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iF PERSON COUNTY TIMES i,v. £ • A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE I. 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 die Act Os March 3rd., 1879- —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year sl*s9 Six Months 75 C 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, JANUARY 29, 1939 THINGS ARE CHANGING FOR THE BETTER Things have certainly changed in recent years. An illustration 4>f this fact is that a picture, “ The Birth of a Baby,” is now being shown on the theatre screens over the country and will be shown in Roxboro soon. This picure tells the story of an intelligent young bride who faces the facts of mo therhood in an intelligent man ner. Twenty five years ago no one would have dreamed that such a picture would ever be given to the public. Today, we accept the fact and do not think much a bout it. Somehow, it seems to us, this is the best way. Why hide the story of life? Why make out that things like these are not for the public or that they should be clothed in secrecy? Although we may be wrong, we believe that things like this pic ture, as long as they are decent, are fine. There is no need to con ceal the truth if by telling, pub lishing or showing it on a screen this world can be educated along the correct line. WALL STREET WOBBLY All last week Wall Street did not like the looks of things in Eu rope- and the market dropped back to the lowest level since ■September. Many issues were off from SI.OO to more than $5.00 a share. As long as Europe foils it is only natural that the stock market remain a little jumpy. Brokers said again the best ex planation that could be offered for last week’s slump in the mar kets was that traders and inves tors felt Franco’s victories might embalden the dictator countries and pending clarification of the international picture, as well as clearer appraisals of spring busi ness prospects at home, there was an irtclinatictn to keep to the sidelines. While selling was not particularly heavy, traders found little incentive to buy. ,You can’t exactly expect trad ers to buy when no one knows when the European pot will boil over. It has been predicted that Eur ope will not go into war this year, but that prediction begins to look weaker and weaker and the stock exchange seems to know it. MIGHT AS WELL PAY Just in case you have not paid your subscription dues to the Person County Times we advise you to do so at once. A number of candidates are now in the field trying to secure subscription to this paper and our word of ad vice is to give each and every one a subscription. DISTRIBUTORS FIGHTING Our local gas distributors are bitterly opposed to a diversion of highway funds and you can’t . blame them one bit. There are roads in Person County that a car can hardly go •ver after a rain and these gas distributors claim that money ob tained for fixing these roads should be used for that purpose. Many others in this county feel the same way and you can’t blame them. CONTINUE THE BALL she annual affair of ’The Pre sident’s Birthday Ball” is a great event Citizens of America dance in order that children who have had ftk dreadful disease, para lysis, might walk. A child crippled for life suffers much and misses much in life. We should do all that we can to help them and we are happy to state that the people of this coun ty always do their part. This event should be continued long after Roosevelt goes out of office. Politics should not affect ti to the slightest degree. * ■®|p|||Sr\ ’ V v i, I Three-year-old Lance, wlia v.a the center of a marital dispute be tweea his parents last summer, being greeted by Count Haugwitz- Reventlow in St. Moritz, Switzer land. Lance’s mother is the former Barbara Hutton. REFLECTIONS By R. M. SPENCER SHEET ANCHORS “Look at John Grin! Never knew a man who Fas so many friends. As a contrast, observe Jim Frown. Never knew a man hard to be If?' friendly, and ■Hfi -IS yet is so lone gjji| ly.” Parallel *" circumstances ShL-' gig can be found in every strata of society and in every walk of I life. There are certain men who seem to be dragging a Sheet Anchor all the time. These Sheet Anchors are an noying habits; habits that are in siduous, that creep into man’s scheme of life and grow into monsters. The man we like is the man who is attentive, who trades ideas with us, or who by genteel discussion helps to clarify a thought. Lurid details of his op eration are left to the imagina- I tion; if business is poor he doesn’t tell us, instead he always presents a happy disposition. If he is not in agreement with our political or religious faiths he doesn’t ar gue the point but remains silent until safer ground is reached. We like the man who likes us enough not to bore us or annoy us. We like him because he is in terested in us but avoids conflict. Go into a huddle with yourself, take stock of your habits, the ones you do not like in others, then cut these Sheet Anchors a drift. 