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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES /■North Carolina vai /HttSS ASSOCIATION A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE i7k 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 Three Months 50 National Advertising Representative AMERICANPRESSASSOCIATION New York t Chicago : Detroit : Atlanta i 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 end Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. THURSDAY, MARCH. 4. 1943 The Color Os Farm Life | From Raleigh conies announcement that State Col lege Extension service, through courtesy of R. .T. (Dick) Reynolds, will be showing motion pictures in color de picting Tar Heel farm life. Production of the film has been delayed because of shortages attributable to war conditions, but it now appears that work can go ahead and that North Carolina farmers soon will be able to see themselves at work, and in the seeing grasp for themselves the totality and bigness of their job. In giving these pictures to the State, Reynolds, one time Mayor of Winston-Salem, who is now a Navy Lieutenant, is doing for the State the same thing that Gordon C. Hunter, of Roxboro, has been doing for Per son County. And those citizens who have been made more familar with improved failm practices in Person do not have to be told of the educational value of Hun ter’s down to earth movies. Reynolds several years ago, with the same commend able, public-spirited enthusiasm, gave the State a color film showing North Carolina as “Vacationland”, and as important as that series was, it seejms unnecessary to add that the up-and-cc|ming farm series should be much more important and more greatly appreciated, especi ally by those citizens who believe that intelligent farm ing is one way of economic and cultural salvation. History Repeats, Maybe From Oxford’s Richard Minor (in the Durham Morn ing Herald) comes a story concerning the reopening of the old High Hill, Blue Wing and Durgy copper mines, the last named in Person County, close to the Virginia line. Except for flat-footed statement that these mines will be developed under supervision of the United States Bureau of Mines and that preliminary investi gation may cost $25,000, there is nothing new or sen sational about the story, although Minor’s version of it does give a little more of concreteness to vague reports that have drifted in to Roxboro for the past two months. Center of operations, according to Minor, is to be Virgilina, Va. Oldest of the three mines appears to be the Blue W r ing, in Granville, with High Hill, in Halifax County, Va., next, and the Durgy, in Person, last, al though not one of the mines has had profitable opera tion since the Durgy closed in 1918. Minor appears to be optimistic, expecting that reopening of the mines may mean the creation of a vital war industry in the Virgilina section, but a survey of the facts as to pre vious costs of operation, set against the smallness of yields and profits, should enable Roxboro residents to keep their shirts on. The State of North Carolina, as witness recent activi ties in the Western part of the State, is interested in revitalizing the State’s ever 1 tantalizing but never too profitable mining projects, but we have not to date heard of any North Carolina support for the Durgy and its sister mines. Something like a hundred years ago there was in this State a considerable effort and some Yan kee capital expended on mines for copper and gold, par ticularly in Randolph and Guilford counties. It is in teresting to think that the same spirit may be revived here now, but “interesting” is about as strong a word as circumstances warrant. Mining at Durgy, or elsewhere in North Carolina will not be profitable unless modern science can devise ways to pull the elements out of the earth at less cost. The cost angle, in proportion to amounts of ore extrac ted, has been the negative influence in the development of North Carolina as a mining State for all except mica. We hope Minor is right in thinking that real busi ness can begin in the Virgilina area, but until it does begin, the Person attitude of caution remains com mendable. The Other Obligation We were talking last night to one of Person’s war spawned, unpaid Government officials. Regardless of un happy pers'»™d repercussions that may result from exe cution of duties imposed by his job, it is the civic duty of this citizen to execute orders pertaining to his job. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. Sometimes, as it happened last night, full weight of the job hits our citizen. He knows that the best he can do is imperfect, that no official, paid or unpaid, can get the public to fully cooperate with any program, not even when cooperation is the easiest way out for all concern ed And right at this point, to our mind, is where the other obligation enters in. The public knows that rules and regulations are today imposed for benefit of the majority. The public knows, too, and so does our wor rying, unpaid official, that laws are made to be broken, rather than observed. Otherwise, there would be no need for restrictions. Paradox, however, lies in the deliberateness of evasion, and in the comparative intelligence of the violator. It all boils down to a matter of conscience, as we think our official will agree. But what troubles most of us is a dormancy of conscience. Citizens who have for long lived in a land of license are hard put to it to dis cover that liberty and conscience mean the same thing and require the sajme controls. Our unpaid Government officials are human. Like those who get salaries for their pains, they make mis takes. But it is sometimes the rest of us who are most wanting in cooperation, and in charitable understand ing. V ersus Education A resident of Olive Hill township, Person County, is the Rev. J. H. Shore. For nearly fifty years, ever since he married one of Person’s daughters, the Rev. Mr. Shore has been familar with the Person way of living, and as he last week told the Council of Social agencies, he has found in that way much of which he can approve. It is his belief, for instance, that Olive Hill township, about which he was invited to speak, has shown a com mendable understanding of the distinction between edu cation and culture and that many of its citizens realize that people can have one and not the other. Education, as he intimates, implies an ability to read and write, and the faculty of using these abilities as tools in get ting ahead, financially, socially, morally. Culture, on the other hand, suggests rather the ability to under stand what is read and written and lived with. Education, of a sort, becomes the property of a pupil who has advanced no further than the first grade. Suc cessive steps from one grade to the next and on into college are but so many steps in an enlargement of edu cation and in a possible but by no means certain acquisi tion of culture. In saying that' the culture of a people offers a measure of their understanding of social and [moral problems, of their abilities to read comprehen sion into the very headlines in their newspapers, the Rev. Mr. Shore offered the most penetrating analysis we have yet heard of concerning what is wrong with the most of us. Education can be and is given through the public schools. Culture flourishes or dies in accordance with what the educated person does with his knowledge, or more rarely, like a wild flower, springs up without watering and without care. WITH OTHER EDITORS Four Strong Points News and Observer Naturally, Madame Chiang Kaishek thinks that the United Nations should concentrate in the battle in the Pacific and give more help to China which has alone in the Orient been waging war against the Japanese for five years. On the justice of China’s claims she brought forward four strong points: 1. Japan by conquest has greater resources at its com mand than Germany. 