PERSON COUNTY TIMES
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
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.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1940
Thank God For A Native
With more than that provincial pleasure with which
North Carolinians once engulfed themselves whenever a
Tar Heel writer “cashed in” on the New York literary
market, we have just finished reading the first “Native
at Large” column, now being written each week by News
and Observer editor Jonathan Daniels for the “Nation”.
Starting off with a comment on the collaboration
between dramatist Paul Green and Negro novelist Rich
are Wright now being carried on in Chapel Hill in order
to transfer Wright’s “Native Son” into drama for Pro
ducer Orson Wells, Mr. Daniels proceeds to a discussion
of the national significance of the themes and the people,
white and black, about which these two men are concern
ed. As Mr. Daniels so plainly says, “It is easier to see the
results (of baffled migrations of Negroes and little white
men) in Chicago at the end of baffled migration . . .
than it is to make some sense and safety where the slow,
bundle-carrying, timid and determined movement be
gins.”
Before he is finished with an analysis of people
“who will not stop starving or moving because they are
forgotten,” Mr. Daniels encompasses completely the evils
of a society which permits with complacency the de
velopment of families and indmividuals such as the
Joads and Bigger Thomas. He rightly observes that
their problems must be met with at the sources, and
that nothing short of “uninterrupted attention” will
serve as correctives to that low estate into which
many migratory white men and Negroes have been
allowed to fall within the past ten years.
So wide a comprehension of problems confronting
the nation as a whole may have once been rare in a
Southerner, but since Mr. Daniels is the man he is, we
are not surprised. And because of what he may say
from now on, we wish the “Nation” could be as proud
of the size of its Southern subscription list, as we are ol
its new columnist.
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Wheat and Tares
Residents of the city who have read with any de
gree of care the story of the August meeting of the Rox
boro City Council, held last Tuesday, will be compelled
to notice a perhaps unconscious but acute and accurate
weighing of good and evil in the proceedings which took
place.
The financial account, as presented in City Mana
ger Percy Bloxam’s report, is very, very good it being
shown that July collections from taxes, water rents and
other sources of revenue, amounted to $14,222-97, and
that through cooperation with WPA the city has re
ceived benefits of $32,000 worth of water and sewer
improvements at a cost of less than $7,000 in actual
•ash outlay.
Also on the credit side is the adoption by the Coun
cil of Manager Bloxam’s plan for installation of a zoned
code fire alarm system, long needed here. Similar pleas
ure can be expressed over plans for further expansion
of water and sewerage facilities within the corporate
limits, and over decision of the council that the city
shall first take care of its own citizens when it comes
to the use of said water and sewerage facilities.
But, on the other side of the ledger is the almost
too “neat” side stepping of the too-long dormant “pig
keeping” ordinance. Likewise, there is the none too sub
tle reference to alleged laxity of law enforcement by the
City Police.
It may be good politics to pass the buck by saying
that "an as yet uncreated “Zoning Commission” will at
some indefinite and future date have thrust upon it the
painful duty of determining just how many pigs and
pig habitations shall be winked at because the owners
of said pigs and pens are persons of importance or have
the good fortune to reside in what our neighbor, “The
Courier”, characterizes as the “scattered” or “estate”
sections of the city, but such an evasion of a sanitary
evil is nothing less than an evasion of civic duty. Rox
boro is now too large a city to permit continued harbor
ing of pigs, or even cows, within its limits without con
stant risk to the health of its inhabitants.
On the other matter, an alleged laxity of law en
forcement by the City Police, we are moved to observe,
that in our humble opinion, Chief Oliver and his men
are giving citizens just about what citizens have asked
for. As long as the so-called best people of Roxboro con
tinue to double-park where double-parking is forbidden,
as long as they continue to back around and to make u
tums where u-turns are prohibited and as long as they
persist in failure to observe trash-can and garbage laws,
who can blame lesser citizens for doing likewise? And
who, in the name of commonsense, can blame officers
for, perhaps, looking the other way ?
If Roxboro has in it more flies per square inch than
any city of its size should have, and if traffic problems
here are all out of proportion to the number of automo
biles on the streets, what can we do about the resulting
health and safety hazards? The obvious answer is: “Ex
actly nothing”, unless citizens are themselves disposed
to seek relief.
