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PAGE TWO f COURIER - TIMES ? t Roxboro, North Carolina , PUBLISHED MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY Courier-Times Publishing Company The Roxboro Courier Kata Wished 1881 The Person County Times Established 1829 J. W. Noell Editor J> S. Merritt and Thoe. J. Shaw, Jr Associates M. C. Clayton Adv. Manager D. R. Taylor, in Service With U. S. Navy 1 year, Out of State *3.00 1 year $2.50 6 months *1.40 3 months 75 ADVERTISING RATES Display Ads, 49 Cents Per Inch _ Reading Notices! 10 Cents Per Line The Editors Are Not Responsible for Views V Expressed By Correspondents Entered at The Post Office at Roxboro, N. C. As Second Class Matter j MONDAY, MAY 21, 1945 It Isn’t true because the COURIER-TIMES says It, but the COURIER-TIMES says It became It Is truei ... ONE-FOURTH OF THE WAY % As of last week $116,531 worth of Seventh War Loan bonds had been sold in Person County and Roxboro* Figures obtainable to _daY may raise the amount considerably, but the record of last week places the total con tributed here so far on about the same scale as the national average, one-fourth of the <juota. Observable, however, in the Roxboro is the fact that largest spurt of buy ing occurred on V-E Day, when SBI,OOO ...jvorth of bonds, mainly in the E Bond classi - location, were sold. Since that time, despite the impetus of theatre premieres, the buying has slowed up here, and although some boost to coming totals will come from sales in school communities which are as yet unre ported, there is still a long way to go and the tendency will be to take things easy unless special efforts are made. Under these circumstances, officials in charge of bond sales here would probably prefer steady, average and consistent bond buying day in and day out, but it occurs to us that national Memorial Day, May 30, is not far off and that as fine away as any to observe the day this year would be through the purchase of Seventh Loan bonds bearing that date. All of us know what Memorial Day stands for and means, but those who haVe* •<Hed for their country could ask nothing bet ter than that the rest of us should try to end the war and bring our soldiers home as quick ly as possible, and buying bonds will help do it. There is still a long way to go to obtain that $544,000 and the inclusive quota of $248,000 in E Bonds here. o WHY BEAT AROUND THE BUSH? Over in Durham County there has this past week been a tremendous amount of cross-fire talking anent the requested resig nation of two teachers in Bethesda school, where the latest development is a statement from the Chairman; of the school committee backing up the decision that the teachers in question not be rehired. With the bare facts of hiring and firing we are not concerned, neither are we too much impressed with student demonstrations which have includ ed a w’alk-out, but we cannot refrain from deploring the use of attempted evasion in bringing about the resigations in question. We refer to a statement from Durham’s Superintendent W. M. Jenkins indicating that the story of the resignations was held up at the request of Bethesda’s Pricipal A. H. Best in order to give the teachers involved in the controversy an opportunity to resign prior to receipt of official notices of term ination of contracts. Few public servants, which is what school teachers are, so thin skinned that they have to be coddled when fired. And, besides, in the end nobody is fool ed, since there is always a leak in a story when a too sweet and an otherwise unex plainable and pre-arranged resignation takes place. The public is almost never fooled in such instances and when the truth jumps into print as it sometimes does the repercussions are more painful than good, honest, plain bluntness could ever be. r o t TALKING ABOUT CORN Few farmers here can be expected to reach -the millenium of ease sought for by Person Farm Agent H. K. Sanders in the production of corn, but there can be no doubt about it that Mr. Sanders is right when he talks of corn, as he did Wednesday at the Exchange Club, where he made it plirin that the growing t pf corn here is protfitable and should be more (profitable, as well as beneficial to a planned agricultural program in a section that is still —for all efforts at diversification—too close ly devoted to one crop, tobacco, as a cash crop. Growing corn, needed as feed for man and beast, is just one example of diversification, the gospel of which, if preached with zeal, as it has been and is promulgated by Agent Sanders, would go a long way to elimination of that type of anxiety which has been felt in Person and in other sections these last two weeks over the plant-bed situation. That the situation has been relieved through treks to the bast is now old news, but it is indeed painful when the economic welfare of a county or of a whole section of counties is in large measure dependent upon one crop, and