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PAGE TWO COURIER - TIMES f/ Roxboro, North Carolina p PUBLISHED MQNQAV AND THURSDAY BY Oourler-Ttae* Publishing Company P " The Roxboro Courier Established 1881 Hie Person County Times Established 1838 J. W. Noel! Editor J. 8. Merritt and Thus. J. Shaw, Jr Associates IC. O. Clayton Adv. Manager D. R. Taylor, In Servloe With U S. Navy 1 year, Out of State..:". $3.00 1 year $2.50 8 months $1.40 3 months .75 ' ADVERTISING RATES: Display Ads, 49 Cents Per Inch Reading Notices, 10 Cents Per Line The Editors Are Not Responsible for Views Expressed By Correspondents Entered at The Post Office at Roxboro, N. C. As Second Class Matter MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1945 It Isn’t true because the COURIER-TIMES says It, but the COURIER-TIMES says It because It Is true. THAT OTHERS MAY HAVE Yesterday marked the official beginning of the nation-wide Infantile Paralysis fund J drive. Person and Roxboro quota for which is $2,161, as previously announced. The local quota this year is three to four times what it was three years ago, according to fund chair man Rev. R. J. Womble, but citizens who lived through the harrowing days of last Sum mer’s polio epidemic, will not complain that the quota is increased. Person cases of the | past year were few in number, only two, but; both ended in death, one for a small child and j one for the young wife of a soldier. Moving tributes to the worthiness of the j work being done by the National Paralysis; Foundation, some of them local, as witness | the letters from Miss Dorothy Taylor, chair-; man of the Woman’s Division, and from A.' M. Burns, Jr., have been published in recent issues of the Courier-Times. Few who have read it, can ever forget John Harden’s “Pres ence of God” comment, a stirring postlude to his splendid series of articles on “The Mil"- i acle of Hickory”, additional comment on I which was recently made in the Hickory! Record. | These tributes are on record and can bej read, as we hope they have been, with keen j appreciation, but the real meaning of polio j and its effects can only be understood by j those who have lived through it or with it. j Each week a young man comes to Roxboro! on official business. Few who meet him in j business relationships know that he has a. ~~ daughter, a girl in her early ’teens who has 1 for years had polio, is helpless With it and has to be carried up and down stairs each j day. Her case developed less than two de-| cades ago, but what is known now about polio and w T as not known then, possibly could have j helped if it had been known. For her, it is too late, too late. What will you do to see that others may have a better chance? o ADDITIONAL—AND BETTER LAWS REQUIRED Changes in law’s regarding the admission of mental patients to various State institu tions intended for their care are being con- 1 templated in Raleigh and may be acted upon by the General Assembly in its current ses sion, according to columnist Lynn Nisbet, who generally keeps his Raleigh ear pretty close to the ground with regard to what is coming up, and we are sure that Miss Sue C. Bradsher and R. A. Bullock, Person Superior Court clerks, and therefore concerned with said admission of the mentally incompetent, would be among those both officially and personally pleased by such contemplated changes. We remember, for instance, an afternoon about two months ago when two women, Person residents, came to the County Health office seeking information about the com mitment of a relative, a woman, to Dix Hill, in Raleigh. It was five o’clock in the after noon. The Health office, which was closed, was not the place for the women to have come, anyway. Besides, they were in a hurry to catch a buss to a city in another state, where the allegedly insane relative lived. Time was short, but the women wanted to do something, and so—to Mr. Bullock they went —just as it was time for him to close his door. They might as well have saved the:;' time, and his, for under the law he could do nothing, since the patient in question was an .out of the State resident, although formerly 1 of Person County. That is just one example, hinging on tech nicalities. There are other cases just as fruit lessly gone over. We do, indeed agree with Guilford’s Court Clerk, Joseph P. Shore, that sweeping changes and revisions in the com | mitment laws affecting the insane are in or der, and most especially do we approve of the suggested temporary commitment order which would give the judging to doctors and , psychiatrists trained in that work. The pres ent system imposes upon clerks of the court an obligation to possess technical knowledge regarding the insane which few of them ex cept through trial and error experience ever possess. And the