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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES ./North Carolina /HIH MSQCIATI^V) 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. ' ' 3 —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Three Months '. 50 National Advertising Representative If 11= . .-T- /=| r HH, v MEXICAN i HESS SSQ,CIATION ■ New York t Chicago i Detroit : Atlanta t Phila. Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at all 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. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1943 Forlorn, Maybe, But Not Lost j i Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris, whose plea for a m re deli berate consideration of how and why as well ns when with tlhe nine months school term for the State of North Carolina has precipitated a stir in edu utional, legislative and journalistic circles, is a Person native— and those natives and adopted sons of Person who know him will discover in his stand a characteristic ex hibition of Person logic that was at one time more in evidence in the whole of Tarheelia. Immediate impulse is to say that any leading citizen and State figure who puits himself out in any form as being opposed to a nine month term of school for the State is guilty of betrayal of the best interests and traditions of more and better public school education, but those who know Lieut. Gov. Harris cannot and should not accuse him of being unfriendly to the cause of public education. His plea is no betrayal. II He happens to believe, if we read aright his message to the joint Education Committee, that the proposed nine months term will now cost more than the State can afford to pay. He happens to believe that a good teaching job cannot and is not being done under pre sent war conditions with an eight month term and that better part of wisdom would be an improvement of what we have through method and concentration rather than through immediate expansion to a nine month term. Lieut. Gov. Harris, as we see it, is not opposed to a nine months term,per se, but he does think it will de feat its own merits if put into practice now, in war time, and should bd planned for as a measure to be put into effect in July 1945. And he is probably right when he suggests thafl the present, proposed* optional adoption features work against rather than for the best intentions of the present bill. He also may be right when !h.e intimates that farm people will be hard put to comply with the nine months term under present scarcity of labor, war conditions, but we would say that those who are fundamentally opposed to a nine months term, as Harris is not, will always be ready to grasp any opportunity to be opposed to it, or to any form of educational expansion. HI The Harris message does give these people, the op posers, an opportunity to talk, and as far as the Lieu tenant Governor is concerned that is the personally un fortunate angle. His remarks can be and are being mis understood, but he is strong enough to take the mis understanding aifd walk away with it. What the said misunderstanding will do for him as a possible candi date for nomination as Governor is something else again, but he knows where he is going, as well as when and why, and when he gets ready he will be able to stand on his own two feet, just as he did last Tuesday. As an exponent for temporary continuation of the eight months term Lieut. Gov. Harris may be leading a forlorn cause, but the fact that he has spoken out will keep it from being a lost one, and cdme what may, his protests may be the means of that more complete and deliberate re-examination of public school whys and wherefores that is in order. It is about time that the State of North Carolina should pause to consider quality of teaching as well as length of days, and if the Harris plea can bring more attention to quality, we are all for it. Men Who Are Too Bright It happened before, it has happened now and some folks hereabouts are skeptical enough to think ' that it will happen again. We refer, of course, to the leav ing of Arthur I. Park, assistant Person farm agent. Before him, it was J. B. Snipes, and tlhle significant facts are these: both 'men did such good work here that their talents were Recognized elsewhere; both men 1 were in Person County just long enough to begin pro grams of rare excellence; both! men were called away at the moment when the work they started was really ready to go forward. We took it and stood it with good grace when Snipes , PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. was called toWilkes county. There seems to be nothing else to do now in the instance of Arthur Park, but we do seriously question tlhle wisdom of officials in charge of Extension work who deliberately go around yanking men like Park out of counties where they are most needed, just at the moment