The City Council, fortunately, or unfortunately, is
only the mouthpiece of the citizens it represents.
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C.
Corn and the Farm Problem ......
Christian Science Monitor
Two items in the news, taken together, are likely
to arouse a question in the mind of the reader. Because
of a shortage of rainfall in the com belt of the United
States, the Department of Agriculture probably, will not
put to a referendum the question of a marketing quota
on corn. In other words, the crop seems unlikely to ex
ceed the normal; indeed, probably will be considerably
below it. That is the first item. The second is the story
of how Edward and Mildred Doubet of Illinois have re
ceived $20,000 for a few ears of a drought and insect
resistant corn, to developing which they have devoted
years of effort.
The question that may be asked is: Why do the
Department of Agriculture, the State experiment sta
tions,. and individuals like the Doubets—and Henry A.
Wallace himself before he became Secretary of Agricul
ture—continue to experiment with drought-resistant
corn when year after year, barring crop failure, the Un
ited States has such a corn surplus that the Government
must take it over?
The whole farm problem in a large part of the
United States revolves about the matter of having
enough hogs to eat the corn. The ideal situatibn for the
individual is to have a big pig crop when corn is plenti
ful and cheap and when pigs are generally scarce. But
obviously everyone cannot achieve this at the same
time. Drought-resistant corn would permit the farmer
to plant enough for his needs and eliminate the temp
tation to overplant as insurance against poor crop con
ditions. He who perfects such a strain deserves a monu
ment.
It should be borne in thought, however, that the
whole farm problem in the United States, with its limits
on salable production, is largely the result of disturbed
world conditions and that until international trade chan
nels are reopened, the Government probably will be call
ed upon to nurse the agricultural industry.
SUNDAY
SCHOOL LESSON
From
The Adult Student
No Psalm is more greatly be
loved by Christians than the
Twenty-third. Across the centuries
it has given strength to faltering
minds and brought comfort to
sorrowing hearts. It has helped
many bravely to face the un
known future.
We today, however, face a dis
turbing question: “Can we still
believe that what it says is true?”
In this time of mental confusion,
many feel that its message is
entirely too simple.
The Fact of God
Os course, the fundamental fact
of which we must first think is
the reality of God. If he exists,
then there is hope for us. If he
is what Christ said he was, then
the glorious truth is that he is
capable of leading us. We can
confidently and happily follow
him!
Yet, surely any one with a logi
cal mind cannot help but feel
there must be some adequate
cause for our universe. It is not
logical to think that the beauties
we view in the Sistine Chapel
just happened. They are the re
sult of the toil of one who could
paint with the capacity which the
beauty of these walls portray. So
the idea of causation must be
taken into consideration in all
the affairs of our world. It is
hardly reasonable that people
with keen minds should assert
that tlTere is a universe such as
ours, unless there is an adequate
cause for it.
A Divine Purpose
Only those, however, who have
cultivated their spiritual capaci
ties can be sure of the kind of
God of whom Jesus speaks. But
those who do become convinced
of his reality know that he can
not be a purposeless Deity. He
has great plans and noble objec
tives.
It is in hours of earnest quiet
ness that one becomes confidently
sure that God is, and that he is
One who knows what we need to
know.
' We cannot dogmatically assert
what technique he will use, but
if we who are parents are able
to convey, by some means, our
all too inadequate knowledge of
God to children, then the Deity
surely has some way of speaking
to us, and thus telling us the way
in which we should go.
Test of Divine Guidance
It is, of course, possible for ev
en the religious minded person to
be deceived unless his reason
goes hand in hand with a sensitive
soul that is eager to know the di
vine will for his life.
But there are practical and un
mistakable tests by which we can
be sure of the leadership of God
Long before Christ, the Psalmist
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indicated the fundamental one
when he wrote: “He leadeth me
in the paths of righteousness.” We
cannot do anything that is not in
harmony with the divine charac
ter, and then claim that we are
being led by God.
Let one, therefore, ask himself:
“Will this experience, in which
I profess to have divine guidance,
ultimately benefit, or will it harm,
some other child of God? Will it
build up character for me and for
others? Is this the Christ-like
thing to do?” For instance, we
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