PERSON COUNTY TIMES
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
j. S. MERRITT, Editor M. C. CLAYTON, Manager
E. J. HAMLIN City Editor.
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Class Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under
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THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1939
TODAY’S THOUGHT
A
“We require from buildings, as from
. men, two kinds of goodness: first, the do
ing of their practical duty well: then that
they be graceful and pleasing in doing it;
which last is itself another form of duty.”
—Ruskin.
Stopping School
This editorial is directed to a group of boys and girls
who will probably never see it. A few will, but many will not.
It is directed to those boys and girls who will not graduate
from high school this year and yet intend to stop going to
school. It is directed to those who will graduate this year,
could go to college and yet will not continue their studies.
This group constitutes a number of boys and girls who
believe that there is not so much to school and that they
can do just as well out in the world with the limited amount
of education that they now have.
It’s impossible to advance members of this group ten or
fifteen years and let them see what a mistake they are mak
ing. It wouldn’t do much good to let them talk with older
people who have made the same mistake that they are about
to make because they believe that they are the exception to
the rule and that the old world is not such a hard place to
to conquer after all.
Boys who decide to stop school ahead of their time are
generally those who want to hear money jingle in their pock
ets and want to hang around the business district with the
money to buy a cold drink or a package of this and that if
and when they want to. They have the idea that a few dol
lars a week will do the job that they want to do in a grand
style. Then too they can’t see how one or two more years of
history and math could do so much to help the situation.
Then there is the group that will use Mr. Jones or Mr.
Smith as an example of what can be done. Mr. Jones and Mr.
Smith don’t have much education and look what they have
done.
No one can guarantee to boys or girls that a year or two
more in school will show extra profit. You can’t guarantee
things like that. Neither can you put an exact value on the
finer things of life. Education and living go hand in hand
and if you want to get more real living out of life you are
urged to stay in school as long as you can.
It was stated at the beginning of this editorial that the
school boys and girls of this county would probably never
see it. It is taken for granted that they do not read all the
papers that come into their homes, but we were hoping that
mother or dad might read it and then try to exert a little in
fluence over their boy or girl who has made plans to stop
school ahead of time.
We also know that there are many pupils who will stop
school this year because they have to. To them we say
"Even though you are forced to stop school you are not for
ced to stop your education. Continue to read and study and
try to get all you can from life by means of the opportunities
that will come your way every day.”
Interesting
Apples and pears are put to sleep with an anesthetic at
Cornell University.
The sleep is for storage. The new process promises fresh
fruit the year round in some of the great commercial crops.
It was described recently by Dr. R. M. Smock, assistant pro
fessor of pomology
The use of anesthesia to make fruit sleep while in cold
storage, and so prolong its life and freshness, was described
at Cambridge University, England. The discovery was the
result of a theory, an example of a plan which existed only
on paper, coming through with big results.
This discovery is not so amazing. It is very interesting
and we were just wondering if the day would not come when
individuals could be put to sleep and thus prolong their lives
by the length of time that they were sleeping. This day may
come and there will be individuals who will be willing to
try. During the recent depression there probably would Have
been thousands
The world of tomorrow offers much. Whether it will be
better than the world of today is not known.
Should Help
Three changes have been proposed for the marketing of
the flue-cured crop for this season. If any of these proposed
changes are adopted sales will be retarded and this should
help smaller markets like Roxboro and any one should help
the fanner get a better price for his crop.
Plan I.—Under this plan, sales would be conducted on
warehouse floors only four days each week which would
shorten the selling period by one day each week.
Plan 2.—Each set of buyers would be allowed to buy
only 200,000 pounds of tobacco on each day under the present
five-day sales week.
Plan 3.— Each set of buyers would buy tobacco during a
five-hour period each day during a five-day week.
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Alexander Pope’s dictum that
“Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis
folly to be wise” has been vigor,
ously disputed by many in a posi
tion to know better. Without re
opening the question on its mer
its, we are prompted by the story
of a 16-year-old Mississippi farm
girl to pine, during a transitory
moment, for that simple world
from which she so recently emer
ged, in which Hitler and Mussoli
ni were names unknown.
Alma Madris went to Memphis
on $8 she had earned chapping
wood. Taken in charge by juve
nile court authorities, she told
them she had never heard of Ger
many’s and Italy’s rulers, nor had
she ever listened to the radio or
talked on the telephone.
