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PERSON COUNTY TIMES A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE _____ . .... - .. i ...n- —r I. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., 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 SI.SW -s 75 Three Months 5(1 NtHoail Advertising RepreMittativ* NwYnl i CEkige i Ottrait . Atlanta i fh.lj Adveri ising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at al times. Kales furnished upon request. News trom our correspondents should reach this office not later than Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition and Thursday P. M- for Sunday editio.i. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1941 End Os Unreality On Monday afternoon the Congress of the United States, with the exception of Representative Jeanette Rankin, of Montana, gave whole-hearted approval to a declaration of war against Japan, a declaration made . .necessary by previous action of that nation in attacking Pearl Harbor and other Pacific outposts belonging to the United States. Swift change from State Department negotiation to military action occurred within less than forty-eight hours after the apparently premediated instigation ol hostilities by the Japanese: this is the end for Ameri cans of that period of unreality that in September 1939 loomed large after two decades of so-called peace. Put away in the national hope chest, smothered in historical moth balls, is that tolerance of the Ameri can „mind which has permitted Lindbergh, Nye and Wheeler to speak freely in advocacy of an isolationism that never existed. Now at an end is whatever toler ance there was for strikes in defense industries. The United States of America must again he what its name implies and must now finish a business that came to a head in an obscure German beer hall in 1933, a busi ness that began then but that had its seeds of origin in political ineptitudes, American no less than British, French, Italian or German, that were rampant at the signing of the treaty of Versailles in 1919. The President of the United States has spoken in the only mood acceptable at the moment and in so speak ing he has been supported by cheers in keeping with ma jority sentiments, but he knows, as all thoughtful citi zens must, that totalitarian methods must now be ap propriated by our democracy in our fight against dic tatorship. II Not yet clear are details of the attacks on Pacific possessions of the United States, but already in the House suggestion has been made by one man, Rep John D. Dingell, Democrat, of Michigan, that there should he court martial proceedings against at least five “top Army and Navy commanders” alleged to have been responsible for what is already being called the Hawaiian “Naval Debacle,” it being supposed by Din gell that our military commanders at Pearl Harbor were asleep at their posts because they were not fore warned and ready to cope with the Japanese attack. At any other time than the present it might be possible to say that Rep- Dingell has a patriotic mind, that his sensibilities are outraged over the unnecessary slaughter of American civilians and soldiers, but plainer thinking must remind us that realities of war cannot now be side-stepped by Congressional investigations. The ideology against which the United States is now in active combat allows no time for slow-moving, dem ocratic processes and the lesson of speed, with planning, must be learned no less in Washington than in the hinterlands. It is useless for us to further deceive ourselves. War was once an affair of a certain dignity, to be con ducted within rules and to be glossed over in the end with glory- It is not now conducted with dignity, there are no rules and the glory has wore thin, so that the only elements left are self-protection and belief in a cause. Americans must come to this realization be fore they can fight successfully any one of the series of battles they are now confronted with. —ll l There is no doubt that Americans will see more clearly than they have the cause of freedom in which they must believe and that they will come to this belief without an unseemly hatred 6f individual German, Ital ian and Japanese citizens, who are in the irony of cir cumstances being taught that their own ideas of dom ination by force are the only ones acceptable to a world that has preached freedom and practiced force. But there is serious doubt that Americans will at once ac cept the idea that in this war self-protection and self defense are as real as they ever were in the Revolution ary and Civil Wars, the only wars fought up to this hour on the American continent Greatest danger still will come from the few Amer icans who will be uncooperative and from foreign agents busy in defense of their own cause. There is in this conflict a possibility that fighting will be more than writing checks and sending a comparative handful of S' North Carolina /PtISS ASSOCIATION*)} soldiers across. No one can say how long the conflict will last and no one can Say that victory will be easy. And a proper conditioning for what must be faced * must begin here, in Roxboro and in Person County, as quickly as in San Francisco and New York- There will have to be an end of all petty criticism of the Se lective Service system. There will have to be in evi dence that morale hitherto more talked about than ob served and there will have to be on part of the civilian population more of an ability to do without luxuries and more than an offering of lip service to patriotic and to semi-miliitary organizations. To be a patriot now is a hard task, but honorable. If the proposed army camp comes to Person, as it most probably will, it must be accepted and the men who come to it must be made td feel that they are at home- To do this and to protect as much as possible of the Person way of life may become a part of the war-time job accredited to Roxboro and Person County, and there is no reason to believe there will be failure at this point or in the necessary financing which hiust be done, as Sherwood Brockwell told Kiwanians, by ever-increasing purchases of Defense bonds. IV The end of unreality is at hand and so there comes a time for action. For more than two years the people of the United States sat by the bed-side of the sick world, mixing curses with cures and vainly hoping that recovery would not require an American cure that could not be paid for in dollars and cents. It is too late to blame others for evils now reaching a climax- . 11.50 I{ " ' gift SHltis” ”' | | | We have a large selection of special gift ■ a Immk S | shirts in whites, stripes, solids and others. | i;%" ji , MM m ,,,,,, STREET FLOOR PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. * It is too late to say that economic toleration could have saved the situation. It is too late to look fondly back at the ghost of the League of Nations, a ghost made pitiful by American neglect. It is too late to blame Germany, or England, or France, or least of all Japan, where the fruits of civilization called Western and Christian have come to strange flowering. And what must now be done cannot be accomplish ed by waving flags and singing, “God Bless America ” Now, if ever, is needed a re-consecration of resources and abilities, with full recognition that no war is ever a holy war, although the imperfections of humanity make necessary the emploment of war techniques if peace is to be enjoyed in the future. Burning Cotton Stalks Proves Costly Practice Burning cotton stalks will cost the average North Carolina farm er just about $5 an acre, says Dr. E. R. Collins, (agronomist of the Experiment Station at N. C. Stale College. In a warning against this p.rac- \ lice, nOw commonly employed after the crop has been harvest ed, Dr. Collins pointed out that ! cotton stalks on an (acre of good land contain approximately 27 pounds of nitrogen, pounds of phosphoric acid, and 36 pounds of potash. At present prices for these fer tilizer materials, the State Col lege agronomist explained, the farm would have to pay around five dollars an acre. He said the amount of plant food removed by raking and burning the stalks would be equal to 400 pounds of a fertili zer analyzing 6.75 per cent nitro gen, 1.75 per cent phosphoric aied, and 9 per cent potash. “What’s more.” Dr. Collins con tinued, “burning destroys from 1,500 to 2,000 pounds of organic THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1941 matter badly needed by moat soils. Turning under or killing all cotton stalks before frost is an important factor in boll-wee l vil control, but to remove them from the {and is a serious drain on the fertility of the soil. “Where only the lint and seed are removed,” the State College man went on, “a bale of cotton removes a total of only 70 pounds of plant food, as compared with 95 pounds for 60 bushels of corn, leaving the stalks and fodder on the land, 100 pounds for 30 bush els of wheat in straw, and 115 pounds for 50 bushels of oats in straw.” We sell Eye Glasses to Sat isfy the eyes $2.00 to SB.OO j THE NEWELLS Jewelers Roxboro. N. C.
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