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PERSON COUNTY TIMES A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE 1.8. MERRITT, Editor M. C. CLAYTON, Manager E. J. HAMLIN City Editor. PubHshed Every Sunday and Thursday. Entered As Second Class Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under The Act Os March 3rd., 1879. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year $1.50 5« Months .75 Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at all times, Rates furnished upon request. Neva 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, AUGUST 20, 1939 O. K. By Us t Well, the President has changed the date for Thanksgiving Day. Personally, we have no objections. We can eat our hen on the 23rd. or on the 30th. It will taste just as good one day as it will the other. We can rest on the 23rd. just as well as on the 30th. and if we can get this paper out Wednesday night instead of Thursday, we will be very thankful for that. —O—o 0 No Ham And Eggs NEW—Licensing of slot machines of the “play for l'un only” type by the last legislature already has meant 3120,500 in “new” revenue to the State since June 1. Through August 15, the State has realized that sum for licenses on 6,025 of the machines, mostly of the five-cent pinboard type. Such machines were not licen sed by the State until the last legislature passed that act. Included in that section are music machines, vend ing machines, drink vending machines, etc., which had been licensed in previous years. Since June 1, licenses of all kinds under that section have yielded $190,050. In Roxboro, slot machines have proved to be one of the chief amusements that this city offers. At times you can hardly get close enough to a machine to see what is going on. When a man starts shooting the boys 1 gather. Often a person has to wait his turn to get to play. There’s no telling how much money these machines are getting. Many proprietors will tell you that they make enough clear to pay the rent on their places of business. The State made quite a bit of money when the “slots” were approved, but it certainly did provide a way whereby a huge amount of money is being pushed into a slot and no ham or eggs are coming out. —o— o o About Tobacco All reports reaching this section tend to prove that tobacco on the Border Belt is bringing a fair price and that thfe farmers are satisfied. Growers in this section point out that the crop is even better up here and they predict that prices will be just as good and probably better. All of this makes our farmers feel good. They have raised more tobacco than they have been raising and a twenty cent average will give many a chance to pay their bills. Much tobacco was lost last week. This was due to the fact that there was not enough barn room to care for the crop as fast as it got ripe. If this county is to continue raising this large amount of weed there must he a building program staged on the farms of this sec tion. However, no one here expects a crop this large for years to come. We may consider ourselves very for tunate to get as much as twenty cents. It may be true that the tobacco is worth twenty cents, but another crop this large will probably find the companies unwill ing to pay that much for it. The price of every comodity is based on the old law of supply and demand. We might disregard this law for a time or two and get by with it, but the practice cannot be continued with any success. —o—o 0 Keep It Going Kiwanians and Rotarians have started a program of visiting the farmers of this county. If this program is really worked out it will mean much to the farmers and much to civic club members. If we are interested in our fellowman we should go to see him and if he is in terested in us he should be glad to see us. The business men of this city want to cement the relationship between the town and county. This pro gram will do that if parties of both parts will do all that they can to make the program a success. Remember, both parties must be in accord with the idea. Finally, the visits should be continued until we reach the point where the man in the county looks for ward to them and - knows that we are really interested in his friendship. —o—o o . ,* if> ;•* And Always Has » From the farms of America will come the men who will, steer this country through future crisis, Governor Hoey told approximately 2,500 persons attending Swan test farm’s 27th. annual farmer’s field day last t Because of the freedom of rural life and its close ness' to nature, he said, the farmer today is a better PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. (w\en'. thinker and has a clearer conception of the finer things of life than does the city dweller. “The farm is a great power house, from which will emanate the power of thought and the strength of char acter which will save this nation in future crisis.” The governor is right, but the one thing he forgot to mention is the fact that great leaders of America h§ve been coming from the farms since the days of George Washington. Go into the office of any great leader and ask him where he was raised. If he wasn’t raised on a farm the chances are that he came from a small town and has seen plenty of work on a farm. The farms of America have produced leaders for years and if city life continues with its rush and fight for dollars, the farms will continue to produce our leaders. Cataclysmic! Christian Science Monitor President Roosevelt’s proposal to move Thanksgiv- i ing Day forward from November 30 to November 23 probably is the most cataclysmic since Ford adopted the the gear shift. Its boldness leaves the commentator flab bergasted. What a precedent? Can’t have this broken too of ten, you know, or we’ll have none left. What about Abraham Lincoln who established the “last Thursday” custom? Is this a subtle slap at Republicanism? What about all the university and school calendars, with print ed catalogues in the mails? And those on every desk with the figure “30” in red letters ? Oh, yes, the retailers who customarily fill their windows with Christmas goods on the day after Thanks giving should have another week of business—but what about the “big business” of college football, whose schedules were drawn up a year ago? Merely moving them up a week won’t do at all, you know, because on the Saturday before Siwash has a bruising game with State and needs the customary week and a half re spite before the holiday encounter with their old rivals. (Possibly this did not occur to Mr. Roosevelt whose alma mater never plays on Thanksgiving.) _ Socialize