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THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1943
Clearest Statement
Roxboro’s Claude T. 11:11, who helcngs also to Person
County and is a director of the Farm Credit a..: ministra
tion, Columbia, S. C„ has this week issued just about
the clearest statement of war-time obligations of farm
ers.
Discussing food-for-freedom and 1943 production
goals, Hall, praises the parts being played in the pro
gram by members of County War Boards in North
Carolina and says that the Fartn Credit admin: stration
stands back of farmers working for war goals.
“The important job”, says Hall, “can be done, if
farmers will bear in mind that they are just as much
participants on the foreign front as they are on the
home front. Right on their own farms, right in their
own minds, with their will to sacrifice and their ability
to produce, they are doing as much for freedom as if
they were all dressed up in uniforms.
“Soldiers have to eat and they have to eat plenty if
they are to do their best against the dictators. And
when farmers produce for those soldiers and our civili
ans who are manufacturing arms and Ammunition they
are doing fully as much as the army men, the sailors
and the marines. There is no question about it—farm
ers have a great part to play in winning this war.
“Let’s not look at it as only the government’s job.
jMay we think of the greater sacrifices our boys are
making in the prime of their lives compared to those we
are sustaining.
“I have worked with farmers all my life. I have ob
served them in action and I have yet to see thesm fail
to meet any emergency they were called on to face.”
The same thing has been said and will be said again,
but not more forcefully.
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Timely Emphasis
Judge C. E. Thompson, of Elizabeth City, making 'his
first visit here as a Superior Court jurist, on Monday
reminded Person’s grand jury, headed by Errol Morton,
that the functions of a grand jury are ancient and of
good repute. The powers of a grand jury as an “inform
ing and accusing tribunal”, as Judge Thompson indi
cates, were defined in the fifth arrfendment to the Con
stitution of the United States and were defined, at even
earlier date in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution
of the State of North Carolina, and were again defined
in the State Constitution of 1868.
Grand jurors, all to often, fail to appreciate that
■ their powers make thism the very foundation of justice
since no court, in criminal division can function without
the returning of their bills of indictment. Worthwhile
too, in Thompson’s charge, is the reminder that grand
juries can and do work under instructions from the
judge and solicitor, but that they have the right to act
on bills from their own knowledge.
Grand jurors, are in effect, first instruments of the
courts and are guardians of the public peace, capable of
seeing that citizens are protected in their rights and
that County officers administer properly the duties de
legated to them.
It so happens that preservation of the grand jury
system, imperfect as it is, and human as it is, is one of
the fundamentals of a free peoples’ government. Grand
juries now setim unimportant, but that is because their
work has never been questioned in those democracies
in which it functions.
Every battle fought and won by soldiers of the United
Nations strengthens just that much longer the free
functioning of the ancient and honorable grand jury
system.
Firmrtßss And Delicacy
To this office there cajme today a story, apparently
compounded of grievances suffered by a citizen. Said
citizen, who for purposes of this record shall be name
less, was of opinion that Roxboro should know of the
sufferings he or she had undergone and that in the tell
ing some correction of what was and should remain a
private matter would be obtained.
Duty of the man to whom an appeal for publicity was
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made was to inform th|e citizen how and when and
where correction of the alleged grievances could be ob
tained. This duty was performed, and there the matter
ends, unless the citizen in question chooses to take an
other, but a more orderly avenue of public recital of
personal woes.
Newspaper airing of purely personal grievances in
advance of a court settlement cannot be tolerated, but
there is a distinct difference between refusing to print
a story and taking time out to show art informant why
he or she will profit more by remaining' silent, or by
seeking a less bold retaliation than thte press.
There are times when nothing is better or more
healthful than full and frank newspaper discussion, but
there are times when it becomes the duty of an editor
or publisher to advise against the publication of what
would for the moment make a sensational story. And
only a few readers ever bother to consider that on the
firmness and the delicacy of decision rests, for good or
evil, the reputation of their newspaper.
Part Os The Job
In earnest about the business of meeting Person and
Roxboro’s assigned quotas for surgical dressings is Mrs. 1
J. H. Hughes, chairman of the surgical dressings unit
of the Person Chapter of the American Red Cross, who
last week received a request to triple the number, of
surgical dressings previously assigned to the local chap
ter.
Busy and as active as Person and Roxboro women
have been in the surgical unit, the wiord goes out that
they must do more. It is a call repeated to chapters
throughout the nation. There tmust be a stepping up.
It ; s a part of the job to be done.
Work of making surgical dressings, mostly for use
of men and women serving in expeditionary forces, has
been done consistently and with zeal by some of the wo
men in each Red Cross chapter, our own included. The
message that Mrs. Hughes has received makes it im
perative that a larger number of women jioin in the
work and she is hopeful that their response will be ifn
mediate.
It will have to be if the new and enlarged quotas are
to be met.
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Some Relief, Please
Durham Sun
North Carolinians are trying not tx> be hypercritical
with respect to taxes, state or federal, the conduct of
the war or the measures taken for the husbanding and
must hang on, even though we are at war; and maintain
that we have a war to win. They know that the State
must carry on, just as the family and the individual
must hang on, even though we are at war; and maintain
a stable domestic economy which will support adequate
ly the war effort.
