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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES ~ A *4**fc Ittt ALL THE PEOPLE J. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. Q CLAYTON, J MANAGER THOMAS J. SHAW, Jit, City Editor. FubUahed Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second Class Matter At The FWtottk* At Roxboro, N. C„ Under The Act- Os Marefa 3rd.. 1179. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— -1 year $2.00 6 months $1.25 3 months -75 Out of N. C. —1 year . „ $2.50 National Advertising Representative ; M E PICA.N ' E E 5.5 /1~5 5D C l ATI ON j| New York « Chicago t Detroit : Atlanta t Phils. Advertising Cat 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 Thurs day P. M. for Sunday edition. 1 THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1943 >■ -■ ■ , - , No Time To Be Dismayed International stir of the moment is the break between Russia and Poland, described as first rift between na tions comprising the United Nations. From New Delhi, India, comes announcement from William Phillips, U. S. envoy, that he has been denied interviews with Gand hi and Nehru. In Belfast, Ireland, Hugh McAteer, IRA leader, who has a price on his head, warns that soldiers of the United States now stationed in Ireland may be come involved in IRA hostilities. At home, in the United States, Rubber Czar William Jeffers gets into an argument wth Under-Secretary of War Patterson. John L. Lewis tries to take another walk, this time with the War Labor Board. Ehner Davis, OWI head finds the going rough. Congress still wrangles over pay-as-you-go taxes. In other words, folks who are amind to look on the dark side can always find plenty. They are the people who chafe at restrictions. They are the ones without large faith, who by their weakness do much to make democracy seem less perfect than it is. They are the folks whom we can do without. They sire not the ones who put across oversubscribed War Loan and Red Cross drives. They are not the people who give courage to fighting men and women, who find time to carry for ward new duties and old tasks. It is disconcerting to know that misunderstandings arise among our allies, and painful to observe that some nations engaged in a fight for freedom are themselves inconsistent in attitude. In the same fashion, it is sad that not all efforts, even among Congressmen and gov ernment leaders, are devoted to driving forward toward finishing the war and making peace. But it is more important that the majority of us tike imperfections as they come and put them in their place. This is no time for patriots to be dismayed. Kerr Scott As Senator Commissioner of Agriculture Kerr Scott last week gave an equivocal answer as to whether he might be a candidate for the U. S. Senate against Bob Reynolds. Intimation is that Commissioner Scott would like tp have a try at it, provided he has sufficient backing from Tar Heel farmers. He has just about said as much, and ■maybe his running for the toga would meet the plea l contained in an put of the State farm paper that North Carolina farmers do need representation in the Senate. We agree that they do. It would be splendid to think that in Washington there could be a man from North Carolina who had chiefly in (mind the interests of so large a part of the population, who would stand up for farm interests and would see to it that his consti tuency was adequately represented. But Commission er Scott, if he hopes to be that fighter had better be a little more temperate in his demands anent farm prices, farm labor and farm wages. Majority of the residents of Person County are farmers and majority of the subscribers to this news paper, the Times, are farmers or citizens with farming interests. They are our friends and we think they will , agree that they want and should have equality with other workers who are engaged in the war effort, but we hope they won’t be taken in by Commissioner Scott’s complaining attitude, revealed lately in several speeches. Farmers are a vital link in the war effort they should merit consideration by the Govera - ment, but not any more so than other groups. Scott is busy now crying, “Lo, the poor farmer”, when he could he better employed. && a -- | Complete Reversal , Person and Roxboro high school graduates who will Tmarch across platforms next week to get their paper sheepskins can do so with confidence that the world of a place for them. The boys, most of them, 'Will llPpijto one of eeveiml &ranchea of military service, or IIP defense plants, or fartns, while the girls, for once on ? a plane of equality, can and probably will do the same. |p was not that easy ten years ago. Graduation then ■'• • • • was productive of a sense of frustration, a feeling of what’s the use, since edqcatjon, let alone the possession of a diploma, offered no guarantee that the possessor of either could get a job. Tbday, there are uncertainties too, but there are al so absolutes. It would be nice to be ableio plan a ca reer. To go on to college and meet the right girl, to set tle at once into a known pattern, but youth of today is more conditioned than was the youth of ten years ago. He knows he has a job—the war—and knows, likewise, that its the biggest job world-youth has ever had. In the face of the challenge, the boys and girls qf to day are willing to take the risk. Ten years ago many of the winners of diplomas were afraid. Those of today, thank God, have a courage to match the hour, and if and when they do come back home to the ways of peace, they will be the stronger for the experience of having been thrust into the most horrible but most