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PAGE TWO The Courier-Times Roxboro, North Carolina PUBLISHED 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 T. J. Shaw, i-A. Jr., Associates M. c. Clayton, Advertising Mgr. #1 Year 52.50; 6 Months $1.40 3 Months 75c, Out of State 1 Yr $3.00 Member Os Audit Bureau Os Circulation ADVERTISING RATES: Display Ads, 49c Per Inch; Reading Notices, XOc 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, FEBRUARY 18, 1946 • WHY WE ARE THE WAY WE ARE Huge chunks of public discussion in the South probably will be aroused by that Collier’s magazine editorial which gives to Gov. Cherry belated but full praise for handling a race relations case. Barb of the editorial lies in the uncomfortable parallel of what the Governor of Florida did not do in an event which culminated in a lynching, but the real answer as to why the. North Carolina attitude is different and more progressive, although it is indicated in the Collier’s comment, comes from another source, the “Under the Dome" column of the News and Observer, which passes in re view the appearance in Raleigh oi Senator J. W. Fulbright. * Says the "Dome'’— “Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas, who spoke at the annual banquet of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce on Wednes day night, prefaced his address with ful some praise of North Carolina. He cited the State as the most ‘progressive State in the South.’ and said that it constituted a pattern for other Southern States. “Stating that he often wondered how North Carolina managed to be so progress ive, the Arkansas senator attributed the State’s progressiveness to its system of public education which hleped to arouse the people's interest in government and the problems of government.” Education, and an interest in govern ment and its problems, which as often as not are social and moral as well as economic, that, says Sen. Fulbright, seems to be the answer, and perhaps, it is, for we in North Carolina were not shocked but pleased with what Gov. Cherry did in the case referred to in Collier’s and we accorded him a long time ago public praise for the same. Only thing is that the Fulbright analysis ought to make us feel humble in recognition of how much more remains to be done under a good but still improvable spreading out of interest in both education and govern ment. Leaders in anything have a responsibili ty, and this is true no less of States than it is of individuals, as it would seem to be plainly indicated not only in Florida, but in Washington, where it becomes all too plain that statesmanship is being confused in partizanship having too little to do with good government, let alone education. o • THE GEM IS NOT THE SPANGLE One of the selections played the other night by Roxboro High School band was “Americade", a medley of patriotic tunes, including “Columbia, Gem of the Ocean’’, a stirring early American song now little heard outside the public schools. The audi ence was seated when the number began. Pretty soon everybody was standing up, evidently under the mistaken notion that the “Star Spangled Banner" was being per formed. That is the only explanation which can be made for an unexpected audience reaction. There is, so far as we know, no law re quiring citizens to stand when tfie National Anthem is being played. It is a custom, however, and a good one, hut it is a serious raflection on public unfamiliarity with the Francis Scott Key song if and when an au dience confuses his composition with that of the lesser composer-poet, F. Hopkinson Smith. o • RATHER DIFFICULT Certain Roxboro sportsmen, gentlemen known to be addicted to hunting and fish ing, have teen receiving from the State De partment of Conservation and Development questionaire cards relating to estimated average and actual figures as to kills made during the past season. Listed on the card are many of the hunted animals, but chief interest here centers upon quail and rabbit. We can Me how the sportsmen might.be able to ray whether their season had been V; : ”: above or below average, or fair to middling, but it seems unreasonable to expect them to recall tlTe exact number of quail or rab v bits slaughtered during the season. With such large animals as deer it might be different. The information wanted may be useful from the st andpoftit of license checking and conservation, but there are lots of sports men here who could be as bothered about that card as they are about their income tax reports if they really wanted to be con scientious. o j • A TREE THAT GREW FROM BROOKLYN From Asheboro comes the story that j Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Stedman, of that City, on Thursday gave a memorial concert in honor of Mrs. Stedman’s mother, the late Mrs. Will Moring. Aim of the concert, the first of a series of two such events, was (and is) to perpetuate “an art in which Mrs. Moring, the ftwmer Miss Mary Thorns, of Brooklyn. New York, was long a leader in Asheboro, where she was vitally 7 inter ested in the cultural arts and taught music, piano and organ, in her home, which before its recent dismantling was a local land mark." The Stedmans