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PERSON COUNTY TIMES A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE J. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER THOMAS J. SHAW, JIL, City Editor. Published Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second Class Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro. N. C.. Under The Act Os March 3rd.. 1879. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES- One Year >t.s» Six Months ? * Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at al* times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office noi iater than Tuesday to insure puhi’cation for Thursday edition and Thursdav P. M for Sunriav editio.i. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27.1941 Station S.O.S A near-neighbor daily paper which not only prints j the news but owns and operates a radio station over which the more instantaneous news bulletins are re ceived, has within the week printed in its columns a i chart by which listeners are asked to indicate prefer ences as to types of programs and to show at what hours during day or night their radios are tuned to this or that station. We would like to think the average radio listene>- a discriminate hearer, but our guess is that he turns his radio on and leave it on from morning until night bed-time. What comes out of the sound-box is a mix ture of soap-suds romance, gospel hymns, “jive,” classi cs! music and newscasts. From the hodge-podge there is no escape, as long as the current is turned on. Only a little thought will show that to the average man the world is itself a huge radio station, with many people as performers, speaking, singing, laughing and , crying in many tongues, and with the rest as listeners who are by now so accustomed to the confusion that only at infrequent intervals do they bother to pay at tention to what they hear. Last week Benito Mussolini made a confession which amounted to admission that Italy is under Hitler's domination as much as any ol those countries into which the Germans have marched: on Monday Hitler, speaking from Munich, predicted that the “fight at sea” has just begun, and in Instanbul Turkish Prime Minister Saracoglu announced a policy of resistance to German demands. Statements such as these, along with much casti gated remarks of Senator Robert Rice Reynolds (N.G.) may have an important bearing on what is to happen to the future of the average man and his family, but unless he and his listen with more discrimination than is generally observed it is to be feared that mere m stantaneousness of reception of news is of no particular value. To most people the world radio station is still a source of amusement rather than education, and until programs are improved no other attitude can be expect ed, Small Business In a statement commemorating thirty years of ‘‘advertiising well directed,” celebrated this month by the Campbell-Ewald Advertising agency, of Detroit. E T. Ewald, president, mentions the importance of news papers as an advertising medium: Says Mr. Ewald: “Today, the newspaper, one of the oldest me diums of advertising, continues as a truly great and powerful force to sell goods, and will continue to be a spearhead of most advertising effort as long as it remains a free press. “While each advertising campaign should have a tailor-made merchandising and advertising suit, the merchandisers of few commodities of general use can afford to ignore the tremendous cleavage power of newspapers, weekly as well as daily. “I often think of newspaper advertising as an electric switch that actually turns on the light when and where the light is needed. This medium seems to me to be right behind the actual salesman and the actual sale.” For a man who started from Horatio Alger scratch Mr. Ewald has done right well, and as one of many newspapers profiting from business association with his company, the Times is pleased to pass on to it s readers his opinions as to the continued importance of newspapers as a medium of advertising. Any personal expression of such opinions by the Times might be by some merchants and buyers regarded as a plug for lo cal business, but coming from Detroit’s Mr. Ewald, who has built up a firm whose average yearly billing amounts to more than $10,000,000 such opinions can be regarded with respect. It is true that advertising volume in a city the size of Roxboro cannot be as large as it is in metropoli tan areas, but general truth that he who sells must tell Mr. and Mrs. Public about the virtues of his wares cannot be evaded, if the seller expects to prosper. —u With Sincerity and Seriousness.. Not in many years of listening to after dinner speeches have we been so favorably impressed as we were with the message brought last week to Roxboro PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. Scouts by Frank Dix, Greensboro Scout Executive, who was the guest speaker at the third annual father and son banquet, which event, bjr the way, was in the nature of a twenty-fifth anniversary of Person scouting, Start ed in 1916 by W. R. Hambrick, Hugh Woods, W. H. Harris, Sr., the late Dr. G. C. Vickers and Elmer Pialey, Mr. Dix’s plea for greater cooperation between fathers and sons and his employment of scouting as an illustration of what may be accomplished in the ideal father and son relationship, contained nothing we have not known about, but by his intimate emphasis he gave the idea a driving force capable of personal application by each boy and man who heard him. Mere recitation of advancements, of registrations and of troop accom plishments, given earlier in the evening, have little to do with the ideal presented by Mr. Dix, whose devotion to that ideal was expressed not so much by what he said as by the sincerity with which he spoke. It is all too true that fathers and mothers of boys and girls of scout age could in many instances contri bute more than they do to the physical and emotional well-being of the young people entrusted to them: it is equally true that boys and girls, for their part, frequent ly fail to understand or to appreciate the good qualities or those bothersome people called parents. And it is our hope that impact of the Dix mesage will for a time at least, rekindle on both sides that considerate affec tion (not sentimentality) and cooperation which should be the basis of family life. Required Reading We are hopeful that significance of the first par agraph of the story in Sunday’s Times concerning re ceipt of Jule B. Warren’s North-Carolina history for us * in fifth grades will not be missed. We intend as soon as soon as possible to look at the book and when we do will make further report on an alleged unbalance with regard to more recent events in