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PERSON COUNTY TIMES » monir P* S North Carolina vA /retSS ASSOCIATION^ A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE f. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, Manager THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor Published Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second pa»i Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under The Act Os March 3rd., 1879. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year $1.50 |Hx Months 75 {Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at all times. Rates furnished upon request. Mews from our correspondents should reach this office not later than Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition And Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1940 “Their Lives of Crime” [ In his formal statement in connection with com mutation of the death sentences of the three Burlington •‘bandits”, Roy Kelly and Ralph and Wade Hanford, last week. Governor Clyde R. Hoey said that Kelly and the Hanford boys “have had very poor opportunities . . . Many facts were developed in this investigation which tend to explain, if not excuse, their lives of crime . . . 1 am satisfied that it was not the purpose of these de fendants to commit murder”. In saying that these young men had “poor oppor tunities” we suppose that Governor Hoey went about as far as executive dignity permits, although his implicit criticism of a social order which allows men like Kelly and the Hanfords to go wrong is, perhaps, made strong er by understatement. We suppose, too, that not many Tar Heel residents who are familiar with the case will disapprove of the Governor's attitude in this particular instance. Society being organized as it is, on a very unequal basis, not much can be done to forestall or to check pet ty criminal impulses. Robberies of filling stations oc cur daily (or nightly, we should say) as Person and Rox boro residents are well aware and it would seem that only a rule of chance keeps many of these theft cases from becoming murder cases as well. The difficulty is that according to law, men and women who are involved in a robbery or murder, or any other crime, must pay for their crimes even if they themselves do not actually do the robbing or the killing. The two Hanfords and Kelly, for example, were with a man named Huffman and a man named Smith. In the gun battle with the officers which followed re porting of the robbery, two of the officers and Huffman were slain. Later, at the trial Smith turned state’s evi dence and by so doing probably saved himself from a death sentence. Evidence was introduced to show that actual shooting of the two officers was probably done by Huffman, but under the laws of the court Kelly and the Hanfords were tried and convicted under a first de gree murder charge After their conviction nothing except the death sentence awaited them. There, if anywhere, seems room lor a note of cirticism. The trial was conducted accord ing to rules and the aftermath of commutation to life sentences was also according to rule but it seems that there should be some way to spare the state the expense and the prisoners the strain of going through a first degree murder trial when sentences imposed there seem to be destined ulltimately to modification. 6—6— 6 6 My Name Is Not George Members of the board of governors and commit teemen and several interested citizens who are not members of the Roxbcro Country club met last Thurs day night to discuss plans for * - oe undertaken by tha considerable interest was shown ~Tc the meeting, altlhough it was apparent that up to the present time many people who could be supporting the cllub idea have been quit busy “letting George” do it. Although the club house, recently renovated, is now ready for use and prospects seem good for completion of last details in connection with golf course, it must be said that it seems to us that best use of the club's fa cilities has not yet been made. Putting it down on pa per may make the thought seem trite, but we have lit tle doubt that original organizers of the club, ahead of any other use for it, had golf on their minds. This fact was brought out at the Thursday night meeting by a process of indirect discourse, but we are glad to report that if plans made then reach proper maturity there will be in the near future an enlarged program of athletic and social activities for the spring and summer. And it is this program in which we are interested. Roxboro needs more facilities for “out of the home” entertaining and it seems to us that the country club house at Ghub Lake offers an excellent opportunity for an expansion of such facilities. There is no good reason why bridge and bingo tour naments, private parties, dances and dinners could not oe given at the clubhouse, provided members want these entertainments enough to go to the trouble of providing a proper staff to keep the building in order, make