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| THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1945
It Isn’t true because the COURIER-TIMES says It,
hut the COURIER-TIMES says it because it Is true.
FOR WHAT WE HAVE
i Announced today, for reasons clearly stat
ed in the news article concerned, is an im
pending change in the administration of
iCommunity hospital. The announcement
‘comes from the hospital’s Board of Directors,
Which met Saturday and accepted with re
gret the resignation of Mrs. Sarah Gran
Allen, supervisor and superintendent. The
Board at the same time secured the services
of Allvn S. Norton, who will succeed Mrs.
Allen as hospital manager.
In revealing these changes in administra-1
tion the Board of Directors of Community |
hospital is making it clear that Community |
hospital, like alj other institutions of similar j
standing, has had and is still having difficul
ties of operation, chiefly because of the
shortage of nurses. Efficient management is
’a problem, too, but the hospital has had that
and it is to be hoped will continue to have it.
The statement from the Board of Directors
is clear enough, but with, perhaps, a becom
ing modesty, it does not go far enough, name
ly that Roxboro is fortunate in having a hos
pital and should go to all ends of trouble to:
with it.
Other sections of the State are not so for- j
.tunate, as witness a large paid advertisement
a recent issue of the News and Observer
•in which the General Assembly is called up
‘on to push the State hospital program more
jstrongly for the benefit of areas without hos
pital facilities. Signer of that advertisement
.is a Mr. Basnight, representing the Chowan
of three counties, including Bertie
land Chowan, that are completely without
fhospital facilities except as provided in the
neighboring state of Virginia. Citizens from
SVIr. Basnight’s area are ready to build a hos- j
»pital and have funds for it. But they do not ’
Snow have a hospital, although they see the
meed for one.
r We hope that Roxboro and Person folks
rwill be as much concerned to appreciate the
lone they have.
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l THE FATHER AND SON BANQUET
IS AT HAND
\ On Friday night, tomorrow, at Hotel Rox
.boro, slightly later in the season than usual,
and sons of the Person Boy Scout
[district will have their annual get-together.
It is an important event, one looked forward
from year to year. Call it a banquet, or a
'dinner in the evening, or what you will, there
;is more to it than food and fun. And the boys
are quite naturally anxious to have j
:their fathers there with them. In fact, the
•boy whose “Dad” cannot be with him —unless
there is a mighty good reason—feels out of i
it, even though an “adopted father” does his
•-best to fill in.
There is really no need to boost the father
and son Scout night program here. It has a
reputation and has had for many years, main
ly because the men and boys who plan it are
enthusiastic believers in the benefits of get-
L ting together. And while we are at it, this is
as good a place as any to say that the job of
t seeing Friday night's program through is
falling upon C. A. Harris, who ha 3 voluntari
ally and deliberately done the work for years
just because he likes it, and is this year not
to' be stopped by waiter shortages, food limi
tations, or what have you.
Under such determination, the least that
other fathers here can do is to come on out
and join their sons at Friday’s affair. It is
the one time of the year when fatherly obli
gations cannot well be side-stepped in Rox
boro’s Scouting circles.
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[ THE GIRLS HAVE A DIFFERENT JOB
[ For many months, over a period of % two
* years, ever since Camp Butner began opera
tion, Roxboro young women have been going
ito parties, including dances and other social
levents at the Camp. Main emphasis has been
the dances, Quite properly chaperoned by a
committee of Roxboro WOmed* nKa’SM ’ “by
Mrs. R. H. Shelton, who is still chairman and
through whom reservations can be made, but
as Mrs. Shelton has announced, there is a
radical departure, a new and different turn
to the job that goes with entertainment pro
grams at Butner, one that will be in effect
on this Friday night, when twenty-five Rox
boro and Person girls are being asked to as
sist at a square dance to be given for con
valescent and hospitalized soldiers.
The answer to the new problem in enter
tainment lies in the last few words of the
last sentence above. Many of the soldiers who
are to be guests have not recovered to the
extent that they can enjoy round dances.
Jitterbug is out. Even the waltz can be com
plicated. The easier routine of square dancing
may be possible, perhaps, with not quite so
much of athletic vim as our own high school
students have been putting into it on Satur
day nights. Parties at Butner are going on,
in other words, but the burden of entertain
ment is more squarely on the young women,
who may be called upon for tact and patience
in leading a wounded veteran back to the all
but forgotten graces of social life. The vet
eran himself will be the last to ask for any
special consideration. He does not want it,
which is one reason why the approach must
now have more of subtlety in it.
