PAGE TWO COURIER-TIMES Roxboro, North Carolina PUBLISHEp MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY Courier-Times Publishing Company The Roxboro Courier Established 1881 The Person County Times Established 1929 J. W. Noell Editor J. S. 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 lor Views Expressed By Correspondents Entered at The Post Office at Roxboro, N. C. As Second Class Matter MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1945 It isn’t true because the COURIER-TIMES says it, but the COURIER-TIMES says it because it is true. THE PRESIDENT GOES HOME This is not the time or place to attempt to evaluate the permanent place in world affairs of the late President Franklin Delano Roose velt, whose last ride home ended yesterday in the garden of his Hyde Park home, but there can be no question that he wrought nobly and with high purpose to secure domes tic social order and world peace. Both Rox boro and Person County joined during the past few days in the period of national mourning which began Thursday when the President’s death was announced. Even those citizens who were in personal disagi’eement with his national policies have not felt re sentment against his promotion of the war, or against his staunch faith in a just peace to come. There is no rancor left anywhere, today, as victory on both fronts becomes a reality. And that wave of speculation concerning the new President, what he will do and how he will act, is subsiding with each moment that passes. There is, instead, a confident hope that the American way will prevail, although it is known that in international matters President Truman is faced with a delicate situation in which the balance of power may easily pass to the late President's personal friends, Churchill and Stalin. There can be little question, however, that the death of President Roosevelt may inten sify an appreciation of his world peace pro gram just as it has already caused a renewal of and an increase in military effort. 0 THAT E BOND QUO! A The Person and Roxboro E Bond quota for the Seventh War Loan, as announced Thurs day by Gordon C. Hunter, district chairman, $248,000, is the largest yet assigned to citi zens in this area, although the over-all quota of $544,000 including the E Bond quota, is not. E Bonds, or small bonds, bought how, in April, will be counted in the quota, as will E Bonds purchased during regular days of the drive, from May 14, through June 7. A furth er aid in meeting the E Bond assignment is provided for by counting all E Bonds bought during the remaining weeks of June as por tions of the quota. The task is thus, obviously, being made easier in so far as the time element is con-i cerned, but there are several factors which will mean that workers in the Seventh Loan campaign will have a harder time in reaching the goal of $248,000: schools will be closing soon after May 14; farm residents will be busy with agricultural projects and will have less time and money to give; some industrial workers will think twice before they squeeze in that requested extra bond and citizens gen erally, boosted in spirit by victories, will be thinking more about victory than about the means by which victory is won. It is just as well to be realistic, to admit that the job of the Seventh War Loan will be harder, but we should be stirred onward rath er than held back by such knowledge, for re gardless of what happens either in Washing ton or in Europe, the Japanese war task is; with us yet, and to stop now or to lessen home sion of duty. Person County and Roxboro 1 have never yet failed in a war-imposed job; they cannot afford to do so in this one of the already started Seventh War Loan. • 0 NOT TO EXPECT TOO MUCH Possibility that Roxboro can have twenty five additional small apartments, as outlined last week by State Director Jack H. Brown, of the Greensboro office of the National Housing Agency, may be taken as good news up to a certain point. The difficulty is that Roxboro probably does not have many suit able houses or buildings for such conversion policies as those outlined by Mr. Brown. An additional defect in the proposal is that Rox boro, as bad aa the housing situation already is, has at the present more than enough of make-shift apartments of the converted type. What Roxboro needs is a few really good apartments with modern convencies. If a downtown building can be taken over and adpoted to such uses the Brown proposal here will be beneficial. Otherwise, except on a basis of temporary expediency, the proposal for twenty-five conversion units has little to offer. 