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By Mail — S2. Yearly — In Advance ROANOKE RAPIDS. NORTH CAROLINA THE LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN HALIFAX COUNTV Member North Carolina Press Association CARROLL WILSON. Owner ajid Editor Entered as Second Class matter April 3rd, 1914, at the post offit at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of March 3rd, 1879. OFFICE EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES ADVERTISING - PRINTING - EMBOSSING GOOD AMERICANS ARE GOOD NEIGHBORS By GORDON BERKSTRESSER, Publicity Chairman of the Community Chest # • Community Chest drives are now under way throughout the United States. Each year we see more and more new Community Chests organized. Good Americans recognize more and more the value of these yearly campaigns for the voluntary support of private, social and health work carried on through the Community Chest. No Federal or State welfare work has ever been able to do the things that keen eyes and warm hearts see and feel must be done in your local com munity. Therefore every fall of each year the Mo bilization for Human Needs appeals to the demo cratic conscience of all good Americans to support the voluntary effort of the people themselves to meet these needs directly. In the United States today we know ourselves to be free citizens of a rich democracy, based on brotherly love. We inherit this democracy from the warm hearted citizens of past generations, who recognized the needs of less fortunate men, or ganized these social service organizations and gave generously to them to carry on the work of help ing their neighbor. If you are thankful that you have a roof over your head, food on the table, warm clothes to wear when winter blasts come, care for your children through supervised instructors, and a good whole some community to live in, then, you too, should give generously so that the next generation will en joy this same democracy. Roanoke Rapids’ volunteer workers will call on you this Thanksgiving week. Be ready to give. Make this second Community Chest drive better than the first. Over the top for the sake of human needs. CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY (A ten minute talk delivered to the pupils of the 6th Grade of Roanoke Rapids Graded Schools yesterday as part of the program for American Education Week) • • No other children in the world are as fortu nate as the children of the United States where every child is given a free public school education. In many countries, education is only for the rich while, in other countries, public education is limit ed to only the first few grades. American Education Week, this week, is to bring more clearly to all of us, children, parents, teachers, taxpayers, the great blessings and oppor tunities which are ours above all others in having such an educational system. Instead of not liking school or certain things about school, we should all be happy to have a chance to go to school, a chance denied so many children in the world who would so like to go. One of the most important reasons for going to school is to learn to be good citizens. It will only be a few years until you are through school and must find a job and take your place as citizens of your country. When all the worries and problems THE 'HAM JN_HAMLET!, _ \ _ s\ n n wot hum', -this i $ Turning INTO A _FA^CS l which now face your parents and other older per sons become your own, you will then see how happy and free from real care were these days in school. Being a citizen is like playing a game and be ing a good citizen is learning how to play the game right. Every game, as you know, must have rules so that all the players will know just how the game is to be played and in this game of being a citizen we have rules which are called laws. All the players are supposed to obey those laws, altho sometimes they may not be to our personal liking. Just like the rules of any game, when a majority want to change those laws, there is a way to do it. But as long as they remain it is the duty of every player to obey them. Just as games have referees, umpi: es, time keepers and other officials to see that the rules are carried out and to keep games from running wild so does our government have officials and boards to see that our laws are carried out as intended. Most of these officials are chosen by the citizens in elections and the citizens, can, when a majority wants to, change these officials by voting for new men to take their places. It will be just a few short years before you children will be the ones to vote, to hold office, tc pass laws, to see that laws are enforced to the best interest of the whole group and it is here, in school, that you should learn something about these new tasks which must face every good citizen. As in games, so in citizenship, you must learn there are two sides to every argument; you must learn to tell what is right and what is wrong; you must learn that while you have certain rights, sc has the other fellow and you must do nothing tc injure his rights lest you lose your own; you must learn that the property of other people is theirs, not yours, just like your property is yours and not theirs, and the property rights of all must be re spected if the game is to be played right. And just as in your games, where good sports manship is even better than winning teams, so ir your life-game of citizenship there must be good sportsmanship in order to make good citizens. You must learn to see the other fellow’s viewpoint learri to give and take, learn to be a good winner oi a good loser, learn to be loyal to your country and always willing to come to its aid when it needs you in order to partly repay it for giving you the greatest freedom and happiness enjoyed by anj i people on this earth. A BUILDER • The sudden death of John C. Smith Tuesday shocked this entire com munity, for there were none who thought this energetic business man was marked to go. Ex tensive property owner, planner and builder of the only big hotel Roa noke Rapids has ever had, builder of the Tenth Street corner building which houses two of the biggest stores in the city, John Smith, a self-made man, was a builder in ev ery sense of the word. He had the vision, the ambition, the energy and tenacity which only builders of cities possess. If John Smith had a hob by it was to see things of brick and stone and wood and mortar rise to grace his city. These buildings are important to the growth of a com munity and as a master builder his place will be most difficult to fill. He had the courage to take chances which balk many of us. John built friendships too. He was a friend to many people who will miss him much in th$ days ahead. As one man said yesterday, “He was most accommodating”. We call him Master builder because he was adept at building build ings, equally adept at building friendships. THE WHITE HOUSE Washington October 2, 1939 To the Patrons, Students, and Teachers of American Schools: Det us take note, as we again observe American Education Week throughout our Nation, that edu cation in our democracy teaches the practice of reason in human affairs. Our schools also bring us face to face with men and women with whom we shall share life’s strug gles. In their lives and ours, strug gle will never be absent; the struggle of every individual against the stream of life; the struggle and competition among individuals, groups, institutions, States, and nations. To the resolution of con flicts and struggles of life, democ racy supplies no easy answer. The easy answer, the quick but inconi plete answer, is force; tanks and torpedoes, guns and bombs. Dem ocracy calls instead for the appli cation of the rule of reason to solve conflicts. It calls for fair play in canvassing facts, for dis cussion, and for calm and orderly handling of difficult problems. These vital skills we Americans must acquire in our schools. In our schools our coming gen erations must learn the most dif ficult art in the world—the suc cessful management of democracy. Let us think of our schools during this American Education Week not only as^ buildings of stone and wood and steel; not only as places to learn how to use hand and 1 brain; but as training centers in the use and application of the rule of reason in the affairs of men. And let us hope that out of our schools may come a generation : which can persuade a bleeding ■ world to supplant force with rea son. } FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. i
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