PERSON COUNTY TIMES
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
J. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, Manager
THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor
Published Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second
Class Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under
The Act Os March 3rd., 1879.
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, 1939
Too Near
Roxboro people are mad about one or two signs ad
vertising the Durham Tobacco market. These signs
have been placed right in Roxboro and many people here
feel that this is carrying matters a little too far. They
think that those who have charge of the Durham market
could have, at least, put the signs out of the city.
Now Roxboro people are very friendly with the peo
ple of Durham. They go there to visit and they go there
to shop, but they do not want signs right in the heart of
the city advising people to sell their tobacco in Durham.
Prior to this year the Durham Tobacco Committee
has placed signs of this kind in the county, but not right
in Roxboro. Our citizens voiced few objections to the
signs in the county, but now they are a little hot and
bothered.
Roxboro has a small market, but Roxboro people
are trying to build this market and they ask that Dur
ham not come too near as their signs are placed around
in the tobacco section.
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The Coming Home
In Monday morning’s edition of his “Among Us
Tar Heels” column published in the Greensboro
Daily News, W. T. Bost writes of “War in North Caro
lina”. Getting down to business quicker than he does
with a political subject Mr. Bost quotes State Geologist
H. J. Bryson to the effect that “the demand for sundry
non-metallic minerals produced in North Carolina has
increased materially since the start of the present con
flict in Europe.
This “Coming Home” of the war to North Carolina
cannot be regarded as news, for many even careless
readers of newspapers have seen advertisements from
junk dealers broadcasting the fact that they will pay
and gladly pay for old iron scrap metal. The dealers have
not said the junk metal was going to Japan, or maybe,
with a question mark, to China. Where the metal went
was their business, not our own, and Tar Heel participa
tion in the trade has not been and cannot be blamed more
than a similar participation by citizens of other states.
However, this minor Tar Heel war ousiness in what
has become a minor war fades into the past beside the
report from Mr. Bryson. The two North Carolina pro
ducts now in heavy demand are pyrophyllite and talc.
These mineral products, indirectly used in the manufac
ture of war materials, “do not go directly into killing,
but rather to the salvaging of human lives” and as such
can be freely bought by England and France.
Not many of us will recognize “Pyrophyllite” as “a
hydrous silicate of aluminum, usually white or greenish,
which in the compact variety is used for making slate
pencils and is called pencil stone”, and still fewer of us
are aware that Randolph and Moore counties are rich in
up shootings of the metal-like substance and that it is
used in the manufacture of rubber hose, gas masks,
automobile tires, battery boxes and refractory bricks.
On the other hand, talc, produced in great quanti
ties in the western part of the state, especially in Chero
kee, is a more familiar product. It is a soft magnesium
silicate used in the production of French chalk and soap
stone.
Mr. Bost says that Mr. Bryson says, “Pyrophillite
prices are up $2 a ton and talc, too, will go skyward.”
Here then, is one “Coming Home” of war to us, and sin
ce it is a coming home with financial profit many of us
will not care, anymore than we have been distressed by
scrap iron going into and coming out of Japanese can
nons. What we should be concerned about is, quite right
ly, the more subtle coming home of war through insid
eous but no less drastic social changes. We are still suf
fering from “inside changes” wrought by the last war
and we need to be deeply concerned with those now to
be thrust upon us, regardless of our participation or non
participation in actual warfare.
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Week-end Adventure
Having some personal business calling him
back to Greensboro and Guilford county, the writer of
these words left his typewriter to the tender mercies of
the composing-room staff and went. For years and years
he has driven an ancient automobile up and down the
city streets without ever having a ticket from Della Mit
chell. Mrs. Mitchell, for the Person folks who don’t
know Greensboro, is the judge, advocate, manager and
power on the throne of the Greensboro traffic bureau.
Mrs. Della takes money for first and second offen
ses such as speeding, reckless driving and over-time
parking. All this round-about is just a simple way of
saying that the City Editor of the Person County Times,
having recently forsworn his Greensboro allegiance in
favor of Person County and Roxboro, should have had
wit enough to leave his Greensboro city sticker-tag in
the Times wastebasket, since the Monday afternoon
end of a week-end in Guilford’s Greensboro cost him the
huge sum of one dollar as over-time parking tribute.
That same dollar could have bought Roxboro
tag that would have saved him front Mrs. Mitchell's
judgement. f -'''■
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. G
As Germany Recoups World War Losses
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Maps show how Germany’s expansion the past five years has created
a nation far larger than the kaiser’s pre-war empire. Principal World
war losses were Alsace Lorraine, to France; the Polish corridor, Posen
and Upper Silesia to Poland; Danxig, which became a free city, and
the Rhineland, demilitarised. AU but Alsace Lorraine have now been
recaptured, although Polish seizures are not recognised and therefore not
shown on the 1939 map. Germany has also seized Austria and most of
the former Czecho-Slovakia. Germany Is still below her pre-war size,
however, because aU foreign colonies were confiscated at Versailles.
Were All In It
Durham Herald
President Roosevelt’s warning to congress that
there should not be any group taking to itself the name
“peace bloc” was well made. As the President said all
of congress is a “peace bloc.”
Senator Borah and his followers in the congress
have let themselves be associated with that term. The
implication is, of course, that everyone who does not
agree with their particular viewpoint is in reality no
worker for peace, but a worker for war.
This, of course, is absurd.
No one definitely knows whether one method will
bring peace and another war. All anyone can do is weigh
the good points and bad points of each against the other
in an impartial, calm manner and act accordingly.
We believe that congress as a whole is motivated in
this neutrality question by a genuine desire to do the
best thing for the United States. Senator Borah and his
followers may think sincerely that their way is better;
those who believe differently think their way is better.
