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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Tri-County Librarian
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, 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
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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
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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.
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DOUBLE DUTY
lIODLLABS-J
SHEETROCK
We have just unloaded a car of sheetrock. Send us your orders
before the supply is exhausted
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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
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PLYWOOD
Wr have been able to secure a limited supply of plywood
No priority required for this board
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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<jh of
his employees a written statement
or statement, in a form suitable fqi
retention by the employee, showing
the wages paid by him to the em
ployee after December 31, 1939. ’
This specifies that the statement
shall be furnished at least once n
year, and in every instance when
the employee leaves the employ
ment, no matter what the reason,
it must be furnished at the time of
the last payment of wages. Tire
statement must show the name cf
the employer, the name of the em
ployee, the period covered by the
statement, the total amount of
wages paid within the period, and
the amount of the old-age and sur
vivors insurance tax deducted. In
case the employer gives the worker
such a statement with each pay
ment of wages, he may substitute
the date of the payment for ths
period covered. _
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