'Better Strok* is Our Mim. aCoetsiM'MM’ fdgpjw? PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. — HI With Our Contemporaries ....BUT FOR THE GRACE OF G0D.... The Philadelphia Recorder. To the United States Senate Gentlemen: On your way to Capitol Hill most of you drive past a WPA project. Maybe several. Did you ever watch a gang on a sewer job, see several men obviously unused to swinging a pick, and.. Did you ever have the same thought we’ve had, the thought John Bradford had when a cri minal passed him on the way to the gallows: “Three, but for the grace of God, go I”? That man hacking away at the ice-encrusted street he might have been you. There aren’t two kinds of real Americans. Only one kind. And among them all, how many feel so secure, either in their jobs or in their resources, as to dare murmur smugly to them selves: “That couldn’t happen to me?” It could. It has. On WPA today are many men who, by slim margins, missed sit ting in the United States Senate, at least in legislative chambers of several states; men who recently held high posts in some of our large cities; men whose names— once—were known to more thousands perhaps that some of yours. “Foxy Grandpa’s” creator died the other day. He was famous. Os late WPA kept him alive. Three winners of Guggenheim fellow ships were found on WPA. Like wise several prominent writers, former college professors, quite a few distinguished engineers. Comb the list further. You’ll find business men who only yes terday were leaders in their communities, men who once ask ed favors of none, men who re member that after the depression, after their savings were gone WPA let them carry on. Bright men. Smart men. Many, Senators, are men like you. They just missed the same train. And those others, perhaps not so smart or so well educated they’re Americans none the less. They don’t regard a WPA job charity. They don’t want charity.» They want work, consider their job IS work. They’re proud of the parks they build, the schools they re pair, the sewers they construct; proud of the reclamation of swamp areas, of the fights they’ve waged against soil erosion, for flood control. The voice of these men may not reach the Senate floor. But it is the voice of men who work and sweat in jobs which not a Sena- START POULTRY SHIPMENTS Columbus County farmers have begun their cooperativve carlot shipments of poultry for the new News&ddities . ... by Squier #• WITH THIS GIANT 5.000.C00 vda "Electric shotgun* physicists will bombard , \ the ATOM, ATTEMPTING to RELEASE VAST STOTXT ■ \ OF PENTUP ATONUC ENtRGV /jip \lißfe''■•■'■ ■•r'-Wmmf/ _r ' = DEVELOPMENTS PR.O ;2rM •«£> vide toe low cost ' ■ .rfft l: IM/ power to run many . -lar/ dustoys bsential ijfe ■i i Mintr^i **f d l WH»yl •• • THE MODERN ELIXIR OF UFE, PLAYS A VITAL PART IN EVERY PHASE OF PRESENT DAV (AL FEVER IS BUT \ >■ ■JWfI / V cwvumt ioj« -»v ONE OF HUNDREDS V JWTV 1 iHHMBPSTHHBH OF ELECTRICITY’S \ I ' MW-■■' /. tj wrmwwlSirtsßlßLL'l © •“ /c ""* • i “ /vr ßWii I MJP T “* HUMAN TOASTER. 1 - IT TIMES THE TOAST. EJECTS TT BCS | WHEN DONE J ■KM ' ' ■ EVEN TURNS IT \L—SELF OFF tor covets despite the legend that WPA work is one long and lazy panic. Let no one say that jobs in private industry are waiting. They’re not. It’s only been a short while since 700 men waited in line all night to apply for a few porter’s jobs in New York City with the crowd of applicants swelling to 5000 by morning. Do you remember that night in Wash ington shortly before Thanksgiv ing, 25,000 women stormed a po lice station for 2,000 jobs as char women? Before you vote, Senators, try to put yourself in a WPA work ers place. Imagine if you can the fear in his heart as he watches your debates over.a proposal to abolish his job and a million more. Try to understand that his voice, faint in the clamor, asks not for gifts, for largess, but only for a chance to work. As you watch the pick swing, listen to the scrape of shovels and clang of crowbars, remem ber the words of John Bradford: “There, but for the grace of God, go I!” o WHO ARE THEY? Philadelphia Record. : We don’t want to cast ugly doubt upon a tender and touch ing scene, b|ut the apjpearance of “600 schoolgirls” to welcome Robert Taylor on his arrival in New York gives us pause. Who are these girls? Where do they live? What makes them do it? What schools do they go to? We know schoolgirls, and, by and large, they are a pretty cyni cal lot. The younger generation knows how to take a joke and give one, and if there is one thing the younger generation is touchy about, it is looking foolish. We think