jPERSON COUNTY TIMES
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«. 8. MERRITT, Editor M. C. CLAYTON, Manager
E. J. HAMLIN City Editor.
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SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1939
TODAY’S THOUGHT
“No greater hope have we than in right
thinking and right acting, and faith in the
blessing of fidelity, courage, patience, and
grace.”
—Mary Baker Eddy
Number One
John Temple Graves, 11, of Birmingham, Alabama, news
paper editor, is perfectly willing for the South to be called
a number one economic problem. Mr. Graves spoke last week
at the second annual conference of the 188th. district of Ro
tary International.
“We, (the South) may or may not like being called a
number one economic problem, but shrewdness suggests that
yre let ourselves be.”
“For such a problem,” he said, “is entitled to number
one consideration from tariff makers, number one fairness
from makers of freight rates, number one freedom from dis
criminatory taxes on cottonseed oil, and number one caution
In administration of the wage and hours law lest they destroy
wages rather than increase them.”
“The South,” he said, “can contribute to the nation by
demanding its rights in these respects by undertaking all
and accepting all that will make it prosper, and giving a great
new market to America, represented by its potential purchas
ing power.”
The speaker said the South’s job was to help the nation
make government by the people work, to have the nerve to
go on permitting free speech, a free press, free religion and
free assembly, “to show that discipline needs no regiment
and devotion no goose step.”
Mr. Graves seems to want the South to follow the most
Jogical course. If the South is supposed to be the number
one problem it is natural that this section get number one
attention and that attention might help in a big way.
Roger Babson seems to think that the South is the com
ing section. The truth' is he feels that it has already come a
Jong way and that right now it offers much to people who
are starting out into the world.
And so we_arrive at this conclusion: If the South is go
ing to receive first class attention and if it is already in good
shape we are willing to remain here a few more years just to
Jbe sure that we are in on the ground floor.
“Sucked In”
Bainbridge Colby, President Wilson’s post-war secretary
of state, expressed the measured opinion last week that the
United States made a mistake in entering the World War—
a mistake he said America must not make again by being
"sucked in as a belligerent when we think we are being neut
ral.”
Testifying before the senate foreign relations committee,
the white-haired former official urged congress “to reclaim
its control” over the policies that might lead to the declar
ation of war. He opposed further extension of the powers of
the President, observing that the executive now has danger
ously wide latitude of action.
He contended, too, that any “cash and carry” policy
might ruin American export trade in war time and urged that
international law be made the basis of future neutrality pol
icies.
Mr. Colby is possibly right when he said that the United
States was sucked into the last war. However, we did not
think so when we entered the war. Our best minds thought
that the United States had only one course that she could pur
sue, Then we entered the war. On the other hand our best
minds could have been wrong and today many of our intelli
gent men say that we were wrong. Its hard to see a thing
the same way after ten or twenty years,
l Our opinion for today is that there is no need to enter
a second European conflict. So far the trouble in Europe has
been strictly European and altho the United States has taken
an active interest, this country has not been involved to any
great extent. Why become involved?
Now is the time to prepare for war, but not the time to
enter it or to lend any money.
Surely this country has learned that it does not pay to
finance wars for other nations.
Long Chance
Beginning next week the future of Person County farm
ers will be stuck in the ground. They will start planting to
bacco.
Right now they are faced with the problem of blue mold.
After the plant is in the field they are faced with the prob
lem of too much rain, not enough rain, too much sunshine,
not enough sunshine; then there are other problems, hail
storms, wind storms, and fire when they start curing. After
the weed Is made ready for sale they are again faced with a
slight problem—namely, what will it bring on the warehouse
floor.
It’s a long chance a tobacco farmer takes, but it’s done
eveTy year. Someday the growers of this county will plant
two or three money crops.
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C.
OUR FELLOW DRIVERS By O'Daniel
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Travelers Safety Service
"Tell him who you are, Horace"
With Our Contemporaries
The New Order
Donald L. St. Clair in
The Sanford Herald
The old social order in America
inherited from Europe took shape
about 1675 with the greater col
onizing movement that took place
after permanent settlements were
made at Jamestown and Ply
mouth. That order received a
further change in the American
Revolution and with the Jackson
ian movement that took place in
the thirties of the nineteenth cen
tury. Slavery was wiped out with
the sword in 1865, and soon after
that the country was cemented
when the Supreme Court decid
ed that we were an “indissoluble
Union of indestructible States.”
