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PERSON COUNTY TIMES A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE J. S. MERRITT, Editor M. C. CLAYTON, Manager Published Every Sunday and Thursday* Entered As Second Class Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under The Act Os March 3rd., 1879* —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year sl-50 Six Months 75 Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at all times, Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office not later than Monday to insure publication for Thursday edition and Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1938 WE REALLY DID NOT EXPECT IT Roxboro did not get the Veterans’ Hospital and to tell the truth We know of no one here who expected it to come to this county. Boxboro is not quite large enough to land projects of this kind. Then too, we suppose that Fayetteville did deserve the building. There may be several advant ages that will come to the govern ment by virtue of the hospital being close to Fort Bragg. Fay etteville is a good city, not too large and not too small. The peo ple there are very friendly and It is a good trading center. All this does not mean that this city would not have been a good place. We are in love with Boxboro, but we cannot fail to see many advantages that Fay etteville offers. Perhaps Roxboro can try for another project in the near future and we hereby commend those who did all they could to land this one. Sounds Like A Good Idea f The directors of the Roxboro Country Club have agreed to seduce the dues for club mem bership to $25 a year. This will take care of a man, his wife and children under 18 years. Many have wanted to join the club, but they did not feel like they could afford to pay the high er membership dues. Now that it has been reduced there will be nn increase in membership. This is as it should be. The dues should be as low as possible |n order [that a large munbefr might be able to enjoy its bene fits. The club is a community project and now the community Will be able to enjoy it. It is understood that work will Start as soon as the project is given a number. This should not require much time. In six or seven months evfeij/thing may be finished and then you can drive out to the “Club” for a round of golf, tennis, boating, bathing or fishing. Sounds rath er good. Better Do It Now t Once again this paper would like to call to the attention of Roxboro officials the parking situation on Gallows Hill. On Saturday nights the road there is lined wth cars on each side, just « little off the road, but too close to it for safety. People who visit this section on Saturday walk in the road or very close to it, and th£ifc is constant danger. Someone is bound to get hurt unless something is done about parking and jay walking. Cars should not be allowed to park close to the road and pe destrians should not be allowed to walk on the hard surface or dose to it A few dollars spent there for m walk and a parking lot might save a life. 1 Better Marketing Agriculture Commissioner W. Kerr Scott told the Wendell grange last week he would ask North Carolina congressmen to draft a bill giving the south an “adequate” marketing program. Such a measure, he explained, could provide that states match federal funds “dollar for dollar.” Jt could be made similar, he add ed, to the “well-known and ap preciated Smith-Lever act for ag ricultural extension work, the Bankhead-Jones act for research, the Smith - Hughes act for voca tional agriculture and other sim- : ilar acts.” Commissioner Scott has been advocating better marketing con ditions for some time and the Commissioner is cm the right ■ track. North {Castollna l lose thousands of dollars annu • ally because their products are ' not sent to market under proper conditions or because the right market cannot be found. If Mr. Scott can solve this problem he ' will help every farmer in the ' state and he will earn the money that he is drawing. Why Not Start? Farmers are busy curing to bacco and right now a large a mount of tobacco has been cur ed. The Roxboro Market will be ready for the sale of this weed by Sept. 27th., but in the mean time we all can use our influence to have this tobacco sold at home. Other cities have started upon a program that is designed to help build up their market. Rox boro has done nothing. We favor the Chamber of Commerce try ing to do something about the 'matter and even tho We are sixty days late something can be ; done even now. o • Farm Committees Use Half - Million O n Organization Durham Farmers Put Up Over $3,000; Granville Growers Raised SIO,OOO The agricultural adjustment