~PERSON COUNTY TIMES
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JL 8. MERRITT, Editor M. C. CLAYTON, Manager
E. J. HAMLIN City Editor.
Published Every Sunday and Thursday- Entered As Second
Class Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C-, Under
The Act Os March 3rd., 1879-
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1939
GOLF COURSE WILL SOON BE READY
It is very encouraging to note that work is progressing nicely
on Roxboro’s golf course. Os course, those who have been in charge,
have not had all the necessary help and for that reason they have
not been able to make the progress that they would like to make.
However they have done very well if you take everything into
consideration and the fact now
stares us in the face that in a
short time you will be able to
play golf right in Person County.
Roxboro is going to have a
nice course. It will not be the
best or largest in this section, but
it will care for the needs of this
county for a number of years
and members of the club will
certainly derive a large amount
of pleasure from it. In these days
and times no city seems to be
complete unless that city has a
golf course. Now Roxboro is
> getting in this class and that
should help in several ways
By the time summer rolls a
round, or before, the course will
be about completed and then
you can go out any day and start
- smacking the ball around.
Roxboro has a large number
.of experienced golfers and if
these boys will take a little time
to help the beginners everything
will be lovely.
TOBACCO MARKET
OPENS TUESDAY
This is just to remind the
farmers that our tobacco market
re-opens on Tuesday. There is
not much tobacco left in this
county, about one half million
pounds. If that amount could be
sold on the Roxboro market
during the next ten days it would
certainly help the market’s
standing.
Roxboro has had a fair year.
The warehousemen have not
made any money, but the market
did very good considering the
fact that there was a short crop
in the county. Now if we could
add another half million or more
pounds to what has already been
6old that would add nicely to
our total.
Several nearby markets will
not re-open and everyone who
is interested in Roxboro should
try to get farmers in those secti
ons to come here with the re
mainder of their tobacco.
THREE GOOD POINTS
Mr. Hoey, the governor of
North Carolina, is suggesting
that teacher’s pay be divided in
to twelve months instead of the
eight or nine months that they
teach. If you have ever taught
school you know just how much
this would help all teachers. Its
really bad to have a little money
for eight or nine months and
then be broke for the remainder
®f the year. Your answer to this
jwill probably be to save while
you are being paid, but you prob
.ably know how hard it is to save
»nd teachers, believe it or not,
are human beings.
We also favor more pay for
teachers and the addition of a
twelfth grade. These three things
alone would mean much to the
state.
INCOME TAX TIME
Just in case you have forgotten
* at this is to remind you your in
come tax will be due on or be
fore March 15th and you can
«tart now and get your figure#
together.
There will be many headachaa
between now and the middle of
March and even though you will
m have to pay anymeoagr you
wS have to prove why you epa
fe.ia.-i. _ .
“A well-written life is al
most as rare as a well - spent
one.”
—Carlyle.
Building A Home Is The
Investment Os A Life Time
For Ideal Home Sites See—
“ Sunset Hills.”
THOS. B. WOODY
Agent.
WANT ADS
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Apply to Mrs. Mollie Hatchett.
Roxboro, N. C.
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REFLECTIONS
By R. M. SPENCER
“WHAT CHANCES HAVE I?”
A young man of acquaintance
was discouraged. He said “Mr.
Spencer, what chance have I? My
parents are poor, I did not go to
college, I have few friends and
fewer dollars.”
I told him
| “Your future
lies within
yourself; back
ground is val
uable but not
an absolute ne
cessity; friends
are made like
Oriental rugs,
slowly; educa
tion may be
jf
ngggg
obtained everyday.”
“You don’t know how hard it
is to get ahead,” said my friend.
My answer was “Your chance lies
within yourself. It is where you
are, in the job you have. It is
there you are known, it is there
you will find a stellar role if
you are worthy.”
“To be worthy is the thing;
study is a prime requisite, and
there are a million ways of do
ing it. Look at your job as a pro
blem —for it is a problem, to be
solved by YOU. If you solve it
you forge ahead if you don’t
you stagnate and to stagnate
you walk backward.”
“Thanks,” said my friend, “I
am going back to my job. I am
going to find away to make it
the -Pathway to the Front Of
fice."
He will have his name on
office within five yean or I mias
my gueatl
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THIS IS DEMOCRACY
The New York times.
“A nation of shopkeepers” Na
poleon once called the English.
He overlooked the scientists, in
ventors and engineers. It was no
accident that the steam engine
should have been developed in
a country where coal and iron
were abundant, or that the time
of all navigators should have
been kept by Greenwich ever
since there were good chrono
meters. For these English, as Na
poleon no doubt meant to imply,
are eminently practical people.
They were among the first to
see the industrial benefits that
flow from science and invention.
This traditional respect for
science and industry finds ex
pression in the New Year’s
honors conferred by King
George. First on the list stand
those who received the Order of
Merit. Though it confers no title,
no right of precedence, the order
is more highly prized than a
peerage. When it was founded
in 1902 by King Edward VII on
the occasion of his coronation
four of the 12 recipients were
scientists—Lister, Rayleigh, Kel
vin and Huggins. This year a
mathematical physicist, Sir
James Jeans, and a naval officer,
Lord Chatfield, were honored. Os
the 16 civilians who now wear
the order’s badge of oak leaves,
six are scientists.
