PERSON COUNTY TIMES
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
i. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, Manager
THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor
Pvblished Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second
[Tass Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro. N. C., Under
Hie Act Os March 3rd., 1879.
—SUBSCRIPTION RATES—
Jne Year
lix Months
Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at all
times. Rates furnished upon request.
from our correspondents should reach this office not
ater than Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition
md Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition.
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1940
Four Months of Work
All through the winter season of the new year Wal
lace W. Woods, secretary of the Roxboro Chamber of
Commerce, has been busy doing the work at hand- To
those who know him, it comes as no surprise that Mr.
"Woods has first of all sought to carry on the routine
duties associated with his office. By taking this atti
tude he has increased public confidence in the organiza
tion with which he is connected.
A good Chamber of Commerce Secretary has, how
ever, a double job. It is not enough that he merely de
vote his time to keeping his boat afloat; he must, if he
is to properly represent his constituents of the com
munity, be alive to opportunities for advancement of
the community. Here, too, Mr. Woods has been at his
post. By conferences with business men, civic leaders
and “just plain people” he has gained an insight into the
needs of Roxboro and the surrounding county area.
What he has been doing will perhaps become more
apparent between now and the time set for the obser
vance of Hospitality Week”, although Mr- Woods will be
the last person in the world to shout his contributions to
that program, now in the making, from the housetops.
In lining up a credit bureau, in studying Roxboro hous
ing conditions and traffic problems and in advancing
cooperation in business here his work has already been
noteworthy.
o—o—o—o
The Machinery Gets Going
V *
An Associated press release from Washington relates
that Secretary Wallace has this week presented to Con
gress an outline of a plan whereby tobacco farmers “who
have heretofore voted annually on whether to have mar
keting quotas for their crops would be given an oppor
tunity this year to vote on quotas for the next two or
three seasons”.
The Secretary's suggestions, in line with 21 amend
ments to the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment act, include
a referendum on establishment of tobacco marketing
quotas for two or three years in advance; a change in the
requirement that the marketing quota for any state
should not be less than 75 percent of 1937, and other
changes to take care of possible ups and downs in the
market. As Secretary Wallace sees it a two-three years
schedule of marketing quotas would make it possible to
provide “in advance” for adjustments tending to elimin
ate excess supplies of tobacco. Benefits seen in his other
proposals constitute a protection of interests of small
farmers and the further setting up of a sliding scale to
take up supply and demand. Under the Wallace pro
posal no farm allotment of one acre or less would be cut
below the 1940 allotment.
Further analysis of the Wallace plan indicates that
the tobacco marketing quotas for 1941, 1942 and 1943
should not be more than 10 percent below the 1940-41
quota and that acreage allotments for the same years
‘‘should be adjusted uniformly in relation to 1940 allot
ments”, it being felt that burley and flue-cured allot
ments for the next three years will need to be about the
same as they have been for this year. werau-
Under the Wallace proposal, which has been pre
viously discussed among tobacco men and farmers in
Person and elsewhere, an opportunity to vote on the
adoption of a planned two-tnree years control system
would be provided for at the time ballots are to be cast
on the annual quota, subject to approval of two-thirds
of those farmers voting
In the Wallace message to Speaker Bankhead it was
pointed out that rejection of the longer quota period
will not mean an end to the present annual method of
regulation. Looking over this summary, it will be seen
that there is in it nothing new, but although Secretary
Wallace s message to Speaker Bankhead constitutes re
petition, there is reason to hope that tobacco people will
be given an opportunity to express an opinion for or a
gamst the two-three years quota plan.
