morrow it is most im
portant.
When Hitler wants
junk and scrap, he takes
it. In America, we are
still asking for it. Let’s
give it because voluntary
giving is still a sacred
privilege.
THIS CLUB STARTS
SOMETHING
• The Rotary Club of
Roanoke Rapids has fur
nished the funds to fur
nish the Day Room at
Fort Jackson for Com
pany B, 105th Medical
Battalion, our home com
pany.
THE ROANJOKE RAPIDS
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ENFIELD AND MAY 30th
• • Enfield is at one end of Halifax County and
Roanoke Rapids is at the other end. And in be
tween are such populous centers as Scotland Neck,
Weldon and Littleton. 1940 population figures are:
Roanoke Rapids_8,545
Scotland Neck_2,559
Weldon __2,341
Enfield _2,208
Littleton_ 1,200
Enfield, fourth in population in Halifax Coun
ty, last week gave its political honor roll of which
it can justly be proud. For it showed that Enfield
already has the lion’s share of political offices in
this county. It also showed that Enfield is not
content with holding what it has but is now going
out to get more.
.according 10 me mnrieia rrogress, mniieia
men, now holding political offices, include Judge
Barnhill, Judge Parker, Solicitor Dickens, Chair
man of County Board of Commissioners Whittaker,
Chairman County Democratic Executive Commit
tee Dr. Nicholson, County Board of Education
member Rives, Coroner Cooper, A.B.C. Supt. Ricks,
Chairman County Board of Elections Dickens;
some of these have moved away from Enfield to
other parts of the county but all are native sons
of Enfield.
The article includes D. Mac Johnson and R.
Hunter Pope, former members of the Legislature,
but not now running for or holding elective office;
and A. W. Andleton, ex-chairman of the County
Board of Elections.
But, in addition to those now holding office
above, Enfield now also offers the following addi
tions to the Enfield list of county office holders:
Opposing County Recorder Judge Charley
Daniel of Weldon is A. M. Atkinson of Enfield; op
posing State Representative Ben B. Everett of
Palmyra is F. M. Taylor of Enfield RFD; and op
posing Clerk of Superior Court A. L. Hux of Hali
fax is Sam Arrington Dunn of Enfield.
Should Enfield win all its races on May 30 the
Progress can then boast that Enfield men control
Halifax County for then it would have an Associ
ate Justice of the Supreme Court, a Superior Court
Judge, the County Solicitor and the County Re
corder Court Judge, the Chairman of the County
Board of Commissioners, the Chairman of the
Democratic County Executive Committee, a mem
ber of the County Board of Education, the Super
intendent of the County ABC System, the Chair
man of the County Board of Elections, the one
member of the House of Representatives in the
State Legislature, and the Clerk of the Superior
Court. All Enfield men.
Add to this list of candidates: F. Ray White
of Enfield who is also running for member ol
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from HIM
County Board of Commissioners but who says he
does not want to be Chairman of that powerful
Board. Mr. White seems to be one of the few En
field candidates who wants to hold office but does
not want to be The Boss Man.
Enfield is entitled to full representation in all
offices under our democratic form of government.
If Enfield has more talented leaders than the rest
of the County, Enfield is entitled to more than its
share; only population would put Roanoke Rapids,
Scotland Neck and Weldon in front of her.
The rest of Halifax County leaves it to Enfield
folks: is Enfield asking for too much? Will you
refuse to follow those who are demanding too
much? You are patriotic citizens who are willing
to sacrifice some local pride. You, like the majori
ty of us, know that only honest, patriotic, unselfish
men should be in county offices during this war
period; men who can say “No” to their best friends
if the need arises; men who will risk defeat to de
fend right; men to represent all sections.
JUNK AND SCRAP
• • The terms “junk and scrap” may not sound
so pretty but it is just such that will help win the
war.
When every one of us realizes that the govern- j
ment has seen fit to appoint Salvage Committees
in every part of the nation in order to collect what
we once called junk and scrap, then will be the
day when we know just how important the Local
Salvage drive is.
It is so important that this will be a continuous
drive for the duration of the war. There will be
no let-up. Battleships, merchant ships, planes,
guns, tanks and bullets cannot be manufactured as
fast as we need them unless we have the material.
Old iron, copper, brass, nickel, rubber, rags, paper,
etc. must be saved by all of us and taken to the
proper places so they will finally reach the point of
manufacture.
Local Chairman F. S. Kemp has set up an
organization with central points for you to bring
your collections. Trucks pick up from these col
lection points and the salvage is sold to the junk
dealers. Any proceeds now go to the Local Defense
Council expenses and to Boy and Girl Scouts and
other groups which have been collecting and selling
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OCll V clgC 1U1 SUI11C l line.
The response has not been as anticipated. We
! are not going into our attics and cellars and ga
rages and places of business to do our part in giving
everything not actually needed to the Salvage
drive. We still look on all this as just junk and
scrap not worth fooling with.
We are wrong there for there is no longer the
good old days and there is no longer junk and
scrap. Today and tomorrow it is Salvage needed
for national defense and offense. Today and to
When the more than
forty clubs of North
Carolina meet in State
convention at Raleigh
this month, the Roanoke
Rapids delegates, headed
by Dr. L. G. Harrison,
will try to sell to the oth
er Rotary Clubs the
splendid idea that they
could have no better ob
jective than to raise
funds to equip other Day
Rooms for the boys in
camps.
The Day Room is the
living room for each
company; it is where the
boys spend most of their
spare time. It can just
be a room with some
cane bottom chairs and
plain tables; or it can be
a room with comfortable
furniture, radio, dra
peries at the windows
and fixed up like the liv
ing room at home. This
last is how the Rotary
Club has helped fix up
the Day Room for Com
pany B.
The best recommenda
tion for such action by
service clubs is given by
the soldiers and their
officers. Speaking for
Company B, First Ser
geant James T. Martin
writes:
“The Fort needs mare D a y
Rooms like this one; it does more
for the morale of the men than
anything else; they can go to
their tents, to the mess hails, to
the recreation halls, but none can
compare to a Day Roam to retire
to in peace a/nd quiet to read,
write and rest. I am telling you
that this was the grandest move
any club in this entire country
ever did far the boys from their
home town.”
Major Harold W.
Glasscock, in a letter to
the Roanoke Rapids
club, sums up the thanks
of men and officers by
writing:
A ivi n vi v/m77 nn •so boo nil mb ooo
he knows that those he leaves be
hind. are backing him personally.
In our opinion, the close relation
ship between our men and such
organisations as your oum can do
much to strengthen them in their
will to fight.”
There is more than appreciation
in that statement. There is a chal
lenge to every,civic club, every kind
of organization, every individual to
do more for these boys who will
form the front lines of our defense,
offense and protection.
The Roanoke Rapids Rotary Club
has started something which
should -fie adopted on a State-wide
and a National scale bv t*«o“c
groups who want to know how
they can help.