it matters not what that one crap is, tobacco, cotton, peanuts, or what have you. Tobacco counties to the east have plenty of plants, either to give or to sell to growers in counties where plant-beds have failed, but that circumstance is all that saves us from a very bad situration in the law of supply and demand created by nature. If ever there was a time and place when diversification, in corn or in other crops, should be appreciat ed il is now. We applaud Mr. Sanders for his time spirit and the Exchange club’s pro gram arranged for having him on hand. o TIME NOW FOR THE TESTING Person County Training School, the high school for Negroes here, is in its commence ment program tomorrow night observing the 20th anniversary of its founding as an insti tution devoted to the higher education of the members of a minority race gr«ip. That ob ligations to minority race groups, including Indians, do exist, is more and more recogniz ed by county, state and national leaders from all groups, both major and minor, although it is a commentary on previous conditions in Person that the Training School referred to is only twenty years old and it is a known fact that somebody, somewhere in the Coun ty and State set-up still has a long way to go in seeing that our second minority group, the Indians, has more and better educational facilities than are now available. In the discussion of education for minority groups there are always some persons from the majority side of the fence who are op pressed with the idea that progress, is. too 'slow, too uncertain and too dodbtfuT to he of value. Persons with these sentiments are few, but are in the same boat with a still smaller number of doubters who would deny the advantages of education to minority groups on the thesis that such groups are well enough as is. Such a doctrine, let the ignorant remain ignorant, is as old as the hills, with the late and the unlamented Hit ler as a most recent exponent. The Person County Training School and other institu tions like it are founded in opposition to such beliefs, but it is only fair to say that the Person school should just now begin to be in a position to show its influence. Eighteen graduating classes have receiv ed diplomas from this school, which means that there is in the county a baoklog'Of edu cated alumni in position to be sending their own children to the school. Progress has been slow, we will grant that, but from now on there should be a clearer demonstration of second generation fruits of the educational system. And no insult is intended by the re mark that overlappings of education are as cement in a foundation. WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING KEEPING AT THE PROGRAM 4 Greensboro Daily News The Daily News welcomes Governor Cher ry’s address at last week’s dedication of the Monroe health center not only for its basic soundness and social outlook but, more speci fically, for the assurance which it gives that the chief executive retains his high interest in the hospital and medicalizaton program set formally on its way in North Carolina by 'he last session of the general assembly. The"'* is > -cry reason to believe that Gov ernor Chei-.v. st’ ng> in his belief, as reiter ated at Monroe, that “it i • much the right of-every man, woman ami civ" 1 in North Car olina to enjoy the benefits u: ; suTc safety, public roads, public schools and the man other things for which we pay in taxes, an !' take as a matter of course,” will folloy through on this program. His second legisla ture, two years hence when the state of the world, the union and North Carolina’s ex chequer should be more clearly discernible, will offer him that opportunity. During the interval his preachments should and, we pre- THE CCTOBIER-TIMES dfct, will serve ‘ to advance lEfi e cause. Aside from the humanitarian aspects of the situation, it is shortsighted, anticlimactic and even improvident for the state to spend trillions of dollars in providing all these oth er services, paramounting our tremendous investment in education, for its citizenry and then neglect the furtherance and protection of health which is necessary to their utiliza tion, their enjoyment and their anticipated return. Not only do ill-health and physical impairment sharply reduce this return, but they entail a much heavier burden upon so ciety and handicap its generally forward march accordingly. Defects and deficiencies not discovered and corrected in childhood largely explain the over-crowded conditions of our institutions, both therapeutic and pen al: the amount saved here would, in the final calculation, go far towards paying, if it did not suffice, for the preventive program which is envisaged. Governor Cherry' is no wild-eyed theorist; he is talking soundness and sense and it is with these very qualities that the gap which still exists in North Carolina is going to be bridged through understanding and co-oper ative action. Need For | Nurses Remains Victory in Europe has increased, rather than decreased the Army’s need for nurses and will not affect the urgent requirements for re cruits to the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps, the Office of War Informa tion announced. According to the Surgeon General, U. S. Army, the Army Nurse Corps today is 9,000 nurses short of its June 1 goal of 60.000 nurses. Before July 1. 