Several months ago the writer of this column said
that long-ranged planning, if there has to be planning
of any sort, would appear to be better than the hit and
miss plan of an annual quota. There has yet been no rea
son for a change in thdt opinion.
o—o —o —o
“Adrift on the Land”
Not the greatest but to our minds one of the most
sincere motion pictures of the current season is the
“Grapes of Wrath”. We urge Person and Roxboro citi
zens to see Steinbeck’s story of the wandering Joads. In,
book form the narrative was colored by passages of
questionable taste; the Hollywood version is deleted, but
the emotional impact of the story loses nothing because
at these changes. It is too much to expect that many
people who sea the “Grapes of Wrath” will make an an
alysis of the technical devices used to convey the story
to the screen, but it will remain in our minds as an out
rtMwting example of simplicity and directness. Pot it
on the “must" list even if you disagree with Steinbeck. I
S' North Carolina v-A
/PRESS ASSOCIATION^
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. CL
WITH OTHER EDITORS
Families Don’t Type
Greensboro Daily News
New York’s and Grover Whalen’s world fair next
summer, one hears, is to be host to a “typical North
Carolina family”. Hence Clyde R. Hoey as Governor of
liie state and believed to be running rather true to type
as both public and private citizen has been asked what
he considers a typical Tar Heel family
He thinks that this family would live in a small
town or in the country and have a “reasonable number
of children ” In addition it would “take considerable in
terest in public affairs, have a reasonable amount of
pride in the state and be informed on its resources and
condtion as well as schooled in its tradition and history
and be interested in schools, churches and other civic af
fairs.”
If Governor Hoey means to suggest that a reason
able number of North Carolinians under one rooftree
pool their interests to produce a type, he may be cor
rect ; if he means that a family approaching the average
will have so many interests, he shows a pardonable ig
norance of case work
The typical North Carolina family, far from being
schooled in its history, knows next to nothing about the
state’s beginnings or its middle period, save as prated
about by uninformed stump speakers, and of its pres
ent has heard a good deal but is interested in little save
sales tax and secondary roads
One member might be interested in schools, another
in churches, a third in civic affairs but t’other two-three
would probably have nothing much on their minds than
food, clothing and shelter.
There are perhaps a thousand or so families who
might measure up to Governor Hoey’s ideal of type.
There are several times as many Who could not make the
grade. There are not a few who score much higher.
Surely one couldn’t call the family of the late Alli
son F. Page a typical North Carolina family, nor that of
the late Judge Henry Groves Connor- Nor would we
think of presenting the household of the late Mrs. Mary
Herndon of Carpenter, Wake County—such part of it
as is being tried for her murder—as typical.
O—O—O—O \
The Old South
A Book Review by Jonathan Daniels in The Saturday
Review of Literature.
At a time when Mr. Selznick is making alive for
millions the legend of the lost South in terms of greater
halls than it often possessed and in brighter colors than
it ever wore, Harry Kroll has written the story of the
Big House South* as it appeared to more white South
erners than sat on its wide piazzzas.
Mr. Kroll has told his story in terms of the boyhood
and youth of Lett Capers, illegitimate son of the planta
tion master by his overseer’s wife. It is by no means an
entirely pretty store as Lett saw it, though there were
moments of ecstacy in it (as when young Lett lay in the
shrubbery watching the dancing and listening to the.
music), as well as times of trouble and of pain, ambi
tion, and frustration- But it is a drama of life which the
planters made but which overturned their world—to the
new world beyond it in which new villainy is better un
derstood for realization of insensitiveness in the past.
Much of the white South even while it fought saw
that war as a rich man s war and a poor man’s fight.
Between them Lett Capers was as divided as his blood.
He played too often a tough and slippery part in his re
lations with both sides. And though at the end he emer
ges triumphant, he emerges far from magnificent. Per
haps the noblest character in the book, in which the aris
tocrats are too conventionally drawn despite the arog
nce added to their attitudes of grace, is Lett’s strong,
honest, quarrelsome peasant mother. Tne Negroes are
real, and tragically real are all those whites who were
often less secure than the slaves. More important than
the career of Lett Capers is the picture of the white men
who surrendered but did no£ share the high and grace
ful civilization said now to have gone with the wind-
Mr. Kroll’s book will not change many minds. Cer
tainly it will not destroy the legend of the lost South,
which is now vastly greater than it ever was before
1865, but such readers as wish to understand the civi
lization which did depart will find here something new
and viril and fundamentally true in Southern hstorical
novels.
There are some flaws in the book. Its story is not
always compelling; sometimes it is overdrawn some
times its characterization falters, but a truth emerges
from it which is too much lost and which needs to be un
derstood. The Big House South was like the millionaire
present. Often big cotton planters were only the Coca-
Cola bottlers of their day, and most white Southerners
from Jamestown to this hour have been scratching
hard, far down under talk of traditions which came down
from Athens and Rome, for decent living in the South,
and seldom finding it easy to secure.
