Newspapers / The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, … / July 20, 1941, edition 1 / Page 3
Part of The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
PERSON COUNTY TIMES A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE I. 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 Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under The Act Os March 3rd., 1879. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 f „ National AdvortWag kapraaentathm I HER I CAN No* Ye* i Chicago ■ Detroit , AHaeta I WU. Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at aP times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our cotrespondents should reach this office, not later than Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition and Thursday P. M- for Sunday edition. SUNDAY JULY 20, 1941 No Time To Jump Beginning first in Washington and in larger cities such as New York and Boston, sentiment in favor of National Defense measures has spread to all sections of the United States and is now being felt with particular emphasis in Roxboro, where, within the past week or so two or three groups directly related to defense prob lems have been formed. Three days ago announcement was made that part of the Person area is being considered as a site for a huge military camp expected to draw upon such adja cent counties as Durham and Granville, as well as Vance, and on Friday Mayor S. G. Winstead and City Manager Bloxam in a signed telegram to Governor J. Melville Broughton pledged Koxboro’s support of a Statewide movement to adopt daylight saving time as means of conservation of electric power. What is to come next is as much known to one read er of the Times as another. Loyal support of the move ment to buy U. S. Defense Savings bonds is expected and we have no doubt that the United Service organiza tion drive will find among the people adequate support, as will the local Defense Council’s aluminium drive and the war-time return to daylight saving time. It is also to be expected that citizens here will be interested in the proposed military camp. Normal national desire is now cooperation with the government and we expect that cooperation to be shown in Roxboro and Person county. We must as citizens par • ticipate in all reasonable efforts, to build up and support the national morale, whether such efforts mean collec tion of aluminium, purchase of bonds, working under daylight time, or what not, but at the same time we do especially need to avoid all appearance of hysteria, both with regard to local defense and to national defense pro jects which may come cfose to us. In saying this we have particularly in mind the preservation of sanity in such local measures as mobil ization of Boy Scouts, of firemen, policemen or any oth er groups. Mobilizations of this type are being suggest ed in the larger Eastern industrial centers, but it is well lor those of us who live in semi-rural-and-urban com munities t(f remember that in Defense measures, as in aqy others of large scale, commonsense has to rule. And, at present moment, we would above all else warn our readers not to depend too much upon prospects lor the tri-county or four-county army camp. If the camp materializes, good and well, if not, perhaps just as well, although we are of opinion that Person folks will be in position to experience many advantages (chief ly economic) and few evils (chiefly social) if and when the camp does come. Logical Change Announcement Thursday l by Person Superintend ent of Schools R. B. Griffin that the Board of Educa tion will witn pleasure move during this week to the leased-to-the-county Roxboro Community House is to be taken as good news by County Commissioners, who. in an effort to relieve crowded conditions in the Person Court house, rented the Community House and then found difficulty in persuading other designated Court House tenants to make the move. Because of the fact that the Person County Libra ry is to continue at the Community House and because of the fact that the Roxboro Woman’s club which has been meeting in the building, will need some pldce to meet, we are pleased that Mr. Griffin’s forces are mov ing in, since it would appear that there should be har mony between any Board of Education and the educa tional and cultural library and' club. The whole arrangement seems to be one capable ot being worked out to the advantage of all concerned, and one making fuller use of the Community House than it has enjoyed for the past several years. If the Scouts ean retain their small basement quarters, and we have been told they may, there seems to be nothing more to ask tor. Ana it is a positive relief to have a problem solved with joy. In Terms Os Praise Meeting .today, as they did yesterday and will to morrow, Primitive Baptists of Person, Granville and Durham counties, are this morning gathered at Surl PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N C. Church for what is known as the annual meeting of the “Lower Country Line Association”. The meetings are of immense interest to members of various churches of the faith, but to a layman of an other church most interesting feature of the sessions is the preservation of a peculiarly dmocratic and Amer ican form of ecclesiastical