business and the professions? Maybe. Take over the lawmaking prerogatives of Congress? Perhaps. Alter the Supreme Court? Well— ... But tampering with institutions sacred to turkey and pigskin may be more than a patient people can endure. —O—O 0 Not An Issue Greensboro Daily .News Raleigh correspondents for the state press are playing with the notion that liquor is going to be a lead ing issue in the coming gubernatorial campaign. We don’t believe that for a variety of reasons, but ~ ® chief one is the difficulty that will be experienced m finding anybody to take the pro end of the question. We can count on the fingers of one hand all the guber natorial candidates we ever heard of refusing a drink; but the number who cared publicly to confess to a will ingness to bend an elbow was even smaller. You can put it down right now that liquor, state controlled or otherwise, will not have a friend among those who ask the suffrage of the Democratic electorate. But that doesn’t mean that the candidate who talks loudest and longest against John Barleycorn is going to get the most votes. - —"*■ Friendly service ShukUrd on Cm. PNdicta. TVUfkmt Btntee No. 4TU ROCK - INN SERVICE STATION 81,209 Cmm reported 1b U. 8. la lfMt DONT DKLAT! . BAB START TODAY with ODD 666 o*cks Malaria in 7 daja. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON From The Adult Student UPBUILDING THE COMMUNITY By Ruby Van Hooser The word “community” has been set in the midst of the thought life of modern times as one about which great hopes gather, and as one which em bodies some of the noblest ideals of human life. The word general ly embraces a group of people having certain common needs and interests and desires, bound to gether by common traditions and customs, and using for the most part the same language. A com munity has the ability to plan large things for itself, and to carry them through to comple tion. Today all the richness that can gather about such a common life is being realized much more clearly than it formerly was, and plans for the organization and development of community liv ing have gone far forward. Citizens work today to make their city one that is characteriz ed by beauty, health, safety, and equal opportunities for all its people. Drawing upon its tradi tions of the past, seeking to carry forward the vision of greatness that the founders of the commun ity dreamed in might one day achieve, responsible men and women seek to guard its life from all of those things which tear down and defile all that they have tried so patiently through the years to build up. Drink, One of the Ancient Foes Os Community Life One of the enemies of a strong individual and group life has long been that of drink. That is no new problem the literature of every nation reveals. For-exam ple, Habakkuk, that great prophet of the closing years of the seventh century B. C., turned away from the shifting affairs of the nations, to find, if he could, the God of the universe, who was in the midst of that which was break ing down and being overthrown. And in a meditation addressed to God ,the prophet cries out against those things that ruin a life, a city, or a nation, in a series of woes that paint the picture of his times vividly before us. A mong those ancient woes we find these words; “Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink.” In another unforgetable pic ture the writer of the book of Daniel draws the scene of a rich, and sumptuous banquet in the palace of Belshazzar, ruler of the empire of Babylon. Hunderds of guests were assembled about the board. Then as if to crown the ev ents of the evening, the gold and silver vessels from the Temple in Jerusalem, sacred to the use of service of patience and praise of God alone, are called for, and toasts are drunk from them to the gods of gold and silver ,of iron and brass and wood. In the midst of the royal feast, a moving hand writes upon the wall the words of the nation’s swift destruction. It is significant that Daniel, who was summoned to interpret the words, had refus ed to indulge in the luxuries of food, drink, and pampered living by which his Babylonian master had sought to surround him. He, a worshiper of the God of the Hebrews, sought rather to re main strong, clear-headed, and in command of himself. When call ed into the banquet hall, he an nounced the prediction of the coming fall of the kingdom—an event that the king and his lead ers had refused to see, but whose seeds of destruction has been long in the sowing. Neither an individual nor an empire can eventually withstand failure to observe the laws of right that are written deep into the structure of creation itself. The Responsibility of the Community A single human being’s worth, said the Master, is greater than all else in the creation of God, and for the fullest life of each one the Son of Man went the way of the cross. It is for those of us who follow him to help others understand what science has re vealed clearly today as to the re sults of the use of alcohol in the life of an individual. We must help others see its effects in so cial group life, and then join with them in banishing beverage alcohol from community living. Above all, those of us who are truly Christian need to care en ough for each human being in our city to lead each one to the Master who alone gives joy and satisfaction in indivdual lives, so that each person may come to desire only that which is health ful and wholesome and fine. To gether the followers of Christ can make their community one that is stable and safe and free—one in which life, not death, is the gift of all its people. o ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES DIAL 4501. | BUCK*JONES 1 for j; jiTransfer Service;! !; or ;! i; Public Hauling \\ WE BUILD FOR Roxboro and Person County With all Work Guaranteed. No Job Too Luge and None Too SmalL GEORGE W. KANE Roxboro, N. C. [ WERE IN LUCK, M ' T I PAL/ A SACK J ¥' ", V Jb?4 -a « ..JgygEgS # <Wswf { jgg MR? *"!# iC ■M-v ;arr Sft' * K,fS mmm* . 11 SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1938 Hot being, insured i$ like cheating at solitaire THOMPSON INSURANCE AGENCY Roxboro, N. C. NOTICE I will exchange feeds of any kind to the farmers for oats and will allow you $1.25 per hundred pounds. I will also exchange flour. R. H. Gates Depot Street (SET RID OF SaMDßimf Get this SHARE-THE-ROAD EMBLEM for your car FREE SHOW YOUR COLORS! Help out Stop-and-Go driving 25 %! Traffic authorities say it can be done. Join the Shell Share-the-Road Club! 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