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THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1943
As American As Lou Gehrig
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Person and Roxboro folks during this week turned
out in large number to view the Gary Cooper picture,
“Pride of the Yankees” and in the story of Lou Gehrig
depicted there they saw for themselves a typically
American story, tenderness and love, the glamor of
sports and the democratic principle, all packed into a
chronicle of service and of heartbreak.
Person folks have grown up with baseball. They know
it and like it, and for that reason alone they take to
their hearts the tragedy of Lou Gehrig. In Durham,
on Monday night, at Duke University, there was a dif
ferent show’, but as essentially American, when Carl
Sandburg, a great poet and a greater American, read
from his own poems and sang, with a guitar accompani
ment, a few of the simple ballads that we must call our
own. Students gave Sandburg an ovation. They even
sat through what went before, a discussion of Walt
Whitman as a poetic prophet for this age.
Central feature of the program was presentation to
the University of the Trent collection of Whitman
books, manuscripts and letters, appropriately given by
Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Trent, of Durham, in honor of their
three small daughters. Current throughout the meet
ing, an assembly of Friends of the Duke Library, was a
new and deep American feeling. It was patriotism, not
jingoism.
And in the atmosphere there generated it is possible
to see connecting links between the spirit of Jefferson,
born two hundred years ago this week, and the spirit of
Lou Gehrig, who died about two years ago. Voice from
the past who speaks of this unity is Whitman; voice of
the present, who continues it, is Carl Sandburg, set free
of the eary restrictions of the “Chicago” tradition and
become a truly great American poet.
Controversy of the moment is being stirred by the
New York Times’ tirade on the inadequate teaching of
American history. North Carolinians, who know for
themselves something of the shallowness that can be at
tached to history teaching, caught for a brief moment
in Durham on Monday night, the living force of an un
teachable history, just as Roxboro folks caught the les
son f|jom Lou Gehrig’s life story.
We have no fear that the American spirit is being re
born. The present war is seeing to that, and with the
rebirth is coming a new nobility and a new respect for
the multitude of voices that are our own.
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More Than Signing
G. T. Scott, chairman of the State USDA War Board,
on Monday issued a report saying that faitmers in 96 of
North Carolina’s 100 counties have enthusiastically sign
ed 1943 Farm Plans for Maximum War Production.
Scott bases his report on figures turned in after a fartn
canvass which started shortly after the January 12, i
“Mobilization Day” and is still in progress.
Individual county reports, including the one from Per
son, according to Scott, show that there is this year go
ing to be a tremendous increase in essential foods pro
duced on Tar Heel farms, particularly in vegetable oils
from peanuts and soy beans, and in livestock and poul
try, including eggs, but Scott is right when he says:
“While the over-all picture looks encouraging, it is
not going to be an easy job to produce the things we
have said we would produce.
"Stating our intentions to produce was only the first
step; our most important job lies ahead of us. No pledge
to produce will do any American fighting man or war
•worker any good unless the commodity is delivered to
him in its final form.
"Our job now is to see that these crops are planted,
cultivated, and harvested this fall. This won’t be easy
because of shortages of labor, materials and machinery.
The action of Service officials in deferring,
farm workers should go far toward solving many labor
problems, and the machinery picture is some brighter.
While we haven’t as many new machines as we possibly
would Hke to have, we have more repair parts than we
had before the war started. And we may haye to make
part of our job to be to get along with a patched-up ma
chine instead of a new one.”
This, to our mind, is a clear statement of working as
pects connected with signing the pledge and the general
tone of the statement is much more dignified than sev
eral made along the old “plaint line” about the poor
farmer by another Scott, W. Kerr, the Commissioner,
in an address at Greensboro’s Kiwanis club last week.
Person’s Newbold
Reprinted in today’s issue of the Times in an Associ
ated Press report from Atlanta, somewhat lengthy and
full, is a statement on race relations, signed by repre
sentative white citizens, leaders throughout the South
in fields of social service, education and theology.
The statement offers a logical and courteous follow
up to the now well-remembered Durham Conference
statement of last year issued by Negro leaders, who
sought at that time some definition of legitimate hopes
Negroes in America may have now for educational and
economic progress. It was not to be expected that all
citizens, of either race, could be in agreement with the
Durham statement of 1942, any more than it can be ex
pected that all citizens concerned will see eye to eye
with the Southern whites who this week framed a reply
containing for the most part a reasonable acceptance,
or at least a realization of the problems brought to the
surface by the Durham manifesto. But even those who
do not like to have issues of this character brought out
into the Southern sun cannot fail to see that the Atlan
ta statement issued this week represents agreements
reached by Southern white leaders of various shades of
opinion. There are Methodist and Episcopal bishops,
liberal and far-thinking editors, conservative Catholics,
plain baptists and Presbyterians, and even a few from
labor circles and the left wing.
From Person County angle, the interesting and the
comfortable thing is the fact that one of the several
North Carolina signers is N. C. Newbold, of Raleigh,
whose wife was one of the Person Bradshers. People
here in Roxboro know Newbold. They know of his
work among Negroes. They know he is no fool. They
have respect for his opinions and it is to be expected
that this report will, for home reasons, be carried over
for the document which he has signed. Personally, we
are glad that Newbold has signed, and before his un
thinking friends begin to be too critical, we would sug
gest to them a careful and considerate reading of the
docu|ment. It will be read, we are sure of that, but it
is more important that understanding be joined with
reading.
What could happen to upset peaceful relationships
and progress can be stamped out by force, as has very
nearly hapened here more than once. Newbold, for one,
has put his signature to a better way, away that should
be appreciated here.
