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SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1043
Sacred Obligation
Maj. If. V. Carson, a member of the Army Air Force
Training Command at Knollwood, who made the chief
address at the ISSIh District Rotary convention. Pine
hurst, last week told the Rotarians that:
“Every community adjacent to one of North Caro
lina’s many military camps is under a sacred obligation
to bolster the morale of the soldiers in every conceiv
able fashion.
“The American soldier”, he said, “wants a religious
warrant for his task. He wants spiritual assurance
and comfort. He wants companionship including
mothering and sistering. He wants food and the con
veniences that canteens offer. He wants a place to
sleep and there is a convience that community centers
can render. He wants security for his dependents and
that is one of the main things.”
Thus ends the quotation, but not the application of the
lesson hereabouts. Roxboro, it happens, is a “communi
ty adjacent to a military camp” and while much is be
ing done here by citizens for entertainment of soldiers,
it is rather apparent that there is no service club here
and that no efforts are being put forth to obtain one.
Maj. Carson, miles away, was talking straight at us,
or so it seems, although we might disagree with him
over the suggestion that soldiers want much “mother
ing and sistering.” On other points the major is right.
The Hoey Hat
Political dopesters are busy now, predicting political
line-ups for Senator (would be) Clyde R. Hoey, who last
week announced that he will oppose the incumbent jun
ior Tar Heel senator, Robert Rice Reynolds.
Present efforts at a line-up link together Hoey and
governor-seeking Gregg Cherry, Hoey’s Gastonia neigh
bor, and on the other side, Reynolds and also governor
seeking Dr. Ralph McDonald, but fair as that tie-in may
be to Hoey and Cherry, it does place a burden on Mc-
Donald, to whom, even as an unfriend, we would not
wish such a strained teamshfp.
Other news of the week was to effect that Warlick for
governor is out, probably the result of his publicised
conference with Cherry. Another result of Hoey's deci
sion is the probablity that Agriculture Commissioner
jKerr Scott, mentioned as a senatorial candidate, will
definitely not be one. Few State Democrats in the anti-
Reynolds clan will want or look for a stronger candidate
than Hoey.
There is a church hy]mn with lines saying “where
every prospect pleases, and only man is vile”. First
part of the couplet apparently applies now to the fore
cast for 1944 Tar Heel politics. The vilification will
ectme later and it will seem there will not be too much
of that.
It is perfectly possible that out of the fight against
- Reynolds will come State unity for all the factions of
young-so-called, and old Democrats.
I Small Holocaust
v". Roxboro’s anniversary lire of last Wednesday did
about $40,000 worth of damage, with particularly heavy
; tosses for the Roxboro Lumber company and for the
and County School boards, chiefly because such
. tosses are difficult to replace even where there is
sufficient insurance.
■ k Time was when some fires, wiping out disreputable
yYPjpre-traps. could be considered a blessing in disguise, but
&■:'*. Ant time is over, certainly until after the war. It is
too difficult to get replacements.
1 1 Significant, from the replacement angle was one loss
titained by the lumber company,, that of a typewriter,
e sheds and the office will be rebuilt, new stocks of
ft* lumber will be brought in, and business will go on as
B^ (| .««nnl but getting another typewriter is going to be fc
Knrnbldm.
P|L' Alan a problem, from school standpoint, is replace
of burned trucks and busses and tires, and parti
flSlpiy automotive repair parts. Superintendent Gris-
i 1 j|*nd his State co-workers are going to have to scratch
supplies here back to normal level.
M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER
The fire here was a small holocaust. The City, under
present circumstarfces, is lucky it was not bigger. Only
good thing was removal of several buildings rather de
finitely of fire-trap tendency.
. “We the People of North Carolina”...
Off the press this week is volume one, number one,
of “We the People of North Carolina”, new monthly
publication of the North Carolina Citizens Association,
, incorporated, a group interested in State and inter-re
lated Federal government, particularly tax problems.
The Association, organized last year and headed by
Thomasville’s R. L. Pope, did some lobbying in the 1943
legislature of effective sort. Home office is Raleigh,
center of lobbying, and the editor of the Association
magazine is Jule B. Warren, one-time NCEA editor and
head and certainly well acquainted with getting what
he wants out of State systems.
So much for introduction to a magazine that lays
claim to “a non-political, non-partisa*n manner.” Presi
dent Pope rightly says that government today is big
business, and, on first view, “We the People” seems
destined to fill a place somewhat between “Popular
Government”, from Chapfel Hill’s Institute of Govern
ment. and the too-too popular “State” of Carl Goerch.
The new magazine is not as technical as “Popular
Government” and if it can continue to avoid the evils
of technicalities and the soft-soap “State” style, it can
be an important contribution to Tar Heel self-analysis.
We will watch it with much interest, waiting to see
if it does have a Warren axe to grind.
WITH OTHER EDITORS
Have vs. Have Nots
News And Observer
The first blood drown by Big Planters to prevent aid
so tenant farmers and croppers can become land owners
is arousing humane liberals in all walks of' life. While
there was demand for an end of any errors in the ad
ministration of Farm Security, there was no call to kill
it in order to cure the disease.
Chairman Fulmer, of South Carolina, puts the blame
for the backward act on the doorsteps of the “big fel
low” who does not wish the little fellow to become a
land owner. He says they wish “to use the war emer
gency to destroy anything that does something for the
small individual farmer.” Others make the charge that
the legislation was lobbied through by “selfish com
mercial farm and plantation owners;” that they wish
to farm the farmers in their own interest so they can
have an abundance of “cheap and docile labor recruited
from dispossessed farm families.”