same, for that matter, can be said of the average practicing physician i called in as a consulting advisor. Then, too, [there might by the proposed changes be a final closing up of those loop-holes whereby sane, but unscrupulous persons sometimes persuade present officials that a sane rela tive whom they wish to put out of this world and to a living death, is insane. Such records, fortunately, are rare, but the loop-hole does exist and it should be as far as possible eliminated. But before too much attention is given to a revision of the commitment system, as much thought, or more, must be devoted to an enlargement and an improvement of the present institutional systems, including the Caswell Training school and the as yet post poned school for feeble-minded Negro chil-; dren, which last institution-to-be is of j especial concern to Person Rep. R. P. Burns as a committeeman among those responsible for first investigation and subsequent recom mendations. o WE. TOO, WOULD LIKE TO MEET REP. WHITFIELD* ! The usually accurate, if not always sedate Greensboro Daily News goes berserk, and I j twice in a week, over the prodigious political i prowess of' a Person political infant in the j General Assembly, ‘Rep. Whitfield’, who, al ! legedly, according to the News, has garnered j for himself at his first session, membership, | on “15 committees”. Frankly, we don’t understand it, but just 1 :to string along with the News, here is the j second reference as quoted from that paper's j ;paragraphics of Saturday morning (add note: j we did not see the first one, but have the im peccable authority of Person's Ex-Senator and present editor. J. W. Noell. who did sec |it the first one.) that: j “Hon. Whitfield of Person, serving his j j first term in the North Carolina house, is | given membership on 15 committees. If the jterm lasts 60 days, he ought to be able to at- j ! tend one meeting of each committee.” j There it is, in black and white print, plus; iquotation marks, "Hon. Whitfield". He is j indeed a remarkable man, a first attender, j jof the first order, and, says the News, a hard j worker. We would like to meet him. But wej j don’t know him. and so, obviously, we can’t, jbe meeting him. The only Person “Hon.: j Whitfield” of recent years whom we have j ! known as an office-holder is the distinguish-: jed and genial Frank T„ of Bushy Fork, until; : last year and for some several seasons, Chair i man of the Person County Board of Com- 1 missioners. But the Hon. Frank T., who in his time: had to put up with County mobs, window-1 breakings and burning-to-death in jail cells, j had enough to contend with then and wej would not like to bother him further with | the additional responsibility of a personal ghost in the General Assembly. Also, the ( Greensboro Daily News’ editorialist, or some jbody connected therewith is for once just plain wrong and all wet. To begin with, the Representative from Person is Robert Paschal Burns, a veteran enough, who has gone several times to the House and has as many committees as he j choses to look after —-could in fact have the j “Hon. Whitfield's fifteen," but does not want j that many. The only man from Person who j can claim fifteen is Sen. Flem D. Long, who! is likewise a veteran of several terms, and! can if he so wishes get around to each of the | fifteen more than once in sixty days. It was a nice, if not neat paragraphic, if! only we could meet the right “Hon. Whit field”. Failing that, we’ll take the veterans we have. We like ’em the way they are, and how. o A PROSE PATCH TO ADD W'oodville’s Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn, ac cording to the papers, is being quoted as ad vising grand jurors to read Oscar Wilde’s. “Ballad of Reading Gaol”, so that they will understand more nearly what (being) in jail is like”. Having but last night re-read that poem (and before we saw the Judge’s recom mendation) we are today that much better preran:.! to agree with him, but we would suggi. '. a. 'lateral reading a much strong er, but les., • 1 :: vn book by the same au thor, “De Proiou;;:! I ” which in prose is much more shocking than i ■’•.'