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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE J. 8. 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— -1 year $2,00 6 months .' $1.25 3 months ; .75 Out of N. C. —1 year $2.50 National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York : Chicago : Detroit : Atlanta : Phila. Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advert tigers at all times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office not later than Tuesday to insure publica tion for Thursday edition and Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1943 Blond, But Determined Col. S. fegoert Anderson, of Greensboro, the Army calls him “Samuel” and so does his wife, gives through the Associated Press a rather factual account of the success of the American Marauder air force in break ing down German resistance through per sistent bombing The Colonel, now in Eng land as Chief of the Marauder force, says just about as much as can be said under conditions of censorship. Col. Anderson, a West Pointer, whom we grew up with and knew in the peaceful days when he was just “Egbert”, says the B-26s under his command are striking at perman ent installations in France and the Low Countries and are driving the enemy pro duction units further inland into territorial Germany, which Anderson thinks will be an important step in creation of an invasion pathway across Europe. Knowing Anderson as we do, we have the comfortable feeling that he will do his part to carry out this planned program of destruction of vital mil itary and air bases. Some folks have the notion that people with blond hair which Anderson has, lack determination and force. He also has blue eyes, the pale kind that can steel with de cision. Blondes like that, when they get go ing, are as hard and persistent and as venge ful as any more swathy fighter could be, and North Carolina, and Greensboro in par ticular, ought to feel pride in the leadership displayed by Anderson. In the long years since 1928, when he fin ished at West Point, Col. Anderson used to have the uneasy feeling that World War II was coming. He was restless about it, and worried. Now he’s in it, glad to get going to rid the nation of what he felt was sure to come again, the German menace, plus the Japanese one, which he knew from personal contact in the Philippines. Straight To Shoulder Lacking a complete report on what Miss Davis, a member of the nursing staff of the Person unit of the tri-county health depart ment, speaker, along with R. P. Burns, at October meeting of the Longhurst Parent- Teachers’ association, may have said at that meeting about juvenile delinquency, we can not quote extensively from her remarks, but one quotation slipped in by the reporter of that session, the assertion that, “Parents can blame themselves for many cases of de linquency in (their) children”, sounds like commonsense, straight to the shoulder, a sock at the source of evils talked about but too infrequently left dangling by the talk ers. We can still remember a certain Roxboro girl, we have forgotten her name, whose greatest concern over being out late was the fear that “Laddy” would spank. At the hour at which she returned home nothing else would have been satisfactory, but the degree of responsibility for parental under standing that should have been arrived at »efore the young lady went out was clearly on the father and we have an idea that Miss Davis, in her statement, is saving that prop er Understanding between parents and young people ought to be arrived at before spank ing" is necessary, particularly if the young people think they are above the age of switches . . ■i ■ tonight’s premier showing of “This Is Army”, as a "benefit for the Army Em ergency Relief fund is practically a sell-out, accordingvto reports, but this does not mean citizens should stay away from other showings- - Book IV Coming Up v. Person OPA officials today are announc ing preliminary plans for issuance during the week of October 24, of Ration Book Four. The public schools, effective instru ments in two out of three ration book reg istrations, will again be asked to lend a help ing hand and in Person County and Roxboro thirteen white institutions, one for Indians and three for Negroes will be places of reg istration, with specific hours and days to be announced later. . Significance of this fourth registration lies chiefly in its smplicity. Citizens will be required to bring with them for purposes of identification and classification Ration Book Three, but they will be asked no questions concerning inventories of food stocks or oth er commodities. It would seem that both of ficials ?nd citizens are now getting used to the idea of ration books. Getting Book Four into the hands of cit izens will be another job for the schools but the schools are used to this and innumerable other forms of civic service by now —and all they ask is considerate cooperation from the public. Plenty For All To Do Announced today is the beginning of the Service Center or club project for the in ception of which members of the Roxboro Business and Professional Woman’s club are largely responsible, although support has , been given and will continue to come from the two civic clubs for men, Rotary and Ki wanis. The Service club, as a small start, is to open as a club room or recreation center i next Saturday in a building on Court street generously provided by a public-spirited Roxboro woman, a woman who is not herself associated with the Business and Profes sional group. It is a splend'd thing that citizens here , are coming to the support of the Service club, but it becomes increasingly clear that if the Center is to fulfill its function of pro viding a place of recreation and entertain ment for service men there will be plenty of work for all willing-spirited civilians to do. Some will be contributors of cash. Some will give furniture and equipment, including games. Others, and by far the larger numb er, will have a chance to contribute personal service, without which ah organization such as this Center cannot be operated. And it is to bo hoped that among the con tributors of personal service will be not on ly those here who are always ready and willing, but also those who do not by choice take a hand in public enterprises. There