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PERSON COUNTY TIMES A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE J. 8. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER THOMAS J. SHAW, JIL, 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. — I —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at al’ times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office not iater than Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition and Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. THURSDAY MARCH 20, 1941. “Total Victory” Speaking to the Nation and to the world of which it is a part, the President of the United States on Sat urday night gave unqualified reassurance that ener gies of the American people will be henceforth directed toward achievement of “Total Victory” over those prin ciples of dictatorship now practiced by aggressor-na tions. In so simple a sentence as this can his message be summed up. Politically, his message may be taken as a declaration of faith in the recently passed “Lend-Lease’ act. but this is no time for so narrow a construction and we are sure that he as speaker harboured no such intentions. In speaking to a world audience he had, ol necessity, to over-emphasize, in effect, to make promises difficult to keep, since all of us must know that Ameri can national resources will be strained if we do but back j up promises of all aid to Britain and to Greece - and i in the meantime develop to the fullest extent our own ! defense resources. Knowing this, the President is eminently right when he says that we will be called upon to make sacri fices of time, money and what we have been pleased to call comforts. These changes are inplicit in the stand demanded, and although there may in another genera tion come a time of disillusionment, a time when it will be recognized that “Total Victory,” like making the world “Safe for Democracy,” had little relation to ac tuality, it is still up to us to make the effort in order to keep the world from being w'orse than it is. Out ot the conflict between man’s will to freedom and his de sire for security of a lower order there must come a newer and braver world if civilization is to endure, and because we must still have faith in Man, if not in men. we must be wiling to take that side which appears to promise most for ultimate improvement of Man’s World. o . Sign Os The Times It must, we suppose, be taken as a sign of the times that the Tar Heel legislative session which ended last week was shortest on record since 1927, but full signi ficance of differences as to causes of brevity then and now can only be measured by thoughtful recollection of events happening between 1927 and 1941. The year 1927, blessed in memory as next to the last of those happy post-war I years when the horn of plenty was more than a figure of speech, was not a year in which citizens worried much about government. Theory then was that that government was best which least inter fered with private business. Saving money was no par ticular object, when more could be had for the asking When the 1941 Legislature began we had conic j through a full cycle, of want, of anxiety and of re-em phasis in government, with a consequent re-estimation of money values. With less money and with other inse curities undreamed of in 1927, North Carolinians in 1941 allowed legislators to work with dispatch, pos sibly because there was only so much cash to go around and because of a natural, if unfortunate, indifference to the back-seat role which a State government must appear to play in tinges of national and world emergency It happens, however, in choosing acquiesence ratlie>- than belligerence as an attitude that the Legislature just ended gave tacit approval to further centraliza tion of the State’s government. That this was done in an effort to clear up exisiting political evils in vraious bureaus and departments is, however, no guarantee that more fragrant “Fleurs de Mai” will not luxuriate in the new garden. On the legislative side we are as pleased by what was not done, as by what was accomplished and we must make our manners to Lt. Gov. Harris and Speaker Odus M. Mull for abilities as presiding officers, but we shall watch with anxiety the settling down of various appoint (ed commissioners, directors et als who will owe alle giance to Governor J. Melville Broughton. j Good Job For Good Man Endorsement by Fourth District Bankers in then- Durham meeting Saturday of Gordon C. Hunter, execu tive vice president of the Peoples bank, for .position ot third vice president of the North Carolina Bankers' as sociation, is tribute not only to Mr. Hunter, whose abili ties are well known in Roxboro and in his native Greens boro. but to the judgment of his fellow Fourth District financiers. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N- C. ■■■ ■ “““““““““““ The third vice presidency referred to within two years leads to the presidency of the Association, and with North Carolina being what it is -a rural state with a few large cities and many smaller ones - we can think of no one better able to guide the destines of the State Bankers' than Mr. Hunter, who has been singularly suc cessful in an executive banking position requiring full knowledge of rural and small city financial problems. Mr. Hunter has entered into all aspects of community life and has carried friendliness with business and com - monsense. In Roxboro he is a member of the City Council and as City treasurer has handled needed refunding prob lems with such efficiency as to secure best rates ob tainable. He is a member of the Roxboro Rotary club, of which he is now president, and in that club and every where else he is busy spreading the doctrine of good re lationship between County and City. In the County his interest has taken form of intelligently planned farm loans and of a more than passing interest in 4-H club work, particularly the baby beef project. The State Bankers’ asociation meets in May at Pinehurst and if Mr. Hunter is there elected to the po sition for which friends have endorsed him, the choice will be more than pleasing to those Person people who have in the past decade come to regard him as a worthy, helpful and considerate banker and friend. o Nostalgia “Nostalgia” - from the Greek, “nostros” - retur i home - plus “algos” - pain: pathological, home-sickness; especially, the intense longing for home or f eft the na tive land which causes acute derangement of mental and physical functions. Such is the dictionary definition of a word which describes most fully the basic appeal of such recent mo ton pictures as “The Strawberry Blonde”, “Kitty Foyle' and “Our Town.” The popularity of the pictures men tioned helps along that process of national re-examina j tion which we have taken upon ourselves since World | War II caused decline of the cult of internationalism, and with what might be called a “healthy nostalgia’ ! . we have no complaint. The simplicities of thirty-forty ; years gone by must have been pleasant, but