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PAGE TWO ;m COURIER-TIMES . t Hoxboro, North Carolina PUBLISHED MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY Courtar-TIUM Publishing Company Tba Roxboro Courier Established 1881 The Par»on County Tlmaa Established IMP J. W. Noell Editor J. 8. Merritt and Tboe. 3. Shaw, 3t Associates M. C. Clayton Adv. Manager D. R. Taylor. In Service With U. 8. Navy 1 year, Out of State $3.00 1 year sa.so 8 months $1.40 3 months .7$ ADVERTISING RATES Display Ads, 4$ 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, JULY 23, 1945 It Isn't true because the COURIER-TIMES says It, but the COURIER-TIMES says It because It is true % * NO ENVIABLE RECORD Some three to four witnesses are expected to testify here on Tuesday in Person Record er’s Court that Rosa Vinson, Negro woman, who was killed here Thursday when struck by an automobile, met her death because she walked directly into the path of the automo bile. Evidence is, as we understand it, that the woman was walking on the wrong side of the street or highway, i. e., that she and the automobile were both going in the same direction and that she by walking ahead of it, could not see it without turning around to look. That last fact in itself may explain why the Vinson woman by stepping slightly out of line in order to wave at friends, placed herself in the pathway of the oncoming car, but with all the explaining that can be done and with the assumption that the driver of the car was going at a moderate rate and ex ercising all possible precautions, the record still stands that Person County this year has already had two traffic fatalities, and that both fatalities have apparently been due to the carelessness of pedestrians. We do not say that drivers are not some times at fault. They frequently are, but the obligation for safety is no less clearly upon the walking as well as the riding and driving public. The year is scarcely half gone, and we in Person County, with a comparatively small population and considerably less motor traffic ought to be careful on all sides ta see to it that there are no more traffic deaths here this year. We have no reason at all to he proud of our present score. o GOING FORWARD FROM WHERE WE ARE Person’s Farm Agent H. K. Sanders, who belongs to no civic club, nevertheless, does right well whenever he has an opportunity to speak at one, as was forcefully demon strated by him Thursday at Roxboro Rotary club, where he suggested County and City improvements calculated to be of help to farm cit ;tbat matter, other civic leaders l|iiß| \ spr foretimes about the need for more rural telephones, bet ter blooded livestock and a rest and recrea tion center for farm women, but few, if any, speakers have put the drama of progress, more forcefully than Mr. Sanders, who has! thrown out to Rotarians and to all other in- ! terested and aggressive citizens a challenge j to move forward from where they, and we, I stand. Mentioning many things, better milk pro-j duction. the war memorial hosiptal and the | freezer-locker, among them, in addition to the telephones and the rest center, Mr. Sanders drew upon the past to illustrate the advancements of the present and his hopes for the future. By pointing out that fifty years ago there was no public health service in North Carolina, that there were no screens to windows to keep out flies, no malaria con trol programs, no telephnes, no electric lights and few hospitals, let alone planned farm programs or registered cattle, he recreated for his hearers the startling differences be tween the world into which many of them were born and the one in which they now live. Progress? Yes, that is what Mr. Sanders calls all of these changes. But he is just as sure that we are obligated to make and to take improvements over the next half-cent ury and he wants us to get ready now for that job, not for ourselves alone, but for the sake of young men and women and boys and girls who are coming after us. We have the challenge. It i* up to us. | o <# PLAIN DUTY, PLAINLY PUT ! From the country correspondence files of pur oyer-the-Une neighbor the Halifax Ga- zette, published in Sotteh-iioetew/' this item: “It occurs to me that I omitted to mention the very nice, hospitable call on the 4th of July of Mr. Howard Hite and his accomplish ed wife of Baltimore, Md. He's an official in a tobacco company up there, a son of the late Reuben Hite, of near Red Bank. He married a Pennsylvania lady of rare charm and beau ty. We are proud to have them among our acqusintenances and call them friends. They have no children, 1 am sorry to state. Ones, so capable and finely educated, are the ones to raise children for the future, I have al ways said. And this capable couple are so abundantly qualified.” The item, as quoted has a fine, intimate flavor, with a bold mixture of compliment, but it is a puzzle to us how such an accom plished