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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES ■ Carolina vJk XMEM ASSOCIATION^) 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 Month-* 75 Three Months 50 National Advertising Representative \ New York i Chicago i Detroit : Atlanta i fhila. 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. THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1943 The One Absolute Public reaction to the “vague McNutt directive" de livered Sunday in an order indicating Selective Service reclassification of all men over 38, is naturally a troubled reaction, although there is evidence that the reclassi fication, effective as of May 1, is intended to be of help •in bolstering up a dislocated farm production program. Appended to the Sunday statement are what appear to be specific orders to Selective Service boards relative to farm worker deferments. These orders, bceause of the predominately agricultural character of Person County, are of more than common interest here and as j positive orders stand out in the midst of much vague ness. Farm workers are needed, we will grant that, and if i men in older brackets, as well as some younger ones not now in service, can be induced to take up the hoe instead of the gun, and to follow the plow instead of the siren of the shipyards, we must, we think, feel more j cdmfortable about the logic of planning back of the : War Manpower Commission. But we cannot get over another feeding, too. Unless citizens, Selective Service j Boards and Gov. Broughton's new farm Labor Com- ! yiission, #re honest with themselves there are going to greenhorn farmers in the fields this year, and H*, H of them will use a law of good intentions for per -8& «-ather than national benefit. HHe/ A? back to the original directive for a new com- j nrawralH of "H" classifications, it appears that great for public complaint against the directive is Under this order men over 38, who had been told that they would not be called to Hlry service, that, as a matter of fact the Army not want them, now face induction “if and when Hne armed forces determine they can be used in the establishment.’’ Note, please, that this quo | tation does not say that such men will be put directly I into the front lines and the foxholes. Literally, it does I not define duties. And for majority of the men and women and families concerned, the pain of the promised reclassification lies most of all in this (really wise) lack of definition. Americans must awake to the realization that there is today no certainty, no absolute, except war. We can quarrel, if we please, over what our own. particular and little role in war is to be, but we cannot escape the one and only absolute of the day. Except in matters spiritual, the war has to be domi nant and we must readjust ourselves to that view if winning is to be more important than losing. We may I and do disagree many times over about the interlock ing patterns of war effort, particularly with regard to the number and the proportion of men and women to be engaged in industry, in fanning and in military and j naval units, but we cannot and must not forget the i absolute and the dim but real vision of freedom that rises above it. The Blotting Pad Girl Republished in the Times today is a letter written by Miss Helen Felder, Red Cross worker in Australia, to her parents in Greensboro. The letter tells the story behind the story of America’s fighting men and women, and tells it better than any dispatch we have yet seen. The sheer grit and sand and courage and glory in the Felder narrative, of course, comes out more clearly to those who have known the two Helens. She was a school friend of .ours, all the way up through the public system and on into college. Not different from other girls of her day and generation, she went to parties, took an interest in affairs properly and purely feminine, added a more than common appreciation of music, taught school a while and thought of marriage. That was one Helen, the girl we knew. The other Helen, a new one, with the same name, writes from Australia. She speaks of the new language, a different English, bom of pain and suffering that is being spoken ‘in the “Landjbown Under”. She says, with truth, that the boys wh/ go forth to battle do get the jitters. She PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. passes off this feeling with a careless reference to their appreciation of her as a blotting pad, a woman who can listen and console, and if need be weep and laugh, and keep the tears and the laughter and the courage that she sees and hears. To the new Helen this keeping is a sacred trust. We