PAGE TWO f COURIER * TIMES Roxboro, North Carolina PUBLISHED MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY Courier-Times Publishing Company £ The Roxboro Courier Established 1881 The Person County Times Established 1929 J. W. Noell Editor J. 8. Merritt and Thos. J. Shaw, Jr Associates M. C. Clayton Adv. Manager D. R. Taylor, in Service With U. S. Navy 1 year. Out of State $3.00 1 year $2.50 6 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, APRIL 9, 1945 It isn't true because the COURIER-TIMES says it, but the COURIER-TIMES says It because it is true. GET RE ADV MONTH Gov. R. Gregg Cherry last month issued a proclamation calling upon citizens to re gard April as “Get Ready Month” for the Seventh War Loan, which officially begins in May and will continue through June. A copy of that proclamation has just reached our desk, with a memorandum, “Please post on Bulletin Board”. Not having that, we are hereby quoting the Governor’s Words so that all may see: “Our nation is entering a most critical period in its struggle against tyranny and oppression. “The present economy and future prosper ity of the nation is threatened by the un guarded use of our earnings and savings at this time. “The amount of purchasable goods is con stantly diminishing while earnings and ac cumulations of money are greater than ever before in our history. “The financing of the war effort consti tutes our first and most important responsi bility on the home front if we are to keep faith with our sons and daughters in service. “The proper use and investment of our money at this time will help assure the main tenance of the homes, communities and op portunities to which these boys and girls of ours constantly dream of returning. “I urge each and every citizen of this state to take solemn account of his financial ability •%-r Silppor! the war effort by investing his money in War Bonds to speed the victory and insure the restoration of normal peacetime living. I particularly urge employers and em ployees to fully cooperate with the plans for launching this get ready period with a special drive for extra payroll deduction. “I also urge the various service and lunch eon clubs of the state and the school prin cipals, teachers and pupils to lend every pos sible assistance in the carrying out of their assigned task in this vitally important pro gram to assure its complete and outstanding success.” Not many civic clubs, school teachers or employees in Rqxboro or Person County need any more of reminding than the rest of us. We are familiar, all of us, with the facts, a summary of which is contained in Gov. Cher ry’s message. All of us ought to know, too, that the present time, with victory in sight, is a “critical period in our struggle against tyranny and oppression”. The danger is that we may think the facts are too familiar and may thus take them with indifference. That is why the Governor’s message should be read and studied. what Hath is doing "From a friend who hrs relatives living near Bath, England, we have received a copy of the Bath and Wilts Chronicle and Herald, a newspaper made small in size by the war, but not at all lacking in civic spirit, if we judge by chief articles—concerned with reconstruc tion of areas blitzed bv the Germans in 1942. The reconstruction program, “The Bath Master Plan Exhibition” is now being dis played to Bath citizens with models and with blueprints. A booklet has been prepared. In it is this foreword: “The times have changed and the popula tion has increased. Large areas have b~en de vastated by enemy action, larger areas h. ■ decayed, or are decaying; housing and traffic problems demand solutions and the critical time of decision is upon us. Shall we go for- I ward with a bold plan of campaign or be con tent with a day to day system of expediency ? I beg you to appreciate that we are not blind to the mistakes of the past, and we are con scious of the difficulties peculiar to a City ,such as ours, of blending the best that is old with the needs of modem existence.” The speaker is Councillor Edgar Clements, Mayor of Bath, but the words, except for that line about destruction of property through enemy action, fits here in Roxboro as if Mayor Clements had just completed a tour through our streets. Bath before the war was a City of some seventy-five to a hun dred thousand people. What ancient Bath can do in the way of reconstruction and planning, Roxboro should do. Our needs afre not as pressing, our size is not as large, but it is a shame to us and to other lagging Amer ican communities that our British cousins ir. tmes of even greater stress and strain cah beat us to the draw in realizing future needs. * : • •; ,• • • . . THRILLS WITHOUT FRILLS Friday night’s Sophomore-Senior dinner and dance put on by students of Roxboro high school had about it a commendable sim plicity that is, we hope, being followed by other high schools. Except for purchases of new dresses for the girls and suits for the boys, together with paying for the dinner and the dance, there was little expense. Clothes, probably, would have been bought anyway, and nobody could say that the food and dance prices were high. Time was when such school social events were a financial pain in the neck. But not now. The young folks can get thrills without frills. They did just that here on Friday night. Some were dressed “to kill”, some were not; everybody had a good time. Juke box music took the place of an orchestra, but few of the dancers complained. They were ! more interested in enjoying themselves, | which they