for the first concert called upon the “noted string quartet and trio ! from Woman's college, Greensboro" for re citals which were free and open to the pub lic. Next * vent will be the appearance of Mark Hoffman, Greensboro pianist and i dean of music. So much for the facts, which | indicate a healthy reliance on good Tar ; Heel talent for the interpretation of music. The story also says that Mrs. Mo-ring was i (or fifty years organist of the Methodist church in Asheboro, which was as a town when she came to it from Brooklyn noth- j ing but a Randolph village very much as Roxboro must have been here in Person. There are a lot of details that the Ashe boro correspondent does not give. That , Mary Thorns came to what was to be her home town as Yankee, that she married a spirited but kindly native of the place and became with him a thoroughly gracious and charming leader in all that was best in the aforementioned cultural circles. Her , life began in Brooklyn but grew in Ashe boro, where it is not forgotten. Slowly, but surely, we are getting away from the mournful idea in memorials and that this Stedman example, one of the best, would have been thoroughly approved by the one j it is designed to honor, we have no doubt. In Roxboro the best example of a suitable memorial is, of course the War Memorial hospital, dedicated to an extension here and in the adjacent community of the best which medical knowledge has to offer—and j quite in opposition to the killer instinct upon which wars are founded. o • ONE OF THE BETTER AGENCIES Thursday of last week was a big day for the Farm Security Administration pro- : gram in Person county with an all day session at which reports were made con- ; cerning the progress shown by some ten to :j twelve farm families here that are operat- i ing on and benefiting from the local FSA plan. One of the most interesting speakers ! was a man who has completed the purchase j of his farm and is now self-sustaining, a j position he might not have been able to {•each without the aid of the Farm Security plan. The program received a further emphasis j Thursday night when Miss Fuller, of Ashe- j ville, a regional supervisor, spoke at the Rotary club and gave a resume of activities ' similar to that published a few weeks ago in the Courier-Times. Reflected in that re port is the fact that this is a good time to go forward with the work of FSA and particularly to cut the time down to a five or ten year basis rather than a twenty, o WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING • RAISING SHEEP Gastonia Gazette Years ago, we are told, every farm in this section of the State had its flock of sheep. The family got its wool from the sheep, spun and wove it into clothes or had it made into blankets up at Elkin. In our time we have seen many blankets made at Elkin from wool grown around here. The growing of sheep has taken such a ' setback in recent years. We are glad to see a revival of interest in sheep raising. More sheep are being grown now than at any time in the past few years, and some high class breeding stock is being shipped into the state. Coun ty Agent R. E. Black, of Alleghany county, THE COURIER-TIMES says that one of the best crops for Western North Carolina when interest on invest ment is considered, is a small flock pf sheep, and it is a'so true of farms in Eastern and Central Carolina. Black points out, however, that sheep can not be grown on waste land. They require good pastures, but, the farmers do not.have to reduce the number of cattle on the pas tures in order to carry a small flock of sheep. Somehow 7 we hardly miss what the sheep have eaten, and they are very valu able in cleaning up the pastures. Any farm under present conditions should be able 1o make 100 per cent on his investment. Our best growers do much better than this. "Let’s take W. W. Warden of Laurel* Springs, for example. He produced 17 lambs from 14 ewes and sold them for $247.22. The wool crop of 114 pounds brought $63.84. This gave a return of $22.22 per ewe and Warden says that it did not cost him more than 84.80 a year to carry the ewes, counting only the money he spent.” Mail Rackets Nil Specially At Soldiers Washington.—The end of the war started a terrific boom in mail fraud rackets and many of the countless new schemes to fleece the public are aimed at war veterans William O'Brien, head of the Posi Office Department Mail Frauds Branch, has disclosed. The post office now is handling,'-' 10 times as many mail fraud cases | each month as it did at the begin-1 ning of 1945, he said in an interview, ! The swindlers Stepped up their ac tivities after V-E Day and the num ber of mail fraud cases "rose like a ) rocket" after V-J. Day, he said. Mail fraud racketeers apparently j were busy at other things during j tlie war because the number of case.