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PERSON COUNTY TIMES
A PAPER'FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
1. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER
THOMAS J. SHAW, JR, City Editor.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1943
That Gate Again
April Person Grand Jury of which J. E. Wells, of
Cunningham, was foreman, has suggested the installa
tion of a steel gate at basement door of the Court house
“leading from the basement to the jailor’s quarters for
his protection”. This, if we remember rightly, is not the
first time such a request has been made bv a Person
Grand jury, altough it seems to us that at one time the
agitation was for a door or gate on the stairway between
second floor and the floor on which the jailer’s apart
ment is located.
It may be that gates or doors are needed in both
places. Certainly, one is needed in the basement and it
may be that one is needed on the upper floor. Point now
is that more than one Grand Jury in the past five years
has made such recommendations and that up to now
they have not been acted upon.
Person’s court house and jail, combined, is a fine,
well-builf structure, exceptionally so for what was once
considered a “poor county”, but it does have architec
tual deficiencies in the layout and plan for the jail quar
ters and the jailer’s apartment. Settled last week was
one aspect of the Whitten-Whitfield incident, only one
recently to be blamed on architectual imperfections, but
there is no guarantee that other such incidents, or
worse, cannot happen.
Having steel gates in proper places can be a step for
ward in making the combined court house and jail a
safer place for the jailer and his family and it is to be
hoped that Commissioners will take action before the
next Grand Jury is called.
“Nice To Come Home To”
Farris Humphries, Person native and soldier, who re
cently received an honorable discharge from the Army
and has returned to Roxboro, had distinction of being
first severely wounded Person soldier in World War 11.
He got his at Pearl Harbor, where he was one of two
men in a bombed building who escaped with their lives.
The others died.
Person County knows the rest of Humphries’ story,
how he spent months in hospitals being treated for
wounds and for partial deafness, and how he afterwards
served in the air corps at Midland, Texas, making every
effort to continue in the Army in which he has served
six years. Person County knows, too, that Humphries
was the first soldier from this section to receive the
Purple Heart decoration, a distinction reserved for those
men who are seriously wounded or get killed in battle.
Continuing the string of firsts that have dogged him
since Pearl Harbor, Humphries is the first wounded Per
son soldier to return to Roxboro in the status of a civil
ian, a status which he is upholding with a commendable
dignity and restraint. He does not talk about the war
or about his part in it, but he does sometimes wonder,,
just how much the home folks, the people he has come
back to. really know or understand about the horrors of :
war, or about the impelling necessities back of the hor
rors.
Personally, we are glad that Humphries is in Rox
boro. He, and the others like him who do come back,
can do a job here that no amount of stay at homdpatrio
tic preaching can accomplish. It is a big job Humphries
has here now, and we are hoping that his quiet influence
will show us more clearly what we have to do.
The other boys in that bombed building at Pearl Har
bor died. Humphries lives, and for a purpose now being
discovered.
A Continuing Obligation -
Roxboro Chamber of Commerce directors decided last?
week that Person County's annual “Hospitality Week”,
a June event sponsored by the Chamber, must be aban
doned this year because of tightened war-time travel re
strictions. The decision was inevitable, but it should be
remembered that the spirit of “Hospitality Week” stffl
lives and that Hie event should be and must be revived
la full force after the tear,
Furthermore, affinal cessation of the celebration of
fers a continuing obligation of day in and day out prac-
PERSON COUNTY TIMES - ROXBORO. N. C.
tice-of the principles, of hospitality we have been at
such pains to foster. Perso* people, mom than ev« be- 1
fore, are moving around, and incidentaßy, coming back
home as often a$ they Can, so that the duty of those of
us who do stay here and in some fashion are keeping to
gether the backbone of asocial structure comes out
plainly. '
A non-native Roxboro resident intimated the other
day that the native-bomers here have no conception of
the attractiveness and value of the Person way of life /
that has for a century and a half been growing into a
the pattern for granted but greatest proof that there i?
a pattern and that it has beauty and grace and digni
ty, as well as an occasional uncouthness, lies in the
loyalty of the people who have lived here.
These people, when they leave, come to think of Per
son County as a swell place. “Hospitality Week” has
fostered that tradition and it is up to those of us who
still live here to realize that we are pretty fortunate
folks. v
Something Like Chagrin
Surprise, not to say chagrin, especially among mem
bers of the Person branch of the N. A. A. C. P., has
been expressed that Cy Winstead, Jr., to accept
conditions of the paroio recently offered to him through
efforts of the Association and several prominent Person
white citizens, but it could be observed that the chagrin
came at the wrong time and place and that what appear
ed as Winstead unwisdom may turn out otherwise.
He has not so many more months to serve and when
he is released there will be no restrictions attached. Not
in the chagrin classification was the nol pros granted
last week to S. R. Whitten, Sr., in whose case the grape
vine indicates there was considerable of unwarranted
judicial coercion at the beginning.
WITH OTHER EDITORS
Last Chance Easter
Mebane Enterprise
“Easter comes awfully late this year!” Probably
you’ve heard that statement made dozens of times dur
ing the last few weeks. But has anyone pointed out to
you what a remarkably rare thing it is for Easter to
fall on April 25, or told you that this is the very last
date on which it is possible for the holiday to be cele
brated ?
