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.
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THURSDAY NOV. 14, 1940
Samuel Freeman Nicks, Jr
“There came to him an image of man’s whole life
upon the earth. It semed to him that all man s life was
like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an
illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all mans
grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from
the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his
life was little and would be extinguished and that only
darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew
that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the
shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of
his heart into the maw of all-engulfmg night’’.
There is not one of us, really honest with himself,
who will not say that he has not at times felt the senti
ments expressed above- There is not one of us, among
those fortunate enough to have enjoyed the friendship
of the late Samuel Freeman Nicks, Jr., who will fail to j
understand how and why his radiant life came so quick
ly to an ending more tragic than most, yet the words
quoted are not his, but those of Thomas Wolfe, whose
own early death in 1938, seems here to have been fore
told with a prescience bordering upon the uncanny.
For fifteen years we knew tne man whose career
ended Sunday. A friendship beginning as a college
friendship, with the intimacy peculiar to such, develop
ed in later work-a-day times into something deeper,
though it was felt rather than expressed, and therein,
we think, lies the difference between youth and matur
ity, which must now share, partially, at least, in the
blame for the personal catastrophe which on Sunday
morning overtook our friend.
When the world is so much with us that we pass
up opportunities to help those who are walking along
our way, then it is that we need to stop, to take account
and to re-order our lives. We would not, however, end
this tribute to our friend on any such note of bitter re
gret.
His life was never “little”, though he may have
felt it was, and during all the years oi manhood his en
ergies were devoted to his chosen profession and to this
city which became his home. This is now neither time
nor place to catalogue his accomplishments as political,
civic and religious leader, items which are known and
will be remembered in proper order, but it must be said
that Roxboro will be poorer because of his going.
Our Roxboro habits of life, commendable as they
are, have been always on the conservative side and we
needed and will continue to need the driving, forceful
and attractive personality possessed by Mayor Nicks.
In many, many instances he it was who thought first ol
the City, but his sympathies also flowed over into the
County and he was known wherever the Person spirit
grew. Out of a capacity for friendship he created a life
that will not end, although he, himself, may have been
unaware of the wealth that was his.
For his friendship, for his kindness, his good humor
and his influence we are grateful, as we think all who
knew him must be
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Red Cross Now
It is, we think, scarcely necessary to observe that
the American Red Cross and its sister agencies through
out the war-torn world have now betore them a task ol
greater magnitude than any experienced since 1918,
and it would seem an over-emphasis to ask Person and
Roxboro people to contribute to the Roll Call which was
to have been guided by the late Mayor Nicks and which
began here on Tuesday morning under direction of oth
ers almost equally as well acquainted with its import
ance-
We hope that those who are called upon to con
tribute to the local chapter’s share in the Roll Call will
do it cheerfully and willingly, with full realization that
Red Cross services are now desperately needed. It is not
amiss to remember, too, tiiat a proper portion of the
money given will stay here in Person county, where it
can do much good. Calls for service and for money are
in these days heavy, but we must needs recall that our
own burdens in comparison with those of others are
lighter than the air we breathe.
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Call It Irony
On Monday night many Republicans and some De
mocrats sat around radios and listened to what Wendell
L. Willkie, defeated Republican candidate for the Presi
dency had to say. To their surprise, and mayhap to their
dismay* he made the best talk he has given in the six
months of his public political life. It is in the nature of
tragedy that the same wisdom could not have come from
his lips during the disappointing latter days of his cam
paign, when almost every utterance gave cause for pain
that so seemingly well balanced a man should stoop so
iow in oratory.
Americans needed the message Monday night and
it may be that he who gave it was born for such a pur
pose. In his plea for continuance of intelligent minority
political opposition lies the hope that the American way
of government will not be totally swallowed up in the
mass movement toward apathy, totalitarianism or what
have you. We are.not saying that President Roosevelt
will himself ever do more than has to be done to foster
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C.
Democratic domination or that he will unreasonably
build up in the public mind a tradition in favor of a
one-party government enriched by patronage and power.
Roosevelt is, let us hope, too big a man to do this,
but there is a danger that others may do for him that
which he would not himself perform, and for that rea
son we are pleased that Wendell L. Willkie in what was
to have been, but now will not be, his swan-song to
politics has been big enough to put pettiness aside and
to call upon the people of the nation, many of whom
were his followers, to put aside bitterness and to work
for the common good—while keeping a watchful eye
upon the government again delivered to the Democrats
Judicial Efficiency
Greensboro Daily News
Judge Hunt Parker, called to Wake County to hold
a two-weeks special term of Superior court, tells the
county commissioners that he doesn’t want the S2OO
to which by the statutes made and provided he is en
titleld.