-. J' handled by the department dropped ) ill wartime to one-sixth of tre pre-j' war level except for a short flurrv of activity in 1940-41, he Said. i. Clothing Racket The "second-hand clothing rack--j et." operated froni New York and j vicinity to sell clothes by mail or- ~ der to people on farms and poor . sections, has been thriving to Stic i an extent that operators have been doing a $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 busi ness yearly, he said. Seizing on the clothing shortage, these operators are advertising "wearable ready-to-wear” used clothing at very low prices—which turns out to be “nothing but rags." Many rackets are aimed at in struction of veterans by mail. These "schools sell the most fantastic schemes —such as how to teach bricklaying my mail." O'Brien said. Others collect money from ex-Gls in exchange for instruction in "work-at-home - businesses, which often arc nothing but rackets. Then there are the "phony hero books," through. which the relatives of deceased servicemen are the vic tims. The scheme is to collect sls 1 or so from families of dead soldiers ! to list their names in "hero books," which list anyone who pays the money, regardless of how he died. ; Often the books are never publish ; ed. j The families of dead servicemen 1 are considered "easy victims who would 4io anything for Joe" by the j racketeers who fleece them, O’Brien | said. Other operators collect money allegedly for widows of World '.War IT. o Credit Union For Negroes Formed j I; . .. ;- Negro residents here have organ ized a credit union known as Person County Cooperative Credit Union, it was reported today. The organization was set up with 154 members having paid in the join ing fee and shares. The purpose of the credit union is to create a thrift idea among citizens of the county :It developes in the individual a ’greater capacity to handle his own j financial problems and provides a convenient means for the members to save systematically, say the founders. • There are more than. 140 credit i unions in North Carolina set up ! under certain state regulations and | with a membership which will e%- ’cede 23,000, and having loaned to I its members over two and half 1 million dollars. I One of the recent credit unions organized in Warrenton among Ne i groes about two year past now has a capital of $50,000 with members and shares paid in. Credit Unions lend money to fi nance the payment of debts, pro ■ vide for medical and dental service*; ; to buy clothing, furniture and house hold necessities; to buy school sup plies or to finance a student in college to buy real estate and to en able an individual member to taka advantage of an opportunity ami hundreds of otter wise investment*, it was reported by the local sponsor*. • REPLY TO PESSIMISTS News and Observer In his informing: address at the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce banquet, Senator Fulbright of Arkansas (pronounce it Ark ansaw, Governor Cherry) was refreshing in his faith and optimism in the achieve ment of the permanent peace for which free men fought in NVjirld War 11. There has been generated a cloud of doubt and veiled opposition to the goal of the UNO, and it is gratifying that one who was a pioneer in Congressional demand for a world organ ization has full faith that there will be no such debacle after this war as the Senate was mainly responsible for after World I. He made this declaration of faith: _._We have to decide now whether to be come imperialistic, isolationist, or join the nations of the world in a common task. And 1 can’t believe that we will choose any other course but the last. 1 Fatal Highway Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1948 LET'S KEEP IT THAT WAY DRIVE CAREFULLY New Varmint Law Comes Up To Congress i Washington.—Do you have mice ) in the pantry? Do mosquitoes gnaw | you each summer? ArP you harness- i rd by flies, bees, bugs, beetles? Is I your wheat rusty? Congress is galloping to your res- j cue, friend. It will see you through. ‘ Tire House Agriculture Commit- ! tee is studying a new Federal In- I sccticide. Fungicide, and Rodenti- j cide Act." Roughly translated, this means j the United States soon may get a new varmint and pest law to re- ; place the one that has been on the books since 1910. At the opening hearing last week i it was disclosed that: Chairman John Flannagan (D.- i Va.i lias roaches, right in his Capi tol office. These roaches were fed , three different concoctions, but — "They thrived on it." said Flanna- ! gan bitterly. He said ha hoped the law would see to it that roaches | wouldn't get fat on stuff labelled [ poison. Donald J. Cheney, general coun sel for the Fish and Wildlife Serv- | ice, said there is no known antidote : for 1080, the new rat poison develop- J ed by the Department of interior, j He said it is so deadly he doesn t j think it should be peddled in ordi- j nary stores. Rep. George W. Gillie (R.-Ind ); j recalling his days as a veterinarian. | said he thought the government should set certain manufacturing standards for each poison. He doesn't think putting the con- j tents on the label is enough. "An ordinary person is baffled b> labels,” he said. “We used to get [ bottles labelled '75 per cent inert j ! matter.' A laboratory ‘ test showed ] that meant it was 75 per cent tap j water.' William J. Zick, of the Insecticides j 1 and Disenfectants Association, peek- ; ed thoughtfully at-such expressions j as "nonchlorophyll-bearing thallo- ] phytes" and “allied classes of an-: thropods." "Gentlemen,” he said, “this is a very technical bill we have here.” Everyone said, indeed we have On this unanimous note the meet ing adjourned. o In The Paper —.