(PERSON COUNTY TIMES |
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
J. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, Manager
THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor
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The Act Os March 3rd., 1879.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1938
Where Your Money Is
Before this special “Tobacco Market” edition of the
‘Person County Times” can reach your hands the crop
control referendum issue for 1940 will have been decided,
as far as Person county is concerned.
This action, however, will decide what can be ex
pected in the way of prices for next year, and as it was
pointed out in a previous editorial, the effects of today’s
referendum can and will be felt by and on the markets of
the delayed 1939 season which will open next Tuesday.
But, with the referendum issue settled, we can af
ford to turn our attention to the 1939 Roxboro market.
Indeed, we should now give it our whole attention. We
should realize that our own markets are in an excellent
position to offer good and better prices for the tobac
co grown within our own borders. We should realize that
Person county money that is exchanged at the Roxboro
markets has a decent chance to stay at home, and work
for us.
It stands to reason and to common sense logic that
the more our local merchants sell this year, the more
they can buy next year, in quality goods, and the better
and, incidentally, the more economical will their offer
ingss be.
The old and time honored King James version of
the “Good Book” has it that “where your treasure is,
there will your heart be, also”. And it is time for Per- •
son county folks to accept the biblical as well as the
economic truth of this statement.
Today this paper is full of advertisements by local
merchants. In good faith each and every merchant of
fers quality goods, standard brands, nationally advertis
ed and known throughout the nation, and in many in
stances, each and every Roxboro and Person county
merchant offers his goods at prices below the establish
ed range of the schedule maintained by larger city mer
chants outside the county.
It is time for us to realize the savings and the pro
fits we can obtain for ourselves by buying selling and
trading in our own borders. The records have it that the
Roxboro warehouses in 1938 sold about five million
pounds of tobacco at good and better prices that were
equal to and in many instances better than prices offer
ed elsewhere.
It is up to us, to the growers, the buyers and the
merchants to increase that record. An extra two million
pounds sold here in 1939 will mean the rebirth of pros
perity for us all. The more money we can exchange at
home, the more money we can keep at home, to pro
vide necessities, comforts and even luxuries, for our
selves and our children.
Clearly, it is up to us to help ourselves. Then and
then only will profits follow, as surely as the day and
night.
o—o—o—o
Charles Staples Mangum, M. D. . . .
The writer of these lines never was and never plan
ned to be a student of medicine, yet he knew and loved
the man whose name has just been written, and his
heart has been made sad by the knowledge that his
friend has gone. For many of us Chapel Hill will not
seem to be quite the place it was, without Dr. Mangum’s
sincerely honest radiance of character.
We cannot forget that we thought of Dr. Mangum
as a “great” man when we first met him. Because of in
timate and purely personal circumstances, we knew the
man as he was, in his own home, and the passage of the
years has given no cause for change of opinion con
cerning him. Others may mention his accomplishments
in the fields of medical science, others may speak of his
accomplishments as a dean of the University medical
school and others may speak of his long years of ser
vice to Chapel Hill and to the state, but we are glad that
we can remember him as a private citizen.
Therein, as those who knew him best can testify,
his was truly a noble soul. The very special and exact
knowledge of the weaknesses of the human frame requir
ed of him in his professional capacities served only, so
it seemed, to deepen his understanding of the even deep
er set and equally incurable psychological and spiritual
infirmities of his fellowmen. Better than many he under
stood, in advance, the answers to the questions we are
always asking of life and we like to think that he accept
ed the last response on Friday with a glad heart and a
willing spirit.
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One Month Os It
Fer slightly more than a calendar month the world
has absorbed head-lines of war in Europe. It is as if the
world, .having been suffering from an uncertain disease,
had suddenly discovered the true nature of its malady,
and had been told by the International physicians that
its illness wouldhave to run their courses.
The sharpness of sudden shock is over. The patient
is quite definitely in bed ,nobody knows for how long.
Warsaw has fallen i Poland's partition, once again, seems
to he an accomplished fact. And we in America, and the
rest of the world, have had to accept these facts, despite
continued action and rumors of actions on the western
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C.