It is, of course, problematical
how much true bliss there could
be in so circumscribed a life as
Alma’s back on the farm. But
there is another side. For it might
be fairly said that a young girl
who never heard of the axis dic
tators hasn’t missed much. An
argument might more readily be
started about the phone and radio
question.
At any rate never to have heard
of the European trouble-makers
and what they may mean for us
takes shape in the mind’s eye as
an enforced state of blessedness
almost too good to be true. Chop
ping wood may not be unadulter
ated bliss, indeed, but it tends to
insure sound sleep afterward.
The longer we muse in the for
bidden paths, the more are we
gripped with fleeting regret that
Alma ever took her $8 and went
to Memphis at all, to learn about
the world.
SHAVIAN INTERVIEW.
Coronet Magazine
Bob Davis, of the New York
Sun, is said to have probably
made more friends than any man
alive. One of Bob’s formulas for
friendship is to tell a new ac
quaintance at parting something
that will make his new friend
remember the meeting.
As an example, when starting
to make a photograph of Bernard
Shaw, Davis remarked: “Don’t
you think, Mr. Shaw, that a man
often appears in his picture to be
a greater man than he really is?”
“That couldn’t be true in my
case,” replied Shaw, “because
there is no greater man.”
“I was thinking,” said Davis,
of Satan.” Your countenance
from one angle is a bit Mephis
tophelian.”
Shaw blinked and observed:
“It would be difficult to get a
good likeness of me in a photo
graph because you can’t show my
blue eyes.”
“But Mr. Shaw, your eyes are
not blue,” earnestly declared Da
vis, “they’re purple.”
“I never knew that before,”
said G. B. S. Surely he still re
members Bob Davis.
WISE ADVICE
Labor.
There’s a world of wisdom in
the following paragraph, taken
from President Roosevelt’s mes
sage to a Washington gathering
of Young Demochrats:
“This country of ours is demo
cratic with a small ‘d’. It is nev
er, and never will be Democratic
with a big ‘D’, except when two
words mean the same thing.”
He insisted that in the coming
election only the Democratic par
ty can defeat the Democratic par
ty. “It can commit suicide by ab
andonment of the policies that
brought it to power,” he declar
ed.
Those Democrats who wish the
party to succeed in 1940 will not
quarrel with the President’s
statement. However, there are a
great many Democrats, in and out
of Congress, who would rather
see the most reactionary Republi
can in the White House than a
Progressive Democrat.
That element will be strong in
the next Democratic National
Convention. It it prevails, the
Republicans will win hands down.
GREETINGS.
Baltimore Evening Sun
A Berlin dispatch states that
the old wartime slogan of the
Germans—“Gott strafe Englang!”
—has come back into fashion and
that it is being used as a greeting
in Nazi circles; an alternative, no
doubt, to the rather overworked
‘ Heil’Hitler!” A dispatch from
The Sun’s London bureau states
that “reports from Prague say
Nazis in Cz-echo-Slovakia now are
greeting each other with the
phrase ‘April B.’ just as on March
6 their greetings began ‘March 15’
an illusion to the coup then im
minent.”
It is a little difficult to imagine
any people but the modem Ger
mans greeting each other in this
way. The French are a peculiar
race, but not that peculiar. When
Andre runs into Henri on the
street, they don’t yell dates at
each other, or pronounce a for
mal curse on Germany. They just
say “Bonjour” or “Ca va?”
which is the equivalent of the
greeting of a London Cockney’s
“’Ow’s it, Bert?”—which, in turn,'
is not much different from the
American’s “Hiya, Chum?” or
‘Morning, Mr. Wilkins.”
Once upon a time such plea
sant greetings as “Grossgott” and
“Wie gehts?” (particularly the
latter) had a considerable curren
cy among the genial or convivial
even in this country. Such in
nocent salutations in Germany to
day probably would be the first
step toward a concentration camp.
To get the “feel” of present-day
Germany, perhaps, we should try
greeting each other with "Nuts
to the Bund!” “Phooey, Hitler!”
and “Fourth of July.”
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FOR NEWSPAPER SERVICE
DIAL 4601
Large Amount Os
Food Distributed
By State Agency
The commodity distribution of
the State Board of Charities and
Public Welfare handled almost 15
million pounds more food in the
fiscal nine months ended March
31, 1939 than in the same time
of the preceding year and with an
increased cost to the state of
only 20 percent, Arthur E. Langs
ton, State Director of commodity
distribution said this week.
