PERSON COUNTY TIMES
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
«. S. 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
(he Act 0* March 3rd., 1879-
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THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1939
Now that the legislature has adjourned Governor Hoey will
really become a busy man. High school commencements are ex
pected to tax his speaking ability to the limit.
ROXBORO SHOULD HAVE A SMALL FLOWER GARDEN
This column continues to insist that Roxboro should have a
flower garden, a spot that would attract many visitors to this
city at this time of the year. We,
know that Roxiboro could not ex-j
pect to have a garden that would J
be anything like the garden at' (
Duke or those at Wilmington, but i
flie city could afford a small gar- 1
den that could be made very
beautiful. Anyone would donate 1
the desired land and one man
could keep it up.
During the spring of the year
everyone likes to see flowers in
bloom and a small flower gar
den near this city, or in this city,
would attract hundreds of visi
tors.
ONE EXTRA DAY
We contend that all business
firms should close down one day
each month as a special holiday
and that this day be on Monday.
’ All over the world business
came to a standstill last Monday.
It was truly a day of rest and em
ployers as well as employees en
joyed this day to the fullest ex
tent.
No firm will find that the one
business day that was lost will
make much difference in the total
amount done for the month.
This is a busy world, we work
until we are too tired to go home
mid enjoy a night of rest. Every
one is scheming about making
money and the wheels of indus
try grind night and day in order
to get production. Always on the
Tun, always making plans for the
next day.
• Is all of this work getting us
anywhere? If so people have fail
ed to see it or to profit very much
treat it.
If every business concern would
take off one day in the month and
Jet that day come on Monday in
order that two days of rest come
together this would be a more
.oontented world.
TTie business world now obser
ves four holidays; Christmas,
'Thanksgiving, Fourth of July and
faster Monday. To be sure many
individuals take other days and
then take $ vacation, but those
♦re the only four days that are
observed in all cities the Unit
ed States. Four days are not en
ough. One day each month would
help and if all concerns would
observe this day we would dis
cover that business could get a
long just as well as it does now—
which isn’t saying so much.
NOTED SPEAKERS
It is impossible to attend all
the commencement programs that
will soon be held in this county,'
but we all could select one or two
and enjoy the occasion to the full
est extent.
Many noted speakers will be
* brought here to deliver commen- j
cement addresses and although
we often tire of so many speech
es you can hardly afford to miss
the opportunity of hearing one
• or two addresses that are bound
; *> be worthwliile.
Watch the papers and select
1 the speaker that you want to
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TREE NURSERIES
Becoming interested in the pro
duction of seedling forest trees be
cause of the heavy plantings done
over North Carolina this winter,
4-H club members in Jackson
county have started some nurser
ies of their own. Pour clubs have
planted such nurseries on their
local school grounds.
DEFINITE PROGRESS
Twenty-four demonstration far
mers in Rutherford county say
they increased their com yield an
acreage of 7.6 bushels per acre
in 1938; extended the grazing per
iod on their pastures by }8 days
and that the cattle are 11.8 per
cent heavier than in 1937 by fol
lowing better methods.
Palace Theatre
ADVANCE PROGRAM
From Thursday, April 13 thru
Saturday, April 15.
Motion Pictures Are Your
Best Entertainment
Thursday-Friday, April 13-14
Shirley Temple with Richard
Greene - Anita Louise -
Hunter - Cesar Romero - Ar
thur Treacher - Mary Nadi -
Sybil Jason - Mercia Mae
Jones in
“The Little Princess”
(In Technicolor)
Heart-throbs and laughter
stirring moments »nd tender
moods beauty! Romance!
Unforgettable dramatic climax
es! A Great Classic Comes to
Life in Glorious Technicolor!
Our Gang Comedy: “Men in
Fright”
Special Morning Show
Friday 10:39;
Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45;
Admission 10-85 c;
Evenings Daily 7:15-9:00.
Adm. 10 -30 c (Tax Included)
Special Shows
Saturday Morning 19:30
Saturday Night 11:30
Ronald Roagau - John Litel .
Da Rhodes - James Stephen
son - Eddie Foy, Jr., in
“Secret Sendee Os The Air”
The first of the thrilling series
about Uncle Sam’s Undercov
er Men
Crime-Doesn’t-Pay Series:
“The Wrong Way Out”
Box office opens Saturday
Morning 10:15. Adm. 10-25 c.