The Daily News is constantly learning things about
the state’s judiciary that it had not had the time or in
genuity to imagine.
Os course, we knew that special terms of court cost
something. We had heard, too, of retired judges being
called into service and paid for presiding. But, honestly,
it had never occurred to us that a regular judge—duly
nominated in a Democratic primary of any one of the 21
districts and voted on by the state as a whole to pre
vent any possible intrusion by a Republican onto the
judicial premises—would expect to receive more than
his SB,OOO per annum. Considering what North Carolina
gets from its Superior court judges, that’s a whopping
big salary.
But we are not surprised to learn that Judge Par
ker has upset such a precedent. Not that we think he’d
have said anything about it; but he’s the sort of judge
who tries to earn his wages.
And he does earn them. He’s shown the Wake
county authorities how to get enough unlisted taxes
to pay more than he will ever cost the county. And he
has imposed on and seen collected suffecient fines from
slot-machine operators to make a clean-up campaign in
the vicinity of Raleigh worth something financially as
well as morally. If he receives the proper support from
law enforcement officers he will also do something about
the distributors of such gambling devices.
Indeed, we are about to make another flat and un
equivocal statement: If there were 20 more regular
judges of the Superior court of this state as competent
and as diligent as R. Hunt Parker, there’d rarely be
need for a special term of court, and the emergency
judges might also be dispensed with.
Still, in all fairness to the possibly-contrary minded
we ought to state that weve heard Judge Parker low
rated by some members of the legal profession for his
lack of patience with them and their convicted clients.
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The Bill of Rights
Christian Science Monitor
Americans, though familiar with the existence of
the Bill of Rights in their Constitution, may not always
remember that such charters of liberty stem from the
Bill of Rights enacted by the English Parliament under
William and Mary in 1689—slightly more than a cen
tury before the ratification of the first ten amendments
to the Constitution of the United States.
Familiarity with the precedent and with the strug
gle by which limitations were placed on kingly preroga
tive led Virginia and other colonies to include such a
list of guarantees in the State constitution they drew up
on the heels if the Declaration of Independence in 1776-
A majority of the Constitutional Convention at
Philadelphia eleven years later supposed specific reser
vations to be unnecessary, but at least one member re
fused to sign partly because of their absence and in the
campaign for ratification by State conventions it soon
became apparent that a Bill of Rights was demanded.
The Massachusetts convention, followed by others, re
commended amendments of this type and the First Con
gress promptly submitted them.
The presence of these important additionns has
tended the more to make the Constitution a composite
of the thought of all people, for the adoption of the
Bill of Rights was largely the result of the influence of
the anti-Federalists who had not participated much in
the rearing of the structure.
Today the example of a Bill of Rights in the funda
mental law of a nation has been widely followed, as in
Mexico, Turkey, Greece ,and in the Belgium, Czechoslo
vakia, and Poland now struggling for liberation.
At the moment when Americans have completed
a free election of their public officials with the benefit
of freedom of discussion and conscience it seems appro
priate to remember the American Bill of Rights.
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“Clean-Up, Close-
Up” Campaign
Makes Progress
Raleigh, Nov. 14.—The beer in- 1
dustry’s self-regulation' program,
in North Carolina has resulted in
disciplinary action against 326 re
tail beer outlets since the “clean j
up or close up” campaign waS|
launched 18 months ago.
Edgar H. Bain of Goldsboro,
state director of the Brewers and
North Carolina Beer Distributors
committee, announced today that
133 objectionable beer outlets
have been eliminated—loß by re-j
vocation, two by surrender, and 1
23 by refusal lof local authorities!
to grant renewals of licenses to!
the offending retailers.
In addition, Colonel Bain said,
six dealers in five counties were I
placed on probation; and 176
dealers were warned by the state j
director to “clean up” or face|
more drastic action by the com
mittee. Eleven revocation peji-!
tions are pending before local i
hoards for action.
The United Brewers Industrial
REFLECTIONS
By R. M. SPENCER
COALS
Friendship is ilke a fire—it re
quires fuel to make it burn. A
fire will burn lower and lower
until only ashes remain—unless
additional fuel is added. To ex
pect a friendship to bum without
reciprocal attention is as impos
sible as to ex
pect a fire to
■■oo' »gl continue to
fir burn. brightly
|||to'l|k' |Hp|| when the coals
Vifc: '< - M are consumed
mk '^ le braziers
wmt of life are often
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their ves
jffj&p. sels to us plea
dingly but be
cause we are busy or preoccupied,
we do not see them. A kind word,
a smile, would renew the blaze;
a word of encouragement would
supply the fuel to make that
flame-of-hope burn brightly a
gain; a cheery greeting would add
the coals necessary to rekindle
flagging self-confidence.
