PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE f. 8. 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 r National Advertising Representative Rlmerican ■ New York i Chicago t 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. THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1943 They Have What It Takes From Florida, from Texas, from, Maryland, from Kansas, it matters not what distant j oint, Person and Roxboro Imen who are in military service come home when they can. Boys and men, and women, too, who until recently never had an opportunity to leave the City and County of their birth, are coming back home to spend a few days with friends and relatives, and then returning to their posts in far-off places, with the casualness they might once have shown in journeying to South Boston, or to Durham. With the same easy grace they are accepting the hardships of training, the strain of being thrown at a moment’s notice into successive new environment’s. They are eating new foods, goat meat, and if it is no military secret some few have partaken of horse meat —and pronounced it good, much like beef steak, although on the stringy side. Out of military necessity our sons anti our daughters and our friends who march away are accepting the biblical injunction of the sufficiency of the day. And they are doing so with a smile, most of them, despite the fact that wherever they’ go, the place that counts most is a little town called Roxboro. Some of them, these boys and girls and men and wo men, whether they are in the Army, the Navy or the Marine Corps, are on the edge of adventure. When they cross the seas and march in stranger lands they will have friends there, the advance guard oD Person men and women who got there first, but its ten to one the common bond between the newcomers and the vet erans will be their mutual recollections of what Rox boro was, and please God, will be, when they return. From a thousand camps and ships and battle-fronts and for as many towns like Roxboro comes this idealiza tion that those of us who stay at home must keep in trust. A dream, yes, but a real one, carrying with, it a responsibility in citizenship and putting to shame pet ty civilian complaints about unimportant trvialities. The Happy Contrast Roxboro, no less than Durham, just to be concrete about it, has had moments when racial harmony be tween white and Negro citizens has been disturbed and almost thrown out of balance. Such an incident occurr ed last week in Durham’s “Hayti” section, an episode that narrowly missed being as serious as Person’s own court house affair of two years ago. There are, here in Roxboro, a few citizens, who will use this latest Durham episode for a gleeful pointing of fingers: “See, our neighbor is no better than we”, in a quite uncomplimentary “not holier than thou” expres sion of contempt, without being aware that this very week, on Monday night, there was begun anew in Rox boro a splendid demonstration of Tacial cooperation in civic enterprise when a group of white and Negro Boy Scout leaders got together and made plans for expan sion here of Scouting for Negro boys. It is too early yet to say that the newly organized Negro division of the Person Scout district will succeed in all of -its aims, but it is not out of place to point to the meeting and to the aims expressed there as being in happy contrast with demonstrations of the opposite character. Furthermore, the forthrightness with which Negro citizens who attended the meeting pierced through to objectives ahead furnished a lesson in logic to other members of the inter-racial committee. Both the white and Negro citizens who attended the meeting are in agreement that the Boy Scout movement can be a vital factor in promoting better citizenship in both races. This is the way we can do things in Per son County and we know jt is the better way. Two Forms Os Service In their different and respective fashions, Norman > street and Mrs. T. T. Hester, two Roxboro and Person citizens who died within the week, contributed much to the stability and grace of everyday living hereabouts. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. They found the answer to success in simple loyalty to friends and in the willing execution of daily tasks. It is not for any less that Perscss folks regret the passing of a man rode the mail routes) here through wind and winter weather and summer sun and changed from horse to motor car, in keeping with man-made progress wrought during his thirty-five years of ser vice. It is not for any less that friends of Mrs. Hester t can forget her love of flowers, or her passionate loyal ties where friends and kinsfolk were concerned. On the long road that was always the same, and dif ferent, Norman Street found his life’s! work. In her garden, where each Spring marked a rebirth, Mrs. Hes ter discovered a philosophy. And now, with the last route taken and the final flower gathered, what they were as citizens comes close. And it is no .mean tribute that next to those joined to them by blood and family ties, among sincerest mourners were members! of the other race. For the man who was our neighbor in all the good ness of that term, and for the woman who suffered much and rose above it, the Person way was a rich ex perience and from that richness they gave to others in good and full measure. For Richness Os Expression Sunday’s concert by Roxboro’s junior and senior public school glee clubs as given at First Baptist Church was an interesting and an entertaining' performance in more than one way. There was, to begin with, a skill