when they are becoming i most useful to the citizens of the counties in which they serve. We understand that Park has a promotion in Wake 1 and that he will get more money, and because these things are true we can understand why he is willing to go. We also understand, and we hope it is true, that Person County commissioners were willing to increase Person share of his salary if he would remain. Snipes and Park, and men like them, are in difficult business of serving more than one master where pocket book is concerned and this means that they are inclined to take orders from the Extension Division from whence comes larger part of the program planning and the money, but we can and do say that the Division’s work could and would be improved if it would allow its good j men to remain longer in one locality than seems to be j the custom. The work is so Important in Person County that a successor to Park must be found at once if effective ness of the program is to be continued. Until he is found there will be the sagging and the lagging known of old. We are of opinion, likewise, that Person County, wlhjose wealth lies chiefly in farming, should be willing to contribute a little more than S6OO to salary of the next good assistant farm agent it gets. Payment of a larger salary might be a form of persuasion. It certain ly could be justified as reum on an investment in farm I education, for the land, and ultimately for the pocket and for character. Greatest wealth of any farm community consists of fertile fields tilled by citizens who know what they are about. And that happens to be the direction of the w r ork done by Park and by Snipes. The Girls Go, And Get Person and Roxboro Boy Scouts, wlho for years have contributed cheerfully to community enter prises, have rivals now in the Girl Scouts, who will go ; out this Sunday afternoon to collect books to be sent to libraries for men and women now in military service. Cooperating agencies with the Girl Scouts are the Person chapter of the American Red Cross and the Per son County Public Library, but actual work of collect ing the books falls upon the Girl Scouts, and judging ' by their recent success with their Infantile Paralysis j Tag day, the girls will not take “No,” for an answer. About the only stipulation is, the books they get had | better be good ones. Our soldiers and sailors and mar ines and nurses do not want to read trasthl The war, at long last, has come home to us now in j Person County and no mother or father who has sent away a beloved son or daughter can afford to forget ! that the military service ranks are made up of hundreds | and thousands of beloved; sons and daughters, not to speak of husbands and wives, and that they, who are j counterparts of the Person and Roxboro men and wo men in fighting and serving units, do need to be pro vided with what can be given of the comforts of home. Books are such comforts for many citizens, and we I are sure that they will be appreciated. I i j WITH OTHER EDITORS - i No Color Blackout Christian Science Monitor There’s no rationing on colors. Not yet. True, the polychrome flashes of the neon signs have disappeared. Their Sisyphean task is ended for a while. The mer chandising appetizers of the window dressers’ art are concealed behind curtains when afternoon shadows lengthen. The pleasant, leisure-time activity of evening window-shopping has gone for the duration. However, in the colorful, attractive daytime displays on ten thousand Main Streets one can read the history of progress. There is material for a book on tlhle thesis that gay color has marked our trail from the handi craft to the industrial eras. And is color blacked out? Not while boys and girls can buy the checkered pattern lumberman’s jackets which flop so casually in the winter wind. Not while mackinaws are still available in their emphatic com- ! binations of reds, blacks, blues and purples. Not while women’s and girls’ slacks come in startling shades of reds and greens. We may come to ersatz textiles. It is not impossible that the magic of chemistry will give us many everday materials of plastics of which we hardly dream at pre- I sent. Come what may in this era of swift transforma- ! tions, it is reasonably safe to predict that Americans will favor gay colors. About 15 million shearling collect books for the men in serj „sheep pelts are needed to line vice, a goal of 10,000 books was, aviators coats. I set, but in spite of unseasonable | j weather, 18,300 books were col-j When Norwalk, Conn., entered lectsd, an average of two books the Victory Book Campaign to for every five residents. | $2 5 REWARD For any watch or clock that we fail to repair. GREEN’S “The Square Deal Jeweler” AH Purpose Top Coats $6.95 Overall Pants $1.39 Overall Coats $1.89 ECONOMY AUTO SUPPLY BUSHY FORK AND HELENA ADVANCE MOBILIZATION. Two Schools Go -Ahead With Their