fascinating adventure of the century. Sleeper, Awake “Tennessee Johnson”, film version of the life of An drew Johnson, has come and gone so far as first show ing in Roxboro is concerned and report has it that the picture, here for a Saturday midnight and Sunday showing, did not do so well at the box office. Distinctly not the type of show to appeal to Roxboro variety of Sunday and midnight theater-goers, this story of the life of Johnson, was what Hollywood knows as a" “sleeper”, an unimportant, cheaply made picture, with a good but not outstanding cast. That is to say Hollywood thought it was a “sleeper”, and then discovered with amazement that it was outstanding, probably the best historical picture to date in 1943. Certainly, it is a must picture for all North Carolin ians and Tennesseeans, and ought to be for the whole na tion. Not yet have we seen statecraft handled with such regard for truth and nowhere else has Hollywood told so sincerely a tale of the eternal values of democracy. It is to be hoped that owner-and-manager Teague Kir by, of the Palace, will bring “Tennessee Johnson” back and that he will play it at a time during the week when most patrons can see it. WITH OTHER EDITORS A Suburb Discovers Slums Christian Science Monitor For many Americans, Japan’s killing of prisoners has been almost as much of an awakening as Japan’s peace time assault on Pearl Harbor. Before December 11, 1941, they had been like com placent residents of a model suburb, only mildly con cerned about slum conditions in the adjacent metropolis until gang warfare brings a murder to their own door step. Even then they did not quite sense the ramifica tions of evil that produced that outrage; few Americans at first understood why Pearl Harbor w;as attacked. The killing of prisoners helps to explain. These murders tear another gaping hole in the veil of isolationism and let “suburbanites” peer into the sewers of the world community’s mental slums. It gives them a shocking view of the kind of thinking that produced the present upheaval. Berlin’s approval of Japan’s brutality reminds Americans that it is all of a' piece; their aviators have been tortured now as much as the Jews of Europe have been tortured for ten years. The ■murder of prisoners is not new to Mussolini or to Hit ler. Americans now have come a little closer to the fright fulness that the Chinese, the Czechs, the Poles, the Nor wegians, Dutch, French, Spaniards, Yugoslavs, Belgians and Greeks have known only too Well. To speak of “paying back” these enormities la worse than idle. The evil cannot be undone. But every military success of the Allies restricts its present field of operations and frees oppressed peoples. America’s new awareness of agressive barbarism has already spurred the buying of war bonds. It should lift the whole tempo of the war effort. It should help Americans to recognize, as they did not recognise even after Pearl Harbor, that their own quiet “suburb” is not.safe so long as gangsters roam the “streets” of Eu rope and Asia, so long as crime festers in the back alleys of world thought. In 1937 many of his fellow citizens scoffed at Presi dent Roosevelt’s idea of “quarantininjg” the 10 per cent of lawbreakers. They could hardly do that today. Even the thoughtless can see how # much more difficult and costly it has now become even to check internation al crime. The thoughtful are convinced that they must, if only for their own protection, be their brother’s keep ers, never “neutral” for an instant when oppression and aggression raise their heads. The Tokyo murders should confirm that conviction. They should also clarify the task that lias beyond victory. Even complete triumph will not now wipe out tiie kind of thinking which has produced a welter of such crime. It will chain the criminals, but that is only the beginning- The huger task will be to Jump them chained and to provide an opportunity for the suburbs to help chnmupihaalums—the tribal myths, the ririal hates, and economic injustices—which would produce sail more crane. editorial one . PERSON COUNTY TIM BiS ROXBORO. N. C. - -f'.. T IDb lllV iWDUBi LUmftKi wKrUsR': Library Hours: 12:Q0-8:00 Have you “eighteen and nine teen years' old*” decided which division of the armed forces you would lßce to enter? Perhaps the following books itr the Person County Library will help you de cide. Felsen, Henry, He’s in submar ines now: How dees America train her submarine salors? Form the daythe recruit arrives at' one of Uncle Sam’s submarine schools until the day he proudly wears the Dolphin insignia of the sub marine sailor, his course of train ing is an adventure in itself- an adventure which is shared by the readers of this book as they follow the trainees through such courses as submarine design and construction pressure studies and tests the theory of submarine op eration, the use of the Monsen Lung and other kindred and highly colorful subjects. Graham, Frederick P and Ku licfc, Harold W, He’s in the air corps: At Randolph and Kelly Fields in Texas at Chanute Field in Illinois, at March Field in California and at Chicopee Field they are in the air corps. In Tu thill, John T. He’s in the Navy Now: What is the 1 training for duty in the Navy? He’s in the Navy Now, is a gra phic and engrossing story told in both text and pictures-not on ly of the recruits training, but cf astual sehvice on the various ship of our fighting fleet. At sea and ashore, under f iosbo?pb and ashore, under fire and leave. The manifold duties and respon sibilitites of the Navys “finest" are realistically portrayed. Baumer, William H, He’s In The Army Now: The reader sees the