WITH OTHER EDITORS
‘They, Too, Are Human”
Christian Science Monitor
Are there no Germans with whom the rest of us, af
ter this war is won, can co-operate toward a peaceful
world ? The question is raised again and again, as pro
spects for re-education of the German people are dis
cussed. It is said the younger generation is thoroughly
Nazified and that, as for the older generation, all Ger
manism is a form of Naziism. People who argue thus
conclude that the German problem is all but insoluble.
But a recent issue of The Nation carries this interesting
translation which it states is frc|m the Allemanne a
Wurttemberg paper:
Who does not know the presumptuous prattlers who,
in this difficult time, undisturbed by the actual facts,
express their “objective” views? Who does not know
those impudeAt fellows who, whenever a word is uttered
against our enemy, reply, “But they too are human be
ings”? They even try to justify on military grounds
the criminal English air attacks on German women and
children —for one must be “objective.” They are the
people who regret that the German newspapers and
radio do not regale them with the so-called English,
American, and Russian army communiques, so that they
might form an “objective” picture of the situation. They
would like to have the German press sacrifice its pre
cious space and set before them for breakfast Churchill's
and Roosevelt’s lying propaganda speeches.
For people outside Germany it may be hard to believe
that anyone is left inside Germany who shares a faith
in universal values. But from the Alamanne’s outburst
one gathers that editors of Nazi-controlled papers know
of such persons, and that an ordinary German citizen
could point out a few among his neighbors. Then, too,
one might look in the concentration camps. If re-edu
cation is an answer to the problem of Germany, evident
ly there are Germans who will be ready to help with the
task.
BGG&
Egg production in North
hampton county has soared a
hove all previous records. One
trucker hauled out 4,500 doom
eggs in one week, reports C. €.
Pratt, gesistaot farm agent.
CDLUNQ
Yates Wonts of Bouts 1, Clay
ion, culled his flock of Ml lay
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C.
in* hens and took out only 75
birds. “Periodic culling pays”,
says Charlie C. Clark, Jr., as
sistant farm agent
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foe any watek or deffc that w*
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North Carolina
Leads In AAA
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Participation
North Carolina is leading all
other states in the East Central
Division of the Agricultural Ad
justment Agency in number of
fanners who have indicated they
will participate in the 1943 AAA
program, according to a report
received from regional headquar
ters by H. A. Patten, state AAA
executive assistant. '
The report showed that 211,-
905 or 98.6 percent oi the 214,-
949 farmers which had been in
terviewed by county and com-'
munity ccmmitteemen of the
AAA had signed 1943 Farm
Practice Plans indicating they
will talkie part in the program
this year. Second place in the re
gional rankings went to Tennes
see where 180,555 or 98 percent
of the 184,172 farmers interview- 1
ed indicated they will partici-l
pate. Other states in the East
Central Division are Kentucky,
Virginia, West Virginia, Mary
land, and Delaware.
Since tne regional report was
issued, Patten said', more North
Carolina farmers have been con
tacted on 1943 farm plans, and
the total number interviewed
new has passed 217,327. Os this
number more than 214,220 have
indicated they will participate in
the program.
“When a farmer signs a Farm
Practice Plan, he merely states
whether or not he intends to
take part in the AAA Program,”
Patten said. “Signing is entirely
voluntary on the part of the
farmer, and the plan is not a
binding contract. After a farm
er signs, his committeeman or
some other representative of
WORK CLOTHES
SHIRTS, PANTS, GLOVES
AND SOCKS
LET US FIT YOU FOR
WORKING
WESTERN AUTO
ASSOCIATE STORE
Hear Ye One And All
The Month of April, 1943 Is
BOND MONTH
Buy All You Can This Month
Person County’s Quota
$242,900
We have the bonds here and will be glad to issue
them to you at any time.
COME IN ~ BUY A BOND
Roxboro Building & Loan
Association
J. S. Walker Bill Walker
the AAA assists him in mapping
a fanning program designed to
earn maximum production prac
tice payments toy carrying out 1
those practices most urgenttlyj
needed on his farm.”
Deadline for signing 1943
plans is April 15, he declared, >
and all fanners who plan to;
take part in the program should
execute farm practice plans by
that date.
Maximum Prices
Set For Seconds
By State Office
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RALEIGH, Aprii, 15. Separ
ate maximum wholesale and re
tail prices for factory “seconds”
new rubber tires and tubes for
both passenger automobiles and
trucks have been established, ef
fective immediately, the state of
fioe of price administration an
nounced.
The new prices, which apply
| $242,9001
| Is Our Quota In The t
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THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1943
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; to manufacturers’ and private
i brands, are for tires and tubes
(which are less than perfect, and
J are based on discounts of 20 per «
| cent for truck tires and 2$ per
j cent for other tires from the
maximum prices for perfect new
> tires and tubes.
; Prior to ftiis action, thtere was
'no difference In maximum re
tail prices between perfect new
tires and tubes and those classed
as seconds.
GRAY HAIR
TURNING DEEP BLACK
says .Mrs. i. 8., Chicago
‘‘After using Gray vita only a \ f
I short time, I noticed my ft m
j gray hair was turning to a A )/£?
real deep black, exactly as it V < ■
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pea ranee.” iA JW
Mrs. Bauss’ experience w
may or may not be different
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This anti-gray hair vitamin discovery when
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A GRAYVITA tablet is 10 ragm. of Calcium
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Thomas & Oakley