2. The longer Japan is allowed to hold them, the stronger she will be allowed to become. 3. The Japanese are an intransigent people. 4. China has endured Japan’s “sadistic fury” for four and a half years. Everybody will agree that we should help China more and quickly. The lion in the patn is lack of transporta tion. The closing of the Burma Road and the lack of transport planes stand in the way of as much assistance as we desire to give and give soon. There is no Chinese port open to Allied shipping; all are held by Japan or blockaded by Japanese sea power. The Burma Road is in the enemy’s hands and over the long Chinese-Soviet highway comes but a trickle of supplies. Only India, across the fearful barrier of the Himalayas, can serve as a supply depot and from there transport is limited to air freight, and a few tortuous caravan routes. With in China itself are great communications problems. Lend-lease aid to all countries has exceeded eight bil lion dollars, while only one hundred and fifty million dollars worth has reached the Chinese. The New York Times says: Nothing less than opening up aiY adequate supply route and equipping the Chinese army as a modem fighting force will overcome the Japanese on the front on which they are most vulnerable. But before we can develop an adequate supply route we must first recon quer Burma; to reconquer Burma we must have suffici ent sea power in the Bay of Bengal to prevent the land ing of Japanese reinforcements at Rangoon; and to make sea power available for this purpose we must first win the present Battle of the Mediterranean. We come back to the conception of a global war, in which all fight ing fronts are merely segments of one mighty struggle. Congratulations To - The Progressive Fanner. Mrs. Rosalind Redfearn, long the popular and useful home agent in Anson County, N. C., and David S. Col traine, our able Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture, both of whom received awards for Distinguished Service to Agriculture at the recent successful State Faflm Bu reau meeting in Raleigh. —To three Virginians chosen at the 1943 meeting of Ruritan National to head that organization during the corning year—John Henry Powell of Nansejmond Coun ty, president; Howard A. Spangler of Rockingham, vice president; L. T. Hall of Isle of Wight, secretary. —To Hon. Josephus Daniels whose superb fight for a ninth month for North Carolina public schools entitles him to the gratitude of all rural North Carolina .. . and to the State Grange and Farm Bureau, which defeated strong reactionary elements and supported this progres sive program. —To 32 North Carolina counties which earned 90 per cent or more of their 'maximum soil-building credit un der the AAA program, including the two leaders, An son (97.6 per cent) and Scotland (97.5). Open Forum Thursday, March 4 Roxbcro, N. C. J. S. Merritt, Editor, Person County Times Roxboro, N. C. Dear Sam: Person County’s Red Cress quota for this year is $5,600.00 or about double the amount asked last year. If everyone will contribute his part this goal can be attained and the quota over subscribed. With the increased demands on the American Red Cross both to our boys in thei service, at home and abroad, it will be necessary for each of us to give generously to carry on this great work. The American Red Cross is one of the greatest humanitar ian organizations in the world, and their duties are not confined to the treatment of the injured and sick but especially has their work been outstanding in keep ing the boys in foreign services in fouch with their relatives and helping them over homesickness and despondency by arranging their days of leave from actual combat into entertainment in private homes, sightseeing tours, etc. One of the most outstanding workers in this field is an Amer ican born English woman, Mrs. W. J. Dexter. Mrs. Dexter was a Red Cross nurse in World War I, who celebrated her 21st'. birth day in France consuming sar dines and jam festively set out icn a garbage tin, has served the l WORRY, WORRY ! HEADACHE! S Ilt’s bad enough to worry, : without suffering from heiid» •ache, too. Take Capudine to 'relieve the pain and Boothe j nerves up3et by the pain. Cap ■udine is liquid no waiting! vfor it to dissolve, before or : after taking. Use only as di- JrectedJOc^Oc^Ocj^^^^s CAPUDINE I We Have Birds Eye Foods '' " We have just installed a Birds Eye Counter and now offer you Birds Eye FRUITS - VEGETABLES - MEATS Siae Point Value price Strawberries 16 oz 13 32c Green Beans 10 oz 725 c Mixed Vegetables 12 oz 6 29c Spinach 14 oz 10' 26c CARL WINSTEAD GROCERIES American Red Cross in two wars and one earthquake. The Eagle Club in London at which Mrs. Dexter works now numbers about 10,000 boys as American citizens, entitled to use the Eagle Club and the | chances are good that she knows! about 9,000 of them by name,j not the formal surnames used by I casual acquaintances, but the ! intimate little nicknames the j i Call City Dairy and Ice Co. | Phone 4233 for good Country l Style Butter milk. ts. New Cars Now Available t Under a new government order New cars now in dealers hands will be available Saturday, March 6^ If you need a New Car, you are urged to let us know at once as we have a limited number on hand and you may be eligible for one. Tar Heel Chevrolet Co. : fiSs i gi' THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1943 folks used back home. Such ser vices to our boys andi to the boys of our allies can not be es timated in dollars and cents fo r the building of their morale while on leave by such people as Mrs. Dexter, makes them bet ter soldiers and more content with their lot. We are sure there is not a citizen in Person County who (turn to page three, please) The Devil chuckles whenTxe sees 9l home left unprotected by fire insurance See us and forget him* o THOMPSON INSURANCE AGENCY Roxboro, N. C.
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