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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. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year 51.■>« Six Months Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at al* times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office no! later than Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition and Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1940 Where An Apology Was Due From New York comes the story that Edward J. Flynn, Democratic National chainnan, has apologized for “the stupid document” discussing Republican pres idential candidate Wendell L. Willkie’s “German ances try”. In a statement disowning the circular, Chairman Flynn attributed the circular to the colored division of the committee and said that the circular w r as not ap proved by the publicity division of the committee. In expressing his regrets that the ancestry issue had been brought up Mr. Flynn added that no one ques tions Mr. Willkie’s 100 per cent Americanism (because! he himself discussed his ancestry in a most forthright manner in his acceptance speech. In a campaign which now has only a few weeks to go and which has been colored by bitterness, both of national and international character, it is gratifying to have Chairman Flynn correct a statement which was slander of the more personal type. The correction was most in order and may in time even work to political advantage of the Democrats, since Mr. Willkie has him self come dangerously close to defamation of character in assertions that Roosevelt is willing to turn the war spirit” to his own personal advantage. It is discouraging to think that the choice of a man for Pre ident of the United States will in this Novem ber election depend partly upon the turn of events m Japan, Germany, Italy, Russia, the Balkans and or England but the Flynn retraction does eliminate one "foreign” issue and regardless of motivations for apol ogy we are glad it has been given. 0-0-0 - o- o- o- o- o Being American Doubtlessly many Person citizens assembled for the Monday morning opening of Superior court were pleased to hear so forthright an expression of the vane of Americanism from Judge Henry L. Stevens, Ji., whose charge to the grand jury was, as he said, not in tended for the jury alone but for all citizens of the coun ty. As a leader in the American Legion of which he is a past National Commander Judge Stevens has thought long and seriously about the duties of responsible Amer icans, but to this particular Legion bias of opinions he has added the concern that any right-thinking judge must feel. , . . We are to go all the way with him in nis ap praisal of the everlasting importance of good citizen ship and we think it probable that there is an even clos er connection than he visualized between said citizen ship and the crime ratio, for if more persons were first of all filled with respect for the land in which they live, it would appear that deeds of violence would be less fre quent. As Judge Stevens said, St. Paul, the Roman, was justly proud of the fact that he was a citizen of “no mean city”. .... There is, however, some difficulty in setting up a rigid Americanism. Under the theory that freedom of assembly and the rights to a free press and religious toleration must be preserved, liberties of expression must be granted to certain minority groups whose opin ions do not adhere strictly to doctrines of American ism, or else the old conception of liberiy in this country must be changed. Here then is a delicate point of ad justment for all ot us to make in reaching decision as to what we stand for. We hasten to point it out for fear some of his hearers may be confused over differences of rules of faith and practice. 0-0-0 - o- o- o- o- o On Gallows’ Hill On Saturday night of last week, as can be seen by reading an item published elsewhere in the Times, a number of Negroes living in the Gallows’ Hill settle ment at the edge ol the city of Roxboro became involv ed in a free-for-all rock throwing contest in which sev eral of the residents were injured, one seriously, and to the scene of which were called at least four police of ficers, who would have been glad to have had double strength before the fracas was ended. If this sort of thing happened here and in other parts of the county only once in a great while, we could regard it as merely normal human inability to get a iong, under living conditions far from ideal. But as it is, scarcely a week passes without shootings, knifings and rock throwing sprees. We can’t, as we see it, put all the blame for these disturbances upon the fighters, who are most frequently Negroes. Week-end drams of whis key plus cramped quarters on mean streets or lonely farms naturally aggravate the devilish side of human nature, which people more fortunately placed in the so cial scale can and do take out in other ways or with more moderation. It has been suggested that more careful supervis ion of cases and other night spots on Gallows’ Hill would induce more order in the neighborhood, but we cannot see how such supervision can be carried out unless the City increases the size of its police force, for under present regulations it takes about all of the fime of the Carolina /PtISS ASSOCIATION T)| PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. available men to supervise the equally congested if not quite so rowdy downtown section on a Saturday night. We do know that something needs to be done to dis courage week-end lawlessness here abouts and we wish the cure could be byway of morals rather than by the big stick. o-o-o-o-o Man Wins Over in Durham the other day a commercially spon sored cooking school came to a close and to the surprise of both the sponsors and the feminine majority of stud ents, first prize, an electric range, or some article ot equal significance, was awarded to a man. In the rush ot the day we have forgotten the man’s, name: we cannot forget that he won or that newspapers in that city thought the incident so unusual that they fluffed the story up with bigger than average headlines. To the disappointed women, who with their sisters all over the land, have been lead to believe that cooking, like teaching children and having them, is an exclusively female occupation, we offer our profound sympathy, and to the budding Tar Heel Oscar of the Waldorf our congratulations for carrying on in the great masculine tradition. .1 . .. —— . - -I- . . Feeling Our Muscles Durham Morning Herald Evidences of the sudden preoccupation of Ameri cans with physical fitness is now becoming apparent in a number of ways. Most recent is the formation of a national committee which will promote mass sports and community hikes. The idea is not only to get Americans tough but to get them thinking mote about physical fitness than they have in the past- That America is beginning to turn toward a mor active participation in sports is an encouraging sign, and the transition ought to be effected quickly and full ad vantage ought to be taken of it. There has been too