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EDITORIAL PAGE
The COURIER-TIMES
J. W. Noell, Editor M c ’ Clayton - Advertising Manager
J. S. Merritt and Thos J. Shaw, Jr., D. R. Taylor
Associates Managing Editor
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1945
U isn’t true because the COURIER-TIMES says it but the COURIER-TIMES says it because it is true
A DIRECTIVE WHICH MAKES SENSE
Person County folks, most of whom have
had plenty of reason to think about Selec
tive Service Board measures, ought to be
pleased at the latest announcement from
Brig. Gen. J. Van B. Metts, director, to the
effect that students now in high school are
not to be called up until they have gradu
ated from high school. Suggestion from the
General is that such calls will be or should
be delayed until the registrants become
twenty years of age.
Only rub in the proposition is that stu
dents who are dull and fail to make the
grade or who drop out of school to go to
work, will make themselves immediately
liable to the service. But maybe that will
do what teachers and truant officers some
times cannot do. make the students pass
their work and stay in school.
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NO HOME TO COME TO
Thoughts of most of the guys in the
Ernie Pyle picture, “G. I. Joe”, which pack
ed ’em in with standing room only signs
here the first three days of the week, were
centered upon getting the job done and com
ing back home to the U. S. A. Many of the
local men who lived through just such cam
paigns in Italy or in other parts of Europe
or in the Philippines are back here now,
and more are coming every week. Yes, they
are coming back, and glad to be out, but
faced with the stark reality that they have
no places in which to live in the very towns
for which they dreamed and fought.
It is that old problem, a scarcity of
houses, we are talking about, together with
what appears to be a complete lack of build
ing supplies—at any price. Roxboro is not
the only town where houses are scarce.
Durham has just had a town meeting to
discuss the problem, and apparently has
gotten nowhere, quickly. Charlotte has is
, sued an appeal to citizens to make room for
at least a thousand more persons, and so it
goes.
Some of the returning men are fortun
ate. Their parents or their parents-in-law
had large houses when the fighters left.
They still have them and thus can squeeze
and double a bit and make room for a few
sons and extra daughters-in-law and grand
children. But some of the men who come
home have no large houses waiting. Some
have no houses at all. No apartments. And
none can be had. And none can be built.
Men who have never spent Christmas
with their new baby, the one they did not
meet until they came home, face the pro
spect of having no place to call “a home of
their own” even for that one day. Add to
that the purely business fact that finding
a job is easier than finding a house. There
are some G. I.’s in Roxboro who say they
will have to leave here because of the
housing shortage. They have or can get
jobs. They want to live here, but they
can’t. We don’t know the answer, but we
do know that Roxboro needs to keep all of
its young, energetic citizens who want to
stay. And anybody who has a house or an
apartment which can be rented or shared
will be helping some of them to stay.
All through' the mud and the rain and
the cold and the heat, and no home to come
home to. It sounds like bombed out Europe
and the devastated Philippines. It is Rox
boro and half the towns and cities of the
nation.
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IT WENT OFF
Newest fire-cracker story comes from
Greensboro where somebody threw a light
ed cracker under a skating rink. It went
off—the cracker did—and there was an
eleven thousand dollar fire, totally destroy
ing the rink. Comment made by the Greens
boro Daily News is concerned with the ser
iousness of the loss in comparison with
what the loss might have been, the hand or
leg or eye or life of a child or an adult. Add
ed thought from the News is that somehow
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in the last General Assembly there was lost
also a bill outlawing the sale of fireworks
in Guilford county.
That does not make the situation any
better in Guilford and Greensboro than it
is in Danville, Va., and Pittsylvania coun
ty, ditto, but here in Person and Roxboro,
where similar slips of the law exists, we
have no greater room for pride or for a
sense of security.
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CALL IT WISHFUL THINKING
Pronouncement from State Attorney
General Harry McMullan has it that ‘‘ln
dividual members of a school board have
no authority over teachers in the schools
or over the operation of the schools”, as
reported this week from Raleigh, where
McMullan is further quoted as saying that
the authority of school board members is
confined to the “official acts of the board
in session" and that outside of this the
“individual board members have no official
authority.”
Interesting, likewise, in connection with
school affairs is the additional declaration
from McMullan that serving as a school
committeeman constitutes double office
holding if a committeeman happens also to
be the holder of another official position.
That last ruling will of itself make for the
elimination of some committeemen, but the
statement that really stirs is the first
mentioned one relative to authority. Inten
tions of the law as cited by the Tar Heel
Attorney General are perfect, but there
can be little assurance that any board
members subversive enough to stoop to
meanrtess cannot circumvent the law when
they have a mind to.
