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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES - 1 T""Vi t 'i , ' 'f— /wnhCarolina \Jk / m« ASSOCIATION^! A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE f. 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 Pwstoffioe At Roxboro. N. C., Under The Act Os March 3rd.. 1879. ~ —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— . 1 year ............................................... $2.00 6 months ................. ................. $1.25 3 months ... .. . ..........,.,............................ .75 Out of N. C. —1 year $2.50 National Advertising Representative b MERICA.N V R E 5j5 fa- SSQ CI ATI Q N || New York t Chicago : Detroit : Atlanta i Phila. Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at all times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office not later than Tuesday to insure publication tor Thursday edition and Thurs day P. M. for Sunday edition. SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1943 Twenty Women And One Man A score of Person and Roxboro women and one man gathered last week at a luncheon table to hear Mrs. 11. B, Ritchie of Athens, Georgia, regional leader of the Woman’s Field Army, discuss work of her organ ization in educating the public into an awareness of the real facts about cancer control. Mrs. Ritchie, who wore a uniform not unlike that of the regular Army, has the crusading spirit, otherwise she would not be giving time and effort to spreading of knowledge about what cancer is and how it may be con trolled. The fight in which the Field Army is engaged, as Mrs. Ritchie indicated, is a fight against ignorance and a battle for time. Citizens must learn that cancer can be controlled if discovered in time and they must come to realization that it should be faced and accepted as a disease problem just as tuberculosis, or any other disease is now accepted. Time was when citizens whose loved ones were vic tims of tuberculosis kept the victimization to them selves. They had the idea that there was something dark and shameful about having T. B. Somewhat the same idea prevails today about cancer and it is rare that a funeral notice is honest enough to come out with it that Miss Jones or Mr. Smith Had a long and lingering, slow to-starvation death from cancer. There is no excuse for such false dignity, and still less for that more fatal concealment of the beginning of what may be a cancerous condition. Delay is what kills in cancer and if Mrs. Ritchie’s visit shall have made that much plain her efforts will have been worth while. The Business and Professional Wdmen’s club here cannot become engaged in a better work than that of the Woman's Field Army. And it is appropriate that the proportion of women at the luncheon meeting was so large. The rate of inci dence and mortality from cancer is larger among women and they are most frequently the ones who put off going to medical centers for examination. The men, on the av erage, are more realistic. Dollars Versus Lives Person quota of $242,900 for the Second War Loan drive that begins here tomorrow may seem large. It is large, when measured in purely Person County and Rox boro terms, but not when it is considered as one of many links in the thirteen billion dollar national quota. Size of both quotas needs to be measured against the feeling shown the other day by a local soldier just re turned from more than a year in India. Said he, with out animosity but with conviction: “People here at home just don’t realize yet that there is a war on”. Refutation of that feeling can come this month from Person people by the way in which they respond to the Second War Loan drive. It will be at that, a cheap and an easy refutation in comparison with the sacrifices being made by men and women who are in actual bat tle zones and danger spots. Person and Roxboro people have just completed an immediate and heartening response to the call of the American Red Cross. They must now roll up their sleeves for another job. - t Above Mortality When the Person School Board met last Monday the chairman, W. R. Wilkerson, and two out of five mem bers, B. G. Crumpton and Ralph Cole, were present. Having gotten up from a sick-bed to attend the meeting, Wilkerson left immediately afterwards to go to a hospi tal for treatment. He knew he had to do this but he 1 thought enough of his public service job to make the ef fort to be on hand for the session. He did not know that within less than three days Crumpton and Cole, his associates on the Board, would he dead. The passing of these two imen was sudden and had attached to it the drama always associated with sudden death, felt more particularly in an every-body s knows-everybody community such as Person. Citizens here knew and appreciated Crumpton and * Cole for their different and respective vrrtdtes, not the least of which lay in a determined response to public service such as that shown by Chairman Wilkerson. Crumpton, as Person County , has cause to remember, served as an aggressive Grand Jury foreman two years ago when things were really popping here, and Cole, in a quieter role, was a community and church mainstay. It is the fashion amongst us that we speak well of men when they die, and in our opinion, while the speak ing is being done, we should praise such men as Crump ton and Cole not only for actual accomplishments but for continued coperation in community service. They had not the capacity to say “No”, regardless of the number of times they were called upon. If Cole and Crumpton have need of a memorial here, it can be found in the joy with which they placed ser vice above self. One was an adopted Person son, com ing to this county from the sandhills of Moore, the other was a native from ’way back, but both of them saw what was to be done here, and worked toward it, each one in the way in which the vision came clearest. In times of war and stress and strain, the need for such citizens as these men were is made more plain. WITH OTHER EDITORS New Uses For Knowledge. Durham Morning Herald Dr. W. Freeman Twaddell, Professor of German and Department head at the University of Wisconsin, de livered the annual Phi Beta Kappa address at Duke University last week, speaking on, “The Scholar in the Century of the Ccftnmon Man.” Professor Twaddell, son of Professor William Powell Twaddell of Durham, is a Duke graduate of the class of 1926, and is one of the youngest department heads in a major American university. Declaring the scholar will have an increasingly im portant role in modem life, Professor Twaddell pointed out that in the present war the professional scholar is finding plenty of application for his technical knowledge and skill. Describing the scholar in the modern world, Twad dell put it this way: “He may regret the distraction from the constructive work of his life, but