— j Columbia. S. C. —Mayor Fred Id Marshall was convinced today of 1 the "power of the press.” He returned from a trip to Dur-, ham .N. C., where he was stopped) by a stranger as he walked out of i a restaurant. "Aren't you the mayor of some j city?” the stranger asked. Puzzled. Marshall replied that he was Mayor of Columbia. "I thought so,” the man said, "I was in Columbia some time ago and now I remember seeing your picture in the paper.” o The people of Durham and Dur ham County conducted the first unified Community Rural Housing Institute of its kind in the State. o North Carolina’s crop produc tion goals in 1946 include 740,000 acres for cotton and 784,000 acres of flue-cured tobacco. HELP WANTED! SALESMAN AND DELIVERY MAN. GOOD PAY. DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DRINK ON THE JOR. GOOD CHANCE FOR ADVANCEMENT. CITY MILK & ICE CO. 3 OUT OF A HAT? I've often wondered why some jobholders who seem to feel Hint . they're treated a little unfairly by factories for which they work, I just don't go down the road a I mile to a vacant field and start ' their own factory. . | This might be a good way for i them to learn that building a bus iness is no bed of roses, and that j profits are never certain,and that | management is a difficult job. The truth is that taking over a ! going factory and starting a new ! factory arc horses of different colors. j It usually takes many years for a factory to develop and sell ! its products successfully. It may take millions of dollars. It may take many failures and countless headaches. - (are Should Be Used In Saving Hatching Eggs Care in saving eggs and in the ! general condition of the breeding ; flock will pay excellent dividends. A j premium is generally paid for eggs l of high hatchability and this premi i um is of great importance in determ | inging the profits of the breeding ' flock. | T. T. Brown, Extension poultry ! specialist at State College, gives j three suggestions for increasing the j hatchability of the eggs, or for pre | venting the hatchability from de- I dining. | 1. Guard the health of the breed ' ing birds. The breeding flock should jbe pullorum-free. adequately hous jed, and fed a balanced diet. 2. Hatching .eggs should be col lected several times a day to prevent the eggs from becoming chilled dur ing cold weather. 3. The eggs should be stored In containers that permit air circula tion and in a room that is somewhat moist and has a constant tempera ture of between 50 and 60 degrees. Brown also suggests that deliveries of hatching eggs to the hatchery be made at least once a week because eggs that are held too long may ; decline in hatchability. | "Cleaned eggs should not be sent I to the hatchery." says brown, ”be | cause the eggs may have been datn | aged in the, cleaning process and the Radford Gentry The Fuller Brush Dealer Phone 2581 ROXBORO, N. C. OUR DEMOCRACY— —byßay II THE 4H CLUBS || 1 (HEAD. HEART, HANDS, HEALTH) J Their, membership of 1,700,000 boys and girls IS DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE AND RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP. t. Pledged to "clearer thinking- . fl GREATER. 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I- Samian, Bainbrulgc, Ind„ who drove to Florida in a hearse. hatchability may have dropped.” H? also points out that the eggs should be carefully graded, remov ing those eggs with poor shell tex ture. those that are Irregular m shape, and both the large and small sizes. 'The interests of the iiatch eryman and the producer of hatch ing eggs are very closely related," Brown says, “and best results abe obtained when both work for the same high standards.” o Dr. J H. Jensen, professor and head of the plant pathology section of the State College Department of Botany, is conducting researen on Irish potato and peanut diseases. 5 V-Crimp Roofinq We are taking orders for a limited guanity of V-Crimp roofing made from aluminum. This roofing will not rust, requires no painting and is con sidered a great advancement in the roofing industry. Orders are taken for future delivery in the order in which they are given us. For further information, call at our office. 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The offer came through the Civil Affairs Division of the War De partment, under the direction of which Major Albright handled labor matters in the Mediterranean area for more than two years, as an of ficer of the Allied Military Govern ment. — v '* 7 Major Albright declined the offer,£| since he has so recently resumed 1 * his position with the Employment Service—and. then too, the leaving time conflicted with an tmi)ortant engagement’in Washington, Febru ary 9, Saturday—his wedding—and three weeks of sunning with his bride, the former Miss Frances Per ry Stanley, of Washington, on tile beaches in Florida. o North Carolina farmers are seek- J ing to have Congress consider labor costs in setting parity prices for nil crops. PHONE 3601 Quality Drj Cleaning Service Dry Cleaners Claude Harris, Owner