It is significant that such humane organizations as
the National YWCA, the Federal Council of Churches,
the Catholic Rural Life Conference, the Council of In
dustrial Organizations, the American Federation of La
bor, the railroad brotherhoods, the National Committee
on Child Labor, the CIO and other groups are urging the
Senate to fight for adequate appropriations to increase
ownership of land by small croppers and tenants. The
National Farmers’ Union makes this serious indictment
of the big fellows:
The self-righteous men who thrive upon America’s
economic serfdom on the commercial farms and planta
tions of the nation demanded that the agency be burn
ed at the stake, lest it give a vision of real freedom and
economic independence to the minds of downtrodden
people.
There are some large landowners who are glad to see
tenants and croppers helped to become owners of the
land they till, and some have helped those they esteem
ed. They are wise and patriotic. Those who would put
stumbling blocks in the wjy of the too long underprivi
leged deserve the severe condemnation of the Farmers’
Union and all others,
editorial one
TERRACES
There is increasing interest in
terracing in Warren County. Re
cently about 20,000 feet was built
with a tractor unit on the farms
of W. J., J. K. and Thomas Pin
nell, reports R. S. Smith, asst,
county agent.
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MISS PEPPER
QUEEN OF MAY 1
AT GREENSBORO
Woman’s College Held
Annual Revels Saturday.
GREENSBORO, May I.
Southern festivities wene key
n'eted at the annual May Day
celebration at the Woman’s Col
lege Saturday afternoon at 5 o’-
clock when Miss Julia Pepper, of
Walnut Cove was crowned
queen.
The event took form of a
lawn party of pre-Civil War days
and was held in thi? lovely natu
ral setting of this college amphi
theatre beside the lake. To the
music of “Swing Low, Swiret
Chariot,” sung by Miss Jean
Booth icf Durham, who masquer- 1
ad:d as a Negro mammy, pre
parations were made for the
party by Miss Ann Webster, of
Savannah, Ga., as the butler, and
a score of dancing pickaninnies.
Miss Octavia Muller, of Dillion,
S. C., was hostess at the party
which was in honor icf a visiting
cousin from Kentucky, Miss Pep
per Guests for the occasion were
members of the senior class, cos
tumed as Southern belles and
tb~ir e'eorts.
Miss Pepper, queenly brunette,
was escorted by King William
Dunn, icf Leaklsville. Her attend
ants included Misses Dorothy
Purr, of Newton and Sara Mun
dy Hamrick, of Shelby, maids of
honor; Betty Hopkins, Greens
boro, Gladys Sessoms, Fayette
ville, Josephine Dees, Fremicnt,
Carolyn Jordan, Elizabethtown,
Betty Johnson Clifton Forge, Va.,
Georgia Mack Keeter, Morgan
ten, Dorothy Odum, New B:rn,
Ann Spivey, Rich Slquare, Doro
thy Severance, Gastonia, Mrs.
Elsie Rouse Wilson, Fayetteville,
and Mrs. Ann Hardison McGoo
gan, Wadesboro, members of the
May court.
Music for the occasion was by
j the College Theatre orchestra,
[directed by George Dickieson.
Dancers were members of the
danoe group with Miss Margaret
I Ann Bittick, president, Hingham
Mass., arranging the choreo
graphy. Miss Anne Pitoniak,
Westfielcf, Mass., reader for the
program.
CHANGES JOB
Robert Stephens, for several
years connected with Henry’s
store here, has accepted a posi
tion with Wharton Winstead and
will assist in the management of
the Winstead farms.
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Roosevelt Message
A group of public-spirited
Person and Roxboro citizens
Saturday morning sent a tele
gram to President Roosevelt in
which they assured him of
continued suport, but con
demned in strong terms actions
of some government figures
who are behaving as sabo
touers. Obvious reference was
to John L. Lewis, although his
name was not mentioned in
the telegram.
COMERSAYSMEN
LIVE IN WOMAN’S
WORLD TODAY
Finals Held Friday At
Helena. Awards Made.
Harry F. Comer, University of
North Carolina Y. M. C. A. Sec
retary, at Chapel Hill, Friday
night spoke to twenty-nine grad
uates at Helena high school, Per
son County, telling them that
war is “making this a woman’s
world” and that any considera
tion of future planning must
take this change in social em
phasis into account.
, Valedictorian was Miss Jose
phine Day, while winner of citi
zenship award was Miss Lucille
Chambers. Winners of $5 :each in
safety driving of school busses
were Warren Roberon and Floyd
Hicks, Jr., while creative read
ing prizes were won by Misses
Rachel Hudgins and Adai Lee
Rogers.
Principal J. L. Hester, who
presided, said that approximate
ly 40 percent cf this year’s grad
uating class is expected to re
turn to Helena next year for
post-graduate work.
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SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1943
POTATOES
Yancey County is planting a
bout 15 percent more Irish po
tatoes than last year, reports
County Agent V. J. Goodman.
Growers are anxiious to help
meet food production goals.
EGGS
The Coble Dairy Products
Company of North Wilklesboro is
buying between five and six
thousand cases of eggs daily.
They are dehydrating about 650
cases and the remainder are be
ing stored for later drying.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
9:45 A. M. Bible Schoiol.
11:00 A. M. Preaching by
the pastor ‘The Eternal King
And His Kingdom.”
7:00 P. M. Training Union.
8:00 P. M. Baccalaureate
Sermon by Dr. J. Allen Easley
at the high school.
A cordial invitation is extend
ed to the public to attend these
services.
W. F. West, Pastor.
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