Programs Not being content to wait for the period set aside for 4-H Mobilization Week February 6th-14th Bushy Fork and j Helena Schools forged ahead j last week by holding their mo-| bilization meetings ahead of schedule. Each of the principals andi teachers in these two schools arej j enthusiastic about the work andj f are! seeing that each and every ! ! child between the ages of 10 and 1 20 years enter into some project on the farm that wHll aid the: war effort. C. H. Mason, Principal of the Bushy Fork! School, Gs inter-J ested not only in getting the -students between 10 and 20 years’ of age enlisted, but he is anxious! that thost below 10 years do' something, if it is nothing more than raising 15 chickens with a hen kept in a coop. These two schools are to be congratulated upon the effort they are putting forth to see that each and every one of their eli-1 gible pupils are enrolled in 4-H work that will aid the war es-! fort. The other schools are expect ing to mobilize as soon as the Farm Agents can get around. j j Mrs. R. E. Whitten Os Mullins, S. C., j Visits In City , Mrs. Robert Estes Whitten, of Mullins, S. C., who was here for, a visit with her husband before ] i he left for Fort Bragg, has re-1 turned to her home after spend- 1 ] ing several days with Mr. Whit-jl ten’s brother, Sam R. Whitten,'! Jr., and Mrs. Whitten. Mrs. Whitten, Jr., to honor her, sister -in - law, entertained at bridge Thursday night at Hotel Roxboro. Men Eighteen Register Here j During Month t i With a total of 124 men re- 1 ported registered for selective! service in December aftr having bccme 18 years of age since the] June 30, „ 1942 registration. Mrs. ] James Brooks, Selective Service' Clerk, last week released a list of 31 eighteten-year-olds t'ered during the month of Janu ary. The white men composing the group are Louis McNeal WatsonJ Garland Waitsoel Hilderbrand,! Thomas Hill Claytcn, Reginald, Long Carver, Gardner Lee Whit-! field, Thomas Reade Tillett, Is-1 aac James Gregory, John Dallas] Hall, Ephraim Bruce Yarboro-; ugh, Marion Jackson Sullivan,] William Ira Wheeler, Robert] Sidney Ashby, Bennie George' Wagoner, Walter Wallace Young,' John Calvin Wilborne and Ern-' est 1 Jackson Powell. Negro men are Clinton Thom as, Jr., Tyree O’Neal Perkins, j Clyde Mangum, Percel Thomas,' Samuel E. Blackwell, Ale Junior Barnette, Thiea Otis Hatchett,' WE BUILD FOR Roxboro and Person County With All Work Guaranteed. No Job Too Large and None Too Small. GEORGEW. KANE; Roxboro, N. C. Hunter Reports Good Sale For War Bonds Here Sale of $95,962.48 worth of War Bonds, series E, and stamps in Person County and Roxboro during month cf 1 January was reported yes -1 terday morning by Gordon f C. Hunter, chairman, who 1 said that heavy sales can be i *1 credited to large buying by "I Roxboro Building and Loan. Total amount wculd have been larger if series F and G * j bonds could have been count !i ed. Only County reports not l | yet in is to come from Hur- I die Mills. I I; Rev. T. A. Sikes i ' Former Roxboro ; Minister Dies 'j CHARLOTTE, Feb. 5. Fu n-1 eral services for the Rev. Time-, 1 thy A. Sikes of Monrce, who j died Thursday at Wrightsville, j Beach, will be held at 2 P. M. | , Sunday at the First jMathedistj i church, Charlotte. I The Rev. Mr. Sikes was well-1 , known in Roxboro, where he i | was, about twelve years ago,j | pastor of Edgar Long Memorial j , church. ] Dossie Lee Rogers, McClenzyj ] Halley, Junius George Chamb l ers, Oscar Clay, John Marshall! Brooks, James Harper, Jr., N. H. I Humphrey and John Thomas j Winstead. Pay Your I Telephone Bill j iH 1 By The 10th jl ” 1 GET YOUR International FERTILIZER NOW Our Advice Is To Get Your Fertiliz er Now. W e have a good supply of Interna tional on hand - the kind that has given satisfaction in Person County for many years. See us now for de livery dates. For Sale By S. B. Winstead Winstead Warehouse International Minerals & Chemical Carp. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1943 George Long Gets Promotion In U. S. Army j It’s now PFC George C. Long for the soldier son of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Long, formerly of Roxboro and now of Creedmoor. Private Long received the pro motion at the Army Air Base Richmond, Va., where he is now stationed. FROM SPENCER The Rev. and Mrs. K. D. Stu kenbrok of Spencer, are visiting here for a few days with the Rav. and Mrs. W. F. West. Mr West, pastor of the Roxboro First Baptist church, is expected to fill his pulpit Sunday morn ing for the first time following an illness of several weeks. The port of Marseille is almost cud off from the rest of France by high hills. w £ -, .'.,/e, 7 r There's a spot marked for you somewhere f Get your name on an ap plication for insurance before it’s on the hospital record! THOMPSON INSURANCE AGENCY Roxboro, N. C.
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