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, OCT. 31, 1940
Third Term Fever
Daily papers in the state have within the week car
ried double page, full page and quarter page ads of the
“North Carolina Democrats-For-Willkie” organization,
whose address is the O’ Henry Hotel, Greensboro. Hav
ing lived in Greensboro and having while there come
to considerable understanding of the ins-and-outs of
Democratic politics in that city and in Guilford county,
we are forced to observe that although some of the ring
leading Willkie-crats may be perfectly sincere in pledg
ing allegiance to the G. O- P., the majority of them are
disgruntled Democrats first and Willkie-crats or what
have you afterwards
Knowing'the pettiness of some causes of dissatis
faction in Guilford, mostly Dound up in “no account dif
ferences’’ between factions in Greensboro and High
Point, we would point out that in Guilford, at least, the
Democrats-for-Willkie are not as united as they would
have the State at large to believe. We would also like to
show tnat as clever and as well-written as is their adver
tisement, its marshalling of facts, by quotations from
1912 copies of the News and. Observer, is more amus
ing than logical. Reference to what Washington, Jeffer
son, Madison and Monroe said or did about third terms
is interesting history, but is no more in line with U. S-
A. 1940 than the 1912 third term effort of Theodore
Rooevelt, an attempt so bitterly opposed by the then
editor and now ambassador Josephus Daniels, whose
words are now being employed for an entirely different
purpose from which their author ever intended. We
would like to hear what castigation Mr- Daniels could
give to those now taking his words in vain.
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Provincial Innocence
At a time when the world watches, w’aits and won
ders while Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Laval, et al work
behind scenes to shape the course of world destiny, the
comic relief afforded by Macon county protests over al
leged inaccuracies and misiepresentations incorporated
in a WPA and University of North Carolina sponsored
film called “Mountain Folk” and intended to reflect the
general character of such folk by examples freely chosen
from among Macon people, is not to be overlooked.
A particular point of complaint with Macon resi
dents is that a woman, presumably of hillside aristoc
racy, was photographed in “bare feet”. Objections were
also made to such simplicities as home arts and crafts,
and (maybe) to feminine pipe smoking and a bit of
chewin’. Protests were made to those in authority at
Chapel Hill and suggestion was made that if recourse
failed in that quarter, complaint w r ould be made to Gov.
Clyde R. Hoey. In any case, the picture, made with ser
ious intentions of sociologicai accuracy and some con
cession to art, has for the time being been withdrawn
from circulation and inference has been left that the
natives will be placated by having an opportunity to
“perform” in another and more pleasing film of the life
they are supposed to lead.
As for choice, it strikes us that a film made to
please might possibly be worse than that one which has
offended. It may be true that “Mountain Folk” is not
representative of the mass of such people but any pic
ture made on grounds of pleasing w'ould probably be ar
tistically worse and much more misleading as to actual
facts- What, for example would be an idealistic picture
of life in Person county? We have here fine homes, well
stocked farms and no little industry but whole truth
would compel a few down at neeis tenant cabins, under
nourished children and deserted church yards because
these, too, are with and are part of the fabric of our
daily life .although many of us blink our eyes or turn
our heads the other way when confronted with such
realities and would prefer not to have said realities
thought of in connection with our county. That’s the
way Macon folks are: no better than the rest of us.
To the crazy Tar Heel department we would add
those persons in Raleigh wbo have objected so stren
uously to the pink sidewalk put down by a chain store
in front of its establishment. We can see therein very
little difference between Macon county provincial inno
cence and that exhibited in Raleigh. A pink sidewalk
may be an affront to Fayetteville street dignity, but the
street, like many of the people who venerate it, needs a
bit of shocking now and tnen to set it right.
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All Saint’s Day
We must suppose that not many of tonight’s “Hal
lowe’en revellers on Roxboro streets will pause to rem
ember the religious significance of the day which fol
lows after, but to those whose faith is found in the more
liturgical churches tomorrow will be a day of prayer
and remembrance for heroes of faith, for saints and
loved ones now belonging to what St. Paul has described
as “so great a cloud of witnesses”.
