PERSON COUNTY TIMES *v ( • ' ■ : 1 • ‘ ' 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. —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, AUGUST 29, 1940 The Unwisdom of Calling for Help . Early Sunday morning a Person county young man struck by one car while he was hailing another for pur poses of road-side assistance to his own machine, receiv ed injuries which subsequently proved fatal. This tragic accident, so close to the city limits of Roxboro, has been repeated in countless variations all over the state and nation. Preliminary hearing for the driver of the automobile which struck the young man has not been held and of ficial reports of the accident have not been filed, al though it has been said that the driver now under bond was blinded by lights from the machine which had stopped in response to the appeal previously referred to. It is also said that the highway was slippery from recent heavy rains. These circumstances are mentioned as mitigating circumstances, circumstances which may also have to include evidence that the young man who was struck may have been too far out in the highway when he attempted to flag the other car. Here, then, is a story such as Ronald Hocutt, Dir ector of the Safety Division of the State Highway de partment might send out in the interest of safety on the highways. It is, unfortunately, a story “here at home’’ and has as its obvious moral only a re-emphasis of the danger and the unwisdom of calling for help on a highway at night, or at any other time, without being careful to keep out of traffic lanes while doing so. Per sons who have occasion to seek aid for stalled machines need to observe all precautions and not a little care should also be observed by persons who stop their mach ines in response to requests for such aid. It also goes without saying that all drivers should dim light when ne cessary and should be eternally on the lookout for un usual traffic conditions within their range of vision on the highways. o—o— o 0 Abroad and At Home Otis N. Brown, of Greensboro, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign wars, speaking at the opening session of the annual encampment, held this year at Los Angeles, said Monday that there should now be a “con stant program of education in patriotism” and “en couragement of social, political and economic reforms to strengthen democracy”. He also agreed that war is a job for trained men, and indicated that the organization of which he is commander will go on record as favoring conscription. Compressed as it is in the above report, Comman der Brown’s address sounds as constrained as any Amer ican patriotic speech could be expected to sound in this year of unreason. Having heard the speech by radio, we know, however, that the AP editor of the Commander s hometown “Daily News” did him a service by cutting the wired version, for Mr. Brown did make many more, now conventional statements anent subversive elements, “f” columnists, etc. We shall say no more, only stopping to observe that Commander Brown, maybe, needs to be more concerned with matters close at home in Guilford, where the break ing up of an alleged lottery gang at High Point, said to have been lead by a prominent political personage also under arrest, within the week points to the existence of a moral condition which has been wrong in that city and in Guilford county far longer than the recent too frequent term “fifth columnist” has been in the popular vocabulary. We are sure that if Commander Brown has had his home ear to the ground he has known of the ‘sink of wickedness” at his doorstep. We are not so sure why he has not attempted a reform there in line with higher citizenship and we are no less puzzled to discover why other law enforcement officials there have been so long silent and are now so active. o—o—o—o The Preservation of the Absence . . As can be seen by reading official ballot tabulations published in today’s edition of the Times, Person voters not from Roxboro were the ones who “cheered” United Dry Forces, local and state, by contributing a 64 vote majority in Saturday’s second attempt to legalize the sale of whiskey. The subject, as we said Sunday, is over and done with” for a time in Person county—except in so far as state-wide “Dry” repercussions taking the form of “agitation” for re-establishment of the supposedly bone dry condition existing throughout the state prior to the local option legislation of 1937 are concerned, and ex cept in so far as the really concientious Person Drys may become concerned over undenied bootleg outlets which have been and are now operating in Person’s nev er dry but now newly washed territory. A few local citizens who favored "Control” but did not get themselves into a “Dry-Sweat” about it are now saying that logic demands more active suppression of Testing Law Curbing Use of Flag Principals in coart battle to decide whether the American flag map be legally painted upon a commercial truck. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Long are shown being served with a warrant after Long (at left) drove the truck up to a Baltimore poUce station to invite the test. such unofficially damp spots as there are in Person’s borders. We have no doubt that local Drys of similar logicalness would be pleased to see such a suppression, but it seems to us to be more than foolish to expect any thing other than the present unofficial preservation of the absence of control, since the lamb’s wool covering many voters also covered their desire to continue im bribing bootleg, when and where they please- As can be seen by reference to the Tom Bost com ment printed elsewhere on this page, the story of Per son’s continued adherence to the double standard offers many complexities, and in the eyes of the state furnish es an amusing or a pious picture, depending upon the point of view, with the prospects of 1941 fireworks in the Legislative halls at Raleigh. In all honesty, how ever, it must be conceded that local anti-control forces deserve congratulations for persistence and tenacity now apparently crowned with success. Some More Kicking From W. T. Bost’s “Among Us Tar Heels” In the Greensboro Daily News When Person county remained dry three years ago by the margin of its eyelids, dry voters and “controllers” kicked themselves all over upper North Carolina and lower Virginia for that both had loafed and allowed Person to get an enigmatic recording. The drys got mad because the wets almost carried the county. The wets got madder because they saw how easy it would have been to take Person. After a wait of three years somebody upped and called another election, mystifying oldtimers by this stir. But after calling it the callers did nothing. They conducted no real campaign while the drys bore down. They did mapy times more work to keep Person dry than they did three years ago. The wets gave it up as a hopeless job. How could any body carry Person without putting out and who was there to put out? Besides, the state is heading back to bone dry legislation. And then Person held that election Saturday and got by with just an eyelid and a half .doing barely better than the county did three years ago. In a total of 2,544 reported votes the drys got 1,304 for a majority of only 64. The controllers polled 1,240. But the wet vote two days ago was bigger than the dry vote three years ago, at which time the drys counted 1,113 and the wets 1,091. Sunday Cale Burgess, generalissimo of the drys, announced in dry Dunn that the state is going back to prohibition. He did not get that from Person. Any sort of fight by the wets this time manifestly would have overturned Person. And that is not the most pleasing thought. But there is a reason for this Person attitude and on the whole it works to the advantage of the drys. Person is dreadfully disadvantaged by bordering Virginia. An unhappy dry spot is the North Carolina place which must match behavior, law obedience, and even temper ance with Virginia. Alliteration won’t justify calling it sober South Boston and piflicated Person. But South Boston is soberer than Roxboro and everybody knows it. Halifax county simply does not drink as Person, its southern neighbor, drinks. And when the drys confront the populace with the horrible potentialities of legalized liquor, they have to be moderate, because there is Hali fax county, Virginia, and every man, woman and child can testify’that Halifax handles its liquor under license better than Person gets along with its outlawed liquor. That isn’t a very good campaigning argument. The drys don’t find it specially popular to make the comparison. But back from the border counties and in the state’s interior, it’s another story. Johnston in renouncing its ABC stores a few wees ago had no Virginia neighbor to explain. The county’s notorious bootlegger and prison habitutes were out and free to campaign to their own interest. It would be so in Harnett county. That’s an inside division and there is no border neighbor to show Harnett up. Governor Lee Tinkle, of Virginia, political and personal dry throughout life, came to conclude that Virginia’s system had worked strongly for sobriety. Bui it also makes it hard for the North Carolina drys. Most disconcerting is the reflection that a little work would have turned Person over. And Virginia would have been to blame. Both sides should kick them selveg again. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. Pullets Should Be Moved from Range Poultrymen are preparing to move their pullets into the lay ing house from the summer range and the trees, and this change should -be made carefully and gradually, says C. F. Parrish, Ex tension poultry specialist of N. C. State College. “It is quite a severe change to move chickens from the outdoors into poorly ventilated laying houses, and it may affect produc tion materially for several weeks, perhaps months,” the specialist declared. “Be as easy and care ful as possible with the handling, whether you have 50 or 1,000”, Parrish added. He recommends that the trans fer be made as gradually as pos sible, allowing the pullets the range of the yard when they are first brought to the laying house. The pullets should not be crowd ed. Each bird should have at least 3*2 square feet of floor space in the laying house. A check should be made for lice when the chickens are hous ed, and those found infested should be treated immediately. It is wise to keep the roost poles well-soaked with used motor oil, at least until cold weather ar rives, to prevent red mite infest ation. If the . pullets get light in weight, slow down in production, or show signs of a neck molt, they should be put on a wet mash I jj t,