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- A PAPER FOR ALL THE
PEOPLE
J. S. MERRITT, Editor
M. C. CLAYTON, Mgr.
Published
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at the Postoffiee at Roxboro,
N. C., under the act of
March 3rd., 1879.
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SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1937
Altho much has been said
about window shopping night
of last week, something should
be said editorialy.
We honestly believe that
there were more people in the
business district than had been
here since Sparks Circus last
gave a street parade down
Main Street many years ago.
Some people say that 5000 peo
ple were on the streets and in
the stores, some say more or
less. Either way you take it
there was a large crowd here
and they all had a good time.
The merchants do not report
heavy sales for the night, but
they were well pleased with the
reception and all figure that
money they spent was well in
vested.
The Chamber of Commerce
deserves congratulations. Jack
Bane, secretary and the man
behind the guns, deserves a
large amount of credit. Jack
doesn’t like too much praise.
He says that he is here to work
and that when he does some
thing worth while he is doing
what he is supposed to do.
That is true, however, a good
worker and a good thinker al
ways deserves credit. Hats
off to Jack.
The American Press had an
article in its March edition that
impressed us as being very
good. To be sure it praises the
weekly newspaper and we all
like praise—For that reason we
are using it in our /editoral
column.
In a recent address at an A
BC gathering, Stephen A. Hol
ies, editor ol the Jamesvflle,
Wis., Gazette, after remarking
that the small city dailies of the
United States, dispite the
depression, industrial stagna
tion and other adverse circum
stances, are still going strong,
defined and described a com
munity newspaper in this lan
guage:
"The community newspaper
is an integral part of the fami
ly circle, a welcome guest,
equally looked for at the kitch
en as well as at the front door.
It is necessary to the family
life, like the dog and the cat or
the favorite horse or the pet
lamb or the Bible or the mail
order catalog or the letter from
the boy in college. Every copy
has a given destination—to a
subscriber who is a cash cus
tomer.
"To the .community .news
paper; all people are impor
tant. There is no line drawn
in the social column, no selected
list, no Four Hundred. If the
woman who has been forced to
take in washing to maintain her
family gives a party for her
daughter, it may be even more
important than an event.
. ."It is harder to edit a com
munity small-town newspaper
than it is to direct the editoral
and news policy of a metropo
litan newspaper. That commu
nity newspaper must be dean,
it must be happily welcomed
by women and children. It
should be purged of dirt and
breathe more than crime an|d
disaster.
. ."This newspaper can not af
ford to have any circulation
turnovers. If someone stops
the paper, we must investigate
and find out why, and if the
reason is valid and based on
good sense, the error must be
corrected. These subscribers
must find in the sguril-town
newspaper a place to speak
their piece. It must be the true
Voice of the people. It must
have a sympathy and helpful
ness for all.
..“There is no place on the
«m«ii dty daily for either the
publisher or the editor if he
faith in his mankind, if
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he lacks vision and he has no re
gard for the express trust gi
ven him in telling the truth and
commenting with honesty. It
is no place for the demagogue
ior the opportunist. It is no place
for one to be all things to all
men. There must be no outside
influence subversive or other
wise that can enter the door
and tell the editor what he must
say.
"It is no place for an angle
worm backbone.”
The above article is true.
Please don’t stop your paper.
If you do w»e just naturally.,
wonder if you are mad at us.
Let’s clean the streets before
Governor Hoey arrives.
Shall we have an escort to
meet him?
Congratulations to Sam
Bason; how is the best way to
get in with him? Person County
needs a little work on a few
roads in this county or next to
this county.
Congratulations to all high
school seniors and to all college
seniors. Now you must go to
work—if- you can find a jjob.
Education is a good thing if
you don’t try to let it make a
living for you.
EUGENE TALMADGE
GETS BACK IN NEWS
Sold $12,581 Worth Os Farm
Products To Georgia Dur
ing Term As Governor
Atlanta, April 29.—Red-suspend
ed Eugene Talmadge got back in the
news today with an auditor’s report
that former Georgia governor and
his wife sold $12,581.24 Worth of
farm products to state agencies in
his last three years in office.
State Auditor Tom Wisdom made
public the figures after reports were
published that the new state ad
ministration is (investigating! salefc
of beef and pork to the State Hos
pital for insane at Milledgeville.
In response to inquiries, Talmad
ge said crisply, “I want them to
investigate. I think they’ll find its
the best beef and pork they’ve had
down at the state hospital in about
10 years.”
He called the investigation a
“hurrah” by the “capitol crowd,”
which ,he asserted, was an “effort
to make the public forget” the “tax
spree” and “doubling” of state ap
propriations by the administration
of his Governor E. D,
Rivers.
Talmadge and his wife both op
perate farms in south Georgia.
Wisdom’s records said the Tal
madges sold products to the State
Highway Department, which op
erates a number of prison camps,
as well as to the hospital.
Sales listed included such items
as cattle, hogs, salt pork,-shoulders,
cured meat, com, cabbage, wheat
and sweet potatoes.
In Washington, Governor Rivers
declined lo comment !on reported
plans for investigation of Talmad
ge’s meat sales. He said the state
department of pifblic Welfare is
making a study of all state institu
tions. Findings, he added, must come
from that agency or from the state
department of audits.