ad , ministration reported today local L farmers’ committees and associa tions spent $480,906 in North Carolina to execute the 1936 agri cultural conservation program between July 1, 1936 and Febru ary 28, 1937: Durham county committees spent $3,803.72, pranville groups $10,956.75, Person $5,500 and Ala mance $3,279.38. The total for the country was $19,409,514. The AAA explained that figure did not include: $3,- 172,718 spent for organization work prior to July 1, 1936; $438,- 122 for “clean-up work” after February 28, 1937; $175,470 paid western range inspectors, and $24,771 in miscellaneous items. The AAA said the bulk of funds paid for local expenses went to the local farmer com mittee and filed men paid on a day-to-day basis. It said the lo cal expenses amounted to five percent bf the $376,097,826 paid farmers for participation. AAA officials said compliance payments under the 1936 program went to 3,961,596 individuals. LEGAL NOTICES ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as adminis trator of the estate of Mark War ren, deceased, late of Person County, N. C., this is to not ify all persons having claims a gainst the estate of said deceas ed to exhibit them to the under signed on or before the 10th. day of July, 1939, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their re covery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make im mediate payment. This Bth. day of July, 1938. Beaman Bowman, Admr. of Mark Warren. Wm. D. Merritt, Atty. 7-10-6 T I t PERSON COUNTY TIMES— ROXBORO, N. C* ' With Our Contemporaries OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER The Mode of Death Now that the curtains have been closed on the current politi cal season, down in Raleigh they have dug up the old issue of me thod in capital punishment. This state is using poisonous gas after a quarter of a century of successful results with the el ectric chair, but Governor Hoey and some other prominent offi cials of the state think that the electrical method is more hum ane. After all, the state doesn’t kill its dangerous criminals to be humane, but does kill to remove from society those who have com mitted one of the crimes for which death is prescribed by law. Theoretically, the state kills to make object lessons. The theory is based upon the presumption that those inclined to crime will ifrofit from the experiences of those who did crime before them, but the presumption is weak and the theory doesn’t stand up in reality. The state does not and cannot kill humanely. The state cannot create life; therefore, the state, theoretically, has no inherent power to take life. But the state guarantees protection of life and property and in that guarantee is imbodied the authority to take life. There is nothing pleasant in an execution. The electric chair is not far removed from the noose and the gas chamber is in the class with the electric chair. Each functions in its way, snapping the cord of human life. Capital punishment has be come too classy to act as a deter, rent of crime. The executioner, doing his duty on yon hill, is not pleasant to think about, but sure ly it must be more objective than the present deterrent that doesn’t deter. It’s a case of “seeing is believ ing.” o THE RANDOLPH TRIBUNE Too Late— Bill Payne and Wash Turner, partners in crime, are said to have prayed diligently the day and night before their legal ex ecution in the gas chamber. They are said to have, also, professed the faith. In both instances, they were but human. It is a human trait, when events are going sat isfactorily, to neglect God; but PWA GRANTS IN STATE BENEFIT LARGENUMBERS Quarter Million North Carolinians Affected By $3,242,117 Sani tary Program More than a quarter of a mil lion people in North Carolina municipalities, ranging in size from Winston-Salem to Pikevil le, will be directly benefited by the $3,242,117 water and sewer age improvement program made possible through PWA grants, said Warren H. Booker, director of the State Board of Health’s Division of Sanitary Engineer ing. “It is interesting to note that 24.4 per cent of the projects in the entire country were for waterworks and sjeweraige, but that in North Carolina the 22 projects that were allotted grants represent 46.8 of the total num ber for which allocations were made”, Mr. Booker pointed out. “From this,” he continued, “you Will see that we are nearly twice as well off in the number of pro jects for waterworks and sewer age as the other States.” Over three years, he said, the State Board of Health, through its Sanitary Engineering Divisi on, began working in behalf of this improvement program, de signed to promote public health. Representatives