Soviet, Germany Split Polish Loot
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Map shows the latest partition of Poland, with areas going to both
Germany and Russia. The Reich got the smaUer and richer part but
Russia got more land to provide a 50-50 break. Observers also noticed
that industrialized Germany got more industrial property, which she does
not need, and that Russia received agricultural land of which she already
has too much. The San and Vistula rivers form a major portion of the aU.
'‘water” boundary, which cuts through the suburbs of Warsaw, ancient
Polish capital, and gives Russia such Important cities as Lwow, Brest*
Litovsk and Wilno, historic Lithuanian city which Poland captured short!*
after the World war.
fronf and in the Balkan states. And yet, there is talk of
peace.
And peace mepns a stage of convalescence, a return
to normal blood pressure. But who are we, average men
and women, to judge the progress of the fever?
From Londonderry, Ireland comes the word of
Joseph Cardinal Macßory, who said in a Sunday sermon
that there is more “hope for a just peace now than if
the war were fought to a finish”. As the Cardinal points
out: “Poor Poland’s plight is a great difficulty to peace
now” but who can say that a “Voctor’s peace three or
four years from now” will be any more worthwhile or
more lasting? Because nobody dares an answer we shall
probably go on fighting, in spirit if not in fact, and the
world patient will stay in bed for another season.
In-And-Out Ghosting
O. J. Coffin’s, “Shucks and Nubbins”,
Greensboro Daily News
Are you reading Julie P. Mean’s syndicated story
of her life and times with her husband, the late Gaston
Means, of Concord, Washington and New York?
I have not before me a list of newspapers which
brought it, but I’ve got to share with you the following
excerpt from Sunday’s installment:
On the night of March 1 of that year the Lindburgh
child was stolen from his second-story crib at Hopewell,
N. J., in the greatest crime of the century. It shocked
the world
I shall never forget the horror and anger and dis
tress which swept over me, Gaston and our son, Billy,
as we all poured over the morning newspapers. Gaston
was indignant, outraged. I recall that he slammed the
paper on the living room floor and bellowed:
- “This is the most dastardly crime I ever heard of!
Whoever did it should be shot!”
Don’t you just love that—particularly the state
ment that “me (Julie, Gaston and Billy all three) pour
ed over the morning newspapers” ? That may have been
an oversight of the proofreader, but 1 think it was
printed exactly as Julie’s ghost writer wrote it.
And I am inclined to believe that Gaston really “bel
lowed” and that he called it the “most dastardly crime
1 ever heard of”. That’s because I hold Gaston to have
been the sort of man who flung his prepositions about
in such abandon that they would naturally be forced
to attach themselves to end his sentences and
paragraphs.
“Whoever did it should be shot!” however is to my
notion rather mild for a man who felt as promptly and
as deeply as Gaston. It is far more likely that he an
nounced without mincing his terms that the “
such-and-such of a so-and-so that done it ought to be
flayed alive, turned inside-out and stretched over an ant
hole whilst being basted ontopside alternately with
itching powder and nitric acid.”
Just simply to suggest shooting a denged scoundrel
is not in keeping with the imagination displayed by one
who could do “The Strange Death of President Harding”
and then go on to shake Evelyn Walsh McLean down for
a hundred thousand dollars.
Os all people ghost writers should stay in character.
O O —O O
Good News
News and Observer
The New York Times reports: “The heaviest flood
of mail in the history of Congress has been pouring into
the Capital the past two weeks, and two-thirds to three
fourths of it has been on the subject of the best means
of keeping the United States out of the war
What stands out in nearly every communication so far
as casual samples give any clue, is a horror of war and a
fervent desire that the United States stay clear at all
odds.” ,
That is good news. There is room for‘honest dif
ference of opinion fts to whether the best way to stay
out ia by keeping the arms embargo or changing to the
so-called cash 'and carry plan. There is deep division
upon the question. But the advocates of both policies
msist on the policy of peace. This is excellent. The
important: thing is that all In power realize and act up
on toe realisation that the increasingly clear will of the
people of Americans keep this country out of war.