Lamar Mardaugh, director of the
state welfare department, said he
had “nothing to say.’’
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Three Hoke County ginners will
install new equipment and improve
the old to give cotton farmers a
better quality of lint this fall, re
ports the farm agent
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N.C» v
JACKSON WHITLOW
ENDS 51 DAY FAST
Tennessee Farmer Gets “Call
From Lord” To “Use Wine
For Stomach’s Sake
Stooping Oak, Tenn., April 30—
Victory over the “devil” was claim
ed today by Jackson Whitlow in
breaking his 51-day fast by swal
lowing some mountain-made elder
berry wine.
Between a “call from the Lord”
on March 10 and another one early
this morning, the 45-year-old farm
er said he had left off eating entire
ly, though he did drink water.
“Water was making me sick,”
the emaciated little man said,
“when suddenly God spoke through
my thought and said, ‘no longer use
water—use wine for thy stomach’s
sake.”
Thereupon he took a teacup half
full of wine and drained it.
Cornbread Smells Good
From the kitchen stove came the
fragrant odor of cornbread, which
Whitlow said “sure smells good,” j
though he declared he will not take 1
any solid food until after another j
“call” reaches him. However, Whit
low added hopefully: “I believe I’ll ■
eating before long. The Lord j
has assured me that this is the turn
ing point.”
He said it was darkest just before
dawn.
“Last night was the roughest one.
I ever spent,” the faster said. “The |
devil tried all night tq get me. It
was my great test. It was when IJ
resisted him, sick as I was, that the |
Lord came to me at dawn. A per
son must always reach the bottom
before he can climb.”
Mrs. Mattie Whitlow, his mother,
that ‘JJadkson hab been
told to drink wine.”
‘(IVs awful good for him,” she
said, “and he is so weak. Jackson
has always been a religious boy.
Whatever he says you can depend
on.”
Whitlow’s wife was also optimis
tic. “I thing the next time you hear
from Jackson he will be taking
milk or soup,” She told interview
ers.
While Dr. R. E. Standifer of Dun
lap, a distant kinsman, warned that
Whitlow’s only chance to live was
to “eat under careful medical at
tention,” the faster said he wanted
no advice.
“I gave up doctors a long time
ago,” he explained. “The Lord is
my only adviser. I do what he says
and nothing else.”
lUncte Jim Says]
By planting trees on poor, hilly
land you can stop gullies and pro
duce future income.
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Hollywood, Cal.—After a stormy
trans-continental courtship and five
months of married life, Elaine Ja
cobs, 21-year-old schoolgirl who took
the name of Barrie, won a divorce
from 55-year-old John Barrymore,
charging “profane language, threats
and jealousy.” Miss Jacobs was the
‘great lover’s” fourth wife.
Randolph farmers seem to be
taking a great interest in their TVA
farm record books, and, as a result,
better records are expected to be
turned in this year, according to
L. L. Ray, assistant farm agent.
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Roxboro, N. C.
JEWELS FROM NEWELLS
A BISHOP’S STORY
Illustrating how the treatment
of strangers in a foreign land may
influence their lives, Bishop Bart
lett of the Episcopal church tells of
tw(o young Chinese students who
came to America, and what happen
ed to them.
One, a Chinese girl who had been
converted to Christianity in her na
tive land, came to the United States
to continue her studies. Unfortun
ately, she entered a school in which
prejudice was shown because of her.
She renounced Christianity and re
turned to China.
The other, a Chinese boy, was be
friended by an American family
fn Charleston, became a Christian,
returned to China and married a
Christian Chinese girl. Four of their
children were educated in the
United States, and their family be
came one of the most influential in
China.
One daughter married Sun Yat
Sen, founder of the Chinese re
public; another married Chiang
Kai Shek, China’s chief leader
today; a third married Kung
Hsiang Hsi, recently finance min
ister of China ; while a son,
Soong Ts Vung, was also fi
nance minister and represented
China in several international
conferences.
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EMPLOYMENT BOOMS
Washington, D. C. —According to
the Department of Labor, employ
ment last month rose 305,000, add
ing $15,000,000 to factory payrolls,
and continuing an unbroken suc
cession of increase since February,
1936.
SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1937
WHAT A WAR COST
(Many statistics have been com
piled relative to the cost of the
World War, but the figures are so
large that it is impossible for the
human mind to grasp their signi
ficance.
In an effort to put these figures
into somewhat more understand
able form Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia
University, tells what might have
been done with the 400 billion dol
lars spent on account of the War, as
follows:
“The World War, all told, cost—
apart from 30 million lives— 400
billion dollars. With that mor.tey
we could have built a $2,500 house
furnished it with a SI,OOO worth of
furniture, placed it on five acres of
land worth SIOO an acre and given
this home to each and every family
in the United States, Canada, Au
stralia, England, Wales, Ireland,
Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany
and Russia. We could have given to
each city of 20,000 inhabitants and
over, in each country named, a five
million dollar library and a ten mil
lion dollar university. Out of what
was left we could have set aside a
sum at five per cent that would
provide a SI,OOO yearly salary for
an army of 125,000 teachers and a
like salary for another army of 125,-
000 nurses.”
Yet there is constant talk about
another war. It would probably be
going on now if the nations had the
money or credit whereby it could
be financed, and it seems bound to
come eventually. And we call this
an age of civilization.