The order succeeding slavery,
and based on a very rapid ma
terial development, reached the
acme of its power, if not its end,
in 1929. And quite as definite
ly since then a third order, anti
cipated by many thinkers, is em
ergent.
No matter who is elected Pre
sident of the United States next
year, we can never go back to
1929. We are now 10 years re
moved from the Worst panic the
people of the United States have
ever experienced. No matter how
much Jack Gamer and other
leading Democrats may wish to
make the Democratic party a
conservative party, America can
not malinger in the thought that
its future rests on a broad return
to some pre-existing society. Its
future rests on a more substan
tial foundation, upon economic,
political, social and spiritual ev
olution. Its security will rest on
a Christianity practiced and not
merely argued.
The old day of rugged indivi
dualism, which performed such
mighty works in our land—rail
To the Graduates
of Roxboro and Person Co.
We suggest that you go to college if you can.
We suggest that whether you do or don’t that you
come to Roxboro for your life’s work.
OPENINGS ARE HERE FOR:
Machinists of many kinds - Repair men for typewrit
ers and adding machines - Farm machinery salesmen -
Salesmen for mill and municipal supplies - Painters -
Auditors - Executives - Bakers.
COME HERE TO LIVE.
CITY OF ROXBORO
roads that spanned the continent,
great cities with their skyscrap
ers, and comonwmealths—had in
it an unforeseen danger. Men who
were bold, shrewd, courageous,
grasping, tenacious—yes, some of
them dishonest, played their parts
well. They built an empire, not
on the Jeffersonian principle that
“all men are created equal,” but
on the Hamiltonian principle that
only the rich and powerful
should rule. They built for them
selves first, and the community
secondly. We can share their sat
isfaction in accomplishment with
out approving their methods. We
now have to build the community.
The newer forces, such as elec
tricity, are significant only if
they are utilized. They cannot be
withdrawn from use like farm
land. Our first task is the dis
semination of essentials that all
require, such as food, homes and
recreation. The herculean task of
the government of the United
States, as President Roosevelt has
said on more than one occasion,
is to see that its citizens have the
necessities of life. To the accom
plishment of this task the Demo
cratic party is committed, and if
the Republicans should come
back into power at the 1940 elec
tion they could not shirk the task
if they would.
But the new order must not be
content with these. Man shall not
live by bread alone. The older
proverb was to the effect that
any one who could make two
blades of grass grow where one
grew before was a benefactor.
Now we insist that cultural levels
shall be advanced; that more
books, more music, more art,
more religion and more states
manship be assimilated. What we
as a government and people have
in mind and heart will test the
quality of our civilization and
our ability to use the newer me
chanical appliances in attaining
a new order of the ages.
SUNDAY
SCHOOL LESSON
From
The Adult Student
Topic: Decide Rightly and Act
Rightly About Alcohol.
Reference: Proverbs 23: 31, 32,
35; I Thess. 5: 21, 22.
Key Verse: A prudent man for
seeth the evil, and hideth himself:
but the simple pass on, and are
punished. (Prov. 22: 3.)
Alcohol occupies a place in the
pattern of living of the human
race.
We ought to determine what
its place in the life of the race and
in our own life properly is, be
cause it has a place. Dirt is mat
ter out of place, so it has been
said; and alcohol is poison when
it is out of place, but a good gift
from God when it is properly
used. The whole question to be d
termined is, “What is its proper
use?” Does its proper use consist
of its “moderate use” as a bever
age and its abuse consist of “too
much”? Just here is the funda
mental error in thinking, or rath
er in lack of thinking, which is
the attitude the race has main
tained toward the matter through
so many centuries. The abuse of
alcohol consists of its use as a
beverage—of taking it into the
body, except as a medicine scien
tifically prescribed. Its use con
sists of its employment in the
arts and sciences and in industry.