0 TOO MANY ARE CARELESS Person’s Selective Service Board in Thurs- I day’s Courier-Times made public request for ! additional information on the addresses of four men registered with it. No details were 1 cited in the request, but it is to be supposed J that most of the men in that particular 1 “missing" list have unintentionally failed to jkeep their Board posted as to changes of ad jdress, since there is slight reason to believe that deliberate evasion, or intentioned pur- I poses are involved. The sense of responsibility developed in men who are registered with Selective Ser vice Beards, on the average, is probably high |er now than it was at the beginning of such ; | registration, but it does no harm to say that ! the efficiency of a Board and its system de- I pends parfli on public cooperation. Selective j | Service, like OPA anil other war-born agen cies. has time and again been subjected to i criticism, chiefly because of the red-tape that! J inevitably shows up in any large govern mental agency, but in the simple matter of keeping their Boards informed of changed | addresses both the registrants and their fam ilies can contribute to a lessening of that i same red-tape atmosphere. - o——— UONGR VITI ATIONS FOR GOING AHEAD Dispatch from Raleigh sent out by the; State College extension service announces to day that advisory committees composed ot farmers have been set up in each of the one hundred counties of the State for the pur pose; of advising returning veterans who are interested in going into farming, or who are bothered by problems connected with farms! they now possess. Farmers of North Caro- 1 lina by setting up such committees are sev eral steps ahead of. say, such municipal cen ters as Roxboro, where nothing has yet been 1 done, although American Legion and civic j club leaders are at the moment saying that 1 a general advisory board for veterans should be set tip, -.Secretary of the Agriculture advisory com mittee in each county is the County Farm Agent, which places that burden here upon IT. K. Sanders. Personnel of his committee! has not yet been announced, but it is not too! soon to say that the organization of such a committee is definitely right. We congratu late the Stale's farmers for being among the first large occupational groups in the State to put an advisory program in operation. It is a program that is needed now and will be more acutely needed in the -future. WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING BANKS SELL WAR BONDS ALL THE TIME State War Finance Committee j that the 7th War Loan Drive is to start yoori and nearly everyone is doing his hit to help put it over it would be well to call attention to the part the banks of our State are performing in connection with the sale of War Bonds. Banks sell War Bonds all the time, not just during the Drives. During the Drives, how mver, t heir work is much heavier and unless one is connected with a bank or their atten tion is called to the work the banks are doing, the public has little idea of the amount of ex tra work they are doing in connection with the sale of War Bonds. The banks are only too glad to do this work, but they do deserve a good, strong “pat on the back” as there are probably very tew people who realize the amount of credit \ they merit for all their efforts in selling i Bonds. Remember, that banks do not get one jeent for doing this work. The work is very exacting also, because if an error is made in ,s uing a bond another one must be issued ’ (c;u. ' the Government does not permit an d>.. ; -m " erasure on a Bond. Ace . ; ; -r information the percent age of bonu. 1 s.nd nrocessed through banks of the State c . N" rth during the 3rd, 4th, sth and 6th War 1 jrns consti tuted approximately 75 percent ts tk ; even though the Government has a post cf-Lc in every city and town and they also sell War I Bonds. This is a record of which the banks can be justly proud and full recognition of this support has been given to hanks by the Treasury Department of Washington, D. C. The banks are doing this fine job not only to serve the nation in time of war, but also to THE COURIER-TIMES BETWEEN THE . COVERS Tri-County Librarian I.—■ 111 , Library Hours: 11:00-6:00 Please check the following sched ule for your neighborhood Book mobile Stops; Tuesday, April 17 Mrs. Arthur Burch, Payne’s Tavern 9:00 Mrs. Dixie Long, Hurdle Mills. 9:30 Whitfield Store, Bushy Fork. 10:15 Mrs. W. C. Warren, High way 49 ..., 10:45 Mrs. Walter Bowes Store, Route 2. Hurdle Mills Bushy Fork 11:15 Lcasburg School 12:30 Wednesday, April 18 Guy Clayton's Store. Olive Hill, 9:30 Mrs. M. J. Daniel, Olive Hill. 10:00 Milton School 11:00 Milton Pest Office 1^2:0-) Murphy school , 12:30 j Sempra 2:09 Cunningham School 2:30 ;Mrs. C. G. Long. Store 3:00 Mrs. Ruth Davis. Chub Lake. 3:30 Friday, April 20 I Mrs. E. F. Allen's Service Sta \ tion 9:33 | Providence School 10:00 j Charlie’s Place. Providence.. 11:0) Mrs. J. A. Wrenn. Gatewood. li:30 Pelham School 12:30 j Pelham Post Office 1:30 -Cobb School Aoa Yarborough’s Store ........ :C0 Wednesday. April 25 Cherry Grove School W:O0 M. N. Butler's store G. N. Saunder's Store |}:4s G. G. Rice's Store l£:t r ) Mrs. J. D. Gwynn lrOfl Thursday. April 28 Wilkerson Store. Ridgeville.. 