? -mem, and in the edition which we have, coiun u: : irides, a couple of genuine chillers, namely letcCi’s l*:c.? Wilde wrote to a London newspaper regard-. ing the conditions then attending the incar-j ceration of children. The letters were written all of forty-five years ago, shortly after Wilde himself was released from Reading jail, and some two to three years before he died in France, a heart- THE COURIER-TIMES broken genius, paying still for a crime that is better understood if not better managed today. Conditions then were horrible enough in prisons for adults. Balanced diets, sanita tion and proper exercise and occupational therapy were unheard of. Conditions that were intolerable for adults', were utterly un bearable for children. There are juvenile courts today, plus a totally different conception of the confine ment of children. To Judge Burgwyn, to grand jurors and to all others concerned with moral improvement of the race, we suggest the addition of “De Profundis” and those letters. They do show that the world does move, if ever so slowly, in right directions, and despite the evils of recurrent Hitler gangs. o NEXT STEPS FOR CAP Wednesday night at 7:30 at Roxboro High School will be the time and place for the first organization meeting of the Roxboro unit of the Civil Air Patrol, according to HEROIC WOMEN A great deal ol criticism has been directed at American women who are not nursing in the Army, and j the Navy yet who are eligible. The I nursing profession has been thought | lessly, impulsively, superficially, un fairly and unduly arraigned. Tire j truth probably is that a greater per centage of the nursing profession is in uniform than most other lines 'of endeavor and many of those who ! are in the service are performing inestimable service. Suppose we be realistic for a mo ment about women in the uniform led services cf the United States. One iof the reasons there are not more of them is that the armed servicer often do not treat them with the I slightest consideration, i If that be treason, contempt :o p court or lese majesty toward the Army, the Navy or that glorious out -1 fit, the United States Marines, the fanl cf excess, for there can be ex cess in war, is behind that offense j too. Do you want to know the “low I down" on why more American girls [have net volunteered for nursing duty—why it has become necessary to attempt to draft nurses? Because their parents won’t let them Volunteer; ; because their brothers and their sweethearts write back from France and Italy and the Phillippines, as they wrote from Africa and Sicily and Guadalcanal, urging them not to join up; because the. Army and the. Navy.too often treat them as automatons and the [Word gets around back home and all of tiieir friends advise girls against enlist, just as you probably advise your sister or your daughter.. Don't blame the girls too much. Here is just one sample of what one high officer in one of the arm ed services wrote home to his sister in Durham—and wo are leaving out some of the most discouraging of his words: “ ~ . . . From a woman's stand point it is terrible. But when I see the way ours inurses' stand up un der things that would drive most women mad and still smile. I ment ally salute them and they all should be decorated. With Q. M. boxes in the cold for latrines, baths at very irregular intervals, duty seven days The LONE RANGER ANYTHING ELSE, T NO,TOMToI IS THERE A LETTE } WAIT A CLTTA /AY WAY/ AED- \ A SMALLTOWN IN DAKOTA— JUN? «—— EVERY- HERE FOR A\s ? _y MINUTE... SK!N... AND STAY OUT!! ) UMM—A\A>BE THERE’S SOME- I Jff>.. l ' LL S£Ei y»JWAfrN' HSAY / WHERE'S RIGHT ''yM I THANKS/THAT'S ALL I isl rtS n^.^y | H " TriA 'r~~~ > _ TH£-f J V THE BANK NEXT WHO GOT THE HIM 'V yS * plana discussed here Thursday night at the Kiwanis-Rotary meeting at which Maj. E. I. Nott was speaker. As a result of the civic club gatherings some two dozen adults signed up as being interested in CAP, and report has it that between forty and sixty high school students are interested. Allowing for the fact that CAP has since the start of the war done a good job in a semi-military capacity, the natural question in minds of many civilians is, “What next?” Maj. Nott answered this query to his own satisfaction last Thursday night, stimulation in aviation interests in the postwar, civilian sense. Speaking selfishly, that is the interest that Roxboro has at this moment, and there are enough people here to foster such an at titude, but unless they turn out and show in terest in the Wednesday night gathering and in subsequent ones much of the progress that is being sought for will be sidetracked that much longer. The Roxboro CAP can be an important influence here, if enough people want it to be. J a week and no afternoons or holi days and no leaves since we hit j France on June 23 and more in pro | f pect .... Wearing herringbone twill coveralls most of the time, .