have addressed civic cluhs, mass meetings of citizens, and various other groups, giving information as to | what a waterworks and sewer, age plant should be, in order to when in dire distress, beyond human aid, there is almost al ways an appeal to a higher pow er. As to whether Payne and Tur ner were cleansed of their sins, and in the “twinkling of an eye” made as white as snow, we have no knowledge. Maybe it is possi ble. But it occurs to us that these Tar Heel criminals waited until the eleventh minute of the elev enth hour, waited until all hope of reprieve or pardon was gone before they turned to God for succor. George Penn, highway patrol man whom Payne and Turner shot and killed, was given no op portunity to pray before he was ushered rather rapidly and rude ly into the great beyond. His mur derers didn’t think to give him time to make ready to meet the Master; but, their hour of death marked, they prayed for forgive ness. There may not be any differ ence, we are not theologian enough to speak with authority, between last-minute repentance and Christian living, but some how a heaven filled with those who have lived a life of deliber ate sin and crime, who at the last minute were cleansed, isn’t our conception of the life hereafter. DURHAM MESSENGER Promise Performance In election years farmers are promised all sorts of relief by the politicians who are seeking office. And when the candidates get in office, experience has shown that few, if any, of the promises are ever fulfilled, and if any attempt is made the result has been a series of crackpot laws that failed miserably and left the farmer worse off than he was be fore. Wide - awake farmers, whether they deal in milk, fruit, vege tables, stock or anything else, are placing less trust in political panaceas and more trust in their own efforts and their marketing cooperative organiza tions. “God helps those who help themselves,” is as applicable to farming as to any other enter prise. The politicians who mani fest so great a concern for agri culture at election time have shown their true colors too of ten in the past to make safe to trust them too far in the future. meet the minimum requirements for adequacy the promotion of public health, always urging the importance of extending water and sewer systems to eliminate the “fringe of privies” usually found on the outskirts of towns and cities. “A privy has no social or sanitary standing in any in corporated municipality in North' Carolina,” is the slogan of the; Division of Sanitary Engineering, Mr. Booker said. “There are a few 100 per cent watered and sewered towns in North Carolina, including Boone, Chapel Hill, 1 Cooleemee, Crossnore, Highlands, Carolina Beach, Kures Beach, Proximity, Roanoke Rapids, Roar ing Gap and Sanford. Asheville rates 99.5 per cent in this res pect, Winston-Salem 99.1, and 1 Charlotte 98, among the cities in the larger brackets.” • o WOOLWORTH HEIRESS SUES MATE London, England Following institution of suit for divorce from her Danish Count, filed in Denmark, Countess Haugwitz formerly Barbara Hutton, $45,- 000,000 5-and-10 heiress, has her 2-year-old son Lance formally declared a British ward in Chan cery, which places him under the protection of the .courts until he is 21 years of age. It is rumored that her action is the result of threats of kidnapping on the part of her estranged husband, who is under SIO,OOO bond in England. *■ FOR NEWSPAPER SERVICE DIAL 4501 ✓ - » 7**l uiTyiLi M a4,^5.1 1 i' i 1 >i 3 M| WHO’S SN| NEWS Pfg THIS l| WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK.— As a token of good will, President Kemal Ataturk of Turkey sends his bomb-tossing adopted daughter on a flight over Greece and the Feminine Balkans. She holds Bomb Totter & diamond medal HatGoodAim £UValgout‘ scored veteran male fliers in a re cent work-out When the timid and demure Turk ish women started coming out from the harem, they kept right on going. They seem to be out-distancing our girls who are merely coming out of the kitchen. Turkey’s "Flying Amaxon” is Sa biha Gueckchen, twenty-four-year old daughter at a Turkish army cap tain who was killed fighting Greeks in 1921. She is a pretty little thing. An admiring woman corre spondent described her as “shy and demure,” with quick re course to her “modish little van ity case,” as she climbed from her plane after a hard day’s bombing. That was in the Der slm area, in eastern Anatolia, in which she had been blasting the Kurds out of their caves. She is a first lieutenant in the Turkish army, the only woman air force officer in the world. Her French flying instructor says •he i* the most gifted woman acro c ~ . batic pilot in the oaotna Ben world. She was Stant Flyer, trained in flying Sayt Mentor and , « Udi ?