lady, of such rare charm and beauty, to say nothing of her husband, who presum ably is from one of Virginia’s good families, must feel about those last lines of comment about their childless s.tate. There, is a great deal of truth in the correspondent’s observa tion that couples financially able to have children should, but this singling out of a particular instance of childlessness seems to j us rather crude. It definitely defeats the I bouquets of other types so lavishly thrown I in and the whole item illustrates perfectly the | dangers of over-statement to which country j correspondents are so peculiarly addicted. There is lots less of color in saying that Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hite, of Baltimore, spent the day with Mr. John Smith-Jones. but the simple statement is much safer and closer to the truth. The use of one surplus descriptive term calls for another and yet an other. The trap is big and there are many who fall into it. o •• • . ; .. THE SAD BUSINESS OF BEING HAPPY Many people do not like hill-billy music. Many, and probably more. do. as witness the j crowd which attended a square dance here the other night in which this music was fea tured. In the routines of such dances and such music some social historians profess to see the exhibition of what they are pleased i to call genuinely American folk-ways, but j there are other implications, too, as we ob- 1 served in the place about an hour before the' I music started. The scene involved three booths holding four persons each, all the couples sitting s gravely and silently, waiting for the music s to begin in the adjoining dance-hall. The i couples were not in the first bloom of youth, 1 not old, either, which may explain why they j were so seriously solemn in their anticipation < of a good time a coming. One man, in a booth j up towards the front propped his arms side- ( wise on the table and made a cup of his < hands to hold his head up. He was not intoxi- 1 cated by either spirits or pleasure. Just bor- ( ed, would have been a good descriptive. On i the other side of the same table sat a woman, 1 presumably the man’s wife. With her was 11 another woman. Both stared straight in front; of them, as did a third woman seated by the | man. Nobody spoke. Musicians who were to play, filed past. They had big hats, a jug, a fiddle or two and some other typical back-country instruments. They walked proudly. They were artistjs and ■ well-paid in the business of providing pleas- 1 ure. But the older folks in those three booths , paid no attention. Not until the music start- i ed did they rise up with any facial animation. When the music began they put on the masks ! of pleasure and became as animated as the! really young people of seventeen and eijrh-j teen who filled the other booths. The sad business of being happy sometimes i causes a lot of strain and is to our way of 1 thinking somewhat of an illustration of the | complexities of civilization. o WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT AS SORRY A STATE Danville Register, Why is it necessary whenever Virginia has an orderly election, that one side or the other feels compelled to villify the state in the ef fort to obtain a political advantage? There are politicians out in the open with what they t r rm a resounding platform, who promise everything in that platform on this insistence that the Oi! Dominion is about as sorry a state as to be fam i anywhere in the union, that it is lagging behind almost alii of the other states in suffrage, cducatl :i, health welfare and crime prevention. That is a pretty heavy sock in the eye cf the state we all Jove so well and in which we still prefer to live. What the critics ought to do is to move in to some other state where they might be happier, and where.they can run Berserk in intemperate statements. It ia not a very inspiring spectacle brand- THE COURIER-TIME^ ‘■iwf»<4)ie«etat«uwh4eh'-has made such a-eontri bution to America’s ciivilization as the orig inal stamping ground of po’ whites, knaves, gangsters and morons. o THE COST IS FIVE DOLLARS Christian Science Monitor. Those quaint and interesting Government bureaus at Washington are always pulling pleasant little surprises on us taxpayers. Sometimes they’re entertaining, sometimes not. The latest is Daniel Manning. The first question you’ll naturally ask is, who in the heliocentric universe is Daniel Manning? Well, he’s the fellow whose picture is on the Federal auto tax stamp you so un willingly laid out $5 for at the post office around July 1. Well, even so, that doesn’t tell who he is; so you have to look him up. Thus, children, we find that our Uncle Sam has our best interest at heart, for he wants us to know things. Don’t Wear Papa’s Shirts To Work Raleigh. July 23.