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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 $1.50 Six Months 75 Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at ai’ times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office nol later than Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition and Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1040 “When Good People Get Into Trouble” . . . . . ... In an address specifically aimed at the divided French, but actually intended for all the world, Britain’s Prime Minister Churchill on Monday said: “When good people get into trouble because they are attacked and heavily smitten by the vile and wicKed, they must be very careful not to get at loggerheads with one anoth er.” We rather suspect that any number of preachers could take Churchill’s words as text for a sermon or two on abiding moral issues, but as much as we admire the Prime Minister’s eloquently simple statement regard ing aspects of what has amounted to international de cay, we must in the United Slates remember that his message, as much as any other message today delivered by persons in authority, has in it elements of propagan da. True it is that the time has come when distinction must be made Detween good and bad propaganda, but than the word itself, without qualifying adjective, there is no other. From minute to minute, from hour to hour, the cris is generated in Europe but now spread over the world grows more acute and nothing said at such a time can be accepted as the whole truth. Before these words can be set in type, much less printed, what is left of inde pendence in Turkey and Greece may be gone. Applica tion of the Prime Minister’s text to our own internal affairs of state is now about all we can do while we push ahead with defense programs, selective service and a nationwide election. With these important duties on our hands it is for us vital that we do not get at “logger heads” with one another and that we judge carefully be fore we rush about calling any one of our fellow citi zens “vile and wicked ” O—o 0 o Last Word ? Having previously spoken our mind on “Jehovah’s Witnesses”, we can only say today that we hope all readers of the Times read and will remember Judge Luther Hamilton’s opinion, as delivered this week in Superior court at Lumberton: “I don’t think any true Witness of Jehovah would make himself a nuisance; I do think they could advance their cause more graciously by complying with ordin ances (but) we have boasted of our liberty of speech and freedom of the press, and boasted that no man may be denied his religious beliefs or the opportunity of expressing them to others. How can any town ordinance deny any man the right of his beliefs and the right to dissemmate them?” On the other end of the ledger we have the News and Observer’s aforetime delivered quotation from May or Aubrey Harrell, of Wallace: “No matter what the Supreme court says, we are not going to allow them in our town.” We wonder what the Mayor will do now. Judge Hamilton, in a lower court than that to which the boast ful Mayor had reference, has, we trust, had the last word, with a dignity far beyond the municipal official’s capacity to comprehend. o*o~o*o*o*o ,, o*o How It Is To Be Done On Sunday of this week the Times printed a com munication from City Manager Percy Bloxam, who ; acting in double capacity as “Building Inspector”, called upon citizens here to have home grounds and vacant lots cleared of weeds and their cellars, attics and closets cleaned of rubbish as a means of fire prevention. The suggestion was also made that electric outlets, lamp and appliance cords and other wiring be made hazard proof. Mr. Bloxam made it clear that as Building Inspec tor he will have to report all such hazardous conditions and that he will as Inspector make visits in capacity to “All houses throughout the City in the near future”. We do not know just how the City Manager-Inspector will be able to cover completely the area designated as the City of Roxboro, but we do commend him for his attitude of thorough seriousness. And we sincerely hope that all residents here will follow his suggestions before they have to be personally delivered. In a City the size of Roxboro, although the Fire Department is mayhap even better than the City may deserve, all possible precautions must be taken to pre- . vent fires. No one of us here is so rich as to be able to take a loss from a preventable fire without financial or personal discomfort. Too, we must remember that many homes and business houses are still heated with old fashioned stoves and fire-places and that proper opera tion ofthese agencies of heat is just as important in fire prevention as the more obvious and often neglected cleaning up and repairing suggested by Mr. Bloxam. Mr. Bloxam has written his letter and has said that » he and all city officials will do what they can to carry out an organized fire prevention program in Roxboro: clearly, the rest of the job is up to us. sf* NorthCo rolina Uk f PM S 3 PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. “Cue Says, ‘Go’, To Wake Forest” . . Down at the end of Dan Parker’s very good “Cue" article on the rising tide of professional football, in which he all but predicts that college and university football stadia will attract smaller and smaller crowds ias the public turns by choice to better played and more exciting professional pigskin antics, is a maybe true, maybe false comment on college football, at, of all plac es, Wake Forest Prefaced by remarks on the “hypocricy with which intercollegiate football is saturated, here is what Dan has to say: “Typical of the shamateurism of the college game is the lineup of a conservative Southern Baptist college in North Carolina this year. Its student body may be straight-laced Baptists but its football team was im ported, cleats, pads, and helmets, from the Polish and Italian Catholic parishes in Pennsylvania’s coal mining belt”. Disgruntled Wake Foresters may reach Mr. Parker at 6 East 39 Street, New York City, where the maga zine is published. WITH OTHER EDITORS A Decade, and Bevond 7 y Greensboro Daily News The Daily News, let it be distinctly understood, is all for this decade of “unprecedented progress” upon which North Carolina is prepared to launch after last Friday’s conference between Governor Hoey and 50 prominent citizens of the state. In fact; it is our keen interest in the movement and our abiding solicitude for the state, its welfare and its progress, that direct our thoughts to the foundations of the effort and the span for which its energy is to be directed. While agricultural and industrial expansion offer a general and indefinite course, especially as related to time, it is noticed that the first concrete step will be the opening of a North Carolina office in Washington, if we may quote an Associated Press dispatch from Ra leigh, “to look after the state’s interests in