did, and we wonder if any group of older citizens could enjoy the simple pat tern of pleasure as much. Age, of course, has something to do with it, but while there is a lot of talk about civilians spending money wildly and recklessly, the youngsters here have offered proof that fun can be had at | reasonable rates. o WHY THE HORSE SHOW SUCCEEDED The sponsoring Kiwanians and all of Rox boro, for that matter, are still talking about last week’s first annual Roxboro horse show, at which some four thousand people, mostly novices at horse show jargon, had a look-see at horse-flesh ranging all the way front 56.000 to “local pride” in value. And the Ki wanians and the rest of us have been wond jering why the project succeeded so well. In the first place there were some good horses. The sponsors saw to that, but then j they had to keep their fingers crossed, had to hope that the public would respond. It did, but the response came not only because there was and is a natural interest in horses here, but because the sponsors worked together 83 a club team to build up that interest. They jhad public sentiment at such a pitch that not going to the show was something like an act of civic disloyalty. Some of the spectators might not know what a walking horse was. They might be ignorant of the intricacies of gaits. But they came and saw and learned, leaning against the white fence sections as if they had been coming to such shows from ■'way back before grandfather’s time. We do not expect anybody to be able to tell jus why a half-dozen of the smaller towns | hereabouts have begun to have horse shows. Following, if not keeping up with the Joneses may have been the starting push, but what we said last week about the energy of the Kiwanis club in the Roxboro project still holds. That energy was commendable and should be emulated both by organizations and individuals. WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING MONEY IN THE BANK Sanford Herald The 9,01 d banking institutions in the Unif ied States under supervision of the states* iand not including national banks, had assets llast December 30 aggregating more that! j 75' ■) billion dollars, according to figures com ! piled by the National Association of SupetNi*- i sors of State Banks and released by Gurney ; P. Hood, N. C. bank commissioner Thursday. This was an increase of nearly ten percent within the six months following June 30, ( 1944. Most of the increase is represented in icasli and investment in United States govern ment securities. It is pointed Olit that 74.1 ; per cent of all state bank assets are in cash or j government securities, indicating very “li ' uid" ration of the state banks. I *e banks have capital, surplus undiviuL nd cash reserves of nearly 5 billion dollar . The iVt that BO percent of total assets is represented in TT . S. securities* while only 19 percent is in lehrt f rtu d v 6ountß to individual and corporate borrow*..-* indi cates presence of a tremendously powcr.nl backlog of money for post War activity. When the war is over and national spend ing for war declines, the securities call be cashed in and the proceeds devoted to indus trial development. It has been often noted that while the na tional debt is staggering, it is owed mostly THE COURIER-TIMES! to American citizens, so thht as it is paid off by redemption of bonds land other Obligations the money will remain at home and be avail able ftor promotion of private business. The presence of more than 13 billion dollars In cash in banks, which belongs to depositors, provides a cushion against too rapid Conver sion of government bonds into money for purposes of idusttrial and economic develop ment. o WHAT KIND OF CLOTHES? Christian Science Monitor l What should be the American woman’s thoughts as she combs through her closets and attics these spring days for clothes to give the United National Clothing Collection tor War-Devastated Lands? Henry Kaiser has told her that 125,000,000 persons abroad are in “desperate need” of clothing, shoes, and bedding, but can or will she Visualize what this means brought down to a level of a family like her own ? That is what she must try to she ponders whether to give that “pjflV good” coat of Susie's that has been worwßd.v once or twice in five years but “migfirue wanted some time.” Without dwelling on the suffering in the world, Americans must not forget such sit uations as these in UNRRA files: In Greece, civilians a«Ng'orced to pay approximately ?200 of shoes made of synthetic substance which falls to pieces or wears through after five miles of walking. In Yugoslavia, where loss of a shoe is a major catastrophe, a leading newspa per recently carried this ad: “Lost—Woman’s left shoe, size 5*4, black, oxford: round patch on left side. Ample reward for its return to No. 112 Alexander Street. Belgrade.” Polish families share one another’s garments in order to appear on the • OPEN FORUM THE THINGS THAT WORRY ME MOST Down at de foot no dehill from my one log cabin is my park. 7 like ter give picnics in it sumtimes. One pritty sunny day I 'thot I'd give de cld maids a picnic. I invited a crowd uv em ter cum ter a picnic supper. We made the nicest cakes, and pies, and had plenty fried geese and ducks fur supper. After we sot de table and civered up de eats, wid a nice, clean cotton cloth we got busy havin a gud time a talking together, , and luck in at de pretty flowers and terns. Sum uv us sot on logs, and sum sot in chers. I give dem de chers and set on a log meself to be polite. 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