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EDITORIAL PAGE
THE COURIER-TIMES
J. W. NoeU, Editor .Wfe M. C- Clayton, Advertising Manager
ponb CttfOUM
J. S. Merritt and Thos J. Shaw, Jr., D - R - Taylor
Associates Managing Editor
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1945
It isn’t true because the COURIER-TIMES says it but the COURIER-TIMES says it because it is true
• OPEN HOUSE STILL NEEDED
Last night the Roxboro USO Service
Center was open to visiting service men.
It will remain open today for tne same pur
pose and will be on the regular week-end
schedule Saturday and Sunday. In thus ob
serving Thanksgiving and making a better
holiday possible for men who are away
from home the Center officials, together
with the senior and junior hostesses, are to
be commended, but there will be much in
the way of hospiality which can be done
and must be done if it is done at all, in the
homes of citizens, many of whom are hav
ing family gatherings and special dinners
so that having one or two or three soldiers
or sailors as extra guests would be no
burden.
Holidays, away from home and among
strangers, can be very lonely and there is
many a service man who would appreciate
being fed and taken into a family circle for
a day. When the war was actually going on
many civilians had it on their hearts and
minds to be thoughtful in the little social
ways to service men. The war is over, but
our soldiers are still with us, and just as
much in need of a touch of home at Thanks
giving as they were last year and the year
before that.
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• STYLE TREND BY SHORTAGE
Into one of the larger stores here which
handles clothing for men walked a return
ed from overseas veteran who had just
been discharged and had on Army tan made
more handsome by the addition of a lame
duck button less than twenty-four hours
old. A Person boy and glad to be home after
four years of service, he was not yet in
search of civilian clothes, was not even
aware of the fact that there is distinct
shortage ot masculine garments. He mere
ly wanted to shake hands with his friends,
the proprietors of the store.
But no sooner had he done that than the
talk drifted to clothes. Yes, there was a
shortage, but with a reasonable range of
selectivity in all but one item or two. There
were suits, coats, socks, in fact, everything
but shoes and shirts. And, no. they weren’t
looking for shirts, thank you, until Christ
mas. The soldier had better go on home and
see if he had a shirt or so left over from
pre-war. If not. shirts Army-style, would
bp the fashion for him. Shoes, too.
There are many young men coming home
who are finding themselves in the same
predicament as the young man just men
tioned. The stay at home civilian male* is
in the same boat and infinitely worse off
in choice of style than he was during the
war. It really isn’t a question of style any
more. It is like the food question, not what
you want, but what you can get and lots of
it in the clothing line shies away from the
ultra-conservative over into the flashy
side where color is concerned.
• REMEMBERING THE ORPHANS
Today is traditionally set aside as a day
on which to remember the orphans and the
fatherless. Underway and to be continued
here is an appeal for a non-sectarian in
stitution, the Masonic orphange at Oxford,
where at least ten Person children are now
living. The cause is worth all the efforts
being expended by the Masons: ainf their
friends and so are the calls being made to
day in the names of church supported in
stitutions within the various denomina
tions. Self-sustaining adults often enough
feel helpless in this new atomic world, but
adult insufficiency is as nothing in
comparison with the perplexity and the
distress suffered by children who lack the
sheltering walls of home and the love of
parents.
What the orphanages can do, aside
from the development of sound minds in
sound bodies —in which program there is
much excellence^—is small compared with
what can be done by loving parents, but
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remain as the best and only substitute oth
er than that of legal adoption by foster
parents. The most of us have not today the
excuse that we are too poor to help the or
phans, but if we were, we would be poorer
sill in love and affection. Children do not
ask for much and for those who are unfor
tunate there ought to be three hundred and
sixty-five days of remembrance from the
rest of us, not just one.
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• WORTHY MEMORIAL
Planned for Sunday at Oak Grove Meth
odist church is dedication of the education
building there as a memorial to the late
pastor of the church, the Rev. Francis
Boyd Peele, whose labors for the building
were cut short by his death a little over two
years ago. The education building, as we
understand it, is not a large building, nor
necessarily a fine one, but has been built
for practical service in forwarding the
work of the church school. As such a struc
ture it is a worthy memorial to a minister
who believ ed in plain and simple living and
in religion of the same calibre.
Speaker at the Oak Grove exercises is to
be a brother of the late minister, a bishop
of the church and known throughout the
South as an ecclesiastical leader, but the
man in whose honor the Oak GroVe build
ing is to be dedicated never attained such
fame in church circles. He served gladly
and with good will in smaller place and it
is fitting that his name in Person will be
permanently associated with one of those
smaller churches. All too often men leave
their work on earth and have no remem
brance save in the hearts of friends.
