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PERSON COUNTY TIMES /IWi Carolina v4k /IMH AMOCIATI^) A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE i . 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. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at all times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office not later than Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition And Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940 An About-Face ? Commenting on the bellicose attitudes being exhib ited by some residents of the university town of Chapel Hill, the News and Observer says that “more pressure for the entry of the United States into the war in Eur ope has come from Chapel Hill than from any other city or town in North Carolina” and adds the opinion that “On a per capita basis Chapel Hill probably has a better academically educated citizenship than any other town in the State”. By inference the News and Observer thus records a mild surprise that citizens so endowed with wisdom out of books should swing from pacifism to w'ar-crusading and hints that the passage of five years should reveal whether or not this wisdom will have to be put down as evidence of superior judgement or as something less than perspicacity. Knowing as we do many of those Chapel Hillians who have become so disturbed over the fate of civili zation in Europe, and knowing likewise, Dr. Calvin B. Hoover, of Duke university .whose convictions have been only the less sensationally expressed we cannot nave any feeling of surprise at academic alarm over Hitler s roughshod strides across the nine to ten countries choosing rather to be alive with Hitler than dead with honor. The academic mind is capable of peculiar concen tration, on first one topic, then another, but it is not, unfortunately, as able to share the long-ranged and phil osophic view supposed to be dominant in realms of higher education. Too, we rather suspect that many educators with a shade~of pink are now in a hurry to share in the general revival of patriotism that is sweeping the nation in which they live. Even educators must be influenced by the times. O—O—o—o Time for Thought Within the next two days Person tobacco growers will have to decide upon attitudes to be taken towards an issue, touched with economic influences and by logi cal processes, also touched with influences on social con duct, since morality is always joined with economic security or the lack of it. As a resident of the county and as a citizen who is concerned that all Person citizens shall continue to live in harmony, we can only ask that no unreasonable feeling shall be exhibited by those whose opinions happen not to be in agreement. In an educated democracy such as our own is sup posed to be, tolerance, but not that mental flabbiness passing as tolerance, is still a virtue, provided it is backed by long and sincere self-domination. We have rea son to hope that the proposed plan for a three year pro gram of crop-control for producers of tobacco will be ac cepted by vote of the growers, and we are reasonably certain that the law of averages will take care of those defects inherent in any man-made plan for economic control. o—o— O 0 The Man Who Works Having been for years connected with a family whose leaders by some strange urge were forever in public service, we can the more sincerely congratulate J. B. Snipes, former Assistant Person County Farm agent, who has this week taken up work in the larger and more renumerative county of Wilkes. We congratulate him, not for leaving Person, but for performing while here a job of rare excellence, and we are sure that the good wishes of Person’s landowners and tenants go with him to his new work and home- During the nearly five years of his residence here, and especially during the year we knew him, Assistant Agent Snipes, who can now drop the “Assistant” title, went .about his tasks with a thoroughness and an under standing of particular and peculiar local problems per mitting no criticism. His invaluable service to the boys of the Four-H clubs and to those older farmers faced with practicalities of beans and bread as well as cash cannot be forgotten here, and no little of his success with people can be attributed to the fact that he work ed with zeal and enthusiasm and with appreciation ot his fellowman. The man who works under these condi tions has no time to be bothered by petty irritants con comitant with public service and as a general rule has less of them in consequence. We are glad that the man of whom we speak has had an opportunity for larger service, but this joy is a shade regretful because the larger opportunity means a loss to Person. o—o—o—o A Little More Patience We notice there has been some public criticism of the delay in construction of the County-City parking lot at the rear of the court house. As much as we, too, would like to see the project finished and the lot available to the public, we have reason to believe that the delay is PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. due rather to technicalities, not to speak of the procrast inating spirit of WPA, rather than to any willful desire delay on the parts of those municipal and county offi cials who planned the new parking space. Dealing as we ourselves do with citizens of all class es, we are not amazed that the City Manager, despite his previous connection with the inside of WPA, has been having difficulties in coordination and completion of the work at hand, and although suggestion of patience in, connection with WPA carries with it a ribald notion of humor, the extension of that patience to other quarters can do no harm. Vote On Intersections Greensboro Daily News A release from the highway safety division re-em phasizes the fatal factor of speed in motor vehicle crashes and backs up that stress by citation of the much heavier toll of life taken at rural highway than at ur ban street intersections. After calling attention to official figures which show that the ratio of fatalities to accidents is 1 to 44 in city street intersections, Director Ronald Hocutt goes into more detailed comment and explanation: “I can see only one major factor to which this five to one ration can be attributed, and that is speed. Cars out on the highway in rural areas generally travel at two to three times the speed of cars operating on city streets, and it is this element of speed that causes rural inter section accidents to result in fatalities five times as of ten as accidents at city street intersections.” Certainly this situation seems to call for every saf ety provision possible at the more dangerous or heavily traveled rural intersections. While it is understood that traffic officers could hardly be stationed thereat, it may be that the state will come around to erection of traffic circles therefor. True, the construction project would cost more; but after all an additional expenditure in this connection would be justified and accepted on the per sonal basis that it might result in the saving of your own life or the life of a dear one. Ralph Bellamy Tough Boss In ‘Flight Angels’ i Cinematically, Ralph Bellamy, who is currently starred in War ner Bros.’ “Flight Angels”, at the Dolly Madison theatre today and tomorrow, is the unlucklest man in Hollywood. Thousands of people all over the world hope that he will win the girl but he always emerges in the role of second best. Ralph’s role in “Flight Angels ’ is more difficult to portray than that of ‘the fellow who doesn’t get the girl’. He plays the part of a Flight Superintendent who is forced to ground his best friend, an ace pilot, played by Dennis Morgan, when the doctor informs him that Morgan’s eyesight is fail ing. It is one of the most com pelling roles that Bellamy has ever had to play. Having starred in fifty-nine pic. tures since his screen debut, Bel lamy realizes his greatest success es have been resigtered while playing the other man. Os his cur rent role in “Flight Angels,” Bel lamy says, “Yes, I lose the girl in this one too. 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However, there are bound to be a certain small number in the group who are “black sheep” in that they per mit anti-social practices in their places of business or indulge in them themselves. Desiring to eliminate the objectionable places, the Brewers and North Carolina Beer Distributors Com mittee has cooperated fully with law enforcement officials and to date 90 of them have lost their licenses and several score others have been denied new licenses because they refused to "clean up” during the past year. So . . . when you say: "That’s where we’ll go I", be sure it is the RIGHT kind of retail beer outlet. Brewers and North Carolina Beer Distributors Committee EDGAR H. BAIN, State Director 813-817 Commercial Building Raleigh, N. C. production of “Maryland”, the 20th Century-Fox picture which opens today at the Palace theatre just revealed that she will become a Mammy in real life through the adoption of twins. Winner of last year’s supporting player Academy Award for her work in “Gone With The Wind ’, Hattie discovered the infant twins, a boy and a girl, in a Los THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940 Angeles orphanage. When she began wirk in “Mary, land,”, Hattie started construction of an extra room on her house which will (be used as the nursery. Following completion of “Mary, land”, she left on a personal ap pearance tour and on her return she will go through the actual adoption proceedings, making her. self the legal mother of the twins.
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