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PERSON COUNTY TIMES Carolina f PRESS ASSOCIATION^} A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE ). s. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, Manager THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor Published Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second □ass Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under [fee Act Os March 3rd., 1879. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— )ne Year S l - 50 lix Months advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at all times. Rates furnished upon request. Jews from our correspondents should reach this office, not ktcr than Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition nd Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. THURSDAY, APRIL 11. 1939 Beginning of an Ending News of the week from Norway and Denmark may easily be the most serious reported from Europe since the beginning of World War 11. Available information by telegraph and radio indicates that Copenhagen has been occupied by German troops and that the Norwe gian capitol has been moved inland from Oslo. The ex treme gravity of the situation is intensified by the mea greness of first reports. Outwardly the stage setting appears to have been perfect. Monday morning dispatches recorded placing of additional mines off the Norwegian coast by Britain and France. Purpose of this move was described as an attempt to block German vessels form this territory and to put an end to German trade in vital stores of iron ore. Monday, midnight, the retaliation was German oc cupation of Copenhagen Denmark, and the first thrust at Norway. No one knows what may be the next move, although it must be expected that British and French aid to the Scandinavian countries will not be lacking. Invasion of Norway which has enjoyed one hundred and twenty-five years of peace, is tragic in the same sense that invasions of Finland, Poland and Bohemia were tragic, but the breaking out of war in the land of the midnight sun has in it possibilities of much more tragedy, insofar as the Allied cause is concerned. Domination of the Scandinavian countries by Ger many will mean release of much needed food and mu nition supplies to that country, and conversely, a cut ting off of the same supplies to Great Britain. This, in simplest terms, appears to be the prime significance of the latest bulletins, although there are other compli cations such as the possibilities of intensified sea war fare between Great Britain and Germany in northern waters. At first glance it may be observed that Scandin avian participation may bring the war to a quicker end. It will either be that or a greater prolongation. In Eng land the results may soon be noticeable. In Germany, which stands to benefit by the events of the week, not so soon. The whole affair has the appearance of a swift as-lightning move, but sober reflection will show that the explosion of the week has been in the making for months, with particular activity during the past two weeks. That is all one can say at the moment: later, the full story of the unceasing internal conflict between pro and con factions in Norway, Sweeden and Denmark may come to light. Until that page of history which is being written this week may be read without prejudice there will be no way at all of arriving at the truth. Once again the United States is called upon to play a game of wait ing and watching and the people of this nation can only hope watching and waiting will not be replaced by ac tive American participation. o—o—o—o An Afternoon “Good Turn” Coming back from a Saturday hike, members of Troop 32, of the Boy Scout organization, reported an afternoon of fire-fighting on Hager’s mountain. Discov ery of the fire, in an area about a mile wide and three miles long, was made about three o’clock in the after noon and battle was given by the Scouts for several hours. Unde direction of Scoutmaster Lawrence Rynd the boys, ten of them, labored until they were exhaust ed, although they stayed on the job until help came. The story is typical of Scouts and is representa tive of the ideals of the organization to which they be long. The boys were not able to put the blaze out but they did hold it in check until help arrived and in doing so they prevented spreading of the flames to forest-fire proportions. This is all there is to the story, a story which can be matched many times over throughout the . nation. It is a pleasure to record the incident as one worthy of public appreciation, however willing the hoys may have been to take their strenuous afternoon’s work as a part of the day’s program. o—o o o Strange Business in Durham < } Tuesday’s Durham Morning Herald carried a nar rative of horror in the night which happened in that city early Tuesday morning when the home of Neva Lyon, Negro woman of Rock street, was wrecked by a blast presumably caused by explosion of dynamite sticks placed under the floor of the room in which she was sleeping. Sleeping with the Lyon woman, who was kill ed, were her two children, both of whom escaped with injjuries described as slight. Also sleeping in the room was a Negro man, said to have been there for purposes ol protection to the family, whose house had been set on fire in an arson attempt two or three weeks previous iy. The incident, as reported in the Herald, is mainly factual, with no effort at an explanation of the unex plainable. The crime, however, smacks of Chicago at PERSON CC'TNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. the worst it was ever thought to be, and it is to be Hoped that if the guilty party or parties are ever caught, full justice in the form of punishment will be meted out. The killing of a mother of children is always to be deplored: this particular incident has in it more of horror than any recent occurrence in this area, and regardless of what may come to light in subsequent in vestigations, it has, likewise, fullest elements of tra gedy. The Literary Classics Durham Morning Herald « It was not surprising to read in yesterday’s Hearld- Sun that the literary classics are among the most un disturbed books in the public library. The authority for this statement was Miss Clara Crawford, head of the library. Miss Crawford said: “Only school children read the literary classics these days, and that’s only because they have to.” To say that modern people are going to the dogs because they lap up current fiction and overlook the literary classics is to argue on doubtful ground. But we do say that those who have never made acquaintance with those great classics of the past have