We will not say that Person County or
Roxboro have at any time had mean and
self-seeking school board members, but we
know from experience that what passes as
official business by many a board or com
mittee interested in public Causes is Work
ed up jnore often than not outside of any
formal session and can at times be twisted
to personal desires by any one particularly
energetic or mean-spirited member. And
besides, its a rare law or ruling which does
not indicate prior violation of the spirit or
the fact which the law aims to protect.
Formality of law unfortunately offers
no full and complete protection to teach
ers from those occasional meddlers and
self-pushers who stoop to small politics on
school boards.
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CARE IN GIVING AID
The civil war in China, for that is what
it is, is more serious than the average back
home American thinks it is. For new evi
dence of the more than tacit support being
given by the United States government to
the established Chinese government and
against the communists there, we need on
ly to cite the story which appeared Tues
day afternoon relative to the reported call
ing in of American planes from Burma and
India to be sent to China, and already, ac
cording to the report at the cost of Ameri
can lives in crashes due to weather condi
tions.
More obvious to America'ns is the fact
that American intervention in China, right
ly or wrongly, is the cause of a state of ten
sion in our relations with Russia. Also a
part of the unsettled picture in Asia is the
matter of the Dutch and the Indonese in
Java and other Dutch possessions, where
the British also have interests and where
the Dutch and the British have not had
scruples against using Japs against the re
volting Indonese. But what we in America
need to see more clearly is that Japan out
of all the nations in Asia is about the only
one now at peace.
Irony of the situation is that peace in
Japan is being maintained by American
arms, but it will be far more serious if we
of the United States by well intended but
overt acts of assistance to China and to
the Dutch and the British shall again be
come involved in a large scaled war. To do
that before the terms of settlement of
World War II are made, would be just about
like an arrival at that kind of tiger clawing
amongst former friends that Hitler would
most have relished.
The Chinese powder keg and the one in
Java can by a few carelessly handled diplo
matic moves be turned into bloodshed over
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again for all of us. Tbftf iis how serious the
situation is.
THE ADVENT
This coming Sunday, December 2, on
many church calendars marks the begin
ning of the Advent season heralding the
birth of Christ, the Prince of Peace. Ad-
OPEn FORUffl
Roxboro, N. C.
November 28, 1945
Editors.
Courier-Times
Roxboro. N. C.
Dear Sirs:
Have just been reading the
Courier-Times, issue of November 22,
in which the Gift Suggestion for
Camp Butner Hospital patients was
listed.
The suggestion was pretty good
and I think our town and county is
always ready to lend a helping hand
to every worthy cause.
Our motto should always be to
help build life, not tear down or give
gifts that might be the means of i
destroying what could be built into
a beautiful life.
My heart goes out to those men
in the hospitals, and I feel like if
there is any soul who really knows
what hell is like, it is the boys who
fought the battles of this war. We
should and do appreciate these men.
Let us prove to them we do by
sending the gifts we want given to
j our own son.
| Don't send him a gift that 4 will
lead to a worse life. He don’t need
dice or gambling cards, but some
thing that will inspire to higher
nobler life in every day living, I cer
tainly don't want my son to have a
deck of gambling cards or a set of
dice. They will not build souls into
God's kingdom, neither do they stand
for / joy and happiness when used
by well persons’ What benent could
they be to a hospital patient?
I have not written this tef offend j
one soul or to start an argument;
but we as a nation, a people? have
so much to thank God for. and
prove to the whole world we are
thankful, we must help each one
the way that will please ans glorify
|our Heavenly Father most.' •
So send our soldiers in hospitals |
in service over this old world, gifts
that will give peace and comfort.
Something to build a worthwhile
life. I have been a iiospital patientj
j seven times what I needed was God.
Mrs. J. T. Yaiblaugh.
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CHRISTMAS SEALS
Roxboro, N. C.
November 19, 1945
Editors,
| Courier-Time*.
| Roxboro. N. C.
j Dear Sirs :
We Must Fight On—to • rid our ;
; country of tuberculosis and the at-1
tendant hardships and suffering;
| caused by it: to preserve the health
H of our Nation that the fruits of vie-j
tory abroad may not be lost at home. I
Your Tuberculosis Fund Commit-j
| tee is doing its utmost with the ]
(funds made available through your;
! purchase of Christmas Seals each!
I year to stamp out tuberculosis in |
Person County and to do its part as
j a unit in a nationwide program of i
I health education generally.
| The Roxboro Kiwanis Club Is j
LEGAL NOTICE
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NOTICE EXECUTORSHIP
j Having been qualified as executor i
|of the estate of R. A. Bullock, de- j
| ceased, notice is hereby given to all
I creditors of the estate to present j
j their claims to the undersigned exe- ,
i cutor within twelve months from the 1
: Bth day of November, 1945, or this
j notice will be pleaded in bar of their j
! recovery. Persons indebted to the es- J
| tate will please , make immediate
| payment.
j This Nov. Bth. 1945.
