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PERSON COUNTY TIMES A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE J. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor. ./ 1 ' Published Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second Class Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under The Act Os March 3rd., 1879. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year $1.50 j Six Months 75 Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at ai’; times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office not later than Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition and Thursday P. M- for Sunday edition. THURSDAY MAY 1, 1941 May Dav For A New World i j In the more or less unsatisfactory Berlin accounts of the fall of Athens is this comforting sentence: "J‘c ineanor of the Athenians was reserved." Frankly, we could expect no other attitude from | citizens of a City whose founders experimented with democracy in its earliest ,form and whose lessons in statecraft included defeats and victories lost in antiquity j long before their present German conquors had firs?, j impulse toward national life. To a spectacle of this j sort Athenians can afford to be reserved. Wonder is j that they would be otherwise, and not the least of the i ironies of war is the tremendous amount of sympathy worked up in America for such comparative upstarts j in civilization as the Celts and Britons, peoples who ; were in the dawn of European history only a couple ot hundred years or so ahead of those now classified as i lerman. Popular pamphlet of the moment among American j super-patriots is R. H. Markham’s ‘The Wave of the Past,” a booklet in which great stress is placed on the ; •enduring quality of the democratic ideal in a world that j seems for the moment to have slipped back into the dark ways of despotism. We are quite willing to grant that the democratic ideal still holds and that despotism will pass. If we did not believe in the ultimate triumph j of good over evil we would not dare to think that the ‘ ill-fated Greek effort to hold off invasion was an effort little short of folly, an effort to be compared for its forlorn hope with that recently made by the Yugo slavs, who were not as a people as closely united by racial ties as are the Greeks. i 11 Robert L. (Believe-It-Or-Not) Ripley yesterday reproduced the Yugoslavian coat-of-arms and quoted the motto: “Solidarity is our sole salvation.” Purpose J of this reproduction was to place in contrast the tact ; that two Yugoslavian provinces, Croatia and Bosnia, i “welcomed the German invasion and caused the do a n fall of Yugoslavia.” Without regard to the accuracy or inacucracy ol the snap-judgment just cited, we must protest against, present day loose-thinking generalizations as t<> nations and their policies. There' are among us per sons whose minds seek refuge in cliches of national i ism, in assumptions that old policies will work, when plain truth is that we are all being drawn into a whirl |)ool and must try to swim in it, rules or no rules. At such times it is poor taste to assume that history i ■ black or white, right or wrong: history is no less com plicated than personal life and before the world can be restored to state of sanity we shall be in need of a super-psychoanalist such as Hitler may prove him self to be. To think of Hitler in such a role may .require more philosophy of history than the average man has at Ins command, since it is difficult for us to think that good may come of evil, that progress of the world require< that the Greeks and Yugoslavs should suffer the fat" of Europe and that Britain’s Prime Minister Church hill should have to make a noble but nevertheless back-against-the-wall radio address in which burden for victory is placed squarely upon our own efforts to speed-up manufacture and delivery of guns, bombs and planes. 11l Yet out of all this, when Hitler shall belong to that little past reserved for Napoleon and Alexander, may come the new world dreamed of by idealists since time began, a new world turned to by people made sick by dictatorship in any form. We in America may curse the Axis idea with every waking breath. We may put our men in camps and on shipboard. We may speed up defense and then fuss among ourselvelves at the elemental and inborn stupidity which frustrates “all-out effort.” We may scream against isolationists. We may call them trait ors and then come around to realization that out of the whole upheaval there is to come a new-old world, an America ready to serve a world stripped of last illusions as to empire. For such a day people in America must be ready, although the present rough going offers no hope of im mediate achievement. Carolina vA /Wn ASSOCIATiqpjj For Which He Has None Sandwiched into end of the April Grand Jury re port as published in Sunday’s Times was polite refer ence to fact that a previous grand jury had recommend ed placing of a door between the first floor and the jailer’s quarters “for his own personal protection, for which he has none.” We do not know why provious recommendations were never carried out, but in the slightly quaint lan guage of the report again made we can see sufficient understatement ast to possible hazards to which the jail er is subjected and, we hope “ that those persons to whom power is delegated will see to it that the dooi is put in place. Not many people are now so crude and rude as to posess jail-delivery intentions but some cf them might be of that state of mind and we think that whatever protection can be offered should be. . $1.50 . .75 l^(yv >s Room To Cut (Charlotte News) The comparisons between English and United States income taxes, now being circulated by the Trea sury in support of its new program, are of course inaccurate. The English have no state (shire) income taxes. And the general and local taxes structure was at the outbreak of war sketchier than ours. At this time, it appears, the American was actually paying out a greater portion of his income in all taxes than the Englishman. However, this is no protest against the Treasury program in general. Taxes are taxes, they must be enormously increased to take care of the national de fense, and the sole thing to be taken into consideration is to lay them so as to cause the least economic dislo cation and the least personal hardship. But one thing seems clear. In view of