« “ Russia and later waa a cadet in the Turkish army air force school. She rides a single seated military plane, handles nil types of planes and Is especially accurate and skillful in bombing. It is said no aviator in Turkey ean match her in diving and stunt ing, but she shrinks modestly 'from all such, possibly unfeminine, exhi bitionism, and sticks to her hum drum bombing tasks. • • • LI ERE is another diverting little * * news note, in sharp contrast, however, on the emergence of the modern woman. At her home in New York, Mrs. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler presents prizes of $750 to the winners of the annual “Intel lectual Olympics,” conducted by her new history society. Happily the flying bomb put is not included In her decathlon. She Belle Gioet has becn *°?many . years a diligent Up Society and earnest advo- For Religion ® ate °* P eace and brotherhood, work ing through the international Ba haist movement, of which she has long been a leader. She derives from the Blue book and has turned from society to religious and hu manitarian concerns. Her husband, now retired, is a great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, and a former lieutenant governor of New York. He is a big, gray, silent man, walking a small white poodle dog, rarely seen at his wife’s salon, but a loyal partner in her endeavors. He is the brother of the late Bob and John Chanler. The flaming-haired Valeska Suratt was an Instrument of fate in the life of Mrs. Chanler. They were jointly engaged in a Hollywood script enter prise when Miss Suratt Introduced her to Mirza Ahmed Sahrab, de scendant of Mohammed and a dis ciple of the Abdul Baha. He was her tutor in the esoteric faith whose followers, like those of the Oxford movement, fervently believe the world can be saved only by a re ligious and cultulal international ism. • • • TYOWN in Peru, this writer knew some dilatory natives who fre quently used a word which meant, “hot tomorrow, but day after to- Dick Gett rro L and ,J na ?: he not then.” Degree 20 From ancient Yean Late Parchments, Trin- college dons lift the reverse expression—“nunc pro tung,” which means “now in stead of then.” With this Ugh aca demic sanction, they are enabled to deal a bachelor’s degree to Richard Barthelmess, who failed to touch second when he was there 20 years ago. Baseball moguls could now say “nunc pro tong” and band Fred MerUe that run he didn’t get in 1908. If the custom gets going, H might open the way ror some European debt payments. Mr. Barthelmess is one of the thin ning line of the stars of the old •Rent screen who remain In the pub lie consciousness. - His mother was Caroline Harris, an actress of the Biograph days. She gave Nazimova English lessons and in return Nazi mova gav4 her boy his professional start in "War Brides." “Broken Blossoms,” with Dorothy Gi«K was Us lastbig success, FOR NEWSPAPER SERVICE DIAL 4501 tetris* f-tuSL L -Hi .> To know what to do is WISDOM .. To know how to do it is SKILL ... To do it as it should be done is —-SERVICE And SERVICE along with generous quantity of extra quality is what J. C. Whitt’s Laundry and Dry Cleaners offers its patrons. Everything, even your table linens, colored wash ables, delicate underthings, things that take special care, are easily taken care of in the everyday laundry SERVICE which we offer you- The same is true of our dry cleaning SERVICE. We clean your finer things with the utmost care. J. C. WHITT Laundry and Dry Cleaning Dial 277 and 2961 Roxboro, N. C. Set Your Goal and Save for a Purpose People with vision and intelligence fulfill a definite desire by saving for a purpose. They save for a va cation—for a new home—for taxes—for travel —for their children’s education. Set your goal and save consistently. Even small a mounts grow quickly into sizeable sums to provide the means to carry out your desires. Deposits up to $5,000 in this bank are insured a gainst loss by Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora tion. M Sl|\ If Sr Imp Iwsuatawce\M| S j] The Peoples Bank Roxboro, N. C. r Why Not Have Sunday I Dinner I at Hotel Roxboro? The entire family will en-r«v> (I I joy a meal away from home and our good meals are so reasonable that you hardly know you have paid for them. • o- ■ Wc cater to Parties, Club Lunch- I eons or private affairs of any kind. 0 I Come up fqr lunch any day, we are sure that you will have a word of praise for our meal and service. • o Hotel Roxboro KARL BURGER, Prop. Main Street Roxboro, N. C. j - ■ . I SUNDAY, JULY 19,
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