1946, there must be an increase in nurs ing strength in this country of near ly 14,000 nurses in the military and government services, and more than 35,000 for civilian needs, or a total of nearly 50.000 additional nurses, according to the Public Health Service. It is expected, however, that most of this need will be met by graduates from the U. S. Cadet (Nurse Corps. It is anticipated that more than 30.000 student nurses will graduate between July 1, 1945 and July 1, 1946. To help meet these needs further there is an immedi ate urgency for 10,000 new student nurses to, fill Spring classes bjj June 30. and for an additional 60,00 p new students during the period i from July 1, 1945 .to June 30, 1946,; OWI was told, dffjtfcijof War Infbrma tion. 'llpi j! Agricultural' ' ■ . Foundation •' -. ' ••• ,-V - 1 The movement for ifee establish ment of the Agriculttjral Fopqda tion, Inc., is of .Y#«£ ftnportance to the farmer*' aBd i <bpsiness men of North they will- support it. In 1937 the cotton crop of North Carolina was 781,000 bales, ini 1942 it was 727,000 bales. Many well;in formed men believe that the 'in creased used of rayon and other synthetic fibres and the increase in the growing of cotton in Brazil, Rus sia and other countries will makje it impossible for the South to gj-ow and sell more than 7,000,000 toj 8,- ' 000,000 bales of cotton annually and The LONE RANGER ["[FFFTI I KNOW, &UT-H6-HE P/MCf*! 7 I'LL CFT ! y ' * ft * YOU Age CARRYING MAIL,JW. HOW I 60LLY-1 FORGOT All ABOUT . Hrcivn - mg a, : ; [THAT’S RI6HT.J/W. If YOU WERBH M WHO WROTEjIT'S FREWITHfI A LETTER APPRESSEP I/'wHaT' !■ CARRYIN 4 THIS LETTER, YOU r“ ‘ THE LETTER, rX LONE RANGER! \ ITO ME. I PIPN'T / POES IT .J " \T IWERE mtW mi.wt : m?rP<^ = A TWOFOLD SHIELD Christian Science Monitor / Private First Class Desmond T. Doss was just following an old battle-tried custom — tried and not found wanting by those confi dent fighters of old 1 who the Bible tells us were first of all soldiers of God. His company had to retake promptly a thirty-foot coral escarpment on Okinawa. The operation theat ened to be costly, and the only medical man available was Private Doss, a conscientious objector serving in the medical corps. Though it was Pfc. Doss’s Sabbath, he con sented to go along if he could retire for a few minutes to read his Bible. The assault wait ed on his meditations and then proceeded. The first group was routed quickly, but of Doss, the Okinawa correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune writes: Twenty minutes later, Vernon (the Cap tain) saw the private standing alone on the lip of the escarpment. Doss was waving fran tically and motioning for a rope with which to lower wounded survivors down the jagged cliff. Mortar shells and grenades were burst ing all around. Vernon ordered him down, but he refused. He stayed on the ledge low ering the wounded until all were evacuated. that the cotton crop .of North Caro lina will fall below 200,000 bales. If that idea proves correct, it will represent a loss of *50,000,000 to $60,000,000 in the farm income in North Carolina and have a serious | effect upon the business and indus trial life of our State. 1 | Fortunately, largely through the activities of our Department of Ag riculture and the Agricultural Ex tension Divisoin of State College, much progress has been made in interesting our farmers In dairying, poultry, trucking and other crops and their growth can be made to more than equalize the loss of our [cotton crop. 1 The principal objective of The Agricultural Foundation, Inc., is to ‘make it possible to bring to North Carolina the best specialists and ag ricultural scientists who can be found and to make their services freely available to our farmers. Recently, through some funds which had been provided by R. J. Reynolds, it was posible to supple ment the top salary that it was pos sible to pay under the State Col lege salary scale and thereby secure from Purdue University a native of North Carolina, who had become cne of the outstanding animal hus bandry men in the Middle West. Even then he came at a financial sacrifice because his services were sought by a large commercial dairy. Teachers of general academic sub jects can usually be secured at "the present salary scale of State Col lege. but agricultural specialists and scientists who have become out standing in their field, are not only in demand by other colleges and universities but by corporations and commercial enterprises and if they are to be secured to give advice and assistance to the farmers of North Carolina and thereby increase our farm income, they must be paid substantial salaries. The Agricultural Foundation, Inc., expects to make it posible to secure top men in every field of agricul ture by providing the necessary sal ary supplements. —Bulletin of The Foundation. Mining The Soil American agriculture is still tak ing more out of the soil than it puts back. