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PERSON COUNTY TIMES t A PAPER FOB ALL THE PEOPLE J. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER THOMAS J. SHAW, J&, City Editor. Published Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second qnap Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro. N. C., Under The Act Os March 3rd„ 1879. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year Six Months 7|> AdvtfO»l"g Unt Service At Disposal of Advertisers at al' times. Rates furnished upon request. N eW g r ro m our correspondents should reach this office not later th»" Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition and Thursday P. M. for Sunday editioa. THURSDAY MARCH 6, 1941 Spanisn Small item in news of a week flaming with Balkan problems now that Bulgaria has now DacKed down, was that in the coffin of the late Alfonso Kill, was placed “a small nag ot spanisn earth.” No better proof tnan this is needed as evidence that tradition itself dies “hard” in a changing world. Ex-King Alfonso, a Hapsburg, had to day of his death not been in Spain for ten years and had, if any, an infinitesimal amount of Spanish blood. He had sci himself no hope of regaining his lost throne, but know ing that death was upon him, he recently handed over to one of his younger sons, claims to the throne of h erd inand and Isabella, and finally, when death was an ac complished fact, lay in state in a coffin graced with a tiny sack of earth from the nation which was his only by the kingly adoption perpretrated by his ancestors Equally within conformity were respects paid to him by Spanish royalists, more than one thousand in number. Busy reporters of world news flashed these details from Rome, knowing as they did so that reada bility attached is encompassed in historical posibilities as much as it is in human interest. As an ex-monarch Alfonso conducted himself with dignity and it is in a topsy-turvy world not beyond realm of possibilities that his designated son, in good health, may return to the throne of Spain, once that nation, and several others, is done with experiment with common blooded dictatois. Not least of the ironies of the modern age is dis covery by democracies that government of those Europ ean nations previously ruled by kings, and now unhap pily under up-start dictatorship, was under kings more truly democratic than was supposed. For the particular circumstances under which many Europeans have lived the monarchial form of government must now ap pear as the lesser of two evils. o Educational Inchworming In the Sunday issue of the Times’ Roxboro Ramb ler section was published a district school s honor roli for the fifth school month. This list as usual was com prised of between forty and fifty students from the six th through the eleventh grades who, we suppose, must Have made 90 or above on all subjects, arriving at .Jhappy state of being on said roll through hard work, phis .personality and all other factors which govern lou che®, who are, after all very human and therefore liable to falibility when it comes to difficult business of eva luating mental capacities of the young persons commit ted for eight months out of twelve to their care. Month in and month out we have been publishing 'V’sThTTtar lisis from various schools in the county system and since such publication ministers to the vanities ol pupils, teachers and parents concerned we shall proba bly go on with the publishing as long as we remain in Person county and when we go elsewhere or are remov ed by death the tradition will be carried on by those fortunate or unfortunate enough to take up where we leave off. We could, of course, say what we have long thought: that “honor rolls,” “improvement rolls” and the like, are in higher educational circles becoming somewhat passe, since educators with brains are be ginning to at last realize comparative impossibility ol saying that Mary is definitely brighter than Susan, or that John, who learns easily and without effort is bet ter than James, who has to plug for what lie gets, but nevertheless gets it in the end. At one or two institutions of higher learning, Rol lins college and St. John’s if we remember rightly, “A, “B,” “C,” “D” grading has been altogether abandoned in favor of a trial period for the first two years, with a comprehensive including a specialized field in the sen • ior year. It is too much to expect that so liberal and elastic a method of “graduation” can be employed in public high schools, let alone grammar schools, but signs that education is coming to be thought of as what it has really always been, a relative process, can be regard ed as an approach to an adult state of mind in a field wherein adulthood has previously been singularly lucking. Doctors and lawyers have long been notorious for < the zeal with which they have guarded eduucationai and professional traditions, but it is high time some body spoke out anent similar tradition-worshiping practices among teachers, who of all people by their very inheritance of culture with a capital C should be PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. to oe possessors of open and ventilated minds. Accent instance aS reported to have been uncovered in me local seuool system is indicative of local continuance ox tue ' closed-minded” add tradition-hedged policy ot educational inehwormihg, of straining at a gnat to swauow a camel in nidttbf of honor roll qualification, out Tnose who have oeeti discomforted by the discovery can cheer themselves by remembering that the Same tmng goes on throughout the lahd, and more particular hi wiose communities where teachers are still regard ed with respect merely because they are supposed to possess more .rook-lamin’ than their fellow-workers. We realize that there must be some; measurem-ini ox intellectual capacities, if only for purposes of dis tinction oetween those persons who are uumo anu can t neip it and those others, the brighter ones, wno rocause ox their capacities will lead us onward, whether thi leadersnip is in intellectual processes or mare appre ciated money-making, but we are of opinion that the measuring oemands of those in position to judge, great capacities of commonsense often not derived from books. o Tar Heel Dayilgilt Having experienced in New York and other states inconveniences attached to an incomplete system of day light saving under which clocks on public buildings kept to old time in defiance of “new law” and in which railroads operated trains under old schedule in order to avoid complications in passing through areas where m daylight saving was not observed, we can’t somehow, get up much enthusiasm for Durham Legislator Victor t>ryant’s sponsorship of a Day-light Saving bill for North Carolina. Clerks in stores and other city workers, of which there are in proportion not too many in North Carolina, might have thereby