now.
We were having a wonderful
time Saturday night with two of
the nicest girls at Holden Beach.
The only fly in our soup was
that some onery subscribers to
this paper, residents of Lumber
ton, Red Springs. Fayetteville
and other places, kept horning in
on us. Aided by years of ex
perience with college girls, we
managed to hold our own toler
ably well. For the information of
those fellows, we are asking those
same girls to come up and go
fishing with us this week, and
we are going to take them to a
place where there won't be any
flies to bother us.
A couple of the largest and
nicest tomatoes we have seen
this year were grown by Mrs. A.
B. Willis of Shallotte and were,
presented to Mrs. R. H. Holden
of Shallotte and Holden Beach
Saturday. One of them weighed
one pound and seven ounces, the
other one pound and one ounce.
They were perfect in shape. Mrs.
Willias said she had quite a
patch of tomato vines, some of
them promising to produce some
thing even better than the above.
Writing from his home at
Miami. W. F. Smith. native
Southportman. says he gets more
news out of The State Port Pilot
than he gets out of the New |
York Herald. If he is looking for ,
news of Brunswick county, we1
guess that he certainly does. Mr.
Smith said that we should be
proud of the paper we are put
ling out for Brunswick county,
that in its unfailing boosting it j
was the best advertisement and i
best aid to development the coun
ty has ever had or ever will have.
We are proud of the esteem in
which hundreds of subscribers (
outside the state hold it.
Mrs. H. G. Ratcliffe inviled us
around to her house the other
day to see the two 3-weeks old
wild rabbits belonging to her son.
Jimmie. Getting them somewhere
in some manner, they were no
larger than a small mouse. Feed
ing them seemed a problem, but
it was solved by using a medi-!
cine dropper. Now weighing
about two ounces and regular
about two ounces and regular
grasshoppers at getting
about the bunnies are us gentle
as kittens and they still love ;
their medicine dropper with its
milk. Along with the daily milk
ration they are now developing a
fondness for grass, lettuce, beans
and other gret-n things that rab
bits love.
Folks who think they have j
been having flower watering
problems during this dry spell
should ccnsider what they have
been having to do at Ortoi\ for
weeks. Out there away over a
hundred thousand gallons of wa
ter has to be fed to the plants
and flowers c%iiy. The pumps
have to be kept going day and
night and it takes 50 gallons of
gas for the pumping engine every
day. Along ? with the expense of
pumping many man hours of la
bor has to be put in daily, keep
ing the earth from becoming
too thirsty.
During his illness we missed
our good colored friend. "Uncle"
Jim Lewis, at the post office.
With the consciousness of his ab
sence there has always been the
hope and expectation that he
v. culd get well enough to be
about again, although not back
at his beloved work of serving
the public at the post office. His
death this week and the-realiza
tion that he will not be back is
a Wow.
A few nights ago at Holden
Beach we met up with a couple
of sweet girl graduates from
Duke University. Now there is
nothing enough unusual to make
rows out of meeting a couple or
even several dozen girls at some
of our beaches. Our ability to
write this hangs entirely on the
fact (hat these sweet girl grads
told us that they had met the
skipper of a Coast Guard boat
who could recite Kipling. They
didn't say that his favorite reci
tation was: "And I Learned
About Women From Her."
The idea is a very simple one.
So simple that we wonder why
the hundreds of people who own
beach lots in Brunswick county
are not adopting it as their own.
It is just this: "If the folks who
]own such lots at Caswell Beach. |
Long Beach. Holden Beach and
t other points will go ahead and
I improve their property this year
by building a summer or year
round residence, they will be
making a valuable investment,,
both for themselves and their
neighbors." There are no prettier
nor safer beaches anywhere than |
this on the coast of Brunswick. ?
We should build them up and
make them known for what they
reaJlv are.
Saturday, for the first time
this year, we noticed R. D.
White, Sr.. without a coat. This
was so unusual that we thought
FILL 'ER UP!
Drive in and let us fill your tank with ESSO. Let
us check your Oil and Water . . . Then take off for
miles of HAPPY MOTORING.
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j to ask about it, rather than just
go on with the supposition that
he had forgotten it and left it
Bt home: "Well," he said, "it
has been a little warm the past
few days and I thought I could
do without it."
The revaluation of real estate
and homes gave Brunswick coun
ty a good increase in property
valuation last year, but not what
it should have given, if one may
judge by what a number of in
fluential citizens of the county
are saying. This week one such
citizen said to us: "They should
have doubled the valuation and
decreased the tax rate. I paid
57,500 00 for a house that was
listed on the tax books at $2,
500,00 after the revaluation. It
the value of property in this
county was put at what it is
really worth we could get a very
substantial decrease in the tax
rate. As it is now.'a lot of peo
ple who would like to come and
buy property in Brunswick are
kept away by what seems like a
high tax rate. I believe our tax
rate, is really lower than that of
any county in the state, when the
real value of the property is giv
en any consideration."
LENGTHY DOCKET
| s-ontinued From Page On? I
nol prossed with leave.
B. N. Inman, speeding, capias.
R. H. Gettie, speeding, capias.
| Allan Clemmons, bastardly,
[costs and compliance with other
i judgments.
| Thomas R. Merritt drunk driv
ing, transporting, operating after
license was revoked, motion for
jury trial, bond set at $500.00.
Ray Smith, reckless operation,
cc ntinued to June 30th.
Russell Herbert Broodlow,
, speeding, capias.
Frances ?Neal Jewell .speeding
capias.
Leon Ezzell, non support costs
and compliance with previous
j judgments.
Nowis Henry, possession and
transporting, continued to July 7.
Xorris Henry, possion and tran
sporting .continued to July 7th.
Oakland Smith, worthless check
judgment suspended on payment
of costs and restitution for
| check. Appeal taken and bond set
at $50.00.
George Wellington Gray, op
erating motor vehicle after re
vocation of license, fined $2?.00
and costs, fine remitted.
Jackson Mercer Caton, drunk
driving, continued to June 30th.
CONSTRUCTION OF
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said Mr. Bruton, would be built
if only a road were available.
Mr. Kyle thought the same thing.
Since some sort of a road must
be built before hope of outside
aid can be entertained, it is being
suggested that the beach owners
and owners of residence lots get
together, get a bulldozer and
knock out a road through this
property from the lower end of
Holden Beach.
R. S. Lennon, Mullins, S. C.,
banker who went with a news
man down to the Robinson and
Eellamy Beaches, expressed the I
opinion that the whole strand1
from Lockwoods Folly Inlet to
the Shallotte River Inlet is the
most beautiful one he had ever
seen. He, too, saw the need of
the property owners making an
effort for a road by starting |
tilings themselves.
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CHARLOTTE MEN
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panlons yesterday were M. L.
Church and Ike Wynne, also of
I Charlotte. Their charter with
I Captain Lance and the Moja was
'just to fish offshore for the blue
| fish, but they all plan to return
J soon and go to the gulf for the
j big fellows.
Mr. Church stat?,j .
pound bairac ?
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your orders for lumber, building supply
paints.
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