And it is in the spirit of that phrase that we would
remind Times’ readers, regardles of race or creed, to
pause for a moment on that day and remember those
loved long since and lost awhile. Nothing quite so num-
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bles us, for differences between good intentions and act
ual accomplishments, as contemplation of what other
have expected us to be. And nothing should more easily
spur us on to greater achievements than a desire to mea
sure up in some way to those expectations.
The world is a living world but those who are in it
lose nothing by stopping now an<| then to remember in
thanksgiving all the kind, generous and noble people who
hqrve at one moment or another made the living world
more vital and more rich because they too were a part
of it
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Mark Twain on War Hysteria ....
From Labor
Mark Twain’s fame rests largely on his reputation
as a humorist, but, as a matter of fact, his best writing
was in a serious vein. For exmple, in “The Mysterious
Stranger,” here is what he had to say about war and
war hysteria:
“There has never been a just one, never an honor
able one—on the part of the instigator of the war. I
can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never
Change in so much as half a dozen instances.
“The loud little handful—as usual—will shout for
war- The pulpit will—warily and cautiously—object—
at first; the great, big, dull hulk of the the nation will
rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should
be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, ‘it is
unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.’
“Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men
on the other side will argue and reason against the war
with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and
be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will
outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences
will thin out and lose popularity.
“Before long you will see this curious thing: The
speakers stoned from the platform and free speech
strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret
hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers—as
earlier —but do not dare to say so.
“And now the whole nation—pulpit ana all—will take
up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any
honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and pre
sently such mouths will cease to open.
"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting
the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every
man will be glad of those conscience-shooting falsities,
and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine
any refutation of them; and thus he will by and by
convince himself that the war is just, and will thank
God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process
of grotesque self-deception.”
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On Italian-Greek Front
Durham Morning Herald
It is about as difficult to figure out what has hap
pened thus far in the Italian-Greek war as it is to fore
cast the direction and outcome of the battle. Informa
tion is sketchy and contradictory, which is normal, and
scant as well.
But one does not need verified reports to know that
the Greeks are in a hot corner that is likely to get hot
ter and that the Mediterranean naval battle the Brit
ish claim they have successfully sought is prabably a
round the corner. For the Greeks, apart from British
aid they are certain to receive and Turkish aid they may
or may not receive, are and will remain in the under
dog position on land and in the air. They’ll have to fight
on land, against heavy odds with unequal equipment
and in the air will be practically out of the running ex
cept planes thrown in by the British. That leaves the
Italians on top, of course, except on the sea
Reportedly, already the British sea arm has moved
in on both sides of Greece, occupied islands and landed
blue-jackets to help the Greeks defend an island air
drome near the Italian-fortified Dodecanese.
There are vague reports, too, of naval brushes be
tween the British and Italian Fleets. But there is little
to suggest anything akin to a major naval engagement
as yet and something of thai sort is, it seems to us,
bound to take place before the fight Mussolini has start
ed gets very old.
The British, of course, are better prepared to deal
with Italy on the sea than anywhere else and the situa
tion is one that requires Italy to risk a sea challenge on
the one hand and broken communications with land for
ces on the other. Anyhow, if the thrust against Greece
is part of an Italo-German plan to strike toward the
Near East across the Dardanelles, or across the Aegean,
the Axis powers must stand their ground on the sea and
the Italian Navy is their hope in that respect.
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Raleigh, Oct. 31—Area trailing
conferences, as a part of the
State-wide nine-montns training
program for personnel of local
offices of the Employment Ser
vice Division of the State Unem
ployment Compensation Commis
sion, are now in progress, under
direction of P. B. Pollock, per
sonnel and training supervisor of
the UCC.
Several area meetings have
been and will be held this month.
Prvious meetings have been in
Raleigh, October 14, for Raleigh
“•nd Sanford office personnel; Oc.
tober 15, at Henderson, Roanoke
Rapids and Rocky Mount offices;
October 18, at Durham for the
Durham and Burlington offices;
October 21, at High Point, for
High Point and Thomasville; and
at Greensboro, for Greensboro,
Reidsville and Spray; October 22,
at Edenton, for Edenton, Eliza-
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