missed a lot of pleasure, a lot of entertainment. They have cut down their field of pleasant reading; they move in a restricted field. It has always seemed unfortunate to us that some how or other there has been built up about the classics an impression of heaviness and unreadableness. Most people today think of them as dull, dry things. Exactly the opposite is the case. For it is the peculiar virture of the classics that through the years they lose nothing of their original freshness and charm. Indeed, they seem to mellow with age. To those who know the classics, “Tom Jones” is as absorbing, as thrilling, and as thoroughly enjoyable as any modern novel. “Wuthering Heights” has a fasci nation about it that one finds in few books, seldom in modern literature. “Pride and Prejudice” remains an absorbing novel of the quiet life of ordinary people. Its characters are as alive and as fresh today as when they first were created by Jane Austen. So it goes with these old books. Though they were created decades ago, they remain forever young. This is the thing that makes them classics. All old books are not classics. Unworthy books were produced centuries ago just as they are being produced today. But they have fallen by the wayside. The good books of past years are still with us. That they are is proof of their worth, of the pleasure they give, of the entertain ment they afford. It is not surprising that they sometimes are neg lected. But it is unfortunate that so many people deny themselves the pleasure they afford merely because of a mistaken belief that they are old and out of date. They are never out of date. 0 0 —0 0 Letting ’Em Leak Greensboro Daily News The Durham county grand jury has submitted to proper authorities what the Morning Hearald of the Bull City describes as “a long list of needed repairs for school busses”. Apparently the report is destined not to go beyond the recommendatory stage for some time as L. H. Bar bour, county superintendent, is quoted as saying that the improvements will be made “as soon as possible”. The school head avers that there is no money in the budget for repairs and that they will probably have to be delayed until after the beginning of the new fiscal year. There are in the recommendations, however, a num ber which relate primarily to safety. Eight of the bus ses are declared to have brakes which are badly, in need of readjustment. Other findings include broken safety latches and defective horns. It is indeed a grave respon sibility that somebody takes in loading down these bus ses, day after day, with human cargo. Correction of their defects seemingly would entail a comparatively small expenditure, but apparently the money, even to small amount, simply is not there. Our first though reverts to the question of how school busses get and stay that way until their deficiencies are discovered by a grand jury. Certainly there should be demand and provision for their periodic inspection and constant upkeep; any dri ver or minor school official ought to know when brakes are out of adjustment, when a horn won’t blow or when a safety latch is faulty. And failure to provide funds for repairs which may be necessary thorughout the school ar v Ce^ mly T eveals a shortsighted management on somebody s part. wasiTi? from , the safety sphere to the downright wastage the grand jury’s report noted six leaking gaso- A ” d , must they go right on leaking, after aving been that way for who knows how long, until the next flsca! year? Authorities who aver they have no Som th a p r l°? VI H USI f P ? ying for whatever gasoline seeps least / tank t’ and stoppage there would at least pnmde that much towards other needed repairs which will avowedly have to wait. Everything else £«- ing, maybe NYA would consent to finance that manv cup-bearers to the leaking tanks y ORCHARDS O. R. Freeman, assistant farm agent in Lenoir County, say four For Quality COAL CALL 3371 Gas - Oil - Tires - Tubes - Coal Central Service Corporation Roxboro, N. C. farmers in that county have started new commercial peach orchards this year. LEGAL NOTICE ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as adminis trator of the estate of R. H. Oak ley, deceased, late of Person coun ty, North Carolina, this is to not ify all persons having claims a gainst the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersign ed on or before March 11th, 1943. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said es tate will please make immediate payment. This 11th day of March, 1940. B. H. Oakley, Admr. of R. H. Oakley. 3-14-6 t-t o ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as administra tor of the estate of Mrs. Sallie P. Whitt, deceased, late of Person county, North Carolina, this is to notify all persors having claims against the estate of said deceas ed to exhibit them to the under, signed on or before the 21st day of March, 1941, or this notice will be pleaded in bar cf their recov ery. All persons indebted to said es tate will please make immediate! payment. This 21st day of March. 1940. W. B. Whitt. ; Admr. Sallie P. Whitt. 3-21-6 t- t o NOTICE . RESALE OF LAND , By virtue of an order of the Superior Court, made in the Spec ial Proceeding entitled Leby Dix on, Jesse Dixon and others vs Lu ther Dixon, Clyde Dixon and oth ers, I will offer for resale at pub lic auction to the highest bidder for cash at the Court House door in Roxboro, N. C., on MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1940, at 12 o’clock M., that certain parcel or tract of land lying and being in Roxboro Township, Person County, North Carolina, and bounded and described as fol lows: Bounded on the North by the SEE US FOR YOUR FERTILIZER NEEDS We have the brand and the analysis that you want. PASS, HESTER & JONES Hyco Warehouse f SPEED SUITS ME IN A RACING*! 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This sale will remain open ten days for an increase bid, and the purchaser at this sale will be re quired to make a cash deposit of 10 percent of the purchase price. This March 30, 1940. W. D. Merritt, Commissioner. 4-4-2 t-t /=OOA* TV- Make Every Tobacco Plant Count! Even though your acreage has been cut you can still have a good crop. Use good fertilizer and watch the results. USE International FERTILIZER We have a good supply on hand and can give you the analysis that you want. We are ready to make de liery now. S. B. Winstead B. K. Barnett International Agricultural Corporation Storage At Winstead Warehouse THURSDAY, APRIL 11,1940 \our home may go to jpay damages Automobile Liability Insurance THOMPSON INSURANCE AGENCY Roxboro, N. C.
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