It has been easy to go to the average Camp
Butner dance. From now on, for a while at
least, the girls are going to have the harder
task of quick adaptability to meet unusual
situations and circumstances. Probably, the
job will not be so much fun, but it is much
more important and will be greatly appreciat
ed by the boys. And what is Said here may |
j apply equally as well to some instances with j
I the USO Service Center programs in Rox
jboro, since many of the visitors there are
| apt to be from the same groups at Camp
j Butner, or elsewhere.
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GEORGIA JOKE
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Sanders, of this City,
and their Roxboro kinsfolks, the McWhort
ers, are originally from Georgia, from one j
of those small towns near the red clay of j
! their small Washington, but T. C. and his
wife lived for some .
j coming to Roxboro. In -\tlai;
| Ponce De Leon street, or uvct...qe. .;
I thing, but when they came to Rdxbuio they
got a house on Peachtree street, close to their
McWhorter relatives, but no relation to the
famous Peachtree street in Atlanta.
The War Department does noUknow about
Peachtree street in Roxboro, on which there
are only two or three houses and all of them
unnumbered, quite in contrast to the multi
tude on Atlanta’s stately street of the same
name. As we have said, the War Department
| does not know all this, but Marine Sergeant
i William A. Sanders, son of the T. C. Sanders
jand expected here shortly front a stay of
months overseas in the Pacific area, started
as a joke a Peachtree street number in Rox
boro—l492—that is in Army files and was
used here Monday in the Courier-Times in a
War Department story concerning the fact
that Sgt. Sanders is now at Miramar. Calif.
First to spot that 1492 in the Courier-
Times was editor J. W. Noell, who wanted an
explanation. This is it, and in the process the.
Sanders are getting one, too, where the wholq
story came from.
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
PIECE DE RESISTANCE
Richmond News-Leader „
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A menu of the incomparable “loved aria
lost” restaurant of the lamented Voison, Rue
St. Honore, Paris, is reproduced in the cur
rent issue of Table Topics, the fascinating
house organ of Bellows and company. It is a
startling menu, because it was printed Christ
mas day, 1870, when besieged Paris was eat
ing horse flesh and the meat of rats, of dogs,
of cats and of the animals of the zoo. Num
bers of these appear on Voison’s menu, but
the eye passes quickly over them to the wines
for which Voison was renowned. Listed for
the day were a Mouton Rothschild of 1846,
an incredible Romance Conti of 1858 r &
port of 1827. Your eyes bulge at
You swallow and you tell yourself that for
the sake of those wines you would try to put
down as a roast the formally presented Chat
flanque de Rats—roast cat flanked by rats!
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NOT LESE MAJESTY
Greensboro Daily News
Revival at Nassau of the Bahaman folk
song, “Love Alone Caused King Edward To
Lose His Throne,”"!" K e s ~> —■‘t l * —-
efforts at repression.
• hum it are being punished, says k, . with
fines of 50 pounds and 10 days in jail.
Well, British courts, colonial or in the Un
ited Kingdom, have a fashion of handling
their business better than courts of well
, high any other race or nationr“sS r Tt 1 "! s
. rwfejju^Rg»-'gMii»t?
Kbly well erttiugn Tu'let fhem attend to the
matter. But it is to be hoped the misdemean
or—it could hardly be termed -a high crime—
will not be labeled lese majesty.
It has been our notion all along that per
haps the simpler West Indian subjects of the
British crown had a deeper and sincere re
gard for the Duke of Windsor than British
T' i
Back In Our
Town, Or Some
Ollier Town
"T'try-
Atlanta. Mar,' 7.-—He's back in our
town, or in some .other town, this
slim young soidler, wearing the pur
ple heart which signr#Br; that he
was wounded on a foreign battle
field. He’s back with the same grin
he wore when he ctubarkfed on the
great adventure. He’s lost a lot,
maybe an arm or a leg, but he hasn't
lost his sense of humor. He’s too
American for that.
Meet Jim. for instance. Jim's 20.
He has snapping brown eyes and a \
contagious smile. We saw him the
other day for the first time in many,
many months. He didn't look any- i
thing like he used to look except for j
those snapping eyes and that con- j
tagious smile. They were just the j
same as always.
