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Joe Louis. Like Everyone Else, Finds It A Hard Thing To (^uit By Hal Boyle New York,—(AP)—One of the hardest things in life for any man to master is the fine art of quitting. This 24-karat truth is pointed up anew by the decision of Jo seph Louis, the eminent pugi list, to resume his former call ing. At the ripe old age of 34. hav ing amassed enough gelt of cu shion his declining years, Joe an nounced he was through with his precision fistic bombin. He decided to trade in his gloves on a typewriter and launch a new career as a columnist-com mentator for a Harlem news paper. Trying a new job was no men tal hurdle to Joe. He was a newsboy, shine shoes, ran er - rands, delibered ice and worked in a automobile factory before he found how easy he could quin tuple his income merely by doubling his fists. But now Joe has changed his mind again—as have many champions who wanted to quit at the top—and he's going to try one more fight next June, when he’ll be 35. “Just one more, Joe.” It’s hard to resist that plea. Sometimes the plea comes from within a champion’s own heart More often it comes from his retainers and the men around him who want to keep him in action to finish feathering their own nests. It’s a trun of politicians, busi nessmen and warriors as well as I athletes. There’s always a j group that wants them to stay j in there pitching after their own minds tell them it's time to step down. “Just once more," they're told. “We need you. We can’t win this time without you. Just once more." It is hard to resist such flat tering pressure, the “You’re the-only-one-who-can-do-it” flat tery. And so the aching mus cles or the weary mind goes back “just once more’’ into the fray. And too often what hap pens is what happened to Jim Jeffries when he emerged from retirement for a flabby rendez vous with Jack Johnson at Re no in 1910, to Jack Dempsey when he took on Gene Tunny a second time, and to Napoleon, w’hcn he met a fellow' called | “the Iron Duke" at a wide place in the road called Waterlood. But quitting at the right time —at the peak— is even more J difficult for the common man I than it is for the champion in any field. To the ordinary man an en forced retirement isn't just a blow to his ego—it's usually a catastrophe caused by illness or accident. And planned retire ment is to him a goal rear the end of his life’s run—a short dreamy interlude before death; grabs him. It's hard to quit. Perhaps the most gracious “quitter" of our day is Winston Churchill. He quits every time the voters toss him out, and goes off and writes some best-selling memories and j paints some pictures. Then, refreshed in spirits, Churchill rides back again into high public office on the chang ing tide, smiling and eloquent as ever and holding no resent ment against the voters. This unsinkable cork in the flood of modern history is the real political heavyweight of our times. He quits only to try a gain—and he’s made more come backs than yo-yo. Local Sailor On Efficient Ship The USS Bexar, the ship on which Bennie L. Overton of iUO Roanoke Ave., is serving as quartermaster, third class, has just been awarded the Battle Ef ficiency Pennant and "E” for general excellence during the past year. The ship got a pen nant called a “meatball,” a red triangle with a black circle in the center. Each enlisted man with six months of service aboard her receives a cash award and the right to wear E” on the sleeve of his uniform Norlina Men Enlist In Navy Warrenton—Jeff Roy Devine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Roy Devine, and William Joseph Fg ?rton, son of Mr. and Mr3. Joseph Dbrien Egerton, both of Norlina, mlisted in the Navy on Septem ber 9, for a period of three rears. They will receive basic raining at the Naval Training Center at San Diego, Calif., be 'ore being assigned to units of :he fleets, it was announced by lames F. Moore, local Navy re cruiter. State Employees Group Will Seek Separate Director Raleigh, Sept. 20(AP)—Tne plans to present the next gen eral assembly a proposal for a separate director of state per sonnel. Under a bill drafted by an as sociation committee and approv ed Saturday at its annual con vention, state employes would be removed from the admini - stration of the state budget bur eau. The proposed personnel director would be in charge of all state employes except teach At the final session of the as sociation’s two-day annual con vention, Mason P. Swearingen was reelected president. Leonora (Ikey) Carawon was named vice president, succeeding John R. Branham, and George W. Moore was chosen secretary-treasure, succeeding Wynona Fowler. Asheville was picked for next year's convention. Littleton High School Opens With Assembly Littleton — Littleton High