That a more tangible way has been di
vised to keep green the memory of its late
pastor, is a cause for thanks in the com
munity generally and quite outside the con
gregation at Oak Grove.
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• NATURALLY LESS
Chancellor J. W. Harrelson, of State col
lege, speaking the other day to a group of
teachers at Greenville, had a complaint to
make, namely, the ignorance of English
and mathematics displayed by students in
college, especially by those coming from
the state’s high schools for their first year
in college. The college with which Chan
cellor Harrelson is familar is, of course,
State college, where lack of familarity with
the two great branches of learning referred
to is no new thing and frequently is none
too well improved upon by faculty members
of the English section, albeit improvement
must be shown in mathematics, or else
would-be students fall out altogether.
English in the reading sense, thinks the
Chancellor, must be understood, not only
for itself, but because it is the basic tool
for getting at other forms of knowledge.
We feel, moreover, that English is needed
still more after college or school days are
done with, if only for the purpose of keep
ing up with and understanding the world
in which we live. Test that understanding,
for instance, in the confused, dim and vari
ed impressions gained from newspaper
items by the average reader. And consider,
too, that if the English and mathematics
of college students are weak, what must be
the deficiencies of that vastly larger group
depending solely on high school instruc
tion. or less.
It is that last group that is in the ma
jority, and comparatively inarticulate, al
though not so often thrust into positions
of leadership.
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• GOOD EXAMPLE
Good example of a returned soldier who
has adopted a new home is Capt. Wallace
L. Wright, who has chosen to remain in
Roxboro rather than to return to his native
state of California, where his folks have
lived for generations. Odd thing about it
is that Capt. Wright finds Roxboro very
civilized, conservative but in a manner
stimulating, whereas he feels thpt Cali
fornia has been ruined by an influx of
1 strangers (like us who want to go there)
and by over the border Mexicans.
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We Made It
For three years and eight months
the American people —in factories,
banks, shops and offices—worked
ceaselessly and without let-up on
the greatest job ever undertaken by
any nation in history. We were en
gaged in winning the fnost gigantic
war of all time —and it was a war
in which “Everybody” had a person
al stake. . - V ,
To win that War, we knew, would
take everything we had—and so we
gave everything. We gave our sons—
and of them gave their
lives, their hopes of ever realizing
that bright future for which they
fought. We gave our ttme; we gave
our dogged and untiring efforts, and
we wrought miracles of production.
We built the fastest plane, we forged
,the most accurate gun; we even
achieved the impossible, and split
the atom. Every wartime task to
which we set ourselves we accomp
lished. • :r- i '
“We Made It!"
Seven times during those grim
and deadly years our Government
asked our assistance in financing
the war. Each time we responded—
overwhelmingly. We exceeded every
quota. Tlie American people realiz
ed the meaning of war bonds. Amer
icas men and women from all walks
of life willingly put part of their
salary away in bonds regularly each
month, and made extra bond pur
chases during each drive.’ They knew
that every bond they bought played
a double lole—it helped achieve vic
tory in the war. and it assured a.
stable peace tomorrow.
"We Made It!"
We’ve won the victory fbr which
we ALL fought and worked and
prayed. Now let’s set ourselves, in
dividually and as a nation, to one
ultimate victorious effort. Let’s put
the Victory Loan Drive over with
the resounding bang of all.
This is the end of the line—our
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE EXECUTORSHIP
Having been qualified as executor
of the estate of R\ A. Bullock, de
ceased, notice is hereby given to all
creditors of the estate to present
their claims to the undersigned exe
cutor within twelve from the
Bth day of November, ifiiS, or this
notice will be pleaded iifratr.of their
recovery. Persons indebted to the es
tate will please make immediate
payment.
This Nov. Bth, 1945.
Landon C. Bracts her. Executor
R. P. Burns, Atty.
Nov. 8-15-22-29, Dec. 6, 13
ADMINISTRATRIX- NOTICE
i ft:
Having been duly quglifjgd as ad
ministratrix of the Miss
Margaret Williams, decease®, late of
Person County, North Carolina, this
is to notify all persons holding
claims against the said estate to
exhibit them to the undersigned ad
ministrarix on or before October 27.
1946, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery. All persons
indebted to said estate will please
make immediate paymetjdLivy.