—The current fad among teen-age and college girls of wearing men's shirts may literally take the shirt off dad’s back during the present apparel shortage, according to Ruth Cur rent. state home demonstration agent of the State College Exten sion Service. “As most men will verify," Miss Current said, “only a limited num ber of shirts are available in cloth ing stores, and housewives are learning the urgent necessity of preserving those on hand by turn ing collars and doing other repair work. Daughters who wear shirts belonging to men in the family are only adding to the shortage. “Men's shirts are not suitable for girls doing farm work this sum mer. Such use not only may wear out these much-needed garments, but they also represent a serious accident hazard. The long sleeves and cuffs—and the tails hanging o"Ut—are very likely to catch on fences and fast-moving farm ma- ' chinery. “Moreover, shirts borrowed from , fathers and brothers usually do j not fit well and are. therefore, uncomfortable." o One For The Saint There is a saying: "If it rains on St. Swithin's day 'July 15), there will rain for forty days." St. Swith in's day fell on Sunday of this week, and a whole lot of rain fen that daj too. The legend is that St. Swithin, Bishop of Winchester (England), who died in 862, desired to be buried in the church-yard, so that the “sweet rain of Heaven might fall upon his grave." When he was pro claimed a saint, the monks decided to honor him by removing his bofly into the church, and fixed July 15th for the ceremony; but it rained day after day for- forty days, so that the monks saw the saints were opposed to their project, and wisely abandon ed it.—Halifax, Va., Gazette. o— British Women Line Up Ready To Come To U. S. London. July—British wives and sweethearts of American servicemen are inquiring ait the rate’ Os hund reds a day at the United States embassy about the quickest way to get to the United States. The diplomats estimated there are about 60,000 such women. The adjutant general's office an nounced today that the backlog of wives approved for transport to the 'United States and waiting for boat I space had increased from 4,000 to 9,000 in the last few weeks. | Some of London's longest queues I wait for information. Some of tlie women are accompanied by hus bands or parents, some carry ba bies. The desk of Terry B. Sand . ers, Jr., vice consul in charge of visas, is piled with letters and cables from troops and families In the United States wondering why daughters in law have not arrived. “The only thing holding them up is transportation," Sanders said. “We can't do anything about that. It is an army problem.” o DAME OF SARK Add oddities of war. The Ameri can army of liberation in Germany has liberated the only American who is the husband of an absolute ruler. He Is John Hathaway, husband ol the lady who is called Dame of Sark and who as a liege of His Grace George, Duke of Normandy— King George VI elsewhere—rules the fief of Sark. It's one of the channel islands recently rescued ■from the nazis. ) To what extent John is a subject rs his wife while also an American, :< a problem of feudal law that must I .’.fHc fie antiquarians.—Chicago - ally Ns-tu. ANTI-CLIMAX Ashland, Mass—lt took all the bells and whistles In tov.n t j round up a quorum for the town meeting here recently. When the quorum was reached after several hours ef fort, the meeting passed-two bills— foi the extension of water mains. - Well, Daniel Mannmjtrwr reallyy truly, Horatio Algier hero, a newspaper offiee boy who rose to become that newspaper’s proprietor. The paper was the Albany Atlas, later the Argus. “Mr. Manning,” says t>ne of his biographers, “studied politics as a fine art.” Anyhow, he fought the Tweed ring and was the right-hand man of Samuel J. Tilden, whom he helped elect Governor of New York and President of the United States—only he never got to the White House. (That, chil dren, is another story.) And why is this great and good Demo crat’s picture on the pretty green stamp? Well, Mr. Manning helped another New Yorker run for President, and this time he really got there. President Cleveland made the Albany editor his first Secretary of the Treasury. The Treasury gets the money lor the stamp; so it has the say as to whose pic ture shall adorn it. So, children, we learn history at a cost of only $5. Cow Up Against Nature When It Comes To Milk By Thompson Greenwood. Editor N. C. Department of Agriculture Raleigh. July 15. —Nature intend ed the cow to produce only enough milk in a year to raise one calf— and nature put into that milk just enough substances to keep that one calf healthy and growing. But in these days of a unprecedented de mand for milk we are insisting that the cow produce many times as much milk as a single calf could consume. But nature has not stepped up the content of vital ele ments in the milk in proportion to today's increased volume output. Dr. L. J. Faulhaber, veterinarian with the State Department of Agricul ture. believes this is one of the big reasons for the large numbers of