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PAGE FOUR PERSON COUNTY TIMES vX. /WUi AMOCIATKffpi A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE 4. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER THOMAS J. SHAW, JIL, City Editor. Published Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second dass Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. Cm Under The Act Os March 3rd., 1879. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year * L5 ° Six Months 75 Three Months National Advertising Representative New York : Chicago ' i Detroit : Atlanta i Phils. 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 28, 1943 Like The Arrow Story of the week, leaving aside military matters such as the battle in Tunis, and international items such as the continued fasting ability of Gandhi, is the re markable “Flying Dutchman” flight of a U. S. Liber ator, four-motored, cargo plane that crashed on a Mexi can mountain after having covered some two thousand miles without pilot or crew aboard. . Legend of the ocean-going ship, “The Flying Dutch jnan”, that sailed the seven seas under similar condi tions, is here given a new and modern twist. Landsmen, likewise, are familar enough with riderless horses, trucks and cars without drivers, and trains that cut loose for adventures of their own, but this is the first time in the history of aviation that a sky monster has enjoyed the privilege. There have been short test flights with empty planes controlled by radio from the ground, but not this. If the air Dutchman could have been replenished with gasoline and if the Mexican mountain had not been in the way, there is no telling where the Liberator plane would have gone. A good guess implies an illustration of perpetual motion. As it was, the pathway of the abandoned plane was across miles and miles of water and land, and the mystery of how its course was chang ed from an outward bound direction and back to the North American continent has not been explained. Think, too, of the saga of adventure that can be re membered by the six survivors, men w'hose decision to abandon the plane was responsible for this masterpiece of real fantasy. Longfellow', the poet, said something about shooting an arrow' into the air. Our poets, if there are any left, have now the subject for a thoroughly modern test of abilities. » New Pioneers A few days ago the editor of the Times received a letter fro<m a friend, a young married man who has for the past year or more been in a defense industry in a large Eastern city. A typical Roxboro and Person resi dent, he did not particularly want,to go to this large city, but he went, and pretty soon sent for his wife and baby. He kept in touch with Person ties by subscribing to the Times, as he still does, and went about the business of making a new life and a new home in a strange en vironment. The work was different, the people were different, but he took both in their stride, only later making concession to a continuing love of small-town places by moving to a suburb of the city in which he was vyorking. That was yesterday, after plenty of adjusting had been done in this small family. Today there is another change, an order to report to a distant Western city to take up work in a new branch plant of the aforemen tioned defense industry. That is what the young man’s letter was about. He is going again to a place where he is not known, a long way from home, and he know's he will have to stay put for the duration, unless there is another quick-change order. Under such circumstances this young man and his wife and baby feel, probably, that their world has no permanency, that their home is but the place where they hang their hats. There are lots of folks like them in America today, who are unconsciously and incident ally but very realistically, new pioneers. And, although our new pioneers do not particularly like the hardships of the new day, they should some day be able to edme back to their original homes with a new and a different understanding of what America i means, and of what places like Roxboro and Person County mean. The parallel holds good, of course, for ' men and women who are in imilitary service units, parti cularly those overseas, but the shake-up in customs and attitudes within service units is nothing like as big and as important and as far-reaching as is* the purely domestic earthquake. And while we do not like earthquakes, if it takes earthquakes to restore the American pioneering tradi tion, to give us new vision, to restore a sense of values and to enlarge our national perspective—we are all for ’em, and we have a sneaking feeling that our migra- PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. tory Person family, for one, will some day be proud to have had a share in the new order. Its a big order, and important. \ Locking The Door “Listen, Raleigh”, as a paid advertisement in the Greensboro Daily News, signed by three civic and commercial organizations in Greensboro, is an intelli gent appeal to the General Assembly to realize that there is a war on and is in effect a plea for curtailing rather than increasing State expenditures during the war period. Signers of “Listen, Raleigh”, claim that at the rate it is going the present General Assembly will increase expenditures by 27 percent, that citizenswill be asked to bear an unfair tax burden and that other states, New York, for example, are cutting rather than in creasing expenditures. But, it strikes us that the “Listen, Raleigh” move ment has gotten underway just about two months too late. Our legislators have at this moment signed away about all the cash they can get their hands on. They made promises of that kind and they have had to keep them. The “Listen, Raleigh” movement may be commend able and all that sort of thing, but it is apparently an other instance of locking the barn door after the mule is out. If any backtracking can come now it will have to come in a hurry. Person folks; in sympathy with their Greensboro neighbors, can, however, take a little chilly comfort in the fact that their own Lieutenant Governor R. L. Harris, along with Revenue Commissioner Edwin Gill, has been these many weeks engaged in the busi ness of trying to open Raleigh’s ears. As for ourselves, we can think of any number of good reasons to say, “Listen, Raleigh”, and not all of them have to do with appropriations. WITH OTHER EDITORS Leaving Us Our Shirts Durham Sun Aware, perhaps, of man’s devotion to his shirts, Washington apparently has decided It will endeavor to see that the war, tough as it is, does not take Ameri cans’ shirts off their backs. “Mass production economies”, as~T>avid Ross Would say (no charge for the plug), and Government stream lining have made it possible to produce our shirts and pajajmas at less cost. The OP A has decreed that they shall be cheaper. Americans are grateful but a little dazed. It is so sel dom in the memory of ’man that war prices move down ward. They are pleased to have Washington enunciate the principle that “what goes up must come down.” Could we not offer the appeal that the price-powers that-be look about for other similar opportunities ? A Horse On Adolf Christian Science Monitor Heinrich Himmler, with typical unconscious Nazi hu mor, has prohibited “the use of unsuitable names for police horses,” according to a Swedish newspaper quoted by the B. B. C. One of the unsuitable names covered by this order—obviously the most unsuitable name of all—is Adolf. We had never thought of ourselves as likely to agree with the head of the Gestapo on the Smallest point, let alone such a serious matter as using the Fuhrer’s name in addressing a horse. But we admit that Himmler’s order strikes us as appropriate and civilied. Can it be that a pseudo-philosophy like Nazism, which has not stressed kindness to human beings as a desir able practice, has nevertheless produced a Gestapo lead er with a tender regard for animals ? Or is it that the top Nazis already see their names written on the wall, and that Herr Himmler, hoping to be “in good” with some influential society after the war, has set his hopes on the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals? Durham Sun Interception Men Wanted As Air Raid Assistants Civilian Radio Intercept Of ficers to work with the Army Air Forces in effecting radio silence during air alarms are sought by the United States Civil W. C. BULLOCK Service Commission, C. C. Gar rett, local secretary announced today. Fcsitions in the Federal Com-1 munications Commission are lo cated throughout the United States. Duties are to monitor radio stations during periods of radio silence, conduct tests to maintain a continuous watch and i cheoki efficiency of control, ' distress channels, and perform l other Federal monitoring assign- Protect Your Home With Good Paint We sell Good Paint at sur prising low figures. 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