Jim leaped across the street to,
meet us, that is tie did if you canj
call the peculiar gait he had leap
ing. He . was almost as fast as ever,
but he walked on crutches and he
had 'only ''one; lag,- Vet his great
hands had tft&r eld strength as he
put both of thrim out and wrung
j ours.
| We averted our eyes when we saw .
j those crutches and that dangling j
trouser leg. We didn’t want him to
think that -we were sorry for him. ]
We knew how he had always hated!
to be pitied. But, when he looked us j
straight in the eye and gave us that:
old-time grin once again, we forgot!
for a moment about the lost leg and
talked of the days before Pearl
Harbor when we were great friends.
It was Jim who had always want
ed to be a reporter. He would have
J been one if it hadn't been for the
I war. Always hr had pictured him
! self running out of news room doors
las city editors snapped orders. He
’ ' .'.fo- " "i.c \y si if; '
iar> .to coy., f ires. Who I
f a leg; man,could Jim be noi. e-.e
wondered.! ' j
HisYtorfr is) 4nr of the many that, j
haVe sonjhf of if of this war, at story j
of suffering endured and of (a lifSi
almost blasted, a dark story bright - J
ened only by the f&nerican sense of!
humor. __ I ®
“Jim tf the!
damned, ~endririnlpfri)iral ion i aftef-’
operation;’’ onfcyqFtrigjpomrades told;
us. “ShmpUd;yhi<l’Btoctrated his
leg in 3n places inches,
of bmye ware
everything iMt S srfciy surgeons,
could do. ij|eir mlnpas
sionate ccfaldnvj
make it heal pronsff/’
Jim didn't),say anything ,about
that. He just told the ''Cuii
the old thing off," and let it go a* j
that. And that's what they had tp
do. finally.
If you think he is crushed by all
that he has been through, then you
don’t know Jim. "Just think”, he
said, "as soon as I get my artificial
leg I can go out dancing with alt i
Thfe LONE RANGER ~ .1 QUIET, ALL OF YOU/ >OU'RE UNDER ARREST,] f WATCH 1 I’LL DRILL THE FIRST ONE
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i ptß in any other parts. Their song is not, we
think, intended as disrespectful; on the con
trary it might reflect tender devotion.
Certainly a Bahaman could Cottle nearer
understanding and sympathizing with Ed
ward’s abdication than ary an English arch
bishop has indicated a willingness even to
attempt. •
tho pretty girls. It'll be just like
a real leg, and any city editor who
dares to say that I won't be good
enough to chase fire engines and
run to catch editions and make
deadlines, just like the big town re
porters do, has another think com
ing to him.”
Jim's narrative is typicul of a lot
of others that are being told today
by American boys who are being
invalided home from overseas.
Thirty thousand of these young men
come back each month for care in
the Army's 60 general hospitals, the
soft of care that will restore them
to health and permit them to take
a useful place in society.
To help give this care the Army
is seeking thousands of women to
volunteer for training as Medical,
| Surgical asd Clerical Technicians
jin WAC General Hospital Com
; panics.
The Way is open for the women
|of our town to help boys like Jim
|of the laughing eyes and the urge
] to become a reporter, get back on
j their feet. Some are volunteering
! for service but many more are
1 needed.
i
American women with or without
hospital technician training between
the ages of 20 and 49, who has no
Children under 14 years of age, who
is in good health and of good char
acter and who has two years of high
school education or its equivalent
'may qualify for this service. She I
i may take the first steps to become !
a Medical. Surgical or Clerical
j Technician by going to the Army j
i Recruiting Office anti applying for
; enlistment in a WAC General Hos
pital Company.
He’s Just A Pfc.
.’ < Written by Mrs. Carlton James,
of Hurdle Mills, and dedicated to
; her husband. Pfe. Eugene Carlton !
i James, now somewhere in Germany t. j
He’s just a Pfc. in the Army;
•ip: wr'r,e thposqnds of mites apart
!.CiJ« : ;»M :,, lijr a ilt' how lie
• .ja licit, ;.,
! Wefl-rffofca, IWe .star General in
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1 1 He’s just u Pfc. in the Army;
i But what do I care about his rank.
! I'll bet the guys that’s wearing the
stars—
, If they: had his one stripe—They'd
say thanks!
He's just a Pfc. in the Army- .
And I know he's one of the best;
For he carries a gun in the infan
try—
And never gets to rest.,
He's just a Pfc. in gerlnany now.
Anti his medals are—not so many;
But you just wait 'til he gets to
Berlin.
There will be medals—and plenty!
He's just a Pfc. in the Army.
And yet—that is just the start;
For as I have told you before
He's still a live star General In my
heart.
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