A pity it was that the thousand
recipients of New Year’s honors
from King George could not have
marched in a body to Guildhall,
sat down to English roast beef
and Yorkshire pudding and be
come personally acquainted. Sir
James Jeans in the robes of a
Doctor of Science; Lord Chat
field in the uniform of an Ad
miral; plumed peers, baronets
and knights; business men wear
ing the insignia of distinguished
service; Harry Dean, dining-car
porter; Tommy Rankin, foreman
of the crew that riveted the
Queen Mary, all stepping side
Bring Your
Tobacco To The
HYCO
SALE
Tuesday, Jan.lOth
Ten more good selling days remain
and we are ready for the balance of
your crop. You will find us fighting
just as hard for prices now as on the
opening. t
Hyco Warehouse
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Walker - Heater - Lunsford - Jqaes
jpel 4'.- t'j '3 a-.v-.l
by aide with'Charlie Frazer, Glas
gow policeman, and Dorothy
Mann, telephone operator—what
a pageant! This is England, this
is democracy.
WHAT ARE
NEUTRALITY LAWS
News and Observer
Events in the past year in both
China and Spain have undoubt
edly shown that the application
of neutrality laws by the United
States may operate to favor the
eggressor in warfare. But it is
difficult to see how the Congress
can amend the neutrality laws
to end the possibility that such
statutes may aid, encourage or
assist an aggressor nation in any
manner and keep the laws in
any sense neutrality laws.
Neutrality, according to Web
ster’s New International Diction
ary, means “the condition of be
ing uninvolved in contests or
controversies between others;
state of refraining from taking
part on either side.” If the-law is
to be amended so that the ag
gressor will not be aided, then
the United States must somehow
determine the aggressor (be
tween two sides neither of which
ever admits being the aggressor)
and that choice itself constitutes
departure from strict neutrality.
Perhaps what this country
wants is a departure from the
determined position of absolute
neutrality. Perhaps it is prepared
to determine and oppose the good
in international affairs. That is
a decision America must make.
But America should not delude
itself. No nation can have true
neutrality laws and choose be
tween the contending nations in
the application of those laws.
Neutrality is like the famous cake
which could not be both had and
eaten.
The neutrality law either
should be abolished altogether
or made even more strict. And
America must choose which it
will do.
NO MORE PONIES 1
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N M E Os ,
s $ e venera
ble friend of the stumbling stud
ent in his encounters with
Caesar, Cicero and Virgil, has
been barred from the schools of
Italy. It is barred from the
schools of other countries, too,
but not for &o lofty a reason as
the Rome authorities assign.
They forbid the pony because it
is “un-Fascist,” because “the
Fascist style requires the ac
complishment of a task by per
severance and hard wark.”
Imagine a schoolmarm in our
country ruling against this ready
aid to young intellects because it
is un-American or un-democra
tic! She would be far more likely
to speak plainly and say ponies
are out because their use is dis
honest. But trust the Fascist
authorities to get in a boost for
the prevailing ideology on any
and every occasion of daily life.
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est and surest ways to
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In addition to that you
get the best protection in
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We will be glad to explain.
WALKER
INSURANCE
AGENCY
J. S. and BILL WALKER
Roxboro, N. C.
Statement Os Condition Os
The Peoples Bank
Roxboro, N. C.
AS AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS DECEMBER 31, 1938
Resources:
Cash & Due from Banks $ 592,854.41
U. S. Bonds 193,881.25
N. C. State Bonds . 127,480.87
Municipal Bonds 163,742.17
Other Stocks & Bonds , 5,000.00
Interest Earned on Bonds „ 4,968.94
Loans & Discounts . 455,897.27
Banking House, Furniture & Fixtures 16,660.88
Other Real Estate 19,827.20
Other Assets 381.23
?1,580,694.22
LIABILITIES: )
Capital Stock, Common 100^000.00
Capital Stock, Preferred 73,125.00
Surplus 15,000.00
Undivided Profits 18,660.21
Unearned Interests 1,515.25
Reserve for Retirement of Preferred Stock Fund 12,059.28
Reserve for Interest on Savings • * • 5,708.01
Reserve for Tax 1,382.28
Cashier & Certified Checks 2,228.04
Deposits ' 1,351,016.15
11,680,694.22
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
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Dare County Times.
p (teg o^ ; , two before
Chrietiqp jwej fishermen of
Duck majeketed about 3,000
pounds of eels at 11 cents a lb.,
the sales tunning to nearly S4OO.
The fishermen have been catch
ing eels all the fall, and just be
fore Christmas a tank car comes
after them, and takes them away
alive. Italians, mostly, feast heav
ily on eels at Christmas time.
Milbum Evans sold about 1,700
pounds and was the biggest
catcher of eels during the season.
The sales would have been much
DOLLY MADISON
THEATRE
Monday - Tuesday, Jan. 9-10
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No Morning Shows;
Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45;
Evenings Daily 7:15-9:00;
Admission 1046 c
SUNDAY. JANUARY $, 1939
greater, but during a recent
heavy northwester, the contain
ers, ip which the .fels were kept
were heavily battered by a rough
sea along the shore of Currituck
sound, and some of them were
broken open and the eels got a
way.
Palace Theatre
Monday - Tuesday, Jan. 9-10
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No Morning Shows;
Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45;
Evenings Daily 7:15-9:09;
Admission £646e
EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION:
Scenes from Rose Bowl Game,
Duke vs. Southern California.