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I. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER
THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor.
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THURSDAY JULY 10, 1941.
Responsibility
Occupation of Iceland by forces from the United
States navy, supplanting men sent there by Great Bri
tain, is a logical development of the American policy
of aid to Britain. It is so logical that not even Presi
dent Roosevelt’s declaration of accomplishment of oc
cupation carries with it any sense of shock, qlthougn
there are in the United States many people who will
regret that this ultimate extension of the Monroe doc
trine had to take place.
Granting that Great Britain does not at this time
have sufficient manpower reserves to keep control oi
the formerly Danish island, no other choice presented
itself to the United States, for under no circumstances
could the President sit on sidelines and watch this
island on the edge of our western hemisphere slip to
Axis control, as it most assuredly would have slipped.
We have no fear that the people of Iceland, ap
proximately 100,000 in number, will regret the deci
sion of American intervention, an intervention arrang
ed by the independent Icelandic goverment, in colla
boration with the British, but we hope that the United
States will be able to keep its promise of withdrawal of
armed forces whenever peace becomes more than a
. dream.
And in any case, occupation of Iceland follows
closely establishment of American bases in Greenland
and m British possessions under v the lend-lease agree
ment. Possible danger that Amrican participation in
the war will have to become more completely military
than it now is, is a danger to which we must become
accustomed.
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Person’s Part, USO
Those Person residents who on Monday night at
tended the unit organization meeting of the United Ser
vice organization will, we think, have little difficulty
in establishing for themselves a belief in the organiza
tion or in the principles for which it stands: wholesome
recreational facilities for American men now in mili
tary service.
'Masses of men act in the mass much as men do as
individuals, but action in masses intensified, so that
what would not in indviduals amount to evil, takes on
in mass attitude an increased' tendency toward evil.
Men must dance, play games of chance and indulge in
athletics (not to mention questionable practices) and
in camps and in cities and towns near camps recreation
al problems are being met, not always wisely, but as
w r ell as they can. Greatest problem is to awaken the
general populace to the necessity of thorough coopera
tion with all recreational programs.
Military men have little idle time to devote to the
“Devil’s workshop”, but if all parents and brothers and
sisters and wives and sweethearts of men in service
could lor a moment realize that “their man” may be
the one in need of strengthend morale, there would be
no question of the worthwhileness of the USO program.
The remoteness of this realization, coupled with
the fact that the war itself is not yet a reality to the
majority of Americans, may slow up the success of the
USO drive, but we hope Person people will do that littie
part which they are called upon to do, cheerfully ami
■with spirit.
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Rains From Heaven
Published Sunday in the Times was an item from
I. O. Abbitt, City Water department boss, to effect
that lioxboro in the past three months haa had less
than six fnchek of rainfall. No soooer was the story in
type than longwithheld rain began to fall, and has
been falling ever since, so that we must suppose that
persons who believe in influence will be wanting an
Abbitt calculation in reverse before their tobacco and
other crops are “drowned” by excess of moisture pre
viousty lacking.
From Wilson, where much rain also has fallen
within the week, comes official pronouncement that
tobacco will be more damaged by rain than it has been
toy drought and we judge that farmers here can be
rendering an identical opinion, unless there is progress
toward moderation between sun and rain, two indivi
dualistic quantities in nature over which all the federal,
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state and county farm-control agencies in the world
have not as yet developed control. Which last thought we
might leave with those people who are concerned over
the increasingly enlarging bureaucratic red-tape being
created in the good name of .farming.
It has been observed that increased knowledge of
whys and wherefores of social problems, call it soci
ology if you will, has helped but not mitigated com
pletely the problems attached, and it is common know
ledge that religion is at times most ineffective in
places where it is preached loudest, but these imper
fections are only less imposing as symbols of weak
nesses of the world than wholesale killings called war,
emonomic cruelties and disparities between rain and
sun.
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Where Does Elizabeth Live?
Slightly in a dither the other day was a certain
Person county social service .unit. The collective tele
phone had been humming with conversation concerning
Elizabeth, small Negro girl, a patient in a hospital and
now ready to come home, provided her mother, who
lived in this county (or another, the hospital didn’t know
which) could be notified, by (1) a Person representa
tive of the department concernd, or (2) by the repre
sentative of a similar department in another county.
At last report Elizabeth tVas still at the hospital,
and Elizabeth’s mother was presumably waiting at
home, while the officials here were trying to find just
where the mother lived. Now it so happ ens
that we have no concern with the deparmental two
county controversy as to who should go alter the mother,
an affair that will probably be properly settled to the
satisfaction of all concerned, but we do on occasion get
work up over the confusion of names employed to
designate county places, roads and Roxboro streets.
To a native-native it may be good that Chub Lal»e
is also known as Loch Lily and as Barnette’s Pond,
and it may be easy to know that Moragan street (in
Roxboro) is also High School drive at one end and Oak
street at the other, but we think that clarity demands
some commm agreement on names hereabouts, both
in county and city. It was and is and always will be con
fusing to have a multiplicity of place-names, many of
tnem ear-marked by the fact that the road turns at so
and so’s store, or that the house is near Baker’s or Ca-
Vel, or Jaylong or Longhurst, or Timberlake or Helena.
As for a complete numbering of houses in Roxboro,
we are still prayerful, if not hopeful.
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The Kind Os Heroes
High Point Enterprise
If the divorce suit entered by the wife of Joe
Louis, heavyweight champion, is of any more public
importance than any one of many thousands of similar
home disruptions the difference lies in the fact that the
Negro fighter is the idol of millions of his race.
