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PERSON COUNTY TIMES . i »»«sssis^T Mi ./North Carolina v4k f HtISS ASSOCIATKypjI A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE . -6 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 Post office At Roxboro, N. C., Under The Act Os March 3rd., 1879. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year 51.3" Six Months 7 Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at a ! times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents this off'e<‘ no later than Tuesday to insure publ’cation for Thursday, edition and Thursday P. M. for Sunday editio.i. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1941 Willkie In England Announcement by defeated Republican candidate for president, Wendell Willkie that he will in a few days fly to England “for a private survey of the internation al situation” is perhaps more significant than His declar ation in favor of modified adoption of his one-time ri val’s “Land-Lease” arms bill, but both his decision to go to England and his recognition that the President must advocate measures as drastic as those being pro posed, are indications that Mr. Willkie has since Novem ber been keeping an unbiased ear to the ground. It is to be supposed that Mr. Willkie, if he goes to England, for even a short stay, will by acquisition cf j first hand information be Better able to be an intelli gent critic of war measures which in the United States will pass as statecraft. It is likewise to be supposed that Mr. Willkie, in even so short a visit as he will make \v ill see in England some items not included on the program planned for him, although it is natural to suppose the English people whom he meets will be anxious to show him both the best and the worst aspects of war: worst from standpoint of death and destruction, and best from standpoint of morale In any case, if Mr. Willkie is to continue as an American minority leader it is important that he should as much as possible have first hand information as to what is happening in the English war center. We could Wish he might go to Germany, Italy and France with same purpose in mind, since reports coming to us from those countries are even more unreliable than those now coming from Britain. If we must be in this war it is our duty to know as much as we can (and that is much more thsn we have to date been told) concerning back stage goings-on. The Willkie trip may mean a little more enlightenment where enlightenment is needed and we will, therefore, await his report with interest.—despite fact that not many Democrats will listen to it. We Saw It Coming Survey of the Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill) prec<p itated controversy over text-books of North Carolina history, prepared respectively by Jule B. Warren, secre tary of the North Carolina Education association, and by Drs. A. R. Newsome and Hugh T. Lefler, of the Uni versity faculty, reveals more than ever that something needs to be done to end political and “personal pull” in fluences now exerted upon those educational bodies ■whose duties require them to advise and select. Ra leigh’s News and Observer is of opinion that action to end possibilities of charges of favoritism and collusion need to be taken by the General Assembly. And, we sup pose that if anything is done to remove suspicion of , political influence in selection of text-books, such remov al will have to come from the General Assembly, al though it passes our comprehension as to how a Legisla ture composed primarily of men who are themselves po liticians of first water can be expected to induce reform ; in a system of selection previously of their own making. Some two, three, four months ago we saw this con troversy coming and said as much in these columns. Now that the row is here, after choice has been made, we are inclined to say to adherents of J ule Warren and of Drs. Newsome and Lefler, a “plague on both your houses”. Suspicion has it that those persons at Chapel Hill who are interested in the Newsome-Lefler aspect ; of the case are not any less guilty, for all their vaunted intellectualism, than are the proponents of Mr. Secre tary Warren. Log-rolling and you-stick-to-me and 1 stick-to-you attitudes are in educational matters no more attractive than they are in other and less ethereal camps. Beside, public school education is in North Car olina at low enough ebb without this semi-annual wash ing of text-book linen. The Greatness Os James Joyce News of the death of James Joyce, distinguished Irish author, at Zurich, Switzerland, made headlines in Monday morning papers for reasons naving nothing to do with his ultimate reputation as a sensitive prose ar tist. Known far and wide as the author of the many 'times banned and indiscriminately praised “Ulysses”, -Joyce was essentially an author’s author, despite the •fact that layreaders, if they take trouble will find in “‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” and in a book PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. of short stories called “Dubliners” work that is as simple and direct as any done in our time. We, too, can remember when our friends went to Paris and came home with two-volume, paper-bound smuggled editions of “Ulysses” which not many of them took trouble to read through because they were satis fied to hit what were thought of as high spots of sala ciousness. And we can recall with