we should do well to remember that in those days some men were | cads enough to let “back-street” arrangements Like j place of divorces and, with slightly more discretion. “Saturday night and Sunday sin” was as rampant as now. Granting that the Gibson girls and the Arrow col lar boys knew their curves and torsos and the excite ments produced by having the same well covered, we don’t think we would w'ant to go back except in memory to the days when venereal diseases were not mentioned in polite society and bar rooms had the best corner in town. A nostalgia for such good old days must indeed be a perversion, but a nostalgia capable of arousing humility as well as pride, both pains of a sort, has its place, although we must say that to our way of think ing there are as yet too many communities in America in which preconceived notions of the minor proprieties of living cramp the manners and customs of the :n --j habitants. When we can look at the past with sympathy and with understanding, all is well: when we long too much to be back in it we are admitting to ourselves an inabil ity to fit our lives to that age into which we were placed by an act of nature, or to which, if we think that way. God has called us. Secondary Roads ; Oxford Public Ledger The State Legislature has passed an act providing for the designation of $2,000,000 from highway funds for construction of secondary roads in the state. Representative John Umstead of Durham, intro duced the bill, sponsored by the North Carolina Grange. Under the act, an advisory committee on secondary roads would be set up to determine which roads shall benefit from the annual expenditure of $2,000,000. The Federal Government, through the United States Bureau of Roads, gives no financial support toward construction of secondary roads and for that reason, im provement of secondary roads in this state has been slow. Principal highways criss-crossing the state have been constructed, maintained and improved while a be ginning has been underway on the secondary road • system. Secondary roads do not serve as much traffic as the principal highways of the state, but they are essential links in a complete highway system. They are the roads that enable the farmer to bring his products to market and they are the roads that are essential to a continua tion of the economic, agricultural, educational and edu cational and social progress of the state. W hile the appropriation that ha 3 been made is far tioni, adequate, it does represent a start toward sys tem of secondary roads and from this start, better | things should come. Pines ! Will Nicholson of Cowarts, a' unit demonstration fanner of Jackson County, has set 19,500 trees on his place in the past six years, reports Jesse F. Giles, as sistant farm agent. Terracing Edgecombe County farmers have come to realize the impor-j tanee of checking soil erosion by, the use of proper terracing, says' P. H. Jameson, assistant farm a-J gent of the Extension Service. . Beer Dealers Campaign Goes Forward in State Raleigh, March 20—The beer industry’s “clean up or close up” campaign in North Carolina has resulted in disciplinary action against 396 retail dealers in 69 counties. Edgar H. Bain of Goldsboro, state director of the Brewers and North Carolina Beer pistributors committee, said that the commit tee has cooperated with law en forcement officers in the elimin ation of 153 undesirable outlets, 125 by revocation, 26 by refusal of local authorities to relicensz on infomation furnished by the committee, and two by surren der. In addition, the committee has warned 238 dealers to “clean up” or face more drastic action. Re vocation petitions are pending against three dealers in Ashe, Onslow, and Graham counties. A public hearing has been schedul ed by the Onslow county board of commissioners so YApril 7 on the committee’s revocation peti tion a dealer in the Holly Ridge section. The committee’s record, Bain explained, has been compiled since the “clean up or close up” campaign was begun in this state 22 months ago. In recent weeks, the ccmmittee’s field investiga tors have concentrated their es- I forts in he areas adjoining na tionau defense projects. The committee has checked i,- 646 retail outlets in 94 counties' during this 22-month period, 1 Colonel Bain said. In addition, 73 outlets have been re-checked. First For the first time, Brazil last year bought more goods from the United States than she sold to her northern neighbor, it has been revealed by the Brazilian Ministry cf Finance. We Want To Do Your JOB PRINTING... Our job printing department is capable ot taking care of any form that you might want printed. If you have a job—give us a call and we will be glad to drop by and give you an estimate We appreciate any or all of vour business. i PERSON COUNTY TIMES « _y ' ' Legal Notice ADMINBTRATORB NOTICE Having qualfied as adminis trator of the estate of G. M. Gregory, deceased, late of Per . son County, North Carolina, this , is to notify all persons having . claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the ! undersigned on or before Match 4th, 1942, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery, i All persons indebted to said es tate will please make immediate ; payment. This 4th day of March, 1941. Willie H. Allen, Admr. of G. M. Gregory, i Merritt & Long, Attys. Mar. 6-13-16-20-23-4 t o ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as administra tor of the estate of Mrs. Myrtle Montague, deceased, late of Per son County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 17th day of Feb., 1942, or his no tice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All perons indebted to said estate will please make im mediate payment. This February 26, 1941. T. J. Montague Admr. of Mrs. Myrtle Montague. Merritt & Long, Attys. Feb 27, Mar. 6-13-20-27, Apr 3 o ALMOST WORTH WEIGHT IN SILVER I New Bern, March 19—A. Jen nings Flowers, Jr., automobile ' sales manager, said today he thought his “backache" would disappear within a couple of days. He wasn’t sure about his head ache. Flowers said a purchaser trad ed an old automobile for a new model and paid the difference with 13,000 nickels, 2,000 dimes and 400 quarters. The backache came from carrying the money, he said, the headache from count ing it. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941. | Turkeys . J Turkey producers intend to ' hatch and buy about three epi cent fewer poults this year than last, according to February 1 re ports to the U. S. Agricultural Marketing Service from key farmers. o Cotton Cotton growers of the United States will plant a total of 24,- 289,000 acres to the crop this spring, according to the second Journal of Commerce acreage of the season. o IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES F. C. Hall’s Transfer Dial 4771 Hauling of all kinds Roxboro, N. C. Wood For Sale J . ! i Birds Eye View of one reason why you need accident insurance THOMPSON INSURANCE AGENCY Roxboro, N. C.
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