Joe has been a good champion, decent in behavior
outside the ring as far as we have heard, and a good
sportsman in the ring. It will hurt some of his ad
mirers to note that he answers his wife’s charge of
cruelty by appearing to confess that she may have come
within range of the “shadow-boxing” he does at home.
If the Negroes make a hero of Joe and pay small
attention to G. VV. Carver, we ’ must remember that
their white neighbors set them an example in hero
worshipping. We play up and admire our muscular
athletes and are blank of face and memory when the
name of some really great individual is mentioned.
Treasure For Breakfast
Christian Science Monitor
The little boy who is sorry he could not eaj; ten
dollars’ worth of strawberries even if his parents gave
him permission has found a friend down North Caro
lina way. This man has just shown that it is possible
to eat $10.40 worth of strawberries and still like them.
For the little boy’s further encouragement we
would add that the financing of this gargantuan de
light was possible with the round sum of 15 cents. It
just shows that a thing that may sound too good to be
true is still possible, if one’s intentions are proper.
Hut let’s not get complicated. The recipe for
this Elysian dessert is simple:
Every time you convey a berry away from the
dish along the line of least resistance, you think of a
little boy in London. Any little boy will do, provided
he is having strawberries (fortunate little boy!). And
you tell yourself—for It is absolutely true—that every
time you open and close your mouth (leaving out the
time you do it just to say “Or” and “Ah”) you are hav
ing twenty cents’ worth of strawberries. For that is
the cost of every single berry that the little boy in Lon
don eats.
Yes, you are right. It is better than the Mad
Hatter’s tea party. For at that party it was jam
yesterday and jam tomorrow but never jam today.
Anri this is strawberries right now. And what straw
berries! VVe wish we could tell Alice about it.
Potatoes
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Irish potato yields in Beaufort
County are about one-half of
what they were last year but
better than was expected when
digging started, says Assistant
Farm Agent A. L. Eagles.
Sheep
B. C. Pennington of Sturgills,
Ashe County, says money invest
ed in sheep will pay $2 to every
$1 of money invested in cattli,
according to Assistant Farm a
gent H. D. Quessenberry.
British Ambassador Inspects Liberty Bell
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Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, and his wife
re shown examining the Liberty Bell in laj:jrci!r'cc Lall, rhi.aLc!
hia, Pa. The bell, which cracked in 1335 while te n- ra::s for the
eath of John Marshall, was tolled on July 4, 1773, c:i the j-reclnmatic"
if the Declaration of Independence.
Fort Bragg General Declares
Youth Facing Threat of War
Negotiated Peace Could
But Defer Settlement, He
Says In Chapel Hill.
Chapel Hill July 9—“ l see no
possibility of any negotiated
peace that will do more than ae
:'er a final settlement of the fun
damental issues involved in this
war,” Brig-Gen. Ed. F. Harding
of Fort Bragg said in an address
at the third convocation of the
of the University’s Summer Ses
sion in Memorial Hall.
“Any peace that does not leave
Germany powerless to make war
will be only an armistice,'’ he
declared. “In view of the omin
ous uncertainity of the future we
face, the youth of the land must
be trained in the realization tnat
they may be called to participate
actively in this conflict.
“The call for them may come
either at the end of a protracted
period of continuous warfare or|
after an interruption in the form
of a few uneasy years of armed |
truce. We share the hope that it
may never come, but we must
recognize the possibility and pre
pare of it.’
General Harding was introduc
ed by Professor Guy B. Phillips,
Executive Secretary of the Sum
mer session. Preceeding his ad
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dress lie was entertaind at a din
nr at the Carolina Inn b., ; a
group of faculty members.
• Poiting out that modern war
far demands brains as well as
brawn, General Harding said
“our Army leans heavily on you
teachers fer the early education
cf the men who come to us at
times like the present. Essential
as is the part we play, your pare
is equally important”.
The gdherai said that he be-
unless “you have condi
tiond him properly for the serv
ice, we of the service cant alto
gether make up the deficiency.
“Yours is a grave responsibi
lity, not always appreciated in
the past, thanks to our wishful
thinking and the efforts of well
meaning idealists who, a while
tack, had some of us practically
covinced that the day when the
lien would like down with the
lamb was just around the cor
ner.’
General Harding said he be
lieved teachers in the United
Stats today should put more em
phasis on the duties of being an
American citizen rather than on
the rights and liberties enjoyed
by American citizens.
“If the youth that grew up in
the twenties had been thorough-
THURSDAY JULY 10, 1941.
ly conditioned after some such
pattern of teaching I don’t be
lieve we would be having so ma
ny strikes in defense industries
today or so many vidences of dis.
orders brought on by those whj
do not hesitate to sabotage es
sential nrocDuction in itheir de
termination to wring gains to:
themselves cr their “class” from
the urgency of our defense pro
gram.”
General Harding sa'.d it should
be impressed upon American
youth that “our liberties and be
nefits of the Government we en
joy were won by fighting and
may have to be maintained by
the same crude process.
“And considerably more than
is being done could be done to
wad fostering the military vir
tues —courage, fortitude discip
line. willingness to suffer hard
ships and make sacrifices for our
country. In times like the pre
sent, educaton should be desig
ned to put iron into the soul as
well as knowledge into the head.
And I feel sure that all of you
will agree with me that the ris
ing generation in America and
curs, too, for that matter, could
do with a little more iron in its
make-up.
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Slag
Where he applied basic sla;
in the spring of 1940, John Phil
lips of Cullowhee, Jackson Coun
ty, says his red clover was at
least 50 percent better than on
untreated land.
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