There are literally hundreds of
proper uses for it, from the mak
ing of derby hats and hair brush
es to the manufacture of the most
delicate perfumes.
The most significant character
istic of alcohol, a characteristic
which is of profound concern not
only to the drinker but to his
neighbor, is its habit-forming
quality. The body establishes a
“tolerance” of the drug and con
sequently an increased quantity
is consistently required to get a
certain effect. As the body accus
toms itself to alcohol an insis
tent appetite develops, and this
appetite develops, and this ap
petite steals upon the drinker un
aware. It develops slowly in the
case of two out of three drinkers,
and it may never become so over
mastering as to transform the
drinker into a “drunkard,” but
used sufficiently long, the alco
hol habit becomes uncompromis
ing in its demands upon any
one. The drinker, to a consider
able extent, loses control of his
own life. It is this habit forming
characteristic of alcohol which in
sures such vast profits to the men
who make and distribute the com
modity, which makes the general
custom of drinking of such poli
tical significance and which dis
turbs the normal functioning of
society because competition with
it is so handicapped. Alcohol
makes its own repeat orders.
“Wine is a mocker.” In deter
mining upon a life attitude to
ward alcohol, we must remem
ber that there are influences at
work to shape our thinking, a
rouse and use our emotional feel
ing, affect our decision.
First, there is alcohol itself.
What it promises it never per
forms; what it seems to do, it
never does. The drinker thinks it
makes him wise and witty; act
ually it makes him garrulous and
foolish. He thinks it makes him
strong; actually it makes him
clumsy.
There is the drink dealer, the
man who makes money by our
drinking. He is greatly concerned
as to our decision and, being able
to employ expert advice and ser
vice, he advertises seductively,
he hints and suggests and adroit
ly links his interest with “so
ciety,” and poetry, color, activity,
and charm. By it all and through
it all, he is fooling us—for mo
ney.
There is the politician who
serves “special interests” instead
of the people, the man who mak
es use of the machine composed
of tavern hangers-on, the man
who accepts cash and votes from
“the trade.” He fools us woeful
ly and with a motive.
There is environment, social
pressure, the prestige which be
longs to a custom which goes far
back into the history of the race,
which runs like a red cord thro
ughout song and story. The thing
which has been done, continues to
be done, until change comes as
a result of thinking by men and
women who cannot be fooled.
We should not close our ears
to these voices but we should lis
ten critically. We know that they
cannot be trusted. What can be
trusted? Religion, science, medi
cine, economics, sociology—what
do they say?
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PROGRESS
By using a registered stock and
following a definite breeding pro
gram, the average production per
cow of .the dairy herd at the Penn-
Sav “7-Up” Anywhere
Wherever you go you can get this de
licious drink. Call for 7-Up at drug
stores, grocery stores, service stations,
cases or any place where cold drinks are
sold
this Sign
this Battle W
Maytag Dealer
WANTED
We are interested in getting an exclusive Maytag deal
er for Roxboro and vicinity. More than 1,000 customers
to contact in Person and Caswell counties. Call or write
Mr. Lester Tucker, Greensboro
Hotel, Greensboro, N. C.
Dear Graduates:
Here’s a letter from your Roxboro Chamber of
Commerce.
We think that you all should go to college if that
is possible. Then when you finish college we think
you should come to Roxboro to live.
But there are many among your group who will
not be able to go to college and so we say to you that
we would like to have you all locate in Roxboro. We
believe that Roxboro offers all the opportunities that
you will find in the so-called “far greener pastures.”
Make your future in Roxboro, there are many
openings here.
Roxboro Chamber of Commerce
Melvin H. Burke, Secretary.
WARNING
Thousands of flies are / fii \
screen your house now?
WE HAVE EVERY KIND OF
SCREEN
and can furnish any amount that you desire. You can
repair your old screens or get new ones.
Watkins & Bullock
EVERYTHING TO BUILD WITH
ROXBORO NORTH CAROLINA
SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1930
sylvania State college has been in
creased by almost 6,000 pounds
since the herd was started in
-1890.
Professional Cards
s. F. NICKS, JR.
Attorney - at - Law
First National Bank Bldg
Main St. Roxboro, N. C
DR. R. J. PEARCE
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