Tar Heel history. We rather suspect it to he impossible for a man in Mr Warren’s position to render an unbiased version of t vents through which he himself has lived, and for that matter are inclined to say the same for Chapel Hill’s Newsome and Lefler, since not even residence in that haven of sweet reasonableness can be expected to j emancipate them from personal opinions. By experiment and because the reading will prob ably be as good for them as for their children, we would suggest to all parents that a glance at the Warren book will not be amiss. At a time when heavy emphasis in form of patriotism is being given to all things American it would appear appropriate that Tar Heels learn as much as they can about the state in which they live. And, if in the reading parents discover that they do not like the book, it will not take many state-wide and united protests to effect a change. Having had what passed for college and university training w r e have since then not often looked at text books, but more we think about it. the better the idea appears to us that adults who are dis-satisfied with the way the world is going should at very least keep up with facts and theories being passed to, if not pressed upon, the youngsters coming up. The Flowering Os North Carolina. Asheville Citizen William T. Couch, director of the University of North Carolina Press, notes the first signs of a literary renais sance in this region after observing—and publishing-- North Carolina authors for upwards of fifteen years. “A lot more people are becoming more conscious oi writing,” he remarks. The facts bear him out. In the past decade or so North Carolina has produced a half dozen writers of prominence. The interesting point of Mr. Couch’s ob servation, however, is that this flowering of North Car olina is largely native in character. That is, North Car olina has begun to write abou titself in a manner com pelling enough to attract a national audience. Publishers used to complain that the South wrote l'ar more books in comparison to the number it bought. The success of the University Press—it is publishing forty books this year as against two in its second year and other institutions of its type seems to belie that, complaint. While Southern presses attract native writ ers and give them a chance to publish their works, at the same time they depend for their existence upon tne patronage of their own region. Without native ap preciation they could not function. This is quite as healthy a sign as the literary flowering of North Caro lina. o Job Hunting? Greensboro Daily News The appeal of Ralph W. Gardner, of Shelby, president of the Young Democrats of North Carolina, directed toward the state’s congressmen and Governor J. M. Broughton, that they not overlook the merits and de serts of the "young men and women of your county district and state” does not arouse within us the “nau sea and disgust” which the Henderson Daily Dispatch professes to get from it. While hunting jobs for someone else, if this is wliat the president of the Young Democrats is up to, may not be the most elevating task among the efforts of ntankind, it is at least as incumbent upoo the leaders of the young folks as it is upon the old’uns to see to it that theirs an taken can of. The Dispatch says that it has long had a suspicion that those who have torn theft* shirts i**t for the young Democrats were qualifying themselves thus in their owh estimation for soft petitiean jobs. In Mr. Gardner’s letter that newspaper appears to visualize its worst fears in black and white. But the Dispatch and everybody else will reflect that few political organizations, least of all the daddy rabbit of ’em all in this state, the state Democratic or ganization, would have proceeded very far without those soft political jobs which our Henderson contem porary is talking about being held in front of some body’s nose and considerable shirt tearing of a sort. We fail to see any great amount of harm in Mr. Gar dner’s or anybody else’s leaving the implication around that there are Young Democrats resting on their oars who are just as capable politically, and perhaps in other ways, to hold office as some of their patrons in the daddy organization. Mr. Gardner may have something after all. Hitchcock Chosen As Committeeman Raleigh, Feb 27—Fred C. Hitch cock, of Greensboro, has been e-j iected a member cf the executive committe of the Brewers and Nonth Carolina Beer Distribu-j iors Committee. He succeeds T. J. Palmer of Asheville, recently transferred to another state. Mr. Hitchcock is the Seaboard Division manager for Jos. Schlitz Brewing Com pany. Edgar H. Bain of Goldsboro, State Director for the committee !'■ in active charge of he beer in duStry’s “clean up or close up” campaign in N'crth Carolina. J P. Price, Greensboro, is chair-, man of the ten-member exocu-j j tive committee. Other members j are: W. S. Burruss of Raleigh Frank E. Barnard of Asheville, J. W. Jackson of Wilmington, anil R. J. Jenkins of Kinson, repre senting the beer distributors; S. A. Cash of Louisville, Waiter Bartlett 'cf Norfolk, C. M. Wright of Newark, N. J., and David T. Gallo of Norfolk, representing the brewers. The general committee, com posed of distributor and brewer We Want To Do Your JOB PRINTING... Our job printing department is capable of taking care of any form that you might want printed. If you have a job—give us a call and we will be glad to drop by and give you an estimate We appreciate any or all of your business. PERSON COUNTY TIMES representatives in the state, will hold is second anniversary meet ing in May, the exact time and place to be announced later. Since the ‘‘clean up 'er close up” campaign was begun in Eat Well * Be Well 1 Proper foods can have 1 I a lot to do ivith 8 your health 8 We pride ourselves on carrying a compplete line of I good health producing foods. Meats and Vegetables 1 Visit our store today. If you do not see what you want, | call for it. If we do not have it we can get it. Carl Winstead j THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27,1941. North Carolina, 148 undesirable beer outlets have been eliminated 181 by revocation, two by sur render and 88 by refusal of lo cal authorities to issue licenses. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BLEEPT t Famous psychologist answers interesting questions a bo us 3leep and explains whether or not it is a mistake to sleep on soft beds, rock the baby or if people should sleep with the windows open. An informative illustrated article in the March 9ht issue of THE AMERICAN WEEKLY the big magazine distributed with NEXT SUNDAY’S BALTIMORE AMERICAN 1. On Sale At All Newsstands .. "r'Wvyo (JRL666 MOM
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