an extra afternoon hour for golfing or gardening, but plain truth is that the most of the in habitants of this state rise early and work late and will continue to do so regardless of efforts to move the clock backward. If daylight saving is ever needed as one more cog in the now much-talked of “National Defense” as a means of saving electric power, that is something else again—of which we can approve on practical grounds, but until such a practical angle is introduced we can see no earthly need of disturbing the present Tar Heel time-schedule. ■ U We Hope They Do It Word goes around that certain Roxboro women, former members of a club devoted to such arts, are con templating revival of a too long defunct garden club in Roxboro. As an aid to civic and personal beautifica tion and as a corrective to bridge and luncheon gossip ing and drug-store tittle-tattle we can think of nothing better and we hope there is more than just talk at tached to the idea of rebirth. A beautiful flower is a work of art in nature and its production is but a step below that creative instinct sometimes given to music, to writing or to painting. Literature And The South Durham Morning Herald The nation owes a great debt to the South for the literature which this section has given it. Perhaps it’s a paradox that while so many people in the South have keen Writing, and still are writing, good books, there are, comparatively speaking, few people down here who buy and read good books. < It has been a characteristic saying of book publi shers that time spent trying to sell books in the South was purely and simply wasted. Only a few weeks ago a famous publisher spoke slightingly of the South’s in terest in books. But; we submit, there has been a change taking place. Without denying that the South in the past has oeen something of a desert as far as book buyers and readers were concerned, we say that recently, extend ing back perhaps three or four years, there has been a m-table quickening in the average Southerner’s interest m books and his willingness to buy them for himself This observation would seem to be borne out by the testimony in the past few days of two people who ought to know what they are talking about. The Dur ham Morning Herald book page recently quoted a rep resentative of a New York publishing firm, a represent ative w'ho travels in this region, as having said that wncreas a few years ago it would not have paid him to spend much time in the South today he can spend a day in such a city as Durham, for instance, to good advai, - tage. This he felt to be characteristic of the change coming over the South. On the book page yesterday Alfred A. Knopf, hem! of the publishing firm which bears his name, also com mented upon the altered attitude of the South toward books. \V e believe that this change is healthy and that we ought to take pride in it. We hope, and we believe, that: it will continue and that more people will come to an preciate the value of books and the pleasure and bene fit which a library of their own will bring to them. As far as creatiing literature is concerned, the South scarcely need take second place to any other region. Here we have one of the greatest of living novelists in Ellen Glasgow. Younger novelists -are coming along who seem destined to be placed with the country’s literarv giants. Mr. Knopf could point himself to two distin- {Rail oddil ies f"T ™ Barit RAILROAD SIGNALS LARGE balls I W SUSPtNOtD FROM Him POLES. ENGINEERS KNEW \ | THAT m ’HIGHBALL* SIGNIt.-#fni THE BALL > .xJllw) AT THE TOP OF THE POLE-MEN#T CLEAR TRACK jfIKI&L AHEAD. SOTODAV, WHEN AMERICANS SAY —a MIAN GO AHEAD OB SPEED OP. “** taMor ™ ft ■ Astr:c* «»(*•£**«*a>i «o«?s N, guished books which he has only recently published by residents of this State: Professor White’s superb bi orgraphy of Shelley, and W. J. Cash’s important “The Mind of the South.” The South is contributing immense ly to the literature of the nation. And along with the quickened interest in reading books it is logical to expect that the South will contri bute in even larger measure to the world’s creative lit erature. Every Southerner should take pride in the ad vances that are being made. Eggs Egg production during the com ing spring and summer may be slightly smaller than in the cor responding period of 1940 be cause of fewer layers on farms than a year earlier. Meat Prices received by American farmers for meat animals and livestock products averaged a bout 2 percent higher in 1940 than in 1939, reports the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Econo- Renew Your Subscription Now $1.50 will bring you the Times for 12 more months A little money to you, but a lot to us If every one pays. Look at your label. Sam and Maynard ECLIPSES OF THE SUN NOW MADE TO ORDER An instructive article pointing cut that astronomers don’t have to travel all over the earth any more to study eclipses as their new instruments provide them with all the information they seek. Read this interesting fea ture in the March 16th issue of The American Weekly the big magazine distributed with tbe BALITORE SUNDAY AMERICAN ..On Sale At All Newsstand?.. THURSDAY MARCH 8,1941. Legal Notice TRUBTKTB SALK Under and by virtue of the terms of that deed of trust exe cuted by N. V. Brooks and wife Maggie H. Brooks on the 2nd day cf March, 1937, and recorded in Book 8, page 607, in the office of Register of Deeds of Person County, default having been made in the payment of the bond se. cured thereby, and upon request of the holder thereof, I will as trustee: On Saturday, March 15th, 1941, at twelve o’clock noon at the Court-house door in Roxboro, North Carolina, sell to the nigh, est bidder at public auction for cash the following real estate bounded and described as fol lows: That certain lot or parcel of land lying and being on the South side of the Roxboro-Olive Hill public road * and fronting 261 feet on said road, said lot being composed of lots Nos. 5 and 6 as shown by map and survey of Winstead Park, recorded in Book 22, page 410, Register’s Office, Person County, and being the lots upon which the grantors have recently erected a new dwelling, said lots above men tioned being in Block A as shown by the aforesaid plat. See deed from A. Lipshitz and wife to O. L. Satterfield, Bock 21, page 486, and deed from O. L. Satterfield and wife, to N. V. Brooks in Book 35, page 139, and deed from A. Lipshitz and wife to J. M. O’Briant and H. W. Winstead Bcok 21, page 475, deed frem H. W. Winstead to J. M. O’Briant, Book 22, page 478, and deed from J. M. O’Briant, to O. L. Satterfield, Book 27, page 17, which are made a part of this description. The purchaser will be required to deposit 10% cf the purchase price on the day of sale as evi dence of good faith. ! This the 12th day of February, 1941. T. F. Davis, Trustee. 2-20-4 t-t
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