is in the Center a great opportunity pow for a genuine enlargement of commun ity cooperation, and ultimately, because of it, a prospect for some assistance from Fed eral sources. But Federal assistance will not come until people here through work in the club and through response to the United War Fund appeal that is coming up, show that they are ready and willing to go ahead with a larger project such as a whole build ing or a house. | WITH OTHER EDITORS | To Be Watched Greensboro Daily News There is an element of great danger in the procedure outlined by the Governor’s office in a form letter to county labor mo bilization committee chairmen for enforce ment of war powers’ proclamation IV, bet ter known as the work or go to jail procla mation, throughout the state. As summarized by Lynn Nesbit, Raleigh correspondent for afternoon newspapers, the various county committees are to move as follows: The first step is for the committee to as certain the names of able bodied persons who are thought to be not gainfully employ ed. These names can be secured from any source whatever. Next step is so» the chair man to write each person and advise him that his name is in the box, and give him an opportunity to appear and show that he is at work. If he can show gainful occupation his name is stricken from the list and he is re leased, if he. can’t prove that he is working the name goes to the federal employment service, to the sheriff or some other law en forcement officer with instructions to issue a warrant for the culprit. Surely the looseness of that procedure, aside from what may well be disregard of an individual’s Ajdy established and guaran teed prerogatives!, is obvious. The commit tees are to “adctrtfrhi v from any source PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. whatever” names of persons “who are thought to be not gainfully employed.” The opportunity for Snooping, for talebearing, for revenge, for spite or for duress is pat ent; somebody simply has to turn some body in. Whereupon he may be notified to appear and prove that he is gainfully em ployed. Notice how the procedure is shift ed; the burden of proof, as in the cash of too many encroaching quasi-judicial agen cies, is transferred to the defendant. He has to establish his innocence in conflict with the heretofore guaranteed assumption of an individual’s innocence until the state itself proves otherwise. True ,the committee be fore whom he appears merely passes his case on to a law enforcement agency for prosecution. But it indulges in a form of prosecution itself and we doubt its legal Person Farm Agency Notes ****************+******4 The seroiusness of the drought in some North Carolina Count ies has been realized by the Government, and the Commod ity Credit Corporation which is eh agency of the Federal Gov ernment, is going to subsidize the price of hay for dairy cat tle in the drought stricken coun ties in order to encourage the dairymen to carry on operations and furnish hay for their cattle r.t prices considerably less than hay' could be bought otherwise. The contract for handing this “government” hay has been made by the Commodity Credit Corporation with Southern Sta tes Cooperative of lliclimond to take care of .he drought area in this state T c S uthern Sta ll s Cocncativ * has asked the Farmers C ■ perati-• F.xcSn ee u. F .?( ? t' handle the- hay for all drought counties in North Carolina. The Farmers Mutual Exchange at Durham Oxford, Roxboro and Hillsboro has a- j greed to handle the hay for drou ght counties in our operating ter ritory. Farmers, County Agents, Agricultural Teachers and other folks working to help secure this hay for farmers in Durham, Granville, Orange and Person, who should make application to the local Farmers Mutual Ex s2s REWARD For any watch or clock that wo fail to repair. GREEN’S “The Square Deal Jeweler” » Protect Your Home With Good i" Paint 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 t T T eiNiiiNi limimio •% Keepsake Wjjmn§ ] 'DIAMOND RINGS AS an Authorized Keepsake ROSLYN A jeweler this store is a com- w 2 87.50 petent and trustworthy advisor in the selection of a ring. Ask “*^7 toseethenewKeepsakematched sets . . ■ from SSO to S2SOO GREEN'S - “Hue Your CyetUt” NORMAN v;.: mwM JCaUadb Jtmhr 4MMM 139.75 mmM) payments--^ right to set itself up as a sort of grand jury to pass upon what seems to be equivalent to a bill of indictment. The Daily News proposes to keep close watch on the way these committees func tion. To be sure we believe that every able bodied-citizen should be at work; but, with al, we do not believe in any abridgement or violation of fundamental civil rights which are the very basis of the system which we are working and fighting to preserve. Per sonnel of the Guilford committee convinces us that it will use due caution and have a proper regard for and perspective of the relative responsibilities and protections which are involved. There is no place for discrimination, fright, intimidation or the slghtest taint of peonage in what purports to be even an offshoot of justice. change in their county for sec uring this hay. Steps necessary in ordering this hay: It will be necessary for dairymen to sign an eligi bility sheet with the Far mers Mutual Exchange for per manent record before they would be entitled to receive the hay. This certificate reads as follows: “The undersigned hereby cer tifies to Commodity Credit Corporation that he is a keep er of dairy cattle on a farm located in a Drought Area; that this hay will be used at food for such dairy cattle, and that he requires this hay, in addition to other hay avail able to him, for such use prior to May 15, 1944.” The Farmers Mutual Ex change is required to furnish a regular IHay Purchase and Dis tribution Agreement Form ap proved by the Commodity Credit Corporation on orders for all cars of hay placed with the Farmers Cooperative Exchange and South ern States Cooperative. No dairy man can purchase hay direct through the Farmers Cooperative Exchange of Southern States Co- j operative. Ht [Trust be halndled through the Farmers Mutual Ex change in these four counties or a certified and designated farm supply dealer who makes a contract to handle the hay with Southern States and Farm ers Cooperative Exchange. 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