As a matter of fact, Easter may be any Sunday be
tween March 20 and April 25. BuPin the 200 years be
tween 1801 and 2000, it falls only twice on the latter
date; in 1886 and 1943. And on only one other occasion
in those years has it been as late as April 24. That was
in 1859. •
The method of determining the date of Easter is pret
ty complicated. In 325 A. D., the Council of Christian
churches meeting at Nicea, in Asia Minor, drew up the
Nicene Creed, which made Easter the first Sunday after
the first Paschal full moon occuring on or after March
21.
But a Paschal full moon isn’t the real or astronomical
full moon. Instead, it’s the 14th day of a lunar month
determined by an ancient religious system of reckoning.
And the reason the Church Council decided that the
Sunday following this full moon should be the day for
celebrating Easter, was because the religious pilgrims
needed moonlight to travel to the great Easter festivals
of that period.
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Why The South Leads
News And Observer
Before Pearl Harbor every survey showed that ■ the
South was more alert to the danger of Axis domination
than any other section of the country, and that a larger
percentage of its sons had volunteered in the fighting
forces. After Pearl Harbor the proportion south of the
Potomac continued to be larger than in any other part
of the republic. In explanation, various opinions have
been advanced. Carter Glass thinks it is because the
South was better informed, had “superior character and *
exceptional understanding of the problems’.involved.”
Jonathan Daniels said, among other things, “they were
more inclined to belligerency.” v
John Temple Graves attributes it to the preponder
ance of “Anglo-Saxon blood, tradition of the South, the
surviving psychologies of the Confederate war, the
memory of England's sympathy in that war, the South
ern climate and what it does to temper and imagination,
the Woodrow Wilson influence, Southern loyalty to the
Democratic party and the {lew Deal, the business of
selling cotton to Britain, British money some
parts of the South after 1865.”
Those are Southern opinions. Now for a 'Northern
point of view: T. H. White, a New Englander, Writing in
Life about Maj.-Gen. Claire Chenhault’s famed Flying
Tigers, gives his appraisement thus: . . ....
As a people these CATF people are curious. The top
comrnnnd Is almost entirely Southern. The . ftpftorn
mentality, I find, is essentially a combat and
a glorious ape. I ney** knew imich of the
home, but the American consul here, Ludder, who comes
from lifce.. myself, says: T don't see how
the Up n» ever .
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bothers me most is the absence of the old Yankee type
in this combat theatre. I don't know what’s become of
them, nad it bothers me greatly because the shrewd,
cold Yankee mentality is one of our greatest military
assets. I hope that our New England boys are doing
well in England and Africft—they must be somewhere.”
Southern men are running true to form and winning
I new glory. The reports from the battlefronts show that
like courage is displayed by men from the Pacific coast
and all other parts of the republic.- There is glory
enough to go around.
Grand Jury
Report April
Superior Court
REPORT OF GRAND JURY
FOR THE PERSON CSOUNTY
APRIL ’TERM OF SUPERIOR
COURT, 1943'
We the Grand Jurors of the
Person County April Term Su
perior Court beg to submit to his j
Honor C. E. Thompson, Judge i
presiding a report of what we i
have dons, we have acted upon (
all bills sent us, and made pre
sentments in ‘all cases that we
thought needed such action.
1. A committee from cur num
ber visited the County Home and
found the inmates thsre well
Cared far, and everything kept
in a very sanitary condition. We
do wish to recommend that the
inmates of said institution be
furnished with some fruits, es
pecially fer the older people
there. We also recommend that
there be furnished some new
chairs and bed clothing there as
it is very badly needed. We also
wish to recommend that Mr.
Clayton, Superintendent, be fur- j
nished with soma help as it is
mere work there to be done than
Mr. Clayton can well take care
of.
2. A committee from our num
ber visited the County Prison
Camp, and found there every
thing ikiept in a very sanitary
condition. I
3. We visited the County Jail
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and found same well kept and
in excellent sanitary condition.
We do.with to recommend that
there be installed at the base
ment door a steel gate leading
from the basement to the jailor’s
quarters for his protection.
4.* We made inspection of the
courthouse building and found
the building as a whole in excel
lent sanitary condition, and we
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in which they are keeping the
courthouse building,
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J ty offices and found them in as
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I cords well and properly kept and
in a neat and orderly manner.
6. We found in the Clerk’s of- j
fice all of the Justice of the i
Peace reports made, and the ma- i
joiity of the Guardians, Admin
istrators and Executors duly fil- 1
ed, what few that Wasn’t filed
were being prepared, but if such
reports are not made by the next
term of the Person County Su
perior Court .we recommend that
same be investigated by the next
Grand Jury.
7. A committee from our num
ber visited the office of County
Superintendent R. B. Griffin,
and from information received
| and ascertained from him all
school houses of the county were
in good order and repair, and |
that all the school busses of the |
county were in better mechani- ,
cal condition than they have !
been in some time.
Having reported this work of
, ours we feel that we have dis-
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more peacetime privileges is no cause for
grumbling. Instead it is good reason
to tighten our belts and fight harder. This
* is a grim, serious war for
llTfirrnm/ survival. We dare not lose.
So let’s all pitch in and
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This April l#*h, IMS
J. E. Wells, Foreman
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