This October 27.
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Duncan,
Administratrix.
Nov. 1,8, 15, 22, 29, D6a fiepd.
NORTH, CAROLINA.
PERSON COUNTY.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
Albert Lunsford
vs.
Annie Evans Lunsford
Notice Serving Summons By
Publication.
The defendant Annie Evans Luns
ford; will take notice that an action
entitled as above has been com
menced in the superior court of Per
son County, North Carolina, to ob
tain an absolute divorce on the
grounds of two year separation; and
that the said defendant will further
take notice that she is required to
appear at the office of the clerk of
the superior court of said county in
the courthouse in Roxboro, N. C.,
within twenty days after the 29th
day of November, 1945. or the plain
tiff will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in said complaint.
Dated this the 6th day of Novem
ber, 1945.
A. M. BURNS, JR..
Clerk of the Superior Court.
Nov. 8-15-22-29.
NORTH, CAROLINA,
PERSON COUNTY.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
Lillian Green Jackson
vs.
George Jackson
Notice Serving Summons by
Publication.
The defendant George Jackson
will take notice that an action en
titled as above has been commenced
in the superior court of Person
County, North Carolina, -icj obtain
an absolute divorce on the grounds
of two year separation; and the said
defendant will further- take notice
that he is required to appear at the
office of the clerk of the superior
court of said county in the court
house in Roxboro, N. ' Cjf \ within
twenty days after thefjjßytf day of
November, 1945, and answer or de
mur to the complaint in said action,
or the plaintiff will to the
court for the relief demanded in
said complaint.
Date this the 6th day of November,
1945. k
A. M. BURNS, 'JR?;
Clerk of the Superior Court.
Nov. 8-15-22-29. ..WM*-. •
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LAST chance to show that a united
People can go all-oui after Victory,
just as they did in the days when
Victory was something remote and
shining, like a star.
You can’t turn the clock back.
There's no return trip on the road
to progress. A world grown accus
tomed td jet-propelled planes isn’t
going tp travel in a covered wagon.
All the gpod things we’ve learned in
the bitter school of war—the gains
we've made in medicine, the strides
we’ve taken in science—will be con
solidated and augmented during the
years to come.
All of us no matter where we live
or what we do, have some bright
particular postwar star to which
we've hitched our wagons turing the
long war years. It may be a home
of our own. or a college education
for the youngsters. It may be the
accumulation of enough money to
finance a business, or to guarantee
security in old age.
But no matter what form our
postwar dreams may take, "Now Is
The Time” to help them get off to
a flying start.
"Now Is The Time" —during the
great Victory Loan Drive. “Now”--
when the triumphant spirit is still so
strong in towns and cities every
where.
America’s, banks can play a vital
role in achieving the success of the
Victory Loan Drive. They can bring
to the millions of America's men
and women the importance of “Fin
ishing’’ the job which still remains.
They can point out that now, “More
Than Ever." the victory our fight
ing men have won must be guaran-
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What Started
Thanksgiving
But for the untiring efforts of
one woman, it is possible that there
would be no national celebration of
Thanksgiving each year. That wo
man. the mother of Thanksgiving
ns we now celebrate it, was Mrs.
Sarah J. Hale. As far back as
1827 Mrs. Hale was urging the an
nual observance of a uniform day
throughout the country for the ex
pression of thanks for the bless
ings of the year.
For 36 years Mrs. Hale wrote
editorials and letters in an effort
to create public sentiment in favor
of a national celebration. In 1863,
her efforts were finally rewarded
when President Lincoln issued the
first national Thanksgiving Procla
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In 1789, President George Wash- t
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And in 1815, President Madison t
had set a day to give thanks for
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brated it for years. (
In recent years, President Roose- .
velt, at the request of business or
ganizations, moved the celebration
up one week to permit more time
for Christmas shopping.
President Truman has followed
the precedent of his predecessor,
and has proclaimed Thursday, No
vember 22 as Thanksgiving, instead
of November 29. t
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For Farm Aid
Raleigh. More than $6,000,000 is
now available for the 1946 agricul
tural conservation program to aid
in the reconversion of North Caro
lina farmland to meet the demands
of peace, G. T. Scott, state director
of the production and marketing
administration, said today.
"The remarkable farm war record
was not accomplished without loss
to the soil.” Scott said, “and now,
with the war over, this state is again
faced with a tremendous job. The
success with which this job is done
will determine the state's agricul
tural welfare for years to come.”
The 1946 ACP program, he said, j
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