The question will be settled in the American way of
doing as the majority wishes.
President Roosevelt and those who support his
viewpoint believe that the United States has a better
chance to remain out of this conflict as long as England
and France are winning the war. They also feel that the
quicker the war ends the better our chances will be. They
believe they can contribute to the achievement of both
these aims by instituting the cash and carry plan of sell
ing war materials to all comers.
England and France, of course, with their superior
sea power, will be benefitted.
Regardless of neutrality plans and the like, Amer
icanp need not fear becoming involved ip the European
war unless they directly want to become involved. It is
likely that in the future they may have become angered
many times.
If we, the people, can keep our wits about us and
remain calm, we may also remain neutral.
At the present time there seems to be a complete
unanimity among all branches of our American system
to keep out of this war
We are all members of a “peace bloc.”
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Reasons
Randolph Tribune
Italy may be sympathetic toward the Nazi regime
in Germany. But the Italians have no love for Nazi me
thods. There is an inborn antipathy in Italy for any
thing German, something which has come down from
the days of the Roman empire which finally fell under
the onslaught of the blondes from what is now Germany..
The Italian dictator has been overshadowed by
Hitler, his thunder stolen, and Mussolini made an errand
boy of the German chancellor. There is no doubt but
that Mussolini would go farther along the road with
Hitler, even taking gladly the crumbs that would fall
from the dictator’s.table, but he is well aware of the
fact that the Italian people have no love for such an al
liance.
Mussolini knows and his people know that for Italy
to enter war on the side of Nazis would mean the des
truction by the French of the great commercial centers
of the country. These lie close to France and within easy
reach of the French air fleet. Northern Italy would be
come a pathway for allied advance into southern Ger
many, and, whether successful or not, would turn Italy
into shambles. * ‘
Italians have no heart to fight France. Both are
Catholic nations and have many interests in common.
By staying out of war, Italy may cash in on com
mercial relations with neutrals. While France, Britain
and Germany are busy fighting, there’s nothing to pre
vent Italy from expanding her foreign trade aFthe ex
pense of all three. And this foreign trade is something
Italy can use very well to stabilize her economy.
It may not be Mussolini, it may be the saner mind
of the Italian king of which little is heard, but occurs
to us that somebody in Italy has a great sense of balance
demonstrated by remaining neutral on the edge of a
cauldron of fire.
Resolutions
Os Respect For
Rev. N. J. Todd
The friendships of life are the
most treasured things that come
to us and as one by one' our
friends slip away,our hearts are
made sad at their passing. Mill
Creek Baptist church and Per.
son County as well sustained a
great loss when God in His in
finite wisdom saw fit to take
from our midst His faithful ser
vant and our beloved pastor, Rev.
N. J. Todd.
Born April 20, 1888 in Bertie
Coi nty, he began his church
work in his youth by teaching in
Sunday School and conducting
prayer services in a country
church, called Greencross, in
Bertie County. Years later, ans
wering the call to preach the
Gospel and desiring to prepare
himself for this work, he entered
Wake Forest college when he
was thirty years of age, graduat
ing in 1922 at the age of thirty
four. Since then he made his
home in Person County and ser
ved churches for the most part
north of Roxboro. His first field
contained five churches, later, he
took two of these, Mill Creek and
Bethel Hill, whih he served un
til his death, July 19, 1939.
It can truly be said of Brother
Todd that his place in life was
one of service. Besides helping
in a religious way, he encouraged
young people in their efforts to
fit themselves for life. He helped
them to enter college and in some
way kept them there. In his
churches he was active every day
in the year trying to improve the
l’fe of the membership and oth.
ers in the community socially as
well as religiously. Even when
he was physically unable he was
faithful to his task of helping
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Longevity Recipe
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“The best gift to any man is a
clear conscience,” according to Hen
ry Walker, 112-year-old Negro of
Greenwich, Conn. Walker, who re
gales young friends with stories of
the past, was born in 1827, when
I John Quincy Adams was President.
He was a slave on a Virginia plan
' tation, and served with the Confed
| erates in the Civil war.
1 others in whatever way possible,
i Cur lives have been greatly en
riched by having known him.
| We, the members of the Wo
' man’s Missionary Society of Mill
Creek church, sorrow .that we
shall see his face no more but
we rejoice that he is free from
( all suffering and that he has
I come into the presence of his
Savior, whom he loved, trusted
and served with all his heart,
! soul and might.
Therefore, be it resolved;
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First, That we bow in humble
| submission to God’s will,
j Second, That we express deep
est sympathy to the bereaved fam
ily.
Third, That a copy cf the re
solutions be sent to the family,
one be kept in the minutes of
THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, 1989
our Society, one be sent to me
Person County Times. ancT one
to the Roxboro Courier for pub
lication.
Mrs. George Clayton ,
Mrs. Dewey Dickerson.
Mrs. Willie Harris.,
Committee.
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Build Odd Set i
For Stahl Film ■
Fi: e-fighting equipment from
the huge Santa Fe Springs oil
field was used for the oil well
fire scenes in “Blackmail,” star
ring Edward G. Ribinson at the
Dolly Madison theatre.
The regular crew of six train
ed men under Harry Whitaker,
one of California’s two oil well
shooters, donned asbestos suits,
gloves, helmets, and special
fire preof shoes and moved with
Robinson and Guinn (Big Boy)
Williams right up to within a few
feet of the 150-foot fire.
Six streams of water from Los
Angeles and Culver City fire de
partments were turned on the
fighters as well as on derricks
and other surrounding property.-
An active oil field of 300 wells
was used as background for the
thrilling scenes.
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