pleasure the day some seven or eight years ago when American ban upon pub lication of the volume was lifted. That pleasure was, we think, grounded more upon disapproval of the idea of censorship in any form rather than upon desire to im press people with the importance of a book in many re spects unintelligible. To those persons who think that such frankness as was expressed in “Ulysses’" is essentially European we might say that we can in any night spot in Roxboro hear stories of similar vulgarity and we thank God no body wants to take the trouble to preserve them in print, mainly because those people whom we know could not, if they wished, cover them with that air of artistry in nate in such a man®as Joyce was. Joyce was an Irish Thomas Wolfe, made much wisei, and theretore, sad der, by inheritance ,of a culture bey ond Wolfe’s grasp. NITH OTHER EDITORS Skilled Labor Shortage Durham Morning Herald For at least a year, in some instances longer, sc-lf appointed or officially designated spokesmen for tills that and the other group have chorused “there is a short age of skilled workers.” Men in government, men in industry, and profes sional toyers with such questions have preached and are preaching that thesis Nothing like all of them bother to include statistics or even estimates, but many of them do. So, we are less inclined to challenge the view that a shortage of skilled workers has developed or is going to develop soon than we are to say to the prophets and complainers “why don”# you do something about the short&ge except talk about it? You get skilled workers by taking unskilled workers and training them. You don’Y get them any otner way, never have and never will. You can provide a certain a mount of the required training m schools of one sort or another. Much of it can not provide in schools, but can in shops and factories. There are millions of unskilled workers who would like to become skilled workers and have the capacity to do so. Some of them were once skilled in their trades and simply need a “little brushing up to bring them up to date.” Some are youngsters who have the ability, but have never had the opportunity to apply their talents. They can be made into skilled workmen in a relatively short time, if some of those who keep saying"there is a shortage of skilled labor” will give them jobs. It is true, as everyone who discusses skilled labor shortage question admits, directly or indirectly, labor unions figure in the actual or potential shortage. For some of the unions limited, as best they could, the ad mission of recruits to the skilled trades, as a means of holding up wages and staving off a surplus of trained workers in a particular field. But the blame cover nearly everyone in the broad equation and the way to expand the ranks of skilled labor is for all hands, industry, government and labor, to take on raw recruits and train them in the skills. It is little short of tragic that we have not done so already. Omens In Music The Baltimore Everlasting Sun Just at present persons who cencern themselves with the lively arts are chiefly interested in the fight between the ASCAP musicians and the radio chains which are trying to break the ASCAP monopoly. But there’s another development in popular music that seems to us to be worth a passing note. This is the growing tendency among the kings of jazz to be snooty about the kind of music that earns them their keep and to crash the ranks of the highbrows. It wasn’t so long ago that innocent music lovers vho only knew what they liked being assured that hM jazz is high art. There was a novel called “Young Man W ith a Horn.” which told the story of one of these self less votaries of the high art of hot jazz. And a number of treaties were written and printed demonstrating just why and how hot jazz makes Beethoven and Brahms and Mozart sound like a gang of punks. Offer a member of the younger intelligentsia some tickets to the Philadel phia Orchestra and it was “No thanks,” Jelly-Roll Mor ton and his New Orleans Feet-warmers were more in style, “if you don’t mind.” t But something has happened, and it seems to be Benny Goodman who is mainly responsible—Benny, possessor of two of the hottest lips and ten of the nim blest fingers that ever brought squeaks out of a clarinet. A week or so ago he put on a white tie and performed Mozart’s seldom-heard clarinet concerto with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Nor is that all: Benny admitted in an interview preceding his appearance with the Philharmonic that “serious” music takes more out of a musician than jazz. He admitted, furthermore, that despite months of hard practice he was not at all satis fied with his own ability so far as the great clarinet classics are concerned. He even referred slightingly to a recording' of the very highbrow Brahms quintet which he made last year with a string quartet, saying: “The only thing wrong with that recording is Good man.” And now it turns out that Eddie Duchin, maestro of society jazz, and a very capable pianist in his way, has been secretly practicing up oi. Chopin’s Mazurkas and a lot of classical piano concertos. Here is what Ed die said on the subject, when smoked out: “I love my jazz, but I have become very interested in serious music. When I am ready for it, and I hope it will be soon, I will appear with some of the symphonic orchestras in the country.” And finally, who should we find but Artie Shaw