obtaining defense contracts and industries.” There is nothing inherently wrong with that step. North Carolina, with an abundance of labor and raw materials, availability of power and transportation fa cilities, climate, geography, and other natural resour ces to offer, should certainly have full and fair share in public and private consideration of national defense business. Decentralization of the defense industries ap pears a logical development, not only from the social but from the practical military viewpoint. Present con gestion in the more populous areas results in bottle necks and in open invitation to bombing if an enemy should decend upon us- Our only caution here is against high pressure methods and resort to politics. There is no place for such tactics and methods in national defense. What North Carolinians and the nation are interested in are results; the safe and sound location of industry and bestowal of contracts so that full value will be received for tax dol lars and for defense as such. North Carolina, we trust and believe, will move forward on the facts. Our abiding admonition is to look beyond the present emergency. This war cannot possibly go on for ever. Prosperity, even a relative prosperity, cannot al ways go forward on armaments contracts and national defense business. Such an economy has an unsound foun dation; it has to be temporary or there is no hope for the world. It is the sort of economy on which the dicta torships that we are so earnestly seeking to overthrow have been built, production and equipment resting upon military needs. Some day the war will end, the mad rush to armaments will subside; and then will come the sad time of reckoning, of readjustment, of collection of the pieces. The economic collapse after war is inevitable. And with that inevitability staring it in the face, emph asized and re-emphasized by the history of every war and its aftermath, North Carolina, while benefiting by im mediate trends and developments, must build more soundly, more solidly, more permanently than defense contracts and defense industries portend in and of themselves. A decade, as the stream of humanity moves on, is but a split-flash of time’s eye. Armaments pros perity presents essentially a challenge to build against the end thereof. o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o Suppressing The News News and Observer * “News from warring countries is subject to censor ship. It may sometimes be misleading. It is the right and duty of every American citizen to do his own thinking, hold to his own beliefs, and not permit himself or his country to become a victim of emotionalism or propa ganda.” For more than a year, the above warning has ap peared daily on the front page of The News and Obser ver. It has, been, during all of that period, a timely warn ing. A new emphasis is placed upon the effect of censor ship by the announcement more than a month after the event of the repulsion of an attempted German invasion of the British Isles on September 16. If news of that magnitude can be suppressed and successfully denied for more than a month, it goes without saving tHat innum erable other happenings are suppressed altogether. The English censorship is generally regarded as less drastic than those of some other nations now at war. The incident cited, together with an earlier incident in which the sinking of a vessel carrying hundreds of passengers, was suppassed for five days, shows what can and does happen in any nation where the press oper ates under a strict censorship. WILSON PRAISES ACCOMPUSHMENTS OF TWO GROUPS Says Editors and Farm Agents Wirk Together For Farm Improvements. Weekly newspaper editors and county farm and home agents make up a team that has been one of the most potent forces in the improvement of farming and rural living in the past 25 years. Those are the sentiments of M. L. Wilson, director of Extension (or the U. S. Department of Agri culture. Director I. O. Schaub of the State College Extension Ser vice says he heartily concurs in the views expressed by the Fed eral leader. Os the beginning of this period of team work, Director Wilson says. “The United States was nearing the end of the rows as far as new land was concerned. In the more carefully cultivated sec tions, farming methods lagged be hind experimental advances in agricultural science. Into this pic ture stepped the county agent and traveled from farm to farm on foot, on horseback, and in bug gies. “On the country editor the agent leaned heavily from the earliest days. Usually the work of the county agent made good newspaper copy. Frequently he would write a column of his own in the weekly paper and his writ ings were compact with good sense. “Judged solely as a job in prac tical, popular education, the a chievement of the county agent ranks high in American social history. The county agent is now equipped with an automobile and a clerical force in his office, but is most frequently to be found at some farm talking about crops and rural improvements. The weekly editor is still one of his most highly valued allies.” To this Director Schaub of the North Carolina Extension Service adds: “Agricultural Extension work simply is giving informa tion about better ways of farm living and one of the best meth ods of reaching a farm audience is through the columns of local papers whose editors the farm people know and trust. “Since the summer of 1914 ex clusive copy for weekly papers has been mailed each week from the office of Frank H. Jeter, State College editor. The weekly news papers of North Carolina have, since the beginning, given liber ally of their space to this coop erative program of rural better ment.” - I We sell Eye Glasses to Sat isfy the eyes $2-00 to SB.OO THE NEWELLS Jewelers Roxboro. N. C. Farmers Mutual Exchange MOVED We have moved to our new store, located on Chub Lake street, next door to the American Legion hut. Our new store is about three times larger and we are car rying a more complete stock of all needs of the farm ers. Come to see us - see our new store - new merchan dise. All the parking space you need. Farmers Mutual Exchange J. R. Jones Lambert Berry Presbyterian Church J. M. Walker, Pastor 9:45 a. m. - Sunday School, Tho mas Dixon, Supt. 11:0 a. m. - Morning Worship, “A Christian and His Body”. 6:45 p. m. - Young Peoples’ Meeting. A welcome is extended to all worshippers. ALWAYS ADVERTISE IN THE FOR RESULTS. DR. R. J. PEARCE EYES EXAMINED MONDAYS ONLY Thomas-Carver Bldg. f TELL'EM SEND 1 I TWO CASES it # ’’ ••ll® wnuu iff jm I Mmlik gO m .. mmy** Quality Plus There’s no argument in this case- We have what you want. Come in now. Roxboro SHOE Store THURSDAY, OCTBER 24, 1940 LAND POSTED SIGNS AT THE TIMES OFFICE BUSINESS STATIONERY Let us design letterheads, sta tements, and envelopes that personalize your correspond, ence, and impress your clients Phone 4501 Person County Times
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