he doesn’t need to fear the self reproach of being an ornament or a luxury. Even the en emies of scholarship, those thoughtless or unscrupulous people who find it convenient, to try to discredit schol arship, are lying pretty low at the moment. They have an uneasy feeling that some scholar may be saving their skins for them, and they have an even more uneasy feel ing that perhaps some scholar understands some impor tant aspect of wartime life that remains pretty obscure for thdmselves ... “On the technical side, the American scholar is being useful in this war. And in most cases, he is being used where his special knowledge and techniques are immedi ately involved. In some cases, it is his habit of work and his pipeline to the past that can be used. I can see no essential problem in the relation of the American scholar to the wartime way of life of our nation ...” Looking to the changes that certainly will come after the war, Professor Twaddell said, “The chief civic busi ness of the scholar, whether in the scholarly professions or out of them, is to keep his head in the times of change that we all face. I also believe it is his business to open his mouth. There is a heavy responsibility on every one who can think with his mind to be honest with his voice. Some people have the gift of being honest tactfully; others suffer from brashness. The important issue, though is not tact versus brashness, but honesty versus laziness. If the educated voters of America don’t insist on civic decency, the road to decen cy will be longer than it should be. Whatever form it takes, Americans and all human beings face a consider able readadjustment. The people who can learn from books have their part to play in guiding and helping that readjustment.” Calm After Storm Christian Science Monitor The growing religious interest reported among the men of the American armed forces is far more than a grasping for assurance in the face of possible death— because it is often more in evidence after danger is over, than before. This point is emphasized by several Navy Chaplains, in reports on recent experiences with their men under fire. They found a deepqj- spiritual attitude following battle than during the tense moments before. Aboard a warship which took part in the African campaign, attendance at divine services increased as the scene of action drew near, and on the Sunday before battle, attendance was 20 per cent greater than usual. However, the Chaplain adds, “On the first Sunday af ter battle, when the ship was past all immediate dan ger, church attendance was twice* that of an average Sunday, indicating a feeling of profound gratitude in its deepest and most spiritual sense.” Another Chaplain draws religious significance from the fact that he has found morale high as his men pre pare to fight. Speaking of a Tecent encounter, he said: “There was no evidence of jitters as time for battle ap proached. Os course there was .a little nervousness but it was natural and healthy nervousness—about the same feeling a man has before playing a football game. “I could tell that some were having a new religious PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. experience as they faced the prospect of death for per haps the first time, but they all stiffened to the chal lenge, and went into battle ‘heads up.” And from another Chaplain with the fleet,,this com ment: “The bluejackets know that going into battle is not at all the romantic thing the novelist writqp about. “The men do not talk much about the way they feel at such a time. Yet if you know them, you know they ard strengthened bya confidence drawn fretm within. During Dur battles with the Japanese, not a man on board lost his head. And afterwards more than one lad came around to me and said, “Chaplain, you weren’t do ing the only praying around here today.’ ” Farm Magazine Has Article On North Carolina RALEIGH, April 10. A splendidly written story which brings North Carolina's agricul tural story into more than two million homes and before a read ership of some ten million per sons appears in Country Gentle-j man, April issue. This story is a direct result of the national ad-| vertising being done by the state] of North Carolina under the di-j rection of the Department ofi Conservation and Development. The managing editor of Coun try Gentleman, Arnold Nichol son, came to North Carolina and] visited many of the officials and private citizens who have be come identified with the state’s requickcned interest in her agri cultural resources. Editor Nicholson called his story “Agriculture - Senior Part ner.” In it' he paints a cameo-j clear picture of a state wherein industry and agriculture go for ward hand-in-hand, with agri-j culture rather than manufactur ing given the ‘leading role. He FRIENDLY SERVICE Standard Oil Co. Products. Telephone Service No. 4711 ROCK-INN SERVICE STATION Mass Meeting of Roxboro Voters to Nominate Candidates For Municipal Officers On April Is, 1943, at 8:00 o’clock P. M., will be held in the Person Court Room a mass meet ing of the voters of Roxboro, at which will be nominated candidates for Mayor, and Members of the Board of Commissioners, who will be voted on at an election of municipal officers held on Tuesday after the first Monday in May fol lowing. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF ROXBORO t S.G. WINSTEAD, MAYOR G. J. CUSHWA, CLERK PERCY BLOXAM, CITY MANAGER | points out that two-thirds of the state’s citizens live on farms, al though some are right now driv ing into nearby cities where they are working in war-gocds pro duction. Governor Broughton’s interest' in leading every support to agri-1 culture is stressed, with honor-1 able mention to many others whose names are well-kncwn throughout the state. State Sen-, ator L. Y. Ballentine, Dr. L. D.j fßaver, Irving F. Hall, Legislator ' | Thomas Pearsall, R. Bruce Ethe- 1 ' ridge, Paul Kelly, Josh L. Horne, i Dr. A. O. Shaw, Harry B. Cald-J well. Commissioner Kerr Scott.! I What these men are doing to in- j j crease the effectiveness of North I Carolina is becoming known be-! yond the confines of the state,! and the story which leads off for! the April issue of County Gen tleman will spread the message f Protect Your Home With Good We sell Good Paint at sur prising low figures. See us, we will give you the cost of good Paint to repair your home. W. C. BULLOCK SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1943 of the state throughout the na tion. A RECORD Charlie Baynor anß his son, Lester, of Beaufort County have 1,100 chicks. At four weeks of age, they had lost only 17 which is not as many as the extra chicks supplied in the shipment. ? 3al €) m When the judge says,"slo,ooo damages P It’s a happy thought to think of us if you’re insured. THOMPSON INSURANCE AGENCY Roxboro, N. C.
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