ful combination of classical and semi-classical and to Miss Cooper as director should go applause for being able to get simplicity out of Bach and Handel and at the same time keep grace and dignity in well-worn Schu bert and Mendelsshon, let alone Elgar. # Second thought worth remembering is that here are groups of young people being taught how and when to sing, and more important, other young people, and some oldsters, too, being taught when and how to appreciate and to listen to good music. It may be that majority of the girls and young women in Roxboro’s school glee clubs will never advance further than the choir stalls as far as public appearances go, but even so, what they are learning can contribute beyond measure toward community enjoyment of good music. And that, we take it, as well as the possible discovery of a Lily Pons, is what Miss Cooper is after. WITH OTHER EDITORS Properly Rebuked News And Observer There are some people even in these war days who feel that the possession of money exempts them from the rules and laws that are made for universal applica tion. “Money talks” and “every man has his price” seem to them the maxims that are above equality and sacrifice. Some of them—not many, let us be thank ful have sought to evade the policy of equalizing the essential food. Wherever possible they have practiced hoarding before the rationing went into effect and have made possible the illegal “black markets.” There is a fine, old-fashioned respect for law in North Carolina which stands against those who wish privilege and would enjoy what is denied to the average citizen. These honest patriots are the hope of the country, and they are not to be cajoled or influenced by the so-called Almighty Dollar. The Moore County News relates an incident calling for condemnation of a rich woman and commendation of a straight-forward merchant: A well-dressed, heavily joweled Pinehurst woman dropped into the Carthage market of J. V. Williamson as a Swift and Co. trucker was delivering 10 pounds of scarce creamery butter. “I’ll take all of that butter,” the woman commanded, opening her purse and extracting a SSO bill. “I’m sorry”, said Mr. Williamson, “but that butter is already sold in quarter and half pound pieces.” “But by letting me have it all,” pleaded the wealthy woman, “you will have no wrapping and handling.” “Perhaps so,” replied Mr. Williamson, trying to re strain his mounting anger, “but I can’t let you have it. However,” he continued, “I can tell you a fine substi tute for butter.” “What is it?” he was asked. “Take a hot Southern biscuit,” smilingly began Mr. Williamson, “and split it open in the exact center. Put a SSO bill between the pieces and you’ve got something that will melt in your mouth!” “Lady,” M*. Williamaon shouted to the angry, re treating form, “there’s more money than butter in this country!” Record Made By Oxford Orphanage Y >.t £ . j almost as close as that of father In War service and sons. More than on? hun- { dred fifty members' of the Ox- 1 ford Orphanage family are now OXFORD, Apnl 7.- Bkxperin- the Mch tendent C. K. Proctor, of the Ox- brings otters from some of them ford Orphanage, is having a busy each lettere time these days writing to for- answered. This correspondence mer Orphanage pupils who are extends to all parts of the world now in the Armed Services of and covers every branch of the the United States. Most of these Service. Some former girls are boys have been under the per- lieutenants in the Army Nursing Corps, a number of the boys arej in the Navy, some are in the Marines and still a 'larger num ber are in the Army. The Mer-1 chant Marines and the Coast Guard are also represented. Oxford Orphanage boys in these various branches of Ser vice are fighting in the air, on land and under the sea. vA young lieutenant in the Flying Corps, George Lumpkin, was decorated personally by Admiral Nimitz. Another boy, a former fcatball player for the Orphan-1 age and for V. P. 1., was wound- j cold Re freshment comes to talre Its pIaCC. | years before they had come into Oxford as little people and had , quietly taken their places in the | large family at the Orphanage, later becoming good citizens. Their appearance indicated that they were making good. The investment which the Masonic Order and the State of North Carolina has made in the Oxford Orphanage pays large dividends, and it is indeed an agency of which the people of | our State may well be proud. Kelly Johnson, Route 3, Lil lington, has run 17,500 feet of , terace lines on his fam says As j sistant County Agent T. D. O’- Quinn. PICTURED OWN CRIME IN HIS MURDER NOVEL Strange story of a soldier who sPEcmia moniH ot rpriu SAVE GASOLINE SMOOTHER ENGINE OPERATION LET US: 1. Remove and clean air cleaner. 2. Remove, clean, and adjust carburetor. 3. Check all carburetor linkage. 4. Adust and properly set metering rod. 5. Remove, clean, check, and re-gap all spark plugs. 6. Inspect and test all distributor wires, spark plug wires. 7. Inspect battery terminals, (rqmove corrosion and grease) 8. Inspect battery cables, (positive and ground) 9. Check compression, by cylinders. 10. Check distributor points, clean and adjust. 11. Check and set octane selector. 12. Adjust valves to proper gap. 13. Check and adjust fan belt tension. 14. Check and set timing correctly. 15. Check fuel pump pressure. tabor Only $2.95 Tar Heel Chevrolet Co. - THURSDAY, APRIL ran out on the British Army be cause he wanted to be an author, and was later convicted as the ikiller described in his own no vel. 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