various i corps at the many camps ranging from the Replacement Training Center at Fort Dix, New Jersey, to the' Anti-Air craft Firing Center at Camp Stewart, Ga., and experiences every phase of the rigorous training which results in a highly developed and completely coordinated fighting force. Here also, is pictured the other side of Army life the games and sports,, the entertainments and dances and the contagious horse play which have contributed so much to making the “Yank” the best all-around soldier in the field. In Masachusetts a steady stream of young men is arriving to begin their training in mili - - ' Legal Notice NOTICE OF MEETING OF BOARD OF EQUALIZATION AND REVIEW Notice is hereby given that the • Board of Commissioners of Per- 1 son County will meet in' the ] Commissioners Room in the ! courthouse on Monday, April ; 26th, at 10 o’clock Ai M, to* cot* ; aider 'complaints relating to in- ; equalities in the valuation of real estate for tax purposes. Landowners desiring to register complaints may appear in per son on that date or may file such complaints with the Cleric to the Board before that date. This April Bth, 1943. W. T. Kirby, i Clerk to the Board I April 8-15-22 ■— " ■ - - 1 ■« ■ ■ • ~ T ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having been duly qualified as administratrix and administra tor of the estate of H. W. Win stead, deceased, late of Person County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons holding claims against the said estate to present them to-the undersigned administratrix and administirator on or before fee Ist day of April, 1944, or this notice will be Ipend ed in baur of feeir recovery. AH persona indebted to the estate e* said, deceased will please make iwiMibhi payment. > X . 1 this fee Ist day of April, tats. ’ Mrs. Rffle Winstead, Administratrix « April 144 tary aviation. At fed. Naval Training Stations in Pensacola and Jacksonville, Florida, at Corpus Christi, Texas and at the Floyd Bennett Field, in New York, successful applicants for naval aviation commissions are swelling the ranks of fee men already engaged in winning the coveted “wings” of the Fleet Arm. He’s In The Air Corps Now; is the exciting record of nine months of training of a pilot. Rathbone, A. D., He’s In The Paratroops now: The paratroops are chosen troops of cur Army and Marine Corps. No one will be inducted into these services; they are all volunteers, handpicked men. Not even the British Commandos or American Rangers are more carefully selected. Paratroopers must be perfect physically, with nerves of steel and the speed and agility of tigers. Their weapons are pistols, rifles, tommy guns, mortars, machine guns and TNT; their duties are manifold and hazardous. They must demolish and sabotage enemy planes, avia tion bases, fortifications and lines of communication. Here is your chance to meet these paratroopers of ours. The Pay Duplicate Collection offers the following new addi tions to the Person County Pub lic Library: Des Passos, John: NUMBER ONE. The last Dos Passos’ ‘Adven tures of a Young Man’ began the story of a contemporary Amer ican family, the Spotswoods. Glenn Spctswood ended the be wilderment of the thirties on a Spanish battlefield. In Number [One, Tyler, has older brother learns the importance of giving himself to our common civiliza tion, but of first having a self to give. Corle, Edwin: COARSE GOLD. • This can be called the story of many things—of 1892 and 1942; of a. gold rush and a tungsten Congratulations To All Graduates and Their Parents 91 » I wish to extend my best wishes and sincere congratu lations to the following communities and their graduating classes: i I J I' ► HELENA HIGH SCHOOL ALLENSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL HURDLE MILLS HIGH SCHOOL BETHEL HILL HIGH SCHOOL : ' MT. TIRZAH HIGH SCHOOL I ROXBORO HIGH SCHOOL * * •' l * , ■. . ' PERSON CO. TRAINING SCHOOL ■ • ■ T . Clayton |k Sheriff Person County THURSDAY, APRIL Sli 1943 rush; of an old ghost town and a brand new streamlined commun ity; of an oldtime prospector and a brilliant young scientist of a society based on rugged individ ualism and a society baaed on govwrnjnent planning; of the love of money and the Wve ct life; of the new West which Is n 6 longer the raw frontier but a scientific laboratory—and all of these descriptions afe accurate. You may be interested hi the others: Keyes, Frances Parkin son: CRESCENT CARNIVAL. McDonald, William Colt: THE RIDDLE OF RAMROD RIDGE. Gardner: THE CASE OF THE SMOKING CHIMNEY. Ford, Leslie: MURDER EN THE OPM. ERNESTINE, GRAFTON, Tri-County Librarian COUNCIL SPONSORS “DAY OF COMPASSION” DURHAM The North Caro lina Council of Churches is ask ing Christian churches of the state to mark May 2 as a “Day of Compassion’’ for the Jews. Gov. J. Melville Broughton has issued a special statement in which he urges the observance by all churches and religious gneups. “In view of the incredi ble cruelties and the mounting horror of the extermination of the Jews under Hitler’s orders,” the Governor asks that interces sion be offered unitedly “on be half of the victims of racial and religious persecution every where." Special sermons will be preached in many churches and special prayers offered. BUY BONDS TODAY! worry, worry, WORRY HEADACHE! It - , ted enough to worry, without suffering from head- gik;\ ache, too. Take Cmpodlna to J ' % relieve the pain and soothe /JL . /£ nerves upset by the pain. Cap udlne is liquid —no waiting (\ / l\\l for it to dissolve, before orllt* l\\l after taking. Use only aa di- Uv* I / in- an. an. /I / / CAPUPINE
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