It takes so little coal to make
a big, cheerful friendship-file. A
neighborly call upon someone
who is ill, a note to one who is
alone, a little friendly interest in
others, an unexpected little gift—
these are the coals which make
the braziers of life burn radiant- j
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DOLLY MADISON
THEATRE
ADVANCE PROGRAM
From Thursday, Nov. 14 thru
Saturday, Nov. 16
Motion Pictures Are Your
Best Entertainment
Thursday - Friday, Nov. 14-15
Marjorie Rambeau - Alan Hale
-Jane Wyman - Ronald Rea
gan, in
“Tugboat Annie Sails Again”
(First Run)
Their faces never launched
a thousand ships but ahoy
for a thousand laughs! We’re
setting sail with a first-class
cargo of fun! Streaming from
the pages of the Post— the hot
test feud in history!
Crime Doesn’t Pay: “Buyers
Beware”
No Morning Shows;
Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45
Admission 10-36e
Evenings daily 7:15-9:04
Admission 15-30e
Saturday, Nov, 16
Boy Rogers - George “Gabby”
Hayes - Jacqueline Wells -
Sally Payne - Monte Blue, in
“Young Bill Hickok”
(First Run)
Episode No. 2 of the serial
Zane Grey’s “King of the Ro»ai
Mounted” (Wlngied Death)
with Allen Lane - Robert
Strange - Robert Kellar l -
Lita Conway
Stone-age cartoon: “When
Wimmin Has Their Weight”
Continuous Shows Starting
2:30 p. m. Adm. Adults 30c
(Children 10c up to 6:00 o’-
clock —l5 c 6:00 o’clock.)
Eat With Us!
Well, not exactly with
us, but we would like to
supply you with the good
food that you need for
your meals.
Fresh Or Canned,
We Have It,
Carl Winstead
GROCERIES
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 194]D
North Carolina program, recently
authorized continuation of the
"clean up or close up” campaign
in North Carolina. Bain said to
day that the committee’s activi
ties will extend into all counties
of the state in an effort to rid
communities of undesirable beer
outlets.
“The local officials and law en
foncement officers of this state
have given us their cooperation
during the past 18 months, and I
am confident they will continue
to do so during the next year"
the state director said.
PALACE THEATRE
ADVANCE PROGRAM
From Thursday, Nov. 14 thru
Saturday, Nov. 16
Motion Pictures Arc Your
Best Entertainment
Thursday - Friday, Nov. 14-15
Don Ameche - Betty Grable
- Carmen Miranda - Charlotte
Greenwood - Henry Stephen
son, in
“Down Argentine Way”
(In Technicolor)
The spectacular musical ex
travanganza two continents
have been waiting for! Rhum
has! Congas! Songs! Stars!
Laughter! The sensational be
but of Carmen Miranda! Gills!
Night life in glamorous Bucn
os Aires! Romance— the South
American way!
Metrotone Carioon
Paramount Sound News .
“The Eyes and Ears of the
World.”
Special Morning Show
Friday 10:30
Afternoons Daily 3:15-3:45;
Admission 10-30 c;
Evenings Daily 7:15-9:00;
Admission 15-35 c
Saturday, Nov. 16
William Boyd - Russell Hay
den - Britt Wood - Ruth Ro
gers - Roy Barcroft - Mi or
Watson - Ethel Wales, in
Another “Hopalong Cassidy”
“Hidden Gold”
Episode No. 10 of the serial
“Deadwood Dick” (Framed for
Murder) with Don Douglas -
Loma Gray - Harry Harver -
Marin Sals.
Looney Tunes: “Patient Porky”
Afternoon 2*30-4:00;
Admission 10-30 c;
Evening 6:45-8:15-9:30;
Admission 10-35 c.
(Box office opens at 6:30)
Special Show Saturday Night
November 16
On The Stage “The Jitterbug
Jamboree” with and all colored
cast 2O People 20 Featur
ing the latest dance “The Boo
gie”, with a red hot swing
band.
On The Screen
Joe E. Brown with Frances
Robinson - Vivienne Osborne
- Bernard Nedeil, in
“So You Won’t Talk”
Box office opens 11:15; picture
11:30; Admission, all seats 35c.
(Entire Balcony reserved for
colored. Admission, all seat)
35c.)