9:3) Prospect Hill School 10:00 Prospect Hill Post Office.... 11:45 E. E. Carver. Corbett ........ 12:45 J. M. Baynes Store, Baynes.. 1:13 R. H. Ross, No. 2, Lion College, 2:45 I Are You Educated? Whom. then, do I call educated? First, these who manage well th circumstances which They encounter day by day and who possess a judg ment which is.accurate in meeting occasions as they arise and rarely miss the expedient course, of action; next, those who arc decent, and honorable in their intercourse With all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is unpleasant of. offensive in others, and being them selves as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as it is human! possible to be. Furthermore, those who hold their pleasures always un der control ahd arc not ir. luly ov ercome by their mi.'fortunes, bear ing up under them bravely and it a manner worthy of cur country: finally, and most important of all those who are not spoiled by their 1 successes and who do not desert their true selves, but hold their ground steadfastly as wise ahd sob erminded men, rejoicing no more in the good things which have come to them through chance than;those; which through their own nature help keep the dollar sound by contributing to the prevention of infiat ion. We can say, that the-Banks would appreciate and are entitled to this recognition from the general public. Even though the purchase of bonds takes money from deposits in Ihe banks, our bank ers whole-heartedly tirg< their depositors to The LONE RAw uER MOVE OVER, WE'RE LICKED, I 'A/AM TO //.Alt. THIS V, I'VE AIREADY SEALED THE , '7 c A MN p, i U r £ T - S —J7, Cm ‘ THE DRIVIN'J / MAIL FOR US BANCROFT.' j \ £1 AGE IS JUST LEAVING NOW.' ILLGLT ihbieALnC. tWN . TO riPDV' v 7 \ BORRY BUT-WAIT A MINUTE / | JAVJ OH, JAY/ WERE'S M SURE! IT ISN'T AS \ll IT'S AN EXCUSE TO RACE ) ryIDDAPii) r-npa nt u? "l ANOTHER LETTER FOR GOOD AS A GOVERN- J OAKHURST ANP BEAT A —^ . . _ _ , # I GOOD LUCK,) THANKS...I'LL Wy-YW-PPPIEUfJ/ I I MAILED THE 'j GOOD! WE'LL LINE OUT YOU / JAY/ t ——C NEED ITiGOME " vr —7 LETTER—ANP J TRAIL THE CR\JTERS ) OIDDAP / ) / "7/ I ON.BCh'SI r- \W / THE POST- \STA£>£ JUST Young Kilmer Writes Poems To Wife, Bert With the 36th “Texas” Division, Alsace—ls there is a poet in the World War II destined to attain 3 ; the brilliance Joyce Kilmer achiev -3 ed in his immortal World War I : poem, “Trees,”.that poet may well be Kilmer’s own son, First Lt. 5 Christopher Kilmer, 36th Division infantryman. Stepping out of the operations . room of the 143rd Infantry Regi ment, Lt. Kilmer pulled out a port folio of poetry which he had com posed, but which he had never sub -1 milled to a publisher. 1 As iie sat down and turned the ! pages, the sandy-haired, soft-spok -1 cn lieutenant refused to become eu -1 limsed about his poetry. His con -1 \ersatlon, his works, his restless 1 nature revealed a personal dislike 1 nf things either flamboyant or.con ) entional. There was something about my 1 lifer’s being a writer, that made me determined that I never should,’’ stated ,the lieutenant. “I spent a few months in Paris when I was 17 and hen it happened, I've written quits a lew things since that time.’’ r don’t believe my father has influenced my poetry,’’ he contin ued. “Dad was an idealist. I’m a crushed idealist, but I would like to become as good as my father.” Lieutenant Kilmer uses no par- j uvular form in , his composition. | The only time I work on a pattern j :• form is when I want to prac- 1 rice," he explained. In his work the lieutenant philo- i ,'bphizes about the war, people, na- 1 lure and places. But mostly he de- - votes himself to his wife, Mrs. Bert j Daniel Kilmer, of Oxford, and his ! live-year old son, Robert. : The lieutenant was born in' Sep tember of 1917 in Manhattan, New York. At the age of two months, liis father went overseas with the celebrated "Fighting 69th." Eight •months later Joyce Kilmer was kill ed in action in France. After preliminary schooling. Lt. Kilmer entered a preparatory school a Lakewood, New Jersey. "During my third year, I left," he stated, • end I’ve never' regretted it. In fact.. I got a job with the New York Times so’that I wouldn't have , to co back." With the world preparing for war, he tried to enlist in the Am erican Army. Because he had been , married, he was rejected. He also, attempted to enlist in the Cana- j !. dian and British armies without j success. Finally When he joined the 165th j L -j ■ and intelligence are theirs since I birth. • Those who have character which i is in accord, not with one of these I things, but with all of them —these, j I maintain, are educated and whole 1 men. possessed of all the vidtues of a man.