are glad to meet her and to shake hands across the years and the oceans. She speaks with eloquence and truth the gospel of the Red Cross, and it jls for her and for others like her, and the boys, too. that we must press forward with Red Cross War: Fund drive here. We can’t afford to let such courage down. To Please Nobody * The 1943 General Assembly is history now, and its mdmbers, coming back home to their small businesses can and will be telling us, the voters, what a time they had getting across a program pleasing to most citizens and at one and the same time acceptable as good poli tics. The State’s War Powers' measure, designed to help Gov. Broughton over the hurdles of war administration and control, got by. The nine month school term and its appendages will be law. The Wine bill went down and out, leaving a bad situation worse. The consoli dated board for State correctional institutions passed. The much talked of School Commission was named and will serve, as is, until a rather weak-tailed Amendment to an Amendment can be voted on in the next General Election. The lawyers pushed through the establish ment of a commission to study and to report upon im provements in the courts and the judicial system. Etc, etc. The legislators managed, as always, to say some nice things about each other. Some of them were “match less” in their praising. Others had eyes on the political weather-cock. Os the better sort, and more kindly and genuine, if we can trust our grapevine, was the praise accorded to Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris, who, nevertheless, has not yet said he will have more of it. Good legislators can please nobody, least of all them selves, all of the time, but it now seeims that in addition to having been a body with some speed and grace, the 1943 General Assembly pretty well kept its eye on the ball. Some have thought it had too free a hand with spending money, but even that can be better apprecia ted than niggardliness. WITH OTHER EDITORS Delayed Honor News And Observer I A century and a score and fifteen years have passed since in the humble cottage in the rear of Casso’s Tav ern on Fayetteville street pretty Peggy Casso left the ball going on in the inn to lend a hand when Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh. “What are you going to name the boy?” she asked as she bent over the mother. Without a moment’s hesitation Mrs. Jacob Johnson re plied “Andrew Jackson Johnson.” The humble father was “the best loved person in town,” and the mother, Mary McDonough, a “God-blessed Mac” who made the cuisine at the Casso Tavern famous. It is a century and a score of years since the bound boy. apprenticed to a tailor, left Raleigh —a runaway. He returned in 1867 as Chief Executive of the greatest republic in the world. II It Was more than a century before Raleigh marked the site where Johnson was born and preserved the lit tle house from whose narrow windows he first saw the rising sun. He lived in a difficult age and was a stormy petrel, often hated and often abused. But he calme to the de fense of a defenseless South and sought to prevent the horrors of Reconstruction. For that he will always be honored, even by those who assailed his earlier course. And it remained, on March 6. 1943, for the State of North Carolina to set in mottion a movement to en close the birthplace and to insure its lasting preserva tion. The woden shop of A. Johnson, Tailor, is en closed in a fitting brick structure which protects it from the ravages of the weather. It is proposed that the housq, in which Andrew Johnson was born in Ral eigh be likewise preserved. 11l The homes of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe are preserved in Virginia and the republic makes the home of Washington a national shrine. It is good to know that North Carolina is to do honor to its son the brave man who dared invite impeach ment to uphold the Constitution and restore the dis membered Union. It is well to recall this incident from Winston’s Life of Andrew Johnson: I cannot forget the solemn words President Andrew Johnson spoke when he visited Raleigh in June 1867, and the ludicrous turn an old woman in the crowd, who had known Andy in his tailor shop days, gave one of the President’s figures of speech: “I have no other ambition in life,” President Johnson declared, “but to mend and repair the breaches in the torn and tattered Constitu tion of my country.” The old lady said, “Andy’s com ing back home and open up his tailor shop again.” At last we are to preserve the house in which he was bom, and near which he made breeches, to prevent any breaches in its wooden walls or shingle roof. Open Forum