-lor hing in mud—not very glamor ous do you think. But could you get one to change? NO—and they would underline that.” True, there aren't enough nurses, Put there wouldn't be enough, under present circumstances, if they were worked eight days per week, if there were an eighth day. True, too, when they are con fronted with the terrible need, they , re eager to work until they drop: but we wonder how many are moved to write home and suggest that their sisters join them. We must have nurses as we must have fighting men and have them we probablv will, if we have to draft, them as seems likely, but two things should burn themselves into the mindk of American civil and mili rvrv authority: 1— If there is good reason for drafting women for the vital but - renous and dangerous mission of nursing, why not draft other women for the secure, relatively easy and highly paid, yet equally vital, job of maintaining production on the home front: and, if national service for lighting nien, why not for working men? 2 Oi.ce men and women have been drafted for service, they need, fei' most effective and efficient ser vice. to be treated like human be ings.—Durham Sun. Milking There are, admittedly, opposing schools of philosophy regarding the manual extraction of lacteal fluid. Some farmers and all boys regard milking as the most obnoxious of all chores. They claim, and with a con siderable degree of validity, that doing tlie chores night and morning •fs simply adding that much labor to a full day’s work. On the other hand, there is a cer tain group which admits it likes milking—end milking time. The countryman who really likes cows, enjoys the work connected with them. It isn't so bad as some urban dwellers think. Certain conditions must be met. The tie-up should be freshly cleaned and a generous lay- > er of tangy sawdust spread over the | stall floors and gutters. The cows j should be brushed and the udders j , wiped off with a warm, damp cloth, j I Then a man is ready. With a j | sturdy, three-legged stool placed 1 just exactly right, with his forehead j pressing against the soft flank, and j Bossy chewing away on good mixed ! clover and timethy, the environ- ! jnent is conditioned favorably. Irrespective of method, the man who enjoys milking works methodi- i cally and calmly. Cows are sensitive personalities, and do not give down in the midst of turmoil and excite ment. Some men whistle as they milk; some hum, and others like to sing the good old songs, such as "Swanee River" and Carry Me Back to Old Virginny." There's a sense cf satisfaction as the strings of milk pour into the frothy bubbles in the pail. More and more, cows will be milked by machines. Such is pro gress. Meanwhile, certain men will continue to enjoy milking—the old fashioned way.—Richmond Tirr.es- Dispatch. o IRATE HEN KILLS ERMINE Eijeaged when a fierce ermine broke into her coop and killed one of her baby chicks, a mother hen struck the marauder wtih her beak so hard that it fell dead. The er mine, a member of the weasel fam ily, was pecked on the back of the ‘neck, according to J. Hundleby of Orby, England. NOTICE In Memoriam Notices, SI.OO Maximum 150 Words a Card of Thanks 50c Maximum 50 Words ■ COURIER-TIMES MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1945 LEGAL NOTICE THIRD SALE ETTA CLAYTON FARM Under ahd by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Person County, made in Special Proceed ings, entitled “Jacob L. Clayton ct al vs. Bernice Clayton et al,” the same being No. B 71 on the Special Proceedings docket of said court, the undersigned commissioner will on Monday, the 29th day of Janu ary, 1945, at 12 o’clock noon, at the courthouse door in Roxboro. N. C.. offer for resale to the highest bid der for cash that certain lot of land lying and being in Person and Dur ham counties, North Carolina, and described as follows: Beginning at 1, a stone Copley's corner, thence South 87 degrees East 22,30 chains to 2, a sweet gitm cn Yellow Branch, thence North 2 1-2 degrees West 15.60 chains to 3. a stone the South East corner of Lot, No. 1. thence Norm 87 degrees, West 21.40 chains' to 4, a poplar stump in Copley’s line, thence South 1-2 degree West 15.60 chains to the beginning, containing 33.4 acres and alloted to Etta Clayton, known as "Jasper Clayton Home Place." On this property are a dwelling and gcod farm buildings. The bidding wili begin at the price of $3,780.00. This 12th day of January, 1945. W. L. FOUSHEE, Jan. 15-22-2 ts. Commissioner. Call Us For Flowers For Any Occasion We have a large assortment and our prices are reasonable Hester Florist Main St. Roxboro, N. C. Phone 29G3 Nite Sunday 2955 NOTICE! A good many people have the wrong im pression of the recent order of the War Production Board restricting the sale and use of lumber, knc«vn as Order L-335, and if you need lumber for necessary building or repairs we would suggest that you come to see us and let us explain this order and you may be eligible to get the necessary lumber for your work. It is NOT a FREEZE, but it might be catted a ration order.. It is especially favorable for the farmers and a limited quantity of lumber is allowed for others to make necessary repairs, etc. This order does not apply to building materials other than lumber. 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