poor, sickly, unthrifty calves which die at an early age, or grow up into poor quality cows. The quality of food which the calf and its mother get has a lot to do with protecting the calf against various diseases. “We are now recommending care iully balanced feeding of the breed ing herd, especially during the dry period.'' says Dr. Faulhaber, adding that “we are urging that cows heavily pregnant should receive adequate amounts of the best hay available, a laxative grain mixture, plenty of mineral, plus sunlight, fresh air and water.” Even when the cow has been prcperly fed, according to Dr. Faul haber, there are bound to be nutri tional deficiencies in the calf—be cause these deficiencies are present at birth—and there are also others which develop in a few days. For in stance, the newborn calf is lacking in the protein globulins which help keep the animal immune to disease germs. There is also a shortage of Vitamin A, and of several other im portant items. In pointing to the significance of the various vitamins. Dr. Faulhaber declares that if a calf is deficient in Vitamin A, it will develop weepy eyes, head cold, a cough, and scours. By maintaining a high vitamin bal ajiqe in cjtlf rations during an out break of scotirs, the death losses can be greatly reduced. Vitamin B is important, too —be- cause lack of it produces lack of tone, congestion in the mucous membranes, and poor digestion, Ab sorbic acid also plays a vital part in the calf's health—particularly in guarding the mucous membranes against infections. That is why a number of veterinarians now recom mend feeding absorbic acid for the first 10 days after the calf is born. Lack of Vitamin D, Dr. Faulhaber has found, results in rickets and stiff, swollen joints. “Where farmers have had trouble with a large proportion of their calvqs for a number of years, pro tective feeding as a preventive measure can often be very helpful," asserts Dr. Faulhaber, and he illu strates his point with the following incident; With respect to the value of Vita min A, a test was made with a cer tain Guernsey herd of 80 cows which had succeeded in raising an average of only about 40 calves per year—despite the use of calf scour powders and other measures. Before Vitamin A treatment was begun, seven calves had already been bom —but all the rest of the calves were given regular doses of Vitamin A right from the start. These Vitamin A calves kept their hair smooth, bowels regular, and maintained good growth—while the seven that did not have this kind of help at the start, did not do nearly as well. In the spring, this Guernsey herd had 74 fine calves in the barn, in stead of the 40 eelves of the previous year. The following season, the new crop of calves was given the Vita min A treatment again—in the whole herd, only six calves showed signs of scours. Dr. Faulhaber does not recom mend Mind use of supplemental vitamins for newborn calves, for every cirounutaoos ie different. The Chiang Says China Can Clean-Up Without Americans Chungking, July 22.—1 n the first interview he ever granted an Amer ican soldier, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told Sgt. Walter E. Peters of Yank magazine that he believed a huge American land offensive in China would not be necessary to defeat Japan. “Given proper equipment and supplies, the Chinese army—togeth er with a strong American air force —can defeat the Japanese on the continent." Peters quoted the gen eralissimo as saying. His dispatch cleared Chinese censorship today. Peters, a recent luncheon guest of the generalissimo at the latter’s summer home south of Chungking, wrote that he told Chiang there was an impression among Americans in China that Chiang had said one Chinese soldier was equal to three Americans. “It is an erroneous impression,” Peters quoted Chiang as declaring. “The United States soldier is much better equipped. I hold much ad miration for the great accomplish ments of the American soldiers. “The point I wanted to bring out was that where it takes $lO for one United States soldier, only $1 is necessary for ours. "We must remember the Chinese soldier is fighting in his own home land. He knows the topography better than anyone else. He is more suitable to the climate and condi tions of fighting. To send United States troops where we cap em ploy Chinese troops is not very log ical. It would be a big strain on the line of communications.” Poulfrymen Told To Watch Out For Bronchitis | Poultry producers in Wake and other counties of North Carolina have reported the outbreak of bron chitis in their flocks of growing pullets, say specialists of the State College Extension Service. The disease is usually caused by the lack of ventilation and by the overcrowding of the birds into the poultry houses, and Extension speci alists point out that it is advisable for poultrymen to open up their poultry houses the hot summer months and provide all the fresh air possible