the nation al emergency the greatest possible economy in domes tic affairs is necessary. It does not seem likely that the farm benefit pro grams can be done away with entirely, since the war makes things worse, not better for some farm products like cotton. But the prospect is for the movement of wheat and corn surpluses to England, and benefits ought to be cut down accordingly. In any case, there is no sense at all in propositions pending in Congress to make the farm appropriations this year the greatest in history. Similarly with relief. It ought to be possible now to put all the employables back into private job*. And many of the unemployables are people who were previously supported by their families and who got on relief because the depression made that no longer pos sible. It ought to be possible to reverse that process now. Nobody proposes that anybody shall be left to starve or that fairness as between groups of citizens should be abandbned. Nevertheless, there is mani festly a vast lot of room for rigorous cutting down. And we aren’t getting it. Contempt Os Court (New York Times) In 1831 a statute was passed confining the power of the Federal Courts to punish for contempt to the “misbehavior of any person in their presence or sn near thereto as to obstruct the administration of jus tice.” This limitation of contempt was interrupted in 1918 by the majority opinion in the case of Toledo Newspaper Company v. the United States of America A newspaper had been free in its comments and car toons about a suit arising from a controversy between the city and a street railroad. Court and suitors were attacked. After six months the judge imposed a fine for contempt. It was not claimed that the judge’s mind had been influenced by the newspaper. On appeal to the Su preme Court Chief Justice White affirmed the judg ment on the ground of the, “reasonable tendency of acts done.” Mr. Justice Holmes, in a dissenting opinion in which Mr. Justice Brandeis concurred, maintained that ‘so near as to’ means so near as actually to obstruct end not merely to threaten a possible obstruction.’ And “ ‘misbehavior’ means something more than ad verse comments anl disrespect.” The fact that tiu judge had waited six months proved that the adminis tration of justice hadn’t been obstructed. Beetle Trapping To Begin In May Raleigh, May t I.—Trapping oc Japanese beetles, costly pest of 300 agricultural plants, is sched uled to begin late in May “in or der that information may b ■ gathered to be used in mapping a general control program,” C. H. Brannon, chief of the Stai ■? Department of Agriculture’s en tomology division, announces. An estimated 10,000 beetle traps, furnished by the United States Bureau of Entomology an j PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. Plant Quarantine, will be used to determine the extent of the beetle population in the State. Soil treatment, using a spray of arsenate of lead, will be con tinued this year with the pro gram scheduled to be launched in the fall. o CATTLE Dewey Wallin of Marsh ill. Route 3, believes more clear p 'o -I't can be received from beef cat tle by raising and fattening steers at home, reports P. R. Elam farm agent of Madison County. LIVE-AT-HOME PLAN GRAVE NEED IN THIS STATE Study Shows Only 77 Per Cent Os Families Plant Adequate Gardens. The pressing need for the tr.' mendous live-at-home campaign now going on in North Carolina i- revealed 1 in the results of a re cent survey of farm-produced fends, Julian E. Mann, extension studies economist of N. C. Stnt" College, said today. The study contains data on food crops, livestock, product; for home consumption, and a mounts of certain foods canned end stored for family use. The extension service and the AAA obtained information from 1,94*. sample farms in 21 counties, r fp risenting a cross section of the State. The counties ranged from Prunswick and Craven in the East to Cherokee, Transylvania, and Swain in the West. The summary revealed that 99 per cent of tire farm families planted a garden but only V per cent planted an acreage suf ficient to provide an adequate supply of fresh and canned veg etables for home use. On the same basis 95 per cent planted potatoes but only 90 per eenjt planted enough for home use: 5S per cent planted cowpeas and beans but only 51 per cent plant ed a sufficient acreage; 19 prr cent planted sorghum or can tor syrup but only 14 per cent planted enough. In livesock. 70 per cent of the farmers reporting owned at least cne milch cow but. only 30 per cent owned enough cows to sup ply sufficient milk for their :am ilies on a year-around basis; 91 per cent reported some hogs but only 75 per cent own* Pay Your I Telephone Bill I By The 10th I REDUCED * usr or. rxc-Matm# — iatr ■ » ' I ■ -UiX. J_J L4JUIJ 1 ■■ ■■ ,***&%& UfED (AR BUY/ —j% »f|r ’»/ **2 f - * $ ■ . ' k V' PRICES. BUY NOW Trade in your Car for a Better Used Car 1940 Chevrolet Sedan, Black. Good Tires, CHEVROLET ■ ~^ N - c,r -"’"•**** $650 00 1938 Clean as a pin. Six wheel four door ninpir sedan. Best of condition. Extra |j DUIvA. • ‘ good buy, low milage. ■ 11 *« 1940 Black Ford Coupe. Driven onl> CAD TV 20,000 miles. Good rubber—looks 00 rUKU like a new car. ££4l ’4l Pontiac Black Sedan. Only DANTI AT 2500 miles. Just broke in good—We SO7 *.OO I rUnilnt will sell this car at a great savings. 1938 8 Oldsmobile, Green Sedan. Heat- I As nCUADH C er, Seat Covers. 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For instance one-] tenth acre of garden and 12 chic kens were considered sufficient to supply vegetable and poultr.’ | needs for each member of > family during the year. , “The results of this survey are indicative of North Caro lina conditions,” the acomomist said, “but not necessarily rcpiv sentative of the State.” John W. Goodman, assistant di rector of the Extension Service, says that the “Food and Feed for Family Laving” campaign which has the active cooperation and endorsement of Governor J. M. Broughton aims to correct at least a part of this condition. Farm families who produce at Jm your husband need some LEGGETT’S Department Store Me will 13 appreciate the shopping minutes yo» save for him * ns PEEBLES Department Store THURSDAY MAY 1, 1941 least 75 percent of their food and feed requirements in 1941 wilt receive certificates of merit sign ed by Governor Broughton and ether leaders. 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