(Tax Included.)
Box office opens Saturday
night 11:15. All seats 30c. (Tax
Included.)
Saturday, April 15.
Charles Bickford . Jean Par
ker - Gordon Oliver - Pat O’-
Malley in Jack London’s pow
erful story of the lumber
camps
“Romance of the Redwoods”
Episode No. 14 of the aerial
“The Spider's Web (The Don-
Terrytooa: “Hie Owl and the
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, : The Rhoades Family ... by Squier
Two la, .o, lector, ,r, alwaya an Uta haala as tha U. S. malarial. In
addition to the state gasoline taxes, tha federal government In 1932
enacted a‘temporary’ 1 U per gallon tax, which duplicates the state taxes
and adda 25% annually to the motorist’s tax bill. The taxes Increase the
coat of gasoline by one-third
With Our Contemporaries
ST. MARTIN’S STOMACH
The Baltimore Evening Sun
Scientists have successfully us
ed the “thoracic window” in ex
periments with animals in which
a surgical opening is made in the
chest to allow for the observa
tion of heart and lungs. Now a
Boston University physiologist,
Dr. Walter L. Mendenhall, has
announced the invention of a'
similar technique which, he be
lieves, may be applied to humans
in the treatment of tuberculosis.
An operation is performed in
which the diseased parts are ex
posed and the openings covered
by a transparent film which fits
airtight, thus allowing the patient
to breathe without artificial res
piration while anaestheticed. The
importance of this operation lies
not so much in the fact that the
doctor may look into his patient
as in that he may treat the tu
bercularly ravaged sections of the
lungs by a direct application of
X- or ultra-violet rays.
This development of Dr. Men
denhall’s is keenly reminiscent
of St Martin’s stomach and the
part that organ played in mo
dern medical knowledge.
On June 6, 1822, a robust 19-
year-old French Canadian woods
man named Alex St Martin, in
upper New York State, was acci
dentally shot in the stomach with
a duck gun. The only doctor in
the neighborhood was Dr. Wil
liam Beaumont, a Plattsburg ar
my surgeon stationed at Fort
Mackinac, and to Beaumont was
brought this youth with a gap
ping hole in the midruff. In his
diary, the surgeon records all the
horrible details and suggests that
the victim managed to pull
through largely because of an ex-
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WE HAVEN’T MADE THEM GOES JOHNNIES KWi&S&P M«¥ auT
ANY MONEY ON SCHOOLING AND AS NEIGHBOR THOMPSON MAYBE SO JOE, BUT
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ceedingly robust constitution.
However, it is obvious that Dr.
Beaumont was a pretty skillful
surgeon, for he patched up St.
Martin very satisfactorily, con
-1 sidering the extent of damages.
Fortunately, however, the char
' ge of duck shot had completely
> carried away a portion of Sit.
' Martin’s belly the size of a man’s !
1 hand. It turned out to be fortunate
1 for St. Martin and millions of
■ persons who were to come after
1 him. For, although he became
■ well again and was perfectly able j
1 to engage in hard, rough work,
■ the hole in his stomach never
1 closed, and Dr. Beaumont made
i him a very advantageous contract
t Nothing like this contract had
■, been witnessed before. It said, in
! | effect that Mr. Beaumont was to
*, pay him $l5O a year (not a bad
wage, in those times), furnish
him good board, lodging, wearing
‘ | apparel and accessories and laun
! dry; and that, in return, St. Mar
t tin was to allow the doctor to
| make free use of the peephole at
•| frequent intervals.
Beaumont’s report on this most
5 ! direct research into the internal
• workings of the human stomach
completely changed the medical
■| conception of that organ’s func
", tion. Until that time, physicians
1 had been guessing raher wildly as
■ | to what went on in it. Today they
i know, and it is due to Dr. Beau
i mont’s interest in St. Martin’s
■ case that they do know.
t CUNJURMAN.
>1 Statesville Daily.
5 1 Old Hiram is a “conjurer.” Last
•! week he “conjured” a toothache
t right “off’n” a lad while we
l watched him and we don’t see
■ yet how he did it. Hiram has been
substitute janitor up here a while’
and to look at him you’d never
guess what “powers” he has I He
is modest about it all. Says it was
“giv” him. He’s a seventh son,
you see, of the seventh of eleven
sons and he “cotched” his gift
from his dad who was a seventh
son too. We wanted him to
straighten out one or two little
things for us . . . heaven knows
we've had no luck ourselves and
have tried most everything but
“conjuring” . . but Hiram won’t
commit himself, seems doubtful
of our faith.