himself, ex-husband of Lana Turner and idol of the joke boxes, busting forth with a phonograph record en titled “Concerto for Clarinet, Parts 1 and 2 ? To tell the truth, this “concerto” would have to have a lot done to it before it could be called “classical.” But the very fact that Artie uses the word concerto at all tempts us to be lieve that there may be something in this classical mu sic after all. DR. R. J. PEARCE F. C. Hall’s Transfer EYES EXAMINED Dial 4771 Hauling of all kinds MONDAYS ONLY Roxboro, N. C. Thomas-Carver Bldg. Wood For Sale j I Plant Bed FERTILIZER See us about your PLANT BED J FERTILIZER. We have I the analysis that you want. Start This Year With International S. B. WINSTEAD Winstead Warehouse DOES FORD PAY GOOD WAGES? Here are some facts about Ford Labor. During the year ended November 30th, 1940, the Ford Payroll throughout the United States averaged 113,628 hourly wage earners, not including office em ployes, students, or executives. They were paid $185,105,639.12. On this basis, the average annual wage was $1,629.05. According to the latest available govern ment figures, the annual average wage of all workers in employment covered by old age insurance law was $841.00. If the 45,000,000 workers of this country received the same average wage as Ford employes, they would have had additional wages of more than $35,000,000,000, thus increasing the national income about 50%. Think what such an increase would mean to the workers of this country and to the American farmer, whose prices are based on the national income. Wage scales in the Ford Rouge plants are divided into three classifications: Unskilled .. . Minimum hiring wage . 75c per hour Semi-skilled . . . Minimum hiring wage . 80c per hour Skilled . . . Minimum hiring wage . 90c per hour Higher wages are in consideration of ability and years of service. Minimum wage scales for unskilled labor at the Rouge plant are the highest in the industry. Top wages for skilled labor compare favorably with, or are higher than, wages in other automobile plants. Now some facts on Ford labor conditions: Not only are sanitation and other health conditions the best in the industry, but Ford also leads in safety devices for the protection of employes. Proof of this is found in the following com- FORD MOTOR COMPANY THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1941 DOLL If MADISON ADVANCE PROGRAM From Thursday, January I.6th thru’ Saturday, January 18th Motion Pictures are Tour Best Entertainment Thursday - Friday.. Jan. 16-17 Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havi land Ray Milland, Ronald Rea gan, Alan Hale in “Santa Fe Trail” (First Run) Where yesterday’s history makes today’9 thrills! The Santa Fe Trail! Bullets waiting at one end The Devil at the other!!!lt’s always trouble! Our Gang: “Kiddie Kure” Fable Cartoon: “Happy Holi days Special morning show Friday; 10:30. Afternoons Daily 3:15-3:43; Admission 10-30 c. Evenings daily 7:15-9:00 Admission 15-30 c Saturday January 18th Chrales Starrett, Louise Cur rei with “The Sons of The Pioneers” in “THE PINTO KID” (First Run) Episode No. 11 of the Serial Zane Grays “King of the Roy al Mounted” Master Spy) with Allen Lane, Robert Strange, Robert Kellard, Lita Conway Popeye The Sailor Problem Pappy” Continuous shows starting at 2:30; P. M. Admission adults 30c; choldren 10c up to 6 o’clock, 15c after 6 o'clock. n Special Show Saturday Jan. 18 Warren William, Frances Rob inson, Bruce Bennett, Eric Blore, Fred Kelsey in “The Lone W T olf Keeps a Date” (First Run) The most daring Adventure of Them all—The Lone Wolf- In His most exciting Screen Thrills!! Color Cartoon “Syncopated Sioux” No morning show: Box office opens Saturday night 11:15: picture 11:30: Admission all seats 35c parison of compensation insurance costs: The national average rate in automotive manufacturing plants as computed by the National Association of Underwriters is in excess of $1.50 premium on each SIOO payroll. The Ford cost of workmen’s compensation is less than 50c. This indicates that the chance of injury in a Ford plant is much less than in the average automobile plant. The Ford Motor Company has no age limit for labor, and in fact deliberately attempts to keep older workers working. The average age of Ford workers at the Rouge and nearby plants is 38.7. A recent check-up shows that nearly one half the workers at these Ford plants were 40 or over, falling into these age groups: 25,819 between 40 and 50 14,731 between 50 and 60 3,377 between 60 and 70 417 between 70 and 80 12 between 80 and 90 In addition to the so-called regular em ployes, the Ford Motor Company has hired, and now has on the payroll, at the same regular hourly wage, thousands of workers who are blind, crippled or other wise incapacitated for normal productive work. They are not selected for their ability to build cars or to maintain the plant. They are on the payroll because of Henry Ford’s belief that the responsibility of a large company to labor goes be yond the point at which the unfortunate worker can no longer produce profitably. The above are facts. They are open to anyone who really wants to deal in facts. Anyone who wants to get a job ... buy a car ... or place a national defense con tract on the basis of fair labor treat ment must place Ford at the top of his eligible list.
The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.)
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