much onlooklng in the United Slates during the past few years and not enough parti cipation. Most of us have preferred to sit in a big stad ium and watch others play rather than play ourselves. What exercise we do take is generally irregular and not very thorough. All things considered we are a healthy natifi', but. we certainly aren’t a hard nation. Mass sports, hikes and the like, are certainly re miniscent of the “Strength Through Joy” programs of the Nazi Government in Germany. But that ought not, per se, to be a condemnation of it. Certainly we ought to be able to take a leaf from fascism’s book when by it we should benefit the nation. The war has focussed our attention upon getting ourselves in condition. We are spending billions for arms this year, but as an enlightened Frenchman once said, what good is shining armor if the body within that arm or is soft and weak? o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o Grenfell of Labrador Christian Science Monitor Sir Wilfred Grenfell—or more affectionately, Dr. Grenfell—had a gift for improving environment. Some of his acquaintances can remember the old Monmouth- Street house in Brookline, Massachusetts, whose obso lete basement kitchen became a pleasant library and work room because Dr. Grenfell had moved in. When he “moved in” among the needy people of Labrador and Newfoundland he made such improvements as were to inspire charity and courage among more fortunate folk for thousands of miles around. “Dr. Grenfell” became a household word in the United States. Schoolteachers who thought it their busi ness to teach something more than the “three R’s” read his accounts of life on stormy, ice-beleagued coasts, where poverty and ignorance were greater enemies ev en than the weather. Dr. Grenfell’s work included much outside the field of medicine. To hospitals were added schools and orphanages and industrial arid community organizations that were to lift the level of living for in numerable people. These works were made possible through the inspiration he transmitted to others. As he himself said: As the work grew and new activities developed, we found in the universities and schools of Amer ica many young men and women volunteers who were glad to come down and help us try to meet those challenges. It must have been a great reward to Sir Wilfred in retirement to know that the good works his career in augurated and expanded would of their own momentum carry on witnout his personal direction or inspiration. He builded well because the foundations of his work were laid in those qualities of compassion, courage and self-denial that make men only a little lower than the angels. His passing marks no end of the things that made up his daily life but leaves these as permanerit and continuing achievements. f' \* PARDON ME .. BBBl* j I —— t-I n. II “Milestone Car 99 Presented to Contest Winners Hi l»sßßasaßaStflffMßff»£ Presentation of Chevrolet’s “Milestone Car”—the 1,000,000th 1940 model produced by the industry’s leader —was made at the New York World’s Fair last week to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Weinert (shown here), of Iron Mountain, Mich., owners of the millionth Chevrolet six cylinder model, built in 1929. The Weinerts were winners of a nation-wide contest conducted by Chevrolet to locate No. 1,000,000. As guests of Chevrolet, the Michigan couple drove to New York, arriving at the Fair with more Market Is Offered For Black Wal nut Products Americans consume fifty mil lion dollars worth of nuts each year, and about one-fifth of these arc from wild trees in the for ests. In other words, ten million dollars picked from the ground, not including the nuts consumed by thousands of farm families who have their own. With this in view, R. W. Grae bar, Extension forester at N. C. State College, suggests that North Carolina farm families, especial ly 4-H Ciub boys and girls, add the growing of black walnut trees as a sideline to their agricultural enterprise. “No less than $150,000 worth of nuts are sold in North Carolina each year,” he declared, “and the possibilities for growing black walnut, both for nuts and lumb er, are good. The market is far from saturated.” This is only one of the angles of “tree farming” stressed by Graebar in his forestry educa tional program. Continuing, he says “Each year eight hundred million dollars are brought into the American bank account through the sale of forest pro ducts, making this one of the chief sources of our income. Six million people are directly or in directly omplcryed in our forests; and if it was not for wood, an other 122 million or more would have a hard time making a sat isfactory living. “The house we live in is usual ly made of wood, as well as the bed we sleep in, the chair we re lax in, the table we eat at; and the stove we cook with consumes a lot of wood. Even when the newspaper arrives, it is printed on paper made of wood. Our shoes would be so stiff we couldn’t bend them if they were not treat ed with tannic acid, which is ex tracted from chestnut, hemlock i or oak bark. “There are more than 4.500 different uses of wood. This counts plastic as one use and pa per as one use, but there are thousands for each of these.” , 7o Relieve ePJ&M LIQUID.TABLETS. SALVE. HOSE DROPS We sell Eye Glasses to Sat isfy the eyes $2.00 to SB.OO THE NEWELLS Jewelers Roxboro. N. C. than 110,000 miles on their ’29 car, which Weinert had purchased as a used car, at a price of $25. M. E. Coyle (left), general manager of Chevrolet, presented the new 1940 Special De Luxe model to the Weinerts. Chevrolet’s production of a million units this year maintains a seven-! year record of a million a year average, with the 1,000,000th 1940 car following No. 900,000 by exactly one month. The well-traveled 1929 model has been returned to Detroit,! where it will be placed on display. j Announcement i I hereby announce that I am a candidate on the Republican ticket for the office of commis sioner of Person County. I will appreciate your vote in the No vember election. If elected I shall strive to serve to the best of my ability. 10-17-20-p. 808 WHITT o BROADCASTING PICTURES BY THOUGHT WAVES How a “Human Transmitter” sat in a studio, staring at random at photographs while members of a psychic society turned their minds to him to prove that tele pathy exists. The results of this demonstration are related in the October 27th issue of The American Weekly the big magazine distributed with the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN On Sale at AH Newstands JACQUELYN BODDIE I FAMOUS AUTO STUNT DRIVER EXTRA MILDNESS | EXTRA COOLNESS / DIFFERENCE TO 1 1 "I EXTRA FLAVOR y W| % MV THRIFT ) i”Xei" vm^ks^p)\ JJB&i 25% slower than the (tAV POCKETBOOK \ |J» , of^ the largest-sellmg SMOKING means, on the average, _ ____ a smoking plus g.-—. _ GET THE EXTRAS” equal *° GRR WITH SLOWER-BURNING ■asr H CAMELS Save With Usl We firmly believe that we can save you money on quality groceries. We carry a complete line and in vite your inspection. 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