J THE COORDINATOR SAYS: first practice blackout using -the new Air Raid Warning sig nals were held in the State last month for all) except the Ashe ville district, comprising far western counties coming under the Charleston Air Warning Re gion. The practice blackout for the •district of the Wilmingtin Region was held on the night of Febru ary 23 and the blackout for the districts of the Norfolk Region on the night of Feb. 25. Both were s: mi-surprise in nature, the time having been announced only as between the dates of Feb. 22 and 26. As expected, performance was not perfect. The tests revealed that the public and the Defense corps to some exttnt were not fully familiar with the new sig nals, and the State Office de cided immediately that another practice should be held as soon as possible with tho time an- Executor’s Notice Having qualified as Executor of the estate of Mrs. Lucy B. Long, deceased, late of Person County, Ncrth Carolina, this isj to notify all persons diaving claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 4th day of March, 1943, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate- will please make im mediate payment. T. Aubrey Long, Executor of the estate of Mrs. Lucy] B. Long. This the 4th day of March. 1943. Mar. 4-11-18-25- Apr. 1-8 One Day! SERVICE Call Us— Phone 3301 SERVICE DRY CLEANERS jiff w ALL America values the extra service that the ij|p JL £y_ Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps brings to * the war effort. And Americans, too, set store by <r the simple things that help build morale. jKmm lwpllip f Ice-cold Coca-Cola, for example, does a special Migp. job in refreshing folks. You know from exper- jiogMß|L jt tK* iHlf ■■ ience that its taste is deliciously different. And JB&& Coca-Cola does more than quench thirst. i£smi Mi' ■Bplfe: It brings a delightful after-sense of refresh- Jif9Hßw& -id 'M ment that? never fails to please. Choicest MS/Km M gfffe - ingredients and 57 years of experience have helped make it the best-liked soft drink on earth. An original creation to begin with, mm%jM § ■ * the taste, refreshment and quality of wKteT* >Mim ‘ | Coca-Cola set it apart. So make sure P';* you get the real thing. There’s no comparison. |P ! * * * '" 1 H It’s natural for popular names to acquire friendly iXMMKe&'i. faggS ■».. * Igak" 7 ' abbreviations. That’s wby you hear Coca-Cola , y, , called Coke. Both mean the same thing .. . M&MtzmlmSi. “coming from a single source.and well known *Sigt - *s, js.' to the community”. Ssf -%|pf jb> v ' ff2Sr \jUs m li WBBE™ J gl J| PlllS I ■ IKkK 11 1 ml Army needs come first. That’s why you see ff" • plenty of Coke at Post Exchanges. In civil life, #/ Coca-Cola being first choice sells out first, now flj^H that there’s less of it in wa&me. «UX99 The best is always the better buy! • OTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY Os THE COCA-COLA COMPANY RY COCA COLA BOTTLING WORKS ROXBORO, N. C. nounced in advance. With the benefit of the exper ience in the first tests and addi tional instruction material which, has baen published and broad- 1 cast, it is expected that a muchj better showing will be made/ and that with possibly one more: practice drill, the entire state j will be in readiness for otal sur prise drills called by the Army.; The schedule for the next 1 practice blackouts is as follows. March 17, Asheville Warning District only; March 18, All Dis tricts of Wilmingtin Warning Re gion; March 19, All Districts of the Norfolk Warning Rugion. The time for the practice blackouts will be uniform in all the districts and will be as fol- Army Work Pants $2.59 Army Work Shirts sl-98 Socks Pa « r ECONOMY AUTO SUPPLY C° me in J& Make yourself at wp home and be per fectly at ease. The Sandwich Shop offers you all kinds of Sandwiches, Soups, etc., at prices that are fair and square. We want your business and act fair when we price your meal. Bowling Center Sandwich Shop Jesse Rogers, Mgr. THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1943 lows: Yellow, 8:35 P. M.; blue, 8:50 P. M.; red, 9:00 P. M.; blue, 9:io 1 P. M. and white 9:22 P. M. In order to help the civilian population to become familiar with the new signals, which i n . reality greatly simplify things by providing a period of black out during which traffic may (turn to page three, please) Headache^ I J After hour, of anxiety, a headache i, the last straw. But it quickly yield,, | Carudine, which alao Boothes nerves upset by the pain. Capudine !, liquid. No waiting for it to Jjg ftoa dissolve before or after tak- V in*- So it's really quick. Use yf t only as directed. 10c,. 30c, 60c
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