for the growing chick ens. j George W. Wright of Raleigh, l Route 2, discovered that his leghorn i pullets caught colds, which later settled in the bronchial tubes caus ing bronchitis. The reason for the disturbance was the fact that the pullets became too warm during a certain night because of the lack of ventilation. Wright said. The Raleigh poultryman went to work immediately to remove the causes of the disease, and fortunate ly he did not lose any of his birds. Wright has found that the spray ing of an inhalent over the heads of the chickens at night has aided a great, Ceal in relieving the situa tion. State College poultry authorities suggest that farmers check their poultry houses to determine whether sufficient ventilation is provided in order to avoid excessive outbreaks of bronchitis in their flocks. Furth er information about the disease may be secured by writing to the Department of Poultry Science at State College. o 84, STRUTS HIS STUFF Bath, Me.—Edwin Emmons, of Bath, New England's oldest active drum major, belled his 84 years re cently when he led a five-mile par ade here, twirling and tossing' a baton all the way. local herd history, the type of feed ing followed, and other factors have to be taken into constfcntton. But in general, he says, anything which Results in better nutrition, as a pre ventive measure, esn be a great help toward reducing cslfhoad 1 losses. . W^LWuee r IfM CiWi)Wt MA»iT*r 1 OF THE POTATO ,M V ttOPOLAR RECORDS INSTB9P OF DOT- Wfl6 —IK* OB » A DASH WOW MARK THE WOO I S ML ARE GOlNto tol for : '" A I HHr * COLOR CONDITIONING " WHICH i|L|t4p I xi kW\ Mi PROTECTS WORKERS FROM E/E GTRAtfJ, . wFwovfs ' cool m MfL'E*KDIPB?EP NAME* OF 1500 L05 .1,? F -5, 3 , C ,° 4 Wry SRfIMT cotiNiy servicemen A, MILLION ;W . f* ~ \ AMR WOMEN ON A QOILT War Demands Saving 01 Paper The farm women of North Caro lina have made excellent records in the salvaging of waste fats for the war effort, and they will need to continue their patriotic efforts in this direction until the war against Japan is concluded, accord ing to Mrs. Estelle T. Smith, assist ant State home demonstration agent of the State College Extension Ser vice According to the report for May, 89,950 pounds of fat were salvaged in North Carolina, but there was a drop in collections for June, Mrs. Smith said. She pointed out that V-E day did not end the critical short ages and that housewives should guard against the waste of any fats until the need for such materials ceases. The index showing that more fat is being salvaged by the rural wo men than by the town women is not surprising in view of the meat shortage in the towns, Mrs. Smith explained. Rural women in some areas of the State are collecting the waste fats cooperatively through their community chairman and are dis posing of the material accordingly, Mrs. Smith stated. In many in stances, these women are uring the i finds from the sale of the waste fats for community projects which enhance farm life. Mrs. Smith suggests that women in other communities could render a patriotic service to their govern ment by collecting the fats and organize their efforts, pool the Roxboro Building And Loan Asso. J. C. WALKER. Secretary Sheetrock • We Have Just Received A Car Os SHEETROCK If you need this material now or will need any in the near future we would urge you to get your needs from this shipment ROXBORO LUMBER COMPANY ‘Home Os Quality Lumber" • i - c f. MONDAY, JULY 23, 1945, money made in the sales, and de vote the use of the funds to com munity improvements. "This would i be an excellent plan,” she declared. I o Adolf’s Paper Used By Soldier From This State Lenoir, July 18. —M-Sgt. Troy E. Estes, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Estes of the Upton section of Cald well county, and brother of the AAA chairman Burma C. Estes, has writ ten his family a letter on the gold embossed personal stationery of Adolf Hitler. The Caldwell soldier stated that he had been living in Hitler's apart ment in Munich and that he found ; the fancy writing paper in one of the desk drawers there. Sergeant Estes also stated In his letter that he had a small hand painted portrait of the former nazl dictator that had probably been painted right in the room where he was billeted. He also sent newspaper clippings showing the now famous atrocities of the nazi concentration camps. I The papers, printed somewhere in I Europe, are illustrated with scene, j of the cremation furnaces that art i now familiar to those who saw the ! newsreels. o TURN - ABOUT WITH, BRITISH OCCUPATION i FORCES In Germany, July 22 j (AP)—German men have eropped I the hair of several German girls for talking with British soldiers. The girls reported many newly discharged German soldiers said they had been told by their superior 1 officers to cut the hair of girls they ' tound traternizing with allied troops. 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