*“THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE”. By Harry Kroll.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1940.
413 pp. $2.50.
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK |V" AND REMEMBER YOU CAN
wSSSwIsSsa X «**■*
: ROXBORO
ACTORS TOST WyC ti
SPOTLIGHT jf
even the fish can ee lured
THe
GIRLS DON’T OBJECT
To BEING DAIZLED
with I ' ~
NN ONCOMING CAR
SP€AI
BREWERS SEND
MESSAGE TO MEN
WHO SELL BEER
Person County and City Of
ficials Asked To Co-operate
With State Clean-Up Pro
gram.
Raleigh. April 18—The Brewers
and North Carolina Beer Distri
butors Committee has requested
city and county officials of Per
son county to scrutinize careful
ly “all applications far retail beer
licenses to the end that the in
dustry may be purged of illegal
or undesirable outlets.”
Edgar H. Bain of Goldsboro,
State Director in charge of the
beer industry’s “clean up or close
up” campaign in North Carolina,
cited the 1939 statute which pro
hibits the issuance of retail beer
licenses to persons guilty of
liquor law violations “within the
last two years prior to the filing
of the application.” He reminded
that the new tax year for beer
licenses begins May 1.
“In venturing to call this secti
on to your attention,” Col. Bain
wrote city and county officials,
“we courteously and respectfully
urge you to refuse licenses to all
dealers who can not comply with
the law.”
“In our investigation of beer
dealers in North Carolina, we
have found several instances
where dealers convicted of lipuor
law violations in 1938 were re
licensed in 1939. We hope that
all such dealers will be elimina
ted in 1940 for the welfare both
of the communities and of the
'beer industry, which contributes
more than ten million dollars an
nually in taxes and wages in this
state.”
This letter to city and county
officials was the last move in the
committee’s fight against the
small minority of beer dealers
who violate the law and public
decency, Colonel Bain said. He
reminded that the committee had
secured the revocation of 67 licen
ses since September. In addition,
* Your home may
go to pay damages
Automobile
Liability Insurance
*
THOMPSON
I agjtgjtflHß AGENCY
Roxboro, N. C.
the committee has petitioned for
revocation of 26 licenses in eight
other counties, and has warned
97 dealers in 57 counties to
“clean up” or face more drastic
action.
“A great majority of beer
outlets are reputable places of
business,” the state director said,
“and it is our intention to rid
communities of those undesirable
places which are a nuisance to
the communities.”
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
livery now.
S. B. Winstead
B. K. Barnett
International
' n ) ' ■' 'it ;yn
Agricultural
Corporation
Storage At Wiastead Warehouse
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1940
WANT ADS ,
ATTENTION CAR OWNERS
We have opened a used-parts
store on Depot street. Used parts
for all makes of cars at half pri.
ee.
Person Motors, Inc.
4-11-4 t ts
CASH PAID FOR CEDAR TTM
ber, either on the stump or in
logs or lumber—Geo. C. Brown
and Co. of N. C., 1730 W. Lee,
Greensboro, N. C., Phone 4118.
9-21-ts-ts
FOR RENT New four-room
house .eight miles west of Rox
boro, with garden, stables and
pasture—Cheap—See—
H. W. Winstead. Roxboro.
5-14-2 t -st
U. S. APPROVED
QUALITY BRED BABY CHICKS
All breeds at popular prices.
Place your orders now to insure
delivery when wanted. Quality
chicks pay good dividends. See
us. Phone 4533.
FARMERS SUPPLY CO-
Hill B. Stanfield, Mgr.
3-14-ts
WEIRD BEAUTIES OF TOT
PACIFIC
Beautiful full page pictures in 001.
or showing the great richness and
variety in color of undersea life.
Look for these features in the
April 28th issue of The American
Weekly, the big magazine distri
buted with the Baltimore Ameri
can, on sale at all newsstands.
o— — 4
LAND POSTED SIGNS AT THB
TIMES OFFICE