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago recently issued a survey of soil fertility in the rich Middle West farming area which shows that even ; when fertilizer applications have [ been at their highest there has been a net loss of the nutritive elements | in the soil. Consumption of basic fertilizers has almost doubled since the pre- ! war period. With larger crops, how- I ever, little of these added nutrients ! is being left in the soil. The Fertil izer Producers’ Industry Advisory Committee has urged upon farmers a doubling of present fertilizer use. Surveys of soil fertility trends indi cate that this would be a very worth while investment in the natoin’s most basic natural resource—farm land. Farmers' fertilizer expenditures | have usually been geared closely to , agricultural income. With their in come at a record level and with ] large- accumulations of cash sav ings, American farmers are gener ally in far better position to finance adequate fertilizer applications than ' ever before. Manufacturers are ready to provide the fertilizer required at reasonable prices. The acute farm labor shortage has been a limiting factor in fertilizer utilization, but this will be relieved at the end of the war. It is high time that conservation and improvement of soil fertility were made a cardinal objective of farm management. This can be achieved best through a Govern ment program of information and education, which would, make clear to farmers that in their own, as well as in the national, interest they have a prime duty to build up the fertility of theri land. Such a program in North Caro lina finally lends itself to the Re search and Extension Departments of State College. The Agricultural Foundation, Inc., is an agency which will make such specailists available to the farmers in order that safe I News gjgjfc from CAMPM. BUTNER CAMP BUTNER, May ican Red Cross services to the armed forces will continue on a large scale In Europe and at home, and on a larger scale than ever In the Pacific, now that hostilities in Germany have ceased;” Miss Margaret Smal ley, Red Cross field director at the U. S. Army General Hospital, Camp Butner, I*. C„ said today. This an nouncement comes at a time when the Red Cross is actually In the process of greatly expanding its facilities In the general convales cent hospitals at Camp Butner. "In Europe Red Cross workers will remain with American troops as long as they are needed. More eagerly than ever will they continue their job of offering Red Cross ser economlc practices may be employ ed.—Bulletin of The Agricultural Foundation. E PRESCRIPTIONS E Prescription filling is a personal business.. Personal fbr yen and personal tor us. . Our druggists give your prescriptions their personal attention and accept it as their personal responsibility to see that your doctors Instructions are followed to tho letter. Yon can depend upon our services with confidence ANYTIME ALL THE TIME THOMAS & OAKLEY DRUGGISTS DAY PHONE 4931 NIGHT 4188—4884 SHEETROCK We have Just unloaded a car of sheetrock. Send us your orders before the supply Is exhausted PAINTS We have a good stork of 100 r c pure paints. The Itmltatlonn on paints hare been made more drastic this year There will be only a limited supply available Get Your requirements early m PLYWOOD We have been able to secure a limited) supply of plywood No priority required for this board) • ROXBORO LUMBER COMPANY “Home of Quality Lumber” MONIJAY MAY 21i 1945' vices to men and women fsx from home. “In the Pacific our task will be come more complex and inftniiety greater as the fighting Ihomeee fn intensity,’’- Miss Smalley deeland. “Red Cross field directors with, com bat units, trained Red Cross work ers in the hospitals and experienc ed Red' Cross person not in- our olubs will remain on the job until final victory Is won.” Miss Smalley added tho* lie* Cross workers wilt remain on duty Jn the hospitals and camps in both the United. States and abroad until the ldst soldier, sailor and marine has been discharged. Also, HMd Cross chapters will stay fully mob ilized to aid ex-servicemen. The Red Cross has recreational and other facilities for overseas pa tients throughout the Hospital Cent er at Camp Butner, which Includes the U. S. Army General Hospital' and the Camp Butner Convales cent Hospital, both under the com mand of Brig. Gen. Roy C. Hefle bower. ESSO GAS * OIL EXPERT LUBRICATION Now Is The Time Change Your Winter Oil ROCK INN SERVICE STATION
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