School began its 1948-49 term Wednesday, September 15. A general assembly in the auditor ium started at 9:15 o’clock v/ith the invocation by the Rev. Ju lian King. Rev. W. F. F. Little followed with scriptures and re marks. F. H. Eason, Principal, then made the announcements and introduced the teachers. The benediction was given by ihe Rev. H. L. Davis. Weldon Mr.and Mrs. Robert Bloomer and children left last week for Canton, N. Y., where Bloomer is a professor at Sarah La wrence University. Mrs. Jack Foster of Ports - mouth, Va., visited her daugh ter, Mrs. Buddie Miller, at the Country Club last week. Mrs. Cam Tilghman, Miss Ann Tilghman, Mrs. Paul Mer chant, Miss Pauline Merchant and Mrs. David Dickens spent last Tuesday in Richmond, Va.. Mrs. C. R. Kee of Seaboard is visiting Dr. and Mrs. R. B. Blowe. Miss Mary Ann Daniel has gone to Chapel Hill to resume her work at the University oi North Carolina. Miss Ola Bell Whitehead has returned to Ohio State Univer sity in Columbus, Ohio, to re sume her studies. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Neal at tended the American Legion Con vention in Ashville, N. C. Mrs. Phill Darden of Suffolk j is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Anthony. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip King and j son have returned to their home 1 in Washington after spending some time with Mr. nd Mrs. M. H. Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mitcheal and daughter, Patsy, of Hamp ton, Va., visited Mrs. T. A. Cha pell recently. Miss Elizabeth Clark has re turned from a visit to Dr. and Mrs. R. R. Clark in Chapel Hill. Miss Frances Oakes has re turned from Virginia Beahc, where she spent the summer. Miss Mildred Stephenso'n has left to enter Stratford College, Danville. Mrs. A. P. Ellis and Mrs. L. • W. Edwards spent a few days in Durham last week. Mrs. C. A. Taylor of Rich mond, Va., visited friends in Wei don Thursday. Mrs. Elliott Clark of Craddock Va., spent the weekend in Wel don. Sam Baugh, Washington Red skins passing star has been playing football for 20 seasons —four in high school, four in col lege and 12 in the National Foot : DEATHS MRS. C. A. LYLERLY Mrs. C. A. Lylerly, 70, died early Monday morning in the Roanoke Rapids hospital, after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 3 p. m. at the Rosemary Methodist Church with the Rev. W. R. Stevens of ficiating. Burial will be in the family plot in Cedarwood Cemetery. Mrs. Lylerly is survived by two daughters: Mrs. William Sutton of Philadelphia and Mrs. Marie Vester of Norfolk, Va., two sons: Clarence and Arnold Lylerly, both of Roanoke Rapids. 860,000 Students Seen In State’s Public Schools Raleigh, Sept. 21 — (AP) — North Carolina public schools are expected to have a total en rollment of 860.000 this year, says State Superintendent of Public Instruction Clyde A. Er vin. The enrollment is expected to nclude about 690,000 elementary ind 170,000 high school students, rhe state has about 26,000 tea :hers. In the past 15 years Yale foot >all teams have played only , our tie games. SPEAKER SAYS (Continued from page one) candidates everywhere. Negro publisher Marshall of Macon, Ga., is the Progressive nominee against Georgia Senator Russell. So many speakers at the Pro- i gressive convention in Philadel phia were Negroes that the newsmen wisecracked that "from the way Negroes are as- , signed positions of prestige, one would conclude either that he- ; groes compose 75% of the mem bership of the Progressive party : or whites are being discriminat ed against. A majority of speak- 1 ers at the Philadelhpia conven- ; tion were Negroes; nearly all were either from the South or from Negro districts in the North 1 the object was to sell the Pro- , gressive party to Negroe3, es pecially to the Southern Negro, rhe Communist leadership be hind Wallace know that perse :uted, underprivileged minor ties nearlv always vote as a init. Walter White, secretary if the National Association for .he Advancement of Colored People, has pointed out that the Negroes voted almost 100% in he recent primaries in Tennes lee, Georgia and other areas. In 930, 1940 and 1944, the Ne (roes voted 99% for Roosevelt ind the whole Democratic ticket m^m^ n Harlem. Negroes are beginning to vote n numbers in the South. This 'ear, 30% will vote in many Southern areas. Wallace leaders ixpect a larger percentage in 950. In most Southern states, he Negroes will determine the •lection winners in 1952, except he Wallaceites, because IheV vhrtes will be split among® democrats, the Dixiecrata, and he Republicans who are making :ains throughout the South. In he North, the predicted depres ion will vote out the Jtepub icans, and vote in the Progres ives. 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