LIGHT UNDER A BUSHEL.
New York World-Telegram
They elected a mayor, the oth
er day, in “the Marsh,” a village
of shacks along the old Erie Can
al towpath near Buffalo, N. Y.
The victorious candidate was Ev
erette J. Haentges, whp campaign
ed on a platform promising no
more cold weather, no snow, no
high winds, bigger and better fish
in Lake Erie, less work and an
early spring.
Mayor Haentges is wasting his
talents in “the Marsh.” A man
who can promise things like that
ought to be in Congress, at least.
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COTTON
AT THE
GROCERY,
Sugar is sweet in the South
both for the customer and the
merchant when it’s packed in
cotton sacks, according to the
National Cotton Council of A
merica and the Cotton Textile In
stitute, Ihq orghnizations joint
ly sponsoring National Cotton
Week.
The satisticians of these organi
zations hava proved that every
time a carload of sugar is pack
ed in cotton bags, no less than 16,-
800 cotton containers are used.
And what does this mean?
It means a day’s work for 43
cotton farmers, 32 cotton mill em
ployes and eight cotton bag em
ployes—a total of a day’s work
for 83 persons!
Last year, American retail mer
chants sold to you and me and
other consumers more than four
and one-half million tons of sug
ar, amounting to 120 thousand
carloads. If every bit of that sug
ar had been packed in cotton bags,
it would have meant a day’s work
for 9,960,000 people, or a third of
a year’s work for 100 thousand
people.
This is for sugar alone. Flour,
salt, feed and other staples pack-
I ed in cotton bags would add tre-
I mendously to the total. These
I staples, too, regardless of their
flavor, would be as sweet as sug
ar—in an economic way—to cot
ton farmers.
In the battle for increased mar
kets King Cotton has the right
to ask that the southern seller
and purchaser demand cotton
wrapping, cotton bagging and cot
ton containers wherever the use
of such articles is feasible and
practicable.
Without going into dry detail,
it may be pointed out that stap
les are easier to handle in cotton
begs and their contents do not de
teriorate easily, the cotton allow
ing “natural breathing,” prevent
ing caking, minimizing heating
and sweating.
If consumers and merchants
would voice a vigorous “No!” to
staples packed in substitutes,
King Cotton would not totter so
noticeably on his throne.
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SPENDING
Food still ranks first in farm
family expenditures, but increas
ed outlay for automobiles and
household operation in recent
years has shoved clothing spend
nig down to fourth place.
FALLING
For the third consecutive
month, the level of local market j
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THURSDAY, APRIL 13,1939
prices for farm products
ed in March, with the result thal
the index of the U. 8. Bureau at
Agricultural Economics has toucifc
ed the lowest point since July;
1934.
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FEWER
Approvimately 10,700,000 farm
family and hired workers in 193E
produced 25 to 30 per cent more
farm products than did 12,200,000
workers in 1909.
Dolly Madison
THEATRE
ADVANCE PROGRAM
From Thursday, April 13 thru
Saturday, April 15.
Motion Pictures Are Your
Best Entertainment
Thursday-FrkUy, April 13-14
John Garfield with Rosemary
Lane - Stanley Fields - Dick
Purcell - Victor Jory - Gran
ville Bates - Peggy Shannon In
“BlackwelPs Island”
(First Run)
The film tribute to these brave
men who built a model prison
out of the racket-ridden ruins
of Blackwell's Island!
Kraay Kat Cartoon: “Krasy’k
Bear Tale”
The Captain and the Kids in
“Petunia Natural Park”
No Morning Shows;
Afternoons dally 3:15-3:45;
Admission IMSt;
Evenings dally 7:15-940;
Adm. 10 -30 c (Tax Included)
Saturday, April 15.
Tex Ritter with his horse
“White Flash” in
“Sapid own lan jtfce FrolricT
(First Run)
Final Episode of the serial
“Hawk of the Wilderness”
(‘Trail’s End’) with Herman
Brix - Mala - Monte Blue -
Jill Martin.
Sportlight: “Super Athletes”
Afternoon 2:30-440; Admission
10-25 c. Evening 7-8:30-945;
(Box office opens 6:45). Ad
mission 10-30 c (Tax included).