Landon C. Bradshcr, Executor
R. P. Burns, Atty.
Nov. 8-15-22-29, Dec. 6, 13
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
Having been duly qualified as ad
ministratrix of the estate of Miss
Margaret Williams, deceased, 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 payments.
This October 27, 1945.
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Duncan,
Administratrix.
Nov. 1,8, 15, 22, 29, Dec. 6,pd.
NORTH, CAROLINA,
PERSON COUNTY. »
IN THE SUPERIOR COfRT
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 .separatin', And
vent, like Lent, is a time of spiritual pre
paration, of remembrance. Poets have sung
their sweetest songs about the mystery of
the coming, the grand climax of which is
Christmas and which this year ought to
mean so much. What it does mean, how
ever, will depend in great measure on how
the season is prepared for in the heart and
soul.
sponsoring the Christmas Seal Sale
J this year; won’t you help in this
1 fight by purchasing and using
Christmas Seals? They are SI.OO per
sheet. We hope you will buy them
both for every dollar you pay goes
. one hundred per cent for the fight
against tuberculosis. We have no
other source of income, so please
be as generous as you can.
Yours for better health,
Jack Strum, Chairman
? Tuberculosis Fund Cam.
Make checks payable to Miss Dor
[• othy Taylor.
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ELLEN GLASGOW
1
5 Her life was a “sheltered” one but
1 : her work, most of which dealt with
I the South, did not shirk reality. It
> was not strident but neither was it
, inundated with sweetness and the
f light that never was on sea or land
j after the literary fashion in which
she grew up. She dealt realistically
, and critically with the problems of
her time and place, but above all
, she hewed to the line of the true
, novelist and depicted people with
. irnoy, clarity, sympathy and com
prehension. Her work would fall
somewhere between the Thomas
, Nelson Page never-never-land-of
the-South school and the Falkner-
Caldwell hectic hall of horrors.
No less significant in American
literature is the sustained quality of
her work over a long period. Her
first novel was written approximate
ly 50 years ago; her last books were
her best. This is in sharp contrast
i with the work of most of our novel
ists which generally starts off in a
blaze of glory and winds up in a
quagmire of triviality. Why this is
so we do not know, but if the cause
j and cure for it could be found, it
would be of inestimable benefit to
American letters and life. At any
rate Ellen Glasgow showed that lit
erally deterioration is not imposed
by fate or necessity on the artist in
the United States but that it is quite
possible for him to grow in compre
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
itiff 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.
EXECUTRIX NOTICE
Having been duly* qualified as
executrix of the estate of Monroe
Cash, deceased, late of Person Coun
jty. North Carolina, this is to noti
i fy all holders of claims against the
| said estate to exhibit them to the
, undersigned executrix on or before
; November 29, 1946, or this notice
: will be pleaded in bar of their re
| covery. AH persons indebted to this
estate will please make immediate
j payments.
j This the 29th day of Ncovembc”,
1945.
Mrs. Lou A. Cush
Executrix
Lunsford & Burke. Attys.
Nov, 29, Dec. 6, 13, 20, 27, Jan. 3
NORTH CAROLINA,
i 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 tlie superior court of Person
County. North Carolina, to 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. C., within
twenty days after the 29th day of
November, 1945, and answer or de
mur to the complaint in said action,
or the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in!
said complaint.
Date this the 6th day of November,
1945.
A. M. BURNS, JR.,
Clerk of the Superior Court.
Nov. 8-15-22-29.
EXECUTRIX NOTICE
Having been duly qualified as ex
ecutrix of the estate of Sam C.
Blackwell, deceased, late of Per
son County, North* Carolina, this is
to notify all holders of claims
against the said estate to exhibit
them to the undersigned executrix
on or before November 21, 1946, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebt
ed to this estate will please make
immediate payment.
This the 21st day of November,
1945.
MARY BLACKWELL, Executrix.
F. O. Carveaf Attorney.
Nov 22-29, Dec 6-13-20-27.
hension with the years. It may be
worth our while to consider how she
accomplished this feat, for it is one
which should be normal rather than
rare in any sound soceity.—Greens
boro Daily News.
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Fireworks Set
Rink Ablaze
Greensboro.—City Manager Henry
A. Yancey yesterday called attention
to the city’s ordinance against dis
charging fireworks following reports
that the approaching holiday sea
son had already been heralded by
the discharge of explosives in many
sections of the city.
Yancey said the fireworks haz
ard had been underscored over the
week-end with the destruction by
fire of a skating rink near the city
which was reportedly ignited when
someone tossed a lighted firecrack
er beneath the rink. Police will
make arrests inside the city for the
offense, he promised, although he
said it would be virtually impossible
to eliminate the practice entirely
because firecrackers may be sold
outside the city limits.
City police arrested six youths j
over the week-end on charges of
shooting off fireworks.
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with your increased use of electric
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