—lsocrates in Panathenai i us. 436-338 B. C., quoted in Minne sota Journal of Education. • ] buy Bonds and help the War effort. Those of us to whom has been entrusted | the sale of War Bonds are most grateful and appreciative of the fact, that our bankers : have gone “all out” on this most important ! phase of our War effort, without any thought ! of credit or remuneration. Infantry of the New York National Guard, the former “Fighting 649th” once more had a Kilmer in the ranks. In 1942 he left the Irish" regiment to attend officer's can didate school at Fort Benning. ■ Leaving the United States in Oc tober, 1943, he joined the "Texas" Division January 1, 1944. Twenty three days later he was wounded , seriously in the ankle at the Rapids » River. After spending four month's 1 in the hospital, Lieutenant Kilmer . was placed on limited service and [ sent to replacement depot. 1 “It took me 63 days and 11 en dorsements to effect my re-trans -1 fer to the 36th Division,” he grln . ned. Upon his return in October of last year, he again assumed com mand of his old platoop in H Com pany. The lieutenant was then transferred to regimental headquar ters where he now serves as liason officer for the 143rd Infantry. When the situation tactical most of the time, Lieutenant Kilmer cur rently finds little leisure for writ ing. In a tender mood Lieut. Kilmer penned: IF I DIE HERE If I die here, I want my friends To take what they can use Map-case, protractor, odds and ends And my enormous shoes But send my boy my souvenirs My ribbons and my pay Tell him I’m sorry for the years That I have been away Send Bert my photograph and book, My billfold and my ring j Please, Gqd, don’t ler her feel or I Look hurt by my vanishing. MY PRAYER FOR YOU, DARLING i Dear God: please take good care of her, ■ Wherever she may be: , Watch over her and comfo-t her i And keep her safe for me. Please give her strength and cour age, God; To bear the aching pain: That she must feel for all things here, She longs to see again. Thank you, God, for love like ours That reaches over the sea; And thank you, God. for keeping us Together spiritually. Please keep her trusting, loving me Until we meet again, And tell her, every night how much j I love her, God; Amen. Received from “over there' Feb i 1.1945 SJ. MASS MEETING FOR THE NOM INATION OF MAYOR AND MEM ; BERS OF THE BOARD OF COM MISSIONERS OF ROXBORO A mass meeting of the voters of i the town of Roxboro has been cali ! ecf and will be held in the Person j County Court Room on April 19. 1945, at 8:00 o’clock P. M., for the ! nomination of a Mayor and mem bers of the Board of Commiss'caeis | of Roxboro, to be voted on at the ’ [next biennial municipal election. 1 By order of the Board of Com missioners of Roxboro. S. G. WINSTEAD, Mayor C. L. BROOKS, Cleric. April 9-16 Stanly Has Solution For Neat Shortage Albemarle, April—. Stanly county farmers and townspeople have the answer to the meat shortage and they are not Uk.e the Raleigh butch er who found himself with only a bowl of pansies in his cooling cases last Saturday afternoon. The freezer locker plant at Albe marle, which opened January 20, has all of its lockers full of food and 40,000 pounds of meat is also being cured, according to V. A. Honeycutt, assistant county agent. Plans are being made to push the meat curing up to 75,000 pounds but the labor shortage is interfering with operations. Farmers and towns people are also requesting additional lockers, and the plant capacity should be expanded from 320 to 520 lockers to fully meet the demand, according to Huneycutt. The curing facilities of the plant are being widely used by the farm ers. The plant has a curing room in which the meat can be cured sev eral different ways chemically. A smoking room is also provided for those who wish this type of treat ing the meat after it is cured. "This plant is rendering a great service to the people of our county and we are saving thousands of pounds of meat that otherwise would have been lost through poor curing methods,” Huneycutt says. HkMPd/M&e DOUBLE DUTY lIODLLABS-J SHEETROCK We have just unloaded a car of sheetrock. Send us your orders before the supply is exhausted • PAINTS We have a good stoek of 100% pure paints. The limitations on paints have been made more drastic this year There will be only a limited supply available Get Your requirements early * • • 4 «► PLYWOOD Wr have been able to secure a limited supply of plywood No priority required for this board • ROXBORO LUMBER COMPANY . “Home of Quality Lumber” MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1945 1 Workers Should Have Receipts In Security Jobs Every worker is entitled to a re ceipt for the old-age and survivors insurance taxes deducted from his pay by his employer, Nina H. Mat thews, manager of the Durham of fice of the Social Security Board serving the Person area pointed out today. The Internal Revenue Code, as amended, in the section which le lates to old-age and survivors in surance taxes, provides that “every employer shall furnish to ea'