organization. Time was, in this country, when the camp meeting was common to the social scene in any rural community, and although the custom has been largely abandoned by Methodists and other sects who not only practiced it but enjoyed it as a “time to get religion,” it is today continued in modified form mainly by our Primitive Baptist friends. We listened with amazement when Moderator Flem D. Long told us that some ten to twelve thousand people may be today expected at Burl church, and we rather suspect that no other denomination in America now has camp-ground services of such magnitude. It is true that the automibile has seduced many of the campers to the notion that it is better to go home at night and sleep between sheets in thier own bedrooms, but not even the automobile has been able to change the habits of some, who take their religious name in both a secular and sa cred sense. And these, in our opinion are a few of those real Americans about whom it is now the fashion to speak in terms of praise. One Victory News and Observer Now the embattled grammarians are getting legal support from high authority in their fight against the phrase “and-or” which lawyers contract-makers and ot hers have pushed into the written language. The New York Sun reports: “Already high, the reputation of Nebraska’s Su preme Court for learning in the law and acumen in logic soars to an even nobler altitude. That tribunal has made definitive pronouncement on this “and (or)” question. It quotes learned authority in support of its opinion that “and-or” is "a baffling symbol, a disin genuous modernistic hybrid, inept and irritating.” It ■ characterizes "and-or” as “a Janus-faced verbal mon strosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of the brain of someone too lazy to express his precise meaning or tio dull to know what he did mean.” It condemns its use in a docyjjient before the court and leaves the point ed suggestion that in matter henceforth likely to come up for adjudication its omission will be highly advisabl.e. “This reprimand for a quintessential abomination of iaziness in phraseology will receive the approval of all judicious folks and-or all others who like their Eng lish reasonably workmanlike and pure.” The Nebrasa Supreme Court undoubtedly deserves praise, but its job will not be done with “and-or.” Not the lawyers appearing before it but those in other courts and. indeed, judges on other benches persisting in making the language in which the law and argu ments about it are written a jargon intellgiible only to those who are lost in the same lingo. No full victory is won with this triumph over “and-or.” It’s going to take total war to make the lawyers and other specialists understand that clear, simple English is possible and preferable. The Squash Unbends Christian Science Monitin Certain American housewives, shopping for that old favorite, the summer squash, have failed to recog nize it this season, we are told. The reason is that the squash has undergone a bit of redesigning. Instead of displaying the gracefully curving neck which used to embellish the vegetable market trays, the 1941 model is straight, rather resembling an In dian club. One description is that it looks like a “stret ched-out egg,” but to anyone who has ever tried to stretch an egg that may be a bit disconcerting. As with so many projects today, the alteration turns out to have been a Government job. One should not jump to the conclusion that it is the Federal Bureau of investigation which has taken the crook out of the of the squash. The fact is it has been done by the De partment of Agriculture—through years of patient breeding in order that growers may have a product easier to arrange in crates. There you have it with all the political implications: The squash sticks its neck out and gets regimented in a shipping box. The superintendents of parks are warned not to let the Department of Agriculture get hold of any of their swans. MONEY BELGIAN FLIERS ESCAPE T. A, Ayers of Roan Valley recently received a 15-day milk NEW YORK, July 16.—Two check for $124, the largest ever'young Belgian aviators have ar rceived by a Mitchell county I rived in Great Britain after es farmer for the sale of milk in that j caping from German occupied period of time, reports F. L.' Belgium in an airplane on which Woodard, Mitchell county farm! they had painted the Belgian na agent of the N. C. Extension' tional colors, the British Broad- Service. casting Corporation reported to. o day in a broadcast picked up here IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN by the Columbia Broadcasting THE TIMES System. During the Bargain Carnival You Can Buy t * CIGARETTES Carton I j MONEY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON From The Adult Student With every advance in insight into the moral and spiritual meaning and effect of human in stitutions and practices, the church has advancded its lines and entered the fight. This has not been a presumptuous actiori. In some instances, parts of the Christian church have lagged be hind. But the fact remains that the church which has made ad vances in insight, and has en tered the fight for the right a gainst the wrong, has discovered that it is championing its own cause. The war against