BRITISH BLOCKADE
IS TAKING EFFECT
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Few German Boats Enter
South American Ports Dur.
ing First Month Os War.
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Buenos Aires, Oct. 3 With
one British ship already sunk in
South American waters by a
German raider, Latin America
today turned attention to the
possibility of keeping her ship
ping lanes free of conflict under
the “safety zone” declaration at
Panama.
A study of the Buenos Aires
port register for August and
September showed Britain’s
blockade against German ship
ping already was drastically ef
fective. The question was wheth
er Germany again would strike
back in South American waters.
In September, the first month
of the European war, three Ger
man ships entered the port here
and 10 departed, compared to 23
arrivals and 20 departures in
August.
Os the 10 Nazi vessels leaving
in September, five went only to
Montevideo, Rosario and other
South American ports. The other
five apparently attempted to run
the British blockade. Three Ger
man freighters were sufik off
South America during the month.
In contrast to the virtually
complete suspension of German
shipping, 63 British ships arrived
at Buenos Aires and 62 left dur
ing September, compared with
65 entries and 65 departures in
August.
A similar situation exists in
Brazilian and Uruguayan ports.
Many German ships are tied up
in the neutral waters of those
countries to avoid becoming pos
sible targets of the British cruis
ers Ajax and Exeter, main units
of Britain’s South Atlantis squad
ron.
On the other hand, numbers of
British ships heavily loaded with
cargoes cf meat, wheat and oth
fccdstuffs are plying the South
Atlantic, offering a rich hunting
ground for any German raiders.
The possibility that Germany
might be getting ready to attempt
to halt British South Atlantic
commerce was seen in the sink
ing of the 5,051-ton British ship
Clement.
Survivers of the Clement were
quoted in dispatches from Ba
hia, Brazil, today as saying their
vessel was machine gunned by
an airplane before a German
warship fired 25 shots and final
ly sank the vessel with a tor
pedo.
A dispatch to the Meridional
new agency said the warship was
the fast 10,000-ton pocket battle
ship, Admiral Scheer, which can
catapult two airplanes from her
deck.
This account coincided with
official British reports of an at
tack by a cruiser, though earlier
reports here had described it as
an attack by a submarine.
The Booth-American line, own
ers of the vessel, said in London
today that all the 40 officers and
men of the Clement were safe
except the captain and chief en
gineer who were taken prisoner
by the raider.
The Ajax and Exeter are light
cruisers and naval experts said
their guns would be unable to
cope with those of a pocket bat
tleship such as the Admiral
Scheer.
Despite the presence of the
Nazi warcraft in the South At
lantic the 10,132-ton French lin
er Jamaique, which left Le Havre
September 9, arrived at Rio de
Janeiro with 30 passengers.
The 14,135-ton British liner
Highland Chieftan also arrived
at Riode Janeiro to take on pas
sengers and cargo.
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“CleanUp
or Close Up” Action!
The Brewers and North Carolina Beer
Distributors Committee was organiz
ed for the purpose of cooperating with
state and local law enforcement offi
cials in helping to eliminate those re
tail outlets which permit law viola
tions behind the respectability of legal
beer licenses.
Wayne County authorities in Sep
tember revoked the licenses of five
retail outlets because of improper
conduct of their establishments.
Wilmington officials closed an outlet
after attention had been called to its
operation in violation of the law.
A Mecklenburg County license was
revoked and another license was sur
rendered following our petition to
the County Commissioners.
It is our desire to continue cooperation
such as this with the constituted law
enforcement agencies of the state, its
counties and its municipalities in
bringing about conditions of which
the industry, the authorities and the
public may be justly proud.
You can help us by restricting your
patronage to the places that obey the
law.
Brewers and North Carolina
Beer Distributors Committee
Soke 813-17 Commercial BmMmg, Raleigh, N. C.
Colonel Edgar H. Bain, State Director
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THURSDAY, OCT. 5, 1939
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export subsidy program on July
27 through September 18 amount
ed to 1,895,000 bales.