a girl waiting at the ter minal for Robert Taylor looks even more foolish than a girl with her stockings dragging. The a place. school girls who we know wouldn’t be caught dead in such They appear out of nowhere, mysterious hordes who “greet” each dimpling celebrity, and we are wondering whether there is some agency in town which sup plies them, at so much per. We recall the story of the two girls who hid under Robert Taylor’s bed when he sailed for London, and how they turned out to be in the employ of a press agent. Six hundred girls is a lot of girls to get excited on the same morn ing about the same actor. We never met actors and we have never met anybody who does meet actors, though, as newspapermen, we meet'a lot of interesting people. We don’t want to detract from the glory that is Taylor’s ,but those “600 school girls” just don’t look right to us. year. C. D. Raper, assistant county agent, reports that 3,000 pounds were loaded last week at Whiteville and Chadbourn. “Good Roads” Bill Attracts Wide Interest Legislators returning to Ra leigh after a week-end at their homes almost to a man reported increased interest among their constituents in Senate Bill No. 344, the “Good Roads Bill”, op posing diversion of highway funds, according to J. H. Monte, Director of the Good Roads Cam paign of the N. C, Highway Users Conference. The Good Roads Bill was in troduced in both the Senate and House last week. It provides that all highway revenues shall be exclusively to construct, main tain and administrate an adequ ate dependable primary and secondary road system. During the past week Senators John W. Umstead, Jr. of Orange; Fred Folger, of Surry; J. Y. Bal lentine, of Wake; H. J. Hatcher, of Burke; and Representative Clarence Stone, of Rockingham, spoke in behalf of the Good Roads Bill. Speaking this week include Capus M. Waynick, High Point editor and former chair man of the North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Com mission; Senator W. L. Lumpkin, of Franklin; and Mayor Ben M. Douglas, of Charlotte. Although a number of interest ed organizations and individuals have requested a public hearing on the bill, the Senate Finance Committee, through Chairman H. P. Taylor, of Anson, has not announced a date. When the hearing is granted, a record breaking crowd of North Caro linians opposed to diversion of highway funds is expected to come to Raleigh. Many telegrams and letters have been received by legislators in Raleigh the past few days urging their support to Senate Bill 34 and asking them to op pose any diversion of highway funds to the general funds. Since the legislature has been re quested to authorize a bond issue of $6,000,050.00 to be used on the primary system, the secondary Congratulations To The Following Persons: These people have received SI.OO in trade from their Grocer: - Receiver - - Grocer - S. G. Slaughter Sergeant & Clayton Mrs. C. H. Oakley Roark Store Mr. Dickerson Longhurst Merc. Co. Mrs. W. R. Gentry Roark Store Mr. R. L. Adcock Longhurst Merc. Co. Mrs. G. T. Spivey A. & P. Tea Co. Helen Lee Roark Store Bill Clayton Young & Clayton WHEN YOU NEED BREAD CALL FOR S-U-N-R-l-S-E Bread and Rolls and save the letters. When you have spelled the word S-U-N-R-I-S-E, take them to your grocer and receive SI.OO in trade. Let’s see how many we can add to the above list. Roxboro Bakery Co. »»«■■■ Are. Quality Assured Phene 4HI rt.' —— u ; , .. . Two World Beaters of 3D Years Ago Jess Willard, one-time heavyweight boxing champion of the world, in a plane used during his glorious days as a ring top-notcher. This 1918 posher, owned by Clarence McArthur of Tampa, Fla., la an ancestor es the modern planes which took part in the American Air maneuvers in Florida recently. • roads, many of which are al ready in poor condition, will bear the brunt of any diversion of funds. Leaders of the move ment to divert highway funds admit no emergency exist re- I notice when a fellow dies, No Matter what he’s been, Some saintly chap or one perhaps Whose life is stained with sin, His friends forget the bitter words They Spoke but yesterday And now think up a multitude Os Pretty things to say. Perhaps when I am laid to rest, Someone will bring to light, Some noble deed or kindly act, Long burned out of sight. But if it’s all the same to you, my friends, Just give to me instead, The business while I’m living. The knocking when I’m dead. Whitt’s Cash Store THE BRICK STORE See Arch Whitt For Your Painting - Good Plaint - Put On Well and Good Prices. SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, US* quiring diversion of funds at this time, but they simply want to transfer several million dol lars to the general fund to be certain the budget is balanced.”
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