ad vance reservations and prepare food. We place emphasis on “provided members want” a proposed enlarged program, since it.is rather obvious that the board of governors and the committeemen do favor it and are limited only by pocketbook considera tions, considerations which in the long run come right back in the the multiple pocketbooks of the members. Roxboro residents like pleasure as much as any peo ple, but some of them have apparently not learned that pleasure and recreation cost money; not much money, in consideration for benefits received, but some money Aid M is rather unfortunate that an excellent place for wat er and land and indoor sports and entertainment is not feeing used to its fidlest advantage, because some peo ple who could give the club their support in both money m£ad time say: “My name George.” PERSON CC'TNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. House 9 Trio Entertains Buddiea \ El Hgg } f L * JiFi ini The “Grosvenor House Orchestra,” a musical trio recruited from Britain’s royal air force, conducts a “jam-session” somewhere in France on the western front. “Grosvenor House” is also the name of their dugout, as well as the name of an exclusive London hotel. The enemy’s savage breast was not reported soothed by the music. >s Proving The Student Christian Science Monitor The annual report of the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching points out a fact singularly parallel to an important finding of more than one university scholarship committee. Course grades and special examinations are no longer to be looked upon as the complete criterion for judging a stu dent’s intellectual capacity and promise. Frequently those qualities are most clearly revealed by the “unas signed’ discoveries” that the student has made on his own. An instance is the earnest student who voluntarily collected several hundred plant speciments, studied them, and wrote complete case histories of each. * The fruits of such spontaneous researches prove trustworthy as evidence of where the young student’s heart and treasures lie. Free pursuit of special knowled de does not replace but complements the more defined and basic requirements of the classroom and appars at least equally deserving of recognition and encourage ment o—o—o—o Authentic or Fictitious, It Makes Sense Durham Morning Herald There is considerable political to-do, it seems, over a piece Ernest Lindley, seasoned newspaper correspond ent who is rather close to President Roosevelt, wrote in his column In The Washington Post. It purports to recite a conversation between Mr. Roosevelt and an intimate political friend dealilng with the third term. The intim ate friend isn’t identified, but some of Lindley’s collea gues have mentioned nominated Rep. Bob Doughton for the role. me gist of the conversation, as imagined er heard by Mr. Lindley, is that Mr. Roosevelt told a certain b©li» tical intimate that he is tired of the job, does not pl&it to seek a third term, thinks Cordell Hull is the mast available man the Democrats have, likes Jim Farley very much and would like to see him "done right by” but re commends against giving Mr. Farley a place on the tick et because it would almost certainly stir up a row over the religious issue and might precipitate another A1 Smith debacle. The President refused to be drawn into a discus sion of the Lindley yarn at his Tuesday press conference and evaded newsmen who tried to say yea and nay on the Doughton angle of it. Everyone, of course, understands why the Presi dent refused to be cross-examined on the subject and left the Washington boys to make their own guesses and draw their own conclusions. He isn’t saying any thing definite on the third-term issue and the Lindley yarn, authentic or not, could not be discussed by the President except through revealing words about his third-term attitude. Everyone knows, too, that Ernest Lindley is one of the several newspaper correspondents who retains the full confidence and admiration of Mr. Roosevelt. He wrote Mr. Roosevelt’s biography. So perhaps it isn’t taking too great a risk to sug gest that regardless of whether or not it represents a “free transcription” of a White House conversation, Mr. Lindley’s piece represents Mr. Roosevelt’s analysis of and thougrts about the third-term proposition. For a reational view of the situation, it seems to us, compels the practical politician—and Mr. Roosevelt is that—to conclude that a third-term venture would be un wise, that Mr. Hull Is the best bet among Democratic hopefuls, that Jim Eariey has earned place on the ticket, and that putting Jim Farley on the tieket would proba bly rekindle the sort at flames that burned in 1928. It may be put down, then, that Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Dodghton did have such a conversation as Mr. Lind ley records, they probably said about what Mr. Lindtegr's characters say. And if they didn’t have such a conversa tion, they think along the lines Mr. Limfley indicates and will say those things if later on they do discuss the third-term question. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON From The Adult Student Choice of Surrender Not infrequently we hear per. sons and groups claiming moral victory on occasions and under circumstances when it is evident they are seeking a face-saving ex cuse for a defeat. This sort of thing is human, for we are creat- , ed with a large capacity to resist j being overcome. So vigorously does this develop in most of us that it takes much training to J bring us to the point where we can lose with good grace and sportsmanship in the normal ] 1 competitions of life. So difficult ; | is it to learn the fine art of sur- i render or acceptance of defeat ] in minor afairs of life that many able persons find themselves in- ] capable of facing an opposing ] will or duty and making the kind 1 of surrender that means progress I Choice of Surrenders In Gethsemane Here our story, Jesus in Geth semane. becomes illustrative. He • faced a situation where surrender i to God, to man, or some other de cision had to be made. He sought . God’s will. We can well surmise that his keen mind saw many possible ways to escape the “cup” or bitter cross experience before him. These possibilities may have included retirement from Jerusalem to carry on his work in • the small centers, withdrawal to some other country with a faith, ful few, or cessation of activity for a time until the opposition had quieted down. We would call such moves good religious strate gy and accept them as the will of God for us in a like position. How is it that Jesus saw through all of these possibilities and knew they were not the will of God and that the “Cross” way was? How was he able to see that the “time was at hand,” that' further training of -his followers and wider extension of his min istry must be sacrificed to the grueling immediacy of the cruci fixion? Probably any and all our human surmises, separate or com bined, will fail to grasp what aid ed and made clear the decision to Jesus. Much the same difficulty inheres in our effort to deter, mine truly the causes leading to & decision for ourselves or an sociate. Nevertheless, to probe deeply for an answer is of real value to us in our Spiritual de velopment. It is this painstaking search which enables us to dis cover the human elements of such decisions and approach an under standing of the divine help in making decisions, We see that ill his method, pray er, meditation, and agony he is not seeking simply « way to meet a crisis crettfed by Judas and ihs fellow-plotters. He seeks in. stead tiie most meaningful spirit, ual step toward man’s redemp tion. Gethsemane b Net A One-Act Flay Jesus is not play acting m this Gethsemane experience), neither is the scene enacted merely to set us an example. He is, first of all, a citizen in the Kingdom of Hea ven and must live as a true one. As such he cannot be true to him self and not live the will of God for kingdom citizens. The implication in the lesson theme is that Jesus surrendered his will to the will of the Heav enly Father. This does not imply that he was considering a sinful or wrong way of resolving the difficult situation. It preferably indicates that on his high level of life different good and plaus ible ways presented themselves, and he was forced to a gamine spiritual struggle to see which was most acceptable to God. Pro bably his was not a surrender, since his whole life was dedicat ed to doing the Father’s will, but rather the vigorous effort of a soul to determine the beet a. mong so msny good ways of pro cedure. ’ ■ » ■ ’S' FOB RESULTS. ADVmnsa m tbb took Make-Up Expert Boasts His Own Rogues Gallery The most persistent headache of the make-up department work ing on the Technicolor produc tion of “Northwest Passage”, starring Spencer Tracy, and op ening at the Palace theatre Mon day, was not in regard to shades of makeup for the cast, but in the length of the men’s beards in the various sequences in which the action of the Kenneth Roberts’ story takes place. Because the Rangers, during their trek to the Indian village of St. Francis and return, let their 'beards grow, and because Direc tor King Vidor did not necessar ily shoot his scenes eonsecutive lly, it was necessary to make still photographs of ten-day, twenty day and thirty-day beards on such principals as Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan. Nat Pendleton and hundreds of sup porting players sc* that they would have the correct hirsute growth for the correct scenes. The collection of pictures which Jack Dawn, make-up expert on “Northwest Passage”, now pos sesses as a result .rivals and rogues gallery. FRIENDLY SERVICE Standard Oil Co. Products. Telephone Service No. 4711 ROCK - INN SERVICE STATION .What a chut* is to a flyer our protection is to you inditpe&sahle in a .pinch ! THOMPSON INSURANCE AGENCY Roxboro, N. C. 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