An estimated retail value of
$1,303,245.40 was placed no the
22,970,242 pounds of commodities
distributed throughout the State
in the three quarers of his fiscal
year, in comparison with an es
timate of $350,577.06 on the 8,-
167,650 pounds distributed in nine
months of fiscal year 1938.
This represents an increase of
14,802,592 pounds or 181 percent
in amount of produce handled or
an estimated $952,668.34 or 272
percent increase in the estimat
ed value of products distributed,
Langston said.
While the cost to the state in
distributing these commodities to
North Carolina’s relief clients for
nine months of fiscal 1939 was
$28,079.71, it had jumped to only
$33,900.70 for the corresponding
period of fiscal 1939, an increase
of only 20 percent in the cost of
distribution, he pointed out.
The 22 million pounds distribut
ed so far this year would make
up 765 freght cars loaded at an
average weight of 30,000 pounds
each. Since 100 cars would make
a longer than average train,
Langston pointed out that the
amount of food distributed in
this state up to the first of April
would make fore than seven and a
half trains to bring it into North
Carolina all in one shipment.
Quantities of food distributed
during the nine-month’s period in
round figures of thousands of
pounds was as follows: apples,
1,500; dried beans, 940; beets, 203;
butter, 1,200; cabbage, 1,150;
whole wheat cereal, 363; cheese,
87; graham flour, 640; white
flour, 9,525; grapefruit juice, 341;
corn meal, 1,207; canned peas,
387; Irish potatoes, 2,178; prunes,
872; raisins, 734; rice, 40; mak
ing a total of 22,970,000 pounds.
The Agricultural Adjustment
Administration reports that ex
penditures, including benefit pay
ments to farmers, totaled $354,-
765,575 during the first eight
months of the present fiscal year.
Palace Theatre
ADVANCE PROGRAM
From Thursday, May 4 thru
Saturday, May 6
Motion Pictures Are Youi
Best Entertainment
Thursday-Friday, May 4-5
W. C. Fields with Edgar Ber
gen and “Charlie McCarthy” -
Constance Moore - Mary For
bes - Edwardßrophy - Arthur
Hohl in
“You Can’t Cheat An Honest
Man”
You’ve heard them on the air
—now see them on the screen
—in a moving story blasted
with laughs!
RKO Novelty: “Talent Auc
tion” Robert Benchley in
“How To Watch Football”
No Morning Shows;
Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45;
Admission 10-25 c;
Evenings Daily 7:30-9:15;
Adm. 10 -30 c (Tar Included)
Saturday, May 6
Tom Keene with Beryle Wal
lace in
“Romance of the Rockies”
Episode No. 2 of the serial
“Flaming Frontier” (“Death
Rides the Wind”) with John
Mack Brown . Eleanor Hansen
Ralph Bowman
Merrie Melody in Color: "Ham
ateur Night”
Afternoon 2:30-4:00; Admission
10-25 c. Evening 7-8:30-9:45;
(Box office opens 6:45). Ad
mission 10-30 c (Tax included).
Lump Claims
For Age Insurance
Average $40.81
The average lump-sum pay
ment of old-age insurance in
North Carolina during March was
$40.81 The number of claims
certified in North Carolina in
March totaled 365, and amounted
to 14,895.96.
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On Saturday afternoon,
May 6th., we are going to
give away five Pen and
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who is in the theatre
You must get your ticket between the hours of 2:15
and 3:15 p. m. in order to be eligible. All who get tick
ets at this time, both adults and children are eligible.
The Pens and Pencils Are Fully
Guaranteed By The Manufacturer
On The Screen: Tom Keene with Beryle Wallace in
“ROMANCE OF THE ROCKIES”
Palace Theatre
Roxboro, N. C.
Dine Out
For Pleasure!
National Restaurant Week
May Bth. - 14th.
Good Food is Good Health
Add to your enjoyment of the good things of life by
thrilling your palate with good food—and enjoying the
sense of luxury that is yours with good service.
We Serve
The Finest Steaks Money Can Buy - Chicken Chow
Mein - Genuine Italian Spaghetti, freshly made.
Royal Case
Stephen Georges, Prop. Roxboro, N. C.
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1939
With 21,670 old-age insurance
claims certified in March
throughout the United States,
lump-sum benefits for the month
came to $1,541,818, or an average
of $71.15. The claims now being
paid are filed by insured wage
earners who have already reach
ed 65, and by the heirs or estates
of those who have died. Claims
certified for payment since the
system was established January
1, 1937, total 324,813, represent,
ing $15,721,642.