PERSON COUNTY TIMES
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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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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.
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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.
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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
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PALACE THEATRE
ADVANCE PROGRAM
From Thursday, Aug. 29 thru
Saturday, Aug. 31
Motion Pictures Are Your
Best Entertainment
Thursday-Friday, Aug. 29-30
Allan Jones - Martha Raye -
Joe Penner - Rosemary Lane -
Irene Hervey- Charles Butter
worth Alan Mowbray, in
“The Boys From Syracuse’’
On Broadway for a year at
$5.50 now it’s here at Popu
lar Prices! A screen-sation to
rouse your cheers . . . with a
laugh-loaded cast and hundreds
of Hollywood Honeys! Here’s
laughing gas . . . for your
blues ... set to toe-tapping
tunes!
Two-Reel Musical: “Varsity
Vanities”
Color Cartoon: “Swing Social”
Special Morning Show
Friday 10:30;
Afternoons Daily 3:15-3:45;
Admission 10-30 c;
Evenings Daily 7:30-9:15;
Admission 15-35 c.
Saturday, Aug. 31
Johnny Mack Brown - Bob Ba
ker - Fuzzy Knight, in
“Son of Roaring Dan”
Episode No. 14 of the serial
“Terry and the Pirates” (Pyre
of Death) with William Tracy
- Granville Owen - Allen
Jung
Terry-Toon: “Mach Ado About
Nothing”
Afternoon 2:30-4:00;
Admission 10-30 c;
Evening 7:00-8:30-9:45;
Admission 15-35 c.
(Box office opens 6:45)
at noon. The extra mash will put '
on more body weight and help
hold up the egg production. It i 3
recommended that the pullets be \
fed all the scratch grain they will
, consume in the late afternoon.
Parish also suggests that plans
be made now for a fall and win-'
ter green feed crop for the flock.
Italian rye grass and crimson
clover sown together are very
good for this purpose. The seed
ing should be done from Septem
ber 15 to October 15. County
farm agents have a circular,
“Grazing Crop for Poultry,”
which explains this in detail.
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Glamour .Girls
In Film Chorus
Scores of gorgeous “Grecian”
dancers and show girls add pul
chritude to the musical comedy
proceedings in “The Boys From
Syracuse”, Mayfair Production
which brings a huge cast to the
Palace theatre on Thursday and
Friday.
A Mayfair Production for Uni
versal release, and based on the
Broadway stage hit, the film in
corporates music by Richard Ro
gers and Lorenz Halt and new
dances directed by Dave Gould.
Gould, noted Hollywood dance
pilot, staged a number in which
Martha Raye, singing “The Greeks
Have No Word For It,” breaks
into a fast new dance routine
with 40 chorus beauties. Other
gala numbers are “spotted”
throughout the film. A huge
Grecian garden and mansion
provide the background.
Pulchritudious principals in
clude Rosemary Lane and Irene
Hervey, who share romantic
interest with Allan Jones.
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Love Interest By
Anne and Patric
Anne Shirley and Patric Know
les, two of Hollywood’s most po
pular young personalities, make (
their debut as a romantic team
in the screen version of L. M.
Montgomery’s “Anne of Windy
Populars”, showing at the Dolly I
Madison theatre Thursday and |
Friday. |
Miss Shirley, cast in the title I
role, recently scored an outstand- I
ing success in “Vigil in the Night” |
with Carole Lombard. Knowles’ I
most recent hit was as Maureen I
O’Hara’s sweetheart in “A Bill I
of Divorcement”.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1940
DOLLY MADISON
THEATRE
ADVANCE PROGRAM
From Thursday, Aug. 29 thru
Saturday, Aug. 31
Motion Pictures Are Your
Best Entertainment
Thursday-Friday, Aug. 29-30
Anne Shirley with James El
lison - Henry Travers - Patric
Knowles - Slim Summerville,
in
“Anne of Windy Populars”
(First Run)
Hit-the-Heart Story of a Girl
who has the courage to be her
self! Newest of the World-Po
pular “Anne” Series of Novels.
Now she comes to take pos
session of that special corner
of your heart you’ve been re
serving for just such a pic
ture as this.
Color Rhapsodies: “The Egg
Hunt”
Pete Smith Speciality: “The
Domineering Male”
No Morning Show;
Afternoons Daily 3:15-3:45;
Admission 10-30 c;
Evenings Daily 7:30-9:15;
Admission 15-30 c.
Saturday, Aug. 31
Tim McCoy and Nora Lane, in
“Fighting Renegade”
(First Run)
Episode No. 3 of the serial
“Adventures of Red Ryder”
(Trail’s End) with Don “Red”
Barry - Noah Berry - Tommy
Cook - William Fa mum.
Paramount Pictorial
No Morning Show;
Afternoon 2:30-4:00; Admis.
sion 10-30 c; Evening 7:00 -
B*3o - 9:45; Admission 15-30 c
(Box office opens 6:45.)
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