the evils growing out of the use of bev erage alcohol is no exception. This war has been instigated, or ganized, and carried on under; church leadership to a large ex tent. Despite the reverses of re cent years, and despite the criti cism often leveled at the church for its participation in the strug gle, the world at large still ex pects the church to furnish the leadership and do a major part of the fighting to bring our peo ple to sobriety. What the Church Has Done The Church has been an in veterate foe of beverage alcohol. In 1739 when John Wesley pre pared the first set of General Rules of the United Societies, he demanded of members that they should avoid all evil, such as “Drunkenness, buying or selling spiritous liquors, or drinking them, unless in cases of extreme necessity.” He closed the Gener al Rules with a statement that a person who habitually violates any of them will be admonish- JKEKKk Bh. DURING THE Bargain Carnival You Can Buy Chewing 3 for Gum and f fW* Candies TOMMY^ Igiii bread/ Ojf GEE.MOMMIE. I'LL PUT THE FOOD] W%W BOY, O H BOY > LOVE TO THE BACK OF WW THIS MOUNTAIN fSO AM I, *N§!I j ■ ams THAT'S BECAUSE 3j pw they're made with A Am w gmMe#/ Everything that calls for bread tastes better—and is better for you, when you use our vitamin Enriched Bread. It’s the kind o bread endorsed by the Committee on h ood and Nutrition of the National Research Council. i. . . ROXBORO BAKERY COMPANY ed of his errors, and then “if he repent not he hath no mort* place among us.” Throughout the generations of Methodism that rule has stood, and no serious attempt has ever been made to weaken or repeal it. Quite the contrary has hap pened for the churches have come to see that not only is drunkenness an evil, but that all business and activity that pro vides the means for drinking and drunkenness are evil. Therefore in our 1940 Discipline, under the discussion of those “Offenses for Which a Lay Member May Be Tried,” there is this para graph: A member of the Church who after private reproof and admon ition by the Pastor or Class Lead er, persists in using, buying, or selling intoxicating liyuors as a beverage, or who signs a peti-" tion in favor of granting a licen se for the sale of such liquors, or who as attorney 'or otherwise procures a license for himself or another for the sale of such li quors, or who becomes a bonds, man of any person or persons engaged in® such traffic, or who rents his property as a place in v. hich or on which to manufacture oi sell intoxicating liquors, shall be brought to trial, and, if when found guilty he evinces no pur poses to amend, he shall be ex pelled. The church has also establish ed a Board of Temperance to carry on an educational cam paign through pamphlets and ot her literature to promote volun tary total abstinence, and to bring about enactment through out the world of legislation for the suppression of the traffic in beverage alcohol and narcotics. The jurisdictions and the annual conferences have Boards of Tem- The World’s News Seen Through The Christian Science Monitor An International Daily Newspaper is Truthful—-Constructive—Unbiased—Free from Sensational ise.— Editorials Are Timely ant Instructive and Its Daily Features, Together with the Weekly Magazine Section, Make the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home. The Christian Science Publishing Society One. Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts Price 812.00 Yearly, or 81 00 a Month. Saturday Issue, including Magazine Section, 82.60 a Year. Introductory Offer. 6 Issues 25 Cents. Name Address SAMPLE COPY ON REQUEST SUNDAY JULY 20, 1941. perance auxiliary to this gener al Board. Each pastor is special ly directed to promote actively a program of temperance educa tion in all departments of the loal church, urging members of both church and church school to pledge themselves to total ab stinence. Our church school lit erature provides quarterly les son materials for furthering this educational program. Thus does the church seek to discharge its responsibility re garding beverage alcohol. The question remains, “What can wo do to help?” Certainly we can do a1 least three things. First, we can take Paul’s ad vice to the Corinthians and act upon it. The strength of the church's stand in earlier days, against beverage alcohol was to be found in large measure in its uncompromising attitude toward members who used or handled liquor. There was a force in the spirit of the church members that effectively prevented many from falling who would other wise have done so. People ex pected church members to he sober and non-drinkers. In recent years we have al lowed ourselves to be misled by specious argument, and have compromised (as individuals) to such an extent that this church influence has been greatly null ified. Yet we have no more rea son now than in the days when prohibition was winning i Amer ica to be apologetic regarding cur stand against beverage in temperance. John E. Muhlfeld, traffic man ager of the Pan American Grace Airways -reports upon returning from Lima, Peru, that increased trade with the United States is helping South America.
The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 20, 1941, edition 1
3
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75