At the same time, they sense the danger that our le
gislators, both national and state, may not be sufficient
ly discriminating in drawing their conclusions. The
State, particularly, has a definite obligation to be care
ful about tax burdens at a time when the Federal Gov
ernment must 1 take extraordinary measures. The
State’s people believe they see a danger that the-Gen
eral Assembly may blandly conclude that everyone on
the home front is piling up money through war business *
or war empoyment. The truth is, of course, that only a
small minority of North people are showing
any net profit by reason of the war activity and that,
for the great majority, the situation is a quite serious
one. That, understand, applies to North Carolina busi
ness as well as to North Carolina individuals.
The Federal Government is working out a pay-as
you-go plan of income taxes. It is, moreover, very likely
going to set up a quite heavy federal sales tax —proba-
bly a 10 percent levy. We can appreciate that the State,
lacking its customary flood of gasoline tax money is
not in a position to drop the stats sales tax. It should,
however, in view of the current surplus and the
still high; total revenues of the State be able to bring
about some tax reductions, perhaps even a stepping
down of that state sales tax.
Editorial Four
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Open Forum
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Dear Editor: '
I am a boy from Person Coun
ty. I enlisted in the United!
States Naval Service on Novem-|
ber 24 to fight for my Country j 1
and for the freedom of my loved
ones. I am just a bey, only 17
years old. I left three brothers
at home who will soon be in
Service.
I hope they will be in the na
val service. I have been in the
navy 8 weeks, and will reach
land on the first of February. j
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I will fight the war and you
at home by purchasing Bonds
and stamps, can help win the
war.
• Yours truly,
Ira J. Wclfe, A. S. Co. 1796,
19th Battalion, Great Lakes,
Illinois. Jan. 18, 1943.
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Ration Banking
Program Offered
By Peoples Bank
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“Ration coupon banking,” a
new type of banking service for
retailers and wholesalers of ra
tioned commodities, designed to
make the nation’s ration pro
gram work more effectively was
begun here yesterday by Peo
ples Bank in cooperation with
O. P. A.
This a war service that the
government has asked the banks
to undertake under which whole- j
ealers and the larger retailers
will be required by the Office
of Price Administration to open
I “ration bank accounts” in the
banks with which they custo
marily do business. Into these
“ration accounts” the whole
salers and retailors will deposit
the ration coupons received
j from their customers against
which they will draw special
“ration chocks” wjien ordering
new supplies. It is expected that
only the retailers whose food
sales in December, 1942 exceed
ed $5,000 Will be directed by the
Office of Price Administration
to open “ration accounts.” No
charges of any kind will bo made
by the banks for this service. !
Consumers such as house-!
wives, motorists, and other in-'
dividuals who purchase rationed
commodities for consumption!
will not be affected by the newj
“ration coupon banking” system.'
| They will continue to “spend”
their coupons at the stores just
as they have been doing in the ;
past. Only certain dealers sell- \
! ing rationed commodities will
! to open “ration bank accounts.”
j The banks will have nothing
Ito do with the fixing of ration i
allotments or allowances, or
with the issuing of ration cou
pons. The local ration boards
will continue to perform these
functions.
The new “ration banking” sys
tem will not affect the regular
money or check accounts of the
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for your information and convenience.
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That refreshing difference in Coca-Cola is
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[ abbreviations. That’s why you hear Coca-Cola tßrntsey
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COCA COLA BOTTLING WORKS ROXBGRO. N. C.
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public at all. The public will
continue to use their bank ac
counts in the customary 'way.
The “ration bank- accounts”
will be new accounts for the
handling of ration coupons only
and will be entirely separate
from all other accounts in the
i banks. By depositing coupons in
• their “ration bank accounts” re
tailers and wholesalers will
i build up credits or balances of
. pounds, gallons, or points in the
; various rationed commodities.
Against these balances they will
draw special “ration checks”
! payable to their suppliers to sell
,! to the public.
1 1 These “ration checks” will
| have nothing to do with the pay
!ment for the commodities order
j td. Retailers and wholesalers
w ill continue to pay their bills
,; in the usual way.
, | “Ration coupon banking” is a
, 1 new plan for handling a let of
i the work now done by the 5.500
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local ration boards. Collecting,
[ counting, recording, controlling,
i and safe-guarding of ration cou
[ i pons and exchanging them for
, ! certificates by means of which
; dealers order new supplies of
[ commodities for sale tc the pub
. lie has threatened to overburden
. the ration boards and possibly
jeopardize the flow of commodi
ties to the public as additional
1 commodities are rationed. The
j government has therefore asked
| the banks to undertake these ac
! counting activities in order to as
sure the smooth running and suc
; cess of the ration program.
1 Rationing is designed to sec
! urea fair share of scarce com
modities for everybody. “Ration
' coupon banking” is designed to
! help bring that about. In under
! taking to operate this new “ra
tion coupon banking” system.
the banks will perform a non
profit war service for the gov-!
ernment. In doing this, the
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1943
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jobs they are already perform
ing.
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